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Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-05-02
Agricultural Progress.

The improvement of agriculture and
the more profitable cultivation of the
farms depend on the farmers person
ally. Science, with all its machinery
of experiment stations. chemistry and
researches into the nature of the soil,
of plants, of plant food, and Of ami
mails, can only point out a way to the
ends desired; it can not do thing be-
yond this, and the farmer studying the
principles of his art as made plain by
scientific research must adapt his
practice to these or he can not in
crease his income. No possible COM
bination of cooperation can make the
crops larger or take the place of
manure or good culture. The one
thing needful is to reduce the cost of
farm products by cheapening the work
and increasing the yield Every eff
fort should be devoted to these results,
and there are no impossibiIties in the
way of them. Weeds. insects and
parasitic diseases which infest the
crops cost the farmer more than ali
labor and money spent on the farms.
and these are the enemies which can
best be defeated by combination and
cooperation. and they can not be got
rid of in any other way. Any single
farmer is utterly helpless before these
innumerable hosts. IN. Y. Times.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-05-02
Her Artistic Sense RevoIted.

Pale. but self-possessed. the young
man rose to his feet and stood before
her.
so this is the end, is it, Victoria
Washabaughp" he exclaimed, in a me-
tallic voice.
Evans Gambit, it is" she replied.
coldly. Il have been deceived in re-
gard to the strength of my attachment
for you"
ut could not stand the strain of my
inability to furnish you q greensboro
front on Michigan avenue for home.
/ presumed he rejoined, bitterly.
ut is not that, sir!' shs answered,
with flashing eye. Il beg you to be-
lieve that am superior to considera-
lions of o sordid character. Mr.. Gam
bit But you do not satisfy my srtistic
nature"
I'm whatrespect. Miss Washabaugh.
may ask?"
If you must know" replied the
fair young girl. with panied look.
your hair does not match that Of my
lovely little Fido by at least three
shadesr' Chicago Tribune.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-05-02
This IS the Season

w. 500 0edesnsb . ssssseey. 1AeAVuO
sease a ~ blood. tAe assanosd alossason - -
vsak esad1esoo oe ths be1y n en- Sus - pu,afy;
~. regulates. ana sefeagsAsaing inAneoes-s
hAppily ana s0seaavsly combined h HOOD 49,
poRA1la. 10 ovoRoo0oo that tieoa fooline oueeo
hooaasAo a1d dysDsps1a. and oxpeas every tnans -
eaofah fro0 tho blood.
my daaGAsef bed besa slli1g eooo sans va
oooosal osolnky. a. Hooa's eassapasillA vao ~,
eDDoo0oa ooua. Af1s9 - hnd tAhoa shReo boesaan
~ vas completely earsd ed bails ~. II b vian
Gsoae Dooasaro tAas FeconDsnA Hood's oArsaVas
MA BEN y. AmnxBL1Rs. enpe. ,Caneinnaaa =
Louisville Nail Line Co. Caaalnaaa.
To Purify Your Blood.
e"Two months go eoansaeed taxing HooRu
oaxsaparilla asaA experiment. - he'd 10 appoeisO
orssrsn0th ana felt taFsd al the sne. Isetsibaso0
my ooodition 70 scrofalo1s hunor. had txiod ~.
esal dtAsssat binds Of medicine. without fscsivhG
any bsaeAk Bat - soon - AaA taken half Boz,
lie OF Hoods eaFsapaEilla. ny appstite was ~
stored. and my stomach felt better. have row
taken nearly three bottles. and never was % ven
h ny NE" NRs- J. =. DoLDEARB, fasooag. 4. L
Hoods Sarsaparilla
Sold By Druggists. q: slx for& Prepared only ~
C. HOOD = Co. Aposhscaries. Lowell. Aaaa.
100 Doses One Dollar
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-05-02
BOGUS DIAMONDS.
Gems That Are As Numerous as the Sands
by the Sea-Sh0re.

