Council Grove Bugle from Council Grove, Kansas • 8

KEPT AHEAD OF THE BULLETS. Astounding Swiftness of Foot Shown by H. L. SCHLOSSER, a Georgia Razor-Back. Col.

Taylor Jenkins, who lives a few Dunlap and Vicinity. miles north of Blakeiy, is known HEADQUARTERS FOR throughout that section as one of the most truthful men In iu At least, so says the Early County Times. Re Goods, Groceries; Notions, Dry 4.4.4.4.4.4.4.4.4.4.4.4.4.4.4.4.4.4.4.4.4.4.4.4.4.4.4.4.4.4.4.4.4.4.4. 4.4.4.4.4.4.4.4.4.4.4.4.4.4.4.4.4. cently, while Mr.

Jenkins was out hunting, his dogs began barking at something in a large hollow log. It was a wild hog. He took the hog home BOOTS, SHOES, A Complete Line of General Merchandise. and dropped it in his cornfield. It is there now.

A few weeks ago Mr. Jenkins went out to kill it, thinking he KANSAS. DUNLAP, easily do to with his unerring rifle. He searched about till he jumped" it. Down a corn row it went C.

C. Vickers went to Emporia Monday. Blanche Holland visited friends in Americus Sunday. Lew Ireland moved his family to Oklahoma this week. Herbert Monroe made a busines3 trip to Empona Saturday.

Rev. J. H. Smith transacted business in Emporia Wednesday. R.

Wells transacted business in Emporia the latter part of last week. like lightning. He leveled his rifle and "cut down" on it, but never touched a hair. He "jumped" it again and shot again, but no hog. Again and again he "jumped" it and shot at it, with the WE CARRY AS FINE AND VARIED A STOCK OF- same result.

He began to wonder what John Holland was up to the county Beat Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. E. B.

Wands moved to Dunlap Monday. June Baxter of Council Grove was in Dunlap Tuesday. Dr. Brickell moved Monday into the Will Smith house. Mr.

and Mrs. A. W. Hinchman were in Council Grove Tuesday. Storey Sargent was up to the Grove on legal business Tuesday.

Misses Blanche and Minnie Woodward left Thursday for Butler county. Marion Parrish sold his span of mules to Mr. Taylor of Kansas. B.A.Linn was a delegate to republican convention at Emporia Monday. could be the matter.

The corn row were as straight as moonshine whisky and his gun true as the third party to mm Tom Wutson, yet hit it he couldn't. To shoot at the hog as it ran off down the corn rows was just like shooting at it standing, so far as getting a "bead on it" was concerned. To make sure that It has long been an open question among cattlemen whether or not color has anything to do with their salability. Some contend that a buncn of solid reds or blacks will outsell a bunch of roans or mixed And Standard Patent Medicines as can be Found in the City. he didn't "wobble" off the hog he put up a small target and down" at it Ave times, then took his ax and colors while others say that not col chopped in and found five balls all in one hole in the middle of the spot.

ors, but flesh and quality, have all to i do with it. While it may be true That settled it that the fault was not that a bunch of cattle of one color may make a nice appearance and so in him or the gun, but the hog had outrun the bullets. impress a buyer favorably, it's the LONDON DOGS OUT CALLING. quality that sells them after all. It would be very difficult indeed for a buyer to show how one color would Their Cards Go Dp with Those of Their Mis tresses.

It appears, from an article in the Figaro by M. Paul Megnin, that in Lon S. L. SAKG-ENT, Real Estate and Loans- ATTORNEY AT LAW. Collections and Leasing Lands a Specialty.

Taxes Paid give him more profit than any other, all things being equal. Drovers Journal. Miss Mollie Backus went to Tope ka the latter part of last week to visit relatives. Vickers, Lamb and Chas. Wilker-son shipped cattle to Kansas City Wednesday.

Mrs. E. J. Reynolds and Mrs. Sun-burry moved last Friday into the building south of Schlosser's store.

The Ladies Aid Society of the M. E. Church met at the residence of Mrs. R. H.

Vickers yesterday afternoon. Mrs. Maggie Macumber, Miss Grace Zies and Mrs. Emma Taylor were shopping in Council Grove last Monday. HE CHANGED HIS MIND.

for Non-Residents. don at the present time it is not only the fashion for a lady toprovide her lap-dog with a little wardrobe and even a handkerchief, but to have visiting cards made for it, too. When a fashionable lady pays a visit, taking her lapdog with her, she sends up the dog card along with her own. M. Megnin says he was visiting the editor of one of the leading sporting papers in London, when the servant brought in two cards, one that of a lady and the other as follows: IXJTVLA3P, Fraying for Death, the Lover Struggled Against It When Menaced.

