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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-04-16
CENTRAL RAILROAD OF GEORGIA

1883 TNDARD TIME GOTH MER
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-10-03
THE BIGGEST FISH.

When in the ha;cyon days Of old, I was little
tyke,
i used 10 fish in pickerel ponds for minnow:
and the like;
And, oh. the bitter sadness with which my sou
was fraught
When 1 rambled home at nighttall with the
puny string Id caught.
And. oh. the Indignation and the valor I'd dis
play
When 1 claimed that all the biggest fish I'd
caught had got away.
Sometimes it was the rusty hooks, sometimes
the fragile lines.
And many times the treacherous reeds would
foil my Just designs;
But whether hooks or lines or reeds were act
ually 10 blame
I kept right al losing all the monsters just
the same
/ never lost a little fsh-yes. am free TO say
II always was the biggest fish caught that got
away.
AnG so it was, when, later or, felt ambition
pass
From callow minpow joys 10 nobler greed for
pike and bass:
i found il quite convenient, when the beauties
wouldn't bite
And i returned all bootless from the watery
chase at n ght.
To feiGn q CHEEKY aspect and recount IN &c
cents gay
How the biggest fish that had caught had
somehow got away.
And. really. fish look bigger than they are before
they're caught
When the pole IS bent into bow and the slen-
der line Is taut,
When q fellow feels his heart rise up like
4 doughnut in his throat
And he Iunges in a frenzy up and down the
leaky boat!
Oh. you who've been a-fishing viii indorse me
when say
That it always is the biggest fish you catch
that gets away!
'Tis even SO in other things-yes, in our greedy
eyes
The biggest boon is some elusive, never-capt-
ured prize;
We angle for the honors and the sweets Of hu-
man life
Like fishermen we brave the seas that roll in
endless strife;
And then al last, when all is done and we are
spent and gray,
We own the biggest fish we've caught are those
that got away.
would not have it otherwise; it's better there
should be
Much bigger fish than 1 have caught aswim-
ming in the sea:
For how some worthier one than may angle
for the game
May by his arts enticc, enIrap and comprehend
the same:
Which. having done. perchance he'll bless the
man who's proud to say
That the biggest fish he ever caught were those
that got away.
Chicago News.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-10-03
The Physiological Ebb-Tide.

A tramp knows what it is to be leg
weary, a literary man to be BRAIN
weary, and sorrOwing man 10 be
soul-weary. The sick are often weary
of life itself. WEAKNESS is generally
physiological ''ebb-tide." which
time and patience will convert into a
..how." 1t is never well to whip or
spur a WORKOUT horse. except in the
direst straits. II he mends his pace
in obedience to the stimulus every step
is drop drawn from his life-blood.
Idleness is not one of the faults of the
present age; WEAKNESS is one of the
commonest experiences. The checks
that many man draws on his phys
biological resources are innumerable:.
and. as these resources are strictly
limited. like any other ordinary bank
ing account, it is very easy to bring
about balance on the wrong side.
Adequate rest is one kind of repay
ment to the bank. sound sleep is
another. regular eating and good
digestion another. One days holiday
in the week and one or two months in
the year for those who work excep-
tionally hard usually bring the credit.
balance to highly favorable con-
dition; and thus with care and man.
agement physiological solvency is Sc
cured and maintained. -Philadelphia.
Ledger.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-10-03
TASTING MOlASSES.
An Occupation Requiring Brain Work O.
Most Arduous Kind.


The professional molasses faster is
a martyr. Imagine a man having to
sample twenty-five or thirty grades of
that sirup and then try to eat a square
meal. He can't eat square meal,
you will say. Oh, yes. he can, is the
reply. To be sure he tastes of thirty
kinds OF molasses in one day, but he
does not swallow a particle. This re-
quires practice. the abstinence from
swallowing. and is the great difficulty
in the beginners path. He,must pro-
tect his teeth. too. and therefore his
masticators require careful cleansing.
not alone to prevent decay, but in or
der to keep his gustatoy sense per-
fectly natural.
Il have been a molasses faster for
several years." says a Boston man,
land l assure you mine is no easy job.
There is strain that the occupation
imposes. and one that many succumb
to, AID therefore quit the business.
The tongue being very sensitive re-
quires great care. and therefore l feel
il best not to use tobacco, sweetmeats
or highly seasoned food Doctors tell
me that sugar of itself does not injure
the teeth. but that after remaining on
them for some time undergoes chem
ical change from the SILVIA and food,
and that the chemical result is corro-
rive.
Whether that is so or no. know
that my teeth have suffered from this
business, although / take extraor-
binary care. The difference 10 taste
between some grades OF molasses is so
slight that the tongue must be in a
perfectly neutral condition in order to
he an accurate guide But not only
must the tongue be cared for. but
mouth, lips and teeth must be as free
as possible from any foreign sub
stance
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-10-03

