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Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-04-15

but the time Will come when, if he per-
sist in his folly. he will at length be-
come as helpless as he had formerly
pretended to be. If one quit using his
memory it will perish from him. and any
faculty, no matter what, if let 60 idle
loses its power and lapses into useless
ness. If. therefore, Christian, having
a work to do-and every Christian has
-neglects to do it. he will lose his fac
ulty. and after while be unable to do
what his better promptings tell him IS
his duty, and what his improved in
clinations would lead him to undertake.
There is a world of wisdom in the
counsel: Whatsoever thy hand find
eth to do. do it with thy might" not
only because the grave will destroy
the opportunity, but because the hope
of future ability lies in prompt fidelity
to present trusts. 1t is poor spirit
that meets every request with 81 can
not do it," and it is one that each
Christian, if he begin in time, can We
himself from saying when it has be-
come the acknowledgment of his thrift
less Gfe.-United Presbyterian.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-04-15
RELIGIOUS READING.
DAILY BURDENS.

Oh. hands that are weary with toilng
Oh. eyes tn At are burdened with tears
Look onward and upward with patience,
And wait l. the Master appears.
For God is as tender ever,
He gives you those burdens in love.
20 bear them with cheerful endurance
Til you reach the bright city above.
In that city SO fair, which was builded
BY the love of our Lord. long ago,
ALI the bright stones which pave the fair foot
ways
Were once borne as burdens below:
From the pure sky of Heaven all the shadows
We feel on the earth are withdrawn,
From the land OF the srni,ght eternal
All the darkness forever has gone.
Then lift up your eyes with rejoicing,
TO the Saw our of fa|libe men.
And with glad hearts and bright, beaming
faces
Take up the days burdens again:
Depend ng on God for assistance,
You shall come without hndrance or loss,
TIL you lay down your burden at n!ghtfall
at the loot of the sheterng cross.
--hcU. Joseph Mountain, in Chicago Standard
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-04-15
THE GOLDFISH.
Prot. hickman Describes It's Habits and
Peculiarities.

Prot. hickman Describes It's Habits and
Peculiarities.
Prof. Bickmore devoted his recent
lecture to the teachers in the Museum
of Natural History to the Goldfish. He
presented illustrations showing its de-
velopment in the egg and its appear
ance as full-grown fish.
''sn nineteen days." he said, ''the
egg shows under the microscope the
outline of the fish. Intwenty-two days
the yelk of the egg has become largely
absorbed, the mouth developed, and the
fish is able to swim from the egg and
feed voraciously on the crustacea to be
found in the water. The growth of
Goldfish unlike that of man is unlimited.
1t continues to grow indefinitely with
out regard to age so long as it has q
plentiful supply of food. The oldest
Goldfish are the largest and they some
times grow to be as long as a man is
high. They swim about near the bot
tom of the sea not often ascending to
surface; feeding on all sorts of animal
life such as crabs, shell fish and other
small fish, but not on vegetables. Their
habit Of swimming near the bottom
has given rise to the theory among
fishermen that when migrating to deep
waters the cod will swallow stones to
weigh him down and the more readily
enable him to keep near the bot
tom. These statements though not
substantiated have not been entirely
disproved. The proof given by fisher
men is that stones are found in the cod
fish that are taken just before the fish
disappear for the season."
The haddock, the pollock and the
hake are closely related to the Goldfish
and peculiarities were pointed out by
Prof. Bickmore. 1t has been computed
by good authorities, he said, that one
cod would lay fully nine millions OF
eggs. The Goldfish grounds are dis
tributed along the North Atlantic
coast in North America and Northern
Europe. The efforts of fishermen to
supply the demand have'made an ap-
parent decrease in the supply of the
fish. Nearly million people are di-
rectly or indirectly connected with the
fish industry, and the failure of the
Goldfish on the Canada coast last year
contributed to cause a famine and
much want among the fishermen there.
The United States Fish Commission is
endeavoring to supply the decrease by
propagating millions of fishes each
year and placing them in the bays on
the coast as far south as the Gulf Of
Mexico. In selecting a Goldfish, Mr..
Bickmore said, a healthy one could be
told by its being round and full in the
body near the tail; when flat and thin
its condition was not good. The best
way to cook them was in Dutch oven
placed in front of a good fire. They
were then neither boiled, baked nor
fried, but were cooked in their own
iuices.-N. Y. Tribune.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-04-15
CHOICE SELECTIONS.