A curious cnse of nervous hallucination is reported in the London Telegraph. At Bordeaux recently a hysterical Frenchman visited the tomb where his beloved was laid. Carrying a lighted candle and kneeling by her coffin, he ex claimed passionately: "Would I could die Would coul die Just then the POUT GET LEFT THE KATY FLYER MRS. FRIVOLITY. wind closed the door and extinguished Colllo.

the light. The bereaved lover who had just prayed for death rushed for the Asked if he knew the name on the card, M. Megnin said he presumed it was some dog fancier. He was greatly A NEW FAST TRAIN door; he could not open it; he tore at it, knocked, kicked, struggled, calling loudly for help. No answer, only the VIA utter 6ilence and darkness of the tomb.

HIb wish to die was forgotten. lie sank surprised to see a lady come in, accompanied by a handsome collie. M. Megnin went to a stationer's shop and ordered 100 cards for his little dog. He was again surprised to iind that the down and wept; his tears were not for his beloved, but for himself.

He felt the pangs of hunger; he thought of his stationer had some ready printed, neatly packed in pretty little card cases. Potatoes are being marketed in large quantities at Grantsburg, the price being six and seven cents per bushel. Mr. and Mrs. Fred F.

Chase and children spent Sunday on Cahola creek with Mrs. Chase's grandfather, W. L. Clyborne. Miss May Nichols returned home last Friday from Emporia where she has been the past four months taking music lessons.

Hog feeders who thought prices were going to boom are nursing their disappointment. The speculators who brught them ahead are the sufferers, however. Mike Cosgrove passed through BEN FRANKLIN'S BIG HEAD. How Be Wore His Wig iu His Pocket at the French Court. The difficulties encountered recently candle and cut it into four parts.

He ate the first quarler the first day, the second quarter on the second day, the third on the third day, and the last quarter on the fourth day. No more, and he must die of starvation. lie made one more desperate effort to open the door, when it suddenly opened and the keeper of the cemetery stood before him; the eunlight blinded him, and he fell from exhaustion, lie had beea there just four hours. DAILY AND'SUN DAYS TOO" BETWEEN PRINCIPAL POINTS IN by the lineal descendants of that great man, statesman, patriot and everything else that men properly hold in estima tion Benjamin Franklin in having themselves enrolled among the Colonial Dames, recall an anecdote of him, says ARTIFICIAL LIMBS. the Washington Post, embalmed In the family records of the sage of Mon-ticello, but which, so far as the writer town Tuesday with the last of his THE INDIAN TER.

AND TEXAS. Improvements Which Make Their household goods for his new home in Coffey county. His family went on the train last week. knows, has never been published. When about to present himself for the first time at the court of Versailles he was nformed by the master of ceremonies KANSAS ITEMS.

HARD SKULL SAVES HIM. Alf. Parrish, L. W. Still and Bob that a wig was a sine qua non.

Now, Mexican Receives a Volley of Bullets In his head was so large that no ordinary Hardly Noticeable. Painstaking skill and constant improvement are necessary factors in the perfection or success of almost any industry, but nowhere, says the New York Mail and Express, are they more fully attended than in the making of artificial limbs. There was a time when the lame and the crippled had to show their defects and misfortunes to the world. Now it is just the other way. People with artificial legs can now walk so perfectly as to avoid detection, and a person with a single amputation can wig would begin to fit it, and the situ the Head and Lives.

A Mexican was condemned to death Thomas went to the republican convention at Emporia Monday to pave the way to the Dunlap post office for Selected from our Exchanges. Barney Kelley has declared resubmission. ation was embarrassing in the extreme. However, one was found sufficiently for stealing a can of kerosene, remarks the Buffalo Express. He was taken out by a party of soldiers, received a volley of bullets at close range, and was left large to pass him through the antechambers, after which he was permit when there is a vacancy.

The Ladies Aid Society of theM, ted to remove the ridiculous conven E. Church will eive an apron and tional appendage and place it in his sun bonnet social Wednesday even for dead. As soon as the soldiers had gone he sprang to his feet and walked to the City of Mexico, many miles away, where he entered a hospital. The doc ample pocket, whence it never again emerged to public gaze. ing, March 25, at the residence of almost defy detection.

Improvements make it possible to move the knee and ankle joints, and this innovation also Cox and Ills Brownies. Palmer Cox says the idea of writing tors found three rifle bullets imbedded In his skull, but he was not fatally injured. Now the authorities of the town strengthens the whole limb and makes it more durable. In this state 2,500 United States licenses to sell liquor have been granted. The Northwest Kansas conference of the M.

E. Church will be held at Salina, April 1. Mrs. Abott, of Salina, will probably be the successor of Mrs. Lease in the political arena of Kansas.

