The Russell Informer from Russell, Kansas • 2

fast on the table and the furniture in THE FUNNY SIDE OF RUSSEL REFORMER the house stayed there until carried off by vandals, for the Canadian never AN INDIAN PAID, F.J. SMITH, PnblUber. came back. A Swede, living near by, hearing of the flight of the Canadian and of the impending danger, bundled his wife and two children into the old BY EUGENE I. SMITH.

Needless Extnvagance. Civil Service Commissioner John B. Harlow waa before the senate civil service Investigation committee recently and presented some interesting statements and suggestions in reply mainly to questions on the subject submitted by Senator Elkins of the committee. He said that if all of the government employes in this city were required to work the full seven hours a Kansas, The recent threatened outbreak of prairie schooner, mounted one of' the ponies and struck off across the coun yjniLi for a long time have felt the need of a safe, gentle and yet effective treatment for the cure of ills peculiar to their sex. Many of them have spent fortunes in the vain effort to get well; have submitted to the knife and left the operating table more dead than alive.

To the mother who is burdened with pain, and Birds of Feather. There was a man in our town, who try, leaving his family in the barn lot; he had forgotten to hook up the the Seminole Indians recalls to memory some amusing incidents that happened in connection with the outbreak of the Cheyenne Indians in the To- traces. waa not very wise. He went to a peka church and pleaded with the The Indians passed several miles skies. As was his wont at such-a- day, as required by law, it would mean a gain of 4,500 extra hours a day, with fall of 1879.

The Cheyenne, who had been placed on their reservation in the territory but a few months, were very restless during all that time and A hit Kit am Mian dismi, time he tried to make it out that if the Lord would come right close, he'd tell saving approximately of over 1800,000 west of us, and intent only on getting to the Bad Lands, were committing no depredations unless molested by the cowboys. A few days later they were the daughter whose pale cheek and lack a year for clerk hire. him all about the People's Party, of ambition give evidence of deranged functions comes were bent on returning to their hunt At the present the great bulk of em. Populists, Democrats, and such, and stopped by the soldiers near the Ne if it ployes work six and a half hours. The gain outside of Washington would be ing grounds in the Bad Lands, from where they had been removed by the braska line and driven back to their try and have him take a hand, didn't amount to much.

titan reservation in the territory. in this proportion. government. 'You mirht be able to assist the Thus ended the last Indian War in Commissioner Harlow believed that many millions of dollars would be western Kansas. I was at that time a little boy, and was living with my parents in a small town in western Kansas, having but thing a while or two, if you'd only take a hand right now, and do what you could do.

You could help us put these Populists back where they ought saved if the departments were man Education, aired like the average business house recently moved there from New York. with "healing in its wings" to soothe, to strengthen and to Cure. Viavi is a home treatment of vegetable origin, gentle in action but powerful in its effects. No weak, suffering woman need necessarily remain so. Viavi has cured thousands, why not you? We ask you to investigate.

Particulars free. or corporation. to stay. back on the farms of Kansas, Chief Examiner Servon ox the com Rumors flew thick and fast all the season about the dissatisfaction among the redskins, about a hundred work in bv the-dav. They've kicked Plans for the new pnblic library mission testified that up to date 300, 0 up every sort of muss, contentions building in New York City have been miles south of us in the territory, but 230 people had been examined and 52, war and strife, and have run entirely accepted, the building to cost io apprehension was felt by the set out the state the New York Mutual TOPEKA, KANSAS.

We want a capable lady representative in each community. 000. 557 appointed to office, not including reinstatements. The entire expense of the examination was $2.74 each, and tiers owing to the proximity of Fort Life. Next in order was the Trav The school children of Kentucky Dodge and the troops quartered there, eler'a.

which was pious, kind and the cost of examining and certifyin true; but Webb McNall got after it, have been asked to contribute each a penny for the purchase of a library these appointments to office was $11.75 although it was thought that should the Indians attempt to go north they would go through that section of the for the battleship Kentucky. each. The Star Grocery. with his number leven shoe. When he'd given it a round or two, where the sitter always sits, it was made up into sausage meat, and into little bits of bits.

