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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-02-14
How Destiny May Be
Foretold BY Cards
Amusement for the Long Winter Evenings Three Methods
by Which Learn the Decisions of Fate Accomplish
Easy to Acquire and Always Ia Demand

handed to the inquirer of fate, and ID
shuff1ed again. The same wish must
be kept in mind, and the cut made in
the same manner as before. The ex-
aiming is gone through as before,
three cards at time, and the circle
thus added to. This is finally repeat
ed for the third time and the Magic
Circle" is complete.
As the cards are being dealt out
read the meaning in a general sort
of way. For example: You have
three cards dealt out, the ace of dia-
monds( a letter., the ten of clubs Ga
Journey, and the ace of clubs Ca
business transaction). This would
mean that a letter from one. on
journey telling of or offering bust
ness transaction would shortly be re-
ceived
WIFI he circle is completed, count
OFF seven to the right. Keep the mean
ing of the card thus designated In
mind. Now, counting that card as No. I,
count seven again, still to the right
Keep right on counting until you have
been round the ring, remembering
each seventh card. Then explain the
meaning of that combination of all the
cards designated. Should the last card
OF the circle be. say, No. 5, finish the
count of seven by again counting two
cards at the beginning of the circle
before making known the meaning OF
the combination. The circle should be
gone over three times in this manner,
beginning each time with the seventh
card, and calling it No. 1.
While the table that precedes this
explanation gives the general mean
ing of each card, it should be remem-
bered that each card is Influenced
more or less by the card on either side
of it. For example: The nine of
hearts (the wish card) has on one
side of it the ten of diamond (ths
money card), and on tho other side
the nine of spades (disappointment).
This would be interpreted your wish
concerned money, but you are doom
ed to disappointment"
Now, take the first card of the orig
inal ring, and place it up above the
circle. Then place the last card next
to it, and repeat right through the cir
Gle, first one and then the other, until
an entirely new ring has been formed.
| The cards are then read in the same
manner as before, after which another
| and final circle is arranged and read.
If the wish card" cuts up twics
out of the three times, with fortunate
| cards on each side of it, it is certain
| to come true"
The joker is always considered a
harbinger of good luck, and, should
the wish card" fail to come out in
| the deal, the joker can be used as a
substitute.
Another system which appeals to
| many is known as
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Cactus Pith Saved His Life.

John E. Ward of the Klondike,
whose signature is good for 500, 900.
was compelled to eat the pith of cac-
tus leaves for three days to keep him
self from dying of starvation and
thirst, though he had $4,000 in gold
coin with him. Ward owns some rich
mines at Dale. on the desert, and the
other day left San Bernadino with
money to pay off the miners and take
an option on adjoining property.
He failed to read the railroad time
table Alright, and reached Palm Springs
too late to connect with the stage line
which makes the eighty-mile trip to
Dale once a week. He then decided
to make the journey afoot, and as a
result lost his way, and for two nights
and three days tramped the desert,
subsisting entirely on the pith of the
cactus.
When found by prospectors he was
in the first stages of delirium. His long
walk and fast had reduced him to an
emaciated condition. He was accom-
panied to the railroad, where a freight
train was signaled, and on this he re-
turned to San Bernardino. Ward is
one of the wealthiest men of this city.
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Had Lived in Three Centuries.

