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Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-07-15
LEATHER BREECHES.

Solomonic Decision by the Emperor of
Austria in u Guild Difficulty.
The Emperor of Austria has recent
ly rendered an ingenious decision. The
tariff difficulty that has existed between
the empire and Roumania for some
time has caused the revival in Austria
of the ancient trades guilds, with their
privileges and their prejudices. A
shoemaker or a tailor, for instance,
can no longer open a shop without
having first proved his professional ca
pacity. The State, on the other hand.
has engaged to defend them against
any undue competition. Lately, at
Gratz, war broke out between the
glovers and the tailors which became
so bitter as to recall the grotesgue
wrangles of the bourgeois OF the middle
ages. The tailors contended that, by
virtue of the new law, the glOvers had
no longer 4 right to make the leather
breeches worn by the Syrian mount
aineers. The glovers replied that they
were breeches-makcrs as well as
glovers and possessed the privilege of
furnishing the Styrians with their
breeches for centuries, and it was the
tailors who were engaged in an illegal
trade. To this the. tailors rejoined that
if it was privilege it was abolished
by the new law, and they would not
allow it to be re-established unless the
Emperor should decide that pair of
gloves and pair of brooches were
identical As the affair threatened to
lead to bloodshed his Majesty inter-
vened. Initiating the wisdom of Solo
mon. he decided that the privilege of
making the leather breeches should
thenceforth belong to the tailors and
glovers both-.'to the tailo-s by nat
ural right and to the glovers by the
right of tradition" All parties are
now misunderstanding the mount
aineers who have to wear the brooches.
London Truth.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-07-15
HE WITHDREW.
Tho Kind Of Br;be Which Proves IRE
sistible to n Dakotan.

The Kind of Bride Which Proves IRE
sistible to n Dakotan.
Two men living in the same town
were once rival candidates for the
Dakota Legislature. They both went
into the canvass and worked hard but
a third candidate came out and stood
a prospect of getting it when one of
the men went to the other and said:
Now. see here. Mcbride, if one of
us don't pull out old Skinner is going
to be elected"
"Yes, know it,
s.He aint man who would know
enough to make any thing out of the
place and I'd hate to see him get it.
Now, want you to withdraw.
"Well, how interesting are you going
to make it?"
.rIl tell you what I'll do; you
pull out and I'll admit to every man
l see that you once beat me trading
horses"
..Hey? Will You do that?"
..YOu bet willr'
"Put card in the paper to that
effecte"
.Yes. and say that believe no liv-
ing man in the Territory can come
nearer to a horses age by looking at
its teeth than you cant
'.All right-I'll draw out and leave
You the field. ''-Estelline Cd. IT,
Bell.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-07-15

tricate or ornamental they cost be-
tween thirty and fifty dollars After
the carving is done the stone IS pol
ished first with lump Of lead or zinc.
and then with tripoli. rouge and putty.
after which the stone is examined with
glass of great power. and any slight
defect remedied. The work is then
ready for the jewcler."
''What is incrusted work.?
''Stone-incrusting is an old method
that has sprung into favor again dur
ing the last few years. The design or
letters are cut into the onyx and pure
leaf gold or fine platinum hammered
into the cuts until flush with the sur
face. When properly done this work
is very beautiful and lasting"
els there any thing new in your inc
for the coming season."
Nothing of importance. Here IS
the only thing that can be termed 4
novelty. We call it the crazy-luilt
combination stone. Small fragments
of different coiored onyx, comedian.
tiger-eye and all varieties are ce-
mented together and afterward cut and
polished into ring and pin sizes. In the
one you have in your hand there are
eighteen different varieties. They look
well and are quite novel, so perhaps
there may be a run on them when prop
erly brought forward. "-Chicago Inter
OceHu
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-07-15
A PROVOKING MAN.
How He Aroused the Interest and DisaP-
pointed Three Women.

