Lost Springs Journal from Lost Springs, Kansas • 2

llliii'li Walnuts, Lost Springs Journal. H.S.FRY, M. F. SHUPE, I ot; Mttlo People, A tiny baby made Its appoaranoe on' iihs avenue the other day, It was i i small baby, Tho children after a im- were balled into see It. They kod at It carefully, but It was evl-li'iit that they were uwt very favorably iiipressed with tho now coiner.

After i long silence, the eldest of tho two a.tl: "If I'd Known papa hadn't pen-leu miIV to get a big baby, L'd lent him oiihi of my pennies that's In my bank." "Yes, and got a nto ono, and not a ed, yod hniddor," tald anotlier voice. -DJnit Tribune, There la something very beautiful In fait of childhood. It was the morn of the last day of the carnival when i seven-year old boy, in a St. Anthony ilill family, was singing around tho ioiisu In 'an unually happy spirit. What makes my baby boy so bright to-daj?" Inquired tho mother.

Oh, Ts 'eauso I asked God two weeks age make stster Mary well and not to lot inn have tho measles till tho carnival win over. This la tho lust day of the carnival, and I guoss God 'membered what I aid to him." St. faui Globe. "Thero Is bright llttlo colorod fellow cornea In my olllco every day," will a lawyer recently, "and tho other day his fueo was wreathed hi eniilos when he entered. I askod him what was tho matter, and ho ropllod that a gon'mun in do uejgur store down do street, tuk a seegar box an' done gono an' broke it all ovor me head.

Didn't hurt mo none, anyway, nu' ho geb'd mo ten cento not to and laughed gleefully as ho hold the dime out in his liaud." Philadelphia Call. A llttlo four-year-old girl of King, iton is troubled with a very bad temper. It must bo said to her credit that she trios very hard to control it, as the following will show: Tho other day, fooling hor temper get the best of her while playing with her cousin she ran to her grandmother and said: "Grandma, I feel tho black man again; now I'll shut my eyes and open my mouth and you spank me on my hinderpost and make him ily out -Kingston Leader. It was another bright littlo five-year-old member of a College avenue family, whose sister had boon ill. Just as Sammlo wr.s about to kiieol for his evening prnyor he heard the sick sister toll the mother that sho was much better and thought she would bo able to be up the next day.

Contrary to ilia usual custom, tho ltla brother omitted the sick sister's name in the petition for a blessing on the various members of the fuuily. In explanation of tho omission to the surprised mother, Samuel said: "I vus going to ask God to bless her, but the said she was to got well, r.ny-how, to I thought sho didn't need the blees'ng. Paul Globe. In a Doavor Sunday school a few PLASTERER All work guaranteed to give mitis- faction. Lost Springs.

Kan. CITY MEAT MARKET, W.W.MASTIW.Prop, LOST SPRINGS, KANSAS, Meats of all kinds in Season. Reasonable Rates First-class mcut. P. B.

HIDLEBAUGH, PLASTERER and CONTRACTOR Does all work in hia lino wite neat-ness and dexterity. Orders taken at Snyder's Hardware and Drugstore. mJACKSON'S't DOES HOT BURN OR BUSTER. REQUIRES NO RUBBING. flu Cures Coffin Joint Lamenosn, UQ flQfl.S Contracted an1 Tender Feet, Sweeny, Slovn A Mruised ShoulderR, Anltl', Ulceration of tlio Foot, Sore Shoulders Breast, Corns in Horses Feet, fL W.

For Muscular naU ralgio, Lame Hack and general bodily pains A aalies. Sold by Druggists. 16 Oi. Bottle $1.00. 4 oz.

Bottle 60 oti. FKRPARED ONLY BY T. JACKSON Quincy, Illinois. TERRY, -DKAUtlt IX- ENERAL MERCHANDISE DRY GOODS, HARDWARE AND IMPLEMENTS complete line Flavoring Extracts aud Patent Medicine Highest poico paid for COUNTRY PRODUCE Butter Eggs Potatoes. A.

T. OTTO, DKALER IN GENERAL NURSERY STOSK, Apple, Pear, Peach, Cherry, Apricot, Quince, Plum, Grapevines, Hasp-berries, Blackberries, Strawberries and all kinds of Ornamental Shade Trees. Hedge Plants, Shrubs, Vines, and Flowering Plants. Eoergreent A Speciality, Everything guaranteed as repre sented. SOTTrccs die within a year, will be replaced at half of the price.

Call or address: A. T. Otto, One mile west of Lost Springs. SUMNER GROSERIES- AND LOST Make arrangements this fall" to plant grove of walnut trees Gather the nuts and spread thnm In the rm to freeze, Plant in the spring, in well prepared ground. Grow corn with them the first year.

