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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-12-28
WIT AND WISDOM.

The man who had both hands
caught in hay-cutter knows what it is
to meet disaster or every hand.
If we had no defects we should not
take so much pleasure in discovering
those of others.-LG Rochefoucauld.
"A medical writer says that girls are
so constructed that they can not Jump.
just make one of them an offer of mar
riage and see.
"A Toronto man waited until he was
eighty-three years cid before he got
married. That's like running three
miles to get good start for a fourteen.
inch jump.
AT the banquet: Fellow-I rishmen,
l am glad to be with you here. hope
we shall meet often. Gentlemen, you
may nave supposed it, but am myself
something of an freshman. have cork
leg. - Chicago Tins.
Why is the tramp like a servant
girl? Because he lives out by the month.
Any minstrel show or circus desiring
jokes like the above should send in theii
orders Immediately. as we are just clear.
ing out our fall stock at great sacri
flee. Detroit Post
-"No, Joseph, the Steam Heating
Company was not formed for the pur-
pose OF heating steam. Steam is heated
before it is made that is to say, when
you heat the steam-no, when Won make
the steam novel; confound you,
don you know steam is hot any way,
and doesn't have to be heated by com
panyP' Scientific american.
A short time ago at a school in the
North of England during a lesson on
the animal kingdom the teacher put the
following quest on: Can any boy name
to M an animal of the order ind eptata;
that is, front tooth, toothless ami.
MALI A boy, whose face beamed with
pleasure at the prospect of good mark,
replied: II cam" "Well, what is the
animal?' my grandmother replied
the boy in great glee.
-" Yes" said Sylvia, Hats the
meanest girl ever did see! She knows
l think young Mr.. Tawmus is Just toe
lovely for anything, and / think she's OF
the same opinion. Well, was leaning
out of the window the other day, and
MIR. Tawmus passed, and l smiled.
Would you believe il? Hat had q set OF
her ANTS false teeth in her pocket, ana
just as l smiled, she dropped them out
OF the window. Mr.. Tawmus didn't see
her. as she was behind me. and what
could he have thought" -BOSton Post.
"A rare relic: What's thisp" in.
quired an Austin sporting man who was
rumaging among the pistols and amuni.
ton in Petmeckys gun-store. THAT"
said Petmecky, is real rarity. 1t is
a pistol that once belong to the En-
peror Charlemagne." You don't saw
so!" calculated the sporting man.
"Why, man, in the time of Charlie
magne there were no pistols well,
of course" replied Petmecky, THAT'S
Just the reason it is such rarity. II
Charlie had kept..a gun-shop full of Der.
ringers everybody would have had one"
--Terds Siffsn1s.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-12-28
THE WORLDS DOfNGS
A Summary OF the Daily News.
PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS.

The session OF the Senate on the 18th
was principally devoted 20 the discussion of
the proposed new rules. Mr.. Van Wycks
resolution calling on the Secretary of the In
terror Tor information relative TO the transfer
OF the Texas Pacific land grants TO the South.
crn Pacific Road, was adopted resolution
Dy the same senator calling for information
OF certain expenditures OF the Department of
Justice IN connection with the star-route trial,
passed The House was not in session.
The Senate was not in session the I4th.
The proceedings in the House were unim-
portant.
In the senate. the 18th, a message was
received from the House announcing the
death OF Mr.. Haskell. OF Kansas. IL was i'm.
mediately taken up, and after appropriate re-
marks by Mr.. Ingalls,, and on his motion, the
President OF the senate appointed Senators
Plumb, Cockreil and Dawes as a committee to
attend the obscques OF tho deceased Repre-
sentative. The Senate then adjourned. :. In
the House Mr. Anderson announced the death
OF MS colleague and offered the customary
resolutions. when the House adjourned.
IN the Senate, on the 18th, Mr. Harrison
introduced n bill providing civil government
for Alaska. Mr.. Van wycke offered a resolu-
ton, which was agreed to, calling on the Sec
rotary OF the Interior for copies OF the mort
gages given by the Texas Pacific Railway
COMPANY 5{ on lands granted by the act of March
-, 1911 also To Inform the senate OF the names
OF railroad corporations claiming lands not
earned during the lifetime of the grant,
Wgcther with the number of acres claimed by
etcn. At the expiration OF the morning hour
the senate proceeded to the election of off,
GERS. General Arson McCOok was chosen
secretary. and the balance OF the Republican
nominees elected. The senate went into ex-
ccutive session. and when the doors wore rs-
opened went into Committee of the Whole for
the purpose OF continuing the consideration
vt thc new rules. Pending consideration of
inc rules the scgate adjourned. The House
was not In session.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-12-28
POLITICAL AND Personal.

