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The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-12-27
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Dodge City times., 1890-06-13
Sam Summers, Skill.

sam Summers. the negro prodigy, was
in town yesterday, and, as usual, enter
tanned a large crowd, who were testing
him with all kinds of problems, writes a
Shelbyviile correspondent to the Louis
vile Commercial. Summers is negro,
thirty-foilr years old, without the slight.
est education. He cannot read or write,
and does not know one figure from an.
other. lie is a common, everyday farm
hand, and to look at him and watch his
actions he seems to be about half-witted,
but his quick and invariably correct an
swers to an example in arithmetic, no
matter how difficult, ,are simply wonderful.
With the hundreds of tests that he has
submitted to, not single time has be
failed to give the correct answer in every
instance.
Some examples given him on yesterday
were: How much gold can be bought for
S792 in greenbacks if gold is worth 81. .65?
Multiply 597, 1872 by Ii 5-S. If grain of
wheat produces seven grains, and these be
sown the second year, each yielding the
same increase, how many bushels will be
produced at this rate in twelve years if
1000 grains make pint? If the velocity
of sound Is III ~ feet per second, the pull
sations OF the heart seventy per minute,
after seeing flash of lightning there are
twenty pulsations counted before you hear
the thunder, what distance is the cloud
from the earth, and what is the time after
seeing the flash of lightning until you
hear the thunder? A commission ner-
chant received seventy bags of wheat, each
containing three bushels, three pecks and
three quarts; how many bushels did he re.
ceive? And so on.
With Robinson's, Rays and other high
er arithmetics before them, those who
have tested him as yet have been unable
to find any example that with a few mo-
ments' thought on his part he is not able
to correctly answer.
Dodge City times., 1890-06-13
A Wife's Sympathy.

From the Society Journal.
1t is not to sweep the house. make
the bed, darn the socks and cook tht
meals chiefly that a man wants wife
Such things are important, and the
wise young man will quickly look after
them. But what the true young man
wants with wife is her companion
ship, sympathy and love. The way Of
life has many dreary places in it, ant
a man needs wife to 60 with him.
A man is sometimes overtaken by
misfortune; he meets with failures and
defeat; trials and temptations beset him
and he needs one to stand by and
sympathize. He has some hard battles
to fight with poverty, enemies aud sin,
and he needs woman that, when he
puts his arm around her. he feels he
has something to fight for; she will put
her lips to his ear and whisper words of
counsel, and her hand to his heart and
impart inspiration. Ali through life,
through storm and through sunshine,
conflict and victory, through adverse
and through favoring winds, man needs
a woman S sympathy.
Dodge City times., 1890-06-13
Names of the Months.

In looking up the peculiar names given
each of the twelve months of the year il
becomes necessary for us to go back to the
old Romans, who have imposed upon us
a set of names equally as absurd as those
the NOrsemen, Scandinavians and Saxons
applied to the week. January is named
from Janus, the god Of doors and gates,
because the month opens the year. Some
say he was a twO-faced god and could look
back on the last year and forward to the
coming.
February is from februo, to purify.
March was originally the first month and
was named for Mars, the god of war.
April is from apcrire, to open, because
the buds open in that month.
May is from Maia, goddess.
June is from Juno, the patron of marri-
age, and is, therefore, the favoritc month
for weddings.
July was named for Julius Caesar and
August for Augustus Cesar. Originally
August had but thirty days and February
twenty-nine in the common year and
thirty in leap years. Augustus was Jealous
that Julius month should have more DAYS
than his own.and therefore took one from
February and added it to August.
September, October, November and De-
cember are SO called because they were
originally the seventh, eighth, ninth and
tenth months of the wear. The
names are inappropriate and rank mis-
nomers as now applied.
Dodge City times., 1890-06-13
Heart Ea.;urS.'

Until within late period the physi-
clans announcement Of = death from
"heart failure" was never heard. Now
it is the fasion in medical circles; every
body almost who dies expires from
"heart failure. OF course 'sheart
failure is included in the death of
everything animal in its nature, but it
is not the cause of death to the extent
in which it is used. When the heart
ceases to beat it is probably the result
Of certain causes which have preceded
it and produced the failure.
Medical men of a high order Of
ability owe it to themselves not to en-
courage this sllpshod nomenclature.
Every quack who lacks the scientific
knowledge to diagnose the disease
which kills his patient will flippantly
escape responsibility for his ignorance
by terming it '-heart failure There
can be accumulated no data Of value of
a pathological character if this loose
verdict is to come into constan: use
That man dies owing to the stopping
Of his breath is quite as accurate and
Just as useful as "heart failure" A
variation might be introduced to be en-
titled ''breath failure, which would be
just as explicit as the phrase now In
popular use.-Ex.
Dodge City times., 1890-06-13
WOULD HAVE HIS JOKE.
A Soldier Who Always saw the Funny Side
OF Everything.

