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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1886-12-29
REMEMBER, only advertise such goods have hand
c. FRECH, EWElER FAMOUS BUILDING.

Tlr or long time that wanted yer ter mar
l.y er preachur. Thar never wuz er preach
ur in aur family, an it's now time thar wuz
one. I've sot my MINI on this, an yer
meenter think / amt goin ter have it thater
way wy js look at Preachur Martins
wife. She gifts er new caiikcr coat ever
when she wants it. Er new one, min yer.
Er new calil1er coat all spotted eZ putty
ez yer please. I've dun said ernuff. Ef
Buck comes on this here place ergin 1t
won't be good fur him.
Old Horner was hillside farmer in the
northern part of Arkansas. He lived in
the conventional double-iog house on
whose stack chimney the whipporwills
sang their melancholy Songs when the sum
mer's twilight settled down. The old man
was set in his ways-had become convinced
that he was right and that every one else
vas wrong. lie was tall and gauut. with
.opg, yellowish hair and a sickly sprinklEs
d beard, like thin growth of wire grass,
growing where the land is poor His H4zfe
aad been educated into meekntss, and
thought that she should find her greatest
olcasCrein lowering over the Sizing bacon
and watching the hoe-cake. Nan, the girl,
vas a beautiful blonde, full of life, but
afraid of her father Sim Buck, to whom
Nan was secretly engaged to be married,
was, the neighbor5 said, "a rip shorten
sort Nv cr feller that Eout er mount ter
suthun eT he would try, but the chances
wuz ergin hin."
Mrs. Horner took up the supper, and,
signing wearily, said:
"Comc. pap, an eat er snack"
The old man drew up his chair, wal ed
with an ar OF impatiencc, until the other
members OF the family were seated and
thcn asked a blessing, beginning with an
elongated 'gracious Lord and ending with
an unintenigible sigh.
'Ain't yer goin' ter eat nothin', Nan?"
"AiE't er haungry."
"Buck's tuck yer appetite, reckon"
"Sir!'
"Hcard whut 1 said. Wall. never min,
| I'll take his appertite the next time he
comes on the place.
"PGp," said Mrs. Horner, don't torment
| the child"
The old man took swallow of butter
| milk, locked at his wife and replied: LET
US don't have no advice, Martha Keep in
! the straight an narrsr path an don't fret.''
About one month later, or the day before
| Christmas, old Borner, while splitting a
! "r&il-cllt" some distance from home, acci-
! dentally stepped in the opening Of the log
! just Is one of the ''gluts" few out Tae
| two sections of the log closed On the old
mans foot and ankle, and but for the thick
sole OF has boot, would have crushed his
| foot. lie uttered au exclamation of thank
| fulnes5, muttCred a few words in praise of
| old Riggsby, the shoemaker, and then at
| tempted to liberate himself. This, he soon
found, was not an easy or even possible
task. HIS axe, maui and wedges We're be-
! yond his reach. He shouted until he could
only croak, and then, in despair, he began
to pray. The stiff sole of his boot began to
| y!eid, and the splintered sides Of the log be-
| gan 10 painfully press his foot.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1886-12-29


Oh Yer nesnter flounee around thateT way"
Pap" said Mrs. Horner, looking up
from her work of baking corn bread on tie
hearth, don't nag at the child"
Martha, ever when L want yer advice
Til AK fur hit. Nan, air yer comen!''
''Yas, I'm er comm KANT yer gin er
body tinol'
''Oh, yas, ken gin er body time, but don't
feel like givin' er body eternity"
The girl slowly approached him, and
he continued: s'When / wuz out ter the
sto' the yuther day l hearn the you wnz
a Goin' ter marry Sim Buck next Chris
mus" The girls eyelids dropped. .'The
fellers out ther that peered to know all
erbout 1t said yer loved one nuther fit ter
kill. Whut yer got ter say erbout itF'
s.Nuthini.'
avail, then, III say suthin. Eff I lateh
Buck round here III hurt him, an morn
that CT yer run of am marry him IN foller
yer up Wali. never mine. yer shaint mar
r. him. That's all Eve been cr teilin' yer
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1886-12-29
VARIETY In VANITY.
rhS Two Sexes Cicvcrly Compared to the
Detriment of the aIea.

