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Alcohol fnr Mechanical Purposes.

A certain doctor in this city was called
upo, the other day by man who desired to
pet prescription for alcohol ''For what
n;,rpos,s' asked the doctor. Mechanical"
soid tie man. with countenance honest
enouel. to look any judge in the country out
Of countapance After writing the prescrip-
tion and handing it to the man. the doctor.
soid. ..For what Iiad of mechanical purposes
do Won intend to use the alcoholic ''Sawing
wood, sir: good day, sir."-Augusta Journal
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Oudl XeS a. L d1ue, IN
grateful recognition of his unequaled skill
and ability in thrice defending the Americas
cup" The most striking feature of the cup
is the figure of a mermaid, the design and
execution of which is pronounced excellent.
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BUSY MANAGER STONE.
the withdrawal of engineers on the Burling-
ton railroad. the men whose places were then
filed have been returning the compliment,
notwithstanding Mr.. Powderly's manifesto
discountenancing such action.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1888-03-16
RIFLES At COST.

VIM. Coleman is clos
ing uOt his stock of Sharp,
Winchester and Marlin
titles AT COST. Now
IS the time for Sportsmen
70 get a good, reliable
gun almost at their own
price. Call early and get
yoar ~. choice Of the lot.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1888-03-16
Testimonial to Gen. Paine.

Gen. Charles j. Paine, the owner of the
victorious Volunteer, has been presented
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1888-03-16

The California papers report that on &C
connt of the vandalism OF tho American
tourists TIE ancient adobe church at faso de'
Il; -, has been closed to them.
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TERMS s--INvARIABLY IN ADVANCE

20 90
A1AsS co
Whsn not paid in advance the rate WILDE Fl
Dollars per year.
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The Establishment Where Cattle and
Sheep arc Made Ready for the Metro-
p0litan Butcliers' Stalls.A Sanguinarv
Current-Blo0d and Bones.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-12-27
Not Honest, but Frank.

An Eastern traveller gives the follow
ing account of a brief, pointed. and we
think rather unsatisfactory interview
with an Arab of Jebel Hauran:
..What brought you to the spring.
when you saw us there?" ssked him.
ITO strip you." he coolly replied.
.And why did you not do it?"
because Mahmud was with YOU"
'.But why would you plumber us? We
are strangers and not enemies"
ut Is our custom"
..And do you strip all strangers?
Eyes, all We can get hold Of"
s.And If they resist or are too strong
for you?"
..In the former case we shoot them
from behind trees; in the latter, we run. J"
..How- do the people of your tribe
live? do they SOW or plant?"
mo. we arenot slarcs." said he. with
much disdain.
s.What do you do for living?"
I'VE keep goats, hunt partridge. and
steal"
'.Are you al thieves?
ssYes, AIN i Ledger
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-12-27
CHlNAMEN IN WINTER.

How John Makes Himself Independent
of Floors and Carpets.
The methods which the Chinaman
adopts to defend himself against the
cold of winter are not without certain
value as aids to the reading of his mind.
We put wooden floors in the rooms of
our houses for others to walk on as we'll
as ourselves. We even carpet them to
make walking on them more pleasant,
and in winter time we provide fire
which is intended to warm the whole
room and all who are in it. A China
man renders himself independent of
floors and carpets; he puts a two-inch
sole on his shoe, and thus makes sure
of having piece of floor under his own
feet. In winter time he piles garment
over garment upon his own back, slips
little fur-line cases over his ears, and
envelops his head and neck in a
m0nstrous hood. If driven by the
cold to the use of fuel, he does not
light fire for the sake of the fam
lily at large, but puts his red-hot char
coal balls into the metal vessels he uses
as a footstool, and into the smaller one
which he carries in his capacious sleeves
for the warming of his hands. OF
course, the rest of the family can do
the same; and perhaps, on the whole,
the Chinese method is as effective
against the cold as the English, though
no one with our national restless activ-
ity could consent to be thus wrapped
up into helplessness even for the sake
of being kept warm. A Chinaman
naturally portly is sight in the cold
season, while little child clad in his
winter clothes becomes most comical
object. He can not get his arms down
to his side, they stick out horizontally,
and should he fall he is incapable of
getting up again as an overturned tlr-
tie or mislaid sheep. However, he is
Chinese, not English, so he wastes NO
strength in vain struggles. he lies where
he falls, calmly and cOntentedly, with
his four limbs In mid-air. till some pas
serby thinks it worth while to pick him
up.-s.IMrbans and Tails" By Alfred
j. Bamf0rd.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-12-27
An important Discovery,

