The Clark County Republican from Ashland, Kansas • Page 3

Albums shaving sets, A full line of Pyrography Goods. Fullei Ashland Kans i SETTING XMASSS Coming Li And we have just what you want. You had better come in and enspect our line, fo men hats, buy one for your husband or sweet heart it wont make him mad. Try pair of our famous Hamilton Brown shies, fir men, Wjmcn ami Urns, thev are it. We i thosu li.i.Ma iev hand i tinted china lolt.

raiiprnsr mm 0 rents un. i We will give you a few department i- prices in our sliced peach 25c can honey 25c Dry 2 lb 25c. prunes lb per can fruit 10c for 25c. Apple hutter peaeh butter strawbe rry jam ra sherry jam Currants and taisens 3 12 ounce packages 25 cents, 3 lb can c.f Tomatoes 10 cent. Gallon can of pie peaches hi cents.

Ilea ns per Lemon din fancy can 10 2 lb for 2" peaches p.rr or Schooi teachers will rind it to their advantage their Xmas candies and nuts of us. Ashland Molvneux. Xmas to one and all, Poineer Store. I Li I ft 11 grocery to buy Kans. CLARK COUNTY REPUBLICAN 3ub riotion 1.0O.i.Ad..o.

iply 0o per Adv.rtl.ln. loc Is u. Kntrreil as seconil-class matter May 6 lUOft. ht Ashl.unl, nn.ler the Art of March 1x71) AI.U-N J. NIl'I'ICR, Are you attending the giear meet-mirs at tU IVthoili chwcu, if are ml you hail letter atatl in to niht for they will jo gr oil n-here tl-tu.

Clms Kckley. an -ohl nnil i-ii'7-n of Miwieolianil turr well known in Aslilaml, Sunday iiioiuiiiR. In-teriianil made at Minneolu Pariihai urr net liriwnutlr. nn' iiiin-lt tltn piistt-n ti Hepikes ami to' one friMid'trtn holiiUvt'lliM' Hfir'i pur all ite ye.T ronml 1, Sn 'ost const. leaa'o.

"prices for all purses" itt the mite more tlini one shop limp mn 4 1 a spei ia'tv holi.ltty fifN, A we" "I'lifl 'prayerful hinrere serin- 'lp noiueHotly that there, i-t not a iloarlf Sime reKtt.nf il i mitnl amf Hi iintler ami" other may feel in (-eneml sent thnr an angle Ijut some silent thinker ia sure ,50, away sayitiK to himselS surely that voice was fnr my alone Vlie witd was not voiil ami like water spilled upon the gronnu''. A nwraifnl man is mersilul to his lieast we likre our farmers when iliey drive intotown on a culd stormy day put hi team in a barm cr cover them with blankets hi rtie heat' ol summer 'they can alwav fin ilshaile in hich to tlc.ivew'.te noltle animals wllleli brought saftly to ttm'ii. Tttere tiif many, however, ulio on cold its will for a stove theinseliM I Jiinl leave ilieir horse in the storm 1 while he heat of the- nun iter they week the shade and'le ive tl eir ii irses ii the sun 1 There ls-so-Tii1iiug winny 1 Inut the man who thns abuses his teaui He ui.iy rf a nice nurti, may I not swear, Mm k' "UK 10 the ci.uich 1 hsveany bid! habits, but we would winMuhe I borse No sir hi of i I shaped footmarks In the auaw, which showed where as many deer had just crossed a little plain ahead of u. They were walking leisurely, and from the lay of the land we believed that we Bhould And them over the ridge, where there wa a brush coulee. itldlng to one aide of the trail, topped the little ridge Just a the sua flamed up, a burning ball of crimson, beyond the snowy waste at our back.

Almost Immediately afterward my companlou leaped from his hor. and 35 Turning to Go Into -oj Houa. r-lsel hi rifle, and as he pulled thft-trigger I saw through the twig of A brush patch tn (fur left the erect, atart'eri hertd of a yfuinu hlack-talleij-dee as it" I t. tied to look at hef great mnl'llke er forward. 1 Be ball broke tier n't and she turned a c'oiiiileie sotntirsnult down hill, while suddeh smashing of un.

derhrush twl of tlto uf hr tap rifled We both la Mfc'bed and called "dinner" a we sprang down towar hwr, and In .1 few mhiufi's she watf drit and fuftig up the hind leg? oa a small ash tree. The entrails and viscera threw off to tine side, nfftjr cjirefnll'j peis(Aiin; tftem front, a little -fiott'l fif sifyi hnlire which I had fn my pocket. efery caf tlemaa carries jifiisrvn atii neglects nit chance of leattug out wolf halt, lb tols hi sourres Of serious loss ti'i Me unfch''V'd aAd tinhouseil flocks1 and I this instance tre felt parlicutarl.t re-tengclul ftecause lei wa ivf it IciV eliirs situ had loet a flit ycnrlfn eifer. The tracks on ih ftillslde where 1hv carcats lav whin fiuiT.11 ii' 1C1I1I the iorjF plainly. The tt'ili's, tito in nuinher, had crpC close licfru-e being dls covered, and' bad then, faced tlott tar" the HslAitnrU'd h'-lfcr befoty sh could fairly slalicil.

