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Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-09-19

As il was, he got the better of US. and
we know more about going through
window backwards ourself than We
did. It was conceded on all sides,
however. that we kept him at his knit
ting. and in two weeks at the furthest
We will be ourself again.
D6- Miss Simperson's unwarranted
interference let down the bars to the
Riige girls, as matter of course, and
the way they piled into the crowd
from the mill was a delight to behold.
The correspondent was not in the
house all the time, as will be. gathered
from the above, but he was able to
take few hasty notes through the
window. We think Rachel Brayfogle
did some of the prettiest hitting that
has been seen on the Ridge this sea-
son. She knocked two of the Mill
party cold with flatiron and dragged
at least one of them out on the east
porch by the hair of the head.
This little scrimmage resulted,
as have all its predecessors, namely.
in the utter and awful rout of the Mill
crowd, male and female. This is the
third time they have intruded upon
Ridge society within the past six weeks.
and each time One-half of the gang has
helped the other half home. One would
imagine that by and by they will get it
through their heads that they are not
regarded as moving in the same circle
as Ridge people.
R9~Of the ball itself it is superiu-
Gus to speak. Its every feature was
managed in the most happy manner,
and there was absolutely nothing lack
ing to make it an event long to be re-
membered with the keenest pleasure.
B9rIn closing, we wish to deny en-
phatically the rumor that your corre-
spOndent lost an ear. Our antagonist
exhibited something at the Mill which
he claimed was our ear. but we have
absolute proof that he stopped at the
slaughter-hOuse on his way home that
night and faxed an ear for the pur-
pose. Shame on such conduct, say
ven Y. World.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-09-19
PHYSICAL FORCE

The Powers of Mind and Heart Gaining
the Ascendancy Over Mere Muscle.
At recent woman suffrage meeting
in England, Mrs. Stanton Batch made
a witty and eloquent speech dealing
with the physical force argument She
said:
As we look back over the course we
have come. we feel how weak is such
power. Those who belittle the infiu-
ence of heart and brain are, in fact
deceiving themselves, for they fail to
see how the reign of muscle is doomed.
Psychical development has left physical
power behind it. and the crowned kings
of to-day are mind and heart. MIR.
Labouchere has recently declared that
he would rather live under the Cars
of Russia than under a petticoat Gov
eminent in England. He fails to see,
however, that the trend of character is
given in the nursery under petticoat
rule. Probably in his childhood the
old rule of Spare the rod and spoil the
CHILD prevailed. and his memories of a
quite other than moral suasion have
perhaps embittered him against us.
But if physical force is to be test, /
would rather rely on the strength of a
pit-brow woman than on that of a men,
Der of Parliament. Prince Bismarck is
the high priest of the ugly old religion
of might. and he said not year ago
that the next war would bleach Europe
white as veal On whom would that
prophecy fall but on the manhood Of
Europe? What force did more in the
Crimean war than that of Florence
Nightingale. or in the American than
that of Clara Barton? When asking
for the suffrage from the men she had
helped to save, Clara Barton's words
were: When you were weak and l was
strong. l helped you; now that l am
weak and you are strong. l ask you to
help me- Some woman might say the
same to every man now"
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-09-19
SOCIETY AT JUG RIDGE.
The Misses Brayfosle Hold Brilliant an
Charming SOiree.

The Misses Brayfosle Hold n Brilliant and
Charming SOiree.
%The scribe wishes to return his
best thanks to the Misses BrayfOgle
for the courtesy of an invitation to be
present at the delightful dance given
by them Friday evening. 1t is seldom
that a more brilliant or congenial COM
pany is assembled for social purposes,
even on the Ridge.
I@The one disagreeable feature
was the fact that Rube Cypert broke
two fiddle strings, and having. as he
claimed. lost box of new strings on
the way to the dance. he was unable
to furnish music such as the occasion
warranted. The truth is that RUDE
was up to his old tricks. and made
frequent visits to bottle he had hid
den under the side porch. Look out
Rube; you are not the only man in
this neck o. woods that can play Dan
Tucker" and crowd the notes Of a
waltz together like dried apples on q
string.
~ w z muSt SOY VIC WCIC ms q iAtsAO
surprised to find several of the Stover's
Mill crowd present as big rs life and
twice as natural To our inquiry Katie
Rrayfogle informed us that they were
there without invitation. Communicate
ing these facts to few of the Ridge
boys the festivities were postponed for
the time being and the Stover's Mill
party given three minutes to take their
ladies and abdicate or fight True to
their low instincts they chose to fight,
and fight it was.
D@ We regard it most Inladylike
for Susan Simperson to strike your
correspondent over the head with
barrel stave, otherwise the man select
ed as our especial meat would have
known what it was TO be hurled with
great violence through the window.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-09-19
GOOD WORDS FOR WOMEN.

