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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-30
THE EARTHQUAKE IN cALARRIA.
Region Long Noted for Frequent and
Destructive Shocks.

The latest news regarding the earth
quake in Calabria shows it to have
been more disastrous than was at
first supposed. 1t appears to have
extended throughout all the three
Italian provinces which are now call
ed by that name. Hardly a town or
village but suffered to some extent. A
shock of equal violence if experienced
by q great city probably would cause
a vast destruction of life and property.
Calabria is mainly an agricultural re-
giOn, but loss of life seems, neverthe-
less. to have run far up into the hun
dress, and that of the property to
have been on a proportionate scale.
Calabria has long been a region of
frequent and destructive earthquakes.
In one year, 1888, there were 949 dis
tinct shocks. They continued to take
place throughout the last century as
during preceding ones, shocks in 1885,
in 1856, in 1870 and in 1881 devastat-
ing large sections and causing thou
sands of deaths. 1t might be thought
that a country in which life and
property were held upon so insecure a
tenure would come to be regarded as
unfit for human habitation, and
would, therefore, be depopulated.
Probably, however, there cannot be
pointed out a single extensive re-
gion on earth which, after once being
well populated, has lost it's inhabi-
tants because it was subject to great
natural calamities. There are regions
where terrible floods and storms are
of frequent occurrence, but they are
not less thickly settled on that &C
count. Vesuvius has repeatedly belch-
=
mountains of rock and ashes, and laid
waste all the surrounding country,
yet there never has been time when
villages did not nestle at it's foot
and when the shepherd did not tend
his focks, and the husbandman train
his vines almost up to its crater. Men
will live anywhere they can get a
subsistence, hoping that the natural
calamities of the past will not be re-
peated, and if they are, that they, at
least, will not be among the sufferers.
AS long as human nature remains
what it is, and southern Italy con-
tinues to be one of the most fertile
spots in Europe. Calabria will not
want Inhabitants.
Ca1abria is by no means the only
region in which earthquakes are fire.
4uShI anu uSduly Japan Is Specially
subject to them. In 1888 $50 shocks
took place there. During the succeed
ing six months 5000 minor shocks
almost completely suspended business
in a large section and caused 1000
deaths. A great earthquake belt ex-
tends through the lands along the
Mediterranean, the Azores, the West
Indies, Central America. the Ha-
waiian islands, Japan, China, India.
Persia and Asia Minor. What causes
earthquakes to take place in these
regions more frequently than in other
| parts of the earth and what causes
| them to take place at ALL are equally
matters of conjecture. In the present
| state of scientific knowledge there
are perhaps no other destructive nat
ural phenomena whose approach is
| so wholly impossible to predict or
whose effects are so hard to escape
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-30
East Indians to Enter Cornell.

Word has been received at the Cor
nell college of agriculture from the
director of the department of land
records, Bengal, India, that the Indian
government would send four students
this fall to Cornell to take special
work in agriculture. These students
are graduates of the University of Cal
cutta and have also taken postgradu-
ate work In the Sibpur Engineering
college, so they will be graduate stu
dents at Cornell 1t is believed they
are the first to be sent to any col
lege In the United States ay the gov
eminent of India.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-30

Speaking of perpetual motion, It is
pleaded in behalf of a murderer that
he wss crazy because he stopped try
ing to guess the wheat market in
order to devote his entire attention to
solving the perpetual motion problem.
What is the difference?
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-30
AMERICAN MINISTER in DANGER

s. r. Gummere at Tangiers, Forced
to Take Refune in City.
Samuel R. Gummere, American min
lister to Morocco. who was compelled
to abandon the legation in the sub
urbs of Tangiers and take refuge in
the city by reason of a battle be
tween Raisuli. the bandit. and insur-
gent tribes, is a member of an old
and prominent family of Trenton,
N J. He is a brother of Justice Will
liam s. Gummere of the state supreme
court He was appointed to the con-
sular service in 1895 and was promot-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-30

Admiral Togo's name is pronounced
as If spelled Tongo, the letter "g'' in
any japanese word always having the
sound of N" to accompany it. This
is important to people who have
named their dogs for the great ad-
mira1.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-30

An Ohio man who was supposed to
be a pauper died a few days ago, 1eav-
ing $4,000. There is no likelihood
that the one who gets the money will
permit himself to be mistaken for a
pauper while it lasts.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-30

An English doctor says beer-drink-
ing has made the Britons a sturdy
race. Nobody can tell how much
sturdier the race might have been,
however, if it had never become ad-
dicted to beer.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-30

Mr.. Joseph Letter, brother-in-law,
says that Viscount Curzon would
make good citizen in any country.
Viscount Curzon has not called his
estimate of Mr.. Letters universal
value.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-30

A New Jersey girl had to marry
about sixteen men before she found
one who suited her. Something of a
slam on the men of New Jersey, we
should think
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-30

