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children, as they look forward with
love and trust to the joyful time !
How the wonderful spirit of the time
has touched the hearts of great writ
ers and glorifed the literature that
deals with it. Christmas storytelling
has become one of the loveliest arts
of modern writer's, and to Dickens
we owe very much of the beautiful
Christmas sentiment. Of all the min
strels of the day, his songs have left
most music in our hearts. How could
any one harbor selfish and narrow
feelings after reading those shining
pages, through which we seem to
hear the chimes of bells, the Christ
mas carols, the song of the steaming
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kettle, and the pleasant chirp of the
cricket; over whose pages we see SO
many kindly faces and hear such
loving words. We do not care to
shut out the kindly and simple cheer
of these Christmas friends for the
brave and knightly romance of King
Arthur in his baronial halls, keeping
watch beside the yule-log beneath
the shadows of the mistletoe. The
old yule-log has burned to ashes
long ago and has become only a ira
dition; but thank God for the love
which never goes out of fashion; the
gracious sweetness of the Christmas
time is just as bright as in those old
en- days.-MrS. /ordan.
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MERRY CHRISTMAS.
Nav 1t Ever Continue to be Season Of Joy.

"Merry Christmas !" cries the shiv-
ering urchin at your door, as he rubs
ais chilled hands to keep them from
freezing. "Merry Christmas says
your smiling and opulent friend, as
he buttons his comfortable cloak
more closely around his form. Will
it ever cease to be the most musical
key of greeting to unlock the door Of
affection and generosity +? Shall we
ever cease to associate 1t with warmth
and comfort, and blazing fires in
broad chimneys, and merry groups
of children; and somewhere the
branch OF green, in memory OF the
never-dying love Of Him whose natal
day we celebrate.
How beautiful it is that the sweet
faith is, year by year, renewed in our
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REV. E. S. STEIN, formerly pastor o.
the Methodist church in this city
preached an able sermon in Milwaukee
last Sunday in defence Of the public
schools. 1t is a matter Of regret thai
there should be any occasion at this pc
riod in our history for the pulpit to de
fend onr system of public schools
They are the hope of the republic: the
disrupture of these educational institu
tons would tend to the speedy decline
Of what we hold most dear in our free
and republican form of government
We are glad there are pulpitu that d.
not keep silence when there are indica
tons of harming the public schools
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THERE is report, the truth OF
which is both credited and denied
that James C Blaine is to be ap
pointed Secretary of State in the
Cabinet of President Harrison
This much we will express as al
opinion Blaine is probably the bes
qualified man in the United State.
for that position. If there be reason.
which render his appointment i'm
polite we do not know.
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SINCE election Democratic Con
gressmen appear to be tumbline
over each other in their eageness
expouse the cause of the Dakotas
There is nothing like good thresh
ing to bring recreant boys to reall-
zing sense of their duty.
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THREE out of four Grand Army
posts in Milwaukee have Democratic
commanders. Who says the Crane
Army is a partisan organization
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OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE COUNTY

GOv-ELECT HOARD will be inaug
augurated Jan. 7, and the Legislature
will convene Jan. 9.
, 1888-12-13

The Rev. Israel Mccoy, Baptist mis-.
s%ionary, who followed the Miamis in
all their wanderings from 1915 to
1850, who performed the first Protest
ant Christian marriage ceremony north
of Terre Haute and founded a permanent
mission in the Indian territory, saw the
tribe shrink to a few hundreds. In 1879
the writer of this sketch, curious to sec
the old Indians whose childhood, like his
own, was spent on the Wabash, hunted
up the Miamas in the Indian territory and
was told that they now numbered no moro
than fifty families; their tribal organiza-
ton is merged and they are simply Cher
okee citizens. Their names arc on our
bright streams and fertile p~lains-Sheno-
nee, Wean, Wabash, Raccoon creek (Pish-
ewahl, Miami. Tippecanoe, etc.-but of
all the ten thousand or more Indians who
once ranged the state, not five hundred
representatives remain. Victims of the
white mans progress and their own lack
of adaptrtion, they are gone and forever.
Inc pillow still turns up occasionally their
stone hatohets and flint arrow heads; but
oven the site of We-aw-ta.no is In dis
pute, and 1ippecanoe is their only battle
ground that retains even a trace of its
original wildness. Indiana Letter.
, 1888-12-13

