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Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-05-01
HUMOROUS.

IA happy medium"--one VIII
makes money in the clairvoyant bust
ness The Dial.
IAN that S the pillar Of Hercules?'
she said, adjusting her silverspectacles
/" Gracious! what's the rest of his bed
clothes like, l wOnder?''
1t is n sir-prize the girls are after
this year. But the men are growing
cautious and are not to be m ss-takeI
thus easily.--Indianapolis Scissors.
Ladies are said to te working thei1
way into the watch business, because
they produce handsomer faces ant
more delicate hands than men. ". Y
Ledger. {y
"A young and briedess lawyer who
calls upon his lady acquaintances a gOot
deal in the evenings, deceives his father
with the story that he had a great dea
of court practice. NJ y. Commercial
advertiser. -r
james, who was trying TO sew q
new button on his coat. murmured
"They. say there's q new yacht tina
makes fifteen miles an hour, but this
thread makes twenty knots minute
-Franatord Herald.
"A lady in Toronto got to laughing
SO hard over some amusing incident tina
she couldn't stop. Finally a doctor was
called in, and he couldn't quiet her
As last resort some one had to tel
her that her back hair was coming
down. -LoUeN Citizen. sIerE = -'.'s -
An engaged couple having appeared
several times before clergyman to get
married, who on each occasion declined
to perform the ceremony because the
gro m was invariably drunk, at last
,reproved the girl for bringing her lover
before him in such condition, where
upon she burst into tears, and said
But, sir, he won't come when he's
sober!'-Erchangr. % -'-a. s~rr's
-''Waitaw, will WEAKLY have to we
move to anothaw table. There appeaws
to be terwible dwaft heaw.' ..Tain't
no draft heah, no how, MIR. La Dude.
Dab amt no win tall 'cept what dat
yer lady am maxim wild her fan"
law, that's il 1 knew there was a
dwaft. 1T nearly blew me away:
Weally, now, couldn't you ask her to
stop?' = Chicago Herald.
-''Is there a dude club in this city?''
asked a stranger, entering the editorial
room. There isl returned the editor,
as he produced toothpick from his
pocket and laid it on the roll-top desk:
1.'that's it, and the. first dude that shows
his head in this Office will be Drained
with it.' With a deep sigh the
stranger turned and disappeared. -
SomerOalle Journal. 4i5 s7o,a 81 3sa
SISTER" said little boy, rushing
into the parlor, where she was enter
tertaining young Mr.. Smith. Twill You
come into, the hall a. minute? l want
to speak to YOU II can not now,
dear. Don't YOU see that / am engaged
with Mr.. Smith? What is it you want"
Jimmy White is out in the hall. and
he says he won't believe it unless YOU
tell him SO yourself. :" b.,Whatis it that
Jimmy White won't believe, dear?"
asked the sister, sweetlY. THAT you
ate thirty-five fpsHcas e. this morning
Tor breakfast "-RAllaaelolia CaH.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-05-01

The most expensive book ever pub.
lished by single individual is Lord
Kingsborough,s Mexico" 1t has
seven volumes, with one thousand col
Iored illustrations, and cost $500, 900.
ID. F. Murphy has been official re-
porter in the United States Senate for
thirty-fo years. JEFF Davis, Hannibal
Hamlin and Fireman Smith are the only
surviving members of the body'in which
he entered upon his duties Washing
On Star. A2
Mrs Harriet Beecher Stowe denies
her publishers statement that she
would have taken one hundred dollars
for the MS. OF I.'Unele Toms Cabin
when she first offered it for publ cation.
But she admits she was surprised at
its success.-N. Y. Sun. rs
Henry w. Shaw. the Josh Billings
of comic print, ruthlessly brushes anoth.
er fond fallacy Of tho people. He denies
the story that man in Michigan let in
a will five thousand dollars each to
himself and Eli Perkins. Mr.. Shaw
thinks that this pleasant bit of fiction
was the work OF Mi. Perkins, in fact
Chicago Times.
OF three noted millionaires. c. P.
Huntingdon, Mark Hopkins and Gov
ernOr Stanford, all of whom made their
enormous fortunes chiefly out Of Cen
trail Pacific, none but the third has ever
had child. Governor Stanford had a
son who died few weeks ago in Italy.
about q vteen years old Neither of the
three has direct descendant to, whom
to leave his property. -:I1adianapol's
Journal.
The most prolific and industrious
living writer outside of g. newspaper
Office is undoubtedly Mrs. Oliphant, the
novelist. Like Anthony Trollope, she
can carry on three serial stories at once.
Besides great number of novels. she
has written essays, travels. criticisms,
etc, without end. Also, her work rises
to a higher standard as she grows older.
which cannot be said of all writer's
Boston Post. 81
--Moncure D. Conway intends to re-
turn to his native land. Mr. Conway
has been abroad twenty years. rs min
lister, lecturer and newspaper CORE
spondent.- 70 1t was in 1868 that he left
America, worn with work, tired of the
ministry, and doubtful OF the success of
the anti-slavery cause, in which be had
been an untiring worker. On his re-
turn to this. country he will probably
settle down in Washington.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-05-01
1.-THE Bad Boy" Of the Period.

