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The Labor enquirer., 1886-04-17
Resolutions OF Respect.

Whereas, In the death of our es
teemed sister, Jane Mcdonald. who died
April 10, 1885, we have lost an honor
able and useful member; therefore be it
Resolved, That we feel deeply our loss
but will ever cherish pleasant memories
of her. and that we extend to our brother,
Daniel Mcdonald, our sincere sympathy
in the loss of an afectionate wife; and
we fray the allwise Father to keep him
and his five motherless children ever in
his loving watch-care. l.. A: 364o.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-04-17
IN MEMORIAM.
TranspIanted In Heaven.

Died, Saturday, April 10, 1886, Bessie (
Cade, aged years and 5 months, only chilt
of St. Clair and Mollie Cade.
The fairest flowers bloom and wither,
Spring up in beauty, droop and die,
And oft with eys bedewed with teardrops,
We murmur much and wonder why.
The babe upon its mothers bosom
So innocent, so pure and fair,
Is but flower from Heavens garden,
Entrusted to her loving care.
; lis sad, for parents bowed and stricken.
To lose a loved and priceless gem
To have death pluck our fairest flower,
And leave US but the broken stem.
Fold the little ice cold fingers,
Close the loved and SightleSs eyes,
God transplanted little Bessie
Now she blooms in Paradise.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-04-17
Written for The Enquirer.
Is aUEENSvIcToRIA GOoDs
BY JESSIE A. COLE.

Oh is Queen Victoria good, mother,
Is Queen Victoria good9 g..
True she has not beheaded many, mother,
don't see why she should;
Yet as to goodness, the people say
No queen did Victoria surpass-
But cau't see how goodness" could live
And see her subjects eating sea grass.
No good has she ever done, mother,
With all her wealth untold;
Could she with tender heart unmoVed
Her suffering land behold?
If she were woman with heart
She'd put gold in her hand,
And give it to, not wrench it from
The poor about her land!
She wouldn't see poor children, MOTHER
While she sits an throne (
She wouldn't see the sons of toll
Driven to gnaw bone!
The sons of toll that make the world,
The cottage and palace of art
She'd make bold offort to help them
Had she the least of heart!
She couldn't eat at her table, mother,
With gold and silver set
Tell them to get their living, when she's go
Bout all there was to get!
l deem her much of wretch, mother,
As one that's stained with blood
And can't but scorn anybody who
Calls Queen Victoria good.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-04-17

ex actly alike. This danger Of sameness
that Comrade Parsons so much breads
is dreaded by all creation the momept
the standard article is presented, and
this fact alone is our safeguard against
any one standard ever being adopted by
free people.
Again, Comrade Parsons, in her
dream, went to the dressmaklng depart
ment and heard great contention going
on between the dressmaking gr1up aud
several young girls who had called to
obtain more dresses. What" said one,
"you back here already for more dresses,
after taking all those beautiful dresses
just last week what on earth have you
done with them ?" Unfortunately the
dream ends here. too am anxious to
know what had become Of thosedresses.
Certainly they had not worn them out
or had time to get tired of them. OF
course they had selected, on the psevl-
GUS call, what to them we're the prettlest
and m ost becoming dresses to be found.
Getting the dresses for nothing, cost
could not have entered their heads, only
what to their eyes was handsomest
would govern their selection. Now 1T
is curious law of nature that the world
and it's varieties being so latEe, and what
will become one person will not be come
another, that it is no small undertaking
to find the prettiest I'd most b ecomlng
and best feeling dress. Now these girls
found an abundance and found them 80
easily that in week they were after
more. Certainly human nature must
have undergone a change. Those girls
acted exactly as though those dresses
cost money, and that the more they got
of them the more they would be loved,
respected and looked up to, the same as
if those dresses represented a possession
of something behind them, and tnat this
set them far above ordinary mortals. l
am afraid this is modern picture that
results from modern surroundings, and
it has been framed and set up for fut re
Anarchistic Communism. If those girls
could really have secured honor, respect
and love by those innumerable dresses,
they certainly got no honor, esteem and
love from the dressmakers themselves,
If the dreamer has given US a correct
picture of the wrangie she found them
in.
I hope in her next letter Comrade
Parsons will tell us how we shall get any
very gaudy attire at all under Anarchy,
if we do not ite in communes to pro-
duce things, unless she recommends that
we own all things. divided up, sepa-
rately. In which latter case | hope she
will explain whether we must trade with
each other or not, and if we must trade
with each other, how we shallavol the
selfishness and cheating we are no"
anxious to get rid of? These things ex-
planned, and l can be an Individualistlc
Anarchist andwill give ur the Commune
~ c. S. GRIFFIN.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-04-17