After trying to remember every
good thing we have ever eaten. we
have come to the conclusion that
about the best there was going were
the green apples and salt of the good
old days.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-30

An Oklahoma girl who advertised
for husband, got one, after an expen-
diture of $11. He died within a year,
leaving her $4,000. 1t continues to
pay to advertise.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-30

About the time a man comes to be
known as a Guiding Star for youth, he
is exposed and then he is a Warning
Signal.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-30

Now that he has dined with Mrs.
Potter Palmer King Edwards social
standing cannot be questioned in the
best society.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-30

Hint to the young man about to
propose: You will impress her more
If you tell her that your salary is
$500 a year than you will if you tell
her it is $50 week.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-30

An editor announces that he is 60
ing to put a lion in his sanctum to
keep out the poets. He'll find that he
needs more than one.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-30

Prince Louis of Battenburg has
been visiting Niagara, but sold no
lace while there
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-30

The New York man who sent
bomb to his landlord because the lat
ter had. raised the rent must be one of
those people who do not look with
favor upon indemnities.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-30

1t is said that the Gulf stream is
getting near the United States.
Everything is coming this way.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-30

In the matter of thoroughness and
expedition, however, there is nothing
like a good lusty earthquake for
making a wide open town.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-30

1t is noted with deep concern that
there is a partial failure of the persim-
mon crop this year. The crop of
poles. on the contrary, is simply i'm
menSe.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-30

What a relief it must be TO China to
know that there will be no more prize
fighting in her backyard.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-30

Work is slack at the San Francisco
mint and several of the employees have
been laid off, although the demand for
the output is greater than ever.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-30

Newport's smart set members are
protesting against associating with
their lowly neighbors. They consider
this a sort of high kick. as it were.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-30
Agricultural and Horticultural Colo
MES on the Kansas, City
Southern Railway.


Lockesburg Colony in Sewer county,
Arkansas, containing about 10000
acres, and Lering Colony In Sabine
Parish, Louisiana, containing about
"a, 900 acres. are now open for settle
ment- Lands range in price from
81 90 to $500 per acre and are sold
on easy terms to actual settlers
Lockesburg Colony is well suited for
general farming, stock raising and
commercial fruit growing. Loring Col
ony lies in a splendid fruit, truck and
tobacco region and is good for corn
and cotton also. Both are situated in
beautiful country, with a healthy
climate and excellent water. Write
for books concerning Lockesburg and
Loring Colonies and Current Events"
Magazine to, F. E. ROESLER,
immigration Agt., K c. s. Ry.,
Kansas City, Mo.
s.. G.. WARNER,
d r.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-30

The dancing masters are trying To
take one step forward by abolishing
the "two-step."
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-30

Somebody has written to the papers
defending Napoleon Bonaparte. though
nobody has been roasting Napoleon
lately, SO far as we know, with the
possible exception of Satan.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-30

Camille F1ammarion has announced
that the recent eclipse of the sun
pleased him, and the eclipse, much
comforted, has voted itself a success.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-30

That new fashion of having set of
Jewels for each costume is not, after
all, so complex as it might seem
for some of US.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-30

China will have to wait only twelve
years for a parliament, and what is
matter of twelve years to China?
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-30

Apparently the women are agreed
that a man should have nothing to
do with a woman's hat except to pay
for it.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-30

The chances against a person be-
ing killed in railway accident in
Great Britain are 100000 900 to /.
Still, that doesn't help the 1.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-30

There ought to be a law whereby
you could put some people under bond
to keep away from you.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-30

Hundreds of dealers say the extra
quantity and superior quality of De-
dance Starch is fast taking place of
all other brands. Others say they can
not sell any other starch.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-30
s.. G. WARNER,
G. P. & T. A z C. s. Ry.
Kansas CITY Mo.

Love in cottage is all right, but
don't ask love to sit in a coy corner
If you expect him to stay.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-30

ed to his present place for his efforts
in securing the release of Ion Perdi-
carts, who was kidnapped by Bandit
RaiSuli.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-30

Our idea of a prominent citizen is
one who does not want to be post
master.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-30

wAKEENEY KANSAS
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-30

employed in the registry division at
the Chicago postoffice for more than
twelve years. He is 35 years old
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-30

