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The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-09-30
Zanzibar's Exile.

The dethroned sultan of Zanzibar,
Aliben-HamOud, who now lives in
Paris, is a pensioner of the French
government. He claims to be a descend
ant of MahOmet, but he has, it is
feared, in his new environment, ceased
to be a truly good Mohammedan. He
is called by his intimatcs Raschid,
which is intended to hint that like Har-
Oun-al-Raschid, of the ARABIAN
Nights" he is not averse to nocturnal
adventures among the infidels of Paris,
that is, to what is known in palmer
English as Stunning" In order to
crafty his personal taste while in some
sort paying homage to the tenets of
the prophet, it is said that when he
seats himself at table, he is careful to
place the koran beside his plate and
with eyes turned skyward he murmurs
in Arabic: 80 holy prophet, may thy
koran protect me :" after which he in
dulges to his hearts content in wine
and pork chops.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-09-30

10 as many OF them in these days a $ years ago." says "Brl" Nowadays
they write letters. Recently a fellow called around to give the mayor u
solution for the problem of the unemployed. Judge Gary he said, doesn't
know anything about the gnme--ft will be recalled that Mr.. Gary was head
of the mayors committee IN employment-and 1 want % give him the real
solution
scheme I'll be glad to inform him. Well YOU see, it's this way said the
caller. You know, 1 own the municipal building and 1 don't like its archi-
lecture. So 1 propose to tear it down. That will give employment to thou
sands. OF course, 1 will rebuild 1t. But in the meantime thousands of men,
working four. shifts a day, will have a job. Five dollars a day to each. Send
me the BILL And he walked off.
"Then there is a bearded Russian who wears sandals and linen clothes
who drops into the city hall every 10 often to interest the mayor in his
we get u Garden of Paradise none of u will wear clothes. I'm sure the
mayor would give ne a minion-he owes 1t to me-if I could see him, SO that
I could buy the place." Hes trying to raise that million" says BILL" every
time the backtonature mai appears.
The walking bugs-that is. the fellows who start to walk from New
York to San Francisco Dr. around the word-are the real pests of city hall.
They all want a letter from the mayor or to have their records vised.
More than once has "BGu" rolled down the steps in his fight with a crank.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-09-30
PRAYER FLAGS OF TIBETANs
When They Flutter Pleas Of The De.
vout Ascend to the
omnipotent.

Encircling the buildings Of Lhasa,
Tibet, Is the Sacred road, merely to
walk along which absolves the mortal
from all earthly sins, and many pill
grims PROSTATE themselves for its en-
tire length, thus securing everlasting
happiness in their future life, John
Claude White writes in the National
Geographic Magazine.
The most interesting portion of the
Sacred road is where it runs through
some sharp limestone rocks, carved
deeply with figures of Buddha painted
in many colors.
From the rocks prayer flags are sus-
in the river. These prayer flags are
universal in Tibet, and so long as
they are moving they are recording
prayers for the benefit of those who
put them up.
All devOtees, men and women. walk,
always turning a small hand prayer
wheel, filed with minute prayers,
printed on thin paper; and large
prayer wheels, filed in some cases
with tons of paper prayers, are set
revolving by water power. Smaller
ones are turned by the hot air rising
from butter lamps.
Single prayers, printed on thin cloth,
are strung vertically on poles or
stretched across open spaces TO flutter
In the wind and thus send millions of
prayers vibrating toward the Omnipo.
tent for the benefit of someone's soul
They are most picturesque. An old
lama l once questioned on the subject
told me that if the person turning the
wheel truly believed that by doing Sc
he was accommodating merit, it would
certainly count as a m]eritorious &C.
ton"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-09-30
GIRLS CLIMB HIGH CHIMNEY
Colorado Young Ladies' Do the Fly Act
on Dare From Male Com
panions.

Eaton, Colo.-Climbing hand over
hand to the top of the smokestack on
the sugar factory here, five young wom-
en- of Eaton did the humanity act on a
dare by their male companions, who
promised them a box of candy each If
they accomplished the feat. The smoke
stack is 231 feet high and is built of
cement. The ONE not only climbed
to the top but returned to the ground
in order without assistance from any
of the men, some of whom had at
tempted the feat and failed. The
young women who got to the top of
the stack were Misses Martin White,
Irene PiXler, Lettie White and Mes
danes L. NJ. S%teneking and Anna
Bickle.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-09-30
Original Home of welshmen.

