The Sun from Glasco, Kansas • 2

KANSAS STATE NEWS. WIDE WORLD OVER. GEO. A. WRIGHT, Proprietor.

fX.ii. '-77 fWwmfet1- cm, 1 rM AM 'U I'IcMiik Ih Nut The man with the red comforter whiskers who was digging up puving1 stoiuj with thirty-pound pick stopped to look at it bevy of pretty young women, who we re passing on the crosswalk. "Arrah," hi' said to his nearest com-panion, them do lie nioighty swate young leddics. 1 wouldn't ax for nothin' belter than to have me ebolet ot a wife Irom ainorej-'-t thiin." "Take your pick, "'veiled the sub-iu-speetur. And the man with the red eo.nforter whMccrs went, back to his labors.

Cleveland Plain Healer. For fciekiiesH (lei the llnst, OUI liolee Willi's lin SiM'iir'i vino vuriK 'ill'. The rlrli Curl Oniit Urn Clurul, vill, IAS1 lliuminily uml I nn. uilfXuulUM tur piltiTUiinini'lits. tu in 1 1 us uml Inv.l Ills.

0110 bui. Ho of Spew's ivoriu itiri't' nf Culirunilu ttiuu. A I mi r-1 not eil IIiti), At a meeting ill Bolton Town Hall, held on Saturday, under the mayor's presidency, twelve Humane Society's awards for bravery were distributed by Lord Stanley, M. P. A unique incident was tho presentation by his Lordship of a collar and a silver medal to a ktigaeioiis Newfoundland dog, 'Trine-ess Tim animal saved the life of a child playmate by snatching it from beneath a tram car.

The incident was declared authentic, und unparalleled of its kind. Stupidity 1'irsuiillliil. SKR nn ex pectant smilo on Grandma liartlett fare. She pulled the shade over the lamp and drew the cnrtalMU. ntulttllll' her room In co.lly.

The dock on the mantel was ticking the Old Year away as fast aa it could hurry off. It was dusk and New Year's eve, and that was the time for the Pincushion Ceremony at Hartlett's. Fred met Alice on the stairs, and Hello and Arthur came along the hall. Belle carried Baby Letty In her arms, and they each bore a bristling little red tomato pincushion In their hands. Grandma had placed five hassocka in a row.

"Come, dearies." she called out, to Arthur's subdued knock. They filed in, laughing. "Stools of repentance," cried tall Belle, dropping Into her hassock. "0 grandma, my cushion is full of pins. I broke my resolution every other day.

I resolved to keep my temper, you know, and I got so tired of poking in a pin for a slip, nights at bedtime." "Look at my lazy pins," mourned Fred, "And my behind-time stickers," chimed in Alice. "I didn't think I did put off thing3 so often," sighed Arthur, and then Baby Letty stuck up her cushion. It was empty, "Now, dears," said grandma, "proceed with the ceremony." Solemnly they each tumbled their pins into a box on the table. Another stood near It. "Why, there's not half so many as last year, grandma!" cried Fred.

"Why, why! And we all felt so badly!" "Clean cushions again," said grandma happily, picking up Letty to hug her. "Now for grandma's New Year's presents." There were beautiful books and games. "I always feel as If you paid us for being naughty," said Alice, looking up with a smile from her book. "But I i wouldn't part with my Resolution Cushion for the world!" Arthur looked at his empty cushion. "I'm glad those pins are gone," he said.

a ciean siarc lor a nappy isew W'4 Iv 'A lll 11 unm Year. I say, grandma, how we love tor was shot" dead in his' cell and the i other two hanged. Arch Proctor, aged And four impetuous pairs of arms -0, had stabbed Aaron and Doe Craf ton almost smothered dear, gentle grand-, to death at Adah viUe. ma. Lillian L.

Price. Mary Lord Drake, daughter of Gov- ernor Drake of Iowa, was married in Th" Denver October "8 to George Sturdi- The error ot the Julian year was 0f Centerville, and tin; gov-corrected in the Gregorian calendar by ernor knew nothing of it until he went the suppression of three intercalations a day or so ago to bring his daughter in 400 years. In order to restore the homo nnd his niece, Mary Carpenter, commencement of the year to the same told him. place in the seasons that it had occu- Mr. Bland says that be will not The Missouri I'acitlc railway took in IH.oou nt Preston last month, Out of bales of cotton this year Kansas produced Mr.

