The Miltonvale News from Miltonvale, Kansas • 4

7" waia. i.fh---ja. Sinaf Pealatation of Independ-, bak bad. We offer in Boofes, fere area few we are ausipBS to The peaches are all right yet, Mrs. Woodruff is on the sick list JHas spring broke? Yes, we think Bible Gallery, Dante's Inferno, Paradise Lost, Green's History of the Bjogljh People, Gibbons' Ronjaa Umpire Several good Books by anttiors like Spen cer, Darwin, Carlyle, Emsrson, Tpurgee, Lew Wallace Hawthorne, Disraeh andFeanimoxd i pardxlolc As Smith, and JPROPRI ETORS.

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Jones, of the Soottsyille News, has Dot yet learned that it be Milton Keview is a thing of the past He continue to send au addressed to, the Review, Awake jfTonj leep, boy, awake! The much needed refo.ia of electing United States senators by a di rect vote of the people is becoming popular and growing in favor with the great industrial masses AjS leaeit five State Legisla tures have passed resolutions de manding such a change in the con' stitution as will require such elec tions of United stages senators. This is encouraging. Iet the good go on. It is only a question of time when the pressure in Mjp favor force congress to adopt such a amendnieDt. Kansas Farmer.

The bill prohibiting aliens from pwnjng lands in Kansas is now a Jaw of the state. It proyides that all alien owners must sell their land within gjre.j6ara.9r become citizens pf Jinked States. Ju case they fail to do either their lands will be sold, and after payment of costs the proceeds will be deposited in the state treasury subject to the order the alien owners. The large amount of land this righteous Jaw will put on the market will be astonishing to thqse who Jiave npt given he matter much attention. One man alone, Lord Scully, owns about 4,000 acres of land in Kansas.

Kausas Farmer. DEPARTMENT, Under this iietid we will be plensod to publish short articles pertaining to agriculture, Block and especially Invite our farmers to assist us in making th is department Interesting and Instructive. From the Farm Journal. The readiest and surest get rid of censuri is to correct ourselves. Fire and sword are but slow engines of destruction in comparison with the babbler.

The best way to keep the grind" stone et js to have it dip in a 4der it But if th in the trough Is not allowed to ruu put when the use of the stone is iju-ished, the stone will be seriously Stables ought to be kept clean with fresh straw iu them. The ammonia that rises from the mannre is very injurious to the eyes of the horses, while standing on the moist rotting straw and manure makes their feet tender and imliealthf ul. It is said that a bottle filled with a solution of common salt and sal-ammoniac, in the proportion of one 'pound of the former to a half pound of the latter iu two quarts of water, makes an excellent hand grenade for turning out fires. It may be well to lave a few of these handy in case of fire at the house or barn. Hash seems to actually taste better when mads as presentable as possi Lie ia appearance.

Remove every suspicion of bone and giistle, phnp very fine, season well, and etew tjll soft and tender. Heap in the mid-dte iii a hot plate and decorate with a border of bread cut after toasting into inch and a half squares, and these into triangles by halving di Agonal), Serve two 0rthree pieces yt each person. fever a ecvap of bread should be VSi- Spread over a plate in moderate hot oven till perfectly dry, then crush and roll with a rolling pin, elft and put in a jar ready for the many uses tbpy can be put to. What does no), go through the sieve can be rolled again, or ele kept iu a separate jar for bread puddings, or for the children's supper with boiling milk poured over them Let them stand till thoroughly soft fped. iM Some of pur contemporaries no- pommend that the boyi train the colts, They pay that the boys will really like the work.

Wo do not jloubt that. But hg aboiit the colts? Will they be trained? ('Boys will bp boys;" andit is our observation that they teach the colt I 1 I (nil as muun mat uauuuiu 1101 kuuw as that it should know. Jiarly lm is "I wait ttjs money awful yours trjiiy, Please pa Jfle bearer. i'ood morning, said suburjbau doctor, as he or fopr little children on $eir way to sch(jyl; "and how are tell vqu," re plied tiic eldest, a boy -of eight fjJLlK uui icu liter eA.iHuiutru me dqjlor. "And why not?" 'Cause papa ssjd last year it cost him over $20 to Ui'e you oomo in and ask usjb' we were." CDUSATIOMAL COLUMN.

