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MISSING LIN KS.

Good butter has been selling ct II
cents a pound at Oakdale, Neb.
In Brown county, Kansas, a family
named Bryan have had a new baby
christened Mckinley.
Eleven times has Emile lola been a
candidate for election to the French
Academy, and eleven times has be been
defeated.
Two churches OF Jasper county, Mis-
souri,, have been visited by thieves who
stole even the carpets Of the aisles and
pulpit platform.
An American robin was recently
found near Manchester, England. Brit.
ish naturalists are wondering how II
crossed the ocean.
Eighty-fve hundred collars, the
whole profit for last season of the
house OF commons kitchen, has been
invested by the committee in claret.
Mother-Oh, John, you should hear
baby talk. He can talk just as plain as
can be. Father-You mean as plain as
you talk to him.-Boston Transcript.
Horse racing on the ice has already
become a fad in a number of Maine
towns among the younger men, who
are developing" prospective trotters.
Buried in a pauper's grave near
Hartshorne. /. T., was the body of an
old man named Johnson, who, 1t Is said,
was once ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS of Flori-
da. He was brought low by drink.
To his cell mate. John Riley, recent
ly sentenced by Justice Bond, OF Leav.
enworth, Kas., to a years imprison-
ment. has confessed that within the
last thirteen years he has been in
~forty-one jails.
Mother-My dear, there can be no
domestic happiness unless there are
mutual concessions. Married Daughter
Nonsense, mother. We could get
along very well II Charles would make
concessions.-Puck.
A resident of Amesbury, Mass, con-
signed seventy-five barrels of No. I ap-
pies to Boston parties. and after some
delay received word that he was In
debt to them IS. they having paid
freight and carriage.
Boys, In trying to climb over a sew
en-foot fence. thirty feet long, after
their football. at Oakland, Cal,
knocked the fence down upon an elder
ly woman who was passing, and the in
juries she received were 80 yevere that
little hope was entertained of her re.
covery.
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GOO

vising city charters Is spreading In
Maine.
An English Journal says that Queen
Victoria has been a total abstainer for
three years.
a peddler arraigned In Suncook. N
H., last week, bore the famous name OF
Mark Hanna.
A Belfast Me.) Judge has ruled that
shaking dice for cigars is not gambling,
but shaking them for money Is.
About GOO, 900 trees are annually
planted by Swedish school children un.
der the guidance OF their teachers.
But three old soldiers have thus fai
availed themselves Of the privileges OF
becoming inmates of the home at st.
James, Mo.
An unmarried woman has made o
reputation In Gage county, Nebraska,
as a corn-husker. doing se~venty-Ave
bushels a day.
Lord Leighton's house in London has
been offered by his sisters to the Brit.
ish nation on condition that It be pre-.
served as 1t is.
The Canadian government Is con.
sidering the ~advisability Of deepening
the st. Lawrence and the canals from
Montreal to Lake Erie.
Japan's steamship line to the Russian
ports of the Black sea will begin run
ming In the spring. The feet will con.
sist Of sixteen steamers.
The ~PottawatOmie Indians of Ath-
ems, Mich, are about to devote a dis
tribution Of delayed annuities to tho
construction OF a church.
The work OF the new Episcopal
Church Army has commenced in Bos-
ton. Fifty posts have already been
organized throughout the country.
A certain farmer of Gilmanton. n
H., netted Just 2 cents on five bushels of
apples sent to Boston. Last year the
anne quantity brought him S13.75.
An Arizona editor has been found
who Is sincere and honest. He hangs
this sign on his office door: Gone out
to take a drink. Will be back to-mor-
row."
How do you like this style Of cuff?"
asked the detective, swapping a pair OF
slender steel bracelets on the wrists o,
the confidence man. II am a good deal
taken with it," responded the other
Chicago Tribune.
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n frst-class pie. Piemaking Is easy
with the young bride only. sun, IN inns
big factory spoken Of, 1t reaiiy ooee
seem a simple affair-the putting To-
gether of fruit and dough-because the
workmen 20 through the performance
In "apple-pie order" but 1t Is practice
and experience with them rather thah
~personal pleasure. To make a pie cor
.ectly, as well as digestively. 1t Is heccs-
sary to resort to four processes
Take, for instance, a mince PIE. Inc
work of preparing the ming Is the
first undertaken, and then IN regular
order come the task OF making the
crust. filling the pie and baking IL.
Contrary to some ideas, 1t Is essential
10 the welfare of the aforesaid pie that
the meat required be Of q superior
kind. This obtained, 1t Is consigned
To an immense steam-jacketed copper
kettle that has the capacity OF a me-
ium-sized barrel. In this way 1t is
cooked and then ~intrusted to the Dene-
lcial graces OF an enormous chopping
machine. that does the work as finely
as a projectile from a twelve-inch gun
might do with a wooden fence. Next
come for attention the beef suet, APP
ple. citron, currants, spices and, final
ly, the brandy, and these are mixed
with the mincemeat by another ma
chine and are sent to the filler. While
the mincemeat Is being mixed with the
other mixture, another force Of men is
engaged in preparing the crust. This
force OF men works before an immense
trough and Is rugged out in clothes of
immaculate white, with bare arms as
powdered with -four as the hair on
their heads. The trough Is partly filled
with -four and shortening or lard Is
worked into II by the white workmen.
Water that has been specially iced Is
worked into the mixture In the trough
and the whole thing soon takes on
quite a doughlike appearance.
This dough is taken to another force
of men, who roll 1t out into thin slices
and place II on tin plates. This opera
ton Is perhaps the quickest Of any OF
the processes. The men go through
the mountain of dough like wind
through a sand hill. Quicker than 1t
takes to tell, the white covered tins are
taken to the fllers-in, and 40 army Of
old topers ever filled In as rapidly as
do they. All use a lo%ng-handled dip
per, which has a capacity just sufficient
to fll one pie. With this dipper In one
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a trolley pole to m overhead wire the
same as Is In use on the trolley cleo
trio roads in this country. This queer
little electric line vas opened to the
public on Saturday, Nov. 2S, and is
now in regular operation. II makes the
distance from Brighton to rockingham
and back to Brighton in a few minutes
over an hour.
The possession Of this curious line
gives Brighton the distinction of hav-
Ing something In the way of a rain ad
that Is absolutely unique. There is
nothing like 1t anywhere else In tho
world. The nearest approach to 1t Is al
81. Mafo, where a tall structure III.
pulled through the water for a distance
OF ITO yards. The motor Ii this in.
stance Is simply n stationary steam
engine operating nh endless chain.
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HOW OLD rs NIAOARA7
About 10000 Years IL h scientin