None are so truly courageous as
those who are truly religious. = William
Seeker.
The door of Heaven is always open
to the prayers of Gods people.-T.
Watson.
Only let us have faith in God. and
we shall not lack the means of doing
good. -Andrew Fuller.
To the flippant objection that God
has no need of your learning, DIR.
South replied: Much less has he need
of your ignorance
As if we did not suffer enough
from the storms which beat about us
without, must we cOnspire also to
harass one another? Blair.
Every man goes into the future
world with character on his hands.
He will have it there on his hands and
must do something with it. He ought
to be careful about what he is to take
with him inseparably into eternity
Castle.
1t is not the .'flesh. nor the .'eye. -
nor the life" which are forbidden,
but it is the lust of the flesh and the
lust of the eye and the pride of life. 1t
is not this earth. nor the men who in
habit it. nor the sphere of our legiti-
innate activity that we do not love.
but the way in which the love is given.
which constitutes worldliness.-F W.
Robertson.
"A well-built Christian is harmon
ious in all parts. No one trait shames
another. He is not tumble of incon-
sistencies, to-day liberal to one cause.
tomorrow niggardly to another; to
day fluent in polite falsehoods. He
does not keep the fourth command
ment on Sunday and break the
eighth on Monday. He does not
shirk an honest debt to make a huge
donation. He is not in favor of tenn
perance for other folks. and a glass
of teddy for himself. He does not ex-
hort or pray at each of the few meet
ings he attends to make up arrearages
for the meetings which he neglects. He
does not consume his spiritual fuel dur
ing revival seasons, so that he is rs
cold as Nova Zembla during all the rest
of the time. nor does his spiritual fever
ever rut-run his well-ordered converse
tion.-Dr. Theodore L. CGvler.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-04-15
THE BIBLE.
What 1t Has WithstoOd and Its Triumph |
Over All Assaults.

What 1t Has WithstoOd and Its Triumph
Over All Assaults.
No fragment of any army ever sur
vived so many battles as the Bible: no
citadel ever withheld so many sieges;
no rock was ever battered by so many
hurricanes and SO swept by storms.
And yet it stands. 1t has seen the rise
and downfall of Daniels four empires.
Assyria bcqueaths few mutilated fig
ures to the riches of our National mu-
scum. Media and Persia, like Babylon
which they conquered, have been
weighed in the balance, and long ago
found wanting. Greece family survives
in its historic fame; and iron Rome of
the Caesars long since ceased to boast;
and yet the book that foretells all this
still survives. While nations, kings.
philosophers, systems, institutions,
have died away, the Bible engages now
mems deepest thoughts, is examined
by the highest tribunals, is more read
and sifted and debated; more devoutly
loved and more vchemently assaulted,
more defended and more denied, more
industriously translated and freely
given to the world, more honOred and
more abused, than any other book the
world ever saw. Itsurvives all changes,
itself unchanged; it moves ali minds,
yet is moved by none: it sees all things
decay, itself incorruptible; it sees myr-
lads of other books engulfed in the
stream of time, yet is borne along till
the mystic angel shall plant his foot
upon the sea and swear by Him that
Iiveth for ever and ever that time shall
be no lOnger.-H. n Lane.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-04-15
The labors Of the Busy Bee

The bee has long been type of the
Industrious worker, but there are few
people who know how much labor tn
sweet hoard of the hive represents
Each head of clover contains about six
ty distinct flower tubes, each of whic
contains portion of sugar not exceed
ing the five hundredth part of a grain
Some patient aparian enthusiast, wht
has watched their movements, con
cludes that the proboscis of the be-
must therefore be inserted into so
clover tubes before one grain Of suga
can be obtained. There are 100
grains in pound, and as honey COL
tains three-fourths of its weight OF dr.
sugar, each pound of honey represent
2.5Q0, 600 clover tubes sucked by bee,
-Ae6r0sk0 Farmer.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-04-15
s" CAN NOT DO IT."
What This Expression Often Means When
Used by Christians.

