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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-06-14

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ARMORY AFFAIRS.

ARMOKI Ar T AIMS
The building of joint armory by
the rifle companies of this city has
been mooted. There is no good reason
why the project should not succeed.
Much might be urged in its favor. The
citizens of San Antonio have reaped
only benefit from these organizations,
and with very few exceptions San
Antonians have done nothing for the
benefit of the rifle companies. Now is
a good opportunity for them to come
forward and show their good Will.
Houston proposes a $4,000 armory for
her Light Guards. San Antonio can
provide good accommodations for her
rifle companies for one-fifth that
amount. The companies are now pay
ing $50 each per month for armory
quarters. This $1,000 a year, clean
cash taken out of the funds of the
companies, could be made available
for the purpose of building an armory
that would be every way more suit
able for drill purposes than either
of the quarters now occupied.
The rentals for one year would
secure ground upon which to
cnstruct the building, and it
may be that the owner of such land
as is selected would make material
discount on price for this purpose, if
not donate in full. The citizens
should raise by subscription the
amount needed for site. There would
be no trouble in the companies secur-
ing funds wherewith to build if they
had the deed of grounds in their pos
session. The building could be erect
ed for from s., 800 to $1,000. Interest
at ten per cent upon this amount
would leave over and above the pres
ent rentals of the armOries at least
5000 year as a sinking fund, and
with what donations could be secured
| from time to time, the companies
would own their armory in the course
of two or three years, and feel little,
or no additional burden of expense.
1t would not be necessary to build
deliberately. A rOomy building, plain
and substantial enough for the pur
pose, can be erected within the
amount above specified. Atleast this
is the opinion of those who have given
some thought and consideration to the
matter.
The LIGHT sincerely hopes that
something definite will result from
the agitation of this subject. The
young men composing these military
companies have been most faithful
and earnest in perfecting themselves
in the drill and manual and have re-
Elected great credit upon this city
whenever they have appeared in the
competitions of the tented field and
met the rifle companies of other cities
and of other states in fair rivalry. 1t
has been at much personal sacrifice
and expenditure of time and money
that these young men have accom-
plished these results and advertised
this city at home and abroad. 1t is
not just, il is not generous to expect
them to bear these burdens unaided,
and now that our citizens have an op-
portunity of showing their apprecia-
ton of the good work done for the
Alamo city by her rifle companies, it
is most sincerely to be hoped that they
will not be backward in NANTES ting it
in some substantial way.
PRICES of labor are scaling down
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THE clans are already gathering in
Chicago and there will be music in
the air, between now and the close of
the convention. The choice for first
place is narrowing down to Gresham,
Allison and Sherman. There will be
more rumOrs floating around to be
caught up by press correspondents
and wired over the country than it
will pay to listen to. Let the republic
cans keep cool and wait the issue of
the convention, then take off their
coats, go to work and elect it's stan
dard bearer.
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TEXAS, AS sECoND-CLAss MATTER.
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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-06-14

PRICES of labor are scaling down
all over the country as a necessary
consequence of the free trade agita-
ton. Manufacturers are notifying
their operatives that reductions must
be made or business must come to a
stand still. The workingmen of this
country will hardly vote the bread
and meat out of their mouths, and
the mouths Of their families, this cam
paign.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-02-23
INVENTION s ire ssy nsa'd snz:

ing the last half century. Not least among
the wonders of inventive progress is Il method
and system of work that can be performed all
over the country without separating the work
ers from their homes. Pay liberal: anyone
can do the work: either sex: young or old: no
special ability required. Capital not needed;
you are started free. Cut this out and return
to US and we will serd you free. something of
great value and importance to you. that will
start you in business, which will bring ytu in
more money right away, than anything else
in the world. Grand outfit free. Address,
True II CO., Augusta, Maine. 443
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-02-23
SEEDS! SEEDS!
The largest and best
assortment of field and
garden seeds in north
west Kansas at the
Horseshoe Grocery.
MCCORMICK & BoTT.
II who read this nd then act:

NUS"6u who read this and then act;
they will find honorable employment that will
rot take them from their homes and families
The profits are large and sure for every indus
making several hundred dollars month. 1t
is easy for any one to make 81 and upwards
per day, who is willing to work. Either sex,
young or old; capital not needed: we start
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Quired: you. reader. can de it as well as any
one. Write to us at once for full particulars
which we will mail. Address, Stinson Il Co,
Portland Maine. AS
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-02-23


last
A number of interesting letters from
correspondents have to lie over this week
owing to lack of space.
Visitors to our city are on the increase.
These come here with a view to purchase
county or city property. and few, if any,
go away without investing.
Mrs. Eddy, mother of DR.. V. G. Eddy,
well known and popular physician of
Colby, who has been visiting her son
here for several weeks. departed on Sat
urday last on her return to her New
York home
The city council met on special call on
Tuesday evening to appoint committee
to condemn the right of way through
Colby for the c. X. & n. Ry., and to ar
range to call an election to vote $4,000
city bonds to pay therefor but adjourned
to Friday night without any action.
The Herald editor wishes to state to
the people, that Colby is the best town
in Western Kansas, and in less than two
years it will be the greatest Railroad cen
ter in this part Of Kansas. 1t has the
men, it has country around it, and she
will get there with both feet -McAllaster
Herald.
The Kansas Pioneer, ofSmith county,
says pointcdly: The C. X. & n. has sub
mitted propositions to the people of
Thomas county to the amount of $780,
600. The road will probably be built
through that county if the bonds are
voted We can assure our Thomas cOun-
ty friends that the c. X. & N. people
mean business when they ask for bonds.
We have letter from one Charles
Massie, denouncing railroads. monop-
olies and county officials. which is of
such extra length that we cannot publish
it. A newspaper letter should be short
and to the point Such we are glad to re-
ceive and publish. As Mr.. Massie has
evidently spent much time on his com
munication the same has been preserved
and he can have it on calling at thi S
Office.
We make a specially of city
property, vacant and improve
ed-McGonigal & Son.
ADVERTISED LETTERS.
Letters remaining In the Colby Post
Office for the week ending Feb. IS. 1898.
| l,ollin.- Gnac y Iu&ahincou Nr II !.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-02-23

on Tuesday night
Burlington has organized Board Of
Trade.
The new $4,000 brick school house is
nearing completion.
G.. r. Bennett, of the Chicago Lumber
company. called on us last Friday, hunt
ing Oberlin exchanges.
$. H. Tindall and Albert Hemming.
two prominent citizens of Atwood, We're
seen on our streets on Saturday last.
Poll TAX.-Poll tax Is due March lst.
Call at }, E. Meglemre' Office on or after
said date and pay same.
J. F. MEGLEMRE,
City Treasurer.
Street crossings on Fifth street and
Franklin Avenue and sidewalks Oh the
north side of 4th and 9th street running
west. and one on Franklin Avenue run
ming north to the ArmOry, improve the
walking in our city decidedly.
Capt. d. n. Hamilton, of Summers
township, an old soldier, and one of the
prominent farmers of that township,
called on us on Tuesday. Capt Hamil-
ton says that farming and spring work
is going on in his neighDOrhood now in
earnest Call again, Captain; we would
he pleased to see you.
Hon. A. X. Greene and James Hum
phrey. of the Kansas State Board of
Railroad Commissioners passed through
Colby on Friday, en- route home from
Atwood, where they had been called to
investigate complaint against the B. Il
VI. r. r., made by the citizens of that
enterprising city. that said road would
not provide it with station privileges.
The establishment of station facilities
for Atwood, we are glad to state. was
the result of the visit Hon. Humphrey
favored the CAT office with pleasant
call
j. E. Feely, the Star Grocer is making
some large improvements. He will build
IA large store of brick and iron, the room
to be 24x50 feet on the inside and the
building to be two stories high. The
store room will be on the location OF his
old store on South Franklin Avenue
Work on the building is being rapidly
prosecuted at the present time.
On Friday Morning. Feb. 18th, there
w.S horn IN Mrs and Mr. VIM Tate
fine 10 pound boy. The Red Front was
illumined with smiles all day and We al
81 ,,-;4L NI,., Iata L. Our cornraf
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-02-23
WALL PAPER.

