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The Globe-republican., 1899-12-28

DR.. o. H. Simpson, dentist, will give
a clinical lecture ut the meeting of the
Southwest Kansas Dental Association,
now being held in Newton. DR.. Simp-
son is regarded as one the finest surgical
dentists in Kansas.
The Globe-republican., 1899-12-28

The last words of Dwight Moody, the
evangelist were: II see earth receding !:
heaven is opening; God is calling me. y
That was the testimony of traveller who
dropped below the horizon. His spirit
was taken to God.
The Globe-republican., 1899-12-28

The Rock Island Playing Cards are the
slickest you ever handled. One pack
will be sent by mail On receipt of Is
cents in stamps. A money order or
draft for 50 cents or same in stamps will
secure packs, and they will be sent by
express, charges prepaid. Address,
JOHN SEBASTIAN, G. p. A.. C. r. l. & p,
Chicago.
The Globe-republican., 1899-12-28

MistletOe was very scarce during the
most of the week, the usual shipments at
this time of the year having failed to
materialize. Holly was abundant and
there was plenty of smilax, arbOr vitae,
the demand was slightly better than in
previous years.-K. &. Parker.
The Globe-republican., 1899-12-28

the contract for building telephone
line connecting the ranches Of D. G. HOl-
comb, II. p. Gumaer and Carter & Son
with the city. This will be great con-
vsnience to these ranchmen, and no
doubt their example will be followed by
Garden City Herald.
The Globe-republican., 1899-12-28

The number of boxes and packages
received through the postOffice was
greater than any preceding year, during
the holiday season. Prosperity has made
the giving of presents on Christmas
greater than for some years part.
The Globe-republican., 1899-12-28

Harvey Evans, of Albuquerque. n. NJ,
sent his parents several boxes of ripe
strawberries. The berries were delicious,
and the writer bears testimony to this,
having eaten a plate of them at the
home of r. w. Evans.
The Globe-republican., 1899-12-28

Ralph Wallace caught an eagle in his
trip Monday which measured four feet
seven inches from tip to tip. In its effort
to get away the chain fastened to the trap
was brokeu.-Haskell County Republic
an.
The Globe-republican., 1899-12-28

You can't have a clear conscience and
be right with the Lord unless you pay
your subscription to the paper. Begin
the New Year by paying up.
The Globe-republican., 1899-12-28

The Board Of Education have decided
70 extend the vacation Of the public
schools until January 9Th, owing to the
measles.
The Globe-republican., 1899-12-28

Ed II. Madison spent several days in
Albany, n Y, in the interest OF the
Cimarron Indebtedness Mr.. Madison is
attorney for Cimarron.
The Globe-republican., 1899-12-28

Harold Jones returned last night from
Montana. where he has been for two
years past.
The Globe-republican., 1899-12-28
The GLOBE REPUBLICAN.
ADDITIONAL LOCAL.

There are % cases of measles in the
city, but no serious cases.
The Globe-republican., 1899-12-28

Mrs. Ella Hobbie and son of Dodge
City are spending the holidays with re-
iatives in Kinsley.-Mercury.
The Globe-republican., 1899-12-28

Liberal shipped car load Of melon
seed TO d. NJ. Ferry d CO. last week.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-03-12