Mrs. ELIZABETH CApY STANTON pre-
diets that in ten years woman's suffrage
will be an accomplished fact in every
State in the Union.
A wOMANLY woman always attracts.
and if she has truth to teach she will
find that when she has made favor
able social impression the battle is half
won; her cause in pleasant guise has
gained foot-hold, and converts are
made before they are ware.
REPRESENTATIVE GRINDLE voted
against woman suffrage in the Maine
Legislature in 1875, but the other day
he declared his conversion. II be-
lieve." said he, "there are few men in
this House who, in matters of morals
and conscience. do not rely more upon
the judgment of their wives than upon
their own" They are off the track if
they don't.
IsPEAK for the enfranchisement of
woman. reminding the sceptic that the
Father is so good an architect that He
creates nothing He wants wasted. A
first-class soul or mind with only
second-class chance is piece of Gre
alton wasted. Therefore God must
mean that the right to the largest
chance for the largest usefulness shall
be open to ALL. Clement Ambrose.
EVERY wise woman buildeth her
house. As no boy ought to be brought
up without learning some business at
which he could learn a livelihood. so
no girl ought to be brought up without
learning the science OF self-support
His advice to all girls and all
homes or in homes where most strin.
gent economies are grinding. is to learn
to do some kind of work that the world
must have while the world standa-
Talmage.
The evil that has caused the down.
fail of every nation in the past. the
evil that is gnawing at the foundation
of all nations to-day. is the result of
keeping the mothers of the human race
in ignorance aid subsection. A stream
can not rise higher than its source. but
the reservoir lifted on the hill shows
that men have it in their power to ele-
vate the source. For their own inn
provement and welfare, men should en-
courage and stimulate women.-MrA
Ellen B. Dietrich.
Coop municipal government can be
had only by putting control into the
hands of the intelligent and enlighten-
ed portion OF society. The most intel
ligent and enlightened class of our
citizens are, as rule. the men and wo-
men of American birth who have been
educated in our common schools. The
problem is how to give to this better
element its fullest legitimate control
without doing injustice to our natural
lied citizens. This can be done by ex-
tending municipal suffrage to women
who can read and write Henry Il
Blackwell
The pursuits of men in the world, to
which they are directed by the natural
aptitude of sex. and to which they must
devote their lives. are as foreign from
political functions as those of women.
| To take an extreme case; there is moth
ing more incompatible with political
duties in cooking and taking care Of
children than there is in digging
bitches or making shoes, or in any 9TH
er necessary employment while in
every superior interest of society grow
| ing out Of the family, the stake Of
women is not less than men, George
William CuxtaA
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-09-19

