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The Winslow mail., 1898-09-03
AN EXCLUSIVE COLONY.
Employees of the Big Powder Mills of
the Du Points Have Even Their
own Graveyard.

Those who work in the Du Pont pow
der mills on the Brandywine, in Del
aware, form queer colony, says the
New York Press. They are all Irish
people whose ancestors came to this
country when the Du Points started in
business and went to work for them.
For generations the D1 Points and these
people have passed their positions from
father to son. Like their employers,
they intermarry and are very exclusive.
They live on what are called Du Points
banks, which are about three miles
from Wilmington. The people of Will
mington know hardly anything about
them, for they have few outside ac-
quaintances, and their visits are not fre-
quent. The hills about the banks are
the highest in Delaware, and it is at the
base of them that these workers live.
The town is lighted at night by the
electric plant in the works. The people
hav their own places of amusement, the
principal being the Brandywine club,
which has finer building thanany club
in Wilmington. They also have dances
and theatricals frequently. Nearly
every one of them has lost relative by
an accident in the works. They have
their own graveyard, teo.
The Winslow mail., 1898-09-03
SHE WANTED FLOWERS.
But the Congressman Had to Draw
the Line Somewhere and She
Didn't Get Them.

A certain southern congressman was
heard entertaining a company of his
colleagues lately in the democratic
cloakroom of the house with an ac-
count of an unusual experience, says
the Washington Post. During the
woman suffrage convention" he said,
several ladies from my district were
present. Early in the convention one
of them came to the capitol, called at
my committee-room and requested an
interview, which was readily granted
She stated that the woman suffrage
delegates were to have some sort of
public meeting, in which she was to
participate, and requested that 1
should provide floral tribute to be
presented to her on that occasion.
Il was naturally somewhat taken
aback at the suggestion. l supposed
in the course Of my IL years in con-
gress that l had exhausted about every
variety of duties that member of the
house is called upon to perform. l
have always been ready and willing to
run errands for my constituents, for
which at home my office boy would
have sufliced. ] have catered to the
whims of office seekers. When my con-
stituents have come to me hungry, l
have fed them, and when they have
come shelterless I have given them
lodging, have taken my political sup
porters to the theaters by hundreds,
but I was forced to inform my lady
visitor that 1 must draw the line at
bOuouetS"
The Winslow mail., 1898-09-03
THE GREAT INLAND SEA.
How Marine Animals Were Corraifed
After the Water Dried Up
Ages Ago.

In the latter part of the Mesozoic
age there was q great inland ocean,
spreading over a large part of the
present continent. The lands then
above water were covered with fora
peculiar to the times and were inhab-
tied by some of the animals which
later distinguished the Cenozoic age,
says the Popular Science Monthly. In
the seas were reptiles, fishes and tur-
ties of gigantic proportions, armed for
offense or defense. There were also
oysterlike bivalves, with enormous
shells, three or four feet in diameter,
the meat of which would have fed
many people. In time this great ocean,
swarming with vigorous life, disap-
peared.
Mountain ranges and plains gradual
ly arose. casting forth the waters and
leaving the monsters to die and bleach
in tertiary suns. AS the waters re-
naming divided into smaller tracts
they gradually lost their saline stabil.
ity. The stronger monsters gorged
on the weaker tribes, until they, too,
stranded on rising sandbars or lost
vitality and perished as the waters
freshened. In imagination we can pic
ture the strongest, bereft of their food
supply at last and foundering in shall
low pools until all remained mired or
starved. 1t would be interesting to
know how much of the great ere
taceous ocean forms a part, if any, of
the vast oceans of to-day.
The Winslow mail., 1898-09-03
Not Providence at All.

The average representative of young
America is certainly an interesting
specimen of childhood, especially in
4 certain independence of will and the
formation of opinions. The following
incident, where a young scion of a
prominent East end family showed his
contempt for the intangible, is case.
in point. This particular youngster,
who has attained the interesting age
of four years, and who lisps out dis
connected syllables in most anus
ing manner, managed to elude his
nurses vigilance for a few moments
the other day and toddled into the
street, where he was rescued some
time later by his active protector. Up
on being informed of the circum-
stances the mother of the child, in
her thankfulness, said: "Why, it was
Providence alone that saved the
child" But the boy wouldn't have it
that way, and chirruped up: 'No, it
wasn't, mamma. It was not Provi-
dence, but nurse, who saved me-
Pittsburgh Dispatch.
The Winslow mail., 1898-09-03
EFFECT OF WEATHER on FISH.
Why Trout Rise Merrily in the Midst
Of q Storm and sul;k When the
Water Is Quiet.

