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window of the mill was light till dawn;
vet the earliest conner did not fail to find
Zephrin up and about. No one could un-
derstand, for not another light save the
miller's might be found in all Saint Pyx,
not even at the presbytery, after ten
o'clock. At length the tongues of the
gossips began to wag. It went abroad
that he was closeted each nightwith the
Old Mantle evil one--debating upon
the sale Of his soul for riches and power
to satisfy his sinful pride. Again, others
said it was not Zephrins light at all;
but only the glowing of the ghosts of his
deed, taken all in all, the miller has be-
| come a fearsome Individual and the
neighborhood of the mill place to be
Stunned after dark; unless one had no
fear in his heart. If by any unfortunate
concurrence of sorceries person should
chance to meet FREELY while passing
the mill, no plunging of steel into wood
might save him from the evil spirits.
Even to bless himself and utter pious
invocation, perhaps, might not avail!
I'm the midst of Zephrin's ill-repute
singular thing occurred. He was known
to have fallen into conversation with
customer. It was this way: Colette
Dion came often to the mill with the
grist Of her mother-a poor widow with
10 children, of whom Colette was the
eldest. One day when she came down
along the dandelion-dotted pathway
leading to the mill, with her mothers
grist in bag upon her head, Zephrin
watched her with much interest. If
common report may be believed she was
certainly, in those days, picture not to
be blinked casually. She had the figure
of nymph and a face, for all it was
commonplace at points, something un-
!, usually fine for a villager. But the step,
the carriage; it remains to this day, as
we have seen, monsieur, dignifed, dis
tinguished, majestic! Atfrstglance, it
is said, there was some remarkable re-
sembl ance tween Colette and Zephrin
y q and who sca II tell !? Il may have been
some vague, suggestion Of congeniality
some thin ray IS from one distant
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b, OuunEnsr Resorts on the 1lonon.
Tho Summer resorts on the Monon Route
are having 'sbig season." West Baden
and French Lick Springs are moro popular
than ever, and Paoh has started q new SAN
sitarium tostske the overflow. The waters
OF these springs have been recommendedb by
prominent physicians % superior in their
curative properties to those Of Hot Springs,
White sulphur, or even the noted spas and
,sbads'' Of Germany. West Baden indeed
has boon ftly called s'the Carlsbad Of Amer.
fnst as full Of fish. The railroad company
has fine park there and is soon to build .
new station.
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JOHNNIE CHAFF1E-''Come, Mamie, let Us
play Adam and Eve" M2mie-tsHow will
we play it?'' g. You tempt me with an APP
pie and I'll eat it."-Texas Sitter.
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A NATURAL manner was her aim,
Sincere and simple, and all that;
She failed : but she was not to blame,
For she resided in A fat!
Life,
Homsseekers' Excursions South.

On tho 18th and 10th of June, also July 6,
2. % and 21st and several dates during Au.
gust. September and October, the Chicago
b Eastern Illinois r. r. will sell first class
round trip tickets, good 81 days from date
Of sale. for one fare plus 81. 90 for the round
trip, to al points in Florida and the South.
Tracks, trains, time, all the best. For fur"
ther information address G. w. Humphrey,
N. P. A., st. Paul, Mimi. City Ticket Office,
lo2 Clark St., or G. l.. Stone, G. p. & I. A.,
Chicago. II ,w.
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''THERE is no such thing as perfection in
this world" said the philosopher "Right,"
assented the colonel. ''Even whisky has
to be nigh so puhsent watah. "-1ndianapo
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Best of All