About 10000 Years IL the Scientific
Estimate.
The Niagara River, which had FIRST
been a strait joining Lake Erie to the
Unitarian gulf. gradually became q
wide, shallow, rapid stream, and then,
as the waters of the lower lakes sub
sided. It's bed narrowed and its fall in
creased to 400 feet, says knowledge.
But the river was soon greatly en-
larged. The land was rising to the
north OF Ontario as well, and ultimately
the outlet from Lake Huron to the
Ottawa Valley was blocked, and the
surplus waters Of these greatest lakes
flowed by their present course to Lake
Erie, and thence to the Niagara River.
With the continued rise Of land, espe-
cially toward the east Of Ontario. the
water level rose until II attained Its
present elevation, and the fall OF the
river between the two lakes was re-
duced to the present $50 feet. Can
dates be assigned to thes events? The
first estimate OF the age OF Niagara
River vas given by Ellicott over a
century ago at SO, 400 years; Blackwell,
1880. gave 1000; Lyell's estimate oil
$4,000 was accepted for many years al
ter 1871. but recent writer's, using the
mean rates OF recession during forty
eight years as determined by surveys,
make the value 1900 years. DIR. Spcn.
Ger has made a new and careful com
putation of the age Of Niagara River
and falls. He shows that the recent
estimates have not taken into account
the various changes that have occurred
in the fall and volume Of the river.
His calculations result In a value near
ly that Of Lyell's.
DIR. Spencer believes that Niagara
River was formed 1000 years ago., and
that 1000 years later the falls were IN
existence. For 1920 years their
height was about 200 feet; thereafter
the water fell 420 feet. Seven thou
sand eight hundred years ago the drain
age Of Lakes Superior, Michigan and
Huron first flowed through the Niagara
gorge, and 5000 years ago the waters
rose In Lake Ontario until the level
reached that Of today. The falls, then.
are 81 900 years old. This estimate.
calculated from the rate OF erosion, Is
confirmed by another made from the
terrestrial movements-one as to tho
past, the other concerning the future.
The lakes came into existence after the
glacial epoch and Niagara after the
lakes, and calculations based on tho
mean rate OF rise of the beaches In the
earlier period Of the lakes history
show that the close Of the Ice age may
safely be placed at 5000 years ago.
As to the future: With the present
rate of calculated terrestrial uplift in
the Niagara district, and the rate Of re-
cession Of the falls continued, or ven
doubled, before the cataract shall have
reached the Devonian escarpment al
Buffalo. that limestone barrier shall
have been raised so high as to turn tho
waters Of the upper lakes into the
Mississippi drainage by way OF Chica-
go. An elevation OF sixty feet at the
outlet of Lake Erie would bring the
rocky floor Of the channel as high az
the Chicago divide, and an elevation Of
seventy feet would completely divert
the drainage. This would require 5000
to 5000 years at the estimated rate OF
terrestrial elevation.
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Little sit of 4 Baby,

