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Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-07-26

al supervisor and presiding officer o
each county contest.
ART. Nv. CoNTEsTs.- Section !. Th,
board Of directors shall hold one o.
two contests each year.
Sec. 2. The time and place of hold
Ing county contests shall be decided
by the board elected for the year tn,
contests are held.
ART. v. CoNTEsTANTs.-SectiOn l
After the first contest, all persons liv'
Ing In Cherokee county during the six
months Immediately preceding the
contest shall be eligible contestants,
except those who have, at some pre-
viOus contest, won the first prize.
Sec. 2. The number of contestants
IN defamation shall be limited to two
from each district; and when more
than two persons wish to enter The
county contest from any district the
director of said district shall hold a
local contest and the two persons
making first and second best scores
shall be contestants. This rule may
be waived by the board of directors
in case the number entering the de-
clamatory contest is less than fourteen.
Sec. 3. The board of directors shall
have entire control over the number
entering the original Grafton contest
and make temporary rules and regu-
lations necessary for such contests.
Sec. 4. The same rule as to winning
first prize in the declamatory contest
shall apply equally to the original ora
ton contest.
ART. vi. PRIzEs.-Section l. The
board of directors shall offer prizes in
each contest for the best grades.
ART. VII. AMENDMENTS AND SUs-
PENSION OF THE RULEs-QUORUM.-
Section Ia two-thirds majority of
the board of directors may suspend
the rules.
Sec. 2. This constitution may be
amended by being first recommended
by the board of directors and passed
by majority vote of the association
at its annual meeting.
Sec. 3. Five members of the board
shall constitute a quorum for the trans
action of business except suspension
Of rules.
Sec. 4. The board of directors shall |
rave power to fill vacancies in its
membership.
The report was adopted and the
Meeting adjourned.
ARTHUR MARoNY, Pres.
HELEN SHORT, Sec.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-07-26
Electric Rltters.

This remedy is becoming 30 well
known and so popular as to need no
special mention. All who hayc used
Electric Bltters sing the same song
of praise.-h purer medicine does
not exist and It is guaranteed to do
all that is claimed. Electric Bitters
will cure all diseases of the LIVER and
Kidneys; will remove Pimples, Boils,
Salt Rheum and other affections
caused by impure blood.-Will drive
Malaria from the system and prevent
as well Assure all malarial fevers.-
For cure of headache, constipation
and indigestion try Electric Bitters.
Entire shtlsfsciion guaranteed or
money refunded Price so cents and
81. bottle At all drug stores. 8
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-07-26
FROM OUR ITEMrzERs.
~ SEND US THE NEWS. "a
LOWELL NEWS.
NY ssAN0N -


ny "ANoN."
Prof and Mrs. B. w. Willard Of
Concordia, Kan, have been visiting
relatives and friends here this week
o. Mr.. and Mrs. Barto have gone to
Missouri for visit with Mrs. Barto's
parents. % Mrs. Fulmer and sons
have returned from a visit with
friends in Labette county. % We
omitted last week TO mention the arr.
val of young lady guest in the home
OF Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Morgan. % Sub
1ect OF the prayer meeting next
wednesday evening is the life and
character Of st. Paul, with Henry Cox
as leader. % Mr.. and Mrs. Simmons
gave q surprise party Thursday eve-
ming to their daughter Carrie, 1t be-
ing the occasion of her eighteenth
birthday. % E. E. Harris of Galena
was calling on old friends here Sum-
day. % Remember the Y. w. G. T.
U. festival this friday evening.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-07-26

Webb City Crusher: We are COM
ing to the conclusion that there is a
good deal Of square-toed lying being
done IN the mineral reports OF south
west Missouri, aud q good deal Of pad
ding oUt 70 make q show.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-07-26

Having added to my already large stock Of Groceries
and Provisions full line of Dry Goods Notions Boots
Shoes Etc. you requested to call and get prices before
buying We can and do sell goods as low as any other
house in Baxter Springs of the surrounding towns
Resp'y j.. OSBORN.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-07-03
A Live Man Slowly Petrifyine

