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Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1885-11-05
HOME. FARM AND GARDEN.

Melons do not require frequent
change of land, but do require rich soil
IN E. Farmer.
Water in which borax is dissolved
is good for the hair, and also to whiten
the face and hands.-Erohangc
"A Western New York farmer saws
the red kidney is one of the best beans
for profitable field culture. provided it
is well cultivated ON good land 1t
wants richness of soil, and won't do on
poor.
One recipe for making a walk that
will prove firm and smooth in both wet
and dry weather consists in mixing Port
land cement one part, ashes two parts:
make into mortar quickly and spread
on the path and smooth over with
trowel-M. T. Times.
Rendering wood incom Unstable. &C.
cording to Prof kedzic good. sound
authority. may be accomplished with
q wash made of thoroughly skinned
milk, mixed with brine. He says it is
durable, cheap. waterproof and good
for roofs and neutrality-suspicious. NcW
Yorker.
For apple custard make cu,tard
Of four beaten eggs. three pints Of milk.
one cup of sugar and little salt. Into
this stir one pint If stewed. swectened
and seasoned apples. and bake half an
hour in quick oven. Or, use five
eggs excepting out the white Of two.
with which frost the top and brown in
the oven. No sauce required.-10ied0
Blade.
When coops or runs have plank
floors the floor should be covered with
soft earth, as it is good absorbent and
will prevent the little chicks from be-
coming crippled in the feet. Little
chicks can not thrive long on a plank
floor without earth to absorb the excre-
ment and disease germs Many old
poultrymen have learned this b. dear
experience. &C eUetdnd Leader.
Cream Pulls: One cup of boiling
water poured over ha:f-cup of butter;
let boil a few minutes, then stir in
smoothly one cup of flour; when cold
add three wei. beaten eggs; stir until
smooth. Bake about twenty minutes
in pretty hot oven. They are then to
be cut open and filed with cream.
same as cream pie. If properly done
they will be hollow on being cut open.
The household.
The lady who asks for preventive
for mold on jelliss will find that it
will be kept away by following this
rule: Pour pure. melted mutton
tallow on the top of the jelly. or para
fine will answer the same purpose. Pa
per dipped in any kind of spirits. or
moistened on one side with the white of
an egg. will also keep mould away.
Jellies should not be kept in damp
place. -BOStOn Budget
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1885-11-05
THE DREAM.

Ivas sciilecpin' in der n.de dimes,
Nit mine yace burned to the tOOr,
end treamt dot Gretchen ende-dt-
She vat vas mine wife pefOrc-
Gretchen nit her pluc eyes hold.in'
Ait der oldt luf-iide OF yOre.
IND she gam CUP CLOSE peside me.
Butts her iandt touu on mine hedt-
Lecdle glingln'. soft, warm vlngerS,
Dot pelong row 20 der dedt-
Ach, ! lisdendt init some hart axes
TO der bender vorirs she sedt.
Fritz" she visperdt. II vas lonely!
Dake me pack Won leedie lie,
Led me veel your arm gareSSin',
Hear your voice, und see YOU smile;
Nor lufs you shust IS druly,
As in tags ad Badcnye.ie.'
Den ubon mine geek Sd vithered,
Quick she la DIT .on lufing kiss.
unct NOR. vas yung und dwendy,
Alt IN ne lie tilt Dup NIT bliss.
] yorgodt We vas 5ardcd.
Ind dose hardts und Ibis l miss.
Ach, ! quickly trew her to me.
Gryin': ''Gretchcn. vate vor me.
Dairy dill / too vas retty.
Urd We pOth will gross Colts sea-
We will haf no pitter bardingS,
In dot City of der Free"
Put mine swede vife-angel vanisht,
Tnd dose habby trcam vas done,
Vide awake ] lays mt dinkincS,
Dill comes Gudt der morn n sun.
Gretchen Yates yOr me CUP yOndc:,
Und mine Journeys vas pecun.
Fordy ycers AGO she lefd me,
Nit vide roses on her prest.
Now oldt Fritz dey sey vas TWIN,
sumo he Will go home 10 rest.
Gretchen ad der gadc v,ll mede me
We will pc forever plest.
Mrs. Findlcu Brudsn, IN Detroit Free Press
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1885-11-05
French Jerseys.

