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The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1889-11-20
THE FIRST MATCH.

Reminiscence Which Appeals Strongly
to the Sense Of tho Ridiculous.
A few days ago gentleman, who is
now something over sixty yeaas of age.
said to me: Il we'll remember the
time when l first saw a match. l
was then a boy, and was working in
the barn with my father. when young
man, the son of neighbor. came in
with a box in his hand and said he
could now light a fire without
borrowing Goals or striking spark
with the flint. Opening the box he
took out one Of the matches, which
was three or four inches long and had
q yellow looking substance on one end.
This end he dipped into small bottle
which came in the box with the
matches and contained sulphuric acid.
When the match was put into
the acid it instantly burnt into
q blaze. Although young Grant had
paid fourteen shillings ($1.75) for
his box, which held but fifty
matches, he was quite ready to use up
one or more of the costly fire-makers
in showing father how the wonderful
invention worked. But father. having
a wholesome fear of fire. and looking
with some suspicion on any new de-
parture from established ways, begged
Grant, if he would fool with that stuff
to 90 outside, for he didn't want his
barn burned down. adding. 1t may be
fun to see that 60 Cd. but it amt going
to do anybody any good to have fire
made as easy as THAR" The old gen.
tleman was mistaken. His son has
lived to see the time when fire can be
made much more easily, and it does
people good by saving time and temper
while the number Of fires from the use
of matches is comparatively few. Five
hundred. ''parlor" matches can be
bought for five cents; between forty
and fifty million matches are made
every day in the United States. and
still the country is not yet destroyed
by fire in spite of the ease with which
We can make fre.-Christian Advocate
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1889-11-20
NOTICE TO NONRESIDENT DEFENDANTS.
In the district court, Twenty seventh Judic-
ial District, in and for Ford county. Kansas.
Henry Small, Plaintiff,

ial District, in and for Ford county. Kansas
Henry Small, Plaintiff.
LOttie F. Bruce, s. II. Bruce and j. T. VIII
The State of Kansas to the aforesaid defend
ants:
You are hereby notified that you have been
sued by the plaintiff in the district court of
ty, Kansas, and that on or before the 18th day
of December, 1889 You must answer the petit
ton of the plaintiff now on file in the clerks
Office of the district court Of Ford county,
Kansas, in which the plaintiff asks that II
Judgment be rendered by the court against
LOttie F. Bruce and s. II. Bruce for the sum
TENDER LIST. 1855 at ten per cent. per annum,
payable annually, and that judgment be
rendered fOreclOsing mortgage given by de-
PENDANTS, Lottie +. Bruce and 5. H. Bruce tn
plaintiff, on the following described property
TO- wit: Lots one %, two (2). and three (3),
in block thirty nine (39) In the city of Ford,
Ford county, kansas, that said mortgage de-
lien on the afOre described premises first and
prior to all Others, that the right and interest
which LOttie F. Bruce, 5. II. Bruce, and j. L.
Wilson have in Said premises be barred and
forever fOreclOsed and that said premises be
adjudged to be sold and the proceeds of said
sale be applied first to the payment OF
the costs OF this sction, and second to the
further notified that II you fail to answer
said petition on or before the time herein
before stated the facts and allegations con-
and Judgment rendered as therein prayed for.
In witness whereof have hereunto set my
hand and afixed the seal of said court this
18th day Of November. 4: d. 1889:
Clerk District Court.
By L. E. NC GARRY, Deputy.
35 NV. SUTTON, Atty for Plt'ff.
First Publication November 18th, 1887
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1889-11-20
FARM APHORISMS.

