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The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-10-10

S A RESULT of the Titanic disaster, Sir
Hiram Maxim, the inventor of the
Maxim gun, has evolved a plan for CIV
ing ships a sixth sense that will enable
them to avoid icebergs in a fog by the
same means by which a bat finds it's
way about in the dark. For a year or
more he has been working on a device
which he claims will enable a vessel to
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PARADISE FOR THE BIRDS
Providence Seems to Have Provided
Temperate Zone for the Feathered
Friends of Man.

Up in the far country where the
timber fails, the calendar is respect
ed. There is no summer before the
official day set for it. The ground is
held fast by frost until June is we'll
started. There are flurries of snow,
wild, bitter winds, a sky that has no
mercy. And then, suddenly, the wind
shifts and comes out of the south. 1t
is summer then with a leap.
The interest of the temperate zone
In the northland is that it is there
that have gone a great many of the
migrating birds which paid US a few
days visit and passed on. For all its
inhospitality to man, this country in
summer is a paradise for birds. It's
marshes are safe refugees from two
and f~our-footed enemies. There Is ex-
haustless material for nests. And out
of the pools come myriads of insects,
food that does not fail until the time
for the southwark bird movement ar
rives.
Some man has said that there is
no God north of latitude SO. He did
not inquire as to what the birds
might have thought Of that.-Toledo
Blade.
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PIMPLES ON FACE AND NECK

1922 Moore ST., Philadelphia, Pa
MY trouble started four years ago on
my face and neck. 1t started as PIN
pies and then turned to boils. I was
nearly ashamed to walk along the
street it was that bad. The pimples
always festered and came to a head
which gave me a bad appearance. The
boils came out on my neck and were
as big as marbles. They gave me
severe pain both day and night. l
would not be able to sleep more than
three or four hours at night.
Il bought a cake of Cuticura Soap
and a box Of Cuticura Ointment,
washed my face and neck with the
Cuticura Soap each morning and
night, then l put the Cuticura Oint-
ment on the affected parts and left it
on for six or seven minutes then I
washed it off with Cuticura Soap. In
thirty-one days time 1 was completely
cured.
My sister had some kind Of scalp
disease which was making her hair
fall out by the handful. l told her to
use some C~uticuSa Soap and Ointment.
She used them for three days and all
the itching stopped and her hair stop
ped falling out" (Signed) James F.
Murtaugh, May 1, 1913.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout the world. Sample Of each
free, with 32-p. Skin Book. Address post.
card "Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston."-Adv
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REAL LIFE IN THE COUNTRY
Fact Is Shown by Mans Eagerness to
Escape From Congestion Of the
Crowded City.

Why is it that railway magnates,
presidents Of banks and heads Of
great enterprises who must perforce
do business in cities, almost all try to
have homes on farms in the country,
where they develop soils. plant crops
and breed animals? 1t is because there
is wearisome monotony in piled up
brick and stone. There is confusion
in crowded streets and changing troll
ley cars and hot smoky railways.
These things man has made, and they
are needful, but they are not life, much
as the farm boy may imagine them to
be.
Life is in the open country. Life is
in the growing grass, the waving fields
of wheat, the springing corn. Life is
in the trees and birds, life is in the
developing animals Of the farm.
Any man who works with the land,
who feeds a field and watches the re-
suit, gains a real fundamental knowl-
edge of the underlying foundation on
which rests all our civilization. 1t
makes him a sober man, a thoughtful
man, a reverent man, and if he expert
ments wisely a hopeful optimist. Life
is where things are born and live and
grow. On the farm is real Hfe.-Breed-
er's Gazette.
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The American Farmer.

