Wellington Daily Standard from Wellington, Kansas • 2

Daily Standard Martin, one of its members, had told him of a plan of the bank to rob the Vf III J. R. ROMIG J. IPI i IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIUIIH ARE YOU LISTENING? I CI Hill 1 If you are you will hear something of special interest to all who WEAR PANTS I have a large line of Pantaloonings which I am selling at the following very low prices ''MS? Choice of over 1000 Samples, made in the very latest style, work and material guaranteed, at $6, $7, $8 and Upwards. SUITS, choice of 1500 Samples.

$20, $23, $25 and Upwards, Wax at Goods delivered in WILL J. R. QUEER SNAKES IN TEXAS. Van That the Yellow ftaeer and tha Hoop-oake Have Tog-ether. "There is a species of whipsnakein the Lone Star state, the male of which is jet black and the female pea green," ays a resident of Texas, according to the New York Sun.

"They are long, slim reptiles, and they climb trees and rob blrds'nests with wonderful celerity. "The yellow racer of Texas is another interesting snake. When he crawls his movements are from side to side, but when he races he undulates, with his head several inches in the air, and he can get over the ground almost as fast as a jack rabbit. You will often see a yellow racer chasing a red-bellied hoopsnake, and vice versa. Sometimes you will see them racing side by side, neither seeming to try to outspeed the other, and both getting over the ground for the fun of the thing.

The most amusing snake race lever saw out there was between a hoopsnake and a racer. There a big bulge in the hoop-snake's body, evidently caused by a large toad in his stomach, and he wabbled bo that every little while he would lose his balance and tumble sideways. The racer also had a large lump in his body, but it didn't bother him much in traveling, and he stopped and waited whenever the hoopsnake tipped over. The hoopsnake would look up and start in again, and he and the racer covered more than two miles in that way, going ahead of the horse I was riding. "While trying to net pigeons one season I saw a yellow racer crawling toward the stool pigeon.

For the moment I was more concerned about a hawk that had been circling overhead for some time, and I didn't pay much attention to the snake. At length the hawk dived at the stool pigeon and knocked the breath out of it. Without waiting for the hawk to snatch the stool pigeon the racer wound himself around the hawk's neck and breast. Suddenly a hoopsnake rolled past me at top speed and brought up near the stool pigeon, as if he was going to help the racer strangle the hawk. The hawk arose before the hoopsnake got a chance to tackle.

It hadn't ascended more than two hundred feet When the racer tied its wings to its body and the hawk dropped like a wad of mud, thirty feet or so from the stool pigeon. The hoopsnake had been glaring at the hawk as if he was disappointed, but the instant it landed it rolled right at it and commenced to thump it on the head with" his horn. The hawk screamed and struggled violently and the racer tightened his coils around its wings and prevented it from rising. It couldn't fight with its claws, and the hoopsnake continued to hammer it on the head and the racer to squeeze it, as if It had been a put-up job between the snakes beforehand to tackle the hawk in that way. The hoopsnake pounded until he had battered its head all out of shape with his sharp horn.

In a little while the hawk ceased to stir, and the racer unwound himself, and the hoopsnake stopped hammering. Both reptiles gazed at the dead bird for a moment, and then the hoopsnake hooked his tail into' his Tip and the two went away together. "The opossum snake of Texas feigns death if you tap it on the back with a switch, and sometimes when you make a quick stroke at it and don't touch it. The natives assert that a badly scared opossum snake will remain quiescent until sunset, no matter how early in the day you scare it, and then it will glide off at great speed. I once frightened an opossum snake by switching the ground near it.

The snake made believe it was lifeless, and I hid in a clump of bushes and watched it. It couldn't possibly have seen me, and for an hour and forty minutes it remained perfectly motionless. It lacked two hours and twenty minutes of sundown, but I had concluded to stay there and see whether the snake would clear out. I lost the chance, however, for within a few minutes a pair of turkey buzzards lit on the snake together. It began to squirm and flop and beat the grass, but it had waited a little too long, for the buzzards pulled it in two speedily, each sailing away with a writhing half.

