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Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-07-25
THE WEIGHT OF ou,lr.

4 Young Han TELLS How He Tea Anoeh.e
10 - . Aurdersr's Fate.
Do you ever study the face Of q man
who feels that he has innocent blood
on his hands? If you had attended
the last meeting of the league Of ex-
DRINKERS who are trying to live ND to
the Murphy pledge such man would
have attracted your attention.
Il never lie down at night, he said,
without Offering up q prayer for the
soul OF a young man that led astray.
Sometimes l can't sleep and 1 feel the
weight OF many sins. But I belisye /
am honest now. The Lord knows I
nave been. chastised enough; have
oeen q fugitive. a thief. a convict, o
penitent sinner. When came out of
prison in a neighboring State a few
weeks ago resolved to begin my ca
reer anew. l am working now at any
thing can find to do. and if my reso-
luton is worth any thing shall be an
industrious. sober. honest man."
but the boy you led astray-tell
SOmctnlng OF tnat." -rs
"YOu will know him when men
ton his name. He has gone down into
murderer's grave. He and I were
inmates of the Plainfield Reform School
together-would that We had tried
be contented in that pleasant place!
He was younger than I aud ready
to do any thing I proposed. That was
nine or ten years ago. One evening
when the boys were playing ball laid
q plot to escape. I told him my plans.
and the young boy readily joined in
them. We were to knock ball into
the field and run after it Instead of re-
turning We were to 60 straight ahead,
over the fences and out into the world.
We did so. The officers recaptured
all but myself and the boy whom had
taken under my particular charge
The boy would have been captured if /
had not interfered. Only one officer
reached us, and two of US were able to
foil him.
1.-The boy whom had led away from
the school had been a clean. sprightly
fellow, not bad, but full of life. The
bad start gave him led to worse
things. He took to drinking. then to
stealing, and finally he murdered a
man."
'.And what became of him?''
'.Not long ago he was hanged at
Jacksonville. It was Macy Warner.
His name is synonym throughout the
State for all that is criminal and MUIR
derous. To me he was compare lively
innocent. for feel that am the guilty
one. "-Indianapolis News.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-07-25
GAINING GROUND.

Let those laugh who will about IT,
All their laughter Is but sound;
Let all who will pretend to doubt it
Still the cause is gaining ground
Just so sure as yearly blowing
Turns the furrow for the yield,
Just SO sure as broadcast sowing
Brings harvest to the field,
lust so sure all true endeavor,
In despite OF adverse fate,
Used in any line whatever,
Brings an answer soon or late.
Do not think your star is waning,
Weary worker; never fear!
Yes, the cause is gaining. gaining.
Surely gaining year BY year.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-07-25
AN IMMENSE BRIDGE.

The st. Lawrence to BE Spanned at Quebec
BY Cantilever Structure.
The St. Lawrence is to be crossed at
Quebec by a gigantic railway bridge.
which will very materially affect the
traffic of the two great railways of
Canada-the Grand Trunk and the
Canada Pacific-as we'll as an impor-
tant part of the railway syste m of the
New England States. The great depth
of the st. Lawrence river opposite
Quebec has hitherto been a powerful
argument against the construction of
bridge, but engineering skill has
overcome this obstacle with scheme
to build a cantilever bridge. which
will cost close upon $40, 100000. The
width of the river from shore to shore
at Que bee is $4,000 feet (about four
and three-fourths miles). Two main
piers are to be constructed of solid
granite in forty feet of water, about
500 feet from each shore. These two
piers are to support cantilever bridge
of span of LAP feet. The total
length Of the bridge, with the ap-
proaches, will be "a. 900 feet. (nearly
81 miles). The top of the bridge from
high-water level will be 408 feet, and
the largest ocean steamers will be able
to pass under it. The principal object
in building the bridge is to connect
the IntercOlonial railway from Halifax
and St John to Quebec. which is run
by the Canadian Government at great
annual loss to the country. with the
Canadian Pacific railway. This is the
only link uncompleted necessary to
give the Canadian Pacific railway an
uninterrupted line from tho Atlantic |
to the Pacific ocean through Canadian
territory.-Iron.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-07-25
Woman and tho Home.