- Most excellent is the intent OF the
law proposed in the New York Assem-
bly, for prohibiting the vicious litera-
ture which is turning American boYs
into savages and rendering it problem
atical whether the next generation will
be Jesse James, or Jay Goulds The
New York World of recent date has
more than a column of the wild and
wicked outbreaks of boys from eight to
fourteen years of age that have occurred
within the last ten days or two weeks
The list comprises highway boys on the
streets of New York robbing a boy OF
his watch and chain; masked gang
who robbed peddler in Pennsylvania;
six burglars in New York, none over
twelve years old; "Jesse James gangs
at hall dozen different points; with a
bigamist. a poisoner, two or three muir
dererS or wouid-be murderers. duelist
and a forger. a .e-..-.
In the large majority of these cases
the boys were readers of the newspa-
pers and books whose heroes are of tn
type of Jesse James, or some other in
fernal scamp who figures in The vile
trash that waylays boys on nearly every.
street corner and seduces them into
buying and reading it by its coarse
wood-cuts and sensational engravinss.
Even the stage is prostituted to this
truly deyilish conspiracy Tor converting
the boys of the present day into crimi-
nails and ''toughs. 'h'" ''its 15,-l.
o And this moral plague, like phi ysical
pestiience, knows no distinction. The
boys reared in decent, and even superior
houses, subject to all the educational
appliances OF the day-from the kinder
garten to the Sunday school-are as
much. exposed to its deadly influences
as the neglected and the ignorant.
They are insidiously assailed by this
which is either vulgar or
vicious. They become "bad boys in-
sofent little vandals. without regard to
the rights of person or property. They
indulge in what they call the tricks
Of the ''bad boy. CHI are really
odious and lawless assaults upon COM
mon rights and common decency.
They live with rs little notion of proper
civilized restraints as the burglar in
one's house at midnight, the cowboy on
the cattle-plains, the road agent in the
re lions.
q Nor is the evil imaginary and high
colored. The constantly increasing
of these cases is not accidental
The cause is increasing, because the
source of it is growing larger, and the
question what is to be done about it is
growing very serious.
Tn 1euic 1afinn an tho c,,biaOt soma of
the Southern States are ahead of the
Northern: but experience takes away
even the little comfort felt in the pass
age of laws, for it is the defect in law
that is at the bottom of
.hese evils. 1t is common to the vet
cram official and the juvenile offender.
Both lack respect for law; the youth
shows it by breaking it, the official by
. slipshod neglect TO see that it is com
)lied with. Detroit Free Press '--t -s-1
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-05-01

h b bair full OF dust, his cOuntouance brown;
By whom win the youth nIst be known in the
- town?
He entered the town right through the old
sgnte;
Against it the keeper leaned up quite sedate
- Tbs keeper, his friend, MAS Jolly ard round.
And often the goblet their friendship had
bound;
But see. the old keeper did not guess the
Too hard had the sun burned the face of the
And farther he wandered. now shortly to
greet
Some old friend. He shook the gray dust
fr. m his feet.
There leaned from the window his sweetheart
Thou bloominsyouns virgn!" his weicom-
Yet see, the young maiden did not know the
:. Too hard had the sun burned the face Of the
youth. r.-. f- 5.-sE
Still farther he went through a street Of the
town: 20,
tear-drop hung down from his eyelid SO
There tottered his mother from meeting
70 house door, -.
God bless your he cried, and yet nothing
But see now the mother is sobbing for Joy;
:" Ny son!" and she sank on the breast of her
boy.
No matter how deep had the sun left its trace.
The mother-eye instantly knew the young
face.
e. n. Wood, IN The Continent.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-05-01

