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it's not for Kate Smith; it's for" Then SHORT PARAGRAPHS. CHRISTNAS NIGHT IN ST. PE.TKR'3. he put both hands over his foolish little mouth and chuckled softly. The Lexington Town company" Of Raised on the Farm.

BYH.H. You'd better go away, or you might cianc county, nas been chartered. Middle Georgia Argca. tell me secrets," laughed Mary. "The Stafford Valley Town company" "Born and raised on the farm." A ht.v And Bobbie, chuckling carder than of Stafford county, has been chartered ever ran out into the street.

with a capital stock of $10,000. Ee3 The Largest -r The little old lady who kept the little old shop where he had spied the pen The Oakley Colby railway company's directors held a meeting in Topeka the other day, and elected officers for the use among pagan nations. The mistletoe, however, had a unique place. The Celtic peoples and the Diuids held it in the Eame veneration that the Romans did. It was used by tbe Romans in religious ceremonies, and it may have been the "golden bough" of the infernal regions.

The Druids gathered it against the festival of the winter solstice with great solemnity, the Prince of the Druids cutting it himself with a golden sickle. It was ueed as a charm against evil excellent medical properties are ascribed to it. It was supposed to possess the pcwer to preaerve from poison and the mystic property of giving fertility. "Kissing under the mistletoe" may have had reference to this ancient belief. There was a tradition that the maid who was not kissed under a bough of mistletoe at Christmas would not be wipers, wes very busy that afternoon.

The tiny place was fall of old fashioned people who were buying her scarlet mittens, or her dainty tasseled hoods and should thank God for being so fortunate as to be born and raised on the farm. There is no place on the green earth bo well adapted to perfectly develop the mind, muscle and manhood aa a farm; where a boy has the purest air, the freshest and healthiest food, plenty of restricted exercise, the brightest BunBhine and the soundest Bleep, the very conditions necsssary for the highest development Nine-tenths of all the men who THIM ensuing year. ocec of The amount of school bonds purchas jackets, or even her dainty glass eyed canton flannel elephants that etood in her windows and stared out at the naugh ed by the permanent fund commissioners since January 15th, 18S5, is $518,953, an amount considerably in excess of that for the same period last year. ty world. have made their mark in anv bnsineap.

Bobbie slipped into a corner, away from the crowd of bustling people and The latest census returns in Secretary looked on. Sims' office show that the average mem profession or pursuit have been born and raised on the farm; this is not, so much because there is better blood on the farm, but because the surroundings of farm life are better calculated to fill out Men and Boys7 Boots, Shoes and Furnish Presently the door bell tinkled, and bership of families in Kansas is 5 4-100, married during the following year. There was once a notion thatits heathnn which by an oil coincidence is the average membership of families as shown by another customer came in. He was a tall man with a very brown face, and he wore a shaggy coat that fell down to his heels. He stood there at the door and what there is in a bov.

and develon a origin should exclude it from the Christ tne census of tne united states. well-grown, health, perfect, self-reliant man. A warrant was drawn the other day mas decorations; but this found no favor with the young people at any period. On the countrarv. thev took ronH (urn by the state auditor on Treasurer Howe scanned the faces of the buyers, one by one.

Then he caught Bobbie's eyes, and smiled down at him. Low on the marble floor I lie; I am alone. Though friendly voices whisper nigh. And loreign crowds are passing by, 1 am aione. Great hymns float through The shadowed aisles.

I hear a flow Refrain. "Forgive them, lor they know Not what they do." With tender joy all others thrill; I have but tears; The false prist. voices, high and shrill, Reiterate the Peace, Rood will: I have bat tears. I hear anew The walls ani scouTga then come low, Sad words, "Forgive them, for they know Not what they do." Close I my side the poor souls kneel; I turn away; Ha'f pitying looks at me they steal They think, because I do not feel, 1 turn away; Ah! if they knew. Bow, following them where'er they go, them, for they know Not what they do!" Above the organ's sweetest strains I hear the groa is Of prisoners, who ie in chains So near and in euih mortal pains, I hear the groans.

