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W N E,ts. 70 N E,is..
m. win.,o, P,eking Comp,u

The wlnslow Packing Company, one Of
"a. largest In the State, suspended last
week, and Gen G. T. Ma,tOcks, It's presi'
dent, who Was endOrssr on large amount
OF ils paper. Was compelled 10 make IN a..
slgnm,nt The Liabilities are heavy. One
cause OF the failure 10 said 10 be the ex.
pen.e OF litigation, In the repested tults
brought sgsinst the company by j. Wins
low Jones. A r,thsr poor buIineo for .
year or two aud the fact that the company
was doing business on q very small capt
tai. brought the crisis. The farmers have
oil been paid for their corn the past year.
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Peru

PA Cannon 10 golns 10 move la,o the
W. II Beat stAni ani l. golag % open q
coat shOp--mAkiug coats Tor Boston par.
ties lie gill employ Ten or twelve glrls
On he shop.
n n Suiimsn has beyn % the llsrisiAle
Farm AMI bought aim q fall.hloOtei Jersey
hall naif
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Byron

TIE Peare Bros. have aulshed hauling
,nd cuttlng their poplar
J n shaw hss fnlshst hauling HE pop
lar and }. shaw and q Wilson have cut II
~.
A u Rcci hAs been away selling gun.
A dance A. KuApp's Hall Saturday, The
81 inst
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nirnnlh Cnnirn

william P,al h. taken the town farm,
,ni Ofln Wright has taken NJ. Pals farm.
Cora Kldisr has retained home from
Warrington.
II 3. ne bs., .islghlng We have bal this
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H,x61as
BREAD PREPARATION,

acid phosphate this preparation supplies the vital phosphate.
Or. Jason Walker, Of Muot says
believe that Horsoris Bread Preparation the best in tho MARKET
and have no doubt will render bread made with NITROUS
long been convinced that there deficiency OF phosphate OF lime
food when bread was chiefly made from line Hour
Or. A. [. Hersey Of Oxford,
The use phosphoc building up Of the tissues in the
system we'll known the Psychologist while the almost entire Alb
this important the superhne Hour at tho
present well known those who have investigated the subject Inc
bran said to contain fourteen times much Ph9spore ai as the nno
ant the manufacture Of the wheat into fine -four tho
practical Of this Bread Preparation the thousands who have used can
Dr. Grin Stevens, Of Oxford says
rho theory Preparation correct The bones
stances principal thing left Of wheat after being boted os
ords Preparation supplies the and phOsPhor portion Of
capable OF nourishng all the tissues OF the body
Dr. E. :. Stetson, Of Damarcota, says
e chemical process preparation Of Prof Hosors Bread
PREPARATION described by him. cannot but render Of especial value en-
HANGING as it must the nas Pr9PsT O DS IN when '' sup
Dr. Robert Dixon. Of Damarseota, says
The process making every housewife should fully understand
for her family requires this much Of her ability With Prof.
orOr Bread PREPARATION housewife need fan IN having
excellent bread family osors Bread Preparation has been
used for years and gives perfect satisfaction
Or. j. N. King, Of Damarscotta, says
recommending HOrsfords Bread Preparation to all
desiring article Of strength and purity not only because affords
the required raising property in cooking but also because restores IN
high degree, due aour, the phosphates lost in milling
Or. w. H. Parsons, Of Damahscotta,
gladly HOois Bread Preparation not only the best
supplied ingredient Of wheatphospheo mwhchis
lacking the flour OF being lost the preparation OF the BRAN
the well the growth and perfect development in children
Or. C. A. pea.lse, ofWiscasset Health Officer,
IL heartily Preparation not only being
bread made with this preparation
OuA account Of the restoration nute product which removed
in the manufacture OF -four.
Or. Monzo Garceon Of lewiston says;
Iosords Bread Preparation theoretically, useful preparation
Send to Rum Chemical Works. Providence for Cook Book Free
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IL Hammond .nd wife -sut % Boz
IN Talr.isy. where tasy vii visit friends
f,r.frs weeks
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ca 4 :. Au.tln And wife visited Lev.
..,on at vesk. driving down and osck
80 their team.
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R.ri,nla Spsuliius. E,q. % Baekaelt.
al ne am Monday.
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ul.reporiei that tso % The recently
..,.t.i t6su = crs decline o. serve, And
..rre.N tosn meeting IL Anticipated 10
RI. the vacAncics.
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For cuts, se,lds and burns Browns In.
stan, Relief will surpsss all other remedies.
We have tried II and know thereof We az.
ffm.
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Detective ossr.. ~ - Joan. y. q .
- arrested Frank McNeely In Haiifsx
y. y 'csn1sr, hts oesn % Bit isf1rt an
TNn claim f0r the rssarf % r~t ~ The
-N-s i's NJ arrest All rvcJvsry % ths Sc
Iss Tie bank rvfases % pay him.
-. y - prOosols that be VII take lesh
-sNssrss - secure IL
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Send postal note for 80 eerts to the Nor.
way Medicine TO, Norway. Ne, and re-
csiye by mail. postsge paid anywhere In
the U. s, . bottle OF Browns Instant Re
lief for Pain.
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ER Holmes. E.q Of wsleh,ills. was
ii, Town wednesday.
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North Fryeburg.


