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, 1889-11-02

A little Lexington girl has found re-
Gently that charity has sweet rewards in
gratitude. At the time of the Johns
town floods she decided to contribute a
dress to the supply of clothing, which
some of the towns people were collect
ing for the sufferers, and in its pocket
placed a note requesting that the little
girl who received the dress would send
a reply. The answer came, and it told
a pitiful story. The Johnstown girl said
that she has lost thirty-two relatives in
the flood. OF seven children in her i'm!
mediate family four were saved. The
little girl, whose house had been swept
away, expressed sincere gratitude for
the dress. -Boston Journal.
, 1889-11-02

There is a man living in Hartford,
Conn, who deserves the prize for absent
mindedness. A few days ago he was
having his shoes shined by a street boot
black. Just as the job was finished
and the man had picked out a nickel
from his purse, an acquaintance stepped
up and began talking. The first man
absent mindedly put the nickel in his
pocket and gave the purse to the boot
black, who seized it and disappeared.
The purse contained 81. 15.-Chicago
Times
, 1889-11-02
County Treasurer and Collector OF Tax,


We desire to say to our citizens hat for
years We have been selling DR.. King
New Discovery for Consumption. DR..
Kings New Lille Pills, Bucklan's Arnica
Salve and Electric Bitters. and have
never handled remedies hat sell as well,
or that have given such universal salts
faction. We do not hesitate to guaran
tee them every time. and we stand read,
to refund the purchase price, if s~atisfac
tory results do not follow their use. These
remedies have won their great popularity
purely on their merits. Sold by B. B.
David, druggist,
, 1889-11-02

RoUsISG constitution meetings will be
held at every prominent town along the
line of the Union Pacific railroad next
Monday evening to emphasize the feeling
in favor of the constitution. Mr.. VIM.
Myers in private conversation a few days
ago expressed the sentiment of a great
many people when be said. "Of course
objections can be raised against the con
stitution bnt it is good enough for me, for
, 1889-11-02

IT Is unnecessary to deny THE LEAD
ER's assertion that Mr.. Adams confessed
that he only voted upon one bill on its
merits during the sixty days he sat in
the house. - Yesterdays Sun.
1t is unnecessary for the reason. per-
haps, that it could not be denied without
deliberate Justification.
, 1889-11-02
Shaped Like a Dumb Bell.

Elias Shiftlet, colored, brings us a
curious hens egg-well, not exactly that
"a hens curious egg. 1t is shaped like
q dumb bell, such as is used for the de-
velopment of the muscles. One end
contained all the yelk and the other all
the white. That hen bids fair to be the
featherweight champion OF tho barn
yard.-Hartwell QGa.) Sun.
, 1889-11-02

/ would much rather live in a state than
a territory"
No effort should be spared to secure the
greatest possible moral effect from the
meeting at Keefe hall on Monday even,
inc nnxt-
, 1889-11-02

Courtesy of Hyo. Archives & H
, 1889-11-02

about the Superb Pullman Dining Cars
which have been recently placed in ser
vice via the Union Pacific, THE Over
land Route?" 1t you have, and want to
get a sumptuous meal while travelling,
don't fail to take the train on which these
Diners run. They run on the fast Vesti-
bule Express between Council Bluffs and
Denver and on the Overland Flyer be-
tween Council Bluffs and Portland.
Meals, which cannot be surpassed in
any Of the first class hotels in the country,
are served in these cars at 75c each.
All kinds of Job Printing neatly and
promptlv executed Mt the leader Office
, 1889-11-02
NOTICE TO
OFFICE OF COUNTY TREASURER AM
lnII rc.ron nr nAXrc

COLLECTOR OF TAXES. :
CHEYENNE. SEPT. l6, 1886,
TERRITORY OF WYOMING,
COUNTY OF LARAMIE. ss
All persons and corporations liable tC
taxation are hereby notified that the tai
list of Laramie county, for the year 1889,
has, on this the third Monday in Septem.
Der, A. d. 1889, been placed in my hand.
for collection. according to law. Said
taxes are now due and payable at my of
fee without further notice.
Any tax remaining unpaid on the 30tt
day of November, 1889, will be delin
quent and subject to the addition of
penalty Of ten C0) per centum, together
with interest and cost Of collection.
ISAAC BERGMAN.
County Treasurer and Collector OF Taxes
, 1889-11-02