But Christ walks through The dungeons ot St, Angelo, And says "Forgive them, for they know Not what they do." And now the music sinks to sighs; The lights grow dim; The Pastorolla's melodies In lingering echoes float and rise; The ligts grow dim; More clear and true, la this sweet tiience seem to flow 'l he words, Forgive them, lor they know Not what they do. The dawn swings incense bilver gray; The night is pas! Now comes, triumphant, God's full day: No priest, no church can bar its way, The nig at is past: How, on this blue Of frori'a tr. nt turner blaze and elow The Marriage ol Kvang-eliat Jonc. ing Goods, Hats, Caps, Trunks, Valises, Etc. tlie-i-Lo-west-r-IFrices D.

C. KENT Vieksburg Herald. I'm looking for somebody he said, in favor of tbe Excelsior Coke and Gas company of Topeka, lor $1,885.75, to pay for gas furnished the state house for the past five months up to November 30th. Rev. Sam Jones whoops up the boys "but I can't find her after all." Now the smile died out of his face and a sad look came instead.

that it should be hung, and that it should have plenty of berries, for the ceremony under it was not duly performed if a berry was not plucked o.T with each kies and consequently the eupply of berries determined the number of kisses. It did not need the Roman use of the plant to recommend such a preventive of the Governor Robinson writes to Secretary sometimes and rakes them terribly about thsir gambling and drinking frolics. "Oh. I've been all alone there bovs. Adams that his address on the 29th of A queer idea was in Bobbie's head.

know all about it. and I nsed to co to He looked up at the shaggy man and laid wistfully: balls and dance, too, boys. But when I wanted to get married, when I wanted January will be confined to the history of the Territory. Many will be curious to know if Gov. Robinson will endorse Prof.

Spring, in his book, or take the view accepted by history of that period. Are you the Prince Are you looking Burling ame, Kansas. Under Union Hall, state of oldmaidiem. Some trace the use of green bush decoration to the orig- decllin8tf for the Princess? Did you go away and never come back any more, till now?" "Who told you all that?" asked the The several county treasurers of Kan to settle down with a good wife, I quit drinking and gambling, and I didn't go to a ball room to get my wife, but I went to a prayer meeting and I got a good one." He told this in Texas, and when he returned to hia boarding house his landlady, who heard hia remarks, eaid: shaggy man. sas have completed their settlements inai Drancnes or vervian among the Romans.

With Romans and Druids the vervian was a panacea for every ill, arid they believed, above all, that it "conciliated hearts which were at variance" "My Bister said Bobbie; "its a Btory. with State Treasurer Howe until Janu ary next. A stream of money is now Once there was a prince and he loved the princess; but he went away and another good office of any nlant in the don blame you, brother Jones, but never came back any more." Christmas season. The Druids only venerated the mistletoe that crew on the beginning to pour into the treasury from county treasurers, who are forwarding the interest due on the indebtedness of their municipalities. That a sad Btory," said the shaggy poor sister Jones, where did ehe go to get her husband?" They Bay this is the oak, but the common mistletoe fviscno man.

nly time he has been floored since he It's good enough for Happy Court," album), with its pearly berries, is gath It is auttoritively announced that the Watchmaker eueler, quit drinking. Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe will imme said Bobbie; and oh, but that was a wise thing for him to say. I A Newspaper Writer's Work. "There only Mary and me, he be The words, "Forgive them, for tney know diately construct 150 fruit cars on freight trucks and twenty-five on passenger trucks. It will, also, as soon as the Sunday Herald.

Mot wnat jey co." gan, but just then the old lady called, "And what can I do for youvBii?" and he A rapid penman can write thirty words weather will permit, contract for the in a minnte. To do so he must draw his went forward to buy his little red and ered from the hawthorn, the old apple tree, the lime and the fine and from other trees. Of late years this parasite has been scarcer than formerly, and efforts have been made to propagate it. This is done by cleaning of the bark under any joint of a young tree with the moistened thumb, and then pressing the glutinous berry on the cleaned place till it adheres to the bark; it will begin to show growth in about fifteen months. The Prince Came Back.

black pen-wiper. pen through tne space, of a rod, sixteen KANSAS. erection of an engine erecting shop, with all the machinery and appliances for constructing locomotive engines. BURLINGAME, pnd a half feet, in forty minutes his lie looked very important asne trotted out into the street, with precious en travels a furlong. We make on an verage sixteen curves or turns of the A CHRISTMAS ETOBT.