All things recalled, wouldn't It be
the part of craftsmanship to do con.
occasionally for the American farmer?
He's one-fourth Of your population.
and the nations best hope. The
American merchant borrows at five
per cent. The American stock gam
bier, producing nothing, accomplish.
ing nothing, a merest leech living by
toll Of others, borrows for even
less. The American farmer, with all
that car be said to his good and solv.
ent advantage, must and does pay 81
per cent.
And all the time the savings and
postal banks are bullying with billions
If the government would make two
blades of grass grow where but one
has grown beforehand publicly il
would pay-the wide-fung chance lies
open. Let it model action on French
or German lines, and place the farmer
on a borrowing par with the merchant
the manufacturer and the stock job
Der. Let it evolve a system OF farm
loans which shall put those savings
and postal bank billions at a per cent
within the farmers borrowing reach
-Hearst's Magazine.
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walk the floor. / could not lie down or
Sit still sometimes for a day and a night
at a time. l was nervous, and had very
little appetite, no ambition, melancholy,
and often felt as though 1 had not a
friend in the world. After l had tried
most every female remedy without sue
cess, my mother-in-law advised me to
take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound. l did so and gained in
strength every day. 1 have now no trou-
bic in any way and highly praise your
medicine. 1t advertises itself. Mrs.
S. T. HURLEY, Eldon, Missouri.
Remember, the remedy which did
this was Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound. For sale everywhere.
1t has helped thousands of women
who have been troubled with displace-
ments, inflammation, liberation, tumors.
irregularities, periodic pains, backache.
that bearing down feeling, Indigestion.
Il nervous ~prostration, after all other
means have failed. Why don't YOU trv
it? Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co.
Lynn, Mass.
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WESTERN CANADA'S
NATURAZ RESOURCES
PETROLEUM, NATURAL GAS, COAL
AND FARM LANDS.

The developments that have taken
place recently in the oil and gas fields
of Western Canada have but added
another to the many previous evi.
dences that have been produced
showing the great wealth that has
been an unknown asset for so many
generations.
The latest reports from he oil.
fields at Calgary show that there ia a
production there that would apnear
to equal the best paying fields on the
continent. Experts have been on the
ground for some time. 1t is said that
one of the wells is able to produce
1000 gallons an hour. If this ia so
there are but about a dozen wells in
the world Of greater production. Dur.
Ing the past week discoveries of sur
face indications have been made which
show that oil exists over a consider.
able portion of Alberta and Saskatche-
wan, while in Manitoba there have al.
SO been showings. At BattIeford.
Saskatchewan, a few days ago discov.
cries were made which led to the I'll.
Ing for leases on twenty thousand
acres Of land, all having strong sur
face Indications. Companies were
formed to carry OF immediate work.
and in a couple of months, or probably
less, the story will be told whether oil
exists in paying quantities.
But there are also the coal deposits
and the natural gas deposits that are
helping to make of Western Canada
n of the wealthiest portions Of the
continent.
With the grain fields covering these
hidden riches it is no wonder that a
continued range Of optimism is to be
seen everywhere. Early reports of
seeding of all grains being successful
ly completed all over the country are
followed by reports Of excellent and
strong growth everywhere. During
the first week in June most of the
wheat had reached a growth of from
twelve to twenty inches, with the most
even appearance, almost universally,
that has been seen for years. Oats
appeared equally well, and covered the
ground in a way that brought the
broadcast kind Of a grin to overspread
the farmers co~untenance.
Barley, a favorite with the hog rails
ers, had taken good root, and was
crowding oats for a first place, as to
length Of shoot. Cultivated fodder
grasses are getting great attention,
as a consequence of the inclination to
go nor largely into mixed farming,
and the raising Of hogs, cattle and
horses. The weather is reported fine,
just what is needed, and if present
favorable conditions continue, the
grain crop of Western Canada for 1914
will be the largest average in the his
tory Of the country.-Advertisement
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.s|WASH INDIAN LIFE
Pacific Coast Natives From
Washington to Alaska.
Tribes Chief Occupation 10 Fishing
mi Hunting-Squaws Make Much
spin" Money Weaving Reed
Rugs Which They Sell.

Minneapolis, Minn.-The Siwash In
dian is the native of the Pacific coast
from Washington to the southern part
OF Alaska. He is found mostly now
adays on reservations either estab-
lished by the United States or by Brit
ish government. These reservations
invariably are located on salt water,
where the fishing is good and where
the Indians can pursue their crafts as
they did before the days of the white
man. Fishing and hunting-but most
ly f1shing-form the chief occupations
of the Indians now as they did in the
days of long ago. The squaws make
considerable pin" money weaving
reed rugs, baskets and ornaments,
which they dye with aniline dyes In
stead of dyes made from berries and
roots. These baskets and rugs are
sold to the tourists who throng the
coast during the summer. In Seattle,
Vancouver, B. c., and Victoria, B. c.,
these Indians are to be seen during
the summer months squatting about
the sidewalks with their ware spread
out before them and a motley, dirty lot
Of little one running about. The
chiefs" are to be found on the streets,
also, offering bows and arrows and
sundry other weapons which bring joy
to the boyish heart.
It has been the custom for the In
dams to record the history of their
chiefs and their tribe on totem poles"
These poles are nothing more than
logs crudely cut into ~grotesque figures,
hideously painted. Real paint is used
now instead Of the coloring matter Sc
cured from roots, berries and trees
as in the old days. These totem poles
record important events of the chief
or the tribe. Many Of them are very
interesting and very long. Sometimes
they measure fifty or seventy-fve feet
in length.
In the early days the Siwash In
dams, as well as the other tribes of the
Pacific coast, were very warlike. They
generally fought their battles in huge
war canoes or "dugouts." Most of the
time Of the Siwash Is spent on the wa
ter and to this scientists ascribe the
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HAD THE PICTURES MEANING
Spectators at Least Formed Some Idea
What Famous Painting Rep
resented.

