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Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-09-23

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n yoeng voeef arrived At Exza
G0re's'the 18th.
Deputy Sheriff Harvey WAS out ON
the Sappa, Sunday the 18th.
School is in progress at the Kingery
school house.
There was dance at A. Showalter's
on the 18th.
B. Robinson, formerly of Neh., has
built sod house on his homestead.
His family will be here in two or three
weeks. More anon.
SCRIBE.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-09-23
Here's Your Jumbo!

Talk about money! The Thomas Conn
ty Land and Loan Co. loan on five wears
time with privilege of paying any time
interest becomes due after one year. No
attorney fees. no gold payment or cut
throat clauses. INTEREST PAYABLE AT
COLBY Come and see us if you want to
prove up. Office at Bank Of Colby.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-09-23

Uee q. Panlok's Pile
For all bilious disorders.
st. Patrick's Pills are the best physic
anyone can take.
St: Patricks Pills are splendid family
medicine.
Get well and keep well by using st
Patrick Pills. Sold by Walker & YOusse
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-09-23

Money to loan. &. c. SrGGINs s. Co.
Meglemre's for all sorts of hardware
Go to Martins for Jewelry.
Joe Lamont, the popular barber next
to W. H: Copeland's land Office. is stead
lily working away. busy nearly all the
time giving as good shave or haircut
as you can get in any city in the state.
A good clean shave for 10c at Joe La
monts. and haircut for twenty-five.
Meglemre's Star windmills take the
cake. H sold four Star windmills last
week.
Don't mortgage your farm; but IN case
you have to, call on c. G.. Siggins & Co..
aud learn something to your advantage.
NOrICE.-E. ]. Paine. district clerk,
will make 'yOHr final proofs sure and safe.
ly. He is at Colby all the time, and
ready to attend to all proofs to the salts
faction of all.
ATTENTION, FARXERs.-Plenty of rye
oats and corn at Kaubs& Smiths.
Old people suffer much from disorders
of the urinary organs. and are always
gratified at the wonderful effects of DR..
]. H. McLean's Liver and Kidney Balm
in vanishing their troubles. 500 per
bottle Sold by Walker & YOusse and mt
the Palace Drug Store. If
For sick headache, female troubles,
neuralgia pains in the head take DR.. j.
H. McLean's Little Liver and Kidney
Pillets. Twenty-fi five cents vial. Sold
by Walker & YOusse and mt the Palace
Drug Store.
Now at this season of the year, when
any of us are liable to be taken with
cramps, collie, diarrhOea. or dysentery,
how essential it is that all families should
keep good collie and diarrhOea remedy
at hand. We guarantee Begg's diarrhOea
balsam to give perfect satisfaction or
money refunded. Out of 1000. 900 bot
ties sold last summer not one was return
ed. Sold by Walker s. YOusse and at the
Palace Drug store.
Quick Relief is just what is wanted in
every case of cramp colo or diarrhRa.
Chamberlain collie, cholera and diar-
rbGa remedy relieves the pain promptly,
and is certain cure. A dose or TIVE is
all that is required for any ordinary ease.
Recommended, guaranteed and sold BIZ
Walker d YOusse.
Walker & YOusse are selling medicine
for diarrh9a and bowel complaint which |
is no doubt the best family medicine ever
in this country 1t is not
made to cure every disease. but is all the |
more valuable on that account 1t is |
known as Chamberlain's collie, cholera, |
and diarrhGa remedy. and is worth one |
times its cost in time of need.
sXhen yonr: t0agne is coated. -s~henl
yonreyesnrednil. Nhen yoaYbisod .znnsl
sluggish, when you have q fever, when
yOu feel languid and have no appetite,
and ali you eat lies ON your stomach like
, brick, also when your head aches, your
blood is out Of order. your liver does not
work properly. you need good reliable
remedy that wili put new life and blood
In your veins. Begg 3 Blood Purifier and
blood makcris prepared expressly for this
purpose, and acts on the whole system
II You try Il once In your
family you WIN never be without il. Bold
b. Walker & Yousse.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-09-23
SHANKLIN & VAIL.
Contractors & Builders

