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Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1885-12-10

ground. I could not move if tried.
and the muscles of my feet seemed to
give way under me. The cadayer
raised himself on his back and looked
ana grinned at me in most agonizIno
manner. A cold sweat ran all over
my frame. seemed to be liftel Off
the ground, and in another moment
was thrown PROSTATE on the floor. /
never believed much in ghosts. nut at
that time I could not explain this u.
traordinary phenomenon.
s. lay in that position l know not
how long. But any way when l re.
covered consciousness it was morning.
and the light was streaming in through
those windows. With the return of
day plucked fresh courage and went
up to ascertain the cause of nv scare
of the previous night. The cadaver
lay in the very same position in which
it had been placed by me. and put
my hand on the face and found the
GOODNESS Of death there. / raised up
the cloth that covered the lower part
of the slab, and there found the cause
of my feeling of the previous night. A
student lay on his back on the floor in
a profound slumber, sleeping off the
effects Of the nights debauch. This
at once explained the whole secret
away. and the nervous prostration l
experienced was wholly due to my ar
dent imagination. l got over all that,
however, and now l investigate the
cause Of any unusual noise since that
night. Of course, you cap readily un-
derstand the nervous perturbation was
wholly induced by the strange noise
that was produced in that place ut
such an unreasonable hour, and that
explains away my feelings with regard
to the erect position the cadaver was
supposed to assume. Such an extra
ordinary occurrence might result
fatally in many cases, for the nervous
system in one who is firm belle yer in
supernatural visitations would receive
shock from which it would never, in
all probability, rally, and l have
known many people who Were rem
dcred insane by just such an occur
renee. 1t was lesson to me, how
ever. that | will not readily forget. So
much for my first experience in dis
secting-room. IN. Y. Herald.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1885-12-10

must be '.cruel hard to Pass tho
procer's and provision dealers, and
see and smell the heaped-up array 81
fowl and fruit, and the thousand and
one tempting niceties displayed in
seemingly reckless abundance, and yet
feel that they are beyond ones reach
entirely. It is hard alike for old and
young: but what more appealing sight
than the one seen almost every day,
of hungry young eyes gazing longingly
| into store windows, with little red fists
crammed into empty pockets.
Our Saviour commended the sagaci-
ty of the woman of strange sect, who,
feeling herself outside the pale OF the
Masters recognized followers, was yet
willing to humbly avail herself of such
crumbs of comfort as merely fell, as
it were, from the table of those
authorized to feed on the Divine
food and wisdom. There are many
ways of dispensing crumbs of welcome
cheer these festive DAYS. Never mind
about saving everything left on the
table. Take the best portions and
carry them to some one who is poor or
old, bed-ridden perhaps, or unable to
leave the narrow room through feeble
ness.
The few kind words you speak in
making your simple offering will of
themselves prove a world of comfort to
some of the needy ones.
If God has greatly prospered you,
give more literally still; one who has
tested the satisfaction of giving to the
worthy poor realizes that it is indeed
more blessed to give than to receive.
We have no right to keep for our own
use all that bounteous Father pro-
vides, il we possibly can spare a
portion for those less favored than our
selves. Our Christmas and New Years
store will 60 us far more good, if at
least a generous supply OF crumbs
cheers some other hearts than those
within our own doors.-Golden Rule.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1885-12-10
DURER'S CRRIST.CHILD,
The Peculiarly of the Great German Mas
ter's Works.


ter's Works.
In Albert Durer the influences which
controlled and nodded the develop
ment of German art reached their cul-
mination, and in his work we see at
once its weakness and its strength.
He was, beyond question, mighty
genius, but always and Individually a
Teutonic genius. never breaking, never
seeking to break the narrow bounds of
his native environment. He often
signed his pictures "a German" or
"A Nuremberger'-patriotic but su-
perfluous, for no one who looks at
them needs to be told where they were
produced. They are genuine; they
smack of the soil Thus, in all his
representations of the Nativity and the
Holy Family-and they are many-the
Virgin is a simple Nuremberg mother
in her housewives dress, the Child is
just such an infant as Durer might
have seen in his neighbor's cradle, and
the landscape is a wonderful reproduc-
ton of what the traveller may find to-
day in the quiet corners of Franconia
He treats the theme with what Mr..
Comyns Carr has well called an sun
t1inching realism" which often leads
him into ugliness and sometimes into
triviality. The characteristic trait is
donesticity- thoroughly German
quality = and one certainly poetic
enough to be worthily expressed in the
most perfect art. but needing always to
be guarded against falling into mere
LONELINESS. which is quite another thing.
Durer's pictures of the Christ-child and
the Virgin always remind me of the old
German Christmas carols. We may
smile at them. but we cannot help low
ing them.-Dr. Henry j. Van Dyke, in
Hdrper's Magazine.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1885-12-10
HOLIDAY CRUMBS,

