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Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-06-12
DEAD BEATING PRINTERS.

DEAD BEATING PRINTERS.
In these days when the credit system sur
wives common sense in business, nearly all
tradesmen and other business men suffer
frsm trusting those who never pay. 1t may
be that in looking through green glass We
see all things green, but certainly country
newspaper publishers have hard time of it,
contending not only against dead beats and
rhysters, but against the injury wrought
them by those who neglect, month
after month and year after year, to pay up
bills of subscription. For many year., In
fact almost ever since the advent of country
newspaperism, a cry of complaint has gone
out through the columns of these papers
against the men who could if they would.
but who will not pay their newspaper bills
promptly; who receive a notice OF arearages
from the publisher and cast it aside either
in cool indifference or tear it in fragments
with snsrl and scowl. They will make,
oftentimes, the strongest Efforts to hquidate
other deb:s and leave the printer to wait
and watch vainly for bic appearing. They
have been told perhaps, that the white paper
upon which the printer sends him the weekly
local news has been paid for il cash, and
they take the paper month after month and
year after year, enjoy its confer is and hand
it to neighbors too stingy 10 subscribe for it.
In this way, on the average, five or six
families get the news without investing a
farthins for the really great privilege. Then
the man who has subscribed never thinks Of
paying for it until he is dunned, and then
when he is asked to pay passes along until
the publisher gets impatient and threatens to
sue. This threat has no effect on him. He
has seen this threat pass before untitled.
The publisher breads to sue a man for two,
three, four or five, or even ten dollars,
because he has relied on the man as pat
| ron and values him as such, and still keeps
hoping he will come up some day and pay
up arrearages and continue friendly and a
the slow-paying subscriber deals out about
the same kind of injury as the dead beat and
sbyster. Often it happens tina, from being
legally good for the debt he becomes ire
sponsible. Even riches take wings. Then
he cannot be forced TO pay, and We leave it
to honorable minds to judge if he is not a
sbyster of the fret water. Then again,
osiensibly good christians will frequently
tell lies to beat the publisher out of dol
lar and shalt. "They never ordered the
paper sent, and never received it." though
the postmaster declares they have taken ii
every week without murmur. Which OF
the two is most dishonest, a man Of this
stripe or the travelling dead beat Snowman
who skips out of town in the night ane for.
gets to pay the printer? The list is long
and the devices almost innumerable of men
who beat the printer out Of his honest dues.
Versailles, (Ohio) Weekly Policy.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-06-12
U. 5. LAND OFFICE,
Larned, Kansas, May -, Iss0

Larned, Kansas, May ., lss0. !
Notice is hereby given that the following man,
ed settler has fled notice of his intention 10 make
final proof in support of his claim. and secHIe
final entry thereon, and that said proof will be
made before the Clerk of the District Court OF
Ford county, Kansas at the county seat, on Satur-
day the 26th day of June, lss0, Wiz
MARIA F. GREENWOOD. Guardian of the
minor orphan child of Warrick NJ. Cosgrove,
deceased, Homestead Entry No. 1925 for "
quarter Section 2, Township p S. Range 81 west.
And he names the following witnesses to prove
his continuous residence upon and cultivation OF
said tract, viz John Rapp, J. W. Sidlow, Z. Z.
Ofcrle and Ed OFT, all of Offerle p. O., Ed
wards county, Kansas.
nos-5w C. A. MORRIS, Register.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-06-12

We are informed that E. S. Jelley has a
field of wheat of one hundred and thirty
acres that will go twenty-five bushels to the
acre. This is probably the biggest thing in
the way Of wheat crop that any one King
man man will have this year.-kingman
Citizen.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-06-12

In the party that arrived from Larned,
Kan, yesterday, were Capt. Morris, family,
father-in-law and eight miners; Messrs.
Cruison and Slower, with eight miners, and
our own Dan Morrow.-Las Vegas Optic, ID.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-06-12

