Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1898 — Page 5

Advertising Good Things ——& Good People ALWAYS PAYS The readers of this paper are the good people; do you want to sell them good things ?

Directory. COUNTY OFFICERS. Clerk.. .. ....Wm. H. Coover Sheriff...... Nate J. Reed Auditor ....Henry B.Murray Treasurer '....Jesse C. Gwin Recorder... Robert B. Porter Surveyor. John E. Alter Coroner Truitt P. Wright Supt, Public Schools Louis H. Hamilton Assessor. Johnß. Phillips COMMIBSIONBBS. Ist District Abraham Halleck 2nd District..., , John Martindale 3rd District Frederick Waymire Commissioner s court—First Mondays in March. June, September aud December. CITY OFFICERS. Mayor . .... Thomas J. McCoy Marshal Thomas McGowan Clerk .Schuyler C. Irwin Treasurer C. C. Starr Attorney C. E. Mills Civil Engineer H. L. Gramble Fire Chief Edgar M. Parcels COUSCILMEN. Ist ward M. B. Alter, F. B. Meyegs 2nd ward John Eger, C. G. Spitler 3rd ward Wm. H. Beam, J. R. Kight JUDICIAL. Circuit Judge..? Simon P. Thompson Prosecuting attorney Albert E. Chisum Terms of Court.—First Monday in January; Third Monday in March; First Monday in June; Third Monday in October. COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION. TBUBTKXO. TOWNSHIPS. Robert S. Drake Hanging Grove A. W. Prevo Gillam John F. Pettit ..Walker Samuel R. Nichols Barkley James D. Babcock Marion Marcus W. Reed Jordan Jackson Freeland .7 Newton C. C. Bier ma. Keener J. C. Kaupke.. Kankakee Albert S. Keene .. John A. Lambovn Carpenter George W. Caster MUroy ».B.tonier tw*—, ■ Union ■5-- town oh city A. Beasley... - - Remington M. F. Chiteote ...... -Rensselaer Edward T. Bin*.........Wheatfisid Louis H. Hamilton, Co. Supt Rensaeiaer

