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i- it jgSI.MIJ' VOLUME VI. CHENEY, KANSAS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1902. NUMBER 51. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. "Is this a college-bred man, Bsr- About noon the bell rang, and Bar- BORN TO SERVE The Best Kansas News Held a Train for Taxes.

C. C. Shawver, sheriff of Sumner county, tied up a freight train on the Kansas Southern road, a Santa Fe holding, on a tax warrant. The train was run onto a siding at Caldwell and the depots at South Haven, Guelph and Caldwell were attached. For sev-v JUL 1 II Hpf 1 I Copyrluht, by Herbert Wells Fay.j The above picture of Abraham Lincoln is from a photograph by McNulty, taken at Springfield, 111., Just previous to the former's departure for Washington In January.

ImU, ar.d is accounted about the truest portrait of Lincoln ever made. The picture is the model of the painting in the Illinois state house. The original negative is In possession of H. W. Kay, of DeKalb, 111., by whom It is copyrighted and by whose permission the present reproduction is made.

By Charles M. Sheldon, Author of HIS STEPS," "JOHH KTHG'S QUSSTIOH CLASS, "EDWASU BLAKE," Etc. ICopyrigbt, 1AW, bjr Cssilaa a. bbeldoa. CHAPTER III.

Continued. 'Mrs. Vane has a convert. Did yon see Mrs. Ward's girl in the pew with her?" Mrs.

Wilson askea, eagerly. 'Yes. Rather a neat, pretty girl. and seemed to know her place. Mrs.

Ward told me the other day that she is well educated and 'It is no sort of use trying to do that sort of thing!" Mrs. Rice inter rupted, with energy. "I tried that plan once in Whiteville, and it did no ood at all. Servants as a class can not be treated that way. They al ways take advantage of it." "That's what I have always said," added Mrs.

Burns. "Look at Mrs. Vane's girls. She changes as often as any of us, and has as muca trouble. The girls don't want to be treated like 'And, if they do, it makes no dif ference with their real position.

No one will really ask into society; and, if they did. they would not know how-to behave," Mrs. Wilson ex claimed. 'It docs seem a though, Rice went on, girls like this one shouldn't be allowed to have a chance like other people. What is she with Mrs.

Ward for if she is educated and all that?" she has some idea of helping solve the servant-girl problem," Mrs. Burns replied. "At least, Mrs. AVard told me something of that sort. She does not know all about the girl herself." "It's a queer way to solve the question to go out as a servant herself," said Mrs.

Wilson, and the otner two women said: "that's so!" Yet all three of these women had been brought up on the theology of the orthodox teaching of the atonement. "Did you s.e Mr. Morton speaKng to the Wards? He was just as polite to the girl as he was to anyone in the church." "Of course; why not?" Mrs. Rice asked with a superior air. "But now imagine Mr.

Morton or any other gentleman in Crawford really considering a servant as oher people, even the factory girls or the clerks at Bondman's." well, of course, there is a difference." "Of course," the other two women assented. But, after all, what constitutes the exact difference between honest labor of the hands in a factory or a store and in a home? If they are both service that humanity needs for its comfort or its progress, ought they not both to be judged by the standard of service, not by th; standard of place where the service is rendered? "I think. -irs. Ward will find out her mistake, and be ready to say so in a little while, it sue is going to bring her girl to church with her. don't see where she can stop short of taking her with her everywhere else; and of course society will not tolerate that," Mrs.

Rice said after a pause. "Of course not. The whole thing is absurd. The girls must keep their places. All such eccentric women like Mrs.

Vane do more harm than good," Mrs. Burns declared with decision. "I had given Ward credit for more sense, Wilson saici, grave ly. "But I must turn down here. Good-bv." 'Good-bv.

Don't forret the com mittee meeting at my house to-morrow." cried Mrs. Rice, and very soon she parted from Mrs. nilsori, remind ing her, as they separated, of the church-committee meeting' later in the week. The next morning after Mr. Ward had gone down to his business Mrs.

Ward said to Barbara: "You remember Mr. Morton is coming to lunch with us to-day. Would you Ue to sit at the table with us?" The color rushe into Barbara's face, and she did not answer at once. Then she said slowly: "Xo, Mrs. Ward.