We are prepare to do all kinds, Of work
in cur line, if you haye a house, barn.
store room or any building to put up, it
will pay you to see US before contracting
We caA give you bargains. Satisfaction
guaranteed in every respect. Best Of
references given if required.
COLBY. KANs'A
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-09-23

Call on Meglemre before buying your
hardware. 1t will well pay you.
Money to loan. e. C. SrGaINs s. Co.
Meglemre's for all sorts of hardware
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-03-24
SCHOOL SHIPS OF THE SAILOR.
Whit the Boys who go on the Trainina
Ships Have To do.

The real schooling of the sailor boys does
not begin until they are transferred to the
training ship ut Newport. While aboard
the Minnesota they are piped ont of their
hammoclts every morning by shrill note
from the boatswains whistle followed by
ihe sing song cry; "All hands--up all
aammocks." The cry is taken up and pass
ed along from hammock to hammock by
the waking boys until all have tumb,ed
out Then there is great scurrying to see
who will be dressed and have his hammock
and bedding lashed up first. The ham.
mocks are slowed in netting on the deck
above during The day. The boys are for
hidden to lay their hammocks on the deck
or across the guns, but must hold them
from the time they are carried to the spal
deck until they are taken by the slower
few hours are spent every morning in
washing down the decks and polishing the
GRASS work about the ship. At noon all
lands are pipod down to dinner, and at
sunset the bugler sounds call for hauling
down the colors. Five minutes later comes
supper. After supper hammocks are piped
down, at eight bells tattoo is sounded, and
nm hour later the crew is ordered 10 turn in
and keep silence.
Talking after bedtime, swearing, fighting
and other boyish offenses are punished in
several original ways, the most common of
which is to make the offender " toe a seem "
for several minutes at q time or send him
N n Ifol
who are careless about their clothes
Or their hammocks are Obliged to
carry them ON their shoulders for an hour
or two every morning until they are cured.
Solitary confinement ON bread and water
for five days is the severest punishment
which the naval regulations permit, except
it be awarded by court-martial. Only
boys between the ages Of fourteen and
eighteen years are received at the training
ship. From the moment an apprentice en-
lists his pay is 80 per month and he is
placed in u class, where he acquires the
rudiments OF his prospective profession MS
a sailor. They are allowed pocket money
and a reasonable amount of leave of alb
,ence and can visit their homes twice a
year while in the waters of the United
States. In addition to studying arithmetic,
geography and United States history while
ON the training-ships, the boys are given
regular practice in boxing, fencing, rowing
and sailing boats. When qualified for SEQ
they are drafted to cruising practice ship
and visit Europe or the West Indies After
returning to the United States and visiting
home for ten days or two weeks, boys are
transferred to naval vessels in all parts Of
.he world. This is usually about fifteen
months after enlistment and he is not apt
tc be changed again until he is OF age.
Then he may receive his discharge or be re-
enlisted Mt will.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-03-24
REVENGE by WILL.
An Instance Where the Tcstator's Spite
Overieaped Itself.

