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Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-10-07
SOCIALISM AND IHSANIHg.

Views eff u, learned Man, Who t,ElisaJ
That All Anarchists Are DeInentess.
Some time ago a romantic story
was puafert.p shat Louise Niche. the
female leader of the PariS .COmnn,;n-
lists, Vas. Insane. She mad fMllcn
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. with a nableman, it
was said. irh her early yoath,- and
aspireisto, be. his wife. He had en-
couraged. this feeling aasloagc rs it
amused alim. and then had ithrOwn her
aside Hisa oantempt. This treatment
had earsgedl her against his class. and
she secame' a mOnO-m anikic sU the
subjext.,. Hence her bitterness; toward
rank Massdue to = mispkseed filtration,
and mt to, any innate lowe. ftx the
masses sagainSt classes. Now aosnes L
learned Dr. LOmbrOsO, who declares
in "a French publication. TINT all
Anarchists and Communists, are de-
mersed. He finds thass q, propensity
for revolution is merel pa denlanstra-
tioIeof insanity, and should ba. treated
the same. M other forias. Hn thinks
thGa adv ocates of destletiDx, of gov
eruMent; and the distribution Of prop
ery, it. placed under restrsina some
where and properly treated would, in
course Of time, for tn a. most part, be-
came as, Lucid and sehsiha. IS other
people. This learnedl DIR; Edombroso,
siterr certain Investigations, dis
covers that revolutions oaccr chiefly
IN wsum countries; aNG during
summar The heat: Suns up the
blood and excitess the. mind. Tho
is REALLY the thing "a
lbe leaked to for explanation of many
lof; tha social phenonena Witnessed, and
iit is. fonnd to be- truek as the ancisnt
sagsS thought, that the dog-star sets
mez,. &swell as THAR four footed friends.
mRE. To illustrate. tlae. fact, the doc
torshows that odneaI9y two hundred
popular outbreaks in Europe, cayer>
ilqg.EIance, italy and Greece, thers.wero
tAazty-two in June and twelve IN No
vsmber, and the Summer averaged
three times asmany as the colder Sea-
sons. All leaders of the Socialistic
propaganda this eminent physician
considers insane. He recalls, the fact
that after the Paris conspiracx,. in 1871,
four of the chiefs of the movement were
discovered. upon examination. b be
hereditary lunatics, while four others
had previously been under treatment
for insanity. Amongthe rabble nearly
two thousand were found to be de-
arranged and had to be placed under
treatment for year. The doctor
gives the history Of humber of cases
and shows that extravaganza social the
cries are almost Synonymous with in-
sanity, and that one of the manifesto.
tons of the disease is homicidal ten.
dsncy. The popular term, ''crank."
therefore, in connection with these
persons is certainly not misplaced
BaItiMore Daily Ncsc&
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-10-07

and looked doen upon the dead hovs.
face. The Indians passed. him bv m.
noticed. and he probably wandered
around for two OF three DAYS. I'm
thinking he died yesterday Of hunger
aud ionesomeness. It was Gods mercy
that he went that way
Two OF the men lifted up the little
body and deposited it in one of the
wagons. and we then pushed ahead on
the trail. The settler had made q ri
liant race Tor it, and his tie am must have
been a powerful one, for we did not
come up with the wagon until we had
gone fully i've miles from the spot where
we found little curly-head. When we
gathered around it every man thanked
God that the child had died another
death: The naked, gashed, hacked
and butchcred bodies of the mother
and two other children were lying on
the trampled grass around the wrecked
wagon. Every thing went to show
that the savages had slowly tortured
theIn to death, probably being two or
three hours att. But the worst sight
OF all was the body of the husband.
He had made brare fight at the hast,
as the sarcasses of three Indian po~ies
near by went to prove. They HAD
staked Aim out on the ground and
tortured him in every way known to
savage cruelty. Bis ears and nose had
been cut of, his tongmc cut out. his
cheeks slif open, his eyes gouged out.
his fingers and toes cut off, the cords
of his legs and arms pulled out, and,
finally. rs a grand climas, he had been,
and fire. built in the
cavity. Each man in his heart prayed
that the settler was dead long before
this browning act. The wagon had
been plunder;Sd and the horses driven
away, and no4hing was lefa for us but
to dig a wide. deep grave. and place
therein the dead. Side by side we laid
them in, little curly-heath between
Father and mother, and as che grave
was filled and we took up the line of
march every man in that long column
bent his head m reverence-Detrol
Free Press.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-10-07
A LIVING ISLAND.