To cleanse the system in gentle and truly
comes, use the true and perfect remedy,
Syrup Of Figs. One bottle will answer for
all the family and COSTS only 50 cents; the
large size 81. Buy the genuine. Manufac.
tured by the California Fig Syrup Company
only, and for sale by all druggists.
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FLANNEL next to the skin often produces q
rash, removable with Glenn's Sulphur Soap.
Hills Hair and Whisker Dive. SO cents.
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THEY say Barrows has writer's cramp."
s"Well, don't wonder, considering the
literature he feeds On.'-Harper's Bazar
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WE think Piso's Cure for Consumption Is
the only medicine for Coughs.-JENN1E
P1NcKARD, Springfield, Ills, Oct. l, 1894.
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of manufactured linseed oil there
went abroad last year 2,71s gallons,
valued at $37 1868. ~ .ss. .
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VERY low rates will be made by the Mis-.
souri,, Kansas and Texas Railway for ex.
cursions Of August 18th, Septemb Der LIST, 18th
and S9th, to the south, for Homeseekers
and Harvesters. For particulars apply to the
nearest local Agent, or address JAMES BAR
KRR, Gen. Pass. & Tkt Agt., st. Louis, Mo.
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NoN-CoMM1TrAL. - Possible Suitor-"Are
youmusical, niss2" Elderly Maiden (hesi.
tatihgly)-"Would that be agreeable to
yonl"-Fliegende Blaetter.
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"AN' so O'F'lannigan was STINT up fer
loife, We sez?'' s'Yis, but his friends do be
thryin' to get his sintence redooced tin
years Life !.
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FRS stopped free and permanently cured.
No fits after first days use of DR.. Kline's
Great Nerve Res:orer. FREQ g trial bottle
& treatise. DR.. KLINE, 033 Arch st. Phila Pa.
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. ISLANDER is the revenge of coward and
discrimination his defense johnson.
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summer Rasorta Isl the l(oaon.

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Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-26
SIGNS OF IMPROVEMENT.

Since the election of Mckinley reports
from manufacturing centers show that
more than 100000 men have gone to work
in their various vocations who had been
idle by reason of the Industrial stagnation
caused by the threat of Democratic as
cendancy. These workmen are now en-
ployed in glass works, iron mills. ship
yards, mines, paper mills and similar in
dustries. They are mainly skilled laborers
and it is estimated that their weekly wages
amount to more than 100000. This of it
self makes a very respectable increase in
the amount of money in actual circulation,
and if there were nothing else it would
have a favorable effect on the business of
the country. But the improvement is not
confined to the manufacturing centers. In
every state there has been a decided in
crease in the demand for labor and thou
sands of wage earners are now earning
something who had nothing to do before
the election.
This state of affairs, while very gratify-
ing, is but the precursor of a great indus
trial movement which is to come in the
spring. Almost every day announcements
are made of new enterprises to be launched
after the winter is over: immense sums of
idle money are waiting for investment and
there is no fear but that the Republican
promises OF prosperity will be more than
amply realized.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-26
THE ONLY HOPE FOR CIVIL SERVICE
REFORM.

Civil service reform was given lively
overhauling in the lower house of congress
on Wednesday afternoon, though the mo-
ton to destroy the civil service commission
by deriving it of an appropriation was
overwhelmingly lost.
CONGRESSMAN Baker. of New Hampshire
fought the field. He declared that what
ever advantages the system may possess in
theory, in practice it is travesty and
bumbug. He showed that $40 dismissals Of
competent clerks had taken place in the
interior department alone during the Cleve-
land administration, of whom 1S5 were old
soldiers Hoke Smith had so manipulated
the commission that he secured the en-
pIoyment of log Georgians in that depart
ment and every one of these Georglans
had taken the place of some competent
clerk who had been discharged TO make
room for political pets. In the treasury
department, also. Mr.. Baker found re-
markable discrimination against Repub-
licans and old soldiers. The secret serV-
ice of that department had been Weeded
out until but one Republican remained
among all the number.
Not content with arraigning the admins
tratfon of the civil service laws, Mr.. Baker
denounced the principle as un-American
and disastrous to the public service. He
declared that department clerks were I'M
der an espionage which left them no bet
ter off than factory hands, and yet the
public business had beer better handled
under the spoils system. He declared that
the clerks supplied through civil service
examinations were as a whole, less quail
fed for the duties they had to perform
than the clerks who were formerly ap-
pointed because they had a political pull"
What merchant or manufactures" de-
manded Mr.. Baker, would be willing to
apply the principle of a competitive examin-
alton to the selection of his employes?"
Whether or not this so-called civil serv-
ice reform is right in principle it is certain
that it will never become a success so long
as its present method of enforcement re-
mains in effect. Mr.. Cleveland and his
heads of departments have manipulated
the law and the commission until they have
practically placed the government under
control of Democrats, and it is not i'm
probable that President Mckinley will also
depart from the spirit of the law far
enough at any rate to place a large share
| of the places into possession of the Re-
| plihlicans. Under these conditions civil serv-
ice becomes simply sham. Indeed, there ap,
pear to be but two channels through which
the system may become a success, or. a
least, accomplish its purpose. One is Il
pass a law giving absolute life tenure t.
office holding, and the other is to CONVEX
the politicians to a disinterestedness befit
ting the conditions of millennium.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-26
Thift and Prosperity.
From the Chicago Record.

