A tender young bit of femininity who signs herself "Jessie," contributes the following touching lines to the Solomon City Sentinel:
The frosty nights have come again,
And at this time of year,
The single men who sleep alone
Prance round upon their ear.
They turn the bedding quickly back,
And then hastily tumble in,
Dreaming of delightful bliss,
Their knees up under their chin.
And then they softly murmur
Just loud enough to hear,
By George! this thing has got to cease,
Before another year.
In speaking of deserted wives, the Troy Chief says: "It is said that by actual count, there are four hundred deserted wives in Topeka. Their brave 'protectors' finding it hard work to make a living, have left them to hustle for themselves, or live on charity. We have known of hundreds of men that caused us to wonder why any woman ever married them. A good deal of this trouble comes of the eagerness with which many women marry the first thing that comes along. Women who are earning a good living will marry men whom they will have to support, and who will in time desert them--never failing to leave a lot of mementoes behind in the shape of children. They seem determined to marry, and will take anything that is forked, and is called a man."
Fancy Groceries.
We are making a specialty of the above and are headquarters for canned good, pickels, fish and cheese carrying a complete line of each....We beg to call your attention to some of our lines, as follows:
BULK PICKELS.
Spiced pickles, white onions, sauerkraut, dill pickles, large sour, sour gherkins, sweet gherkins, sour mixed, sweet mixed, sweet midgets, mammoth olives, medium olives, small olives and chow chow.
CHEESE.
German Bismark, brick, Herkimer county, New York, full cream, calumet club, young American, Tom Thum, Swiss and limberger.
SALT FISH.
Columbia river salmon, Mackinaw blue fins, No. 1 shore mackerel, large family mackerel, No. 1 white fish, Georgia bay whole cod and brick cod.
PICKELED FISH.
Milchner herring, roe herring, Marinetta spice hering, sardines, smelts, sardellen and Russian sardines.
SMOKED FISH.
Smoked white fish, smoked halibut and smoked herring.
CANNED GOODS.
owing to the shortage in the fruit crop few households are supplied with the usual amount of home canning. California goods are recognized as next in order. It has always been diffidult to obtain a fruit which has retained its natural flavor. We have one put up as near like home canning as possible. It is a strictly high grade article. Something better than this has never been to market. Buying the quantity that we did, we can offer lemon cling peaches, apricots, pears, egg, green gage and golden drop plums at 20c per can. A lemon cling, sliced for cream, which is solid pack and fully one third more fruit, for 25c per can. We call your special attention to it. The above line we guarantee to give satisfaction or refund the money. We also have a choice line in peaches, apricots and plums at 17 1/2c a can. A medium grade (not low grade) at 12 1/2c, which makes a reasonable pie fruit at that price.
