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The Plainville Times from Plainville, Kansas • 3

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MAKING SILK THREAD. A TTclht of StiMIine Metaphor. Ifian Frm'ilHeo Ohro llcte "TJnle-tonof." The judge, the senator and tho lawyer WINDING THE COCOON THREAD3 ON THE BOBBIN. were ail ttiat were left l.i tho acute cum. They sat iu a comfortable corner, in comfortable easy elm rs.

The rising attorney, who carried an injunction for a week ou Receiving Strength nt Tighter TwUt wind mainly, entered smiling. "Wbats this? a hegira?" "A said the judge. "A hegira 44 You should say a kyhega. "What is a kyhci'a?" I'roffreu la Hade from Machine to Machine Jn the Dre-Hou On the Spool, The udge raised pitying glance at the, fSon FrancHco young in unctor, and. waving his hand The process of making silk thread is exceedingly Interesting.

Tlio work room toward ihu senator, sal: "renator, tell him the clmstnut. "It wa iu fcttcraiiieuto, said tho sena-tor, with alacrity, "in the early days. at the factory is about twice as long as it is wide, and it is full of buzzing and whirring machines. On one siilo beautl lou remember George CadwaliudiTf of THIS SPACE BELONGS TO ful masses of raw silk are seen piled un course you do. ou rcmcmier his onor on a low counter; in a corner hundreds of mous frame uud his enormous voice.

A boxes of the spooled thread, as varied iu well proportioned mau was Cudwul ader. had a Fourth of dinner and i ad- color as Joseph's coat, are ranged in or waliuder was asked to preside. The bun ttttttt Hi derly fashion on narrow shelves. The raw nilk arrives in bales of from 100 to ot the patriotic bi.rrel started suddenly. very suddenly, cud before anybody knew 140 pounds each, and worth from $400 to $700, according to its quality.

I aoli tale consists of bundles called "books, particularly, a teiiow was spread eagieing nil over tho room. The eu AYER'S PILLS. A largo proportion of the diseases which Cause human suffering result from dorange ment of the stomach, bowels, and liver. Aykb's Cathartic Pills aot directly upon these organs, ami are especially designed to cure the diseases caused by their derangement, Including Constipation, Iudlicei tlon, Dyspepsia, Ueudaehe, Dysentery, and a host of other atlmeuts, for all of. which they are a safe, sure, prompt, and pleasant remedy.

Tho extoustve use of lueae flLL8 by eminent physicians iu regular practice, shows unmistakably tho estimation in which they are hold by the medical profession. These Pills are compounded of vegetable substances only, and are absolutely free from calomel or aDy other injurious Ingredient. A Sufferer from Headache writes I "Ayek's Pills are invalaablo to me, and are my constant companion. I have been a severe sutleier from Headache, and your Pills are the only thing 1 could look to for relief. One dose will quickly move my bowels and free my head from pain.

They are the most effective and the easiest physio 1 have ever found. It Is a pleasure to me to (peak iu their praise, and 1 always do so when occasion otters. V. L. Page, of W.

L. Page Bro." Franklin Kichmoud.Va., June 3, 1882. "I have used AVer's Pills In nnmber. less instances as recommended by you, and have never known them to fail to accomplish the desired result. We constantly keep them on hand at our homo, and prize them as a pleasant, safe, and reliable family medicine, 1UK DYSPEPSIA they are iuvaluuble.

J. X. Hayes." Mexta, Tejas, June 17, 1882. The Rev. Francis B.

ITahlowb, writing from Atlanta, says: "For some years past I have been subject to constipation, from which, iu spite of the use of medicines of various kinds, I Buttered increasing inconvenience, until some months ago I began taking Ayek's Pills. They nave entirely corrected the costive habit, and bave vastly improved my general health." Ater's Cathartic Pills correct irregularities of the bowels, stimulate the appetite and digestion, and by their prompt and thorough action give tone and vigor to the whole physical economy. PREPARED BY Dr. J.C.Ayer&Co., Lowell, Mass, Sold by all Druggists. and they in turn constats of skeins.

thus asm grew. As soon as one fellow KAN gt through another fellow would start. STOCKTON, Thcro are two hundred or more skeins in a bale, and every one contains about 1000 of eocmn thread. and everybody took a Land except the preside it, Cadwallarler. Nobody had asked him and he had not had a chance 10 inc raw biik una nuie gloss, out is a sort of dull white.

