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Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-03-28
Telling Trees by Electricity.

Hitherto machines for telling trees
have been driven by steam power, but
this is sometimes inconvenient, espec-
tally in thick woods, and electric pow
or has recently been adopted in the
Galician forests. Usually in such ma
chimes the trunk is sawn, but in this
case it is drilled. When the wood is
of a soft nature the drill has q
sweeping motion and cuts into the
trunk by means of cutting edges on
its sides. The drill is actuated by an
electric motor mounted on a carriage.
which is brought up close to the tree
and shackled to it. The motor is ca
pable of turning round its vertical axis;
and the drill is geared to it in such a
manner that it can turn through an
arc of circle and make a sweeping
cutinto the trunk. The first cut made.
the drill is advanced few inches and
another section of the wood removed
in the same way until the trunk is half
severed. 1t is then clamped to keep the
cut from closing. and the operation con-
tinued until it would be unsafe to 60 on.
The remainder is finished by hand saw
or an axe. The current is conveyed
to the motor by insulated leads brought
through the forest from a generator
placed in some convenient site.-Lon-
don Times.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-03-28
WON EN- OF NOTE.

Mrs Cross, a niece of John Bright,
is conspicuous in woman's rights move
ments in England. Miss Helen Glad
stone is another English friend of the
movement. She does not think that .
broader life makes women worse house,
keepers.
MAMIE JONES, a normal graduate at
Fisk University, of the class of 1886.
is to 60. under the auspices of the
American Board, to the southeastern
part of Africa, about six hundred miles
from Natal She is the first single col.
ored woman sent out by the American
Board.
MRS ZERELDA G. WALLACE lately
gave a woman suffrage lecture at Cot
ton Plant. Ark. It had been arranged
that Rev. Joseph Jones. brother Of
Rev. Sam Jones. should speak after
Mrs. Wallace on the other side, he be-
ing q strong opponent When Mrs
Wallace sat down. Mr.. Jones rose and
announced that he was converted, and
should henceforth encourage rather
than oppose the movement
Miss GRACE IL DODGE, of New York.
Is surrounded in her home by wealth
and culture. yet she Is one Of the hard
est working women in the country.
She is . member of the board Of educa-
ton and chief promoter Of the working
women's clubs. giving her entire time
to the furtherance of their cause and
helping the condition Of humanity gem
orally. She Is q woman OF hne ply
sique and robust appearance. and for
the last ten years has allowed herself
but two weeks holiday in the summer.
MISS CLARA BARrON, president Of the
American Association Of the Red Cross
wears on State occasions. among other
decorations. the iron cross Of Germany.
presented BY Emperor William l; the
gold cross of honor presented BY the
Grand Duke and Grand Duchess Of Be-
den; emblems and jewels from the
Queen of Servia. Empress Augusta AID
other royal ladies' Of European courts;
honorary badges from the German
Woneueenoesen Of Amsriea. The IntsF.
national Committee q 0ensvA -
Grand Army and other na119n1 AZ
taxy organizationA
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-03-28

gtriction Of the word '.maler IN The
State constitution, full municipal suf-
frage has been extended to women b.
the Legislature. and has BEEN general
" exercised BY. the women for two
years past without any question as 10
its constitutionality.
4 In Presidential elections the right
is expressly conferred on State Legs
latures to confer suffrage on women by
Art. 2, Sec l, Of the q. S Constitution.
in these words: Each State shall ap-
point in such manner as the Legisla-
ture thereof may direct the electors
for President and Vice President
5. In England. under the common
law. upon which our own is based. wo-
men have for centuries exercised mu.
nicipal and school suffrage, and when.
in 1869. Parliament formulated and af-
firmed women's right it was distinctly
done upon the ground that the
right already existed and was not .
right newly conferred.
6. The right of the State Legislatures
to extend and regulate the suffrage in
all cases not expressly prohibited BY
constitutions, State or National, seems
too plain to need argument It has
been repeatedly exercised by different
States. In Massachusetts municipal
elections have always been so regu-
lated, and men could formerly vote in
town meetings who were not qualified
to vote for State officers.
2. In business corporations created
by the States, women vote as stockhOld-
ers without question. 1. e., in banking.
railroad and manufacturing corpora
tons. On similar principles, why may
they not vote in the business corpora
tons known as towns" and s'cities,"
wherein they are all stockholders. since
their personal and property rights and
interests are thereby affected and con-
trolled?
8. Cities being business corporations
chartered by the Legislature on terms
and conditions specified in their char
ters, why may not one of these terms
and conditions be the equal suffrage OF
women and men?
In States where municipal woman
suffrage has been longest agitated and
argued in repeated hearings before sue
cessive Legislatures, the constitutional
ity Of such legislation is no longer
questioned. 1t is only in States where
the question is novel and startling that
any doubt of its constitutionality is ex-
pressed by its opponents
Since school suffrage exists unques-
toned in twelves States by acts of Leg
islatures; and since full municipal suf-
frage exists in Kansas by acts of Legis-
lature. al these States at the same
time having the word male" in the
suffrage clause of their constitutions.
the right of the State Legislatures to
regulate municipal suffrage may be
considered as settled.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-03-28
MUNICIPAL SUFFRAGE.