There is one house in Paris devoted
entirely to the making of '.jers ays." If
any one wants to know if jerseys are
still fashionably worn, it is only neces-
sary to say that three thousand of them
were shipped to New York a few days
ago. and five hundred to one house in
Philadelphia The building, like many
Others, is in court. and bears no ex-
terror sign of being business house.
except the strip of red-velvet carpet
which covers the steps. You enter one
of several reception rooms, handsomely
furnished, and the wide windows OF
which look out upon a garden like many
other Paris houses whose entrance is n
a court. The lay figures standing about
the room all wear jerseys-serseys in
soft shades. exquisitelv braided or en-
bro:dered. jerseys with embroidered
vests. or vests and high close collars of
velvet. jerseys daintily trimmed with
innumerable rows of fine 60 cord or
braid. or jerseys whose merit was in
cut. material and finish. the only orna-
ment being the small gold or rosary
buttons. The material generally usei
is fine, close, yet elastic stockingette,
of which also most admirably-htting
riding habits are made; these are the
only exceptions to the jersey, and this
was tlrst made at the instance of Gus
toners. and is rather exceptional and
to order Otherwise the bus ness. the
only one of the kind in Paris. is entire
ly confined to bigh-class jerseys. not
necessarily the most cOstiyOr elaborate.
but of hne material AMI perfect hit aud
workmanship.-Jenny 1n'se. IN Chicago
Journal.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1885-11-05
RICH FOOD.
Why It Il Not rs Nourishing - Plain and
Simple Articles.

Simple Articles.
It is scarcely possible to conceive o.
a more absurd idea, in the matter Of
food, than to suppose that rich dishes,
as they are generally regarded, are
particularly nourishing. Indeed, they
are less so than the more usual. plain
and simple articles, while they are gen.
orally Objectionable on account of their
lack of an average nourishment. their
complication and their acknowledged
indigestibility. 1t is as great an absurd.
ity to suppose that the amount Of
strength received from our food de-
ponds as much on the amount eaten as
on the portion of it actually digested,
made part of the body by aSsimla
ton. Indeed it is possible to nearly
starve from excess in eating, taking
that which can not he appropriated, SC
taxing the stomach that it will become
unable to digest but small part of the
food eaten. wtile the unavailing efforl
to do this wastes more force. more
actual strength than partially digested
food is able to furnish
What is rich food? The supposed
richness is due to the spices. dried and
indigestible fruits. the butter, lard.
sugar, ETC.. added to the more common
and substantial articles of diet, none OF
which contain any special nourishment.
The spices contain no real nutritive
value, all things considered. while the
lard. butter, grease in general. are
simply heaters" furnishing animal
heat. directly, making no muscle, Civ
ing no strength. While the spices
irritate the mucous surface, in a Ger
tain sense arOusing activity. they give
no strength, but in reality waste vital
force The lard is ''vilc compound
of filth and disease, affording heat, but,
far too often at time when it is not
needed, in the hot weather, while there
are other heaters far less object on-
able, as the sweets and starches with
the vegetable oils, not thus contami-
mated and diseased, not as difficult OF
digestion.
1t follows that plain piece of bread,
containing the true elements of nutri-
ton not only has more nCurishment,
pound for pound. than the rich cake,
with the grease and spice additions.
but the complex nature of the cake, the
wasting irritation OF the spices. its in
digestibility, ETC., render it far less
available for nourishment. But slight
examination of the processes of nature.
the few actual elements to be found,
the simplicity in the fertilizing articles
which sustain the vegetable world, and
the food. the animal creation, mainly
four. oxygen. hydrogen, nitrogen and
carbon. three of them cases. with slight
additions of what may be regarded as
accidental elements, relatively unessen-
tial. we may learn, will naturally teach
lis important lessons the idea Of sim
plicity and wholesomeness. To take
four constituents from the mince-pie.
emitting nearly twenty. will afford more
real ncurishment with far greater
digestbility. These principles apply
with special force in hot weather. when
the digestion is usually impaired,
diminished in power. and when the ir-
ritants and heaters of rich food are not
appropriate. DR.. Hanatord, IN Golden
Ruie.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1885-11-05
CHANGE OF BARBERING.
Customers Practice Studied Neglect. ant
Anybody Can BE Barber Now.

