Arkansas City Daily Traveler from Arkansas City, Kansas • Page 7

"Those Good Old-Fashioned Folks miited or no reply, and nerfeaj a silence of several minutes, i Little Parlor Restaurant and Lunch ing graaually'to 13 inches at TJirtop. MISSING LINKS. 206 South Summit Street. Domestic and Imported Cigars And fine tobaccos. All tbe gammer drinks a specialty.

Lunches served at all hoars in the latest approved style. Give us a calL W. G. SCOTT CO. FRISCO St.

Louis and San Double Daily Service to St. Louis. Where close connection is made for all eastern points. The only line running free reclining chair cars without change to St. Louis, and about 4 hours Shorter time.

Short Line for Washington Territory, Oregon and Northwestern nts. Good accommodations and clean service. W. H. UPTON.

Agent. 1 IK 111 A Canal Five Miles in Length, extending from the Arkansas to the Walnut Rivers, with a fall of Twentv-Five feet and a capacity of The finest and cer Power in the tories now using to turn their immense machinery may be mentioned Somehow the people, of to-day ain't as they used to De. At any rate, I'm pretty sure they're no tne And while there are many Just as good as those -J used tOi fCnwr 1 There're scores and soores among them tha are only-so and go. We used to always take a man exacuy as ne Said, But now it's safe to take him Just the other It does my heart Just lots of good to meet once in awnue Some of those good old-fashioned folks so near ly out or style. I wouldn't say the world in honesty Is slipping back.

I wouldn't say that christians hunting graoo have lost tne tracK. -T wouldn't sar that men to-day are less the friPTifl of truth. because tbeveeem to differ from the ones 1 kniw In voufh. Those people please me quite as well as these 3 meet to-day. Their hearts and hands were honest and their lives held little eruile.

Bid those old-fashioned people now. bo nearly out or style. We're wiser than we used to he, we may be weaker, too: And good old homespun honesty may less our near earts imbue. These later days we are all bent on getting ricn so last We haven't time to think of things they thouc-ht of In the Taat. We're wildly striving after sold, we rush and push and crowd.

And after while we'll each be wanting pockets inms snroua. But none of us can e'er outrank within the afterwhile Those good old-fashioned people now so nearly out ox styie. A FLIRT'S EXPERIENCE My cousin, narvey lewis, haasaid, the evening Deiore, -nuue coz, a coming to take you for a drive to-mor- row.it tne weatner is nne." ana tne weather being fine we went He was only my second cousin, but we had always made a great deal of the relationship, and he seemed more like a brother than so distant a con nection. But on that day he told me how he loved me and how I only could make his life happy and would I be his wife? At first I could not believe him; yet snrplv ho Wuild not he in annrt- nnd I 1 as usual, began to cry. Then when he tried to squeeze my hand, I drew it away, and sat.

after I had recovered from my first outburst, looking red, and tearful, and abashed. I felt as thoush Cousin Harvey, whom I loved very much, but not in that wav, had reallv done something very rude and unkind. To tell the truth, it was mv first of- fer, and I wanted some more sol icita- tions, and more flirting, before I tied mvself down to anv particular indi- viaual. To be an ofd ladv at 18, for- sooth! Indeed, I was not going to do anv snrh thinor- and who never lcent a secret from my motner, wisely con- winded in mv new dismitv. that I had better not mention the matter Der- haps Cousm Harvey would prefer that I should not.

So I dressed myself as usual and went down to the parlor where mam ma sat at her work. "It seems to me that vour ride was unusually short," she said, as I en tered. "Oh, it was cold and windy and for lorn, and 1 wanted to get home. ISO reply, but a look ot some sur prise: such an excuse from me was un heard of. After a pause she asked: "Why, didn't Harvey come "Why, I thought he was behind me, and when I turned at the door he was driving off.1 Another questioning look.

I felt an noyed. But as I was expecting company no other than the son of the wealthy banker, Mr. Poynter Smith I speedily donned my sweetest smiles and my most enchanting manner for his bene fit But Mr. Poynter Smith, junior, spite of being tailonzed and barberized to the last degree, was undeniably com monplace in appearance, and not less so in conversation. His remarks had never seemed so trite and vapid.

