The Weekly Clarion from Cherryvale, Kansas • 4

The Weekly Clarion. SI1EWARD AMBROSE Pidusiiers. PARSONS, KANSAS Mule. The Slain claims a tax of half of 1 per cent, on the ji.ross earnings, ami it was for this tax during the years of Vii to ISfO that isuit was brought. The earth's surface for an an a of half a mile 8(iiare, Is twien mines owned by the Lehigh Valley and Delaware and Hudson Coal Companies, near "Wilkesbarrc, caved in, Friday, to an average depth of six feet.

No lives wero lost, but the Wilkes-barre "Water Company's KJ-iuch mains, ex-tending under this district, were snapped off against tho man who needs his favor. Here I am. in neod, yea. huugrv. and have only found two Fate is indued cruel.

Tho changing of the figures on this bill would make me happy, but hero I am put off with only two dollars. Well, 1 must put up with it." 1 He looked again at tho paper nnd found that, instead of a bank nolo for two dollars, it was only an advertisement, issued by a shrewd merchant. "I am completely undone," Adob. "Why could not this have been two dollars just as well as this worthless pieco of paporP I am deeoivud on all sides. I was hungry, and thought that tlio means for satisfying my hunger was within my grasp, but I have boon fooled.

Now I must continue my weary walk. What a fool is man!" -Arkansau) Traveler. Congressman Mason, of Chicago, is one of the proprietors. "While hunting near Danville, 111, Sunday, Otto Hoskins, aged 10, accidentally (lis-charged his gun, the shot tearing off one baud and carrying away one side of his face. The railroad bridge across tho Missouri Iliver at Sioux City, la.

was tested Monday, bearing a train' of seventeen loaded cars in a satisfactory manner. Charles L. Scott, of Danville, 111., brought suit at Canton, Ohio, Monday, for 11,000 damages for falso imprisonment, against Ell Brothers, a local farmer, who had caused Scott's arrest last summer on the charge, which he afterwards dropped, of bunkoing him out of if 2,000. Five hundred ladies of Denver, will, if permitted, march In tho inauguration parade at Washington on the 4th of March. Warden Mi Claughry, with his family, left Joliet, 111., Monday, for Huntington, Pa.

Diphtheria is prevailing to an alarming extent in the vicinity of Danville. III. The body of John Pllom, who murdered Kate O'Meltsch near St. Cloud, recently, has been found in the woods with the throat cut from ear to ear. He is supposed to have committed suicide.

It has been discovered that George Grind-staff, of Nebraska City, who was found dead on a railroad track near Independence, three years ago and who was supposed to have been killed by the cars, was murdered for his" money. The Union Compress company of Little Ttock, has recovered a judgment of against the London and Liverpool and Globe and twenty-seven other insurance companies on cotton destroyed by fire in November, 1887. George II. Hampton, city marshal of Le niars, Iowa, was shot and killol by John Gaynor, whom the otllcer was striving to arrest. The Fort Wayne Jenny Electric-Light company at Fort Wayne, will at once rebuild their works, which were recently burned.

Frank Dodge, a barber at Morton, killed himself Saturday because of love troubles. Congressman Walter I. Hays, of Iowa, at Clinton, Friday, began a criminal libel suit against E. AY. Conable, editor of the Clinton Daily News, for publishing an article alleging that Hays sold the appointment to the Wilton, Iowa, postolliee At Shawneetown, 111., Friday, George W.

Milliken was hanged for murdering his wife, lie had to be assisted up the steps of the scaffold. Gen. W. C. Newberry took the oath of office as postmaster at Chicago Friday, and sent the oath and his bonds to Washington.

He formally notified Postmaster Judd that he would take possession Dec. 1, and appointed Colonel 1'ea his assistant. The Prison Congress visited Warden Mc-Claughrey, at Joliet, 111., Friday, and through ex-President R. B. Hayes presented htm a testimonial of esteem.