Rev q y Aiyofi started last week
Moudsv for hi. home 10 No- York, where
he Nil msts visit % some weeks.
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Fast Waterford.

There -. vsry pleasant social dance
10 Pfliss Hal March let Music by Has
elton and H0smsf % Norway.
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vK P.rr, 10 town.

Trery c PARK. BEE ofBs,Asl. vas IN
town lAst week
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Oxford Real Estate Transfers.
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&C Chapman. q a., o. n A Dunham loo
niNTtELD.
LJN.r,is 10 LTMarbl,, as
sHEENNO0D.
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sltEAD.
~ Cofln ta " Klmbal. ~
ID l. Austn q sane, 10
HEHK0s.
nv Everett 70 EnEvreu.
NoAsAT.
Bsnjsmia Tucker 70 G = Tssksr.
FAKs.
A a Isrksoa b. I. l. Jarkson. Us
A N Ysfss q 81 % J ~ Ioang q 81, 100
" A Porter b NJ y Porter q al, lsoo
wooDsroCK.
W N Este. b NJ Estes, 80
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The phosphate this preparation supplies the vital phosphas
essential system assists digestion No other baking powder does
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Or. lason Walker. Of Mlnot, says
Or. A. |. Hersey, OF Oxford, says

The use OF phosphoric acid in th'
human system is we'll known 10 the ply
sencc Of this most important chemical IN
present DAY, il well known 10 those who
bran is said 10 contain fourteen times AZ
flour. Prof. Horsfords efforts have bee
tant constituent lost in the manufacture
practical value Of this Bread Preparation
testify"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-02-04

the pullers that 1t is usual to limit the
time of the pull to from four to ten
minutes, five being the ordinarily &C.
cepted duration. In one of the best
contests on record, the team repre-
senting the Massachusetts, Institute of
Technology pulled the crack Harvard
team five inches only. This was very
soon after the Harvard had won in a
tug of-war against team from the
Seventh Regiment of New York.
"The Harvard team tugs upon the
third style which purpose describing.
A long board, plain and a yard or three
and half feet broad, is made of suf-
ficient length to allow eight men to re-
cline on it, with space of few feet
between the two teams. Four men
constitute team. The one at the fur
ther end is called the anchor. The
men are usually stripped to the waist,
without any head-gear, with heavy
shoes, and leather pad is worn on the
upper arm over which the rope passes.
Trousers or knee-breeches are worn as
the players caprice suggests, though
the latter offers some little advantage,
or at least comfort. The ropes length
is about that indicated in the English
rules. The end of it is passed once
around the waist of the anchor, which
is protected by strong leather belt,
and is caught in slip-knot in front of
him. The anchor is not necessarily the
captain of the team, but he is the one
who directs the tugging during the
contest, and upon whose skill much Of
the success of the team depends. The
captain may occupy any one Of
the four positions, but he usually
takes the one just i'll front of the an
Choir, where he can advise with the an
Choir in case of necessity. The men,
when they lie upon the plank, have
their feet braced against cleats. and
the rope is generally passed between
the knees of each one, and the hands
clasped about it just back of the knees.
The contest is begun with both teams
standing by their cleats; the anchor
stands in such wav that he can sit
down at once, and the others, with one
foot braced against the cleat and the
hands in the rope, are prepared to fall
at full length the moment the pistol
shot is heard. The starter stands at
the center line with the pistol in hand,
his feet upon the tape around the rope,
pressing it to the floor. This insures
q fair start. but after the pistol shot
his foot is raised, and the side that gets
down quickest may therefore get an
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-02-04
THE TUG OF WAR.
An Exciting Game that Calls
for Great Strength and
Endurance.
Interesting Chat with an Ex-Mem-
Der of a College
Team.

