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Thomas County cat., 1890-09-04

wheat. and the company let it out to the
farmers for one-fifth of the wheat raised.
delivered in town without any cost to
the company. The company made Is
per cent. on the money invested, and it
saved our county, as the people could not
live here without this help"
Merchants, bankers. all classes of busi-
ness men are interested in retaining good
farmers in their respective counties, and
by taking stock in this company along
with farmers, can very materially aid the
latter. and thus promote their own inter
ests. Nothing can be truer than the
prosperity of their own community in
Kansas as q whole depends upon the
prosperity of farmers.
Second-I have It from good authority
that tho Kansas Trust and Banking Com
pany. OF Atchison. Kansas, propose to
furnish farmers seed wheat upon whose
lands they hold mortgages, and also to
giye.a years extension on the interest on
all loans where the borrower is unable to
meet the same.
In case the first plan fails, application
should be made to the loan companies of
the state for assistance In tine way in
which the Atchison company proposes to
help the farmers.
The party holding the mortgage is di-
rectlv' interested. and. presuming it to
be true, as is claimed, that such party
does not want the land. will find it to his
interest to furnish the seed wheat needed
on a years time, and thus give the own
or of the land an opportunity to pay of
his mortgage and save his home.
Third-railroad companies are unwil-
ling to furnish seed wheat to the farmets
but am authorized to say they will treat
them fairly IN the matter OF transporta-
ton in case of shipment of wheat over
their roads designed to be used as seed
wheat by farmers Of western Kansas.
In no case up to this date ha-s farmers
of my knowledge asked seed wheat as q
donation. They want to buy it on a
years time and pay for it out of the crop
grown. or they want to pay for II by Civ.
ing share of the crop; and most assured
ly they ought to have it, and those di-
rectly interested should see that they get
it. n. MoHLER,
Secretary.
Thomas County cat., 1890-09-04

and Illinois; and while Kansas stands
fourth in point of increase, Nebraska
right next door is'only eighth. Neb-
raska and Missouri have done mighty
we'll, however considering that they
haven't had prohibition to help them.
Thomas County cat., 1890-09-04
FINAL PROOFS.

All final proof notices must be paid
for or payment arranged for in ad-
vance. The charge for publication is
e4.OO. Parties having proof notices
running in the paper should notify
us at once in case of mistakes IN
notice.
Thomas County cat., 1890-09-04
Farmers Take Notice.

Subscribers who pay up enc year
in advance can have the Topeka
Farmers Alliance paper for one year
for Is cents.
Every member of the Alliance
should take advantage of this offer
at once.
Thomas County cat., 1890-09-04

Issued by Thomas County Publshing Co., at
Colby, Kansas every Thursday OF each week.
Thomas County cat., 1890-09-04
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION-2O411.
Land Once at Oberlin. Kansas.

ASuo Omce 6tODerip, kansas.
Sept. I, lS0O.
Notice Is hereby given that the following
named settler has fled notice Of his intention
to make final proof in support OF his claim,
and that said proof will be made before tho
probate judge OF Thomas county, Kansas,and
ex-omcl0 Clerk OF the probate court, at Col
by, Kans., on Oct. 10th, 1880, viz:
CATHARINE MACY,
Widow Of Joseph Macy, decd.
III e No 1851 for the nwk sec town Is, range
33w.
He names the following witnesses to prove
his continuous residence upon and cultivar
ton Of eaid land. viz: John Cunningham,
Charles K. Smith, Hiram H. Miller. Frank
Dickinson, Of Colby Kansas.
9-A-S46w CYRUS ANDERSON Register.
Thomas County cat., 1890-09-04

