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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-06-29

A recent letter to the Chicago Tri-
bune from Mindanao correspondent
says that the United States commits
sion had been steaming around the
coasts of Mindanao, touching at the
principal ports. to interview the Lead
ing Inhabitants gathered in from the
points were settled-namely: that Min
danao shall not be ruled by local gov
ernments, and that slavery shall be
abolished throughout the island The
commission went to Mindanao
with the intention of estab
fishing several provincial govern
ments, but they were not long in aban-
doning that intention That much was
soon decided at Zamboanga, and the
further the commissioners penetrated
into the country. and the more familiar
they became with the heterogeneous
character of its people, the more they
were convinced of the unwisdom of at
tempting to apply any considerable
measure of civil government on Ameri-
can lines to the people, the great ma
osrfty of whom are nothing more nor
less than savages, peaceful and thor
oughly friendly to the Americans, per-
fectly willing to be advised and ruled
over by them, but having no concep-
ton of or desire for anything ap-
preaching self government ideals. At
Cattabatta, one day out from Zamboan-
ga, the commission got into contact
with one phase of the real life of Min
danao- The town was found to be
practically all Chinese The Filipino
population of Cattabatto is insignia
cant both as to trade and numbers
The Cinnamon control the town and
the trade of the whole region. They
conduct themselves with such honesty
and tact that they seem to be on the
best of terms with everybody. The
leading Chinese traders at Cattabatto
have business connections at Singa-
pore and Hongkong, which bring ad-
vantage both to the Moros and them
selves. When the commission disem-
parked on the high river bank they
were greeted with singing of "Ameri-
ca" in English by the Chinese and
Filipino school children. At military
Headquarters a long private conference
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-06-29
ODE Romance
Of Rubber
S tupen dous De-
ve1oprnent Since 1t
Came Under White
Mems knowledge

receiver which he holds at the tele-
phone, the window strips which keep
out the blast, the spring which closes
the ice-bag cools his brow; age creeps
on him and the air seat INDUCES his
bones; his teeth fail him and the dem
fist supplies him with gums from the
ever-present material; and when lifes
fitful fever is over, there's a rubber
cover for his casket.
The world was long time learning
the uses and value of rubber. For two
centuries after the Spaniards saw the
gum in the hands of natives of the
new world, it was little more than a
curiosity. Old Herrea, who went with
Columbus on his second voyage, made
nodded from the gum of a tree. At
their games, the nude Haytians made
it bound high in the air. The Aztecs
were familiar with the gum and called
it ule and from them the Spaniards
learned to smear it on their coats to
keep out the wet. They had crossed
the seas for gold. and never dreamed
OF a time when the sticky milk the I'M
couth Indians drew from strange trees
would be worth more than all the
treasure of the hills.
In this country alone today there
are $50 rubber factories, large and
small. employing 10000 operatives. 1t
is estimated that the rubber manufac-
turing business increased from $107,-
100000 in 1894 to 1851 ,789 900 in 1899.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-06-29
Found a New People.

1t is odd to think that he was not
discovered until the outbreak of the
civil war, although he was nearly a
century old then. and it is really start
ling to realize that when one speaks OF
the southern mountaineers he speaks
of nearly 5000, 900 of people who live
in eight southern states-Virginia and
Alabama and the southern states be-
tween-and occupy a region equal in
area to the combined areas of Ohio and
Pennsylvania, as big, say, as the Ger
man empire, and richer, perhaps, in
timber and mineral deposits than any
other region of similar extent in the
world. This region was and is an un-
known land. 1t has been aptly called
Appalachian America" and the work
of discovery is yet going on The Am
erican mountaineer was discovered,
say at the beginning of the war, when
the confederate leaders were counting
on the presumption that Mason and
Dixon's line was the dividing line be-
tween the north and south, and formed
therefore the plan of marching an
army from Wheeling in West Virginia,
to some point on the lakes, and thus
discovering the north at one blow. The
plan seemed SO feasible that it is said
to, have materially aided the sale of
confederate bonds in England, but
when Capt. Garrett, a West Point
graduate, started to carry it out, he got
no farther than Harper's Ferry.
When he struck the mountains he
struck enemies who shot at his men
from ambush, cut down bridges before
him, carried the news of his march to
the federals, and Garrett himself fell
with bullet from a mountaineer's
squirrel rifle at Harpers Ferry.-Scrib-
ner'S.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-06-29