q a @~r--. =
& Julian WAS 4 very pleasant and
bright that day at dinner.I He told
his father old Oxford stories, Insisted on
pledging him in the old ~. and when
h. ran OF to read Che never went to the
theater now, he dropped into the
drawing.room and ran his fingers over
the keys of the Erard. The bishop
heard the music as helsst, brood ng and
melancholy and remorseful, in the room
below, for all that he hardened his
he irt like PharoaK, and would not let
the letter go. because sit was for the
best "a bit of Jesuitical casuistry that,
be nevertheless derived small comfort
from. It required much more Pharoah-
like f]intiness to endure Julian's first
anxious, and then disappoin ed, face
when the early post next morning, and
Sc, erl successive posts for the next
two days, failed to bring him, something
he evidently looked for. TIE in ;uiry:
Anything for me. fatherr' and tie
iuvariable answer: ''Nuthing. Juliau,,a
became .. little tragedy, in which the
Bishop telt he was cast for '.first muir
derer," and he was by no means easy
in the part. liz -:
The piano was never opened nov.
and Jul an stuck to his work quietly.
and pluckily. At last he was duly
called and won the f10u prize g ven
by his inn for an essay upon Probate
and Divorce Is Practiced by the Early
Aryan kaces." He never slackened
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-05-01
Personal AND LITERARY.

jay Gould's income is reckoned n
be at the rate of nine dollars q mingM
AT the last town psetinasat H0p
kinstop, N. H.. DeaconWeeks and Dea-
con Gurrier cast their sixty-frst and
sixtieth annual ballots. -Boston Post.
Mrs. John c. Fremont IS writing
her recollections of the noted people
she has known since her father began
to 60 to Congress years ago.--N. y.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-05-01

to adopt a SOU 1eou' western position
during the collect julian had bad
week at Sandow naturally enough,
Ibegaasswith K; rs crabbie read a
paper ON Historic Feminine Sinners "
before the Netting Hill Debating So
Iciety. and Kitty cried. These events
are now matters Of history.
The subject came up again, and this
time the Bishop was volcanic. Marry
her! dare to dream-of marrying her,
and you may 60 an play lawn-tennis
with Tom Hughes, in New Rugby. for
q summer and starye for the, rest of
your life. won't send YOU to the Bar;
I'll stop your allowance; I'll cry down
your credit-O, Julian! you-you-
A eHn%
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-05-01
MISS KITTY BLEwsBY,
s-- 214A CSOk0rtOn Gre scent

~ Corresponding; with her secretly!
Monstrous! 1t must be stopped at ONCE,
His fingers PLAYED with the, envelope as
he held il up between him and the fire.
mo, no, can't do that; wouldn't be
honest, said the Bishop. sternly; and
having comforied himself with the re-
lection he locked mp the letter in his
drawer, and then the dressing bell
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-05-01

Bishop took both kitty's hands and
looked earnestly in her face. rdt ~ci
But vowed 1 would go tonight,
and everything is ready for me; and you
startlenie 50. Do you really mean tfisp'
she added, somewhat pleadingly and
timidly.
"I pledge you my word am in earn
est.'' lpr L. ,'s71 res3 :1' yes
h., "1t's too good of you--too good. Yes,
I'll 60 home" And then, for some un-
heard-of reason, Kitty cried again, and
the Bishop felt very awkward-so much
so that IS they were passing his corner
he chucked the check string with jerk
that almost pulled the coachman in
side. and threw the horses on their
launches. ~ Eez u.
'Good-night," he said as he stepped
out; 1--WE have made each to each a
promise. Keep yours, and Julian shall
come and see you tomorrow, Then he
left he, and walked home feeling that
he had exercised the little demon. aF :
Another and still greater shock was,
however. in store for the ll-starred old
gentleman As he came into the hall
and passed by the fatal pillar-box he
saw Julian stealing downstairs in q
monks robe, his feet in sandals. his
waist. girt with q rope, .. cowl drawn
closely round his handsome face, and q
bedroom candle ii his hand. In a
moment father and son were face to
What. you, toor' cried the Bishop.
20 Julian, this is too much! I have
saved her; / may bsyst in time to res.
3p you Julian, you shall marry her!'''
And then in hurried fashion he poured
odt his story. ending with: And, now
that have promised, tell me to what
vile seclusion the poor girl was going.
and where you were shout to bury your
self and break my old hesrs." =
Julian's eyes had danced with joy as
he listened, bot he looked grave - he
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-05-01

