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Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-09-19
CORN STALK DISEASE.


II DwarfS the corn anu D0v0AOpo = = osos
Disease in Cattle.
There has comparatively recently
come to light disease which dwarfs
the corn and develops a fatal disease
in cattle which are allowed to feed
upon such affected stalks. 1t is not a
new one, having been discovered
some years ago by Prof. Burrill, OF
Champaign, Ill. This year. however,
il is beginning to attract attention in
several States, especially in Northern
Illinois. The first the farmer notices
of it is that his corn refuses 10 grow.
The lower leaves turn light green in
color, then yellow and finally die;
somewhat upon the same principle as
the workings of the chinch bug. The
disease affects not only an occa-
sionGl stalk or hill, but sometimes
whole acres. Upon examination it Is
found that the lower roots are all
dead and the stalk is held in its place
by only few of the upper ones. The
stalk may be easily pulled up by the
roots, the stringy, woody parts OF
which pull out of their coverings.
Upon closer examinations it will be
found that the inside of the lower
parts of the sheaths of the dead leaves
and the adjoining parts of the stalk are
covered more or less with little spots
which are at first watery-looking, but
grow darke" as death to the parts ap-
ol he hn
nothing of the sort is visible An
exudate follows the different stages of
the disease with the accompanying
color of the spots. The farmer is
perplexed as to the cause. He finds
no trace of worm nor bug, not
even with magnifying glass. Fur
thermore. when cattle are allowed ac-
cess to these diseased stalks, or when
fed upon them, they contract very
peculiar disease which almost invari-
ably proves fatal. The cause of the
mischief is a little germ, living Or
ganism similar to that of the Southern
cattle plague, which is found abun-
dainty in this gelatinous exudate spoken
of above, also in the blood and differ
ent organs of cattle affected with the
disease. The germ can be readily
seen by the aid of good microscope.
A remedy for this disease has not yet
been found, neither in the stalk nor
after it is developed in cattle. So the
safest plan will be to keep the stock
from getting access to such stalks.
The diseased portions of the field, of
course. fail to mature their ears. But
at times a few nubbins are found. -
Orange Judd Farmer.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-09-19
A WONDERFUL CHANGE.
The People in Massachusetts q Century
Ago and To-Day.

The People in Massachusetts a Century
Ago and To-Day
The people of Massachusetts were
formerly homogeneous people and
almost purely English.
About one in a hundred could say
that his family came from Scotland or
The north of Ireland; one in five hun
dred may have been the grandchild of
a Huguenot Extreme poverty was al.
most unknown. and there were few
who could not read and write. Upon
religious and political questions these
people thought very much alike Ex-
cept upon the sea-coast nearly all the
people lived upon farms; but all along
the coast were many who lived by
fishing and by building ships, and in
the towns dwelt many merchants
grown rich by foreign trade.
From this picture of the New En-
gland of century ago, look upon this
of the Massachusetts, of the present
decade. In place of a homogeneous
people of common faith and common
speech and common love for the COM
monwealth, and reverence for its ira
ditions, in the factory towns and COM
mercial cities dwell great populations
diverse in creed and in tongue, un-
trained to liberty and republican
form of government, and with no re-
spect for the ashes of the dead from
which has sprung our fatherland.
Out of a population of 1.942, 141. &C
cording to the census Of 1885, the
foreign-born number 526. 867, not in
Guiding such children of alien parent
age as have been born in the United
States. There are 122, 263 illiterate
persons 10 years of age and over, of
whom IS. 6S per cent are of foreign
birth, and only 678 per cent were
born in this State. The foreign-born
represent one-fifth of the people en-
ployed in agriculture. one-half of those
employed in the fisheries, two-fifths
of those employed in the manufact-
ures, and two-thirds of those employed
in mining and as laborers-Forum.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-09-19
THE poor cuRA1E
Type Of Clergyman Very Common In
tho British Isles

