The Sterling Republican from Sterling, Kansas • 1

4lf 111! Ml iiv. (Mr ram. NO. STERLING, RICE KANSAS, FEBRUARY. 19, 1887.

30. VOL. i. In Maine they keep bar in the attic A J. H.

RIGKSECKER We do not believe that the United States senate wiU admit Judge Turpie, of Indiana, to a seat. fellow gets high even with one drink. Weather prophets predict many cyclones in Kansas the coming season. Our cotemporariea in this city seem gitalin i. Saturda February 191887.

No. 3a. The United States has planted a great many loose capitalists in Canada during the last few years. One would almost believe that Canada does not feel great-ful for the honor. Creameries in Iowa are called "mort- gagelifters." to be specialists.

The coming ty elections will prove whether or not the women of Kansas really want to vote. CHAa D. TJLAGBR. Editor 8s Proprietor. An Oregon exchange calls snow "dust Senator Sherman is at work on a book of reminiscences.

from angels wings." in' Geraldine Ulmer and Courtice Pounds went to England to witness the first performance of the new Gilbert and Sul livan opera at the Savoy Theatre, and to have the benefit of one or two re 3 s- CD Resident Cleveland has shown hisl love for: union soldiers by his vote-of; ndegent penston bill. Nothing better could Jbe expected of a man with It is rumored that a daily paper will soon be issued in McPherson. The legislature will probably adjourn about the first of March. cn ryi cr in a hearsals before the score is sent to this Cleveland's antecedents. 4 The great strike of the Long shoremen in New York has ended.

Atchison has a dime savings bank that is doing a good business. The Bill Signed. Atchison Champion. Gov. Martin has signed the bill, granting suffrage to women in cities of the first, second and third classes in Kansas.

He regards it as an experiment, but is willing to have it tried. If it works well Kansas will soon allow women to vote at all elections. If it. fails, that is the end of the question in this state, for the present. But Kansas believes that she leads in granting just rights to women, just as she did in emancipating the slave and in prohibiting the liquor traffic.

It is the leading state of the American union, and is not afraid of a question because it is new. The new law will add to our republican majorities and increase the great tide of immigration. Women of wealth, brain and character will be proud to come here to live, and every moral reform will be aided by the accession of 200,000 voters who represent the virtue and morality of the country Kansas will country. cr Vi 3 A bill has been introduced in the Ten 2 CO A bill giving women municipal suffrage is before the New York The wovkingmen always lose by strikes even if they gain their point. 2 nessee tendering to tne United States the Hermitage farm, fa mous as the home of Andrew Jackson, Many of the new comers, who are locating in Sterling this spring are from Ohio, Indiana and Illinois.

as an asylum for disabled and invalid Union Soldiers in the U. Sonata. Leavenworth Times. -A paragraph has been going the rounds the press to the effect that there will be but three ex-union soldiers in the United States senate, while there will be seventeen or eighteen confederates soldiers from the solid south. A list has recently been compiled by a Washington paper giving the following named senators who rendered their country service during the late war.

1. Colorado, enlisted as a The citizens of Chicago have subscribed $13,000 and presented Mrs. John A. Logan with the mortgage on her home. It was a generous action.

soldiers. '3 To Loan on Farms and City Property. At noon on March the fourth, the term ef the present congress expires. Ellsworth Reporter. A.

T. S. P. R. R.

Time Table. WEST BOUXD. No. 1. California and Met 9:30 pm No.

3. Colorado Express No. 6. Denver and Utah Ex. 8:30 JSo.

13. Way Freight 6:0 a EAST BOCKa No. 2. Atlantic Express 6:09 a fo. 4.

New York Express COT o. 6. Kastern Express 7:31 a No. 14. Way Freight.

LYONS. No. 5. West. Ko.

6. East 7i a ni Trains No. and 6 are the fast trains, and make no stops between Sterling and podge City except Great Bend. Lamed and Kinslc. Knilroad and steamship tickets to all points in the world on sale at this office.

F.D.Stevens. A.et. T- a. F. By.

Mail Schedule. rntil farther notice the maUs will 3oae at the terling postofUee as follows EAST BOUSB. For evening train. 52 JFor morning train WEST BOUND. For morning twin For evening tram I a "Stafford and' othw' hack leaves SterlinR every Tuesday, Thursday sind Saturday.

