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THE HIGHWAY COW.
BY EUGENE ]. HAYS.

The hue of her hide was dusky brown.
Her body was lean. and her neck was
slim,
One horn turned up and the other down,
With Roman nose and short stump tail
And ribs like the hoops on s homemade
pail.
Many a mark did her body bear;
She had been target for all things
known,
On many scar the dusky hair
Would grow no more where it once had
grown,
Many a passionate parting shot
Had left upon her lasting spot.
Many and many s well aimed stone,
Many briekbat of go0d!y SIZE,
And many a cudgel, swiftly thrown,
Had brought the tears to her bovine
eyes;
Or had bounded off from her bony back,
With a noise like the sound of rifle
crack.
Many day had she passed in the pound,
For helping herself TO her neighbours
corn,
Many q cowardly cur and hound
Had been transtiXed by her crumpled
horn,
Many a tea pot and old tin pail
HAD the farm boys tied to her timeworA
tail.
Old Deacon Gray was pioas man,
Though sometimes tempted to be profane
When many weary mile he ran
To drive her out of his growing grain
Sharp were the pranks that she used to
To get her fill, and to get away.
she knew when the Deacon went t. town;
She wisely watched him when he went
by;
He never passed her without a irown,
And an evil CLEAN in each angry eye;
He would crack his whip in q surly way,
And drive along in his lone boss shay"
Then at his homestead she loved to call,
Lifting his bars with her crumpled horn,
Nimbly scaling his garden wall;
Helping herself to his standing corn,
Eating his cabhages, one by one;
Hurrylng home when her work was done.
Often the Deacon homeward came,
Humming hymn from the house of
prayer,
His hopeful heart in tranquil frame,
His soul as calm as the evening air,
His forehead smooth as q well worn plow,
To find in his garden that highway cow.
His human passions were quick to rise,
And striding forth with savage cry,
With fury blazing from both his eyes,
As lIghtnings flash in a summer sky,
Redder and redder his face would grow,
And alter the creature he would go.
Over the garden, round and round.
Breaking his pear and apple trees,
Trampling his melons into the ground
Overtur ming his hives of bees,
Leaving him angry and badly stung,
Wishing the old cows neck was wrung
The moses grew on the garden wall;
The years went by with their work anG
play;
The boys of the village grew strong an(
tall;
And the gray-haired farmers passed
| away,
One by one, as the red leaves fall,
But the highway-cow OutliVed them all
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THE wAsHERwOMAN's FRIEND.
By LEON LOVE.

