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known, the tasks of future explora-
tions may be briefly indicated as fol-
lows: In the Asiatic-European Polar
Sea, from Wrangel Land in the east
to north of Spitzenbergen in the west
the unknown is bounded by drifts of
the Jeanette in 1881 and of the Fran
in 1S94-1S96 In north Greenland geo.
graphical knowledge does not extend,
generally speaking, beyond Lock
woods farthest point in 1882, Cape
Washington, and Peary's searches in
the vicinity of Independence Bay in
1892, but besides these that part of
the eastern coast from Cape Bismarck
(Rayer, 1870, to Independence Bay,
with the ocean in front of it, is I'M
known. Nearly determined is the ex-
tent of Grinnell Land toward the west,
while of the extent of the Eilesmere
Land south of it and about the ocean
north of Parry archipelago absolutely
nothing is known Large parts of the
coast of Baffin's Land also need ex-
ploration. In this respect the next few
years are likely to add materially to
the geographical knowledge of the
north polar region, for not less than
four expeditions on a large scale are
nearly ready to start
Search for the South Pole.
The south polar region, where the
most extensive unknown territory is
located will be attacked next year all
elong the line Most of the land in
this region is fixed by superstition
upon the maps. Actual knowledge of
land around the south pole reaches
only at six points beyond 20 degrees
latitude; at 10 degree east longitude,
where James Ross in 1910 discovered
Victoria Land and its volcanoes and
Borchgrevink in the winter of 1899
1900 found the magnetic south pole
and reached the highest southern 1ati-
tude SO far, 40 degree 90 minute; at
162 degree west longitude, where Ross
in 1912 found land which is probably
continental mass; at ITO degree
west longitude Cook, 1774); at 80 de-
gree west longitude, where the Belgian
expedition under De Gerlaehe, during
the winter of 1SSS-1S99 driften beyond
II degree west longitude 80 minute
south latitude; at 80 degree west longi-
tude, where Weddell penetrated to "A
degree 80 minute south latitude, and
finally at Is degree west longitude
Cross, 1S43)- The enormous extent
of the unknown south polar region
can best be illustrated if it's limits are
transferred to map of the north p0-
lar region. 1t will then be found that
the boundary would include Norway,
Siberia, and North America down to
SIS degree north latitude. taking in
the entire northern half of Alaska
Thibet sfn n mystery.
For the completion of the map OF
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begin to show how much remains to
be done here, despite the energy with
which the governments of the United
States and of Canada push surveys
year after year. Much territory in
Labrador and in the regions between
the great rivers and lakes of the North
is also still unexplored.
Much In South America.
A glance at the chart of South Am
erica shows that this part of the
Western hemisphere is almost as I'M
known as Darkest Africa Of the
Andes in Peru the peaks in Bolivia.
and the central mountain chains in
the south of Venezuela and Guiana
nothing is known. A large number OF
rivers have been explored within the
last twenty years, but others still are
waiting for the courageous traveller.
Of Australia, Arnhem Land in the
north and the extensive deserts in
the east of West Australia are I'M
known, and the north and south OF
South Australia have only been cross
ed by few routes at great distances
from each other
The face of the earth is known IL
great outlines, but to portray it In
detailed features is still impossible.
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only in incomplete outlines. The
highest peaks of the earth in this
region have been measured by trigono-
metry from the flats of the Gauges
river, but their bases nor their tops
have not been reached.
Unknown in the sense of modern
research is also the territory east OF
Bhutan across the Tsangpo, Brahma-
putra, and the Yang-tse-Kiang In
the southern part of Arabia is the So
called vacant quarter as will be
seen from q glance at the map, an area
more than twice the extent of the Ger
man empire.
Activity in Africa.
In Africa the researches have been
particularly active, and what is known
of this continent is almost exclusively
the result of work in the nineteenth
century. But there is still much dark
ness in regard to this continent, and
the classic question Quid novi ex AZ
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1900-12-08
Number e.
BY GARRARD HARRIS.
Author 1.-The Atonement." When L