SHE SAW GOLDEN HEAD APPEAR.
golden head appear above the churning
mass of water, and. a few rods from it,
another head, that of a little child
that she recognized instantly as one
that had been playing at her
feet an hour before. And, as she
felt herself surrounded by a cluster OF
excited men and screaming women, she
noticed with what awful rapidity both
heads seemed to he flying. flying. flying
from where she stood. Then came dark.
ness-black. utter darkness, in the midst
of which she was borne away to her
state.room, in merciful ignorance of the
rest
The stout, motherly old stewardess told
her every thing next morning. Told her
how the swiftly Launched life had
reached the r scuer just in time to snatch
the little one from his outstretched arms
and then drag him, fainting. on board;
and how he was now the idol of the
whole ship. The honest old lady. who
had witnessed many brave deeds in her
twenty years of life OF sea- wept copious-
~ as she declared she had never beheld
the equal OF this. To Miss Gray's eager
inquiries she replied that the young man,
God bless him. y was none the worse for
his bath, and had made several uusuc.
cessful attempts to see her. He might
do SO as soon as he pleased now, how.
ever.
Not until nearly eight O'Clock that
evening did Miss Gray venture from her
state-room. When she did so she crept
cautiously along the corridor and paused
a. the saloon to gaze through the glass
before entering. Her hand was on the
knob when she felt light touch upon her
shoulder. She trembled, but did not turn.
She knew what the touch meant.
An a-m-that same. fannel-coated arm.
by the way-stole into hers. and, without
knowing how or why, she felt herself be.
ing guided up the broad flight OF stairs
that led TO the main deck. She was not
surprised, after that, and did not resist
when she found herself being inseusibly
drawn towards that identical nook in the
rear Of the WHEEL ouse.
Arrived there, no word was spoken.
As though sensible to her journeys ap.
preaching end, the mighty vessel shot
through the water to the tune of the great
screws ceaseless throbbing. The water
wac calm and placid, and the autumn
moon looked down upon two figures, ono
with bent head. gazing downward: the
otner with upturued face, rp2n which
there was shining light which comes
into true xoman's face but once in q
lifetime. The figures, the moon might
lave noticed, we're very close Together.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-10-03
"In tasting of the various hr.ra, :,

lin tasting OF the various brards Z
place only a drop on the most sensi-
tive part OF the tongue. try to keep
1t away from lips, mouth and teeth,
out DO not always succeed. Now, to
discriminate between twenty-five sam
pies must keep clear head. conccn-
'rate my attention. and make. as it
were, an instantaneous analysis. To.
DO this faithfully requires brain work
that book writers know nothing about
In TACT a day at honest. paiustaking
molasses tasting is DAY of hard, /
almost said, solitary labor. Boston
Globe.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-10-03
A gentleman in Chicago has a con.

"A gentleman in Chicago has con.
slant potential motor running fan in
his Office. Recently messenger boy
came in with a noe. While the gen.
tleman was reading the note the boy
caught seght OF the motor and put a
finger on one brush. 1t didn't hurt,
and he found that by pressing down On
the tail of the brush he made it spark
very prettily. He thought he would
like some more sparkling. so he took
hold o6 both brushes and made it spark
in two places. He knows now more
about electricity than he did before
and lets the brushes alona
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-10-03