with my Savior for a friend
He will keep me TO the end"
Thus the washerWOman sings
And bright hopes within her spring.
That the words are truth. she Knows
And she Fubs and rubs the clothes,
Trusting in her Savior friend
Who will keep her TO the end.
AS she washes all day long,
And keeps humming at her song,
IL Is not the song she sings
To her bosom hope that brings:
But she rather sings the song
Knowing well twill not be long
Till her Savior friend will come
And will take her to her home.
1t is not the mere belief
That's the'"anOdyne OF grief;'
Her SAVIOR friend Is real
He's not a mere ideal,
Though He's ali unknown to you
He's a person, real, true,
Anal He is the woman's friend;
lie viii keep her to the end.
You may smile at what she sings,
And may scorn the hope that springs
From ''the stories that are told
or the miracles of old"
But the woman at her tubs
As each day she rubs and rubS,
still will trust her Savior friend
Who will keep her to the end.
1t might well be worth yOur while
Never more at her to smile,
In your sympathy or guile,
Till you've thought more of the things
or the song the woman sings
You may be assured of this,
There's u world OF purest bliss
Comes from knowing that dear friend
Who will keep her to the end.
And although tor all her hope
You would scarcely give the soap
That she rubs upon the clothes;
Yet, in all her wants and woes,
She is certain at the last
When all wants and woes are past,
That her Savior friend will come
And will take her to her home.
This is why the woman sings
It's to tell herself the things
The only things--that cheer her,
And keep her savior near her.
And He'll keep her--thought sublime -
TO the end of endless time;
For He is her only friend,
And will keep her to the end.
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leave the State, for we verify believe
that seVen-teuths of the farmers
have been wanting TO sell for the
past five or six years; and it would
make them so awful mad to furnish
them buyers that they aWeRlds get
right up and leave.
And, again, our opponents make
q great onslaught against our land
agents, the very class of men who
caused those very gentlemen to
come to this glorious stock country,
where men need not to labor, but
just buy a small tract of land and
set down on it, and thereby own
miles and miles around him for
grazing purposes and hay cutting.
And let this miserable, poor land
agent pay a higher tax on those
grazing grounds than this gentle
man pays on his improved lands,
and then laugh at his poverty.
Now, gentlemen, this is coward
ice, in our opinion. 1t reminds us
of an old lady whom we once knew,
who, when she would get mad at
her husband, would go out and beat
her cows because she was afraid to
try to "get away" with her old man.
And when you jump on those poor
land agents to argue your side of
the question, it looks, to US, that
your stock ia argument is getting
rather low.
And again, you try to brighten as
by telling us that herd law would
tear all our fencing away, and dry
up many of the watering places /;
that il would ruin our stock if we
should herd them; that we could
not spare the time off our farms,
the cultivation of which does not
pay us, to herd this stock which
does pay. This may be consistency
with you solid men, but we fail to
see It.
We want immigration - more
people, and more cattle, or if not
more in numbers, more in pounds,
q better class of stock; and, if we
can induce a class of people, who
can make living in these ravines,
to come TO this country, we say let
US have them. For one, we do not
believe our State is only fit for a
sheep ranch, but we do know that 8
large majority, and in fact all of us,
subsist from the products of our
country, and we look upon it as
throwing Insult in our own face
for US to say that this country is
not an agricultural State. Why, we
boast of our grain, fruits, and veg
etables. We would say to those who
would make our State grazing do
main, that we think they have the
matter fully illustrated in old Texas
as famous stock country, where
the turning on the commons has
been thoroughly tested. what was
eAO AOSAAt' n.y. tAOll oIOOh Hds
} all gone to tail and born. Let US
look at California, where they have
herded and taken care of theil
, stock. What is the contrast?
! Now, gentlemen, it is worse thar
} nonsense to talk about raising stock
!, where we could not raise feed fol
them. We have tried stock-raisine
in Kansas on the natural products
of the soil, viz. wild hay; and W.
will tell you how we succeeded-wI
raised most of their hides upon ,
pole. Let US have herd law, and
we will raise our own feed and taxi
care of our stock, preserve wha
timber we have, plant more, and
make no fence that is no fence, Blu
waste of timber, raise grapes, &c.
|
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odds and Ends.

There are IL, 1888 blind men and
8,977 blind women in the United
States.
California's wool clip is expec-
ted to reach 100000 pounds
next season.
Gregg is the only county in
Texas out of debt and with mon
ey in her treasury.
More than the quarter of the
breweries in Wisconsin have sus-
pended for lack of patronage.
Gentlemen contemplating matri.
mony will please remember that
on the 10Th of February would
save a great deal in the way of an.
niversaries.
A man whom DR.. Chalmers en-
gagged to manage a disorderly
Sunday school, kept his eyes
wide open during prayer, and
when one boy thrust a pin intC
another, he marched mp the aisle
still praying, and cuffed that boys
ears, and went back again, pray
ing all the way. After that b.
was master of the situation.
A family who moved on to Beau
bien street a few weeks ago at
/ tempted to give a party the 9th
er night, but it was a failure. Tn
head of the family met the guest
at the gate and explained: 'Tv
got into a mighty bad neighbor
hood. We can't borrow chairs o
dishes, or sugar or butter, ant
the party is of. I'll get out c
this as soon as / can find anothe
house Detroit Free Press.
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Antiques.