A Type OF Clergyman Very Common In
tho British Isles.
1t must be considered a delicately
mooted point whether more harm than
good has. socially speaking. not been
done to the curates by the novelists.
There are glimpses, it is true. OF the
most crushing financial misery in
George Eliot's Scenes from Clerical
Life" and there are passages in the
fictions of Anthony Trollope and Mrs.
Oliphant which induce the suspicion
that it is possible for a curate to be
not only the cynosure of feminine eyes,
but very miserable creature. per-
petually prickcd by the halberts Of
impecuniosity to boot. What the
curate of the SEVENTEEN century was,
Macauley, improving on ''Eachards
Contempt for the Clergy" has told us,
bluntly enough. He was not a gentle
man. He had rarely been a gentle
man from the reformation. Queen
Elizabeth, as head of the church,
issued special orders that no clergy
man should presume to marry a servant
girl without consent of the master or
mistress, and Clarendon mentions it
as q sign of the confusion OF ranks
which the great rebellion had pro-
duced that some damsels OF noble
families had bestowed themselves on
divines.
The plays and romances Of the res
toration, and even of the earlier Georg-
ian era, abound with differences that
the most suitable helpmate for a
curate was a waiting woman. This
kind of contempt for the clergy has
assuredly altogether vanished, and it
would be as difficult now to find a GU
rate who was thought to be a suitable
match tor lady's maid as it would be
to discover young Levite" who, for
his bed and board and f1O year, was
content to officiate as domestic chap
lain in a country house, dining, in
deed, with the family, and privileged
to ''fill himself with the corned beet
and carrots" but expected by ETH
quette to withdraw when the pudding
and cheese made their appearance,
and standing aloof until it was time
for him to say grace for the good cheer
of the more delicate portion of which
he had not been allowed to partake.
The choicest morsels of the feast are
at present the guerdon of the curate.
He is of every tea-table, of every lawn
tennis party. If he be young and
good-looking, he may revel in the
gifts of Berlin wool-worked slippers
and embroidered braces, and his
temptations to plunge into premature
matrimony are not only many, but
often simply irresistible. His pro-
fession of itself is guarantee for his
standing in society, and no young
lady, however well connected, can lose
caste by espousing a clergyman. I'm
fortunately, the youthful parson rare.
ly "marries money" He often in.
ours, on the contrary, by marriage re-
sponsibilities which are apt to in
crease every year in cubic ratio,
| and which eliminate in his becoming
at last the typical ''poor curate, y
more wretched, more embarrassed,
more helpless than the pauper to
whose spiritual need he ministers. and
whose physical: wants he tries to re-
lieve out of his own shrunken scrip
London Standard.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-09-19
HUMOROUS.
The sugar trust will never bust
But ever firmly stand;
It's we'll prepared and can't be scared,
For 1t possesses sand.
noon

