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New-York tribune., 1901-08-11

low the surface, in erect position evidently
Just as the animal had sunk into the fatal mari
bed ages before. Even the teeth firm in
The jaws. not one being missing. This ske.eton
was 3i feet long. according TO the record of a
measurement made at the time; IL feet high,
and weighed but five pounds less than a ton
The tusks were 1o feet q inches long feet
apart at the largest curve, and feet 10 inches
at the tips The circumference of the tusks at
the base Was = feet | inch The skull was .
feet 10 inches across, and feet between the
eyes. The front teeth were ; inches high and
A.. inches wide, the back teeth being the same
height but az inches wide. there being eight
teeth in all. full set The skeleton is now in
the Boston Museum.
mile from Otisvile. on the Mitchell farm.
is small pond hole in a swamp OF perhaps five
acres That pond hole marks the spot where
the next largest mastodon skeleton 50 far Yet
discovered lay for many hundred years. one
day. in the summer of 1872. the owner of the
farm, digging muck in the swamp. came upon
a bone of such size that il required four
TO pull il out Of the mire. He found other large
bones. and then Dr Theodore Writer of otis
vile. who had heard OF the find told FarTne-
Mitchell that he slowly eXhuming mas
todon. which great prize. The farmer
had merely thrown the bones in heap near the
swamp. but when he learned that they might
represent a small fortune ne tocked them UP IN
his barn armed guard upon them. and
went To mining for mastodon. The result was
the finding Of every bone that belonged to
perfect mastodon skeleton. The news Of this
find reached the scientific world by and by. and
Professor Waterhouse Hawkins. in the interest
of Princeton College. and Professor q. {. Marsh.
of Yale entered into negotiations for the pur-
chase Of the skeleton. Farmer Mitchell did not
commit himself to either. but each learned that
the possession of the geological prize would
ground first and agreed to the farmers price,
Professor Hawkins took train over the Erie
Railway. schedule stop Of which was OtisVille.
Professor Marsh ignored local trains and board
I'd an express that did not stop al OtiSNille ac-
cording to the time table. 1t stopped that day.
however a quarter OF a mile from Otsville. and
when the local train arrived. hour or TWO
later Professor Marsh had closed with Mltcheh
for the purchase of the mastodon bones, ana
Yale secured the prize for s:;tERi-as much a
tht. farm on which the bones were found was
worth No one ever knew exactly how the ex-
press train came To stop there that DAY. but II
is believed TO have been due 10 Professor
Marsh's great persuasive powers and the fact
that tbs. conductor of the train was great
lover of fine cigars. Of which the professor had
"A good supply
This mastodon skeleton weighed nearly eiEn-
teen hundred pounds. Its tuslIs were seven fF''
long Its length was about twenty feet
New-York tribune., 1901-08-11
TELEPHONES N THUNDERSTORM
rom The Electrical Review.

From The Electrical Review.
Time when every telephone bore con-
spcuous notice warning patrons against using
IL during a thunderstorm The warning was "A
reasona bic and necessary one in the early days
of the art, but to-day il longer exists be
cause the reason for ii has passed away. Meth
DDS of protecting electrical circuits against
damage by lightning have become perfect
that fear is longer felt of any accident
danger from this cause. The telephone works
practically As wen during thunderstorm as at
New-York tribune., 1901-08-11
IT ST THINK or IT.!
From The London Daily Telegraph.

From Nature.
In the last "Brrichte.' Nencki and March
leWski describe the very interesting discovery Of
the close chemical relationship existing between
the red cclorine matter of the blood and the
green chloroPhyl OF plants Hsema toporphy rim
"A derivative OF hiemoglobin, and phyIlocyann
obtained from chlorophyl both yield reduc-
tion ha-mopyrrol. which Is probably isobutyl
methyI p-opyl pyrro
New-York tribune., 1901-08-11

any other time and people no longer avoid the
neigh borhood of electric lights when they hear
thunder Indeed people N cities no longer
tinorouS about thunderStorTns. because the per
centage of damage actually done by lightning
is growing smaller every year in the larger
New-York tribune., 1901-08-11
BORROWED MONET.
Washington Star.

