"WESTERN KANSAS WORLD
H. S. GIVLER. PubUsher.
WA-KEESEY.
KANSAS
The annual importation of matting
Into the United States from China is
estimated at 300,000,000 cubic yards.
An international exhibition will be
opened in August at Copenhagen for
apparatus for. the killing of rats, and
several prizes will be offered for the
best devices.
The - whole of an Italian regiment,
which had. been maneuvering between
Naples and Mondragone, having been
attacked by malaria, the minister of
war has issued orders that all troops
In that district are in future to wear
veils and gloves to protect them from
mosquitoes.
The educational campaign against
spitting begins to show encouraging
results. A man who recently offended
In a New York ferry boat suddenly
realized that twenty pairs of eyes were
regarding him as if he were a pick
pocket. Greatly embarrassed, he
flushed and slunk away to the men's
cabin. Concentrated public disappro
val seldom fails of its just effect.
An iron chest," containing $4,000 In
Spanish coins, was found recently
while excavating in the Henepin canal,
twenty miles south of Sterling, I1L The
box was found ten feet from the sur
face of the earth. There was a large
number of coins bearing the date of
1668 and others of probably an earlier
date, but the figures could not be de
ciphered. Some of the coins were
stamped with a crown and others a
head.. There was nothing to indicate
whom the honor was bestowed upon.
Mr. Berkout, formerly forester in
the Dutch East Indies, recently gave
some facts not generally known con
cerning India rubber and gutta-percha,
which are often confused. The quality
of elasticity distinguishes India rub
ber from gutta-percha. The latter is
derived from one plant only, while
India rubber is produced from more
than sixty plants. Three-fourths of
.the gutta-percha of commerce comes
from Sumatra and Borneo. Of the to
tal annual production of India rubber
nearly two-thirds comes from the
Amazon valley, about one-third from
Central- Africa and one-twentieth from
Asia. The total production of gutta
percha is about one-twentieth as great
as that of India rubber.
"Very few people really understand
the care of an aquarium," says a PhlK
adelrihian who deals in fish. "The
trouble with most people who go In
for aquatic pets is that they kill them
with kindness. A constant changing
f the water is fatal. The supposition
that fish need fresh water is all wrong;
so is constant feeding with bread
crumbs and things like that. The fish
gain their sustenance from the water
in which they live. Every aquarium
requires plants, as ' they exude cari
bonic acid, which the fish require. If
you have the proper amount of plants,
regulated according to the size of the
aquarium and, the number of fish it
contains, you will have a self-sustaining
acquarium, and there will be no
necessity for you to change the water."
Science reverses the legal maxim "de
minimus" and has an eye for the
smallest things. Among such may be
reckoned the paper submitted to the
Royal Society on "the small vertical
movements of a stone laid on the
surface of the ground," by Horace
Darwin.- The investigations showed
that a stone weighing about twenty
- pounds and about a foot and a half in
diameter, which was placed on the sur
face of the ground a quarter of a cen
tury ago, gradually sank and is sink
ing. The stone sinks about the one
five hundredth of a yard in a year.
- The . movement was not altogether
regular, varying somewhat with the
varying dampness of the soil. The ef
fect of frost was to raise the stone;
It fell rapidly during a thaw a whole
-year's distance on one occasion in less
than five hours.
Down at Sparrows Pointj south of
Baltimore, completed all but a few
finishing touches, lies the great steel
floating dry dock built by the Mary
land Steel company for the United
States government, and which is to b
towed to Algiers, La., as soon as the
West India hurricane season has pass
ed. That will be about Oct. 1 and sev
eral powerful ocean-going tugs will
convey the huge dock to its destina
tion. It is certain that this immense
-piece of marine mechanism for lifting
great vessels out of water in order to
clean or repair them is without a su
perior in its line, and it Is doubtful
-whether it has an equal. It can raise
& 15,000-ton battleship and have the
floor of the dock two feet above the
water, which is demanded by the gov
ernment for Its work, but with the
floor even with the water-line it can
lift an 18,000-ton ship.
Rome enjoys the distinction of pos
sessing the first woman lawyer of
Italy since the days of Portia. She Is
Signorina Teresa Labriola. " She has
passed her examination witbr honors
and is now a full-fledged lawyer, but
bas not inscribed herself among the
advocates, as she does not desire to
champion the "new woman." but to
devote herself to the philosophy of
law. After taking her degree, she ad
dressed a commission of the University
of Rom for three hours. She now lec
ture at the university together with
Iter father and brother.
