The Lenora Lantern du lieu suivant : Lenora, Kansas • 2

A BIG GUN IN CHINA. FARM AND GARDEN. She Jenora Janterit, CHUNQ AH KIV! ONE OF THE MILLIONAIRES OF THEEMPIRE. MATTERS OF INTEREST TO AGRICULTURISTS. BY W.

a SMITH. LKKOKA, KABBA, Recently Celebrated IIU Sixty-Third Birthday In Royal Style Twenty Thousand Dollar! Expended on Entertainment! for nil Visitors. Some ITp-tn-Date Hint! About Cultivation of the Soil and Yield Thereof Horticulture, Viticulture and Floriculture. I HE Eighth Report of the Mississippi Experiment Station says: In 1S88 the station commenced a series of experiments with grasses and forage plants with a view of APTAIN CHUNG Ah Kivi, one of the mining kings of the Chlnest island, Pe-nang, recently celebrated his sixty-third birthday. To occidentals the celebration of a natal day is an or: REV.

DR. EB BEN -POWELL. Minister Convicted of Fraudulent Re glatratlon an Interesting Man, Rev. Joseph E. Ebben-l'owell, the English clergyman who was convicted of fraudulent registration at Findlay, Ohio, recently, now wishes he had not tested the sincerity of American election laws.

Mr. Ebben-Powell is the rector of Trinity Methodist Episcopal church of that city. He claimed to tha recordor of voters that he was a native American, when, in fact, he la an Englishman of only three years' residence in this country. He was born in 1862 at Malvern, England, and nt an early age he emigrated for Australia, and subsequently removed to New Zealand. In that country he received his education, and at the age of 20 became a minister.

He is a great traveler. He has visited many countries and baa pondered over the ruins of ancient cities like Volney. While In New Zealand he studied the native language of the Maoris, and is to-day the highest living authority on that language. His was the first Maori grammar published. He was for many years the official Interpreter of the New Zealand government, and through his friendship with the natives he became possessed of much valuable information conaerning the history of this peoplf All Good Republicans should make a point of attending tha national convention to bo held at St.

Louis, Tuesday, June 16. The expense Is not great, If you take the Burlington. On the 13th, 14th and 15th of June, you can purchase a round trip ticket to St. Louis at THE ONE WAY RATE. Think Isn't it worth a few dollars, a fow days' time to see the next" president nominated? Full information on appllcotion to any agent of the B.

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P. A. Burlington Route, Omaha, Neb. Every wife should try to get her husband out of the lodge habit. All About Western Farm Lands.

The "Corn Belt" is the name of an illustrated monthly newspaper published by the Chicago, Burlington Quincy R. R. It aims to give information in an interesting way about the farm lands of the west. Send 25 cents in postage stamps to the Corn Belt, 209 Adams, Chicago, and the paper will be sent to your address for one year. Most people do not want to know tha truth, if it is disagreeable.

The Modern Beauty Thrives on good food and sunshine, with plenty of exercise in the open air. Her form glows with health and her face blooms with Its beauty. If her system needs the cleansing action of a laxative remedy she uses the gentle and pleasant Syrup of Figs. Made by the, California Fig Syrup Company. Lots of people are afraid of a cyclone who are not afraid of the devil.

in a drop of honey, sets his pump to work, and in a few minutes la as full as he can fly. Slowly he rises, carefully scanning the country as he gets higher, so that he can tell the others the exact locality of ibis find, probably. As he gets still higher, he feels confidence, and away he goes, slowly and carefully, but directly toward home. I generally time the first bee, and can Judge accurately as to distance by that, allowing about fifteen or twenty minutes to a mile, going and coming. The bee never delays an instant, except to unload and make his report, and then is off agalril If it is a reliable bee his first report is heeded and three bees, or in rare cases four, are sent at once after him, arriving at the bait a minute after the first one comes for the second load.

Once 6r twice I have seen the first bee make two or three trips alone, as if his report had not been considered truthful enough for others to be sent to his aid. If the swarm is at work elsewhere there are seldom more than twenty sent to the new place, but if there is no more honey to be had the keep coming in regular detachments until, to the experienced eye, it is like a road to a populous town, and some are going loaded, others are hurrying along to have a hand in the spoil and seldom getting far from the beaten track. As one nears the hive (tree or cave, as it may be) the coming and going becomes incessant, some high in the air and others close to the ground, but all busy and eager to be doing their share. And to think that to most eyes all this is invisible! In all the men I have had here probably 100 Mexicans in the last three winters born woodsmen as they are, and true sons of nature, only one can see a bee in the air; another is learning the craft a little with my help. Truly, one may have eyes and see not! dinary annual event.