Closes at 7:0 a. m. on these Money order office open from 8 a. m. to 430 p.

It's getting along towards the time of Just tliirteen days from now. The first of the many projected monuments to Gen. Grant will be erected year when the farmer goeth forth into Feed Douglass, the colored leader the field and sweareth softly unto him at Chicago. The necessary 8100,000 has been raised. and orator is sow in France, taking a pleasure trip and observing how the self as he trie th to remove a season's from off his plow.

Ah, we have beeu We are our own examiners. No delav. Title perfect. Quick returns. Money ready as soon as papers are signed.

French live and govern themselves. therel be the greatest of free and temperate states, and the first state in the union with a republican form of government, no part of mankind being During 18S6 Kansas built about one-fifth of the total amount of railway constructed in the world last year. AbiUne Gazette. Capt.A. W.

Greeley, of Arctic fame has been appointed by the presi At no distant day in Kansas very large farms will have gone out of date. 160 dent chief signal officer viee Hazen, diseased, with the rank of brigadier general. Scores of letters are being received every day by people in Sterling from Some one can make a fortune by inventing a heating apparatus for railway cars that will not set fire to the cars in case of an accident. and 80-acre 'arms will be the average, and a much larger per cent of production and profit will be tho result. Estate the east, saying that this family and The Garden City Sentinel will run Peter Doyle and Thomas Townsend eight special excursion trains from the eastern states direct to Garden City tliis That is one good solid, enterprising way boom a 4-otvn.

The appropiations made by Congress from 1800 to date for the erection and remodeling of the United States Capitol, amount to over 15, 000, 000. that family are making preparation to move to this city early in the spring taking in the aggregate there are over one thousand people in the east who are arranging to come to Sterling this spring, that are known. Probably from one to two thousand strangers will also have been arrested at Pittsburg on suspicion of being two of the men who as-sanlted the officers in the Ravenna rescue case- -tjaptain in th First Nebraska; came out as a brigadiereneral of volunteers. 2. Hawley, of Connecticut, enlisted as a lieutenant and came out a bevet major general of volunteers.

3. Plumb, of Kansas, entered as second lieutenant; came out lieutenant colonel Eleventh Kansas volunteer infantry. 4. Davis, of Minnesota, was a union soldier according to ths local newspapers. 5.

Manderson, of Nebraska, entered as first lieutenant, Ohio volunteers, came out brevet brigadier general. 6. Cheney, of New Hampshire, enlisted in Thirteenth New- Hampshire volunteers; came out quartermaster of the regimeut. 7. Dolph, of Oregon, enlisted as orderly sergeant in Capt.

Crawford's company in "Oregon Escort" in 1882. 8. Quay, of Pennsylvania enlisted as private and erved through the war in a Pennsylvania regiment. 9. Spooner, of Wisconsin, enlisted as private in company Fortieth Wis-cousin volunteer infantry; came out captain and brevet major.

Note. Senator Ingalls wa3 als in the union army. We believe he held the rank of major on the staff of one of the union generals who comccanded a force in Kansas and Mi3soui A number of improved farms for sale also Ranches. Choice bargins in unimproved lands and lots. General Cassius M.

Clay has announced himself as a candidate for the Repnblican nomination for Governor of Ke ltucky. locate here. They can find no beiter city in the state. TnE murderous whisky thugs of Leavenworth are doing more effective work in bringing about the enactment of the most stingent prohibition laws, than any other ieguence. The state of Kansas is getting ired of the Leavenworth methods.

The Leavenworth Times says that Lawrence has had no saloons for two years and th? laws are respected. Last month as a result onlv one case was on the docket of the police court, and the average is only from one to three casts per month. Land and Loan Agents, Gen. Fairchild Coming- -Madison, February 16. C.

J. McDavitt, Dep't. Commander: Dear Sir and Comrades I am requested by Commander in Chief Fair-child to say that he will be at your department encampment at Abiline on the 8th prox. Signed E. Gray, Adj't Gen'L Belgium has passed a law maki-ing drunkenness a crime Any person found intoxicated outside his own doors is finsd and imprisoned.

A second clause of the bill hits the seller of the liquor. In Switzerland a man can not get a drop of liquor except through agents authorized by the government. 'I This is the old soldier state excellence, fd these should be no hesitation in vetinga beggarly few thousand dollars to maintain the state military in something like respectable shape. Both the members of the legislature from Rice 0Entytreia soldiers. Some mathematician states that if the Lord had told Adam on the dav that Tie breathed the breath of life into him that He would srive him a salarv of 825,000 a year for takine care of the garden, and Adam had kept the job -Mid drawn his salary resrularly every year until now, he still would not have drawn as largre a sum as William.