The first two treasurers who served your
county. neither received or disbursed taxes,
county.-aad find that both of said ex.treas-
urers. (Mr. N. d. Bean and Mr.. w G.. WeldJ
duly accounted for all funds received by them
while in Office.
Chas N. Hovey) has kept his books double
entry, ever since he has assumed the duties
of his Office, and has proved their correctness
his term.-I find that his work has been
neatly and accurately done, and in simple
Justice to Mr.. HOvey desire to say that the
business in his Office has been conducted care
fully and systematically, and that all funds
received from all sources appearing on rec
ord in the treasurer's and clerks offices. have
been duly and properly entered upon the
theron are proper and correct:
find thar the business in your county
clerks Office has been and still is being con-
Quoted IN business like and efficient manner
and all books and papers required by me, In
the examination just completed, were prompt
Iy furnished upon request, and every facility
given me that could be desired, by both the
county clerk, the probate Judge, the Treasure
err and their competent and obhging deputies.
have examined the settlement sheets made
by your present probate judge (Mf. J.E. Lesh)
In his quarterly examinations of the county
tressurer's OfEice, and nnd that such examin-
atiOns were conducted with method and &C
curacy the settlement sheets containing An
itemized statement Of all business done BY
the county treasurer for each quarter and
showing the amount that should be ON hand
and the count Of funds made BY the probate
Judge and his assistant.
In many counties, whose accounts nave
examined, 1 have found that the quarterly
examinations made BY the probate Judges.
seemed to have been gone through with - .
matter Of form and amounted 70 eosolutely
nothing.
/ mention my approval Of the manner Of
conducting these quarterly examinations In
your county from The fact that II 10 Q rare
exception to the methods Of other counties
and reflects credit upon the present fncum-
bent OF the once Of probate judge.
Respectfully submitted.
w. 81. N00RE,
Thomas County cat., 1890-09-04
DALANCR SHEET.

Showing the condition. Of the accounts Of
Thomas county, Kansas, Mt the close OF bust
ness on the 9th day Of Aug, lSe0. taken from
new set OF books compiled By W. n. MOORE
aSnert accoantant, BY order Of the board Of
county commissioners:
DRBIf BALANCES.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-03-21
CRSar aid Rome.

The Roman republic up TO the time
OF julius Caesar, or little before. as
Mr.. Froude has we'll pointed out in
his sketch of Caesars lie, failed to
supply lands and homes for the neigh
boring Italian populations which had
become truly Roman. and for the sol
d;ery, who disbanded and had to find
work or starve. The ancestors OF
Caesar undertook to establish and en-
large an agrarian law and To take into
the merely urban rule Of the Roman
city the general and intelligent popu-
lation OF Italy and make a peninsular
Rome. Caesar saw that the Roman
empire was getting too large to be
governed by the l million who lived
within the city OF Rome and another 3
or million who lived Immediately
adjacent. But the Roman senate, a
patriotic body like the ruling and re-
spectacle families of England. refused
to admit these associated Italians into
Roman rights and powers. Caesar
thereupon. having spent ten years to
conquer Gaul and Germany, returned
to Rome demanding something OF a
federation of all those who maintained
the Roman arms. Being threatened
with destruction he marched upon
Rome. and his enemies leaving it. he
was obliged TO follow them; and when
he reconstructed the senate he put into
it not merely Italians, but Gauls and
barbarians, as they had been called,
from all the better provinces. In this
way an enlarged Rome with u broade r
basis of representation lasted several |
centuries longer; and without that en-
largement Rome might have expired
anterior to the birth of Jesus Christ,
from her civil contentious. Gath.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-03-21
MARVELLOUS PHENOMENA.
Blood Red Rains and a Deluge o
Serpents.


At Rome. in 1922, 1t rained dust
mixed with blood, for three days, and
when the heavy clouds drifted away it
looked as IL the sun was swimming in
sea OF fire, says the st. Louis Re-
public. Four years later, in 1926, a
snow fell in Syria, which presently
melted and flowed in carmine rivers OF
blood, or some fluid much resembling
IL in every particular. Many Of the
old writer's record a three day shower
OF blood-red rain In the Island OF
Rhodes and throughout southern Italy
In 1886. A monk, writing in 1851,
tells OF a loaf being cut out OF which
blood flowed as freely as from fresh
wound. In 1348 there were many
great tempests. Several towns and
thousands OF people were swallowed
up and the courses OF rivers changed
or stopped. Some chasms in the earth
sent forth poisonous fluids as red as
carmine ink, as at Villach, in Austria.
Ponderous hailstones fell in many
parts Of Germany the same year, some
Of them weighing from twenty to
seventy pounds.
AZ ~ HCSu, uuSJ, GULF
cts and meteors; firebrands and corrus-
cations were in the air; mock suns, with
fiery tails, sailed through the skies.
Soon after these terrible scenes at La
mech 1t begap at Cataya. near the sea,
and went sweeping throughout south
ern Europe. An ingenious vapor or
sulphurous lire broke from the earth ut
Caahery. Asia. and utterly consumed
men, beasts, houses and trees, SO in
fecting the air that II great plague fol-
lowed. Young serpents and millions
OF venomous insects fell from the
clouds.
In 1861 Burgundy experienced the
novelty Of shower of blood-red rain,
which ensanguined everything it touch
ed; and in 1868 the Antiura reapers
found all wheat heads TO be as red as
blood. In 1888 bread put in the oven
at Nuremberg was taken out covered
with bloody sweat. Wurtemberg had
n shower of birthstone and ashes 1854.
In 1895 Limerick and Tipperary, Ire
land. h many showers OF soft, fatty
substance resembling butter. 1t was
of n dark yellow color and always fell
at night. The people gathered it and
used it MS an ointment, reporting many
astonishing cures.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-03-21
Outlines For a Novel.