Kill is a peaceable young stockman of Chaplin. It is said that every dog luii his day, but hat at out Mr. Canine of Mel 'her-on With apparent iiii'iid'ereiiee to the rnpid extinction of his species, Mr. Buffalo of Mrong city is seeking li-voive, if there is anything in that metaphor about, glass houses. Mr.

Shyroeli of Fort Scott ought to knovf it. Nellie Webb is the inline of an Atchison girl who is getting rich teaching whist at tho rate of $3 for twelve le-sous. There are rumors of reorganization of the Topeka Capital, with Mujor Hudson as the inspiring genius. The announcement that the Santa Fe will cut down the 18H7 pass list forty per cent strikes terror to tho hearts of the politicians. Dr.

Carl Swensson of McPhersou denies that he is a candidate for minister to Sweden. He says thut he is for W. W. Thomas of Maine for the place. Attorney General-elect Boyle gave proper recognition to the newspaper profeslr' iu the appointment of Derrick, formerly editor of the Fort Scott Lantern, to be his assistant.

Ship your Butter, Kggs. Poultry and Game direct to Frank Hyde Ill Fast Fourth street Kansas City, Mo. Prompt returns guaranteed. Write for, regular weekly quotations and tags. The first territorial legislature of Kansas assembled at Shawnee, July 15, line of the members id' the council was David Lykins, of Miami county, who had been a resident of the territory for twelve years as a teacher in one of the Indian schools, Opposite each member's name on the roll was entered some sentiment which he had uttered, and that opposite Lykins' name was "Cuba must be annexed' We that Kansas got into the game at an exceedingly early stage, Major James Arthur was the name of an odd character who died at Galena the other day.

He came to Kansas in the early 'OOs and was one of tho original owners of the townsite of Galena. He was a native of New Brunswick, but lived the greater portion of his life in the I'nited States, lie had a theory that no foreign born person should be allowed to vote, and never himself exercised that privilege. Though an old bachelor, he was noted for his gallantry to Hie fair sex and his love of social affairs. Hiawatha World: A. Pautz raised two crops of apples from the same tree this season.

This second crop were us large as walnuts when the frost caught the tender apples and they withered. The government has planted in Kansas streams this year is, 577 fish, as j'ollmvs: Carp, tench, LV.1'.' 1 gold fish, black bass; 750; rock bass, 4. rainbow trout, There arc 801 prisoners in Cue Kansas penitentiary. Politically, they stand: Republicans, Democrat, 17S; Populists, Independents, 17; no party, IDS. There are in the peniten-tentiary 343 Methodists, Baptists; Catholics, 01 Christians, 41 Presbyterians, Lutherans.

0 United Brethren, 9 Second Advcutists; 1" Episcopalians, 0 Congrcgatioualists. 5 jlunk-ards, 0 Quakers, a Jews and 100 without any religion. In answer to a correspondent: The, first white child born on the soil of Kansas was Napoleon Boone, son of Daniel M. Boone, who was a son of the great Kentucky Daniel Boone. The birth took place on August 1828, at a place a few miles north of the present site of Lecompton, in Jeiferson county.

The father was holding government employment as teacher of farming to the Kansas tribe of Indians. General Superintendent Madge of the Santa Fi; wants to make a fast run witli a passenger train from La Junta to Dodge City, a distance of miles, lie thinks he can beatthe Lake Shore's seventy-two miles an hour record. The Ellsworth reunion grounds will be leased by the Grand Army department of Kansas to the it. for the establishment of a home and hospital for the wives and widows of ex-L'nion soldiers and sailors of tho civil war. James L.

Challiss of Atchison, graduate of the State university, has been given the place of honor on the program for the annual banquet of the Kansas Day club. His subject will bo "Kansas." The other speakers will be J. E. Jurikin, Sterling; W. I.

Stewart, Troy; Henry J. Allen, Ottawa; Charles 5. Kced, Fredona; I. Lambert, Emporia: J. B.

Furry, Topeka; W. W. Finny. Neosho Falls; Fred A. Stocks, Blue Hapids; K.

L. Acklcy, Concordia; S. N. Hawks, Stockton; H. G.

Laing, Kusscli; Harry L. Gordon, Wichita; John S. Simmons, Dighton, and K. W. Coleman of Baker University.

