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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-07-13
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Henry Ward Beecher always wears
a soft felt hat.
DIR. Brehm, the distinguished Ger
man naturalist, intends to visit
America next January and give series
of fifty lectures.
j. L. Goblin, of Cape Town, South
Africa, a reporter of twenty-five years
experience, can report in shorthand
accurately in five different languages
Latin, French, Spanish, Italian and
English.
Miss Parloa, the well-known lect-
urer on culinary science, was the chief
cook of the st. James Hotel, Jackson
vile. Fla, from 1871 to 1873, and then
she became teacher in the public
schools of the State.-N. I. San.
An odd book has just appeared in
England. 1t contains diagrams of the
palms and backs of the hands of
twenty-five eminent persons, among
whom are Mr.. Gladstone, Charles Oar
win, Wilkie Collins and the Duke of
Argyle.
Rev Henry G. Tucker, seventy
eight years old, has preached in and
around Laurens County, Ga, forty
seven years without ever receiving a
dollar for his services. He is blessed i'll
his later years ny tweptY-four of his
thirty-six children, WIG. still survive
". y. Times.
General and Mrs Jessie Benton
Fremont have returned to New York
City to reside, and are living in one of
the beautiful fiat houses, owned by a
mn Cd u L e@,-
and overlooking Central Park. Mrs.
Fremont is in excellent health, and
goes about great deal.-N Y. Graphic:
Josh Billings did not begin writing
until he was forty five years of age.
He was paid $3.50 for his 'Essa on the
Muel." Now he receives two dollars a
line for all he writes. That would be
over four hundred dollars for page in
Harper's Mdgazirae. This is the differ
ence, as Billings puts it. between writ
ing with a reputation in front of you
and one behind you.
John G. Whittier often writes i'm
promptu verses in albums and elsewhere,
bright with gayety that does not often
appear in his most important works.
Not long ago he wrote in the album of
young lady-Who with her friends had
been rallying him on his bachelorhood--
the following lines:
All, ladies, you love TO levy a tax
On my poor little paper parcel of fame;
Yet strange it seems that among you all
Not one is willing to take my name
To write and rewrite, till the angels pity her,
The weariful words-Thine truly, WHITTIER"
-Carlyle's niece wrote biographer
Froude that she was the inheritor of her
uncle's MSS, and should receive the
profits of the sale of the book. When
Froude got his publishers check for the
profits, $4,000, he sent it to the young
lady, saying he did not recognize her
claim, but yielded the money as a gen
tlemanly sacrifice. The niece replied,
angrily, that she had only got her rights.
Whereupon Froude rushed to the bank,
stopped payment of the check, and Car
lyle's niece went without the money
n. Y. Herald.
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Home Charities.

To some young girls who wrote for
counsel to the Wise Blackbird of Vide
Atoake. respecting the preparation Of
fancy work to be sent to distant city
hospitals, that parsonage addresses the
following excellent advice:
"But why, let me ask, undertake
work that must go so far from home to-
reach its object? Have you no sick
families in your own village to whom
your attentions and help would be
grateful surprisep How is the poor
house furnished in your township
Would not the decorations and flowers
in season be thousand times more
welcome to those who are overlooked
by all, and who have forgotten to hope
for any notice or pleasurep Hundreds
of generous homes near by may send
their offerings to the city hospitals while
the same charities exist in every county
to be aided and encouraged, but how
few think of the crushed and hopeless
within an hours drive of their honest
Have you a village or even a county
hospital, or if there is one, is it good
one? If not, why not turn your talents
to starting one. where accidents may be
treated with the best appliances, and
the sick with chronic diseases find such
quiet and care as would be difficult TO
secure at home. would suggest MAX
ing the notices and other pretty things
for home decoration, and having pleas
ant little sale to raise money for couches,
invalids' chairs, water beds, spinal cor
sets, and appliances for distorted limbs,
to be lent in the neighborhood to per-
sons needing them who could i'll afford
to buy such things. This would be
noble work, and worth your efforts
nay, it is one SO close TO you that 1t
comes within the line of sacred, inspir-
ing duty, and any aid or suggestion
can give in such undertakings you may
call for - Vide AaCGte.
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An Accident.

