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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-07-10

gyasps the from framework that il
sending him rem rsele: sly on. He
puts forth his strength, but 1t
ayails him nothing. The next move
will be the last. lie filings himself
against the wall and shrieks for
help. The grave fades from his
sight and he finds himself grasping
the iron bars of his cell. He draws
a breath of intense relief, tut the
next ms ant begins the dread re-
train
"Condemned to death.
He has his wild and fiuitless
dreams of escape and then
the madness of self destruction
makes him for the moment in
sane. There are the hours Of
unutterable despair when he sits
on his bed with his head bowed and
his fingers tangled in his hair. He
listens with dull, mechanical
agoby 10 the footsteps Of the death
watch on the stone floor outside, and
they seem to slowly creak the
words, "To death, to death, to
death! !"
At tim it is impossible for him
to believe that he, who is sound IN
health and limbs, robust and full Of
YIgor, with not an ailment that be
knows OF, a man in the prime OF life
with energy, strength, well-al
that goes to make life worth living
that he is Gagged here, helpless like
a rat in a trap, waiting
till at signsl he will be s
quivering, inert mass. Then hs
faces his cell and raves and clrse:
all mankind The knowledge Of
the uselessness of this forces itself
upon him an he becomes calm sgsiI
| His thoughts turn to the one anC
only channel that can give relief
There Is but one ray of light tina
enters the cell of the condemned
! Religion He has doubtless giver
little regard to it in former life. bu
now he reaiizFs that it alone can dui
the CHASTITY significance of the dis
NAL echo in his ears, &c Ddemned
condemned to death. "-Detroit Fire
| Press
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-07-10
FORGOTTEN BAUBLES.
Little or Ne Profit to jewelers. From
articles Abandoned.

"Why do / advertise that will
sell all watches left with me prior
to July l, 1855, unless called for be-
fore August 1, 1852" echoed Vine
street matchmaker. "SimplY be-
cause I've dollars and dollors' worth
Of labor locked up in watches, whose
ownErs have failed to call and pay
for repairs. I've forty or fifty old
watches now awaiting claimants.
and very few OF them if sold would
bring enough to pay for the labor
put upJn their repair.
fLook here" he continued, opens
ing a drawer and displaying at least
two score Of battered time pieces,
whose owners are either too poor or
too cunning to redeem them by
paying the bills for repairs. There
were silver watches whose once
embossed cases were as smooth as p
baIdhead; old buli's-eyes, with
Arabic instead of Roman numerals
on their faces; gold-washed cases,
with the baser metal showing
through the thin outer coating. and
finally one large unpreten tious brass
watch, the property of a locomotive
engineer, who had left it for repair
ten years ago, saying he was at
tached to the old time-piece, even
though it was of little valve.
7"You see" said the jeweler
"there are no valuable watches
among them, for costly timepiece:
are seldom forgotten I did have g
fine gold watch belonging to Qaa
ker family here, and after kee ping
it four years I asked a member OF
the family whether any of his rela
tives had lost watch. He inquired
at home and one Of the ladies came
and got the watch, saying she had
left it here, but had forgotten tbe
! place.
Spurious things happen n VI anG
then. A lady came not long since
with her little son, and recognized
as hers clock that had been hang
ing on the walls hera for months
Another son had brought 1t in, but
on the very same day he fell from
the house-top and broke his neck
SO that the mother waL left 10 dis
cover IS bes. she could the where
abouts of her clock. A mai
once brought an old clock
to be mended and after il
was done he passed here sgain anG
again, the clock hanging in full
sight from the street. He never
called for it, however, until the day
after l had it carried up stairs, and
then he protested to be very angry
about not being able to get it al
once; but when l cent up for it be
said he'd call next day. lie thought
| had sold the clock and ex ectsJ
to scare me into paying him some
thing"
Fashionable jewellers on Chestnut
street agree with the Vine street
man, that really valuable things are
seldom forgotten when left for re.
pair. Now and then strangers in
the ei'y, to whom all shops look
alike, forget where their watches
have been left for repair, end in
many shops a dozen or 80 of cheap
baubles are laid aside "until called
foT," tine that often never comes
"Few things are eyer forgotten
by our customers" said one of the
firm OF Bailey, Banks s. Bidd g.
"We have now little box of own
erless trinkets inherited fIom ouI
predecessors, but all toll they are
not worth more than $40. From
Philadelphia Times.
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Wm. T. Ford, of Kansas City
writes: "Fhe demsnd for 'Pfickly
Ash Bitters' in this city las comes
under Ey observatory, has been
simply enormous, and, although
averse to recommending proprietary
medicines, 1 am thoroughly con-
WINGED that for those special dis
eases fol which they are recon-
meDded they have no equal, and
give eminent satisfaction to those
who have used them. I
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-07-10
SATAN is COMING!