Simple Offerings Which. Kindly Given,
Will Prove World of Comfort to the
Needy-The Saviour's Commendation.
They are richer and more abundant
than other crumbs, and now is the time
when they are accumulating faster
than at any other season of the year.
The careful housewife and the less
prudent ''help" look almost despair
ingly at crowded shelves, and wonder
where some of the over-supply from
breakfast. dinner and supper shall be
set away. Suppose they are not set
away; at least, not on the already
loaded shelves. There are empty
shelves and hungry mouths, and not
even crumbs falling from the tables of
many family. within easy walking
distance of your own home.
When Jesus Christ spoke of the poor
as being in every community, He EN-
phasized their condition as a piteous
legacy, making it obligatory on His
followers to consider their needs. 1;
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1885-12-10
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

-
-Nickel-plated ware can be cleaned
and Frightened by rubbing with flour
and a wooden CGacianah Times.
-Corn-husks braided and the braids
joined by sewing with sack needle and
tine Irvine make pretty and serviceable
mats.
Several years since gardener dis
covered that by planting his squash
seeds in earth that had layer of coal
ashes above and below it the vines
We're not molested by cut-worms.-
Chicago Times.
Rice Pudding: A cheap. nice rice
pudding = made by putting into one
quart of milk three tablespoonfuls of
raw rice, and three tablespoonful of
sugar, Cor more to suit the taste,) bake
three hours in a slow-evenlv-heated
oven. Do not stir after putting it in
the oven.-The Caterer.
Apple jelly: Cut the apple, in
small pieces without pairing, and stir
till soft, using more water than for
apple sauce. Strain through a hair
seive, then through jelly bag twice
To pint of juice put three-fourths of .
pound of sugar-a pound 70 Il pint
makes it too Sweet-and boil until the
right thickness is obtained. The addi-
ton of lemons makes it much nicer
The Household
Most nuts will not sprout after they
have become thoroughly dry, says the
-4merscdn Gardener. and should there.
fore be planted as soon as ripe. If the
ground is in proper condition the best
plan is to plant the nuts just when they
are wanted. \ mellow, med erately
rich soil. covering the nuts two or three
inches deep and packing the earth firm
ly over them. is all that is needtd.-Al-
bany Journal.
-Nectas in the flowers is controlled
largely by electricity in the atmosphere.
When storms are frequent the general
report is that the blossoms contain no
nectar. Cyclones, tornadoes, hail
storms. thunder and lightning are large
ly the cause of poor honey crop. The
past two seasons were surprising exam
pies of too much electricity in the at
mosphere, with corresponding lack OF
hOney.-4merican Bee Journal.
Gather all the trash from the gar
den and add to it the trash pile; give
the garden heavy dressing of we'll
rooted manure and plow it carefully
under in readiness for next spring. es-
pecially if it be a strong loan or clay,
leaving the surface rough. \ moder-
ate dressing of compost. lightly plowed
under in the spring. will then fit the
garden admirably for big crop next
summer.-Prdi.ic Farmer
-Favorite Cake: Make layer Of
cake with two cupfuls of sugar. two
thirds of a cupful of butter, half a cup
full of milk. three cupfuls of flour. four
eggs, a teaspoonful of soda and two
teaspoonfuls of cream of tartar; then
spread between the layers and over the
top of the cake a dressing of beaten
egg, half a pint of whipped cream. q
cupful OF grated cocoanut. half a cup
full of sugar, the juice and half the
grated ind of one orange Iirred up
together. Budget.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1885-12-10
A yLOODTHlRsTY KING.
rhecbaw's Eevoltingly Cruel Reign and
His Quarrel with England.