At the annual meeting of the Nation
al Woman's Christian Temperance
Union. lately held in New York City,
the president, Miss Frances E. Willard,
said:
"There have been many marvellous
discoveries in this much lauded nine
teenth century. but chief among them
is woman's discovery of herself. To
come to consciousness is evermore to
come to power. Christ said: Il am
come that We might have life, and that
We might have it more abundantly."
Consciousness, deepened. varied and
extended, is doubtless all there is of
life in any world. When women come
to consciousness, they must inevitably
ask questions like these: Why should
we have no voice in making the laws
under which we may be imprisoned or
executed? Why should women have
no hand in pleading wOman's cause or
determining her penalties? Why should
men, and men alone, have the power of
life and death over women, and in all
cases OF indecorous, cruel or outrageous
conduct toward us? Why should men.
and men only, fix the penalties of their
own crimes against the other half of
the human race, and appoint themselves
legislature. judge, jury and executive
in every case like this? Who has so
great stake in the government as the
nations motherhood? Yet every law
and penalty on every statute-book of
this and every land was placed there by
men. and by men only.
There is no reason and no justice in
all this. and there can never be. Good
men know it right we'll, and they are
trying to bring US into the Govern
ment, that we may be tried by our
peers.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-12-27
BUILDING HOG PENS.

Description Of Ono That Secures Warmth,
Cleanliness and Pure Air.
In building new pens or changing old
ones in which the hogs are to be kept
during winter, care should be taken to
construct them in such q way as to Sc
cure warmth, cleanliness and pure air,
lacking either of which stock can not
be expected to thrive. It is the custom
of some to elevate the pens about three
feet from the ground, the idea being
that hogs fattened in such pens can be
more easily loaded into wagons, when
they are moved in this way, to be
shipped to market. Pens built in this
manner, unless set upon walls SO the
cold air can not circulate beneath them,
can not be made comfortable.
Some little time ago one of our corre-
spondents reported his experience with
such pen. He said his hogs came out
of their beds in the morning sweating,
sometimes quite wet, although they
were supplied quite literally with bed
ding which was changed frequently.
The hogs appeared feverish, and did
not thrive as they should. It was
ecided to tear down the old pen and
build another on adifferent plan. Walls
were built forty feet long and twenty
feet apart, the space between being
filed with stone broken fine on top, and
then made level and smooth with
gravel. on which tight plank floor
was laid. The pen was then divided
into five spaces, eight feet wide, lessfor
partition and end walls. Nine feet of
each division was used for q sleeping
and feeding place. five feet for place
in which the hogs deposited their ma
nure, leaving the rest for q passage
way. Opposite to each large window
was placed. which gave light and
through which, in pleasant weather,
the sun shone for several hours each
day. A story was built above for the
storage of food. which was thus always
convenient for use, and enabled the
work of feeding to be done much more
expeditiously than when food had
TO be carried from separate build
ing.
After the hogs were placed in this
nan there was NO further trouble ON
account Of their sweating - before. and
they we're always hoaltky.-Nassoae
Ljvs Ssoct Josssak
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-12-27
WOMAN'S lNFERIORlTY.

EScotion-Day Reflections on the Forlorn
Condition of American Women.
fabricated with campaign SOAP"
the naturalization mills in all our large
cities have this fall been running with
s,nwonted activity, which augurs naught
OF good the cause of woman suffrage.
The Hartford mill has turned out
about 1000 full-fedged new citizens, to
be the sovereigns of our native women.
The Scandinavian peasants. the late
scrfs of Russia and Poland. and the sto-
lid Hungarians, with the lazzaroni OF
Italy, men with no knowledge of our
institutions save the police court, the
saloon, the Jail, and the almshouse-
men too ignorant to know the differ
ence between republic and mou-
arch, but all imbued with the idea Of
WOman's inferiority and their own mas
tership-these men are invested with
all the rights of citizenship. including
the ballot, priced by them for it's mar
ketable value only. These men a-e
made the rulers of women like Julis
Ward Howe and Mary A. Iivermore.
These men help determine the proper.
g rights Of women. fix cur legal domes-
tic relations. decide how much money
We must pay to maintain them in the
Almshouses and say how much right we
are to have to our own children, and
how, when and by whom they shall be
educated; while we. the mothers ol
Connecticut. at least, have no voice In
any Of these matters. Thus Ill
1hase ignorant h0rdes Of men,
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-12-27