"At another time I watched an opossum snake for two hours, and was paid for it a little after sunset by seeing a monster owl pounce upon it, tie in into knots, and sail off with it." 1 i five days from time of leaving SUIT YOU IN ROMIG, OVER SHARE BROS. J. R. ROMIG vt uf "'nvx 4wP WR 08P R. ROMIG if1? 'dm? order.

A Km5, THE TAILOR Tim? R. ROMIG RAILROAD TIME TABLES. Chieacv, Knui iid Hebra.k. GOINQ KAST. No.

3. Chicago Mall and a. in No. 4. Chicago Fast Line 11:12 p.

No. 82. Local North 9:18 a.m OOINO WBST. No. 1.

Chicago Mall and 8:13 p. No. Chicago Fast Line 5:43 a. No. 81.

Local South e.llp. Nos. 1 and runs thrown to Fort Worth without change. All trains run dally. Free reclining ohair cars on all passengers to Kansas City and St.

Joe, where direct connection Is made with all lines north, east and south Tickets sold and baggage checked to all lmpor. tant points In the United States and Canada M. W. Adams, Agent- Wellington. April 7.

1895. Atchison, Topcaa and Saata re. AaaivAu. From north and east-No. 489.

Accommodation 7:45 p. No. 427. Passenger 8:36 a. Southern Kansas division No.

208. Panhandle Express 9:50 a.m no. 219. Accommodation 9:00 p. From the west-No.

204. Passenger 4:50 p. No. 292. Accommodation 10 00 a.

From the south: Caldwell branch-No. 428. Passenger 4:50 p. From the south Hunnewell branch-No. 448.

Accommodation 9:45 a DIPABTUKKS. North and east-No. 428. Passenger 5:10 p. No.

448. Accommodation 10:10 a.m Southern Kansas division No. 204. Eastern Express 5:00 p. No.

218. Accommodation 6:16 a. West-No. 203. Passenger 10:00 a.m No.

291. Accommodation 1:06 a.m South; Caldwell branch-No. 427. Passenger 8:40 a. South Hunnewell branch-No.

489. Accommodation 8:00 p. All trains run through without change to Kansas City Atchison and St. Joseph, making all eastern connections. Reclining chair oars on all trains.

Trains 218 and 291 leave Freight Depot. February 14. 1896. THOS. E.

PUltDV. W. KOHRER, Agent Ticket Agent. nits WHAT' Tnc MATTER WITH YOUR i i LITTLE GIRL'S HAVING jg A PARTY VHBIBTUIMVM ffl pretty mmm IK INVITATIONS bS pRok the ft Stock Exchange bank and had in vited him to assist in the robbery, Cross examination was very brief and failed to shake the witness' testimony, 1 A QUEER LAKE. It Freezes in Warm Weather and Thaws When It Is Gold.

Tha History of ftonaca Lake In New York Htata and Its Singular Revelations Noma Notable Events on the Ice. Seneca differs from nearly all of ita many sister lakes in this section of the state in the matter of its seldom freezing over, writes a correspondent of the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle from Watkins, N. Y. This is due to the great depth of the lake and the fact that It is fed largely by springs along its shores and, as many believe, at its bottom: During the summer season the lake absorbs a vast amount of heat, but owing to the non-conducting properties of water it is slow in throwing off in the winter. For this reason on many cold winter mornings the lake's surface is covered with vapor, which indicates that the water Is warmer than the atmosphere.

This vapor is always densest over the deepest portions of the lake, showing that the water along the shores in the shallower parts has to some extent become colder. As the surface of the lake cools the water gradually commingles with that below, and finally the whole bodv of the lake becomes cooled. In addition a heavy body of snow melting in the spring and flowing into the lake, especially in case of a freshet, tends to cool the water and render the lake liable to freezing if the surface is not too much disturbed by wind. For these reasons the lake sometimes freezes over very late in the spring, even when the temperature is from fifteen degrees to twenty-five degrees above zero; as for instance a thin film of ice covered the lake's surface on the mornings of May 5, 1861, May 15, 1873, May 6, 1878, and' April 26, 1884. On many mornings the mercury has been down to zero or below, and at Monterey one day recently the thermometer registered thirty degrees below zero, yet the lake had not sufficiently cooled to freeze over, for no snow water has run into it this season.

