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Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-09-20
WOMAN'S DEPARTMENT.
BE A WOMAN.

Oftrve heard Q gentle mother:
As the twilight hours began,
Pleading with . son on duty,
Urging him to DO man.
But unto her blue eyed daughter,
Though with iove-words quite - fes0y
Points she GU: the other duty,
"Strive, my dear. to be lady.
What's lady! Is II something
Made of hoops, and silks, and airs
Used to decorate the parlor.
Like the fancy rugs and chairs?
Is 1t ono that wastes on novels
Every feeling that Is human!
II It's this to be lady,
It's not this to be . woman
Mothers, then. unto your daughter
Speak of something higher tar
Than TO be mere fashions lady,
woman is the brightest star"
II you in your strong afectioi
Urge your son to be true man,
Urge your daughter no less strongly
To arise and bo . woman.
Yes, . woman! Brightest model
or that high and perfect beauty.
Where The mind and soul and body
Blend to work out LIES great duty.
Be woman. naught Is higher
On tho gilded crest OF fame,
On the catalogue OF virtue
There's no brighter, hOlier name.
-Homan's Journal.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-09-20

Laugh at the tinkering OF women a.
you choose. but it has been my observa-
ton that almost every contrivance Tor
use in the house has been made ana
suggested by the woman. and not Dy
the man. In almost every house where
there are children you will find a baby
house. in size from a starch box to q
packing box, made by mammals hands
Then there is the sitting-room sofa,
made from an old packing box.
A young housekeeper whose means
are limited, made the whole furniture,
with the exception of a bed. for her bed
rooms. The dressing-case, or bureau.
was fitted with shelves instead OF draw
ers, and the whole covered with cur
tain OF cretonne. On the top OF either
end were placed small starch boxes
fitted with shelves, the whole covered
with cretonne. with curtains to hide the
shelves. The goods were fastened down
with tacks which were hidden by mar
row pleating OF the same material.
Above the washstand was placed look
ing-glass about two-and-a-half feet in
length; over this was canopy OF Gre
tonne, the board at the top being about
ten inches in width and not quite the
length of the width of the glass. The
cloth was laid on the board in box
pleats. The whole separated in the
form of a pair of curtains, and were Sc
cured with ribbon bows at the top OF
the stand. Under the glass was mar
row shelf with a lambrequin OF Gre
tonne. The chairs were made of boxes
covered with the same goods. No backs
being used, the tops were padded with
cotton batting. The whole gave the
appearance of handsomely furnished
room, the total cost not exceeding two
guineas.
This woman is no exception to the
rule. In nine cases out of ten you will
find the girls quite as handy with the
tools as the men: and, indeed, in many
parts of Europe you will find woma
engaged in every branch Of carpentry
work.-Tankee Blade.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-09-20
THE BASEBALL CRAZE.

Amusing Examples OF Its ER0ct ON Some
Pittsburgh Youngsters.
It is wonderful what interest Pitts
burghers, young and old, male and fe'
male, take in base ball. A few nights
ago business man who had been de.
tanned in town unusually late, arrived
at his suburban residence about mid
night. For some reason he went into
the room where his youngest, boy Of
six summers, was sleeping. As he
lighted the gas the child awoke. and
sitting up in bed, called out eagerly:
"Pa, what is the scorer"
The youngster had been put to bed
before receiving this important infor-
nation. and very likely his sleep had
been troubled ON that account. To
say that his father was astonished
would be a mild statement of fact.
The other night the sporting editor
of the Dispatch had just seated himself
at his desk and begun his evening task
when tho Office boy announced that
a visitor was waiting to see him.
OAOW NlI0 liz Sd1O lilo 0Q1tOES
without looking up from his work.
A minute later there entered a
bright-eyed little fellow, so small that
only the top Of his cap was visible
above the edge of the table as he stood
beside it.
"Say, mister, what does II cost to
print a challenger"
"Whom do you want to challenger"
"Well, I'm the manager Of the Blue
Caps, of - street, and l want to
challenge the Stars, Of the S'teenth
ward. or any other club. to play .
matched game"
He was assured that the challenges
would be published, and walked out
with the air of man upon whom
great respon sibilities rested.
Some of the reports of amateur
games which are found in the base
ball editors mail would make the
richest.kind OF reading if published as
written. Though penned by childish
hands, and often full of bad spelling
and worse grammar. they are concise
and business-like, and give the news
without any circumlocution. Here il
specimen:
"A game was played to-day between
the Billy jackson Club. Of Minersville.
and the Sam Hill Club, Of the Ninth
ward. As the latter failed to appear
the game was given to the Jacksons
by q score of nine to nothing.-Pi1s-
bHrgh Dispatch.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-09-20
ARSENIC POISONING.
Danger Lurking in Cretonnes and Imita
ton Indian Muslins.

