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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-03-07

"a COLUMBUS, GA, Feb. 25.--At fire nj
Goodwater, Ala, destroyed twenty-foui
buildings. Some substantial merchants were
burned out. The loss is 500, insursacs
Eiaing.
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CURRENT COMMENT.

THERE Is said TO DO n secret Organiza-
ton at work TO promote the secession
Of Manitoba from the Dominion of Can
ada. ...
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-Amaziah Jordan, of HartIand, Me-,
IN fit of insanity recently. cut of bis
toes, one at time, AID calmly trimmed
;he stumps,
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ATCmsoS, TOPEKA, & SANTA FE R'Y
Co., OFFICE OF TRAFFIC MANAGER,


ToPEKA, KAs., Feb. %, 1884.
On the evening of the 22d day of Febru-
airy the honorable Board of Railroad Com
misSiOners issued an order to this company
suspending the rules which they ordered
into effect upon the morning of the 10Th of
February The honorable Board of Railway
Commissioners has also advised us that on
the 9th of March they will proceed TO
readjudicate a new system of rates for this
line. The system of rates thus quickly
suspended by the honorable Board of Rail-
way Commissioners represented the result
reached by them after one years considera-
ton of the freight questions, and after the
decisions and rehearing, we are advised by
counsel that the order of February %,
suspending the rates of February 10, may
not be legally operative. However this
may be, the freighting public will see that
it is impossible for this company, be
tween this time and the 5th Of
March, to formulate any new tar
III to take the place of that sus-
pended by the Commissioners, nor would it
be useful to do so. for, owing to the varied
conflicting decisions of the honorable Board
of Railway Commissioners, it is impossible
for the Company to tell what may be the
decisions reached by the honorable Board on
the 5th of March until some definite con-
clusiOn shall have been reached upon the
whole subject. There is but one safe course
In Law for the Company to pursue, namely:
To continue in effect the system of rates
ordered by the old Board of Railway Com
missioners on the 10Th OF February. This
Company desires to assure the people living
on its line that as soon as these questions
have been legally determined, or as soon as
the rate making power shall have been
again entrusted to the Traffic Department
of this road, we shall use every reasonable
measure in our power to give satisfaction to
our patrons. 49,
lSignedl J. T. GoDDARD,
Traffic Manager.
IApprovedl A. +. ToUzALIS,
1a Vice President
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THE KAmRoaD MUDDhE.

The Latest Phase Of the Dinerences no.
tween the Commissioners and the Atehi-
son, Topeka 6 Santa Fe-Thc Latest
Action of the Commissioners.
The following correspondence between
the Railroad Commissioners and the Athison,
Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad explains itself:
OFFICE or THE BOARD or RAILROAD CoMMIs-
eIOSERs, TOPEKA, kAs., Feb -, 1854.
To A. E. Touzalin, Esq, Vice President OF the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad
Company: ,,,.,.-
DEAR Strive have been informed that
you adopted a freight taiiff which YOU
designate Interstate Tariff" the rates
prescribed in which are put in force over
your road, it appears that this tariff raises
the rates In a number of instances and at
different points to terminal stations over the
rates heretofore prevailing. We would call
your attention to section sixteen of the
Commissioner law, being an act concerning
railroads and other common carriers, which
reads as follows: section 16. Neither
said.Board of Railway Commissioners nor
any railroad company shall raise the charge
for transportation of freight. on any rail
road without first giving sixty days public
notice of such change in such manner as
the Commissioners may determine. BY
order of the Board.
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TOPEKA. KAN Feb. 2:

f. J. Turner. Secretary of the Board of Rail-
way Commissioners, Topeka, KAN:
DEAR .SIR-YOur letter of the ed came
to my hand this morning. II seems very de-
sirable that a spirit of Cancellation should be
shown between the honorable Board of Rail-
road Commissioners and the representatives
of this company i'm order 10 bring forward
results satisfactory to the people living upon
the line of this road, and | appeal to your
own good sense whether the manner in
which You have raised the questions pre-
sented IN your letters are likely to bring for
ward these results. We have already sent
you copies of the tariffs now in Use OH this
road, and l enclose you herewith duplicate
copies. BY an examination Of these tariffs,
you will find that the only rates
now in use, or which have been
in use since February 10, by this
company on any business between any
points III Kansas, are the rates on Kansas
traffic, which the old board ordered into
effect on the 10th day of February. The po-
sition in which our company has been
placed by the action of the old board is the
fourth in the enclosed circular which has
this day been sent by our traffic manager to
the patrons of the road. AS regards the
question of our rates OH Interstate traffic
hermit me respectfully to say that l have
not understood that the honorable board Of
Railway Commissioners claimed any juris-
diction over this class of business; as re-
CARDS the questions of the sixty days pub
lie notice mentioned in your letter, you must
know that if there has been any dereliction
of duty in this matter it has entirely
arisen from the order made by the old boaru.
and you must know that we have frequently
called your attention to this and similar
cases in which we thought You were pro-
fraf- tn latv Y fr1tlv
ISigned.l A. E. TOUzAIIN,
Vice President
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"A Mrs. Johnson, living on Powder
River. Walla Walla County, Ore, and
her two children, son and a daughter,
were all three married the same evening
recently.
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E. J. TURNER, Secretary.
TopEKA. KAy. Feb. %. 1854.

1OfEkA. NAN, feD. -, 1854.
WHEREAS, The Board of Railroad Com
miSsiOnerS Of Kansas, on the LIST of January
1884, rendered decision upon complaints
prepared by the Mayor and Council of the
cities of Usage City, Newton and Great
Bend, in said State, complaining of the
Atchison, Topeka q Santa Fe Railroad COM
pany, and charging that the rates charged by
1t for the transportation ST freight over said
company's railroad in Kansas to and from
the said cities were unjust, by which de-
clsion said board decided what rates at said
points were just and reaSonable; and said
railroad company having pat in force part
OF such rates only, which rates are applied
contrary to the intent and effect of the said
decision; and whereas the Mayor and Coun-
ell of the city of Great Bend aforesaid, on
the 21st day of February 1884, filed com
plant with said board of Railroad Com
misSiOners, complaining of said rates and
the other cOmplainants, the Mayor and
Council of the city of Newton, and
the Mayor and Council of the : city
of Usage City. in said State, have fled
petition for rehearing of said matters, II
Is ordered by the board that said complaint
and petition for rehearing be heard and ex-
amined on the 5th day of March, 1884, at
the Office of the Board of Railroad Com
missiOners, in the city of Topeka, commence
ing at 10 clock a. III. 1t is further ordered
by the board that the orders and decisions
heretofore made on the LIST day of January,S
1854, and the further orders ard decisions
made on the 30th day of January, 1884, by
said board in cases of the Mayor and Coun-
ell of the Usage City, complaints against the
AtchiSOn Topeka 4 Santa Fe Railroad
Company, and the Mayor and Council of
the city of Newton, complaints against the
last named company, and the Mayor and
Council of the city of Great Bend, COM
plants, against the same company, then
pending before the board, be suspended
until said matters have been examined into
by the board upon said complaints and pc
titions, and the final orders of the board
thereon. Given by order of the Board of
Railroad Commissioners of Kansas this the
22d day of February, 1854.
SEAL L. J. TURNER, Secretary.
The Monitor., 1884-02-15
wooDsTowN N. J., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15

