The Farmer's Wife from Topeka, Kansas • 3

JOHN MARTIN. THE HOOP SKIRTS. TO WIN SUCCESS. Do That Well for Which You Are Best Fitted. Success in marriage, business and in the affairs of life generally does the Recently Elected I'nited States Senator from Kansas.

Owing to the overthrow of the Republicans in Kansas in the recent election through an amalgamation of the Populists and Democrats in that State, more than usual interest attaches to the gentleman whom the passed his nours with books and solitary walks in woods, or riding away over the breezy hills surrounding his home, on his father's business selling wool, or buying sheep and oxen. "Whether he superintended the leather-dressing, or looked after the workmen generally as foreman, who can say? Conjectures are numerous enough, and some of them are curious enough. Some suppose he became a clerk to one of the seven lawyers who lived in the old town; others that he was assistant master at the grammar school, as, indeed, he may have been; others again believe that he was a not come by chance. There are certain elements which, properly com-' bined, as certainly produce success as the combination of certain gases produce water. I do not scare you.

but prepare you for the want to in order to crinoline's reri- That old and yet generally accept ed notion that success is a matter of how it 6eems. Kansas Legislature has elected to All out the unexpired term of Mr. Plumb in the United States Senate John Martin. Mr. Martin is a native of Tennessee and is 59 years old.

His father died when the subject of our sketch luck, or a special gift of has not a leg to stand on any al I must show you dressing is in tightness it tighter without.) how we trim You know our present) that we cannot make tremes. No matter reached our to distressing going to exit we have In a sense, it is a special because all blessings come from Providence, and when success comes spe butcher, and made skewers and snouted poetry in of all places on tightest limit. So, to keep the tash- (lllll) cially to any person it is in a sense a special providence. (Hill) ion moving we must ape the The successful business man is a and spite of beaus days of yore. In brothers making fun specialized creature.

Some of his of us or others In schoolmates may know more about was only 15 years of age, and left him the main support of his mother and "six younger children. His education was received in the common schools, aside from that which he gained by hard study at night while working as a clerk. At the age of 22 he removed to what is now Shawnee County, Kansas. The same year he served as Assistant Clerk of the first of Representatives organized in the Territory, lie also served as County Clerk and Register of Deeds in 1855, our" Mammies. we will the Hoop Skirts of mathematics, others about astron-! make you love oiny, and others about language than us more.

won't It be a blessing when in crinoline dressing. We will walk with he does, and all because their tastes and inclinations differ from his. perfect fceedom and in 6um trier time be cool. No drapery will Likewise he differs from them and; bind us and no bustle wag behind us and earth the slaughter-house! Blades, the printer, concluded that he was a printer, because he used such words as "printing kisses," of hoofs," a literal man, Blades. Physicians have claimed him as one of themselves, because he knew so much that they are proud to know.

Hugh Miller, who had once been a stone mason, traced out reasons in his plays for believing that "our pleasant "Willy" was also one. Botanists have given reasons for their belief in him as a botanist, and gardeners theirs tor assuring us that he must have been a gardener, as in a certain amateur fashion he probably was. Thousands have conjectured, as thousands will conjecture in a' thousand other ways, and still know exactly what we know positively, and that is nothing. (although we'lL never won't want assistance possesses something they never and probably can never acquire. His tastes run in a certain direction, and do it) we can kick like any mule.

And VQ admitted later was '50 and '57. to the bar In '56 he was and two years keeping at proper distance men who may be rather silly (as hoop protection will just too many are, we know), for our barrel run so strongly that his vital energy flows in that same direction. The result is that he becomes a successful' baffle their affection taking all the 6eats they're wanting when In business man, while his classmates follow their tastes and drift into trolley cars we go. So, come on, all you croakers, and "whoop her up" with "war circus style. Trot out your brain deposits jokers and you old calamity whoops" In your hoop-la of the "skeletons in closets" various callings, but a lack of vital energy, or something, prevents them from achieving success.

a nd whoop-ing coughin' chestnuts while we pity you and smile. A combination of certain elements Swimming In Salt Lake. The experience was not altogethei produces a definite kind of this determines a man's place in life. Some of these elements are OiOIOlOlOlO'OlOiOlOIOlOIOlOIOIOlOlOlOIO a pleasant one. Having waded out far enough to do so, 1 scaled a bowlder and dived.

