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Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-10-25

It was not long ago that brigapds in.
tested the Spanish and Italian mounts
aims and secluded places. Not more
than ten years have elapsed since il
was dangerous for the tourist to make
the short trip by rail from Naples &c
Postum; for it was then no uncommon
thing for the train to be boarded by a
band of robbers near the ancient tenn
pies, its occupants captured and taken
OF into the hills to the southwark and
heavy ransoms demanded for their re-
lease. Similarly. the most romantic
and interesting part of Spain-Granada
and its Observation-Disclosures for the
same cause unsafe to the curious trav.
eler.
In Greece. too, it was very recently
at tie peril of liberty, and even of life
itself, that the classical student
emerged from Athens to visit Olympus
and other spots sacred to Greek tradi-
tons; while Mexico. until very recent
years, swarmed with the fiercest and
most bloodthirsty highwaymen.
With better government and denser
settlement, however. brigandage has
well-nigh become extinct in most of
these countries. Brigandage, indeed,
can only thrive in region where tho
people are poor, ignorant and scat
tered. 1t fiourishes in Southeastern
Europe. because the people themselves
are in collision with the brigands.
The semi-barbarous peasant of Bull
garia and Roumelia is easily bribed b.
the brigands of the hills. Who are
often his own fellow-countrymen, to
apprize them OF the approach of prof
liable human game, to be the mediums
through whom the ransoms are re-
ceived. to supply them with food and
to give them timely warning of the APP
proach OF danger.
Railways and other means of rapid
comm unication. the substitution of
strong and orderly governments FOR
old, Ineffective systems, the spread of
education must in no long time drive
brigandage wholly out of Europe.
When this happens the gain will be
great, especially to the student OF his
tory and ethnology. from whom many
valuable discoveries have been hidden
for centuries, owing to the dangers
which have attended research in
classical lands.-Youth's Companion.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-10-25
HUMOROUS.

Customer Ito waiter) =" So.:ia
cheese. please" Waiter" Beg par
don, sir. Sorry. sir. Cheese out. s:r."
Customer.-'Th so? When do you
expect it back9'-Lye.
"A coroner's jury in Arkansas s=t
on man killed by a stone in a bran.
and returned verdict saying tia.
"the deceased was rocked to sleep"
San Francisco Alta.
Patient Old Lady Ito elevator boz
reading dime noveD-" often
does the elevator go up. boy?" E.c-
vator Boy 1t goes up at the end oi
every chapter. ma'am. Time.
mo. sir. 1 never kick a man when
he is down." said slim young hotel
clerk. II did it once and the fellow
jumped up and thrashed me so
forgot my own name" -Hotel Mall.
Mamie What are you writing.
Minnie; your will?' Minnie" mo:
I'm writing my won't. George pro
posed last night, and / told him I'll
answer to-day" -Tsrre Haute Erpr~ss
First Student You haven't got
any idea of what contemplate op:r-
ion have of our professor. Second
Student" Humph! l guess that's the
reason yourdidn't answer any of TIE
questions he asked you yesterday at
the recitation. ''-Teras Sitzings.
-.'You have a very large mouth"
remarked a dentist to a lady, '.I:..
deede was the indignant response
Yes" pursued the dentist. "w6ile ]
have been filling this tooth of your4
my operations have extended over al
acher." There was no further use for
ether.
Sleep is stated on high authority
to be the best remedy for sleeplessness.
1t Is recommended above all after a
careful consideration of the many de-
vices to overcome this trouble pub
lished from time to time by sleepiess
people who stay awake telling others
Of the advantages Of their methods
Philadelphia Inquirer.
Mrs. Hendricks was making an
afternoon call on Mrs. Hobson, when
Mr.. Hobson opened the front gate and
strobe down the street. "What a fine
looking man your husband is, Mrs.
Hobson." said Mrs. Hendricks; $50
erect and soldierly in his bearing
81 Yes" returned Mrs. Hobson, not
without pride; IS Hobson carries him
,elf wen. he was educated In \ mill
airy school, you know" IFS be going
lwayr Only to the grocer's tor !
rod-fish. "-Epoeh
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-10-25
MODERN BRIGANDS.