Now that the sale of bogus lemon
ade has been forbidden by law, it
would be interesting to know what ac-
ton would follow an investigation OF
the compound used as lemon juice in
many of the barrooms that pretend to
be of the first rank and are entitled
to place in that category so far as
their prices can put them there. The
mixture commonly used in drinks re-
quiring lemon juice possesses only one
quality of the real thing 1t is sour,
but it suggests the fruit in no other
particular and tastes of foreign liz
gradients too strongly to deceive the
most Observation-Disclosures York Sun
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-06-29
Horse Confined for Y..r..

4 horse with hoofs abnormally
long. that has not been out of its stall
but once in the last eight years, is one
of the curiosities in Clinton, la. 1t is
the property or an eccentric character
1t is said he is keeping the animal
confined to the stall in order to let its
boots grow so he can dispose of the
horse to some show manager. 1t is also
said he is afraid of the horse and-does
not dare to take it out of the barn
The horse is handsome black stall
lion, and were it accustomed to the
harness would bring a good price. In
its present condition the owner has
been offered 5000 for the animal. but
he turns deaf ear to all offers Eight
years ago, when the horse was one
year old. it was placed "a its present
quarters, and but once in all these
years has the animal been out of
its STALL This was five years ago wnep
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-06-29
Queer Chimes. Cemetery.

In the secluded corner of the ceme-
terry of the Evergreens, New York city,
is a famous but dilapidated Chinese
burying ground. The plot contains
perhaps half an acre. No attempt has
even been made to improve or beautify
it. 1t has neither tree, nor shrub, nor
flower. and grass grows only in
patches. The graves are constantly lit
tered with refuse from frequent feasts
and ceremonies; the headstones are
Streaked with grease. The stones
which mark the graves are mostly uni
form in size and appearance. On each
are inscribed in Chinese characters,
the name, date of death and place of
nativity of the person buried. The
Chinese are particular about the in
scriptions, and to insure accuracy give
the marble cutters fac-similies on pa
per, which are pasted on the face of
the stones and the inscription is cut
through the paper by following the
lines. The cemetery authorities get
"a for opening or reopening a grave.
This is a source of constant revenue
from year to year. No matter how
many interments, there will always be
room for more. Seven or eight hun
dred persons have already been buried
in the plot, yet the number of graves
does not exceed ten score. This is ex-
planned by the fact that these resting
places are only temporary. When
means and opportunity permit, the
bodies are exhumed and the bones
packed in boxes for shipment to China,
where they will finally rest by the
graves of their ancestors. The head
stones are then removed and new ones
soon appear in their places. Thus a
single grave may at various times have
been a receptacle for many bodies.
Recently more than hundred bodies
were exhumed and prepared for ship
Notwithstanding Grit.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-06-29

a fire threatened to destroy the barn.
Some of the neighbors knocked the
door off it's hinges and cut the halter,
releasing the animal, which was driven
out of the barn after considerable diff
fculty- When outside the horse stag
gered and reeled like an intoxicated
person. 1t had little use of its legs
ALI objects seemed strange to it, and
the light had binding effect on, the
horses eyes. Ithad no regard for OBJ
jects, and in trying to enter the barn
did not realize that it had to go
through a door, but attempted to walk
through the boards-New York Press.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-06-29

The physicians report strange case
in Avana township, Ill Mrs John
Linsey has been lying very ill for the
past nine weeks with fever. During
seven weeks of this time she has been
possessed of strange hallucination.
notwithstanding she has been gradu-
ally improving, she declares she is
dead. and insists on having her body
prepared for burial Every effort on
the part of the attending physician and
her friends has been made to disabuse
her mind OF this, but to no avail She
says her body must be buried; that It
is not right to hold it so long after
death
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-06-29

