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Thomas County cat., 1886-05-27
OuiCkyiIIe.

1t is very dry in this burg; we need
rain rs things begin to wilt and too
dry to brake
After putting few OF these tor
mcnted sqirrels to sleep | took a lit
tie time and visited Colby to lay in a
few rations and see for myself what
prospect there vas for a business
place, and found it quite lively lit
tie town and town property booming
and everybody as busy as bees.
Something's were selling very reason
able, and rs was viewing the pros
poets around. the bells in all directions
commenced 20 jingle. which remind
ed re of dinner. and rs | had come a
long way and had got an early break
fast. as lis farmers have to do when
we come to town, | was in a good
condition for Il square meal, with all
the jolting | had got with coming. so
III went to see what the jingle had
as i; smelled pretty good, and to my
astonishInent the smell with half filled
dishes threwn in was about the sub
stance there was. Good Lord deliver
me from evil A little piece of meat
about the size of a minnow to put be-
fore the sturdy farmers that have put
this country into paradise, they
want something that will lay on the
muscle SO that they can stand tie
hardships. Store clerks. LAWYERS.
land grabbers, spectators and coun-
ty officers may stand such meals. but
you may depend that us farmers want
something more than half filled dishes
rattling under our noses. Now for
Gods sake give us decent meal when
We come to trade and circulate our
money amongst you, for you may de |
pend the farmer is the bone and sinew
without them your lots would not be
worth much. You might shut up
shop and bury your town in the south
Sappa if you kill the goose that laws
the golden egg. Now l do not know
whether the other restaurant and ho-
tells put on more of the needful, hope
they do, for bear in mind it is great
drawback to place to send customer
home half feed, whereby if he gets as
good meal as he gets at home he
would feel in better humor and trade
more and it would not be drag to him
to come again.
A FARMER.
Thomas County cat., 1886-05-27
Monument.

Monument Sunday School opened
in due form Sunday, May 23d About
fifty persons were present, and to start
with Monument Sabbath school bids
fair to be rival of some large cities.
At Ennis City there is no building
large enough at present suitable for a
Sabbath school. The time will soon
come when Ennis City will have
church and school house. Rev. Hag
gart, of Oakley, Methodist minister.
preached at Monument last Sunday to
a full house. The next services will
be at the school house on June 18th.
at 3 p IN. S. RITCHEY.
Thomas County cat., 1886-05-27
Cumberland Items.

Once more attempt to write few
items.
Dry weather is making a good many
to think of their wives folks, but I
think we will get rain soon. Crops
look well and stock are doing we'll.
Minnie Strayer left for Carlton.
Neb.. this morning, but we have some
nice girls that may fill the vacancy.
Henry Knudson has got his fence
up which makes quite an improve
ment in our midst. l wonder what
makes that young lady so much in
terested in his welfare. Hope it will
end in Henry taking better half in
the near future.
Our school is in session now It
promises to be success; it is what
has been needed in this district yery
much. We have Sunday school eve
ry Sabbath and preaching alternate
ly.
Query. Who issued the iicence for
our Probate Judge. MoLL1E
Thomas County cat., 1886-05-27

Ex-Governor Crawford, who is the
State agent for Kansas for the adjust
ment of railroad land grants writes as
follows of Commissioner Sparks !:
"No one [ think can question Mr..
SpaTi-s' h22c@+y. None will doubt
his courage Having those qualities,
he will as | believe, with proper sup
port, adjust these grants While we
think that Commissioner Sparks has
been little too severe on the settler.
we cannot but admire the sincerity in
which he is fighting for the restoration
os public lands illegally held by the
railroad companies. He has accoE-
plished a great deal already and we
look for the restoration of large bodies
of land held illegally held by railroad
corporations.
Thomas County cat., 1886-05-27