E0R SALE-TRE BOOK OF
L Knowledge Contents; Millennium,
1890; srrival OF the long-anticipsted
Jewish Messiah; great fnsncisl crisis,
1886; Satan, the chief anti. Christ time
Of his birth. Incidents connected with
Satsn's birth, powers and advance
skirmishers, Satan's Temple, Ten Com
mandments, Sstan's Ensign snd in
ecIiptions, what Satan Gays regarding
his ensign 10 gil nations, etc. Prica. %
cente, stamps. Address: August Robe,
st. Paul, MIN.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-07-10

WHY WEI YOU cough whs.
miions Cure win give irlmediate
eller. Price 10c., soc. s>.e o.. Sold
Y d ~ Il. |. Drug Stass VI
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Fen Lame Ba6k, Side or Chesl
zRa hilohss Porous Plaster. Price
-A9kg GSla by q g. II. L Drug Stora
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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-12
King Bed.

In the town of Leicester, England, the house
is still shown where Richard III passed the night
before the battle Of Bosworth, and there is a
story of him preserved in the corporation records
which illustrates the caution and secretiveness
of his character. He was accustor~ J to carry
among the baggage of his camp u cumbersome
wooden bed. which he pretended WAS the only
one he could sleep on; herein he c%ontrived a
secret receptacle for his treasure, which lay con-
cealed under a weight Of timber. After the
fatal day ON which Richard fell, the Earl
of Richmond entered Leicester with his
victorious troops. The friends of Richard were
%pillaged, but the bed was neglected by every
plunderer as useless lumber. The owner of the
house afterward discovered the hoard, and be
came suddenly rich without any visible cause.
He bought lands, and at length arrived at the
dignity of being Mayor Of Leicester. Many
years afterward his widow, who had been left in
great affiuence, was murdered for her wealth by
a maid,servant, who had been privy to the affair,
and at the trial of this woman and her accomp-
Ices the whole affair came to light.
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of war;. but he is under police surveillance Of
the %strictest though most mlobtru9ive kind. 1
have abundant reason to know. His own i'm
preston that lie is allowed perfect freedom
OF movement in Astrakhan is no
doubt amply justified by the
instructions given to the local authorities. But
he naturally prefers to live in ~seclusion. and is,
above all, strongly adverse to receiving visitors.
What the intentions of the government are with
regard to him is at present unknown. 1t is equal
~ uncertain how long he will remain in Astra
khan. But to me, who have marked the absence
OF even the faintest indications of rancor in his
illusions to the government, and have heard his
warm appreciation of the act of clemency which
has transferred him from Asia to Europe. it
seems that the time is near when the quinqua-
genarian who wrote crude socialism in his youth
Will be no longer regarded as dangerous to the
internal quiet Of the Russian empire, and when
a few newspaper articles produced more than two
decades agowil be deemed amply atoned for by
nearly twenty years of banishment. from which
Tschernishevsky emerges to-day, not Il con
i11ned agitator or demagogue, not even a pro-
%pagandist, hut a man Of broken health and shat
tered nerves, DESTROYS only. if he still retain any
desires, Of passing the remainder of his days in
peace.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-12
THE SARAH BERNHARDr BOOK.
Public Opinion in Paris on the Side of Bern
hardt.
Incv unnnnris Pnris Tetfer