One OF the most curious features in this
"reyenge by will " is the many times it
has deceived the ends of the will-makers.
very remarkable instance occurred not
many years ago, and is recalled by the
writer.
A gentleman of large fortune was mar
ried to lady of some attractions. For a
- --sssoss soEy nRppAy,
disagreeable temper began to BE exhibited
in the husband. This latter burned TO a
positive dislike, quite undersigned ON the
wife's part and which deepened into n ma
lignant hatred. Her forbearance and tenn
per carried on matters with tolerable
smoothness for some years, when the hus.
band was seized with an illness that proved
fatal, and he went out of the world in the
old ill-conditioned way he had lived. Her
friends were congratulating themselves on
this release, and Us she had but slender
settlement IL was known that all his large
fortune must come to her. When his will,
however, was opened it was found that
everything was left away from her-nrtful
and ingenious devices had been used to de-
priye her of the smallest article Of property
and, with almost diabolical malignity, a
last blow was given, =" and made this dis
position for n reason that she herself best
knows" This scandalous insinuntion only
recoled on the head Of the testator, for her
friends knew her character too we'll, and
the charitable set down this ungoverned
hatred to something akin to insanity. The
lady accepted her lot, but not long after
relative, who was also n lawyer, happened
to be talking to one of the witnesses to the
will in the street. Suddenly a gentleman
passed them
"There's coincidence" said the lawyer,
"theres your fellow witness A. b."
"Oh, was he" said the other, careless
ly; 81 didn't know"
"Whnt? ?" exclaimed the lawyer. A ques.
ton or two followed, and it came out that
the two witnesses had signed ut different
times. The will collapsed OF itself, without
even a legal proceeding, and the lady was
triumphantly restored to her rights. One
might almost wish that her bafiied lord had
been allowed one peep from his grave to
know the failure of his malignant efforts.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-03-24

People do not get candles from water, On
rule, believe, but nevertheless there was
time when men were indebted to the
ocean for much of the light that made their
homes pleasant at night. The best candles
and oil of your forefathers' time came from
whales. There is, however, a very remark
able light-giver, which Ia nothing more nor
less than small fish. This fish is 80 very
oily that nil you have to do, after it has de.
parted this life, is to fasten il by its tail be-
tween two pieces of wood, touch q match
to its head, and pale fame will arise from
the fsh's mouth that lasts until, like can
die, the fish is slowly consumed.
The useful fish, moreover, is very impor-
tant one topeople living on the northwestern
coast of North America. At certain seasons
the candle-fishes swarm the bays and rivers
in vast numbers, and every native man,
woman, and child is engaged in capturing
them. And how do you suppose they catch
them They actually comb them in. The
boats drive them in shore, where each
native, armed with gigantic weapon with
teeth eight inches long, sweeps or combs
them up by the hundred.
When the boats are loaded full, the fish
are carried ashore, where women and chill
bred take charge of them. After being
dried and smoked. they are ready for can.
dies. They are also used as food, and il
that case the oil is tried out and put away
for winter use.--,St. Nicholas.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-03-24

The use Of pepsin has become very
much extended in the past few years" said
pepsin manufacturer recently. This Is
due" he continued, to the wonderful re-
suits obtained from its use. We commenced
manufacturing it in o small way eight or ten
years ago, and Ms the product became
known and was tested by leading manu-
featuring chemists--who now buy large
quantities of 1.-THE demand steadily in.
creased and is still increasing. The process
of manufacture is secret; but the cura-
tive properties Of the article in cases of
dyspepsia and all troubles arising from
disordered condition OF the stomach are I'M
doubted. A number OF people in our vi
entity have cured themselves completely by
its use, after much suffering and many
years consultation with leading physicians.
We sell roughly about $25, 900 worth of it
in year. We manufacture two grades,
powdered and fine article of scale pepsin,
and also preparation known as pancreatin.
In the manufacture of these articles eight
men are constantly employed. Our posi-.
ton as large slaughterers Of hogs, killing
from $500 to 1900 per day, places us in a
position to obtain our crude material i'll the
best possible condition and, with the care
taken in its manufacture, we are confident
that our product cannot be excelled. Our
most recent analysis shows digestive pow
or of over 900 times its weight in albumen.
II has the reputation Of being fully as good
as any imported article and is much
cheaper"
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-03-24
POVERTY IN LONDON.
Wretched Condition of the Unemployed
English Workmen.

