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Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-06-10
AUGUST SPIES.

Sketch of the Man Who Is Alleged to
Have Incited the Recent Murders in
Chicago.
August Spies came to this country
when sixteen years of age. He is now
about thirty-two. He had little school
ing in the old country, but has always
been a student on his own hook. He
learned the trade of saddle-maker in
Chicago. but gave up this occupation
when he was twenty years of age, and
tramped through the West and South
for a couple of years. When twenty
four he went back to Chicago, and
soon took part in politics. At that
time there were no Anarchists in Chi
cago. Spies himself was a Socialist.
and being a good speaker he soon rose
to be 4 leader of the Socialists, who
were so strong that they cast ten thou
sand votes for their candidate for
mayor, Dr. Ernst Schmidt. Spies be-
came afterward manager of the Social
istic daily in Chicago. the Ar6eiter lei
ting, which had at that time big cir
culat;on and great influence with the
wOrking-men. Spies urged his friends
to make him managing editor as well
as business manager. and he gradually
nodded the SOcialistic Arbeiter Zeitung
into an Anarchist organ after the style
of the FrCiheit, whose editor, Herr
Most, is particular friend OF Spies,
with whom he is constantly in CORE
spOndence.
Spies destroyed the circulation and
influence of the paper by the change
he made, and it became simply the
mouthpiece of dynamiters and the dam
gerous classes. 1t printed Most's in
structions to manufacture dynamite
and bombs. and advised the toiling
masses to arm themselves against their
enemies to spare no one, not wife
nor child, in the great struggle for free
dom which was going to come.
An incident in the life of the Anar-
chlst leader made him bitter foe to
the police. His brother William was
shot and killed by policeman in the
summer of 1884. William was a good
fOr-nothing fellow who lived off his
brother. Two months before he met
his death he was leader in fight by
which farmer living near Chicago
lost his life. He was tried for the muir
der. but the influence of the ArJeiter
Zettung was yet strong enough to Sc
cure his discharge. He went back to
his old life of idleness and lawlessness,
and was shot and killed while resist
ing an officer who wanted to arrest
him. Then August Spies vowed VEN
geance upon the police, and he has
kept his oath.
Spies wears good clothes and is an
expert shot, but. strange to say, he al
most faints at the sight of blood.-N.
y. Sum-
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-06-10
THE ROSE OVER THE DOOR.

"A cottage. all fitted and furnished.
Stands daintily over the way,
And hero a young pair to housekeeping
Came promptly the first day ct May.
The place seemed so home-like and cog,
The sun shone bright on the floor,
Yet one dewy eve saw them planting
/. A Rose to bloom over the door.
Ah. how they watched over its growing,
And trained it with tcnderest arts,
And swift, as its bright buds unfolded,
The love of home grew In their hearts.
The husband came home in the evening,
All weary and worn from the store,
TO find the wife's welcome the sweeter
For Roses that bloomed DER the door.
But love" they say. ..fiies out of the window
When poverty enters before:
But against ali trials and troubles
These two young hearts garnered full store.
For when fell the hush of the twilight.
They whispered anew loves sweet lore,
Wove closely the bonds of affection
Meath Roses that blOOmed o:F the door.
And when the dark days. closed around
them.
And pOverty's waves over-bore,
To keep the dear home how they struggled,
Where Roses blOomed over the door.
And now. all their trial time ended.
:. They dwell in the sunlight once more,
Where Roses bloom over the door.
Ye new-mated pairs who are building
Your home-neS now heed. implOro,
This lessOn-that love fingers longest
Where Roses bloom over the door.
Sc, ,c. who count home more than heller,
Plant, ere the bright Spring-tme is DER
To make home the brighter and dearer-
A Rose to bloom over the door.
-Vick'x Magazine.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-06-10
THE WORK-HORSE.
A frequently Underfed and Most Always
OverWOrked Animal.