How He Aroused the Interest and DIsap-
pointed Three Women.
There were three middle-aged wom-
en- and two middle-aged men in the
car. The men sat opposite each other,
and pretty soon one of them exhibited
something which looked like horse
chestnut and said to the other:
Here is what was speaking of.
It's the most subtitle poison known. A
little scraped off into a cup OF tea or
milk will kill within an hour and leave
no trace"
Cant the doctors discover it?'
asked the other.
''No, sir. 1t is absolutely impossible
to detect its presence in the human
system. If wife wasn't living very
happily with her husband
CIhe three women looked at each
other)
what boon this would be.
She could have q little of this ready
for his cup of tea at supper time, and
he would 60 to his bed, fall asleep and
die without struggle. She
(All the women craned their necks
to see the object.)
would give the alarm, summon
the doctor, and of course do more or
less weeping and grieving in order to
carry out her part. The
(The women looked at each other
in a knowing Way
doctor would call it case of
heart disease, and not the slightest
suspicion could possibly attach to the
widow. The only trouble
Zach woman bent forward and held
her breath to listen.)
''--is to get the article into the
hands of such women rs would like to
use it. and to have them understand
that l was a person who could be
trusted. How
Zach woman shook her head as if
saying that it would be dangerous.)
ever, perhaps l shall hit upon
some plan. I'm off here. Goodbye"
Each woman followed him with her
eyes until he turned a corner, and then
they looked suspiciously at each other
and nodded their heads, as if saying:
.'She'd like that poison-you bet she
ouldr'-DstrOit Free Press.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-07-15
LOVE IN A COTTAGE.
KANSAS.

Come from the city to our cottage home
Screened with the honeysuckle's trellised
vines:
leave for time the dust and glare, and
Where the dews fall-the sun serenely
shines.
Where morning birds trih each delicious note
That echoes from the hillside and the rocks:
There in our scented bower, we'll read
The rise and fall of stocks"
Pshaw! unromantic plodding man, has life
No other aim than that Of sOrd;d gain!
Leaves fools to carry on the sOrdid strife,
And o or their musty ledgerS rack the brain:
Let US go forth where hyacinths unfold
Their purpling pctals-where the sun has
lent
: The starry crocus all its wealth of gold
lat thirty-three per cent
o what brute! and is their then no charm
In clover-scented fields, and purling hills?
When it is wrestling with the piumed hills,
And when the whispering twilight sets the
OF silence with its cool and Qucnched light,
And to and fro dim forms are seen to steal
Our chickens every night"
oh! that had friend with soul attuned
To the neglected yearnings of my own,
Instead of barbed words that seek to wound,
Nv voice would find u sympathetic tone;
Together we would roam DER lawn and mead,
screens,
Where our united souls could love, and feed
lon bacon cooked with green's"
IN. O. Times Democrat
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-07-15
Handsome Garniture.

One of the prettiest modes for chill
drens' evening toilets is the pure white
design. Some of these costumes are
one. mass of lace and embroidery.
Most elaborate, too. are the ribbon
bows, placed here and there, and then
the ribbon-sashes are in various pat
terms; the plain. one-color ribbon is
often preferred. White cashmere.
serge and French nuns vailing are fab
rics much sought after in selecting an
evening or afternoon dress for child
visiting fashionable resort. Bonnets
and hats are more generally worn than
lace caps. except by very small chill
dren.-N Y. Telegram.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-07-15