Send two cents in stamps to f. L. Lo-
max, general passenger agent Union Pac-
ciic railway, Omaha. Neb., and secure a
copy of Outdoor Sports and Pastimes,
containing complete rules for lawn tennis,
croquet and base ball; Just issued.
The Butte daily miner., 1889-01-01

feet per mile. With of the branches the same
care has not been exercised, that we find upon |
the Helena, Boulder Valley & Butte, and the Helena |
& Northern, grades and curvatures which climb and
twist around the mountain sides in remarkable manner
The St. Paul. Minneapolis & Manitoba is constructed
with 32 feet for maximum grade and degrees for its
sharpest On such grades from 40 to SO cars
are easily hauled with single engine.
The Montana Central has grades and curves similar
to the main line of the Northern Pacific. Its line
between Helena and Butte is probably the best con-
,rrctcd of any of the Montana roads.
We cannot we'll study the railroad problem in Mon
t:na without the aid of map. We find now main or
branch tracks reaching the larger towns and mining
camps, and extending into of the prosperous
agricultural districts.
The special industries in Montana, mining and cattle
raising, require the of the railroad make them
profitable perhaps to greater extent than almost any
other pursuits There thousands of unccv elopcd
prospects Montana that only need cheaper transport
alton enable them furnish labor for large numbers
of men, and afford ample remuneration for their
At the present time the railroad tracks in Yellow
stone, Gallatin, Missouri, Prcky Pear, Milk river,
Deer Lodge, He'll Gate Beaverhcad and Bitter Root
Valleys There 20 other river valleys, tributaries of
the Yellowstone and Missouri, which may some
future time support railroad. The Musseshe offers
route for another continental road which is be
possessed before many years.
The railroads reach but nine of the rich mineral
and coal deposits of the territory With such prospects
and mines at Neihart, Jay Gould, Castle,
Elkhorn and other places there is little danger of rail-
road construction being brought to close in Montana
for many years. From the number of engineering
parties which have been kept in the field the past few
months in both the eastern and western parts, there is
prospect of considerable construction for the coming
year. E. H. BEcKLER.
THE WESTERN WOMAN.
|TlHE woman born and reared in the west is grand
L and goodly type of womanhood She is strong
and keen and comprehensive; she is full of life and
grace and freedom; she quick to feel injury, and
she is quite equal to being her own avenger
Her eye is keen and her tongue is sharp, but her
heart is and her hand is open She is always
ready with her sympathy and prompt with her help.
Her ability and executive talent of a very
The Butte daily miner., 1889-01-01

the finest cattle ranches and extensive and most
prosperous sheep owned and managed bv
women.
have now in my mind the of woman born
IN Ohio, who, ten years ago, in the city of New York,
was earning So or $6 week, with which sum she
supported her mother and her fathers brother semi
invalid old man.
At the time speak of, when this woman was about
~ years of age, she obtained after much difficulty and
delay, grant of government land which her dead
father had become entitled through his service in the
rebellion.
The land was located in Oregon. She sent her old
uncle out to take up the End and she pchcd and saved
and sent to him from time time, almost dollar by
dollar, money with which to hire help clear space
in the timber and to put up log house.
As soon this poor shelter provided for them
she took her mother and went out and lived on her
land. AS she could from time to me she bought stock
and so crcpt on step by STEP until she has good
home and barn. and last year she cleared from tho sale
of stock she had rasc and from tho sale of her crops
several thousand dollars.
And what this woman has done hundreds of women
arc doing every year.
And if many of these have got much
education, their and daughters will have And it
is we'll with land that breeds such women, and it is
we'll with the of the land who have such mothers
d.
The Butte daily miner., 1889-01-01
THE NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD

lHE great transcontinenta route of the north pass
l. ing through some of the grandcst scenery and
richest scope of territory in the United States Two
trains run daily between st. Paul and Minneapolis
and Oregon and Washington points. This is the
shortest and best route to the Pacific from Helena
and Butte and offers unequalc facilities the traveller
Dining and sleeping the fast express and
every possible convenience is provided for At ST. Paul
and Minneapolis close connections made with all
points in the east For comfort, safety and quick time
take the Northern Pacific.
The Butte daily miner., 1889-01-01
BUTTE FURNITURE COMPANY.

