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The daily gazette., 1881-10-19
BLANKETS AND LINENS
AT
JOHN WANAMAKER'S,
We have two blankets that

We have two blankets that We have bought 10000
= fve-eighth napkins the en-
we sell tor Us par awoo tire stock of the Scotch
6sxs, and -,xs, ;roh.s ker whose letter printed
0o'4 a'o /'No4 otherday lisa low price that
weighing Al and lbs, of justifes large buying as
homemade style, not bleach ones have come s1.ss and
ed white, but thoroughly SI5o Dozen
If linen prices we're
ceanseo ana proper every made suit merchants.
way Within two weeks a shouldn't be buying at any
such rate. Here's a circle
leading wholesale house here worth your thinking Of Low
was sellno one of then, A. prices make large sales.
Large sales make large buy
20; and the other is the bet ing Large buying makes
ter of the two low prices.
circle
entrance
JOHN wANAMAK
Thirteenth Street, Market and Chestnut Streets
PEIILADELPTTA
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1881-01-15
Sleep.

There is no fact more clearly estab-
lished in the physiology of man than
this. that the brain eXpends its energies
and itself during the hours of wakeful-
ness. and that these are recuperated
during sleep: if the recuperation does
not equal the expenditure the brain
withers; this is insanity Thus it is
that in early English history persons
who were condemned to death by being
prevented from sleeping, always died
raving maniacs; thus it is also that those
who are starved to death become in
sane; the brain is not nourished and
they cannot sleep. The practical infer
ences are three:
Those who think most, who do most
brain work, require most sleep.
That time saved from necessary
sleep is infallibly destructive to mind.
body and estate.
Give yourself, your children. your
servants, give all who are under YOU
the fullest amount of sleep they will
take by compelling them TO 90 to bed
at some regular. early hour, and TO rise
in the morning the moment they awake
of themselves, and within a fortnight
nature, with almost the regularity OF
the rising sun, will unloose the bonds
OF sleep the moment enough repose has
been secured for the wants of the sys-
TEN. This is the only safe and sufficient
rule. and As to the question how much
sleep any one requires. each must be
rule for himself; great nature will new
er fail to write it out to the observer.
under the regulations Just given.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1881-01-15

but he was "laying low for bigger
haul. The appraised platform was no
longer terror to the animals. They
took the bait from under it as readily
as could be desired. Finally Uncle
the string. He had not baited il the
night before. so the rodents would have
a keen appetite when he sprinkled the
cheese crumbs and meal that morning.
After doing this he took up his position
and waited. First one rat-a sort of
pioneer-came gliding out and began
to partake of the feast Next pair
came out; then three or four. then q
dozen. They came from all directions.
Uncle Aaron was actually trembling
with excitement. He could hardly
keep his hand from pulling the string.
But he waited until the space under the
platform seemed fairly alive with the
creatures; and then-he pulled. Down
went the heavy platform with crash.
A number of the rats We're seen scam
pering off; but Uncle Aaron felt conf
dent he had nailed some of 'em. As
truding. and lac thought he would give
them all a good square chance to die
before he raised the trap. He waited
till night, and then he lifted it. He
counted one hundred and twenty-five
dead rats. He put them in box AM.
expressed them to his friend. accom-
panied by note which read as follows:
Il take this method of letting you
know how that barn-door trap worked.
Count 'em and see for yourself. I'm
going to bait the trap again tomorrow.
Would you like to have me let you know
how many catch next time? A hun
dred is good many, but a hundred
and twenty-five rather beats it. "-Hart-
ford Comm Times.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1881-01-15
Another Good Boy.

