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Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-08-23
FRAGMENTS OF SOAP.
How Economical HOusekeepers Can CtIliz
Them to ADVANTAGE.

How Economical HOusekeepersCa Can Utilize
Them to Advantage.
Gather together all the pieces OF
white soap that you may have, CASTLE
and any others that are known to be
good. Cut them into small pieces and
dissolve in boiling water in the pro-
portion of a tea-cup of water to half a
cup of scraps. AS soon as the scraps
have melted and while the water is
still hot stir in ground out-meal to
make a stiff-batter. Grease some old
cups and pour enough of this mixture
in for a small cake and set it aside to
harden and dry. You have now a very
nice soap that is excellent for daily use
in the nursery; or the mixture may be
made just little thinner and kept in
lineup to be brought out as soft,
white soap at the children's baths.
For the boys and girls tri-daily hand
scrubbing stir the batter very stiff with
oatmeal bran or wheat middlings and
mould into fiat cakes. These have a
roughness that is necessary to remove
ink stains. pitch and the many defiling
substances with which every healthy
boy and girl seems to come in contact.
For fancy hand soap. melt all to-
gether the pieces of any colored toilet
soaps. provided. of course, that they
are good. and do not contain injurious
materials; stir in few drops of per-
fumery and very little Indian meal.
Pour this into shallow dishes fancy
shaped il you wisb). and when partly
cold stamp on pattern and mold the
corners Of the cakes round. or cut into
shapes with a cake-cutter.
The scraps Of yellow soap may be
put into the soap shaker-a wire re-
ceptacle for holding soap that is to be
shaken in the dishwater; but for those
who have no such implement this Is a
way of disp0sing of them: Dissolve
the pieces As before. using less hot
water, and when the mixture has
partly cooled stir in quantity las
much - it win take nicely Of scour-
ing sand or bath brick scraped fine;
pour into . wooden box and stir often
until cold. This is excellent for scour.
ing tins and cleaning implanted shelves
and floors, but will. of course, remove
the paint from woodwork. Yellow
soap may. like the white, be simply
dissolved and left to stiffen . LITTLE 70
BE used as soft sosp.-Ladies' Home
Journal.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-08-23

When you wish TO invest in num-
mics. don't choose "well preserved "
one, but dried-up," used-up" look
ing specimen, il you want . real bona
fide mummy; for it is said that there
is great deal Of fraud in the mummy
business in Egypt. Knowing that pur-
chasers viii pay more for well-pre-
served mummies. and ~ no genuine
mummies are well preserved, the deal
ers contract with beggars and tramps
for their bodies when defunct The
prospective mummies spend in ri0tOus
living the money advanced, which soon
winds up their active career. Then
they are smoked and picked and other
wise treated until they are thoroughly
:. mummened. !" pedigrees dating back
to the days Of Sesostris are attached
to them, and they find ready pur-
chasers among the rich Christian
dogs" who never question the genu-
ineness Of such an antique - . mum
my."-Demorest's Aostsly.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-08-23

SCHOOL AND CHURCH.
The first Protestant missionaries
to foreign field were sent from Geneva
to Brazil In 1873.
An Episcopal church paper says
there is no such thing as "Surpliced
Choirs." 1t should be Vested"
choirs.
The Kings Daughters" now
number twenty thousand in the United
States. The society is to have y month
ly paper.
When one little girl asked another
about the difference between an active
member and an associate member, the
reply was: lone is Christian, and
the other is just going to be-
There are one hundred and eight
Lutheran pastors in Dakota, preach
ing in five languages. The Lutheran
church in that territory is said to con.
tain more members than all other
Protestant churches together.
More than one-third Of all the four
teen hundred students in Michigan
University came from farmers homes.
In the Interior and West, as in dear
old New England. the road 'cross-lots
from the farm to the college has its
own highway. and is well trodden.
Thomas Starr King. the eloquent
preacher. had q country relative who
strongly opposed his going upon the
lecture platform. After much urging
he consented to attend one of the lect-
ures. DIR. King asked him what he
thought of it. ''Waal." was the cheer
ing reply, ''you warn't half as tejus as
l Thought you'd be-"
"A native church at Osaka, Japan,
has dedicated an edifice seating 800
persons, the largest Protestant church
in Japan. which was built entirely at
its own cost. The same city has the
largest Christian girls school in the
empire, with $40 pupils. to the support
Of which the American Board contrib
utes only the services OF its foreign
teachers.
The tendency in our day is to wor-
ship intellect. But agnostics who
glory in their own acumen are con-
stantly confessing the limited range of
their knowledge. While their assaults
on Christian faith are full of bitter
ness. they confess that they themselves
are in the dark. The very intensity of
their opposition to Christianity is
recognition of its power Christian In
guirer.
Every wOod-carving school in New
York has now more girls than boys,
and at the trades institutes, where
only young men are supposed to be
learners. they are clamoring for adj
mission. Several women are studying
in this city, and one young woman has
just completed all the carvings for her
new home. Many women are eager
to show high-backed chair or a table
patterned after an antique model.
whose beautiful ornamentation in the
carving is the work of their own
hands.
"A circular published by the Young
Mems Christian Association of Illinois
states that in the State of Illinois there
are 100000 young men between the
ages of sixteen and forty. At least
$4,000 of these are outside Of the
membership of evangelical churches.
Several churches exist without sim
Dlc yuoIo rnomhop Oue CITY NJ 5O0
inhabitants is reported as having but
fifteen young men who are active in
church work; another of the same size
as having not single young man with
in the membership of any evangelical
church.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-08-23
MENTAL ovER,aeoak.


