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The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-12-08

In making up his forms, the foreman of a Mon
treal paper mixed an article on Roman Catholic
Missions in Africa with recipe for making to-
mato catsup. As published, the article reads
'The Roman Catholics claim to be making ma
terial advances in Africa During the past three
years, they have obtained firm footing in the
interior OF the continent, and have sent forth
several missionaries into the equatorial regions.
They are accustomed TO begin their work by
buying heather children and educating them.
The easiest and best way to prepare them is to
first wipe them with clean towel; then place
them in dripping pans, and bake them till they
are tender. Then you will have no difficulty in
rubbing them through a seive, and will save
time by not being obliged to cut them in slices
and cook for several hours
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-12-08
coMMuNIoN WITH THE DEAD.
BY TFsxrsoy.

How pure at heart and sound in head,
With what divine affection. bold.
Should be the man whose thought would hold
An hours communion with the dead
In vain shslt thou, OF any. call
The spirits from their golden day.
Except. like them. thou, too eanst say.
Ny spiri: ID at peace with all
They haunt the silence Of the breast,
InAginatisns calm and fair.
The memory Ike . cioudless air,
The conscience - . sea At rest;
But vhen the heart In fun Of din,
And doubt beside the portal waits,
They can but listen st the gates,
And hear the household jar within
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-12-08
DRcE1rBKR AND JUNE.

II was bot the Wild waves playing.
Il was but the wild wind . roar.
Is xas bat . pale maid strzying
Alone by the vrccksfrevn shore
II Was but day Of December,
That followed day Of June:
But 20 spirits that that can remember.
What vail In the words, -Tis done!
The dream IL broken and fsded,
The glory departed and fswn.
Ard to hesrfs once loving - they Id.
lis death to hive On alone,
o, Sea, that Der lover art hiding,
o. wave, With thy dirge-liks tunei
ThcTe's . fhfhsnAes guh dividing
a day q Deesnbef I'D June.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-12-08

ONCE, when somewhat under the influence of
drink, certain citizen of windham. Conn,
wandered off into the fields, and went to sleep.
hat. Some boys found it, and took it 10 him,
thinking to cover him with confusion. s.In
which lot did Won find it p he inquired, blandly.
"ln Mr.. Whites pasture, near the barn - "weil,
boys go take il right back; that is my place to
keen il +"
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-12-08

MICE THIS WINTER. Mice are very prolific; a
single pair will often multiply to fifty or more
during single season, as the earlier broo,ls re-
produce one or more generations. Usually n
large proportion of each summers growth is
killed off in winter, If autumn rains saturate the
soil. At this writing, the ground is still dry,
deep down, in several States. If at any point
the soil freezes solid before copious rains extra
caution should be taken to protect fruit trees
and shrubs against mice. The methods we have
often described, such as banking earth around
the trees, tramping the snow hard about the
trunks rs it falls; putting tarred paper to
inches above the ground, and little below, etc.
-AmeIicdR AgricHltErist
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-12-08
A HOME SCENE.

Without. the world Is white with snow,
And polar quiet reigns;
Ice crusts the gzunt aud leadess trees.
And glitters on the plains;
The river glides on still and slow,
Bridgsd DER by piers Of pearl:
And upward from the intervals
The ficecy frost wreaths curl.
The moon CLEANS out, frozen lamp.
Hung grandly upon high;
Therr Is a thrill Of vague unrest
About the solemn sky:
The stars look down-pale. far away,
In misty doubt they seem
Like the gold CLEANS that sometimes light
The vagaries Of dream
It's cold without, but warm within,
Here by the hearth's red glow;
With home and love, we little care
For cold. and ice. and snow;
So long as dear hands clasp our own,
And royal love is ours.
Though Winter holds his court without
Within are Summers flowers.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-12-08
PROM the Century, for December.I
TO RALPH WALDO EMERSON
September, 1881.
BY RoBRKr L. JOHNSON.

