The Hoisington Blade from Hoisington, Kansas • 3

KANSAS STATE NEWS. DAVID C. COOK. MY BETTY. an Englishman who first Introduced tobacco into Europe? Nevertheless, When Vlltinjj Kana City Stop at the BtjOssom Hocbb opposite Union Depot First Class in every respect, Rates, $2.50 per day.

Vable cars to all parts of the city pass the door. between whiffs he cursed the memory Of Sir Walter Kaleigh. FROZI HEAD TO FOOT The official was somewhat taken 1Ki Pioneer Fob'islier of Snnday School Literature. David C. Cook of Chicago, the widely-known publisher of Sunday-school literature, was born in East Worcester, New York, in 1850, a son aback to see the cigar slowly con sumed and he wondered if he had St.

Peter JTo you come in. Shide of Kid: Aw, 6ay, don't be to 3 nugh oa a feller. I wuz an otnee-boy vou feel the good that's done by Dr. Piercer Goidea iledical Discovery. It purifies the blood.

And through the blood, it cleanses, repairs, and invigorates the whole system. In recovering from "La Grippe." or in convalescence from pneumonia, fevers, or made a mistake in his man. Finally otner wasting- diseases, nothing can equal it nppet resix-ran tb tome 10 Duna 1 A. M. PRIEST, DiWKist, ShelbyTille.

eavs: "Hall's Catarrh Cure eive the best of satisfaction. Can get plenty of testimonials, as it cures every one who takes it." Druggists sell It, 75c. he handed over the papers. Smith walked in a rather uncertain manner to the door, which he held open for a moment to let the cool air encircle him. Holding on to the handle, his body swaying slightly, he turned his pallid face toward the officer at the of E.

S. Cook, a Methodist minister, and from a child a member of the church and Sunday-school. He began worki in the Sunday-school in Chicago at the age of seventeen, teaching in his own church school and at the same time in one, When I sffc and hold her little hand, My Betty. Then all the vexing troubles seem to shrink, Grow small and petty. It does not matter any more That ink ia spilt on the parlor floor That gown ia caught upon the latch, And not the smallest bit to match That cook ia going, housemaid gone, And coming guests to meet alone.

It matters not at all, vou see, For I have Betty, and Betty has me. hen I sit and hold her little hand, My Betty, Then all the pretty, foolish nursery talk Grows wise and witty. I'm glad to know that "Pussy Mow" Was Irighteusd at the wooden cow I mourn lot "Dolly's" broken head. And for the sawdust she has shed I take with joy. the cups of tea From wooden tea-pot poured for met And all goes well, because, you see, I play with Betty, and Betty with me.

When I walk and hold her little hand My Betty, Then every humble weed beside the way Grows pink and pretty. The clover never was so red, Their purest white the daisies spread, The buttercups begin to dance, The reeds salute with lifted lance, The very tallest trees we pass Bend down to greet my little lass And these things make my joy, you see, For 1 love Betty, and Betty lovea me. -St. Nicholas. There isn't much game in reason at but our dispatene show that tho is good in nearly all parts of tho country.

desk and remarked slowly: "I I say you couldn't oblige me stipulation that the estate will not press her on tho mortgage for $5,000 given to Mr. Smeed by her. Mrs. Cross gets the whole sstate, valuod at $25,000. Topeka Capital: A suit brought by M.

S. Beal against the National Mortgage and Debenture company of Boston has been tried in the district court Beal claims $23,000 damage for failure to perform the agreements of a contract by which he was to establish a loan office here, and represent the Boston company. He says they agreed to furnish him $100,000 a year, to be loaned on Kansas securities, but they afterwards withdrew their Kansas loans, and refused to put out any more money in this state. His profits, according to his way of reckoning, would have been $20,000, and his trouble and annoyance on account of their refusal to furnish money was worth $3,000 more. The jury gave Beal a verdict in a nominal sum.

The report of the bureau of labor statistics shows that 72 of the 106 counties of Kansas have flouring mills. Three years ago Leavenworth county Btood first with nine mills and Shawnee ranked in second place with eight Mr. Betton says that during the last three years there has been a constant growth in the milling business, and he estimates it to have been not less than 10 per cent. needed Cesh. ana strength, it rouses eve.

