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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1905-04-25

FACTS ABOUT TIME.-Time Is hard 10
define. According to the best poets
time has a heavy foot, a tooth, fore-
lock and breakable legs. 1t travels In
divers places: it ambles, trots, gailops'
runs, rolls and stands still; II mas
whips: 1t crops roses. So far II seems
like a horse. But 1t has forehnger'
also a reckless hand that writes wrink-
les This explodes the horse theory.
Furthermore, time flies. Hence, q
bird of a time" Time Is money; De-
ing also a bird, time Is gold eagle
perhaps: money is the root OF all evil
and procrastination Is the thief OF time.
Therefore, procrastination Is D a
chicken thief, (2) good thing.
The wickedness Of time Is beyond
question. 1t is vindictive. Il wasted
time" mourns King Richard, land now
doth time waste me-" Time waits Tor
no man. Time shall throw dart at
thee. Time robs us Of our joys. Time
will tell Time Is unthinking. Time
pre- sses its debtors. The time Is out OF
Joint, and we'll may 1t be, considering
what nuisance 1t Is.
Time Is a sea, a sandy beach, a
bank, a shoal and an abyss. Also 1t
Is a whirligig, which seems odd when
we recall that time is quiet as a nun.
Time is good, bad, high, fine, rough
hot, Christmas, spring. waltz, common
and lovely. Among good times may be
mentioned quitting time and dinner
time.-Newark News.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1905-04-25
SOMETHING ABOUT OZONE.
Properties of Natures Wonderful Dis.
infectant.

All down through the ages, when
nothing was known Of the microbe
cause Of putrefaction, and when street
cleaners-even house cleaners-were
almost unheard of, and streets and
houses and men were as dirty as they
are now in parts Of Russia or China,
sickness and death, although frequent,
were not as frequent as they would
have been without natures watchful
care over her ignorant children.
Although, man knew nothing about
It, there was a powerful disinfectant
being constantly manufactured In the
worlds laboratory one Of air and wa
ter, and this substance burned up the
refuse which man did not know enough
to destroy. This purifier which the
chemists discovered only about sixty
years ago, Is ozone. It is made up OF
oxygen atoms IN a modified combina-
ton, and Is sometimes called active
oxygen because Of its strong oxodizing
power. 1t is produced during thunder
storms by the action Of the electrical
discharges, and is also formed during
the rapid evaporation Of water. Sea
air, therefore. contains 1t In small
amount, and also air in the neighbor-
hood of salt works where a large
amount of water is constantly being
avaporated in order to get the salt. 1t
Is produced artifcially by passing an
electric spark through oxygen, or,
better, by the action Of high-tension
current Of electricity without spark
ing. It Is also made in decomposing
water by electricity. A mixture OF
ozone and oxygen appears at the pos
tive pole.
Ozone has a peculiar odor (whence
Its name from a Greek word mean
ing to smelD. which any one may nave
noticed who has been near where a
lightning bolt struck. It can also De
smelled sometimes during a snow
storm. 1t Is disinfectant by reason OF
its active power Of oxidizing many
substance, especially when they are
moist, and so destroying their oren-
sive and poisonous character. 1t Is
especially eficacious in destroying the
noxious emanations from putrefying
substance and thus acting as a de-
odoriZer.
When breathing. even In small
quantities, ozone is irritating to the
mucous membranes, and 1t Is De-
lieved by some physicians that many
of the respiratory troyN!es and the
Influenza that prevail in damp winter
weather are owing to weakening OF
the resistant powers Of the mucous
membranes through the respired OK
yeen.-Youths Companion.
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70 BE ooNTTNrED.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-01-14
COUNTLESS MILLIONS FOR
AMERICAS GOOD WORKS


