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Dodge City times., 1889-08-08

Duluth (Minn.) Tribune. July IG.
William Dalquist is the name of lucky
Finlander who at present is day laborer in
R. A. Gray's saw mill, a. the West End. The
fact is, William, who has been in this coun-
try for six years or more and who has been
a hard worker all his life, is one of the lucky
persons who drew ''plum" at the drawing
of the Louisiana State Lottery held on June
18th last. he holding one-fortieth of ticket
''61, ,6O5,' which drew the capital prize of
$4,000. When Mr.. Dalquist was made
aware of his good fortune by a statement in
the TribHne that that number was the lucky
one, he was overjoyed beyond measure and
was the recipient of many congratulations
from his numerous friends, and at the same
time not few were envious of his good for
tune. Mr.. w. A. Foote here Immediately
offered Dalquist 81, 800 for his little slip of
paper, but William thought he would do his
own cashing, and thus save the 500, which
he has done. As soon as he can make ar
rangements he will 1t once proceed to Fin
land, where his father and mother, who are
poor people, live. The $1,000, Mr.. Dal-
quist says will be more than enough to keep
his parents, himself and one of Finland's
fairest daughters (which latter was said
with slight distortion of the facial muscles,
tending to a SMILEY for the rest of their days.
Dodge City times., 1889-08-08

seek Christian counsel. Gather mp all
the energies Of body, mind, and soul,
and, appealing to God for success, de-
clare this day everlasting war against
all drinking habits, all gambling prac-
tices, all houses of sin. Half-and- half
work will amount to nothing; it must be
. Waterloo. Shrink back now and you
are lost. Push ON and you are saved.
A Spartan General fell at the very mo-
ment Of victory, but he dipped his I'm
ger in his own blood and wrote on o
rock near which he was dying: Sparta
has conquered" Though your struggle
to get rid of sin may seem to be almost
q death struggle, You can dip your I'm
ger in your own blood and write on the
Rock Of Ages. Victory through our
Lord Jesus Christ"
Oh, what glorious news it would be
for some Of these young men to send
home to their parents. They go to the
postof6ce every day or two to see
whether there are any letters from you.
How anxious they are to hear.
Some one said to Grecian general,
What was the proudest moment in your
life?" He thought q moment, and said:
when sent word home to my parents
that had gained victory" And the
proudest and most brilliant moment in
your life will be the moment when you
can send word to you parents that you
have conquered your evil habits by the
Grace of God and become eternal victor.
Oh. despise not parental anxiety! The
time will come when you will have
neither father nor mother, and you will
60 around the place where they used to
watch you and find them gone from the
house and gone from the field, and gone
from the neighborhood. Cry as loud
for forgiveness as you may over the
mound in the churchyard, they will not
answer. Dead! Dead! And then you
will take out the white lock of hair
that was cut from your mothers brow
inst before they buried her, and you
will take the cane with which your
father used to walk, and you will
think and think and wish that you
had done just as they wanted you
to, and would give the world if you had
never thrust pang through their dear
old hearts. God pity the poor young
man who has brought disgrace on his
fathers name! God pity the young man
who has broken his mothers heart!
Better if he had never been born-bet-
ter if, in the first hour of his life, in
stead of being laid against the warm
bosom Of maternal tenderness, he had
been cofined and sepulchered. There
is no balm powerful enough to heal the
heart of one who has brought parents to
a sorrowful grave, and who wanders
about trouhgh the dismal cemetery,
rending the hair and wringing the hands
and crying, Mother! Mother!" Oh, that
to-day, by all the memories of the past
and by oil the hopes of the future, you
would yield your heart to God! May
your fathers God and your mothers
God be your God forever!
Dodge City times., 1889-08-08
Bringing Him to the Mark.

~And you really love me, Charlie?"
love you, Jennie? With all my
heart and soul.
We'll, I'm glad to hear you say so,
but"
But what? Surely you cannot have
any doubt of the sincerity of my affec-
tion?"
~Not exactly. Still"
~Still what?"
well, I thought if you had loved me
you would have a-that is to say
think-I thought. you know, you would
have kissed me before this-that is"
upon my soul, Jennie, knowing you
were . Boston girl didn't dare to, but
here goes now, you bet"
Let the curtain fall
Dodge City times., 1889-08-08
A Coincidence.

I'm interested in that young man."
said stranger Number One.
SO am ], . said Number Two; quite
q coincidence. isn't it?-
Yes, SO it is. I've watched him for
o nuiaber of years, and I think he has
the making of q smart man in him. In
fact. l have taken quite . fancy to
him."
And lent him five dollars over q
year ago, and I'm quite interested to
know when he intends to pay it. Yes,
we are both of us quite interested in
him, and as remarked before, it's quite
q coincidence"
Then each looked fiercely at the other,
and turned on his heel simultaneously:
which was quite coincidence.
Dodge City times., 1889-08-08
Human Nature.

