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Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-12-13
THE AUSTRIAN PREMIER.
feculIarItiea OF the Chief Adviser ant
Friend OF Francis Joseph.

recullarIties OF the Chief Adviser ana
Friend OF Francis Joseph.
Count Taaffe is convivial soul, who
must have his couple Of bottles Of claret
at dinner. When he speaks in the Aus
TRAN Parliament he prepares himself
for the fray with about half dozen
liquor glasses of brandy. Thus primed
he talks with oil the racy humor which
he has inherited from his Irish ances-
tors. He does not like Prince Reuss,
the German Ambassador in Vienna,
and, what Is more, he proclaims his dis
like pretty openly by epigrams, which
generally reach the Infatuated Ambas-
sador's ears. Prince Reuss' proper style
and title is Henry VII. there is o
Henry LXIV. in the family, Prince zu
Reuss not Won Reuss. He is not head
OF the house, but having married Prin-
cess Marie Of Saxony, who is royal
highness, no holds his head aloft as
though he were always wearing he'll
met with nodding plumes. AS for his
wife, she anxiously deliberated when
she came to Vienna whether she could
treat the other ladies Of the diplomatic
body on footing ofequality, and before
her mind was quite made up she used to
write notes beginning withouta any ''Sir"
or MADAM" and sign them without any
of the courteous forms used in epistolary
correspondence. Her quarrel with Count"
ess Taaffe was caused by note Of this
description, which the spirited Countess
answered by one Of like tenor Count
Taaffe is something more than Minis
ter to Francis Joseph. The two were
playfellows when boys and the intima-
cy between them Is great insomuch
that the Emperor always addresses
TaafIe as "Du" (thou). Nor has Count
Taaffe ever followed any policy but such
as the Emperor himselfhighly approved.
Vienna Letter.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-12-13
FINANCIAL JueeLERY.
A Five-Dollar Transaction Of Moro Than
Ordinary Interest.

A Flve-Dollar Transaction OIL moro Xahn
Ordinary Interest.
Travers-You are nice friend TO
have. Yesterday, when had sworn to
pay Dashaway debt OF honor to the
amount OF IS, and sent around to your
Office explaining the whole matter, you
paid not the slightest attention to my
request for loan.
Cleverton-Hold on. When you asked
Dashaway first for that money he came
around and borrowed 1t from me. SO
yesterday really paid you s. although,
Of course, you didn't know 1t at the
time. Then had you pay Dashaway.
Then had Dashaway pay me. That
cancelled his debt and yours DO you
see?
Travers-oi course. And that makes
MS square.
Cleverton-Not much. you owe me 80.
Travers-Not at all. owed Dashaway
IS, and he owed you IS. Now paid him
by your own confession the IS / owed
him, and through him paid You the -
that he owed you. That makes o total
Of $40. Five dollars Of this, however,
belonged to Dashaway. The other IS 1
paid you, but as you had already lent
me IS, this made us square.
ClevertoD-No, no. You owed Dash
away IS. didn't you? Well, ! paid him.
So now you owe it to me. What could
possibly be palmer?
Travers-W Well, we'll see about that
Here comes Dashaway. Say, Dashaway,
did this man pay you the IS owed you
yesterday?
Dashaway-No, I should say not I
have Just been looking for you.
Trayers Ito Cleverton)-Then what do
you mean by trying to do me out Of IS?
Wait minute (waving his handy, I'll
prove it. Now, let us begin al! over
again, and start where we were yester-
day, before you tried to mix this thing
up. Cleverton. have you got that same
IS bill you had yesterday?
Cleverton (confused)-Yes. here 1t Is.
avelers-Then just lot me have 1t
for minute. I'm not going to rob you!
That's right Now, Dashaway, owe
you IS (hands 1t to Dashaway). Now 1
have paid you, haven't I? Now you pay
Cleverton what you owe him. Dash
away hands the IS to Cleverton.) Now,
Cleverton, Dashaway has paid you the
IS he owed you, hasn't he?
Cleverton-Y-e-s.
Travers-And are you any thing out
BY the transaction? and haven't you
got the same IS you started with? You
ought to take few lessons in simple
arithmetic.
leverton-That seems to be all right
can't see how got so mixed up.
Travers three minutes later, by him
self)-That was the easiest SIS ever
| NADIA Tom Mason in Life.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-12-13
Nav Ronl for underwear.