The tiniest baby, perhaps, In the
world has been added to the family Of
Samuel Donaldson, a barber, who lives
in Camden, N. j. 1t weighed only IA
ounces when it came into the world,
but DIR. Frederick Pfeiffer says 1t is
healthy, and with good are will live.
The baby is a girl. Her head will
easily go into an ordinary teacup, while
her hand will not cover a silver Csc
piece.
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Some days later,
Pagani. whose form was almost spec
trail, seemed tc have his frail existence
suspended by a thread, which the
slightest shock might sever. The physi-
clans ordered solitude and absolute re-
pose, therefore he removed to the villa
Lutetanea in the Faubourg Poisson
Mere. 1t was an excellent establish
ment and stood in a large park-like
garden, where the patient could enjoy
either solitude or society at choice. A
great charm of the place was that every
one lived as he pleased; in the evening,
either retiring to the solitude Of his
apartment. or joining in the games,
music and conversation held in the
drawing-room. Pagani preferred pass
ing the evening In quietness and retire
ment. There was plenty Of gossip
o him In the d~rawing-room and
three or four censorious old women fell
on him tooth and nail.
Ladies'" began me-. have you seen
this great musician? He salutes no one
and never speaks a word. He takes
his bowl Of soup in an arbor in the
garden, and then hastens away II any
one approaches. What an oddly he
must be!'
"Thats part Of his malady.' said an
other. People say that there Is some
terrible mystery about his life; some
'ove story, l imagine"
Not at ALL" added a third. "Pagani
Is a miser; there's no mystery about
that. Do you remember the concert
which was organized in favor of the
families who suffered from the mum
dation Of st. Etienne? The great vio-
linist refused to take part In 1t be-
cause he would have to play gratui-
tously. Depend upon it, he fears that
were he to mingle in our society, he
might be asked for similar favors."
In the entire household Pagani never
exchanged a word with anyone except
Nicette, the housemaid who attended
him She was a cheerful. innocent
country girl, whose prattle, when she
served his meals, amused him.
One morning Vicette presented her
self with a sad. dropping countenance,
ard served breakfast without uttering
a word. The musician noticed this
change in the young girl and ques-
toned her about 1t.
whats the matter, my child? You
look sad. Your eyes are red; some
misfortune has befallen you, Vicette?"
20, yes, SIR"
would 1t be indiscreet to ask you
what 1t was?"
Pagani fixed his great black eyes on
the girls troubled countenance.
Come" he said. 81 see how it is.
After having made you a thousand
promises he has quilted you, and you
no longer have any tidings of him."
"Ah! poor fellow! He has quilted
me certainly, but it was not his fault"
How Is that?"
Because in the CONSUMPTION he drew
a bad number, and he has been sent
away with a long gun on his shoulder
and / shall lever see him again."
sobbed poor Vicette as she buried her
face in her white apron.
But, Vicettc. could you not purchase
a substitute for him?"
The girl. Withdrawing her apron,
smiled sadly through her tears.
Monsieur Is jesting," she said.
How could l ever buy a substitute?
This year men are tremendously ex-
pensive on &C count of the report that
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DON'T CRY.


there Is going to be war. Fifteen hun
dred francs is the lowest price,"
The musician pressed Vicette's little
plump hand between his long, sallow
fingers as he said:
IF that's all. my girl, don't cry; well
see what can be DONE"
Then taking out his pocketbook he
wrote on a blank leaf:
Mem: To see about giving a con-
cert for the benefit OF Vicette."
A month passed on, the snow came
and Pagani's physician said to him
my dear sir, you must not venture out
of doors again until after the winter
ITO hear is to obey" replied the
musician.
At Christmas eve, on the anniver-
a of the birth Of the Lord. a GUS
tom exists In France very dear to the
children. A wooden shoe Is placed at
the corner OF the hearth and a benef-
cent fairy Is supposed to come down the
chimney laden with various presents
and dainties, with which he fills 1t.
On the morning OF Dec. "a, four Of
Pagani's feminine critics were in con-
sultation together.
1T will be for the evening"" said
one. Eyes. for this evening; that Is
settled" replied the others.
After dinner Pagani was. according
to his custom. seated on the drawing
room sofa, slipping his eau sucree, when
an unusual noise was heard in the cor
ridor. Presently Vicette entered and
announced that a porter had arrived
with a case, directed to Sisnor PagaHi.
Il do not expect any case" SID he,
"but ! suppose he had better bring /.
up."
The Red Cloud chief., 1897-02-05
Beat with Blazing Sticks.

