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THE DODGE CITY TIMES
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NICHOLAS B. KLAINT., EDITOR
AX ALP1IAHET OF MAXIMS FliOM
LOXll FELLOWS POEMS.
Act, act In tho living prc-ent.
Psalm of Life.
Bttterlwdeid ail forgotten than living In
-h inic ami dihonor.
Ciurthipiif Miles Stanilish.
Challengo tho pnss.ing hour like guards that
Ltip
Their solitary watt h on tower and steep.
tomorrow.
Dili we but ne it as we ouirht.
This world wouIJ school tath wandering
thought
To in lii'h state.
ICoplas do Manrique.
Eaih thin? In its place Is be-t.
The Iluililcrs.
From labor there shall come forth rest.
IToaChlid.
Glass is tho world's luck and prid.
I.uikof KdenhalL
Heaven Is as nearby water as bv I mil.
Mr Humphrey UUbort.
Into each life some rain mut tall.
Smie clays miK Iks dark and dreary.
The Itainy Day.
Joy and fMnr-emceand rcposo
-Iain the door on the doctor s noso.-
1'ot tic Aphorism-.
Know how sublime n thing it is.
To sutler and bo strong.
Tho Llphtof the Stars.
Jnt e-t thou Hod as thou nui:bte,t.
Then lo c-t thou likewise thy brethren.
Children of the Cord's bupper.
Man is unjust, but (iod is Just.
Ei angcllne.
Xothing that Is can pauso or sta) .
Keramos.
Our tiwlft) s an 1 yesterdiys
Are the blocks with which we buiM.
The lluilders.
Tride goeth forth on horseback grand and
ga.
ut cumcth b lck on foot and licgs Its way.
Tho UcU of Atri.
Quito m crlooking yourself and tho rest lu ex
alting jour hero.
Courtship of Miles Standlsh.
llelentles ewees tho stroke of fate.
The strongest falL
Coplas de Manrlquo.
Sleep, sleep, to-dar. tormenting cares
Of tarth and folly born.
(fleam of Sunshine.
Think of thy brother no ill.
Hut throw a ed o er his failings.
IThe Chil lren of the Lord's Supper.
Use no toll nee, nor do In haste
VV hat cannot lie un lone.
The Spanish Student
VMons of childhood. tav. O staj !
Ve were so sw ict an 1 wiliL
Voices of the Xlght.
What seems to us but sad funenal tapers.
May lo Heaven's distant lamps.
ICcsignatlon.
'Xeelleth all the ret.
1 lo who f olloweth lo e's liehest.
The Itulldlna'tif the Ship.
Vouth Is lovely, age Is lonely.
Hiawatha.
Zeal Is stronger than fearorlovo.
Tales of u Waysldo Inn,
THE UIKL THAT I'KO. IUEM'E SEXT.
It was w lien we were lit ing at tho
Virginia Three Forks and good helji
oti as scarce as liens' teeth, that father
came walking in one. day with a small,
neat, gray-ey ed i oman, and a large
bundle in tow.
"Where did you find her?" a-ked
mother, dropping the ladle with which
she was ba-ting a savory goo-e, and pre-
Earing to resign that branch of the
ou-ehold work in-tauter.
"Providcme sent her," answered
father, with a igh of relief he had been
girl-hunting for a month. " She looks
strong and tidy and has an hone-t cx-pres-ion."
"Humph," said mother, shortly,
"wlierc's her certilicate, or don't the
girl- from celestial intelligence offices
need any ? Hav e y on a character?" she
asked, turning to the girl.
" I had one, ma'am," she answered,
respectfully. " but the mice ate it; I'll
soon hae another try me, ma'am, just
try' me."
" What is j our name," asked mother,
in a catethismal voice, after the girl h.al
laid a-ide her slmwl and hood.
Kllinora." was the answer, with a
plea-ant. Muile-
"Wdl, we'll call you Nellie for
short, and ton can go right to work at
the vegetable for dinner," and mother
proceeded to show her what duties
were expected of her.
