Leavenworth Weekly Journal from Leavenworth, Kansas • 2

II1ST0KY. "And I am supposed to be fond of Origin of lie Kiiiihuh Academy of Ki'lence. it!" oliserved Lucy, liltleriy. "And Reuben's irirls don't want old John D. Parker.

U. in the folks slnvinir I here. It's too much Kuhms City Itcrirw of tttnl trouble, lliev snv." lidded Scth. (limtru for March, savs: When I was Lucy bit 'her lip to keep back the words she inisrht have uttered and called la April, to Lincoln col lege, lopeka, there was no sclcnlilU said, instead: association in Kansas, and no general interest in science in the state. The "Where is ho to sleep? The Bclfords people of Kansas had sulVcrcd intense have the rout lied room, and your Cousin Susan occupies the back, and the four Miss Pattersons sleep in the two hall chambers, and the hired men Al'ltlL MIIHIO.

MhItii to tint nil day limit; Neither In the eventide Due lie hi Int IiIh Iliipi.v Is the little hint, Id tin' Hurt spring went her; lie Ik rupture iluy uml night, Willi spring and luve together. Listen til the HN't'H rhyme, nve Inspires hlrt hoiit To the Kprlng time of IiIh life, Kiiith ini'1 hope Jovoun Ik the poct'a luy, hi life's April weiillier; Life Ih rapture nlu'lil uml day, With youth umlliivv together. lllnl! around your empty neHt A 1 1 1 1 wind will liluw IVietl Into every Mil Drifts the wiiitiir'K wiuw. Wurlile luve songs, huppy bird, In the sweet HprliiK weather; Poet I sing, fur only uni'u (tome youth uml luve together. tlrmnt tlrlyy, in Nrm York Juurimt, ly in the border stflie followed by the civil war, of which at Topcka.

there were still evidences in the rille-pits have the srarrct room. along the southern edge of the town and in the palisades still standing at She might have added that she and her husband, and the baby, had slept the intersection of Kansas avenue and Sixth street. in a hot littlu den opening from I ho kitchen for four weeks, vainly expect Prof. IS. F.

of the Kansas Agricultural college, had published a ing Mr, and Mrs. ISeltord to depart and that she never yet had a chance to invite her father to the farm in nleasant weather. Hut she was magnanimous and held report on the geology or the state, and another report had been published by Prof. (i. ('.

Swallow, late of the University of Missouri; Prof. Frank II. Snow'liad recently been called to the University of Kansas. Major F. Hawn, of Leavenworth, was working on the her peace.

"Oh, you can liml some place for "THOU ART Til MAN." him! said her husband, tiirlitl v. "There's that littlu room at thu end of "It's tli lust straw thiit breaks the the hall where the wheel is. meteorology of the state. These scientists ami some others were pursuing camel's back," said Lucy; bursting "Hut it isn't furnished!" pleaded various lines ot scicntilic investigation, into that's. The pleasant June sunbeams ciuik Luev.

but there was no organization to bring "You can easily sew a carpet to peeping into the cool, stone paved i I airy, where pans of Milk ami cream gether out of those old pieces lrom the Bclfords' room; and its no trouble hired men at the vacant farm house, and engaged a stout dairyman, and a house servant to wall on Lucy. Ami lie telegraphed to her father to come to Silvan Bridge at once, "She deserves a treat," he said, "lie shall spend the summer with us." And then he went to tell Lucy. She had fainted among the butler-cups, picking strawberries for tea. Poor little Lucy! The machinery had utterly refused' to revolve any longer. llis'heart grew cold within him.

"Shu will die." lie thought, "and I shall have murdered her!" ISut she did not die. She recovered her strength by degrees. "It is better than any medicine," she said, "to know than Sefh is thinking of me and for me." And Uncle Paul "thu last straw," as she had called him had proved her salvation. "I didn't want her to go as EMail's wife did," said Uncle Paul. Scaling-Wax Fashionable.