That often means, when Christians
use it, that they do not wish to do it.
If thew had more will they would have
more ability. Every one has said it
sometimes concerning this, sometimes
in relation to that. But as respects
matters religious it is one of the famil-
lar formulas that is always at hand
and always looked for. Very often if
they who use it say: Il will not. IL
do not wish to do it, - No. do not ask
me-" Trouble me not" etc., they
would be speaking more truly. for.
at the bottom, even if they do not think
so. something of that kind is moving
them. will YOU do this service?"
saws the leader who wishes help, and a
blushing: 30, l can not" is all he gets
i'm reply But viii you try?" mo,
excuse me; l really can not do 1t. y
There is nothing but the can not. There
is not even the willingness to make the
sacrifice of trying, either to accommo-
date the one who asks it or to fulfill an
obligation, and help on good work.
But sometimes it is different. There
are Christians. many of them. who are
totally incapacitated for certain kinds
of service, or. indeed. for all service,
and when they say they can not do
what is asked of them, they are only
telling the truth. But it is greatly to
their shame. for their incapacity is
their own fault, and the acknowledge
ment of it should always be accom-
panied by confession and regret. We
learn, by observation, how the disuse
of an organ or member weakens and
finally destroys it When one takes q
notion he can not use his legs, and re-
fuses to stand, try to do so, he is only
the victim of illusion at the outstart
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-04-15
A GOOD PREVENTIVE.
A Hog-Cholera Medicine Which Is to BE
Taken with Sanitation.

Taken with Sanitation.
A Missouri correspondent mentions
a man whose herd always escapes hog
cholera: he has never lost an animal,
although at intervals during twenty
years the disease has repeatedly devas-
tated other droves of swine in the i'm
mediate neighborhood:
lit will not do to say that he has
been merely skipped, or has been
lucky; his experience is too uniform.
His sanitary regulations are such as to
promote health at all times. This man 5
experience is that of many who pursue
the same course, and use the same pre-
ventives-it is the old receipt-ashes,
salt, coppeE,s, ulphur. Now. this is
Prof. j. b. Turner's preventive, if
black anthony be added, and he says
Of this receipt: If used before the hog
is attacked it will positively prevent
the disease, and given freely in the
early stages it is curative
'Omitting the antimony, keep this
preventive before my hogs at all times,
in sheltered place, winter and sum-
mer. 1t is astonishing to one not used
to it how much hogs will consume. An
old sow, just purchased, getting this
for the first time, ate nearly wooden
bucketful, and drove her off for fear
she would kill herself. 1t did not hurt
her. Little pigs consume as much as
hogs in proportion. Fattening hogs
almost invariably go to the medicine
trough after eating and drinking. Have
often seen hogs off their feed eating
at the medicine, and they are well in a
day or so.
Zone man not far from me had
hogs dying all around him on adj
joining farms; he got the preventive
and used it: lost his seven hogs-all he
had-and pronounced the preventive a
humbug. visited his lot the day after
the last one died In rail-pen. about
fifteen feet square. without any cover
ing, lay seven dead hogs that would
weigh one hundred and seventy-five to
two hundred pounds each. They lay
on their sides and were considerably
more than half concealed by the mud
and slush in which they fattened anG
died. Strange they died, isn't it7 An
iron hog would have taken swine.
plague under the same circumstances.
-Iclca Homestead.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-04-15
HOME. FARM AND GARDEN.