Democrats of the Alabama Legislature Friday renominated United States Senator Mor gau to be his own successor, thus assuring him a third term. IMITATION FLAVORS. Wretched Substitute Offered by Oliemut lor tlie OIIh of Nature. In tho course of au elaborate article describing tho manufacture of artU ficial flavors the 1'opulur Science News gives some Interesting facts showing at what a distance art follows nature lu making substlo compounds. 'In tlio wonderful laboratory of tho growing plant, by processes of which we kuow ulniost nothing, the atoms of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitro-gon aro made to group themselves into compounds which give to our vegetables and fruts the delicate flavors characteristic of them." It is tiie imitation of these compounds which the chemist essays, and the clumsiness of his work is readily apparent on comparing it with that of nature.

It is true, that in the case of at least a majority of fruits, tho natural flavoring can be easily extracted and readily used for all proper purposes, but the accursed greed for gain which dominates trade even in food, poiuts out a cheaper way. The chemists' imitations, while they are less wholesomo, are cheaper, and aro therefore in more common use. Some of the instances cited by this paper are rather startling. The arti-lio al flavoring used as an imitation of the pineapple, for example, is composed of tho acid of rancid butter compounded wth ethyl, a constituent part of common alcohol. "The natural flavors of tho peach, plumb, almond, are due to nitrogenous bodies containing cyanogon, tho base of the poisonous prussic acid.

With the exception of the almond, those flavors are not imitated, but a subst-anco made from coal tar, known as nitro benzoic, has an intensely strong ta9te and odor of bitter almonds and under the name of oil of mirbano is employed to a considerable extent as a perfume and flavoring extract. It is, however, a powerful poison and should never be added to food" Vanilline, or the vanilla flavoring, is it seems, made in large quantities from the gum of the spruce and other trees. Man other artificial substitutes of a similar kind are not ced, and it is declared that with the exception of nitro bonzole they are all composed of throe elements only, carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, and that 'he wide dill'erences in their odor taste aro duo to slight variations the proportions of these elements, and probably also to the positions in which their atoms are arranged in tlio molecules. For example, tho only difference, chemically, between glucose and pineapple oil is that the latter contains four atoms less of oxygen. The article concludes with the sensible suggestion that artificial essences should never be used in the kitchen, where only natural fruit flavors have a legitimate place.

Doubtless tliis reform may be carried out in domestic kichens, but it is not clear how manufacturers can bo forced to adopt such a rule. NEWS OF THE WEEk Latest Intelligence From Parts of the World. All EAST. The convention of United States Consuls in the Maritime provinces of Canada, called by Consul General Phelan, with the object of improving the consular service, met at Halifax, X. Thursday.

conventions were called by all the Consuls General of Canada, (J rent Britain and Germany. The Hon. James G. Maine was at New York Thursday, for the purpose of attending the funeral of the wife of General Sherman, who was his cousin. Governor Beaver, of Pennsylvania, has been tendered the position of chief marshal of the inaugural parade at Washington March 4 next.

A raccoon and bull torrier weighing twenty-four pounds were matched for ir a side at Cleveland, Ohio, Thursday, the dog to kill the coon in twenty minutes. The coon won. Father Malione, of New York, who was denied by Archbishop Corrigan the privilege of marrying a couple in the cathedral because of his friendship for lr. MeGlyini, maintains the correctness of his position. The Heading Company, after stilting its plans for a heavy curtailment of the coal output, announces that it will make no change in the price of anthracite for December.

It is announced the Canadian Parliament will convene on the 31 st of January next. In the Albany (N. Court of Appeals Tuesday, Mrs. Jennie McOraw Fisk's will, giving if to Cornell University, and contested by her husband, was set aside. The casu will be taken to a higher court.

Gumbert, the Pittsburg twirlcr who played the latter part of the season with Chicago, and was offered for next year, has decided not to play ball, but to remain at his desk in the Allegheny County prothonotavy's office at less than half the, salary. At New York, Tuesday at noon, Michael Ilenrv Herbert, temporarily in charge of the British Legation at Washington, was married to Miss Belle Wilson. Conway, who pitched last sea-on for Detroit, hasVigned with Pittsburg, and will get a salary in excess of iJltyJOO. The losses caused by the storm at Atlantic, City, N. are greater than has been experienced since the incorporation of the city.

