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Caller You were not bo good when I the most efficient prompt nieth' INSURANCE DEPARTMENT STATE OF KANSAS oda are beine Uken to stamp it out. follow epochs. One proof the antiquity of this species of homage is found in the fact that in all countries legends exist ascrib was here before, but you had not begun to eo to Sunday school then. I remember. it up and crush it out wherever it may be found.

In the interest oi tne general puo- ing the origin of music to a celestia. Are you good an tne time, now If Year lie. I trust vou will not entertain the pro source. China, Greece, Rome, Assaria, Utile jJick lessum: i has to be. Certificate of Authority for tha En dins the Last of February, 1SS5.

Egypt and India all concur in giving the Ma's corns hurt her, and she wears position to quarantine against this 8tate, for it only obstructs commerce, and I am art a divine origin, and also in returning slippers now. sura it is not needed as a matter of protect the gut to its Maker in songs of praise, ion. I will keep you advised on Jgypt, however, recognized the dua Sam Oppenheimer was one of the passengers on the San Saba stage that this subject. UFKICE OF fMTKRIXTESDEXT character of music by a legend which described music as springing from two Insurance, Toi'eka, Kansas, of! SS5.J 18S' was robbed a few weeks ago. Signed JOHN 8.

MARMADUKE, stock sytms. March, 8, sources, the one good, the other evil "Shell out your money or of! goes the top of your head," remarked one of the robbers, holding a pistol under Sam's It iff hereby certified that the Kansas Protective Union, a corporation organ are only acting like those who held the land before them, when they spend such fabulous sums as the newspapers tell uu they do on coffin decoration. Other tribes, instead of plaited willow boxes, use regular wooden chests, wonderfully carved, usually with a lid like a gabled roof and always with an opening in the side through which food may be passed in, so that the soul may eat "the souls of the good things provided by its friends. Old travelers wondered at these coffins set up above ground; and the Spaniards as little scrupulous as Dr. Sternberg about violating burial places found in some of them a deal of wealth.

The burial-boxes of a tribe on the Talomecn river, Oregon, are said to have furnished handfulls of pearls to a party of soldiers that were exploring the coast. The Chinese, we must remember, also keep their coffins above ground; and ages ago, they used to be as reckless as the red men in their offerings to the dead. The Scythians probably also belonging to the yellow race seemed to The Egyptian was more sparing of music in religious service than Roman or Grecian, but deserves thanks for at least understanding that music, like any other Points and Items About Kaunas Stock. ized under tbs laws of the Mate ot ivan nose. sas, whofe principal office is located at "Three hundred dollars va3h every Brinton Carl, on the Pawnee, lost a Topeka, has complied with all the re- cent I got, po hellup me shimmy number of horses during the pae Winter.

art, could oe abused. quirements of chapter 131 of the laws of grashus," exclaimed cam. Even to-day, the division between the They died from loco poisoning instead of Kansas, passed in loco, entitled "An act sensuous and lofty in music is a strongly poverty or exposure, lhey nave lost "Hand em over." Sam did so. keeping back 16. marked one: and.

unfortunately, the ten none lor two months paat, trie horses providing for the organization and control of Mutual Life Insurance Associa "What are you keeping back them $6 having been enclosed in pastures and fed dency of modern composers is too oten toward the former style, and the oratorio tions in this State." approved March 7th, for?" mildly inquired the robber, during that time. 1SS5, eo far as the requisitions of said act pressing his pistol against Sam's head. school seems almost extinct. Cowhov: Geo. Anderson returned from "Mine uott, aont you let a man taue his range on the No-Man's-Land, last INDIAN FUNKKAL CCSTOMS.

out 2 per cent ven he advances money are applicable to said Company; and the 6aid Company is hereby authorized to transact business as a co-operative or Mutual Life Insurance Company or As without securities? asked Sam. He says his cattle are thin but healthy. Only a few have died. The deaths generally in the neighborhood th Some of the Singular Customs of William Trotter has been paying hia sociation within the said State of Kan Aboriginal Residents of America. addresses to Miss Rosa Hedsteer, of sas, subject to the eeveral provisions and All the Year Bound.

