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Dodge City times., 1884-07-17
Some Penalties of Wealth.

Probably nobody will ever believe
sincerely that it is not better to be rich
than poor; and certainly it is best for
civilization that the difficulty of reach
ing that belief is practically insupera-
bic. From the foundation OF Christiani-
ty to the present day, to 90 no further
back, men have sought riches with all
their energies, and in the ma iority of
cases have enjoyed them when found
and though writers, who are imagina-
| tive people, are seldom practical, have
often pretended that decent poverty is
better than wealth, as a rule they did
not believe these assertions themselves,
and certainly the world has refused to
accept them. A frank statement OF the
average creed On the subject would un-
qucstionably involve the admission that
wealth is better than most other things;
=: al while it is proper theoretically to
deprccate an intense desire for it, most
people make it their Alpha and Omega:
that as regards the current talk about
its burdens. nearly everybody is willing
to assume them at q moments notice.
The world, in short, loves money, ap-
preciates iG, seeks it, pays respect to it.
Yet, when all this is fully recognized,
the fact remains that wealth sometimes 8
has its penalties.
Here. for instance, is Mr. Garrison,
who, to everybody's rs, ,onishmont, has
just made an assignment. So far as
can be ascertained, the fundamental
cause of this action is the fact that the
old 1entleman' money has bee me
S ronger than he is, and has literally
overwhelmed him. Age and infirmity
incapacitated him from attending daily
to hi many investments. But in these
days o. rapid change, constant vigi-
lance is the price OF financial sta ility.
The Commodore could not give the
necessary attention to his affairs, and
the result is that everything has got into
confusion. Take other eases: those of
men who hare the largest fortunes in
the country or the world. They are all
necessarily hard workers. Their wealth
constrains them to ceaseless superv son
and watchfulness. Doubtless with some
there is pleasurable excitement about
this, but at all events there are penal
ties which can not be evaded, and which
attach to great fortunes. There is, n
fact, not much exaggeration in the say
ing that in many of such cases the
money owns the men rather than the
men the money.
Perhaps these drawbacks are intro
duced for the express purpose of con-
soilng the masses to whom great wealth
has been denied. They can at least try
to believe that the cares of the rich ex-
cced their pleasures; and once in
awhile there occurs an event which
seems to Justify the adage that "aIl is
not gold that glitters,'' and which
shows that wisdom lay in the prayer o!
Agar, when he said: "Give me neither
poverty nor riches for it is after AL in
the happy mean between the two ex-
tremes that the most satisfactory con,li-
tions are found, and that mean for
tunately exists in greater proportion
among the American people than any
where else in the WORLDLY. \. 1rib-
2l2LC.
Dodge City times., 1884-07-17
Securing Wool in the West.

Wool-growers in Kansas. Colorado,
and New Mexico have learned that pay
ing two or three cents per pound for
shipped by them is neither profita-
BILE to them nor satisfactory to the con-
signees. The sheep-owners are, there
fore, discussing the establishment of
scouring-mills at convenient points. as
was long since sue egested by the Tribune,
as a measure of relief. That there are
some oh. ections to this plan is true -
there are few plans to which there is
noEe. One OBJ; ;ection is that every fleece
must be ''sorted," so that each of the
several qualities of fiber found in each
fee may be placed with fiber of a like
quality from other tleeces. This will
make necessary the services of skillfu;
''sorters," and to such men high wages
must be paid. But this sorting must be
done at some time, and while wages
would doubtless be higher in the West
than in the East the saving in charges
for freight would probably pay hand
some profit over any difference there
m ght be in the cost of sorting and
securing. Wool thus sorted would, be.
yOnd doubt, sell more readily and at
better prices than could be obtained for
unsorted wool. In most lines of busi-
ness it has been found protil able to sep
arate goods into classes to most readily
and completely answer the require
ments of customers, and there is no ap-
parent reason for supposing the same
rule would not hold in case Of wool.
In merino woods the shrinkage in
securing is from seventy to eighty per
cent, while the les, oily common
grades shrink from sixty to sixty-ti
per cent. Thus on carload, OF say
fifteen thousand pounds of tleeces, the
Colorado or New Mexico sheep-owner
pays say S45) for transportation to
market. OF this sum from S3l5 to 1850
is paid for hauling dirt. which, rich as
it may be, is really not worth in the
wool markets the three cents per pound
it costs to put it there As the wool
grower gets really nothing for this soil,
except left-handed blessings from
the broker, the mill owner
and all others who handle the clip, it
does seem unwise to pay freight
charges, commission, storage and cart
age on such large quantities OF the free
grazing lands of the West. For some
years Eastern States have complained
OF the rapid filling of the beds of their
streams by refuse from their factories,
and Chicago has SO grown that her fur
naces and factories now make more
dirt than is needed for filling her once
miry streets; therefore there seems to
be really no good reason why the wool
grower OF the Far West should pay three
cents, more or less, for hauling dirt to
fill sire ans and streets where it is not
wanted. Chicago Tribune.
Dodge City times., 1884-07-17
HUMOROUS.

