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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-11-04

MARQUETTE, MICH. October 31.-The first
snow of the season has fallen here. A storm
ragged on Lake Superior, and as it came
without warming it is feared some vessels
now out will meet disaster
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-11-04
Woman surr.ae Not I'm y.

LANSING, Mich, October 26.-The act of
tie last legislature in permitting women TO
vote at municipal elections vas declared un-
>oastitutioaal By the suprems court.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-11-04
P.nYs Amendment First Voted On.

Peh-rs AmeLdn" MT FIST Voteu On.
Voting on amendments to the silver re-
peal bill commenced with Senator PETERS
amendment to restore the law of 1887 for
the free coinage alike of gold and silver, and
1t was lost.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-09-01
Only q Com ma.

The misuse of that small and appa-
rently Insignificant thing-the comma
lis often the cause of very annoying
mistakes as we'll as loss OF money. 1t
should be the aim of those now in
school to learn thoroughly how to use
this little mark, and never be guilty
of making mistake like the follow
ing, an account of which 1 read not
long ago:
1t seems that some twenty years
or so ago when the United States by
its Congress was making tariff bill,
one of the sections enumerated what
articles should be admitted free of
duty. Among the many articles
specified were call foreign fruit
plants" ETC., meaning plants inn
posted for transplanting. propaga.
ton, or experiment. The enrolling
clerk in copying the bill acciden tally
changed the hyphen in the compound
word, "fruit plants" to q comma,
making it read, "all foreign fruit,
plants" etc. As the result of this
simple mistake, for year, or until
Congress could remedy the blunder,
all the oranges, lemons, bananas,
grapes, and other foreign fruits were
free of duty. This little
which anyone would be liable
to make, yet could have avoided by
cost the government not
less than $2,OOO,OOO. A pretty costly
comma, that.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-09-01

ney by the government to give work to
the unemployed; than which no more
pernicious notion can enter the head
OF any workingman. No help can
come from that quarter, nothing but
an impoverishment that is deeper and
more hopeless than the lack OF bodily
comforts. II once a community be-
comes accustomed to the idea that it is
the business OF the government to sup-
port somebody, no matter who he may
be, at the cost of money taken by tax
alton from somebody else, no matter
who he may be, the socialistic state
and the decline OF liberty will be found
not far in the distance. This is a time
Of trial for the American workingmaf,
not only in his daily necessities, but in
his temper and his views OF duty and
his patriotism. We do not believe
that he will be found lacking. If
those who have resources should fol-
low the example of Chicago, and those
who have not should write to their
senators and representatives, pledging
themselves to oppose them hereafter
unless action were had at Washington
Immediately, the contribution Of the
workingman to the solution of our dif-
ficulties would be great and worthy
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-09-01

sions the power OF these governing
spirits" to communicate with the other
temple. When this miracle is being
performed the natives are required to
make their offerings in one building
and make known their wishes and de.
sires. Then upon Immediately re-
pairing to the other temple they are
informed OF all they have said and
done. To us that is all easy enough,
but to the supersti tious native CT
India it is proof that the priests are
supernatural beings.
Those who have visited these tele-
phone connected temples say that tie
transmitters are of wood, and that
they are about the size OF the head oil
a flour barrel. The wire is said to be
OF neither steel, copper nor brass, but
OF substance closely resembling the
latter metal. Old, worm-eaten trans.
mitters, said to be 1000 years old
have been shown those fortunate
enough to gain admission to these
temples.-St. Louis Republic.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-09-01
WAS IT AN ASTRAL VISIT?
The Young Woman Talked With q
Person Who Was Miles Away.

