Clark's Occasional from Hays, Kansas • 16

CLARK'S OCCASIONAL Co PI uect light WILL FURNISH the best of Lights, power for Motors, power for your Washers and Flat Irons. It also has on hand all kinds of electrical devices. Bring happiness to your wife by modernizing your home by installing electricty for lighting and motor purposes. Hays Electric Light Co. KANSAS HAYS, C.

W. Reedcr for Judge. The last legislature passed a law which to a certain extent takes the judges of the State of Kansas out of partisan politics. Under this new law it is generally understood among the people, that C. W.

Reeder of Hays City, will be the choice of Ellis county for district judge for the twenty-third judicial district. Topeka Capital, Nov. 17. Ruppenthal to Aid in Lav Indexing. Judge J.

C. Ruppenthal of the twenty-third Kansas Judicial District, living at Russell, has been recommended by the law librarian of congress to assist F. E. Wadhams, commissioner appointed by the New York Legislature this year, in indexing fully all statute laws of New York state, including session laws since 1778. Mr.

Wad-hams was appointed to do the work and appealed to the law librarian of congress for helpful assistance and Judge Ruppenthal was recommended. Oakley Graphic. Her Idea of Nothing. "You say, madam," said the lawyer to the woman on the witness stand, "that it was ten o'clock at night when you first heard the trouble in the street in front of your house, and your family were all in bed. Did you do anything after going to the window and watching the policeman arrest the man?" "No at least nothing to speak of.

I just set some bread to rise and mended a hole in one of my children's stockings and put some clothes I wanted to wash the next day to soak, and chopped up some potatoes and meat to make hash for breakfast, and put a button on my husband's trousers, and set the table for breakfast so as to save time in the morning, and laid the fire so I wouldn't have anything to do but light it in the morning. Then I sort o' tidied up my kitchen and seeded some rasins for a cake I wanted to bake the next morning, and emptied the water under the ice-chest, and went down cellar to see that the furnace was all right for the night. I brought some apples up from the cellar and peeled them so as to have them ready for something I wanted to make the next morning. Then I wound the clock and read the morning paper a few minutes, and did three or four little things a woman is apt to" do before she goes to bed when she has a family to look after, but nothing to speak of after all." Puck. "The little boy is like a little steam boiler, and always boiling.

You can sit on his safety valve, but you are a fool if you do. A boy who is tied down never becomes a whole man." HAYS CITY Bottling Works PHILIP JACOBS, Proprietor Soft Drinks of All Kinds ALL GOODS GUARANTEED TO BE FIRST-CLASS.