Show BYZANTINE WALLS OF CONSTANTINOPLE irst State BANK of Salina: OFFICERS A J Lewis President Alma V Huish Cashier DIRECTORS W n Brown E Christensen and Chas Lammersdorf Chris Jorgensen James A Ross DOOMED - Dr M P Aes’t A C Cashier Freeoe Boorup Drafts drawii on all the principal cities of tlie United States and Europe Banking in all its various forms Accounts Respectfully Solicited Four per cent interest paid on time deposits MEATS and GROCERIES for the nm1 miwraEl7thillg Fresh laMe geo wlono prop for A storm of protest has arisen against the plan to Byzantine walls of this city but as the new sultan already has issued an irado sanctioning the demolition of a part at least of the historic structure it seems certain that the greater part of the This action denounced by its opponents as vanwalls will be destroyed dalism is the result of the efforts of the Young Turks now in power to modernize and extend the city The municipality recently contracted a loan ot $5000000 to carry out that project The Byzantine walls were built during the reign of Theodosius II emperor of the east who succeeded Theodosius the Great in 408 and died in 430 For many years they withstood the furious sieges of Goths Persians Bulgarians and others and it was by earthquake only that they were shaken until Mahomet the Conqueror broke through them in 1433 The marble tower at the Sea of Marmora marks the beginning of the land walls of Theodosius and the end of the sen walls erected It Is believed that it was the prison of St Dio by Constantine the Great med and in this tower Pope Martin I was placed in 634 and in it Maria Comnena mother of Alexius II was imprisoned by Andronlcus Comnenuat and Fine all occasions CONSTANTINOPLE— The White Front Market SCENIC LINE OP THE WORLD ' Fast Flyers Three Daily - BETWEEN OgdenChoice Routes of Denver For Folders Booklets Trains Leave Salina E- - - Through Excels and Denver Pullman aud Tourist Sleepers to address I A BENTON Gen Agt Salt Lake City Utah North bound 10:50 a m In South bound Pass Dep 2:21 p m Local Agent M Peyton LUMBER CO Everything In Lumber - - Johnson-Arneso- n - - - -- We sell Jumbo Plaster and Portland Cement Doors Windows Phone 16black Mouldings Horner Rasmussens Call THE CAFFETERRA For Choice Confectioneries Fresh Fruits Ice Cream Tobacco Cigars Stationery Restaurant Old Post Office All Hours Bakery Bldg (§ M&JM Leather Goods Harness Shop and Shoe as Handler and Shrewd Trader Louis and Chicago St Etc Sudden tapping on the various parts ly h?s fingers felt something and his ears told him by that h had the part that was defective Five minutes later the engine was operate ing the threshing machine and Step) en was carrying away grain bags again BLIND FARMER WINS Store Harness Saddles Horse Blankets Tents and Wagon Covers and a full line of Men’s and Boys’ Dress and Work Shoes We want your trade Our goods are the best and our price the lowest Drop in and look over our line and be convinced of Horses Spite of Total Loss of Sight Is Able to Do as Many Things Average Man and Do Them Well He as Denver Col — Stephen Mellinger is a young farmer who lives near this town and who sees things by a new light More people stop and talk with him than with any other person who comes to town He Is 23 years old and is totally blind yet he sees or at least his other senses have been so strengthened that he gets along about as well as do men with full vision Mellinger lost his sight when he was three years old while playing with a hatchet which rebounded the edge cutting into one' of his eyes The sight was soon gone in this eye and after a year of suffering the other eye was so affected that Its vision vanished also Stricken thus in childhood the little boy hardly realized what it was to be blind and he says he does not mind the loss of his sight at all By years of practice” he says “I have adjusted my life to blindness I am doing about everything my brother and sister can do My neighbors can tell you how well I do it too "Yes I walk to Denver half a mile distant practically every day I go on the half the distance railroad tracks tells me Just My hearing where I am Every step I take has a different sound to me When I tread upon this tie I know how far away from home I am When I get to the place where I turn upon the public road leading to the center of the town somehow — I can’t explain Just how and why — but I am able to tell by the sound my shoes make that I have to stop and turn in another direction “When I get to town I can tell where the stores are who are the owners and what Is sold there My sense of smell tells me at once when I get in front of the hotel or when I enter a cigar store or the corner grocery My brother is a butcher and occasionally I help him in much of the work and the surroundings are bo impressed on my mind that you can’t fool me when I get in front of a butcher shop no matter where it is” “There Suddenly Mellinger said: comes one of our horses around the corner and he is hitched to our Ice wagon’’ “How do you know that Stephen?” asks a man who was watching him closely ’Why I can tell the horse’s footsteps as well as you can some people’s I have five horses on my farm and I can tell you which when I hear them walk or trot" ’Do you drive too?" 