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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-01-05
DIRT EATERS.
Tho Grenadines In the West Indies Havs
Many of Them.


Many of Them.
You can't convince the .eoolie Of the
Grenadine Islands, West, Indies, that
there is any harm in eating dirt. His
own diseases ought to convince him
but they don't The rest of their diet
is simple and meagre. For the most
part they are vegetarians. They eat
rice, peas, curry and ghee, a special.
prepared butter in great use. Most
protesting vegetarians do not exclude
from their diet milk and eggs. but
these coolies will not touch either, ex-
eept when they are in hospital and
forced to do so. To hard workers in
the cane fields under scorehfng tropi-
cal sun such a frugal diet cannot be
supposed to be productive OF health
Dr. robustness. And when to this sort
Of foods added the luxuries of dirt
eating, it is no wonder that these cool
les are bloodless and stif-Jointed.
These ills are characteristic OF the
race.
Coolfe patients in the English hos
pitfalls of Carriacou, one of the Grena-
dine islands, frequently are found to
have gravel hidden in their clothing
and they cry and beg for it like the
morphine eater for his DOPE This
stuff which they eat is a soft, slate
colored or grayish stone. Sometimes
the pulyerized dirt is made into cakes.
If there isn't much of this to be had
the coolies eat rags, paper and coke
coolie, who is well along in the art
Of dirt eating is swollen all over the
body, and the muscles of his legs are
tense. His face is puffy and has a dis
tressing look of WEAKNESS and prema-
ture age. He is short of breath, and is
unable to speak, so that he has to
make signs to indicate his condition
His tongue is swollen and f1abby and
lies in the floor of his mouth, from
which he cannot raise it, from pure
weakness. 1t is marked strongly with
Impressions of the teeth. He has Sc
we're headaches, dimness of sight and
pains in the abdomen. His skin is
hin, f1abby and lacking in frmness
and even in the case of children feels
like the skin of an aged person. The
complexion is pasty.
But to have the diseases incident to
dirt eating it is not necessary to eat
dirt Intentionally. Laborers in the
fields, who rarely wash their hands
have been known to take enough dirt
INTO their stomach by handling their
,ood with their unwashed hands to &C
Iuire all the ills which aff1ict those
wlo eat dirt because they like it.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-01-05
The Red Cross.

The Red Cross is the badge and
flag adopted by every society, of what
ever nation, formed for the aid of the
sick and wounded in time of war, rec
ognized and authorized by the military
authorities of it's own nation, and en-
joying certain privileges and immune
ties under the treaty known as ths
Convention of Geneva Hence "Ret
Cross society" has become a genuine
name for all such voluntary efforts
and cannot be monopolized by any one
of them. The representative in Can
ada of the British Red Cross Society is
DR.. George Ansel Stirling Ryerson OF
Toronto, who has just returned from
South Africa, where he had charge o,
the Red Cross operations on behalf o.
Canada Miss Clara Barton is presi
dent of the executive board of the Am.
erican Red Cross Society. whose head
quarters are at Washington, d. c.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-01-05
Coffee of nerfco.

The emperor of Germany drinks
nothing but Mexican coffee, and a
years supply is sent to him regularly
after each harvest from a plantation
in the state of Michoacan. That in
tended for the use of the emperor's
personal household is known as the
Caracolio, carefully selected and sent
to him in bags made of silk, while that
for the court goes in the ordinary
gunny bags. Coffee is at best when
three or four years old, and as the
supply from each harvest is received
it is put aside to ripen in the emper-
ors garnet.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-01-05
Lone Martyr m Skirts.

1t is amusing to read of the mar
tyrdom of lone Boston woman to her
theater hat, which she persisted in
wearing at the play in defiance of a
city ordinance and against the now
universal custom of her sisters in all
civilized cities. This particular wom-
an-the wife of a musical critic at that
left the theater on one occasion rath-
er than remove her headgear, and on
another night accepted transfer to the
managers box to avoid a scene. What
can possess the mind of a woman who
at once defies law, rejects fashion and
disregards the rights Of people who
pay to see the play and not to get a
rear view of her millinery? Boston
ought to send her to kindergarten in
altruism-and courtesy.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-01-05
Oriein of Cbrfsfmos.