Author 1.-The Atonement." When Love
is Done" etc.
copyrighted. 1900: Daily Story Pub COD
Fifteen long, dreary years had
elapsed-he had waited patiently, and
the day had come. Long had he antici-
pated the moment, and now he, No. %,
stood outside the prison walls, No. 23
no longer, but free man, for he had
paid the price demanded by the law.
He had sinned and he had suffered
He did not intend to kill the deputy
marshal, but the officers and some men
were searching his house for an illicit
still; they said he had been making
whisky without license. One of the
men showed his wife roughly, and mad
dened beyond endurance, he fired upon
them, and one fell with a bullet il his
temple. He was arrested, torn from
his mountain home, put in prison, and
finally, sentenced to fifteen years at
hard labor.
And now, now he was free 1t was
all like some horrible nightmare, a
fevered dream dissipated by the CLEAN
of the morning sunlight. For while
after he went to the prison his wife
came to see him, and brought the chill
dren. Then Ine visits grew further
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1900-12-08

On the occasion when the bishop of
Oxford alighted from the train at
Wheatley, the station for Cuddleston
palace, an oficious porter rushed up
to him and asked, ANY articles in the
van, my lord?' ..Articlesi" said the
bishop, grimly- Yes; thirty-nine ar
ticles." on hurried the porter and
worried the guard almost out of his
senses by the way he searched the
van and detained the train. Presently
he came back to the bishop with a
crestfallen expression of countenance.
There are only seven, my lord. -
only seven? All, you're a dissenter.
then, L should think"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1900-12-08
Unknown Parts of the Earth

RIGA? will probably be repeated for
many years. A territory little known
Is between the Niger in the south, the
chain of oasis of the Tfdikelt in the
north, the route of Lenz in the west,
and the routes of Barth and Duvey-
riers in the east. Much remains to be
done in the Congo state. Here the
courses of the larger rivers have been
surveyed, but the vast territory be-
tween the water courses is unknown.
Hard work for the courageous travel
ers also is required to explore the re-
gion of the sources of the Congo and
the adjoining part of British Central
Africa, Portuguese. West Africa and
British East Africa The south of
Madagascar is also unknown
1t may be surprising to many peo-
pie that explorers have wide range
of work in North America, yet a
glance at the black spots on the chart
will show this to be the fact. Re-
searches in the far Northwest and in
Alaska, caused by the gold finds, only
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1900-12-08
IN PULLMAN CARS.
Interior Decorations Show the Most
Giaring Inharmonies.

Interior Decorations Show the Most
Giaring Inharmonies.
In the October Ladies' Home Jour
nal Edward Box sharply criticises the
interior decorations of Pullman cars
as "A Riot of Bad Taste,'' that is abb
solutely inexcusable, for "the Pullman
Company" he contends lis a rich
corporation which can have what it
wills. If good taste does not exist in
its furnishing department, as indis-
putably seems to be the case, the com
pany can and should buy it. For the
same amounts now expended on these
cars, effects of harmony and of truly
artistic drapery could be obtained
which would be a credit to the com
pany. These cars could have an in
calculable influence on the community.
The new cars which the company con-
stantly builds could, better than any
other medium that 1 know Of, be made
to reflect in panoramic manner the
newest and most progressive steps
made in artistic decoration and fur
nishing. They could be made the most
effective travelling educators of the
public. Instead, they are simply We
hicles of the worst taste imaginable
in fact, of no taste whatever. As
amazing conglomerations of the most
glazing and grossest inharmonies of
color, they stand absolutely supreme
They violate even the simple canons o.
good taste"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1900-12-08