They Possess the Cruelty. But Not the
Chivalry. Of RinaldO Rinaldini.
While the marauding race of brig
ands who have SO long served as sub
jects for sensational romance and
poetry have to a large extent disap-
peared in most European countries,
they are by no means extinct in the re-
moter corners of she continent
Several weeks ago two Austrian rail-
way officials were taken by band of
brigands at Bellova. in Roumelia.
were hurried off to hidden recesses of
the Balkan Mountains and were there
held in bondage for several weeks, un-
til a heavy ransom should be forthcOm-
ing. This ransom amounted to thirteen
hundred Turkish pounds. But money
was not all that the brigands demand
ed. They also asked that number of
useful articles should be sent to them;
among others. thirty-five pairs of
shoes and stockings, thirty-five cakes
of scented soap, number of en-
broidered shirts, ivory combs and
ivory cigarette-holders, and a certain
quantity of expensive wines. From
all this it seems that this band of brig
ands is wont to live in something like
luxury in their mountain Businesses; and
are very different beings from ordinary
marauders of Southeastern Europe.
For the ordinary Bulgarian, Roumelian
or Greek brigand is q wretched, ig-
n0rant. drunken. unkempt rascal who
wears goatskin shirt. is inordinately
filthy and lives q LIE of barbarous
rudeness and exposure. II he captures
. prisoner he deals with him bluntly
and brutality, and does not hesitate a
violence, II the mood takes him.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-10-25
Discard the High Stool.

A London physician. writing Of the
peculiar effects of certain professions
ON the health, advises clerks to dis
card the high stool so commonly used
by book-keepers and accountants. He
regards it as far more healthful in
every way to stand when working at a
high desk. If need be the clerk may
rest few minutes BY sitting down in
an ordinary chair, but to work all day
in the cramped position necessitated
by the high school is ruinous to the
health and must. sooner or later, re-
suit in the breaking down Of the In
dividual who does it
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-10-25
FRA AND poINT.

The engagement ring usually
grows out of combination Boston
Courier.
The time man most needs vaca-
ton is just after he returns from one.
Hotel Mail.
Those who live for the future must
always appear selfish to those who live
for the present.
"A single bad habit will mar an
otherwise faultless character. as an ink
drop soileth the pure white page.
1t is by attempting to reach the top
at single leap that so much misery
is caused in the world.
That which makes the happiness
Of the domestic circle. which will re-
conquer Paradise. taking from it its
thOrns. is forbearance.-Dr. Nichols.
The man who is constantly find
ing fault is the one who spends all his
time looking for faults.-Merchani
Traveller.
When Webster was asked how he
had acquired his clear. simple style OF
speaking. he said: II have been leav-
ing of words all my life"
When you see the name of a min.
lister OF the gospel signed to COM
mendation Of some nostrum, it is safer
to conclude that the parson is good
natured than that the medicine is safe.
Christian Adrosate.
No one is able to tell how much
good he is doing when doing right
act. or how much evil he is doing
when doing wrong act. There may,
in either case. lie beyond the act long
sequel. wholly unseen by him and not
by him intended.-N Y Independent.
Young man." he said. solemnly,
''dO you realize that the truly wise man
doesn't think that he knows as much
as he really does know?' ''Oh. yes.
sir, twas the reply. land the man who
isn't truly wise thinks he knows it all,
and when he jumps in he generally
gets there with both feet. Life.
There is truth in the adage that
what is well begun is already half
done: but it is also true that that which
is half done will prove a failure unless
it is wholly done. The last half of
good thing is quite as important as the
first half, and it is often harder to keep
on and finish a work than it was to be-
gin it. 1t takes two halves to make q
whole in any Spheres. S. Times.
Never gauge the duration of your
sleep by the time any one else sleeps.
Some men will tell you that John Wes-
ley had only so much sleep. Hunter.
the great psychologist, SO much. and
Napoleon so much. But when the
Lord made you, as a general thing he
did not make Napoleons. Every man
carries within himself Mount Sinai, a
revealed law, written for himself sep
arately.-Beecher.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-10-25
CHANGED HIS MIND.
An Economical Scheme Which Costs Its
Originator a Good Deal of Money.

An Economical Scheme Which Costs Its
Originator a Good Deal of Money.
Mr.. Bixby decided not to take his
two weeks vacation in the country, as
usual, this summer.
II think" he said to his wife. ''that
we will take little runs here and there
to the seashore, staying only day at
time. Well see more and it won't
be SO expensive as going off to the
country and paying board for all of
u.s."
Mrs. Bixby agreed to this PROPOSE
ton and they made the first OF the
dozen Or more little trips they had
planned one day last week. and when
they got home completely played
out" Bix6y made out the following
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-10-25
LEADING SUFFRAGlSTS.

ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, the fore
most representative in the cause of
women in America, was born at John
stown, n. Y, in 1916.
KATE KANE and Ellen A. Martin,
who are practicing law in Chicago, are
both graduates of the Michigan State
University at Ann Arbor. One is a
native of Virginia and the other of
New York.
A SAN FRANCISCO correspondent,
writing to the Won,an's Journal, says:
81 can not give you any idea of the en-
thusiasm. interest and love Mrs. Julia
Ward Howe has awakened all over
California. There never was a woman
so universally honored here"
The ability of our State organizer
has attracted notice even in far away
England. The Westminster and Lambeth
Gazette says: ''What stirring. Jealous
Association the Massachusetts Women's
Suffrage Society must be to start seven
new leagues in one month"; The seven
new leagues were formed by Miss Pond
in April; and during the previous
month she had organized eight.
Mrs. MILLICENT GARRETT FAwcErr,
in recent address on woman suffrage,
said that she heard one gentleman say
he would Ego solid'' for Mr.. Gladstone,
and perhaps others would do the same
with respect to Lord Salisbury, but
when women had the power of voting,
she hoped they would Ego solid" for
the ten commandments, and not be in
fluenced by party. This sentiment was
cheered, as it deserved to be.
AT recent Congressional hearing on
woman suffrage, a Southern lady, Mrs.
Judge Merrick, of New Orleans, was
called upon to answer remark of Sem
atOr Brown to the effect that no South
ern women wanted to vote. Mrs Mer.
rick said that she had been suffragist
from her birth, and that she had won
her husband, two sons and her brother
to her way of thinking. She wanted
the ballot for herself Sad four grand
daughters
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-10-25
POINTS FOR SUFFRAGE.

Reasons for WomaR's Acknowledgement Ey
Frances f.. willard. President of the Wo-
mans National Council.
Doubtless the strongest points in favor
of woman suffrage are:
First. That it is founded on the ur-
changing principles of justice. Every
reasonable man knows that it is not
right to tax class without represent
ing that class, to inflict penalties upon
a class that had no hand in determining
what those penalties should be. to gov
ern one-haif of the human race by the
other half. All injustice to one class
works harm to every other.
Second. The best government known
to the race is found in home where
father and mother have equal power,
as is the case in an enlightened modern
Christian family. No other place is so
free from temptation, and no other
conserves so completely the best inter-
est of all who dwell therein. Reason
ing from analogy, the larger home of
society. and that largest home Of all
NaAASN SONSi Uc
like this typical home. and in proper
ton as they are made like unto it, So
ciety and government will more thor
oroughly conserve the interest of all,
and shut out the pests of civilization.
Third. The two most strongly mark
ed instincts of woman are those of pro-
lection for herself and little ones, and
of love and loyalty to her husband and
her son. On the other hand. the two
strongest instincts that to-day defend
the liquor traffic and drink habit are
avarice in the dealer and appetite in the
drinker. 1t has been said that civiliza-
ton has nothing with which it can off
set these two tremendous forces. But
may it not be found that in the home,
through the reserve power never vet
called into government on a large scale,
wOmans instincts of self-protection and
of love are sufficient offset to appe-
tite and avarice. and will out-vote both
at the poles? For it must be remem-
5ered that in republic, all questions
of morality sooner or later find their
way to the ballot-box, and are voted
up or down.
Fourth. There are fifty-four thousand
men in the penitentiaries of the United
States against Eve thousand women. As
q class, women hold the balance OF
power morally in the republic.
Fifth. There is no enemy dreaded 60
much by liquor-dealers and saloon
keepers as woman with the ballot in
her hand. Secret circulars sent out BY
them, and intercepted by our temper
ance leaders, state this explicitly. One
of these is addressed to q legislator.
and reads to this effect: ''Set your heel
upon the woman suffrage movemen,
avery time. for the ballot in the hand
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-10-25
EARLY WRITER STYLES.
Tho Bustle Is Retained but Is Greatly
Modified as to Style.