Current Topics
Is a young Artist.
I The artistic instinct made itself
known with no uncertain sound in
Miss Bowen, daughter of the Rev.
Canon and Mrs.
Charlotte E. Bow
en of Chester, for
' when quite a small
.child the little
a girl's lesson books
were so ornament
ed with sketches
of figures and views
that it became dif
ficult to know
whether- to com
mend or reprimand
these essays, which
were somewhat
outside ' the range
of ordinary schol
aristic education.
Beyond this - un
asked-for decoration . of her
school books, the child also
made attempts - at sculpture,
modeling in putty and clay, and crude
efforts at wood carving. These efforts,
immature" as they naturally were, ap
peared so surely to indicate a more
than ordinary love of art that it was
considered well to cultivate the feel
ing, and Miss Bowen was sent to the
Chester School of Art to acquire the
rudimentary principles of a knowledge
to which - she aspired. This was fol
lowed by some work at Albert Ludo-
vici's studio in the metropolis.
Ihe young artist's more important
training at this time, however, she
found to be in Rome, where she was
with the well-known . painter, F. San
toro, whose wise system it was, while
thoroughly grounding his pupils in
drawing" and painting, to endeavor at
the same time to develop in them the
individual taste and talent they pos
sessed. Anxious to fill up the whole
of her time in this valuable portion of
ner student life. Miss Bowen also at
tended the night classes for figures at
the Circolo Artistico in Rome for three
or four years.
The young woman's first exhibited
works were "My Old Nurse" and "A
View of Sorrento," which, without tell
ing any one and In some fear and
trembling at her presumption, she sent
to the exhibition of the Society of Wo
men Artists, where, to her great de
light and astonishment, they at once
round purchasers.
-An Interesting Chtirr-h
St. James' Chapel at Elberon, N. J.,
with one exception the only place of
worsnip at this famous summer resort
has a unique history and certain fea
tures of national interest. Hcta n
Grant spent a good portion of his time
during nis term as President, and here
in 1881 President Garfield was taken to
die. -
It is repeated that President Garfield
said to his wife one memorable morn
ing, as the ringing strokes from the
belfry of this chapel, almost across the
way from the cottage, reached his ears
"Crete, what are they ringing that bell
lor?" .
"That," said Mrs. Garfield, "is the
church where we went when we first
ST. JAMES CHAPEU
came down; they are all going to pray
for you to get well," and, getting on
her knees, she said, "and I Am xrnino-
to pray, too, James, that It may be
soon.
From where he lay. General Garfield
could see the carriages draw un nnri
group after group go in. He could even
near tne suDdued refrain of "Jesus,
Savior of My Soul." as it was hnrn h
on Its heavenly way. Thrilled with
emotion, a tear trickled down tho
President's face.
In the church memorial tahlota
erected to President Garfield. President
brant. Anthony J nmel th emi
nent banker and financier of. Philadel
phia, who was for many years a ves
tryman and leading supporter of the
church, and to George W. Childs, the
distinguished editor and mihiishot-
who was one of the founders of the
chapel and who for many years acted
as usher.
St. James Chapel was organized 19
years ago by summer residents of El
beron, and many of the most distin
guished bishoDS and clerzvmen f the
Protestant Episcopal church in Amer
ica have preached within its wails. It
now has a, regular pastor. Rev.. Wil
liam B. Bodine of Pniladelnhii. Ran.
vices in the church are conducted only
in summer, as during the winter Elber-
son is almost deserted.
Itartinellis Successor.
T learn upon high authority " sava
the Rome correspondent of the London
Daily Chronicle, "that Mgr. Falconio
will succeed Cardinal Martinelli as Pa
pal delegate in the United States. In
stead of Mgr. Calabrin, as previously
reported.
Mgr. Falconio, Papal delegate in
Canada, is an American citizen, having
been naturalized at Little Valley, N.
Y", and voted, for President in 1872. He
was born in l52 at Pescoaostango,
Italy.
News and views Anl$Z
- Women as ZndertaKers.
Boulder, Col., claims the distinction
of being the only town in the United
States having two women undertakers.
This grewsome profession has hither
to been shunned by the emancipated
members of the fair sex, but in that
little western city two charming, young
women, who have been prominent in
local society, are experts and rivals in
the business.
