The Times from Clay Center, Kansas • Page 2

THE TIMES, CLAY CENTER, KANSAS, NOVEMBER 28, 1889. asssuase iwassspssi esssa. is.nwiiie.a.l JMJaWIIMW.BllsMljei l.ll 1,1111 HM1 IWM'II III mi III II imm TOOT AT AT Owing to contemplated changes 1st, 1890, 1 have decided to offer my entire stock of 1 Cs11 lute sit 11 1 oes, These goods must go, and in order to make them move lively I have knifed the prices and instructed my clerks to not in the store from now until JANUARY 1st, 1890. This is no catch advertisement to sell a few place a cent of profit on any article goods but BBSs. BfffHrrMl jS23 PtSM E2s22S3w ESZSSm BXBSBi BSfttaM Bggpag ESw BMM BtXTn-WSi Of brand new Dry Goods, Nothing in my house shelf-worn or out of style.

Now is your time to buy. Come in and see for yourself, one examination will convince you that the prices we are making were never equaled by ANY FIRM IN THE CITY. All goods strictly cash. H. Jj.

FBI SHMAN. OSii CALEB'S COURTSHIP. And What Came of it. I hadn't no time Or eourtln' when I wan young n' pry. For what with worlln' an' aavlu', I lt ths year Then 1 wai titiyln' an' Ixilldln" and farm work nvr git iion.

Till at lant 1 routittvl uiy tdrthilayp, aud found I wan nfty-oni. "lllffh UiihV'uhi! 1. ''t'1 ehoilii' a vuitnhla pard- ner fr Bo 1 JtMt not down mi' roualilHr! I wbrra I'd better look fr a lf'. I wanted hr yountf an barimime coursean ctlilly an' n-ht, Hmart at halttu' au' eliurutu', quirk with ber bamla an" ft, Hut nlow with (fr ti lain' jet wattm woniau'n time, An an navln wltlt every uny an ef" twaa a altvar fllme; An1 ef he wai good at luenilln an' M-ruhhin' an' clf'uniu' iiituxv, I luadi up my luiud to laku her, ef she wan poor as iuuue, Wual, It eoMt Home time an' tmuhle to dinklvar val to tu mind -There wa4 lot- mi mii i Iuhlh from, but the beat iw hi.rd to find. At lot, atler Uwti iu' au' thliikln, I aettled on Ku- uK-e h' oul.

The deaeon'a younger! darter nineteen or thereabout. 1'retly a a itrter; iija'e the I. utter, too. That ever kih i-ent to iiuuket. hen 1, I Kuene che'll do.

Whenever I've stopped to tho deiu-ou'ii i.hn'a aa ttiy a bee -AIIuk a-woi klu' uu' dolu' ji that's thu wife far me!" Hut now that I'd done u.y t-hooalu', I euz to niynalf, "What neit I ditln't know mut 'bout wliumen, an' I'll own I wail Home perleld 80 1 akd udvleo ot a neighbor thut was the bljf- Kht mlNliike -TblUK" rnllilii'l hev Kone -o crookod ef I'd nnver uid notion' to Jake; lint he was twenty year rounder, uu' the (Jul all liked hllu, eee, Ho 1 a-ked Ion, uil Ire about Kiiuire Jent like a fool 1 be! Ker he; "Why, man. It's a her out lo Ide: entyt Yon uiunI take You niut hrliir her homo from mentin'; an' stick elo-e to her be. Me; You HJUM Hit to fee her nf evrln's her riiltiB itli-l'y Unto'. you must buy A book or a hteAMlpiu, mi-bbe, soma ribttona, or some rlt'Ks; Then tell hur her i-hfek4 arts her her eyea Is brlKht: Tell her you lorn her dearly, an' dream of her at ulKl'l; Tell her Hut bar i htojpped him. "It's easy talkiuY' sex 1, "Ittit 1 neter did no eourtlu', an' I'm half afeared lo try.

1'il make ye au' offer, Jat o': ef you'll tfo with me to-liwht. Kinder keep up my my courage, an' sen that thlnii K.e i ifclil. Tackle tiie deacon, lnel'te, an' show bow to be. Klu, I'll ie y' a yearlln' ralf I will, as aura aa aln la sin! Waal, the hiirpuin was struck. Moan' Jacob went to ace Kiinlce together.

Jake, he talked to tue deacon 'bout crops an' cat. lie an' weather; Kunlre. s'io kep' very oulet just sot an' knitted away. An' I rot tioi-o te-idn her, a thiukln' of soraethin' to say. Many an even' I illcjil, when she went fer apples an cake Inter the p.iniiy.

'tsras allii. "Come bold the can-die. Juke," As if she nobody; then sbe'd fclve me a smile, Hoou's I offered to help her, an' say 'twarn't worth my while. I'il own 'twas ipiito sur prl-In' bowlon they'd'aev ter stay A-pickin out them apples, but Jacob told me one day They was tryln' to find the best ones, ao'a she could give 'em to me. An' surely thai was ftatterin', as any one could eeet Once I bought ber a rib: be blue.

Juke said It ottfrhter But a brown one's far more last in', an' this one was cheaper too. An' once I took her a rldlu', but that wasted half a day. An' I made up my mind that walkln' was pleaa-anter anyway Word, I'd been ait months s-rourtln', when I ess to Juke, y. I "It's time tl.at we was married; here's Thauks- Klvin' win' niah -A flrM rate day fer a-weddlu'; an' besldee, to ear the len.t. I can make thai Thanlislvin' turkey do fer part of the weddlu' feast." Mo th.it nicnt I screwed up my courae to the very elickin' p'lut I You wouldn't newr mistruxti ev'ry 1 i.

that I shook In We was coi.un' aNmjr from meellu like ye to say Be "I'd That ye hain't no objections, Kunlre, to lie married Thunksffvlu' iiiiy." Hbe turned an' looked at me, smllin' an' blushlu' an jet as sweet (I skursely knew fer a miuult it I stood on my head or feet A Then "I hern't the least objection," ser she, as I oieneiJ the irate; Uut she didn't e.k me to she ses only, "It's ruther late." I looked all around fer Jacob, but he'd kinder slipped out of sift-lit, flo I flirured the cost of weddlu' aa I went along home that nluht. Waal, I (jot my bouse all ready, an' apoke to the pa'son beside, An'arly ThauksKtvln' mornln' I started to hev th knot tied. But before 1 come to the deacon's I was walkln' alonjf spry, All rinxed Iu uiy Hun. lay beat, of course a ilels-h come dashln' by; There was Jacob a-drivia'. an' Kunlre sot at kls aide; An' be etofsi an' sex, "Allow me to Introduce my bride!" So that waa the end of my courtship.