Among all the sports OF summer or
winter, indoors or outdoors, there is
none that excites more popular inter-
est, when it can be seen, than the tug
of war, and there is hardly ore that
calls tor more strength and endurance
than this game. 1t has experienced a
peculiar evolution from crude unrec-
ognized game played by country boys,
to one of those sports which take their
places legitimately among organized
pastimes by reason of their rules and
systematic way of going about it. 1t
is distinct feature to-day of college
and regimental exercises, and the great
est emulation lis aroused between the
different institutions which are repre-
scented by tug-of-war teams. Although
the sport calls particularly for
strength of peculiar kind, it is never
theless necessary, to accomplish the
best results in it, to utilize the brain to
a considerable extent. People who
have not INDUCED in sports frequently
fail to recognize the influence of the
mind upon success in game, and do
not think for moment that there Is
any mental stimulus or training or ex-
ercise called for in it. Nevertheless it
does exist to great degree, and none
the less in the muscular exercise known
as the tug of war. The team has to be
controlled and directed by captain,
and that captain has to exercise his
mind in the keenest way, has to be on
the alert to watch his opponents, and
has to know a great deal about the dis
tribution of force in order to do his
work we'll. How this comes about may
best be told in the words of we'll
known member of tug-of-war team,
Mr.. Charles Morrill,, formerly of the
Dartmouth College team.
He says of it: "In a well-contested
tug of war weight does not count as
much as is ordinarily supposed; Drawn
and muscle, good staying power, with
GOODNESS and a shrewd anchor, are
what is required. The exercise has
advanced a great deal during recent
years under the fostering influence of
college athletes and regimental gym
nasts. In the old days the method
was a rough, irregular sport, wherein
men caught hold of one end of rope
and tried to pull along similar crowd
of men who held on to the other end.
Now, there are very few places where
the tug of war is pulled. that the game
consists in dragging the other side at
all. There are several ways of playing
it, three of which may be considered
as the most important, and in none of
those three does the element of pull
ing the other crowd enter into it. It is
now the aim of those who pull in the
tug OF war to get the rope away from
their opponents, and not to drag them
about. Before taking up the Ameri-
can style of playing, I will describe
the method recently adopted in Great
Britain. There the Amateur Athletic
Association has lately drawn up new
code of rules to regulate contests of
this nature. They are not all of them
new, but they show the difference be-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-02-04
Ice That Never MeitS.