Agricultural Philosophy in Small and
Easily DiGested Doses.
Work done out of season is i'll done.
The good die young" and weeds
should.
Nearly always it is the docile bull
that does the goring.
It is very rare that any thing lie
gained by working in the rain.
When the cattle are put on the grass
too early both are injured.
To increase the value Of the heifer
ten per cent. teach her to lead
No man practices economy who does
not use light. sharp, bright tools.
The man behind the times breaks
the colt; the wise man trains it.
Eternal vigilance is the price Of
an orchard. and it is cheap at the
price.
Some men allow their imaginations
to April-fool them every day of the
year.
The lawyer is the only man of any
sense who does not prefer arbitration
to a lawsuit.
The note that is not due till two
years will be harder on you than the
note due in a year.
Counting our chickens before they
are Matched would not be so bad did
we first candle the eggs.
The successful farmer IS the one that
makes ten per cent. on the money he
has lost through mistake.
The horse with plenty of currycomb
outside and oats inside doesn't show
his ribs before midsummer.
It is a poor rule that won't work both
ways; nevertheless, both lending and
borrowing are Improbable.
None but good farmer can make
eight per cent. on borrowed money;
and he Is the last farmer to do it.
Bad tempered cows. dull plows and
weak fences ought to be evils unendur-
able, for they are not immovable.
The man who allows the rivulets to
get his manure is always sure that the
Government is robbing the people.
What doth it profit man if he keeps
the weeds down on his farm and allows
them to grow on the highway?
Extend the house cleaning into the
cellar and make the work more thor
ough where Sinking would be least
seen.
Better have your heart in your work
and eighty acres than quarter-section
and be at at odds with your occupation.
There are now hundred rivulets on
the farm, yet it is cheaper to give the
animals drink from q well protected
from surface water.
II is false notion that is responsible
for grievous evil, that a cheap teacher
is good enough for the summer term.
because all the pupils are small.
1t is better to take little liver
medicine than to grumble and feel
blue, and the man that has had fruits
during the winter will not need the
medicine.
Good highways are impossible as
long as the highway tax is worked out
by the tax payers. Collect the tax in
money and let the work publicly to the
lowest responsible bidder.-Ameriean
Agrieulsurist.
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1889-11-20
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
LAND OFFICE at Garden CITY. kas.
November 5, 1889.

Notice is hereby given that the following
named settler has filed notice of his intention
to make final proof in support Of his claim,
and that said proof will be made before the
Judge, or in his absence the clerk of the dis
trict court of Ford county, Kansas. at Dodge
City, Kansas, on December Goth, lSe9. viz:
Felix f. Jones. final homestead No. 6O9. for
the northwest quarter section No. "a, town
ship No 3 south, range No. "a west. He
names the following witnesses to prove his
continuous residence upon and cultivation of
said land, viz: Joseph Bratley, II; c: Lock
man Henry Wood, Leroy Smith, all of Dodge
City, Kansas. 81
GIN. NILES, Register.
First Publication November 6, 1881
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1889-11-20
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
LAND OFFICE = Garden City, kas

NOStLiDtI 1858.
Notice is hereby given that the following
named settler who made homestead entry No.
633 has filed notice of his intention to
make final proof in support of his claim, and
that said proof will be made before the pro-
bate Judge of Ford county, Kansas, at his
Office in Dodge City Kansas on December 21st
1889, viz:
George W. Warfield, Of Wright postOffice,
Kansas, for the southwest quarter of section
No. /, township No. e south, range No. "a
west, Ford county, Kansas. Final homestead.
He names the following witnesses to prove
his continuous residence upon and cultiva-
ton of said land, viz: 4. r. Ball, Lane Mears,
d. T. Weagley, Levi Sells, all of Wright post
Office, Kansas.
81 c. NJ. NILES, Register.
First Publication November 9Th 1891
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1889-11-20
DiMINUTlvE MACHINERY.
A Perfect Engine Built on . Twenty nv
Cont Gold Piece.