SUPERINTENDENT DdynO11 says CUT
pora1 punishment is legal in Kansas,
except pulling the ears, nose or hair.
or the use of the ruler on the palm
The ruler may be applied elsewhere
with perfect propriety-
Garrett lays claim to having the
only seff-flushing sewerage system in
the state. The workmen tapped a
spring and Connected it with the pipes
Out in Meade county there is only
one family in the school district and
The father and son have elected them
selves directors and employed the
mother at $40 per month to teach.
eye editors have complained to the
state board that the paper freight
rate is too high If there is anybody
In the state now who hasn't COM
planned about some rate or other the
railroad board would like to hear from
him and make it unanimous
Talk of race suicide does not appeal
to Bent Murdoch. I'VE still find a
lot of people wherever We co., he
says. "and it appears to us the world
would get along just as well if there
were not half as many people stand
| ing in the way, as there are now
The Kansas prison garden this year
| produced: Beets. 1910 pounds
onions. 220 bushels: potatoes. 713
| bushels; beans, "a bushels; cucum
| bers. 63 bushels. radishes, 20 bush
els: green corn, 2,776 dozen; cabbage
| 54,524 pounds; tomatoes, 1,174 bush
| els; carrots. TOO bushels; turnips, IL
| bushels; blackberries. PIT gallons:
milk, 1854 gallons.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-10-01
GLIMPSES OF GREAT MEN
Continued from Page -

CONTINUED from Page -
passed hofah Ezeeeney
have military
day gentleman correspondents turn
of
temple anuse 10 get
perhaps he passed Russian
very place. years
We had horses to ride provisions 70 burn official sights Once the
Marshal asked him ra bamboo platform and special
General ya ..+Ie nev5 demon ;. 41 fn+f ~ Fem, fndal
and butenant
he ranked all He al life Homo
n when here with Togo NnW directed his
many
drill exhibition
ipt afaar n o " ne "''
One morning late in January word came that fight was pending and that
military report
shall his Fourth Estate being
Colonel De Woga the Russian produced vodka white pleasant
queur the Marshal ordered sake and thick red wines Col Taylor
William Bitain's
Bien A. brought my
Neerew
oonekp an internal mixture there eonsnothing
nmeuiee; Jumps;
ratified
tails without drop spirits them forever destroying the in those
eomp Lb Eef Doctor Mogw make ooeh Of that how he
Keep practaseR' Igaveit up.
infantry and
artillery and at the head Of the guaTh brigade OF Prince Fnahi
a donkey
emperor in
hope that he could reach Picking and throne
myself together wanting
ahas
Joined
a
O he
hostile
his / had
had advanced pushed along
glare snoshod horses slipping all the From ridge where
suddenly
and
shell had been Chinese
generals hillside enemy
nd fell valley
I had Bvelo horse
and his
basket managed change Of General sakuma
potato picked
vegetable
nned aab the basket the hand Of staff
inquiries
glimpse horseback;
weeks later during the siege he invited
holiday sparns plates crackers
and sake In the small beef
transports
In bog courtyard
intending moud beetpn
with them enher Of chicken cold
variety Of things drink At table Marshal oyam
Ike the god Of wealth pictured
good old
the highest
Kolanaa; but
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The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-08-10
II Paws to Advertise.

When James Gordon Bennett the
elder al editor Of the Herald, Rob
ert Bonner, publisher Of the New York
Ledger, was struggling to build UP its
circulation, and decided to try a little
advertising. He wrote an announce
ment consisting of eight words: "Read
Mrs. Southworth's New Story in the
Ledger" and sent it to the Herald
marked for zone line" Mr.. Bonner's
handwriting RAJ so bad that the
words were read in the Herald Office
as "one page" Accordingly the line
was set up and repeated SO as to &C.
cupy one entire page. Mr.. Bonner
was thunderstruck the next morning.
He had not to his name money enough
In the bank to pay the bill. He rushed
excitedly W. to the Herald Office,
but was too late to do any good.
In a short time the results Of the
page announcement began to be felt.
Orders for the Ledger poured in until
the entire edition was exhausted and
another n was printed. The sue
cess of the Ledger was then estab-
lished. Ever after that time Mr. Bon
ner was an ardent believer in adver-
Using and a liberal purchaser of space.
Modern Advertising.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-08-10
Japanese Gold Fish Farms.

Although the goldfish occurs in a
wild state in Japan, it is probable
that China some 400 years ago fur
nished the stock from which the won
derful varieties Of Japanese goldfish
have been bred. 1t is reported that
in feudal days, even when famine was
abroad in the land, and many people
were starving. the trade in goldfish
was fourishing.
The demand at present appears to
be without limit, and the output
shows a substantial increase each
year. Many thousand people make a
living by growing goldfish for mar
ket, and hundreds of peddlers carry
the fish through the streets and along
the country roads in wooden tubs
suspended from a shoulder bar.
D.. The leading centre is Koriyama.
near the ancient capital city of Nara.
Here are $50 Independent breeding
establishments, whose yearly pro-
duct runs far into the millions. One
farm which l visited was started 140
years ago. At first it was conducted
merely for the pleasure of the owner,
but it eventually became a CONNER
cial enterprise, and is now very pro-
table.-Geographical Magazine.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-08-10
A WOMAN'S ORDEAL
BREADS DOCTORS QUESTIONS
Thousands Write to Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn,
Mass, and Receiv Valuable Advice
Absolutely Confidential and Free
There can be no more terrible ordeal
20 a delicate, sensitive, refined woman
than to be Obliged to answer certain
questions in regard to her private ills,
even when those questions are asked
BY her family physician, and many

