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Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-08-16
Tit for Tat.

Mrs. Samuelson sent her colored SER
want over to neighbor, Mrs. Peter
Shinsky, to request the loan of the
morning paper.
Tell Mrs. Samuelson." was the re.
ply, ''that l never allow the paper to
90 out of the house; she can come over
here and read it if she sees proper"
Mrs. Samuelson was very much dis
pleased at this message, but she did moi
show any sign of resentment. A few
days afterwards Mrs. Peter Shinsky
sent her servant over to Mrs. Samuelsor
to ask her for the loan of an AK to chop
some wood.
Tell Mrs. Peter Shinsky that
never allow the AK to 60 out of the
yard, and that she can bring hel
wood over here if she wants to chop
it up
We forgot to mention that both
ladies move in the highest circles O
the Austin aristocracy.-Terds SJtinys
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-08-16
The Result Of a personal"

A funny story is told of lady wEo
was foolish enough to answer per
sonaI'' in daily paper which stated
that a young man was DESTROYS of max
ing the acquaintance of ayoung woman.
with view to matrimony. She carried
on a long correspondence with the adj
vertiser, taking. however, the precau-
ton to have her letters copied by a con-
fidential friend. She always sent the
copies and retained the originals. Her
answers came regularly, but her cores
pondent was quite as cautious as she
was herself, for he always employed a
typewriter, and she had no means of
becoming familiar with his handwriting.
Finally. after good deal of gush, a
meeting was agreed upon between the
pair, and the lady was somewhat sur
prised, when she arrived at the place
appointed, to see her brother, wearing
in his button-hole the flower which was
decided upon as the means OF Identified
ton. They both acknowledged their
folly by indulging in hearty laugh
and went home together. fully resolved
to have nothing further to do with these
traps to catch the unwary called ''per
sonals. "-Dostoa Budget,
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-08-16
THE OLD PIANO.

How still and dusky is the long-closed room!
What lingering shadows and what faint per
fume
or Eastern treasures .-sandalyood and
scent
With pardand cassia and with roses blent.
Let in the sunshine.
Quaint cabinets are here. boxes and fans,
And boarded letters full of hopes and plans;
pass them by. 1 came once more to see
The old piano, dear to memory,
In past days mine.
OF all sad voices from forgotten years
Its is the saddest: see, Chat tender tears
Drop on the yellow keys. as soft and slow,
play some melody of long ago.
How strange ii seems
The thin, weak notes, that once were rich and
strong
Give only now the shadow of song
The dying echo of the fuller strain
That i shall never. never hearagain.
Unless in dreams.
What hands have touched 1t Fingers small
and white.
Since stiff and weary with LIES toll and fght
Dear ciingins hands, that long have been At
Folded serenely on quiet breast.
Only to think.
q white, sad notes! of ali the pleasant days,
The happy songs, the hymns of holy praise,
The dreams of love and youth that round you
cling!
Do they not make each signing, trembling
string
\ mighty link?
An its musicians zone beyond recall.
The beautiful, the loved, where are they all !!
Zach told its secrets, touched its keys and
wires
To thoughts Of many coors and desires,
With whispering fingers.
III are silent now, tho farewell said.
The last song sung, the last tear sadly shed:
Yet love has given il many dreams to keep
In this lone room where only shadows creep
And silence fingers.
The old piano answers to my call,
And from my fingers lets the lost notes fall.
o. soul that / have loved. with Heavenly birth
Wilt thou not kcep'the memory of earth,
Its smiles and signs
Shall woodland metal and white ivory
Answer the touch of love with melody,
And thou forget? Dear one not sO;..
] move thee yet Though how may not know
BEYOND the skies.
Lille h. Barr, in Hdrpers Bdzdr
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-08-16
UnSkillei LabOyerS.

