The Peru Eagle from Peru, Kansas • 3

The IvAdl.K mid (ho Kansas City I'Kitr ftt MAiii.Kr. Coi rvcti'd weekly by K. Kcefer. Dully Evening im tint year for ti.m, HS.KINCI NOTORIETY. 'ealg Wtin WrllaTii-lr Vntr oa Win-duw, urullura ami Treat, What for dot a inan want to wrlU bis name everywhere bo goo, mul on Puvls deck Alliiinci' iipmi to be In mHH'riiH condition.

Theim-m THE PERU EAGLE. Published Every Friday. TiOwvji RuiTdit A Pi'im. UISSCIMITION, tl I'KIt YKAIt. TKUU KAN iHTinre nil working IihiiiioiiIoiikIv unl Hike) hfiiitg Chickens.

eviry thing which offers a blank spaou they arc const nut adding i.ew iiirin Cash. Trade. w-r Pi int lo. iitf bent tn the nrdr. It luetic thing another to fulfill.

Many ruilioad lines riVr inni li and letilly give hllli. W-d hnsim-M differently. Just try our liaudHniucid train in the world, w'lii runs lily ln-iWMii Cliiciigo and Denver, without ban-e. i.ud see If II is.iiut jiml liitli it nlvr than yon had uuth-lputL-d. Out new vestibule sleepers are tin iiiMilei sumptuously and daintily.

They ui' supplied with everything that ministers to pleasure aud i-oiifoii. T. Nicholson, J. Byrne. ti.lWT.

A.U.P.&T. A. Topi'kii. Kits. Chicago, 111 lltllM Spilugt lib kens, tudiiiiuy Flunk Kenesson mill wife mid Win Council Mini Ife ramo In on the ciii Entered at I lie pmt lllt at Pern Km.

hm second class mutttT. I. morning triiln from Si-dun hist Sunday iiml spent the flay ns guest of Mr. mid 1 1 cm. tmliitaiy s-t dx.

tVhrut Cantor I lea lis Fiax 7U)e l.i UjU Mi.J. I), htfveim. a iiy. Knst Bound Trains. THE FRENCH CREOLES.

Born of tit pMulloriUas of TUl Simple Minded Pimple, The French Creole) of tho lower clans oro a band-to-mouth class of people, purchasing tho slick of wood today and the handful of herbs that aro to cook and season their potugo, filling their sinHll market baskets with Innumerable pinches of this, that and tho other, luylng in a fow sous of sugar and coffee ut a tlmo, and going next day, for three hundred and sixty-Ave days in tho year, and doing identically tho same thing, la sa.eula savuloruin. DUllko to tho accumulation of household goods, to woll-storod cellars and pantries, to genorous abundance, to picturesque profusion, to tho essentials of a largo-handed hospitality ovon within tho narrow limits of their neighborhood acquaintances, an ant-llko economy and abstemiousness, a curious juxtaposition of etornal self-restraint and a passion for sensations, colors, sounds, perfumes, fnnlastlo sensualities, an instinct for inicroscopio money-getting cnoiigu ior ins atiiogrnpnr Does anybody cure t-i knew thut John Smith, of Hickory Cnx visltod Niagara Fails, Augut til. Ihhn, thut ha need to-put hllimeif to the ti oilld- of recording that met on every UiiicU and blank wall and brldgo-rult all around tho Fulls No matter what locality wo Kit wo find tho names of previous visitors recorded on every available spot. Sometimes a sentimental verse Is ndod. by wny of Illustration; and u-mj of Scripture and theological quite common.

a Hotel windows sudor fearfully from this craze, body who owns a Tho old year imascd out nmld htonn ao. vvi passenger n-p. in. No. ai Mixed 12:50 n.

ni. of ruin, thunder and lifditidnir itnd Hie West boiuul trains. new year was uhered In wit a col CM u. m. north wind, wuno huow and a general u.

in. No. SH passcuger No. 91.1 iiixrt.l All trains dally. K.

bile Cn ii 4Ju Coin 40o iSKj Fred Kivfer I buying wheat, flax, castor beans, corn and oats. It ill pay you to ace him Indole you sell, Notick. all around freeze up. 12. Dcnn.Agt.

Hio bull ana supper given by the MO. PAC. RAILWAY. 'III 4'aumjr 'H. L.