Ballooning is receiving a great deal OF
attention from the naval and military
authorities both in England and France
as a valuable cid in land and marine
movements. During the recent naval
in the defense of T1ulon, q
accommodating balloon was used with
good effect day and night by the aid of
electricity, and now an experiment is
being made with n navigable aerial ship
for the same purpose. In England bali
looming has also attracted attention, es-
pecially in connection with the new for
nation of troops for attacking purposes.
Almost daily ascents are made at the
training camp of Lydd for the purposes
of photography and observation. On one
occasion a moving balloon was made the
target of a party of gunners working a
twelve pound Armstrong gun, with the
result OF its being blown to pieces after
rather more than q dozen shots. So
that the fiction of the fatal duel between
rival balloons is likely to be realized dur
ing the next general war.-San Fran
cisco Chronicle.
, 1888-12-13
Cipher for the Typewriter.

An Englishman has invented an in.
genious method of producing a cipher or
secret communication by mechanical
means. 1t is adapted for use on type
writers or similar writing machines
where the type or corresponding index
scale, dial or pointer is capable of being
moved or adjusted. The type writing
machines to be used for the purpose are
made In duplicates, so that the two index
scales correspond with each other in the
arrangement of their characters, but diff
fer from any other pair of machines.
Since the index scale is adjustable, it
may be shifted in two corresponding
machines, so that one or more of the
characters is moved out of its normal po-
sition, and, in consequence, when the OPP
orator strikes n certain letter on the key
board, another totally different will be
printed. Thus he can continue and write
out an entire letter, which, to the unini-
tiated, will seem like nothing more than
u confused tumble of characters.
To decipher whatever has been written
it is only necessary for the individual
who has the clew to shift the index scale
In the opposite direction from that used
by the original operator, and then, by
striking on the keyboard the characters
of the secret communication, the correct
message will be printed.-The Stationer.
, 1888-12-13

1t may be thought that the material of
which u sidewalk is constructed is of no
Importance so long as a sidewalk is there.
This Is n great mistake. The influence
that the surface of IL sidewalk has upon
the ease with which a pedestrian gets
about can only be realized by close obser-
walton and experiment. Take a number
of sidewalks. all slightly undulating, and
experiment. 1t will be found that a
polished stone sidewalk requires fully
one half more exertion to traverse than
NJ equal distance of granite pavement
does. A brick walk gives much less
fatigue, while the iron walk, cast with
little projections, is. by far, the easiest Of
any to walk upon. Ny attention was
called to this while making a series of
walking races with a man who invariably
passed me in going home. Do what /
could, | could not keep pace with him on
the smooth stone. One night, however, l
CHANGED to take to the iron walk that was
inside the stone, and to my surprise
found that I excelled him in speed, with
far less fatigue to my limbs than when
being regularly distanced on the same
footing.-Pedestrian in Globe-D Democrat.
, 1888-12-13

According to Mr.. NJ. Eells' account of
1.-THE Indians OF Puget Sound in The
American Antiquarian, the Inequalities
divide the year into thirteen moons, for
each of which they have separate names;
also for the waxing and waning of the
moon. The daytime is divided into
dawn, sunrise, forenoon, noon, after
noon, sunset and dusk, while the night
has the single division of midnight.
These Indians obtained the idea of Sun
day from another tribe, before the
English came, and after that met on
Sunday, sang, danced, prayed and tried
to purify themselves and throw away
their bad and make their hearts good.
They also married wives on that day.
Among the Twanas Sunday means
holy day, and the other days are day
past, two days past, etc, except Satur-
day, which means alongside that is,
of Sunday. March is getting warm
August, 1.-THE deer sheds its horns;' Oc-
tober, 1.-THE grass dies" and November,
''the grass goes into the ground" The
people are generally in debt to one
another, with obligations of many years
standing. The debts are seldom heard
of, except when trouble arises about
something else, and then there is n gen.
eral turning up OF old scores for ten or
fifteen years back, ard of the debts Of
relatives and wife'5 relatives.-Popular
Science Monthly.
, 1888-12-13
Pyrethrum or Buhaoh.