The modern ideal home is just as
much an intellectual and emotional
work as an essay or a poem. A book
is collection OF thoughts. Such also
is a dwelling-house, and the woman
who has in some degree fashioned it is
as much an intellectual creator as is
the masculine toiler whom we call an
essayist or poet or dramatist. While,
therefore, the new home of our age is
the result of the great and free woman.
it is also the cause and has made
woman the possessor Of an intellectual
power which she could not claim in the
cabin or tented period. The house has
helped to create the new woman.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-07-25
THE AUTOCRAT TALKS.
o. w. Holmes' View of . Phase OF Two
of Literature.

o. w. Holmes' View of . Phase OF Two
of Literature.
"The question is, will this country
ever see another such group of re-
markable men as Boston has pro-
duced. In history there are Prescott,
Motley and Parkman. In theology,
Theodore Parker and DR.. Bartol; in
oratory, Wendell Phillips; in philoso-
ply, Emerson; in poetry, Longfellow
actual resident of Boston, must be re-
garded, nevertheless, as belonging to
the Boston literary guild.
There is Lowell. also. Others
might be mentioned in addition to
those already named. For real intel
lectual force take the old Chestnut
Street Club. or the Radical Club, as
some choose to call it. Where will you
find its equal? We have never had
any thing like it in this country since.
Indeed, the literary outlook seems
hardly encouraging. sometimes feel
that poetry will become lost art with
us. To be sure we have a large num-
Der of writer's of verse; refer to
the rising generation of writer's and
it is very good verse. too, but very
little-very little-of it rises to the
scale of real poetry. 1t is not suffi-
GENTLY striking to impress itself upon
the world to endure. The disposition
is to indulge in fanciful triolet and
the rondeau, all pretty enough in their
way; but very few poems of this char
acter have ever become immortal.
"For example, the sonnet is one of
the most mechanical and artificial
forms of verse there is. To be sure.
Shakespeare's sonnets are excellent,
as they do not conform to the estab-
lished rules governing the construc-
ton of the sonnet. If one is to succeed
in poetry he must give free rein to his
sentiment and Imagination in the moro
simple and natural forms of verse.
Take for instance. Tennyson's In
Memoriam;' the form is simple and
easy. This is q great poem and will
live. Still. from these observations,
1 would not seek to discourage any
young man from seeking to be poet
If he really feels the divine instinct
within him.
'.ButI would urge him by all means
to adopt the most natural way Of
writing, and not by any means depend
on poetry or literature, in any sense.
for his bread and butter. Let him
have something else for q stan; 1t Il
absolutely necessary. unless one be q
genius, and even then it is far safer.
Poe was genius. yet his case ought
to prove q warning to oil who aspire
in literature in my own case have
had = professorship. the work Of which
has not always been congenial; aevcr.
theless. It has proved q good eta4- -
From IN Interview in Boston Journal,
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-07-25

much astonished that we could hold tc
the divine subordination- II womsn in
the face Of this last clause. as we are
now astonished that SHAREHOLDERS and
Jews could hold to the divinely or
daiued subordination of the African
and other races in the face of the first
two clauses''
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-07-25
SCHOOL AND CHURCH

