The Republican Banner from Greensburg, Kansas • 3

STATE NEWS. Bljc ham's Pills quickly cure sick head, ache, weak stomach, impaired digestion, constipation, disordered liver, etc. The canary is thoroughly professional, never singing a note without first presenting a bill. A Sore Throat or Cough, if suffered to progress, often results in an incurable throat or lung trouble. "Brown'a Bronchial Troches" give instant relief.

Insurance Agent: I came to call your at. tention to the fact that your policy expires to-day, and beg you to renew it. Economist Very sorry, but this is the tenth year -that I have insured in your company and nothing has happened, so I have mode up my mind to try another company. Nothing can be substituted for the Royal Baking Powder and give as good results. No other leavening agent will make such light, sweet, delicious, wholesome food.

Topeka The semi-annual meeting of the Sunflower club will be held at Library ball, Tuesday, November 14. This club, which is an organization of special insurance agents doing busi-nesss in Kansas, Oklahoma and Indian territories, met in Kansas for the first time in July. Its objects are to promote a more fraternal feeling among its members, and to educate them by an interchange of information, and to bring about a closer relation and better understanding between the insurance companies and the property owners. Professor L. I.

Blake, who fills the chair of physics and electrical engineering at Kansas university, has just received word from the patent office at Washington notifying him that letters patent had been granted for a fog signal device to be used by vessels at sea in communicating with each other. Over four years ago the first application was made for a patent, and its final granting is the result of the most thorough investigation of the merits of the apparatus. It is broad in its scope, and gives Professor Blake much latitude in completing and further perfecting the invention. Professor Blake is still at work on this signal apparatus, and is also conducting on the Kaw river a series of experiments looking to long distance communication between ships at sea. The latter scheme has some of the same principles involved as the first one, and will include some electrical arrangements that are not yet yet entirely perfected.

In the menagerie world giraffes are be. coming scarce. The animal offers too many) chances to fate to get hit in the neck. When Visiting Kansas City Stop at the Blossom Housk opposite Union Depot. First Class in every respect, Rates, $2.60 day.

Cable can to all parts of the city paaa the door. Bishop So you think heaven is like Boston, do you? Mrs. B. Oh, of course not, exactly. I don't expect too much.

THE OLD WALTZ. An orpan grinder I If I knew Borne buft Italian eourae or two With emphasis upon it, I'd shout to tiim whose tuneless din He ho r. kind brokeu in Upo i iii und my sonnet. AcrusR tbe etroet. and at the door, 1 see niin Ktundmg there before The dwelling of my The bouse ib closed, tbe curtain'.

I know my neighbor's out of town, And vain tbe luiuatrel'e labor. But yet two amall admirers stand Gravely btfore him, hand in hand. Front row dress circle -center A boy, a girl without a bat, But with a battered sunshade that borne oiher child has lent her. The minstrel pauses what, ro soon I He tu ns a stop to change the tune. coin responsive finding, He eyes tbe windows that reveal Mo sign then with a Bigh Kesumes bis patient grinding.

And lo! the minstrel's lost to view; 'Ihe boy and girl have vanished too; The street, my neighbor's dwelling- All, all are oue and am there Bitting again upon the stair My tale to Mubel telling. While from the crowded rooms stea 'ihe stialns of music, where tbe rou hose chatter and wnoae dances I've left still whirling waltz, the wo. I whirtper tow to Mabel's smile And watch for Mabel's glances. I bring no blushes to her cheek. Nor as an ardent lover speak; But rather an a brother I take a confidential tone And find we're both inclined to own We understand each She is not always gay nor I My Augers just clasp hers.

We sigh Life is a serious mutter. Better thia moment ou ihe stair, This svmpatny complete and rare Thau hours of idle chatter. Better this touch The grlnder'B done He slowly lifts his uox with one Glance, sud reproachful, bullow Up to my neighbor's vacant blind. Then takes bis way and close behind Tbe two small cu Idren follow. -Century Magazine.