Thero is nothing which will bring a "greater profit. A moreeertain provision for a fortune, tor a child canuotbo mad than to plant a grove on a pL'oo of land, during the child's infancy, Ten acres of walnuts 21 years old i a fortune. Where land is cheat. sueh a provision can be made so eas ily. A few years' cultivation and the labor required done with.

thing then left to do bat to keep out the tires. Thero is still, if not mistaken, a bounty on the growth of timber in Kansas, which will pay for all the work Ural. Scene Kentucky Central railroad oflico, Covington, before passage interstate conimereo act. Sum Morse, tho general passenger agent sitting on an air cushion to keep cool. Knter theatrical agent.

"Good morning, Mr. Morse. Want to run down incline. Can you fix mo out?" S. M.

"Certainly, sir, with pleasure. Whore are you going?" T. A. "Lexington." S. M.

(handing theatrical man's card to the clerk "Make out a pass to Lexington and return." T. A. (taking the pass) "Thanks. By the way, Mr. Morse, I would like to run over to Washington while down that way.

Can you fix me over your connecting line?" S. M. "No, I have none of their blank passes; bosides you could not ride on their passenger trains." T. A. "Why, how is that coaches crowded?" S.

M. 'Well, no, not that, but their classification requires that gall in large quantities shall be transported by freight." Chicago Mail. ISpecIal Trains on The Hock Island. The G. A.

R. special trains for St. Louis on the Rock Island wiii fellow train No. 2 to-morrow, Suxday 25th, uue at Lost Springs, at 11:43 ni Arriving St. Louis at 7:15 e.m.

Mon day. Round trip fare $10.65 good returning October 31st. The train will be supplied with smoking palace, reeling chairs and sleeping coaches, and will run over the popular, Chic ago Alton road from Kansas City. J. B.

Reeky, Agent. losing The Grip. Passenger (to Chicago drummer)- Do you knev, sir, that the Inter-Stale Commerce Commission has declared that drummers are not privileged persons. Chicago Drummer (easily) I've heard so. Passenger (politely)-Well, will you be kind enough to Ukc ycur feet cfl that only vacant seat in the cars and permit me to sit down.

N.Jf,Nem. Art StudlcH in tho Street. Black silk, so say a lady is the only umlcnvcar considered proper. It should bo trimmed with lilaek l.iet;, mid is as a jjeucral thing wry becoming. One of the slippcri days not long two pvla were walking down uvtuiuis; oiie of tiie two i purfootly frail lie on the subject of art -she eats Imrmoiiius, dreams nocturnes, and liven symphonies in color, llcr companion blipiwd, fell, crush went some of tho underwear, her skirts were thrown u.ddo, and as she lay oi I ho ground perfectly helpless with one Icjt liuder her thero was a decided dis play of llesh tints.

Tho artist friend, insUi.ul of her up immediately "0, Hose, do keep still for a minute, yon are the most' delightful study Imaginable In black and flesh tints!" Rose's indignation helped her Lo get lip, and since then she positively refuses to speak of her old friend ex cept as "that nasty girt." Town Topics. It Wus on Old Story, A hoy about 9 years old sat on door-step on Clinton street yesterday, and ft patrolman who heard a great noise lip-stairs in the house inquired oi him: "Isn't that a row going on upstairs Yes," "Who is UP" "Dad and ma'am." Why didn't you toll mo that they fighting?" "Well, thoy hegnn early yesterday morning, and tho thing has got so old that I thought you would yoll chest' atutsl' at mo if I said anything." tmtvu rree rresn. A sicw departure in tho ways of worati is tno iormution ox a ure ma- adu. Ar.cordinj: to the London Fire- fwmthiniias been done by 1,000 girls employed in tho Liverpool cigar Thwjr are well offluorcd and (1 rilled, and o3 ni recent blaze in the factory turned vut "lo a man" and did most effective wutk ia subduing the Hauics. UlxrM'NMP, lrprirlw.

Sniimlny, yoitinlor 24, 1SST. Springs, us iwuivl cIiih mat-tor. Thnro ivro four ai U'sinn wt'lln in i i i i i b'w'if Wilson, i((l K4, has jntt provit.l claim in Grant county. A tlill of sixteen acr'H of tomatoes at bnslicls to till) Iowa claims to linvo 11 ft y-fi ve emp ty jiiilrf, ninco iroliiliition went int eliVt. ('titioniMiO'1 Vitlhy 7 until.

Colvin lJ (d liiw roeeivod liin coinmiv'soii dm I'mI MiwUt for, Pur- diek. First station, east of hero on the Santa l'i. As an evidence of Jndgo DostorV Btaii'ling in this vicinity, we wonl mention that out of ih twelve newn-pnpors in Marion county, only two are ngainHt. The recent discovery of a vein of rock Halt at Ellsworth, Kaunas, one hundred and fifty feet thick, moves tlio Hutchinson Mies to observe that it ought not to ho difficult for the people up "earn their Mar ion Jtecord. The representatives of the Union Pacific and Northern Pacific railroads met recently in New York to confer on an agreement to divide territory so that neither company shall build branch lines into each other territory.

Dr. M. J. Roberts, of New York, is the inventor of a saw operated by electricity for surgical operation, by means of which a man's leg can be amputated in five seconds. When time is a consideration, electricity fails.