cream and peaches. He had big farm,
money ahead, and more cattle, dumb crit
tiers and sheep than We could shake STICK
st. And he wus jest crazy fer jackson, the
enliest chile he had, ter up and marry why
be KEEP or silk dress and er bran-new side
saddle, ready and waitin', fer his daughter
that-wuz-ter-be. Jackson himself wuz
nigh erbout as bad; he jest natcherly dotted
On the fa'ar sect, but he couldn't make
ch ice betwixt the Grady gals. There wuz
three On 'em, Ellen, Anne and Maria, hall
sisters all. Ole Major Grady had luck at
bein' err widderwer; he married four times
in six years, snd each of the three foremost
that he lost left hum gal baby. When he
up and married Louizy Stringfellow, tibet
had been struck by lightenin', and didn't
mind it, we all knowed he had got ter the
end of his row, and that his orphun family
would be fetched up in proper style. Hit
wuz troo there warnt no smarter ner bet
ter lookin' gals in three counties, and
they'd all a-been married before you could
say Jack Robinson, only the Old madam
wouldn't have it so. No stree er she hadn't
no notion of havin' her house turned topsy
turyey with courtin' and marryin' three
times, when once would do as well. So she
KEEP Ellen and Anne in short dresses tell
Maria wuz big enough ter wear long ones,
sot 'em all out ter onct at the Flat Rock
quarterly meetin' With lookin' at they
wuz, let me tell We. Ellen had the whitest
sort o. skin, and lips like cherries. Anne
svuz round and pink, and soft as peach,
and Maria wuz jest growed- up baby, with
WALLER curls, and the littlest feet that ever
trotted merrily.
Ole Madam had her eye on jackson from
the word go, and she managed 1T so that
pretty soon he wuz over thar so constant
that the rest er the boys narrated 1t round
that him and the Majors big hound fought
o nights as ter which should sleep on the
door-mat. Ye Sc he'd fell in love with all
three, and as Mormon docterins warn't
popular thereabout, the trouble wuz ter
love one well enough to do without the
others. Like as not he'd got gray-headed
studyin' over it eff it hadn't been fer Bull
ger, his cousin, jest fifteen, the tor-r-r-
mentinest boy, but sharp as whole patch
err briars, and not mean, jest sorter mis-
chevious like. He went ter Major Gradys
too, not courtin', but jest becase it suited
him.
One mornin', in the fall, as him and Jack
son wuz rid.n' over thar, he ups an ses
ses 'e; "Ole pard we orter have weddin
ter Christmas, but you're sech er ole poke
easy. I'll haveto fetch hit round myself. y
'How" ses Jackson.
''Ask 70 gal fer you," ses Bulger.
s'Findin' is before askin' Show her tel
me and I'll ask her quick enongh," ses
jackson.
Bulger rid erhead whistlin' Son Jordan's
Stormy Banks" That wuz Madam's favor
tie hyS.a When he seen jackson wuz a
laug,7n' he turned round, solemn as Ell
preacher. ter say, II reckon you wouldn'1
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-09-19
WOMEN At THE POLLS.
Their Presence Promotes Peace and Good
Order.

Their Presence Promotes Peace and Good
Order.
The Big Horn Sentinel. published at
Buffalo, Wyoming, has the following
good words for woman suffrage:
I'VE have witnessed the practical
and everyday workings of this ques-
ton for the past eleven years in 'front.'
Ter town. remote from railroads, where
for a number of years the country was
full of a desperate class of mon who
neither respected nor feared the law;
we have seen it in later years. when
the country was settled and occupied
by the most law-abiding people who
can be found in the country; we have
seen it in this same frontier town
through its years of progression and
development, until now better order is
preserved. an, life and property are
safer than in most New England vii
lagos; and under all these various con-
ditions. naught have we witnessed but
wholesome effects on the elections Of
this Territory. Never have we heard
a ribald oath or profane remark made
when woman was at the polling
place. Quiet and orderly elections are
the result A lot of hoodlum and ruff.
fans do not crowd round a polling
window where ladies are constantly
coming and going. The women are
not driven to the polls by political
boss, nor bribed nor buildozed like the
lords of creation. They unerringly and
unfiinchingly vote for the best man
morally, nor do they follow the politi-
cal path of their husbands, unless they
can present sound argument for their
course.
in voting. women pursues and fol-
lows that keen sense and Judgment OF
right that characterizes all her actions
in life. Is man Of decency to say
that his mother, who has modelled his
early life, who has watched over and
cared for him in sickness and health,
has not the intelligence to cast a ballot
and assist in shaping the destiny of the
nation? Ali law is now tending to-
wards placing her upon an equal foot
ing with men in the care, ownership
and disposition of property. The man
with the Don Quixote notions who
wishes to see her placed in glass case
end kept from contact with the world.
D =
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-09-19

and holds up his hands in horror when
the question Of having the ballot IL
preached. usually is poor provider for
the family. and attends the theater and
circus alone, allowing his wife to take
care of the children and do the work.
while he enjoys himself to the full of his
bent Wyoming has led in this matter,
found it good. and when her star is
added to the flag, among its glittering
rays will ever come beam of promise
for the full protection and right of
women"
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-09-19

