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Dodge City times., 1884-07-10
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Miss Brsddon's novels are being
translated into the TelegOo language.
| 1t is estimated that Henry Ward
Beecher has $l3O,OOO worth OF bookA
A catalogue Of the collection is in prep
aratiOn.
The newly-elected Methodist Bish-
op, DR.. Mallalieu. of Massachusetts,
said at the reception given him in bos-
ton recently. that he started pre.Schlng
twenty-six years ago on salary Of
$3.50 year, all of which was paid.
Mrs. Tom Thumb, who is fOrty-five
years of age, stopped growing only
few years ago, and says, rs hers is
case of arrested development, she
would not be surprised if she should be-
gin to grow again.--Hartford Pos.
Irving Hale, who carried off the
honOrs at West Point this year. is ma
tive of New York, twenty-five years
old and q son of Regent Hale, of Col
orado University His record surpasses
that of any other cadet who ever grad.
uated from the academy.-N. i. 1rsb-
une
The richest little girl in the world
is the seveu-year-old daughter of Cap
tain Perkins of the Navy, her grand
father, William F. Weld, of Boston.
having recently left her 81. .O0O,OOn. She
is to have $4,000 annually until she
reaches legal age to receive her millions.
Boston Post.
The Cincinnati Tin,es-Star says:
MADAME Mo1jeska is going back to
Russia with $4,000 in solid American
cash, and she will probably build cas-
tie on the banks of the beautiful blue
Danube. A great many foreign castles
have their foundations fixed upon Amer
ican money"
Amos Emo is regarded to-day as one
of the best Judges of real estate in New
York, and his wealth is estimated at
not less than $15, 200, 900. even after be-
ing compelled to pay $2,6OO,OOO for
the defalcatiOns of his son. He is un-
firing in his energy. moderate in his
living, economical in his administration.
~ Y Times.
Miss Carrie AstOr, ane of tn, great
est heiresses in New York, and the
youngest daughter of MIR. and Mrs
William AstOr. is engaged to Mr. Orme
Wilson, of New York. the brother of
Mrs. Ogden Goelet. The lady is twenty
and Mr.. Wilson twenty-five. The en-
gagement of these young people is
purely love affair. They have known
each other all their lives, and even. it
is said, attended school together. The
wedding will be celebrated in the fail.
Miss Astor has gone abroad to order
her trOusseau N Y. Grdphic.
Dodge City times., 1884-07-10
THE BROWN DOG.

Jip was large and clumsy dog; he lived mile
from town
On some ones farm: his feet were tan, the
rest OF his coat was brown;
His eyes were patient and tender eyes, with
glints in their depths of gold:
There be few that know the wondrous gems a
brown dogs brain may hold;
His whole life long was dumb request. a
yearning and pleading cry,
For love and petting that never were his until
Just as he came to die.
The neigbbor's dog was collie fine and pet
ted from morn till night;
Her eyes were brown with dash of black !;
her coat was black and white:
And many pat on the black dogs head was
meant for her masters gold
But that was thought by far too deep for the
brown dogs brain to hold.
JIp used to grieve, when they petted her, with
moaning. desOlate cry
They always petted the black one most when
the other dog was by.
He used to sleep on a bed of straw, and live on
the cOarsest fare:
She had a bed that was soft and warm, and
tenderest, pentlest care.
He used to answer IL taunt, or cuff, with q long
drawn quiyering sigh;
While she had so many caresses that they
passed unnoticcd by:
And everywhere il. was just the same: the
butchers. gracious or grim,
Brought dainty morsclsOf meat for her, but
never a bone for him.
Think you that deep in his doggsh brain he
ever had thoughts like ours
OF Lands Beyond, where the buds of love
bloom out into perfect flowers:
Where hearts that ever go hungering here
shall be unto fullncs fed,
And feet that stumble DER stony ways shall
over smooth paths be led?
We Claim that love is a deathcSS thing, it goes
with us where we 90.
Do We dare say no such dreams may come to
the lives that are just below?
And some one once, in the public road. as he
went from his work at night,
Leaned kindly down to the brown dogs head,
and smiled at the sudden light
That leaped to the eyes that were raised to his
in pleasant and glad SURPRISE:
And something stirred in his heart of hearts
when he looked in the brown dogs eyes
And there next day, by an old gray stone, Jip
waited to meet his friend,
And every day il was just the same until the
summer end.
And autumn came with its cruel storms, its
winds that were sharp aS pain,
Its frosty nights and its languid days, its
daSheS of piercing rain.
And they missed Jip from his bed of straw;
he mournS, they said, for his friend;
For the friendly man had gone away when
the summer reached its cuG.
And Jlp was found IN the bitter rain by the
side Of the Old gray stone
AS cold and dead, ms brown eyes dim. He
had died as he livel-alone.
-IHe Continent
Dodge City times., 1884-07-10