A Perfect Engine Built on . Twenty i've
Cent Gold Piece.
The engine-makers, like the watch
makers, have tried to attain distinction
in the matter of the diminutive. In
1870 John Penn, the eminent maker of
great steam engines. who resided at
Greenwich. England, came into posses
sion of what was then the smallest
steam engine in the world. It stood
on a three-penny piece. 1t really
covered less space, for its base plate
measured only three-eighths of an inch
by about three-tenths. From the ex-
treme smallness of the model some of
the details were omitted, but not enough
to interfere in any way with its going.
The screws were only one-eightieth of
an inch in diameter, aud these were
duly furnished with hexagonal nuts,
which only could be loosened by aid Of
q tiny wrench made for that purpose.
The weight of the whole model, with
out the three-penny base. was less than
the weight of the coin itself.
Six years later. at the time OF our
Centennial exhibition. Penn would
have felt ashamed of his 'threepenny-
piece engine" had he had it on exhibi-
ton at Philadelphia During the prog
ress of this great exposition Levi
Taylor. of Indianola, Ia, placed on
exhibition "side by side" with the
great Corliss engine an engine. perfect
in all its parts. built on a twenty-five
cent gold piece, and with some of its
parts 50 small as 10 only be seen by aid
of a powerful microscope. The entire
engine weighed but three grains. In
other words it would have taken 40
such engines to balance an ounce avoir-
dupois. Three of the Penn engines
would have weighed more shan LAG like
that made by Taylor. The engine made
BY d. A. Buck, of Waterbury, Conn.,.
is usually given. in lists of small things.
as the smallest engine in the world;
but this is mistake. The one men,
toned last above so far takes the palm
for smallness. The writer cheerfully
admits that the Buck engine is more
perfect in its details than the Iowa
/ wonder, but the fact that its base plate
is a gold dollar forever kills its claim
to being the smallest, as the Iowa en-
CINE, as mentioned above, uses q
twenty-five cent gold piece for the pur-
pose. Bucks engine has 148 distinct
pieces of machinery. held together by
50 screws. Three drops of water filled
the boiler to overlooking. The diane.
ter of its cylinder is one-twenty-eighth
Of an inch; the length of stroke, three
thirty seconds of an inch; its entire
weight. four and a half grains.
ern Manufactures.
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Reputaehun is like money-the princi-
pal il often lost by putting it out at in
terest.-Josh Billings.
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.

November 18th, 1882
Notice Is hereby given that the following
named settler, who made homestead entry
No. 1915, has filed notice of his intention to
make final proof in support of his claim, and
that said proof will be made before the pro-
bate Judge of Ford county, Kansas, at his
office in Dodge City, Kansas, on December
3lst, 1889, viz:
Carl GustavsOn, of DOdgeCity Kansas. for the
southeast quarter section MOL township No.
q south, range No. Is west, Ford county, kan
sas; final homestead. He names the follow
ing witnesses to prove his continuous resi-
dence upon and cultivation of said land, viz ::
d. NJ. Mcdonald, Alexander Alter, n. Mayrath
and H. Belmer, all of Dodge City, Kansas.
~ &. +. NJ. NILES, Register.
First Publication November 20th 1882
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1889-11-20
Sunday No Day for WhistIing.

Doctor Macadam used to tell OF q
tipsy Scotchman making his way home
on bright Sunday morning when the
good folks we're vending their way to
the kirk. A little dog pulled a ribbon
from the hand of lady who was lead
ing it, and as it ran from her. she APP
pealed to the first passer-by, who hap
pened to be the inebriate, asking him
to whistle to her poodle.
Woman" he retOrted, with that
solemnity of visage which only a
Scotchman can assume-.'woman. this
is no day for whustlin' !'-N. I.
Ledger.
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1889-11-20
PUBLICATION NOTICE.

PUBLICATION NOTICE.
Before j. b. Moffett, a Justice of the Peace OF
Dodge City Township, in Ford County, Kan
SaS.
j. B. CASTOR, Plaintiff,
vs.
John DAWN, Defendant.
STATE OF KANSAS, Ford County, SIS.
Said defendant is hereby notified that on
the 9Th day of November, 1859, an order of at
tachment, for the sum of eight and fifty one
hundredths dollars. was issued by the above
named Justice of the Peace against his goods
in the above-entitled action which goods
have been seized under said order and that
said cause will be heard on the 2lst day Of
December, 1889, at ten O'Clock, a. IN.
4-6 j. b. CASTOR Plaintiff
Attest: j. B. MOFFETT, J.P.
(First Publication. November 20, 1881
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1889-11-20
PuNoENT PARAGRAPHS.