WHEN we consider how great al ad-
vance the world has made during the
last hundred years; how much the or
portunities have improved for enjoy
ment, happiness and luxury; how much
the intellect of man and aspirations for
higher life have grown; how diabolical
sounds the assertion that, the poor have
no reason to complain, as they are better
off than they were years ago. When
will the rich learn that nature sends her
bounties on all alike-the rain on the
lust and on the unjust? Never. fear,
until their eyes are opened by force and
overwhelming numbers take their right
full share of the good things.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-04-17
THE BOYCOTT.

+, The principle OF the boycott, under
one name or another, has been pacticed
from the earliest times, and Will con-
tinue till time shall be no longer. A
great fuss Is now made by the capital
istic watchdogs about what they are
The Labor enquirer., 1886-04-17
PLAsTERERS' UNION.

The Plasterers Union, OF Denver, meets
every Monday evening at 7:30 o'clock, in st.
Joseph's Temperance Hall, corner Fifteenth
and Stout streets.
HARRY COLE, President
CHARLES NJ. McGABE, Secretary.
Address, 100 East 18th street.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-04-17

''The system which reaches out on all
sides, gathering in millions of dollars OF
treasure and keeping them out OF the
legitimate channels of commerce must
die."-Powderly's letter to Gould.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-04-17
CARPENTERS,

Carpenters Union, No. So, OF the Brother
mood of America. meets every Saturday
evening at Euclid Hall. All good Carpenters
are invited to join.
JAMES D. MACDONALD, President.
THOMAS MUIRHE EAD Rec Sec.
FRANK BAYER, State Organizer
F.. +. RICE, Cor. and Fin. Secetary,
% COlfaX avenue.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-04-17

A SHORT letter from the "old man"
written last Monday in San Francisco,
reports him in good health and spirits,
but too busy in the cause to write more
than q few words at that time.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-04-17
TAILORS.

The Talors' Protective Society. of Denver
meets in Judge Jeffries' court room,
O'Clock p. m, on the first Monday of each
month. FRED WEIDER, President.
L. HAMLlN, Sec, 29l 10Th street
Room 58 skinner Block.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-04-17
TYPOGRAPHICAL,

Typographical Union, No. 40, meets on the
Room, City Hall, al O'Clock p. III.
o. l.. SMALLWOOD, Rec. and Cor. Secy.
w. H. MONTGOMERY, Fin. Sec.
Collier & Cleveland's office.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-04-17
TRADES ASSEMBLY,

The Trades Assembly of Denver and Vicin-
ity meets on the second and fourth Sunday
of each month, in Police Ourt room, City
hall, at O'Clock. A. MENCHE, President.
T. HAMLIN, Secretary.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-04-17
BRICKLkYERS,

Bricklayers lnternatlOna Union No |, OF
Colorado, meets The second and fourth Mon
day evenings in each IN month, at No 379 Lar-
mer street, Denver, Colorado
JAMES COOK, Secy. NJ. SULLIVAN,
lO2S Blake Street. President
The Labor enquirer., 1886-04-17
IRON M0IDRRS.

lion Molders' Union. meets every second
and fourth Tuesday of each month at Reno
Hall Twenty-seventh and Holiday, at 7:3O p.
m. J. J. SMITH, Cor. Sec,
l0l5 Holiday street.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-04-17
A Petition.

Stephen Vinot is circulating petition
praying the city council to levy license
on all citizens employing Cinnamon In
the city of Denver.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-01-09

December, 1885, was the warmest De.
cember we have had for eight years.
On Jan. l, 1885, there was II inches OF
snow on the ground, and ice on the creek
8 inches thick.
The last snow in the spring on May Z.
On May 8, 9 and 10 frost with ice from
1-8 to Is inch thick. Most early gar
den vegetables were killed.
The first frost in the fall was on Oct. 8.
The first snow fell Oct. IS.
At this writing, Jan. l, 1886, there is very
little frost in the ground. I plowed for
spring crops on Christmas day; also on
December 81, 1881; and on January /,
1886, until $50 p. M, when snow began
to fall. Early sown wheat and rye are in
q very thrifty condition, with the ground
wet enough to carry them through till
spring.
P.2 Jan. 4, 1s86.-The snow storm
which began at $50 pm, Jan. /, has
proven to be one of the heaviest we have
had in 8 years. estimate that 8 inches
fell, and as it came in connection with q
regular "blizzard," it has drifted badly.
The drifts are the deepest I ever saw in
Kansas. The average temperature during
the storm was 20 degrees, the coolest 10
degrees and the highest Is degrees.
Hence it has not been hard on stock.
BEN. G. Rich.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-01-09
WA.KEENEY PoST.OFFIcE.
What Kind of a Business Arrange
ment Il Is.

