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Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-10-17
THE NIGHT WIND.

sNhst does the night wind say to tnee!
Iasked maiden fair to see.
IT whispers of sunny banks and braes,
Where my love and pass happy days;
Laden with sweets from the scented flowers,
7, WATTS me a breath from those blissful
hours,
When smiling love looked into my eyes,
Meath the blue arch of the summer skies.
II murmurs again his dear words so sweet:
sReayen is here as lie at thy feet
Its sunbeams CLINT in thy golden hair.
Thy lips are its perfumed howrets rare.
Earth with its cares, its vague alarms,
Is all forgot in thy tender arms,
While birds and all things near rejoice
In the witching music OF thy voice..
4" And what to thee does the night wind say!
asked OF woman old and gray
.. At the sound of its voice / shake with 1ears'
For there comes a thought OF other years
When my lover brave left me and nome,
In foreign lands for gold to roam.
He left me TO mourn, with anxious heart,
That love from love for gold must part.
hear again the menace drear:
sNever again viii you see hi,l here,
But stretched cold and stii, corpse on tht
sand,
No light in his eye, no warmth in his hand,
No word OF greeting, no tender tone,
For love to welcome back lis own,
Amemory all that is left thee now,
Woman with wrinkled and aged brow"
Alas, for the maiden fair and free;
Alas,-for the woman gray is she.
Detroit Free Press.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-10-17
SOMEWHAT RISKY.
How 1t Feels to Have an Apple Cut In
Two on Ones Head.

How 1t Feels to Have an Apple Cut In
Two on Ones Head.
once let professional swordsman
cut apples in two while l held them
on nv head and on the palm OF my
hand, and I'll never do it again. The
experience is too thrilling for the
plain citizen who is not military in
his tastes l was with show when
the regular assistant of the swords
man went on a strike, and the swords
man was in a dreadful fume as he
thought of disappointing the crowd OF
spectators that night He came be-
hind the scenes at rehearsal and called
for a volunteer '.Tll give twenty
five dollars to the man who'll hold the
apple for me-" said he. No one vol
unteered, and 1 daringly put in my
oar. '.rl do it if you give me re-
hearsal." "No rehearsal, said he
emphAtically, sit will shatter your
nerves so that you'll tremble like an
aspen leaf when you come out at the
performance" SO l went out when
night came, the upper part OF my
body covered with thin silk vest
1t was cold, anyway, and l trembled
abominally. He saw it, but said moth
ing to me. / held the apple on my
extended hand, and it shook. l could
feel it shaking, an d felt ashamed. but
couldn't control the nervousness. L
turned away my head; he made a few
rapid feints, and l knew by the APP
plause that the apple had fallen. l
didn't feel the blade at all as it cut
through. Then knelt down, and he
put another apple on my neck. l
knew this was really dangerous. for if
his hand slipped he might decapitate
me. l shut my eyes. In second.
| which seemed an hour to me, felt a
thin cold line touch my neck, and
there was more applause. In that in
slant l thought of Nine. Roland and
the guillotine, and came near faint
ing. He told me to get up. and fol-
lowed him, feeling rather dazed. to
the dressing-room. l thought must
be cut, the touch of the steel had been
so plainly felt, but the looking-glass
showed me that there was not mark
on me. But l was awfully pale. The
next night we got a regular man to
hold the appies.-St. Louis Globe
| Democrat
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-10-17

