The Labor Review from Argentine, Kansas • 2

'POOR-HOUSE JOE." riajufesteh8 greatest reluctance fcr follow The Labor Review. OUR SHORT-HAND GLASS. CARRISTON'S GIFT. SKi ny Hm obstinacy of the Wort "How the Good Deeds of thli edicament. That aladellp Ebwan had EY HUGH CON WAV 3.

61 compelled to bMbvA. CONDUCTED BY ELDON MOEAN. Kri, who, speaking as If his faith in the bodf-ly existence of the man whose portrait lay in my hand was unassailable, said. "I noticed that his general appearance was that a fccuLiIrymanan English peasant; fo in the country I shall find my love. Moreover, it will be easy to identity the man, as the top joint is missing from the middle finger ot ms right hand.

As it lay on Madeline's arm 1 noticed that" I argued with him no more. I felt that Words WOuid be but wasted. KANSAS MATTEKS. Holton has a roller skating craze. The Ellsworth salt works will be started up again soon.

A bridge across the Kaw at Eudora will be built this year. The Parsons lumbermen are two weeks behind their orders. Iola has a sUrplus of girls, and it is proposed to raffle them Off. might even be that J3h Was kept against her, -place of conceil- FART iiivuw ia siicn uas Denoovea lis to taxe Kin Never Pass Away." Fer want ef a better name," he aid, "they called him jest Poor-house Joe. Old man Dodge up in Ulste county tooked him outen tha poorhouse, and all them years uster make hira Work from the time the stars weiit silt In the mOrnitt' till the moon ftpetstepsiji trace her.

Htr wglfftie should ot iVnd unon the iftlltwinktirtrii a tOLU BY rillLIP Bit AND, M. LONDON. I A practical course in twelve easy lessons. ARGENTINE, KANSAS. Boston, 11 is buio, ia abandoning the bean aa an article of diet.

Fare well, then, to simplicity, to plain living and high thinking. Tho nox thin that we hear from tho "Hub" it will havo a 400 and a finer." QUtOf bJ fcentric man half Pitman System. Membership only 2. Persons wishing id loin should remit with lev and enft 1 all eVed ulla -W 7l -tfl -M atttiensir ai lOTIttfiff friend promptly! information cheerfully given. riz at night.

In the Winter they made jhlp, t9 tuMn.e whdia Mter in tjse hands of the polife iifileSs the course of a day or A dnv or two after had Witnessed what I Address Secretary University Extension, Box 622, St Louis, Md bint sleep whar the snow bloWfed on him through the cracks in the rickety two we heard rrom the girl herself or Carriston suggested some oeHejr plan: TiiHonsKv fctVmtrh. although refnsin? tn hn barn. jKuided by me, he made h6 suggestion on his Fer close on ter seven year old FIRST iESSONV Who should learn short-hand? Everybody, particularly all students, own account, ue was racKea dv iear ana suspen se, yet hid only idea of solving his clif ficuities seemed be that of waiting. He ttidnqtblnr. He simply waited, as if ne ex business and.

professional men, intelli man Hodge worked ioor-house Joe fer his board and keep. He uster tell Joe that nothin' was earned, 'cause things cost a heap Sight more her pected that cnanoe would Drmg what he should have been searching for and gent and thinking: people generally Who have much writing to do. A Bcranton peach Budhist gives it out that the frost killed them. An Ottawa man has begun to advertise icO for next summer's delivery. Goodland noW has three raihmaking companies and a business college E.

I. Jones is the lion of. the town oi Norton. He Is a Keeley graduate: There are seven country bands in Barton county and wind enough, to operate seven more. Bill Higgins is in Florida.

He has had another bad spell of sickness, but is getting better. Wichita has packed 60,000 hogs since November 1, against 30,000 for the same period last season. A Salina man pays $88 a year for his church pew, but his wife does not blossom Woiiry retards rather, than forwards work. It tries the hand before the work is begun. It toakos one fretful, eours tho temper and disturbs the peace of the household.

One who worries is never reo from care. There are certain evils which cannot be over-coma We should make the best of them and not add the burwen of worry. low. Same days passed before I could eet a It will pay. l- You will find short-hand useful In a they did, and his Wages Was swallowed up fer grub an' sich.

tardy consent that aid should he sought liven then he would hotgo.ltet proper An' joe, he was sorter simple like; hundred ways, even though you attain only half the speed necessary for verbatim reporting. Short-hand is exceed an' he lest worked awav, alius a- quarter: dus nuowea me, supiman to Mtr roUMte niin Whft isnvpttMo'd himself mustcall.Cartiston's eecond seizure we were favored With a Visit from the man whose ser: vices we had secured to trace Madeline; Since he -had received his instructions had heard nothing of his proceedings until he now called to report progress in person. Carriston had not expressed the slightest curiosity as to where the man was or what he was about Probably he looked upon the employment of this private detective aa nothing more useful than a salve to my consciencei That Madeline was only to be found through the powsr which he professed to hold of seeing hef in, his Visions Was, 1 felt certain, becoming a rooted belief of his. Whenever I expressed my surprise that our agent had brought or sent no information, Carriston Slirugged his shoulders, and assured me that from the first he knew the man's researches would be fruitless. However, the fellow had called at last and, I hoped, had brought us good news.

