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THE DODGE CITY TIMES
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NICHOLAS B. IULAINE, EDITOR.
sixty YEARS.
Fixty lonir jcjr3 how the tiraejrlidcsby!
How far aw.iy seems thnland
Oi wbw? sunny heights Hope and Youth
Mood lovinjrly bind in bnl;
pome Mower are dead that 9 re wed Ilfo'8 way.
And some arc blo-oralnjr sweetly to-day.
How th heart tnncbi back to It? early prime,
When th- world-seemed fair and swett;
When ne er a thorn on the Mowers grew.
That cliHtcrclaroun! th feet;
hen shlmnit.rfn bright in theditancofr
Glowed tho jrlad ilonof Hope's clear star.
Tho path thtt tho feet walked llphtlythen
Wen pre n with a nmmhe bright,
And the Lra e j oun? heart felt nc er a fear.
For It knew th it the darkest night
The tars wdir out. an 1 tho1 moonllpht'3 glow
Fulls on the hills and the world llow.
And tbe hininf yoal thit the tycs decerned
Mood h!sh 011 u lofty -lopo;
1 way was hard, hut tho will was strony.
And outh w.thit shield of hoo
Went forth to win for Itself renown.
And ?ntb for its brow the victor's t rown.
Who says that a man climbs nil In vain,
hen he reach that temple bright,
Wh ch Truth an 1 Jutico and Mercy Infold,
With itKirwfnjrs all radiant white?
Andhhctrstheson79 that thoun-rels fin?.
And be feels the sweep of an angel's wing.
lie standi on the mount, a- Moc stood.
And luokj the Ian 1 bo s trod;
He may hi o raided miny u w orldly gain,
l'ut never the han I of tiod:
And If that' led hiui on with beneficent care.
llubasall things to hope for and nothmffto
tear.
IX he h 11 wwn pood crd In the years gone by.
It will bIo-vm in Io.ely grace:
If he's brouh. in tcir3 to tho weary eye.
Hut ha brightened wilh idks some face,
J-weet the balir that uw deed will briny.
Glad is th? song-that his heart will staff.
Sixty lonjr years what virion arlsa
Of dynasties rien and set.
Of power thit incited away from tho earth
W hen the wronj and theripht clashed and
met;
And Truth, like fct Gcorsrc, some fierco dragon
slew.
And the dld.el hard, to make way for the
new.
And Fciencc spread wider and wider her
lTinps,
Till they strr ten., to tho ends of the earth;
An 1 roan el- of Iijrht an 1 mirvcls of sound
irorunj all ax once into birth.
And thnuzh the dark cave of old Ocean then
The cable bore swiftly the intapo of men,
41 tr lonp years let us tind on th height,
And, viewing tho war we hMotrod,
free tho simkoof t"eatars like incense arise
Ihj altar we've bull led to God;
And thin may they stand to His honor and
praie,
Who's crowned with mercy our life's length
ened da).
-". It. CticctfJtoroujh, tn IkmnrtV$ UonVJy.
The Modern Abuse of the Hair.
The recent methods of dressing the
hair, both by piling on the head laro
quantities of dead hair with its more or
less injurious contact, the stiffening of
bands into position, w ith too free use
of glutinous cosmetics, and the altera
tion of color by tho application of
strong alkalies and other agencies, hat o
produced an effect at last, after the
fashion has in a measure gone by, by a
deterioration of the hair on women's
heads that makes a striking difference
between tre-ses as they were thirty
x cars ago and as ttiey aro now. I lie
head has become so heated, tho scalp
has become so irritated, tho hair bulbs
and glands have become so irritated
by chemicals, that it is wonderful tho
result should not be even more destnic-
the than it has been. It is fortunate
that the fancy for all these injurious
5? wa s and means toward beauty was ar
rested before the whole generation of
women became bald-headed. And as
it i, f ully half of them ha e a crown
Miere tho hair straggles thinly over a
painfully blushing skin, have partings
that assume in their frightened eyes, as
they look in tho glass, the proportions
of the gates of Gaza, and have a stub
ble of short, wiry, coarse growth, in
clined to brutle up, and gU ing an in
finity of trouble to keep in decent or
der, especially when it is desired to
wear the hairlow.