Hon. H. C. Sluss. iudge of the 18fch ju present tied up carefully in pink blotting A few sma1! dead leaves came rust paper.

opened a corner 01 tne tiny pen in writing each word. Writing thirty words in a minute, we must make ling down Happy Court: the wind had packagp, aid let the man wno cad for it is an obvious suggestion that in sections of the country where the statistics lowed him taka a peep at it. 480 turns in each mi ute; in an hour blown them on tne popular tree in tne A Full Line of Gold and Silver Watches and Rings- dicial district, has tendered his resignation which has been accepted. Governor Martin has appointed T. B.

Wall one of the leading attorneys of Wichita, and a law partner of Hon. W. E. Stanley, of that city, to fill the vacancy. It is stated thet Judge Sluss resigned from "It's for mv sister.

Ain't it beautiful 6how a falling off in marriages this plant corner Dy tne pump. 28,000, in a day ot only five hours in a year of 300 Buch days for only five cents?" Bobbie counted them, for he stood at Styles in Jewelry. the window of the shabbiest houBe in "Very." said tne man gravely, "vvui ougnt not to oe let out. Mark Twain's Difficulty in Becoming a Coo- the Court with hia nose flattened against she use it often does she write a great Ihe man, therefore, who made 1,000,000 strokes with his pen was not at all remarkable. Many men newspaper writers, for instance make 4,000,000.

the window-pane. deal yourBistei" federate. In his paper in the December Centurr. disinclination to longer serve aa judge, and a desire to return to the profession of law. "Well, no," said Bobbie, looking a "One, two, tnree, lour, he said, Hern we have in the aggregate a mark countiDZ the dead leaves.

shadow less happy, "but and his face "The Private History of a Campaign that Presently he cut hi3 nands in his State Superintendent Lawhead has se rauea, aiarx j. wain Bays: 3 j0 miles long to be traced on paper by such a writer in a year. lit up again, "she used to, when we didn't live in Happy Court; letters and cured from the railroads of the state one pocket, and regan jingling tne pennies "uut west there was a good deal of letters, and they went out to a big ship there. JEWELRY, confusion in men's minds during the SPECTACLES, in the water way on over the water; and one-third rates for the round trip for teachers attending the state convention, to be held In Topeka, opening "One. two, three, four," he Baid.

"Oh, Taxing Bachelors. There is talk in England of an inten first months of the great trouble a good deal of unsettledneES, of leaning first this Now they had reached the corner of dear, but there ought to be hve. For Happy Court. WATCHES, December z8tb. Tickets will be on sale.

CHARMS, pen-wiper costs hv and tne old lady tion to tax bachelors, and the absurdity of the proposition affords much amuse way, men that, then the other way. It was hard for us to get our bearines. I "Goodbye." said Bobbie blithely. Bat over the various roads, December 26, 27 won't take any lessr the man caught him fast by the ai m. and and will be good to January 4tb.

The house opposite bad a tall green call to mind an instance of this. I was ment. But tbe matter is not so outrageously novel. It has been done before. "Little boy," he eaui, "haven't 1 seen CASTORS, Ihe Kansas bouthern will only Bell tickets to Lawrence, also the Alma road bush showing at the window, and the three little Smith's were dancing around piloting on the Mississippi when the news came that South Carolina had gone Who does not know that such a tax was you somewhere before; jnow ten me CLOCKS, LOCKETS, true." will only sell to Burlingame.

but in it making faces and beckoning across to out of the union on the 20th of Decem resorted to in old Rome and Greece Bachelors were heavily taxed, widows SPOONS, neither case there will be no increase in Bobbie. ber, 1860. My pilot-mate was a New "No, you haven't," eaid Bobbie promptly; "and I never saw you either." the rate. 'No. I won't," said Bobbie, as though Yorker.