-
Poet Of every soul that grieves
Der death untimely: whose high plant
Lights up the farthest Dark. and leaves
A bow across the heavens bent:
Dead in an upper room doth lie
A nations darling; can II be
Thy ear too family hears the DRY
The West wind utters to the seal
Thy Concord psan may have caught
GLOW fruin that elder Garfield's name:
What filter aureole could be sought
For such . son than such \ flame,
Bard Of the Human since we yearn
For that one manly heart in vain,
Forgive the r-verent eyes that turn
Toward the low stream In Concord plain
Warned by the favorins touch Of Death,
Thy Nuae DimitniS thou hast sung;
No more the thupder's stormy breath
Shall sweep the Tyre with hshtnings strung
And yet, for him. remains-unsigned,
Unspoken-all thy noble praise,
When tporf more worth the cruise y thou 6nd
His sail beyond the final haze;
But usi o, Seer to whose gin
Leoms large the Futures better part,
What other prophet voice shall liz
This burden from the peoples hearth
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-12-08

THE STARS IN THEIR CorRsEs--The mnch-
prophcsied and widely discussed planetary con-
junction or perihelion began yesterday. Jupiter
and Saturn are now on the side of the sun oppo-
site the earth, and both in line drawn from
the earth through'the sun. Neptune and Mer-
curry are approaching the line on the same side
Of the sun, while Venus is drawing toward the
line, but on the side Of the nearest the earth
The late conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter 90.
Cured in the sign Of Taurus, IN 1l46, during the
period OF the Second Crusade.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-12-08

81 WOULD hate TO be n cow observed a
young man to his girl, as they were walking,
one evening, in the vicinity of where the opera
tion of milking was being performed.
'Why sof innOcently inquired the girl, SEEM
ingly unable to comprehend why any mortal
should object to being an animal of the bovine
species
ooh, wouldn't like to stand and have NV
teats pulled" he replied.
An awful silence.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-12-08

REMOVING INK STAISs.-An article in the
Journal de PAarzaoie d 4Hrers recommends to
use for this purpose the pyrophosphate of sodium,
which does not destroy cellulose, and Yields col
oriess compounds with ferric oxide. Before
fresting the spot with salt, it is recommended to
Let . few drops Of tailow, from q candle faIl nm
on the spot, and then to wash in . solution az
the pyophosphste until tallow and ink-spot
have disappeared. II Unnecessary, the operation
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-12-08

A SALUTARY LAw.-The laws of Denmark con-
tain. among other wise provisions, one which it
would probably be as difficult to find in the
criminal code of other nations rs our own com
mon law, or any statute amending the same. II
provides punishment for that especially revolt
ing form of cruelty which consists in allowing
fellow creature TO perish without extending to
him a helping hand. A mere act of omission, in
certain cases, is indictable. "Whoever has re-
fused, says the Danish law, to help another per-
son in mortal danger, when he could have done
without peril to his own life, and that person
has persisted in consequence, is liable to either
imprisonment or fne.n
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-12-08

THE CELLAR FOR PLANTs.-Many who have
no greenhouse, and cannot afford the room in
the dwelling for them, would gladly keep GER
tain tender or half hardy plants through the win
ter. For such purpose a cellar answers admira-
bly,. Indeed, we know.of florists who have con-
structed cellars expressly for keeping plants
through the winter. 1t is not expected, nor is it
desirable, that plants in the cellar should grow.
They are merely to be kept-put TO sleep, as it
were, until the return of spring makes il safe to
place them out again. Plants in the cellar, while
they should never be wet, ought not to get dust
dry, hence they m ist be looked to occasionally
during the winter months.-4meyican Asricxlfmisf
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-12-08

An Ohio young woman borrowed pistol Of
one bean, and, while showing it TO another, fir
ed it off. The ball struck her upper lip, and
went through the roof of her mouth. Here she
took charge Of it herself, and swallowed it. The
Ohio nature is the same throughout. II will
keep everything that comes along.-Eree Pres
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-12-08

"YoU appear to have a constitutional antipa-
thy to water" said an unspotted humanitarian
to u rum-rosy tramp. NO" returned the lat
ter, cit isn't constitutional, it's accidental"
"Strange! How did you come to have sueh an
aversion to waterf easy enough; had two
sons drowned in it.S-Brookiyn Eagle
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-12-08

SCKNE in one Of our metropolitan churches
last Sunday morning: Clergyman (who has a
slight hesitation of manner and voice) beginning
the prayer; 80, Lord, we've come to Thee in
our too-too utter helplessness,' etc. The audi
ence catch on.-BOstoH Post
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-12-08

RoBINsoN (after long whist bout at the
ciub)-"lt's awfully late Brown. What will
you say to your wife ~ Brown Tin a whisper)-
"Oh, l shan't say much, you know Good morn
ing, dear, or something of that sort. She'll say
the rest.s-Puneh
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-12-08

