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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-05-04

had been fragmented considerable
percentage of the thorite was recov-
cred unexploded- The filler developed
a tendency to pack in the point of the
shell without being affected by the
fuse. The best results were obtained
with shells that had been fred through
armored plates before being fragment
ed One of these was a 12-inch cast
steel armor piercing shell. Il was
charged with thirty-six pounds, two
ounces of thorite, packed with a wood
en- rammer. Without being fused it
was fired through 5.75-inch tenn
pered steel plate. As a result the
charge was completely ccmpacted for
ward, leaving a space of more than
fourteen inches in rear of the solid
packing. with about four inches of
loose thorite above it. The fuse was
then buried in the thorite, making an
excavation Is inches deep in the solid
packing, and the shell was buried ten
feet deep in sand, point down. The
shell weighed 954 pounds. After the
explosion $500 pieces of it were re-
covered, weighing 729 pounds The
largest piece weighed only thirty-one
pounds. This was the most success
full test, but the conditions were OBJ
viously impossible to duplicate in
service. Another test with a 12-inch
armor piercing shell showed very I'M
satisfactory results. The thorite
charge of sixty-six pounds were solid
ly compressed, the pressure at the
point being 1900 pounds to the square
inch, 1900 at the middle and 5.400 at
the base of the shell. The shell was
buried nine feet deep in sand. The
augmentation was very poor. OF the
thirty-seven pieces recovered the larg-
est weighed 271 pounds and the small
est eight ounces. Thirty-one pounds
OF unexploded thorite was recovered
Trials were also made of mixtures of
thorite and black powder, but none of
them was satisfactory. In the opinion
of the board the results of both expert
ments were unfavorable as compared
with other explosives.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-05-04

The mental attitude of American
free-traders on the subject of tariffs
and reciprocity treaties is clearly de-
fined by the Milwaukee News. With
a degree of candor more commendable
than common in the discussion of this
question the News says:
Protection and reciprocity will not
and cannot mix. Reciprocity will be
possible when our tariff laws are
framed with the distinct understanding
that they are intended for trading pur-
poses and not to give to American pro-
Gacers monopoly of the home mark
ct. To make reciprocity a success, the
republican party must abandon protec-
tion.''
This is why our domestic free-trad-
ers with one accord yearn for reciproc-
ity. They perfectly well understand,
what some protectionists seem to over
look, that if a protective tariff law can
be nul1ified, little at a time, by means
of reciprocity treaties, it will not take
long to repeal, abrogate and entirely
destroy the effectiveness of that law
The kind of reciprocity that takes
away from American producers the
control of the home market is the kind
free-traders favor Well and truly dc
they maintain that to make that kind
of reciprocity success the republi-
can party must abandon protection.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-05-04

Caesars Ghost
In that sharp war where Caesars STAY
ers died,
There was a moment when it seemed
deereed,
As sank the sun blood-red in clumps
of reed,
That victory should take the guilty
side;
But just as they were winning far and
wide,
The ghost of Caesar on phantom
steed
Bore down on Cassius with a sound
less speed,
And with sword of shadow turned
the tide.
I think that in LIES battle, now and
then,
The ghost of some high impulse or
great plan,
Which they have murdered, may ap-
pear to men,
And, like the shade of Caesar, check
the van
Of their success, though odds be one
to ten,
And cow their soul, as only phantoms
Eugene Lee Hamilton.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-05-04