The fire robbers" are busy again.
Their latest victims is Jack Keel, an
old German s%torekeeper near Spring
field, I'll. They tied him to a bed and
beat him with blazing sticks. In a
vain effort to make him divulge the
hiding place Of his money. Keel is in
a precarious condition.
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Chewing Money Killed Him.

Alexander Waltzfelder. a betting
man, we'll known at "Sheeny Dan,"
died in New York from tn. habit, it
is thought. of holding greenbaoIs in
his mouth when he was counting money
or trying to make bets on the race
track. A short time ago he bit his lip
accidentally and the result was blood
poisoning.
The Red Cloud chief., 1897-02-05
Friend OF the Nottingham.

Miss Ellen Key, a Swedish lady, has
attracted much attention in her native
land by her efforts to ameliorate the
condition Of workingmen. Jointly with
DR.. Anton Nystrom, she founded the
Workingmen's Institute OF Sweden,
which now owns a handsome building
in Stockholm and branch establish
ments In all provincial towns. 1t has
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IN A PIE FACTORY.
TURNS OUT AN AVERAGE OF
$4,000 PIES A DAY.
Men at Work ON u Mountain of Dough
The oven IL u Zig wheel with Iron
Platforms Hung from Its Rim q
Pleasing sight.

+ you want to see
something inter
csting." he said to
the New York Mail
and Express man,
come with me. II
will make YOU r
mouth water IL you
have a taste for the
sweets and. in ad-
dition, 1t will give
you an insight into
The Red Cloud chief., 1897-02-05
The Most Costly Tomb.

The most costly tomb in existence is
said to be that which was erected to
the memory Of Mohammed. The dla-
monds and rubies used In the decOra-
lions are worth $4,000. 900.
The Red Cloud chief., 1897-02-05
German business Women.

German business Womcn
The registration of business In Ger
many has had the effect of showing
how large Is the number Of women en-
1901 ,atrade In Chempit1 alopa a.
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The peanut Is a native of Brazil
The Red Cloud chief., 1897-02-05
A WOODEN SHOE.

T WAS announced
to all Paris that
Pagani had fallen
seriously i'll at the
conclusion Of his
grand concert, had
been attacked by a
fever which refused
to yield to the REM
edies employed by
his physicians.
g. - tnNz
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Human Incubator.

A special from Chilhco,he to the
Enquirer says:
The meaneSt woman in Ohio
lives near Stony Creek, this county.
Her name is Eliza Anne Schonin
ger, and she is a great pendant
Tor poultry. Two DAYS ago her
husband died from consumption
with which he had long been
effected, but for eight weeks pre-.
ccedlng his death his wife utilized
him as an incubator. to hatch out
several broods OF chickens. He
was effected with high fever
during this last period, and his bet
ter half took advantage of the fact.
She took a number of eggs and
wrapping each one in cotton bat
ting laid them alongside the body
OF her husband in the bed, he being
unable to move a limb.
Fifty was the number of eggs
first used as an experiment, and
after three weeks she was rewarded
with 10 live young chickens The
happy result of the first trial
prompted her to try it again, and
this time doubled the quantity,
and was again rewarded for her
ingenuity with another brood Of
chickens. Another hundred eggs
were placed in the bed, but this
time the husband was so near the
end that the necessary heat was
lacking, and he passed away leay
ing behind him 100 half-hatc he'd
chickens. The scheming wife, not
to be outdone in her plans by grim
death, placed the eggs in the oven,
thinking to finish the work her
husband had failed to complete.
Duriug the hustle and excitement
of the funeral, however, She allowed
the fire to get too hot, and the
eggs were all cooked"
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MIR. Peek for Congress.