A Frequently Underfed and Most Always
Overworked Animal.
There are some men who ought to be
ashamed to look an honest horse in the
face. None of our domestic animals,
however much they may suffer from
neglect, receive SO much abuse as the
horse. We refer more especially to
the work-hOrse, on the farm and be-
fore tie cart and truck Carriage
horses generally fare well enough-or
at least as we'll as those having care of
them know how to keep them-since
they are owned by well-tO-do men, who
take pride in their fine appearance
and spirited action. But, as rule,
the poor worker receives no such adj
vantage from the pride of his owner.
There are many exceptions, but the
number of horses that fall under the
head of the abused is sufficient
to establish the rule. Underfed, over
worked. poorly groemed and often
badly sheltered, every point in the
poor creature Is an expression of
patient suffering. 1t is painful
sight to behold horse with the sharp
angles of its bones stickin. out in all
directions and the ribs painfully easy
to count, Juggling along before too
heavy load, and the driver, with his
feet hanging over the end-board of the
wagon, constantly applying the irritat-
ing lash to keep the poor creature from
dropping into a lstless, droning gait;
and sometimes a team is so far run
S,vn and exhausted that even the lash
appears to make no impression. At
least. it fails to quicken the pace or to
awaken even the faintes: apparent
recognition from the poor faded beast.
But the lash keeps flying through the
air, III the same, and the sting of it
must add to the sufferinys of the stolid
rack-=-bones. This picture is not
Overdrawn. 1t may be seen in the
streets of any city or large village
every working day of The year The
owner may be in part cxcusable on the
score of poverty, but his best excuse is
his ignorance. For. if he did but
know it, he could get much more
value in service than tt.c extra cost of
feed out of his horses il he kept them i'm
good condition, while ne would save
himself the extra work and lame
shoulder resulting from, the incessant
swing of the arm in applying the lash.
There can be no possible economy in
starving horse, or any other work
animal; for the available force in the
horse is what is put into it through its
food, and as true as the trIism, ..some-
thing can not come Of nothing" lis
true. the owner can get no more ont
of his horses than he puts into them.
The Society for the Prevention OF
Cruelty to Animals can do the animal
world no better service than to adopt
some means of educatif g the ignorant
owners of livestock as to the best
methods of feed and care in ORDER to
secure the oestpaying rcsults.-Nalion-
al Lire Stock Journal
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-06-10
Sunflower Seed for Fowls.

grow sunfower seed for chickens.
and find it excellent, in fact the best
thing we have tried. mix two quarts
of the seed with six quarts of oats,
shelled corn. or any small grain. If
the fowls are housed, spread litter on
the floor, and scatter the seed among
it to give them exercise in picking il
out, and that each may get Il proper
share. This amount is given to seventy-
five fowls twice week We catherine
sunflower heads in wash tub. spread
them in the sun to dry, and shell, them
on dry day by beating with stick. II
some of the heads x>e little green.
scratch the seeds out with a curry.
comb. Once planted, sunflowers re-
stock themselves by what seed will NAT
uraily scatter upon the ground. If is
desired to rid a plat of them. let the
fowls run on the patch. and they will
put IN their time scratching for the.
seed-C0r. Prairie Farmer.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-06-10
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

When there is time and space, ex-
pertinent on q small scale with the new
varieties that promise well. but never
plant exclusively of untried varietics.-
N. Y. Post
We will not encourage "Candle
Lectures" but if there is any suitable
subject for one, it is the farmer who.
neglects to provide his wife first class,
garden.-Our Country.
Prof. Brown says that the expert
ence of thirty years convinces him that:
of all animals on the farm the pig is.
the most free from dental Irregular.
ties; and the evidence of age, which q
skilled inspector may obtain from .
careful examination of the teeth, may
be accepted as free from any suspicion
of error. Chicago Journal.
Since the organization of the Am
erican Pathological Society. nearly
thirty-eight years ago. more than six
hundred named varieties of fruits have.
by common consent. been discarded,
and their places in the catalogue filled
by better sorts. The Ne,s England
Farmer thinks good many more
ought to so the way of the six hum
dred.
"A correspondent of the Canadian
Horticulturist says he had tried several
well-known remedies for miltiew of
gocsebcrries. vainly. and only succeed
ed in getting fine fruit after he had
dumped bushel of ashes from the
coal stove round bush, when, finding
the result eminently satisfactory, Civ
ing full crop of fine berries, he treated
other bushes the same way with equal.
success.
Muster Gingerbread: One quart Of
molasses, one-quarter pound of butter
or lard, one-half pint of thick milk.
one ounce of saleratus dissolved in the
milk. one tablespoonful of ginger. one
tablespoonful of cinnamon, one tea
spoonful of cloves, three and one-half
pounds of flour. Roll one-half inch
thick, cut in squares. wash with milk
and molasses, bake ON tins.-The
Household.
Many farmers neglect their gar
dens, and say, in excuse. that they are
more bother than they are WORTH
This is not true of garden properly
cared for. A good one-and poor ones
are not worth the name of gardens
will produce enough to keep an ordin-
airy family in vegetables the greater
part of the year. Nowhere else does
farmer realize as riuch for the labor
expended Witness.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-06-10
In England the photographs O

