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but have about given up in despair. It
Is pretty thoroughly understood that
Close will remain in the race. The
reason given is that Peoples party can
didate cannot withdraw IN favor of
Edward Carroll, who is a banker. Had
Dir. Solomon been nominated. the with
drawal of Close could have been accom-
plished.
Travesty Upon Divine Law.
From the Arkansas City Border Bulletin.
Who denies that the family is the
foundation of stable society: Who
questions that the simple formula of the
marriage ceremony underlic tie s,abii-
Ity of the state? No one W. has sense
TO see anything more than that which
floats as scum upon the suriace of the
stream. Yet in all civilized IDS, or, To
be more precise, sll over i'i3 United
States, are courts authorized by statute
10 traverse the laws of God and make
an end of the marriage relation upon the
most flimSy pretexts. 'Incompatibility
of temper" has often been pleaded sue
cessfully to secure the desired sepera-
ton, and if finite mental dexterity can
go farther than that in the nothin gnesS
of excuse 1t Is difficult To imagine how
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Yga-z The Ascats4a @ssas
The Democrats 4 the Firss cor
gressioual d.s.r5c; have BEEN quietly 81
work zgmce TIRE Hgifon Convention &,
secure the withdrawal 81 T. J. Close. lie
Peopae's FArsy candidate fox eoagsess,
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The Land and Water Of th. Globe.

John Murray. member % the Cha!-
lcngar expedition. and one Of the high
est living authorities on oceanO9rapby.
estimates the area 81 the dry land ~
the globe az 50. 900, 900 square miles and
tho area Of the ocean i57. 2O0. 900 square
miles. lie estimates the volume ~ the
dry land above the level az The ga az
q. o00. 0e0 cubic miles, AID the volume
Of the waters Of the ocean nt 80. tsJ0 90
cubic nllez he fixes the mean height
Of the land above the sra a. 2,25o feet,
and the mean depth II the whole ocsaa
AZ II. 80 feet OF eourBe. these rraulia
are only approximate, but they help To
render our isIeaA q tLcss matters moro
definite bir Murray aiso climates
that the rivers q the world carry into
the ocean every year 81 cubic ml}es %
sediment 70 tbis must d added To
matter carried - the ga ga solution.
which Is cstinaated - i-isz niles % raar-
Ter. Together. then, the amount 81
matter carried throuRh The land each
year Is - cubic r1ilsg- II wonld tfsaA.
according % this calculation. take
Z. ~. 500 yeasrE - transport the vboss q
The solid lard dossu n lie So
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1t looks now as if Kansas Democrats
were going to have state ticket, with
Cleveland electors, in spite of their
would-be bosses.
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COUNTY REPUBLICAN TICKET.
State Senator 18th District,
o. II. BENTLEY.
Representative 9th District,
Representative 6Sth District,
GEORGE l., DOUGLASS.
Representative G9th District,
/. II. SHIVELY.
County Attorney,
JOHN ID. DAVIS.
Clerk District Court,
s. \. BRIDGEMAN.
Probate Judge,
l.. s. NAFTZGER.
Superintendent Public Instruction,
J, s. CARSON.
County Commissioner.
ID. a. MCPHERSON
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George T. Anthony is a timer by trade.
This accounts for the alacrity with which
he soldiers up the holes in the calamity
Bhriekers.
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John J. ingalls, was in Berlin last
week, where he dined with Minister
Phelps, from where he went on to vi
emma
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This years wheat crop in Kansas at 60
cents a bushel would bring to the state
near $4,000, 900.
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STATE REPUBLICAN TICKET.
For Associate Justice,
D. VI. VALENTINE.
For Governor,
A. w. SMITH.
For Lieutenant Governor,
K. +. MOORE.
For Secretary of State,
w. c. EDWARDS.
For Auditor,
g. X. BRUCE.
For Treasurer.
J. b. LYNCH
For Attorney General,
T. F. CARVER.
For Superintendent OF Instruction,
J. c. DAVIS.
For Congressman. Seventh District,
CHESTER /. LONG.
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EXCHANGE SHOTS.

Every field is smiling promise,
Every home an Eden fair.
And tie anseis-Peace and Plenty
Strewing blessings everywhere.
Hattie Hornor.
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ssHiyes $50 Hga1rs and Miss FesssIess
A. BARRED. are t5ey7
kncelFrrs4gs--Iea.
sta3veiy--iTho vas the bes. man ~
To- wedding
szo6gra4n--Aiz Foadick---Judge.
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REPUBLICAN TICKET.

