The Saratoga Sun du lieu suivant : Saratoga, Kansas • 4

A Chronicle of the I'ri-ncut Time. This is thu time when the maiden who is not fair to look upon, but who H.A.GOOCH -WILL OPEN AN EXCLUSIVE Boot and Shoe Store 1 lie True Meaning of In Utnim. Christmas is the gi cutest tiny in the year, there a feeling that there is getting to be too much of it? not too much of it in the way of kindness and brotherly lovo, but in the way of worry and expense. Tho weeks before It uro full feverish excitement' of norvou expectation, of perplexity; the days following it, of exhaustion. Childhood is on tip-too in two hemispheres, and childhood has become so conscious of its deserts that it is next to impossible to surprise it, except by too small gifts.

The day has to carry a tremendous loud, The obesity that might be distributed in healthful streams throughout the year is poured out in it in prodigal waste by somo, who seom glad to re -ON- Thursday, December 2d, 1886, A Full Line of Ladies', Gent's and Childrens' Shoes of all Styles and Varied Quality will be kept. All are Invited to Call and See our Display. Just South of the Sun Office, Saratoga, Kans. SARATOGA. BANK OF GKO.

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Negotiate Farm AT THE LOWEST KATES OP INTEREST. Taxes Paio for Non-Resdents. Extend such Accommodations to our Customers as are consistent with Safe Banking. CORRESPONDENTS HNI0N I5ank. Chicago, Illinois.

Merchants' ational Bank, Kansas City; Mo. Itmky Motiiiluln Tunnel. Hallway A project is on foot for tunneling the "Great Divide." The Divide is the Rocky Mountains, and the point pro posed to bo tunneled Is under Gray'i Peak, which rises no less than 14,441 ft. above tho level of tho sou. At 4,441 ft.

below the Peak, bv tunneling from east to west for ft. direct, com muuieation would bo opened between the valleys on the Atlantic slope and thso on the Pacific side. This would shorten tho distance between Denver, in Colorado, and Salt Lake City, In Utah, and conseuuentlv the distance between tho Missouri River, say at St. Louis, and San Francisco nearly 300 miles; and there would be little more required in tho way of ascending or descending or tunneling mountains, Part of tho work has already been ac complished. The country from tho Missouri to tho foot of tho Rockies rises gradually in rolling prairie, till an ele vation is reached to 5,200 ft.

above tho sea level. Tho Rockies themselves rise at various places to a height oxceoding 11,000 ft. Of the twenty most famous passes, only seven aro below 10,000 while five are upward of 12,000 and one, the Argentine, is 13,000 ft. Of tho 73 important towns in Colorado, only twelve aro below 5,000 ten are over 10,000 'and ono is 14,000 ft. Passes at such a height aro of course a barrier to ordinary traffic, and the railways from the Atlantic to tho Pacific have in consequence made detours of hundreds of miles, leaving rich plains lying on tho western slopes of the great snowy range practically cut off from Denver and the markets of the East.

The point from which it is proposed to tunnel is 60 miles due west from Denver, and although one of the highest peaks, it is by far the narrow est in the great backbone of tho American continont. Scientific American. SHERIFF'S SALE. In the District Court of Pratt County, Kansas. Sears Blackburn Co.

vs. Thomas Finan, Thomas A. Finan, Margaret Finan and Maggie Finan. Notice is hereby given that pursuant to an order of sale directed to me, by the Clerk of the District Court of Pratt county, Kansas, commanding me to sell at public sale, the real estate here after described. I will, on the 20 day of December, 1886, at the court honse door in the town of Iuka, in the county of Pratt and state of Kausas, expose to public sale and sell the following des cribed premises, to-wit: All of Lot No.

twenty (20) in Block No. thirty-three tad), north of a line running along the north line of the Brick Barn situated on Lots nineteen and twenty in said Block to the north-west corner of said barn; from thence west on a line parallel with the south line of said Lot No. twenty (20), to the west line of Lot No. twenty (20), in Saratoga, Prattcounty, Kansas, for two-thirds of the appraised value, to the highest bidder. Said property is to be sold under an order issued out of the District Court of Pratt county, Kansas, in an action, wherein Sears, Blackburn Co.

were plaintiffs and Thomas Finan, Thomas A. Finan, Margaret Finan and Maggie Finan were defendants, and taken as the property of the defendants in said action. Max Lamont, Sheriff of Pratt Kans. By N. W.