oAooRVati000 CullOd frO0 . Series 81
ports ~ sehoea-fsaehsrs.
Some interesting. though not novel.
observations on the symptoms OF
mental fatigue were discussed at q re-
cent meeting of the Anthropological
Society. The result of these investiga-
tons goes to prove that weariness Of
mind, the result of work, like other
forms of exhaustion, is recognizable
under the two different, though related.
aspects of irritability and incapacity.
Further, careful inquiry into the same
subject would probably show that here.
as elsewhere, the former of these con-
ditions is Introductory to the latter.
and is the natural sequel of that stage
Of apparently successful overaction
which is seen when an organ, still
fully capable. is unduly stimulated.
The observations referred to were
culled from series of reports by
school-teachers, and included details
of their own sensations as well as of
the children under their care. The
signs of mental irritability were ap-
parent in sleeplessness and nervous
laughter: of fatigue, in sleepiness and
incapacity for task work. Lolling.
yawning and lanquid manner told
that the will was tagging. Headache
suggested overstrain in study combined
with defective ventilation, and perhaps
a too sparing diet; while some curious
facts bearing on the causatiOn of color
blindness and somnambulism were also
noted. Thus, in one case the blue
color perception was for time Oblit-
Grated. and the sufferer from this do
feet found herself painting ivy leaves a
bright orange; while in another a
student. having retired to rest on the
eve of an examination, awoke at
his desk to find that he had
been busily engaged in drawing hu.
morous cartoons relating to a former
conversation. Here we have an in
stance of cerebral irritation due to
overwork, which suggests somewhat
close connection between dreaming
and somnambulism, and affords clue
to the physiology of the latter con-
dition.
Overwork. both mental and bodily,
is at once the most general and the
least regarded form of illness to which
we are liable in the present age. Do
what We may, it is next to impossible
to escape from it: but there is, at all
events, certain satisfaction in being
able to recognize its features. We
must not forget. however. that it is
also to considerable extent a pre-
ventable evil. and it is certainly a
matter for satisfaction that this
fact is not ignored by the re-
forming party in the legislature. Its
treatment in individual cases requires
chiefly that due attention be paid to
the two great essentials Of timely rest
and wholesome diet. Work, however
irksome, may, it is generally allowed.
be undertaken on very liberal scale.
if only it is not too continuous, but is
broken by timely and adequate inter-
walls of rest. The value of a plain and
liberal dietary is hardly less. and we
may take it as q maxim for the times
that so long as appetite and sleep are
unimpaired. there is no dangerous de-
gree of overwork, and conversely, that
a failure in either of these respects
should be regarded as a warning sig
nal, to which attention should be paid
by relieving the strain of exertion.-
Lancet
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-08-23
Not Strong Enough.

did you write those verses, in To-
days paper, entitled In . Dream:' "
queried McPelter of Poeta Nascitur
Non Fit.
Yes. What did you think OF
them:'
Il didn't read them very closely,
but l thought you missed it in the
title
..How?''
You should have called them In .
Nightmare "-Detroit Free Press.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-08-23
saaYRNA.s Flo MARKET.