Jutland was probably the original
home of our Kymrlc ancestors as well
as Cat a later period) of some So
called Saxon invaders. 1t was peo-
pied in classical times by the Cimbri,
identified by ethnologists with the
Cymry, or modern Welshmen. The
Germans magnanimously declined to
annex Jutland with Schleswig-Holstein
1t was then considered a worthless
waste of moors, sand dunes and
marshes. But the industrious Danes
have transformed what one English
traveller styled ga Godforsaken wilder
ness" into the most prosperous pas
toral country of western Europe
Westminster Gazette.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-09-30
STORM HALTS THE FUNERAL
Heavy Rain Kept Persons in a Chapel
All Night in Texas
Cemetery.

Hillsboro, Tex.-SiXty-three persons
who gathered in the chapel at the
Brandon cemetery to attend the flu
neral of Mrs. Knuckles, were forced to
spend the night there, being marooned
by the heavy rainstorm which neces-
STATED postponing the interment IN
til the next morning.
During the funeral service the rain
started and fell in such torrents Thai
it formed little bitches which ran into
the grave and completely filled it with
mud and water. The grave was cleared
in the morning and the interment held.
1t was too late to return home when
the rain stopped, so those gathered for
the funeral sent out and got some cof-
fee and sat up all night so as to attend
the burial the neXt morning.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-09-30
MILES OF OCEAN BOTTOM SEARCHED

five miles, they will continue the
search for five miles further in the
SAM directions. If she is not found
before winter comes on 1t is probable
that the search will be abandoned I'M
til next spring.
The expedition is n costly one. The
divers are paid as high as $40 n day.
1t Is said that Captain Stillson will re-
ceive a big bonus If the expedition is
a success, and "fair" compensation if
1t fails.
In marine circles 1t is believed that
the Merida Will not be found. 1t is
figured that in the five years since she
went down she is probably completely
covered by sands, and divers might
walk over the spot where she lies
without knowing it.
The treasure hunters come to Nor
folk and Newport News about every
two weeks to take on fuel and sup
plies.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-09-30
CABLE In Use
HALF CENTURY
Cyrus w. Fields Faith in Ocean
Telegraphs Was Justified
in 1866.
EARLY PROJECTS FAILURES
Since July 27, 1866, New World Has
Been in Continuous Communica-
ton With Old by Subma-
rine Cable.

New York.-It is a little more than
a half century since the completion of
the first permanent Atlantic telegraph,
observes the New York Evening World.
Since July 81, 1866, the new world has
been in continuous and uninterrupted
communication with the old world by
means of the submarine cable. The
final success was achieved only after
several disheartening failures. AS
early as 1S43 Prof. Samuel +. b.
Morse suggested the possibility of an
Atlantic telegraph line.
Just a decade later Cyrus w. Field,
a wealthy merchant, became interested
in a plan for laying an underground
cable across Newfoundland and in the
following year, 1851, he secured the CO.
operation of Peter Cooper, Moses Tay-
lor and others in a scheme for a trans
Atlantic cable. The manufacture of
$500 miles of wire was completed in
1857 and the task of laying 1t was COM
menced at Valentla, Ireland, in August
of that year, two American and two
British vessels being engaged. After
q few miles had been laid the cable
snapped. This was repaired, but after
300 miles of wire had been put down
it snapped again and the vessels re-
turned to Plymouth.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-09-30
$40 REWARD FOR $500 RING
Honest Waitress Found It and Re-
turned Jewel to Mrs.
Whitworth.