Only this week 1 was reading Gen,
Doubleday's story of Gettysburg, and tn.
day before had seen the old general on
the street, says writer in the New York
Star. His presence in New York and his
book combine to recall to my mind very
practical joke that was played upon him
at Gettysburg by Capt. Joe Parker, of
Gen. Hancock's staff. Col. Billy Wilson
and Joe Parker were Gen. Hancock s pets
They We're both young, full of mischief,
thing. no matter how serious.
In the very white heat of the battle on
Cemetery Hill on July 3, 1868, Gen. Han
cock was severely wounded, and Capt.
Parker Immediately rode off to find Gen.
Doubleday. who was the senior division
commander, and put him in command Of
the second corps. He found Doubleday
sitting under 4 big tree. lie saluted him
quickly and said:
''Gen. Doubleday; Gen. Hancock has
been seriously wounded, and you will
-"
Just at that moment, before he had
time to tinist the sentence, assume COM
mand of the corps" 4 shell burst directly
over the general. The shock half stunned
MI ..di, anu ale ie!i u over eAciaimlng:
oh' am kllied: am Killed."
Gap', alhei couluhi resist this opper.
u'hit! ior JOKE ana he rode OH rapidly
~ ra,so.,a,i VI ,; Geii; S u!o9on: lie I9und MN
tiRo,eI i;i,oI u 10 I'M 'i,at DouDieday haa Deen
49,, ,Ln. ~ iah.ocA hau Deeh WOUNDED, anu
TIo 1riI' NJ wa, ~ liHe con1iilaiu OF inc CORPS.
,ne ne NV h"5 spiJ'u l r rapi1iy ,nat DouOieuay
w. m's Con ue"a, anu Sapt: Iarker SO reported
" oen! iialicoch' a lew nours iater
I,roau In WI iiain n col.aliiles Hancock, ms
7ran, , ,anr;a anu htnper . u Wounueu oincers
"eIe moving towaru bainmore. Han
tonno,'. %"I hH. ~ vi s.letener sunerhs IN.
ont ,nMouI ~ ~. s iiG '.iiu synpally wen!
Ia 81 h na;o ieion cohlIlah,crs anu
wounJnI NO Ill 0i0'i' "ho "ere oeau VI
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,ooth ;, w ", oaS a aoout poor DouSieuays
Dodge City times., 1890-06-13
Why the Sight Eaiis.

Bernard ii. Blank, the Maiden Lane Oh
tician, has just returned from England.
where he has been studying the question
of defective vision, and has some pro
nomced views on the subject.
"We are rapidly" said Mr.. Blank to a
New York Star reporter, ''becoming a
specialized nation like the Germans, and
presumably from the same cause-too
much reading. Walk along Broadway.
from the Battery to Harlem, and YOU will
find every tenth young man you meet and
every twentieth young woman wearing
glasses. There are more of them worn
now than were worn ten years ago, and
there will be more still ten years hence.
Indeed, no one who shall live until then
need be surprised if in fifty years from
now people with glasses will be as much
the rule as they are at present the excep-
ton. The cause for this has been stated
in newspapers and magazines time and
again-it is, in fact, told regularly once
week, and yet people will persist in read
ing in the cars, reading by gaslight and
reading too much.
''This eternal reading wears what, for
plain talking's sake, shall call the sight.
as well as the brightness Of the eyes. You
don't see savages or illiterate nations with
defective sight. 1t stands to reason that
the Jogging and jolting Of the cars-the
street cars especially-strain the vision.
which tries to grasp small letters and Keen
them in view, and it is absolute lunacy to
read on the cars by poor gaslight. Still.
people do II, and people at that who are
shrewd and clever in the ordinary affairs
Of lifa.n
Dodge City times., 1890-06-13

Two years ago l had liberated Sore
Throat, and was SO weakened and reduced
in flesh that my friends thought it impos
sible for me to recover. l was attended
by the very best physicians, but their en-.
deavors to relieve me we're futile. My
mother seeing SwIFT's SPECIFIC Is. S. s.,
Sd highly recommended, decided to give
me course of it. and after taking the
first bottle | was greatly relieved, and af'
ter taking several bottles l was entirely
cured. | have not had any signs of a
return of the disease since.
CLIFF BLOxToN. Williamsburg, Va.
THE GRANDEsT HE EVER SAW.
Mr.. ". J. Colmon, prominent citizen
OF Gainesville Fla, writes the following
under date of Feb. 10, 1890: Il contract
cd severe case of Contagious Blood
Poison that gave great deal o. trouble.
and baffied the physicians of this place.
l was finally advised to try SwIFT's SPE-
CIrIc Is 5. 81 and can say, with great
pleasure. that few bottles of it has en-
tircly cured ne. have no hesitancy in
saving that s. S. S. is the grandest blood
medicine | ever saw, and can cheerfully
recommend it to any one suffering as l
was"
Treatise on Blood and Skin Disease mailed free,
SWIFT SPECIFIC co. Atlanta Ga.
Dodge City times., 1890-06-13
in,emperate Prohibition.