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Sage's Catarrh Bemedy. It3 proprietors offer f-VX) reward for an incurable case of Catarrh. with another of those American could Free Press. "Hanson's Magic torn Snive." Warranted to cure, or money refunded. A' Tour druggist for It.

Price la cento. Li noulii as a Wrestler. At the time the Lincolns settled at say that I do not refer in the least to them. Brown could get along on forty pounds of tobacco, but even at that he had to exercise some self-denial. Smith, his friend, did not smoke at all.

He hated tobacco, and even the smell of good tobacco, which, to a smoker, is the most delightful aroma in the world, was exceedingly distaste ful to him. Now Brown persuaded Smith to import twenty pounds of prime American tobacco from the Island of Jersey. Smith was shy of the perjury involved, but Brown earnestly showed him that there was no perjury In fact, he doubted if an Englishman could perjure himself in the French -language he usually spoke it so badly. Besides, things sound so much milder in French than in English. Witness the innocuous futility of an oath in French compared with its sturdy Anglo-Saxon equivalent, Mind, I'm not defending Brown at all, although I am able to forgive a great deal to a man unjustly deprived of his pipe.

I am a tobacco smuggler myself every time I enter France. It is therefore not for the pot to call the kettle black. I fear that the smoking of tobacco tends towards a certain laxity of conscience. Have we not the authority of that smoking Oxford poet Calverlev for believing that those who indulge in the weed "Go mad and beat their wives Plunge, after horrid Uvea, Bazors and carving knivea Into their gizzards." I quote irom memory, ana am certain not to have quoted with verbal accuracy, I say this right here, not having the poems by me, so that correspondents may save their postage stamps in writing to correct me, The Boston bakers want the hours of labor cut down, but it is to be hoped that the bakers' dozen will remain at tho same old figure. "It is a remarkable fact," observed the philosopher, "that when a young man and woman make a bet of on the election the result is sure to lie eloie." Goose Nest Dan Needham was the champion wrestler in Cumberland david cook.

and much of tne time two, mission schools meeting at different hours. In 1871, after the great fire, he left home and with three other young men, whom he persuaded to join him, rented rooms in one of the poorest and roughest parts of the burnt district of North Chicago, and gave himself to relief and mission work. Here he started "Everybodv's Mission," in a County. This county joins Coles, the one in which the Lincolns lived. Needham had often been told that he would find his match in Tom Lin ENDING IN SMOKE.

TREATK.O I-" EKE. Poiitiv It Cured with Vch, Remedies liave cured thousands of case. Cure ce hopeies bf leM l-rm niptums disappear: in ten day at leaM ymptoms removed. 8nd fT fre br testlmo of mltaMil'u our. Ten Cars' treatoi.nt free by mail.

If 70a trial wnrt in sump orpT postage. Dii. 11 i.hees s.xs.At:anta.O If yi.u rdertrlal return this advertlj-ment to us coin's boy Abe, but he would boast that he could "fling him three best out of four any day he lived." At last they met It was at a house- German wards of its beer-hall and theater, after-removed to a building own. This mission, with raising on the Ambraw Biver. typwv BICYCLES SIS "Raisin's" at that time brought mi BmcB-Utdtr "neighbors" from many miles around, $7.50 He figures it that the capital invested has increased fully this much and that and I am told that at this one they 1 aia WATCHESWlfia the output of flour has grown even more.

SAURlf AGENTS WANTED GH There has also been an increase in the number of hands employed, although improved machinery has tended to re an attendance of 350 to 430, made up of some of the worst elements, he sustained for five years without financial aid from any church or society. He has since organized and superintended North Avenue Mission, Lake View Mission and Lake View Union Schools in Chicago, and Grace Sunday School, Elgin, besides several smaller enterprises, His first publications were prepared only for his own schools; then, to cheapen expense, he solicited orders from others. This was the beginning of a wonderful growth and popularity, which, in sixteen years, has made his name a household word. I had a malignant breaking cut cn my leg below the knee, and wascured sound land well with two and a half bottles of n.io,w r1 mprlirinesaad failed or commission, to handle the K-- Patent ChemirJ Ink Erasing tvncil. Agents maldntr SSOper re Munroe ilraser Manufacturing $ju 1 Cre, tard growth this direction.

he de came from as far south as Crawford County, more than forty miles away. Thomas Lincoln came, and with him his boy Abe. After the work of the day, in which Abe and Dan matched handspikes many times, a "rassel" was suggested. At first Abe was unwilling to measure arms with Dan, who was six feet four and as agile as a panther; but when Thomas Lincoln to do me anv nood. Will C.