Colorado Springs, Colo.-Luck was
with Mrs. Rose Whitworth, wife of a
Tulsa (Okla.) business man, when she
dropped a diamond setting from her
rings In the McRae cafe.
The gem weighs two karats and is
valued at $500. 1t slipped from the
owners hand while she was at lunch.
Three hours later she returned, having
missed the Jewel, and Billy Jones, man
ager, was able to return her diamond
by reason Of the honesty of the wait
ress, who found it on the floor.
The waitress is richer by 500 and
Mrs. Whitworth is happy, the diamond
having been a prenuptial gift from her
husband.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-09-30

is 81 feet above the highest water ever known. This will permit steamboats,
to pass under it at high water without passing through a draw. When the
river is at extremely low stage the upper works of the bridge tower almost
$50 feet above the surface of the river.
Two railroad tracks cross the bridge, besides a spacious driveway for
wagons and automobiles, and sidewalks for foot passengers. Wagon and foot
traffic will pass Stree of charge.
The celebration of the completion of the bridge, which will be held next
April, will be TIL occasion Of the greatest pageant eve held in this part Of
the Mississippi valley. Assurances have been secured from the navy depart
Tent that batleshps, submarines and other vessels will participate in the
celebration. Among the craft will be floats of historical character, and the
fact that the Memphis pier rests on or near the spot where De Soto discovered
the river will ba made the basis of a celebration in honor of the great
Spaniard.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-09-30
STORM LEFT MANY SNAKES
Six Are Killed on One Lawn in
Texas After the Hurricane
Passes.

San Antonio, TeX.-They're swatting
snakes at Rockport now.
Col. Frank Holland killed six on the
lawn OH the lot on which his cottage
stands near Rockport after Fridays
hurricane, according TO a report.
"Some of the snakes were rattle
snakes and were at least four feet
long" it was said. Colonel Holland
and a neighbor were preparing to go
fishing when the storm broke.'
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-09-30
German Women Workers.

Women workers in Germany are
proving a success as substitutes for
men at the front. 1t is believed that
the training now being obtained by o
large body of women in work ordinar-
lily done by men in factories, offices,
banks, ETC., will be valuable when
peace is restored in bridging over the
effects of the war on various German
industries, enabling them to reach nor
NAL conditions more rapidly.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-09-30

away from Valentia laying another
cable. July % the cable was complete
ly laid at Hearts Content, Newfound-
land, and the queen and the president
again exchanged greetings. Soon after
this happy event the lost cable of 1865
was recovered and placed in service.
In addition to the cables between Va
lentia and Hearts Content. Newfound-
land, there are now cable lines between
Waterville, Ireland, and Canso, n. s.;
New York and Rockport, Mass. Ben
zance, England, and Bay Roberts, n.
F.; Canso, N. s., and New York Bal
linskellig's Bay, Ireland, and Halifax,
N. s., and Rye Beach, N. H., and Brest.
France, and Cape Cod, Mass.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-09-30

Florita goes out to her workshop
and with hammer, saw and chisel the
need is supplied and the family hasn't
paid out a cent except for the lumber.
Miss Florita o Mandescheld is an
expert carpenter and joiner. She takes
to tools as the ordinary girl takes to
curling irons. She has been hammer
ing away for several years now. and
has never so much as knocked the
beauty parlor finish of her thumb nail.
She made a mahogany library table
Of such craftsmanship that Principal
George G. Thompson Of the Alameda
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-09-30

Bullet BetMeen Nertebrae.

Fort Wayne, Ind.-Surgeons sue
c~essfully operated the other day on
Pete Annastropfe, an Assyrian, to re-
move a bullet that had lodged between
vertebrate in his neck when he was
shot in the mouth at Van Vert, o.,
some weeks ago, and Annastropfe will
recover, the surgeons said, after having
been constantly in danger throughout
the five weeks. The position of the
bullet was such, 1t was said, that had
Annastropfe moved his head violently
he would have died. The bullet was
touching the spinal cord and the op-
GRAFTON was regarded as extremely
serious.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-09-30
GIRL is EXPERT CARPENTER
Young Lady Makes About All the
Furniture Needed In the
Household.