A company has made application to the city of Abilene for a franchise to manufacture the new acetylene gas. The wheat acreage in Kansas has about the brownies came to him from One of the latest improvements is in reading Scotch traditions concerning which ordered him executed want him back in order to shoot him again. the knee joint of the leg for thigh am these amusing little elves, ihey were, But he objects. He argues that if sub he savs. almost unknown in America putation, which is so arranged that when in a sitting position the cord and until he began writing about them, but spring are entirely relaxed, thus re jected to the discomfort of execution a second time his health might be greatly endangered.

There is logic in that. R. H. Vickers. Refreshments will be served.

Mr. C. E. Kidd and daughter, Miss Lida, drove to Emporia Monday. Miss Kidd continued her journey to Climax to visit her sister, Mrs.T.

A. Nichols. Mr. Kidd returned home Monday evening. Thomas Beesley of Williamsburg, has bought the stone building, now occupied by H.

L. Schlosser, of Mrs. W. C. Townsend, and will be in Scotland they had existed tno folk lore for 500 years.

The Scotch lieving all Btrain and pressure. There are in the United States 100,000 persons brownie, according to Mr. Cox, was a The man's plea ought to hold good. It is a serious menace to a man's health to be taken out and shot, and the fel beneficient sort of sprite, whose only who have to be supplied with new limbs on an average of once in every five to three emotions were joy, wonder and terror. It was supposed they were eight years.

The manufacturing of these articles in New York has become never seen bv human beings, but went low who survives the experience once fchould be spared a second exposure, in order that he may come to the states and go the rounds of the museums as the man with the iron skull. quite en enterprise. about at night performing helpful deeds frr the country folk, at the same time A Wealthy Itallroad Fireman. back in Dunlap by Aug. 1, ready for getting a deal of fun themselves out of A young man in blue overalls and a business asrain.

Mr. Schlosser will greasy cap and jacket is now employed build 40 feet to the rear of the build kindly pranks. Not Scientific. A song with the title: "There's as fireman on the Long Island railroad, lie is George D. Pratt, the son of the ing he now owns on the west side late Charles Prattthemulti-miliionaire Standard Oil prince.

Young Pratt was Sigh in the Heart," was sent by a young man to his sweetheart; but the paper of the street and continue business there. Rev. Irwin and wife were in Dun fell into the hands of the girl's father, graduated from Amherst college with honors in 1803. As one of the rcpre a very unsentimental physician, who exclaimed: sentatives of his father'B estate, who lap Monday evening on their way to increased from 10 to 15 per cent this year and the condition of the growing crop is excellent. P.

P. Elder, in his salutatory in the Ottawa Times-Bulletin, says that money will be the paramount issue in the coming campaign. John J. Ingalls will begin his campaign for a seat in the United States senate early in April by delivering a speech in Topeka. A report has been circulated that a fabulous amount of money lies buried beneath the soil at Hope.

Citizens are excited and a stranger cannot buy land at ten times its value. Neither Lieut. Governor Trout-man, Thomas W. Potter or Ed Hooh put in an appearance at the state temperance union meeting, although all three were on the pragramme as speakers. "What wretched, unscientific rubbish Is the secortd largest stockholder of the the home of Mr.

and Mrs. Jeff Con is this? Who ever heard of such A Long Island Railroad company, he pro way on Allen creek where, Tuesday, poses to learn the railroad business English Iluiuor. A strange society wns brought to tight during the hearing of a case before the Thames magistrate. Several men were charged with stealing a watch from a sailor, and were all discharged except Alexander Fullerton, on whom was found a savings bank book for $245 pnd a card of membership of a society with a curious title. It bore the following Inscription: "National Liars' association Having been a member of the above association, and finding you are a bigger liar than my-Belf, I must congratulate 'you on relieving me of this curd." It must be gratifying to the East end community, us well as a tribute to Fullerton's own abilities, that he had found no one worthy of relieving him of the card.

The magistrate remanded him for case?" ne wrote on the outside: through every grade, from laborer up March 10, at 11 o'clock a. m. Rev. "Mistaken diagnosis: no sigh in the He started in the car shops at Morris Irwin preformed the marriage cere- Park, find after service at the bench, heart possible. Sighs relate almost eri' of Harrv Thomas of Morris the forge and in the assembling-room, tirely to the lungs and diaphragm!" he learned how to use tools, how every county to Miss D.

0. Conway 0: Titled Thieves. part of a locomotive is made, and how Lyon county. Both the bride and A princess, a countess, a duchess and the whole 1b put together. After hav- groom are well known here and their 'i 1 the daughter of a reigning prince were Ing served the requisite apprenticeship In that department, he jumped into the many friends win 30m wim ua among the 4.000 thieves, professional and unprofessional, arrested In Paris wishing them a long and happy wed locomotive cab and commenced shov ellng coal In the of a fireman.

during thfli first six months of last year ded life..