California pyrethrum, or buhach, still
holds its own as a specific against the cab
bage caterpillar. There is not a better
remedy. Mr.. E. S. Carman reports as the
result of some years experience that this
same buhach is a specific against that
serious pest of the orchardist, the rose
chsfer, Macrodactylus subspinosa. We
had no opportunity TO test the value of
this insecticide upon this beetle, but did
try 1t on the blister beetles with marked
success. May it not be that Mr.. Carman's
success, and the want of success which
Others report, may be harmonized in the
fact that Mr.. Carman was more thorough
and persistent in his work. 1t must be
remembered that buhach is effective be-
cause of a volatile substance which is
quick to escape, II the powder is left ex-
posed. Hence. unlike the arsenites, it
must be applied daily. An application
today, while 1t will kill the insects at
work, may not do so tomorrow. Thus
frequent applications only can give sue
cess.-Professor Cook, Agriculture Col
lege, Michigan.
, 1888-12-13
Tho Freight Conductor. Duties,

The freight conductor is simply a high
grade of brakeman. His work is almost
wholly supervisory and clerical, and SO,
after several years service, he becomes
more sober and business like in his bear
ing, the responsibilities of his position
being sufficient to effect this change; but
he generally retains his sympathies with
his old associates who ave become sub
ordinates. His duties are to keep the
record of the train, the time, numbers of
cars, ETC.; to see that the brakemen regu-
late the speed when necessary, and to
keep a general watch. The calculations
necessary to mako a seventy-five mile
trip and get over the line without vast
ing time are often considerable, and an
inexperienced conductor can easily keep
himself In n worry for the whole trip.
Often he cannot go more than ten miles
after making way for a passenger train
before another overtakes him, so hat
he must spend a good share of his time
sitting in bis caboose with the time table
in one hand and his watch In the other,
calculating where and when to side
track the train.
or single track roads perplexities Of
this kind are generally more numerous
than on double lines, because trains both
in front and behind must be guarded
against, and because the regulations are
frequently modified by telegraphic in
structions from headquarters. A mis-
take in reading these Instructions, which
are written in pencil, often by p sioycnly
penman, and on tissue paper, may, and
occasionally does, cause n disastrous col
lision, These duties of conductors are
especially characteristic of trains that
must keep out of the way Of passenger
trains, so that in this particular line it
will be seen that the passenger conductor
has much the easier berth. The freight
and "work train" conductor must really
be a better calculator, in many ways,
than the wearer of gilt badges and but
tons. though the latter receives the
higher pay.-B. b. Adams, Jr., in Serb
ners Magazine.
, 1888-12-13

Till yyu are in the east you cannot
realize the necessity of a ''~forerunner''
to clear the way for q great man. There
is no pavement or side path for foot peo-
pie to walk on, and they scatter all over
the road, t%hronging it thickly, SO that it
would be impossible to move quickly
unless the way were cleared. Your
syces, therefore, or a mounted Sepoy
orderly, speed ahead in front OF your
carriage shouting without ceasing: 80
~wayfarerl o merchant escape from the
roadl o seller of cloth, escaped Make
the road clear, o peoplel The great
sahib is coming! Make his way clear!'
thus clearing a passage through the
crowd, which closes again the moment
you have passed.
Children are often lifted bodily out OF
the way, while absent minded persons,
who have their thoughts in the clouds
and their heads in n blanket are apt to
find themselves of q sudden sitting by the
roadside and wondering how they came
here.-Cornhill Magazine.
, 1888-12-13
GIVING TO THE poor.
Degrading Effects of Public Charity-Ln
don's Modes of Relief