Conducted by the teacher nd jmnil Of public schools. BlQt rtkilas p-jtUen by will fro catn wcoa. SkanaM. Kansas is one of the central states of tJlie It is boupdqd.ou the north by Jtebraska, on the by Missouri and the JUissoun nvr, on the oith by the Indian Territory and on th ivrat by uoiojadc. The whole state jBlcpe gently from the foot-hills of the Hocky Mountalnii uear its western border, eastward to the Missouri river.

The state Las no mountains, i here are extensive prairies, ir from be ing level, there are low hiMs, river bottoms and ravines. Kansas river is the largest river in the state. The wild niijjia.ls are the y.olf or ocyotc, wildcat and wood-rat. -The prairie dog has nearly or quite dis appeared from the state. There are many varieties of fish and bji'ds.

Jhc climate is temperate, though it is sometimes very cold in the win tor, and the heat of summer is great bjp.t the nights are cool. The are oftaa high. Ji 1874 was the "locust" year," when the corn and nearly ehpwas destroye.d. Rausas i fhe Sunflower state, because baa many sunflowers. The farmers raifie corn, oais, rye, barley, wheat, fcax and potatoes.

L1Z.IK Kt'INLB. At tic tne of the discovery of; America the whole continent was covered with the Red or Indian ace. They have reddish skins, straight j.ud bjaok iiar aud hiU cheek bones. At thft time there was a great difference th.c?.ndijti8 living in jCeufra America, Mexic.p and New Jf.exico and those liyiug farther to the south or to the north. Tbey cujfcv'atd corn, eauaahes, and tobacco.

oui.lt houses and temples of stone. Those really sav-! age lived in holes the jrouud or oay.ef, and ate fish and gam.e raw. The Jndians living farther north neyer iuilt housea more than oe try pf a ypoaejj frame cover ed jof cr with dirt. Chiraueys were unknown and also stairs except, in the form of ladders. farther we1e houses made of brick ad cf atones fonr or five Tories high, but they had no chim-iiye or fire-places as fire was not needed for to keep tfoeui warm and tbty djd their cooking out ol dpors.

PjlfUSIS Kl'IINI-K. t'uitod Slates The United States is In the central part of North Ajncrioa, and consists pf 44 states, live territories and a federal dtri.cl which ontaips the capital. The area of the IJnitcd Stales is mere than 3,000,000 square miles. The western ljalf is high and the eastern half is low. Iho climate qf tie eastern half is cooler than tlje western, which L43 a very dry auj warp o.mate.

exas is the largest state the Union, in area, and Klpde Island the smallest New ork has the greatest population. The Mississip- pi is me largest river, aua me hocky Mountains are the principal poun' isn system. Agriculture is tie kadmg industry. Manufacturing is rapidly lumming and has its chief seats iu the states north of tho Potomac and the Ohio riyera. In coal and ron the nited States is the richest country in thp world It aso surpasses eyery ftthor oouutry jn the production of silver and gold.

Washington, D.C., is the capital, jt is situated in fbo District of Columbia, on the Potomac river. New York City ia the largest city in the United States; it is in the southeast ern part of the state of Now York. Brooklyn js connected to New York City by the longest suspension bridge in tup world. FAi5j.1V Baubkb. Tle Civil Progress or the Cfder to estimate tl)e cjyil pro gress pf our nation w)t))in abqiit the last hnndrei years, let us begin with what we then were.

The nation was then mere colonies composed pf people which had "ed from tyranny and oppression, to wild, uncultivated and nncivilixed land that they might find liberty. After they had become stronger and itcgun to be prosperous Great 1 1.. oqiain iinpoaeu 11 just laxaiions upon them that she might destroy the colonist's liberty and pay her This was carried to suoh ah extent that there came a time when "Forbearance ceased to be 1 virtue" with the colonists and they threw off this reign of tyranny and oppraar sion by building for themselves a repliant) in wmen iney migni enjoy sell: and Drug Store, Samuel Paw.ee is a frequent visitor of Miltonyale, be some attraction for him there. Well, that is all right, Sam; you have just as good a right to starve a woman to death as any other man. Rkpobtbb.