If trout rise merrily in the very
midst of storm, why do they invaria-
bly, sulk when the thunder is only ''in
the air?" The explanation is simple,
but it occurred to me only the other
day, says the London Review. Trout
sulk when he storm is gathering from
the cause which makes men at the club
decline to look at the billiard cues dur
ing the same weather. The atmosphere
lacks oxygen, and therefore all SEN
tient life is languid. When the light
ming has come the sultriness is dis
PEELED; fish and men have some ething
more cheering than carbonic acid gas
TO breathe; both are in humor for
food or play.
The same reasoning, I think, ex-
plains why, as a rule, it is necessary
10 have ripple if you are to catch
trout. The accepted explanation is
that the ripple conceals the casting
line, leaving visible to the fish the flies
alone, but one has only to use ones
eyes to discover that that is no ex-
planatiOn at all. Even in a gale, if
there is no sunshine, the gut is as east
ly visible to the human eye as it would
be in q dead calm, and to what the hui
man eye can see in the water the trout
is surely not quite blind. No; trout
rise in a ripple more rapidly than in a
calm simply because the wind is oxy
genating the water. Whose doubts
this is invited to make an experiment.
Let him put half dozen live trout into
a pail of water. Within an hour they
will be sickening; some of them will be
near death and turning on their backs.
few quarts of water plunged yard
or two through the air into the pail
will make all the trout revive as if by
magic. The fish want oxygen just as
the fellows at the club on q sultry aft
ernoon want thunderstorm or other
StimuIapf
The Winslow mail., 1898-09-03
Where Fearing Ceases.

Lord Rayleigh in recent lecture
said that experiments had shown that
a vibration of sound having an ampli-
tude of less than one-twelve-millionth
of centimeter could still affect the
sense of hearing. Such a vibration
would be so short that it would have
to be enlarged 100 times before the
most powerful possible microscope
could render it visible, supposirg that
it were susceptible of being seen at
all. Old people, he said, do not hear
high notes which are audible to young
persons, and there is reason to believe
that babies hear notes which are in
audible to their elders.-Youth's Com
panion,
The Winslow mail., 1898-09-03
Native Hawafians in Our Service

1t is a great many years since Ha-
waiians have gone 10 war in any num-
bers. Now they are going to enter
military service to some extent, under
the flag of the United States. There
has been purchased here for the Amer
ican government two of the surf boats
used in handling sugar from shore to
island steamers. These win be taken
with the collier Brutus. They will be
used in carrying sacked fuel at sea
from the collier to the monitor Monte
rey. To man these surf boats two
crews of native Hawaiians have been
signed 1t was concluded, after care
ful survey of the case, that it would
be almost impossible to secure other
men who could do the work. Hawaii
ans who have been in the service of
inter-island navigation companies are
already fully trained for just such a
task as is presented, and the natives
of the group are known all over the
world as the ahlest sort of able sea-
men. Their skill has commanded 2
premium every since the early whaling
times. Any number of Hawaiians are
ready TO enlist under the stars and
stripes for any serFice.-Pacific Com
mercial Advertiser.
The Winslow mail., 1898-09-03
A High and Dry Suburb.

She-Oh, do you know, am COM
pletely infatuated with astronomy.
Now, let's see, where's Mars? In the
west?
Hem the west? Well, I guess hard
ly. I'd like to see Mars get past Chi
cago now that they think it is inhab-
tied. The Greater New York business
has set them wild out there.-Up-to-
Date
The Winslow mail., 1898-09-03
You Can't Always Tell.

''Mrs. Wendricks must be very fond
of her husband"
''Why?"
f'She's SO careful about his health
always seems to be worrying for fear
he'll sit in draft"
ooh, that's no sign that she's par
ticularly fond of him. Maybe she hates
to hear him swear when he catches
cold, ,"-Cleyeland Leader.
The Winslow mail., 1898-09-03
A De1rev Story.