One of the oldest women in the
state of Iowa and probably in the Uni
ted States, died recently at Dubuque,
Iowa, at the age of 105 years. She
was Mrs. Mary Morgan and died of
old age.
The dead woman retained the full
possession of her faculties, and her
mind remained clear and her memory
unimpaired until the end. Her ill
ness was of short duration and her
death was peaceful.
For the last fifty-four years Mrs.
Morgan had been a resident of this
city, having emigrated to this country
in her early youth from Ireland,
where she was born. She was mar
ried in 1918, three years after the bat,
tie OF Waterloo. She had lived in three
centuries
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The face card representing the per.
son whose fortune is being told Il
taken from the pack and placed face
upward in the center of the table.
The cards are to be shuffied, as in
the previous system, and the seeker
of a knowledge of the future is to
make a wish. The cards are then
drawn out across the table, face
downward. Twenty-seven cards are
taken from the pile at random by the
person whose fortune is being told.
The first card is placed over the head
of the individual card. This is what
crowns you" The next is placed be-
meath the individual card and is what
you are standing on The third card
is placed on the left of the face card
and is what you are facing" The
next is placed on the right, and is
what you are turning your back
upon" Now place the four following
cards slantingly between the card
Growing" and the card facing you"
following with groups of four between
the card browning you" and the card
you have turned your back upon;
between the card you face" and the
card you ARE standing on" and then
one between the card you have turn
cQ tOuI DdCk upOn anu me CdIQ yO0
'-are standing on" The manner OF
laying out the cards is shown in the
diagram. Repeat this three times.
using twenty-four cards. Finally place
the three sure to come true" cards
on the individual card in the center.
Wait until all the cards are placed
before starting to read the fortune
Start with the three cards above the
individual card and read the cOD1bfua-
ton carefully. For instance: The acc
OF diamonds, king OF hearts. and ten
of spades are in the pile; the reading
would be thus: over your head hangs
trouble and loss (ten OF spades). This
viii come upon you in the form of a
message or dispatch lace of dia-
monds), which you will receive from
an elderly man of light complexion
(king of hearts,.
Proceed through the eight separato
piles in this manner. taking each up
in the same order in which the cards
were laid down.-New York Tixues.
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The Yucatan Toe.

The toes of civilized people have
lost much of their cunning as helpful
members of the body in any work that
requires skill. The Maya people of
Yucatan, however, have kept the free
and-easy use of the toes in doing many
kinds of work. 1t is said that the
Maya women, who always so bare
footed, will pick up a pin from the
floor as easily with their toes as with
their fingers. An archeologist who
has spent some time among that peo-
pie in the interest of the Peabody
museum of Harvard university, tells
the following anecdote Of his landlady,
at Chichen TIA:
Coming into the house one day, the
American noticed that the pig had
been rash enough to trespass upon the
domain of the mistress of the house.
The woman was in close pursuit of
the intruder, but piggy would look in
any direction other than toward the
door.
Had she been compelled to stoop
and seize the animal with her hand.
the outcome of the chase might have
been doubtful. Magyar training, how
ever, gave her a great advantage. She
reached out her foot as the pig ran
by, seized him by the tail between the
great toe and the second toe, and with
graceful swing of the leg she landed
the pig some yards beyond the thresh-
old.
When told by the american that he
had never seen the thing done in his
own country, the Magyar woman re-
piled that it was as easily done with
the toes as with the fingers.
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Curious Parliamentary Document.