know the truth from err yaller dog eff you
met it sQuar in the middle err the road. Why
hits knowed frum Dan ter Beersheby that
Majer Grady keeps his gun loaded, thinkin'
you're erbout ter slope with his family, ole
Madam an all, fer Salt Lake City. Eff you
had the spunk of er hoss-fly or er turkey
buzzard you'd so and let him know which
one hit is you're arter.'
"Bulger! can you keep er secretr' ses
jackson, sorter low.
'.Fust rate,'' SIS Bulger. Sire away ole
man"
"Well," ses jackson, 81 love the Gradys
all well ernough ter marry any on 'em; the
trouble is I'm afeard they keer er blamed
sight more erbout whut goes erlong o. me-
the farm and stock and ail-than they do
erbout plain jackson. If you can help me
find out erbout that you shall have the best
colt in the paster."
ashore you don't love nary one bestl"
~ love 'en all best when I'm with 'em"
you'll marry the one that loves you
oesti"
II viii. if can find out"
THAT'S easy as fallin' OF er log"
'Howi"
s.Why let's 60 ta'arin' up thar now like
7uiuus wuz arter US, and you fall OF yo
horse snd kick and howl and cavort, and
II run in, and tell 'em you've got er fit,
and l believe hydrophoby, cause you're
always foolin' with dogs. Then the che
that comes ter ye will keer erbout ye shore
'nough."
.rutry it," ses jackson out loud, then
low ter hisself, 80, lordy! s'pose Maria
shouldn't come"
Bout Eve minutes afterwards the Grady
gals seen them two come ta'arin up ter tina,
front fence, and long before thar bangs
WIZ outen papers, Bulger wuz lammin' OF
the front do, and yeilin' like er Camanchy
lniun, 'Miss Gradyi Miss Grady,i o
Miss Grady,l! ole Jackson's got err at;
blieve he's runnin' mad; come out yere al
on We and help me tote him in the house"
That raised q rumpus shores you're {
foot high. Ole Elvy, the deaf niger cook
thought jackson had religion, and she Sc
In ter shoutin', "glory," ole Madam wen
ter yowiin', go way with 70 mad-dog, g
way, go way'' Mai Grady ketched hi
bad hound Rsmerlus by the tail and sot il
ter bellcrin', Hold 'ira fe. yo life Bulger
6u / git this deg in ua spoks house;
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-09-19
AConyenient Dish.Rack.

The illustration shows novel dish-racs
to be fastened firmly to the wall over the
sink or table on which dishes are washed.
If the dishes are rinsed in hot water, the
plates and saucers placed between the
spoles and the other ware stacked in the
rack they will be dry by the time the knives
and forks are put away. You will want a
board nearly as long as the sink and sixteen
inches wide for the bottom. Plane the mid
die Of the board SO it will slope from both
sides toward the center, the full length of
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-09-19

DISH-RACK.

the board. Take one the same length and
four inches wide for the top. The braces
and spokes are alike. used shingle bands
split into leng;hwise spokes, at least twelve
inches long, which should be rounded at
both ends, leaving neat shoulders to at the
small augur holes in the top and bottom
board. Two inches from the side or edge
and about two inches apart, set the spokes.
which are square. SO the edges are facing
and not the sides. When fastening it to the
wall let one end come little lower than
the other that the water may drain OF.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-09-19
Encouraging conv.le.oeno..

Young Mr.. Shandygan (handing his card
to flunky at the door)-May ahsk how Mr.
Earl Marquand de Wyns Wylls il this
mawning!
Flunky dmportantly)-Yes, sir. Young
Mr.. Wylls Wylls condition his slightly bet
ter. The tone hof is system 'as improved.
ham we hall think, sir, that e his progress
in bloominkly. E 'as recovered strength
henough, sir. to nsnt hay cigarette, ham
seemed to relish hay couple o. snipes leads
for the fust time in hay week, sir.-Har.
per's Razar
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-09-19

"A Chinaman was recently dis
charged from the Los Angeles Nation
al Bank and another Installed in his
place. The former employee laid for
his successor in front of the bank with
q horsowhip John No. was fore
warned and brought whip with him.
and q duel resulted. the like OF which
has never before been seen.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-09-19
lndisputable Proof Of Fraud.

Street Auctioneer-There, gentlemen, h
ono OF the cuff-buttons worn by Washing.
ton on the day of his Inauguration. How
much am Loffered for 1t.
Countryman-Looke here, teller c;tisens,
that mans swindier l bought both o.
Wasmngton's cuff-buttons over In Fulton
stress TIVE hours sgo.-ewelexs' Weekly.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-09-19
MISTAKES ABOUT DOGS.
An Old Sportsman Defends Them Against
Newspaper Charge.