Customers Practice Studied Neglect. and
Anybody Can BE a Barber Now.
'sDo you want your hair dressed?"
asked a barber Oh Broadway day or
two ago after he had finished showing
his customer
'.Yes, of course" said the customer.
''1ou will excuse me for asking"
said the barber. '.but | suppose you
know tie style has changed now so
that the barberng business amt what
it was by about eight hundred per cent.
Our swell customers don't have their
hair dressed at all. They simply run
a comb through ii, make a halfway
part. and let It lie rs it will. 1t looks
kinder careless and distinguished. you
know. and not as though gotten up for
the occasion. y few of our customers
have their hair brushed dry and parted
accurately, but they are in very small
minority. As for oil, we no longer
keep it in the shop, though we have a
little grease constantly on hand for the
old fashioned customers who like IL. is'
near as | can unders, and from what
our swell customers say, they hate 10
smell as if they'd come from a barber
shop. A good many club men who
come here just have the razor
passed over the face once. and do not
have bay RIM put en- the chin or on the
hair. 1t looks pretty well. too. TO my
mind. because people wear their hair
cut short now, and if the hair is
cut short and allowed to grow as it
will, it is apt to give the appearance OF
the head a better outline than ii the hair
is oiled and plastered down solidiv.
1T is the same way with men who
wear boards. Only few years ago
customers always had little something
put on their bea DIS to MAKE them stay
right, and they took kindly to a spray
of perfume after the work was done.
Nothing of that sort goes now, how
ever. Boards are usually trimmed
close and brushed dry. It's a big diff
ference from what it wa, when / went
into the business At that tine
customers kept bottles of lavender wa
ter at the shop. used grease. cosmetics
and cOloring matter. insisted on being
shaved close to the chin. and when they
went out of the shop and walked abroad
anybody knew where they'd been if he
didn't conc within ten feet of them.
ANY man could be barber nowadays;
but it took an artist to arrive at any
eminence in his profession when ]
started inS-N T. Sim
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1885-11-05
TONS OF MONEY.
How Huge Sums Are Carried Thr Ough the
Streets of the Capital.

How Huge Sums Are Carried Through the
Streets of the Capital.
There is always a good deal of hard
cash being carted about the streets at
Washington. Money is hauled about
the streets of the National capital by
the millions every day in the year.
Boxes and bags of gold and silver. huge
bales OF bonds ami treasury notes, and
wagon loads of silver dollars. Ii you
only had what is hauled about for one
day. and you wouldn't have to pick
your day exclusive of Sundays and lc-
gal holidays you would be several
times over millionaire. On some days
the mOney-changing is greater than on
others. but the same ceaseleSs carting
up and down, to and from the Treasury
doors, of hard cash goes on. Big eX-
press wagons are always backed up at
the eastern front. and the crashing and
MASKING of the heavy iron-bound boxes
and road-safes upon the MASSIVE plat
form resound from morning till n ght.
The TO ling of the iron trucks transfer
r.ng these boxes to and f. ON the great
vaults can be heard all over the build
ING. People get used to most anything
except starvat on; so they grow accus-
toned to this daily shui1ling and smash
ing noise. We who have lodged the
boxes and wagons for years only notice
them u n MI sance, while strangers
do not I'm lerstand what it all means
Even Treasury officials forget all about
it. For instance, the other day when
steamers arrived at the navy-yard with
silver dollars from New Orleans, e
Treasurer of tho Unite! States sug-
gested guard of four armed marines
with each wagon-lOad from the boats
to the Treasury.
Nonsensen' exclaimed the Super
intendent of Adams Express Com
pany, 1--WE handle ten times as much
money as is contained in a wagon
load of silver dozen times day. and
often in packages which could be car
ried away by one man.
To see one of the heaviest Adams
trucks loaded with $4,000. in silver
dollars, drawn slowly up Pennsylvania
avenue is TO appreciate the humor of
the marines. The boxes are piled up
half way to the level with the wagon
side. Each one contains but $4,000,
and yet weighs about 27o pounds.
Did you ever lift 1000 silver dollars?
Well, 1 have lifted a sack conta ming
that much. and l should not carry it
very far for it. On top of this load
sits a Treasury clerk. armed to the
teeth, with a sun umbrella. Nobody
envirs him up there on his borrowed
wealth. No mob of road agents
would care to lug off box Vt 275
pounds worth but 1000 1t takes four
men to carry a single box, and they
could never get away with four days
start. = Washington Cor. Ciereidnd
Leader.
"A philanthropic inventor has de-
vised steam whistle which produces.
instead of the ordinary shrek. a musi-
cal chord composed of the tirst third
and fifth tones of the musical scale.
the effect being entirely agreeable. 1t
remains however, to be determined
whether or not it will he as usefni az
the old whistle in soaring cattle from
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1885-11-05
Overworked Meniais.