REPUBLICAN TICKET.
For President.
BENJAMIN HARRISON.
For Vice President.
WHITELAW REID.
For Presidential Electors.
At Large-WILLIAM HAMILTON, RO-
DOLPH HATFIELD. ID. w. KING,
First District-H. NJ. ALLER.
Second District-B. S. SMITH.
Third Distrjct-E. g. DEWEY.
Fourth District-0. 5, WOODWARD.
Fifth District-W. w. CALDWELL.
Sixth District-A H. MCGEE.
Seventh District-F. S. LARABEE.
For Congressman-at-Large,
GEORGE r. ANTHONY.
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STATE REPUBLICAN TICKET.

For Congressman-at-Large,
GEORGE r. ANTHONY.
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COUNTY REPUBLICAN TICKET.

For Congressman. Seventh District,
CHESTER /. LONG.
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LITTLE MAN IN THE ORCHESTRA,

II you would go to tho play some night.
You'll see in the orchestra, on the right, ..
A little man;
And if he doesn't nstonish you
With tho musical antics he goes through
Why, nobody can!
First he plays the T-don't-know-what, whose
tones
Sound just as il you wore hitting bones;
1hsn, with . jump,
He jangles the chords of the tumty-tnm,
And he's sure to be buck whom the big bass drum
Requires a thump.
Next the whnt-you-msy-call-it must be whscked;
And then from the thinguTmy he'll extract
"A tinny sound;
While tho jiggormarae he will wake to life
Till he sets you on edges, like \ knife
When it's being ground.
And there are those round brass things, you
know; .G
What's the name they give EN-? er-er-they go
Ghing-chung. ching ching!
Whenever there comes n great big crash
He uses his feet, and makes EN- clash
. Like everything. @ H.. Am
There's a little bald man on tho other side
Who stands up and lsoSs rather aignitiod;
But don't watch HIM;
His fddlss the biggest of all. it's true,
But tho only thing he can make it do
Is to go 'zim-2im!'
Malcolm DonglAs. in ST. Nicholas.
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I'm ~ ACAb oAAu q Gxl-
colored band ornamental with three let
tors: &c. O.. b." Club Cerceau Brestois.
The unplres wear a little w~hits-and-red
rosette in their buttonholes.
Every runner who registers for the race
receives a white card on which his name
and age are written. AT each goal, on
showing this card, he receives a ticket; n
pink ticket at the starting post, which he
exchanges on reaching the turning post.
where the homo run begins, for a yellow
ticket; he receives there also two blue
passage tickets" When he reaches the
starting point he has to show his runners
card and his two blue passage tickets.
All the G. G. L. fellows enjoy the races
immensely and are enthusiastic over tho
sport. Two public races have come off.
In the first fifteen champions took part.
The course was from Brest to Trinity and
return, a distance of about eight and three
quarter miles. The best three runners
ven over the ground in one hour five min
utes. ono our ten minutes and one hour
eleven minutes. respectively, all driving
their hoops in fine style.
The result of the Seoond race over the
same course was more remarkable still; the
winner, Georges Guitar, finished the race
in one hour. American lads can add this
now French feature, in all respects a good
one, to their track athletics;'' it certainly
will be q good developer for steadiness Of
hand and arm and BYE.
Copyright,
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false neuroptera. in which the transforma
tinna are incomnlete.

