Westmoreland Recorder from Westmoreland, Kansas • Page 4

I fe IN LOVE tut it Have our OLD TIME U. S. Finds More People in Kansas There are nty'Seven thousand more people in Kansas than were found by ihe issessors, if the esti-mntfl made hv the chief of the r.i tei-lh fixed! Do you eat to live? Have voiir teeth tixed! BjG)5XiXB Old Saying That "All's Fair" Exemplified in This Story of a Substitute. Q. R.

LOOFBOURROVV, Dentist At o'clock that evening mv telepl one l.eii uig furiously. "Coove!" said a weak voice. "Yes?" "Can vou come round to see me?" Providentially, an empty taxi ihe door. I was whirled Mount street. My uncle looked thinner and more dejected than ever.

"George, you must find a way or for me "You're referring to your engagement?" lie groaned nn affirmative. "There's only one possible nvt till' of escape. Kule 28 contains a claa-i to the effect that any honorary iivtn-her who can obtain a substitute -a' factory to the lady, in the per-mi another honorary member vu low me?" News 20 Years Old. Henry Shovn died at his home in Lincoln township October 9, 1803. The deceased was o-e of the oldest and best known citizens of this part of the county.

A marriage license was issued on October 10. 1803 to Samuel Hesse and Miss Hsttie Kramer, both of Wamego. License to marry was issued October 10, W-' to Frank Hothe and Matild.i lleptig of Myers Valley. Edward Iiurnigde of near Blaine dud October 1, He raised a family of liftem children. STOVES census bureau at Washiniiton, M.

J. Harris, ii correct. This estimate, based upon scientif principles of increase, that have been tested for many years, shows that the population of Kansas on July 1, this year, should have been instead of the letter figurti having teen compiled from the reports of assessors. The estimate was sent to Kansas in an swer to an inquiry by VV. V.

Deacon, state registrar of vital Deacon says he believes the figures should accepted for official purposes. The returns of the county assessors showed a smaller population than the federal pnumei atinn of 11)10 uonn which By WILLIAM FREEMAN. I come upon him outside a secondhand bookshop discontentedly rummaging among the contents. With a grunt of disgust my uncle turned to move away. Our eyes met.

"George," he said, "I find myself driven to the border-line of dest rue-lion by the diabolical sameness of existence. I don't want my youth again, for I shouldn't know v. to do with it if I had it I don't want to be poor, for I'd sooner struggle along with my a year than work for my living. Hut if you've anv suggest ion to oll'er This 26 inch heater, now "George, you you will he substitute!" 1 an income of 1 1 "Bui en r- "Poo in -the "Merely," said 1 ihe thought had Iieen in mv mi, id from the lir-li. News 25 Years Old C.

N. Baker en Octolwr 15.18SK, succeeded II. I'. Smith treasur i We have a iit.c of Ranges and Heaters New styles both coal and wod. "I llilt yoll should becol member of Hie Ii.

'I'. I "Beg pardon?" sa sharply. "The K. T. or, i lish, Ihe Kighl-lo-l'r.

is quite the newest idi ingly unconvent ional. ladies, but there is ii an hon or: club." id my uncle plainer ip.So club. I and refresh It is run le large cert ai ue I. lion Milliec, i I lcel er of Pottaw.i omie county. Mr.

Smith -ud been treasurer for four clerk for many previous. The Westmoreland S'ignsl art-ed a couple of months ago by C. L. Bowman was discontinued Octo her aunl ho em. I the estimate of the government for this year is Tie gave Kanap a pnpuUMin of l.OSo.OOO in l'JIO.

The federal1 estimate for chances in various 1 oral i i in the mats. Over the state figures Wichita gains S.i does Kansas City. Top'-ki loses more th in 3500. The difference is pretty (root evidence that ha etate't method of gathering sUtisties is faulty. This year the as-ipfsorg reports showed about 17.000 automobiles in Kansas, while within a Nil in; Howards iiver draft, oak, air tight and hut lat popular prices.

li- letc-a-lete. Milli. 1 her Willi ci-i lenient, eaueht her in tin mbnvhip of men. "Any nbers of the K. T.