Lucy Hooperhs Paris letter.
Public opinion is altogether with Sarah Bern
hardt in this matter. The book which has caused
the uproar is a tissue of filthy falsehoods, with
here and there a slender thread of fact to give
the whole consistency. But had every word of
it been true. then itnever should have been pub
lished. And the writer is far lower in deeds and
character than is the great artistic she has de-
famed. Twenty years ago Marie Colombier i'm
personated Eve in wellnigh the traditional
costume. in a dramatized version of Millions
Paradise Lost which was given at the Porte
st. Martin. Clothed from throat to feet in
flesh colored silk webbing, with a scarf of pale
blue gauze twisted about her waist, the shame
less creature affronted the gaze of the audience
without a tremor and without a blush. Such is
the without a tremor and without a blush. Such
is the woman that has come forward to SANDER
the worlds greatest living actress, and her own
benefactress as well; for when Sara Bernhard
made up her company for her American tour. she
sought out Marie Colombier and offered her an
engagement in her troupe, an offer which the ex-
Eve" grown fat, and coarse, and elderly, was
only too happy to accept. This book is the re
turn made for that act of kindness. But in one
respect the great actress made a mistake in
giving way to her natural and excessive in
dignation, and in creating a public scandal.
Nobody had said much about the Memoirs of
Sarah Barnum, and the book would have at
tracted but little attention had it not been for
the immense puff given to it by the h%orsewhip-
ping scene of the other day. That bestowed an
impetus on the sales which has already brought
the vile production to a ninth edition. 1t speaks
but i'll for the boosted civilization af Paris that
such a book could have been written and pub
lished and read in her midst; a vulgar, brutal,
shameless SANDER ON a woman whose genius is
one Of the glofies of the modern French stage,
and whose kindheartednes and generosity have
become proverbial.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-12
A KINGS FAVORTTE.
The Beauty Of the Famous Madame de Pom
padour Not Il Myth, as Shown by Her
Kbn.ArniA

padour Not Il Myth, as Shown by Her
Portrait.
Lucy II. Keepers Letter.
The great art event of the past fortnight has
been the Inauguration OF the exhibition OF art
Of the eighteenth century at the superb show
room of NJ. George Petit, on the Rue de- Seze.
This is a loan exhibition of very exceptional i'm
portance. Sir Richard Wallace, the Baron de
Rothschild, and other well-known art amateurs
having contributed the gems of their collections.
Even the Gar of Russia figures amongst the
contributors, having semitic the exhibition a case
of very magnificent antique fans from his private
ings, drawings, fans, statCettes, busts,
brOnzes. enameled watches, and some few
speciments of furniture. One of its most in
t~eresting features is the display of portraits.
Amongst these the finest is probably the superb
fulElength portrait by Boucher OF Mime. de
Pompadour, lent by the Baron 10 Rothschild,
and insured by him for no less a sum than $500
900. / have never before seen n likeness of this
famous beauty which.gave so striking an idea OF
her surprising loyeliness. Attired in a dress Of
blue satin strewn with small pink roses, the cor
sage covered with loops of pale pink ribbon.
and with a ribbon to cOTfepond tied around
her slender throat, she is seated in a half-reclin-
ing attitude on a sofa. One small, beautifully
formed hand holds a half-open book. The dainty
feet, exquisite IN shape and in proportions, arc
set Off by their high-hceled slippers in pale pink
satin, s~pangled with silver. A pen thrust into
an inkstand at her side denotes her taste for
literary occupations. Nothing can surpass the
beauty of the delicate features. the elegant poise
of the small shapely head on the sW&n-likc throat,
and, above all, the general air of high breeding
that perVades the entire parsonage. Madame
dEtiolles, the bourgeose f%avorite, looks like
a princess of the blood royal. One seeks, too, in
vain on that fair face for any indication Of the
qualities that made of the original the wickedeSt
woman in modern history-one in whose charac-
ter the student seeks in vain for a redeeming
trait, apart from her love of literature and the
fine arts. There she sits. elegant, graceful,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-12

Charleston churchyard, far away from his
birthplace in the up country. The old sexton
told me back in the Cos that he had been
i tors t I1P Yeats snot ba ana he ed"i n aG Bis f iie n 1yarn WIS, =.
lot of Northern soldiers during war times.
From that time on Its visitors became more nu-
merous, but they were always from the North.
They wanted to see the grave Of an apostle of
secession .
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How lie Looks.