twenty-five German, congrege.
lions of Philadelphia have united in
the effort of founding q Home for the
Aged. Presbyterian. :
"A Hoboken On. J.. pastor resigned
his charge because the trustees of his
church objected to his calling ON his
parishioners and drinking q glass Of
beer with them.
Among the charitable works car
ried on by the students Of Harvard.
that of supplying reading matter to
the hospitals of Boston is one of the
most commendable.
AT the third annual convention Of
the Illinois Young Peoples Societies
of Christian Endeavor, lately held in
Springfield. about one thousand dele
gates were in attendance representing
FIVE thousand societies. with MEM
bership of twenty thousand.
Fourteen New England colleges
have united to form commission on
admission examinations as follows:
Amherst, Boston University. Bowdoin,
Brown. Colby. Dartmouth, Harvard.
Smith, Trinity, Tufts, Wellesley,
Wesleyan, Williams and Yale.
The Methodist Episcopal Church
has three annual conferences in India
According to the latest reports these
conferences have an aggregate Of "a
foreign preachers and 81 native, TO-
318 members and probationers, 1873
churches, 126 parsonages and 20, 1873
scholars in day schools.
"A British pastor thus describes the
beauty of the chapel in which he
minister's: ut is in the Ionic style.
Over the portico is a tower, over that
a cupola, and on the top of all q
mortgage. The last of these orna-
ments is generally not specially at
tractive to ministers. Y. indie
pendent
Miss Mary Whately. second daugh-
ter of the Archbishop, died recently
at Cairo where she went for her
health in 1861 and settled in the coun-
try for good, opened the only school
there was in Cairo for Moslem girls,
and lived to see it develop into an in-
stitution that receives an average Of
600 pupils.
The venerable cathedral of St
Pierre, in Geneva. in which Calvin
preached is to be restored. It is in
tended to renew the main facade and
to finish the north tower, beside alter
ing and embellishing the interior at
an expense of $4,000 francs. A COM
pany has bsen formed for the purpose,
after the pattern of the one which re-
stored the minister of Bale.
"A Presbyterian church in Pitts
burgh has just secured a soprano from
Chicago by offering her $4,000 year,
which is $500 year more than she
has been receiving. 1t is said that a
few old fogies in the church wanted to
dispense with soprano and give the
$1,000 year to the poor and needy;
but the idea was not entertained for
a moment. This is not the largest
salary ever paid to a choir-singer in
this country, but it is said to be the
largest salary paid to any singer ut the
present time
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-07-25

A NATURALIzED citizen Of english birth,
being asked how he liked the birthday OF
the father of his adopted country, told this
story, according to the New York Tribune
1.-THE day before the Fourth Of July last
school explained to her class why the day
was celebrated. giving full particulars.
The next morning the boy, who was born in
this country, said to me: Dad, this il the
day we licked you.'"
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-07-25

On the deck Of the steamer, or on board the
train that IL to bear You away from those
dear esa,n to you you viii Il you are wise. have
sa.ey .snv eT ,ssy. IN your sum
ness Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. Com
mercial travellers, tourists and pioneer
emigrants concur In testifying to the forti-
tying and saving properties Of the great
tonic. Use for constipation, biliousness,
malarial and kidney complaints and nerv-
BUSINESS.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-07-25

EMPEROR FRANCIS JOSEPH has order ed
that The house in which his son killed
himself be pulled down and every effort
made to obliterate the scene of the trag.
edy and cause it to be forgotten.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-07-25

AN Iowa calf jumped through barbed
wire fence the other day and came out
minus two-thirds Of its tongue but with
no other injuries.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-07-25

For "a years Dobbins' Electric Soap has
been initiated by soap makers. Whyf Be
cause 1t is best Of all and has an immense
sale. Be sure and get Dobbins' and take no
other. Your grocer has it, or will get it.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-07-25

GREAT mistakes are often made in trying
to economist. 1t is safe rule to follow that
the bcst is always the cheapcst A cheap ply
stefan may cost you your life. II you have
Malaria in your system, you win not only be
miserable, but unfit to work. Lost time ID
money lost. One dollar spent for Shalleu-
berger's Antldote will cure you in twenty
four hours. Sold By Druggists.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-07-25

ALI cases Of weak or lame back, backache.
rheumatism, will find relief by wearing one
OF Carter's Smart Weed and Belladonna
Backache Plasters. Price % cents. Try them.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-07-25

A COTTAGE window on the grounds of q
mining company near King ston, Col,
displays this inscriptions: 'Wanted-A
wife. Apply within; nobody barred"
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-07-25

Engraving and Electrotyplng.
II you want engravings Of Buildings,
Machinery, Portraits, Maps, Plats, or any
thing in this line, write to Us for samples
and prices. Best work guaranteed at fair
prices. Address
A. N. KELLOGG NEWSPAPER Co.
Kansas City, Mo.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-07-25

II we do have to 20 to war with En-.
gland about the fur seals, American wives
and bachelors will have to do all the
fighting. You can't enthuse American
married men on the subject Of sealskinA
Boston Globe. AIR
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-07-25

