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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-03-07

| likely hereafter, now that the cable
is open.
There was one young man I knew
in Chicago who literally blew in here
on waterlogged bark from Frisco a
little more than a year ago. He was
fiat broke, though when / knew him
back east his father was rich and he
was in a fair way to inherit lot of
money. In the melIowing moments
which followed our first meeting here
in these far away islands he told me
the sad, sweet story of his life In
return / got him a job. He was a
clever, good looking youth, and first
l knew he was high up in the counsels
Of the local Home Rulers" He ac-
cumulated lot of minor offices with
. their attached salaries, and l was be-
ginning to fancy he might turn up
some day as the leader of a rebellion
or something of the kind, when he
suddenly disappeared, taking with
him some money So far as 1 have
heard he never got farther than the
coast, and reports came back that he
had committed suicide there. l have
never been able to find out the truth
about it.
The citizens of Honolulu are doubt
the world. We always have from fifty
to 100 white citizens absent in the
states and Europe, and there are,
therefore, always some who have just
returned from their travels and are
full of information about the outside
world 1 suppose I personally know
a hundred men who live here who
have circumnavigated the globe in
one direction or another from one
to score of times. In this respect
there is no other town like it on
earth. You can't get a whisper over
our brand new cable about something
which has happened in China. Japan,
Corea, Manchuria, Manila. the Straits
Settlement, Indo-China, Samoa, Aus
tralia, New Zealand, any of the South
American countries, or-of course
Europe and North America. but you
can go right to a native son of that
country who talks good English and
can tell you just what it means and
all about it.
You may find here the strangest
mixtures of races possible to imag-
inc. Half breeds are not uncommon,
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-03-07

already retired from going and COM
ing on the rivers and canals and for
those, still in commission, who are
looking forward to long years of rest
with the boat bottoms hard and fast
on the flats The available mud spots
are getting scarce and one colony of
wreck jewellers after another is being
ousted to make room for improvement
Less than two years ago there was a
happy settlement of fifty or more fam
lilies living on rotting Takers, scows
and bull heads at the foot of Fifteenth
street, Hoboken, but the improver
came along with dredge to convert
part of their mud fat into good solid
ground for warehouses and to dig
out the rest of it for a ship basin.
And the colonists had to flee before
the digging and the dredging.
And only the other day the Erie
man picked his way along the crum-
bling plank of an old wharf at the foot
of Seventeenth, Hoboken, with nine
dispossess notices in his pocket, one
for each fa.ily in the last colony of
canal boat families on the west shore
of the North River.
The last colony to fall under the ban
of improvement and be ordered out to
make room for some more spur tracks
and a new pier was established twenty
years ago, when Capt. Wade retired
from active boating. He's now 70.
Capt. Wade has read his dispossess
notice every hour or so since he got it.,
hoping to discover that he was mis-
taken when he read it first and got the
impression that he must move
I've been a-boatin' sixty years." he
said, land this is the worst thing I've
run afoul of. It's worst than the in
surance company's Dustin and the
wreck of my two lakers- That all hap
pened about the same time
Il had two as good grain boats as
ever went through the canal and they
were both insured. But steamship
cut into the tow one day and both my
boats went down. And when | went
ashore to get the insurance / found
that the company had busted just the
day before.
81 got a little somethin' out of the
steamship and bought an old boat with
it, but it got so leaky that I couldn't
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-03-07
LIVE ON CANAL BOATS.
Colony of Contente1 People Which the March Of rrove
Has Forced From Their F1omes-Interview
With One of the Women Members