Gems That Are rs Numerous as the Sands
by the Sea-ShOre.
OF late years jewelry, and female
jewelry in particular, as it were, has
become very numerous and ostenta-
tious, so to speak. Formerly the pos
session of pair of diamond earrings
enveloped the happy female in halo
of affluence that caused her to be
regarded as modified female Count
de Monte Cristo.
A minstrel troupe, whose perform
ance we attended not long since, made
a pointed allusion at the increased
cheapness of gems. The interlocutor
in conversation with the genial end
man, congratulated that dusky
humorist because he had been seen on
tie streets accompanied by beautiful
young lady. The happy end man in
luires if the interlocutor had observed
the elegant seal-skin cloak worn by
the lady. The interlocutsr had
noticed it. With reversed thumb the
end man intimates that he had be-
slowed it on the attractive female.
ut must have cost you quite large
sum of money!" replies the interloc-
utor, who for some inexplicable reason
ignores the negro dialect
''Yes, sab, five hundred dollars, and
did We see dem ar torches?"
"Those what?'
Dem torches. means dem lamps.
hanging in her yeahs.''
"Oh. you mean those large solitaire
earrings? Yes. saw them. They
must have cost you at least fifteen
hundred dollars"
Thirty cents" replies the end
man, reaching down for his bones. or
rather the bones with which he makes
discord.
The shabbily dressed. poorly paid
shop-girl wears gems that flash in q
dozen different colors, while the
young boy who gets four dollars q
week in q button factory carries on
his soiled hand q diamond ring that
Jug ~ 70 q PHAhSO . AouSOAA Ala OAOCI
times-n it were real.
Yet jewelry, which was formerly
supposed to be expensive. is now worn
SO generally as to create q suspicion
that the coal deposits are being sub
jecte1 to an alarming drain.
Not everybody knows that it takes
an experienced jeweler to detect the
real from the bogus diamond; hence il
frequently happens that grown-ur
persons undergo . similar experience
to that Of the little girl who complained
to her grandmother:
MA told me it was . diamond. but
have found out that it was nothing
bus . grindstone.
| A member OF tho famous s.poker
Legislature Of Texas once said that
che most expensive diamonds wers
those that staid in the pack when ha
had four Of Thorn IN his own hand
Texas SiftingA
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-05-02
PLANTING CORN.
Points for tho Consideration Of Those VII
Want = Good CrOD,

Points for tho Consideration Of Those Whe
Want . Good Crop.
Early-planted corn only in excep-
tional cases makes the best growth
and produces the best yield. 1t is
usually not good plan to plant unless
the soil is in a reasonably good condi-
ton and sufficiently warmed up to in
duce a quick termination of the seed.
It is true that sometimes corn may be
planted and will remain in the soil
some time without terminating, and
yet when the conditions become more
favorable the seed will make start
and grow. There is a loss of vitality
when this is done, while in addition
the weeds have much better oppor-
tunity of making start to grow.
while certainly the risks of failure to
terminate are materially increased.
And if the corn should fail it will delay
the planting often several days later
than if the work at the start had been
postponed until the conditions were
more favorable. With the soil in good
filth, and with the proper degree of
moisture, seed corn of strong vitality
will terminate and show above ground
in at least six days after planting. So
that if the cultivation is begun with
the harrow and the season is favorable
two workings can easily be given be-
fore the cultivator need be used. With
the harrow the weeds can be thor
oughly destroyed and the soil be left
in good filth for the cultivator.
In a clean soil prepared in good
filth a larger yield can be secured at a
less cost by planting in drills than in
hills But in a soil with weed or
grass seeds in it so as to render it nee
essary to hoe in order to keep down
the weeds between the stalks in the
row, hill planting will be the most
profitable, as it will require consid-
cradle increase in the yield to make
hoeing pay. Weeds and grass. if
allowed to grow in the hill around the
plants, will stunt them, and stunted
plants, like stunted stock, never entire
ly recover.
With the help of the drill or planter
the work of putting in the corn after
the soil is well prepared can be greatly
reduced. It will be best to wait until
the soil is in a good filth and we'll
warmed up and then push the planting
as much as possible; and then after
the crop is planted push the cultiva-
ton so that the weeds will not make a
start to grow. If planted in drills, as
rule, it will be best to harrow the
second time across the rows. as this
will kill out the weeds between the
rows, and leave the soil in good filth
around the plants.
Then with care in working the culti-
vator close to the plants, stirring the
soil thoroughly, but shallow. good
start to grow may be secured. If,
however, the weather should be rainy.
keeping the soil wet, it will often be
necessary to use the diamond pillow so
as to give drainage as we'll as to de-
stroy the weeds. Louis Republic
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-05-02
DESTROYED HIS DIARY.

