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Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-06-14
SCHOOL AND CHURCH

"A Bishops chair has been placed
in the chancel of St Stephens Church.
! Wilkesbarre. Pa. ii memory of the
late Bishop Stevens
There are signs of a growing de-
termination in the West to abandon
the German language in the common
schools. following the example of the
city of St. Louis.
John Wesley's Bible. printed in
1871. is in use by the Methodist Com
ference in New York. It is small oc-
tavo volume, and the Book of Common
Prayer is bound with it.
Fifteen years ago the Methodists
had but one conference in the State of
Kansas, with only $4,000 members.
To-day they have four conferences and
10000 church members, and 63. 600
scholars in their Sunday-schoOls.
The annual public expenditure for
education in Italy has reached the sum
of S6,7O4.21 The number of public
primary day-schools is 1880. in which
are about 1,S73.72 pupils. There are
also Z, 129 primary private schools. with
163. 102 pupils.
Some of the Western cities pension
their public school teachers after cer-
tain years of service In Wisconsin
twenty-one years of faithful work en-
titles teacher 10 pension; and Cleve-
land is considering proposition to-
ward the same end.
In recent religious canvass of
Buffalo. N. Y. in which eight denomi-
nations participated. only forty per-
sons were found in a total of 6. 095 who
reported themselves unbelievers in
Christianity. and only three who
claimed to be infidels.
"A German has taken out patent
for using bone slate pencils for writing
They do not wear quick. and do not
require to be sharpened. 1t is also to
be supposed that young ladies' will not
acquire any morbid appetite for them.
rs is commonly supposed some of them
do for slate pencils.
The greatest trouble experienced
by the young ladies who teach in Chi
nese Sunday-schools in this city is to
keep the Cinnamon from thinking they
are in love with them. They are in
tensely vain as rule, and the ugliest
Monaghan will imagine he is admired
on the slightest provocation.-Ihila-
delphia Times.
Rev. DR.. Francis L. Patton, presl-
dent-elect of Princeton College, has
frequently declared himself heartily
in favor of all sorts of athletic sports
practiced by college men. provided
that the games are placed under the
proper restrictions He gave prac-
teal instance of this last week. when
he presented four tennis courts. which
had been prepared under his own in
structions. to the students of the Theo-
!! logical Seminary.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-06-14
cARInuslAN MONKS


The LIZ Of Privatson and Self DeniAl Led
BY Them.
Each pere has two little rooms. with
q workshop and garden attached.
all in one place, SO that unlike the
usual monastic arrangements. the
Carthusian's abode is self-contained.
Every Carthusian is. in fact. practic-
ally hermit, with just little more
accommodation than the traditional
hermit usually had. That may help to
account for the remarkable fact that
this order was about the only one
which never degenerated SO far from
the primitive type as to need reforma-
ton. Dormitory gossip. drawing
room scandal. mongering. hanging
about the pantry doors. quarreling and
stealing pastry. were not possible UNI
der such social conditions. The furni-
ture is of the barest description. 1t
consists of a wooden bed. chair. a
writing and dining table. joiner
bench. a plain bookcase. the usual
helps to devotion, 1.-THE suffering Son OF
Man" upon the wall. and few religi-
Gus pictures.
A monks food consists of one meal
day. This is pushed in by sliding
grating in the cloister wall. so that he
never sees the person who brings it.
1t is made up of soup. fish and vegeta-
5les on ordinary days, and on Fridays
and during Lent of bread and water
though this prison fare was. in stricter
times, the rule for three days in each
week. The silent fathers are now al
lowed the great luxury of fire in cold
weather, though that is a worldly con-
cession to modern ideas of comfort.
The severity of the old fireless rule may
be imagined when it is remembered
that the monastery is over four thou
sand feet up and is buried in snow a
greater portion of the year. There is
pathetic story of a father belonging
to the other great Carthusian house in
sunny Calabria who, when elected to
the highest dignity of prior of the par
ent monastery, willingly came, but
came knowing for certain that the Sc
verify of the climate would speedily
kill him. twas call from the Lord,
not to better living. He obeyed it.
and in few mouths lay down to die
GoOG Words.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-06-14
THE PARIS REPORTER.
He Is Said to BE Even More Imaginative
Than His Yankee Con frcrc.

