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Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-09-06
AN ARMY HORSES FATE.

The Common Fate Of Chargers Who Have
Grown Old In the Service.
The fate of the army horse is gen.
orally sud one. Having taken to a
military career he gives up all hopes
of enjoying any of the benefits which
some of his kindred enjoy who wear
away their prime in dragging a truck
or dray. These latter often are cared
for by considerable masters in return
for years of good, reliable service.
Not SO with the army equine. He can
look forward to few years of luxuri-
Gus living and fare. But let him be-
come sick or disabled and he is cast
adrift in cruel world, and he ends
his days in misery. The gallant.
prancing steed that bears the COlonel's
manly form around the parade
ground may in month be crawling
along some by-way in Tar Flat, drag
ging at his heels decrepit old soap
fat wagon.
As soon as it is discovered that a
horse is unfit for duty, request is sent
to the quartermaster to have the ami
NAL condemned. A horse does rot
have to be disabled to be condemned
and branded l. c. Inspected and con-
demned). If he will not stay in the
ranks, if he is nervous at the sound of
music or the whistling of shot, he is
condemned. Horses get sOured in dis
position, too, as if they repented Of en-
tering the service and wanted to get
out of it.
There are instances, preserved as
legends in the army, where horses
have been rewarded for long and faith
full services by being cared for in their
old age. A notable case is that of the
equine survivor of Clusters fatal battle
with the Sioux on the Little Big Horn.
The clouds of smoke had passed up the
ravine, the last savage whOOp had long
ceased to re-echo among the hills, and
Miles Keogh's horse at evening
Was the only Living thing
that moved along the battlefield where
the corpses of poor Clusters boys in
blue were strewn. Here was the ami
NAL discovered lingering over the body
of his dead master. Miles KeOgh's
horse, by special department order,
was sent to West Point, where he was
to pass the rest of his days in comfort,
and with no harder work to perform
than to discover in what part of the
lawn the greenest and dewiest grass
is not the common fate of the horse
that expends his energies in Uncle
Sans Service.-N Y. Letter.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-09-06
SAVED BY A CAT.
How . French Soldiers Pussy Preserved
Her Masters Life.

How . French Soldiers Pussy Preserved
Her Masters Life.
During the Crimean war little cat,
reared in his mothers cottage, followed
a young French soldier when he left
his native village. The lads heart
chung to this small dumb member OF
his family, and he gave pussy seat on
his knapsack by day on the march and
a corner Of his couch at night. She
took her meals on her masters knee,
and was general pet in the company.
On the morning that his regiment
was first ordered into action, the
soldier babe his little cat farewell, and
left her in charge of a sick comrade.
He had marched about a mile from the
camp, when what was his surprise to
see Miss Puss running beside him.
He lifted her up on her usual seat. and
soon the engagement commenced.
Twice did the soldier fall, but the cat
chung fast hold. At last severe
wound stretched him bleeding on the
field. No sooner did pussy catch sight
of the blood flowing from her master,
than she seated herself upon his body.
and began to lick his wound in the
most assiduous manner. Thus she re-
manned for some hours, till the surgeon
came to the young lad. and had him
carried of to the tent of the wounded.
When he recovered consciousness his
first question was: "Shall / live?"
Yes. my good fellow" was the sur
geOn's answer, thanks to your little
cat; for if she had not used her tongue
SO intelligently, you would have been
too exhausted by loss of blood 70 re-
cover"
You may be sure that pussy was we'll
cared for. and. contrary to all regula-
ti0ns, she was allowed to accompany
the young soldier to the hospital.
where she was RECALLED with the ch0ic-
est morsels from his plate. and b
came very distinguished charactss
ILLUSTRATED Christian Weekly.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-09-06
EFFECTS OF COCAINE
How the Drug b Gathered In Peru q
Prepared far Market.

