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NOTE THE FACT.

The Percentage of Government ForecIOs-
ures In France Wore Trihe Over One
half of One Per Cent. in Forty Years.
The Credit Foncier Is the sole nation
al bank of real property in France. 1t
Is under the supreme direction of the
minister of finance, and has an organi-
cation similar TO that of the Bank of
France. In addition to loans on prop
erty, it Is authorized to lend money,
not upon mortgage, to departments,
communes and agricultural associa-
lions. The capital has been gradually
increased until it now stands at 81, 000,-
O0O The Credit Foncier has materially
Iightened the charges of debts weigh
ing on property-in this sense, that 1t
only asks ASS per cent. interest, while
the rate of interest paid by property at
the time of its creation in 1852 was to
10 per cent Upon 9135, 900, 900 loaned
since its foundation on real property,
the society has been forced by adjudi-
cation to purchase for e72O, 900 estates
which have remained on its hands in
consequence of the non-payment of the
sums lent upon them. This is relatively
a small sum in comparison with the
amount of the mortgage loans of the
society.-Pall Mall Gazette.
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SHARP CONTRASTS,
The Heights and Depths of Social Cond
tions in Civilization.

The Heights and Depths of Social Condt.
tions in Civilization.
The bell at a basement door of a
house in New York was rung by a
woman. She held in her arms baby,
one month old, and clinging to her skirts
was a child who, in a different walk in
life, would not yet have left its moth
er's arms. Poverty has a wonderful
effect on muscles; they develop very
early under its pressure. The woman
wanted to know if she could not come
and scrub. Her husband. sober, in
dustrious man, could not get work. He
was stranger and spoke the language
indifferently; the family, for some
weeks, had been on intimate terms
with hunger and cold. Everything
brought from ''home'' that could be sold
or pawned had been, and work of any
kind that would afford shelter from-the
cold for the children, and food that
would save them from starvation, was
all for which the family asked.
The night before, within easily trav-
eled distance, dinner was given by
gentleman 70 gentlemen, for which all
that art could do had been done. Spec
iHenS OF every KIND OF game vert
standing before the guests on q bit of
swamp land, so perfectly initiated that
dead leaves We're curled up as if blown
by the wind TO their resting place: while
an eagle poised above stump, in whose
hollow depths rested her nest, filed
with SATIN eggs, whose contents would
be souvenirs of the dinner.
That means life in a city.
This morning a boy, just arrived at
the dignity of knicl1erbockers, rushed
down the brown-stone steps to kiss his
father good-morning. Hardly had the
door closed upon him before a tiny boy,
surely not year older, carrying over
his shoulder bag and eagerly looking
for stray Jumps of coal, or any other
donation from the waste of his neigh
bors-
So every hour the sharp contrast of
our civilization is seen. Waste and
starvation walking side by side, meet
! ing and passing, but surely seeing. the
heart diguised by each. The end and
| the beginning the same for each, but
/ the short span between SO different
/ Christian Union.
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HE 6EeAH TO FADE.
And Had His Picture took" Before He
Got ANY Worse.

And Had His Picture ''TOok" Before He
Got ANY Worse.
In a small town of northern Vermont
the inhabitants are noted for their early
marriages. An unmarried young wom-
an who has passed her twenty-fifth
birthday is universally regarded as an
''old maid" and q young man who has
reached the same age In an unwedded
state is pronounced confirmed bach
slor, and the young people themselves
appear TO accept the current opinion.
One handsome young fellow, twenty
six years old, was a great trial 70 his
mother busting, energetic farmers
wife. AS she lamented to a sum-
mer boarder, 1T did seem as if
Hiram was possessed to stay
single" no matter what she could
say. AN faint likely" she would
add, fretfully, that any girl will be
takin' up with him after year or two,
when he's settled down an beginnin' to
look oldl'
Hiram himself was not given to senti-
ment, and furthermore was quite I'M
conscious Of his own attractions. He
showed the summer boarder some dread
ful photographs of himself, which had
been taken the previous winter to please
his mother, and remarked. gravely;
Mother was set on havin' 'em, an
only waited to see if want likely to
get any better-lool1in' But come last
winter see was beginnin' to fade, so
| had 'em took right awayp'
The contrast between the speakers
youthful appearance and his words was
almost too much for bis hearer.-
Youths Companion.
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PROBABLY "FIxED."
A Waiter Whose Curiosity Could Not BE
Excited.