He was a glib-toagued man, who spoke in a confident matter-of-fact way. When he saw us he rubbed his hands as one who had brought affairs to a successful issue, and now meant to reap praise and other rewards. His whole bearing told mc he had made an important discovery; so 1 begged him to be seated, and give us his hews. Carriston gave him a cafaless glance, and Stood at some little distance from us. He tninicin' to mmseii, out never sayin' a IS being a private 'detective.

This man, or OUe ot.hisnTen, came at our call, and heard What iVnfc wnnted of him. P.Arrlston rAln- word. ingly useful, wonderfully interesting, and ia fast growing into popular favor. 'One winter's day Joe was gone, tantiy gave him one of Madeline's photo- You can learn it even if you are not a genius I Nor will you res-ret it after an' knowed in my heart he up an1 runned away at last wards. It requires a little time and pa- i out very expensively at Easter.

tienca. and thesa vou have 'JNobody hunted ler Joe, an soon grapns. ue aiso 1010. mm mat on iv oy warcn-mg and spying oh italph Carriston's every action could he hope to obtain the clew. 1 did not much like the course adopted, nor did I like the look of the man to whom the inquiry was intrusted; but at any rate some j.

no iyxcuuuuiues oi Thfl ennrsn of lpganna hnro liomin will everybody forgot him. Leastwise, all enable the learner, instructions are puuuuswmum but me. to the Russian famine sufferers. carried out, to write short-hand correctly CHAPTER. VII.

COSTINUEJJ, As we were, 1 turned toward guest "And Yw," I said, uwo must tettte What to do. There seems to pie to feuVone course open. You hatfo plenty money, so your best plan is to engage skilled police assistance. Younj ladies can't be spirited away like this Without a trace," T6 my mtrprlsii fctfflston flatly objected to this eours. l'No," he said, "I shall not go to the police.

Tho man who took her away has placed her where no police can find her. must find her "Find tier yourself! Why, it may be fnonths years before you do that! Good heavens, Carrlston! Sho maybe murdered, or worse "I shall know if any further evil happens to her then I shall kill Ralph "But yo tell toe you have ho crew whafc-em to trace her by. bo talk Tell nie all or nothing." Carriston smiled, Very faintly. "No clew that you, at any rate, will believe in," he said. "But I know this much, she to prisoner somewhere.

She Is unhappy; but not, as yet, illtreated. Heavens! Do you think if I did uot kftoW this I should keep my senses for oh hour?" -flow can you possibly know it?" ''By that gift that extra sense Of what ever it ts which you deride, I knew it would come to me some day, but I little thought how I should welcome it. I know that in some way I shall find her by it 1 tell you I have already seen her three, times. I may eeo her again at any moment when the strange fit comes over me." All this fantastic nonsense was spoken so simply and with such an air of conviction that once more my suspicions as to the state of his mind were aroused. In spite of the brave answers which I had given Mr.

Ralph Carriston, I felt that common sense was un deniably on his side. "Tell me what you mean by your strange fit," I said, resolved to find out the nature cf Carriston's fancies or hallucinations. "Is it a kind of trance you fall into?" He seemed loath to give any information on the subject, but I pressed hint for ail thing was being done. kinder uster wonder wot of Joe; and often that winter. A week nasscd without news from Our "Every weil-iiilormod person knows that the stual danger on board a first-class ateamship on the open sea is so Hourly nothing that it Le actually less than one encounters at home.

It ia safer to cross the Atlantic than to cross Broadway at some points. But such knowledgo is of little comfort to the voyager whoso Imagination has been wrought up by stories of the waves, whoa he finds himself in the midst of a north Atlantic gale some morning. agent Carriston. In truth, did Hot seem to expect any. I believe he bnlv eiiinloved the as 1 sot by tne losr hre smokin' my pipe, I was thinkin' as mebbe he was man in deference to hjy Wishes; lie rnoved aoqut tne npuse in a disconsolate fashion.

1 had hot told himbt'ttiv interview with his looked as it lie thought the impending communication scarcely worth the trouble of list out in.the woods a-starvin' tin' a-freez-in' ter death. An' so the time run on, boys; an ening to. lie might, indeed, rrom his looks, have' been the most disinterested -person of cousin, but had cautioned him of the rare occasions upon which he went out of doors to avoid speaking to strangers, and my servants had strict instructions to tirevent anv one the three. He even left me to do the ques fer a good many years I kept thinkin' of Joe, an' wonder m' and wonderin coming in and taking my guest by surprise. ana witn a lair rate oi speed.

Only one lesson will be given each week. That will be sufficient however, and every learner is urged to master each lesson thoroughly before beginning with the next. Spend an hour or two each day, or whatever time you can spare, in practicing the characters, writing each bne over and-OTer again many times, until you become as familiar with them as With your A C's. Every person who studies these les-Bons, and Decomes a member the Special Class, will receive cards of introduction to several other students living1 in different places, with whom he may carry on a correspondence, making use ot short-hand characters. Corresponding in short-hand affords most excellent practice, and helps the learner greatly.

