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The Winfield Sentinel from Winfield, Kansas • 1

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She wo VOL II. WINFIELD, KANSAS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 1896. NO. 5. ARNOLD'S COUNTRY PLACE.

FAME BY ACCIDENT. LOCALS-. The Loyal Temperance Legion will t. give an entertainment in Manning's Rev. Albert Parker went to Tonelia i 1 Opera )ioue im Kuturday night, Feb.

1. Nio drout French IMlutar liastlen L- Ttio L. T. L. will lie nesinted on their A ohange will take place ia tlia Santa PSrnni by 801110 ot 8 bes' lcnl talout page Thus Won His.

The French painter, Bastlen Lepage, who died recently, was pursued by unmerciful disaster through his youth In The program in ns follows In (he city, Fa time caid next Sunday. Ituslncss Men's Kcpiibllcun (jliib. The regular meeting of the Business lion's Republican Club, will held ntlhe otlleo of Judgo Vamlowntor in the First National Bank building at t.harj, Tuesday, February 1 HS). The principal object for consideration will bo the primary system in thiH county. All members and those besiring to become members and work with us are requested to be present." Gkoiiok (Midway, Pres.

W. W. Heo'y ELECTRIC LAMP POSTS. Copenhagen li Par Ahead AMerleM Cities In Style and Coavealeooe. The United States consul at Copwlu-(en sends to the state department photograph of an electric light peat that is in use In that city.

lie says: 'The general use of electricity as neans of illumination in our great titles must, in time, demand son ther kind of support for the electrU laasD than the unsightly wooden posts now so common. Especially Is tbU need felt on our handsome thoroughfares, such, for Instance, as the ave Jumea Cuttlngham wan up from Guthrie thii week on legal buslneHs. Where the Traitor Onco Entertained Ham anil l.ftpc Ave Now Sold. If you wander far enough through tho brond drives nnd cross the ample Holds of Falrmount park, Philadelphia, you will presently encounter a commodious stone building, surmounting a wooded knoll, set down between two subsidiary ones of the same material, Into and out of which a small crowd of people, mainly women and children, are constantly passing, says the New York Press. It is now known vaguely and generally as the "Dairy" and Is a pleasant enough little place for icecream, tea and other light refreshments, pleasantly dispensed by a neat maiden, his efforts to study art, says an exchange.

His mother worked In the field to keep that sickly boy at school. At 15 he went to Paris alone, starved for seven years, painted without success, but still painted. He had just finished a picture to send to the salon when J- W. Skinner attended the Kansas Day banquet at Topeka last Wednesday I'AKT I. Sons, Teniporanco Suubenma luvocatlou, i Rev A.

n. llriiuer A nl liens (Juarlctle Nulllo I'lerson Herbal Ion, I.ola Jloek Music I. mill's' Mnniliillii Club KcullHtiou, The Tell Tale. Miss IVurl Mor-rlHun. Kceltntlou, The ft ray Sunbeam, Myrtle Thorpe.

I'lano Duct Misses Trump ami 'I' resize Dr. C. S. Newkm ottundel the moeliug Paris was besh ged and he rushed with or (he Kansas Duy club at Topeka lust Wednesday. 1'opultir Form of Volley.

"Endowment or investment insur 9. his comrades to the trenches. On the first day a shell fell into his studio and destroyed his picture and another shell tell at his feet, wounding him. He was carried home and lay ill and idle for two years. Then he returned to Paris 1U.

11. Mrs. J. k. Chapman and her daughter, Hattio, of Burden, were in thin week visiting with friend.

Dialogue, Playing Muiunui. Kecllntlon, Hiawatha' Miss Muriel I'liaplu. Iteeltutiou, I'm but ft I.illle (ilrl, Klorcnec I'lerson. Voenl Solo Miss Grace Collins Kocllutton, Totnmlc's I'ruycr, Muliel Hale Recitation, 'J'lio oiir News Hoy, Knlo Welmer. and, reduced to absolute want, painted (Jeo.

