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The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-02-13
MARRIAGE AS A VOCATION
Writer Thinks, However, That Prep
aration Should Be Made for It by
Both Parties.

Marriage should be looked upon as
a vocation and not a mere ~avocation,
argues one who signs herself "Femin-
ist" in an open letter to one of the
daily papers. The writer, who had
been a teacher, but who is now a
mother, has been surprised that be.
ing a wife and mother is a pro
fession, the successful performance
of whose duties requires all my eff
fort and all my time" Feminist"
thinks that women generally do not
realize this or refuse to face 1t, that
young women contemplating matri-
mony should be made TO realize that
they are choosing a profession quite
as important as medicine, law or bust
ness, and that, if possible, a prepare
tory course should be required before
granting the certificate to practice the
profession of wife and mother. This
sounds very well and would be ad-
mirable If it could be carried through.
But as there are two paths In mar
rage it would be very one-sided If the
woman received all the training. A
good, stiff preparatory course for the
young man contemplating the profess
sion of husband and father would be
quite as much in order. If we have
one, let us have the other, also
Francis Frear in Leslie's Weekly.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-02-13
Life Jobs on a Farm.

A farm for the benefit of silver" or
unskilled workmen thrown out of en-
ployment by the completion of the Pan.
anna canal has been established by
the government on the Canal o
There are now about one hundred men
on this farm, all of whom are earning
a comfortable living for themselves.
Nearly all these farmers are crippled,
some having lost an arm or a leg or
having been incapacitated in some
other way for hard work. The farm
grows bananas, oranges, cocoanuts
and other tropical products and is
stocked with COWS, chickens, ducks
and pigs. 1t is managed by the medi.
cal corps of the United States army.
Each workman is to have e life job on
the farm.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-02-13
American Dentist In Europe.

But let me tell you about the Ameri-
a dentist in the European war. The
hospital physician told me that he no
ticed early in his war work that many
of the soldiers were suffering from
toothache more than from their
wounds. So every wounded man was
examined by a dentist before he was
taken to the ward. 1t was discovered
that a large percentage of the men
from the trenches had swollen gums,
and that by treating their mouths they
were cured and ready for the front ten
days earlier than in cases where their
teeth were allowed to go. The Eng
fish, he said, had the worst teeth, the
Arabs the best.-"Here and There in
Battle-Soarred France" Peter Mac
Queen, in National Magazine.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-02-13
Wonderful Wireless.

There is apparently no limit to the
future possibilities of the wireless.
Wireless storm warnings and general
weather forecasts for ships at sea, COW
ering conditions 100 miles off shore
along the entire Atlantic coast, was
inaugurated by the United States navy
department on July is, 1913. Direct
wireless communication between
America and Asia was established by
the completion Of stations in Siberia
and Alaska, the stations being about
500 miles apart. Today no vessel Of
any consequence plies the oceans with
out its system of wireless, and its eff
f~ectiveness in receiving news Of the
present European wal is well known.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-02-13

10 HELPS
SEEK TO INTEREST RAILROADS
Residents Of California City Urge
Them to Beauty Their
Rights Of Way.

At a recent meeting of tree plant
ers IN a California city it was resolved
to request the various chambers of
commerce in that part of the state to
urge the railroads to beautify their
rights of way, particularly their APP
proaches to cities, all of which are
slovenly and none of which are good.
The subject of railroad gardening
has been a~gitating the whole country
for many years, and it has finally been
determined that hardy. drought.resist-
ant shrubs offer the best material for
permanent Identification. 1t is not
advisable to obscuEe too much Of the
station or station grounds, for obvi-
u reasons; therefore, few trees and
many shrubs should be used, with very
few towering plants, for the latter
require care, and railroads are most
economical in matters where no direct
financial return is assured.
Could the entertainments be plant
ed with l~ow-growing, low-priced
drought-resistan towering shrubs and
among these sown seed of native wild
flowers, we would have a beautifca-
ton scheme of effectiveness at low
cost that would stand for all time to
come with a minimum of care and ex-
pense; yet one hat would forever
transform present ugliness into tracts
of beauty.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-02-13

