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VOLUME IX.
SLAVES SATISFIED WITH LOT.
Under Mohammedan Matters Condi
tion Are Not Severe.
"In Zanzibar and I'emba slaves are
very slow to take advantage of the
regulations that give them the right
to claim their freedom," says a trav
eler. "They realize that so long as
they are well used their position Is
superior to that of the man whose
freedom Is his sole asset. I have
found the same attitude in North
Africa. From Morocco to Tripoli one
sees most of the slaves well content
and flourishing. Tbe famine, the
locusts, the drought and the tax col
lector have no terror for them; work
keeps them healthy, they have enough
to eat and drink and the future has no
meaning at all. There is promotion;
there are confidential missions to
governors and friends that elevate a
slave, if only in the eyes of his fel
lows, and there Is always a chance of
manumission when the owner dies
and wishes to have some good deeds
recorded in the books of Islam's re
cording angels. The sorry truth of
the matter Ik that slaves under Mo
hammedan rule are much better off
than they ever were under the rule
of white men In America and else
where." THANKS OF THE BAILIE.
Possibly More Truth In Speech Than
He Intended.
There was an excellent man who, af
ter serving his fellow citizens In Glas
gow as a councillor, at length was
promoted to the dignity of bailie, or
alderman, as the rank Is called 111
England. Though he was none the
worse on that account. It Is the simple
fact that his education had been neg
lected. This he proceeded to prove
himself happily unconscious in his
speech of thanks:
"I canna but say, my friends, that I
am proud of the honor of being made
a bailie of this great city; and I am
even, I think, entitled to the honor,
for I have gone through a" the various
stages o' degradation that a bailie has
to do to reach It!"
This recalls the famous story of the
councillor who objected to a proposal
to place a candelabra In the council
chamber on the ground that they
would need to pay some one to play
It!
Her Transformation.
She (irnnk quantitlc. of water, ate a lot
of xtarchy foods.
Abstained from exon-lslim every tiny:
She asHinillfit. il lactic utiil u cusp of limit
ed K"ods,
But It seemed Iter fate to have to fada
away.
She no mourned attenuation, with a vis
use I lie an owl's.
That a smile upon lmr face was never
seen;
While below her mouth were wrinkles,
and above her eyes were mcow-Ih,
And her nosu was like a hatchet In be
tween. But one flu y sh fell to IniiKhllifr In a
strange hysteric way.
Just in thinking how ridiculous it
provrd ;
And it mellowed to a cackle that was
Banc eiiouuh, they say.
Till at Inst Hhe singled every time she
moved.
Why. Hhe chuckled out her wrinkles, and
Hhe Niifckeicd ofT her frowns.
And then took to u II the tilings alio
shouldn't tlo;
Now she's ;i own as fat ns liutter, and
)ms outKiown all hei gowns;
But Hhe laughs away at thai disaster,
too.
Klllot Walker In the Woman's Home
Companion.
Turquoise the Stone of the East.
The best turquoises are found In the
celebrated Nishapur mines In Persia,
in which district are two whole vil
lages inhabited by turquoise miners,
who work at a depth of eighty or
ninety feet below the ground, breaking
the rock with hammers. Upon a tur
quoise being discovered, It is laid
asMo in its rough state, and after
wards extracted from its matrix by an
elaborate method. Itesides these
mines, there are others known as
khaki (earth) mines, in which the
gems are found Id loose soil, two or
three feet below the surface. No
Oriental, however poor, but manages
to become possessed of a turquoise,
even if it is only in a tin setting.
Substitute for RubDer.
A new substitute for rubber Is be
ing made iu Mexico from the guayule
plant.
A man seldom acts like a fool unless
he's the real thing.
Fancy Prices for Relict.
For a love letter written by Robert
Burns, the Scottish poet, $50 was paid
not long ago. Yet a brass collar which
was worn by Boatswain, the dbg to
whose memory Lord Byron erected a
monument at Newstead abbey, fetched
21 guineas, while the collar of Thun
derer, another of Ixird Byron's dogs,
realized 4 guineas only.
Reasoning by Logic.