Ordway went to Thayer, Kansas, nues in Washington. Here in Copeii-kagen the question has already beta taken up and solved, and there is bow in practical use on Kongens Nytorv (King's New Market), the principal public square of the city, a post for tho electric lamp which is at once netful as well as ornamental. The lamp pe4 Is cast hollow, the wires enter treat the ground and leave the pet thown in the photograph, and the lamp is held in position by a weight resting on a spiral coil. The lamp is drawn down when required by catcfe cheap fans in.order to earn for himself a living. One day a manufacturer of It.

niio iu joa nuer ti im uu.nnoss luler- eita at that place. wanted, Uorsea to winter. Good in the employ of the lessees of the house. But probably not one in 1,000 of tho persons who so indulge themselves is aware of the fact that this Quiet littlo refectory, with its trim gravel walk iu front and its graesy banks in the rear, sloping gently down to the Schuylkill, was once the country seat of Benedict Arnold. It was conveyed to him in 1776 by John McPherson, a Philadelphia merchant, for 1G.240 pounds, subject to a mortgage of 1,760 pounds and a lease to Don Juan Mirailles, the Spanish min in.

17. IH. Hoys' Chorus Swan's Miss Anna Root Christmas Necr shelter and good feed at reasonable rated. Souk, Hccltatiou, Recitation, some patent medicines ordered a picture from him to illustrate its virtues. Lepage, who was sincere, gave his best work to the advertisement.

He painted a landscape in the April sunlight, the leaves of tender green quivered in the Call or address this office. Vocal Solo, Miss Maud Kmory Tableaux. l'AHT II ance, which Is the most popular form of insurance among women, is for the sole benefit of the assured, the face of of the policy being payable, if the party survives at the expiration of the time specified, whether it be ten, fifteen or twenty yeai's. Should the assured. die prior to the expiration of the time for which the endowment was to run the insurance is paid at once to the beneficiary named in the policy.

Premiums must be paid every year during the time for which the endowment runs, provided, of course, tho assured lives that length of time. The longer the endowment has to run the lower the rate of premium, and vice versa, The ordinary life policy is payable only on the death of the assured, tho premiums being paid each year during the entire life' of the policyholder. Rates for this form of insurance are lower than for any other form except term insurance." Miss Elizabeth Barnard, of Oxford, is lug the ring suspended from the last with a hook at the end of a light pole, with which the workman is provMea. Drill, by llfty little Ueeltatlou, Mr. I'eter iirr mier, fljisg JOfteplline, on East Tenth avenue.

Jack Beck came over from Wellington Sunday evening. Ho has contracted Recitation, Neighbor Jones, Nellie Peuiilug The wires can be carried lnt the lamp in any way desired, but to reach the lamp through the hollow post to play for the Gentry horse and dog eonsldered here the moat practical." snow ana expects to Join thorn next mouth. ister. In this sumptuous mansion, with its high ceilings, decorated walls, mas-Bive mantelpieces and deeply carved oaken doors and windows, Arnold lived and entertained for more than three years. The north room on the first floor, where the visitor now sips his tea and leisurely munches his sweet cakes, was probably, from Its appear Song, Rise, Temple, Rise, Recitation, Selected, Miss Mary Msliback Kecltnlioit.

Tlio Standing Trent, Harry Nations. Song, Chlldreus' Rally L. T. Recitation, Mnudle l'icrsou Reeltation, The C'liainplon Suorer, liaylord licbout. Vocal Miss Jessie Hamilton Katnbiliall, an Artillery While a gun whs being leaded.

State Superintendent Stanley has ap Bombshell would sit on the parapet pointed J. H. Anderson as one of the nine breeze; a group of beautiful girls gathi ered round the fountain from which the elixir of youth sprang in a bubbling steam. Lepage believed there was real merit in it. "Let me offer it to the salon," he said to his patron.

The manufacturer waa delighted. "But first paint a rainbow arching over the fountain," he said, "with the name of my medicine upon It." Lepage refused. "Then I will not pay you a sou for the picture!" The price of his picture meant bread for months and the painter had long needed bread. The chance of admission to the salon was small. He hesitated.