PETER OP COPtTONA. thing for throe lone years to come." This indeed looke.l dubious. Oh, dear!" Peter said aloud. "There's no use in trying. What shall I do? I can't bear it!" "Now suppose, Peter, you get first a piece of charcoal and draw on my walls? That won't cost you anything, and it will ornament me up, you know.

How would that do, think?" This of course was a good deal of a downfall to tbe boy's pride, his aspirations were so great, but it was evidently all he could do at present, at least, and he was glad to exercise bis talent even with a piece of charcoal. When Tom, now greatly interested, brought him a piece, be set to woik vigorously, and there was no end to the figures of every kind and shape that he put over tbe walls, until there was not a space left uncovered. Put boys and girls all there lives, as well as men and women, will find that if one earnestly desires to succeed, some way, somehow, the way will be opened. So it was with poor Peter, for as he was walking the streets one day, just at bis feet, lay a well-B lied purse. What joy! But tbe next moment, great as his need was, he felt he had no claim on the prize for he was honest as well as ambitious and must try and And the owner of it.

Of course he ran to the attic the very first thing to tell his friend Thomas, when he should come up, of his wonderful luck, and to ask his advice aciout finding the owner. Together they printed some slips, for they both knew how to make the letters only that, and very little about spelling and posted them up in public places. But no one applied for the purse. After waiting for weeks, no owner appearing, Peter could bear it no and one day, in Tom's absence, he bought Dot only pencils and paper, but the whole paraphernalia of an artist's outfit. Was he happy, think you? You would have said so if you could have seen him with his outfit everywhere in Florence where there was a handsome caurch or public building or statue, drawing as if his life depended upon it, and only when It grew too dark to worK did he return to the humble lodgings where he was always welcome, and where, if Tom was not there, he would always find tucked under the straw bed bis dinner, that it might be kept warm until he came back.

The place had become home to him now; it was better than all the fine things in the world. No one knew yet of his coming and going; no one had ever seen t.ie wonderful work on the walls. Some of the servants at the palace often remembered, though, that even for a boy Tom had an uncommon appetite, and wondered whv he should keep so small with so much good food to eat. The cardinal was a rich man, and though he lived in an elegant palace, there were alterations he desired to make. One over the building with an architect, he came at length to Tom's attic room.

Imagine his astonishment when he saw his beautifully whitened walls covered with charcoal sketches from top to bottom, and not one of them to be despised, either! What could it moan? Calling the butler, be asked who slept there. "Thomas, the boy in the scullery, my lord." "What a genius! Call him to me." The servant obeyed, and our poor Tom came trembling before the Car 4 4 4 4 4 Troubled Parent: I am so afraid Isabel is going to become fat and dumpy as she grows older! Sympathetic Caller She does indeed show a tendency to spread out. Why don't you more into a north side flat? A CHILD ENJOYS The pleasant flavor, gentle action and soothing effects of Syrup of Figs, when in need of a laxative, and if the father or mother be costive or bilious, the most gratifying results follow its use so that it is the best family remedy known, and every family should have a bottle on hand. Sailors of the navy must expect great hardships when they are ordered to serve on the new steel cruisers. A Fact Worth Remembering.

There are many such of course, but here is one which specially commends itself to invalids, that in order to acquire vigor, the basis of health, that invigoration is only possible by re-establishing the fuuetions of digestion and assimilation upon a permanent basis. Stomachics in name are numberless. They impart a slight stimulus to appetite nothing beyond this. Much more is required, and Hostetter's Stomach Bitters ''fills the bill." This time-honored standard invigorant builds up an enfeebled physique and protects it against disease by insuring the thorough conversion of the alument received into the stomach into blood and bodily tissue. Clothed with increasing strength through this unfailing agency, the system is defended against influences prejudicial to health.

