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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-05-18

JAL-JA connected on left side, Z
cross on right side half circle I on ri.ht-
side and V on left shoulder II q well
lingtOn. rs. Range IL miles no tn OF
Medicine Lodge. v2-25
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-05-18
George, King l.
George.

Known a Dia-
mOud on left shout
dec and half box
on left loin or |
or cross on left Jaw
Additional brands
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-05-18

Brands: Heart upside down on LETT hip
Ear marks-swallow fork in each ear
on some cattle. Another lot branded III
3 on side and hip and rail on either side
Some branded on side and E on left
hip-crop in left underhalf crop in right
Some branded Ii on side and Ii on left
hip-crop and underbit each ear An
other lot ii on left side. Another lor
Arrow brand on left hip-spit in each
ear.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-05-18

This stage ma IS direct connections
with the p sseI-cr ira ins con il q in
and leaving Ha pr.
~ NINFp g 90.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-05-18

and cross on opposite side. Range on
Cold Water Indian T. Pc Hutchinson,
Kans 30
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-05-18
Fred TaintOr.

off left and Jingle bob the right. Horse
brand the same on left hip. RANGE on
Cimaron river at mouth of Crooked
creek. z o Dodge City.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-05-18

Ear mark halt undercrop in right I'M
derhack in left. Ranch on Wagon
creek. L o Pond creek, Indian Terri
2-7-mG
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-05-18
Barbour County Stock Brands !!
D. L. PIERCE.

under hack in. left ear. Ranch. miles
west of the Lodge. P. o., Medicine
Lodge. Cattle in charge of K. ID. Simp-
son A
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-05-18

W.T. name n On Iihgt hip. Texas
stock branded l. n on both sides. q
kiOwa. Range on Driltwood. 10y7
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-05-18

on Left hip. The above brands confined
to steers entirely. Ranch on DriitwOod
20 Medicine Lodge Horse brand, u.
w %
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-05-18

Ledge. Il. y. Medicinc Lodge. Ear
mark. saw tooth I'm Zach car. Some eat
tie are branded with long = on lett SIDE
is
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-03-17
Meet Me in the Morning.

He had been absent year, the young
est pupil at the boys school, and now
his mother was expecting him every day,
and she went about, proud and happy,
telling her friends of his Improvement in
his studies, and always ending with his
being such a good boy. Then came a
telegram from Willie himself, the first
real message he had ever sent-how
funny it seemed, from that baby and
there was just this simple form, " Meet
me in the morning." His mother went
about all day with it in her hand, read
ing it over as if it had been in the child's
own handwriting. Then she smiled to
herself as she pasted it carefully in a
scrap-book, while somebody suggested
framing it, to hang it over the mantel
But all the friends loved Willie; he was
the only son Of his mother and she was
a widow-and he did not come the morn
ingl There came instead, the dread
news of hasty illness, and his mother
hurried to her darling boy, but it was
too late! The despoiler had done his
work-he was breathing out his little
life in the sleep from which he never
would fully awaken here. Only once to-
ward the last, he Enclosed his eyes
swiftly and saw the dear mother-face
bending over him, and murmured with
dry, husky lips: meet me in the morn
ing, mamma"
Dear boy! it is morning with him al
ways-the morning light of fairer than
italian skies while we yet grope among
the shadows. But by and by
"We shall go home at evening
And find it morning there y
III Quad.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-03-17
A Social Fraud.

