Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1890-03-20
run IN BLACK AND WHITE.
BRIGHT YOUGsTERS.
THE POPULAR HEART.

The high school boys are very observ.
ing and very demonstrative. The other
morning at chapel exercises Professor
Fosdick appeared with his beard shaved
OF and Immediately there was Iemear
dous handclapping which lasted aimesa
q minute. The noise was just subsiding
when one of the teachers took her seat
on the platform and it was at once OBJ
served that she was wearing her ~tother
gown of golden brown silk, and tho a?-
plause was renewed with redouLlsd en-
ergy, much to the indignant amazeneat
of Professor Emerson, who saw nothing
whatever to wax enthusiastic over
buffalo Courier.
MERLE's MEMORY.
The verse that Sunday was: The Lord
loveth a cheerful giver, and Merle knew
it perfectly-oh, yes, indeed.
"Well, Merle, the teacher said, do
you know the text to-day"
~Yes'm, was the prompt answer.
But there was long silence, until the
teacher began gently, 1.-The Lord"
"Th-e Lord, said Merle, slowly. An
other silence.
"Loveth, prompted the teacher.
1Lov-eth, "chimed in Merle-"the Lord
loveth-well, the Lord loveth sumpin'; I
don't member what. u Young People.
AN AGGRESSIVE COMBINATION.
PA amt turning out the sort of man
I expected, said little S-year-old West
Ender, as he returned, rubbing his legs,
from a wood-shed seance with his father,
1and, ma, the next time he whips US let's
get divorce. rjWashington Post
EsAU FINDS A FRIEND.
Little Madeline was eating boiled par
fridge for the first time, and great was
her delight at its flavor. Its nicer than
anything l ever tasted. quoth she, "snd
| don't blame Esau bit. =" "What has
Esau to do with it," queried her mother.
why, you know, mamma" said the
little one, in grave surprise at such ig-
norance. "he sold his birthright for =
mess of partridge. y Philadelphia Item.
JUST THAT ONE IN ALL THE woRL9.
The little daughter of a Concord cler-
gyman dropped her doll at the depot and
her grief was great in consequence. the
face of the plaster pet looking as if it had
been the object of the spite OF thousand
pound pile driver. The unfeeling news
paper man suggested to the little ons
that there were plenty more dolls in tho
market which her father might buy, but
the tears continued to flow and the sobs
sounded louder as she brokenly uttered:
there's no other Blanche? She came
clear from Paris" Few sorrows in life
will ever seem so overpowering to that
child as the loss of her darling doll
Union.
PECULIAR CHICAGO ANGELS.
On certain street in this city dwells
a family in which is visiting little s.
year-old girl who halls from Chicago.
Just below the house where she is stop
ping lives small boy about her own age.
The children have become great friends.
Hence when the baby sister Of the lit
tie fellow died the other ay, he sought
out the Chicago small girl to tell her all
about it. The conversation that ensued
when he found her was carried on
wide crack in the fence sepa-
rating the two houses.
@We have a dead baby in our house"
the boy by way of a starter.
-What kind of baby is it," asked tie
young Westener.
Its dead baby" and then after
the boy added, its gone to
heaven. 1t amt got any body now, but
it's going to have a new body sOlae day,
but now it's spirit.
ut is not a spirit, it's an angel, &C.
clared the girl.
well, amt an angel the same as
spirit 2" asked the youth.
This was evidently poser for the girl,
but after moment she replied with a
wealth of local pride in her tone. Maybe.
but, anyway, they're not the same in
Chicago. II Albany Express.