A DETROIT grocer was the other dav
hungrily waiting for his clerk to return
from dinner and give him a chance at
his own MONDAY meal. when a boy
came into the store with basket in his
hand and said:
Il seed a boy grab up this ERE bas-
ket from the door and run, and run
after him and made him give it up.''
My lad, YOU are an honest boy"
"Yes. sir"
land you look like good boy"
''Yes, sir"
"And good BOYS should ALWAYS be
encouraged. In Il box in the back room
there are eight dozen eggs. You may
take them home to your mother and
keep the basket"
The grocer had been saving those
eggs for days and weeks to reward
some one. In rewarding good boy
he also got eight dozen bad eggs car
ried out of the neighborhood free of
cost. and he chuckled little chuck as
he walked homeward.
The afternoon waned, night came
and went, and once more the grocer
went TO his dinner When he returned
he was picking his teeth and wearing II
complacent smile. His eye caught
basket of eight dozen eggs as he en-
tered the store, and he queried: Been
buying some eggs?'
Yes; got hold of these from farm
ers boy" replied the clerk.
- A lame boy with blue cap on?'
Yes
1.-Two front teeth out?''
YES"
The grocer sat down and examined
the eggs. The shells had been washed
clean, bit they We're the same eggs
that good boy had logged home the day
before. Detroit Free Press.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1881-01-15

CONSPICUOUS among those who con-
gregate at the Postoiiice of the quaint
old town of A to await the arrival
of the morning mail is old j., the vii
lage sexton, a man of ready wit, and
Overlooking with anecdotes of his rath-
er gloomy profession. Like some men
in other paths of life, he regards his
calling with contempt. stOutly averring
that almost any trade is preferable to it.
'.YoL see, he said, one morning, pur-
suing his favorite topic, ''the business
don't pay. an it never will. Some
folks seem TO think a grave-digger
Oughter work for nothing. Why. here,
only short time ago. l buried a wom-
an. an KNOWN her husband was well
fixed. wasn't in no bury bout send
in in my bill. Fact, nothin' was said
bout it till we happened to meet one
day in the store, an then says he,
u. how much do owe ye."
"'Well, saws /. lie me see. l he'd
to hire . man to do the diggin', cause
the frost was in the ground; an then
| tended the funeral, as guess shell
hev to charge yer as much as five dol
lars
".F-i-v-e DOLLARS" SAYS he.
Why, man alive, l could a Just druv
clean over to NJ, nigh on to eight
mile away. an he'd the job done for half
that
An then there was a man last year.
over here little out o town. He he'd
his wife die. an knowing me, he sent
for me to bury her, cause he knowed
I'd do the job up in good STYLE. Well,
| took charge of the funeral. an then
he'd the grave rounded up an turfed
over. SOS to look snug and comfter-
bic like didn't send in no bill nor
think o dunnin' till | met the man at
town-meetin' in the winter.
"'Hullo. j. says he. how much
must pay you for that little service you
done NE last fall?"
AN l says to him. says l, Well,
now. most generly charges five dollars
for such job when goes out o town.
but seein's you re an old friend, 1 sha' MT
charge yer but four
''Ye Jest oughter seen him start. l
thought he was goin' ter take the head
clean OFF err me.
III pay yer this time SAYS he,
but | tell yer what, Mr.. j. if ever /
hev another wife die. I'll cart her off in
a wheelearrow fore I'll pay such
price as that to hev her put under
ground. '"-Hdrper's DraUer
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1881-01-15
NIGHTMARE.

TINY all climbed up on a high board fence
Nine iit;ie gublins win green-giass yes
Nine little gobl'ns That had no sense,
And couldn't tell coppers from cold mince-
And they all climbed up on the fence, and
And asked them what they were staring
And the frst one said, as he scratched his
With queer little arm that reached out of
hi- cas,
And IA ped lis claws in his hair red
This Is what this lstie arm !. fer!''
And he scratched and stared and the nest
ore said,
And he laughed like the screech of a rusty
hinge
Laughed aud laughed till his face grew
And when he choked with final rwinge
OF his sitting laughter, he thumped his
With "a is, thai grew on the end Of his tail.
TIL the breath came back to his lips so
paic.
And the third little goblin leered round at
And there were no lids on his eyes at all
And he cluckei enc eye, and he says says he.
"what is the style of your SOCKS this fall!
And be clapped his heels-and sighed to
That he had hands where his feet should
Then a bali-faced goblin, gray and grim,
Bowed his head. and saw him slip
His eyebrows of, as looked AT him,
And Paste them over hrs upper-iip:
And then he moancd in remorscful pain
"Would To heaven d me brows again.
And then the whole of the goblin band
Rocked on the ienCe-top TO and fro,
And chung. in "A long row, hand in hand
Singing the songs that they used to know
Singing the songs that their grandsires
surg
In the goo-goo days Of the goblin-tongue.
And ever they kept their grecn-glass eyes
Fixed on me with stony stare
Till my own grew glazed with a dread sur
mise.
And my hat whoopcd up On my lifted hair.
And ! felt the heart in my breast snap,
too.
As you've heard the lid of a snuif-box do.
And they sang; you're fool! There is no
board fence,
And never a goblin with .yrecn-glass eyes
It's only a vision the mind fnycnis
After supper of Geld m nce-pics,
Yet still you are doomed To- dream this
way.
TIL along toward dusk Of the judgment
Day"
james ". .dey.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1881-01-15
Things That Have Purpose.

