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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-05-30
Hal Something Left.


Two or thres years ago one of the ap4
preparations in the River and Harbor
bill was the sum of SIS, 200 for improv-
ing Goose Crack: 'Habana. The Gov
eminent engineer for that district sue
ceeded in finding the said creek tn
other day, after search Of twenty-six
months. He found n rivulet three
miles long, and six inches deep and
three feet wide, and on the-banks he
found a solitary settler.
1.-The Government has appropriated
$4,000 To- improve this creek OBJ
served the engineer.
Il know it, and Pve been waiting, I"
was the reply.
Il don't see what improvement is
needed or can be made"
Reckon not. being as you are q
stranger, but that ere cash was ap-
propriated to shovel down this ere bank
so that my old mule could git down to
water without breaking his Internal
back
The Improvement of Goose Greek
was made at q cost of three dollars.
and the engineer viii either have to
tarn the current up stream OF send the
rest OF the appropriation back to the
Treasury. Val Street Nescs,
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-05-30
a CHAIN OF SONGS,


This r. the soug % che boes 49,
Open wide the sweet incloss
OF your bosom rcd 20 mo;
would come 10 dwell with theo.
Al tho sweets Of undiscovered field,
-. NJ the wealth the gardens yield
Al thosc shall tho Euordon be
For my 'oVe' sings the RESTLESS boo.
This Ia the song OF the rose,
You arc nothing 60 me. o bee.
For nc night there's a wind that blows
In the dark he kisses me,
And no flower the socrct knows.
q Wind, that wayvard darts
Thine arc they, 20 wear or loso,
No thou love me-" sings tho rose.
This IL the song OF tho wind:
Il love you not, wanton flower:
N kissed you. count Il sport;
There's young troo near your bower.
Fold me. SWEET " yonr swayiur arms;
Will praise your maiden charms
East and west, u you are kind Ell.
To your lover signs the wind.
This Is the song OF tho trce:
Nonght care fov wind that voos;>.
There's a lark that nics and sings.
And him for my love 1 choose: -
An. fain would clip his wingsl
braw pe,r. love. and build thee : nest
And safe shaiith dwelling bo." .
This IL the song OF the tree.
This Ia tho song Of the lark;
q" q tree, I regard thcc not:
Higher. higher, aspire
FOr long "a reach the spot
Where 4 sec yon ball of hro.
Glowing. flashing. flaming. burninR,
And my heart n madly yearning
just 20 DO tiny spark
or tho great sum-, sings the lark.
This u the song Of the sun:
30 children. with hcnrts ~ break,
AZ yC lic ON the world broad breast
can see you culver aud ache,
With longing that's never M rcst:
Only love that burns upward - living.
such love livcth on with the giving,
Though love Ia returu nc'cr b. won"
This i the song Of the sun.
-AIineite W. IA, o, TIE COHtincld.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-05-30
The Arhnins.


