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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-08

in sLeepskins by their stoves eating
their eternal sour-cabbage broth In
all the white and gray outlook that sur
rounds them the only patches Of color are
on the ikon. The humber the household
the more the ikons and the Shower the
colors. It Is the contribution CT the Greek
Church to his souls existence She gives
him ocular painted tin evidence that 81
Nicholas wore a robe Of red and green and
gold and sky blue She let's him know that
all things he can never hope to have or see
in this world we're the material possessions
OF the Greek Orthodox saints, here attired
in them as fashion plates Of the tailoring
in his next world. if he ia obedient.
Yet. in all his present deprivation, he
keeps alive and multiplies He has won
an existence out of nature, though he ia
told and believes that he is always getting
the worst OF il.
This grating OF Greek Church imagery
on the bare boards Of Russias cottages Is
a complete thing in the way of contrasts.
1t is not so long since the Greeks had
their war against Russia's traditional
enemy. the Turk Its chief military
achievement occurred when Greek mule
put its hoof through a Greek drum and the
bIttk army tthllS Atlt htlbAhNtpH " HN
a Turkish cannon. never stopped running
all the way from Larissa to Doroukos, tho
casualties being tie corpses ~ the less
swift who had failed to make way for better
sprinters. Yet, in the fulness OF time.
some new Herodotus will have converted
this into a great Greek victory. with heau-
tiful literary details. Their climate grows
everything else in such rich profuson
why should it not grow victories out Of
defeat seeds?
The Turk has probably forgotten N
plant his victory seed; he does not write
books In Russia the soil will not nourish
the seed The Russian has no bragga-
docious military literature to glorify hi'
thwarting OF Napoleon in 1912. He says
merely that he set fire TO Moscow. and As
the Frenchmen could not live on the coun-
try. hey had TO go back the way they
came II is very probably true. II IA
certainly true that the Russians defeated
Napoleon's rearguard repeatedly on his
retreat westward 10 Austrian Poland,
pursued it across Europe. playing a big
part in the Allies rictory at Leipzig aad
marched into Paris TO assist al the great
Corsican ! first overthrow.
Yet all that the generality OF mankind.
including Russia herself remembers Is
that Nepoleon's retreat was a sup-cwr
tragedy. With tens Of thousands Of 4-r-r-
bleaching in the snow all the Ia 'eI w."
across from Moscow TO the west
And after hundred years it seems that
neither his climate nor his heart l. changed
He will feel no glow of triumph under bus
bleak skies: but even should hey turn
more dark and threatening than now b"
could not feel-as men might who arc
used TO Nature in a kindlier mood that D.
was more than bad time which would
change again back TO the normal gray
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-08
Prnnts Of The DUNN no.s.
Erom "a PhiiadcInhin 20.

From hc Phiiddciphtd Prcss
y get. said a Philadelphia dump bose.
So week, free rent and The d,suosal OF ans
dump Of vulue
Tin cans. for instance. belong TO u" p
they ara dumped hc;e and ! make pro-
penny out OF them. They are turned. n4
know, into tin soldiers and so forth
-Corks are another perQusite Of niH'
MANI and many an old broken bottle ON 'n'
dump has n good big cork in H. ! got % ~
cents a pound for all the corks End
-Old shoes are never too old 10 b" @o
They have always ono good piece the r..7
over the nstep that can be used nciH
The smaller pieces OF good leather cI' orr
OF them ire made into purses and Wr,stie'-
Egg shells also have a value Somrrh..g
like 900. 900 pounds OF egg shell Is used every
year IN tho manufacture Of kid glove d
print calCoes.
-Do you zee those eighteen barrels hrh
;here' Well. each OF those barrels Cout..iH-
its own variety Of assorted marketable dump.
age. Each will sell when filed, A. g1ot
price There are. believe. nftv-eet'.
varieties Of marketable dumpaEc and some
dumps yield all the varieties. Mine YIELDS
twenty nine.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-08
.,cath From Peculiar Cause.