We have seen the estimate that the
difference between educated and unedu-
Gated ]aborers would amount to four
hundred million dollars yearly in the
whole United States. Such an estimate
could not of course be very accurate,
and quite possibly it may be much too
low. An educated person would rot be
likely to commit the blunder of the man
who took his bag of grain to mill on
horseback, he himself riding atop the
bag; but thinking that both himself and
bag were too heavy load for the horse,
dismOunted, took the bag on his own
shoulder. and resumed his position on
horseback. Nor would any person with
a scientific education be likely to fall
into the mistake of giving his small
horse the small end of the whiffletree in
blowing. A case no better than this was
mentioned at one of the meetings for
discussion held last winter by the Massa-
chusetts Board of Agriculture. Mr..
Cheever gave an instance Of what he
deemed an extreme case of Obtuse WIS.,
ion, but which might perhaps be as
well charged to a want of scientific
knowledge. He was blowing with
three horses, with his man to drive; but
being called away, he took one horse,
and left the two for the man to pillow
with alone. When he returned at
night, a neighbor informed him that
some inelegant language had been used
in the field during his absence He ac-
cordingly asked the man the cause OF
the trouble. He answered that one OF
the horses had behaved as mean as a
horse could do; would not keep up within
four feet of her mate, and no whipping
could make her do it. On examina-
ton, it was found that as he could not
find the twO-hOrse whiffletree, he had
used the three-hOrse one, attaching the
shortest end to the shortest horse. The
result was that the lightest horse had
twice the work of the heavy and strong
one. Whipping did not add strength to
the animal, or add length to the whiffle-
tree. The man said he didn't know
that it would make much if any differ
ence. This appears to be distinct in
stance of loss from want of knowledge
of mechanical principles and how to APP
ply them in practice. If all laborers
were as deficient the difference between
them and those possessing fair
amount of knowledge and skill may be
equivalent to more than four hundred
million dollars a year in the country al
large.-Country Gentleman.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-08-16

two fires met, the flames shooting high
into the air IS they rushnd together:
For one brief, glorious moment they
remained there, tapping the air with
their fierce, hot tongues; then, sudden
" dropping. they died quickly out;
and where an instant before had been
wall of fire was nothing now but 8
cloud Of blue smoke rising from the
blackened ground, and here and there
a sickly flame finishing an obstinate
tuft of grass. The fire on each side.
meeting no obstacle. swept quickly by,
and Indy stood gazing, spell-bound,
after it as it darted and flashed in ter
rible ziozag lines farther and farther
away.
..Oh, Lindyr' called shrill little
voice from the house. Elmer had just
awakened.
Yes, I'm coming" Indy an
swered. turning. But how very queer
she felt! There was roaring in her
ears louder than the fire had made;
everything whirled before her eyes.
and the sun seemed suddenly to have
ceased shining. all was so dark.
Reaching the house by n great effort,
she sank, faint, dizzy and trembling,
upon the bed by her brothers side.
Elmer. frightened and hardly awake.
began to cry. and, rs he never did any
thing in a halfway manner. the result
was quite wonderful. His frantic
shrieks and furious cries reused his
half-fainting sisteras eAectually as if he
had poured glass of brandy between
her lips. She soon sat up, and by and
by color began to return to the white
face and strength to the exhausted
body. Her practical nature and strong
will again asserted themselves, and in
stead of yielding to feeling of weak
ness and prostration. she tied on her
sun-bonnet firmly. and gave the chick
ems their lOng-delayed dinner.
But when. half an hour later. her
father found her fast asleep. with the
glow from the sky reflected on her
weary little face, he looked out of the
window for moment, picturing to him.
self the terrible scenes of the afternoon,
and then down at his daughter. "A
brave girl" he murmured. smoothing
the yellow hair with his hard. brown
hand-"a brave girlr'-Charlotte A.
Butts, IN st. Nicholas.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-08-16
Fashion Notes.

