The Wellington Daily News from Wellington, Kansas • Page 3

New and Handsome weaves. Bright, pretty colors, from to $6.00. A full colored Hammock with pillow and flounce for only 1.00 Stripes, plaids and empire designs in all colors. The Rainbow and Navajo sre especially rich affairs. 7 Smith's Drug and Novelty Store.

i i i affe and Sure There's no chance to lose when you buy diamonds' at this store. Just now I am offering some rare bargains in fine large stones. The price is about what direct importers would ask for them at this time. Seems unreasonable that I should offer them at such prices, but I can. Diamonds are steadily advancing in value and I bought them before the recent raises, so can give my customers the benefit.

Let me tell you about my special inducements to diamond buyers A Quart of Strawberries. Five little strawberries Purchased at a store One of them was rotten, Then there were four. Four little strawberries, Sour as could be; One of them was wormy. Then there were three. Three little strawberries, Looking mighty blue One of them was sandy, Then there were two.

Two little strawberries, Never saw the sun One of them was green, Then there was one. One little strawberry, One and only one, Made into a shortcake, Now, of course, there's none. Chicago Chronicle. Bours fine coffees excel all ACAr Diamond 9 Varying Views on Red Hair. In Spain red hai' is abhorred, on ground that it is "Judas hair" Judas Iscariot having ben supposed to possess fiery locks.

On the other hand, In New Zealand a red-haired woman Is considered on the right roa to paradise by the Maories. Examples of Rtd Taplsm. There is a story of a ma in the. British foreign office who one aaj seized a heavy poker and with maniacal frenzy attacked his chair until he had knocked off one of its he went on with his in another chair, happy. The explanation of his conduct was that his erst chali lacked a caster and the "ocBign office will not replace a caster nothing les than a leg.

The other day a mar took seat in a dining car of a well-know railway. He tried to open a window, but the patent spring had ona wrong. The waiter was called. "Sorry, sir, I have t5t been able to open that window foi weeks," he said. "But if you could ljappen to shove your elbow through it when you are having your lunch I could get the whole thing put to right" The traveler took the hint.

Chinese Example of Meanness. "A verv mean man rnce invited some acquaintances a feast, but made such scanty provision for them that no sooner was the food placed on the table than it disappeared as if bj magic. Figuratively speaking, there was scarcely a mouthful for each guest. One of the latu-r asked the hos to have a lamp p'-t on the s. ble.

asked' the host in amaze ment. 'It is still early; it is quite 'One can see nothing on the was the crushing rejoinder." Frori the Chinese. jg Snuff Roxes With Histories. In the 'iays wheD a snuff box was considered a necessary attribute to the perquisites of a beau or a belle aiuch ingenuity was brought to bear upon the manufacture of these dainty The results were often very no. el.

Those with a taste for the morbid lould buy snuff boxes made from the wood of scaffolds, chairs that murderers had sat upon or parts of their houses. LOCAL AND PERSONAL Brown's. Phoce 149. Mrs. Ed Hickman i9 quite sick.

Eest goods, best service Brown's. Roy Ward spent Sunday in Wichita. Best bread 2 loaves 5 cents Brown's. H. G.

Chipcnase is here fromHutchin-son. Fletcher Price went north this morn ing. AlvaSyfert went toCaldwell this morning. Mrs. Drake went to Corbin this morning.

Miss Pearl Rader weDt west ester day. Mrs. Corbin came in from Milton last ciirht. Mrs. J.

J. Hoge is home from Hutchinson. Roy Kemp left today for Burden, Kansas. Os Hackney left for Woodward this morning. C.

E. Elliott returned from Chicago yesterday. C. B. Lambe and family spent Sunday in Braman.

Mrs. C. E. Johnson has returned from Hutchinson. Mrs.

J. B. Alderson. has returned from Hutchinson Maripn Mayse left for a visit in May-field this morning. Howard Siusher left for Pleasanton, Kansas, ibis morning.

Mr. R. Mead went south on the weed burner this moraing. DeWitt and Robert Dey are visiting in Oklahoma City. Mrs.

Anna Dawson returned from Tonkawa this morning. M. A. Princehouse came in from Woodward this morning. Will Lynch and daughter Inez have Returned from Hutchinson.

Three cans solid packed sweet corn for 25 cents, dozen cans 90 cents, case S1.75 Brown's. Girl wanted: For general housework. Apply Mrs. D.P. Mahan, North street.

tf Clyde Nessler and wife have returned to Portland, Oregon, after a visit with Billy Deck and family. Dont forget that the most central furnished rooms or rooms for light house keeping are at 322 Washington. Miss Lola Surface of Gallatin, is expected to arrive this evening to visit Miss Maude Hitchcock for a few days. Bob Williams little two-year old boy stepped in a tub of hot water this morn ing and burned one of his feet pretty badly. For rent Fine furnished rooms in the heart of town at reasonable rates.