A very curious document has been
issued from the parliamentary printing
Office. 1t is the bill which has passed
the commons, entitled An act to re-
peal certain statutes which are sleep
ing and not in USE" and it is made
singular by the fact that in it are re-
capitulated numerous samples of an
cestral wisdom.
One of the statutes provides that
no man shall ride in harness within
the realm nor with launcegays-" An
other says: The rates of laborers'
wages shall be assessed and pro-
claimed by the justice of the peace.
and they shall assess the gains of vic
tuallers, who shall make horse bread,
and the weight and price thereof" A
third defines what sort of Irishmen
only may come and dwell in England
(tris has been sleeping for a very long
time), and a fourth is to prevent a
butcher from Staying any manner of
beasts within the walls of London.
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name or she people. II the American
people favored all the wild schemes
these wind-jammers credit them with
the country would have been wrecked
years ago. That it is still doing busi-
ness and fairly prosperous is pretty
coed evidence that people are not such
Missionaries as these gentlemen cred
tied them with being.
There was one popularity about this
convention, which was claimed to rep
resent the people" There was not
an individual invited or present who
represented the producing interests of
the country. Not a farmer was in at
tendance, and yet forty of the eighty
millions of people in the country live
on farms. No one spoke for them ex-
cept in the way of using their industry
as. a bait to induce the Canadians to
grant concessions to manufacturers.
The farmer was to be sacrificed that
the manufacturer and dealer might
become more prosperous. Canadian
grain, dairy products, cattle, sheep,
hogs, wool and fruit were to be admit
ted free, and in return the Canadians
would reduce their tariff on agricul-
tural implements and manufactured
goods and the export duty on timber.
1t is a beautiful plan, and formulated
along the lines that so many short
sighted business men have always adj
vocated. Their cry is, give us free raw
material and we will manufacture
goods for the world. What the pro-
ducers of what they term raw ma
terial' are to do under such conditions
they do not specify. The condition of
the 40 millions of producers is a mat
ter of indifference to them. The last
experience the country had with free
raw material and protected goods de-
stroyed their home market and gave
them nothing in return. Yet they have
such short memories that they are
anxious to try it again. Many years
ago Solomon referred to a class OF
| people who might be brayed in NOR
| tar and yet would not learn wisdom.
| We have the same kind with us to-day
They make it point to attend all
reciprocity conventions, for which
| their peculiar characteristics eminent
| ly fit them.-The Michigan Farmer.
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The MAGIC Circle.

Hand the entire pack, including the
joker considered very lucky card) I,
to the supplicant to Fortunes. 1t must
then be shuf11ed from one hand to the
other, not the kind of mixing known
steadily on @the dearest wish of the
heart" After the cards have been well
shuHed, the entire pack is to be laid
face downward on the table, and,
using the right if unmarried, the one
whose fortune is to be told cuts from
herself (taking it to be a woman)
twice, thus forming three separate
piles The meaning of the three cards
revealed by glance at the bottom of
each pile is then read, and the cards
are carefully replaced as they were
before the cut.
Now the seeress takes the cards
into her hands, and taking off the
three top cards, looks at them If
these are three of one suit, they are
all laid down. face upward. If there
are but two of one suit, the higher
card is chosen, the ace always being
counted as high II there are three
different suits, unless they be of one
denomination, they are all discarded
The cards chosen according to this
rule form one end of the Magic
Circle" This rule is followed all
through the pack, three. cards being
there is found to be but one card left,
that too is added to the circle
The remainder of the pack is then
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-02-14

One of the reasons why the Ameri-
can consumer is able to pay so much
more for goods than most foreigners
is because the manufacturers of the
United States are not subjected to re-
pressive measures. They are practi-
cal1y encouraged to let production ex-
pand. AS a consequence the resources
of the country are theoretically devei-
oped and there is a larger share for all
those who assist in their production.
That this is true the statistics of con-
supmticn abundantly attest, and, be-
ing true, the people have right to ae-
count themselves prosperous, no mat
ter how domestic prices may compare
with those which obtain in ether coun-
tries.
The only persons who have anything
to complain of are the foreigners who
are the victims of the dumping
process, and they will be fully justified
in taking any steps which may put an
end to the practice. That they are
likely to do so is suggested by the Wig
orous objections to dumping which
find their way into print in free trade
England. Although the gospel of
cheapness is preached by British econ
omists, it is noteworthy that they are
beginning to realize that when it OBJ
tsins at the expense of the domestic
producer it is dearly paid for by all
classes. Production is the handspring
G. prosperity, and anything that
strikes a blow at it must prove detri-
mental to country. This is a truth
which sophistry cannot disguise even
in Great britain, where cheapness is
extol1ed but where it is nevertheless
clearly recognized that the cheapness
which proves destructive to domestic
industry is undesirable. 1t is only the
American free trader who still suffers
from the hallucination that it is wise
for the consumer to seek to profit at
the expense of the producer.-San
Francisco Chronicle
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cvsters at Home in a Shoe.