Ton ae, I started wronir, Askln' advloe of Jacob, an' takln' him along, Fer team may be letter fer plowln' so' bayln' an' ail the ret. But when It come to eonrflav why slned bose is Iwst I AT T. nrl.rH, fn rtllnr't Ifrwrr of Uitntk't Mmjitzin ftrr ltc'mhrr. The Kvenlng- Lamp. OOOOOOO How sweet a tbe time when the Home.

Ump la IlKhted, and leathered around It tbe household so dear, from school and frorn play and from toll reunited, to rest till the aand man too soon will appear, faps now enjoying- hla momenta of leisure, la ellppers and es.y chair drawn to the arete, ia reading- the J-rra and Is beaming with pleasure on loved little tots who ran stay up till eight. Mamma.w dreesed so nest-ly. beside 1'lm la knitting the cunning, est eocks for the lsby'e wee feet; and, learning their Isieeona, are quiet: sitting the wisest of scholars the picture's complete. Tbe rl.Kkou the mantle chimes "eight" Hoftly laying their playthlnga away, and with footsteps so light, the tots go with mama upstairs, sweetly auylng, "I lore (Hi, dear paps, I kisa oo; gxid nlghtl" Tbe clock ihlmitig "nine" sends the wise little scholars to rest busy brains and in dreamland to stray; and off go their shows and I heir jacket a and col tare and lot In a jiffy they're sleep. lug away.

How mamma and papa enjoy tbe perfection of rert for the body and peaee for the ailnd, till the lamp, growing dlro, is put out with affection, and left all alone In tbe darkness enshrined. U. V. Itudgt In JLvfrotf rss lit. reblle Kales.

Friday, November 29, at 10 o'clock p. at L. McOofiin'a, half mile west of Broughton, stock and farm implements and household goods. Liberal terms. "What ia sweeter than to have a friund you can trust," asked Hawkins.

"To have a friend who will trust you," replied in business on or pass He has continued to bless our people It is but proper that we, as a nation, should pause and irive earnest thanks to God that we have been permitted to live in the en joyment of this life and the peace and prosperity that surround us. Senatoe Bestiet. of Wichita, says that of tne State officials from Governor down. Atttrney General Kellogg is the only prac tical Prohibitionist, that is, the only one who abstains from drinking the ardent. "Yet." savs he.

"the mention of resubmis sion throws them all into Em poria News. The assistant Attorney General, Mrs. B. Ke-llogrg, is also a practical Prohibition ist. I'J IMirctdo Republican.

And uon forget JJill liigijins he is a teetotaler. Fibe broke out Monday morning in C. Webster's stables at Orchard Hill farm near Valley Falls and totally destroyed the stable and four line horses. The horses destroyed were Evermond. one of the most promising colts in the west, with a record of 2:25 '4.

for whom two days ago Webster refused Wedgwood, valued at 500; Prairie Wilkes, valued at Joe Larkin, valued at $2,500. If Leavenworth aud Wichita were taken from Kansas, and Atchison and Kansas City were moved across the line, the State would be too dead to skin. Wirhittt Jour nal. Some people prefer death to dishonor any wav-. Slarriajre is a Failure THE MEN SAY When a wife thinks more of her relatives than of her husband.

When a wife believes that her husband must love her whether tleserves it or not. When a wife stoops to her husband's level, tries to equal him in being mean. When a wife fails to realize that gentle ness and patience are more natural with her than with man. When a woman marries for convenience, and pretends that she marries for love. When a woman pays too much attention to her husband's old vows, and not enough to the nature of the man she has actually married.

When a wife insists that her husband shall bo as good as his mother, instead of as good as his father. When a wife says that if her husband earns three dollars a day. ho ought to put a dollar and a half of it in her lap every night as "her sharf." When a wife who is not expected to do any such work says in the presence of the neighbors that she was not "raised" that way, and will not saw the wood. When the wife blames all the trouble on her husband, instead of accepting her share. When a woman imagines that all the women in the world in love with her plug of a husband.

When a wife expects the fact that she is a mother to compensate for all her failures. THE WOMEN SAT When a man says he cannot control his temper when with his wife and children. although they know he controls it when provoked by a large, muscular man enemy. When a man is a liar, and his wife knows it. When a man is liberal, and fair, and cheerful with every one except his wife.

When a man is fool enough to expect that an angel would marry him. When a man is patient and cringing with men who do not care if they displease him. and impatient with his sick children. When a man expects that his wife ought to buy as much with one dollar as he himself can buy with two. When a man frets because his wife did not love him.

before she knew him. When a man expects the fountain to be higher than the head; when he expects better home than he provides. When a man blames his wifo because there is a large family of children. When a man smacks his lips in recollection of his mother's cooking, and forgets that ho had a better appetite as a boy than he has as a man. When a man believes that a wife should give all her time to their home, and then wonders that she never has any money of her own.

Atchison Globe. Senator Plainly Knows. Senator Plumb, passing through Kansas City this morning, made a statement to a reporter for the ijtar which is worth more by way of infornation in regard to resub mission than the columns of stuff and misrepresentation which a certain morning newspaper prints about Kansas sentiment. "There is no fight for resubmission in Kansas," said Senator Plumb, "save what is going on over here." He might have added that there is no such fight "over here." nor any disposition to interfere in the home affairs of Kansas, outside tle office of a Democratic newspaper which is agitating resubmission in Kansas for mere party purposes. It was this same paper which, up to the eve of last year's election, maintained that its Kansas advices warranted the belief that the State would go Democratic, and the result was the famous 82,000 Republican majority.

