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,, -.- r "- "KisSpSwsw" s5aw 7 3?fte Wlitmx gailg gaglc: f ritfeij !Hmn6, gtilij 11, 1890. u & THAIlEAMP. I "was Justturn&ig the besfe room upside dcvra srfespiag, dur&Sig ahiL easing it The sisslishc streamed la through the crtp ore tha windoTrav Viilc& t had cpcsraed, flxaLl2io.s0uia&oI tea bitinging outside mado ma Tdshi hadn't totech "woriiCodoia tLat dasty toota, Suddenly JheaaLtba elicit ol thfigaialfifcciu Eomo-bodyniiBdjiui'srith.my-iead'WTsped tip la A dtatesfiiwl tayirt turnsd up! Then ttera tma tharrao knnckiaa on tho psaal of tho fron&dcojt srMch raa open. ThtiakSngi xraa XVIdftsr Jfenkins' litila boy comAt tofesacwtka hatches to chop iii"idlia$jri lie c&iziejBularly ovary day I Eteppod.lnto tfce eatey. It vra3 a tramp, 52te vaa a young man "with a. heavy beard, dressed ia bluo tnvaa end atratr hat, bat -with, that shambling idlalf aaaaedlcoi: tckich. vagabonds seem to cany "with, them everyvrhere. Xotv our home tras seldom visited by tramps. It xras & good piece off the road, end lirey generally siopped at the black smith's on. th corner or ai Deacon Thomas' half Tray nj tho hill. "What do you traat!" I said abarply. But I relented a alnate afterward. He looked at na so piteoady; ieseemed so hot end tired 4iAH"2hstr tha. I ielc feorry for him. I rvas always considered the tool of the family. I tras everybody's slavrv. li the boys TVEated an errand run or a button tewed on. is xras always, "Sally'U do it." Sally T?as always the one left behind -when there tcos a party aad only ilnery enough fort-wo. IS "was Sally vrho stayed home tram meeting and Isni bar booes to one of thnochens. Yes I "believed I liked doing things for tkem, and for a kiss or a kind wonl xvxxiM "wiilinsiy have gone through re and "water. How that "Uncle E3ttra3 coming from Galiforaia. to mate tej a visit, it was I who W33 left sfc home co clean tip and mako tho Xuxssesmsrt, while PI033 and Peggy had Lfldgoae to the village to buy some chinta f&rhia room cortaina and a nevr white coverieS for his bod. "I want something to eat and a rest," replied the tramp. If only mother had been at home! She was away coasultingorer Martha Phillips Eick baby, for she was a rare nurse, and valued the importance of being called upon on&och occasions. Father and the boys "vrera mowiag in the meadow a mile away. "My impulse was at once to invite tho 6tranger in. He really seemed to have a respectahio look-under his rags and wretch ed dresa at least I thought so for a mo ment, and I felt not the slightest fear of him. Probably he would go before the others czme home and none would be the wiser. "Come in,'' I said. "Yon do look tired out. tome in and Fll get you something to eat." He gave me a grateful look and followed me to the kitchen. There I quick ly see a table. Tho instinct of hospitality cwokB in me. I set before him some cold beef, fresh butter, a loaf of bread, and then drew Hjm some cool cider from tho cellar. He ate leisurely and quietly, bus made a good dinner. I don't know what possessed me, but after he had finished his dinner I asked him if he would take a nap on the lounge in the sitting room. Father always lay there for a short time m the evening. There I left my tramp and went on with my work. I swept out the parlor, dusted the mantelpiece and pictures, set fresh flowers in the vase on the red cloth of tho center table, and after giving a few touches to the brass door handles and putting new ribbons on the curtains I returned to tno sitting room. The fact of it is I was filled with anxiety lest my mother or tho girls or my father bhould come home while the tramp was there. If they did, woo betide me. I knew I should never hear the end oi it. "Just like Sally." "Any more tramps been around, Sally?" "Sally, heard from that