The fashion papers have recently stated that sealing-wiix was again coming into use, and that it was considered very fashionable to seal letters with wax of different colors, and press a seal ring or a watch fob, or a coin into the warm wax. so that the person receiving the letter could know that the sealing was genuine. This would do away with the licking of dirty mucilage on envelopes, made of refuse glue, and give tone to correspondence sealed in the old way. A young fellow on the East side read the articles about sealing-wax, and desiring to lead the fashions, he prepared himself with stationery and wax, wrote a number of letters', and proceeded to seal them with wax. It is no easy job for an amateur to use a stick of sealing-wax, and the young man found it so.

lie tonka stick of red sealing-wax in one hand, and the letter in the other, held the letter under the gas-burner, and put the wax in the flame. The red hot wax dropped all over the letter, and a drop of wax struck his thumb nail and froze lie dropped the letter and the wax, put his thumb in bis mouth and scorched his tongue and then felt hs though he was on lire from the feet up, and on looking down to his feet he found that the red hot stick of sealing-wax had lodged in one of his slippers and the hot wax had stuck to his stocking, and the air was full of a perfume such as one gets in a blacksmith's shop when the smith puts a hot horseshoe on the hoof of a horse. The young man was discouraged. to put up a muslin curtain to the win were ranged in orderly array; great stone puis stood 1 1 li I I I ho shelves, and a hind painted crhurti was alwady planed on tlio table for service. dow and lilt in a col bed.

1 Here arc plenty of good sweet, husks in the corn bouse, and you can uist lack together Mr. Bellenilcn was justly proud of liis dairy. Not a chance guest came to a mattress, and whitewash the ceiling, and What's that IScniali? The cows the house hut was invited down to sen in the rye lot! Dear me! everything it; not a housekeeper in the neighlmr- goes wrong it I step into the house tor a moment. And really, Lutic, these tendant upon the organization of the Kansas Aeadi of Science, gave me I moved to Kansas Cily, to try Hnd repent the work there which I had heeu the humble instrument, with the assistaniteof others, in doing in Kansiis. For seven years I was permit ted to work on, amidst the whirl of a large and growing cily, in discouragement, and sometimes in linaneial embarrassment that almost paralyzed my efforts in striving and assisting to lay the foundations of the Kansas City Academy of Science.

Life indeed has been a hard struggle and I have failed to realize many of my early ideals; but if the people o'f Kansas and Kansas City will continue to cherish these acadamicH so that they shall become a blessing to multitiujes In coming years, and if these academics will remember that they are closely related in origin, Interest iuul work, and ever bear toward each other those fraternal relations which should chsracterize scicntilic brethren, I shall be recompensed beyond any expression of words True View of Indian Character. Rev. Dr. ISaird. of Odanah, Wisconsin, protests against the common notion (hat the American Indian is a monster whose chief occupation and pastime are killing, scalping, Haying and torturing his neighbors, lie declares that the oilier view which is the favorite one with the novelists and poets, is equally removed from the actual truth.

The Indian, he says, is neither a lierce, blood-thirsty, relentless monster, hopelessly degraded and incapable of improvement; nor is he especially cleanly in his habits, brave in lis actions, generous in his conduct, truthful in his statements, and regal in his hearing. He is simply a man. and only a man, not necessarily of an inferior race, even, but in the lower grade of civilization. Having been driven westward before the advancing wave of white civilization, ho has been doomed to associate largely with the abandoned and outcast of our own race, thus adding to his own native depravity the still fouler vices of hopelessly 'depraved white men. But despite all these terrible disadvantages, the Indian of to-day will compare favorably with the illiterate cur own people, and in must of the manly and heroic virtues will come out far ahead.

Though sadly lacking in the elements of stability, and plodding labor, yet it must he confessed that they possess many of the qualities that go' to make up a noble manhood. Their suscepti-bilily to improvement is truly marvellous'. They are highly imitative people. Placed, in appropriate surroundings, and under good inllu-ences, there is no reasonable doubt but that they would very soon develop into a quiet," indiistrious'and moral people. The gospel of Christ suits the Indian need as perfectly as it does ours.

As a man, therefore, he should receive the treatment due. to a man: he should be educated, developed, civilized, Christianized, and made a. free and equal citizen, and permitted to take his place side by side with his pale-face brother in the march of the PASSIXU EVENTS. Tnr.ir itave crown isd 'rnn KING OF KANSAS ROLLER FLOUJ A street railroad three miles long was sold in Utlca, N. for ftilii.