Scores of photographers and artists are sketching the ruins. The fishing schooner Edward Norton, of Boston, went ashore on First Cliff Point, near Scituate, Sunday evcuinir, and was almost immediately broken to piece. Of her crew of sixteen, fifteen perished, the survivor reaching shore Monday morning after a night of terrible suffering. The type foundry of Philip llcinrich, New York, was discovered on tire, Saturday night, and the flames extinguished before they had made any headway. Monday evidences of an elaborate scheme to burn the building were discovered, llcinrich had worth of goods and an insurance of lie lias disappeared.

"Dock" Dagger'. was unloading 1,010 pounds of nitro-glyccrinc from his wagon at pleasantville, Monday, when it exploded, and Ilaggr-rty was literally annihilated. Fragments of the flesh of his horses were found in neighboring trees, anda piece of the wagon was picked up half a mile away. The side of a house in the vicinity was blown in and Mrs. Gutsuhair was thereby seriously injured.

The late Bear Admiral Baldwin bequeathed the bulk of his estate to his willow, bis son jind his daughter, (liber relatives and charities receive sfM.OfH). At Youngstown, early Monday morning, as Sheriff Welkcr was hurrying to catch train, he was attacked by two men and thrown over a wall to a stone pavement eighteen feet below, and crippled for life, if not fatally hurt. Kevenge was the motive. Emory S. Turner, recently of Cortez, has been arrested at Boston for crimes committed in the West, where, it is alleged, he has left many victims.

Mrs. Sophia Yanderhilt Moore, eldest granddaughter of Commodore VaiuU rbilt, was seriously burned at her home in 'ew York Saturday. Her skirts caught fire from a match and she saved her life by Jumping into a bath tub. Mrs. Mary Walters, a colored woman, was burned to death and her daughter was severely injured in a lire which destroyed their dwelling at Columbus, Saturday.

W. G. Young ran ten miles at the Manhattan club grounds Saturday in 57 minutes and seconds, winning the American championship. John llortie and Patrick "avanagh fell 121 feet in an elevator at Lawrence, Saturday. Both were seriously hut not fatally injured.

F. H. Barggins. chairman of the P.cpuhli- central committee at Cleveland, Ohio, has been indicted for forgery, Two wn were killed and four more were badly injured in a dynamite explosion near Sehuylervvlle, N. Saturday.

The recent cold weather wrought great damage to the apple crop near Hclvidcre, N.J. The Old Guard, eight-live st.ong, paraded Saturday at New York in honor of evacuation day. James E. Bedell, the real estate clerk of a New York law firm who swindled his employers and their clients out of was Friday sentenced to twenty-five years and four months in State priMin. Philip S.

Goss, a "policy dealer," who got $50,000 of the stolen funds, was fined For the week, up to Friday evening, the total gld taken at the asay office at New ork (or shipment to Europe was SU'mLooo. There is a demand in London for gold bars for shipment to IMissia and South America. Olaf Lunde, cashier of the New York Daily News, absconded Wednesday, on learning that his accounts were to be investigated, taking at hast S.YWO. A decision as rendered bv the New York Supreme Court Friday that the Bell Telephone Company is L'aMe for taxes in that fitul thn mini Hnndcil. The ico in the Erie Canal was broken up by the ice-breaker Friday.

It was four degrees below zero in the Mohawk Valley in the morning. Chairman Quay has called a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Bepubliean National Committee for Wednesday, Dec. 5, at "Washington. WEST AND SOUTH. In a fire at L'Erablc, 111., Wednesday night an old man named Vanderpool was fatally burned and a neighbor who saved him from the flames was badly injured, The fire loss was At Ozark, Thursday morning John W.

