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The Mulhall Enterprise,
lltarprlM Pnbllshlna Comhij.
MULHALL, . . OKLAHOMA.
OKLAHOMA ANO INDIAN I Kltltl tttltY
A contractor at Medford nays he will
give f? a day to four more carpeters.
The El Reno Roller mills have sent
samples of their flour to London ami
Liverpool.
It is safe to say that 3.1,000 buahela
of castor henns have already been mar-
keted in Perry.
There is so much cotton piling into
Shawnee that people can hardly get
ilong the streets.
The Orphanage school at Pryor Cn elc
is opened. This school is maintained
by Mr. and Mrs. Whitakcr, noble
hearted philantrophists.
Four hundred farmers met at Davis
and elected two cotton weighers from
among their number. The propose to
know the weigh things are going.
Governor Karnes does not like to
make tpeeches any too much. He re-
ceives an invitation about every day
and ho invariably begs to be excused.
Why it may bo possible that the
Cheroltees will lose jurisdiction of their
courts after January 1. there seems to
be no waning in educational interests,
ltoth the male and f« male seminaries
are as crowded as ever at Tahlequah.
John Carr, who lives on the Chickas-
kia, one night last week, was robbed
of 8130. He had the money in a wallet
in his pants pocket and on retiring for
the night left his pants on a chair
near the bed. During the night some
one entered the house and took the
pauts and <i small hux in which Mrs.
Carr usually kept her money, and that
of her husband when he did not carry
it with him. The pants were found in
the yard next morning but the box
ami money were both gone.
There is a better prospect now of an
early and equitable settlement of the
problem of tribal sovereignty in this
territory than ever before. Congress is
getting into a position to deal directly
and intelligently with the question by
and through the medium of legislation.
The days of sending expensive commis-
sioners to this country to negotiate
with the Indians are numbered. The
Indians and the government have both
been victimized by the work of com-
missions. It is but a reiteration of the
history and dealings of congress with
Utah. Commission after commission
was sent to negotiate with the Mor-
mons until finally congress took the
mutter in hand and legislated all the
iitliculties out of existence, says the
/inita Chieltaiu.
Attorney General Cunningham has
fiven it out cold that the new cotton
laws would bo stringently enforced.
The attorney general and county at-
torney Strang of Logan county have
discussei the matter. It was deter-
mined that in the matter of registra-
tion the law did not apply strictly to
purchasers of cotton, but more especi-
ally to ginners, and the latter are tin-
people who must be cautious ami
watchful. One bale of cotton is some-
times sold five times and passes through
many hands. It would therefore cause
untold annoyance and serve no just
ends to have the same bale registered
every time it was sold. The main ob-
jects of the registration laws arc,
namely: To ascertain the amount of
cotton raised; to prevent fraud in stone-
weighting cotton and to trace iu ease
of theft.
The telephone line from l'errv to
Pawnee is now being constructed ami
the promo*.ers expect to have the line
in operation by October 1.
A large number of excursionists arc
Invading Oklahoma just now attracted
here by the large crops and the oppor-
tunity for good investments. Today a
number of lowans were bound for the
south and said they would return in a
few days to look over the country.
People returning from the east report
largo crowds coming west on the har-
vest excursions.
Cleo, OUM will have a soldiers' reun-
ion on September 10, 17 and IS.
. The Galveston Maritime Association
lends out a circular to all persons
haudling cotton, advising them to give
greater care to the staplo in the bale,
as it will decrease the per cent of loss
and damage and insurance cost, and
save to the farmers about Ardmore at
least 8^300,000 annually. It is suggest-
ed that heavy bagging, at least 2U
pound weight, be used, and that the
bales be kept off the ground and pro-
tected from the weather.
A gentleman was in Vinita last week
whispering to some friends that he
knew of n gold mine in the Creek coun-
try on Deep Fork.
Two weeks ago a Kingfisher county
man was arrested for bringing Texas
cattle over quarantine line. He claim-
ed his cattle were all free from ticks,
but as a number of cattle have died in
the neighborhood of the place where
ho crossed the line the owners have
brought suit against him to recover
the valno of all the cattle that have
died, aggregating S .00.
Down in Oklahoma they are glad
that Kansas is out of the hole. They
•peak of the mortgageless smile of the
Kansas farmer.