Christmas is survival, an adoption
of the centuries old pagan festival OF
the winter solstice celebrated during
the week preceding Dec. 25- 1t was a
season of present-giving and good
cheer and that good will to man was
made practical, for quarrels were dis
continued. debts RENTED, prisoners
liberated and absolute equality pre-
vailed among the people. This fesu-
val was adopted by Christendom. and
modes of celebrating the day varied
as it spread into other climes and as
the tastes of the different peoples dc
tated. In making the circuit OF the
seasons the sun reaches his lowest
point on Dec. 81, and for three days Is
apparently stationary; on the 10Th day
he begins to rise-is born again. The
Christmas legend is very pretty one
and when given its proper application
it is a very practical reality
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-01-05

VIC" VI me hnu Henry Ives Cobb.
ings of fact pre-
sented in the cases of Henry Ives Cobb.
George Edward Harding and William
Tyson Gooch, have found the parties
guilty of unprofessional conduct and
of conduct prejudicia1 to the best in
terests of the profession, but have per-
mitted them to remain fellows of the
institute, in good standing and in full
enjoyment of all the privileges Of
membership The committee then
recommended that it be resolved that
1.-The continued membership in the in
stitute of persons -adjudged guilty of
unprofessional conduct is repugnant to
it's members and is an anomalous con-
dition,' and that copies of the resolu-
lions be sent to each member of the
institute. The alleged unprofessional
conduct of Messrs Cobb, Harding and
Gooch was in connection with the
building of the state house at Harris
burg, Pa, to replace the structure de-
StrOyed by fire
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power to move the brush and thus
tighten the labors of the scrub woman
or man almost to a point of extinction.
Below we show his machine, which is
very simple affair. comprising a ro-
tary wheel set inside a casing and
provided with a series of buckets
around its periphery, together with a
small toothed wheel engaging toothed
disk secured to the back of the brush
The water supply comes from hose
attached to the end of the handle, or
the pipe may be directly connected to
tube in line with the revolving
buckets. The gearing reduces the
speed of the brush in comparison to
that of the motor. and thus consider
able pressure can be applied to the
machine without interfering with it's
efficiency. 1t can readily be appreciated
that there are other uses besides clean
ing the floors to which this machine
can be applied, chief of which is the
cleaning of windows and woodwork
which is out of normal reach. The
escaping water from the motor may
be allowed to flow through the bristles
or return through a pipe paralleling
the feed pipe to a convenient point of
DISCHARGE
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-01-05

Stories about misers are sometimes
exaggerated, but it has been verified
that a beggarwoman, named Marie
Leret, who has died at Versailles, left
behind her in gold and bonds about
$4,000. The money was found in an
old cupboard in the howell wherein the
deceased had lived for over half a CEN
fury. Marie Leret was eighty-three
years old. and was one of the most
successful mendicants of the day. She
begged persistently at church doors.
in the streets, at the railway stations
and received, moreover, substantial
gifts from charitably-d disposed per-
sons, who had no idea that they were
assisting a mfser. OF the sum found,
nearly $4,000 in gold fell out of a
long stocking, the remainder being in
various securities, of which the divi-
dend warrants had not been utilized
for eighteen years.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-01-05

The Austrian government has re-
Gently entrusted particularly valua-
BILE commission to Fraulein Erika
Paulas, this being nothing less than
the erection of a residence at Bis
tritz for the official Forest Commits
sioners. This is the twentieth COM
mission the government has given to
Fraulein Paulas, who has not achieved
her success without a struggle and
much opposition from the building
trade, which petitioned the minister
of public works to prohibit her from
entering for the examinations. Frau
lein Paulyas gained her architects
diploma at Buda-Pesth, after passing
the mason's examip ation at Klausen-
burg In England the. only two mem
bers, it is said, of th8Royal Institute
of British Architects are the Misses
Charles.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-01-05
IFS the World ReuolpeS...
VIII Wed a Prince.

