Neodesha Independent from Neodesha, Kansas • 2

LENGTH OF DAYS. FEMALE BULL-FIGHTERS. Highway Biography. A Fair CJietlllan' Conquest Ovei the Fiercest Torro. "It you prick ui, dc we not bleed!" Not long ago I wrote an article on political economy, and a few days after jc was my lortune, some time ago, to see Senorita Hernandez, the mosl famous bull-fighter in the.world.

So fearfully exciting was the so-called "sport" that the five thousand people I woke up to find myself famous. Chateaubriand lias described raj feel- fogs in describing bis own, after the Thiiitamlsrl preparation has by Its pe-collar and Its wonderful cor woo the coaly dene of the people, and Is to-dsy the most popular blood purlfler suit (react heal a medlcins, I cure scrofula, aalt rhenm, dyspepsia, headach, kid-nay and Uvet computet, catarrh, rheum, ttsm, eta. Be ur to Hood' Ssrse-parllla, which 1 peculiar to iUelf. in the plaza de torros were upon theit feet in a slate of the wildest confusion; men yelled themselves hoarse and women fainted all because a slender aad launched him into the clouds, wan Intoxicated. How fair tho world all coupound bctbactX 111 was established before we were born.

And do you see They threaten me!" I read out a passage which plainly Informed me that if I did not give the information asked. It would be sought elsowhere, and might no' be such as I would like to see in print "Of course!" said my wife, cornplao-! ently. "The publio insists on knowing about you; and the men have no choice. It's like the Prime Donne with young men dragging their carriage homo from the opera; or a President just elected called out into the balcony to make a speech:" "It is a very high-handed proceeding," I said, becoming stiff. "But Mr.

Jones," my wife insisted, "the publio wishes to know." "I won't tell them!" I declared, getting hot "It Is indelicate in the highest degree. What can my article on political economy have to do with your father's name, or th the length of my legs, or the extent of mv income. young girl had nerve onough to throw once! Human naturo wasn't so bad. herself in the path of a fierce, bull and after alL I forgave my enemies and pierce him to the heart by a single adored my friends. I sent a chicken thrust It was her farewell perform to our washwoman, and subscribed to Five Hundred Year Old Is Living Jon! Art! Is life worth living? In the days of long ago people seemed to think it was, if the length of time they devoted to becoming nc-qainled with its lights and shadows is any criterion.

It would seem as though life must have afforded much of enjoyment in the good old days. Sophocles hung on until he-was 130 years old, then perished by an accident Attila was 124 when he died of the consequence of a reyel on the night of li s. second marriage. This is a warning to young men. Epemenides was 157 at his regretted decease.

Crowns did not sit so heavily on the brows of monarchs as thoy seem latterly to do. Fold, the founder of the Chinese reigned 115 years, and so did Apaphus of Thebes Egyptian. Tacitus gives 175 years to Tuis-co, a German Daddon. an II-lyrian noble, lived for 500 years according to Alexander The art of living seems to be ono of the many 'lost ch the dark ages covered over, and modern civilization hi not yet been able to uncover. It is rutin long life was not secured by us ng mineral poisons as remedies for disease.

That is essentially modern practice. The ancients doubtless drew on the laboratory of nature for ance, and the strongest and fiercest half a dozen charities; I gave 10 cents to an organ-grinder; I ale a bad dinner with a snide, and digested it without a torros in the country had been advertised for. To make the novelty great er, it was announced that Senorita groan; I brought noma a bouquet to my Hernandoz would fight upon stilts, wife, the first since our honeymoon, armed with only a short sword, and and asked her if she had dresses enough; I promised bor that I would with none of the usual defenses and loopholes of escape so that in every never smoke another cigar as long as I case it was victory or death to the Iked. or whore I was born, or if I take stimulants, or what my publishers pay brave girl. In fine, I was in a fair way to become Hood's barsaparllla sold by drutgU.t.

six (or IS. rred V. I. HOOD CO, Lowell, Mas. loo Doses One Dollar 18 YEARS AGO.