For 1t possesses sand.
Omaha World.
What is the matter, my man? Why
do you look so sad?" Il have lost my
wife" mo wonder you look sad. y
besides that, / have also married
another. "-Fliegende Batter.
Fastener = "Is Nebraska a very
healthy State?" Western man-'.Very
healthy? Well, sir, there's an old man
in Omaha named William Shakes
peare, and hang me if l don't believe
he's the original. IN. Y. Weekly.
-'Pat is this true that l hear?''
San what's that, Yer Honor?' THAT
you are going to marry again. "
THAT'S so, Yer Honor" But your
first wife has only been dead week. :"
'Sure she's as dead now as she liver
will be, Yer Honor" -Pick-me-up
Mrs. De Merritt = II suppose,
Major, that since the war the old
time colored aunty is rapidly becom-
ing a thing of the past?" Major
George A. Right you are
madam. right you are. The boys con-
slider themselves lucky now to be able
to put up white chips. "-Terre Haute
Express.
Here. John. am going into the
country on my vacation tomorrow. ;"
Eyes. sir" '.Pack up my oilskin suit,
my rubber boots, my tarpaulin hat
and half dozen umbrellas" "Yes,
sir. Any thing else?" That's all, I
believe. Hold on. though! You might
put in a salt fish or two. I'm bound
to keep dry if it's possible thing.
Boston Transcript
-Scribbles-..W Where's the foreman
of the composing-room?" Editor
''Oh. he's gone off on a vacation"
..For his health?" Yes. In our Week.
ly Theatrical Gossip the copy gave
him to set up read: Miss De Rouge,
the opera queen, has some very
noticeable fads. and he got it pads
so he asked for a vacation -TiEe-
-"Disapp' inted in Oklahoma"
Nary disapp'int" But what are you
coming back for with your family and
stuff" CANT git no claim?" "Then
how does it happen you are not disap-
pointed?" ..Wal, Betsy. she's allus
preached t they want no other fool
sech blamed fools / be; but sence /
TUX her down TO Oklahoma she hain't
he'd nuth'n to PUCK.
Expected too much. Merchant
you think your son would make US
satisfactory errand boy, do you?"
Mrs Moriarity-'.Whatever . do, sor,
g do it very quick" Merchant (turn-
ing to boy) james. take this note
up to Captain Centerield at the ball
ground and be back In twenty. min
utes." Mrs Moriarity-"Niver moind.
Jimmy. Come aim home. It's not .
bye they're wantin', it's an angel
Life.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-09-19
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Louisa NJ Alcott wrote the only
hymn of her life, "My Kingdom" at
thirteen years of age.
1t has been found that ten thou
sand books have been written BY
women in the United States.
The brightest of English maya
zines have but small calculations COM
pared with those of America
--Farjeon, the popular English nov
elist, rattles off his stories on the type
writer just as though he were play ing
the accompaniment to comic song.
joaquin Miller is described as ''a
slender, sparely-built man well along
in years. with long. yellowish white
hair that lays on his shoulders IN
curls.
William E. Gladstone has only
three fingers on his left hand. Forty
seven years ago his index finger was
shot off by a premature explosion
while loading his gun in the hunting
field.
An old chum of Explorer STAN
ley's. now city comptroller of Omaha.
says that when they were both there
twenty years ago Stanley was the
readiest and most accomplished liar he
ever knew. Stanley was the CORE
spondent of several Eastern papers.
The recent death of the blind deaf
mute Laura Bridgman. who was in
debted to DR.. Howe for her education
"a task which called for extraordinary
patience and perseverance-brings to
mind the fact that the blind owe to
DIR. Howe the possession of Bible
printed in relief on heavy paper. The
work was done in Boston at the ex-
pense of the American Bible Society
and consists of six volumes.
can Bookmaker.
Francis S. Saltus, who recently
died. is coming into great deal of
post-mortem mention. 1t turns out
now that he was a man of many ex-
traordinary complishments; but
owing to his erratic manner of life his
more commonplace brother easily dis
tanced him. in the race for fame.
Francis Saltus seems to have been a
man of almost universal polish as far
as literary work was concerned, and
his death had the effect of bringing
many clever bits of verse and odd
specimens of prose writing to the sur
face.
The most extravagant instance OF
literary relic worship on record is
said to be that of an Englishman OF
letters, who wears constantly around
his neck portion of Shelley's charred
skull 1t is inclosed in a gold casket
The bones of Victor Hugo are being
turned into money. for among the rel
les exhibited to sightseers at his for
mer home is huge tooth, with this
inscription below: Tooth drawn from
Victor Hugo by the dentist on Wednes-
day. August IL, 1871, at Vianden. in
the gardens of the house of Nine.
Koch, at three o'clock in the after
MON -
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-09-19

Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett
says In the New York World: 1T is
all very nice to have beautiful visions
and ideas floating around in your
brain and to lie back and watch them,
bat you won't succeed at any thing
unless you pin those beautiful ideas
down on paper, or on canvas, or model
them in clay. as the case may be. I
am not inclined to work, but / 60 to
my study every morning, whether I
am in a writing mood or not, and it is
seldom indeed that do not accomplish
something. Success is the direct 10.
suit Of work"
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-09-19
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.