With the Chinese a birthday is never observed until after the age of 60 has been passed. But then lost time and pleasure are made up and a feast extending over ten days Is indulged In. Chung is a very rich man. He employs 15,000 of his countrymen in his tin mines, is a member of the council of state and a mandarin of the empire. His dollars are counted in the millions and he has the title of "Kaya," or the wealthy.

His recent birthday celebration cost him about $20,000, but then It was a great affair shared in by his poorer neighbors and many of de 1. What plants will restore fertility to the soil most rapidly, and at the same time give fair returns in hay or pasture. 2. What plants will make the most permanent meadows. 3.

What plants will make the best permanent pastures, especially 1 winter grazing. 4. What hay producing plants are best for temporary use. Since the commencement of in" work, 586 species have been grown, many of them on soils widely different in character. Sowings have -een made at different seasons and under different conditions; seeds of the more promising sorts have been distributed to planters in different parts of the state, and special attention has been given to the fertilizing and winter grazing values of each species.

When this work was commenced, almost no hay was grown in the state, except what was used by planters for home consumption, and thousands of tons were shipped into the state annually. The census report for 1880 gives the yield of hay in Mississippi as being only .83 tons per acre, against an average yield of 1.14 per acre for the whole United States. In 1893 the yield of hay for this state had doubled, being then 1.66 tons per acre against an average of 1.32 tons for the whole country. In 1895 the average yield in Mississippi had Increased to 1.95 tons, against an average of 1.06 tons for the whole of the United States, or 84 per cent above the average, and 114 per cent above the average yield in the northern and central states of the Mississippi valley. Pro (Its.

We have a safe system of trading in wheat. Pays from 10 to 200 per cent, every 15 days on investment of $10, and upwards. It will make you an income might lay the foundation for a fortune. Write for circular; references, etc. The II.

R. Penney 231 S. 11th Lincoln, Neb. The deepest artesian well in the world is In Berlin. The depth is 4,194 feet.

If the Baby Is Cutting Teeth, Be sure and uo that old and well-tried remedy. Mas. Winslow's Soothing Svuur for Children Teething-. pendents. For that sum a vast one In China many thousands of guests may be regaled.

The first ceremony was a tremendous discharge of firecrackers, after which the old man seated himself in state to receive the congratulations of the, male members of his family. On the second day Chung received his rich and influential friends. The interior of the house was profusely decorated and little square, red-covered tables were everywhere. These were equipped with all sorts of sweet stuffs, fruits, melon-seeds and other oriental dainties. After a tremendous discharge of firecrackers, the favored guests sat down to Chinese stews of birds-nest soups, shark's fin, seaslug and other delicacies.

Liquors of all kinds were dispensed in profusion. The remaining days of the feast were devoted to the enjoyment of the humble friends of the great man, among whom was scattered his bounty in the way of eating and drinking, theatrical amusement, fireworks, and other modes of pleasure dear to the Chinese heart. The Chinese, for obvious reasons, do not celebrate a birth- There is plenty of work if competent men to do It could be found. Coe'a Cough Balsam fs the oldest and beat. It will break up a Cold quick er than an jtlilnj else.

It Is always reliable. Trill The only way to discover a perfect man is to. look in the mirror. FITS-AlLFItsstoppert free by Dr. Kllne'a Great rerv ltestorer.

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EBBEN-POWELL. since their emigration from the Sandwich Islands 500 years ago. For a long time he was correspondent for the London papers, and his description of the volcanic eruptions of 1886 were most graphic. The doctor has air ways taken an active Interest in politics, and was within two votes of being elected to the parliament of New Zealand. He formerly belonged to the Christian denomination, but later joined the Episcopalians.

Some cooks horribly butcher strawberry shortcake. A FAIR THEOSOPHIST. derful, enclaimed a druggist, how the peoplo stick to Hood's Saroaparilla. They all want rtl Cost of Ralnlnir Corn In Kansas. Kansas is certainly a great corn state.

Statistics show that the average annual yield for all the thirty-four years, bad seasons and good, since 1861, has been twenty-sevens bushels per acre for the entire state, ranging in different years from nine to forty-eight and four-fifths bushels. The product for twenty-five years ending with 1895 has had an annual home value averaging more than $31,000,000, and a total value in that time exceeding $776,000,000. Secretary Coburn in the March quarterly report of the State Board of Agriculture, presents a detailed showing from sixty-eight long-time extensive growers, in forty-five counties which last year produced 140,000,000 bushels, giving from their experience "on such a basis as others can safely accept" each principal item of cost in growing and cribbing an acre of corn, estimating the yield at forty bushels. About two-thirds of those reporting prefer planting with listers, and the others use the better known check -row method, after the land has been plowed and harrowed. The statements of all the growers summed up, averaged and itemized, show as follows: COST OF RAISING AN ACRE OF CORN.