don's Modes of Relief.
Those who are interested to examine
the economic results of giving to the poor,
in England, Scotland and Ireland, will
find plenty of books on the subject. The
Encyclopedia Britannica contains a
good article under tho heading poor
law" See also other encyclopedias.
The Scotch are proverbially thrifty and
economical, and yet they nave been de-
graded by the poor law Of 1916. In some
parts of Scotland there is ten times the
poverty there is In Irelandl That law
gives more relief han England's, and the
money is regarded as a nice gift. Those
who had savings in banks transferred
them to others. Careful investigation,
and even the labor test, did not quell the
applications in any such manner as did
the Irish workhouse. Matters came to
such a pass that the fishermen of Wick
could not get their nets mended, their
former assistants saying that they could
get a living easier from the parish.
In Ireland there is very little out door
relief, the proportion of Scotland being
almost reversed-fve in door to one out
door pauper. In spite of Ireland's unjust
land system and high rents, the whole
lumber of her paupers does not amount
10 one half those of London alone. The
Irish will submit to every privation
TdAIGI lhhu ret lEltuuS RO 10 INC "OTh
house. which is the legal mode Of relief,
and is not a charity.
In London many people get relief who
could do without it, and consider it no
disgrace. Industry, economy. temperance
uud self restraint would enable most of
them to take care Of themselves II they
would. Hence the workhouse is a neces-
sary restraint. being uncomfortable or
eve ~disgraceful. They therefore shun
it. If they may eat without work in
some other way, they will; II not, many
of them will work. Why are these people
in such condition. 1t is a duty we owe
to society to ascertain what are their
thoughts, what the motives that have
led them to such lives. II the result is
that the vices and injustices and pro
digality of the rich have in part induced
such results, let it be exposed boldly and
fearlessly. II injustice In the wage sys-
tenn and in land tenure Is the cause in
part, let this also be northumberland
w. Smiley in Popular Science Monthly.
, 1888-12-13

What on earth is the reason people
will not, can not, or do not see ny differ
ence in nheap nostrums put up by Cheap
John houses or irresponsible parties at
enormous profits, rather than take a med
icine of world wide reputation and one
that is giving universal satisfaction at
equal price? No medicine in the world is
giving such unparalleled satisfaction for
purifying the blood as Beggs' Blood Pu-
rifier and Blood Maker, and every bottle
that does not do its work will cost yeu
nothing. For sale by w. n. Hunt, drug
gist.
, 1888-12-13

Attempts have been made TO n consid-
erablo extent to substitute metal for
wooden ties on railroads, but 1t does not
yet appear hat the kind OF tie has
been invented. WOOD assesses the quail.
ity Of yielding in just about the right de-
gree, and n metal tie should como as near
TO the same degree of yieldA 6 as possible.
The way the railroads are using up the
stock Of available timber should be an in
centive to some ingenious inventor to
bring out a metal tie equal to a wooden
one.-Frank Leslie's.
, 1888-12-13

The ORIGINAL ABIETINE ONT
MENT is only put up in large two ounce
tin boxes, and ia an absolute care for old
sores, burns, wounds, chapped hands and
all skin eruptions, Win positively cure all
kinds OF piles Ask for the ORIGINAL
ABIETINE OINTMENT. Sold by DR.
w. N.Huut, ut % cents per box by mai
] 30 cents.
, 1888-12-13

Capital punishment may be said to be
virtually abolished in France at the
present day" said the public %executioner
of France. paris alone last year tried
800 men for murder, and convicted only
five Of them. Tho leniency shown to
criminals in NJ. Grevy's time led to a re-
duction of my salary from 81, 900 to 81, 200.
This is my entire income, for l get no fees
or perquisites-yet l am content."-Paris
Cor. New York World.
, 1888-12-13
\ safe Investment

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satisfactory results, or in case of failure q
return of purchase price. On this safe
plan you can buy from our advertised
druggist a bottle Of DR.. Kings New Dis
covery for consumption. 1t is guaranteed
to bring relief in any case, when used fol
any affection of throat, lungs. or chest,
such as consumption, inflammation Of
lungs, bronchitis. asthma, whoopIng
cough, ETC., etc. 1t is pleasant and agree
able to taste, perfectly safe and can al
ways be depended upon. Trial bottles
free at DIR. w. n. Hunts drug store.
, 1888-12-13
PROPOSALS FOR REMOVING

warehouse. Headquarters Department
of the Platte, Chief Quartermaster's Of
flee, Omaha, Neb., Dec. s., 1888. Sealed
proposals, in triplicate, subject to the
usual conditions, will be received at this
Office until 2 o'clock p. M, Jan. I, 1889,
when they will be opened, in presence of
bidders, for taking down and removing in
sections the government frame warehouse
at Douglas, Wyo., to Fort Casper, WYo.,
and there putting together the same upon
suitable foundation, on such site as may
be designated by the undersigned. Work
to commence Immediately after award and
be completed within thirty days. The
government reserves the right to reject
any or all bids. Blank proposals with all
necessary information will be furnished on
application to this office. Envelopes con-
tanning proposals should be marked PRO
posals for removing warehouse, and adj
dressed to the undersigned. WIN. B.
HUGHES, Quartermaster, u. s. A.,
Chief Quartermaster.
, 1888-12-13