The farmer has 30 protection on the
products Of his farm and must sell
his grain at q price but little above
the cost Of producing. In return he
must pay fictitious values for all
goods that be purchases. values made
fictitious by q system of highway rob
berry famiiiariy known ;ls protection.
1t swindles the producer both ways.
Kansas is an agricultural state and
the present tariff laws make a very
unequal condition of affairs. We are
not III favor of removing the tariff
from manufactured goods at one
stroke. The reduction contemplated
b. the Morrison bill would be sup
ported as an equitable measure by
western members but for the bitter
feelings kept aggravated by scheming
partisan5. Nine out of ten of oar
western members will vote with their
party and for the monopolists of the
east. Anderson is the only Kansas
congressman who had the grit to vote
his convictions, but such howl was
set up by the henchmen about fealty
the party that he had not the cour-
age TO continue to vote his sentiments.
Thomas County cat., 1886-05-27

and glad to aid In securing to SOL
dier's child the right her father pos
sessed, but never realized after suffer
ing the dangers of the field and ter
rors of the prison camp.
As Hope dwelt out in the sod
houses, so she was found to have a
residence in town. The talk was of
corner lots : of new National bank
of 25O,0O0 brick to be burned this
season. of brick business houses al
ready contracted for; of a 1000 ho-
tel as nearly sure thing, and of
boom generally. Much of the infor-
nation concerning Colby's future
was obtained from Mr.. James NJ.
Warden, who, with r. S. Newell, both
of Frankfort, has gone to make the
country grow up. To 90 into details
would be to infringe on the province
of the Thomas County CAT, which we
found going to press. not on the old
Ben Franklin article, but on a modern
stop cylinder Mr. Eugene Worces-
ter, the editor, to whom we were plac-
ed under many obligations started his
paper in sod house with seven sub
scribers His CAT now arches his
spine in an Office fitted up with all the
modern appliances, and prospers.
No sketch us brief as this must be
can give an idea of the life and ener-
gy that prevades the Northwest
Thomas county is but type Of the
whole region. Four thousand people |
are gathered there perfectly coura-
geous and confident that they will
succeed-if it rains. So far the rain |
has fallen. We saw the water in pools !
and there is an added greenness III the
draws, the low '.lagoons, rs they are
called, and the old buffalo wallows.
Settlers remark that the coming last
year of weeds never before seen. The
breaking Of the buffalo grass sod re-
moves from the surface Il perfectly
water tight covering. Under this
lies what seems shallow
Subterranean lake, deeper in some
places than in others. On the eleva-
ion # the surface depends the dis
,ance to this water varying from twelve
teet to one hundred and fifty. The
county is dependent for water on the
ain and Oh the wells. The great
'ailroad well at Oakley supplies water
or farmers for miles around. How
ong farmer will haul water depends
IN his enterprise. We saw farmer
1t the we'll who did not come for wat
r.; he had just reached water on his
;laim at the depth Of fifty-six feet.
30 the rain comes down and the wind
Mill pumps lift the water to the sur
ace. and the sod is turned over at the
ate of hundreds of acres every day,
md men believe that agriculturally
hey are "all right in country with
'ut river and without tree. and
nay the Lord who raised up for our
'enefit Stowell, and Lessenger, and
lcGonigal, and Worcester, and the
est of the good fellows at Colby,
rant that there may be no disap-
ointment.
Thomas County cat., 1886-05-27

The Kansas Pacific Railroad under
the adjustment is shown to have ta-
ken $1,000 acres outside the limits Of
the grant, and Mr.. Sparks reports the
proper adjustment he has made will
restore in all 100000 acres to the
public domain for homestead settle
Thomas County cat., 1886-05-27
THE THOMAS COUNTY CAT.

We publish elsewhere Anderson S
land bill. The bill has been favOrably
reported back from the House COM
mittee on public lands, and there is
hardly question but what it will pass
the Senate
Thomas County cat., 1886-05-27
Remembe,

RememboP!
we are headquarters for Dry Goods,
j. w. ALLEN & Sons.
Thomas County cat., 1886-05-27
SOLD OUT 3!