Oakland Items. Owing for lack of time we are forced jto abridge the following cot rcpondence Eu. Spring is here. Wheat looks Weather grows warmer. Stock of all kiods looks well.

The farmers are all up and doing, Wesley Watspn is breaking a colt. Farmers oats. preparifig to sow D. Watson is lucky he has corn to eei. The assessor around calling on eyervbody.

We are glad to say that Mrs, Ed, Moger is getting better. Mr. Houk's family started for on the 17th inst Levi Wilkins was visiting friends in this neighborhoodlast week. Rumor says J. E.

Burkhart has rented his farm to Jas. McLean. Quite a number of our farmers are selling corn at 45 cts. a bush. Tbey have some yery interesting times at the Merrill school-house a thejr open alliance meetings.

Last Tuesday evening quite a large crowd gathered at the rest deuce of Lee Evtrts, in honor of Miss Frankie Cole's 18th birf.hday, An excellent supper an enjoya, ble time was the result Lisy Rose ok Svmmkb, Notice. We have mada arrangements with the Kansas City weekly Star by which we give their paper and the News both for $1.25 per year, The Star is a paper for the farm? er, it is independent in politics. It gives a complete market report, and is contributed to by some of the best writers in Kansas, among whom are Noble L. Prentis and Col. Henry Inman.

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SIIMli iam, ri tmm mm eieM flfa ufcalflS Um wiiV. All 1 I A $ey are a family where he mqst incessant anj atrocious candor reigns. Ech tells he other precisely what each thinkji of the conduct. aoh has.hu or her deified opinion about everything and takes least thing in life in the most intensely serious manner, and impatient opposition or contra d.nev all love each other dearly, wo uij practice great jsj.f-4e' uial, necessary, In, order to keep, together, and would resent it at once if they heard any one of their family SDokeD ill of. Thev are callable of great endurance ajid but are not equal tofie siuh andw, and winsome courtesies which make everyday life pass 410 delightfully in homes where tpey are practiced.

A crop which profitably fce grown to a much greater extent, and over large of country, than is now done, is the 'common navy Orljeld bean. enough 0 "satisfy borne 4ewnd, many being imported every year, although it is a crop of comparatively easy cultivation, and one that pays better thwi most' held crops. Cean laud, of good quality, should be se lected and the LieauB planted in drills immedutely after the corn is in Cultivate as soon are above gTound and when there is no dew or rain on the leaves, as that will scot and spoil the foliage. Cultivate thoroughly until the growth of foliage covers the ground and siAiDs the growth hen twO'Uiiras 01 the pods arte ripe, pull by baud and Jay in rows until weli dried. on a dry, clear day, otherwise the beans will not come out oj the pods.

he same laiid may be used again and again by sowing rye each fall and lowing it under in the spring. Under equal conditions as many bushels of beans .0 wheat can be grown per acre, and the selling price of good clean stock is com monly twice as great 1 he labor of cultivating, or rather of harvesting and threshing, is some greater, but still leaving a much better profit than can possibly be from an ordinary yield of wheat Kansas Farmer. At the outset mati iraony is a tie game. Some iiewspaperB are too dull to be worth filing. Nobody makes He put of the whole cl)tlj now-a-days.

The tarjff is too heavy. Philadelphia Times. Our English Oook, ANow, ma'am 'ow will you 'ave the duck to-day? Will you heat it cold, or shall I 'cat it for yon?" sa'd Freddie Fangle, "I know why the sun acts every even ing." "vyny, Freddie?" it can hatch out a new day." There is a girl iu Omaha six feet six inches all, aud when her lover stands on nis up toes and pleads for a kiss, "bhe Stoops to concur." Teacher "Mabel, you may spell kitten." Mabel Teacher-r-f'Kitten has'nt two i'shaB it? MabiJl "Our kitten has." "How shall I keep ants out of the sugar-bowl?" asks a correspondent the pugaf-bowf with salt," promptly responds lexas biftiugs. Customer "That sugar of yours was dreadfully adulterated." Grocer "But, wy dear it grew that way-saudy soil, you know. Pittsburg Dispatch.

