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Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-10-18

The senate tariff bill will make re-
auctions of revenue aggregating about
$40, 600, 900, and it will be accom-
plished without injury to a single
American industry. The bill contem-
plates an abolition of the internal tax
on tobacco, which will amount to
about $50, 600 year; s3O,OOO,-
600 by reducing duty on sugar and
making some additions to the free
list, and s1O,OOO,OOO by the abolition
of internal tax on alcohol used in
manufacturing. The sugar dealers
have said the reduction on their prod.
uct will still leave them handsome
profit. The additions to the free list
are articles not produced in this coun.
Try, and are about one-quarter of the
Mills bill free list.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-10-18

The great State reunion of the G..
A. r. of Kansas, held at Topeka dur
ing the week ending Oct. 9th was one
Of the grandest and most successful
occasions of the kind ever held in the
State of Kansas. Topeka fairly out
did herself in her entertainment o
her veteran guests, WHO enjoyed them
selves to the full, in speech, song
camp fire Renaissance, the renel al O
comrades, ship and the din of the shan
battle.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-10-18

The Kansas City Star offers the fol.
lowing prizes for tree-planting in ives.
tern Kansas. The showing is to be
made on November LIST, 1888, and will
consist of the largest number of living
trees planted either in the fall of 1888
or the spring of 1SS9-no two prizes
to be awarded in any one township
The prizes run about as follows: Fol
the largest number of trees on one
section, 800; for the second largest
number, $50; for the third largest
number, $50: for the fourth, $40; fol
the fifth. $50; for the sixth, $50; fos
the seventh, $40; for the eighth, $50;
for the ninth, $50; for the tenth, SO.
The firm of Bullene, Moore, Emery &
Co will duplicate the prizes, the whole
will be under the management of the
Kansas State Board Of Agriculture
and the Commissioners of Forestry.
Now why isn't this good chance for
some of our folks to show what Thorn
as county can raise in the way of
trees?
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-10-18
THE SOCIAL LADDER.


4 Clever illustrator q tie Upo -
Downs Of EAmIlioo.
Every b.dy knows tho way up the
social ladder. It has been shown q
those below by millions Of twinkling
feet It is . broad ladder up which
people are always climbing: some
slowly. some quickly. From corduroy
to broad cloth; from workshop to
counter; from shop boy to master;
from shop to Office; from trade 10 pro-
fession; from the bedroom over the
shop to the great country villa Tho
other day bricklayer told me that
his grandfather and the first Lord q 5
father were old pals; they used to go
poaching together; but the parent Of
Lord O was so clever as to open q
shop where he sold what his friend
poached The shop began it. you
sea The way up is known
to every body. But there is another
way which we seldom regard; it
is the way down again. The Family
Rise is the commonest phenomenon.
Is not the name Legion of those 9:
whom mon say. partly with the ,rada
Of connecting themselves VII 1re.t.
ness partly with the ma mo, .ies;ra
which small men alw~ % show tn tar
away .'wsS something ng of that greatness
Mny. ! kner :, him when his father
, nau '"a' shop" The Family Fall is
:. conspicuous. Yet there are al
{ ways as many going down as climb
ing up. You can not in fact stay
still You must either climb or slip
down-unless. indeed. you have got
your leg over the topmostrung. which
means the stability of q hereditary
title and landed property. We all
ought to have hereditary titles and
landed property, in order TO insure
national prosperity forever. Novel.
lists do not, as a rule. treat of the
Sinking Back, because it is depress.
ing subject. There are many
ways of falling. Mostly, the
father makes an ass of himself
in the way of business or specula tion,
sess none of their fathers ability, or
they take to drink. Anyhow, down
goes the family; at first slowly. but
with ever-increasing rapidity. back to
its original level. There is no country
in the w0rld-cer, ainly not the United
States-where young man may rise
to distinction with greater ease than
this realm of the Three Kingdoms.
There is also none where the fanilie.
show a greater alacrity in sinking.
But the most reluctant to 60 down,
those who cling most tightly to the
social level which they think they have
reached. are the daughters; so that
when misfortunes fall upon Them they
are ready to deny themselves every
thing rather than lose the social dig.
nifty which they think belongs to them
Walter Besant. in Longma's's Aaga-
zine.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-10-18

"A sort of horse kindergarten mas
been established in New York City ior
the purpose of training horses for he
Fire Department The system is based
on tho principles Of induction aud
obiect-teaching. and is domin ated BY
absolute and unremii ting kindness
The whip is never used. The horses
Learn rapidly, like their work. and be
come - enthusiastic in running with
the machine - tho old voluntses
1renen were in their palmiest dAJA
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-10-18
Hon Hill =. Wilson is maxi