The banquet will be held at the Copeland hotel in Topeka, January Pat Babbitt, the free silver district fourt clerk-elect of Crawford county, lias been sent to the O.sawatomio asylum and it will be the duty of Judge W. L. Simmons of the Sixth judicial district to appoint a successor. Babbitt became insane during the campaign. The wife of ex-Judge Turner of Tn-depondence died in a sanitarium at Shepard, Ohio, where with her husband, she had gone for treatment.

Judge Turner was chief justice ol Arizona for four years and Mrs. Turner was a Sunday school and missionary worker. Her brother, John K. Miller, was in congress from Ohio, and she was also related to the Sherman family. Judge W.

A. Randolph of Emporia, of the Fifth judicial district of Kansas, and Miss Emma K. Lane, for many years court stenographer of that dis trict, were married at vinita, I. last week. Chancellor H.

Snow of Kansas university has received an invitation to be present at the meeting of the presidents of the state universities of the Northwest, which will be held at Madison, on January fi, for the purpose of discussing questions of common interest to the schools. Tho universities that will be represented will be Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, I 111 nois, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota and Purdue. The Greenwood county men who took a cargo ot cattle to bnglanu return saying that they had a good time, but the enterprise made no money. They broke even and spent $500 apiece on the ride. C.

E. Wightman will spend three vears, less good time, in the penitentiary for wrecking the Tribune bunk, jf which he was tho cashier. Wight-man had a smooth scheme, but finally he came to the end of his string. He kept two sets of books one for the bank commissioner to examine and me for his own information. The jury convicted him four counts.

Be stole THE CREAM OF THE NEWS BOILED DOWN. Item of InlrrcKt From Everywhere llrlclly TnWi for lln tonvcillince of lluy IS-oplf l.itU'M it ml Foreign In Henry S. Julian, lawyer and politician, is Kansas City's new chief of police. It- is said that, I're Mr-Kinley is opposed tu Cub.in action at the present Fire hi the clothing department of the Missouri penitentiary did 1,000 dilimifro, The MoICinley inaugural ball will be held in the pension building. New York lawyers are pushing a movement for uniform marriage laws.

Kx-Oovcrnor lVrryman of the Creek nation is dead. Colonel Henry D. Welsh of Philadelphia Is dead, lie was identified with 108 corporations iu dift'erentcapucities. Over coo Cuban volunteers have been enrolled at Kansas City. A boiler explosion in tbo Kent Woolen mills at Ceiilci-ville, K.

killed four men. Importers are rushing1 in wool in anticipation of higher tariff. One hundred and iiftv Kiekanoos run olV from the reservation. Cleveland club of Indianapolis tore Cleveland's picture to pieces. Neyroes urging Booker T.

Washington of Alabama for a place iu the cabinet. James Sheppanl of Galveston, 11 years old, shot a servant girl dead be-L'ause she teased Uim. Four additional battalions of Spanish troops have been dispatched to the l'hiliipino islands. Five hundred men are to bo dismissed from the Brooklyn navy yard for lack of appropriations. Secretary of the treasury has ruled that foreign nurses are alien laborers and may be deported.

Captain tieorge E. Lemon, Washington pension agent and publisher, is dead at Corouado Beach, Cal. Lard, hams and baeon are being rushed into Cuba because Wcyler will put up the tariff 5 per cent January 1, Roswell Or. Hon- died at I'lainfield, N. Friday, after two weeks' illness of bronchitis and Height's disease.

Rev. Benjamin T. Trego, an Episco palian preacher of bagmaw, Mich abandoned the pulpit for the siii ire. Frank C. Miles, for twenty years treasurer of the Boston Safe, Deposit and Trust company, has defaulted for I'hree Proctor boys were lynched bv nt v- ivm make a fight for the Democratic nom ination tor Speaker.

Secretary of State Olney says that tb- president has the right to recognize the independence of a people. It is recalled at Washington that Spain recognized the belligerency of the Confederacy before the battle of Bull Bun was fouyht. A mob again destroyed the toll gates in Woodford county, Kentucky. coCP William J. Carveath escaped from the Jackson, prison, has been returned, and confessed to having stolen two wagon loads of miscellany from the prison.

Gabriel Buss. John Antras, Charles Swanson, Charles Anderson and Louis Jackson were instantly killed in the Virginia shaft at Ouray, by the cage falling. Tom Sharkey got S3, 500 of the purse he fought for, the other 81,500 being under attachment. Fitz-simmons issued an address to the pub-lie, telling how anxious lie is for another fight. Convict labor in New York prisons will be abolished January 1.