A sensational piece of news appears
in Mobile paper. 1t is said that
some two years ago Mrs. Fanny Cole
man. a northern lady, went to John
Moulton's house In Baldwin county
for the benefit OF her health. Mr..
Moulton found that his boarder had a
large sum Of money with her and some
valuable securities With tho ASST ST
ance of female neighbor no locked
Mrs. Coleman up and kept her pris-
oner until few days ago, when the
authorities interfered. This is bare
outline OF the supposed facts in the
case. Ifthere is any truth in the story
IL beats the average dime novel.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-03-21

! when the death sentence has been
passed and hang them To the most con-
venient tree. Prisoners at the bar.
stand up and receive your sentence. "
The prisoners stood up, and just as
the judge pronounced the last words of
the sentence, the wife OF Mr.. Peters
uttered shout, and bounding toward
the door, threw her arms around "a
man who had just entered the court
room. A wild commotiou followed.
What's the matter?" the Judge de-
manded. .'Who is the man that the
bereaved widow is huggings" Llis
Il amt no bereaved widow, jedge,"
the woman answered, SUR this Is my
husband. safe and WE'LL"
'Silence, woman" the Judge de-
manded. .You ought to have better
sense than 10 interrupt this court"
"Your honor" said the lawyer IL
suppose my clients can now go free?
And why so, sirP"
'Can your honor ask such a question
when Mr.. Peters stands here before
youp"
"Who is Mr.. PetersP'
"Your honor, cannot understand
YOU"
''But you will pretty soon. The Mr..
Peters that this court has taken into
consideration is dead"
mo, Pm notw exclaimed Peters,
stepping forward.
you may think you are not, Mr..
Peters, but you are. Never in all my
professional career" tho judge con-
tinued. ''have l seen facts that so clear
ly and strongly establish the guilt OF
two men.
But, judge" Peters pleaded. "that
cannot be. for no murder has been
committed"
''Mr Peters you have not examin-
ed the evidence as closely as | have"
''But here l stand In REPUTATION OF all
evidence"
''Mr. Peters, you have not read as
many text books on evidence as /
have. The case against these prison
ers is perfectly clear. They swore
that they would drown you and your
coat was found near the river Is not
that strong evidenced"
''Yes, but"
"Hold on. The body OF man was
taken from the river and identified as
your remains"
but am here to refute the identi-
fication."
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-03-21
Recipes worth Saving.

Mock MINoE PIE.-One cup each OF
sour milk. sugar, and raisins cropped
fine, one tablespoon OF vinegar, two
eggs, cinnamon, cloves aud allspice.
Bake between two crusts.
LEMON PIE. Roll three lemons till
soft. Take out the seeds and juice and
chop up the peel very fine. To the
juice and peel add two cups of chopped
raisins, two cups OF molasses and two
rolled crackers. Stir IL well, adding
one cup OF water. This will make four
pies
MACARoNI WITH CHEESE Prepare
mac roni with cream sauce and pour
into IA buttered scalloped dish. Have
half cup of grated cheese and half a
cup OF bread or cracker crumbs miNed;
sprinkle over the macaroni and place
in the oven to brown; it will take
about twenty minutes.
FRIED POTATOES WITH Corn MEAL.
Pare and slice potatoes, inch
thick; put 2 tablespoonfuls OF meat
fryings in spider and have hot.
Turn in layer of potatoes over which
sift tablespoonfuls OF corn-meal. Add
salt and pepper and little butter;
another layer OF potatoes, corn-meal,
salt. pepper and butter. Fry slow as
they are apt TO scorch, turn them care
fully and let brown.
Log CABIN CAKE In a smoo th
earthen crock lay tablespoonful of
4 light soft coffee sugar. tablespoonful
butter; add to this | egg. Beat until
smooth and light; add tablespoonsful
OF cold water, mix thoroughly. Add 5
drops OF favoring. SAt with heap
: ing tablespoonsiul OF flour. teaspoon
full baking powder and stir in lightly.
Rub little butter over pan. sprinkle
-four over, shake off loose flour.
BAKED HALIBUT.-Lay the piece in
salt and water for two hours, wipe on
a clean wet cloth and score tho skin;
sprinkle over it some dripping. Have
the oven toler.bly hot aud bake about
an hour. Melt a little butter in hot
water to haste the fish with from time
to time. Stir into the gravy some
boiling water, the juice of a lemon.
and either walnut ketchup or Wor-
cestershire sauce. Let it boil once
! and serve in sauce boat
BAKED APPLE SAUCE. Gore with
a little tin implement as many juicy
apples as will ill large baking pan.
/ Then pare the apples. Put two table,
J spoonfuls OF cold water in the bottom
of the pan. Set in the apples, filling
/ in the core hollows with brown sugar
and grated lemon. Bake in a moder-
ate oven until the apples can be easily
mashed. This makes the best apple
sauce. Rose water Is a fine addition,
! but it is best defer putting in the rose
water until just before the apples are
mashed.
BOILED GOLDFISH. Put two pounds
i OF Goldfish in slightly sailed boiling
water; put in also bit OF lemon peel,
u few peppers and cloves. When the
( fish is so tender that the fins may
readily be pulled out, it is done; re-
move from the fire and arrange tempt
/ ingly on folded napkin and garnish
with parsley. Mako sauce with a
! dozen oysters; scald them in their
liquor, add salt, pepper. a piece OF
mace and two tablespoonfuls of butter.
Mix a teaspOonful OF -four smoothly
into half cupful OF milk, add TO the
! liquor; simmer n moment; add to the
| oysters; pour into sauce boat and
serve with the fish.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-03-21