We have just received at the Palace
Drug Store 5000 rolls of wall paper,
gilt. satin, mica, white blank. brown
blank. fine decorations to suit, and are
now prepared to furnish paper Or
take contracts to complete houses at
lower prices than any other house in
northwest Kansas.
MARTIN 4 HAMPTON.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-02-23

Letters remaining IN the Colby Post
Office for the week ending Feb IS. 1888.
Collins, Chas. B.: Hutchinson, Mr. H, !;
Hall, Mr.. Bert.
Parties calling for the above letters will
please say advertised
| cent due on each on the above for
advertising. JAMES n. FIKE, p NJ.
We have on our books 200
thousand acres of choice
Thomas county land-Mc.
Gonigai & Son.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-05-17
Women in Chinese Prisons.

Down stone alley, where policemen
sprawled in hunks and comfortably
smoked their opium, and chickens
pecked at the hard stones for an occa-
sional crumb, we went to the women's
quarter. The court was quite the same
AS on the mems side. the shackled pris-
oners roaming with free hands and
swarming about us with their hands
waving in the air. like the tentacles of
devil fish about to close upon us.
Their clamor for "cumshaw" was
even wilder and iiercer than the mems.
for there is nothing shriller and sharp
er than the voice of the female Chin
csc, and it seemed as If some of the old
hays and young harpies meant to tear
us with their dirty claws il we attemp-
ted to escape with our purses. During
the riot at the gateway an aged female
prisoner wearing huge, horn-brimmed
spectacles that made her look like an
old owl. sat placdly on chair with
her dwarf feet propped on stool,
mending some dirty rags. She smiled
benignly on us, gave rather CHEEKY
thanks for bit of silver and was alto
gether q unique thing in prisoners. -
Canton Letter in 50. Louis Globe Demo
crdk.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-05-17
FRO BE Continued
Were Explained.

They were at the breakfast table
The eldest daughter had not made her
appearance.
~ here is Hatte?' asked the father
Hattie is not very well this morning.
She has he idache.
Yes, pa, HIATT e's awful sick
so spoke up the little brother
What the mater with herg
i don't know. | don't think she's
very ILL.,, said the mother.
'les, she is awful sick said the
boy, and | know what's the matter
with her
What is it?'
Last night she and George Smith
had an awful row and fight.
What A fight What do YOU mean''
Il was asleep an woke up, and they
was in the parlUr down stairs, and he
was awful mad He was shoutin' and
screami-' and stlmpin' and she was
cryin' TO him to stop. An | crceped
down stars and poeped through the
keyhole, an he was just givin' it to her.
Then they Quoted down an | seen him
kiss her.
- his is terrible Has Hattie said
anything TO you" said father TO mother
Not word
lust then u attic made her appearance,
languid and tired looking
What this trouble between you and
George? Has he been insulting you
Why didn't you tell me about itP' said
the father
About whatP'
Then they told her the small boy s
story. She took the small boy by the
ear
You little imp! Why, pa, George is
going to play 'Othello' at the amateur
theatricals, and we were rehearsing the
jealousy scene.
PLAY acting ealous alreadyr said
the old man. why don't YOU wait till
you're married, and you'll get the real
thing more than you WANT?
The small boy has come 10 the con-
clusion that things are not what they
seem, and he'll find out before he
speaks next time. He's very sorry
about it.-San Francisco Chronicle.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-05-17
STRIVING FOR FAME.