Two men stood before a painting In
a store the other day gazing wonder.
ingly at a picture of an equestrian
statue of General Lafayette. The IA
nous Frenchman was represented on
a prancing steed. Over his arm he
carried a robe. At his feet stood an
allegorical figure of Victory extend
ing a sword toward him as a mark
of homage. l wonder what that pic
ture means?' asked one of the men. Il
don't know" replied the other. Il
was just trying to make out what sea-
son of the year it was when a woman
could go around with SO little clothing
while a mar was dressed up in a
heavy suit like that" ooh, l see what
it is now," cried the first one. "You
see the soldier stole the woman's
cloak and when he took it from her
he dropped his sword, and now the
woman is trying to trade him back
the sword for her clothing"
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Boon to Mankind.

Ignatius Tootle, the renowned au-
thority on floral life, who lives near
the quiet village Of Yankee Springs,
is at the present time trying to out
burbank Burbank, the wiz, by grow
ing a rectangular watermelon. Mr..
Tootle has noticed for years that ulti-
mate consumers have had much trou-
bic trying to carry watermelon from
the store. inasmuch as they (the wa
termelons) are of awkward shape and
quite slippery, and after a watermelon
has fallen and has hit the cement side
walk it's usefulness may be said to be
over Mr.. Tootle's watermelon will
be long and will have square corners,
one of which corners will fit into the
bent elbow when the melon is carried
on the inside of the arm. Mr.. Tootle
expects to have his new melon grow
ing and on the market by 1927, if moth
ing happens.-Boston Globe.
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me sleep. Wish l had some here. I'd
take pound of it, Say, but this is a
glorious Fourth.
$3.50 p. m.-What do you s'pose l
found when 1 got downstairs again?
Three sticks of punk and a box of
safety matches. Aunt Jane said she'd
talked it over with Uncle Habakkuk,
and she didn't think that a boy,
brought up as l had been, should be
deprived entirely Of the amusements
he had been used to-this is more of
Aunt Jane kind of talk-so Uncle Hab-
akkuk got the punk and the matches.
Yes, and I've been sitting on the porch
lighting matches with punk and punk
with matches for over an hour. May
be tonight, if l behave myself real
well, and don't make unseemly sounds,
Uncle Habakkuk IL let me throw his
cigar stump in the gutter and play it's
a cannon cracker or a roman candle.
6:15 p. m.-Aunt Jane says we won't
have tea tonight-only a bite on the
porch-out of respect for the patriots
VIZ AOIu0OU W u11Ah IL dI IAO IlAO vi
the Boston tea caddy.
7:05 p. Masked Uncle Habakkuk
and Aunt Jane if l couldn't go to the
town park and see the rockets. They
said no; l might be hit by a stick.
Amt it the limit?
s p. m.-Well, we've had our bite,
and we've been singing, Three Cheers
for the Red, White and Blue" in the
parlor. Felt like cheering. did.
$3.50 p. m.-Aunt Jane read the Dec
laration of independence. Her eye
sights bad and there was something
matter with the lamp, so it took her
most an hour to read it. Uncle Hab-
akkuk's asleep in the shiny black arm.
chair, making unseemly sounds with
his nose. l can hear a whole lot Of
unseemly sounds down at the town
park-bully ones
9:15 p. Mn bed. l sneaked there
by myself. Uncle's asleep yet. Sos
aunt. The parlor lamp went out ten
minutes ago. Next time pop wants
me to come up here for the Fourth,
I'll read a Declaration of Independence
and beat Benjamin Hancock's declara
ton all to toothpicks!-Puck.
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PAY TRIBUTE TO WASHINGTON
try" Have Been Recognized by
People of All Nations.