Danger Lurking in Cretonnes and 1mita-
ton Indian Muslins.
Or. Giffard, the medical officer at
Cooper's Hill, has brought some cases
to me in which he thought he detected
symptoms of arsenic poisoning, and in
every case the source of the poisoning
was traced either to . cretonne or to
an imitation Indian muslin that had
been used as a decoration by the stu
dent. As. during the past twelve
months, four unmistakable cases OF
arsenic poisoning have been brought
to my notice, have recently been in
vestigating the subject. The samples
upon which the experiments have been
performed were supplied by local
tradesman. The results obtained on
analysis are as follows: Forty-four
samples of cretonne have been analyzed,
and of these none were found abso-
lutely free from arsenic, three con-
tanned only the very faintest trace, and
twenty-one contained larger traces.
The remaining samples all contained
arsenic in poisonous quantities. In my
analyses have grouped eleven of them
as Every bad" and the other nine are
bad and distinctly dangerous. 1t may
be mentioned that one of the worst
specimens has been examined quanti-
tatively, and yielded An amount of
arsenic equivalent to rather more than
1871 grains of white arsenic "a. 2 o. 81
per square yard. As dose of ~
grains of white arsenic has been known
TO prove fatal, l should like to point
out the extreme danger that exists
from the indiscriminate use of these
materials. 1t is quite q common oc-
currence to have enough Of these sub
stances in room which would contain
sufficient arsenic to give one hundred
people fatal dose. As far as the an
alyses have gone st present. they do
not show that any one color Is more
poisonous than another, as, strange to
say, the greens and blues, that would
be the first suspected, have until now
proved purer than reds. browns and
blacks. In the case Of imitation In
dian muslins, i've samples only have
been analysed, but they all contained
arsenic in poisonous quantities. That
such = state Of Affairs should b ~
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-09-20
The NUMBER OF STARS.

L
/, oaly SIX ThoasaaA Of TAsn vlslbls - -
| Ordinarily Coed Eye.
The total number Of stars ono can
see will depend very largely upon the
clearness Of the atmosphere and the
keenness Of the eye. There arc in the
whole celestial sphere about 5000
stars visible to an ordinarily good eye.
OF these, however, We can never see
more than fraction ut any one time.
because q half Of the sphere is always
below the horizon. II We could see q
star in the horizon as easily as in tho
zenith, q half of the whole number. or
. 5000, would be visible on any clear
night. But stars near tho horizon are
seen through SO great . thickness Of
atmosphere as greatly to obscure their
light. and only the brightest ones can
there be seen. As result Of this OBJ
scuration. it is not likely that moro
than 1900 stars can ever be taken in
at q single view by any ordinary eye.
About 1900 other stars are so near tho
south pole that they never rise in our
ATTITUDES. Hence. out Of 5000 sup
posed to be visible. only 1000 ever
come within the range of our vision,
unless we make . journey towards the
equator.
As telescope power is increased. we
still find stars Of fainter and fainter
light. But the number can not 60 on
increasing forever in the same ratio as
with the brighter magnitudes. because.
if it did, the whole sky would be a
blaze of starlight. If telescopes with
powers far exceeding our present ones
were made, they would no doubt show
new stars of the twentieth, twenty
first, etc., magnitudes. But it is highly
probable that the number of such sue
cessive orders of stars would not in
crease in the same ratio as is observed
in the eighth, ninth and tenth magni-
tudes, for example. The enormous
labor OF estimating the number of stars
Of such classes will long prevent the
accumulation of statistics on this
question, but this much is
certain, that in special regions
Of the sky, which have been
searchingly examined by various tele-
scopes Of successfully increasing aper-
lures, the number OF new stars found
is by no means in proportion to the in
creased instrumental power. If this is
found to be true elsewhere. the conclu-
sion may be that, after all, the stellar
system can be experimentally shown
to be of finite extent and to contain only
a finite number of stars. II the whole
sky an eye Of average power will see
about 5000 stars, as l have just said.
With telescope this number is greatly
increased, and tho most powerful tele-
scopes Of modern times will show more
than GO, 900. 900 stars. OF this number,
not one out of 100 has ever been cata-
lOoued at all. In all, 314,926
stars from the first to the 9 1-2 magni-
tudes, are contained in the northern
sky; or about 100000 in both hemi-
spheres. All of these can be seen with
3-inch object-glass. -Pro: E. S.Holden,
in Century.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-09-20
BEHIND THE TIMES.