Instead of resisting innovations, he
uses his skill and intelligence to turn
inventions and new methods to his adj
vantage BY making the best use OF
new appliances the American workman
can turn out enough more goods to en-
able the manufacturer to pay from so
to 100 per cent more wages to skilled
labor
But another powerful factor in Great
ing this difference is the much-de-
nounced policy of Protection The
United States is by far the best mar
ket in the world. The 10000, 900 of
people in the United States consume
as much in value of the products of
skilled labor as twice as many people
elsewhere. 1t may be said to be the
American policy, in contradistinction
to the British or Free Trade policy.
TO reserve as far as possible, this best
market in the world for the producers
in the United States; SO at the very
outset, for all the products of skilled
labor, we have a wider market than
any other nation in the world Now it
stands to reason that the certainty of
a market that consumes three or four
times as many goods as the market
of any competing nation affords en-
ables the American manufacturer to
thrive on a profit on each pound, yard.
ETC., much smaller than can his COM
petitor in any other country.
1t is the quantity sold that makes
the price. To illustrate, the shoe manu-
facturer who can put upon the mar
ket 100 cases a week cannot sell at SO
small profit as the manufacturer who
makes 900 cases week. Still further
the Protective Tariff has always en-
abled the manufacturer to pay much
higher wages than are paid elsewhere
in the world. The workman who earns
these wages has twice as much money
to spend for the products of other la
Der. Cut the wages paid in the United
States 80 to SO per cent, and consump-
ton of merchandise in many lines will
be reduced in like ratio. Thus in two
fold measure the much-denounced Pro-
tective policy is the cause of the high
wages in the United States.
Great Britain, driven into close quar-
tiers by adhering to its Free-Trade pol
icy by competitors created by the Pro-
| tective policy, has but one way OF
| meeting the ruinous American compe-
tition, and that method is the reduction
| of wages, thus to some extent curtail-
| ing the capacity of labor to consume
| it's own products.-IndianapO Jour-
nal.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-05-04
THERE IS BUT ONE WAY.

Only by Reducing Wages Can Free Trade
The pressure of the industrial COM
petition which Great Britain feels is in
dictated by the reduction of the wages
of 225,000 workmen a few days ago
The average reduction was only about
SO cents a week, but to men who have
been earning not more than IS to 81 a
week that is a serious item 1t is,
however, the British method of meet
ing the competition of the best paid
labor in the world, whose pay is twice
the figures here quoted
The question naturally arises, how
can the manufacturers in the United
States compete with those of Great
Britain when paying double the
wages? Several elements must enter
into the answer. First, the Brit sh
workman, having been for years the
best in the world, has assumed that
under no conditions en- there be a bet
ter. He has obstinately chung to meth
DDS that are worn out He will not
yield to new inventions and processes.
The result is that from being the best
workman a third of a century ago he
is now inferior to his American and
German competitor. Again, good
wages. with the prospect of better
things, has appealed to the ambition
of the workman. consequently he is
more intelligent and more enerKetic
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-05-04
RIVER BOATS I'm RUSSIA.
Strange Looking Craft That Ply the
Waters of the MuscovIte Empire.

Strange Looking Craft That Ply the
waters of the MuscovIte Empire.
Everywhere up the Volga and It's
hundred tributaries ascend the iron
barges of the Caspian sea oil fleet,
while through the canals to st. Peters
burg alone pass annually, during the
215 days of free navigation, thousands
of steamers and barges bearing mil
lions of tons of freight. Every known
means of locomotion is used, from men
who, like oxen, tramp the tow paths,
hauling the smaller barges. to power
full tugs that creep along by means oil
an endless chain laid in the bed OF the
canals and minor rivers. dragging after
them at snail pace great caravans OF
heavy barges. From the greater
streams immense craft nearly 400 Feet
long. fifteen feet in depth, carrying
5000 tons of freight, drift down to the
Caspian, where they are broken to
pieees to be used as firewood on the
steamers going up stream. In all
there are 5000 miles of navigable
waterways in the valley Of the Volga.
or if the streams which float the giant
RATS that form so large part of the
traffic of the rivers are included, the
mileage is increased to nearly $1,000,
or as much as that of the valley OF the
Mississippi. Fifty thousand RATS are
doated down the Volga annually, many
of them 100 feet long by seven thick,
and this gives but faint idea of the
real traffic of the river, for in addition
there are 100000 tons of produce
nassing I'D and down the river during
~. ,nop season. Much of this centers
at Mini Novgorod. To this famous
market steamers and barges come
from all parts of Russia, bringing
goods to be sold at the great annual
fair over 5000, geo worth of mer-
chandise changing hands in a few
weeks. 80, 900 craft, including RATS. are
required for this traffic; they come
from as far north as Archangel. as fan
east as the Urals, from Astrakan in the
south. st. Petersburg and Moscow to
the west. while great caravans of ships
of the desert arrive daily from all parts
of Asia
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rhe seept.r of Power.