tits remarkable, indeed, that so much
of the surface ground on the Yukon is
frozen solid to depth of several feet.
1t is all the more so when we come to
realize the fact that during the sum-
mer it gets as hot there as in the South.
During the heat of last summer the
miners found it great convenience to
60 in bathing in the streams at least
twice q day, and to seek shady places
in which to rock the gold out of the
gravel. At the breaking up of winter
the hours OF sunshine are rapidly in
creasing, and continue so until mid
summer, when the sun beams forth
twenty-five hours out of the twenty
four, while on the high mountain peaks
it is for period of several days in
June not entirely out of sight during
the twenty-four hours. But during all
this heat and long days of continuous
sunshine, the suns rays do not pene-
trate the heavy MOSES that cover
nearly the entire surface of the coun-
try, and, consequently, the frozen
ground underneath lies in that state as
if packed in an icehouse. After it
OuC0 UcCOuu0S 1IOA0u, DIS any udlup
ground will do in the winter time. it
rapidly becomes covered with this
moss, which lis of remarkably rapid
growth, and attains q depth Of some
two feet or more. During the heat
of summer this moss becomes dry to
the depth of several inches, and the
miners think that by a continuous
burning of it as fast as it dries they
will soon have the gravel bars along
the creeks, at least, cleared of, being
of the impression that when the gravel
deposits are exposed to the scorching
rays of the sun, and rains and atmos-
phere, they will readily thaw out.
When winter sets in the hours of sun
shine gradually decrease until during
the shortest days the sun shines but
four hours out of the twenty-four. But
at this period the aurora is most intense
and helps very materially in driving
darkness from that dreary land. The
thermometer goes down to seventy de-
grees in winter, but the atmosphere is
very dry, and, consequently, the cold
is not SO perceptible as one would
imagine. = Juneau (AlaskG) Free
Press.
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A Texas journalist, who lad been
summer-fallowing himself on a stock
ranch for couple of years, suddenly
assumed control of country weekly,
and IN the first issue after he struck
the quarter deck he published small
and unpretentious card, in which he
said:
1.-THE former editor of this sheet il
practically and politically dead. but
the Sausage still survives. It is inst
as well, though, and mighty sight
better, as / am boss at edith. and
sling one of the most caustic and fin
entest quilts west of the Red River. I
have a record behind me which doesn't
need new coat of whitewash eyery
spring, like that other editter which
recently peyunked and drawed out of
the game.
AT gitten up obituaries I'm tossel
top, and if there's any hitch in the pro-
gram can generally furnish fresh
corpse on short notice, and at the usual
slight advance on cost of insertion. I
merely throw out this as q feeler to
the opposishun, which. I hear, is q
massing its forces agin me and my
paper, and, by the freckle-faced, bow
legged, cock-eyed gods of war, there'u
be power of high priced opera music
floating in the air if any of them try
to cline me.
IF there is emmy corte house ring in
this sweet-scented locality, I'll get on
it, sure as you're foot high. If there
is to be any munkying with the free
born, untrameled country delegates to
the next county convention, I'll be
there with my face washed and my hair
combed back of my ears.
I've licked many good man, and
I've been licked once or twice in my
variegated career, but I've always no
ticed that them fellers who whipped
me were not the same men afterward,
and dropped along for while like
sun-struck tomatO-vine, and finally
dropped into the grave with dull
thud, having kinder outlived their use
fulness.
II want it distinctly remembered
that I'm in from the back counties, and
amt up to the cote etiket of the straw
berry blonde or the pulpy dude. If
make any miscues 1t will be more an
error of the head than the heart, but
for all that L propose to run jam up,
sizzling hot, nifty little paper, and
move along with the best kind of har-
mony; but if harmony bucks and tries
to do any sort of dirt on me, harmony
will have to git off the track and let
me glide right inter the confidence of
the public.
"lf this journal says anything out of
the way and grieves any mottle-faced
tenderfoot, remember I'm the man he
wants to see about it. There amt no
back stairs or back windows to this
sanctum sanctorium. I'm always in.
I'm ever on the tripod, and now with
these few brief remarks I cordially in
vite everybody's cooperation and sub
scriptions. The tone OF the paper will
be pure in sentiment. chaste in express
SION, and geographically bang up and
delirious. "--Terns SiftiDus.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-02-04
Living on Almost Nothing.