The negroes of Jamaica tear oil' the husks of the coitoanut with their teeth. J. W. Rickert. of Milwaukee, claims that a screech-owl in Ids possession committed suicide.

There is considerable dissatisfaction In many church choirs in New York city because of the tendency to cut down the salaries of the singers. Many of them have given notice of their intention to leave, while others threaten to follow the example. Prince Reed, a colored man of Ham-berg, S. has been presented with a lifetime pass over the South Carolina railway for waving down a train where the cyclone had passed and upturned some of the cross-ties and otherwise obstructed the road. A law statute of New York declares that if 'any person advises another to quit working for a railroad company because the company requires him to wear a uniform, such advice shall be declared a misdemeanor, and the person so doing can be punished for the offense.

The Indians in the vicinity of Peone jirairie, Washington territory, are having their annual winter deer hunt, or drive, when numerous Indians surround a large extent of country and gradually drive the deer to some central spot, where they are slaughtered. A fisherman on the Columbia river, near Astoria, Oregon, while playing poker, recently, picked up his cards and said: "I pass," and, as soon as the words went uttered, fell out of his chair dead. Rupture of the heart is said to have been the cause of his sudden death. Uxbridge, has a woman who makes her own dresses, plays the piano, votes for school committeemen and sits on the board herself, milks the cow, and makes and markets butter; she can also chop wood, hoe corn, swing tint scythe, and expects some day to vote fur president. The gross income of the gas companies in New Jersey aggregates 1,200,000, and tire and fife insurance premiums are estimated at 000.000, and upon these incomes, as well as upon the incomes of telegraph, telephone, and express companies, a tax of 2 per cent is proposed to be imposed.

At Warner, N. where in a school district there were half a century ago forty scholars, there is now but one person of school age. On a road in the town, two and a half miles long, where sixty years ago there were thirty homestead'sthere is not found to-day a single descendant of the families who occupied them A suit is pending in Atlanta, which hinges on the question whether a married woman can sue the city for damages for personal injuries, or whether the action must be brought through her husband. The city judge took an allirinative view, and the city hood but secretly envied Ms many conveniences and exquisite neatness. "And it isn't the dairy alone," triumphantly remarked Selh Bellcnden.

thinirs are your business, and not mine!" he added, irritably. Lucy could not help laughing, all by "And vim may go through the house herself, as her husband ran up the from garret to cellar, and you'll never steps. lut it was a very sad little laugh, anil soon changed into a sigh. them together to secure the results which How from association. Impressed with the necessity of some society to accomplish this purpose, I determined if possible, to organize a statu scientific association.

After agitating the matter for several months, and not meeting with any encouragement at Topcka, I wrote in Prof. H. F. Mudge, who replied that his heart was with me in the work, but he feared il whs too early in the history of the state to organize such a society. Accepting an invitation to visit him during the long vacation, 1 spent three memorable weeks at his home in Manhattan, when we discussed very thoroughly, during our scientific rambles in the neighborhood, the subject of a slate scicntilic association.

Before my return Prof. Mudge had promised to go into the new movement. Fortilioil with Prof. Madge's indorsement and promised co-operation, I returned home, and set the matter before the people of the state, through the public press. In due time 1 circulated and published a "call," which received the signat ures' of various scientists and public men in the.

state, to hold a meeting in my recitation room, in Lincoln college, 'September 1, 1X08. A great storm occurred two days before the meeting which seemed likely to interfere with it, but Prof. Miidge came down the day before the meeting full of enthusiasm in the new movement, and the meeting was held at the ap "I wonder," said she, in a whisper, "if my poor, tired-out ghost would haunt' these stone pavements, and scrubbed shelves, if 1 were to die! I never heard of a idlest in a dairy bit- fore, but I should think that it niiirlit easily be." I Su't the little bed-room was lilted up, for all that, as fresh as a rose, and Un cle I'aul arrived, a dried-up, yellow- coinplcxionod old man, with an old- lasluoncd cravat tied in many toids around his neck, and a suit of navy blue, with brass buttons. lie had the polite way of half a cen tury ago, and Lucy thought she should like him very much, if only she had time to get acquainted with him. There lay the letter on the lloor look JSut she was churning ten pounds ot butter a (lay, and there was the baby, ing as though it.

was broken out with th(5 small-pox, his thumb was wrapped up in a handkerchief, his mouth so and the company, and the young ehikens, and the baking to do for the scorched that he could not swear, and sewing society, which was to meet at liml a speck ot dust or a stain ot rust. There never was such a housekeeper as my wife." Mr. Bollciulen was young, loo scarcely three-and-twcii'ly. She had lieen Hie daughter of a retired army olliccr, delicately reared and (piile ignorant of till the machinery of domestic life until she married Selh Hollendcn. "It's very strange," Lucy had written to h'er father.