It is first soaked in a ask anybody. At length t'adwallader who had been consoling itiiiiso very lavishly with the bottle, began to ihiru preparation of water and a special kind of soap. About a per cent of the animal gum is thus removed It is then put in he ought to he allowed to say somethm press and the liquid is squeezed out of it. liul he could uot get a chance. There After that it is wound for the first time were several speaking at nue when sud on a bobbin, the cocoon threads being denly the huge form rose from the chair at the head of the table.

adwalladcr general i run quintuple, mo macmne, 1 jiowever, can manage them if octuple. The thread is now well started upon its journey toward perfection, it passei from bobbin to bobbin and from machino to machine, in each receiving more strength and a tighter twist. A technical description of the details of the. process drew himself first to his full height, then he mounted a chair, thence he mounted the dinner table. ITc strode with four enormous strides cle.ir along the table, crushing everything dishes and fruit and wine and glasses in his way.

und even tho din seemed silence us his tremendous voice, rising to a height of sublime metaphor, thunder out: 'I am the great kyhega of the universe, and I step from to star." A o.itti-r ill Litke. ITiu ivpuhi" a Upon the rocky fastnesses of the Sierra. wouia nil a great ueal oi space. AND CtlLUIttNO. ine sizes or tno completed threads are finally classified by means of a weighing machine, which indicates the roost deli cate diiTercnces not distinguished by the eye.

The threads consist of from 45 to 850 original fibers. A stretching machine makes the weight, size, and strength as nearly uniform as possible. After this abo i.wor's valley, is a tine lake, so sur rounded by hold, precipitous culls that it YOUNG, OLD, AND MIDDLE- ftnrn All experience the wonderful benehcial effects of Ayer's Sarsaparilla. Children with Sore Eyes, Sore is impossible to reach its shores save by one narrow cleft in the rocks. Ewer passed and repassed the place many limes the remaining about 75 per cent, is 'boiled out.

The thread then goes to the dye house, which is situated in another part of the city. A hundred or more of -FALL IN i- RaLU. I Ears, or anv Kara, or any scroiuious or sypu- illtlc taint, may be made healthy and strong shades, tints, and colors are here applied. duriug a number of years before he dis covered it, though the lake has a circum fen; i ice of at least a mile. A beautiful grassy Hat surrounds it, and this year Mr.

sccordln? to the demands of the trade, Dy its use. Sold by all Druggists; six bottles for J8. which is supposed to be an index of the public fancy. No new hue is produced GO WITH THE CROWD TO i.wer has managed to get Ills calves Into In ranee for dresscoods, but is repro this rock walled pasture. riuced here in threads designed to be used It is imp K9iule to give a correct Idea of the sublimity or loneliness of the iu making un those fabrics.

Land Office at Kirwin, No. After returning from the dye-house the from the shores of this strange liod of water. Majestic barriers of granite frown thread lias si ill to undergo another pro STOR Oct. 26th, 1885. 10252 Notice is hereby given that the fol GENERAL cess.

It iisses through a machine which MERCHANDISE B. on every side, rising hundreds of feci perpendicularly ou the side nearest the livests it of ail liutt or ragged particles. lowing-named settler has filed notice leaving it the bright and glossy article of his intention to make final proof in support of his claim, and that said winch is inuuajn shop me cleaning summit, and everywhere reanug themselves su lxicnlly. high to shut a v.ew of aught save the clear, blue slcy. Millions of tiuy frog-i'hop about tho meadow, and machine finishes about 300 pounds of proof will be made before the probate or thread a day.

As yet no use has been found for the soft and downy Hull which falls from its miniature wneela Some iur. gave the sheet of water the judge at btockton, on Dec. 5th, 1885, viz: G. W. Caillouette Hd.

one who can discover some way of muk- unpoetic name of I rog lake. It would be much better to call it Crater lake, as it is doubtless the mouth of some extinct volcano of forgotten ages. Mr. hwer has xotoo, lur ui ne qr unci mmm a ja -x. ing it valuable might mako a fortune.