Now the same mistaken idea of the function of journalism prompts this party organ to misrepresent Kansas as all aflame with the spirit of resubmission. To this Senator Plumb says that "if all the people in Kansas were stood up in a row, not one in 1.000 would be found in favor of resubmission." This statement may be accepted as a correct report of Kansas sentiment on tnis subject for two reasons: First, there is no man in Kansas who keeps his finger on the public pulse of that State so constantly as Senator Plumb; and, secondly, because no other man in all that State is more anxious than he to reflect public sentiment. This testimony is worth more than all the space which the Kansas City Times devotes to the subject from day to day. Kansas City Star. Catarrh Can't be Cured.

with local application, as they cannot reach the seat cf the disease. Catarrh is a blood or constitutional disease, and in order to cure it you have to take internal remedies. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and acts directly on the blood and mucus surface. Hall's Catarrh Cure is no quack medicine. It was prescribed by one of the best physicians in the country for years, and is a regular prescription.

It is composed of the best tonics known, combined with the best blood purifiers, acting directly on the mucus surface. The perfect combination of the two ingredients is what produces such wonderful results in curing catarrh. Send for testimonials free. F. J.

Chznbt Co-, Toledo, O. Sold by druggists, price 75c about JANUARY and. COUNTY NEWS. Notes From The Times Reporters Round About. What the Farmers are Doing, Likewise Their Sons and Daughters Motes About tli Sick Various Happenings.

Grant. There has been a big demand for first-class horses and the best have been picked up. Thomas Birden has been quite sick for some time with spinal trouble and typhoid fever. He is getting better now. Elder Rairden has been visiting the schools in our town and seems well pleased at tho progress the pupils are making.

J. C. Register, from Norton County, has rented a part of Geo. Kipp's farm, and will put in a lot of spring wheat that has been yielding so well out west. W.

S. Bradbury has just completed his cource at Lawrence and returned on Saturday night. He will take up a course at Manhattan at the opening of the next term. Capt. Gordon will ship a car load of fine horses in February to Pennsylvania.

Those who have been raising fine horses now see tho importance of breeding from pure bred stock. The schools at Kings, Malls, 93 and district 10 are doing well. The King school has debates every Tuesday night. Some of the bright and shining lights from Wakefield participate. Our M.

E. pastor has been busily engaged husking corn for Brother Dittmar. He gets around with his Sunday work just the same. Such a preacher should be encouraged in the good work. The yield of corn is much better than at first expected.

It runs from 50 to 80 bushels per acre, but the very low price leaves too much loss to the farmer to sell. and too much risk to feed at the price of stock to warrant any profit, but a large number are feeding steers and hogs and will trust to Providence for the profit. The debating club at district 93 met on Thursday nisht last mil discussed the pro hioitorv iiueV.ion. the discnssion was participated in by Messrs. Morton, Bradbury.

Gates, Potter and Dunham. They voted to resubmit to question to the peo pie. The brilliant young orator, Lafayette Morton, is making a big hit in the forensic arena. The resubmission question is being dis cussed considerably in this town, but does not seem to meet with much favor with the majority here. The closing of the joints in town during.the term of court has been juite noticable by their patrons from these parts.

How long it will last is hard to tell, Moszs. Idana. The "Deestrict Skule" rehearsed Monday mgtit. S. W.

Joneson returned from St. Louis Tuesday. Ilenry Perry returned Thursday from Salem, Neb. Our grain merchants are doing an ii medso business buying corn. Harvey Rankin, of Wakefield, made the home folks a flying visit Sunday.

Quite a number from here attended the Timnior.s-Gillespie wedding Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Cox, of Blaine: rela tives of liev. Boyd, are visiting with the 6ame.

David B.ibb and family, of Clay Center, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Tiinmons Sunday. Fulliugton Treschel have been overhauling aud repairing their elevator engine the past week. Our barber shop is closed and the proprietor.

Geo. Johnston, is making an extended visit in Clay Center. The ladies of the M. E. sewing society made a very fine display of their sewing work at the church supper Friday even ing.

A supper was given at the M. E. Church Friday night. About $13 was realized, which is to be used in repairing the parsonage. Drew Stevenson entertained a large number of young friends Thursday even ing, the occasion being his twenty second birthday.

Mrs. John A. Meek was called by tele gram to her old home at Greensburg, In diana, Saturday by the serious illness of her mother. Dr. Henry and family departed Thurs day for a four weeks' visit to Indiana.

The doctor hopes by this visit he will recover his health, which has been very poor the past summer. Work on the new Presbyterian Church is being rapidly pushed forward, and when the building is finished it will be as fine a structure as can be found in many towns of twice the population of Idana. A dramatic play gotten up by our home talent, called "A Soldier of Fortune," will be played under the management of the Idana cornet band, Thursday, December 5. William Todds playing the part of Csl Fitznoodle, the soldier of fortune. All who appreciate a good dramatic play and good music should not fail to torn out and see them.

W. 8. L. Gill Township. We have had very nice fall weather of late.

Albert Du Chane is the happy daddy of a fine laddy. The house on the old Church farm is undergoing repairs. Wm. Bates and wife, of Dickinson County, were in Gill a part of last week. Mrs.

Benj. I. Shreffier, of Topeka, has been visiting relatives here for a couple of weeks, but will return home soon. J. S.

Thompson will make an expedition this week to the southeast. We understand he is on the real estate exchange. A debating club has been organized at the Machmer school-house, with L. J. Hall as chairman and Miss Sadie Kerby as secretary.

Parties from Wakefield are skulking around here after cream, but that pomp handle hasn't been paid for yet. More anon. Though the night was dark and misty quite a large company attended the sale and supper last Tuesday night, and everything sold very welL We hear of a great many cattle dying from the effects of feeding in the stalks this. fall. D.

Shivers lost two last week. At least that is pronounced to be the cause by Dr. Loader. Quite an interesting program has been made np for the convention next Sunday, S3ii3 I3aw Nl sSSESn and a basket dinner will be served. Everything is arranged completely, if the elements don't prohibit.