AMONG the leading Democratic members
Of Congress the opinion prevails that the
National Democratic Convention will be
held in the West. Chicago is working qui-
city but diligently 20 secure II and thus
monopolize the National Conventions next
year. The members Of the National COM
mittee for Iowa and Minnesota have de-
clared for Chicago. Louisville is also anx-
ious 10 secure the convention, and has ac-
tive friends.
PATRICK O'DONNELL, the slayer Of Carey,
was hanged in London at eight o'clock on
the morning Of the 18th.
REPRESENTATIVE ID. c. HASKELL, who
died in Washington recently, was born in
Springfield, VT, on the 23d Of March, 1912.
His father settled in Massachusetts soon
after Dudley was born. In 1855, when thir-
teen years of age, he moved with the family
to Kansas, locating at Lawrence, when,
although boy, he became identified with
the early pioneer struggles. In 1859 the gold
excitement took him To Pixies Peak (Col-
orado) where he remained until the break.
ing out OF the war I'm 1861, when he re-
turned 10 Kansas and entered the Quarter
masters service Of the army in the trans
portation department. At the close Of the
war he went East and completed his edu-
cation at Yale College; after which he re-
turned to Kansas and engaged in the boot
and shoe trade at Lawrence. He subse-
quently served several terms I'm the Legis-
lature, and In 1876 was chosen Speaker of
the Kansas House Of Representatives. In the
fall Of 1876 he was elected To Congress
from the Second District of Kansas, and
was successfully elected at each election,
and had entered upou his fourth term at
the time Of his death. Mr.. Haskell had
made special study of tariff questions,
and was recognized by his party as one of
the strongest debaters on tariff topics on
the Republican side of the House.
AT the late meeting Of the Republican
National Committee n resolution was
adopted directing the appointment of a
committee OF seven, of which Chairman
Sabin and Secretary Martin were to he
members, tomake all arrangements for the
Chicago Convention. Senator Sabin re-
Gently appointed the following additional
members; John G. New, of Indiana
William G. Cooper, of Ohio; c. L. Magee,
OF Pennsylvania; John A. Logan, of IL
linois; Powell Clayton, of Arkansas. l..
J. Gage, of Chicago, was appointed Treas
urCr of the Committee.
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The just completed enumeratiod
gives Ohio 1.043,340 schoolable chill
dren. - Cleveland Leader. Z
"A matron in Byron, Tex, suggests
that bevy Of pretty girls be seated
near the door to draw the boys to
church.
The Unitarian Church of Clinton.
Mass, will use water instead Of wine At
communion service hereafter BosfOss
Transcript.
The Legislature of Alabama has APP
propriated $4,000 for an extension Of
the State University, which can not &C .
comodate the students applying for adj
mission.
The total number now enrolled in
the Chautauqua School of Theology is
as follows: Hebrew. SO; Greek, i32;
doctrinal theology, IS; practical theol-
ogy, ll6;> historical theology, 25.--
buffalo Express.
The American Bible Revision Com
mittee held its annual meeting q few
days since in the Bible House in New
York. Both the Old and the New
Testament companies were present.
Ihe Old Testament Company has COM
pleted the third revision of the minor
prophets. and the notes have been for
warded to England. DIR. Philip Schaff.
the President of the committee. SAYS
that he expects that the new revision OF
the Old Testament will be published
next spring. Y. Tribune.
The public schools of South Caro-
lima instructed last year 74.l white
and 9S,93S colored pupils. This is an
increase of 81 21 over the large en-.
rollment for the preceding year. From
a comparison of this enrolment with
the data furnished by the census Of
1880, it appears that over 20 per cent.
of the white children and nearly IS per
cent. of the colored children of the
State between the ages of six and Is
years were in attendance on the public
schools.
The Michigan Seventh DAY Advent
lists have resolved to raise $75,0 900 for
college purposes. $25, 900 to be devoted
to the erection of suitable buildings for
clearinghouse and manual labor pur-
poses, and $4,000 to the establishment
of fund for the education of those who
wish to fit themselves for the ministry
but have not the necessary means. The
sale of books, tracts, ETC., made by the
publishing association the past year
amounted to $50, 1902, an increase of
over $4,000 upon the sales Of previous
ar'.-DetroI Post.
The Bishop of Liverpool. who re-
Gently preached in Presbyterian
Church, to the scandal of the Roman
izing section of his own church. has
said what will again incur their wrath.
full displeasure. Speaking the other
day he remarked that whether men
wanted to give up Episcopacy and adopt
some modified form of Presbyterianism
he could not say, but unless Bishops
were treated with little more fairness
and consideration they would one day
find that no right-minded and high.
souled man who loved direct spiritual
work and hated wasting precious time
in strife would consent to be a Bishop
at all.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-12-28
FACTS AND FIGURES.