factories, mines and railroads. 1t is the property
of Britishers.
Gutierrez made himself a power in the consti-
nationalist party rather by destroying property
than by actual hard fighting. He became dicta-
tor of the Z~acatecas district and set out to annoy
his old employer, General Manager Percy Carr
of the Mazipul Copper company, who, of course,
had never heard of Gutierrez while the latter was
a humble Waterman.
The copper company was the proprietor of
the railroad running to Zacatecas and had
arranged a special train to take away the families
of foreigners. AS soon as Gutierrez heard of this
he telephoned to Carr in Saltillo that Carr must
pay him $4,000 for the privilege of running this
train over Carr's own railroad or else the sol
diers of the ex-watchman would not let the cars
pass.
"If you don't pay, and send the train through,
you know what will happen" said Gutierrez, and
he could not have made his meaning clearer to
Carr had he drawn his finger across his throat.
So Carr paid the money and the women and
children, chiefly Americans, reached the border
without hurt
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-02-13
HER DIVISION OF THE SHAME
Aunt Dinah, Caught In Pllferlnsr
Would Not Even Apportlon
II Equally.

Representative G. w. Taylor Of Ala
bama tells a good story about a col
ored cook who presided over the des-
TIMES Of the kitchen of a neighbor.
Aunt Dinah vas fat and forty, even
II not fair. Her wafies were poems,
her baked ham a symphony, while
her fried chicken would have beguiled
a st. Anthony himself from his an
chorite's cell.
But Aunt Dinah possessed not only
a most correct taste in culinary mat
tiers, but also a large brood of grand
children OF various ages and sexes
a brood whose wealth of appetite was
equaled only by the poverty in its sup
plies.
But Dinah was fully up to the occa-
sion, Every time the mistress was not
looking she would annex a small pat
OF butter, half a cake. a few chops or
sundry other things not likely to be
missed.
The mistress knew of this petty
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-02-13
SCIENCE IN ITS EARLY YEARS
Efforts of Truly Great Men Largely
Nullifed by the Work of the
Sophists.

And Sc it happened that, about $50
B. c., there arose Thales, who, by his
wide experience and the persistent en-
thusiasm with which he carried on
investigation, earned the title of Fa-
Their of Science. And so, also, shortly
after him, Anaximander, by committing
his knowledge to writing, brought into
script. The sixth century, like the
seventh, was still a period Of origins.
1t saw the physical researches of Py-
thagoras. and the historical studies of
Hecataeus. In the fifth century Greek
learning reached it's climax. This age
was resplendent with the names of
T~hucydides, who wrote history with
critical care; of Heraclitus, who con-
ceived of a universal reign of law, and
of Hippocrates, the Father of Medi-
cine. Its greatest character was So
crates, the barefooted, questioning
sage Of the market place of Athens.
With ever burning enthusiasm for
truth. this great teacher attempted, by
quiet and candid debate, to aid men to
make their concepts clear. and to give
words definite meanings, trusting that
through the correct s Of the reason
they would arrive at a recognition of
superiority of right actions. The fourth
century was both an advance and a
decline. It comprised the work of
Plato and Aristotle. the one elaborat-
ing the concepts of Socrates with po-
etic power. the other systematizing
knowledge in truly scientific form. But
In this age the demand for brilliant
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-02-13
the holy ground about the mystic city. t

the holy ground about the mystic city.
All Seek Burial There.
Each member of the Shia sect must
make the pilgrimage to this hottest of
his shrines, the city toward which
throughout life he bows in worship,
the unnatural city bound up in the
desort's>spel into which the treasures
of all his fellows in faith are flowing
for their spiritual welfare. Each mem
Der of the Shia sect expects to be
buried in the sacred earth without the
city's walls, where millions upon mil
lions of past Shias have turned the
sands to clay. This enormous grave
yard about the city is not the least
part of its weird fascination. The des-
ert trail to the sacred city is empty,
barren and dead. II is an unattrac-
tive trail whose silence is broken only
by fanatic pilgrims and by aravans
transporting corpses to the Shia Me-
ca of the dead.
Nedief is a great city. Not a green
thing-a plant, shrub, or tree-lives
within it's dry, hot limits. 1t is built
on a high plain of soft sandstone. The
narrow, crooked streets, in many
places mere passages three or four feet
wide, wind like jungle paths. One of
the strange features of this strange
city is its cellars. In summer the
fierce heat drives the painting people
deep down into the earth, like rats in
a hole. Beneath every house is a eel
lar, burrowed mine-like to- amazing
depths; one l explored reached an as
toundingly low level, being more than
one hundred feet below the street.
Cellars as Refugees From Heat.
Into these damp, dark holes the
Shias fee when the scorching desert
air sizzles above and imported Ger
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-02-13