tramp?" and such like speeches would bo dinned in my ears night and day forever. The tramp I found preparing to go; but somehow he hreemed to hesitate. "Are vou going, sir?" I asked. ""Well, I hope you feel better." I didn't add "Call again," -words that were on my lips. Still he lingered. "Can I do anything more for you?" I In quired. Oh, how I regretted that speech a moment afterward. "You've been such a dear, good young lady to me," he said warmly, "that I'm going to ask a Loon of you." I believe I looked thumicrstruck. "I have no money to buy a ticket to Har Tistown. Won't you bo so kind as to lend mesojBeVT Dear, dear, what would my folks say if they thought I was going to lead money to a tiarap. But lend it I did yes, I pus into bis iarce brown hand tho whole of my six monjits ssvlncs. I felt almost afraid of my folly at the time, but he took it with a sisilo, thanked me profusely, and the aeat-tliing I knew he waa going down tho lane, toward tho main road. A sudden thought occurred to me. "Como baf k for a moment," I cried. He turned round and hastily approached the piazza. Ajo you going to the depot?" Iinqnired. I am," "bo answered. ""Well, yor shortest way i3 round the house. Follow the path through the or chard, past the bara and down the pas ture. It will bring you to the back road, and save yen half an hour's walk in the sun. Torn to the left at the pasture gate and keep righc on." He thanked me, smiled again and was gone. "Now," I thought, "he's sure to meet none of ho folks coming home." Then I drew a breath of rebef. and after tidying myself dragged the rocking chair on to tho veranda and tried to feel a unconcerned as possible as I waited for father and the rest to return. Mother came home first, full of the symp toms and sufferings of Martha Phillips' baby; then Floss and Peggy drove up in the buggy, eager to show us their pur chases. Father and the boys arrived in time for supjxjr. That eventegthc mortgage was discussed again. Tbesubiect of the mortgage that lay on the farm was periodically discussed. Those ttoo osa mortgaged farms and know their owners will understand what I mean bv saying that the mention of mort gages makes me sick. That mortgage it was that rendered my mother old before her time and made my father appear an incarnation of covetousnoss. The niggardliness and closeness which necessity had made the rule of his life waa not, I believe, natural to him; bus it va ground in him by the mortgage aad the pKvisg the interest. Day and nighs dol lars and cents, profir aad prices, ware the whole topic of conversation. Every panny was grudgingly doled out, every expense which meant laying out money was cut off. Sverything that could be sold off the farm was sold, hay, baser, ecss and beef, rid swallowed up by this mortgage. It was only by our own private poultry, and the gale of milk from our own cow, and by knitting that we girls managed to scrape together enougk to drees on. The carking care, the pinching poverty in the midst of plenty which wears more than anything eke on heart and mind, are to be found in ptiziscd.oa. In iha home of a farmer whose farm carries a mortgage. The removal of Tte m&nglrsa??.5itlS. ttj- dream of mv Liibari jUfe. .La Ji? & iSSgUme paSid toi dl &i3hg3U ktek&pa It was 3ra.e55a. 3 jSBjf i&a InSiiSSti It was natural &a&L t&j&ggR, &&&d re turn a my Uasid && 6&li&iai& with a fortnae brtug&S U Ills &Ui;asi bi the mortgage "I shouldn Jb Siiggasca if he lifted it it las&for metu &&& &ther tbat even ing. 