1t probably comes from overwOrk and
a torpid liver. l made no effort to
fight away the spectre, and as a result
/ finally came to the determination to
shuttle off. There happened to be an
old rope in my room, and as | made
one end of the rope fast to a hook from
which a lamp had hung | laughed at
the vision before my eyes. | was in a
boarding house, and the landlady was
fat and fussy. She'd go into fits when
they found me hanging, and wouldn't
be able to leave Ler bed for a week.
There was a girl boarder who always
looked for the emotional and dramatic,
and she'd have a fine chance 10 gush
as the door was broken open in the
morning. There was a bank clerk who
was always exclaiming bless mel and
as | noosed hat rope l laughed loud
and long over how he would ring in
that exclamation on me.
"Well, l stood On a chair, slipped the
moose over my neck and swung off. |
expected to suffer for a minute and then
go dead. When I swung off it felt as IL
the rope had cut clear through my neck,
and then came dancing stars and
Darkness. Next thing l knew l was
sitting on the floor and tearing away
at the frightened loose The old rope
ID uN1rA o~I LOT mr. down urn 9
ten or fifteen minutes before l got
things straight, and then | was mad
enough to bust. | called myself every
name | could think of, and then got up
and broke two chairs and a looking
glass. l wanted to be kicked-to De
walked Onto be flung yer the fence
into the thistle patch. You may ask
why | didn't try some other meth I'd.
Simply because l had the strongest sort
of a desire to live for a thousand years
to come. How l could have been idiot
enough to do such a thing was beyond
nv comprehension, and l laughed and
kicked myself by turns. In the first
instance l was actuated by what |
thought was a broken heart and d
wrecked life. In the next my illness
may be set down as a good excuse. IN
the third | have no excuse to offer, even
to myself. | was smoking a good cigar
and feeling perfectly content, when all
of a sudden the blue devils pumped III
and in five minutes I was believing
hat life had nothing more for me-"
"And will there be a fourth timer
was asked as the man with the merry
smile seemed to have finished.
81 hope not, but who knows?" he sos
berly replied. Hold the thought OF
death by sickness up to the average
man and you frighten him, and vet he
may come to look upon suicide as a
blessed relief. Next time l try the
trick, however. I'm going to make a
sure thing of it. III take a steamer for
Europe, go overheard a thousand miles
from land, and if some whale don't
carry me ashore on his back, or some
tramp steamer pick me up, I'll manage
to get to the bottom in good shape and
stay there"
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-03-12
SOME MORAL TALES.
Written With a Hope to Encourage the Poor
and Lowry.

Written With a Hope to Encourage the Poor
and Lowry.
For fifteen long and weary years Jo-
seph Burtenshaw Hardman had been
a professional tramp. He had melted
in summer, frozen in winter, and en-
dured such hardships as kill strong
men in their prime. There are 5,475
days in fifteen years, and every day
Joseph had sought for work and had
been turned down. There are 5.475
nights in fifteen years, and every night
he had gone to bed in a doorway or
under a straw-stack, hoping that the
morrow would bring a change. There
were times when he grew fai~nt-hearted
and was ready to give up the struggle,
but he always shook off this weakness
as unworthy of a tramp and clinched
his teeth and exclaimed to himself:
II will not give up! l will live to
show the world that l can not be
downed!'
If some millionaire had taken Joseph
by the hand and bade him get a hair
cut and shave and accept a job at
$50 per week the problem would have
been solved, but he didn't happen to
run across any of that sort of million
aires. Most of the people he met were
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-03-12
SOCIAL SINS and SLAMS.
BY LILLE HARRIS.

In writing this article l do so with
fear and trembling, with a feeling of
extreme dread, I know | shall be de-
spised by the one sex and condemned
by the other; but after all a journalist
must not consider the opinions of the
few, he or she, writes sometimes for the
multitude. 1 do not trust that the
word sometimes will spare me the
condemnation which | am sure will
arise over these articles. When l say
I am sure, | am only acting on the
adage about "the greater the truth the
greater the libel" and as far as posi-
BILE l invariably e%ndeavour to be truth
me of a daring skater v~enturing on a
very, very thin ice, enjoying the exer-
else no doubt, but in mortal dread lest
the ice should give way, and he or she
be preaipitated into the icy depths be-
low. Tipping is n of the greatest
and most pernicious vices Of the day.
Everyone does it m~ore3efness. THE
three bottle days of our ancestors, when
no gentleman ever thought CT returning
from a dinner table till he had drunk
so much hat one Of his servants had
to remove him in a hopeless condition
from under the table, has now departed.
Old-fashioned drunkenness is voted
myself, speaking c%andidly, a drunken
man fills me with the liveliest feelings
of terror, but the pernicious habit
of tippling has come in, and when |
say tipping, I really e nipping.
Men nowadays drink far more than
their ancestors, but they never get in
frequently and in smaller doses. l
think it comes from the practice Of
what is called standing a drink" that
is to say, a man meets half-a-dozen Of
mis- friends and he stands them each a
drink. and they each in turn stand him
a drink, so that he gets six or seven.
l remember very we'll meeting a friend
or mine one day who had rather a re-
sponsible position. Said he to me:
What do you think l have been doing
all the afternoon" Il do not know"
l replied. Well" he answered: q
have been doing nothing but throwing
away whiskey and soda" What do
you mean" l asked. Well" he said,
Il had to met a quantity Of men on
some business. We adjourned TO the
club, and of course l
STOOD THEM EACH A DRINK.
In return for this they took me into
the hotel, and each insisted on standing
me one. and as / did not want TO be
drunk, l simply threw the drink away"
1t is quite pitiful to me 20 see how our
young boys have taken to nipping.
They have a nip before Office hours. a
nip before lunch, and a nip after, and a
nip before they go home, and several
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-03-12