He was strong for the union; Well, said the shaggy man, gueBS Superintendent Lawhead has issued a bo was l. uut ne would not listen to me BRACELETS they could hear him, I am going to come over. I'm going to stay here until KNIVES, I am a fool. Merry (Jhirstmas, laddie I wiiq any pauence: mv lovaitv was neat card for the purpose of mailing to were compelled to marry after one year of mourn ing some of them may have thought eleven months too long and at one time a legatee, if unmarried could not obtain a bequest unless within the space of one hundred days he found some woman to join him in holy wedloc k. Down the Court, through the windy 8iPer Mary comes." smirched, to his eyes, because "my father the Kansas teachers who may desire to yellow lieht and the falling dead leaves, Jist then a l.tt girl turned tne corner attend the coming state convention, giv CHAINS, FORKS, naa owned slaves.

1 eaid, in palliation of this dark fact, that I had heard mv ot tne street and came merrily up to. ing a list of the hotels and the rates of ran Bobbie as fast as he could. But the man followed him. He followed him Court. She had hair as yellow as Bob father Bay sone years before he died that charge per day, by floors, for room and up the rickety Etirs and to the very door bie's.

and the same eyes of startled board; also the prices of meals, at slavery was a great wrong, and that he RINGS, But we need not go so far back. William III taxed the bachelors in order to carry N.RINGS of the Bhabhy mtij room. would free the solitary negro he then the principal restaurants in the city, as brown. Bobbie rushed down the rickety stairs and opened the door for on his war with France. "Oh; Mary," cried Bobbie, "it's just well as the rate of charge at the same bv owned if he could think it right to give away the property of the family when he be-au-tiful her.

PENS, ETC. Aa Exception. the week. On the other Bide of the card is a diagram, showing the location of the Mary's head came out of the darkness "Did you see the butcher man, 'round was bo straitened in means. My mate Texas Sittings.

by the cupboard door. the corner and his little pigs with the retorted that a mere impulse was noth several places of meeting, and affording "Well, Bobbie," the began but there During a conversation about dogs Gub holly in their mouihs? And the candy other information lor teachers. ing anybody could pretend a good im she stopped and stood as still as a stone store with the pink and white Kriss pulse; and went on decrying my union de Smith made some very enthusiastic remarks about their intelligence. Secretary Sims has commenced "And the prince came back again Krinele. and the grocery ism and libeling my ancestry.

A month later the secession atmosphere had con 'Do you maintain that dogs are more Everything New in the Line of Jewelry "Yes. yes, tfobbie, sne saia patting said the shaggy man from the doorway, Then something wonderful happened, furnishing copy to the printer for the report of the Kansas state board of agriculture for the quarter ending De intelligent than men?" asked Judge his little head; "now let me sit down awhile and rest myself, and then I will siderably tmcitned on the Mississippi, and I became a rebel; bd did he, Bobbie saw it with his own two beauu cember 30, 1885. lne report will con and Silverware Suitable for Holiday or Wedding Presents. tell you of ail the nne-sights ive seen ful eyes. The shaggy man took Mary into his arms, and she put her head tain a compendium of the second census "Yes, in many cases." replied Gus.

"I don't believe it" I know that I've got just that to-dav" We were together in New Orleans, the 26th of January, when Louisiana went out of the union, He did his full share of the state lor the decennial period end' down on his shoulder and cried as Bob So Bobbie pulled out tne Dig cnair Dy ing March 1, 18S5, so far as it relates to the enumeration of inhabitants and the kind of a dog." the winbow. and ran to hang up her of the rebel shouting, but was bitterly bie had never heard her cry before. And the shaggy man kissed her, and kept on lhat doesn't say much for the intelli hat and coat. Staying in the lonesome agricultural statistics. It will also pre opposed to letting me do mine.