As it is my custom to open my eyes under water, I did so () () natural and others are acquired, so that itjis as much the fault of the individual, or his ancestors, that he does not succeed as it is the fault of nature. as soon as I was fairly immersed. In an instant it seemed as if vitriol had been poured into them. Springing to There are some persons born into PETE HAD KILLED THE ELK. an upright position as soon as pos found the jawbone of a man that would easily slip over the head of an the world so out of balance, or made up of such poor material, that they sible, I tried to get the salt out of them, but the more I rubbed the ordinary man of this generation.

His Thought He Hail Failed, Though, and Went Home anil Heat His Wite. explorations were very meager, and more it seemed to get in. re never can succeed in anything; but these are so few and far between that they may almost be ranked with since then nothing like any system T. S. Minott, of Marhfleld, lieved the smarts after pwhile by pouring through the tear ducts enough atic search has ever been made.

freaks. the center of the elk. bear, and cougar New Y'ork Times. The average failure in life is owing to improper training or neglect to Steam Launches. of milder solution of salt to clear the irritated cornea of the fluid, and I took pains not to let the water into my eyes again.

After that the bath make the most out of the material. country, though a business man, is it the same time one of the most noted sportsmen of the wild mountains of Western Oregon. He had iust been on an elk hunting expedi Pittsburg Commercial-Gazette. The steam launches or cutters for the United States naval vessels are built strong enough to be raised and was more enjoyable. There was a sin lowered with bunkers and tanks full, gular sensation of lightness, and it was easy to float; yet a bather who is FAMOUS GERMAN BANDS.

tion to the Humtulips River. went up on the Humptulips," he said to a San Francisco Examiner man, and steam up. They are thirty feet Two Now Rehearsing la Berlin Prepara feet nine inches beam, four hot a swimmer will fare as badly here as an where, for the head, being JOHN MARTIN, OF TOPKKA. elected County Attorney. After holding other offices he removed to Topeka in 1861 and has resided there ever since.

In 1873 he was elected to the Legislature, succeeding himself in '74. In 1876 he ran for Governor, but was defeated, though running about 10,000 votes ahead of his ticket. In 1880 he was chairman of the delegation to the National Democratic Convention, and supported Gen. Hancock. In 1882 he declined the nomination for Governor, but was elected Judge of the Third Judicial District by 4,500 majority in the face of a natural Republican majority of 5,000.

In 1886 he ran for Congress, but the overwhelming Republican majority was too much for him. In 1888 he ran 5,000 votes ahead of his ticket for Governor, but was defeited. During the recent campaign he was largely instrumental in bringing about the amalgamation of the Populists and Democrats and taking the State from the Republican column. with Ben who is a noted tory to Coming to the Fair. Tw of the most famous military heavier than the lower extremities, feet deep, two feet five inches and two feet ten inches draught forward and aft.

They have a speed of seven hunter of Marshfleld. There are two ways of hunting elk and deer there has a tendency to sink, unless one has bands in Germany are coming to the World's Fair. These bands are to ap the skill to keep it above the surface. and one-half to eight knots. They are fitted with compound vertical in On emerging from the lake I found that every inch of my skin sparkled pear in the German village, on Midway Plaisance, and give coacerts frequently during the day.

They are by a still hunt, and with hounds. We choose the former. We followed the trail which we had found and soon came in sight of a quiet band. Then we just shot that's all and verted engines, intended to run at 300 revolutions per minute, with a boiler pressure of 1C0 pounds. The with salt crystals, which were sharp enough to create discomfort and to suggest an undue intimacV with the flower of the German army.

Be brought down an elk apiece. It cylinders are three and one-half by thistles. My hair was full of them, five inches, and seven by live inches. and they even adhered to my cloth The valves are of the three-port slide was something like killing a cow in a barnyard no frills to it, nothing dramatic, but easily done. About this time along came an old Indian ing, so that a vigorous shaking of raiment and a fresh-water bath were fore any of the musicians were accepted they had to submit to a rigid examinxtion, conducted by the royal army band inspector," G.

Rossberg; the royal court musician, J. Kos-leck; the royal musical valve type, with one and five-eights inches travel, and driven by the ordinary link motion. The crank shafts known as Humptulips Pete, who lives at the mouth of the Humptulips. He in order on reaching my hotel. When I told the people in town of my swim and the maimer of it I was laughed at and informed that it was not the are of wrought steel, with two thrust rings forged on.