their shoulders and at the same time
look down to avoid the holes
The rotting pier is the boardwalk
of the colony 1t is also the common
source of fuel supply. There are spur
plank walks leading from it to the
deck of each wreck.
OF course, horses and hearse could
never get down there, so when the end
comes for any member of the colony
the neighbors volunteer to board up
enough holes to make reasonably
safe path and then a guide walks
ahead of the bearers to the waiting
hearse a quarter of a mile away on
solid ground.
That rotten old wharf amt so bad
as you might think" said one of the
women members CT the colony. You
see, it's so full of holes that thieves
don't dare come down here at night,
and the missionaries and folks like
that botherin' people with fool notions
are too squeamish to come down here
days.
THE last missioner that came down
here fell half way through hole, and
if she hadn't weighed nigh onto ESQ
pounds she'd gone way through into
the mud. There's some of her tracts
NOW SluAcu III lAdl IldCh OfCA TIC
window.
But you mustn't think that we are
sinful folks just because we don't like
to have busybodies pokin' around
aboard the boats and actin as If they
thought we were heather. We amt
sinful in particular. and we amt so
all powerful ignorant as you might
think. an we amt what you'd call
slums.
There's old Cap'n Holly on the bull
head boat over there with the green
and blue cabin, that's probably got
more book learnin' than half the folks
on shore. We call him the hermit
cause he's lived alone over there for
fifteen years and don't do nothin' but
do sums and read the Bible and old
sermons.
'''Tain't all figgers that he does
sums in either, but he has letters. He
says, Let x equal somethin' and y
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-03-07
CORRESPONDENT

CORRESPONDENT OF
the Chicago Tribune,
writing from Honolulu,
says: My aloha to you
all, This part of the
United States of Ameri-
ca is in the midst of
an unusually severe
winter. The tempera-
ture ranges from 81 in
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For real contentment there is only
one thing that beats living on a canal
boat afloat and that is living in a
canal boat that will never float again,
that has gone out of commission and
become houseboat on a mudf1at, says
a writer in the New York Sun
There is an abode that is neither
taxed at real estate nor levied on for
tonnage dues. 1t is just a wreck, but
a wreck with lace curtains at the
windows, canary birds singing in the
cabin, and the old cook stove still
blazing in the galley.
But there is cause for worry on the
part of the boatmen and their families
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-03-07
IlIit.rate Immiarant..

The following is the percentage of
illiterates among various classes who
come to the United States: Scandi-
navian, 0.6: English, IL: Irish, 81;
German, Al; Magyar. 7-5; Hebrew,
1856; Polish, 37-5; South Italian. SCI
A law excluding illiterates would,
therefore, exclude more than half the
Southern Italians and more than a
third of the Poles. while it would
affect the immigration from the Scan
dinavian races not at ALL 1t would
reduce the German immigration only
per cent
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get cargo, so 1 gave towbcat man
IS to shove me in here on this mud fiat
and I've lived here ever since I was
the founder OF this colony All hands
came over on my boat three years ago
to my wife's funeral"
From his cabin Capt Wade has a
good view of the open river. aaI the
neighbors say that since his wife died
he hasn't done anything but sit on
deck with a spyglass. looking at the
long strings of canal boats and barges
towing up and down stream
Funerals in the colony are frequent,
and they always mean a lot Of work
for the men folk They have to go
out before the day of the service and
make patches on the old wharf, be
cause four men can't carry q comm on
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and there are many native won en-
married to Cinnamon and Japanese.
One of the favorite occupations or
trades among the native population is
that of acting as residents of Hawaii
an villages in international exposi-
lions in various parts of the world.
There are a number of native men
and women who have made a first
class living in this way ever since the
worlds fair in Chicago. and who have
managed to see, in passing. about all
there is to see on the surface Of the
globe
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-03-07

After three years litigation the
heirs of the late Joseph O'Hare, a
San Francisco capitalist. have agreed
on a compromise The estate was
valued at about $50, 600. about half
of which has been consumed in legal
expenses One firm of lawyers recesr
ed a little over $4,000
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-03-07

the early morning to 20 in the middle
of the day. There is always refresh
ing breeze in the afternoon We
rarely have such an unusually long
cool spell. 1t has been like this for
the last four months.
l am sitting now in our Pawaa
home. every window of which is wide
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-03-07

dows OPEN"
times they run away from the ship
and knock at your back door after
dark, asking you to hide them until
the schooner or bark they shipped on
raises anchor and starts for the still
Lartner east And you always have
place where they can hide and you
are always ready to give them some
thing to eat After the ship sails ont
of harbor you are likely to exert your-
self in trying to find something for
the castaway to work at. so that he
may earn his living. Occasionally he
has done something in the states
that might send him to prison if he
were captured. but that will be less
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1903-01-09

