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Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1890-09-25

A FATHER, when his daughter be-
cam bride, gave her a golden casket
with the injunction not to pass it into
other hands, for it held charm which
in her keeping would be of inestima-
BILE value to her as the mistress of the
house. Not only was she to have the
entire care of it, but she was to take
it every morning to the cellar, the
kitchen, the dining-room, the library,
the bedroom, and remain with it in
each place for five minutes, looking
carefully about. After the lapse of
three years the father was to send the
key, that the secret talisman might be
revealed. The key was sent. The
casket was opened. 1t was found to
contain an old parchment, on which
was written these words: "The eyes
of the mistress are worth one hundred
pairs of servants hands" The wise
father knew that practice of inspec-
ton followed faithfully for three years
would become a habit and be self
perpetuated-that the golden casket
and the hidden charm would have &C.
complished their mission.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1890-09-25
Tendency to Socialism,

Inc increasing tendency to special
ism in all trades and professions is
nowhere more marked than in the med
ical profession, where the young NJ. d.
finds himself, before his sheepskin ia
fairly in his hands, considering the
desirability of the throat and lungs"
or the "eye and ear" or some other
equally profitable combination of dis
orders. The result is that the Family
doctor of the old time, who attended
a family from birth to death, and who
was the repository of all its woes and
weaknesses, is no longer real exist
ence. And the average well-doctored
mortal who wishes to be reasonably
careful with his health finds himself
strangely divided up among half a
dozen specialists. To one he intrusts
the care of his eyes, to another his
throat, to third his digestion, to q
fourth his nerves, and, if it please
Heaven to affiict him with more disor-
ders than these, he finds specialist"
waiting down the road to welcome each
one.
No doubt there is good healthy
reason at the bottom of all this and
real benefit to be derived therefrom.
No doubt the marvellous strides of
medical science within the last fifty
years have made the necessity for the
specialist. but it touches ones sense of
the comic to have the experience of
young woman who wished not long ago
to consult DR.. Smith. an eve and ear
specialist. She went to large build
ing given up to the use of physicians.
You mistake. madam" said the first
physician to whom she presented her
self, Il am not DR.. Smith for the eve
and ear, am DR.. Smith for the throat
and lungs"
and is that DR.. Smith for the eve
and ear across the hail."
"No, madam" he answered grayely,
"that is DR.. Smith for the heart and
stomach. DR.. Smith for the eye and
ear is five doors down the corridor"
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1890-09-25
Artemus Ward. Last Joke.

Joseph Jefferson, in his autobiogra-
ply in the Century, relates what was
probably the last jest of Artemus
Ward.
When the famous wit lay diving in
Southampton he was tended by his de-
voted friend tom" Robertson, the
English playwright. who was also a
friend of Jefferson.
~Just before Wards death" writes
Mr.. Jefferson, Robertson poured out
some medicine in glass and offered IL
to his friend.
Ward said: MY dear Tom, I can't
take that dreadful stuff
Come, come said Robertson.
urging him to swallow the nauseous
drug: there's dear fellow. Do now.
for my sake; you know I would do
anything for you
Would your said Ward, feebly
stretching out his hand to grasp his
friends, perhaps for the last time.
I would, indeed said Robert
son.
@'Then you take IT, said Ward. The
humorist passed away but few hours
afterward.'
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1890-09-25
STOCK AND FARM.

