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Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1890-04-10
EASTER SUNDAY.
How the Day was Observed by the Sun.
day Schools and Churches.

Easter was observed by each of the
three churches last Sunday in an appio-
pirate and creditable manner. The Pres
byierian Sunday school gave an enter
tainment in the evening and well did they
perform their parts before large audi
ence. The pulpit rostrum and organ were
elegantly decorated with natural flowers
and plants On table stood the cross
bearing the inscription The Lord is
Risen.'' A beautiful vine entwined the
upright piece The exercises were highly
enjoyed and the choir consisting of Mrs
j. E.. Campbell. Miss Bayha Mrs Patton,
Ike Crumley and A. 3. Garfield rendered
important service. The program was as
fellows:
Opening song-by school.
hecitatIOn-Grace Feely.
SOng-ChOir.
kecitatiOn-Clara Laid.
RecitatiOn-t,haS. Miller.
SOng-By School
RecitatiOn-Anna Bayha.
RecitationS-SiX Girls, Minnie Hamrick,
Florence Lacy, Maud Feely, Eva Andrews,
Nettie Patton, Edith Bayha.
Recitation-Mrs A. L. Plummer.
Song-By Choir.
Select Reading-Ned Beaver.
Recitation-Minnie Lauterbach.
Dialogue-John " liter and Lillian Brant.
SOng-By Infant Class.
Select Reading-Mrs FraZe.
RecitatiOn-Bertha Lessenger.
Observation-Disclosures Lauterbach.
The Roman SOldier-By Mrs. PattOns class
of boys. and Chas, Dedrick rs the Roman Sol
der.
Song-By School,
,f Ham Rv liou ant
and distributing the eggs to X. L, Liddle's
class.
Closed with song by school.
BAPTIST CHURCH
Easter was observed at this church
under the name of Chapel Builders. the
collection taken up being for the cree
ton of new chapels. The church presen-
ted a pleasing appearance, flowers being
literally used in decorating. The attend
ance was good and the program carried
,, out to the delight of all as follows:
Anthem-By the choir.
Responsive reading.
Prayer.
Address of welcome-Miss Clara Yousse.
Recitation, This Land for Christ"-Walter
Stanton.
Chorus-By the school.
REGULATION, Return INTO my Rest -Wlllle
Levitt.
Recitation, ''rell the Little Children"-Mrs.
W. H. Eaton.
Chorus-By the school.
Recitation, "Newness of Lifc''----
Stanton.
Reading, From an Old Mans Diary''-Willie
Martin.
Singing-By congregation.
Recitation, Little Preachers in the Field
Eta Levitt.
"A Child's Hymn"-Edua McGOnigal.
| SOng-By Little Girls.
| Recitation-Mabel Dent.
Duet and chorus-Choir.
Observation-Disclosures and Minnie Lessenger.
Reading, Jerusalem the Beautfur'-Gertie
HerShberger.
Word Picture-Little girls and boys.
Recitation, Chapel Day COlection"-Tom-
| mic Martin.
Song-By School.
Offerings-Taken up by two little girls.
Recitation-Willard Stanton.
Hymn-COngregation.
| Benediction.
| NJ. +. SUNDAY SCHOOL.
The programme was as usual but Mrs.
C. NJ. Hovey made her class exceedingly
happy by presenting each member with a
colored egg.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-24
PITTsBURe. WEDNESDAY, SEPT. "a 1890.
THE CAR SHORTAGE.

The railroads of this region are unable to
meet the demand for cars. Nearly all our
industries are hampered and harassed BY
lack of adequate transportation facilities.
For some time past this condition of affairs
has prevailed, and it is becoming more
acutely felt as the volume of trade
increases. The DISPATCH describes to-
day the evil effects of the car
famine upon one industry, the blast
furnaces Owing to the shortage of cars
the furnacemen are unable to obtain proper
supplies of coke, and in some cases banking
up may be the costly result What is true
of the furnaces and their coke supplies
applies measurablg to all our industries.
Pittsburg has always suffered more or less
in this way. The railroads might find it
wise to adopt the plan suggested by
practical men to do away with
the double-header system and make
lighter trains. The rolling stock of the rail-
roads ought to be increased. 1t has not
kept pace with tine growth of Pittsburg's
trade. The manufacturers are not the only
sufferers from the shortage of cars. Pro-
duction in all lines is rendered irregular,
and Pittsburg is injured in more ways than
can be indicated.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-24
ELECTED BY THE HOUSE.