Naturalists in Germany are much in
terested in a wonderful old tree which
has been discovered near Hamburg.
1t is an oak, and is notable not only
on account of its great bulk. but also
for the fact that at the base of the
trunk it is entirely hollow The trunk,
indeed, is not more than eight or nine
feet high, but it is more than twenty
feet in circumference. Some idea of
the size of its interior may be gather
ed from the fact that four persons re-
Gently found ample room in it. In
winter the old oak looks very bare
and gaunt but, according to peasants
in the neighborhood, who have known
it for many years, it regularly puts
forth new twigs and foliage every
spring, SO that, ancient and decayed
though it's trunk may be. it is never
theless crowned and surrounded with
masses of green leaves, just as it was
in the days of its youth. The people
of Hamburg are very proud of this
natural curiosity.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-06-29
Rock of Ages. C,eft for Me,

The great hymns of the world that
have touched the hearts of many thou
sands have usually been the expression
of a vital individual experience. They
have not been written as mere pieces
of literary composition; they have
been the crystallizing of personal sor-
row, personal faith, or personal reali-
zation. They have been the summing up
of years of hope and struggle, focused
in an instant of expression, as the
century plant stores up vitality for
decades to be evidenced at last in
sudden towering. The circumstances
that inspired some of our great devo-
tional hymns must deepen the interest
in both the song and the singer and
reveal that mighty kinship of human
souls, that divine sympathy, that con-
fers deathless fame on a few simple
verses, soul-biographies living in song.
This greatest of hymns was written
in 1775 by Rev. Augustus Toplady,
very learned English divine, who died
at the early age of thirty-eight. The
hymn has the rare, wOndrous spiritual
ecstasy he revealed in his daily life In
his last illness he said: Il cannot tell
the comforts that l feel in my soul,
they are past expression. 1t will not
be long before God takes me; for no
mortal man can live after the glories
which God has manifested to my SOUL
The marble tablet over his grave says:
He Wrote Rock of Ages, Cleft for
Me-"
The Sweet BY and BY.
In 1867 this hymn, known as "The
Sweet By and By was written at
Elkhorn, Wis, by S. Fillmore Bennett,
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-06-29

There is a tradition that accounts
for the four ones instead of the w.
A famous French jeweler of the name
of Henry Wick presented to King
Charles ", surnamed Wise, a clock
whose dial bore the correct Roman
numerals Now Charles did not know
everything, but. being a king he pre-
tended to omniscience, and after fall
ing to find flaw in the works, said:
The clock runs well, but you have got
the figures on the dial wrong. Sure
ly not, your majesty, protested the
jeweler. Yes; that four should be
four ones" You are wrong, your
majesty" Il am never wrong," thun-
dered the king Take it away and
correct the mistake Wick obeyed and
the fashion was followed by Others
and to this day we have I'LL instead
of IV.-New York Press.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-06-29


Rains known as blood rains are,
though not common, yet not unknown
They are generally due either to dust
clouds that are blown from the des-
erts and encounter a rain-storm at
some distance from their point of orr
gin. or to a microscopic red fungus.
but a real blood rain is a rarity.
However, Prof. Luigi Palazza gives an
account of rain that occurred at Mes
signadi, in Calabria. on May Is, 1890,
greatly horrifying the Inhabitants. as
drops resembling fresh blood fell from
the clouds. On microscopic and chem
ical examination of these drops at the
says. they proved to be real blood, but
the blood of birds The phenomenon
public health laboratories of Rome, he
is explained by the superstition that
migratory birds had been caught in the
high winds that prevailed and torn to
pieces.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-06-29