'Tva efSeh. fcsSedbiia and Wa fiever glyftame a dssUtd &$&, fig must bo pretty -Brsiijy&a B6 aad I h.ejc him Vhca ha was a fcSy.u Aadtiiia ebfaloaifcasejl ta be skated by hiy taster aai tae bays. My usele'a ar rtt&l v33 l&ob&l Hues as a sart of a boadaia to lis teailjr, B f thesafara wttu greatsscbajaani thai vra hsasi tha uarta th&vJa&s dw&Kta w& drivixg up fctcafigtwlrcia tiia-fitatlsa and. that they xrcro camk ta Squirs S&8g5fciU his niBSKyrs Yf&a toos&t by tfea s?a&U boy on ths S&5S27 wfaid poay-Sy&o eeKlid tha let tcra ffoai tho ai&E$aa.lo our pcstallka and who had j&ie&miUa thU bit a gossip when tha ra&U tifrln.caaaia &&d,hadouixtipped Jaka Ei',?aria' tsaia, whidi was certainly mora aatsd far Btreath than speed. Father aad tha boys had hired a neigh bof to go en with the haying and had dressed tlretasclvcs ia tblr best, mother had oa her gray satin with a piak ribbon ia her cap, aad wa girls had mada our selves just too una far anything. At last the team appeared; black horses and squars, oti&iu covered coch. A tall man, tawny and beardsd, leaped from the saat aad came up tho veranda stops, where all the family were ranged tomtit him. He shook hands with father, kissid mother and then turned to us girls. Floss waa tha beauty of the family and was first presented for a kias, than Peggy and last of all inyaslf , though I was older than Pejgy. Eut I was plain and quiat. "Three fLns gab," aeid my uncle Kit, "and yar boys ssem kind of hearty, too, but it must ba hard work toiling and sweating on thia rocky soil. I wish you was all in Calif amy." Then he paused. "I havo a friead, Noah Broadhead, in the carriage. I would like to introduce you to him, Brother "Will, and if you can give him a cito aad a sup and accommodate him and me with beds for one night well, I'll be grateful" "Certainly, certainly," cried my mother. "Ask him in and introduce him." A gentleman drtsaed in spick and span new clothes, clean shaven and really nice looking was led up by Uncle Kit, and ia troduced all around as his friend, Noah Broadhead. I thought I had seen his face before, as there was something very familiar in the expression of his eyes but could not re member where. At the time it occurred to me that it might hare been in meeting or at Harristown. However we made a very merry party. I had been so often teased and quizzed about my "softness" that it was quite a rehef when the mortgage, Uncle Kit and dinner took up all thought and conversation. But after dinner I had a somewhat trying or deal to go throngh. The fct of it was Uncle Bit made a speech. "I sec, Brother Will," ho said, "that, after ail, you are much Letter off than I am. (Sensation, as they say in the newspapers.) You've a fine farm and a fine family." "And a fine CBortgrc," iaid my father under his breat,, but Uncle Kit didn't hear him. "As for me," went on Uncle Kit. "I'm not so rich as I would like to be. I am not even so nob. a you are." There was a breathless pause here. "I am bound to say that if it hadn't been for a member of this family I should never hare learned how rich you are." My father storied, Sashed and grew al most angry; he thought he was being quizzed. "Hold on till I've finished, Will," went on my uncle. "Yesterday morning I thought I was twice as rich aa you are, and it is through a member of your family, I repeat, that I learneu my mistake." Who coulu it be that had told Uncle Kit that we were riofa? Every twie looked at the other. Mv fatiier evident? was much perturbed. Mr. Noah Bro&dhead's face wore a kind of amused smile; whether he was secretly laughing at my uncle or at my father, or was amused at Ivfc taken so suddenly into family cooGtleaccs I did not know "A member ef this family yesto-day ad mitted a tramp into this house," went oa the speaker. "It must have been that Sally," whis pered pretty Flosa and Peggy, and ail eyes immediately were fixed on me. "The t amp w3 fed and rested, and be fore goii away a stocking I believe is was a stocking, Noah was produced and certain dimes, quarters aad fifty cent piece counted out and given to this worthless vagabond." Mother looked reproachfully