rs everybody knows, the process Is
most tedious and trying one as well as
one which requires great skill.
The braid laces are compromise be-
tween real and machine made laces,
and IL well executed they are very
beautiful as well as valuable. The real
lace stitches are used in this work to
weave together the braid which forms
the design. Our illustration Is very
fine example Of the Battenburg or Re-
naissance lace. Lace centerpiecesS over
white cloths are very dainty and are
used now quite as much as the en-
broidered ones.
This kind of lace is made over de
sign stamped ON cambria. The braid Is
made to follow the lines of the pattern.
The design Of this centerpiece is very
rich one. and the braid is so closely
laid that there is not as much work on
the piece as one might imagine. The
fine linen center, Il delicate filmy piece
of French lawn, is basted over the
plain center of the cambria. and the
braid is then basted over the lines or
bars of the pattern. The basting OF
this work must be done with great
care. Lay the braid on the pattern and
sew 1t through the center with rather
fine stitches. When this Is all fastened
to the cambria backing, the lace stitch
es are woven into the spaces between
with linen thread, thus uniting the
whole into one delicate fabric. The
spider web work Is usually made to fill
In the background spaces. and the
more complicated stitches are used In
the spaces Of the design.
The foundation of the lace stitches Is
buttonhole work, and nearly all the
stitches are notifications of 1t. The
edge of the design which touches the
linen Is buttonholed all the way
around after the cambria Is removed
from the back of the completed lace by
ripping out the basting 1t Is evident
that new fabric Ia made. with the
exception of the linen center.
Many of the finest needle point laces
are made after this plan-that is, the
design is marked on fabric, and the
mesh Is built upon 1t. but Independent
Of LILLIAN Barton Wilson in Golfers
Weekly.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1903-01-09
Mcelxness.

Self sufficiency must be eradicated
before meekness can have its perfect
work. 1t has peculiar delicate fra
GRANGE; we are reminded of it when we
take walk in the woods in the early
spring and breathe in the aroma that
comes from the dainty flowers, the VIC
let, anemone and hypatica, that are
almost hidden in the leaYes under our
feet. One must look down to find these
first gifts of God to the spring. They
are meek and lowly, but living the life
He has given. because He wills 1t.
Weakness Is remedy that adapts it.
self to all the others If mingled with
love, 1t aids in developing Christian
life.-Episcopal Recorder.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1903-01-09
EPWoRTH LEAGUE.
Topic Tor the Week BEGINNING Ja a.
IL, "Thc Open Channel OF Tray
er''--Text. Math. vi, 6-Si vii,
7-11J john xiv. 1914.

Prayer ardent opens heaven, lets down
stream
OF glcry on the consecrated hour
OF man in audience with the Deity.
Prayer is something more than tell
ing God the things we want. 1t is
much mere than asking for things we
need. 1t is not needed to move God to
feel kindly toward US and persuade
Him into willingness to give us what
we ask for.
There are much asking and begging
which have little or nothing of true
prayer ia them. There is much in
prayer besides petitioning, much more
! than importantly.
Real prayer is heart union and COM
munion with God. Its expression in
words is necessary not to inform God
nor because He commands or needs it,
but we need to express our thought
and feeling, our desires and determine
| tions in words that they may have
definite shape and become full formed
and fixed. Without this they remain
unclear and forceless. What we think
or feel or will strongly we have a
natural impulse to speak out in words.
So if we are conscious Of having any
relation to God we have a desire to
talk with Him. We must speak ia Him
and in some manner have response
from Him. We must call. He will
answer.
To know God and have the sense of
His care for us. His loving regard and
interest in our we'll being, is worth
much mere to US than getting things
we need for comfort. So prayer is of
more value to us for heart union with
Him and spiritual comfort than for
getting good things granted us. In
distress the sense of His presence is
more blessed than any promise Of de-
lverance. His companionship in suf-
fering is better than dehverance from
suffering. Religion like this becomes
reality of God with us at all times.
We can never be separated from Him
if we do not close ourselves off from
His Spirit by our own act.
But prayer power is under law as
truly and fully as any other force in
the universe.
. GluEGIily Vi SOul ID the uIpl SSSSllllelI
for its working. No imitation of tone
or position of body, no stimulation of
felvor, no outward acting, can bring
the results of real prayer. Bowed
heads and bent knees, tremulous voice
and pleading words, may make men
think we are praying. God looks deep
Ell. at what is in the soul. The deep,
sincere heart hunger is first necessary
before the bread of heaven can be had
for nourishment.
In all this the soul is as active in
receiving as God Is in giving. Prayer
is no lying passive with open hands
for blessings to be dropped into them.
1t is alert use of all powers of asking.
seeking. knocking and doing.
AS the end of all praying we are to
find fellowship with men. Its begin
ming is not to be seen and praised by
them, but its outcome is that as we
wish them to be toward US that we
are to be toward them.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1903-01-09