And when genial Mr.. Gray Observed
his truant junior partner, Mr.. julius 81.
John, handing bis daughter over the
gang.plank the next morning, his JOY
was great from a business as well as
paternal point of view. But afterwards
when told the story, ne earned MS
daughters keenest dispieasure Tor
space of nearly five min ltes by declaring
that he believed st. John ''wormeu
Lucrece's identity out of tne captain ana
then had tho kid thrown overheard on
uurpose.n HAROLD r. VYSSE.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-10-03

fnal adieu 20 the English friends from
whom she had just parted. She hardly
felt that she was going home. The five
years that she had spent in London aud
Paris perfectiug her education had al
most had the effect of extracting all pa
triotism from her nature; the friends she
was leaving had grown very dear to her,
and she could not accustom herself to the
thought that the farewell she had just
said was fual one.
Ii was not until the ship was Under full
Roadway, careering down the broad Mer-
sey with all the force OF her mighty en-.
gines, that PARKWAY America began to
look like reality. and the prospect OF
home. father. friends aud the welcome
awaiting her to grow clear. The effect of
this was TO send her down to dinner with
sharp appetite and a moderately good
temper, though enough of a vague, iuie-
Unable discomfort remained to render her
more than usually observaut and critical |.
Miss Gray had had a somewhat IN.
pleasant experience on the occasion of
her voyage nye years ago. Falling in
with the usual ta1lty OF etiquette preva-
Lent upon the seas, she had formed the
acquaintance or young man, who. before
land was reached, had presumed far
enough on her condos censioa TO render
himself intensely obnoxious TO her. The
memory or this experience was very
sharp, and If there was one thing she had
resolved to Isuard against on this trip i,
was such an adventure as this. Con-
sequently, when she seated herself at the
table, her first impulse was To sc-utinize
her fellow passeu gers closely and dis
cover in just how much danger she was.
Being alone and therefore under the
especial charge OF the captain, she oc.
cupied the seat OF honor on that gray
headed, hearty old salts left. Il did not
take long for her TO effect her examina.
hon. tor there We're not more than six
teen or eighteen cabin passengers, al
told. Six or these were ladies-she noted
with sigh OF resignation that she was
the only one Of her sex who stood il
really imminent danger OF molestatiou-
and all OF the men but two ere devoid
of any outward excuse for CONSIDERING
themselves attractive. One OF these two
was dark, OF medium height and appar.
entity good manners, but the rattle,
vacant expression OF his features forbade
the young lady's feeling much anxiety OF
his account. As 10 the other she va.
not so certain.
She was forced to acknowledge inward
ly that he was splendii-lookiny fellow
Tall, supple and light haired. with a pai
o. mischieyous blue eyes twinkling unde
. broad, white forehead. Vain as ,
peacock, and twice as saucy. no doubt.
was Miss Gray's mental comment. as sh,
noted the gentle caress bestowed from
time TO time by q fair. wouianish han,
upon his dropping, FOLLOW mustache. Sh
looked no more his way. aud vowed +
herself that upon his very first advanc
she would request the captain to war
him OF.
For the next two days. naturaIl
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-10-03
EN- VOYAGE.
Miss Lucretia's Ocean Trip and
What Came of It.
Written for this Paper.1

7lSS l. U CR E 7 l A
Gray was a very
self reliant, as well
as a very prOu d
young person, and
quite accustomed to
travelling alone; but
it is to be suspected
that even she felt a
sense of desolatioC
creeping over her as
she stood all alone
amidst a throng of
str an gers on the
deck Of 4 great ocean
steamship waving a
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-10-03
POST-CFFiCE NAMES.
Qua CoSnomens Bestowed Upon Some,
NeWiy-Created Offices