the National Geographic society is
sued the following statement:
Caucasia is a potpourri of races,
tongues and religions. Nowhere else
in the world can one find on a similar
area so many types OF peoples. so
many languages and dialects, Sc many
religions and sects thereof. The eau
casus mountains, for the most part,
stretch above fruitful land, and every
folk-stream which flowed their way
has left eddies within their closed,
world-isolated valleys.
The cosmopolitanism Of New York
is provincial compared with the mag
~nificent, regardless confusion of eau
casian peoples. There are some seven
ty dialects strange to the West spoken
within its boundaries, while business,
touring, engineering and other tech
niques bring most of the other Ian
guages in. In this modern Babel dwell
Georgians, Imeritians, Chevsurs,
Lazes, Mingrelians, Pshavs, Swami
tians, Abkhasians, Circassians, Kebar-
dams, Ossetes, Avars, Chechinzes,
Jews, Russians of several varieties,
Daigs, Le~sghians, Kazy-Kumykth,
Tush, Ingush, Greeks and others of the
Occident. Caucasia. indeed, may be
said to be a place prominently de-
voted to language-all kinds and COM
plexions of speech being native there
In b%ewildering richness.
Caucasia is the broad, stocky 18TH
mus which, extending from the south
east corner of Europe to Asia, divides
the Black and Caspian seas. Its area
is about 100000 square miles, or more
than four times larger than the state
OF Ohio. 1t has good ports upon both
the Black and Caspian seas, Batum
on the one, and Baku on the other.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-02-13

made that bring it's behavior into line
with the behavior of animals in GER
tain respects. The leaves are sensi-
tive to mechanical disturbances, to
electrical stimulation and to the sud
den increase in temperature as
through the application of warm wa
ter, At ordinary temperatures it takes
two ~stimulations to get up the re-
sponse; but at higher temperatures
one Shock" will cause the leaf to
close, At ordinary temperatures n
electric shock will produce the effect
if it is strong enough.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-02-13
How to Clean un Yards.

1t has remained for a picture show
man to clean up a Kansas town in a
most effective way, and by a simple
method, He offered a free ticket to
his show for a limited time to any
boy who could bring a certificate from
his mother that he had thoroughly
cleaned up the back yard, and some
three hundred boys--about all there
are In the town-got on the Job. There
are great possibilities in a scheme
OF that kind; it a be made to do ell
most anything.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-02-13

some pent-up juice or fluid. There is
present in the living structures some
"hormone" or gland stun which is
freed at night in the case of normal
sleep. Fear releases the other stun in
animals, and suggestion. as well as
fear. opens up the fi~oodgates IN the
matter Of catalepsy and hypnosis.
Moreover. in certain types of insan-
ity, such as dementia praecox. thy
roid in~suficiencies and others where
near catalepsy and true catalepsies oc-
cur. It has long been understood that
various parts Of human physiology
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-02-13
coIorIna Wood Alcohol.

1t has been suggested that the Unit,
ed States should follow the exam
pie OF Sweden and color wood alcohol
so that 1t may instantly be distin-
guished from grain alcohol. mas
much as this deadly poison is respon-
sible for the deaths Of a number Of
people every year it strikes US that the
suggestion is a good one. A poison
label is not sufficient warning appar-
emily to the careless, but a colored
liquid could not be mistaken as read
lily as is the colorless liquid which
sometimes cannot be distinguished for
a poison until it is absorbed into some
body's system.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-02-13
TRACED TO PHYSICAL CAUSES
Experiments Concerning sleep and
Kindred Inconsistencies Arc
Intensely Interesting.