II. McPheroii and Mrs. Maiub Whitney were mnrrisd on Chrixtiuus by J. 1). Mcliriau.

May tho coming years bring health, prosarity and hap- pillOhH. O. P. I'k'ker secured tbo necessary consent of Judge Speed to wed Mb Anna McConiicll. Ol has withstood tbe wiles of all tho fair ones in bis sec Modern Woodmen lust Wednesday 1)1 v.

I). M. Si A. night was well attended considering the Inelcinnnry of the weather. Tbo net m.

receipt wore aUiut 82UX). in. Bound Tin Ins. No. 4K-2 l'nssciiger No.

4S4 Mixed 11. u. WcHt lioiind TraiiiH. No. 4Hl 1'iissciigcr p.

No. 4-13 Mixed p. 8. J. Johnson bus built tbo finest in.

tion for quite uwhlle but ut last was in. chicken house la tbo county. It is 1 taken captive by a pair of bright eyes. by 20 and eight foot story, all nicely L. V.

Aire JinkDiv. Jiortli Bound Trains. On Sunday the USt ut he residence siuoil up with doors niiil windows, shin No. Mixed in. of the bride's mother in this city, V.

glod roof and tbo wholo building nicely wclUol to an Instinct that has filled Kew Orleans with noble Institutions for tho poor, tho blind! tho sick, tho world woury; a passion for novels and for splendid churches, a fond endurance of rigors of cold and hunger for tho brilliant efflorescence of euro Mcwrow ana aiiss Kliiknilo were painted, and ho intends having it married by Probate Judge Speed. plastered. WeHt Jtoiuul TniiiiH. No. 4Wi Mixed 8:40 p.

in. All trains run daily. Win. Spc-tr, Supt. J.

I'. Jarvls, Agent. sumptuous wedding fcust was spread to which the immediate friends only were A. J. Jones contcmplutos putting in a cotton gin and food mill this season invl ed.

The groom is a sou of deputy 10ti I O. O. F. Peru Irftdgo No. meets every Saturday nlirht.

All herifr V. T. while the bride is vis- A purl Ir having uci units on the liooks kept by Kills, are earnestly requested to cull and Mt'lilcwith li Baker, at once. 11 Kl.LlH. Fi.vn II () Lyster ns some extra line short homed calves for wile If you want to improve your stock call aud see these calves at tbe Peru Mills Whrre HMIa Ihr nnm.

California, Washington itnd Oregon are having ii 1msii on solid basis this year. The country Is fast filling up with farmer. Business Is lively in all branches. If you happen to lie one of the many who are thinking of taking a trip to the Pacific Coast for pleasure or business write to G. T.

NictaJson, G. I. T. A. A.

T. K. F. U. 11., To-peka, Kansas, for Pacific Const lite, ntiiie; or apply to local ugent.

Santa Fe mute aud leai all particulars about personally conducted parties. A QUESTION ANSWEIIKD. What is a Pullman tourist sleeper? It is comfortable ski'ping car, With Would it not bo to the interest of on citizens to make an effort to have thl is one one of Chautauqua's fai rest school Ring brothers in good standing are niarms. gin and mill located here? Every en I. 11..

A ierpne umi can ue induced to come Mrs. Huff, a widow from Wauneta, vui uiaujr in viieu to attend. O. If. Inglelleld sect.

Metz N. U. M. W. A.

Cainn Vo. 117(1 meet here will help to build up our town lost one one of herhorses htst SHt ur- lay. She came to town and put her Now we hope that the business men of tho town will not lot this chance puss I. O. O.

F. ball Teusdnv night, Nov. IS and alternate Tuesday nights thereafter All visiting member in (rood standing team in tho stable of 1). K. Rhartel and diamond seems possessed wiih a mania for writing with It on gla-m wo have even seen the abomination on plate-glass.

Hie Idea of scratching up mul defacing windows which do not belong to you In that way! The man who will bo guilty of such snobbery ought to be brought into court aud lined, liko any other criminal. Railway car windows aro )ocullarly subject to this kind of dbtflguromunt. Not long slnco wo saw written on the window of a railway car this interesting and instructive legend i Wo sll mutt din nd go away To either bcavt-a or lit-11 to ioy. Till writ with a diumoiid ring, And James 1 Miiy be own the thing." And wo hereby give notico that, in our opinion, the said James Miiy is a jackass, and his mother must bo proud that he livod through tho whooping-cough, and moasles, and mumps lived to bloss this world and the rest of creation with his presence. He Is a credit to hor aud to all the family.