payers per head is much higher. They
have all the comforts they need to
make life endurab1e, and they are even
given a good many 1uxuries that would
make the Old World BUNDLES lift their
their hands in horror. Yet the mum
Der of paupers in the United States is
comparatively small when compared
with that of European countries Ac-
cording to the last returns they num-
bered 73.045, of whom 5S-44 per cent
were of foreign extraction. Great
Britain. with not much more than half
the population, has considerably more
than 100000 paupers-
"Materialistic" America bids fair 20
lead the world pretty soon in institu-
lions devoted to science and art. The
Smithsonian is one of the finest muse
ums in the world, and the world, and
the American Museum of National His
tory is already the largest natural
history museum in existence, and is
to be made four times larger than
it is at present The Metropolitan
Museum of Art cannot yet compare
with the best galleries of Europe; but
it may do so wnen the Jacob S. Rog-
ers bequest of 100000 has been
wisely expended.
The time is coming when America
will lead in art of all sorts as well as
in its vast material achievements.
And when American art shall be devel-
oped it will be broad, virile, aspiring
in greater degree than the art of any
of the older nations. 1t will be typical
of the greatest nation that has ever
existed.
America spends infinitely more for
education, benevolence, libraries,
churches, parks, the advancement of
science and art and for all humaniZing
and uplifting agencies than does any
European nation.
There are plenty of rich Americans
who are giving themselves. as well
as their money, to the cause of the
poor.
The old sheer at "sordid. Materials
tic America is out of date. 1t will
soon be necessary to bring in the
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-01-14
Turkey Slow to Pay Debts.

Collecting money from Turkey is a
heart-breaking enterprise. A distin-
guished American once went there to
collect a debt of 100000 owing to an
English syndicate, which included two
members of parliament and a cabinet
minister. He expected to see the bus
mess through in two or three months.
But a foreign ambassador undeceived
him. Say three or four months and
then you will be as far off from obtain
ing your money as you are to-day" he
remarked. Men had gone out there
to prosecute claims, he added, whose
hair had turned gray with the strain
to which they were subjected and who
had gone home thoroughly broken In
health, unable to obtain Turkish lira
to show for years Of fruitless labor.
One victim of Turkish duplicity and
procrastination died in a lunatic asy-
lum. One of the embassies had been
twenty-five years prosecuting claims
without realizing a cent.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-01-14

searchlight blinds the eye to every
thing except the object upon which it
is directed. And there is great deal
in America besides graft Why not
look, for once, upon the bright side
of the shield?
"A materialistic and corrupt nation"
That was how America was summed
up the other day by a writer in the
Saturday Review, most anti-American
of all English periodicals.
Materialistic. No people on earth do
more, or stand ready to do more, for
good works that are not material. Let
a man bring forward any scheme for
the uplifting of his kind and demon
strate its claim to public support, and
he will get the money and help the
needs more readily in America than
anywhere else. No people on earth
spend anything like so much money as
the Americans do for charities, educa
ton, hospitals, parks, libraries,
churches and other good works.
Materialistic? The most striking
protest against materialism in the
world to-day is being made in Ameri-
ca. 1t is the erection of the Cathedral
of st. John the Divine in New York
city-"the largest religious edifice to
be started since the middle ages, when
thousands of zealots worked their
lives away rearing Europe's famous
cathedralS.''
The American millionaire may make
his money in materialistic ways, but
he spends it nobly. During 1903 eight
teen Americans gave a total of more
than 500 100000 for educational, be-
nevolent and religious purposes An
drew Carnegie and John D. Rockefel-
Ter gave the most, the former SIS $751;
500, and the latter gentleman 81, $780,
SGT. The biggest single gift was Mr..
Rockefeller's $7,OOO.OOO for post
graduate medical college and hospital
in Chicago.
The total of the gifts and requests
of sums above So 900 during last year
exceeded $S5, 100000. They were for
an infinite variety of educational and
benevolent institutions throughout
the country, and with few exceptions,
the donors bestowed the money wise
1y and found out some new thing that
needed doing. In most cases the char
ity was confined to America: but, be-
cides Mr.. Carnegie's foreign gifts,
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-01-14

