The News from Harper, Kansas • 1

1 Subscribe for the Danville News. $1,00 per year, Danville in the interests of Danville and Harper County, JO JU J. C. ELVIN Editor and Pub. DANYILLE, KANSAS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 26, 1899.

VOL. 1. NO. 30 Atchison Topeka Santa Fe TIME CARD. EAST BOUND.

Passenger .4:15 p. Freight 3 a. WEST BOUND. Passenger 11 :36 a. m.

Freight. 8 :40 a. m. AjflflLtB HEWS. Rllli 81111 a Q) O) In the sugar market enables us to sell for the coming week LOCAL GLEANINGS: ml Mr.

Drouhard drove to Harper aflolaro ated Saturday. Mr. McKeever made a 'business trip to Caldwell Monday, ar Mr. Nevins will teach the school the coining term. Also Sharp Declines in Other Staples.

II Dolds sugar cured bacon per pound 9c. HUNTERS CREAM FLOUR perhund. $165 Miss Nettie Coleman is in town this week the guest of Mrs. Bick-ford. Mrs.

Wyckoff of Canadian Tex. is visiting her parents Mr. and Mrs. Snead. Mr.

Kevins moved his family into the property racated by Mr. Mericle. Ham Sausage per pound 8 1-3 cents. ESS? Si Father Sullivan went to Medicine Lodge Monday, returning Saturday. Mrs.

Sadie Wilson went to Anthony Saturday to visit her aunt, Mrs. Jay cox. Mens Hats, Boys Hats, Ohildrens, Hats, all new prices irom. 25c to 3.50. Mens Gloves, Ladies Gloves, Boys Gloves, Just in.

Prices from 25c. to $1.50. Mens Shoes, Boys Shoes, Ladies shoes, Ohildrens shoes just in prices from 25c. to $3.50. Pi Miss Zulu Cline of Danville will teach the Pilot Knob school the coming term.

lap Miss Maud Hamilton of Conway Springs visited at the home of Mrs. Coleman a few days this week. Queens ware, Glassware, Stoneware. In these we have the largest, best and cheapest assortment west of Kansas City. Galvonized Tinware.

Our prices on this line are the lowest to be found in Harper County. Mens Shirts Pants and Overalls. This line was never more complete or the prices lower than now. MLY. NE.

I EFFECT vrFOR Mr. Harve Mericle and family jnoved to the farm of Mr. Seiss where they will make their home for the present. Mrs. Parker and children after spending several weeks visiting Mrs.

McKeever and family returned to their home in the strip Monday. The Willing Workers will meet Wednesday afternoon, at 2 Aug. 30th, at the home of Mrs. Henry Kendall. Mrs.

S. M. Brown, Illlltl if 111111 in littli lips SitS PRIMITIVE CHRONOLOGY. HARPER ITEMS. BY It, J.

Mrs. Myra Tory was visiting in Thursday. Eddie Mackey has been quite sick for the past few days. Wireless Telegraphy on Ship. It is reported that the Marconi system of telegraphing without wires is to be tried on a French warship.

Sluice storms and other atmospheric disturbances have no effect in arresting the messages passing through the air, it is believed that the system can be applied to signalling among the ships of a squadron, and to similar uses at sea. A copper wire whose upper end is ele The little daughter of Mr. Hoben has been quite sick for the past week. liobt. Moore who has been confined to his bed for the past week on account of being kicked by a -colt is much better and it is to be hoped that the little fellow will soon be out again.

Mrs. Cyrus Babcock is confined to her bed this week with an atttack of vated 20 feet will send or receive a message over a distance of a mile. The fever. to them. The Encomiast editor says that we are a poor excuse for a printer.

He probably forgot how he tried to hold the position as job man on Sentinel, under Burgess, and not being competent we took the job. Seeing how insignificent he was, being totally ignored by all the county papers, he was persuaded by some unscrupulous Pop. politicians, to move to Anthony, who thinking that through the columns of his dirty sheet would work themselves into some county position; "What fools these' mortals be." Mat his is now in Anthony and still ontinues to issue the pamphlet as a Pop paper, receiving articles each week from the pen of cordingly invested in a small, worn out outfit and tried to run a job office; failing in this he traded the outfit for a phonopraph and went through the country, billing country school houses for entertainments, and being of a sluggish nature, thought in this way to gain a livelyhood without work. Failure once more greeted him. He was such a wonderful freak of nature that he drove his audiences away in terror.

