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Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-10-04
Education Of Girls.

To train the girl to become a wife
snd mother. knowledge pertaining to
the whole household arrangements, to
cooking, washing, cleaning, mending-
the whole round of domestic employ
ments, is absolutely needful. To fail
SO to educate the daughters, to give
them the best possible constitutions, is
to cheat an honest young man, 20 de-
fraud society, to imperi1 the harmony
of the home circle, and to cripple two
for life. 1t may not be true that de-
ficiency in these regards is a sufficient
cause for complaint or censure, and
yet, as society is constituted, it is prob
able that poor bread, scorched meats,
watery potatoes, insipid tea and coffee,
and an untidy house, are among the
prominent sources of family differ
enceS.
Let me say, and with emphasis, that
no woman with deformed chest, made
so by cruel corsets and lacing, the lungs
occupying but a fraction of the space
intended for them by the Creator, the
blood but half purified, of necessity, the
liver and stomach so compressed and
crippled as to be unable to perform
their natural functions, can be the
mother of truly healthy children. No
one can thus destroy the power of the
lungs, on which SO much depends. ex-
cite and inflame the whole system, the
nerves in particular, by strong acids.
excoriating spices and stimulants, and
still be prepared to rear children in the
best manner. No one can impair
digestion by Gripping the stomach
bound, as in wise, by corsets, etc., and
then have the self-contrcl, the patience
and the cheerfulness needful in the
management of the household, since
dyspepsia always produces more or less
Impotence and irritability. And since
the woman is the outcropping Of the
girl, the narrow-chested girl retaining
her deformity in womanhood, as in the
girl, in her whole management or mis-
management, so will be the woman and
the mother.
The great demand of the age is better
educated females-educated in all re-
spects, their whole capabilities brought
into activity, since the health, vigor,
mental and moral power of the next
generation at least, viii depend on their
condition more than all other influences
combined = leach after IT'S kind "
The sickly mother will rear sickly
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-10-04

back, but there is dart, fash, and
something strikes him full in the face
and is not shaken off until he springs
to his feet with a cry heard for half a
mile around and rushes away in the
darkness.
What was it? The sentinel is wide
awake and upon his feet. Wife and
children have been startled from SUM
Der to grow whitehead and tremble.
Even the horses have raised their heads
and are peering into the night. There
was single cry-the wild scream of a
human being suddenly terrified.
cit was nOtbing-nothing but the
howl of WOLFF whispers the sentinel,
as he walks over to comfort wife and
children; and by and by all is quiet and
peaceful as before. The night grows
apace-the stars fade daylight breaks.
AS the sun comes up the wagon moves
on its way and the brook and the camp
and the cottonwood are left behind.
"Yes, it was the howl of some wolf
prowling about" whispers the emigrant
to himself as he walks beside his wagon
and cautiously scans the prairie.
Three hundred feet to the left is
coiled snake, which darts its veno-
nous tongue at the rolling wagon. Halt
a mile beyond lies the dead body of the
Blackfoot swollen, distorted-a horri-
BILE sight under the light of the morning
sun. Overhead circles three or four
vultures of the prairie, and creeping
through the grass come the lank, hun
gry wolves TO the feast The wife
laughs, the children frolic, the husband
regains his light heart. Nj ght wrote
the record of the serpents in the grass,
and he will never read it.-Detr0G Free
pyocc
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-10-04
The Hat.Sneak EXterminatOr.