Much cotton is pouring into the mar-
ket from all over the territory. Good
prices for both wheat ami cotton will
enable every farmer in Oklahoma to
(jet out of debt.
Medford now has a fire company. It
was organized with an enrollment of
14 names. Ten "King" tire machine*
were purchased and a permanent or-
ganization effected.
A Kay county farmer tlircMhed •,.»oo
bushels of wheat which was all raised
oil one quarter tectum.
Some of the Oklahoma newspapers
think that nbout one-fourth of the
wheat crop has been marketed.
J Western Oklahoma got a good rain
I last week while it was as dry as a
i powder horn as far east as Guthrie.
I Holes are appearing iu the bottom of
wheat cars standing on the tracks, at
1 Medford. The floors should be rein-
forced so as to be gimlet groom.
The railroads in Oklahoma are still
advertising excursioi. rates to Galves-
ton. Hut you bet no one is traveling
in thai direction just at present.
The fellows at Oklahoma < ity are
watching that part of town where the
Sapulpa road will probably enter ami
are ready to snatch the real estate
quick.
Tho only duty of special importance
before the Choctaw legislature the
present session is the election of an
agent to fill the place of William Ken-
; uie, whose term of oflice has expired.
A stray balloon fell near 1.1 Reno a
few days ago. It is made of silk end is
frayed into frazzles at the bottom, pos-
sibly from having dragged over ice-
Utks, tint Androu'n nnino Iu not writ- | Nlr I'almer, cx-nuilitor of tho frock
ten then'. | nation, is a graduate of three colleges,
An Indian farmer noar Stilwell Im.l i""1 is »> '>'• ".annors that
i been 1< sing butter and milk from his
spring house- He rat a bear trap and j
caught an Indian boy who resided near Major MeKennon, member of the
him. The lay's leg was badly laccra- Dawes commission, and II. M. Jacowav,
Owing to tht! damp weather and bad
roads in western Oklahoma cotton is
coining iu slowly.
A plum seven inches in circumfer-
ence and not done growing is reported
by the Oklahoma farmer.
Thirteen car loads of merchandise
in two days exclusively for local mer-
chants is a recent record by K) Reno.
William Cooley, famous Wichita
mountain gold miner, has some quart/,
specimens on exhibition at K1 Reno.
It rained in the Strip September 1 •"»
And every man iu the Strip noted it
I ami remembered one September !•>
when it didn't rain.
Perry at this time is infested by a
regular gang of tramps, bums and
crooks, whose business i* house break-
ing and burglarizing stores.
Loring Camp of I'uited States Con-
federate Veterans No. 1041, of Manns-
ville, I. T., has received its charter,
and is now in working order. •
The papers all oyer the territory are
slashing it to Guthrio because some of
her business men acted funny with the
scales that weigh cotton. It wasn't
Guthrie's fault.
fine would take him for
' dHieing iraster.
French
ted by the teeth of the trap.
| The internal revenue collections for
j this district, which includes Kansas
and the Indian and Oklahoma Terri-
tories. for tho month cf August
amounted to ,.VYL»7. The collee-
secretary, stationed at Tahlequah, are
comparing the roles that were copied
by the Cherokee authorities about
three weeks ago. Mr Met on ike, an
expert copyist, is assisting. This will
be the final roll of tho citizeus of tho
tions for August last year amounted to ' horokee nation.
817,.174.87. The increase is mostly :
! from tobacco stamps and it shows that
the manufacture of cigars is being ic-
! sumed in Kansas. There was an in- j
crease in oleomargarine stamps, and
in all revenue receipts connected with '
business enterprises.
The pastures are unusually fresh
and green over much of Oklahoma.
I There is a good crop of prairie hay.
i Considerable upland corn was injured
I by drouth ami heat iu duly, but much '■
of this gives a large yield of good fod-
| dor. Tho value of good corn stalks
and leaves, especially if stacked, is
often under estimated by farmers. It j
is safe to say that tho valuo of this
food per acre is equal to that of the
average hay crop from the same acres.
Kafllr corn and sorghum are in good I
shape geuerrlly. There is an abund-
ance of good "rough feed" for more ,
cattle than are in the territory. So i
long as much of Oklahoma is in the
quarantine district, oneor two methods
' of feeding seems advisable: Hither to
Nine miles from Siloam Springs, in
Indian the territory, is the Dripping
Springs,. There is a great cavity in
the earth at the head of a canyon, and
hundreds of veins of pure water ripple
from a cliff and trick ie in a shower
down to a erystaline pool, the water of
which is alive with small fish at all
seasons, and tho sheltered ferns are
green in January.