She proved to be an excellent serv
ant, though a little queer and obstinate,
but -he outer went out; had no associ
ates, and though we knew nothing
more about her than if she had dropped
from the skies she seemed faithful and
honest.
She had been with u about a month
when one night w i! heard loud talking
in her roum; it was -till early in the
evening, ami as ours was a country
home it w as a habit w e had fallen into
of retiring soon after supper, if not to
bed to our own rooms. We all heard
tho loud talking at the same time, and
met in the hall.
"It's in Xell'.u's room." said mother.
"and wecrcpt to the door and li-tened,
and wo heard as plain as if spoken in
our presence these words, in a man's
gniir oice:
"I'lllmrnye all in j our !cds yet as
sure as ye have souls to be saved!"
This was followed by the pleading
tones of a woman not " Nellie s voice,
how ev er!
"Oh! don't, don't, don't. We are
inn-cent! indeed, we are!"
The indescribable pathos of the sob
bing v oice tcrrilied us so that we went
after father, w ho had remained ske
tically in his room; he was angry ami
thumped vigorously on Nellie's "door,
but it was some "time before it was
ojicned. Then w e di-cov creil that every
artiele of furniture in the room was ar
ranged to form a py ramidal barricade
in front of the entrance, Nellie her
self, sleepy ami rubbing her ej es, thrust
out a head tied up in an "old white
apron.
Whit is it?" she asked li-tstily,
with a frightened look: " thieves mur
der!" " Let us in," said father, applying his
shoulder to the door, which was only
opened a crack; but Nellie had no idea
of letting us in, and resisted with such
ferocity that mother undertook to
oothe"her, and gained by strategy what
w e could not ellect by force.
There w as not a -oul in the room and
the w indow w as nailed down. There
was no po-ible hiding-place or means
of egress, and there was nothing for us
to ilo but to quietly retire, leaving Nel
lie to re-time her slumber-, w hich w c
had so rudely broken. Under-tand it
we could not, and it w as all the more
mysterious w hen the next day the whole
thing had to be repcatul and explained
to the girl, she declaring that she had
no memory of seeing us in her room or
knowledge of our being there. She
looked as serene and indifferent as usu
al, and said she barricaded her door
and nailed her window down through
fear of burglan!
We had no reason to suspect that the
girl did not speak the truth; yet wo
were so conscious of a mystery about
the whole atlair that it made lis nenous
and uncomfortable,, and w o began to no
tice strange wav s almnt our new girl ,
things that had been of no account be
fore now told against her; yet, w hen all
was summed up. we could only say that
she w as romanti'-. and had perhaps been
educated above herstation. and so gave
herself airs, and she really did accom
plish her work in a most satisfactory I
manner. I
" Jti-t a little cracked," father would
sav of her, "but a good girl in thumain; j
I'd like to know w Uat vou w omen folks
would do w ithout her?'
" It does seem as if Providence had
sent her," said mother, meekly; she likes
to make believe she is an echo of father
sometimes. i
Several times Nellie did treat us to .
what father called a "circus perform
ance" in her room, but as no harm came
of it we concluded that" she w as merely
enjoying herself in ner own way, and
let her alone. She was such a quiet lit- '
tie woman, with soft gray eves that
seemed to implore your forbearance,
and her breakfast rolls of a Sunday morn
ing w ero the best vv e ha I ever tasted;
then as to fried chicken, and "angels on
hor-eback," the Virginia name for fric-,
asecd oysters, well, she could have,
taught lielmcnico to cook tho-e dishes!
One day a carriage cont'tining two
gentlemen, oie of them evidently a
physician, stopped a moment at our
hou-e to inquire whiclff the three roads
led to a ferry rear, and while father was
telling them they were halted directly
in front of the kitchen window where 1 1
Mood w ith Nellie, watching her mike
a fancy dressing for some baked pork.
