Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1885-05-28
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For TIE Tnns
"oh mamma. dear mamma. come home With me
wonder what papa will think!
Hell meet You tonight with frown OF his brow
For staying 20 late At the rink;
No lamp has been lighted tonight in the hall.
It's dark and the baby's awake.
And-thcre! was sure, dearest ma, you'd fall
Some night your poor neck you'u break
Come hOme come home,
Oh, mamma, dear mamma, come home"
Kansas struts around the New Or
leans exposition like a boy with his first
pair of red-top boots. She has right
to, for on her bosom dangle grand prem
ium medals that dazzle and paralyze the
rest Of the world, and proclaim the
Sunfower state queen. Her cattle,
grain, -four, sugar and fruit are golden
products, twenty-four carat fire.
Next Saturday is decoration day, but
it looks as if in the midst of the excite
ment induced by festive circus that
the nobler instincts of humanity are
likely to be let slumber in the old camp
blanket.
Dodge is afflicted with many long-felt
wants, but, Micawber like, seems dis
posed to sit around and permit them to
get filled the best way they can. The
one mostly felt is the want of q ladies
parlor at the depot. Through the gen.
crosby Of the agents, we observe that
ladies are sometimes relieved from as
sociations with expectorated essence of
tobacco and tramps by being invited in
to the ticket Office. But Dodge is a
city of sufficient importance it seems to
entitle her to commodious and COM
Portable depot building.
After months of wrongling, involving
an unprecedented content, John A. Lo-
gan has again been elected U. s. Sena-
tor by the legislature of Illinois, and
the entire nation feels just in rejoicing,
for the political luck OF Logan Is the
luck of the people.
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According to Prof. Riley, the visit
of seventeen and thirteen year locusts
which appear in conjunction this year,
will not be fraught with much damage
to anything but young trees.
Nothing succeeds like success. The
publication of Dodge City society dem
onstrates the fact. The tree Of reform
is growing, and men and women of pro-
bity and moral rectitude are training its
branches. The young boys and girls
shall grow up under their protection,
save from the lecherous hells Of vice.
The father with a daughter, and the
mother with son, if the creed of hu-
mainly be within them, cherish hopes
for future without blight for those
children, and their influence, be it great
or small, is commingled with the on
ward-moving tide of christian work.
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We met Capt. French, the old-timer,
Of West Plains, last week, and learned
from him that Seward county is fast
going the way of its neighbors. He
says the big cattle herds are pulling up
stakes and moving out, and that the
class of grangers who are preparing to
make an Eden of Seward. are in shape
to ride over the breakers that may come
with one or two dry years.
II
While at Garden City last week, We
went over to Charley Jones residence
and saw his small herd Of young buffa-
loes. The calves are thriving nicely on
the tactical fluid of civilization extract
ed from long-necked beer bottle, and
Mr.. Jones anticipates, in the course of
time, handsome reward from breeding
the whilom royal inhabitant of the
American desert.
DR.. Khron, Of prohibition fame, talks
to the Leavenworth Times man in
way that would lead one to infer that
the liquor laws are duly enforced in
Dodge City, and that the saloons are
with the things that we're. If the doc
tor would inquire Of any officer in Dodge
as to the potency of the law, he would
learn how feeble the bonds of strength
may grow when rocked in the cradl. of
iniquity. No, doctor, the saloons are
not dead. and the law is almost as if it
were not.
Chas. Dickerson has opened the finest