Use the Bitters in malaria, rheumatism, kidney and liver trouble and constipation. A story is told of a conductor who seized his wife's nose in his sleep and rung up three fares upon it before her shrieks awoke bim. Lane's Medicine Moves tbe Bowels Each Day. In order to be healthy this is necessary. Cures constipation, headache, kidney and liver troubles and regulates the stomach and bowels.

Price 60c and $1.00 at all dealers. Productive of Heat. Glanders It is said that paper is used effectively in keeping a person warm. Oazlay That is very true. I remember a thirty-day note of mine once kept me in a sweat for a month.

Siaie op Ohio, City of Toledo, i Lucas Cooniy. Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is the senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney doing business in the City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of Hall's Catarrh Cure.

FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence, this 6th day of December, A. 1886. A.

W. GLEASON. seal I Notary Public. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, free.

F. j. CHENEY Toledo, O. 15gSold by Druggists, 75c. Witherby: Your wife told ma yesterday that you had given her two new summer gowns.

I don't see bow you could afford it. Plankineton Easy enough. I Dut my money on the horse that you said wouldn't win. THE AMICK DISCOVERY. On another page of this issue is an exhaust ive article on the treatment and cure of con sumption.

The subject has lately been brought to the attention of the press of the entire country as a result of the action of the Michigan Board of Health in declaring con sumption a contagious disease, and recommending isolation of affected persons to Bpecial hospitals erected for the purpose. Should other state boards of health follow the example of the Michigan body, it seems impossible to measure what tbe conseauences would be. The New York Recorder actuated by that spirit which should pervade every editorial sanctum, offered a reward of $1,000 to any physician effecting a cure for con sumption. The offer was promptly accepted by Dr. w.

K. Amick of Cincinnati, who had already distinguished himself by curing some patients selected by the Cincinnati fast. newspaper. The management of the Recorder selected ten patients in various stages of consumption, ine article reierrea to tens the story of Dr. Amick's success and of the payment of the $1,000 by the Recorder com pany.

Dr. Amick shows not only his willingness but his great desire to have his treat ment impartially tested before any money for the medicines has been expended by the affected. He offers to send to all local phy sicians, regardless ot scnool or code or creed, test packages of his medicines sufficient to show just what results will be produced in each case. The fact that these outfits are only sent to the patient through his or her physician is a guarantee that they will stand the test to which they may be subjected by medical experts. Dr.

Amick is willing to let each physician and each patient judge as to whether he has accomplished what he claims. There is already the testimony of physicians and patients who have found reasons for endorsing the discovery. In the face of such evidence of its worth there can be but little hesitancy in pronouncing the discovery a great boon to suffering mankind, and therefore of incalculable benefit to the whole human race. The man who seeks his reward in this world never gets a price that suits him. You can tell how much people love the Lord by the kind of company Miey keep.

Everything not fully consecrated to God is something the devil still nas a claim on. The trouble with the man who knows nothing Is that be is the last to find It out. No matter what the devil says, believe what God says, and peace will be the result. God says He loves us. and there Is nothing we can do to please Him better than to believe It.

Had Christ died a natural death there would have been no necessity or his resurrection. Give some people mouotaln-mov-In faltb and everybody else's land would soon be covered with bills. There is this difference between a wise man and a fool; A fool's mistake! never him anything. PaoPLK have to be living very near to the throne before they can anjoy having their fmilM rtolnted out T. JACOBS Alaiulnnm 'from Ksotu Clay.

All arrangements are completed for the opening of the large smelter at Turner, seven miles from Kansas City, on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railway. It is intended to open the smelter for the manufacture of aluminum on December' 1. It will be operated by the Aluminum Smelting and Refining Company, which will have a capital of At first a force of ten or twelve men will be employed, but by next spring the force will be increased to 100 or more men. Most of the work will be done by machinery under the Schwann chemical processes, which are six in number and which are patented. The aluminum will be manufactured from clay that will be obtained near Argentine and at Pittsburg.