I vou when I came, if you remember, that I never expected to sit with the family at meal-time. My place as a servant is to on the familv then. "Very well," replied Mrs. Ward. quietly.

"I simply asked because I want you to nndersrand that I am ready to help you. Of course, you are not like the other girls who have worked for is. I have no doubt yc-i could be perfectly at your ease with Mr. Morton or an3-one else in so- cietv. Mrs.

Ward spoke with some womanly curiosity, for Barbara had not yet taken her into full confidence. and there was much in the girl's pur pose and character that Mrs. Ward did not know. "I suppose I couli, probably," Barbara answered, demurely. "Of course, you shut yourself out of the society of people in your own rank of life by choosing to be a serv ant," Mrs.

ard went on abruptly, 'You know that as well as I do, "Yes," replied Barbara, gravely. "You know well enough that if I lad introduced you yesterday to all people in Marble Square church, probably not one of tnem would ever have invited vou to come and see them or even enter into any part of the church life." "I suppose so," Barbara replied. flushing deeply. And then she said: 'But I understand well enough that such conditions exist because in the majority of cares the giris who go out to service in Crawford would not care to be invited to the hoaies of the people in Marble Square church, and would feel very miserable anu ill at ease if tney snouia be invited into any such homes." "That is what I have often said. The servant gir.s are in a distinct a bava with a little heightening color in xer lace went to the door.

Mr. Morton greetet her as she opened the door saying: "Happy to meet you again, Miss Clark. A little plensanter and not so hot as last wet Barbara returned his greeting by saying: "Y'es, sir," and took his hat, while he walked immediately into the sitting-room like a -familiar guest. Mrs. Ward heard nim from upstairs, and came down at once, while Barbara went into the kitchen.

During the meal -iarbara could not avoid hearing part of the conversation. She nad always remembered what her mother had often said about servants telling everything heard in the family talk and she had tried sisce Coming to the Ward's to train hersoif not to listen to what was being said, especially at the table when she was Called in to stand and wait at the beginning or during the different courses. But to-day in spite of herself she eould not avoid hearing and knowing part of the general conversation. She heard Mr. Ward good-naturedly asking Mr.

Morton how long he expected to live in a hotel at Carlton. "I'll warrant all the young ladies in Carlton have given him at least a lr-rel of slippers already," Mr. Ward said, looking at his wife. "Will you give me the highest market price for all the slippers I possess so far?" Mr. Morton asked, with a smile.

Mr. Ward was in the wholesale boot and shoe business. "I don't know. I don't think I want to load up so heavily on slippers." "I assure you it would not ruin you," Mr. Morton answered lightly.

"I think with Mrs. Ward, though, that you ought to be getting a home of your own," Mr. Ward was saying when Barbara came in with the dessert. "My sister is coming up to Carlton to keep house for me if I stay there next year; I dpn't mind saying that the hotel is getting rather tiresome." "If you stay? Why, are you thinking of leaving?" "No, but 1 was hired for a year "Listen to the modest young preacher!" began Mr. WartT, with a smile.

"Of course, Carlton will want you another year. If they don't, come down to the Marble Square church. There is a possibility of Dr. Law's leaving before Christmas. He is growing old and his health has failed rapidly of late." Mr.

Morton said nothing in answer to this, and when Barbara came in next time they were all talking of ihe college days when Alfred and Morton were together. Barbara had eaten her own dinner and was at work again, clearing off the dinner dishes, so that, when Mr. MR. MORTON GREETED HER. Morton rose in the other room to go, she heard' him exchanging farewells with tne Wards and promising to come down again before long.

He went out into the hall, and after a pause Barbara heard him say: "I don't find my hat. Possibly Miss Clark hung it up somewhere There appeared to be a search going on "for the missing hat, and Barbara's face turned very red as she took some dishes out into the kitchen and on turning to come back saw the missing hat on a chair at the end of the table, where she had absent-mindedly car ried it on Mr. Morton's arrival. She recovered herself in a moment, and, taking up the hat, brought it into the hall, saying as she confronted the minister: "I plead guilty to absent-mindedness, Mr. Morton.