A person of nerve is spoken of on the
Western plains as one who ''has plenty
of sand.'' The expressive phrase is
slang of slang. The word ''sand'' is q
substitute for the old-fashioned ''grit. -
In these days the epithet nervous
is frequently applied to women, but
rarely is one spoken of as woman OF
nerve.' Psychologists say the sex has
physically degenerated since the days
when our grandmothers did their own
work and brought up large families.
But we recently heard an anecdote
which exhibits one New England woman
rs inheriting the firm nerves of ances-
tors, who never tainted and seldom
trembled.
One night, a lady living in a town
near Boston was sitting up alone for
her husband, who was expected to ar
rive by late train. Feeling little un-
well. she went to the closet and selected
bottle which she supposed to contain
tincture of rhubarb. Pouring out ta-
ble-spoonful, she drank it. Its peculiar
taste caused her to look again at the
bottles label. It read: ''Tincture OF
Aconite," and then she remembered
that a strong decoction of that poison.
Gus plant had been prepared for the
horse. Though knowing that her life
was in danger, she neither tainted nor
screamed for help, but went into the
kitchen and made herself a cup of very
strong coffee. After drinking it, she
walked up and down, fearing to sit
down lest she should fall asleep. At
five o'clock in the morning, one of the
household. on coming down stairs,
found her pacing the floor, but as calm
as if walking for exercise. A physician
was sent for. He quickly came. and
said that the coffee had saved her life.
Lest some injurious effects might fol-
low, be prescribed another antidote.
Only those who have been in SINH
lar situation can enter into the feelings
of that woman as she read correctly the
bottles label. But few, even of this
class, can do more than admire her
strength of will and nerves of steel.
The anecdote warns against the too
prevalent habit of putting bottle con.
tanning poison among bottles of medi-
cine. 1t also reminds every reader that
it is expedient to read bottles label
before imbibing its contents.-Houth's
COMPANION.
Dodge City times., 1884-07-10
A Puzzle to the Student.

Mexico is a puzzle to the student.
With the most liberal institutions and
the freest democracy provided for on
paper, the real methods of government
are more autocratic than those of any
European country outside of Russia.
Sometimes it seems like a grand bur-
lesque of republicanism, and yet almost
every Mexican is sincere and enthusi-
astic republican, and monarchy could
never be tolerated here. But many
Americans here seem inspired by wild
desire for the United States to interfere,
break up the whole business and insti-
tute better order of things, as if the
American Government were a mission
ary concern for the propagation of the
republican gospel, and had no political
problems of its own to attend to. After
all, how much worse are political meth
DDS in Mexico than in some parts of the
United States?
There is really a decided improve
ment in the political condition of Mex
leo steadily manifest, and. the country
is many steps nearer the desirable end
of well-organized Nation than it was
ten years ago. 1t has seen longer
period of peace than ever before. In.
terests are strong against seeing this
peace disturbed, and are growing
stronger daily. Were it not SO, recent
events would have provoked an out
break. Elections were formerly carried
entirely by bayonets. The presen!
peaceful method is unquestionably an
advance, and from that to the bal.
lot is only question of time. School.
houses are to be found in hundreds Of
Indian villages, nesting in remote
mountain valleys all over the land. and
with the better wages brought by the
railways, and the increased activity Of
national life which will inevitably be
impaired by contact with the outer
world from which Mexico until now has
been shut out, nine million ignorant
peasants and one million of an indiffer.
ent middle and upper class will eventu-
ally be educated into self-governing
people. Amid the seeming chaos there
is fine material, which is gradually tax.
ing shape under the slow processes oi
political evolution and crystallizing into
q true republic.-C0r. NJ ?. Sun.
Dodge City times., 1884-07-10
A Huge Electric Battery.