While residing with her brother's
family at Louisville, Miss M. Wendt
became the wife of F. J. Buchheit, the
undertaker of that place. . Later they
moved to Boulder and engaged in the
undertaking business. The ambitious'
young wife recently took the' state's
prescribed examination, and in due
time received from Dr. Tyler, the sec
retary of the board, her diploma. Mrs.
Buchheit is quite prominent in Boul
der society, and is an attractive wom
an. Miss Mary Melette, says a Denver
News" special, is another young Boul
der woman who has engaged in this
profession. . They represent - rival
MRS. F. J. BUCHHEIT, A WOMAN
UNDERTAKER,
houses and look after the bodies of
their sex for their respective concerns.
STn Slrtists' Wrangle.
Mr. James It'. Howe, the register in
Brooklyn, N. Y., has provoked a quar
rel among prominent artists by his
generosity. Upon his assumption of the
office two years ago he promised in
advance to . turn over a considerable
portion of the fees to public -uses. Now
that his term is about at an end he has
concluded to give the city a $5O,CO0
equestrian statue of Washington.
His conclusion has been gratifying
to the people of Brooklyn, but the art
ists concerned and many others un
concerned have been involved in &
furious discussion and quarrel. Mr.
Howe selected his own committee of
award and asked six sculptors to send
in designs. Among them are three of
the conventional equestrian sort by
Niehaus; one by Bafnard, with the
fore foot raised after the usual eques
trian fashion, and one by Shrady,
which represents Washington at Val
ley Forge. The horse has all four
feet on the ground, and the 'Father
of his country sits, back to the wind,
enveloped in a great military cloak.
This last design has been selected by
the committee of award.
The selection had hardly been an
nounced before the trouble began. The
rival sculptors declared it was a copy
of Napoleon at Austerlitz. Mr. Shrady
defends himself with the plea that
while the design may be an old con
ception of Napoleon, it is a new con
ception of Washington, which is the
truth, for there is nothing like it in
this country. He might have made his
plea still stronger by. declaring that
there is nothing original in any xt the
numerous steeds in this country with
one or both fore legs in the air bear
ing the Father of his Country. They
are all copies of predecessors. It is im
possible to make an equestrian statue
which is not a copy of some horse and
rider In Roman statuary or on Grecian
friezes. There are but a few ways In
which the sculptor can achieve his
task, " and these were exhausted long
ago. He cannot go outside these lim
its without making something unreal
or grotesque. Other things being equal,
Mr. Shrady is to be commended for
having kept clear of the conventional
horse and rider as much as possible.
even if he has borrowed a design from
some other artist. Anyway, the Brook
lynites are satisfied, and that is the
main thing.
Joseph Chamberlain.
A conspiracy to kill tho iw-rpi.r.
was told in court at London the other
day. A prisoner charred with mur
dering a money lender said he killed
the fellow because he (the money lend
er) had tried to bribe him to kill Jo
seph Chamberlain.
Imprl'-rd Water Wheel.
The pocket ot the ordinary overshot
water wheel began to discharge the
water soon after starting on the down
ward trip, which, of course, decreases
the weight of the load, with a corre
sponding decrease in power. As an Im
provement over this form of wheel,
a Pennsylvania inventor designed tie
wheel here illustrated, the object being
to utilize to the fullest extent the
BALANCED BUCKETS.
weight of the water throughout the en
tire downward trip of the buckets,
and empty them at the lowest point.
so as to offer the least possible resist
ance to the return to the point of fill
ing. To accomplish this result each
bucket Is suspended between two pivot
pins to right itself by its own weight
whether full or empty. At the lowest
point of the. revolution a tripping 'de
vice is fixed, which the buckets roll
across as they begin the upward jour
ney, thus emptying out all the water.
Owing to the pivotal support of the
bucket it remains fall until this point is
reached, and after passing the tripper
readily rights Itself again. It is be
lieved that this Invention will increase
the power obtained from the wheel
fully forty per cent.
flobuing by Electricity.