I carried your hat out into the kitchen." They all had a good laugh at Barbara's expense, in which she joined, and Mr. Morton removed the last of Barbara's confusion by speaking of his own absent-minded moments. "The last time I had a lesson that ought to cure me," he said, smiling at Barbara frankly. "I left my sermon all neaflv written on my desk in my room at the hotel, and brought with me into the pulpit several pages of blank fiolscap paper that had been lying on the desk close by my sermon. I hadn't time to go or send back for the sermon-, and was obliged to preach without notes except the few I could make at the time." well, absent-mindedness is one of the marks of genius," MrWard remarked, laughing.

"We will comfort ourselves with that hope, then, won't we. Miss Clark? Good-by. Have enjoyed my visit very much." Barbara went back to her work, blushing again over the little incident as she entered the kitchen, but grate- ful to the young man for the kindly. off-hand, but thoroughly gentlemanly manner in whirh be harftrMfpd it. It was a very little event, so little that it hardly seems worthy of mention, vet gingerbread man.

When she had cut it out and put some white dough on it for eyes, nose and mouth, and coat buttons, he suddenly remarked aljud, after Carl and she had both been silent some time: He is a perfect gentleman, and that is more than can be said of some college-bred men." mmk (if bara?" asked Carl, the temble. I thoiMrbt. if. wae a irin(rArHrar1 miti You said you would make me a eineer- bread man. I don't want a college-bred man." "This is a gingerbread man, re-r plied Barbara, hastily, as she turned to the oven and opened the door.

"Then who is the other man?" persisted Carl. never mind; I wus thinking out loud." "It isn't nice to dc," remarked Carl, reflectively. "I don't think it is, either, Barbara admitted. "Then what makes jrou do it?" insisted Carl. "I won't any more when j'ou are around," promised Barbara with much positiveness.

The child seemed satis- tied with this statement; but, when Barbara at last took the gingerbread man out of the oven, Carl suddenly said: "Let's name him, Barbara." "All right," said Barbara, pleasantly. "You give a name," Carl suggested. "Well, how about Carl?" "Xo, 1 don't like that. Let's call him let's call him Mr. Morton." "Very well," replied Barbara, hur riedly.

"Run right along with it. Your mamma is calling j'ou, and I must-finish my baking." "Don't you think he looks like him?" Carl insisted as he grasped the figure by the feet, which in the process of baking had become ridiculously short and stubby, merging into the coat tails. "Xo, I don't think it's a striking re semblance," said Barbara, laughing. "Well, I do. I thinkhe looks just like him.

I like Mr. Morton, don't you?" But a-t that moment Mrs. Ward called Carl in the tone he always obeyed, and Barbara did not have to answer him. She finished her work in a serious mood, and in the evening in the little room over the kitchen she at first sat down to meditate as her custom some times was. But, suddenly changing her mind, she opened her Bible to seek out another of the passages that re ferred to the servant or to service, and after several unsuccessful attempts to locate a verse that she thought was in Thessalbnians, she found the pass age in Ephesians, sixth chapter, fifth verse.

"Servants, be obedient unto them that according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ; not in the way of eye-service as men pleasers; but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart; with good will doing service, as unto the Lord and not unto men; knowing that whatsoever good thing each one doeth, the same shall he receive again from the Lord, wheth er he be bond or free. And ye, mas' ters, do the same things unto them, and forbear threatening; knowing that both their Master and yours is Heaven, and there is no respect of persons with Him I wonder just what those words mean, thought. 'And ye, masters, do the same things unto Of course, they could not change places as master and slave It must mean a mutual honesty and justice and Christlikeness in their relations to one another." And then she gained great comfort from the last verse. "And there is no respect of persons with Him. "My Father in Heaven," she prayed, "I have chosen my work, or Thou hast chosen it for me.

Just what its crosses may be, I do not yet know. Whatever I shall be called upon to lose, Thou knowest. But in and through all, sustain me with this lov ing thought: 'There is no respect of persons with" Thee, Thou who dost respect the service of men, and not their outward station. Sustain me oy i hy grace, in Christ name. Amen." When Thursday afternoon of that week came, Barbara remembered her promise to Mrs.

Vane; and, when she went out, as it was her regular after noon off, she told Mrs. Ward that she was going to call on Mrs. Vane "You will find her a very interesting woman. I don't know how much she can do to help your ideas. She is ec centric, Hut, in nnv i-nsf vnn will finrl i her interesting," Mrs.

