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Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1881-09-08


leading to Che garnet, the door TO which
was / common tTap-door, securely fas-
tened by . paddock. to which was at
tached three links Of chain.
I "sGive me the key said to Miss
Smith. to that trap door up in the attic.
"'Oh. no use Of looking. there, the
keys have been lost for over five years,
and no one has ever been mp there
since. There were cobwebs on the door,
but noticed that over the crack of the
doors edge they appeared to have
broken away, caused by the door hav-
ing been recently opened. With an ax
l speedily got the door open and saw
large footprints in the dust. BY the
aid Of lamp followed the course Of
the tracks over the boards which lay
across the shaky rafters to the furthest
part Of the garnet. where over an old
cross-beam. hung u pair OF old-fash-
Toned saddle-bass- The dust on the
bags had been recently disturbed. In
one OF the pockets found the hve SloO-
bills which disappeared on the night OF
the Soth OF May. the Ssoo tnat was
missea IN tne suI I1Se ol ,o'S, . .ne 80
tnat was iost IN 1851 ana, oetter ,nan
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pet into the Uarrety
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1881-09-08
CIRCUMSTANTlAL EVIDENCE.
A True ROmance-A Girls Love for
Her Betr0thed Braves Dangers, Jail,
and q Detective.


and = Detective.
Never condemn q person on cir
cumstantial evidence; it is unreliable,
even when the circumstances seem to
fit into each other like couple of cog
Wheels" said John T. Morris, who is
IN experienced detective of Springfield,
Ohio.
"Give US the story, Uncle John"
Not long ago there resided in
franklin County wealthy old maid,
Miss Sabina Smith. BY inheritance she
was the possessor of q large farm, on
which was an old-fashioned, though
comfortable, dwelling house. She was
reputed to have a good, square bank
account"
How old is she?"
well. on the shady side of seventy.
but she had weakness like all old
maids. not for kittens. pOodles, or ca
naries. but for children. She had
raised several orphan girls, who are now
well settled in life. In 1865. she adopted
a six-year-Old, black-eyed girl, bright
as a button. named Mollie McCann,
whose father had fallen in battle. fight
ing for his flag and country, while her
mother, crazed with grief, pined and
iaded away. NOME soon learned 10
%ve ner new niotner, anu from pratt
'nns hia'u IN short cio.nes an" Pina,ores
she soon pioomed iorth INTO gushing
Schoolgirl, ana at elshteen was tne
peiie OF every rustic gathering-the
ply NiSs Mo,i'o uoCan"' o,el Mnoni
rre ny ia s': anu tuo ss sn. s.
~ al hei :.uio's sno e"'" .n uo.s'
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The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1881-03-02
~ S
A Fast Mare.

"Stranger," said the stage driver, "This
was how I found out her speed: I was driv-
ing alongside the railroad track just as q big
load Of hotel furniture started. The freight
car wouldn't hold it all, but they managed to
squeeze everything in except a big bar mir
ror, which they tied to the side of the car.
The mare saw her reflection in the glass and
thought it was another horse squirting for the
lead. You couldn't have held her back with
steam windlass. She just laid back her ears
and snorted like a twenty.inch shell. The
passengers all began 10 get excited. They
rushed out on the platforms and began to
make bets. The conductor stood up on q
seat and began to sell pools. The engineer
pulled the throttle-valve wide open and tore
along at IS miles an hour. Soon the mare
was abreast Of the COW -catcher. At San
Bruno the mare had half a mile the lead.
Near the six-mile house the train was so
much ahead of time that it fell through an
open draw and everlastingly smashed up-72
killed, and 1899 wounded. It was pretty
rough on the passengers, but then we dis
tanced the train, bet your life. About q
month after / sold that mare to her present
owner for $50, 900.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1881-03-02

had come to her, and she had taught them all
La Prlere dune Vierge. She was no longer
pool. but her heart was poverty-stricken in
deed. At night she would sit in her solitary
abode and play the Well-remembered moroccan
(she knew it by heart now,) and would grind
out the two airs from her beloved musical
box. She sat one evening slowly grinding.
Her thoughts were far away as she turned the
crank sThen you'll remem-"
"Mabel Jangleure!'
"Henri de Homboge!"
AND they were in each others arms
Il have come to claim you, my own" said
he, II am able to marry now"
"Oh, Henri" so5bed Mabel, as her arms
timidly encircled his neck and her fingers
played "The Maiden's Prayer on his back,
'shas the calliope succeeded? ?"
mo, my darling was the response, Il
have invented a method which will teach
anybody to play the piano thoroughly in half
an hour, and I am rich!"
They are welded now, and their life since
then has been one round of bliss, only made
more perfect by the sweet sounds of the tune
which had hallowed the days of their younger
love
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1881-03-02
I'm Half "a Century More.