A Waiter Whose Curiosity Could Not BE
Excited.
Two men went into restaurant on
Adams street and sat down at table
presided over by solemn. gloomv-look-
ing functionary in black
One OF the two merely ordered mutt
ton chops and cup of coffee, but the
other looked carefully through the bill
of fare, laid it down, reflected few mo-
ments; and said:
Bring me bunch of toothpicl1s."
Eyes, sah.''
They were brought, and the solemn
waiter stood at his elbow, looking off
into vacancy while the man picked his
teeth.
Another careful inspection of the bill
of fare resulted in the order:
Bring me some ice cream
The ice cream was brought and dis
posed of in a leisurely way The bill of
fare was examined again from top to
bottom, laid down as before and copi-
tated upon, and an order for lemon
cream pie was given to the solemn
waiter.
The pie was brought and eaten in the
| same calm, methodical way, the bill of
fare studied again and an order given
for stewed peas and sliced cucumbers.
The imperturable waiter stood re-
! spectfully by while these were slowly
| devoured.
you may bring me some roast beef
| and brown potatoes" announced the
| guest, after another prolonged study of
the bill of fare.
"Yes, sab"
These were brought and laid before
him, and he ate them with great delhi
Grafton, after which the bill of fare was
subjected to another scrutiny.
Some bread and butter, if yor
please"
Yes, sah.''
While the bread and butter were be-
ing slowly absorbed the melancholy
waiter stood motionless, looking off into
vacancy as before.
81 think I'll take bowl of tomato
SOUP" said the guest, after another ex-
haustive perusal of the printed slip
Yes, sah."
The waiter brought the soup and
stood like statue of gloom until it was
disposed of.
Once more the bill OF fare was brought
into requisition.
Now bring me half dozen blue
points on the half-shell.'
Eyes, sah.''
Hold on! You needn't do it, ex-
claimed the guest. Il give it up. My
friend here offered to bet me that there
was waiter at this restaurant that
wouldn't bat his eye if l should eat a
square meal wrong end foremost and
took him up. I'm out five dollars, but
I've learned something
eyes, sah," remarked the funeral
waiter, and as the two guests picked up
their checks and made their way to the
cashiers desk he stood erect, with fold
ed arms, looking solemnly away into
the fathomless depths of space-Chi-
cago Tribune.
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BOB INeERsoLL.