A subscriber writes to know if it would
be proper for him to speak to lady
that he has never been introduced to.
He says he has met her on the street, in
places of business, and at parties for
two years, that he knows all her family
and she knows his, and that she looks
almost as though she wished he would
speak. but he has never been introduced
to her, and dares not speak. No, you
must not speak to her. You may go
along meeting her every day till Gabriel
blows his trump, and she may look as
familiar as your sister, and yet till some
mutual acquaintance says :" Mr.. So-and-
SO, this is Miss So and So" you can not
speak to her without society will say you
are an impudent thing. She may wish
she knew you, and yet if you speak to
her she would feel it her duty to society
to say "Sir." and look greatly offended,
and then you would be all broke up. If
she should drop her pocketbook, and you
should pick it up and hand it to her, she
would thank you with smile, but you
would have no right to speak to her next
time you met. IF she should meet you
some day and say : "How do you do,
Mr.. So-and-so? I have known you ever
since you lived in this town, though we
were never introduced formally, and it
has got so embarrassing to pass you half
dozen times a day without speaking,
while Ispeak to those that may be with
you, that have concluded not to wait
for an introduction, some nine spot
with number six hat on would say
4" Oh, my, what firt that lady is. She
actually spoke to man without being
introduced" If you frankly offer her
your hand and say, Thank you, madam,
for suspending the rule of etiquette in
speaking. I have seen you SO many
times that your pleasant face is as vel
come sight as that Of my sister. and |
have wanted to know you, but had given
up all idea that [ ever would, some
simpering female idiot would say "Only
to think, that bold, awful man has ac-
tually firted with Miss So-and-so until
he has got acquainted without a formal
introduction. No, young man, go right
along about your business, and don't
try to hurry the cattle Society must be
consulted, though in some respects So
ciety may be aeonfounded fool. Perks
San.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-03-17
Nsu Football Rules.

In view of the fact that the leading
football teams of this country are get
ting the science of the game down to
such fine point that no one desires to
see them play, the Acta, after mature
deliberation and at great expense, has
framed the following rules, which it is
hoped the intercollegiate Football As
sociation will adopt:
The ground must be $50 feet In length
and 160 feet in width. For absolute
safety the players should be placed at
least mile apart.
The riot shall last an hour and half,
with intervals at every half hour, of ten
minutes each, for drinks. At the end OF
the game if any of the players shall be
uninjured, innings of fifteen minutes
each shall be played until he is killed or
entirely disabled.
A match shall be decided by the num-
Der of bones broken. One dead man
shall count according to his bones.
Two teeth knocked out shall count as
one bone, and shall count for the side not
owning the teeth. The referee shall
promptly disqualify men with false
teeth.
If one of your opponents has posses.
sion of the ball, knock him down and
take the ball away from him. This shall
be decided safety knock down.
Four safety knock downs shall be
equivalent to one funeral, or dead man,
which will count as one goal.
Tripping up shall not be allowed in
~, SC r,sNfa
full way of upsetting man.
A drop kick is made by kicking ore OF
your opponents after he has dropped.
The captains of the respected sides
shall wrestle before the commencement
of the match. The winner shall have the
option of kicking, or being kicked. The
former, by experts, is considered prefer
able.
A funeral may be obtained by any kind
of kick; to avoid unpleasant complica-
ton it is better for the kicker to be
larger than the kicked.
When funeral shall have been OBJ
tanned, the side which owns the corpse
shall set up the bier.
A fair catch is a catch direct from a
kick, or knock by one of the opposite
side only, provided the catcher has a
mark of the heel on the spot where ne
has been caught.
The ball is dead when the player car
rying It shall be knocked down. In some
instances the rule may apply to the
player.
A playermay get up an bawl whenever
ha has been rolled ON or pounded in a
scrimmage.
1t is lawful for any one who bawls to
run away, and if he does SO, it is called
run.
A tackle is where holder of the ball
is jumped on by the whole of ths oppo-
sitIon team.
A maui in goal is when the holder of
the ball is tackled inside the goal line, or
is being tackled Immediately outside, is
stepped on and dragged through the
mud and spun on his head until he or
the opposition succeed in touching the
ball down.
A man who is "on-side" con not be
"off side" The same rule applies to
the off -uns.
A man to be off-side must be on the
side that is off.
A safety touchdown shall consist in
laying the other fellow out, in order to
keep yourself in good condition.
The Act0 thinks that, in case these
rules are adopted In the coming year,
football will attain success heretofore
unprecedented.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-03-17
Railroad SOeiabilitV,