Cards of Introduction will be issued aa an' wonaerin, out never neariri' a tioning. "Now, then, Mr. Sharpe," 1 said, "let us hear if you have earned your money." "I think so, sir," replied Sharpe, looking word. curiously at Carriston, who, strange to say, heard this answer with supreme indifference. 'Old man Dodge was gored to death that fifteenth winter, after Joe was "1 tninK may say nave, sir," continued Thirty young men of the First district are ambitious to go to West Point and become useless as army lieutenants.

What ho; without there, Leavenworth, Atchison and Topeka Abilene has given a germ an and is organizing a tennis club. The pensioners of Atchison draw $15,003 a quarter. As it is promptly spent among the people everybody welcomes pay day. The eggs of the Hessian fly have been found in the early wheat in McPherson county. It is not in the late sown wheat.

A Wichita girl who has been visiting in the "nation" came home with the story "at she killed ten wild turkeys and a ttbdr. Abilene is already considering the ques tion, "Shall we celebratel" and the small boy of the town has a look in his eye. Speaking of the rose that by any othev name would smell as sweet, there is a "McGinty Philharmonic club" at Arkansas City. Ex-Senator Ingalls is said to be preparing a book of memoirs which will be issued by the same house that published gone. The farm was all run down.

mau uuuug inose nays openea a con fiuential inquiry on my own account. 1 Wanted to learn something about this Mr. Kalph Carriston. So 1 asked a mart who knew everybody to find out all about him. He reported that Kaiph Carriston was a man Well-known about London.

He was married and had a house in Dorsetshire; but the greater part of his time was spent in town. Once lie was supposed to be well-off; but now it was the general opinion that every acre he owned was mortgaged, and that he the detective "that is, it the gentleman can identify these articles as being the young ladv's property." slowly year after year. Then the barn took fire, an1 all was swept Thereupon ne produced irom a tnicK letter noco rihhAii in avIi wn ctnrlr a cilvnr m'n away. Iext soring the widder mar KstA IV 11WUVJ1 i II 111V11 U1UV11 flll. mounted with Scotch pebbles, an ornament ried aarin, takin' a felier wot was alius that 1 remembered Having seen Madeline soon as three or four lessons have been learned.

Have you joined the class? Send your name and address at once if you have not drinkin'; an! the first thing we knowed. wear. Mr. bharpe handed them to Carriston. A rxrEit ouco supervised by ono Iloraco.

differing1 from another Ilor-ca not in all things but somewhat because the latter' name was Greeloy, pronounces reading Browning and listening to reading of him "an eccentric amusement, and admits that it is apparently enjoyable. Teople "whose ears are not sensitive to the racket of uncouth words and consonant sounds are able to liston and fancy they aro hearing poetry." But why. asks a pen, "why not a selection from some other the place was sold under the hammer. He examined them, and I saw his cheeks was much pressed fsr money. "But" my informant said, "there Is but one life between him and the reversion to large estates, and Hugh and his eyes grow bright.

"When the old woman was a-dyin', TO BE CONTINUEP. FEMININE WONDERS IN KANSAS. she sent for me an' said as how she wanted to make, her peace with God for the way they had abused Poor-house Joe all them years. Then I told her as how there was a Jedge on high Achievments of the Fair Sex ou the Farm already done so, and a lesson blank will be mailed to you. Write plainly.

You are recommended to get two or three friends to study with you. Bead to each other, practice together, and criticise one anotners' work. You are advised to put the lessons in a scrap book in proper order for reference; or better still, preserve the papers containing them. Half an hour or more should be given to practice every day. Write each lesson Ripe for Woman Suffrage.

mat me is a poor one; believe even now there is talk about the ihan Who stands in his way being mad. If so, Kalph Carriston will get the management of everything." After this news I felt it more than ever needful to keep a watchful eye on my friend. So far as I knew there had been no recurrence of the trance, and I began to hope that proper treatment would effect a complete cure, when, to my great alarm and annoyance, Carriston, while sitting with me, suddenly and without warning tell into the same The younsr Kansas farmer goes out by whom the things of this world war set right An' she stretched out her hand, an' kinder smiled like, an' went ur ant's oook. Mrs. John Sharp of Chase county is a wealthy Indian woman and will get another slice of money when the Wyandottea ler sleep.

sell their land. strange state or Dody and mmd as previously described. This time he was sittmsin an "Her body was turned over to the The government is making progress county, fer thar were no money left with the Atchison public building. A other part of the room. After Watching.him for a hitnute or two, and just as I Svas making up my mind to arouse him and scold him local superintendent of construction has ler bury her, when, say, along by the telegraph wires, click, click, click, tomes word to give old woman Dodge Christian burial, with singia' an' over and over many times until you feel that you are master of it.

Short-hand ia a splendid accomplishment, and the editor wishes you only success in this undertaking. After studying the lesson, copy Plate 1 no less than ten times, using a good pen, black ink and foolscap paper. Compare your work frequently with the engraved characters, and be careful to write a small hand, placing the words closely together, pronouncing them aloud as you write them. Occasionally read over what you have written. Remember the three rules: 1.