Over and above the excess of exports
which our own country shows in COM
parison with Great Britain and Ger
many, it has this great advantage
namely, large balance of trade in its
favor. as against a small balance for
Germany and balance the other way
for the British islands. The great
American trade balance stimulates
home industry, protects it's money sup
plies and is steadily making the world
it's debtor The scepter of commercial
and financial power, SO long in the
hands of England, is being transferred
to this nation, which, from all present
indications, will hold it for genera
tioEs to come.-Topeka Capital
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-05-04

Capt A. Orsay Of Austin, Tex, who
was for many years connected with
the Adjutant-Genera1s Department of
Texas, recently received letter from
Gen A. R. Chaffee, with whom he
formerly served in the regular RAINY
The letter is dated at Pekin, China,
Feb /, and says in part:
II don't know how long we are to
remain in Pekin. The ministers get
on with their negotiations very slow
ly We army people have nothing to
do but wait results between the min
listers and Chinese plenipotentiaries.
The Chinese have a reputation for be-
ing slow, but 1 think eight or ten min
listers, with varying thoughts and
wishes to be harmonized into one. are
slower than the Chinese officials or
chinese methods of business
1.-The winter has been very chang
ing; cold, but not dsstressingly so;
sunny days, very little snow and dur
ing last month very little wind. Windy
days are to be dreaded because of the
horrible dust sent whirling every
where. laden with every poison in
duced by filth. The surface of the
ground is a receptacle for all filth.
Scavengers remove scrapfngs to some
extent, which are used for fertiliza-
ton of the soil
Nothing is wasted in China. They
are the most economical people in the
world, / think. All work; few beggars
in a population so dense and poor that
at first sight one would think half
must beg or steal to live. l have four
troops of the Sixth Cavalry here NO
officer or man with them now that was
on roll in your day, thirty-five years
ago-all gone long ago-"-New York
Sun.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-05-04

The report of the Ordnance Board
of the army against the adoption of
thorite as filler of shells condemns
the entire class of explosives to which
thorite belongs. those OF which ann
monium nitrate is the principal corn
ponent The board says that "faiinre
to secure a uniform degree of ex-
piosion or defamation appears to be
inherent in explosives of this class"
Trials of thorite were made with
field. siege and seacoast she'll The
board finds that a reasonable degree
of efficiency cannot be obtained" with
thorite as a shell filler. and recon-
mends that the trials of it be discon-
tinued. This is the eighteenth report
on thorite 1t submits details of eight
tests with 5, and Pinch shells The
great difaculty was in securing COM
u,-.te exnlnsion- Usually after shell
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-05-04
Comp.rison of Casualties.

Admiral Van Reypen, surgeon gen
eral of the navy, has prepared an in
teresting statement showing that there
were more casualties in the United
States navy during the recent trouble
in China than there were during the
entire Spanish-American war AS there
is no exact time fixed for the opening
of hostilities in China, June Is is
adopted. The period of trouble in
China runs from June Is to October 10,
the first regiment of United States
marines departing from China on the
latter date. Within that period there
were 129 casualties from all causes, of
which 80 resulted in death, The great
est number of casualties came from
gunshot wounds. June 81, there were
"a casualties of this kind. The cases
of heat stroke also ran high, with
2 deaths. IL serious cases short of
death, and many minor ones. The en-
tire number of gunshot wounds was
Sc. During the Spanish-American war
the gunshot wounds not only were
fewer in number, but decidedly less
fatal, the percentage of deaths being
10 in the Spanish-American war and 26
in China. This was largely due to the
fact that the Spaniards used the small
Mauser projectiles, while the Chinese
used large bore guns, shell and shrap-
mel The marine guard in Pekin suf-
fered the worst loss, for out of Sc
men s were killed and wounded,
making 80 per cent of casualties.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-05-04