He Is Said to BE Even More Imaginative
Than His Yankee Confrcrc.
The local columns of Il Paris news.
paper are not what they should be or
what their readers would be glad to
have them. for want of room. The
great city is n mine of sensational
material. tragic. comic, grave. gay.
but always interesting if properly
treated. AS Paris newspaper is
usually Il small four-paged sheet
printed in coarse type on bad paper.
it is difficult to get more into it than
the literary and political matter that
must in any event appear and mere
resume of local events. If the foreign
news is of great Importance. local
matter is crowded out. If single
local event is sensational, all other
local matters, no matter how interest
ing in themselves. must make
way for it. Reporters of some
papers sign their names This
practice sometimes causes curiors
displays of egotism, the writer's for
getting that which they have to mar
rate i'm their own personal experiences.
The facts are obscnred bv :heir efforts
to obtain them. their little depriva-
lions. and the articles of food that
compose their breakfast. The self
consciousness of French newspaper
writers is always noticeable. whether
they sign their articles or not The
editorial 1--WE" often appears in the
local columns 1t is hard for cor
respondent in a foreign capital 10 give
the facts in a dispatch without preface
ing or interspersing them with useless
personal details. Aside from these
evidences of imperfection and journal
istic juvenility tho local columns arc
usually readable. and sometimes
bright ard witty. The Paris inter-
viewer, who is recent institution
already become universal is. if pos
sible, more inscriptions and imagina-
tive than his American coufrere. =
EAsts Letter.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-06-14

We are informed that new and powerful.
ly-written story, delineating college life in
America, and the remarkable religious ex.
perience of a former infdel and other stu.
dents, in which the great truths of Chris.
tianity are dealt with in a manner calculated
to interest all readers, has just been written
expressly for the Christian Herald, by Rev.
L. s. keyser. author of the famous and pop.
ular story, 1.-THE Way Out" The tirstchap.
ter appears May "a, under the the title OF
1.-THE Epochs of q Life" and will be con-
tinued from week to week. This journal is
now the most popular and extensively-read
illustrated religious paper published. For
sale or can be ordered at all news-dealers.
Price, Sc. Subscription price, 81 .5Oper year.
Address 6 Bible House, New York
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-06-14
BEAUTIFUL CHURCHES.
Why They Can Not BE Considered {
Waste of Capitol.

Why They Can Not BE Considered
Waste of Capitol.
Are beautiful churches a waste?
Perhaps so. from a strictly economic
viewpoint. though of that | am not
sure. am willing to grant that there
is no return in hard money for these
enormous OUTLAWS, if admitting this
will give our unitarian friends any
satisfaction. But it is useless to at
tempt to strike money balance in
these matters. There is value in tho
MASSIVE mountain that no book of
real-cstate valuation can recognize.
There is a value in the mighty catar-
ract that has nothing to do with
water-power. So there is value in
the cathedral spire that is not COM
putable in coin. A spiritual value in
herent in the sublimely beautiful. l
pass St. Patrick's every day. and there
is always some one gazing up at those
towers that take the thoughts as well
as the eyes away from the rafting
pavement. and hundreds. yes thou
sands, owe to those useless" towers
some moments of self-forgetfulness
and some moments of that conscious
spiritual uplifting. which is. in pro-
portion to its power, a mount of trans
figuration. The most beautiful church
ever SAVIOR ever expect to see. UNI
til l worship in the "hOuse not made
with hands lis not full-grown
church; it is only chapel-a small,
low building. put up at an expense OF
about thousand dollars. 1t is beauti-
full, because the cellar wall is free
will offering from poor farmers who
had right to claim winters rest
after the busy harvest season; because
each timber of the framework repre-
sents hours of toll in making aprons
and holders. by the sale of which to
raise few dollars-hours needed for
rest of some mother weary head and
tired hands: because every clapboard
tells of pipeful of tobacco less for
the father; every single. cup of tea
less for the mother and the daughter;
and every nail, a stick of candy less
for the child. 1t is beautiful in con-
tanning an organ. while there are no
organs in the homes Of the givers; in
having pictures on its walls, though
theirs are blank; in its carpeted isles.
while the floors of the donors are bare.
But would this same chapel be beauti-
full if it were taken up and set down
on Fifth avenue? There. instead of a
temple of self-sacri6ce, it would APP
pear an ugly. wooden box of niggari-
Illness The church architecture Of
Fifth avenue represents certain
amount of self-sacrifice. though very
far. fear, from attaining unto that
of the people who built the little
Dwight's chapel. If into the
beauty of form and of color of our
larger city churches could be injected
the spirit of self-denial that built the
chapel in the little hill-town Of Massa-
chusetts. we should have temples
svery way worthy Of the Most High
God--AlUan r. SanDorn. is Anserjcss
Magazine
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-06-14
A Joltine ON the Rail