The genial VIII Wilson walked into
the office of the argus last week and
laid on the polished mahogany desk a
little instrument made up of a col OF
brass wire, with spikes and a spiral
spring.
VIII compressed the wires by laying
a book over the top and the moment he
let 90 out darted dozen pointers as
sharp as tish-hooks.
did YOU" said VIII, did you ever
in blind confidence rest your beloved
tile on the hat-stand of country hotel
and find by mysterious dispensation
of Providence it had gone, while in its
place was greasy, napless head-cover-
inc as old as the hills of Hebron?'
ALAS, we did.' we sighed.
"Well, here you behold an antidote
to all such future Affections. l call it
the Magical, Tragical, Melodramatic
Hat-sncak EXterminator. I've applied
for a patent and expect to make a mint
out of it,
How does it work."
"Why. you see, wind the thing up.
These claws all pile up in a bunch.
L
OF the hat. The moment man puts il
on his head the spring is loosened and
all these prickers drop on to his Uranium
like the toe-nails of mad cat when
she's clawing on to the window cur.
tain"
1T must hurt?''
Hurt? You bet! First time | trieC
it, thought I'd died with laughing.
was at the New House, Danvillc, and
set the trap nice and snug just before
went into dinner. Well, when l goi
into the dining-room was disappointed
to find only one stranger present, anG
he was an elderly gentleman of great
responsibility of appearance"
"'No 90, this time | murmured, az
| skinned the grease off the vegetable
soup.
THE elderly stranger finished first
and left the room.
" Presently there was a yell in the
Office which lifted the tiles off the ROOF
of the house.
Il ran out. There was the stranger
clawing his ears, trying to pull my hat
off his bald head, while tears of anguish
as big as Boston beans coursed down his
furrOwed checks.
The clerk was paralyzed.
"'Stand still! shouted, let me help
you.
''Then tenderly loosened the spring.
got the hat off his head and cried
Hey! Scat! There he goes! Right
under the chair yondcr! Hit him with
the poker..'
For let on as if it was arat, and
they were both so scared that they never
found out the ruse. "-Eransrille (Ind.
.irGNS
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-10-04

Throughout the whole of Utah the
cricket is one of the common objects Of
the country, but there are crickets. and
;rickets, and it is just as well when in
search of the best article to ''see that
you get it." For consideration. there
fore, l well put the spectator on the
track of some of the grossest locusts that
ever devoured greenstuff-lOcusts. more
over, that squeak when pursued. Poets
american poets esecially) are very
partial to what they are pleased to call
the cricket's merry chirp. But the
poets cricket is the insect of the.
domestic hearth, pale-colored ghost OF
a thing, all voice. and with an irregular
midnight appetite for the kitchen cloths
that are hung out to dry before the
stove. The Piutes' cricket is very much
otherwise. 1t is the Jumbo of crickets,
and just as black. 1t lives on the slopes
of the Utah hills, among the sage-brush.
and when alarmed tries invariably to
Jump down-hill. But being all stomach,
and therefore top-heavy, so to speak, the
Unbalanced insect invariably rolls head
over heels, and every time it turns
somersault it squeaks dismally. To
walk down the hillside, driving a
whole herd of these eorpulent crickets
before me, used to amuse me -immod-
erately, for the spectacle of so many
fat things simultaneously trying to
Jump down-hill, simultaneously rolling
head over heels, and simultaneously
squeaking, was mirthful enough TO
drive the dullest care away.-PhH
Robinson. in Harper's Magazine.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-10-04
Royal ROutine-What the Princess OF
Wales Has to Do.

There must be good deal of same
ness in the royal routine of existence,
after all. was struck with this in the
park yesterday while observing the
Princess of Wales as she was driving
along the sweep which extends from the
Marble Arch at the Oxford street en-
trance to the park to the gorgeous
statue of the Prince Consort on the
Kensington side. In response to the
bows and salutations of the assemblage
she bows her head, first to the right
and then to the left, continuously.
There is almost no cessation in the ex-
ercisc. 1t is part of her duty in life.
And the bow is study-a wonderful
medium between listlcssness and cOrdi-
atty The features remain quite smile
less; there is no suspicion of the smirk
of the popular favorite of the footlights,
for instance. But the eyes are full OF
interest rs they light on every passing
face, and it is impossible to entertain a
doubt that one has been bowed to, dis
tinctly and directly, by the Princess.
This is what so enchants people-not
only people of a certain position in life,
but the poor people, the hard toilers OF
the busy town, who stop on their way
to have look at the dear Princess.
There seems almost as keen q look OF
interest in them upon her face as she
sees in theirs concerning her. No one
can see her without feeling an admira.
ton for her.
But one who looks beneath the sur
face of things must know, although sc
well dissembled, that this is only acting
out the royal part. 1t can not be that
Alexandra really feels the interest he,
features indicate in every passing
stranger who bows to her in the park.
And it must be considerable depriva-
ton to her in the way of talking with
those who accompany her-this con-
slant bowling. Yesterday her eldest
daughter was with her, and also one OF
those cousinly grand German Ouch.
Observation-Disclosures on visit. The
ladies were reduced to helpless silence,
for so continuous was Alexandra's bow
ing she could not find time to talk tC
them, and no doubt it is contrary to Ell
quette for lesserlights converse with each
other when the great one can take nc
part. How simple and elegant Alex
andra's toilets always are! Always SO
neat, compact and trim! During the hot
weather she has been wearing simple
washing prints to the park. Yesterday
the sky was slightly overcast, and she
was appropriately dressed in black silk
with small brocaded flowers in natural
colors. She wore a tiny white lace bon
net, with black spotted net veil. Her
appearance of girlishness is one of the
most marvellous charms of this stainless
Princess. Letter
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-10-04
The British West Indies.