The medical men of Boston and
New York have been puzzling their
brains over a strange case ofossifica-
ton or petriication of a live man by
the name of jonathan Bass. Bass
is a man now 90 or IS years of age
and has been gradually becoming os.
sified into one solid mass for the
past forty-five years. His body is
now perfectly rigid, in color and to
touch almost exactly like a we'll sea-
soned bone, with no more flexibility
about it than there is about u stick
ofwood. While unable voluntarily to
make the least move, Mr.. Bass in
tellect is keen and his digestion un-
impaired. Hundreds Of physicians
and scientists, both of this country
and of Europe, have examined this
remarkable freak, all concurring in
the opinion that the case of Jonathan
Bass beats anything now on record
in the medical books.-St. Louis Re.
public.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-07-03

Boston culture Is making rapid
strides It used to contine itself tc
draping Venuses and Apollos in the
interest OF morality. but to-day it has
taken holder step and has concealed
the wickedness OF rum-shops under the
respectable name OF cafe. True the
rum-shop is still there and 30 is the
wanton and shameless Venus, but the
proprieties have been observed. Great
IL the reform OF the Bost onians.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-07-03

The sealskin buffalo made by cross
ing polled Aberdeen cattle on the wild
stock have fine. glossy fur. as beauti
full as that of the seal. and much
thicker. The hump on the buffalo al.
most entirely disappears on this cross,
and with it the shaggy man for which
buffaloes have always been noted.
There are now twelve of these sea.
buffalo and the cross promises to be
come u successful and valuable bre ed.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-07-03

The poets hyperbole upon the death
Of king, Hung be the heavens IL
black; yield day to night" serves very
well asa figure Of speech. but the
universal law is memorable. and the
death OF any human creature. how
ever distinguished. is but the opera.
ton OF that law. calm. placid. remorse.
less. The new generation is ready te
go on with the burdens OF life, and the
human race as whole makes pro.
e ress.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-07-03

IT Is likely that the real fight over
revision will be after the changes rec
commended by the general assem- bl.
are submitted to the several Iresby'
teries. In all country churches man,
strong d0ctrinal sermons will be de-
livcred. Country people are conserva
tive and lovers Of strong religious and
and politicai doctrines. Doctors d.
NOT administer castor oil to them Ii
capsules and the pills they take are no.
Sugar.coated.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-07-03

TIE voracity of the silkworm is
great. consuming rs it does in its life
OF thirty-five days sixty thousand
times its primitive weight; yet its
weight on merging from the egg is but
the one hundredth part of a grain
(about forty thousand silkworms to an
Ounce), and its entire food during its
life weighs less than one-half OF an
ounce OF leaves.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-07-03

SUGAR cane. according to Mr.. d.
Morris. is nowhere found wild. and it
has been supposed to have lost it's
power OF producing seed. In speci.
mems received at Kew Gardens. how
ever, seeds have been found. This
discovery is important 40 it is antici.
pated that cross fertilization and selec
ton Of seedlings may greatly improve
the plant.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-07-03
TOHER WHO KNOWS.

Because your eyes are blue, your lips are
rcd;
And the soft hair ia golden on your head,
And your sweet smiling can make glad the
day,
And on your cheeks pink roses have their
way.
Should adore you?
Since other maids have shining. golden
HAIR.
And other cheeks the June's pink roses
wear,
And other eyes can set the day alight,
And other lips can smile with youths de-
light,
Why bow before you?
But II the eyes are blue for me alone,
And for only me the rose has blown.
And but tor me the lips their sweet smile
wear,
Then shall you mesh me in your golden
hair,
will adore you.
And as my saint, my souls one shining
star.
That lights my darkness from ito throne
afar,
As lights the summer moon the waiting
sea,
With all I am and all strive to be,
J'Ilbow before you.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-07-03