Ward ventured to say. "I am sure she is," said Barbara. "If she asks you to stay to supper you needn't come back to get ours. I 11 manage somehow." Mrs. Ward spoke kindly, and Barbara was on the point of thanking her and accepting the permission, when she noted Mrs.

Ward's paTe face and nervous manner. She had been suffering all the morning from one of her wretched headaches. "Thank you," replied Barbara, qui. etly; "but I prefer not to. I'll be back in tiftie to cet sunocr." "Do just as you please," Mrs.XVard replied, but Barbara detected a look of relief on her tirtd face as she went out.

To Be Continued. His Aim In Life. People bother little boys so! All the tourists to his island home used to ask this one: "What are you going to be, boy? what are you going to be?" and the boy impatiently replied at every interruption of his impor tant undertakings: "I'm going to be a sailor and climb the masts." Last summer ne took an ocean voyage and was very seasick, and the third day his father askc: "What are you going to be, boy? what are you going-to be? "I am not going to be a sailor and climb the masts, he replied. i am going to be a soldier ana shoot can non." A big nncli took the bey to see famous cycloraraa, where Ihe smoke and carnage and realistic dead bodies in the foreground shattered another of his ambitions. To the teasing question: "What are you going to be, boy? what are you going to be?" came the answer, in a burst of con- fidence: "I am not going to be a sailor and climb the masts.

I am not going to a soldier and shoot cannon. I am g-oing to be a bacheior and marry mamma!" Youth's Companion. Told Mamma Fairy Tales. Father Young man, when I tell you a thing I want yon to understand that I mean itr Georgie Fergir me, paw; I wua thin kin' about sum things you tell ms I sumtimes. Ohio State Journal.

A Convention of 1.G18 Delegates. The republican state convention at Wichita May 28 will have 1,019 dele gates. Wyandotte county will have the largest delegation 40. Shawnee comes next with 39. Leavenworth.

with the soldiers' home vote, has 32. Crawford 24; Cherokee 23; Cowley and Reno 19 each; Montgomery, Douglas and Marshall 18 each; Sumner, La bette and Atchison 17 each; Bourbon, Brown, Butler, Lyon and Osage 16" each; Dickinson, Franklin, Nemaha and JIVashington 15 each; Mcpherson, Allen, Miami and Marion 14 each; Doniphan, Jefferson, Jewell, Johnson, Xeosho, Pottawatomie and Re public 13 each; Cloud, Coffey, Greenwood, Harvey, Jackson, Linn, Saline and Wilson 12 each; Clay, Rice and Riley 11 each; Anderson, Mitchell, Smith and Wabaunsee 10 each; Barton, Chautauqua, Elk, Morris, Osborne and Phillips 9 each: Ottawa and Woodson 8 each; Ellsworth, Geary, Harper, Kingman, Norton and Russell each; Chase, Lincoln, Rooks and Stafford 6 each; Barber, Decatur and Pratt 5 each; Edwards, Ellis, Ford, Finney, Graham, Pawnee, Rawlins and Rush 4 each; Cheyenne, Gove, Kiowa, Logan, Xess, Sheridan, Sherman, Thomas and Trego 3 each; Clark, Comanche, Grant. Gray. Gree ley, Hamilton, Hodgeman, Haskell, Kearny, Lane, Meade, Morton, Scott Seward, Stanton, Stevens, Wallace and Wichita 2 each. An irnsnspected Skeleton.

About a year ago a fine appearing young farmer moved from Ohio to Bourbon county, and soon made many inends. lie was supposed to be a bachelor, though he said nothing about his past life, and he grew pop ular with the young women of the neighborhood. But last week he went into the district court and applied for a divorce in a petition which re vealed a horrible skeleton in his closet. He set up that his wife was a convict in the Ohio penitentiary, hav ing been convicted tf infanticide, the murder of her own baby. Kansas City Journal.

For the Kansas Exhibit. ihe Jansas worlds fair commis sion-will go to St. Louis February 14 to select a site for the Kansas build ing. Kansas has heen otrered from two to four acres of ground. Kansas teachers have asked for $5,000 of the state appropriation for an educational exhibit.