The vast populace who parade she
pavement and drives Of the various thor
Oughfares of the metropolis, with scant
exceptions, place themselves, if at
leisure, before the public to be
noticed if not admired. Chicago
and Kansas City are two fine cities for
sketching, not bird's-eye, but ten
karat view of those who drill on their
pretty. The maid with rustling skirts
and bewitching countenance looks
straight ahead as she traverses her
evening pathway, but she never fails to
notice the looks of admiration she calls
forth by the pedestrians, both male and
female. If it be one of her sex, envy is
depicted on the features of her contem-
porary in fashion. Notice the man who
has gained worthy fame and notoriety
as he with stride equal to the gladia-
tor of old, glides past. You, if you
have the slightest conception of human
nature, can readily detect the germ
from which he sprang, that is affectation
and genuineness can easily be distin-
guished. The actor, artist, author, lee
turer, while in the infancy of fame had
o listless and chronic mode of covering
ground. but when the latent seed,
which lies dormant in the anxious and
ambitious confine, is aroused by
fragment of praise or comment, the
change is instantaneous. He no longer
mopes along with draw-bridge express
sion, but with a vivacious prance akin
to the contortionist. Praise is man.
moth; it is q far greater remedy for the
vast number of maladies that man is
heir to, than quinine, jalap, or even
ipecac. 1t penetrates chord in ones
that has never been discovered
by the skilled surgeon and his dissect-
ing knife. The entire system, when
once inoculated with it, as the reader
knows, is beyond the grasping propea-
sites of the maidstone or pourous plas-
far
Dodge City times., 1889-08-08

Fond Moth er: swell. my pet, did the great
dramatic manager say you would quickly
become a star if you should adopt the stage
as profession?"
Ambitious daughter: ''Well. not exactly:
but think he intends to engage me for a
new domestic drama of some kind. He told
me to 60 home and learn to cook"
Dodge City times., 1889-08-08

New York Merchant(to his smart but
dissipated drummer): at is not sufficient
palllation of your dissipation that you sell
lots of goods, sir. A certain amount OF
drinking may he necessary, but you can get
along on half you now drink"
Drummer: Il know it, but (hic) hose
going ter drink other (hic) half?"
Dodge City times., 1889-08-08

Belinda-I think that Mr.. jerks,
your fiance, is too lovely for any thing.
What soulful eyes he has!
Mable--Yes; but my dear, you don't
really know Alfred until you hear him
read poetry.
Belinda-How delightfully."- romatic!
What business is he in?
Mable-He is in . wholesale hides
end pelts establishment-AnsricG
Dodge City times., 1889-08-08
.eNhat,s your boy doing now

Smyth: whats your boy doing now,
Edgerton?'
Edgerton: ooh I've set him to studying
human nature"
Smyth: "Ah! Travelling about the world
presume, picking up experience IN the mad
rush for existence"
Edgerton: "No. You're wrong, I've set
him to work picking up five dollars week,
in the mad rush of a dry goods store"
Dodge City times., 1889-08-08
An Out.of.PIace Question.

Child-Oh, mother, there was queer
old man in our school to-day-an old
fogy, guess.
Mother (reprovingly) Hush, child,
you must not speak that way.
Child-Well, that's inst what he was.
We were rec:ting Greek history, and he
asked MS what the exports of Alaska
were. None of us could tell. Oh,
we've got an awful hard history lesson
for to-morrow-the whole Of the ex-
petition of Cyrus to learn.-Ydrakee
RLn62e
Dodge City times., 1889-08-08
Hoods earsapariIIa

At the Jeweler's.-She: 'But Max. don't
you think it extravagant to give three hun
dred dollars for a diamond to wear ON my
hand"
: He: mot at all, my dear; you don't con-
slider how much shall save on your gloves.
Dodge City times., 1889-08-08

Anxious mother; 81 am so worried about
my boy. He is ON the street the whole time
rain or shine. I should think he might sit
down and r. occasionally as his sisters
do"
Old friend. 'Ten him reading is bad for
hls health"
Dodge City times., 1889-08-08

Doctor: 'T see just what's the matter
with you. You need something strengthen
ing. Eat plate of oatmeal, boiled, every
morning for breakfast"
Patient: 81 do"
Doctor (equal to the occasion): 'Then
leave it of"
Dodge City times., 1889-08-08

