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Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-06-12

the regular letter which have been do
posted. This is called absent-mintled-
ness, but that is brief lunacy. "A lu-
ally out of balance. s.,
Nothing is more common than for a
mind OF the highest Orderto become
lost on the cars or on steamer and to
feel for hours that for some reason the
train or the boat is going the wrong
way. 1t is one of the most unpleasant
feelings that can befall . Ctraveler. A
good nights rest may. perhaps. restore
the mental rectitusie and compOsurc.
When one is lost in the woods all the
objects of nature seem false The sun
is felt to be wrong, the streams to be
unfamiliar. Instances are on record OF
the inability of mind thus lost t. rec
ognize its own home when it had come
to its very gates.
If thus it is the custom of the human
mind to become deranged will there not
always be instances in which druggist
OF the widest knowledge and of the
most careful habits shall take down the
wrong bottle and deliberately mix 4
dose of death? The particulars of this
recent case are not yet known and there
may be a special criminality in the
case, but the fact remains that we are
all liable to make blunder that will
deeply injure some one, or we are liable
to Ice deeply injured by the wandering
mind OF the nearest and best friend
Mothers have given the wrong niedi-
cine to their children and have caused
1oofb ", tho;r Il roo df,,l opx;ofx RI S.,o
life. A physician in this State recently
mixed a vial OF powerful medicine, and
while talking to friend his infant
child reached the medicine, drank it,
and died.
Thus wonderful as the human mind
is it is not infinite. 1t has frail mo-
ments, The wonder is that SO many
minds of the millions perform so well
their duties. When train runs from
Chicago to New York the passengers
are dependent upon the mental balance
of quite multitude of men. Flagmen,
switchmen, telegraphers, engineers.
trackmen, bridgemen. strung along for,
a thousand miles, must forget nothing.
The mind OF each and all must sit upon
its noble throne all the hours of the
twenty-four and all the days of the
year. When We remember that these
express trains will often run for years
without meeting with ruin from some
bewildered mind we must conclude
that, although not infinite, the mind of
man is an amazing piece of workman
ship. Some will die by its blunders
or absence, but the millions will live
and sleep sweetly under it's faithful and
loving care.-Prot. Suing.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-06-12
Personal AND LITERARY.

MIR. Corcoran, Of Washington. has
shaken hands with every President ex-
sept George Washington.
MIR. Van Phou a.ees a Chinese grad
nate ofsthe Springfield High School,
has joined the editorial staff of Vide
AaCake.
Mrs. Booth, editor Of Harper's
Bazar, gets "a 900 per year, and Mrs.
Mapts, for writing Exclusively for Ossr
Htarth and Home. gets $4,000 per year.
Lucy Hamilton Hooper and Olive
Logan sykes both are brilliant and
sp;cy Paris correspondents, and one of
Them is the wife Of an American vice
consul and the other . widow OF an
American consul.-DetroI Post.
-Cassius NJ. Clay lives quietly on his
Kentucky farm. taking little or no note
of public affairs. I'm not alone" he
says; II have my sheer, cattle. dogs.
b rds and flowers: besides, | am writing
book my memoirs. ~ y. Stsn.
Reuben Bassett left Pittsburgh
thirty; two years ago for Pixies Peak.
and after travelling all over the world
and making a fortune. he returned to
his old home recently to spend the re-
mainder OF his days.-iftsburyh POST
Mr.. John c. Emo. the collapsed ex-
President of the Second National Bank
of New York, took the wooden spoon
at Yale Collcg, few years ago-an
honor generally accorded the most pop
u!ar man in the class. Y. Tribune
abr Chap;n's w.t." said Henry
Ward Beecher, FLASHED like the spokes
of wheel in the SUM-" One day he
sat on Rev. Or. Emerson's hat, and
then instantly arose and passed the
crumpled hat to the owner, saying;
"You ought to thank me for that, for
your hat was only silk, but now it is
sat in. ~
A Nantucket correspondent OF the
Boston Globe says of the late Charles
o Conor, the great New York lawyer:
ION one occasion he laid a tcn-dollar
bill on the plate ut the Roman Catholic
Church. At the next scrv &c the priest
mentioned the circumstance, and warm
ly praised the donor. O'Conor was
very angry. They will get no more
from me, he sa' d. and they did not.
O'ConOr gave with q liberal hand where
ne DelltF1u INC oUycct .WoitHy
one He has distributed 100000 in
Nantucket said one who knew some
thing of his acts"
Mrs Harr ct Lane Johnston, the
niece of President Buchanan. once the
lady of the White House. and u worthy
OBJ ect of admiration the land over,
again suffers in the death of her hus-
band, H. f. Johnston, the Baltimore
banker. Mr. Johnston died in New
York of pneumonia. Mrs. Johnston's
two young sons died two years ago. one
in Baltimore, and the other, not six
weeks later, in Paris. The parents re-
Gently endowed two hospitals in Balti-
more in memory of the children. One
is the Harriet Lane Johnston Hospital
for Girls and the other is for training
nurses Chicago Tribune.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-06-12
Every Person a Lunatic Now and Then.