Much of this is due to a loss of vigorous
circulation in the scalp, whether occa
sioned by the deleterious methods
abo-e mentioned or bv any other
means. For the scalp, when in a heal
thy state. Is soft and thick and warm.
ith goodly blood-vessels able to afford
ample nourishment from which secre
tion shall be elaborated, and space for
the working of all that delicate ma
chinery which exists at the roots of the
hair. As the circulation decreases, the
scalp spreads, so to say, the glands and
capsules arc unable tn'f ulllll their func-
1.. ,:...,
nuns, auu me siaiu amves wmen wo
have just described. .Or, again, the too
free use of pomades and dress'ngs
causes the head to catch dust, excludes
hair, clogs the perspiratory pores, re
laxes the skin, and deranges all its pro
cesses while, in addition, the oils arc
frequently rancid, however the rancid
ity m ly be disguised by perfumes, and
when this is tho case they corrode and
iritate everything, and change the nor
mal production if scurf to an excess
that becomes disease.
The most eoaumating insnlt and in
jury to tho hair, tint of dyeing it, it
-cems hardly necessary to mention, as
bleaching has gone so entirely out of
fashion that that peculiar form of ruin
is not liktly soon to be generally re
repeated, and gray hair has come to bo
so much admired that dyes to diguiso
the graync-s are not resorted to by any
body of taste. A beautiful young woman
of our acquaintance some ears ago had
an experience by means of this poison
ous custom that will hardly be shared
by any generation to come. Accustomed
to admiration of licauty. her dislike of
a few gray hairs drove her to tbe ue of
a the, and as she continued it from day
to day with gentle applications for some
Tears, she had the satisfaction of seeing
licr beauty to all effect unimpiriod. and
hid not the remotest idea that tho
work of silvering was all the time
going on with fearful celerity under
the dye, and that c' cry day increased
the ra-acs in the dark color of
her lo 'ks, if tho truth were know u. l!ut
frequent and X iolent headaches at last
made her physician and her husband
positively command her to ccaso the
dyeing, and to c!ean-o her hair thor
oughly of the dyes. She went w ith her
detergents into the rather dark bathing
room, where there was no mirror, as it
chanced, and spent an hour or two in
the process of washing and scouring,
and at length came out into the light,
pausing before a mirror as she did so.
That lirst glimpse of herself was a hor
rible revelation: she had gone into tho
room a dark-haired beauty in the guise
of youth; the woman in the mirror had
the long gray hair of age falling round
her white face. Tho sudden change
was too much for her tried and tired
nerves, and she fell in a dead faint on
the floor. It is fortunate for others that
the fashion of gray hair is likely to save
them the blow of so sudden a change
from tho appearance of youth to that of
age. Harper's JJazar.
The Woman who (JiylcJ.
It is a singular fact that some people
find it very diilicult to bo serious and
solemn in churches and at funerals, and
at other pl-iccs and occasions, w hen pro
priety demands a subdued expression of
countenance. Mrs. Milo Stephens, an
Austin lady, is just that kind of a per
son. Whenever she attends a funeral,
she gets a g:ggling fit, and brings dis
grace on herself and confusion on cverj
body. Not long since, accompanied by
her husband. Cuionel Milo Stephens,
she attended the last obsequies of a
prominent Texas official, taking sol
emnly yromiscd not to cm. a single
giggle until she got back home, liut she
was hardl v in the house of niouriihibe-
fore she saw something to cxcil her
risibilities.
"For heaven's sake. Mirandv. wjf
until the funeral is over beforo yon be- I
gin your internal giggling.
"lie! he! he!" giggled Mrs. Stephens.
"Think of something serious. Think
of your ur-cle, whom Governor Roberts
refused to pardon out of the peniten
tiary. Tho only response was a partially
suppressed giggle, that attracted the
attention of nearly everybody in the
room.
"I hope none of the children will
go near tho cistern while we are away,
as I left the trap-door open," whis
pered poor Colonel Stephens in des
pair. The only response was another sup
pressed spasm of laughter. Finally, a
happy thought struck Colonel Stephens.