The screws are true saw the band of elk and began blaz ing away. The elk were rounding a helices, twenty-seven inches diame E. Rusche- correct thing to swim, except at a bathing pavilion, where one has fresh ter, and forty-eight inches pitch, or thirty-six inches pitch for twenty- ridge and as one got to the top in the clearing he would fire. He kept this up until he had fired eight shots weyh; cavalry band master, G. water to shower away the salt.

HERR E. RUSCHK-UtUCl CUilUCUU UiUSl- The Domestic Catechism. The other day a thin, tired-looking man entered the office of a printing house, and, approaching the proprietor, said: "1 want to have a list printed. Suppose you write it down as I tell you." The proprietor made ready, and the man said: "Yes, Pm sure I locked the frontdoor. Have you got Codfish Mining in Labrador.

and he didn't stop one. They all ran on and disappeared. The Indian wkyh. cians. The last two eight feet cutters; the helicoidal area is three and nineteen-hundredths square feet, and the projected area two and twenty-three hundredths square feet.

The boilers aie of the Towne pattern, having a rectangular named gentlemen were engaged as An old sailor to the Arctic regions has been telling how he really misses looked at his lifle, sighted it again. leaders of the bands. and then examined it all over care cold weather this way: "'Tain't the In the brilliant uniforms of the kind of air I'm used ter," he said. "I grate, surrounded by a water box, German army these famous musicians will give frequent concerts at the fully. Mr.

Foss and who had by this time came up, saw he was much disgusted and told him he had better go on over the' hill, for we believed with water tubes running diagonally Fair. E. Ruscheweyh, cne of the the don't believe I'll ever get what I want this side of Labrador. You don't have to fish for cod down to the Labrador. You just gits a pick and shovel and mines 'em; just mines 'em from side to side a love the grate, with a top steam drum connected to the he had killed some of the elk and he conductors, is famous beyond would do well to go and see anyway.

water box by tubes. These boilers He shook his head; appeared more have been in service for some years put out than ever, and finally left us and are found to steam freely with frontiers of Germany. He has conducted the Tivoli concerts for fifteen years. Herr Ruscheweyh looks back upon a military career of and went toward his cabin on the out of the icebergs. They're frozen in fast.

Some of 'em have been there for 1,000,000 years, more or less. They got catched up some time natural draught, to be economical in Humptulips. We were busy skin coal consumption, and to have a low ning the two elk we had killed, chop and just froze in. center of gravity. Their working pressure is 160 pounds per square ping off their heads and saving some more than thirty years.

Herr Herrold, master "A whaling man 't knows his busi meat, so that we didn't think of him inch. The condenser consists of a ness can tell offhand where h'd strike "Yes; but I don't understand." "Never mind; don't interrupt me till I have finished. Are you ready?" "Yes." "I turned out the light in the bathroom. "All right; I've got it." "The kitchen windows are fastened." "Yes." "The dog is in the cellar." "Yes." "The servants are all in." "Yes." "The stable door is locked." "Yes." "The kitten is out of doors." "Yes." "I turned off the draughts of the range. "Yes." "No, I do not smell smoke." of the cavalry band, has again for some time.

When we got copper pipe along the keel. Th served in that capacity boats carry thirty-five gallons of wa through we went down to the Indian's cabin. a paying lead, tie lands a crew on a berg, and they cut a level piece to stand on, and then just open galleries for twenty years. From' ter on each side of the engine space, 1881 to 1885 he was at "As we approached we heard an HERR G. HER into the ice.

You find the cod in and 30O pounds of coal on each side of the boiler, or seventy gallons 640 tached the Royal awful shrieking and sounds of some ROLD. seams like coal. I never worked in a notinds of water and six hundred coal pit, but I've had the thinj ex Music Academy at Berlin. Royal Court Musician Kosleck, who is also coming, has taken charge of the exer pounds of coal. The weight of ma plained to me, and it's about the same.

The cods were swimming chinery is 850 pounds; boiler body beating somebody else. We rushed in, and there Indian Fete was hammering the life out of his squaw. She was almost killed. We hauled him off, and finally got from him a itory that she had bewitched his gun. He said that was the reason he hadn't around, and a layer of them got water and attachments, 2, 295 pounds; bunkers, tanks, 570 pounds; frozen.

total weight, fully equipped for ser cises of the old historic, trumpet music upon the antique valveless trumpets. This sort of music was, by special order of the Emperor, introduced in several cavalry regiments of the Prussian army. "Then would come a layer of plain ice underneath, without any trim vice, 4,955 pounds. Get Away From the Crowd. killed the elk.