Practice, 2. Practice, 3. Practice. In almost every decade somo novel Is written that does its work excellently well and many hundreds that give pleasure and instruction to tho great multitude of readers. Let us therefore, welcome the practice of the novelists' art, always waiting in patience for its highest and best specimens, trusting that tho general popular taste may sift the chaff from the wheat, but certain in any event that the wheat will bo produced, and knowing that it is as necessary now as ever in the history of the race.

preachin' and all the rest. We never tnorotigiuy tor in? tolly, he sprung to his leet, and shouting, Let her go! Loose her, I say rushed violently across the room so violently, that I had barely time to interpose and prevent him irom coming into contact With the opposite wall. Upon returning to his senses he told me, with great excitement, that he had again seen knowed who it was, but late that day, est as the box was bein lowered into "YeV he said at last. "It must be a kind of trance. An indescribable feeling comes over me.

I know that my eyes are fixed on some object presently that object Vanishes, and I see Madeline." "How do you see her?" "She seems to stand in a blurred circle of light as cast by a magic lantern. That is the only way that I can describe it But hef fig ure is plain and clear she might be Close to me. The earpct on Which she stands I can see, the chair on which she sits, the table on which slie leans her hand, anything she touches I can see but no more. I have seen, her talking. I knew she was entreating some one, but that Bomeono Was invisible.

Yet, if she touched that person, the virtue of her touch would enable me to see him." So far as I could see, Carriston's case appeared to be one of over-wrought or unduly stimulated imagination. His, I had always considered to be a mind of the most peculiar construction. In his present state of love, grief, and suspense these hallucinations might come in the same way in which dream come. For a little while I sat in silence, considering how I could best Cbnlbat and dispel his remarkable delusions. Before I had arrived at any decision lwas called away to see a patient.

1 was but a short time engaged. Then I returned to Carriston, intending to continue my inquiries. Upon re-entering the room I found him sitting, as I had left him directly opposite the ground, a kerriage drives up from the station an' out gits a fine-looking gentleman wot carries some roses in his hand, an' who comes over an' scatters them over the new-made heap of Duwejiiip; moreover, mis time ne naa seen a man with her a man who had placed his hand upon her wrist and kept it there; and feo, according to Carriston's wild reasoning, became, on account of the contact visible to him. Observe carefully the followin? toints: Make the characters, or letters, all the same length, rather short, not too long. He told me he had watched them for some sand before us all.

into the tields at daylight and by nightfall has cribbed 150 bushels of corn. The young man's sister can play the piano, do the housework, and in busiest limes goes out with the men tind does so much work as to astound her best friends. A pretty Dickinson County girl, aged 15, drove a self-binder over 1,200 acres and took care of the four horses hitched to the machine. During the, spring she helped to plant 120 acres of corn, did the housework for a family of seven, went to ten dances, tried twice to elope, taught the most interesting class in the Sunday-school, and now tafks of going to Africa as a missionary, and says if the Lord speaks up loud enough she will go among the lepers. A Brown County girl looked after her father's grape patch of ten acres, picked the apples on 1,000 trees, and when her male parent pocketed $5,000 from the sale of the fruit did not ask for any of the money because she knew she wouldn't get a penny.

She believes in the Alliance principles, can play tennis, row a boat, or ride the wildest horse in the country. Another young woman living in Irving Township worked in harvest-field as well as a man, herded cattle and sheep for several summers, and this winter will teach school. She has three young sisters, who are following in her footsteps. The bright daughter of a "squaw" been appointed. A Latkin man who has a fish pond has iust set out over 23,030 fruit trees.

In a Tew years he will be well supplied with fruit, fish and fun. The Atchison Patriot puts it this way "Murdock has the newspapers, John M. Price the lodges, Morrill the soldiers, and Smith the farmers." It is said that Emporia is the only Ivan-las town where the young men still continue to "change sides" with the young Fvomen at every corner. W. R.

Smith, who has lately moved from Atchison to Kansas City, was one of the attorneys in the first jury casa that (vas tried before Judge Botkin. The city of Kingman owns $5,000 stock In a bankrupt salt company and is threat-jned by the creditors of the concern to be sued on the double liability act. An Atchison girl whose people stick to the old-fashioned rule of going to bed at L0 o'clock, offers a prize to the first guest jvho arrives at her parties alter 8 o'clock. "An1 the preacher was a-sayirf just moments, until the man, tightening his grip on the girl's arm, endeavored, lie thought, to lead her or induce her to follow him some fias them quite close together, ana ds not get them crooked. Each stroks should rest precisely on the line.

In line 7 joined extends below the line. The then in his sermon how the good deeds ivot are done in this world kin never where. At this juncture, unaware that he was gizing at a vision, he had rushed to her assistance in tha frantic way I have describedthen he awoke. pass away. rule is that the first downward letter should rest on the line.

and aro always struck downwards, and to the right. Just as you write each letter speak its name aloud. Thus, while you YC RrpilinrV line 1 i V. V. nA He also told mc he had studied the man's Fashionable Cruelty to Animals.