Constitutionallty of the Enfranchisment Of
Women In Cities-Powers Of tho state
Legislature.
Every winter We are asked by suf-
fragists in some one or more of the
States to give the grounds on which the
Legislature can confer suffrage on wo-
men in town and city elections in
States where the constitution expressly
limits suffrage for the State officers by
the word '.male." says the Boston Wo-
mans Journal.
We reply:
/. The suffrage restrictions contained
in State constitutions apply specifically
and solely to offices and elections
created and named in the constitution.
Municipal corporations and offices have
always been created, and their cleo
tons regulated, by the Legislature, not
by the State constitution. Cities and
towns are corporations chartered by the
Legislature upon such terms and con-
ditions as it sees 1T to impose.
9. In fourteen States women now
vote on school questions on terms more
or less restricted. In twelve of these
States the right has been conferred by
the State Legislature under constitu-
tons which in each case limit State
suffrage BY the restrictive word male /"
In some of these States the constitution
uses a stronger phrase than in others,
for instance, in Michigan the constitution
Gays: I'm all elections male citizens
shall Be the electors" Yet in Michigan
school suffrage has for years been ex-
ercised by women By act Of Legisla-
ture. School suffrage b ono depart
meut of>municipal suffrage Tho right
90 confer part Of municipal suffrage
implies the right to conier the whole
Z In Kansas, under the Suffrage n.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-03-28

Mabel" said Henry. and in spite
of his efforts to control himself the
voice was tremulous, and he spoke
with the air of timid desperation which
marks the elocuti0n of a man about to
ask for the loan of FIVE pounds;
Mabel. do not kneel at your feet
(and he wasn't-he was sitting bolt
upright on sofa) ito plead for my
self. l come here only to beg you to
think of my brother George. He-he
loves you dearly. Mabel. and should
you refuse his plea I tremble for the
consequences. He is alone in the
world and he wants . sister-in-law.
Oh. will you not b ons 70 himls,-
London Tid-BitA
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-03-28
/. DECIDEDLY DISCREET.

The Arguments Of . Man Who Knows .
Good Thing When He Secs It.
Lazarus Baker, an old negro that is
a prominent feature of the custom
house at Nashville, Tenn, was asked
the other day what he should do if a
war should come up between the
United States and Germany.
"Whut'd do?''
Eyes, what would you DOE"
"Well. sab, lemme see." He
scratched his head for few moments.
stuck out his chin and meditatively
rubbed it, and then, slowly shaking
his head, he remarked:
II amt perpared. sab, ter gin my
'cision on dis yere matter. Dis mat
ter dat comes up an buzz like night
flies in de common whirl O. dis yere
lite can be 'cided on at or few minits'
notice, but when de buzz O. de fly O.
small circumstance gives way ter de
bellowin O. de bull O. heavy 'portance,
Wy, den, we needs time"
lis 1t possible that you would hest
tate q moment if your country should
need the use of your strong right
arm?"
"Oh. de country has had de use O.
my strong right arm, an O. de lef one,
too, fur some time. rs been handlin'
Gubernment truck fur er good many
days, l tell you"
You know what mean"
'.Oh, vas, sab. rs mighty smart
erbout ketchin' at whut err pusson
means"
well. would you. or would you not,
6ght?"
'.Lemme tell you-.emme tell you.
Now. eff wuzter fight an git killed l
couldn' sarve my country er tall, an,
sides dat, I'd put my country ter de
trouble o buryin' me. but gwine on
ez is now. is O. some use ter my
country-sweeps out de whole O. dis
house ever day-an'. sides dat my
folks will bury me when 1 dies"
''You ought to be ashamed to ac-
knowledge that you wouldn't fight for
. Government that freed you"
"Lemme see bout dat. 1t wuz
wrong fur me ter be er slave, want
it?''
Eyes. undoubtedly"
..Ah, hah, an de Guberment acted
right in freein' me?'
.'Yea"
wall. den, doan owe de Guber'-
ment any thing. jest bercase de
Guber'ment done right. De Guber'-
ment hill me longer ez or slave den it
has KEEP me In Office ez or free man"
''You must acknowledge that you
are . coward"
.'Yas, sab. does dat TACK. Of ter be
or coward means dat d0an wanter
git hurt / neber could STAN pain.
nohoW."
'.In the event u . war wouldn't you
y willing TO 60 along - . member OF
Ne commissary dspartmentP
.'Whut he hafooe dof''
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-03-28
CHINESE AsTRoLooERs.