EVERYTHING without purpose is
without beauty" says "A sensible mod
ern writer; land although" she con-
tinues, everything that has a purpose
cannot, on the other hand, be called
beautiful, yet appropriateness forms so
large a share of beauty that everything
which fuiiiils its own purpose well may
be said to have some claim TO beauty"
In other words, purpose is absolutely
essential to the beautiful, and even
when associated with elements ugly in
themselves, can consecrate them and
Slorify them as with touch of light
from above,
This is truth of absolutely universal
application. and one which runs through
all the duties of life, all the achieve
menis of mans skill, and all the pro-
ducts of his art. what is it for?'
"Why does il exist ?'-these are ques-
tions which we may rightly ask, in
noting every object which claims our
attention; and we should put such ques-
fions in no spirit of materialism or low
utility, but from deep conception that
in this world nothing was meant to have
no purpose or service, in Gods good
the making or enjoying of purposeless
and valueiesS things, we maltreat and
fritter away gifts which were meant to
have the highest use.
Not only our greatest deeds and our
most priced possessions should have
this element of purpose. but also our
lesser actions and our most ordinary
belongings. Indeed. it is in the orna-
ments of our houses-in the objects of
art with which we like TO surround our
selves, or in the many little Injuries |
which we gather about us and those |
whom we love-that we should most |
rigidly demand some salutary and /
purpose. There is genuine
character in personal possessions. how
ever ordinary, and in that character is
no element more essential than the ele-
ment OF inherent purpose. That pict-
nre on the wall-what does il mean?
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1881-01-15
4 Hundred and TWENTY-FIVE Rats in
One Trap.

UNCLE AARON lived near Hartford,
and was a matter-Of- fact man. His
barn and out-houSes fairly swarmed
with rats, and Uncle Aaron was telling
a friend from another town who was
visiting at his house how he was troub-
led by rats and how he had seen n
hundred at least az a time. The friend
laughingly told him hundred was a
good many rats. and begged him to
take off few.
Uncle Aaron replied to the effect that
he was fixing a trap, and if his friend
would wait few DAYS he would con-
vince him he was not lying.
''All right" answered his friend; IF
you will catch anywhere near hun
dred, just lei ME know"
Uncle Aaron, too, said: "All right"
adding: IN let you know"
When his friend started for home the
last thing he said was: BE sure and
let me know how many rats you catch.
A hundred is good MANY"
The trap Uncle Aaron was at work
on was a sort of platform almost as
large as a big barn door. and the plan
was to weight it with heavy rocks, raise
one end about three feet from the floor,
and have it so rugged that the pull of
string would spring it and let it fall to
the floor, making it decidedly uncom-
Portable for any living thing that might
happen to be under it. After arrang-
ing it to his mind he began to bait it.
He threw meal all around and under
the trap. and went to a place convent
emily near and watched things. He did
not have to wait long before he counted
at least twenty rats busily investigating
that meal. But they did not 20 under
the platform. This was kept up for
several days, and after while the
patient watcher, who spent an hour or
two every day in seeing them ma
newer, had the satisfaction of seeing
several of the rats venture under
the trap. Then he knew his plan
would be success. He could
pull the string almost any time,
of day. and catch a dozen or twenty.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1881-01-15