How a Poor Bird Built Her Nest Upon
the Back of Alligator and What
Came of It.
The alligator is not in any way an
attractive animal. On the contrary, i.
is about us repellent in looks and dis
position as any living creature very
well can be. And yet in one respect,
at least, 1t is to be envied-it can go
through life without ever needing a
dentist, unless it be to eat him; for it
never keeps its teeth long enough to
give them any chance to decay or ache
or get out of order in any way. When
an alligators tooth is worn out or
broken. or in need of any kind of re-
par, 1t drops out. and. behold! new
one is ready to take its place. But /
hardly need say that the alligator's teeth
are a JOY only TO itself
Another peculiarly of the alligator
Is its ability TO sleep. Like other rep
tiles, it is SO cOld-blooded that it likes
warmth and hates cold. 1t needs wa
ter, too, and as the dry season and the
cool season come on together in Flor
ada, there is a double reason why the
FLORIDA alligator should 90 into winter
quarters. 1t buries itself in the mud
after the manner of its kind and settles
down for a long nap.
Sometimes it happens that grass and
Guick.lgrowing shrubs spring up on
the back of this torpid animal As q
rule these are all shaken Or washed off
when, with the first warm rains, the
g.
the water; but occasionally, for some
reason. the mud clings, and with it the
piant-growth. SO that when the half
awakened creature slides in;o tie
water aud floats stupidity of, it looks
like floating island.
ID one such instance, plover was so
: deceived as 10 build its nest in the
plant-growth OH the alligator's back
The living island so freightcd floatcd
slowly down the stream until it was
noticed by party OF boys who were
out fishing. They saw the plover rise
from the little island, and suspeeting
nest to be t;!cre, they gave up their
fishing and rowed out to it.
They never suspected the nature OF
the island until they had bumped their
boat rather rGdeiy into ii once or twice.
and so vcxcd tie alligator that il
opened its huge mouth with startling
-suddenncss that brought chorus OF
yells from the nest-robbers, and sen:
them OF in tit mood to sympathi>e
with the plover. which was Tutoring
about and crying piteously at the
raid upon its nest.
The poor bird was doomed to lose its
nest however. for the alligator, having
AZ last been thoroughly aroused. dis
covered how hungry it was, and Owed
down in search of food, thus washing
oil island, nest and all.-St. Nicholas.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-10-07

Panl trying to drown himself as Usual
What have you ocen doing?"
the boy answered by relating hi
dream.
We'll. I dare say shall see yot
commanding 4 ship yet. said thu
Young officer. ''for you're right gooo
sailor already. But as for this flag OF
yours-what did you say it was like?o''
All covered with red stripes. Mr.
Pearson, and thirteen white stars in
one corner, on blue ground"
"Well, your dream was wrong there,
my lad," chuckled Lieutenant Pearson,
for l know every flag that flies, and
therc's none such among them. What
ever Gag you fight under it won't be
that. unless you patch it up for your
self"
The sun was shining upon the sea as
brilliantly Us ever. but its brightest RAYS
cOuld not pierce the cloud of smoke
which wrapped two ships that lay side
by side. spouting fire at each other
from their battered PORTFOLIOS. The
captain Of the smaller vcssel-a short,
strongly-built, very handsome man,
with keen black eye-gaye his orders
as .coolly as ever, but his bold brown
face was growing very grave and stern.
And well it might. His whole deck
was one heap of torn canvas and splin-
tered wood. Nearly half his crew were
lying dead, and the hollow gurgle be-
meath his feet tod how fast the fatal
water was pouring into the hull where
heavy shot had pierced it below the
water-line.
Suddenly there was lull IN the
firing, followed by deafeniBg shout
OF triumph. Down came the British
flag from the place where, torn though
it WAS with the pelting shot, it had
iiuttcred deiantiy I'll now; and as the
victorious captain sprang aboard the
enemy's ship. be saw the English COM
tall iine-looking man, with
a thin streak OF blood across his
weather-beaten face = Offering his
sword in token OF surrender.
The conqueror started, and looked
Iseenly at him.
DO you remember the flag of my
dream, AIR. PearsoIns" asked he. point
ing 10 the Stars and Stripes floating
above them from the, stump of she only
mast that was left.
what" cried Captain Pearson, in
,mazement. ''are you my little Scotch |
riend John Paul?"
''They used to can me so thcn,"
answered the other. ''bst now I'm; bet
er known as Paul Jones'"
And American history will teN. as
ong as the world lasts, what work
1aul Jones did under the banner OF the
ssars and Stripes. Young
1eDD[e
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-10-07
WOMEN As CLERKS.
Their Remarkable Fltness for Places -
Responsibility and Trust.