In erecting the great statue of Liber.
ty, two things had to be considered that
seem very trifling, and yet, if neglect
ed, might destroy the statue in one day,
or cause it to crumble slowly to pieces.
One is the sun, the other is the sea-
breeze. Either of these could destroy
the great copper figure, and something
must be done to prevent such q dis
aster. The heat of the sun would ex-
pand the metal and pull it out of shape,
precisely as it does pull the Brooklyn
bridge out of shape every day. The
bridge is made IN four parts, and when
they expand with the heat of the sun
they side one past the other and 20
harm is done. The river span rises and
falls day and night, as heat and cold
alternate. The great copper statue d
likwise in two parts, the framework Of
iron and the copper covering; and
while they are securely fastened togeth-
er they can move one over the other.
Each bolt will slip tritle as the copper
expands in the hot August sunshine,
and slide back again when the freezing
winds blow and the vast figure shrinks
together in the cold. Besides this. the
copper surface is so thin and elastic
thai it will bend slightly when heated,
yet keep its general shape.
The salt air blowing in from the sea
has thin fingers and a bitter, biting
tongue. If it finds a crack where il
can creep in between the copper sur
face and iron skeleton, there will be
trouble at once. These metals do not
agree together, and where there is salt
moisture in the air they seem to quar-
rel more bitterly than ever. 1t seems
that every joining of points of copper
and iron makes tiny battery, and so
faint shivers of electricity would run
through all the statue, slowly corroding
and eating it into dust. This curious,
silent, and yet SURE destruction must be
prevented, and so every joint through
out the statue, wherever copper touches
iron. must be protected with little rags
stuffed between the metals to keep
them from quarreling. 1t is the same
wherever two different metals touch
each other. Imagine what a tremen-
dous battery the Liberty would make,
with its tons of copper surface and
monstrous skeleton of iron. However,
a little care prevents all danger, as
provision will be made. of course, for
keeping the metals from touching each
other. - Charles Barnard, IN st.
Nicholas.
Dodge City times., 1884-07-10
Keeping Their Ends Up.

One OF the most singular traits OF our
common humanity is the fact that no
matter how arctically Indifferent the
citizen of particular locality may be
to his neighbors while at home, he no
sooner becomes traveller than his local
pride sticks out like the peg on a hat
rack, and at minutes notice.
The other morning while the east
bound overland was stopping at Coun-
Gil Bluffs, man suddenly climbed into
one of the Pullman cars, and exclaimed
in an anxious voice:
"Is there Southern man aboard?"
"There is, sab. From Nothe Carliuy,
sah!'' responded gentleman attired in
a black suit, velvet vest and leg boots,
those ante-bellum landmarks of the sun
ny South.
"Then I appeal to you to aid a case
of real Distress said the stranger.
II give a dollar myself and he
dropped dollar into his own hat.
"fm from Florida, sab, said thin
man farther along, land make it two
dollars
"If there's anybody here from Wis
consin," said stout-looking party in
jeans, suppose we subscribe three dol
lars apiece?'
"It's go!' shouted ellow citizen
to the last speaker, pulling out his
pocket-book.
"New York says five dollars, snapped
out a stylish looking young fellow, flip
ping a gold piece down the aisle.
$50 does Massachusetts" coolly
~ - n
greenback into the collectors hat.
Gentlemen" quietly announced
solid looking passenger, ''the Keystone
State pities The starving family, or what
ever it is, just ten dollars" and he
counted out the coin.
illinois goes that one BETTER" and
traveller with 'wheat futures look
fished out three fives.
':Just pass this up, please" said
St. Louis pork packer, handing the Chi
cago man q twenty, with a grim smile.
"The poor widow catches Utah for
$685." said another man, amid gene
raj smile.
'.Put Wyoming down for thirty"
and big cattle-ranger began unwrap-
ping his wallet.
'rThe Silver State says thlrty-hve,"
shouted big fellow with sack of
specimens, who had been unstrapping
his money-belt.
'.If the returns are all in.' finally
said man with big belt and mug
get breast-pin, as he stood up and
looked around calmly. Il should like
to ask if there is another Californian
present"
There was no response.
'An right" said the gentleman from
the Comstock. "Then I II subscribe for
him. Here's $loO from the Sunset
State;' and he dumped the gold into
the already heavily weighted hat, just
as the whistle blew and the collector
started for the door.
''Who did you say all that money was
fer?'' shouted several, as the train
slowly pulled out.
''What for? Why, for beerr' yelled
the man with the hat, and at the same
about dozen more old buns
aad tramps crawled ont from under
Dat car and executed wild scalp-dan
Of joy Is the train disappeared aroup
the ouyvs.-San FrsNetdoo Pest.
Dodge City times., 1884-07-10