Z. Ross Bell has quite a curiosity
il the shape of an old mans shoe, 70
the soles aud sides of which twenty
seven oysters have attached them
selves. The interior, too, is full of the
bivalyes, ard when the shoe was
found they were pressing through the
hardened leather of the upper. The
shoe was pulled from the bottom OF
the Potomac river near its mouth by
oyster dredgers few days ago, and
sent to Mr. Bell by one of his friends
among the oyster inspectors. 1t is OF
the '.brogan" type and a large size.
4 spot which indicates where the toe
OF the wearer touched it is now mark
ed by a gcod-sized Baltimore
Sun.
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Tariff Reform.

Representative Richardson of Ten
nessee. minority leader of the House
OF Representatives, in an interview in
the Washin gton Star Qnd.), is quoted
es saying. You will never have tariff
reform to suit the people, SO long as
the manufacturers virtually sits in
committee and writes the schedule
We all remember a tariff reform
when the importer sat in committee
and wrote all of the schedules, except
what the Sugar Trust wrote This re-
form made the people sick and will
probably keep the Democrats out of
power for a quarter OF a century.
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a relative. Z. Good luck. s. Good
heart; kindness. 8. Wish. 10. Pleas
ure; enjoyment.
DIAMONDS. A dispatch; a mes
sage. 2. A letter; advice. 8. News.
4. Strange table. 5. Presently, near
ly. 6. Little money. z. To your room.
s. Want of money. 9. Delay; anxiety.
10. Lots of money.
CLUBS. A present; business
transaction. 2. A short time; quickly.
5. Opposition difficulty. 4. Strange
bed; visit. 5. Parcel or bundle. 6.
Drinking card. z. Ring at bell; Wis
itor. 8. A conversation. 9. For sure.
10. A journey; travel.
SPADES-1. Death. (See note.) 2.
A lie; deceit. 3. Tears; sorrow; dis
enlargement 4. Sickness. 5. A
change. 6. Jealousy; possible anger.
Z. Removal; parting. 8. Sharp words !;
dissension; 9. disappointments. 10.
Trouble; affection; loss.
Note-The ace of spades right side
up means 'over the water" and not
death
Kings, queens, jacks represent peo-
pie. Red-face cards are light COM
plexioned people. Black-face cards
are dark people
Kings are regarded as men Oluer
than those represented by jacks.
COMBINATIONS = Three aces,
change of places; three deuces, news !;
three treys, anger; three fours, fire;
three fives, for sure; three skies, sue
cess; three sevens, a move; three
Fights, true love; three mines, an ac-
cident; three tens, a surprise; three
Jacks, a deceit; three queens, quar-
rel three kings business transaction /;
four jacks, kings or queens a crowd.
The system referred to as the first
of the lot is known as
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worked together in such a way that
they are readable upside down or
downside up. Another curious feature
of the sea is pair of serpents in a
circle with their tails in each others
mouths-the Egyptian sign of eternity.
The watchwords of the organization,
which is made up of all the magicians
in the country, and holds its meetings
on the first Saturday evening of each
month at 493 Sixth avenue, New York,
are, -Unity-Might." The first
letters of the three words are an
acrostic spelling num-" which is the
spirit of the association, the purpose
of the club being to prevent the ex-
posture of their secret methods and the
betraying of the mechanical means of
the magician to arrive at his surpris-
ing ends.
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NOT a FARMER NIT.
Agricultural Interests Totally Unrep-
resented i'm the Recent Reciprocity