Their Remarkable Fitness for Places q
i Responsibility and Trust.
It is not impossible that when wom-
en- have had more experience in public
life they will be as liable rs men to
err, but there is remarkable concur.
renee Of testimony at present to the
remarkable fitness for places of trust
which women so far have displayed.
The Buffalo Express has been investi-
eating the matter. and speaks an em-
Phatically good word in favor of lady
tcashiers. / can not find . case in
which one OF them has even been
Justify accused q embezzlemsxt. One
retailer said that the cashiers were IN
vasiably honest, but occasionally u fe-
mabe clerk had been detected in pill
ferm& small articass-collars. haAdker-
CHIEF and the like.-but the cases ara
rare A leading dry-goods dealer
said: Il never kns~ woman who
handled other peoples money to steal
one cest- have employed womeN As
cashiersfoF years. .shey are quicker
at making change than men; they
will detect counterfeit mozsr
quicker; hey keep their cash accounss
clearer, ,naL they don't want to rum
the whole store, as mem do" In ths;
same line Chicago journal SAYS:
'.AIthough hundreds cf women hol&
positions of financial trust in Chicago
and elsewhe-e. in the country, we have
yet to hear Osfcne of theHas being guilty
.l<sr> \ fnl
aGeneral Spinhas, who iirrS introduced
Indies into the United States treasury
AZ clerks and accountants. left on re-
cord striking testimony If the efici-
elry and integrity of the SIX: and no
ose ever had a better opportunity to
study the question than he Who at one
tifuR had one thCNsand women under
hissdarection engaged chietlr in hand
ling money. Hes testifies that they
cownU more accurately and; rapidly
thaz, men, that their ability 70. detect
co,sauerfeits proved to be sSsperior in
alnsast every test. that they were with
out 7sn exception honest, and we're in
variabiy more careful and paiasSaking
in thairwork. Complaints ofin accuracy
and soresesness on the part of nsswwere
Ausbue lfC3uChIiy VuI GiS oCuCl COS toPii- |
ner' administration H the United States
treas arM,. but such complaints against
lady clerks were few The shNwdest |
and s1ickest detectops of couaterfeit |
were women and in cases of
as to the genuineness of nancy
Spinner invariably took the
Judgment of a Miss Grandin, we0 was
for long, time employed in his bureau.
In speaking of her ability in this par
ticular ORG day. General Spinneusoid:
IF Woe . believer ilselairvoyaase I
would say that she posed that FoWer,
but as L am not / caF it instruct"
There mas. rule in the department.
Q lady clerks ,zho married to
resign sheir positions, and whsgNthis
lady married the venerable treasurer
asked that the rule be ssspendecX be-
cause the Government could nottwell
her services. Alth1ugh
here are several Thousand womnrDem-
Dloyed ~. the Governments as c'arks,
postmistresses aDed in
,ther capacities, not sn has ever
proved gnfa;thful to her trust. Many
lave been. dIscharge ia, incapacity
md for other rea sons; never .OssA for
o. Pcayesse.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-10-07
Thirsting for Satisfaction.

Gus" said q fast young man b q
companion, - You had to be dunned
every day where would yos rather hp
damned. dowA in the street or up in
your rooms''
up in my room. of course"
Because you don't want every body
10 know itS'
mo, it's not that, but what / want
is the satisfaction of kicking the fellow
downstairs "-Te10 Ssfsin1s.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-10-07

.-Adamascobite. says the Industrial
World, is . newly discovered mineral
found only in Missouri. which cuts
steel with great rapidity and yet -.
tains . very tine. keen edge
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-10-07

"A CRUSADE against baby carriages
IS being prosecuted BY an English med
ica1 man. who attributes much OF the
infant mortality from diseases Of the
brain and lungs to exposure in car.
yiagcs
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-10-07

"A letter directed .Brass Door"
Cape Breton, arrived at it, piace q
destination, Brass dor. G. r
Arizona weekly citizen., 1886-10-23
Reforms.

