EVERYTHING.
KANSAS LEGISLATURE POPU-
LISTIC BEYOND A DOUBT.
THEY WILL CONTROL BOTH HOUSES ,
They Ilavo a Safe Majority 011 Joint IJallot
MM. Lcafto a Candidate for the
Scnatorship alnny Others Making
the Fight The Constitutional
Convention Is Trobably
Defeated.
TOPKICA , Kan. , Nov. 15. The best
figures obtainable this morning give
the Populists a majority of 10 in the
senate and one in the house a joint
ballot majority of 11. Even if the He-
publicans succeed in organizing-
house there are not enough contests to
overcome the fusion majority in the
senate.
A dispatch from St. Francis states
that Wilcoxcn , Republican , had been
defeated by Griebel , Populist'for sen
ate in the Thirty-ninth district com
posed of twelve Northwestern coun
ties. This reduces the Republican
senators to 15 and gives the fusionists
10 majority in that body.
There will be more candidates be
fore the People's party caucus for the
United States senate this winter than
there were two years ago. Every
hour since it was definitely determined
that the fusionists had elected a ma
jority on joint ballot some new one
has been sprung. The avowed candi
dates now number eight and the list
will probably grow to fifteen or
twenty.
Mrs. Mollie E. Lease asserted at
Emporia before the Farmers' Alliance
convention that she would show the
fixers that she was not dead and
would gobefore the legislature as a
candidate for senatorial honors. Al
though this announcement is regarded
as a joke , those who know her best
think she meant exactly what she
said and that a little matter of dis
qualification will cut no figure.
Not counting Mrs. Lease , however ,
there are enough candidates positively
announced to make the fight decid
edly interesting. The list to date in
cludes John F. Willits of Oskaloosa ,
Frank "Doster of Marion , John
W. Breidenthal of Dickinson county ,
John Martin of Topeka , Fred J. Close
of Doniphan county , S. S. King of
Kansas City , Kan. , A. C. Shum of Ot
tawa and P. P. Elder of Ottawa. The
names of David Overrneyer and ex-Gov
ernor Robinson have also been dis
cussed in the event of the fusion Dem
ocrats holding the balance of power.
The impression prevails that Snow
will be re-elected state printerthough.
Stewart , editor of the Manhattan Re
publican , and one or two oth ers have
been incidentally mentioned.
Although no definite figures can bo
obtained the returns from the interior
counties indicate the certain defeat of
the constitutional convention propo
sition.
Frauds In BuflUIo Charged.
BUFFALO , N. Y. , Nov. 1G. Last night
Edward Duffy and Justice of the Peace
Joseph Durriuger of Cheektowaga
were arrested on the charge of forgery
in changing election returns from the
First district of the town , and were
held in 52,000 bail each. Supervisor
Stock of Cheektowaga was also ar
rested on the charge of destroying bal
lots and held to bail.
A counter investigation was started
b\r the Democrats this morning by an
information laid before Judge Titus
in the superior court , mentioning no
names , but alleging that certain Re
publicans had been guilty of attempts
to bribe inspectors before the election
in the interest of particular candidates.
Ortlciul Vote of St. Louis.
ST. Louis , Mo. , Nov. 1G. The follow
ing is the official vote of St. Louis for
president and governor :
PKESIDEXTIAL ELECTORS.
Harrison electors 85,504
Cleveland electors 31.640
Weaver electors 678
Bidivcll electors 25J
Harrison's plurality 864
TOE GOVEKXOU.
William Warner , Rep 37.253
William J. Stone , Dem 33,839
Lovurett Leonard , People's fS5l
John Sobieski , Pro 203
Warner's plurality 4,414
Jim Orr a Power In Kansas.
ATCIUSOX , Kan. , Nov. 30. J. W. Orr
has received scores of letters in re-
Tiird to postoffices in Northern Kan
sas since Cleveland's victory. Twen-
cy-five came in this morning. C. P.
Couhran will get the Atchison postof-
fice as there are no other applicants.
A good many letters have also been re
ceived indorsing ex-Governor Glick for
commissioner of agriculture , Jerry
Rusk's job.
Mr. Cleveland to 3Ir. Stevenson.
ULOOMIXOTOX , HL , Nov. 16 Vice
President-elect Stevenson began yes-
a-rtlay looking through his pile of let-
i < - : . . which have accumulated since
ulc--- ' " ' " " - ' hc first was one from
exPros' -3 * 5 ' . lu * ! . warmly cou-
oratulutory aMr. . btcveuson for his
part in the campaign. It refenct ! : , . -
to the great responsibility which rests
jointly upon the newly elected chiefs.