The Earl of Wilton has recently
had his tongue cut out. He bore the
operation well, and it has been success
full, at least in saving bis life. Hitherto
cancer in the tongue has been deemed
fatal. The elder Placide. Henry, died
of it, and his brother Thomas commit
Ted suicide under the suffering which
TENDED it.
Dodge City times., 1884-07-10

Some housekeepers have adopted a
new method in putting up fruit. They
can it, using a little sugar; then when
cooler days come, and they are not hur-
ried, they make jam and preserves.
This method is highly recommended for
those women who do not have suffi-
cient help, and are obliged to put up
up fruit hastily and with many inter-
ruptions, or not at ali.
Dodge City times., 1884-07-10

The Oursy (Col.) Solid Auldoon
says: 1.-The Muldoon scooped the Dem
yer dailies on Mr.. Minis resignation.
When it comes to inside pointers We are
yelling triumph" The touChiag
modesty Of the Western pswspspss q
IT. chief assctss,stsh--& i 6rVtA
Dodge City times., 1884-07-10

The practice of double cropping Is
one of the paying secrets of the market
gardeners business that farmers should
avail themselves of often. To raise two
crops in one season the soil must be
rich and otherwise in good order.
First there may come early peas, pota-
toes. cabbage, or any soiling crop, to
be followed by turnips, pickles, ruta-
bagas, cabbage, etc. Chicago Times.
Dodge City times., 1884-07-10

The wife of Mr. L F. Fisler. the
Camden On. J.) baseball player. il
said 10 be the first real Chinese lady
ever seen in this eepntry.--N J; Her
ar,
Dodge City times., 1884-07-10

"A curious result of the recent earth.
quake shock in Essex, England, was
that the wells in and around Colchester
exhibited rise in their water level of
about five feet This gradually iu-
creased for five days ter the phenom
enon until height of eight feet was
attained. The wells at last accounts
had apparently permanently rested at
the height Of seven feet above their old
water mark.
Dodge City times., 1884-07-10
-,rhe publishers of the Chandos clas.

--fhe publishers of the Chandos clas-
sics point with pride to q sale of $780,
600 copies of the lib volumes included
in the series during the ten years that
it has been in the market This is one
proof that low-priced editions of the
best authors are 10 large demand de-
spite the statements that dime novels
have choked the circulation Of good
reading.
Dodge City times., 1884-07-10

We have already in this country a
large number of clubs devoted to pig.
COMPLYING or pigeon-racing; but it is in
Brussels that the sport is carried out to
the fullest extent. In Belgium alone
there are nearly $500 clubs, and every
town, village or district in the whole
country goes in for its weekly race.
The birds are sent off on the Friday or
Saturday by special trains, and are lib
Grated in clouds of thousands on the
Sunday mornings, zoo. 800, 400. or even
800 miles from home.-Phitadetphia
Press.
Dodge City times., 1884-07-10