"SherIff-' Shaw. as a refOrmer. Is a new and interesting phase 1.-the present campaign.
 If fattempts 10 collect from the county an overchsrge of SliS,O0 ID a bill of S3136O for transporting prisoners to Yuma. after being advised by the dis trict attorney that the charge was i'm proper and could not be collected. and a failure to collect the license taxes, are reforms. then Shaw is reformer.
 ltmaking the hero of Isnque Verde, and the alleged boss procurer of fraudu- lent registrations, Charles kreshsm, his chief depvty. is a reform in the sheriff7s office. then Shaw is a reformer.
 The truth IS, Shsvs reforms. like the Irish woman's storm, have all taken the wrong direction. His brief incumbency has shown inst he has no personal qual- ifications for the office, and be has neither the knowledge of men. nor strength of will. to cut loose from the miserable gang of leeches thst have been su, king his blood for years, aud by placing him under obligations for their dirty work prevent him from kicking them aside, If be wished to,
 If be bad not been compromised" into office there might have been 6 pos sibility of bis election; but now that his utter incspscity and weakness have been sho Sn. no one who desires an honest and efficient administration of the sherifFs office can oonscientiously vote for him. A.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1886-10-23
A Bloody AnraY.

Thursdays CITIZEN gave a brief item to the effect that man who had put his head inside of window few nights ago WAS taken for Q burglar and re- ceived heavy blow with a cane. leaving Q bloody record on the sidewalk. Fur ther particulars and correction of this statement are furnished by Rev. Aug Morin, in front of whose residence on Church plaza. the affair occurred.
 Father Morin says that be was awak- ened about two o'clock Monday morning by an unusual noise outside, which he took to be the maudlin freaks of 0 drunken person. They were of such an unusual character, however, that he got out of hIs bed and went 70 the street door to ascertain the cause of the noise, and he saw at the west end of the house man sitting upon the ground snl leaning his head sgaInst the wall. He took the man to be drunk. particularly as he saw by the adjacent lodging house light, a mass of something upon the ground which indicated the expulsion of the contents of his stomach. Just then he SAW two pretty tall men, with long overcosts on, come from towards Mesilla street; one of them went straight to the prostrste man and the other walked toward the Palace hotel for some distance, apparently looking for some one. The first one spoke to the recumbent figure and wanted him to go with him. He asked for his hat, which was lying in front of the door in which Father Morin was standing, and the other urged him to go home, and he replied that he felt well and could get along. The newcomer then told him be had better go, for the man might come again and shoot or stab hIm. He helped the poor fellow to his feet, but he staggered about like a drunken or insane man, and he could not see, his eyes were blinded with the blood.
 The man who had gone towards the Palace Hotel came up at this time and both took him by the arms and led him away, saying. "Never mind. go on: 1t Is better for you to go."
 The cook at the priests residence. whose room WAS close Co the scene of the nttack reports having heard DOT ton of the sffrsy, and says that when the man was assaulted the sssBilsnt said to hIm. "Why did you go there? What brought you there" and as he brought down his cane upon his victims head the latter pleaded. Don't kill me" and repeated the supphcation two or three times until he fell unconscious when the cane had been broken by the heavy blows.
 The next morning Father Morin pick ed up three pieces of the broken cane. and one piece was missing. It Is of heavy mesquit or ironwood and 10 have broken it heavy blows must have been stru sk. Dr. Crepin now has one of these pieces. The ground showed large pool of blood and the victim had evidently bled almost to death. No later develop ments have transpired to throw any light upon the mysterious sffrsy and nothing seems to be known about if.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1886-10-23
pIeuro-pneuntOnIa.