The people of Albany, Ga, are all
talking about very strange event
which recently happened there and
which is reliably vouched for. A
young North Carolinaian had been
making love to young lady there,
but quarrel had broken off the match,
and the young man went home and
married another girl, says the Pitts
burg Dispatch. A few days ago the
young lady astonished her family by
telling them that she had received a
call at the place where she is en-
ployed that afternoon from her old
sweetheart, and that he had repented
of his harsh conduct toward her and
had made an ample apology. The
sister and brother-in-law of the young
man, who live in the city, denied the
young lady's statement, knowing that
two or three days before he had left
for his home and had sufficient time
to arrive there. The young lady was
SO positive in her statements that
there was no room left for doubt.
She gave minute description of how
the young man was dressed, and sup
ported her statement by the evidence
or some young men who had seen the
young man at the same time. All
this was stated in letter which was
next day sent to the young man, and
the girl was mystified when reply
came back telling her that she was
mistaken, because on the afternoon
she claimed to have seen the young
man he was sleeping and dreaming OF
her in his home. and, wonderful to
relate, dreaming just such an apology
and at the same time and place as she
claimed to have seen him. There was
n perfect correspondence between the
young lady's statement and the young
mans dream.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-09-01
Inf Primeval Times.

The region of the Mississippi in Ar
chaean times were covered with a
great intercoutinental ocean, with
here and there isolated areas OF land
west of the present Mississippi. The
waters OF this ocean watered the
southern shores OF the young conti-
nent that then was only what is now
British America. During Silurlan
and Devonian time this continent
gradually expanded to the southwark,
until, near the close OF the Carbonifer-
GUS period, a large portion of the
Mississippi valley was vast level
plain, and the whole country was one
vast forest, except where fresh waters
lay too deep for forests to grow. On
the east of this basin were the Green
and ON the west the embryo Rocky
mountains. In Mesozoic time the
continent reached westward to Kansas
the Gulf OF Mexico extended as a
bay northward to the mouth of the
Ohio, and westward it extended over
much of the region of the plains and
the Rocky mountains, probably as far
northwestward as the Arctic sea. After
the Cretaceous period this Mediter.
ranean sea disappeared, but it was not
until after the Miocene Tertiary that
the Gulf of Mexico retreated to near
its present limits. During the Ter
tiary the Ohio and Mississippi barely
united before emptying into the gulf.
1t was not until near the Quarternary
that the Mississippi river system was
completed. Such is brief sketch of
the geological history of the Missis-
sippi valley, which is condensed from
a work on North American by Prof.
F. V. Hayden. Each geological age
is supposed to represent so many
thousands of our years, that it is
scarcely worth while to give estimates
on that subject.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-09-01
MAKING LOVE FOR HIRE.
The "Cutter.Out,o Who Is Em-
- piOyed TO Break Up Undesirable
Attachments.

A new professionalism of the "cut-
ter-out"-is thus discussed by the
Saturday Reriew: "The world is over
populated with amiable, good-looking
young men, highly educated, healthy
and wholly incapable of earning their
livelihoods. No ingenuity can provide
berths for all of them, but some might
be employed as 'cutters-out.' This is
a new profession. The duties OF the
cutter-out' are few, simple and agree
able. He or she has merely to make
love and to ride away. Thus, put it
that some ones daughter, niece, or, it
may be, favorite cousin, has become
engaged to man who is not liked or
approved by the family. To resist her
choice is futile. Opposition merely
fans the flame of passion. So you
send note or telegram to the central
office of the Society for the Utiliza-
ton OF Johnnies,' and they dispatch
cutter-out. He is young, handsome,
agreeable, perhaps lord or an honor
able-a baronet very likely. His duty
may be explained in word-he is to
cut out the young lady's atlianced
lover, to make her out of conceit with
that disagreeable person, and then to
retire gracefully to some outlandish
part OF the globe. The scheme is pc
culiarly valuable to parents, but any
one may make use OF it. OF course
there may also be, and should be,
female cutters-out, to be slipped at
young men who have entangled their.
affections undesirably. Lord Algernon
is fond OF the rector's daughter, of the
gardeners daughter, or whom you
will. Instead of crying, if you are his
lady mother, or swearing, if you are
the duke, you send up to the Central
depot for really first-clsss cutter-out,
married lady preferred. In very few
weeks the rector's daughter, or the
gardeners daughter, is rs disconsolate
as Calypso, and then the cutter out
disappears, carrying with her the re-
spectful homage OF the family whom
she has rscued."
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-09-01
Snuff-boxes ana Petticoats.