By James Bryce, former ambassador
to the United States from England:
washington stands alone and unap-
~proachable, like a snow peak rising
above it's fellows into the clear air of
morning, with a dignity, constancy and
purity which have made him the ideal
type of civic virtue to succeeding gen.
erations. No greater benefit could
have befallen the republic than to
have such a type set from the first be-
fore the eye and mind of the people,"
Inscription on the stone placed by
China in the Washington monument:
In devising plans Washington was
more decided than Ching Shing or
Voc Kwang; in winning a country he
was Drawer than Tsau Tsau or Ling
Pi. WELDING his four-footed falchion,
he extended the frontiers and refused
to accept the royal dignity. The SEN
timents Of the three dynasties have
reappeared in him. Can any mar of
ancient or modern times fail to pro
nounce Washington peerless?"
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The Way of PROGRESS.

A dog barking at a passing automo.
bile is generally supposed to be as tell.
ing a symbol of futile objection to the
march of progress as could well be
imagined. In the almost same category
however, belongs the strike of the
stevedores in New Orleans against the
introduction of the electric truck to
transport freight between vessels and
warehouses. The wonder is that this
improvement has been so long delayed
instead of only now appearing-and
then as a source of a new labor diff,
Guilty. One cannot have much sym.
patty for opposition in this particular
instance. The motor vehicle in all OF
its forms has come to stay, and the
rest of the world has been rather rap
idly adjusting itself to the new condi
tion.-Engineering Record.
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Makes Jobs for Detectives,

Probably the only people to benefit
by recent ~suffragette outrages are
private detectives, many of whom
are doing little else just now but
guarding pictures and other treasures
of well-known hosts and hostesses
from attacks at social functions, the
London Globe states.
The head of n private detective
agency told me the other day, says
"The Carpenter" in the Express, that
he had been obliged to engage a spe-
cial staff for this work, and that to
some receptions he has sent as many
as a dozen faultlessly attired guests"
to look after the pictures and china
of the host.
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Pony stuna to Death bx Ree..

Moorpark, Cal.-Stung to death by
bees was the fate of a fine riding pony
belonging to Ray McFadden, a rancher
here. McFadden had ridden some dis
lance to his apiary and, dismounting,
tied the pony under an oak tree while
he proceeded to extract honey from
his hives. Hearing a disturbance, he
looked and saw the pony literally v
cred with the angry insects, and in a
short time the animal died.
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M0URNERS AT 10 CENTS EACH
Old Frenchwoman's Plan to Insure a
Well-Attended Funeral
Service.

London. = A telegram from Paris
tells how Mile. Virginie Rey, an old
woman of Avignon, lived a lonely life,
but was followed to the grave by hun
dreds of mourners.
She lived to be seventy-nine. Each
time a bright 50-centime piece came
into her possession she placed it in a
special box. When she died she had
saved about 800 of the coins, and in
her will she gave instructions that one
Of them should be given to each per-
son who followed her coffin to the
grave. She also left $40 to the NUM-
cipal band, SO that it should play fu-
neral marches at the ceremony.
AS was to be expected, there was a
large crowd Of mourners.
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Public Opinion.

People say how strong public opin-
ion is; and, indeed, it is strong while
it is in its prime. In its childhood
and old age it is as weak as any other
organism. l try to make my own
work belong to the youth of public
opinion. The history of the world is
the record of the weakness, frailty
and death of public opinion, as geol
ogy is the record of the decay of those
bodily organisms in which public opin,
ions have found material expression
Samuel Butler.
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Hindu Becomes a citizen.

San Francisco.-Taraknath Das, a
Hindu post graduate student at the
University of California, was admitted
to citizenship He is the fourth Hindu
to became an American citizen. Das
is chairman of the committee in
charge of the worlds student confer
ence to be held at the Panama-Pa Pacific
exposition in 1915, and was a delegate
to the Lake Mohonk peace confer.
ence
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Late sIgners Of Declaration.

The six men who we're not mem
bers of congress at the time of the
signing of the Declaration of indie
pendence, but were elected later and
allowed to sign were Benjamin Rush,
George Taylor, James Wilson, George
Ross. George Clymer and Matthew
Thornton. OF the original SO mem
bers, however, there were FIVE who did
not sign on the End of August, George
Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, E~lbridge
Gerry. Oliver Wolcott and Thomas
McKean. There were two other men.
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BURGLAR Was a chImpanzee.