One day before Curley Chief's death,
he sent one of his sons on his favorite
pony for some medicine. The boy ran
tho horse against a barhwirc fence and
the animal bled to death. The news
of tho death of tho old Chief's favorite
pony was taken as a sure sign of the
dead animal's master's early death.
Tho old Chief gave up all hope and
died and there was loud howling in tho
camp.
The school land leasing board, com-
prising the governor, secretary and
superintendent of public schools, at
their regular meeting took up the
begin full feeding early in the autumn question of tho failure of tho cattle-
so as to have the cattle ready for mar-
ket iu January or to carry them over, '
feeding on grass ami making them tit
for the export trade, in- which case tho
lefs difference will be made iu the*
price. The latter plan can be followed
best by those with large numbers of
cattle. The first plan is best for most
of the farmers. Ordinarily it would
seem best to have steers on full fovd
by October 1 at least. Results at the 1
experiment station this year indicate
the advisability of giving cattle some
men holding lands in Oklahoma west
of range 14, west, to lease tho school
lands as they agreed in order to induce
the last legislature to pass the law
making all of Oklahoma lying west of
that line free range. The board, after
full consideration of the matter, order-
en the attorney-general to forthwith
proceed against every person violating
the provisions of the law and either
collect rental for the lands used during
the current year 1807 from each person
who has occupied them, or enforce tho.
p..*.
fxtra green food during time of great .penalty against him. Accordingly,
Attorney-General Cunningham will vis-
it all of the counties west of the lino
mentioned. Mr. Cunningham says he
anticipates no trouble whatever in this
matter, as his experience has shown
him that whenever the attention of
the cattlemen has been called to a
neglect of duty on their part they
have always promptly recti lied the
wrong and lie has no doubt that what
they will do so in the present instance.
It is thought that the Wichita moun-
tains are full cf petroleum, too.
An. article is going the rounds with
the heading: "Never cat eggs when
you are angry." Rut how can a mau
cat them in a good humor when their
price has more than doubled in the past
week or so?
A Cleveland county farmer is trying
some i»f the new'African cotton which
is performing such wonders in the
south, llis field at present looks line
and later he will report his success ol
the now kind.
Two German boys who were prison-
ers in the Cloud Chief jail made then
escape * few nights ago. They picked
the padlock and took it with them.
J.udge Keaton has ruled in the dis-
trict • court that tho law taxing town
lots before the issuance of the deed if
against the crganic act and invalid.
The case will be carried to the supreme
court, and, if it be sustained, it is
thought that the finances of many
counties will be crippled by the neces-
sity of litigation to recover taxes un-
lawfully collected.
The Oklahoma farmers who have ac«
heat in summer especially if the
tares are in bad condition. Hogs can
be fattened at any time in the yeur in
Oklahoma, but the least desirable time
for either, full feeding or shipping fat
hogs is during the hottest weather.
The earlier maturing «»f our corn crop
j makes it easy to get fall fattened hogs
j into the marget before the ho^s so fat-
tened iu states further north are ship-
! P°d.
The revival at Ardmore has taken
such a hold that merchants will close
their stores from 10 to 11:30 a. m. to at-
i tend gospel meetings in the taberna-
cle.
The Vainer brickyard at the north-
east corner of Blackwell is doing a
rushing business these days.
In appointing judges the president
frequently confers with members of
'he supremo court of the United States
as to the fitness of aspirauts. This
will probably be done this time in re-
gard to Oklahoma.
Ardmore is becoming an important
j cotton market.
! The county attorney of Woodward
county is after fellows who feuee in
tho section lines. I he lust legislature
j made it compulsory for neighbors to
inform on a man who fences up the
I section lines.
lly having their cotton woiglied on
the public scales farmers will suffer no
i hardships. While the majority of cot-
ton buyers are straight, honest men
j there are a few who will not hesitate
to harpoon a farmer on weights.