Admiral Dewey was always a strict
disciplinarian, and occasionally in
ficts punishment in curious ways.
Once while in foreign port he sudden
ly ordered the heaviest tackle to be
gotten out of the hold without delay.
After two hours work his order was
carried out, and he then directed that
a large chew Of tobacco which had been
thrown under one of the guns be
hoisted overheard. Never again on
that cruise was such an unpardonable
offense committed.
The Winslow mail., 1898-09-03
why She Loft

'Why did you leave your last,place"
asked the lady who was looking. for
cook.
'Well, mem, it was just this way"
returned the applicant. "They had
their dinner there so late it give me
no chance to ride me bicycle in the
park eYenin' s. Cleveland Leader,
The Winslow mail., 1898-09-03
TERRITORY OF ARIZONA, :.
County of Navajo. oo

TERRITORY OF ARIZONA, &c
County of Navajo. %
Before me, +. w. Nelson, Notary Public
in and for the County and Territory afore-
said, personally appeared Frank Hart, ]. X.
Woods, w. r. Campbell, U. q. Rand. A. T
Cornish and F. C. Demarest known to me to
be the persons whose names are subscribed
O the foregoing instrument and duly ac
knowledged to me that they executed the
same for the purpose and consideration
therein expressed.
Given under my hand and seal of
} office this 7th day of January A. ID.
}srAn 1895. F. W. NELSON,
~ Notary Public.
My commission expires December 8, 1888.
The Winslow mail., 1898-09-03
A Matter nf NAcessifE

Brown--0h, yes! the world moves!
Jones--Yes; and it has to hustle to
keep up with the United States.-Puck.
The Winslow mail., 1898-09-03
E,storic British Reeiments

The names of no fewer than 1O5 bat
Ties are embraced on the banners of
fhe various regiments which form the
British army.-N. Y. Sun.
The Winslow mail., 1898-09-03
TERRITORY OF ALTOONA, GO
County of Navajo. o9


|, j. H. Frisby, County Recorder In and for
the County of Navajo, Territory of Arizones
and custodian of the records thereof, do
hereby certify that the foregoing and hereto
attached Articles of incorporation OF the
Winslow Electric Light and Ice Manufactur-
ing Company is full, true and correct copy
of the Articles of Incorporation of said COM
pany now on file in my office; that said Arti-
cles of Incorporation were filed for record
in my Office on the 8th day of January A. d.
1893 at 2 30 o'clock p M, and are duly enter
ed of record in Volume No. of Articles OF
Incorporation, on pages Nos. 26, 27, 2Srecords
of said Navajo county.
In witness whereof, / have here
) unto set my hand and seal OF office
}sEAL} this Sth day of January A. ID. 1898.
C. ]. H. FRISBY,
~ County Recorder.
The Winslow mail., 1898-09-03
Its Riches In Real Est.,.

The groundiin the vicinity of the Bank
pf England is estimated to be worth NOT
less than S1O,OO0,00O per acre, and land
IN In Pan oa Mall has changed hands at s2,-
The Winslow mail., 1898-09-03
After the War

Hewitt-TheSe guessing contests
have even reached our schools.
Jewett-How is that?
HThey let the pupils guess where
Spain used to be on the map.'L-N. Y.
Journal.
The Winslow mail., 1898-09-03
Secret Orders.

! Tt is stated that there are in the
United States over so distinct secret
orders, with over 10000 lodges, and
| {, 5,5QQ,000 membeTS. -..-.-
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-03-31
The Advance of Dutchwomen.

Most people think that the Dutch are
a stationary if not a retrograde people,
but in one respect at least they are
ahead of most European nations. In the
little monarchy, which has a queen for
its head, women during the last ten
years have made greater progress than
perhaps any other nation in Europe.
Next year, in token of this progress,
Dutch women will hold worlds fair
at The Hague, which is to be devoted
solely to the exhibition of women's &C.
tivities and industries. Side by side
with this progress of women's work
there has been an advance in the politi-
Cal field. This year, says The Humani
tartan, the government has passed a
law comforting almost an equal suffrage
upon women and making them eligible
to nearly all municipal offices. In Hol-
land women have learned the advantage
of cooperation and organization, and
instead of being divided against them
selves as in other countries they have
worked together, with a result that
they are winning all along the line.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-03-31
An Afghan New Woman.