office, and when asked Whats the
matter, now?" answered 1T is no
matter, it will all be right
by and by The idea flashed into
Benefits mind, as he then expressed
it, was The Sweet By and Byi' Why
wouldn't that make good hymn?''
Turning to a table he at once wrote
the words; Webster jotted down the
music as if inspired. Half an hour
later two musical friends entered the
room and it was sung by the quartet.
Nearer, MY God. to Thee.
OF the many hymns written by Mrs
Sarah Flower Adams. the only one
on the Bible story of Jacobs vision at
Bethel, the imagery of which narrative
it follows most faithfully. 1t first ap-
peared in a volume called Hymns and
Anthems" published in 1S41 The chief
criticism made against this hymn is
that it does not mention a Savior. Rev.
this lack. but the new lines are rarely
used and they never became popular.
Jesus. Lover OF MY Soul.
One day Charles Wesley was sitting
by an open window, looking over the
beautiful fields, when he saw a little
bird pursued by a hawk. The poor
thing, weak and frightened. in seeking
to escape from it's enemy. flew into the
room and found refuge in Wesley's
BOSOM AS the poet was then in great
trouble and needed the safety of a ref
uge. the consolation of help from a
higher power than his own, the Incl
dent seemed to him a divine message,
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-06-29
Artificial SILK.

The manufacture of artificial silk, 1t
is reported, has become quite thriv-
ing industry in Germany, although It
seeems there are only certain purposes
for which it can be used, but still these
are very numerous. The output of the
Elberfield district alone, it is said,
amounts to $125,00O monthly. Certain
disadvantages connected with the
product, among which is its highly in
hammable character, having acted as
deterrent to it's manufacture, but an
Improvement in the process has re-
Gently come into use in France which
avoids most of these disadvantages
According to this method dry nitro
cellulose, india-rubber solution and a
salt of tin, preferably stannous chlor-
ide, are mixed together in the proper
lions of 100 pounds of the first to z
pounds of the second and pounds of
the last. To this a suitable solvent,
like benzine. is added in such quantity
as will bring the mixture to the de-
sired consistency.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-06-29

selves out body and spirit in their at
tainment that we lose the power of en-
joyment, too tired to care for anything
So the wise woman, though, like the
woman in the Bible, she rises while il
is yet night" she yet makes sure OF q
little time every day-perhaps not
more than a half hour-which is hel
very own, and with which stranger o.
friend "intermeddleth not"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-06-29

The all work and no play woman
soon becomes scarcely more than s
machine, machine that too often runs
without the-wheels being greased-in
a hard, grinding, squeaking way, re-
quiring much more strength and time
than if little fabrication had been
given in the shape of occasional pleas
ant moments snatched by the ways, says
the Jacksonville Times-Union- There Is
one thing certain, it is better to try
and be content with little, doing with
out some things that we may have a
great desire for, than to so wear our
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-06-29

olas wrote to his old tutor an affec-
tionate letter, in which he signed him
self: Your always unchanged, affec-
tionate and deeply grateful Nicholas"
1t was probably not an accident that
the letter was written on the same day
as the rescript. for it is NJ. Pobyenotost-
self who is generally credited with
having first planned the desire for
peace in the young emperor's mind. :
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-06-29

who was as
S o C i a t e d
with J. p.
Webster in
arranging a
new collec-
t i o n OF
hymns, eb-
S [ e + w a S
nervous, SEN
sitive a n d
easily d i s.
coura g e d !.
o n e day,
when very
blue, b e
went i n t O
B e N nett's
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-06-29
The PessimIst.

The Pessimlst.
Nothing to do but work,
Nothing to eat but food,
Nothing to wear but clothes
To keep from going nude
Nothing to breathe but air,
Quick as a flash tits gone;
Nowhere to fall but off,
Nowhere to stand but on.
Nothing to comb but hair,
Nowhere to sleep but in bed,
Nothing to weep but tears,
Nothing to bury but dead.
Nothing to sing but songs,
All, well, alas, alack,
Nowhere to go but out
Nowhere to come but back
Nothing to see but sights,
Nothing to quench but thirst,
Nothing to have but what we've got;
Thus thro' life We are cursed.
Nothing to strike but a gait;
Everything moves that goes,
Nothing at all but common sense
Can ever withstand these woes.
Ben King.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-06-29
REPRESENTATIVE and ID. Car.