A Pinafore concert in Oklahoma City
nrttoil just ovon ninety dollars which I cnmulutod mncli extra wonlth from
was turned over to the Catholic church. > their mammoth wheat crop tin* vo ir
Here are some of the names that ! are putting their money to good use
have been suggested for the new state i by paying off their mortgages and oth-
to be made out of the Indian territory. ' er debts. Many of them are preparing
Indiahoma, Indianola, Dawestonia and ; to start in with the next year out <>f
Sequoyah. Indianola is tho sweetest | debt and as a result many long stand-
of them all. Some one has objected to ing debts arc being daily wiped from
it on the ground that it would cause j the records. In parts of the state
trouble in tho mails by abbrcbiations. I where no wheat can be raised the corn
'Twouldn't be have as troublesome as crop is yielding beyond the average,
the two Washington*. Let the abbre- i and on the whole Oklahoma farmers
viation be I no. ' are in good circumstances.
A young fellow at Paul's Valley, On a fruit farm near Lexington are
caught a pretty speckled snake. It was I growing several Almond trees of the
a little ground rattler, and while he | K0(t-shelled variety, and this year the
was playfully clicking it under the : trees are loaded with fine fruit. In
chin it socked its fangs into his hand j uppearauco the fruit resembles the
It required two doctors and four gal- j p^acli and when ripe the nuts are
Ions of whisky to save his life. It will | Hhelled out and become of commercial
be a cold day when he monkeys with i value.
the business end of another ratlin
snake.
Judge Burris, one of tho oldest liv-
ing citizens of the Chickasaw nation, a
The widow who marketed tho first j full blood Chickasaw and promimcr.t
bale of cotton at Perry does not wish politician for many years, is lying her
to marry, and the fellows who are j iously ill in his borne at till up I to'
writing letter* t«» her should quit iV | hotel in Tishomingo.
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WiHLIKIIc COLLINS.
INTERNATIONAL PRESS ASSOCIATION.
"Then how do you know it's Jlichurd
Wardour?"
"Don't ask me. I am as certain of It
as that I am standing hero. They aro
goiug away together, Lucy—away to
the eternal ice and snow. My fore-
boding has come true. The two wfll
meet—the man who is to marry me,
and the man whose heart I have brok-
en!"
"Your foreboding has not come true,
Clara! The men have not met here—
the men are not likely to meet else-
where. Even supposing it is Wardour,
they are appointed to separate ships.
Frank belongs to the Sea-Mew, and
Wardour to the Wanderer. See! My
husband is coming this way. Let me
speak to him."
Lieutenant Crayford returned to his
wife. She spoke to him instantly.
"William have you got a new vol-
unteer who Joins the Wanderer?"
"What! you have been listening to
the Captain and me?"
"I want to know his name."
"How In the world did you manage
to hear w»- ' we said to each other?"
"His name? Has the Captain given
you his name?"
"Don't excite yourself, my dear.
Look! you are positively alarming Miss
Durnhani. The new volunteer is a per-
fect stranger to us. There is his name
•—last of tho ship's list."
Mrs. Crayford snatched the li$t out
of her husband's hand, and read the
name:
"Richard Wardour."
CHAPTER V.-— (CoNTiNuan.)
Clara's eyes still wandered susplcu-
ouly to and fro among the crowd.
"Are you not satisfied yet?" asked
Mrs. Crayford.
"No," Clara answered. "I am not
satisfied yet."
"What! still looking for him? This
Is really too absurd. Here is my hus-
band coming. I shall tell him to cail
a cab and send you home."
Clpru drew back a few steps. "I
won't be in the way. Lucy, while you
are taking leave of your good hus-
band," she said. "I will wait here."
"Wait here! What for?"
"For something which I inay yet roe.
Or for something which I may still
hear."
"Richard Wardour?"
"Richard Wardour."
Mrs. Crayford turned to her husband
without another word. Clara's infatu-
ation was beyond tho reach of remon-
strance.
Tho boats of the Wanderer took tho
place at tho landing-stage vacated by
the boats of the Sea-Mow. A burst of
cheering among tho outer ranks of the
crowd announced the arrival of the
commander of the Expedition on the
scene. Captain Holding appeared,
looking right and left for his first lieu-
tenant. Finding Crayford with his
wifo, the captain made his apologies
for interfering, with his best grace.