Ilowever, the country tributary to the lake is now covered with snow to a depth of from two to three feet, and if the cold should continue for some time yet and the heavy body of snow go off in a flood the lake would undoubtedly freeze over. In a description of Seneca lake Ap-pleton's Cyclopedia states that it was never knowii to be frozen over until March 22, 1856, but according to William C. Coon, of Burdett, he and a party of about twenty skated across the lake from Glen Eldridge to Watkina and back on the morning of February 28, 1855. The ice was then five inches thiok in the middle of the lake and was clear and solid. On March 8, 1868, the lake again froze over, and in 1875, for a period of four weeks and two days prior to March 14, It was frozen over so that persons could cross it many miles from the head.

On February 21, 1885, It froze over from shore to shore out as 'far as tha eye could reach, and four days later a grand carnival was held on: the ioe in the evening. About one thou-i pand persons assembled, coming from; Elmira and other places by tram andj from all the surrounding country in sleighs. The moon, nearly full, rode high in a cloudless sky, and the scene was one of a most inspiring nature. Chinese lanterns and torchlights lent their charm to the surroundings, while the glare of rockets and bombs lighted up the sky. A band was present, and dancing and skating were among the sports enjoyed.

January 16, 1898, an unusually early date, the head of the lake froze over from shore to shore out a distance of about twenty rods, but the ice only lasted a few days. By observation many people have come to expect the lake to freeze over once in every ten years, and according to such a series it should freeze this winter, for by reference to the dates mentioned above it will be seen that it froze over in 1855, in 1868, in 1875 and in 1885. PAPER CABLES. They Art Said1 to Bo Cheaper and Better Insulated Than Bobber One. For many purposes paper, next to wire, is an excellent insulation, ana it has of late come extensively into use in telephonic and other cables.

But it 1ft not generally known that such an insulation has been tried under water. This is, however, the fact, and one suoh cable is now doing excellent work at the bottom of the Hudson river, at New York, right in the track of all the domestic and sea-bound traffic. Of course, the cable is lead-covered and otherwise proteoted, but it depends for, its insulation, electrically, on thin spirals of paper around each stranded interior wire. The laying of suoh a cable in suoh a place might, a few years ago, have been considered little short of suicidal, but experience has demonstrated the perfect practicability of the scheme. In considering the laying of such cables in such situations the fact is important that a one hundred pair, paper-insulated, lead-covered cable can be bought for fifty cents a foot, while the rubber-insulated cable would probably cost not less than three dollars per foot; while figured on tho basis of equal electrical effectiveness, the price would be fifty or a hundred to one in favor of the paper cable other considerations left out, It will thus be seen that even if it bo admitted that the paper cable is risky under water, its cheapness is such that one can afford apparently to throw it away when it bos developed seriou defects and to put in a new one.

JOHN A. KENDALL Altered it the postoffloe at Wellington, as second-class matter. KATES OF SUBSCRIPTION) Ten touts per week, delivered to any part of 'ayable to carrier every Saturday night. We carry uo person forward upon our books and the weekly payment must be made In order to secure the paper. AU complaints against carriers should be aaatle at the Standauo office.

ADVERTISING RATES furnished upon application at the business office. Ail programmes and cards of thanks Inserted at regular advertising rates. 1.1 ha In th hiiHlness AUCUltUUUa III MU Hiuuiu offloe by 11 o'clock to Insure, attention on same nay. OFFICK-Standard Building, Standard Block, East Harvey Avenue. FOSSETT TESTIFIES.

THAT MARTIN CONFESSED THAT THE ROBBERY Or the Stock Kxchanite Hank Was 1 Design of Talbot. j6- the The Sherman case continues to be the chief object of interest in tht court house. Up to the adjournment yesterday, John A. Raj was on the wituess stand undergo ing a severe cross examination. The session this morning openec with Ray still being under the guni of the defendant's counsel.