Fifty years ago the Emancipation act
was passed. A couple of years previous
ly the value of West Indian exports was
f9,932,5 800 In 1880 the value of ex-
ports was fS,9O4,OO Meanwhile the
population has gre n from 95S,S40 to
l, 493,O62. A population more than
half as much again produces for expor-
tation a millions worth less. Of the
diminished exports two millions worth,
it has been calculated, is raised by the
labor of a hundred thousand coolies.
Each negro is computed to produce not
more than Is worth of exports as
against more than double the value half
a century since. Wages are small. In
Jamaica they are ordinarily a shilling a
day. In Barbados and Trinidad, al
though the average is about the same,
men in crop time and by piece-work
frequently earn double. Wages OF
women are a fifth or sixth less.
Three pounds of rice or three pounds
and half of corn meal, with
ten ounces of salt fish, or an equivalent
quantity of meat. are required to keep
in health a man and his wife if in
regular work. On scale somewhat
lower the food of household consist
ing of two parents and two children, it
is reckoned, would absorb shilling
and eightpence halfpenny day, leav-
ing little for rent, taxes and clothes. In
the United States similar family
would consume 4SO pounds of mea: aid
- bushels of grain. Except in Bar
bados and Trinidad the children of the
negroes are declared to be everywhere
miserably underfed. In Antigua, it has
been stated. the lamentations of the
hungry children are heard throughout
the estates and villages while the
mothers are awsy at work. In many
places the infant mortality exceeds 80
per cent. of the recorded deaths. A de-
sire, resulting from poverty, to escape
the pecuniary burdens of paternity
shows itself in the terrible figures of IL
legitimacy. Sixty per cent. of the
births in Jamaica are Legitimate
London Times,
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-10-04

child, though that feebleness may not
at first be manifest. The peevish
mother-so during the most important
period of her earthly life-will produce
peevishness in her offspring. The
groveling, low, sensual, Incorporate
and vicious woman becomes just to that
extent the mother of just such children,
as the future will demonstrate. II
these are facts. therefore, it is a matter
of vital Importance that our girls shall
be thoroughly educated to become wives
and mothers, not so much because that
is their highest position, as because the
true woman wishes to be wife and
mother from the very aspirations of her
nature. If she lis thus to become the
mother of the race, it is her right and
the duty which society owes her, to
have every possible facility to become
the highest type Of such a mother
healthy and wise.
While our boys are trained for the
trades, for farming, for the professions,
ETC., it is as needful that the girls shall
be made intelligent in general, and that
some occupation shall be selected as a
means of support, that they may not
feel that they are but parasites in soci-
ETY.; that they were simply made to be
married at about twenty years of age,
and then to be supported, pets to be
fondled-as long as they seem to be pets
finely attired and handsome dolls.
That most will b. married is hoped, and
yet some will remain single, and as
such, it is but fair to them that they
should be able in some way to secure an
honest living, to respect themselves.
To bring them up Cor let them come up)
to feel that they are too good to work
in any department Of industry, too good
to be useful, is to rob them of self
respect, of true womanhood; nay, more,
it teaches them selfishncss, to disrespect
the mother, regarding her as just fit to
wait upon them, to be a slave. Every
daughter-if the mother discharges her
whole duty-will be taught to be useful
first in the kitchen. in the nursery. in
the sitting room, as well as in the par
lor, at least if she has any idea of ever
having the care of a family. If not,
she needs training in some of the trades
that she need not remain a hanger-on,a
practical pauper. Men and women
alike are placed in this world for labor,
usefulness of body or mind. or
both. DR.. Hannatord, in Western PloU-
man.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-10-04
HUMOROUS.