Newspaper Charge.
"All dogs detest work" This is
poor text from which to preach SER
mon against laziness. The civilized
dog of the nineteenth century is very
different animal from the dog on the
day when it was written in OpprObri-
UNI: us thy servant a dog?' Among
all animals there is none more affec-
tionate than the dog, nor one which
shows such earnest desire to be of
ing in his devotion. A man may loose
his human friends and be Ostracised by
society; he may lose his money and be
clothed in rags. but his dog will re-
main faithful and will guard and pro-
tect him with as much faithfulness as
il he were millionaire.
The text that "all dogs detest iabor''
is wholly fallaciOus. The. well-trained
dog delights in work. Who has net
seen the sparkling eye and joyous ex.
preston of the dog when the prepare
ton for the chase is begun? Who that
has heard his watchful BARK in the
midnight as he guards the home will
doubt this? Tender in his loving care
of children, instead of being spoken of
with contempt for his laziness the dog
should be associated with faithfulness
and activity in dog duties. The bee
doesn't make soap, nor does the dog
pillow.
Thirty-five years ago the writer
with his associates went upon a wild
ramble upon the plains reaching the
great forests upon the Pacific. For
two years the faithful 'Old Rover"
was one of the most useful members
of the expedition. All night after a
long days march he slept, so to speak,
with one eye open. and we retired to
rest with confidence that neither In
dian nor prowling beast would steal
upon us unobserved. Hundreds of
times were we wakened by the low
growl of the faithful sentinel, and as
soon as we were aroused and had our
arms in readiness Rover would disap-
pear in the darkness in the direction
of any threatened danger, and he
would soon know its nature. If he
found nothing after making a circuit
of the camp he would return and lay
himself down at our feet, and We could
drop to sleep feeling greater security
than if guarded by half dozen men.
He would. stay in camp all day long
an. guard it from all intrusion while
every member of it was miles away.
Upon one occasion when he was left
to guard the camp crock of butter
was set at the foot OF great pine
tree. A paper was tied over the but
ter, but the wind blew it of Upon
the return at night, where the crock
stood was only a great pile OF leaves.
Upon removing them we found the
crock OF butter safe. Rover knew that
it should not be exposed to the sun
and air, and not being able to tie on
the paper had done the best he could
by covering it with all the leaves
within a rod about it. The old dogs
bones rest upon one of the mountain
sides of the Coast Range, and when he
died there were tears of as honest sor-
row as were ever shed. 1t i. safe to
say If the savage who killed him for
the sake OF pifIage had been caught.
there would have been second
funeral Such facts speak eloquentiy
in defense of the dog from all the
scribblers who preach from such texts:
'.All dogs detest work. Chicago
Inter-Ocean.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-09-19
HIS LONE TEST.
The Story Of Jackson's Expert
ment to Get q Wife.

Is name was rightly
Andrer j q G son
Moore, but he out
growed the Andrer
bout the time he did
petticoats, and was
fest plain jackson all
up and down the Bush
Gre e K settlement.
Good lookin' chap, too,
tall and slim, with big
blue eyes and curly,
yaller hair, and skin
like a gals, whenever
it warn't sunburnt.
His pappy. ole Squire
Moore, wus richer'n
h. fo
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-08-01

WILL EXPEDITE BUSINESS. -Secre-
tary Proctor's action in consolidating
the pension business of the Adjutant
Generals Office and the Surgeon Cen
erals office into q new division of
records end pensions, attached directly
to the Office of the Secretary, has the
effect of greatly reducing the duties of
the Adjutant General. The new divis-
ion under Capt. Ainsworth will en-
brace about 500 clerks. A system of
card indices has been adopted by which
all the information in both the Adju-
tant Generals and Surgeon Generals
records relating to an officer or man
will be grouped together on a single
card, doing away with the necessity of
consulting the original records, and
preserving them from destruction by
constant handling. Capt. Ainsworth
estimates that this system will simplify
the business of the Office to such an
extent that when it is completed one
third of the present force will be able
to keep up the current business. At
Present the Commissioner of Pensions
claims that there are $4,000 pension
cases delayed for lack of information
from the War Department. 1t was
this retarded state of the work that led
to the reorganization and the adoption
of new methods.