Mathema tictan in Spite of Himself.
An Augusta correspondent of the At
lanta Constitution writes: Augusta
has now living example that mathe-
maticians are born with the gift OF
quickly and accurately handling fig
ures He is a colored man and a la
borer on the J. B. White building, by
the name of Robert Gardenheir, living
in Jones street, above Cumming. Rob
ert is a middle-aged, stalwart fellow,
having had very few, if any, education
al advantages during his life, but when
it comes to figures he is prompt and
rarely ever makes mistake. Per-
haps his best gift is in multiplying.
AS quick as you can set down figures,
say, for instance. like 70 times 81, or
321 times SIS. Robert has the answer
for you. In several other tests he
showed a most remarkable aptitude for
the use of figures, using nothing but
his mind. and proved to be accurate
When asked as to the principles or
rules by which he accomplished these
mental answers, he proved by his an
swers that if he had any such to go by
they were beyond his explanation or
demonstration In fact, it was evident
that he does not know how he does
the trick. He has possessed the gift
from his boyhood days. He cannot re-
member when he discovered his gift,
but it was evident that it was bsTore
he had matured into man.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1900-12-08
BLIND MAN SEES.
Sensational Occurrence at English
Bridal Altar.

Sensational Occurrence at English
Bridal Altar.
That is touchingly beautiful story
which comes by cable from London
telling now an English nobleman
blind from childhood, has his sight re
stored just as he was leading his bride
to the altar and then and there saw
her for the first time. The sentimental
value of the story is made complete
by the fact that the bridegroom was
drawn more deeply in love than ever
by this sudden vision of his bride in
all her loneliness of maiden1y bushes,
orange blossoms and wedding gown of
angelic white He had wooed and won
her sight unseen" as the children
old nursery game has it, but she
turned out to be even fairer than his
fame had painted her. He had made
no mistake in buying "a pig in a
poke if SO homely a comparison is
permissible where a bride is con-
cerned, observes the ST. Louis Repub-
lie. Impassioned poets and fervid nov
elists of the ultra-romantic school will
not fail to make timely and effective
use of this fascinating incident from
real life, The shelf-worn cynic of the
great world, however, may not be SO
deeply Impressed He is fully capable
of claiming that the recent London
case is by no means the first on record
where a mans eyes were opened BY
marriage
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1900-12-08
THE ROSE TREE.

"A rose-tree stood where the busy wheels
OF commerce swiftly glide;
All undeterred by noise and smoke
Its blossoms opened wide
They bloomed sweet in that dingy
place
As in some garden fair,
And weary eyes were oft refreshed
To them growing there
A porter passing with heavy load
Jostled against a thorn.
And cursed the rose-tree under his breath
With thoughts of hate and scorn-
What need is there for foolish flower
Where men must work for bread?
If I had my way I'd root you out,
You thorny thing!" he said
Next a sharp-faced woman hurried by
And gave a passing glance;
But naught she saw in the lovely mower
OF beauty and romance
Save this: IF each were a silken rose.
With handsome rubber stem.
'Twould be trouble at all to get
A dollar each for them
But within the office sat a man
Who smiled to the flowers
That shyly peeped through the open door
And frightened long, duh hours,
He thought of the hand that long ago
Planted the tiny tree,
Ah, her love makes hght my haroesl
task,
Dear wife of nine," said he.
One looked at the rose-tree with a scowl,
And thought of naught but pain
To the keen-eyed woman-ah. twas
stranget-
The roses spoke of gain:
But unto the man of clearer sight
Their June-time grace did prove
The mightiest fact in all the world
The worth to life of love-
So choose With what sight shall we see
The blessings God gives YOU and me?
Ida Reed Smith, in Young Peoples
Weekly.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1900-12-08
Vast Regions as Yet Unexp1ored
by White Men

the Asiatic continent the researches of
the nineteenth century have establish
ed new and exact bases, yet there are
still smaller and larger regions, which
are entirely unknown Much remains
to be done in Thibet, despite the sue
cesses of Russian, English and French
travellers and Indian surveyors. This
is particularly the case of the land
north of the route of Main Singh
(1S74-1S75), south of the Kwenlun and
west of the route of the journey of
De Rims in 1898. North of Kwen-
lun and of the routes of Prschewalski
and Hedin, stretching to the Taruio,
are extensive unknown deserts The
eastern half of the Himalaya is known
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1900-12-08