We have heard the name of Hon.
l.. T. Peck mentioned in connec-
tion with the next Republican
nomination for Congress in this
District. Mr.. Peck is Superinten-
dent of the kenova Association
and has been citizen of West
Virginia and this Congressional
District ever since tho pros
porous town of Kenoya was
laid out, some eight or ten years
ago. He is gentleman of integ-
rity and ability, being sober, hon
est and capable. We do not know
that Mr.. Peck will enter the race
for the Republican nomination,
but if he does, his competitors
Will find him a strong candidate.
Should the gentleman named be
elected to Congress this District
Will be more ably represented than
1t has been for years, as he 10 a
good speaker and always up with
the times in political and all other
matters.
Here's hoping it may be Con-
gresham Peck.
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The Knights OF the Road.

Oh days of old. oh knights of old.
Oh, times of blood and thunder.
When courage could be coined like
gold,
And gold seemed coined for plum.
der.
When pistols and tempered sword
y horse and silken visor,
a man might live like any lord,
And no one be the wiser.
The coach door open wide you fling,
"iour purse, watch, diamond
buckles;
Oblige me with that ruby ring
That sparkles on your knuckles.'
You knock the post-boy from his
ledge,
You pocket all the treasure;
Your good horse leaps the hawthorn
hedge,
Then hey, for town and pleasure!
The good knight of the road to-day
On old tradition tramples,
His pistols he has put away.
Or carries them for samples.
Dame Fortunes found in wilds nc
more
HIS ways have changed to suit her;
Black Bcss has been discarded for
a Thousand mile commuter."
No more he stops the public coach,
No lady's chair he rifles,
lie does not stoopto purse or brooch;
He's far above such trihes.
With sample trunk well loaded down
He sallies forth to plumber;
Attacks his enemy in town,
And skins him worse than thun-
der.
Life.
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Fourth Of July Thoughts.

One of the most interesting
pieces of history connected with
the American flag remains to be
told. For elghty-nine years after
the Stars and Stripes were adopted,
they were made of foreign goods
All through the War of 1912 and the
Civil War, no American soldier or
sailor ever fought under n yard of
American bunting. No bunting was
made in this country for two reasons,
first, because nobody knew how To
make 1T and second, because nobody
could make it and compete with
England. General Butler induced
Congress In 1868 TO put a Tariff OF
10 per cent. on bunting. and man
was sent to England to learn how
TO make it, when he returned twelve
looms were put in operation, and
then on February -, 1866, a notable
event occurred in Washington
The first American flag, made of
American bunting, was hoisted over
the National Capitol. The flag was
81 by II feet, and was the gift of
General Ben Butler.
We said that there were twelve
looms engaged IN making bunting in
1865; well that was a good many
then, but in twelve years aftcrward
there were 1900 looms making the
article.
Under Free-Trade in bunting we
paid from $25 to $50 a bale for the
goods, and under n Protective Tariff
the price fell to SIS for a first-class
articlc.-Fond du Lac, Wis. "Com-
monwcalth," June Is, 1897.
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a DISPATCH from WASHINGTON

"A DISPATCH from Washington,
under date of July 3Oth, says.
"Mr. Foster, who so successfully
managed the China-Japan ncoo.
tiations and who was lately appoint.
ed by the United States govern.
ment TO interview the Japanese
powers with regard to the Hawaiian
controversy, today reports complete
success. A court of arbitration
VIII be appointed, each country Sc
lecting two members and the presi-
dent of Switzerland to constitute
the fifth. This body will sit at
Paris during the early part of nine
ty-eight and all questions now at is
sue will be settled. AS yet even
rumor has failed to select the men,
bers of the board, but it is not i'm
probable that III. Clay Evans of
Tennessee will be one of the main
factors.
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OUR Democratic friends who
have been so impatient and crit.
cal because tariff bill had not been
passed sooner remind us Of the old
mans mule that had tremendous
ly thick hide and very shoat mem.
DRY except that the thickness APP
plies to the complainers' head
rather than their hides. They
seem TO forget the long, weary
months that it took to pass the vii.
son German Brice Monstrositv.
when they had clear working
majority in the Senate. The Repub-
Leans have succeeded in passing an
extensive tariff bill in little over
four months from the day that
President Mckinley took charge
Now let people throw aside their
prejudice, quit their lying and 90
to work to help make this country
prosper as it did before the era OF
Democratic misrule -Ex.
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MANY OF the counties in this
State have made complete change
in the school books. CHM & Co. is
taking the place of the American
Book Co. i'll those counties, giving
IS per cent. discount from the old
contract price and fair exchange on
old books. Why did they not max
the same offer up here in Richie
county, A book company is queer
concern in buisness.-Ritchie Stan
dard.