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Amazed.

The natives of tropical countries are
seldom so much astonished as they are
when first introduced to snow and ice.
The congealing of water is phenome-
non they are slow to comprehend A
few months ago Sir William McGregor
enticed several New Guinea natives to
the hitherto unscaled summit OF Mount
Owen Stanley. the loftiest peak In
British Australasia
ON its barren summit, nearly thou
sand feet above the zone of vegetation,
big icicles were found, and the natives,
when they touched them, declared that
their fingers mad been burned.
A wear ago, when Mr.. Ehlers as
.onded Mount KiIimaniaro, in Africa,
his native porters, who had lived al
their lives near the base OF the great
mountain, pulled of the boots with
vbicl they had been provided, and
plunged nerily into the snow In tneli
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bare feet They lost no time In plung-
ing out again, and lay wnthing on the
ground, insisting that their feet had
been severely burned.
Some Central African natives who
had been introduced into Germany mis-
took the first snOW-storm they saw for a
fight of white butterflies, and Lieut.
Won Francois says the mistake was .
very natural one. One day when he
was ascending tributary of the Congo,
he saw for the first time the air filed
with a great swarm of white butterflies,
and the spectacle closely resembled a
gentle fall of snow.
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Seven DAYS on Fire.

Some weeks are longer than others,
as every schoolboy is only too well
aware. How long, then must have
been the seven days which an English
captain and crew passed, q few months
ago, In q burning steamship! The
steamer Hawkhurst sailed from London
on the sixth of March, bound for Rio
Rio Janeiro. When she was seventeen
DAYS out dense volumes of smoke began
to issue from the ventilators on one of
the holds.
The ventilators were at once blocked,
and holes were bored in the deck, into
which water and steam were poured.
But the fire was under great Roadway,
and all efforts to extinguish it proved
unavailing. Above it was an iron "be-
tween-deck," and above this were
slowed 700 barrels of oil, tow, tallow,
and other highly infammable materials.
For four days, the captain says, the
decks were red hot. His first thought
was to put back to the Island of St.
Vincent-about 500 miles distant-but
strong head-wind made such a course
imprudent. He knew, besides, that he
should find no facilities there for put
ting out the fire.
He determined. accordingly, to steam
on to Rio, a distance of twenty-three
hundred miles. He might have put II
at Pernambuco on the way, but he was
resolved, if possible, to save the ship
and cargo. At Pernambuco he would
have had to fill the hold with water, to
accomplish which it would have been
necessary to run the ship around, at
the risk of total loss.
At the end of the third day the star.
board bunkers took fire, but the crew
put the flames out in twenty-four hours.
On the following day, the port bunk,
ers began to burn, and this fire it was
found impossible to extinguish till at
ter the ship arrived in port. For
seven days the burning steamer sailed
on. Then she steamed into the harbor
of Rio, where the authorities immedi
ately set the fire brigade at work, and
in two days the fire was subdued.
In recognition of the captains heroic
conduct the Emperor, Dom Pedro IL,
conferred upon him medal, accom-
panying the gift by the following let
ter:
Thomas Robertson, L, the constitu-
tional Emperor and perpetual defender
of Brazil, sends you greeting, In recog'
milton of sense of duty not common to
all men. The heroism and intelligence
which you displayed as commander OF
