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Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-11-15
HUMOROUS.

The man who can pack trunk
ought to marry a woman who can
sharpen lead pencil. Fail Rirer Id.
rdnce.
IL think my profession" said q
violinist, lis by far preferable to any
other, it is the easiest of all" "How
SOP Because work when l play.
and l play when l work"
At drill a soldier spits in the
ranks-Sergeant of Maneuvers Tin.
dignantly)-'The fellow that spat
four days in the guard-house. There
shall be no splitting in the ranks. We
are not in parlor here"' -Fliegende
Blatter.
Professor of class in Journalism
what is the difference between an
editorial and an editorial paragraph
Student-'.An editorial is of the same
nature as an editorial paragraph,
but is larger and doesn't have as much
to say. "-Harper's Bazaar.
Young lady-"Have you a position
vacant in your store for "a" OLD
merchant with hardening features)-
For "a" Young lady (modestly)-
"For a saleswoman, sir?" Old mer.
chant (warmly)-'I have. miss. You
shall have one of the best in the store
Chicago Tribune,
Miss Augusta Mayne Ito Pat
Chogue. who has just rendered her his
seat" You have my sincere thanks.
sirr' Pat Chogue-" Not at all, mum;
not at all. It's duty we owe to the
sect. Some folks only does it phen a
lass be pretty; but says. says L: the
sect. Pat says 1; mot the indivi-
doolr" Puck.
He Tin a store)-" I'm looking for
something in the shape of a diary
something in which l can record my
daily thoughts and ideas upon current
events" She (new clerk, and eager
to please)-"Oh. yes; you won't want
any thing very large. then. Here's
something. three days to a page;
thirty three cents, please,-thanks. y
Yankee Blade.
Ambitious young musician (ef-
fusively) ~ had the thoughts and
inspirations of the old masters in me
when l composed that. professor"
Professor (sarcastically)-"So you
had. Mr.. Kribber Your composition
contains little of Mozart. Beethoven.
Haydn, Handel. Bach and score of
other famous composers. By the way,
what part Of it is yours?'-JWdse.
-Tourist-"My physician has adj
vised me to locate where may get the
south wind; does it ever blow here?"
Native-"Well. may say as you're
lucky to have come to this place: the
south wind always blows here"
Tourist Always? But it seems to be
blowing from the north now" Native
-"Oh. it may be coming from that
direction now, but it's the south wind;
it's coming back you know. "-Biag-
osnpeon en- ~ RepwblicGs.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-11-15
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Sidney Luska," the novelist, is
Mr.. Henry Harlan.
Mrs. Jessie Wilson Manning. .
lecturer and writer, entered the Iowa
Wesleyan University at the age of if
teen.
Editor Charles A. Dana receives q
royalty of twelve and one-half per
cent on each volume sold of the Amer
lean Cyclopedia, and thus far he has
realized over 500. 600 from this source.
One of the most valuable books in
the remarkably valuable collection Of
Columbia College. New York, is a copy
of the first folio of Shakespeare, print
ed in 1923, of which there are few
duplicates. Its price is estimated at
g. 800 to $500.
1t has finally come OUT that the
passages from a play called "Irus.
attributed to Shakespeare by the Ii
brarian of Stratford-upon-Avon, were
really from a comedy by Shakespeare s
contemporary, Chapman, entitled The
Blind Beggar of Alexandria.
Henry James is usually system
attic in his work. going to his private
apartments at once after breakfast,
and toiling until the noon hour. He
is slow and painstaking in composing,
rewriting and retouching one day
what he has written the day before,
never satisfied with his labor until he
has applied the test OF the real artist
to all he has written.
-Bayard Tuckerman in 1881 was
the only author in New York, accord
ing to the city directory of that year
that is. he is the only person who had
himself put down as an author, al
though at that time Brander Mat
thews, Richard H. Stoddard. E. C..
Stedman. Bronson Howard, Oliver b
Bunce, Edgar Fawcett, Frank r Stock
ton and other well-known authors lived
in New York.
OF the pioneer editors of Illinois,
the three Oldest are Thomas Gregg, of
Hamilton, now in his eightieth year,
whose first journalistic venture was
the establishment of the CdrthaGenia,a
in Hancock County, in 1886; Thomas
Cake Sharp. who started at Warsaw
in 1910, and now in his SEVENTEEN
year. edits the Carthage Gazette. and
James Monroe Dawson, who first
established the Fulton Gazette at Can
ton in 1913. and now conducts the
Carthage Republican.
Colonel John A. Joyce. who wrote
Ella Wheeler Wilcox's poem. Laugh
and the World Laughs with You" re-
Gently said: Il have travelled in every
country of the globe. have had deal
ings with the white, the black and the
red. l speak several languages.
have seen prosperity and enjoyed it. ]
have seen adversely; l know what it is
now. have been in the insane asylum
and in the penitentiary. have never
yet been in corner that didn't get
out of it. l have never been broke
very long, for just when the day seemed
the darkest, the dollar turned up some
how. l wonder why was born"
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-11-15
wooocnucx.s suRRows.
4 Sportsman Who Examlned Them Telh
How They Are Constructed

