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Iie Unites: larj Olmtcr, Kansaa, SCoucmber 5, 189G. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. LEGAL NOTICES. MARKET REPORTS. THE OLD FRONT DOOR.

others, come aft here a minute," he called. "Yonder is a French man-o-war. M. Koublot and me are going to put some powder aboard her. I haven't got a choice in the matter, but that's no reason why you lads should turn traitor.

Into the boat with ycu all, and pull for the ladder." But as the three smugglers, 6ullen and half dazed, having obeyed their old chief mechanically, pushed off from the lugger, he called out in gentle tones: "My love to the missis, Dick, and to little Margery. I may be some time in France." Guided by the red eye shining steadily above, the boat made for the base of the cliff, and as the men plied the oars they strained their eyes on the shadowy forms of the two vessels now rapidly approaching each other. Dick saw the lugger run alongside the frigate. Perhaps ten seconds elapsed, and then a great sheet of fire leaped heavenward, a deafening roar followed and a blot of mist the mist of drifting smoke covered the scene. When the last wreath had rolled away the pink flush on the skyline was perfectly clear; the frigate and the lugger were so many fragments of wood.

Smuggler Karn had been one too many for his enemy and those of his country after all. London Answers. PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL a main. aim, after all, Dick is a very proper lad. A moment later Dick Langston returned from his uncongenial task, the Tope ladder was drawn up for the night and Steve Kern's household sat down to a bountiful supper, secure against all assault.

That niht when Pierre Koublot retired to his rock-walled guest chamber it was not to sleep. "I will have my revenge yet," he muttered, "and a revenge that shall strike all three. Strange, too, that the very jnoment when there arose the need of a weapon Kern himself should have placed so good a one in my hand by slaying the preventive. With such, ready forged, there cannot be long to wait for an opportunity." Six. months passed away, and Kern's lugger, the Petrel, which in the interval had had many successful trips, lay jnoored alongside the quay at Fecamp, waiting for her cargo of brandy and Despite the fact that war was raging between France and England, Kern and his merry men were on the best of terms with the natives.

Since the night when he killed the preventive man at the foot of the ladder Jie had assumed a more than usually ferocious bearing, and the moment's weakness he had shown in the presence of Koublot was his last. He may have been suspected cf having a hand in Sandy Mclntyre's disappearance, but, if in the absence of proof, no one dared jo tax him with it. The News of Kansas and the World! Twico each week, while it ia fresh and interesting, can be obtained for the cost of an ordinary weekly paper by readlnar The Semi-Weekly Capital. The best report of the proc ejinn of tlio coming legislature and the great Senator ial contest next January; The formation of he President's cabinet, tiin inauguration and appointments will ail bo covered by a year's obicription to the Semi- Weekly Capital now. The Semi-Weekly Cnpilal is the great farm and family newopaper of Kanxa.

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Nnv. 2. le -Receipts since Saturdiy. 94 calves. 4JI: shipped Saturday.

-Mil cut ie. 8 calve The market was steady to 10c higher. The following are representative saies. SBIPPI.NO AND DBBHSCD Blir HTBBB4. Nft Ave Price.

N.n Ave. Pries. 99 1.MK1 f4.fi 19 -130 IS Hi 31 3 8) 1.374 fi.4 103 4.H 1. 81 44 9 3.9) 3. 7 TEXAS AND INDIAN 8TEEKS 1.

JOT 3.rf) I g) 1,01) 1.0 i 3. 00 S4 8J2 921 2.W 100.... 2.... 2.... 3.

SI 2.91 NATIVE HEirERS. sr. 3 823 IA0S 410 3.01 I NAT1VK 'OW 4 92) 29t ii 3 4 1 428 4 1.0.7 2 3. 830 2.30 2 1.010 2.2 1,0.1.7 2.10 I 1 90 Lo6 NATIVE FEBUEUS. 9u7 J320 3 Did tJOO ATI STOCK BUS.

11 83: I Hoirs Keceints since Saturday. 3.172: shippel Saturday, none. Toe market was i to 100 higher. The following are representative sales: 71. 73.

.201 i3.4. 1-0 18. 99. ..189 V40 8.40 78. 3-37H 78.

.219 3.3 44.. 89.. 63.. 43.. 11.

43. lf3 3.3 a32W4 3.32 3 IN) ass 320 aoj 4.204; 7 .277 .378 3.32H 3.3) 3. .7 H.2S 3.12W 3.10 4: 33 'hi' .193 330 94.. at 25.. .124 3.2 Id.

Sheep Receipts since Saturday. shipped Saturday, none. The market was 10 to 15c higher. The following are representative sales: 469 Col sh 91 S2.90 S49 Col mix. 93 2.S0 Horses Receipts since Saturday, 93: shipped Saturday, 74.

The mar.et was steady on tho few private sales to-day. but there was no extended demand or any- class. A few southern buyers are looking around and they have several orders to nil. The regular auction sales will begin to-morrow, but there is not much encouragement in the present outlook for the opening day. as nearly the horse traders are deeply interested in the outcome of tha election and many have gone home to vote.

Chicago Live Stock. Chicago. Nov. 2. Cattle Receipts.

12.50); market strong, 1 higher: fair to best beeves, ia4Vj.5.25; stockers and feeders. 12.90 8 70: mixed cows and bulls, tl.2ja.3 2): Texas, (2.053 3.f0. Hogs Receipts, 17.W0: market generally lOo higher: light, t3.203.&); rough packing. ai0 ui-M: mixed and butchers. 3 23a0); heavy packing and shipping.

J3.23&3.5.); pigs, $i50 a 3. 50. Sheep Receipts. market Kc higher; lambs 15 to 25c higher: native, 1.7j340. St.

Loots Live Stock. St. Louis, Nov. 2. Cattle Receipts, market strong to 10c higher.