Aunt Eliza never comes to our house
without getting me into difficulties.
don't really think she means to do it,
but it gets itself done just the same.
She was at our house last week, and
though meant to behave in the most
exemplifying manner, happened by
accident to do something which she
said ought to fill me with remorse for
the rest of my days.
Remorse is dreadful thing to have.
Some people have it so bad that they
never get over it. There was once a
ghost who suffered dreadfully from re-
morse. He was a tall white ghost, with
a large cotton umbrella. He haunted a
house where he used to walk up and
down, carrying his umbrella and look
ing awfully solemn. People used to
wonder what he wanted of an umbrella.
but they never asked him, because thew
always shrieked and tainted away when
they saw the ghost, and when they
were brought to cried: "Save me; take
it away, take it away"
One time boy came 10 the house tn
spend Christmas. He was Just terror.
was this boy. He had been n District
Telegraph Messenger boy, and be
wasn't afraid of anything. The folks
told him about the ghost, but he said
he didn't care for any living ghost. and
had just as soon see him as not.
That night the boy woke up, and saw
the ghost standing in his bedroom. and
he said: "Thishyer is nice conduct.
coming into gentleman's room with.
out knocking. What do you want.
anyway"
The ghost replied in the most respect-
ful way that he wanted to find the own
er OF the umbrella. 81 stole that nm
brella when / was alive" he said. "and
am filed with remorse.'
Il should think you would be- said
the boy, for it is the worst old cotton
umbrella ever saw
If | can only find the owner and
give it back to him." continued the
ghost, II can get little rest; but I've
been looking for him ninety years. and
can't find him."
Serves you right" said the bow.
'for not sending for a messenger.
You're in luck to meet me. Gimme
the umbrella. and I'll give it back to
the owner"
.'Bless you," said the ghost, handing
the umbrella to the boy; ssvou have
saved me. Now / viii 90 away and
res" and he turned to 90 out of tbe
door, when the boy said:
See here; it's fifty cents for taking
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Ny father met me at the door, and
looked keenly ut me. "Who is your
visitor-this Mr.. Reeves?" he said.
''Zeb told me you were out, and met
him in the hall and asked his business
with you. Have you contracted any
debts at school, Aura? The man looks
to me like an importunate dun, and il
is not proper that you should deal with
such people. What do you owe him?''
found my voice at last, and told my
father this Reeves was the cousin OF
my roommate. and had perhaps brought
me some message from her. He looked
unsatisfied.
/ hurried 10 my room. and threw my
self face-down on the bed. Oh, il my
father only knew the manner of debt
for which this creature was dunning
me! With n shudder of disgust remem-
bered his looks. almost wished /
could die, then and there. But / had
to rise and 90 about my tasks with a
heavy heart. No more ornamenting
the rooms for me, and under the plea
of fatigue l locked myself in my room
until il was time to dress for the even
ing.
All, girls! hope none of you will
ever lace n silk bodice over as aching a
heart as / carried that night. / had
made up my mind to confess everything
to my father the next morning.
The guests had assembled and dane
ing began, when saw Uncle Zeb at the
door making frantic efforts to catch my
eye. / excused myself and hurried out.
Hes done come agin. Missy" he
whispered. "He SEE he's bound to hab
a word wild you eff he has to come to de
ballroom to say it. l tuck him to de
sittin room Gaze nobody's in dar. Send
him bout his business, little missy"
L hardly remember how my trembling
feet carried me to the room. The man
came forward with hateful smirk and
outstretched hand, which / did not no.
tice.
This is an unwarrantable intrusion,
sir" l said, trying to look stately. -
sent a message to you by your cousin,
which ought to have sufiiced any gen.
tlcman. "
He laughed disagreeably. "Oh, when
young ladies write lOve-letters to gentle
men they can't expect to 60 scot-free
at their word. Come, now, don't put
on airs. L declare, love you just as
much
You scoundrel, cried Harry voice
from the inner door, and / saw him
make rush for the man and strike him
to the floor. / saw no more, for utter
ing scream after scream / rushed out,
and tainted at the foot of the stairs.
was very i'll after this, so i'll that it
was weeks before / heard all that took
place. My poor, impetuous Harry had
beaten the man so severely that it was
long time before he could crawl
about, and then he brought against my
brother an action for assault and bat
terry. But that was nothing to the no.
toriety given to the whole matter, and
the humiliation l have brought upon
those who are dearest and nearest to
me.-Narie b. Williams, in Youths
Companion.
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an umbrella home, and I've got to be
paid in advance"
"But / haven't got any money" said
the ghost.
Cant help that" said the boy.
.sYou give me fifty cents; or else take
your umbrella back again. We don't
do any work in our Office for NOTHING. -
Well, the end of it all was that the
ghost left the umbrella with the bow.
and the next night he came back with
the money, though where he got it no
body will ever know. The boy kept the
money, and threw the umbrella away.
for he was a real bad boy, and made
believe that he was going to find the
owner; and the ghost was never seen
again.
But haven't told about the trouble
with Aunt Eliza yet. The day she
came to our house mother bought a
lot of live crabs from a man, and put
them in a pail in the kitchen. Tom
McGinnis was spending the day with
me, and l said to him what fun il would
be to have crab races, such as we used
to have down at the sea shore last sum-
mer. He said wouldn't it, though; so
each of us took three crabs, and went
upstairs into the spare bedroom, where
we could be sure of not being disturbed.
We had splendid time with the crabs,
and / won more than half the races.
All of sudden / heard mother calling
me, and Tom and l just dropped the
crabs into an empty work-basket, and
pushed it under the sofa out of SIGHT.
and then went downstairs.
II INF 20 4
them back to the kitchen again, but
forgot all about it, for Aunt Eliza came
just after mother had called me, and
everybody was busy talking to her. OF
course she was put into the spare room,
and as she was very tired, she said she'd
lie down on the sofa until dinner time
and take her hair down.
About an hour afterward we heard
the most dreadful cries from Aunt
Eliza's room, and everybody rushed up
stairs, because they thought she must
certainly be dead. Mother opened the
door, and we all went in. Aunt Eliza
was standing in the middle of the floor,
and jumping up. and down. and CRYING
and shrieking at the top of her voice.
One crab was hanging on to one of her
fingers, and he pinched just as hard rs
he could pinch, and there were two
more hanging on to the ends of her
hair. You see, the crabs had got out of
the work-basket, and some of them had
climbed up the sofa while Aunt Eliza
was asleep.
OF course they said it was all my fault,
and perhaps it was. But I'd like to
know if it's fair thing to leave crabs
where they can tempt fellow, and
then to be severe with him when he
forgets to put them back However, l
forgive everybody, especially Aunt
Eliza, who really doesn't mean any
harm Jimmy BrOsCn," in Harpcr;s
Young People.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-07-13
OLD CUSTOMS.