The Bustle Is Retained but Is Greatly
Modified as to Style.
The differences in the shapes of
bodices and arrangements of skirt
draperics that appear from season to
season are very slight. and it is hard
to know where the old leaves off and
the novelty begins. That changes do
occur is undoubted. and it is an actual
fact that dressmakers prefer to go
than repeat style in consecutive sea-
sons.
The most important item of news in
connection with fall and winter cos
tunes is that the hustle is still to be
seen, albeit in a decidedly modified
form. Many women who have chung
with pertinacity to the ''dress-im-
proven" thoroughly persuaded that it
fully merited its name, have given in
at last. and promise now to be con-
tent with the smallest amount of
cushion and forswear steels in every
form. Simultaneous with the attempt
W OO DIV dN w I'LL tllC dtOSC tuC
effort to restore the empire dress. The
connection between the two is logical
enough, for nothing could be more in
compatible than an empire dress and
tOurnure. Imagine them together! A
feature of the empire styles which has
been adopted is the round skirt. fat at
least on the front and hips. Double
draped skirts have the fullness pretty
evenly distributed all the way around,
except the front breadth of the UNDER
skirt, which is left plain.
The woolens with wide bands of a
contrasting color that are pinked out
in vandycks and festoons may be very
effectively made up in the following
manner:
The foundation skirt having been
trimmed with deep-plaited founce
made of half the width of the mate
rial, straight piece of stuff at least
Ave yards long is prepared for the
tunic. This is mounted in a double
plait to the right hip, caught up SO as
to show portion of the lOunce, rum
ming then in narrow fiat folds to the
center of the back, where a whole yard
is allowed to form a deep hanging
plait. and then again in fiat folds with
q second box-plait on the left hip. The
remainder. being plated, reaches the
center of the front, after which the
end of the strip. plated up in its turn
to the waist. crosses over the end with
which the operation was begun. and
thus closes the circle.
Draped skirts are rften combined
with round-waisted bOdices worn with
belts fastened by q buckle. Some Of
the latest jerseys are made so, and
have no basques, or none that are APP
parent. These are for everyday
dresses Round bodices of smarter
kind have wristbands, which may be
stripe, piece of embroidery. some
kind of galloon, or passementerie. OF
merely straight folds of the material.
Many gowns will have a silk skirt o,
their own color, full and softly plated,
over which is worn lOOse-fronted
Jacket bodice. White wool vests with
small gilt buttons will finish many
dresses of gray-green and gray-blue
wool, and are becoming addition Il
almost any dark dress.-Chicago Times.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-10-25
WOMAN'S DEPARTMENT.
SOUND SENSE.

Tros and Cons Of tho Suffrage Question
A Wefkhty Argument In Favor Of Wome1
rs Voters.
The arguments on the subject o
woman suffrage are many and varied
but they all resolve themselves into
questions of capacity and expediency
The question of mental capacity on the
part of woman to handle State ques-
lions has been more than answered in
hundreds of ways. Women are doing
grand work for home and State in
many ways that necessitates their
meeting and solving some of the gravest
questions of the day. Then there is
the question of physical capacity. The
argument that 1.-The ballot represents
the bullet" is thought by some to be a
clincher by all aspiring wOmankind.
''WOmen can not fight,' is their cry,
therefore they ought not to vote. :"
Yet the advocates of this idea never d.
vance the equally tenable one that the
lame, halt and blind OF masculine hui
mainly should be disfranchised. The
Quakers are exempted from military
duty on account of their principles. yet
their men are allowed to vote. More
than al that, during our late war, the
class known as the best fighters, young
men of eighteen or twenty, were not al
lowed vote. although they were risk
ing their lives for their country, while
the best voters in the land. the think
ing men above fOrty-five years of age.
were not allowed to enlist. This would
make it seem rs though the argument
Of physical incapacity were insufficient.
The questions of cxpediency are many.
There are SO many bad women who
would vote!" cry some tirnid ones.
The proportion of bad women to good
ones is many times smaller than that OF
bad men to good, yet all men are not
disfranchised for the sake of the black
sheep among them. There would be
such an influx of uniformed voters
upon the country" say others, las would
ruin our institutions" This argument
was insufficient to defeat the civil rights
bill, however, nor did the disfranchise-
ment of the blacks prove the great evil
such thinkers prophesied it would be.
In fact, there is only one class of Oppo-
nents to woman suffrage who have a
clear, logical argument for their side,
and one which can not be overcome or
gainsaid. The liquor interest declare
that it is absolutely opposed to woman
suffrage. For" said its representa-
tives in convention, cit is the last hope
of the temperance people" There is
their whole argument in nutshell, and
it is also mighty argument for the
suffragists.
If men are sincere in their profess
siOns of a desire to protect and aid wo-
man. let them place in her hands the
weapon which they themselves have
found most effective in fighting wrong
the ballot, and they may rest assured
that she will use that weapon as she has
used every means of advancement that
has been given her-conscientiously
wisely, womanfully. and that the world
will be the better for her influence and
power in the State.-San Francisco
Cal.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-10-25
It Maintains Its Place.