Hogs Receipts, market lOo higher; Yorkers, $.3. 40 Sheep Receipts, market 13c higher. Cliiraeo Grain and Produce. STARKWEATHER KIETH Invite you to call on them when in need of PRICE AT THE YARD $3 25 to $9.75 a ton. Leavenworth Nut, Leavenworth Egg, Leavenworth Lump, Panama Nut, Panama Lump, Weir Nut, Weir Egg, Weir Lump, Apponoose Block, Hanna Nut, Hanna Egg, Hanna Lump, Maitland Lump, Rock Springs Stove, Rock Springs Lump, Rockvale Canon, Ruby and Elk Mt.

Anthracite, D. L. V. and Lehigh Valley Coal Co's Scranton Coal. Lincoln Avenue and 4th Street.

L. Mc CHESNEY, President. MAT SCHILTZ, Vicr-l'resiiltut. WILLIAM DOCKING OisiiVr. The Peoples OK CLAY CENTER, CHARTERED IN 1885.

Capital anfj Surplus jFMifjs, 8TOOKHOI.rUH8:i Nov. 2. Opened High'stlLow'st 'closing Wh't Oct. 73 i 73 Deo 7396i 7. I 73 74, 78', 79V Corn Oct 24'i 24 24H 24i Dec 2-4; 2 ZZ4 2 May 94 Oats Oct ih 18 18i Dec 1831 191, 2l2ii i Pork Oct.

7 12V4 Dec 7 12 Jan Hi 8 0 7 97 8 02 Lard Oct 4 Si 4 25 4 22 4 2 Dec 4 30 4 30 4 27 4 7 Jan 4 52 4 n2 4 47 4 M) Ribs Oct. 3 7 Dee 3 3 7S 3 72 3 7S Jan 3 97 3 9T 3 9. 3 95 Mat Schiltz. L. Mct'hesney.

0. A. Howland. 1. V.

Hood. John Harner. Jacob H. Smies. (i.

R. Fellows. William Docking. Dr. J.

P. Stewart. David Gaston. C. Dutiable.

W. A. Willis. A. Wingrove.

A. hi him. J. W. Householder W.

A. Lewis. illiam Leach. IWIARSHALL BONER, ooooooooooooooo Real Estate, Loan Insurance Agent HND HBSTRHCTER Makes Loans at a Low Rate. Writes Insurance in the Best of Companies.

Am pre pared to furnish Reliable Abstracts of any Real Estate in Clay Co. When you want good us and buy any HAXXA. HOCK International Lesson for November 8, 1890 The Temple Dedicated I Kings (Arranged from Peloubet's Notes.) GOLDEN TEXT. The Lord is in His holy temple; let ail the earth keep silence before him. Hab.

2:20. THE SECTION includes 1 Kings and and the parallel account in 2 Chronicles chaps. 5, 6 and 7. T1UE. The Temple was completed in the month Bui (October-November) B.

1005. in the eleventh year of Solomon's reign. The dedication took place one month earlier. In Tthanlm (Tizri), (September-October), at the great national festival ot the tabernacles, probably about the 1st of October. LESSON NOTES.

The Dedication Ceremonies. The dedication was the grandest ceremony ever performed under the Mosaic dispensation, and one of the brightest days of Jewish history. Not only were the "elders of Israel, the heads of the tribes, and the chief of the fathers" summoned, but "all the men of Israel assembled themselves" (1 Kings 8:1, 2). "It is an en6riious concourse that is gathered in and about the holy city." Accompanied by "the 4,000 singers end musicians David had organized, ar-raye in white linen, and chanting some of those splendid odes, the 47th, 97th and 107th Psalms, the Levites brought the old tabernacle, the brazen altar, the table of shewbread, the candlestick, and the brazen serpent from Gibeon, and the ark from Zion, and put them in their places in the temple." See description in Milman and Stanley. Then took place the most important-event in the dedication the manifestation of Jehovah in the new temple by the same symbol by which He had marked the ancient tabernacle as His earthly dwelling place.

A shining cloud, out-dazzling the morning sun, settled upon the house, "so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud; for the glory of the Lord had filled the house of God" (2 Chron. 5:13, 14). Solomon's Trayer of Dedication. Near the great brazen altar Solomon had erected a platform of bronze, 7y2 feet square and 4i feet high (2 Chron. where he could be seen and heard by all the people in the courts of the temple; standing before them in his gorgeous robes, he first made a solemn address to the assembled peoples who stood reverently before him; then, instead of the usual standing posture in devotion, he knell down the first instance in Scripture of this attitude and, stretching out hia hands towards Heaven, uttered a prayer of almost uuequaled sublimity.

Solomor's Benediction. Vs. 54-C1. After his prayer Solomon stood again before the people and expressed his good desires for them. It was a sermon and a prayer united.

11 was a high ideal set before the people ever to be remembered as that toward which they should strive. The Answer to the Trayer. See 2 Chronicles 1 Kings As the king concluded, the cloud which had rested ever the Holy of Holies grew brighter and more dazzling; fire broke out and consumed all the sacrifices (2 Chron. the priests stood without, awe-struck by the insupportable splendor; the whole people fell upon their faces, and worshiped nnd praised the Lord, "For He is good, for His mercy is forever." Milman. The Festival.

Vs. 02, 63. The Feast of Taleriiaeles was held as usual for seven days; but in this ease the festival continued for fourteen days seven before the feast, and the seven of the feast, with two additional days, for the people were net dismissed till the twenty-third day (1 King 2 Chron. A New Yision A dream, like that which had opened his reign at the ancient and now deserted sanctuary of Gibeon, closed the eventful ceremony. It conveyed the assurance that the Divine blessing was conditional on the obedience and piety of the nation.

Stanley. JAPANVS MONOPOLY. All the World Elxci Sow Co to Her t-jr Camphor. Cne of the unconsidered trifiee the mikado has picked up as the result of the Chinese war is the monopoly of camphor, says the Indian Agriculturist. That drug is produced only in Japan and Formosa, and, though a variety known as Borneo camphor is obtained from Borneo and Sumatra, it cannot compete with the product of the evergreen laurel of the eastern Asiatic islands.