among cattle nave been cennneu to thorough Texans. Waco. His visits have not been very us to have been the most lavish because of the quantity of gold found in their tombs. But gold was common in the Ural; and to a Scythian king even the treasures found in such a tomb as Koul-Oba, near Kertch, were not more valuable than all that calico, and those "When the Indians where great nations, requirements ot tne eaid act, until tne last day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Advices from Rice county divulges the frequent of late, and last night, Tommy, Miss Rosa's younger brother, instead of broken, wandering tribes, their customs where more elaborate, said: eighty-six. "You ought to come and see us every Lawson, who wrote a history of the Carolinas in the first years of the last fact tnat many cows have slunk their calves during the cold weather, and Eome calves born alive have seemed crazy, and died after a few hours' wild actions and bleating.

Cattle, where full fed, are now putting on flesh faBt. Buffalo robes and blankets, were to poor Cheyenne. evening, Mr. Irotter." In testimeny whereof, R. B.

Morris, Superintendent of Insurance of said State oi Kansas, have hereto set niv hand "Why, Tommy' century, was struck with the care the Indiaus showed in keeping the corpse "Because it makes 6ister Kosa so and affixed my seal of office, at the city General Grant's Disease. from contact with the soil. There happy to have you go away. You ought of Topeka, the day and year first above Springfield Republican! feeling was just the opposite of that Eldorado Times: The Times noted some never to miss an evening." The suddenness with which General expressed by "earth to earth." Old written. K.

s. mokris, Sup't of Insurance. weeks ago the awful loss of cattle, unfed They missed Trotter for the rest of travelers give quaint wood-cuts of the and unsheltered, on the Western ranees. that evening. Rev.

F. C. Garrison has just returned The above association is the first and as yet the only one that has complied quigozogon or mausoleum, in which dead people of note were laid. It was lined from the West, and says the losses are as well as floored with mats by well simply terrible. He considers it a judg Grant's health is being underminded by a cancer at the root of the tongue will direct attention to this Cancer, in Massachusetts, is one of the twelve most destructive diseases.

In 1882 it was the tenth most destructive, in 1873 the fifteenth. Taking the mortality from cancer for the entire decade, 1871-8), while the deaths from consumption spliced poles, which supported an arched Away up in New Hampshire, where the mountains stick their heads above the timber line, Eli Perkins once ran across an old man, seated in front of a cabin, and opened up a conversation with with the new law governing Mutual Life Insurance Associations in this State. Too much credit cannot be Riven the management of the Kan3as Protective ment against monopolists. roof. If all this seems to much trouble Medicine Lodge Cresset: Billie Blair for "savages" to take, we must remember that they were not Bavages had many passed through Friday on Bis way to him.

Union for their active aid in procuring the passage of said act, securing to the Caldwell to attend the regular Spring arts which they have lost through contact "Good morning," said Eli, with confi averaged annually 3.26 persons for every meeting of the Cherokee Strip Associa with the whites, and, from the unsparing dence. people of tne btate of Kansas a system of Mutual Life Insurance unequaled by 1,000 population, those from cancer were way in which nowadays they give their tion, which convened Tuesday of this week. Billie estimates the loss on the "Likewise this way," said themounain- 40, or one death lor every 2,500 people. best to their dead friends, we may argue eer, quietly. any other State.

CATTLE GROWERS' CONVENTION. Commanche Pool range at not over eight that Bry and Lafitau, and other "You live here, I presume?" he contin Hampden county, by the way, has the least mortality from cancer, 29, while Dukes and Nantucket rise to .98 and or ten per cent ued, letting down a little. explorers, simply depicted what they saw, and that the houses of the dead were, among some tribes, really far more Ness City Keivs: Mr.W. H. Skinner was "I don't look like I was dead, do Third Annual Meeting; of the Association- Suffolk to Hampden also only about half as much consumption as the island answered the old lellow.

town a lew days ago with his 'arge An Increased AttendanceMusic by the pair of horses, one of which lias, just re "No; of course not; I merely desired to and coast counties. The number of deaths Cowboy Hand. FIRST DAT. covered from a long siege of the glanders. know if this was your place of rest sumptuous than those of the living.