Then General Boyle took up Prof. Henry W. Farnam, of Yale, is country. True to their threats, one day A Kansan needs but to look over the a member of the civil service board reports and statistics of other states to telegram came flashing over the wires recently appointed in New Haven under the provision of the new city WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. know that Kansas is prospering this the fiirht.

with a two-edee, naked "500 Cheyennes have left the territory year out of all proportion to the raa charter. sword; and what he did was fearful iority of the states of the union. If Y2 Bast Sixth Street. An effort is being made by the Fed yes 'twas terrible, Lord. Another of our friends, Lord, he surely made McKinleyism has caused it why going north.

Warn the settlers to be prepared." Two nijhts after this I was awakened from my sleep about midnight by my mother, who, badly frightened, told me to hurry and get erated Woman's Clubs of Michigan to doesn't it apply equally throughout it buzz, for the Kansas City stock Groceries, Fresh Meats, Queensware and Tinware. raise $10,000 the sum needed to com the country. plete the Woman's Building of the We Guarantee Everything We Sell. yards is not just what it was. Then Bush and Stryker they got in, and Heflebower to; and Capt.

Morris took University of Michigan. up and dress, as the Indians were com, ing. No further awakening was nec The increased earnings of railroads Col. John Lambert, vice president a hand to show what he could do. essary, a few minutes we start 19 lbs finest California Granulated Sugar, $1 00 Fancy Colorado Potatoes, per bu 70 12 lbs fancy handpick Navy Beans 25 and manager of the Consolidated is being advanced as an argument of present prosperity.

Admitting the fact, as Republicans contend, that ed for the village, where my parents had been told the women and children Steel and Wire Company, has present While rake-offs didn't go no more, and other things as well, yet they made things look peculiar for Republicans 11 lbs Wright's Wisconsin Pure Buckwheat Flour 25 there is an exact fixed number of dol ed the city of Joliet, 111., with $30,000 were gathering for greater protection 3 pkgs King's Self Rising Buckwheat Flour 25 for a library building fund. lars in this country, did you ever at tempt to figure it out just how a for to tell the voters at the election, which we will have this fall; bo we have come to you, 0 Lord, with our stomach The Rev. William F. Lewis, of Wil eitrn owner of these railroads can in On arriving there, we found a motley crowd of half-dressed men, women and children, in all stages of bravado and Idiocy. The inhabitants were but recently from the eastern states, and mington, has been called to the professorship of Hebrew and Old crease his pile and at the same time in- full of gall.

So here we are, Lord 3 pkgs Aunt Jemima Pancake Flour 25 500 lbs Sugar Cured California Hams, per lb. 05 2cans 3-lb solid packed Tomatoes 15 4 cans Sweet Corn. 25 20 lbs Pearl Hominy 25 12 lbs Bulk Scotch Oats 25 1 pkg Rolled Oats 05 crease yours? we are, with only hope in you; and Testament Scripture in the Presby with monev in our purses and a rail were naturally very much frightened, terian Theological college at Bala, road oass or two; and now, Lord Iona, Michigan, and Spencer, Iud- expecting to be killed and scalped be Wales. do help us, till we climb the golden tana, nave suffered serious damage by fore morning. Some of the women staii 1" But he'd been prayin to the The government, in the state of fire.

3 lb pail Wolff's Pure Leaf Lard 18 5 lb pail Wolff's Pure Leaf Lard 30 were holdinsr their children in their devil, the other wasn't there. arms and crying, wishing they had 10 lb pail Wolff's Pure Leaf Lard 60 The disorder in Italy grows. Mobs never come to Kansas. Others were Neuvo Leon, Mexico, has ordered that the pupils of all official schools shall be taught writing and all manual tasks with the left hand as well as If prosperity has struck us, why have appeared in half-a-dozen towns 20 lb pail Wolff's Pure Leaf Lard 1 15 Good White Lard in bulk per lb 05 praying, while the men were trying to must Republican journals devote their and villiages and demanded a reduc quiet them by explaining how easily columns to long arguments and re Warren's Al Salmon, per can 10 the right. tion in the price of bread.