A rather good looking cook was hired
out in the family of wealthy man liv-
ing in Dallas, Tex. One day her en-
ployer put his arm around her and
kissed her. whereupon she dropped a
courtesy and said. modestly:
Don't put yourself to SO much troub-
lie. In ali the other places where I've
been the coachman had to attend to
that. but perhaps he is kept busy here
kissing the lady of the house. - srds
SJtings.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1885-11-05

IAN execute is looked for in
Madrid" says recent cablegram.
We had one, too, the other day, but the
CO worked out before we were ready
to use it 1t Dug to have had ittls
sugar in il anyhow.-Ass0mGn IsGes
pendent
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1885-11-05

"A troupe of performing Arabs with
trained bear recently visited Troy. N.
Y, and the Times of that city says tina:
when one of the troupe died the body
was cut up and fed to the bear
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1885-11-05

Water is most liable to escape when
il is half tide.--M y AeWx
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-11-26

abundant wig of white human hair would
cost 81, 900 at least, price which few would
be willing to pay. Dead hair, i. e., hair
by any tonsorial artist worthy of the name.
Indeed, it cannot be used to any advantage,
as it will neither curl twist nor manipulate.
Hair cut from living head is not dead, a
fact which can easily be proved by taking a
hair and stretching it out to its utmost
capacity. twill then contract quickly back
to it's former position. 1t will live for a
couple of years or more after having been
cut, and when it dies the wig, front or switch
becomes limp, rough, disheveled and use
less.-Sun Francisco Examiner.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-11-26

Upon November 18th, 1885, A. P. Edger-
ton, of Fort Wayne, Indiana, was appoint
ed to succeed Dorlnan B. Eaton as Civil
Service Commissioner. Mr.. Eaton had
been chairman of the old Commission. In
early life Mr.. Edgerton served as clerk in
New York mercantile house but whilst
still young he removed to Northern Ohio,
becoming the agent of the Northern Land
Company. He then served for four years
in Congress as Democrat and was the
financial agent of the State of Ohio, with an
Office in New York city. In 1858 he moved
to Indiana, and in 1868 was the Democratic
candidate for Lieutenant Governor, Vice
President Hendricks being the candidate
for Governor. They were both defeated.
AS a Democrat he refused to support Greeley
in 1872 and came within six votes of being
nominated for vice-president on the O'Con-
ner ticket over John Quincy Adams, Jr.
He was then nominated as the straight out
Democratic candidate for Governor Of Indi-
ana but declined in letter which urged
all Democrats to support Mr.. Hendricks and
the latter was accordingly elected. For
fifteen years he has been unanimously
elected by the Common Council of Fort
Wayne as the president of the Board of
Education, of that city, and, by appoint
ment of Ex-Governor Porter is a director of
the Purdue University. He has been en-
gagged in many successful business enter
prses and is in easy circumstances. He
is practical student of public affairs. He
has been for many years an intimate friend
and was an associate of Chief Justice Waite,
who together with Senator Payne, Cover
nory Gray, of Indiana, Vice President Hen
bricks and many leading citizens of Ohio
and Indiana, warmly indorsed him for the
place to which he has been appointed,
knowing him to possess qualities peculiarly
fitting him for the work of the Civil Ser
vice Commission, with which he is in full
sympathy.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-11-26

BY the sudden death of Horace 3. Claflin,
the city of New York loses one of its great
est business men. The name of Claflin is
known wherever the dry-goods trade ex-
tends, and that is to the remotest corner Of
our continent. He was the great rival of
A. It. Stewart and the only one in the trade
that that shreWd merchant feared. Soci-
ally Mr.. Clafin was little known, he at
tended strictly to business and in this way
of dollars yearly. The firm was originally
Claf1in Millen & Co. They did business in
the Trinity Building and established branch
houses in all the prominent western cities.
In those days Chicago, st. Louis and the
other western cities were not the great dis
tributing centres they have since become,
and by the enterprise of Mr.. Clatlin he con-
troled their trade. The New York house.
would supply the goods whilst the agents
would furnish the capital necessary to run
the store. AS trade increased the firm were
compelled to increase the facilities and the
great warehouse on Broadway was built.
BY his personal worth Mr.. Clafiin became
the consigner of the great New England
manufactures and he absolutely controlled
the trade in domestic" AS the western
cities grew up they began to compete for
trade, but the house of Clafin held on to a
great proportion which will now doubtless
90 to Others and it is doubtful whether a
man with sufficient ability can be found to
continue the New York business. Mr..
Claflin has for many years been one of the
most prominent members of Mr.. Beechers
church and at the time of the Tilton-Beecher
trial was answering in support Of the pas
tor. He almost invariably bought the
choice of pews in Plymouth Church and at
one time paid $1,000 therefor. He was
4 c.ls L,,& oLo {nl
anything that abounded in great technical
tiles stigmatizing it as the "hifaluting
STYLE" In the Blaine Cleveland campaign
he supported Mr.. Beecher's course and him
self advocated the election of Mr.. Cleve-
land.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-11-26