For 18 years I have intended writing yon, I rot my back hurt when about 10 years old. When about 20 1 took sever cold in my back, so that for 10 or 12 years I suffered death twice over, after almost giving up I was induced to try Men-ell's Penetrating Oil. My wife applied it to my back freely and halt a bottle- cured me, and now 18 years have passed and my back still re mains good. I bave recommended Mer-rell's Penetrating Oil to all like sufferers lince. As long as I live I cannot say enough for It.

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a perennial fountain of sweetness and me? It's none of their business beneficence to all about me. active and wholly untamed, and the horns of each were trimmed and polish Prepared for criticism, I forgave it My wifo laid her hand impressively on my arm, and measured her words out with precision. "If you do not in anticipation. 1 did. more than for give, I excused 11; I did more tliau ex tell them what they wish to know, ed till the points were bright as needles and almost as sharp.

Never did veteran picador perform more expert work than was coolly executed by this youthful senorita. As the bull, mild with cuse, I justified It Everybody could they will put you down ten years older oot be expected to think as I did, Some than you are; and they will say that subjects are faceted like a brilliant-cut you were born ot poor, but honest, rage, would make his furious charge, diamond, and my critic might very parents. They will say that you edu she stood perfectly still until he had sincerely and proper! be describing cated yourself, and hoed potatoes with their medicines, lie nee the span of their lives was naturally extondud. Wo know that our immediate ancestors found their med cines in the fields and forests, adjoining their log cabin homes. These natural remedies wore efficacious and harmless left no poison in the system.

Physicians were rarely called in, and the people lived to rugged and hearty old age. Is it not worth while to return to their whole approached within three feet, when. some phase visible to him, but which I a Latin grammar strapped to the hoe suddenly springing aside as the animal Cures Prevent; Colds, Coughs. Sore Throat, Hoarseness, Stiff Meek, Bronchitis, handle. They will say that we keep Jiad not yet studied.

I became sublime, and consciously so. rushed by, with one hand she would house in two rooms; and that you married one of those smart girls who spar To bo conscious that ono is sublime is slap him in the face with the scarlet cloak which had first aroused his anger. kle (and ache, poor things!) behind some methods of cure for common and with the other hand dexterously the counters of Worth, Nothing Co. thrust into his neck a gaudy bandarilla. 'iftVWii'U Catarrh, iitaiV Headache, VWVr Toothache, 1 1431 1113 (7 Rheumatism How would you like that, sir? How H.

IL Warner Proprietors of would my family like that? How whose sharp barb, as it pierced his flesh, caused him to roar with rage and Warner's Safo Cure, have introduced to the pubi a line of Log Cub remo- should I like to figure as as" neuralgia, Asthma, Bruises. pain. i dies, and their name indicates their character. They include a Sarsapar- My wife was sobbing. em!" I cried.

"They have a inus cuarge after charge was made II Sprains, by the maddoned brute, only to always illa." "Hops and Buchu Remedy," good deal of impudence. I won' "Cough and Consumption Homed answer a question. And if they print Extract for external and internal use. be evaded by the girl. She played him, plagued him and tortured him as a cat would a mouse, until at any lies about me, I'll prosecute 'em!" 'Rose Cream," for Catarrh.

"Scalp- ine" for the hair, "Liver Pills" and Iporsistedin my resolution; and a Porous Plaster." Thev are carefully week after three newspapors were sent me. compounded from actual recipes, the last bleeding, sore and completely exhausted with fatigue and pain, the animal would fight no more. Three wild bulls were worn out in this way by the most ellicacious in use by our grand I tore off the wrappers fiercely, The first one had a column and a parents, and those who would like to try the virtues of old-time remedies, have an opportunily to secure the best half cut out; leaving what was proba fair Castilian; and then, wearied as she must have been, came the climax in the fulfillment of her advertised obligation bly the heading of an article of that in "Warner's Log Cabin Remedies." Quicker Than Any Known Remedy. No matter how violent or excruciating the pain the Rheumatic, Bedridden, Infirm, Crippled, Mervou, Neuralgic, or proxtrated with dueasea may suffer, RADWAY'S READY BELIEF Will Afford Instant Ease. INTERNALLY A half to a teaspoonf ul In half a tumbler of water will In a few minutes cure Cramp, Spasms, Sour Stomach, Nausea, Vomiting, Heartburn, Nervousness, Sleeplessness, Sick Headache, Diarrhoea, Collo, Flatulenoy and all Internal pain.