Teacher "Supppose, Tommy, you were president of the Upited states, what would you dp?" Tommy "I would pel let anybody wash my face or comb my hair any more." Mathematicians figure that a man sixty years old has spent three years buttonin? h8 cpllar, now much time has neen ennsnmed by a woman of forty-live in putting her hat on Bimiirilt! iillO. "Give me an illustration of the word tautahziug," said the teacher. "Please ma'am," said a small boy, "it means a circus procession a pass- iu the and the scholars uot allowed to look out i A little girl had a new pair of shoes that were stiff and h.ard, after the manner of new shoes, and per haps a litip tight, wniob was a pity, When she drew them off at mght with a sigh of relief she exclaimed, "Ob, how good new sjpiea. fee) when they're 'A grocery man in this town re' ceived an order that read this way: f'pere sir: Pies soud me 4 pounds of cofe and some te. My wife bad boy last pjght, also 10 pounds of cheese and a rat trap, fie wayed 74- pouuds, and a hatchet and nails." Winchester (Ky).

Democrat An old marriage notice reads as follows; In Boston, April 8, 1891, Jqseph Willcntto Miss Susan Whit- raarsu alter a opurtshjp pf 13 days and but 86 days after the death of his former wife: The bt waj if eMail for deep torrov imoiner For the lost of wife -4s to Barnr another. A young woraan whq ha ohec( for $14 on oertain Detroit bank, presented it at the cuhier'i desk, and he politely said: "Yon will Filcaso endorse it, Mist." Sht took ence our is, maked by the- formation uu success! ul operation of the government At the beginning of our government there jeje flioultie8 to meqt on every side, but the president andabinet wisely aud bravely met and overcame them. so. then many annexaftpns and purchases have added to the ztent of ottr rant republic, lmmigruon has greatly increased tne population, VQstoflices have been established throughout the Uuited Mates and manufactories iu all parte of theiUuion. Uuruig colonial times were but few American books, bat since that time our great authors have written many books and furnished a great amount of literature which well deserves the praise of ail tne civilized nations of the world.

The government baa provided for our eduoatwn by getting apart a tor tion of land for the purpose of supporting our public schools, ahnd Las also for.tbe of colleges. Invention is also stimulated by the government by giving the exclusive right to, and benefit of the iuventicu to the, inventor jfoj- a certain number of yeas. The progress la inyeoh is ery we may ee by knowing that thee. arc tioapds of patents granted each yer. Dora Winteu, From Pomeroy'a Advance Thonjht.

Jlopcy js a creation of la The usurer juig in America. Education only means emancipation, Take kindness ut of iio and i becomes a hell. Hoarding here is not the seed of happiness There. It is not wise or iust to help those w)i 0 are ungrateful or untrutf Wisdom quite often passes by the palace nia.kj jts horje in a cabin. Wisdom and happiness are Jnsep- erable ncyer apart from eah other.

The poor chUd as it reaches heav en nnds no sign vjveep on tne The good does not become bad by seeing wnat it or studyiug its motives The thought that thinks only for itsef is worse Jhau a to its owner. The one who suspicions evil and wrnnir.ntn(r in ntfira thna corrflit- Jy tens of himselt. The condolence that depresses is more detrimental to tne mourner than is the grjef itscj.f. Streams run in different channels without quarrelling or throwing mud into each other, then why not men du likewj.se? lie vcho stops on the JiUie Ltland of creed, to be satisfied with a dog ma, anchors a long way from the shore of Heaven. The Christian who thinks he is seryiq" by denying himself and family the good things of life is in error, as al hn pas a right tp deny himself or others are those things and pursuits that prevent his spirit ual adyancempnt COONTT COHRESPONDENCE, (Too late for Luskjt week.