The newest wool underwear is made
OF white wool tafieta, which Is shrunk
before 1t is woven. This underwear Is
Leautitul; but until some radical change
can be brought about in the methods Of
home laundresses and Of laundries II IL
almost hopeless to expect to get such un-
derwear properly washed. The fact that
It can be washed, II extraordinary care
Is exercised in the process, does not pre-
vent 1t in the majority Of cases from be-
ing shrunk past remedy in two or three
washings, and, what Is hardly less OBJ
jectionable, turned to . coarse yellow
ahada.-N. Y. Tribune.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-12-13
GREEK MEETS GREEK.
How Two Parties Played at the
Same CANE.

1.-THE very thing" exclaimed Chris
tina, as she hastily jumped up from her
easy chair in front of the glowing ire
and fourished newspaper before the
two girls who sat dreamily watching
the fiickering flames Here is our
chance to cultivate an idiomatic and
elegant style in letter-writing' which
Miss Scrumpl1ins is continually re-
lminding US every Wellesley girl should
gpossess. Read this. girls"
The two girls thus rudely aroused
from their reveHie took the protiered
paper and read the following:
TUANTED-BY A YOUNG GENTLEMAN
w Of means and cultivation, young lady 70
correspond with view to better d y, sa
beauty. Address x. T., box OS7, bunalo' NJ 4
"You don't really mean, Christina"
exclaimed Louise Mowker, hurriedly,
-''that we, or rather one Of US, should re-
;ply to such an advertisement as that a
sort of public protestation Of love which
sells itself to the highest bidder?"
'Why not?" returned Christina, her
? brown eyes twinkling with merrtment
;'sBuffalo is i've hundred miles away,
the better acquaintance will not thus
imply q personal acquaintance, no one
else shall know Of 1t, for We will give
him an assumed name, and just picture
TO yourself, girls, how this excitement
will charm away the tediousnes OF win
ter Life ct Wellesley"
ssBut suppose" said Edith Morton, the
SECOND of the two listeners, that this
young gentleman Of means, etc, should
prove to be some middle-aged married
man who is trying to indulge his love
of romance at the expense OF his wife
some ugly old wretch who may become
too ardent in his false protestations?
.Urhl The very idea makes me shud-
der"
..No danger Of that replied Christina
Lockwood, as she cut the advertisement
-out OF the paper and placed It In her pock-
.et-book. ssWhoever heard Of = middle
aged married man putting himself TO
the personal Inconvenience Of writing
Ruthless love letters to crafty q quasi
love of romance? He would be much
more apt to dwell on the fascinating
Qualities of his Youth over bottle Of
champagne at the club No, my dear; l
would be willing to wager i've pounds
of candy that this is bona fde young
gentleman Of means and cultivation
Aswho wishes to carry on . romantic cor
.respondence, and who would be IS
ready to.cesse writing at the END OF six
months as we would"
..Butwhich Of Us three Is to be the
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-12-13

Now mother, when she learned that tune which
father whistlcd so.
Would say: There's something wrong to-day
with Ephraim, know;
He never tries to make believe he's happy that
ere way
But that I'm certain rs can be some trouble 10
topayw
And 80, betimes, quite natural like, TO US Cd
servant youth
There seemed suggestion in thst tune Of deep
pathetic truth.
When Brother William joined the war lot Of
US went down
TO see the gallant soldier boys right gayly out
Of town;
A.comfl' home, poor mother cried as II her
heart would break
And ali us children, too-for hers, and not for
x Williams sake!
But father, trudgin' on ahead. his hands behind
him so,
Kept whistlin' to himself, SO sort Of solemn
like and low.
and went West
Seemed like it took the tuck right out Of
mother and the rest;
She was the sunlight in our home-why, father
used to say
It wouldn't seem like home at oil II Sue should
60 away!
Yet, when she went, a-leavin' US all sorrow and
all tears,
Poor father whistled lonesome like-and went
to feed the steers.
When crops were bnd. and other ills befell our
homely lot
He'd set around and try to oct as II he minded
not;
And when came death and bore away the one
he worshiped so,
How vainly did his lips belle the heart be-
numbed with woe!
You see the telltale whistle told mood he'd
not admit
He'd always quit his whistlin' when he thought
We noticed It!
I'd like to see that STOPPING form and hoary
head again
ITO see the honest, hearty smile that cheere6
his fellow-men;
oh, could kiss the kindly lips that spake nc
creature wrong,
And share the rapture OF that heart that over
. flowed with song;
oh. could hear the little tune he whistled long
ago,
When he did battle with the griefs he woule
not have us know.
Eugene Field in Chicago News.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-12-13
WINTER COSTUMES.
Many Of Them Include the Gown. Hat
Wrap aud Mum:

Many Of Them Include the Gown, Hat
Wrap aud MufE
With the long cloaks and pelisses
worn in midwinter. the costume proper
is in danger Of being .overshadOwed; so
this season Partisan designers have
created" variety OF long wraps, which
while protecting one perfectly from the
cold, still permit the display OF much OF
the beauty Of the rich and elegant cos
tunes with which they are worn.
Some elegant imported costumes In
clude the gown, hat wrap and mutf, so
that the purchaser may feel sure OF all
her outward expression" harmonizing.
Cloth embroidered robes and cloth
dresses trimmed with fur or Astrakhan
clotl, take the lead for street wear, and
great many handsome doaigns In bro
cades, and plaid goods embroidered with
gold designs, are made up in combina-
ton with velvet for carriage costumes
and the promenade.
A handsome 'walking-dross Is deep
blue camers-hair serge made with
sheath" skirt and trimmed at the foot
with q cross-barring Of inch-wide bands
of black Astrakhan fur; and with this
is worn, not q wrap. bnt jacket with
'.reefer'' fronts, and sleeves Of the As
trakhan. Another stylish wool gown
is of soft thick cameIs-hair wooden, in
natural gray striped with blue. and
made UP in combination with blue vel
vet The skirt is open to the waist 1t
the left side. showing the blue velvet
underskirt and at each side OF the
slashed overslrirt Is . narrow patterned
velvet figures laid on with braid, as II en-
bossed. The waist of the dress, which
Is joined to the skirt in princess style.
Is finished with band OF the same style
Of garniture crossing It diagOnally.
With such q costume can be worn one
Of the fur shoulder-capes or jackets o.
such q wrap IS the following; A long
wrap Of blue plush, finished with band
Of Russian sable and q nat boa OF the
same fur. besides embroidery Of gold
braidings on the waist portion. -Den-
Oresfs MaEuzine.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-12-13

TourIst-''what did that long freight
train bring to town. circus?
Prominent Cltizen-Nope. 1t brought
q Russian family, Ivanovich Steppinofi
Kauphupacatski, his wife and thirty
eight children. They loaded the folks
into the first car and filed the rest Of
the train with their names under
stand that piece hung out behind and
ripped up three miles OF track before
they noticed it-Nunsey's Weekly.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-12-13
Her Natural Preferences.

''What kind Of ice-cream will you
have, dear?" inquired the hostess
The little Boston maiden wiped her
glasses thoughtfully.
81 will take vanilla ice-cream, II you
please" she replied vanilla, II ]
have been correctly informed, Is ex'
tracted from bean. Tribune
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-12-13

As palms are fashionable decora-
ton, hint may be taken from the prac-
tice Of one florist who rubs with sweet
oil the leaves Of palms, and even Of the
rubber plant until they are Of the rich
eat and darkest green.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-12-13
FATHERS WAY.

My father was no pessimist; he loved the
things OF earth
its cheerfulness and sunshine, its music and its
mirth;
He never sighed or moped around whenever
things went wrong
4 warrant me he'd mocked at fate with some
defiant song;
But, being he warn't much on tune, whenever
times were blue
He'd whistle softly to himself this only tune he
knew:
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Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-03-12

NWpLE-, black-heads.r red, rough. chapped a 4
! In oily skin prevented by Cuticurs soap.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-03-12
The Reality Of Life.

To the rejecting mind there is moth
ing more extraordinary than to OBJ
serve with what obtuse, dull and COM
monplace impressions most men pass
through this wonderful life. Life,
which, to such a mind, means every
thing momentous, mysterious, pro-
phetic, monitory, 10 the many is but
around of cares, vi familiar pursuits
and formal actions. They look upon
this world as a vast domicile, or an ex-
tensive pleasure ground; the objects
are familiar; the implements are
worn; the very skies are old the earth
is a pathway for those on earthly err.
rands; the world is a working field, a
warehouse, q market place-and this
is life.
But life indeed-'he intellectual life,
struggling with its earthly load, with
an eternity unimaginable behind it,
with an eternity TO be experienced be-
fore ii, with all its strange and mystic
remembrances, now exploring its past
years, as if they we're periods before
the flood, and then gathering them
within a space as brief and unsubstan-
tial as if they were the dream of a
day-with all its dark and its bright
visions Of mortal fear and hope-life,
such a life, is full Of mysteries, Or
vile Dewey.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-03-12
IPoachiDg by Ohicers.