Seed 0.07 Planting (with lister, or with check-row planter, including cost of previous plowing and harrowing) 77 Cultivating 1.U3 Husking and putting in crib 1.18 Wear and tear and interest on cost of tools 25 Rent of land (or interest on its value) 2.41 Total cost 5.71 Cost per bushel 14 Average value of corn land per acre 29.25 C. D. Coburn. Bacteria in Milk. When the milk comes from the udder of the cow it Is generally supposed to be free from bacteria.

Yet five minutes afterward it contains whole colonies of bacteria washed out of the milk ducts, dusted off the flanks of the cows, blown by the wind from the filthy barn or stirred up from the bottom and sides of the milk pail itself. Thorough attention to all details of milk and milking will do much to overcome the troubles too often found In the dairy and in dairy butter. Sarsaparilla Tb.3Qne.True Blood Purifier. All druggists. $1.

Hood's Pills cure all Liver Ills. 26 cents. THE STATE OF KANSAS The population of Ness county is 3.U70. A two-headed pig1 is a curiosity of Csborno county. Phillips county lost 300 of its population during the past year.

People's bank, capital of Moran, has closed. It will pay out. The city assessor succeeded in finding but 932 gold watches in Topeka. The oil companies in Kansas pay royalties of $20,000 per month in Kansas. In Western Kansas it is said divorced women are called alfalffc widows.

The Fort Scott Monitor has been sold to P. C. liauey of the Anthony Republican. A catfish weighing1 2i0 pounds was caught in the Kaw river below the dam at Lawrence. The St.

Louis cyclone was on the same day of the year as the Wellington cyclone four years ago. The Atchison Globe says that more men come to Atchison to lock for their runaway wives than to any town in the West. A "new woman" organ grinder ii Atchison had a placard on the organ which read: "Please help me; I have a husband to support" Forty young men and two women completed the law course at the university last week and passed the required examination. Topeka has 203 manufacturing concerns turning out annually an aggregate of 14,533,000 and employing an average of 1,721 hands. Washington lodge, A.

F. and A. of Atchison, and Bartlett of St. Joseph, purchased the Price block at Atchison at sheriff's sale for 87,000. Ex-Senator Ross of Kansas is engaged in writing a history of the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson.

Ross' vote in the Senate saved Johnson. Reports from Sedgwick county indicate that the wheat harvest has begun. Estimates as to the probable yield are not as satisfactory as they might be. The cyclists of the State are to have an entire evening set apart for them in the Fall Festival at Topeka. They will have floats of all kinds of decorations.

The two colored men who were badly injured by the explosion at Cof-feyville recently, have commenced suits against the gas company for damages. Five Wellington churche3 are without pastors. Wait until graduation exercises are over at the divinity and they can get five pastors for every church. In an interview a day or two ago, ex-Senator Ingalls said he would probably attend the St. Louis convention as correspondent for a prominent New York newspaper.

In a quarrel about a horse, near Clay Center, John McCoy was fatally shot in the abdomen by his two sons, August and Robert. The boys surrendered to the authorities. Professor1 J. E. Klock, one of the best known educators in Kansas, has resigned the superin tendency of the Leavenworth schools to accept a more desirable position in Helena, Mont.

The Lyon Republican' county convention has nominated H. C. Taylor for Representative, by acclamation. County will probably be divided on Troutman and Potter for Governor. Editor McDonald of the Oxford Register is back from his three months' hobnob with the French aristocracy, and, it is said in Winfield, speaks English with the purest Parisian accent.

May 3T J. A. Wright, a farmer of El Dorado began to harvest his wheat, and finished the field the 28th. By the 30th the grain was in the stack. June 1 and 2 he listed the same land in corn.

Professor Hawn of Leavenworth, who celebrated his SGth birthday last week, says he personally recollects the locusts' visitation to this section at all the regular seventeen-year periods beginning with 1845. The committee appointed to locate the State Masonic home has decided upon Wichita. The R. S. Lawrence property, known as Maple hill, will be purchased for $21,000, of which the people of Wichita will contribute $5,000.