Although the origin of snuff-taking
has not been recorded, smoking takes
the precedence and has outlived the
snuffing habit, says the Washington
Star. Gradually it was discovered
that the power of tobacco possessed
an agreeable ordor; it WAS used as a
perfume about the year 1702, the
early snuff takers carrying with them
small CRATER with which they re-
duced the tobacco to powder. Snuff
boxes, of course, sprang into use with
the spread of the habit, which re.
ceived fresh impetus from discovery
made by accident. A Dublin tobac-
conist named Lumdyfast had his shop
accidentally destroyed by fire, and
while gazing at the ruins noticed that
his poor neighbors were gathering the
snuff from the canisters. He tested
the snuff and found the fire had. large
ly improved the pungency and aroma.
He secured another store, built a lot
of ovens, subjected the snuff to a
heating process, bestowed upon it a
taking name and made fortune.
Snuff boxes were popular with the
second empire. The proceeding pos
sessed a certain Napoleonic flavor,
and boasted of imperial tradition. Ma.
poleon was seldom without q snuff
box ami took prodigious quantities.
George Nv carried box, but only pre-
tended to apply the powder to his nose.
At the regimental mess tables of the
time snuff boxes were sent around
with the decanters after dinner.
It will probably be matter of sur
prise to the general reader to learn
that the petticoat was first worn ex-
clusively by men. In the reign of
King Henry VII the dress of the
English was so iantastical and absurd
that it was difficult to distinguish one
sex from the other. In the inventory
of Henry V appears "petticoat of
heavy damask, with open sleeves"
There is no mention of a woman's
petticoat before the Tudor period.
In the matter Of costumes the China.
man is notable for the length and
capacity of his skirts, while his wife
and daughters wear, and not in
frequently display, the breeches. Silk
and satin are his favorite materials for
clothes, and the handsomer the pat.
tern and more heavy and snowy the
embroidery the better dressed he con-
siders himself. A necklace of beads
forms an indispen sable adjunct to the
full dress of every mandarin and
fan is rarely out OF his hand.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-09-01
The Treasury Out or silver.

1t is curious fact, and a startling
commentary upon the alleged surplus
of silver, that the Treasury OF the
United States is now refusing to de-
liver silver dollars in exchange for
gold and gold certificates.
This means that all the coined dol
lars are now absorbed by the circula-
ton, either OF the coin or the certif.
Gates. and there is demand for more
silver dollars which the Treasury is
unable to satisfy.
Concurrently and equally puzzling
to the gold maniacs-many million
dollars of the yellow metal are coming
to the United States, where by all the
rules OF banking logic it ought not to
come, because the abundance of silver
drives it away; and even more puzzling
to these blind monometallists-wh
our astute Secretary of the Treasury
refuse to buy silver on hImsy excuse
to evade the law, silver in the open
market steadily rises and the outside
world wants more of it at an advance
in price of about ten per cent.
Gold is coming fast to a country
that, according to Wall street, don't
want it. And silver is going fast to
the countries which, according to
Wall street, don't want it. Events
evidently are knocking financial
theories in the head.
The monthly statement of the
circulation show what tile people think
of silver. Out of 333OOO,OOO dollars
OF silver certificates issued, more than
330, 100000 are in the hands Of the
people, and they want more. Out of
las, 100000 dollars treasury notes
issued for silver, nearly IA 100000 are
in the hands of the people and they
want more.
Since the date of this statement of
the circulation the balance OF silver
coin and bullion in the treasury in
excess of the liabilities against it has
been reduced to less than 100000 of
dollars, and now the treasurer is
refusing to deliver silver for gold coin.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-09-01
Antiquity of the Telephone.

English travellers and officers in
India who have managed, through
favoriteism with the priests, to gain
access to some of the half ruined
temples of Banj, a city about 200
miles from Madres, have learned that
the principles of the telephone have
been known in that country for
thousands of years. In the CITY of
Banj there are two temples about a
mile apart. In the interior on the
ground floor of each there is a small
circular room guarded day and night
from natives as we'll as strangers.
These rooms are supposed to be the
abiding places of governing spirits"
but in reality are the termini of a
telephone line which is laid under
ground from one building to the other.
The superstitious natives regard
these little circular rooms with the
greatest awe, because they have had
demonstrated to them on various occa.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-09-01

The English laugh at our slang
names for money, forgetting that thei
own slang is nonsensical. A joey il
fourpence, a tanner six pence, a bot
is a shilling, a bull five shillings, ,
quid is E5, a pony 425, and a monke,
$50. Alongside of such terms, il
common use in England the wort
greenback becomes an elegant eupho
nism.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-09-01
Pioneer Press.