was il chosen for any reason? does it
represent a place or an act which snS-
eests to the eve of the beholder some
wholesome lesson, or presents to him a
sight of that which is pure and whole
some? That parlor ornament-was 1t
bought for any inherent and soundly
pleasurable quality of its own, or was
it selected merely because YOU wanted
to buy something, and didn't see any
thing else that would answer better?
That book why is it numbered
among your possessions? Is 1t
because il helps you and instructs you.
or because book-agent at the door
wearied YOU with his voluble persua-
sions? Questions like these are not
likely to be asked too often or pressed
too strongly. Nor do they by any
means exclude that which is simply
beautiful. "A thing OF beauty is a JOY
forever" says one poet; beauty is its
own excuse for being" says another,
and so a sea-shell or a flower has as
true a purpose Us an Alexandrine
library or hospital for the insane.
But one is quite sure to find that those
who most readily excuse their mean
ingless possessions on the score of the
mere pleasure or beauty to be found IN
them, are the ones who most readily
surround themselves with objects which
are lacking in true beauty. A really
beautiful thing speaks for itself, and
tells its own story is unmistakable Ian
guage. 1t needs no excuse from those
who lust thought they would buy it;
what was the harm?" or from those who
''don't see but it is rs good as a great
many other things"
The rise of nations character is I'M
erringly measured by the character of
its products and possessions; and a ma
ton decline is unfailingly marked by
the pleasure it takes in purposeiess tri-
fles or mere prettiness OF detail. When
its architecture, and its art, and all its
achievements are purposeful, and have
in them something to be told, a people
is on the upward road. But when that
people delights in whimsicalities and
frivolities, in the eccentric and tine
startling. in the artful rather than the
artistic. its doom is written on the wall.
and il can be saved only rs by fire. So
il is. in a true sense, with the individu-
al. He who does not have a why and
wherefore in the things he owns is not
only missing the real enjoyment and
service of lite, is not only eXerting upon
Others an influence which is the reverse
of beneficial. but is also unconsciously
betraying his own most serious detects,
and showing to every thoughtful be-
holder that his life has entered upon y
decline and fall not less true than
that of the Roman Empire. S. Times.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1881-01-15

The following story is causing pain
full feeling in Rome: A young man
named Moretti. tailor, was condemned
to short term OF Imprisonment for
some alleged fraud in his dealings. A
girl to whom he was betrothed went to
the Police Magistrate to ask about his
fate and prospects. The Magistrate
told her that he wouldassuredly remain
many years in prison. The girl. in
despair. poisoned herself forthwith.
Soon afterward Moretti was found to be
innocent, and was at once discharged.
On learning the end of his betrolhed
he, too, poisoned himself. The Mayis-
trate had sentenced him at the instiga-
ton of the girls mother, who wished
to break off the match.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1881-01-15

In Delaware County, n. Y, lived
Prudence Larkin. who was never out
side the county but once. She was loo
Years of age when she died, but had
been anxious for the change for fifteen
years. A son eighty wears of age. Il
preacher in the South, came to visit his
mother just before her decease.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1881-01-15

WHILE workmen were opening .
spring at RAINS Station. Pa. they
found iifty-one snakes secreted therein.
where they were hid for the winter.
The largest was four feet long.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-02-02
The EtECrORAL COrNT 0LU7IoN