"Speaking about the sociability of
railroad Travellers" said the man with
the crutches and watch pocket over his
eye, 81 never got SO we'll acquainted
with the passengers on train, as | did
the other day on the Milwaukee and ST..
Paul Railroad. We were going at the
rate of about thirty miles an hour, and
another train from the other direction
telcscoped us. We were all thrown into
Zach others society, and brought into
immediate social contact, SO to speak.
81 went over and sat in the lap of a
colpulent lady from Manitoba, and a
girl from Chicago jumped over nine
seats aud sat down on the plug hat of a
preacher from La Crosse, with so much
timid, girlish enthusiasm, that it showed
his hat down over his shoulders.
Everybody seemed to lay aside the
usual cool reserve of strangers, and we
made ourselves entirely at home.
ga shy young man with an emaciated
oilcloth valise, left his own seat, and
went over and sat down on lunch
basket where bridal couple seemed to
be wrestling with their first picnic. Do
you suppose that reticent young man
would have done such thing on ordi-
nary occasions? Do you think if he had
been at celebration at home that he
would have risen impetuously and gone
where those people were eating by them
selves, and sat down on the cranberry
jelly of total stranger?
81 should rather think not.
"Why, one old man, who probably at
home L d the class meeting, and who was
as dignifed rs Roscoe Conkling's father,
was eating piece of eustard pie, when
we met the other train, and he left
his own seat and went over to the front
end of the car and shot that piece of
custard pie into the ear of beautiful
widow from Iowa.
"People travelling somehow forget the
austerity of their home lives, and form
acquaintance that sometimes last
through life. Laramie Boomerang.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-03-17
Love. Making in 1891.
" Aen women sham have obtained their Rights.

" hen women shall have obtained their Rights.
Edwin" Believe me, dearest"
Angelina" Pardon me, Edwin, but is
that the best adjective you can use :?
The word "dearest" implies that I have
cost you great deal-have been very
expensive. Now, when / prepared ollr
settlements with my solicitor, /"
Explains the Law of Real and Per-
sonal Property
Edwin" Thanks, darling, your lecture
has been delightful. But see, the moon
light tinges the trees without"
Angelina. Moonlight? I am glad
you have mentioned the moon. Do you
know that our planetary system is"
[Exhaustiyely canvasses. the whole
system of modern astronomy.
Edwin" Wonderful But the night
ingale has begun her sweet singing
Angelina" Really That reminds
NE, you told me the other day that you
knew little or nothing of natural history.
[ have an excellent memory, and will re-
cite few chapters of Whites Sci
borne ; to you. Does SO.
Edwin, (awaking from his slumber) =
"Ah, indeed But come, my own
one"
Angelina" Beloved one, as accuracy
is to be more esteemed than affection, do
not call me thine. Until I am married
I am femme sole, and even when we
are united the tendency of modern legis-
lation is to separate the parties. 1t was
not so in the past"
Gives history of the world from the
earliest ages.
Edwin (yawning) -" Charming Most
interesting Sweet Angelina, you speak
so well, that I should like to hear your
voice hooking that nightingale Sing,
darling, sing
Angelina-"I would rather tell you
what I know of thorough bass. But
first let me correct you. l can scarcely
rival the nightingale. The human frame
differs materially from the frames of
birds and animals"
Lectures upon anatomy in all its
branches.
Edwin Gin his Sleep" Grand Very
good (Waking) All 1! I must be off +!
Farewell, Angelina, the hours will seem
years when am away from you."
Angelina-"T Then they should not.
There need be no confusion of time in
your case, as you are not about to travel
round the worlds Certainly, if you
were, you would find your watch losing
as you moved southwark. In connection
with the subject I may say little about
time You must know, then, that ="
Rapidly sketches the difference of the
real and ecclesiastical equinox, the
Gregorian reform, ETC., etc.
Edwin Gearing himself away &c Fare
well, dearest-I should say own one, or
rather femme sole. GoQd-by until I see
thee again"
Exit to attempt to escape to America,
to avoid damages for breach of prom
Use of marriage.
Angelina" Fortunately I have taken
my medical degree, and can read his
mind like an open book II
Exit to her solicitor torestrain him |
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-03-17

went out on the street and got a couple
of slices of horse-bread. Itwas far more
acceptable to the party than the bread on
which We were being fed. Some of this
corn meal, too, finds its way into the
"black bread" fed to the army. Soldiers
are everywhere present in Italy, and
every day detachments so along guard
ing great wagons pitched high with
these gloomy-looking loaves, covered
with dust and dirt, and seeming entirely
too filthy even for horses to eat. This is
the chief food for the army"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-03-17