n. Z. Beckwith, of New London,
Conn.,, has occupied the same store fifty
years.
The wealth of Massachusetts,, as
assessed for tax purposes, is 81, 49,
297 ,061, an increase of $47,O00,0O0 on
the valuation of 1S82.-BostOn Post.
The total assessed valuation of the
Territory of Dakota is 500, 154, 609.
against S47, 200, coo in-1SS2. This gives
an increase Of over $22, 600 in one
year.
The water-supply of Brooklyn is
increased 10,0O0,O00 gallons day by
systems of driven wells in the suburbs.
sunk to a depth of forty-seven to nine
ty-six feet.-Brooklyn Eagle.
The four buildings for the Worlds
Industrial and Cotton Exposition in
New Orleans are to have 1000, 600
square feet OF exhibition space, and are
to cost in the aggregate only 1886. coo.
IN. o. Picayune.
"A syndicate of New York capital
lists has purchased the franchises and
completed portion of the Kansas City
g. Southern Railroad. This road starts
from a point near Blue River on the
Chicago & Alton, about four miles
from Kansas City. and runs directly
south through the Missouri coal-felds
to the Arkansas River. = Chicago Jour
nal
"A recently published statement of
the yield of pre- cious. metal shows that
in 1882 the output of gold in the entire
world was valued at $118, ZOO, 900, and
of silver at $94, 100000. 1t is fact
not generally understood that Russia is
the third greatest producer of gold, the
yield of that country being $50, 200, 600;
only S21. 10000 less than the United
States, and 100000 less than Austria
lia.-N y Herald.
Few people reflect upon the fact
that the Indians arc the richest land
holders in the United States. We have
237, 066 of them, exclusive of the Alaska
Indians, holding 151, 1897. 76S acres OF
land. Some of the tribes own 5000
acres per Indian. The average is about
one square mile to each Indian, while q
white man is not allowed to pre-empt
more than 100 acres of the public land.
Chicago Times.
The sale of animals of menagerie
at Armenia, n. Y, recently drew
large number of curiosity-hunters, and
the bidding was spirited. A white deer
brought $4S, and black one only S25.
A cinnamon bear was sold for so, and
an Abyssinian ipex brought $3.50. A
pair of striped hyenas were sold for
$40, and a pra, RE wolf for S.. A sacred
COW was struck off for S25, and zebra
brought $l05. Three monkeys were
sold for $50, a Rocky Mountain badger.
$40; two Minnesota coons, S5; white
crane from Iowa, S14; two white cock
atoos, $40; a Rose cockatoo, So;
green parrot, 50; IN African leopard.
SlOO; four large badgers, S2S; two
prairie dogs, S3,forty Guinea pigs, $500;
and an African boa snake, S76.-Iroy
Times.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-12-28
SkObeleTs Successor.