The contrast between the working
men of Chicago and those OF St. Louis
and New York at this moment is q
striking one. 1t is the difference be-
tween intelligent public spirit and ig-
norance that rises almost TO the digni.
ty of crime. Several OF the unions of
the former city have voted to place
their funds in the city banks, and it is
believed that the total amount OF funds
thus restored to circulation and made
available for investment and the ex-
tension OF credit will amount to $780,
600. This is far better than an addi.
ton of that much to the circulating
medium, since it all goes directly into
local channels of trade and helps local
business. Moreover, the example of
the unions will be powerful with their
members. Many or most of them
have small savings, and doubtless not
a few of them withdrew them from the
banks in time of timidity. All that
is necessary to make money as plenti-
full as it has ever been is to stop hoard.
ing it. AS far as they can, the Chica-
60 labor organizations are contributing
to this end, and they deserve a COM
mendation as emphatic as the censure
that should be visited on the rich peo-
pie who have withdrawn their millions
and locked them up in safety deposit
vaults.
At the other extreme stand the men
who are using this time OF trouble to
stir up agitations among workingmen
that cannot, if successful, end in any
thing but breach of the peace, and
may possibly lead to even more serious
consequences. The unemployed la
borers OF New York are talking about
a great demonstration, to which they
are melted by the anarchistic element
that comes out of its lair in times like
these. What it would be for, in what
possible way it could benefit them, no
one has said. Its only practical effect
would be the opening of an opportun-
ity for riot. 1t is not easy to bear the
pangs of hunger, and the condition OF
the unemployed is pitiable indeed.
But they are to be helped first by re-
moving the causes that have thrown
them out OF work, and second by Or
ganized relief, and not by the threat of
revolution. Still more reprehensible
is the course of the committees at st.
Louis and elsewhere that are urging
the unemployed to proceed to Wash
ington and make demonstration"
before Congress. Ii they were to go
there and threaten the do-nothings
with immolation unless they stopped
talking and went to work, it might
have salutary effect. But they are
incited to urge appropriations of mo.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-09-01
TOUGH GOOSE STORY.
nut the Western Woman, Who
Had Also Seen Queer Things, Be-
lteVed II.
n. Y. Herald.

n. Y. Herald.
She was woman, and had been
entertaining room full of guests in
an up town hotel with some extraor-
dinary tales.
She had just finished one particular
ly wild and woolly border romance,
when young southerner present
drawled:
Madam, il any one else in the
world had told that story 1 should
have been compelled to doubt it, but,
OF course, can not refuse to believe
you.
Now" he continued, as if by way
OF retaliation, "you cannot fail to
appreciate most unusual occurrence
in my State. The past winter, as you
know, has been unusually severe in
the south. Well, in November, when
the wild geese were flying past us, a
flock of them stopped to drink in one
OF our Carolina ponds.
Being so much pleased with the
water they loitered for a day or two.
But one time when they were padding
around, sudden cool wave swooped
down without any warning. A crust
of ice formed over the pond in less
than minute, and there were the
geese stuck as fast as if they had been
nailed to a board.
"For several days the geese-there
must have been a thousand of them
fiuttered and squawked trying to ex-
tricate themselves, but to no purpose.
The people in the neighborhood
watched their struggles with more or
less curiosity, and finally a mount
aineer and his wife ventured ON the
ice to capture some of the game.
"The geese made one tremendous
effort in unison and lifted the whole
sheet OF ice into the air, slowly flying
away with it. Slowly the ice flock
ascended until it became a mere speck
in the sky and finally disappeared
altogether. The neighbors are now
watching every day when the weather
moderates to see the old man and his
wife drop from the clouds"
The Western woman looked up at
the speaker and remarked:
Well, that certainly does look in
credible, but 1 don't doubt it, for I've
seen too many queer things myself"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-09-01