H. Vandekbilt left at his death. Ex. Chief Justice in his address to the Kansas lawyers at Topeka, recently, contended for capital punishment. He believes in hanging for murder.

The law in this shauld certainly be amended. Fire and Tornadoes. Legal papers drawn with Insurance a specialty. neatness and dispatch. If you are in need of office in first NAT Money give us a call, -ional bank building, Agents for A.

V. T. L. Agents for sale of A. T.

lots in the city. S. F. railroad lands. The press gang attending the legislature frequently return thanks to some member or other for a box of "fragrant havana" cigars, while it is well known that ncftwie of the pcor devils ever saw a "Havana" cigar penny grabs and "twofeas" are the test lltey ever get or expect.

I Inter-Ocean. Kansas i3 taking the lead in advanced legislation for women, having just passed a law giving women the rig it to vote at all municipal elections. The strength cf the sentiment is shown by the vote of 25 to 13 in the senate. The result of this law will be watched with great interest throughout the country. If, as the advocates of this bill claim, by woman's vote municipal affairs will be purged of the corruption wnich now festers about them, it will hasten the William Garrett, a young farmer living four miles southeast of Lawrence, committed suicide last night by hanging himself in his barn.

Some trouble he had with a woman is the only assignable cause for the rash deed. Leonard Sweet in a recent article on Lincoln in the North American Review, says he doubts if there is any time during the war in which there wa3 not in Washington, Baltimore, or in that general vicinity some conspiracy in existence to capture or injure Mr. Lincoln. He J.scribe3 to the judgment, vigilance, anh persistance of Colonel Lamon in looking after the safety of the president his immunity from these schemes against him. He believes that had it not been necessary for Lamon to go to Richmond, April 11th, under orders from the president, the catastrophe of the 14th i.

ad been averted. Mr. Seward, recovering after the attack on him, was An exchange savs: A man in Babylon Fulton county 111. is the proud owner of a calf that whs born without a tail. On'y those who are acquainted with the Spoon river bottom-lanas at the season of the year teehnicaHv known as "fly time" can have any conception of the niiserv in store for that calf.

day ot full suffrage for women all over TnE inter-stste law will make a complete revolution in railroad freight rates. No one can tell what will be the effect er eutcoaae of 1Ms law. It will take somet me for the roads to get their matters into shape so as to conform witfe the provisions of the bill in detail. We do not know why but there 6ems to be considerable opposition in the legislature to passing the appropri the land. A grave responsibility de volves upon Kansas women, and the eyesof the country wiU be turned upon ations asked for military purposes.

If the military is of any use to the state them in the municipal elections which it is worth maintaining in proper shape. Colonel LaffionrJJ-vdnan-i occur April 5. 'The Inter-Ocean will watch the effect, especially in the city Heretofore, the national guard has served the state well and faithfully. of Leavenworth, which is said to be in People who ao the least to helo an editor furnish the news are sreneailv the most uncharitable tn their eriticisTrrof him for ailinsr to furnish it. they sem to think he possesses two of the attributes of deity at least omni seen ce and omnipresence, and so t-Vv never seem to think he needs to be told anvthinsrof local Interest by them, for of course he know3 it anyhow.

Exchange. The amount asked of the legislature is open rebellion against the prohibition insignificant for a great commonwealth Judge L. D. Ballet In one of his articles on early Kansas, in the Garden City Sentinel, says that Gen. John C.

Freemotitfs Tiorn'injrtlon for the presidency in 1856 wa3 iue to the pnblica-tion of a letter Freemont wrote to Gov. Charles Robinson of Kansas about that time. law. ttJ3T2r- Are now prepared as no other house in the valley to give you bargains in STOVES HARDWARE. Their stock is complete and prices lower than ever before.

Do not fail to see their stoves before buying, for they cannot fail to please you. Wagons buggies are always offered at close prices and great bargains. See them for anything in their line and they will treat you well. monev ordeT or postal notes will be Issued or paid on Sundays or legal holidays. dihce open 7 P.

