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JOB PRINTING. rich Josephs, but the plebeian Peters and Johns. Ambergris. The weird vnms told hv whalemen of THE ADVANCE. classes.

Though unacknowledged, perhaps, in words, it is expressed in actions and in the relations between husband and wife. Hence it is not strange that Mexican women should seek for admiration and sympathy from other men than their own spouses. And, Inasmuch as many of them have heard or read of the superior position held by the women in American society, and of the devotion of the average American to his wife, and of the universal gallantry of the stronger sex toward the (physically) weaker one, in the United States, it Is not strange that Mexican women of the higher classes usually look with favor upon American men if they are gentlemen. However, American men are not apt to be strongly fascinated by Mexican women, as even the best of them are badly educated, poor conversationalists, talking of nothing but their "novios" beaux, dress and "the church," very fanatical in religion, and very few of them as beautiful as the average American girl. Anomalous.

From the Wichita Beacon'. The causes have been predisposing for years, and it it should have been Blaine, said causes would still have manifested themselves. All the signs indicate hard times. Curious, too, that they should. Our granaries are burdened with grain, and our pastures with live stock.

There is no scarcity of food, no famine in the land, only over production! Same with the factories-burdened with unsalable products, dying with over production, while thousands are on the verge of starvation and cold with nakedness. Strange, wonderful strange! It contradicts all the economic philosophies of the schools. Abounding in everything, but no demand for it, or perhaps better, no money to supply the demand with. For three years past the earth has given forth her increase without stint, and with no niggardly hand. From A Postal Telegraph.

In view of the power shown by Jay Gould 'over the Western Union Telegraph company and the associated press, and the manifest disposition on his part to use it In behalf of his favorite presl dential candidate, the following utterance of Senator Windom, of Minnesota, just before his appointment to be secretary of the treasury, Is exceedingly apropos: "The channels of thought and the channels of commerce thus owned by one man, or by a few men, what is to restrain corporate power, or to fix a limit to its exactions' upon the people? What Is, then, to hinder these men from depressing or inflating the value of all kinds of property to Biiit their caprice or avarice, and thereby gathering into their own coffers the wealth of the nation? Where is the limit to such a power as this? What shall be said of the spirit of a free people who will submit without a protest to be thus bound hand and foot?" With a postal telegraph on the plan proposed to the last congress by Congressman Sumner, of California, and Senator Edmunds, of Vermont, coupled with a civil service system which would place the tenure of office beyond partisan control, such a danger as that above noted would be obviated. Referring to the existing situation, the New York Times says: "For the past forty-eight hours Mr. Jay Gould has been using the associated press to spread abroad through the United States false information as to the result of the election in the state of New York. The proof of this is well known to every intelligent journalist in New York. Mr.

Gould did the same thing in October with reference to the result in Ohio, when not one specific statement capable of verification or exposure was allowed, to pass over the Western Union wires for more than thirty hours, and when the statements that were sent were shown within two days to be conspicuously and intentionally false. As to the vote of New York, the plot has been nearly identical, and has been carried out with more persistence. The returns have been sent out in lumps of 'election which are not named and can not be identified, and the publication of these has been made in amounts and at times to suit the schemers. Occasional pronuncia-mentoes from the Blaine committee have shown that returns from comparatively remote points have been used promptly, while those within an hour's ride of the Western Union building have been held back. "Mr.

Jay Gould's performances for the past forty-eight hours have made a government postal telegraph a necessity in this country." Electricity is the quickest, and therefore the most valuable means of conveying intelligence. The people of the United States paid for constructing the I had a rich friend who projected a railroad in the west. Ten of them formed a company and gave their notes for $100,000 each. These notes were discounted, and the road commenced. After one section was completed the road was bonded for $1,000,000, and with this money the notes were taken up.

Result: Not one of those ten men has a single dollar invested in that road, and yet the road is there, and they own it. Another friend also went out to that same railroad. He worked upon it as a laborer, and all he acquired in a year of arduous toil was a malarial fever. The fruits of labor are very unequally divided, and the portion that many get is very bitter. The Bights of Major! ties.

Popular Science Monthly for December. It is logical, when there is conflict, for numbers to decide, not because they are numbers, but because they represent the preponderance of rights and wills. 'We unanimously agree to be governed by the majority." Those who do not approve this decision must submit, or step down and out. That is the princi ple on which the recognized right of of majorities rests. But, although a necessary convention rules here, there is nothing in it to justify the pride of triumphant majorities, and the pretense that they represent, by the mere fact of their numbers, the national sovereignty.