resented i'm the Recent Reciprocity
Convention.
Last week convention was held in
this city to forward q scheme to Sc
cure reciprocal trade relations be-
tween this country and the Canadian
provinces 1t was attended by a num-
Der of business men and manufacture
ers from various parts of the coun-
try, and several ambitious politicians
who are very anxious for advancement
in public life There were also a num-
Der of Canadian statesmen, generally
lawyers holding public positions. nice
gentlemen to meet, good takers, and
with the ability to make the worse
appear the better cause
OF course the Americans present de-
handed reciprocity in the name of the.
people. whom they represented as cry
ing for it, while a fool Congress was
standing in the way We notice that
when men want anything badly them
selves they always demand it in the
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The system first explained IS mat
most used by the professional fortune
tellers, and is claimed by them to be
the best method known. Throughout
the two systems here expounded, the
entire pack of fifty-two cards and the
joker are used. Each card has the
same meaning in all of the systems.
The meaning of the cards is as fol-
lows:
THE JOKER-Remarkab good
luck, very great pleasure; great sue
cess.
HEARTS,. To the house. 2. A
ride or short journey 8. Love and a
proposal. 4. An embrace; affection.
5. A promise; contract. 6. A friend /;
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pgS & b'nlnR

commodities and provides for an army
of ants, to check the Expectations C
ferocious, leaf-cutting ants. The
branches bear yellow thorns, where
the ant garrison lives and rears Its
young The plant supplies not cnl.
lodgings, but. board as well, in TIE
farm of special honey, which make
the garrison a good breakfast, and
more wonderful still. solid food in the
form of little. yellow. fruit-like bodies
which are developed on the leaflets
and do for dinner. When an enemy
and supports an army.
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Traps Laid BY Plants.

The pitcher-plant attracts animal
lie by sweet LIQUID. The insect
crawis down the pitcher, but cannot
return, for the passage is barred By
recuryed hooks As wonderful as any
is the American Venus f1y-trap-" The
leaves are hinged at the center and
close rapidly enough to entrap an in
sect They remain closed while the
insect struggles, but when it becomes
exhausted they open to catch other
unwary prey.
Occasionally plants make allies of
their enemies. A tropical acacia.
known as the '.bull's-horn thorn" ac.
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The Land Sailor.

came. fill my sails you wastrel wind.
And watt me o'el the fields;
The golden fields, rich harvest lined
With all that red earth yields.
Come, blow me down the valley way
Between the crimson hills,
Where hardwoods make the landscape
gay
And Natures glad heart thrills
Blow. blow my craft where yellow leaves
Swirl vagrant through the air,
And blow where the ruStliDg sheaves
Dot fields of stubble bare
For would sail the autumn land
While glow it's radiant huess
With boat and breeze at my command,
Down all it's wales I'll cruise.
Frank Harrington in Lippincotts
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How Ships Are Named.

French ships are usually named
after French provinces or towns, vic
tories. ideas or sentiments. but no
French names, excepting those of
great men in their history, are made
use of. German ships bear the names
of German rivers, ports, poets, states
and characters in German literature.
Spanish ships are almost Invariably
named after their cities or great COM
manderS.
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Hour Glass.
centuries

Before the invention of clocks use
was made of hour glasses and sand
clocks, glasses filled with sand or with
powdered egg shells dried in ovens
These hour glasses were invented
about $50 or 200 years before the
Christian era. They were much used
in churches, and in some old European
churches they may still be seen fast
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A Maaician,s Seal.

Mystic and unique is the seal, right
in line with the mysterious character
of the organization that bears the
monogram of the Society of American
Magicians, of New York. 1t is usual
ly printed in red and white, and is re-
markable for the initials IS. A M
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Mo Call for Them

There aren't any free public sour
houses operating in unrentable bust
ness rooms this winter and. glory be.
there isn't any call for them.-Terre
Haute Tribune
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-02-14

HE amusement OF xor-
tune telling with play
ing cards is a source of
great fun during the
long winter evenings.
For the amusement
and entertainment of
our readers two sys-
TENS are given, both of
which are widely used.
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onIv From the outside.

What is prosperity" asks the Chi
cago News Prosperity is condition
which Democrats can view only from
the outside.-Osweeo Times