The Kind Of Shops from Which Young
Men Should Stay Away.
Nearly every industry has been inn
proved. Better methods of working
have been invented, and time and labor
has been saved thereby. Some
branches of business have been left be-
hind.
The clay-worker uses the same kind
of machinery that was in use 5000
years ago. The rope-maker still ties
a wad of tow about his waist and
PAGES backward his 2.16O feet per
hour, as he lays up spun yarn and
marline.
1t is still worse to see two men
wrestle with the old up and down
whip saw, in saving out planking for
Q vessel. The saw pit was once a
necessary adjunct to woodworking
yards, but it is, or should be. q for
gotten art. Is it surprising that wood
en- ship-building has declined from a
high industry, when such crude work
manship is practised?
Not alone is this thing practiced in
ship-building, rope-making and clay
working. In some machine-shops hav-
ing reputation for an excellent out
put, the most unmechanical methods
are practiced. In fact, these shops,
like the ship-yards, are yet in the
"chalk age Of engineering, and their
future is one of decline unless reform
be speedily instituted.
Fancy in this age of advancement
sewing machines constructed on the
cut-and-try principle! Nobody would
use sewing machines, and few would
be made. Why is it not equally obso-
lete to use the old methods in other
branches of iron-working? When plans
and drawings are made it is supposed
that each part can be finished separ-
ately, and. when assembled, will fit ex-
actly in their places.
Instead of this the mournful specta-
Gle of one man waiting for another,
Is he works by rule of thumb" upon
the " cut-and-try" principle. is not up
to the times, to say the least.
Such methods are only found in old
shops where the customers. workers,
tools and products have all grown old
together. Such shop is no place for
q progressive mechanic. 1t is living
upon its reputation, acquired in the
past Such a shop must die with its
present patrons, or new blood must Be
infused. the old management totally
dropped and new shop made out Of
the old one. Only q perpetual struggle
for the improved in every shape viii
keep men and shops from being "be.
hind the times. "-Bostos Budget.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-09-20
NOME. FARM AND oAapsN.

-Old barrel-hoops put around To-
DAto vines and nailed to stakes driv-
IN In the ground make an excellent
tollis.
Plants require various kinds Of
mineral matter. and derive them en-
6rely from the soil. but different plants
require different proportions in order
p have luxuriant growth.
When too large Aowerpots ara
used there win be more leaves than
flowers. Often plants do not bloom be-
cause. having so much space. their
strength is expended in forming roots
and leaves.
Thick brown paper should b, laid
under carpets. If the patent lining is
not to be had. 1t saves wear and pre-
vents the inrOads of moths, which,
however. will seldom give trouble if
salt is sprinkled around the edges when
the carpet is laid.
Stewed Cucumbers.-Pare large Gu
cumbers. cut them lengthwise into four
parts. and remove the large seeds; soak
half an hour in cold water, cock in
saltod water until tender. drain off the
water, and make q thin. white sauce
and pour over them.
"A liquid deadly to caterpillars ard
other animated pests OF trees and
shrubbery comes from boiling leaves
and stems Of tomato plants until the
juice has been extracted. This has
considerable odOr. which remains for
some time. and the application does
not hurt the plant.
For nildew on grapevines dust on
flour of sulphur either early in the
morning, while the dew is on, or after
a shower. when the leaves are wet.
For the grapevine beetle shaking the
vine early in the morning will bring
them to the ground. when they can DO
readily destroyed. Slaked lime sprirk-
led over the foliage destroys the larvae.
There are SO many beautiful an
nuals that blossom if early sown. from
the early spring until frost comes, that
the succession can be easily kept up.
and one need never be without them.
It will require but little time to cult
vate them, and the vigor gained from
the outdoor exercise will compensate
for its outlay. even if the flowers yield
ed no other returns.
Where weeds have grown ur In
the garden to such height that they
can not be plowed or spaded under.
cut them down and let them dry.
After they have been well dried apply
fire and burn the surface OF the
ground over, which can be done with
but little risk if close watch be kept
over the fire as it progresses. The ad.
vantages will be that the appearance
OF the ground will be better. the
ashes will serve as a fertilizer, the
seeds of weeds prevented and thou
sands Of insects destroyed, as we'll as
saving labor in the garden next sea-
son.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-09-20
PREVENTING FIRES.