A Characteristic Incident In the Life Of
John Ericsson.
A characteristic incident in the life
of Captain John Ericsson was one
which has not appeared in any of the
newspaper sketches of the great in.
ventor's career.
For nearly fifty years Captain Erics-
son had kept diary. or series OF
diaries, in which he every evening
covered a full page with the history OF
the day-the work he had accom-
plished. that which he proposed doing
on the following day, suggestions made
by and to him., and his opinions con-
corning the character of work done
and in progress. Added to these en-
tries were frequently opinions of other
mems ideas and their work which had
been brought to his notice, and in the
many years these volumes increased
to a very large number.
In the whole period of time men,
toned there were only twenty days
in 1856-when this daily custom was
departed from, and then only because
Captain Ericsson had had his hand
disabled by machinery and was unable
to write. No one ever was permitted
to read his daily history, and the vol
umes were always kept in the Cap
tain's own room.
About two and a half years ago.
when Froude published his Life Of
Thomas Carlyle" and his "Reminis-
cences," Captain Ericsson was much
disguised by the publication of letters
and other documents by Carlyle. and
Mrs. Carlyle, which he thought never
should have been put into print. and
the night after he had finished these
works he called his private secretary,
Mr.. Taylor, into his room and COM
manded him to take the volumes of
his diary away and destroy them
There were many things in the diary.
he said, that he should wish never to
sec the light of day. and the surest way
to prevent such thing was to destroy
every volume. Mr.. Taylor put the
leaves of the big book under a cutting
machine and cut them into millions of
pieces. The only thing now left ct
this valuable record consists Of the
pasteboard covers Of the volumes,
which Mr.. Taylor has preserved.-N.
7. Tribune
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-05-02
CHARACTER IN TONES.

1he Power for Good Or Evil That Reoldoo
In tho Human Voice.
Few of US are there who fail to rec
ognize the power for good or evil that
resides in tone. There is the tone of
authority that insures obedience; there
Is the tone of anger which exasperates;
there are the querulous. the lnsinuat-
Ing. the expostulating. the supplica-
tory tones. There il the tone of happy
childhood. clear. sweet. careless; the
tone of neglected childhood. SO moving,
so pitiful.
There is nothing when one is under
high state of excitement so difficult
to control as the voice, and probably
there is no one indicator of character
80 accurate and trustworthy as the
voice. In the prevailing tones of the
voice In conversation a discriminating
listener can readily detect the various
qualities of the mind and heart which
60 to make up the character of the
speaker; and this is to q large extent
true whether he speaks in q language
Ineligible to the hearer or in one un-
known to him. Culture shows itself in
the tones of the voice almost as exactly
as in the language articulated. or
in the expression of the face. Decision,
indecision, discrimination, hAoitual
good nature. merriment melancholy,
ill-temper--all leave their record as in
effaceably in the tones of the voice as
they do on the lineaments of the face.
The cultivation of ones voice thus
resolves itself into the cultivation of
ones character. Where the voice is
habitually soft, clear, sweet, uniform.
the character will be found to cor
respond with it. Where the voice is
full OF dissonance, harshness, cold
ness. negativeness, the character will
oe found to correspond with it.
The vocal organs are exceedingly
mobile and sensitive, or they could not
50 exactly reproduce in tone the con-
dition of ones MUD and the form of
ones character. Being thus mobile,
they are capable of indefinite cultiva-
ton in the richness, variety, depth
and modulation of the tones they pro-
duce; but no amount of cultivation
will impalt to the voice those peculiar
tones and qualities which indicate
sweetness of temper. charitab!eness Of
disposition or refinement of taste.
These traits must be in the character
or they will not appear permanently
and habitually in the voice.
The mother who can repress in her.
self and in her children irritable,
angry and impatient tones does much
to insure harmony and peace within
the circle of which she is the center.
There are those whose voices bring
gladness, light, cheer, wherever they
penetrate. for they give assurance of
balmy presence. genial sympathy. in
fictitious merriment. Benefactors in
deed are the owners of these voices,
and their memories are precious to the
hearts of all who listen to the melody
of their utterances.- Y. Advocate.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-05-02

One very comfortable piece Of sta
tistics has been furnished by 3he
Chautauquan Association. to the
effect that over three thousand years
would be required for any one person
to read all the literary works now in
existence that are recognised -
standard.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-05-02

The gigantic literary work accom-
plished BY Mr.. Ruskin is attributed by
. writer in the Pail Mall Gazette In q
largo measure to his confirmed habti
Of early rising. he remarks: In
dssd. most Of his writing Was done b
0orning candle,light"
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-05-02

Male Parent (sternly)-'Nov.
sir, young man. have caught you
stuck In the Jam, as usual, when your
mother is away" Culprit-.ru BET
quarter ma is stuck In tho jam,
too" Male Parent-s.Where?" Cul.
prit-'.Down at the millinery OPEN
ing."-Burlington Free Press
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-05-02

The best time to hunt for borees d
in-May. Coal ashes are said 20 b -
cs1lent - &prsyentiss q hogsgA
The Press., 1889-06-06