Difference between a ship and a street
sprinkler-One walks the water and the
other waters the walk.
Dodge City times., 1889-08-08

Mr.. Berthe: "Do you like the engage
ment ring, dearest?"
Miss Gertie: "Yes, it is Just splendid,
and SO different from what the others have
given me-"
Dodge City times., 1889-08-08

whsn Baby w. siek. - 0vs hr Castoria,
Whn shs vas . Child, she cried for CAstoxia,
Whsn she became Miss, she CHING 70 Caseogia,
Whn - had Children, - savs tAsn Castoci
Dodge City times., 1889-08-08

Mrs. Butts: ''What delightful CONVEX
sationalist Mr.. Jabberbox is. Il lust does
me good to hear him talk"
Miss Minnie Ball: 'Yes, indeed; but how
restful it is to hear the silence when he list
eR6 somebody else"
Dodge City times., 1889-08-08

Eugence Spance. ''Well, madame, there
is nothing SO appropriate for an innocent
child as white, pure white"
Mrs. Fauntleroy; "Well, Pnlook at some
white suits. Are they on this counterF"
Mr.. Spance: 'No, nam, these are bar.
keeper's jackets. This way, please"
Dodge City times., 1889-08-08

On the Right Road.-Boggs "a New
York reporter sent to write up the Inebri-
ate's Home gets intoxicated on the way):
81 (hic) shey, stra'ger, am I on r-road to
'nebr'ate sh-shylum?"
Stranger: 81 would Judge from your ap-
pearance that you were"
Dodge City times., 1889-08-08

He: "After We are married, Jennie dear,
well 60 to light housekeeping"
She: Lighthouse keeping, Why, I
wouldn't even know how to trim the
lamps"
Dodge City times., 1889-08-08

I'VE are looking for a clock to presen. to
our batter" said a member of a base ball
club to New York jeweler This will suit
you then" said the jeweler, indicating a
time-piece, 'it strikes every quarter of an
hour"
Dodge City times., 1889-08-08

'Penny wise and pound foolish" are those
who think it economy to use cheap soda and
resin soaps, instead of the good old Dob
bins Electric soap; for sale by all grocers
since 1854. Try it once. Be sure, buy gen.
uine.
Dodge City times., 1889-08-08

Blnks (angrily to grocer): "Your sugar
has more flour in it than ever"
Grocer: "Yes, sir. Folks as pays, sir,
never complains"
Dodge City times., 1889-08-08

The reason.-Bessie: 81 met Miss Shapely
out shopping to-day, and never before
realized what loud voice she has"
Jennie: "But you must remember, my
dear, that she was asking for pair of No.
shoes"
Dodge City times., 1889-08-08
Insurance AGENT:

Insurance Agent: 'But you must insure
in one of these companies"
Victim: 80, go away and let me alone;
you can see well enough am going to the
dogs"
Agent: ''The very thing! Here is COM
pany to insure against the bite OF mad
docs
Dodge City times., 1889-08-08

Deceived The Dog.-Laura: "How did
you get to the door? I'm sure papa turned
the dog loose at sundown.'
ICholly. Il just sprinkled little whiskey
on my clothes and the dog thought 1 was
the old man himself"
Dodge City times., 1889-08-08

A Dangerous Station.-Miss Overland:T
suppose you entered Paris by the Care du
Nord, as we did"
Mr.. Gethere: 'eNo; the Care aux Voleurs,
I think, At least that is what the sign
said"
Dodge City times., 1889-08-08

First stranger Tin Boston,: "Can you
tell me how to reach Washington street."
Second stranger: ''rhat's Just where
want to go. Let's work together. You 60
south ann I'll go north and Wen report pro-
gress every time we meet"
Dodge City times., 1889-08-08

Lost His Balance.-Mrs. Jaggs Il a. n.y.
''Where have you been, John!'
Mr.. Jaggs: "BaPshing m books"
Mrs. Jaggs: "Well, if you've found any
balance tonight, John, you certainly have
not bronght 1t home with you."
Dodge City times., 1889-08-08

We call the attention of those suffering
with dropsy to the fair proposition of DIR. H.
b. Green d Sons in their advertisement on
this page. Try them; it costs you Eothing
to do so.
Dodge City times., 1889-08-08
Tee Tough.