EVERY man that comes to town now,
brings in sample Of his wheat. The berry
is excellent, as rule this season, and what
we lack in quantity will be made up in
quality.-Great Bend Tribune.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-06-12

THE assessor reports the population of
Wichita at 5,4s2, which the Eagle thinks, is
not go bad in view of the loss of railway
terminus and other incidental drawbacks.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-06-12

THE confirmation of Horace Maynard, Of
Tennessee, as postmrster-g general, seems to
give general satisfaction.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-06-12

AUGUST 26th is the day set to nominate
State officers on the Democratic ticket. The
convention will be held at Topeka.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-06-12

The Santa Fe road has just received two
new engines, numbers 1853 and 1854. Each
engine has six large drive wheels.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-06-12

IT is said to be a swest!y solemn fact no
man wearing mustache has ever been
elected Bishop of the Methodist church.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-06-12

INTELLIGENCE from New Mexico denies
the rumored combination between the
Navsjoes and the Utes.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-06-12

IT lie about time for somebody to come
rushing down from the Ute country, with
the story Of another massacre.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-06-12

TEyrEREp AT THE PosroFFIcE AT DoDe
CITY, KANSAS, AS sEooND-cLAss MAI
MATTER.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-06-04
A Balloon ViOlinist.

A few days ago (writes correspondent
of the New Orleans Pio0ys'ae) the pub
lie of Munich saw the walls of their city
covered with immense posters announc-
ing the exhibition of magnificent
orang-outang that could play the Carni-
val of Venice on the violin. The baboon
had great success for five days. The pub
lie agreed that he was the Paganini of
Balloons. The night of the sixth day a
spectator was so indelicate as to stick a
pen-knife into the baboon. The varia-
tions were more brilliant than ever. The
nightingale whose eyes have mercilessly
been put out sings more sweetly than
when she enjoyeth nature fair. Has
steel the same effect on the baboonP The
indicate spectator was an inquisitive
fellow; seeking the why and because Of
things has given the world Newton; so
the spectator, thinking that if little
pain, such as pen-knife gives, increases
talent, a good deal of pain might goad
talent to genius. He seized the baboon's
tail and pulled with will. The tail
was left in the puller's hands; the ba-
boon's skin fell to the floor; hiding I'M
derneath it was the father of the show
man. DO you pretend that the audience
did not insist npon the return of their
money!
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-06-04

If your homes need cleaning do it, and
wherever about your yards there is any,
thing needing disinfectant see to it
before you and yours have its infections
breathed into your systems. To do this
dissolve common copperas at the proper
ton of tablespoonful to a pint of water
and sprinkle plentifully upon the earth
where needed. Burn up all that will
burn, bury or remove what will not, if
they have any disease-breeding qualities.
Plant rapid growing climbers or tall
plants like sun-flower or hemp in your
back yards to purify the air, the season
through. Sprinkle ashes over the ground
where manure heaps have been removed
and, better still, have the earth plowed
and turned over, ashes and all. What
you can not do yourself, attend to having
done, and watch that health measures
are continually enforced. These things
are of great deal more consequence
than the width of the embroidery and
the number of tucks in Jennie's skirt.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-06-04
A True Incident.

"Make the bed soft and easy, Mr.. b."
said old Uncle Abe to the undertaken
who was preparing the coffin for his
aged wife. Make the bed soft and easy,
for her old bones are tender and soft, and
a hard bed will hurt them" He forgot
for moment-that old, gray-haired man
that she was dead that the old bones
had done aching forever. Sixty-four
years had she walked by his side, true,
loving wife. Sixty-four years! Just
think of it in these days of divorce.
Sixty-four years had they dwelt under
the same sorrows of life; together
mourned over the coffin of their first
born; together rejoiced at the prosperity
of their sons and daughters, and now she
had left him alone. No wonder he for
got! Her loving hands had so long
cared for him, for he had been the feebler
of the two. Until death do us part, )"
said the marriage service that united
them so many years ago. Death had
parted them, but the love still survived.
Tenderly had he cared for her all these
years, and now did he tenderly watch
the making of the last bed of this still
loved wife. He had bravely breasted
the storm of life with her by his side,
but now that she was gone he could not
live, and in a few days they laid him by
her side,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-06-04
Farmers and Their Help.