An old chronic writer in the Wakefield Advertiser spread hog-latiu over half a column in that paper last week, all in order to assume a graceful air in telling about a little dissatisfaction between man and wife over the Alliance. The farmers are doing a great deal of their own shipping this full, and have been talking of starting a store in Wakefield, but have about come to the conclusion to give their solid trade to Wm. Guy. of that city, who has a well-filled btore and is willing to divide the profits with all, whether Alliance men or not. By remembering this fact we will save many dollars.

Kiolet. lloom. Mrs. Wm. Moore is very sick.

AuguBt Petermyer has nearly completed his large barn. Dennis Underside has built a nice new house on his place. Wm. Blackwood's last pair of twins are doing nicely at last accounts. Miss Emma Hutchinson is still very low at times.

Her friends almost despair of her recovery. The singing-school at Washington school-house is a credit to all concerned. Wm. C. Milligan is instructor.

Charles, William and Hattie O'Harro have returned from California. They like Californoplacelikehome very much. The busiest season of the year. Every man gathering corn or looking for help. Hands are in demand at good wages.

The Methodists of Idana gave a supper Friday evening, from which the proceeds amounted to about so we are in formed. A. K. Moore has moved into his new house. Allie, we are waiting on you to give us an invitation to come and see vou some evening.

A week ago Snnday morning Mr. Carson killed a mad dog that was chasing his stock about the yard. Since then, Tues day, the 19th, three hogs showed signs of rabies and had to bo killed. Wm. Gaston was called upon one day last week by the county superintendent and requested to apply for the Crawford school, north of Morganville.

Of course it is needless to say that William got the school. The Alliance of Bloom claims a member ship of about fifty: Washington Alliance about forty. These men. it will be re membered, live in Bloom township, which has a voting population of about one nun dred and fifty. So voa see Bloom is all right." If current reports are correct, Benjamin Carson, was married to-day (the 20th inst.) to a young lady of Republic County, Kan.

And Miss Maggie Gillespie will be off the market after to-morrow at 1 clock p. m. Mr. Sherman Tiinmons is to be the lncky one. Later The boys met Ben Carson and wife Friday evening, and immediately proceeded to shake hands, pans, drums and bells in the latest approved fashion.

Ilrausriiton. As we haAe not seen anything from Rustler for some time we take it for granted tnat he is off on furlough, so we take the liberty to write pou a few of the happenings of the neighborhood. Wm. Bradbury is home on vacation. Rev.

Boaz is wearing a new overcoat. Bill Davis is laid up with sprained back. G. D. Bryson is at work on the Clifton bridge.

U. E. Need, sheriff elect, was in our city this week. lheladits Aid fciociety is running order again. Jesse Dover is hobbliiuz around with rheumatism.

J. D. Graham has got one of them I mean a felon. Mr. Everett is laid up with inflammatory rheumatisiUj.

The U. P. people have built a neat new depot and coal house, and are prepared to do business like other railroads. M. E.

Ellenwood. of Wakefield, was in our village last week, we think for the pur pose of trying to buy our stores. Corn is coming to our town faster than the shipper can get cars to ship it out, 1 here seems to be a shortage of cars on both roads. The young ladies of Broughton and vi cinity gave a br.sket supper last week for the purpose of procuring money to buy lamps for the school-house. It rained all evening, but still $7.50 was taken in.

An extra going west left three empty box cars at Mr. Broughton's elevator at 11 o'clock p. last Saturday, and the Sab bath was only bent a little to have them ready for the said extra on its return. L. J.

McGoffin's family will move to Arkansas in the near future. L. J. will re main here for awhile to try to sell his farm, and when that is done will follow the family. Jam.

Garfield Township. The lodge of "The Stars" gives an oyster supper Thanksgiving evening in the order. Tom Lamar and Otis Kent took their best girls and went over to Riley County to visit relatives of the former. A pnowy day. Feed plenty of hey "al or wood la also good.

Rev, Lofgren, cf the Swede M. E. con gregation, preached a sermon at school-house district 68 last Sabbath at 3 o'clock p. m. Richard Hod son, who was injured by the explosion of a snotgun a few weeks ago, is again able to shoot docks and chase rabbits.

The Farmers' Alliance is fast gaining in number. There is a membership of about one hundred at Fancy Creek Alliance. Goshen township. Mrs. Lester Faiver has been confined to 1 ner Dea tne past lour weeks with me lana fever.

Dr. Morgan being their family physician we trust she will be able to eo on her way rejoicing at an early date. Winter has at last overtaken us. Harcv is the man who has his sheds well covered, his corral fence and gates reedy for business. We say unto him, well done thou, enter into thy house and rest.

They who have not thus prepared shall toil on yet a season. G. M. S. Industry.

The newly married couple visited Clay one day last week. Isaac Gibbs, two miles northwest, is feed ing a bunch of steers. C. Malcolm, of Longford, was on onr streets last Friday afternoon. Cooper A White, of Abilene, are feeding 175 head of steers on farm near town.

J. R. Townsend's Dr. Renner is kept busy attending his patients and his fine stock of horses. Chris Kassebaum is feeding 115 fine steers in his lots adjoining the mill property.

Geo. Webster and wife, former residents of this town, now of Nemaha County, this State, are making a visit with friends here. Quite a number of our citizens made a journey to Manchester last Saturday. A turkey shooting match was the attraction. The ladies of Industry will furnish a dinner to the hungry in the Pinkerton building on Thanksgiving day.

Price, 25 cents. The feeding of steers in this vicinity gives the farmers a very good corn market, and keeps the mill busy grinding feed. Listening to the conversation of farmers when they come to town I should judge that corn was a good crop this year. 60, CO and as high as 80 bushels per acre is the report. Phixeas.

Wakefield. The Adeertiser, after a week's rest, is now visiting its subscribers again. Prcf. Piatt, of Manhattan, discoursed from the Congregational Church pulpit last Sunday morning. Mrs.