TV LMOST every article used in the household can
"A be found at the company's ware-rooms. Beds,
bedding, glass and crockeryware stoves, tinware,
kitchen utensils and everything else required in the
kitchen parlor is carried in stock In addition to its
store in this city the company also has branch in Ana
conda
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-04-11
WOMAN'S DEPARTMENT.
ONWARD AND UPWARD.

Keep striving! The winners are those who
lave striyen
And Fought for the prize that no idler has won:
To the hands of the steadfast alone II Is given,
And before it Is gained there is work to be
done.
Keep climbing. The earnest and stesdfast
have scaled
The height where the pathway was rough to
the feet.
But the faint hearted faltered. and, fsltering,
failed.
And sank down by the wayside IN helpless de-
feat.
Keep hopingi The clouds hide the sun for a
time,
But sooner or later they scatter and fee,
And the path glows like gold, to the toilers who
climb
To the heights where men look over land
scape and sea
Keep onward, right on, till the prize is at
tanned!
Front the future with courage, and obstacles
fall.
By those and those only, the victory's gained
Who keep faith in themselves, and in God
over all.
e e Rexf0rd
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-04-11

stitching 10 80 far apart; don't you
think 90, Flop
II don't know but it is.
LET me see something with only
one row of stitching. Oh, I don't like
that; do you. FLOP"
IL don't know. really"
at don't look like it was all linen;
does it, Flop"
mo, don't believe it does"
s.l'm sure it isn't I've a notion to
get some ruching and let the collar 60;
would your
''Oh. suit yourself. dear"
'.Do you like ruchinga
''Oh, yes"
II believe I will get it"
They spend half an hour 1T the
ruching counter and then race back to
the collar department, and finally
emerge from the store in just eighty
seven minutes after they enter it.
Bessie having by this time concluded
that sheA''didn't believe she'd get the
collar to-day, anyhow" and she
doesn't-Time.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-04-11
Unmistakable Evidence.

The Canada Citizen says: Sensible
men who have doubts about the effect
that woman suffrage would be likely to
have on the community, would do wisely
to consider the fact that this reform is
strongly and bitterly opposed by the
liquor-traffic and the other interests
that flourish in and on vice and crime.
We do not say that bad men are always
wrong in their opinions, and never ad.
vocate what would benefit the commu-
nifty. We know also that many very
good men are opposed to woman suf-
frage; but we do say that when nearly
all the vicious, ignorant criminal. law
less classes are on one side of a ques-
ton, there is a strong probability that
their side is the wrong one"
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-04-11
ISOLATED PEOPLE

The Unenviable Lot Of the Man VINO
Cares for Nobody.
Men who isolate themselves from
society, and have no near and dear
family ties, are the most uncomfort-
able of human beings. Byron says:
Happiness was born a twin" but the
phrase. though pretty and poetic, does
not go far enough. We are gregari-
Gus, and not intended 10 march through
life In single or in double file. In
pairing time. j. e., during the honey
moon. individuals of opposite sexes
may find it very pleasant. not to say
delightful. to walk apart from the un-
sentimental world. two and two. But
as general thing they are ready
enough to rush back into the crowd
when the billing and cooling season Is
over. Petrarch would have grown
tired of Laura, and she of him,
had they been condemned to
lifelong tete-a-tete in the wilder
ness. and Sappho would have
jumped into the sea to escape ennui.
had she been compelled to matrimonial
solitude with the man for lack of whose
love she made "a damp body" Of her
self.
It has been well said that the vital
principle grows weak when isolated.
The man who cares for nobody. and
for whom nobody cares. has nothing to
live for that will pay for the trouble Of
keeping soul and body together. You
must have heap Of embers to make q
glowing fire. Scatter them apart. and
they become dim and cold. So, to have
. brisk. vigorous life, you must have q
group Of lives. to keep each other
warm. as It were, TO afford to each
other mutual encouragement and conf
dence and support II you wish to live
the Life Of . man, and not that Of
fungus. be social, Be brotherly. be
charitable, b sympathstic. and labor
earnestly for the good oe your kind
NJ. Ledger.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-04-11
ONLY A COLLAR:

Or, Eighty-Seven Minutes in q Dry-Goodi
StOre--A Comedy from Lilo.
"Oh, wait moment, Flo, want to
step in here and get me a collar; it
won't take me but just a moment"
So they went into Linnen & Cotton's,
and, after stopping at various counters
to price some ribbon, gloves, lace. fans,
hair-pins, buttons, silk, chenille, Sax
ony, passamentrie and slippers, none
of which they had any idea of pur.
chasing, they found themselves at the
collar and cuff counter.
Let me see some collars, please -
said Bessie.
All linen?" asked the clerk.
"Oh, yes, certainly, all linen"
"Square or round cornered?"
Il hardly know. Let me see both
kinds What kind do you like best,
Flop
20. don't know, really It don't
make much difference.
mo. so 1t don't, for
"What number. miss?"
"Oh. let me see declare if l don't
always forget just what number DO
wear. Thirteen, I think. What num-
Der do you wear, FLOP"
"Twelve and half"
.Do you? l shouldn't think I'd
wear larger number than you, would
you?"
ct dnnsf Lnowss
II suppose my neck is-No. don't
want so high collar as that Do you
like high collar, Flop"
II hardly know, really"
"Of course it depends altogether on
the kind of neck one has. Mine is as
long as stork's."
"Oh, Flor
"Itis!''
How ridiculous! I think
Here is lower collar. miss
''Oh. that's too low. Don't you think
30. FLOP"
1T is rather low, really"
"Of course it is. l always-oh. look
at these handkerchiefs back of US!
Aren't they t0cety!
"Aren't theya do love pretty
handkerchief"
so do L A real neat
''How do you like this collar, missP"
''Oh, l don't like three rows Of
stitching at the top; do you. FLOP"
Two rows look better. / think"
$50 do L Let me see some with two
rows"
"Yes'm; here's one.
'Yes. I see, somehow.
I don't just like that either; do you.
Flop"
Il don't know, really"
Looks 20 kind Of oil don't know
yust how, but I don't like Il h
-
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-04-11

those OF the men, secured the right city
government After Wyoming women
proved what they could do by their
votes, they have never since been
afraid to vote. Would the remon-
strants have prayed not to have tho
duty thrust upon them of helping thei.
men save the children from the evil
example of open bars, shops. saloons.
gambling-houses and no rest day on
Sunday?
In certain town at the West, where
New England men and women had
made their home, log school-housa
worn out and old. had holes in the
floor through which the cold winds gave
the children chilblains. and great cracks
in the walls gave them colds There
was need of new school-house. But
many men did not want to pay the tax
necessary to build it, and the vote for
new school-house could only be carried
by adding the vote of the mothers (who
all wanted a new school -house) to that
of the men who wanted it. To the wo-
men their children were more than
money. They voted, with the men who
wanted it, for the new school-house.
and to-day the children are snug and
warm in the new building. Would the
remonstrants have prayed those women
not to let the burden be thrust upon
them" of voting for the school-house?
Certain towns have no adequate
water supply, and are in constant peril
of fires. If the women who see the
danger and the need could vote with
the men who see it, the town could be
made safe by the introduction of abun.
dant water supply. Would the remon-
strants urge women to let the town
take the risk of burning rather than
have the burden of voting for plenty OF
water thrust upon them"
Many school houses are ill-ventilated
and wholly in an unsanitary condition.
The children die of diphtheria and
scarlet fever. If the mothers. who
can not help caring for their child
rem, could add their votes to those of
the fathers who care, the school houses
would be made wholesome. Will the re-
urge women not to let this
burden of care for the school houses
be thrust upon them"
In one of the towns in Worcester
County last summer an open sewer was
laid through the grounds of a woman
and left open. The duty has never
been ''thrust upon her" of voting at the
town meeting on town matters, and as
3 consequence she has an open sewer in
her grounds. Will the remonstrants
urge her to escape the ''burdenp"
The above are few of the matters
that are a part of practical politics"
and of municipal government. If we
could free ourselves from the force of
custom and prejudice it would be easily |
seen that they all belong as fully and as
to women as to men. When
the time comes that women do vote as
men do on all questions Of common and
public interest, the only wonder will be
that the right to do SO was ever denied.
Lucy Stone, in Boston Globe.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-04-11
TWO GIGANTIC WAVES.