The center of population in the United
States has, during the last ten years, shifted
from Columbus, Ohio, to the Indiana boun-
Diary line; il 8 few decades more It Will reacn
the Mississippi river. At the rate Of increase
prevailing during the present century, the
country will, in 1920, contain between lou
600. 600 and 100, 900, 600. This is only forty
years hence, d space easily grasped by those
who can remember esthe Harrison Preslden-
tial campaign Ten or twelve years nor !
equal to Il lock backward as far IS the days
of Jackson, notification and the United
states bank, the country will be found 70
contain 200, 900, 600 equal to the present
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1881-03-02
MABEL n n
a Novel, Description OF Scenes En Real
Laee.

She was alone in the world. Her various
relatives had gradually passed away, and,
by q strange coincidence, just as the last one
passed. she found herself alone. Alone, did
we say? Yet, not utterly, for her dear piano
was left her, and seating herself before it,
she softly played the one sweet air, the only
one that she played completely.
It was true that 1t was rumored that the
| mortality among her relatives was attributed
TO too often listening to the strain Of this love
ly moroccan, but nevertheless it broaght back
to her tender memories of childhood and she
played it to herself dreamingly-''Fhe Maid
ems Prayer"
eAhaabel, play me that strain again.
It was q young mar who spoke, and he
leaned over the piano and watched Ter deli
! cate fingers meander over the bass notes in
the romantic cross-hand movement.
sAh! Henri responded Mabel, Il could
| play it to you forever"
A slight shudder crossed the marble brow
of the young man IS he responded 1T
seems to me to be q tone-picture Of %une4ualed
beauty. Observe the flights of the right hand
into the highest notes; even SO might q pure
prayer rise into the nights Of the blue empy-
rean.o
but see, Henri" said the maid, NOV the
melody is hid beneath the deep notes OF the
bass"
"And, even SO, the highest thoughts must
fall again to earth and seek the practical.
Mabel, We are poor. ! am an inventor and
vet hope to perfect my delicious steam cali
ope which will bring me fame and fortune.
Till then-adieu . Accept this IS q last me-
mento Of one who loses you fondly."
He has gone. She tearfully opened the
package. It contained 8 small must al box
which played two tunes, Then You'll re.
member Me- and THE Sweet By-and-By'
sad reminders Of his affection and hopes.
Five years had passed. Mabel %Jangleure
was no longer young, but she was interesting
and full Of WitchinEg grace.
She had boldly faced fortune and nae
turned music teacher. Many, many pupils
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1881-03-02

The Queen Of Greece hates American boys
because some untutored brats from the U.
s., snowballed her husband, the King, and
whitewashed a statue on the Grand Square of
Athens.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1881-03-02