The arbutus Is flower OF Natures
giving. bred, rs 10 were. from stormy
skies and fed from the chill of ice and
snow. theirs Is nothing of the passion
ate beauty of the rose or the lily's regal
stateliness. No gay coloring Of green
house skill attracts VS. in these shy, I'M
cultured children Of woods aud fields.
Theirs is quite another and different
charm. Absolutely pure, as are the
glacier flowers of the upper Alps; OF
cOlorless waNcn white, or tinted with a
blushlike pink such as might have
graced some Puritan maiden's cheek in
by-gOnc days, this is the typical flower
OF austere and granite-groundcd Massa-
chusctts. Their day is brief one.
If arbutus is welcomed i'm town or
city. its home Is still i'm the country.
Hidden in quiet hollows, among shell
tering hills, or on deserted wood roads,
where the warm spring sunshine crecps
tardily I'm, unseen OF human ewes, il
most frequently and gladly grows.
I Nesting to the warm. earthy-smellinc
/ ground IL springs from, covered with
the sere, brown grasses of q dead win
ter, it lifts To the sun the smile of it,
white or pinken clusters in prophecy o.
the summer. IL never intrudes. In these
quiet hooks it waits always To be sought
/ Many n city sportsman, prepared &c
break the Sabbath laws with carefully
chosen rods, is ready TO forbear whip
| ping unoilsnding trout brooks with i'm
possible flies and bend over gray mos.
and little clusters, mindful, perhaps. ol
numerous promises to his expcctan
| lady friends. To our novice each stel
is a discovery and a surprise Treadins
/ gingcrlv, he stumbleS on q low-lyin9
/ half-hidden cluster. lie stoOps to picl
ID. Mindful OF feminine injunctions fol
long stems (which has nearly eNter
minated the flower in Onco plentiful
| spots) he pulls vigorously at the tougl
little vine When it is his he finds i
enriched with flower brads he never
dreamed OF. strung along ON this slen
der thread. He slows his prize, and OF
for the next. IL is a chance if no find.
himself alone. School children. how,
and girls, for the nonce prctcrnaturall,
quiet, are diligently working on tho
same errand rs himself At times h,
must dodge the enshrouding sun-bonue
OF mature damscl, whose basket somo
how ills rapidly, il she pick much Of
little. Under gray skies. in tho uncer
tain glory 1T April days" seldom fal
from sad solemn woods or the twitter
ing OF venturcsome birds, in silenc,
broken ouly by the sounds of awaken
ing Nature or the shouts Of an occasional
!" ind tho city's supply of arbutus !,
picked. -BostOn Transcript.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-05-30
Didn't Want Him to Live for Her Alone.

The other night, when one of our
prominent society young men called to
see his girl, he found her mother sting
quietly before the fire. After bidding
him good evening" she looked him
full in the face and said: .sDo YOU r, ally
love my daughter Emma?'' we'll
ah-my dear madame" stammcred the
youth, turning red In the face, 81 have
only been coming 10 see your daughter
two months, and really think you arc
q lit ie premature in propounding such
a question" That's where we differ.
young man. If the seed Of your SOW
ing now will bring forth matrimonial
harvest I'm willing to put up with you
awhile longer, but If you are coming
here three nights out of the week just
to pass away time you had better cease
coming at once Yes. Well, really.
madame" put in the youth, his voice
all in culver, ''since you press me so
closely for an answer must admit that
/ am very fond of Emma, and that live
for her alone" Yes" broke in the
anxious mamma; that's the trouble
with you young men; You waste too
much time living for a girl alone, when
you ought To be living with her. I'm
q plain, old-fashioned woman and al
ways say what think Now, I'm will
ng TO. give you month longer as a
trial, but II at the end of that time !
dom see q. spankin' fine new ring on
Emma's finger your visits to this house
viii be cutoff" And then 10 the great
relief Of the young mau she left th
room and sent in her daughter. who, of
course, was utterly unconscious OF III
good ticks" her mother had been put
ting in for her,-ChScG0o Tribune,
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-05-30
personal AND LITERARY.