As general thing a farmer is liable
for all the public injury his hired man
may cause while actually employed by
him. If he sends him into his lot to
burn old bush, and he, for any purpose
whatever, leaves it, and the fire runs in
to his neighbours lot, destroying his fence
and injuring his crops, the farmer is liza
BILE for the damages caused by the wanton
neglect of his man. If he sends hired
man on to the road with team and he
by negligence runs into another vehicle
and Injuries it, or the persons who may
be in it, the farmer is liable for damages;
but should the hired man leave the road
he was directed to go and travel another
road for his own pleasure or profit, then
the farmer would not be liable for dam
ages should any accident occur. If a
hired man, in going to or from the lot
with scythe, by the careless hand
ling or carrying Injuries a passer-by,
the farmer is liable for the damages. If
in cutting wood the hired man cuts down
a tree in another lot, the owner is liable
for trespass and damages, although he
distinctly showed him the boundary, and
though the man may have cut the tree
with malicious intent. Should the hired
man, from righteousness, run into a
team, even if it block the way, yet the
farmer must pay the damage, though
done contrary to his positive orders. In
all these cases the frrmer can compel the
hired man to pay him back if he has
anything to pay with; but this is rarely
the case unless the farmer keeps back his
wages and only settles when his time ex-
pires.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-06-04

caused by injuries to his head, and has
epileptic commissions.
Two little children were found lately
in an attic room of a tenement in New
York. They were years and months
old respectively. The room was entirely
without furniture, and they had no
clothing. They had been without food
so long that they were unable to crawl
about the floor. The neighbors said that
the parents of the children had been
drunk much of the tipe, and it was pre-
Sumed that they had been arrested. The
children were taken TO the police head
quarters, where they were fed and
clothed.
1t is feared that the strawberry and
pea crops at Red Bank, N. j., will suffer
severely from the prolonged drought in
New Jersey.
Four men and one horse were drowned
at White Rapids. N, B., one mile south
of Grand Falls, recently. The boat
filled, and the four men got frightened
and jumped overheard. There were
thirteen in the boat. The rest stayed
with the boat. The horse went out and
the boat came up again.
The five mile single-scull race between
Edward Hanlan of Toronto, Ont, and
James Riley of Saratoga for $4,000, con-
tributed by citizens of Washington, was
rowed Wednesday over the Potomac riv-
er course at Washington. Hanlan took
the lead at the start and increased it as
he pleased, winning by three-sixteenths
of mile,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-06-04
A Rare Day for AlligatOrs.

Monday was field day with the alliga-
tors. They came out in large numbers
to bask in the warm sunlight after the
rain. Fatal recreation Everybody on
board went to shooting them. Even the
scullion would leave the dish-pan to
take a shot, and it seemed hard to miss
them. The champion slayer was IN old
hunter from the Granite state. When
ever he raised his rifle death was in the
air, and its sharp report was the crack of
doom tor some cousin of the crocodile.
The gator slayer expended his last car
fridge in the evening, but not until he
had scored his 65th alligator. We have
killed upward of 200 altogether. Their
vitality is remarkable. 1 chopped off
the head of one few minutes after it
had been shot. Several minutes after
the head was severed completely from
the body thrust an oar at it, The jaws
opened and snapped to again, like huge
steel-trap, driving the teeth three-fourths
of an inch into the hard wood and split
ting the oar handle. Even 90 minutes
later the gator head would not have
been safe toy for children Orlando,
Fla, Reporter.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-06-04
Hints about Flowers.

