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The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-03-24

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The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-03-24
CLEOPATRA DYING.

The late Brigadier General William H Lyle Of Ohio.
the Chevalier Bayard of the Western armies, Who wAs
killed at the battle Of Chic kamauga-
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-03-24

sOctavius Caesar.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-03-24

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GROCERIES g. PROVISIONS,
Cigars Tobacco, Hardware, Tinware, Queensware,
SCHOOL BOOKS AND STATIONERY.
All Goods Sold the Lowest for Cash. Equivalent Only
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The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-03-24

Often another suitor-
For was fiexile and fair
Fought for me in the moonlight,
While lay erOGehing there,
Till his blood was drained by the desert.
And, rufiied with triumph and power.
He licked me, and lay beside me,
To breathe him vast half hour.
Then down to the fountain We loiteresi,
Where the antelOpes came to drink
Like bolt We sprang upon them,
Ere they had time TO shrink.
We drank their blood and crushed them,
And tore them limb from limb;
And the hungriest lion doubted,
Ere he disputed with him.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-01-06
Some Astonishing Memories.

OF Fuller we are told "that he could
write verbatim another man sermon al
ter hearing it once, and that he could do
the same with as many as oOO words III
an unknown language after hearing them
twice. One day he undertook to walk
from Temple Bar to the furthest end OF
Cheapside and to repeat on his return
every sign on either side of the way in
the order of their occurrence, feat
which he easily accomplished And
what has lately been reported of the Rev.
Orlando Hyham, as an example OF his
most distictive faculty, that his memory
was such that as he read Liddell and
SCOTS Greek Dictionary he destroyed
the successive pages, content with hav-
ing mastered their contents, is told OF
Bishlp Bull. at the end of mastery ar
ray of intellectual powers:
And as his reading was great, so his
memory was equally retentive. He never
kept any book of references OF common
places, neither did he ever need any;
the writer adding that, together with
this happy faculty he was blessed with
another that seldom accompanied 1t in
the same person, and that was an accur-
ate and sound Judgment Memory was
in a past day more Systematically cult
waited than with us. People set them
selves tasks. Thus Thomas Cromwell,
of the Reformation period, as atraveling
task, committed to memory the whole OF
Erasmus's Paraphrase on the New Testa-
ment. Bishop Sanderson could repeat
all the Odes of Horace. Tullys Offices,
ana much of Juvenal and Persius with
ont book. Bacon alludes to receipts for
its Improvement as well as what herbs,
in the popular mind, tend to
strengthen imperfect memory, such
as onions, or beans, or othef
such vaporous food. Again, he writes,
I'VE find in the art of memory that
images visible work better than con
ceits' in ilnpressing things on the mind.
A fact which finds modern illustration
in the case of the Fifth Avenue Hotel
waiter who daily receives some 800 hats
from chance persons dining together in
one room. and without any system of az
rangement promptly returns each hut to
its owner, explaining that he forms a
mental picture of the wearers face In
side his hat and that on looking into the
hat its owner is instantly brought before
him. Again. to recur to Bacon's specu
lations, he finds that 'hasty speech con-
POUNDS memory" Again-as writing
makes an exact man, soft Il man
writes little he had need of great mem
ory." And he criticises the exercises
used in the universities as making too
great "a divorce between invention and
memory in the cultivation Of both
faculties Blackwoods Magazine.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-01-06
The Wicked Mariner.