Letters from about 100 wheat-growers have been received by the commission stating that samples of wheat for the state's exhibit would be shipped to the statehouse. Decided for Present Owners. A jury at Olathe decided against Charles Bluejacket, a Shawnee Indian, who- claimed ownership of 140 acres of land occupied by James Wratson for 25 years. This will put a quietus on about 25 other similar suits filed by Shawnee Indians against landowners in Johnson count3', involving 10,000 acres. Ilentlst Snes Kvanscllst Williams.

Dr. W. S. Richardson, a der.t'st of Newton, brought suit against Evangelist WMUiams, who has been holding revival meetings there, for $10,000 damages for defamation of character. Wiir.ams is alleged to have accused Riehardson in a public meeting of immoral conduct.

Wants the Date Changed. Wichita has asked the democratic state committee to change date of the state convention set for Ma3 20 in that city to May 13. The K. P. grand lodge meeting is to be held in Wichita May 20 and Wichita is afraid it cannot entertain both gatherings the same week.

Mrs. Conker Married Another. The marriage of W. E. McCoy and Mrs.

L. E. Conker is announced from Nortonville. Mrs. Conkey is the woman recently secured a judgment of $6,000 against George N.

God-dard, a wealthy resident of Jefferson county, in a breach of promise suit. Frozen Boy Identified. The 14-year-old boy found frozen to death on the bank of Snake, creek seven miles south of Winfield was identified as Frank Jones, of 'Cedar-vale. He had started to visit his brother at Tisdale and expired a half mile from his brother's home. Scott Signed Minority Report.

Congressman Scott, of Kansas, signed the minority substitute for the anti-oleo bill which is designed not to prevent the manufacture or sale of oleomargarine, but to prevent it from bcinar fraudulently sold for butter. Carson's Filipino School. David Carson, a Xeosho county young man, is the teacher of a school at Zambeies, 90 miles north of Manila. At Fort Scott March 11. The Second district republican con gressional convention will be held at Fort Scott March 11.

A Father's Wish. Andy Peterson was arrested' for the murder of C. E. Holt and his niece at Greenleaf. When the father of the accused man heard of it he promptly- expressed the hope that his son would be hanged or shot.

She Left CO Grandchildren. frs. 'David P. Harris, 92 years old, died at her home south of Lansing. She was the mother of ten children, eight of whom are living.

She leaves 60 grandchildren and many great grandchildren. Kansas School Book The state text-book commission made an order that book publishers. intending to submit must send themembers of the commission copies of their publications not later than April 1, 1902, and that no bids be re ceived by the commission later than Tuesday, May 6. Chanced the Ham. Thomas Morgan, who recently purchased the Ottawa Republican Times, a democratic paper, has I IK hour mas on us; where the man? The tatef ulandun- fatterir.R ran.

tears He came Into the years. Our pastoral captain. Forth he came. As ore that answers to his name; Nor 6 reamed how high his har-e. Jils work how fair ar.tf Urge-To set the atones back In the wall Left the dlvitfed house rhould fall.

nd neare from nxncpart, Hope ar.U the childlike heart. We looked on him he." we ald. "Come crow nit-? ar.d unheralded. The ttuphtril who will kiep The flocks, will the thetp." Uhtly. yes; yet 'twas the mien rreiCriK the Immortal ctne.

Some battle of Ills wars Who sealtth up the stars. Nor would he take the past between Ills hards, wipe vulor's tablets xlean. v.ommaniiir.K grt ntr.t-yii wait Till he stand at the gate; Not he would cramp to one small hrad The awful laurels of the dtnc'. Time's mighty cup. Ar.d drlr.k ull honor up.

No ftuttt of the banners bold Home by the lusty tors of old, The haiiKhty coni'it-rori Bet forward to tlulr wars; Not his their blare, the Ir pageantries, Tndr Koal. thi Ir glory, was not his; Humbly he came to keep The flocks, to fold the rheep. The need pomi not without the man; The pnsrlir.t hours upcasli.g ran, Ar.d up the way of tears He came Into the years. Our pastoral captain, skilled to crook The pear Into the pruning hook. The simple, kindly man.