Ethel, aged 6, is Just learning to
spell and is much rejoiced over her
progress. She announced with great
glee to her father, the other evening,
that she knew how to spell "in," and
proved the assertion. A few minutes
later she inquired, with a puzzled air:
'Taps, does 'in' backwards spell
out'?"
Boyish Indiscretion.
A Pittsburg boy who left home to
pose as a man was discovered wear
ing trousers much too large for him.
This was easy for the police. If he
bad been a real man. he would have
worn trousers entirely too tight for
him, such as so many fashion plates
foist on buyers. Buffalo Sxpress.
Lives of Different Meaning.
It is noble to be alive to the little
ness of earth, but it is nobler to be
come Impressed with Its greatness; to
the animal life it is only a pasture
ground; to ordinary men it is the com
monplace world; but to him who lives
above it It becomes a shlni.ig moon.
Mean Flirg at Scotchmen.
A man who says he is an English
man writes to. the Westminster
Gazettp that be has learned that In
16C7 there were only thirty-six Scots
in London, and that he now knows
the meaning of the expression, "the
good old times."
Islands Have Disappeared.
The "Royal Company's Islands,"
supposed to bo In the Pacific ocean,
have been removed from the maps of
the Hydrographic Institute of the
British Admiralty because all efforts
to find thorn have failed.
Easy.
The teacher had been talking about
a hen sitting on eggs, and, with the
Incubator iu his mind, asked if eggs
could be batched In any other way.
"Yes. put 'tin uuder a duett." was the
response.
Women Workers of London.
There are in actual practice In Lon
don five women builders, two women
architects, seven women house paint
ers and dozens of women who are em
ployed as internal house decorators.
First Artificial Teeth.
It has been found that lalso teeth
were used by the people who lived In
1000 B. C. Those tooth wore made of
Ivory and fastened to an Ivory plate by
niuans of a fine gold wire.
Austrian Old Age Pensions.
Under the Austrian poor law every
man tin ye.'rs old Is entitled to a pen
sion equal to one-third the amount, per
day which he has earned durius hla
working days.
First Pantomime.
The first regular Kngllsh pantomime
is said to have boon "Harlequin Exe
cuted," produced at the l.lr.colu's Inn
Fields theater, Pep. L'li. 1717.
Lake Disappears.
Lake Chad Is gradually drying up,
nd recent ro.-oaieho.s tend to show
that Its complete disappearance U
Only a quest inn or time.
Mich English Counties.
Lancashite, Kngland. is the next
richest county to London. It Is rated
t il'Ji (MH).iii.m, against J.oi.duu'3
43,310.0(10.
Largest Deposits of Nickel.
The lamest deposits; td nickel are on
the Island of Now Caledonia, a French
possession in the c-'unt h rod lie.
Women Carry Malls.
Mar.y of the rural letter carriers In
ie Trrl a.e iifin.ni
for It Reaches More
KANSAS CITY MO., FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 1905.
Natural Dyes In Ireland.
From mows gutbered on the moun
tain side the peasants of Ireland dye
the wool a pretty shade of brown;
they gather seaweed from the thou
sand little bays which seam the coast
ot Connemara for dyeing the wool
other soft shades; in the valleys art
found the dock and oak leaves fori
still other colors, while from the peat
bogs they squeeze a dark fluid (O
color the white wool a glossy black.
From a Novel.
In a novel recently published the)
following delightful Instance of the
easy descent from the sublime to the
ridiculous occurs, and has been gib
beted by a spiteful reviewer: "Wha,
Margaret, white to the lips with pain,
knelt in tbe woods one day, and kissel
the cross which Herr Kaufmunn hv4
erected to the sacred memory of thlr
early love, the leaves fell about ber
like telegrams from high places."
Free Food for Children.
Many thousands ot children go to
school In France every day without
having had breakfast. In Paris the
school canteens have proved a bless
ing. They buy food at wholesale rates
and are thus able to supply luncheons
of beans, vegetables and macaror.l at
three cents each for those who can
afford to pay, while the poor are fed
gratuitously.
Ticked Time Two Centuries.