Here is an instance of the present-day unsparingness in a poor broken tribe in California. These Californians burn from cancer in 1SS2 in the state was 987, The third annual meeting of the Western hen the disease made its appearance dence." "It's my shanty." la6t Fall Mr. bkinner acquainted Mr. Cattle Growers' Association convened at Dodge City at 3 p. April 1.

President of whom 611 were ot women, while the deaths from consumption were 8,865. The decents from cancer were from 40 to their dead' as do many of the Indians of Wagner, the veterinarian at Wa-Keeney, "Thanks. My name is Perkins, Eli Perkins, and I was told you were the A. H. McCoy called the meeting to order.

the far west; and the scene at the chiel with his condition, and he wrought the 78 years of age mostly. burning reminds one of the burials of oldest inhabitant in these parts, and cure for 10. Cancer seems to be increasing, and and made a short, bat very interesting address. Brief addresses were made on the condition of the cattle industry of the old Greek heroes. In his mouth could give me some valuable points for a Percy Dunn, a writer in the.

Pall Mall John W. Piatt, of the Eastern part of newspaper letter," said Lli, with un were placed two gold twenties, and smaller coins on his breast and in hand the West, bv Buch gentlemen as Gazette, whose article is quoted in the blushing effrontery and an evident de- Hon. Iward Rassell, of Lawrence, Kan Comanche county, a partner of F. W. Flato in the circle five brand and ranch, Popular Science Monthly for March, claims and ears.

All his finery feather sire to get solid with the old man. says their loss is already in the neighbor that there is a marked increase in Great Britian, and that it is due to good living, Major W. A. Towers, a prominent stockman of the "neutral strip" or "no man's as well as Vice President of the association, "Are you the gxeat-American-nar rer mantles, plumes, clothes, shell-money, bows, arrows was heaped upon him; hood of hlty per and if they can kins?" "The same," replied the delighted Eli. "And you want to know how long I've and as soon as the dirge and funeral dance were set going the Indian spectators began to lose their heads.

One round-up fifty per cent, of what they turned loose last Fall he thinks they will be doing well. He thinks the loss all Mr. Artbnr Gorham, who at considerable length gave some facts connected with the losses sustained by stockmen holding range inasmuch as the disease prevails among the rich rather than among the po )r. A French writer states the proportion among the rich as 106 cases per 1,000, and among the poor 72 per 1,000. These been in these parts' cattle during the Winter just passed, and over the country will be in the-neighbor- "Yes." other gentlemen followed.

Upon the whole hood of fafty per cent. "Well, Mr. Eliar Perkins, you see them stripped off a bran-new broadcloth coat and flung it on the pyre, howling piteously. Another was just throwing on a pile of blankets, when a white man statements apparently indicate a the loss on stock belonging to tion is not near so great as many were led mountains stickin' their bald heads up The Comanche Pool have about far greater pervalence abroad than here. and makin' hats out of the clouds, don't to believe.

is said. also, that the disease exists ottered him $10 for them jingling the 000 acres of leased lands in the Indian territory, adjoining Kansas. There are your' The attendance muoh larger than among domestic animals but not among bright coins before his eyes. The red- that of anv preceedinjr meeting, while "Yes." 40,000 head of cattle in this pool, which wild. It is most prevalent in England' man hurled him aside, and threw his stockmen from the surrounding Stales and "Well, Mr.

Eliar Perkins, when. I first are held in the Indian territory and in Territories are in attendacce. come to these parts, the hair was grow Commanche Kansas. As the offering with the rest. Women kept throwing all they had in the world their gayest dresses, their shell neck The celebratf Dodge City Cowboy Band and central Europe, while in northern countries it seldom appears.