"Glvo him up to his profeaolonil
duties for one minute, Mrs. Crayford,
and you shall have him back again for
half an hour. Tho Arctic Expedition
is to blame, my dear lady—not the cap-
tain—for parting man and wife. In
Crayford's place I should have left it
to tho bachelors to find the Northwest
Passage, and have stopped at home
with you."
Excusing himself in those bluntly
complimentary terms. Captain Holding
drew the lieutenant aside a few 3teps,
accidentally taking a direction that led
tho two officers close to the place at
which Clara was standing. Doth the
captain and tho lieutenant were too
completely absorbed in their profes-
sional duties to notice her. Neither the
one nor the other had the faintest sus-
picion that she could, and did, hear
every word of the talk that passed be-
tween them.
"You received my note this morn-
ing?" the captain began.
• "Certainly, Captain Ilelding, or I
should have been on board the ship
long before this."
"I am going on board myself at
once," the captain proceeded. "But I
must ask you to keep your boat wait-
ing for half an hour more. You will
be all the longer with your wife, you
know. I thought of that, Crayford."
"I am much obliged to you, Captain
Ilelding. I suppose there is some other
reason for Inverting the customary or-
der of things, and keeping the lieu-
tenant on shore after the captain is
on board?"
"Quite true; there is another reason.
I want you to wait for a volunteer who
has just joined us."
"A volunteer!"
"Yes; he has his outfit to get In a
hurry, and he may be half an hour
late."
"It's a rather sudden appointment,
isn't It?"
"No doubt. Very sudden."
"And, pardon me, it's rather a long
time (as we are situated) to keep the
ships waiting for one man?"
"Quite true, again. But a man who
Is worth having is worth waiting for.
This man is worth having; this man
is worth his weight in gold to such an
expedition as ours. Seasoned to all
climates and all fatigues; a strong fel-
low, a brave fellow, a clever fellow—
In short, an excellent officer. I know
him well, or I should never have taken
him. Tho country gets plenty of work
out of my new volunteer, Crayford. He
only returned yesterday from foreign
service."
"Ho only returned yesterday from
foreign service, and ho volunteers this
morning to join tho Arctic Expedition?
You astonish me."
"I dare say I do; you can't be more
astonished than I was when he pre-
sented himself at my hotel, and told
me what he want' d Why. my good
fellow, you have just got home,' I said;
•are you weary of your freedom after
only a few hours' experience of it?'
Ills answer rather startled me. He
said, *1 am weary of my life, sir; I
have come home and found a trouble
to welcome mo which goes near to
break my heart. If I don't tako refuge
In absence and hard work, I am a lost
man. Will you give me refuge? That's
what he said, Crayford, word for
word."
"Did you ask him to explain himself
further?"
"Not I; I knew his value, and I took
the poor devil on tho spot without pes-
tering him with any more questions.
No need to ask him to explain himself;
the facts speak for themselves !n these
cases. Tho old story, my good friend.
There's a woman at the bottom of it,
of course."
Mrs. Crayford, waiting for the return
of her husband as patiently as she
could, was startled by feeling a hand
suddenly laid on her shoulder. She
looked around and confronted Clara.
Her first feeling of surprise changed in-
stantly to alarm Clara was trembling
from head to foot
"What is tho matter? What has
frightened you. dear?"
"Lucy! I have hoard of him!"
"Richard Wardour again?"
"Remember what I told you. I have
hoard every word of tho conversation
between Capt. Ilelding nnd your hus-
band. A man canio to tho Captain this
morning nnd volunteered to Joint the
Wanderer. The Captain has taken him.
Tho mau is Richard Wardour."
"You don't mean it. Are you sure?
Did you hear Captain Ilelding mention
hla doom?"
CHAPTER VI.
OOD-DYE to Eng-
/ land! Good-bye to
'—•] inhabited and civi-
"Z0(l re6iona of the
r?V ea rth!
Two years have
'. passed since the
voyagers sa 11 e d
from their native
^ shores. Tho enter-
prise has failed—'
the Arctic Expedi-
tion is lost and Ice-locked In tho Polar
wastes. The good ships Wanderer and
Sea-Mew, entombed In Ice, will never
rido the buoyant waters more. Strip-
ped of their lighter timbers, both ves-
sels have been used for the construc-
tion of huts, erected on tho nearest
land.
