The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1895-08-10

lin iolllt Leduet "A lew weeks e q
young man bought a pair of socks con-
tanning a note saying the writer was an
employe Of the Kenosha, Wis. knitting
works and wanted a good husband. She
gave her name and requested the buyer,
if an unmarried man, to write with a
view OF matrimony. The Young man
who found the note considered the
matter in all its phases and decided to
write to the girl. he did. Awaiting
the answer with considerable anxiety,
he was at last awarded with a curt let
ter stating that the girl was now mother
OF two children and had been married
four years. and that the letter he had
found had been written ever so long ago.
1t was a sock" dollager and the young
man hunted for a solution. He found it.
The merchant Of whom he bought the
socks does not advertise.
The %Plankinton Standard would like
to see about 200 farmers remember the
ptinter this fall when they come to mar
ket their crons. So would we, so would
hundreds of other newspaper Offices.
The fact is, the newspaper is the last, the
very fastest last blamed thing to be re-
membered. Men will pay every solitary
debt they owe before they will think of
paying up their dues for their local
paper-though they arc quick TO send
cash for an outside publication. They
have an idea that it is no trick at all for
a newspaper publisher to carry three or
four hundred delinquents year after
year, a%ggregating an outstanding ac-
count of from one to three thousand dol
lars, and where they expect he gets TIE
money to run his business is more than
we know. Every such person ought to
peddle out a bushel OF two of wheat on
time to five hundred individuals scat
tered from Maine to Mexico and then
collect his payer try it.
The Japanese appear to be modern
OF like other civilized nations-in war
fare only. They have queer ways Of do
ing things. The Japanese books begins
at the last page and reads from right to
left. The lines run up and down the
page and the foot notes" are at the top.
The first column of a newspaper is on
the right hand edge Of the page and the
fayorite place for an advertisement is in
the middle of the page The keys to
their locks always turn in the opposite
direction from ours and the locks are
always on the jam instead Of upon tho
door. The Japanese carpenter pulls his
plane toward him and the needlewoman
sews from her body instead of toward it.
The eye of the needle is in the point and
the thread is not cut from the spool un-
til the seam is finished. The tailor
makes the lining of a garment first and
cuts out the cloth from it as a pattern,
The merchant unrolls the whole piece of
cloth and cuts off the desired amount
from the inside end.
Parker Press: The reason why the
woman suffrage movement does not
move faster is that the women do not
favor IT as a class. II the women, as
wives, mothers and sisters wanted to
vote, the husbands. brothers and sons
would be influenced 10y their wishes aud
favor the movement, bnt they do not; it
is only Il few who wish it and those
mostly stand alone, and have few male
friends to work for them. The woman
snffraglst should first convince the
women that they want to vote and then
get the ardent support of the wives of
the senators and representatives and
then they may be able to secure the
vote they wish. Few men will vote for
their wives to do something that tile
wives themselves do not wish to do, and
ii is to the busy mothers that the voters
would look for the most intelligent and
correct votes to he cast and if they will
not vote the others should not, is the
opinion OF the men at large, and few of
the men believe that the busy wives and
mothers in the land could be induced to
take an active part in the public veal.