How . YOungstcr Was Thrown Overheard
and Rescued.
Mr.. John Mcleod Murphy, of En-
CINE No. Z, of the fire department Of
this city, tells this story:
at was in the summer of 1877 that
Then a student on the training shin
Minnesota-was drafted out to take
the captaincy OF the after guard STAR
board watch of the cruising sloop Sup
ply. Every summer it was customary
to send out a draft of two hundred and
fifty boys on cruise on the Supply,
and this year there was no exception
made. The ship was in charge of COM
missioned officers of the United States
navy. the latter being under the COM
mand of Lieutenant.C Commander John
B. Newman. The cruise was for the
three summer months, during which
time the boys practiced lacking and
wearing ship, and were drilled in reef
ing and furling sail.
Zone fine day in July a boy named
Bob Hyde was detail ed lookout at the
starboard cathead.
1--WE were about forty-eight hours
out from Block Island. The sea gave
indications of an approaching gale.
Soon heavy storm-clOud was seen OF
to leeward. and we made ready to re-
ceive it. We were not long waiting.
1t struck US to ieeward. and sent US
spinning. The wind blew q hurricane.
The waves ran mountains high, and
still the little ship ran on.
Hyde was, as said before, at tho
starboard cathead. It took all the
strength he could muster to keen him
from being washed overheard. At
last one huge wave carried him oil.
bis strength had given out
"'AIl hands to man the first CUTTER
sang out the deck officer, Lieutenant
Andy Iverson.
TO his utter surprise and conster-
nation no one Of the watch FASTENED
70 obey him and to eudeavor TO rescua
the poor fellow.
turning around to sec the cause
Of this disinclination 70 assist q drown.
Ing man. he saw . sight that made
aim Tor IN instant believe that he was
dreaming. for there. being lifted over
Ihe hfe rail- Of the poop deck, vas Bob
HydA he had been SWEET on board
lgain. One wave carried him on; the
aext brought him back seain"-N.
As =
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-04-11
WON ANS RIGHTS NOTES:

THERE are nearly three hundred wo.
men studying at the Cooper Union Free
Woman's Art School in New York.
TENNESSEE. progresses, and she
shows it by making Miss Nellie ODon-
nell superintendent of public schools in
Shelby County. She is only twenty
two years old.
if all that has been said by orators
and poets since the creation of the
world in praise of women were applied
to the women OF America, it would not
do them justice for their conduct dur
ing the war.-President Lincoln.
WOMEN began work in printing
Offices as early as 1920. An engraving
made in that year by Jodocus Badins.
in Paris, shows the interior of q print
ing-office. where three people are at
work. one man pulling the press, an
other man knocking the ink-balls, and
one woman sticking typo"
An attempt was lately made in the
London County Council to elect Sir
Charles Dixie an alderman of London.
There was strong objection on account
Of his notorious morals When the
caucus met it was confronted with q
protest signed by 1.500 ladies, and the
name OF Sir Charles was dropped.
AN interesting fact noted BY an OBJ
servant New York woman. Eliza Put
nam Heaton. is that the woman suf-
frage cause is progressing rapidly just
now among working-women. 1T Is
not the political aspects for which they
care but their motto is equal pay foa
equal work. and this Il seams to be
borne in upon them uaily. would b
best promoted BY equality before the
Law"
In spite Of opposition. the woman's
caab seems to be gaining ground every.
where. None Of the large cities Il
without score Of them. and the minor
towns and villages are now furnishine
Their quota TO The liz Tho obiects AZ
these embrace nearly every ubiec4
Known to man, aad good MANY which
70 not Literature art dreas. vom.n,s
work. economy and policies arc IA e.
vorite themes Of the club women.