at me. I dare not look as father; the two boys seem ed puixled. Had my foolish genenwty to the trarap conveyed the notion to my uncle that we were too well off to need his assist ance? The idea seemed absurd, impossi oie. "That trarap," weafc on my uacle, "was an old mate ef mine, and but far this money would not have met me at HaiTistown and offered me the oiiauce of making a big fort une out of your farm.' "You're welcome to do that, Kit,"said my father, dryly, "if only you il give me half of it.' "That tramp," continued Uncle Kit, "showed me the finest specimea of manga nese that I had ever seen and I understaad from him that he found it m your pasture. Brother, you wrote to me asking me to lift your mortgage. I caat do that, but you've got a daughter ia your houoe wbo 1- good enough to make the heaviest mortgage in the world bghter tnaa r feather. I'll tell you what 1 will do. I will take shares enough ia jour manganese mine to lift all the mortge-ges in the vihise." My father looked atupened for a mo meat, ray inotherstarecat him and blushed for sheer joy Sven the boys s?emed to waken up to the good news, and i was for a moment fec with adcjiration by all. So I didn't get very muoa -teated after all about cntertaiaing that Sramp. Mr Noah 3roadhead. who professed to be a chemist, examined the manganese deposit down in our pasture that very day and pronounced it one of the richest in our part of tha world. We still live on the old farm, but we hear no more of mortgages, aad it was oaiy yesterday that Floss said to me, "Oh. Sal ly, how lucky it wa that yea were so kiad to that tramp " But I have never yet been able to per iude myself that the tramp and Mr. Noah Breaahead wars not the same person. Springfield Homeetead. Summer. Summer ccoes -nsh floral treisars, Ferfamed air asii saaar afd-s, Bat the maiden aads no pktfumro When at ere tis Jose tu 2ias. ToMtk aad maid on tho rerazsd& Barter losses, mHes, aad siphs: ILirt: a scream from street 3irada Whea too aaar the Jtia bu ties. Hiiher, thithar goes the beuda, Harmloaly abou; Iw hie; Yet lore1:, eoersa is asvde nsuca smoother Waea at last tha Jaae bos ifcs. BobWb Courisr. It "Would "ot XK. Prison Warden (to new prisoner) W alwavs like to assign the prisoners to the traces with which they are mst familiar, and shall bo happy to do so ia your case. What fe your trade? Prisoner I am a comnuTcisi traveler. Lawrence American. BE IS SSLYM I0KGUED. ED WOLCOTT, THS YOUNGEST UNITED STATIS SENATOR Walter vf allsa&n X4A&S A Pa l4i of TaJj GesiaL Saa4s9 Youag States man from Colorado aata? Caxlial t aad HU ?70pett ba tka Tfpjxar House. tSpocial CoMMacadttcs. Washewtok, Jan 2$. A. new orator hasappearsd la tha rwsate. The youngest memb-r of th houra of lords, 2dr. "Wol cott, of Colorado, haa at a single bound become noted aa ens of tha most elo quent men in coagrcce. Ho has a voice t for congressional speaking which excels any other voico in ths Capitol, excepting only that of Senator Ingall3. It is a melodious yet vigorou3 voice a voice that charms audiences, a voice fit to servo as a vehicle of poetry aad love. It easily fills the senate chamber, and it haa the "roll" or continuous quality which the voices of allreat orators pos sess. But it is not a voice for war, like that of IngaHs. It is not q military voice. Ingalls, on the other hand, has the voice of a captain, a voice which ring3 and vibrates a voice which a gen eral might envy or a cannoneer covet. It is sharp, metallic, pervading. The wonder ia how such mighty tones can proceed from so slighr a frame. When Mr. "Woleott rose to make Ids 6peech he was clearly nervous. He had his manuscript close at hand, but for a wonder did'not find it necessary to con sult it. Afterward it was learned that the senator possesses a remarkable mem ory, for every spoken