Stafford County Rustler from St. John, Kansas • 2

A FORTUNE IN On P. Stafford (Tountti th pontoffie In St. John ft coni ClHk inittvr. A CUOAN HURRICANE. It Worlt TriHtl mnA Ilvanlatlon Wim Sujiremo.

Suddenly all was flurry and excitement to prepare for tho cyclone that even the very lizard knew was coming. SlfMlge-haninitirs, axes and Immense timbers wore hastily brought Inside the house. We rapidly pre pared to occupy and drtfen 1 the throo front rooms only. Ciriaco brought in some cold moat and bread, brandy, tf'wa-diente. and a pail of water, which were deposited in a corner of tho parlor.

The renr of thn nmo (which was one 'story in hoight, with walls throo feet thick, built of st'no and cement, and with immense bourn of solid cedar sustaining tho stone roof) wa closely barred and secured in the strongest way possible. There was a sudden and hurried rush into the various buildings. Chinese and negroes fled to thoir respective barrncuons and fastened th-jmsolveJ in. Ivmo, with two white men in our employ, and several trusty, stalwart negroc, waited to see that all were protected thoroughly safo as possible, barely allowing themselves timo to rush into the house and close the last window, when the hurricane broke upon us. The wind rose in great, howling gusts, and swooped down and around with tumultuous roar like the booming of cannon.

A rattle and a bang, as though we were being assaulted with battering-rams on one side of the house, and all rushed to the threatened windows to secure them with great solid timbers driven by sledge-hammers into the polished floor, aud forced against the massive panels of the shutters that closed from within. A rushing and a whizzing sound, broken into a prolonged roar, admonished U3 that the wind had veered, and now the opposite windows were threaened; before they could be properly secured, a great rattling and INFANTILE MARRIAGES right 4MI.lri.il of Verf Tulr To Itulleit In Wedlock. Many persons will be considerably astonished to hear how recently our social annalu dlnolosu tho frequency of Juvenile unions in England and Scotland. Wo do not refer to those well-known instances of princes and potentates Ixdiig contracted in marriage while still children and for grounds of state alone, but to the general custom in other chimes to as lato a date as to the lust two centuries. Those marriages were not mere betrothals, but genuine marriages, "In the faoo of tho Church" and duly solemnized according to the Boole of Common Prayer.

Perhaps the youngest bride on record In English annals was tho daughter of Sir William Broroton at the ago of two, to a husband who was a year older than hers df. In this case tho children wero carried into church and their elder spoke for them. But In another case where a littlo boy of throo was married to a bride of five, he was carried by a clergyman, who coaxed him to repeat the necessary formulas. The task was not easy, however, as the child said he had learnt enough lessons for that day before he was half through, and. was only kept up to it by the priest Baying: "You must speak a littlo more, and then go play you." In a further instance recorded in Lancashire the bridegroom was bribed to go to church by the present of an apple.

Frequently the brides were a year or two older than their lords nnd masters, as in the case of Vergery Vernon, who, in 1562 she being nearly ten years old waa married to Handle More, who was but eight. Another record tells of how Gilbert Girard and Emma Talbjt were married at Leigh Church, when the boy's uncle held up the bridegroom, who was five years old, and spoke the words of matrimony for the child's part, and the woman who was not six years of age "spake for herself as sha was taught." It seems incredible that, during the reigns of Henry Edward VL, Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth it was quite customary for persons ot all ranks in life to marry their children at astonishing early ages. But tho Bishop's Registry at Chester not to speak of local records in all parts of England could testify many instances instances, too, among people anxious for the intellectual progress of th ir day. and among- whom sordid reasons for such marriages were not supposed to exist. Wm.

Chaderton, successively Bishop of Chester and Lincoln, a well-known scholar and distinguished ecclesiastic of the reign of Elizabeth, and who was notable for the encouragement he gave to ministers, and his zeal in esiablish-ing lectureships and daily morning prayer, did not scruple to marry his daughter Joan, in 1582. at the age of nine, to Richard Brooke, then nearly eleven. Four years later the marriage waa ratified as was usual in such cases by the consent of the young people, the lengthy documents testifying to the ratification being still extant in the records of Chester. Unfortunately, their early love did not develop into an enduring love, and twenty years later we read that the B.shop had "no great flow rnnr IrUii t.v-r.biirer Kem Person who Imagine the members of tli8 Standard Oil Company are the only itK'n who acquire more than ordinary riches in tho oil business are not acquainted with the laets. The oil country is full of mon who have bo- come wealthy in the oil business, ana never had any connection whatever with tho big Standard.