Mrs. S. E. Hutcheson, 322 S. Washington.

dtf For Sale Combination tool-vice, anvil and drill, with 21 twist drill bits. Inquire at this office. Miss Alia Saylor went to Winfield to day to attend the Chautauqua which opens tomorrow and where she will engage in kindergarten work. Harry S. Hays, one of the big officers of the Eagles, is in town today and to night will have charge of the initiation of a large number of new members.

For a nice, clean, quiet place to stop, try Mrs. L. A. Taylor's, west Fourth street. tf.

If you want a Phaeton I have some very fine ones at less than cost. A. Graff Robert Homey, a graduate of the con servatory at Lindsborg will open a studio June 26th for the purpose of teaching violin. For particulars see W. A.

Carrington. tf JK Alale Help Wanted. Government Positions. Preparation for Railway Mail Clerks and others. Salaries from 800 to 81500 per annum.

Thousands of new appointments to be made this year. Over 13,000 appointments last year. An exceptional opportunity. Positions permanent. Gradual promotion.

Examinations soon. See E. C. Snell at postdffice, 2 to 3 p. m.

Dtf THE "QUEEN QUALITY" SHOE. has a refined style that is pleasing to the most knowing eye. It has a knack of fitting that can best be described by the word "PERFECT" But few Shoes at any price and none at the same price approach its excellence in these respects. I We are showing an unusual assortment embracing the new styles of this famous Shoe, for which we have the sole agency. Oxfords $2.50 Boots a.oo John R.

The Store that Has the Goods. J2 13 jigT $300 for Letters About the South west. The Western Trail Magazine offers six I'rizes aggregating in value in railroad transportation, for letters from residents of Arkansas, Co'orado, Missouri Kansas, Indian Territory, Oklahoma, Texa9 and New Mexico, It wants letters that will induce energetic men and women to settle in the great and growing southwest, and there engage in farming, cattle raising, dairying, fruit growing and similar pursuits. To accomplish the Jpurpose which it ha9 in view, The Western Trail offers the following prizes in railroad transportation for the which, in the opinion of a competent judge, shall be deemed best suited to their requirements: First prize, $100 in railroad transportation. Second prize, railroad transportation.

Third prize, $50 in railroad transportation. Fourth prize, $25 in railroad transportation. Fifth prize, $25in railroad transportation. Sixth prize. $25 in railroad transportation.

Letters should deal with the writer's experiences since he settled in the southwest. They should tell how much money he had when he arrived, what he did when he first came, what measure of success has crowned his efiorts and what he thinks of the portion of the country in which he 19 located. Letters should not be less than 300 nor more than 1,500 word9 in length, and will be used for the purpose of advertising the southwest. Letters are desired not only from farmers and farmers' wives, but also from merchants, school teachers, clergymen, from everyone who has a story to tell and who knows how to tell it. Poetical contributions are not wanted.

All cannot win prizes, but by their contributions they can assist The vVest-ern Trail in its efforts to upbuild the southwest. Contest closes June 30, 1905. Prizes will be awarded as soon thereafter as results can be determined. Address The Western Trail, 730-141 Van Buren street, Chicago, 111. Animals Foretell It has long been known that animals are able to foretell storm or fair weather with an Instinct practically unknown to man.

Maa 'sayings are based on the actions of beasts, birds, fish and insects. Vetrenary Surgeons. Graduates oiK. C. Vetrenary College.

The only up-to-date Vetre nary Hospital the 'feouth-' west. CALLS HADE PROMPTLY night and Office phone 119. Residence phone 404. Railroad Time Card ATCHISON, TOPEKA SANTA Fir ARRIVALS MAIN L1NC From Kansas City. No.

501 Pauhamlle Express 7:55 p. 527 Woodward Accommodation 10:25 a. No. 523 Way freight (daily, except Sunday) 9:20 a. Southern Kansas.

No. 201 PasseuKcr p. No. 2(W Passenger a. No.

221 Way freight 11 p. From the West, No. 528 Eastern Accommodation p. No. 202 Chicago Express 7 :15 a.

No. 536 Freight (daily ex. Sunday) 5 p. rr Caldwell District from the South. No.

526-Mixed (daily ex. 3:00 p. rt Hurmewell District from theSoutK No. Passenger 7 15 a. No.

524 Way freierht (daily ex. Ntin.) A-mu p. a DEPARTURES MAIN LINE East bound. No. 502 Chicago Express a.

No. 52 Eastern Accommodation. 'Am'- p. No. 524- Way freight (daily ex.