1t is presidential Office.
The salary of the postmaster is 81 yOO(
per annum.
For the quarter ending Dec. 81, 1886
the business of the Office paid $500 fol
Postmaster Ufford's salary and inciden-
tails, and turned over to the general gov.
eminent, as net profit, $713O3
During the quarter, 533 letters and
packages were registered.
The money-order business amounted
to $7,069.98.
During the same period postage stamps,
stamped envelopes, newspaper wrappers,
newspaper and periodical stamps and
postal cards aggregating $10l653 were
sold.
These figures, though very fattering
to this post-ofice, are not to be wondered
at when the fact is considered that hardly
a patron is unable to read and write.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-01-09
Suffering Among Sheep.

Our reports of the suffering among
sheep are meagre. Two examples will
give general idea.
Mr.. G. a. Gibbs has about $500 head
Of sheep. They are at two different
places in the Saline valley. 1t has been
impossible to prevent their drifting bad
ly. In this way some of the strongest
have been buried beneath the snow or
trampled to death. Thursday night he
and his hired men-or some of them
were with the sheep. Yet the drifting
could not be wholly averted. Mr.. Gibbs
places his loss at about one hundred
sheep.
We hear that at Mr.. Gleason's ranch a
portion of the shedding of his corral was
crushed by the heavy weight of snow, and
that fifty or sixty of his sheep persisted.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-01-09
THE MAILS.
Their History in Connection with
Wa.keeney for a Week.

The past week has been one of almost
complete blockade for the mails which
are usually carried to and from Wa
Keeney. We believe no approach to so
general q suspension was ever experienced
out here before.
The few brave fellows who risked their
lives in the service shall be named in this
article, as far as we know them. Since
last Sunday afternoon no mail has
reached Ws-Keeney from the west nor
has any been sent east since then. In
this time two express trains have come
here from the west. On one of them
there was no mail agent; on the other
there was mail agent, but no mail Car.
Mails arrived by rail, from the east
Sunday forenoon, Tuesday night and
Wednesday night.
The Ness City mail, NJ. F. Fuson,
carrier, was taken down on Friday Of last
week. BE did not get back to Wakes;
ney until day before yesterday. Up to
last night, he had not started back. This
route is tri-weekly:
The Millbrook mail Is daily. It was
taken up last Saturday, and brought back
the same day. On Wednesday the con-
tractor came down with another batch,
and returned yesterday.
The Logan mail semi-weekly, has not
been here this week.
The Fremont mail is semi-weekly. ia
cob Smith carries it. he came in with it
on Friday Of last week, returned the
same day, and has not been seem here
since.
w. W. Flynn carries the Utica mail.
It is semi-weekly. He went down TO
Utica last Tuesday, and has not returned
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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-01-09
CASTLE ROCK RIPPLEs.