The residents of Tlalpam. Mex.. com
plain that the public clock of that
town Is useless; repairs are made
every week, but every week the clock
gets out of repair and can never be
kept In good condition. The Tlalpam
clock Is probably the oldest public
clock on the American continent. It
was originally installed as a cathedral
clock in the year C.r7; in 1790 it waa
donated to the council of San Agustln
de las Clevas, near Tlalpam, when It
was Installed there and set in motion.
Since that time It has never undergone
repairs until a few weeks ago. Th
clock, however, has told the time for
24V years and it Is but natural that It
is tired and wants to be sent to a iun
seum. Why Snow Bursts a Gun.
In a discussion at the Koyal society
on the effects of sudden pressures,
In London recently of some experi
ments on the effects of sudden pres.
sures, attention was called to a singu
lar experience, which, it was said, peo
ple who go shooting in winter um
times have. If the muzzle of a gun
happens to get plugged up with a littlo
t-now, the gun Invariably bursts when
fired in that condition. Light as the
plug of snow Is, it requires a definite
time for a finite pressure, however
great, to get It under way, and dur
ing this short time the tension of the
powder gases becomes so great that
the barrel of the ordinary fowling
piece Is unable to withstand It.
A South African Hoodoo Man.
A colored man, Jaul Jones, has
been committed for trial by the Wyn
berg Magistrate on a charge of prac
tising as a doctor without a license.
Paul Pulse, a laborer, said lie went
to Hock's farm, where the accused
lived. Ho found the accused and told
him that ho was sick. Aecused took
witness Into his bedroom, took a tin,
put something Into it, ruck a match
and set fire to It. He then snapped
his fingers over it and took a bull's
eye glass and examined his chest and
body, looked over some playing cards
and told witness that there was a
frog alive In his stomach. Johan
nesburg Star.
Singed Hair of Cat and Dog,
Henry Adams a Henry county far
mer, was In thp city yesterday with a
very naked dog and a strange talo of
the odd effects of a bolt of lightning
that struck his bouse during the se
vere storm of Monday afternoon.
The lightning struck tho kitchen,
running down the pipe of the stove,
(having tho fur clean from the back of
a cat that was asleep beneath the
stove, striking the dog as lightly as It
bad struck tho cat, running down the
animal's logs to tho ground, leaving a
trail of singed fur In Its wake ami
doing no damage to either animal be
yond a severe fright. Baltimore Sun
Homes of Colored Peop.e than any othei Paper In the State.
Spaniels Always on Duty.
Spaniels are full of resource, and
their exploits in retrieving wounded
birds are wonderful. A small brown
and white spaniel broke Its foreleg,
which was set in stiff bandages hard
ened with some preparation. It could
only go on three logs, but hopped out
M'ier Its master with the other dogs
. ii n these were taken for a walk.
There had b"en a pheasant shoot, and
the little spaniel could not resist slip
ping off to smell down the side of a
small belt. It discovered a winged
cock pheasant, dashed after it on
three legs and caught and retrieved II,
hopping into the road with the big
bird In its uaouth. County Gentleman
(London).
Cultivate the Memory.
Many people complain of having a
'oor memory, and yet that faculty can
oe developed as easily as ran the
tdceps muscle. Nor is it necessary to
go to any professor of memory or to
master any elaborate system In order
to accomplish this result. One does
rot have to go to a gymnasium to
'irengthen the arm or back. Chopping
wood or rowing a boat will do it.
Similarly, memory may be cultivated
ny an effort and amid ordinary pur
rulis. First Life Insurance Policy.
The first life Insurance policy of
vhlch the details are on record re
tulted In a lawsuit: William Oybbons
,"ured himself on June 15. ITH3. for
33 against dying In twelve months;
je did die on May IS of tho next year
and tho disgusted underwriters (the
company of those days) contested
jaymont on the plea that ho had
.Ived twelve months of twenty-eight
lays each! The World's Work.
Can Live Without Spleen.
That a human being can live with
out a spleen has been thoroughly
established. At one time It was sup
posed that the spleen produced tbe
red blood corpuscles of the white ones,
or charged the one Into the other;
but since It is known that the bone
marrow has something to do with tho
production of corpuscles, and that
spleenless men run live in perfect
heulth, more operations arc being per
formed for the removal of this organ.
Experiment Worth Trying.