Stafford Republican: G. NJ. FILLER,
of Union township, is indeed one of the
fortunate ones this year, having, among
other things, two hundred acres OF
good broom corn. He has already re-
ceived quotations of sos and S106 pei
ton.
Ulysses Tribune: J. G. Smith, who
lives near Spurgeon, got 412 bushels OF
volunteer wheat this fall and also quite
quantity of volunteer rye. If Grant
county won't raise wheat, we would like
to see the place that does.
Argonia Clipper: Caleb Baggs had
few fine white Seeding peaches in
town. one day this week, that would
measure nearly eight inches in circum-
ference. These were the finest Seeding
peaches we have ever seen, and made
a wonderful growth for so dry sea.
son.
jamestown Kansan: Buckwheat, rye,
turnips, alfalfa, and everything else is
booming. Some have already taken off
their crops of alfalfa and will have
another big one before frost. A man
with forty acres or SO of alfalfa would
be regular hog to want better year
than this.
Greenleaf Journal: Ex-Mayor Ship
pee. Of this city, who. in addition to
performing his duties as depot master.
ticket agent, and assistant train dis
patcher, does a little farming on his
splendid quarter of land, two and one
half miles north Of town. presented US
this week with sample OF pears he
had been picking from one OF his trees,
measuring eleven inches in circumfer-
ence. and weighing thirteen and one
fourth ounces. He informs us that he
gathered from the one tree from which
this sample was taken little over four
bushels this year, and about seven
bushels last year. This brings more
forciblv than ever to our mind tho fact
that Kansas is one of the best fruit
raising states in the union, and should
remind Kansas farmers that it Is much
more profitable to plant fruit trees on
their lands than to cucumber them with
. growth OF cottonwood and boz
elders.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1890-09-25
NEWS BKEvITIES

The three-masted American ship Chal-
lenger was discovered in disabled condi-
ton, go miles east of Sandy Hook.
The schooner Comrade has been lost with
her crew of eight men on Lake Superior.
She parted her tow-line from the Columbia
during . west southwest gale, and two
her boat or crew.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1890-09-25

DOMESTIC servants are so scarce In
Montreal that women in want of help
are said to visit the Jail with view to
engaging young women to work for
them at the close of their term of i'm
prisonment.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1890-09-25

A TRIAL has been made at Civita
Vecchia of nautical ball invented by
Signor Balsamello. 1t is seven feet in
diameter and can hold four persons.
When closed it sinks, and is steered
and propelled under water by rudder
and screw. 1t has windows and Crap
piers, and, besides fishing up things, it
may be used for destructive purposes
in time of war.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1890-09-25

A CURIOUS incident regarding a
strait occurred during the Russian
war: It would have been ludicrous, il
anything can be ludicrous connected
with war. Commodore Elliot was
blockading Russian squadron in the
Gulf of SaghaGn, on the east coast Of
Siberia. Thinking he had the Russians
in cul de sac, he complacently waited
for them to come out, as the water was
too shallow for him to attack them. As
the enemy did not come out he sent in
to investigate, and found, to his aston
ishment, that Russians and ships had
vanished! While he had been await.
ing for them in the south they had
quietly slipped out by the north, teach.
ing both him and the British govern
ment rather severe lesson in geog-
raphy, as it had been thought that
Saghalin was an isthmus; and they
were totally unaware of a narrow
channel leading from the Gulf to the
Sea of Okhotsk.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1890-09-25

THERE is nothing pleasanter to use
as cure for rough or sunburnt skin
than slices of raw cucumber. It is q
much cheaper remedy than any of the
preparations in bottles, and the best
way is to cut off slice and rub the
juice we'll into the skin and then dry
with O towel.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1890-09-25
Thomas County Cat.
C.E. KALB. Editor & Manager.
COLBY, KANSAS.

THERE are 1877 daily and weekly Ger
man papers published in the United
States and Canada.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1890-09-25

A MOST peculiar case is reported
from Edwardsville, Ill. Mary A. Walsh,
an orphan of II, has been for some
time suffering from severe pains in the
head. An examination revealed the
presence in the head of screw worms.
These worms are developed from eggs
deposited in the nose by the Texas fly.
They average in size from one-half to
three-quarters of an inch in length,
and are one-quarter of an inch in
diameter. Fifty-seven of the worms
were removed.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1890-09-25

The Empress of Germany has mill
tary tastes as we'll as her husband. At
the late grand review on Templehof-
field she was in the saddle for two
hours, riding superbly, and leading ner
own regiment of cuirassiers past the
Emperor. Her uniform as colonel was
a habit of white cloth, embroidered on
shoulders and collar with the red and
silver colors of the regiment, and a
three-cornered white felt nat with many
ostrich feathers, in which she looked
remarkably pretty.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1890-09-25