CHURCHES. First Baptist— Preaching every two weeks at 10:45 a. m. and 7 p, m; Sunday school at 9:30: B. Y. P. U. 6 p. m. Sunday; prayer meeting 7p. tn Rev. V. Fritts, pastor. Free Baptist— One service every Sunday morning and evening, alternately. Prayer meeting Tuesday evening. A. C. P. meets Sunday, 6:80 P. M. Rev. D. A. Tucker, pastor. Christian— Comer Van Rensselaer and Susan. Preaching, 10:45 and 8:00; Sunday school 0:30; J. Y. P. S. C. E.. 2:30; S. Y. P. S. C. E-, 6:30; Prayer meeting Thursday 7:30. H. N. Shepherd, pastor. Ladies’Aid Society meets every Wednesday afternoon by appointment. Presbyerian— Corner Cullen and Angelica. Preaching, 10:45 and 7:30; Sunday school 9:30; Y. P. S. C. E., 6:30; Prayer meeting, Thursday 7:30; Ladies’lndustrial Society meets every Wednesday afternoon. The Missionary Society, monthly. Rev. C. D. Jeffries. Pastor. Methodist E.—Preaching at 10:45 and 7; Sunday school 9:30; Epworth League Sunday 6; Tuesday 7; Junior League 2:30 alternate Sunday: Prayer meeting, Thursday at 7. Rev. H. M. Middleton. Pastor. Ladies’ Aid Society every Wednesday afternoon by appointment. Church of God— Comer Harrison and Elxa. Preaching 10:45 and 7:30; Sunday school 9:30; Prayer meeting. Thursday, 7:30; Ladies’ Society meets every Wednesday afternoon by appointment. Rev. F. L. Austin, pastor. Catholic Church— St. Augustine's. Comer Division and Susan. Services 7:80 and 10:30 a. m. Sunday school 11:30 p. m. Rev. Edward Jacobs, pastor. LODGES AND SOCIETIES. Masonic— Prairie Lodge, No. 126, A. F. and A. M., meets first and third Mondays of each month. H. L. Brown, W. M.; W. J. Imes, Sec’y. Evening Star Chapter— No-141,0. E.S., meets first and third Wednesdays of each month. Mr*. C. W. Hanley, W. M.; Hattie Dowler, Sec’y. Catholic Oede* Forresters— Willard Court, No. 418, meets every first and third Sunday of the month at 2 p. m. J. M. Healy Sec’y; E. P. Honan, Chief Ranger. Odd Fellows— lroquois Lodge. No. 144,1. O. O. F., meets every Thursday. Bruce White, N. G.; S. C. Irwin, Sec’y. Rensselaer Encampment—No. 201. I. O. O. F., meets second and fourth Fridays of each month. S. C. Irwin, C. P., John Vannatta, scribe. > . Rensselaer Rebekah Degree Lodge— No. 846. m-ets first and third Fridays of each month. Miss Maude Hemphill, N. G.; Mrs. Laura Shields, Sec’y. J. O. op Foresters— Court Jasper, No. 1703, Independent Order of Foresters, meets second and fourth Mondays. Geo. Goff, C. D. H. C. R; R. P. Johnson, R. Maccabees— Rensselaer Tent, No. 184. Kr O. T. M. Meets Wednesday evening. C. E. Tyner, Commander; F. W. Cissel, Record Keeper. Pythian— Rensselaer Lodge No. 82, Rensselaer Temple, Rathbone Sisters,— No. 47, meets 2d and 4th Wednesday, every month, Mrs. G. E. Murray; M. E. C. Mrs O. A. Yeoman, M. of R. C. GraiFd Army.— Rensselaer Post No. 84 G. LA. R. meets every Friday night. D. H. Yeo*~man Post Commander, J. M. Wasson, Adjutant. 1 Rensselaer Women’s Relief Corps—- ” meets every Monday evening. Mrs. J. Q. ■ Alter, President; Mrs. Hattie Reynolds, % Sec’y. BtoLLY Council.— No. 7. Daughters of Lib- • erty meets 2d and 4th Mondays. Gertrude £ Hopkins. Counsellor; Nellie Moss, Recordring Secretary. | A handsome envelope, either square or oblong, for 5 cents per Stockage at The Democrat office.

Notice of Appointment. Notice is hereby g iven that the undersigned has been Sppoltited and has duly qualified as administrator of the estate of Cynthia E. Goodrich, late of Jasper county, Indiana, deceased. Said estate is supposed to be solvent ROBERT C. MAY, James W. Douthit, att’y for administrator. 81-83

Application for License. Notice is hereby given to the citizens of the first ward in the City of Rensselaer, the citizens of the City of Rensselaer, Indiana, and the citizens of Mas ion township, Jasper county Indians, that the Undersigned, George A. Strickfaden, a male inhabitant of the State of Indiana, and over the age of twenty-one years, and has been and is of good moral character, not in the habit of becoming intoxicated, and a fit person in every respect to be intrusted with the sale of intoxicating liquors, and has been a continuous resident of said ward for over ninety days last past, and that this applicant is the actual owner and proprietor of said business and will befsuch if license be granted, will apply to the Board of Commissioners of said Jasper county, Indiana, at their December term, 1898, said term commencing on M anday. December sth. 1898, for a license to sell and barter spirituous, vinous, malt and all other intoxicating liquors, in a le.-s quantity than a quart at a time, with the privilege of allowing and permitting the same to be drank on the following premises to-wit: The precise location of the premises on which the undersigned desires to sell and barter intoxicating liquors as aforesaid, with the privilege of allowing the same to be drank on the premises is as follows to-wit: The one story frame, iron-clad building, situated on lot number four (4), in block number three (8), of the original plat of the town of Rensselaer, Jasper county, Indiana; said building and the room therein in which the applicant desires to sell said liquors being more partWWly described as follows: Com-mje»»-ing ata point on the westerly line of Vanßensselaer street. five <5) feet southerly from the northerly corner of lot number four (4) in block number three (3) o the original plat of the town of Rensselaer. Indiana, and running thence westerly parallel with Washington street for a distance of fifty (50) feet; thence southerly parallel with Vanßensselaer street for a distance of twenty-two (22) feet and four 14) inches; thence easterly parallel with Washington street a distance of fifty (50) feet: thence northerly parallel with Vanßensselaer street twenty-two (22) feet and four (4) inches to the place of beginning. Haid rootr being fifty *SO) feet long and twenty-two (22) feet and four (4) inches wide by outside measurement, and said room being forty-nine f4O) feet long and twenty-one .21) feet and so ir 14) ineqes wide by inside measurement. There is one single sash door in the northerly side of said room adjoining Jan alley, and one sash doer in the westerly end of said room. The front of said room is a glass front, adjoining the sidewalk and fronting on said Van Rensselaer street. That the said described room is separate from any other business of any kind and that no devices of amusement or music of any kind o. character is in said room, and that there is no partition or partitions in sa d room: that the said room can be securely closed and locked and admission thereto prevented; that said room is situated on the ground floor and fronts on Vanßensselaer street in the City of Rensselaer, Indiana, and ia so arranged with glass windows and glass doors so that the whole of said room may be viewed from said street. The said applicant will also at the time and place of applying forsaid license, make a further request tor the privelege of selling tobacco and cigars in connection therewith. Said license will be asked for a period of one year from the 14th day of December, 1898, at which time the license now held by said applicant will expire. GEORGE A. STRICKFADEN. 31-33