Sixty-Eight Days of Fasting.
NEW BRUXSWICK , N. J. , Nov. 1G.
James Still , a colored inmate of the
reform school , , has completed the
ixtv-eighth day of his long fast
Although he has been very weak , he
does not show signs * of immediate
dissolution. The authorities are puz
zled over the case and the physicians
who have seen him say that his vitali
ty is remarkable.
Defrauded by a Baron.
ST. Louis , Mo. , Nov. 16. . Baron
Joseph Oerth , a late member of the
firm of George Engleman & Co. . is
how absent from the city and scores
of creditors , many of whom are of the
foremost business" houses of St. Louis , ,
are eagerly inquiring for his where
abouts. He is accused of having
swindled people here out of 520,000.
WiLLIAM COBBETT'S WIFE.
A Case Wbero True Love , Though It Dltl
Not Hun Smooth , Conquered ut Last.
From the day that I first spoke to her
I never had & thought of her ever bein
the wife of any other man more than I
had of her being transformed into u
chest ot drawers , and I formed my reso
lution at once to many her as soon as
wo could got permission , and to get out
of the army as soon as I could , so that
this matter AVUS at once Bottled as firmly
aa if written in a book of fate.
At the end of about six months my
regiment , and 1 along with it , were
moved to Frederickton , a distance of a
hundred miles up the river of St. John ,
and what was worse , the artillery was
expected to go off to England a year or
two before our regiment. The artillery
went , and she along with them ; and
now it was that I acted a , part becoming
a real and sensible lover.
1 was aware that when she got to that
gay place Woolwich , the home of her
father and mother , necessarily visited by
numerous persons not the most select ,
might become unpleasant to her , and I
did not like besides that she should con
tinue to work hard. I had saved 150
guineas , the earnings of my early hours
in writing for the paymaster , the quar
termaster and others , in addition to the
savings of my own pay.
I sent her all my money before she
sailed , and wrote to her to beg of her , if
she found her home uncomfortable , to
hire a lodging with some respectable
people , and at any rate not to spare the
money by any means , but to buy herself
good clothes and to live without hard
work until I anived in England , and I ,
in order to induce her to lay out the
money , told her that I should get plenty
more before I came home.
As the malignity of the devil would
have it , we were kept abroad two years
longer than our time ; Mr. Pitt ( Eng
land not being so tame then as she is
now ) having knocked up a dust with
Spain about Nootka sound. Oh , how I
cursed Nootka sound , and poor , brawl
ing Pitt , too , I am afraid ! At the end
of four years , however , home I came ,
landed at Portsmouth and got my dis
charge from the army by the great
kindness of poor Lord Edward Fitz
gerald , who was then major of my regi
ment.
I found my little girl a servant of all
work ( and hard work it was at five
pounds sterling a year in the home of a
Captain Brisac , and without hardly say
ing a word about the matter she put
into my hands the whole of my 150
guineas unbroken ! "Advice to Young
Men , " William Cobbett.
I.al > or and "Wages In London.
The trades unionist operatives of. Lon
don belonging to such guilds of artisans
as the Amalgamated Society of Engi
neers , the Carpenters and Joiners , the
Bricklayers , are the aristocracy of labor ,
better off on the whole than the other
workmen of Europe , as well off as the
best of those working in the United
States or Canada , inferior in their social
position among 'the workmen of the
world only to those of the Australian
colonies. The problems which we can
not solve in London concern the un
skilled laborers and the women workers ,
for even skilled or half skilled women
are ground down by competition to
wretched wage.
There are skilled needle women em
ployed on "fancy" apron making paid
2s. Gd. for twelve dozen , able to make
four dozen in a day by good work. The
matchbox makers receive 2 d. for 144
boxes , they finding the tow and paste
and fuel for the drying that is needed in
damp weather. They work hard for
twelve to fourteen hours a day , and
their earnings average Cs. to 7s. a week.
Saclnnaking , tobacco sorting , paper bag
making , book folding , rag sorting are on
the average no better paid , and there
are in London in these and similar em
ployments and in confectionery factories
vast numbers of women earning but
from lOd. to Is. a day , although they
have to display some skill. Sir Charles
Dilke in Harper's Weekly.
TVhat She Thought of Slimkins.
Slimkins was a creature who wore
trousers. He was rich and respectable.
He didn't have to earn his own living.
He was a butterfly of fashion. That's
why trousers looked queer-on him. He
went to teas. He never led a german.