It is a sharp comment on our semi-ivilization that it was necessary in Without renewing tho controversy between short and long words, which till remains open, we may call attention to the fact that more than one hundred monosyllables which have been constant uso since Chaucor's time are ot Latin lineage, not English, nor Saxon, nor Anglo Saxon, and that among them aro to be found many of tho words which we associate properly with the ideas of earnestness, simplicity and nower. and that -1 1.11.-2- li A i 11-J eatures and general appearance most carefully with a view to future recognition. All these ridiculous statements were made as he made the former ones, with the air of one re ihe city of New York to found a ciu. ma lener in mio is caiieu gay instead of g. The letter I should be made sharp pointed, and the two lines composing it light, not heavy (see line 9).

I is always so written as to point straight down. The letter should be the floor. His face was turned fully to lating simple, undeniable tacts one speaking plain, unvarnished truth, and expecting full credence to Ve given to his words. It Was too absurd I too sad! It was evident to me that the barrier between his hallucinations, dreams, visions, or what he chose to call them, and pure insanitv. was now a very ward me.

and I tremhlerl na I raiurht. sio-ht nf it. He wasleaning forward; his hands on the table-cloth, his whole frame rigid, his very short only one-fourth of the length of d. is struck at a right angle with the letter beside which it is placed. For example, in line 13 slants to the right in beau, to the left in Job.

is horizontal eyes staring in one direction, yet, I knew, The glass on which is photographed the rhostly hand at Ottawa has been taken ut and sent to Chicago. It is supposed to be an electric photograph, made by light aing. Only two coffins have been sold by thtf lewell City undertaker so far this year. society for the prevention of cruelty to animals; but the necessity of the society is constantly illustrated in the treatment of horses. Their helpless iependence, their faithful service, their patient endurance were not enough to save them from the maltreatment of those who delight to describe themselves as a little lower than angels.

We were forced to make laws to protect dumb animals from man's inhumanity. Harpers Magazine. capame or seeing nothing that 1 could see, He seemed even oblivious to sound, for I en slight and fragile one. But before I gave his case up as hopeless I determined to make another strong appeal to his common sense. I told him of nis cousin's visit to nis of his intentions and proposition.

I begged him to consider what consequences his extraordinary tered tho room and closed the door behind in dough, and vertical in go (line 15). It is so written as to point directly away from the letter, or stem, near which it occurs. are consonants, and I. man on the reservation wants a white me without causing him to change look or husband and she is worthy of one, position. Tho moment I saw the man this leaves room for the suspicion tha people do not patronize 'home Her sister married an Indian, and her ally entail.

He listened attentively and knew that he had been overtaken by what he and vowels. The letters, or marks, which express consonants, are called stems; while the dots, dashes and small father gave them a farm and a curse, caimiy. called the strange fit The Garfield university at Wichita, a My first impulse a hatural one was to ou see now," he said, "how right I was in attributing all this to Ttalnh Carriston angles are called vowel signs. arouse him, but second thoughts told me that tiollow eyed "hant" of the time that was, lias been sold to Edgar Harding of Bos- He thinks the unmarried one is too good for an Indian. She has taught school, driven race-horses and won, has never been beaten in trade, equals any how right I was to come to you, a doctor of KEY TO PLATE 1.

Line 12. By die Guy eyed bide gibe standing, wno can vouch tor my sanity." tins was an opportunity for studying his disease which should not, he lost fpU. that ion, who declines to say what he propose3 to do with it. man in the country in neetness of foot could call it by no other name than disease- fuide abide. 13 Beau dough ode bode ob goad obeyed doge.

14 Bay aid Abe can shoot with the best of them, and oucn ior your sanity i now can wnen you sit here and talk such arrant nonsense, and expect ine to believe it? When you jump from your chair and rush madly at some visionary foe? Sane as you mavbeln The people who are burning the oil loW their lamns wait.inpr fnr the millennium tho number of words of two syllables of similar character is very much greater. Whatever you do, do it well. The Blighting of a task bocause it is apparently unimportant leads to habitual neglect, so that men and women do-gencrate insensibly into bad workers. Training tho hand and eye to do work well leads persons to form correct habits in other respects; and a good workman Is, in most cases, a good citizen. No ouo neod hope to rise above his present position who suffers small things to pass unimproved, or who neglects, metaphorically speaking, to pick up a penny because it is not a dollar.

-Seest thou a man diligent in his business, he shall stand before kings." bo i proceeded to nia.te a systematic exam ination of his Symptoms. would work her hands off for her jay gay jade guage babe. 15 Day age Joa go obey ago abode Dido. The Short-hand Class. Membership Tickets issued by the Secretary UniversityExtension, Box 322, 3t.Louis, Mo.

The lessons will be published at inter-rals most convenient for the majority of learners. We teach the Pitman, the best and most popular of all systems. The student can take this course while remaining at home and attending to his tvill be encouraged to hear that a Paola parents1 sake. I leaned across the table and, with my face all else, any evidence I could give in your i. i.

i judge has fined a bullying lawyer foi about a foot from his. looked straight into A Lincoln CoivSty girl got her father lavvii iiium uieaK. uuwii 111 cioss-examinauon if an inkling of these tilings got about. Come, kbusing a witness. to give ner a larm ana lives on it, his eyes.