Kas. Robinson prospectors have found a vein of coal near town. Tonganoxie Odd Fellows will put in the foundation for their new building this fall. Chapman Standard: Foot ball, base ball, shooting gallery, merry-go-round, Criterion Dramatio company, and a phonograph, is the list of amusements that have taken place since our last issue. Jack Henthorne, one of the oldest newspaper men in Kansas, who has lately been connected with the Winfield Courier, died at his home at Winfield of typhoid fever, after an illnes of only three days.

The entire plant of the Galena smelter works is burned to the ground wiping out an investment of 8100,000. The works had just been remodeled and started up last week with two blocks of furnaces. About forty men were employed at the works. Medicine Lodge Cresset: The Medicine Lodge sugar mill has manufactured so far this season 110,800 pounds of first sugar and 16,000 pounds of second sugar. Two carloads of syrup was received from Sterling, which is to be worked into sugar.

From Abilene: Following is the real estate mortgage record for Dickinson county, October: Farm mortgages, filed, released, 822,820. City mortgages, filod, released, released by district clerk, $11,402. Thirteen farms were sold for $24,950. Junction City Union: Thomas Gog-gin met with a great misfortune. A loaded revolver fell from the sill of a window he was trying to open, and discharged, the ball striking the end of his fingers, inflicting serious wounds.

He may be able to save the ends of all his fingers. The fifteen attachment suits in the district court of Linn county against the banking company of Hood Kincaid, of Pleasanton. have been brought to the supreme court on error, and Attorney J. D. Snoddy is endeavoring to have them consolidated into one case involving a construction of the state banking law.

The Kansas Irrigation Association will hold its next meeting at Wichita, Wednesday, November 22, and the committees are preparing the most attractive and important programme ever arranged for a meeting of this kind, consisting of able papers and discussions by those best informed on the various phases of the irrigation question. From Wellsville: Two gentlemen are here from Pittsburg, negotiating for the lease of 25,000 acres of land for two years. The object is to prospect for oil and gas. If successful the owner of the land to get one-tenth of gross receipts of the output They have secured about 8,000 acres and there is not much doubt but they will secure the required amount Stafford People's Paper: Fred Vern-ing, who lives a few miles northeast of town, is burning a kiln of about 40,000 brick, which he expects to use in building a new residence. Mr.

Verning is an old, experienced brick maker and he thinks he has some good clay. The brick which are not yet burned are of better texture than most of those in town which have been used in building, Almost the entire business part of the town of Latham, in Butler county, is destroyed by tire. The names, which were evidently of incendiary origin, started in the hay loft of Jackson's livery stable' and quickly spread to tho adjoining buildings, which were one after another reduced to ashes until Main street was cleared. Nearly all the horses in Jackson's stable were roasted alive. Louis NaBh, one of the interesting characters of Fort Scott throughout all of its history, is dead.

He was a guide to General Fremont on his "path-finding" trips across tho mountains in the early forties, and came here at a very early day. Ho was married to a Sioux squaw in early life, but she died many years ago. Ho hud lived his last years on the charity of friends. He was 75 years old. Independence Tribune: Tho Independence and Coffeyville Gas company turned on the gas from one well and showed our citizens a magnificent display and demonstrated tbe fact that Independence will have all the gas for light and fuel that can be used.

The company has put in the largost 'and best plant in tho state and have three firat-clnes wells to start with, and as the demand increases will put down others. They are now busy plumbing the business houses and residences of our city. Forty-one thousand bushels of seed wheat have been forwarded to the impoverished settlers of western counties by tbe secretary of the state board of railroad commissioners. How much has been forwarded by tbe railroads independent of the board, or by the various secret societies Secretary Henderson bos no means of knowing, but he estimates that tbe total amount will seed an acreage equal to the fall of 1891, bnt not so large as that of last fall The transportation has been furnished by the railroads free of charge. North Topeka item: Aaron Hoe, five miles in the country, has lust finished the deepest bore well in this part of the country.