M. NOTE The mail west closes iu the everdngat o'clock and goes on the fast train at mail is taken on the 9:03 tram west The ma .,1 srohig east in the morning closes at 3' clock the in the morning and is taken by the fast tram at 730. No is taken by the east i bound 'ocai train in the morning. No registered niat- is put in the pouches or tiie fast train. SECRET SOCIETY DIRECTORY.

STEELING LODGE NO. 171, A. F. A. M.

Sleets in stated communications in Masoirienail 1, the first and third Tldaofonth. Thos L. Powers, Secretary, STKT'UXG cttAFTETi Ntt. T. A.

M. Meets" iti stated convocations in Masonic hall on il-e second and fourth Thursdays each month. W. M. Lamb, M.

ti. Ihos. I rowERS, Secretary, FIDELITY LODGE 'NO. 123, KS IGHTS OF iMas Meats in Magoffin's Tiall every Mon- -lay nisht- a McVAY, C. C.

C. T1AWKIX3, K- of K. S. -TEKLINO LODGE NO. 131, 1.

O. O. F. Meets i Fellows hall. Central block, every Saturday evening.

toet. Wiley, N. O. J. M.

McGE, aecretary. STEELING LODGE, NO. 10K, KNIGHTS OF Honor Meets in Knights of lIoivr -lall, in third venjngs of each month. M. Baku.

in. wior. J. Alles Porter, aecretary. Allen Torteu, Secretary.

T. A. IlLey, Adjutant. STFEMN'G LOIXiC NO. 115 O.

G. X. Meets Magornrs hall everv Friday I. L. Mages.

W. 8. CHURCHES. viuvrr PREBYTEKT AN, corner of Main and S'ctock everj- We.lnesday jvemug. edmpnps.

Pastor. 'FIKT GONGKEGATIONAL, corner of feeWIi st'S rfr5ver at it a. m. Suudav scliool at li m. irajer mcctir." every Wednesday evening.

K. B. Gkild Pastor. METHODIST EPISCOPAL, corner of Main -d Ei frth ireeis. Prcaclilng wery Sabbatli at frl'wd 8 rTrn.

Sabbath scliool at 9:30 a. m. Voung poiteJ- elass, Wed-7esdny at8p.m, rray-rmeengVt 8 p. every Thngday. I-NITED PHES BYTE Main street, rterrteesou everv Sabbath at 11 a.

m. and p. m. sabbath school at 10 a. Pastor, fTTRISTIAN.

Fifth street, north of Mainstrcet. every Sabbath at a. m. and 8 p. m.

Sunday sShool at 9:30. gKM1CTt rM, TjpTiT in Ilaighfa Hall Broad- 7nd third Sabbath of each month tll a. m. rav meeting Wednesday evening at 7:30 p.nL abbathsrhoii nt 12 m. Churcli and Covenant fneeUng at 1 p.m.

on first Saturday of each month, at v- VVlLEEK. Pastor. -v A inct3 in Heading Room, over nan-na store', every Tlmrsday at 8 a. ni. and Sunday ernoon at 3:0 o'clock.

riAJVesident CAGE'S. FI1E1VP. GKEEN, ttorney at Law, Notary rublie. Town and Farm Property for gale or rent Office, Central Block, Sterling, Kas. White Erinkerhoff.

Connsellors at Law, LYOXS. ElCE COCUTY. KASA8. BLACKWOOD CEOTJSEU Attorneys-at-Law," iractice in all courts. Office over Skiles Winning's store.

Sterling, Kansas. to pay. The small appropriation the city this would nbitiijaa happened." Before separating from hint- Colonel Lamon sail the president: "I want you to promise not to go to the theatre during my absence." "Well," said the president, "I will do the best I "can." And then turning John P. Usher he remarked with a smile, "My friend is crazy on the subject of my should be granted without any haggling H. S.

DAWSON, The Garden City Sentinel still keeps Importer and Breeder of Under the municipal suffrage law just signed byttre governor, a woman is elligible to hold any office under a harping on its chestnut plan to divide Kansas into two states. No true Kan-san will ever wish to see this grandest state in the union cut up. Tha project is the invention of men who aspire to French raft Horses. city government from mayor down. To Marion Register.