the British steamer Hawkhurst, of the
Antwerp, London and Brazil line OF
packets, have succeeded in bringing
her safely to the port of this capital,
where you arrived on April Sd, the ship
on fire March 9th.
cat that time you were at distance
of 2, 300 miles from Rio de Janeiro. By
this act you, at the risk of your own
life, saved the lives of all on board,
and wishing to give you proof of my
imperial appreciation for such distin-
guished service, 1 hereby grant you
the medal of the frst-class, as awarded
by article first of the minutes of the
decree, No. 1879. March IL, 1856"
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Hepsie drew her breath sharply as she
asked the question.
why Hepsie. thee amt blind is
thee? Better ask Arch what he thinks
Of Ruthie.'
%Thee is a perfect torment, Nathan, ("
said, and hurried off to hide my
bushes.
It was on Easter day that I first met
Archie Crane, and on the next Easter
day he asked me to become his wife.
Oh, how glad was for loved him
With my whole heart, and I was going
to tell him yes when something seemed
to stop me.
81 viii answer thee tomorrow" 1
said, "thee knows my parents preju-
dice"
He seemed little surprised and tax
ing my face between his hands he gazed
earnestly into my eyes.
Il guess it will be all right, he said.
"They say if in looking into another's
eyes you see your image reflected, then
that person loves you. and 1 see mine
in those brown orbs of yours"
Some one was coming, and jumping
up I ran out of the room.
where is Hepsie ?" 1 asked of Dell.
"She put shawl around her and said
she was going to walk in the grove, the
sun shines so brightly"
l followed, but paused in dismay
when few rods from the house, at the
sound of mufied sobs. Turning In the
direction from which they came spied
poor little Hepsie sitting, with her back
toward me, on fallen tree. moaning
and crying. l was just going to speak
when she cried out, covering her face,
"Oh, Archie, Archie!"
Waiting for no more I sped back to
the house, and without pausing, on
home.
I understood it all now-Hepsie's
languor and Observation-Disclosures of late,
her restless nights, morning headaches,
petulance with me at times, and so on.
"It will kill me to give him up"
thought, "and maybe he will not take
her after all, but cannot accept a LIES
happiness at such cost to her,"
All well, no use to hnger over all
this. 1 told him mo" on the morrow,
almost freezing him with my GOODNESS,
nor giving any other reason than that
would not have him; then l kept away
from the cottage.
Dell had fit of sickness soon after
this and [ made Hepsie stay there.
1t all came out right at last, and one
day early in summer the child came to
me, her pale fower-like face flushed,
her soft, blue eyes shining and he1
whole frame in tremor.
"Oh, Ruthie," she whispered eagerly,
arch has asked me Toto" then she
hid her blushing face on my shoulder,
murmuring, "to marry him.
Just as I had expected" I an
swered. l made her quaint Quaker
trosseau myself; and tearlessly kissed
the weeping bride.
They removed at once to New York.
from whence the Cranes had come tc
Pennsylvania.
I had long, and they said, danger
Gus illness after that; but l was tired
out [ guess.
Arch and Hepsie are both dead now,
and Rollin, the boy l am educating,
thee knows, is their only child. He
came to me when he was fourteen.
| Well, we'll I have kept thee listening
long while and, as told thee in the
beginning, it is not much of a story after
all.
Did l never learn to love any one
else?" No, never! My easter love,
as 1 always called it-for 1 lost my
heart at that first meeting the
one love of my life.
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Did Not Wish to Spread the Disease.