word precisely agreed with the written speech. Young Woleott the youngest man in the sen ate came to Washington with a reputa tion for oratory. Ho Tiad won notable triumphs at college, in the court room and in political conventions. "But this speech in the senate was something new tome," he said afterward; "I confess that I was nervous. It is not so easy as it looks to get up thero before a score or more of 7eteran stetesmen and oratora men whose names are household words. j 1 felt young, small and inconsequential. J It was not like speaking to a jury in a J court room, to a political convention or 1 a great outdoor crowd. Is was some thing now in my experience, and the first word I uttered frightened me more than ever. For a few seconds I didn't know whether 1 was a-foos or on horse back." Senator Woleott came to Washington J with another reputation than that for j oratory. He was known a3 a wild and j reckless young man. Stories of his bo hemian conduct preceded him. At ' Long Branch two years ago he won in a j single afternoon 7,000 on a horse race, j and being paid his winnings in the 1 greasy currency of the betting ring he I found himself in possession of a huge bundle of bank notes wrapped in an old newspaper. At his hotel he concluded i "the stuff" waa a burden to him, and ' asked his friends what he should do I with it. Soma one suggested that inas much a3 he was, as the French say. ln "goOd form" for speculation he try his lnck at Phil Daly's club room. The fu ture senacor at once agreed to this and a colored boy was sent for to stack the promiscuous bundle of greenbacks into orderly piles. It was characteristic of the reckless ness of the young man from Denver that he and his friends went off to dinner while the colored boy continued his work. After dinner Mr. Woleott and his friends attacked the game at the club house. Fortune smiled, the banker kindly raised the "limit" and soon there lay before the player a lot Gf blue and white chips which were estimated to represent $18, 1 000. Suddenly their erratic owner tossed ' a chip on the high oard and asked the dealer if he would turn for the full amount of chips on hand. Phil Daly was at hand and consented. With breath less interest the bystanders watched for . the appearance of the card that was to ! sweep away Mr. Woleott 's $18,000 or double his stake to $38,000. The bank won, and the future sena tor, without the slightest trace of disap ! pointment or vexation on his face, left the club house. I give in detail this i story, which is not new, though it has been often incorrectly told, simply as an indication of the temperament of j this remarkable young man. The truth is, he wanted to lose the money which the fates had sent to him on the race 1 track. Ee has sometimes gambled, but never for the sake of winning money. I He has craved only excitement, amu&e . ment. Born and reared a gentleman, his excesses have been simply those of one , fond of adventure, never those of down I right viciousness. J Young Mr. Woleott has always been indifferent to money ccnsidsrations. i His friends say of him that he is as will ing to give away money as to spend it. In a single week of fan seeking he has been known to make away with $10,000. Perhaps one-half of this was given or , thrown away in gifts to servants or poor persons, or in wager made out of sheer i bravado. He has J to. -what is knewn , in the west as a ".jioroagiibred," as a ' 'plunger." Living all the time like a princa, and occaaocally throsnag away large sums like an impanal spendthrift, Woleott has often. fund his raconif in sufScK'nt fer- his needs. For svral i years he ha3 etmd from $43,000 to $3& 000 a year as a lawyer gures which j speak mora eloqusntiy than words o his j genius and industry but these sums and others besidd have disappeared