powder, but all her family, her mother.
brothers, and sisters, had gone down
to the fight in Mobile bay, and been
captured by the Northern feet, in the
gunboat Gaines.
1t seems a strange thing to say.
but all that party look back on that
trip as the most comfortable ever
made by rail. While we were eating
and sleeping and talking, and now and
then receiving a visitor, our serv-
ants were improving the feeting
moments by the most tremendous re-
ligious revival. The sound of their
prayers, exhortations, and singing
overpowered the noise of the engine
and train, day and night it seemed to
go on.
"A pleasant incident on that journey
was breakfast sent us by former
neighbor as we were lying near Column
bus, Ga l must enumerate the viands
all or nearly all were delicacies at that
stage of the war. There was real cof-
fec, with real sugar to sweeten it (not
sorghum sirup), biscuits of real wheat
-four, butter. though it was selling at
81 pound. broiled chicken, beef
steak and fried potatoes. We did not
leave a crumb. and every member of
that party maintains to this day that
there never was nor ever can be as
fine breakfast as that one.
1T is now forty years since all these
scenes were enacted. l feel to this
day, and l speak for nearly every
Southerner whom l have heard ex-
press an opinion, that it is well the
war ended as it did. 1t was always
my fathers opinion that if the South
had succeeded secession would have
been but the beginning of many seces-
sions, and we should have been split
up into many weak states instead of
being the mighty nation that we are.
May Old Glory float till the end of
time over an undivided country!"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-01-14

New World to redress the balance OF
the Old" in all things that are lovely
and of good report. As for the insist
emf graft scandals, there is nothing
new in them. They are hardy peren-
malls. There are no more of them
than there used to be, but the increas-
ing tenderness of the public con
science makes it worth the while OF
newspapers and magazines to dig
them up.
Who can doubt the secret hid
Under Cheops' pyramid.
Is that the contractor did
Cheops out of several millions?
Who can doubt that there is plenty
of graft in Europe without the
searchlight of publicity to show it up?
William Thorp in New York Press.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-01-14
Indian Tonic for Marital Ills.

A Western lawyer was expressing
to a bystander his sympathy for Buff
faio Bill as he read an account of his
domestic troubles.
e.Any man." said the lawyer, "whc
has been SO long associated with the
Indians ought to know the sort OF
tonic to take to prevent being worried
by his wife,
can Indian take tonic," exclaimed
his nearer incredulously.
Sure laughed the lawyer. "Didnt
you ever hear that? He takes an he
ticks her. An elixir, seer"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-01-14

If communication could be estab-
Iished with Mars and a big bundle of
American newspapers and magazines
sent up there, the intelligent Martians,
reading them, might well exclaim:
why, these people must be 2Qtten
to the corei"
The harsh judgment would be par
donable. for the Martians would come
across graft stories by the dozen
and the score-stories of graft in
politics, graft" in business. graft in
industry, graft everywhere
No doubt the searchlight of public
ity is desirable and necessary, but
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-01-14

prising if she does not have it within
generation. Already the Congress
sional Library at Washington ties with
the Royal Library at Berlin for
fourth place among the libraries of
the world in number of volumes The
Bibliotheque National, the British
Museum and the Imperial Library at
ST. Petersburg surpass it. Harvard
university comes fifth on the list, hav-
ing more volumes than any other uni
versity in the world. The famous
Badleian at Oxford has only $50 900
to Harvard's $4,000.
If America has not yet got the best
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-01-14

John D. Rockefeller gave 100000 for
archaeological research in Egypt and
Babylonia, and Henry Phipps gave
large sums for the benefit of the teem-
ing millions of British India.
The vast sums given by the multi
millionaires are, however, only drop
in the bucket of money that America
spends for great and good works.
The states and the cities pour out hun
dreds of millions for schools, parks,
Fairgrounds, hospitals and other bene-
ficent institutions.
America has not yet got the finest
library in the world, but it will be sur
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-01-14

derful, There is nothing like it any
where
Foreign visitors to America some
times say that the struggle for sue
cess is keener and more cruel here
than anywhere else-that life is
strenuous race, with leach man for
himself, and the devil take the hind
most" But there is no country on
earth where the man who is down
and OUT is more carefully and kindly
looked after. Paupers dependent upon
the municipalities are far better treat
ed in America than in any European
country and their cost to the tax
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-01-14
Flag song.