The murderous and element in Dodge City is on the war path atrain and things are besn'ning to look dubious for people who will not shoot. The military of Kansas should be ordered to shoot Dodge City into the Pacific ocean, and then establish a law and order town on the present site. Burlicgton Nonpareii. If U.S.Senator Ingalls really wants to mop the earth with England and Canada on the fisheries, or any other righteous question, the great Commonwealth of Kansas, will back him for all she is worth. office or wish to derive pecuniary benefit by the creation of a capital city.

Kansas is just right a3 "she is and Topeka is good enough for a capital city. celebrate the vent the "Republican will publish this year free the announcement of lady candidates. Now we expect two columns under thishead. "WTio will be the first lady to announce as candidate for mayor? It will be a very cold day when the idea becomes popular with the people of the state. No doubt but what the plan is a CD is i On Tuesday orecQon Boston Corbet one of the door keepers of the Kansas house, went crazy and with a revolver and knife made things lively.

He ordered the hoisse to- adjourn in ten minutes and it promptly adjourned in one. Corbett wa3 arrested and put in jail. Tie Oo Admits of no Dispute. Minister (to church member) The noise which a 010 bill makes when dropped into the contribution box my, dear Mr. Smith, isn't heard in this world but it reverberates through heaven.

Church member Yes, sir; but if it reverberated less in heaven and more on earth, would be a greater number of them dropped. a 3 PS popular now with the Jack leg politicians of the western part of Kansas They see more offices in a new deal. Even the moving of the capital to the center of the state cannot gain much popularity, as only one eity could get it and every other town would antagonize the movement from pure jealously. This has been plainly Uiustrated by to 3 Comrnonwealtb. J.

G. Ames, a Union Pacific passenger, on way from Seattle to the east, said in conversation with a reporter that the recent decision of the supreme court of Washington Territory that woman suffrage, which has obtained there for abo it four years, was unconstitutional, was working disastrously. Convicts sentenced upon verdicts of guilt found by mixing juries, he says, are being discharged, and civil matters which have depended upon like juries are again being brought into consideration, and the legality of the findings questioned. Everybody is more or less excited, and there is a prospect of trouble ihead until the matter can be settled. '-3 Si 5 if fi pa i is the man who shot J.

Wilkes Booth. I have just received a car load of -stock from 05 3. a a DILLON BROS. STABLES, 11 5 14 a and keep on hand the best stock that can be Corbett Is -undoubtedly crazy and when he was elected a doorkeeper, it was predicted there would be trouble with him before the session closed. Senator Kelly's buncomb bill to move 09 3 a the capital to McPherson.

There is bought, both grade and imported horses which I can ssll at the lowest prices and easy terms. Address, II. S. Dawson, S0-2m Salina, Kansas. J3 2 not a town within a hundred mil3s of THE CENTURY FOR l886-7.

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He thinks Sherman the strongest candidate that could be named. mules against Kelly's plan. If a new state should be made irden City could not get the capital half as quick or easy as Ubadam, Mr. Sentinel. In about six weeks city officers will have to be elected.

It is probaole that Aechison Champion. President Cleveland goes back a good way into history to find an illustration in Iris message vetoing the "de-pendente pension bilL" He says that in 1828 a bill was passed for -the relief of certain revolutionary pensioners. It was supposed that the number of beneficiaries would be about 374, but pensions were granted under the act to 21,485, and the expenditure the first year was $1,847,900 instead. 540,000, as estimated. It is stated as an historical fact the bill provided that to receive a pension, the pensioner must be aboso-lutely without property, and that many men in good circumstances transferred their property to others in order to This is rough on ourrevolv-tianary forefathers, but it is absolutely true.

JOHNSTON ROGERS. (MAGOFFIN'S BLOCK) Have commenced the fall trade with a complete 'line of Silverware, Watches, Clocks, and Jewelry also an Endless Variety of Toys, Stationery, Confectionery, Books, Nuts, Etc. the women will have right to vote at A 6REAT many people make the mistake in regarding the home as the house they live in. Now a house may be ever so costly and luxurious, and con-tain very few of the qualities which endear the place to the occupants. To be a home in its truest sense, love and peace and the thousand ittle nameless attendants upon love must abide there.

It is thus that often the poor cottage is more of a home" than a pallace. Ex. this election under the new law. The question of candidates has not yet been discussed. It may be considered good policy to continue the present city government for another term and give them a chance to finish the great public improvements they have inaugurated.