I was positively ashamed of him and when he asked me to 20 to the theater with him and his sister on a certain evening, it was only the recollection of his great name, and great expectations, that finally led me to accept the invitation. "Cousin Harvey Lewis is a great deal nicer. Indeed, I love him dearly!" and I began to feel very miserable again; "but I do not think -I could marry my cousin; and, besides, just think of Poynter Smith's wealth! Any girl would be glad to get Poynter bmith, or Harvey JLewis either!" and 1 1 -mm. my mina revertea to several 01 my mends who were always raving about him. Nearly a week passed, and Cousin Harvey, who never absented himself more than two days at a time, had not made his appearance, and, worst of all.

he was at the theater the night before with that horrid little Bessie Baker and her brother. was sn anorr that. onnlfl have trvvn her eyes out, but I pretended to be per fectly fascinated with Poynter. I wanted Harvey to see me, but I was not sure that he did. Several times I detected him looking in that direction.

whereupon I instantly became absorb ed in Poynter. Coming out we were just a little in advance of them. I managed it so, and I was in the gayest spirits, quite convuisea wicn laugnter, in fact, and clinging to Poynter's arm as though I loved him dearly instead 01 utterly aespismg him. we naa receivea invitations to a party for the next evening. I would not have stayed at home for worlds, though I had nearly cried my eyes out, ana naa a violent neaaacne an conse quence.

On such occasions Harvey had al ways been my escort: but, of course, he wonld take some nnn pIsa nnw nnrl Poynter had asked me. I had always run down to exhibit myself to Harvey before the final wrapping up. but 1 could not do so for Poynter, and was as sulky as sulky could be when I pre- sentea myself. What did fvrp frvr hie nM I never would marry him, and he might as well hnd it out first as last, bo. when he remarked oh the beauty of the night, as we proceeded in the car- Jl 1 1 1 A i a 1 1 nage, I declared that it was the coldest, blackest, and most wretched night of the season.

An answer so full and exhaustive ad- Mr. Lewis was' probablv not to be present at.theparty.as hewaa generally my escort, was the next was sure 1 did not know, whether he was to be present or not! I was not kept informed Qf all my cousin's movements. A silence somewhat longer than be fore; but Mr. Smith was not to be thwarted. He had set out with the de termination to be agreeable and slight rthatnmes Khnnln Tint.

discourage nim. "Mr. Lewis appears to be very at tentive to Miss Uaker lately, said. "Aney nuiuir in me pars: uu Tuesday-1 noticed'1 oucn a pang as snot through me I ji had not the heart to be "cross, so I merely said, "Indeed!" and coughed, and laughed, and and swallowed, to keep back a burst of grief. Ui course tne nrst person 1 saw on entering the room was Cousin Harvey, with Bessie Baker upon his arm; but I affected the most supreme devotion to Pqynter and utterly ignored Harvey's presence, was perfectly wild that night, dancing, flirting and laughing as though I never had a care, inasmuch as I heard a gentleman remark to an other: think Miss Lewis is the most light-hearted creature I ever saw, what a sunbean she must be at home." After a while Harvey and I met face to face, and he said "Good evening" with a careless smile and turned to his partner.

Sn the winter mnntk ''rtnaaorl urtA p0ynter was usually my cavalier, thomrh now that Harvev's At.tAnt.inn a ceased, other gentlemen began to make advances. But none of them pleased me, ana roynter disgusted me so that I could hardly treat him with necessary civility. In fact, 1 was often exces sively rude to him, which had an effect the reverse of that desired, and his visits ana attentions increased every a. a day. i -rr a a Marvev, tne meantime, was as attentive to Miss Baker, and it was soon reported that thev were ensrased: Ti i A anu even was compeueu io ueiiev it when she, displayed an encasement ring.

Harvey had been to the house since that last day, over three months aro: and now mamma and papa did not mention him. I never told them the cause of our auarrel. and thev soon ceased to question me, though I could not help suspecting that they knew. At last, one aay, roynter asked me, in a stupid, blundering sort or way, it wouia be his wife; where- upon I informed him, in a manner suf- hciently positive, that I most assured I ly WOUia not. Ills surprise was im- I i i.

i mouse, ue cemeu tu iuiuk a musu I have made a mistake: wantea to know 1 it I really meant it, and said that I snouia.nave everytnmg jl wantea. tsxa 1 1 tf a I the more he insisted the more emphatic I became; and he at length took leave. saying that if I should change my mind 1 must let him know. As soon as he was gone I told mam ma-all about it; and then she drew from me the story, told with many tears, 01 Harvey's declaration, and how 1 spurned it, and how miserable 1 had been eyer since; and now he was engaged tcr somebody else, and I would never marrv anvbodv. After sobbing a little with my head in her lap.I felt a nreat deal better, and that it would not so hard to be an old; maid after all.