Thi defense worked hard to tangle tht witness regarding his statement made yesterday that Sherman hac threatened Meagher's life. Every body was tired and the miserabl acoustic properties of the coun room made it rather a difficult mat ter to follow the evidence. On blackboard back of the witness-stand had been placed a chalk dra inslhowinsr the location of the va rious places in Caldwell which are connected with the fight. All the former evidence was beaten over trying to force Ray into some material contradiction. During this examination County Attorney Woods introduced two witnesses to be sworn, Dick Hathaway and William Fossett, better Icnown in the southwest as "Bill" Fossett.

As the oath was being administered Sherman turned in his chair and recognized Fossett. The two shookjhands and seemed to be glad to see one another. William Fossett was next called for he state. Fossett was once deputy marshal at Caldwell in early days and testified to a personal acquaintance with both and Meagher. Mr.

Fossett, counsel for defense objecting, then attempted to give an account of the fight which occurred Dec. 17, 1881. "I came down town and found Wilson in a saloon. They had been liavi ng some trouble. Wilson wanted to arrest somebody" Counsel for defense broke in with an objection and the narrative then proceeded by regular question and Q.

When did you first see Talbot that day? A. He had just fired two shots at Q. What became of him after firing those two shots? A. He said "Boys, get your to -ehesters" and then ran in between the buildings, the boys following. I had Martin's six-shooter and ran behind a building.

About this time Talbot (Sherman) showed up on the street. The witness then went to the blackboard and by its means showed the transactions of the fight. His description of the fight was highly interesting. After Talbot had fired three or four shots at me he ran up a stairway. I looked up and saw Meagher and a man by the name of Rathburn, coming around the corner.

I thought Meagher was coming to my assistance. Talbot fired one or two shots and the next I saw of Meagher they were carrying him into a store. Q. How long was it from the time you glanced around and saw him first to the time you glanced up tigain and he was gone? A. I could not say, maybe a minute.

Q. Were any shots fired by Tal- hot after you saw Meagher and Rathburn? A. Yes. Q. Do you know who they were aimed at? A.

I couldn't say. My six-shooter got hot and I was trying to fix it. I looked up and Talbot appeared to have deliberate aim at somebody. I only know it did not hit me. The witness then testified that his suspicions were aroused by the actions of the crowd of cowboys known as "Talbot's gang" and that J.

spects. In Icaria departmental heads have always been chosen, and the entire business of the community conducted as though it were one vast family. A common table furnished food for all, one person purchased all supplies for wearing apparel, another performed a like office in superintending agricultural operations, and so on. At one time the settlement published an official organ called La Revue Icarien, and numerous other industries were engaged in besides farming. The objects and tenets of the community are well set forth in a few paragraphs from the constitution, as witness the following: "It is established in the interest of entire humanity, in devotion to its well being, in order to present to it a system of society capable of rendering it happy, and to prove by experience that communism based upon complete solidarity is realizable and possible." A common fund supplied the wants of all and a common treasury received the earnings and savings of all.

A general assembly of all Icarians over twenty-one years of age, irrespective of sex, constituted the legislative authority, while executive power was vested in three trustees. Withdrawals were permitted by the person desiring to sever his connection with tho society giving one month's notice of same, whereupon the general assembly took into consideration his circumstances and the value of his services to the community while a member, and paid him a reasonable compensation for same, in addition to two-thirds of the amount of his original Investment, Members were free to follow their inclinations in regard to religious dogmas and exercised the greatest liberties in all matters which did not interfere with any of the socialistic tenets. About ten thousand dnllars rn: -realty and one thousand acres of land will he divided among the members. 1 ORIGIN OF POINT LACE. The Froeeu Was Invented by Barbara Vttmnn.

Haxnn Woman. A little known example of inventive genius in woman is that afforded by Barbara Uttmnn, of Haxony, and her point lace so long in fashionable use all over the world. Sho invented the process and apparatus for manufacturing this beautiful handiwork, which has since given employment to millions of operators, and which, in its line, had never been excelled. The apparatus looks like a long pincushion bristling with pins arranged to outline the pattern or design. The operator manages from ton to fifty peculiar spools, allowing the thread to feed over the pins alternately, until the design Is completed.