false neuroptera, in which the transforma.
ions are incomplete.
From these short descriptions it will be
possible for you to place all the insects You
for further class ltication, If you have no
older collector among your acquaintance
whom you can consult, you will nave to go
to some book.
Here. then. is the proper place TO men,
tion the few books which will help a be-
ginner. There is, I am sorry to say, no
very good book for school boys or girls
unless they are very intelligent, and more
than Is or 16 years old.
1.-The Butterfly Hunters" by Mrs. Mary
Treat, 10 a most interesting book for
younger persons, but it treats only of u
few butterflies and still fewer moths.
Packard's CDR. A. 81 Entomology for
Beginners is oomprehenslve. and covers
tho whole fold. and will be ineligible
%sects." by Hyatt 81. d. and Arms CHI. il
another comprehensive little book. but it
il intended more for teachers than for
scholars. Both Of those works are fully
illustrated, and many insects can be recog-
nized from their pictures. Harris's
insects Injurious to Vegetation" is one
of the best books to be recommended. The
R~roateat resource of a beginner, however, il
usually ONE older collector, or IL he live
in OF near some large oity, there il fro
q~uently IL museum or public collection
from which he can get some help.
In the next paper l shall begin viii a
series of common insects. / shall take
them up about US they appear through the
season, and describe their habits and trans
formations, and tell you whore to loo for
them, but | shall treat mainly of such forms
IA you may readily find n observe for
yourselves.
Copyright.
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avon the knowledge of their own death.
The impact. following upon such an I'M
heard-of impetus would mean instantan-
eous annihilation.
For himself, he mourned the death of his
mission more than his W slaughter; as
mighty turn to the wheel that controlled
the vertical ruddsr. The airahip careened
SO that he was thrown from his feet. Even
before one could write the dot uron tho j.
he felt a grating, orunching sound. There
was a shrek from the cabin.
He looked out of the window. The ship
had grazed the side of the mountain-just
escaped destruction.
But, horror upon horror! Even as he
looked, oongratulating himself, and feel-
ing as bravo men do-weak as water after a
+ narrow cscnpe-the mountains doomed up
before him again.
lie had forgotten to s%traighten the rud-
der, and the Nirship, describing q gigantic
circle, moro swiftly than tho hungriest
bird of prey. bore down again upon the dia-
bolicRl obstruction. my God" he cried.
floor during these unparalleled crises, was
aroused Mt the exclamation. This was the
first word which the sergeant had uttered.
The inventor opened his Dyes. They fell
upon the wheel that controlled tho dirso-
tion of the airahip. His trained eye saw
that it WAS terribly turned. He did not
know the danger which they had escaped.
He only knew that something was alto
gather wrong. Dcftly and quickly ho
turned the wheel 40 that the ship, suddenly
diverted from its circular course. dnrted
straight ahead.
Past tho dohles of tho mountains. over
narrow valleys, the ship sped with the in
telligence of tho breath OF life. The ser-
] geant staggered to the main compartment,
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CHAPTER V
A NEW nIsEAawy

- tNA'W AhSAbASAS
nO MENTION HAS BEEN MADE
III Of the fact that this new form Of
TX what might be called flying, but
which was, in reality. a motion much
orc steady J, had brought its inevitable
nausea. The excitement of the contest
with the fook Of birds, added to the de-
cision in regard to the matches, had put
this abhorrent feeling to flight from our
travellers.
1t is q curious circumstance that the hu-
man frame must undergo new tortures in
accommodating itself to new conditions.
Ths slightest change throws our msshan-
ism out Of gear. Commonplace soa-sick-
ness il our most evident illustration Of this.
Ths rocking railroad train affords
another. A fevsr, often of a malignant
type, prostratss the Europeans who land
upon the west coast Of Africa or penetrate
the jungles of Csylon. There is 4 certain
odd sensation which attacks sensitive
organisms when they ride upon the electric
street ear. An elevator creates its own
maui has hia peculiar sensations whom the
balloon leaves tho clouds, a. spscks, under
him.
Judge then, whether this airship shall
not, BY very reason Of its fearful novelty
be ths~pareAt of anew disease.
At the moment when Sergeant Willtwig
mentioned SO common q matter ~ clothes,
10 relieved the strain upon the thoughts of
the party. n the unique motion o
Rripped their minds and clutched their
bodies and Frustrated them.
The shock was a. inexplicable a. sea
sickness and o. subtle a. nostalgia. This
malady, which has been hitherto unknown.
and to which We give this name s'air siok-
ness" now sttaoksd them feroeiously. Sud
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Gig. 81. The characteristic Of the order
Is that the front wings lie close along the
back in 4 straight line. The mouth-parta
ing. Their transformations arc complete.
The latvD vary greatly in the different
families, but all Of Thorn are very unlike
the parent.
The third order Ia lepidoptera. or ''scale-
winged" This In composed of the butter
flies and moths. Gig. 4l. These insects
have four broad wings, with branching
veins covered with minute scales. which
are 30 snail that when rubbed off they rs-
aemble dust. The mouth parts are fitted
for sucking-that II, they are haustellats--
and consist mainly Of 4 long narrow tubs
which can be thrust down into q flower to
suck up honey. The transformations OF
these insects arc complete. Their larya
arc commonly known ~ eatsrpillars.
Gig. 4 AZ.
Fourth comes the order of hsmiptsra,
moaning. half'winged." These insects
have their mouth-psrts formed for sucking.
They have also a horny beak, with which
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AFRICAN DIAMOND FIELDS.