SCOT: If you drop SCOT on the car
pet cover thickly with salt. and 1t may
be swept up without backing the car
pet.-Tae Household.
1T is said that borers can be kept
away from apple and peach trees by
driving a nail in the tree near the
ground.-Chicago Journal.
in sowing timothy with wheat and
other grains the best results are OBJ
tanned by having the ground dragged
and rolled Cincinnati Times.
-Mince-meat, says the Caterer, is .
gastronomic miscellany that allows the
INSCRIPTIONS ingenuity of the manu-
facturer to play upon our gullibility
without limit.
The old-fashioned pear trees that
came from seedlings were not only
hardy. but grew to very large size and
lived for many years. They were not
subject to blight or other diseases. The
blight was unknown until the system
OF grating became extensively prac-
ticed.--Troy Times.
Dried Apple Cake: Two cups OF
sweet dried apples, soak over night
and chop; two cups of mOlasses, and
let it simmer two hours, when cold add
one cup of sugar, two eggs, one-half
cup each of sour cream, sour milk and
butter, two teaspoonfuls of soda. four
cups of flour. four teaspOonfuls of Gin
namon, one teaspoonful If cloves, and
one MISUNDERSTANDING.
Wipe carpet, after sweeping of
the dust with tea leaves, with a square
of coarse flannel that has been dipped
in hot water, and kept constantly hot
and wrung out. 1t must not be wet;
only damp. This will brighten an old
carpet, and need only be done once a
fortnight. Il cleans off the dust that
will not coriie out with the broom
Boston Globe.
"A well known horticulturist says
the best time to take off cuttings of the
gooseberry and currant is in August or
early in September, that the natural
warmth of the soil may operate as bot
tom heat before chilled by frosts.
Shoots of the current years growth are
cut eight inches long. and placed
vertically in compacted soil with an
inch of the top exposed.-Atbany Jour-
nal.
Apple Dessert: Pare and core large
sweet apples, and fill with butter and
sugar. Set each apple on round
piece of stale. crust less bread. Put a
little water in the pan, sprinkle sugar
over all, and bake till done. Carefully
remove the serving dish and cover with
icing made with the whites of two eggs
and powdered sugar. Dot over with
bits of red acid jelly. Or the apples
may be baked without the bread, piled
up in pyramid form, and frosted.-Bos-
tom Bulletin.
All kinds of stock eat and seem to
relish their feed better when it is
slightly sailed. and it is good plan to
season the feed for the stock just the
same as for human use. This method
has several advantages to recommend
it, among which may be reckoned the
regularity of the sailing thus secured.
There is no danger of any animal
Overgorging itself with salt, and stock
will relish its feed better and eat it up
cleaner, and will, as consequence.
do hetter.-NdtionaL StocEnadn and
Farmer
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-04-15
The Road to Success.

In the long run, says President Car
penter of the Drake University, it will
be found it is early, thorough and per-
sistent discipline that tells. Now and
then genius, aided by extraordinary
favorable conditions. blazes forth into
some kind of temporary success and
notoriety. But the possessors OF such
fame are almost certain to eventually
settle back to their merited place of
mcdiocrity. No man can truly be said
to be great when fame rests upon an
accident or upon single achievement.
1t is the slowly but well-built tower OF
work and character, reared piece by
piece, during whole lifetime, that
forms the enduring monument of real
greatness. Scientific american.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-04-15

AMEpIcAL journal speaks of the danger
of sleeping in damp beds. That's SO. We
have always contended that the bed of the
river was an unhealthy place to sleep in,
and are glad to know that the faculty are
realizing it.-LOreN Citizen.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-04-15

CONGRESSMAN BAsLlY, Of Michigan, says
Red Star Cough Cure is simple and efica-
cious.
Ex-Mayor Baxter, Of Louisville, KY,
says St. Jacobs Oil is specific for every
pain.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-04-15

''OHIo eggs beat the world boasts 9
braggart Buckeye journal. Well! The
world beats Ohio eggs. Thus, even in mat
tiers of poultry, are all things made even
Puck
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-04-15

SoPHRoNIA asks: Did people in tn
olden times know any thing Of sleighing
Yes. the ancient warriors used to 60 slay
ing in their chariots.-BOstOn Courier.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-04-15

THE Turks believe that a lightning stroke
will cause leprosy. What would the!
think if they were struck by a book agent
-NerD.an independent.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-04-15

THE sum of 81 $50 was recently paid To-
Faust, pointer dog, in st. Louis. All
we'll, this is a Faust age.-Burlington Fire
Press.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-04-15

ONE is a tick of the watch, and the other'i
q witch on a tack. There's a conundrun
here somewhere. but we've lost the combi
natiOn.-N Y Journal.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-04-15

WHY are printers the most merciful OF
menl Because they never kill things until
they are dead.-N. Y Tribune.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-04-15

TIE Saturday Gossip calls pretty and at
tractive maid servant "A Door Belle" Sh,
must be quite nobby.-CdLuOrni Nagerick
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-04-15

THE child who wants to swallow sleeve
buttons should be given couple of cuffs
A. q. Picdyune.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-04-15