A Brilliant and Talented Man, But
Strangely in Error as to What IL Money.
Bob Ingersoll is certainly an erratio
sort of a cuss. We suppose it Is not
profanity to call him a cuss. Strange
1y brilliant, talented and eloquent, he
takes some of the most unreasonable,
some of the least tenable positions ever
taken by mortal man. Sometimes
powerfully eloquent in his defense of
the rights and in his denunciation of
the wrongs of labor, he opposes and
ridicules whatever promises relief to
the laboring classes. His recent utter
ance on money would make an ordi-
binary school boy blush. 81 do not be-
heve," says Mr.. Ingersoll, that the
government can make money by law
any more than it can make good crops
by law" Did Mr.. Iugersoll ever
see piece of money, gold, silver, cop
per, nickel or paper, of the United
States or any other country, that was
not made by the government, and by
law? If he ever did, it was not money,
1t was counterfeit, and the maker of it
was subject to term in the peniten-
tiary. Nothing can be money without
q law or edict declaring it so, and the
law or edict must be enacted or pro-
nounced by the government, the ruling
power. Mr.. Ingersoll, if you know no
more about theology than you seem to
know about money we are afraid there
IS hell after all Better get ready for
It, or-to escape INIT Vernon Oil
Progressive Farmer
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from father to son in direct succession
for centuries, having escaped tie storm
of the revolution, who led an existence
which, according to. British ideas of
the life Of country gentleman, is not
far removed from that of the peasant.
Around such dwelling are to
be seen no stretches of En-
glish greensward; the stables, which at
certain luxurious establishments are
fitted with appointments which would
seem more appropriate to boudoir, are
here not to be distinguished from the
cattle sheds. The entrance hall is gaunt
and cold, and not less chilling are the
vast apartments which surround it. No
carpet covers the floor, and the easily
cleansed stone pavement is preferred to
the polished parquet which glistens in
most French homes.
The most favorable examples of
French homes are perhaps the chateaus
of that numerous section of the noblesse
which declines to enter into COMPETE
ton with the ostentatious luxury of the
Partisan plutocracy, but at the same
time does not scorn the civilizing
influences of the capital A stranger
who has the privilege of being
admitted into the intimacy of country
houses such as these can not fail to be
impressed with the refined simplicity
and simple ease of French home life. In
the remoter departments of France
where English fashions are not obse-
quiously copied, entertaining has hap
PLY not yet become the business which
it now is in our own country: but the
admirable comfort of well-ordered
French chateau, the excellent cuisine
usually found there, and, above all, the
great charm of manner with which the
warmest welcome is accorded to guest,
give to stranger most pleasing i'm
preston of one of the happiest sides of
the character-of nation as hospitable
as it is highly civilized. 1.-The Quarterly
Review.
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and FIJI my order, or ] viii nave you
turned off. Go, say He spoke with
a rising infection, which startled the
waiter and caused every inmate of the
room to glance in wonder at us.
81 caught the walters eye and nodded
my head. He took it for the further in
structiOn, and began to pat the back of
the gentleman's head. This was too
much for my friend.
''He leaped to his feet, uttering an
oath and overseeing his chair at the
same time. You black rascal, he said,
what do you mean by putting your
nasty hands on me? I'll beat you within
an inch of your life He made move
for Wiley.
The latter dashed for the kitchen.
The other walters huddled in corner.
My friend thought better of his inten-
ton and turned to me to make a re-
mark. 1 could hold back my mirth no
longer. 1 laughed till cried. l shouted
and fairly yelled with delight.
What are you laughing at?' asked
the angry man. Then he saw through
the whole affair. so this is some of
your wit, is it? You may laugh and it
may be good joke, but, by Jove, l came
near numbering that darby.
81 say he said, after he had re-
sumed his seat, suppose we quit joking
on the rest of this trip. believe we
break with the honors in your favor,
but don't want to run such a chance
of numbering a man or making such a
fool of myself again. IN. Y. Herald.
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PROVINCIAL FRANCE.
Something About the True ArIstocraey of |
the Country,

Something About the True ArIstocracy of
the Country,
1t is rarely given to an Englishman to
study at close quarters the inner life of
provincial France Existence in a
luxurious chateau. owned by wealthy
Partisan hospitable to foreigners. who
lives on terms of intimacy with am
passadoFs in the capital, and who in the
country surrounds himself with a colony
OF British grooms to administer his
snmptuous stables, gives no more idea
OF French life than does the interior of
a millionaire's mansion on Fifth
avenue, with its costly limitations
of the luxury of London and
of Paris, represent the domestic
life Of the bulk Of the American nation.
Aglhmpse of the real life of the true
aristocracy of France is given To feY
strangers who are connected with
French families by ties of marriage
1t must not be supposed that the French
noble who lives aloof from the An
glicized forms of gsyety in Paris is al
ways person of slender resources,
whose exclusive pride comes from his
poyert On the contrary. there are
rich ,sturists OF unimpeachable
line chateaus have descended
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Hotter bye and Bye.

If you take a summer vacation, why not GO
to Colorado? Nestled around Pixies Peak,
there are plenty of places where one can cool
off for little money. Manitou, Cascade,
Green Mountain Falls and Woodland Park, in
the famous Ute Pass, will be lovlier than eyer
this year. They are almost directly reached
via Santa Fe route. You change cars in I'm
ion depot at Colorado Springs, and take broad
guage trains on our Colorado Midland division
for destination, Cheap tourist tickets now on
sale until October 31st returning. at S96. 10 for
round trip. Stop off in Colorado allowed if
desired. Inquire of w. o. HOrr. local agent
Santa Fe route
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cocoanaf sTsIe Tor LIVER.