For good spirits, god humor, good
conduct and good living, so say cheer
ful thinkers, try tho simple expedient
of saving a little money, from week to
week. As the bunk balance grows so
will grow high ideals of business ami
social existence, to say nothing of the
moral courage that dares to think
deeply, to claim unswerving allegiance
with the cause of tho Just and right.
Stopping an Epidemic.
An epidemic In Kamhun, Japan, was
traced to a certain stream of water,
but as tho natives who drank the
water could neither see nor smell the
germs of the disease, they continued
to drink from the stream. Then the
police allowed Kerosene oil to trickle
into the water, and this evidence of
pollution proved convincing ami ended
the epidemic.
FISHING LINES FROM GRUBS.
Details In the Manufacture of Silk
worm Gut.
It has been found that silkworm gut
forms the host line for fishing pur
poses, partly on account of Its great
tenacity utid partly because it Is so
transparent. Kvcry year a sufficient
number of Spanish silkworm grubs
are selected for this purpose. After
they have eaten enough mulberry
leaves, and boloro they begin to spin,
they aro thrown into vinegar for sev
eral hours. F.aeh Insect Is killed and
the substance which the grub In the
natural cotirso would have spun into
a cocoon is forcibly drawn from the
dead worm Into a much thicker Hud
shorter silken thread. The threads are
then placed in pure water for about
four hours and afterward dipped for
ten minutes in a solution of soft soap.
The fine outer skin is thus loosened,
to that the workman can remove it
with his hands. The threads must ho.
dried in a shady place, 2nd are often
bleached with sulphur vapor until
they acquiru the bright appearance of
tpun glass.
Gallantry to Burn.
It always makes us mad to see
statements that the 'old fashioned
women" were better cooks or house
keepers than the women of the pres
ent day. The woman of the present
day Is good enough for ns. or for any
body. There are a few shiftless wo
men, but the great majority of them
are admirable. Opclika News.
Human Perversity.
In one of the old English comedies
an undertaker reproves one of his
mourners for laughing at a funeral,
and says to him: "You bad fellow,
you! I have been raising your wages
these two years, upon condition that
you should appear more sorrow ful and
the higher wages you receive the hap
pier you look!"
Use of Asbestos Increasing.
The use of asbestos by electricians
Is daily increasing, for it meets the
most exacting requirements for pur
Hses of Insulation. Its latest applica
tion is to tho "eleclrotherni," the now
device which is already taking the
place of hot -water bottles in hospitals
and Blckrooms.
Children Sodden With Liquor.
Tht1 cantonal school board of Tlcino,
in Switzerland, complains iu n circu
lar to parents that owing to children
being allowed at home to partake too
freely of the strong native liquor, hoys
and girls often go to school In a hope
lessly intoxicated condition.
Mouse Made Nest of Currency.
John Sliaulcy of Milford, Conn., put
a $5 bill in a pocket of one of bis
coats, to find that some small mouse
had a nest In the pocket ami hnd
chewed up t'i of his hard earned
money to make a nice soft bed for it
Self. First Use of Piano.
There are 10, "no pieces of wood,
cloth, ami foil, and l.ls.'i feet of wire
In a concert grand piano. Tho earliest
recorded ..ihlle performance 011 the
pianoforte took place at Covont (Jar
den, England, on May Hitli. I TUT.
Made III by Unfiltered Water.
After a club dinner at a hotel in
Stockholm, says the Frankfurter Zel
tung, several hundred persons fell ill
of typhoid, duo to untutored river wat
er being used for washing the vegeta
bles. Canada an Anglers' Paradise.
Canada Is the paradise of the angler.
Within easy range of Quebec ale hun
dreds of lakes, sometimes, miles In ex
tent, which swarm with tisb. and near
ly all of which are free to all comers.
Bless Their Heartsl
The women who love you In tbe
right way may not remember If you
like poetry, but they always put. up
some of your kind of jam and pickles.
Alt bison (ilobe.
Cut Off Brandy Supply.
Thn French government has abol
ished tho cant iiileros, w ho were a feat
ure of every regiment. They wore
women who supplied tho soldioib wilb
brandy.
Stops Coffin Salesmen.