Our supply OF ready
cash was not sufficient
to come to time on
freightbills | have sold
the old Pioneer build
ing on the corner and
will forever vacate
those quarters in a
few weeks. | have
made arrangementsfor
a building Of prodi-
glous size which will
be ready for occupan-
cy in a few weeks. To
save the trouble of
moving goods, | have
knocked the "stuf1n"
out of prices on Dry
Goods, Notions, Hats
and Caps, Boots and
Shoes, Groceries, etc.
Remember that neces-
sity compels us to sell
these goods at any
price. The slaughter
has commenced.
NJ. DONELAN.
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Public Confidence in Doctors

DR.. Quain, in the Harveian Grafton oil
this year, gave utterance to an old, and
yet substantially true, complaint. The
medical profession, he said, notwithstand
ing all 1t had done for the world, and es-
pecially had done recently, did not re-
ceive quite the respect-or, as he called
It, the " high estimation which was its
due. Its members have arrested the
course OF epidemic diseases so ably That
out for human perversity smallpox would
cease to be dangerous as 1t has ceased
n ireland and In the German Army
that cholera has been stopped, as it wa
stopped IN Liverpool in 1884 and that
typhOldal levers have been brought un-
der a control unhoped for 90 years ago
They have annulled pain, as it were,
with chloroiorm, so that operations long
deemed impossible have become asy, and
that surgeons, we may add, have lost
much OF the callOusness to suffering which
was once essential to their success: and
they have improved hygiene, the treat
ment OF children, and the practice of mid
witery, until within the last half century
or less-the advance being mostly recent
two years have been added to the male
chance OF life and three and half to the
female, the improvement being almost
entirely an improvement in health dur
ing the working decades OF life. 1t is
not that senility drags on longer without
dying, but that senility is averted for
longer period, and that the human race
has In England more time for healthful
enjoyment and easy work Add to these
great beneiactions-on Of them, the dis
covery Of chloroform, almost immeasura-
bic IN It's value-some smaller ones such
as the revival of the use Of ether as an
anestheuc, the proof of the utility of the
oromides, the experiments in antiseptcs,
and the improvement in febriiuges, and
we have a truly marvellous record of ser
vices done to the human race, which,
nevertheless, distrusts those who have
performed them Men do not pay to
doctors the reverence which is their
right but display strange readiness to
thrust them aside, and to postpone the
judgment Of whole profession for that
OF hopeless quacks. Every nonsensical
idea about medicine finds it's votaries
and men who have proved their capacity
by their success are considered narrow
Tor denouucing demonstrable absurdities
ike the theory, now nearly given up, of
nfnitesimal doses.-The Spectator.
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CENTRAL PRESBY TERRA N.--NIarch ST.
Speak kindly to the chiIdren.

Speak kindly to the children
Play and talk with them few mo-
ments after supper
Interest yourself in your wife's en-
ployment.
Encourage her when she ia down
hearted. Be glad with her when she IS
happy.
Let her know by words and actions
that she is appreciated, and you make
her happier that she walks by your side.
Don't wait to tell the world upon mar
BILE that which will be so grateful to her
loving heart to hear from your lips
Share with her your good 70 tune as
unselfshly as you do vour i'll
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How to Make a Good Wife.

Be attentive and courteous to her.
Be cheerful when you enter your
house
Don't be afraid to praise the neat room
and bright FIRE.
Don't be afraid to praise her mending,
and her skill in fashioning and making.
Don't fail to give her words Of appro-
baton whenever you can conscientiously
approve.
Never deceive her. Be ever true to
her
Let your conduct be such that she will
be proud Of you.
BE so upright that she will be happy
in teaching your children to honor you.
Do not oft silent all the evening alb
sorbed in reading your book or newspa-
per.
Give your family some Of your atten.
ton. Tell them the amusing things that
have frightened your day. labor.
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Are the Children Safe ?