like snow in a spring sun. WTi6i:chfl.v come the other moneys ' spent by this wild yonns lawyer! From i his brother Henry. When Edward ran I short of funis Henry wxs drawn on per 1 sonsliy or throcga. the banks if tune and , place admitted, batif net by telegraph. , Brother Henry was aiwaya willrag, even glad to respond. Hnaelf a millionaire and as generous as a prmee,it is the delight of Ms life to be tha Sr.anetal patron of Hs youngs- brother, whom he idohx&s. The youngass senator, it therefore ap pears, is not crdy fortunate is the pos session of grsas talent?, gcod health, "beaaty of person and a silver tongue, buz in having a rich, indulgent and af fectionate brother. He is fortunate-in other rsepects. In the senate gallery, watching hhn with fond eyes en the occasion of his grsst ' speech a rew cays ago, sat ka ence. xo ! her, mere than to any ether pcrscn. the j young senator sires bis success in life. Her unionrwjth hfri. hr infiuerxa over him, will hswe :e "be entered arr.cr.g the j chronicles, of statrerrea'a romances. A j few years, sjo Mr. WbTaotr-iad ia Dee I ver a Isvrparznc? of the name cf Bass. partner's Home, m tns osimssrszrsac young l3W3T2Mr3. Baas iookse"mdly interest. She 'begged ima to ccrssct some of his wayfpto kaprore the great talents and opporfuniSeaywbich. tfcs fates hadsenthim. She pointed out tohiai the heighte which he might, ascend, ap pealed to bis pride, stirred his manhood. She did not thus labor ia vsia. Woleott steadied himself, worked hard, increased his popularity', became eacily the first lawyer and 'leading politician of his state, and from such strong rivals aa Bill and Tabor saatchftd the senatorial prize. Meanwhile Ms partner Bass died, and the -widow returned to her old home in the east. She is now die bride of Sen ator "Woleott, proud aad happy in his triumph. In the jndgment of his associates the baby of the senate is at the threshold of a great career. The- -wiH young lawyer is no more. In his. stead we have tha eedate though genial, the etauiousv re flective, eloquent young- senator. His debut in the senate was sneh. a disiinct triumph that a broadening of his fame will hereafter be an easy taski 3Ir. and Mrs. Woleott are settled in a beautiful home on Connecticut avmue, almost op posite the British legation. Wolcott's success as a senatorial ora tor i3 all the mere striking for the rea son that ta making his effort he broke down one of the precedents of the body. There is a sort of unwritten law that & new senator must sit two years in silence before venturing to make a set speech. Woleott has served only a little more than one year, yet the ccniors forgave brm (for his eloquence', I propose) and crowded about him with congratula tions. What would happa. if a senator ef a few months should presume to de liver a set speech I cannot guass, but we may have an opportunrty- of seeing", for Senator Carlisle, the nearest, member of the body, will probably make a speech in a few days on the tariff qrsrstion. It is a rather oBd. factttt. Senator Carlisle disiikea3Tehrja2ng. Though many year-sin pubhttliffc, and before that a lawyer of'Iarge prac9iee screwing hia courage up ta the speaking ptnt is with him an experience similar to that which the average man must go through before paying a visit ta bis dentist. "If I could make a speech like yoa,?' one of hid con gressional friends once said to him, 'with everybody paying dose- attention, and with the words rolling out so easily and eloquently, I would want to be speech making all' the time." "That is the way it looks to you," replied Mr. Car lisle, "but the facts are I am positively miserable when I have a speech to make. It is a great load on my mind; it makes me morose and unnatural. And yet, with a fatuity which I am unable to ex plain, I am always