Farmers Wife-Why do you get up
and leave that piece Of steak?
Tramp-I didn't ask for work. ma. am !;
asked for something to eat.-BAr-
Iin0ton Free Press.
Dodge City times., 1889-08-08

81 wonder how the IRON jawed man ac-
quired his marvellous power of lifting
weights with his teeth?' HE probably
boarded at restaurant for awhile"
Dodge City times., 1889-08-08

Mrs. Minkum: "How tired and worried
you look"
mrs. Winkum (wearily,: Eyes! its the
girls day in"
Dodge City times., 1889-08-08

Something New.-Mr. Highup (at break
fast): .'Any thing new in the paper?"
Mrs. Highup (who has had monopoly of
the morning paper for half an hour. "Yes
Hard, Cash & Co are selling surah silks at
half off,"
Dodge City times., 1889-08-08

Love may want all or nothing, but its
attachment is not SO exacting as the sher-
IFS; besides, the latter will take what it can
get.
Dodge City times., 1889-08-08

When two mon play ten-pins '.fof drinks''
no matter which one loses, the boy Ut the
Other end of the alley always ''seo -
up"
Dodge City times., 1889-08-08

"Misfortunes never come singly." At
this time o. year, the small boy often meets
trouble in green pears.
Dodge City times., 1889-08-08

Old smokers prefer ''Tansill's Punch" &c.
Cigar to most 10 centers.
Dodge City times., 1889-08-08

Walking advertisements for DIR. Sage's
Catarrh Remedy are the thousands it has
cured.
Dodge City times., 1889-08-08
DEATH IN THE WATER.

Absolute Poison In Nearly Every Anai.
can City and TOwn-What Win be II
Result Before the End Of Summer.
isWHAT did you fndr'
almost everything; t was Just reeking with poi
son."
The above remark was made BY q prominent SCI
enlist to the board of health ocer Just after exam.
lining drop of Croton, New York. through the
microscope The water of nearly every city In
America Is filed with poison. II caused by decay.
ting matter and animal life. What is the result? A
fearful increase of sicknees and DEATH both amone
children and grown people, The papers are nlled
OF fever cholera morbus and contason are in every
swallow of water.
But people say:
what can We do, stop drinking?D
.-No.p
Resort 10 stmulents?"
"No. Kill the germs in the water and before they
can come into the body. Three drops OF Perry Da-
Wis Pain Killer poured into glass Of water before
drinking viii kill the germs and make the most poi
sonous water pure and healthy. The best medical
talent In the land have asserted this for years. and
the experience Of every man and woman who has
tried II prove It."
Travellers through the jungies Of India drink the
swamp water even though 1t Is nied with slime and
covered with scum. but they arably purify It By
Kidding Pain-kiler Stanley, the African explorer
never undertakes journey without plentiful SUP.
ply Of Bangilia." as the natives call Killer II
this grand medicine is effective in regions whero
death Turks on every side where it reeks In every
pool does T. not stand TO reason that We can safely
meet the dangers Of our own drinking water BY IN
careful use?
Dodge City times., 1889-08-08

Irate wife: 'John, this is the fourth time
I've caught you in the kitchen talking to
the cook"
John: swell, my dear.'
Wife: 'The next time I find you here
I'll-weD, I'll discharge her-and do the
cooking myself" He has never offended
since.
Dodge City times., 1889-08-08

Blufkins says that If he pubhshed . pspef
be would call il the Umbrella, and then ev-
eryone would take It
Dodge City times., 1889-08-08

An observer has discovered that when
Chinaman is pleased he takes off his shoes
and opens his mouth.
Dodge City times., 1889-08-08

It takes a man with pretty strong con-
stitution to rise with the lark after being out
on one all night.
Dodge City times., 1889-08-08

1t is estimated .ha. some women carry
forty or fifty miles of hair about ON their
heads. Forty or fifty miles without switch
is good distance for an 'air line.
Dodge City times., 1889-08-08

If afflicted with sore eyes, use DR.. Isaac
Eye Water. Druggists sell it. 225c
Dodge City times., 1889-08-08

There is a woman in Troy who is such an
artistic enthusiast that she creates family
jars that she may decorate them.
Dodge City times., 1889-08-08

TaKRE Is nothing Ike being all broken
mn 10 make Q man zee the necessity Of
msnding his wsys-Buvlington FFes
Dodge City times., 1889-08-08

Charlie Mitchell has gone back to Eng
land. Thus we get rid of at least one Eng
ish ''sparrer."
Dodge City times., 1889-08-08
There is n man in ourtown