While the toad is very useful in tho
garden to destroy slugs and insects, Il
IS not good thing to have near your
bee hives, as it also swallows heavily-
laden honey bccs.-C Cleveland Leader.
Cold baths are dangerous to the old
or feeble. Warm baths are relaxing.
and should not be taken in the morn
ing. The morning is the best time for
cold bath, the evening for warm
one.-Boston Budget.
Weed and hoe the onions, peas and
all of the garden vegetables. harrow
the potatoes again, replant the corn
and commence ploughing it the very
day it is large enough. Keep the
ground which the crops occupy free
from weeds, loose and mellow.-N T.
Telegram.
-Oat-meal Cookies: Two and one
half cups of oatmeal, two and one
fourth cups of flour, one full cup of
butter, one cup of sugar. two eggs.
two tablespoonfuls of milk, one small
teaspOonful of soda. and one large
teaspo0nful of cinnamon. Roll thin
and bake in quick oven.-Ihe House.
hold.
Many experiments at home and
abroad indorse the practice of COM
posting fine-ground mineral phosphates
for some months with fecal barnyard
manure, as very efficient course to
secure, in an economical way, active
phosphoric acid for the successful pro-
6uction of our farm crops.-M. e.
Farmer.
The hogs should have undisputed
sway in the orchard during the fruit
season and they will eat up all the
fallen and wormy apples and hunt out
many Of the grubs, &C., which are in
furious to the trees. In this way they
destroy many of the enemies of sound
fruit and shade trees, and in other
ways greatly benefit the orchard.
Prairie Farmer.
"A Delicate Souffle: Dissolve quar-
ter of a pound of chocolate in luke
warm water; add the yelks of four eggs
and cup Of powdered sugar, and mix
we'll together until you have smooth,
frothy paste. Beat up the four whites
to stiff frOth and add them to the
mixture. Pour all into baking dish;
leave it for twenty minutes in the oven
and serve.-Toled0 Blade.
Squash and sweet potato vines
having rootlets that grow out from
the under sides of the joints. which
anchor them and prevent the wind
from dislodging them, should be lifted
very carefully when growing. rs the
rootlets not only hold the plants in
place, but assist in procuring nourish-
ment, and any damage done in hand
ling retards the vines. Western Rural.
DO not forget that fuchsias will
make their best growth in summer only
when partially shaded in the heat OF
the day. The beautiful fuchsias which
skilled florists show are made so by
careful and liberal pinch;ng back of
the fast growing stems. This induces
the tree-like habit which is so attract
i've in the fine specimens seen at exhi-
billions and florists greenhOuses.-Er-
change.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-07-15
A Lecture on Economy.

: "My dear, you haven't cut the
leaves of the magazine I brought home
last week."
Erred, haven't time to read. See
how 1 am getting along with my rick
rack"
..Yes. dear. You've worked steadily
at it every evening This week. haven't
you?"
"Yes."
There's about five yards of it. isn't
there?"
YES"
lyon can buy it in the store fer
about two cents a yard. can't you?"
Yes"
s.lhat would be ten cents, wouldn't
it? regard it as a wonderful freak OF
economy. The gas. the tax on your
eyes. the superiority of rick-rack over
. well-stored mind. the"
..Fred!"- Youths Compo.ios.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-07-15
PERILOUS SPINSTERS.
A Bachelors Fierce TRADE Against Love
Sick Maidens Of Mature Years.

Bachelors Fierce TRADE Against Love.
Sick NIaidens of Mature Years.
IL don't like it, he said. bad-tem-
peredly. That's the tenth old lady
who's fallen in love with me-"
Il think that's complimentary 70
you."
'Is it? Oh, yes. That's all right. l
60 to a party, and the old lady takes
me into corner and begins to talk to
me, and she has a pretty daughter,
and there's an ocean of pretty girls,
and l see somebody want to dance
with, and the old lady says:
''You don't want to dance; sit here
and talk to me-
swell. why don't You get out and
dance?"
II can't. A nice old lady, who flat
tiers you by asking your opinion of her
daughters beaux, and tickles your
vanity with all sorts of pretty little
touches-I tell you, my boy. you may
talk as you like about young women
ard widows, and spinsters and flirts,
but there isn't any flirt in creation SO
dangerous as a single woman at fifty
five, whose hair is just sprinkled with
silver. They have ways about them.
Confound it all, 1 remember getting
quite spoony on an old lady of sixty,
who was too old to dream of disguis-
ing her age.
'.You laugh. All right. Some day
you'll catch it, perhaps. But you don't
seem to be lovable. If they'd only get
mad and let you alone. But no. they
simply take a snub quietly and wait
the next chance"
II don'tthink that's every body's ex-
periencc.
May be not That makes it all the
worse. You see, an old lady is priv
ileged to talk out, even about love,
and when she talks of love you think
she means as q son or something like
that Then you find out that it's just
the same kind of love as. anybody
else's, and you've kind of encouraged
it and accepted it, especially il she has
money. Even money is no good. /
knew an old widow lady of sixty-five
who was passionately attached to me,
and when she died she left all the
money to q congregation. tell you.
I'm not going to stand it any more.
The next old lady that falls in love
with me will get left, and don't you
forget it.''-San Francisco Chronicle.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-07-15