In an exhaustive article in the Clio
bus, well known German periodical
devoted to geography, DR.. Rudolph
Andree sums up the achievements Of
the century in regard to geography,
and while he claims that the nine
teenth century may well be termed
the century OF discoveries, he comes to
the conclusion that it will still be the
work of many years before the sur
face of the earth is known. The I'M
known parts of the globe are Illus
trated in a series of charts in which
the terra ineognita is represented in
black.
Concerning the regions around the
north pole, about which nothing is
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1900-12-08
SEEN FROM FERRYsoAr.
How = Pigeon Escaped from an Eagle
which Pursued It

ElG8Om ESCAPED
which Pursued 1t
The ferryboat Piedmont, from Oak
land, was about opposite Goat island
when p. H. Schlotzhauer, a pigeon
fancier of Alameda, released five birds.
Among them was a famous five-year-
old homer. Duke of Richmond, which
had proved its right to title of no.
bility in more than a score of long
distance flights. 1t probably had never
had such incentive to quick flight as
was presented that day. The passen-
gers watched the pigeons rise in the
air and circle several times, says the
San Francisco Chronicle. Then four
of them turned toward the east. but
the fifth, which proved to be the Duke
of Richmond. was seen to firt and
drop toward the Piedmont Presently
the passengers made out that it was
being pursued by large bird. The
birds were at an elevation of perhaps
thousand feet when the chase began,
with the carrier in the lead As if il
had calculated its chances, the pigeon
dropped straight for the place where
its master had released it, and, land
ing upon the ladies' deck of the Pied
mont, fluttered through the cabin
door The sea eagle was so confident
of striking it's prey that it did not
check its flight until within ten feet
of the ferryboat Then it wheeled
suddenly, and, lowering for few min
utes over the stern of the boat, winged
its way back to Goat island In the
meantime the frightened pigeon flut-
tered down the aisle of the cabin until
1t came to passenger reading a news
paper. Then, as if asking for protec-
ton, it made up to his side and perch
ed on the arm of his seat. There its
owner found it and carried it back to
its cage. 1t was evident that the
pigeon was too wise to risk a long race
with the eagle, knowing only too well
that such a flight would be it's last.
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and further apart, and finally they
ceased altogether.
He felt so strange, did No. gas
though he had slept for a long, long
time and then had been awakened in
the glare of midday. He took a fare
well look at the grim walls that for so
many years had been his abiding place
and then turned his face toward the
home of his young manhood.
He remembered the log cabin sit
ting high on the side of the mountain
saw his wife standing in the doorway
with a glad, expectant light on her
face. He saw the children playing in
the front yard among the marigolds
and sunf1owers, and he could smell the
resinous incense of the pine forest.
No. it was out a dream. That was
the home of fifteen years ago. But she
loved and trusted him. and she would
be there waiting for him-she had
kept track of the tardy years and
months and would be as glad as he
when his penance was done. She
would be older, of course; her hair
would be streaked with gray, but she
would be the same wife that copafcrted
him in the dreary prison She had told
him that she would trust him, and
would wait lifetime for him, gladly.
And the children-how they would be
grown He wondered il they would
know him.
The rattle of the car wheels sung a
refrain. Home. home, going honae-"
He could just see the tops of the noun
tains in the distance. Back in their
blue depths was the home of his youth,
his happier days At last the train
stopped at a little station, and No. %
alighted. The loungers about the viii
Iage store gazed with idle curiosity at
the strange figure. There was not a
familiar face to greet him, but that did
not matter-he was going home He
took the well-remembered road and
started toward the mountains and the
log cabin Nesting near the cliffs.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1900-12-08
HOW slate peno,ls Are made.

Slate pencils were formerly all cut
from slate just as it is dug from the
earth. Pencils so made were objected
to on account of the grit which they
contain To overcome this difficulty,
says the London Engineer, Col. D. n.
Steward devised an ingenious process
by which the slate is ground to a very
fine powder, all grit and foreign SUBJ
stances removed and the powder bolt
ed through silk cloth much in the
same manner as -four is boltcd- The
powder is teen made into dough and
this dough is subjected to very heavy
hydraulic pressure, which presses the
pencils out the required shape and d.
ameter, but in lengths of about three
feet While yet soft the pencils are
cut into the desired lengths and set
out to dry in the open air. After they
are thoroughly dry the pencils are
placed in steam baking kilns. where
they receive the proper temper
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1900-12-08
AdmIres Napoleon.s Gepfu.