How can parents allow their children to
cough and strain and cough and calmly
say: "Ohl it is only a little cold" and
keep giving them cheap and dangerous
medicines, until they are down with lung
fever or consumption, when they can be
so easily relieved by Beggs' Cherry
Cough Syrup 1t has no superior, and
few equals. For sale by w. n. Hunt,
druggist.
, 1888-12-13
$sE1HS1|

Thoroughly cleanse the blood, which is the
fountain of health, by using DR.. Pierce's Gold
en- Medical Discovery, and good Digestion, a
fair skin, buoyant spirits, and bodily health
and vigor will be established.
Golden Medical Discovery cures all humors,
to the worst Scrofula, or blood-poison. Es-
pecially has 1t proven its efficacy in curing
Salt = rheum or letter, Eczema, ErysipelRs,
Fever = sores, Hip Joint Disease. Scrofulous
Sores and SwellinEs, Enlarged Glands, Col
tire or Thick Neck, and Eating Sores or
Ulcers.
Golden Medical Discovery cures Consump-
ton (which is Scrofula of the Lungs, by its
wonderful blood = purifying. invigorating.
For Weak Lungs. Splitting of Blood. Short
ness of Breath. Catarrh in the Head, Bron-
chitis, Severe Coughs, Asthma, and kindred
affections, it is a sovereign remedy. It
promptly cures the severest Coughs.
For Torpid Liver, Biliousness, or Liver
Complaint" Dyspepsia, and indigestion. It is
an ~unequaled remedy. Sold by drugRists.
Price S1.00. or six bottles for $500.
, 1888-12-13
PROPOSALS FOR WOOD AND
coal-Headquarters Department OF the

coal-Headquarters Department of the
Platte, Chiel Quartermaster's Office,
Omaha. Neb., Nov. "a. 1888. Sealed
proposals, in triplicate. subject to the
usual conditions, will be received at this
Office until . o'clock p. M. central time,
Dec. "a, 1888, when they will be opened
for furnishing wood and coal for Camp
Pilot Butte, Wyo., deliverable there or
at other point specified by the bidder
preference being given to articles of do
nestle production, conditions OF quality
and price (including in the price OF for
eign production the duty thereon) being
equal; and no award will be made for arti-
cles of foreign production when the article
of suitable domestic production can be
obtained. The right is reserved to reject
any or all bids. Blank forms for bidding
and circular giving quantities required and
all necessary information will be furnished
on application to this or office of the post
qu~artermaster at Camp Pilot Butte. Pro-
posals should be endorsed on envelopes,
Proposals for fuel" and addressed to
VIM. B. HUGHES, Quartermaster, U.
S. A, Chief Quartermaster.
, 1888-12-13

b. Hellman has the best and cheapest
line Of overcoats west of Chicago.
, 1888-12-13

Oysters on the hall shell at the Saddle
Rock.
, 1888-12-13

Ties worth so cents selling at 25 cents
at Hellman's.
, 1888-12-13

In your promises of reform remember
that tomorrow is day that never comes,
Philadelphia Cali.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-12-01
SALINE VALLEY SLABS.

November %.
Mrs. Stewart Shorthill has been quite
i'll for several days.
Mr.. Tilton recently lost seven head OF
steers from blackleg.
Our neighbor, Mr.. Galloway, is spend
ing few days in Graham county, putting
up large windmill for Mr.. Cavalt at
Fremont.
School closed Friday in district 9. The
enrolment was 16. Average attendance,
ID. Number of visits from parents and
patrons, "a.
Two nice-looking sorrel horses we're
taken up by Mr.. Crosby, six miles north
of town. We are wondering to whom
they belong.
Times are getting very easy when good
fat COWS are sold for S11. At the close
of this administration, in all probability,
we can't give them away.
A READER.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-12-01
There is at ex-Sheriff Bakers m

There is at ex-Sheriff Bakers meat
market a buffalo head whose horns ap-
pear to be further apart than any pair of
horns we ever before noticed on that class
OF head, and we have seen myriads of
them. This head was exhumed by James
Lawson, jr, from bluff of the Saline
river in this county. The head was
twenty-five feet below the top surface of
the bluff 1t is fair to assume that the
bank had crumbled over this head, but it
may have lain there for centuries anyway.