Stories of the Search for Gems Under tho
Electric Light.
Working by electric light in the desert of
Africa, with power furnished by coal cost
ing goo 4 ton, WAS the novel subject dis
cusssd yesterday at the Leland BY George
.. Longstrsst, an English mining engineer.
During . long residence in Soutk Africa,
MI. Longstrsst travelled rs far into the in
tsrior - Livingstone did. visited \ number
Of places which have never been seen by a
dozen white men, and in naany regions
found that he was the first white man the
nltivss had seen.
'"Ths control of the diamond mines by
the Rothschilds," said Mr.. Longstreet. ''is
entirely duo TO the DISQUALIFICATION Of
the original companies. some Of them
were capitalized - high as S25, 600, 600.
They are 0 limiting the production of
gems TO ths demand. Diamonds will never
il South Africa diamond mining are past
forever. In carly days the mines were d.
vidod into little allstments of thirty feet
square, and each Of these were sold to 4
corporation for $500.000-a neat suns
for little land scarcely large
working for one company and in enc mine
~ many as 10000 naked Zulus, whose work,
oddly enough, was carried on by electric
light within = year after il was invented.
In those days our chief difficulty was to
prevent the thefts of the workmsn. We
had an oversoer for every five mon. and yet
the beggars managed to steal large numbers
of diamonds. These Zulus arc born thieves.
All the tales Of Rider Haegnrd, whom I
knew in South Africa, I have heard often
from the lips OF the Zulus.
''Ths mines are four in number, the Kim
berly mine proper being but one Of them.
II is 700 feet desp, and the lO,O men at
work in it look like more pygmies. It was
originally all one hill, formed BY some
gigantic volcanic action from below. Long
before the chimney was dug. a few dia-
monds were washed from this hill into the
streams, whore they were discovered. At
Kimberley the diamonds were imbeddsd in
= strange, hard mud, which had to be blast.
ed w~ith.dynamite before it could be brought
up Il had to remain a year before the
precious stones could be secured. We could
not use crushing machines, for they would
crush thu diamonds.
1.-The most beautiful diamond by far that
I have ever seen was the one found at Kim
berly by a little American named Porter
Rhodes. paid 95 just to look at it. The
sight was a liberal education for a diamond
expert. He afterwards sold it to the countess
of Dudley for $500, COO. It was lost once
before it left Africa, and Rhodes presented
the Zulu who returned it with a reward of
$75, OO.-Chicago Tribune.
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fan. Tho transformations are incomplete.
The Larvae differ from the parent chiefly in
lacking wings.
The seventh and last order is known as
the neuroptera, from Greek words mean
ing "netve-winged." This order contains
the most lowly organized insects and is
the one which has been the most SUBJ
divided by late writer's. The wings are
four in number and many veined. resem-
bling network. The dragon flies may be
looked upon as typical examples of the
order. Gig. 81 The insects of this order
fall into two chief natural divisions; the
one known as the %neuroptera proper, in
which the transformations are complete;
the other as the pseudo-neuroptera or
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TO CLASSIFY INSECTS.
The Third Paper for the Young
Entomologist, by Prof. C.
@a. v. Riley. ~
Seven Chief Orders of Insects
classified According to Their
Wings and Mouths.
Descriptions That, Aided by tho Illustra,
lions, win Enable Ono to Collect
in Proper Orders.