Beatv, ficiency, however, has been compensa Yoxkviile, 5. C. SMOKING TOBACCO ted for by an advance in the wages ol ORPHAN A lir.1- A Choi; Carolina. ounces or i ctw employes. ISTOCK AND FARM.

lsiiii said, "Abe, rassel 'im," Abe flung off his coat, and the two stood face to SrisuccessTuiiy Claims. a Late Principal Exa-milit-r 53. bureau, 3 jrainlasl war, ISadjuda.iiui.gcl.unii, attj since. grnv.itfd case cf Tetter, and three bottles c. cureaice permanently.

Solomon Sentinel: H. A. Dilling has purchased three car-loads of lumber tc build a barn on his farm. The structure ASTHMA CURED CRK Sample free. COLLINS BROS.

aiKDlONECo t-i-Louis, Mo. Mr. Staylate I wonder if the new comet is visible now? Edith (yawning): No; I think it is only to be seen ia the evening. "She is very distant ii her manner." "Distant! Why her disposition is so freezing Our book on and Diseases mailed r-e Swift SrEcirio Atlanta, Ga. will be 40x80 feet, 16 feet high.

Morpliine Habit Cored In Ifl tiiSUdaTS. NopaTlillrnrfd. r. J. STEPHENS.

leoar.on.Onto- 0PIUI1 face. Four times they wrestled, and each time Needham was thrown. At the close of the fourth round the combatants again stood face to face Abe flushed but smiling, Dan trembling with anger. However, one glance at the honest, good-natured face of his opponent cooled his rage, and extending his rough palm, he Kansas has raised a big crop ol alfalfa seed this year, but the enormous demand for it for sowina.eeps prices II.KEAN NO CURE, NO PAY. silk GlXSEiS' MONTHLY, Toledo, Ohio.

up well. From $4 to 5 -a being real ized for clean seed in large quantities. Tiie Leading Specialist of the 1. S. ISTAILISHED1B64.

169 South Hark Chicago. (Thompson's Eye Wafer. tf afflicted with tore eca, ur said, "Well, I'll be Ever after that ehe is constantly taking cola from it. Mr. Dobbs: Do you be ieve in civil service, Mrs.

Blobbs? Mrs. lilobbs: Indeed I do; why, if a servant ever sasses me I discharge her right away. "Did your wife say jei the first time you proposed to her, Mr. HenpectV" "Yes. eli3 snapped at me st once, and she has been snapping at me ever since." The octopus isn't very yinpatheiie, but when it really comes to a show of great feeling, he is on ind in full force.

From Jamestown: In this vicinity the farmers are holding three time3 ac much wheat from this year's crop as ever before. They want better prices, Catalogue and Iteantif al Specimens of Fenmanitalp sent free bj Man. t-onlng thl paper. Board and Room per week. LIEGE SCHOOL Address.

L. H. STRICSLEE this they were warm friends. Needham survived Lincoln many years, and though he was a strong Democrat, he had nothing but good words for Abe. Several of his boys still live near the old homestead in Spring Point township, Cumberland County, Illinois.

One daughter, the wife of W.P. Davis, a brother of the writer, resides on a farm near Eoseland, Nebraska. Uncle Dan, as we called him, now sleeps in a quiet churchyard hidden away in a deep forest. A braver heart never beat; and though his life was humble, I am sure that he did not lack for a welcome into the Eternal City. The Century.

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E. 3IILLEK COMPANY, 222 Cih Avi- Cor. Van Bartn 8tM IOPEK.4. KAS3. is COLORADO FREE! All out the State, its resources, climate, price of land and how to obtain a railroad ticket Free to Denver and return.

Address (enclosing stamp.) vy. E. ALEXANDER, Denver. Cole. I have only one thing against Brittany, which is that it grows all the vile tobacco used by France.