IT is seldom that a man is sufficient,
color blind not to be able to tell green
back when he sees it.-Puck.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-04-15

SILENCE may be golden, but a dentist
has never yet been able to fill teeth with
it-H y Journal.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-04-15

THERE is an art in putting on gloves, say
fashion paper. 1t is easy enough aftel
you get your hand in.-Detroi Free Press.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-04-15

WHY is an avaricious man like one with Q
short memoryl He is always forgetting.
So is likewise parent forever getting TaYl
lor's Cherokee Remedy Of Sweet Gum and
Mullen, the Group preventive, and cough
and consumption cure. Ask your druggist
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-04-15
Throw Away Trusseo

Throw Away TFuSoe0
when our new method is guaranteed 70
permanently cure the worst cases of rupt-
ure, without the use Of the knife. Send 10
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ences. Worlds Dispensary Medical Asso-
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Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-04-15

WE may be sure that our consciences are
rebelilous when they are mute in ~
(mutinous).
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-04-15

EVERY woman thinks her own baby the
handsomest, thus verifying the old proverh
that beauty is kin dcfp
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-04-15

II silence is golden what Q valuable mis-
fortune lockiaw must be.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-04-15
An Ayaricloua Man.

THE American joke has been formally
introduced into Japan.-Ark0nsow Ifosstsr.
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-05-07

THE senate has been authorizing the
construction of bridges across streams
throughout tue country from the Missis-
sippi down through list Of smaller riv-
ers. II has also voted to expend $500, =
600 on the White house. The plan is TO
duplicate the old mansion BY erecting an
other just like the present structure on
the south side of it, connected with it by
u corridor. 1t is doubtful, however, If
this plan will ever become law since
the house of representatives has yet to
consider the matter. 1t is held by some
that the OLD house is not worth patching
to this extent, and by Others that the ga
credness of its historical associations
should preserve it as it stands.
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-05-07
COMMENTS ON THE RIOT.
New York Laborers Have No Sympath,
with Anarchists-Lcndun Papers-Her

New York Laborrrs Have No sympathy
with Anarchists--Lcndon Papers-Herr
Most-Pow derby.
NEW YORK, May Among the labor
ing men in this city there appears to be but
one opinion as to the rioting and bioodshed
In Chicago, aud that is emphatic condemna-
ton of the action of the Anarchist leaders
The Anarchists are not strong in the vicip-
ity of New York. There are about eight
groups Of them in this neighborhood, aud
altogether they number but few more than
1000 Six of these groups are in New York
city, one on Jersey City heights, and one in
Newark They have rife corps consisting
OF three companies, which meet for drill
about once week. The Anarchists are
not united now, Johanna Most and Justus
Schwab leading two factions These fac
tions now hate each other worse than they
do the common enemy. With these people
the honest workmen have NO sympathy.
The police know their places of meeting
and keep sharp watch on them
An Anarchist, who is member of Group
No ., said: a don't know that the public
has any right to know what our real strength
is We are stronger and better organized
than people have any idea of. We have q
college in New Jersey where the members
are taught how to use dynamite and Greek
fire We have rife corps organized, not to
provoke fight, but TO be able to cope sue
cessfully with the police and militia when
the struggle which is bound to come is on
us The Chicago fight is the first gun in the
revolution. Our brothers there did nobly,
but they were not SO well prepared as they
might have been. or more of the bluecoats
would have got their last dose Our motto
Is: Neither God nor MASTER and our doc
trine may lie simply stated as Down with
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-05-07

SCRANTON, Pa, May I'm an interview
with Mr.. Powderly published here Thurs
day morning he denounces vigorously the
Anarchist outrage in Chicago and says that
if any knights have taken part in the muir
derous proceedings reported they should be
promptly expelled from the order "Our
organization" he continued, has no antag-
onism with necessary capital, and it is the
duty of every knight OF Labor to support
the Jaws made TO harmonic the interests OF
capital and labor. There is not a trades
union in America that will countenance
wrong doing or uphold those men in Chi
cago who have been engaged in the destruc-
ton OF life and properly. The aim of the
trades unions is to uphold and dignity la
Dor, while the Anarc hists try to tear it down
and degrade it, The Anarchist idea is I'M
American and it has no business in this
country"