@Can you do anything with my &C
count to-day, sir?" asked collector.
I'D, like to pay it." replied Gazzam,
@but the fact is Haven't any gold coin,
and the doctors say that paper money
carries the influenza microbe about.
Can't be too careful. you know, and I
wouldn't pay you with paper money for
all the world.-Epoch.
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PrTH AND POINT
HALF rARE-a mulatto.

HALF FARE-a mulatto.
The undertaker's favoEike exercise Is
boxing.
PASSING away time-kanding over
your watch to foot-paG
EVEN the homeless man may have q
title to mansions in the skies.
A COUNTRY dentist advertises that she
spares no pains" to render his opera
tons satisfactory.
WHEN drink much can't work,
and so let it alone" %Fhe drinking2"
%No, the working"
NEW YORK ball-players prefer their
aunt to any other relative-their PEN
nant, we mean, of course.
ARDENT Suitor-Do you love me, dar-
ling? Modern Girl don't know.
How much are you worth?
WHAT nonsense it Is to say that q man
is inclined to be ba,d" When man
is becoming bald 1t IS quite against his
inclination.
FIRST Renter-I understand big flats
don't paw in New York City? Second
Renter (eonfdently)-You're off there,
my boy. It's the biggest flats who do
pay.
Miss CALLER-I called on purpose to
see your dear little baby. Is 1t q boy
or girl? Mrs. Four Hundred-Why,
it is a-a-really, shall have to ask
the nurse.
SCRIBBLER-The man who calls q
ballet dancers costume a dress has the
imagination of a poet. Bibbler-Why
so? "He gives to airy nothing local
habitation and name"
A WELL-DEF1NED Hint. - Ethel
George, mother was looking when you
kissed me last night. George-How
did she take it? well, she said she
felt satisfied now that you mean bust
ness"
YOUNG Medical Student Ito his sweet
heart DO you know, julia, that the
human heart is equal to the lifting of
120 pounds every twenty-four hours?
Julia (demurely)-Well, that's Just my
weight.
Passenger-Where is the porter2
Conductor-He's little busy Just now.
do you suppose l can get him to brush
up my shoes little?" mo, sir; he re-
serves this hour every day for cutting
off the coupons on his government
bonds"
What's the charge, officer?
Officer-Petty larceny, your Honor.
Prisoner (interrupting)-I beg you par
don, judge-the charge is impersonat-
ing an officer. Judge-How do you
make that out? Prisoner--I took
handful of peanuts and an orange from
a poor woman's stand without paying
for them.
JoHNNY-You amt as big as my pa,
Mister Brown. Mr.. Brownies,
Johnny; am much taller and larger in
every way than your father. johnny
Well, sister said you wasn't. Sister
Why, Johnny, what an idea! l never
said anything of the kind. johnny
Yes you did, too. You said last night
that Mister Brown was below par.
shave the groceries come in yet,
John? 1t is only five minutes before
dinner and the pantry's empty" mo,
ma'am, but they're on the way-the
self-raising flour, the three-quarters
cooked oatmeal, the canned vegetables,
Jimpson's xxx ready prepared coffee,
Erin's patent mashed potatoes, the
twenty-second tea, the self-eating Linn
burger, and all.
A WEIRD TALE.
fellow who swallowed n drachm
OF poison grew cold as a clachm,
And when somebody said
Il don't believe he is dead"
The corpse quickly shouted, Il aehml"
And since then they say that his ghost
Each night walks round his bed phost,
And 1t scares all thu folks
Who Amt used to such jolks,
Clear out Of their senses almhost.
Chicago Herald.
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Oh, well worthy Of sonnet

Oh, well worthy Of sonnet
In the dainty little bonnet
That my wife will wear on Easter
When she goes to church with me;
Flowers, ribbon, lace, and feather,
Blending prettiIy together,
Make 4 poem most exquisite,
And a work of art to See.
When it's time to wear the bonnet,
By the mirror she will don it,
And I'll see her smile of triumph
As she blushing turns to show
Ne that lovely Easter treasure;
How her eyes will dance with pleasure
At nv gaze of admiration
And the praise I shall bestow.
Then I'll walk beside that bonnet,
CHANGING, oh, so proudly on it,
Up the aisle on Easter morning,
With the dearest one on earth;
And III notice the attention
(Which / afterward will mentionlI
That the other women pay it,
For its beauty and its worth.
Oh, all worthy of a sonnet,
Is the dainty little bonnet
That till Easter must be hiding
All it's glory on a shelf:
But the sweetest thing about it
Is-though other husbands doubt it
That my wife, to save my pocket,
Planned and made it all herself.
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EASTER 8oNNErs.
BIZ Z G. DODGE.

The seats are taken, every one;
Nv heart is beating in my ear;
The sermon is but just begun
look around-she must be her
All no alasl Her place I see
Filled by maiden strange to me.
And all at once how empty seems
The crowded space; how dim and cold
The tender morning light that streams
Through windows stained in blue and gold.
The carven cherubs look quite glum,
And even the organ-pipes seem dumb.
The preacher tells of peace and bliss,
OF Easter joy. All, well, no doubt
Some other sinner will not miss
The comfort that he talks about.
For me my altar shrine is bare
Since nv fair saints smile is not there.
What's this? A sweet face turned my way;
A gently welcoming look dear eyes!
All now. indeed, my prayer III say,
And now the preachers words seem wise,
To think my love did not know,
Her Easter bonnet changed her SO.
-GeOrde s. BTidgeT S7I Judge.
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SOCIETY Is where people who were
poor twenty-five years ago tell of the
plebeian origin of their neighbors and
conceal their own humble beginnings.
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In Texas it is unnecessary to inskrucs
the young idea how to hoot.-Hsstch-
igsoT1 NelCs.
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1890-12-17
First published December 10th, 1896
PUBLICATION SUMMONS,