In London the extremes of wealth and
poverty are found in harsher contrast than
in any city in the world. One man con-
sumes more value in single meal than goes
to feed and clothe the family of another for
a month. The money thus lavished is
largely absorbed from the Woodworking
population of London, from wretched
dwelers in tenement houses, who pay from
one-fourth to one-half of their income in
rent. In noisome cellar dwellings, in tene-
ments crumbling to decay and saturated
with filth, amid squalor and privation.
mon, women and children who have to work
for their bread live huddled together, occu-
pying less actual space than they would be
entitled to if dead. Recent statistics show
that in London alone there are 60, 900 fami-
lies each of whom live in one room. Less
than year ago it was shown in Parliament
that of the population of London 100000
or one-eighth of the inhabitants, belong to
the semi-pauper class. The figures collect
ed by the Local Government Board show
that more than one-ffth of deaths that took
place in the metropolis occurred in work.
houses and hospitals. 1t is said that in the
East of London forty per cent. of the work.
men are unemployed. The School Inspec-
tors recently reported that about one-fifth
of the children went to school without hay
ing any breakfast, while 1t has been shown
from official reports that penny and even
half-penny dinners have failed because the
poorer children could not procure the
the necessary penny (two cents) or half
penny Cone cent? to pay it. The highest
wages of this class, when they can procure
work at all, is from $40 to $50 per
week. London is n city of varied indus
tries Here hundreds of small and special
industries are carried on, many of them
most profitable. One by one, however,
they have shared the fate of the silk indus
try. Not long since cable despatch said
of this industry " Official statistics show
that within the past twenty-five years thu
number of operatives has decreased from
10000 10 $1,000" This is only one indus
try. The London papers have for several
years contained from time to time accounts
of the collapse of these myriad industries.
In vain the idle and half-starved mechanic
tramps the streets Of London and sees in
the shop windows foreign goods, while his
wife is perishing in the terrible tenement
houses with cold and hunger and his waits
of children are being picked up by the
School Inspectors and, without bit OF
anything to eat in their stomachs, put te
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-03-24
Surrendered After the War Wa. se,,Isd.

Surrendered After the War Was Settled.
During the war the last man " and
I" last ditch were common phrases, and,
strange as il may seem, they were located
at the end of the war. On Fourth of July
morning, 1866, fifteen months after Lees
surrender, the Secretary of War, who had
planned n fishing excursion to the falls Of
the Potomac, received telegram from the
Provost Marshal at Richmond, Va, stating
that squad OF Confederate soldiers were at
his Office ready to deliver up their arms and
be amnestied. Knowing TINT joking of that
description would subject the perpetrator
to court martial, he made bee limo to the
White House to consult President johnson,
which resulted in a telegram to the Provost
Marshal Who are they and where did
they come from 2" The answer was direct
to the point; Sergeant Tewksbury and
guard from Dismal Swamp. Did not know
the war was over" After good roar of
laughter the Provost Marshal WAS ordered
TO receive their capituintion.
Tewksbury, yirginian, ordered n couple
OF Georgians to come forward, give up their
shooting irons aud stick their fists to the
docyment," resolving himself us tho last
mhn and old Dismal Swamp the last ditch.
Tewksbury's description of how he ascer-
tanned the war WAS over was amusing. He
and his companions had been posted ON the
edge of the swamp TO watch movements of
Yanks from Norfolk, with orders to remain
until relieved. He never was relieved, and
had subsisted on game and fish for three
years. lie met an old negro, who told him
that the war had been over for about year,
which tickled him better than if he had
been kicked by mule, as he expressed it
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-03-24

old sitting-room at hoinr, Wrapped in blank
cts, with eager faces round her, and first
and foremost was the face of Paul Osborne.
" Paul, where am 2"
Here in your own home, dearest Thank
Heaven that you have Weakened from that
dreadful swoon!"
But-the water-the rocks-the rising
tide ?"
My dearest" whispered her mother,
" do not try to talk. Paul saved your life.
He found you stretched senseless on the
Big Rock as he rowed homeward two hours
since, and brought you to us in his boat"
He saved my life ?" murmured Nelly,
looking up into his eyes. Mamma, can.
not thank him now, but will thank him
by and by"
And the tender pressure of Pauls hand
betokened that he comprehended the full
meaning of her words.
There are crises in the lives of all of US
and that fearful moment of danger on the
lonely beach had been the turning point of
Eleanor vane's life. Paul Osborne's wife is
as unlike the trifling, inconstant Nelly Vane
as the steady star is unlike the shifting will
O. the wisp. But he loves her as one might
love dear one rescued from the very jaws
of death.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-03-24
POETRY.
The DInxy Sod House of Dakota.