southeastern Maine has some
rather venerable academies That at
South Berwick was incorporated in
1871. and those at Fryeburg and East
Machias the year following.
"A concise prayer said to have
been offered by an earnest New En-
gland deacon was as follows: Lord,
give us grace to know Thy will and
grit to dc it"-Brooklya National
Monitor.
Miss Kate Drexel. the wealthy
young lady of Philadelphia. who re.
Gently entered convent of the Sisters
OF Mercy at Pittsburg. has decided to
build college for the exclusive use
OF colored people.
Mr.. A. H. Baynes. the honored
secretary of the Baptist Missionary
Society of England, recently gave
striking proof of his unselfish devo-
ton to the cause of foreign missions
by declining the offer of an appoint
ment with salary five times that
which he is in receipt of from the
society.
"A minister was told of Mr.. K.
who lived in a town where he had
been pastor few years before: ''Mr.
X. thinks the world of you, and that
there is no one whom he ever heard
whose preaching he liked so we'll"
And he answered.: II wish he had said
SO while l was pastor 1t would have
made my work easier and my life
brighter"
The Los Angeles public schools
are organized on liberal basis and
rank among the best in the country.
The superintendent, Prof. w. NJ. Freis-
ner, receives a salary of $4,000 per an
mum, and his deputy. Prot. A. E.
Baker, $500. The principals, twenty
one in number, receive from S95 to
$135 per month. There is a special
principal of drawing at $135, and
one of writing at 1925 per month.
Teachers hold their positions at the
pleasure of the Board, and are on pro-
baton until their work is approved,
when they are permanently assigned.
The last Harvard College bulletin
shows that our American colleges have
counted some long-lived men among
their graduates. Nathan Birdseye. a
graduate of Yale. lived to be more
than one hundred and three years old;
Rev. John Sawyer, of Dartmouth, was
also over one hundred and three when
he died; he received from his college
the degree of d. d. at the age of one
hundred and two; Judge Timothy
Farrar, of Harvard, lived to be over
one hundred and one, and received the
degree of LII. ID. on the completion OF
his hundredth year. NJ. Chevreul. the
French chemist who recently died in
his one hundred and third year, had
also received degree from Harvard
College.
The late Rev. DR.. Nathaniel Bur-
ton. of Hartford. was. says Connecti-
cut paper, a very unconventional man.
Some years ago he heard a great many
complaints about the length of his
prayers. To settle the matter he en-
ployed a stenographer on Sunday to
take down his prayer. On reading it
over he was overwhelmed with aston
ishment at its length, and determined
to shorten it thereafter. Speaking of
the matter afterward he said: ut
seemed sacrilege to me when people
began to animadvert on the length of
my prayers, but they kept on all the
same (never harshly. though, in
single instance) and by and by l went
over to their side, and have had
comfortable amount of peace ever
since"
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-09-19

A GENTLEMAN had accompanied friend
81 trust that you will make allowances,
Mr.. Blankley. Ny servant left me very un-
expectedly, and I was compelled to cook the
dinner myself" ''Oh, certainly, my dear
madam, certainly" responded the guest
with great emphasis, 81 can put up with
any thing"
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-09-19

EVERY reader Of this paper viii have
noticed what has been said weekly about
Shallenberger's Antidote for Malaria. No
statement has ever been made which is not
strictly true and more than substantiated by
experience. No testimonial has ever been
published which i: not genuine, and the
If you are the victim Of Malaria, don't trifle
with Quinine, but get the Antidote and en-
JOY health. If your druggist don't keep it.
send one dollar to DR.. A. T. ShallenberRer,
Rochester, Penna., and get it by mail.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-09-19

Two CoLoRED men named Young and Gar
rett have induced Oil colored men to locate
upon Government land in Oklahoma, taking
100 acres each, or AS, 100 acres in all. They
have laid out town site near the center of
the colony The name of the town is Lin
coin, located on the north bank of the CHM
arrOn river, and is destined to be the county
seat, as they have five townships and are in
the majority ten to one.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-09-19

JAMES LEONARD, a compositor on the
Times-Democrat of New Orleans, lately in
seven days of seven and one-half hours
each, set and distributed 1O2, 800 ems-equal
to about 2O5, 900 letters. He worked regular
copy and his proof contained comparatively
few errors. In accomplishing the feat his
arm, it is estimated, travelled no less than
125 miles.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-09-19

who frlghtfully maltreated his wife for
teaching her little boy prayer, was recent
ly visited by a delegation of twenty women,
armed with whips and switches, and thor
ouGhlY thrashed
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-09-19

A NEW York jeweller has two jewels,
apparently diamonds, in his window with
the simple inscription over them: (which
is genuine!" Two young men, after hold.
ing a heated discussion on the question,
made the jeweller the umpire of wager.
The latter was compelled to acknowledge
that both were genuine. 1t was merely an
ingenious advertisement
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-09-19