They betrayed no sign of recognition no knowledge of mv nresene. nm Frank Flenniken has resigned his posi-t looking after eighty acres without help. ashamed to say I could not divest myself of Lion as benator secretary and and last year cleared $1,000, besides sustomary business. (Jamston, oe reasonable, ana prove your sanity by setting about this search for Miss Eowah a proper way." He made no reply," but walked up and down the room annarentlv in deen thoiiffht. me impression that they were looking throueh will devote time to untangling the snarl in Corrected exercises are invariably sent the Plumb estate.

Mr. Flenniken will be back bv return mail. The course is practical, thorough, and My words seemed to have had no effect upon 1. 1 V. ir i me.

The pupils were greatly dilated. The lids were wide apart I lighted a taper and held it before them, but could see no expansion of the iris. It was a case, I confess, en the terms so low as to place it wunin tna 411111. a icBeiiij ne istaicu aim as easy reach oi ail. to avoid returning to tne argument, drew a The student runs no risk does not book at hazard from my shelves and besran to read.

He opened the volume at random, but have to leave home. We guarantee sati3 taction. tirely Deyond my comprehension. I had no experience which might serve as a guide as to what was the best course to adopt All I after readme a few lines seemed struck hv Plate VV 8 I I I I I I I I 5 4 6 dqL. I 8 pg-gdLI Ll LTT LI Papers can be carried in the something that met his eyes, and in a few minutes was deeply immersed in the contents of the book.

I glanced at it to see what had so awakened his interest. By a curious fa the lessons learned at leisure moments. This course is well suited to the conve lience of busy neoole. loumuowas to stand and watch carefully for any change. Save for his regular breathing and a sort of convulsive twitching of his fingers, Carriston tality he had chosen a book the very worst TiessonR are received nvomntlv and regularly, no matter how lar distant the for him in his present frame of mind Gilchrist's recently published life of William His student may live.

1 uusui nave Deen a corpse or a statue, face could scarcely grow paler than it had Blake, that masterly memoir of a man who was on certain points as mad as Carriston Local classes are formed, and meet one evening each week for mutual study and practice. See full announcement printed ueen Deiore the attack. Altogether, it was an uncomfortable sierht: It is not many years ago since we were adjured in the name of style, of pure literature and of tender regard for our own language to forego the use of polysyllables in writing and cleave only to those short words which were asserted, by a bold generalization, to bo the bone and sinew of the English language. We were told that a good English stylo demanded the uso of words cf one syllable, a3 buying clothes, machinery, and year she has a girl friend for a companion and a hired man. A woman, 60 years old, has farmed near Notawaka with, continuous success.

Her place is small, yet she makes money and gives liberally to the needy. She never leaves her farm except to attend the meetings of a woman's suffrage society. A Hiawatha woman who has a husband helpless from rheumatism has kept him and a large family of children by directing work on an eighty-acre farm. She is a zealous worker in church and Sunday-school, and says she owe3 no one a cent. Her farm and buildings are in better shape than those of her more fortunate neighbors.

There are hundreds of bright womea and girls who have taken up claims in the western part of the State and lived on them until they got a deed for the land. There are hundreds of women in the State who manage to keep men depending on them from goinghungry; there are hundreds of women who can do anything a man can do, or has ever done, and there are hundreds of women himself. I was about to remonstrate, when he laid down the volume and turned to me. motionless man, utterly regardless of all that in another column. "Yarley.

the painter." he said, "was a firm Denever mate's visions." weni on aroima mm, and seeing, or giving one tho idea that he saw.something faraway. I sighed as I looked at the strange spectacle, The Short-hand Class. The plates which will bo used in pro "Varley was a bigger fool than Blake," I retorted. "Fancy his sitting down and 9 I duciner our forthcoming series of Short ins viever uui mau menu, araw spectral heads, and believimr them to be uuuiuiesaw wnai tne end must surely 1 But although I Innororl fnr hand lessons, were all engraved bv hand. genuine portraits of dead kings whose forms 10 determined on this occasion to it tho tronno condescended to appear to Blake and are models of neatness and accuracy.

Short-hand is not only a beautiful art, but it is at the same time a paying busi though all literature was intended for or fit run its full course, that I might notice A sudden thoueht seemed to strika Cnrris- I I I the benefit of children just out of the ness, we ieei lusuned in giving: consid 11 A in nnai manner ana now soon consciousness returned. ton. "Will you give me some paper and chalk?" he asked. Upon being furnished with these materials he seated himself at the alphabet, and the statement was made arable space to this new subject, which in the past few years has grown Jto be so important. Our Special Class, each member of which will receive individual criti table and began to draw.

At least a dozen and repeated with many kinds of vari ations and corollaries that the quali I must have waited and watched some ten minutes minutes wliich seemed torne interminable. At last I saw the lips quiver, the lids flicker once or eventually close times he sketched, with his usual rapidity, CvmM nhiot fr o-nntViov onH Hatati times. cisms by mail from the author, Prof. ties of earnestness, simplicity and 13 after a moment's consideration, threw each sketch aside with an air of disappointment ivciuuyoverme eyes. The unnatural ten sion of everv muscta sppmpri tn inv luoran, oners an extraordinary opportunity for getting a course of lessons for only S2, which wrald power belonged to the English ele I- 1 in Kansas who want equal rights in Kansas very soon.