E. J. Webb, of Manhattan, came up last Saturday to spend Thanksgiving week with relatives and friends here. There are several very rough places in the roads in and around town that our road overseers should fix before tho ground freezes up. Our grain shippers are considerably put out owing to the inability of the railroad to furnish cars.

If a car famine is now upon us, what will it be in a few weeks! Frank Snow is making his sister, Mrs. Wm. Johnson, a short visit this week. He has been taking a trip through Oklahoma anil IhifilrD i a mu-riwl ri i and thinks the poorest portion of Kansas an Eden beside that, but he speaks very highly of the Cherokee Strip. Moses, of Grant, speaks in his items last week of a champion coru-husker of that township, Mike Krol locks by name, who has been averaging 120 bushels per day.

We don't like to doubt Moses' word, but, think it impossible unless said Mike works by lamplight. Seventy-five bushels is our limit, and we have to put in a mighty long day to crib that; and we'll bet money, marbles or brass tacks he can't double that anvhow. Maby Ann. A SAD STORY. An Aged Wife Keeking to ICecluim her Venerable hut Faithleim Iluhband.

Queer things are happening in this queer world every day at a rate which it seems would soon exhaust the ingenuity of the power that provides new sensations for each passing hour. But they keep on happening lust the same, and we ore sur prised with each recurring whirl of the wheel until about the only thought is, Where will lightning strike next! Saturday's afternoon train brought in an old lady whose grey hairs had been whit ened by the severities of seventy-two win ters. She was in search of a recreant young husband who was funny and frisky at seventy-five. She found him living very comfortably with a young woman of about twenty -five. The old lady was accompanied by her lawyer and had intended to put her liege lord in the penitentiary, just as a lesson to other frisky young fellows who mieht forget their obligations to their wives of over a half-century.

But they found the laws of Kansas so different from those of Iowa on the same point that they returned without undertaking anything, A pathetic story it is, and as true as Gospel. The old lady loves the old rake yet to the verge of worship, and is weak ened in mind by the terrible strain this horrible disgrace has put upon her. Vay back when the century was on the up-hill they were married. Poor they were, truly, but love lightened the load and happily they trudged along together to the tune of sweet contentment in each other. Children were born to them, and grew into respect able manhood and womanhood.

Property accumulated under their careful management until their notes, cash and real estate amounted to nearly $100,000. Then the Old Nick caught the ear of the man through the captivating voice of a siren who was fair of face and form. She had by some machinations known only of the powers which order such things gained entrance to the home. After several years the man and the maid disappear and turn up in Clay Center and the denouement is as briefly mentioned above. The old wife was nearly heartbroken, and seemed to gain most consolation through telling over and over again how she loved her faithless "spouse, and how, though he came back to her sightless and bereft of his silky white hair, she would again cherub him as of old.

She dared not risk an interview, but in the dusk of evening walked on the opposite side of the street past the house where the guilty couple are living. As luck would have it the old man at that moment stepped out of the front door smoking his after-meal cigar and his faithful wife had a fair view of him. She said her main object was to save enough of the property that when he did creep back to her, heartsick and forsaken, they would have enough to live on comfortably the rest of their lives. Sunday she took the back train, as full of sorrow as ever woman was. Thus endeth another chapter in human experience.

Hchool Ke ports. Report of school in district 44 for month ending November 22, 1889: Our enroll ment is now 30. Those who have been neither absent nor tardy are Lillie Odle, Nealie Parliament, Gertie Parliament, Ad- die Boughen, Daisy Selder and Arthur Sel- der. Others not tardy are Walter Odle, Bert Odle, Cecil Warren Newton. Ella Ryan, Mary Reed, Addie Reed and Eli Reed.

Written review at the close of the month with very gaol results. Visitors during "the month. Miss Alice Smith and Mrs. Emma Newton. Kat E.

Henna, Teacher. Report of Mt, Carmel school for the month ending November 22, 1889: Number of pupils enrolled during month, males 10, females 10, total 20; average daily attendance, 18. Those promoted to a higher grade are Nellie Shreffier. Frank Gray, Elsie Wood, Olive Howell and Freddie Lacey. The following have one hundred in deportment: Albert and Lewis Starker, U'ealey Dever, Frank Kennedy, Bert and George Wood, Nellie Shreffier and Fred Lacey.

Lk J. Hall, Teacher. Report of Lincoln Creek school for the month ending November 22: Total number enrolled, 38 males 18, females 20; average daily attendance, 32. Eddie Harrison, Florence Osborn, Elect ia Cain, Lucy Cain, Estella Keith, Ralph Hutchison, Emma Cain and George Eads were neither absent nor tardy. The following receive 100 in deportment: Perry Harrison, Willie Cox, Ralph NeaL Estella Keith, Berths Obex, James MeCnlly and Wallace Haws.

B. Hau, Teacher. business man and farmer is now struggling will follow. STAM) TO VOIR fit'NS. Some of the good brethren have taken Tns Times to task in a mild and friendly sort of way for printing the article on the resubmission question two weeks ago.

in whic the ground was taken that the question must bo faced as a live issue in the near future by the Republican party. After reading the article carefully several times we fail to find a single line or word in it thut breathes heresy with regard to the cause of Prohibition or treason to the Republican party. The article deals simply with facts. Wo hold that there isiiothing to be gained by sneering at the resubmission movement; that it is dangerous for the Republican party to lull itself to sleep with the old song about Prohibition beinjr the settled policy of the State. Itepubli cans have all to gain and nothing to lose by aiertnes: the party in this Slate is com niitted irrevocably to Prohibition, and must defend it at all hazard.

As between Prohibition even as now en forced and the open saloon. the former is far preferable to us, and we believe it is so to a large majority of Republicans. If Prohibition accomplished only the work of removing the saloon influence from politics it would be worthy of the earnest support of all sound Republicans, who are always at disadvantage in a saloon campaign for the very simple reason that the saloon influence is venah its motives disreputable and its methods brutal. The clamor for resubmission comes primarily from those who desire the restoration of the dramshop traffic, and the wily foe has selected a time of depression and unrest for the spreading of its illogical doctrines, hoping to gain large accessions from tho ranks of the dissatisfied. It might be chivalric to that a minority should have a chance to be heard, but it would bo poor politics, for somebody is always discontented, and were that policy adopted we should never have an end of the question, and would lind it always taking up tho time that should be devoted to other questions of more importance.