I'm England the photographs OF
nearly all the beauties prominent in
society are easily obtained, but here it
is different. The friends and relatives
of these ladies. as we'll as themselves.
naturally object to having their pict-
ures placed on sale or exhibited con-
spicuously in !. public show window
1t is well known, however. that there
is large number of beautiful ladies in
the higher circles" of New York as
well as in the society of other large
cities in this country. and it is said that
many of them are willing to overcome
their prejudice and allow their pictures
to be sold il sufficient number can De
induced TO consent to the innovation.
IN. Y. Graphic.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-06-10

Sixteen years ago five-year-old
Johnny Foreman, of Reading. swal-
lowed one of the five-cornered little
playthings the children call Jack
stones" Commissions and partial
paralysis followed. and to-day the boy
"a man in ycars-is a mental wreck,
not knowing even his own name.
Physicians say that the Jack" is
probably pressing against nerve
somewhere in his body.-Pitsbu-ga
Chronicle.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-06-10

W. ell, inquire dt Itccu 5 dlu Ou Will
learn that he never had such a man in his
employ. The fact is, my wife exhibits
at times certain signs OF mental aber-
ration. This imaginary man Bancroft
is the most noticeable one. l had hoped,
sir. to keep this secret locked forever
In my own breast, but these circum-
stances force me. of course, to make a
confession of it to you. trust. as gen.
tieman you will not betray this melan-
choly confidence. Ny physician has
warned me not to disturb the hallu-
cinat;on, else [ would have warned
YOU in the other room. l suppose she
told YOU. among other things, that
Bancroft once thrust billiard cue
down a clcrgvman's throat"
'.Ycs, she did say something about
that.
We'll. how preposterous that is!
Do you want further proof"
The chief was convinced. Il noticed
something queer about her eyes," he
said. grasping my hand sympathetical-
E. depend upon me to keep num-"
Mabel was anxiously waiting our
coming. 1T is all right, Mrs. Styne."
said the chief. Your husband has
told me every thing and you can go
now: I'm much obliged to you"
She cried little on the way home
and wanted to be sure l was not angry.
Where has that monster gomez she
asked.
He has fed" l replied. ''and will
never bother us again.
And he never has. keep regular
hours now and hold out my experience
as a solemn warning to all those who
mediate going into the creative BUSH
ness. Chicago TrituEs.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-06-10

utU seen WHAT nave seen you WOuiO
be sick at heart"
what was it, Frank?' she asked
with instant curiosity, sitting up in
bed
This was the effect had calculated
upon. and for moment / said notn-
ing. as if too much overcome to sp FAX.
Then in low tone l continued:
Bancroft is in iait.'
20. Frank" she cried, her eyes sud-
denly dilating: what has he done?'
Again was overcome with emotion;
l had to have time to think.
'.You know how Bancroft is when
he is drinking" l said finally.
Yes" she replied. eagerly, Every
quarrelsome.
Exactly. Well. We were playing a
game of billiards last night. hadn' t
noticed that he was under the influence
of liquor. but he got into dispute
with a clergyman. who was a perfect
stranger, and took his billiard cue
and"
KILLED the minister" shrieked Ma
bel.
mo. thrust it down his throat and
broke it off,
Mabel stopped her ears and paused
for breath.
"Of course" Wen. on. she was ar
rested and went out to get bail for
him.
What business was that of yours!''
asked Mabel. sharply.
For your sake. DEAR" 1 replied.
Although no party to the affair.
realized how the linking of my name
with it would pain and mortify my
little girl. SO l determined to sink nv
pride and ask some of my friends to
60 on Bancroft's bond t. hush the mat
ter up
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-06-10

A Jackson (Miss.) gentleman
claims to be able to write 1.40O words
on the blank side of a postal-card 50
that it can be easily read with glass.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-05-25
Weather Indications.