We explained to the mings, and afteward another layer of superstitious Indian that they was cod. It's colder work than fishing, The advice which Robert Burdette gives to boys may well be taken, not cou mining is, Dut the returns are quicker. There are mines down to Hartford's Old Men. There are some old men in Hart only by them, but by older persons "Get away from the crowd," he says, the Labrador that have been worked for years and years, and still they ford, Conn. Hubbard Hollister is now nearly 88 years old, yet he takes care of the horses, barn, and stable as "for a little while every day, and think.

Stand on one side and let the have never run out. The Yaks them's the Eskimos know where world run by, while you get ac the best cod mines are, and they quainted with yourself, and see what nothing in that and that he had probably shot some of them, and, if he would go over there, we would go with him. We, finally got him to consent to it All of us went back, and just below the hill we found eight elk lying dead. He had hit one every time shut it in the paunch and they had run a long way before dropping. They'll do that hcn they are shot that way.

It was such a killing as I never saw before. There the elk were, all scattered out in a row in a distance of an eighth of a mile." effectively as ever. Dr. David Crary, 13 Seyms street, is now in his 88th year, yet he goes out with the Fox won't tell, but the whalers know a kind of a fellow you are. Ask your thing or two.

I'm a whaler myself." self hard questions about yourself; Hunters' Club occasionally and bags Chicago Herald. find out all you can about yourself. Two Puzzles. a fox or two on Talcqjtt Mountain. Deacon Morgan Lewis, 905 Main street, Is also 88, and he still drives Ascertain, from original sources, ii you are really the manner of man you "Yes." "No, the water is not running in the bath-room." "Yes." "I do not think I hear anyone trying to get into the house." "Yes." "No, that is not our dog barking; it's the one next door." "Yes." "It is not necessary to go down and see if the cellar door is fastened.

I know it is." "Yes." "That is nobody it is only the wind rattling the shutters." "Yes." "Well, I think that's' about all. You see, my wife asks me certain questions every night just as I am getting into bed, and if I had a printed list I could show to her it would save lots of trouble. Besides that, it injures my lungs to answer them. Have the lists printed as soon as possible, please." His Early Life. So far, research has failed to reveal just how Shakspeare's youth was fcpent.

Whether, after leaving the Here are two puzzles for some lively say you are; and if you are alway honest; if you always tell the square, young heads to work out: First A man had two watches, each watch he sells for $12 apiece. On the first about, more or less. There are in the town a number of other old people of 88 or along there who keep tolerably perfect truth in business deals; il your life is as good and upright at 11 watch he loses 50 per cent. On the lively for that Georgia' Big Prehistoric Mound. About twelve miles below Fort o'clock at night as it is at noon; il you are as good a temoerance man on second watch he gains 50 per cent.

How does he come out on the entire A Tretty Custom. The pretty custom of drinking to Gaines is a mound which is said to be the largest known in the United States, and undoubtedly the work of uoes ne gain, lose or stay even? a fishing excursion as you are at a Sunday school picnic; if you are as good when you go out of the city as you are at home; if, in short, you are really the sort of man your father hopes you are, and your sweetheart believes you are. Get on intimate Second A man died leaving a will giving one-half his property as he left it to one son, one-third to another the health of loved ones is skill kept up in the ward-rooms of the vessels of our navy. At 9 o'clock in the evening the captain or commander will cause glasses to be filled, and. son, and one ninth to the third son.

the mound-builders of former generations. Its base covers more than two acres and, running up at an angle of about 45 degrees, it stands about .100 feet high. Large oak trees several teet in diameter cover the sides and stand as witnesses to the great age of the mound Many years ago a gentleman hail a small-sized well dug terms with yourself, my boy, and be His entire possessions were found to be seventeen cows. How were they divided so that each son got his share lieve me. every time you come out from one of these private interviews, grammar sehool, he went for any time to college, as many sons of such fath raising, will deliver this sentiment: "Gentlemen, I ask you to drink to sweethearts and wives.

May the sweetheart became the wife. May the wife always remain the sweetheart." The assembled officers drink. toast in silenca. without killing or dividing a caw. Is That All? you will be a stronger, better, purei man.

Don't forget this, and it will ers then did, and merely went a beg from the top down into the mound, and among the heart of other things icintr in vacation time: whether he Taris actresses wear paper lace, do you good,".