Republicans cannot afford to give aid and comfort to the resubmission movement at the present time even if they are dissatisfied with Prohibition and believe the policy ought to be reversed. In the first place it would be a waste of time. Even if a large majority of tho voters were in favor of resubmission it would be impossible to reach a vote on it as a nonpartisan question before 1893. Then there are paramount interests which no loyal Republican would want to confide to a Legislature elected by the enemies of his party. Among these is the election of a United States Senator.

There is absolutely no inducement for a Republican to join the resubmission crusade and every reason why lie should more closely than ever stick to his party, defend its policy and enforce its measures. II AN HACK'S CONVERSION. Tho following is what ex-Congressman Hanback said when he joined the Methodist Church at Osborne a few days ago: "I rely not upon my own strength, but lean upon the arm of my Savior. I stand here to-night to bear testimony of his holy name, and to ask the prayers of tho people of God, that I may step out of the darkness into the light of His redeeming love. At the foot of the cross I cast the bulk of my sins, and looking up to whero He hangs outstretched.

I will ask for help in this my hour of need. I have not taken this step with great haste I have been slow to respond to His call. When I was fourteen years of age, in a grove in Illinois, I knelt at the altar and found that peace of mind which passeth all understanding. I went to my humble home where dwelt my father and mother, and with renewed love fell into their arms, and took upon me the vow which I am now slow to do. I think if in the goodness of God, father and mother could have remained with me.

that as I grew into manhood my way of life would have been fixed, but at sixteen I closed the eyes of my mother nine months a widow and with a family of six. ot which 1 was the oldest, we went into the world to fight its battles. As we wandered hither and thither our lives fell into rough places and I ceased to follow my. mother's teachings. I think now when I look back on the scene, the world was cold and bleak, and sometimes I do not wonder that I fell by the wayside, but during all these years the Savior has knocked at the door of my heart repeatedly, spoken to me, to let him in.

I was in a strange city not long ago, walking on tho sidewalk, when I heard that voice call again, and turning in response to his tender demands. I went to my hotel and knelt at my hedside and prayed the Lord to open the wav, and from that time on I seemed to have a higher and better place than before, and tho hrst thought that came to me I sat down and wrote to my wife and told her that I believed I had found my Savior. So I believed I had found my Savior, bo I stand here to-night not hesitatingly not doubting what is best for me, but pleading in His name by His sacrifice and by His death for me that I may be drawn out of sin, that myfeet may "be put upon the strong that I may be his younger brother during the rest of my life. For all these I humbly ask your prayers' At the close of the services Mr. Hanback went forward and presented his name for membership with the cflurch.

Govebnob HrarHKiY, Railfoad Commissioner Greene, State Auditor Timothy McCarthy and State Treasurer Hamilton attended an old soldiers' reunion at Oberlin last Saturday. They sat up pretty late that night; but, so as not to bend the Sabbath in the least, they turned their watches back back back until even they themselves scarce knew p. m. from a. m.

It was a case where time really turned back just for a night," and they were all boys again. However, it is not of this we would write, but of a gloomier picture. The B. M. road, which runs through Oberlin, is a Sunday road, i.

runs no trains on Sunday So the royal party pat op good money enough to get hauled across to Jennings, a flag station on the ungodly Rock Island, just eighteen miles away. And it was cold and stormy and snowing, and the spir- its of the company naturally ran low. They reached Jennings two hours before time for tho train, which passes Clay Center about 1:30 at night. Although the depot was somewhat cold and cheerless, they had fun each with the other until the train pulled in. As it came in the conductor swung off, waved his lantern to go ahead, and with only a momentary slow-up she pulled out into the landscape, leaving the distinguished party on the platform.

All but Treasurer Hamilton were It ft behind: he risked his neck and saved twelve hours' timo and a good joke. He pulled the bell-cord, but as tho train slowed down the conductor again waved the signal and away she went once more. Then a freight conductor, v. ho grasped the situation, sprang on the flying train and yanked the bell-cord. Again she seemed ready to stop, but the third time the autocrat who cared not for executivo authority far out on the prairies, ordered the engineer to play the part of Mr.

Gallagher, and away she went. The Chief Executive and till tho rest stayed in that horrible place for about twelve hours and then managed to get a train. As we consider this little episode in all its funny lights we can but enquire, What is the use of being a Governor, what profit efii it a man to be a Railroad Commissioner, why the empty honors of being a State officer, if a jay conductor can so treat them and still retain his job? Better a jay with no rights to be denied than greatness snubbed like this. Let us resubmit. OfB J.

R. Burton was in Washington City last week taking things by storm. He announced nimself as a candidate for Ingall's place with a determination to get it in spite of Geo. R. Peck.

Following is a description given of him by a Washington correspondent "Mr. Burton is a picturesque liguro in Kansas politics. He is floridly eloquent in speech, and dramatic in manner, withal one of the most pleasing orators of a State that is full of them. Like Senator Ingalls, he is slender of build and straight as a Cheyenne Indian, and his fastidiousness of dress is even as proverbial in Kansas as is that of the Senator. It is accepted a a fact beyond question that Mr.

Burton is the best dressed man in the State and some of his envious opponents have facetiously termed him the Berry Wall of the west." The stvie in which Mr. Burton was arrayed attracted universal attention in Washington. His attire was more gorgeous than anything ever donned by the New Xork "King of the Dudes," but there was a taste displayed that only added to the regality of his splendor. The "ground work'' of Mr. Burton "get up was a suit of Scotch plaid of a delicate brown and hazy uray pattern, a thread of gold and another of suverj heightening the effect.