Magruder, Under Sheritt. Ellsworth E. Wier, LAWYER, KINGMAN. KANSAS, Will Practice in State and Federal Courts. IUKA HOTEL J.

E.C1IILDEUS, Pro. This has recently been reopened and everything pnt in tirnt-class nhapc. The public are invited to give ine a trial when In Iuka, MUS. It. G.

W1IITTIEU. DRESSMAKER, Having had 15 years experience in dressmaking, I am prepared to cut and Jit dresses all the latest styles. Satisfaction guaranteed. Residence on Elm Street, south of Clifton House. Fletcher BUTCHERS, ELM STREET, SARATOGA.

We Handle Nothing but First-class Beeves, and are enabled to give the public the very CHOICEST MEATS At very Favorable Prices. COME AND SEE US. SL FLETCHER aCO Tim lroim-4etl COAL! EDITOR Terms, Ql.bOpsr year in Advance. WKDNKSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 188(5. (1 rami mother's Sermon.

The mippiT Ik nYr. the hi'iirth If nwc(t, Ami In thu wood liiv'ii ulovv The i lilldrt'ii elulir to lii'iir tulu )( Hint time ao long ago. "l.lfu I a in runlm oayn, 'And yonrn in iut luirun; Hut I knitting tin' ton of mint', And my work i iilirmxt done. With mi'rrv hciirt wo begin to knit, And tiiu milling I ulimt pluy; Sonu' tire eoloml. and souio are white, And eoiiiu lire ubeit gray.

'But miixt are of many Iiuhh, And many a Htitrh iet wrong; And many a row to he mid 1 ripped Ere tin! wholti if fair and strong. There are long, plain spaces without a break, That in life are hard to hear; And many a weary tear lx dropped As we fanteu the heel with cure. "But the MildcKt. happlet time la that We count and yet would bIiuii. When our heavenly Father break the thread, And nuya that our work is done," The children to "ay good night, Willi tears in their bright young eyes, hile in grandma' lap, with broken thread.

Tiie flushed stocking lies. Sblkctkd. For forty years. Ayer's Cherry Pectoral 1ms been demonstrated to be the most reliable remedy in use, for colils, coughs, and lung diseases. Slight colds should not be neglected.

The Pectoral will prevent their becoming chronic. Fair Committees. The following committees have been appointed to assist in preparing and conducting the fair to be held at the M. E. church on Wednesday and Thursday evening, Dec.

22 and 23; also at the oyster supper on Wednesday evening, viz: Fair tables, Mrs. Clemow, Mrs. Sears, Mrs. Itosan, Mrs. Carskadon.

Dining-room. Mrs. Cunningham, Mrs. Davis, Miss Wilson, Miss Cooper. Express and postoffice, Mrs.

Corrie, Miss Sears, Miss Clara Hess, Miss Leon. Scales, Mr. Cunningham, Mr. Clemow. Grab bag, Mr.

Cooper. Mr. Carskadon, Mrs. Cooper, Miss Fort. Music, Mr.

Davis, Mr. Albaugh. Signs of IU-Luck. To be struck by lightning on Mon day. lo sit on a buzz-saw in motien Friday.

on To fall down-stairs with the parlor stove on Tuesday. 10 spin salt in tne coiieo ot a man who has the carving-knife. To see a bill collector over vour right shoulder on Saturday. To dream of snakes after drinking cider in a prohibition town. To see a bulldog over your left shoulder in your neighbor's orchard.

To call a bigger man than yourself Jiard names any day in the week To meet a detective at the depot "when you are buying a ticket to Canada. To bet all yonr money on a horse whose driver has bet his money on another. To attempt to sit on a chair that sonic one has removed when you were not looking. Fur-mime Auiique furniture is still very much sought after among the more fashionable people. The rage for it, however, ias passed away, md only really choice bits command high prices.

There are three establishments devoted to this business in Washington, one in Georgetown, and one in Alexandria In these you may often find some very fiue pieces. This! is one of the oldest parts of the United States, and in early times it contained a very wealthy population. Much of the furniture of colonial days was imported from France or England, and it is not an uncommon thing to run across a relic of Washington or Jefferson in one of these antiquity shops. In oue of the furniture stores of Alexandria, which was a hotel in Washington day, they have for sale a bed in which it is said Washington used to sleep. I was offered once for $35 the desk which Thaddeus Stev--eus aseii while he was in Congress, and 4 know houses in this city in which TPkli of the furniture of Thomas Jef-lurson are in daily use.