The Bryan lecture contract has been sold to an Atlanta syndicate. Nebraska, supreme court has decided tl10 sugar bounty law defective. St. Louis has put on extra police- to u'y to stom the current of law- lessness. Dr.

Frakor has located in Colorado Springs and will found a sanitarium for consumptives. Federation of Labor exonerated Presidpilt from charges of im- due activity in Bryan's behalf. At Porter, Ohio, three children of William Stevens wero burned to death by a fire started by themselves. Samuel Gompers was re-elected president of the American Federation of Labor unanimously. The resolution condemning the courts for the Debs decision was voted down and free silver overwhelmingly indorsed.

Fitzslmmons is out with a challenge to meet any pugilist in the world, bnaruey preferred. The National Wool Growers' Associ ation adjourned to meet January 4 nest, preparatory to appearing before the House committee on ways and means in behalf of a revised wool and woolen schedule. J. R. Hetsch, postmaster at Newport, is missing.

An inspector says that his accounts are wrong. Fitzsimmons' suit against Sharkey for the $10,000 purse was thrown out of court, and Sharkey got tho purse. Corbett has signed Dan Stuart's ar ticles for a finish fight March 17, 1897, with ltzsimmons. Thomas Starkev of North Bend, was wound around a shaft and crushed to death while placing a belt. Wong Chin Foo has begun the work of proselyting to Confucianism in Chicago.

After twenty centuries of cramming the Bible down people's throats with the bayonet, he declares Christian countries are not as good as tho heathen, for in China there can be a city of 0,000 people without a policeman, but in Chicago, with thousands of policemen, a man is not safe in broad daylight. A meeting of Queen Victoria, Emperor William and President Faure will take place in the spring. CLASCO, KANSAS Getting the uig bead, shrinks thf heart. I A man's luck is generally about as ii looks to him, Thorp are people who acquire iin-portiincp by beinj? abused. We nro rich, not in what wo have but in what we cannot Few things an more pitiable than a Joker with a joke ho has to explain.

There are people who soon acquire grudges against those who help them. There can be no true and abiding comfort and peace, that la not rooted nd grounded in faith. Turning a mad dog loose is a trifling thing, compared to what the devil can do with a gossiping tongue. When a man says that nobody cares whether he lives or dies, lie isu't advertising himself very well. A man Isn't likely to enjoy hearing his wife talk with a woman who remembers him when he was a boy.

Money is one of the levers that moves the world, and it always movei-It in the right direction when a goiSy man controls it. Very often when we think we are Impressing people with our smartness, we are only making a reputation foi being disagreeable. The reckless and Improvident would eoon be abandoned if their friends did not secretly hope that they would in time reform and pay for favors received. While the devil's messengers were telling Job everything had been lest, ,1.. i tut) j-juiua mcsai-iifte! wtic uu niu to say that his gain had been a hundred per cent.

There is said to be one county in Georgia Charlton that did not participate in the late election, and the people living in it don't know yet what has happened. Where ignorance is bliss 'tis folly to vote. Col. Ingersoll, owing to illness, was obliged to cancel (several lectures, whereupon a St, Louis paper suggests that it would bo a good time to swid him some tracts, as there can be little hope of saving him when lie is well. Another tariff war between Russia and Germany is among the early possibilities.

Under the existing arrangement Russia, which has a great surplus of agricultural products to exchange for German manufactures, complains she is getting the worst end of the bargain and talks of placing a big tariff on imports from Germany. In such case the country last named would refuse to buy in Russia and would take more breadstuff's from the United States. Beneficial results from this might be offset in part by Russia's increased offerings of her own grain surplus in western Europe, affording further competition for American grain. The French convention decreed the adoption of the republican calendar, which counted a period of ten days a decade it was called as a week. When the decree was published a witty man, seeing that the division was far from convenient, said: "It's no good; it has two enemies who will never give in the beard and the white wit knew that the laboring class would not only find nine consecutive days too many for them, but that their habit of shaving and putting on a clean shirt every seventh day was too fixed for a convention to eradicate.