The long deadlock on the Langston- Ven
able contested election was broken yester.
day when the Republican leaders got a
quorum from their own party. When the
idea was impressed upon the majority that
they, and not the Democrats, were response
bic for keeping enough members in the
House TO do business the call upon the Re-
publicans to discharge their duties brought
in enough to do the business, which the
like wooden men," With that sort of action
Mr.. Verable was unseated and Mr.. Langs-
ton was given his seat.
OF the partisan squabbles which have
preceded that act of the House it is not
necessary to say much. 1t may be doubted
whether the Democrats would not have
been wiser to have kept their seats, and
placed the responsibility of turning out the
man who was really elected on the majority
While public business has been blocked by
the fight, it is not less a matter for public
notice that the important feature of this
contest is that the majority has unseated
member of whose claim to seat there was no
reasonable room for doubt. Full proof Of
that is furnished BY the declaration of Mr.
Cheadle, of whose straight-laced Repub-
licanism there is no dispute, that the evil
dence in the case showed Venable to have
been elected by large majority, which has
not been answered, and much less refuted.
When the party controlling the House
undertakes to turn out members whose
majority is counted by thousands, there is
not much faith left in the stability and fair
ness of that body as a representative insti-
tuition. The Constitution provides that the
members of the House of Representatives
shall be elected by the people; and by virtue
of that provision it stands as the type and
bulwark of popular government. But such
cases as that decided yesterday locates the
electing power in the hands of the Comm ittee
on Privileges and Elections, and tends to make
the House the type and bulwark of govern
ment by partisan Oligarchy regardless OF the
rights of the people.
Every such act to maintain party In
power by denying the right of the people to
fair representation, must weaken it. If the
Republican party meets defeat this year, or
in 1892, it will be due to just such acts of
reckless partisanship as that committed yes
terday
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-24
DRINK AND GOOD ROADS.

Not much comfort can be obtained from a
perusal of this county's statistics of drunk
enness as they appear in our columns to-
day. The worst feature of all is the increase
in the Jail commitments, seventy-five per
cent of which may be ascribed to drunken
ness, since the Brooks law went into effect
In the last two years more than nine thou
sand persons have been sent to the
county Jail, and of these it is said
that nearly seven thousand were imprisoned
for ofenses growing out of inebriety. The
growth of intemperance does not appear to
have been retarded by restrictive liquor leg
islation, but rather the contrary.
1t is suggested that this army of prisoners
might have been employed to good advan-
tage on the public roads. 1t would have
been healthier for them, no doubt, and the
community would have gained good roads
instead of nothing from the harvest of in
temperance.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-24
HIS FIRST AND LAST CIGAR.