Remarkable Sagacity Of the F10wory King
dom's Imperial Family
The household Of the Emperor of
China includes thirty umb-ella-bearers
and seventy-five astrologers. The as
trologers, vho correspond to the signal
service bureau of this country. pre-
dict every day the weather for the
morrow. If they predict rain the UNI
brella-bearers take a day of. If they
announce fair weather. on the other
hand, the umbrella-bearers, mandarins
of the overshoe and macintosh men
report at the palace at $50 q m.
The Emperor of China may be
heather Chinee, but he knows enough
to copper his astrologers and meteor
ologers. As an instance Of the sagaci-
ty of the Chinese Imperial family in
this regard we may mention the sig
nal refutation of judicial astrology
made by Hung-Beef-Tung. grand
uncle Of the present Emperor. Chow
Chow. president Of the Imperial Col
lege of Astrologers. came to Prince
lungs palace one morning and said:
.Scion of seventy thousand genera
tons of Hungs, your poor servant has
dreamed q dream. Meseemed that
thou and l were transformed into
great black dragons. Our wings were
of equal length, and with equal fight
we scared through the upper air."
''Well." asked the Prince. gracefully
polishing his middle fnger-nail with
the fat of dagger Of the first dynas-
ty, what of it. young feller?"
This. my puissant and graceful
lord, that thy life and mine shall be
long and Of equal length. Astrology,
Colonel Hung, is infallible.
You are liar!" cried the Prince,
and slit the astrologer's weasand And
it seems that Chow was liar. For
Old Hung survived him twenty-eight
years and would be alive now II he
had let opium alone Since Chow's
death the Chinese astrol0gers have.
by Imperial order. confined their pre-
dictions to the weather. If they make
q correct prediction they ere executed.
but thus far none have incurred the
penalty. The American signal-serv-
ice bureau has still something to learn
from Chinese methodist. Y. Sun.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-03-28
A MUMMY INTERVIEWED.

Ho Patiently Listens to . Few Old Jokes
and Drops or to Sleep Again.
Good morning. Mr. Mummy. Woke
up at last. have your ANY objection
to being interviewed?
Don't see that can help myself very
we'll
What is your agee
Three thousand years.
You seem to be pretty we'll preserved
for SO old man. Ever drink?
I'd like to. for I'm awful dry.
Did you belong to the royal family
of Egypt?
Yes; one of the Ptolemi.
/ thought 80.
Why?
You're so kind O. stuck up.
Yes. I've been stuck up in this niche
for long time.
Hadn't you better lay off your
wraps? You won't feel them when you
go out if you don't
You must take me for q medium.
Why?
You speak about laying of my raps.
l see. Are you in the original pack
age in which you were put up?
lam. It's q mixture of myrrh-
The myrrhtherers!
Sulphate of soda, saltpeter-
Did they salt Peter for it?
Cinnamon. resin
Excuse me. We're you beau in
your day?
Well, rather.
Then they wanted to resin the beau?
but go on.
Asphalt and bitumen.
Bit-tu-men! No wonder thew
bound you over to keep the peace.
But what is your outer covering, your
ulster, as it were?
About thousand yards of papyrus.
It must have made your papyrus-tle
wound pretty lively to accumulate all
of that.
He was Ptolemi, sir (proudly).
Well?
Would you expect him Ptolemi with
out suitable embalmingp
OF course not. No Egyptian would
do it in your day. According to report.
there was nothing that would make
an Egypt-shin around equal to the
necessity of preparing q family num-
my SO that it would keep. Any of the
little jokes of mine strike you as
novel;
No. I heard them all when was q
kid.
Mummy signs YEARLY and drops of
to sleep again.-Texas Siftings.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-03-28
An UNFORTUNATE HAB.T.