"A button is one OF tnOSe events that
are always coming off.
My brethren, bear in mind that the
advertisement which reads: Summer
boarders taken in, means all that it
says. Gil CITY Nerrick.
A man wants to know what will
bring out mustache. Tie cord
around it tightly, hitch the cord to a
fence post and then run backwards
Burlington free Press.
john" said a teacher, II am very
sorry to have to punish YOU Don't
then, please, SIR said Johnny, "cause
it makes me feel Guee., too !; then wei
bo,h be sorry we did it,
Mark Twain, lecturing on the
Sandwich Islands," offered to show
how the cannibalS eat their food if any
body would lend him a baby. The
lecture was not illustrated.
Lorenzo Griswold, Pittsfield
Mass.) sewing-machine agent, has
elOped with a fourteen-year-Oid girl
named Di!ler, who wanted machine
with teller. r.--BOstoU Post.
The Nun. cipal Council of St.
Giles, Belgium, has changed the name
OF the Rue St. Bernard to the Rue Sara
Bernhardt, becaise the street in ques-
ton is SO long and narrow.
The ambitious young man who sent
"a original communication to this
Office for publication with the request
that the marked portions of it ''must be
sot up in lean-over type, is now leaning
over the ragged edge of despair because
his production wasn't published.-Ken-
tucky State Journal.
johnny and Tommy were playing
in the back yard when JOhnny's moth
er shouted to him from the kitchen to
come into the house. whats that?"
asked Tommy. 1T S my mother holler-
ing in the Kitchen" replied Johnnie.
'it makes me think of dudes head"
said Tommy. ''How 81 asked Johnny.
because its holler within, answered
Tommy.-SOnaerUtile journal.
Mrs. Shoddy Ito storekeeper)-
Show me a tnermometer-oneO of your
very best, you know. Shopkeeper-
This. ma am, is one of our very finest
superb mountings, graduated with mic
est exactness, Venetian glass, you know,
and the finest quicksilver. Mrs. Shod-
dy--Quicksilver; oh, yes; that would
do we'll enough for the kitchen, to be
sure; but / want one for my boodor.
Let ME have one with quick gold.--M.
y. Graphic.
There is this difference between
u.s. said the needy tramp, looking the
editor full in the eve. ''YOu fill long
felt want, and l want long felt fill"
The editor wept. and with many a
mutiled blow, hewed off a fragment of
a wedding cake that had been sent in
with the notice. and handed it to the
wanderer. "Fill up on that he said,
land you will feel it long after all
trivial fond records have been wiped
away from the subtraction table OF
your memory. ."-Burlington Havkeue.
1t was at dinner party. and they
were criticising Mr.. Brown. '..But,
pa," said little Johnny, '.Mr. Brown
has a great mind.' "What makes you
think so, son?r asked tho father look
ing around seriously at his guests.
"Oh, heard him say so himself" At
this there was general laugh. "You
heard him say so himself, eh? Come,
tell us what he said" '.He said he
had a great mind to sue you if you
didn't settle that bill you owe him.
Buffalo E1press.
Dodge City times., 1884-07-17
Industries OF Cities.