The tragedy occurring at Paris sew
eral years ago in which Edward Park
er Deacon of Boston bore a leading
part has been recalled to mind by the
recent engagement OF his daughter
Gladys to one of the most distinguished
noblemen of Europe. Mr.. Deacon is
hopelessly insane at WaveTly asylum,
where he is attended by his wife
The marriage of this beautiful young
girl, oldest and loveliest Of the four
daughters, to a man of such rank and
standing as the prince of Lichtenstein
will do much to relieve her family
from the scandal which has shrouded
it ever since the famous Deac0n-Abeil
lie tragedy ten years ago. And any
body who has ever seen Mr.. Deacons
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-01-05
GfvrnS eOay 10 Cforfizaf.on

Transcontinental railroads ended the
days of the buffaloes- Great swarms Of
hunters were carried out by the rail-
roads across the prairies and plains
and vast numbers of the buffaloes were
killed out of sheer wantonness. Next
to the Indian himself the buffalo was
the most picturesque and distinctive
feature of the American landscape in
the wilder regions from the earliest
days down to a comparatively recent
time. but both-the Indian by seclu-
sion in reservations and the buffalo by
death-have been overwhelmed by the
wave OF civilization
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-01-05
Long Trance.

London cable New York World:
James Thompson, aged 80 years, has
been in a trance for eight months a.
the Royal Infirmary, Newcastle. He
merely took to bed, refused nourish-
ment and was admitted to the infirm-
ary,~ apparently paralyzed- Since then
he has been kept alive by liquid nour-
ishment, artifcialIy administered He
never moves, and has never displayed
the slightest sign of life except on two
occasions, when his eyes, which are
open with a perfectly vacant express
sion, betrayed a faint transient sign
of mental consciousness The case is
without a precedent in English medi-
cal science. The hypothesis of sham
ming has been disposed of by pro
longed tests of every conceivable kind
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-01-05
Oswald Ottendorfe

Oswald Ottendorferei
over he joined the
revolutionary forces in Vienna. When
this movement was defeated he es-
capped from the city and went to Sax
ony with the intention of entering the
University of Leipsic- Fearing extra
dition to Austria he gave up the plan
and emigrated to the United States,
where he began life as a laborer-
On becoming a naturalized citizen he
connected himself with the Democrat
ic party. In 1851 he entered the en-
ploy of the Stats Zeitung and in 1858
became tt editor.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-01-05

The newest fashion in New York
sky-scraper construction is to begin at
the top and build downward. 1t seems
impossible, yet that is what a con-
tractor is doing with bank building
at Wall and William streets. At pres
ent the upper five floors, with granite
walls, are practically finished. The
lower ten are as yet mere skeleton of
Orders and trusses. The larger blocks
of granite for these lower floors
were not ready on time, so the builder
decided to go ahead on the ones above.
1t is perfectly safe, yet the appear
ance of the structure is so unusual
that it is a curiosity, even for Wall
street.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-01-05

How quickly the huge herds of buff
alo on the American plains were swept
from the face of the earth! A recent
careful count by a competent person
places the whole number of animals
of the kind living today at only 1,024.
DR.. William T. Hornaday says in his
book concerning the buffalo that it
would have been as easy to count the
number of leaves in a forest as to call
culate the number of buffaloes living
at time during the history of the spe-
cies previous to 1870.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-01-05
Arr as q Source of MofiVe
Potter.

Joseph knight, young marine en-
gineer on a local English packet,
claims to have discovered a method of
utilizing air instead of coal as a
source of motive power. A London
dispatch states that the admiralty has
already taken up the invention for in
vestigation, and this fact is accepted
as proof of its probable genuineness.
The remark is volunteered in the dis
patch that if young Knights expecta-
lions are realized the introduction Of
the new source of power will entirely
revolutionize naval and ship construc-
ton generally.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-01-05

Some years ago Mrs. De Wolf Taylour
of New York married Austin Lee, a
young English diplomat of promise.
He has just secured the order of
knighthood from the queen and his
wife becomes Lady Lee. She is one
of the most beautiful and brilliant
women of the English-speaking col
ony at Paris, where her husband is
second secretary of the British lega-
ton. Formerly she was the close
friend and confidante of the countess
de Castellane and helped the latter
through the intricacies that beset her
when she went to France as a bride
and entered Paris society.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-01-05