The article referred to, regards it as remarkable that in Iceland. 50,000 people, suffered only range in Comanche county is being in iron them bald heads one hundred and sixteen feet six inches long, and we had was on hand and enlivened the proceed rapidly taken up by cattle of laces. Indeed, so furious got the excite' to comb it with eaw-logs set on end." the pool in that county are to be re ment that some of them would them ings with an occasional selection, each time being warmly applauded. This is the band that attended the National stock meeting at St. Louis last Fall and won He looked up innocently at Mr.

rer- moved to the Indian territory and the selves have leaped in had they not been kins, and that gentleman bowed down number of cattle reduced to 20,000. The 37 deaths from cancer in a year, but this rate was considerably higher than that of Hampden county for 1882, when there were 49 deaths from this cause, to population. and kissed the dustat his feet. Merchant prevented. The idea was that the souls of the things thus burned went ofl north line of the range is to be fenced, to prevent the trespassing of cattle on much celebrity on that occasion.

THIRD DAY'S SESSION. Traveler. charioted in the smoke-wreaths along with the soul of the dead man. At this the lands of settlers in Kansas. The business transacted to-day related Tielndeer Hunting.

principally to round ups, which will begin funeral the white men who were looking A Reno county stock man writes: Cat St. Nicholas. on May 10th. Tim Holstein will be captain on calculated that at least $500 worth of tle are looking well, as we have plenty of of the Beaver District Company, and Wash One sport that amuses the Eskimo feed. Those that are feeding steers have Mussett ot the Cimarron lhstnct.

bovsverv much would nrobablv be called in our language "reindeer hunting." goods were destroyed, and what surprised them most was that the Indians, at other times close bargainers, wholly forgot their usual ereed. "Why, he'd have cleared $8 if he'd sold me his had a hard Winter of it. C. W. Peckham has 210 head ot fine fat steers and has only lost one all Winter.

Hogs have not Resolutions were adopted, giving special orders against gambling and horse racing, agreeing not to sell or dispose ot any hides bearing our brands except to regular mer Having found a long and gentle slope on a side-hill, they place along the bottom done well, as the weather was too cold, but since the warm weather set in they of the hill a number of reindeer antlers, chants along the line of the T. 8. F. railroad, said hides to be accompanied by a bill of sale, and authorizing the executive blankets," said the man who had made the offer. "I only did it to try him and precious glad I was when I saw he was too wild to snap at such a fancy price.

are doing better. Most farmers in this neighborhood don't keep many hogs, or, as we sometimes incorrectly call them deer horns (for you boys must not forget committee to seize and take possession of all although we raise lots of corn. The hides not in the hands of such regular mer Where they do not burn they are farmers haul it fourteen miles to town that the antlers of a deer are not horn at all, but bone). These antlers of the reindeer are stuck upright in the snow, and sell it for 21 cents. If they would chants and not accompanied by such bill of sale, and revoking all former permission or power to 8ny party or parties to skin cattle singly or in groups, in such a manner raise more hogs they could make more A Manitobia Postmaster The population around us, writes a Winnipeg corresponcent to the Philadelphia Press, chiefly consists of half-breeds and Indians, with a sprinkling of English settlers, j.

hey are most hospitable, but extremely rough, dirty, and uncivlized. Our postoffice is four miles away, and we can send off and also fetch letters once a week. Let me describe the interior of this postoffice, one day when I had occasion to call there. The postmaster is a rough Canadian; his wife is a half-breed a tall, handsome woman. When we drove up she was out of doors in the snow chopping firewood.

Her lord and master was sitting in the only down-stairs room, with his feet on the Btove and a pipe in his mouth. In the same room, which was bare of carpet or curtain, and contained the family bed, were three little children, a boy, aged 7, swearing lustily, a girl, about 5 sucking her fingers, who began to howl as soon as I spoke, and a baby of about 2 years, seated in a frying pan on the floor engaged in carefully wrapping up his barefeerin a dishcloth. Their mother followed us into the house, aud, promptly that a sled, when well guided can be run money and save their teams. equally lavish. Dr.