| from every cline, have the rigntl
of citizenship, and consequent
domination over the women o.
this country. almost as soon as they
touch our shores; all save poor HOP
zee Ching, the most harmless OF them
all: he is not allowed to become
..Melican man." he alone, of all male
human kind. is placed on the same de-
graded political plane with the daugh-
| tiers of John Adams and James Otis.
Once, felt a sympathy, born OF
| like disabilities imposed upon us, for
the colored man; but since he has been
elevated to sovereignty over me and my
sex, and am no longer his peer. l
would fain transfer my sympathy to
the meek MongOlian; but his status il
less forlorn than that of women. for.
across the Pacific, he has country
that he can call his own, but we women
have none. l have no prejudice against
men for the mere accident of birth in
foreign land; but the influence OF the
environment to which they were there
subject units them for the immediate
just discharge of the high duties of cit
izenship here. and they should remain
as many years here before assuming
those duties as are required of our ma
tive-born men. In several of these
States, by the unremitted but weary
work of nearly half a century, we have
succeeded in educating our sons and
brothers into the principles of the Dec
laration of Independence, and they
have been ready to give US practical
illustration of government Of and by
the people, when each year horde of
men, with the tyranny from which
they have just fed, ingrained in their
nature, use their newly-conferred bal
lots to bar the way of native women to
freedom.
Must we wait till we can educate the
tribes of all the earth
up to the principle of equal rights be-
fore We are allowed the precious boon
of citizenship in our native land? The
outlook is disheartening.-Emily p.
Collins, in W0nsan's Journal.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-12-27
A MISTAKEN IDEA.

n Common Error Concerning tho True
Significance of Woman's Rights.
'sWhy, is this woman's rights?" said
n friend at the close of the large woman
suffrage festival recently held in Bos-
TOM Il thought woman's rights was
Just voting; but these women talk about
education and home life and relief work,
and If this is it. believe in it." It is
to be hoped that the little lady's
thoughts were more lucid than her
words, else the meeting could have
done her small good. But the idea she
seemed trying to express is. unfortu-
nately, common. 1t is popular to
laugh at woman's rights and '.wOman's
rights women" as the champions of
Fths movement are called. and to pass
over the subject with sneer. There
is, however, hardly greater mistake
than to consider wOman's rights as
-.iust voting" To be sure, the leaders
of She cause believe in universal suf-
fraga. and are doing all they can to Sc
cure the franchise for women; but this
Is by no means the whole of their work.
The women who are identified with the
movement are women who have given
1their time and strength to the purifca-
ton of the home, ennOblement of the
women and the preservation of abe Ma
fion.
1t seems almost incredible that any
yniv, IN, tho 1as
1lerision of ''strong-minded women"
However strongly a girl may disap-
prove of the proposed suffrage. and
however much she may dislike the
present form Of the woman's rights
cause, her sense of gratitude should
move her to pay all respect and honor
to the women who are at the head of
the work. Whatever educational priv
iieges, whatever social freedom, yes,
whatever religious liberty. We younger
women enjoy, beyond that possessed by
our mothers and grandmothers. is al
most entirely due to the labors of wo-
men who were ridiculed and despised
for the work they did. They
have made possible Smith and Vassar
Colleges, Boston and Cornell Universe
ties; they have prepared the way for
such women as Frances Willard and
Alice Freeman Palmer; they have given
TO the young women that part of our
American civilization which we prize
most dearly. our high position as wo.
men-G0lden Rule.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-12-27
MILITARY GENIUS
A Power Which Has Been Possessed ~
An Great Generals.