Silver spider pins are now placed on
he toes of slippers.
Most of the white dresses for morning
wear arc made with baby waists and
sash lacks.
The newest parasols have five divis-
ions, cut out about the edges in deep
! triangles instead of the usual curves.
The dude lace-pin is the latest
novelty. 1t is made of gold filagree,
with head of pearl and eyes of sap
phire
The newest white null fichus have
the edges wrought in Irish point en-
brOidery, or are trimmed with Va!en-
ciennes lace.
The fashions of the day vary so that
almost any dress is fashionable if it fits
well, has tight sleeves and Grapes back
quite tightly.
Red or gold-colOred satin fans are
decorated with the birds that are now in
favor for embroidery and their ivory
sticks are gilded.
Embroidered muslin is plated into
| shape as standing collar with curved
fronts, and finished with collarette to
hold it in place
Bouquets are not now worn on the
corsage, but at the waist. They should
be large and loosely put together, and
of only one kind of flowers.
Plain white centers, with rows of red
or blue dots and scallops as border,
done in tambour-wOrk, are among the
prettiest null squares for the neck.
The basket bOnnets now represent
great PUSHES braided together, and one
of the caprices is to trim these with
punches of wheat or straw, some OF
which is ripe and the remainder partly
green.
New kerchiefs for the neck, with mou.
choirs to correspond, are made of pale vel
low washing silk, embroidered in gayest
cOlors in designs of bees, hummino
birds, roses and buds, and large butter.
flies with brilliant colored wings.
Swallows are great favorites at pres
ent in Paris for trimming hats. They
are also embroidered on dresses and
parasolS, painted or ornaments, formed
of Jewels and stamped on buttons: TIC
swallow.
The hand-painted fans on KID OF
white satin have Vatican landscapes
signed by well-known French painters,
and are mounted on white ivory sticks,
or else the sticks are of the new satin
ivory of a golden brown shade that is
now in vogue for many fancy articles,
such as parasol handles, boxes, brushes.
etc.
One dress seen recently at Newport
was made of fine white French NULL
which was hand embroidered all over in
tiny little canoes. The skirt was made
quite full, and had around the bottom q
ruffie twelve inches deep. which was cut
up in clOver-leaf pattern on the edge
ind embroidered in scarlet. Under.
meath was set ruf!ie of scarlet lace.
The gayety of striped and checked
fannels for tennis wear is now very
striking: some ardent players will veal
them entirely, and others will merely
lSilize them as scarfs and handkerchief
knots to costumes of the new oatmeal
cloths, and a fresh manufacture known
as the Russian fibre brocade, which is
in reality white Turkish towelling, with
its looped meshes arranged in floral
designs. leaving the foundation bare
N. T. Graphic.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-08-16
Beavers.

What queer little things beavers are!
What strange houses they can build!
They make Il sort of cabin of branches
of trees and mud. The mud answers
nicely for mortar.
They have large, strong teeth. When
tEey are cutting the branches for use
they gnaw them off with their teeth.
They make the sticks just rs nearly the
same l,ngth as they can. They dig up
the mud with their paws, for they are
great diggers. When they are ready to
build their cabin, they use their flat
tails just as masOns use a trOwel. With
it they spat and smooth the coat Of mud
as they put it on.
The beavers tail is very short, and
well adapted to this purpose. As tho
wall of the cabin rises higher. it is hard
for the builder to reach the top. What
do YOU think he does? Why. he props
himself up on it and goes on with his
work.
These little creatures lead an id.e sort
of life during most of the summer
months and keep by themselves; but
the last of August they form into COM
panies and begin to cut down their
timber.
The beavers always select place for
building close to stream of water.
To get to the entrance, they must go
down under the water. In order to
keep the water over the doors just high
enough, they make perfect dam.
This dam is also built of branches and
mud. For fear the branches might
move and get out of place, they fix
stones upon them, sometimes of large
size, to keep them down.
Do you see how they can understand
all this? If they did not have dam.
the door of the cabin might be closed
up with ice if the water got low in the
stream in winter.
In this cabin there are two little
rooms. They are shaped like an oven.
The beavers live in the upper one. and
in the lower they store away their food.
They eat the roots and branches of
different vegetables in the winter. They
often lay up food in very large quanti-
| ties.
| This wonderful little animal is about
three feet long. His tail is eleven
inches long. He uses it as rudder in
swimming. as well rs trOwel. This
rudder, with his web feet. enables him
to swim much faster than he can walk.
So you see that God gives to every
creature certain tools u do his own
wOrk.-Our Little Ones.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-08-16
Our Young Readers.
LITTLE CHARLEY.