AS | entered NJ. Labouchere's hall,
/ was amused to observe "a broad back
ed German officer, quartered ON him,
in the act of mounting the back stairs,
bent nearly double under the load of
a roebuek, the legs of which he wore
round his neck, and which met under
his chin. The officer had evidently
been doing u little poaching, unbe-
known 10 his host.
Poaching was indeed, during the
war, quite the order of the day, the
imperial preserves al Versailles, st.
Cloud, st. German and everywhere
else, being apparently open TO all COM
ers. At the Versailles restaurants
pheasants and hares were considerably
below the price one is charged for
them ordinarily in Paris. In fact,
supplies of all Kinds, which were kept
out of Paris by the siege, found their
way To Versailles and other suburbs,
where the officers Of the besieging
army, aud every one else who had
money about him, could live on the
fat of the land. Not even sea fish was
wanting .-Blackwood's Magazine.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-03-12
No kissing In y

Young japanese girls are as nature
made them, and very sweet they are,
too, in their quaint dresses showing
the plump chest and rounded arms.
Pages could be written about their
charms. What dear, dainty. little
dolls they are! Such white teeth, rosy
lips and coy smiles. Who shall de-
scribe iheml and what next! \ kiss.
perhapSi Not over here. Oh, neverl
They never do. They don't know how,
actually don't know how, and even
peasant girls are closely guarded.
Fancy a young man in cotton XII
mono and wooden clogs stealing a
chance To walk with his best girl UNI
der the blooming cherry trees, ex-
planning the consultations and quot
ing sentimental poetry, telling her
that he 'hung upon her eyelids," that
''her voice was like a temple gong;'
in fact, that he loved but her alone,
and then making her several formal
BOWS at the door of her fathers straw
thalched hut as they parted in the
moonlight. Can any American lover
stretch his imagination enough to be-
lieve in a sweetheart not kissing those
pretty lips, paint and all, by a sort of
natural selectionl'
'Tisa melancholy fact, but a Japan
csc has no such impulse. No lover
courts his mistress with sweetest per-
suasive kisses" No mother kisses her
baby as she cpddles it against her
bosom. Cor. Home Queen.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-03-12
Journalist, Reporter, Editor.

At the recent annual dinner of the
Pittsburg Press club, George s. Well
shons (St. Geo.), one of the best known
and wi;;ieSt newspaper men of the
state, got of the following in response
" the toast The Reporter"
''Thcre are three grand divisions"
Mr.. Wclslions said, ''in newspaper
work-iournalists, reporters aud edi-
tors. Speaking mor accurately, there
are three stages Of development. A
journalist is a calf reporter. He is a
reporter in the miniature tadpole
stage, when his head is 50 big that ii
takes all the rest of his person Ia shove
II around, If he is lucky. by and by
lac becomes "A reporter. Aftera report
er's leg wear out they make an editor
out of i'm. The final stage Of a frog,
you know--the extreme removal from
the tadpole-is the bullfrog, too stiff
10 jump. too old and tough to eat,
who lust sits on the bank and bellows.
That is an editor.
I'm the old days the editor called a
man a chicken thief; nowadays the re.
porter finds the feathers in his back.
yard. The weapon of the old time edi-
tor was the spithet; that of the modern
reporter is the evidence. What the
editor used TO assert the reporter now
proves.
IF the people who complain of
what the reporter writes about them
would only consider what he does not
write about them, they would shrine
him in the fricndliest corner of their
hearts. The waste baskets in a daily
newsparerh,icc of any town do more
TO keep its Mizens in good repute than
any other agency, excepting the fear
of the law aud the hereafter. Not all
that the rrpo:t"r writes is truth. He
is not iui&iiHlc himself, and those
who are IL" a,uices Of his information
are much ls so. There are very
many men w,Io cannot tell a straight
story. There az" others who do not
try 10. The man who tells the story
to the reporter is usually an interested
party. lie has a purpose to serve in
metamorpAos.ng this or %suppressing
that. The reporter has no desire ex.
cept to &c, the truth accurately and
completely, and to write it quickly and
entertainingly.
"All men do not love the reporter,
and | am glad of il. The fear and ha-
tired Of bad men is as n chaplet above
his brow. 1t is the assurance of his
honesty TO his badge Of honor as a SER
want of truth. Ii the time ever comes
when all men love the reporter, it will
be time 10 bury him. He will have
forgotten his mission, betrayed his trust
and shamed the noble fellowship of
men who have made the white cross of
the Pittsburg reporter the decoration
of a legion of honor. Exchange.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-03-12
An Automatic Rabbit.