My only regret was that, old as I might consider myself, no one else could pos sibly consider me so for ten years yet, and yet during all that time I should be obliged to go into society. A few days after this mamma and papa went out one afternoon to make a call and was sitting alone in the par lor. Suddenly some one pronounced my name and looking up I saw Cousin Harvey, who, when I sprang up in dis- mav, caught me his arms. iiuti snail not tell anv more, save a a -a a that when papa and mamma came in they found us sitting very cosily on the sofa where Harvey held me fast, though 1 tried hard to assume a more dijrnihed Dosition at a distance when I heard them coming. There were a great many explana tions to be made, and it finally appeared that I had been the victim of a con spiracy.

Papa and mamma had suspected something all the time, but had known nothing for certain until my confession. Papa had immediately seen Harvey, and had brought about this meeting. As lor the latter, bis attentions to Miss Baker were intended solely to bring me to my senses, if I had any, as she was soon to be married to a gen tleman who was then abroad. We were married after a short en gagement; and, though my short mar ried life has had some clouds, thev have resulted, generally, from my own pettishness, and they are becoming more rare, tsut 01 this 1 am sure, that I never was so happy before, and am extremely gratified that I missed the very narrow escape I had of losing the man of my heart. N.

Y. Evening norta. Enough to Puzzle Anybody. We heard a darky say recently that he owned a pig, and one dav gave it a bucket of mush. Said the darky: "He eats de whole bucketful of mush, and den I put de darn little cuss in de bucket and he didn't fill it up half full." The question for philosophers to settle is, what became 01 tne mush." Maaxa mian.

A Hand Expedition. The Lewiston Journal says a Maine constable had a hard experience the other dav. Hp. went ont alter a cano of poachers, and was not only cor- I djalr received by them Vlted to accompany them but was ln- on a hunti expedition. The reason for so much cordiality was not apparent until the officer found that his late companions had managed to leave him alone on an uninhabited island, where they kept I him for two days and nights.

The total value of property in Massachusetts has increased 5(5 xer cent siiice'18S0. A carpenter would be handy in a barber's especially the one who is a good lather. 1 his is the acre of discovery. In the back of an old looking-glass a deed was found which will make the. owner the proprietor of a big slice of the State of New York.

And now 200 letters written by the mother of Goethe to her son have come to light in a library at Wel mar. An Allentown hotelkeeper, whilt working in his barn, disturbed a colony of rats. Aided by his hostler he began making war on One of the big rodents ran up the gentleman's leg, inside his pantaloons, and before he could be expelled bit and lacerated the limb terribly. Born and raised in a Chinese tea drinking establishment, a Cmnaman in Philadelphia says the only way to makf tea is to pour the boiling water on the leaves, stirring them briskly at the same time. It should be served after allowing merely time to settle.

The operation takes only a minute. In Vienna practical philanthropy takes the shape of cheap eating houses for poor people. There are ten cooking kitchens throughout the city that feed an average of 1,000 people each and every day. The average cost of a dinner is 8 cents, and of a supper is 4 cents, both meals comprising about tho varieties the common eating house? furnish. William S.

Burroughs, a young St. Louisan, who ten years ago did not know that he had mechanical genius enough to use a file, has perfected in a strong, durable, compact machine of 2,165 pieces an adjunct to the counting house that is already in successful operation in fifty banks. It is an adding machine, which is said to work more rapidly and more correctly than the most expert accountant. SAYS GRAVITATION DOES IT. Remarkable Clock that la Said to Without Winding.

Go T. G. Farrer, watch maker has invented one of the most peculiar clocks of the nineteenth century. It consists of a plate glass, dial suspended from the ceiling, and all the parts of it that are visible are the two hands, the pivot upon which they swing, and the dial. It is marked "Gravitation Clock," and not one person in 1,000 who passes it has the faintest idea that it is the most ingenious device of the century.

Many clocks with glass dials have the works of a watch as their motive power, but this clock has no motive power that is visible. Mr. Farrer worked on the invention for six years before he succeeded in perfecting it. He alleges that the only motive power is the gravitation of the earth, and that the clock will run on forever without winding. The only imperfection is that it loses from four to five minutes a day by the friction of the hands on the pivot, and, therefore, the hands require to be regulated once in twenty-four hours.

He showed a reporter something about the way the clock worked. When the hands pointed to a quarter past 1 Mr. Farrer caught hold of them together, and sent them twirling around the dial, like the winder of a wheel of fortune. After oscillating until the momentum had been overcome the hour hand and the minute hand resumed their respective and proper positions, still marking the correct time. At 1:20 he did something still more remarkable.