question. PROFESSIONALLY. W, a fool
can ask q question that ten wise men could
not answer" Senior-"Then I suppose
that's why SO many of us funk"
When a man begins to go down hill he
finds everything creased for the OCCASION"
says q philosopher, who might have added
that when he tries to climb up he finds every
thing creased for the OCCASION, too.
Rhode Island youth were very closely con-
fined in the olden time. ''Roger," the moth
er Of the second Roger Williams used TO say:
s'Roger, my son, you may 60 out to play,
but be sure you don't get outside the State"
"Men often Jump at conclusions, says the
proverb. So do dogs. We saw a dog Jump
at the conclusion Of q cat, which was stick
ing through the opening Of 8 partly closed
door, and it made more disturbance than q
church scandal.
Mary had a little sled
On which she used to scoot,
One day as down the hill she sped,
She fell and peeled her snoot.
Her Johnny now, with bitter tear,
Says: "Ah! how sad are those!
dare not kiss my little dear
-s MA"@ For fe y Ill hurt her nose.n
The forests Of this country must be pre-
served, and while we feel that way it does
look particularly bad to see q woman work
ing up an old knot in the back yard with q
husband and two hulks Of boys ~toasting their
shins in the kitchen.
A Michigan man has invented q process BY
which governors messages may be made
from sawdust. It won't do. What is want
something else of comparative value out of
governors messages.
Johnny came home from school the other
day very much excited. what do you
think, pa; Joe Stewart, one of the big boys,
had an argument with the teacher about a
question In grammar" 'What position did
Joe take ?" "His last position was across a
chair, with his face down"
New servant answers the bell, which has
been rung by an elderly gentleman. rs
your mistress in ?" emo, sir" "Ah! tell
her when she returns that her father was
passing and called in to say that sill were well
at home" Eyes, sir" Then, as the old
gentleman was about to withdraw, "Oh!
won't you leave your name, sir p
The young reporter who wrote that an ice
house caught fire, and in half an honr thou
sands Of tons of ice were reduced to ashes,
ought to have been IN Cincinnati the other
day, when five large ice. houses, each holding
1900 tons, were burned, the flames spread
ing so rapidly that the Workmen barely es-
capped with. their lives. The ice, it is stated
BY 4 local report, was $50 badly injured by
the heat, smoke and SCOT that it was consld-
erably damaged" Like enough it will all
have to be melted and frozen over again.
IT'S said that thirty inches span
The average Woman's waist,
And Just SO long the arm Of man.
So, when It's snuglY placed
Around the danlsei whom one treasures,
There is conformity Of measures.
How admirable are thy works,
o nature, kind and dear!
For, spite of all thy kinks and qnirks,
And various doings queer.
Thou mould'st waists Of proper bias,
While arms to fit thou dost supply us.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1881-03-02
FLOATING FANOIEs.
She heard the angels calling her,
From that celestial shore;
She Topped her wing and away she went,
To make one angel more.

ShS IiC dlSSlS SdAi1AS ACAJ
From that celestial shore;
She Topped her wing and away she went,
To make one angel more.
The only curious thing about seventeen
year locusts is that they turn up every three
or four years.
st. Louis girls object to rubbers, ssthey
draw the feet So" 1t must be an awful load,
even for India-rubber.
We hope that, in his inexperience, secretary
the navy Golf will not be so unfortunate as
to sit down on the tack of q ship.
salyini says that Mary Anderson is a prom
Using young actress. Probably Mary said
Salvini was a ''horrid old thing" when she
heard this.
One of the greatest astronomers of this
country lost a barrel Of pork by not knowing
how much salt it required to keep it. He
was great but fresh.
Somebody in Boston has issued q song en-
titled Moonlight on the Wharf, We are
confidently awaiting the appearance Of ''sun-
light in the Warehouse" and Twilight in the
Dry Dock"
Kissing while we're skating
Ger the %glittring ice
May be very naughty,
~ But it's awful nice. .@M
In the dreamy summer,
~ Kissing in the dell
prohohlv IL u;cIyod
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-10-14
Death Warnings.

Superstitions associated with the last
stage of life, says a recent English pub
LEGATION, are very numerous. Every
incident out of the common course of
natural events is seized upon by the
superstitious as a death warning. The
bowling of a dog at night is the sign of
approaching death. An OK or a COW
breaking into a garden is an i'll omen,
and it is still a saying when C person is
dangerously i'll and not likely to recov-
er, "The black OK has trampled upon
him." Another common omen of death
is the lowering of birds around a
house, and their tapping against the
window-pane. Among the death-pre
saying birds may be mentioned the
raven, the crow and the swallow. The
growing Of the cock, also, at the dead
of night is regarded as equally ominous.
If an apple or pear tree blooms twice a
year it denotes a death in the family.
There is a popular idea prevalent in
Lancashire that to build or even to re-
build a house is always fatal to one
member of the family, and we are also
told how the household clock has been
known to depart from its custo-
mary precision in order to warn its
owner of approaching death by striking
thirteen. From a very early period
there has existed a belief in the exis-
tence of the power of prophecy at that
period which precedes death. Again,
the interval between death and burial
has generally been associated with
various superstitions, fears and prac-
tees. Thus as soon as the corpse is
laid out there is still a widespread cus-
tom of placing a plate of salt upon the
breast, the reason being, no doubt, to
prevent the boldly swelling although
there is a belief that it acts as a charm
against any attempt on the part of evil
spirits to disturb the body. IN the
north of England it was customary,
only a few years ago, to carry "the
dead with the sun" to the grave, a
practice corresponding with the High
land usage of making 'the deazil," or
walking three times round a person,
according to the course of the sun.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-10-14
EOreteliing the Weather.