tine1 brine had IkiiukI ru 11 (T hf tviih a vitap' of his 'Mne-liko jaws, atitl itnCe down, she arts tArn (Sifii Ifl a twinkling. sooner was the sun up than a- warm a est iW began 1.1 blow In out faces, 't'tif naif auddeuLr changed, and1 ithin an rKjur the snow was beginning thii'w arid to leave pmdres (vf bail ground oil tb. hill-" jsidVs. h'Ti' 4ur cbaVs with our htft'se and stritck olt on fnet for a 'grolbd of high Diit'te cut up by th ceJ'nT canyon and itiM-gea, in which-. w.

knew the old- bucks loved to lie. It wa noon before we saw anything more, Ve lunched ttt' a cleat (pring nnt needing much lime, for all had to do was tiV drihK a draught of Icy Hter and' inuii'i'ir a atrip of dried -venison. Shortly afterward, a were miit lug alou a llillsld with l- lent raiiliou. we to a heer tan-yon of which the dppdslte face war by llftle ledge grown1 up wltjt1 lnbeaten ceifhrs. As we peepe4 over trie edge, in companion toucbea my alid and1 pdlnted silently to on.

of tile ledges, and Instantly I ranch ih. glint of a DuiVs horn's. as he lay half behind an old tree trunk. A -light shift Of posit lori gaT. in.

a fuir shot Nlautlng down between hi shoulders, inj though he struggled tt' his feet he" did nit go" OH yard after ret'eltin tlte bullet. This ta all wc could' tarry. Leading the hmses around' wo tucked Ih. buck behind my companion'- saddle, and I lien rode back for the doe, hich I (flit behind mine. Hut we were not destined lo home wltjjwttt a sllitht adveniur.

When we got t' the rlvr we nod biddlv1 Jn Ih. Ic, h. i'dle. of ttie tkaw; and about midway there wa a sudden, ttvtriefidou'' cnuh und tueit. horses and tl i 1 Atiibling toit'i'iher 1n tho water amid slab oT However, It hhallow w'td woiae results fllow4 than sciv afaid work and chilly bath, ilut'wbat' cavrtl tve? We wei.

returning fi 'iuniiAar, with ur I brlst' ma-dnnen lit NK DKCEMHER, while I mi out on my ranch, so uiiuh work bad to be done that It wag within a week of Christina before we were able to take any thought for the Chrlatuiaa dinner. The winter let In lat. tbat year, and there had been comparatively little cold weather, but one day the Ice on the river had been atifnYiently sti-ong to enable ux to haul uy a wagonload of flour, with enough alt pork to last through the winter, and a very few tins of canned goods, to be used at special feast. We had some biiBhela potatoes, the heroic victors of a struggle for existence In which the rest of our garden vegetables had succumbed to drought, frost and 1 ass-hoppers: and we also had some wild plums and dried elk venison Hut we had no fresh meat, and so one day my foreman and I agreed to make a hunt on the morrow. Accordingly one of the cowboys rode out in the frosty afternoon to fetch in the saddleband front the plateau three miles off, where tny we're grazing.

It was after sunset when be return et. It was necessary to get fo the hunting ground by sunrise, and It still llacked couple of hours of dawn when the foreman wakened me as lay laaleep beneath the buffalo robes. Dressing hurriedly and breakfasting on a cup of coffee and some mouth-fula of bread and Jerked elk meat. We altpped out to the barn, threw the saddles on the horses, and were off. The air was bitterly chttl; fhe cold fead been severe for two day, so that the river would again bear horse.

Heneath the light covering of powdery snow w. could feel trie rough grouud like wriakled Iron under the horses' hotii's. There wiis no moon, but the star shone beautifully down through the cold, clear air. and rmr willing horses Bit Hop. if mvlfllv ariose the limp bottom on which the ranch house mood, threading their way tlelf-ly among the clumps of aagebnisti.

A mil. efT we crossed fhe river, the Ice tracking with noises like pistol shot a our hrsws pieker) tht-tr way Itlngerlf over It. Or the opposite Kide was rien'ne- jungle of nuli'-i'ierry bushes, and breaking irirvugh this we foumf ourselve yalinpiug up a long, winding valley, wbivfc le4 many mil into the hill. The crannies and Ifttle Bide ravines were fillet! with bruphwoatl antt groves of stunted ash. By this time there was a taint flush of (tia? -H the earn, ami ns rode silently along' we could make cut dlnil? the track mAile by the ild Hiihmtla they had passe! repassed In trie snow.

Several finies dlsnj wiflted eami them. A 4'-i lpar Dnmaiiit4-1 ErtntlnThirl! ciaile of cttydles, possibly frightened kit our approacll; had tvoi'ed and ltiped up Ibe valley ahead of us, leaving a Halt llki that of two do; the s'haiper, iuor fo.ttpilnl df a foi. crostted dtir untf1 ituiaid1 dtie mli tl of llriialtwottd' a- serli-. uf round lipprlntii itl the un (V belra.ed wheiv a' bod-cat a idalnsmrfn term ike suial! lynx- -had been lluk.hg around to ti Id pit uff a liilihit or a prairie fi. 1.