continue to suffer rather than submit
to examinations which so many physi-
clans in order to i~ntelligently
treat the disease; and this is the e a
son why SO many physicians fail to
cure female disease.
This is also the eason why thousands
upon thousands of women are CORE
spending with Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn,
Mass. To her they can confde every
detail of their illness, and from
her great knowledge, obtained frorn
years of experience in treating female
Ills, Mrs. Pinkham can advise women
more wisely than the local physician.
Read how Mrs. Pinkham helped Mrs.
T. @. Willadsen, of Manning, Ia. She
writes:
Dear Mrs. Pinkham:-
81 can truly say thst you have saved my
life, and l cannot express my gratitude in
words. Before 1 wrote to you telling you
how l felt, 1had dootored for over two years
steady, and spent lots Of money in medicines
besides, but It all failed to do me any good. /
had female trouble and would daily have faint
ing spells, ~backache, b~earing-down pains, and
my monthly periods were very irregular and
finally ceased. I wrote to you for your adj
vice and received a letter full Of instructions
lust what to do, and also commenced to q
Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound,
and / have been restored to perfect health.
Had 1t not been for you l would have been In
my grave to-day"
Mountains of proof establish the fact
that no medicine In the world equals
Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound for restoring women's health.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-08-10
Old Sevres.

The other day a Sevres vas wa
sold at Christie's for 1000 guineas.
This is proof positive that the pate
entdre, the plaything of Louis the
Well Beloved, the Pompadour and the
Du Barry, retains all it's fascination
for the collector.
Old Sevres porcelain holds it's own
among those who are wealthy enough
to buy it, because, within definite linn
it's, it is perfect. The united skill OF
the best French chemists, potters, ar.
lists and sculptors of the time went
to it's making; the sordid necessity of
earning a profit did not trouble the
director of Sevres; for an easy go
ing monarch was always ready to
make good the yearly loss.
Technical perfection-no less-was
aimed at, and it was attained.
Frenchmen of that day grumbled at
the waste of public money on the
Pompadour's whim, but Louis TOOK
no heed. Sevres was to produce the
finest porcelain at any cost, for the
glory of France and her Bourbon
Kings.-London Outlook.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-08-10
Justice Tempered With Mercv.

A Virginia justice of the peace un.
dertook to temper justice with mercy
in the case of a boy charged with
petty larceny" The evidence against
him was conclusive; but he vas very
young; it was his first offense, and
there was some extenuating circum-
stances. The old farmer justice de.
cided to give the boy a stern lecture.
He looked at the culprit severely
through his spectacles and began his
stern lecture. Young man." said he,
this is awful, this is right down aw-
full, and I want to warn you'll want to
say" Here the old mans sense OF
Justice suddenly conlicted with the
pity awakened by the sight of the lad,
who stood trembling before him. He
cleared his throat twice, and then, half
in mercy and half in indignation at his
own weakness, he cried, "Clear out O.
my sight, you emery scamp!" and sat
down to mop his forehead amid the
merriment of the courtroom.-N. Y.
Tribune.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-08-10
DEATH IN RACE FOR RICHES.
Strain of Modern Life Adds to Vic.
Tins of Heart Disease.

Since 1868 the annual death rate
from heart disease and Bright's dis.
ease up to the end of 1904 has in.
creased from 1906 to 1852 per TO-
600 population. In 1903, with the
same ratio, to 1904 there was an in.
crease in deaths from these diseases
of 2.42 in each 10000. While this
was considered an alarming increase
in the mortuary records the fact that
125 persons died last week from or
ganic heart disease, when the death
rate the corresponding week in 1904
was only Sc, has given rise to the be-
lief among physicians that New York
residents are living too rapid lives.
The strain of business and the
cares attendant on fierce competition
in the centre of the city and the
worry attendant on anxiety to gain
wealth are given as an explanation by
physicians of the conditions which
exist in the worlds metropolis to-
day.
Physicians have established the
fact that the nerve forces which con
troll both the stomach and the heart
are affected by the hurry of men in
the daily scramble to bolt their food
in order to quickly resume their ex-
citing careers. Many young men now
succumb to the complaint where fifty
years ago a case was rare when a
person under thirty years, unless
bothered by a hereditary complaint,
died from heart disease.
Women are also victims. This is
attributed to the manner in which
they worry over social engagements
and the strife to reach the top rung
of the social ladder. Worry and ex-
element, together with many nerve
shocks which come to all New York
ers in their daily life, are the princi-
pal causes which snap the heart
strings and making living so nce
tain.
DR.. F. G. Spitzka, authority on ner-