Over an exquisite pair of patent leather shoes was a pair of mouse colored leggings, or cuffs for the feet." A fall overcoat of a delicate elephant's breath shade, rather subdued the loud tones of the other raiment, and restored harmony to what might otherwise have been a "rebellion of colors." From behind a scarf that defied description for its elegance, there peeped forth a collar of immaculate whiteness. The stylo of tho collar was new. and the scarf was sensa tional in its effect; there gleamed from its center a marvelous pin of mother-of-pearl, surrounded by tiny diamonds. A shining silk hat of tho latest block surmounted all. Not since Berrv Wall's last visit has society been so agitated as it was when Mr.

Barton appeared upon the streets of Washington. Ila left to-day for New York, and thence will wend his wav homeward to Kansas. When the cry for an extra session of the Kansas Legislature came up a few weeks "ago," says the Hutchinson Netcs, "this paper pooh-poohed the, idea on the ground that this Legislature was practic ally unanimous in its support of the present law. This was strenuously denied by the resubmission sheets, and, to test the matter, a card was sent by this paper to each member of that body, asking his views. Out of 165 Senators and Representatives 151 responded.

Some of the remainder are out of tne State and a portion may have never received the card. Of the 151 members sent in there are only four resubmissionists, and in the fourteen remaining there are six more- only a total of ten of the 165 members who are in accord with the Bentley-Wichita scheme." This shows pretty conclusively where the Legislature stands. The following little pleasantry is the way the papers of Comanche "County hail each other once a week: The bastard Ashland Journal goes out of its way to advertise that the Enterprise is for sale. We hope the kinky-headed, sorrel-complected, brainless dude that edits the above-named sheet by proxy will not lose any sleep on our account. We will probably be publishing the Enterprise long after his two-by-nine sheet has ceased to exist; and should we at any time desire to sell we will advertise in a paper that circulates outside of a little ring composed of whiskey-soaked bums, gamblers and dead-beats.

Our outfit does not represent dollars that rightfully belong to someone else; we did not, with the assistance of an officer, rob someone else of it; we bought it and paid for it with money honestly earned, and if we sell it we will only sell what belongs to us. If Sorrel Top cannot comprehend us we will talk plainer next time. Govkbsob Httmphbxy has received the Thanksgiving proclamation issued by Chief Mayes of the Cherokee Nation. The preamble reads thus: As onr forefathers, when Natures ehil- if iha firt in Tnrsuit of frame. around the council fire, in simplicity did Kive praise to tne urei opmi.

mnr .1 yearly mystic lireen torn unacv, ior me return of His great gift to them the Indian corn now, to-day, as a cnristian nation ot people, it is but meet that the Cherokee hunts to the Christian fWVfJM.V BUVVW Go4 for His continued protection of our iriDo mine eujujiucui nuc jjwciu- ItAnMu that thrATICTK thA many trials we bar been compelled to A NEW AWAKENING. The Friend of l'rohibition ltrdirrliitc Tliemsclven. For a long time the rabid Prohibitionists and church members, presumably as much interested in the enforcement of tho Prohibitory law in County as the "politician" have lain dormant. They seemed to think their work was over and with a cowardly club they stood over the Republican party and said -Enforce the Prohibitory law or we will leave you in a body." They never seemed to have reasoned the matter as did the practical man who felt that public sentiment was barely ready for Prohibition when it came nnil that it must have the moral support of the community in order to be the success it should. They "watched and prayed," then when it came time to act they were back under the ammunition wagon breathing the covert threat above mentioned.

It seems that they are now coming to an understanding that they are a part Clay Center aud Clay County for practical uud political moral purpose, and if they want to see hu Prohibitory law enforced they must help and not merely find fault. Tub Times, it seems from all reports, has borne a very large part in this awakouing. Its attitude that Republicans must get up and do something looking to the better enforcement of the law or prepare for a growing sent intent which would soon compel a reniihiiiiiihion, has brought the good people up standing. It used the term "'Republican" without invidious distinction, meaning pronehcr, Prohibition-Republican, church member and politician. It recognizes no ethics by which one of these divisions escapes due responsibili'.

y. With this in view it is a pleasure to chronicle a rousing temperance meeting at the Methodist Church last Sunday evening; participated in by all tho churches and ministers, the first in a long, loner time. And it was a L'ood one. There I was appropriate music, prayers directing lhe Almighty's attention to the thing par 1.... ticularly near tho heart, scripture rending in the same vein und a powerful sermon by Dr.

Tuttle which provoked hearty amens from all over tho room. He was followed by each of the other ministers in tho same line and then a permanent organisation inaugurated by the appointment of a committee to report a plan for an "nnti-resub-misnion club" at some future meeting. This committee is composed of Dr. Warren, J. C.

Mayos, J. W. Finch and W. H. Underwood.

Tho seeds sown in this meeting will do more good than till the growling on the street corners that can be done between now and doomsday. It jis a movo to work the sentiment to a point where tho people will pay the expense of investigations and not growl so unmercifully at the officers. It will put new courne into the officers and new life in tho "politician." The Timkh is encouraged nnd will lend its aid to the movement just so long as there is sense behind it. Now let us have some down town meetings on ot li'-r nights than Sunday. In many respects Dr.

Tut lo, pastor of the Baptist Church in this city, reaeinblei Senator Ingalls; that is, in language, illus trations, ludicrous comparisons and pow erful arraignment of the opposition. In his discourse Inst Sunday evening on the prohibition question he used illustrations as strong as Ingalls' famous "muck-heap" picture. He said, in effect: "The common idea that this world owes any iiinn a living is a most outrageous fallacy. It owes no man anything that he docs not earn by good honest labor. A man must, in order to be honest, render an equivalent to society for the clothes he wears, the food he eats, the privileges he enjoys.

I go out into the world and sny to the fust man I meet, 'My friend, what are you doing to earn your living He says, with pride in his voice, I am a mid he takes me around the corner and shows me a beautiful house, strongly built, in which mechanical skill is artistically united with modem ideas. 'This is my work, mid there is much more of the same kind scattered all over this prosperous Then I say, 'This man has a right to all he enjoys; he is a worthy member of "I go to the shoemaker iu his narrow shop and say, Mr. Man, what do you do to entitle you to the privileges you enjoy He takes tno around to the largo school-house where stand the red-cheeked children in platoons ready for the word of command to march to their duties, and, pointing to their well-shod, impatient little feet, he says, with pardonable pride, There is my work; I am busy all day long on soch work as that it speaks for Truly this man renders value received. Thus I go from mechanic to mechanic, and am shown his handiwork, all of which is good, or it would not be accepted in this age of accuracy and wear. Surely they are not parasites on the body politic or the social structure.