Inasmuch as camphor, apart from its many and varied therapeutic uses, is an essential ingredient in the composition of nearly all the new explosives, the demand for it is very large. The Japanese are well aware of the valuable monopoly they have blundered upon rather than sought and have already begun to limit the export by imposing duties. As a natural consequence, the price of the drug has risen rapidly since the war came to an end and bids fair to rise higher. Happily, the commercial instinct of the Japanese statesmen is as sound as their political instinct, and they are not likely to abuse the monopoly they have acquired by forcing the price up to prohibitive rates. The chief concern of the Japanese government will, for some time to come, be the finding of money to pay for the ships and munitions of war which will secure the mikado in the possession of the spoils he has already won.

Properly handled and wisely administered, camphor should prove a valuable source of revenue and contribute a handsome quota toward the cost of the military preparations which pertain to the peace of the dragon kingdom. PORTABLE HOUSES. Hade for a Great Variety of Cses and Exported to Other Lands. Portable houses are made of almost any size and for a great variety of uses, says the New Sun. There are portable dwelling-houses and portable boat-houses, and portable barracks, and portable clubhouses, lawn pavillions, engineers', miners', contractors and other offices, bathing-houses, stables, bowling alleys, billiard-rooms, hospitals and so on.

There have lately been made two-story portable houses. A two-6tory portable house of ten rooms costs $1,800. A house of one room, 8x11, with one door and one window, can be bought for $50; with two cots, two tables and two stools, for $G0. Sometimes a man who owns a portable house hires land on the seashore or in the mountains and sets his house up there for a season, takes it down and stores it in the fall, and next season hires land in another place and sets his house up there. Portable houses are Bet on stones or blocks, and on post, and sometimes they are 6e-t on permanent foundations.

People sometimes have chimneys built where they set up their houses. The portable house manufacturers sell terra cotta chimneys in sections to be stacked up, and it is not unusual for the house-owner simply to run out a stovepipe for a chimney. We export portable houses to Cuba, South America and South Africa. Heaven. Heaven is for the heavenly mind, it is the blossoming and fulfillment of thfl.

heavenly life, begun here in sorrow and weakness and conflict with doubts and fears and temptations, but sought and won by the way of faith in God and earnest striving. Philip Moxom. Courage can only rise into truth and true manliness when the will is surrendered; and the more absolute the surrender of the will, the more perfect will be the temper of our true courage and" the strength of our manliness. SJ'JIIXG, AY) CA CITY, LEAVENWORTH. First published in The Time November 5, 189ti.

EAL NOTICE. In the eetate of Hannah Thorn deceased. In the orjahane court of Allegany county, Pennsylvania, No. October term, 1-V6. Petition of Elizabeth Carr presented to fiaid court to show caute why an Ueue hoald not be awarded to test the validity of the will of Hannah Thomas, deceased, and citation awarded.

"Now, to-wit: October 26, 1HW, alias citation ia awarded and service of fame to be made by publication for once a week for three ueceHsive eekn in the Pittr-burh Legal Journal, ami The Timk published at Clay Outer, Clay county, Kantian. The citation to be returnable November 2A at 10. a. "Per Curium. To Mrs.

Nellie Woodhara, Athelntane, Clay couuty Kansas, Husan Vanzand. 1 dan a. CI ay county, kau-cat, Delbert Mctiee, I dan a. Clay county, Khiinhm, William McGee, Idana.Clay county, Kansas, Mrn. Kate Evertton, Idana, Ciay county, Kanea.

Mrs. Clara McCheuey, Idana, Cliiy county, Khiihhh, Mr. Nancy McOee. AtheUtaim, clay county, Kana, Oeorge McGee. Pretty Prairie, Heuo county, Mrn, HannaU Shuitz.

pHXton Ford couuty. Illinois, Mrs. Margaret Crawford, residence unknown, Ellen Hel Paxtmi, Frd county, Illinois, Mr. Mary Oliver, Strawu, Living ton county, Illinois. You will pleaee take notice that the above citation in tterved on yon by publication pursuant to the above order of court, and you are hereby notified to be and npoear at said court on or before said November 'i, at 10 o'clock a.

n. J. R. Uenjjkk-son, Attorney for Petitioner, 3 5J4 Fourth avenue, Pitt-burKh Pa. First publiHhed in The Timen November 5, 1MW lyjASTERS SALE.

In the Circuit Court of the Cuited district of Kansas, First division. The Mutual Benefit Life Insurance company, complainant, vs. John W. Carpenter, Mart ft L. Carpenter, William J.

Carpenter. Lizzie W. Carpenter, Almou W. Carpenter, Mary E. Cat jkeuter, tfeorge W.

Carpenter, Mrs. Geo. W. 'Jarpeuter and Albert L. Bartlett, defendants, in chancery No.

7ii. Public notice is hereby tfiven, that under nnd by virtue of a decree of the circuit court of the I nit el State in and for the district of Kansas, rendered in the above entitled action, I will on MONDAY, THE 7TH DAY OF DECEMBER, A. D. at 10 o'clock a. of said day offer at public sale at auction, and sell to the highest and best bidder for cash in hand, at the front door of the county court house in the city of Clay Center in the county of Clay, state and district of Kansas, the following real estate, lands and tenement, to-wit: The north half of section twenty-two (22i and the south-west quarter (1a) and the west half l4 of the south-east quarter i S4 of section fifteen (15), all in township eight 8) of range two (- ea-t of ths sixth principal meridian, all lying and situate in the county of Clay and state of Kansas.

The above described real estate will be sold without appraisement. Ralph E. valkntine, 5 Special Master in Chaucery. First published in The Times October 8, 1H6. IN IOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE.

State of Kansas, Clay County, ss. In thedintrict court. Twenty-first judicial district. The New England Loan and Trust plaintiff, vs. Frank J.

Trickle, et defendants. By virtue of an order of sale, to me directed and delivered, issued out of the district court sitting in and for the county of Clay, in the state of Kansas, I will, on MONDAY, THE 9TH DAY OF NOVEMBER, A. D. at 10 o'clock a. m.

of said day, at the court house door in Clay Center, in the county ami state aforesaid, offer at public sale and sell tothe highest bidder, for cash in bund, the following described real property, situate in the couuty of Clay aud slate of Kansas, to wit: The south half of the northeast quarter of section fonr 4), in township ten (KM, south of range one(l), east of the sixth principal meridian, lying and situate in Clay county, in the state of Kaunas. Said property to be sold as comniaaded by the said order of sale. i. H. Lanijis, Sheriff.