4 Sportsman Who Exanined Them TEN
How They Arc Constructed
Through some parts Of the State OF
Connecticut it would be hard to pick
out a clover field of any size that did
not have a woodchuck burrow in some
part of it. Sometimes they choose a
site somewhere under the stone wall
which surrounds the field. or if there
is large rock, as is often the case,
anywhere about the middle OF the
field, the animal will burrow under
this as a very choice location. Finally
the roots of an old apple tree or other
tree are often chosen for its strong
hold, the burrow being dug down
among them, the owner seeming to
possess realizing sense that no one
would ever dream of attempting to
dislodge him from such quarters. As
is the case with the excavations made
for their habitations BY most fossorial
mammals. the burrow of a woodchuck
at first descends obliquely into the
earth, then passes nearly horizontally
for several feet, rises moderately for
the last half of its length to terminate
in quite a spacious and round chamber,
which constitutes the Giving room" Of
the entire family. In it the female
brings forth her litter and the young
remain there until they pair off and
dig their own homes elsewhere.
Such a burrow may be at least thirty
feet in length, so long that one never
thinks of digging wcodchuck out,
but have seen farmers bring up two
or three barrels OF water on a cart and
drown the occupant of this subter-
ranean establishment on a short notice
and rejoice most heartily if the pair
and perhaps seven or eight quarter
grown young are caught in at the same
time. Very often l have captured
them in steel traps set at the mouth of
the burrows, taking the precaution to
sprinkle it carefully over with fine
dirt. One old woodchuck. l renem-
Der, constructed his burrow almost in
the center of a twenty-acre clover lot,
and every attempt to capture him in
any kind of trap utterly failed. 1t was
the rarest thing in the world to even
catch him standing up at the entrance
of his burrow during the day, but fire.
quently we would see him just head
and shoulders out of it. 1t seems to
me l must have fired thirty or forty
times at him under such circumstances
from the outer side of the stone wall
which surrounded the field, and that,
too. with a heavy old-fashioned muz-
zle-loading Kentucky rifle, which at
seventy-tive to one hundred yards was
good nearly every time for all small
game. But here every shot failed; a
cloud of dust would pull up at the very
entrance of the burrow each time and
would confidently walk over to pick
him out, but no, next day at noon he
YVES there again, looking out as smil-
ing as ever. He was captured finally
by my cruelty tying a Colts revolver
to stout stake driven down within a
few feet of the burrow and training the
aim down the entrance and then tying
a long string to the trigger. waited
behind the wall till he again showed
himself. when the success of the device
sealed his doom. Poorest and Stream.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-11-15
TRAINING CHILDREN.