creature had laid its burden down to
secure a firmer hold upon it before
making the leap
..At the crest of the drift the
japanese stopped. and one OF them
turned back to meet US, enjoinlng
silence. according to their custom. by
raising his hands. Barrows and had
Just halted fifty yards below the drift
to hear his account, when with q
prowl which we plainly heard. the
great striped brute emerged from the
den. and at one bound landed among
the japanese on the snow-drift-
..They shouted, one OF them dis
charging his iint-lock. then the whole
group, with the naaing 4ho on top,
went downward together twenty feet
to the foot of the drift. Hampered as
they were by their snow-shoes. the
men could do but little to help them.
selves.
s.The tigers attention was fixed up
on one hunter, who, at the foot OF the
drift, it seized by the hip. 1t hsd
turned to carry the man into the dea.
when another of the japanese. who
lay in the snow partly under the tiger.
cut desperately with a dagger at the
animals belly. and laid open a fearful
| cash. saw the flash of the fellow 9
knife as Barrows and l hurried for
ward to get shot at the tiger.
Without relinquishing its hold on
the man, the maiag-ho bounded back
up the drift. but before reaching the
top it lost its grip and stopped short.
a crimson stream pouring from its
wound.
eat a distance of thirty or forty
feet from the animal Barrows and ]
fired. The tiger again seized the
japanese, and tried to spring with him
from the drift into its lair, but miscal-
culated its ebbing strength, and fell
beneath the drift and the wall.
clustering our forces, we climbed
up the CORY snow-bank. expecting to
have hard struggle, but the tiger
was then seen to be lying helpless on
the other side. A part of its entrails
extruded from the wound the Japa'
nese had made, and Barrow's bullet
was found to have passed through Its
body back of the shoulder. breaking a
rib where it emerged on the other
side. Another shot stretched the
animal lifeless in the snow:
1.-The man whom the beast had tried
to carry off lay where the creature had
dropped him, and we at first though,
him dead. But though he was over
come by fright and BADLY bitten, his
hurts were not fatal. We carried him
back to our quarters, and he recovered
3 in the course of a month.
1.-Two of the Coreans mustered
courage to enter the den, and found
there some of the bones OF their two
, unfortunate comrades whom the tiger
had carried to his lair to devour.
Three of the japanese remained
behind to take off the tigers skin
which, when afterwards stretched GU
at the mill, was found to be nine fee
long. This tiger must have weighed
, fully five hundred pounds, and wa
handsomely striped. '-Lieutenant Z
, R. Smith, in Youths Companion.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-10-17

THE world is full of shoddy and shams,
but real merit is always recognized. Thirty
years ago DIR. Shallenberger discovered an
Antidote to the poison of Malaria, which
has had an immense sale, although until re-
Gently it has not been advertised in a single
newspaper. Merit alone has sold it all these
years, because it cures when all else fails,
and is just what is claimed for it. 1t int fall
biy DESTROYS Malaria and could not harm an
infant. Sold by Druggists, or sent by mail
for one dolsr. Address, DR.. A. T. SHALLEN-
BERGER, Rochester. Pa.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-10-17
Marriage

Is but the stepping stone to those divine In
situations, the family and the home. which
constitute the very foundation on which
our nation rests; and upon the health
and strength of the wife, and mother, de-
ponds the sunshine and enjoyment of the
home, and the prospe rity Of the family.
Thousands Of wives, and thousands of single
ladies, drag out a weary existence in conse-
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Pierce's Favorite Prescription is positive
cure for the most complicated ard obstinate
cases Of leucorrhea, Prolapsus, weak back.
"female weakness" anteversion. retro
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congestion, Inflammation, liberation, and
kindred ailments. Guaranteed to give sat
isfaction, or money refunded. All druggists.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-10-17
PERSONAL AND, LITERARY.