From ne InaIdn U0ID ICIF0rnpN-
4 very curious accident. resulting IN the
death OF two persons. occurred in Bhowna-
gar 4 Brahmtn family. consisting OF five
members was taken violently sick after
drinking tea and two OF them died before
doctors could arrive. The three others, who
were taken TO q hospital. still survive.
A post-mortem examination Of m" victims
was held when the doctors discovered that the
accident was due to lizard saliva ia the milk
used with the tea.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-04-08
Burglar Neatly Trapped.

When the assistants at a Bristol
(Eng) pawnbroker's entered the prem
1ses the other morning they saw a
man crouching in corner behind a
box He tried to rush past a file of
customers waiting to be served, but
was secured. He proved to be Rich
ard Halstead, a mason, and in his
possession was jewelry worth over
9100- Investigation showed that he
had been curiously trapped. He had
evidently gained access to the prem
ises by cutting a hole in the roof
He was, however, unable to get to the
shop below on account of an iron
door on the staircase. AS a last re-
sort, and being small man, he got
into the shop by sliding down a rope
in small wooden lift. The rope,
however, broke, and he came down
with run His position was not
fully realized till, having secured the
jewelry, he was about to take his de-
parture. Then he found all the doors
safely locked and the rope in the lift
broken. With no possible means OF
egress he had to wait till the shoJ
was opened.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-04-08

We illustrate in the accompanying
engraving novel railway system in
vented by New York man.
This system is intended for cross
ing rivers, gorges, ravines and the
like, and is designed to effect an econ
omy over existing systems of trans
portation.
1t consists of a tower at each an
chorage built of skeleton framework
in the center of which an elevator
operates. Cables are suspended from
cradle at the tower top and an
chored near the base of the opposite
tower.
Pivoted CONFERENCE.-The are provid-
ed, which serve to keep the cable taut
and to compensate for an variations
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-04-08
A 48o-ACRE FARM YIELDS
IS PER CENT PROFIT IN A YEAR.
What a Mercer County (Ohio) Farmer
Received from One Years Crop.

What a Mercer County (Ohio) Farmer
Received from One Years Crop.
Extracts from an interesting letter
from P. H. Rynhard, of Starbuck.
Manitoba, Canada, gives an excellent
idea of the prosperity of those who
have gone from the United States to
Canada. He says:
Il bought, August, 1903, $50 acres
of land, paying $4,000 for it, We
threshed 1913 bushels of wheat and
between 1900 and 1900 bushels of
oats and barley from 200 acres. But
part of the wheat went down before
filing and was not harvested except
for hay. The crop was worth at
threshing time, $4,000. Besides 120
acres laying idle except a timothy
meadow, which is not included in this
estimate. Counting the value of the
product and the increase of value of
land will pay me more than 25 per
cent on the investment. Two broth
ers in the same neighborhood bought
$50 acres each six years ago. They
have not done a single thing to this
land except to fence it and break and
cultivate about one-half of it. Har-
vested last year % bushels wheat per
acre. This year 81 bushels per acre.
They can get any day s25 per acre.
These are only a few of many hun
dreds of such chances 1t looks like
boasting, but truth is justifiable and
the world ought to know it, especial
~ the home-seeker. I know of quite
a few farmers that have made for
tunes in from 10 to 20 years, retired
with from $4,000 to 100000.
Writing concerning another district
in the Canadian West, S. L. Short
says:
Dear Sir-I have to inform you
that 1 have just returned from the
Carrot River Country in Saskatche-
finest black vegetable loan, which I
am proud of, and will move in the
spring. Farmers are still blowing
there. A mild climate and beautiful
country to behold. Cattle are fat and
running outside. Wood and water
good. Saw oats weighing AZ pounds
to bushel. Potatoes large and well
ripened; also wheat that brought
there 81 cents. The country exceed
ed my expectations. Saw oats in
stock, thicker on the ground than APP
pears in many of the illustrations
sent out in descriptive pamphlets. I
have been in many western states,
but the soil excels any 1 ever saw
The Canadian Government Agents
at different points report that the en-
quiries for literature and railroad
rates, &C., to Western Canada are
the grestest in the history of their
work
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-04-08
WHY PEN WOULDN'T WRITE.
Indignant Customers Had Neglected
Very Necessary PROCEEDING