MY baby boy. DER whose golden head
But two short years had their brightness
shed,
Had dropped his playthings. and climbed
with care
Till he stood erect in q neighbOring chair,
With his dainty ankles and bare white feet
Half hid in the depths of the cushioned
seat.
He poised himself as he caught view
OF the pleasant picture the mirror drew
Of his own sweet face. The violet eyes
We're lifted moment in glad surprise,
As. with smile as sweet as my babyS own,
The other Charley looked kindly down.
Dot boo eyes, too: dot my pritty dess?
You're the other farley boy, i guess"
Then his face was grave, and he nearer
bent,
EtrOking his cheek with a look intent:
He touched his chin. and the ripe red lips,
sweet as the bloom the hOney-bee sips.
&" What is it. Charley? what do you see.'
With an air of conscious dignity
This man in miniature turned to speak,
And said. still strOking his rosy cheek,
And touching his chin with his small pink
thumb:
" I'm lo,Iiin' to see has my listers tome
Mrs. Mary II. Taylor, in Hdrpcr's Young
EsODlG.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-08-16
The Girl Who Gigglc.s.

The girl who giggles is strictly an
American institution. She is found in
all stations high and low, though as u
rule she is more frequently found among
what is known in polite circles as the
upper classes. She developes usually
at the age of fifteen, reaches her prime
at twenty-five and approaches the ''sers
and yellow" at about thirty. when,
though before she was all but unbear-
able, she becomes positive nuisance
and though usually designated as
'.kitten" resembles a full-blOwn feline.
On first acquaintance her infirmity
does not strike you, but As the intimacy
ripens the sad misfortune becomes pam
fully apparent and the feeling of pity
which first affects one is superseded by
that of annoyance. If one is of nerv-
GUS disposition every tendon of his frame
is kept at high tension and rendered
painfully weak by uncOnsciOusly keep
ING on the qsi rire for her next giggle.
Let her be unaware of your presence
and be annoying some one else and the
effect is Just the same. All that is nee
essary is that she shall be within hear
ing distance, and try as hard as one
may to pay no attention to her the effect
is Just the same
A milder form of the complaint is
what is known as snickering or smirk-
ing, and though not as annoying as gig
Cling is almost as bad. Whether or not
this unfortunate malady is contagious
is not definitely known, but that it is
undoubtedly on the increase can not be
doubted. To the scientist as well a
the medical practitioner the subject
opens a wide field for investigation
which it is earnestly hoped will no long
er be neglected, but receive that atten-
ton which the necessities of the ca e de-
mand. If a girl will insist on giggling
let her seek a lodge in some vast wilder
ness and giggle all by herself.-Harns-
brig (P1.) Patriot.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-08-16

There is delightful novelty about
the summer resorts in Maine. for those
who visit them find rest and recreation
in the endeavor to pronounce then
names. some of which are: Mollychunk.
amunk, Interchangeable, Ayboljock-
ameius, Magaguadavic, Cobbossee, Cou-
tee, Togus, Tomhegan, Katepskowegan.
Brassua, Aziscoos. Ripogenus. Nahma.
kanta. Millnokat, Monsweas and Mat
sawamkeag,
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-08-16

The great American composer has
not yet appeared. The New York Com
n,erciat advertiser says it may be that
he bushes unseen amid the symphonies
in green that deck the Hudson River,
or the movements in lard that rise like
a harmony in pig from the musical
stock-yards Of Chicago. When he does
appear he will most probably die poor,
ana II Is not improbable 4 crank,
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-08-16

IA pretty oasis of unreasonablenese
in desert of common sense is the de-
script:on of the American girl given tc
London audiences by Oscar Wilde.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-08-16

San Francisco physicians have di
covered lO7 cases of leprosy among the
hoodlnm class Of boys who smoke cigars
cites made BY Cinnamon.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-08-16