jay Gould's History of Delaware
County, N. Y" written when he was
Il. Is a rare book now, worth $40 q
volume.
George w. Childs owns many of
the papers of Andrew johnson. Among
them is the account-book which he
kept when he was tailor.
Bessie Chandler, whose name is
subscribed to some of the most grace
iul verses of the day. is Mrs Leroy
Parker and daughter of the lats
Kear-Admiral Ralph Chandler, U. S.
Navy.
"A large number of famous men
were once book agents Among them
were George Washington, Lonsfellow,
Bret Ha-te. Jay Gould, ex-fresident
Hayes, Daniel Webster, General Grant.
Ralph Waldo Emerson and Prince Bis
marck.
Henri Rochefort. the fiery French
editor. is now in his 59th year. He
has a small but exceedingly choice
collection of valuable paintings. and
Is known as a lover of fine arts. He
appears often in society and is always
faultlessly dressed and agreeable.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe once
visited Edinburgh, where she was in
vited to dinner by William Chambers,
the dull but pompous publisher OF
Chambers Journal, of which he was
exceedingly vain. Mrs. Stowe acct.
dentally mentioned that she believed
he published a journal Of some kind,
hut she really forgot its name. MIR.
Chambers was speechless with aston
ishment
Books were scarce in Puritan days,
and perhaps that is the reason the
writers made the most OF the titles,
using such choice ones as "a Reaping
Hook Well Tempered for the Stubborn
Ears of the Coming Crop; or, Biscuits
Baked In The Oven of Charity. Care.
fully Conserved for the Chickens OF
the Church, the Sparrows of the
Spirit, and the Sweet Swallows of Sal.
vation;" "a Pair of Bellows to Blow
OFF the Dust Cast Upon John Fry"
Mrs. Humphrey Wards father
states that she and her family were
astounded at the success of Robert
Elsmere." He says: Wise and de-
voted counsellors, after reading the
manuscript, gravely discouraged her
from attempting to print it When,
despite their timidity, she found pub
Usher. her household and intimate
friends, who were in the secret, ex'
pected that it might possibly attract
| the attention of a few reviewers.
That it should become, as it still in
deed is. the sensation of years, was
and is to them mystery.
The many admirers Of bill Arp y
whose delightful contributions to the
press have won for him well-deserved
fame, will be pleased to learn that thai
genial gentleman has had a stroke o.
rare good fortune. Some years ago q
Georgia bank in which his means
were deposited failed. He took piece
of land in Alabama belonging to the
bank, but supposed to be almost worth
less at the time. Iron ore was dis
covered upon it and the development
of the same has made him fairly
wealthy.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-10-17
What the Dickens Is tho Natter

What makes me so drowsy, yawn and
stretch so, feel cold chllls running down my
back! Why does my head, usually clear,
feel 50 heavy and duila These are inquiries
not unlikely to suggest themselves to the
Individual who ia not yet aware that he has
an incipient attack of malaria. Nip the
disease in the bud with Hostetter's
Stomach BItters, sovereign remedy also
for kidney complaint, debility, indigestion,
rheumatism and neuralgia.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-10-17

FATHER ION a steamer)-"I don't know
what to do with that boy. He aggravate:
me terribly. He needs severe chastising
but this is no place to do It," Mothe
equally oppressed)-.'Take him up on deck
Henry. Iheard the captain say just nUv
that there was q spanking breeze on"
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-10-17

SooT falls down a chimney before storm,
because the air at that time contains more
moisture. SCOT is microscopic, that is, it alb
serbs the moisture from the air, and, be-
coming heavier, detaches itself from the
sides of the chimney.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-10-17

1t is said that hundreds of colored men liv-
ing in North Carolina, owing to the low
wages they receive, are thinking OF emf
grating to Western, Northwestern and
Southwestern States. Since last fall, il is
reported, at least Is. COO colored men have
emigrated from the State.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-10-17

SOMEBODY claims to have discovered q
substance that is three hundred times as
sweet as sugar. 1t is not known what tina,
substance is, but it is supposed to be about
eighteen years old and to have fOndness
for ice-cream.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-10-17

Bronson Alcott's dietetic views
color these epigrams in his daughter 8
journal Vegetable diet and sweet
repose. Animal food and nightmare. "
'.Pluck your body from the orchard;
do not snatch it from the shamble. "
"Apollo eats no flesh and has no
beard; his voice is melody ITSELF
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-10-17

ANY article that has outiived "a gears OF
competition and imitation, and sells more
each year, must have merit Dobbins' Electric
Soap, made in 1865, is just that article Ask
your grocer for it, He has it, or will get it.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-10-17