I was "noticing how long and slim her
fingers w ere, as she worked up the mass
of spiced bread, when, a-suddenly as if
shot from a bow. she darted from tho
kitchen, and fled tqi-stairs. Thinking
she bad been taken suddenly ill, I lilt- (
isbed her work for her. but aL- hour'
later when mother went to her room, it I
was emptv! Nellie was gone. Shehadi
taken nothing of our, her wages had)
never been drawn, and she hail van
ished as completely as if she had never
existed, so that it "seemed as if Provi
dence had, indeed, rt-alled her in the j
came in' stcrious war that she came. i
Was this the end? Yes; it was the
end of Nellie's service with us, hut one
day, a couple of weeks after, the same
carriage that hail -toniK.il at our gate.
with the same two men that had been in
it before and one of them a physician
came crawling slowly bick again.
mud-bespaHered and road-worn, and
between the two men. uhackled, mant
cled. the clothes torn from her poor
bruised limbs, sat our Nellie, u ravin;
lunttic. snarling at all who approaches!
her. She did not know us. and the doe
tor would not allow us togo near her.
"Mia is the most dangerous lunatic
in the a-ylnm at Alexandria," he said,
"and the worst criminal. Why, that
woman burned live persons to death is.
their beds, and strangled her ow n child!
I had no idea she was here, or I vv tiulil
have Inquired for her that day. We
were on another trail altogether, and if
she had stayed quietly here it is doubt
ful if we had ever known of it until you
ltail all been murdered in your sleep!"
lint he could not persuade us that
this wild-eyed creature, rending at her
own fte-h, and filling the air with her
shrieks and curves, was our gentle,
quiet Nellie, until we heard her simu
late a man's voice in the very tones sho
had ti-ed that night, w hen probabl) she
was struggling with her mania to mur
der and bunt. We did our own work
for a long time after that, and took
good care to have a well-atte-tcd cer
tificate of character from the next gill
that Providence sent us, as w p had no
desire to entertain any escaped lunatics.
-1r. M. L. liaine, in Ditruit Frit
Press.
m
Arer-ion to Manual Labor.
The practice ot educating boys for
the pnti"-ious, which are already over
stocked, or for the mercintile business,
in vv hich statistics show that ninety-liv e
in a hundred fail of success, is fearfully
on the increase in this country. Amen
cans are annually becoming more and
tuoro at erse to manual labor, and to
get a living bv one's wits, even at the
cost of independence and self-re-pect,
and a fearful wear and tear of con
science, is the ambition of a large pro
portion of our young men. 'lite result
is, that the mechanical professions are
becoming a monoioly of foreigners,
and the ownership of the finest farms,
even in New England, is pas-ing from
Americans to Irishmen and Germans.
Fifty years ago, a father was not
ashamed to put his children to the plow
or to a mechanical trade, but now they
are " too feeble " for bodily labor. It
seems never to occur to their foolish
parents that moderate ninnual labor,
in the pure and bracing air of the coun
try is just what the-e lads need, and
that to send thorn to the crowded and
unhealthy city is to send them to thuit
graves. Let them follow the plow,
awinghe sledge, or shove the fore
plane, and their nerves will be invigor
ated with their mu-cles, a. id when they
sha'.l have cast oil' their jackets, in
stead of being thin, pale, vapid cox
combs, they shall have spread out to
the size and configuration of men. A
lawyer's office, a counting room, or a
grocery, is about the last place to w hich
a sickly v outh should be s ut. Household.
1 A Well-Developed Ear.
Kosciusko Murphy, who is remarka
ole for his large, generous ears, has hid
a frlling-out with -Mi is Il-nierelda
Longcotlin, an Austin belle, towards
whom he had bei n cii-pet'teil of enter
1 taining matrimonial intentions. Some-
t body a-knl him the other day why he
and Miss Longeolfin were not out
buggy-riding as much as u-ual, to
which Kosciti-ko replied that he did
not pro'iosa to pav buggy hire for any
woman who called him a donkey.
"I can't belie e that Mi-s Longcof-
i fin w otild call any gentleman a don
key ?"' was the reply.
'Well, she didn't come right out and
say I w as a donkey, but she might ju-t
as well 1-ave said "so. She hinted that
much."
" What did she siv?"
We were out riding, ami it looked
very much like rain, and I said it was
i going to rain on ns, as 1 felt a rain-drop
on mv ear, and what do vou suppose she
! said?"
j I have no idea."