4 p. Southern Kansas. io, 20- Passenger 7 a A'o. 204 Passenger 7:25 No. 222 Way freight 8 a.

rr West bound No. 201 Pauhaudle Express :2 1 p. No. 527 Wood ward Accommodation, :5 a. No.

o'Xi -Freight (daily ex. 5:00 a. Caldwell district, goinar South. No. 525 Mixed (daily except a.

District, going South. No. 501 Pas.eng?r 8:20 p. rr No. 523 Way freight (daily ex.

Sun.) 10:45 a. rn Nos. 221, 222, 535 and 536 arrive and depan rorn freight depot. Through tickets and baggage checked to all partHof tlr States and Canana. M.

A. Princehouse, Agent. Tim a Ti Vvl TLeRight road to and from and between Chicago. Omaha. St.

Louis, Denver, Colorado Spgs Peoria, Memphis, Fort Worth, St. Paul, St. Joseph, KansasCity, Minneapolis and everywhere beyond Trains leave Wellington as follows: GOING NORTH. No. 12 Chicago Mail and Ex :47 a.

ni No. 36 K.C. Mail and Express 12 22 p. id No. 14 Chicago Mail and Ex 9:17 rn No.

58 Accomn.nation Frt 8:47 a. to GOING SOI'TM. No. 11 Chicago Man an Ex 7:55 p. N.

35 K. C. Mail and Ex 4 :50 p. No. 13 Chicago Mail and Ex 7:14 a.

No. 57 Accommodation Frt 6:50 p. For sleeping car reservations, tickets, time tables, apply to any Rock Island Ticket Agent. J. A.

STEWART, G. A. P. D. Kansas City Mo I Too Much for the Hen.

A more or less truthful Australian relates that he put an unusually large porcelain egg in the nest of a hen and found that the next eggs she iai vere of the increased size. Then ho put a goose egg in the nest. The hen laid an gg just as large. He was so pleasid with the scheme that he put a -whitewashed football in the neot When he went the next time to search for eggs he found one as b'g as a football, hut no hen in sight. Securing the egg.

he saw engraved on it, by hen photography, these words: "I'm no ostrich, but I've done my best." Later he found the hen insid the egg. Ten Times Easier. It is ten times easier to cure coughs, croup, whooping cough and all lung and bronchial affections when the bowels are open. Kennedy's Laxative Honey and Tar is the original laxative cough syrup. Gently moves the bowels, and expels all cold from the system, cuts the phlegm cures all coughs and strengthens weak lungs.

Kennedy's Laxative Honey and Tarcontiins no opiates, is pleasant to the taste and is the best and safest for child or adult. Sold by H. F. Smith. Japanese Supeistition.

The Japanese have a plant called the otoma, which is considered by many to be a type of the marriage state. When a young couple of "believers" marry they will take a specimen of the otoma -with them, plant it and carefully tend It and be fully persuaded that their conjugal felicity is assured as long as it lives and flourishes. If you want to buy farm or city property see Black Martin. R. Try a bottle of Heinz pure olive oil-Brown's.

For clean, fresh goods and prompt delivery phone 149. Charlie Brower has returned from school atManhattan. Mr. Princehouse lett this morning for Woodward. He has a new baby girl at his house.

A. A. Hubermann and wife visited with Charles X. Stephenson, near Belle Plaine, over Sunday. See Jas.

W. Smith for Piano Tuning, Thone 224. Leave orders with French Hitchcock, or I. I. Scott.

tf For rent A suite of nicely furnished rooms for light housekeeping. Mrs.S.E. Hutcheson, 322 S. Washington. tf Bob Broils fireman on the Santa Fe, who formerly ran out of Wellington, is down from Hutchinson for a visit.

Mr. C. L. Rupert came in this morning from Detroit, Michigan, where he has been at the bedside of his father. Misses Blanch McBride, Helen Haughey and Luella Porter spent Sunday in the country the home of Geo.

Porter. tie abaiicoed tea drinking. He topped eating vegetables. He adopted the no-breakfast fad. He walked tea miles a day vor exercise.

He cut out noon lunch for ksaUlr sake. Wow he rests In peAce beneath th Noautiful snow. Petropolis Fot OUAWS PROUD OP HUSBANDS. ive Dance to Boast of Villainies Committed by Braves. John Bradbury, who traveled in the region lying west of.

the Mississippi river early in the last century, has an interesting description of a squaw dance which be witnessed. He says' Th danoe was performed to a circla Vie dancers moving around with tomahawks in their hands. At Intervals they turned their faces, all at once, toward the middle of the circle and brandished their weapons. After some time one of them would step into the rtflg and make an harangue, frequent ly brandishing her weapon. I foun that the nature of all the speeches iras the same, which wu to boait of the actions of their husbands.