= -Rev.-Wlliam- B. Afileo, described
on the bills asr.rhe Mark Twain OF
England, " is occurring on temperance.
Since he signed the, pledge, forty
one years ago, John b. Cough has de-
livered $500 addresses, of which 395
were in Boston. % 1As 's7-o1 g =.
The real name of Henry GreviIle.
the French novelist who has written
such striking scenes of Russian life, is
Mime. Alice Durand.
A daughter of Senator Dawes is
writing series of articles on 1.-The Mod
ern jew; His Present and Future, for
the american He0reu.
DIR. Tanner. the persevcring faster.
is fifty years old and hasn't a false
tooth in his head. He evidently knew
what he was about when he rested his
teeth for so many weeks.-Boston Her
aid. .r1- 1 tH.5
Mrs Greedy, wife of the Arctic ex-
plorer, has been living with her pa
rents a. San Diego. Cal, hut is now with
her brother in Washington, where she
proposes to remain till the relief expe-
dition returns.
Mrs. Elizabeth A. Thornton, Of
Hackensack, N. j., recently celebrated
her one hundredth birthday. She dis
tinctly recalls the visit of Lafayette to
Camden to lay the cornerstone OF tho
Dekalb monument.-M ]. Sun.
George Augustus Sala gets $4,000
year from the London illustrated
Ne,cS for writing page week and oc-
casional dramatic criticisms. He gets
another $4,000 from the DAILY Tcte-
graph for an editorial of column long
now and then. --
Washington was childlcss; Adams
favorite boy died by suicide; Monroe
had no son; Madison had no child; Van
Buren's son went to an asylum; Pierce's
only child was killed on the railway;
Polk had no child, and Johnson's only
son was self-destroycd. N. Y. Tribune.
Julian Hawthorne says that his
father, the novelist, wrote q number OF
tales having witches for their subject
matter. but they were burned by their
author 'because they embodied no
moral truth; they were mere magma
tive narratives. founded on history and
tradition, and had not the spiritual bal
ance and proportion of art"
Mrs. Ivy Grace Hughes. the re-
markedly beautiful woman who died re-
Gently in New York, was well-known in
Montreal. She lived in luxurious style
with her first husband, named Candle.
She was native of Melbourne, Austral-
in, and was received in the best society.
Hersecond husband, whom she left in
England, is an elderly man and very
wealthy. Her husband gave her an am.
pie income
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-05-30
The Old Printer.

And so the old printer was dead. OF
course, when a man has been sticking
type until his head is whittier than rag
paper, and he counts the years of his
work by the boxes in the lower case.
you expect him to turn his rule almost
any day. And yet theempty case at the
Old mans window looked terribly hone
some next day. A great many times
mat day the boys, who were unusually
ulet looked over at his case. and won-
dered if the Old man wouIdn'fI miss IA.
and the high stool. and his old stick and
the big solemn looking spectacles he
used to wear. Of course be d get along.
but for so many years those things had
been his. daily companions, the bows
wondered II the old man might not miss
them Just . little bit, at first. / think
indeed. that Slug Seven said: Wed
ought to OF sent them with him; we
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-05-30

George Jacob Holyoake, referring
to his wife, whose death occurred re.
Gently, says: ''In whatever l said or
wrote | had regard to what she would
think Whatever bought had refer
ence to her taste 1t seems for the
present as though that standard had
gone out of my mind. While she lived
the world seemed complete to me.
Even when so far away from her as New
Mexico the world seemed inhabited, be
cause she was in it.. There are those
still remaining in whom / shall feel in.
terest all my days, but the world no
longer feels inhabited to me."-Detrost
Post. ft
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-05-30
r. KiIkeIIy. Of AtbIone. Irel.r

r. .KiIkelly, of Athlone. Ireland.
whistled from a car window to his do,
as the train started. The dog chased
the train. and when it arrived al
Knockroghery, ten miles distant, the
,nimal was about, one thousand yars
behind, and reached his master befor,
the train started again
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-05-30

Most of the unbelievable let
tiers which reach Germany come from
the United States.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-05-30

IN hanging pictures, the brightest
colors should be put in the darkest
corners Of the room.
, 1884-09-18
Inc oloWmg bhis VIII be presented for
the consideration of the Council:

Inc Dnhh OIL OennlH Longo& 20. y. II.
Goodrich and E. M. Warren were allowed.
The othes were laid over.
Mr.. Fipnegan offered an amendment to
the ordinance in the matter Of auctioneers
licenses. The amendment was read by the
clerk to the effect that the words quarterly
be stricken out and the word annually in
serted in lieu thereof.
Mr.. Harrington, wanted to know who
drafted the amendment, aud then stated
that the charter required all licenses to be
granted quarterly.
Mr.. Warren stated that the amendment
was not proper, and asserted that when it
strike out the enactinR clause It kills the
original motion He did not want to object
but didn't understand Mr.. Finnegan' 3
motion rssd rn. a-sai m
The amendmentzto strike out the words
quarterly and insert the words annually
in lieu thereof in the ordinance relating to
the licenses Of auetioneers was then of
fered.
Mr.. Warren then moved to suspend the
rules Sc eu
Mr.. Harrington-bE wish to state that /
don't want TO ignore the wishes of any
class Of business men. don't think it is
wise to pass an ordinance of this eharac-
ter.
Mr.. Warren-We are l~egislating forthe
.o.-l-4--I s-lssl
, 1884-09-18
Sales at Chieago-CarsT Ordered--shIp
ments To-day. ua

-
A dispatch from Dr. Hopkins, Terri
torial Veterinary Surgeon, states that
thirty Of the Jackson herd, which are now
in Iowa, hageidied. and that the balance
will recover. He states that the disease
is undoubtedly Spanish fever. They
must have contracted the malady in tran
sit, as the cattle were healthy when ship
ped from here.
1t is claimed that the Jerrons's herd
contracted the fever in the stock yards at
Sidney, while feeding.
The following are among the cattle
sales which occurred at Chicago Septem-
Der Is:
Ogalalla Land & Cattle company s cars
of Texans, average weight l,O45, at "a. so;
8 cars of Texans. average weight l,045, at
$4.25; s cars of Texans, average weight
1850, at "a. so, and 7 cars of Texans,
average weight l,o45, at "a. 25.
Murphy, 20 cars of Texans, average
weight 1856, at $4s5.
Whitcomb, 7 cars of Americans. aver
age weight l,l65, at IS. 40, and . cars of
Americans, average weight $50, at 81. 30.
Clark, 5 cars of Texans, average weight
$50, at a. IS.
Mayhews, 4 ears of Texans, average
go, at "a. IS, and 8 cars of Texans, aver
age weight 925, at "a. 10 and AIS.
Cars ordered
September 20. Milwaukee & Wyoming
Investment company, I6 cars for Pine
Bluffs.
Stephens 4 Meiner. 0 cans for Pine
Bluffs.
September IS, Snow Cattle company,
20 cars for Pine Bluffs, and on September
26, 20 cars for Pine Bluffs.
Ed Page shipped 20 car loads for Chi
cago yesterday.
A. NJ. Jackson loads 40 cars to-day.
Searight brothers ship 26 cars to-day.
, 1884-09-18

The following entries Of public lands
were filed at the United States Land
Office Yesterday; .hoas
William Richardson, Carbon county,
Wyoming, southeast quarter ofthe north
west quarter. north half of southwest
quarter aud southeast half of the south
west quarter of section 20I, township 10,
range 50, containing 100 acres.
Francis Moreyr of Carbon county, Wyo-
ming, southwest quarter of section 327,
township 10, range so, containing 100
acres. E
Timber culture, Stephen H. Day, Car
bon county, lot in the southeast quarter
ofthe northeast quarter, and east half of
the southeast quarter in section "a, town
ship "a, range 81, containing 1915
acres. G.
il Presumption, Stephen H. Gay, lot 9
northeast quarter of southwest quarter
and west half of the southeast quarter Of
section 6, township "a, range 81.
John O'Brien, lots . and 3, section l,
township 50, range Is. b.
Charles Il. Burritt, northeast quarter
of the northwest quarter of section 2o,
the east half of the southwest quarter
and the northwest qua, ter of the south
east quarter of section %. township 50,
range 81. siss erid9 ss
Desert claim, Stephen H. Gay, of Car.
bon county, Wyo,, southwest quartet Of
the northeast quarter, thesouthwest quar-
ter, northeast quarter Of southeast quar-.
ter and northeast half of the southeast
half of section 8, township "a, range 81,
containing 800 acres.
, 1884-09-18
THE COMMON COUNCIL
Obtain a Quorum and Hold a
Meeting,
The Question Of Auctioneer,s
License Again Affiliated,
And Finally Fixed at $500 Per
Annumn.