Dick Walker has a claim of $15,000 igainst the government for fees and money Hdvanced as United States marshal, and Is in Washington urging congress to pass i deficiency appropriation bilk Senator Ingalls is putting up abrick business house in Atchison, and Senatoij Berry, who doesn't propose to be outdon by 'a statesman out of a job," is putting up a brick building in Waterville. Pittsburg continues to get things. Its latest acquisition is a coffin trimming factory from Massachusetts. The institution tvill use, among other things, a ton of pig lead a day, which it will buy of the Galena smelter, in Cherokee county. B.

K. Bruce, the Leavenworth colored (nan who once came within an ace of win-aing the oratorical prize when he was in the state university, has been given a life iiploma from the state of Kansas. He is the first colored man in Kansas to receive this honor. J. F.

McMullen of Winfield enjoyed life at the rate of $15,000 a year on an $S00 salary. He was secretary of a building asso-uiation. He is out on bail of $3,000 and the preachers and papers are roasting the examining magistrates for not going to the limit. K. C.

Star. The married people of Fort Scott have organized a dancing club by themselves, so that they may have plenty of square iances an occasional Virginia reel. The young crowd at Fort Scott runs to waltzes and Yorks and "galloses," and the old, folks can't get onto them. A Syracuse woman, during the year 1891, sold the eggs laid by forty-eight hens for $31, besides having pancakes for breakfast every day in the year and "floating island" and chicken every Sunday for dinner; she now has eighty-eight fowls to begin the present campaign of education on. The day after Judge Bashore was elected a young woman, hastened to Chicago to learn shorthand in order to qualify herself for the position of court stenographer.

She has not completed her studies yet and another woman has been given the coveted place. There will" be trouble when Nol 1 gets back from Chicago. K. Star. An Arkalon man's fate follows hi wherever he goes.

He generally dies wita his boots on. C. H. Edwards, a former and negan a tresn one. At last one oi nis at ment of Our tongue, by which tho men.

The. signs are that what thev I- tempts seemed to come up to his require cost, ordinarily, not less than S20. Tfc sighing deeply, and apparently quite exhausted, Carriston sank back into his chair with ments. "I have it now, exactly 1" he cned ask will be conceded them. They have would-be critics meant monosyllables.

membership of this class will be limited. Send your name at once if you wish with iov even triumnh in his voice, i He Deaas ot perspiration forming on his white brow. The fit was over. spentTome time in putting finishing touches to join. taken charge of the public schools, and no State in the Union has better.

Thev are 'members of school boards, 15 The man of strong will and force Remit by postal note, registered letter. to tne successmi sketch, men ne nanoeame the paper. "That is the man 1 saw iust now with In a moment 1 was at his side and forcing a glass of wine down his throat He looked or in any safe way to the Secretary ful energy may also be authoritative University Extension Box 822, St. Louis, Couj righted by The Horan Short-Band Louia, Madeline," he said. "When I find him I and exacting, unpleasant to his up at me and spoke.

His voice was faint M.O. uut, uia woras were aulte collected. friends and oppressive to his subordi ITEMS AND IDEAS. 'i have seen her again," he said. "She is nates.

It is not his will that needs The hat and coat racks on the walls of WHIFFS AND WHIMS. diminishing-, but his kindness of wen nut so unhappy. I saw her kneel down and pray. She stretched her beautiful arms out to me. And yet I know not where to look for her mv Door love mv rwinr lnvn heart, his amiability of disposition.

Seven hundred and seventy- five pounds county and city Superintendents, and teachers. They lead in the educational and prohibition movement. They are mjaking no noisy or threatening clamor for equal rights. They are simply showing by what they do that they are the equal of man" and that the ballot in their hands would pot only be safe, but wisely used for fhe betterament of the people and de-veSoprneni of a state that is coming to the front with gi-eater strides than any other in the Union. Ingenious Photographer.

is the weight of a porker that Salisbury his graciousness of bearing, that needs cultivating. Of one man we say "hi3 1 waited until 1 thought he had sufficiently township, is proud of. 5 shall find her." He spoke with all sincerity and conviction. I looked at the paper with, 1 am bound to sajr, great amount of curiosity. No matter from what visionary source Carriston had drawn his inspiration, his sketch was vigorous and natural enough.

I have already mentioned his wonderful power of drawing portraits from memory, so was willing to grant that he might reproduced the outlines of some face which had somewhere struck him. Yet why should it have been this one? His drawing represented the three-quarter face of a man an ordinary man apparently between forty and fifty years of age. It was a coarse-featured, ill-favored face, with a ragged nuf of hair round the chin. It was not the face of a gentle- iwuveieuiromnis exhaustion to talk the Astor house are monograms, in wood of the letters A and H. Color photography seems to be a fact.