Sheriff's Office October 8, iNtfti. F. L. Williams, Attorney for Plaintiff. First published in The Times October 8, IH'jti.

JOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE. State of Kansas, Clay County, ss. In the distrht court Twenty-first judicial district. The New England Loan and Trust plaintiff, vs. William F.

Shaffer et al, defendant. By virtue of an order of sale, to rue directed aud delivered, issued out of the district court sitting in and for the county of Clay, in the state of Kansas, I will, on MONDAY, THE 9TH DAY OF NOVEMBER, A. D. lHii, at 10 o'clock a. m.

of said day, at the court house door in Clay Center, in the county and state aforesaid, offer at public sale and sell to the highest bidder, for cash in hand, the following described real property, situate in the county of Clay and state of Kansas, to wit: The west half of the northwest quarter of section twelve (12), in township eight ih south of range three (3 1, eaut of the sixth principal meridian, lying and situate in Clay county, Kansas. Said property to be sold as commanded by said order of sale. D. S. Lamdih, Sheriff.

Sheriff's Office, October. 8, lHWi. F. L. Williams, Attorney for Plaintiff.

First published in The Times October 8, lS'Jti. JOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE. State of Kansas, Clay couuty, sr. In the district court. Twenty-first judicial district.

Harriet Overhiser, plaintiff, vs. Alexander II. Neal, et a), defendants. By virtue of an order of sale, to me directed and delivered, issued out of tht district court sitting in and for the county of Clay, in the state of Kansas, I will on MONDAY, THE 9TH DAY OF NOVEMBER, A. D.

iBVti, at 10 o'clock a. m. of said day, at the court house door in Clay Center, in the county and state aforesaid, offer at public sale and sell to the highest bidder, for cash in hand, the following described real property, situate in the county of Clay and state of Kansas, to wit: The east one-half 1 of lot number thirteen (13) in block number thirty-eight i3-V, the Clay Center townsite, lying and situate in Clay county, in the state of Kansas. Said property to be sold as commanded by the said order of sale. D.

S. Lanpih, Sheriff. Sheriff's Office, October JHtfti. F. L.

Williams, Attorney for Plaintiff. First published in The Times October JOTICE OF APPOINTMENT. State of Kansas, Clay county, ss. In the matterof the estate of Betsy Llngren, late of Clay county Kansas. Notice is hereby given, that on the 27th day of October, A.

D. lsij, the undersigned was, by the probate court of Clay county, Kansas, duly appointed and qualified as administrator of the estate of Betsy Llngren, late of Clay county, deceased. All parties interested will govern themselves accordingly. 3 Chables Beck, Administrator. LANDS LITTLE KNOWN.

Many Parts of the Globe Are Yet Terr Incognita to the Civilized Man. It is the very general supposition that there is very little of the world we live on that has not been erplored by geographers, and that the very little that yet remains to investigate is on the Afrieun continent. And yet the fact is that about 20,000,000 square miles of the earth's surface is yet a terra incognita, one-tenth of which is on our own continents of North and South America. The Cosmos, published in Paris, ha.i an article on this subject which gives a synopsis of an address by Mr. Loblcy before the London geographical congress last month, that brings out this interesting question very clearly.

Mr. Lobley reminds us that, in the first place, toward the middle of the sixteenth century all fseac had leen traversed by navigators, and that if the mapsof thecontinentS were not yet very exact at least their relative positions and their general configuration were known. Australia itself appears on a French map of 1542 under the name of Great Java. In the course of the CO years included in the last decade of the fifteenth century and the first half of the sixteenth a group of navigators had advanced geographic knowledge in 3 degree that has never been reached in any other period so )hort. Sebastian d'Elano had made his first voyage pround the world; Vasco De Garna had ioubled the Cape of Good Hope; Christopher Columbus had added the two Americas to the map; the voyages of Cabot and Magellan had completed thi wonderful list of new discoveries.

To-day, outside of the polar regions, we must confess that all the seas have been explored, but this is far from being the case with the land. An immense extent is entirely unknown to us; as-other, still more considerable, has beefi only imperfectly explored; travelers have traveled it, commerce has exploited some of its products, but good maps of it do not exist. Finally, only the least part is well known; geodesy has covered it with a network of triangles, and maps of it are complete even from a topographical standpoint. After the two polar regions, which, have remained inaccessible, Africa is the part of the world of which we have the least Notwithstanding the general scramble among European nations to divide up and possess the land, they have only a vague idea of what the continent contains, over G.500.-000 square miles 'being yet unexplored. After Africa, Australia offers the vastest field to the investigation of ex plorers; we must remember that even its seacoast was not fully explored til! I remember the time when I used to sit, A happy and thoughtless boy, When father came home from his work at last.

And I was tired of my toy: I remember the time, and none more sweet Shall I know forevermore, When I sat at the eve by mother's Bide, On the sill of the old front door. I remember I'd sit, till I fell asleep, And list to their loving talk. While the crickets chirped and the fire-flits bright Flew over the parden walk: And often would father tell the tale Of the time, long years before, When he led his bride to a happy home. O'er the sill of the old front door. I remember when grandfather failed and died.

And eighty years old was he, And well I knew that never atrain He would ride me upon his knee; And, though but a gay and thoughtless boy, I wept, and my heart was sore. When I saw them bear him slowly out O'er the sill of the old front door. It is many a weary day since then. And too, am old and pray: Eut the tears come crowding into my eyes When I think of that long-past day; And I only hope that whatever end Fate may have for me in store, I shall pass once more, ere I pass away. O'er the sill of the old front door.