From the Chicago Record.
AS a general rule American people are
frugal and thrifty. appreciating the doc
t-ire which teaches the necessity of pre-
pairing for the inevitable rainy day. New
ertheless it is often said that one reason
for the delay in the return of prosperity
was the fact that so many persons were
living beyond their means. This contains
suggestion which is well worth needing.
There are degrees of thrift, just as there
are degrees of extravaganza, and the ques-
ton Is whether the comforting habit Of
saving could not be still further enCour-
aged. Opportunities for slving-even op-
portunities for investment-are not hard to
find. There are banks in plenty. But no
serious student of the situation can doubt
for minute that were there 10 be placed
within the reach of the people a public saw
ings bank, easy of access and backed by
the whole strength of the government, the
habit of thrift would be promoted inesti-
mably. The need can best be filled by the
postal savings bank-a system which not
only accepts but invites the deposits Of peo-
pie having limited means. Under that sys-
tenn the starting of savings account is as
simple and easy process as the purchase
of a postage stamp. The depositor has an
absolute certainty that his deposit is safe.
Above all, he has within easy reach a
place of safe keeping wherein to put all
the stray coin which otherwise would chafe
holes in his pocketbook until 1t was spent.
So far money matters can affect him
the ordinary mans contentment depends
upon the knowledge that safe out of the
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-26
Eight Hours n Day.

From the New York Sun.
At the convention of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor at Cincinnati last week
a report was adopted in favor of making
eight hours days work after May l, 1895
The report also recommended that mass
meetings of wage-earners be held through
out the country on public holidays in 1897
The 1st of May is the favorite date set
for the beginning of the eight-hour mil
lennium, but under such conditions as now
prevail, and are likely to prevail for a good
while yet, the 1st of April might more ap-
propriately be selected. Only in a few IA
vored trades and occupations is the eight
hour day feasible; and the labor organiZa-
tions, of which the Federation of Labor is
the most important, represent only q
trifling proportion of the workingmen and
workingwomen of the country. AS for the
employers, they will pay eight hours pay
for eight hours work, and they will pay no
more; and until they can be made to pay
more, the eight-hour day will remain an
illusion. Most people have to work more
than eight hours a day, and it is hard to
see how they are going to give up the prac-
tice Will farmers and laborers' wives, for
instance, most domestic servants, farmers
and barn laborers, sailors, great lawyers
and business men be expected to join in
the demonstration which the Federation
of Labor is going to provide next year?
If ever the government comes to be ev-
erything and the individual citizen moth
ing, the little difficulties in the way of the
eight-hour day may be removed: but by
that time the world will perhaps have
reached such height of economic science
as to be able to do away with work Alto
gether.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-26
The Right to be beautiful.