The mill they would clean out the indians. neated assertions in an effort to force tary has been kept busy. The fifty-one members of the fresh A number of the real brave men had the people to believe it? TRY OUR COFFEE. man class of Beloit College, who were A general exodus to Colorado and left the hotel and were posting out sentrys and sending out couriers into the country to warn the claim holders 35 cent Java and Mocha, per lb. 25 30 cent Java Blend, per lb 20 suspended for going out of town to a banquet on Thanksgiving day, have been re-instated.

They have all Oklahoma Is contemplated by the cit Secretary Gage is again before the committee. Like the boy with the new pair of skates, he continues to of their danger, and watch for the izens of North Blue Rapids. The heirs 4 cans our own guaranteed Java and Mocha 80 of Uncle Andy Scott's estate will set promised sincere loyalty to college first signs of the indians. Some of 1 pkg Arbuckle's Lion or Levering's 10 skate on the side walk, while he fond' law. tied on the mountains near Idaho the men exhibited bravery to a reck- ly imagines that the river is frozen 1 lb can Chase Sanborn's Seal Brand 35 li lb pkg Chase Sanborn's Seal Brand 25 Springs, where a new church of over, and he has shoved his Chicago JNikoia uesia, the inventor, an the Latter Day Saints will be started less degree.

One man in particular, a German hotel keeper, who had been a sargent or some other equally im lib Golden Rio 10 bank into the government business. nounces that he has perfected vacum Other Saints from Blue Rapids will tubes of such high illuminating power setlle in Oklahoma. portant officer, in a Prussian regiment, An exact statement, supported by that they may be used in lighthouses, 1 gallon Sugar Syrup 20 15 bars Fairbank's Soap 25 10 bars Silk Soap 25 was fool-hardy in his bravery. At the and that they will enable the pho Clarkson, the Kansas insurance rate first news of the indians he hastened tographer to work by night as well 9 bars White Russian Soap 25 maker, has at last concluded that the to get out his old uniform, and, array as by day. the Bepublican records themselves, should be submitted to the people, showing the amount of money the Cy Leland party has failed to account for in the state house and other funds, and leave them to explain their own people of Kansas can manage to get ing himself in it and buckling on a 20 lbs Sal Soda 25 8 lbs Laundry Starch 25 Miss Rose C.

Swart, who has been along without him, and has withdrawn saber and an old revolver, he looked 7 pkgs 9 O'clock Washing Tea 25 his rate books from the state. The connected with the Normal School at Oshkosh for twenty-six years, has insurance managers, however, say deficiency in the state treasury. been elected president of the Wiscon that they will continue the case of and felt able to whip the entire band of indians without any help from his companions. But he finally concluded to let his friends share in the glory of victory, and called for volunteers to 8 pkgs Fairbank's Gold Dust. 25 6 lbs nice California Raisins 25 6 lbs Raisin Cured Prunes 25 Dry Salt Bacon, per lb 4 sin State Teachers' Association, the The strong-lunged Dawes, and in Clarkson vs.

McNall, in which it is sought to restrain rhe Commissioner first time that honor has been accord ed a woman. sipid Bradford, and many others, occupied the chair of the attorney gen from interfering with the rate bureau, Use C. P. Baking Powder. If it is not as we guarantee, as good as Price's as they profess to desire a ruling on A bill has been introduced in the eral of this state for years, and yet or Royal, return it and get your money back.

some of the questions involved. enlist in his company of "minute men." He thought they needed a breast-work of some sort to fight behind, so they got out some old beer kegs and lumber and built a fort out state legislature, of Georgia, in regard not one of them ever discovered a sin to the eligibility of women for en Mail Orders Shipped Promptly. gle one of the evils that Boyle has discovered and corrected. Why? They E. Utt, president of the Cuban trance into the state university.