Flag Song.
Out upon the four winds blow
Tell the world your story;
Thrice In hearts blood dipped before,
Iney called your name Old GlOryt
stream, Old Glory, bear your stars
High among the seven;
Stream a watchfire on the dark,
And make a sign in heaveni
Mighty harvests gid your plains,
Mighty rivers bear them.
Everywhere YOU fly you bid
All the hungry share them;
Blooms the wilderness for you,
Plenty follows after. !
Underneath your shadow go
Peace and love and laughter.
When from sky to sky you float.
Far in wide savannas.
Vast horizons lost in light
Answer with hosanuas-
Symbol OF unmeaSured power,
Blessed promise sealing,
All your hills hills of God,
And all your founts are healing!
Still to those the wronged of earth
Sanctuary render;
For hope and home and heaven they see
Within your sacred splendor,
Stream, Old Glory. bear your stars
High among the seven;
Stream watchfire the dark,
And make sign in heaven.
Harriet Prescott Spoford-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-01-14

library in the world, she can lay claim
to the best hospital. That is the YER
dict of Sir Felix Semon, the distin-
guished throat specialist, who is one
of the best authorities on the subject.
He has worked and studied in the
best hospitals in London, Berlin, Wen
ma and Paris; but when he inspected
the Mount Sinai hospital in New York
city, during his recent visit to Ameri-
ca, he said:
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-01-14

This is unquestionably the finest
hospital in the world. There is none
to equal it in London, which prides
itself on its hospitals above every
thing else. The buildings are better
adapted for hospital purposes than any
that 1 have seen. and the equipment
is magnificent. You give to the poor
patients luXuries and medical COM
forts which the rich cannot purchase
in London. 1t is all magnificent-won-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-01-14
southern Woman. Experience.


Writing in the Raleigh News and
Observer Susan Dahmey Smedes gives
this fragment of civil war history:
Zone of our war experiences was
keeping house for two weeks in box
car. We were coming back home
from Georgia. The journey consumed
two weeks, because our engine al
ways stopped us at night, and also at
all the cities for a day or two The
car next ours brought the servants
We bought provisions in the towns
and they cooked nice hot meals along
side the track. We had beds, tables,
rocking chairs, books. and work bas-
kets. Even the cat had not been left
behind, she belonged to the naval
branch of the service, and was given
me by one of Capt. Eggleston's sailors.
She personally had never smell ed gun
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-01-14
Last Casualty in Civil War.

DR.. Clayton Tiffin, a well-known
physician and surgeon of Hamilton,
Mo-, had the distinction of command
ing the Union soldiers who fought the
last battle of the civil war in which
a life was lost. During the struggle
he commanded at different times
three companies at Richmond, Mo. His
last command was composed of vet
Grams of Ray and Carroll counties,
who had been mustered out but had
re-enIisted under him.
1t was with handful of these that
he had an encounter on May %, 1865,
with the remaining remnant of Bill
Anderson's bushwhackers and guer-
rillas. Anderson had been killed, and
Arch Clemens, who had been his first
lieutenant, was in command. The
engagement was fought about eight
miles from Richmond. Capt. Tiffin
had with him only five men. They
were fired upon from ambush by the
bushwhackers, and. Madison Walker
was killed Capt. Tiffin was himself
shot through the toe of his boot, the
ball not cutting the flesh.
This skirmish occurred about 6: 80
O'Clock in the evening of the day men,
toned. Capt. Tifin was reinforced
and pursued Clemens command all
night, and the guerrillas surrendered
the next morning at Lexington. Three
days later, May &c, 1865, Kirby Smith
surrendered all the Confederate sol
diers west of the Mississippi river and
all who had opposed the union forces
had been disarmed.
Capt. Tif1in is quite sure the last
fight was in Ray county and that Mad
ison Walker was the last soldier in
that great struggle to give up his life.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-01-14