Two train loads of cattle were ship-pad from Central Kansas direct to "England, last week. The Twenty-first senatorial district Republican convention nominated Hon. John E. Hessin of Manhattan for State Senator by acclamation. No resolutions or instructions were passed and no preference indicated for United States Senator.

A class rmtr is worn by each member of the graduating class of the Agricultural college. The set bears the raised monogram of the college initials in gold on black stone in neat design, ancj "the seniors are very proud of tliem," according to the Industrialist. The assessor's rolls show Rooks county to have a population of 7,270, a decrease from last year of 194. The wheat acreage is 39,474 and corn There is about half the number of acres of wheat planted this year as there werfs in 1895, but the yield will be almost as large. Professor Snow's official weather report shows the relative humidity to have lieen higher and the number of thander storms greater in Kansas last month than during any preceding May for twenty-eight years.

The rainfall was 7.12 inches, which is 2.6 above the May average. The bill to pension Anna B. S. Phillips of Salina widow of the late Colonel W. A.

Phillips, introduced by Representative Calderhead, has received a favorable report in the House. The bill proposes to increase Mrs. Phillips' pension from $30, which she now receives, to $50. Catherine Leonard the First Woman to Marry Under Men Ritual. Catherine Leoline Leonard, the first woman to be married according to the ritual of the new theosophlc religion, is an interesting, earnest young Chica-goan who was first attracted to theosophy about five years ago when her mother, Mrs.

Byford Leonard, joined the society. The mysterious and impressive ceremony which united her with Claude Falls Wright has made a real sensation all over the country. Mrs. Wright was well known In society when she and Mrs. Leonard lived in a pretty house in Hibbard avenue, Chicago, and gave theosophical Thursday evenings to their friends.

She is described as a pretty girl, 24 years old, slight in build, graceful and willowy in pose and carriage, and a decided blonde. Her hair is purely golden, her eyes are of deep blue, and her expression singularly sweet and sympathetic. Mrs. Wright's mother was, during her residence in Chicago, a woman of progressive ideas, who worked for reform along all social lines and who was favorably known among the women of her set. Miss Leonard took up theosophy In an earnest, eager spirit and began at once to spread the occult philosophy.

Two years ago she left Chicago for Boston and then began a series of lectures on subjects relating to theosophy. She organized the Boston branch of the society and originated the so-called "brotherhood suppers," given by 'the-osophists to nontheosophists for the purpose of proselytlsm. Mrs. Wright's marriage will not only not interfere with her theosophical work, but will CHUNG AH KIVI. lay in this fashion more than once or Half rate Hot Springs, South Dakota June 12, July 3, July 24.

Can't you arrange your summer trip so as to take advantage of these opportunities? Book about Hot Springs free if you writ to J. Francis, Gen'l Passenger Agent Bur lington Route, Omaha, Neb. CUT-SLASH Hunting for Honey in Texas. Boston Evening Transcript: We have Had wonderful weather here for some weeks past, cold at times, but no frost for several weeks, and in consequence everything is in full leaf and bloom. We seldom have such a spring.

The flowers are In the greatest profusion and infinite variety the hills and valleys are dressed in a coat of many colors. The great white heads of the Spanish daggers look like ghosts as they stand around on the hillsides. At a distance the leaves of the plant are visible among the general green, and the flower stalk stands tall and stately with its load of creamy bells, the whole cluster being often four feet from the top buds to the lower flowers, and a foot and a half in diameter. There is another shrub with purple flowers that is very much in evidence just now; some of the bushes are covered so closely with blossoms as to leave only little places through which the crisp green leaves show. The flowers are in clusters five or six inches long, drooping from the end of each twig, and one must see them to have an idea of their gorgeous beauty.

There are whole hillsides of them, too, piled one tier above another. Still another shrub with a flower the color of peach blossom is the most beautiful of all. There are several large places on the range where cedar brakes have been burned, and they are almost entirely covered with these bushes, and in looking over the tops of them on a level it seems like a pink wall, with the old black cedar trunks and burnt pines looming over them in gaunt derision. The warm weather brings the bees out in full force, and I am more than ever fascinated with the little insects. I never see one sipping at a flower or flying along in the air but he says: no, you can't find my house; others you may find, but mine, never." And forthwith I take up the challenge and never cease hunting until I find it.

Though two or three years may pass I seldom fail to do so eventually, and you have no idea what fascination there is in it after one has experience. I can usually, after seeing several bees go home and after getting the course laid off, run them home in a couple of hours, unless they go more than two miles. It seems ridiculous to any one who does not know their ways to make such a claim, but it can be done. To any eye except a bee hunter's a bee In the air is invisible. I question If many people ever saw one flying, unless it was in the act of alighting on a flower, but they travel through the air as people travel on earth, and wonderful powers of sight they must have.