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ength. This title read: "Mr. Albert to kill a bull, with a sword scarcely A new thing out Is a clock, with ordinary Jones, the author of 'A Studr on Politi works, that will run for a year without atten two feet long, while standing on stilts directly in front of him. cal The article was left to my imagination. The animal selected for this deadly tion.

An electric battery concealed In the case winds up the clock from day to day, or week to week, as the need may be. Unce In a great while the battery must be renewed, but that is all tliu curu the cluck calls lor. I opened the next. There it was! contest wan a beautiful specimen of ten years older, hoe-handle, two his race, black, agile, savage and wild rooms, and all; and the few facts so he was no sooner in the arena than Couch and Hoarseness. The Irritation distorted as to be almost unrecogniza which induces couKhinir immediately relieved ble.

1 by use ot "Jiroait't JiruHchial Troche:" Sold only In boxes. After I had stamped round the room The George Peabody building fund In Lon a little while, I came back to my table and opened the third paper. In the very middle of the first page don, left hlui for the purpose ol constructing improved houses for the poor, has grown, through rent and Interest, from $3,500,00 to nearly $5,000,000. There are now over 5,000 houses, containing 11,150 room, and the average rent per week la 11.25 each. were two columns of facetious abuse.

I and my Political Economy" were held up by this Goliath of the pen as Ma-oaulay says Dr. Johnsou held up his Itching Files. Symptoms Moisture; Intense Itching and subjoot, "like a nutmeg-grater." We ready for battle. After he had been permitted, to make two or three to warm him to his work, the Governor of the district (who presided on the occasion) gave a slgual and the bugle sounded the "death Even habitues of the bull ring turned pale, and the silence of the grave reigned throughout the vast ampitheater. The slight young girl, with stilts securely fastened to her limbs, received the short sword, saluted the Governor, and turned toward her enemy with a little shout ot defiance, waving her scarlet oloak to excite his anger.

At this moment the distance between them was about 200 feet The toro, quivering with excitement and pawing the earth in the fierceness of his rage, needed no second invitation. With were turned rouud, and turned over, and smiled at and smiled at, and smiled at! stinging; most at night; worse by scratching. If allowed to continue tumors form, which often bleed and ulcerate, becoming very sore. Ointment atopa the Itchug and bleediug, heels ulceration, and in many cases removes the tumors. It is equally clllcaclous in curing all Skin Diseases.

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OLIVER DITS0N Boston. ter naturo of such a critic, if he has any. Dy man ior ou uents. How would he like it himself? No Senator Sherman wa said to bave a for lite height of bliss. During twenty-four hours I floated at this height The second morning three letters vino handed me.

I opened them with a smile of profound anticipated contentment This was the gist of the three, differ-eutly expressed, but substantially the "You are requested to answer at unco the following questions "Where were you born, and when month, year and day "Who was your father? was your mother? Were they married or single? "Are you married or single? "If married, what was your wife's maiden name, and her father's Christian name? "Have you any children? "If you have, what are their names and ages? "What have you written for the press? by whom published? and over 'what signature? "What are you writing now? what 'do you propose writing in the future? and for whom? "Do your publishers pay you anything? and if so, how much? "Where were you educated, if at all? What is your Inoome. if you have any? What is your postoffice address? -Do you go out of to wn summers, or do you board up the front door and live 'in the back rooms? "How tall are you? What is your complexion, build, and temperament? "What are your habits while writing? "Do you write best by day or by night? "Do yon write just so muoh a or do you wait fur inspiration? Do you jusc stimulants while writing? "What sort of pen, ink and paper do you use?" This was not all, but It may euffloe. I hurried to my wife's chamber with tthese letters In my hand. 'Be calm, my dear!" I said, the moment 1 got the door opon. "It is some mistake.