Elizabeth Thomas, of Ripley, o.,
is only los.
Henry Ross, of Old Saybrook,
has a gun l24 years old.
The Graphic says an old maid
out in Indiana claims to be vergin'
on 40.
Mrs. Rachael Brown, of Mead
vile, Penn, died at the advanced
age of lob years recently.
Now is the time for the various
States to show up their list of CEN
tennarians. New York leads off
with 100.
One more State heard from. Ken
lucky trots out a woman ITO years
of age, and still flourishing like a
green bay tree.
Mrs. Schnevley, of Pennsylvania,
is lob years old, and remembers
seeing Washington in 1870, looking
at ground for a National Capital.
Mr.. States Jewel, who died at
Saratoga the other day, would have
entered his hundredth year had he
lived thirty-four days longer. His
widow is ninety eight years old.
Peter Hammond, born In Mass,
in 1875, is still living in Illinois,
His father was one of the men who
threw into Boston harbor the cargo
of tea, which may account for his
long-drawn life.
The Raleigh Sentinel says there
is a negro in that city log years old
HE name is John Hunter. He re-
members seeing Tarleton's dragons
passing the place during the great
North Carolina campaign of the
Revolution.
Mrs. Hannah Storer, of Bownoin
ham, Me-, was born July 4th, 1916
about the time the Liberty Bell
was ringing ont the news of TIT
Great Declaration at Philadelphia
She is in good health and full o
patriotism.
st. Lawrence county has NOR
centennarians than any other coun
ty in New York. Among those re
turned by the census of 1875 arr
Martin Marseau, of the town of Os
wegatchie, aged Ill Angelina Mas
sey, of Governor, aged 10S; Pat
rick McNulty, of Louisville, age,
102; Charlotte Grant. of Potsdam
aged 100; Rozan La Giraffe, O
Stockholm, los; Bridget Rush. Q
Bombay, franklin county, aged 10;
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FemiRiRitieS.