Watson, a planter, gave his wife a dose of carbolic acid by mistake, and she died after an hour of agony. Wednesday, near Nevada, George Corb, a school-teacher, outraged and murdered Ella Wray, aged 21. After being arrested Corb committed suicide with poison to escape lynching. AVilliom (J. Bowman, of Shawneetown, 111., Surveyor General of Utah, died at Salt Lake City Thursday, aged CO.

At Spikcrville. Elias Jackson mortally shot Curtis Jellison, a widower, mowing to his alleged intimacy with Mrs. J.ickson, who is now said to be nursing the wounded man. Early Thanksgiving morning, at YVythe-ville, a band of armed men stormed and broke into the jail, and rescued Wayman Sutton, sentenced to he hanged Friday for murder. Sutton was taken by his friends to the west end of the county.

P. Hinton, postmaster at White Church has disappeared leaving his accounts badly mixed. Suits were begun against him Wednesday by indorscrs of his paper. Near Le Mars, Iowa, three weeks ago three farmhands, Amos Andrews, Frank Gaynor, and Charles Rogers, took part together in a drunken carousal wnich ended in a quarrel. The next morning Andrews was very sick and soon died, it was supposed, from heart disease, and Rogers had an ugly wound in the leg, which he said resulted from fall on a mower knife.

Wednesday, believing death imminent froniblood poisoning, lie deposed that Andrews had cut him with a knife and that Gaynor had killed Andrews by a blow on the head with a sledgehammer. Andrews' body was exhumed and a fracture of the skull discovered. The Board of Health of Jacksonville, reports, for fie twenty-four lrmrs ended at (i p. in. Tuesday, no new eases and There are not more than twenty eases in the city, and ali are out of danger, Restrictions on travel will be removed as soon as disinfection shall have been completed.

Jay Eye See, owned by J. I. ('use, nn-cine, and valued at was found in bis pasture Tuesday morning almost dead from loss of blood, caused by stepping on some sharp substance that severed an artery. The recovery of the famous trotter is uncertain. His record is 2:10.

Judge Frederick W. Yiehe died suddenly Tuesday afternoon in his home at Viucennes, Indiana. Daniel Iteahlo, who a few days ago write a letter of li'i pages to Bismark, the German Chancellor, asking him to come to Kockford, 111., and exterminate the Americans, wss declared insane in that city Tuesday. A. G.

Staat, superintendent of the street railway at Hutchinson, cloned with tlio wife of a prominent citizen, and besides carried off funds belonging to the rail road company. The late Griffin II. Millei, of Preseott, left to the Bishop Taylor Missionary Society. The heirs contested the legacy, and the trustees of the soei' tv Tuesday agreed to accept as payment in full. The true source of the, Mississippi has, as alleged, been discovered by persons living at Sauk Center, Minn, who say the.

Father of Waters Hows from two small creek-fed lakes whose waters are emptied into Lake Glazier, recently discovered by Captain Wifliard Glazier. Charles W. Waldron, of Hillsdale, the banker who decamped two months ago taking Mrs. Bidwell, hom lie deserted in Montreal, and $00,000, which he took with him to Europe, landed in New York Tuesday and started for home, having made arrangements to settle all claims. Minnie Tierney, a domestic a at Clinton, Iowa, while washing a third-story window Tuesday lost her balance -md fell to the.

ground, breaking her neck. John MeCloskjy, nephew of Cardinal Mc-Closkey, died at Dubuque, Monday. Monday at Elgin, 111., O. C. Sabin published a statement to the effect that he now believes that Dentist Stone is guiltless of the charges made by him (Sabin), confesses that he lias done the dentist a great wrong, ex presses regret at his conduct, and promises to make due reparation for his misbehavior.

Upon this the civil suits were dropped, but Sabin ill still have to answer the charge of assault with a deadly weapon, for which he was bound over in $1,000. The Hon. Edward E. Lane, of Warsaw, 111., attorney, and for seven years 1870-80 Consul at Tunstall, England, died Monday. Work on a new steel-plate factory, which will employ men, was b-gun Monday at Joliet.