"The farm is beautiful. Yon never saw such rous old liuttonliall trees, nor such superb roses, and the meadows awftill of red clover, and llic strawberries shine like jewels on thesunny hillsides. ISut nobody sketches or reads. I don't think there is a copy of Tennyson in the whole neighborhood, and no one over heard of J)orc or Millnis. All they think of is how many doens of eggs I he hens lay, and how many cheeses they can make in a year.

And the woman who has a new recipe for wattles, or a new pattern for a horrible thing they call 'crazy is the leader in society." But presently young Mrs. liollcmlen herself caught (he fever, and became a model housewife. F.xamplo is all-powerful, and Lucy began to believe that the whole end and aim of life was domestic thrift, money-saving and the treadmill of work. "My dear," said Selh, "if you thought you could gel along; without llepsy, tin) maid, I might be able to afford thai, new reaper before the oat crop comes in." "I'll try," said Lucy. And after that she rose before daybreak, and worked later into the night than ever.

"What is I he mat ter with your hands, il.uey!'" Selh asked, one day, "They not so white and beautiful as they used to he." Lucy colored as she glanced down at the members in question. I suppose it, is making the lints." said she. And then she took to wearing old kid his foot blistered, lie took a knife her house that week. and dug the wax out from his thumb She was almost loo busy to slctm. nail and peeled the now cold wax from ISut Uncle Paul was watching her quietly all the time.

He came out, one day, to the barn, where his nephew was putting a new handle on a sickle-blade. his stocking, and sighed for an envelope that only had to be licked with the tongue. ISut be was the leader of the fashion, and he must triumph, so he took another letter and prepared to seal it, with about the same result, but he got enough wax on the letter to make a show, so he took his seal ring "Pretty busy times eh, Uncle l'aul?" asked the farmer, scarcely tak ing the to look up. "Aye, absently answered the old centuries. man.

"Did 1 tell you, Scth, pointed time with a very small attendance. At this meeting we organized the Kansas Natural History Society, of which Prof. Mudge was elected the first president, and I was elected secretary. For two years Prof. Mudge and I struggled hard to keep the organization alive, for we had great solicitude in regard to its very existriice.

Public attention was often called through the public press to the importance of sustaining tlie new organization, and wherever we lectured in the state we always presented the claims of the society. The'tirst annual meeting was held in the Presbyterian church, at Topcka. but there was a very small attendance and little enthusiasm. It was in fact a very gloomy time with the society. There was little or nothing in the treasury, and no one seemed to cant for science.

But Prof. Mudge was full of faith in our final success, and said, "we must not despise the day of small things." We agreed to go on not withstanding the discouragements, and determined we would not say "fail" until we actually did fail. The ollicers and tried to press it in the wax. The ring stuck to the wax so tight that he could not get it oil" without whirling it Standing Armies. ibout the reason I left your Cousin Eliab's?" Russia proposes to (termany to re oil' the ring with his knife.

The fash "Not that I remember," said Selh, duce armaments. It is quite natural that Russia so propose, since ionable voung man sat down to think. breathing on tint blade and polishing and nurse his blistered parts, and it with his silk handkerchief. its armament is far inferior to burl a few words of wrath at the head "Dorothy died his wife!" "Oh, yes," said Scth. "Malarial many's and since she is much less ready for war.

It will be many years of the party who bad set the fashion of sealing letters with wax. His great fever, wasn't it?" before Russia will have so equipped mind linally got to work, and he "No!" blunty answered Uncle It was hard work. That woman, decided to break up some sealing-wax and remodeled its army and so organized ils railroad system as to be ready in a tin cup and beat it over the cook Nephew Scth, did the house-work for to meet (ermany on the irontier. Hence its desire to reduce armaments stove, and dip it out onto the letters eijHit persons. Eliah didn't even let Of course, it is not sincere.