Rain follows two or three consecutive
hoar frosts.
A shower of hail in the daytime is usu-
ally followed by frost at night.
A tinted halo around the sun at setting
occurs in long continued rainy weather.
If, on q fine day, the dust suddenly
rise IN q revolving spiral column, rain is
near.
Rainbows are unreliable, except they
occur in the morning, when rain may be
expected.
A dazzling metallic lustre on foliage,
during q cloudless day in summer, pre-
ceds a change.
Sun-dogs and fragments of prismatic
colors during the day show continued
unsettled weather.
No dew in the morning is mostly fol-
lowed by rain, and a heavy dew in the
evening by a fine day.
A halo around the moon, especially if
some distance from it, is a sure indica-
ton of downfall at hand.
If after rain drops of water still hang
on the branches and twigs and to win
dow frames the rain will return, but if
they fall and the woodwork dries fine
weather is at hand.
Stones turn damp before wet; ut the
same time it must be observed that the
fact Cf Si1eir doing SC does not invariably
indicate rain, for they will do so occa-
~sionally before heat.
If the sky be a dull gray, md the sun
rises clear, gradually dispensing the va
pors, it will be fine. If he ~rctires behind
the clouds, and there arc reddish streaks
about, it will rain.
Often a beautiful sunset will be follow
cd by a bad day. After a rainy day,
suddenly at sunset in the far West will
appear a magnificent streak of crimson
(not copper colorcd)-this generally fore
tells a fine day.
Mists at evening over low-lying ground
or near q river precede fine and warm
days. If a mist in the morning clears off
as the sun gets higher, it will be fine, but
IL IL scttles down again after lifting O
little, rain is at hand.
The man who is out of doors at sunrice
can form a pretty accurate opinion of
what the day is to be. If just before
sunrise the sky, especially in the West,
is suffused with red, rain generally fol-
in the course of the day. In win
ter, often snow.
Huge piled-up masses of white cloud
a blue sky, during winter, indicate
snow or hail. If small, dark clouds float
below the upper ones, moving faster thar
they, rain will follow, as it will if, in the
morning, low hanging, pale brown,
smoke-like clouds are floating about
CusseW.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-05-25
An UnwiSe TniOn

At times the words of good old hymns
arc tortured by unsuitable tunes. as all
ehurch-goers know. Now which is it
that singing is to follow, the words or the
tunes? What is the real purpose of our
churches, in the act Of singing in the di-
vine services2 Is it to render Il ''musical
thought" adequately or to give it poetic
sentiment fitting expression? Once when
was preaching in a church beside the
Hudson river, in May, the busiest month
OF the fishing season, l gave out the
hymn, ''Jesus lover of my SOUL" The
leader set it to Il tune which, for the sake
of some mans musical thought" re-
peatcd half of the final line. When I
hcaIl the first verse I shrank with con-
stern;tion in frightful prospect of the
second: for the movement ran thus: Oh.
reccivc--Oh rcccivc--Oh receive my soul
ut last" That did no harm, it was sinp.
ly unnecessary. But the ncXt was awful.
When l repeat it it will be considered a
joke, although I I'M writing it in sad
earnest of a fact which almost destroyed
my service: "Cover my dcfcnsclcss head
with the shad-with the shad-witb
the shadow of thy wing" The whole
congregation was stirred with irreprcssi.
bic laughter.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-05-25
They Rather Prefer Fourteen.

II am thoroughly convinced that there
is such a thing in this world as supersti-
tion," said a photographer. "For many
years I have noticed that business was
dull on Fridays, but that is nothing CON-
pared to the number of people who re-
fuse to take thirteen photographs. The
style nowadays, you know, is a dozen
photos for SO much, with a panel thrown
in. Nearly everybody wants the panel,
but fully one-tenth of our customers
leave one of the photos here, that they
may avoid taking the unlucky number OF
thirteen home with them. More women
than men are affected in this way.
though they usually want US to put in
another one SO as to make fourteen.n-
Chicago Herald.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-05-25
J0rdan's Knapsack:

While on the march from Frederick
City, Nd, to Gettysburg, in the summer
OF '63, Sergeant Jordan, of Company g,
Nineteenth Maine, carried an unusually
large knapsack, which was the occasion
OF a good many sarcastic and teasing re-.
marks by the boys. One very hot dav.
when the dust and blazing sunlight were
almost binding, Jordan was trudeinp
along beneath the weight of his NAM
moth knapsack, his hat pulled down ov-
er his eyes for protection, when some n
OF horseback rode up and called out:
Say, Sergeant, how far are you going
to carry that k~napsack9"
Farther than you can drive our old
horse if you swap three times" yelled
Jordan, whose patience had already been
pretty thoroughly exhausted by a thou
sand such questions.
The horseman, with his scabbard gent
iy raised the front rim of Jordan,s hat
looked him in the face and renlied
swell, you will do, by thunderp
Imagine the surprise of Jordan when
ne recognized General Hancock in the
person who had spoken to him.-Mieuoo
Ledger.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-05-25
Bismarck's Love OF the Country.