THE squatter who had "jist drapped in ter ak
fur er leetler manerfac chawin' terbaccer'
watched the boys as they lit their cigars, but
declined to smoke one. He produced clay
pipe, filled it with "sto' tobaccer" given him by
one of the crowd After lighting his pipe and
smoking silently for few minutes he began.
Hits mighty nigh thirty yeer sence l rid
ther mall fom Peterville ter ther Pint. I was
only er boy bout twelve yeer OF an didn'
have as much sence as er spring chicken. I'd
git inter ther Pint at night an stay twell mex
day. Onst was thar jst afo' Christmas. I
was er standin' in front Nv er stable whar KEEP
mer pony Fo' boys bout mer size come er
long. They axed me whar 1 come fom
All nv 'em was er smokin' Nv seegyars
an one of 'em he lowed ter me,
s'se, Does you smoker An 1 said. ST. Yes. 1
smoke, but hain't got nary er pipe Then he
says ter one them yother boys, s'se, Dick, give
i'm one er them leetle red seegyars Nv yourn.'
Dick says, s'se All right an he handed hit
ter me an lowed, Hit won't draw good at fust
but soon as hit gins to sizzle, hit'll be bully
He fetched hit with the fre-end Nv his seegyar
an l put hit IN mer mouth. Hit wouldn't
draw, no matter how hard 1 pulled. Bimeby
hit started to sizzle. Dick says, s'se, Pull
hard, greeney,' an I pulled a heap. Jis' then
hit 'sploded, and I dropped. skeered mighty
nigh plum ter death. The boys they runned of
er laughini. but l was too skeered ter do any
thin' but holler, an you bet 1 hollered. man
run up an says he, 'Whar yer hurtT 1 told
i'm bout the seegyar smoked, an he bust out
er laughin'. too, and says, s'se, WY, yer dang
fool, hit was er fre-cracker yer smoked 'stid
er or seegyar.' Sence ZEN I hain't smoked
nuthin' but er clay pipe, an dom trus' nary
soul ter fill hit but me-"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-24
REssY BLOSSOMS BABY.

MooRED near the muddy banks of the old
Monongahela river the shanty boat "Bessy
Blossom" lay. Nothing strange about that, for
there are scores of them in the vicinity of
Pittsburg.
But this boat was al exception. It was clean,
well painted pretty. Two rooms cheaply but
neatly furnished. Jim Bilson, aged 30. laborer.
was sole owner. if we except the natty little
woman he called wife. That would be only
fair.
Somehow,or other folks looked with interest
upon this little craft. There were two children
on board, boy and girl. AS the trains passed
they waved little American flag, and the COM
muters learned to look for them.
One morning the children were missing, and
upon the door of the shanty boat piece of
black rag was hanging, tied by mite Of white
muslin. The commuters all looked solemn
enough, and some of them decided to visit the
bereaved family.
They did So One by one some half dozen
men crossed the gang plank, knocked at the
door. The mother was out washing somewhere
in the city, and the two children hung with
fearful eyes over little white box in the
corner.
What pathetic sight. Enough to move a
heart of stone. Silently these strong men
stole up to the casket, with solemn counte-
nances. and were astonished to find the dead
body of miniature sky terrier that had wan
dered ashore in the night and devoured a Pitts
burg dog button.
During the mothers absence the youngsters
had draped the door.
Six strong men crossed hands upon the
muddy beach. and made a solemn compact
never to reveal to mortal man what they saw
on board the "Bessy Blossom"
As they pass her every morning they ex-
change glances, bite their neither lips and are
silent. That is all.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-24
PROMISING BUDS,

This has been very poor year for fruit,
but the political blossoms are showing pro-
fusely on the Presidential Candidate shrub
berry. Reed and Mckinley are blooming in
all the freshness and beauty of their first
formal introduction as ambitious sspirants.
Yet with the frosts of two winters still ahead,
it is too early for their followers to talk with
confidence.
But of the staying qualities of that hardy
quadrennial, James G. Blaine, there is no
such misgiyipg. If Blaine really means to
compete for the Republican nomination for
President in 1892, nobody has the least
doubt that, his health spared him. he
will be at or very near the top of the list
when the balloting begins.
Singular to note, the one name which is
seldom seriously discussed among the prob
abilities is that of Mr.. Harrison.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-24
THE TARIFF CONFERENCE.