It is told: of boss carpenter in Maine that he had one question which he always asked of journeymen. When an applican for work appeared he was thus interrog ated ....
 "You whistle and sing some at you work, don't you?"
 "Oh, yes.'' "Well, what tunes do you general, whistle or sing ?"
 "Oh, there's Old Hundred,' and sAuld Lang Syne, and Down by the Weeping Willows,' and"
 'That's enoughl" the boss would ex claim. "You won't do for me. Too slow, them tunes be. Good day"
 On the contrary, if the applicant answer ed, "Oh, I generally whistle Yankee Doodle. or Money Musk, or The Fishers Hornpipe, or something of that sort" the carpenter would say at once:
 Il think you'll do Take off your coat ii you want to, and go to work.
 CENTENNIAL CONVERSATION. -,"Did you bring your field glass with you ?"
 "Never thought of that; but we can drink out of the fask."-Life.
The Press., 1889-06-06

r My daughter was greatly troubled with Scrofula, and, at one time, it was feared she would lose her sight. Ayers Sarsaparilla has completely restored her health, and her eyes are as we'll as ever, with not 8 trace of scrofu- la in her system. "-G. King, Killingly, Conn.
The Press., 1889-06-06
BACK TO THE OLD HOME.

In the golden glow of the setting sun There it lay, nestled down by a hill; The soft, gray shadows fell here and there, On green meadow and running Till. saw the fields of golden grain;
 heard the caws and song of bird; But at the door where the hollyhocks grew heard no welcoming word, strayed out in the orchard fair;
 Old trees stretched their arms to me, As if to say: "We remember you well," And they whispered these words to me: 'Haye you back the hopes of youth?
 Are your castles peopled with life? Is your heart as brave and full of glee? Were no dreams crushed out in the strife ? 'Do you bring to your home the book of life With it's pages just as clean As in the days, when child, you played Ere the years drifted in between? ''Is life as fair as in the days
 You gathered the flowers sweet? Are none of the pages plotted, or stained, In the book that will soon be complete" The old home lays fair in the moonlight, As it falls on the waving grain; But the old folks are gone, and the old trees Say, never to return again.
The Press., 1889-06-06
TRUE TO BROTHER SPEAR.

can't decide why Brother Spear
 Was never joined to me: It wasn't because the good old Dear Hadn't every chance to be; If Poetry remarked one time
 That Womanhood is true, It's more than probable that I'm
 The one it had in view; For, search the city high and low, And no one will you hear To say or hint but what that
 Was true to Brother Spear. mothered all his daughfefs when Their mothers life cut short, Although they didn't-now and then So much as thank me fort; laughed-though scorched with inside rage And said didn't care, When his young son, of spankble age, Removed my surplus hair; called and called and called there; why He ne'er was in seemed queer; The house-maid even owned that Was true to Brother Spear. hired sitting in the church Near him, but cornerwise, So his emotious could search
 With my devoted eyes; And when the sermon used to play On love, divine and free, nodded him, as if to say,
 'He's hitting you and me!' He went and took another pew Of 'thousand tongues" in fear; But what sin was it to be true To good old Brother Spear? Poor man I recelect he spoke, One large prayer meeting night And told how smallish we all look In heavens majestic sight; He said, Not worthy he had been By conscience eer abhorred- To be a door-keeper within
 The temple of the Lord; And that his place for evermore, Undoubtedly and clear Was mainly back behind the door Poor humble Brother SpearI And then arose, and made speech Brimfu of soul-listress, And told them how words could not reach My own unworthiness; How orphanage tried to soothe And cheerless widowhood; But in the Lords great house, in truth, too felt far from good, And that my trembling heart and mind Compelled it to appear That my place hencefoith was behind The door, with Brother Spear. Poor man! he ne'er again, they say, Was heard to strongly speak; He took down i'll that very day, And died within a week. But one prayer oft they heard him give That when his days were OCT, ' still upon the earth might live A thousand years or more, As his betrothed figure now, And shed the frequent tear; And all his relatives will VOW Pm true to Brother Spear.
 -Will Carlton, in Haaper's Magazn n
The Press., 1889-06-06