It goes down 115 feet before good water eomes. Governor Lowelllng has announced that he had decided to make no change on tbe board of police commissioners of Leavenworth. This matter has been hanging fire for some tinv, and many committees have visited th governor in connection with it Tbe governor believes tbe police law Is ooitrsrv to the rule of self-government, nnd that it wonld have been repealed last winter bat for tbe trouble In the legislature, "German Syrup" My acquaintance with Boschee's German Syrup was made about fourteen years ago. I contracted a cold which resulted in a hoarseness and cough which disabled me from filling my pulpit a number of Sabbaths. After trying a physician, without obtaining relief I saw the advertisement of your remedy and obtained a bottle.

I received quick and permanent help. I never hesitate to tell my experience. Rev. W. H.

Haggerty, Martinsville, N.J. 9 THf NEXT MORNINQ I Kit BRIGHT AND NEW AND MY COMPLEXION IS BETTER. Hj doctor atri It aeti gently on the stomach, liver ad kldneya, and la a pleasant laxative. Tola crlnk la made from herbs, and la prepared lor aae Heaauyaatea. It la called LflHE'SMEDICIIIE All drantllta lell It at Sts.

and II a packajre. If Ip cannot get It, aend your address for a free ne raajiir medicine mnN tacaaar. Addreai OKATOR B. WOODWABD, LzBOT. Old Time Methods of treating Colds and Coughs were based on the idea of suppression.

We now know that "feeding a cold" is good doctrine. Scott's Emulsion of cod-liver oil with hypo phosphites, a rich fat-food, cures the most stubborn cough when ordinary medicines have failed. Pleasant to take; easy to digest. "COLCHESTER" Spading Boot For Farmera.M nm H. iin.nka twil others.

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Leading physicians prescribed medicine after medicine, which I took without any relief. I also tried mercurial and potash remedies, with unsuccessful results, but which brought on an attack of mercurial rheumatism that ES-niiEULiftTisn four years I pare up all remedies nd began using o. h. Alter taking several bottles was entirely cured and able to resume work. Is the greatest medicine 4or blood poisoning to-day on the market." Treatise on Mood and Skin Bluest mailed rree.

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III T- ri II.H raneW urinn -wtw a iww rmtiiHl li I IB' irtke Baby Culling Teeta, Be sure and use that old and rcll-trled remedy, tt WlirgLOW'B Sootbihg Strcp for Children Teethialr. Edith Oh, vhat a beautiful er how do you pronunce it vahs, or vawse? Millicent) It cost $200. Edith Ah, yes vawse. "Hnnton'e Magic Corn Salve. Warranted to oureor money refunded.

Ask your, druggist for It. Vrice 15 cents. It often happens that the fellow who "won't go home till morning" can't go home until somebody pays his fine for him. Coe'a Cough Balaam Is the oldest and besk It will break up a Cold quick, er than anything else. It is always reliable.

IrylW The next door neighbors who give a lawn tennis party when it is washday at your house show very little regard for your wife's feelings. Sliiloh'a Consumption Core Is sold on a guarantee. It cures Incipient Consumn tioo. It ia tbe best Cough Cure. See Colchester Spading Coots aav.

in otfter column. A Good Omen: She: Why er really, Mr. Cham plain, the idea of my marrying you is very unexpected. He: I am so gladl She: So glad? He: Yes, because the unexpected always happens. Money Can Be Saved by buying COAL by the Carload.

Write to J. J. Thomas 1018 17th Street, Den. ver, for prices on Colorado Coal, before purchasing elsewhere. Stranger: I haven't much time to spend in Washington, but I'd like to see some of the nation's famous men.

Resident Take the Seventh street cars to the base ball grounds. They're sure to be there. See Colchester Spading Boots adv. in other column. A man who mortgaged his home remarked to a friend that he had just "put up" another building.