The agreement of the tariff bill conference
committee, accepting the House schedule on
steel and iron, with the exception of a COM
promise on steel plates and the Senate rate
on steel bilIets, shows satisfactory progress
in the work of giving final shape to the
measure and winding up the long struggle
The cut thus made on steel billets is severe
one, but otherwise the agreement is very
satisfactory to the iron and steel interests.
So far, the work of the conference COM
mittee on leading features OF the bill has re-
suited in about equal concessions. The
House conferees have accepted the Senate's
reciprocity amendment, and the Senate has
accepted the metal schedule passed by the
House, with the above exceptions These
steps toward final agreement are such as
will meet with approval from he majority
of the nation. The reciprocity proposition
was of such merit as to command general
approval. The preservation of the House
schedule on iron and steel, while making
decided reductions in the duties, protects
those industries in which the purpose of
protection has not been defeated by trusts or
pools from injury by radical and sweeping
reductions.
The indication the agreement on these
points gives as to the sugar schedule is not
so satisfactory. There is fear that the House
conferees having carried their point on iron
and steel will be called upon to surrender
the sugar schedule. The state ofaffairs here
is very different The sugar refining in
dustry has, with few exceptions, banded
itself for the defeat of the legitimate object
of protection: and the leading Independent
refner, Mr.. Claus Spreckels, has declared
that the protection afforded by the House
schedule is ample. With the cheap raw
sugar furnished by the pending bill no pro-
lection at all is needed by the sugar rehners.
The House con ierees should fulfill the pledge
of Mr.. Mckinley made on the floor OF the
House, to insist up the lower duties estab-
lished by the House bill.
A good way to complete the mutual con-
cessions on the bill would be to agree to the
House provisions on sugar and the Senate
amendment on binding twine. Such agree
ment would be something In the line of full
filling the prolessed opposition of the Re-
publican party to the Trusts.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-24
OUR SHORT STORIES.
1RuE TO HIS PRoEsssloh.

IF there be man that is absolutely true to
his professional faith 1t is the swamp doctor.
To him there is no such thing as advancement
in the science of medicine. "Doctorin' folks Is
doctcrin' folks" and that's all there is about
it. He selected his model from that old class
of practitioners, now happily extinct in more
civilized communities, known as the bleeders.
To one of those old fellows the letting out OF
blood was the letting in of life
Some time ago, man while working at
sawmill, had one of his arms torn OF. The
only physician near at hand was an old swamp
doctor, who as a last chance was sent for.
When he arrived the unfortunate man was
rapidly bleeding to death. The doctor whipped
out his lancet.
"what are going to dot" the owner Of the
mill asked.
"Goin' to bleed him."
"Bleed him the deuce. Don't you see he's
nearly bled to death nowT'
''Oh. l can't help that My professional
honor is at stake, and I must bleed him."
'But he can't stand it. The thing to do Is to
stop his bleeding"
well, I'll stop the bleeding of the torn arm,
but I'll let the blood out of the well one."
"You shah not"
"All right then, Pll not have anything to do
with the case. If medicine can't 20 its way in
this comm unity without being trod on. wy l
stand aside"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-24

to diminish the population of Democratic
districts and exaggerate the Republican
population, would these remarkable ratios
of growth shown by cities in the South have
been given, while Pittsburg and Allegheny
were reported so much below what they had
reason to expect? The civil service reform
theory, while it looks cogent on the surface,
is shown to have a weak application in this
respect BY two considerations. First, that
the necessary qualifications for census
enumerator-an unwearied pair of legs
and education enough to set down the
answers correctly-are possessed by nearly
every man who can make himself strong
among the politicians; second, that emu
merators, being paid by the amount of work
they did, were not subject to the political
temptation to neglect it aud rely on political
influence to draw salaries. The position
was not one that was in request among
politicians, being just the opposite OF
sinecure.
The real cause of the inadequacy Of the
census is stated by the Sun, as it was by
The DISPATCH during the progress OF the
work. 1t is in loading it down with the at
tempt to collect statistical information
foreign to the proper scope of enumeration.
The famous investigation into private dis
eases and indebtedness could not be prop
erly made by those who were engaged in the
task of counting the population, and only
served to hamper and delay the work. The
0f 10 i
to obtain correct enumeration of the pop
ulation for the purposes of apportionment
and taxation. If the Government wants in
formation as to the health, vital condition,
morals, or financial status of the people
those can be obtained, like manufacturing
and agricultural statistics, by separate in
quiries. II the census had been confined
simply to enumeration there is no doubt
that the work could have been thoroughly
done even by those in charge of it. But
he long list of 80 distinct questions to be
filled out in the case of each individual
prejudiced a portion of the public against
giving the information, delayed the work of
enumerators, and made their task so unre-
munerative that it is little wonder they
should have left some of it undone, which
called for extra journeys over sparsely built
districts, or repeated calls on people who
could not readily be found at home.
The census of this year is not glittering
success; but its experience should be held
in recollection long enough to guard
against the repetition in 1900 of its error of
loading the census with irrelevant and i'm
pertinent inquiries.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-24
THE ERRORS OF THE CENSUS.