A Buffalo lake captain, when inter
viewed regarding his experience of the
great gale of two weeks ago, answered
that he spent more than an hour in
prayer a Chicago captain said he was
made to feel what an awful sinner he
was. A Clevelander said he made q
solemn VOW to quit swearing in case he
was saved An interview was held with
Detroit captain yesterday to see how he
felt. 1t started off as follows:
"You were in the great gale, were
you?"
Gas the gale increased, the seas grew
higher and your foretopmast was broken
off, did You realize what miserable old
sinner you were?'
mo, sir. Ny time was occupied in
clearing away the wreck, and thinking
how the owners would blast my eyes.
by and by, when the seas swept your
decks and carried off your yawI at the
davits, did you make any VOWS"
81 did not. | told the mate that we'd
got to square off and run before it or
we'd all he in --- in less than twenty
minutes.
You meant Texas, did you not p
Il did knew we were headed Iii
rectlv for Texas, with the seas piling
right over us.
Did your mate suggest holding Il
prayer meeting or singing any Gospel
nNmus?"
Not Ivy gone sight He suggested
that we'd better be mighty lively about
paying, or the internal Old tub would
be at the bottom OF Lake Michigan"
when the awful voice of the gale
roared in your ears, and the mountain
Gus combers rushed down, as if to bury
you from sight. did you have the least
thought of making Il vow to quit swear
ing if you were spared? .
mo, sir On the contrary, ! believe |
swore faster than usual. | was in hurry.
to get her around
AS the wheel was put over, and she
fell into the trough of the sea for a mo-
ment. what were your solemn retlec-
tons ?"
well. sir, solemnly reflected that if
the blasted old sticks ever wanted to play
dirt on me, then was the time to do it.
"When you got squared away before
the wind, did you tell your crew that
they ought to return thanks to Provi-
dence for having escaped certain des-
truction?'
"No, sir l told EN- to ask the stew
ard for about three fingers of good
whisky apiece and then turn i'll all stand
ing
DO you feel that you have any partic
ular cause to be thankful ~
Il do. The elevator men in Buffalo
didn't steal but forty bushels of wheat
out OF this last trip. while ON the other
they took ninety lone. ! am very thank
ful for that fifty-one bushels, and will
strive to be better man hereafter. Take
sunthin', sir - Detroit Free Press.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-01-06
4 Kit of Mackerel In Politics.

The following actual occurrence took
place in a town close by Hartford. \
Democrat was approached by Jealous
Republican storekeeper. who offered to
pay him for staying away from the polls.
This merchant was not only Il buyer and
seller of produce, but at every election
he was a purchaser of votes. He made
no secret of the unholv work, and the
Democrat alluded to above was made u
liberal offer if he would stay at homo
and not vote. He was to have barrel of
flour and half barrel of mackerel, be-
sides some ready money. The flour and
mackercl were to he delivered before
election and the money was to be paid
after election. Now, says the Demo
crat II will agree to get two more to stay
ut home and not vote if you will give me
twice as much more" This was agreed
to, and the merchant WAS chuckling in
anticipation of a handsome reduction in
the Democratic vote The Democrat
then went to a Republican friend and
told him that he wasn't going to vote,
and asked him to pair off, with him.
The Republican agreed to ii. The Demo
crat then went to another Republican
and agreed to give him Il half barrel of
mackerel if he would not vote. This was
also agreed TO, and these contracts all
around we're carried ont to the letter.
Wien the merchant found out his
mackerel had been buying off Republic
can votes, he gave vent to language that
ought to impair his standing in the Con.
gregational church. The Democrat has
never asked him for the money. l&ut.
Jsrd TiHcS.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-01-06
Bee MySici les.

Probably bee culture has made as
rapid march of improvement during the
past five years as any branch of agricul-
tural pursuits. During the present sea-
son the same care and expense has been
employed in selecting and importing bees
from Italy, the island of Cyprus, and
the Holy Land, as has been employed in
the perfection OF our various breeds of
horses and cattle. Although we do not
have the best pasturage i'll New England
that is found in the Eastwood and wild
flowers of the West, still many bees are
kept here with profit, even i'll the old box
hive. How much more, then, might be
expected with the new appliances of
frame hives. comb foundation. the prize
section box. the extractor and smoker
With the aid of little smoke III expert
will open his hives and remove tue
brood, bees or honey. show You his choice
queens. and discourse on their fine points
with as much accuracy as the best horse
trainers or herdsmen. On holding up a
frame of brood he may say on see
THIS queen is laying. for here are eggs
less than twenty-four hours Old. See
what a prolific queen she Is: does not
miss a cell or :" do not like this queen !;
she lays too many drone eggs; | Will kill
heI and put in another. You ask. How
can YOU prove that workers only live thir-
ty orforty days of labor. but live all winter
without labor?' lie will say, IF | re-
move the queen from the black colony
and replace her with an Italian queen,
who begins to lay Immediately, in
twenty-one days her eggs will hatch, the
black bees will continue to die till they
are all replaced with italians, and We
note the day when the last fly dies.
DO all bees sting ?" mo, the drones
are as harmless as flies. Queens will not
sting you, though they will bite and will
sting a rival to death i'll five minutes
after being Matched. The workers,
which are the only ones to be feared at
all, can usually be subdued by blowing
smoke made from punk among them. -
Worcester Spy.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-01-06
A Missionary Bishop.