I understand that the government of France supplements the Brittany supply by buying up refuse lots of tobacco in America stuff that the lowest down gamin in Xew York would refuse to smoke. I doubt this, however, because if any tobacco were bought in America one would sometimes come upon a French packet less bad than the rest. When a smoker accustomed to the American article first comes in contact with the French brand he wants to crawl into a corner and die. The worst about the French stuff is that a man may smoke it and still live. Providence never intended Brittany, the most northern portion of France, to raise tobacco.

It has neither the soil nor the climate. Then the peasantry of Brittany are about the most ignorant and superstitious people now in Europe. Of course a man may be superstitious and yet grow good tobacco or even wheat, but the Brittany people are a stiff-necked generation, whose faces are set against learning anything and if a man puts all his energies against the acquirement of knowledge he can count with reasonable certainty upon remaining ignorant. The other day when I took a journey through rural Brittany I saw tons of tobacco freshly cut hanging by the heels from apple alternately soaked by the rain and boiled by the sun, and this is the material that the enlightened government of France insists we shall smoke. Perhaps you think that if you pay a high price you can get good tobacco in France and that it is merely a question of settling enormous and exorbitant duties.

This is not the case. With the exception of three government depots in Paris and a few in the Kiviera, American tobacco cannot be obtained in France. A tobacconist in France is a government official, who has also the right of selling postage stamps, and the sovernment will aot allow him to order American" tobacco from the depots in Paris without a special permit which it refuses to grant except in places where so many English and Americans reside that a special pressure is brought to bear upon it, as is the case in Isice, Cannes and a few other Anglicised towns. On the northern coast of France are many picturesque spots which the English make their own during the summer months. There is Etratat; Trouvilie, Grenville, Parame, Din-ard, Mount St.

Michel on the Isot-mandy and Brittany coast, which are very popular in summer, while in Avranches, Caen, Dinan and other inland towns English families live all the year round because living is supposed to be cheap and educational facilities good. The second reason for residence stills holds, but the first is merely a legend. The double sys Professor Svvin. tP-EUY'S CREAM BALM-0 fcA'iSFufcsa-jes, Allays iaii aud Inflammation. eal8 OT2vi i 50c JDrugsbta or by nail.

SLY Warren 8u, M- V. ETwC? S5sJ Arkansas City has a mill which grinds twenty car-loads of wheat a day. Burlington has a free industrial school where Eewing and knitting are taught to the girls. It is not generally known that the eggs nsed in Colorado are supplied from Kansas. The largest shipments of poultry, too, into the state are mada from Kansas.

C. H. Langston, one of the best known colored man in Kansas is dead. He died at his home in Lawrence. He was a brother of Congressman Langston of West Virginia.

Topeka Journal: The public schools of the city contributed over $50 in cash, besides several wagon-loads of miscellaneous contributions to the Orphan's home on Thanksgiving day. General A. B. Nettleton, who recently resigned the first assistant secretaryship of the treasury, is connected with the Leavenworth compressed air scheme and expects to mke his future home theie. He is now lhare and will immediately go to work with Mr.

Earle. Ulysses Bepublican: Judge Hutchison made a ruling at Santa Fe this week. It was that hereafter in mortgage foreclosura cases he will require the original mortgage to be surrendered into court for cancellation. This is a new departure in this district. At Atchison Mrs.

E. Seidner, while transacting business at the court house, was stricken with paralysis and died in a few hours, without regaining consciousness. The deceased was 66 years of age, and had been a resident of Atchison county thirty years. Gypsum Advocate: C. Melbert, manager of the Pfalzgraf lumber, grain and coal business, showed us a large crib of last year's corn, for which 32 cents per bushel was paid to the farmers.

That amount Mr. Pfalzgraf has not been able to realize for it and is still holding it. The Masons of Kansas City, have now completed and ready for use the finest Masonic lodge room in the state, and, with possibly one exception, the finest one between St. Louis and Denver. The work of constructing and arranging it has been in progress for six months.

The Mound Valley flouring mill is destroyed by fire, together with its contents, consisting of several hundred barrels of wheat, three hundred pounds of flour and a good quantity of corn and meal. There was no insurance on the contents, but the mill proper was partially insured. Liberal Lyre: Since our last issue there have been delivered at this place 127,165 pounds of broom corn. Added to last week's report of total number of pounds delivered up to that time, this makes 1,102,475 pounds. At the rate of $60 per ton, the uniform price for broom corn this year, the amounts received here for these shipments amount to $33,074.25.