There is man in our town
And he is very wise. sir.
When e'er he doesn't feel Just right
One remedy he tries, sir.
It's just the thing TO take in spring
The blood to purify,
He tells his friends, and nothing else
Is he induced try
because, having taken DIR. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery to cleanse his system,
tone it up, and enrich the blood, and finding
that it always produces the desired result,
he considers that he would be foolish to ex-
pertinent with anything else. His motto is,
prove all things and hold fast to that which
is good" That's why he pins his faith to
the ''Golden Medical Discovery"
Dodge City times., 1889-08-08

and women to look after these poor
wounded fellows. As they came, some
from one part of the land, some from
another, no one asked whether this man
was from Oregon, or from Massachu-
sets, or from Minnesota, or from New
York. There was wounded soldier,
and the only question was how to take
off the rags most gently, and put on the
bandage, and administer the cordial.
And when a soul comes to God, He does
not ask where you came from or what
your ancestry was. Healing for all your
wounds. Pardon for all your guilt.
Comfort for all your troubles.
Then, also, 1 counsel you, if you want
to get back. to quit all your bad asso-
Citations. One unholy intimacy will
fill your soul with moral distemper. In
all the ages of the church there has not
been an instance where q man kept one
evil associate and was reformed. Among
the fourteen hundred million Of the
race not one instance. Go home to- day,
open your desk, take out letter paper,
stamp, and envelope, and then write .
letter something like this:
My old companions: start this day
for Heaven. Until am persuaded you
Will Join me in this, farewell.
Then sign your name and send the
letter with the first post. Give mp your
bad companions or give up Heaven. It
is not ten bad companions that destroy
a man, nor i've bad companions, nor
three bad companions, but one. What
chance is there for that young man /
saw along the street, four or five young
men with him, halting in front Of grog
shop, urging him to 60 in, he resisting,
violently resisting. until after while
they forced him to 60 in3 It vas . sum-
mer night and the door was left open,
and saw the process. They held him
fast, and they put the cup to his lips,
and they forced down the strong drink.
What chance il there for such . young
man?
counsel you also seek Christian ad-
vice. Every Christian man u boana .
help yea. Rirst es al, seek 0eA3 thoo
Dodge City times., 1889-08-08

| "ao cdAu W AasC OccA u SCcuc
hey ond all description. Well, there are
thousands of men on fire of evil habit,
coming down through the rapids and
through the awful might of temptation
toward the eternal plunge. Oh! how
nard it is to arrest them. God only can
arrest them.
Suppose man after five, or ten, or
twenty years of evil doing. resolves to
do right2 Why, all the forces of dark
ness are allied against him. He cannot
sleep nights. He gets down on his knees
in the midnight and cries, God help
mel" He bites his lips. He grinds his
teeth. He clenches his fist in his de-
termination to keep his purpose. He
dare not look at the bottles in the win
dow of a wine store. It was one long,
bitter, exhaustive, hand-to- hand fight,
with inf1amed, tantalyzing and merciless
habit. When he thinks he is entirely
free, the old inclinations pounce upon
him like q pack of hounds with their
muzzles tearing away at the fanks of
one poor reindeer. In Paris there is q
sculptured representation of Bacchus,
the god of revelry. He is riding on q
panther at full leap. Oh, how sugges-
tive! Let every one who is speeding ON
bad ways understand he is not riding a
docile and we'll broken steed, but he is
riding monster, wild and bloc dthisty,
going at a death leap.
How many there are who resolve on q
better life and say: When shall 1
awake?" But, seized on by their old
habits, cry: Il will try it once more; I
will seek it yet again!" Years ago there
were some Princeton students who were
skating, and the ice was very thin, and
some one warned the company back
from the air hole. and finally warned
them entirely to leave the place. But
one Young man, with bravado, after all
the rest had stopped. cried out: -One
round more!' He swept around and
went down, and Was brought out
corpse. My friends. there are thousands
and tens of thousands of men losing
their souls in that way. II is the one
round more.
| have also to say that If man wants
to return from evil practices society re-
pulses him. Desiring to reform he says,
Nov, I viii shake OF ny old associates
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-10-19
The Pittsburg Exposition.

We wish to call attention to that
great enterprise, where one can see
so much for so little money. We
advise our readers to take advantage
of the cheap transportation, and see
the great exposition, and while Wis
iting the sister cities do not fail to
look for humber 50 Federal street,
Allegheny, where one of the finest
and most complete liquor stores can
be seen in this country. You will
convince yourself ut a glance, that
when you give your patronage to
such house you are sure to be well
treated and get value for your mon
ey. The proprietor of said house
cannot afford to b., pothecate his rep
utation and do otherwise. He con-
tinues to sell six ear old pure rye
whiskey at 81, 90 per quart, or six
quarts for $500. His Silver Age
has no equal, whi' h he sells at 81 80
per full quart. All kinds of wines
from soc. upwards, and no extra
charge for packing or shipping To
any place. Send for his price list
and catalogue and oblige
MAX KLEIN.