THE STOOI.En THREAD. h'f se qrsec 30, town, range 19 west. Q(j stocked the waters with trout, a id iu tie names tne following witnesses to The spooling Is the last act in the prepa years to come it will be visited by ration of the thread for the market, and prove his continuous residence upon, thousand' of wondering tourists. It is It requires greater skill and experience and cultivation of, said land, viz Eli exceedingly deep the.wa.ers being a dark tlinn any ntacr dutv not performed by the superintendent of the factory himself. bandon, Felix Trarie, Francis Thi- fathomless blue from the very margin.

beau and A. Desmarteau, all of Zurich A very inirenious contrivance attached to Kans. John Bisssll. Register Genuine iieuou of Norwegian. Cor.

C'is (liils" Mt'rtury Inferior to the French in militart the machines gives tho length of thread as the winding progresses, and enables the operator to cut it at the right place. With "the quickness of fhooght and what seems like supernatural deftness a little slit is Where you will find the Largest Awortment, bert selected and ifcwptt smartness, wlncn is a great deal to say as things go, tney excel them iu one point Land Office at xirwin, can. No. xrrv.K. ru i cor: where the 1-roach consider thcmselvth Hi ado in the flange of the and the facile priuccps.

isot that their svstem i- stock of DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, READY MADE nd of tne tnrcad is caught in it. Notice is hereby given that the fol so elaborate, but that it is considerate: it is genuine as far as it goes. The JN'orwa fnme kinds oi thread are weighed as well as measured, the operator bavin? at her right hand a small set of scales. The lowing-named settler has filed notice of his intention to make final proof in giaus are polite, not with the lips of their SHOES, GROCERIES nd 11 kind of CANNED GOODS, ia tte tongues only, but from, the depth of their superintendent tests a certain proportion heart, not concealing acrid sarcasm and support of his claim, and thst said proof will be made before the district oi tue spooled thread every day, to see overweening contempt, but expressing the lhat the average quantity on each spool is "what it should be, it being guaranteed on We sell goods cheap for cash. Come in and examine or food.

clerk at Stockton, on Dec. 12th, ruiuess oi a Irani; and aucclionate cos niopolitanisin. 1885, viz Edward Glennon, Hd No. the label lie di: erencu in the appear well remember the sneers of the 17613, for the h'f se qr sec 31, and Parisians at my first attempts to express ance of the thread at various stages of its manufacture is quite remarkable. After the twisting has been finished, and before wlif swqr sec 32, town 8, range 18.

myself among them, not less because some wore intended only for my companions. He names the following witnesses to ANS. F'LAINVILL and the entrust with the kindly assist prove his continuous residence upon, it has been boiled, it is hard and even larsh to the touch, and resembles more than anything else fine fishing twine. ne would not imagine it to be "silk. When ance and though! ful allowances made bv and cultivation of, said land, viz the iNorwegiaus did not fad to attract at James Hanaway, James McDonald, iciuum rrom the ouisct.

J.ntie minor it leaves the dyer's hands nothing could be things one noticed which iarred some Patrick Bohan, aed Wm. Fleicher, all soiter or glossier. what against i'nirlish notions, such as the of McHale, sans. John Bissbll, Reg cutting of bread and cheese, the taking of Those Tosan Frllows. Kew ie.) sail, each wun his own eating Knite: the prevalent habit of expectorating, which, I A gosslpcr says: "Sergeant Devoe, of tlmiK.

must be due in some measure to Land Office at Kirwin, 1 No. i the police department, talking the other day, said to me: "There is a groat deal November 5th, 1885. 10333 the climate; but the principle was there in the main, and it was no sham, day, when politeness becomes part and parcel of talk about rsew Vork but Notice is hereby given that the fol of our eilucntioiiul system, we may hone lowing named settler ha filed notice they are literally nowhere compared to a. Texas You sea we have the vl 'toughs' under control here. They are to eijiial them but, unfortunately, our .1.

i. of his intention to make final proof in support of his- claim, and that said win uugiiiuu ii iiuu serv liny. constantly repressed. Many a man in i Iew Yr rk is cheekv' and who proof will be made before the district Judge er clerk of district court at A Work of lr, to a Brazilian. lArk.m 1 1 vel r.