I
King Theebaw succeeded his father.
Mendone Meng, in 1873, at the age of
about twenty-one. He was neither the
eldest nor the favorite child of family
of forty-eight sons and sixty-two
daughters, but he had married the
daughter of the chief Queen, who
brought over to his interest the princi-
pal dignitaries. At first Thecbaw gave
promise of 2 peaceful and Useful reign.
But his brothers, the Nyoung Jan and
the Nyoung Oke, who had claims to
the throne more valid than his, had es-
capped in safety to British protection.
The knowledge that they lived and
might plot against him unsettled his
feeble mind, and this, with drink,
opium and the pernicious counsels of
those about him, caused him to develop
into the sanguinary monster that he
has since been.
In February, 1879, encouraged by re-
ports of British reverses in Zululand,
Theebaw massacred his relatives and
their adherents, whom he had kept
confined for months in loathsome dun
geons. Men, women and children
were knocked on the head and flung,
alive or dead, into yawning trenches.
The mouth OF high official was filled
with gunpowder, which was then eX-
ploded. Women were ripped up. after
being subjected to every conceivable
indignity, and infants brains were
dashed out against stone walls. The
exact number of unfortunates who per-
ished amid such fearful tortures at this
time, and since in Burmah, will never be
known. 1t is certain. however, that it
must be reckoned in hundreds. One
of the two pits within the palace in
closure, into which living and dead
were cast together during the three
initial nights of crime. soon bulged
and cracked at its mouth from the ex-
halations arising. An elephant had to
be fetched to trampie down the earth.
Burmah was shorn of its sea-coast
and some of its most profitable PROV
inces. by the wars with the English,
which ended in 1924 and 1852. Dis
putes with the Indian Government led
to the withdrawal of the British Charge
d Affairs from Mandalay, in October.
1879. Frontier raids, rebellions and
attempts at assassination followed.
Since 1880, however. the exterior rela-
lions of Burmah have been very quiet,
although the British authorities at
RangOOn have had constant occasion
to watch against the intrigues which
King Theebaw has sought to conduct
against England with other powers.
The last dispute arose from the ca
price and attempted extortion of King
Theebaw in interfering with British
trade on the Irrawaddy River, and in
his suspected plotting with France to
the disadvantage of English interests.
Responsibility for this plotting has
been d;sclaimed by President CREWS
Government. The quarrel, therefore,
rests upon Thebaw's arrogant and in
sulting refusal to attend to the COM
munication of the Viceroy of India,
proposing arbitration with reference to
the prcposterous fine of f23O,O 900 re-
Gently imposed for alleged otfenses up
on the Bombay and Burmah Trading
Corporation. This company has an
immense body of servants and hum
dreds of elephants employed in timber
cutting in Burmese territory.-M Y
Mercury.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1885-12-10
RELIGIOUS READING.
BEAUTIFUL GOALS.

We sat in the fireli CATS Tuddy glow.
Watching the flames dance to and fro.
Watching their tremuiouS curl and sweep,
Watching them WAIVER and family creep
Watching them one BY one expire,
Leaving but beautiful Goals of fire.
And baby laughed at the brilliant sight,
Then suddenly strove with his tiny might
To slip from NY fingers loosened clasp,
And one of those beautiful Goals 10 grasp:
/ caught him back from the cleaning brands
Kissing the unsecured, dimpied hands;
But poor little darling. he only cred
That his newborn wish was thus denied.
Then thought how often we yainly beseech
For seeming Jewels beyond our reach,
With fearful griev:ng and OutStretched hands
When, perhaps, the dear Lord. who under
stands,
Is holding US back from or hearts desire,
From fatal. though beautiful, Goals Of fire.
-Emnia c. Dottd, in COnGIegatiJndIist.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1885-12-10
A Monster Oak.

Of a monster oak felled in England
in 1910 the main trunk. 10 feet long,
produced $50 cubic feet; one limb 472
cubic feet, and other limbs respectively
S55. 235, 156, 113 and 100 cubic feet; 6
other limbs of inferior size averaged SO
feet each. making total of 2.445 cubic
feet of sound timber. The bark was
estimated at six tons. 1t took five men
twenty DAYS to strip and cut down this
tree. and two sawyers were five months
without losing day Sunday excepted)
in converting it into timber. The r'ein
trunk of this tree was 90 feet in diam.
eter. The whole produce of the t'ce in
the market brought about Ss,GE--
Lire Stock .1onTnal
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1885-12-10
STRANGE EXPERIENCE.

