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A Husband Who Didn't Scare. FROM WASHINGTON, The Manchester News. Published Every Thursday Morning BY Z. H. WISE.

A. W. RIOE. Ttrn 5 BATTLE WON BY THE INSURGENTS. General Gomez leads in person and routs the Spanish.

Eight hundred Spanish killed and 1,000 wounded. The great victory is attributed to the fact that the Insurgents have discovered that Dr. Sawyer's Family Cure gives new life and strength and purines the blood. Bi -A iff JUU 2 T- YARD Lo ngford! We handle Lumber, Sash, Doors, Blinds, Laths, Lime, Brick, Building COAL! Our yard is stocked with G-OOD 3 G-RADES. If you want to save money, 3 let us figure on your material before 5 buying.

We will not be UNDERSOLD 3 by ANYBODY and will duplicate prices from any yard. al RICE Longford, Kan. liiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiuaiiiiiiiiiiiisiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii When you have read everything else in this paper, then read this. It is Not on flavertisement It is wrjat printers call "stuffing" and is used for tf)e purpose of "filling up." We wish to say, however, if you do not read The Manchester News You are one of a very few in this "neck o' the prairie." It is a Homo Home People. It is non-political, non-sectarian, and perhaps at times a little "non-compos mentis," but it gets there with the local and neighborhood news just the same.

The young ladies and gentlemen who write neighborhood news for the paper are always on the look-out for items, and if anything happens in their respective localities you will be sure to find it reported in the News. ARE YOU A READER OF "THE NEWS?" If not, you can become one for a year for a silver dollar, 11111 1 11 1 1 1j J.1 There were a dozen or more of us waiting at the little depot for the south bound train, and one of the men pacing up, and down the pjatiorm was a farmer who ex pected his wife by the coming train. It wasn't long before he had told everybody, and after a bit the man i ji Ji i i i 1 witn me noria nose oecivoueu mm aside and said: "I understand that vou are ex pecting your wife on this train?" "les, sir." "Second wife, I take it?" "Waal, yes, though I waited two years afore I married ag'in." 1 hat was decent ol you. I our wife has been to Cincinnati perhaps?" "Yes." "Been gone long?" "Four weeks." "I see. And you think she'll be on this train?" "That's what she wrote.

Why do you ask me?" "Don't speak so loud. Can you control yourself if I tell you some news? Come, now, bo a man. I'm sorry to have to tell you, but I feel it my duty." "W-what is it?" gasped the farmer, growing as white as snow and beginning to tremble. "It's about your wife. Don't scream out or faint away.

Can you bear it?" "Y-yes. Is she dead?" "She lias run off with another man and you will probably never see her again. Don't give way, now, but call up your courage." "Stranger, air that your bad newrs asked the farmer as a broad smile covered his face. "Yes, that's it. I'm sorry for you." "Wraal, you needn't be.

Thar's the train just roundin the curve, and when my wife gits off you take a good look at her, Lands, but I thought the barn had burned up or one of the cows had got mired 1" Two minutes later the train rolled in, and one of the first to alight was a woman, who rushed into the farmer's arms. After he had hugged and kissed her he turned her around to face the little group of us, who were on to the joke. She was red-headed, crosseyed, lacking in several front teeth and had a dozen moles on her face. "Thar she am he triumphantly exclaimed to the man with the florid nose. "Your wife, eh?" "Yes, the wife you said had sloped with another man.

bay, stranger, I grease my ha'r with mutton taller and can't tell an elephant from a kangaroo when the circus comes along, but I'm no burdock. It took me two hull y'ars to find a woman so blamed humbly that no other man in America would want to run away with her, but I found her at last, and thar she am. And now you may wink and blink and go to grass and be hanged to you Quad in Detroit Free Press. Tacts Worth Knowing. There are always 20,000 strangers sight-seeing in London.

The parchment used on the best banjoes is made from wolf skins. About $2,000,000 worth of American whisky is annually sent abroad, most of it from Baltimore. Irish women are said to have the most beautiful eyes, complexion and hands in the world. The Queen of Portugal was instru mental in introducing the scrum treat ment of diphtheria in that country. There are three sisters in Kingston, Jamacia, who had, respectively, nine teen, twenty and twenty-one children, all of whom are still living.

As a result of the recent foot ball game in the City of Mexico, the Mexi can papers generally condemn the game as more brutal than bull-fight ing. It is said that in York county, there is a tree which grew through the hole of a grindstone and now wears the stone as a collarette well up the trunk. Iron pens are mentioned by Cham-berlayne as early as 1(185; steel pens were made in the last century, and in 1820 steel pens were sold for 1 or about $3(, a gross. The Turkish language, is said by scholars to be the softest and most musical language of modern times, being better adapted to the purpose of musical notation and recitation than even the Italian. Homes in Texas Coast Country.