There are twenty-four Baptist
churches in Richmond. Va, with IN
aggregate membership of 20. 600. about
one-fourth of the entire population ps
the city.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-10-17

A PECULIAR industry has sprung up near
Albany, n. Y, since 1888. that of su 2plying
crushed stone for asphalt and macadamized
roads. The quarry from which the stone is
taken is operated night and day. One thou
sand tons Of rock a day are crushed and $50
cars are used in Transporting the fragments
of rock to all parts Of the country.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-10-17

FIGHT your own battles. Hoe your own
row. Ask no favors of any ore, and you'll
succeed thousand times better than one
who is always beseech;ng some ones in
fuence and patronage
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-10-17

PEOPLE Are Killed by Coughs that Hale's
Honey of Horehound and Tar would cure.
Pixies Toothache Drops Cure in one minute.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-10-17

ALL disorders caused by bilious state OF
the system can be cured by using Carriers
Little Liver Pills. No pain, gripping ordis-
comfort attending their use. Try them.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-10-17

"WELL. Uncle Cicero, what makes you
look so gium?" well, sab, to tell you the
trufe, my ole woman has begun to make
buckwheat cakes and she hasn' t got into the
swing of it yet, sah."
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-10-17

A SWEDISH boy fell out of a window and
was badly hurt, but with clenched lips he
kept back the cry Of pain. The King.
Gustavus Adoiphus, who saw him fall,
prophesied that that boy would make a man
for an emergency. And so he did, for he
became the famous General Bauer.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-10-17

TIE fashion Of women wearing the single
eye-glass has been started in London. It IL
chiefly affected by theatrical people.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-10-17
finest-''Tansill's Pr,ch" Cigar.

WHEN mans coat is thrcadbare it is
easy to pick hole in 1t.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-10-17

ARE as small as homeopathic pellets, and
as easy to take as sugar. EVERYBODY iihes
them. Carter's Little Liver Pills. Try them.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-10-17

DR.. Pierce's Pellets-cleanse and regulate
the stomach, bowels and system generally.
One dose; purely vegetable.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-10-17

EsoP, Publius, Syrus, Terrence and
Epictetus-all distinguished men in ancient
times-were serfs at their outset in life
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-10-17

TIE losses in Pennsylvania alone, from the
foods Of May 30 to June l, amounted 70 $780,
100000 and $500 lives
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-10-17

HONEST men are soon bound, but you can
never hind knave.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-10-17

THE best cough medicine is Piso's Cure
for Consumption. Sold everywhere. Csc.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-10-17

SHARPNESS Is knowing how to 'catcl
on; ~ wisdom, how to let go.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-10-17

THE misfortunes of other people we al
bear with heroic constancy.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-10-17

PRoTAGoRAs, a Greek philosopher, was at
first common porter.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-10-17

1--WE followed the track OF the
tiger, which was stained at intervals
with the blood of his victim, for about
two miles, first up the valley OF the
river, then across mountain ridge
heavily wooded with pine. and then
into valley beyond it. 1t was evil
| dent that this entire region. now COW
cred with a dense forest had once
been inhabited, for fragments of the
| old walls of stone houses and temples
were plainly discsihible through the
snow, and occasionally an old ruin OF
considerable size doomed among the
dark boughs OF the thick expresses
and pines.
Ascending the farther side of the
valley, the six or seven Japanese,
who were ahead of Barrows and my
self, came to where the trail ended
near large, OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
aperture in a mass of old masonry
which had formed part of the front
wall of high. artificial terrace. This
opening, which was six or eight feet
above the surface OF the ground, led
back into dark hole or cavern.
s.In front of this cavern a large
drift had formed, nearly as high as
the bottom of the opening; but the
eddying wind had whirled the snow
outward. leaving an open space more
than two yards wide between the
crest of the drift and the hole. The
tiger had bounded from the drift Il
the aperture in the wall. The blood
sains on the snow showed where The
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1889-06-27