PUBLICATION SUMMONS.
In the District Court in and for Ford County,
Kansas.
The Dodge City Canal Company. Plaintiff.
The Kansas Water Works 4 Irrigation Company,
ing Company, The South Dodge Canal Com pa
ny. The Dodge City Water Supply Company,
The International Trustee Assets Debenture
Company, Edwin Goodhugh Fox, Sir Henry
Edmund knight, John Miles and Herbert
George Henry Norman, Defendants.
The Mercantile Trust Company of New York.
Norman and The International Trustee Assets
l. Debenture Corporation, Limited, defendants
above named, are hereby notified that the de-
PENDANT above named has filed its answer and
cross petition in the above entitled cause in the
Office of the District Clerk of Ford county, Kan
sas. That you and each of you must answer said
airy, 1891, or the same will be taken as true and
judgment will be rendered against you and each
Of you a. prayed for in said cross petition, as
follows: That the deed of conveyance executed
Company, to The Kansas Water Works 4 frri-
cation Company, dated the 18th day of February
1896. and executed on the 18th day of February.
1850 and recorded in the office Of the Register Of
June. 1880, in book of deed record, on page 2SS
purpOrting to convey the property rights and
franchises OF this DEF endant to The Kansas w a
ter Works L Irrigation Company will be can
celled. set aside and held for naught, and the
title, ownership and possession of this defendant
in and to the property purpOrting to be conveyed
by said deed will be confirmed and established
and this defendant restored to all rights lost by
said deed: that any claim, pretended or purpOr-
ted lien, upon said property conveyed by said
deed of conveyance, as created or purpOrted to
by The Kansas Water Works 4 Irrigation Com
pany on the sth day Of April, 1859, to The Mer
camille Trust Company. Edwin Goodhugh Fox,
Sir Henry Edmund Knight, John Miles and
Herbert George Henry Norman, as trustees, will
be Cancelled. set aside and held for naught: and
that the mortgage executed by The Kansas Wa
ter Works i Irrigation Company, on the 5th day
of June, 1890, to The International Trustee As
sets j. Debenture Corporation, Limited, in so far
as it creates attempts to create any lien on the
property conveyed by said deed of conveyance
from this defendant to The Kansas Water Works
l. Irrigation Company, will be cancelled, set
aside and held for naught; and that each of said
instruments will be decreed to be null and void,
and to create no lien whatever upon any and ali
property of this defendant, purported to be con-
veyed by said deed Of conveyance. And this de-
PENDANT will have such other and further relief
in the premises as TO the court may seem Just
and equitable.
In witness whereof have hereunto set my
hand and official seal this 10th day of December,
1880. THOS. LAHEY
Clerk of the District Court, Ford
lSEAL.l county, Kansas.
Attorney for Dodge City Water Supply Co.
First published December 10th, 1890.
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1890-12-17
-,,.,a.r,os INVESTIGATION