The remarkable Brazilian hill of Pnco- are cowards at heart, because be knows if lie gets into trouble be has only to yell to get out of trouble, liut these DEALER IN val has been fully described for the first Stockton. on Dec. 12th, 1885, viz Charles Wright, Hd No 17002, Texas fellows have no restraint whatever. time by Ladislaus Netio iu a publication Why, a few years ago I was on a sailing of the natural museum of Kio Jauerio. vessel in tne uuii or Mexico, when a for the h'f lie qr and h'f nw qr sec 2, town 9, range 17 w.

He names This hill, entirely bui by some ancient race of men, stands on the margiu of a the following witnesses to prove his lake in the island of o. ami. al continuous residence upon, and cul and Oils. though reduced by erosion and weather Medicines, Paints drugs, tivation of, said land, viz David ing to a tifth or sixth of ts original size, is still about 1.000 feel long. b'OJ wide aud Martin, of Igo; Joseph Michener, Marion Case, and M.

J. Cook, of In its outlines, those of a tricantic Stockton, Kans. John Bisskll, Reg. Jobuti turtle, it shows analogies the mound-builders in the Mississippi basin. couple of fellows from the east were playing cards with a Texas man and cheated kirn out of $30.

J.e didn't sav a word, but kept right on playing as If he saw nothing, until they grew careless and cheated openly. 1 hen be-rose up. pulled A big revolver and shot them both dead. 1 Change Iu Southern Cities, Atlanta Constitution.) Fifteen or twenty years ago It was a common sight to see in Atlanta and other southern cities the one-steer cart with its negro driver, wearing an army overcoat of faded blue. Northern tourists frequently employed a photographer to take picture of this queer conveyance, and Its varied contents include stone imple Land Office, WaKeeney, Kan.

No. ments of all kinds, idols, amulets, and a vast quantity of earthenware, funeral urns, vases, eta Manv of these are cov ered with remarkably delicate yainted or October29th, 1885. 3542 Notice is hereby given that the fol-owing named settler has filed notice engraved designs, some of them appear ing to be hieroglyphic signs and having School Books, Blank Books, Stationery, nd aUkinda'of WritingJaUrial of his intention to make final proof in certain resemblnnces to the early Chinese, support of his claim, and that said Mnf Mill Vt' s3 a It A -f -it A 4-Vik lrTlr e4 Egyptian ana writings. One in scrlption seems to tell of Uui mijrations UXUU1 Will UC UlttUO UOIUIO HiV vivi A. V4 I 1 t.

district court of Rooks county at Prescriptions carefully compounded Day or Night. Tott patroMje Stockton, on Dec, 17th, 1385, lor years after tne war no view of Atlanta was considered complete without a group of steer carts in the foreground. All this has passed away peaking of the change The Ktilelgh News and Observer jubilantly remarks: "It shows progress. The mule and the horse have displaced the slow and patient steer. Wagons replace the carta It is a good sign.

The steer was only a makeshift In few years he will be as much of an oddity here as in Broadway, New York. viz Jacob Boyer, homestead appli icited and Satisfaction Guaranteed. Agent for the NEW HOUE arriag cation No. 10021, for the ne qr sec 21 town 10 range lb w. He names tli fnllnwiw wiinfisses to nrove his probably from the Andes highlands down the Amazon valley.

A ISatl Ml p. Chlraco Nwws.l "Can you pay the little bill to-day, Jlr. Longwail?" conveniently. you call next week?" I shall be away on my vacation." "Indeed. So shall I Im nnnltr from rlfrniimt, People living in pine forests aro said to continuous residence upon, and culti- Machine.

All Colors of Ready Mixed Painte kept in tock. Grtt vation of, said land, viz L. J. Frink, of Stockton, George Zeigler, Isaac fialTrt nn't In India, The Salvation army in India has set Conger, and James Conger, of Motor, Store one door East of Randall House, out to be religious alter tue manner oi that countrv. They have one into a Kans.

15 J. Hasna, Keg. Frank McNulty, atty. 1 have immunity from climatic and a i number uf caves aear their julli puce beueScial to the voice. tliey spen'l their time in prayers and medi tat ion, ju.f us tii JLuJdhist monks do..

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