A Power Which Has Been Possessed b
An Great Generals.
There is q quality that must not be
ignored in any analysis of military
genius. / mean the power of calculat-
ing chances. This power is much more
natural to some than to others Ihave
known men with whom it is q second
instinct, while with others it is merely
an arithmetical process. learned by
book and never thoroughly effective.
This. l think, is to be accounted for by
want Of Imagination. The General who
can not in his mind 8 eye see before him
the whole scene that some projected
operation will present, who can not, as
it were, picture to himself in series OF
mental dissolving views all the various
and progressive phases of, say, an at
tack upon his enemy's position, lacks a
natural quality which no amount of
study can supply. If you can not in
your own mind identify yourself with
your antagonist; if you can not put
yourself within his brain, as it were.
and reason as he is doing at every crit
ical moment Of a campaign. and from
your knowledge of men, and OF him in
particular, gather what he means to do,
you can never be in the front rank OF
great commanders. A vivid magma
ton, allied to cool, calculating brain,
can alone insure this power to any one.
The poetical. the imaginative side
OF war can not be dispensed
with by tie able General, the great
leader. Wellington, in conversation
long after his great achievements, said
that he had spent his military life in
trying to divine what was taking place
behind the ranges of hills which bound
ed his view. He was above all things
a man OF sound common sense; unim-
questionable, and the last man whom
the world would have accredited with
a brilliant Imagination. The story OF
his life always appears to the casual
reader of history as the abnegation OF
poetry. And yet he must have had
large share of Imagination to have en-
abled him to f0resee his enemy's move
ments with that perspicuous clearness
which was manifest in all his cam
paigns, Waterloo alone excepted.
Great military genius is impossible
without a combination of all these quail
tiles, many of which are rare. even
when taken singly. They must be
well balanced, also. SO that no one
quality shall overweight or outrun the
other. No one can be omitted without
leaving weak point, breach into
which uncertainty of decision and con-
fusion of action may penetrate to the
utter destruction of the man and of all
committed to his General US
count Wolseley, in Fortnightiy ReUie,0.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-12-27
WHAT WOMEN ARE DOING.

NUMEROUS petitions for municipal
woman suffrage. with several thousand
signers. have been sent to the Vermont
Legislature.
SOUTH AUSTRALIA has before its
House of Representatives bill extend
ing suffrage to all women. married or
single, who are twenty five years of age.
Mrs. ELLEN MITCHELL, the only lady
on the Chicago board of education, has
been appointed to serve on the commit
tees on school management, special
funds and physical culture.
Two ELDERLY ladies named Chubb,
who have supported themselves by the
needle. are, in their late years. study
ing astronomy, and writing intelligent
letters to scientific persons on debatable
points.
The Cook County Woman Suffrage
Society has pledged two hundred dol
lars toward establishing a State head
quarters for suffrage work in Chicago,
and DIR. Fannie Dickinson has offered
the use of room until May. 1889.
THREE women in England hold posts
as medical superintendent of the
female post-office clerks; one II the
general post-ofice. London. one in
Liverpool. and one in Manchester.
These were the first medical posts in
the civil service granted to women.
|, Mrs. KATE TYRON. who belongs to
the working newspaper fraternity of
Maine. is preparing to take the lecture
platform. and her Evolutionary and in
tellectual attainments are spoken of in
high terms by the Maine press. She
created sensation in the recent Meth
odist conference in Portland by getting
up in meeting and making a spirited
defense Of the reporters.
Mrs. JOHN Wells, of New Bruns-
wick, N. J., when the Dime Savings
Bank Of that city collapsed two years
ago. offered 5000 toward alleviatine
the losses of the poor depositors. She
has now added H. 600 moro, and win
buy in the accounts of the same class Of
depoeitors at par. Mrs. Wells has be.
gun the erection Of q free hospital in
New Brunswick, to be named in honor
Of her husband,
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-12-27
THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.
Constant and Rapid Growth of the Peo-
pies Using 1t.