CHECKING THE SPREAD OF SCARLET FEVER
The very notable experiment which was tried
by DE-. Ashby. Medical Officer of Health for
Grantham, England, in dealing with the sum-
mer outbreak of scarlet fever in that town, has
deservedly attracted mnch attention. The plan
resorted to was that of isolsting the patients
in tents. He prevailed upon the local authori-
lies to erect tent hospital on the outskirts of
the town, and induced parents to send their sick
there; the result was most successful. Parents
svaiied themselves Of the tents largely-their
early prejudice against any such arrangement
being readily overcome-the patients did re-
markably well, and the spread of the disease
was unquestionably much curtailed.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-12-08

ACCORDING to the Christian Union, "Ingersol
knows no more about the Christian religion
than boy would know of chestnut from
pricking his fingers with the burr Well, by
hockey, sir, that's burned important point
Rosfon Posf
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-12-08

TISKRRISG THE ErE-Halrs Journal of Health
says: mo one should ever make an application
to the eye for any ailment whatever, stronger
than lnkewarm water or milk, without the ex-
press directions of physician. 1t Is an organ
50 delicate in its nature and easily DESTROYED.
that il should not be tempered with BY what
are simple remedies A lady was once advised
to put poultice of rotten apples on both ewes
one night for some weakness. She did 50. and
restoration.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-12-08

POINTS FOR CANARY OwNERs.-All birds at
this season require extra food. Canaries should
have, all through the year. German summer
rape, Sicily canary and millet seeds mixed in
equal parts and care should he taken to have
the seeds fresh and of best quality. In addition
to the seeds, feed canaries daily one-fourth part
of a hard boiled egg, both yolk and white, and
mix with it as much cracker dust can be ia
ken up on a 10-cent piece. Fresh water, both
for drinking and for the bath, and plenty Of
coarse, washed gravel daily, will usually keep
bird in health. Twice o week, give piece of
sweet apple or lettuce. II the bird has not yet
finished inonlting, keep him in an even tempera-
ture of about sixty five or seventy degrees, and
let him hang where there is no possibility of
dranght blowing on him. If not yet in song,
hang half-inch strip of raw, fat, salt pork in
the cage, and let him pick at it for a week OF so,
-Rolden's Bird Aasa.iae.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-12-08
Selett 2oetrp.
SUNNYSIDE
December /, 1859

December /, 1859.
The dear, quaint cottage, As we pass.
No eiAmbering rose or locusfs Eide;
Ard eead leaves heck the matted grass-
And shadow rests On Sunnyside.
Not BY the flying cloud-raek cast.
Nor BY the Summer foliage bred
The lifelong shadows which the Past
Lets fall where cherished joys have fed;
For he whose fancy vove q spell
As lasting As the scene is fair,
And made the mountain, stream and deIl
Hs own dream-life forever share;
He who with England's household grace,
AID with the brave romance Of Spain.
Traditions lore and Natures face
Imbued his visionary brain;
Nused in Gr,nadas old Arcade,
As gushed the Moorish fount at noon,
With the last minstrel thoughtful strayed
To ruined shrines beneath the moon;
And breathed the tenderness and wit
Thus garnered. in expression pure
As now his thoughts with hamor fit,
And now to pAthos wisely lurei
Who traced. with sympathetic hand,
Our peerless ehieftain's high career;
IA. Alc. tiAt Elslucucu AL tnc l1n1,
And blest = home-is ended here.
What pensive charms Of nature brood
Der the familiar scene to-day,
As II, with smile and tear, she wooed
Our hearts mutual rite to pay.
The river that he loved 30 well,
Like full heart, il awed to calm;
The Winter air that watts his knell
Is fragrant with Autumnai balm.
A veil Of mist hangs son and low
Above the Cztskills' wooded range,
While sunbcans on the slope below,
Their shruud to robes Of glory change.
How TO the mourner's patient sight
Glide the tall sails along the shore
Like procession clad in white
Athwart broad Hudson's crystal floor
So light the haze. in floating shades,
Like tears through which We dimly see,
With incense crowns the Palisades,
With purple wreaths the Tappan Zee.
And ne'er did more serene repose
OF cloud and sunshine. brook aud brae,
Round Sleepy Hollow fOndly eloss
Than On its lovers burial day.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-12-08

A MAN in Colorado, short time ago, was SEN
fenced to life of solitary confinement, and the
Judge condemned him to serve ont the balance
Of his days in the Greenback party.-Ldramis
B0oneruaQ,
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-12-08