Ho whispered in her earr
"The milliner on Austin avenue told
me to tell you that she could not get
your bonnet trimmed in time for yon to
wear it on Sunday."
The look of unutterable woe with
which she responded scared him. Dur
ing the rest of the funeral ceremonies
strangers who were present supposed
Mrs. Milo Stephens was the widow.
such an ""appropriately sad expression
was there on her countenance. She
even shed tears. Texas Sitings.
Tornado Freaks at Grinnell, Iowa.
The late tornado at Grinnell, Iowa,
acvcloped somo wonderful freaks
which arc thus related in the loica State
Register:
The dro'eof thirty cattle belonging
to Mr. A. A. Foster, "west of Grinnell,
that were killed were lifted out of the
bam-yard. carried sixty rods, and were
seen Dy some of the lamily in tlie tlasn
of fire at a height of three or four hun
dred feet. They were dumped down
in a gully, in a pile, and all cloe to
gether, and looked as though they were
dead before thev touched the earth.
It is asserted by many reputable peo
ple that in the center of the awful cir
cle or loop that the tornado made at
Grinnell objects were carried a thou
sand feet high, and one small house
was taken up bodily some four or live
hundred feet, and then dropped' in n
lump some two hundred feet from its
original site.
Many people state that they saw the
balls of fire or electricity during tho
tornado's time, and report them to
have been of sizes varying from one
foot to iHc in diameter, anil exploding
with a strong smell of sulphur, or more
like a smell of hot copper. Others re
port 3 dense and stilling odor more of
fensite than sulphur, and as foul, al
most, as that of putrid Uesh.
Tho rain fall was phenomenal, as all
report. At the college it was heaviest
of all. The earth there still bears evi
dence of this.
Ono gentleman says that he saw
Deacon Ford, during a livid and pro
tracted flash of light, up in the air at
least live hundred feet high.
The storm of mud was phenomenal.
The pouring water made soft mud of
the earth, and the wind took this up and
filled the air with it in places and plas
tered it over ccrvthing.
Every thing tendsto confirm the theory
that the torn ulo is of electrical origin,
and that it is the marvelous power of
electricity alone that can apply itself to
such small surface and work such havoc.
Against its resistless force, a house of
stone walls ten feet thick, or walls ten
feet of wrought iron, would stand no
more than a house of frame. Its power
is the impossible made po-sible. No
force that is known could have tho power
in small compass that this has but elec
tricity. We saw to-day several large lumber
wagons that were dashed to pieces, all
tho spokes broken out of the wheels, a
hub split open, and the tires brokeu and
flattened out as straight as though ther
had been straightened on an ativiL
J. M. Wishart's horse stood in the
barn. This was a stallion weighing 1,
GOO pounds. The barn was broken up
and carried off" in one direction, while
the horse and nart of his man-or to
which he was haltered were carried off
in another direction from the bam. The
two lines of travel may be described as
on scxangular sides eastward. The
hor-e was louud a thousand feet from
the stable, and unhurt.
George Tonci's house, at the north
west corner of a snuare northeast from
the depot, was lifted by the air current
and deposited on the southwest corner
of the square east, while the house at
the northwest corner of the square in
which had stood Toney's house, was
carried to the northeast comer of tho
snuare east This will bo understood
by using the letter X as an illustration,
a.-d supposing that the two houses
originally stood each at the foot of a
st-m of the letter, and met in the center
to be deposited at the top of its own
stcr.
TLe freakish work of the unloosed
devil of the upper air was well shown
in one street. On one side a dwelling
houso was torn to fragments and left a
mass of splintered ruin, while the op
posite house was unharmed below the
cornice but was entirely. stripped of its
shingles.
An iron pump, with a two-inch pipe,
was twisted off five feet below the level of
the ground and carried off fully ten rods.
A Lexington (Ky.) youth, who
went to work in the country; wrote to
his girl, a June graduate, that he was
raising a calf. Imagine his feelings,
when the girl rep'ied: " I am glad you
have begun to support yourself."
Juit before Carlyle married he
read Kant's works in order to quiet his
nerves. After he was married he near
ly talked his poor wife death, and to
qnict her nerves she used to scrub the
toor.