The regret is often repeated il rural
circles. saws the last monthly report of
the Department of Agriculture. that.
bows will leave the farm fo= city life
It has been shown heretofore that the
proportion Of farmers is slowly decreas.
inc, and that this is FOR the best good
of agriculture. 1t has, ~ the same
time, been shown that tho supply OF
farm products is increasing by use OF
labor-saving implements and ut
hoped) by better cultivation Then
there is no need of regret .hat All sons
of farmers should not elee! - BIZ iarm-
ers themselves Some have inventive
genius and taste for mechanical pur-
suits; some manifest q penchant Tor
trade, and others a preference iOr pSo-
fessions A distribution according to-
natural bent and innate ATTITUDES WIFE
lead to better results, and leave fewer
poor farmers 20 occupy position ZOE
which they have neither taste nor
qualifications. An examination or thd
business of cities shows that they art
occupied for other purposes than spec'l'
lation and petty swndling. however se'
verely they may be cursed by the pres
ence of those who prey upon honest in
dustry. In fifty cities of largest pop's-
latiOr there were nearly s,OOO,o 600 peo-
pie in 1880. OF these 3.OO0,U0O or
more were workers. in addition to tho
wives and older daughters who were
ho 1sekeepers, and the children tine
aged, and infirm. 1t may be supposed
that most of these workers were In
commerce or tran, ,portatlon in these
fifty great ''marts Of trade. y" by no
means-for the larger proportion are
artisans and operatives connected with
the great manufacturing class. New
York itself has AZ per cent. directly en-
gagged as artificers. and but u per cent.
in trade and transportation together,
and the annual value of the products Is
the princely sum of S472, ,926, 437. In
stead of handling few hundred mill
ions in foreign goods. they make an
equal value of domestic goods. large
proportion of which is labor. So we
find in these fifty cities an average OF 43
per cent. in manufactures, l per cent.
N agriculture, and a p + cent. in trade
and transportation. AS the remainder
are in domestic service. distributed
among these classes but tnot enumerated
with them, and professional people de-
pendent upon all these classes, 1t ap'
pears that fully six -tenths OF the pOpu-
lation of these cities are supported by
manufacturing production, i. e., live
millions of population OF less than
eight derive their incomes from the pro-
ductive industries. Thus the great
cities of the country are Eot so much
..marts of trade" as 'centers OF in.
dustry. Chicago Times.
Dodge City times., 1884-07-17
Safe From Intrusion.

Jones-'I see Emo has been caught" :"
Smith Yes he made a great mis-
take in travelling through the country
instead OF staying at home"
Jones -''But his house was being
watched
Smith-s.Oh, of course it would not
have done for him to have stayed at his
residence. but l know place only .
square off which nobody ever thinks Of
entering. He could have slipped in
there and been safe"
Jones-"To what place do you re-
fer?''
Smith-''To store kept by friend
of Mr.. EnO's in the next street,
Jones-'A store! Why would he be
safe from discovery there9"
Smith-"I'he proprietor does not sd'
vertise. '--Philadstpi.ia Call
Dodge City times., 1884-07-17
HOME. Farm AND GARDEN.

The test hay is that which IS COM.
posed of variety of grasses. but time
othy and clover should be in excess
Farm. Field and Fireside.
Vanilla Cake: One cup Of butter,
one and 0ne-han cups of sugar, hve
eggs, one pint of -four. two teaspoon.
fuis of baking powder. one cup OK
cream. One-fourth of q cup of milk:
bake in q shallow square pan.-1he
Household.
Fried Tomatoes: Peel the tomatoes,
cut in slices about half an inch thick.
dip each slice into white -four, then In
to beaten egg, sprinkle pepper and salt
over each 81. CO and fry in hot lard.
These make good garnish.
c:dnge.
The farmer who has q neat, we'll kepe
garden is almost sure to have q neas
and well-kept farm. comfortable and
well-appointed home, tidy out-ouiid,
incs aLd stock in good condition; ana
the housewife who takes prde IN the
garden generally has a home to take
pride in and be proud ON !. Hera'a-
Mint Vinegar: Take peppermint or
spearmint leaves; wash them ana Pni
them into large-mcuthcd bottle; MI
the bottle up with vinegar; ave CORK
that fits closely. Let this s'and lor
three weeks. then poSr it through !.
muslin cloth into clean bottle. a on II
is ready for use.-Bost0n Budget.
-Ice-cream Cake: One po,nd of SUI
gar. one pound of -four. half . pound or
butter, whites of eight eggs, one tea,
spoonful of soda. two teaspoOnfuls OF
cream of tartar. one tablespoonful OF
extract of almond, one-third CT cup
full OF sweet milk. Dissolve tie soda IN
tablespoonful of warm water. Bake
in jelly-cake pans.-Boston GL'6e.
Garden sings. when they tecome
nuisance, may easily and safely be
abated. Distribute, pretty literally over
the garden flat pieces of stone or bits of
slate or zinc. At mig htfall ,pua little
bran on each fragment, and soon the
slugs will come out fr ON among the
plants and shrubs to feed Upon the bran.
When it is dark go out witt Il lantern
and pail containing some 81 ronS brine.
and remove the slugs from ne bran
baited surfaces and place them IN the
pail, when the salt and water W. soon
dispose of the pests. go Jtu'No
Dodge City times., 1884-07-17
Specially Farming.