ALL this bad shooting is very bad-it tends TO
bring our American craftsmanship into con-
tempt.-Biade. Jones should be discharged
The shooting on horseback must have been done
by O policeman in disguise
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-12-08

MRS. SFRIGGISs was Boosting of her new
house The windows, she said, were all stained.
THAT'S too badi But won't turpentine or ben
zine wash it off r. asked the good Mrs. Oldbody.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-12-08

WEBSTER defines an ''orntho-rhyncus- as "a
beast with a bill.n On the first day of every
month, our streets are filed with ornitho-rhyn-
cusses, running hither and thither.-Free Press.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-12-08

PROFESSOR Polct. Econ: "what Latin word
meaning money, shows the fact that formerly
cattle were used as q medium Of barterT Jun
ior: Bullion r-APoo.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-12-08

THE difference between a defaulter and thief
is very simple. One steals enough to hire good
lawyers and the other don't-Ners
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-12-08

A CONNECTICUT newspaper announces that
athe barn and contents of Mr.. Giles Potter, Of
Essex, was burned, Thursday night
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-12-08
GEORGE PICARD
PAINTER.

UIOUsE AND ORNAMENTAL PAINTING, PAPEl
III Hanging Cal-mimins &c. done promptly Shop
Yeorhees' carriage buildihg, Troy Kansas fi4aprsfl
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1881-03-05

Dur common mothers uncommon gar
ment has made its appearance on the New
York stage. A lady correspondent, who
n to Niblo's the other night, thus writes:
An apron Of fig leaves is actually intro
duced as q woman's garment in The Black
Venus. The exhibition is n Of the
coarsest and most indecent ever hazarded
on the stage. This spectacular play illus
trates q journey in Africa. One Of tho
travellers is an old maid. She goes to a
stream, during a halt in the caravan, to
indulge in a bath. Her departure for that
purpose is made known to the audience.
The action proceeds awhile, with the stage
crowded with male and female characters,
and the old maids scream is heard. All
look of In the direction from which the
sound comes. Next, she runs into view,
wearing fesh-colored tights from neck to
toes, except for a small apron Of fig leaves.
81 runs down to the foot-lights, facing
the astonished audience. While I was
bathing she cries, some horrid monkeys
stole my clothes, and I had to make an
apron of leaves-just like Ewes The
women on the stage get in front Of her,
with great ado OF hiding their faces, and
the men try to peep, and she quickly
emerges wrapped in a cloak. Not satisfied
with this ofense against decency, the man
agement has devised in elaboration. After
she has donned the cloak a boy, dressed as
a monkey, bounds on the stage, seizes the
woman, and tears off the wraps, leaving her
again, to ell intents and purposes, naked"
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1881-03-05
A Touching scene.

A very touching scene was witnessed at
the funeral Of John R. Shines of Griffin,
Georgia, who recently died in Atlanta.
The body had been brought to Atlanta for
interment, and the News says: SAT the
grave, as the casket was being lowered into
the earth, the grief-stricken and broken
hearted wife, whose sorrow had all the time
been sad to witness, became uncomfortable,
stopped those at the coffin, and asked for one
more look at the face OF her dead darling.
The lid was unscrewed and taken off, when
she fell upon the coffin. and put Der face
close against the face of the dead, pressed
her lips to it, and then sobbed and wept,
and bewailed his death. After a few mo-
ments friends lifted her up, and placed her
upon a seat near by. As the earth was
thrown into the grave she sobbed Good
by, good-by, darl;ngp in a tone unuttera-
bly, sad and agonizing. Around the grave,
among those who Witnessed her sorrow and
grief, there was scarcely q dry eye. The
scene would have moved a heart Of stone"
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1881-03-05
PACIFIC COAST ADvICES.
Explosion of the Eureka Powder
Works, Eight Miles from Oakland
-C1emetshaw CrOss-Examined in
the DE Young Case.
Especial to the SENTINEL