The up-to-date farmer with a large
acreage finds It slow work to plow
his fields with the old single plows of
the past, and so he utilizes the electric
current, and multiplies the number of
plowshares to suit himself. In the West
this is practically a necessity, on ac
count of the large size of the fields and
the cost of labor and teams. Our illus
tration shows a convenient form of
motor plow which has been designed
ELECTRICALLY-OPERATED PLOW.
py an Inventor of Frederichsburg, Ger
many: It consists of two electric mo
tors operating winding drums en sepa
rate carriages, which may be placed at
any required distance apart, only one
motor being connected with the ' main
feed wire. To supply power to the sec
ond motor a feed cable lying parallel
with the traction cable is readjusted
at every trip of the plow to follow the
latter down the field. The mechanism
is so adjusted that when once set in
motion the apparatus practically oper
ates itself, moving the carriages for
ward at the beginning of each trip to
bring the plowshares in position for
the next row of furrows. The plows
are attached to a two-wheeled truck,
which is pulled back and forth across
the field, moving forward at the end
of each set of furrows as long as the
power is turned on. -
"Russian Geo.
- The Russian people are fond of tea,
and efforts are being made to develop
important tea plantations in the Cau
casus. Nearly half
a century ago it
was found that the
tea plant could be
grown in gardens
on the shores of
T the Black sea, but
V . ' 1 at first it was cul
tivated only as
curiosity or for
ornament. Since
1890 plantations of
considerable extent have been formed.
and while the cultivators have not sue-,
ceeded in imitating the fine flavors of
Chinese, Ceylonese or Indian teas, yet
the demand among the peasants for
tea of some kind is so great that even
the Caucasian variety finds a market.
The Russian government is trying to
encourage the cultivation.
The other day John R. Barlow, the
famous guide to the Cave of the Winds
at Niagara, made a trip with his son
to a point behind and under the Amer
ican fall, which had not been visited
since 1867. when Barlow last made the
venturesome trip. The two also went
farther and reached a point where it is
said no human being bad been before.
Barlow says there have been consider
able changes in the rock in the last
thirty-four years.'
MINERALS IN PALESTINE.
fadus trial
Awaknlng
LIm la'Hoty
Palestine long has been considered
interesting solely as "the Holy Land,
and the only trade which has sough
to exploit, it has been that of tb
"personally conducted" tour. But this
may be changed soon, for . valuable
mineral deposits have been disco1
ered beneath the historic soil. A Get
man mining engineer in Palestine hai
written to his home: "Valuable min
eral treasures have recently been dis
covered In' Palestine, so It is . safe to
say that the industrial awakening ol
the Holy Land Is no longer a dream. II
is true that the greater, part of th
once flourishing country is a barren
desert. The lines of communication arc
miserable, and, traffic is unsafe, asid
from the one railroad from Yaia tt
Jerusalem. The newly discovered min
eral deposits lie on both sides of th
Jordan and the Dead Sea. The salt de
posits of the Dead Sea could be devel
oped into an industry. The waters hold
chlormagnesium, brommagnesium and
calisalt. Aside from this, there
the bituminous chalk springs of Neb!
Musa, which contain from 30 to 4(
per cent asphalt. The most important
of all the deposits is "phosphate. As
well known, natural caikphosphate
phosphorite and coprolite are neces
sary for the production of superphos
phates. This latter composition and
sulphur form the most important in
gredients in the preparation of arti
ficial manure. At present the phosphate
mines of Florida almost supply th
world's demand. The Immense fields o!
phosphate to the east and west of th
Jordan need only better means ol
traffic and communication in order tc
insure their development. ' This, it
would seem, is not far distant, as th
Turkish Government is planning a con
tinuation of the Yaf a Jerusalem Rail
road, and steamboats are already ply
ing the Dead Sea. New York Press.
THEIR SHOE TROUBLES.
Viennese Boo and Shoemakers Vt
American Competition. -
The question of whether or nol
American boot and shoe shops are tc
be opened in Vienna threatens to as
sume international proportions. The
Viennese boot and shot makers, bay
ing appealed to the government to
prohibit the invasion of American
competition, today received a reply to
the effect that the authorities decline
to interfere. So soon, as the decision
of the government became known rep
resentatives of the American - firm,
Messrs. Barthmann, who are waiting
in Vienna, concluded their arrange
ments for taking suitable shops, six
teen in number. Herr Bitz, president
of the Boot and Shoe Makers' League,
told a representative of the "Fremden
blatt" that the American Invasion
means utter ruin for thousands ol
Austrian shoemakers. American man
ufacturers can make Ehoes, send then:
across the Atlantic, pay duty on them
and sell them in Vienna at 4 shilling!
a pair less than the Viennese shoemak
ers can possibly supply them for. Hen
Bitza declared that if Messrs. Barth
mann opened shops in .Vienna then
would be trouble, because the Viennesi
shoemal-ers, driven to desperation, ar
fully determined to employ violenci
against the American invaders. Rep
resentatives of Messrs. Barthmann sa
that they will place themselves undei
the protection of the American lega
tion. .