From The Washington Star.
Don't put much pendence on borrowed
money said Uncle Eben- When yoh credits
bad you can't git il, an when yoh credits good
you don need it,
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-09-21
MOTHS AS FOOD.

Philippine Islanders Consider Them .
Rare Delicacy Says q Correspondents.
Another class of insects which form
a stable article of food in some of the
islands are the moths found in great
abundance in the mountainous re-
gions of Panay, writes an American
correspondent from Manila These
moths are small insects which hover
around the rocks and live in the crew
ices in immense numbers. They re-
semble the bats somewhat in their
method of hanging in groups from the
rocks. 1t is an easy matter for the
natives to capture them by the hun
dreds and thousands, and regular moth
hunters go to the mountains at GER
tain seasons of the year. The moths
rarely fly when disturbed, but drop
down into nets or bags spread to
catch them when loosened from their
hold. When captured they are sub
1ected to sufficient heat to cause the
soft, glossy tissues of the head and
wings to shrivel up and drop on.
These parts of the moth are consid-
cred unsuited to the cultivated Fill
p1no palate, and they are always re-
moved before sold in the market The
intense heat which burns off the wings
and heads also kills the insects, and
dries up a good deal of the natural
juices in them. When taken from the
heated oven the moths are sifted, and
the dried bodies are separated from
the broken pieces of heads and wings
The dried moths are used much like
the grasshoppers. They enter into the
composition of a great variety of ma
tive dishes They are rarely eaten
alone, as are grasshoppers, but are
mixed with other foods. A CONNECTION
is made of them, and some natives SIM
ply dip them in melted sugar and when
dried eat them as tid-bits.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-09-21
OUR SUPREMACY.
We Can Produce Goods for Less Money
Than Any Other Nation.

We Can Produce Goods for Less Money
Than Any Other Nation.
The statistics of manufactured prod
ucts show that the United States is
easily in the supremacy relative to any
country in the world. The commercial
statistics are equally satisfactory, for
now at the head of the worlds great
exporting nations there stands the
United States. For the calendar year
1900 our exports of domestic products
were greater than those of any other
country, their total value for that year
being 81 ASS, 013, $50. This means that
we can produce goods and lay them
down in other countries cheaper than
they can be produced in the countries
to which they go. Great Britain ranks
next, with 81, AIS, 34s, 900, and Ger
many next, with $1,000, Gil 900. Thus
the United States has reached the COM
mercial supremacy of the great ex-
porting nations of the world. Twenty
five years ago this country stood
fourth in rank. the United Kingdom
being first, Germany second and
France third. The United States has
Increased her exports during the last
25 years 1872 per cent, Germany 73 per
cent, the United Kingdom "a per cent
and France per cent.
The supremacy of the United States
is due very largely to the enormous ex-
pansion of manufacturing industry
during the last decade. Our manufac-
tured products now constitute about 80
per cent of the total exports. In 1860
they were but 1876 per cent. Through
our agricultural products we have been
feeding many countries. We are now
supplying them with both food and
fuel.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-09-21
WOoing of the Minister.
BY SARA LINDSEY COLEMAN.