The Kingston IN. ~ local union has
had great success with visiting com
mittee. composed of one member from
each society The committee has Wis
lied in Il body every society in the un-
ion, bringing good cheer and inspira-
ton with 1t.
The Brooklyn (N. " union supplies
a column of local Christian Endeavor
news for each Saturdays issue of one
of the daily papers.
DR., w. W. White. president of Bible
Teachers Training school of New
York city. is the conductor of Bible
study class under the auspices of the
Brooklyn On. W local union.
4 mission study class has been start
I'd in each of tie seven divisions of the
Brooklyn local union. The book being
studied is Tile Price of Africa
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1903-01-09
Keening n Fashion Al,xe.

You have heard of people who kelt
fashion alive by sheer holding on
because of its becomingness TO then
particular style of beauty. There Il
danger of the hair and corsage now
obtaining a goodly lease of life If lii,
will of the average girl has anything
TO do with the matter. The wide, flat
hair bow is rather more in favor now
Gdays than the rosette style but /,
large assortment still awaits the wear
-er's choice, and even the simulated
flower is not quite wilted yet 1t Is
subject, however, to many variations
Many jeweled designs are chosen II
butterfly forms bespansled Ostrich
tips, tufts of jeweled feathers and
novel rosettes touched with few
bright gems.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1903-01-09
Nuagets.

A thousand matters are left free and
fieXible in Christian Endeavor. Per
sonal initiative. invention. resource. the
constant leading of the spirit OF God.
are posslble.-Rcy Francis E. CLARK,
- ID.
You're an I'm try" society. When
the Lord asks Sou to do big thing.
count II compliment Rev. DR.. Ed
ward Taylor.
Just as the ore hes in the mountains
for hundreds Of centuries before it is
discovered so the ore Of conservation
ana pledged service has lain in the
lives of Young people in all the Chris
tian ages. II was only waiting for the
Christian Endeavor society to unearth
It and mold it into many beautiful
forms for the Masters use.-Rev. w
Knight Chaplin.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1903-01-09
Causca of .Joy.

Enjoy the blessings of this day If God
sends them. and the evils Of it bear pa
tiently and sweetly, for this day is only
ours. We are dead to yesterday, and
we are not yet born to the morrow.
But if we look abroad and bring into
one days thoughts the evil Of many,
certain and uncertain, what will be and
what will never be- our load will be as
intoIerable us it is unreasonable.-Jer-
envy Taylor
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1903-01-09
An Attractive Mode.

A rather odd but nevertheless ex
tremely attractive mode is soft fig
ured Japanese silk. 1t makes up tt
peculiar advantage in the gowns nov
In style, showing off the curves Of the
figure in a way that is thoroughly in
keeping with the up to date models
The stylish gown that is thoroughly
up to date displays the lines as plain
~ as can be done without in any way
exceeding the bounds of good taste Oh
propriety. Anything that goes beyond
this Immediately becomes vulgar and
is strictly tabooed.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1903-01-09
rn.te In pres. versus Money.