b. II, Worrall, proprietor Of Queens
Park, Morley, has invented an auto
matte rabbit" which, it is said, meets
almost all the requirements Of the
sport of coursing. 1t fits in a socket
attached to an endless wire running in
cutters below ground, only a narrow
slot showing on the surface. The
contrivance is worked by machinery
erected in a small tower. The motive
power is a heavy stone weighing about
half a ton, working like a clock
weight, the speed at which the ''rab-
bit" travels being controlled by q man
at a crank handle. The cutters are
laid diamond shape, and the length OF
the course is about 200 yards, the
rabbit" doubling twelve times on the
journey, the angles being very acute.
In case the dogs are unable TO capture
the rabbit before the whole ground
has been traversed the quarry runs
into a box, an inclined plane in which
lifts it out Of the socket, the dogs los
ing it.-New York Sun.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-03-12
Giant Worms.

The work of earthworms, in the op-
erations of nature, is very important
one. Darwin has shown us that they
are constantly occupied i'm making the
soil more mellow by perforating it
with their galleries, and that they en-
rich it by collecting in these subterra-
can passages earth that has been sub
ject TO change in their intestines, and
also leaves, which have fallen to the
ground and are dragged into
their retreats. But If these little
beings can accomplish such Won
ders, it would be interesting to
know whether the Megascolides
Australis, an earthworm of Au-
s~tralia, has a like mission. This crea-
ture is of the size of IN ordinary adder.
and at least six feet long.
A writer in La Nature says that it is
usually to be found on the banks of
small rivers. though it occasionally
seeks the open country, where one may
come upon it by pulling up a stump
or upturning the earth. Ii is not an
easy matter to drag this worm from
the winding galleries which form its
retreat. II glides about the sinuous
passages with great rapidity, initiating
its anterior and posterior extremities
at will, and thus bracing itself against
the walls, which it renders Shiny by a
secretion from its own body. Its moist
substance slips easily through the
hands which would retain it, and
when once fastened TO the adhesive
walls of its home, il can only be re-
moved by breaking its length in two.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-03-12

When i. ii. Head settled on the
Machado ranch, near San Diego, and
began TO build Elsinore, then UNI
named, he was puzzled about the chris
tening. What should he call the com
ing city by the lake and springsi FL
nally he chose lake something or other
"a long compound-but the postoiiice
authorities would not have Il. They
wrote Mr.. Head that one word was
enough and sent him a list TO choose
from. He took Elsinore, and a few
days afterward announced the fact 10
old Senior Machado. The aged don
was for a moment nonplused. "El
Senor," he said, (which senior do you
mean, yourself or myself3' your
self, Of course" replied the diplomatic
Head. And to this day the Machados
believe that the name Elsinore N but
. gringo corruption Of "El Senior, "ths
senior who owned the original prop
srty.-Ssn Francisco Argonaut.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-03-12
The Chinese.

What queer creatures these Chinese
arei They look and act us If they
might be the inhabitants of some other
planet, so totally different are they
from all the Other mundane races.
Nevertheless, they have logical
minds. Guy Min, a Chinamau, in a
speech at san Francisco. expressed
some surprise at what hc considered
the inconsistency of sending millions
of dollars 10 China 10 prepare her peo-
pie forthc kingdom Of heaven, and ne
fusiug them a home in the United
States
Yes, it does look "A little queer,
doesn't it, There is n great deal of
difference between the Chinese stories
and those that appear in ourmOvels and
magazines. There is very little love
in the average Chinese novel. The
hero is a fellow who made his money
in America by washing clothes, while
the heroine is a girl who wants revenge
because the villain killed her cat.
Much has been written about the
barbarity Of the Chinese in bandaging
the feet of the female babies. Ii seems
now that there is reason in this appar-
emily senseless cruelty. 1t is done to
prevent them from spending half their
time on shopping tours when they
grow older. And yet the Chinese are
called uncivilized.
The Chinese have queer ways Of
furnishing frauds. For robbing a ped
dler the culprit is put in a mortar and
fired against a stone wall. Whether
this cured him of his propensities we
have not yet learned; we should not
wonder, however, if it had.-Texas
Siftinps.