The relief association at Omaha, has of some three-quarter inch stuff that a had the same authority and the same chancellor of the university declares himself, it is stated, as unequivocally just received the following note, with boy could have thrown a stone through opportunity. Why? check enclosed: "Dear Sir: Enclos in favor of the bill. After performing this feat of valor they returned to the "hotel," and the Jftopefca Sceb Douse. ed find check for $100. The sufferings Obstreperous Cy accuses John James Girard College, at Philadelphia, Pa.

of the Cubans appeal to the hearts of brave sargent, after partaking freely of "booze," mounted an old table and ESTABLISHED IN 1376. completed the half century of its ex the people, as their struggle for liberty istence on January 3, and celebrated Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Garden. Field and Flower Seeds has for many months to the sympath ies of those who love free government, the event with appropriate ceremonies. Flowing Bulbs, Plants, Flower Pots, Vases, Wire Stands, Garden Implements and Insect Poison, Nearly six thousand young men have commenced an impassioned harangue to his followers, partly in German and partly in English, exhorting them to be brave, and if need be to die like men fighting for their homes. The Yours truly, W.

J. Bryan." of the free silver heresy. How terrible! Such accusations, or any other, considering their source, would have a tendency to polish the dome on the state capitol, but when applied to Ingalls, just think of it, from Cy to Ingalls, how can we be expected to deliver a written opinion as to the extent of its ravages. been educated through the munificence PRODUCE and GRAIN, HAY and STRAW. of the late Stephen Girard.

Rev. w. E. Woodward, pastor of POULTRY SUPPLIES: Ground Oyster Shell, Ground Bone Crystal A chair is to be founded at the var liquor finally getting the better of the ious universities of Russia for the pur the M. E.

church of this city, was elected representative for Lamed and Pawnee county to the convention to sargent's bravery, he fell off the table, and, rolling under it was unable to get pose of having the Hindustani tongue up and stayed there until morning. Grits, Pratt's Poultry Food, Lee's Lilcft Killer, Anti-Freezing Chicken Fountain. Buyers and sellers of apples and all kinds of produce. Address, S. H.

DOWNS, Manager, 306 Kansas Topeka, Kansas, be held by the Kansas State Temperance union at Topeka February 1 and talked to officers. The pupils are to be sent to India to complete their studies if they attain a certain degree Living out in the country some eight Rev. oodwerd is an earnest, en miles was a settler with a large family of proficiency, to be determined by of boys, all named after presidents of thusiastic temperance advocate, and has done much work along that line examination. According to the current rumors all metals except lead can be found in Alaska, and lead will be used extensively there pretty soon unless all symptoms are misleading. There is every reason to believe that anyone who is looking for trouble in Alaska can find it early enough by waiting there until spring.

the United States, and he had them from Washington to Grant with The school board of Iron Mountain, to suppress the joints in this city since his location here a year ago. State Superintendent Inglis, of Illi scarcely a slip. The two couriers that has passed the following reso nois, is about to Begin an investiga lution: "All teachers are hereby re- had been sent to warn his neighbor hood, being great wags, and not be Date advices trom Iola are to the ef tion of the way in which the law re quiring the teaching in the schools of quested to refrain from attending fect that the citizens ticket has de lieving much in the Indian scare, con dances, parties and other social.enter- the effects of alcohol on the human body is carried out. A vote was taken tainments held upon evenings pre ceding days upon which school is to be at Belleville as to whether it should cluded they would have some fun with the father of presidents. While one went to the house to awaken the family and tell them of the rumors, the in session." feated the entire republican ticket, with the exception of one member of the board of education.

The issue was municipal ownership of the gas and water plants, which the citizen's ticket favored. be comnlied with, and the nays were The attorney-general and state largely in the majority. The mem bers of the Belleville board of educa other rode out on the prairie several A free kindergarten association has been formed in Jersey City, the object of which is to establish free kindergarten for poor children in different parts of the city. John J. Voorhees has been elected president, and a board of governors appointed, consisting of thirty prominent citizens, both ladies and gentlemen, headed by Mr.