SALMON P. CHAsE's old law sign has
been discovered, covered with dust and
cobwebs, on building formerly occu :
pied by lawyers on Third street near
Main, in Cincinnati The name of
Flamen Ball, for many years promi-
nent character in Cincinnati, appears
on the sign as Chase's law partner. 1t
was in this building that the late Chief
Justice and his distinguished partner
had their law Offices for several years.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1890-09-25

J. W. FUNK, a farmer of Heyworth,
ILL.,, is one of the $4,000 inventors who
are competing for the prize of 1925, DOC
offered by the Government of New
South Wales for the trap which may
be decided to be the most likely to be
effective in Kidding that country of its
fearful pest of rop-destroying rabbits.
He has received a letter from Aus.
tralia saying that the committee which
is to decide the matter has looked
with favor upon his model, and invit
ing him to visit Australia and demon.
strate the working of the trap. he
will probably do so in few weeks.
The trap is simple and cheap. It is 8
device to dump the rabbits, one at 6
time, into pit by means of a plat
form swung on pivots below a sus-
pended bait. In a trap of similar de-
vice he caught fifty-seven rabbits If
one night in cornfield.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1890-09-25

II short time the Sun, the Times,
the World and other New York
dailies are to begin the use of typesetting
machines. 1t is also announced that
the printer of the Century Magazine
is to have his typesetting done by ma
chinery. A syndicate of book publish
ers has also made arrangements to put
fifty OF hundred typesetting machines
into cooperative Office, where all the
body matter of cheap publications is
sued in New York will be turned out.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1890-09-25

be richly ornate with sculptures, some
of which will be of gigantic proper
tions.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1890-09-25

Z
always found tobacco solace and an
aid to concentration. l remember on
one journey down the Congo we were
Just about to enter most dangerous
country. knew that fight was in
evitable, and I told my men to make
ready. took an observation, lighted
my pipe, and smoked for five minutes
to settle myself for action. We were
fighting for our lives a feN minutes
afterward, and the battle went on for
hours. Livingstone never smoked.
MISS MATTE HESTER is the United
States mail-carrier over the route from
Condar, Laurens County, to Lothian,
Montgomery County, Georgia, a dis
lance of forty miles through sparsely
settled region, which she traverses
three times q week. She drives her
own mail-cart, carries revolver, and is
punctual as the sun at all seasons and
in all weathers, Besides transporting
the mails, she manages farm. gets
out lumber, splits fence rails and con-
trives to support widowed mother,
two younger sisters and a brother,
while she is not yet twenty years of
age.
J. M. Herring. of Suffer County
California, has been granted a patent
on an agricultural machine which ought
to revolutionize something or other, in
asmuch as it combines digging, subscil-
ing, pulverizing. planting and har-
rowing; and in addition to this, when
curfew tolls the knell of parting day
and lowing herds wind slowly DER the
lea, the operator can convert it into a
tent or iving-h house and "put up in it
all night. The object is to provide
complete farming machine. adapted to
large farms. where hotel and boarding
house accommodations are distant from
+he Ground to be worked.
BRUSSELS, not content with having
more beautiful public buildings than
any other European city save Paris,
has now determined to rival Paris
itself. King Leopold has just laid the
foundations of an arch Of triumph one
third larger than the celebrated one in
Per;s and it is announced that this gi-
cant;c work will be completed by the
clo.a Of the century. Brussels already
bas the most monumental court house in
ali Europe-a magnificent pile. which
cost vast sums of money and which
contains some superb halls. The Paris
triumph arch cost $1,000. 600; that OF Of
Rrn,sels Is to cost 5000, 900. It viii
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1890-09-25