Topeka Capital: The wire of the Topeka electric railway was grounded in some unaccountable manner at about noon and the cars on the entire line stopped. The trouble was discovered after a long search in the vicinity of the Santa Fe bridge. Cars did not run for over an hour, end as it was just at the time that church services ended, it is estimated that the company lost at least $60. At Hiawatha Thanksgiving services closed rather tragically at a colored festival. Comodore True stabbed William Waltham.

True was drunk and cam into the hall insulting everyone. Waltham put him out. True soon re turned with a knife, and running up to Waltham, struck him just above tha heart. Waltham died in fifteen minutes. True is in jail.

There was strong talk of lynching. Arkansas City Traveler: Cowley county was well represented at the meeting of the Southwestern Teachers' association at Wichita last week. In the election of officers this county was honored by the election of Mrs. Lida Brady as secretary and J. W.

Spindler, superintendent of the Winfield schools, as chairman of the executive committee. The next meeting will be held at Win-field, beginning on Thanksgiving day. Delphos Bepublican: Mrs. Geo. E.

Wright, of this city, is an expert in fancy work. Her creations in straw work attract attention wherever displayed. She has a center table made of straw, which commands the admiration of all beholders. It is so purely a Kansas product and of such exquisite workmanship that the Minneapolis ladies' Columbian club have secured the privilege of using it in the decoration and furnishing of the Kansas building at the world's tair. Pittsburg special: The body of a dead and badly decomposed man was accidentally found by some boys who were out on a hunting trip about three miles from this city.

The man was about 70 years of age and rather neatly dressed. There was blood on his shirt and over-coat. By his side were found an empty bottle, two knives, and several other things. On searching the pockets nothing was discovered to lead to his identity. It is a very mysterious affair.

The coroner is investi- i gating. Cedar Vale Commercial: A trial of some public importance was called before Justice Hines at Dexter. It was an action on the part of the school board in the Phillips district, southwest of Hooser, against the chnrch people who are accustomed to worship at that school house. It appears that there has been a dissatisfaction between the two which they usually do when I make a quotation. Well, Brown, the immoral smoker, persuaded Smith, the moral non-smoker, by the following kind of logic: The French law was bad anyhow and no Englishman who ruled the waves should be bound by it.

Then Smith was entitled to twenty pounds for his own use. There are other uses for tobacco than smoking it Smith might use the gold and crimson colored packages for decorating the shelves of his bookcase. He did not need to give it or sell it to Brown. Oh, no, Brown asked no such sacrifice. Brown would do the rest.

He would steal the tobacco from the book shelves pound by pound as he required it. Thus Smith would not have perjured himself, even if the whole transaction were done in English. And so the unfortunate Smith consented. The first twenty pounds were got through all right They decorated Smith's shelves and Brown regularly stole them and everything was lovely, although Smith had always vague twinges of conscience regarding his oath to the French Government Tp to this point I expect the article I am writing to be interesting chiefly to those who smoke. 2sow I confidently claim the sympathy of non-smokers for Smith in the disaster which overtook him.

There was an entertainment at the Casino at St. Malo and Smith was there. As he walked along the corridors, back and forth, during the intermission he was pleasantly accosted by a French gentleman whom he dimly remembered to have met somewhere, but he could not place definitely. He did as most of us do under such aggravating circumstances. He pretended he remembered the Frencn-man and they walked up and down together, chatting pleasantly.

The Frenchman was smoking and Smith was not, of course. The smoker, after a few turns, pulled out his case and politely offered Smith a cigar. "Thank you, no," said Smith. "I never smoke." The Frenchman seemed astonished and looked at Smith. "This is an English cigar, sir," he said.

"I never smoke at all," answered Smith; "English, French or American cigars are quite the same to me; I loathe them all." "You astonish me," said the Frenchman, quietly returning the cigar to its case, "I thought everv TXIIjs- pans, churns, bottles, IVlllK. Vaallb, everything which is Trofessor Swing says the world progressed bo far th.it crv people dare laugh out but to out loud presupposes in tho first place, a heart free care, and in the nest good d'trerfiT? organs. We cannot lauh if we have dyspepsia, but if you wilJ irke the Laxativt? Gum Drops every night for three or four nights in succession, you will find such re- used for milk, even down to the baby's bottle these are things for which you need Pearline. With Pearline, they're cleansed more easily, more quickly, more eco nomicallv, and more thorOUqlllv, lief that you can CBsily -gh, and yo because they are in a condition to "don have to sell." ElDorado Bepublican Allen Nutth lost two nice steers last week. They got two much alfalfa, and it only toot about an hour and fifteen minutes tc get it after they had been turned intc the pasture.