Written Tor The HELENA INDEPENDENTLY
a g.. lTHIhD PAPER. 5a @@""# T.
YSY AVING LEARNED SOMETHING
TT about how to collect insects and
III and how to mount and preserve
thena. you naturally wish to know how to
arrange them in classes. The study of
natural history cannot be carried on to ad-
vantage without the proper tools of study
naming and elassiioation; and here We
shall be net at the outset with some rather
hard scientific words, but these are tho
~''toola'' Of the science. No great knowledge
Of any special department of human activ-
ity can be acquired without such techni-
o~alitiss.
Insects proper form q class of a great sub
kingdom OF the animal kingdom called the
a%rthropods. The arthropods include the
crabs and Holsters and shrimps, the spiders
and mites. the tho%uaand-legs. and many
other forms in addition to the true insects
True insects are called hexapods, from
Greek words meaning ''six legs and this
character Of six legs at onoe distinguishes
them from all other arthropods.
I will not weary you with too much de-
tail in tho matter of classification, because
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-V~&A0 W. ~N SAANb
They differ somewhat according to tho
individual views of those who propose
them. L @MmM"M@
Insects are quite naturally divisible into
seven chief orders, based upon the char
acter Of the wings and tho parts.
This sevenfold system is essentially that
Of Linnneus. On account of its simplicity
it is preferable. for beginners. to the more
complex classiications proposed by more
recent writer's and founded upon more
profound knowledge Of the subject.
The first Of these orders to be considered
is the h~ymenoptera Figures one and two),
from Greek words meaning "membrane-
winged" This order includes the familiar
bees, wasps, ants. etc. III insects belong
ing to it have four membranous wings with
comparatively few veins, the hind pair
being always the smaller. The mouth
parts, with some notifications. are mandi-
bulate-that is, formed for biting. The
transformations arc what is known
as complete - this means that
the insect when it matches from
the egg bears no resemblance to its
parent. Hymenoptera is the order which
includes most of the social massachusetts
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HIDDEN FAITH.

am not miserly OF moan;
And yet | say there lies
Within this dollAr silver sheen
A charm that ~sntisties
The deepest longing of my soul,
And fills my every sense
With Joy that [ alone control
The wealth II represents.
1t holds MT powsrless; | gloat
Upon it's subtle charm !!
] worship 1t aud foundly dete--
But then. where IN tho charm?
What books or sculptures, gou,s Of art,
What work Of human brains,
Can bring tho rapture to my heart
Which this ono coin contains2
Harry Romano in Puck.
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KIND OF ATH-
letio sport has been
introduced among the
French boys. .."@" "-"|"
A society called
1.-The Hoop Club" was
organized a few weeks
ago in one of the large
towns, Brest, for regu-
lar races with rolling
hoops. The club num-
bers twenty seven
1ncmbers. A monthly
race was appointed.
It's rules and prizes
were fixed by tho COM
mittee. "... "
Each runner wears
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tlrely membranous and they fold down the
back in a roof-shaped manne
The insects OF the fifth order arc known
as diptera Gig. y, meaning "~two-winged,''
g CHARACTERISTIC which distinguishes them
from other orders, the second pair of wings
being reduced to mere little knobs or scales.
known as balancers. These are tho true
t!es. The mouth-parts are constructed for
piercing and sucking. The transformations
are completes. The larvae are comnonIy
known as maggots. Well-known examples
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got past thu engines. and tainted for the
first time in his life.
SO, At the last second Of time, ths In
ventor became ~ he should be-, the pro-
server; and the Aeropols charged on her
journey with the unconsoioasnsss Of dam
ger or of escape, which always surprises M
In a grand machine. II seemed as il she
ought to understand.
lTo BE CONTINUED.
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ia order are the common house fly and

of this order are the common house fly and
the mosquito.
In the sixth order fall grasshoppers, To-
Gusts, katydids, crickets, cockroaches, etc.
II is known by the name %orthoptera, mean
ing acknowledgement" the front wings
being usually straight, narrow and parch-
ment-like, thickly veined. and when closed
they overlap at the tip. Gig. 81. The
hind wings are usually large and fold like q
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Downright

Tom: DO you notice how Miss English
drops her eyes when you speak to herr
Dick: No; but | notice how abe drops her
h's when sne speaks to me.--Yals Record.
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'.Shsllow is \ man of rather small cali
her. isn't her" Ills wife makes much OF
him." Its surprising where shs gets thu
material do Eo."-New York Press.
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in which we find n high degree of
intelligence n a subdivision of labor for
the common good. The young. or larva, of
these social insects, the name invariably
given to The second stage of insects, is
Invariably grub-like and helpless, ana fed
or nursed by the parent. There 10 a large
section Of the order, including the saw
flies and horn-tails, in which the larva
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resembles somewhat an ordinary osterpil-
lar. N is able to feed itself the moment it
matches.
colsoptera, meaning ''shisld- winged" be-

cause the true flying wings are generally
shielded by q pair OF hard or horny wing
covers, technically called elvtru. The
popular name for these insects IL "beetles."
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they can pierce tho It's
suss of plants or ami
mails. Their transfor-
nations ars incomplete
that 10, the larve,
when first Matched, look
very much like tho full
insect, except
that they have no wings.
The hemiptera are d.
vided into two impor-
Aan n--.a I'M.