Just look at this, Just look at that.
The first quotation below is a dispatch
in the Kansas City Times, and the Sec
ond is an associated press dispatch.
These two taken together show how
unfair, how Incorporate, how bigoted
men become in their devotion t. prohi-
bition. They seem unable to squarely
measure men or motives:
SAT prohibition meeting held at
Plymouth Congregational church last
night the Rev. Dr. James Marvin. of
the Methodist Episcopal Church spoke.
In the course of his remarks he sad
that the War was upon The people AID
advised no compromise with the liquor
traffic. He said that the recent oriei
nal package decision Was of far wider
scope and held deeper responsibilities
of mischief than the Dred Scott decis-
ion, and that the name of Judge Full
Ter would only be remembered as the
oracle of a bold and unsuccessful at
tempt to perpetuate an infinite curse
upon the continent
Rev. j. Fl. Foster, Methodist cler-
gyman, at Oska!oosa, and personal
friend Of the justice. has received from
him the following letter on the subject:
81 regret to find that you are in
trouble about my concurrence in the
recent decision of the supreme court in
regard to the sale of goods imported
from abroad or from another state in
the original packages venture to
hope that l shall not wholly forfeit
your esteem, because in obedience to
that sense Of conscientious duty, which
l have no doubt prompts you in this
matter, l have felt bound to follow the
decision made by this house more than
sixty years ago, which has never been
doubted from that day to this. Indeed
that decision, in addition to being a de-
cision of this court, was one which fell
from the lips of the greatest constitu-
tionaI lawyer that this country ever had.
1t was based upon a construction of the
constitution of the United States.
This construction has not been altered
since and the jud dgment Of the courts
has remained without question from
thot day to this, now 63 years ago. If
my views of the true meaning of the
constitution of the United States in
question before NE as jud &c of one
of the courts Of the country, should
compel me to differ from the whole
world l should do it as courageously as
l have no doubt you would stand by any
doctrine which you believe to be taught
in the Holy Bible. If l should be-
lieve everything which you believe on
the subject OF prohibition | must still
follow the constitution of the United
States until it is changed by those
who have authority to do SO. Law
renca Gazette
Dodge City times., 1890-06-13

flag, as points of strength and protect
ion. But the citizen standing on the
doorway Of bis home, content on his
threshold, his family gathered about
his bearthstone, while the evening Of a
well-spent day closes in scenes and
sounds that are dearest-he shall save
the republic when the drum tap is
futile and the barracks are exhausted" !"
Dodge City times., 1890-06-13
Patriotic Sentiment.

One seldom reads anything finer than
the following from the pen of the late
Editor Grady, of the Atlanta Constitu-
tion. Although Grady is numbered
among the departed, such superb senti-
ment as this will live fer centuries in
the hearts of his countrymen:
"He who kindles the fire on the
bearth-stone Of an honest, righteous
home burns the best incense of liberty.
He does not love mankind less who
loves his. neighbor most. The germ Of
the pest patriotism is in the love man
has for the home he inbabits, for the
soil he tills, for the trees that give him
shade, and the hills that stand in his
pathway. l teach my son to love
Georgia, to love the soil that he stands
on-the body of my old mother-the
mountains that are her springing
breasts, the broad acres that hold hel
substance, the dimpiing valleys in
which her beauty rests, the forests that
sing her songs Of lullaby and of praise,
and the brooks that run with her rip.
pllng laughter.
The love of home, deep-rooted and
abiding, that blars the eyes of the dying
soldier with the vision of an old home
stead amid green fields and clustering
trees, that follows the busy mar
through the clamoriug world, persist
ent, though put aside, and at last draws
his tired feet from the highway and
leads him through shady lanes and well
remembered paths until amid the
scenes of his boyhood he gathers W
the broken threads of his life and own:
the soil his conqueror-this lodged in
the heart Of the citizen, is the saving
principle of our government We mote
the barracks of our standing army
with its rolling drum and futterine
Dodge City times., 1890-06-13
First subiicaiion June l3, 1890.
SuEpIEE,S SALE
i. j. Patterson
Attorney for plaintitf.