The new woman has penetrated even
to the harem of the ameer of Afghan
istan, where she wears male attire and
does precisely as she pleases. The ameer
picked her up, says writer in The La
dies Pictorial, Oh his return journey
from the northern part of his dominions
q good many years ago. She had been
brought before him by an indignant IA
ther and proposed husband for punish
ment. She would not conform to the
usage of the country and enter the mar
ried state, though she had then reached
the age when it became incumbent upon
her to do so. The girl declared she had
run wild all her life and did not wish
to give up her freedom and be shut up
in a harem. She sought the ameer's
protection and obtained it.
"All right, he said, "since you want
to be free you shall be, but free you
must also remain. That is your punish
ment You wish to live like a man. You
shall live like one, and for your own
protection you must wear mems
Clothes"
On her arrival in Kabul she was given
the title of Older, or chief, and was
made the harem: s messenger. She comes
and goes as she pleases or is ordered.
both by night and day, and no one even
in slanderous Kabul has ever breathed a
word against her fair name.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-03-31
housekeeping when men had shown that
they could do it SO much better
Frances M. Abbott in North American
Review. ."
The New Woman Question.


There have been sarcastic remarks
made by men from time to time con-
corning the ''new" woman, expressing
their fear lest she should drive out the
"old' woman and all her womanliness,
but their fears are as nothing to those
OF the new woman herself. With her the
dread of new womanliness is almost
terror.
There has been some doubt as to
whether there was such person as the
new woman. There has been a wonder
full change in the conditions of women
within it is difficult to tell just how
many years, and it has seemed neces-
sary for them to 60 out in the world tc
light for themselves, and as we are all
very much creatures of environment it
can't but have made great difference
In the character of the woman who is
making way for herself. She may be
even better wife, mother and sister
the Spartan women were all that was
desired in that line at the time they
lived-but if womanliness consists in
dependence and clingativeness, it is
plOeoy CcTGdlu GudG Gu0 u6W WOudu UOSS
not possess these traits as did the old
woman. But she will not admit it.
1t is pitiful or humorous, whichever
way the reader looks at it, to see the
disavowment of every woman who has
done enough in the world to bring her
into print of new woman qualities.
Il am not a new woman" she makes
haste to tell her interviewer in the first
breath, and then she proceeds to recite
the story of the way in which she has
fought single handed to make her way
and win success, gone to the north pole
or the south seas-everyt thing character
istic of the new woman and the opposite
of the old. The only woman who dares
to proclaim herself new woman is the
pretty feminine little creature who is
distinctly not the new woman. and she
does it for the same reason that women
adopt masculine style of dress-not to
appear mannish, but to accentuate her
femininity.-NewY York Times.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-03-31
Progress of Woman Suffrage.

Women have secured equal political
rights with men in Wyoming since
1869, in Colorado since 1898, in Utah
since 1896 and in Idaho since 1897.
Sixty years ago women could not vote
anywhere. In 1S45 Kentucky gave
school suffrage to widows. In 1861
Kansas gave it to all women. In 1869
England gave municipal suffrage to sim
gle women and widows and Wyoming
gave full suffrage to all women. School
suffrage was granted in 1875 by Michi-
gan and Minnesota, in 1876 by Colorado,
in 1873 by New Hampshire and Oregon,
in 1879 by Massachusetts and in 1880 by
New York and Vermont. In 1881 mu-
nicipal suffrage was extended to the sim
gle women and widows of Scotland. Me-
braska gave school suffrage in 1883 and
Wisconsin in 1885. In 1885 school sui.
frage was given in Washington and
municipal suffrage to single women and
widows in New Brunswick and Ontario.
In 1887 municipal suffrage was ex-
tended to all women in Kansas and
school suffrage in North and South Da-
kota, Montana, Arizona and New Jer
sey. In the same year Montana also
gave taxpaying women vote on all
questions submitted to taxpayers. In
1891 school suffrage was granted in
Illinois. In 1892 municipal suffrage was
extended to single women and widows
in the province of Quebec. In 1898
school suffrage was granted in Connect
icut and full suffrage in Colorado and
New Zealand. In 1894 school suffrage
was granted in Ohio, limited munich
pal suffrage in Iowa and parish and
district suffrage in England to women
both married and single. In 1895 full
suffrage was granted in Australia to
women both married and single. In
1896 full suffrage was established by
Utah and Idaho. In 1897 equal suffrage
amendments were submitted in North
Dakota and Washington, and will be
voted upon next fall in those states
Woman's Journal.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-03-31
WOMAN'S WORLD.
A YOUNG WOMAN ORGANIZES A CO.
OPERATIVE RESTAURANT.