Bavaria has resumed relations with
Greece for the first time since the
Athenians drove out the late King
Otto. AS one result Prof. Furtwangler,
director of the Munich Glyptothek,
will go to Aegina next summer to ex-
cavate the site where the Aeginetan
statues of the Munich museum were
found, in the hope of discovering evil
dence that may decide what is the
relative position of the groups to each
other.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-05-04

For eight crops-corn, wheat, oats.
barley, rye, buckwheat, potatoes and
hay-covered by the reports to the de-
partment of agriculture, the farmers
of the United States received almost
100000, 900 more in 1900 than they OBJ
tanned for the same products in 1899
Buckwheat and barley were the only
crops in the list which showed a de-
crease in value, and the advances, in
corn and hay especially, made this de-
felt seem slight. We quote the Stats
tics mainly as a matter of record. The
contented smile on the American farm
er's face is proof enough of itself thai
he is doing very well indeed
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-05-04

A mammoth black walnut tree on
the farm of E. p Gaus in Williams
county, Ohio, has just been sold for
$4,000. Several lumber dealers have
examined chips from this tree, and all
have declared it to be the finest speci-
men of that kind of wood they ever
saw The tree was eight feet in di-
ameter forty feet above the stump, and
extended seventy-three feet from the
butt to the first limb.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-05-04
a. colossal Failura

The talk, during the campaign OF
1900. about the danger of imperialism
in the event of McKinleys election.
was the worst kind of political dema-
gogy- Some people may have believed
such silly twaddle, but men possessing
the Intelligence and information O.
William J. Bryan knew it to be merely
a fabrication, scheme to deceive the
people. but, as such, 1t was colossal
faiiure-Hermitage (Mo-) Index Ga
xetfa.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-05-04
Hetty Green's Humor.

Mrs. Hetty Green is not without
streak of humor, though perhaps it is
a trife saturnine. Recently an over
dressed woman, while in conversation
with Mrs Green, commented at un-
necessary length on feminine apparel.
aOh. WELL" said Mrs. Hetty, wealthy
people can afford to dress poorly, you
know. The poor and vulgar must
wear fine clothing. if only for purpos-
es of disguise"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-05-04
One Day at West Point.


There is a rule for everything that
the cadet does during the day. His
walk and his bodily carriage are pre-
scribed by regulation. He marches to
class at the sound of a bugle; he eats
by command; he must be precise in
the way in which he salutes an officer,
or the officer will stop him and call
him to task. There is even a pre-
scribed manner of greeting a civilian.
If the cadet is introduced to one he
must again lift his cap. There is not
a step he can take, not a word he can
say, not even a personal matter in
his days life that is not, in one way
rule.
AS soon as the police work is done
it is time for the battalion to form
and march to breakfast at mess.
Breakfast is finished at about 7:1O.
Immediately after it is over. sick
CALI rings out on the bugle. Any
cadet who feels that he needs a ply
stefan reports to the surgeon-in- charge
at the hospital. Study and recitation
last until 4 o'clock. Across the quad
rangle formed by the four connecting
wings of the great academy building,
sections may be seen, as in the busy
morning marching to and from reci-
tation. 1t is another period Of the
severest kind of instruction, while at
4:1O p. m, weather permitting, drill
begins, lasting until $50. This is i'm
mediately followed by dress-parade-
At $50 formation for supper takes
place. This meal lasts until O'Clock.
At this time of day our young men
in civil life would feel very much
abused if any more work were asked
of them. Our cadet has the generous
allowance of thirty minutes for rec
reation." At 7:S0, to the second, call
to quarters" is sounded by one of
those precise buglers who are the bane
of army life everywhere in the civil
lied world. Straight to his quarters
goes the cadet He must now remain
absolutely in his own room. The min
utes pass in study, the time being all
too short for the vast amount of work
that must be prepared for tbs next
day If our cadet is phenomenally
quick he may find time enough to pick
up pen and dash on a few words to
the fond. anxious mother at home
Whatever he does, he cannot turn
down his mattress and make up his
bed, nor even stretch himself upon the
hard Stats before the moment Ere
scribed in regulations Tactical OH
GERS or cadet officers are likely to pop
in upon him at all sorts of unexpected
times, and the slightest infringement
of any rule must be at once reported
Tattoo is another call that the
buglers are required to sound 1t is
equivalent to get ready for bed" but
it is not heard from the quadrangle
until the exact moment of $50 has ar
| rived. As soon as he hears this call
the cadet is at liberty to turn down
his mattress and make up his bed By
10 O'Clock, when that tireless bug1er
blows taps which means that all
lights must be out, the gas is turned
OF and the tired young embryo gener-
al falls into bed, to dream again OF
home and other pleasant associations
until reveilIe rasps out once more on
the following morning - Leslie's
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-05-04