Hon. Hill 7. Wilson is making q
fine canvass for the position of state
senator. and creates a favorable i'm.
preston wherever he speaks; the far
mers and business men in this dis
trct recognize in Mr.. Wilson capa
BILE. practical representative of west
ern Kansas enterprise, and will elect
him to the state senate by an increas
ed majority over the vote of -four
years ago.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-10-18

McElroy is bowling because Con
gresham Turner will not leave con-
gress to take part in joint discussion
with him. McElroy has the big head
his speeches need no reply, because
they are largely made up of assertion.
McElroy is indeed vain if he thinks
that the bombast he is giving the
public needs any answer.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-10-18

Mr.. Blaine makes the point that
from 1889 to 1885 the veto power OF
the president was used seventy-five
times. To date President Cleveland
has used the veto power over 300
times, 2O6 times to veto bills to PEN
sion veterans of the late war.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-10-18
According to q statement prepart

According to statement prepared
by clerk of the Ways and. Means
committee, the total amount of duties
affected by the Mills tariff bill was in
1887, S179, al, $3.50. The total amount
of duties remitte ! by the bill is 49,.
1885, 40. This latter amount is over
q per cent of the former, and shows
copclusiveiy that the actual reduction
proposed by the Mills bill is over q
per cent.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-10-18

The dem ..raii leaders are alarmed
New York, Indiana, Connecticut
and New Jersey will join the other
northern states, and solid republi-
can north will confront and overcome
a solid democratic south.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-10-18

The Colby Democrat walls over the
fact that the prisoners confined there
in do not like the Thomas County jail
cells. No wonder, when confined
there they have to stay there. An,
there
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-10-18
The Rock Island was completed tt
Colorado Springs Oct. 18th.

The Democratic programme in this
county, according to rumor, proposes
to endorse several of the u. l.. candi-
dates, according to arrangements in
starting that party in the county.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-10-18

Blaine is doing noble work for the
republican party wherever ne goes
Indiana received him with grand ova-
tons last week.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-10-18

Chicago had q great street Car strike
during last week. Citizens were COM
PEELED to walk, and there was much
riotin0.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-10-18
COUNTY REPUBLICAN TICKET.

For Representative.
:, NJ SrEWARDSON.
~ i9rGaii Township.
For Probate Judge.
J! K. LESH.
Of S.'amcrs Township.
For DiStric: C'v-',.
CHARLES ROBBINS
of hoNoh Township.
For COUNTY itt7nCy.
NJ. a. DUFF.
a. Bale Township.
For Supcyig;cHdent Public Instruction,
". =. SULLIVAN.
az Morgan Township.
For Count Commissioner. 3.i District.
4. J. SENTER.
of Morgan Township.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-10-18
| WANT

Ten sections of land in Thomas cOun-
ty. 1t must be cheap. and the mortgage
must not exceed $3.50. Come at once.
s. c. BRITTON.
Office in rear of First National Band.
32tf
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-10-18

THE REPUBLICAN TICKET
For Governor,
LYMAN e. HUMPHREY,
of Independence.
For Lieutenant Governor,
ANDREW J. FELT.
O. Seneca.
For Secretary Of State.
WILLIAM HIGGINS.
% Topeka.
For State Treasurer.
JAMES " HAMILTON.
o. wellington.
For State Auditor,
TISur..Y MCCARTHY.
O: L,rned.
For Attorney General.
l.. b. KELLOGG.
of Emporia.
For State Superintendent,
GEORGE W. W!NANS.
of Junction City.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-10-18
of Morgan Township
80 ~

The senate tariff bill is framed in
the interests Of america, not England.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-10-18
(l0akS.

Thursday, October
25th, we will have
on exhibition q sam
pie line Of Modjeskas
cIoaks and wraps,
representing one Of
the largest and best
cloak houses in Chi.
cago. We shall be
pleased to have ev-
cry lady thinking Of
buying a cloak this
season call and see
this line, as it will
give an opportunity
Of selecting from the
best line in the coun.
try at wholesale pri-
s. j. WOODRUFF.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-10-18
ticket.
Fer Congressman.
f.. :. TURNER.

State Senator 4oth Di' ,trict,
HILL Z. MIi.S N,
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-10-18

OUR NEXT STATE OFFICIALS.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-10-18

nOtingg.
The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1888-03-10
Bits Of Wisdom.

Death ends our woes, and the
kind grave shuts up the thournful
scene.--Dryden.
Dost thou love life ? Then do
not squander time; for that Is the
stuff life is made of.--Franklin.
If You always live with those
who are lame, you will yourself
learn to limp. From the Latin.
The sound Of your hammer at 5
in the morning or at 8 at night,
heard by a creditor, makes him
easy sia months longer; but If he
sees you at billiard table or hear
your voice at q tavern, when you
should be at work, he sends for
his money the next day-Franklin
The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1888-03-10
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Heo. H. Beaulieu, Editor.
White Earth Agency, Minn.