For full information regarding fruit, vegetable and field crop farms located in the Coast country of Texas, apply to G. Nicholson, General Passenger Agent, A. T. S. F.

Chicago. Texas oilers tempting inducements to the hoinesceker. Investigate for yourself. Excursion rates via Santa Fe Iloute. A pood, cook is one who can make stewed prunes taste as if she had washed them before cooking tlieiu.

Atchison Globe. Interesting Gossip From the Na tional Capital by Our Regular Correspondent. WAsniNOTON, 1). Jan. 23.

It Is neither flattering nor creditable to say that the most interesting thing in the Senate during this week was a running debate, occupying the "morn ing hour" of several days, on a resolution intended to make one of the rival electric light companies of Washing ton stop work it was doing on a permit, from the commissioner of the District of Columbia to extend its lines, but it is strictly true all the same. Without repeating any of the intimations which made this debate interesting, or caring which, if either, side wa9 right, most sensible people will agree that the United States Sen ate ought to something more important to: do than to be play ing common council for the city' of Washington. Not only was it a waste of time belonging to the people of the whole country, but the tone of the remarks was calculated to lessen the respect felt for the individual Senators against whom the insinuations of other Senators were aimed, and consequently of the entire Senate by the country at large. If the Senate wishes to kill time for the purpose of pre venting legislation it should find a better way to do it. The Secretary of State was the guest of the Secretary of State-to-be (Senator Sherman) at this week's meeting of the Senate committee on foreign relations, and the questions fired at him about the different clauses of that arbitration treaty kept Secre tary Olney busy for about an hour.

There are differences of opinion as to what construction may be placed upon several clauses of the treaty, and there is a disposition among'Senators to go slow in deciding whether the treaty shall be amended, rejected or ratified. Mr. Olney told the committee that he did not understand how any construc tion could be put upon any clause of the treaty that would connect it in any way with the Monroe doctrine, and assured the Senators that there were no hidden meanings concealed in the treaty. Speaker Reed had a somewhat unique experience this week, when he was waited upon by a committee com posed of Representatives Hicks, of Pennsylvania; Curtis, of Kansas: Hooker, of New York: Hermann, of Oregon, and Henry, of Indiana, who represented a petition signed by 208 members of the House, asking that time be given for the consideration of tventy-two bills cm the Honse calendar providing for public buildings in various sections of the country. The Speaker pointed out to the committee the necessity for rigid economy in public expenditures caused by the existing annual deficit of $58,000,000, and the committee went back at him pointing out that none of these bills carried an appropriation; that they only fixed the maximum cost of the proposed buildings, leaving the appropriations to be made by future Congresses.

The Speaker expressed his dissent from this system, which he called mortgaging the revenues of the government, and called attention to the'absence of the New York custom house bill from the list. That bill was then added, but the Speaker was candidly told that it could not be considered until the other twenty-two had been given a fair hearing. Although Mr. Reed made his opposition plain he did not give a definite answer. When he does, if it be unfavorable, there may be a revolt in the House.

The House committee on public lands made haste to clear itself of the imputation of intention to pigeonhole the free homestead bill, by reporting that measure back to the House just as it passed the Senate. An attempt will be made in the House to amend the bill by exempting lands sold by the government as trustee for Indians. A resolution reported from the House committee on coinage requests the I'resident to invite expressions of opinion from other governments as to the desirabiiity and feasibility of the adoption of international coins to be current in all countries adopting them, and to be especially adapted to invoice purposes. Surgeon General Wyman, of the U. S.

Marine Hospital service, says he feels no alarm over the probability that the bubonic plague, which is ravaging India and which is reported to have made its appearance in Europe, may get a foothold in this country, and that his action" in issuing notice to all medical Inspectors under him reimposing the U. S. quarantine regulations of 1894 relating to cholera at all foreign ports and places infected or suspected with being infected with the plague, was merely to let the country know that precautions were being taken to keep the plague out. There is such a thing as dressing too fashionable for the size of the town. Atchison Globe.

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CLASS. Agent. An Iowa man has invaded Chicago with a "new voting machine." It is feared it will not meet the exigencies of the situation completely unless it includes an arsenal. Bank cashiers may end their troubles by committing suicide, but that does not afford any relief to the defrauded depositors, unless it is in the thought that there are so many less rascals living. A St.

Louis woman caught a burglar in her room, locked the door, talked reformation to him for two hours and then turned him over to a policeman. Now, the question naturally arises, do they propose to punish him further? There is some talk of forming another political party. The kind of party this country needs is one that will be in touch with the peo pie who do not seek office, who at tend to their business constantly, and who fear God and not political bosses. The bulk of such voters in this country is composed of such men and is large enough to take control if they only knew how to handle the ropes. We believe in life insurance be cause it is a protection it saves the home, provides food, clothing and education; it is a refuge from the poor house, a shield from squalor and crime, says the "Work man." It is the greatest benefactor of the nineteenth century, there being over $2,000,000 per week paid to widows and orphans, through its instrumentality, in the United States alone.