Bismarck loves the country, though
most of his life has been passed in cities.
"What I like BEST" he once said, sis to
be in well-greased top-boots, far away
from civilization"
1t is said that once, while at school in
Berlin, and walking in the suburbs, he
came across a plough. His inconsistencies
expressed itself in tears. In one of his
earlier letters he wrote:
81 am quite homcsick for country,
woodside, and ~laziness, with the indis-
pensable addition of loving wives and
trim, w%ell-behaved children" Phrenolo-
gists say that one of the largest organs on
Bismarck's massive head is that which
indicates his love of children.
The German statesman is never so hap
Ply, say his friends, as when he is gazing
at a beautiful landscape, or walking
about his farm. "Believc me-" his wife
once said, with natural exaggeration, "a
turnip interests him more thar all you1
politics."
His friends point to Lenbach's portrait
OF Bismarck, which hangs in the Nation.
al Gallery at Berlin, as the one in which
his features assume their noblest expires.
sion. "We were engaged in converse
tion," said Bismarck, describing how
that expression was caught by the artist,
land happened to look upwards at a
passing flight of birds. Suddenly Len.
bach exclaimed, Hold hard! that will dc
capitally; keep quite STILL and forthwith
made the sketch.n
The chancellor, when at Varzin, his
country estate, banishes the cares of
State and becomes farmer and forester.
In "well-greased boots" with staff in
hand, he wanders about the woods and
fields, noting nature and his farmers.
He takes lessons in practical political
economy from his tenants, and questions
his laborers. The result is that he is an
evenly-balanced statesman, and talks in
parliament about farming and forestry
with such good sense and knowledge as
to command the respect of practical men.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-05-25

Probably no concern in the country has adj
hered more strictly to the determination to
achieve success by the liberal use of printers
INK than has the Brown Chemical Company Of
Baltimore. Md. Starting business about five
years ago, they have expended over 81 ,5OO. Coo
IN the preparation and circulation of printed
matter, more than half of which has been maid
FOR newspaper advertising. All his has been
done to make known the virtues of their cele-
DRAFTED Browns Iron Bitters.
AS might be expected, very large sales have
Tesultea from This enormous outlay. In fact,
Browns Iron Bitters is about as stuple in many
4rng stores as ls flour Mt the corner grocery.
heen largely inflated. There are unscrupu-
lous manufacturers who cater to just this sort
OF trade, and some dealers are so lacking in
principle, that because n greater profit can be
made on fraudulent than on genuine medi-
cines, they are willing TO delude the public by
pushing OF other Tonic Medicines in place Of
the genuine Browns Iron Bitters, which is un-
aoubtedly one of the purest and best medicines
known: These frauds have been practiced SO
extensively, that the Company, finding all
other means inadequate, have at last deter
mined to try a little cold law to put q s.op
70 them, and suits for heavy damages have
therefore, been commenced. We wish the
Brown Company every success in
their suits, as it is high time those who
nave pluck enough to carry large enterprises
such ny theirs to success, should be protec ted
from those who live not by their own genius
ana effort, but by copying and counterfeiting
things that have been made standard. and val.
liable by others.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-05-25

If You r DYsPErT1c, bilious, rheu.
matte, gcuty, debilitetcd, consumptive,
constipatcd, or in anywise out of sorts,
provide yourself with a half dozen bot.
Ties CT DR. WALKERS VINEGAR B1rTERs;
take it twice or thrice a day, and keep
fighting disease until you have not an
ache or a physical trouble of any kind
remaining. The result is sure.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-05-25
Habit.

a man is not bound with the chains OF
habit at once, but the Lilliputian threads
are slowly wound about and wound about,
and because they are s % slight they are
disdained. The sober man becomes &
drunkard not all at once. He plays with
the tigers cub at frs. It is smru cpd
playful, but its destinations bind him as
1t grows, until ut last the beast is his
master.