Now, what we want to know Is what people indulgo in this kind of thing for? What makes you want to have your name out in uneven letters on a bench? Why do you want to see your autograph on somebody's window? Why do you want to scratch your initials on every rock from Maine to Florida? What for? We suppose It is none of our business, but we can not help asking tho question. It has always been done, and It always will bo, probably; but. In tho name of railway companies and hotol-kocpers, wo ask you to let the windows and tho looking-glasses alone. You without making an effort to bavo Mr, in soiiio manner one of the horses broke Jones locate thin gin and mill here. its neck.

A. (1. Niles 'started a sub scription paper Sunday morning and uie coruiuiiy juviieii ui lllieild. U.K. Dkan, Clerk.

It. I. Ill LI-MAN, V. C. CHURCH DIRLCTORY.

There is some complaint among some In less than two hours had secured the of our siiliscrilcr.H aliout not getting money, purchased a borso.fortlio lady Christian Church. Eld. MeHrinn and started her homo rejoicing- of I pastor. Preaching every second VSiindav of eaeli montb. Kundav their paper.

Just, whose fault it is we are unable to pay. The papers are mailed regular every week. If anyone that fails to get their paper will please such is tho kingdom of heaven. school every Sunday at loo'clock a. ni.

Tho spirit of gambling seems to have out expensive nphobtoriug, Justs lit to the purposes for which it was drop us a card we will try and And meprcnaut and carnival, a voluntary exilo from all laughter and joy that their feet may twlnklo a night rr two on tho mirrored floors ot tho mnsquo balls down in Churtres and Royal streets; such aro tho fragments of sweet and bitter herbs that -go to make up part of tho paradox of Creolo character and communicate to it an indefinable piquancy and strangeness by their thick bars of light and shadow. The chief charm of the character la a touching gontleness and benignity that blends all other character isties and por-moutoJ the wholo constitution of the native Creole. There is something elegiac, tender, dreamy about the race, a remnant or recollection of earlier and better days, an aroma of exilo coming from old colonial times, when so many emigrated from the guy fatherland to the trackless wilderness of Louisiana, seeking their fortunes. Disappointment seems to have impressed itself as a trait of heredity on their spiritual make up; a brooding languor has spread from the luxurious climato through tho limbs and constitution of the immigrants, tho adventurous spirit of the marvelous brothers Bienville, Iborvillo and Sauvaile, laid under po: pctual embargo by a Chincso wall of swamp, bayou and boguo, has sunk Into a cu lous psychological numbness and content with surroundings; geography, exploration, literature, research, travel (beyond the inevitable transit to i raneo ouco in a seized our people.Arley Dennis and GeorgeHurst; started the fun with' TV ethodist Episcopal. ltev.

Flickinirer. Pastor. whose fault it is. and we will make in J- -i-Preacdiina at tbe Cliurcli nearly one hundred turkeys 'all of the time they have IrFt by not receiving designed. sit reuse, Is ddiug aid curtain bandy liiurb table; nul necessary toilet which were disposed bv shootinc their paper.

every other Sunday at 11a. and everv Sunday at 7:80 p. m. Class hce throwing, high five, etc. The boys meetinir at close oi moi iiinir service.

articles, are all there. Nome Thing we would Mice to Ave. Praver meetinir every Tliursdav realized a nice profit on tho birds and Everything i clean and tidy by nigl'it at 7:30. Sunday School at 10 ve woiiiu iiKe to see our town lm our sports hud the fun. a comK'iniit porter.

prove more this year than It did in thr And now comes Harry Turner and a. in. LOGAL AND GEBtRAL. 'I'lic i Fu Route uses Pullinau past year. proposes to ranio or a norso, ana one loiiriNi cat's on ito line to Pacific const.

We would like to see every liody pros man bus even offered to put up bis Thomte keepn tirst class boots and perous and happy. mother-in-law and all her old clothes. slioes. A pretty bttlo folder, dcMiribiug in detail the many advantages ol ravel-inir in touri-t fclxntcrs, can bo had by we would like to see the business Eld. J.