Oolden Days. SMUGGLER KERN'S LAST RUN. On the wild promontory of Portland, a little to the west of the famous "Bill," a rude stone dwelling- was dovetailed into a chasm that broke the scarp of the. cliir some 30 feet below the brick. Ingress and egress on the landward side could only lie had through a trapdoor on the roof; but, as much of the traffic to that house came from the nea, there was also a door in the side' flush with the cliff-face, from which anyone stepping' would have fallen sheer on to the rocks below.

This difli-culty, however, was obviated by the dropping of a rope ladder when occasion required. The almost impregnable citadel formed the lair of Steve Kern, the most daring" of all the smugglers who, 100 ears ago, burrowed and nested in the "Island." Every revenue cutter and preventive man, from the Start to Dover, knew Steve for a smuggler; but it was his proud boast that not one of them had been able to catch him in the act of running1 a cargo or tlisjiosing' of his goods, and to this lie owed his immunity. On a November evening; in 1S04 the large kitchen, used also as the general living room of the queer roost, was occupied by three persons an elderly woman, a. dark, well-dressed, youngish man of rather foreign apieurunce, and a beautiful girl of is. The elderly dame was Mrs.

Kern, the pirl was her daughter Margery, and the man was Pierre Koublot, the French brandy merchant of Fecamp, whose extensive dealings with Kern necessitated frequent visits to this side of Hie water. At least this was the Frenchman's explanation, though old Kern had long suspected that Margery's bright eyes formed the real attraction. The brandy merchant had arrived in Kern's lugger the night liefore for a three days stay, and had just taken the opportunity of the smuggler's temo-rary absence, and Mrs. Kern's deafness, to make the girl a formal proposal of marriage. llut Margery shrank away from the hand that sought her's.

"I am sorry, r. Koublot, but I cannot listen to you," she replied, speaking in very good French, which she had learned from her mother. Mrs. Kern had been a Bretagne peasant girl. "And why not?" ersisted Koublot, a scowl darkening his swarthy face.

"I am rich. I "am not old or ill-looking and I "Spare me a catalogue of your virtues," said Margery. "You may be all that and much more, but the reason why I cannot wed you is that I do not love you. Besides and the girl paused and blushed. "Ah-ha! with your which you hesitate to define," cried the angry lover.

"I'ome, let me finish your sentence for you. It is that you love the young sailor who assists your father his mate, Langston is it not eo?" But lefore Margery could utter the retort that rose to her lips, an interruption occurred that relieved her from the necessity for reply. From far down at the foot of the rope ladder a pistol shot rang out, followed by another in quick succession, and immediately afterward, evidently startled by the sound, a tall young fellow came running into the kitchen from one of the rock-hewn side chamlers, where smuggled goods were stored. "What was that? Where is Cap'n Kern?" he asked. "Oh, Dick," cried Margery, "something has happened to father, I fear." Dick Langston seized a pistol from a well-filled rack and ran to the door, through which the moon was visible sailing over the heaving sea.

But before he reached the ladder, the face of one ascending appeared over the door sill, nnd the master of the house sprang nimbly into the room a miracle of activity despite his. gigantic frame and 00 years. "It's all right; there's no call to fright yourselves," he said, as the women clustered around him. "I blazed off my pistol to try if the powder was wet. Here, Margery; just roll this keg into the storeroom with the rest." As soon as Margery was out of hearing Kern drew the two men aside and said "That was a narrow- shave; I've never been so near took before.

I had to bite as well as bark to save myself. There's a man dead below." "Were there more than one?" asked Dick Langston. "No. there was only one. Tt was that new Scotch preventive from Fortune's Well Sandy McTntyre.

his name is. lie must have crept nlorirr the rniVs nrder the cliffs at low water and hidden himself." "Ah, mon Dieu! But you are unhurt, ray friend?" exclaimed Eoublet. he missed me by a hair's breadthj but he was sighting me with a second pistol, so I let him have chunk of lead from mine and he rolled over, as dead as a rabbit, into a pool. If he's let bide there the tide will like as not wash him right into Waymouth bay. Go down, Dick, my lad, and roll some rocks atop of him." The young man disappeared into the black gulf below.

No sooner was he gone than Kern filled himself a stiff nobbier of brandy and drank it at a gulp. "That's better," he said. Twouldn't ever do for my mate to see as I was a bit shook by this. You may believe it or not, as you like, M. Koublot, but for all folks do sav of me, this is the first time as I've took a man's life." exclaimed the Frenchman.

"Why, your reputation on both sides the channel is of the most bloodthirsty." A faint smile flitted over the old smuggler's rugged countenance. "I took care it should be." he said. "But it was, as you call it, all reputation worked up for my own safety. should not have done it now, but that the sneak would have shot me else." "You surprise me, bon ami," replied Roublot, thoughtfully. "But come, let us change the subject.

I have laid bare by heart to mademoiselle, your daug-h ter, and she reject my love. She has the soft feeling, I am sure, for Dick Langston, your mate." Kern frowned as though ill-pleased. but his brow quickly cleared. "I own I am sorrv. I had hoped Margery would have fancied you, seeing as it would have suited our dealings together.

But if she vjon't tell you plain, it ain't Steve Kern's way ti force Original Farmer llloch: Clay Center Mar Coal Co, 5 A. BRENNER, iwMwimrcmwmmmimTrmrrmT Mr. Gladstone, after witnessing "The Sign of the Cross," wrote to Mr. Wilson Barrett, congratulating him on on the qualities of the piece. The French government intends to pay $100,000 for the late M.

Wadding-ton's collection of old coins. This is regarded as a great price. There are, perhaps, a dozen unique things in the collection. A member of Company of the Sixth Alabama regiment, had on at the recent confederate reunion at Richmond the coat which he had worn all through the civil war. Military Gazette.

Jean de Eeszke is a very successful horseman. Some time ago he won the Polish derby at Warsaw, and now he has won a prize at Moscow with his three-year-old Matador. His turf winnings for the season amount to nearly $50,000. Lenbach, the most famous of German portrait painters, is painting the portrait of the princess of Wales at his Munich studio. Among his most successful pictures are those of Bismarck, Tope Leo and Gladstone.