1. may, without losing caste in any way. take her fate inlo her own hand-with regard to any of Ihe honorary members. and ber 11, 1888. Lack of support was the cause of the suspension.

Hen. William Thomson of Bur-lingame will make a republican her. tcorge," she said, "as Ihe I.adv I'osdvke and your aunt aunl. lo o'-ee Never I so id. "I com 1 "Members are placed in relation upon what is termed the 'Active Each is given ten days in which to propose to the honorary member upon whom she has set her affections.

few months latr the taj: depart, ment had old licenses for 112. 000 car3. spjpch at me court nouse uciooer 19 1888. The Westmoreland band took third prize at the sta'e band contest held at Topeka in October 1888. power to arrange an armistice to exchange prisoners.

I'ncle Nich 1. .1 (ilory Bursts fry .1 of V. "If by the end of that time she olas has had his oil of iinconven-tionulilv for the rest of his blameless life." "Explain she commanded. I explained. Miss Craske sighed, sighed again.

"If-if he hadn't been so 1 i- eusl ill I Tluie oni the Law. ence Journal-Woil Tiiery is a nuspicion out that Gardner in Miiasachetts is playing game. IIs is so terribly progressive that ho has aroused suspicion. He has repudiated party organization, repudiated the convention, repudiated the piriform William Steele has resigned asj city marshal. On October 13.

1888, the follow-ing ticket was nominated by the republicans for Rock Creek township: D. B. Kitts, trustee; J. Ii. 1 ice lis! me ne (Juilc l.liilf, fi those 1 11.

1 lias failed to meet the situation sue is dismissed Hie club with ignominy. If, on the other hand, the man should fail to respond, lie must give excellent reasons for not doing so. failing which, full particulars of the case arc sent to every paper in the city." "But, from the merely masculine point of view "lie hadn't met He didn't U'I LL 1 1KB 'EM! Vo 1 Can't Help it! Allen, clerk; Charles Zabel, treas "Then he shall understain she said, firmlv, and crossed urer, ii. 1'ittinger aid ueorge now, to the Stollicker, justices of (he peace; A. A.

Murray and Ed Townser.d, 'The honorary member has the telephone delightful uncertainty of never know CITY MEAT MARKET OSCAR PLUMMER, Prop. cause ii can't help it? and is stiil running. lie is mak. ing an appeal to the progressives and he is Uking it for granted that the standpat fellows are so anxious to beat the democratic party that they will vote for him in any event. Passi'uly he may be counting high on his results In Kansas the standpat fellows did not hesitate a mo.nent to vote far the MADE COMPLETE' I ing whether or when a lady member has, vulgarly speaking, set her cap tit him.

Nor does he oven know who is upon the active list. The secret is as jealously guarded by the committee as tlu! existence of the club itself." It was five days afterward that I received the note from Uncle Nicholas which announced that he had 1 Are you there Jlr. Yes, T'm Millicent Mil-licent Craske. (leorgo has just called to tell me of your generous offer. Will' 1 accept? Certainly not! Wait, wait I want you to understand why.

The whole thing has only been a joke a stupid joke. There isn't any U. T. P. club.

George and I just invented it because you wouldn't hear- of his marrying, or even let him introduce me. "Yes, we've behaved abominably News 30 Years Old At a meeting of joung men in Westmoreland held October 16. 1883, it was unanimously resolved to oganize a band for Westmoreland. On October 11. 183, David Unfortunate Man, Burberibd V.i..

Last Straw, Could Hardly Look Anything but Gloomy. if I am ready to cry your snles and will guarantee satisfaction. I have had many years experience as a cryer of sales and If yon do not know what I enn do as an auctioneer look me up. been formally elected. The fact was 110 news to me.

Miss Craske, the J. L. HOOVER Westmoreland club's secretary, had already alluded 1 inexcnsflbly. Ye don't want your From the Leaveiworth Times: Before sending the professors of the Slate University out into the state to lecture, the board of administration should examine them as to their qualification for public speaking. A very few of the pro Phone 155 Sproat wbb tying a cow in the shed when in ime way the cow Bilpped and fell on his limb and broke it.