According to the rate of growth
agreed upon by eminent authorities,
the average time for each finger nail to
grow its full length is about four and
one-half months, and at this rate a
man OF 70 years of age would have
renewed his nails 1S6 times. Taking
the length of each nail at half an inch
he would have grown seven feet nine
inches of nail on each finger, and on
all his fingers and thumbs an ag-
gregate length of seventy-seven feet
six inches.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-09-01
INTERESTING FACTS.
IN THE HISTORY OF THE NORTH
ERN PACIFIC r. r. CO.
Some of the Early Troubles and
How they were Adjusted-Stili
Some People Think tRailrOads
are an. EVIL.

Some of the Early Troubles and
How they were Adjusted
Some People Think tRaiIrOads
are an. EVIL.
Speaking Of the second assignment
OF the Northern Pacific into the hands
OF receivers, Hon. II. w. Fairweather,
who was cashier for the former re-
ceiver, gives the Spokane Reriew some
interesting particulars as follows:
Jay Cooke failed in September,
1873. The track was then within
twenty miles of Tacoma. All con-
struction was suspended, and many
months pay were due the employees.
They ceased work on the roadbed and
erected barricade at the north end
OF the Nisqually bridge and encamped
there under command of Captain
Nichols, Sam Henry and a man
named Jackson. The money due
them was from ]. B. Montgomery, the
contractor. They refused to let the
company proceed with the work and
extend the track into Tacoma until
they were paid. After several days of
negotiation, in which Ex-Governor
Ferry, General Hazard Stevens, Gen
eral John w. Sprague. Captain J. C.
Ainsworth, and myself were present.
Captain Ainsworth and X. r. Thomp-
son, of Portland, agreed to endorse
their time checks and become respon-
sible for their payment in the follow
ing February. The men accepted and
every dollar was paid. Ainsworth,
Sim Reed and Mr.. Thompson further
advanced money to complete the road
to Tacoma.
"The company then struggled along
until the spring of 1875, when a plan
of reorganization was adopted and
George w. Cass was appointed re-
ceiver and continued as such until the
next September. 1t was q very rapid,
successful and satisfactory reorganiza-
ton.
Little was done on the coast in
1876, II and '7S except the construc-
ton of the Puyallup branch to the
coal mines. In 1879 President Bill
ings borrowed SAC, O,OOO, 600 to complete
the road across the continent, and
soon after Mr.. Willard organized his
blind pool, got control of majority
of the stock, completed the road and
drove the gold spike in September,
1883. In the financial crisis of that
year Mr.. Willard practically lost con-
troll of the road. On the return OF
good times in 1856 construction of
branch lines was begun through all
the territory penetrated by the road
and was vigorously prosecuted until
1890. There does not seem to be any
complaint against Colonel Cakes
management, and l imagine there will
be no substantial change in manage.
ment or policy. 1t is great property"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-09-01

fore, be inserted into 500 clover tubes
before one grain of sugar can be OBJ
tained. There are 1000 grains in a
pound, and as honey contains three
fourths OF its weight OF dry sugar, each
pound of honey would represent the
insertion of its proboscis into 3 800 900
clover heads.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-09-01

THE Pioneer Press gives this simple
method of ascertaining the yield OF
wheat to the acre, before it is har.
vested: Frame together four light
sticks measuring exactly foot square
inside, and with this in hand walk
into the field and select a spot of fair
average yield, and lower the frame
squarely over as many heads as it will
enclose, and carefully shell out the
heads thus enclosed and weigh the
grain. 1t is fair to presume that the
produce will be the 49, ,56Oth part OF
an acres product. To prove it go
through the field and make ten or
twenty similar calculations, and e.ti-
mate by the mean of the whole num-
ber of results. 1t will certainly enable
a farmer to make closer calculation
of what the crop of field will be than
he can do by guessing.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-09-01

WHERE THE ANT ABIDEs.-Wash-
ington Star: Whatf Go to the
anti" said the sluggard; "what a
waste OF my strength it would be! To
the picnic I'll HE and I'll sit by the
pie, and there let the ant come to
me-"