TEE uRRIGATlON INvESTlGA1AVN
On Friday last W. W. Follett, OF Den
yer. arrived here. He Is one OF the Gu
o;neers of the artesian and underfow In
yestieation of the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture. He Immediately
began to run levels across the Arkansas
valley to several miles on the nplano
south and north, getting the deptn oi
wells, etc., so as to determine the reia-
ton of the valley waters to those OF the
high prairie. Those Of our citizens VINO
have seen Mr.. Follett, describe him as
rustler. He is out by daylight and works
till dark and is at it all the time.
On Monday night party consisting OF
Col. Nettleton, the chief engineer OF the
investigation, Prof. Hay. the chief ge-
ologist and Judge Gregory, OF Garden
CITY. arrived overland from the north.
These gentlemen had attended the lrrl-
cation convention at Oberlin. and have
driven along the Tooth meridian from
Norton, here, taking baronetrical obser-
vations of elevations, the succession OF
rock strata and depth of wells. Ihey
report everywhere great interest in lrri-
CATION. and they went off the line OF
travel to see an irrigated farm in the
southwest of Graham county, where Mr..
Nathan Crank has, at his own cost.
damned small creek and irrigated
% acres of land, from which this year
he has sold for cash 81 800 worth of pro-
ducts.
The fact already brought out by the
investigation, warrant the belief that the
underflow waters may be used for irri-
CATION il the Smoky, the Saline, the Re-
publican and even smaller valleys, and
that much good may be done by pump
ing on the upland. Col. Nettleton will
give special attention to various methods
of raising water and their cost, SO that
when their report is issued, it may be of
practical value to all intending irrigators.
After Mr.. Follett runs another line across
the valley at Garden City, he will 60
with Col. Nettleton to Denver, where
they will work up the field notes to a
practical issue, and early in the year 60
south to New Mexico and the Panhandle
for similar investigation. Prof. Hay
goes from here to join one of his assist
ants in Texas, and with him will work
southwest during the winter. In the
spring, they will with the engineer, work
northwards to Nebraska, the Dakotas and
Montana. They are somewhat hampered
by restriction as to the time of the in
vestigation, which congress ought to re-
move and give them all the summer for
their work in such an extensive field,
which stretches from the 9th meridian to
the Rocky mountains, and from British
America to Mexico.
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PUBLICATION NOTICE.

PUBLICATION NOTICE.
State of Kansas, Ford county, So.
In the District Court in and for the County
and State aforesaid.
Albert BrOmer, Plaintiff,
VS..
Austin I. Armstrong, Fannie Armstrong,
William Hunt, w. H. SchermerhOrn, 7. H.
Stevens, The Farmers Loan and Trust
Meyer, Orlando +. Casteen, and Max Tand-
Ter, Trustees, and U. F. Casteen, F. G. Hob
son, and Levi S. Gould, Assignees of The
Farmers Loan and Trust Company of
Kansas, a corporation, Defendants.
The said defendants, Austin T. Armstrong,
Fannie Armstrong, T. II. Stevens, W. L.MOyer
and Max Tandler, trustees, and F. q. Hobson
and Levi s. Gould, assignees of The Farmers
Loan and Trust Company of Kansas. and each
of them are hereby notified that they have
been sued by the said plaintiff, Albert BrOmer,
Court of the county of Ford, in the state of
Kansas, and must answer the petition therein
filed On or before the 18th day of January,
1891, Or said petition will be taken as true and
judgment rendered accordingly, viz: against
the said defendants Austin 7. Armstrong and
Fannie Armstrong, for the sum of SSDo.0O with
interest thereon at the rate of II per cent. per
annum from the LIST day of May, 1880, and for
the further sum of So 90 with interest thereon
at the rate of IL per cent per annum from the
LIST day of November, 1889, and for the further
sum of $500 with interest thereon at the rate
of l. per cent. per annum from the LIST day of
May, 1890, and for cost of suit, and for Il fur
Their judgment against you and the other
above named defendants, fOreclosing GER
tain mortgage given by the said Austin T..
Armstrong and Fannie Armstrong to the said
The Farmers Loan and Trust Company of
Kansas, to secure the payment of one certain
principal note for the sum OF Ss0O 90 and inter-
est thereon, and conveying the following de-
scribed real estate situate in Ford county, in
the state of Kansas, to-wit: The northwest
quarter of section eleven (ll), in township
twenty eight (2s) south, range twenty five
(25) west of the 9th p. NJ. (which said mort
gage and notes secured thereby were by the
said The Farmers Loan and Trust Com pany
of Kansas. duly assigned to the plaintiff here
i'm and adjudging that said plaintiff have a
first lien on said premises for tine amount for
which judgment will he taken as aforesaid.
and ordering said premises to be sold without
appraisement and the proceeds applied to
the payment of the amount due plaintiff and
costs of suit and forever barring and fore
closing all the above named defendants and
each and every one of them from all right,
title, estate. interest, property and equity of
redemption in or to said premises or any part
thereof kErCHAM 4 ERWIN.
ATTEST: Attorneys for Plaintiff
THOS. LAHEY, Clerk.
First publication December 3rd, 1880.