John Afo- Keovvn, of Washington. 1 reputed to bo tho woalthiost oil producer, and hi flguro is placed at HM'M00, although it 1.4 lilody to bj much more than this. Mr. McKoqwn Is a native of Ireland, and began hlscaroer In this country in the oil regions, coming directly from Castle -Garden to the Pennsylvania oil region during the early excitemont on Oil crook, about 1801. He was entirely without moans, and begun as a day laborer, working for i day, handling a pick and shovel for a man who had contracts for grading oil-well derricks and tank seats.

He soon became a contractor himsolf. and from that got a smull interest in a well which proved to be a good investment Mr. McKeown was pot one of those whoso riches were suddenly acquired. They came to him -slowly, and only through hard work and careful investments. From Oil creek he went to Bradford, in the early days of that development, and thoro he was wonderfully successful.

His operations there wero mostly on the ric'i Dingham lands, where every well was a success. He left Uradford a very rich man. and went to Uu.ler County, buying a small farm not far from Mirtinsburg. Although a small tnict, this was one of the most prolific in the great Butter-field, and Mr. McKeowr.

realized another fortune here. During this time he was making careful investments, mostly in ral estate in Pennsylvania and the West, and these invest-' jaents, so far as is known, have all realized handsomely. Indoel. none of McKeown's friends can point to any considerable investment of his that has not been a pood one. He is a man upon whom fortune always smiles.

His wonderful success in the Washington and Taylorstown oil-fields is fa. miliar to newspaper readers. In tha Washington districc he probably developed the richest spot ever tapped in the Pennsylvania region. It is said that three farias here of which he was the chief ben -ficiary produced worth of oil alone. Mr.

McKeown owns a large amount of valuable city property in Baltimore and Philadelphia, as well as cattle ranches in tha West. He has invested largely in the new Turkeyfoot district, lately opened up by the Bridgewater Gas Company, and if the region comes up to the expectations of the trade he will realize another fortune there. Titusville (Pa.) Letter. MASCULINE JEWELRY. Signet ds the Only Buble of The Wei I-Dressed Man.

"The fashion of wearing jewelry among men is growing to higher points than it reached even in 1881. It was then, you know, the practice reached high-water mark. It attracted a good deal of attention at the time, as prior to that the jewelry of men had been notable mainly by reason ol its absence. The dudos. who suppressed watch-chains, scarf-pins and the like, allowed themselves full liberty in the matter of finger-rings, and from this the general run of clubmen 'took their cues.

Many a fashionable man wore five or six rings on his fingers. The great design then was the snake-ring, and after that what was known as tho glove-ring. The latter consisted of a heavy band of gold, usually square in desif in which were set a diamond with a ruby or sapphire on either side of it. The stones were set well down In the gold and were perfectly flush with the top, so that a man could pull a plove on over the ring without difficulty. PerhaDs the ereatest success which was reached then was when the brace let appeared as a masculine adornment.

The natural result of all this finery wuji that the smaller clerks and cheap Johns of the town followed the suit of their leaders, and the market was flooded with tawdry jewelry. After a time a good healthy reaction set in and men went back to the ring which they always return to." What is that?" It is the old signet ring. I am more or less familiar with the history of jewels, and it has struck me often that this ring, which monarchs of two hundred years ago wore on the first finger of their right hands usually, is the only one which has a staple place in the affections of mankind Not only An nun return to It after they have been led astray by araudy diamonds. and the like, but it is very often the case that the best dressed of those who are the most exquisite about their jewelry give up all sorts of precious stones when they become forty-five or fifty years of age and settle down to the plain signet ring on the third finger of "ir left hanLr-Je weiers' Gazette. Our JJi'iireseiitatirc, TIiouIi Not a Republican Indorses The HUSTLER'S Position Not a i'rohibitionist, but is Opposed to Kesuomission.

The Hutchinson News pent out cards to each of our state lrgisla- tors and out of senators and re.m-enM.vcs ln recc.vc.l, .1 ppo to ve re submission. The following is from Stafford county's ttepreen-tative, Hot. W. M. Campbell, and speaks for itself: Antuim.