1t may be we'll to inquire into the
general result of the practice of GER
tain speciality in farming. and see if it
is always the best for the greatest num-
her of farmers. There are those farm
ers who risk all in wheat Wheat, well
put in, is reasonably sure crop, nor
does the price fluctaata in value like
some of the crops. che man who
raises onions sells them one year at
sl.50 and the next year Mt twenty-five
cents; SO with potatoes. We are at
vised to all keep beep bees for profit,
and if twice as much honey was pro-
duced as now, would it have any valde?
so with milk, so with potatoes. What
will answer for here and there a man,
would ruin the whole industry in which
they are engaged. if their numbers were
reinforced to any considerable extent.
To raise only one product and buy all
the rest needed, is not wholly good
policy. Most farmers can raise the
bulk of the home wants at profit
though others may be bought more
cheaply than raised. 1t is quite mis-
take to try and initiate some other farm
er. You will probably fail. You did
not see or hear how many loads of ma
nure he used upon that ten acres, how
many times he dragged it, how many
times the cultivators went along .he
rows, but you thought you did, tried it
the way you thought he did, and failed
IN the result; and then you SAID that
you did not believe he told the truth
about his crop. But if you had gone
about it in wOrkmanlike style the best
you could, the result would have been
better. What is true of great men is
quite as true of farmers. There is new
er any success in trying to farm after
au exact copy any more than there is
IN trying to attain to the Presidency Of
the United States by trying to follow in
Gar6eld's path. You can read the
same books he did, and you may be
President, but the practice and the
methods by which it will be attained
will be widely different Specialties in
farming will often succeed, but it is te-
,ause some farmer has seen a want and
tilied it; but one is rarely successful in
doing exactly what some other one has
Ilcceeded VITA. CtsaslQN1 Hsrald.
Dodge City times., 1884-07-17
CITY LYRICS.

What is so rare as a day in June
When tramps and hucksters are i'm tune?
When men with strawberries To sell
Play tunes upon the front-door bell!
When it is ninety i'm the shade,
And boys with matches come to trade:
While down the sitting street there goes
Wild Shrieks Of "'Ta-tOeS! Oh-h-'ta-tOeS.
When sultry midnight's drowsy noon
Echoes the fierce mosquitoes tune;
From restless sleep he bids you come,
And softly sing: Are you to hum?
When oft as days long heat is DER
The cockroach skins along the floor;
When in the door-frame snugly pressed
The mud-wasp builds her clay ribbed nest.
When on the trees, so rosy sweet,
The early cherries say: "Come, eat::'
And long before the set of sun
The robins eat them, every one.
When on the clover sward you rest
BY heat and tennis sore oppressed,
You rise with glad and sweet surprise
The bee beneath the clover lies.
When lettering down the shaded lane.
The meadows fragrant breath to gain,
You pause embarrassed as you stray
A ma1-dog meets you in the way.
Where everything with feet and wings
That crawls and tIckeS, bites and stings,
Creeps out of egg, nest and COCOON
What is SO rare as some days in June?
r. j. Budette in Brooklyn Eagle.
Dodge City times., 1884-07-17

The time to determine what sheep to
keep is during shearing; then the owner
directing and overseeing operations can
cause to be marked such as are light
shearers, aged sheep, in poor condition,
without lambs, etc., and in the ordinary
tlocks, allowing that one-third be sold,
it is more than pl lobable that the value
of the two-thirds remaining, the flock
to be kept. will bring as good an in
come and be, in rea ity, worth as much
as if the inferior sheep remained to
10 yer the standard OF the lot Chicago
Iina;s
Dodge City times., 1884-07-17
Why She Tre:nbled.