The art of arranging bouquets is very
simple. Having collected the fOwe rs TO
be used on a tray, all the superhuous
leaves should be stripped from the stems
and, by placing the flowers side BY SIDE,
you can easily see the order in which they
can be most advantageously displayed
A very pretty hand bouquet can be made
by taking a small, straight stick, not over
a quarter of an inch in diameter. Tie a
string to the top of it, and begin by fas-
tening on a few delicate flowers, or one
large, handsome one, for the centre
piece, winding the string about each
stem as you add the flowers and leaves
to the bouquet. Always place the flowers
with the shortest stems at the top, pre-
serving all those with long stems for the
base, and finish off the bouquet with
fringe of finely cut foliage. Then cut all
the stems evenly, wrap damp cotton
around them, and cover the stems with
paper cut in pretty lace designs. In
making bouquets frcm garden flowers,
such as are most easy to procure, the
flowers can be arranged fatty, and a
background made from sprays of ever
green.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-06-04
A Shoemaker and Naturalist,

A well-known character of Brnttlebo-
ro', Vt. Charles G. Frost, for half cent
ury maker of boots and shoes in that
town, has just died at the age of seven
ty-four years. He was self-educated
man, and in some branches of science,
notably botany, he greatly excelled. His
shop was often spoken of as a place of
''lasts and Latin" He received COM
mon school education and while at school
developed a remarkable aptitude for
mathematical studies. At the age of
nineteen years, while at work at his ia
theirs trade as a shoemaker, he had mas
tered the whole course of Hutton's math-
ematics and went into astronomical
mathematics and took up chemistry and
other natural sciences. Becoming dys-
peptic from too close confinement to his
bench, he was advised by DR.. Willard
Parker of New York, whom he consult
ed, to walk one hour every morning and
evening in pursuit of the field study of
botany, Of which he was very fond. He
sent to London for a standard work on
botany and on its arrival discovered that
it was written in Latin, language of
which he was ignorant. He bought
Latin grammar and in six months could
read his new book as easily as if it were
written in English. In the same man
ner he mastered French and German and
his scientific studies soon caused him to
be widely and favorably known to saw
ants. He received the degree of A. NJ.
NJ. from Dartmouth and Middlebury col
Ieges.
He devoted a portion Of every day
Sundays excepted) to the study of the
languages and sciences, and at the time
of his death he was well versed in geol-
ogy, mineralogy, entomology, zoology,
conehology, meteorology and botany, es-
pecially the latter, to which he devoted
his particular attention, and in the de-
partment of cryptograms became one OF
the leading authorities. He made large
collections of minerals. insects, shells,
grasses, fungi and plants generally, and
by devoting a portion of his small earn
ings to the purchase of books he brought
together library of about 1000 volumes
of scientific works. During his quiet
but happy life he was visited by many
distinguished scientists OF this country
and from abroad, who had heard of the
fame of the retiring shoemaker-natural
list and came from distant places to con
verse with him upon the subjects tt
which he devoted lifetime of study.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-06-04
NEW ENGLAND NEWS.
Maine.

The Kennebec river, which formerly
Abounded in salmon, shad, alewives, etc.
has been opened to the restoration of its
fisheries by the completion of fishway
ut the Augusta dam, which will be for
mally opened this week.
Rev. c. II. Rotch, of New Sharon, is
called to the Central Congregational
at North Attleboro.
z. Ethan Shute dropped dead at Sandy
Point near Stockholm Saturday, on dis
covering that his house was in flames.
The lass by the fire was $4,000, insurance
SllOO.
The Augusta fishway, which cost SIS,
900, was formally opened Tuesday in the
presence of Gov. Davis and council and
Mayor Vickery.
About SIS, 200 of Portland capital has
been invested in the Atrato mining COM
pany, which proposes to get gold in Col
ombia, South America, by means of
Gen. Roy Stones hydraulic dredge.
F. Z. Sawyer of Chicago, Ill.,, has
bought all the property of the Augusta
shoe factory, which cost $50, 900, and will
employ $50 hands.
Lumbermen report that worm is kill
ing spruce trees by hundreds, and predict
q swift decline in their trade within ten
years.
Miss Hannah Dorman of Kennebunk
made these public requests; Second Con-
gregational parish of Kennebunk, $3.50
American Bible society, $500; Maine
missionary society, American board of
commissioners of foreign missions, and
American tract society of Boston, $3.50
each,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-06-04
The Education Of Wild Beasts.