Besides that, there Is no doubt In my mind that there is an intelligent ordering of the whole business of ihe hive, and a means of communicating of one with the others. Sometimes I take a lot of comb with a little honey on it, and set it on the top of a hill, or In an open place where I can see in all directions, and leaveit for a day or two, until the bees are working at it strong, and can then run them home In a little while. When I have leisure I stay and wait for them to come, and encourage them by burning a piece of comb every half hour or so. If it is a warm, bright day In winter and the comb is within two miles of a swarm, they will come before the first hour is out. The first one, always doubling here and there, flies in" ever narrowing circules, until he finds the exact location of the sweet smell; he examines it from all sides, slowly buzzing around it, and finally alights, inserts his long, slim tongue The Standard Silver Dollar.

The coinage of the standard silver lollar was first authorized by act of April 2, 1792. Its weight was to be 416 grains standard silver; fineness, 892.4; which was equivalent to 3711 grains ef fine silver, with 44 grains of pure copper alloy. This weight was changed by act of January 18, 1837, to 412 grains, and fineness changed to 900, thus preserving the same amount of pure silver as before. By act of February 12, 1873, the coinage was discontinued. The total number of silver dollars coined from 1792 to 1873 was 8,045,838.

The act of 1873 provided for the coinage of the "trade dollar," of weight 420 grains, and an act passed In June, 1874, ordered that all silver coins should only be "legal tender at their nominal value for amounts not exceeding $5." The effect of these acts was the "demonetization" of silver, of which so much has been said. Feb. 28, 1878, the coinage of the standard dollar of 412 grains was revived act of congress; $2,000,000 per month was ordered coined, and the coins were made legal tender for all debts, public and private. From February, 1878, to Nov. 1, 1885, 213,257,594 of these standard dollars were coined under the above act.

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LYOJI 4 CO. TOBACCO WORKS, Durham, N. C. Humus in Soil. No soil can be made to produce good crops without the presence of a fair supply of humus or decayed vegetable matter.

Freshly cleared lands, and lands which have not been plowed for many years, usually contain an abundance of humus, but when lands have long been cultivated in hoed crops like corn and cotton, the humus becomes exhausted and must be replaced before they can be made profitable. Just how this humus shall be supplied must depend on the circumstances of each plantation. When it can be had in sufficient quantity, there is no better material for this purpose than is stable manure, but as this can seldom be secured in sufficient amounts, recourse must be bad to other materials. Through Yellowstone Park on a bicycle. A TRIP WORTH TAKING.

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WRITE The Western Press Association, Lincoln, for valuable information, if you contemplate starting a newspaper. Anecdotes of Thomas Hughe. The death of Thomas Hughes has revived a host of stories illustrative of the manliness and charm of his iharacter. The demoiratic showed itself in boyhood. At Rugby, when head of the eleven, he set at naught the aristocratic excluslveness of the place by bringing the country lads into the school-close to play cricket with him.

At Lincoln's inn he defied the beadle by opening the gates of the "fields" and letting in the children of the slums. As special constable in the Chartist troubles of 1848 he was beset with misgivings that the agitators were right. But he knew where to draw the line. At one of the socialist meetings in the days of F. D.

Maurice the national anthem was started. The revolutionary Chartlst3 began to hiss. Tom Hughes sprang upon a chair and threatened the first man who renewed the insult to the queen's name with personal chastisement. Fear of his fists stopped the discorj. St.

James Gazette Heaven. The belief in mutual recognition in the heavenly world is as natural and as universal as the belief in the existence of God or the immortality of the soul. Memory will accompany us. Death does not effect so great a change as many suppose. It is not so great a transformer of character aa a transferrer of real personality into a new state of existence under different con ditions.

Rev. Amos Sherman. LINDSEY OMAHA Curiosities of Grafting. The olive has been grafted on. a juniper, apples on plums, a rose on an orange, peaches on myrtles, and mulberries and red and white grapes with peaches and apricots on the same stem, for, as the buds are distinct, the stem furnishes nutriment for all.

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It is said that the czar of RussU will present LI Hung Chang with Ii No. 34. 1896. jacket transcending in polychromati An agitation is progressing in England on the question of the government paying for tuberculosis carcasses of animals that may be condemned by the inspectors. pTKindly Mention This Paper When Yoif Write to an Advertiser glory any thins the Chinaman has eTer worn..