With view to give the world an idey
of the extended sphere of bis missionars
labors. the Bishop of Caledonia" tells
the public in recent letter that he ha,
preached to sailors. traders, loafers-
miners, Greeks, Germans, and Norwe,
gians. French, Maltese, and Britons-
Russians. Kanakers, and Yankees, Chi
nese. and Canadians. Jews and Gentlles,
whites and grays, browns and blacks,
Caucasians, Semites, and Mongolians,
Indians Of the salt water and fresh water
Indians; hunters, fishers, packers, ana
nondescripts; round heads, Hat heads,
and peaked heads" 81 have" he adds,
preached on the beach and shopboard,
in the miners cabin and the traders log
hut, in the Indians branch-built hunting
lodge and his larger, but less agreeable,
village home, where the smoke fails to
remove the pervading i'll odor; also
amid the tangled forest on the coast and
clouds of mosquitoes ON the prairie.
And o, the JOY of it! There have
been no church expenses, no collec-
tons or painful pleadlngs for subscrlp'
tons, and no newspaper reporters pres
ent to make hash of the proceedings.
The Bishops sphere of labor has GER
tainly been an extended one, but the
most remarkable feature of his evangel-
istic adventures appears to have escaped
him; that is. the forbearance OF those
whom he has preached to. 1t has not
always been thus. The missionary who
holds forth in the prairie is liable, so his
tory assures us, to be overtaken by the
voracious cassowary, and there are GER
tain tribes of "blacks' and browns
who, foregathering on the beach with
make long pig of him. and put his
clerk into pie. 70 none of these dan
gers has the Bishop of Caledonia been
subjected, and it would have been be-
coming. therefore. when enumcrating
the scenes of his operations to have re-
ferred in gratitude to his protracted i'm
munity from the troubles that usually
beset the missionary who wanders in
1.-THE ancestral abodes of the catamount,"
or. "the wigwams of the beaver.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-01-06

Although some women are foolish
enough to dangerously compress then
vitals for the sake of unnatural slender
ness, fashion writer in Cincinnati
paper says that no such practice is re-
quired by the prevailing fashion:
Corsets, as now generally worn, arc
more of comfort than otherwise. The
present evil practice III this direction Is
that of forciblc hattening the bosom.
About no other article of dress is a fash
ionable woman moro finicky. But women
who can afford il have their corsets made
to order. often paying as high rs SO for
carefully fitted one. Those who de
mand of their drcssmakcrs that their
bodies shall fit like Il glove, without Il
wrinkle or a strain, must consent to
wear cor.etS of the same size and shape.
Otherwise perfect fit at one time
would not he So at another. Many women
are 50 soft and plant that they can be
shaped 10y corset to almost any desired
figure; but having chosen a model they
stick to it. OF alter their dresses with
every change OF stays. Formerly, when
skirts were voluminoUs, it did not mat
ter what the corset was like below the
waist line: but now. with the skirts lY-
ing Hat. all the outlines are of import
ance. Tins has led to the extension of
colsets downward, until women who are
at ali round are commonly encased from
shoulder to leg. The corsets displayed
in the stores, with their ribs of bone
and metal. look like rows of ancient ar
NOR, The lenthening is good thing
because 1t equalizes the pressure and
r,,t,,, pf oil
BlBL1oKLEpToMANIAC Jules Janin
mentions II great Partisan bookseller WHO
had an amiable weakness. He was n
bibliokleptomaniac His first notion
when he saw a book within reach was to
put 1t in his pocket. Every one knew
his habit, and when volume was lost at
n sale, the auctioneer duly announced it
and knocked it down to the enthusiast,
who regularly paid the price. When he
went to1a private view of books about to
be sold, the officials at the door would
ask him. as he was going out, if he did
not happen to have an Elzevir Horace or
an Aldine Ovid in his pocket. Then he
would search those receptacles and eX-
claim. "Yes. yes, here it is; 50 much
obliged to you | am so absent NJ
Janin mentions an English nozzle, a Sir
Fitzgerald, who had the same tastes, but
who unluckily fell into the hands OF the
Police. The Saturday Review.
Or the wheat growing States Hi
nois appears TO be at the head, the
State Board Of Agriculture reporting
the product for 1880 at $50, sos, 900
bushels, including both spring and
winter. Madison county, in that
State, was the banner county this
year, the acreage in winter wheat
being 141,576, and the yield, the
enormous aggregate of 1888, 400
bushels.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-01-06
= gassiZ ana Home.