The Common Council met last night at
the City Hall The Marshal byspersistant
efforts, managed to get a quorum to-
gether. At last the requisite number was
obtained, and essnaaD yer. Warren,
McGregor, Harrington, Pinnegan,
Griffin and Reid answered to the roll
yeall.
The committee on fencing the lakes and
eeinsteries asked for furthert tune in which
10 make their report, which Was granted
h NJ Warren stated Henry Altman
would sell the city a little oyer two blocks
and a half near the cemetery. and would
ike to confer with the committee so that,
in'case it were deemed advisable to pur-
chase, it could be fenced at the same
time.
The Clerk read a proposal from, Mr..
pAmes, proposingsto give a dump ground
to the city providing the city will give
him free irrigation.
The following bills will be presented for
, 1884-09-18
AFTER FOSSILS.



Yesterday = stout middle-ased gentle
man entered the RAILROAD house and
quietly registered His actions were mn
c~stentatious' hut every action bespoke
not only the gentlepau but one whoswas
well educated and used to the ways Of the
world. Yet this man is better known in
the scientific world to-day than amy pther
living American. He registered simply
o. c. Marsh. in a plain, business hand,
but he is better known among scientists as
Prof 0thmel @ Marsh of Yale college.
Prof. Marsh is one Of the few in
stances inswhieh a man prefsn the hOnors
of a student to those of the mere active
professions or the excitement and satisfac-
ton of acquiring propertgsHe is a
nephew of George Peabody, the English
banker. who achieved great prominence
by the frequency of his charitable dona-
tons.
His early youth was passed in Niagara
count, N. Y a country rich Ia
specimens for the eeologist Il was
here, the Professor has. often stated, that
he acquired his taste for geology. which
he has ever since followed His uncle,
wishing to crafty his ambition, sent him
to Yale college to prosecute his studies.
After graduating. he went to Europe to
complete his education, and when he re-
turned he accepted the protessorship of
geology in his alma mater. Since then
he has remained with the College and in
addition to his ~prpfessonhip is. connected
with the United States, occupying the
position of paleontologist. His visit to
Cheyenne isyfor the purpose of observing
the progress which his collectors of fossils
are making, and he viii make quite an
extended trip Through the Territory. On
his return he win go to Southern Colo
RADIO. and expects 70 sreturD to Yale in
October. He has just finished a tour
through Kansas, where he has been very
successful in his efforts.
In an interview with q LEADER repre-
sentative, the Professor stated that the
Territory is very rich in fossils, in fact the
richest of any portion of the United States.
Some of the finest specimens the scien-
tic world possesses have come from Wyo-
ming. He spoke in high terms Of its geo.
logical resources and said
II have made several trips through this
Western country. 1 first passed through
Cheyenne in 1868, and there has been a
great change since. 1t was rather wild in
those days and people used to say that
they had a man for breakfast every day"
The Professor purchased q great many
curiosity while here andtoOk the evening
train West
In personal appearance he is quite tall,
rather stout with light complexion He
has light hair a full beard and deep set
light blue eyes, Heis very subdued in
his manner and simple in his conversation
making NO display of his learning while
conversing. BE detests shams and hum
bugs, When the Cardiff giant was found
in New York. he was the first expert who
discovered the fraud and boldly denounced
it. His specially is the study of fossil re
mains and in this he has few equals and
no superiors-
FH M.IL .. ."
, 1884-09-18
stitched 10 mrs TAIL.
A Dogs weird seance with a Tin Cam
Attachment.