or throw herself into the mill pond.
She steadily refused, however. She had
an average of ten crying spells per day,
but after each n she would wipe the
tears away on a piece Of old rag carpet
and stamp her foot and say:
q will not surrender to despair! L
feel that there is something in life for
me. and l will live on"
One day in summer, after her grand
mother had been pounding her with a
gatepost and calling her names, Lucy
was sent to the mill to bring home 200
! pounds of cornmeal on her back. AS
she tripped along the highway she
| came upon a carriage that had broken
down. 1t was the carriage of the pres
ident of a tobacco trust, and he was not
ten minutes in falling in love with the
organ girl and asking her to be his
wife. She promptly answered that
nothing would suit her better under the
! circumstances, and when the carriage
| rolled away she was beside him. a
| week later she was wearing silks and
| diamonds and bossing a b~rown-stone
house, and her future years were n
long dream of pleasure.
William Dobbs had been found all
tangled up with boards. shingles and
household furniture after a cyclone. He
THE TALE OF WILLIAM DOBBS.
was then supposed to be three years old,
and as no one came forward to claim
him he was taken into the family of a
cobbler. The idea was to make a shoe
maker of him, and he was scarcely five
years old when he was set to pegging
and patching. By the time he was
seven he could cement a patch onto a
shoe or peg a lift onto a boot-heel al
most as good as the boss, but his heart
was never in his work. Young as he
was he felt that he was born for nobler,
higher work. This feeling on his part
often made him careless over his work
and brought about rows with his adopt
ed father. He never resisted when
thumped with a No. 10 last oNwalloped
with a piece of B.. B. sole-leather, as
happened almost every day. He took
the licking without protest, but after
it was over he would dash the tears
from his eyes and say:
Mr.. Schemerhorn, / will cobble the
best I can, but something tells me that
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-03-12
MARCH RAIN.

-
BY Samuel Eberly Gross. Author of The
Merchant Prince of Cornyilie."
The toling clouds across the meadows
Descending from the rain-drenched
The naked woods in vapory dimness
And ciamor of the swollen rills.
Swift hurrying to the village mills.
The black eclipse OF barren. grainlcss
fields,
Dashed meath the heavy laden cloud;
The veil uplifted to the hard wind Yields;
The lowing herds the hedgerows crowd
And shiyer in tho fields u~nploughed.
A singing bird upon the garden tree.
An incense floating in n song,
A ~leafless branch, a waif upon the sea,
A birds clear voice-the bird holds
While ali around tho March winds
throng.
A sweet adventurer IN clustering sprines
RedbTcast robin with heart 80 bod.
Too early on thy northwarf tourueying.
No sweeter tale in southland told
Than thine, mid rain and piteous cold
Inside the farmhouse. s~~sling- thevaA
The golden hearthstbpe. are giows. ~.
No ctamors there the loving heart assaH;
There blended love with duty grows.
The wheatstalk mingling with the rose.
And gazing through the r~ain-dashed wins
Oak tree and rose bush sway away:
The freight woos with red and dripping
rain.
Tntil. across the meadows gray.
The nightlights pierce the faded day.
The raln-webbed night upon tho world
Tie curtains or the soul undraw;
4 drcam-clad air by storming winds UNI
blown:
No frozen cloud nor winters thaw.
But gentle glow OF loves bright law.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-03-12