Cedar Vale Commercial: John Armor and James Dickie dehorned sixty-foui head of Jasper Bamsey's cattle in one and a half hours. This was not done by electricity, but with a saw in the old-fashioned way. Cedar Vale Star: The horse markei is now no better in the western counties than here. The Moreland boye, whe made a trip out that way with a tranel of horses to sell, brought them all hoint with them didn't sell a one. Kiowa Beview: The new Congrega tional church is 6lowly but surely near-ing completion, and will probably not be ready for dedication early spring.

Every additional day's worL on the building increases the beauty ol its appearance, however, and the denomination at this place may well feel proud of their new edifice. Cedar Vale Star:" L. H. Sullivan's field of alfalfa, sowed this fall, is a sight to see. It stands six inches to a fo.t high, is a perfect stand, and if it stands the winter all right will be as good a field as he has.

J. G. Dale's little field by the mill is aiso a fine example ol what alfalfa should bo. With such success as this in seeding to this best of all crops, Chautauqua is proven to be well adapted to it, and it i3 only a question of time when it will be the principal source of profit on our farms. No other orop will equal it.

In concluding his comment on the report of the corn yield, Secretary Mohler says: "I state a fact of which I have personal knowledge, that in the same neighborhood and under exactly the same weather and soil conditions one farmer has a yield of forty bushels of corn per his neighbor h-js less than fifteen bushels, the difference in result being wholly due to a difference in farming. There has not been a time in many years when the diligent and industrious farmer was so amply rowarded for extra care and attention given to the cultivation of his crops as this year." KANSAS RAILROADS. than with anything else known. The laugh to think how you ha- been to people who know most about milk suffer eo long, when you could ls ured. rr 1 i say just mat.

can anoru tu print all the testimonials we hold. You can get a small lox for tea cents, largo size twenty-five cent'. Ask your druggist for them. They're free expressions of opinion VJLJ Ancient King's. Once there was a peculiar significance attached to rings.

They were regarded as a token of authority. The Emperor's signet ring placed in the hands of an official invested him for the time with his master's power. Rings are first mentioned in the Bible in Genesis, chapter 41st and 42d verse: "And Pharoh took his ring from his hand, and put it on Joseph's hand, and made him ruler over all Egypt When the Israelites conquered the Midianites, they "took all their rings and bracelets, and offered them to the Lord." Ahasuerus gave the ring from his hands to the Jews' worst enemy thus giving him unlimited control to do with them and their property whatever he pleased. The father received his prodigal son joyfully, and sealed his forgiveness by putting a ring on his hand. The Egyptians regarded their rings both as business vouchers and as ornaments.

The signet rings being always used for sealing documents, and however used, their rings were always buried with them and in later years are often found in their tombs. The signet ring was usually of bronze or silver; but among the rich gold rings were used for ornaments. Ivory or blue porcelain were worn by the poor. Plain gold rings, engraved with some motto or the head of their dieties, were much prized; and three or four were often worn on the fingers, and also on the thumbs. Among the Jews no one was in full dress without the signet ring, and ladies had their rings set profusely with costly gems rubies, emeralds and chrysolites being the most valuable.

Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher in Godey's. in conventions, in papers, every Sylvan Remedy Company. leoria, UN. where where milk folks have a voice.

Their enthusiasm about Pearline is genuine. And it's natural. For all kinds of washing and cleaning, nothing equals Pearline. 00-50 K. T.

eddlers and some unscrupulous grocers tell you. "this is as rood as" or "the same as Pearline." IT'S JL FALSE Pearline is never -pedclerl. if yot: grocer senfls auvertipe- answering any of th mecta. tJcase raecunn tLi? vou an imitation. Ve scr.J it cock.

1 1 cw 1 Englishman smoked." Dear Sir: I made the best ol the year when I sent vou two dollars lor The Christian Herald and the Oxford Teachers' Biele. Both have been the source of much pleasure. Now I want the home folks to have The Christian Herald. En DER Dr. TALMAGE: I again send you S2.00 for another OXFORD TEACHERS' BIBLE and THE CHRISTIAN HERALD for one year, both of which you will please send toT.