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The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1888-03-10
Sunbeanas.

# you would be pungent, be
brief; for it is with words as with
sunbeams, the more they are con.
densed the deeper they burn
Southey.
The fate Of war is to be exalted
in the morning, and then to be
brought low enough at night.
There is but one step from triumph
to ruin. Napoleon.
There is rabble amongst the
gentry as well as the commonalty
though their fortunes do some-
what gid their infrmities and
their purses compound for their
follies-Brown
If rich, it is easy enough to
conceal our wealth; but if poor, it
is not quite so easy to conceal our
poverty. We shall find it less diff.
icult to hide a thousand guineas
than one hole in our coat.-Colton.
The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1888-03-10
WHITE AGENCY, MINNESOTA SATURDAY MARCH 10 1sss
her voice in accents Of entreaty,
and the words she uttered were:

her voice in accents Of entreaty,
and the words she uttered were 1
'sCome to me! oh, my father,
come to me, or I shall die!''
Then he arose and went to the
door and opened it and looked out.
into the darkness that lay all
around him, shutting out all OBJ
jects from view. He then listened,
too, with an intentness that sur
prised him, as if he expected the
form Of his child to come to him
from out the blackness hey
He saw nothing, but he could hear
the wind signing among the trees.
that stretched out their great
fbrous limbs, like arms Of some
huge skeleton, that sought to
strangle him in it's grasp, and the
patter, patter Of the falling snow
against the window panes.
"A dreadful night he said.
"I'm glad that no onerous duty
calls me out in such storm!' and
he drew his coat closer about him
and sat down once more in his
cozy chair by the fire.
It was not long ere he was doz-
ing again.
This time the vision of his
child was as clear to him." he
said, when he told me the story,
and her voice as natural as when
he saw her in life.''
The words she uttered were
these:
"Oh, father, why did you not
come to me? It is too late now for
me; but will you not save my
babe, which is asleep upon my
bosom beneath the snow at your
very gate.'''
Il followed my child through
the door, out into the snow, down
to the very spot where she had in
dictated. And thereof! God! l
found her own dead self and the
little, wee babe she had told me
OFF,
Good knows!' he said, II would
have given my own life to bring
hers back again; but that could
never be, for she was dead hours
before I reached her side. If |
had only needed her first appeal,
then | could have saved her!'
[ ventured to ask him then if
he believed that she had come to
him in the spirit form.
81 do not know" was the an.
swer, 'sbut she was as real to me
as in life, my own darling Grace,
fair hair and all!'
John Leslie gave his only child
the costliest funeral that the place
in which he dwelt had ever seen.
The strange story had drawn to-
gether a great crowd of people,
and many were the questions,
asked of Mrs. Long, the house
keeper, in regard to it, but she
could not answer them.
Years have passed into oblivion
since the night on which John
Leslie's child came back to his
very door and died, and on which
he heard her appeal for help.
That the form of his child did
appear to him he as firmly belives
to-day as he did then.
| Whether it was her sister that
he saw he does not pretend to say,
nor do I, but only ask those, if
any there be, who cah solve This
mystery:
what did John Leslie see %
The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1888-03-10
NOTICE..

Strayed from the premises of E.
L. Warren during the month of
December last, a Dark-bay Mare
Colt, ten months old. A liberal
reward for any information lead
ing to its recovery will be paid.
Direct information to this Office.
The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1888-03-10
Ehe Indian !; Right and Wrong.