In view of the uncertainties of life, how can any true-hearted man look into the faces of his loving wife and inno cent children without trembling at the thought that if he were taken away they would be left homeless. The Harper Sentinel publishes the following, which we reprint as expressing our own ideas: "We want to present a few points to our readers that perhaps you had not thought of. Do you know that a local paper is just what you make it? If it is dry and worth less it is because you neglect it To give the news we must learn it, and this we can only do by asking you to keep us posted. To get up a neat, well-printed, wide-awake paper we must have your patron age. We cannot run on our own resources either financially or mentally.

Every item of news of however small import it may be is ap preciated by the publisher, who desires to serve the people. The paper is only the voice of the people the mirror of their doings, their thoughts, ambitions and en terprises. If you will take an interest in and contribute to its welfare you will have a bright, newsy, lively sheet that is a val uable bit of property to any town. Don't consider it a favor to get us to publish an item of news, but remember you are conferring a favor, not only upon us, but on fjie other readers of the paper. a gold dollar or a paper uonar, anu 11 you naven i goi me I dollar just at present we will wait until you get it pro-M vided vou get it.

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Another link is broken. And severed in the chain. Which cannot be united, Till in Heaven they meet again. The chain that bound those hearts so dear Seemed one unbroken ring, Till Jesus called this dear one homo To dwell up there with Him. Her body was so racked with pain, And her sufferings hard to bear "I'm going to Jesus soon," she said, "Oh! will you meet me there And on the resurrection morn The saved In Christ shall rlso, To bo forever with Himself Far away beyond the skies.

These partings aro only for a little wliilo To those who trust in Him, Rut to those who do not believe His namo It will be endless sorrow, And to the aged husband, We would cheer thee on thy way. Knowing that you'll meet dear Annlo In the realms of endless day. And to the children one and all, Take Jesus as your guide, And soon you'll meet your mother tltere And ever more abide, A Friend. KEYSTONE BACHELORS. how shall I unskilful try tho poet's occupation, Tho tuneful powers in happy hours that whispers inspiration.

The stars in skies may disappear And angry tempests gather. The happy hours may soon be here, When we can catch some lonely dear, Hut they are too wild, we fear. They toll our loving graces, Hut. oh, how they would like to embrace us But for our blushing faces. They have our cobbler in the front, As ladles with soles so often hunt; is a mechanic in leather and a bird of our feather, A soldier true that wore tho blue, Some maldeu might be proud of you.

And then they view our Mount-ain tall. With gradual banks they ascend them all; And when on Mount Dick's Peak, We hear a left-handed seamstress call "Look out Dick, I'm going to fall." Perchance they think we have a poet. Hut I scarcely think they know it. Like the Scotlsh Poet Hums has said, We go in streaks and come out Pardon me if you have to use glasses. The next, tho handsomest of all, A brunett, iine-ilgured and tall, But does not like the children's squall, Longfellow said maidens are caught with glare, Tiiey catch this fellow by the hair.

Next shows old Pennsylvania's grit. The ilnest fl.sli that ever tilled a kit; Some say on him the cinch is 111 Hut then we will wait a little bit, Some other lish may steal his grip. But last of all, ton hearts, that's all; No wonder Adam took that fall. It calls ourcobbler from his perch To help our generous mat ron search Ten broken hearts to bring to mirth, Leap year has gone with, care and grief, Wo look for New Year's happy ending. For on the tiny feathers 1 am still depending.

Like dawning days that brought relief To bid farewell to bachelor brother. Bachelor. Remember. That salt should be kept in a dry place. That molted butter will not make a good cake.

That the colder eggs are the quicker they will froth. That good management is better than a good income. That mutton should be a deep red and closegrained. That nutmegs should Iw grated in the blossom end first. That to make good pastery the ingredients must be very cold.

That the best poultry has firm flesh, yellow skin and legs. That soap and chalk mixed and rubbed ou mildewed spots will remove them. We do not claim to be able to do better, and for less money than anybody else, but we do claim that we can do good work at rkasonabi.e PRICES. If you don't believe it we will soon convince you if tyou will give us the chance. "We have in stock a nice assortment of stationery and are prepared to print on short notice Letter Heads, Bill Heads, Statements, Envelopes, Business Cards.

Shipping Tags, Etc. IPoper THE NEWS OFv Kansas and the World Twice each week, while it is fresh and interesting, can be obtained for the cost of an ordinary weekly by reading The Semi-Weekly Capital. The best report of the proceedings of the coining Legislature and the great Senatorial contest; the formation of the President's cabinet, his inauguration and appointments will all lie covered by the Semi-Weekly Capital. We have made arrangements with the publishers whereby we can offer THE SEMI-WEEKLY CAPITAL AND THE MANCHESTER NEWS Fof the very low price of $1.80. AddressTIIE NEWS, Manchester, Ks.

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