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THE RUSTLING OF THE LEAVES.

There is something sort of cosv when the leaves begin to rustle, As the boys go tramping through them in the hollows of the street Or hold down some laughing playmate—- . f' though he gives them quite a tussle— While they cover him completely with Dame Nature’s winding sheet • •• V I can taste the wholesome flavor of the frost in nuts and apples, When I hear the dead leaves whisper that their summer work Is done; And I feel the bracing presence of the ice king as he grapples With the steaming lakes and rivers, and enchains them every one. Then a picture of the hearth side rises bright and clear before me— Such a pleasant, homelike picture, of a biting winter night— And a longing for my -boyhood, warm and wistful, rushes o’er me, ' For the little farm house kitchen and the pine floor sanded white. When the autumn leaves were falling and the frosty night came early, How we loved to draw up closer to the wood fire’s cheerful blase, , Watch the flame eat out the maple, with its heart so veined and curly, And sit spellbound by the stories grandpa told of battle days. Yes, they all come back to cheer me—happy days that I remember— When I hear the leaves a-rustling as the school boys scuffle by. And I think there's something cosy In the gloom of bleak November, For the hearth fire of my boyhood paints a picture on the sky. —James Buckingham in Leslie’s Weekly.

CORRESPONDENCE.

NORTH BARKLEY. —John Fanson is husking corn for T. M. Callahan. —George Beedy did business in Wheatfield Monday. —John Fanson visited the Misses Rife Sunday. —John Fanson did shopping in Rensselaer Saturday. —Mrs. Charlie Caster is visiting in Lafayette this week. —Steve Powley of Aix, visited in this vicinity Sunday. —Mrs. L. B. Hewitt did shopping in Rensselaer Saturday. —Laun Caterlin and W. H. Wollard visited a few days last week near Rose Lawn. —Alf Donnelly of Rensselaer, visited F. M. Callahan Wednesday and Thursday. —Miss Molly Rayburn, who has been working for Mrs. Fanson for a couple of months returned, to her home near Medaryville Sunday. —There is eight miles of the new railroad completed. The second station has been laid out. It is to ba called “Gifford Station.” Deadwood is the next station and will get there in about ten days.

BLACKFORD.

—Weather rainy and cool. —Election passed off very ly—Gifford’s railroad is still on the boom. —Fred Shriner, jr., went to Illinois last week. ”s. —Edward Jenkins is shucking corn for Charley Arnold. —Hog cholera is heard of once in a while in this locality. —Jesse Jenkins and family visited Henry Ropp last Sunday. —Mindania Burns, of DeMotte, is visiting her aunt Lizzy Jenkins. —Charles Pullins shipped another car load of hogs last Wednesday. —Candidates were around shaking hands with the voters of N. R. last week. —Samuel Williams and wife visited friends and relatives in White county last week. —George Stembel of Wheatfield was on N. R. last week looking after his political interests. —lt has been noised around that the Blackford correspondent is a republican. This is not so, he is a democrat O. K. —Sandridge school opened with 40 scholars, while the new Sandridge school has but 8. This comes from putting the school where it was not wanted. Good correspondence stationery cheap at The Democrat office.