Then he silenced his hunger and carried the canvas to the salon. It was admitted. Its great success insured Lepage a place in public recognition and his later work a place among the greatest living artists. county superintendents which aro'to constitute a state examining board for the AcrommotlatliiK lCulli'oads, and watch the operation. That finished, he would Jump and look eut sea over the range, and then scamper down from the parapet and follow ua into the bomb-proof.

high schools. Recitation, Tlio Ceatli Red of lloucdiet Arnold, Miss Norma Emory Speckled Ilen.CleoStcphcsn Vocal Duct, Lola and Ida Reck Dialogue. As usual, Bombshell waa on band Bev. I. F.

Hodge conducted the revival ervioes for Bev. Bruner at the Methodist see the test of the new big gua. rantomiine, Nearer My Ciod to Thee. Song, Good Night, L.T.I. He superintended the loading, aad Benediction, Rev, J.

A. Rupp church last Mouday evoning. The attendance at these meetings is large and the while I was aiming the gun, he leaked over the range as carefully as did the interest is increasing. The railroad service in Asia Minor is as romantic as the unspeakable Turk. The Broussa Officiel relates that a short time since one of the trains running between Broussa and Mondania stopped on reaching an extensive vino-yard; the conductor and engineer then went to cutting grapes, filling tin can after tin can, and desisted only after a long altercation with the guard of tho place.

It la further said that at ono time a train stopped to let a brakeman pick up his tobacco pouch; at another time, to let a passenger run back and recover his hat. Tho Cnmpniirii of ISiliJ. To those of our readers who want an lookout; and from his air of responsibility one might have' supposed that to him had been intrusted the duty I will clean yenr carpets, brussels, in ance, the morning-room of Arnold and the gay party he constantly gathered about him. In the fine wide hall, where the guests were wont to be received with stately courtesy, is now a row of small tables on one side and a confectionary counter on the other. The portion in front, to which queued gallants and p'owdered dames were wont to retreat in the cool of the evening, is now covered with small signs, calling attention to the ham sandwiches, ham and eggs and other delicacies that may be procured by the hungry.

When Arnold waa attainted of treason in 1780 this property was confiscated by the government and was subsequently owned, among others, by the Hon. Edward Shippen, chief justice of Pennsylvania; Gen. Jonathan Wllllamc and Boron. von Steuben, inspector-general of the army under Gen. Washington.

It was acquired by the commend grain or any kind, rugs, mats, on the othet Iive Pper, we heartily of seeing that the range was clear. Where She Got It, "I tell you I need the Kansas City Journal, which is just But when we started for the bow- she said, shut the floor without injury. I warrant my work to bo satisfactory Give me a call. P. MeMahon, 1113 Stewart street.

conclusively, preparing to proof, instead of following us, as his custom. Bombshell remained eo-tae beginning its twenty-fourth year and is now tho cheapest in price, as it has always been largest in size and most reliable in mws. The new subscription price door. "But," pleaded the peddler, despair ingly, "surely I can sell you some littlo thing or other hairpins?" But the woman laughingly shook her The Kansas City Weekly Journal acd Agriculturist, published Thursdays, is an 8-page, 7-oolumn paper. It contains all fn ti'o'v" of the world and is but" SO cents a year.

Send in your name to tho Journal, Kansas City, Mo. of 4 a year, pluco4- the Kansas City Journal within the reach of nil; nud it is the desire ofTts management to have the Journal in every home wilhiu its territo ry You will want to keep posted on tho city of Philadelphia in 18GS. short, curly locks, showing that had no use for such articles. 1 "Some new ribbons," urged the man. "A dainty powder-puff; a button hook?" "I tell you, nothing," she repeated, becoming angry.

"Ha!" exclaimed the peddler, suddenly catching sight of her bloomers. "The very thing. Let me sell you a pair of suspenders." parapet, looking out to sea and aaUBag the In a moment he dakd through Hie bushes which covered the Barrow iseach between th parapet and the sa, Though thinking Bia actie peculiar. I was sure that ha would not reaaia in front ef the gun, because) had done tmce, whea wim young and. -incxperie- and the burning graiaa of powder which are always throwa out by the blast of a gun had buried themselves in his skin, burning hiia badly.