SAN Francisco, March "A heavy ex-
plosion shook buildings in this city about
five minutes before 10 this morning. The
Oakland Office reports that the Eureka
Powder Mills, about six miles from Oak
land, were blown up. Details later.
SAN FRANcIsce, March 4.-The Eureka
Powder Works explosion occurred in the
drying and cartridge rooms. The former
had 1000 pounds Of powder and the latter
between 200 and 800 pounds of cartridges.
Twenty men we're employed about the
works, all of whom were Cinnamon ex-
cepting five. Twelve were making car
tridges when the explosion occurred. 1t
is not yet known how many were killed.
The powder was a new patent, the basis OF
which is picric acid, invented by DIR.
Tschivner, who was superintendent of the
works, and is thought to be killed. The
works are located at Cedar station, eight
miles from Oakland.
Lateral the Eureka Powder Works
explosion this morning two Cinnamon
were killed and five wounded |; two white
men were also wounded.
In the Kalloch case to-day Clemetshaw
was CROSS 6AaulueQ. he maintained MS
story Of the direct examination, and said
further that De Young's first shot was
from a Derringer pistol.
Early this morning a homicide occurred
on the Bay, the parties being E. Soule.
second mate of the Sintrom, and ]. j. Sui
livan, boatman, and formerly employed az
a police officer. Soule refused to make
any statement, and the following is OBJ
tanned from the Police Office: About 8
o'clock this morning Soule and johnson,
the latter steward of the Sintrom, engaged
Sullivan to take them on board their YES
sci. When about half way to the vessel,
Sullivan demanded his money before he
proceeded further. Soule said he would
receive bis money when he had put them
aboard, and not before. Sullivan, after
some angry conversation, picked up a
piece Of wood about three feet long and
two or three inches square, and went to-
wards Soule. The latter told Sullivan to
approach no nearer or he would kill him.
Sullivan, however, advanced upon him
and Soule fred. The bullet struck the
boatman in the stomach, and he fell into
the boat. He was taken to the City Re-
ceiving Hospital, dying soon after his ar
rival there. Soule made no effort to escape,
and was delivered up to the police.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1881-03-05

They must be terribly pious down in
Georgia. The other day Hermann, the
prestidigitateur, with his wife and two
members of the company, were playing
cards in the cars, and using pieces of
money as counters, which SO inexpressi-
bly, shocked q clergyman in a car that he
reported them to the Grand Jury of
Rockland county, Georgia, and they were
arrested at Atlanta. Evidently the glory
Of the good old days of draw-poker has
Departed.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1881-03-05

ToRoSTo Canada, March An re-
Spouse to a cablegram from the Orange
Emergency Committee Of Dublin, the
Orange Order of British North America
will shortly issue circulars to the lodges
throughout Canada, asking for contribu-
tons to aid their brethren in Ireland in
resisting the Land League tyranny, and
to relieve the prosecuted Irish ~royalists.
LONDON. March Am the Commons,
Gladstone and Gen. Roberts have been in
formed that in the event of negotiations
with the Beers, the Government would in
all probability appoint civil commissioners,
and Gen. Wood had been instructed to in
form the Government speedily how nego-
gotiations stood before the recent fight.
So far as is known, Gen. Colley had sent a
commissioner to the Beers, and their an
swer was shortly expected.
AMSTERDAM, March 4.-Great public in
terest is manifested here in a meeting in
favor Of the Beers, announced for Satur-
day next. All the tickets were taken an
hour after they were announced for issue.
The Committee of Arrangements must hire
q larger hall.
LONDON, March AIN the House OF
Commons last evening debate on the read.
ing of the Arms bill was resumed. Dillon
defended John Dewey, and also his own ad.
vice to the Irish to arm. But in the event
of their disarmament, they were resolved
to establish equality and disarm the land
lords also. Dillon said if he were an Irish
farmer he would keep a rife to shoot Irish
landlords. [Shonts of "Ohl"] He
wished the Irish had proclaimed civil war.
The Speaker called him to order.
DUBLIN, March4.-Dr. Kenny has visited
Davitt, in accordance with the permit Of
the Home Secretary. He states that Da-
witt is in better condition than when ar.
rested, but the ordinary discipline alone Of
a convict prison is nearly certain to prove
| gravely detrimental to his constitution, and
should he be kept in prison any considers
BILE length of time, there must be made a
very great relaxation in the usual rules il
serious consequences are to be avoided.
DR.. Kenny adds that the rules have been
SO far relaxed as compatible with the usages
of the prison.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1881-03-05

HERE is a settlement of domestic diff
culties that is certainly conclusive, if not
satisfactory. A servant girl, a native of
FIJI, relates, in very fair English, that
PA got jealous; so he fight and kill
ma; then he put her in the oven, and
then pa and his friends ate poor ma all
mn