The fact that a druggist of this city
has ended human lite by putting up
wrong medicine awakens much indig-
nation. He says many customers were
in the store; he was in a hurry; he put
up morphine instead of some similar
drug. The inquiry arises whether a
CLERK is able to fill an order only when
he has no customers in the shop? How
empty must n Shop be in order to Sc
cure safety? Must the street in front of
the drug store also he empty? What if
tire-engine goes byp What if a dog
fight occurs while the druggist is reach
ing for Guinine? Is he justified in taking
down strychnia? What if his mother-in-
law has come to visit him?
Such questions come up and proper
ly; but there is another side to the fact
of erring druggists, and that is, that
most persons are crazy part Of the
time The exceptions are rare. Each
one is now and then fool of the most
complete order and species. All the
laws and penalties in the world will not
avail to make druggist or anybody
else have his full senses through all his
life. Crazy moments or seconds will
come. A wise man will step backwards
off porch into mud-puddle, great
philosopher will hunt for the specks
that are on his hand or on his forehead,
hunter will sometimes shoot himself
or his dog, barber will often forget
his job and slice off a piece of a chin or
Marshall Fields had been feeding a
great cloth-knife for ten years. Last
week she watched the knife come down
slowly on her hand. Too late she woke
out of her stupor with one hand gone.
For few seconds her mind had failed
and she sat by her machine tenn
porary lunatic and had watched the
knife approach her own hand.
The man recently murdered on North
Clark street in Chicago, saw the enemy
come up with murder on his face, saw
him draw revolver, and, instead of
making a lightning spring at the man,
he stood bewildered and thus fell dead.
His reason left him in the second OF his
greatest need.
One of the distinguished professors in
one of our colleges was teaching near a
canal. Walking along one evening in
summer he walked as deliberately into
the canal as he had been walking along
the path a second before. He was
brought to his senses by the water and
mud and The absurdity Of the situation.
He had on a new suit of clothes and
new silk hat, but though the damage
was thus great he still laughs over the
adventure. i
Our mail-collectors find in the iron
boxes along the streets all sorts of pa
pers and articles which have been put
in by some hand from whose motions
the mind has become detached for sec
ond. A glove, a pair of spectacles, q
deed. q mortgage, theater-ticket goes
n and on goes the person holding on to
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-06-12
ETERY.DAY PHILOSOPHY.

When WEAKNESS with life my spirit n!lss
When deep disgust consumes me with my
Tdraw some store of comfort from the ills
i haven't got
- To ind that fortune at your coming flies,
~ TO be bankrupt In health, in fame, in purse,
Is bad enough: but philOsophize
1t might be worse.
9. necessarily we make a great ado.
The mouth of Misery is wide agape;
But happier we, fancy, IL we knew
What we escape.
~, The common woes of life are bad enough,
Misfortunes fail as easy as the dew,
And still for every morning steak that's
tough.
There might be two.
THIS one is sick: his maynard fate cries out
Againt the leech, the caomel, the bed.
!; inconsiderate person, cease to pout-
.-t You might be dead!
And this one hath the mitten; he has wooed:
Vanly a!ack. his wooing it has sped.
Well-cvcn i'm this there's comfort, rightly
viewed
He might be wed!
: And here is one who whines; his all is swept
Away in panic; he has had to fail"
He should, / think, be cheerful, that he's kept
But late lost a twenty-dollar bill
.,- And did wiring my hands that had blum
dered?
Not i. indeed!-rm very thankful still
Twas not a hundred.
soothe, should Ger capsize when walks are
bad,
And my good clavice involve in wreck,
Screnely. should say-IIow very glad
Its not my neck.
o trust me-better not to make ado
At the few miseries of our common lot.
There's millions of EMF we only knew
We haven tgOt
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-06-12
What Broke a Boston Engagement,