Ola customs! Well. our children say
We yet along without them.
hut YOU and ]. dear. In our day
Had other thoughts about them.
Tho dear old habits Of tho past
can not choose hut love them.
And sigh 90 think the world at last
lias SCARED 80 far above them.
Ne had not. IN the years gone by.
The grace that art discovers.
our lives were culmcr; you and
We're very simple lovers
And when. our daily duties DER,
We straycd beside the rushcs,
The only gems you ever wore
We're bright and blooming bushes.
our rustic wav was slow. but yet
Some good there was about IL,
And many ills we now regret
old habits would have routed.
know our children stu can sec
Tho Fifth COMMANDMENT beauty
May they obey. as once did We.
From love and not from duty.
The world to-day n far too high
In wisdom 90 confess them.
But well we know. dear you and 7,
For what we have 90 bless them.
Though love was In tho heart of each,
trcmhlCd "a accOst you.
Had you required polished speech,
think should have lost you.
No doubt our minds arc slow 90 gauge
The ways we are not needing:
hut here upon our mCmOry's pago
Il very simple reading.
10 says the forms we still hold fast
We're wise NJ well as pleasant
Tho good old customs OF the past
Have lcavencd all the present.
Edmund LDOHs, fu ". Y.
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"I don't think it would be right for
Charley Drake to pay the whole for the
glass" said another boy, rising in his
seat 'All of us who played ball then
should pay something, because we were
all playing the same as he was. TN pay
my part
''And l."
"And l." w
A thrill of pleasure seemed to run
through the whole school at this display
OF honesty and of right feeling by the
boys. The money was brought the
next day, and the lesson will not be
forgotten either by teacher or pupils
Exchange
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-07-13
An Unknown Industry Which Awaits
Some WOman's Skill.