He hadn't the capacity for that. He did
have the capacity , though , for falling in
love. As usual in such cases , he fell
in love with a superior girl. Dreams
and dudes go by contraries. So did the
girl. She wouldn't have it a little bit.
"What shall I do ? What shall I do ? "
he moaned.
"You might commit suicide heroic
ally , " she suggested coldly.
"But that would be murder , " he ex
claimed , horrified.
"I think not , " she said assuringly.
"Any jury in the country would call it
justifiable homicide without leaving the
box. " Detroit Free Press.
Why Electric Lamps Blacken.
One of the most interesting results in
dicated by an investigation was that the
blackening of the lamp bulbs is not en
tirely due to the deposition of carbon
particles from the filaments , but is
largely owing to vapor of mercury left
in the lamp chamber by the Spreugel
pump. The evil was far less apparent
in lamps exhausted by pumps which did
not involve the use of mercury. The
reason of- this blackening is a point
which should be cleared up by chemists.
It is suggested that minute quantities of
sulphur may exist in the filament , and
may combine with ? the traces of mer
cury vapor , forming , after a time , black ,
solid mercury sulphide. Pittsburg Dis
patch.
Lumbering Methods in 3Iaine.
The methods of lumbering have so
greatly changed dn Maine in recent
years that there is scarcely an idle in
terval now between the , driving time
when logs r flea d down to the saw
mills , at the end of the season , and
the chopping time , at beginning of the
next season. Men now go into the
svoods in August. Exchange.
DOEOTHY'S PRESENT.
A REALLY "REAL" AMERICAN GIFT TO
AN AMERICAN BRIDE.
A Pretty Story Which Will Intercut All
IlrldoR , Puttt , I'rcnent and Prospective.
Of Course No Horrid Man Should
Head It.
So she was to bo "married on the
14th" and I "invited "
was to be present.
J knew it , for 1 was to bo her brides
maid , and wo had spent weeks and
months in planning it all , from the most
insignificant ruffle to the very veil itself.
But here was documentary evidence of
it a formal invitation.
Then it occurred to me that my wed
ding offering was still unselected. I
must have been waiting for a spscial
dispensation , I think , for I longed Jo
give her something real really real.
Something bright and pure and spark
ling and dainty and useful , like her
self. And my income , compared with
my aspirations , was ridiculously small ,
as it so often happens. But no one
would think of Dorothy and "imita
tion" in the same breath. My gift must
be "dainty. " Small then. It must be
"sparkling. " Glass or china then.
"Pure. " White of course. "Useful. "
Cups and saucers. Exactly ! And the } '
"
ought to" be Belleek , but that costs so
much. Dorothy and I had asked the
price of a beautiful imported cup at n.
pretentious shop on Fifth avenue , near
Thirtieth street , and we felt like thieves
for even touching it when the attendant
said the price was $6.23 for one. No , the
outlook was not encouraging , but there's
"nothing like trying again , " as my
grandmother used to say , and I started
for town at once.
"I would like to see some white Bel-
leek cups , " I said to an attendant in a
rasmonable store not tar rrom Broad
way. "Certainly , " and he took from a
glass case the dearest little , pure white ,
scintillating bit of a cup with a gold
brim and as light as a feather. It was
my dream materialized , and I almost
screamed with delight when he let me
hold it. "This , " he explained , "is Amer
ican china. " "Oh , dear , how provok
ing , " said I , almost letting the bijou
tumble ; "I want it real not any Amer
ican stuff. " I think his eves twinkled.
but he replied very gravely and politely :
"This is real. You doubtless know
( clever man ! ) that 'Belleek' is the name
of a town in Ireland where this ware
was first produced. The proper clays
are found in this country in abundance ,
and ten years ago ex-Congressman J. H.
Brewer , of New Jersey , paid a man
three times as much as he was receiving
in Ireland to come here and work for
him. Other potters , who pay their work
men as good wages , have found out the
secret since , and there is no more deli
cate china made in the world than some
we get from Trenton , and none so
cheaply sold in the United States as the
American. "
"Well , I should think that American
potters must be very good men to pay
their workers three times as much as
they could get in Europe , but how can
they afford it ? "
"The protective tariff"
"You are going to tell me about that
McKinley till. "
"Do you object to it ? "
"Oh , I don't know anything about it ,
really ; but it must "be a very good or a
very had thing , people talk about it so
much. "
"Here are the facts ; you shall judge
of its ' ' 'badness'
'goodness' or yourself :
The McKinley bill forces the foreign
potter to pay sixty cents for the privi
lege of selling 100 cents' worth of dec
orated china in this country that is ,
there is a tariff of 60 per cent , on that
class of goods. This is so that the work
man here may be paid sixty cents more
for a dollar's worth of work than are
the same class of people in Europe.