He crept to a horse standing near and mounted it and rode to the to it. I called at once upon my uncle home of Mrs. Cage, the nearest neighbor, and sent for Dr. Skne of That fate often ordains differently was demonstrated by a story told by Governor Klias M. Ammons of Colorado, while on a recent trip through the east.

Some time since, so narrated the governor, Smith returned to his home town in the west after a short absence, and while walking down' the street ran across his friend Jones. Glad greeting and then some conversation. "What in the world isthe matter ith Brown?" asked Smith, stirring Bp the ice in the aforesaid greeting, saw him on the opposite side of lo tender congratulations. We took a taxi to the club forthwith. Miss Craske met us in the hall.

My uncle is not a man whom on would accuse of shyness, but his step lacked, I thought, something of its usual confident briskness. We intro money. Vve re going to try to scrape along tad we hope you'll forgive us and fesK the wedding. I beg your pardon? Yes? How dear of you to say so Bit to raeeiver and turned to with ehisiAf "Oreorg, pt G2 ys? fee? eptia. Yore gm romai at once to re-eeivt tfe TWMralr blessing.

He 'ami bit wtt jttst He Westmoreland. fessors and assistant professors can talk entertainingly to a mixed audience but the great majority of them are about as unfit for public speaking aa the average base ball star would be to fill an engagement as parlor conversationalist, Let the board listen to them before inflicting theni on th public. Th- A family reunion was held at the Jake Siddens home Sunday. The duced him to several people, nai ai lowed him to drift away worth lor ten days afterward I did nnt mm hs been following were present: James Siddens and family and Lawrence Massey of Manhattan, Charley Thompson and fa-nily, Cal Siddens see him at all. I had other things $3,000 a year to any man." the highway a few minutes ago, and to tlunk about Millicent Craske BASEBALL FAMILY.

He There are nine members of my family, and we are just like a1 baseball team. She What position does your father play? He father is the pitcher the other eight support him. She--And your mother? lie She is the catcher. Whenever anything happens, mother always catches it. She What a queer family just like a ball team Tie Yes; we live on a farm, and-mv little brothers play in the out-Hold.

Judge. public hasn't done anything to he looked as gloomy as a candidate who had run on the wrong ticket," and wife, John Campbell and wife among them. But ie particularly grilling afternoon I returned to my And, despite the fact that we are preposterously hiippv, he says so still. deserve severe punishment. rooms to find my Uncle Nicholas, Ed Murphy and two daughters, and Miss Racheal Rogers and Miss Pearl Siddens.

The fol he said, "I want your HOUSEMAID TO HERMIT CRAB. ussrtanee. It's all due to that dia-Mical club of yours. I've been Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S CASTORIA lowing were afternoon callers: Joe "He failed in business," answered Smith. thought you knew all about it." "I knew that he had failed," responded Smith, "but I heard that he had everything made over in his wife's name before the evelone hit him." "So he did," rejoined Jones, "and The common hermit crab keeps a Siddens and family, Lute Siddens housemaid to clean out his house.

When he first starts life this particu and wife-, OlaSiddeis and family. Mrs. Otto Huckstadt, Elmer tiood and family, Mrs. Mary Cochrun. and Lafe Bentby and mother froti lar species of crab hunts for some largo shellfish's shell in which he can live at ease, rent free.

He usually chooses a large whelk shell, and lliere every day since I joined. The very atmosphere of the place seems hypnotic, (iinrge, whose name is next on the active list? Is it is it Miss Craske's?" ''Why are you so anxious to know "Because she's after me." "I'm sorry," I said, "but I'm afraid you'll have to see the thing then his wife eloped with the principal creditor." Havenville. A sumptu us dinner nas served and all report a fire VESSELS QUICKLY BROKEN -UP time. WEAN OF Iron and Stel Ships Disintegrate Rapidly When Wholly Exposed to the SaJt Water. A diver of great experience in connection with wrecked ships made introduces a large seaworm, belonging to what is known as the "nereis" family, and which grows to a length of six or eight inches, to keep the interior of the shell clean.

The crab feeds heartily on sea creatures that wander carelessly into the shell, and throws the indigestible parts of them about the floor. The nereis worm promptly consumes these remains and keeps the shell as clean as a new pin. OMan-jr, KnnsflS, July 2Stli, 101,1. Dr. Honied V.