Manufacturers of fountain pens
have their troubles as well as those
who use them. One of the most
prominent makers of this style of pen
has a complaint clerk to whom those
who have trouble are sent to have
difficulties righted. Sometimes the
clerk will find that it is simply case
of dirty pen, and the thing is soon
adjusted. A woman came in the 9TH
er day and went at the clerk like a
Turk
Il bought this pen some time ago
and l have never been able to use it
at all. l thought this was an honest
firm, and if it is not I should at least
think it would not attempt to cheat
a woman. l want my money back"
Let me look at the pen," said the
mildmannered clerk.
Here it is" snappishly said the
woman.
The clerk looked at it, and with
only a casual observation saw that
the pen had never been filled. Then
he said:
Il think, madam, if you would fill
this pen you would find that it work
ed all right
He then filled it and handed it to
her, and she said sheepishly, the snap
having all disappeared: "Oh, | didn't
know you had to put ink in them
Brooklyn Eagle.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-04-08

in cable lengths. These weights also
remove the lateral pressure on the
towers, producing instead a down
ward pressure thereon.
The system does not require any
elevated approaches to the bridge en-
frances. The transporter cars are
suspended from swivel trucks which
travel on the cables. In practice a
car is raised by means of the elevator
TO the top of tower, the trucks be
ing turned so as to clear the cables.
When the top of the tower is reach
ed the trucks are turned back to nor
NAL position, so that on descent of the
elevator they will rest on the cables
supporting the car The car thereupon
descends by gravity to the opposite
Scientific American.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-04-08
Enjoy Life in Manila
Especial Correspondence

and the big guns boom its evening
salute, erybody-American and for
eigner-faces the band and stands at
attention with his head uncovered un-
til this stirring piece is finished.
Formerly the Oriente hotel was the
center of Manila social life. but this
is now occupied by the executive Of
fees of the Philippine Constabulary
and thus far no hostelry has fully
taken its place.
The most notable social event that
has ever taken place in Manila was
the water carnival and fete given by
Gov Taft shortly before his departure
from the islands. The parade on the
Pasig was participated in by hundreds
of launches drawing gaily decorated
and Illuminated barges. Small boats
bedecked with Chinese lanterns dart
ed here and there between the bright,
ly-1ighted shores.
A costume dance and reception took
place in Malacanan palace-the Gov
crnor's residence-and everyone who
could get an invitation by hook OF
crook was there. The gay costumes
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-04-08
Dog Lives After Being Buried.

After being buried under the ruins
of a seven-story building twenty-one
days, in which time she was almost
starved to death, Chief, a beautiful
water spaniel, has been rescued and
is we'll on the road to recovery She
came out of her prison resembling a
mad animal, but careful nursing has
brought her back to her former gentle
ways.
Chief was in the basement of cot
tage in West Van Buren, street at the
time of the fire in the home of the
Cash Buyers Union, and when the
walls of the building fell they crushed
the frail structure and made the dog q
prisoner. She had lain there many
days when the wreckers found her
They fed her through a small opening
some time before they were able to
release her.
Medical men say man could not
live longer than six days under like
circumstances Chicago Recorder
aid.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-04-08
Deepest Mine in the World.

Imagine if you can gigantic honey.
comb forty miles long by fifteen miles
broad, surrounded by water and pen
etrated by hundreds of miles of tun-
nels arranged in tiers one below anoth-
er to the depth of mile, and you will
have some idea, writes Mr.. Theodore
Waters, in Everybody's Magazine, of
the country in which the deepest mine
in the world, the Calumet and Hecla,
is located. This copper mine extends
down four thousand feet below the
bottom of Lake Superior, which itself
is one thousand feet deep.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-04-08
WOOD coLoRED WHEN GREEN.
New Process the Idea of an Austrian
Inventor.