Lincoln, American. John Vance Cheney, In N. Y. Independent. ONE LlNie0Lv'5' BlRTMJ)iW.

vA Stopy founded or? tack 'yy'A W'J'HIIK 12th of Febru- ii aT' tJjJiKJj. bright ami clear 'V in Wa shin Eton. Washington. Into a little house on one of the side itrects near 'Pennsylvania avenue the rays of the huh brightly shone, gladdening the hearts ff those who lived there, an invalid father and his two little children, Madge mid Bennie. "Madge, you'll have to take the basket out to-day; Bennie is too lick," the father said.

"All right, papa, I guess I'll get ilong alone." Little Madge went to work getting the basket of sandwiches, apples and flowers ready. Such sandwiches as Ihey were, too. Kvcry messenger Doy. page and congressman knew Mndirc and llennie and the sand wiches they sold on Pennsylvania irciuu' every day at lunch time. Since their father's return from Hie A-ar, a cripple, Made and P.ennie had supported him, and the littlebasket.it LINCOLN BENT, with which they started in business had been changed many times, until very large one was used now.

Little Madge hnd become an expert at making sandwiches; never getting the slices of bread too thick and always having just enough meat between She felt rather timid about going out alone; but what was there to do? Somebody had to go, for they needed the money; so she buttoned up her coat, pulled on Jier gloves and bravely staried out. By keeping away from the crowded streets little Madge soon reached the plnce where she and llennie always stood. She hnd never seen so many people 1 out before. Everybody was hurrying along and all weie talking about the latcstnewa of the war. It seemed as i though Washington was expect-j ing to hear that peace had bei'n le-i dared and the war over.

"Good morning, Madge," a deep voice called, and she looked up to see CongKssmnn Chambers close beside her, waiting for his usual bunch of violets. "Where's, the brother?" he asked. "Sick, sir, but I guess he'll be out again soon." "Buy him romething good with this," the kindly congressman said, tnd pressed some change into her land. "Thank you, sir; I'll tell Bcnnie, tnd when he's welt he'll thank you timself." I wish the president would come to-day; I haven't seen him in two nonths and pap always asks about lim when I go home; but maybe he's too busy to walk the way' he used nd Her thought were inter- I get a he eral years the road has been delinquent in its taxes, but the sheriff, an ticipating an injunction suit, laad withheld action. This year he waited, but, as the road made no effort to pay, he declared fof decisive meas ures.

When the road learned of its dilemma it secured an inlunction from the probate judge preventing Shawrver from stopping its train which carries mail west of Caldwell. Fail- -ure to make $5,000 bond prevented the circuit clerk from issuing the summons on the injunction. But later the bond was filed and the cor oner telephoned Shawver at Caldwell to release the train. He did so, and now the road threatens to arrest him for stopping a train carrying maiL He Is Too Easily Satisfied. Rev.

W. L. Morris, a pastor of White City, is trying to build a church through the chain-letter plari. He asks a contribution of five from 1 each recipient of a letter, and he requests each recipient to forward a similar request to three friends. "At the end of the 100th series," says the preacher, "I ask that contributions shall cease." It is fortunate that this plan occurred to Parson Morris instead of some man who is greedy and grasping.

At the twenty-first power he will have received At the 100th power it would amount to only A man less easily satisfied might have- taken money enough to really distress the people. Kansas City Journal. No Statne of Ceres. The state, architect, Mr. Stanton, announced that the plan to put a statue of Ceres on the state house dome has been abandoned.

"Th people have ridiculed the idea until it wo'-'n't bo safe to erect the statue," saiu "They are against it on the general proposition, that it is useless to squander $7,000 in such a foolish manner." Tr-pped on the lee with a Gun, Frederick Kindsvader was found dead at his home in Lamed. The supposition is that upon returning from the field he stopped at a pond and tried to test the thickness of the ice by hitting it with the butt end of his gun. The trigger snapped ant the shot passed through his hand and entered his mouth. Conductor Had to Decide. A baby was found in a basket in one of the passenger coaches of the Choctaw, Oklahoma Gulf, railroad south of Anthony.

The passengers scrambled to ee who should have of it and the conductor awarded the little girl to a man named Allison, who is a business man at Paris, III. Tragedy oar Argentine. Thomas Carroll, aged 80, who lived alone in a hut miles southwest of Argentine, was found murdered in his home. The crime was committed for robbery. Although the body was not found until Thursday the old man had been dead a month.