It will make passenger and freight-ear trucks under the Fox patents. Edward Schneider, of Morrison, 111., began a three years' term at Joliet prison Monday. Schneider was a jeweler and bis offense was robbing his own safe of 2,000 which he had allowed another Morrison business man to place there over Sunday for safe keeping. Monday, at Indianapolis, Mr. Powdcrly, Chief of the Knights of Labor, said he bad rejected a position in which he would have received for about three months' work, in order to retain the office of Geueral Master Workman of the Order.

A cotton with capacity of 10,000 yards a day, and employing 200 men, as Started at Dcs Moines, Iowa, and, as it is the first in the State, the event was .1 l. ntlif-p fcieuraicu uj Uncle Tom's Cabin. The newspapers tell us that the gifted woman who wrote that wonderful work, "Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among tho Lowly," is lying upon her bed of death. I have just reread with interest Mr. Charles O.

Stickney's article relating Miss Cushing's reminiscences of Mrs. Stowo at the time she was engaged in writing her great book, which I found republished in The TruveAer from the Detroit Free Press. Mr. Slickney says that Mrs. Stowe had great J.flioulty in liuding a publisher for tho sloiv, iu book form, and that it "drew little attention from the public at large" during its original publication as a serial in the Rational Era, an anti-slavery paper published at Washington.

As to the first statement I know nothing, but the second I cau only regard as incorrect I have it upon tho authority of the mailing clerk of the Rational Era at the time the story wes published that it ran the circulation of that journal up from a few thousands to over thirty thousand, a great circulation for that day. That seems to me to bo drawing great attention from the public, instead of little. Moreover, the story was widely advertised Dy the discussion it aroused in tlio papers throughout tlio couutry. The southern papers generally and the pro-slavery papers ot tho north all attacked it, accusing it of presenting false or exagg lilted descriptions of slave life. 0 course tho anti-slavery papers defend 1 it.

Out of these attacks grow Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin," afterward published. The editor of the National Era, Dr. Br, ley, I think, instructed h'S mailing clerk to never refuse an exchange with a southern paper. lie further directed him to examine these papers from week to week and to cut therefrom and preserve all accounts and advertisements of runaway negroes, and generally everything which would go to sustain the picture presented by ''Uncle Tom's Cabin." This task was fa thfully performed, and from the mass thus collected the matorial was selected from which tlio "key" was wrought. Among the things used, 1 recollect, wero a largo number of advertisements of runaway slaves which were em-belishod with a cut of a negro with a bundle slung on a stick thrown across his shoulder, while ho was supposed to bo endeavoring to reach a station of tho "underground railway," where ho would take a passago to Canada, then the slave's "happy laud of Canaan." The mailing clerk I refer to is still with us, a hale and hearty man, though now on tho shady side of fifty.

That his memery of those days is good, was shown some years ago in a remarkable way. When ho used to write tiie wrapers of the Era he always put tho county on. About five years ago he happened to bo present when a similar work was goiug on iu behalf of a new publication. He found that upon the naming of any of the towns to which he had formerly sent the Era he could call the county it was in. Ho was tested with hundreds of names (in the northern states, naturally), and lie was successful in every instance.

He said that for many years, a quarter of a century, at least," ho had not had occasion to use this knowledge and did not know that his memory still retained until accident demonstrated that it did. lean but regard this as a notable feat of memory, quite as much so in its way as some of those "Marvelous Memories" told about in Welcome's article, reprinted iu The lravelerot September 8th. Mrs. Stowe's physicians hold out no hope that she will ever recover. Before this note reaches tho public, her spirit may havo entered upon its journey to "that bourne whence no traveler returns." May her soul rest in peace.

Diogenes Jonei. Getting His Money's Worth. Mr. Shontpcrshent (at hotel table, a summer resort) Mein cracious! Isaac, you littlo vool! Vat vor you ask for bret? Little Isaac I vant bret mit my meat, ladder. Mr.