CASTLE Rock, Dec %, 1885.
A green Christmas"
Wet ground insures early grass.
| No fire guards needed just at present.
A dance is announced for New Years
eve, at Samuel Bingamans.
r. K. Farnsworth, of Lane county, says
that cattle in his vicinity are looking I'M
usually well.
Joseph Middleby reports his cattle as
not doing well. He is already feeding
about 40 head.
B. G. Gaisford, of Wa Keeney, with his
family, made a brief visit last week to
to his brother-in-law; T. II. Courtney.
Louis Ducros has let to A. W. Purinton
and T. II. Courtney the contract for build
ing stone house on his climber claim, /"
near the blackberry.
Messrs I. P. Olive and J. Rhoades,
representing respectively tie Forester
and Smoky Hill pools, returned on Sun
day from hunt after strays. They
found % head in the vicinity of Wa
Keeney, and a considerable number
along the lower blackberry.
On Christmas eve, Banner, as usual,
INDUCED in Christmas tree, this time
with the added dissipation Of an oyster
supper. The tree was securely anchored
in place in the school house during the
afternoon, and by evening had become
loaded with all manner of articles, useful
and ornamental, and the overflow had
filed table and covered the floor be-
meath. Soon after dark people began to
gather in, till every seat was full and
standing room ut premium. Supper
was the first thing in order. After max
ing q few remarks appropriate to the
occasion, Mr.. Brown offered thanks for
the good things We were about to receive,
to which all present added q tervent
'amen," as they caught the fragrant in
cense of the succulent oysters, steaming
up from the well-filled wash boiler, close
by. When the eatables had been proper
ly cared for and the debris cleared away,
there was q commotion about the door,
and presently Santa Claus appeared and
proceeded to investigate the trea He
found something for every one clippers
and gloves for the gentlemen, decorated
crockery, work baskets and fancy articles
for the ladies, and toys and candies for
the children. To several Of the young
gentlemen he rather uncharitably pre-
sented the mitten. To Charlie Adamsis
epicurean fancy he paid tribute in the
shape of q weA-flled bag Of savory
sausage. No one was forgotten, and
each seemed 10 have received just what
he had desired After few minutes
spent in examining The presents, the
the assemblage broke up, al expressing
themselves - much pleased with the
evenings festivities. Il should Be added
that after he supper . collsct;oo vas
taksn 70 dsefay the sxpenss a oysesrs,
"a, p1sehass4 md thas I sufleisnt sum
~ rsalind = lssys sondsrahas ~
|plus ~ - ! uslhass 4 likarnzs q -
un0ny - ID !
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-01-09
Something New.

The worn-out remark about there bein 6
nothing new under the sun has received
black eye, this week, in connection with
the St. John county school lands at the
Office of our county treasurer. For the
first time, large number of bids have been
received by telegraph. They came, of
course, from men who could not get
here, on account of suspended anima-
ton on the part Of the average railroad
train. The sales opened yesterday, and
they will be continued to-day. Wa
Keeney furnishes few local bidders.
Twenty-one sections were embraced in
the offer.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-01-09

Itch, Prairie Mango and scratch
es of every kind cured in 30 minutes
BY Woolfofd's Sanitary Lotion.
Warranted by II. ]. Hille, druggist,
Wa-Keeney. $50
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-01-09
DELAYED a Week.

Last Monday was the day for the old
board Of county commissioners to meet
for the purpose Of winding up the bust.
ness Of 1885, and putting the house in
order for the new board. The day TO,
the new board to meet and Organise i
next Monday.
The meeting did not take place La
Monday, and the miserable weather has
been an embargo on their doing 90 since
neither Mr.. Purinton nor Mr.. Kina
having reached town. As the new board
VIII be composed Of tho same men q
constitute the old board, there i no
danger Of any collision resulting from The
b1sinsss Of tho two meetings having 10 b
tETns.cted q the meeting nsxt week.
This = The int time IN the history q
TlsgO county whm such condition =
this has occausd IN her govssnmsntal
mae1maEy.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-01-09
TINWARE, HARDWARE,
==GRocER|Es,==

As fine a line as you will find :
anywhere.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-01-09

The family Of Mr.. Geo. Barrett, who
have been expected several days from
Manhattan, have not arrived yet, presum-
ably on account of the blockaded condi-
ton Of the railroad. They will occupy
the frst house east Of the Oakes house,
where Mrs. Stonex has lived for several
years. Mrs. StonS1 is about to take an
extended trip north and east.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-01-09
Weather Report for 1895.

~ oBsK1vED BY BEN. G. Rich At H1s
RANCH ON BIG CREEK, 5 MILES SOUTH OF
O0ALLAH.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-01-09

y. II. Lavender has the contract fos
fitting up the new opera hall at Wa.
Keeney with scenery, drop curtain, DC.
and under Jacks supervision. they are e
have fine little place Of amusement
Hays CITY Ger. Am. AdDocate.] That il
80. Mr.. Lavender Is here now, at work
The scenery viii cost about one hundred
and seventy-five dollars, and the general
appearance Of the stage, entrance rooms,
ETC., will be fine.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-01-09

In fact, anything you want. or can
get in a first-class store
have it.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-01-09

There Vim b no dininniion n the
quality of he job work done at this o6Rce.
We arc always fixed 90 Mat We have 1t
least ono 6rst-class job printer left in the
ONCE generally moro We also keSp On
hand an elaborate supply Of the staple
stock needed in q number one Job d6icG.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-01-09

Percentage of wind power for year, 28.6.
Percentage of cloudiness for year, 50.
The number Of days on which snow or
rain fell was 1O6; Of which 80 we're in
quantities too small to admit Of measure
ment.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-01-09
Report Of School

IN DISTRICT NO. q FOB THE MONTH ExDIx0
Jan. /, 1886.
Number enrolled, 6
Average daily attendance, 8.
An examination was held December
81, giving each scholars standing for the
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-03-30
A Judge Who Was'a River Driver.