McKean, Cold Springs, N.J. It is but just for me to say that I am well pleased with the beautiful Premium Teachers" Bible and I tender you my sincerest thanks for it. As for THE CHRISTIAN HERALD, I regard it as the Prince of Family papers," in fact I love it next to the Bible. Yours sincerely. Rev.

THOMAS J. TAYLOR, Cold Springs, N. J. closed find two dollars for The Christian Herald and Oxford Teachers' Bible to be sent to my brother. Hubert C.

Niday, Mercerville, Ohio. Sincerely yours, J. E. Niday. Principal, Pubiic School.

Reagan, Texas. you will send Two Dollars to THE CHRISTIAN HERALD as soon as you see this advertisement, I will send you Hit ttiKisiiATi litxALD ior onsyear-oz 1 times every weanesaay, ana aaamon i win ciiu uu free of charge (all charges prepaid) by express a beautiful After a while they separated, Smith still wondering where he had met the affable French gentleman before. When the time came around for Smith to get the next twenty pounds of tobacco tor his friend Brown, he was shown into the office where the alleged perjury was usually accom-Diished. His heart gave a jump as he recognized the bland official at the desk of the gentleman who had offered him the cigar at the Casino. Here, then, was where he had met him before.

"Please sit down, Mr. Smith," said the government man in a kindly tone; "it will be some minutes before the necessary business is completed." Smith sat down and mumbled something about not being in a hurry. The Frenchman opened a drawer and pulled out a large and black cigar Ve don't object to smoking in onr offices here as I understand they do in England. Pray light this cigar. It will console you while you wait" "Thank you very much," said the doomed Smith, "but I do not care for French cigars.

That is why I import all of my tobacco. "But this is a prime Havana taken from the luggage of an American who foolishly thought he could cheat the French customs department." "Beally? Well, you see, under the circumstances I hardly like to take the property of another man without his permission, even if he is an American. "But it is not his property; he has forfeited it It is the property of France, who now insists on your accepting it through my humble instrumentality." Poor Smith could no longer refuse. Oxford Teachers' make this extraordinary offer in order ftfcl tttt- rnniCTTAM ITCD AT lf Weed-Maps. The Germans have some educational ideas which we in this country have borrowed with profit, and there are still others which we might be wise to adopt.

Among them, no doubt, are the wall maps of different species of pestiferous weeds, which hang in schoolrooms where the children can see them as long as they go to school. A practical idea underlies the displaying of these maps. It is well known that farmers are prone to treat all weeds alike and hardly to observe any difference between them; whereas the natures of weeds differ as much as the natures of any other plants do, and the sort of treatment which will exterminate one will sometimes increase and multiply another. It is important, therefore, that the farmer and gardener should understand the weeds which they are trying to exterminate. It is here that these German wall-maps come in.

They show colored pictures of the most pestiferous weeds, in all stages of growth, and also the ways in which they scatter their seeds and propagate themselves. By learning them thoroughly, through seeing them day by day on the walls, the child grows up with a knowledge of the best way to exterminate them. it has been proposed that our agricultural societies offer prizes for the best labelled collections of weeds not for the purpose of encouraging their cultivation, but in order to extend a knowledge of them, and thus contribute to their extermination. vour home. THE CHRISTIAN HERALD IS the ONLY The Union Pacific railway paid taxes in Kansas this year amounting to Topeka Journal The total receipts of the Grand Army fair were $3,002.98.

Two thousand dollars was cleared. The Santa Fe company buys from $1,000 to $1,500 worth of postage stamps every month from the Topeka postoffice. Cherry Vale Commercial: The Santa Fe company is contemplating a change in this division terminal from Independence to Cherry vale. The old round house there is being remodeled, and if the change is made it will probably be within the next month. From Caldwell: The Bock Island Bailroad company ia making active preparations for the new business that will soon open up on its southern extension.