Experimental Investigations do not
yet wholly prove-because they are
not yet completed-but go far toward
showing that the ~catalepsy in animals,
hypnosis and mesmerism In some men
and the normal sleep in everybody
are induced by releasing into the flow
Ing vital streams of blood and lymph
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-02-13
Botanical Curiosity.

Since 1893. when Prof. John Muir
head Macfarlane. now director of the
botanical garden at the University of
Pennsylvania. found that the leaves of
the plant known as the Venus fly trap
will close up only If the trigger hairs
are disturbed twice in succession. very
little has been learned about the phys.
iology of this curious insect-catching
plant. During the past year, however,
some new experiments have been
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-02-13
Attacks Tramp,. PEG lea.

Attacked by a tramp whom she had
allowed to enter her home to drink
a cup of coffee. Mrs. f. L. Cechtel Of
East street. North side. was rescued
by a large English setter. the property
of her husband.
The dog, which to the
name of Victor, viciously attacked the
tramp and tore his wooden leg from
the stump. Unable to get away, the
m%iscreant was captured by the police.
Pittsburgh Dispatch to Philadelphia
Record.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-02-13

So long ago as TIA a patent was
taken out in England by Henry Mill
for "a machine for impressing let
ters singly and progressively as in
writing, whereby all writings may be
engrossed in paper so exactly as not
to be distinguished from print" His
machine was very clumsy and practi-
cally useless. however.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-02-13

man thermometers stand at 1870 de-
grees F. Some of the cellars are ar.
ranged in a tier Of cells or rooms,
n below the other; the upper room
is used in the first hot months, the
family going lower down as the heat
increases. Many of these cellars are
connected by underground corridors,
and the criminals, who swarm in Ned
JEFF, easily elude capture by passing
through these tunnels from house to
house.
The mosque is covered with great
gold tiles which run to its very base.
For ages the rich of Shia faith have
made precious presents to this temple,
until it's vaults are bursting with pent-
up treasure. The city has no indus
try, no commerce-nothing that is
apart from its religious purpose. 1t
supports itself upon the money of the
pilgrims, lodges them, feeds them,
robs them, sells them prayer bricks
made from the graveyard clay, and
even marries them for the period of
their visit to perennial brides, brides
kept in stock, who legally have many
husbands in their lives.
A British Indian army officer told me
that the looting OF the Nedjef mosque
was a favorite dream of the soldiers
in the middle East, who looked forward
to the day when war may sweep an
army of invasion into Nedjef.
Something About Caucasia.
Concerning C%aucasia, where the
Turks and the Russian are renewing
that long ago conflict that has existed
between the Turk and the Muscovite,
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-02-13

superficial learning as an asset for
climbers led to the rise of the Soph-
lists. These popular teachers, by
their careless, sweeping generaliza-
lions and their rhetorical embellish-
ments, turned the Greek mind aside
from the simple pursuit of truth, and
entangled it in Improbable metaphys-
ical OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Maya
zine.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-02-13

pilfering, but preferred to appear ig-
norant, because Aunt Dinah was a
pearl of great price," even If a black
one. But n day Dinah plainly saw
that the mistress Just as clearly OBJ.
served the stealing Of a pot of cher
ries.
Laws, Miss SARAH" she cried, 'T
knows you is shame of me. but l
knows, too, you is more shame of
yerself for watching"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-02-13
London's First Ambulanees.

London. which has never yet had
an ambulance, has at last ordered six
of them, and expects them to do all
the work for the entire city. In case
of past accidents the policemen have
had to commander the nearest wagon,
depending on the generosity Of the
driver, as they were not able to offer
him anything.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-02-13

Author-Itn be a fine feather in
your cap If o produce this play.
Manager ~(glancing over scenario)-
I'll be the goat-why?
Author-Why, you1l have the laugh
on the 10 short-sighted managers who
turned 1t downl-Puck.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-02-13
A TroubIemaker.

What sort of a fellow is her"
"A troublemaker."
HE seems ~peaceable enough"
II know, but he's the sort OF a blum.
dering chap that denies all the lies
you've told your WIFE"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-02-13
LuxurIous rravel.