The DInSy Sod House Of Dakota.
ipassed IL far out on the prairie,
The house OF necessity born;
No lines OF Its dinginess vary,
so sombre, SO dark, so forlorn
1t is bounded by measureless acres:
Not fence or a tree is in sight;
But, though plain as the dress OF the Quakers,
1t stands In the SUMS broadcast light,
The badger near by makes his burrow,
The gopher his hillock OF soil,
And ploughs, with their miIe-lengths Of furrow
Go round II with infinite toll.
A well-curb, wash bench, woman.
With poultry and pigs, are outside;
me clothes-line is wondrously human
In look, and the vIsta-how wldei
You can go to the sunrise or shutdown
In straight lines, the left or the right,
Ana leagues OF long level are run down
Before you escape from its sight.
The roof is well matched with coarse gra
A stove-pipe peers out to the sky.
IT'S picture whose planness surpassc3
All objects that challenge the eye.
Twisted hay serves Its owner for fuel
He twists It at ease by the roar
or hay fire, which parties the cruel
Harsh bite OF the wind at the door
Sometimes In an ocean OF color
In summer ills yellow or green)
It stands. In November duller
Broad carpet about 1t is seen.
In winter, while blasts from the prairie
Bring billiards that cease not to blow,
It's as warm as an isle OF Canary,
Deep under the tempest and snow
joel Benton, IN HuJpe,,s Mdoazf,,s
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-03-24
DIGESTION.
Doctors Disagree In Regard to What May
be Entrusted TO IL.

Most authorities are of opinion that
cheese is indigestble, yet even ON this point
doctors cannot agree. A distinguished
French chemist has suggested that, TO rem
der cheese digestible, quarter of an ounce
of potash should be added to every pound
of cheese while German chemist has ex-
perimented upon several kinds-such as
cheese, meat, milk and eggs-and he boldly
declares that cheese is no more indgestible
than meat and may other articles of diet
Suppers are also usually condemned.
Some doctors assert that suppers are not
only unnecessary, but positively harmful ;
that sound sleep cannot be obtained after
them; and that three meals day are suf-
ficient. On the other hand, others are of
opinion that light supper is necessary to
procure sound sleep. After a meal, they
say, blood is drawn toward the stomach to
supply the juices needed in digestion.
Hence the brain receives less blood than
during fasting, becomes pale, and the pow
ers become dormant. Sleep, therefore, en-
sues. A doctor says that recently he was
called at two A. M. to lady who assured
him that she was dying. The body was
warm, he says the heart doing honest
work. TO her Indignation, he ordered but
tered bread to be eaten at once. Obeying,
the dying" woman was soon surprised by
q return of life and desire to sleep.
Milk is generally considered n peculiarly
nutrtiye fluid indeed, perfect food
therefore suitable for persons OF all ages,
when it agrees with their stonlaclis; yet
no less an authority than Sir Henry rhomp-
son states that T" for us who have long ago
achieved our full growth, and can thrive on
solid food, it is altogether superduous, and
mostly lnischieyous as drink" He also
says that the primary object OF drinking is
to satisfy thirst, and that water is more
powerful to this end when employed free
from admixture with any solid material.
Chocolate, thick cocoa, or even milk, are
therefore not so efficacious in allaying thirst
as water. So plentiful is nutriment,' he
adds, " that the very last place where we
should seek that quality is the drink which
accompanies the ordinary meal.' In this
respect, at any rate. Sir Henry Thompson is
OF one with the vegetarians.