There is no abstemiousness in the
world and no thrift like the thrift and
abstemiousness of the average native
of India. Almost alone among the
workingmen of the world, he has raised
himself nearly above wants, has
slipped himself of all the impediments
of luxury. Millions of men in
India, especially on the richer
soils in the river deltas, live,
marry, and rear apparently healthy
children upon an income which, even
when the wife works, is rarely above
two shillings week, and frequently
sinks to eighteen pence. the Indian
is enabled to do this not SO much by
the cheapness of food, for, though it
is cheap, European who ate the same
food would want five times the money
merely to feed himself-as by habit
of living which makes him indepen-
dent of the ordinary cares of mankind.
He goes nearly without clothes, gives
his children none and dresses his wife
in long piece of the most wretched
muslin. Neither he nor his wife pay
taylor or milliner one shilling during
their entire lives, nor do they ever pur-
chase needles or thread, which, indeed,
it is contrary to q some-religious ETH
quette ever to use. The poorer peas
ant inhabits hut containing single
covered room of the smallest size with an
earthen platform or two outside it; and
vs. he constructs and repairs his own
dwelling he virtually pays no rent, e1-
cept for the culturable land. He never
touches alcohol or any substitute for
it. There is an idea in England that
he eats opium or hemp; but he, as
rule, swallows neither-frstly, because
he regards them with as much moral
antipathy as any English gentleman,
and secondly, because he could not
by any possibility pay for articles
which in India, as everywhere else, are
exceedingly expensive. He eats abso-
lutely no meat, nor any animal fat, nor
any expensive grain like good wheat;
but lives on millet or small rice, lit
tie milk, and the vegetables he grows
Even of these he eats more sparingly
than the poorest Tuscan. Once quar-
ter, perhaps, he will eat enough, during
some festival, but as rule he knows
accurately what will sustain him and
would be enraged with the wife
who cooks for him if she prepares more.
He is assisted in this economy by q re-
Ggious rule which we have never seen
Hindoo break, and which is undoubt-
eddy. like the rule against killing oxen,
survival from q military law or Gus
tom of the most remote antiquity
London Spectator.
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to prevent his men from being pulled
over their cleats If he should
not let it go, such an event would be
almost sure to happen, and 1t is, there
fore, plain that a great deal of re-
sponsibility rests upon the anchor, who
must be a man of the coolest nerve as
well as of giant strength. One of the
things which the team in tug-of-war
contest has to practice to attain is
simultaneous action. If the four men
drop to the p ank at the pistol-shot. at
exactly the same instant, they are al
most sure to get an advantage over
the other team, and when the word is
given to heave by the anchor, if they
all pull at exactly the same instant, the
same result is bound to follow. It
usually happens, therefore, that the
best trained team will win, and weight
does not count as much as might be
expected. The limit of weight in a
team is variable. In the Seventh Reg
iment it is six hundred and sixty
pounds, allowing an average weight of
one hundred and sixty-fve pounds for
each man. The anchor is in almost
constant consultation with his men dur
ing the contest. He advises them by
quiet word just previous to any order
that he proposes to give.
Concerning weight, I remember
contest pulled in 1885 at Dartmouth.
There was fat team, each one of
whom tipped the beam at over two
hundred. The contest was pulled on
the farmers system, with holes in
the ground, and the fat team were
fairly pulled out of their holes by light
weights whose combined avoirdupois
was not more than six hundred and
fifty pounds.
Gymnasium made muscle does not
tell so much in tug-of-war contest as
might be expected. A man whose BIZ
ceps are developed from Indian clubs
and ring work may not have the vigor
of tough natural strength. Football
players always make good tug-of-war
men, and rowing is one Of the best ex-
ercises that can be INDUCED to fit ones
self by training for contest.
"The Dartmouth style of digging
holes for the foot and large enough for
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-02-04
Erroneous Use of Words.

We call attention to some linguistic
offences which are committed every
day by intelligent people: "Guess,
for suppose or think. II guess this is
right, should be II think" etc. Guess
means "to hit at random" as II can't
guess how many cents you have. "
sDrive," for to take riding. He drove
the horse, not me. It should be, "He
drove me to town in his carriage. /"
"Some," for about or probably. at is
some five miles to town." should be,
IT is about five miles," etc. "Right
away" for Immediately. "Come right
away" should be Come at once" or
Immediately. PARTY" for person.
Party is gathering of people, not an
individual. "Who is that party ?" when
one is meant, should be, "Who is that
person or individuals" Posted" for
Informed. As, @He is not posted on
that matter: post him on the subject. I"
Post means to put up sign or to drop
letter in the postoffice. stopping,
for staying. As, "He is stopping with
us" for @He is staying with us. sTry
and come, do write." etc., for try to
come, to do so, to write, etc. II shall
try and come to see you soon," should
be, II shall try to come" etc. Funny"
for odd, strange. As, cit seems very
funny to me that he does not come,
should be, at seems very strange, etc.
Funny is something amusing, full of
fun. "Depot, " for station. II will 90
to the Allentown depot" should be, II
will got to the Allentown station" A
depot is terminal point. Station, q
place along the route. Healthy" for
wholesome or healthful. "This is not
healthy" should be, "This is not whole
some" @This fruit is healthy, means
that it is sound. not rotten. sThis
fruit is healthful, means that il il con-
ductive to health. -ErchGssge.