All the beauties of -Yellowstone park have been taken by the process. The best isinglass comes from Russia whero it is obtained from the giant sturgeon which inhabits the Caspian sea. Frank Blake, an Arizona man stole 500 sheep in broad daylight near Los Lunas, Dive nunareu cnudren under ten years of age have been taken into custody in out Injurious consequences. "Carriston," I sam, Met me ask you one question: Are generosity runs away with him;" yet it is not his generous nature that aeeds curbing, but his judgment that twelve months in London as drunk and in capable. uiese trances or visions voluntary or not?" needs strengthening.

So it is through lie rellected or a few moments. can't quite tell you," he said; "or, rather, would put it In this way. I do no6 think I can exercise my power at will hut I onn pi when A Texan exhibited in Chicago lately a picture of old Geronimo's little son, who is said to be the toughest small boy in the Southwest. Though now only seven or all the phase3 of character. True and drove them into a which he held with a Winchester rifle against ten herdsmen.

They finally drew oil and he moderation is gained by developin 1 man, nor even the face of a gently-nurtured the fit is coming on me, jkI, I can if eight years old he long ago learned tc some quality in wmcii we are man and the artist by a tew cunning strokes, a cuoose stop myseir from yielding to: escaped with the sheep. swear like a pirate, and when only four very wen. jNow listen. Promise me you will fight against these seizures as much years of ago he attempted to murder little girl with a butcherknife. as you can.

you aon't, you will be raving John Ingalls Handley, of Maine, who wis the 1 tallest man in the army of the Potomac, recently died. He was six feet seven and one-half inches high. "'The tallest union soldier in the service was maa in a montn." A hwraorous application of bad ethics in photography bo fpund in the photographer in an agricultural district who had often occasion to take negatives of cattle and horses. He overcame the difficulty so often experienced of the animals whisking their tails and spoiling the exposure by the ingenious expedient of keeping a large and varied assortment of negatives of cows, and horses' tails, from which he selected one that matched of any given specimen and printed it in, having previously rubbed oul the original that was blurred by Mrs. Nancy Britt Kennedy, who claimed "I can't promise that," said Carriston, quietly.

"See her at times I must or shall to be 113 years old, died in Agusta, recently under unusual circumstances. aie. iiui promise to yield 3 seldom as may be. I know, as well as vou do. that tho At an early hour she got up and began very exhaustion I now feel must be injurious deficient, rather than by restraining some excellence which we supposo to be excessive.

Not a little less of ono thing, but a groat deal more ol another, is what we need to produce a full, rich and well balanced character. True moderation, then, is neither tame, insipid nor languid. It calls upon all the energies and all the powers of over nature for its development; it makes us not less, but more manly and wonanly; not less, but more determined and resolute; not but pore hopeful and rMujg- praying that she might die, and contiuued to any one." nad made it wear a cratty and euiien iook. The sketch, as I write this, lies before me, so that I am not speaking from memory. Now, there are some portraits of which, without having seen the original, we say.

"What splendid likenesses these must itwassowith Carriston's sketch. Looking at it you felt sure it was exactly like the man whom it was intended to So that, with the certain amount of arlf knowledge which I am at least supposed possess, it was hard tor me, after examining the drawing and recognizing the true artist's touch in every line, to bring myself to accept the fact that it was but the outcome of a diseased imagination. As, at this very moment I glance at that drawing, 1 scarcely blame myself for the question that faintly frames itself in my heart "Could it be possible-could there be in certain organizations powers not yet known not yet properly investigated?" My thought, supposing such a thought was ever uot 4lscQUiaged by Carrie her prayers for nearly three-quarters of an hour, when she fell to the dead. In truth, he looked utterly worn out Very much dissatisfied with his concession, the school teacher there who went to Alaska four years ago to take charge of some government Indian schools, was shot and irilled not long since while trying to arrest a couple of whisky Kansas City The new postofflce of Broderick will begin business as soon as the department can adjust the salary of the mail carrier. As he is to be paid according to the number of stamps the office cancels, the wiso men in charge of affairs at "Washington are unable to figure out 'what it will said to be Jerry Whetstone, CoJH, 105th Ohio infantry.

His home wo was in Youngstown, and he overtopped Handley by an inch. A very singular accident occurred recently at Medicina Lodge, Idahto David Collier and a boy started out for a horseback ride. Cottier's horse soon began bucking, and, getting beyond control, rah with such force into the boy's horse as to kill himself, as well as the other animal. At the same time Collier was thrown and had hia neck broken. The boy escaped unhurt In answer to a correspondent, who de best I could get from him, I sent him to bed, knowing that natural rest if he could eet it sired the solution of the one hundred puz would do more than anything else toward zle, taking tbe numerals 1 2 3 4 5 7 restoring a neaitny tone to his mind.

and placing then so that when they ar added the sum will be 100, the Scientiflf Mrs. Jacob Benton, of Lancaster, N. H-, has learned five languages while an invalid in the last five years. Sh prjeaka writes Yolapuk. fl9fttfv.

VIII, American says: "Accepting algebraic ad AltViAiirrh PirplfftArt ctrttA1 that Va akwia amount to, the fllce, of course, onenobusineas, dition it can be done by giving negativi signs to some of the numbers; 61 plus 8f 1 Jl. X. plus ft plus 8 plus 9 minus 7 minus 6 mtaua.