Tired Tobias--Say, Dusty, wot
would youse do ef youse wuz a miIly-
uEair?
Dusty Darius--I'd hay or private car
via er feather bed on do trucks.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-02-13

49, WM 1914 uuTlSu III LH6 GA
elusive sands Of the desert,
almost unknown by the white
1W man, the Arab city Of Ned
JEFF, Mecca Of the Shia Mo-
hammedans, born of and for a reli-
gion, contains within its walls of sun
dried brick a treasure rich beyond
fable, the Shia st. Peters, into which
a stream OF gold and jewels has poured
for centuries, and over the looting of
which many an empire-building sol
der has sweetened his dreams While
sleeping on the battle fields of India
and elsewhere in Asia. Nedjef has
become hostile land, and the wonder
ful mosque Of gold and precious stones
is exposed as a possible objective of
invaders. Frederick Simpich, n of
the few white men of any race to have
made a visit to hidden Nedjef, has
transmitted an account Of this strang-
est of cities to the National G~eograph-
ic society. He writes:
1t is five days by mule or camel
caravan from Bagdad to Nedjef, and
in the eventful centuries since the
Shias founded Middleton the spot
where a nephew of the Prophet Mo
manned was SLANT, is estimated
that over 25,000,000 Moslems have
made the pilgrimage to this mysteri-
GUS desert city of golden domes, fabu-
lous treasures, and weird rites. Thou
sands of devotees from the Shia
hordes of India, Persia and South Rus
STA flock through Bagdad each year,
bringing with them their mummiied
dead-salted and dried-for burial in
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-02-13

Wealthy Parisians have bought an
entire block of houses in hat city, and
will tear them down to hunt for
Roman and Gothic treasures.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-02-13

we're out OF order. The thyroid. para
thyroids. adrenals and other glands
are often then found in distress.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-02-13

n YSTIC, buried in the ex-
elusive sands Of the desert,
almost unknown by the white
man, the Arab city Of Ned.
JEFF, Mecca of the Shia Mo
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-04-24
BROKERS VISIT
JUMBO EX. MINE
LOCAL MEN VOICE PRAISES OF
ORE SHOWING ON NEW
DEEP LEVELS

Accompanied by Consulting Engi-
ent LOU Dellinger, party of local
brokers, composed of John Donnel-
Ian, H. B. Lind, ]. F.. Vardaman,
James Nj. Fenwick and John Houla-
han, made thorough inspection of
the Jumbo Extension mine workings
recently and returned to the sur
face imbued with the greatest en-
thusiasm over the condition of the
property and convinced that it is
destined to make production of
great value. The miuing reporter of
the GolGfield News and Tribune later
interviewed the members of the party
securing expressions of opinion that
were without an exception highly ia
vorable.
1.-The new development in the in
termediate drift is apparently a most
important one," said ]. M. Fenwick,
"and gives promise Of eclipsing any
previous discovery in the mine. 1t
appears to be independent of any
other ore that has been exposed and
offers large area of virgin ground
both above and below. If this ore Is
opened on it's downward extension by
crosscuts from the lower levels 1T
will be difficult matter to place
a Init upon the value of the mine.
AS it is, the value of the ore in sight
is great and there is promise of a
vast tonnage from the region OF the
old slopes, independent of the big
deposits of rich ore on deeper lev
els"
Harry B. Lind, who was closely
identified with the Jumbo Extension
during the earlier years of the camps
activity, regards the value of recent
developments as enormous and says
that their full Importance has not
been realized by the public. THE
Only thing that can be said is that
the showing is phenomenal" said
Mr.. Lil.d "This development in
creases in vast measure the pOssibil-
tiles of the property and it's import
ance cannot be exaggerated. 1t shows
what may be achieved by deep
mining and stimulates the belief that
other valuable discoveries will be
made in the Goldfield district as de-
velopment progresses on deep levels
1T is great" said John Donnel-
Ian. They have big mine and 1t
now looks as if it would develop in
to much bigger one. Any estl-
mate of the value of ore exposed
would of course, be guesswork on
my lart, but it is certain that
tonnage of great value has been
placed in sight AMI that an import
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