Grievously disturbs the stomach Of invalid
travellers. The motion of the ship and vi
bration Of the screw in crossing the ocean
does the like for many in good health. All
travellers should have, as a companion,
Hostetter's Stomach Bltters, which fortifies
teracts hurtful influences of climate and
changes Of temperature, and is a sovereign
remedy for malarial, rheumatic and kidney
ailments
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-06-14

II another column Of this issue will be
fond an entirely new and novel specimen
of attractive advertising. 1t is one of the
neatest ever placed in our paper and we
think our readers will be well repaid for
examining the SUPPOSED display letters in
the advertisement of Prickly Ash Bitters.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-06-14

A wALKING-sTIcK may be described a
"the old mans strength and the young
mans weakness" and an umbrella as "a
fair and foul weather friend who has had
MANY ups and downs in the world"
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-06-14

A POLITICAL candidate will often win q
man over to his side by simple drink.
This is what is known as a s. winning smile u
- IoakerS Salesman.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-06-14

LADIES who possess the finest complex
ions are patrons of Glenn's Sulphur Soap.
Hills Hair and Whisker Dye, SOC.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-06-14

FREE! A 3-foot, French Glass, Oval
Front, Nickel or Cherry Cigar Case. MER-
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-06-14

A NEWSPAPER that parts its name in thu
middle Is apt to wabble in its policy.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-06-14

AFARNER always wants the earth. With
out it he could do nothing.-Boston POst.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-06-14

If afflicted with Sore Eyes use DR.. Isaac
Thompson s Eye Water. Druggists sell it 25c
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-06-14

A RING candidate-the young woma
willing to be won.-Wdshington Critic.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-06-14

ALL for the better-the jack pot.-N. Y
Star
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-06-14

NEVER expect straight tip from {
crooked many. o. Picdyune.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-06-14
WHEN is a hen a roosterl At night.

The girl violinist always has severs
strings to her bow.-BGst0n Post.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-06-14

THE turning-point in every maiden's life
Is the Interrogation point.-Tid-Bis.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-06-14

A DxRIxITIoN.-Counse Il the
plaintiffs attitude as to this question:
Witness-s.Recumbent. Lies about Il CON-
Stantly. "-Td-B ss.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-06-14

WHY is q divorce court like the beach!
Because at both you hear the moaning OF
the tied.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-06-14

IRIS no use arguing with an amateur pho
tOgrapher-he has views of his own.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-06-14

A LrMBURGER cheese trust has beer
forced: but it is only little one for q
soent.-Minncapoli Tribune.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-06-14

A SUGAR trust-when q girl asks you to
keep kiss for her.-Buriingt0n Free Press
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-06-14