By virtue of an order issued out of the district
court Of Ford County Kansas, wherein Henry
Dickinson was plaintiff and Thomas Asher and
Mrs Thomas Asher his wife, William II. Dalzell
and Martha Dalzell his wife, were defendants, l
will on
Saturday, July 10Th, 1880,
at the hour Of O'Clock p. m, at the front door Of
the building now used a court house in the
city OF Dodge county of Ford and state Of Kansas,
offer for sale public auction to the highest bid
der for cash in hand all the right title and inter-
est Of the above-nsmcd defendants in and to the
following described real property. situated in the
county OF Ford and state of Kansas, to-wit:
The south east quarter Of section 90, twenty
township twenty-nine %. range 81, tw enty-oDe
west OF the 9th p. VI.
SAID property is levied upon as the property Of
the above-named defendants, and viii be sold
without appraisement to satisfy said order Of sale
Sheriff Office, Ford county, Kan. June IL, 1890
II. e. BELL. sheriff
~. Patterson
ATTORNEY for plaintiff
Dodge City times., 1890-06-13
Here is Petition Democracy.

Hereafter this paper is Independ-
ent in SO far as supporting candidates for
county Office is concerned, and will ad-
vocate the election of men who are
broad enough and far seeing enough IN
their democracy TO believe that the par
ty is not infallible and needs no further
help because they have been landed in
Office; it prefers to support republican
candidate rather than a weak kneed
democrat.-Dodge City Democrat, Janu-
arY. 1890.
Dodge City times., 1890-06-13
First Publication, June 13, 1890.
SIIEDvEE-C GAZE

By virtue of an order of sale issued out Of the
District court of Ford county. Kansas, wherein
William G. Stone was plaintiff and Charles E.
Dewell, Martha E. Dewel Richard C. Dcwell and
Nellie ID. Dewell were defendants, 1 will on
Saturday, July 18th, 1890
at the hour of O'Clock, p H., at the front door oil
the building used as a court house in the city of
Dodge. county Of Ford and state Of Kansas, offer
for sale at public auction to the highest bidder,
for cash in hand, all the right title and interest
of the above-named defendants in and to the fol
lowing described real property, situated in the
county of Ford and stale of Kansas, to-wit
The northeast quarter Of section 10. nineteen,
township 21, twenty seven range 81, twenty-one.
west OF the 9th p. NJ.
Said property is levied upon as the property Of
the above named defendants, and will be sold
without appraisement TO satisfy said order OF sale
Sheriff Office, Ford county, Kan, June IL, 1890.
ii. II. BELL, Sheriff.
" j Patterson
Attorney for plaintiff.
Dodge City times., 1890-06-13
First publication June Is, 1890.
SHERIFFS SALE.

Ey virtue of an order Of sale issued out OF the
Disfric, Court of Ford counr9 Kansas. wherein
I n Watkins was plaintiff, and John Zimmerman
and Laura T. Zimmerman his wife, were defend
ants, viii on
Saturday, July 10, 1896.
n, the hour of clock D. m, at the front door Of
The i,uildiny row used a court house in the city
Of Dodge, county Of Ford and state Of Kansas, Of
fer for sale af public auction to the highest bid
est q. the aboye-named defendants in and to the
following described real property, situated in the
connty of Ford and state Of Kansas, to wit:
Tire southeast quarter of section 81, thirty-one,
township q. twenfy-nine, range twenfy-one, 81,
west CT the 6sh P. NJ
said property is levied upon as the property Of
.be above named defendants, and viii be sold
itiuut apprsisemcnt 20 satiefy said order Of sale.
sheriff { ofsce, Ford county. Kan, June y, 1890.
II. D. BELL, Sheriff.
". J. Patterson
Attorney for plaintiff.
Dodge City times., 1890-06-13
She Was q Freak.

''How did yOu like me as a living
statue:' asked Mrs. Schmidt of her hus-
band OIL their return from an entertain
ment at which she had figured conspicu-
ousiy.
''TO tell the truth was dumfounded,' -
he replied.
''At my statuesque appearance?'
''No, my dear, at your being able to
keep your mouth shut so long,"
Dodge City times., 1890-06-13
". J. Patterson
Attorneys for plaintiff,
First Publication June 18th 1890.