Women In Business and Social Life-The
New Woman-Progress Of Woman Suf-
frage-Mrs. Chspin's Railroads.&c. La
test In Shirt Waists.
Another brilliant business idea has
come from the brain of the new woman.
It is a cooperative restaurant, and is to
be operated in this city by the woman
who evolved the scheme.
At the corner of jefferson avenue and
Olive street is the lannon's restaurant
owned by Mrs. Josephine Davis, who
also conducts one at 2943 Olive street.
Both these places are frequented by
medical students-in fact, their patron
age is the most important part OF the
restaurants trade. Mrs Davis started
in humble way, but her homelike cook
ing, pleasant ways and pretty waiter
girls won their way to the hearts, or
stomachs, of the young students. and
she prospered.
During these years Miss Emma
Deane, by all odds the prettiest girl in
either restaurant, has been Mrs. Davis
right hand man, in a fgurative sense,
and there was no reason why they
should not get along we'll together, for
the good fortune of each depended some
what on the other; but few weeks ago
the difference of opinion which is sure
to arise some time came up and the two
parted.
When the boys missed Miss Deane,
there were many questions and great
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-03-31

ner and trimmed with horizontal lace
insertions, clustered rows of black vel
vet ribbon, brier stitching in white,
black or bright colors, or made perfect
ly plain, with loose fronts, fitted, seam
less backs, deeply pointed yoke, ma
chine stitched revers and a rundown
collar, with which is worn a scarf tie
IN tartan colors, or a wider one in net
or null, edged with fine fancy lace in
one or the other of its countless delicate
and beautiful patterns. Other black tat
feta waists are closely fitted front and
back, and above this is worn a deeply
pointed Marie Antoinette fichu, border
ed with black taffeta ruff1es, edged with
narrow black guipure lace, or with a
wider design in chantilly. En- suite
with this waist is skirt to match the
ruffles, deeper and similarly edged, some
of them showing triple fiounces, put on
straight all around the skirt, others
having the skirt decorated with alter
nate rows of silk ruching and triple
frills in cluster, or a ruff1e of sun plait-
ed silk, and then all equally vide
Hounce of black lace, headed with line
of glittering jet or tiny plated ruche.
Still other black taffeta skirts have
three or five RIFLES simply hemmed and
arranged in deep point on the front,
to resemble an apron overskirt. These
ruffles arch upward toward the hips and
end with the seam of the full back
breadth, which is untrimmed. These
make pretty, old fashioned looking
gowns, and they will be worn by both
matronly women and very youthful
girls, who will look quaint and pictur-
esque in them, particularly if the entire
French style is carried out, and with
the gown and it's stole fronted fichu is
worn little undermined victorian poke
bonnet of black velvet CT zephyr braid,
trimmed with pink roses or parma VIC
lets. New York Post.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-03-31
Mrs. Chapin's Railroads.

There is an electric system of rail-
ways in Tampa, Fla, which should
possess more than ordinary interest for
the ladies throughout the country from
the fact that it is practically owned
and operated by a woman. Her name is
Mrs. Chaplin, and there is not a detail
of the operation Of the railway that she
is not thoroughly familiar with. The
system which she owns is practically a
belt line, and every place of interest in
Tampa is touched by it. Some of the
routes are of much beauty, and one
which runs from the heart of the city
to Ballast point, distance of six miles,
is full of picturesque and other attract
i've features On this particular line
observation or double deck cars are
used, and nearly every one takes seats
on the upper deck under an awning.
On account of the many curves in the
route the cars are run at slow rate,
which is a matter of satisfaction, for it
enables the passengers to more thor
oughly enjoy the beauties of the pine
woods, the destinations Of the orange
groves and the gllmpses OF Tampa Day
which are obtained through the woods
every few minutes.
Mrs. Chaplin not only owns practical
ly all the stock Of the Tampa street rail-
way system, but she oversees all the de-
tails of it's operation and herself directs
them. She owns handsome Car, which
she calls Fair Florida, and on this she
takes daily trips all over her lines. and
from it she directs the work of the road.
While not young woman. Mrs. Chaplin
is said to be still in the prime OF life.
She has wonderful capacity for bust
ness and possesses strong powers of en-
durance. For those who are curious to
know it may be stated that Mrs Cha
pins husband is living, but that except
temporarily he takes no part in the run
ming of the road. -Philadelphia Ledger.