A College Professors Story of a Snoring
Cadaver and the Explanation of the Phe-
nomenon.
81 have been for the past fifteen
years engaged at MY present business.
and need not tell you it is not one of
the most pleasant occupations in the
world. have had some terrible ex-
periences during that time, and if l
were to relate some of them to you you
would not think them credible. l
spend most of the day and night with
these dead bodies. and now that l have
grown accustomed to it / do not mind
it so much" The speaker was Prof.
James Walsh, Superintendent of the
dissecting room in the New York Uni
verslty Medical College, and the above
answer was given in reply to the re-
porter's query. The professor con-
tinued:
IF you wish to hear an experience
l he'd, let me see, about fifteen years
ago, have no objection to telling you.
but just follow me up and l will show
you the very spot where it occurred.
and perhaps it will help to refresh my
memory somewhat"
The reporter followed the professor
up long winding iron stairway until
he came to a door which was locked.
The professor took from his pocket a
key, and, having applied it to the lock,
the door suddenly flew open and dis
closed long, wide room. IN which lay
upward of two hundred ''cadavers''
placed upon marble slaps. The stencil
that came from this room was of the
most indescribable character. and the
reporter instinctively drew back to
catch his breath
This is the dissecting room," added
the Professor, land it gives YOU some
idea of the character of my work. 1t
Is here | spend my day and night, and
you will at once admit it is not very
pleasant way to spend ones existence.
1t is over there, just at that slab to-
ward the left, that the experience &C.
Cured which / will now relate
81 was then a new man, and did not
feel quite at home as much as now,
AID though it is well-nigh fifteen years
Since it happened it was so forcibly
impressed upon my mind at that time
that l shall never forget it. The stu
dents had all gone and I was alone in
the dissecting room. The hour was
about twelve o'clock, and l had re-
manned to fix up the cadavers for the
morrow. The associations connected
with the place at such an hour are
enough to fill tie mind of less nerv-
Gus person with apprehension. About
two hundred dead bodies lay on the
slabs ali around, and at that time
screen hung from the top of each slab
to the ground. so as to conceal the
debris during the day. Not sound
broke the stiffness of the dissecting
room. not ripple ran through this
big building, when all at once, as 1
stood near that slab, l heard loud
snoring sound proceed from cadaver.
81 could feel the throbbing Of my
heart. ana stood rooted to the
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1885-12-10
PARSNIPS.
Hints about Harvesting THIS Lelfciou,
and kich Vegetable.

Hints about Harvesting THIS delicious
and Rich Vegetable.
Those who harvested their parsnips
in the autumn, under the impression
that they are in full perfection for the
table. labor under great mistake; and
those who gather a portion of them,
with the idea that they can not be dug
in the winter, are also mistaken. A
friend of ours who keeps abreast, if
not in advance, of the times, has
adopted a method of so protecting his
parsnips in the autumn that they can
be dug at any time during the winter,
and thus have them fresh IS well as
well ripened. His method is to cover
the ground where the parsnips grow
with sufficient covering of eelgrass
to keep the frost cut. In the interior,
where eel-9rass can not be obtained, a
sufficient quantity OF meadow-grass
might be used Tor protection, or
leaves covered with boards could be
used; where sawdust could be OBJ
tanned, it would be good material,
providing it be covered with boards so
cost of covering 4 sufficient quantity
for family use would be very slight,
and the advantage Of being able to OBJ
tain fresh parsnips at any time very
great. Whenever the frost has been
out of the ground in January or
February, we have always availed our
selves of the opportunity to dig few
parsnips, and have found them to be
much more delicious than when dry
in the autumn. Although we have
never tried the process of covering,
we have no doubt that it will
secure roots of q much better flavor
than if dug either in the autumn
or the spring, for when dug in the au-
tumn the roots do not arrive to perfec.
ton, and if not dug until spring the
roots start up frequently before the
frost is out at the bottom of the roots;
but We can readily see that when well
covered the roots will be kept back,
and thus be in good condition much
later in the spring than if not covered;
and there can be but little doubt that
by the keeping of the roots in the
ground undisturbed, and so protected
that there will be no freezing and thaw-
ing, the flavor will be better than If left
exposed to the sudden and great
changes of temperature that are con-
stantly taking place in our climate.
When covering is intended it would be
better to plant the parsnips in square
bed, and not in a single row, because
it would be much easier to cover a
square than one row, it not requirin.
so much material to cover with. The
parsnip, when properly grown and
well-ripened, is an excellent vegetable.
but for the want of the proper knowl-
edge of how to grow it well, and of
it at the right time, it is not
fully appreciated. Many dig their par
ships in the autumn and store them IN
the cellar the same as potatoes, and be-
cause of their immatured condition, and
the want of care in keeping them, they
make to most of people very unsatis.
factory food; if they must be harvested
in the autumn it should not be done
until just before winter sets in, and
then they should be packed down in
sand and kept where it is cool. but not
30 cold a. to freeze.
PloaghE,an.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1885-12-10