Stafford county, jfov, 20. I am opposed to any such nonsense. While I am not a prohibitionist, I regard the cry for resubmission as started by the Kansas City Times, as incipient nonsense. The cunmon peop'e of Kansas are looking forward to our next legislative assemblage for legislation of a thousand times more importance than the 'estion of resubmission. The question free whisky can wait.

I hope Governor Humphrey will pay no attention to this forced agitation, no one need fear that we will lack an issue in the fall of l.s'T.i. will not be forced to go to the state of Missouri for question upon which to make a political campaign. Yours respectfully, M. Campbkll, Representative 94th District The Revolution in Brazil. With the revolution in Brazil the last of the monarchies of the continent has been overturned and an unbroken line of republics stretches from the great lakes to Cape Horn.

There are dependencies of princes in North and South America as Canada in the former section mid Guiana in the latter but no c-owned head any longer bears direct sway over any portion of the Western Hemisphere. The crisis in Brazil has not been alto gether unexpected. Suggestions of its approach have been heard frequently in the past two or three years, but especially since the re- nation of slavery in the empire. It is known, too, that iVia rnval family exneeted it. and were preparing for flight or accept- ii 4 1, auie ui iu Dituiuiuu hiicii me no- ing came which they saw to be inevitable.

But nobody either in or out of Brazil imagined that the storm would come so soon. For decades past the Brazilian Government has been nnachro nism. Surrounded on all sides by countries with 'whose traditions, prepossessions and aspirations the monarchial system is at war, Brazil ha, by reason of its moral and social isolation, been an object of peculiar inter6t to students of politics. From the moment when the last of its neighbors struck off the royal yoke, that country has offered especial and particular pro vocation for the uprising which has now occurred. The considera- ions and influences which post ppned the revolution to this date were the personal popularity of the iperor and the wisdom and progressive spirit which he mani fested in wielding power.

Contrary to the experience elsewhere, reforms in the Brazilian Govern ment began at the top, and not at the bottom. It was the monarch and not the subjects who devised and carried them into execution. Still, although the scepter has been taken from one of the wisest and best of princes, the action is creditable both for moral and poli tical reasons. Brazil has taken a step forward in social anil material developement, and the independent nations of the continent wel come it on it entrance into the fraternity of republics. price, 11.50 year.

Twenty fi triil rt ll If hIU in 'JKT. Tt MKT.I.KM, MiiHhg Kditor. 8T JOIIS, IANKAS, SOVEMHKn 23, 18S9. Ilorf. Wm.

Campbell in ft card to tho Capital last week nays that the KikTLE.a tho Advance both accused him of denying his politico -Th A I denied p-Utienl f.ill. i. is faUo As far the Kcstler is concenreil, it einiply aid that it hid heard of such report, but did not know as to the trutfi of it, nnd it was used in a comparative senso in showing Mr. Campbell's inconsistency politic-ally u9 to fusion. But since Mr.

Campbell is so overly anxious to rake up an old and place himself upon the defensive, we are inclined to think that there is mere truth in the matter than we had accredited to it. As for the charge as hell," we know there are thousands of good people these United States who believe that according to the good book hell is a dreadful and terrible certainty. Better not be a clam, Brother Campbell. In you arriving yourself personally agaiust a public journal you will remind people generally, of the bovine attempting to butt the engine off the track. They may admire your pluck, but will deplore your judgment.

A Washington dispatch states that the State Department hss midc arrangements to send to Europe an agent in the interest of the universal remonetization of silver. The dispatch adds that it is well understood in Washington that Mr. Blaine is strongly in favor of a mre liberal coinage of silver One would suppose on general cases that this was the case. An American of Mr. Blaine's stamp could not help srfing and appreciating the great benefit that would accrue to the country from increased coinage of silver.

What should we think of a propo tilinn ta flpnrcr-iflta the Value of American wheat? Yet American whal. in nn more a nroduct of, American soil than is silver dug! i Vi tlnca from American mines. Yet those who are crying out against silver are doing their best to lessen the value of this American product. If they should succeed in their crusade against hat product success would place millions of dollars in the pockets of John Bull at the expense of the United States, Senator Regan of Texas in an in terview the other day showed how newspapers like the New York Times, the New York Herald, and other pro-British organs are helping England by their opposition to silver. "I do not doubt," says Senator Regan, "that the demonetization of silver and its subsequent partial remonetization has enabled the people of Great Britain to make vast sums of money by pui chasing our undervalued silver and recoiningit into rupees for use in India at par.