An interesting debate is going on, in the
New York papers, as to the effective cause
of what is alleged 10 be inadequate euumer-
alton of the population of that city by the
census machinery. There is not much dis
position on the part of Republican or
Democratic editors to dispute that the dis
closures of the vital statistics and the police
census, so far as it has gone, show that the
United States census was far from ade-
quate. The exception is the undaunted
Press, which remains faithful to the cause
of its late editor, Mr.. Porter, rather than to
the work of magnifying its own city.
As to the reason why the census fell so
far below the real population there is the
widest diversity OF theories. The ultra
Democratic papers perceive in it Repub-
lican plot to rob that Democratic city of its
just representation. and indulge in partisan
denunciations accordingly. The Tribune
meets such charge with the not very COM
plimentary explanation, to the local staff of
census enumerators, of incompetence or
negligence on their part The civil service
reform press naturally accepts this theory,
and enlarges upon it, claiming the distribu-
tion of the positions as a political favor
naturally put incompetent men at the work,
while, the award of the positions by an i'm
partial examination would have selected
competent ones. Lastly the Sun, with its
usual disposition to agree with none OF its
contemporaries, turns its scorching rays upon
each of these theories, and finds none Of
them worth acceptance.
It is the case that none of these hypothesis
to explain the shortage, in accordance with
preconceived ideas, will stand iull examina-
tion. The Democratic bugaboo of partisan
conspiracy has the superficial foundation Of
the inadequate count in New York, and the
excessive count of Minneapolis and ST. Paul,
both Republican cities. But the latter
vagarY has been shown to have been due to
the facilities with which the enumerators
were willing victims to the local disposition
for initiating the population of these cities;
and the recount has promptly corrected the
misplaced boom. If there were conspiracy
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-24
WITH SPEECHES AND SONGS
The Fourth Anniversary of the County
Democracy Is Celebrated.

The Fourth Anniversary of the County
Democracy Is Celebrated.
The rooms of the County Democracy could
not hold the crowd that gathered last night to
celebrate the fourth anniversary of the organ
ization of the association. The old war horses
and stand. bys of the Democracy were out in
full force to do honor to the event. and they
did it In true Democratic Jacksonian style.
William ]. Bremen, Esq, occupied the chair
and made the opening address. "Billy" is
candidate for Congress and put out his best
foot first. His speech was CHARACTERISTIC of the
we'll known attorney and referred to the good
work being done for the party by the associa-
tion. Everything was informal and there was
no set programme. The idea was to have
good time and anybody that wanted somebody
else to do something had only to say so, and the
somebody else had to get up and do 1t. The
Hooper Bros, with their mandolins, rendered
some fine music and showed by their efforts
that they were artists worthy of merit and
praise. The Major Sellers Quartet sang several
songs and were followed by William Ftnnerty,
the well-known soloist l. Loughrey, Squire
Boyle and others also contributed to the enter
tainment. About IL o'clock members of Tony
Pastors company and the lnnes Band appeared
and rendered vocal and instrumental music.
An appehzing lunch wound up the celebration.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-24
PROTECTION FOR STEEL B1LLErs.

It is to be hoped that Congress will give
heed to the protests of Pittsburg manufact-
urers against the proposed tariff rates on
steel billets Mr.. B. f. Jones, in our COL
umns to-day, states the case very plainly.
Steel billets have never been properly pro-
tected, and it is now proposed to rob them
of what little protection they have enjoyed.
The injustice of this discrimination against a
single product is patent, and the Republican
tariff conferees cannot afford to let it stand.
From our Washington correspondent we
learn that Colonel Bayne is trying to have
the Unfair provisions changed. 1t is to be
hoped that with the greater part of the
schedules settled satisfactorily the effort to
round out the bill in this important feature
will be successful.