He said that I came of bad stock of a father kissing her, and he told the strangest GOOD, USEFUL AND ORNAMENTAL gence of the dog. It's you who are the exception to the general rule." sent a summary of the reports oi corres story to Bobbie and her. who had been willing to set slaves free, pondents on the corn crcp, the area of And now there yawns a social abyss it was about a Bhip and a storm And Then Mary sat down in the chair with winter wheat, etc. Dr. A.

A.Holcomb, between the men. In the following summer he was piloting a federal gun-boat and shouting for the union again, and I was in the confederate an island all alone in the sea. It was about letters unanswered and a long spell Bobbie at her feet, and told him of all the wonderful things in the up-town state veterinarian, and others, will contribute papers. of sickness and weary months of seek Don't fail to call on me when you want anything in the line of Clocks, army. 1 held his note for some borrow' A Newspaper Writer's Work.

A rapid penman can write thirty words O. E. Learnard, tax commissioner of ing. It was about the prince who came shop windows. Bobbie's eyes grew like stars; he sighed softly to himself, and in his excitement ed money.

He was one of the most up the Kansas City Ft. Scottand tbe Kau back once more to the beautiful, faithful in a minute. To do this he must draw right men I ever knew; but he repudiated that note without hesitation, because sas Southern roads, yesterday paid into princeBS. So they married and were tbe state treasury $77,843.37, the amount happy ever after." his pen through the space of a rod six. teen and a half feet.

Iu forty minutes his pen travels a furlong. We make, on I was a rebel, and the son of a man who pulled out tne pennies irom nis ixjcuet, and began counting them over once more. Watches, Jewelry or Silverware. My stock of Watches has never been equalled in this county, and the prices are such that almost everybody ought to be able to aflord a time-keeper at least every business man and clerk. I have Clocks of all styles, which compared with prices of a few years ago are almost given of taxes due the several counties along owned slaves." A Day and Week.

the lines of the above road, for which It was a poor little room; the carpet Morris County Herald State Treasurer Howe issues certificates, an average, sixteen curves or turns of the pen in writing each word. Writing thirty words in a minute we must make was so patched that it looked like a coat The SmaUest Dog in the World. which, are turned over to the county Married, near Belden, Mr, Amos Day of many and the curtains were Nearly two hundred different kinds of away. Those who have not posted themselves on prices lately are doing to Miss Jane Week. 4 SO turns in each minute; in an treasurers.

This large payment being made in currency, and largely in small threadbare. Tne paper on tne wan mat once had been full of gay-colored boughs 0OU; in a day or only hve hourp, without time-keepers for the reason that they think it takes a good. deal of I bills. Treasurer Howe and his capable A Day is made, a Week is lost. But time should not complair- For there will soon be Dsya enough To make a Week again.

in a vear ot 300 such davs, 43,200,000. and blossoms, now snowed only a lew assistants were furnished with consider sickly leaves sprawling against a dirgy doga! Think of it! And yet this is not difficult to believe; lor, we have water dogs, and watch dogs, and sheep dogs, and fighting dogs, and pst and sledge dogp, and carriage dogs; thick dogs and slender dogs, long-legged and The man, therefore, who made 1,000,000 strokes with his pen was not at all re able employment for awhile in counting We have had the pleasure of attend money to buy one. Come in and disabuse your mind, and you will carry a Clock home with you. My stock of Silverware is superb call in and buy a sett white. the money, to verify the correctness of ing many weddings among our circle of markable.

Many men newspaper Bat the rosy little fire flickered and he payment. writers, for instance make 4,000,000. fluttered, and the sun falling in a patch of Knives and Forks, or Spoons, or a Castor, Fruit Dish, or someteing to make short-legged dogs; dogs for killing rats, acquaintances, but this caps all when we take into consideration the amount of timo lost in a few moments. At the pending term of the United Here we have in the aggregate a mark 300 miles long to be traced on paper by upon the floor brought tne popiar snau-owawithit: and Bobbie's yellow hair States circuit court the casas of C. Wood the wife happy.