C. Iloss was viewing the eights Edgar Ferguson lias gone to Seattle, houses closed on Sunday. havo no more right to thus disfigure hereabouts last-Tucsday and of course Washington. We would like to see less profane culled on your correspondent, not as language used on our streets and in our R. K.

Blake of Havana, was in this them than you have to paint your business card on tho frescoes, and thus announce that "Tom Brown Sells Empire Soap!" one of tho sights however. business houses: city Wednesday. Tho public installation of Masonic We would like to see the throwing of If you want to leave your name in a Litciary every Tuesday night at the officers last Saturday night was a pleas dice and the playing of cards abolished conspicuous place, have somo sign Floyd school bouse. ant affair. Judge McDormot, of Win- we would like to see neighbors be boards painted, and pay a man to pa Busiuess men will now make their field, delivered tho principal address and J.

D. McBrian conducted the cere friendly and sociable. trol the streets with thorn; or have thorn displayed on tbe tolograph dates 01 instead of 90. We would like to see everybody work mony of installation. polos, and the traveling publlo will bo Literary every Thursday night at for the good of our town and commun Jjr.

u. w. Aictiugu nas openea an pleased and interested to read thorn as the Oakland school house. ity. office in tho building just west of the they flash by.

nddreiwiiig T. Nicholson, G. P. T. A Kansas.

L. H. VORE. AUCTIONEER Will cry sales at reasonable rates. Ad' dress him at Havana Kansas, or leave orders at this ollice.

0. M. SLAFVK, PROPRIETOR OF ity Meat Market A supply of fresh meat 'and bird con staidly on band. Give me a call. PERU KANS Mrs.

Hatch will take all kinds of pro First National Bunk aud will attend all No living man wants his windows or IiOWt. lifetime) aro unknown luxuries to these lotus-eating folk, and in their wuy thoy are as still in their sunny corner as tho Bun-loving alligator thut haunts their streams. The customs, games and sports of those exiles nro full of reminiscences of tho fatherland, mingled with odd accretions and aftergrowths, a clinging conservatism, a poetic susceptibility. There aro songs and ClirNtmus customs smacking of Guscony, Provence, Champagne, San Domingo, Frauche-Comte, duce in exchange for goods. callslpromptly.

Christmas Is goue and still we have beautiful weather. The colorod people had a fine time at Floyd and linker have just recived a full line of boots and shoes. their baU last Monday night. Lou Your correspondent got a Christinas present of a ten dollar bill from his F. Thorn ae has received a choice lot Kilmer says he never enjoyed himself better and that the dance was a suc doors or eetteos defaced by tho efforts of his visitors to secure a cheap notoriety.

You do not buy your landlord's house and grounds when you enter your name on his hotel register, or whon you settle your weokly bill. You have no more right to scratch up his windows and walls than you have to do the same thing in tho house of the friond whore you are visiting. If you mother in Linn county, Missouri, of TEAS call and get prices. What is home without a mother? cess and Lon knows what it takes to make a "coon dance" successful. J.

P. Jarvis expects to occupy the such a- linger in Canada and form We think that a railroad station that house recently vacated by Geo. Geesa touching links with the folk over the Hon. Dick liowe.is registered at the gets as much passenger traffic as does sea. J.

A- Harrison, in Autrefois. man. Lowe station ought to have a depot for Occidental. Dick has many friends in Sedau. the accommodation of the people on We wish one anil all of our many readers a happy and a prosperous new Sunday-School Teacher (touching must try your diamonds on glass, why not take a small window along with you and experiment to your heart's rainy days but the railroad company Judgo Speed married our old friend her bosom) "Johnny, don't you feel year.

only seems to be accommodating where bad in here when you have been doing content? It will afford you amuse there is competition, depot and sid John Rorigers to Airs. Carrie Foster last Tuesday evening at the residence of John Drosins. ment, and every body who soos you at The wheat crop in this vicinity is looking flno and appears to be in good ing at this place would undoubtedly be work will know that you have dia wrong?" Johnny (bashfully) "JJo in, ma uses tho back of a brush and takes me over her knee." Burlington Freo Press. M. L.