A New YORK gossip. wr iting OF
William Waldorf Aston. says that since
he inherited his fathers million he
has lost his old cheerfulness and is be-
Oomiug haggard and querulous under
the weight OF money bags. 1t is more
likely that Mr.. Astor's temper is being
SPOILED by the mistaken solicitude oil
his many friends who would like tc
relieve his shoulders of his burden.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-07-03

IT is certain that the machinery Of
the Inter-Stats Commerce law is fatally
defective, and that so far as it Il pro-
ducing any effect whatever, that effect
IL wholly bad, especially in the region
west of Chicago. where the long and
short haul clause bears so heavily
upon the granger communities.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-07-03

The London Lancet recomme nds a
beverage made from the new kolanut
40 assu bstitute for tea and coffee. It
contains very little ,annin. not much
more caffeine, and its poxer OF reha.
bilating after fatigue and allaying the
paugs Of hunger are such that it might
be used by an army on the march in
place OF regular rations.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-07-03

The grip, though it destroys fewer
lives than some other epidemics. is one
ofthe most distressing plaques that ever
adlicted human beings. The work oil
the malady is yet visible Thousands
Of people are still suffering more or
less from the lingering effects OF its
dread hold upon them. and many
curious results due to 1t are coming to
lirht
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-07-03

A GROWING city like an increasing
family, requires a larger expenditure
OF money every yeE Only a town
that has passed into condition OF de.
cline can rcluce it, annual expenses.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-07-03

The Georgia editor who says that
he will run farm in connection with
his newspaper, doubtless intends a
delicate hint to country subscribers
that he can raise all the pumpkins his
family requires. ana that subscrip tions
will not hereafter be payable in apples.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-07-03

!. AN English journal OF ;ristocratic
tendencies has been discussing the
possibility OF distinguishing 'high and
low born blood" by means OF the
microscope. There are many other
more fictitious aids that may help &c
make the distinguishing marks.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-07-03
IDAHO.

BIsMARCKis restless and uneasy. lie
spends his time playing solitaire and
In writing letters which he reads and
destroys. He is probably prepared to
look upon life as failure.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-07-03

that there Is one door, one road, one cross,
one sacrifice, one Jesusi II 10 the Hoy
Ghost.
My most urgent word 10 to thoss who,
like the young man Of my text. are great
way OF. and they will start for home, and
they viii get home They will yet preach
the Gospel end on communion days carry
around the consecrated bread, acceptable
to ev. nv body, because of their holy life,
and their consecrated behavior. The Lord
il going to save you. Your home has got to
| be rebuilt Your physical health has got
| 70 b. restored. Your worldly business has
| got to b reconstructed. The church OF
God II going to rejoice over your disciple-
ship. You sre not gospel hardened. You
have not heard or read many sermons dur
| ing the last few years. You do not
weep, but the shower Is not far OF. You
| Sigh, and you have noticed that there is
always q sigh in the wind before the rain
falls. There are those who would give
anything IL they could find relief in TEARS.
They say: 'Oh, my wasted lifel Oh, the
bitter past! Oh, the gr ayes over which
have stumbled! Mhither shall ! hyl Alas
for the futurel Everything 10 dsrk.so
dark, SO darx. God help mel Goa
pity me! Thank the Lore for that last
when man begins I, petition, that sess
| in, ana beats back tie hounds o!
tempta ton to their kennel ano
around about the poor wounded SOU
puts the covert Of His psrdonin2
mercy. Hark! ! hesr some,hing . i:
GROUND the sheep-fold. The shepherd lets
them down, and the hunted sheep Of We
mountaiu bound in; some OF them tness
fleece torn with the brambles. sorRs q tnem
their feet lame with the dogs; but ooun .S
ing In. Thank God! Saved for time s"e
/ saved for eternity.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-07-03