There arc tines when a nan can show good
SENSE III backing down. 1t is a Iity if either a
man or o pnrt7 can find M OTHER or better OPP
porturity, 3nt it il better to be sensible even in
backing down than to ne sensible in nothing.
The democratic party has seemed unlikely TO
bc sensible 10 anything, since the present scs-
sion cf Congress began. Hence it's unqualified
back down, IL regard to the counting of the
electoral votes, will arouse sensations Of
mingled pleasure ahd surprise. 1t WAS The only
sensible thing for tie PATTY to do. But i0I that
reason it was the very thing that was Least
expected.
Whoever sees fit may waste time in maintain
Jug that the Only object Of The Democrats was
to assert Their 0i'p0sitCn oil principle, and rs Il
purely abstract riatler, to the counting of votes
by the Wee Presicui. II is not of the slightest
consequence &hrlhcr the patty Objects 10 tins
course or not. The lIeAtnt Congress has no
power to bird any that may come after it, in
respect to the mode "f oIeyng constitutional
reGIuerent. II the members of the present
COngr SIS had TX Ct;icr purpose than to put on
record thor entirely valuccss opinions on "A
question OF constitutional law, they were su
pIeprely foo'7h TO insist upon dOug it i'll Il s,is
piciOus ana offensive way. A great deal of
time that belongs 10 public business, has been
wasted. Grave public INTERESTS have been sac
riiiced OF endangered. The profound dlstrnst
of the people for tho DemLLratic party has been
dtepened aud intensified. And III the end the
Democrats in Congress are obliged to pass Il
res 'lution which they might have passed with
out resistance on tlIs very first or any other
day OF the session.
Probably The world VIII never know what it
Was that the DeWOcratc IDIOTS would have
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-02-02

stopped. The engine was found to 10 . oomp,.ss,
wreck. The Gange part of the driving whsel ia
broken In two. at the Same time breaking the saf.s
valve, twisting the piston rod out Of shape ana ".
mOlishing one side Of the engines lower worka 1I
engineer. though dased by the crash and ~
tscause. bad the presence of mind to revcrso ~
engine and put on the air-brakeS Wv
Sophie, the good and generous Queen of swes. <
is now staying at an English wsterin s-plaoe und..
her travelling nams Of Countess of Hags. sbs hs.
for the past six years suffered from psraysis vbch
deprived her of the power of voluntary mOyenan,
She tried all the spas and famous doctors on n.
Continent but found relief until she Happened ).
hear of u Dutch physician who had remark.bl.
pOwerin the treatment of paralytcs aud had ressor
more than 5000 patients. 50 to Amsterdam Oman
Sophie went. in such q weak state that it v.,
almost doubted whether she wocld suryiys m.
voyage. The wonderful doctor was summoned, and
at the end of five weeks the Queen WAS able n
walk In order to complete her cure sho remained
Two months LONGER III Amsterdam and devoted her
time largely, as is Der practice In her own home IN
visiting che schools he hospitals and the asylumS
III sll ~ which she left substantial tokens of hef
gratitude at her own recovery.
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The American is used To being told that
they manage pretty muc' everything better III
other countries than here. and the Am"iirlu
splf-asS, ring enough a. a rlc. j. used 10 d.
uniting it in deep humility, OF even pr"cIaim-
my it with a sort Of pi1dc in his nlm>rncnt.
Ii So happens that the American is often uu-
necessarily wrong. 1t may offend these self
deprrclatmg PERSONS to hc assured, rs We are
iii MIR. Smallrys letter to-day, that there Is one
thing they manage better here than in London
srowstorm. This ia about the last an
nounctmcnt Which the ultraviolet New
Yorker would expect. He is experiencing just
now all the Inconvenience of more OF c>s
continuous snowi II OF about six weeks dura-
ion, diversified by storm which Frustrated
the telegraph wires and fairly cut the city off
for day from the outside world, and ac-
centuatcd ut this particular time 10y 4
peculiarly unami,blc cold snap. The
New Yorker knows that his streets
are in shocking state, and that
he has much to make him miserable. But he
is better Oft than hiS English cousin was dur
ing the recent visitation IF snow. The old
fashioned preachers used to argue that one of
the chief pleasures of heaven would
be to look across the great gulf and observe
with righteous conplacency the inst suffer
ings of the lost. The Ncw-Yorlcr can read
Mr.. Smalley's letter and console himself with
the sutlerlngs OF the Londoner can learn how
barely twelve inches of snow actually para
lived the move ments OF the largest city OF the
world, and see how the great nation,
Whose morning drun-beat, following the sun
and keeping company with the hours" ETC.,
was too weak to run a line of BUSES or get
Its morning mail.