The spools, or bobbins, are purposoly of different colors, so os to be easily distinguishable. Tho process is slow and difficult to learn. MIhs Uttman founded schools where thousands learned It. Since hnr tltno, when Inventive ability was raro, even among men, her ideas have been incorporated in the construction of machinery by which the lace Is prodnced at wonderfully lower rates, and yet Barbara Utt-man's lace still surpasses all. vm A BANKRUPT COLONY.

An Iowa Colony That Has Been Dissolved. F.atabllsbed by French Socialist, a Century Ago The to Be DlTlded AmoDf the Member Mode of Living- The members of the Icarian community, three miles east of Corning1, have mutually agreed that a division of their property and a dissolution of their society is to the best interests of all concerned, and steps are now being1 taken to that end. The interests of heirs of deceased members and other legal intricacies have rendered it advisable to appoint a receiver and put the matter into the hands of the court, though no animosities whatever exist among the members of the community. This community, say a recent dispatch, is socialistic in the extreme. Its founder was E.

Cabet, and its inception dates back to a period just previous to the French revolution when about sixty-nine socialists embarked from Havre, Prance, for Texas and located near the Red river in Fahin county. Internal dissensions and outward privations discouraged the band and they removed to New Orleans. As soon as Cabet, who was still in France, learned of this change of base he sailed for New Orleans and immediately assumed personal supervision of the colony. Under his leadership' they migrated to Nauvoo, 111., which place had just been deserted by the Mormons, after the killing of Joseph Smith. Here the Icarians engaged in various pursuits and were successful in their enterprises for a time.

Additions to the society made the total membership about two hundred and eighty persons, nowever, internal dissensions created division and in 1856 Cabet and about one hundred and seventy of his adherents left the remainder and went to St. Louis, where the founder of Icaria died of apoplexy in the same year. Meantime, the other faction had settled in Adams county, and were incorporated under the laws of the state as "Icaria." They have resided there ever since. In 1870 the liabilities of the community were about four thousand dollars, while the assets were computed at about sixty, thousand dollars. However, another rupture between contending factions occurred in 1870, when the property was equally divided end a considerable portioh of one faction departed for California.

The remaining members continuod in the original communistic manner of living. During most of the time from 1879 until the present date Jean Ilcttainicr has served as president of the community, and the duties of his office Tiuve been very efii-cicntly oonductcd. This community Is perhaps the only onq in the United Htates, if hot in the world, which Is conducted upon such ultra-soclalistio principles. A Oerman community at Amana, Is similar to Icaria In some respects, but its citizens are far more conservative, in many re-. 'tow? VuoU "Wivx Bed Kapoleon Died Upon.

A French traveler who hos been visiting the island of St. Helena, declares that the which Napoleon died is in a sad state of dilapidation and neg-loct. Not a vestige of furniture remains within its four walls, the only object visible being a bust of Bonaparte in the room in which he expired. If the edifice is devoid of furniture, however, there are at least ten times as many chairs, wardrobes, wash-stands, in other parts of the world, supposed to have been in it, as would fill a dozen houses of like proportions. For instance, the bed on which Napoleon died is to be found at the Invalides, at Mme.

Tussaud'a and at the Orevie museum. The very same bed is in the possession of Marquis de Biron, and of the family of Marshal Bcrtrand. Prince Murat also has it. It is needless to state -that all these beds are the real! and only authentic ones on which the, great Corsican breathed his last Costly Perrnmei. Mignonette, that at the moment is a perfume greatly in favor for itsdeli-i cate and refreshing fragrance, is com-, pounded as well from Bomo-of this regular stock In the perfumer's and even violet extract is two-thirds of it duo to the sweetness of enssie, orris and attar of almonds, though violet is the most popular perfume.

The true extract of the purple flower is made in Franco, is costly and only to bo bought at a few pluccs in New York. Its rare sweetness is expressed from the violets that grow at Cannes and Oraase, where the mignonette attains what to American eyes is unbelievable perfection of size, color and odor, and where the roses sweetnusy chiefly to li. bees, who sprinkle into their heart ii th polleft froiathS blooming orantfo trow-.