From the New York Sun.
Mrs. Gertrude Atherton sends us from
London small collection of alleged por- :
traits of herself printed in various Ameri-
can newspapers. In u letter, not intended
for publication, she invites US to consider
with critical attention these meat-ax mis-
representations of a charming face-the
language here is ours and not Mrs. Ather-
tor's-and to observe that not one, of the
caricatures bears the remotest resemblance
to her, or is reproduced from any photo
graph she has ever had taken. Her prop
osition is that She or any other woman,
has the right to insist that such defama-
tory pictures and fraudulent likenesses
shall be left out of the newspapers.
Our finding on the question of fact is for
Mrs Atherton. She has been treated
shsmefully by the art departments OF the
st. Louis Republic the Bath Courier and
the Boston Traveller, not to mention the
unspeakable outrages perpetrated by GER
tain of the new journalists. The latter
may be dismissedf rom present consider
alton, for the foulness of their wink is
spread across many fair face, as well as
smeared over many an honorable reputa-
tion But for respectable journals like
these specified above to try to persuade
their readers that Mrs. Atherton looks like
Princeton football player, disguised in
fernals costume az like a Tanagra figurine
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-26
A Lucky Poet.

From the Chicago Record.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich began his literary
career while Hawthorne Emerson, Long
fellow and Holmes were at their meridian
and when it was an honor to be ranked
even a secondary or minor poet and lit
erary man with such men at the head. But
all these major writer's have passed. and
those who for so long were rcckoned among
the minor now stand alone, with no greater
Eeniuses to obscure their brightness, such
as it may be. But still Aldrich and his fel-
low minor singers. though standing alone,
stand no higher than they did ten or fifteen
years ago, If as high. They are still
smooth, correct. finished writer's who can
say nothing in the best possible way. What
Mr.. George Moore the other day said OF
Andrew Lang-"He fishes beautifully, but
he never catches any fish'-might also be
said of Thomas Railey Aldrich and most OF
those who attempt to sustain the traditions
of New England's great school of writer's.
Mr.. Aldrich's "Unguarded Gates seemed
to give promise of his being able to reach
a higher level of poetic thought and eX-
preston. but his latest volume. Judith
and Holofernes," does not fulfill that prom
Use. As he is now 60 years of age, there is
small reason to believe that he can or will
achieve higher place than that he reach
ed years ago.
But Mr.. Aldrich illustrates the old say.
ing, 1T Is better to be born lucky thar
rich," or perhaps even a minor poet. Fol
Mr.. Aldrich always has been lucky. The
road to Already has been pleasant one
to him. even if the muses. have not been as
generous in some respects to him as others
Poets are ordinarily supposed to be con
tent and happy on a diet of moonlight
dew, roses and sunshine, but Mr.. Aldrich
whether travelling from Ponkapog tC
Pesth" or from New York business Office
to the editorial sanctum of the Atlantic. ha:
always preferred a more substantial menu
and. fortunately, has always been able tC
command it.
And now, by the will of the president o.
wealthy chocolate company. the poet anC
his wife receive the snug sum of 900
and the twin sons of the poet 100000 each
piece OF good fortune upon which Mr.. AL
drichs rnany admirers and well-wisher:
congratulate him.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-26
Giving Money.

From the New York Herald.
The most difficult thing in the world is
to bestow charity where it will be of real
benefit. There is an army of beggars in
the streets. and passers-by are appealed
to through their imagination rather than
through their common sense. One pictures
to himself a poor creature suffering for the
necessaries of life, and relieves his con-
science by giving him few odd pennies.
Possibly there are cases where this is n
good thing to do, but it is a sad fact that
In a vast majority of instances it does in
jury. 1t certainly encourages beggary on
the part of a certain class who are too lazy
to work, which is something to be regretted.
and 1t also induces the more cunning beg
gars to resort to trickery in order to win
extra dimes from the pitying stranger.
Here is a man. for example. who has two
signs which he alternately displays on his
person. The one declares that he is deaf
and dumb, and when he gets tired of 1t he
uses another, which informs us that he is
blind. But he can hear very well and talk
very glibly when his days work is over,
and he has as good eyesight as anyone.
1t too frequently happens that the char
ity which is dispersed in our streets con-
sists of money placed where 1t does great
harm.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-26
The Owl Came Back.
Stanton. i'm Tlmes-Herald.