The senate passed the following bills:
Senate bill to provide for the sale Of GER
tain New York Indian lands in Kansas.
Senate bill to -xtend the jurisdiction of
the supreme court of the United States, the
same as defined in section 100 of the revised
statutes, to include judgments and DEGREES
of the highest courts of Cherokee, Creek,
Seminole, Choctaw!and Chickasaw tribes of
Indians. respectively.
Senate bill to provide for inspection of
live. cattle. hogs, and carcasses and pro-
ducts thereof, where subjects of interstate
commerce.
The senate bill to revive the grade of lieu
tenant general in the army of the United
States.
The senate bill granting the right of way
to the Sherman d Northwestern Railway
company through the Indian territory.
PLUMB's BANKRUPTCY RESOLUTION.
Senator Plumb's resolution to recommit
the bankruptcy bill to the judiciary commit
tee, with instructions to amend it by making
il apply to voluntary bankruptcy only, was
taken.
The senator said that he had offered the
resolution for two reasons: One was that he
voluntary bankruptcy; and the other was
that be did not wish to have any bankruptcy
bill passed 1t this session.
STILL PASSING BILLS.
The senate, among others passed:
Senate bill to confirm certain sales OF the
Kansas trust and diminished reserve lands
In the state of Kansas.
Senate bills extending the privileges of
the FREQ delivery of mails to towns having .
population OF 5000 or gross revenue OF
1900.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-05-13
WHEN oNTHE HIGH SEAS.

On the rail, on a steamboat, aboard a Il sh-
ing smack. or catching on the coast. Hostel
ters Stomach Bittters will be found relia-
BILE means of averting and relieving all.
ments to which travellers, mariners and emf
grants are peculiarly subject. See captains,
ship doctors, VOyagers or sOjOCrners in the
tropics and all about to encounter unaCcli.
mated, an unacucstomed or dangerous eli
mate. should not neglect to avail themselves
of this safeguard of well ascertaned and
long-tried merit. Constipation, biliOusnesS.
malaral fever, Indigestion, rheumatism and
affections of the bladder and kidneys are
amOug the ailments which it eradicates. and
it may be restored to not only with confidence
in its remedial efficacy, but also in its perfect
freedom from every Objectionable ingredient,
since it is derived from the purest and most
salutary sources. 1t cOunteracts the effect of
unwhOlesOme food and water. 5-l3 1T
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-05-13

BECAUSE a perfect customs union
cannot be at present established
among the all Americas there is no
ground for refusing to consider ques-
tions of practical reciprocity. This is
a measure of Importance and should
receive the immediate attention of
the state department. Some CONNER
cial treaty with Mexico is Imperative
ly demanded and no time more favor
able than the present for negotiating
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-05-13

THE Fort Worth Spring Palace is
open and Throckmorton is shut up.
Is this latter a Hogg canard? Fort
Worth has paid 100 cents Oil the dol
lar for her Spring Palace and is justly
entitled to every benefit, present and
prospective, she can secure from the
presence of so many thousands within
her gates.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-05-13

IN view of the uncontradicted re-
ports of Carlisle's inebriety at Beck
funeral the following from the Gal
weston News is rather suggestive:
"Mr. Carlisle's proper place is the
senate and if more men like him could
be sent there that body would be
greatly elevated"
Whatever the elevating effect on
the senate there is no doubt that Car
Isle was elevated himself on that
mournful occasion in the senate cham
Der.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-05-13

WA5HTNGTON, May 13.-An exami-
nation of the books in the second
comptroIler's office shows a balance
in favor of Gen. Fremont of 81 900.
when by an error IN footing tie general
has been held a debtor to the govern
ment for $4,000. The $1,000 was paid.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-05-13
Mission Hose Co. Picnic.

The Friends of Mission Hose Com
pany and the public, are cordially in
vited to attend the picnic to be given
at Riverside park, next Sunday, May
18th. Trains will leave as follows:
At and II a. M, and at 2:2O p. m.
Return at and s p. m. Fair for
round trip % cents, Admission to
grounds and dancing free. 5-l3 81
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-05-13

CALIFORNIA grape growers find
better results from grape culture in
Texas than on the Pacific slope. The
time is coming when the southwest
Texas wine district will be the most
famous in the world. The grapes
have more body to them and the wine
a richer boquet than that grown else
where.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-05-13