It may with a spoon. So he took a stick of yellow sealing-wax, broke oil' a few her have a woman to help with I lie washing and the ironing!" want peace with derrnany; no doubt it pieces in a tin cup and set the cup on does: but onlv that it. may be aggres the sfoVe. I hit (took also put a tin cup of butter on the same stove to melt for use in making a cake. The result was, of course, that the young man took the cup of melted butter up to his room and proceeded to spoon out the butter on to his letters and try to seal them, the butter run all over the envelopes, making them look like the face of a humorous lecturer who had been received by decayed eggs.

He were unanimously re-elected, lor there was great unanimity in the early history of the society, when two or three votes settled the, whole matter. In those days we were not troubled with any minority reports, and it was usually unnecessary to put the negative of the question, for all had voted in the allirinativc. During the following year we worked faithfully in trying to establish the society, but with very little encouragement from the public. Everybody was very busy aboutsomethingel.se, and science was left to take care of itself. At the end of two years we received an invitation from Prof.

Snow, indorsed bv the other Professors of the attorney, being of theopposileopinion, has taken the case to the supreme court. The city council of Mexico is now arranging' the programme for the great railroad jubillce of May in honor of the completion of the road which connects the two great North American republics. The Mexicans consider the feat of going from the City of Mexico to Chihuahua and back in six days one of the most remarkable on record. A band of Crow Indians, under the leadership of an employe of the Crow agency, taking advantage of the absence 'of the owners, on March 'J burned down several cabins, near Billings, Montana, which had been erected on mining claims at the head of Stillwater creek. These mines are said to be the famed Lost Cabin lead, and are of unquestionable value.

One of the largest oleomargarine manufacturers in the country, a man who makes about 2,500,000 pounds of it every year, gives the following as his recipe: One hundred pounds of oleomargarine, pounds of neutralized lard, 10 gallons of bentie oil. drawn into a churn with or 0(H) pounds of milk, and ounces of coloring matter, churned, and worked. Three ladies were members of a party which ascended Mount Washington to the signal station a few days ago, in the face of wind blowing forty miles an hour, and descended, after a dinner with the observers, under a fall of snow. They made the climb by way of the carriage road from the (ilea house, a distance of eight miles, in six hours, and were the first ladies that ever accomplished the trip in midwinter. The tanner which John Brown, of slavery fame, built and operated for several years prior to the career which terminated in his death; is still stand-imr near what is knowu as Clark's waited for the butter sealing-wax to become hard so he could put his "Must have been a regular going brute," said Scth, tightening the handle a little.

"All the sewing, too," added Uncle I'aul "the mending and- making. Never went any where except to church. Eliah didn't believe in women gadding about." "The old savage!" said Solh. "She was fond of reading, but she never got any time for it," said Uncle l'aul. "She" rose before sun-up, and never lay down until II o'clock.

It was hard work that killed that, woman, and Eliah cooly declared that it was sheer laziness when she couldn't drag herself around any longer. And when she died he rolled up his eyes and called it the visitation of Providence." "Why didn't the neighbors lynch him?" cried Scth, fairly aroused to indignation at; last. Uncle Paul took oil' his glasses, wiped them vigorously, and looked his nephew hard in the face. "Why don't the neighbors lynch monogram on, linally decided that sealing-wax was a failure, got some envelopes with a time lock composed of mucilage, and sent them oil', and he is bandaged wherever the wax touched him. The cook used the melted sealing-wax in her cake, and when the cake sive in other directions.

The talk of redueidg standing armies is nonsense. Everyone acknowledges the desirability of' such reduction, and everybody knows what a burden upon a people, and especially upon the working classes thereof, a standing army is; hut 'man is a lighting animal, lie teaches himself to box, fence, use guns and pistols and to wrestle, and he keeps standing armies. He cannot help it. As war become more scicntilic, and long and skillful training becomes more necessary for its successful prosecution, standing armies become more indespcnsable. Even The United States, with no enemy but a few breech-clouted red-skins to contend with keeps up a standing army of men and is talking of increasing it; and it has also a uniformed, armed and partly organized militia force of The abolition of standingarm-ies, universal abstinence from strong drink and tobacco, the confederation of the world and the milleniuni will come about the same time; and one is just as likely to come as the other.