M~eteorology has been enriched by M.
De Paryille, a French scientist, who has
published his observations on the tenn
perature Of the present summer, which,
throughout Europe, has been unusually
high. He comes to the conclusion that
this high temperature could have been
foreseen, and enunciates the principle
that the temperature of the earth's at
mosphere is dependent on the changes
in the moons inclination to the earth.
"The distance Of the moon from the
equator" he says" that is, the incli-
nation of the moons path to the plane
of the equator-varies every year, pass
ing from a maximum to a minimum
limit and the meteorological char
acter of a series Of years appears
to be mainly dependent upon the
change of inclination when these ex-
tremes have been touched" Observa-
tions, he claims, show that the rainy
years, the cold winters and the hot
summers return periodically and coin.
eide with these extreme destinations of
the moon. In the latitude of Paris, he
says, the rainy years have occurred for
the past century when the noon had
reached the extremes Of 20 and 26 and
IS degrees. These rainy years are sep
arated from each other by periods OF
about three and then of about six
years. The severe winters coincide, as
a rule, within a year with the same de-
clinations, while the dry, hot summers
come in half way between two wet
years. The last wet year was 1879,
when the moons declination was 1S
degrees, and the next one, under the
rule enunciated, will be in 1884, when
the declination will be 26 degrees.
This year, therefore, and 1882 should
be marked by q maximum of heat and
dryness, and the winters by a minimum
OF GOODNESS.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-10-14
Domestic Aids,

In washing dishes use milk instead of
soap, Fill a dish pan full of hot water
and add half a cup of milk. 1t softens
the hardest water, gives the dishes a
clear, bright look, and preserves the
hands from the rough skin or chapping
which comes from using soap. 1t cleans
the greasiest dishes without leaving the
water covered with scum. An excellent
young housekeeper who has tried the
above says it is a good recipe,
TOMATO SoUP.-Last summer, while
employed as steward at one of the most
noted hotels at Saratoga Springs, one
well-known for its cuisine and patron
lied by the wealthiest families in the
land, some ladies called at the store
room one day and praised the tomato
soup very highly. One said she made
it at home frequently, but never could
make the crispy toast we served in it.
i told them it was not toast, but merely
stale bread cut into thin slices and fried
brown in drippings or lard, then sailed
and cut into dice-shaped pieces and
served in the soup when dished up.
"Well 1 declare" they said, chow sim
pie it seems after you know all about it,"
II is called in French "creton."
RICE PUDDINa.-Rice pudding is be-
yond comparison the best ever made, in
spite Of the fact that it is the cheapest.
The secret Of its perfection is in the
long cooking it gets. For a six o'clock
dinner, the rice and milk should be put
on the stove early in tho forenoon.
The best thing to cook it in is a double
kettle. Add to a quart of milk two
heaping tablespoonfuls of rice. Let it
simmer on the back of the %stove-it
must never boil-until a couple Of hours
before dinner. 1t will then be a thick,
creamy substance. Then salt and
sweeten to taste, put it into q pudding
dish, and bake it in q moderate oven
until it is of a jelly.like thickness and
the top is slightly Drowned. 1t can be
eaten either hot or cold. II the latter
is preferred, the pudding may be made
the day before, II that is most convent
ent. If desired, a flavor may be added.
This is emphatically the perfect pud-
ding Of its kind.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-10-14
Canning Vegetables.