It is an old saying that it is not a STAR i "The Live and Let Live GROCERY! jarnes Morris, Proprietor. (Roy's old stand, 1st door north of Riee Go. MEAT MARKET! Fngle's Old Stand, Broadway, STERLZLsTG ATTSAS. FIRSTENBERG BATES, Proprietors. We will keep the best Meats and sell at The Lowest Littng Prices.

Cash paid for Live Stock, Hides and Fura. We want to buy all ths hogs that are for sale, and will pay the highest prices. Give us a caLL 14 The following charter was filed with the secretary of state on Wednesday: "TheMcPherson Town Site association," Headquarters at McPherson, term ninety-nine years. Capital stvck, 0100.000.000 in ten thousand shares of 01,000 each. The thirteen directors chos-n for the first year are: H.

B. KoUy, O. Heggeland, D. W. Heath, B.

A. Allison, G. L. McComb, Theodore Boggs, of McPherson; David Kelso, of Labette; C. Eberhardt, of Salina, Cyrus Ireland, of Sedgwick; J.

B. Zeigler, of Leavenworth; J. H. Bicksecker, of Bice county, all in Kansas. good plan to swap horses while -crossing a stream.

Sterling is just entering upon the most eventful, period in her history, and her city officials should be men who can keep up with the progress of events. It rests with the people to say whether or not the present government is equal to to the demands that will be made upon them the coming year. So far we hear of no special complaint. "The mayor and council have discharged their duties with average satisfaction. They have set in motion the most ex'ensive public improvement the city will have to deal with for years to come that is the city water works.

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The French government asserts that its intentions are peaceful. Bismarck says Germany is not goingo war, but tells his questioners to look at France and see the war preparations going on in that country. To people on this side of the pond it looks very much as if a big lot of blood will be shed in Europe inside of the next few months. Armies aggregating two or three minion, of men are not mobilized and moved to frontier lines just for fun. Bussiais also concentrating a big force on her southwestern frontier and the Czar is very close mouthed as to what stand he will take in case of war between France and Germany.

The people of France will never be contented until they whip Germany and retake Alsace and Lorraine. A war in Europe will stimulate American industries and create a ready market at high prices for all our products. It will be wounds, death and destruction to Europeans but it will be money to Americans. What is the cause for the war no one seems to tW BUTTER AND PRODUCE WANTED. I will sell goods at Bottom Prices.

Give me a call. STERLING Stone Company, Sterling, Kansas- ELI AS BEE, A -DEALER in- The story is told of Fred Douglas and Theodore Tilton, who went out a great deal together in Paris this winter, that one day Tilton went alone to a cafe at which they had dined together, and a Frenchman stepped up to him and begging for information, said: "When I saw you and your brother together here, although I could of course Gunsrrfte vol vers SQ 7 25 P3 cc 3 i 1 a a CS 1 ill tl C3 5 Pi 32 -AND ALL KINDS OF- Newton Republican. Hardly a day passes but some gentleman calls at our office to look through the papers of neighboring cities for the name of some firm or advertiser with whom they may wish to correspond, an advertisemeut in the local papers not unfrequently benefits the banker, real estate dealer, lawyer or other firm from this source alone, more than the advertisers may surmise. A firm certaiuly has no means of knowing to what an extent an advertisemeut benefits them. If the advertisement brings only one customer the advertiser i3 well paid, and usually many times over.

WORK CHOPS is 3 P3 understand nothing that you eaid, I 2 WITHOUT STKAM POWSB IT CSrtQ OUTFTTB OP made up my mind from the refined To Architects, Builders, Farmers! Others Who Require Tile, Sewer Pipe, Sidewalks, Monuments, Grave Stones, Coping, Carriage Blocks. CWmueya or Chimney Tops, Trimmings lor Buildings (any odor). Cellar Bottoms. Fence Posts, Cisterns, Yard Decoration oi ail kind Vases F. M.

ULMER. Manager. P. P. TF.UE HEART.

Sec'y. Tresr modulation or your voiees that you SPORTING GOODS. Repairing. of Guns and Revolvers a Specialty. KANS.

T3 C3 must be orators. I should like to ask BARNES PATEJif FOOT WER Kachiaery caa compete with steam power. Soie on tkiau iletai aud wod voraera tend for prices. Ultutr'd eatalogae free W. F.tJCHK BARNES CC if In England it is usual to have two 3 i ororners so equally gutea ana exper I There will be four two story brick business houses put up on Broadway soon.

ienced in public speaking..