81, H. hold these truths to be self-evident.
s - q II MEN are created equal; that thew
ne endowed by their Creator with certain
LIFE, LIBERTY, AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPo
III 1sse Of independence, July
The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1888-03-10
.Ihe Oneida Reservation, Wisconsin.
isp'l St Paul Globe.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.-The mayor
aldermen, postmaster and all promi.
Enent citizens Of Seymour, Wis, have
|petltloned all Wisconsin members of
Congress to approve and cooperate
in the bill Of Congressman Hudd for
allotment of lands in the Oneida res
ervation, saying that the present form
and status of the reservation is a
drawback and serious detriment to
Outagamie county.
Having formerly been a resident
OF Outagamie county, Wis, as
also having had the pleasure Of an
acquaintance with many Of the
intelligent people Of the Oneida
reservation, and with a fraternal
spirit for the welfare of the In
dians in general, we would say,
that, as far back as fourteen or
fifteen years ago, movements were
manifested by some of the then
leading citizens of Outagamie
county, and the more intelligent
members Of the Oneida reserva-
ton, looking to the rights and
privileges Of citizenship, or pre-
liminary form of self-government
being extended over the reserva-
tion. .-....~
Nearly two decades have since
gone by and the project has, as
yet, failed Of maturity. The busy
city Of Appleton was then the on
fly city Of import adjacent to the
reservation. Now, here, there and
everywhere, towns and bustling
cities have sprung up into pros
porous existence; railroads have
spread their sinous lines in all d.
rections of the compass to afford
facilities to the ever growing de-
mands Of the marts of progressive
civilization, until now it's cease.
less, surging tide seem to lash it.
self into fury, while pausing at
the last remaining barrier between
it's tireless flow and the last acre
held according to the traditional
customs Of the American aborigi-
mes (but presided over by the petty
autocracy of the nineteenth cen
tury) in Outagamie county.
From our knowledge Of the
Oneidas and their circumstances
in general, we will venture the as
sertion, that the Oneidas are as
worthy Of citizenship and as fully
capable to take care of themselves
as the average white citizen of any
country, and it is simply ridiculous
to think Of a community or peo-
pie endowed with unquestioned
understanding and reasonably ad-
Vanced intellectually and in the
arts Of manual labor, etc., to be
subject tered---everlastingl
with the Whims, fancy and narrow
limits Of petty autocracy which
has characterized the system and
management OF Indian agencies
and the Indian service in general.
While we are not fully CONVEX
SAINT with the bill introduced by
the Hon. T. r. Hudd, We feel
that the interests Of the Oneidas
will be as strictly and as zea1ous1y
| guarded as that Of the most worthy
constituent within the jurisdic-
tion Of the district, and III the
Hon. I. Il. Hudd they will find Il
stauneh advocate whenever Justice
anu fair-play may need a friend.
The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1888-03-10
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The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1888-07-07
OntlIyed Them All.

Jefferson Davis, who is 80 years old
to-day, and who was ill at latest advi-
ces from his homestead, has outlived
nearly all the Confederate commanders
who served under him, as well as the
Union commanders who fought against
him. He has Outlived his antagonist,
Abraham Lincoln, by twenty three
years. He has outlived both Gen. Lee
and Grant, both Admiral Porter and
Admiral Semmes,| and, in the diploma
tic field, both Charles F. Adams and
John Slidell. He has outlived the
greater part of both the contending
armies, though he was a far older man
in 1861 than most of those who enlisted
in them. He was a prominent politi-
clan and leader in the United States
Senate when Abraham Lincoln was an
obscure lawyer in Illinois. In the Mexi-
a war he was severely wounded at
Buena Vista Al years ago, and wears
the scars that yet remind him of that
action.-New York Tribune.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1888-07-07
Concerning Luck.
A FEW WORDS ABOUT THE EAvoRI1Es
AND VICTIMS OF FORTUNE.

One of the unluckiest men We have
rel known vas even conscious of his
ill-luck, and declared that somehow or
another the off chance always hit him.
1t was partly true ; but the intimate
friends who knew and loved him I'M
derstoed we'll that there was in him
this awkwardness, this redundancy of
angles presented to fate, in a very high
degree, that, being at once a good
man, a thoughtful man, and a highly
cultivated one, he always in critical
moments eontrived to do precisely the
wrong thing. This capability of being
incapable is by no means unusual, and
the first Rothschild was probably right
from his point of view when he said
he never would employ an unlucky
man. On the other hand the lucky
man is usually the one who fits his
fortunes, who, whether apparently
able or stupid, can do just what his
especial circumstances require him to
do. Very stupid men are often ready
men, armed with a readiness as of dogs
when they twist from under a cart
wheel unhurt. The "fOol who makes
a fortune" is usually the man with
just the foresight, or the Judgment, or
the intuitive perception of the way
things are going-a faculty like long
sight or keen hearing and independent
of intellectual power-requisite to
make large profits quickly. In fact,
the fortunate man is usually the man
who, in consequence of some hidden
quality in his nature, deserves fortune.
Nevertheless, there is a residum of
true personal good or i'll luck of men
to whom things happen SO unusual,
and so little applicable by their acts
or anything that either is or Can be in
themselves, that the world, despairing
of Interpretation, considers them either |
favorites or victims of fortune.-Spee-
tdt0r.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1888-07-07
Hew They Court IN Mexico.

Going along the streets Of Mexico
City one day. l saw . young man flip
ping his fingers grotesquely, as though
playing an imaginary tattoo in the air.
! looked all around but I couldn't .
anything. The next day 1 saw him at
it again, gazing skyward all the time.
/ went into the hotel and one of my
friends asked me if l had seen the
young feIlsw counting the young girl.
l tumblod all at once, and looking out
saw a girl in q third STORY window
looking out 1t him and doing the tattoo
act also. Said my friend : "This bust
ness has been going on for two years
and neither of them have spoken a
wOrd." 1t wa 50. They were court
ing. That's the way they do it down
there. It was a Irritation long pro-
tracted, but whether the pantomime
= a translatable into language / am
unable to say.-Ex.