The people of Mexico, No, are terrified by an
app9ritiOn which appears to be simply that of "a
lean monster man, between eight and ten feet in
height. wearing a long cloak. and going about
with his head bowed in an distracted way, but
occasionally glaring at those he meets with
small, glittering eyes. 1t is probably some
country editor hunting a word to rhyme with
Arthur, y before the presidential campaign ser
vices of song open.
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CalhOun's Tomb.


Washingt0n letter.
''The relic hunters have Clipped John c. Cal
houn's tomb to bits and carried off the bits"
said my South Carolina friend, land the Legis-
lature has just appropriated enough money to
erect another, Before the war very few people
visited that spot. 1t is a quiet corner in a
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-12
an Imnnrtant Antnpranh,

BELLEvtrLE, Ont.-The Hon. Billa Flint, life
senator of the Dominion Parliament, has writ
ten an autograph letter, heartily ~praising st. ia
cobs'0l. Che great nain-cure.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-12-12
Surrender Of Railroad Right-of-way.

Surrender Of Railroad Right-of-way.
STATE OF KANSAS, &C
Barber County.
WHEREAS, the Harper and Western
Railroad Company propose building
railroad through the county of Barber,
which said road is to be located in ac-
cordance with survey made by said
railroad company from Harper, Harper
county, Kansas to Medicine Lodge,
Barber county, Kansas, in the summer
of 1884:
Now, therefore, in consideration of
the location and establishment of said
road by January LIST, 1886, and of the
benefits to accrue to us by reason of
such location and establishment, we,
the undersigned owners, occupants and
claimants of land required for road
purposes on the line of the foregoing
designated route, hereby signify our ap-
prevail of the location of said road, and
do hereby consent thereto; and we do
hereby grant and dedicate the lands be-
longing to us, so far as the same may be
required, to the width of one hundred
feet, in and to the following lands, stu
ated in said county of Barber and state
Of Kansas, to-wit:.
to that purpose and for the use of such
road; and we hereby waive all claims
for damage for and Oh account of the
same.
In witness whereof. . .hereunto set
49,. hand this. day Of. ...........
y. D., 49,.
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Attica, and he is attending strictly to

Attica, and he is attending strictly to
business and is making a success.
v. J. Beeson, well known to Conan
che cattlemen, is there experimenting
Walkers extensive coal, feed and -four
agency.
The people over there are firm in the
belief that the road will be extended to
Kowa first; that in the meantime, At
tica will be the station for Medicine
Lodge; and that some time in the fall
of 1885, the road will pull out for the
Lodge.
We are not prepared to dispute this
theory; but inasmuch as the railroad
company is building bridge and grad
ing on that part of the Y headed to-
wards the Lodge, while nothing is being
done ON the Kiowa branch, it is prOba-
bic that the order of procedure may be
reversed from that predicted by the At
tica citizens.
But returning to Attica: 1t is q nice,
high, dry town, destined to be town
for long while, and certain to injure
Harper, for it will cut off much of the
western trade that has heretofore gone
to Harper. The citizens of the latter
city are not disheartened however, and
claim their town is beyond that stage of
the game when slight reverses will ma
terially affect it.
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New and First-Clegs

Is the store of W. W. Robertson. at
Thompson's old stand. They are Just
now offering their entire stock of cloth
ing, including the remnant of the
Thompson j. Co. stock at ACTUAL FIRST
COST. In this lot are some wonderful
bargains, and it will be to the advan-
tage of everyone in need of goods to call
and see for themselves. They have an
entire room full of clothing that must
so at once.
Besides this, they have everything in
the line of dry goods, furnishing goods,
hats, caps, boots and shoes; full stock
OF groceries, in broken and unbroken
packages; a perfect and complete stock
of Queensware and glassware. In short,
everything usually found in 4 general
mercantile establishment.
They ask a careful inspection of their
stock by the citizens of Medicine Lodge
and vicinity.
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Attica, The Wonder.