Detriment of the Me1.
[Chcago Herald.l
''Taik about the vanity OF women" said
Madison street halter; sit is nothing
compared to that Of men. Ny wife used to-
keep millinery store, and as was hang
mg around her shop good deal had OPP
portunity to study the customers, in whom
took more interest than D tsi In the
stock. Well, women are not vain. Not
one woman in tifty has any vanity about
her personal appearance. sSPs has, what
Is better, systematic business-like meth
Od of making herself look as well as possi--
bic. 1t i5 part Of her daily life TO wear
the things which will become her, and in
making selections she is earnest and prac-
tical and patient even if not always artist
&c. She knows her own face and figure
better than any body else and does not de-,
ceive herself She knows what she can
wear to advantage, and what she can not
If she is good-looxing she knows it, but
does not become silly in consequence. If
plain, she is aware of the fact, and instinct
ively and scnsibly docs her best to mako,
herself attractive by The arts of dress and
ador1ment. Take women by themselves,
away frem the other sex, and there is no
foolishness among them concerning them
selves. They are pcrfcc " frank with
each other concerning their figures and
features, and assist each other with ad-
mIrahle good humor. 1t is quite different
with men. For three years have been in
the hat business, and in that time have
seen more genuine vanity than in all my
life before. Nine men of ten are either
vain or Indifferent.
The average man doesn't know what he
wants. and while you are showing him
goods he changes his mind half a dozen
times 1t is no uncommon thing in my
store for a customer TO stand forty times
before the mirror, each time with hat on
his head. Sometimes he will take three or
four looks at one hat during ths course OF
his search.
In the matter Of extravaganza, too, tho
women are not the only offenders. Men
viii pay 50 to SIC for silk hats or 50 to 81 for
round-crowned hats made by well known
manufacturer, whose name is supposed to
lead the local world Of hat fashions, when
they know very well that articles of iden-
teal merit in every particular can be pur-
chased at saving of from 81 to So else.
where. They Go this simply because they
are vain enough to wish 10 be able to say,
on occasion, thai their hat is from so-and-so,
the fashionable. ] know men whose in<
comes do not exceed SO a month who ex-
pend in a year not less than $40 for hats.
Few women spend larger su:ns.''
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1886-12-29
"Helloa. old man ~

'Hello2, old man."
Looking up with start of JOY, the old
man behcld Sim Buck leisurely approach
ing.
Fur the Lawd's sake, Simmie, run here ~
''Ain't in no purtickler hurry" the young
man replied, tearing off chew of tobacco.
"Great heavens, don't yer see how I'm
fxed:'
"Ah, hah ~ Sim replied, as he came up
and carelcssly sat down on one end of the
log
.Conround yer fool souIr' shouted the
old man. ''ain't yer got no sense.'
I'm all right; amt nothin' the matter
with me. Come ter think CT bout it, thar
do peer ter be or fool in the neighborhood,
an it sorter peers like he's dun jammed
his foot inter the crack Nv er log"
Never mind, I'll fix yer fur this"
"Peers like you've already fix ed yuse'f."
'Sim, for Gods sake split open this log
an let me git outen here"
''Don't like ter split wood; but eff yer've
got any plowin' yer want done don't mind
doin' It fur yer''
You air brute" the old man raved.
''Yas, that's what they said down in the
holler, but the branch KEEP on er runnin'."
"S;mmie.'
"Thatis me-
''Please turn NE or loose"
an Z got cr ilOib Nv yer.
You air the1lamede st foil ! eyer seen. -
THAT'S me- an tcr-morrer will be Chris
mus, too. Lowed that I'd come over an
take dinner with yer, but hearn that yer
didn't want NOBODY but preachers ter come
round YER
Turn me loose, Sim, an yer may come. y
'Tell yur whut iii do. Turn yer el
loose CT ycr'l gin me er Chrismus pres
ent'
"rn do it; I'll gin yer er calf"
sSCoIne or gin.''
"Two hOgs.''
'.No, gin me Man,
"I won't do itr' the old man Indignantly
shouted.
'All right, then; goodbye"
Hop On, Sim"
"Wan'
OFF,
Ah, hah, but 1 must 60"
'Say, SIM
~YallD
"I'n gin yer the gal Icain't STAN thi.
no longer.1
!. Shall wc take it doHa in writinilp
oh, mussy, 20; my words ez good el
my tond.n
-.ah riVlst"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1886-12-29

HE gaastly flicker Of
a smoking oil lamp,
suspended from a
weighty chain a t.
taohed to the old
fashioned gables of
two rather tall build
ing5, lent an air of en-.
chantment to The low,
thatched cottages lin
ing both sides of the
main street of an an
cient hamlet in ro-
mantle Suabia, ; and
thi 5 pleasant scnsa-
ton was made even
more realistic by a
glance at the siiyery
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1886-12-29

AN, come here er min
it," said old Bob Hor-
ner, addressing his
daughter. The girl,
who stood spreading
the covers on an old
fashioned bed, pre-
tended not to hear her
fathers q e n q n d.
"Nan, eff leone airter
yer, I'll bet yer'll
wish Yer had come.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1886-12-29
s. A Ae1kstesk

The people IN n " Westchester town have
refused to give food to tramp, and now.
he threatens to have them arrested for
boycotting him and interfering with his
legitimate business.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1886-12-29
FALL!
FROM WATER TO WHEEL.
10 FEET!
ELM CREEK ROLLER MILLS
The Only water-Powsr Mill in Barber

You all know our standard brands. viz: Rol
Ter Patent; GIFT Edge Patent; Log Cabin and
Turkey Wheat. All grades are Warranted
Sold.at Currie & Schmidts Feed and Flour
Store; r. Lebrecht & Co.'S Grocery and Sup
ply store; Geo. II. Heath & Cos Mill, Feed and
Flour Store, opposite new court house, Med
icine Lodge.
~ JoHEsoN DENTON Elm Mills: Kan.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1886-12-29
OK g. 0~4&

COME along with me, and have fine
timo' remarked a policeman to a man
he had arrested. Pm afraid you aro
trying to cell me-" replied the prisoaer.-
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1886-12-29
CRRI5TMAS-Eve IN SUABlA.