xno Ue91Weoe OF many toOooon00 OF cQDeo
OF those chroqic weekneoes and disees.ing
ailments peculiar to females. ct the lnyalide
Hotel and Surgical Institute, Buffalo. N. T.,
mas anorded vast experience in nicely adapt.
cure of womans peculiar maladicA
pr. Pierec,s Eavorise Prescription
Y the 9utsrowth. or result. Of this great and
mails received from patients and from physi-
clans who have tested Il In the moro aggra-
waited and obstinate cases which had bafiied
remedy ever devised for the relief and cure Of
suffering women. 1t Is not recommended -
"cure-all." but as q most perfect Specific for
:. A. powerful, invtGorating tonics
It imparts strength to the whole system.
and to the yom6 and IL apPendases 81
rundown" debilitsted teachers. milliners.
dreesmakers, eeamstreeses. "shop- girls house.
keepers, nursing mothers. and feeble women
g the greatest earthly boon, being uneQualed
a. an appetizing cordial and restorative tonic.
Az soothing and strengthening
qHaied and is invaluable in aliayins and sub.
DUNG nervous excitability, irritability, ex.
haustion, prOetratiOn. hysteria. spasms and
other distressing. ner vous symptoms CONF
disease Of the womb. 1t induces refreshing
sleep and relieves mental anxiety and de.
DR.. Piereess Fav orite escripsion
IL q legitimate medicine, carefully
compounded by an experienced and skillful
physician. and adapted to woman's delicate
composition and perfectly harmless in ito
effects in any condition OF the system. For
morning sickness, or nausea. from whatever
cause arising. weak stomach, indigestion, dys.
Eepsia and kindred symptoms, its use, in small
doses. will prove very beneficial.
"EavOrfto Prescription " IL q pOsis
tive euro for the most complicated and OBJ.
6tinate cases of leucOrrhea, excessive flowing,
painful menstruatiOn, unnatural suppressiOns,
prolapsus, or falling OF the womb, weak back,
female weakness, anteversion, retrOversion,
Inflammation and liberation Of the womb. in
hammation, pain and tenderness in Ovaries,
accompanied with internal heat"
As regulator and promoter of func-
tiOnal action, Mt that critical period of change
from girihood to wQmanhood. "Favorite Pre-
scriptiOn is perfectly safe remedial agent,
and can produce only good results. 1t is
when taken for those disorders and derangc-
ments incident to that later and most critical
period known as The Change Of Life"
:, T ftSS'S ;S Thep taken
Golden Medical Discovery, and small laxative
doses Of DR.. Pierce's Purgative Pellets Little
Liver Pills.: cures Liver. Kidney and Bladder
blood taintst and abolishes generous and
scrOfulOus humors from the system
"Fav0rfte Prescription is the only
medicine for women: sold by druggists under
facturers, that it will give satisfaction in every
case or money will be refunded. This guaran-
tee has been printed on the bottle-wrapper.
and faithfully carried out for many years.
bottles. for $500.
For large. illustrated Treatise on Diseases Of
Women 16O pages, papcr-covered), send ten
cents in stamps. Address,
Worlds DispsnsaIy Medical Association,
~ ~
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-06-14

REVISED proverb: Where there's q will
there's o law-suit.-Ided
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-06-14

No MATTER how lovely the baby may be,
he is still loveliest in repose.-Puck.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-06-14
Up in arms-the man who makes them.

A sRING garment-the wire hustle.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-06-14

THE microbe of the human race-a dude.
bound to sell-the gaudily- covered novel
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-06-14

NEVER short in his accountable story
teller
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-06-14

Tn girl who won't b won, xemains ono
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-06-14

A GREEN born-the mint julep.-Bostoe
Bulletin.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-06-14

RIPE for mischief-the early watermelon
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-06-14

A LIQUOR trust-putting it on the slate
Critic.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-06-14

A sRING garment-the wire hustle.
If afflicted with Sore Eyes use DR.. Isaac
thompson s Eye Water. Druggists sell it 25o
RIPE for mischief-the early watermelon.
NEVER short in his accountable story
teller.
REVISED proverb: Where there's q will
there's law-suit.-Ided.
NEVER expect a straight tip from q
crooked many. o. Picdyune.
THE turning point in every maiden's life
Is the Interrogation point.-Tid-Bits.
A LIMBURGER cheese trust has been
forced: but it is only little one for a
soent.-MinncapOli Tribune.
A LIQUOR trust-putting it on the slate
Critic.
A GREEN born-the mint julep.-Boston
Bulletin.
No MArrEE how lovely the baby may be,
he is still loveliest in repose.-Puck.
Ir's no use arguing with an amateur pho
tographer-he has views Of his own.
A SUGAR trust-when q girl asks you to
Keen a kisa for her -Y2,r1iu6fon En,- prees
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-10-06
THINK FOR YOURSELF.
Why Every Young Man Should Develop u
Mind of His Own,