Tho larger of the two buildings
which now shelter the lost men is oc-
cupied by the surviving officers and
crew of the Sea-Mew. On one side
of the principal room are the sleeping
berths and the fireplace. The other
side discloses a broad doorway (closed
by a canvas screen) which serves as
means of communication with an in-
ner apartment devoted to the su-
perior officers. A hammock is slung
to the rough, raftered roof of the main
room as an extra bed. A man, com-
pletely- hidden by-his bed Rothes, is
sleeping in the hammock. lly the
fireside there Is a second man—sup-
posed to bo on watch -fast asleep,
poor wretch! at the present mo-
ment. Behind the sleeper stands
an old cask which serves for a table.
The objects at present on the table are
a pestle and mortar, and a saucepan
of dry bones of animals. In plain
words, tho dinner for the day. By
way of ornament to the dull brown
walls, Icicles appear in the crevices 01
the timber, gleaming at intervals in
the red firelight. No wind whistles
outside the lonely dwelling—no cry
of bird or beast is heard. In doors
and out of doors the awful silence
of the po!ar'desert reigns, for the mo-
ment, undisturbed.
The first soud that broke the silence
came from the Inner apartment. An
officer lifted the canvas screen In the
hut of the "Sea-Maw," and entered the
main room. Cold and privation had
sadly thinned the ranks. The com-
mander of the ship—Captain Ebs-
worth—was dangerously ill. The first
lieutenant was dead. An officer of the
Wanderer filled their places for the
time, with Captain Holding's permis-
sion. The officer so employed was
Lieutenant Crayford.
He approached the man at the fire-
side and awakened him.
"Jump up, Bateson! It's your turn
to be relieved."
The relief appeared, rising from a
heap of old sails at the back of the hut.
Bateson vanished, yawning to his bed.
Lieutenant Crayford walked backward
and forward briskly, trying what ex-
ercise would do toward wanning his
blood.
The postal and the mortar on the
cask attracted his attention. He stop-
ped and looked up at the man In the
hammock.
"I must rouse the cook," he said to
himself, with a smile. "That fellow
little thinks how useful he is in keep-
ing up my spirits. The most in-
veterate croaker and grumbler In the
world—and yet, according to his own
account, the only cheerful man in the
whole ship's company. John Want!
John Want! Rouse up, there!"
A head roso slowly out of tho bed-
clothes, covered with a red night-cap.
A melancholy nose rested itself on tho
edge of the hammock. A voice, worthy
of tho nose, expressed its opinion of
the Arctic climate In these words:
"Lord! Lord! here's all my breath
on my blanket. Icicles, if you please,
sir, all round my mouth and all over
my blanket. Every time I have
snored I'vo frozen something. When
a man gets tho cold Into him to that
extent that he ices his own bed, it
can't last much longer. Never mind!
I don't grumble."
Crayford tapped the saucepan of
bones impatiently. John Want low-
ered himself to the floor—grumbling
all the way—by a rope attached to the
rafters of bis bed head. Instead of
approaching his superior officer and
his saucepan, he hobbled, shivering, to
the Areolars, and Usld k<« chle m does
as he possibly could over the fire.
Crayford looked after him
"Hello! what are you doing there?"
"Thawing my beard, sir."
"Come here directly, and set to work
on these bones."
John Want remained immovably at-
tached to the fireplace, holding some-
thing else over the fire. Crayford be-
gan to lose his temper.
"What the devil are you about
now?"
"Thawing my watch, sir. It's been
under my pillow all night, and the
cold has stopped It. Cheerful, whole-
some, brrcing sort of climate to live in
isn't it, sir? Never mind. 1 don't
grumble."
"No; wo all know that. Look
here! Are these bones pounded small
enough?"
John Want suddenly approached the
lieutenant, and looked at him with an-
pearance of tho deepest interest.
"You'll excuse me, sir," ho said
"how very hollow your voice sounds
this morning!"
"Never mind my voice! The hones!
the bones!"
"Yes, sir—the bones. They'll take
a trifle more pounding. I'll do ray
best with them, sir, for your sake."
"What do you mean?"
John Want shook his head and
looked at Crayford with a dreary
smile.
"I don't think I shall have the honor
of making much more bone soup for
ycu, sir. Do you think yourself you'll,
last long, sir? I don't, saving your
presence. I think about another week
or ten days will do for us all. Never
mind! I don't grumble."