He had never forgottea this, Ctftain that he would take care ef himself, 1 paid no further attentioa to him, but went with the others hit the bomb-proof, and took my place by tae campaign of 1836, a campaign that promises to be the most exciting ono since 1861. Send your name to the Journal Kansas City, Mo. Steam mM Klcctrlrily. Electricians and electrical experts By special arrangements with the publishers of the Kansas Farmer, we ore enabled to offer the Sentinol and that paper for one year for $1.25. This is an Clmriiolcr In the Laugh, Telling character by the laugh la the latest fad.

An authority declares; "There are as many laughs ns there are vowels. Children, who laugh ou A (the broad sound as in father), laugh openly aud frankly. The laugh in 13 (as in fete) is appropriate to melancholy dispositions. Tho I (as in machine) is the habitual laugh of nnlve, slavish, timid or irresolute persons. The Indicates generosity and hardihood.

Shun like a pestilence those laugh in it is tho tone of misers and hypocrites." There is some truth In these rules, in spite of their exaggeration. are very fond of declaring that the decadence of steam power has already begun. The Royal Academy of Engl nt the COLLEGE SOTES. -Rev. Hestwood was a visitor college Tuesday.

Miss Freeman has organized a class which will bo profitable precedented offer and every farmer in Cowley County should take odvnntage of it. Alva Baxter, one of the oldest residonts of Cowloy oounty, died at his home near Akron last Tuesday morning at 6 o'clock. as 82 years of are and leaves three neera In London Is of the opinion that steam will not, at present at least, be superceded by electricity on the ordinary railroad. One objection to electricity is that it would take such an enormous amount of power to operate trunk lines of railway that it would be chorus to the electric key, ready to fire at the eou- mand of the captain. Just aa the command "Fire!" waa "Don't need them," was the reply.

"Don't need them?" echoed the vender. "How do you keep your blomoers up without suspenders? By will power, I suppose," ho added, sneerlngly. "Sort of," she asserted, tersely, "Call It hypnotism." "Hypnotism, eh?" said the man, packing up his wares. "Keep your bloomers up with hypnotism! Where do you get it?" "I get it Here the woman glanced complacent about to be given, Bombshell reap children. Bev.

J. Dibbens conducted the funeral services at 1 o'clock "Wednesday afternoon. peared on the parapet and began barii furiously into the very muzzle" of the gun. students. To those who ure under tho impression that women cannot preserve the "dignity of office, there is offered a cordial invitation to visit Cadmus Literary Society nud be convinced against their wi'l.

r.Robbins, of Colony, is nnothi I called to him, but he would net come. Annoyed at the delay of the unmanageable and insufficient. There Is as yet no known means of distributing the electric current in such a way as to make it available. The steam locomotive carries Its power with it; the electric must tap a line somewhere in order to be effective. The proper handling of electricity for long distance power is as yet an unsolved problem.

Combinations of electricity and steam work admirably, and short lines, city transportation and the quick Some of our farmers have boon taking advantage of the few days of spring Dunms Was Klm'-Hcarletl. Personally M. Dumas was one of tho most polished nnd fascinating of men as lie was also one of the most kind-hearted. He was a great discoverer of dramatic stars and always testified the warmest and most disinterested friendship for his proteges. The Parisian stage owed to his keen appreciation of talent the lamented Desclee, the gifted and ill-fated Tallandiera and the unhappy Feyghine, whose tragic fate Paris has scarcely yet forgotten.

The brilliant comedienne, Mme. Celine Chau- weather and have turned their plows loose, new student who registered after tho holi ly over the bewitching bulginess of her curvilinear figure. from the hip!" And the door banged slammily. New York World. The soil ia in excellent condition, being days.

He is a young man of raro literary thoroughly saturated with moisture, if talent and the Athenian society enjoyed signs go for anything we are in for a big crop next year. an oration from him lsst Friday night. The Cadmus and Athenian societies have been having a very enthusiastic time ver their representative orators. Ktieli SJciety has originated a jell and a song teat, I tried to op-Uh him, bt could not do po. As I approached he retreated, still barking and apparently urging me to follow him.