aev the Teothsene Fruit = Prepared =,
Shipnsat.
The fig market at Smyrna has IN
appearance scarcely in accord with
the. importance Of its transactions or
the area over which its goods are ulti-
mately distributed. Two narrow. dir
ty streets. lined with shanties, are de-
voted to the staple industry of the
place. 1t is with figs as other highly
priced articles of food. the less we
know of the earlier stage of them the
greater our comfort in their consump-
ton. The sacks are laid out in the
open street. and block up the whole
thoroughfare but for q narrow passage
through which the camels thread their
way. Passengers have to scramble
along as best they can. The sacks are
heaped up two or three strata high.
1t is arduOus work clambering over
them. The goat-hair bags make a
slippery surface. but if you fall. at
least you are not hurt. These sacks.
when they are of the full size, weigh
about two kintals (say $50 pounds)
apiece. and two of them form camel
load. 1t is curious that you never see
more and never see less than the two
sacks. Some kind of prescription fixes
the burden. quite without regard to the
capacity of the bearer. Some of the
camels are sturdy beasts. that could
easily bear more than five hundred
pounds on their backs. while others
are weak and weary; the load is al
ways the same. Into these two streets
at market time come the Greek mer-
chants, who are the middlemen in the
fig trade. Indeed. there are many
middlemen. and several series of profits
are realized before the article reaches
the consumer. A rule. the Greeks
sell to the packers. who in turn sell to
the shippers; though sometimes the
shippers buy and pack for themselves.
The packing is. perhaps. the most
characteristic stage in the whole proc
ess. First there is the resOrting. and
this duty is trusted to women,
Turks and Christian working to-
gether in perfect peace. The sorting
done. the fruit is carried to the pullers
and the packers. The pulling is not
pleasant to think of. The mentor it
needs the strength of male fingers-sit
in long rows on each side of q tenn
porary table made of two boards on
trestles. They sit on stools: squatting
on the ground has quite gone out now
in the towns. Beside each packer
stands pile of empty boxes. and near
every two or three is placed large
fiat basket full of sorted fruit, and be-
side the basket a can of salt and water.
The man chooses the fig he intend to
pull, and then. dipping his hand in the
salt water. flattens it between his
fingers. at the same time splitting it
near the stalk. He then places it in
the box. Long practice gives great
perfection in the art of pulling and
packing. You see the fruit distributed
in rows so neatly that knife might be
dropped between them without cutting
any of the fruit. Nearly all the figs
packed for export are pulled" The
saltwater brings out the sugar, which,
in about three months, comes to the
surface. when the fruit is in the best
condition for eating.-N. y. CONNER
cial Advertiser.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-08-23

Ca1lng WhleA Pays Doe4RR I1nn OeAae
E1paeyneats OPen - WeDea.
The business Of the trained nurse h
not yet overdone, though the chances
are that inside of four or five years its
palmy days may be past. Some Of tho
pretty. white-capped creatures who
graduated in the earlies. classes from
the training schools and hospitals arc
capitalists in a modest feminine way
now. A tall brunette. who has been
at work seven or eight years, and
whose eyes are quick and touch
soothing and def beyond de-
scription. owns three or four de-
sirable corner lots, which were
bought with shrewd insight into the
directions Of the city's growth. and are
worth a pretty penny more than she
paid for them to-day. A second nurse.
who has distinguished herself beyond
the average. bought out a restaurant
which does thriving trade, the prof.
its OF which would keep her if she did
not prefer to retain the old manager, q
dapper little Frenchman. in charge,
and pursue the calling in which she
has succeeded. The regular rate for
the services of a trained nurse go to
$24 and board per week, and the de-
mand Is brisk enough to employ them
on an average forty-ive weeks out of
the year. Unusually skilled nurses
sometimes get $50 or $S5 per week,
while undergraduates in their second
years training are permitted to 60 out
at the rate of IS a week.
The nurses are recruited largely from
the ranks of those who would other.
wise be milliners or dressmakers,
though many highly educated ladies
are found among them. attracted by
the work. which seems to them es-
pecially feminine. Some of the younger
nurses become so much interested in
the medical end of their duties that after
graduating. they study medicine and
become practitioners. There is one
young girl in. Bellevue now who gradu-
ated from a country college and came
to New York to teach and earn money
to pay her way through u medical col
lege. She found that teachers wages
made her task an impossible one. and
went to the hospital to learn a BUSH
ness that would pay better and help her
at the same time a certain distance on
her road. Her course is likely to be fol-
lowed by other poor but ambitious girls.
The best paying field which has opened
before intelligent nurses with organiz-
ing and executive ability, however, has
been. after perfecting themselves, to
open training schools on their own &C
count in localities not supplied with
such schools. There are women who
have gone all over New York State and
good distances West establishing
centers from which go out devoted
nurses. This was the plan, though
not conceived with a view to the finan-
cial return, which brought General
Wade Hampton's laughter to New
York to obtain the knowledge that
would fit her to start training schools
in the South. She has made one of
the best head nurses ever seen in q
hospital ward. The number of nurses
is not equal to the demand yet. but it
is increasing so fast that the profess
sion may be over-crowded. like most
departments of woman's work.-N y
Mail and Express
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-08-23