We are guilty of great folly in contracting our own circulation and thus aiding the English speculators. We should rather secure the advantage of the silver coin in our country. By demonetizing silver we have enabled the English to buy it at alow price and to purchase the products of India at par. To illustrate further We enable them to make large purchases of cotton and wheat from India, and in so much reducing our own exports of thene commodi- ties." It no wonder that Mr Blaine, entertaining the views he does, is opposed to having this sp cies of swindle on his- country. Irish World howling at the door drove every one with axes, sledge-hammers a id timbers to the front of the house.

So the wind whirled round and round, stopping ai every door window to blow a louder and more startling blast. Like a great giant battling for admission, or a besieging army attacking first on one side, then on another, then around at once, in the determinatioa to carry the defenses by storm, the merciless wind fought. We knew only too well that if it gained admission, the house wo ild be wrecked; one of its mighty blasts could lift the very stone roof. Meanwhile, except for a single candle in a corner, so shielded for fear of sudden gusts that it only served to make darkness visible, we were without any light. A panel a few Inches square, hung on hinges in a front shutter, was our only means of obtaining a glimpse of the outside world, and we dared not open this while the storm was doing its utmost For thirty hours we bravely and unceasingly defended the beseiged castle thirty hours of mortal terror and incessant vigilance before the giant, with one last, deafening howl, diminished the force of the attack, and gave us one moment peace, cautiously takinghurried peeps through the little panel, while the tornado was whirling with fearful imoetuositv through a roseate atmosphere, the very wind seemed a tangible pink element, sweep ing everything before it.

Debris of every kind was being borne upon its mighty wings. Great sheets of. metal roofing from the sugar-house went careering alon? like scraps of paper; huffe palm trees whirled aloft and away like straws; while tiles, bricks, and smaller objects sailed with light- ninsr rapiditv across the horizon like motes in a breeze, so utterly insigni ficant were they in the grasp ot tne miffhtv element. A few holes wrenched through the strong stone roof of the house, gave access to the rain, tnat now poured down in blinding floods, and we were soon like Noah's dove, flying in vain search of a dry spot. When at last, after thirty hours of jxhaustive battle and mortal alarm, ur doors were once moie thrown jpen.

the scene of desolation was be-ond all powers of description. The Kundless fields of waving cane, that lelighted our eyes only two days before, had entirely disappeared; beaten flat lown by the wind, the rapidly descending waters rushed completely over ihem. The sugar-house was wholly jnroofed. and for days broad strips of the metal, bent as though Vulcan's aammer had beaten them into a thou-jand fantastic shapes, were brought from the fields hundreds of yards away. Rock fences had been dashed to pieces stnd the fragments strewn over the ttelds.

The proud army of majestic palms that had for so many decades atood guard of our entrance, lost twenty of its bravest veterans. Desolation was every where supreme! From "Flag to Flag: a Woman's Ad ventures and Experiences in tae souu During theWar." The man who thinks he can heave In h. few toddios. and go home and de ceive his wife into an idea that be is nuit sober, is worse fooled than he thinks she is. Milwaukee Journal comfort of that matrimony" of his only daughter, and that she was separated from her husband.

It sometimes happens, when years of consent were attained, twelve for the girl and fourteen for the boy, that the child bride and child bride groom disliked each other so heartily that they refused to ratify the contract, and then an action for divorce was un dertaken and the marriage declared void. Juvenile marriages in those days were fortunately always voidable. and whore it could be proved, tnas there had been no renewal of promise, no exchange of gifts, messages or meeting between the children, the union was annulled, and each was set iree. The divorce court was at that time. the scene of many appeals from tho most useful couples until about the be ginning of the seventeentn century.

when StrvDe notes that "the nation De- came scandalous for the frequency of diverces, especially among tne ricner sort, and one occasion was the covet-onsness of the nobility and gentry, who used often to marry their cnuaren whnn thev were vounsr boys and girla that they might join land to land, and. being grown up, they many times aia-HU-nd iuih other and then separation and divorce followed to the breaking of espousals and displeasure of Uoo. London Tid-Bits. v. Manchester Mirror a.

1 1 id in says that the wealthiest town of n.V1 tia. size in America is 5I of which the assessment valuation i. $407,454,028. The distinction claimed "orBrooklinehasbeen Rurally supposed to belong to Canajoharie, in thia State. That village is very small in caparison with the MasachuseUa town aud the number of resident there who are many time millionaire.

considerably greater than can bo Wanted on tie fingers of both hand.