As long as school hoys light one another over their supposed rights or their alleged sweethearts, grown men will maintain standing armies. What nature has implanted in the breast of every animal from the lowest to the highest is not likely to be eradicated by an act of emigres, parliament or reichstag, or by the ukase of an emperor. S'tn Fntncisro Unily was cut for company there was a hard substance in it that looked like brimstone, which nobody could account for, md the cook was discharged withouta character. When the young man attempted to cat a piece of the cake, and found the sealing-wax in it that he had State University, to hold the annual meeting at Lawrence. We gladly accepted the invitation, and the meeting was so well attended, and such a desire expressed to enlarge the scope of the society, that I moved resolutions which were unanimously adopted, that the scope of the society should be enlarged so as to include every line of scicntilic investigation and inquiry, and that the name should be changed from the Kansas Natural History Society to the Kansas Academy of Science.

Oeneral John Eraser stated that papers were read at that meeting by Professors Mudge, Snow, Hardwell and others, which were worthy of any veteran society. The meeting was one of joyful interest on the part of those who had labored amidst so many discouragements, for we believed that the permanency of the organization was now fully assured. The growth of the society lias in fact outrun all our early anticipations, and from this time on the history of the academy has been exchanged for melted butter, he sighed aloud, looked at the thumb nail that was beginning to show signs of seceding from the thumb, and kept his counsel, though it hurt him to site the eook pack her trunk and go out into tint world with no character to her back. Sealing-wax had its day in that a i i 1 I Vf k' gloves at hersweeping and dusting and digging out of ashes. "My coat is getting shabby," Selh one day remarked.

"Why don't you buy another one?" asked his wife. laughed a short laugh. "What do you think Mrs. Higgin-botbain has done?" said he. "She has ripped up her husband's old suit and cut a pattern by it, and made a new one arid entirely saved him ten dollars!" "I could do that!" said Lucy with eyes, "I will try it.

"Yon tan do anything, my dear," said Mr. ISelhtnden, admiringly. And Lucy felt: that she hail her rich reward. Company began to (tome as soon as il he bright weather set in. All the affectionate relations of Mr.

Brllcndon soon discovered that the farm-house was eool and shady, that Lucy's cooking was excellent, and that the bed-rooms went neatness itself. Some of them were even good -enough to invite their relations as well; and so the house was full from April In 1 eccniber. All he clergymen made it their home at Brother Bellenden's when bey came ii) Silvan liridge for ecclesiastical (ton-vent ions; all the agents for unheard-of articles discovered llnit they knew somebody who was acquainted with the ISclIendcns, and brought their carpetbags and valises with that faith in human hospitably which is one of life's best gifts. Mrs. ISellendeir.s fame went abroad among the Dorcases of the neighbor-ihood in the matter of butter and cheese; she took the prizes in the domestic departments of all the agricultural fairs, and the adjoining housewives took no trouble to make things that thev could borrow of Mrs, Itcllcndcu, as well as not." And one day, when poor Lucy, under the blighting influence of a horrible sick headache, was endeavoring to strain three or four gallons of milk in-ilo the shining pans, the news arrived ithat Uncle Paul was coming to the farm.

"Another guest!" said Lucy, despairingly. And tlien she uttered the proverb hat heads our sketch. it's only Uncle raid!" said Mr. Bcllendcn. "Don't fret, Lutic! lie's the most peaceable old gentleman in the world.

He'll make no more trouble than a cricket. John's wife thought she couldn't have him because she had no hired girl just now Neither have said Lucy, re-bellioiislv, "And Sarah Eliza don't like Corners, Crawford county, on the same foundation on which it was built by John Brown, and is in a wonderful state of preservation In it was converted into a cheese factory. In Mote in Your Rye." A it was sold and turned into a steam grist-mill. The structure is a relic of great historic interest, and is visited by thousands of curiosity and The new year brings the customary annual statistics and reports of boards of health and institutions. As usual thev are startliiir.

The number of relic seekers, The windows and doors have all been chipped away. the Brown family have visited their old home several times within the past few you said he. Scth dropped the sickle and stared. "Nephew Scth;" said Uncle Paul, impressively, "thou art the man! Are von mil doing the very same thing?" gasped Scth. "Your wife is doing the work of a household of sixteen people," said Uncle Paul.