Miss Julia Pease is going to
Constantinople as a missionary.
Green Pease!
Her smile is sunlight, and her laugh
That sunlight set to tune;
Her lips the honey bee might quaff
And dream Of buds in June.
After all the talk about woman
suffrage in Wyoming, the legisla-
tors are now endeavoring to repeal
the act.
The Woman's Journal warns
young girls to look out for the
men who want to make So listers"
of them.
An old maid in Reading mar
ried a tramp because, as she said,
he smelled just like an Italian
count whom she had once met
and loved.
A Nevada girl has sued a man
for SANDER for saying that Piute
made a tent out of pair Of half
worn stockings she had thrown
away.
In Idaho Territory last week a
pretty Mormon girl, only thir teen
years old, committed suicide be-
cause her sisters husband refused
to marry her also.
San Francisco women are gong
more and more into stock specu-
lations and are generally very
successful,as they get ''points from
the great mining operators that
male outsiders caunot obtain.
~Only lock of golden hair"
The lover wrote, s'PerLhance tonight
It fo-meth on her pillow fair
/ A halo bright"
~Only lock Of golden hair"
The maiden, smiling, sweetiy said,
As she laid it over the back Of chair
And went 70 bed.
Two Lake Koshkonoug, Wis.
girls, strong, buxom, and as pref
ty as they grow 'em anywhere, re-
| Gently won a SO bet from an old
bachelor by cutting down and
cording one cord of white OAK
!. wood in seven hours.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, says: ]
am not ignorant-I have heard with
, admiring submission the expert.
ence of the lady who declared "tha
the sense Of being perfectly wei
dressed gives feeling of inward
ward tranquility which religion il
poWeriess TO bestoW."
Scene at a Brooklyn wedding
breakfast; Company all seated
, about the table. A pause in thu
.. general conversation. Happy
husband, to his wife's seven-year
old sister at the other end of thu
room: sWell. Julia, you have {
new brother now" Julia: ayes
land mother said to papa that sh,
., was afaid you would never amour
, To much. bat, that it seemed to b.
Sarah's last chance" Intense 81
: lence for . moment. followed by
rapid play of knives and forks.
Il There is q poor woman in tn
e Kentucky blue grass region who's
e family increases very rapidly Ga
!. families are apt to do where pal
ents have no means of taking car
d of them property but they ar
it so exquisitely beautiful that PEG
e ple OF means pay high premium
% Tor the privilege Of adopting then
al AZ last ACCOUNTS the woman i
y Question had parted with fiv
- children at an average OF va
death, aud had contracted for Il
.Il | delivery of three more, and M
one of the latter is yet born.
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| So then, 1t was a little bit Of
comtort to think he had died while
I was prosperous, and that my
disappointment had never reached
his warm and feeling heart
A workman has little time te
grieve outwardly; he must dry
his eyes quickly, let his heart be
ever SO sad, or he IL look queer
when Saturday night comes
You can't make a workmanlike
joint with a tear in your eye, one
halt the ioiners can't do it with
their glasses on. And / was q
workman again; l had to end as
began.
I returned to the violin trade,
and, by q very keen attention to
its mysteries, 1 made progress
and, having a foreign connection.
l imported and sold to English
dealers, as well as made, varnish-
ed, and decorated violins. But
soon the trade: through foreign
competition, declined to a desper-
ate state. 1 did not despair, but,
to exc out, 1 set my wife up in 8
china and curiosity shop in War
dour Street, and worked at my
own craft in the back parlor. ]
had no sooner done this than the
writer's all made it their business
to sneer at Wardour Street, and
now nobody dares buy in that
street; so, since 1 began this tale,
we have closed the shop,-it only
wasted their time,-they are much
better out walking, and getting
fresh air, at least, for their trouble
attend sales and never loose q
chance of turning a penny; al
home / make, and mend, and doc
tor fiddles; / carve wood; I clean
pictures and gid frames; I cut
out sruit and flowers in leather;
teach ladies and gentlemen tC
gid at so much lesson; and by
these and q score more of little
petty arts l just kept the pot boil
ing.
I am, as have been all my life
sober, watchful, enterprlsing, en-
ergetic, and unlucky.
In early life I played for a grea
stake,-affluence.
I think 1 may say displayed
in the service of Dick some o
those qualities by which, unles
books are false, men have VOL
campaigns and battles, and reap
ed fortunes and regulations: re
suit in my case, a eannon-shot
fred in a dirty little village, call
ing itself a city, in a country tina
Yorkshire could eat up and spi
out again, after all the great king
doms and repubs. had admired he
and forgiven her her one defec
la tongue of fire-a puff O
smoke-and all the perils, labor
courage, and perseverance of eleV
en- years blown away like dust t.
the four winds of Heaven.
i ] am now playing for smalle
stake; but I am now, as usual
playing my very best. 1 am bend
ing all my experience of work ant
trade, all my sobriety, activity
!. energy, and care, all my cunnin
, Of eye and hand, to one end,-no
to die in the workhouse.
II Ladies and gentleman, the work
man has said his say, and I hop
the company have been amused
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Probably the Oldest Couple in
the World.

DR.. Wilkens, of Paramount, re-
Gently visited man and woman in
Montgomery county, Indiana,
whose ages are respectively, 113
and Ill years, and who have lived
together in the married state So
years. The name of this ancient
couple is Fruits, and they are the
parents of Mrs. Thomas Williams,
of Catlin township. The old man
stands up as straight as q ramrod,
and does quite good deal of work
every day. He has always been q
moderate liver, and uses no tobacco,
which is an argument against to-
bacoo users. But his wife has been
a steady smoker for sixty years,
which is an argument in favor of
tobacco. The old lady is afflicted
with a cancer, which made its ap-
pearance upon her forehead forty
years ago, and which she is now
doctoring with coal oil. at one
time in her life she weighed 225
pounds, but gradually shrank away
until now she tips the beam at 125
l-DanVille Times.
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ssUNCLE SANS A HUNDRED.