He slipped the minute hand off the pivot and laid it on the counter. At the end of six minutes he replaced it and sent it whirling around the dial. When it came to rest it settled at the right place, twenty-six minutes past 1 o'clock. The hand! are of tin and are hollow, and perfectly balanced on the pivot. Mr.

Farrer says they are moved by the gravitation of the earth, but it puzzles the spectator to account for the power that raises them after they reach 6:30. All kinds of theories are afloat to account for this. Some jaeople say that the hollow hands are filled with fluids of different densities that overcome the gravitation of the earth when th hands reach that point. But Mr. Farrer keeps his secret, and rejoices over the mystification of the beholder.

He insists that electricity is not the motive power. Fresno Republican. Said to be ISO Years Old. The oldest man in the world is a citizen of Bogota, in the Republic oJ San Salvador. The new Methuselah declares that he is 180 years old, and it would seem ho flatters himself, for his neighbors give the assurance that he is older than ho savs he is.

He is a half-breed, named Michael Solis, whose existence was revealed tar Dr. Louis Hernandez by one of the oldest planters in the locality, who as a child knew Solis as a centenarian. They have found in the year 1712 hi signature among those of persons who contributed to the building of a Franciscan convent which exists near San Sebastian. His skin i3 like parchment, his long hair, of the whiteness of his head like a turban, and his look is so keen that it made a disagreeable impression on the Doctor. Interrogated by the Doctor, he answered complaisantly that his greal age.was due to his tegular mode of living, and to his never giving up to any excess of any sort whatever.

"I never eat but once a said he. "but I never use any but the strongest and most nourishing foods. My mealy last a half hour; for I believe it is impossible to eat more in that time than the body can digest in twenty-four hours. I fast the first and fifteenth day of each month, and on those days I drink as much water as I can bear. I always let my food beeome cold before I touch it.

It is to these things that I attribute my great Union Liberate of Quebec; Farm Lands in the States. Taking the whole area of the United States, the farm lands comprise. 289 acres in every 1,000, leaving 711 acres unoccupied. Of the former quantity 153 acres are productive, 103 wood land, and 33 unproductive, though partly susceptible of improvement, The lash has never been abolished fts a means of discipline in the German penal institutions. 'vM yv An orthographic craze has now fallen npon A reform in spelling, is considered imminent.

A wine comnany in California recent ly received an order from England ifoi 50,000 gallons of sweet wine. The prominent tailors of St Louis now hire professional dressers for the purpose of introducing new styles. The deepest bored hole in the world is in Schladenbach feet. It took a diamond drill three years and a half to reach the bottom. In 1888 nearly 3,000,000,000 bricks were manufactured in twelve cities of the United States.

About 80,000,000 were made in Pittsburg. The manufacture of oil of roses is to begin on a large scale in the Crimea, where the roses grow in great pro fusion in the mountains. At White Haven a gunner fired four teen shots at a duck before he found out that it was a decoy placed on the water by two schoolboys. The scientists at Harvard University are engaged in experiments which they are confident will result in determining the exact location of the north pole. As Peter Baur, of Pottsville, was Anamnir I a rvra nircrPT" a srrancrft Tlsn o- nipped out.

It had eaten part oi tne oyster, it haa the neaa oi a catnsn. There is in Windsor Castle a gold punch bowl and ladle for which George IV. paid 10,000 guineas, but in which there has never been a arop oi punch made. Up in the Northwest Scandinavian journalism is- having quite a boom. They have a better bwedish newspaper in Minnesota than they have in Sweden, it is said.

The girls will be sorry to hear that the sDruce srum supply of northern Maine is giving out, and that in regions usually prolific it cannot now be bought at any price. Professor John S. Newberry, in a lecture at Columbia College, recently, on the 'Geological History of Man," said that there are signs that man lived 80,000 vears ago. A Jackson County, Missouri, man is suing for a divorce from the woman he wedded thirty-eight years ago. He savs his wife made him do the washing and the general housework.