Reception nt Governor's Mansion. Over 300 women from various parts of Kansas attended the state meeting of the federation of clubs at Topeka. Mtb. Stanley, wife of the governor, gave a reception to the delegates at the executive mansion. Fortune Comes to Needy Family.

Mrs. Mary Parker and children, who were living at Emporia in destitute circumstances, have fallen heir to a fortune of nearly $300,000, left them by a distant relative in New York. To Establish Labor Colony. A party of about 20 people living the north part of Bourbon counfy will leave next week for the state of Washington, where a labor colony will be established near Spokane. Father of Sixteen Children.

Joseph G. Fan's, a veteran of the Mexican war, is dead- at Cottonwood Falls. Mr. Faris was the father of 16 chiklren, 12 of whom stood about his grave. Farly Convention In the First.

The First district republican con-presxional convention will lie held at Holton February 26. Congressman Curtis has no opposition to renomina tion. To Have Jlew The Topeka Y. M. C.

A. will erect a fine building at upper Kansas avenue on a lot deed by Judge John T. Clark. To litre a ew The Union Pacific will erect a depot in Topeka. Defendant Had Threatened.

Walter Marks, of Lane, the defendant in a divorce suit, was searched in the court room and a loaded revolver wsa found. Marks was charged with cruelty and had threatened to shoot certain witnesses if they-' testified against him. A Revolver to Play With. Edward Wiseman, a boy seven years old, accidentally shot at Leavenworth and may not recover. The lad was allowed an empty 22-caliber pistol to play with.

Favor Municipal Ownership. The Municipal league of Kansas, in session at Wichita, dec-dd to-present a bill to the next legislature giving cities of the first class the right to own their waterworks and electric light plants. In Kansas Since 1848. Jacob S. Jelf, aged 80 years, one ot the pioneers of Kansas, is dead in Atchison, ne had lived there continually since 1S55, although he set foot on Kansas soil as early as 1848.

Ho was one of the '49rs. it for you when I pass down Pennsyl vania avenue again. Many times after Madge was well the president passed and gave her a pleasant greeting. Then came the niyht of the 14th of April, when the news spread like wildfire that Lincoln had been shot, and when the of his death was told the next morning one pair of eyes were filled with tears and one little heart was' full of sad ness at the passing away of the great, kindly man, whose heart was filled with love and tenderness for all kind. Brooklyn Eagle.

LINCOLN AND STEPHENS. Story of Vice President of the Con federacy and the Civil ar President. Gen. Horace Porter, in his "Cam paigning with Grant," telia a story of the meeting at City Point between Alexander H. Stephens, vice president of the confederate states, and other southern commissioners, and President Lincoln and Secretary Seward to discuss preliminaries of peace.

Many-officers, including Gen. Grant and Gen. Porter, were in attendance on meeting. Vice President Stephens was a sal low, undersized man, whose skin seemed shriveled on his bones. One of the officers said of him, at the end of an interview: "The Lord seems to have robbed that man's body of its flesh end blood to make brains of them." On his arrival, Mr.

Stephens, says Gen. Porter, was wrapped from his eyes to his heels in a coarse gray overcoat about three sizes too large for him, with a collar so high that it threatened to lift his hat off every time he leaned his head back. The coat, together with his complexion, which was as yellow as a ripe ear of corn, gave rise to a characterization by Mr. Lincoln which was very amusing. The next time Mr.

Lincoln saw Gen. Grant at City Point, after the conference, he said to him: "Grant, did you notice Stephens coat?" "Oh. yes." answered the "Well," continued Mr. Lincoln, "soon after we assembled on the steamer at Hampton Roadss the cabin began to get pretty warm, and Stephens stood tip and pulled off his big coat. He pulled it off just about as you would husk an ear of corn.

I couldn't help think ing, as I locked first at the coat and then at the man: "Well, if that isn't the biggest shuck and the littlest nubbin I ever did see!" Lincoln's Ingenious Scheme. At a dinner in Boston a former resident or tpringneia, told a story of Lincoln, which is sufficient ly characteristic of the man, as the country remembers him, to be unlike most Lincoln anecdotes in being true The relater said: "The fire hose company ot bpringheld was very proud of its well-equipped fire ap paratus, and, desiring to procure some extra supplies, subscription pa pers were sent around. The small boys, myself among the number. were given a snare in the work, went up to some dusty rooms over a grocery and entered the law office of Lincoln. He asked me numberless questions, and I had to tell him all I knew of this fire brigade and its members.