coat was found near the river bank.
Marks OF a struggle were also discov-
cred. Immediately there arose cry
that the man had been murdered; and
about this time, there came along a
reputable citizen who declared that he
had, several days before, heard Sam
White and AL Miller swear that they
would kill Peters The two men were
arrested and taken before a Justice OF
the peace. They avowed their inno-
cence, and their lawyer declared that
they could not be held for the murde r
until it was proven that murder had
been committed. This proof was not
long wanting, for a fisherman soon ar
rived with the Information that he ha6
found the body OF Peters. The body
was Identified. and the preliminary
trial proceeded, resulting not only in
establishing the fact that White and
Miller swore that they would kill
Peters, but that they wcre overheard
TO declare that they would drown him.
They were held over and indicted by
the grand jury.
When the case came up before Judge
Quirk OF the circuit court OF tn Q
Hickory Flat circuit some Of the ablest
lawyers in the state were in attead-
ance. for White and Miller were not
friendless, and, moreover, they were
not without means
After more than a week of ''slSir-
mishing' n jury was impaneled, and
then the great trial was begun. The
majority of the people, including the
press. IA four-column folio set in sma IL
plea and printed in the back room of
+. Il. Wilson's crossroads store. be-
lieved that n verdict of guilty would be
rendered. and bets were made with
persons who believed that the prison
ers were guilty, but who thought that
the jury might be "culvered."
The trial had not proceeded far when
it could be clearly seen that the Judge
was convinced that White and Miller
were guilty. This jurist was some
thing more than peculiar old fellow.
He was a decided character, and SO
set were his opinions when once form
ed that no argument and no proof
could change them.
Gentlemen Of the Jury" said til e
judge when all the testimony had been
heard, II don't think it Is necessary
TO go into an argument concerning
this case. The guilt OF these men is SO
clear that it would be criminal act TO
waste the county's money in prolong-
ing this trial. Now. prisoners. the
best thing you can do is to confess
your guilt and throw yourself upon the
mercy of this court Have you any
confession to make, Mr.. WhiteP''
mo. your honor, except that 1 am
innocent"
Have you any confession. Mr. Mil.
ler?''
None, except to say that l had
nothing to do with the killing OF our
friend Peters,"
'All right" said the Judge, 81 sec
that you do not desire any mercy; but
II you expect to escape punishment by
making prolonged fight, let me tell
you that you will meet with nothing
but disappointment. am here as the
fearless agent of justice. have made
up my mind. / have determined that
you are guilty, and nothing on earth
en- change me. Gentlemen Of the jury,
you may retire and agree upon yer.
dict"
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-03-21
Exerci4e for Chest DEVELOPMENT.