Five new freight engines have been assigned to this division and a number of new passenger crews will be put on about tho first of the year. The round house will ba considerably enlarged and other necessary work done in the yards to accommodate the extension of business. The state board of railroad commissioners have decided that the railroads running through Kansas shaU have the privilege of running their fast trains through this state without stopping them at every way-statife The citLiens of Formosa, Jewell county, complained that of the four passenger trains which pass through that place daily only one stops for passengers, and the request was made that the other trains be o-dered to stop. The commissioners decidad that the one train is sufficient for the business of the place, and in the interest of through traffic and fast trains the roquest is PAPER IN Hit WUKLU CUl LCD Dlfeg REV. DR.

TALMAGE. It is issued every tem of protection which France adopts, first charging great duties on everything that comes into France, and secondly, the octroi duties which are charged on articles brought from the country into any town, has made living exceedingly expensive everywhere. The English reidents of the Northern towns of France have tried to get the privilege of buying the kind of tobacco they want, but without success. France, however, seeing that it was losing residents by this unenlightened policy, as people moved to the channel islands or to Switzerland, in the first of which there is no duty on tobacco and in the second scarcely any, made grudging concession in the law of English residents. The law is this: You are allowed to import twenty pounds of tobacco a year, paying a duty of seven francs fifty centimes a pound, which impost is more than the original price of tobaccos, even in England.

The officials take care that in getting this tobacco you are put to the greatest inconvenience and expense, but then, of course, that is what custom officials are for, all over the world and especially in the United States. The twenty pounds thus imported you must swear in for your own use solely, and you must enter into an agreement not to sell or even give away a scrap of it. All this exposition of the law brings nie to the story I have to tell and which was told to me in St Mala In the first place I may say that twenty pounds of tobacco a year is utterly inadequata for one able-bodied man. I smoke fifty pounds myself without half-trying, and no doubt a man like the late Gen. Grant smoked much more.

I am well aware read it in a track, I think that if I put the money thus expended in a savings bank at compound interest for 500 years or so I would at the end of that time have a competency to retire on, but I always was one of those improvident people who like to take their fun as they jog along through life, and so "bang goes the saxpence" for tobacco. "Have a good time while you are alive," says the philosopher Bill 3Nye, "for you will be dead a long while." There are several residents in Brittany who look with contempt on twenty pounds of tobacco a year, and who supplement that supply, but not with French tobacco. Some daring souls take trips to the Island of Jersey, only three hours or so away, with a splendid service of fast steamers from St. Malo, and they try to smuggle in as much tobacco as they can. This, however, is a very risky business, as the customs examination of those who come in by the Jersey boat is exceedingly strict.

This brings me to Brown's plan. 1 need scarcely to sav that Brown is not his real came and that Smith is not the name of the friend who was sacrificed for him. I merely use the wierd, unusual name of Brown a Smith to conceal identity, and if a real Brown and Smith lire on that coast I beg to Wednesday. It is full of pictures. Every issue has a piece of musicjupplied Fir.

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Smith lighted the cigar with slow diliberation. The Frenchman went on with his writing. The smoker first became deathly pale and then his face took on a greenish hue. He fought down the feeling he had before experienced while crossing the channel in a gale. The Frenchman glanced up at him now and then but said nothing, keeping on with his writing.

The victim frequently took the cigar from his lips and drew in rapidly two or three times quick breaths of fresh air untainted with tobacco smoke, and these gasps seemed to keep him from dying on the spot He remembered that his countrymen had on one or two- occasions stormed St. Malo, and he wished the fleet were outside at that moment dropping shells on the custom house. After conquering the first awful qualms, he resolutely kept on smoking. Had not the Englishman once owned that section of the country and was it not day and make your home Cruelty In Morocco. An act of cruelty was recently committed in Fez, Morocco, of so atrocious a character that it has even aroused the indignation of the moors, unaccustomed as they are to judge such matters severely.

It has been proved that the chief eunuch or the Sultan of Morocco, a man named Bubilal, has killed a little negro slave belonging to him by slowly pouring boiling water from a kettle over the child's head. An inquiry was made into the matter and it was ascertained that this was the fifth slave whom he had killed in the same way. The case was reported to the Sultan, tut His Majesty declined to interfere. In Morocco eunuchs are an altogether privileged class and are valued at a high price by their owners. bneht for a wrsfiTt.

year. North Topeka item: A collection of about $300 was taken at the Kasraa avenue M. E. church yesterday morning, for the benevolent institutions of the church. Bishop E.

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