An Austin gentleman is in the habit
of getting up very early and going to
the river to bathe. A few morning:
ago, while at breakfast, his wife said
George. l wish You would give up
bathing early in the morning. am SC
anxious while you are away that can't
sleep wink"
The husband felt highly flattered to
think that his wife cared so much for
his welfare, and he said to her consol.
ingly:
Don't be alarmed, dear, about nv
getting drowned. The water is quite
shallow, and / am a first rate swim.
mer.'
1T is not that st all. but am afraid
some sneak-thief, seeing you go of, and
knowing there is no man about the
house, may get in and steal the silver
spoons my ma gave me. You can t
imagine how much suffer when you
are OF bathing" she replied, with a
merry laugh. SJiings.
Dodge City times., 1884-07-17

Mr.. Josiah Clarke, writing to the
Germantown telegraph, says there are
two ways to prevent scours in calves :
First, give a small cupful of white sand
and an eighth of teaspoonful OF cay
enne pepper, night and morning, mixed
in their food two or three doses will
bring them around all right. Second,
small teaspoonful of air-slaked lime.
with the pepper as above. He has tried
the remedies for over thirty years, and
they have never failed him or his neigh
boys.
Dodge City times., 1884-07-17

will that is characteristic of settlers In
a new country. And but for the loss
that nothing could replace, we would
have felt that their strong, earnest ex-
pressions and acts of kindness in great
part compensated for the terror and the
losses that had come to us in this our
first experience OF a prairie fire.
L use Pierce, in YoutlTs Companion.
Dodge City times., 1884-07-17

Carl Schurz is to deliver Gfty
lectures in New England next winter.
Boalon Herald,
Dodge City times., 1884-07-17

suddenly we heard cry OF agony,
and looking out, saw that father wAs
Standing in a swale where the fire had
ragged the fiercest. fed by resin-weeds,
which shot up n ne and ten fe It high
Almost benumbed with dread, dragged
myself to the spot.
1t was one of those sights it will take
lifetime to etface; for there, face
downward, lay what had been our
Sadie. Nearly all of her clothing had
been burned, and the sweet, dimpled
flesh and bright curls were now dis
colored and burned
What a death for our darling. Father
bore her homeward, sending me before
to break the news to mother: but my
face told the story before my trembling
lips.
''Is she much disfigured"' she fall
tered.
no" answered. s.the fire spared
her face. The smoke was very dense
there" l added, bringing forth scanty
grain of comfort, land we thought she
must have suffocated before the fire
reached her; for there had been no
struggle
'Thank God for that"' she calculated,
fervently. l heard steps. and the next
instant father entered with his precious
burden.
She gave one .shuddering glance, and
then again came the blessing of uncon-
sciousness; and for few ours she for
got her anguish.
l scarcely remember how the next
avry dA~
came, that they were very kind; and
that before they left little Sadie was
laid to sleep beneath the white lac that
had been brought from the old home in
the East.
Our neighbors showed their sympathy
N our desolation with the hearty rood.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-08-29
A Voice from Ireland.

From 'he Republican.
The following letter has been received by
one of the employees of the Missouri Re
publican:
CARRow CANNON HOUSE,
August 10, 1884.
My DEAR Mr.. GALLAGuER-For the last
month l was engaged IN almost life and
death struggle against the enemy. For the
last five years l have been almost single
handed fighting the worst Landlords ever in
Donegal-the landlords of this union. No
coercion act would reach me, but at last
they resorted to new plan to drive me out
of the covntry, if possible. They brought
an action for liable against me, laid its We
nue. in Derry, selected twelve Orangemcn
to try the case, and, of course, the result was
not for a moment doubtful. The judge
who tried the case declared that | had Ii
beed the government, and, OF course, must
be punished. The jury retired, and in two
minutes brought in verdict against me
for G100 and costs, which will amount to
f40O. Thus they think they have silenced
me in future, but am not through with
them yet. Enough on this subject, as you
will probably see letter from me in the
Irish American papers in few days.
Let me thank you for sending me the
Republican and Celt. But tell me, is it
possible that any number Of our country
men will vote the black Republican ticket!
can not believe it possible in the face of
the treatment received by Irish~Americans
abroad during Blaine's administration. l
will write public letter soon on the sub
ject, but, in the meantime, you are at full
liberty to publish any letters of mine from
"Victoria's dungeon" feel strongly, l
assure you, on this subject, and had it not
heen for the loss have just sustained here
in my fight with the enemy, l certainly
would have gone to the States to work
against Blain and his party, armed with
Lowel's original letter, to tell the story OF
my Imprisonment and Republican sneers
at my appeal for protection.
Your friend, d. MCSwEENEY.