Alameda, Cal.-When anything Is
needed in the furniture line in the Won
handkerchief home In Alameda, they
call In Florita and say:
Father needs a shaving cabinet" or
Mother needs a mahogany bedroom
set" or Little sister needs a high
chair"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-09-30

preached nearer. Several exception"
ally timid women fled, terror-stricken.
A snake on Chestnut street was not
an everyday occurrence.
Finally a group of men, Drawer
than their fellows, formed a circle
around the snake. 1t lifted its head
once, wiggled its tail and the crowd
broke for cover. A reserve policeman
approached, took a look and advised
the ~bystanders to move away.
''That's a rattlesnake," he said. 81
guess I better call for the cruelty
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-09-30

evenings OF their lives In something
else beside idle and eventless days.
Another purpose of the workshop is to
provide light work for men tempo
rarily handicapped by sickness until
they ear go back to a mans full
fledged job. The working capacity Of
none of these men is great and their
tasks must be comparatively easy.
AS a result, the workshop schedule
calls for six hours a day and the
minimum wage paid is about go cents
q dnr Tho nrnrnn 20 nt the
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-09-30
Success Short Lived.

A storm caused the failure of a
second attempt, but the third voyage,
in 1858, was successful, and the juno
ton between the two continents was
effected by 2,059 miles of wire stretch
ing from the Irish coast to Newfound-
land. Messages were exchanged be-
tween Queen Victoria and President
Buchanan and there was great rejoic-
ing on both sides of the ocean.
The jubilation proved premature.
however, for in a short time the cable
ceased to work and was branded a fail
ure. The faith of Field did not waver,
and, although the Civil war prevented
an early revival of the project, in 1866
a new company began the laying of
another cable. The famous vessel, the
Great Eastern, was dispatched to Ire
land with the wire, but again the
project ended in failure.
Mr.. Field then launched the Anglo
American Telegraph company, and in
July, 1866, the Great Eastern steamed
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-09-30

The twenty-thlrd Psalm is a person.
al possession for every Christian.
Again and again 1t has been pointed
out that If the first verse began. "srhe
Lord Is a shepherd" 1t Is not likely
that men and women and children for
1900 years would have counted 1t
of their priceless possessions. But
the phrase il "The Lord L. my sheD-
herd"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-09-30

Arkansas. The bridge, with its ap-
proaches, is three miles long, has cost
100000 and will be fully completed
this winter and formally dedicated
next April. 1t will have required
three years and a half to build. In it's
construction $4,000 tons of steel are
used.
The spans over the channel of the
river total one mile, while OF the Ar
kansas side there are two miles of
steel and stone construction over the
low river bank district. The bridge
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-09-30

wagon" AS h departed a mar approached who has known snakes all his
life. To the establishment of the spectators he bent down, picked up the
snake and walked away. He had recognized it a a "De Kay garter snake
the smallest of North American species and ne O a harmless variety. 1t is
believed that the snake crawled into a automobile in some outoftownI
garage and dropped to the street upon it's arrival in the city.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-09-30

SanCtUn SHnctOTuIl, IHe WHyOT OF
fee. "A soft answer turneth away
wrath" quotes 'Bill," meaning there
by that with the average crank, man
or woman, who comes to see the
mayor about renting city hall or SELL
ing him a charm for several millions
whereby his mayoralty chair is insured
to him forever-some of the actual
things that have happened in the past
the best way to handle them is the
easiest way. Then you get their con
fdpncn and their pnnd will. wv have
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-09-30

shop during the year is about TO- running as high as 100 in the winter and
dropping to 10 n the summer a. many of the lei are able to secure some
kind of light outofdoor work during the latter period. The association
makes a n effort to get them such, using the shop only a S a last resort when
nothing else can be found for them.
AT the present time the shop is especially busy turning out toys which
are being sen into all of the hospitals and the homes where children ire
suffering from infantne paralysis. They are also being sent to children who,
while free from the disease, have been quarantned in their homes because
of the removal of som member of. the family to a hospital.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-09-30
Memphis Preparing to Dedicate Immense Bridge

IA ENIPHIs, TENN-Almost Of the spot where De Soto stood when he first
Tl gazed upon the Father of Waters rests the eastern pier of the great
Harahan bridge that spans the Mssksippi river. connecting Tennessee and
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-09-30
Counsel plsdalned.