Come, yellow butter comei a SOIL pare arms are tired of toiling up and down An' patient little workerl there she stands. @ In tucked up gown. And lifts the dasher high with hurr;,,. u,, ,
 Yellow butter, come P g. -o'S iAnus' sho Come, yellow butter, comel @ she, signing, bends to wonder in the chnrn,s door well, =. A 'Ao " 1nufhs deep And wipe the spattered drops so carefn1ly,
 cool, sweet smell The bubbly cream sends mn Noxu st,.a ..n
 Yellow butter, come At s&'z
 Come. yellow butter, comet
 fast; Di'0'il ~ is pantlng The old churn shakes and totters to and fro. come at lasti
 below! sei'"s loiaen Yallnxr hi,ffo
The Press., 1889-06-06
Yellow hntter cnma 1

BUcKLEN's ARNIcA SALyE.--The hest salva in the world for Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers. Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter. Chapned Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Ernn- tions, and positively cures Piles, or no nav required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction, or money refunded Price 25 cents per box. For sale by E. K. Taft.
The Press., 1889-06-06
CHURNINa.

rev articles s0ld are what they claim to be. We find an e4ceptiori in Brussels soa,,
The Press., 1889-06-06
Cancer

is form of blood poison which is not under stood by the medical profession as to it's real nature and character, but it is evidently hered. itary in it's nature. It may accidently de- velop itself without any predisposition ol evidence of such existing poison. The knife or caustic salves have heretofore been the so called remedies for it, but all honest prac titioners will tell you that this treatment fails to cure, and only hastens fatal results Thous ands of cases of epithelioma (skin) cancers and a great many cases of scirrhus cancers, Specific. It forces the poison out through the cancer itself, and the pores of the skin.
 My father had cancer; my husband also had cancer, in fact died with it. In 1875 6 lump came on my nose, which steadily in creased in size, and alarmed me. used va. rious remedies-salves and other applications, and finally tried to burn it out, but the sore returned worse than ever, growing larger and more angry, until I determined to try Swift's Specific. took the medicine, and it soon made complete cure. I know that s. s. s. cured me, because discarded all other reme- dies. 3 This was was several years ago, and have had no sign of a return of the cancer.
 MRS. M. T. MABEN,
 April 9th, 1889. Woodbury, Texas
 Treatise on Cancer mailed free. The Swift Specific Co.,, Drawer 3, Atlanta, Ga.
 Medical examiner (for insurance company You seem in @ very weak, nervous condi- ton.
 Applicant your agents have been chinnlng at me for six months. s.-Phsla. Record. A WoMAN's DISCOVERY -"Another wonder full discovery has been made and that too by a lady in this country. Disease fastened its clutches upon her and for seven years she withstood it's severest tests, but her vital or gans were undermined and death seemed inn minent. For three months she coughed in- cessantly and could not sleep. She bought of us bottle of Dr. Kings New Discovery for Consumption and was so much relieved on taking first dose that she slept all night and with one bottle has been miraculously cured. Her name is Mrs. Luther Lutz " Thus write w. O. Hamrick & Go. of Shelby, N. C.-Get free trial bottle at B. K. Taft's drug store.
 It is useless for young ladies who are troub- led with freckles, pimples, moth and tan and bad skin generally to use liquid paints or dry powders, for they only make the skin look we'll for the time being To have good com plexion you must have pure blood. Use Sul- phur Bitters and your skin will be fair and complexion rosy.-Yoang Ladies' MagaSine. ' My daughter was greatly troubled with Scrofula, and, at one time, it was feared she would lose her sight. Ayers Sarsaparilla has completely restored her health, and her eyes are as we'll as ever, with not trace of scrofu- la in her system."-G. King, Killingly, Conn.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-04-05
FAIR PRICES FOR JERSEY CArrLE

Seventy eight head of Jersey cattle were yesterday
sold at auction by Peter C. Kellogg, in the American
Institute Building, Sixty-thrd-st. and Third-ave
The attendance not large, but It included many
well.lmown buyers and breeders. While the prices
paid for cows were generally good, hefers ruled
low throughout. Pedro's Marjoram, q Ave-year-old
COW, by Pedro out Of Marjoram. tho property OF
the Green Mountain Stock Farm Company, I'm Vermont
went to Frederick Biiiipgs for s23b while Eustace
Fifth tive years. by Lion d'Alphea, out OF Eustaee
was bought by l. o. Appleby, of Appleby Johnson
for 1890 Mr.. Appleby also gave $500 for Terna
of wimmiIel a COW by Ramapo-Countess Tcsa Other
prces wee Lorena OF Briarclif, heif~, $3.50; J. p
Reed Golden Trldie, $50, D. Powers h Son. Carlos
DAISY, sleo, John P. Haines; Alice Mcclellan, $780,
A. Mitchell; Granny, Of pr1srelid sls0, John r
In ali seyeny-pfne lots were Sold and the total
sum realized viii not fan far short Of 10000