How the Drug b Gathered In Peru and
T Prepared far MARKET.
This new drug Is obtained from the
leaves of the coca plant by treating
them with wine or spirits in which
this principle is dissolved like camphor
gum. Although recently brought to
the notice of the medical profession,
the plant was used by the ancient in
habitants of Peru long before the time
OF the conquest of that country. as
freely as tobacco is used any where
now. The result of its habitual use is
said to be worse than that of absinthe,
or opium. or the ordinary intoxicants.
The plant belongs to the same botan-
ical family as the common fax from
which linen is made. 1t is described as
shrub six or eight feet high. resem-
bling the hazel bush of New England.
and has little white flower. The
leaves are gathered by the women and
children, the tender twigs being broken
off and dried in the sun, after which
they are ready for use.
The people carry their supply OF
coca leaves as others carry tobacco.
only they generally have a pouch hung
round the neck, and have a little un-
Stacked lime. or a potash made of potato
skins, in little buckskin bag. hanging
with it. Although the Spanish priests
denounced the coca-chewers. and pro-
hibited the use of the leaf. the order
had no more effect than Urban's edict
against tobacco. The Inca was faith
full to the traditions of his fathers.
Coca chewing in its effects upon the
senses somewhat resembles opium
smoking. A habitual chewer, known
to the Peruvians as a ''coQuerO." is a
degraded and useless as confirmed
opium eater or a habitual drunkard
His unsteady gait, his yellow skin, his
sunken and bleared eyes, his purple
lips and general debility" appearance
all bear evidence to his using the leal
to excess.
The leaves used in moderation, how.
ever, are stimulating to the nerves
and are good tonic. But the remark
able effect of the use of coca is to en-.
able the chewer to abstain for long
time from food and drink. Another
especial and singular effect is produced
upon the lungs in breathing in higf
attitudes.
The natives, under the influence o
this drug, can run long distances Ovel
mountain passes of the Andes, withou
stopping for food or sleep, or being
troubled with breathlessness. Euro
peans and people from North Americ'
have felt the same effect. - Youth
Companion.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-09-06
COMMON.SENSE VIEWS.
A Dairy-Woman's Suggestions Concerning
Cows and Calves.


Cows and Calves.
know a COW, of no particular breed,
now fourteen years old. which in her
prime made fourteen pounds of butter
a week in June, and prOportionate
quantity the remaining months of the
year. She gave milk at two years old,
went farrow the next year, being in
new milk every year since until this
year; is now farrOw, and will go to the
butchers next year, because it is not
thought advisable to keep a cow be-
yOnd this age. She never knew what
it was to be too hungry; has access to
salt at all times, with plenty of water;
is never forced, having nothing but
her pasture in summer, and in winter
never more than six quarts OF meal a
day generally corn and oats) with
roots usually potatOes) and cornstalks
or hay, and a run at the strawstack
through the middle of the day, unless
it be too stormy, then she is fOddered in
her stable.
OF her calves, her heifers are as
good mixers as herself; her steers
make good beef cattle; and all are as
tractable and docile as herself, all be-
ing treated with the same considers
ton. Perhaps one farmer in hum
dred is able to keep pure blood Of
whatever breed his fanc7 may dictate;
and such a farmer is a boon to his
neighborhOOd; but the ninety-nine
must be content with what they have.
Their success lies in making the best
of every thing in their hands. Let
these farmers breed to the best they
can afford. of course, but let them
take as good care Of their inferior
stock as they would Of thoroughbreds
and mark the result. To the good
food and warm shelter let them add
the curry-c0mb and brush; exact kind
ness Of their hired help in their care;
and in few years they will be a.
proud Of their stock as the neighbor
of his thOroughbreds, and in most ways
they viii bring just as good return,
without that heavy expenditure which
the ninety-nine can not afford
Anselio Louise Snsith, in n. r. T11Sse.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-09-06
SALLY UNDER THE APPLE-TREE,