There is real need of new branch OF
industry for woman. in which a needle.
thimble, scissors and def fingers Iced
be the only stock i'm trade, and which
would bring in good many cents, if
not dollars, and we all know that if we
take care of the cents the dollars will
take care of themselves. The branch
in question is mending, which includes
sewing up of rents, putting on of patch
rs. darning laces and hosiery, and re-
pairing all kinds of wearing apparel
with neatncss and dispatch. There is
no such industry. The thousands of
young men who are away from home
are compelled to sit up nights in their
solitary hall bedrooms, and
With fingers weary and worn,
With eyelids heavy and rcd,'
sew on patch, that is a curiosity when
it IS done. when for few cents they
could have it look like an ornament II
only applied skillfully. There is never
any advertisement like this in the daily
papers,:
WANTED-A woman to mend.
because it would be useless expendi.
ture OF words-no woman would apply;
and yet dozens of them who are to-day
sitting in impoverished idleness could
be supplied with steady work. Let them
try card:
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-07-13
Our Young Readers.
KISSING /. Away. THE DIMpLEs.

was going to kiss the dimples from out the
little cheeks,
Where they ripple and they dance every time
she laughs or speaks
She said shouldn't do it; but held her fast
and tight,
And kissed and kissed the rosy little face with
all my might
And then pair of eyes twinkled very gravely
out
And pair of little lips gathered up a doleful
pout,
With little dropping corners-no wonder, you
will say,
To see such bonny, bonny dimples stolen all
away.
thought should have kept them for just
little while;
But little teeth were soon peeping through a
little smile,
And then laugh like sunshine was over all
her face,
And every dimple had stolen was back again
in place.
Sidney DdTc in NJ Y Independsnf
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-07-13

"A Pittsburgh jury gave a verdict
against railroad company for the
amount of money stolen from passen-
ger in sleeping car. "Since the de-
fendant," said the Judge, :" sold ticket
for two dollars in addition TO the regu-
lar rates of passage, and offered the IA
cilities for sleeping as an inducement to
pay the extra money, it bound itself to
protect its patrons while they were
asleep and for the time being helpless"
= Pittsburgh Post
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-07-13

"A Marylander shot colored man
IN a tree on bis farm the other day, and
when the negro came tumbling down,
apparently mortally wounded, asserted
that ne had thought he was crow.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-07-13

The widow of General George H.
Thomas proposes making Washington
her home, aud buying or building q
house there,
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-10-23
MUST BE CLOSED OUT AT On

Miss Mile GOe applied to the directors
several months ago and asked that she be
employed to teach the school during the
winter. The school authorities demurred
and told her that she must wait as the pa
irons Of the school might be DESTROYS of
having cOlored teacher The parents
were given 10 understand that the directors
would be controlled by the wishes Of the
majority Of the colored people in the dis.
riot. Matters continued in this way until
within short time Of the day set for the
opening of the school and no teacher has
been engaged, and Miss Mile Goe was
informed that she could have the school.
She accepted and the directors
accordingly made contract with her to
conduct the winter term CT the school. All
at once some Of the parents discovered that
they wanted another teacher and made the
most strenuous efforts to Dust the teacher
but without avail Thursday of last week
some of the scholars became very unruly
and eight Of them, Peter Smith, Henry
Williams, Isaiah Thompson, Matt Hays
Grant johnson, Frank Stratton, Benjamin
Speed and Thomas Colman, begas with
clubs and sticks to break the panes Of
glass in the windows, and to use all sorts
of profane language toward the teacher,
who in turn complained to the directors
who had the boys arrested. The boys we're
brought to this city and arranged before
Squire Read, who fined them as follows:
Peter Smith, Henry Williams, Isaiah
Thompson and Matt Hays 81 and costs
amounting to 1885 each; and Grant John
son, Frank Stratton, Benjamin Speed and
Thomas Colman, $? and costs amounting
to $ll.55 each"
The white citizens Of Pulaski county
who, doubtless just as, here are compelled
to bear much the greater share of the bur
den of maintaining the colored schools,
seem to have found one way in which to
help themselves in cases of this kind and
have offered lesson by which we down
here might profit,
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-10-23
AtAnnraised yalue. Cheap Goods.