Thank God that my darling is resting
Safe in the bosom of God;
Praise him for little hands folded
Under the churchyard sod.
I IN glad that on the white forehead
I've printed the last long kiss
10 you ask why I'm glad and thankful,
And can praise God so for this
LAST night as 1 sat in my window,
Looking out in the moonlit street,
Ny neighbours once beautiful boy
Went by with unsteady feet;
and l remember how had envied
His mother, that sorrowful time
When God sent his white-winged angel
And, leaving her boy, took mine.
5ut now she sits In her lonely home
In tears, broken hearted and old,
While the stainless feet of my darling
Are walking the streets of gold.
hank God for taking my child so soon,
Lest he might have gone astray,
Cor none are safe while the doors of sin
Stand wide as they do to-day.
pity the children of years to come
And mothers who little know
What lies tor them in the future,
OF tears and bitterest woe;
+ or as long as men are licensed to sell
The horrid, accursed thing,
= we cry not aloud against it,
The curse on ourselves we shall bring;
GU may be the next one to suffer,
Though little you think it now,
The stamp of sin may be printed next
On your boys pure, white brow.
Draw him ever so carefully, lovingly,
Tenderly close to your heart,
remember the day is soon coming
When mother and son must part,
When he must go out in the busy world
Alone, a man among men;
Shall we fling wide the doors of temptation
To lure our boys in then?
We all have a voice IN the matter,
And you and I'll have to stand
. the last great day OF judgment
Attic bar Of Gods right hand,
To give account whether for or against
This evil we raise our voice,
low for God or sin, for gold or souls,
We made everlasting choice.
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New York CITY. June l2.h.
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Is the life and he Is wise who remembers it.
But IN March of last year Q884) 1 contracted
blood poison, and being in Savannah, Ga, at
mems suffered very much from rheumatism
at the same time l did not get we'll under the
treatment there nor was / cured by any of the
usual means. / have now taken seven bottles
of Swift's Specific and am sound and well, 1t
drove the poison out through bolls on the skin
Jersey City, n. j., Aug 7, 50 DAN LEARY
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Poison

had produced great holes in my back and chest.
and had removed all the hair off of my head
yet l began to improve 10 weeks time and
the sores began to heal and were entirely gone
inside Of eight weeks.
WILL JONES, Porter Union Pass. Depot.
Cisco Texas, July 10, 1885
Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed free
SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., Drawer 8, Atlanta,
Ga, or 157 W. 23d st., N York. oc 2l-lm
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Two years ago l contracted blood poison. AZ
ter taxing prescriptions from the best physicians
here and at Dallas, l concluded to visit the Hot
Springs and on reaching Texarkana doctor
recommended me to try Swfts Specific, assur-
ing me that it would benefit me more than the
Hot Springs Although the
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Let her walk by your side y,u- houored
companion, your strong hand helping her
over the rough places, and sustaining her
when wearied lest she faint
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-06-08

gate. Mr.. Freeman of the committee on
fire and police reported that hook and
ladder truck would be added to the fire
protection of the bluff and that an
engine house would !. be built at
the corner of Conway and Maple streets.
resolution by Mr.. A.Pugh was adopted
requesting the board of public works to
effect the grading of Main street from Plum
to Claremont and Conway from CONNER
cial to Earl at an early date. Mr.. Pugh
brought up the matter of the grade of
Mound street, which had been ordered
graded from Hastings to Burns to the
width of forty feet. He said that the ma
Jority OF the property owners objected to
the partial grade, wishing the grade made
for the full width of the street. Mr.. Ralph
Russell, property owner on the street,
presented a plan which would in
great measure preserve the
natural beauties of the street
and neighborhood as well as the magnificent
view obtained from that part near the
mounds. The plan was to have the grade
of forty feet made in curved line along
the street which is eighty feet in width, thus
preserving large trees, conforming more TO
the natural lay of the ground, and making
more beautiful street than straight cut
and fill. He also presented resolution
asking the board of public works to defer
action in the letting of the contract until an
expression of the property owners could be
had, and the resolution was adopted.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-06-08
BEAUTIFUL TROPHY.
The Nevada Trophy Won in Rifle
Shooting by Montana Soldiers