Oh. the jolly old apple-tree.
With Sally standing under,
Holding her little apron wide,
To catch the rosy pluader!
The while Jack shakes with might and man
Till apples, ripe and mellow,
Come pouring down, rudy rain,
For Jacks a sturdy fellow.
Then Sally lifts her fower-like face,
Framed in pink sun bonnet
And pays him in fragrant KISS
With all the bloom upon II
Oh. Sally under the apple-tsee,
My little darling pet!
Tie sweetness OF that kiss you g2v3
My memory treasures YET.
But wears have come and years have gone,
And all the world grows older,
And while our pockets fill apace,
Our empty hearts grow colder.
think Of ali the years have brought,
The joys I've bought and paid for
dor men must always foot the bills
What else, pray, were they made for9-
palace on Fifth avenue,
A stylish clipper yacht
A hunting stud, Tally-ho,
The winning colt-what not!
wife and daughters la mode
(Three dolls, well stuffed with straw,
Two lazy, dissipated sons,
Une ditto son-in-law.
A lonely heart, a loveless home,
A world Of toll and trouble,
And weary days, and sleepless nights,
And all for what! A bubble
So looking back with longing eyes
To days OF sweet unreason,
When all our wealth was youth and love,
And apples-while in season
How desp;se the sordid pelf
That brings me naught but sorrow!
For one sweet kiss from Sally's lips
I'd give it all tomorrow
All to be young again. Sally,
Beginning life anew.
Shaking the tree for all I'm worth
To WIN a KISS from you!
-Harper's UeeIls.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-09-06
She Will Make It Thinner.

Guest at charming country summer
resort don't like to complain, Mrs.
Millsap, but when it comes to vege-
table soup every day for three weeks /
think you are putting it on rather
thick.
Mrs. Millsap (sweetly)-I sometimes
think so myself, Mr.. Chunkerson. I'll
have it made thinner hereafter.-Chi-
eaq0 Tribune.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-09-06

Mrs. Rebecca Taylor. Bayard Tay-
lor's mother, is still alive and hearty,
though well into the nineties. Lately
she went to West Chester, Pa. to see
the handsome memorial window put
into tbs public library in honor Of her
poet soa.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-08-01
A Remedy for Diptheria.

Very considerable interest has been
excited in foreign medical circles by
NJ. Broadel's successful treatment of
diphtheria by the use of benzoate Of
sodium. He asserts that of 200 consec-
utive cases he has not lost single one
and, though admitting the possibility
of mistaken diagnosis in some in
stances, yet, even excluding 80 per
cent. on this account, there remain 100
cases without death. His method is
to have the patient take, every hour, a
tablespoonful of solution Of benzoate
of sodium, fifteen grains to the ounce,
and at the same time one-sixth of a
grain of sulphide of calcium in syrup
or granule in addition to. this the
throat is thoroughly scraped every half
hour with the benzoate, this being
done unfailingly at the regular inter-
walls, day and night, with no other To-
cal treatment whatever. No attempt
is made to dislodge the false mem-
brane. The nourishment consists of
beef juice, tender meat, milk, etc..
but bread and all other articles which
may cause irritation of the throat are
forbidden.-NeaO York Tribune.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-08-01

more careful in her choice than one at
twenty. There is good reason for
this. Her mind has improved with
her years, and she now looks beyond
mere appearances in judging men.
She is apt to ask if this man who is so
very polite in company is really
kind-hearted. Do his polite genial
actions spring from a happy ma
ture, or is his attractive demeanor
put on for the occasion and laid off at
home, as he lays off his coat? A very
young girl takes it for granted that
men are always as she sees them in So
ciety-polite, friendly, and on their
good behavior. If she marries early
the man who happens to please her
fancy, she learns to her sorrow that in
nine cases out of ten man in society
and a man at home are widely differ
ent beings. Five years at that period
of life produce great change in optn-
ions and feelings. We frequently come
to detest at twenty-five what we ad-
mired at sixteen.-Scottish american
Journal.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-08-01
One Kind of Repentance.

A child who, like all children, was
excessively fond Of sweets, disobeyed
her mother and helped herself to
plate of rich cake, of which she ate
freely. She soon grew feverish, COM
planned of headache, and was obliged
to 60 to bed for the remainder of the
day.
Her mother was anxious about her
condition and feared she was going to
bed ill. On entering her closet, how
ever, the empty plate and the crumbs
on the floor explained the mystery of
the sudden attack. She went to her
child's room.
"Have you been eating anything
you ought not, Nellie"
Nellie looked in her mothers face
and saw that she had found out about
the cake. It would do no good to deny
it.
eyes, mamma, 1 ate some cake"
"No wonder you are SICK. You
took the cake without leave, which
was stealing; and you disobeyed me
by going into the closet when have
repeatedly told you not to do so. Now
you are being punished for your sins.
Are you sorry, Nellie ?" she asked, see
ing the child's tears falling fast.
ayes, mamma" she sobbed. "Tm
sorry the cake made sick, and sorry
you found it out"
Her repentance was very much like
that of many older people; she was
sorry that her sin was found out, and
that she had to suffer in consequence !;
but that was all.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-08-01