The great painter has ceased to take commissions for the sake of money, and now paints only what pleases him. The Honolulu Gazette has some severe editorial strictures on the treatment which has been accorded to Kate Field by the people of the United States. Since the announcement of her death, it says, but three letters have been received in regard to her and suggesting a final disposal of her remains. Two of these letters were from relatives and the third from a very near friend. --There is a story of Lord Russell's nddressing a Scotch constituency with a Scotch accent so badly simulated that the audience hooted him.

Whereupon he pulled ont from under his top coat a portly bottle and said: "I may not be able to catch your dialect, but I never drink anything but Scotch whisky." This caught the crowd and carried the orator through at the polls. Brest's town council had the curious idea of selecting men of II. Felix Faure's own age only for the committee of citizens that was to greet the president of the republic 'on his recent visit to the town. All classes were represented, including dock laborers and apothecaries. M.

Faure, who is a well-preserved man for his age, was startled at the ravages of time on his contemporaries. FARGO'S DIVORCE INDUSTRY. It Fays the Town About a Quarter of a Million Dollars Annually. North Dakota has gained considerable notoriety through the east for the ease with which divorces are secured within its borders. Fargo has more fame in this direction than any other town, for various reasons.

It is most easily reached and affords the pleasure-loving contingent greater opportunities than any city in the state, except Grand Forks. Its hotels are new and up to date and there are numerous private boarding houses that cater especially to those who are here to end their marital troubles. The modus operandi is simple. In nine eases out of ten the defendant in the suit is as willing that a decree should be secured as the plaintiff and aids in every possible way by accepting service and employing a local legal light tc look after his interests. In such cases the decree is often secured within ten days after the 90-day probation has expired.

In fact, it has sometimes occurred that the divorce was granted within 91 days after the applicant arrived in Fargo. In these cases, of course, personal service was secured and there was no contest in the way of alimony. In cases of desertion or in others, where the residence of the defendant is unknown, six weeks additional is required for the publication cf summons. The attorney's fee varies from $50 to any higher amount with the Irouble necessary to secure the decree and the ability of the plaintiff to pay. The colony includes people in all walks of life.

Even laboring men come to Fargo and work while establishing their residence. These are the exceptions, however. The seekers after single blessedness are, as a rule, well supplied with funds and able to pay liberally for what they get. Some distinguished people have been' temporary residents of th? state and are men and women in al! walks of life and titled foreigners are not an exception. Another noticeable feature is the haste with which some of the plaintiffs again rush headlong into matrimony after having been granted a divorce.

One case is on record where a trip was made directly from the judge's chambers to the license room and return and the second marriage performed by the kindly court in 15 minutes after the decree had been granted and before the ink used in singing the divorce papers had time to dry. Indeed, the majority marry again within six months after being divorced. All kinds of schemes are worked to avoid publicity. Members of the colony pften live here under assumed names and do everything possible to keep correspondents of eastern papers from learning their history. To deceive their friends the contingent sometimes rent boxes in theMoorhead post office, across the river in Minnesota, so eastern friends won't know what they are doing out west.

Minneapolis Journal. End of an Old Steamship. The old steamship Dessoug, which was made famous by successfully transporting hither from Egypt the obelisk that now stands in Central park, has been towed around to Cow bay. Long Island, to be broken up for the metal that is in her. She was' originally the British steamship Denton, and was built at Hartlepool, England, in 1S64.

She was tons gross measurement and was an iron vessel. She had been in the Savannah line of the Ocean Steamship company in late years, but had been laid up for some time and her clas expired last autumn. Scentiflc American. Responsible for Him. Mother To think that my little Ethel should have spoken so impertinently to papa to-day at dinner! She never hears me talk in that way to him.

Ethel (stoutly) Well, but you choosed him: I didn't. Standard. Terr Large Thing-. "But there is something between yon and the girl?" she asked. "Yes." he replied, sadly.

"The dog." --Buffalo Times. MERCHANT TAILOR. 0 SUITS i $18 up. pants S4 up. Cleaning and Repairing Neatly ani Promptly Done.

In other respects, the only change that Time's flight had brought was to Dick Langston and Margery, who wcr married some three months after the episode first related, with Kern's full approval. But while Dick and his father-in-law are loung ing on the deck of the Petrel, talking of their home in the clilr, we must turn our steps to Roublot's dingy office in one of the by-streets running at Tight angles to the waterside. On this particular morning he was busy on the invoices of the goods about to be shipped on the Tetrel, when his clerk announced that an officer of the naval administration from Havre desired to see him on an urgent affair. "Y'ou have transactions with Knglish smugglers, monsieur, we are informed? Yes; well, we of the administration are in need of one such very courageous ha must be, and discreet to perform v. secret mission.

Know you of a man whom vou could introduce to us?" "Is it permitted to inquire what would be demanded of him?" asked Roublot, cautious! v. "But certainly, on this side of the channel, at least, there is no need for secrecv." replied the officer. "It is like this: Those accursed Knglish have so blockaded our coasts that, such of our cruisers in are not penned up in port ore unable to venture in to renew thei- stores and ammunition. The Celestine frigate is in the channel, short of pow der. It is for the purpose of supply ing her that we want an English tnuig- plcr.

whom, as well as yourself, we shall treat with the utmost liberality." "Vou forget, monsieur le capitaine, that, even in the breast of a smuggler. the fire of patriotism may burn, he sam. "Is that so? I had thought they were all rogues and vagabonds," rep'ied th oflicer, looking crestfallen. "Not to 1 hat extent at any rate, none whom I know," said Koublot. "However," he went on, speaking eagerly.

"let not that discourage you, monsieur. I will undertake to get your powder eon- veveu to the irigate ir you win semi iz to my cellars. To be frank with you, have a smuggler in port who is completely under my thumb. I can have him hanged in England for a crimo there committed and as good as witnessed by me. Yhere is the Celestine to be found?" "Her captain sent word that he would run into the west bay of the Isle of Portland every dark night for a week," said the officer, in high glee at the success of his errand.