E. F. C. Young, president of the Con-solidated Traction Company. Si A Florida negro stole a watch and, being hotly pursued, jumped into a river.

A hungry alligator swallowed the negro; but the crowd lynched the alligator and secured the watch, which hadn't lost a minute in the excitement Students of Algiers on Friday at Because the average Kansan refused to vote for Morrill, and has therefore accomplished something this year, is only a reminder that there are other worlds to conquer. Kansas may lead the world in advance thought and practical application, but she must not delegate to herself that degree of selfishness in her glory that will blind her to the misery and destitution of men of her sister states. school superintendent of Kansas have decided that two hundred schoolhouses rods, and, waiting till the team was finn mi, he held responsible for this intentional disregard of the law. hitched up and the mother and the boys packed into the old lumber wag in the depopulated districts in West The largest pin factory in the world that of Birmingham, England, The University of Missouri receives ern Kansas may be sold at public auction. These buildings have stood for years unoccupied, the homes of on and ready to start, gave an unearthly yell and fired a couple of shots.

The record that team made in that where 37,000,000 pins are manufactured every working day. All the from the estate of John C. umiey Jirmi. not bv will, but unaer rne bats and owls. ight miles to town never was equal operation of a law recently passed by other pin factories in England together turn out about 9,000,000 pins every led by Maud S.

They arrived in the A university for women is to be es fVi loirUlatiire. nrovidincr that if a day. Ihe daily output of pins in village with only one tire left on the ft -n. I man dies leaving no father, mother, tablished at Tokio, Japan. The plan has the support of the principal offi France exceeds 20,000,000 and Germany or direct lineal descendant, a certain cials and nobles of the empire, and the tempted to burn the French Zola in effigy, but were prevented by the sol oer cent, of his estate, excludingjany and other countries in Europe manufacture about 10,000,000 more daily, so wagon, and shy John Quincy Adams, who had fallen out and had not been missed, or the father would not stop to pick him up.

Emperor and Empress have contribu amount left for charitable or religious diery. ted money toward it. It will cost, according to the estimates, about purposes, must go io Settlers left everything they had in 000 to Btart it. Gussy: "Why do you so persistent Ex-Senator Ingalls can now be read out of the Republican party with both feet. In his Chicago interview of the 18th he is guilty of a species of treason not to be tolerated in this Christian land.

He says: "The state of Kansas is just now enjoying a greater degree of prosperity than for many year8induced by the large crops and good prices." If the Senator had told the exact truth only just once, and had added the Populist government, we would feel Inclined to retract some of the unsavory facts heretofore published concerning him. At the session of the Academle des ly wear the hair of another woman on your head?" their homes and pulled out of the country, never to return. One in particular, a Canadian, who was not notified until the next morning just as the family was sitting down to breakfast. Beatrice: "For the same reason that the total production of pins amount to about 86,000,000 every day in Europe alone. According to a statistician only a minimal part is broken, worn out or spoiled by bending, but almost 99 per cent are lost.

Taking the population-of Europe at 250,000,000 every third person must lose a pin every day to use up the production of pins per day. The value of this loss would be $5,000. Sciences, held at Paris on December 13, the Cuvier prize of 1,500 francs was awarded to Prof. O. C.

Marsh, of The Georgia legislature has passed a bill for the establishment of a textile school as a branch of the state school of technology in Atlanta, The sum of $10,000 is appropriated for the purpose, on condition that a like sum be raised. The Bchool will be the first that you wear the skin of another calf on your feet. Not even waiting to eat the meal al Yale University. This prize is ready cooked they bundled into the awarded every three years for the Ml druggists sell Dr. Miles' Nerve Plasters.

most remarkable work either on the wagon, started for the railroad and took the first train east. The break- Whatstopa Neuralgia? Pr.VUes PalnfUla, 0f its kind in the South. animal kingdom or on geology.".