PuNGENT PARAGRAPHS.
Johnny-"Mamma, IL . bat dam
gerous?" Mrs. Treat-''I don't know.
my child. Ask your father. Texas
Siftings.
"A swallowtail coat may be just the
proper thing for the bridegroom at .
fashionable wedding. but for an elope-
ment there is nothing like cut-away.
Puck.
-Sceptic-'Did you ever know two
doctors to agree?" Medical Student
latter reAection)-"Y-e-s; once!" Sccp-
tic-..Where was it?" Medical Stu
dent-"At q post-mortem. IN. 7.
Weekly.
-Physician-"You must have made
some big blunder in cleaning my watch.
1t won't run at all now" Matchmaker
(taking the watch)-"I will put it in
good order. A jewelers. blunders are
easily repaired. Punch.
-PetersOn-..Why are you always
kissing that girls photograph" Dude
ly-"Well, you see fellow has to do
something when he is engaged. and one
of the advantages in kissing the photo
graph is that the paint doesn't come
of" Life.
Little Boy-"Mamma, why are
you so cross at me all the timer"
Tired Mamma because you keep
doing wrong, and l want to make an
impression on your mind" Little
Boutwell,. mamma, guess If you'd
be good-natured just once, it would
make a bigger impression. Golden
Days.
Miss Slyppe-''Mr. Penfeather is
so easily embarrassed, don't you think?
I asked him yesterday to tell me just
what he really thought of me and he
was so taken by surprise that he couldn't
say q word" Miss Flyppe-''That
was not embarrassment, it was merely
politeness. '-Terre Haute Express.
Anxious parent Ito keeper of pri-
vate lunatic asylum)-"Has my daugh-
ter written any more poems of pas
sion?" Keeper (reassuringly)-'.No.
sir. She seems to have got entirely
over that infirmity and is now writing
what she says is modern society
novel" Anxious parent Cunning
away sadly)-"She'n have to stay here
awhile longer" -Chicago Tribune.
Mrs. Litewaite," said that lady's
husband. in tone of solemn warning,
do you know that the newspapers
speak of cases where women have
been tried as common scolds?" "And
do you know" said she, with deliber-
ate emphasis, THAT there is growing
popular impression to the effect that 9
foolkiller is preparing for effective
work?"- Washington Capital.
DIR. McQuack-''You are foolish to
think your wife is likely to die. She is
not dangerously ill. and will be up in
day or two. Your love for her fills
you with unwarranted fears" Hus-
baud-"Ah! if you but knew her,
doctor, you'd know that when she stays
away from millinery opening as she
did to-day, she Is In dangerous con-
dition. Omaha World.
-''What is the refrain of the song
you are singing?" said Jinksby. inter-
rupting his roommate. but the let
ter that she longed for never came"
was the reply in tone of annoyance.
''Well, keep still a minute, maybe the
postman's around the corner now
waiting for you to get through singing.
Why don't you give the girl a chance
for her ter?"-Merchant Traveller.
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1889-11-20
LOOK HERE

Farmers, in order to save
trouble and expense in the
spring, keep your stock in
good fix during winter; the
tonic properties of Peter
Harding's Condition Pow
ders will keep stock strong
and healthy for spring work.
They are prepared and sold
at f. r. GaY}and's Drug
Store for 25c per pound
package.
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1889-11-20
The way it is done: First eli

The way it is done: First citizen
What have they arrested the China
man for?' Second citizen-''O some
boys smashed his windows and ne
shook his fist at them" F. e.. land
they arrested him?" S. C. Ger
tainly. These moon-eyed Mopgolians
must be taught that they can MT shake
their fists at our American bCys. -
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1889-11-20
EVERYBODY

Knows Peter Harding's Con-
ditiOn Powders. F.. X. Gar
land is still preparing and
selling them ut 25c per
pound package. Now is the
proper time TO feed them SO
that stock will winter well,
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1889-11-20

-Adoctor in Cincinnati charges next
to nothing for his services in cases
where his patient does not recover.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1889-01-10
Five Gents
No Convict Camps for Missouri.

SO long as the state leases to contractors
a large army of cOnvicts together with
costly manufacturing plants owned and
maintained by the state, there will be ground
for The complaint that private business
enterprises suffer from unfair competition
with the state. and that free labor is exposed
to cruel competition with convict labor
backed by the superior resources and power
OF the state.
The problem of employing convict labor
in such way as to accomplish the penal
and refornIatOry objects of a convict labor
sl stem, with a due regard for economy and
with the least possible injury to free labor
aud to individual enterprise, still remains
uus0lved. But of all proposed solutions
that VIII ch would establish convict labor
camps all over the state and fami arZe the
people of every township with the brutal
spectacle OF chain gangs working on the
highways under the guns of armed guards
IS the worst.
When the state undertakes To make i'm
proved roads for the counties the plan
would have to be such as would preclude
all log rolling or favOritiSm and secure to
each locality its proper proportion OF state
aid or tie attempt would do more harm
than good The appOrtiOnment of convict
labor among the counties in pursuance of
such plan would be impracticabie and the
reverse OF economical.
Improved highways are certainly deSir-
able in every county, but the surest and
most economical way of getting them is by
paying for them with the money of the To-
cal population using them--county money
paid to free labor for honest work.
Every movement to import the horrors Of
the southern convict camps into Missouri
should be npped in the bud. No worse
convict system is conceivable, for the con-
victs themselves, and there is no Surer way
of Subjecting free labor to degrading and
injurious competition with convict labor.
1t is a Russian, not an American idea.-
Post Dispatch.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1889-01-10