farther on from holiness, hell is not farther
of from heaven, than we have been by our
sins away OF from our God; aye, so far of
that we could not hear His voice, though
vehemently He has called US year after
year. do not know what bad habits YOU
may have formed, or in what evil places
you have been, or what false notions YOU
may we entertained; but you are ready
to acknowledge, IL your heart has not been
changed by the grace OF God. that you are
great way of-aye. 40 far that YOU can
not get b ,ck Of yourselves. You would
liks to come back. Aye, this moment yoa
would start il 1t were not for this sin, and
that habit, and this disadvantage But
am to tel you of the Fathers cyesight,
HE saw him great way on" He has
seen all your frailti.s, all your struggles.
all your disadvantages. He has been long.
ing for your coming He has not bseu
looking 1t you with o critics ego OF q
bailifrs eye but with Fathers eva; and
II parent ever pitied child, God pities
you. You say: "Oh, had 80 many evil
surroundings when started life" Your
Father sees it. You say: II have 90 many
bad surroundings now. and 1t Is very din
cult for me to breIk away from evil asso-
Citations" Your Father sees II, and Il
you should start heavenward-as pray
YOU maW-your Father would not sit idly
down and allow you to struggle on up u
Him. Oh, mol Seeing you q grsat WY
Of He would fly to the rescue. How long
does it AXE father to leap into the mid,
die Of the highway II his child DO there
and swift vehicle IL coming, and may de-
story hint Five hundred times longer
than 1t takes our heavenly Father Il
spring to the delivsrance OF o lost child
"When he was great way on his Father
| saw him"
And this brings me to notice the father
haste. Tho Bible says he ran. No won
| der! He did not know but that the younl
man would change his mind and 20 back
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-27
LIVESTOCK NEWS.
John A. Blair of the Cherokee Livestock
Association in Town.
He Has Heard Nothing From Chief Msyes, but
Talks Entertafnly About 1as Cattle
Need Of Better scalp Laws.

John A. Blair, secretary Of the Chero-
kes livestock association, was in Fort
Worth yesterday on his way home, after
having spent week in the western part
of Texas. 81 have been over good
deal of the state in the past month, -
said he to a reporter, 'and find that
stock is, generally speaking, in fine con-
dition. Indeed, think cattle in Texas
are healthier and better IN every respect
than they have been for years.
''Do you think the supply of steers Is
as great as it was two years ago?'
mo, do not. There SEEM to be
scarcity of this kind of stock. l fn6 q
great many ranchmen have reduced
their steer cattle during the past year.
l have not bought hoof, but have had
many opportunities to purchase cows
and heifprs, although / have not found
many steers.
''In many places in the San Angelo
country noticed that the stock was suf-
fering for water. The pastures seem TO
be good but the cattle are not given suf-
.etesessat water. Looking over ranch
which my company had some intentions
OF purchasing, 1 found that the stock
was travelling six and eight miles 10
water. The owner was either too lazy
or did not know how to provide better
watering facilities. Cattle compelled
to go that distance every day for water
have but little time left to put on fat. ~
EDO you still intend to purchase q
ranch in Texas2''
''If we can find one TO suit us We will
undoubtedly buy it. 1 go to Caldwell,
Kan, Tonight, Blu: will return about
the 18th OF January and take another
tour OF the state. l am we'll pleased with
many of the ranches we have seen, but
there is always something lacking, and
the ideal pasture, such as we must find
before investing, has not been found
yet
MIR. Blair, whose renewal OF the offer
of $50, ZOO, 900 for the Cherokee Strip,
made.while in Fort Worth some days
sipeS. said that he had not heard from
sGhief Mayes, and could not say what
would become of the offer. The chances
are, however, that nothing will be done
with II.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-27
A yERITABLE PEST.
The Depredations of Wild Animals Call for
Legislative Relief.