accepting- invitations to deliver speeches. My first impulse is to favor the people who are kind enough to do me the honor of asking me to ad dress them. But after accepting I often become frightened at my own temerity and write a withdrawal of my accept ance." In the senate chamber Carlisle is al ready one of the marked men. He is one of the senators whom strangers al ways ask to have pointed out to them. His is a face which would at tract attention anywhere, and his a mind which would make itself felt among any sort of associations, no mat ter how learned or eminent. To my no tion, these two nw senators, Woleott and Carlisle, will make their way in this ancient and tradition trammeled body. They aro very different, how ever. Woleott ia all imagination, Car lisle all logic The Colorado senator could improvise a poem with nothing but the multiplication table as a text: Car lisle would analyze Yirgil according to the rules of logic. I am told there is not the slightest trace of imagination in the Carlisle family. Woleott, on tho other hand, comes from a family of poets and preachers. This new orator's first leap into fame was when, as a member of the Colorado legislature, he spoke to a bill of his own introducing. Georgetown. Colo., was reached by a railway which found its way through the groat canyon of Clear creek. Here the tourixt Erst saw the marvels of Rocky meuntain scenery, and here the sign painter, the patent medicine and stove polish advertiser daubed the rocks. Mr. Woleott proposed a bill to suppress tins abomination, and in support of that measure put forth hi3 best efforts. It was a speech with flights loftier than tho snow capped peaks. He spoke of the torrent of Clear creek rush ing in sparkling beauty through the som ber chasm which it had been ages in forging; of tho everlassing bills, with their fringe cf pines sQvered in the morning sun against an azure sky; of the Golconda treasure -vaulte beneath, honeycombed with veina- cf precioua metals, and the slopes gilded like an oriental dream; of the hunter in buck skin scouring the forest primeval for the elk monarch, and cf the disciple of dear Sir Izaak alone amid tho solemn gran deur of a storm in-the Rocky Mountains. The orator concluded as follows: Sir Prerident, tbacUnwJc is worthy ot the, p proaeh. la c&arains CoatraiS tap a'jrfal .nxb "taity cf thacacyoa is a Severr vuiky la which restJes tho pretty ton c OMrjteira, jxfept th "SDrsr QcBay Mid en-rtroBsd by natural bat Ueozeats of pradte te-riar heria fcigk. Tfcers cc aisld 3 sttrroaadsss craa4ir, ywi read. es tiaroccd ia lnr3 acS caa bedecJjfcered aifiea awiy: "Hav too warsa"' "WLLrEB WSIAHJL5. It is related cf a Jchnstowa boy who was drowned the Gthsr day feat as he was sfnr'3 j l river ha called to his brother en thoahore: "StJiTe, be-sure and take the milk homo." This waa an er rand en -which tha boys had been Eant. .1 Kiad Contactor ia Eorop . Perbars the ftmnKss btt of canaiae kladriess vrsx perfcrmod br a lit?l Bolog j aese cscdTiotor. bsck CTed. rrixh socae ' iainf: o iss 2gare of Botoa Kmsags. I The eirartis irais b&& &ean mshis tarG sit tunnels all Sftj". AaJdons tc dLis-mhutg, tha girt hac est bead otrt of thssrViadtnT, until finally CTercorie hyfatigsa she fail asleep, wita'aer head resting oo rfaeopea vriaoovr. A rapid sup la an upsssase ta tton suddenly nake h?r Loofang,a.i hx waich, she saw u acus &e loncb arse. Sfas started out into ffco stflUou. .ta-ward tha twCet; the corctcti!Jsr,fev wiWiy Bsdculating sZd taSstirj rarljfr ftalfea. Sb- oilerwi hsrckrt. bfcshiok his head, pecung syne cxdi- He tried French; so ur; sU2 he foOred htr. What cooJd Jtet 'Kte liUle man grr" aircson with exeitessens and he more polled thin ever Finally a briihaat; thought mck hrsu he put hs had ia bis podCt and pulled out n&j a p?ura. hm a his pocksinirro- and hsid it fcef a?e her fare. Irtel-i che szorj'. The Traoe o one sjde of icr face "s-as a hsaci: a-ths ace cf spades; lha kix&sssa of theliKl--Iia!iaa, by-trhxh fc almost los hu dinnerhsad sa-red her a ncrnrytes itnit tha Htsis: tahla before hariglo? tagilo.