Trading his phonograph for a bicycle he drifted to Oklahoma and was for a time lost track of. Mathis got into some kind of a shooting scrape while in and some how, we think by mistake, shot his man, and from that time on poses as a bad man. Mrs Baoe left Saturday for Emporia. Mrs. Al Weatherly returned Tuesday from Connersville, Ind.

Mrs. Anna Martin and daughter Grace are visiting in Wichita. James Pullman, an old pioneer of the city is visiting Harper friends. Bruce Harm an, a former resident, living in Sedgwick, is visiting in Harper. County Attorney McColloch was over from Anthony Tuesday cn legal business.

Dan Holliday ia in town every week repairing his political fence yet the office seeks the man. Walter Osborn, who was so severely hurt by falling from a tree, is able to be out again. Mrs, Burke and son to Danville Saturday after spending one month visiting in Michigan. Mrs. Burke reports Mrs.

Thompkins, who has been ill, to be much better. distance then Increases as the square of the elevation, a wire 40 feet high sufficing for a distance of four miles, and one 80 feet high for a distance of 16 miles and so on. From the top of the Eiffel Tower, in Paris, an attempt is to be made to send a wireless message to England, over a distance of 230 miles. The tower Is 84 feet in height, a far greater elevation than necessary for the distance, according to the rule just stated. But the wire on the English coast is only 150 feet high.

Tn Mexico Months Are Named After tbe Arrival of" Birds. -The most primitive method in chronology Is that which enables man to orient himself in the world of time by associating particular with vicissitudes of weather, with seasonal aspects of vegetation, and with the constantly changing sights and sound3 of the animal world, cays Popular Science Monthly. In the calendar of the Crees, for example, we find such designations as "duck-month." "frog-mocm," "leaf -moon." "berrles-rlpo month." "buffalo-rutting moon," "leaves entirely changed," "leaves la the trees," "fish-catching moon, "moon that strikes the earth cold," "coldest moon," "ice-thawing moon, "eagles-seen moon." So in the calendars of Central America and Mexico the months are named variously after the arrival of birds, the blossoming flowers, the blowing of winds, the return of mosquitoes and the appearance of fishes. The Greeks constantly used the movements of birds to mark the seasons; the arrival of the swallow and kite were thus noted. Hesiod tells us how the cry of the crane signaled the departure of winter, while the sitting of the pleiades gave notice to the plowman when to begin his work.

The In-cas called Vend "the hairy," on account of the brightness of her rays, just as the Peruvians named her the "eight-hour torch," or "the twilight lamp," from the time of her shining Next week we will publish the address delivered by Father Sullivan reunion day at Danville. Mrs William Seiss left Thursday after coon for an extended visit at her old home in Mt. Pleasant, NOTICE Is hearby given that a primary to nominate a Populjst ticket, for Odell township, will be held at Albion schoolhouse, on Saturday, Sept, 9th 1899, at p. m. Ep.

Stukns, Committeeman. Emiel Martin contemplates engaging in the mercantile business and will occupy the room of Mott McKee. IL M. Keif ers' son, 16 years of age Charley Burke, John Snead and Marvin Cline have left the village. Don't be uneasy, the boys will return.

died in Winfield, was brought home Partial Biography, wouhl-be politicians, dime novel and i cigarette fiends. That the Pops; should recognize the Encomiast as a Populist paper is more thanL we can understand. We think that this Mathis, if he had the sense of a mosqueto, would be just a little mild while in Anthony; the place where at one time he Ijad. to vacate for running a gambling house and a poker room, and burned in the Harper cemetery Saturday. Adams, a printer of Wichita, was The World's Army Rations.