''Hark!" said Rob.
There was picking and scraping
sound. The key fell out of the lock
onto the floor. In another moment we
heard the door open, just as if it hadn't +
been fastened at all, and the man
walked in.'
He was big, burfv fellow. with a
lot of black whiskers that didn't look as
if they grew on his face.
You see you might as well have
openel the door, and saved me the
trouble he said. scowling at us. ..Bu.
it doesn't pay to get mad with such lit
tie rascals." (He put in great many
very bad words that made it sound
awfully). Hurry now, and get me
something to eat and drink-the best
you got in the house while l make
myself comfortable. It's not likely that
that hired man of yours will get back to-
night in such travelling as this. and if he
should come could fix him. Do YOU see
thate" He took out of his pocket a
pistol. and he'd it very close indeed to
Rob's head. Now you'd better mind
what | tell without making any FUSS
He hadn't bit of any Irish brogue
now, so we knew that must have been
put on, like his whiskers.
He set down his pack, and put his feet
up TO the fire, and lighted a cigar, and
we got him something to eat. He
looked around, and caught sight of
Dolly's silver mug, and Philly's cup,
and he got up and examined them, and
then coolly slipped them into sort OF
pocket on the outside of his pack.
That's good. as far as it goes
Where's the rest? And the money! I
don t suppose there's much. shouldn't
have stopped except to make myself
comfortable. and to keep you from
being lonesome Now speak right up.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-08-28
Ramsey County Medical Society.

At special meeting of the Ramsey County
Medical society held at DR.. Stones Office the
following resolutions were unanimously
adopted.
WHEREAS: In the sad and sudden death of
Dr. J. II. Stewart this society recognizes its loss
of an esteemed and respected member.
Rss0Irsd, That we, his former associates de-
sire to record our sorrow and testify our warm
appreciation of his professional and manly quail
ties He was learned and more than ordinarily
skilful in the practice of his profession, endear-
ing his patients to himself by a most happy
faculty. BY his death We hav lost professional
associate, contentious and considerate, whose
wise aud superior counsel we shall deeply miss
Resolred. That we deplore the loss to the com
munity, of which he was so eminent and re-
spected a member, and whose trusts so fire.
Guently confded 20 him were so conscienrously
and honorabiy guarded.
Rts0IUed. That we tender to his greatly be-
reaved family our deepest sympathy.
Resolred, That copy of these resolutions be
forwarded to the family, and that they be printed
in the daily papers. the northeastern Lancet and
New York Medical Record.
Some very eloquent remarks were made BIZ the
older members of the profession who had known
Dr. Stewart for many years. and had been
brought in close professional and social relation
to him.
1t was resolved that the society sheuld meet at
Or. Hands Office at 2:30 p. n. today TO attend
the funeral IN a body.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-08-28

THE divorced wife of Senator Charles Sum-
ner is soon to marry j. 5. Morgan, the Lon
don banker, whose wealth is stated TO be
SEQ, DOC, 900. Mr.. Morgan, who is some
seventy years old has resided in London
since 1857, being for many years a partner
In the house of Geo Peabody " Co., aud lat
terly tie head of the house of j. S. Morgan
IL Co. This is the third marriage of the
lady, whose first husband was a Mr.. Mason,
and since her decree from Sumner she has
worn the name OF Mrs. Alice Mason. As she
has fortune Of her own what attracted her
TO old Mr.. Morgan is not clear. Morgan's
first wife was the daughter of John Pierpout
tue Massachusetts, poet, and WAS distiu-
guished for her culture and attainments AZ
ter marHcd life of fifty years, she died in
1873 Morgan began life SIS a Hartford
clerk, became Boston importer, and had
money enough TO secure for himself the
friendship of Geo Peabody and went to
London to become his partner. The new
Mrs Morgan will be tskeu to an English
country house noted FOR It's Elizabethau ar
chiteeture and beautiful Surroundings
Though Morgan is not as highly educated as
wss Sumner he may prove mere congenial
mate.