Backbiting is the habit of dogs, aud
only mean dogs at that; it certainly
cannot be a characteristic Of good
Christians. And as for sanctified per
sons, we would naturally conclude
that they have no teeth to use in this
way; it were impossible that they
could be found biting at the back of a
brother by sly innuendo, by damaging
misrepresentation, by tale-bearing and
gossip. So it would appear from what
is required in the Bible of Christians,
and from what is claimed by all pro-
fessors of sanctification. The Scrip
lures plainly forbid evil speaking, and
all professors of perfect holiness assert
that the blood of Jesus cleanses from
all sin. But what are the facts reveal
ed in practical life ? We know that
many converted persons are not saved
from backbiting; it is a habit with
them to do more or less of detraction
and is it not sad fact that even those
who witness to the attainment Of full
redemption are found sometimes nip
ping at the backs of their brethren?
Their teeth are not sanctified-at least
not wholly.-Divine Life.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-08-01
Do Not Despair.

The word "pattern" in the original
is expressive-a pattern from which
endless copies may be taken. You
have heard. of stereotype printing {;
when the types are set up they are
cast-made a fixed thing, so that from
one plate you can strike off thousands
of pages is succession without the
trouble of setting up the types again.
Paul says, "That I might be a plate
never worn out-never destroyed !;
from which proof impressions may be
taken to the very end of time" What
splendid thought, that the apostle
Paul, having portrayed himself as the
chief of sinners, then portrays himself
as having received forgiveness for a
grand and specific end, that he might
be a standing plate, from which i'm
pressions might be taken forever, that
no man might despair who had read
his biography DR.. Cumming.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-08-01
A Word About Bread.

A physicians daughter thus writes
to an exchange: "In the household
column I read of so many woes in
bread making that it is wonder why
no one has yet suggested substituting
other food for bread. Some of the best
physicians now avoid 'suppers,' and
have 6 P. M. dinners purposely to
avoid bread and cake. There is no en-
cuse for bread at breakfast and dinner,
while for supper stewed potatoes,
with poached eggs or cold meat, could
form the principal part of the meal,
adding soft custard, with fruit and de.
licate cake bread is unnecessary. The
children of our family have for break
fast horniny or oatmeal with potatoes,
fruits, delicate meats, with milk, and
perhaps cracker. For dinner, meat
or chicken, asparagus, potatoes and
other healthy vegetables and fruits,
with rice or other simple dessert, while
at supper, stewed potatoes, milk, eggs
or cold chicken, cottage cheese, blanc
mango, with occasionally little sim
pie cake"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-08-01
Feeding Corn to Horses.

Corn is the bane of the farmhouse,
as it is also of the horse doing any 9TH
er sort of work, not because of not be-
ing sufficiently nutritious, but because
it makes too much fat and not enough
muscle. The horses muscle wears
away under exercise, but its disappear
ance in no wise lessons the power for
either draft or speed. On the other
hand, we'll nourished and vigorously
exercised muscles, with a deposit of fat
to keep them company, are much more
efficient for any purposes for which
the horse is kept than when there is a
load of fat to be carried. The trainer
acts upon the proposition, and works
the fat off, experience having shown
that the muscles, trained down by ex-
ercise until fat accumulations are re-
moved-fattening foods being mainly
abstained from-give the best results
in case of a speedy horse. The same
rule will hold good with the work-horse,
though modified by the degree to
which the movements of the latter are
slower than those of the former. If the
farmer has only corn for feed, then he
will be wise to make sale of G.sss> corn,
or the greater part of it, buying oat-
meal instead. If corn be used whole
or in part, the effect should be carefully
noted as to the extent to which fer
mentation sets in, meeting this by use
of salt and ashes, at once lessening the
amount Of corn fed. It will be found
that horses fed freely on corn will eat
earth when allowed access to it, as to
degree this neutralizes the acid gen.
Grated in the stomach and gives relief.
Corn may be rated as the natural food
for fattening stock-such as are fed for
their flesh. All kinds of fattening
stock are made ripe on corn, with the
addition of an allowance of coarse feed
for fodder. Ripeness in horse is a
very different thing from ripeness in
the steer, for in one case it means full
vigor of muscle with an absence Of fat
and in the other an abundance Of fat,
no matter how much, and as to the
muscle, no matter how inefficient the
work.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-08-01
Valuable Advice to Young Girls.