Harry Lehr is giving up a trip to
Europe, so that he may lead Mrs. As
tors cotillon. Harry can't be accused
of possessing ingratitude. anyway. 1t
was Mrs. Astor who found him at the
soda fountain.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-01-14

Mr.. Richard A. Garfield kindly paid
a fine of 81 900 rather than expose
the patrons of his exclusive New
York gambling establishment. The
percentage of chances in favor of the
house will be just trifle heavier for
q day or two.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-01-14

A Pennsylvania Judge has decided
that chicken is not an animal. This,
however, does not interfere with the
decision proDulgated by the treasury
departnent to the effect that a frog
is = bird
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-01-14

One difference between a Eungari-
an parliament and a French duel or a
meeting of copper kings is that ambu-
lances are needed when the president
of the parliament declares the session
adjourned.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-01-14

The first lot of new rifles for the
army was sent to Alaska They may
be tried on a dog" of course. better
there than elsewhere, but dogs are
the horses of the frozen north, so it
win be expensive.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-01-14

Over in Berlin an actress refused to
go on with the performance because
the leading man, was too realistic in
the hugging scenes Perhaps his wife
was a member of the company.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-01-14

The skin-tight trouser is coming in
to fashion again. This will give a
new impetus to the shoe-horn trade.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-01-14
Unpatriotic School Teacher.

The Woman's Relief Corps of Tole-
do, Ohio, recently preferred charges
against a school teacher of Wood
county. His school was presented
with an American flag and when re-
ceived the teacher was evidently not
in a patriotic mood. for instead OF
unfurling it at the top of tie school
house staff he buried the emb' EN- upon
the dirty floor and invited the schol-
ars to participate in war dance upon
the flag, which invitation seems to
have been accepted.
There are lot of funny things in
this Notwithstanding patent smoke
consumers.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-01-14

A number Of government documents
now are being published in bright
wine-colored covers. l. is a welcome
change from the customary suit OF
solemn black.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-01-14

Three thousand dollars was stolen
in Cleveland's city hall, and the re-
markable thing about it is that the
theft of the public money appears to
have been committed by mere out
slider.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-01-14

That woman in Arkansas who has
tasted forty-eight days, bringing her
weight down from 240 to 200, must
feel discouraged when she looks ahead
and sees how long it is going to take
her at the same rate to get down to
40.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-01-14

Arbitration treaties are breaking out
all over the world, except in Russia
and Japan. The two latter nations are
doing things to make the others think.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-01-14

Nine. Humbert's victims may get
cents on the dollar. Mrs. Chadwick's
will take theirs in sad thoughts.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-01-14

The fashion editor says the oyster
shade is a good color for new gowns.
We presume it's quiet.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-01-14

There never yet was born a woman
who did not love to be told that she is
adorable. (Grouchy husbands will
please take notice.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-01-14

Young King Atty of Spain has been
pulling the noses of his ministers
again. 1t should be remembered, how
ever, that the poor boy has had no
father to bring him up.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-01-14

A New York woman knocked down
a burglar with her Thanksgiving tur
key. She had no amateur biscuits
handy, or she could have knocked him
sepseless.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-01-14

Forst, the German actor, went mad
on the stage while playing in Oscar
Wilde's Duchess of Padua." The
madness is usually on the other side
of the footlights.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-01-14

A French maid got lost in New York
and 100 policemen went out to look
for her. OF course she was found.
Policemen seldom overlook a maid, be
she French or Irish.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-01-14

Brazil has decided to build twenty
eight modern warships. Evidently the
Brazilians believe now that merely
having revolutions verges too closely
upon the simple life to be interesting.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-01-14

the department of national encamp-
ment is held. A cherry ribbon sup
ports a disk containing the state seal,
surrounded by the inscription, De
partInent of Indiana, G. A. r.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-01-14

A flock of American pigeons recent
1y flew sol miles in four hOurs-over
seyenty-ive miles an hour, which is
almost as fast as some of the auto
mobiles go through our streets.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-01-14

The bluepoint oyster beds are
frozen, but the oysters would rather
sleep there than in a nice warm
kitchen.