One oman said that her husband had traveled southeast to a country ia habited by white people, which jour aey took him twenty days to perform. He went to steal horses and when he came to the white people's houses, he found one where the men had gone out Here he killed two women ani stole from ttiem a number of horses. General Fire Alarm. By means of an accidental short circuit in one the Junction boxe? to an electric maid in Melbourne, Aus tralla, an alarm Kas sent in to every fire department station and fifteen lundred calls were received at the same instant in the bead telephoaa o.e. Wise Girl Takes No Chances.

No wise girl ever lets the young man she bas spotted for her own to feee her with her hair In curl papers until after the minister has had his fatal say. Kipling's View of Life. All we can do Is to learn how to do our work, to be masters of our materials instead of servants, and never 10 be afraid of anything. Rudyard Two Dyspeptics If ycu are too fat it is because your food turns to fat instead of muscle strength. If ycu are tco lean the at producing foods that ycu eat are net properly digested and assimilated.

Lean, thin, stringy people do not have enough Pepsin in the stomach, while fat people have tco much Pepsin and not enough Pancreatine. Cod.61 Dyspepsia Cure contains all the digestive juices that art found in a healthy stomach, and in exactly those proportions necessary to enable the stomach and digestive organs to digest and assimilate all foods that may be eaten. Kodol is not only a perfect digestant, but it is a reconstructive, tissue building tonic as well. Kodol cures Indigestion, Dyspepsia, Sour Stomach Heartburn, Palpitation of the Heart and Constipation. You will like it Digests What You Eat Rests the stomach, rebuilds the tissues and gives firm flesh.

Xicliu tottl bold IIbm as Much tte triaJ, cr st lie. rttory X.O.SaWm U.S.A. For Sale by H. F. Smith HAS GAME, BUT NO SNAKES.

Newfoundland a Country cf Great Interest to the Traveler. The American who happens Into Newfoundland will find Innumerable causes for interest and surprise. The Interior of the Island Is a wilderness primitive and practically unexplored. A quaint, slow, uncertain railway traverses the heart of the island, but for 500 miles of travel over mountains, through dense forests and by the mar gins of salt water bays and estuaries not a town is to be seen. Herds of caribou, as tame as barnyard cattle, stand staring at the passing train.

From the bosom of lake and river trout and salmon are forever leaping. geese, wild ducks, grouse and many wilfi birds that migrate thither In the summer can be found all over the island. Here they mate and breed, and their goslings and chicks make the woods and waters vocal all summer long. Newfoundland, likeUre-land, is innocent of snakes and rep-til Jl Way Is Optn to A platform is not necessary to the performance of a duty. A gallery is 2ot a requisite.

Patrick Itenry's honor and fearlessness of personal consequences in the performance of the work that lay before him have inscribed his name on the roh of fame. It is open to all of us to be honest and honorable, brave In the tasfcs that fat places in our way. Exchange, signature is on every box cf vie genu in Laxative BromoQainine Tablets remedy that rny ol a one dv Jt The cheapest and best Refrigerator in the city at A. Graffs. For Sale.

A good Jersey cow gives 4 gallons of milk a day, 7 or 8 pounds of butter a week. One of the best cows in town. Call at 42G North street. Good if Jt They're Little, but My! The brain of Tagucni, the Japanese anatomist, weighed 1,520 grams, and it 6tands 30th in the list of brain weights of men distinguished in the professions, arts and sciences. Two Kinds of Wives.

There are two kinds of wives one ind thinks her husband is the greatest man on earth and the other thinks she is greater than her husband. Ji Modern Poetry. One of the nicest girls in this town lately stopped the writer of this, and wanted to read a poem to him; a poem cut out of a newspaper. We refused to listen, fts don't like poetry. Some people say we snould have submitted, and created the impression that we believe In better things.

We do believe in better things, but poetry is not always uplift. Most poetry is worthless. The little good poetry in the world has resulted in a lood of poor stuff that you have a to dislike. Atchison Globe. Jfi Cholera at St.

Petersburg. Nearly every summer there are some cases of genuine cholera in 8t Petersburg. Last summer there were three. Power of Mother's Prayer. A mother's prayers, aflent and gentle, can never miss the road to the throne of all bounty.

Beecher. Are Perfumes Disinfectants? I asked a doctor in England if pci fumes are really disinfectants. he said. "How can they be?" I asked a doctor here in France the ame question, and he answered: "Mais oui, Madame, sans doute," and explained that the basis of every perfume is a strong essential oil of som kind, and that those essential oils are antiseptic. Now, wiich Is right? London truth.

Criminals. A.l criminals are great believers la ireams. Some time ago, at Manches- seen a rainbow. From this he deduced that would be acquitted at Sis triaL -To everyone's surprise he i s. At Least One.

A Sc-uth African constabulary com-mandery office wrotfv to a local troop officer asking if there -were any donkeys in camp. The reply came, in th troop officer's handwriting: "Yes, on R. H. Symes, Captain. bargain if you want a cow, d6tp tf.