good anecdote is told of the late
Prot. Agassiz and Home, the spiritual
ist
They happened to meet in railway
carriage, and, getting into conversation.
Home complained OF the prejudices of
men of science. who refused to investi-
gate the phenomena of spiritualism
Mr.. Home, replied the great geolo-
gist. Il never refuse to investigate any
thing which promises to advance science.
and nothing will give me greater delight
than to investigate the marvels which
occur, as they say at vour meetings"
well, then, SAID Home. "come this
very night and witness the appearance of
the spirit land.
Nothing will give me more pleasure. "
answered Agassiz, ethan to be one of
the guests around the table when the
spirit hand appears. My opinion is that
1t is a physical hand. with IL little phos-
phorus rubbed over it; but am open to
conviction. All ask is that shall have
the privilege of putting my stiletto
through it. II the hand is n spirit hand.
no harm will occur; if it is a human
hand. feel confident in my power to
transfix it on the table, much to the dis
comfort of the possessor.'
Home declined the test. Such a want
OF faith, he said, would necessarily pre-
vent the spirit from appearing.
An ANSWERED PRAYER.-Mrs. Jane G.
Swisshelm tells this Interesting story in
the Chicago Tri5une: 'One of the early
rectors of Trinity church. Pittshurg.
used TO omit from the form of prayer tho
petition to be delivered from sudden
death and was in the habit of praying
that he might die suddenly When
quite old he visited the grave of his
wife at sunset, and while talking with a
friend of the beauty of the western sky
as an emblem of the death of Chris
tian, his prayer was answered. and he
dropped dead. We are apt to forget.
when friends are taken away by some ca
lamity, that the All Father was with
them, and that other help there can DO
none, and human love is as powerless in
the best appointed sick room as in the
widest midnight storm in mid ocean"
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-01-06

LIGHT oS NGGErATioN. The ir1U
ence of light on termination is subject
that has been good deal controvertcd:
some (Seneni,r. De Iardolle. etc. con-
sidering light unfavorable, while others
De SaussUrc, Meyer hold that ii has
no appreciable effect on the course of
the perminative process. New expert
ments in this connection have been
lately made by Mr.. Pauchon. He tried
first the direct method adopted by all
previous eXperiinenters, but finding the
results unsatisfactory, he had recourse
to another, in which he measured vol
numerically with special apparatus, the
quantities of oxygen absorbed during
termination by identical lots OF
seeds, in different light and in darkness.
The results were shortly these !:
l. Light accelerltes in constant man
ner the absorption Of oxygen by germi-
mating seeds. The advantage III favor
of light wa i quarter to third the oXy-
gen absorbed in darkness. >. There is
a relation between the degree of illumi-
nation and the quantity of oxygen alb
sorbed: with "a clear sky the absorption
is great, in fog or mist it is small. ).
The respiratory acceleration of seeds, IL
Illuminated duung tine day, persists III the
darkness several hours. /. The accel-
erative action Of light is greater at 10"
temperature a- IA winter
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-01-06
CHRISTMAS CAROL.

There's song in the air.
There's star in the sky!
There's a mothers deep prayer!
And baby's low cry,
Aud the star rains its fire while the Beautiful sing.
Fo- the manger Of Bethlehem cradles king
Theresa tumuit ofioy
Ger the wonderful birth,
For the virgin sweet boy
Is the lord oil the earth,
Av! the star rains its fire and the Beautiful sing
FOR the manger of Bethlehem cradles a king!
In the light of that star
Lie the ages impaired;
And the song from aiar
Has swept over the world,
Every hearth is atlaulc. and the Beautiful sing
n the home of the nations that Jesus is king!
We rejoice in the light,
And We echo the song
That comes down through the night
From the heavenly throng.
Az! we shout to the lovely Evangel they bring
And we greet in His cradle our Saviour and King
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-01-06