A great influx of immigrants is ex pected soon and the railroads are already arranging for a division of the labor of carrying the newiy-arrivea hordes to their homes in the West. "Cigarettes for ladies' smoking" are sold in London, provided with specially prepared mouthpieces, "lhey are perfumed with musk and violet, and they are enjoying a very extensive sale. In the stock yards at Kansas City a mule and a horse engaged in a kicking match, and the mule was outkicked. The attendants had to turn the hose on, the combatants order to separate them. A tearful widow at Charleston, W.

obtained an order for $4 worth of groceries from the poor commissioners. Next day the provisions were spread as the refreshments at her wed ding banquet. The Sandwich Islander's pipe is made of virgin cork lined with and is curious by reason of the pattern on the cork made by the insects that feed on the trees. It is like delicate lace work. Says the Bedford, Gazette: "Over in York County there is a horse suffering with 'ossification of the It takes half a day to walk a mile, it will probably be entered in the trotting race at the next Bedford County fair." The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company owns a fleet of sventy-two steam-ships of 199,270 tans and 180,000 In the' pasi year the fleet had steamed 2,500,00 miles ''without accident or delay." While the increase in marriages be tween English people in Great Br i tail has not kept pace with the population being only 4 per cent in nine years marriages among the Jewish inhabi tants have grown no less than 65 pel cent.

Here are a few definitions given bj pupils of the Gardiner, grammai school at a recent examination: "Exile a part of a wagon; byword, a wore that has gone by; mermaid, a kind of maid; turmoil, a kind of oil; repast, tf pass by." The British boat Brisk has given thi most conclusive proof that a tonpedt may be effective. She tired onex of her at a buoy which had been towed ou' as a target by her steam cutter, and. missing the fiuoy, hit the cutter anc sank her. Indian Jim, captain of the Washo band in Sierra Valley, California, laic in 100 pounds of flour and a can of baking powder for his winter supply. then killed 1,000 rabbits for fresh uea' and settled down in his camp with light heart.

In Georgia, when you ask a mas how far it is to the next plantation, will answer that it is "a peep and right smart screech." He means tha it is as far as you can see from where you stand and then as much further as strong voice can be heard. A company has been organized ai Tacoma, to build a flume" to huge glacier on Mount Ranier, and tc slide ice to that city. The glacier if 700 feet thick, of the purest quality ice, and the expense of building th flume is estimated at $75,000. A Beaver Falls man says he caught a rat by placing an apple-core with string tied to it near the rodent's hole. Then he waited and watched until the rat came out and swallowed the core, string and all.

The man then pulled on the string and killed the rat. A St. Louis brewery has erected th largest brick chimney west of Boston It is 236 feet in height almost, twice as high as the tower and coven 1,681 square feet at the base. Thf -valla at the. base are 5 feet thick, LINE, Francisco Ry.

JiLm mwm alaa f1 fl 0 only efficient Wa State. The Fac the water power the large Boiler leeih 9 PRESIDENT, MrPanl Harding, agent of the Missouri by the city engineer, shows the 1m- the east to Pueblo and Denver on the Memphis, Tenn and Arkansas City, Ark. oiou iiic lunmvn snort iir Hm nnnffn. the Missouri Pacific system and the com Mills of the Arkansas City Milling Company, Canal Planing Mills Kansas Mattress Company's The Eirkwood Manufacturing Company's factory, The Plummer Manufacturing Company's works, and the Electric Light Company's in, eif" nnbiTi or tt These factories are not using one-tenth of the power furnished. All Correspondence may be ad dressed to fTZ- 1 WICHITA ARKANSAS CITm tf7 t'R COFFEYYn.T.B (f UTTE R0CKS ARKANSAS ClTr The above electrotype, designed by raciuc ran way, ana a rawing made porwmi junouonai ana terminal points of that great system The actual system mileage, without counting leased and foreign lines with which this company has traffio arrangements, is about 5.000 miles, ranging, as is seen oy tne aDoye cut, rrom fet.

Jjoula on west, ana rrom umana on tne north to on tne somn, wnicn gives us going by the new line through the Indian Terri- tory the shortest line to Fort Smith and Little Rock and the immense lumber ja v. ohmmiww wkuo. By traffio arrangements this line has with the Kansas City and Chicago and St. Louis and Chicago lines makes practically a through Chicago line, and by Omaha makes tbe short line to the twin cities St. Paul and Minneapolis and he great north and northwest.

intends having a large number of cards printed from the cut and distribute them freely among strangers and home folks; as well as sending them abroad by means of the different asrenciea nf hi gentatives in the larger places, both on mercial agenaea ot me line in larger cities off the system. Thus accomplishing fthe dual purpose of advertisins bis line to this city and of advertising the city. A short description of the city will be printed on the back, giving a comparative statement of its growth and setting forth the great advantages it has in situation and natural position, By doing this Mr. Harding hopes to benefit the city, the great railroad he represents and himself personally by buiidinff up increased business for the road from and to this poir,.