4 HHew use has been found for the
juice of the unripe cocoanut. This
fluid, which 70 the initiated tastes
singularly mawkish, is most grateful
and cooling drink to those suffering
from fever. 1t is largely patronized,
too, by sailors, who seem to acquire
more than their wonted thirst while
In tropical waters, and their favorite
trick of sucking the monkey as the
process of absorbing the liquid from a
hole cut In one end of the shell in which
a printing of rum has been poured is
termed, has been from time immemoriaI
one of their mueh-cheered recreations
as soon as they could escape from their
ship. The idea, however, of using the
milk : of the cocoanut as culture
medium for bacteria is a new one. In
Investigations which have been made
in Cuba during the last two years this
fluid was used very extensively, and it
was found to be great convenience TO
have sterile culture fluid always al
hand, ready for use at a moments no
tice chicago World.
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To all Friends Of Political Reform.

The Peoples party has been formed under
the most favorable auspices. and gives prom
Use OF AN early emancipation fran the thral-
dom OF the money power and other IBonopo-
lists. But this emancipation cannot be scc,Ir-
cd without special and extraordinary effort re
quiring large outisy In the preparation OF
Documents, arranging meetings and other ie-
gitimete and proper purposes TO this end
every earnest friend of poiif.ca and economic
reform and every reforh organfzationis urged
u contribute AT oftR AID LIsERALIY. Don't
delay momeat. Send the money NOW. Bring
the matter up in your organizations at once.
4 few dollars contributed now when the pre-
Hmtnary work is to be done. may do more good
than hundreds Of dollars just before election.
when 1t IS too late TO organize and agifaie Re-
init all contributions to tho secretary of the
national committee. RoBER1 scHiLIING.
4s2 Market Street, Milwaukee. Wis.
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No. sls7.
First Publlcation june "A, 1871.

order OF Publiea ton.
In the District Court within and for the Coun-
ty of Barber and State of Kansas.
Samuel McAdam, plaintiff.
VS..
James f. Feltner, Berthcnia Feltner. William
A. Cinkscales. Margaret :. 6a'Yiss scales,
Mortimer Strong, +. 5. Strong, ..ss. f. S.
Strong, i. n. Stevens and State OF Kansas,
THE state of Kansas to william A. Clink-
L scales and Margaret S CIinkscales, defend
ants, greeting: You and each of you will take
notice that the said Samuel McAdan Dlaint-
in, did on the 4th day OF February, 1891 Ale his
petition In said district court. within and for
the county or Barber and state of Kansas,
against you and the other above named de-
PENDANTS, and that you, and each of you must
answer said petition filed as aforesaid on or
before the 9TH day of August 1891 or said pefi-
ton viii be taken as true, and Judgment
rendered in said action against you and each
OF you and all the above named defendants for
the foreclosure of certain mortgage upon
the Following described real estate, lying and
situated in the county of Barber and state of
kansas, to-wit: The south half of the north
east quarter and the north half of the south
east quarter of section twenty-Hine f29l. in
township thirty t3sl. south, OF range fi-
teen tl5l. west oil the sixth -. NJ. together with
the Entertainments and appurtcnapces therc-
unto apPertaiDing and 0djuding that said
plaintiff has the first lien on said premises to
the amount of five hundred dollars. with inter-
est thereon at the rate of twelve per cent. per
annum, from tire first day of juno. ESq
and ordering said premises IL be sold without
appralsenent anl the proceeds applied To the
pay ineiit; lst of the cost OF this actioD; End.
OF all taxes that may tic "A lien on said
premises or any part thereof; 3rd, of the
amount due plaintiff, and forever barring and
foreclosing all of the defendants herein, aud
each of them, of and from all right. title,
interest. property and equity of redemntiou in
or TO said premises or any part thereof
In witness whereof have hereunio set MY
hand and the seal of said court On the is h
day of June. A. ID. 1891 H. = LANDS
Clerk of the District Court within and for
Barber county and State of Kansas.
LYMAN w. DEGEER, Attorney for Plaintiff.
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First Published July l, 1891.
EHERTFI,S SATR
No. 20I7.