All will come right Only don't weep for that would unman me!" Mrs. Jones shrioked. "What is it? What has harponod? Have you eaten that piece of cheese with the 'Rat's XurowoU' ou it? Oh! oh! 1 will got soma blaok coffee as soon as possible! I will bring the white of an eggl Betty shall for the dootor!" I explained as well as I could, holding my wife tightly, with my hand over her mouth. "It is not poison my -dear. It is some police business.

Some other man of the name of Jones has probably profited by my reputation to publish an aotionablo artole about somebody. Horel read for yourself." I gave her letters, and she read them, at first with perplexity, then with a sudden illumination. "Why1, you groat goose!" she exclaimed. "It's because you' are celebrated. People want to know all About you.

Our house will be pointed out We shall be polntod out; and they will dosoribe my bonnets and I felt my jaw drop. "But they ask how old I am," I said, after having read the letters carefully over again. "And they don't apologize. You don't ask a person's age body wants to read about his affairs, but suppose that they did. How tune of $1,000,000 before Washington real estate began to rise Ave years ago, and he Is now reputed to be worth $500,000 more.

would he like an eye and an ear at his keyhole while he eats, drinks and sleeps? What if they should hear his gleaming eyes and head lowered to the ground, he started at full speed for the object of his bate. She calmly waited until he was within twenty feet when. Moxie Again in Luck. The actresses and oiera singers soon learned ittle domestic quarrels, smell the that the medicated lozenge, made from the Moxie Nerve Food, would prevent a cold under severe exDosuro. and break one in a few hoars.

bracing herself firmly on her short stilts, she held the little sword at ohicory in his coffee, nose out the hair-dye in his looked closet and the cushions in his stocking drawer, and put thereby Having them a world of care and trouble shoulder height, ready for his coming. them all in the papers? Whatever may have been her thoughts in that supreme moment it was a fear Ho colors his hair, pads his figure and visits his dentist in disguise, and ful time for the spectators. When the huge brute was within four foet, she pry Jhm in protecting tnr-mei ves, ana now uiess are as much a part of their equipment as a manager. Home large oompHiiies buy them at wholesale in five grows lots. Thirty-two tons were sold last year.

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Our Jfevr Store, which we now occupy, laM abont 3 acres of Floor Space without waiting to note the effect of the blow, swung around on her stilts and again saluted the Governor. In the twinkling of an eye she turned to face the bull, and, just as she did so, he dropped dead, so close to her that, without moving from her position, she placed one foot upon the neck of her now, prostrate foe blade, directed by the skillful hand of this wonderfully self-possessed girl, had severed the spinal cord, and death was instantaneous. For a moment the great audience sat breathless, as if paralyzed, and then such a shower of gold and silver coins fell around the victorious torradora as must have enriched her for her life. Fanny B. Ward, in San Antonio Express.

past the night in a tumbler of water. There he oomes now, tripping down the steps, the old fool!" "Now, how would the critio like that?" Aquila. Tar, which our grandfathers used when the boys and girls had coughs, colds and diseases of the throat and lung. The Century' article on "Ranch Life in the Far West," which will begin in the February number, are not only written, but illustrated also, by experts. Theodore Roosevelt has experienced all he writes about In the "great grazing lands," and Frederic Remington, the artist, bat led the life of a con boy for years on the Western plains.

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One piece whiazed past the fireman's head and passed, Boreaming like a shell from a cannon, through the baggage car, the smoking car, and a passenger coach without doing injury to any person on the train. The train was running at the rate of forty miles an hour. when the aooident occurred. New York Sun, porter with a glance of surprise aad tney win senu me ineir auu x. v.

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