day life, the worr. the anxiety. the
social strain that Causes men and wo-
mem to fly to the dram bottle. Life is
hard, very hard nowadays. 1t is not
what one is, but what one looks. Kick
a man when he is down and poor, fatter
and pet him when he is happy and pros
pering, that is the way of the world.
The golden calf is the god we worship
1t is Mammon that is omnipotent. You
can transgress every Commandment
and break the decalogue generally If
you have only a sufficient banking ac-
count. In this rotten state of society
all can be received. providing that the
banking account is large enough, and Ii
is this that causes the excitement and
the fever of our daily life. 1t is this
which has brought on the habit of tip
ping, an evil the effects of which will
be felt always, for the sins OF the faith
ers are visited even unto the third and
fourth generation, and God help the
children of tipplers, for what IS
their lot but a legacy OF
disease and vice. and well, L
dare not venture TO say what else, but
every man and woman of the world who
reads this knows what | can Tn
derstand me, it is not teetotalism that
I am advocating-only temperance
only wholesome living and wholesome
drinking, and the absolute dismissal
of secret vices.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-03-12

Dunn had predicted Z blizzard and the
price OF cold potatoes had jumped fifty
per cent-Joseph started to tramp from
Boston to Springfield. He had covered
but a few miles of the sterile highway
when he came upon q man who had
only a few minutes to live. The stran-
ger was a pirate, who had landed in
Boston town and walked out into the
country to bury ST. 0 0 900 in gold. In
staggering along under the weight of
the Doodle he had burst a blood vessel
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-03-12

mind to skip. That night he packed up
a sock and a necktie ana climbed out
of the window and disappeared. Ten
years later to a day, a distinguished,
richly dressed man drove up to the cob
bier shop in an elegant carriage and en-
tered to say to the cobbler:
"Mr. Schemerhorn, l do not wish to
transpess upon your valuable time, and
will simply say that l am Billy Dobbs.
Soon after l ran away from you l found
a steamboat which l sold for $50, 900.
This gave me a start in life, and | am
o worth $4,000, 900 and shall be the
next President of the United States.
You used to wallop blazes out of me
without causc. but l bear O no i'll
will. Ta-ta, Mr.. Schemerhorn, and
hope that if a business boom sets in the
cobbler trade may pull up with it."
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-03-12
HE WAS A DOOMED PIRATE.


and was a doomed pirate. Mr.. Hard
man knelt beside him and offered his
valuable services without fee. but he
had come too late. The stranger look
ed at him through eyes already glazed
by death, and making a last effort,
whispered in his ear:
ct is no use. l am a dead man.
axe my gold, throw my body into the
ditch, and may you be happy"
One year later Mr.. Hardman vas
Governor of a Western State, and mar
ried to the beautiful daughter of a cat
tie king. He lived to reach the top
round of the ladder and to find all men
bowling down before him, and when he
died he had a funeral procession two
miles long, not counting the wagons
rugged out with signs of a great bank
rupt sale of clothing stock at 40 cents
on the dollar.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-03-12
THE TALE OF LUCY SMITH.

Lucy Smith was an orphan girl. Dur
ing her childhood her grandmother used
to feed her on turnip-tops and spank
her with a white ash plank. At the
age of twelve she was set to chopping
wood and splitting rails, and if she
even limited that her back ached or that
she would like to take a day off, the
old dame would hold her against the
cellar stairs. Thoughts of suicide came
to the young girl, but she put them
away and determined to live on. Up
to the age of seventeen she had W.
had a pair of shoes on her feet, and she
had to comb her hair with a cOrn-cob
and brush her teeth with a splinter
from a fence rail. Her best dress was
made of flour sack, and her Sunday
hat was made of rye straw with no
other ornament than a chicken feather.
No one could see what there was in life
for poor Lucy Smith, and all the neigh
bors advised her to eat pounded glass
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-03-12
THE OLD ROPE HAD BROKEN"