By virtue of an order Of sale issued out of the
District Court of Ford county Kansas. wherein
Danniel Merritt was plaintiff and d. C. Underwood
and Mary L. Underwood his wife were defend
ants, will, on
Saturday July 10, 1890.
az the hour of clock p. IN, at the front door OF
the building now used a. Court house in the city
Of Dodge county of Ford and state OF Kansas, Of
fer for sale at public auction to the highest bidder
for cash in hand all the right, title and interest of
the aboye-raned defendants in and two the follow
inc described real property, situated in the county
of Ford and state OF Kansas, to-wit:
The north half o: the southeast quaiter and the
nort half Of the southwest quarter Of section p.
% rwenty-!our, west OF the 9th p. VI.
said property is levied upon as the property Of
the .boye-nan,ed defendants, and will be sold
without apprisement to satisfy said order OF sale
Sheriff Office, Ford county, Kan, June 12. 1890.
II. BELL, Sheriff.
W j. Patterson
ATTORNEY for plaintiff.
Dodge City times., 1890-06-13


BY virtue of an order of sale issued out of the
District court of Ford county Kansas, wherein
J. b. Watkins was plaintiff and Jacob X. Adams
and Mary Adams his wife. j. VI. Dolby, and Mrs.
j. NJ Dolby his wife, Il. j. Dolby and Mrs. X. j. Do
by his wife defendants. will on
Saturday July 18th, 1890.
at the hour of2 o'clock p. M, at the front door Of
the building now used as court house IN the city
of Dodge county of Ford and state Of Kansas, Of
fer for sale at public auction to the highest bidder
for cash in hand all the right title and interest of
the above named defendants in and TO the follow
ing described property situated in the county Of
Ford and state of Kansas, tO-wit:
The northwest quarter Of section 25, twenty
five township Is, twenty eight. range a, west Of
the 9th p. VI.
said property is levied upon as the property Of
the abOve-named defendants, and will be sold
without a2praisemeut satisfy said order Of sale.
Sheriff Office Ford county. Kan, June II, 1880.
ii. b. BELL, Sheriff.
W. Patterson
Attorneys for plaintiff,
Dodge City times., 1890-06-13
Not Always,

persistent effort always in one direc-
ton will bring You to the top,' said the
parsOn.
''Don't know about that,'' replied the
convert. who had not always been so good
as he was going to be, 81 once walked in
one direction on tread mill for three
months, and never got any nearer the top
than was when l started.''
Dodge City times., 1890-06-13

According to the New York Sun the
amount Of English capital invested in
the purchase Of American industrial
plants last year was $2O5, sos, 900.
Dodge City times., 1890-06-13


b. virtue OF an order of sale issued oct Of the
District Court OF Ford county. Kansas, wherein
John j. CoNwas plaintiff, and William Pfeifer
and Mrs. William PfeiIer. his wife, and Theodore
Pfeitfer, were defendants. will OF
Saturday, July 10Th, 1880,
at the hour Of o'clock, p H., at the front door Of
the bIildirg now used as court house in the city
of Dodge, county Of Ford and state Of Kansas, Of
fer for sale at public auction TO the highest bidder
for cash in hand all the right. title aud interest Of
the above named defendants in and 10 the follow
ing described real property, situated in the coun-
ty Of Ford and state of Kansas, towit: The south
east quarter OF section eleven. II, township
twenty-seven. g, range twenty-five, =, west Of
the 6th p. N.
Said property is levied upon as the property Of
the above named defendants. and will be sold
without appraiseucnt to satisfy said order Of SALE
Sheriff Office, Ford county. Kansas, June 18th,
1890
II. r. BELL, Sheriff.
". J. Patterson,
Attorney for Plaintiff.
Dodge City times., 1890-06-13
1t Is a Gem to Be Stunned.

Miss Prettie-Grandma, Mr.. PattOis is
going to give me an elegant ring set with
! carbuncle.
Grandma thorrified)-You mustn't take
Ii, child! Don't teIch it. Your grand
pas Uncle Joe had one o. them carbun-
cles, an died with it inside of tllree
weeks
Dodge City times., 1890-06-13
Only Mcrcenary.

$50 Tidy Boggs is goin' to marry Hi
Shoop, be she:' asked one Arkansas wo-
man of another.
s'Well, it amt because she's so dead in
love with him, an l know it. Them
Boggses is a graspin' set, an Tildy's like
the rest of 'em. She don't keer for Hi.
It's his wealth she's after. If Hi didn't
have them eight dawgs and two fiddles
an gittar an three shotguns, an coon
an that game rooster he'd be no better'n
the dirt under her feet to Tidy Boggs.
All she thinks of is riches."
Dodge City times., 1890-06-13

The highest salary paid to any man,
official or semi-oficial, in the United
States, is $1,000 900, which amount is
paid to the President Of the Equitable
Life Insurance.-Anchor and Shield.