A lady of intelligence and observa-
tion has remarked: II wish I could
impress upon the minds of the girls
that the chief end of woman is not to
marry young" If girls could only be
brought to believe that their chances
for a happy marriage were better after
twenty-five than before, there would
be much less misery in the world than
there now is. TO be sure, they might
not have so many opportunities to
marry as before, but, as they do not
need to marry but one at a time, it is
necessary that one should be satisfac-
tory. AS a girl grows older, if she
thinks at all, she certainly becomes
more capable of judging what whould
make her happy than when younger.
How many girls of twenty would
think of marrying the man they
would gladly have married at sixteen ?
At thirty a woman who is somewhat
Independent, land not over-anxious to
marry, is much harder to please and
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-08-01

"my horse, which can yet dimly re-
member the landing of Julius Caesar,
stands sorely in need of such attention
as yours appears to enjoy. If you like
We'll exchange. You have no pistol,
and I have"
The Quaker considered What's to
be done? At any rate, have u Sc
cond horse at home, but not a second
life. So they exchanged, and the rob-
ber quietly rode off downward with
the Quaker's horse. The Quaker,
however, led the robbers starved beast
by the bride, and, upon arriving at
town, threw the reins upon its back,
saying: LEAD the way, thou bag OF
bones; thou canst better find thy mas
ter's stable than l."
He followed the horse up street and
down till it stopped at a stable-door
and would 60 no further. The Quaker
entered the house, and found the thief
just rubbing the SCOT from his face
with an old stocking. 'Lo, thou hast
got home, friend" said the Quaker
"and if thou hast no objection, we will
amend our exchange, for it was not
lawfully made. Give me back my
horse; thine is at the door,"
The rascal, seeing he was outwitted,
had no choice but to deliver up the
stolen horse. Good Cheer.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-08-01
A Noble Act Of Her0ism.

I remember a little incident that
happened many years ago. When 1
was in Cornwall, in 1854, visited the
mine where the incident occurred.
Carlyle refers to the story in one of
the chapters of his "Life of Sterling"
Two men were sinking shaft. 1t
was a dangerous business, for it was
necessary to blast the rock. 1t was
their custom to cut the fuse with
sharp knife. One man then entered
the bucket and made signal to be
hauled up. When the bucket again
descended, the other man entered it,
and with one hand on the signal rope
and the other holding the fire, he
touched the fuse, made the signal, and
was rapidly drawn up before the explo-
sion took place.
One day they left the knife above,
and rather than ascend to procure it
they cut the fuse with a sharp stone.
1t took fire. ''The fuse is on fire !"
Both men leaped into the bucket, and
made the signal but the windlass
would haul up but one at time only
one could escape. One of the men
leaped out, and said to the other, "Up
VII ye; I'll be in heaven in MINI
ute." With lightning speed the buck
ct was drawn up, and the one man
was saved. The explosion took place.
Men descended, expecting to find the
mangled body of the other miner i;
but the blast had loosened mass of
rock, and it lay diagonally. across him
and with the exception of few bruis-
>es and q little scorching, hewas un-
hurt. When asked why he urged his
comrade to escape, he gave a reason
that skeptics would laugh at. I would
not be what is called ''skeptic" to.
day for all the wealth of the world.
But what did this hero say when ask
ed, "Why did you insist on this 9TH
er mans ascending?" In his quaint
dialect, he replied: because know
ed my soul was safe; for I've gle it in
the hands of Him of whom it is said,
that faithfulness is the girdle of His
reins,' and I knowed that what I gied
Him He'd never gle up. But t'other
chap was an awful wicked lad, and I
wanted to gle him another chance" I"
All the infidelity in the world cannot
produce such a signal act of heroisn as
that.-AnOR.