"tried it," it acted "like charm," and for
the next six months he was so enraptured
with its effects that he considered tia duty
as we'll as humanity to recommend it to
every person who seemed to be affected as
he had been. Not long thereafter, as he
was standing at the gate of his newly mar
ried daughter, in London, in a passing call
on his way to business, he dropped down
dead. On examination, the cause was found
in several ounces Of soda impacted in the
bowels.
"ILLINOIs"-It is written in the narra-
tive of missionary that when the French
first met with Indians in the interior of the
present State Of Illinois their reply to a
question as to who they were was the sim
gle word ''Illn-wee," that is, "Men." The
French thereupon dubbed all the Indians
of that interior rigion "Illin-ois," the lois"
suffix being the French photography for the
sound of the common Indian plural in
1--WE" that converted the word "illin," or
man in the singular, into men collectively.
The French word pat-ois, pronounced pat
wee, is an example of the same orthograph-
ic notation of the "wee" sound, and other
illustrations will readily occur to French
scholars.
In time the French traders and mission
aries discovered that there was no tribe
named illinois," but that the Indians they
had so designated were the Peoria, Tama-
roa, Miami, and so on; that they never
called themselves "Men," except in gene
ric human and not tribal sense.
When the region these Indians once thin
ly roved over, not inhabitated, was estab-
lished by Congress as an organized Terrific
ry of the Union, the obsolete old French mis-
take of "Illinois" was resorted to for its
name; but though we have adopted the
French spelling, we have disregarded the
the name as though it were written "1lli-
noise.-Chica0o Current.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-11-26

THE VERY LAST SHOT BY LEES MEN,
Joe Deadwyler says that Nap. Crosby fired
the last gun of the war on the Confederate
side in Gen. Lees army. At the time of
the surrender at Appomattox the Federals
and Confederates were drawn up in lines
facing each other and but few feet apart.
The latter were almost starved, having been
without food for several days. While the
terms of surrender were being arranged
some very good hogs came along near the
line, and as soon as Nap. discovered them
he raised his gun and took one Of them in.
The shooting Of the hog created consider
able sensation for a little while, as it was
thought by some that the Yanks and Rebs
had got into fight tamong themselves. The
facts were soon understood, however, and
Nap. and his friends had good time eating
pork for rdinncr-EWer0n, CO., gazette.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-11-26

nSg~ The whole matter of secular business
on Sunday is simply and solely Il question
between human greed for money and di-
vine wisdom and thought for humanity
and we are od-fashioned enough to believe
that Almighty God will win in this contest,
as he has in all similar ones before.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-11-26

TRUE LITE.-NO true life ever was a fail
ure 1t may not have been spent in the
performance of what the world esteems
great and noble deeds; and according to the
worlds estimate, it may not have been a
success. But any life spent in the faithful
performance of the duties of the position in
which God has placed it is a noble life, and
will receive from Him the highest commen-
dation. 1t is not the kind of work we are
called to do, but the spirit with which we
engage in it, and the manner in which we
perform it that gives character and impor-
tance to our acts. The meanest service, per-
formed in a proper spirit for Christ, in his
estimation is sublime. Or if, in the provi-
dence Of God, we are deprived of the privli-
lege of working and are called on y to suf-
fer, if we patiently endure as seeing Him
who is invisible, under the discipline of suf-
fering our own characters will be ennobled,
our example and influence felt for good, and
the sufficiency of Divine grace magnifed,
and life at last, instead of being failure,
will prove grand success. We should not
regard our position, whatever it may be,
as insignificant and unimportant. No po-
sition is insignificant in which a man may
serve and honor God.