-Twol3v-two years ago young
Scotch boy arrived at Castle Garden
with only twelve cents in his pocket.
Now he is 81 COZ, GOO in debt Chicago
Inter Ocean.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-08-16

success are plain to- see. One Of them
Chip. by name-.knows that when he
is in his cage. with the door shut, he is
safe, and nothing the cat-bird can do
disturbs him in the least; but the
other-Chipee-is, Just as fustered and
panic-stricken in her cage as out. and
! the greatest pleasure of his life is to
keep her wrought up to the fluttering
poiut. He has a perfect perception OF
the difference between the two birds.
When both are out he will chase them
around the room, from cornice to cor
nice; drive them away from tie bath,
which they all have on table. purely
for fun, as his manner shows. But
once Gagged. he pays no further attention
to Chip, while always inventing new
ways to worry Chipee. He alights on
the perch between the cages. crouches
down. with eyes fixed upon her and tail
jerking. as if about to annibilate her.
She flies in wild panic against the wires,
to his great qualification. Then he rutfS
himself up to look terrible. spreads his
legs wide apart, busters and jerks Ms
body and wings and tail. making feints
to rush at her. till she is so frightened
that take pity on her and drive him
away.
One day, when she was more nervous
and he more impish than usual. Gov.
cred her cage with a towel. He came
back as soon as I had left it, and pro.
ceeded to inquire into this new screen.
After looking at it sharply ON all sides
he went around behind the cage, pulled
at the end of the towel and peeped in.
She tiuttered, and he was pleased.
arranged it more securely, and the nex1
performance was to take hold with his
bill and shake it violently. This also
remeded. his last resource was to come
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-06-13
ARMY IDLENESS.

The recent army defalcations have
ton, and we hear that they are going to
do something to prevent gambling IN the
army. This is not hard thing to do,
yet it IS impossible to do it under the
present system of army education. The
system of discipline at West Point,
stupid, Anticipated, narrow minded and
tyrannical, based on the idea of brute
force and despotisna, is the chief cause OF
that moral weakness, of that lack of
strength and fibre which makes our
young officers an easy prey to this in
siduous vice. That gambling prevails
in the army, that it is the chief solace in
the outpost and the cherished amuse-
ment in the barracks and at headquar-
tiers is a sad truth, which is mournfully
admitted by all those who know anything
of army life. Yet gambling, which is
almost universal among the graduates of
West Point, is almost unknown among
the graduates of Yale and Harvard, and
the reason of the difference lies in great
part in the difference in training. In
our civil colleges young men are taught
to respect themselves and control them
selves, and are allowed full liberty of &C
ton, with the full knowledge that their
misconduct will forfeit the advantages
which they enjoy. In West Point the
future officer is treated like baby, and
the man who next year will be put in
command of grown men, is this year put
in bed by the faculty, and is not sup
posed to have discretion enough to get
his shoes BACKED. If gambling is to be
abolished in the army, West Point must
he Ee-cOnstructed
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-06-13
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 1888.
THE CORONATION OF THE GAR.

The car has been crowned. With a
pomp never previously witnessed 10 our
time he has received from the metropoh-
tan of Moscow the emblem of his power
over ninety million subjects. Will he
wear it worthily? Will he clothe the
barbarism of the empire with the forms
and the blessings of decentralization?
Will he extirpate the vile bureaucracy
which is eating out the hearts of the ma
ton? Will he free the press and grant
to the people a larger share in legisla-
ton? His manifesto gives promise that
he will. His immense prerogative Is
capable of acts from which parliament
would shrink. His father set millions
free with word, and he with a stroke of
the pen may make that freedom some
thing more than name. He has been
saved from a great peril and viii be
blind indeed if he cannot read the les
son of his escape.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-06-13
THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.

On December 81, 1881, the library of
congress contained 420,092 books, and
about 145, 600 pamphlets; on December
81, 1882, it held 480,O76 volumes, and
about LOO, 900 pamphlets. This large and
rapid increase is due to gifts, copyright,
and purchases. Under the copyright law
there were deposited in the library 49,
297 volumes of books, nearl y 10, 900 per-
iodicals, and over IL, 900 musical COM
positions. The increase of the library
has been large in the past ten years, and
should it continue in the next decade as
fast as in the past, it will become q seri-
Gus question when and how 20 place the
collection to have them available for use.
There must be vast accumulation of
books and pamphlets which have no per-
manent value. and are not worth preserv-
ing, except to add an element of COM
pleteness to the library. The accommo-
dations Of the congressional library are
exceedingly poor, the space for books
being so filed that it is difficult to find
readily what one often wants to see. The
collection is very valuable one, and de.
serves the best possible care at the hands
of congress.