Mr.. J. S. Moffat, who has been ac-
lively connected with the country i'm
mediately to the south of the Zambesi
for over forty years, first as a mis-
sionary and latterly as an official, is
about to return to Rhodesia after a
holiday in Europe. He first went out
under DR.. Livingstone. He was resi-
dent magistrate at Taungs when the
jameson raid took place. Mr.. Moffat
is now sixty-five, but he has work left
in him yet.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-01-05

A large amount of American steel is
being imported into Scotland. One
Scotch shipbuilding firm has received
over 10000 tons of ship plates from
America at a price that is $4,000
cheaper than the same could be OBJ
tanned in Scotland. Another firm is
taking over $4,000 tons, and altogether
it is calculated that about 100, 900 tons
will be imported. Some steel is also
being sent from Germany, but not in
such large quantities as from America.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-01-05
NOT PROFANE.
0ne E1ay Speak of a Tinker's Dam With.
out Profanity.

There is no profanity in saying that
any certain thing lis not worth a
tinker's DAM" although it is SO con-
sidered by many. The expression
originated many years ago, when tink-
sring, or mending leaky tin vessels
was much cruder than It is now In
former times the use of rosin to
check the flow of solder when placed
On tin was not generally understood
at least by the rowing thinkers. When
one of these gentlemen of the road
found a job, such as mending a wash
be would get from the housewife or
domestic a piece of soft dough. With
this he would build a dam around the
place where he intended to put his
solder. Inside of the circle thus
formed he poured the melted lead.
When the metal cooled he would brush
away the dam of dough that had con-
fined it to the desired limits. The heat
had hardened the heavy paste and
baked it thoroughly, so it was abso-
lutely of no use for anything else. 1t
became one of the most useless things
IN the world, and there was not enough
of it even to be worth while carrying
to the pigs. Hence the expression
which was originally intended to con-
vey a certain idea, appears to hav,
been retained, while the origin is not
generally known.-New York Herald.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-01-05

A certain minister in Denver occa-
sionally plays havoc with his words.
In closing a very impressive sermon
On Death" he said: Ere long we
will all be called upon to shuttle OF
this cortal moil; or, 1 should say,
muff1e off this-that is cutie off this
mortal-pardon ne; shuttle off this
cort-(AhemD Let US rise and sing
the doxology.''
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-01-05

1t is said tina. Formosan savages
are puzzled by an extremely simple
arithmetical problem. If two of them
are to share five articles of food, they
divide by taking two apiece and tL.ow-
ing the fifth away. But that is not
so bad, after all. It even shows that
they have made progress. In earlier
times, the stronger of the two would
have disposed of his unesteemed con-
temporary. and appropriated the
whole. 1t is a movement onward and
upward when the rights of others are
recognized and respected
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-01-05
Information on Waterways.

Lyman Cooley, the original engineer
of the Chicago drainage ditch, lectIred
at Ann Arbor recently and said that
boats to compete with railroads now
adays must have a carrying capacity
of not less than 1000 tons each. The
roads are preparing for heavier hauls,
and SO must the boats if ship canal
plans are to carry and succeed.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-01-05
Sentenced to aid WILLOWS

At Wiikesbarre, Pa, three we'll
known citizens who had been indulg-
ing in a spree were brought before the
mayor the other day to be disciplined
He sentenced each to saw up five rail-
road ties for the miners widows. who
have no wood and who apply at the
wood yard each day Ior fuel
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-01-05
Wales Collects Ancient Pens.

The prince of Wales has lately
amused himself by collecting pens of
famous writers of the Victorian era.
He has one that belonged to Tennyson,
one of Browning's, one of Swinburne's.
of Hardy's and fifty or sixty more, in
Guiding curious inkstand once the
property of Robert Louis Stevenson
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-01-05

There is a school district in Reno
county, Kan, in which there is a
school house and teacher, but not a
solitary pupil. Miss Mary Scroggins,
the teacher, opens school every morn
ing, and holds herself in readiness to
instruct any children who may come.
but she is the sole occupant of the
building. There are plenty of chill
dren in the district, but they attend
q parochial school.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-01-05
Studying Our Home.tead Law.