"A Western editor retorts to the at
tacks of his contemporary that there is
nothing fresh about the latter's sheet
but its editor. The amenities of jour
nalism are bound to flourish in the
boundless West. boston Transcript.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-07-15

The number Of the last patent, L.
sued in 1886, was SSS, 49S Of thase
about 265, G72 are now in force.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-09-23

)
Some communities ii. South Carolina
have been generous to Charleston ID her
present. cifcnnstancea, but their donations
have not come near mp 70 the needs Of
that uni fortunate people. IN few min.
s9tss sixty thousand people we're rendered
slhomsiea, and ten million dollars worth
ofproperty vas destroyed. Contributions
mounting TO aboaf $s3D0, 600 have been
Forwarded to The sufferers, but this large
charity comes 8 mere matter Of tempo
I Srasy alieyiasion when We remember that
oniy gives I've dollara 10 each sufferer; !;
gor i Ne estimate that one.fourth of the
people Of Charleston need charity, then
Wslonly have twenty dollars each for the
ssi,i This sum will hardly pay for
sths food which! these people have to buy
until they are able to go on in business,
without leaving anything to help them
siestore their shattered homes. The
calamity ii Charleston has e1cellea any.
Thing which has ever visited this country
ia lta previous history. II Itisright, there.
fore, fot our people who have escaped
injury % help those upon whom this
seaianity has fallen, and We hope that
those who have not already done SO will
sforRard ss liberal donations as they can
ssaord ITO relieve our unfortunate friends
sh7 tha sea. &
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Through to Knoxville.

N1NETy.S1X, S. c., Sept. l8.-A meet.
ing of the stockholders of the Atlantic,
Greenville and Western Railroad was
held here to-day. President Hammett
presided. A large number of the stock
holders were present from different Sec
tions of the country.
A resolution was offered and adopted
empowering the president and board of
directors to change the gauge of the road
to standard gauge, if it was practicable,
and further empowering the president
and board of directors to mortgage the
road bed at the rate of $4,000 per mile,
if the road was to be built on the narrow
guage plan, as first contemplated, and to
mortgage it to an amount not exceeding
5000 per mile, if the gauge was changed
to the standard width. The meeting
thereupon adjourned until the first
Thursday, the 4th, of November next:
Immediately after the adjournment Of
the stockholders meeting, meeting OF
the president and board Of directors was
held. I understand that proposition
has been submitted to the board for their
consideration, by responsible parties, to
purchase the road bed, they-the pur-
chasers assuming all liabilities, and
taking the bonds and subscriptions to the
road and obligating themselves to have
the road completed from here to Augusta
in 80 days, and to complete the road
from here to Knoxville, Tenn, in two
years, if the property owners along the
line will pay the taxes on the bonds, or
in ether words the railroad tax for two
years. At the expiration of that time
the purchasers agree to cancel the bonds
of the different townships, and they
further agree to retain the present officers
of the road. am not advised as to what
the board has done. The proposition
seems to be liberal one and meets the
hearty approval of the stockholders, and
especially the taxpayers. What we want
is railroad, and that quick. 80 that we
can get our freight at living rates and
open up aud develop this rich agricultu.
raj country.-Speeial to the augusta
Chronicle.
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One year ago the pastor of the
Presbyterian Church at Annapolis, Ind,
the Rev. r. H. Williams, offered prize
to the scholar of the Sunday school who
would commit the largest number of YER
ses of Scripture to memory. 1t was won
by Miss Jennie Hyde, who learned l,5O0
verses. She died before the expiration
of the year. Several days ago the pastor:
presented Mrs. Fannie Hyde, mother of
the deceased, the prize won by her daugh-
ter-a handsome volume of Whittier's
poems.
j. M. Means, of Liberty, Mo-, has q
forty .year.old clock that is perfect ba.
rometer. Just before a rain the bell,
usually of clear and distinct tone, tolls
the hours in tone 80 dull and muffied as
to be hardly audible. 1t never makes a
mistake.
= Mrs. Adeline Robinson of Appleton,
Maine, is seventy.seven years old, but
that did not prevent her going down into
a well twenty feet deep, hanging to q
rope aud clambering down the rocks, and
cleaning it out the other day.
- Congressman James D. Brady says
that Mahone's power is forever gone in
Virginia, and that his candidate for Con.
gress in the Petersburg district, Gaines,
will be overwhelmingly defeated.
This has been the greatest tobacco
year, in point of receipts, in the history
of Lynchburg, Va. BY the lat of Octo.
ber, when the fiscal year ends, the sale
will have reached 3S,000,0O0 pounds.
The New York Worlds special
newspaper train has made the fastest run
on record. 1t recently ran 14S miles in
1876 minutes.
Things are going on so fast among
the Japanese that there is talk of their
having an Agricultural Party" in their
long. looked for National Assembly.
= A Canadian great.grandfather re.
Gently was present at the christening of
his one hundred and seventeenth descen.
dant.
If the different religious denomina-
tions of the Union were to act in concert,
the churches of Charleston would soon
ha rehuilt
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-09-23