Author Ito Publisher)-Well, how
about my book?" Does it maintain its
place in literature?
Publisher don't know any thing
sbout that, but l know It holds its own
pretty we'll on my shelves. I haven't
ben alba to get rid Of any bat complf
mentary copies thus far.-zszas Sir
6s0a
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-10-25
-renimore Cooper's only daughte

-Fenimore Cooper's only daughter
still lives at the novelist's home a.
Cooperstown, on Otsego Lake, New
York. The old homestead has been
torn down, but the old material VA
used In building the new house. The
monument erected to the novelist
stands on the shores Of the lake, bul
his body lies buried II the village
church-yard.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-10-25
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.


Mrs. Emily Ripley Barnes, Of Wal
pole, n. H.. aged eighty-nine, and
blind. is the author of a history of the
Bellows family of that town, recently
published.
II. c. Bunner, editor of Puck, Is
said to command q higher price from
the magazines for his short stories
than any other American writer of his
age. MIR. Bunner was once a reporter
on a daily newspaper in New York,
and. it Is said. not good reporter
either.
Julian Hawthorne has said himself
that he probably makes more by his
pen in single year than his father
made in his whole life; and yet he is re-
puted to have had hard, continuous
struggle since he adopted literature as
a profession seventeen years ago
Current Literature.
Prof. Crowell. of Amherst Collccc.
is so blind that his wife has to lead
him through the streets of Boston she
reads to him the lessons of the day BE-
fore he goes to the classroom. and he
has such remarkable memory that
his affection is of little consequence.
He is popular with the students.
In recent interview the wife OF
General O'Beirne (born Brennanl.
with whose family the Poes once lived
in the old house on the Bloomins,ia!e
road, now destroyed, stated that ths
poet wrote The Raven" there and
read the manuscript to the assembled
family. and that there was at that TINA
a bust of Pallas just above the chamber
door, ----.-
OF W. D. Howells as boy-printer
the Ohio Sta,e Journal says: '.ic WAS
a hard worker and a first-class com
positor. He is still remembered rs
one who rarely mingled in the spo-;s
and jests of the composing-room. hal
few companions. and always seemed 10
have his mind On a career much high
er than conventional compassion.
whose only ambition was to get Il biz
string and make away with his carr
ings."
There are less than five hundred
individuals out of the sixty millions il
the United States-excepting of course.
those who have direct editorial posi-
tiOn-whO can make n decent living
by the haphazard and prom;scaous
sale Of poems. sketches. stories AID
literary articles in general. say live
hundred. because that figure is ia-:.,c
enough to exclude mistake; but tia
exact truth. if there were any real
statistics bearing on tho subiecs.
would fall far below that number
america.
Napoleon was greedy move,
reader. Andrew Lang. the essayist.
says that he was one OF the most
voracious readers of novels tha: ever
lived. He was always asking for the
newest of the new, and. unfortunately.
even the new romanceS of his period
were hopelessly bad. Barhio:. his
librarian, had orders to send parcel,
of fresh fiction to his Majesty whe-eve-.
he might happen TO be, and great loals
of novels followed Napoleon ID Ger
many, Spain. Italy, Russia. The con-
queror was very hard to please. &c
read in his travelling carriage. AMI
after skimming a few pages. wonld
throw volume that bored him into
the highway. He might have bocI
tracked by his trail of rOmanccs.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-10-25

GAS soon as the children are we'll
enough to travel we'll go up to Jones'
vile for the rest of our vacation" said
Bixby to his wife. 1T didn't cost us
but forty dollars for two weeks there
last year. and few more cheap pleas
ure trips to the seashore would kill me
and leave you penniless widow. -
Time.