$50 you are over to see the Mushroom
are YOU" asked citizen of Attica OF
the INDEX Sunday. He expressed the
whole story in referring to Attica as a
mushroom. Its growth has been won
derful, its business houses and residen-
ces are wonderful. Every structure in
the town appears to have been put up
within the past week; the shingles are
bright and new, and the smell of new
lumber is as distinct as if one were in
the heart of pine forest With saw-mills
on every hand. There are well stocked
stores, including that Kansas necessary.
a drug store-in fact three of them-and
all the merchants claim to be doing =
good business. There are hundreds Of
residences; scores of restaurants and
shops, but only one very ordinary hotel.
where, in order to satisfy the gnawing
Of the stomach sure to follow after a
ride from the Lodge, you must order in
duplicate the entire bill of fare. The
railroad company has erected a large
and convenient depot, now nearly fin
ished; the stage company has consolida-
ted its Harper and Inyo stables and
stock at Attica, and placed the agency
with those reliable gentlemen, Uncle
Nat Lane and Charlie Vautier. and they
are pushing things. Besides, these gen.
tlemen have large stables of their own
near the depot, and are running the XII
owa line for all it is worth and furnish
private rigs to parties who want to 60
in more style than the regular stages
afford.
Oak Mise las rice srcctry store at
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The Kiowa Herald says that last week
the board of directors of the Kiowa
Town Company received bids for the
erection of n new hotel in that growing
city. Dobson Il Campbell secured the
contract and will erect the building at a
cost of about $4,000. 1t is to be sOxsO
two stories high, the lower story being
twelve feet in the clear. A porch eighty
feet long win extend along the front of
the building. Besides the offices, par
lor, sample rooms, dining room and
kitchen there are to be thirty bedrooms
l4xl4, and every room in the building is
to be supplied with electric call bells.
A windmill will pump the water which
is to be supplied through the house
with pipes. Already w. P. Hardwick,
the popular hotel man of Harper, has
lessed the building for term IF Eve
years at an annual rental OF -, 100. It
win be completed by May lst. next.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-12-12

The city council decided to have the
original town-site of Medicine Lodge
re-surveyed and plated, in accordance
with the plan set forth last week in these
columns. Mayor Stone was authorized
TO employ a competent surveyor to do
the work, and this he Will do soon.
When the plat has been made. recorded
and certified copy fled with the secre-
tary of state, our representative in the
legislature, Mr.. MeNeal, will immedi-
ately introduce bill to legalize the
survey and to authorize the district
court to make such order as will quiet
the title for all time to come.
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Observation-Disclosures.


The above is the form of document
prepared for the use of those parties on
the line of the proposed railroad to this
place, who are willing to donate the
right-of-way through their lands. This
week committees have been generally
over the line for the purpose of bringing
the matter before the land owners, and
securing the necessary release, and
they have met with gvva success;
though there are few 'kickers" who
imagine they can get enormous DANA
yes by their stubbornness.
The railroad company only asks do
nation of the right-of-way and the nee
essary depot and stock-yard grounds;
and it would occur that the people of
Barber county could well afford to make
the donation.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-12-12

Mr.. y. W. Little, of the late mercan-
tile firm of ii. c. Thompson & Co., will
start with his family in a few days for
Wyandotte, Kas., where he will engage
in the real estate, brokerage and COM
mission business. He will retain his
real estate and banking interests in
Medicine Lodge, having by no means
lost faith in the future of this city and
county. In common with many other
of his friends, the INDEX hopes that
prosperity may follow Mr.. Little to his
new home.
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PETITION:

To The Honorable Board Of County
Commissioners of Barber County:
We, the undersigned, electors of Bar
Der county, Kansas, and residing with
in the limits and territory hereinafter
mentioned, respectfully petition your
honorable body to cut off and organize
a new township, composed of the fol-
lowing territory, to-wit: Commencing
at the northeast corner of township 81
range 10; thence west to the northwest
corner of township 81, range 10; thence
south along the west line of range 10 to
the southwest corner of section Is in
township 80, south of range 10 west !;
thence east to the southeast corner of
section 10; thence north along the
county line to the place of beginning.
The said territory containing at least
800 inhabitants and at least 30 square
miles:
THos. Salisbury, jr. s. II. Henton.
John W. Mcdaniel. VIM. Garrison.
G. B. Wakefield. A. w. Calvin.
j Ii. Warren 4. d. Clarke.
Y. j. Fairbanks.
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There is not much fuss being made
about it, but the fact is, that now in the
dead of winter, when times are dull
everywhere, real estate in Medicine
Lodge is gradually increasing in value,
and we are not far wrong when we esti-
mate the increase at ten per cent. per
month. Spectators are surprised when
they learn that there is no real estate on
Main street for sale.