I visit the professional men. They are busy in the work of ameliorating the condition of mankind. Tho preacher labors in the vineyard, making smoother the rough places and easing the mental pains on the deathbed. His is the work of love and acceptable in the eyes of the Master and of the whole world. I then go to the saloon-keeper and sny, Mister, what is your If he is hon est be will blush and take me in sight of a house all run down, dilapidated, the doors off the hinges, the windows broken and full of old clothes, and will say, This is my He will point to the rum blossom on the nose of the old toper and say, There is the evidence of my He will go to the home where want, and squalor, and poverty, and degradation, and tears, and sorrow are daily habitants, and say, 'Here is the result of my daily Down south, on the topmost branches of the most beautiful trees, grows in win ter and in summer a boquet of most lovely green.

It Btrarwies without root or contact with mother earth from whence all vegetable life draws its sustenance. A critical examination shows that its little fibres, delicate though they be, penetrate the tough bark and force themselves to the very heart of the noble tree. Dar after day it saps the vitality, demanding and taking tne very essence of life from its protector. It is the poetical mistletoe: but it is none the less a parasite, abhorred of nature and scorned of all men. Para sites exist in all forms of life.

The little ant, with ita tight lacing, big bustle and emaciated form, is not a thing of beauty, nor yet a very desirable neighbor; yet how much more doee the tidy housewife welcome its presence than she does the beau tiful, plump, brown body ot the bedbug. Under the microscope the bedbug is very handsome. Why is it that all women so detest this form of parasite and wage such unrelenting war against it It Is because of the way it gets its living. At this climax the congregation forgot that it was Sunday night, forgot that it was in church, and with hands and feet loudly applauded the speaker. Get Frank'a prices before you buy groceries or queensware.

BY I. P. CAMPBELL AND I. A. VALENTI K.

SCBHCltlPTION PKICE. Oje Ykak Kix Months THBKE MOSTQB 1 SO OFFICIAL COUNTY PAI'iiK. CLA CENTER, KANSAS, KOVEMBEK 18N). SIX PAGES. Dim l'tauo thut was is now Peter lira-ganza that i.

A packet link" between Kansas City nnd St. Louis is now a certainty. There is a suspicion that Judge Foster's aspirations are warping his judgment somewhat. The resubmission papers are urging the citizen to "vote as he drinks." That would never do in Kansas, where repeating is punishable by fine and imprisonim lit. Mu.

Cabliklk, of Kentucky, says Mr. Cleveland is in the air. That is a dangerous position for a good man weighing pounds unless lie has a parachute. He have one last fall. JIanlan.

the oarsman, announces that he will row no more. The people will try to stand it. for it seems of late years ho hasn't rowed enough to hurt anybody except those who risked money on him. kfai.o liiLL has been invited by East Indian potent a es to take his Wild West show to the Wild East. While ho is about it he might organize a Wild East show to show to the people of the Wild West.

Last Wednesday's Kansas City Gazette was a very creditable boom number, but the provocation for the same is a little beyond ordinary understanding. The shivering winter time has a depressing effect on booms. The Clay Center Times of last week expresses the opinion that resubmission is certain to come next year or the year after. -ManlHttfan Nationalist. If you will wipe off yonr spectacles and look again yon will see that the Clay Center Times did not say any such thing.

Stuf.et music has been prohibited in New York City, and now the question "Is life worth living." has taken new force in the minds of the poorer classes. Leaving out all prejudice, there is pome pretty good music ground out of a good barrel organ and a monkey some times. Accosdino to the Manhattan Nationalist Congressman John A. Anderson is of the opinion that when Mr. Wanamaker serves his term as postmaster general ho will have made the best official in that capacity that tho Government has ever had.

Such a statement stands to reason in the light of tho mail's wonderful achievements in business. Ir is said that Judge Foster recently made decision that in foreclosing a chattel mortgage tho mortgagee could not directly or indirectly become the purchaser of the mortgaged property. This will put a stop to the practices of the low-class money loaners who make money by sacrificing the property of their debtors. The decision does not apply to sales made by order of court. The average citizen of Clay County has much to be thankful for to-day, and it is to be hoped that ho and she, without distinction, will duly acknowledge the debt.

It will make everyone happier for a time to note tho blessings they have received; it will be of value even to think how much worse everything might have been than it is, and be thankful. Surely goodness and mercy have followed us all the days of our lives. In it3 canvas of the members of the Legislature on the resubmission quest it the Hutchinson News drew Cncle John Malaby's opinion with a corkscrew to this effect Clay Center, Nov. 18. My idea is that while we have an organic- law in favor of prohibition we had better work to maintain it, knowing that the enemies of our law are doing their utmost to destroy it.

I am squarely against resubmission. Let every lover of law and order work to maintain our law, which is the protection of our homes. Yours respectfully, John Malaby. And. by the way, in all who responded there were none expressed this view more tersely, more explicitly, or more unequivocal! v.

We now behold approaching us from the east the Topeka Capital with its hands uplifted in holy horror at the very wicked book making and printing concerns who hired a public hall and gave the county officers in convention assembled all they could drink of red liquor, beer and such liquid refreshments concocted by Satan. The Capital never bristled once when the Deep Water convention was in session and the same scenes were being enacted, only a little different as to detail. However, in its zeal to make public drinking in a prohibition town appear the greatest crime in the dialogue, it overlooks the worst feature of the case. Which is, that this entertainment so lavishly furnished by the book binders and printers was in the nature of a bribe to the county officers for favors in the future. The feeling is rapidly growing, and it is a correct one in the main, that county officers as a rule are paid too much A convention or two of the kind described by the Capital will have a tendency to con vinee the people that there "is truly some thing wrong somewhere, and a reduction Qt salaries to a hard pan basis where the.