The Depredations of Wild Animals Call for
Legislative Relief.
The depredations of wild animals
among the herds and droves of the West
should attract the attention of the forth
coming legislature to such an extent that
suitable scalp laws be passed to make it
profitable for men to engage in the occu-
patton of destroying these pests. Every
stock owner should insist that something
be done to relieve the nuisance, and
bring about a better state of affairs. 1t
is not lnfrequent that one hears of
ssfanchmen being forced out of business by
Tie ravages of wild ANIMALS.
Apropos of this subject the following
from the San Antonio Stockmau is pub
lished:
Or. J. B. Taylor, who is ranching on
a large scale on the divide at the head
of DEVILS river, was in the city one day
last week, and was overhauled by a
Stockman representative.
The doctor says they have had an
abundance of rain on the divide, and he
has never seeu the range and stock In
better shape, and if it were not for the
depredations of wild animals they would
hi Uc udppy up tuetS. ChyS uc uus ioSt
fully 25 per cent. of the calves in his
100 900 acre pasture the past season in
spite of his efforts to destroy these pests.
The doctor is a conservative man, and
when he makes q statement like the
above, il means that he knows just what
he is saying.
He scouts at the idea of wolves de-
stroying rabbits to any appreciable eS-
tent. Says be thinks be has now got
poisoning down TO a pretty fine point,
and will be more successful in that line
in the future. He uses No. 8 capsules,
! packing them full of stry chime aud ill.,
sorting them in small pieces of dried or
partially dried meat; when tbs meat is
IN this condition the wolves will take 1t
Just as readily, and the capsules will not
diss I've so as to let the taste of the poison
penetrate the meat. He thinks it is not
necessary to make drag of fresh meat +,
as is the general custom, but that few
drors of oil OF rhodium dropped on q
lariat and dragged over the ground will
answer every purpose. Says neigh
boring sheep rancher has for some time
been Obliged to keep guard in his cor
rails at night, and even then as many as
three sheep have been killed in single
night by the wolves suddenly dashing in,
doing their work and out again before
they could be prevented.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-27
WOOD COUNTY.

Something About the Resources of This Rich
County.
On the western border of the timber
region OF Texas spsns the high ridge
which divides the state into the Missis-
nppi valley and the gulf slope. on the
northern border Cypress creek finds its
way through Csddo lake 10 the Father
OF Waters, - while the historic Sabine,
once the boundary of empire in its lower
course, but q mere rivulet here, drains
the balances of the county and debouches
Into the Gulf OF Mexico.
From ner great elevation and proxim-
Itv to the prairies, Wood county enjoys q
breezy and salubriouS atmosphere and q
comparative Immunity from the malarial
diseases common in this latitude. So we
have here all the guarantees OF health to
be had from altitude above the level of
the sea, and the free circulation of air
minus the unpleasant rigOT of the regu
lar norther. In addition to this. good
drinking water is every where plentiful,
and fruits and garden vegetables Of all
kinds are produced in abundance.
Ii goes without saving that Eastern
Texas contains the finest Gotten land and
Union; and IL ia equally true that Wood
county IL one OF the best cotton and luM-y
her counties il that section OF thaSstate.
Land, 10 be well adaptedato farming,
must be sufficiently leseaSs free from rock
and rest on u tiyueiay foundation. The
Soil here. q. mas all these essential
reguissses of excellence aud IS also
,biesssd with regularity of seasons
not known on the Western prsiries.
About three fourths of the area of the
county is tillabIe, and every foot OF
that, perhaps, is adapted to cotton. The
TIeid is from one-half bale to a bale
per acre, according to the seasons.
Ribbon cane succeeds admirably in the
branch bottoms, turning out 800 or 400
gallons OF syrup per acre. ANY cheap
appliance for converting syrup into
sugar would be Il public benefit, aud
would bring untold wealth to our people.
Rice also does well III the bottoms.
Mr.. Ed Mrrtin showed US Ia fine sample
Of rire raised on his farm near Quitmsu
grown, but only for home consumption.
The prevailing growth of trees in the
larger portion of the county Is
black jack, hickory and postoak.
Little skirts of prairie fringe the western
border; while great forests of sbortleaf
pine cover the eastern section. The
capacity of these piueries for lumber
seems we'll niRh inexhaustible. Perhaps
It is not too much to say that millions Of