"She is drudging as you could hire no foreigner to drudge. She is rising early, and lying down late; shit is offering up her life on the shrine of your farm and its requirements. I have seen her grow thin and pale even (luring the few days I have been here I have carried water and split wood for her, because there was no one else to do it. I have seen her carry up Mrs. IJelford's breakfast daily to her room, because Mrs.

Bel-ford' preferred to lie in bed; and cooking dainty dishes for Helen Patterson, because ilelcn wouldn't eat what the rest like. No galley slave ever worked as she does. Ami you, with your hired men- -whose board only adds to her (tares and your array of labor-saving machinery, stand coolly by and see her commit slow suicide. Yes, Nephew Scth, I think it is a case for linehing!" Scth had grown pale. I never thought of this," said he.

"Why didn't some one tell me?" "Where were your own eves?" said Uncle Paul. Scth lSellenden rolled down his shirt sleeves, put on his coat, and went into (he house. lie told the ISolfords and Pattersons that it was inconvenient to keep them any longer. He gave 'ousiu Susan to understand that her room was needed. He made arrangements to board the The Heart's Action.

The heart's action is one of the vital processes which is least subject to the control or influence of willpower, but there was one exceptional case, an Englishman, who could voluntarily check the heart's beat and pulse, and linally he exhibited this power so oTeclually that he died by it. A physician in Harrison Ohio, has met a healthy (ierman who can exercise this checking of the heart, and who wants to make it profitable by exhibitions of his curious power. Unless he has equal ability to start up the machine again after putting on the brakes, he has what may prove to be a fatal capacity. Dr. Hmlth Monthly.

"Tell-tulit trophies," us the bloude wife re marked to lier husband this morning, ns she (upturned two lustrous black hairs which hail ticcoinc enhingled In a button mi the luppe of his coat. The story about the "lodge, meeting" uml he horse ours Ixrtnjjr ''bridged," didn't work worth cent. The enterprising wife is to wear a new Kaster bonnet, in April, us the price of her "eternal Ignorance." Chimyn Sun. deaths from casualties throughout the world is not over-estimated at one hundred and fifty thousand, including the victims of earthquakes, volcanoes, floods, lires, etc. New York city had nearly thirty-four thousand deaths, including twenty persons reported to be one hundred years old.

Of deaths u.iotit one-tenth were caused by Bright's disease, which must either be on the increase or more frequently diagnosed than it used to he. Though only one death is attributed to poisoning by rye whisky, probably many cases of Bright's disease are caused or hurried to their end by "good old rye." Friends, Ihere is a "mote in your rye" which speeds your end, view it- as you may. Dr. 'I'lmti'n Hail Hi Miinllih. A Texas doctorcalls his great quinine combination a "Chill masher." more generally known to the.

people of Kansas. Lovers of science in almost every line of investigation have come forward and gladly carried on the work of the academy, making original contributions in almost every department of science that have been known throughout the scientific world. But while" we greet this ever increasing number of scientists, and give them all honor for their invaluable contributions to science, let us never forget the importance of the work wrought by Professors Mudge and Snow, in the early history of the society. The subsequent action of the legislature in making the society a state institution, and in giving it rooms in the capitol building, was unsolicited, but it was a well deserved recognition by the state of the valuable but uncompensated services rendered to science by members of the academy. In this connection I may be pardoned for saving, that the ultimate success at years.

The results of a mining accident which occurred near Pottsville, nearly a fortnight ago, are being watched by the medical fraternity with much interest. A young man fell from a great height to the ground and was carried home insensible. No mark or fracture could be found on his body, and it was thought that his injuries were slight. Day after day has passed without his returning to consciousness. His respiration and pulse are nearly normal, his eyes open and close, and the action of the muscles is unimpaired, but all sense of feeling and perception have been destroyed, nhd he lies in a state of almost suspended animation.

Medical skill for more than a week has not been able to change his condition. BVKKY MAN BUYS KING OF KANSAS ROLUCR FLOUR. HAS KANSAS GOT A KING? yes; ROLLER FLOUR. The Tiisealoiisa. yarn mills have 2.000 i-piiiilli-s running..