HALF-CURED eruptions will return. Eradi
cate them with Glenn.s Sulphur Soap.
Hills Hair and Whisker Dye, SO cents.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-07-25

THE manner In which the English are
buying up our reweries Is getting to be q
serious matter." "That'S 30. With the
lager beer schooner departs the last
vestige Of our American shipping. "1Bos-
ton Transcript.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-07-25

ANY one can take Carter's Little Liver
flils. they are so very small. No trouble to
swallow. No pain or gripping after taking.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-07-25

UNDER the laws Of China the adult who
loses his temper in a discussion is sent to
Jail to cool off.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-07-25

THERE is a man in Hart County, Ga.
who spells his entire name with two let
,ers, Bob Bobo
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-07-25

NJ W1oost en-,
leSceAt ~ ytfe velvet seek."
Tnue proudly boootod Mr. HrUwR
A. oeSu e, Win that upon her tack,
he eost0r0esed dane % town.
nut volvoe sock or diamond ring
Gan bring no balm 70 suffering vita
1svottte Pre- ripeton = the thu
TO ave her precious lie
Inc great and sovereign remedy, known
the world over, for all female troubles. in
hammatton, cruel backaches, and internal
displacements Is DR.. Pierce's Favorite Pro
scription. 1t is the only oxarantscd cure
See guarantee on every bottle-wrapper.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-07-25

A BALIINoRE paper speaks Of The mys.
terious disappearance Of q citizen a. fol-
lows: 1.As he was last seen In = ieed store
with eight dollars in cash in his band is
IL feared he has been foully dealt with.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-07-25

A PLANT has been discovered the juice Of
which will make people laugh. The editors
of the funny papers ought to send bottle
OF the Juice to each one Of their subscribers.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-07-25

BISHOP Bowman. of the Methodist
Church, has dedicated one or more
churches in every State and Territory Of
the Union.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-07-25

TIE largest Of the pyramids is 461 feet
high, and $50 on the sides. Its base covers
IL acres. The stones are about 80 feet in
length, and the layers are $50 It employed
5000 men in building.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-07-25

TEE standing collar had its origin in Gen
many in the reign Of Ohio w., 121S.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-07-25

A BRIDE must not, for four months after
her marriage, enter any house in which
there has recently been q death or . birth.
for if she does 50 there will surely be .
quarrel between her and the groom. II .
young mother goes to see bride, the visitor
IL looked upon IS the cause Of any calamity
that may follow.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-07-25

DR.. Pierce's Pellets-gently laxative or
actively cathartic according to dose. 25cents.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-07-25

A 1oc. SMOKE for 5c.-"Tansilrs Punch
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-07-25

NrxEvEH was Is miles long, miles wide
and 20 mics around, with . wall 100 feet
high and thick enough for three chariotl
Abreast
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-07-25

Or 70 date 100 monuments have be-
ssacked a the 0etfyDbarR ba&tlAAaAA
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-07-25

PRMTn-"I have often put your sermons
IN type and thought how full Of love they
were, and" AiniSter-'Are you the Aend
wh0. when wrote Of sPalo martyrs in their
Shrouds Of fire. made It read: Pale mar.
tyrs with their shirts on Arei'' II am afraid
lam" Thea I am happy TO say that do
not believe the hereafter holds any hope 1er
yea"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-14

Mr. ILGENFRrTz, of York, while fishing with
o cork line near Strinestown, Pa, two DAYS
ago caught water dog two feet long.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-14
A COMMUNITY or INTERESTS.