Little Johnny says Once blg Gle
FAINT came TO a river to drink. and he was
so dry he put his trunk way down deep
as he cude, and was waglin it around in
the water. delited. And there was two
ofie big fishes. And enc fish said to the
othern. one did:
Now, there werm wich is fit for to
set before king.
And the other fish said.
"Yes. and YOU had better let it a lone,
or you be set before one Your own sellef,
COS | bet it's got hook in it like the
anker of three decker.
Johnny's moral is Don't grab at a
nice bate before you see who filings it, or
you mite get took in out of the wet.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-01-06

THE Int.t. states Patent Ohicc is
selisupport.ng. HE financial eX-
hibit tor the past year shows total
of receipts amounting TO S130,5l7 II,
of which sG42, 335 were on behalf of
applications for patents, caveats dis
clalmers, appeals and trade marks,
and an expenditure of 1898, 1926 AZ,
showing net balance of receipts
over expenditures of sl9l,62 50.
During the year there were 2O,99O
applications for patents, and 1854
were granted. These figures express
a great deal of brain activity.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-01-06

Mr.. Rafferty, is sitting in his room
with his head tied up and his arm IN a
sling, when little boy sticks his head
in and asks: me feyther sent me to in
quire how your eye was coming Oh this
morning." Tell yer feyther to attend
a Galveston ward meetin and call the
chairman liar, and he will foind it all
out widout askin."
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-01-06
Vancouver independent.

Orrc,N PIPER OF CITY AND COUNTY.
Nsncouver Clarke County, Washington
Territory.
, 1881-03-30

THE two women whose departure from
Dotlstef1,, Switzerland, fur America, ut tt'o
expense Of the authorities OF tho Swiss
village, arrived Mt Castle Garden yesterday,
md wero subjected to a cross-cx,tlnl',ntlon
by tho Swiss Collsul at TINT city. II tnpI'enrs
that lleltllar Of tho w0,ncI1 nru Insane, rs re-
portc.l; also that their character Is BY no
,I,enns bad. Thu elder wulnn.', Tl1ercsR
Hansen, appears to haye been expelled tronl
l3ottstcln because sha refused to liso With
her husband, drunken st0necuttcr. Thu
younger woman has worked rs domestic
lftcsn years, and tho only cl'nrgo nlado
against her was being out lnto Mt night, far
whlcl. she was onco arrested. There has
been grcnt deal Of lying about these
women, II their own statements arc true.
, 1881-03-30

UNDER the reorganization Of the Western
Union Telegraph service the principal ofIi-
GERS of tllut Company located mt Chicago are
It's follows: Col. II. Z. Clowry, General Snpcr-
lntemleut of thu Central Division {cxtcIling
from Buffalo nid l'lttsburE Oil tho east to
Salt Lake City on tho west, md FROM the
Curaaa lEne Oh the north to the Ohio River
anu Northern Texas on tho soutln; Z. II.
Summers, Electrician Central Division; N.
c. Bristol, Superintendent Of Construction
Central Division; i. II. Tubcs, Superlll-
tentcut Chicago ;Distuct, embracing Illinois,
Iowa, and portions Of adjoining States; W.
L. Vlgus, Superintendent OF l'oar,t of Trade
wires. Tie lust two named gentlemen were
transferred from tho American Union Telc-
graph Company.
, 1881-03-30

T1E address Issued to tho people OF CHI
cage l'y the Republican Executive Commit
tee is a pertinent. cogcrt, weil-worticd docsI-
n,cnt, Tile issues in the Forthcoming n,nnic-
fpal election arc clearly set forth; Mayor
lIarrison's pEeteuses tint ilo has tnnuguratcd
II successful financial policy IRE shown TO
hayc Ito foundation III fact, rs tile policy for
which llo ciniMs the credit WIS due to the
Republican Administration Ut Mayor Heath; !;
his attempt to Introduce the New Orlcnns
system Of free license to the prostitutes.
pl,nps, and gamblers arc thoroughly en-
posed; alnl his failure to enforce tho laws
and ordinances scatl,lnGly condeMMcd.