A woman would often insure greater
success by giving day Or two to the
study of her gown and how to put 1t
on and all its accessories than in buy
ing another and very expensive one.
She would give expression and indi-
viduality to her dress. All should
know the colors that suit them, but
they must bear in mind that what Is
becoming at seventeen may not suit at
seven-and-twenty and is very likely to
look grotcsque at seven-and-thirty.
Many women who, keeping in their
minds the ideal of youth follow in the
same lines at forty-seven for their
pains look nearer iifty-seven or sixty
seven than younger. 1t is quite absurd
to wear what is fashionable but unbe-
coming. The first duty of n woman is to
dress to look well and it does not come
within her obligation to lie mere
block for the display of her dressmak
er's inventions.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1903-01-09

Don't let your kitchen sink get clog
ged with grease and crumbs. Keep a
stralner over the waste pipe and wash
the sink out thoroughly after every
meal. 1t Is a good plan after dinner, II
you have had chops or anything spe-
clally greasy, to flush the pipe with a
hot sal soda solution. If stone sink
gets Il coating Of grease, sprinkle with
chloride of lime, let it remain over
night. and the next morning wash with
hot water. Attention to these details
will prevent both the advent of reaches
and the escape of noxious odors.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1903-01-09
Our Enther,a Word.

A little girl, says the Sunday School
Times was looking through kaleldo-
scope and came upon an arrangement
that she thought was the same she
had seen awhile before. NO" said
her comrade, lit can't be, though it
does look so. for my papa says it's new
err twice the same" Her fathers word
was better than her own eyesight. So
should our Fathers word be to us.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1903-01-09
: THE DALTON.

By belt The vatican plat at the
back and front is applied; hence its
use is optional The one scanned bish
Cpl sleeve is recommended for comfort
A dainty AFTERNOON WRAPPER may bt
made of cashmere with an applied
Lace yoke, as shown in the Illustration
and trimmed with rows of narrow vel
vet ribbon. 1t will develop equally
we'll in cotton goods for simple mora
ing wrapper. Seven and a quarter
yards of material will be required t,
make this wrapper in the medium Size
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1903-01-09
Meditation.

Meditation is done in silence. BY it
we renounce our narrow individuality
and expatiate into that which is in
finite. Only in the sacredness of In
ward silence does the soul truly meet
the secret hiding God. The strength
of resolve which afterward shapes life
and mixes itself with action is the
fruit of those sacred solitary moments.
There is divine depth in silence. We
meet God alone-F w. Robertson.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1903-01-09

The easies. and best way to clean
windows is to have two chamois cloths,
Dust the window panes; then partly
wiring out a chamols in cold or slightly
warm, clea- water. Rub the window,
wiring out the other channels well and
20 over the window again. DO not try
TO dry the windows.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1903-01-09

Agriculture is developing wonderful
" IN Mexico. The old fashioned farm
ing implements which have been In use
since the days Of the Aztccs are giving
way to modern American machines
and tools The soil and climate are
very congenlal. and three crops may
be raised IN the land In one year. The
peons make good laborers when under
proper direction.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1903-01-09

II went for bath yesterday" said
an Auyergnat. II had been in the
water some time when l suddenly per-
coived an enormous shark advancing
toward me with its jaws open. What
was to do? When he was yard off,
. 5ived, took out my pocketknife and
ripped mp the belly of the monster"
What! Then you are in the habit
Of bathing with your clothes on, said
one of the listeners. from the French.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1903-01-09
EGRNRIRERIRANCN
THE ART OF LACEMAKING.
A Renaissance Centerpiece and How
1t Is Built Up.

The difference between embroidery
ana lace is a radical one and involves
q definition of both III order to be ex-
plainod. Embroidery presuppos2s a fab
ric, something to answer as a ground
through which the stitches can be talk
en-. Lace is made complete Both the
pattern and it's ground have to be built
up. 1t is an entire creation with moth
ing to start from, as it were-stitches
in air, as the Italians call 1t. Real
lace" is made by hand, either with the
needle or on a pillow with bobblns, and,