Inventor.
The use of colored woods in the
construction of furniture has long
heen known, the material being stain
ed after the necessary seasoning
process.
A method has, however, recently
been introduced by an Austrian in
ventor by which the wood is colered
when in a green state. By means of
a heavy pressure in closed vessel
the sap is driven out of the wood and
is replaced by the coloring fluid,
the more permanent aniline dyes.
The best kind of woods for treat
ment are found to be birch, beech.
alder, plane, elm and lime, oak, fir
and pine being unsuitable, because
they do not take the color uniformly
The colored wood is used not only
for furniture making, but for the
manufacture of doors and window
frames 1t can also be employed for
outdoor purposes, in which case no
painting is necessary, although
coating of varnlsh would seem to be
a necessity.
For the fittings of ships. railway
carriages and tram cars this stained
wood appears to be eminently adapt
ed OF late factories for the working
of the process have been established
In Sweden Chambers Journal.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-04-08
witty Suspension Bridge.
RECORD OF BRAVE WOMEN.
Teacher in New Mexico a Heroine il


Teacher in New Mexico a Heroine ir,
Emergencies.
In the winter of 1904 Miss Alice
A. Blake, a Christian Endeavor teach
er in a school at Trementina, N NJ,
found herself in the midst of a
scourge of diphtheria. A Mexican
drove uD one day with his wife and
babe, and they were related to some
of her pupils. She dismissed the
school. in order that the latter might
go out to greet their friends The
baby was fondled and kissed and that
night it was stricken with the dis
ease.
Miss Blake at once closed her
school and prepared for a siege The
disease spread rapidly, and she estab-
lished quarantine as thoroughly as
possible. She personally took care of
fifty-four cases, and was then at
tackled herself. She sent forty miles
for antitoXin, but when it arrived she
had improved so much that she re-
served her supply for others, and
nursed patients until they numbered
in all seventy-six.
The scourge had run its course,
and she took a vacation, not for rest,
but to attend a training school for
nurses at Colorado Springs. AS soon
back to her work, but none too quick
ly, for she encountered an epidemic of
typhoid fever She personally attend
ed quite a number of patients, and
nursed them all back to safety.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-04-08

say when the dancing shall stop, AND
a maiden will dance until she drops
before suggesting that it is time tic
rest Ample refreshments are always
provided Vast quantities of "sorbete, >
or ice cream made of condensed milk
are consumed, and pink lemonade
finds much favor. Cigars and cigar
cites are smoked in large quantities
by the women as well as the men
These dances usually continue until
sunrise
The Filipino Catholic takes the
greatest interest in his church, and is
very sincere in observing the numer.
Gus ''fiestas" or holidays. A feature
of these are the fairs for raising mon,
ev, which are held in the open squares
near the churches. Rallies of all kinds
and the other common methods OF
separating the visitor from his money
are well known here, and practiced
with the usual success.
Life for the average Filipino is q
very easy matter. His wants are few
and easily satisfied, his pleasures sim
PIE, his joys easily obtained and his
sorrows lightly bore. He cares lit
tie for civilization, and has less of it
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-04-08
Met Death in Strange Way.