Paris.-A policeman who was look
ing after a house in the Rue de Berri
during the absence of the tenant dis
covered that a window pane had been
smashed. At the same time he no
ticed a shadow In n of the rooms.
Thinking a burglar had entered the
building, he sent his dog to capture
the supposed man. An extraordinary
noise was then heard from the room.
and 1t was soon discovered that the
burglar" was really an escaped chin
1anzee. The animal had done $500
worth Of damage.
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Searching Criticism.

F~fve-year-old Herbert, scion of a
bookish family, had learned to read
so early and so readily that his first
glimpses Of ~storyland were growing
hazy in his memory. One day he con-
fided to his mother. "Ruthie showed
me her new book today, and it's the
queerest thing you ever saw! Why,
it just says, Is it a dog? 1t is a dog.
Can the dog run?' and a lot of things
like that! Course l was too polite to
say so, but it didn't seem to me the
style was a bit juicy!"-Lippincott's.
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Must Have Stirred Audience

Dan Daily once essayed the legiti-
mate. 1t was in his early days. All he
had to do was to come to the center
of the stage at a critical moment and
shout:
THE king is dead; long live the
kingi"
When the time came MI. DAILY
promptly assumed the correct dra-
matte pose, but for a moment was so
agitated that words failed him. Then
he beloved at the top of his voice:
Long live the king-he's dead!"
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TURTLE BLOCKS THE TRACK
Almost Sewers Iron Bar Used to Dis
lodge Hlm-Later Is Served to
Men In Form Of Stew.

New York.-On the way from Pat
erson, N. j., to Edgewater Conduc-
tor Dunning stopped his car with a
jolt. Passengers and crew hurried out
to find a ten-pound turtle blocking the
track.
The turtle almost bit in two an iron
switch bar used to dislodge him.
Eventually the men got him into the
car. At the trolley mems supper tur.
tie stew was on the menu.
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New Modern Dancing

The leading Expert and Instructor in New York
City, writes: 'Dear Sir:-I have used ALIENS
FooT-HAsE, the antiseptic powder to be shaken into
the shoes, for the past ten years. 1t is a blessing to
all who are compelled to be on their feet. dance
eight or ten hours daily, and find that ALIENS
FooT-EAsE keeps my feet cool, takes the friction
from the shoe, prevents corns and Sore, Aching feet.
l recommend 1t to all my pupils"
(Signed) E. FLETCHER HALLAMORB.
Sample FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, Ia Roy,N.Y.
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Rubbing 1t In.

why does that lady grin so every
time she sees your"
"She knows I'm only getting $40 a
week."
But why the GRIM"
81 was engaged to her once and
broke it off, and she afterward mar
ried a millionaire"
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n v on the Scales.

1t is customary when a military suf-
fragette is placed on trial in England
for her friends to while away their
time in court by bounding shoes, bags
of flour and bales of pamphlets on the
magistrates brow. This conduct is
calculated to bias-if not brain-the
court.
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Artificial Flowers an Old Idea.

Artificial flowers were made in an
Gent times by the Egyptians. In
Europe during the eighteenth century,
when there existed such a craze for
porcelain, flowers were made of this
substance; while the odor of the real
flowers was initiated by the use of
perfumes.
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The Eavorife Raft

ooh, do let me see that page!" said
Mrs. Twobble to MI. Twobble, who
was reading the morning newspaper.
"The Mammoth department store has
a new sale advertised"
"Umph!" snorted Mr.. Twobble, as
he handed the paper to his wife. ANY
thing reduced besides jardinieres?"
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also, who were present during the dis
cussion and adoption Of the Declare
ton, voting for 1t, but who neyer
signed. They were Henry Wisner Of
New York and John Dickinson.
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weakness. For two
years l could not
stand on my feet
long at a time and /
could not walk two
blocks without N
during cutting and
drawing pains down
my right side which
increased every
month. have been
at that time purple
-
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Mathematical Professor have now
completely discussed the theory of
probability. Are there any questions?
Problematical Freshman-Yes, sir.
Will you please compute the probable
ity of my passing this course?-Dart-
mouth Jack o. Lantern.
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Reasonable Guess.

Church-They say the new comet
hasn't been see before in Is years,
and it's egg-shaped.
Gotham-Where do you suppose it's
been? In cold storage?