The Markets,

Wheat ............60 to .65 Com (old) 88K Oats, new,... Ifeto 22H Rye - .40 Hay, (Dealers not buying) Hogs,... 3.50 to 8.60 Potatoes ,45 to .50 Butter • .15 Eggß .M Hens .05 Young Chickens. ....5H to .06 Ducks .05 Roosters. 02 Turkeys 04 6 .06 Hideg .05® .06 Tallow i............. .02

REWARD HOT SATISFACTORY.

Why the Finder of a Lost Ring Refined to Raturn It It isn’t often that an actor can be persuaded to narrate an experience that points a moral at his own expense, especially a Thespian of the brand of Louis Maim, who tolerates nothing but the main chance regarding himself. Yet here is a story from his own “Several years ago,” remarked Mr. Mann the other evening, in his dressing room at the Hollis, “my wife, Lipman, and I were starring, without anv success wortji petitioning, on a circuit of one-night stands composed mostly of town? where engineers* stop their locomotives for a fresh supply of water. One morping, immediately after arriving In one of tjiese places, where tad teen, by the way, the year before, Miss Lipman discovered that she had either lost or had stolen from her a pearl ring. As we had scarcely enough money to take us to the next town, and there seemed a slim chance of getting much more from the box office, I rushed to the local afternoon paper and inserted this ad: “ ‘Mifs Clara Lipman, of the MannLipman Comedy company, lost this morning a finger ring set with four pearls. If iliq finder will kindly return it to the box office of the opera house this evening, no questions will be asked and he will be put in a prosce/' um box Performance/ “After the second adt that night/’ continued Mann, "iny Z’jfo aQ d I received the severest cut of our career., A lefter was brought ba;k to us from the front of the house. It read much 1!L. ak;~. Un©. “ *lt is customary when some one has lost anything and wapfs it back to offer a reward. I might halve returned the ring in any event, but inasmuch as I leeifned from to-daVs newspaper that by so doing I would have to see you play again, I decided that it is more to my advantage to keep the ring and at the same time pass a pleasant evening.’ ” —Boston Globe.

STRENGTH OF ELEPHANTS.

One Small One Exerted a Force as Great as Eighty-Three Men. Not much information respecting the strength of elephants has ever been placed before the public, hence the interest which attached itself to the tests made some days ago upon two elephants belonging to Messrs. Barnum & Bailey at Olympia, Lonsays the Engineer. Unfortunately for the trials, the large elephant, Mandarin, who weighs somewhere about four tons, could not be induced to put the whole of his strength into the experiments, and succumbed ignominiously to the small elephant Bebe. The measuring instrument was a tractometer registering up to 30 tons. The tractometer was placed on a small trolley and attached at one end by means of ropes to half a dozen holdfasts driven into the earth of the arena. The first animals tested were a pair of powerful draught horses, which are considered capable of hauling on a wagon on an ordinary road from eight to nine tons. Yoked by means of whiffletrees to the tractometer they only pulled 1.2 tons. The elephant Mandarin had the ropes leading to the measuring instrument passed round his forehead, and he ran the indicator up t 01.85 tons. In a second attempt tne force indicated was 2.5 tons. The sjnall elephapt was next put to it, and she in her first attempt exerted a force of 5| tons. After that she shoved, with her head resting on the taleboard, a heavy wagon round the whole area. This task she did with great ease, although the wagon contained no fewer than 58 men, and was, all told, of an estimated weight of five tons. Man had then his turn. Some 83 of the show hands were put on to the ropes attached to the tractometer, and pulled against it as in a tug-of-war. While a pull of 2.7 tons the rope broke and percipitated the whole crowd of men to the ground. It was attached afresh, and again broke, this time at 3.2 tons. With a new rope the attempt was again made, when a resistance of 5.6 tons was overcome.