Calling upoD Gen. Tyler, the gray-haired son of the President, last night, I took my seat upon a high, straight-backed, old-fashioned chair which, upon my noticing, the General told me was over 250 year old. It was brought by his ancestors to this country in sixteen hundred and something and had been in the family over since. It is of English oak- now turned by age to the color of the darkest of black walnut, and was so well made that not a crack or a joint show-fid. Father Bassett.

who for fifty years has been in the employ of the United States Senate, has some of the finest I 1U I MUlLglWU. an old-fashioned lamp which lighted the Senate in the days of Van Buren's Vice-Presidency, and which for years Knt. on the Vice-President aesK, Vathnr Bassett prizes it highly, and would not sell it for the prettiest thing oi to-day in porcelain or brass. I'arp'a Washington Letter la Cleveland Leader. In th Arctic Ocean ships are fr- uoatly iuvidcd bv swarms of mosqui-In Alatika they form cloud so di'Bse that it is impossible for sportsmen to aim at objects beyond.

Native do" are sometimes kilied by them, and vbi the eiizy hour is occasional! blinded by lueir fit-tacks. MORTON ALBAOOH, hath a red nose and who walketh with the upright and godly, goeth to. And she knilteth mufflers for tho young shepherd of tho tloek, wlto hath weak eyes mid much unction. And thus she iloeth it that he may be gratn- ful unto her, and entreat her lovingly to abide with him. But verily tho young shepherd tumbloth to her little game, and the young maiden bcloug' eth to tho tribe of them that be forsak en and left.

Selah! And now behold in these days the maiden wno is Dewitciieti saveth up her shekels, and she goeth to. And she buyeth herself a ribbon for her neck. And verily tho counter-lumper who serveth her throweth a chronio that costeth nothing. And the maiden giveth that chromo unto him that hath bewitched her, for verily sho knoweth that Christmas is at hand, and that ho will give back unto her that which cost him a month's shokels. And behold in this is the maiden wise after the manner of maid ens.

And now, furthermore, when the Winter is come, the iniquitous gin shnger, boing privily incited bv them that go a bumming after strange gods, makcth hot drinks for them that be thirstv. But there shall be no rest for that gin-slinger, neither in heaven nor on earth, nor in tho hot place un der the earth. And his soul shall down into outer darkness and be lost utterly, for verily the temperance ora tor who knoweth all about it hath said so. And now, moreover, the maidens of many years, whose noses be red and who hath no attractions, and whom no man will marry, and those women who wear pants, meot together, and they gather up their old duds and all that hath no value to them, and all that is abomination in their sisrht. And they give these things unto the poor and neody, and add thereunto much unction and many tracts.

And they say unto each other: "We be godly women and pillars of the church, and behold it is good to lay up treas ures in heaven." But verily I say unto you, the recording angel hath his eyes on those women, and he discounted them at the proper value. Selah! Winnipeg Siftings. On to Iuka. Grading on the extension of the M. A.

from near the southwest corner of Reno county to Iuka, Pratt county, was commenced this week: and if the weather holds good, Iuka will have a railroad in good time for a spring boom. Eagle. Salt Kkeum or Eczema, Old sores andulcers, Scaldhead and ringwrorms, Puin in the back and spine, Swelling of the knee joints, Sprains and bruises, Neuralgia and toothache, Tender feet caused by bunions, corns and chillblains, we warrant Beggs Tropical Oil to relseve any and all of the above. Burton Christie. If any man wants a comparison of the available men of brains and power in the nation as presidential timber for 1888, of the two parties, all he has to do is to contrast Sherman, Blaine, Lo gan, Hawley, Harrison, Lincoln, Al lison, Evarts, Edmunds, Gresham, Windom, Cullom, Hiscock, Ingalls, Hoar, Foraker and Kelley on the republican side, with Cleveland, Hill, Randall, MeDonald, Vorhces, Garland and Hampton on the democratic side, to gain a pretty good idea of the difference in the kind of timber presented by tho two parties, from which to choose.

The comparison will not be disparaging to the republicans by any means. Ex. She Didn't Understand What She Said. Mrs. Pugmire read in a medicrl paper the statement that the higher education of women does not conduce to connub-iality and fecundity.

After reading the statistics which followed, she re marked: "I don't believe a word of it. My sister lives near Vassar College and she's all the time writing about the girls there. She says they are the most connubial and fecundial young women in the world always laughing and jok ing.n Jamestown Budget. Purify Your Btood. If your tongue is coated.

If your skin is yelow or dry. If you have boils. If you have fever. If you are thin or nervous. If you are bilious.