NJ Pobyenotostsen, who narrowly
escaped from the hands of an assassin.
was the schoolmaster of the present
car and of his father He is nearer
to the throne than any other man In
Russia On the day on which the
Cars peace rescript made him the
most-taIked-of man in the world Mich
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-06-29

Hold the Fort, for L Am Coming.
In October, 1864, Allatoona Pass,
defile in the Mountains of Georgia, was
guarded by General Corse with 1900
men. 1t was a strong strategic point
and, moreover, a million and a half
of rations were stored there. Fresich,
the southern general, with 5000 men,
attacked the garrison and drove the
defenders into small fort on the crest
of the hill The battle was fierce; the
northern soldiers fell in such numbers
that further fighting seemed folly But
one of Corse's officers caught sight OF
white signal flag fluttering in the
breeze on the top of Kenesaw Noun
tain, across the valley, fifteen miles
away. The signal was answered, and
then came the inspiring message from
mountain to mountain: Hold the
fort; L am coming.-W. T. Sherman"
Cheer after cheer went up, and though
hopelessly reduced in numbers they
did hold the fort for hours until the
advance guard of Sherman's army
came to their relief. Six years later,
p p Bliss, the evangelist, heard the
story in all its vivid detail from
soldier friend, and then wrote the
words and music of this famous hymn
From GreenIand's Icy Mountains.
On Whit Sunday, 1919, DR.. Shipley
an English clergyman, was to preach
a missionary sermon. On the day pre-
ceding, DR.. Shipley requested his SON
in-law, Bishop Reginald Heber, to
write something for them to sing in
the morning." Heber retired from the
table, around which group of friends
were assembled, and in a corner of the
room wrote this hymn at one sitting.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-06-29

Fools ard sensible men are equally
innocuous- 1t is in the half fools anc
half wise that the greater danger lies
Goethe
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-06-29

HNnrc8u E8FnfuSS IN A'8DA
There is great prosperity in Ala
bama- The earnings of the railroads
of that state for the year 1900 were
$50 867 ,853, an increase of S3.024. 1858
over the previous year
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-06-29

4 little house well filrd, little field
well till'd. and little wife well wild
are great riches
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-06-29
IN THE ODD CORNER.
QUEER AND CURIOUS THINGS
AND EVENTS.

Headstos.es an Chinese Cemetery Are
Streaksd with Grease and Uttered With
Refuse from Frequent Feasts aud Ger
emonies-Drummsrs Disguised
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-07-11
Viola Center.

Chas Beck was Coon Rapids visitor
Sunday.
Mrs. Holt, of Missouri, is visiting
her uncle James Reed.
Rev. Smith preached at the Evan
gelical church last Sunday night.
Helen Miller, of Coon Rapids, was
calling on friends here last Sunday.
Several of our young folks attended
the dance at Chart Johnson's Saturday
night.
Ida and Bertha Smith left here We'd
nesday for their home in Warren
county.
Mrs. George Higley's sister from
Chicago has been here visiting the
past week.
The Viola race horse failed to win
money in the race at Coon Rapids last
Thursday.
I. 7. Browning bought a new hay
loader and side delivery rake of Jake
Rush at Ross.
Profs. Hooker and Woods from Au-
dubon were driving through Viola last
week looking up telephone business.
Vincent Beebe had quite a serious
runaway with the Browning team the
night of the Fourth breaking his
buggy tongue and badly breaking
Ray Olsen's surrey in the melee.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-07-11
Gray.

Pete Peterson was an Omaha visitor
the first of the week.
Mrs. Yetta Kennels was an Audu-
bon visitor Wednesday
Honas Mundt and family moved to
their hotel in Manning on last Friday.
Henry Wulf and lady celebrated
the Fourth at the picnic east of Man
ming.
Mr.. Wicker and wife, of Audubon,
passed the Fourth with relatives in
Gray.
Mr.. Darner and wife are visiting at
the home of her sister, Mrs. H. b.
Shelley.
Mrs. T. B. Creveling attended the
picnic at the Wilson grove last
Thursday.
The friends of Rachel Potter, of
Stuart, are expecting visit from her
this week.
Elmer Audas, Edna Beers, Will
Welch and Clara Shelley attended the
picnic at Manning.
Mollie Barger returned home Satur-
day after an extended visit with her
brother John, of Colridge, Neb.
John Campbell and wife were call
ed to Audubon by the death Mrs.
Campbelps grandfather, Mr.. Ander-
son. The burial took place at Extra
Friday.