But Bell! What made her stare SO ridicu-
lously?
"Oh! it's" then lowering her voice trife,
Z" is it Marion Grey?"
''Yes, Marion Grey Fancher," chimed a
sweet voice, and do you remember me,
dear Bell?' aHaf
And here Mamma Wilmot came to the res
cue. "Why, Ralph, how cruel of you not to
tell the dear child that your friends of whom
you spoke SO warmly were the Greys? You
know they were inseparable when they were
schoolgirls. Quite delighted to see you, dear,
and as for your brother, can now account
for the fancy had for him almost at first
sight, it was his strong resemblance to you"
And Mamma Wilmot held the small hand in
her own firm, white, jeweled one, and beamed
her most benign and complaisant smile, and
then added, ~ must find Mr.. Wilmot. He
will be delighted, can assure you," and she
moved on, her portly figure swaying to and
fro, the soft swish of the rare silk and the
glitter of her diamonds disappearing in the
throng. 70
A crowded sidewalk; long line of carri-
ages the organ bursts forth its full ringing
tones; the walks are cleared; the doors
swing open first breath of orange blossoms,
then the bridal parties-a double wedding.
All! we know them. First Ralph Wilmot,
with that grand uplifting of head, and on his
arm Marion Grey Fancher Yes, the same
high forehead and fine eyes, but the face is
softer and sweeter in expression, and then,
ah, yes, the professor and Bell Wilmot They
enter the carriages and are swept on and we
rub our eyes and catch our breath. How is
it all ? TO be sure we heard that Mrs. Grey
had been found by her wealthy brother, and
that he had taken them home, and her son
had taken professorship afterwards and
called himself a poor young man, 'would
not shine in a borrowed light" or some such
nonsense, although at his uncle's death he
would be worth his millions And the daugh-
ter what was it /? Oh! she had written a
book and was quite a literary star. But then
there was time when they had been con-
sidered as belonging to the g canaille "a
sort of lower strata in society. But they
were really the same people. Mrs. Grey no
more lady than when she toiled in that little
uncomfortable house, Marion older and her
education completed, that was SO tearfully
commenced in the old academy, and Fred,
why he is only man, with his fine intellect
matured and those noble qualities brought
out by the christian mother, as she lived
alone with no companionship but those two
bright children, while her christian life and
influence had woven itself into the warp and
woof of their lives.
Yes, they have grown up, as she prayed
they might, but what has wrought this change
in their position? Why does society receive
them with open arms? 1t cannot be their
uncle's millions All, no, such foolish (?)
thought in this enlightened age. Then what
was it? Who can tell?
JAMEsBURa, N. j.
The Monitor., 1884-02-15
THE TIME-LIMIT.
REV. DR. CAGES OPINION.

There has been much argument employed,
much feeling exhibited (somtiemes not of the
most friendly or christian sort) upon the
vexed question of the time-limit in the
Methodist Episcopal church. We do not wish
to take sides Cat this time) in this already too
much heated controversy. However, we will
say just here, we have always advocated
great caution and wise, careful slow-going,
concerning any and every contemplated at
tempt at unsettling or changing any part OF
our wisely ordained, time-honored and we'll
tested and approved ecclesiastical polity.
For candor, the manifestation of a true
christian spirit, as well as an honest recogni-
ton of the trials, to which settled ministry
is subject, we can but commend the follow
ing to the careful attention of all readers of
the GAZETTE. And especially do we COM
mend them to the attention of our Methodist
brethren who are becoming restless under
"old methods and cry out in their restless
ness for something new" Initiating the
g outs " in politics Anything for a
change Z" The manly statement (Which is in
deed refreshing in these times of insincerity)
of Rev. DR.. Gage, must needs appeal to the
wise thought, and prayerful consideration of
all loyal Methodists. From his showing, we
are more than ever convinced that on this
question of removing the time-Gmit in our
church. very great care will have to be exer-
cised, or troubles we wot not of " will be
entailed. And this is but one phase of this
subject, and yet who among US can success
fully answer it?
THE REV. W. L. GAGE DESIGNS.
The Rev. DIR. William l.. Gage resigned
the Ipastorate of the Pearl-street Congrega-
tional church, Hartford, Conn.,, on Sunday,
after sixteen years continuous service. His
resignation, which is to take effect at the close
of March, and was offered without consulta-
tion with any one, was surprise to his con-
pregation, but he said he had served them as
long as it was well that he should attempt to do
So In his letter he says: 8 am not uncon-
scious that in the new era on which this
church has entered another and perhaps
younger man may speak with more effect
than can do. am conscious that my ap-
peals are hackneyed, that my voice is very
familiar. that the lines which my thoughts
habitually traverse may be assumed to be
trite. No man can utter for hundred to- a
hundred and fifty times year his meditations
on religion without being excessively well
known after term of years. l make no claim
to any such boldness or originality of
thought as would allow me to be an excep-
ton, and / may assume that what is very
familiar to you may in another field have
! freshness and possible value. Moreover,
amAware that no,,man unless very remarkable,
can minister satisfactorily to a great variety
of minds. He may be respected and even
loved; yet he does not and he cannot meet
the spiritual wants of all. There will be some
The Monitor., 1884-02-15
WHITTIER AND TEMPERANCE.