ELLIOTT HARNESS, SADDLES, CO LARS, WHIPS, monds, and so your end will be at condition. George Mills camo in from Grafton a great benefit to the people and a profitable investment for the road. tained. Kate Thorno. in N.Y.

Weokly, Tim lodge of Modern Woodmen at this place seems to grow and ilourish "Sir," said Bho, "do you expect The farmers in this vicinity are plow lasf Wednesday and sought the assistance of Judge Speed in a matter concerning himself and a certain young INTERESTING LIZARDS. ing ingood earnest. Bent Goode is done like a green bay tree. and W. W.

Sanborn and Mrs. Pease are ady on North Cana, We promised Repairing a speciality. Barber shop in connection PKitu Kans. recullarltle of the Asiatic Chameleon and the African Gecko. Among the many families of lizards, well along.

mo, a saleslady at lapoly as axon dry-goods emporium, to marry a common clerk?" 'I am not a common clerk," ho answered; "I am a sales-gent." She foil into his arms and murmured 'I am thine." Terre Don't fail to subscribe tor the City Weekly ST A It. Only 25 cents George that we wouldn't tell that the the young lady's name was McAffo and and almost innumerable species, two Mr. Howard Khoades is at home on a a year. Leave orders at this oillce. of tho most interesting are tho chamo- so" we wont.

But all the same George visit. Howard is an estiniublo young you have tho best wishes of Haute Express. John Buckels is selling a patent known as tbe Atmospheric which man and is a welcome visitor both at home and among the neighbors, espec Mns. SHANDY. seems to.be giving qood satisfaction ially at Mr.

Dennicks. loon and the gecko, of Asia and Africa. The first of these has long been famous for its power of changing color; but this has been somewhat exaggerated. As a fact, however, a chameleon whoso primary hue is gray black, will sometimes bo striped like a zebra, with light Wm. Bukius, Pko.

GOOD ROOMS ALL Mrs. McCorklo "John, dear, the doctor's sermon this morning was from tho text, 'Ye are the salt of the Whore do you suppose I can SCHOOL AND CHURCH. John Pease came home from Kan Miss Dollie Mehaffey of Cedar Vale came over Saturday evening and spent a short time visiting with her aunt, -The trustees of Mount Holyoke NEAT AND CLEAN sas City to spend the holidays with his family. He is an All iauce man at heart find the passago?" Mr. McCorklc Mrs.

J. D. Stevens. and says we are doing a noble work if Seminary and College met at Northampton lately and choso Miss Mary A. Brigham, of Brooklyn, N.

'presi I yellow, or covered with circular yol-! low spots, sometimes a brilliant green, Anl tuiiiifched with good teds. Tables always furnished -with the best the market affords. S. S. Maple went to Independence we only stand together, will have the help aud sympathy of the Kuights of one dav this week to see the man Baker Labor, Federation of Labor and all other labor organizations.

that left his livery bill of unpaid He settled by taking a note. dent of the college. The action was taken under the reorganization of the seminary, with a new charter for women. Miss Brigham has for twenty-seven years been associate STEVENS. Let every member of our noble order who loves its principles and objects, Dr.

Medearis was in town Wednesday night, and ate oysters with tho Woodmen. Doc says that he never got but principal of Prof. West Brooklyn Physmae Surgeon Heights Seminary. consecrate himself anew to the work of organization and education; for in that and sometimes will take the huo of tho autumnal leaves on the branch where it is sitting, so that the croaturo can hardly be distinguished from tho foliage. The chameleon's tongue has a viscid secretion on the end, and he aims It as a billlard-playor does his cue, darting it out at a passing fly, who is struck and stuck at the same time.

He is a Blow moving fellow, and in climbing a tree will sometimes after raising one foot hold it in air a long time, as if he had gone to sleep and For many years the Russian one oyster and it was drowned. alone can we hope for freedom from the Church has been doing missionary "I bhould think you could find it in the Psaller." Drako's Magazine. (after tho "Queen's Mate" ha-i been rendered four times and repeat) 'lire's a dollar, an' th' master says would you kindly move hon? e's hill!" Leader Schwanenflugcl "Dot vost a square mans, fellers. Vo him blay der 'Det March in Sauls, oud ohf combliments." ruck. j.