l started on Ion ~ road;
A few companion, with me went;
Some fell behind. some TO wa,d strobe,
Tut all ON one high purEo-e bent;
To live for nature finding truth
In bea ty and the shrine o art;
To consecrate our joyous youth
To aims outside the common mart
i turned aside and fingered long
To pluck rose. to hear bird;
To muse, while lis ening TO the song
OF brooks through leafy covers heard;
To live in thoughts that rought no fame
Or guerdOn from the thoughtless crowd;
TO toll for end that could not aim
The worlds applauses, Goa Sc and loud.
But STILL though OF bind my sheaf
In fields my comrades have not known,
Though t Is long and life is brief,
And youth has now forever flown,
/ would not lose the rapture sweet
Mr. scosn the toll of earlier years;
Still would I climb with eager feet,
Though towering height on height ap.
pears.
C. Il. Cranch.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-05-17

doubt, missing its protector embrace.
opened its eyes and began to struggle.
II would have rolled of the seat. had
not its enforced guardian. who was a
good-satured. kind hearted young fell
low, picked it up and transferred it to
his knee.
He meant well, although he did not
handle it very skillfully A man must
go through course of painful expert
ences before he learns how to handle a
child properly. Our friend did his
best, but so clumsily that the wooden
shawl fell from the child, and disclosed
a large ticket sewn on TO the dress be-
meath. On it was written, "H. Talbert,
Esq, Hazelwood House, Oakbury, near
Blacktown." Then he settled down to
do the best he could toward supplying
the place of the missing woman until
the stoppage at Swindon might bring
deli erance.
Swindon at last, Here the ill-use
traveller called the guard, and as that
official is of course paid TO undertake
all sorts of delicate and unforeseen
duties, with perfect fairness shifted all
further responsibility on to his should
ers, resumed the perusal of his book,
and troubled no more about the matter
The guard, without disputing his
| position of guardian to all unprotected
travellers, hardly knew what to do in
the present emergency. he hope that
the foolish mother had managed to get
into another carriage was dispelled by
her not making her appearance He
was also puzzled by the careful way in
which the child was labeled. This
guard had seen some curious things in
his time, and, as the missing woman
had left not scrap of luggage behind,
thought it not improbable that the
desertion of the child was due TO inten-
| ton, not accident. At first he thought
of leaving the tiny derelict at Swindon,
on the chance that the mother would
arrive by the next train from Didcot.
But the more he thought the matter
over the more convinced he felt that
no mother would arrive by the ext or
any following train. Being himself Il
family man, and feeling most kindly
dis osed toward the little golden head
which nestled in the most confiding
way against his great brown beard. he
decided 10 take the child on TO Black
town. and thence forward it as ad
dressed. 'e pulled a couple of cush-
ions out of first class carriage, put
them in one corner of his van, and
tucked up little Golden-head as snugly
as any mother could have done; so
snugly and comfortably that the child
at once closed its blue eyes and slept
until the train reached Blacktown.
here the guard carried the little
fellow into the refreshment-room. and,
leaving him in charge of the pleasant
young ladies, went to look for a sober,
yet speculative man who would take
the child to Oakbury on the chance of
being paid for his trouble. He even
repaid out of his prospective reward -
| for cab hire.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-05-17