"CNCLE BANS a hOND1sAD.
oh, ye PoWersI what roar,
Such was never heard before
laundering, from shore to shore.
''Uncie Sans hundred.'
Cannon boom, and trumpets bray,
Riddles squeak and fountains play
Ills his great Centennial day
'sUneIe Sans hundredr'
Stalwart men and puny boys,
Maids and matrons swell the noise,
Ev'ry baby lifts its voice:
E'Uncle Sans Q hundred?'
Nervous folks, who dote on quiet,
Though they're half distracted by it,
Can't help mixing in the riot:
''Unele Sans hundred"
Brutes that walk, and birds that fy,
On the earth or in the sky,
Join the universal cry.
''Uncle Sans hundred"
Well, suppose he is-what then?
Don't let's act like crazy men.
Must we take to fooling when
"Uncle Sans q hundred!"
There he stands-our modern SAUL
Head and shoulders above all;
y
Fen though ones q hundred.
"What's q hundred in our day?''
Foreign Uncle Sans will say;
.Let us sit and watch the play
He is but hundred.
''Granted he's a shapely youth
Fair and ruddy-yet, forsoOth!
He's too YO1tgg-and that's the TRUTH
Only just q hundred.
'sWhen he's twice as old, pardie!
Twill be easier to forsee
What will be his destiny.
NolC he's but hundred.
''When he played his boyish pranks,
Should he seek to join our ranks
Wen reflect. But noW-no, thanks!
Why, he's but hundred!"
Yes, our uncle's years are few;
He is yOnMg-the charge is true;
Let us keep that fact in view,
Though he counts hundred.
Don't let's tempt him to ignore
Warnings that have gone before:
Perils both by sea and shore,
Now that he's hundred.
Let US strive, with earnest heart,
Each of as to do his part,
So that he may 'scape the smart,
Seeing he's hundred.
And with solemn, graceful thought,
OF the deeds that he has wrought,
Guided, cherished, favored, taught,
Till he's reached q hundred.
Let US, as we vauIt his worth,
Mingle soberness with mirth,
While we shout to all the earth,
E.Uncle Sans hundredw
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VOLUME 10.

cast the constitutional number OF
votes at the last election to entltie
them to representation. Parliamen-
tary law and the constitution were
sluug around lively for several
hours. 1t seems these members had
been admitted, but the legality OF
their admission being questioned an
effort was made to reconsider. This
discussion occupied the balance OF
the day.
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SHERLFF,S SALE.

blstFlcl court. oth judicial District, Green
wood County, Kansas.
Irena E. Miller.
VS..
James X. Miller
pY virtue of an execution issued out of
ID the District Court of the Fifth Judicial
District sitting in and for Greenwood county,
Kansas, on Judgment, wherein Irena Z. Mil
Ter is plaintiff, and James X. Miller is defend
dant, will, on Monday, the thirty-first day
OF January, 1876, at IL O'Clock a. M, at the
front door of the court house in EmpOria.
Lyon county, Kansas, offer for sale by public
auction to the highest bidder for cash in hand
all the right. title and interest of the defend
ant, James Il. Miller, in and to the following
described real estate, tO-Wit: The southeast
quarter Is c al OF section thirty-one 1911,
township twenty-one I2ll, range eleven nj
and the west half Nv 81 OF the southwest
quarter Is W "a of section thirty-two [Sal,
all in Lyon county, Kansas.
Said real estate is levied upon as the prop
erty of James h. Miller, to satisfy said cX-
ecutiOn.
SheriT's Office, December 3Ist, 1875.
53-5w JOHN BAY, Sheriff
Lyon Co., Kansas.
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The State Board of Agriculture held
its annual meeting at Topeka, on the
18th, to elect officers for the ensuing
year and elected Geo. T. Anthony,
president; G. w. Click. Vice-president !;
Joseph c. Wilson, treasurer; Alfred
Gray, secretary; ex-Gov. Robinson, 3.
w. Jenkins, j. o. Savage, S. j. Carter,
II. c. st. Clair and Levi Wilson were
elected directors for the ensuing year.
About fifty members of the society
from all parts of the State were pres
ent. The secretary and treasurer's
reports were read. The treasurer's re-
port showed expenditure over appro-
priations of $724.3S.
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CITY OFFICERS.