Sternburg, of the United States army, found in Kansas, among the Cheyennes, a burial-case raised eome eight feet from the ground on four notched uprights. Seeing that it was carefully constructed, his "civilized" instinct prompted him at once to send it between them without knocking any of belonging to us. The.following was adopted: Whereas, In view of the crowded con them down, the number of open spaces A Good Breakfast, between the groups being equal to at dition of our ranges and from the fact that Mrs. E. vV.

Carpenter, Overlee, Balti least the number of sleds. The quantity there is no provision made to restrain any more county, Mary land, writes was oi the members ot the association from of reindeer antlers they can thus arrange greatly benefited by the use of Red Star will, of course, depend upon their fathers' overstocking his ranch, thereby imperilling his neighbors, as well as bis own: be it Cough Cure, wheu suffering from a severe cold. My cook was seriously ill from a to the Army Medical museum at Washington, where it was found to consist of a box six feet three feet high, and three feet deep, of white willow branches' neatly united, with a floor of buffalo thongs, and straps hereby Kesolved, That any member of this a9 success the autumn before in reindeer hunting; but there are nearly always enough antlers to give two or three, and deep-eeated cough. She had consulted her physician without relief. By my sociation having positive knowledge of sometimes five or six.

to each fearless advice she used the Cough Lure in con overstocking of his neighbors' ranches, thereby having good cause for complaint. young coaster. nection with an external application oi fastened to four twelve-foot ironwood poles, which had rested in the notched uprights. Outside were two buffalo robes The boys with their sleds, numbering St. Jacobs to her side.

In one night will place the matter before an arbitration from four to six a lair-size village. committee, when, if such complaint is ver the change was wrought was most grati of the largest size, and inside hve more, fying and astonishing. In the morning each boy having with him two or three spears, or a bow with as many arrows. seizing the pan, proceeded to eject the each bound round with a bright sas ehe was like a new person. ified through a thorough examination by said committee, the said committee is hereby mpowered to impose such penalty as may deemed by them expedient, with the baby and to wipe out the pan witn tne were successively removed.

Then came above-mentioned cloth. Next she broke five blankets two red, two blue, one WIT AND HUMOR. lhey start together, each boy's object being to knock down as many antlers as possible and not, be the first to reach the hill. You can see that, in Buch a case, proviso that the party bo accused may ap about a dozen eggs into the pan, and white; and next a white and gray Btnped peal to the Executive Committee for their sack, and inside that a Lited Mates final verdict. He "Won't you go sleighing with me the slower they go when they are passing After the adop tion of the usual resolu infantry overcoat, like all the other wrappings, nearly new.

Then on a this evening; tne antlers the better. 1 hey must knock tions of thanks the convention adjourned pillow of rags, was the "medicipe-bag" of bhe "Have you a gentle horse?" over the antlers with their epears or Bine die. He "Yes, indeed. I can drive him the dead baby of course it was a haoy; arrows only, as those thrown down by with one hand." the sledge or with the bow or spear all those wrappings lelt only room ior a vear-old child, lhe bag contained a the hand do not count They begin to She "I'll go" Philadelphia Call. Plenro-Pneunionla Among Cattle.

8t. Louis, April 4. The definite deter-minination of the existence of Dleuro- Darcel of red paint, some hits oi aeersicin along with Btraps. buckles, and other Miner. Corn-cob pipe.

-Keg of giant powder. shoot their arrows and throw their epears as soon as they can get within effective shooting distance; even after they havepased between the rows of antlers, odds and ends. The inner wrappings pneumonia in Calloway county, this State, and the action at the meeting of stock men were three splendid robes, each about ana others held a few days ago at Fulton, J.he gathering darkness. four feet long, of buffalo calfskin, elabor wnere me disease was uncovered, has attracted a good deal of attention in different ately decorated with beadwork stripes the more active boys will turn around on their flying sled and hurl back a spear or arrow with sufficent force to bring Phizz-boom. parts of the State, and meetings have been down an antler.

blue and white in the nrst, green and yellow in the next, blue and red in the innermost. The hoods, too, were richly York The gathering darkness. New neia in twe or tnree counties continguous to Calloway to devise means for protection When all have reached the bottom of Graphic. agaiDsi neras tnat county. ornamented with beadwork, and all It is not unlikely that Calloway "Poor John was so fond of gambling." round the robes little spherical brass fried them, and, having made tea and produced her solitary tea-spoon, she invited my husband and myself to partake, or, as she phrased it, to "sit in" with the family.