"You shouldn't allow the little things
Of life to disturb you"
~ don't know about that. A germ Is
about the nttlest thing l know Of"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-09-30
GOLD IN CHICKENS CROPS

Auburn, Cal.-ThOmas Gam
lin Of the Mount Vernon district
has some very valuable chick
ems. Recently he killed two and
found gold nuggets in their
craws valued at about one dol
lar.
AS the chickens were penned
in a sail space on the hillside
Gamlin Immediately began in
vestigations and 500 unearthed
a quartz ledge which he will
further prospect.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-09-30

High school threw out the one he al.
ready had and bought Elarita's.
Florita has made, among other arti-
cles, two large mahogany library ta-
bles, a walnut china closet, a shaving
cabinet, equipped with a bevel mirror I;
a gun rack which looks like a china
closet, piano bench, tabouret, cozy-
corner seat and a dolls chair. She is
her own designer.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-09-30
Drinks Act Like Manlo-

st. Louis, Mo.-"Where am ~"
asked Harry McStravick, thirty-one
years old, when he came to at the city
~dispensary after Sergeant Peters found
him in a stupor in front of 1912 North
Lefingwell EST. Louis p he
exclaimed, when his query was an
swered. I'D like to know how 1 got
here. The last 1 remember 1 was leav-
ing home in New Orleans and starting
for a show" McStravick said he had
taken one or two drinks in New Or
leans.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-09-30

Electric burglar alarms surround the
treasury at Washington and are tested
every fifteen minutes. day and night.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-09-30
QUITE

"This Texas capitalist says he is going to show those New Workers. q
thing Or two" 'e
swell, if one of the things he shows them is his bank roll, they won't
object" -Birmhngham AgeIerald.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-09-30
Old Mems Workshop Is Unique New York Charity

NEW YoRK-The Old Mans workshop, conducted by the New York associ-
~ alton for improving the condition of the poor, is giving respectable, elderly
men a chance to remain selfsupportng and an opportunity to pass the
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-09-30
Little Snake Causes Quakes in the Quaker City

n HHADELPHA-when a 12inch snake wrgged its way across Chestnut
! street near Twelfth the other afternoon toward the curbstone scores of
men and women looked. stopped and then edged away as the reptile aP.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-09-30
Cranks and Bugs" Infest Gotham's City Hall

NEW YoRK-As the flame attracts the moth, o does city hall attract
. cranks n bugs and "nuts-more than any other spot Of earth. But
none of them can get by Lieut.. "BIl" Kennel, the big cop who guards that
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-09-30
O FAR WRONG,

"Autocra-cy" spelled Tommy, reading aloud. After a pause, he
pronounced II ufumphanty "Autocrazy"
And he wondered why his father laughed.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-09-30
AT HER WORST.

Damsel (hNrd at work at the pano)T sing my best when he Is near
shave arrived yeti .,
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-09-30
INTERNATIONAL
LESSON

(By r. O. SELLERS, Acting Director of
the Sunday School Course Of the Moody
Bible Institute. Chicago)
tCopyright, 1916, Western Newspaper Union.)
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-09-30

After searching five miles in one
direction, the treasure hunters will re-
turn to the spot where the Merida
went down and search five miles in
another direction. After they have
gone north, south, each and west for
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-12-13
SAYS SPOTLIGHT PISTOL
WILL DECREASE CRIME,

\ pistol which throws a spotlight
and sends a bullet into the spit is
the invention of p. +. Kruse, OF Lou
isville. Mr.. Kruse only after ten
years effort has perfected the inven-
ton. which he claims will eliminate
duels between officers and law
breakers and greatly lessen the an
nual number of homicides in the
country.
The invention in reality is not a
pistol, but a searchlight which can
be clamped on to the barrel of any
pistol. 1t consists of a small bat
tey, but powerful; a tube, in which
is an electric bulb, resting at right
angles to the revolver barrel and
connected with another tube run.
ming alongside the revolver barrel.
Through the later tube the light is
DETECTED by mirror. Clamps
make the lighting attachment ad-
Unstable to any pistol. The lever by
which the light is operated is near
the revolver trigger. With the same
finger one throws on the light and
pulls the trigger. With the search
light the attacking party-presum-
ably a burglars located, and If
he does not Immediately surrender
a bullet can be sent into his heart
with deadly aim.
Mr.. Kruse has applied for a pat
ent on his invention and intends
TO begin the manufacture of them
in Louisville.