The government at ST. PETERSBURG
mas appointed an agent to visit tbs
United States for the purpose of study
Ing our homestead legislation, with a
view to the partial application OF the
system to the present communities of
Russia
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-01-05

In 1876 he entered
the University Of
Vienna. When the
fight for the liberia
ton of Schleswig-
Holstein from DAN
ish rule began he
Joined the ranks Of
the volunteers At
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-01-05

broom, chief among
which might be
mentioned the sup
plying of water to
the brush through
the hose and hoi-
low handle, but it
is probable that
an inventor of
San Francisco, Cal,
is the first man TO
onnru l.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-01-05
Hoke smith Donates I,bra-,s..

Hoke Smith of Atlanta. Ga. news.
paper man and former member of
PRESIDENT Cleveland's cabinet, has
given travelling libraries to fourteen
counties in Georgia. The books are
intended for school children and ara
to make the circuit of the schools.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-01-05
theodore Parker.s ola Iett.r.

A letter from Theodore Parker, the
famous Unitarian preacher and re-
former, to James Freeman Clarke. with
marginal comments by the latter. was
sold in Boston the other day for SIS
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-01-05

were practically
expelled from the
American Institute
of Architects at a
recent session of
the association. The
committee that had
been appointed to
investigate report
ed that "the board
of directors, in
rf0- - ~ ed
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-01-05

The thoughtful mother of a little
Chicago boy sent the following note
with him to his schoo1-teacher: Miss
Fitzgerald: Adolph swallowed !.
brass paddock last hight, and if he has
any pain in school this morning as a
result, will you please excuse him, and
Dblige his mother
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-01-05
Great German Editor Dead.

Oswald Ottendorfer, proprietor OF
tho New York Stats Zeitung, died the
other day at his home in that city
Mr. Ottendorfer was a philanthro-
MIST He was born Feb. 26. 1926, In
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-01-05

During the unprecedented rainfall at
Calcutta in the third week of Septem-
Der II people were KILL and 1S2 brick
houses, besides 400 hut fell to pieces.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-01-05
FOUR DOCTORS FAILED.
A Michigan Lady's Battle with Disease
and How 1t Was Won.

Flushing, Mich, Dec. 22-(Special.)
One of the most active workers in
the cause ,of Temperance and Social
Reform in Michigan is Mrs. Z. A.
Passmore of this place. She is a
prominent and very enthusiastic w.
C. T. U. woman. and one who never
loses an opportunity to strike blow
against the demon of Intemperance-
Mrs. Passmore has suffered much
bodily pain during the last three.
years through Kidney and Bladder
Trouble. At times the pain was al
most UNDESIRABLE. and the good lady
was very much distressed. She tried
physician after physician, and each
in turn failed to relieve her, let alone
effect a cure. Home remedies sug-
gested bys anxious friends were ap-
Piled, but all to no purpose. At last
some one spoke of Dodd's Kidney
Pills as great remedy for all Kidney
and Bladder Diseases, and Mrs. Pass
more decided to try them. She did,
and is now well woman. She has
given the following statement for pub
lication:
At different times in the past three
years. l have suffered severely with
Kidney and Bladder Trouble, and af-
ter trying four of the best physicians
could hear OF, two of them living IN
the state of New York, l found my
self no better I took any amount of
home remedies suggested by kind
friends, with little or no relief from
anything l decided to try Dodd's
Kidney Pills. Less than one box has
done me more good than all the other
treatments combined. l am still using
them, and can say from experience
I,& f1,ar- nm
Kidney and Bladder Trouble. 1 would
heartily recommend them to all those
suffering from these ills in like man
per.
MRS. P. A PASSMORE,
Flushing, Mich.
When physicians and all other
methods OF treatment have failed try
Dodd's Kidney Pills. What they did
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