Nc. KINLEY's opening speech on
tariff bill was a clean cut, direct,
open and very concise putting of the
case before the country. Congress
can vote just as intelligently on that
bill today as it will ten days hence.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-05-13

THE federal election bill is by no
means out of the woods, and there is
no presant indication of what the
republican party will do with It,
There is much opposition to the bill
on general principles, and yet pro-
found conviction that something
should be done to secure the ballot
in federal elections to the southern
republican voter of every color and
nationality.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-05-13

TIE licensing or refusing to license
the Louisiana state lottery is ques-
ton for the Legislature of that state
so attend to, and is a matter with
which other states have no concern.
In case of this kind the LIGHT ac-
knOwledges the states right doctrine.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-05-13
Bar Privilege for Sale.

Bids will be received until Friday
night, May 10th, at the company's
reel mouse for the bar privileges for
the Mission Hose company picnic. st
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-05-13
THE cLANaoR OF AN ALARM BEL

THE CLaNGOR OF AN ALARM BELL
Close by, in the stiffness of the night could
scarcely startle the ordinary individual more
than do triiinE noises the nervous invalid.
Bat once the nerves are braced and the sys
ten invigOrated with Hostetters stomach
Bttcrs. this abnormal sensitiveness is sue
ceeded by tranquility not to be disturbed by
trivial causes. Impaired digestion is a fertile
cause of nerve weakness and unnatural men
tai gloom, and d vigorous renewal Of the ac-
ton of the stomach is one of the surest means
of invigOrating and Quieting the nerves In
SOmnia, or sleeplcssnesS, form Of nervous
dis -ase, is PROFESSIONALLY benefited by soda
tives. when it is prolonged, or of frequent Oc
CurTenCC. but its permanent removal is more
eifcCtual!y achieved with the BittcrS. This
medicine is also sgnally etficaCiOus for ma
laria, rheumatism, constipation, liver com
lsint, and TO! pidty o. the kidney and blad
der. Is TT
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-05-13

SAN ANTONIO dirt gets into the
eyes of nearly every capitalist who
visits this city, and the man with
dirt in his eye today will have a
pocket full OF rock when he unlOads.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-05-13

Young wives who have old husbands will
be glad to know that a New York physician
offers to cure snoring for ten dollars; but DR..
Bulls Cough Syrup will cure sore thrOats and
colds for % cents j-l3-Gt
For neuralgia, rheumatism. gOut, burns.
wounds, etc. use SavatiUn Oil. Price y cents
u bottle. , Is 1T
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-05-13

D. Ouasso the Southern Tailor.
Has now received a fine stock of
spring and summer goods, and with
firgt-cIass wOrkmen will turn out only
the best work at reasonable prices;
22l Commerce street. lO-ll-Sf
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-05-13

THE people of Tombstone, Arizona,
have had enough grave yard in theirs
and want the name of their town
changed. Richmond is the new name
selected.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-05-13
TUESDAY, MAY Is, 1890.

BETWEEN the Alliance folks and
the prohibition people the good old
democracy will have to hustle for the
official lOaves and fishes.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-05-13

HOGG has been running the State
Government ever since he became A t
tOrney-G eneral, and now he wants ii
cense from the voters of the State to
run it into the ground. He appears
to have things pretty much his own
way, and it is now said that Throck-
morton is side-tracked. The anti
Hogg element must combine or stay
outside of the official pen.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-05-13

THE Republican policy of protection
has created a home market that alb
serbs over ninety per cent of our farm
products. 1t would be poor policy to
imperil that market in the vain at
tempt to create a foreign market for
the other tenth, in the face of the ev-
er increasing supply from Russia,
Egypt and India.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-05-13

Monday April 28th at Kahn's be-
gins his closing out sale. 426-tf.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-05-13

DALLAS Board of Trade is a bust
ness body. In undertaking to pay
one fourth the expenses of advertIs-
ing all towns along the Texas and
Pacific railway, it has devised wisely
and well for its own increase. All
towns along that route send repres-
entatives to Dallas on Thursday the
18th inst. to arrange advertising sta
tistics at the Dallas headquarters.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-05-13
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