dren He did not tell them this in
preached il to them most eloquently,
and was more than content, ard felt
that the fruits of his training were show
ing themselves, when his daughter
married Sir Maingay Clauson, fairly
respectable and well-to-do baronet.
This satisfactory alliance gave the
Talberts lift in the social scale;
although, so far as Oakbury was con-
cerned, it was little needed Mr.. Tai
bert had now been out OF business for
at least ten years. He was quiet, gen
t'emanly, and, if no. retiring at least
unobtrusive. Cont mt as he no doubt
felt on his own account, he neverthe
less. held up their sisters brilliant
match as an example to his sons, and
talked so much about the necessity OF
their choos ng their intimates iittinglv
that it is II marvel the young men did
not speedily develop into fools or snobs.
The worst that could be urge |
against the ralberts was this. From
the very first they had told themselves:
1--WE can find as pleasant and as true
friends among the upper ten thousand
among those who do not make Their
living by barter-as we can among
commercial people. Let us therefore
only assoc ate with the best. A man
has an undoubted right to choose his
own friends. We shall not 60 out OF
our way to toady TO the great, but with
our ideas on the subject we can only
make associates of those whom we con-
slider the proper class of people. A
duke of BadmintOn may associate with
whomsoever he chooses. He is always,
per sc, the duke We are not dukes
Cur father made his money in-well
never mind what. We are not even
millionaires. We have enough wealth
to live comfortably and like gentlemen,
but not enough to roll in. If we 60
hand in glove with oil, tobacco, corn,
sugar, etc. we must, on account of the
narrow distance which divides us from
the status of commerce. sink 10 the
level, or at least get COMPOUNDED with
those useful, respectable, pro table,
but, to us distasteful commodities
Therefore it behooves us to be astidious
even to fault.
FRO RE CONTINTEDl
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-05-17
And This is Craddock Literature.

What have you for the short storyP
asked the editor of one of the leading
american magazines, lighting match
across the scanned and furrowed face
of the weather beaten Office towel. "A
romance of Georgia in corn cracker
dialect replied the foreman of the
leading American magazine, lifting the
Pears soap advertisement and placing
it between '6eraline Flakes and the
Toothpowder poetry Mountains in
itp' asked the editor. ')ssa, Pelion,
Olympus and old Shasta. replied the
foreman, who had studied the old
classics at the Peoria high school.
'Moonshinersp' Ten to begin with,
nine dead and one married in the last
paragraph. 'Moon?' All the way
way through Full moonP' Full as
a tick 'Insstent?' Part of the time. '
Chuck her in, and the editor sat down
to make out some bills for job work
printing, the dead silence of the sane
tum sanctorum was family broken BY
the patient ticking of the delinquent
subscription list. --Burdette.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-05-17
Well.KnOwn Authors.

A true story of the perplexity of a
graduate of the Boston English High
School over word that he found &C.
curing with vexatious frequency in the
footnotes of work that he read recent
ly.
DO YOU know he asked, who Ibid,
the author, WASP I've been reading a
book that has lots of extracts from his
writings in it, and can't find his name
in any cyclopedia.
The young man was told that he was
a relative of the distinguished author
Anon, who has written some of the most
beautiful things in the English Ian
guage. Boston Transcript
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-05-17
A Case for Bonds

An Austin colored man, with protrud-
ing eyes, rushed into Justice Togner' S
Office and exclaimed:
Il wants Col. Jones, who Ibis mex
door to me, put under $1,000, 600 bonds
ter keep de peace.
HAS he threatened your lifep'
He has done dat berry ding. He
said he war g'wine ter fiji de mex mig
gah he found after dark in his hen
house plum full OBJ buckshot. Texas
Siftings.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-05-17

"Who was the wisest manp' ask the
Sunday school teacher.
Solomon" promptly replied 2 little
girl.
"And who was the holiestp'
"'Moses."
"Mosesl What makes you think sor'
because often hear papa speak
ing of Holy Moses.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-05-17
BLOOD TAINT FROM BIRTH.

BONNEVILLE. Ind January % 1887.
shall ever praise the day that you gentlemen were
born and shall bless the day that your medicine was
known TO me. had blood poison from birth, and so
much that an the doctors OF my town faid would
be crippled for life They said would lose my lower
limb could stand In my class TO recite lessons.
and eleven bottles of b. B. b. cured me sound and
well. You can use my name as you see Mt In my
case there knots my shinbones as large as q
hens egg. Yours gratefully; MRTLE N. TANNER.
Address BLOOD BALM CO., Atlanta Ia