No one who has not carefully attend
ed to the actions and language of the
audiences during the just-closed Wag-
ner festival has any idea of how high
the feeling has run between those who
admire and those who do not under.
stand the principles of Wagnerian mu-
sic. To illustrate the extent to which
the war of opinion has been carried il
may be well to relate little incident.
Among the attendants upon Wednes-
day afternoons performance were a
young gentleman VINO is prominent in
society in this city and young lady OF
high cultivation, to whom rumor re-
ports him to be aiiianced As will be
remembered, the introduction to 1.-The
Rhinegold' was among the selections
produced, wherein the steady and
strong flow Of the river is indicated by
a protracted and sonorous note, around
which the melody weaves itself like the
eddies and whirlpools of the stream.
The young gentleman aforesaid listened
to this effect with puzzled patience. and
after the concert was over he said tc
his inamorata, as they walked out to.
gether: Il say, what does Wagner mean
by that long, low note which went
'B-r-r-r-r for about five minutes in the
first part of the 'Rhinegold' music:
Was he trying to describe saw-mill?"
The young lady dropped his arm and
flashed lightning at him out OF he,
eyes. '.Tll go home alone" she said,
with decision; ''you don't understand
the first principles Of harmony" and
she flounced of. leaving him staring.
And they do say-the friends of the
pair--that the whilom engagement is
now among the things that were.-
Boston journal.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-06-12

and We can't be. I don't know. 1 only
know that would neither go on mol
back, alone
Her hand, which still chung to bis arm,
trembled and was withdrawn, and in
the next moment stole softly into his.
They sat quite silent, and the endless
night drew on. Memories rose before
each of them of hopes and dreams that
had once been all in all, and now were
small and faint and immeasurably
distant. Around them, rising always.
surged the persistent waters. Now and
again gusts of wind awoke suddenly
and. brought a sweep of waves over the
submerged masonry.
: Presently, oezing drops began to
creep between the chimneys behind
1--WE must 60 up higher" said the
man. It,
They quilted their sheltered nook,
and. mounting, stood upon the platform
of brick work. The wind flung itself
upon them in fury. They clung to the
chimneys and to each other, and for few
minutes stood so, battling strenuously
TO keep their foothoid. 49,:
The man cried out suddenly: ooh
if there were only some place for you!
1t is too hard a death for you. 1 am so
sorry for you
And even while he spoke the water
was up to their feet, sratching and
dragging at them.
- Il am not sorry" she answered.
"And oh. no! it is not hard: it is the
best moment life has ever brought mel"
Her voice was blown away as it
crossed her lips. 1t was only because
they We're uttered at his ear that he
could hear her words. And his, of re-
ply, the winds .snatched and carried
away forever. The time of words was
over. There was nothing now but
hard-drawn breath. and then a vain
struggle of res stance, and then, a
placid moon, shining over a waste of
floods. -BeIytaria.~
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-06-12

''How is it, said citizen, meeting
an acquaintance, THAT you manage to
wear such good clothes? If you would
not expend so much money on dress.
you m ght be able to repay that sum Of
money you borrowed from me-"
III is evident that you do not UNDER
stand the situation" the acquaintance
replied. If did not dress well could
not borrow money. bought these
clothes with the money / borrowed
from you. 1 am cut of business, you
know. and if / don't keep myself in pre-
,entable shape. why, Id come out at the
contracted end of the wind instru.
nent,'-ATkGnsqg lfoveler,
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-06-12
HUMOROUS.

Owing to the crazyquilt mania.
society young men on small incomes
fbaxe been Obliged to fall back on the
old black tie. 1t is too narrow for q
patch and too black to be attractive
Hartford Post.
The papers are publishing the fact
that brass band gave concert for the
! benefit of the Ood sufferers. but before
| the band lad finished the first tune the
sufferers jumped right back into the
water.--B Bismarck; Tribune.
! A Case of Melancholy
The Muywump roosts on the hollow log,
| The saEwap sits i'll the tree;
Whenever year the HOgwip sing,
My heart is sad in me.
| Whenever the Snogpap toots his toot
To the wall of the Nipwhag hen,
| And the Migfunk chrps in the Silly night,
You bet am lonely then.
Long AGO some wag spoke of the
barber's children as Little shavers."
But it is quite new to all1de to the
children of the upholsterer as little
tackers:' to those of the butcher rs
young lambs;'' to those OF the car
penter as ...chips from the old block"
and to the angry mans as "little
pets
Prof, Virgins has broken loose
again. long enough to make the pleas
ant announcement that per'pafetic
earthquake will shortly make q tour
through this country. trimmed with
Asiatic cholera and cyclones. But con-
sidering that this is election year, only
most literal advertising can make the
thing a success.-Lite.
Now" said the Boston school
teacher, 1.-THE question L am about to
put to you is an extremely difficult one,
and to answer it correctly you will be
obliged, nietaphorically speaking, to
initiate the trunk conformation OF tho
dromcdary of the desert" AWestern
school-teacher would have put the ques-
ton and said. simply. Now hump
yourselves. "-Chicago Tribune.
An old gentleman who had pro-
voked the hostility of a fashionable lady
whom he had known in boyhOod was
asked by his wife what he had done to
incur the lady's displeasure. "Nothirg
at ALL" replied the innocent old man;
Ion the contrary, l was cordial to her,
and spoke OF the time when l used 10
draw her to school on go-cart nearly
half century ago" His wife threw
up her hands and murmured: ''Hov
stupid men are"' Chicago Inter Occa:.
Santa Barbara probably possesses
the smallest team of mules in the coun-
try. They are hitched to street-car.
which is often taken for cable dummy
in consequence. The other day the
passengers were surf rised by The car
fetching up with sudden bump while
on down grade. After peering care
fully over the dashboard for few mo-
ments. the driver said: well, I'm
derned if them pesky critters haven't
got under the car ag'in. San Fran
cisco Post.
How d'y do this marnin', Mrs.
Mulvaney?' ..Purty wull. l thank We,
Mrs. ODoughan. "Wuz We at tn Mud
dleshang conshirt, dunno2'' ''Dade
an wuz." '.And how did ye loike tho
Mrs. ODOugban?
Purity wull-pur-ty wull, barrin' some
"Phat wuz the
chune?'' The chune is it? How cud
define the chime whin they wuz whip-
sawin thin Paddles so vahament yez cud-
dent moind tn sep at all at all. Brad
ford Sunday Mail.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-06-12