BY SARA LINDSEY COLEMAN.
Copyright. 1901. by Daily Story Pub. COD
The most careless observer among
the villagers might have noticed some
thing unusual in the Reverend Mr..
Wigglesworth's manner that night
The Widow Mclean was the first to
see it; she dropped her eyes in blush
ing confusion and did not lift them
until the end of the service when she
led the choir in a triumphant song.
Mr.. Wigglesworth was a bachelor
and scholar, a little seamy along the
back, little frayed out at the wrists,
timid, self-conscious, gentle, forget
full man with dreamy, patient eyes for
ever turned inward on brain toiling
with distractions.
Miss Eliza Ellington noticed it, and
as the sermon progressed the mem
bers of the flock turned in their seats
and stared at each other. Some mys-
FERROUS change had taken place in him.
He stood erect, his figure was animal
ed, he looked years younger; in his
usually pale cheeks the color came and
went and his eyes were alight with en-
thusiasm.
AS the congregation passed out from
the church, ON all sides there was I'M
stinted praise of the sermon.
The minister hurried home to his
modest room, flung himself into a chair
by an open window, and gazed on the
beauty of a moon flooded Southern
night. The perfume of the jessamine
that climbed about the window was
IN his nostrils, the exquisite song of
4 mocking-bird pouring forth it's mel
pdy from a near tree was in his brain.
She loves me-" he muttered, and
again, "she loves me-"
He knew women so slightly. Seen
through a veil of mystery, they were
such formidable creatures and yet, the
p-.est in him giving place to the man.
he had often 1onged to lift that veil. He
had felt a sudden heartache for ties
he had never known-sweet, warm, hui
man ties
That night, as he had gone up the
steps of the church the Widow Mclean,
who was as comedy and young and
pretty as any girl among his flock, had
stepped on her dress and fallen down.
ward. The minister had lifted her to
her feet, her soft fingers had closed
over his hand. You are SO good .
she had murmured, and with a quick,
spontaneous burst of passion, and a
modesty that was enchanting, she
lifted his hand, pressed her warm, red
lips to it, and glided into the church
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-09-21
MONSTERS OF THE DEEP.

Probably never since Last Island, in
the Gulf of Mexico, was swept away,
forty-fve years ago, by such hurri-
cane as destroyed Galveston, and for
many months afterward the fishermen
of Barataria and Atchafalaya dared
not go to fish because their nets caught
dead bodies everywhere, has a fishery
been laid PROSTATE SO strangely as
have the fisheries of the north French
coast in the past three years.
But the French fishermen are not
catching corpses in their nets. What
they haul up out of gray, cold seas of
the English channel are living things
perhaps the ugliest living things
that have their being on the globe.
They are octopi. They fasten to the
hand lines and rob them of the hooked
fish. They crawl into lobster and crab
traps and fill them with the slime of
their bodies and the ink that they
squirt as soon as they find themselves
captured They weigh down the deep
seines and cling to boats and oars and
the fishermen themselves.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-09-21

A vast catastrophe, OF which the de-
tails never will be known by man, has
happened in the secret deep abyss of
the outer Atlantic Ocean, and has
driven these creatures of night and
ooze to seek the shallower waters. 1t
Is a happening most monstrous, most
unnatural. 1t is as if the graves had
opened and were parading their sacred
mysteries. For nature, having made
the octopus, at once as if she had be-
come Mortified at her own handiwork,
banished the creature to the graves of
the ocean-to those deep, dark, cold
chasms where only the explorers
dredge penetrates and gropes awhile
blindly, bringing up fragmentary cap
lures that hint frightfully at frightful
things that dwell there in everlasting
night and in terrible companionship.
Even the deep sea dredges, feeling
around at the ends of their thousand
fathom long wire arms, that recently
have brought up SO many forms won
derful, fantastic, chimerical, incredibly
horrible, never brought up a creature
more fantastic, more chimerical, more
horrible than the octopus. And now
these beasts of sepulchre have swum
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-09-21
United States Postal Laws.