As soon as the officer departed to see about the delivery of the powder Koublot threw himself back in his chair and laughed softly to himself. "This is the chance have been v.ait-for. for -Sr" )irt chuckled. "I will force Kern to take the powder to the frigate muter threat of exposure for the murder, and then in an anonymous letter I will denounce him and Langston to the English government for the treason Kern him-seif also for the murder of the preventive." So it was that when late that afternoon the heavy wagon bringing the Petrel's cargo lumbered on to the quay, Koublot accompanied it, and proposed that he should like to run over for a change of air and also to pay his respects to "the so charming Mme. Lang ston." Koublot made himself so especially sociable that by the time the party came on deck the cargo was all stowed, nnd Kern gave orders for immediate departure.

By sundown cn the following day the huge mass of Portland loomed up on the horizon, and Kern began to con-gratulate himself on yet another successful run. The old smuggler stood at the tiller, his prim features relaxed into a placid content as his keen eyes failed to discover any sign of a revenue cutter, and he greeted Roublot, who had just come up from below, with a friendly nod. "Cargo's as good as landed," he said. "I shall keep her a point away to weather the Bill, and then run in to look for the signal. They always burn a red fiare from the kitchen door if the coast's clear." "I know, my friend; I have traveled with you before," replied the Frenchman, "but I should not trouble about the signal to-night.

It is not to yon perch among the rocks that the cargo is consigned this time." "I don't take your meaning." "Well, I will do my best to enlighten you," replied Koublot. 'l am before all things a patriot, my friend, and have practiced upon you a trifling deception. Those kegs do not contain brandy, but gunpowder, which we are to convey to a French frigate now waiting in sore need of it in the West bay." "When you round the Bill, instead of running in close under your interesting domicile, you will stand on until we meet the frigate," "I've cheated the kingwGod bless him for nigh on 50 years, and made too good a living out of him to go and round on him like that. I'll see you somewhere before I do such a thing, you dirty French dogl" "Not so fast, friend Kern," said Roublot, with a sneer. "Unfortunately, you are not in a position to indulge in the freedom of choice.

If you refuse to oblige me in this matter I shall denounce you for the murder of the preventive man, and the king whom you serve so faithfully will most assuredly hang you." At that moment the lugger rounded the Bill, and high up in the cliff a red glow shone out. Kern knew that it was the signal from his own door bidding him welcome home in safety. His nand went to the knife, but he plucked it out and threw it into the sea. "Cold-blooded murder I've no mind to, and that would be the only way out of it," he said, with a. sigh.

"Very well, monsieur, I will do your bidding." "Here are the 1,000 francs, then," said Koublot, handing him a packet of notes. "Be kind enough to sign this; I will hold the tiller," and he proffered pen, ink horn and a paper, which by the light of the binnacle lamp Kern saw was a form of receipt specifying the service rendered. But he signed it without comment and resumed the tiller. As they shot past the house in the cliff a large loomed up a quarter of a mile away ageins the lingering glow in the western sky. "That will be the frigate," said Kera, calmly.

"Here, Dick, and you two National Bank $63,000.00. J. S. Sweet. A.

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H. H. DEAL, Dentist, SUCCESSOR TO DR. 1 1. II.

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RAILROAD T'ME-TABLE. CHICAGO ROCK ISLAND PACIFIC. BAST-BOCK D. TRAXH. ABUTS.

DRPART. Vestibule m. Freight and accom 2: 17 p. m. Express.

1:60 a.m. WBKT.BOUBD. TRAM. 11UTI. DIPltl.

Vestibule 4:40 p.m. 4:44) p. m. Freight and accotr 10:1.1 a. Express a.

JUNCTION CI1Y FT. KEARNEY (U. BAST-BOCHD. TBAIM ABHTVB. DEFABT.

Pa eager m. 11:16 a.m. Freight and aocom. t-JM.) p. m.

7:06 p. m. 101T1BOCI.D. TBAIM. ARS1TB.

DXPABT. Passenger p. m. Freit tit and aooom a. m.

7:20 a. KANSAS CENTRAL (D. BAS-r-Botnro. TBAXM. ABBOT.

DBPABT. Freight and aooom p. m. 4:17 p. m.

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m. 10Jtt a.m eVxsept Monday. tExtxpt Sunday. Kansas City (irttln. Kansas Citt.

Nov. 2. There was not enough wheat offering on change to-day to interest buyers. Prices were nominally 1 to 2c higher. The very small receipts were attributed to tha baste of shippers to get wheat to other markets before the ch inge in rates.

Some wheat was sold for export No 2 hard at 73c Galveston and No. 3 hard at 70o New Orleans. Receipts of wheat here to-day, 25 cars; a year ago, 157 cars. Sales were as follows on track: Hard, No. 2, nominally 5Sc; No.

3, 2 cars 63c, 2 cars 62c; No. 4, 1 car 6c, 1 car 9c, 2 cars 58c. 3 cars '7c; rejected. 2 cars 52c: no grade, nominally 40 'i 4c. Soft.

No. 2 red, nominally 81 8JC; No. 3 red. nominally 74 477c No. 4 red.

nominally 62 rejected, nominally 503j6)c. Spring, No. 2, 1 car die No. 3. 1 car 61c.

Corn sold at irregular prices. Some early sales of old mixed were at 21c. Later it sold at 19c and s.Ojo bushels November corn sold at 19c. For the last half of November bushels white corn sold at 19c. Most of the offerings this morning were new corn.

Exporters bid 28ic New Orleans for No. 2 cora Receipts cf corn to-day, 83 cars; a year ago 101 cars. Sales by sample on track: No. 2 mixed, 2 cars old, special, 21c. 3 cars 19c: No.

3 mixed. 5 cars 18c, cars 18c No. 4. 4 cars 17c, 8 cars 18c: no grade. 2 cars 17c, 3 cars 16c: No.

2 white. Scars 2ic. No. 3 white, nominally 21c; No. 4, I cars 19c.

Oats sold early at steady prices, but closed with lower bids and some samples unsold. Receipts of oats to-day, 25 cars, a year ago. 29 cars. Sales by sample on track, Kansas City: No. 1 mixed, nominally 16c; No.