The Lewiston, Me-, .Jurmal SAYS:
Judge Virgin, one of the ablest ~jurists
of the Maine Supreme Court, was born
and bred among the Oxford bears. His
father was II lumberman, and when a
young man the Judge used to go into
the woods and chop with the best of
them or run the logs down stream with
the most daring river drivers. The
Judge recently told inc some of his adj
ventures as Il log runner. ''Thcre was
a stream they used to call No. 6, rum
ming into the Swift River on which nv
father used to operate" said he. cat
noon, when the snow had melted and
run down into it, it would be bank full,
but by night there would be hardly any
water in it. We floated those big
pumpkin pines down this stream at
midday. They were monstrous logs. I
thought nothing of jumping on one of
them and riding down on it alone.
Once in n while I'd strike n hidden
rock and go off, but l rather enjoyed q
ducking then" What future Justice
of the Supreme Court is yarding logs
in the Maine forest this wintcr2 "The
most eccentric farmer I ever knew"
said Judge Virgin, twas Phin Wood,
" A1C IL u fGIy ldISC
farm without a fence OH it. He always
kept a lot of cattle and about fifty hogs
running loose. Instead of stone walls
he had about ten dogs to keep his stock
from straying. At n time Phin was
a very profape man, but he became con-
verified and tried his best to be better.
His temper would get the advantage of
him nee in IL while, though, and he
would express his repentance for his
wickedness in prayer meeting after
ward. I've heard him tell in prayer
meeting how he'd found himself swear
ing at his oxen and then fallen right
down by their sides and prayed for for
giveness. l never shall forget one testi-
mony 1 heard him give in a Rumford
prayer meeting. He had lost his wife
and he expressed his sorrow over his
bereavement. SAID ne: ''She was a
good wife, a hclpmcct to me. She
helped me pay for stock and save
money. Brethren and sisters, I'd rather
lost any pair of oxen in my yard than
lost her,"
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-03-30
A STORY OF THE SOUTH.
A Little Yarn Full to the Brim OF Ro.
nance.

About W. years before the war, near
a pretty and substantial residence in
the vicinity of a prosperous little town,
a beautiful young girl, about fourteen,
was sleeping in IA hammock swung from
two stately oaks in Il grove. She was
pretty picture of innocence and grace,
and won the admiration of the passcrs.
In a meadow to the rear, a fat, meek
eyed cow reclined in the shade, rumi-
mating the food she had gathered in the
morning. But what has the cow got to
do with the sleeping girl, is PROFOUND
ed; we'll, wait and see. Across the road
from the house, the girl and cow is a
meadow, with abranch running through
it. and coming up the branch is n bow
with a gum. When within 100 Yards of
the girl, and about $50 from the COW. a
bird flew up and sailed in the air to-
ward the cow. The boy fired at the
bird, which flew on unhurt, but the
cow received n pretty strong dose of
shot. She Immediately arose in fright,
dashed through the grove, caught the
girl and hammock on her horns, and
rushed with her shrieking victim about
the lot. The terrified girl became
silent, md the crowd of relatives and
friends in pursuit thought tina. she was
dead. The wild fury of the cow as she
rushed around soon torc the netting
loose, and the girl dropped unconscious
to the ground. She was picked up and
taken into the house, and on examine
ton, only a few minor bruises were
found. The boy. thinking he was the
innocent cause of the killing of the
young girl, disappeared. All trace of
him vanished. 1t was thought that he
had persisted by his own hand; but
bou six years after the war a travel
stained stranger was in the town inouir-
ing tor persons, most of whom had been
swept away by the war. After a long
search the stranger found an old man
on a load of wood and in conversation
with him learned where one of the par.
ties he was in search of lived, a few
miles out of town. He went there,
made himself known, and turned out to
be the boy of the gun. The people he
found were his father and his mother,
who had mourned him rs dead for
eight years. The boy had been in South
America, got rich, and ycarnlng for the
love of the old folks. returned to the
desolatcd home of his childhood, and
made his loved oncs comfortable. For
the first time then, hearing that the girl
was u%ninjured, he called on her, and
finding her pretty. good and a first-class
home woman, he put in with a will, got
her heart as his own, and the old folks
consent, and has been for the last twelve
or fourteen years one of the leading
men OF his section. This is fact
Americus (Ga.) Recorder.