That enables our working potters to live
better and happier lives than do those in
Europe , and brings a class of men among
us who are encouraged to produce the
most artistic results. There is so much
competition among the native potters
that the price to customers is low. The
price is eighty cents each. "
"Eighty cents and real , and 1 saw
an imported one for $6.25 ! Well , 1
think the McKinley bill is a very good
thing indeed. Give me half a dozen of
them right away , please. " It seemed so
wonderful that by buying this cup ,
which was the very thing I wanted , for
eighty cents , instead of paving $6.25 for.
an imported one , I was helping one of
my own countrymen and his family to
live three times as well as they could do
in Europe.
It had never before occurred to me
that that tariff had anything to do with
us girls. I thought it was all about tin
pans plate , I mean and it seemed to
me then and now that if we begun our
encouragement at home "charity be
ginnings" would take care of themselves.
Why , it is so simple I feel as if I must
take a hand at voting happiness and
comfort to working people.
I went home with a light heart. I
had found what I was looking for and
much more. With a yard of white
satin and another of rose colored I
covered a case for the precious cups.
My present cost $6.50 , cups and all.
This note came from Dorothy :
HESTER , You DEAR GIRL It's the prettiest
ind daintiest thing I have had. But you
shouldn't have spent so much money on me.
Ned says it makes him think of me , being
pink and white and bright , and but ho says a
; oed many perfectly absurd things anyway.
I am so happy about everything , and so
pleased with your gift. It's just what I wanted
nost. You must show me how you make that ; (
lelicions tea , and wo will christen my beau-
( ifnl china together. Always your !
DOROTHY. ,
There ! 1 say , and so will Dorothy , ' .
when I tell her my experience , "Long 1
any the protective tariff wave. " We !
nrls are not ungrateful to our Uncle ]
Samuel if we but understand what he is i
loing for our happiness. Dorothy and I
leard too much about abstract "pa-
iriotism" and too little about "Amer-1
lean china" and other homemade
'
things , I presume , during that "finish-
ng" ' process. i
GRACE ESTHER DREW. '
Oh , What a Cough.
Will you liecd the warning. The signa
perhansj of the Mire approach of that more
terrible disease Consumption. Aslcyounclvc
if yon can afford for the sake of fifty cents , to
run the risk and tie nothing for it.Veknov
from experience that Sliilqh's Cure will cure
your cough. It never fails. This explains
why more thtn : u million bottles were sold the
past year. It iclives croup and whooping
Cough at once. Mothers do not lie without it. For
lame back , side or chest use Shiloh's Porous
Plaster. Sold by A.McMillen.
If most men voted only us they pray
the ballot boxes wouldn't be half full.
A Million Friends.
A friend in need is a tricml indeed , and nol
less than one million people have found just
such a friend in Dr. King's New Discovery
for Consumption , Coughs and Colds. If you
have never used this Great Cough Medicine ,
one tiial will convince you that it has wonder
ful curative powers in all diseases of Throat ,
Chest and Lungs , liach bottle is guaranteed
to do all that is claimed or money will be re
funded. Trial bottles free at A. Mc.Millcn's
drug store. Large bottles 50c. and Si.co.
Dogs are sensible. They never run
chances oflosing a steak on the election.
Dyspepsia and Liver Complaint.
Is it not worth the small sum of 750. to free
yourself of every symptom of these distressing
complaints , if you think MJ call at our stoie
and get a bottle of Shiloh's Vitalfzer , every
bottle has a printed guaranteeon it , use ac
cordingly and if it does you no good it will
cost you nothing. Sold by A. Mc.Millen.
Office-holders have heard very little of
the knife in the campaign , but a good
deal of fork over.
The fall of the year is a trying season for
elderly people. The many "cheerless , dark ,
dismal days act dcprcssmgly , not to say in-
jiniously , on both old and young. Now is the
time to re-enforce the vital energies with
Ayer's Sarsaparilla the best of all blood
medicines.
Lots of people fool dollars away , and
then' howl that the reason why they
don't get rich is that no one gives them
a chance.
A great many persons who have found no
relict from othet treatment have been cured
of rheumatism by Chamberlain's Pain Balm.
Do not give up until you have tried it. It is
only 50 cents a bottle. For sale by Chenery ,
druggist. _ _ Nov.lmo.