The Importance of Installing Into Their
Hearts Right Motives for Action.
While we are making beautiful orna-
ments for our rooms, and lovely pict-
ures to hang on our walls. to delight
the hearts and eyes of our children
and friends. are we trying. also. to
adorn the lives of our children by in
sitting into their hearts and minds
right principles and motives for ac-
ton? Let us remember that memory's
hall is spacious chamber. capable of
containing many pictures, and that
the scenes being enacted, daily and
yearly, before our children's eyes. and
in which they are taking part, are
forming pictures; and, unlike those on
our walls, they are to remain there
through life. If they are not pleas
ing they can not be exchanged or
effaced; so, don't you see how i'm
portant 1t Is that we are very careful
in their formation? How much bet
ter it will be in after years, when they
grow up. to be able to call up pictures
of green meadows, murmuring brook
lets, the delightful woods. filled with
harmless and beautiful creatures. and
fragrant wild flowers, than to remem-
Der these places only as they were
represented to their youthful minds as
the lurking place of something dread
full: toads, worms. bugs, and. as have
heard children say, wildcats Is big
as cow"
Let us try and teach our children to
be happy and enjoy their childhood
while it lasts. Sympathize with them
and try to call out all the good and
beautiful in their natures by calling
their attention to some of the thousands
Of wonderful and lovely objects all
around them. Tell them of the butter
fly and the changes through which it
must pass before it becomes the COR
geous creature sailing among the flow
ers. and of the nests of the robin or
brown thrush, with their treasures OF
eggs or young birds. to be sought for.
looked at and admired, but not harmed.
Teach them the names of all the trees
and plants, and the different kinds OF
birds in their vicinity. with something
of their habits. and they will soon
learn to love the study of nature. and
their minds and hands will be occupied
for
There's beauty all around US, il but our watch.
full eyes
Can trace IL mid familiar things and through
their lowly guise.
Hours at Home.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-11-15

A GREAT mistake perhaps was made when
DR.. Sherman named his great remedy
Prickly Ash BITTKRs; but it is presumed
that at that time all remedies for the blood,
ETC., were called Bitters. Had he called il
Prickly Ash Regulator" Curative" or
almost anything but Buffers, it undoubtedly
would have superseded all other prepare
tons Of similar character. The name Bit
tiers Is misleading; it IS purely medicine,
and can not be used as beverage.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-11-15

SMITH with smiling face)-What have
you got the blues about!
JoNRs-Nothing to do. Times are dull
SNITH-Well, now, old fellow, am glad
I struck up with you. You SIT right down
and write to b. F. johnson & Co., of Rich
mond, Va, and they will put you in q way
to make money faster than you ever did be-
fore. I was out Of work. too, but began a
little correspondence with them and now /
am growing fat and rich. Too busy to talk
longer now.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-11-15

An old observer tells that ones
eyebrows are an infallible guide to his
age. No matter, he says, how young
looking the person may be, if his eye
brows lack a gloss and do not lie fiat
and smooth, he is no longer young
man.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-11-15
Living on the Reputation Of Others,

"Take everything that I have but my
good name: leave me that and am con-
tent" So said the philosopher. So say all
manufacturers of genuine articles to that
horde of imitators which thrives upon the
reputation of others. The good name of
ALLCOCK's Porous PLAsrERs has induced
many adventures to put in the market i'm
itations that are not only lacking in the
best elements of the genuine article, but
are often harmful in their effects.
The public should be on their guard
against these frauds, and, when an exter-
nal remedy is needed, be sure to insist upon
having ALLCOCK's Porous PLASTER.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-11-15
rnE m,xooo WIDOW.