Lord Rosebery is an ardent admirer
OF the genius of Napoleon For year
he has been writing a study of the
great Napoleon while he was at st.
helena, with his hands behind him,
looking at the stars and over the sea.
1t is there that Lord Rosebery finds
the man most interesting
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1900-12-08
LunA's LATEST PHOTOGRAPHS

This, the latest photograph of the
moon, comes to US direct from Paris,
where it was taken through the great
telescope at the exposition. Being
the largest telescope in the world,
this instrument has brought the moon
as well as all other celestial orbs in
space, almost within speaking dis
lance" of the earth. At all events, u
large and successful photograph was
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1900-12-08

Fearing plague of rats, Antwerp
has organized an official rat hunt,
penny being given by the authorities
TOR every animal killed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-09-01

dom show. The Filipino women have beau
tiful hands and perfectly shaped arms, with
sweet little dimples at the elbows Even In
the country the poorest of the women are
erect and well formed. Their erectness
comes from their carrying burdens upon
their heads and the fulness Of the Shout
cises thoroughly develops the muscles Of
the upper part Of the body.
Pretty Girls Who Smoke.
But look again at the little beauty beside
US! She has certainly forgotten she is in
full dress at the theater. See, she is smok-
ing. She has taken a cigarette from her
pocket and lighted it, and is putting out the
white nicotine In long, slender wreathes.
Now she has become Interested in, the play,
and as her mouth is closed, sthe smoke is
rolling out through her nostrils. LOOK
around over the theater. Nearly every wo-
man has cigarette in either her5hand or
her mouth, and in the cheaper seats you
now and then see one smokingsa cigar.
This would look disgusting at home. 1t is
far different here, where men, women and
children smoke from morning till night,
where you take a cigarette when you get
up in the morning, smoke everywhere, and
even puff away between the courses of din
ner. The Filipino women smoke fully as
much, if not more. than the men. You see
them on every block going along with
cigars or cigarettes in their. mouths, and
the moment you enter house you are Of
fered smoke. Little girls are taught to
smoke almost as soon as they are weaned,
and have seen many child too young or
too poor to wear clothes who was smoking
tobacco.
Mestixas.
Turn around and look at that maiden
over there at the right. She wears the same
gauzy costume as the girl who Is smoking.
but its color is Indian red. There are girls
with lavender dresses. yellow dresses.
white. green and blue dresses all about US.
Every one has her own taste, but the gowns
are all of this same gauzy texture, and all
cut the same way. The girl in the red has
lighter complexion than most of the women
about US. Her eyes are slanting and her fea-
lures resemble somewhat those of that China
man down in the pit. That girl Is Chi
nese mestiza. Her mother Is a Filipino. and
her father is one of the richest Chinese mer-
chants Of Manila. She is his favorite daugh-
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ter. and he may leave her a fortune some
day. She is a type of hundreds of girls you
may see in Manila. There are 10000 Chi
nese men in the city and not 100 pure Chi
nese women. The men have taken Filipino
wives, and the mestiza girls are their chill
dren. Some of the most famous women of
the country have Chinese blood in their
veins Aguinaldos wife is mestiza, and
Aguinaldo's mother has grandparents who
were celestials.
The Chinese features always show where
ever there is Chinese blood This Is not all
ways so with the Spanish, many of whom
have intermarried with the natives and it
is doubtful whether it will be so with the
Americans. For some reason or other the
Chinese blood seems to be stronger than
any other, and it always makes itself visi-
BILE.
They Are Fond of Jewelry.
AS We look again over the theater we
notice that every girl has her jewelry. Even
the poorest have earrings of gold, while
many of the rich are blazing with diamonds
The Filipinos invest the most of their money
In jewelry. and 1 venture that there are
women in this house who have tens of thou
sands of dollars put away in precious
stones. Jewels, in fact. are the savings
banks Of the people. When a girl gets a