pies Using 1t.
In an article, "The Future of the
Notwithstanding races" Mr.. Glad
stone computes that the habitual speak
ers of English have increased from 49,
100000 to 1O5,OOO,OOO during the last
one hundred years, that they will num-
Der 100000 600 by the year 1900, and at
the rate of increase, seven times in a
century. they will include $4,000, 900
of people by the year 1000.
The increase during the last century
has, of course, been due chiefly to the
growth of the United States. Since
1887 our population has been multiplied
twenty times, while that of the British
kingdom itself has only little more
than doubled. We have increased
from about 5000. 900 to more than Co.,
100000, and England. including all the
British isles, has increased from H.
O0O. 900 to S5.OOO.000. In other words,
while this country contained only one
fifth of the total of English-speak-
ing people century ago, it now con-
tains three-fifths.
The increase during the next century,
as computed by Mr.. Gladstone, must
also be in the United States in chief
part. If the present rate of growth,
about 3 per cent. annually, should con-
tinue, our population 100 years hence
would be 700. 900, or nearly twice
the present population of China. Even
assuming the gradual fall of the ratio
of increase to 2 per cent. a year, it
would be more than $50, OOO. 600, and by
the year 1000 out of the $40, OOO, 600
English-speaking people in the world
more than three-fourths would be in
the United States.
Mr.. Barham Zincke, a we'll known
writer, astonished the world in 1883 bv
estimating that in 100 years from that
time the aggregate of the English-speak-
ing races would be 1000. 200, 600. OF
these he gave the United States $780,.
OO0. 900. estimating our rate of increase
at 2 per cent. annuity, or doubling of
the population once in every twenty
five years. That would be four.fifths of
the whole, while England itself would
have only 10000. 600, or a very insig-
niicant part of the English-speakine
population of the world. Another com.
putation. by continental writer, esti.
mates our population a century hence
at 700, 600. 900, or ten times the number
that can reasonably be estimated for the
British islands.
Whether the present rate of increase
In this country continues during the
next century, or whether it falls from
to 2 per cent, or even lower. there ia NO
question that here is the great seat Of
the English-speaking race. and th.t
England itself and all its English colo
mics will steadily decline in relative Inn
portance. until they become 90 far in
ferior in numbers and power a. 70 b
completely overshadowed N. r N,en.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-12-27
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

Daniel Hand. Of Guilford, Conn,
gave 81. O0O, 900 to the American Mis-
sionary Association. the interest to be
used for the education of negroes in the
South.
Tho Japanese Gazette says that
Buddhism can not long hold its
ground, and Christianity must finally
prevail throughout all Japan. Japan
csc Buddhism and western science can
not stand together. They are incon-
sistent the one with the other.
1t Is popularity Of sin that it
makes the sinner insensible to its evils.
As surgeon administers chloroform to
his patient and then amputates limb,
so Satan deaders the sinner and takes
away the best part of his manhood.
and the sinner knows it not.-United
Presbyterian.
The popular preacher who draws
his sermons from fiction may for q
time draw people to listen to his fan
cies. But the preacher who draws his
sermons from the Book Of books is the
one who draws souls to the Saviour and
salvation. 1t resolves itself into the
question: What is the preacher after,
crowds or converts, fame or faith. rep
utatiOn or Observation-Disclosures.
No man is kept from study by lack
OF time; yet no excuse for a failure to
study is more common than that of lack
of time. A man who studies all the
time he can study. often wants moro
time than there is; and if there were
more time, he would use it. But the
man who refuses to study because he
has no time, would not study if he had
nothing to do but to study.-S. s.
Times.
What the Bible will be to ones soul
depends on the attitude of his soul to-
ward the Book divine. If he believes
it to be the Word of God, and devoutly
reads and studies it as such. it will be
to him the Book of books. II. on the
other hand. he is caviler or skeptic.
he will not be charmed with the Bible,
and will hardly read it at all. There is
vast difference between these two at
titudes of the mind and hearth !.
Independent.
Success in the Christian life re-
quires absolute promptness. Prompt
ness in performing any religious duty
makes it easy; while delay makes it .
cross. and the longer the delay the
heavier the cross. Promptness is also
a remedy for idleness. and idleness is
one of the Christians most dangerous
foes. In no place is promptness more
needed than in resisting temptation. for
unless we firmly Withstand the tempter
at the very outset. we are almost GER
tain of defeat.