Hayes Pick-TJps. M. B. Horn sold 300 bnsbels pf oas this week. Master Alfred Graham is on the sick Jist this week.

Robert McNctt will till the soil for M. B. Horn this season, Frank Wanker and lady now hojd forth on the S. j. Coulter farm, Pat O'Harro has bought the Harry Hughs farm, which he expects to Jiyo 1 on ana improve tar.

S. Ji Graham sold to M. B. Horn one thorouch-bred short-horn bull last week, at about one-fourth thp old price qf such stock. Mrs.

L. i. Hutcheson ))as moved tp Clay Center, and Chas. Moore and his sister Minnie will hold the fort on ljer (arm tliiQ Farmers genprally are ansious to get at spring work. Quite a large acreage of small grain, oats, flax and wneat, win oe sown nere tnis spnng Stock feed is grqwing quite scarce and it ia unosrtain whptbpr some of us will make feed lasf until grass comes.

Ktouk looks remarkably well considering tfee shortage, of feed. Mrs. L. Jy. PrUWPi Qf J4apa, who hap been itffcring with acute tore throat ad bronchitis, at her old friend, S.

E. Graham's home, for the past ten days, has repoyered. nd returned to Idaua. Last Sunday evening closed thp Gospel meetings at the Pyei school-house. AltbuMgnahe weather was at.

very nniayoraoip, me meetings, wiw two three exceptions, were well attended and Interesting. Some four or (ye persons gave encouraging evidence th.t they were aeekinj is oats to She He the a to at in One of Geo. W. Travis' children very sick. We predict there will be some sown this week.

John Higginbothm's family moyed Claj Center Saturday iijprning. Mrs. Fourteen was buried in the Catholic last Tuesday waj ,82 years old. While loading some barrels at the depot the other day, Fred Taylor ashed one of his hngers quie bad D. V.

Miller gives glowing ac counts of his trip to Oklahoma, the Iowa and Cherokee strips are hard to beat Mr. Purfoot, the station agent at Iculpnur springs, will commence housekeeping in the D. B. Walker bouse, ju the near future. A few friends gave Mrs, Sarah A.

Travis' a bjxth-day surprise dinner, and a good time was reported. She was $4 years old last Friday, 13th inst Old Plug, From No. 7, William ones is on the Air. Olson took a flying trip to on ast Saturday to hayc wviif exiraciea. Fred Ei.nick's shool will be out in Jfive weeks, and the community will welcome home again.

Miss Siifie Wilkins has gone borne, as her family is able wait on themselves at present Our Sunday-school will continue three months longer, as money ws raised last jSumiay to send for supplies, How about that microscope at 103 with which you could not tell a little stunted calf from a man on a horse. Take the subject Observer, and there are two women in No. 7 who can interest How is it, ladies? The rQads are in the worst condi tion we have ever seen them in Jt is almost impossible to tray-el at all Emick carried the laurels by speaking for the hayseedjs No. 103 last Friday. He is onjy three years old.

It seems there is an old man hi this neighborhood who is trying to start a hew stylo by pntting fair-pins in his beard. The alliance meeting came near hz- a fizxle last Friday, everybody pad a bad cold and the band boys failed to get there. Felix Emick met with quite a painful accident, IJe was cutting down tree when a limb struck him the eye, hnrtjng him yery badry, In one more week No. wil mm the smiling faces of pqr teachers, Miss bmita apd Mr. pison.

They will be missed bqtb in sociaty and Sunday-school. Aunt Ellen Elliot was with this community last Sunday again And delivered a splendid sermon to a larg audience, notwithstanding the roads were very bad. Old Winter turned around and gayjs tut a gentle farewell in the shape of the hardest snow storm we have haq this winter, on Thursday last, bill 1 was of short duration Mrs. Houk and her family left Tuesday, the lftb, for Oklahoma, where she will join bier husband and son. What Cloud county loses Ukianema will gain, iuey were respepted by al) who knew them, We pity the man who has the grippe too bad to load his wagon to go to town, but thinks if it was loaded he would go, and so gets some kind hearted person to load it for him and says be will step in and see the doctqr, and the dootor tells him that he is not sick that all he needs is grit, and so concludes he lias grit enqugn to unload nig own WagQD, 1 BE.ET i (Proni inothet oqrrMpoEdentl Mrs.