EDITOR CrTIZEs:-NOting the out bre ak of pleuro- pneumonia, amongst the cattle in the stockyards ot Chicago, and also It's reported existence ln this sec tion. the gravity O, the dise1se induces in me a desire to make public my e1- perience with regard to the only pracii- cal remedy, except the actual de-truc- ton of all infected. or possibly infected. cattle.
 Abou; twenty five yeas age l was ID Natal, South Africa, during the preva- lence of sn epidemic ci leuro- pneumo- mia, originating il l rs.aember right. from the importation of single Russian bull. into the Cape of c d Hope, which serves 10 show what might happen in Arizona from the importation of even one infected animsl. The epidemic al most swept South Africa clean of its horned stock, before its vlrulent cpd contagious character was iuliy rehllzed or any effectuRl remrdy discovered Co stay it's progress, The remedy found at last to be the only practical resource, was the inocllRtion Of all animals ex- posed to possible contsgion. The i1o- culation was performed ID the following manner: The lung Of an animal killed whilst suffering from the iatter etagsa or the disorder was used while fresh 70 ln- oculate the exposed animals with, one or two small pieces of the gangreued or diseased lung or pleura being inserted in an incislon made through the skin near the end of the tsIl, much ss m the manner of vaccination, when tie vaccine crust Is used by ''POcketIng it as it is sometimes called. The tail epd will afterwards swell and sometimes suppurate or gGngrene so much ns to render advisable the cutting oil of several joints from the diseased portion; the animal meanwhile suffering from the usual symptoms accompanying a mid attack of pleuro pneumnnIs, Animals very seldom die under the treatment, and once Inoculated are sbso lately safe from the disease, as vaccinated persons are from smallpox, to which the cattle dIsrRse designated as pleuro pneumonia, may be likered, as far as respects it's se- verity, tendency 10 death, and contagi- ous character. Sound animals cannot even be pastnred, where infected anl- mals have fed, for long time thereafter or they will contract the disease, or course the destruction and cremation of all diseased animals, or of animals e1- posed to infection, and of their corrals and stables. IS q proper method of en- deavoring to stamp out the disease ID its incipiency: but where this cannot be done, or should the disease spread much, rendering such a course impossibls. then the inocula.ion of Fll animals cS- posed to the contagion must be prac:ic- ed or ruin might become widespread, for there IS DO remedy yet knoEn Tor thls virulent disease, that can be relied upon, any more than there Is for small pox, and some other forms of contagious disease other than vaccination or i1OcU- latIon where there is exposure { -eso, but fortunately tbis remedy is bo sure and practical should 1t unfortunately become necessary to make use thereof
 Respectfully yours,
 ADOLPHUs T. NooS. M. D.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1886-10-23
Incompe;rney or Knavery-whrch?

IncOmpe; rncy or hnnVery-Which!
 When tIe UuIted States Grand Jury. commonly known As the trump grand jury" was Il session a year age, the one that was run md engineered by Tom Parish and l.. C. Hughes, Parish being on the inside and Hughes on the out slde), one Compromise H. King. Gt the urgent solicitation of those twin links of the denocratIc sausaSe-Farish * Hughes and GOGce others We could name, received talegraphic appointment from the Attorney General, Pan Electric Gar land, as special |. <. District Attorney for the spe,i ial purpose of prosecuting what were known as the ballot nases" then being investigated by the grand jury.
 Under this authority Comp. King prepared, and there was returned by the grand jury an indictment against Paul, Brady, Martin ssd Barron for conspira- cy, and one against Barron for stealing the ballots from the custody 0t MT. D. Snyder.
 In order 10 charge these parties with the semblar ce of an ofTense against the United S.a.es, It wEs found necessary Co Bllego ia these indictments shat Mr.
 
 ton 10 Tucson precInct, and m whose store the ballots were placed after the count. was gu officer Uf the United States. and as such officer of the United States had the custody of these ballots,
 These indictments were demurred to by counsel for defend ants on the ground that no offense BgaInst the United States was stated, and these .lnvs lsra Tor haa iDg before his Honor, Judge Barnes.
 It required no argument on the partj of defendants to enable Judge Barnes tO see the utter worth lesssness of the indiclments- As soon as the indictments were read to him, and the point of the objection stated, he called on Comp. to know upon what ground the indictments could be sus- tained2
 IhereupOn Comp. got upon his feet, md presenting, as ne did SO, a spectacle most pitisble and humilisting, replied ID his peculiar tones, well, your honor, it seems to me very u-i c-e point, but If your honor thinks that the judges of elections are not federal officers, sup pose the indictments are bad" The court remarked he had no doubt Gbnut II, and roms;Iy dismissed the iudict menis.
 At that time, l, will te remembered, Comp. King was working up hIa case to find grounds upon which he could base a motion for neS trial ID the civil case of Paul vs. Shaw.
 Now, one or the other of two things must inevitably be true: viz That the Comp. has not the knowledge of the law requisite in n prosecuting officer;Or that be Is a knave, and knowingly prostItuted the grand jury and machinery of the court to the persecution If these men with view 10 its effect upon his pro posed motion for a new trial.
 We charitstly conclude that 1t was the Comps profound ignorance of the law: that he honestly supposed thet our election officers were appointed by Grover Cleveland. aud not by the board of supervisors. or that in some peculiar way all power and authority emanated from the president ot the United States. But Comp. knows beet which 1t was, and We will let him take his choice.
 The people, however, will not. in either case. elect him to the responsible ! office of district attorney.