Larger stock and Lower Prices than ever before, at and doga for killing wild boars; dogs for use, and dogs for ornament; dogs to care for us, and dogs for us to care for. uch a writer in a year. and Mary's together, made warmth and Davis against the 'Frisco railroad, are Mew Mule Joke. color for what would else have been a attracting considerable attention, both as A Vexed Question Settled. New York Son Then there is the little dog, the toy dog as it is called.

The smallntssto which a da 1 nicture. to the amount, and also on ac F. W. HUNT'S, Burlingame, Kas. Texas Sittings.

In front of one of the blacksmith So Mary came to the end of the sights count of the importance of the questions Rev. Whangdoodle Baxter undertook dog can be redcced is remarkable; and if shops at Green Cove Springs, a she had seen, and Bobbie asked: involved, mere are. in all. six cases the size of the very smallest dog had not to enlighten a dark little Sunday school kid. "Is that all? And it's most like the young negro was trying to extract a nan from the hind hoof of an able-bodied FURNITURE! been otncially recorded, no one could be FURNITURE! Prince, ain't it.

Mary?" only four of which are now pending in the United States court. The facts in brief are that upon the whole of the "Who am de fodder of Zsbedee's chil blamed for doubting the tacts concern- and vicious looking mule. An aged col A little," said Mary, smiling to ner- ine the little fellow. dren? Talk up now, niggah." 'Frisco system there is but one coal pro self, for she knew what was coming ored man came along, watched the operation for a moment and observed: "GueBS dunno. vey don't lib in our nabor ducing point, and that point is at and next.

hood." you go to Heaven if dat mule kicks you around Pittsburg, in Crawford county. "Once there was a prince," began "What is de name ob de childruns "Tiny," a black-and-ian terrier, has the honor of having been the smallest full-grown dog that ever lived. He belonged to Lieutenant-General Sir Archibald Maclaine of England, and in honor nnra" nK.omi nnr. fuaa t.h wnv nnlif Bobbie "was it a long time ago, Mary?" what libs next doah to yer?" Kas. The 'Jbrisco system goes west through a good coal market, and "Cl'ar "Whar den?" asked the old man.

He always asked this beyond." the plaintiff in these suits, Mr. Davis, Mary always gave him the same answer, of his extreme tinyness, is now carefully -ALSO- "Yerger." "What's de name ob dar fobber?" ''Kurnel Yerger, Bah." "Now, tell me who am de fodder ob organiz9d a coal company at Pittsburg and sighed: preserved under a glass case. A( Before Veracity. bought coal land, laid down railroad "A long time ago, Bobbie." Tiny was less than four inches long, New York 3un. "And he was tall and handsome and Zebedee's childruns!" Husband "The census-taker was in, 1 -m i 1 -STv young; and ne aeariy iovea tne rrm and could comfortably curl up and take a nap in a common glasa tumbler.

An ordinary finger ring was large enough Sewing Machines and Musical Goods, track and put in a very expensive plant for the purpose of coal production, and started in a lucrative coal trade. When the trade was established and the mine in good order, the. general manager of "Kurnel Yerger, ob course." Lemonade in the West. cess "And he was going to marry her," said Mary, "and gave her everything she dear. He demanded the age of each of the family, and I was obliged to give him yours.

He said it was the law." Wife (enraged) 'Law I What do I care for Law? John Smith, did you tell that forms collar; and when he sat up, a baby's hand would almost have made a Wall Street News. wanted, and then The Children's Aid society sent a re broad and safe resting-place for him. the road, Mr. C. W.

Rodgers, opened negotiations for the purchase of the plant, but the coal company refused to Bell. "And then he went away," interrupted AT BED-ROCK PRICES. Ot course Tiny was no account against a rat. Indeed, a hearty, self-respecting Thereupon a rival coal company was es generated New York newsboy to some far distant western town. In his days of sin he had often been regaled at icecream and lemonade festivals, and had learned the secret of the concoction of Bobbie, and never came back any more." "Though as long as she lived, the man my age?" Husband (hurriedly) "Yes, I told him you were twenty-three." Wife (molified) 'Well, I suppose the has got to be mouse would have stood its ground against the little fellow.