When Napoleon suppressed the decade and restored the old week, the change met with universal approval. That the best attainments are not the result of chance was exemplified in the discovery of the planet Neptune, the fiftieth anniversary of which event was recently celebrated in France. Telescopes had long swept the sky without discovering this shy outer planet, but when astronomers noticed how Uranus hastened in one part of his orbit and moved with less vapidity in another, they knew there must be an attracting body that held him ia check. Leverrier, therefore, after minute calculations, wrote to the astronomer of the Berlin observatory, requesting him to point his telescope to a particular spot in the sky on an svening Indicated, and said: "You will tee a planet which I have not seen, and which no human eye has ever seen, but which nevertheless must be on the 6pot." Ko one would venture to call Us discovery that night an act of chance. A New Jersey photographer haa been taking pictures at night in Streets lighted with electrtcity.

Whole blocks with houaea and people on the street appear as distinctly aB if the photograph were taken In the day time. Science seems to determine to make life unpleaaant for the good citizen out for a lark. Expert3 in highway robbery take anapahots at him on the dark streets and the amateur photographer on the lighted ones. He haa the alternative of losing his pocket-book of reputation or of remaining at home and being good. Portsmouth, N.

which is now unprotected, Is to be fortified by a battery consisting of two eight-Inch dls-ippearlng guns on New Castle Heighta. Suns are also to be placed at Jerry's Point and on the Islea of Shoals, which would prevent any hostile Bhip from etting anywhere within firing range of the New Hampshire coast. Uncle Sam is slow about paying his debts. Last week Dr. Samuel Bell of Beloit, got a check for 12 due him for debt accruing in army servlc thirty-one years ago, pied at the time of the Council of Nice, Gregory directed the day following the feast of St.

Francis, that is to say, the 5th of October, to be reckoned the 15th of that month. By this regulation the vernal equinox which then happened on the 11th of March was restored to the 21st. From 1.082 to 1700 the difference between the old and new style continued to be ten days; but 1700 being a leap year in the Julian calendar, and a common year in the Gregorian, contirms th; of his leader's the difference ot the styles during the dth. lSrti century was eleven days. The Negroes of Louisville, nomi-year 1S00 was also common in the new nated city oflieers of their 'own race, calendar, and, consequently, the dif- leaving but one vacancy on the ticket, ference in the present century is twelve Charles ii.

Crisp took the seat made days. From 1900 to 2100 inclusive it i vacant by his father's death. ini uuwn cr us to entertain her all the time or she annoys the family on the other side of the house every time she cries some one comes over to see 'what ails that "When John moves again I am going have him move into a single house, nnd then I can let the baby cry all she wants to. "After ma had picked until she was tired a bright idea came Into my head, and I told her I would akin the duck entirely then no one would find any pin feathers and it would look smooth and sleek all over. It only provoked me that I had not thought of doing It before.

I don't know why it ia, but somehow my bright ideas always come too late. "So 1 gave the baby to ma and told them to watch this interesting performance. "But it was easier said than done. My, how greasy that skin was! It was almost Impossible to get a good tight hold I pulled and jerked and wished had never had any bright ideas until it was finally skinned and the clock pointed to 10 minutes to 12 and no dinner. "Then I had to run to the corner grocery to get some dried beef I very i WW LI' i I rUT IT IN THE OVEN.

well knew John detested dried beef for dinner, but they had nothing else, and hen John came home he ate his din- ur in silence. Hut I promised to ave the duck roasted for supper. "With this prospect in view I went to work more cheerfully, yet not very satisfied, I fear. In order to tve the luck well done I put it in oven soon after dinner, and was surprised to see how small it got the longer it roasted the smaller it grew, and it looked so funny, something like a skinned eat; when in comes John, bringing a friend with him to help eat the duck! "Well, no one can imagine my feel ings. When they sat down to the ta-blo I noticed John looking around for something, and finally when he saw the horrid little shrlveled-up thing he burst out into a hearty laugh, saying: Why, Nellie, is this all that is left of our beautiful I never before felt so mortified.

John tried to find a tender piece for our guest, but it was impossible to find anything tender on that duck it was as dry as chips, worse than the driest dried beef, and oh, so tasteless and so dark do you think I roasted it too long, Kate? I hope I may r.iver, never again see another duck." nrlrnt and Mortem New Veur'i Festival The first day (calends) of January, as marking the beginning of the year, was observed as a public holiday in Rome from at least the time of the Julian reformation of the calendar. Ovid alludes to the abstinence from litigation and strife, the smoking al tars, the white-robed processions to the capitol; and later writers describe the exchanges of visits, the giving and receiving of presents (strenae), the masquerading, and the feasting with which the day was in their time celebrated throughout the empire. Liba-nius (c. 346 A. speaks of it as being In his day the one great holiday com mon to all under the Roman rule.