As the ilutvii redtleiied; anil it be-Mine light enoviaU to see oh.rcf's ltiii-i little way itffl began to alt ernct' III our sad. lies ttt ai au the hill Hiti's fharply fdr atfcl.t at leeiling iieei. Hitherto Kltd Reen.no dei ttnkH nwe lusidh Kui-lfes by' ihe rlyVr, and knew thai the deer tB.it lived In. that liupmiel table jun-m1 eii t-u4initia; -wiiiJi'lailR iw win a place, tioald- be hunted irnlv bi- aid of a houtul. Hut ttjist bi'fnro sim- 4.w- ra-nie- thiv.i line of heart Ahrrv Xmas ii wit' hw a- lit in is linpj.y art in ih" wimltiws' ln v-, iIip chiMrpii are wish ii; hrtt I S.itt t.t i i.t hi i it i.Sh y.

i The oMer o-wiili iiiv wify UiM till tit wuuiiin whai ill Christinas I'tny, yuun- II w.hr( rilH! wU.it hf- i'H. ufl'JTil ti Thtitt. i nnr- pirttn i. Ti isn't iuvhv x-mi run aiinr lo pn I lit rpsv hnriy i tf" jnHtv irV tv iv -oily's frnir stor that mw nt il tv I k- mi 1 Hick Tl'-rrt vou'l1 i 1 Hiitl clM-istnm ftli .1 iln-x 1,1 )px Lo Iivp vim. Mr -I ite nrrivtc? Thtirs.

ft "in pemi it tr holivhbt' wirti i-it Deat! the ti H. Iwinse that Iheir was N. The Currier Barn CASTE.HL Mo DANIEL Livery and Feed Ham Special Attention To a etion Yoi-r Pjtrenaga I my, Vr 4 CS 0" IC Or, 3:. l3 IJ. a OJ A a -1 I PI A lit m.iMTllif fur KepuMiLMM Merry i l- Ml f.ir i ll I a iV f.

l' lalt-lli til) Moll.li HuUHas in Wichita, 1'rblat Cl of iifar JlnSilo-. was it ibis Tnpsiln. C.ju.) -n utiles fl.la Jcr lm Ciiy Ma: Market. Sam l'i of Env'wnot in this city, last iUlny. M'lwy of M'irry Okl wis ire Hii-' citv on liusiiirtq Kriflay.

1 r. I). HoslfPi is ntw (nbnril)ei (. i hi- Rupiililican. Thank Ir.

O. neRr Willnul was Ww.rt llw, litst oi thf wwk. Trrt'll mul H.ibti had st.itinnt-ry -rt nl this weeV. pt.n- 'IlitMi lines at the tup ni the itiiK to tli Diul'r Hi L'lillrr. rrail theui.

Have voii pitxthe North l'oh. in the iulw hi Tyrsrll iwtilt O. U. w. n.

wncHtr tlie (Xiver Tiairitrr (was in this city the fiisl pai o( the e. Wc w.il.aue plenty lo. jui.1 forXinaCJy Ifa.t We wiU iave lrnt ot KV-sIk Oysten unil Crlery fur Xmas. il ih City Meal Market. V'e wiil have all kiiula of Troiluce there is on the Wichil Mnaket dr "mn City Men! Market.

I)o''( for trt to read all of ilu. .,1. fo, I tkry, will help wan br mas. kftlet't wliat yiui Aihnbdo you want for Christ-iiao, you had Iwtje send one of your. Iri'-vuN the Rtyutilirvi for a year, B.

Uufk amUUinily Vi.iut Ir'. We under stand Uial lie is go-inutnpiiLin a jili oflice soon, at that tin account of ius 4iinp "Cinas eiUlion wc haw mil ty-en able to get very luati Ioca'Jh, lieUonr pajur will k. Qur ol friend- Idvid Oear'url iinil. little son were T.usacting iiusiuess iiutl.u -atnnly Tlaty re- turuey hoaie the amt- la'J. your lay Dec, C'tth torilresse.J t'jr ijiia, Citv.

meat M.skett Some Tieopl-ktliiiilt ir tlie Clip per bu tut isa 'jike, tu Ihotiiltle we are killing luine iurt.en ukIi.ui nrrasj- its 011 killLt, you ihiii your from the waon tl iV! 1 the city Meat Market for.mntl.. dead man l'a. i-" hesiVV the Ijfroail' Monday ewnin. Dr. Taylnj the coponeritnmeiirat-Had a jury smnmjoml the i.u in were- J1-.

W. V. C. Wallitujford, an A))leher-j und Gee- Grjints deputy -h 11 Ma.s(, AtK)r-ij de.r.l man name i.s L. lu- was it.

as' vaUin: buside the watrn th'ilines nv-J hi di.l-rs and iji scmif st in hied and. fe 1 eranqjid Ijlthe w.jf u) fiioui; t'i upset it upon him. lie wa un-j mairred and leaven a brother md Hist er to mourn. Ins" 1st.