Ho poured the bones into the mortar
and began to pound them—under pro-
test. At tho same moment a sailor
appeared, entering from the Inner hut
"A message from Captain Ebs-
wortli, sir."
"Well?"
"The captain Is worse than ever with
his freezing pains,. sir. lie Wants
to see you immediately."
"I will go at once. Rouse the doc-
tor."
Answering in those terms, Crayford
returned to the inner hut, followed by
tho sailor. .' John Want shook- his
head again and smiled more drearily
than ever.
(t<> nit contini r.n.)
la loet of the farming dlatviete ol
China pigs are harnessed to email wag-
ous and made to draw them.
A man work. awfully liard »U hU
| life in oriler to have enough «a»#d to
pay a doctor to cut him open at la.t-
When a woinans accepts a young man
r\s her daughter's lover she is very apt
to make herself ridiculous raving about
him.
Reports from the Illinois corn bell
indicato that for rapid growth the crop
during the paat two weeks has broken
the record.
No one in town feels well this weath-
er; there probably never was a time
when there has been so much grumb-
ling of aching limbs, laziness, and fe-
ver.
MY FRIEND THE FINANCIER,
lie Wants to lie Perfectly Fair, Ah Ho
Says.
It Is his habit to pay me In checks
every Saturday night. He prefers giv-
ing me as many checks as possible—
four checks, that Is to say, for $5 each,
rather than one check for'$20, says a
writer in the New York World. .
"I don't know how on earth I am
ever to meet these checks," he will say,
cheerfully, as he hands them over to
nie after stamping on the face of each
the words: "Payable only*through the
New York clearing house." That pre-
vents the holder from getting them
cashed at tho bank. "Now, let me
see," he continued, "you live in Brook-
lyn. That gains me a day. But don't
give those checks to your grocer or
bu "b r until late this afternoon. Then
they can't bo deposited until Monday,
and they won't get over to my bank
In New York until Tuesday."
But when Tuesday arrives he is in
a condition of great uneasiness. Ife
races all over the city "to borrow
somebody's check." as ho. expresses It.
Sometimes he will hurry his young
man downtown to a money broker's
with another of his checks. This Is
cashed for a small feo occasionally,
but not often, because the brokers aro
suspicious.
Just before 3 o'clock he hurries to
his own bank. There he will select a
few favored c hecks among a* batch that
have arrived, pay them and let the
others go to protest. He always com-
plains that the checks he gives nie
"get In" on Tuesday. "If they would
hold off a few days," he will say, "and
not deposit the checks until Friday or
Saturday but f ie people are so In-
considerate!" This is why he gives
mo as many checks as he can instead
of lumping the sum into one check.
Some people are considerate and do
not deposit checks hurriedly.
On Thursday I 1 . ;in to have trouble.
My grocer and milkman and butcher
send me breathless word that "that
check cashed for you has been re-
turned." I drop everything and hurry
over to my friend, the financier.
"I'm awfully sorry," he will declare
in that cheerful way of his. "Just you
tell your people it was all the result
of accident and If they deposit the
check in bank again it will go through
and be paid."
My creditors are quite willing to act
upon tho suggestion. By this time it
Is Friday afternoon, however, and tho
checks cannot be deposited until next
day. They reach New York on Mon-
day and the financier presents himself
at Ills bank. Monday is the day when
checks that turn up a second time aro
paid. All others he permits to go to
protest because, as he says, ho wants
to be fair.
What has become of the old fashion-
ed woman who thought it wicked to
pray for rain, believiug that the Lord
knows his own business best, and does
I not like suggestions?
In addition to greater productions o!
wheat corn oats, fruit, vegetables,
cotton, etc., this year, prosperity didn't
rest until there were also more mosqui-
toes than ever before.
We have noticed that for some rea-
son it is never demanded that a girl
wno wears a cheap dress and an old
style hat, should be accompanied by a
chaperon.
To Cure Constipation Forever.
Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic. 10c or 2f>o.
ir ( o,( fail tocursforuiKlabirefundttooey.
Put a man wlure he can see himself
in tho mirror and ho is just as absent
minded in his conversation as any
woman.
1 believe my prompt use of Pito's Cure
i prevented quick consumption.—Mrs. Lu-
cy Wallsce, Marquette, Kans., Dso. 12, '96.