ORIGIN OF AN ANCIENT BRIDAL
CUsToM.-The custom of throwing an
old shoe after newly married couple
ia almost universal. Some think il is
relic Of the days when the gallant
lover carried off his sweetheart by
force. Others ascribe good luck to
an old shoe. and throw it after the
newly married couple with the best
intent. This certainly is the most
popular view. and few parents dream
that when they throw her old shoe
after her they thereby give up for
good and all their control and right
over their daughter. Yet this ia the
significance ii had in the days when
the Anglo-Saxon father handed the
bridegroom an old shoe of the bride.
The husband touched her on the hand
as an assertion of his authority. while
the father. by the giving of the shoe,
signifed his willingness TO relinquish
all claim or authority. In Turkey,
however. it is the bridegroom that ia
touched and sometimes quite severely
for the moment he ia married his
friends and relatives set upon him
with their slippers a. q sort Of afIec-
tionate farewell.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1889-06-27

SIMPLE ScIENcE.-Into an ordinary
claret-glass or egg-cup Put an egg.
large end down, and you will find
that by blowing into the glass sharply
the egg can be made to jump out.
Place another glass a short distance
away from the first one. and little
practice will enable yon TO blow. The
egg from one glass into the other.
As several failures will precede yonr
success in this experiment, You had
better try il with hard boiled eggs.
Here is another neat and pretty thing
to try Take saturated solution of
saltpeire and with pen or fine brush
draw any picture. desiga or words
upon piece of white absorbent paper.
The lines should be kept away from
each other aud the entire puliect
coarsely drawn. When dry, the lines
will be nearly invisible; but If one
OF them be tonclsei with the glowing
er d Of an cxiingnished match a spark
Of fire will rnn through the paI er,
following the lines and emitting cut
the design as If with en- invisible
knife.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1889-06-27

THE PARsoS WAS RIaHr.-Elder
Thompson, the famous Maine Uniyer-
salist preacher, who died some years
ago. was once asked TO marry a cou.
pie whose religious views were at va.
rance with his own. After the cere-
mony the bridegroom expressed his
entire satisfaction with the service.
II don't see" he said, "that you could
have done it any better If you'd be-
lieved in hell A little theological
discussion followed. in which Elder
Thompson advanced the idea that a
"man gets his hell in this world"
Two years after Elder Thompson met
the man again.
"Yon remember yon married me p
the man said.
"Yes."
And that ] said / hoped it would
be just as happy marriage as IL you
believed in hell?'
"Iou said something like that"
And that you said aorne folks got
all their hell in this world"
Il might have said 20.
"Parson. you was right.-Boskon
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1889-06-27
rms q. lkls1IM lsFEEfssIss.

HAPPENED ON THE WAnAsH.--
aHeard Of The Wabash river. reck-
an ~ he ouer;ed - he oausb..l h;s
long yellow whiskers with his fingers
and pulled down his vest.
EYES,"
"Probably never heard Of Jerry
Dswlap? Jerry lives on the hanks Of
the Wabash. and he's r'zsn billed
down. About month ago he cum 10
town one day and said boat had up
sot in the bend above his house and
drowned two men, He wanted us to
20 up and drag for the bodies. We
VS. willing. 81 course. nnd jerry pfs-
posed to try . plan he said had work
ed in thousands Of cases. It's an ole
belief with some folks. you know, that
if loaf Of bread IL flung on the wa
ter it'll float 10 where a d .ad body is
lying and then stop. We reckoned
to Try 1t. and every man Clipped in
and We took up about hundred
loaves.-
"Jerpy bossed the job" continued
the man with the yellow whiskers.
land we got out two boats loaded
with bread and kserfully dropped the
loaves overheard. Some Of EN- went
humping along at the rate Of ak miles
an hour. while others sorts of circled
around and went off slowly. We
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