A man without q mind of his own is
the most helpless and shiftless of social
beings. His brain is mere recepta-
Gle for shreds and patches of opinion
picked up in the streets and the same
inirmity which leads him to look to
every body save himself for guidance,
renders him incapable of selecting
from the multifarious counsel he re-
ceives that which is best adapted to
his exigencics. Nay in his weak be-
wilderment he fails to make any Sc
lections at all, and while he waivers
and hesitates, the golden opportunity
for decisive action slips by,
and leaves him foundering in
predicament from which one manly
stride in almost any direction
would eXtricate him. But let the
weak of purpose take heart This
unfortunate propensity TO vacillate
may be overcome. Habits of self-de-
pendencc may be acquired. towards
by nature have reasoned themselves,
ere now into q philosphic indiffer-
ence to danger, and even the change
able man, whose mind has in meas
ure lost its identity, and is accustomed
to take for the time being, the hue of
every mind with which it comes in
contact, may learn to resolve and cx-
ecute on his own responsibility. 1t
must not be supposed that we would
dissuade any one from asking advice
of the wise and experienced, or from
following it in preference to his i'm
pulses. The very fact of man seek
ing counsel in the right quarter and
promptly adopting it. is evidence that
he has mind of his own, that his
judgment is sound, that his reason is
stronger than his vanity. 1t is not
with those who brace themselves
against a rock in time of difficulty
that we would demonstrate, but with
the leaners on reeds, the catchers at
straws. the chartless, who are pulled
hither and thither by every idle breeze.
OF all impediments to success, insta-
bility is the most fatal. Every young
man, on entering the business world,
should form for himself, or adopt at
the suggestion of competent advisors,
plan of life based upon sound moral
ity, and shaped so as to accord with
the bent and scope of his mental ca
pacity. His course chalked out, let
him take courage, and with stout
heart amid all dangers, pure con-
science amid all temptations. and a
clear head amid all perplexities, push
forward with hope and confidence. -
Manchester (Enq.) Factory Times.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-10-06
TROOPS OF sEeeAR IS.
Tho Ono Great Detriment to an Unexce lod
Tropical Panorama.


Throughout the entire trip across
Cuba, wherever the train halted, in
poured dismal troop of beggars. lot
tery-ticket sellers, dulceros with all
manners of sickening sweets of which
the Cuban ladies bought freely and
ate voraciously and peddlers of glow.
worms and beetles. guava, green CO.
coanuts and fresh country cheese
similar to the German schmeercase.
Ii one alights for refreshment another
savage horde of "eros' with all sorts
of edibles and refescas are to be bat
tied with; and if meal at cafe is
taken you are unblushingly charged
from one to two dollars in gold. But all
these annoyances are as naught when
you consider the glorious tropical pam
Drama provided in this trip across the
island. The loneliness of the northern
coastwise country disappears on leav-
ing Matanzas, and of q sudden your
train is whirling through o veritable
nature garden. Great orange groves
are as common as pine woods in
Maine. Vast pineapple plantations
fill the space between. Here the view
sweeps across river valley and vast
reaches of cane -grounds, the last cut
tings being hurried to the massive and
grooming machinery with the splendid
villas behind, the whole surrounded by
stately coco trees and the lordly palm.
There, for miles. stretches an
other valley, plain of puce
and yellow where the 'last CUT of
tobacco is being piled by the operarios
upon the cujes or curing-racks, OF car
ried from there before the dew falls,
at three o clio ok, to the great casas de
tabacas, where are all other noble
houses. palms and fruits and flowers
unreliable. Here and there arc
ranches and herds like the shining
horned hosts of Camaguay. with
mounted vaqueros and monteros and
their wonderful dogs, in picturesque
groups, with the great palmetto
pallisaded coralles for the round
ups" and again by these porti-
coed houses and quintas like palaces.
Upon every stream, at the mouth
of flower-embeded canyons OF set like
brown Gypsies upon mountain side
are the poor guajiros' paint hatched
cabins. And everywhere are such
luxuriance in soil and forest, vine and
flower, that when yoa reach the
splendid city of Cienfuego5 as the
shadows fall, and the moonbe ans
begin to glance upon its matchless bay,
one feels as though the day had been
vision of some dreamland isle where
the weird in men and the glowing in
nature have blended in magical spell
with indescribable bloom and song. -
Edgar L. Wakemaa'', in Denver Repub-
Licdn