Cottonwood Valley Times A good precept: Kansas first the world afterwards. Kansas people should patronize home merchants and manufactories. Always demand Kansas made articles ot Kansas raised products. Encourage home manufactures. Leavenworth Timet.

The papers, even Wichita papers, speak of the Republican nominee for udge in that district as "0, V. Reed," The delegate who made the nominating speech mentioned him. that way. It is a mistake. It is plain Rood, Christopher V.

Reed, if you please, with no five dollar initial about hie name. Marion Jtecord. A young couple in Hardin county, wanted so much to get married, in Fpite of parental opposition, that they started out on a Sunday afternoon, walkrd in the broiling hot sun twenty miles across the country Upton station, where they caught a train late at night for Louisville. When they arrived in Jeffcr.svillc they were so thickly covered with dust and coul kooI that they were thought to be negroes, but they wnahed up amKvcre married. Marion Jlecvrd.

Kansas is way abend in railroad building this, year with 1,184 miles of new track, Texas comes next wit CG5 miles, Nebraska third with 536 mile, Dakota fourth with 491 miles, Indian Territory with 443, Colorado sixth with 403 and Montana seventh villi 273 miles. These seven States and Territories have built an aggregate of 4,000 miles, or nearly two. thirds ot all that has been built this year in the entire country. Cotton-ioovd Valla; Timet. A scnViWo writer, speaking of the inany building and loan associations organized throughout the west, very tertinently and truthfully says: "I bold that building associations are Jhe most potent factors in the State Sot the dent ruction of communism and socialism.

Give the laboring sHrs the clerk and the mechanic an 'interest in the soil, and with aonv I'lfyrlablc Iwuse above it, and you make tilnitii encmifS -of the wild theorists' wlo advocate an eqnal division of 'property. The man who succeeds in I yjrjjani.zing a ibuilding association ffdliould he regarded as a benefactor h' a premium from ttho state. He is the poor man's jriuid', tno rich man's protector tflhe slate's defender." Ex. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm SPRINGS Will have a large Ad in next by i LANDM5.LOAN AGENTS, Improved Farms, I A TTT -1- A -TV I I 1 St CITY PROPERTY FOR SALE. Will sell lots cheap to parties building within 90 days.

Residence lots, 50x140 at bedrock prices. P. O. Block, Lost Spring, Kansas. wesbs ago tho superintendent vrva talking to the little ones about the plagues ox agypt.

"How," said ho, 'can you tell me wuattue plagues were Thero were prompt answers und all but oua of tha ulngucs were named. The last ouo was too much for the schooi. Thinking to help out the children by suggestion the superintendent said: "Don't you remember tho other? Of course yon know what Job had." A little hand went up. Well, Tommy, what was it?" "Fntiencei" piped Tommy. He was given a "reward of merit" Denver liepublican.

A young Burlington miss was asked a day or two since whether tho whale was a fish or animal, and said, as all Burlington misses would, that it was an animal. When asked why, she said it "was a hog when it swallowed Jonah Whole." Burlington Free Press. He Sang, and Barnabae was Saved several rears ago on one oi our northern buvs, when as yet steamers were Infrequent visitors, a certain small boat used to ply, touching at various points, according as its freight or tha weather demanded. Tho croW waa somewhat limited, consisting of tho captain, the iirst mate, whose name was liarnabas, and tho cook, John, who, when stress oi work required, also acted as second mate. doim was an excellent cook and a fairly good sailor, but he was afflicted with an impediment in his speech which made him somewhat backward in expressing himself, and was cspeei' ally annoying if, for any reason, he Decamo excited.

At sucn times tne more he wanted to say something the leas no was able to say it. fortunate' ly, however, he could sing as straight as any ono. One day tho captain was below tak ing a nap, while Barnabas and John wore running tho boat. A sudden soun.ll haooened to comoun. and a null of wind brought tho boom around with such unexpected violence as to knock the unwarv Barnabas overboard.

Thereupon John rushod into the cabin in tho wildest excitement to inform the captain of what had occurred, but, as usual, no was unabio to get out a co horent sentence. "B-b-b-b ho stuttered, until th captain, in a rago, shouted: "ThundcrationI man, sing it, If you can say it," and John, catching at tin nappy suggestion, sang: Overboard la niunulms, Halt a mllu altera of us. Tho'boat was Immediately put about and the luckless Barnabas rocovcred. Detroit Free Prut. Several years ago there lived In Bos ton a onco prominent artist wno was broken-down drunkard.

Ho was an invotorato beggar, and to facilitate his work had tho printed request, "Loud mo a quarter," pasted in his hat. Thod when niaklnir a call he would taka off his hat, and there was tho muto appeal before the eyes of his intended victint GRAIN DEALERS, LQ-S-CLSPRINQS. KANSAs7f Office, Scales and Warehouse, on Main st. OPPOSITE! SANTA FE3 DEPOT, J. J.

DURBIN, Manager. HIGHEST PRICE PAID FOR GRAIN AND HAY, BEST QUALITY OF COAL FOR SALE. au suueuie warned weu lor year.