Her UAoovlAAle Let 0FaDA1Anny D0oo91Do0
~ One q Her CoantEyvo0sa.
No sooner does . Hindoo woman, be
she fifteen or fifty, lose her husband.
than the persecution of custom begins.
. Her locks are ruthlessly
shaved clean OF at the instigation OF
the butcher-priest In these matters
the feelings of the unfortunate victim
are of no account, and her piteous pro-
tests are usually rudely ignored. From
this moment she is the incarnation OF
all that is unlucky or inauspicious.
Her presence is summed; she is leper
of society, doomed to pass her life in
seclusiOn, and not allowed to mix free
~ with her people. If the unfortu-
nate creature unwittingly intrudes her
odious presence on any occasion of JOY
or festivity. the company curses her
presence and regards it as an evil
omen. sure to be followed by some
great calamity. Be it known that the
company which curses her very exist
ence is mostly composed of her dear
and near relatives. If an orthodox
Hindoo starts on an enterprise, but, as
i'll luck would have it, describes poor
widow on the road. he curses her to
the fourth generation, laments his un-
fortunate lot, and prays his $50, OOO,-
600 of gods to avert the certain mis-
fortune which the evil omen &. G., the
widow portends. The widow is an OBJ
ject of contempt and scorn to her very
relatives, though occasionally these
feelings are tempered with pity. Amid
whatever luxuries a Hindoo woman
might have been nurtured, no sooner
is she stamped with the stigma of wild
owhood than she must pay the pen
atty of her existence. She must put
on coarse garments and eat unsavory
food. and that, too, in many families but
once day. The mental work OF the
family becomes her lot as matter of
course. She must observe all the fasts.
of which the Hindoo calendar is very
prolific, and for her spiritual comfort
is ostensibly prescribed a round of
rigid austerities the weary monotony
and unflinching severity of which is
potent enough to extinguish whatever
spirit of mind and body she may have
at one time possessed. Any laxity in
the observance Of the prescribed
course of penance is sufficient to scan
dalize the relatives of the widow and
is regarded as strange perversity, if
not downright turpitude. /
entreat my countrymen to judge of the
miseries of widows by transferring the
same penalties to men. Suppose it
had been enacted that when q man
lost his wife he should continue cell
bate, live on coarse fare. to be tabooed
from society, should continue to wear
mourning weeds for the remainder OF
his life, and practice, whether he would
or no. never-ending austerities- in
short, if widowers were subjected to
the same hard lot as the widows, ]
ask would my countrymen not have
long since revolted against such in
human treatment.-A Hindoo Lady.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-11-15
To Take French Leave.

II we could only persuade that unwelcome
visitant, chills and fever, to do this, We
would be fortunate. But while we can't ex
actIy make it 'cut and rum" we can uproo,
IT'S hold upon the system in time with Hos
letters Stomach Bitters. This is known
wherever malaria is periodical caller. Il
Is, also, matter of wide information tina,
the Bitters cures biliousness, dyspepsia
debility and rheumatism.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-11-15

Send your address for FREE BOOK on
the Liver, its Diseases and Treatment, to
Dr. Sanford, 23l Broadway, New York.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-11-15

"A lady Of Wrightsville, Ga. put
up lot Of preserves and seasoned
them with what she supposed to be
ginger. What was her horror to find
aftsrward that instead Of ginger she
had used snuif.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-11-15

SoxE men are always willing to stand W
for the ladies excepting, perhaps, in q
horse-car.- YOnkeys Stdtesman
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-11-15

NrrRAfE Of siIver-the change paid To-
half-price telegram
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-11-15

WHY is the vowel o the only one
sounded! Because all the others are in
audible.-N T. Mad and Erprcss.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-11-15

A SORE Throat or Cough, if suffered to
progress, often results In an incurable
throat or lung trouble. "Br0Cn's Bronchial
Tfoehes" give instant relief.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-11-15

MANY Q fellow who Is whole souled has
to 20 to a shoemaker and get half-soled.-
DGnsr1s Breeze
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-11-15

SILENCE is never more golden than when
the silent partner has q boodle.-Neso Hauez
Nesce.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-11-15

If afflicted with Sore Eyes use DR.. Isaac
Thompson's Eye Water. Druggists sell it 25c
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-11-15

Tm washe-woman. like the poet spend
. good deal Of time over line and md
life full Of hard ruba-Bostos Cosri@.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-11-15