Benevolent old gent "How my heart bounds whon I see tho happy faces of childhood. Noto the beaming sniilo of tho little boy how approaching. Heaven itself seems to have illuminated those little features. I will speak to him. One moment, little boy.

Why aro you so happy LU-tlo boy (grinning) got mad and spanked mo with her new hah brush and she broke it" Philadelphia Record. Will attend calls at all hours of the day or night. Pisur Kansas. We wish one ana all of our many work In Alaska, chiefly among the thralldom of monopoly. The Alliance has abundantly proven its utility as a readers a happy, new year, and hope that peace and prosperity may crown Thlinkets of southeastern Alaska Sixty thousand dollars has been appropriated annually for this work from the Imperial treasury at St.

means of our deliverance in its nonpartisan struggle against the theii labors through tho year. Geo. Goesaman moved to the Terri of labor. Its influence has been alike J. Sharpless.

potential in democratic Georgia or tory last Thursday. We regret losing South Carolina and republican Kansas PHYSICIAN SURGEON George as he was one of our best citizens. We hope that our loss may be his or Nebraska. In every struggle where forgotten to take the Intendod step. His progress is like the hour-hand of a watch; but eventually he gets there, The geeko is noted for its ability to run up a perpendicular wall, which it does by tho use of its peculiar feet, in which the toes are expanded at their gain.

the heaven born principles have been put fairly before the people, they have Will attend calls at all hours. Ollice over J. K.Tullus drug store. SEDAN KANSAS. I will pay the highest market price for wheat at any railroad station in the flocked to their support and victory has perched upon its banner, without any reference to locality or name of the en J.PHIL BLACK, emy, ao let us gatner in one solid phalanx around its sacred banner and educate for victory, rememl)ering that Petersburg, but In spite of the labors of a large band of priests and deacons, the success of the movement has been email, and it la reported that "the strength of tho Russian Church seems to be waning before the incoming of American influences," whatever that may mean.

The American Sunday School Union has organized, during the past year, 1,758 Sunday-schools In thirty-one States and Territories, in places hitherto destitute of religions privileges. It also gave aid to other needy schools in 0,438 instances. In many cases the schools have developed into churches of different denominations. It also distributed, by sale and gift, 8,588 Bibles and 11.CG3 Testaments, and made 40,041 visits to families. In the winter its missionaries conducted evangelistic work, and gathered many hundred souls into the churches.

KAN FA FKKIT, we must educate or we must perish. Hoping that the Eagle may live long to fight the battle of freedom, we remain county. Call on or address H. O. Lyster, Jroprietor Peru roller mills, Peru, Ks.

Jt.hn Buckels left his team near the Pacilic depot last Tuesday without being tied. They became fi ightened in some manner and ran away but no damage was done. THE KANSAS CITY STAB Weekly Edition only 25 cents a year in advance. Ask your post master -ir write for sample copy. Of ial Interest to farmers.

The cheapest and best newspaper in America. extremities into a diso furnished with claws. This apparatus enables it to 1 travel regardless of the laws Of gravl-i union, like a common houso-fly, whose feet resemble the gecko's. It Is said that a prisoner in a high stone tower was once released by a friend tying a thread to the hind leg of a gecko, and starting him up the wall under tho prisoner's window. The creature glided up and carried tho thread to the captive, who by this moans pulled up a stouter lino by which he made his escape.

The gecko is often regarded with superstitious 1 awe by the natives on account of his silent movements. Treasure Trove. SCHOOL AND CHURCH. Mormon church has been discovered in Brooklyn, but there is no polygamous doctrino taught in it. It is reported from Yale College that there has been a notable decrease in smoking there during tho last six years.

A year ago nineteen per ciat. of tho freshmen used tobacco; t'di the ratio i-i down to sixteen per rr.l. Tho worst kind of a hutcii that one who is always n.i i sorts with his pastor. A small lie can spoil a good-sized and a disgruntlod member can the work of a church. Ha.rlf llcligious Herald.

Yours FraternaUy, Peter Calamitt. Real Estate Exchange. Farms For Salc. Farms For Exchange. Farms For Merchandise.

Some, rare bargain in In Corrcspoiidcnce frobiiitd. P. S. There was a bible reading at Peter Dickinson's Monday night. There will be one held at the residence of Mr.

John Pease next Monday night.