CAS- to the third time" continued the
man as his face sobered up for a mo-
ment, Il can't exactly craps the facts
myself. | was in business and doing
well, and there was really nothing to
bother over. One day the feeling came
to me that 1 was getting very little out
of life, and as l sat and thought things
over the idea of suicide stole into my
head. I believe four men out of five
get that feeling once in a while, though
most Of them are able to shake it of.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-03-12

/ was born for 4 different fate. What
it is / do not know, but ! will wait for
it"
The cobbler used to sneer and jeer at
him when he thus expressed himself.
and as William grew older the harder
became his lot. He was allowed only
two poor meals per day, and sticks and
stones were thrust into the straw of his
bed in order to give him the nightmare.
The cobbler never opened his mouth ex-
cept to sneer at him, and the cobbler's
wife delighted when he got a consumpt-
i've cough and seemed to be going into
a decline. The plumber across the
way got to know how the boy was
treated, and n day he gave him a
pound of paris green, a bottle of car
bolic acid and ten feet of new rope and
advised him to commit suicide. The
boys lips trembled and his eyes filled
with tears as he heard the first kind
words ever spoken to him, but bracing
himself with a mighty effort, he re-
piled:
mo, Mr.. Dalzell, you are kindness it.
self, and thank you from the bottom
of my heart, but l will not let the world
down me. You shall yet hear Of me as
a great man"
He vas thirteen years old when he
made a break. He had long thought of
running away, but could not get his
courage up. One day he put half-soles
on the wrong pair of shoes, and after
being pounded around the ship for half
an hour by his boss he made up his
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-03-12

policemen who gave him the collar,
farmers who threw clubs at him, and
freight conductors who cussed his eyes
as they ordered him off the bumpers.
Many a man in Mr.. Hardman's place
would have flung himself down in a
f~ence-corner to die. but he vowed to
achieve success and would let nothing
daunt him. One day when the six
teenth year of his tramp life had
dawned, and he was hungry, penniless
and in rags-one day when Forecaster
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-03-12
VERY OBLIGING.

Mrs. Yeast-Is your husband accommo-
dating?
Mrs. Crimsonbeak-Wny. yes. l asked
him the other day TO shake the carpet.
and he got mad and shook the whole
house.-Yonkers Statesman.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-03-12
HARD TO PLEASE.

Wife. what a lot OF grammatical err
rors YOU maker
What of it? Aren't they as good as
those o mother used to makeg'-chi-
cago Record.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-03-12
THE WAY TO LOOK AT IT.

Too cold to pillow,
Too cold to sow.
PRAISE God from whom
All blessings flow"
Atlanta Constitution.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-04-28
GIVE US A TRIAL.

VI W " y 49,
Pants pressed, 10 cents; pants cleaned
and pressed, 25 cents; suits pressed. %
cents; suits cleaned and pressed, % cents;
overcoats pressed, 1 cents; overcoats
cleaned and pressed, so cents; cleaning
and pressing for $1.OO per month; We call
for and deliver goods free of charge, A
postal card brings US to your house All
work guaranteed Kid gloves cleansed, 5
cents. Worcester Tailoring and Cleans
ing Co., 654 Main St, room 8.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-04-28
WHOLESALE HORSE DEALERS
HAVEN BROS.

Agents and wholesale dealers In horses.
carriages, harness, blankets, robes. sad
dlery, stable furnishings and harness
harness, SIS; buggy harness. $3.50; horses
sold on commission. Auction every Sat
A, L. HAVEN, Auctioneer. 1sS-14e Fos-
ter St, Worcester, Mass. Telephone
S72-4.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-04-28
HORSES

Constantly on hand and for sale. make
a speciality of heavy team horses and ex-
ira. fne drivers. and have on hand pairs
fine drivers and number Of single
drivers, teamers, weighing zS00 200 and
5000 pounds to the pair.
R. c. TIFFANY, IS Exchange St.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-04-28
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
JOB PRINTING,

There are printers and printers. You
want your work in that line well and
neatly done, so that you will not be
experienced printer, who can appreciate
your wants and advise in the execution
of your work, rather than to give it to an
work entrusted to l.. p Goddard, 425 Main
street telephone $3.50 will be executed
neatly, promptly and correctly, and at
satisfactory prices