A "BRorH OF BOT" ought to mako Z
good "supe."-Asrpsr's BasaT.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-11-15

Az after-dinner speech-s.How much i
nv bill!"-Acrchdnt Trureler
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-11-15

AcToRs, Vocalists, Public Speakers praise
Hale's Honey Of Horehound and Tar
Pixies TOothache Drops Cure in one minute.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-11-15

II young lady's maiden aim is success
full, she has no maiden name.-Dctr0n Fra
Prces.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-11-15

SoMRfINEs in trade . man kicks who
there il nothing to boot-BostoN Rosk
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-11-15

A coUxrHR irritant-The customer VII
overhauls but never buys.-TnA
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-11-15

TIE exercising of horses Just before ,
race il the preamble.-PutsbuspA CIsossiclG
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-11-15

II il claimed that all ascending cash
iers are ex-checker players.-DsslsthR wa
WupAex.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-11-15

Now TKAf they have machines for row.
ing on wheels there may yet be a mven-
ton that win enable . man to paddle hin
own canoe without getting into deep
Observation-Disclosures AmesioGA
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-11-15

The higher the price the smaller the ton q
coal.-N T. Evening Sun
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-11-15

TIE man who brings suits Is always
somewhat sad. There is something plain
tiff about him.-PinsbayDh Chronicle
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-11-15

WORDS Of cheer Hurrahi TgeriH
Te1ds Sytin0s.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-11-15

TINE is short, but the tallest man c.,
never get ahead of it.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-11-15

The typewriter has banished much bad
writing, but t can't overcome the bad
Spelling.-E. o. Rc0v1Ine.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-11-15

IT is an odd fact that coal beds are fur
nished with petroleum springs -Drokes
N0Odxi,k.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-11-15

A GREAT yarn-the Golden Fleece.
Life.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-11-15

A nAszza Of oorss dissection.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1888-06-30
PiTH AND POINT.

Col gives every bird lis food. but
1oes hot throw it into the nes'.
Among the books that have helped
them, pugilisis always enumerate the
scrap book. Puck.
The man who has worked himself
up in this world is always the hardest
On those beneath him. Judge.
All men are bora free an equal,
according to law; but all of them do
not stay that way.-M o. Heayune.
"A good many of the people who
are settling in Clrada are those who
have neglected to do any settling over
here - Yonkers Statesman.
Nothing will make healthy man
;ired quicker than reading a long list
Of rules for good health. -MarthG's 5
Vineyard Herald
If the world were willing to accept
most men at their own valuation it
would have to go into voluntary bank
ruptcy in a fortnight. -SomervuLe
Journal.
we sleep. but the loom of life
never stops; and the pattern which
was weaving when the sun went
down, is weaving when it comes up
tomorrow.
The woman who shows her love
of admiration has not been spoiled by
dattery. Oily the spoiled girls take
- rIoT.1 L.
CaIL
The man who borrows one dollar
from you and neglec!s to return it is
often thought 10 have poor memory,
when. in fact. the man is poor; and
not the memory.
There once was lover named Bogg
With a voice like that of a frogg,
Meath her window he'd ling
Er of ev'nings and sing
Till his trousers were chawed by the doge
N Y Star.
The habit of studying before pro,
ceeding is co-existent with the neces-
sity of considering before acting; and
man who is reticent concerning one
half of his thoughts is not commune
catlve about the other half
The men who get through the
most work are those who never seem
to be busy. while those who have
morbid habit of being busy and never
have moments leisure are the
worst ofstime-wasters.
Take care of the truth. and the
errors will take care of themselves.
You may destroy hundred heresies.
and yet not establish single truth.
But you may, by establishing single
truth, put to flight with one blow a
hundred heresies. Dean Stanley.
In civilized society, external ad-
vantages make us more respected. A
man with good coat upon his back
meets with better reception than he
who has bad one. You may analvze
this and say, what is there in it? But
that will avail you nothing. for it is
part of the general system.