Before 1S45 the rates of letter post
age in the United States varied with
the distance. Half an ounce was the
standard. In that year the rates were
fixed at cents for distances not ex-
ceeding 800 miles, and 10 cents for
greater distances. In 1916 the rates
were fixed at 3 and 10 cents, respect
lively. Then, in 1851 the maximum dis
lance for the smaller rate was raised
to 5000 miles; and in 1863 a uniform
rate of postage for the entire country
of cents was fixed. This lasted for
twenty years-until October 1, 1888
when the rate was put at 2 cents q half
ounce. On March 8, 1885, the standard
of weight for 2 cents was increased to
one ounce, making postage cheaper
here than elsewhere in the world Can
ada and Mexico also receive the benefit
of this low rate.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-09-21

An old colored woman selling snails
occasionally makes her appearance in
certain streets here, says a Philadel-
phia paper. She carries an old basket,
in which the snails repose on freshly
sprinkled leaves. These are not sold
as food, but for cleaning the outside
of window panes-an old practice still
in vogue in Kensington. The snail is
dampened and placed upon the glass,
where it at once moves around and
devours all insects and foreign matter,
leaving the pane as bright and clear
as crystal There are old-established
business places in Kensington where
the upper windows, when cleaned at
all, are always cleaned by snails. There
is also fine market for snails among
the owners of aquariums, as they keep
the glass clean and bright
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-09-21

In and have exposed themselves to the
light of day, not in battaliOns or in
hundreds, but in thousands and tens of
thousands.
From Cape la Hague to the Channel
Islands no net can be cast now with
out the sea nightmares crawling into
it at once to strip it of fish. The visi-
tation has extended even to the bath
ing resorts along that coast, and every
tide brings contorted forms with arms
writhing as if in deadly agony. In
pools along the coast they lie, some
dying, other full of life and whipping
their sucker-lined. snaky tentacles at
all who approach them
The creatures are the most plenti-
full in that part of the English channel
from the well-named Casket Islands,
that have proved caskets indeed to
ships innumerable, along the curve
that marks the 120-foot depth to the
Channel Islands. Among those Chan
mel Islands is Sark-the land of Victor
Hugo,s devilfsh, described by him in
"The ToiIers of the Sea- Sark's mar
inc caves. in one of which he laid his
scene of the famous fight between the
octopus and his hero. now contain, not
one, but herds of the gray things.
--brooding in the abyss
They are not such monsters as he
described Few OF them are larger in
the body than a mans hand, and their
tentacles rarely are more than ten feet
long. Their average weight Is from
ten to twenty pounds But they are
there In hordes They have not at
tackled man, except to Tight back as
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-09-21
Dead Sea Fruit.

Dead sea fruit actually exists, amt
not in metaphor only. A recent trav-
eler in the Sahara took a photograph
in the desert within few miles of the
oasis of Biskra, and his picture shows
a group of dead sea fruit or "apples
of Sodom,'' as they are sometimes
called. The fruit grows upon the
ground on struggling stalk and is
about the size of an orange, golden
colored, with bright green stripes, the
skin being smooth like that of
melon. 1t is strange irony of nature
that the fruit which is SO beautiful
to look at, should be a deadly poison.
1t is interesting to note that the
came1s which Craze upon the aromatic
shrubs discriminate between them and
this fruit of most tempting appear
ance.-Detroit Free Press.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-09-21

have a greater leaf area than when it
grows in the open sunshine. 1t must
have a larger surface to collect the
light when the latter is comparatively
dim Now, most of the goIdenrods
live in woods and ccpses. where the
shadows are thick and direct sunshine
is a fieeting thing And so we find
that this species has the broad. thin
leaves of a shade plant, leaves with
well-developed stems, but otherwise SO
similar to those of the elm tree as to
give this goldenrod its distinctive
name. But it gives touch of color
to the somber shades of the woods
that we would not willingly do with
out-Woman's Home Companion
Afraid of Their Tin.
According to Edward de Neveu, for
merly of Fond du Lac, Wis. who is
now living in Paris, the notorious tim
idity which characterizes French CAPT.
talists- conjointly with their dislike
to enter new fields, Is responsible for
the total neglect of what may prove
the richest deposits of tin ore discover
ed in many years
These deposits lie about thirty miles
inland from the French coast in the
department of Morbihan. It Is be-
Iieved that these deposits are a con-
tinuation of the famous Cornwall
mines lying almost opposite on the
English coast
Neveu is attempting to form a COM
PAW to exploit a concession He has
already secured limited French sup
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-09-21
Entirely Different.