A Japanese soldier is allowed seven ounces of meat In his rations, an Austrian or Spanish private eight, a French, Turkish, German, or Eelgian, nine; an Italian, eleven, a Briton twelve, a Russian sixteen. The ration In the United States Is twenty ounces. The ration of bread In the United States Is twenty ounces. The ration of bread Is the highest in the Austrian army, thirty-two ounces, and lowest In the British, sixteen ounces. In the German army it Is twenty-eight ounces, in the French and Italian It is twenty-two.

the same in the United States; and in the Russian army seventeen ounces, ill mod era armies, save Russia, have also a daily allowance of rice. Miss Mary Williams left Saturday for Wichita, where she will go into the wholesale millinery house for new styles, and from there he will go to Halstead, brought before Justice Broadstone Saturday, charged with abducting his boy and threatening the life of his wife. He Mathis returned to Harper about one year ago and once again, being persuaded by a few broken down politicians, embarked in the printing business, starting the Encomiast. Not having work on the pamphlet sufficient to keep him steadily employed he spent bis spare lime working in Briggs bicycle shop, and while there made a specialty of fixing and loading dice for the Harper sports this great expounder of reform. The pamphlet was published in Harper about six months and each week came out with its silly roasts and was sent broad cast over the country as a forerunner of his (Mathis) final insanity.

The columns of the pamphlet are open to all classes of people, and when in Harper it was filled a was held under $300 bond, Crost of Silver Creek, Republican j.n conclusion we win oner wis i Kans.a where she has accepted position as milliner. To Tonrhen Them. Monsieur Caiino took his son to sea the animals at the Zoo. The young" man asked: "Is it papa that orang-utans cannot endure our climate?" "They endure it perfectly, my son," was the reply, "but they have to be stuffed first. candidate for treasurer, was in town Wednesday and left a good impression.

I have taken the agency for the Waverly and Ivanhoe Special bicycles. They are the best wheels made for the money. All wishing to buy a good substantial wheel at a very low price will please call and see me at Elvin's Elmer Wjlliams. Hearing; Is Knowing. hear Miss Squallini has a very fine voice." "I guess you didn't hear it, or you would know better." While cursing his daughter for marry rug against his wishes, a Texas man.

was stricken with death. We have been asked a great many questions of late about the phenomenal youth, Mathis, of the we will give a short biograply of the woulcLbe print from his advent into the printing businsss until the present time. Some seven or eight years ago we were employed on the Harper Graphic, and being in need of a devil, persuaded Mathis to go into the office to learn the trade. He had not been at the business but a short time when we saw that he would never make a printer and advised him to take up some other business telling him to go to some city and get a job driving a garb age wagon or as stake driver with some circus. He, being of a kind of muleish disposition, of course refused.

"We' must here apologize to the printing fraternity for being instrumentle in letting such a drone as this man Mathis get into the trade, and be recognized as a printer. After working under us for about two months this brainless youth thought he was a full fledged printer, and decided to go into business iur himself. He ac $dvice; not that we have any personal sympathy for Mathis, but for the good of the trade and commi-, nity at large. "Mathis," dont be made a laughing stalk of any longer, get out a local paper, and when those dime novel and cigarette fiends come in with their manuscript kick them out, take the News and the rest of the county papers, read them carefully and learn thereby, and some time in the far off future you may be competent of holding the position as devil on the Panville News. We feel that we owe an apology to the Editor and the many readers of the News for taking up so much space on such an inferior subject, piomising that never again will we pollute our pen to such an extent.

Harry Kelly. with productions from the pen of a few sore politicians, who were defeated for office in the last city J. K. WILSON i Pioneer Druggist of Harper Gousif y. (878.

Will be found at the old stand in Anthony Kansas. Carries the largest stock of Drugs, election, and each week wrote articles attacking the city officials. These parties had not the nerve Harry Whitney and Dick Seth-man returned last week from the Klondike, where they spent a year in a fruitless search for riches. They came back looking well and made enough to pay expenses, so may be considered ahead, taking into account the experiences they had. They hired out one month for $260 each and paid 100 per month for board.

They were glad to return to their homes in Southern Harper county. Manchester Journal, to sign their names and so they went as the grand productions of the furtile biain of this mutton (Seo. XD. 5mcfy, ttorneij at Harper, Kans. Collections made in Harper, Barber and Kingman Counties.

OFFICE Uq stairs in Baumstark Blk Paints, Oils and G-lass in the county. He head (Mathis). Mathis spent a great deal of his time in trying to roast the News, but his roasts were so utterly foolish that no one paid any attention has prices that will compete with any in the state. B. Cline has been visiting in the country for the past week..