Consumption In Cattle and Has.
Professor Koch recently startled th
world by announcing, at the congresi
for the study of tuberculosis, in Lon
don, that the tuberculosis of cattle ii
an entirely distinct affection from con
sumption in man, and that the mone
and labor that have been expended it
fighting the disease in cows- were wast
ed so far as the health of man is con
cerned. This is no new doctrine. It
is not the doctrine generally held bs '
physicians, many of whom regard tht
drinking of unsterilized milk from tu
berculous cows as one of the most pro
lific sources of consumption of thi
bowels and glands in young children.
It is in this country especially that th
belief in the non-communicability ol
cattle consumption to man finds its
chief adherents. ' It is based on the
facts that the inoculation of human
tubercle bacilli in cattle has failed ta
produce tuberculosis in these animals,
and that dairymen and others who
may be in close contact with diseased
cows suffer less frequently from .con
sumption than city dwellers who have
nothing to do with cattle and seldom
or never drink milk. Youth's Com
panion.
Dislike American Rule. "
A peculiar result of the American
conquest and rule in the Philippine
is the exodus of a large number of th
better class of Filipinos to Japan. It
is reported from Yokahama that th
number of these emigrants, now ex
iles, from the Philippine islands is in
creasing daily, and it Is thought thai
thousands of the educated classes in
the archipelago will permanently set
tle in the Japanese empire. Most ol
the Filipinos who have gone to Japan
have at once taken up the task oi
learning Japanese and of availing
themselves of every opportunity of In
dustrial training. -
. Weta-hc rf a IT
Careful weighing, it is said, shows
that an ordinary bee, not loaded,
weighs the five-thousandth part of a
pound, so that it takes 6,000 bees Us
make a pound. But the loaded bee,
when it comes In fresh from the field
and flowers, freighted with honey,
often weighs nearly three times more.
Aa Incomplete Hosn,
We run wild over the furnishings of
a house; its furniture, carpets, hang
ings, pictures and music, and always
forget or neglect ' the most important
requisite. Something there should be
always on the shelf to provide against
udden casualties or attacks of pain.
Such come like a thief in the night; a
iprain, strain, sudden backache, tooth
ache or neuralgic attack. There Is
nothing easier to get than a bottle of
St. Jacob's Oil. and nothing surer to
cure quickly any form of pain. The
house is incomplete without it. Com
plete it with a good supply. "
Mtcbuln In jsCldocean. '
The captain of a Norwegian tramp
trtemer recently replaced a broken
propeller in mid-ocean In a very in
genious way. He had a nine-ton extra
propeller on board, in accordance with
a recently made rule of the marine in
surance companies, and, having shifted
his cargo forward until his vessel ac
tually stood on her head In the water,
with the propeller bearings exposed.he
rigged up a timber raft and his crew
removed the new one without a great
deal of diffculty.
Tne Universe,! Intoxicant.
Hope is the universal intoxicant. A
man can' forget all the lessons of ex
perience as long as he fancies him
self able to pierce the veil of, the fu
ture and catch the glint of the silver
lining to the clouds. Savannah (Ga.)
News.
Books on tne French Revolution.
Two thousand of the 30,000 books on
the "French revolution which have been
presented to the Bibltotheque Nation
ale by the British museum, will be
kept there. The remaining 28,000 will
be sent to the Bibliotheque Sevigne.
A DISTINGUISHED MISSIONARY.
Washington, Ind., Sept. 23d. There
is at present, living at 106 East 15th
street in this city, a most remarkable
man. He is Rev. C. H. Thompson, and
he came to Washington from Little
York, Ind., a short time ago.
Rev. Mr. Thompson spent many
years of his long and useful life as a
missionary among -the Indians of the
vest.' The great txposure end the
drinking of so much bad water brought
on Diabetes, and at Wagoner, Indian
Territory, he was struck down while
preaching.
Physicians, one - of them a Chicago
specialist, pronounced his case hope
less DoJd'8 Kidney Pills were recom
mended, and as a last resort he tried'
them. He was completely cured, and
restored to good health and his case
and Its cure has caused a sensation
among the physicians.
Nature seems to take special 'delight
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The iceman looks sorry.
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not by the gallon; it's the
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that way.
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