John G. Whittier, the Quaker poet ad-
dressed the following letter to the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union memorial meet
ing
DANvERs, Mass, 18th Mo-, z, 1883. Il
g DEAR FRIEND Il cannot let the decen-
NAL 'Woman's National Christian Temperance
Union pass without expressing my hearty
sympathy with its object and my approval of
its methods. Its beneficial influence has been
felt in every section of the country. Ii has
baffled the schemes of politicians and parties
by appealing directly to the moral sense of
the people, and infused fresh life into churches
and sects by the practical application of the
precepts of the gospel of Christ.
''When reflect upon the awful magni-
tude of the evil, the crime, the pauperism, the
wreck of home, and the unspeakable debase-
ment of humanity everywhere apparent I am
appalled, and sometimes almost hopeless.
But when I think of your organization, and
what it has been doing the last ten years,
take courage. The women of the country
will yet save the men of it. Give them what
they are very unjustly deprived of-the right
of suffrage-and the close of the next decade
would see the liquor traffic abolished in every
state in the union. HTa e9e
q Enclosed find five dollars in aid of the
Union, which ought to number its readers by
hundreds of thousands Thine truly,
JOHN G. WHITTIER"
The Monitor., 1884-02-15
BE PATIENT.

o'heart, grown wild amid the heat and tumult
Ofyears that hasten SO, be calm, be strong!
These few. brief days may mock thy high en-
deavor,
But o! the eternal years of God are long!
o captive SOUL imprisoned, fettered, thwarted,
Cast down, oppressed, beset on every side,
Be patientI fold awhile thy sky-born pinion;
For o! the everlasting doors are wide!
faint with toll, who, longing, reaching, striving,
Forever grasping, ever empty stand,
"Fullness of joy" in Gods great presence waiteth,
And pleasures everraore" at His right hand !!
The Monitor., 1884-02-15

The boring of the tunnel through Mount
Arlberg has Just been completed. The work
ranks with the Mont Gents and Mont st.
Gothard as among the great engineering feats
of the age. The object of this new line of
travel is to shorten the distance between
western Austria and eastern Switzerland.
The total estimate cost is So, 802, 900. The
boring commenced on the Austrian side in
June, $780, and on the Swiss side on the
following September. This work shows how
engineering has advanced. In the Mont
Gents tunnel year was consumed in cutting
through 1857 feet St. Gothard was bored
at the rate of 5, 474 feet while Arlberg was
pierced at the rate of 1850 feet year. Then
the recent work was done at a much cheaper
rate The Mont Gents tunnel cost 50, 900 per
running metre-395 inches-while the Arlberg
tunnel cost only $3.50 per metre. The traffic
through this tunnelis expected to be immense.
The double track railway will be kept con-
stantly employed What marvels modern
engineering science is accomplishing. The
crossing of the Alps by Hannibal and Napo-
leon with their armies were almost regarded
as miracles; but how much more momentous
is the piercing of mountain chains, so as to
establish swift and easy communication be-
tween hitherto hostile nations The poet
Cowper in his day lamented that interposing
mountains made enemies of nations, which
had else like kindred drops been mingled
into one" But the mountain barriers are no
longer an obstacle keeping nations apart.
The engineer, as well as the telegraph and the
railway, is helping to make all the world of
one mily.-Dem0rests
The Monitor., 1884-02-15

who will claim not to be fed by him. And
deem it reasonable that he should remember
this and recognize it, and give them an OPP
portunity to have their own social wants met.
And all the more if he has found them uni
forlnly kind, courteous and, better still,
cheerfully cooperative in all church work
as have you. may add that it would be a
relief to make change in my ministry, SO
that, while using more freely than I have
done my old sermons I might have more
leisure to devote to the Sabbath-school and
even to more pastoral work. l do not come
up to my ideal on these two great matters
hard as have striven to do so, there are
limitations of time, strength, and capacity of
mental TOLL which every one must regard who
hopes to labor steadily and efficiently year
after year; and my dissatisfaction with my
own shortcomings is the reason why am
constrained to lay down my task" CRITIC.
The Monitor., 1884-02-15
Subscription, One Dollar per Year.
SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY.
The Great Japanese Bell at kroto-Isands Where
There are M Snakes-Suiss AXE -dAeIIers