The following is extracted from o
smart boys composition on g Babies:
1.-THE mothers heart gives 4th joy at the
baby's LIST 9TH
"A credulOus man said to wag,
who had wooden le.s '.How came
You to have wooden leg?" Why
answered the wag, 'my father had one
so had my grandfather. 1t runs in the
blood"
"A Yorkshire man whose well lately
caved in cOntrived to make the authori-
ties suspect that he had murdered q
man and put his body at the bottom OF
the we'll, and took things easy at the
Jail while they dug his well out for him;
he now talks of suing the town for false
Imprisonment.
Wives ought really to be more care
full about telling all the truth to theii
husbands. why do you start sc
whenever come into the room?" asked
brusque man of his better-half. 'lt
is only my nerves, my poor nerves, she
replied, (which are so very weak that J
am startled by every stupid thing J
see. '-Chicdgo Tribune.
A short time ago little boy went
with his father to see colt. He patted
the colts head and made quite fuss
over it, until the stableman told him to
be careful that the colt did not turn
round and kick him. When young
Hopeful went home his mother asked
him what he thought of the colt. 81
like him pretty well,' was the reply.
..He's very tame in front, but he's awful
wild behind. Ha-per's Bazar.
Chorus of excited boys: ''Then the
lightning struck you?" Skipper lin
differently: ''Oh, yes, L was leanin,
agin the mainmast when it struck it
Excited boys: didn't it kill yOu?'
Skipper (more indifferently): wal,
no: It all ran down my back" Excited
bows: "And what did you do then?'
Skipper (most indifferently): 81 had to
haul off my boots and pour the light.
ming out on the deck"
why do you put those horrid
things on the necks of those cows?
asked the young lady-boarder OF Farm
er Furrow, as he was driving q yoke OF
oxen down the lane. That to make
'em keep still while I'm milkin' EN-,
said the old man. as he winked at his
wife '.Oh, yes!' exclaimed the city
maiden; Il ought to have known
that" Then she ran upstairs to enter
the information in her diary.-N r.
Dairy.
How 1t Struck Her.
A little ragged orphan girl. who ne'er
Had had q home nor known a parent care,
And who. with shoeless feet and hatless head
Newspapers sold to earn her scanty bread,
Was taken from the city far away,
With others of her kind, one summer day,
To look upon the ocean AT the sight
Her thin. sharp face was filled with grave dc
light;
And some one said: 81 wonder what can be
Her thoughts. poor child, about this mighty
sea-"
She heard the words, and quickly turned her
head,
And in low tones, as thinkin', am" she
said.
"I's glad coined, because never sOr
Enough of anything at wunst before:
-Mdrgaret EDtinge.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-10-04
HONE, FARM AND GARDEN.

Corn meal produces more mills
than sorghum meal does.-M. T. Her.
Md.
An English gardener says that hoe.
ing is far better than wedding. Child
dren, thank your stars and tell it to
your father.
Tomatoes are good for the liver.
Bad cases of biliousneSs have been cured
by them. The tomato is delicious when
fried.-Erchange.
When soil is strong enough tc
produce any other crop sorrel is kept
in the background When land is SO
run out that nothing else will grow,
sorrel will soon cover the ground. 1t
delights in poor, light and dry SOIL
Prairie Farmer.
The New York Times says the
roofs of barns should be steep, and if
Of wood the surface either painted OF
the shingles dipped in lime-water. to
make them more durable. Straw and
dirt collect under tlat-rOOfcd shingles
and cause rapid decay.
"A little curry powder in chopped
pickles gives delicious flavor TO it.
A tablespoonful of the powder to four
quarts of pickle is about the right
quantity to use, unless you like to use
the curry in place of pepper; then at
least twice this quantity should be put
in.-N. y. Post. .
About one hundred parts of water
to one of Paris green may safely be
used to prevent insect depredations or
fruit, provided the last application be
made month before the fruit is eaten.
as the poison, being very soluble, is
easily washed off by rains. This is
promulgated by the professors of the
Michigan Agricultural College.-Detroii
Post.
For preserving eggs provide a box
full OF nice, sweet bran, commence in
September to take the eggs every day
warm from the nest and with piece
of soft flannel, smeared slightly with
fresh butter, rub them carefully over.
and place them small end downward.
in layers into the box, covering them
with bran until the box is full, put or
the lid securely and turn it over Occa-
sionally. A nicer way than either salt
or lime.
1t it easy to perceive why bees car
not thrive well on a sheep pasture.
Sheep eat everything down very close
ly, and leave nothing IN the shape of
flower upon which bees can subsist.
There is no other reason for the popu.
lar belief that sheep and bees will moi
thrive together. The ices will not hurt
the sheep in any way. but the sheep
leave nothing for the bees to pasture in:
that is the only difficulty, and where
other feeding ground is provided for the
bees than the sheep pasture, sheep and
bees would thrive very well together
n. Y. Graphic.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-10-04
How Boston Newspapers We're De.
ceived.