Finally, convinced from the dog's actions that something was wrong, the electric wire was disconnected front the gun, and I followed Bombshell. Wagging his tall with joy at haviag accomplished his object, he led through the underbrush to the'beaek. There, concealed behind a elump of bushes, were two little children, quiet-ly digging In the sand and entirely unconscious of the danger in which they had been. Lieut. John C.

W. Brooke in St. Nicholas. mont, was discovered by him in a little suburban theater, and owed to him her first engagement at the Gymuase. and.

expeditious tranference of people and property iu and about cities is fully met by electric power. As a street car motor it is an unqualified success, and will before long entirely drive the horses out of business. But for through freight and passenger traffic where there are long distances to be the steam locomotive is likely to hold its own for many years to come. and to say Hint a number of the pants made themselves hoarse is at the Fa- Button hooks given uway nious Shoe Shop. Mayor J.

H. Tomlin and family left for Kansas City last Satuaday where they will make their future home. Mr. Tomlin has been ingaged in the grain business here for a number of years and bolh he and hi family hold the highest respeot of our citizens. Mr.

Tomlin has opened a grain an) coinmiwion business in Kama? City The contest in oratory of the S. V. K. C. Oratorioal association will occur tonight at the college chapel.

Mr. A. B. Honnold, Xo lilght to Think. "If you don't take care what you are about you will simplify cavalry movements to such a degree that any fool will be able to drill a regiment," waa the remonstrance addressed by Lord Cardigan to Gen, Sir James Scarlett, his coadjutor on a' committee appointed about forty years ago to bring into harmony with utility and common sense the then prescribed evolutions, which were so fanciful as to suggest a circus show and so complicated that the binomial theorem might be accounted comparatively simple.

The indignant reproach of the light cavalry hero to the heavy cavalry hero was, however, but the keynote to a it very mildly. The facul'y and students of the college are always glad to welcome Bro. Bruuor to their chapel services. His cheerful fnca convinces one of the happiness rather than the drudgery to bo found in work. His pearls of wisdom dropped at every Glow Worm Cavern.

The greatest wonder of the antipodes is tho celebrated glow-worm cavern. No Water. In India one of the severest punishments meted out to a convert to tm Cadraian representative, speaks on tha subject, The Province of Solidarity Mr. Chas. Myers, the Athenian orator, on Tho Statecraft of Ham il ton.

These gen-tlinieu are young in (he business but they are good speakers and the contest principle which formerly governed military superiors in their opinions and discovered in 1S91, in the heart of the Tasmanian wilderness. The cavern or caverns "(there appears to bo a series of such caverns in the vicinity, each separate and distinct) are situated near tho town of Southport, Tasmania, in a limestone bluff, about four miles from Ida bay. The appearance of the main cavern is that of an underground river, the entire floor of the subterranean passage being covered with water about a word will be helpful to us many times in our Mr. and Miss Pohl nro new students whom the col'egiaus are very glad to receive, both ou account of their diligence and excellent raligeous (jualil ios noticed iu every action. Every student of S.

W. College will combine with tho faculty in helping to make theni enjoy fieir stay here and sincerely hope it may not be only a profitable but very en wil bo a close oue. Christianity is cutting off his access the village well. His family is compelled at once to tramp through hot sua, and with a heavy water pot, to some distance to get whatever water they use for bathing and cooking. This is.

all against the law, but gome lit fg the persecution is so severe as to compel a return to the forsaken faith, or exile frem the village. To prevent this tite missionaries often have to engage, 'la behalf of their converts, in long aad bitterly fought Most Of these persecutions are Instigated by a few high-caste people, who virtually own the villages, and the majority of the villagers are usually glad to see the cases decided in favor of the converts. Children should be happy and plump. A child of seven should not be thin and pale, with the aged look of twenty. No aches; no whines; no house-plant.