Some one says that brunettes get
husbands quicker than blondes This
does not coincide with the general
opinion that Hght-haired womea have
the best chances in the matrimonial
usrksA -Bafen Gazette.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-08-23

Jean Ingelow gives . dinner three
times . week to the sick puor md the
discharged convaleecents from boz.
pitalA
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-10-17

Richard Ashe King the author OF those brilliant
booAs, The Wearing of the Green" and Demos" is
. kind of Robert Elsmere in real life He was q
Yorkshire vicar, but his theological views broadened
beyond the limits of the Thirtynine Articles, and he
resigned his comfortable living for the uncertain
profits OF literature. Mr.. King lives in Blackrock,
near Dublin, and devotes HIS time entirely to writing
He Is man of medium height with full, light beard
and gray eyes. lie is writing new novel-a sequel
to "The Wearing Of the Green
Harriet Hosmers novel is said to be full of murder
and psychological mystery 1t Is TO be called " The
Stranger Case of Sheriff Malathorn, Mr. Bonbrght and
Anthony Hickman
Tho odd lack OF humor in the average Englishman
Il illustrated by the fact that people actually believed
in tho Conhillr article, in which, by way of skit
on Mr. Donnclly's Bacon theory, Dckens's novels
were attributed to Gladstone. Numbers OF persons
have written to inquire :" what foundation there eX
lists for this statement" When London was first
divided into postal districts example given Of
how letters should in future be addressed, John
Smith, Strand W. C.,D whereupon, the post Office
report informs us, hundreds of people directed their
private correspondence to that imaginary gentleman
The first supplementary volume of the invaluable
Index to Periodical Literature, edited by Dr. Poole
and Mr. Fletcher is coming from the press of Housh
ton, Mfin 4 Co. 1t deals with the English and
American periodical literature for tho five years
1ss2-'s7
A literary edition Of Pascaps "Thoughts" will
shortly be published by Whitaker
1t is curious TO note in "The Memphis Appeal an
editorial article highly eulogistc Of Mrs. Stowe.
How impossible II would have seemed thirty years
ago that such thing could como TO pass!
Mr.. Gladstone IS at work his autobiography. and
an English critic already laments the states
mans lack Of versatility OF style " The same lurn-
boring sentences" this carpor have to do duty
in a public speech. essay Homer and critical
article a thrcovolume novel, and II would be an
odous style for a memoir writer. Imagination fails
TO conceive the great unbending to the chaty
anecdotal ease which alone could make such work
acceptable Besides, he is not cynical enough to be
frank
Sir Richard Burton has at last completed his transla
ton Of the Arabian Nights"
The "Engsh Men Of Letters series, edited by
John Morley, be sold by the Harers hereafter
edition of twelve volumes made up from the
original thirty-siX vOlumes-three Lives" vol
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NEW INVESTMENT.

Ia being rapidly extended into the mineral regions Of
southeastern kentucky and will give outlet 20 the great
products Of country this coming spring and
The valuable along this road owned by tho
Kentucky Union Land Company. The locations where
mining manufacturing cities VIII be built; extensive
lands for farms hundred thousand OF timber
iands with mills already in operation and deposits OF
school OF Mines Proctor State ceologiss
Kentucky pronounce the largest and best deposits OK
camel coal United This corporation
beds and quality equal 20 Connells
VILE and the celebrated
Red River Iron Furnace properties where are all the ele
ments OF future iron industries. This company Is In
position realize in every department from the develop
OF this region, which has before been
penetrated by railroad
To secure additional capital for the development OF
thea by the the road Is open. the Di-
OF the Kentucky Union Land Company have
solved ocr for sale the land stock in the OF the
The shares sI00 EACH full paidnot subject
ing the holder to any further liability and until the present
needs OF the company provided for will be sold for
so per OF the face value.
The Louisville and Nashville Railroad and the Norfolk
and Western Railroad both building extensions
this mineral region Its southern border The Ken
lucky Union Railway penetrates this region from tho
north. hundred miles the great markets All
these railroads will add To the value Of this companys
says that Kentucky during the next decade will show
faster growth than other State d. Carey. presi.
dent Of the Kentucky Union Railway, says: These
properties will have remarkable outcome. This stock Is
virtually the growth OF that locality and
VIII prove happy investment Southeast Kentucky 10
about to open new chapter In the ever surprising
growth OF the United States
For Information apply by letter In person Office
OF the company. Mills building. IS wa-st, NewYor
l.. T. ROSENGAETEN,
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