| Newiy-Created Offices.
Naming a. pOst-office is like naming
chlld-there is no accounting FOR the
| taste dislayed in the name selected.
Usually the post-office is named after
the town. and when the town is started
some enterprising citizen gets in his
deadly work and the town is named
| after him. Others take their names
from surroundings and often from Incl
dents which happened when the site
was first selected. Some are good.
| others bad; some long and some short,
but there seems to be general disr5-
gard of the proprieties in the selection
of names. For instance. Happy Camp
Is the name of 4 newly-created post
office IN California, and the probabili-
ties are that the inhabitants are con-
stantiy fighting, and the only person
who is happy is the undertaken. who
is growing wealthy. Mountain View
is more likely to be the name OF q
village at the bottom of a two-hun-
dred-foot hill than to be near mount
ain, while Marble Cliff is very remote
from marble quarry
Passing events also help decide the
names OF places. and with the Johns
town horror fresh in the public mind
many smaller towns will select that
name to emphasize the establishment
of the place.
Peace and Cain are two villages
where post-offices have been estah-
lished in Alabama, while Rat, Rye
and Urbanity have been discontinued.
Sassafras is the name OF spicy
Arkansas village, while people who
desire to go to a new postal station in
Alaska will have to have their letters
addressed to Belkofsky. California
has choice collection of new names.
Bitter Water, Calabasa, Orosi and
Simioplis make splendid quartette.
TourtelOtte and Bovina are Colorado
Offices. Dakota, as becomes q newly
admitted State. is selecting names,
for it's new Offices from among those
who advocated its admission. and is-
getting rid of its old Territorial
names. reminiscent as they were with
the names bestowed by cow-punchers,
whose idea of the ridiculous was very
keen.
The warm climate of Georgia boasts
Of an Arctic town, while Sinker is the.
name OF a village in Idaho.
The people of Illinois were so glad
to get new postal facilities that they
did not stop to complete the names.
and sent them out as Lis and Mac
Nail and Cheek are two villages in the
Indian Territory. Fritz. SNYDER and
McBrayer represent the ruling popu-
lation in three Kentucky places. China
is located in Michigan, and Minnesota
boasts OF its short Line Park. Mis-
souri, contains Last and Clio. Raten
is in Nebraska, while Redstone takes
its name from the granite hills of New
New York is provided
with Best. an Echo and Jayville.
Stem and Wharf are the names OF two
post-o.tices in North Carolina, and
Scrub. Ego and Twin have Ohio writ
ten after them on envelopes.
Ale and Joy, while both are in Ore
gon. are not in the same county. and
here is no connection between the
.wo. Peach Tree. Early, Orphans
Home and Venus are in Texas. Exit
md Joe are in the neighboring State
If Virginia and Washington has a
small post-oftice called
Nickel, while Fossil and Shell CON-
,iete the list for Wyoning.-Washing--
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-10-03

The city of New York has 600 Sum
day-schools. with a total of 1S7. COO
scholars and teachers. Philadelphia
has GIG Sunday-schools, with a total
OF 1875. SO2 teachers and scholars.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-10-03

The number of Indian church
members In the United States is "a
663.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-10-03

enough. Miss Gray stood in no danger OF
annoyance from any body. On the third
morning her robust constitution and
vigorous frame reasserted their sway,
aud she was assisted to the sunny end OF
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-12-04
FOR REPUBLICANS.

Mr.. Reed, speaker of the house of rep
resentatives, is owned, soul and body,
by the east. His election was accom-
plished by Wall street, within the past
ten days. Prior to that time Mr.. Reed
stood no show. He is against tariff re-
form, is opposed to free coinage of sill
yer, and is in favor of trusts and COM
bines, and everything that the farmers
of the west should be opposed to. Only
last winter, in his speech on the Mills
bill, he took occasion to make sport of
the demands of the western farmers.
and treated their demands for legisla-
ton as joke. Speaking of the tariff
reformers in congress, from the west.
he said:
But if the revenue reform orator on
the monopoly is terrible, like an army
with banners, there is a theme on which
he can take up the notes of tue dying
swan. How we do love to hear him on
the impoverished farmer. Then he is
not sublime, but he is pathetically
great. l heard him hrst ten years ago.
10 me, innocent. untraveled, 1t seemed
as II the western farmer was the most
woe-begone, down-trOdden, luckless.
unsuccessful, dispIrited devil on the
face of the earth. The eastern YAM
pire had mOrtgaged his farm and thrown
down his fences, and scattered his sub
stance wantonly to the winds. In the
tulness OF time travelled west myself,
You may well imagine my astonish-
ment, who had never seen ten acres to-
gether in corn, to behold fields of that
great staple stretching way out to the
horizons edge, to see tracts of land
which seemed 10 have no boundaries
but the visible sky land so rich that if
we had an acre of it In Maine, we would
have sold it by the bushel while on ev-
cry side were the great brick houses,
such as only the Squire lived in in our
villages. After some days of this ]
became sulky. l said Gentlemen. of
course we have robbed you; your con-
greSsmen would not lie about trifles
like that. But what disgusts me is that
we did not do it much more thoroughly.
The gleanings look bigger than the har-
vest. These crumbs are finer than the
food we put on our tables" Then thev
contided TO me that the western con-
gressmen were great orators, and did
this for practice. Since then have not
been so much moved by it,"
This is the man the republican ma
jority has put IN power; he will appoint
the committees to which must be refer
red the demands of the tax-ridden,
mortgage oppressed, tariff burdened
farmers of the west. Wheat is down !;
corn is down cattle and hogs are get
ting lower every day; but interest and
railroad rates are up; protected wooden
goods are high boots and shoes are
high; taxes are hlghS everything the
farmer must buy keeps up, and every
thing he sells keeps down in price.
And yet, MIR. Reed, with the republic
can party at his back, would repeal the
entire tax on tobacco and whisky ratb-
or than surrender any part of the great
protective system.
Mr.. Reed is speaker, and the Fepub-
licans are in control of the legislative,
executive, and judicial branches of the
government, and now we Will see what
Kan as farmers will make ont of it.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-12-04