He Wanted a Job.

The following is an exact copy of a letter recently received by a north Georgia editor from a well-known ed>ucator of his county: Mlrch U 1898 FLIP, gra—Mr eddtter 1 See thet yor Rapper la mitie dul ann Sartlngly kneeeda Sumboddy too Thro Sum life And ginger Intew Hit. Ov hoarse every boddle Knot yew kalnt du thet An what yew orty du la to hire me too Rite essase. An poltrey fur yer sheet. I kin Rite mitie Fine on english Liters toor, history, Sianse, pollyticks, An putty near ever thing Bist. 1 hev teeched Skule inn This beer kounty fur slxtiii yeer alius wlffl the fynlst Suekses, An I will just sea too yew thet of yew doant hire me yore ole papplr is dun klean gone too Deestrueka*un. Respt prof. Fay to R wouflurd, os« —Atlanta Journal.

Origin of the Word “Japan.”

Japan is a corruption of the Chinese word shipen-kue, tfhich means “root of day/’ or “sunrise kingdom,* because Japan is directly east of China.

PUBLIC SALE! I will sell at Public Sale at my farm 6 miles North Rensselaer, on Tuesday, November 22, 1898, The following property: 35 Head of Two-year-old and Three year-old Steers; 50 Head of Calves and Yearlings; 25 Head, of Cows and Heifers; 5 Work Horses; 4 Four-year-old Norman Colts (unbroke); 2 Two-year-old Colts; 500 Bushels of” Corn in crib; Farming Implements; Mowers, Binders, Breaking Plows, Cultivators, Harrows, Planters, Hahd Corn Shelter, Wagons, Buggies, Harness, Cutter, Bobsleds, and other articles too numerous to mention. TERMS; A credit of 9 months will be given purchaser executing note with approved security bearing 6 per cent, interest from date if paid when due; if not paid when due, 8 per cent, interest from date. 8 per cent off for cash. No property to be removed from premises until terms of sale are complied with. D. H. YEOMAN. Phillips & Son, Auctioneers. E. A. YOST.

ANECDOTES OF WILLIAM IV.

Some Good Stories Told of Victoria’s Predecessor. It is somewhat singular that, conCoring the quaint characteristics and thfi popularity of William IV., the crop ol auC^ ot ® 8 related of him should oe, comparatively speaking, go svaZtj’: I Q one of the ladies* magazines the countess of Muusvv/, who is better able, we should imagine, ■ thafi auy Uvifig person id add to their i number, discourses pleasantly about I her childish recollections of the Sailor King, and of the watering place to i which, like his brother, he was so much attached. An interesting memj ory, not without a twofold touch of pathos, is recalled by her in connecI tion with that venerable structure which succumbed to so stormy a fate some three years ago, the Brighton Chain pier. Lady Munster’s first sight of the then popular promenade i was a privilege granted to her at the ' tender age of three and a half, and 1 “well I remember my walks thither,” i she writes, “in company with my sister and our old nurse, to meet the king, who walked there almost every morning, accompanied by my mother and one of my aunts. Up and down the old sailor would pace along the deck of the pier head, and my mother often subsequently told me* how he used to say that place reminded him of ‘the most delightful place’ in the .world, the deck of a ship.” One wonders whether the king, who, as his granddaughter tells us, so “dearly loved the fast-vanishing wooden walls of old England,” would have spoken as enthusiastically of one of our modern war monsters. Very pleasing, too, is the picture of the genial old monarch talking kindj ly and familiarly to-almost everyone i he met on the pier, especially to the children, and buying them- little toys and pebbles from the shops which were dotted about under the different archways, and reassuring ladies who feared to intrude upon his privacy with a hearty “don’t go! Don’t mind me, ma’am! Pray don’t mind me!” an encouragement which often led to a long conversation, in which the blunt and breezy ways of the royal sailor would be amusingly displayed. Such an. incident seems to carry us’ back to a far more remote period than that of the thirties, and to revive a relation between royalty and its subjects which recalls not only the manners of a much earlier age, but the characteristics of the sovereigns of an extinct dynasty. But by far the most curious illustration of the change which has taken place in our social habits since the date of these reminiscences is to be found in Lady Munster’s account of the king’s impromptu hospitality. It seems that every day the two principal hotels in Brighton were desired to send up their visitors’ list to the pavilion, to be conned over by His majesty at his breakfast, and when the king saw any names he knew, or even fancied he knew, he invited these acquaintances or supposed acquaintances to dinner that same evening. The practice of guest selection on this somewhat casual principle led in at least one instance to an awkward complication, when the owner of some too widely distributed name, having I been invited to dinner under the imgression that he was a different Mr. mith or Jones, as the case may have been, was received by his royal host on his arrival with the disconcerting question!: “And who the devil are you; sir?* Explanations, however, naturally followed, and, the king’s good nature reasserting itself, he not only apologized and expressed himself “much pleased” to make his unhappy guest’s acquaintance, but at the conclusion of the dinner he rose and “called out in a clear voice, so that everyone heard: ‘Gentlemen, a toast. I wish to propose the health of my new friend, Mr. J. Smith/ *— 1 London Telegraph.