ran zig to and fro, as though. he was
on the trail of an cratic fox. { called
him, but he gave no heed, People got
out Ct his way. The gamins shouted,
and with Wild, shrill bark he suddenly
bounded into the doorway of large dry
goods store. bounded after him In
time to see him rush up to lady in
black, who was examining some gloves,
and. danced around her with signs of the
most extravagant Joy. There are tones
that live without the aid Of photographs,
Roy Roy Dear old Roy was all she
said, but I'd have sworn the voice was
Jennie's if / had heard it on the summit
of Mont Blanc. A white hand was laid
upon his head and my ring was on the
hand"
He paused.
Yours? sir I hope you did not claim
it, said the practical collocutor.
81 did, and the hand which wore it.
just as / originally intended" Nor did
Alexander, In his hours of conquest.
ever smile more serene approval of
himself than our conductor at this stage
of the story.
But the conduct of Fritz, and the
lady's silence, and the queer concomi-
tants which exist only in fetion-how
do you reconcile them with an Ger true
tale p said Ruth, the truth loving.
Fritz was Roy, the Roy who had
often been caressed by Jennie before
his young master, Jennie's cousin, got
the golden fever, when I did, and came
to California. never to return. Jennie
had written, but her letters had never
reached me. She thought me dead.
Why the dog came to me when his mas
ter died is one Of the riddles Of my life,
which I will disentangle in the here
after"
"And to-day where is she ?"
We stood waiting for the answer.
On our ranch near Sacramento, and
I believe one of the happiest women in
the State. We have q boy 10 years old
whose name is Fritz, and all the dearer
for the sake of the old friend who has
gone where I hope one day to meet the
human of him. I wish you would stop
off bit and see my wife. Queer, isn't
it, that I should have introduced this
bit of private history upon ya'a? but the
VI obAA 40 ACo--COi1AA14S5 &OO WtO1
you again, ladies'"
A brakeman beckoned him inside, and
we had seen the last of our handsome
conductor.
The evening shadows had begun to
lengthen. The setting sun had turned
the vast plain of the Sacramento valley
INTO :" field of the cloth of gold," end
the distant peaks Of the Sjerras, clad in
their eternal snow, but now rose-tinted
and glowing, seemed to cleave the azure
above them as with wedge of FURNISHED
silver. 1t was starlight when we reached
the end of our car ride and were regis
tered for the night.
The conductors story was a pleas
ant little episode, Ruth, wasn't it? Do
you believe it all happened ?" I asked,
as leaned from my pillow to hers to
leave goodnight kiss on her soTrnd
cheek.
81 like Fritz" was the sleepy answer.
"There's an instinct about some dogs
that the half of mankind can neither APP
preciate nor maintain. trust man
whom good dog loves"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-03-17
A Miniature Of Aaron Rurr.

Burr lived until 1886. I remember
that as was walking one day, in my
early boyhood, with my father in Maid
en- lane, he pointed out to me little,
shambling old man, with rumpled white
cravat, hair winter than his cravat, and
rusty black coat-a very forlorn and
doleful-looking creature. When you
are Older" my father said, "the time
will come when you viii remember that
you have seen that man; that is har N
Burr. Richard Gra,N White, in The
Century Magazine,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-03-17
OUR LITTLE FOLKS.
The Snow-FiIled Nexr.


1t swings upon the leafiess tree,
By stormy winds blown to and fro;
Deserted. lonely, sad to see,
And full OF cruel snow.
In summers noon the leaves above
Made dewy she ter from the heat;
The nest was fun Of life and IoFe;-
All, life and lore are sweet
The tender brooding Of the day.
The silent, peaceful dreams Of night
The joys that patience oyerpay,
The cry Of young delight,
The Song that through the branches rings,
The nesting crowd with eager eyes,
The nutteFsoft of untried wings,
The fight Of glad surprise.
All. all are goneI know not where,
And still upon the cold gray tree,
Lonely, and tossed by every air,
That snow-hlled nest see.
I, too, had once place Of rest
Where life, and love, and peace were mine
Even as the wild birds build their nest,
When skies and summer shine.
But winter came, the leaves were dead:
The mother bird was first to go,
The nestiings from my sight have fed
The nest is full Of snow.
Rose Terry Cooke, in 50. Nicholas.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-03-17
Taking Care of the Cedars.