In expectation of an heir, the King
and Queen of Italy have had brought
to Rome the tortoiseshell and gold
cradle which was used for King Victor
Emmanuel when a baby. There is
a very curious family cradle in the
possession of the Errolls 1t has a
carved wooden serpent at one end and
a dove at the other; the idea being
that the child who uses the cradle will
possess the wisdom of the serpent and
the harmlessness of the dovei
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-05-04

Andrew Carnegie's last speech to his
workmen at Homestead contained a
passage we'll worth remembering. La
Dor, capital and business ability" he
said, ARE the three legs of a three
legged stool. Neither is first, neither is
second, neither is third. There is no
precedence, all being equally neces-
sary." All efforts to make the stool
stand on one leg or on two have been
failures, but when it rests upon all
three it is hard to upset.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-05-04

Some remarkable relics of the early
civilization in Egypt have recently
been unearthed and deposited in the
British Museum. Among them is a
beautiful impression of a royal seal
which represents the king wrestling
with a hippopotamus and spearing a
crocodile. That must have been the
kings busy day.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-05-04

Recent experiments in wireless teleg-
raphy, in connection with the French
feet, have been so satisfactory that it
has been decided to provide the whole
Mediterranean squadron with wireless
apparatus, which will be subjected to
decisive tests during the coming cruise
Of the squadron.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-05-04

That the art of cooking ranks high in
the estimation of British army officials
Is shown by the recent grant of $500
to the widow of the late staff Sergt.-
Maj. Thompson, in recognition of the
valuable services rendered by her hus-
band who was for many years the
chief instructor of the army school of
cooking at AlderShot.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-05-04

Miss Ella Ewing, the Missouri giant
ess, who is feet A inches in height,
recently built a house for herself Her
new home has doors 10 feet high, cell
ings Is feet high and is equipped with
chairs, tables, beds and everything in
proportion
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-05-04
rhe Ine.hor.bae Camel

The vicious disposition of the came.
in general is evidenced by an instance
given by the Arabs. Some time ago. in
Little Alden. a SomaH boy endeavored
to escape from an Infatuated brute
which was pursuing him by plunging
into the sea, but the camel swan after
him and killed him.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-05-04
VIZ. Left Too often.

Frederick Rhodes has applied for
divorce in Akron. o. In his petition
he declares that his wife has left him
twenty-seven times, and that he has
at last grown tired or such foolishness
The last time Mrs. Rhodes deserted
him she said she had gone for good.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-05-04

The Minnesota senate has passed..
with amendments, Senator Chiffon ;
bill prohibiting the marriage OF in
sane, epileptic and idiotic persons, and
requiring a medical certificate of all
applicants for marriage licenses.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-05-04

Thirty-eight inventors have taken
out hundred or more each of United
States patents since the beginning of
the year 1872. Mr. Edison leads all
with 742 patents, Prof. -Elihu Thorn
SON is credited with 444, and Mr.. West
inghouse and Sir Hiram S. Maxim both
occupy high places on this modern
roll of honor. Should our government
set out to decorate" the men who con-
tributed most to national wealth and
progress during the nineteenth cen
fury, the list of inventors would yield
names as deserving as any to be found
In the record of statesmen or soldiers