Capt. j. H. Gageby of Company d of the
Third infantry, stationed at Fort Missoula.
Mont, was at the Merchants Yesterday.
The captain wore citizens clothes, and did
not carry around with him the air of a mill
tary officer. but he is a companonable
gentleman and an enthusiastic admirer of
his company. The captain was here on
mission. the nature of which afforded him
great deal of pleasure. He came down
from the post to receive the Nevada trophy,
which was won by his company last year
for showing the best general figure of merit
in rifle shooting. The trophy is
massive and wonderfully beautiful
medal, weighing more than sixteen ounces.
1t was first won by Company A, of the
Forty eighth regiment, Oct. 90, 1875, and
was held by them four successive years. In
1884 it was won by Company d of the
Twenty-fifth regiment, under Capt. Gray,
stationed at Fort Meade, and was wrested
from them by Capt. Gageby's company. The
possession of the trophy is striven for by
the different companies with great deal of
zeal, and when it was announced last year
that Company ID had won it charges were
made that they had done so by unfair
means, but the official inspector of rifle
practice investigated the matter and decided
that the company was entitled to it. and it
was turned over yesterday at department
headquarters to Capt. Gageby.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-06-08
ALASKA,S MINERAL WEALTH.
Rev. 4. p. Graves Says the Mount
aims are Full of Gold.

aims are Full of Gold.
Rev. A. P. Graves d. D., was at the
Ryan yesterday, accompanied by his seT,=
l.. L. Graves, banker at Huron, Oak.
Mr.. Graves is an evangelist of the Baptist
denomination, and during the past twenty
years has preached in more than 500 towns
and cities in the United States. His home
is in New York and he travels extensively.
He preached in Minneapolis when that city
had a population of hardly more than 2, 900
people and at the time predicted that it
would number 100. 0G0 in ten years. Mr.
Graves and his son are now doing st. Paul,
Minneapolis and Duluth for the purpose of
studying their natural advantages After
doing the cities and paying his son a
visit at Huron, he will return
to New York, where he will
sojourn three or four months, then go to
the Pacific coast. A few weeks ago Mr..
Graves returned from a trip to Alaska.
where he went on evangelistic work. He
said there were plenty of sinners there. and
somebody must save them. In speaking of
Alaska he remarked that it was wonder
full country, and as soon as territorial
government was established emigration to
that point from the East would be wonder
full. There are no agricultural facilities
there. but the forests are magnificent and
the mountains are crowded with minerals.
AS yet Alaska has but $4,000 people, and
SO, 600 of them are natives. He spoke of a
new mine opened on Douglass island which
yielded over $97,0 worth of ore in less
than twenty days, and people there claim
that it is destined to be the richest mine in
the world. Capitalists on the Pacific coast
are taking great interest in the develop
ment of the country, and as soon as gov
eminent is established there railroads will
be built, smelling works erected, stamp
mills put in and the great mineral wealth
of the country will be proven.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-06-08

trip may be made in is from thirty to thirty
five minutes. 1t is believed that the route
proposed, which is shown by the accom-
panying diagram of the streets. is the only
feasible one. The point seems by nature
prepared for such use, as the lowest eX-
tremity would be almost the lowest level of
the line and the upper one almost the highest,
the distance between these two levels being
the shortest at this point. The property
needed, it is urged should be acquired now
if ever, as delay will increase the cost.
Investigation is i'll progress to ascertain
the cost, and rough estimates place the
whole cost of right of way, grading and the
inclined plane at little over 800, OOO
Some who have been studying the question
of rapid transit have taken the trouble to
ascertain the exact amount of travel up and
down St Anthony hill. BY actual count
for the three days May 90, 80 and 81 there
were Z 1913 vehicles of all kinds, 1872 persons
on horseback and 2, 543 pedestrians, a total
of 9,91S, and a daily average of 1906,
these not including passengers by horse
cars, and for all this the inclined plane is
as useful as for the latter. No large
landed interest exists in this section of the
city. in any parties hands to be benefited,
and consequently if it is built all parties
living on the hill must come to the front.
Nothing has been said to Nh Lowry as to
the proposed change in the line of street
railway, but no objection ON his part is an
ticipated, if the citizens whose time is so
largely involved, are pretty unanimous in
asking for the change.