We shall offer on Monday and until
closed out all the remaining stock OF the
New York store which consists OF Dry
Goods, Notions, Boots and Shoes, Ribbons
and many other goods at the appraised value
of COO. on the dollar taken by us from the
late firm of c. 0. Patier & Co. This stock
consist of over twenty thousand dolla:s
worth of goods.
BARGAINS
This will enable the trade to supply
themselves from such goods as are left OF
this great stock, very cheap. Give them a
rare chance to buy at one.half their cost
Call and see the bargains and goods offered.
We are now receiving our fall stock all
fresh new goods bought from first hands,
which we offer TO the trade at the lowest
possible prices, consisting of Dry Goods
Notions, Boots and Shoes, Staple and Fancy
Groceries, in fact all goods needed for iAml-
Iy USE
To make room for our new goods we
must close out the former stock of the old
firm of c. o. Patier & Co, Call and buy
these goods at ne.half their value.
1Ol4.10d New YORK STORE CO.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-10-23

The following concerning Judge D. M.
Browning taken from the Chicago Times of
recent date will prove of interest to many:
Daniel M. Browning, the grand master, is
circuit judge of the first judicial circuit
and resides at Benton, where he was born
and raised. He is only 80 years Of age,
and has been on the bench ever since he
was 90 He was elected judge of the
franklin county in November, 1869, and
again in 1873 and 1877, and resigned as
county Judge upon bis election in 1879 to
be circuit judge. In conversation with a
reporter for the Times last night Judge
Browning said; The appontive officers
and the standing committees have in the
msin given general satisfaction, and there
fore there will be but few changes The
appointment Of those officers and commit.
tees is to be announced today. The dis.
tict deputies will be appointed in about
ten days"
1t seems that the colored people of
Pulaski county have taken the same notion
that prevails, to some extent, in this city
among the same class. 1t appears that, in
their unreasoning zeal for exercising what
they, in their ignorance deem the high
privileges Of free born American citizens,
they have concluded to assume control of
the public schools disregarding the al
thority both of the school board and of the
teachers OF the school aud, infusing the
same ugly sentiments into the untutored
minds Of their young ones, have caused
them to let out their natural cussedness in
various acts Of riotious violence against the
teacher and the school, The Pulaski Pa
triot of Saturday gives the following brief
account Of the disgraceful affair:
"Tnere has been considerable trouble ex-
pcrcnced by the directors of the America
district with the colored school, some of the
parents obiocting to the teachers that the
board had hired to teach the school during
the coming winter. AS we understand it,
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-10-23
New type at TIE BULLETIN Office.

New type at The BULLETIN Office
Lovers of fine music will have a rare
treat on Thursday night.
job printing at THE BULLETIN office.
Oysters stewed, and oysters raw, with
pickles, slaw, etc. for 25 cents on Thursday
night.
A No. / Base-burners for soft coal
cheap, at A. Halleys. lOt
Go to the grand concert at the Metho-
dist church Thursday night-l0 cents ad-
mission.
Go and see the gold watch and chain
At Te,chman's. tu&su
The river was stationary here yesterday
at nine feet eleven inches At points
above it was falling.
New presses at THE BULLETIN office.
Frost for the first time this season was
an interesting topic of conversation here for
while Sunday morning.
Bargains In Heating and Cooking
Stoves, Stove boards, Coal. hods, &c, at A.
Halleys. lot
Take your wives and sweet hearts to
the first oyster supper of the season on
Thursday night at the Methodist church.
900 Heating Stoves and many other
things in that line at greatly reduced
prices, al A. Halley's. lot
-FoR SALE-Portable sawmill with or
without power. Mill extra heavy and 4Ott
carriage bargain. Address, c. G. l.. d Coz
| 18th and Gratiot SITS, st. Louis, Mo.
Go and sco the gold watch and chain
at Teichman's. Tu g. gu
The Harrisburg Chronicle Sentinel
suggests Hon. F. M. Youngblood as a can
didate for congress on the Democratic
ticket, with firm conviction that he is the
strongest man the Democrats could put up.
WANTED Smart active boy to run
brands, put up mails, run press and make
himself generally useful around THE Bull
LETIN office. Apply to-day.
The new comet will be visible to the
naked eye during the month of December
If the body has lost none of its brillancy
in its long journey, we may expect TO see
the winter skies decorated with grand
object,
In its last annual report the St. Louis
and Cairo railroad shows a capital stock of
$85OO,O00; bonded debt 100000. The
road is 152 miles long and has 1917 miles
of side track. The rolling stock includes
90 engines, IA passenger and $50 freight