49, vines should have plenty OF
sun ~ air. Mold will attack them
II or6M In the shade -
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-03-12
MEETING OF THE STATE CENTRAL AND
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEES.
HEADQUARTERS Dem. Exc. Com,

GENERAL GRANT says "he believes Tue
Danville riot was instigated by the demo-
Gratis to serve political ends" But it need
not be forgotten that Senator Sumner and
President Johnson, both Of whom were
thoroughly acquainted with General Grants
character are on record as saying that his
veracity is nothing to speak Of. And what
thew said is sustained by the remarkable
difference between the Generals evidence
before the congressional reconstruction COM
mittee and his subsequent acts as President.
But giving him credit for sincerity, why he
and 50 many other Northern people should
believe the most groundless reports con-
corning the utter moral depravity of their
Southern fellow citizens in hard to compre-
bend. If the Danville affair had occurred
in the North, no Southern man with good
sense and who knew anything at all about
his own country would have believed that
it was instigated to serve political ends,
because such crime would be too heinous
for civilized white people to commit in the
present age.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-03-12
WOODLAWN AGRIC'L. SOCIETY.

reported for the Alexandria Gazette.)
The March meeting was held at w. Wal
tons on the 9Th instant, President Roberts
in the chair, aud n. w. Pierson, secretary.
The plastic condition of the roads was the
first subject considered, as being the most
important to the farming community dur
ing the breaking up Of winter. How TO
make them so as to bear up loads at all
times is the great problem where clay pre-
dominates in the SOIL Throughout the dig
trict of Mount Vernon there are scattered
beds of gravel that only need to be put up
on we'll formed road bed to insure good
solid roads throughout the year.
After considerable discussion it was
thought that the only just and equitable
way TO get this gravel put upon the roads
was to tax ourselves to the utmost limit
that our special road law would allow, I'm
til the object was accomplished.
The following resolutions were offered by
c. Lukens, and unanimously adopted:
Resolucd, That we are in favor of increas
ing the road tax in Mount Vernon district
to 20 cents on the hundred dollars valuation
of real and personal property.
Resolved, I'd, That the Supervisor and the
Road Commissioners of this district be re-
quested to take the proper steps to have the
question brought legally before the people
Of the district for rat6cation or rejection.
There being no special subject for the club
to consider, it was proposed to talk about
the best fertilizers to use on corn, and how
much was profitable to put on, and in what
manner.
The president read report of the discus
sion on this subject Of the Deer Creek farm
ers club of Maryland as published in the
american Farmer.
After this was read quite a number of
other subjects came up that consumed the
time, so that the further consideration of
this subject was laid over for the next meet
ing of the club.
R. F. Roberts read letter he had reeey-
ed from gentleman in Maryland making
inquiries in regard to a small farm he de-
sired purchasing in this section suitable for
raising fruit. He wished to locate in the
neighborhood of Friends, as he was
member of that organization. He was in.
vited to come and select for himself where
he would be welcomed.
A member of the club who had recently
visited among the farmers living some dis
lance from Harrisburg, Pa, was astonished
to learn that land producing no better than
our land was valued at from one hundred
to one hundred and fifty dollars an acre,
and produce of all kinds brought less prices
than in our markets, proving that this was
the place to come and to make money.
The critics reported many improvements
in the buildings and surroundings of the
most since the club met there before. They
particularly commended some young heifers
of the Holstein grade he is now raising and
so,no Iarcpvs in all fhirtaan hood ne tbraa
different years.
The next meeting of the club will be held
at n. W. Persons, April 9Th.
The critical committee are: W. Walton,
w. Gillingham and B. Barton.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-03-12
FROM WASHINGTON.
Special Correspondence OF The Alexandra Gazette
WARRINGTON. D. c.. March - 1884