When, about the fifth century, the 25th of December had gradually become a fixed festival commemorative of the nativity, the 1st of January ultimately also assumed a specially sacred char acter as the octave of Christmas day and as the anniversary of the circumcision of our Lord, and as such it stiil figures In the calendars of the various branches of the eastern and ot the western church, though only as a feast of subordinate importance. Three Kventa of 1800. Eighteen hundred and ninety-six will always be memorable in literary annals as ending the lives of three great female writers Harriett Beech er Stowe, the novelist, Kate Field, the Journalist, and Gall Hamilton, the versatile authoress. The latter's sig nature was a nom de plume, composed of the second syllable in her Christian name and of Hamilton, the village of her birth-place. Few identified her spinster appellation ot Mary Abigail it.

Ill I I I.J 1 1 rr-' ct3 New Year's Duck. Nellie, you should see the love- duck I St as a present this morn ing us a pcrrect beauty i am going to have It for our New Year's dinner," said Mrs. English to her friend Mrs. Lane, who had come In to see her during the afternoon and talk over the Christmas celebration of a few days be- Iore- "Ia your duck dressed or alive, Kate?" asked Nellie in some haste. "Oh! it's alive, I am going to dress It myself," answered Kate, "It's not much trouble to dress a duck do you think it would be?" "Well, Kate, I really pity you.

I must tell you what a dreadful time I had with the one we killed last week, it yet makes me shiver all over only to think of it, it was such a terrible day the memory of it will never fade away! I really think my back has not once stopped aching since I picked that duck." "Do tell me, Nellie, won't their feathers come out, or what was the trouble?" asked Kate. "I am beginning to feci alarmed." "I'll begin by telling you how we got the duck," began Neilie. "One night after I had gone up stairs with the baby, and John was smoking his pipe It must have been after 12 o'clock-there was a faint knock at the kitchen door. I heard John going to the door and speaking to some one. and then lie and the some one went into the gar-don to the chicken coop, and presently I heard a loud noise and fuss among the hens.

It was Jim Peters. lie had won a duck at a raffle- at a tavern and asked John to let him put it in our hcu coop until further notice. "Now, either the duck did not feel very comfortable or the hena did not feel aa much at ease as formerly, 1 don't know what caused it, but there was a constant war going on among them. Why, I didn't get one egg while that fowl was in there. So I told John to tell Jim to remove it or we would kill it.

At last John bought it from Jim and killed it, and said I should roast It for dinner. "Now, John killed it before he went to work, but I thought if I woud begin to dress it after 9 o'clock could soon it in the oven. Then I knew nothing about ducks; now I am much wiser. "I asked ma you know ma Just came 'the day before from the west; it's the 'first time she had been to see us since we were keeping house. I asked ma whether I should scald the duck or pick-It dry.

She said she had always picked jhers dry and had saved the down for her feather beds. So I began to pick it dry, "I picked and picked and pulled until 'my fiugers ached it seemed as though the feathers were grown in to stay, and it took so long I was beginning to get nervous, so when ma wasn't looking I poured some boiling water over the duck to hurry up matters. "Hut, dear me, then the real trouble began. The hot water made the skin so tender and greasy that it tore off in large pieces, and the down stuck like wax. I really think if I had saved all that down it would have been enough I PICKED AND PICKED AND PULLED.

lor at leaBt four large pillows. When I thought one side was nearly done it would be all covered with another coat of down and fuzz and pinfeathera, and I don't know what all that duck didn't have to cover itself with. wo wonder ducks never get wet when they go into the water. Why this one'a akin was one sheet ot fat and feathers. "When the clock struck 10 that duck looked perfectly dreadful.

I wish you could have seen it. I felt so disgusted I almost cried. Then, when ma saw the teara In my eyes she said if I would hold the baby she would pick awhile, So I sat down to rest why, really, I felt bo faint I could scarcely stand any longer, Just fussing with that horrid fowl. "Now you know how fretful the baby V). -ir" to I Old Jackson What you ride backward fo? Cuffee So I won't have to turn round when I cum back.