If you are constipated. If your bones ache. If your head aches. If you have no appetite. If you have no ambition one bottle of Blood I'cbifier and Blood Maker will relieve any and all of the above complaints.

Sold and warranted by Burton Christie. HWm Cunningham Dealer in(: HANKERS, Established in 1884. Osage, Shaft, Blinds, Posts, AND CEMENT. sale all articles Class Lumber Yard. lieve themselves of obligation by a sin glo act.

In point of cost it is equal to half a dozen weddings. Year by year the exponse of girls increases. Is this tho dictate of fashion, or owing to tho growth of kindly feeling? Is it a spon taneous response to the spirit of the day, or do any people make gifts bo- cause they are expected to, and because everybody else does, and because there has grown up of late years a rivalry in this mutter? Since the Puritan distrust of this great feast-day abated, the American people who aro tho most generous people in the world, have taken up Christmas with the same enthusiasm that lately almost buried funerals under a weight of floral trib utes. We readly inclino to excess, to an excess that destroyes tho object wo seek. Even for our pleasures and amusements we work harder than any other people, and probably get less rest and entertainment.

At the rate wo are now rushing Christmas we are in dangor of wearing it out In a decade or two more. It is already a period from which too many people date nervous prostration. Instead of making the season a simple and enjoyable hol iday we are in danger of making it an intolerable burden. It is because the Drawer desires to preserve this Christmas season as one of gayety and frolic and simple pleasures' and widening and deepening Christian charity, that it makes these unwelcome observations. There are no more engaging creatures than children, unless it be maidens at the age when, on holidays, they pose a first or second cousjn, or serene and lovely elderly people in the midst of an affectionate family.

But it cuts across the spirit of the holiday when the chil-, dren are more eager for a costly gift than for a game of blindman's-buff, and the maidens do not value the salute under the mistletoe unless it is accompanied by a diamond bracelet; and the elderly people, disturbed by this cultivated habit of greedy expectation, are grumbling about the expense of the season. There is small danger that the charity to the poor will be overdone, that tho spirit of the day in' regard to interfamily and interstate and international good-will may go to excess, or that the leaven of the Sermon on the Mount will work too powerfully in a society that would be a mass of selfishness without it. It is incalculable what Christmas and the spirit of Christmas has done and is doing for the world. The sun that rises on that day in our Northern latitudes may not melt the ice in the streams or frost on the windo pane, but there is no sun like it for thawing the human heart throughout Christendom. There is no day like it for assuaging enmities' and reviving tender memories, and drawing together the estranged, and narrowing the gulf between classes.

During this day the world is a brotherhood. In the wondrous Birth of a Child all the world renews for some hours its childish faith and simplicity. The spirit of this even prevails far beyond the circles where it is regarded as a reality. Why overlay it with artificiality? Why make it an expense hard to be borne? Why put into the preparation for it an amount of labor and worry that ends in weariness and exhaustion? Costly gifts are the least necessary part of it, worry is foreign to its spirit, and both together may make it in time a burden, distasteful as the noise and incen diarism of the Fourth of July. The perpetuity of the best institution de pen ds upon moderation.

Children are the hope of the world. We should not undervalue them because they are plenty Home Rule is just now the most popular doctripe in the world. But it may be just as well for the next generation if the children are not all Home Rulers. Give the parents a chance; they will be all the better for it. Let us ease up a lit tle on tne worry and cost of Christmas, and keep the best holiday of the age in the old spirit of unostentatious charity and the exercise of mirth and good-will that refreshes and not weary.

Charles Dudley Warner, in Harper's Magiziue for December. InKansas murderers are convicted and sent to the penitentiary. In Mis souri and other states where capital minishment is in vogue, murderers, as a role, are acquitted and go free. This is diflerence between the two sys tems Commonwealth. Canon City, Anthracite Blacksmith Coal.

OFFICE AND YARD NORTHEAST OF DEPOT. Down With High Prices on Lumber Live and Let Live I SARATOGA'S NEW LUMBERYARD Prairie I umber LUMBER, LATH, SHINGLES, Sash, Doors, BUILDERS' HARDWARE AND PAINTS, LIME, HAIR We will keep for Usually Kept in a First We Invite the peoplo of Saratoga and surrounding country to come and examine our stock and get our prices. 33. G-- IPlBJLLL, ZMIST-iLO-IEjIR. COAL AND FEED STORE! J.

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Big Red Coal andGran Store. WEST MAIN SARATOGA, KANS.