Running, jump--ing, laughing. Children subordinate officers In their actions; for these latter never presumed at least iu theory to entertain any "opinion" whatever. "I thought, sir might be the exculpation of some unwary subaltern, wigged by his colonel. "You thought! Who gave you leave to think?" was the stereotyped reply, heedless of the obvious mental rejoinder: "The great God who gave you leave to breathe." Blackwood's Magazine. X) you know how to ou the farm! Every farmer can be more successful if he reads the "old reliable" Kansas Farmer.

Call or send to this office or write a postal to Topeka for this week's Farmer and supplements of benefits It oosts you nothing. No politics in it, but joyable one, foot and a half in depth. These wonderful Tasmanian caverns are similar to all caverns in their limestone formation, with the exception that their roofs and sides literally chine with the light emitted by tho millions of glow-worms which inhabit them. We ofTer Special and Very Prod ucfivo Varieties of Karly Seed Com. Seed Catn- a strictly agricultural paper expressly for our clubbing logue Free.

Address at once, trie western farmer. See offer in another column. Indestructible Color. One drachm of aniline black is Heathen Mnnrnlnsj.r should grow In weight and strength; eat heartily and show plump cheeks. Scott's Emulsion of Cod-liver Oii with Hypophos-phites fills out the sunken cheeks and gives color to the lips.

It furnishes material for the growth of bone, and rubbed with a mixture of sixty drops of Stonehs Nuuswues, Sedgwick, Kansas. soncentrated hydrochloric acid and Enterprise. Foreigner-So eternal vigilance is the price of liberty? Native That, sir is the regular price, but, without having made special invpsHe-nHnn ci- three-quarters of an ounce of alcohol. Notice. The L.

T. assisted bv somo of Wit- After expressing our hearty appreciation of the generous patronage extended to ns the past year, we desire to assure the publio that by largely increasing our stock in every line carefully selecting only Mm best of everything and con-for niii't 'xir bnsiness to the demands of have no hesitation in saying that you will doubtless find our great department stores offering heavy reductions Detroit Tribune. field's best talent, will give nn cnttrtuiu- mont on February 1st nt Manning's hall. I Benefits to be shared between the L. T.

L. Fashion among Hindoo women requires an extravagant display of grief on the death of a son or husband never, however on the death of a daughter. The crying required by custom is so excessive that in many cosm it leads to the loss of eyetiigbt. Maay who have thus mourned have the eyelashes turned inward, scratching the cornea till it becomes opaque or nearly sightless, or else a cataract has forniea in one or both eyes. These Indian women literally cry their eyes out.

A recent report tells of a woman who lost both her eyes, mourning, not for a son or a husband, but merely for favorite buffalo. trade irticul.ir'y in the matter of prices I anJ lIie P00r of ",0 Admission 10 The deep blue solution obtained is diluted with a hot solution of one and a half drachms of gum arable in three aunccs of water. This color does not attack steel pens, and is unaffected by concentrated mineral acids or strong alkalies. If aniline black solution instead of being diluted with gum water, be treated with a solution of between a half and three quarters of an ounce of shellac in three ounces of alcohol, an aniline lake is obtained which is remarkable for producing a very deep black color on brass or leather. food for the brain and nerves.

It lays a-strong foundation for future growth and development. SCOTT'S EMULSION bai Iwa nifarsrj lit mrdical profession for twenty years. four Doe lor.) This is because it is eiluuys paht.ibk uniform always contains the purest tjSZorweiiait Cott'liver Oil and Hypopliatpbitcs. 'Put up in fo cent ami $1.00 sics. The small sici may be enough la cure your cough or kelp your halt.

vrneh Khal, nli times be in the interest cents of the purja ixi we cordially invite a re Brldcea of China. That wonderful people, the Chinese, are said. to have constructed bridges from very early times, but those known to us date from comparatively late periods, and many of them are timber structures of the cantilever type. ry ine Columbian rarior for your newal of fnvor.i during the good year Tr 1896. W.

A. Farringar, DruffRist, 811 Oran ges, Bananas, Lemons, Grapes ami Main Street. I everything in the fruit line..

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