Habit, if wisely and skillfully
formed. becomes truly second nature,
as the common saying is; but unskill-
fully and unmethodically directed, it
viii be as it were the ape of nature,
which initiates nothing to the life, but
only clumsily and awkwardly-Ra
con.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1885-12-10

The spirit Of ungenerous criticism
has stunted spiritual growth in more
souls than will be known this side the
judgment.-Baptist Weekly.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1885-12-10
How a Marriage Was Prevented.

A remarkable story of the triumph OF
fashion over love comes from France.
A Lyons artist was engaged to be mar
ried to a young lady, and the invita-
tons for the wedding had been sent
out. The bridegroom had hearty dis
like for the appendage to ladies' dress
commonly known rs the hustle In
speaking to his bride Of her wedding
gown. he happened to mention his wish
that this addition should be dispensed
with. 30. nor responded the young
lady; 81 must be married in such a
dress, or l will not be married at all. :"
And so the engagement ended. She
would not give up the dress she wanted,
and he would not marry her in it. 1t is
evident that they were very self-opin-
donated or else not very deeply in love
with one another.-N. Y. Ledger.
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-07-02
A Bit of Boston POliteness,

The habit OF doing dictionary duty for
any one you may converse with, says the
New York Mail and Express, must be an
unpleasant one, only assumed from a high
sense of duty, which only generations of
practice could make so congenial to the
Boston mind. Neither age, sex, nor
limited acquaintance will prevent the
Bostonian from correcting to your
face any error, or what he con-
siders such, in your pronunciation.
it is the height Of antique good breed
ing outside Boston to pass over any mac
cqracies of speech in your neighbor, and
stories are told of the first gentlemen of
their times who went so far as to pro-
Rounoe words after the fashion Just ut
tered rather than embarrass a companion
with an error. But the conscientious and
critical Bostonian makes no bones of re-
pronouncing the word for your benefit
after his idea. Should you say aroma,
instead of ahroma, or either instead of
eyther, or Meeonaon instead of Myonan,
you are sure to hear of it with
no more seruple than ii you were
tirst-form boy-to use the English
terminology of uppish schools A rather
naturally polite authoress, educated West
by one OF the correctest Of mothers, taken
up short on certain word by 9 critical
editor, mentioned her experience to
friend soon after, and looked the word up
IN the Oxford dictionary, which is pre-
sumably authority even in Boston.
well, was he wrong?' asked the
friend.
NO" was the answer, with the most
delicate air of politeness, "the dictionary
was.'i
New York manners were match for
Boston then.
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-07-02
BUSINESS IMPROVEMENTS.
Trade Picking Up and Better Prices
in Many Lines.

Upon inquiry of several OF the leading
business houses of Salt Lake the fact is
learned that trade at present is decidedly
better than it has been during the past
six months Messrs. Remington, john
son & Co., the extensive wholesale gro
GERS of this city, state that though money
continues close. trade is becoming steady
and regular, and nothing in the line
seems forced. This shows actual de-
mands of the people, and healthy status
of affairs in consequence,
One of the leading agricultural lmple-
ment firms of the city was found IN
most happy and hopeful mood or account
of a large order just in and revival OF
business generally.
Even the retail dealers mark an i'm
proyement in the times from their in
creased sales. The farmers and stock
raisers are proportionately encouraged by
better market prices for their crops,
wool, hides and other productions being
in frmer demand This certainly is
fair criterion to go by that the times are
improving, for which everybody has oc-
casion to rejoice.