STATE OF KANSAS. COUNTY OF BARBER, SIS:
Dillwyn Parish ct al, plaintiffs.
Moses Bond eft a., defendants
Q4 virtue of an order of sale issued oI,f of th,,
u barber District Court sitting in and for
said Barber county, in the above entitled ac-
uon, and To me directed, | will on
SATURDAY, THE srH DAY OF AUGUST.
1891, at O'Clock in the afternoon OF said
day, at the front door of the cnIlrfbotSs i'm said
county, offer for sale at public Auction and sell
wlthout apprdisement To the highest and hest
bidder Tor cash in hand, To satisfy said order
OF sale, all the right. title and interest whatso
ever oil the above named defendants and each
or them and of all persons cIaiIning under
them In ana 10 the following described tract
piece and parcel of land lying and situate it,
ss.d county OF barber, tO-wit: North half of
the northwest quarter and the southeast ouar-
Ter OF the northwest quarter and northwc
quarter OF the northeast quarter, all in section
fourteen IA, In township thirty-one 81 of
range ten ~, west of the 9th principal merfd-
IAN, together with ali and singular the tene-
nents. Entertainments and appnrtcnanecs
thereunto belonging or IN anywise apper-
tanning. 'PFSi-
Given under my hand at my Office in the city
OF Medicine Lodge in said county, this 10th iav
of june 1891. 4 w n0RS1N "'
oo Sheriff.
ovERsTREET g. DENTON. Atty's for Plaintiffs.
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No. 24:
No. 2O4. First Published July 1, 1881.
SHERIFF'S SAFE

STATE OF KANSAS. COUNTY or BARRIER S.
Dillwyn Parish ct al, plaintiffs.
Abraham Levy. ct al, defendants.
BY virtue of an order of sale .ued 90, -
~ tue district court sitting in AMI a., a. ~
county OF Barber. state of ,Iausss IT, IN
above entitled action, and Ia me dfres.,..d
sATUkDAY,T THE STn DAY OF AUGUST.
1871, at two O'Clock I'm the afternoon ne said
Day al the iron; door Of the Courthouse h, s,id
county, ohef tor sale At public auction aud seIi
Wlin9dt ailpraiseinene to the highest and test
te1sf TOT cash in hand, To satisfy said Sr...roS
sais. III me right, title and interest whatsorve-
81 81 Ine aoeVe named defendants and cach az
siieii, aho oi 81 persons claiming under them
IN aiia 20 tae following described tract piece.
anu parcel of land lying and stDatc IN sofd
county OF barber, to-wit: The south wcsf o,,s..
Ter OF the northwest quarter and the west half
el tho southwest quarter. section thirfv-fIvo n
IN township thirty-tnree 30, and lot Of soctio,,
Two Z, In township thirty-four "a ali i'm RANGE
fourteen IA. west OF the 9th DrincjDai me-
T1dlan together with ali aud singular the ten,
enenrs. beredftaments and aptpIrteuancez
ing. - "PPei loin-
Giyea under my hand AZ my Office in the CITY
q AisstcineIodge, in said county this :soth dax
ot . ne, 1881. j. W. DOBSON
sheriff
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She showed Him.

A negro woman had knocked q man
down. She was arrested and taken be-
fore a justice of the peace.
"You are charged with grave Of
Tense, said the Judge.
"Yas, sah." she replied.
"But l don't see why q man SHOULD
allow q woman to knock him down.
don't see how you did It. Stand OF
there AID show me about the way you
hit him"
The woman squared herself and
knocked the Judge through window.
The old. fellow picked himself up, and
IS he wiped the blood from his face, re-
marked:
Blamed if don't believe you did
knock him down, but want to say that
SO able a woman is of such use to the
community that it would be shame to
fine her. Go ahead, you are free."-Ar-
kansaw Traveller.
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h waora II nay oonseru

ssgtiee : hereby given tsat I bage ti.ed, I'm
tile ufilre g tie pto0ate judge OF Barber coun-
Is. Kansas . petition in due form of law, for
araE9ist permit under the law known a.
The FIX aipitory Law" and that my appIica-
lion Tor ssici permit. and the hearing OF such
Petition. ~iil be considerels by said probate
s,isge on Thursday. the I5fh day Of Iulx, 1891.
III - o'clock a. Ia, at the oiIsce OF said probai
Soflee. II the ccsfF1 house IN the city OF Met.i-
tFsa i<stzse. IA said county and state.
-sltlse Sti, 1891. q. A. JONES,
Drsigg1st icing business on Main street, Medi
ciEe lodge, Kansas BIS