The Liverpool police have stopped
tho practice - common there ot can
.1 im., ',,r iH. s:,,, ,,, colliiM 11'
hollies where a death I, a-, taken place.
Cookery for Danes.
A course of cooking lessons for men
on I has been luiin 111 ( open liagcti
under tho ,iu: -pict a o an mill. lit ..il
committee
Youths on Coroners' Junes.
An Knglish coroner oim out the
111 t lo know 11 lael thai ail Jcison, over
12 yi-ara of ae cm l raie l uj.jii a-,
jilluis.
Emery Producers.
fSrcoce and the Ionian Minds pro
iluco more emery th in ,ny o;i;r coun
try uil the gl he
First Newspaper Ad.
Tim fir.! nowspaj advertisement
poured !n 10'.;.
NUMBER :.
GRAND OPEARA AT CONVENTION
HALL.
The musical public throughout tbe
entire Southwest Is on the very "tip
too" of pleasurable cx taney as tho
time draws near when Mr. llcurich
Conned and his incomparable aggre
gations, direct from the Metropolitan
Opera House, Now York will appear
for the first time In the West in a
season of grand opera iu Convention
Hall. Kansas City. At five o'clock on
the afternoon of Friday, March ;lst,
the curtain will raise on Mr. Conricd's
production of "Parsifal," which Is ad
mittedly mure magnificent in every
particular than the performance of
Wagner's masterpiece given at Hay
rout h.
(in Salptilay afternoon. April 1st,
"I.OS llugeliots" will bo given With il
caste that is simply invincible, its It
includes such world famed names as
Nordica, Setnliricb. Homer. lippel,
Seoul, Van Kooy, Joiiruct, etc. Tho
production in Kansas City will be the
same iu every particular together with
the Identical caste, superb orchestra,
w ith tho world of supei nutnei leu
which goes to form an ensemble which
has produced opera that has scored
not h inn less than triumph this season
in Now York.
Tho Kansas Clly season of grand
opera will close with a fining clinnu,
us n grand douMo bill Iiiim been select
ed of two operas which represent the
".realest achievements of the modern
Italian composers. Tho first of these
will be Miiseagnls' "Cavallerlii Itufctl
eana," that little chef d'ouvro of pas
sion ninl solo;, which is the best work
of Mascngnl, ami who has succeeded
in packing Into bis musical sotting,
tho tragic love story first told by the
Italian writer Yerga. In this work,
tin' West for the first time will have an
opportunity of hearing Mine, fie
Mai ( III. the most wonderful dramatic
soprano Italy bus produced in years.
The second opera will ho tho equal
ly fatuous short opera of Leoncavallo,
which rivals In Its charm, power and
pathos. Ilofh works will give mat vol
Ions expression In the violence and
emotion of Italy. Iu "I'agliacci"
Caruso, the world famous tenor will
appear iu one of his greatest roles.
Tho approaching season of grand op
era In Kansas Cit y w ill In' Caruso s
first appearance in the West, and at
this time, the West will have an op
portunity of passing Judgment upon
thin man, who today H the frenzied
idol of the Metropolitan (Ipila House
audienc e, iu New York.
LENDING TO THE LORD.
Tho itev. (ieorge ( iili'illati, the emin
ent ilUine, was distinguished for bis
gorcroslty and largeness of heart. (Mi
one occasion bo met a member of bis
church whom ho bad not seen at wor
ship for a hum- time, lieinindtug him
of tlii- fait, the minister asked what
was wrong.
"I dlil not like to come in a cottl I
11 111 ashamed of it is so bare," an
swered tbe man .
Tho minister Instantly divested
himself of his own coat, and handed
it lo his distressed parishioner.
"There, my man. lot 1110 see my coat
every Sunday until it becomes bare,
ami then call buck."
The worthy divine then returned to
his studies in bis shirt sleeves; and
his w ife observing him. asked what ho
had done with bis coat.
"I have Just lent it to the Lord!"
was Cilfillau's noble answer.
WHKN John Philip Sotisa returns
to this country from his present. Ku
1 open n tour, it is said he will bring
with him tne completed score of a
comic opera, the book of which is
being written by Harry li. Smith, and
which the bandmaster will product
early next season.