Here is the closing section of let
ter which Walter Scotts betrOthed sent
him two months before their marriage:
:.Before conclude this famous epistle
I will give you little hint-that is.
not to put so many ''musts" in your
letters. 1t is beginning rather too soon;
and another thing is, that l take the
liberty not to mind them much, but
expect you to mind me. You must take
care of yourself. you must think of me.
and believe me yours. sincerely, c. c."
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-06-12
He was a Chinamau and his nam

He was Chinamau and his name
was Hong Kee. He was on q tear
me bustee town wide open, alice
samee Mclean man, he cried. There
was silence, and they allowed him the
of the streets. "Balkeepee,
setemup drinks. Alice samee Mclean
man." 1t was done. ''Balkeepee.
chargee up. Alice samee Mclean
man" And he was bounced. The
Chinese must go.-Dencer Opinion.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-06-12

-Neatness in the garden depends
upon its arrangement. LayY all the
rows q; as straight a. possible, LCineas
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-06-12

horrible!''
She turned toward him and seemed
to consider his point of view until it
became hers, for she shuddered and
said! ut is horrible.''
There was silence again between
them for little while. Again, when
her face was bent forward, he was able
to watch its outline. Surely she was
younger than he had supposed
What male You stay?" he asked
suddenly. She hesitated a little.
what made you?"
II hardly know, more than what I
said-that nobody cared much whether
l did or not. and that 1 did not care
much myself. But am older than YOU.
and have had about as much out of
life as it will ever give me-"
Il don't think that it need be a ones.
ton of age how much ones life is worth.
Mine did not matter to any one, either;
and it was not very easy or hopeful for
myself. had wanted SO much. and
had to learn that must do with so lit.
tie. Of course, il is. not noble to care
80 much about ones own petty happ;.
ness. but oh! one does care! And then,
all at once. here was a way of escape,
not selfish. but to help happier people.
and it seemed the KEY to
everything when you stood up in the
boat and said that you would stay
"Yet. said he, Il could not helm
wondering. as we stepped out, whether
what we were really giving to those
young lovers was only time to lose their
love for each other, even in remem-
orance. For death can only destroy the
future, but life can destroy the past,
too"
Are you sorry, then, that you staid?''
There was little note of mockery in
10 the question, Or his conscience Gre
ated it,
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-06-12

Q
The moon had put on, minute by
minute, fuller glory; it was illumin-
ing an arch of clouds. and. beyond the
arch lays neasufeless, liquid, lucid
depths. She looked and pointed up
ward. The full glow shone on her
face. He saw in her dark eyes slow
inetfable softening; in all the lines of
her features breathed a spirit of ex-
ultant reception.
The open doorway of infnity," said
he, fitting to this radiance its apt poetic
description, but without anything of the
poets rapture or belief. Her lips moved
to recognizing smile.
land can you look up to that and
despair?" she asked. s~-.,.FE
That has no voice for me. It is
too far oil, too silent, too unmoved.
That glory may come back, as. serene,
to look down on my drowned face But
you have to die with me. What hope
there is in life or death you have shown
me. / don't know that it is lasting or
that it is good for much; but such as it
is, it comes from you.'
Again the waters came rushing over
the fallen chimneys. aud they looked
out in momentary apprehension. But
the sudden torrent subsidized, and the
waters went on rising again slowly as
before.
He then quietly proceeded: lone
thinks OF life as the life one has known.
Tonight glimpse has come to me OF
something that seems to make lie
worth going on with. It may be life
on the other side of division; l can't
tell. l don't want to be carried back
into the old life, cut do want life--the
life that nearly saw just now, when
we thought that our time was upon us.
And have found you, standing with
me upon the brink. We do not know
each other, you say: we are not friends.
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