General Gourko, it is true, is moi
Skobeleff. Skobeleffs are born some.
times but once in century. 1t is moi
given to the rigid disciplinarian, mod
est, retiring, reserved, who now governs
Russian Poland, TO excite the intense
enthusiasm, the half idolatrous worship,
with which Skobeleffwas sometimes re-
garded. But as soldier his record is
not less brilliant than that of the dead
hero OF the Russian army, and at the
close OF the great campaign in the
Balkans great English statesman ex-
pressed the opinion that the laurels OF
the war rested with General Gourko.
He was then compared to General
Sheridan in the American civil war, but
in manner he is more like the taciturn
Grant. Silent, reserved and modest,
General Gourko never made friends
like Skobeleff, who conquered hearts
like fortresses, by storm. During the
triumphant advance acress the Balkans
up to the walls of Constantinople-as
in fact, throughout the whole of the
war-General Gourko fought ever in the
van, nor is his name associated with a
single defeat. After the war he disap.
peared from the public gaze. When
the crimes of the Nihiiists led the
late Emperor to place st. Peters
burg under the iron grasp of
military commander, he turned to
General Gourko, whose unflinching will,
intlexible severity and brilliant achieve
ments in combating foreign foe
marked him out for the post He be-
came Governor-General of the capital;
but it was an uncongenial post, and he
gave it up as soon as he felt that in the
execution of his duty he was thwarted
by high-placed red-tapists, among 9TH
ers by one of the Court officials, who
would not allow the military Governor
General OF the city to isit and superin-
tend the palaces. Subsequent events
afforded only too sad a iustificat' ON OF
General Gourko's demands. Although
intlexibly severe both to himself and TO
others, General Gourko was kindness it.
self when he believed the innocent were
suffering injustice. The trouble which
he undertook In order to secure the re.
lease OF ayoung Conservatorium student
who was arrested by mistake as a Nihi-
list was in striking contrast to the ruth
less severity with which he punished
the guilty. In private life no one can
be kinder or more indulgent. / should
not be surprised if learned that he
adores and fears his wife exactly as II
he were an English husband. - ait- Mall
Gazette. ~
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-12-28
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.

BILLS were introduced in the Senate on
the 10Th. A bill was passed adopting the
new standard time for the District of
Columbia, when the Senate resumed con.
sideration of the rules. In the House a
resolution was adopted for holiday recess
from December "a to January g. After de.
bate upon unimportant questions the House
adjourned.
SEVERAL weeks ago the Commissioner of
the Internal Revenue Bureau turned over
to the Fifth Auditor about forty-eight thou
sand claims for rebate on tobacco. These
claims represent that number Of retail to-
bacco dealers who claim a rebate, and il is
the desire Of Fifth Auditor Alexander 10
get them settled and ready for the First
Comptroller before an appropriation is
passed by Congress.
The President has sent to the Senate a
communication from the Commissioner of
Indian Affairs, setting forth the necessity
OF deficiency appropriation Of $4,000 for
supplies for the remainder of the fiscal
year for the Crow Indians. The Commits
sioner stated that there were now at the
Crow Agency 3,228 Indians, who require
subsistence to keep them from starving.
MRS ANN GOODMAN was found dead in
her bed at Dubuque. Iowa, the other morn.
ing-the result of exposure and the want of
proper treatment. She was the daughter
Of an Irish peer, and her husband claims to
be the son of an Irish nobleman, and. IL il
said, was worth about $4,000 when mar.
ried, six years ago. But misfortune, as
sisted by drink. overlook him, and he and
his wife and little daughter were reduced
to beggary.
JAMES WEAVER, a laborer aged sixty
years, employed at Hussey, Howe a
Co.'s steel works, at Pittsburgh, Pa, while
recently passing through the machinery
department was caught in the betting and
drawn into the machinery. Before he
could be extricated he was torn limb from
limb and portions of his body scattered a
distance Of one hundred feet
A VERY destructive wind storm swept
over Laramie County, Colo, recently. The
damage at Fort Collins was fully S10,000.
Mrs Fred Schwartz and her child were
buried beneath q falling building and
probably fatally burt.
WHILE Walter Bratt, Of Porter County.
Mich, was drunk and abusing his wife.
recently, he was killed by Dayton CLARK.
bis wife's brother.
A RECENT fire In the three warehouses Of
the Baltimore (Md.) Warehouse Company
destroyed one warehouse and badly
scorched the other two. About two thou
sand bales Of cotton and other goods were
DESTROYED. Loss. $4,000; fully insured.
Three hremsn were severely injured
PRANK JAMES, who was recently taken
to Gallatin, No, was subsequently, turned
over 70 his Jackson County suretiss.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-12-28
Shocking Fate of Colorado Miner.