Precautions Whose Adoption Will Conn
mend Itself to Careful Farmers.
The hot dry weather has made lit
ter, ETC., easily cOmbustible. Even the
growing grass is so dry that it will
readily ignite. The farm hand should
not be allowed to walk about the farm
with pipe; the live ashes. blown FROM
it, may ignite the grass, or the dry lit
ter in the fence corner, or the stubble-
1t il not an unfrequent thing for .
string of fence to be burned by spark
igniting the dry grass and litter OF the
fence row, or for spark to start the
stubble afire, sweeping on to tho de-
struction of the stacks and buildings.
Certainly Mt this time lighted pipe
should not be allowed near any OF the
stacks or buildings. We very much
doubt If lighted pipe is ever allowa-
bic on the farm. Though the smoker
sits down when he smokes, he is apt
not to think at all, or he may forget.
to stamp out the ashes that he knocks
from his pipe.
To allow children to play with fire,
or to have matches, is manifestly so
foolhardy that it need only to be men
toned. 1t is too careless to carry
matches loose in the vest or coat
pocket; for the coat or vest may b
thrown down on a bunch Of hay or
straw or on dry litter, and then the
tread of an animal, or the gnawing Of
mice, may ignite the matches and
start destructive cOnfagratiOn. II
stubble is to be burned. it is better to
start the fire against the wind il tho
stubble is quite dry, although fire
guard has been plowed. We know Of
a young farmer. working hard to get
farm and home paid for, who burned
up last season eighty tons of first-class
hay; he plowed guard forty feet wide
around large stubble field, and start
ed the fire before the wind. It swept
over the guard, caught in the dry
meadow stubble, and went ON to tho
hay ricks. Fortunately large thresh-
ing crew was near by. and by hard
effort the fire was stopped.
NOT 1nfrequently the nre originates
in the house, and in such q way that
reasonable care would have prevented
it We very much doubt II twenty per
cent. of the families in this country
have metal match safes. Usually the
matches are kept In the pasteboard
box in which they are bought-cer-
tainly dangerous. In the summer the
kitchen stove is shut up after dinner
while the housewife goes to the garden,
or to another room to sew. II the
stove is new and tight, this IL safe
enough; but II the doors have been
drawn by the heat, or holes have been
made by the corners of doors breaking
o6. dre may drop out on tho door. and
the breeze from the open doors and
windows may tan Il into connagrar
don. We should always bear in mind
the tact that what appears SITTER The
event to b very ordinary care. would
have perverted nine.eenfhs q the CO.,
Aagrations n he countzy.-AmsieGe
Alt6bslJsria.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-09-20

The London Standard gives cur.
rency to q report that wonderful col
lection Of documents printed on papy'
rus has been discovered near the town
Of Arsinoe. Central Egypt consisting Of
100, 900 documents and e. 900 plates o.
maps. These papers are printed In
eleven different languages. and treat
Of great number Of questions, e3tend'
Ing over . period Of 200 years Tha
maps have been printed b. means %
wooden blocks Hthis II true, the ax(
ot printing IL not modern inventieob
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-09-20

lowed In this country, at . time IKE
the present, seems scandalous, and I
would recommend no person 70 use any
OF these fabrics for decoration unless
the sender guaranteed the absence Of
arsenic or that they had first been an
alyzed by some Trustworthy chemist
London TsleQraph.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-09-20

An old New York farmer. who
saw his vito and girls arrayed in dash
ing new Sunday hats. exclaimed:
- There 60 my old woman and daugh-
Nm with thirty bushels Of oats spices
= fheir headaL"
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-09-20

about the giving I do not feel alto
gether guiltless, bit am well punish
ed. IN a. Wilson, ~ Minneapolis
HouseEeeper.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-10-18
All for a Dallar.