DoBBINs' Electric Soap is cheaper for you
to use, if YOU f0llOw directions, than and
other soaps would be if giren to you, for by
its use clothes are sdrcd. Clothes cost more
than soap. Ask your grocer for Dobbins'.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-09-19

ALWAYS avoid harsh purgative pills. They
first make you sick and then leave you con-
stipated. Carter's Little Liver Pills regulate
the bowels and make you well. Dose, one pill.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-09-19

Indoors, particularly in the sitting posture,
are far more prejudicial to health than ex-
cessive muscular exertion in the open air.
Hard sedentary workers are far too weary
after ONCE hours to take much needful ex-
ercise in the open cir. They often need
tonic Where can they seek inauguration
more certainly and agreeaoly tnan irom
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, renovant
particularly adapted to recruit the ex-
hausted force of nature. Use also for dys-
pepsia, kidney, liver and rheumatic al
mentA
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-09-19

q partner in the banking firm Of Henries,
Farquhar & Co, as well as in Scott & Co.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-09-19

IT is not generally known that Mr.. Glad.
stone has only three fingers on his left
hand. The index finger was shot off forty
seven years ago by an accident in the hunt
ing field.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-09-19

GRASS yields no fruit or fragrance to tn
air, yet if it should fail to grow for on
year famine would depopulate the earth.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-09-19

By reference to our advertising columns
it will be seen that round trip tickets can be
purchased to Alabama and the South, ONE
FARE FOR THE ROUND TRIP via the Mobile d
Ohio Railroad, to all points, on September
10th and oath and October Sth next 1,0OO,-
COZ acres of land are offered for sale along
the line Of the above railroad. Go and see ii.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-09-19
lGam.aa's aittin Bet.er.~
There Is giadness In the household;
The shadow fades away

no'U 0sseAM oSse0xs
there IL gladness In the household;
The shadow fades away
That dafkoned all the sunshine
Of many summer day.
U. mama getting bettof,n
The happy children CRY,
And the light of hope shines bright again
In the loving husbands eye.
In thousands Of homes women are ''sick
unto death" with the terrible diseases so
common TO their sex, and it would seem as
Il all the happiness had gone out Of life and
the household in consequence. For when
the wife and mother suffers all the family
suffers with her. This ought not to be, and
1t need not be, for a never-failing remedy
for woman's ailments Is at hand. Many q
shadow Of disease has been banished from
1t by the potent power of DR.. Pierce's Fa-
vorite Prescription-the unfailing remedy
for all weaknesses and diseases peculiar to
women.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-09-19

A FAIR lady becomes stiA fairer by using
Glenn's Sulphur Soap.
Hills Hair and Whisker Dye, 50 cents.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-09-19

NEVER fail to cure sick headache, often
the very first dose. This is what is said by
all who try Carter's Little Liver Pills.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-09-19

A PEARL which was brought In 1874 to
Philip H., Of the size Of pigeons egg, was
valued At IA. 400 ducats, equal to 2l3, 996.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-09-19

$500 REWARD offered for an incurable case
Of Catarrh by the proprietors Of DR.. Sage's
Remedy. 50 cts, by druggists.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-09-19
ELY'S
CREAM BALM

To rds SURPRISE
after using Ely''
Cream Balm tux
months to .fnd tn,
right nOstrl, ichtci
u IS closed for II
years, rds openoand
free as the other.
feel rery thankful.
r. II. Cressenghdm,
275-fah Street,
Brooklyn.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-09-19

A DETROIT man bought ffty-cent rafds
ticket and drew church.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-09-19

The fashionable London wedding ring ha,
recently been of dull gold, but Princess
Louise went back to the OLD fashion anC
chose hers bright
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-09-19

THEY have politics in Japan now. under
the constitution, and one Of the partses y
called the Jijito.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-09-19

THE best cough medicine is Piso's Cure
for Consumption. Sold everywhere. Csc.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-09-19

If man is fit to 60 higher, he will show
it by being faithful where he is.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-09-19

IT is stated that an ancient pearl was
valued by Pliny at $4,000
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-09-19

In the last ten years land has decreased
in price in nearly all of the Old States.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-09-19

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