Peas and beans may be prepared for
canning by simply cooking them as you
would for the table, leaving out the
seasoning, and filling the cans quite up
to top while boiling hot. Have the
peas and beans rather youngand tender.
Add the seasoning when you open the
a n to use them. Keep them in a cool,
dark place, free from dampness. Corn,
to can, should be young and tender,
but full grown. Strip off the outside
leaves and silk, but leave on the inner
leaves-this will keep the sweetness in.
Let it boil fifteen minutes. Take it up,
cut the kernels through the middle, and
then off the cob. Pack your cans as
full as you can with the corn, and then
take a cob that will fit in the jar with
out its being broken, and press it into
the middle of the corn, and screw the
tops on. V e the cans and the corn as
hot as possible.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-10-14

Queen
lett pair.
In some hats the cabbage leaf must
feel perfectly at home,
"Fall styles" said the farmer, looking
at his fence which had fallen down.
The bands OF matrimonY, il is to be
supposed, play wedding marches.
II you want to get rich, mount a
mule, because when You are on a mule
you are better of.
Little fishes get into trouble when
they play hooky, They should never
run away from their school.
Smith" said Brown, "there's q for
tune in that mine I" 81 know said
Smith 'Tve put my fortune in it,"
A yvntutescme skipper named ~BroughAm,
Attempted to sail round a simougham
He sailed and he sailed,
But he utterly failed :-0ong pause.
He's now up the heavenly lougham
Biologists are agreed that the earth
is millions Of years old, The mountain
tops have been bald as far back as we
can remember.
Rufus Choate was won't to attend the
church Of the late DR.. Nehemiah Adams.
One Sunday he tookwith him a brother
lawyer, now living in this city. The
doctor gave the congregation one of his
most vigorous and pointed discourses
on future punishment. The atmosphere
around the pulpit seemed fairly blue,
and there were many blue faces in the
audience. Arriving on the sidewalk,
Mr.. Choate asked his friend, "Well,
what do you think of that ? Pretty
strong doctrine, wasn't it ?" Eyes" re-
piled the great lawyer, "and, d-n it,
I'm afraid it's true.-Detrot Free Press.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-10-14
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.

Making s0urcrOut.
To make tirst-class sourcrout YOU
must have the beHt kind OF cabbage-a
sufficient quantity of the old drum.
head" sort-and after divesting the
heads Of their stalks and all the outside
leaves, being careful to leave none that
are '1ousy," put the heads to one side
until you can fill a tub with water in
which to wash them and after washing
them clean, as well as your crout barrel,
cutting knife and maui, you are now
ready to proceed with the cutting. Now
cover the bottom of the barrel with
some of the cleanest and best outside
leaves, and laying your cutting-knife
over the mouth Of the barrel, proceed
with the cutting, After cutting enough
Of the cabbage to form a layer of about
three inches thick on the leaves IN the
bottom of the barrel, and sprinkling
thereon a handful or so of salt, pound
the same gently, but firmly, with the
maui until sufficiently compact. So
proceed with layers of cut cabbage and
salt mot emitting the pounding) until
the barrel is full. And then, after COW
ering the whole with another thin layer
of leaves and laying boards and weights
on the same, the job is done. In a few
weeks your crout will be pronounced
"goot" by any jury of Dutchmen.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-10-14
Needs.

Along the roadsides and up the hills
PeeriDg demurely into the rills;
Lifting their faces up to the sky
Throwing their kisses TO each passer-byi
Trailing their gowns all over the grasses;
Waving their hand to a bird as he passes:
Calling the butterhies-laughing and gay,
Ragged and rollicking all the long day.
How the winds love them How the bees
linger.
How the birds WOO them, each happy young
singerl
How the sun kisses them, eager and warm
How the grass shelters them safely from harm
Who lie 30 jolly, who is so free,
Or all the bright blossoms that grow on the lea
Purple and azure, golden and red,
Some with big bonnets and some with bare
head
Some with gold stars on their foreheads 50
sweet
Some with green mantles straight down 10
their feet
Some like a drift of May snow, pure and white,
Some that are dark IS the middle O. night
Some with shy eyes that are hidden meath
lashes,
Some with the largest and gravest of sashes,
Some with lips sober and some with arch
smiles
All with the bonniest, gladdest Of Wiles.
Amber and rosy, snowy and blue,
Some that are false and some that are true;
Yellow and crimson, sapphire and pink
All are as fresh as the dews that they drink.
Along all the roadsides, down by the brooks,
Hiding away in magical hooks
Down in the meadows, always aglow-
Dearest of all the things that grow.