It is needless to add. that, after what I had just witnessed, I declined the hospitality as gracefully as I knew how. This is my nearest female neighbor. A Few Scotch Characteristics. Prince Edward and Prince George Wales, in an article in the English IUus trated Magazine, says: The Scotch are the best and most successful of emigrants.

Half the most prominent among the statesmen of the Canadian Confederation, of Victoria and Queensland, are born Scots, and all the great merchants of India are of the same nation. Whether it is that the Scotch emigrants are for the most part men of better education than those of other nations, or whether the Scotchman owes his uniform success in every climate to his perseverence or hia Bhrewdne68, the fact remains that wherever abroad you come across a Scotchman you invariably find him prosperous and respected in calculating contentment, and with a strong-handed, openhearted hospitality that no words can render adequate thanks for. To come in contact only wi'h such colonists is morally health-giving. A Clevel tnd widow the other day the hill, they return to the rows of antlers, where each boy picks out those he has rightfully captured, and places them in a pile by themselves. Then those county will he quarantined egiinst Baid a bereaved widow.

"His last bet was $o0 that he could eat three hundred oy in oiner counties, dui the general impression seems to be that there is not only bells were hujag with strings of beads. Next was a gray woolen shawl, then five yards of blue cashmere, followed by six of red. and then again by six of brown clams in twenty minutes." "Did he win the bet?" no eooa reason lor me oiner estates to quarantine against Missouri, but that such action would be very detrimental to her een- "Yes. he won the bet." siched the calico, and in that last wrapping was the accidently knocked down by the sledges are again put up and the boys return for another dash down the hill, until all the antlers have been "speareJ." Sometimes there is but one antler left, and when there are five or six contesting sleds the widow, ''but the money didn't do us any good. It took every cent of it to eral interests, and unwarranted by existing cirenmstancs.

Governor Marmaduke has babe, with a beaver fur-cap and long wampum necklaces and strings of rare been giving this subject partioular and earn bury him." New 1 ork Sun. est study for some time past, and to-night sent the following dispatch to Governor J. wo gins met another, who wore a race becomes very exciting, for then speed counts in reaching the antler first. shells, among them from the California gulf, so valued by the tribes living east of the Rocky mountains. The dress was a red tunic, with bead-work frock, leegings, red and black jersey which was patched in places.

When all are down, the boys count their "uracious me, said one "just Bee what A 1 A- a. Martin, of Kansas. Jeffebsou Citt, April 4, 1S85. Gov. John A.

Martin, Topeka: Your State Veterinary Surgeon. Dr. Hol- winnings, and the victor is, of course, the one who has obtained the greatest I a jersey mat gin nas on. "ihat'fl 110 jersey replied the other. number of antlers.

comb, has ere this doubtless advised you of stockingH, deerskin moccasins with beadwork, and over all a red flannel cloak. All the little creature's toys a china doll, a vase, a pair of mittens, etc. witn connaence. "Yes, it is, too; I guess I know." his observations and views concerning pJeuro-pneumonia, now this btate. "No, it isn't, either; it's an al-darney." The Origin of Music.

The highest mission of music, accord were placed in the cloak. Think of the i 1 1 Caller What a good little boy as Governor of this 8tate, am giving the matter all the attention in my power, and up to date my information is that it only you amount or seii-aeniai in giving up mi those blankets and all that mass of beads are ing to the Boston Musical Herald, is to praise the Creator, and this fact has been recognized even from the most distant cowhidded a young man who refused to. marry her on the day appointed. Little Dick Yeesum. and wampum work 1 The New Yorkers exists in ifeuowsy county, and.