MayOr-John Bay.
Treasurer Howard Dunlap.
Police Judge-M. Weaver.
City Attorney-J. Jay Buck.
City Clerk-E. NJ. sForde.
Barshal-E. T. Nichols.
Chief Engineer-D. e. McMurtrie.
CounciImen-1st Ward, a. A. Baker, =. G.
Davidson. I'd Ward, J D.. Epstein, ii. Il. Lowe.
Sd Ward, w. w. Hibben, L. p. Bancroft. 4th
Ward, j. s. Watson, Z. Nichols
Board of Education-1st Ward, G. NJ. Stow
eli, W. L. McCarty I'd Ward Van McCul-
Tough, Robert Milliken. Sd Ward, ID. Z. Nc
Murtrie, IL. w. McCunc. 18th Ward, J. A.
Moore, Z. w. Spencer. Treasurer Board of
Education, ID. W. Eastman.
Justice of the Peace. ID. Bachelor, Geo.
II. Stowell.
COnstabIes-T johnson, E Nichols.
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1t is said that since his release
from confinement, Brigham Young
sets as . changed man. 1t is only
necessary for one of his wives to
hint that the fire is low, and he will
tr0t ont to the Woodshed as if he
was thankful for the exercise.
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COUNTY OFFICERS.

Judge District Court-E. b. PeytOn.
Clerk District Courts. w. Frederick.
Sherih-Hiram Conner.
Attorncy-A. Gillett.
TreaSurer-Jos. Ernst.
Clerk. S. Craig.
Register of Deeds-F. X. Page.
Supt. Pub. Instruction-A. ID. Chambers.
SurveyOr-Harry Hibben.
Probate Judge-E. w. Cunningham.
I'd. S. GILMORE,
Commissioner d. A. TAYLOR,
IL. 4. WOOD.
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SHERIFF,S SALE.

District Court, 18th Judicial District, Lyon
County, Kansas.
David Whitaker.
vs..
r. L. Norris, ct al
DS- VIRTUE of an order of sale, is sued out
Osof the District Court of the 5th judicial
District, sitting in and for Lyon county, Kan
sas, wherein David Whitaker is plaintiff,
and Z. Morris, ct al. are defendants, 1 will,
on Monday, the 3lst day of January, 1876 at
ten O'Clock a. M. at the front door OF the court
house In the city of Emporia, Lyon Co., Kansas,
Sner Tor sale by public auction to the highest
and interest of the defendant, Robert L..
Morris, in and to the following described real
estate, tO-wit: The south half Is ~ of the
ty-seven Ia township nineteen 49,, range
eleven III IN Lyon county, Kansas.
said real estate will be sold as the property
OF the defendant, Robert L. Morris, to satisfy
said order of sale.
Sheriffs office, this aist day of Dec, 1915.
53-5t JOHN BAY, Sheriff
won county
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LEGAL.
Administrators Notice,

NOTICE Is hereby given that the under.
IN signed was, on January 18th, 1876, ap.
pointed by the Probote Court of Lyon coun.
fys Kansas, as administrator of the estate OF
Rufus Edmiston, deceased, late of said coun-
ty. l2-4tl A. c. EDMTSTON.