When Pittsburg took up the cause OF
JOhnstown so heartily, it is safe to say that
no one Of her citizens was thinking of any
praise to accrue from il. The feeling of
humanity, many times intensified by local
ties binding the personalitF,and the inter
ests of Johnstown to those of Pittsburg,
was the noble motive. Nothing was re-
quired. 1t is always with pardonable pride,
none the less, that one may say, if he can,
that he is "a citizen of no mean city, " and
Pittsburgers may well feel that way now
when they see in some iIl-advised news
papers of other places attempts to belittle
the earnestness and measure of Pittsburg's
efforts for the stricken people of the Cone
maugh Valley.
The simple truth, of course, is that our
local affairs are vitality interviewer, through
good fortune or bad, with those OF the whole
of Western Pennsylvania, Eastern Ohio
and West Virginia. Whatever of moment
happens in any one of the hundred towns
in that territory has an immediate and per-
sonsl interest for Pittsburg. The terrible
calamity at Johnstown showed how thor
ough this connection was. A similar event
anywhere else in this region would have
exhibited like evidence. This community
Of thought, feeling and interest, through so
extensive district, is what some of the
newspapers of Chicago, Louisville, Phila-
delphia and Cincinnati clearly do not
quite understand.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-14
EXTRAORDINARY CONFERENCES,
Some of the Conventions Announced In Con-
nection With lhe Paris Exhibition.

Some Of the Conventions Announced In Con.
nectiOn With lhe Paris Exhibition.
An extraordinary series of conferences has
Just been announced in connection with the
Paris Exhibition, says the London Standard
Already no less than 6S are fixed for the four
months between the middle of June and the
first week Of October. The philanthropists
concerned in fire escapes and life saving appar.
atus will lead of, and the engineers who are
professionally engaged with harbors and river
bars may be expected to bring the long series
of meetings to close.
No speciality, no crochet even, seems to have
been overlooked. The architects and the men
OF letters Will have an equal opportunity of
ventilating their views, or of taking the world
into the secret of their grievances Agricul-
ture, cheap dwellings, bread making and the
photography of the exact sciences afford a
varied programme for the most diverse tastes.
TO say nothing of artistic copyright. alcohol
ism, the conveyance of land, prehistoric
man, and the advisability of the State
intervening in the payment of wages. If the
well-worn theme of Technical Education fails
to afford very satisfying meal, there are work
mems clubs, workmen's share in profits, CO.
operation, LABOR accidents, and the vices of
joint stock companies for the visitor with a
hankering after socialistic ideals. The more
practical.minded are invited to go into session
over chemistry, ballooning, pigeons, shorthand,
primary education. fire brigades, money" and
the sufficiently expansive subjects OF commerce
and industry. Hydrology, river utilization,
meteorology, electricity. horticulture, build
ing, photography, and chronometry will follow,
and will in their turn be succeeded by the re-
lief of the poor, higher education, criminal
anthropology, and primary schools
1t is well that physiological psychology, ther-
apeutics geography, homeopathy, dentistry,
mines and metallurgy, otology, dermatoIogy,
laryngology, applied mechanics. veterinary
surgery, the wine trade and the brewing inter-
est are, from the knowledge required of those
proposing to take part in the discussion of their
details, necessarily confined to experts.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-14
HENRY GEORGE IN FRANCE.

Although Henry George has always sue.
ceeded in getting large audiences to listen
to his new gospel as to the ownership Of
land wherever he has lectured in England,
Scotland and Ireland, he can hardly expect
TO find the same encouraging reception in
France. At present Mr.. George is attend.
ing the Labor Congress in Paris, and his
views upon the land question are the main
subject of discussion there.
His presence in Paris provokes the great
Blowitz to say in dispatch to the London
Times: 'Henry George has brought his
eggs to a strange market. He has come to
the country of peasant proprietors to advo-
cate the naturalization of land, and his
congress is being held at the chief hotel of
Paris at cost of 1000 francs. The 159
members, who are seated on luxurious chairs
in the gilded saloon, evidently do not set
the example OF renouncing their landed or
other possessions.
This is true enough of rural France; the
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-14

great France that lies outside Paris, but
which onlookers are SO apt to lose sight of
amid the smoke and uproar of the noisy,
change-loving Parisians The peasant who
owns a small farm and his house, and has
an old stocking stuffed with gold coin,
would not even give the land reformer a
hearing. Not so, however, with the Paris
ian who very often owns nothing in particu-
lar and wants everything. Henry George
will find willing ears open to him In Paris.
He will not have to make converts. They
were made for him in the light of the bar
ricades of 20, and the red flag of the Com
mune may once again wave over them.