We suppose a kind Providence makes
women longer lived than men because
1t takes a woman so much longer to
liye things down
Itenil the A«lvertlNCinentS.
You will enjoy this publication much
better if you will get into the habit of
reading the advertisements; they will
afford a most interesting study and
will put you in the way of getting
some excellent bargains. Our adver-
tisers nre reliable, they send what they
advertise.
When a woman picks out a second
wife for her husband, does she do it as
a means of getting even with her bus-
bard, or with the other woman?
IDou't Tobacco Spit and Bmoke Your Life Awav-1
To qnlt tobacco o*»ily »i>J forevor.be mn«-
notic. tii 11 of life, nerro and vigor, take No-To-
i;n<-, Hio woiid-T worker, that inaket weak moo
• i< All drUK^inU, 6Uo or II. Curs Rdaran
tre«l. Book lot and sample froe. Addross Stor-
ing Homedy Co., <'hlc*fio or New York.
As if it were not cold enough al-
ready in the Klondike country, a Seat-
tle man proposes to tako two hundred
Boston girls to Klondike in the spring.
When you go into a saloon and wnnt
to ask tho loafers sitting around to
take a drink, the proper thing is to
Bay, "Gents, what will you have?" but
lon't use the word gent at any other
How Hp Made a Navina.
"That mine up in Tuolumne county
Is costing mo a mint of money," said
a local capitalist to one of his em-
ployes. "I wish you would figure
around and see if you can't make a
saving somewhere. If you can I'll raise
your salary $50 a month."
"But suppose I can't make a saving
of $o0 a month?" inquired the young
man.
"Well, I've tried to figure It out my-
self, and I can't find where I can save
a cent. If you can you are worth $50
a month more."
"All right, sir. I'll look Into it."
The young man went over all the ac-
counts, but he could not find where he
could cut down a single expense. Fi-
nally it occurred to him that he was
drawing $25 a month for acting as sec-
retary of the raining company.
"I'vo found a place where you can
save $25 a month," he informed his
employer the next day. "I've cut off
that salary of $25 a month we've been
paying the secretary for dolug noth-
ing."
Ho got his raise.—San Francisco
Post.
100 Doses in a
la peculiar to and true ^
only of Hood's Sarsapa- DOlXiw
rilla, and is proof of its superior strength
and economy. There is more curative
ower in a bottle of Hood's Sarsaparilla
than in any other. This fact, with its
unequalled record of cures, proves the
best medicine for all blood diseases Is
^ _ Sarsa-
£» parilla
The One True Blood Purifier. All druggists. $1.
WILL PAY $IOO FOR ANY CASE
Of Weakness In Men They Treat ami
Fall to Cure.
An Omaha Company planes for tho first
time before the pai.iic a Maoicai, Treat-
ment for tho cure of Lost Vitality, Nervous
ami Sexual Weakness, nnd Kontoration <»f
Life Force in old and young meu No
worn-out French remedy; eoutaius no
Phosphorous or other harmful <ii tigs. It h
» W<>SOBllFL'l. Till"atment -tuugx'.d 111 its
effects—positive in its cure." All road oik,
who are suffering fi >m a weakness thai
blights their life, causing that mental and
physical differing peculiar t<> Lost Man-
hood, should write to fbe BTA'i I'. MEDICAL
COMPANY, Omaha, Nob . anil they will
send you absolutely FKK13, a valuablo
paper "on these diseosos. and positive proofs
of their truly"Magicai. Tki: v i m: vr. Thous-
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euro, are being restored by them to u per-
fect condition.
This Magical Treatment may bo tnkon
at homo under their directions, or thev will
pny railroad fare and hotel l»ill> to all who
prefer to go there for trtatmeut, if tl ey
fail to cure. They are perfectly reliable;
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Free Sample, or ('. O. h. fake. They have
$'J.">d,000 capital, and guarantee to cure
every case they treat or refund every dol-
lar; or their charges may be (it-posited iu a
batik to be paid to thi-m when a cure is
effected. Write them today.
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Beautifies and restores Gray
Hair to its original color and
vitality; prevents baldness;
cures itching and dandruff.
A fine hair dressing.
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Bold by all Druggists.
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DROPSY
NFW DISCOVERY; ei«*
•Justice.
"Bo you believe In rotation In office?"
"Of course 1 do. Thoso who go la
for politic* should go out for politics."
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