Charles Palmer, an employe of the
Camp Glass company in Smethport,
Pa, was roasted to death the other
morning when engaged in making re
pairs to a gas supply pipe. Palmer's
duties were to maintain the heat OF
the furnaces at the required tempera.
ture. The melting tanks are so ar
ranged that the supply of gas flame
is turned on alternately from one side
to another Each of the two supply
pipes is large enough to admit the
body of a man. Palmer, when the
flame was passing through the ad
joining pipe, crawled into the unused
one, and his assistant changed the
supply, sending the burning gas
through the pipe in which Palmer was
at work. Before the mistake was
known Palnler's body was burned t
a crisp.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-04-08
GOOD JOKE ON FATHER.
Son Got Ample Revenge for His In.
terrupted Bath.


terrupted Bath.
Years ago, before the family of c.
B. Cummings of Norway. Me- had
moved into their spacious residence
on Maine street, Fred, who is now
one of the firm of Cummings Bros,
was getting ready for a bath in the
kitchen of their old home.
Now it seems that his father,
Charles Cummings, also had a bath in
mind, and when he saw Fred pouring
some water into tub he said: Here,
Fred, you let me use the tub first, as
| want to get off to bed
Fred withdrew to plan revenge He
hastily arrayed himself in some of
his mothers clothes, over which he
put a shawl and bonnet belonging to
his aunt
When the old gentleman was fairly
in the tub, Fred crept up the back
shed stairs. and soon Mr.. Cummings
was Mortified to see the door open and
the figure of woman glide toward
him.
He scrambled out of the tub, upset
it, and barked his shins numerically
He then tried to make a bold dash
for his room, but slipped in the soapy
water, and went sprawling on the
kitchen floor, amid the bowls of laugh
ter from Fred, who kept out of his
fathers way the next day.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-04-08
An Old Game.

An Old Game.
We sat and watched the shooting stars.
Across the azure skies;
(You get to kiss the girl, you know,
Before the quick flash dies).
But meteorS were few, else
Too slow mortal eyes;
And we cheated. she and T.
We counted href1iesi
That was in summertime-but now
We cannot sit outside;
The stars there, but lightning-bug
This cold cannot abide
But when 1 ionged for spring to come
Her blue eyes opened wide;
My goodness, do we really need
Excuses now?" she cried.
Cleveland Leader.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-04-08

and sleeveless vest which fail to con-
meet at the waist and, straddling her
hip is his baby brother. His sister,
too, puts on airs, encasing her stock
ing1ess feet in toe slippers and adding
to her scanty attire a stiffly starched
panuelo. This is a wide, triangular
neckerchief which reminds one of a
horse collar. Yonder stands his broth
er, aged 6, clad in nothing but his
shirt, but diligently putting a large,
black cigar.
Many Countries Represented.
All these, and many others, stroll
about the walks or sit on the benches
or in their carriages, chatting in nu-
merous languages and listening to the
excellent music of the military band,
or, on Mondays, the large Filipino
band, which discourses popular and
classical music most satisfactorily
under the leadership of naughty
American negro.
Nearly every quarter of the globe is
represented here. Germans and Brit
ish are quite numerous. There are
Russians. too, italians, Frenchmen
and negroes.
At the close of the concert, the
band plays THE Star Spangled Ban
ner." and. as the flags are lowered
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-04-08
Giants in Greenland.

Christian Jensen, who has just re-
Gurned from a years voyage in the
Arctic seas, reports that while his YES
sci was trading on the southwest coast
of Greenland there arrived from the in
terror a party of giants, the shortest
of whom was seven feet in height and
the tallest nine feet They had the
copper-colored compilations and the
features of North American Indians
London Tit-Bits.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-04-08

the Examinations, and the decorated
steamers with their colored fires made
a scene that rivalled the beautiful
water carnivals of Venice. 1t did not
require a strong Imagination to re-
call to the observer of all this pomp
and display the revels of Nero in an
cient Rome as pictured in Quo Vadis.
There are many beautiful women in
Manila and, dressed in their bright,
picturesque costumes, they made an
animated picture to delight the eye.
When the FiIipinos Dance.
At Filipino dance there are almost
always two orchestras, that the music
may never cease. The women wear
stiffly-starched waists with wide, far
ing sleeves and panuelos and toe slip
pers without stockings. They are con-
stantly dropping these slippers on the
floor. and their partners hunt them
out of the crowd and return them so
that the dance may be continued
until they are lost again. 1t is strict
ly the province of the gentleman to