GEORGETOWN, COL, Dec. Is.
The discovery was made this morning OF
the horrible death of John Z. Emerson, q
miner OH Douglass Mountain. The sur.
roundings of the dead body, when found
showed that the man had had the lower
portion of his body buried by a cave in the
tunnel he was drifting, and that, after re
naming hopelessly pinioned for several
hours by the rocks, his legs being horribly
maugled, he had taken jack-knife from
his pocket and cut his throat to end hi.
misery. Emerson was an old mirer in this
section, and universally known. He LEFT
town on Saturday morning to work alone
in his tunnel. As he did not return as usua
a searching party went to the mine te
/. look for him. Within fifteen feet of the
entrance to the tunnel Emerson was seer
standing. It was dark in tie tunnel anc
the searchers did not notice the man was
dead until they touched him. They ther
saw that his throat was cut, and supposine
that murder had been committed has
tened for the Coroner. This official founc
that Emerson came to his death as de
scribed. The body was covered to the waist
with loose dirt and rocks, which held him
i'm his upright position. The knife witt
which lie cut his throat must have been in
his breast pocket. The cave in the TUNE
crushed his legs and pinioned him beyonC
hope of escape by his own exertion. How
long he remained in that position before
putting an end to his own sufferings is moi
known, but 1t must have been alter he hac
exhausted his energy in trying to make
some one hear him. The knife was still
clutched in his fingers. The number of ugly
must have been in taking his lile with the
dull knife.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-12-28

SEVERAL weeks ago the divorced wife
ofcx-Senator Christiancy went TO Brook
lyn. n. Y. To- visit friends. She con-
ccalcd her identity under the name Of
Miss Lizzie Lungebec. There was no
sleeping room for her In the house of her
friends 50 she lodged at DIR. Dupree's.
next door About six weeks aftcrward
the doctor. who became convinced that
his lodgcr was n victim Of the choral
habit made the discovery that she was
the wife 1T the ex-senator. Aweck later
she began to show symptoms of insanity.
a consultation Of physicians was called.
aud declared she was in a dying condi-
ton from mental and physical prostra-
ton. Her parents were sent for, but ar
rived too late 20 see her alive.
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A New Idea in Dramatic Construction.

Boucicault tells good story which
has never yet appeared in print. The
following incident occurred at jackson
vile, Fla, last spring, and the clever
actor-dramatists says it suggested an en-
tirely new idea in dramatic construc-
ton, which he proposes to avail himself
OF some day. The curtain had Just
gone down on the third act of The
Colleen Bawn." when tall, professor
like individual advanced TO the front Of
one OF the boxes, and propoupded the
following unlooked-for conundrum to
the audience:
ladies and gentlemen. why is Il
that Shakespeare is the only real drama
fist the world ever producedP'
AS nobody replied, the tall man went
on earnestly:
lis it because of his marvellous
knowledge of human nature, or his
wonderful command of language and
expressionP Not nc all. Other writer's
have equaled him in these respects, but
the immortal bard is the only dramatist
who recognized the evident fact that in
real life vice is not punished and virtue
Is not rewarded, as the sickly, senti-
mental playwrights of to-day would
have us believe. There is no last act
make.np-ali NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
RED business in his plays. Look ct
othello! That's the way matters wind
up IN real life. Look at Romeo and
Juliet. No happy denouement' about
them: My advice to the public. there
lore, is to never sit play out. Always
leave before the last act, Just when TIE
trouble, villainy and heart-breakinr i
~ It's worst. and you will get the real
realism and naturalness.''
Go ont Go ON" said the audience.
which seemed 70 be profoundly inn.
pressed with this reasoning. = =,
II have nothing more 70 SAYS CON.
tinued the critics putting on his hat.
except that the curtain win be rupg
adjourn" & :,
And BoucicauIt says that when the,
curtain went up he was dunbfouuded
70 observe that there was not ( so,,j
left IN the house. = Dlryick Dod, ~ Ssn
FrsScisco Rbsk
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-12-28

IT is estimated that the printing of
bills introduced into the House of Rep
rcscntatives the first two days that bills
were introduced. under the call of States.
will amount to fully ten thousand dol
lars. Among the bills presented was one
by MIR. Singleton. Of Mississippi, to cur
tail this sort of Congressional announce
ment by limiting printed bills to those
that come from committee. Whether
this will he adopted Is a matter of doubt.
rs in the opinion Of many members most
bills reported are not so important as
many suppressed.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-12-28

Mus. MARY PENTfELD and her daneh-
ter, wealthy ladies Of Rockford. Ills.
while travelling in Europe recently. Wis
tied Berlin. They did as the Americans
do, not as the Romans. They went
about the city, taking carriage when
ever they felt so inclined; went into
shops, bought what they wanted and
spent their money as fancy dictated.
They had been doing this three or four
days when they discovered that they
were being watched. One morning,
while enjoying themselves rs usual they
were arrested-the charge was "Nihil-
ism"-and taken before a police tribu-
nal. They had but little difficulty in
getting free, aud when they told who
they really were, the officials apologized
very humbly for the inconvenience to
which they had been put