The cedars of Lebanon are now IN
closed by heavy wall, and the pick
nicking tourists who have been in the
habit of building fires out of their twIgs
and against their trunks and distributing
sardine boxes and scraps Of paper under
their shades will no longer offend travel
ers who feel reverence Tor these relics
of antiquity. 1t is the most enlightened
thing the Turks have done for some time
past, and we have to thank Rustcm
Pasha for it.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-03-17
SIT WAS THE PIE.

In the night-soiemn night
awoke in fearful fright,
Aud ray chest
Seemed oppressed,
As If lead--heavy lead
a Ton or more of dead
Weight was pressing cruelty pressing
On my chest!
And a demon with pie-hot mince pie
Perched upon my bedpost high;
And blue devils
Held their revels
o er my brain-aching brain
Racked with pain,
And kept dancing -madly prancing--
On my brain.
Then cry-wildly cry:
!" Give me rest, or let me die;
Let me sleep
Sweetly sleep"
Bui the demon perched on high
Yes the demon with the pie
Hoarsely shouted, "Never-neyerr
Quoth the devils, " Hardly everP
Then the joke-heartless joke
Startled me, and 1 awoke-
Awoke in pain,
Half insane,
And said-simply satd:
sDo dream, or am l dead5
Have fallen out Of bed?"
From the gloom there came reply;
" Silent be,
1t was the piem
. Toreafo Grin
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-03-17

The Captain of the Royal George,
though, strange to say, he could not
swim, was picked up alive. But out of
nearly thousand men, which was the
ships complement although some were
on leave, and sixty marines had gone
that very morning only very few
were saved. Government allowed five
pounds to them for the loss of their
things. 8 I saw the list, and there were
but seventy-fve."
For several days afterward bodies
would suddenly come up to the surface
at the spot where the ship had sunk,
forty and fifty at time. The water
men made good thing of it; they would
and watches; then, making fast a rope
to their heels, would tow them to land. !"
The poet who sings of the calamity
tells us mo tempest gave the shock, !"
and indeed there was scarcely any
breeze at all. The ship was anchored
and had not even stitch of canvas on
aer to keep her steady.
Sixty years afterward the interest of
this terrible event had by no means died
away, and / well remember, as a boy,
going on board the ship that was sta
toned above the scene of the calamity,
to see the divers who were still en-
ployed upon the wreck. The aspiration
of the poet,
Weigh the vessel mp,
Once dreaded by her foes,
was never realized but almost every
thing was taken out of her: and more
fancy articles - paper-knives, work
boxes, etc.-affirmed to have been made
from her timbers. were sold, I am
afraid, than the Royal George, big as
she was, could ever have furnished. In
country places and at the seaside in En-
gland you may purchase them even now
at the bazars-old- fashioned articles,
with this tomb-hke inscription on them:
This desk" Tor letter weight or paper
knife) "was made out of the wood of
the Royal George, sunk off Spithead in
1882, with 800 of her crew. > Jar1es
Pay9a
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-03-17

ALEXANDER STEPHENS says 1t took him
ten long years to learn that nine men out
of ten who want the favor of a small
loan, have no, intention Of repaying it
until they want larger one.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-03-17

A NEW electric lamp has appeared in
Paris, which is called sunlight, on ac-
count of its mellow lustre. The light is
formed by inserting two cartoons in holes
bored into block of marble in such
manner that the points of the carbons
are separated by a thin partition of. the
marble. An electric current Is passed
through the cartoons, and in traversing the
shell of marble causes it to become
white hot, emitting a most agreeable
light.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-03-17

A BILL passed by the Connecticut
Legislature directs that the Town Clerk
of New Haven be paid for time spent in
deciphering those portions of the town
records which are partly or WHOLLY IL
legible,"