The veteran animal tanner, Alfred Still,
says that too much whipping makes a
wild animal sulky and vicious, but GER
tain amount of whipping is necessary.
To train wild beast, he said recently,
you must first make its acquaintance
from the outside of hs.cage, and get the
animal acquainted with your face; but,
abeve all with your voice. They become
accustomed to voices sooner than faces,
and are governed more by sound than by
sight. Having got accustomed toyour
beasts, and they accustomed to you, your
next step is to train them to their tricks.
Though these tricks are simple, they re-
quire great deal of time and patience,
and good deal of whipping to accom-
plish them, The lions are the smartest
of the wild beasts. You can train a lion
to do the ordinary tricks of the trade;
jumping through hoops and over gates,
standing on his hind legs, and so on-in
about five weeks constant work. 1t will
require about week longer to teach
lioness, and a leopard, which comes next
to lion in intelligence, about six weeks
to learn the same feats. 1t takes about
seven or eight weeks to teach tiger and
tigress from eight to nine weeks, while
you can keep on beating and teaching a
hyenea for four months before you can do
much with him. The most difficult
thing to do is to teach wild beast to let
you lie down on him without his trying
to make you lie in him by eating you up.
Kindness-that is anything but ordinary
civility-is absolutely thrown away uopn
wild beast. With tiger or tigress es-
pecially all affection is literally wasted.
A tigress is as likely to eat you up after
an intimate acquaintance of six years us
one of six weeks. AS a rule, the whip is
the most efficacious instrument for train
ing. 1t can be used quickly and it hurts.
If were to drop my whip the beasts
would fancy I had lost all my power
over them and would pounce first on the
whip and then go for me. The four IT,
crosses trained in that cage are estimated
to be worth 1900; but a good tiger,
unbroken, is not worth more than $500.
Lions are worth about $4,000 to $2500
each; panthers, $780, jaguars, $500;
hyeneas, $3.50, if unframed; leopards,
$3.50 to $500, according to their kind.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-06-04
New Hampshire.

Measles are epidemic throughout the
northern part of the state.
The Boston, Concord & Montreal R.R.
is building a new side track at Weirs
Landing, and several large buildings are
going up, in anticipation of an unusual
rush of summer visitors.
Rev. Mr.. Conger has resigned from the
Universalist church at Concord.
A firm which has employed a gang of
choppers at Bethlehem this winter has
shipped 70 teams, with men, to Mime
sofa, where they own 1000 acres of rail
road land, which they will sow with
wheat in the fall. They will return to
New Hampshire when snow flies, and
will alternate western farming and east
ern numbering.
The annual meeting of the Keene high
school alumni will he held at the city
hall Tuesday evening, June 90. Horatio
Colony of Keene will deliver the address,
Rev, H. w. Bellows of New York the
Grafton, and Theodore c.. Williams of
Cambridge, Mass, the poem. An unus,
ually large attendance of graduates is
expected.
The annual meeting of the Concord
and ClaremOnt railroad at Concord
elected as directors for the ensuing yeaI
George E. Todd of Concord, Charles
Stearns of Boston, John Kimball, ChaS.
P. Sanborn and Henry c. Sherburne OF
Concord, Mason w. Tappan of Bradford,
David W. Johnson of Claremont. John
Y. Mudgridge of Concord was elected
clerk.