Mrs. Partington advised Ike , who is
now of age , to vote with the party of
superior mortality.
It is no easy thing to dress harsh , coarse
hair so as to make it look graceful or becom
ing. Hy the use of Ayer's Hair Vigor , this
difficulty is lemoved , and the hair made to
assume any style of arrangement that may be
desired. Give the Vigor a trial.
An exchange remarks that republi
cans are not smiling these days , but we
do not see how they can drown grief else.
We have a speedy and positive cure for
catarrh , diphtheria , canker mouth and head
ache , in Shiloh's Catarrh Remedy. A nasal
injector free with each bottle. Use it if you
desire health and sweet breath. Price 5oc.
Sold by A. Mc.Millen.
Jerry Simpson is all cut up because he
didn't receive a majority of 10,000 in
stead of 2,000. Jerry ought to rub some
auti-fat on his head.
If you desire a luxuiiant growth of healthy
liair of a natural color , nature's crowning
ornament of both sexes , use only Hall's
Vegetable Sicilian Hair Renewer.
What is
Castoria is Dr. Samuel Pitcher's prescription for Infanta
and Children. It contains neither Opium , Morphine nor
other Narcotic substance. It is a harmless substitute
for Paregoric , Drops , Soothing : Syrups , and Castor Oil.
It is Ploasant. Its guarantee is thirty years' use by
Millions of Mothers. Castoria destroys "Worms and allays
feverishness. Castoria prevents vomiting Sour Curd ,
cures Diarrhoea and "Wind Colic. Castoriag relieves
teething troubles , cures constipation and flatulency.
Castoria assimilates the food , regulates the stomach
and bowels , giving healthy and natural sleep. Cas-
toria is the Children's Panacea the Mother's Friend.
uastoria.
"Castora Is on excellent medicine for chil
dren. Mothers bare repeatedly told mo of its
good effect upon their children.1'
Da. O. C. OSOOOD ,
Lowell , Muss.
M Castoria is the best remedy for children of
which I am acquainted. I hope the day IB cot
far distant when mothers will consider the real
Interest of their children , and use Castoria in-
iteod of the variousquocknostruma which ore
destroying their loved ones , bj forcing opium ,
morphine , soothing syrup and other hurtful
gents down their throats , thereby sending
them to premature graves. "
Do. J. F. KiNcnELox ,
Conway , Ark.
The Centaur Company , 77 Murray Street , New York City.
GEO. J. BURGESS ,
Dealer in All Kinds' First-Class
Implements and Machinery
Wagons , Road Carts , Buggies.
A Square Deal. The Best are the Cheapest.
COME AND SEE ME.
Yard West of First National Bank ; McCOOK , NEB.
uastoria.
" Castoria la so well adapted to children that
I recommend it as superior to anypreecriptioa
known to me. "
IL A. ABCOBB , JL ! > . ,
Ill So. Oxford St. , Brooklyn , N. T.
" Oar physicians in the children's deport
ment have spoken highly of their experi
ence in their outside practice with Castoria ,
and although we only have among our
medical supplies what is known as regular
prodncwf , yet wo are frco to confess that the
meriu of Castoria has won us to look with
favor upon it. "
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Boston , Hue.
C. SHITE , Prc * . ,
The Cit izens Bank o ! McGook ,
Incorporated under State Laws.
Paid Up Capital , $5OOOO
-DOES A-
i General Banking Business.
I
a Collections made on all accessible points. Drafts drawn
ij directly on principal cities in Europe. Tazes
paid for non-residents.
Tickets For Sale to and from Europe
OFFICERS :
V. FJKANKLIN , President. JOHN K. CLAKK , Vice Pres.
A. 0. EBERT , Cashier.
CORRESPONDENTS :
The First JXational Bank , Lincoln Nebrska.
The Chemical National Bank , New York City.
Tfi First JVational
AUTHORIZED CAPITAL , CAPITAL AND SURPLUS ,
$60,000.
OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS.
GEORGE HOCKNELL , President. B. M. FREES , Vice President. W. F. LAWSON , Cashier.
A. CAMPBELL. FRANK HARRIS.
THE McCOOK ROLLER MILLS ,
E. H. DOAN. PROPRIETOR ,
Is Now Open and Ready for Business ,
JSP" ! am prepared to handle all business in my
line promptly and with the most approved machinery.
DOAN & HAJR/T
are also prepared to handle wheat for which they are
paying the highest market price ,
and Elevator on East Railroad street.
Say That You Saw it in Tie Tribime.