,s The Republican party is starting out
4 with 8 new issue which may prove very
s sstrong issne before the country. A mum.
beI of influential leaders of the party,
iLclnding such men as Senators Blair and
Window, styling themselves anti.saloon
epubJ bJicans, favor the adoption Of .
platform by the National Republican
Party opposing Che liquor traffic in the
limited States. at 9 meeting in Chicago
onS last Thursday, which was called to
sosJer hy Senator Blair, resolutions de-
: cIadng war on the saloons and calling on
. Temperance men and women and all
fsisnds Of humanity, of whatever name or
! party. To- join them for the overthrow Of
these establishments. They also deman.
ded that the Republican party, to which
sthey belong and whose welfare they cher.
isb, shall take. 9 firm and decided stand
IS the friend of home aud the enemy of
he saloon, in favor of this policy and
these nsasures. Many of tbe Democratic
sil papers of the country are disposed to
rriidiclls this movement. We, however.
ssee no occasion for merriment over it.
If tie Republican party had controlled
she prohibition rote in the last election,
BIsine would today be President in.
n ! sssstead 4 ar SCfeagefnd. The Republican
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MASTERS SALE.
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,


In the Court of Common Pleas.
R. +. Diver VS.. ]. L. Pepper and M. H.
Naturalization TO Foreclosc Mortgage
DURSUANT to Decree of Foreclosure
i made by his Honor Judge J: 3: Ker, ,,
shaw, bearing date June 2S, 1856, ! VII WI
sell at Anderson G. II. S. c.. on SALES-
DAY IN OCTOBER NEXT, at public
outcry, the mortgage premises below de-
Ali that Tract of Land, situate in Ander-
son Co., S. c., on waters of LITTLE. Beaver
Dam Greek adjoining War lands 1oSason OF mnocd oGd
Keys, Eliab Ambrose, Wm. Johnson ana
TERMS OF SALE-One-half cash, and the
remainder on credit of twelve months
with interest from day of sale, secured !by
bond and mortgage of the premises, with
leave to anticipate payment. purchaser 70
p"' W. w. HUMPHREYS Master.
Snnt q 1856
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FOR SALE!

THE valuable River Plantation, con-
i tanning about five hundred acres Of
Land, situated on Seneca River, at Shallow
FE9rd containing valuable Tnatespower and
necessary outbuildings, with coinmodious
barns, is offered at private sale. There is o
Cotton Gin. Feeder and Condenser and
a Thresher, with Engine to run the same,
on the place. Will take $G,0O0.0O for the
whole. Persons wishing to purchase can
call and examine the place, or commune
cate with the undersigned.
D. s. WHITE,
Broyles P. o., s. G.
Sept 16. 1886 10