"Dueling," said a young American
woman to German student, lis a per-
fectly barbarous custom, with nothing
in the world to excuse iti''
But. dear Fraulein," stammered the
student, who was both amazed and de-
pressed at the failure of his scars and
saber cuts to extract admiration
"dueling is the same with war. except
only for the number of peoples"
mot at ALI" said the American, in
dignantly. War is always for a
cause, and generally cannot be avoid
ed, and-and besides''-she added,
abandoning herself to the brilliance of
a sudden inspiration, in war you lie
in wait, or get behind something! It's
altogether different"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-09-21

choly. She could not escape the know1-
edge that thoughts of the minister had
become source of disquietude.
All unaware the little love god had
nestled in her heart. Poor starved
heart that refused to be old at thirty.
that cried out for the rights that be-
longed to its womanhood.
Into the quiet nook and upon the
solitude of her thoughts a little negro
boy with outstretched hand that held a
note obtruded himself.
She read the note, turned it over,
there was no address and read again
words that sunk into her brain.
She looked at the small boy Won
deringiy, piteously. rs there not some
mistaken" she asked timidly Joy was
slow to enter where sorrow had so
recently dwelt.
When the minister read the note
that the colored boy brought him, un-
consciously he repeated the words he
had used the night before, "She loves
me-" But a great dismay had fallen
on the man, for the yes that he so
ardently waited for had been written
in neat. precise hand by another. by
Eliza Ellington
The messenger, with a child's heed
l6SSuCSS, uaQ kOllCISu Oh IQG way, MS
mind diverted by a dozen things.
When he picked up the note for the
last time, it had been laid down care
fully while he took part in a fight. he
carried it without further delay to the
rose-covered cottage.
The glory of sunset was upon the
earth and sky as the minister turned
in at the cottage whose portico was
covered with great clusters of crimson
roses. He had agonixed over the note
for he was q tender man; he had
prayed over 1t, and led by the spirit he
had come to tell Eliza Ellington, who
was one of his best church workers
and q faithful, conscientious woman.
that the letter she had received be-
longed to another. He would be very
tender with her, he assured himself
He sat In the parlor tremblingly.
awaiting her approach. and when she
fluttered In gowned in a simple white
dress. with q great cluster of the Grim
son roses ON her breast, he noticed
that she trembled. too. The roses were
aquiver, the color came and went In
her face, her eyes were shy as q doves
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-09-21
Many Factions In Cuba.


An American officer who has just re-
turned from Cuba says that tho po-
litical parties of that island have the
propensities of all Latin races. That
is, they cannot have a two-sided Nght,
but instead divide up into three or four
factions. Thus in Havana there are
four parties, each with a different
shade of principles and a different
leader. Among Latin races, as I have
studied them in South America, it ap-
pears to be question of leaders more
than of principles. A new man comes
to the front, with an engaging person
atty, proclaims himself a leader and
a man of destiny, and the crowd falls
in behind him. The idea of a battle
of principles or of issues as brought
to them from the United States is new
to the Cubans, and I believe it will
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-09-21

Petroleum Is the Farmers Friend.
The farmer has found petroleum his
best friend in dealing with other pests
and the mosquito 1t is the only thing
that will kill the tree scales, includ-
ing the famous San Jose scale, and it
is the sovereign remedy for line of
bacterial ills in vegetation Not mere
ly the invisible parasites are COM
bated with oil. but the visible insects
as we'll Kerosene emulsion goes far
to compensate for the loss of insect
ivorous birds out of doors, and Is abb
solutely indispensable in dealing with
the pests in poultry houses and stables.