An unfortunate cur dog with ais tail
heightened out by the addition of II tin
can, tore madly down Seventeenth street
last evening. Ateach spring forward the
tin ornament clanked ~omniously at his
heels, finally throwing the brute into a
condition of exquisite excitement that
closely bordered on insanity. Whenever
the can met en- obstruction it stopped
right there and the dog continuing for
ward, in several instances nearly severed
his tail from its moorings to the rest of
his anatomy. At such times as these, the
poor eur sent up howl of such positive
anguish that it seemed, to cleave a bright
streak through the surrounding atmos-
phere. Several times the dog came to a
pause in a sequestered alley, but a sudden
nervous movement would soon cause
the can to rattle and the force of
the shock would send the dog bounding
forward again, a mad, free thing of life,
with the impending awfulness of aggres-
sive misery banging awayat his heels
Several desperate efforts were made by
sympathetic spectators to corral the dog,
and when the poor animal was about ex-
hausted they succeeded in doing SO. After
the can had been removed from his caudal
end the dog did not star for several
seconds, when some one inadvertently
nttled the instrument of torture, and the
brute bounded forward as if shot from a
catapult.
In the glare of the electric light he was
last seen wildly fleeing up Seventeenth
street, his tongue protruding eighteen
inches from his mouth and a wild, sad
light in his eyes. -a4i
Pedestrians gave him the right of way,
, 1884-09-18
w~ATERING 4 WATCH.


A Son Gets His Father In Trouble by
Giving Him Away.
From the Atlanta Consultation. os
Ma" suddenly demanded Pinder,
where's your watch and chain 2"
Your father has got it at the store
answered Mrs. Fitz,
a silence of a few moments ensued,
then Pinder again askedi aes
MA, is i it necessary to wet your watch
and chain often ]"
mo, of cousre not. Why2"
"Oh, nothing | just heard pa tell Mr..
Pluukettat that he'd bad your watch and
chain in soak three times Hincs you gave
it to him. and that he'd better &c. around
to the laundry and get it before you asked
for it
t.WhAt did he say then p snapped the
lady.
/ They didn't say nothing but grim
answered Pinder, dimly realizing that he'd
got his father into n row.
, 1884-09-18

There will be a meeting of the Demo-
cratic Central Committee bef Wyoming,
held at the office of Hon. w, II. Holt
day, in the city of Laramie, vt IL o'clock
IN the forenoon. Thursday, September IS.
The object Of the meeting is to apportion
delegates to the several counties, and
issne a call for Democratic Convention
10 place in nomination a delegate to Con-
gress. A full attendance is urgently re-
quested. RoBERT II. HOMER,
John G. FRIEND,~ Chairman.
Secretary.
, 1884-09-18

To the Editor Of the EADER
FoRT LARAMIE, September IA. Hay
ing made a bet with a person in this post
TINT leaving Cheyenne City to come to
Fort Laramie would not be called going
down to Fort laramie, whereas the per
son that l made the bet with says it
would, l would feel thankful if you
would please to decide this through the
/ columns of your paper. D. n, Co. d.
THE bet is rather loosely made, and an
answer to it must be given with a qualif-
cation. Fort Laramie lies almost directly
north Of Cheyenne; hence, in reference to
the points Of the compass and as a gem
erl proposition a person leaving here for
Fort Laramie would be right in saying he
was going up there. In a more narrow
sense, and with reference to the altitude
of the respective places, he would be
right in saying that he was going down to
Fort Laramie as that post is fewer feet
above the sea level than this point. As
the phrase is usually understood and com
monty used D. N. spoke properly when
he said he went up to Fort Laramie from
Cheyenne. Ed.
, 1884-09-18

crack appeared in one Of the legs Of the
machine,
After four hours Of genuine toll, with
the assistance o. relays Of men and spec
tally imported oAsect glass Of wonderful
strength, a negative of this extraordinary
object Was secured
The photographers did no more work
that day, however.
1t was a picture of himself as he ap-
pearsd on this occasion that the tender
foot 50 kindly seut=to-the lady at the
National Capital
The lady viii probably soon receive =
letter from her forgotten friend written
in the life-bleod of Il victim specially slain
for the OCCASION.