Exercises OF strength lead rapidly to
an increase in the size OF the thorax.
1t is the same with the exercise OF
speed when they need very energetic
movements. No exercise develops the
chest as rapidly as does running, unless
1t be wrestling.
Mountaineers all have large chests
aud the Indians who live on tho high
plateaus OF the Cordillera in the Andes
have been noted for the extraordinary
size OF their chests. This great devel.
opment in mounta;neers is due TO tive
causes which act in the same direction
frequent ascent OF steep inclines and
constant residence at great heights at
which the air is rarified. The climb
ing OF these slopes needs n CREST guam
tity OF work, which causes increase OF
the respiratory need; respiration in u
rarified atmosphere obliges "A man to
take deeper breaths in order to supple
ment by the quantity Of air breathed,
the insufficiency Of its vivifying prop
critics.
Singers, with no other exercise but
singing, acquire great respiratory
power and remarkable increase in
the dimensions of their chests.
Numerous observations prove that
1t is enough voluntarily to take a GER
tain number OF deep breaths every day,
to produce. In short time. an increase
in the circumference OF the chest which.
may amount TO two or three centime--
tres Science Monthly.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-03-21
WOES OF THE DENTIST.
In a ConfidIng Moment He Tells
Some Secrets OF His office.

In a Conflding Moment He Tells
Some Secrets OF His office.
"A man might as well be hang
man as a dentist, as far as expect
ing any gratitude for his services"
remarked an aggrieved member Of that
unappreciated profession TO n Boston
Globe reporter. 81 have worked for
hours over back filling in woman's
mouth. where had to nearly dislocate
my neck and tie my, backbone into q
bowknot, and at the end, II vent ured
TO straighten up with single relief, i
have been rewarded with IL stony glare
Of indignant condemnation.
"A woman will stand more pain
than a man, for a woman has an in
born instinct OF showing herself 10 the
best advantage" he continued. IA
rubber dam or n mouth stretched to its
utmost capacity is not conducive OF
personal beauty, and therefore a wO-
man will not add the further disfgure-
ment OF lack Of courage.
II had Father a funny experience
the other day with an old darkey who
wanted q tooth pulled. His face was
deliberately tied up in red flannel and
his expression was the embodiment OF
woe. The tooth was hard one TO
handle, and just as | gave il the final
yank he gave prolonged howl and
fairly shot himself through the open
window out onto the shed roof beneath.
He rolled over this roof still bowling,
and finally dropped from it to the
ground all doubled up like n black
rubber ball. All this, inste ID of hurt
ing him, served to help his case, for
he picked himself up and walked off
apparently sound in wind and limb
and quite regardless OF the fact that he
had not paid me.
IL had n man once give me more
than l wanted for pulling his tooth.
He was big, strapping fellow, and
thought the tooth would never come
The forceps slipped off three times,
but the fourth time l clinched it, Tho
man never moved or made sound
until the tooth came out, when he
doubled up his fist and landed blow
on my chest that slapped me up
against the wall as fat as n lump OF
putty. Then he took his hat and
stalked out without waiting to sec
whether / ever got my breath again
or notn
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-03-21
The Main Point.

The small boy had dog that W as
rough, as most small boys dogs al
ways are, and young girl who lived
next door had kitten, sly as all eats
are. One day the boy came nonchal :
antly into the girls presence, and af :
ter some desultory converse ton he
said:
you know my dog Barca and your
cat Darling?"
"Yes.n
well. my dog had piece OF meat
and he thought your cat was going to
take it away from him."
Thought" exclaimed the wise little
girl. What makes you say that the
dog thought You know dogs don't
think they instinct"
WELL" said the boy, 81 don't care
whether he thought 1t or instinct it,
but any how he killed your cat"
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-03-21
The Tramp's Diplomacy.

Tramp-Please can you give poor
man little something to eatP But
don't want no bread, please.
Woman You don't want no bread,
ehP i guess you amt starving. You
can can iist get along out OF here.
"Wait till ! explain, madam. YoU
see the woman next door just now gave
me piece OF paving stone for bread,
and as she said she was the best bread.
maker on this street"
"The best breadmalser on this street,
Jist you come right in here, my poor
man, and I'll show you what good
bread really Is Lord, how some peo'
pie do bragr'
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-03-21
New Jersev,s ProhIem.


New Jersey has a school fund OF
$4,000, 900 and doesn't know what to do
with it. 1t can't be used for any thing
but the public schools, and not very
much OF it is allowed to go there, only
a part of the annual income being
available, so jealousy has the state
constitution guarded its sacredness.
Meantime it is piling up every year.
and the commissioners are at their
wits end TO find an investment for it.
The original idea was to have a fund
large enough to entirely support the
public schools throughout the state,
but that, it is said, would take $40, 000,-
coo; and, beside, it is generally be-
lieved that it is better for the school
system to have the local schools di-
rectly provided for by local taxes. Peo-
pie take more interest in something
they have to pay for.