Shentpershent Shust hear dat! Ho vants bret ven bret sell for only fifo cents a loaf, au' he gan't eat a kavater off a loaf, an' I pay fife tollars a day at dis hotel. Here, Isaac eat (lis bottle off olives. Dey cost von tollar a bottle. art oon. She Had Made Somo Impression.

Mother (writing): Bobby, how many times did I tell you to stop that noiso?" Bobby (reflectively); "Soven." 7'tJie. WASHING-TON NOTES. The chief of the Bureau of Statistics at Washington reports the total values of exports from the United States for the fiscal year ended Oct. 31, 1SX8, to be imports, For 1887 the imports were and tho exports POLITICAL POINTS. The State Board of Canvassers of Tennessee, to whom all returns are certified, failed to agree upon the contest for the certificate to Congress from the Third District, Governor Taylor indorsing the claim of II.

C. Evans, Itepublican, and Secretary of State Allison the other member, holding that Bates, Democrat, was legally elected. Credentials were issued Tuesday by the board of election canvassers of Louisiana to H. Dudley Coleman, Republican, in the Second District for Congress. Kansas gave Harrison a plurality of 80,170, and claims to be the banner Rebubiiean State.

Moses Smith, a miner at, Brazil, aged CO, and without a frniily has just fallen heir to a fortune of 100,000 by the death of a relative in Wales. The official canvas of the Fifth California Congressional District gives a plurality of 50 to Clonic, Democrat. As at present, the State in the next Congress will be represented by four Republicans and two Democrats. Tom Bigbee I say, Upson; what would you do if you had a million dollars? Upson Downes Nothing. THE MARKETS.

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Spring 5.25 5 1.18 24 i.orn o. i Oats No. 2 Potatoes Per bushel Poultry Chickens, live, per Ducks, Turkeys Buttkb Choice Creamery Fine Low Grades Ckeesi Full Cream Off Grades Ecus Fresh, per doz ST. LOUIS. Beeves Choice Natives lloos Sit Wheat No.

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3 Oats-No. .285 What a Fool. Abed, the philosopher, was walking along the street. He wa3 weary and hungry. Davs had passed since lie had eaten.

Ho was so learned that the common man could not appreciate him. As he walked along the street in an American city, he thus mused unto himself: "If I had only twenty-live cents with which to appleasa my hunger, I should be happy." Just then he saw in front of him, on tho sidewalk, a crumpled pieco of green paper, gradually unfolding. He hurried forward and with a pretense of unconcern placed his foot on the paper. He stood there firmly. News-boys jostled him and policemen elbowed him as they passed along but he suffered no one to move him.

Finally, when he thought no ono had observed that his lingering was premeditated, he stooped, felt under his foot, took hold of a piece of paper, and, watch-ins tho passers-by, put it in his pocket, then he walked hurriedly away. He felt as though the eye of a detective was upon him. He know that he was innocent, yet he fancied himself a criminal. If I have only found enough money to get me something to eat I shall be happy," he mused. Then he shrank close to the wall, for he felt that some one was looking at him.

"I don't ask for a dinner," he mused. "All I dare hope fcr is enough to keep rue from being wild and Ho stepped into a doorway and waited for the crowd to pass. People carrying many choice things to eat hurried by him. "I will go up tliis he said, "ami see what I have found." He shrank up the steps. The philosopher who was not afraid to engage learned men in discussion was afraid of timid women who skulked along with shawls over their heads.

If I have only found enough to get mo a morsel to eat," ho mused, "I shall praise God, for then I shall know that the philosopher has not been neglected" He slyly opened tho paper which ho had found. Two dollars two immense, monstrous American dollars! "Ah, here is a ho mused. "Picked up two dollars in the street! Two dollars, surely, but why could not this note have as well been twenty, yea, fitly dollars? Why should I be confined to the finding of only two dollars? Is it not as easy for some man to lose fifty dollars as two? Whv should fate so discriminate against me? Hero I am confined to two" dollars, when I might just as well have found fifty, or ono hundred, for that matter. The god of luck is.