Majorities should be taught to compre hend that they are only a provisional and feeble substitute for the universal will. They should not be allowed to persuade themselves that they necessarily represent truth and justice. And they should always remember that they were a minority before they became a majority. It is a law of history that every true and progressive opinion was at first that of a single man, then that of a minority, before it became that of the largest number. There are, then, great chances that the opinion of the future may reside in one of the minorities that have been overcome by the majority, but in which? It is impossible to know The error that is passing away and the truth that is coming are both in a minor ity; and it is precisely because we have no sufficient criterion to distinguish the dawn from the twilight that we content ourselves with the average opinion as offering the least chances of error and the most perfectible elements.

The True Heaven on Earth. Colonel Ingersoll. If there is any heaven on earth, it is where just the right man marries just the right woman, and there is no way to be happy except with perfect liberty. hate a man who thinks a woman should obey him. I had rather be a slave than a master.

I had rather be robbed than to be a robber. All that I ask for woman kind is simple liberty, and let the man love the woman as she should be loved. As one of the old sacred books of the Hindus says, "Man isstrength, woman is beauty; man is courage, woman is prudence; man is strength, woman is wisdom; and where there is one man loving one woman, and one woman loving one man.in that house the very angels love to come and sit and I believe, then, in perfect free dom; I believe in perfect justice, and where a man loves a woman she never grows old to him. Through the wrinkles of age and through the mask of time he sees the sweet maiden face that he loved won. And where a woman loves a man he does not grow gray, he does not grow decrepit, he is not old, but to her he is the same gallant gentle man forever that won her heart and hand.

How to Cure Fits. From the San Francisco Wasp. 1. If the man with the fits has a new hat on. and you have an old one, always chance hats with him.

This relieves the pressure on the head. 2. If he happens to be a convivial looking tramp, remark in a loud tone: It's too bad, but there is not a drop of brandy in the crowd." In nine cases out of ten he will walk off, using healthy, coherent and muscular Anglo- Saxon. 3. Should the patient have only a slight attack, and retain consciousness tell him it is not "fitting" for him to behave in that way.

This will undoubtedly make him get up and take off his coat. Then run. 4. Give him plenty of air this kind of generosity is Inexpensive. Open his mouth.

Then get a stretcher. If he won't open his mouth, get a glove- stretcher. That'll make him. 5. Carry him into a "hand-me-down" tailor shop.

No man was ever known to come out of one with a fit. Oarlyle on the Piano Nuisance. From the London Truth. I recommend the following passage in "Carlyle's Life" to those young pests who, without a real notion of music make the air around them hideous by their everlasting strumming on a piano "The miserable young woman in the next house to me, who spends all her bright young days, not in learning to darn stockings, sew shirts, bake pastry or any art, mystery or business that will profit herself or others; not even amus ing herself or skipping on the grass plots with laughter of her mates, but simply and solulv in raeing from dawn to dark to nitrht and midnight, on a hapless piano, which It is evident she will never in this world render more musical than a pair of barn The miserable young reniaiei" Subscribe for Thus Advance. the tropics as to the origin of amber rank high among the startling traditions of the forecastle.

A substance known as ambergris, which has been known for about a century, Is found at rare Intervals floating on the sea in the hottest latitudes. The sailors found it In the whale's intestines near the stomach and developed the theory that it was a petrifaction, and that as a natural course of events the whole whale might turn into the substance. In a short time sailors were multiplying who had seen amber whales I Durinir the smina of last year the Sea Ranger, a whaling ship owned by F. II. Bartlett Sons, of Massachusetts, which had sailed from New Bed ford in June, 1879, for a four years' whaling voyage in the south Atlantic, took a snerm whale while cruising to the south of St.

Helena. After the usual oneration of hooking, hoisting and cutting off the blubber and bailing out the "case," the most interesting part of the work was begun. At tnis point all on board eagerly watched while the long spade is pushed into the intestines to ascertain if there is any ambergris in the stripped leviathan. In the present instance the men were rewarded bv findinir the finest specimen of ambergris that has been captured durinir the last ten vears. It was about the size and shape of a watermelon, weighed seventy pounds, and was worm $18,000.