Interesting French In a communication to the Societal Medicate du Xlle Arrondissetnent da Paris, Dr. Rosenblith shows that efi fusions of blood in sprains are veryi rapidly reabsorbed by massage. Ja practice the injured articulation is ati first immersed in very warm water in-order to dilate the superficial vessels after which preparation of the af fected region massage is perfofmecl outside of the injured part; it is then gradually approached, a very gentle stroke being applied to it at ttrst, followed by more vigorous friction, thus gradually producing insensibility. When partially obtaiped a mote or less energetic kneading is pursued according to the varying degree or sensibility experienced by tbe paj; tient, and to tbe massage part is finally applied a compressive band! age, with wadding, which is wrappea in a tlanel or linen band. It ink strain occurs in the inferior limbs Dr.1 Bosenhlith contrary to the ordinarily commended practice of avoiding; -movements for a shorter or longer -period advises the patient to walK: as soon as be can do so without ing great pain.

Walking, he say? adapts the auricular surface in a ural way and actuates tbe venal and' lymphatic circulations by the muscular contraction. As long as a trasuy newspaper is made welcome in a home. God will not undertake to keep the devil out No preacher can preach as God wants him to preach who writes his sermons on the head of bis flour barrel. It may be UAat money will overcome the world, but it takes religion! pure and undented to overcome tbe devil. The wickeder a man is the harder he will try to persuade himself that his conduct is prompted by a good motive.

The preaching that has Christ in it sends somebody away from the church with a determination to do better. The kind of preaching a worldling likes is that which will permit him to keep on living in sin and still feel that he is safe. QEAD AND SHOULDERS I above every other blood- puriuer, man as uoctor 1 Fierce'! Golden Medical Discovery. Bee the evi-J dence of it It's sold in) every case, on trial. It it ever fails to benefit or cure, yon have your money uacK.

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I rave him Dr. Meroe's OoMen Medical Discovery and Pellets and they saved bis Ufe. We have used the Discover for threat and bronchial trouble, and found such perfect reUel that we (Jan recum-meud It very hl(hly." K. N. U.

T. 039-40 ter-Wbao answeris any el tfataa advartiaai aata, Haw awatloa lala aaPtt )C0flTC3 rJIpwwaai.i at 1 KANSAS RAILROADS. At Cherry vale the Frisco depot is destroyed by fire, building and contents being a total loss. Byron Roberts, of Topeka, receiver of the Hutchinson Southern railroad, states that the road is getting into good business condition once more, and will eventually be one of great value to Kansas. The road is being built south to Wakita, a new town between Pond creek and Cameron.

D. B. Robinson, first vice president of the Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe Rail- Lway company passed through Kansas en route from Chicago to Albuquerque, jn. M. Mr.

Robinson occupied his private car, Bay State, which was built for bim a short time ago, and he is now making his western trip for the first time in his new car. The car is very elegantly finished and finely furnished throughout. John E. Frost, land commissioner of the Santa Fe system, reports an improved demand for farm property in Kansas, and says that his department has, within the past thirty days, received more inquiries about Kansas land, than for the entire nine months preceding. The inquiries come from che north in Minnesota, Wisconsin and the Dakotas principally, although many are received from Indiana, Illinois and Ohio.

A large number of the employes of the Santa Fe in Topeka have petitioned Chief Surgeon Hogeboom to open a homeopathic department, and place it under the control of a physician of good standing. Such a petition was presented a long while ago, but it called for the appointee to be a man. It is believed that favorable action will be taken by the chief surgeon on the present petition, and that Dr. Eva Harding will secure the appointment. KANSAS CHURCHES.

MePherson Republican: Nineteen new members were taken into the Baptist church on Sunday. Two were baptized in the evening. no nrsii unnuui cuuveuuuu ui cue Kansas conference of the Epworth league held a two days session at Wichita with nearly 600 delegates in attendance. ElDorado Advocate: The Tabernacle meetings held by Evangelist Harlan and Soloist Bidenour for the past five weeks resulted in fifty-six additions to the church, about one-half of the number by baptism, the other half by letter. The i Christian church has enjoyed a season of spiritual awakening.