PERS05.U AM LITERARY.
"Oscar Wide is a failure on the
platform." declares the Memphis, Jp
peal, "and js only . relieved front tho
odium of humbuggery by his apparent
earnestness-"
Dr. O. W. Holmes savs that tho
yonng scribblers who send him their
cr havo no more right to do so than
they hare to stop him on the street,
showhun their tongues, and sk what
rcmedi-s they shall take for their
stomach's sake.
Tho late Governor Dennison, of
Ohio, built a residence in Columbus. O.,
about one year ago. at a cost of ?i5,000.
He was preparing to spend his latter
dav; in ca-e and comfort when tho fatal
sickness came. Ho leaves a wife and
seven children. One of his sons prac
tises law in this city. -V. Y. ltsL
According to Miss Cordon Cum
ming's " A Lady's Cruise on a French
Man-of-War," the Wesluyan mission
aries on the Friendly Islands aro doing
all they can to crush out all picturesque
nes from native life, and to mtro.lueo
black coats and Parisian bonnets a an
integral part of tho Christian religion.
-V. 1". Graphic.
Mr. Corcoran, the Washington nhi-lanthropi-t,
though xery ill, did not for
get to send his annual " treat1' of straw
berries and ice-cream to the various
charittblo institutions of that city the
other da. This treating is dono every
June. On Christmas and New Yea'r
days dinners are sened in tho institu
tions at his expense. Chicago Times.
Miss Ch--!", a sister of Edwin Baoth,
in her work, lately published, "The
Elder and the Younger Uooth," tells an
incident in the life of her father, which
gains interest from tho fact tint it is un
doubtedly true. While on a trip South,
on tho steamer Neptune, Mr. Ilooth (J.
1!.) had on one of his tits of depression,
and finally jum'icd overboard. Tom
Flynn, the actor w ho accompanied Dooth
on tho xoyage, took a small boat, in
company with other, and linilly suc
ceeded "in rescuing the wotild-lo sui
cide. Almost the first words uttered
by Ilooth after they drew him in were:
"I say, Tom, look out! You'rca heavy
man; bo steady; if the boat upsets we'll
all be drowned." ("ticajo Journal.
IIU-MOKOLS.
The person who stands and holds the
spring-screen-door half open is abroad
in the land. We trust the flies will get
the best of him sometime. Xeur Ihctn
L'egister.
A Denver paper professscs lo think
it marvelous that a man whoo brains
were knocked out is still living. If ho
were out this way he would not be only
living, but he would bo holding somo
important office. Louisville Courier
Journal. Writing of the death of an old and
paid-up subscriber, the editor of one ol
our exchanges saj s: " Our hands and
heart and tho foreman aro all too fidl
for us to express our tumultnous grief as
we cheerfully otherwise wouldst."
Laramie Boomerang.
"Mamma," said a wee pet, "they
sung 'I want to bo an angel.' in Sunday-school
this morning, and I sun"
with them." " Why, Nellie!" exclaimed
mamma, " couldyou keep time with the
rest?" " I guess 1 could," proudly an
swered little Nellie; "I kept ahead of
them most all the way through." -V.
y. Tribune.
An East Boston father discovered
that his daughter, who has a soul for
romance, proposed to elope, and ho
didn't sit up with a bulldog and shot
gun to waylay tho fugitives. Oh, no!
lie went to his daughter and told her
he desired her to marry a yonng man,
naming her lover, and he would set him
up in a good-paying grocery basiness:
and the young lady at once declared
she'd die rather than marry any man
just to please her father.
T6e " preliminaries " of the occa
sion had all been settled. That is, John
had asked Julia and she had consented.
They were sitting on the front verandah
watching for the sable curtain of night
to part and give them just one look at
the new comet. "Ob, ly the way, Ju
lia," said he a little nervously. "My
income is is $850 now. DovoutliinK
we could live np to it?" " Why, John,
you precious, I can live up to an income
twice as big as that all by myself." The
farewell kiss that night was a mere me
chanical bit of nscuhuion. Alio Haccn
Staiattr.