" Well." she said that rain yoa felt
I on your t ar ma v be tw o or three miles
I oft'' Texas Sijh'iigs.
I A rattlesnake in Sweetwater Val-
j ley. California, six feet long and twelve
inches in girth, with twent -two rattles,
. was stung to death by a swarm of bees.
Mr. Whittier has written a poem
' commemorative of the children's love for
Lo:is-fe"'m- and of Longfellow duath
Incorrect Tallin:.
Though tho schoolmaster holds hbi
I receptions in almost ct-;it" nuot and
corner ot thu land, there is a groat deal
! of incorrect talkin-r. uvmi among edu
cated jieople. liishop Clark give, in
the New ork Ledger, a few specimen
of the-e iopulr errors of speech, in the
form of a diaIoi-ii between n mrvles
I talker and his critical friend:
"Good afternoon, John. How long
have you been setting hero?"
"I have been sitting here for'alxiui an
hour, watching to see thee men set tho
stones in my wall."
It linii dwcbu to mo that the work
u done rather iffy."
" Perhaps it is not done quite as tretfy
S3 it might be."
'I iimf of think that wonl trrffy
sounds odd."
"It is as good a wonl as . 15ut
why do you say: 'It kind of socnis,
and I kind of think,' when you might
just as well say: It seems and I
think?' "
"I've got sort onscd to talking In
that way."
"It is a very poor sort of way". .
I nenr had nobody to learn me anv
better."
' You mean that you have had no
body to teach you."
"I am getting tired, and I think' I
w ill lay down on the grass fur a pell."
"You can lie down, but it would bo
well for y ou to lay your cloak on thu
ground for you to lie on."
"He vou going to stop here for
long?" " " "
"I stopped here when I arrived, but
shall not sia long. Aro you going
home soon?"
"I be." .
"Why Tiot say, 'lam?' 'He git?
and'tV are very raw and disagreeable
phrases."
"All right, O K; but tho master al
ways says to his scholars: "Heyou ready
to write"?' Him and me met at the dea
con's la-t night."
"What did Aim and yvu do after vou
got there?"
We looked at than things ho has
just brought from New York.'",
"Were fAcwi things worth looking
at?"
Tolerable. I5y the way, the deacon
must have quite a fortune." '
What sort of a fortune? Quite large
or quite small?"
"Quite large, of course."
"Why did you not sty -o?"
"My next neighbor has just pnt up a
fence on either itlo of his front y aril."
" 1 supiHi-m you intend to iy that he
has put up a fence on both sides."
" ltetwcen you and 1" .
"Plea-e change that to ' l.etweenyou
and me.' You would not say: There's
no great difi'erenco of opinion Tictwcen
you and he."
" I usually say: Hint and vie agree
pretty well."
"'ihenyou speak v cry bad English,
and vou probably say It is tiie,' la
steailof Itisl.'"
Of cour-e I do, and so docs of
the people that I know. My boy Is just
going t school, and as he is a wcm be
ginner I suppose he will appear to be
rather green."
"Did you ever hear of any beginner
tvho was not new?"
"I wl-h to simply state "
"That is, you wish to state"
"That our mutual friend"
Please say our common friend. Yon
would not call him a reciprocal friend."
"Why do you interrupt me so often?"
"Because vou make so many blun
ders." m m
M. UamaU did not have to court.
r Bernhardt long. The first time he met
her was last August. He told her that
he had apas-ion for the stage, and asked
to be allow ed to join her troupe. Sho
was so pleased at bis recitals that 'he
admitted him to her company, under
the name of "Dala." X. J", itei
On the front of Mr. Itlden's new
house, in ("ramcrey Part. New York,
there are five carved heads in bold re
lief. The two upper ones are inscribed
"i-bakespcare" and "Milton. "Below,
in the center, is Franklin," and below
that are the tw o heails of " Goethe" and
Dante." Chicago Journal.
A New York rat-catcher says that
American rats aro decreasing in size
every j ear, and he thinks that another
hf ty years will bring them down to the
size of mice. Save your old mice-traD-X.
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