But if Tiny Princess thought he would, and waited had not strength, he did have courage, IB. for him." said Marry. the latter beverage. So when the glori and would bark as lustly as his little lungs would let him at the biggest rat Bobbie always looked Bolemn when they came to this part of the story. In ous fourth arrived he invested $11 in a lemonade layout and reaped a profit of that ever lived when the rat was dead To tell the whole truth, Tiny was $32.

Some day he will learn the secret ITT 1 .1 i 1 some inexplicable way he thought that he could remember the Princess, and Too Cheap to Steal. Somerrille Journal Customer "Aren't you afraid to leave all these clothes hanging along the sidewalk with nobody to watch them? I should think you would be afraid some ouiu respeciiuuy announce that ne is -making wonderfully low prices on of watering railroad stock, and then the markable and he was famous, but he was not very happy. He could of had that he had known her. And had not tablished called the "Rodgers' Coal and by gross discriminations the Davis (Pittsburg Coal) Company was driven from the field and mined. The discriminations in rates in favor of the Rodgers Coal ompany amounted, during a considerable space of time, to over $1,000 per month, and this, in addition to the refusal of the railway company to furnish, cars, brought about a destruction of the Pittsburg coal company, and left the general manager and the Rodgers' coal company the masters of the field.

TheBe matters run through nearly three years, and the amount Bued for is $97,000. finger of pride will be pointed at him all around. her eyes been brown as his Mary'B? almost anything he wished to eat, but he everything in the Furniture Line, and if you are in need of anything from a Sewing Machine Needle to a Parlor Suite, or a Grand Piano, now is the time I feel eorry for the Princess," he said. had no appetite, lie Bhivered most OX body would steal them." Dealer A Car Porter Frightful Look, the time, even though he was uauallv "Stheal doze clothes? mein Himmel, no Then Marry kissed mm. He jingled his pennies once more.

to buy. Stock large and paterns of the latest design. Chicago Herald. hidden in warm wrap3. Of course he (confidently) vy, mein friend, I dell you, I sells doze glothes so sheap that id "Do you think pen-wipers are nice, caught cold easily, and then, oh, dear! Mary?" how pitifully he sneeze.

UNDERTAKING dosen't bay to stheal them." "Very nice," said his Bister; "and 4 those little red and black ones around Worse Than She Thought. At a meeting of the directors of the Coffins, Caskets, add everything connected with the undertaking busi the corner are i-ist beautiful." "Ain't they?" cried the delighted Bob Topeka, Frankfort Marysvile railway TheChrUtma Tree, Harper's Magazine, fill i. a nets. Finest hearse in the county; will be furnished free. company, held in Topeka, the following bie.

Two iitue macs blocks and one "I have traveled a good deal in my time, remarked an elderly man. "I have been in railway accidents, explosions, battles, the craters of volcanoes, Kansas cyclones and African simoons, but never, no, neyer, did I have my breath knocked ousof me and my senses completely dazed as they were a few minutes ago." "How did it happen?" "Why, I gave the sleeping car porter a quarter and asked for fiteen cents change. The look he gave me made me. seasick." Weeping Widow Yes, poor John met with a terrible fate. He fell from the fourth story window and was instantly killed.

little red one. Oh Mary.but they're five -ine custom or decoration hv rreen officers were elected: A. Williams; president; R. W. Jenkins, vice president Jf3 Location, second door south of the Burlingame Savings Bank, on plants and flowers in all sorts of festivals is as old as history, and of course the use cents, and I've only got lourj" She held out the coveted penny.

11. r. Dillon, secretary; tu. a. Alexander Topska avenue.

Respectfully, chief engineer and an executive com Sympathising Friends-Dear, dear, and was it so bad as that, Mrs. Larkins? I un derstand that he fell only from, the third "I think Katie Smith like one for ot evergreens at Christmas needs no ex mittee, consisting of A. L. Williams, II. B.

PRATT, Burlingame, Kansas. f. Oh, no, no, planation, nor is the custom any less Christian because it is of immemorial W. Jenkins, and Frank Schmidt. story wioaowt no!" shouted Bobbie, "but.