L. Stanton, in Times-Herald.
lie biggest owl er de season. said
Urtie Moses as lie held the saucer-eyed
bird &C the gaze of the interested specIat-
ors. Hits de very one dat's been q Fill
in er my chickens ever sense de war; but
he won't kill no mol bet youi 1 ketched
him In de very ac- des n-makin' fer my
big rooster, en- 1 rolled him over en-nut
u end ter him wild dis heah lightard-kuot.'
1t was certainly monster owl, measuring
fully four feet from tip to tip, and Uncle
Moses black neighbors felt that they mad
at last triumphed over a mutual and dan
gerous enemy.
Il gwine ter take him home" explained
Uncle Moses. zen skin him en- stuff him,
en- put him on de mantelpiece fer good
en- alI--dat's what gwine do wild himl oh,
yes he said. addressing the slain victim.
az he let 1t fall at his feet: ''You's had yo'
day wild my chickens-you has. You likes
chicken meat, don't you? Hits mighty
terder, amt it? 'Couse it Isl But you
amt gwine ter git no mo- of it-dat you
air.'tr'
And so saying Uncle Moses bore the bird
in triumph to his cabin. I'm des lay you
down heah by de foot er de bed he said
still addressing the owl, tell after sup
per. en- den I'll skin you alive
He went on and attended to various du-
ties about the farm, and 1t was late when
he returned.
''I reckon" he said, "rn leave de skin
min en- stuffin' er dat owl tell mawnin'
kssc I'm all tired cut
Then he dispatched his supper and retired
for the night.
He never knew what time it was-and
indeed, he never stopped to inquire; but
certain it was that he was suddenly and
rudely reused from his dreams by the
loud hooting of an owl close to him
that it almost deafened him.
He sat bolt upright in the bed. who
who-is you-o-o?" rang through the room
again. He stared about him--when 10!
perched on the foot of the bed was the
owl he had left for dead.
"Who-who-is you-o-o?" came once more
from the throat of the terrible birdI
There was no doubt about tit was i'm
possible that eyes and ears could deceive
him. There was the bird. flush with lie
the wide eyes glaring at him like globes
of fire. He sprang from the bed. Shrek
ing. "Oh. Lawd. have mussy! Help me
ter git out er heah. good Lawdi Oh. Mas
ter, help me ter see daylight once mo-
des one mo- tine!'
His breeches were on the bed. in close
proximity to the screaming owl; but he
did not wait for them. He made one spring
for the door aud bounded out into the
darkness.
A few neighbOrs who were up late saw q
white-robed figure speeding through the
night and terrified. sought their cabins
crying: "Oh, Lawd. judgment done come.
en- de dead raise up!''
Uncle Moses never returned to his domi-
cile de debbil wuz In dat owl" he said
afterward, "and L des give him a deed ter
de whole place.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-26

guished the United States above nations.
cannot learn from outsiders its faults in
governing the Antilles or submit to a me-
diator.
President Cleveland, like myself. was
obviously persuaded OF the truth when he
wrote his message, completely favorable as
it was to Spain. What surprises me is the
senseless proposition. so favorably received
in the senate, recommending the acknowl-
edgment of Cuban rebels as beliigerents-
recommending the independence which Is
impossible, and which would be frightful
aggravation to the Spanish people and
violation of international courtesy"
If the purpose of CASTELAR, had been to
aggravate the hostility Americans feel to-
ward the tottering dynasty of Spain he
could not have chosen a better method
If a few more of the Spanish dons will
follow in his footsteps the last remaining
objection to American intervention in Cuba
will vanish and Spain will have the full
measure of trouble on her hands which she
seems 10 be counting.