Joel Chandler Harris, the author of "Uncle Kemus'," is making two new clKiracters, "Moses'' and "Aaron, famous. In a story entitled "The Mystery of the Swamp," to be published in Harper's Bound Table, December 15, he tells us something more about them. Appearing in the same number of tho Hound Table is another entertaining tale by Allan Formen, entitled "The Pingra Pol," and an interesting article, by Hubert Karl, describing the new Stock Exchange; also installments of the serial stories entitled "Tho Boy Wreckers," by W. O. Stoddard, and "The Loyal Traitor." by James Barnes.

Another article on the scientific use ol kites. A Ticklish Situation, eagerly, as ho sees the editor smile It's a good ioke, isn't it? Editor is, indeed; I laugh every time I see that joke. Up to Date. TO Ct'RE A COM) IN ONE DAT. Take Laxative Bromo Oulnino Talilets.

All Drufyisisrelutul the money if ULiils to cure. -50 Sure to Succeed. Professor What makes you think that your son is likely to excel in mathematics? Father Because he has always fig ured successfully to get out of work Bad study. Detroit roe Press. Quite Correct.

"Am I doing it right?" said the pupil at the dancing academy. 'Yes," said the professor, "that is the proper caper." Stale Lamp Oil. When lamps have not been used for week or more, the oil should be poured out, or the stale oil will cause in unpleasant smell when next it is lighted. Tl, i nrntillM pure, your digestion good and your system regular at this season by taking a course of Sarsaparilla Tho Best-in fact the One Tree BlqodPnrifl OOOtl i I Ill-s with llooil'sSai-sauarillai HERE'S A NEW COUNTRY! NEW HOPE! NEW orrOHTlNITIESt THE LAND of SUNSHINE nnd PLENTY JI1 ED CLIMATE, FERTILE SOIL, CHEAP LANDS. Tho building of the Kansas Cit Pitts burg Oulf llailroad Port Arthur Houte has opened up a country in Western Missouri and Arkansas that cannot be excelled as an agricultural and fruit growing country.

JNo other country in America presents so many lnm- goiaen oppoi uuuiuicc inu iiwuic-sceker, manufacturer or speculator. It a land of sunshine and plenty, where yOU can work out of doors 12 months In the year instead of six months. No hot winds in summer, no blizzards in winter. Lands are cheap along this new line of road, because this country has heretofore been remote from railroad. Mild climate, healthy and pleasant.

You should also see the new division town of Mena, Polk Ark. It is a good illustration of what pluck and enterprise can do build a city of 2,500 people ia 90 days. Mena is surrounded by a tributary country capable of sustaining a city of 100.000 people. Homeseeker's tickets one fare for the round trip, plus $3.00 can be bought at all principal norther and eastern railroad points on Nov. 17th, Dec.

1st and isth. Don't miss these opportunities. For full information, address F. A. HORNBECK, Land Commissioner.

7th and Wyandotte Kansas City, Moi Dr. Kay's Lung Balm for oouchs, colds, and ttiroat dlseas W. N. U. Kansas City.

No. 52- 1896. Hhen Anwertnj AdverllmeiUI Fleatt jutmton llu 'uiitr. will be thirteen days. for New day, my Year' dear, Two for St.

Val- l. til uiiic a uaj 'ft. Three for the birth uay chilly and drear When 'Washington came I. this way. Four is for April first, my dear, When we fool each other in play; Five is the time when we plant the tree3, And we call it Arbor day.

Six is the day when we take the flowers On the soldiers' graves to lay; Seven's the glorious Fourth of July, Eight is for Labor day. Nine's for Thanksgiving day, puddings and pies, Turkeys and nuts beside; And ten is the last and the dearest and best, The beautiful Christmas-tide. Jane Gray, The Copper Preserving Kett'e. 'Like many others," observed an ex perienced housekeeper, "I prefer a copper kettle for preserving purposes, although I admit that the enameled iron kettles are the easiest cleaned and kept clean. Copper kettles seem to make better preserves or jams.

I do not know the reason of it, but my experience has always been that way. There is one thing, however, I would like to impress upon all who use copper kettles and that is never to allow any preserves to cool in them. Better pour them cut when the preserves are boiling hot. In this way there is no danger from verdigris. The best preserves are ruined sometimes by allowing them to cool in a copper kettle.

I don't think I have ever seen a brass kettle that I would feel safe in using. Ordinarily, however, "he enameled iron kettles are generally used, though old-fashioned folks like myself prefer copper." Washington Star. Ammonia will bleach yellow flannel 1 kJ Boat Congh Syrup. fog to tlroftild by 1 Dodge. to she is teething, and it takes one of.