The irrigation scheme, proposed for
western Kansas, appears, at this dis
lance, to be nothing more than an eff
fort to get a great big government ap-
preparation III the interest of Soule, the
irrigating-ditch man, and his strikers.
If land along the Arkansas river, west
of Dodge City, is not fit for cultivation
now, without irrigation, why don't the
people leave it, and come over to this
part of Kansas, where good crops are
raised without irrigation ? They were
not compelled to settle on that dry soil,
but they did it, knowing that crops
were uncertain. AT most, the govern
ment received but SIPS per acre for the
land, and now the town. site schemers
and county-seat boomers want the gov
eminent to appropriate millions of dol
lars to furnish water for them. If irri-
CATION is needed, and is practicable, the
landowners should be willing to pay
for 1t. This thing of asking the gov
eminent to contribute the money of the
many for the benefit of the few is all
wrong. Aiding private enterprise with
public money is wrong, and the irriga-
ton scheme is just as much robbery as
is the high tariff system of the republi-
can party. 1t depletes the treasury.
renders heavy import duties necessary,
keeps up the prices of the necessaries
of life, and makes few rich, while it
brings the many to want and starva-
ton. There is plenty of good land open
to settlement, without touching the
dry sand beds.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-12-04
Winter Excursions via the Santa Pc

The harvest excursion season is past and
| the Santa Fe Route. pleased with it's success in
each Of those excursions, again comes to the
front with still another inducement for peopIe
to travel via that popular line. in the way of
round-trip excursion tickets. Mt greatly reduced
rates, to principal points in Old Mexico, New
Mexico, and Texas; also Aiken. S. c., Augusta.
Ga. Birmingham, Ala, Brunswick, Ca, Gala
han. Fla, Charleston, s. c., Jacksonville, Fla.
Mobile, Ala, New Orleans La, Savannah, Ga
Townsville, Ga; limited to return not later
than June lst 1890. Transit limit to points in
Old Mexico, New Mexico and Texas will be 30
days each way; to other points named above,
transit limit will be Is days each way.
Tickets are also now on sale to principal tour
LIST points in California;; also Phoenix and Pres
colt, Ariz.; Portland. Ore; good for months,
with going limit go days. Las Vegas Hot
Springs, N. M; Ogden and Salt Lake City,
Utah; Idaho and. Montana, good for 90 days;
transit limit, 30 days each way. Stop-over priv
ieRes allowed on all tourist tickets within tran
sit limits.
Full information cheerfully given relative to
routes, rates. Side-trfp rates and other special
rates to points on the A. T. s. s. F. r. r. quoted
on application. Sleeping car accommodations
secured and baggage checked to destination.
Gall on or address H. II. CASE. Agent, Medicine
Lodge, Kansas.
GEO. T. NICHOLSON.
@. p. T. A, A. t. S. =. r. r.,
Topeka, Kansas.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-12-04

AtchisOn had been collecting from
S25 to 500 from every "joint," for sew
eral months, and would have kept it
up without letting the rest of the state
know what q SOFT thing it had, but for
the mayor accidentally telling an Oma-
ha reporter about it. The reporter
sent the news broadcast, and last Sat
urday the Atchlson joints were all clos
ed up tight and fast. We have an idea
that many other towns and cities in
Kansas are collecting fines from liquor
sellers, without saying much about it :;
but we know OF one county and one
city that is not smart enough to do it,
and that is our own county of Barber,
and city of Medicine Lodge.