'Sure Ask the landlord here He will tell you that I come to t6wn drive every day and on Saturdays over every bit of street there is In town and 1 can tell you every street corner and doorstep for sell ice cream to most all of the residents People can’t understand how I get along but somehow if my feet could talk and my ears explain and my nose corroborate I might be able to tell you in exact words how I distinguish between John’s and Samuel’s horses on the other side of the street’ Mr Mellinger Is probably the most wonderful farmer in the state ' He takes care of a large herd of oxen he every winter which he fattens milks six or eight cows grooms five horses keeps their stables in tiptop shape greases the harness and does a hundred other odd things about the barn As a machinist his neighbors with all their good sight can hardly excel the blind man He has a large gasoline engine and steam threshing machine on his farm and when he and his father go to a neighbor's farm to thresh grain Stephen either handles the sheaves putting them upon the platform ready for the feeder or attends to the grain bags On one occasion some accident happened and the engine would not work The father looked at every valve and Then they bolt but it was no use called Stephen He crawled under the engine and with his fingers began to feel and with a hammer he kept on Moses BID ON SHADOWS GET GIRL Nice Lunch "Thrown In" at Unique New Jersey Church Entertainment —Much Cash Netted New Egypt N J — How would yon like to bid on a shadow and get a girl with a delicious lunch “thrown in?" That is what happened at a unique In the entertainment Presbyterian church the other night and not a single complaint has been heard of of the bidders falling to get their any money’s worth either In girl or lunch The entertainment was arranged by the church and School Improvement association and announcement of its features had aroused keen interest and a lot of guessing At the church the shadows of the girls were thrown upon a screen and the fellow who bid the highest got the girl for the rest of the evening Of course there were some bidders who fancied that they were fully aware of what they were bidding on since they had evidently become familiar with certain shadows In dimly-lparlors but there were some lively surprises for all that and the fun was at high tension A large sum was netted for the church and the Improvement association First Great Editor - Says the woman In black who sat by tl ‘ roadside “The best reporter with whose woi I am acquainted was Luke His stoi has the characteristics of the best r Kansas City Mo — Addressing the porting — clearness vividness truthfi Ministers’ alliance of Kansas City on ness facts In due proportion hums the “Faith of a Journalist’’ JValter Williams dean of the School of Jour- interest His Christmas story hi Just now been read the w’orld aroun nalism at Missouri university spoke “The w'hole Bible Is Indeed a modi of the similarity of the Bible to the of good Journalism It interprets ti modern newspapers facts of everyday life How full It “The best Journalist with whose of the details of biography the pe 1 Wilam acquainted" said Mr work sonal gossip If you I confes He was the first to a fascination for please liams “was Moses the details of b great editor You plead for the pub- ography the news about people” lication of the good only and the beautiful In your favorite dally Journal It Crazed by Counting Seattle Wash— Thomas Swartz wa was an earlier people not a wiser one who cried ‘prophesy unto us smooth taken to the Insane asylum at Steili coom the other day his mind wrecke things’ “In a single slight book of the five In attempting to count 1000000 ke which Moses edited a book the con- nels of wheat In ten days Swartz wa tents of which would not occupy a ered with friends he could accomplis half page in He pr newspaper Moses the feat in the given time the first great editor gave more cured several bushels of wheat an criminal news and that more graphiccommenced to count Sunday mornlnt newspapers would The first day he counted approximate ally than dare report— the disobedience of ly 100000 kernels but fearing he hai Adam the drunkenness of Noah the made a serious mistake he countei falsehoods of Abraham the Iniquity them all over again of the whole city of Sodom the vileBefore Monday evening the mai ness of Schechem the son of Hamori was a victim of insomnia and now hi the wickedness of Judah with Tamar Is crazy Dean of That Missouri Biblical for News University Scribe Went of Crime In |