NsS OtSVOu OSNAte 1A0uts
Anew words e Asa WE Speak Dispazae.
inSly - ne Othsr Sea.
"It is as much a. you can expect Of
. woman. any way"
An irrepressible young man friend
Of twenty was the speaker. and was,
the audience. The audience had q
strong inclination to box the speakers
ears. 1 made no answer to this re-
mark about lady who was at least
twenty years older than the speaker,
for l could not think just what course
it would be wisest for me to pursue.
Ned deserved q scolding; that was
very evident; but If I gave him one l
was sure that would be doing the
very thing he was trying to get me to
do. and it is discouraging to scold q
young man only to hear him break
out into fit Of hearty laughter just
when you begin to think that you are
really making an impression.
! do not enjoy hearing young men
speak disparagingly of any woman; but
it is especially disagreeable when the
woman happens to be their senior
by several years. 1t shows pitiful
lack of the feeling that true gentle
men always have for the opposite
sex. 1t is a very common style of wit.
l know. and not at all hard to acquire,
especially among a certain class. But
Ihave seen men who could not indulge
in it with any sort of success, let them
try rs hard rs they would. Some
times I try to get of some such a joke"
young man said to me not long ago,
''but know that it falls fiat; and l
feel almost as.mean as l would were I
joking about sacred things. I fear that
they who hear my joke may get a
wrong impression of my mother and
sister, for it is so natural to infer that
such remarks are but the result of per-
sonal experience.
That man had the instincts of a true
gentleman. Even in fun he could not
speak slightingly of a woman because
of the love and respect he bore for his
mother and sisters. That there are
not more such men is chiefly the fault
of the home training that they receive.
Little boys who are allowed to speak
in that way of their sisters or their lit
tie girl friends never realize that they
are forming habit which. in after
years, will stamp them as ill-bred and
ungentlemanly. have even heard
little fellows of nine and ten speak of
their mother in q way that was actual
ly insulting. and in the presence of the
father. Instead Of being reproved.
they received a fattering appreciation
of their wit, in the form of an lily
concealed laughter.
lit is so cunning" the parents
would say, "to hear so young boy
adopting the manner and speech of a
man." A man, perhaps, but not a
gentleman. The time will come when
the mother will dislike in her young
man son what she now thinks 50 cute
in her little boy; but when it does
come, she will then be powerless to
break him of the habit she carelessly
allowed him to acquire.-Minneap0lis
Spectator.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-03-28

We got to the depot in Now York We
judged We hadn't better 60 all at once.
90 and my family started ahead. and
my uncle's folks were to start In fif-
teen minutes. and the saw-mill cousin
crowd in half an hour.
We found the place by the help Of .
policeman who went ahead. and when
We knocked on the door and they let
US in. they 'peared some surprised.
but said they was glad to see US. We
sat down around on the chairs and
some of our children went out in the
hall and began to fight with their chill
dren and pound them up pretty bad,
and was pleasant and told them /
hoped they had q cow and said l
s'posed they didn't have no boarders
up in the attic, cause we wanted
plenty of room. Pretty soon Uncle
John and his folks dropped in, aud
after a few minutes the rest of the
procession; and the town children
being all cleaned out the new ones he
gun fighting with ours.
ssQuite a pleasant little family re-
union" says L "Yes, very pleas
ant" says my wife's cousins husband.
looking round sort of fierce; ''any
more coming?" told him I thought
the family was now all together, and
we settled down and began making
ourselves at home, and the man whose
business took him 50 much into the
saw-mill took stick out of his pocket
and began whiting.
We pretty well filed the house. but
no more than they had filled mine. so
l didn't care and we enjoyed ourselves
for a couple of weeks. The first meal
we thought they didn't eat any thing
but soup, there being nothing else in
sight and only couple of small dishes
apiece around of that, though I did
manage to get third. Then they
cleared every thing off the table, but
didn't get up and 60 away, SO l stayed,
too. and begun to think mebby they
was going to hang on till it was time
for the next meal; and the saw-mill
relative had got out his stick and be-
gun whiting again. when they
brought us something more, and l seen
they wasn't going to try to keep us on
soup alone The meal was broke up
that way several times, most of the
dishes rushed of and clothes-brush
run over the table-cloth, and it began
to look once as if the saw-mill end of
the family would have to get another
stick; but they wound the thing up at
last All their meals were spasmodic
that way and had periods of great de-
preston, as might put it. l never
seen any thing look lonesomer than
their table when they cleaned it of
next to the last time.
Most every day some of them used
to ask us if We s'posed the stock and
every thing was all right out home,
and I told them we arranged every
thing before we came away. so that
we could stay couple of weeks just
as we'll as not. When that time was
up. though, we came back home.
Mr.. Meadowland concludes:
This is all Of my experience with
summer boarders so far, or making
return visits. As said, my house is
thoroughly renovated and refur-
nished. and l think If our relatives
keep away next summer that I may
be able to make some money. think.
mebbe. they won't bother us much. as
they didn't say any thing about COM
ing out after we had been there day
or two" Pred H. Carruth, in n. Y.
Tribune.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-03-28
How He Lost Time.