Then he said: 'Well, I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll go home to supper Mrs. Lincoln is generally good-natured after supper and then I'll tell her I've been thinking of ing $50 to the brigade, and she'll say: 'Abe, will yo never have any sense? Twerty dollars is quite enough. So to-morrow, my boy, you come around and get your "Troy Times. HI Neighbor's Assets.

A Xew York firm applied to Abra ham Lincoln some years before he became president for information as to the financial 'standing of one of his neighbors. Mr. Lincoln replied as follows: "Yours of the 10th inst. received. I am well acquainted with Mr.

and know his circumstances. First of all, he has a wife, and baby; to gether, thej ought to be worth 000. Secondly, he has an office, in which there are atable worth three chairs, worth, say, ore dollar. Last of all there is in one corner large rat hole, which will bear looking into. Respect ully yours, A.

Lincoln." Short Stories. rupted by a senate page with a terrible appetite, who wanted two chicken sandwiches in a hurry. Soon the clerks from the different departments began to pass by on their way home to dinner. Some of them stopped to buy a sandwich from Madge and then passed on, talking and laughing. "Well, little Madge, that brother of yours to-day? It seems strange to sec you here without him," a tall newspaper correspondent said as he picked out a large apple.

"Hennie's not well, and so 1 thought I'd come alone. I knew I'd along all right, and so I have," proudly said. For the next half hour she was kept busy, as all the clerks and messengers needed waiting on. Then there came little rest and Madge looked up and down the 1-ong avenue. As she looked up a second time she caught sight of a tall form coming her way.

Madge knew it well, for no other man in Washington walked like Lincoln. She kept her eyes fastened on him as drew nearer, so as to have lots to tell her father when she returned home. Her little heart was beating with excitement. "Oh! If he would only stop, just for a minute, so I could speak to him. He looks so sad.

I wonder why." Just then a boy stopped to buy en apple. He gave her a ten-cent piece and Madge did not have pennies enouvrh to make change. "Wait a minute, please, and I'll get she said, and started to run across OVER THE BED. the street to the news stand for change. She had only covered half the dis tance when a team of carriage horses swung around the corner.

Too late the coachman saw her. There was a little scream, two horses jerked back on their haunches and Madge lay on the pavement, uncon-seiotis, with one little arm broken. Men rushed to pick her up; but one tall form was ahead of them all. Lincoln, with all the tenderness in his great heart aroused, 'stooped and picked the little form up in his arms. "Where does she live?" he asked, and a man standing at his side, with Madge's basket in his hand, volun-! teered to show the way to her home.

Lincoln could have called an ambu-I lance or sent her home in a carriage. but that was not this great man's way. Where help was needed he gave it himself, and so it was that those who v. ore on Pennsylvania avenue that Lincoln's birthday saw the president pass along with a little injured girl in his arms. A short walk and they reached the house, where Madge's father, steadying h'lmself on crutches, met them at the door.

Your little girl has been injured; show me a bed and I'll place her on it," Lincoln said. A doctor was called and soon Madge opened her eyes and said: "Papa, the president." "Yes, dear, the president is here and only waits to know you're all right. before leaving. Lincoln bent over the bed and plac ing one arm around little Madge said "Won't you give the president a kis before he Madge raised her head and Lincoln, icver of all children, kissed her and said: "Good-by, 4ittle one, I shall look I I i class by themselves. They are the Barbara found her mind recurring to least educated, the most indifferent it several times during the day.

Dur-to refining influences, of ail the la-; ing some baking in the afternoon, Carl boring classes." wa3 an interested spectator and final- "At the same time," Barbara began; ly prevailed on. Barbara to make'him a but Mrs. ward was called out of the room by some demand of Lewis, who was still posing more or less as an invalid although he was cble to be about; and Barbara went on with her work, conscious that the dragon was, if anything, bigger and nercer in some directions every day. hanged the name to the Republic..