3 mixed, nominally 14 '215c; No. 4 mixed, nominally 12213c: No. i white, old, nominally 20 222c; new. nominally 16218c: No. 3, 5 cars 2 cars 15c.

No. 4, 2 cars 13c. Hay Receipts. 51 cars; the market is steady. Choice timothy, t8.00.i8.50.

No. 1, 37 50: No. 2. to.50a6.00; clover, mixed. No.

1, 6.00&6.50: No. 2.15.005.50; choice prairie, 5. 004.5. 50. No 1, No.

2, No, 3, t2.uoaaoa St. Lonls lira In. ST. Lonis, Nov. 2 Receipts, wheat, i bu last year, 118,000 corn.

337,189 last year, 38.000 oats. 106,000 last year, 42.000 shipments, wheat. 52.0X) bu. corn, 17.000 oats. 18.193 bu.

Closing prices: Wheat Cash, 76c: December. i May. 8340. Corn Cash, December, May, 27c. Oats Cash.

16c: December, 16cs May, 22c. Kansas City 1'rodnce. Kansas Citt, Nov. 2 Butter Creamery, extra fancy separator, 18c; iirsts, 15c; dairy, fancy, 12c; fair, 10c; store packet, fancy, 80; packing stock. 6c; country roll, fancy, 12o; medium to common, 8'lOc.

Eggs Strictly candled stock, 110 per doz. Poultry Hens, 5c: roosters. 10c each; spring, 6c; coarse springs and roosters, 4o; broilers, from 1 to 2 6c turkeys, over 7 7c: under 7 lbs. not wanted, spring and old ducks. 6c: spring geese.

6c. pigeons, 7oo per squabs, 75c per doz. Apples Choice eating stock sells from 40 ft 65c a inferior, 30U3.C a bu. cooking stock, 2)350; Den Davis 2t40c in a small way, according to quality; Huntsman's Favorite. 75o per bu.

for fancy stock in a small way: shippers are paying for Northern Spy a bbL in car lota: for fancy fall and winter varieties, l.0& 1.2- a bbL: Jonathans. 41.50 a bbl. for fancr and for No 2 stock: New York and Michigan stock, fl.OJJl.50 per bbl. Grapes, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York Concords, 9-lb, baskets, jobbing, choice stock, inferior. 8c leaking stock, small De.aware, 4-lb baskets, 10c; Niagara, 150 a basket.

Potatoes In a small way prices ruled Co; in round lots, 1 iliac: in car lots, irs. Sweet potatoes, new stock, 23 2.c per bu. In a small way. A Sheaf of 15ieytl Proverbs. As a jewel of in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman without a skirt A fiat road maketh a cheerful countenance, but by a steep hill is the spirit broken.

Who can find a woman who doth cycle with Fafety? For her price is far above rubie. When scorching corneth, then Cometh shame, but with the slow rider is wisdom. It is better to ride alone on a "boneshaker" than with a brawling woman on a tandem. She that rideth with wise men shall be safe, but a companion of scorchers shall be destroyed. It is the glory of women to conceal their ankles, but the honor of men is to display their leg-t A wise woman feareth and from crowded streets, but the foolish rideth ari'l is conGdent Whoso mocketh she divided skirt reproacheth his manhood, and he that glad at a sk rt lifted ly the wind shall not be unpunished.

X. Y. Com-tnercial Advertiser. Leva's svrent Work. A London paper tells this touching story of Prof.

Ilerkomer. His aged fa tber, who liies with him in his splendid home at Eushey, used to model in clay in his early life. He has recently taken to it again; but bis fear is that soon his hands will lose their skill, and his work will show the marks of imperfection. It Is his one sorrow. At night he goes to his early rest, and when he has gone hi? talented son goes into the studio, takes up his father's feeble attempt, and makes the work as beautiful as art can make it.

When the old man comes down in the morning he takes the work and looks at it, and rubs his hand? and ears: "Ha! I can do as well as ever I did!" May we not believe that ttvf. hands of divine love will thus make over our feeble work for God till it shall be.r the light of day and be perfect to all eternity. X. Y. Observer.

Domestic Science. "Listen, Mrs. Jones; some one has invented a machine by which a man can hear himself wink." "That's good, Mr. Jones: now Tbope they'll get up one by which a mnu can hear himself snore." Chicago EeeorJ. Shop 4 Doors South of P.

O. lii.i. ntnee tnnt time, at the price oT sufTerinfi', it has been eroswed from south to north, but no traveler has yet traversed it from east to west. While the North American continent has IxH-n very well explored, the central region of the nout hern continent has not been mapped with any degree of accuracy. Some portions of it have) been roamed over by men hunting for wood, mines and articles of commerce, but little is Known of the interior of the continent.

To sum up, the yet unexplored parts of the plolx cover an urea of alxut square kilometers (about srjuare miles), approximately divided thus: Africa 0.500 Australia i.Mt vk) America ia Islands Arctic rerrioris 8.5n."oO Antarctic regions B.aoO.oOO Totil 2n.vm.Vi0 X. Y. Herald. Artificial Kllk. The process for the manufacture of artificial eilk is bne! upon that employed by nature.

The firft thinfr used is wood for mulberry leaves are in reality the equivalent of a mulberry wood. The wood is worked into a paste, after bein difiped in nitric and sulpliuria acids, is dried and jdaced in a bnth of and alcohol. A transformation takes place and a kind of glue or collodion Is the result. FINCH, FUNERAL DIRECTORS. OPEN DAY AND NIGHT.

All kinds snd (Trades of CoBIds snd Cask- always on hands, prices cheaper ever before known In Clar Center. 'Mi Telegraph orders promptlj attended to. Finest hoarse in the city. ev Finch's funeral car twed only by this. Hpecial attention Riven to embalming.

First door west of Peckham's. Meow ifffiSiaa Stfisaa I ill-101111 Over bores sold. BOO nno cures prove its power form. Nt.l.ac Is the Kreatcfct iu he fails to make the impotent Ht roiiK. lighted.

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