mere are no SnakeS-SNiSS Ldke-oNeiiefS.
Of the 10000 bronze articles which have
been found among the remains of the Swiss
lake-dwellers about 80 per cent. are rings, IL
per cent bracelets, per cent. knives, per
cent. needles, 0.4 per cent. hammers, and or
per cent fbula.
The French scientists, who recently visited
Cape Horn and explored the southern islands
of the Fuegian archipelago, encountered only
five mammals fox, an otter, two rodents,
and the domestic dog Forty species of birds
were seen and a considerable number of in
sects, but neither frogs nor serpents were dis
covered ON any of the islands visited. Shell
fish, including many edible kinds, abounded
on the shores
The temples at Kroto Japan, are mainly of
interest on account of their great bell. This
bell is a huge bronze cup with nearly perpen-
dicular sides and fat crown. It requires
twelve coolies to manipulate it. Formerly it
was only rung once year, but now it may be
heard two or three times every month. 1t is
one of the greatest wonders in Japan. 1t is
eighteen feet high, 81 inches thick, nine
feet in diameter, and weighs nearly seventy
four TONS It was cast in a monster mould in
the year 1888 As the bell was cast with the
rim up, the gold entering into its composition
computed to be about fifteen hundred
pOunQ5-5unK TO the crown II mas d maSHlH-
cent tone, and when struck by the open palm
the vibrations may be heard at distance of
one hundred yards.
In the international exhibition at Nice NJ.
Faselli exhibited what he called 8. the obser-
vatory under the sea-" This is name given
to submarine balloon made of steel and
bronze to resist the pressure of water at about
100 fathonr. 1t is forty feet in height, and
is divided into three compartments. On the
top sits the commander, the second is a sa-
loon for eight passengers, and on the bottom
machine constructed on the principle of
fsh's bladder, by which the balloon is
raised or lowered. A powerful electric light
illumines the sea to great distance, enabling
the passengers to study through the glass
flooring, the rocks, plants, and the fishes of
these aqueous depths. A telephone commu-
nicates with an attending vessel upon the sur
face of the water. This machine is almost an
exact production of Jules Verne's submarine
steamer in his sS0,000 leagues under the
sea. ."-Demaorest's Monthly.
The Monitor., 1884-02-15

In New York City there are in all 10,075
places where liquor is sold, while the places
for the sale of food, including butchers,
bakers and grocers, number only 1897. That
is, there are daily open in New York City
over 1000 more drink shops and saloons than
there are provision stores. Is liquor selling
for the public good?
The Monitor., 1884-02-15

The Popular Science Neaos, that never
speaks without authority, for as its name in
dicates it is devoted to purely scientific inves-
LEGATIONS and therefore is slow to arrive at
conclusions, gives the following as the result
of years of careful study and the most thought
full investigation upon the subject of the non
usefulness of alcohol. 1t says:
"After mature deliberation we have come
to the conclusion that people would be far
better off should the art of producing alco-
hol, in any form whatever, be lost to the
world entirely. Neither the physician, the
chemist nor the artisan absolutely needs it in
any department of his calling, and it cannot
be used without doing violence in some de
gree to mans physical welfare. !"
The Monitor., 1884-02-15

We need no stronger evidence of the rapid
and healthful growth of temperance and the
general distrust of intemperance, even in its
mildest forms, than that evidence becoming
SO common nowadays in the advertisements
of our papers calling for men for all kinds of
positions, and supplemented with this omin-
Gus sentence, No drinking man need apply.
Railroads, manufactures, merchants all, with
out exception, including even iquor-sellers,
endeavor to bar out those addicted to drink
ing. An unsteady hand, TO say nothing of a
clouded, muddled brain, can't be trusted to
run lathe, to manage an engine, to keep a
set of books, or conduct correspondence.
And this sentiment will continue to grow until
all drinkers will be ostracized, and, better
than this, all liquor r-sellers be regarded as
public nuisances, unworthy of recognition by
well ordered society. = Temperance Gazette.