Especial Correspondence Of The Alexsnors tsszettel
WASHINGTON. D. c., March -, 1854.
The Mexican treaty, which passed the
Senate yesterday, passed with an amend
ment providing that it shall not go into
effect until Congress shall have passed the
laws required for that purpose, thus, in
effect, requiring the treaty to be passed by
the House and repassed by the Senate. Mr..
Riddleberger made speech against the
ratification of the treaty, in secret session of
the Senate.
The bill reported in the House yesterday
from the Shipping Committee practically
abolishing the compulsory pilotage law by
granting pilot licenses to masters and mates
of sailing vessels, will be antagonized, and
successfully, It is said, by the Bayard bill in
the Senate, which provides that the Gov
eminent shall establish pilot stations and
appoint pilots at all the ports, and take
charge of the whole pilot service of the
country.
1t is understood that the House Foreign
Affairs Committee will recommend the
adoption of resolution of regret for the
death Of Herr Lasker, distinguished mem
Der of the German Parliament, emitting all
reference to the politics of the deceased,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-03-12
MONETARY AND COMMERc,.,

NEW YORK, March ? -1O:3Oa. m.-Tbs CO.,
market opens dull. New York Central is o,nin.
at Il per day, Union Pacific fat. An shso,o.
outside business is reported by commission hon. "
There is no heavy borrowing Railroad bor1.
are quiet.
Noon.-Stocks continue firm on slight cham
There is difference of 1sass per cent, cash a.,
regular in New York Central and Central pscis.
As high as y per cent per diem has been bia g.
fhe use of New York Central, CCCaIbs. =.
Ianced to SO.
The annual meeting of the Atlantic and ch..
! lotte Air Line Railroad Co. Controlled hr =,
sRichmond and Danville) will be held to dav IT, ~
meeting will be formal
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-03-12
LEGISLATIVE.

In the State Senate yesterday the House
amendments to the revenue bill, the fenc.
bill, to the bill to prevent fighting of animals
injurinc and killing of persons and spread,
ing Of fire, by careless running Of engines
with steam, &C., and to the bill to provide in
the future construction Of railways for secure
crossings on county roads, streets and other
public highways were agreed to.
The House bill TO provide for the prepa-
ration of rolls of troops furnished by the State
of Virginia to the Army Of the Confederate
States, and of the militia Of the State in &C
tive service during the late war was placed
on the calendar.
Bills were reported to provide mode for
transferring from one depository to another
the funds ofthe Com monwealth and to em
power the Dismal Swamp Canal Company
to construct and operate a railway on its
own land from Gilmerton Locks, in Virgin.
ia, to South Mills, in North Carolina.
A bill was introduced 10 prohibit the
active participation in politics Of certain Of
fcials of the State Government, which was
placed on the calendar
The tax bill was passed. In addition 10
the reductions heretofore noted in the GA
tilizers whose sales be less than 100 tons was
placed at $40 instead of $50.
The House bill to provide for the assess
ment of real estate in the year 1885 and
every fifth year thereafter, was passed.
(The bill provides for the appointment
by the Auditor of Public Accounts of as
many assessors in each county as there are
commissioners of the revenue in the county
The pay of the assessors to be 81 per day for
each day of actual service.
The House bill to incorporate r. E. Lee
Camp, Confederate Veterans, was passed
At the night session the University bill
was passed. The bill appropriates $50, 900
lin two years. and $40 900 additional for wa
ter works, &c.-total, $40, O00-and permits
no money to be borrowed hereafter without
the consent of the Legislature. The institu-
ton now gets $50, 900 a year; hereafter it will
get $40, 900 year. The University Except
the professional schools) are to be open free
to all Virginia students over sixteen years
of age" who can pass the necessary exam
ination for admission.
In secret session the Senate rejected the
following superintendent Of schools: B. F.
Kirkpatrick, Rockingham county William
p. billiard, Orange county.
In the House of Delegates, the ccnsidera-
ton of the appropriation bill occupied near
~ all day.
At the night session the appropriation bill
was ordered to be engrossed.
The joint resolution providing for an ad-
journment sine die Saturday was tabled.
The bill to authorize the Seat.oard and Rn-
anoke Railroad Company to invest in and
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-03-12

ACCORDING TO Collector Brady, General
Malone doesn't try TO concliate the leaders
of the republican party in Virginia, and
doesn't care whether they are conciliated
or not Most people learn by experience,
but General Malone seems impervious to
it's teachings. Well-informed men among
his own followers tell him that his treat
ment of the republicans lost him twenty
thousand votes at the last election, but he
needs them not. He reasons upon the
ground that between the democrats and
himself the Virginia republicans will sup
port him, no matter what indignity he may
impose upon them. Whether they will or
Tot remains to be seen. If they be- as Mr.
Wise says they are, aposlates for the price
of, their apostacy, they will. If they be
freemep, and worthy Of their Stale citizen
ship, they will do anything else.