I'lirsons, Wamego. Kan. Dear Doctor I have no iloubt you will lciiieiiilicr 1 had you do for me in lan-uiny, HUH, quite an expensive piece of crown and liriilc work. Sinei: then I have made a trip to California and tliu coast. The work yoll did was what I tlumglit somewhat coinplicated and extensive piece of work, as it con-istcd of bridge work for all of the upper teeth and three of the lower molars.

As I had put considerable money into this work, and you laid told me it was jint as roud a job as I could pet if 1 l.ad pone to Paris or lmdon for it I tad tlie curiosily to visit different den-ti-ts and see what they would say about it. so I dropped into seven or e'ljjlit dental offices on my trip. The firt one I visited was in Topeka, Kansas, I saw two dentists in San Fianeico, four in Sacramento, and one in Auburn, alifornia. Tbey all, without exception, praised the work and told me I had a fine job of crown and bridge w-urk, and also 0110 that would stand by me as it was made btronj; and durable. well remember what one of tlie best through." My uncle rose, favored me with one last, despairing scowl, and departed.

Two days passed, and then at the club, 1 found myself shaking hands with my uncle, who was sitting on the window scat. Miss Craske was near- very near. POISON IN BEE STING. When a bee stings it gives its victim a hypodermic injection of an irritant poison. This is the bee's defense against its enemies.

In the abdomen of the bee lies a gland which secretes the poison. TIb's passes down to a double bulb in which it is stored until needed. From the bulb a slender tube passes through the sharp sting which lies in a sheath. When the bee stabs its sting into the skin of I he man the muscles squeeze the bulb if poison and a drop of this is quirted into the wound. OLDTIME ORATORY.

Mrs. Helon P. Longstreet, widow of the famous soldier, said at Gettysburg, apropos of an oration that had failed: "The windy, spread-eagle oratory of the past is dead, thank goodness. Such oratory reminds me of the boy who said Ta, what is a brilliant conyersa- "GiHirge," said my uncle faintly, "you will perhaps ho surprised to learn that that Miss Craske Millicent your future aunt the remarkable statement that the wooden vessels survive a great deal longer than iron or steel ones. Wooden ships have been dug out of the sand after having been sunk for centuries.

Iron and steel ships cannot, however, resist for such a long period the action of the salt water. When such a Bhip sinks it descends with great rapidity, and its l)ision with the bottom may go far to break it up. Vegetation settles on its wooden parts, and the barnacles and other parasites themselves sat iip chemncal changes. Every scratch on the pcJnt of the metal work is an opening for EXCUSE OF THE FUTURE. "John, where have you been so long?" "As I was coming home in my monoplane, I got caugkt in an airhole and couldn't get out for' the longest time." mm ym- "I think," she said, kindly, "that Sir Nicholas is trying to tell vou that be has made me a happy woman.

ill and that we are engaged to be "It true, George. According to Hide IT, Stvtion 5, I am compelled it directed to lend Miss Cnuke iVntist-i in San Franei-ro told me, after bail carefully examined the work. He said: home and be sati-tied; that ii a better job than I could do for you." I therefore feel that you have spared no expense for material nor time to give me the best work money can buy. Tbere is also anodicr tiling 1 wish to speak about. In doing all of tbe work you did for me I was surprised that it could be done without any pain worthy c.f mention.

Tnilv vours, FSANK AMDAHL, GREAT SUCCESS. "How did your wife's garden turn out?" "Much better than she expected. Seems her onion bed produced lilies of the valley." Louisville Soon the paint scales off to the altar. We shall bo glad of your cotcraMilations but" lie rose, corrosion. Miss Oldgirl (gushing) Ah 1 if 1 had only been born in the days of chivalry.

Mr. Callier Dnwne Well, you weren't so awfully fur from it. and Inward the door 'as I've and in a few years there is nothing 'A. brilliant conversationalist, but a mass of rust to mark the rest- my replied the old man, 3a the ing place of the vessel. 1 woman who gets the first a ma "i 1 see about a patent ventilator, A.