TOO GOOD FOR THE ARMY. I

Athletic Cadet Who Licked Almoat Everybody at West Point That prize fight between a pair of cadets at the Annapolis naval acad--1 emy the other day reminded a member of congress from Missouri of a boy - , , , ’ ■ pnd sent to he selected la his West JPoint eight years agO t “The young ’uh was' fl pretty smooth altlci* a hoy/’ gressman, “and he Easily popped the dozen of fld of other boys in thy ojfcy trict who tooktlie coinpetitiVe exaim 7 ’ ination for the appointment Ih the, army school. Although I had noticed the boy gallumphing around likeother boys in my neck o’ the woodspractically since he was able to walk, I never knew that he was very much, on the fight. “But he began to make things hum in the fighting line from the very first day he struck West Point. The other little snoozers in the sawed-off uniforms began to rub it in on him, likethe cadets treat all new arrivals, as soon as he got there. But they couldn’t make it stick with him at all. He wouldn’t stand for any mauling around whatever. He lambasted half a dozen of his tormentors good and hard the first day. “The next day they went at. him in a body, and he met them as they came with his bunk irons. He landed a slew of them in the hospital for repairs during this whirl and got himself in the guardhouse besides. When he was released the other kids in his class let him alone for awhile, but one day two of the bigger boys went at him together-. He put them out in jig time one after another. “Then the boys of the class ahead thought they’d try out this cadet of mine. Re slugged a majority of them, big . and little, in less than a week after they came to this determination, and then I began to receive reports about the boy. One day, not long after, he publicly punched a young man of the senior class, and it cost m 4 a lot of trouble to keep him at the academy. “I began to wonder what I could do to hold him at the point in case he, should take it into his head to biitthe commanding officer on the parade ground. But he permitted peace to brood over the army training establishment for as much aa two weekly and then one morning I read in the papers that he had whaled two cadet noncommissioned officers of the guard, of which he was a private, and. that he had been fired from the academy. “When he got back to his home in my district a half dozen or so of the young chaps, including my own son, started to give it to him about his being chucked out of the academy in disgrace. He thrashed every one of ’em in precisely three minutes, giving my own boy the worst beating of the lot, and I was glad of it. “I begun to stand by for him to lick me next, but he didn’t do it, and he treated me very considerately, on th® whole. The boy pitched in and won a scholarship at a Chicago polytechnic, and, after man-handling the whole outfit with his fists for a couple of years, he won out at the head of hi* class as a mining engineer. “Last summer he went to the Klondike, and now I am constantly expecting to hear that he has cleaned nut tha whole Northwest territory, that he has been riddled in a gun play with* few United States deputy marshals; that he has extinguished the whole species of polar bears, or that he ha* picked up enough dust to organise a little army of his own when he get* back to Missouri.”—Washington Post.

Gently Hinting.

Blister —Here is some tobacco, my poor man. You must feel the loss of a smoke after dinner. Beggar—Yes, sir. But I feel the loss of my dinner before the smoke a gooddeal Stories. ~