Junction City Republican: The Congregational church of this city is waking up to earnest work. The church building will be removed to the north end of the city as soon as the arrangemnts can be carried out. The present site is now for sale, and the trustees are prepared to entertain an offer for its purchase. It is proposed to move both church and parsonage to the new site and eventually to erect a new church or alter the present building so as to adapt it to modern requirements. The annual meeting of tho Missouri Valley Unitarian conference, hold at Lawrence, was largely attended, nnd its results very satisfactory to those interested.

Those from out of town taking part in the discussions were Rev. J. E. Roberts, of Kansas City; Prof. James! Black, Rev.

A. Wyman and F. H. Foster, of Topeka; Rev. T.

B. Forbnsb, of Chi- cago, and Rev. Mr. Stoner, an Uuiver- salist minister from Seneca. Officers for the year were elected as follows: President, Frank H.

Foster, of Topeka; vice president W. H. Carrnth, of Lawrence; secretary, Prof. James Black, of Topeka; treasurer, Mrs. J.

E. Roberts, of Kansas City; missionary, Rev. T. B. Forbush, of Chicago.

The next meeting of the conference will be held at St Joseph, Ma STOCK AMD FARM. From Chapman: Mrs. P. Dowllng, living three miles east of town, raised 200 acres of corn this year that averaged eighty bushels to the acre. Santa Fe Monitor: Although broom-corn was not a blooming success in Has kell connty this year, owing to the unfavorable season, quite a number of our farmers are preparing to put out a good look for an ia crop next spring, creased acreage and year.

a big crop next Independence Tribune: J.C.Thomas, or West Cherry township, left us a sample of red and white sweet potatoes, one weighing 6J pounds tbe other 41 pounds. He had twelve pounds of good potatoes from one plant Moline Republican: F. T. Beach turned his cattle into a cane field and In thirty minutes a doaen of tbe animals were lying on the ground in awful misery. Three died and the others were saved by bathing with water.

It appears the cane field ia death to Cuttle If not oaref all jr managed. A little over 200 years afro there stood before one of the most elegant residences in the city of Florence a poor, tattered boy of some twelve years. He was not a beggar; for being employed by a Cardinal, rich and influential, of course he had all the food he wan ted. But why was he there? History does not say. He was gazing listlessly at what was eoing on around him when he felt a sudden tap upon his shoulder, and on looking up there stood, to his astonishment, a boy from Cortona, from which place he himself had come only four years before.

"Why, Peter, Is that you?" he exclaimed. "What in the world brought you to Florence? How did you leave all our friends?" The boy shook back his shock of dark hair, crushed his hat into a shapeless mass as he looked at his old friend Thomas, the tears, meanwhile, fast coursing down his cheeks. "I came here to be a painter, Tom, and they say Florence Is the best place to learn; and there's a school here, too, where they teach you all about it. Mother's died since you came away, and I can't stay, now she's gone. I just hope I'll never have to go back.

Oh, how lonely I'd be!" "Yes, but don't it take money, Peter, to learn how to paint? Have you got any?" asked his friend, believing from the boy's general appearance that he had not. "Not a penny." At this honest confession Peter hung his head. "Then of course you can't do any thing. Hew would it be if I got a place for you Id the palace where I live? At a-oy rate I'll promise you enough to eat." "Do you really get enough to eat?" asked 'earnestly, as if doubtful if that could be it took so much for a growing appetite! "Indeed you'd think so; but come and see for yourself. You won't be sorry, I'll warrant you.

"I can1 take a position, Tom, ia deed I can't I must be a painter. The desire was born in me. I came all the way to Florence on foot for that, and so don't ask me to give it up, or put anything in my way to stop me. Hut I'll tell you what I'll do; suppose, if you have so much more than you need, you take me on trust, and share with me, and when 1 get to be a painter, grown up and fam ous, tou know, I'll pay you. Would that suit) you?" 'Til do it, old fellow, and foe glad to.