The price of ambergris has been as high as $290 per pound. The piece found bv the Sea Ranger was regular in shape and of the best quality compact and solid. It was a very pleasant task: for the captain to put this little $18,000 lump under his arm and take it ashore and forward it by a freight ship to the owners of his vessel, into whose hands it came the 31st of last May, and was sold the same day to Messrs. Weeks Potter, of Boston, who had received news bv cable of the great "find." Whenever a large piece of the substance is found the more prominent cnemisis and diwKists of the world are notified such dealers as Lubin l'inaud, of Paris: the Atkinsons, of London; Lan man Kemp and Schiffelin of New York; and Mcl'ike Fox, of Atchison and there is spirited compe tition for the control of the market The sunnlv is extremely small. There are about 17.5 whalingships in the world all are constantly looking for the precious substance, and the entire amount taken by all these ships, in eluding the 140 American whalers, me 25 shins that go to Baffin's bay from Dundee, and the few stragglers from Norway and Sweden, is not more than fifty to seventy-five pounds per year.

This amount is exclusive of whatever some firms may be lucky enough to secure secretly. It was used for many years in medi- cine, and is now prescribed in some part3 of France, but its great and 1m oortant present use is in the manufac ture of perfumes. It consists chiefly of a peculiar fatty matter, similar tocho-lesterin, and is readily dissolved in alcohol, ether, or the volatile or fixed oils. The most widely accepted sup position is that it is a hardened piece of bilary matter formed in the stomach of a sick whale, and perhaps in some other fishes also, for the sperm whale is known to feed upon cuttle-fish, whose tough, indestructible beaks are to be found in the ambergris, a fact arguing that the ambenrris was a or result or in dizestion. and might occur in the stom achs of other extremely voracious fishes that are known to devour at certain periods anything they meet.

They are sick durine the presence of their Jonah like visitors, and get well again when the visitors have taken their departure In making perfumery there are two creneral classes the animal odors, such as those from the musk and civet, and the vecetable odors, such as those from the rose and the cassia. In the case of the animal odors, they can be dissolved in alcohol with the aid of heat, and the odor is taken up by the alcohol. With the vegetable as, for example, the rose alternate layers'of lard and roses are pressed and allowed to stand, when the lard will take into itself the entire per fume of the roses, and afterward the perfume can be transferred from the lard to alcohol. When the alconoi is thus saturated with the odor more alco hoi is added until the mixture is of the required strength. Then the ambergris is nsfid.

If the perfumed alcohol were used as a scent for the handkerchief, the spirits would evaporate and the odor would not remain. But the am bergris is added, and acts as a base to build upon. Like bodies of this kind undergoing a slow decomposition and possessing little volatility when it is mixed with fleeting scents it gives permanence to them. It acts as an infinite number of small reservoirs which pre vent the perfume from escaping fast. In nonseauence of this quality it is indis- nensableto the perfumer.

It contains a substance which clings pertinaciously woven fabrics. No ambergris has been found, as far as is generally known to perfumery manufacturers, since the splendid specimen spoken or aDOve. How Railroads Are Built. At the church congress recently held in Detroit. the Rev.

C. R. Baker of Brooklvn. N. Bald: All reformers in all great reforma tions have come from the working classes.

The world should remember that its gains have come not from the NOVEMBER 2D. How He Saw Him. From the Waxhlngtun Hatchet. She mined her arms, soft shining links of love. And wound them round him; then, as rose sprays rear Their buuH of morn, she raised her lips above Unto ruspoiislve lips that bentancar.

"What Is the matter, sweet, my own?" she nobbed, Ana ic nn answer he but softly sighed Sad Hoiiml 10 her, In whose white bos throbbed The anxious heart of a half frightened bride, Still, still she queried, then at Inst he snld His eyes refulgent with devotion's light, His hand care-NliiK hersunbeumy head 'My put I saw Tom Robinson, last night." She, wondering, gazed upon him. "And does he AIwuyh cause you such woe?" He crushed a blush And answered: "When I saw him, dear, you gee, I had tour queens against his straight club flush." The Talk of the Day. Belva Lockwood secured five votes in Texas. Mme. Ferry, the wife of the French premier, is the great-great-grandchild of Goethe's "Lolle" (Charlotte Buff).

The Prince of Wales is only 43. But if you count his age on the little darkey's plan by the fun he's had he's 'most 300 Boston Globe. An exchange says that "round waists are worn with or without a belt." We hope to gracious there isn't a possibility of waists getting to be square or tnree-cornered. There was a case in the bankruptcy court in London a few days ago, in which a banker's clerk, with a salary of 100 a year, had run up a bill of jE51 for flowers for his buttonhole. Trying to chew chocolate caramels with false teeth, and essaying to untie fast-knotted shoestrings with dogskin gloves on, is very like trying to do business without advertising.