Here is a mystery. In the announce
ments of Sunday services in the Irdy
eller Saturday afternoon was notice
that Rev. Brooke Herford would preach
at the Arlington Street Church on Sun
day, and the text and the subject of the
discourse were given. At the church
on Sunday morning there was no sign
of life except the presence of a number
of persons who waited in vain for the
church to be opened, and were not sat
isfied until it was proved to them that
as Mr.. Herford would not reach Boston
from Europe for nearly two weeks, his
preaching of the sermon announced in
the Arlington Street Church on Sun
day, September 9. would be an impos-
sibility. All might have ended there
with the verdict that the announcement
was mistake, but this morning a re-
port appears in the Herald which be-
gins:
AT the Arlington Street Church, in
the forenoon. Rev Brooke Herford
preached upon the Christian Value of
Business Life taking his text from
Proverbs Xxii:29: 'Seest thou man dill
gent in his business? He shall stand be-
fore Kings The preacher began" etc.
And then follows half-column re-
port of the sermon. The advertisement
is easily accounted for. but what about
the report of the sermon? Here is the
best explanation that can be given. The
Commercial Bulletin had in its posses
sion copy of the sermon in question,
which was preached by Mr.. Herford
some time last spring. 1t was an
nounced last week that the Bulletin
would publish the sermon in full on
Saturday. From that announcement
must have come, in some way, the no.
tice that the sermon would be delivered
on Sunday. But howabout the report
The only way to account for that is that
the Herald, possessing copy of the
Commercial Bulletin of Saturday, made
a neat abstract of the sermon, brought
the time of its delivery down to date,
after the fashion of recent Paris SER
mons received by cable, and published
it.-B0Ston Journal
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-10-04
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

The London Athen0uDs states that
the grandfather of President Lincoln
was q resident of Norwich, in England.
In six months 1858 books in the
German language have been published,
making an average of 45 works day.
"A Mrs. Cox, who is said to be 9
sister of George w. Cable, the novelist,
is making a reputation for herself in
New Orleans as painter of animals.
Shakespeare Bones" is the un-
canny title of a volume by DR.. Ingleby,
who, despite the poets curse. wants tG
dig up his bones in order to settle some
questions about the busts. portraits and
death-mask.-C Chicago Journal.
&C. P. Huntington, the great rail
road magnate, was a poor boy and 8
Woodworking young man. He did not
begin to accumulate his immense fort.
une until he was past forty, when he
staked all his savings on the scheme OF
the Pacific Railroad. = Indianapolis
Journal
MIR. John r. French. ex-Sergeant.
alarms of the United States Senate, is
delivering throughout the country
lecture entitled ''Ten Years About the
Senate" 1t contains a series of inter.
esting and clear-cut sketches of the lead
ing Senators during the period between
1869 and 1879.
The library of the British Museum
has over 100000 volumes by actual
count, and the sum expended annually
in purchases amounts to over $4,000,
besides, under the copyright act, a
copy of every book published in the
United Kingdom is sent to the library.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
The domestic life of Etelkc GersteI
shows that she is home-loving woman
as well as Il great artist. Her uncle.
Anton Gerster, is a carpenter in Pros.
pect Park, New York, and he says, not
withstanding the fact that she has been
feted by all the principal potentates in
the world, she has not grown proud and
is just the same rs he knew her when
child.-M Y. Mail.
"A gentleman who was very in
innate with the late Judge Black says
the dead jurist's literary productions
will be published in book form, and
will comprise three large volumes. The
first volume was ready for. publication
before his death, and the others will
probably be compiled soon. Literary
men are already familiar with the
great force displayed in everything the
eminent jurist wrote, and will welcome
these volumes as valuable acquisitions
to their libraries. -DetrOH Post. a., ..