We can but try and see how the plan works. Come with me to the garret in the palace where I sleep, and Til give you a part of my dinner to-night" Two iolly boys, poor as they were, soon hurried to the little room where Thoma slept, the one with the thought of a meal, the other pleased that he had the company of an old friend to dine with him. an unusual treat in his lonely dwelling. It wus so small a place chat the low straw bed, table, and three-legged stool completely filled it up. There was onlr one thing really worthy of notice the wonderful whiteness of the walls on every side.

Tom folded up his old coat to make a rest for Peter's head and begged him to lie down, saving at the ame time, on'tyou get frightened, Peter I'll be hack iuialn before you know it." But Peter looked so miserable that he almost repented taking bint In, puny, sickly boy that be was; but the poor fellow's wistful eyes were reassuring, and be was off as quickly as his old shoes would carry him, Thomas, you must know, was lo high favor with the cooks, und after his work was done, and the meals well over, he had a grand opportunity with the broken meats; and to-night, to his great delight, ho was even more lucky than utual, for among other things he found half of a pigeon pie, which he triumphantly carried off to his friend up among the chimney tops. Can you believe how the poor boy enloyed It? He had tasted scarcely a morsel of food all that day or the day befoje. Put even this did not altogether satisfy his cravings, for to be a painter was llrst of all. This would not give him paper and pencils. brushes, or colors; money only would do that, How he wished that some ono might give him credit! Could he make up his mind, after his kindness, to ask Tom if he bad any money to spare? "1 can but ask bin, and I'm sure I can pay him back some day." Acting upon the thought, ho ventured, "Indocd, Peter, I'd bo Ria to do It, but, bless you! I won't gct any dinal, into whose presence he had never been before.

He grew very red as he looked first at the characters on the wall and then at his master. "No longer are you to be in the kitchen, Thomas," he said kindly. But the boy, feeling that the Cardinal was displeased and sending bim away, implored that he would not. "I have no borne, and shall starve, and I couldn't take care of Peter then." Whenever be mentioned Peter's name his eyes lit up, he had grown so fond of him, yes, and very proud, too. "Peter? Who, who is Peter?" the Cardinal asked.

"Oh, onlya friend of mine from Cortona, who has come all the way to Florence to learn to be a painter. See those pictures on the wall?" said he timidly fearing least his master would be angry that be had allowed Peter to draw them. "I could'nt do such work as that He'll die if he can't be a painter. He's so nice, too, and has such soft girl's ways." "Where 1o you keep the boy, pray? There isn't room for you here. didn't think tbe place was so small?" Oh, sir, he's out all day, and only sleeps here at night I've taken him on trust" Of course the Cardinal did not know the meaning of that, but ho demanded to see the youngster when ho should come In.

But Peter did not return that night nor for two weeks more. Thomas was greatly troutiled, but when he came back it was all explained. He had seen a head of Baphael on ex hibltion near a convent, and had asked it be miKhtcopy It; permission was granted bim by the monks, who had fed and lodged lilua all that time. But you are wondering if Peter got nis long-ror teaching, lie did, for the Cardinal saw his merits, and used not only his parse butbis Influence in the bo's behalf. He was placed In one of tho best schools in Florence.

x.nn's nouie spirit so pleased his master tnat ne was raised to a position of greater trust, and teach ers were given him that he might become familiar with the learning of tbe day. rnus peters vagabond life was ended, and could you, a half century later nave looked into one of tho ele gant bouses In Florence, where the elite of all nations were often enter tained, you would have found two peaceful men, believing and trustv friends, living there together. was Peter of Cortona, called the greatest painter of bis time, who would with trembling voice, pointing tenderly to his dear friend Tom, of whom It was always said, "Happy Is tne man wno can claim bis friendship," tell you that bo never should have been what he was If, when cold and homeless and hungry, he had not found lodging In that little attic room, and made his first effort there. Waverly Magazine. Aft Inspector of con turns a fashion 1 ar tistsr c-occs rnwaai awinwri 1.:.

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