An exchange has an elaborate account of the newest wrinkle in stockings. It omits, however, to mention the original wrinkle, which continues to do business at the old stand under the heel. Mr. Hayes let's see, now, was his name spelled with an they say, is raising chickens out in Ohio. But does anybody know what has become of William A.

Wheeler or was it William F.V Boston Globe. A woman whose son had been ruined by dissipation was fined $2 in Hamilton, the other day, with the alternative of ten days in jail, because she knelt before a saloon and asked God to curse the liquor traffic. Mr. McCullochis in favor of demonetizing silver, of destroying greenbacks, of amending the constitution to take from congress the power to issue money, and of squeezing the last drop of blood from the people. Iowa Tribune.

A deep cave has been found to exist under the town of Blankston, Iowa, by a farmer who was sinking an artesian well. Three unsuccessful attempts were made to sink the well, but each time the drill sank into the cave. The price of natural gas has been reduced in Pittsburg from 40 to 30 cents per 1,000 feet, with a rebate of 10 cents for prompt payment. This reduction is said to make the cost about equal to the cheapest coal that can be bought. "Never eat and drink at the same time," is the advice given by a Munich savant to fat people who want to reduce their bulk.

This appears to be an underhand blow aimed at one of the noblest of our American institutions the bar room free lunch. The latest novelty in the way of vehicles in Brighton, England, is a light wickerwork Bath chair fitted on a tricycle. There is a seat for an invalid in the tront and anotner tor a men to propel it behind. They promise to drive the Bath chairmen out of business. When General Beauregard and General Grant met in New York a few days ago they did not discuss the civil war or its sanguinary struggles; their topic was Grant's lameness, which he said he did not expect to ever get rid of, and Beauregard's rheumatism, which he ascribed to the changeable northern climate.

A Chicago man wanted a divorce because his wife persisted in singing hymns. The court laughed at him, and he would have lost his case had not the lawyer summoned the wife to the witness stand and started her singing. At the fifth verse the court threw up the sponge and the divorce was granted. The Moscow Gazette remarks that sedition having reached as high as lieutenant colonels, it will probably not stop there, and we must be prepared for still more surprising revelations; while the Viedomosti believes that the canker of nihilism has eaten through every class of society, private and official. "Hello! Smith, what's up?" cried Brown to his friend, who, fresh from a' wrestle with a Btove pipe, which had successfully resisted all efforts to put it in place, stood at the window with soot on his hands and wrath on his brow.

"Nothing's up," replied Smith; it's all down, and wants putting up." "I see," said Brown. "These are not piping times of peace; they are times of piecing pipe." Chicago Current. "Well, hubby, how did you enjoy the service this mornlngV" "To tell the truth, darling, I didn't take much interest in it. I could hardly hear a word of the sermon." "Why, I heard it perfectly. What was the "Well, I don't know.

It may have been because your bonnet was so loud." And then a silence fell on the dinner table so intense that you could hear the ice cream. Albany Journal. JOB PRINTING If you want any description of printing, from a visiting card to a full sheet poster, from a letter head to a pamphlet, from a dodger to a newspaper, call on FRANK HALL, 109 and 111 North Fourth Street. He has the newest and most complete office in the city, and can not be equaled by any print shop In ATCHISON, KANSAS. He-does good work at fair prices, not cheap poor work at low prices.

His facilities for doing BOOK WORK of all kinds, are superior, and the best samples of that kind of work can be shown. COMMERCIAL PRINTING done with neatness and dispatch. He has the Type, Presses and Printers to turn out the best work In the city. NO POOR STOCK or SHORT COUNT. If you want anything which can be done in a printing office, such as Cards, Checks, Note Heads, Letter Heads, Bills of Lading, Circulars.

Statements, Programmes, Pamphlets, BUI Heads, Envelopes, Legal Blanks, Invitations, Dodgers, Newspapers, Handbills, Book, Briefs, Tags, Ac Don't fall to call on HALL, Beall's old stand. 000,000 to 1,000,000 annually of produce and consumers with all the wealth that implies all the energy, muscle, brain and enterprise to make a market and make waste places Yet in that time factories have closed down, strikes have prevailed, the pressure has stead ily increased, the barometer sinks lower and lower. We have had no panic, but bank after bank has gone under a few honestly, but most dishonestly. Liabilities en ormous, assets nothing. The latest from New York says: No animation in the trade situation throughout the United States.