Pedestrian-B-b-boy, can you t-t-tell
me how f-f-far it is to the po-po-post-
office?
Newsboy-What dye say. mister?
Pedestrian-I-I reckon you-you heard
me. How f-f-far is it to the po-post-
Office?
Newsboy-Only half q block. mister.
If you hadn't a-stopped to ask me
you'd been there 'ready.-Lie
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-03-28

..Feed the soldiers."
':Now you htttin' me-now 700
strike. I'd do dat thing. fur or TACK.
an femme tell you, when it como ter
br'ilin' or piece o. meat, wy, IL
plum da- rs or man o. heap o. skres-
sion. but rs or mighty good cook -
ArkAnsaw Traveller.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-03-28

One reason why American writer's
put their best work into short story
is that they are 30 well paid. The
magazines are on the alert to get hold
of any thing fresh and striking. Work
IL judged on its merits Many an
ambitious novel does not pay its au-
thor 90 much as good short story.
One novel q year Il certainly q good
rate Of production-few writer's can
keep that pace-while half . dozen
short stories might be produced in the
same time.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-03-28

-Rev. DR.. Heasoner. Of Corvallis
County. Orc. II the oldest Presbyterian
clergyman on the Pacific coast
Though eighty years Of age. heis able
70 take IN active part in the duties
Of his pastoraAaL
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1889-06-03
NOVELTIES IN SHOES.
Tho Kind OF Foot-Goar Which Ladies VIII
Woir This Summer.

1ne Kind OF Foot-Goar Which Ladies VIII
Wolr This Summer.
Just what to wear is a question OF
hardy perennial growth. Tho modiste,
tho milliner and tho dress-goods men
have dono their best to solve the oues-
ton. from their standpoint, and the
shoe artist. not to be outdone by his
followers, has brought his skill and in
genuity iEto play and tho result has
been largo and varied addition to
styles of foot-gear.
At an exhibition which has recently
been held at Baltimore, over one thou
sand different patterns in shoes and
slippers were shown, and study of
their points Of similarity or differe nce
IS quite interesting. There are Shoes
of high dogreo and shoes of low do
gree, 20 far as pattern go es, yet all
bear tho stamp of excellence in quality.
Ono OF the novelties is tho "Hading"
red low shoes.
Fashion, it seems, has dccrced that
red shoes and red slippers wi IL be worn
with black net dressc this season, con-
scqucntly thore is 4 great demand for
tho HadinG style Of footwear. An
other pretty and popular fancy is tho
Russian low shoe, Icp,cto with motal
embroidery in quaint medieval de-
signs. tole ably high heel and dainty
little toe The latest Partisan styles of
low shoes, French kid bronco with real
gilt embroidery, tho latest London
styles of black canvas low shoes with
patent leather trimmings, tho newest
Vienna fancy, Il co!0rcd gantdo suede,
square cut. with buckle trimming, will
be popular this season, Judging from
the demand. Tho ''Langtry" is q low,
red giant do suede shoe. with red leather
trimmings, AID is W stylish ;lad hand
some ts its illustrious naneSake. In
addition TO these leading novelties.
thc"o were blue suede Oxfords, golden
brown oozo tics, gray undressed kid
ties and violet giant de suede ties with
out number. There were mountain
shoes and seaside shoes. tennis shoes
and ballroom shoes. and shoes for al
most every thing under The sun.
Tho lines of slippers which show the
most recent results Of inventive in
gcnuity and tn Sto in this direction a"c
ma l1ed cvcn lower than this, and con.
scquent!y disappear with great rapid
ty. There are slippers innumerable.
of every sty.o, shape and color. Tho
new creations of art in the direction of
out-of-dOOr shoes, shoes for the tennis
court. for the yachting trips. for boat
ing, riding and driving, for picnicing
in tho parks and tramping through
the mountains, are marvels of neatncss
and grace, breathing of rosy checks
and laughing cyos and healthful
sports in every supple line. Shoe and
Lcatao: Review.