II. Wilkins is on the mend again. A box supper at No. 1 next Prl day evening, Mrs, John Lilliman and children are ou the sick list joe 1 rum is now taking in oar township as the assessor. James Shields was seen back on bis pld stamping grounds last week.

Sore throat is very prevalent among the imall children in this yieinity, John Jones is still intending to start for his boms as soon as the weather settles and the roads are passable. Joe and Dora Cole occupied their ola pisoes in me union Sunday school last Sunday. We were raal Cooper. Eagle Book Mr. Editor, as we were napping or otherwise engaged when the old iurkev hen flew over we were unable to get communication to press jast The heavy loss of hogs sustained by many if anujers during the past winter is now.

being pai.tjy xecompensed by the price they are receiving for tfteir Mr. Editor, it might we.lj for you to keep on the alert in the future to prevent a collision between the last year's nest.egg and Observer, for it is not the intention of to spill the contents cf a spoiled on the pages your good and neat paper, if run against too hard. Allow ns to say surprised ryes more than surprised, when we learned who the jun.ior of News was. The last we beard of him was when he left as for nati, from Lamar, several years ago. Yes, we acknowledge a change our newsy little paper all for the too.

The statement made by Turkey Egg in regard to and number of cattle passing through here were both incorrect Your humble servant gave the statement the wek previous. Mr. Townsend being an acquaintance of ours, we re ceived the statement direct from him. He had in charge .325 head of owned by Mr-Lacy, of Minne apolis. Concordia Items.

Spring has ocme at last we hope. Miss Blanche Houston is lying yery low with pnsumoftia. C. C. Stoner and fam ily kited friends Sunday near Nejson, their jeld home.

We saw Wijl Bond's smiling face in tne city, aunqay, tjriad to sec you, Will. Come again. The house of John Sw.earnsin was burned to the ground Monday morning, between and 7 ociocE. The household goods were ail sved. Miss Ethel Stallings, who has been making her home with the fam ily of B.

F. Kose. returned to Mere dith last week for a visit with rela tives. The opera house was packed Saturday night at the Negro minstrel show. Your correspondent never laughed as hard before in bis life.

Those who were absent missed a grand treat, Blind Tom was passing along the street the other evening, when a Scrap, as the kids call it, was going on between two young men, saiq, when some one attempted to direct bim past; "lf there is a hgrjt going on, I want to see jt. Tho president of the school board offered as prizes to the pupils of the fligh School, writing the best essay on the "Growth of Our Nation, trying' Works as first prize and Ba con's and Emerson's essays as second prize. The first prize was won by Will Carnaban, second by Thomas Detamore. George McKay and Miss Emma Clark were married at tbe Ju. ft, church Jast Thursday evening at .8 o'clock, by Rev.

B. T. Stauber. After the ceremony a reception was giyen to the married couple by the Women's Anxilliary at the Y. M.

C. A. rooms. We extend them our best wishes for a Jong and happy life together. Quondam Rus-ncps, From No.

91. Weather fine at this writing, Sam Adams has returned from Mexico. Wild geese flying worth is a good of spring. Why can't we haye Sunday-school this summer, and occasionally cnuruu At the school meeting on the 7th it was decided to have three months more of school. Mr.

Spencer has returned from Beatrice, where he has been working the past winter. Our school opens this week with Miss Laura Moore, We trust we may have a good school. We see Je Pooks in our vicinity yet Hear ha has got over tho Washington fever and has now de-9i4 pis going tq Colorado, prcssions are strong with the colt, and an cxpprjepccdT careful person pan best give iu first If the boys ire to do this work, let the poys themselves first be carefujT rsiwd. I know a family whp, seems to me, ought to be supremely happy and contented. They have i nice iad to see you oaoij jug py)our, T..