delaware, for which the fignreS are not
at hand, rates about the same as Virginia
and Maryland.)
The criminal classes seem to favor the
western states above all others. Why this
is SO. is probably from the fact that new
countries as a rule are more profitable mot
alone so in the eyes of the criminaD than
older settled territory. But there is yet
another cause: These are flooded with I'M
migrants, who arrive in their strange home
with but few. it any. dollars in their
pockets Failing to find work, which proves
to be the case eight times in ten, the en-
tirely fundless ones are reduced to one of
two thingS-tO beg. or to steal. 1t is only
reasonable to suppose that at least fifty per
cent. choose the latter.
The southern states come next. But
among these we find exceptions Alabama,
though surrounded by heavy criminal states,
we find ranks many per cent. purer than
any of her neighbors. The same might be
said of West Virginia. The middle states
average fairly we'll with each other. One
notable exception. however, is Iowa. which
has the great honor of being. next to Ver-
mont. the purest state in the Union. OF
the eastern states Pennsylvania is the vir-
gin.
The criminality in the New England states
averages pretty we'll between them with the
exception of Massachusetts. The larger per-
centage credited to this state is due, very
likely, to the city of Boston being within
her borders. OF our northern states. it must
be said that Minnesota does not lead in
purity-Michigan and Wisconsin both being
in advance; but Minnesota being. so to
speak. a new country as yet. the same rule
and cause applied to the Pacific and western
states, hold good in this state.
In closing. l will vote three cheers to
Iowa, which has reduced her criminal pop
ulation over fifty per cent. in the last three
years. If other states could say the same,
then it could be truly said that prohibition
is success. c. Nj. NJ.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1889-01-10
Alcohol Dulls the Moral Sense.

Deterioration of the moral obligation is.
asserts DR.. w. c. Towers, among the ear
lier phenomena of alcoholism. 1t is perver-
ted and enfeebled, and sentiments of honor,
of reputation and of decency are no longer
cherished or regarded. The responsibilities
of social life and the proprieties of personal
conduct are no longer considered. He who
was thoughtful now becomes negligent,
selfish and Indifferent; gives himself up to
indulgences, and cares not for his reputa-
ton or that of his family. The conceptions
of honor. of duty. of justice are lost.
These changes are gradual and progressive,
their evolutiOns being largely influenced by
the hereditary traits and previous moral
culture of the individual. The sense of OBJ
legation to his family is forgotten. and the
responsibility of providing for and caring
for others is unfelt. The affections are not
only enfeebled, but perverted, and not rare
ly are they displaced by hatred and aver
sion. He who was calm. reasonable and
patient. becomes eXctable, perverSe. and
intOlerable of opposition after while; the
character being more changed. joys and
sorrows fail to provoke real feeling. At
last the confirmed sOt manifests moral
traits that are simply infantile.
western Presbyterian.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1889-01-10

The average person on seeing notice in
the newspapers of pardon having been
granted, gives it no further thought than:
Another soul made happy" or perchance,
knowing something of the matter. expresses
approval or disapproval. They think of the
pardoned one alone as having been benefited
and made happy and give no thought to
the parents. wives, children, brothers and
sisters who have suffered, begged. and
prayed to God for the deliverance of their
dear ones. 1t is they who are relieved,
benefited and made happy.
God pity the innocent who suffer with the
guilty! 1t is they who bear the burdens
and suffer the disgrace. 1t is they to whom
mercy is shown. and it is they who 60 down
on their knees to thank God for having put
mercy into the heart Of the ruler.
To the life man, pardon is deliverance
from death, but to his wife it is the Joy OF
finding one that was dead and is alive
again. To the boy, pardon is freedom. but
to his mother, it is the Joy of finding her
child that was lost. Thousands of the good
and true all over this land, are to-day, and
every day. suffering greater punishment by
the imprisonment of those near and dear to
them. than do the imprisoned themselves.
Sad tits it's true. ALEXIS.