Alfred Straub, who used to serve as
waiter for A. Hoffman, at the Eintracht
saloon on Fort street, yesterday had his
former employer arrested and tried on
the charge of disturbing the peace. The
case came before Judge King and re-
suited in the discharge of Hoffman. It
appeared from the evidence taken that
when Straub was dismissed from SER
vice, one dollar was still due him. He
said he experienced some difficulty in
collecting this sum and called several
times for that purpose. Last Monday
Straub went into the saloon and asked
for the cash.
II will GO out into the kitchen and get
it," said Hoffman. 4"Wait here until l
come back"
Alfred waited until he made up his
mind that Hoffman was not coming back
and then he bolted into the kitchen.
Get out of here" roared Hoffman.
Don't you know that it is one of the
rules of this place that no one can come
into the kitchen?"
For an answer Alfred lit out with his
right and took Hoffman in the eve, in
flicting discoloration which was quite
visible when he appeared in court to-day.
The Court evidently considered that if he
had disturbed the peace he had been
sufficiently punished.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-10-18
LOCAL LINES.
Shall Lesser Criminals be
Tried by Juries /?
CASE TO BE DECIDED.
Other Items of Interest Which
Happened Yesterday-All
For a Dollar.

The vagrant question, which has it's
most important phase in the considera-
tion of the mac" or pimp, has assumed
new shape by the decision of Judge Aus
tin this week in the Kane case. 1t has
been growing more and more difficult to
convict vagrant if he chooses to de-
mand jury trial. The average vagrant,
pure and simple, is willing to stand
trial before the court, but the
"mac," who usually has money
and influence always insists that
twelve men be impaneled to try his case.
Half dozen of the worst characters in
town have been tried in the last few
weeks and have uniformly gotten off by
the hanging of juries or by acquittal out
right. Justice Austin, who has been
making a special study of the matter,
has suddenly resolved to test the policy
which has been followed in other States
OF the Union and in several counties in
this State, that of refusing q Jury
trial to defendants charged with vagrancy.
The decision was first given in the case
OF Ed. Kane, who was brought to trial
on the 18th for vagrancy. A jury was
demanded and refused. A motion to
continue was also denied. The trial then
proceeded, but one OF Kane's attorneys
hastened over to Judge Cheney and, stat
ing the case, asked for writ of review,
which was granted. The trial came to
an abrupt close, and yesterday Justice
Austin appeared before Judge Cheney to
state the grounds for the position
which he had taken. 1t was finally
decided to submit the case by brief and
it will in all probability not be decided
for ten days. In the meantime the case
of the People vs. Ed. Kane is postponed
until November 9th.
The position occupied by Justice Austin
is that when the constitution provides for
the right of every man to demand trial
by jury it refers only to those crimes in
which such trial is allowed by the
common law and not to misdemeanors.
Vagrancy is a misdemeanor and for that
reason does not come under the common
law provision.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-10-18
DEvILED KIDNEY
Served Up In Republican Hash a,
the WigWam.

served Up In Republican Hash at
the Wigwam.
James Kidney, of San Francisco, en-
tertained small gathering of members
of the party of monopolies and trusts at
the Wigwam last evening. He was in
troduced by Mr.. Hogan in brisk and
highly favored speech, in which he an
nounced that the Democrats were "the
scum Of the earth," whereas the Repub-
licans were all gentlemen. MIR. Kidney
then took the platform and soon showed
himself the possessor of an aggravated
case of political diabetes. He spoke for
over two hours, devoting small part of
his time to the tariff and the rest to his
old enemy. Denis Kearney. He spoke
of the latter as a very suspicious kind of
convert, as he thought that it was
only few months ago that he was max
ing fun Of the President because he was
corpulent. Both Mr.. Kidneys voice
and his audience held out we'll to the
end, and the meeting ended up with
cheers for the ticket. During the con-
fusion every one who could do so grabbed
somebody's else umbrella and made off
with it into the rain.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-10-18
Depot JOtttngs.

The coal ships at San Pedro are nearly
cleared out.
Reports from the desert last night
stated that it was not raining down there.
Colonel A. B. Hotchkiss, Chief of the
Etiwandas and attorney for the Southern
Pacific, came to town yesterday.
The second Union Pacific weekly ex-
cursion that left last night was an i'm
provement on the preceding one.
The new combination baggage and
smoking car that is being built for the
Tustin branch will be ready on Saturday /.
The corps of surveyors is said to be at
work north of Daggett, presumably in
the interest of the Union Pacific Com
pany.
General Superintendent Fullmore, Of
the Southern Pacific, will arrive in the
city from Yuma at 9:30 this morning.
He will then inspect the branches south
of this city and leave for the North to-
night,