Indus' trial lines less encouraging. Traffic in textiles depressed. Over production, cries the tariff political economist, and perhaps he had better pray for a famine and a fever What are the reasons for this anomalous condition of plenty too plenty and gaunt ant and general distress? Two primary causes violation of moral laws and violation of national laws, of the laws of demand and supply; parentation in government, arbitrary interference with life currents, by the penitentiary power, arbitrary instead of national laws. Thirteen at the Table. From the Chicago News.

At thirteen minutes past 8 o'clock Thursday, the thirteenth day of No vember, thirteen men marched into a darkened room at 105 Twenty-second street, and took their places behind as many chairs about a banquet table. At a signal from the chief ruler the thirteen men struck thirteen lucifer matches. and each man lighted the candle stand' ing by his plate. The candles when lighted outlined a coffin-shaped figure The contents of the bottle of extra pale beer standing in front of the plate of each participant was poured into his glass, which he lifted with his left hand while the number of each was slowly pronounced, beginning with the chief ruler and counting around to number thirteen, who occupied the place of honor at his right. Thirteen toasts, limited to thirteen minutes, between thirteen drinks, followed thirteen courses at table.

The conversation and sentiments of the toasts we re in defiance of superstition A gentleman lighting his cigar by his candle bl ew it out, when his compan ions insi sted that he would be the first victim of the grisly, gray-haired man with the scythe and hour glass. Among those at the table were a doctor and an undertaker, while the chief ruler was an coffin maker. Among the toasts were "The Saltcellar Upset," "Thirteen at a Table," "Seeing the New Moon over the Left Shoulder," "The First Foot Out, of Bed." and "Friday." It was the first annual spread of the Thirteen club of Ch icago. Poker in Missouri. "I use to'be fond of poker," he said and the expresssion of his face became retrospe ctive, "but since I got four aces downed out in Missoury I hev sorter gi'n up playin' the game." Yo ur opponent had a straight flush did he "N'O.

He had five jacks." "Tl nit's impossible." "St ranger, hev you ever played poker in Mhssoury?" sir." "Well, if you ever do Bet down in gam out there, and a red-eyed man whos clothes smell of cattle, whittles a corner elf the table and 'lows that he hez five jacks, just bunch your kyards in to pack and say, 'That's first line of telegraph for Prof. Morse between Baltimore and Washington, thereby demonstrating the feasibility of using electricity to convey intelligence. Instead of adding it to our postal sys tem, it was allowed to pass into the hands of corporations, which have used it as a means of taxing the people rather than to give them its service at the low est practicable cost. If it had developed with our postal system, experts estimate that we would now be sending messages at a cent a word throughout the length and breadth of the United States. Does any one suppose that if our present postal system had been run for corporate profit rather than for public benefit, that postage would have been reduced from a shilling a letter to two cents? As regards the integrity of management, it must be placed somewhere, and does any one suppose that it would not be safer in the hands of the postofflce department directly resposible to the people, than in the hands of a corporation responsible to no one? Re publicans like Senator Edmunds and democrats like Congressman Sumner, think it would be safer in the hands of the people, as it is in all other countries of the world.

Average Citizen. Flirty Mexican 'Women. The favorite hour for strolling about the streets here for the ladies, both Mexican 'and foreigners, walking leisurely along, staring in the shop win dows, occasionally entering to make their purchases or to pull over the dress goods and trimmings and drive the clerks distracted in the good old American lady's fashion, and then depart without buying anything, just the same as in the cities of the north. The Mexican ladies love admiration, like to be noticed, even stared at', in the streets and all public places by men. You can see this to be the case from their pleased manner when they are closely observed by strangers, particularly by foreigners.

It is remarked upon by every foreigner, no matter of what nationality, who comes here. Probably the true reason for this is that Mexican husbands, with rare excep tions, are not affectionate for a long period after marriage; they soon grow weary of their wives and Beek distraction and affection elsewhere than at home. Furthermore, the position of the wife here is not so favored, so honGred a one as it is in the United States. A shadef the ancient Oriental idea that wives should be the slaves, the servants of their husbands, pervades Mexican home life, and the wife Is, in many respects, decidedly the inferior of her husband. This inferiority is felt not only in the lower grades of society, but even among the highest arey carries coal..