-Zyxh. K. Pownx, Presideai. R. T. BeaX, V. Pres. F. W. Wailze, Jr.. Cashier. Fourth National Bank. WICHITA. KAJS'SAS. paid up capital, surplus; - - - $200,000 16.000 IIBECTOBS: K.T.Eaa.E.B.Pow-u.O. D. lUraes. I K-Cole Amo-L-Hoot. F. W. Waller. G. W. TjirrtaecJos Morse, B. O. GraT&s. B. Lojcbakb. Ja, Preaideat. J.P.AXLSV. Vice President. L.D.SEDTXE3 tastier. W. H. TLmxGSTOV. -uivf ant Ui-.V.iT. State National Bank. OF WICHITA, K.t X. CAPITAL, SURPLUS. $100,000 S-2.000 DIRECTOBS: John B. Carer. GeonreW. WAlter. W. F Greea. J. P. Allen. Eos Harris. J. M . Allen. P. V . Heaiy, B. Lombard. Ja. Peter Getto. L. D- Siinner, J&aes Ixi tabard. IF YOU Wastaoner Want a cooc Want a partaer Waat a situation, Want xserozt elrL Want ta sell a fara, Waat to sell a house. Want to bey or sell stoclr. Waat a good bcr'd'K house. Wact to Uell plaata or gr&la- Want to sail crocrtM cr drnfi Want to sell household forcltsrs Want to xzijce acr faroi loan. Want to sell or Oraca tar anything. Waat to 2nd custoiaera tor aajthmc. BEAD AM) ADVESTISE IN OCIt -COLtniK- AdTertlalaj obtain new customer. AdTettisitur Seeps old customers. Adreralce liberally always pay. Adrr rtlslae tr dkea succccj eauy. AdTertlsSas creates eooadesce, Advertlslni ts proof of nersry Adrrrtlslac axhibits piock. Adrertislcy mean rtbtz, Advertise lauaedlawly. AdrertUe constantly. Advertise retfulariy. Advertise always. Advertise w-fl, ADVERTISE AT ONCE NOW I o J. P. ALLEN, rug gist. EyerjtluDg Kept in a Mdas Drag Store 103 !EAST DOUGLAS AYE. WICHITA, - - - KAX. M. W. Lew, Pres. a. w Olives, VP IL T. Kkamzr, Ass't Cashwr. WicMta National Bank. PAID UP CAPITAL. SURPLUS. - $250,000 50.000 DIRECTORS: 8. EL Kohn. A. W. Oltrer. M. W. Le-rr, L.A. Wa' ton, b. T. Tncrle, N. . Mederlaader, W. K. Tacke J oim DaTldsaa, J. C. Rutas. Don General RanJiing. Collecting and Itrolnrrage Bnsinens. Eastern and Foreign Exchange bought android. United States bonda of ail denominations bought aud sold Connty. Township and Municipal bouds bouirht. DAVIDSON & CASE UnnuuVM uluiul aocceMora to John Davidsun, Pioneer Lurabermna of Sedgwick County. ESTABLISHED :-: U :-: 1S70. a Complete Stock of Pine Lmatnr. Sliiuirles, Jath, Door;, SHatt, etc., alTvays oil haiul. OSSce and yards on 3IoleT arenae. btw'ii Deugla avenn and First street. Braocfc yaft at Lnion City. Oklahccia City aad El Reao, Iiat. Ier. OLIVER BROS. -DEA.-CItS IX- WICHITA. KANSAS. Tarda at Wldhlta, llaj-flelrt. Welliar tou. Harper. Attica, Garden Pluto. Anthouy. Arkansas City, Andalt; aad Haven. SHAFFER & MiHANEY Coal. Grarl Rooflajr, Roofing aad Bmldtnjr ilatcrlala. TELEPHONE XO. 104. ISth St. and Ath. Are. Wichita, Kan REAL ESTATE AGENTS. Y?t carrr a ce;p"rt Ma T aH HaZ ? B-rt aad iSAaaa. 3ei a arw d "r R1 Et At EooSt. ' 2ta, Kret atlsSrr. 9CUT " VL-Kr.A ici Blaaka. CcstracC h&ttx. ?u'. &al t Ztat Soa for Farra aii C5f Pr&r, . Or I ttn fcy stafl yrsifeptly atttiiad te. aJtp TEE I0KITA BAGLZ. VT2CZTZA, ZJlHSJS. TIae Ltcmf Star" Uw0- Are yoc cag to Kaas City - eaa therscf 1 iCt, wby ac t tiwr 12 p. m. Kassa. City tJn" aae ereainir ad Chkaa- Too ?o!U. Tie isairs of a axs&ii WFwn cr tie ro ti.gr o Pr&ace irsa Try fdiSA. paracslar tCTirard -"rbat is2si2d tSi-ssos!r ax. Oa -day a Lwy Trtsh srJaln Jm trm wa acquaissed eal&d a Jstta &Slctiiy to tktf octier paapti. AHmz$t e alnra4M in piryisJsal dSc-KMcfea k ua fc. exsz. Onr zans imxe & rzqpSmu Atesmpaos. hq5-jt-sKai ayjwarsaK: mm wJkta it cssae n dK.iii7-c hr f W crrrsi02 ns&y&psa oi tbes Hhwiig - TWO CENT a "-' -"nrra. 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