Curious Customs Obtaining Among the
Country Folk OF Fertile Portion OF
Southern Germany-Practical Charity iH
Poetic Garb-A Pathetic Inc.denL.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1886-12-29

Ills appearance suggested familiar saint;
Though his garb and his manner were not quito
as CuG.at,-s
Still. what with his bundles and many gew
gaws,
lie strongly resembled dear old Santa Claus
Alasl that Disaster should plume her dark
wing;
Alacl.! tlat so certain is Troubles sharp sting;
When poor trusting mortal most upright
would stand,
On his back, in tho struggle, he's likely TO
land
Thus it was with my hero the jolly old gent,
AS slowly and.cautiously onward he went;
In an unguarded moment lie lost his firm grip,
On the smooth icy pavement his foot made q
slip.
IN n frantic endeavor upright to remain,
He threw down his parcels, but all was in
vain:
On his load Just behind, with great crushing
noise.
Ee came down with destruction upon the gay
toys.
Then about him soon gathered a curious
throng,
Pressing eagerly forward to see what was
wrong;
Some laughed at his mishap, some viewed
with regret,
Tie painful misfortune with which he had net.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1886-12-29
NAN AND SIM.

Story Of an Enforced Christmas
Present.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1886-12-29
The DAY BEFORE CHRISTMAS.

WAS the day before
Christmas and out
On the street
Was an in ce S ant
ira m pin g q II d
stamping Of feet,
AS, 10 and fro brisNiy,
mankind move Z q
about,
And from the gay
m ketS cam e
throngs pouring out.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1886-12-29

From Attion and ull Eastern points, arrives
daily ~ 80 ~; leaves daily ~ 2.I5 r 81.
From Ashland, ColdwutCr, Ncscntungu, Sol
dior Greek, Nrd Creek, sun city, Lake city,
Miugona, kiuHmuu. Bruss, New kiowH, arrives
daily.
H. a., arrives Mondays. Wednesdays and FRI
di ysHtarM. DcpartsruUsduys, Thursday and
Saturdays ut y 4 ~.
From luka, Elm Mills md Saratoga arrives on
tuesdays and Fridays vt y ~ and departs ON
Wednesdays and SATURDAYS nj AN.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1886-12-29

In the air was perfume of holiday spice;
On the walk was coating OF hard, glcamy ice;
The glad music OF sieigbbells rang cut sweet
ard clear,
And the world seemed replete with Christmas
tide cheer.
In the midst OF the hustle, with hands and arms
frll.
And tugging behind him a load hard to pull,
Went surging and pulling, with good naturcd
air
A jolly old gentleman with snowy-wllite hair.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1886-12-29
Watches.

Gents Watch, Gold Filled. 50 to 80 90
Gents Watch. Solid Gold $50 to 100 90
Gents Watch Chains, - 80 to-. 20 90
Gold Plate and Solid Gold.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1886-12-29
CHURCHES
POSTAL.
Tho MaiIa;

pustufiico M Medicine Lodge open from
o. y rN. SUNDAYS one hour On arrival of mail
Money order uiiiCc. r.. a. MCCLEARY. 4. ".
A. \. S.MCCLENttY, Assistant
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-06-04
Church Debts.

This VIEWS largely obtainingground
IN regard to all the UNCONVENTIONAL
boards and societies which are engag-
ed in missionary effort. 1t has been
found that by rashly mourning debts
these organizations cripple themselves,
and although they are temporarily
able to do what seems to be an in
creased work, they do it under great
disadvantage. They are obliged to be
making constant appeals to the peo-
pie ofthe churches, not onlyfor money
with which to push their missionary
work, but for money to pay old debts.
A great many liberal people, who
would otherwise be large givers, do
not like to give their money Just for
the sake OF helping missionary mana.
gers out of Indebtedness into which
they will again plunge as soon as they
have q chance. The case of some Of
these managers is illustrated by the
answer OF a Sunday school boy to q
question asked by the minister at q
recent anniversary. The debt OF the
church had just been paid of, and the
pastor was full of the idea of having
a thanksgiving jubilee over the event.
Said he: Now, children, we've got
out OF debt; what shall we do about
it?' "Get in again!" was the prompt
reply OF the sagacious youngster.-
Philadelphia Times.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-06-04
Is Senator MOrtOn and Grant,

| met ex-united States Treasurer
John c. New as | was strolling along
the avenue, writes n Washington cor
respondent OF The New York Herald.
He has been stopping at the Riggs. l
heard a curious story told by one
OF Gen. Grants closest friends who
had 1t direct from the ex-presi1ent.
Senator Morton called to see the pres
ident one day, and being a cripple,
Gen. Grant came downstairs to see
him. Finding that his visitor wa
leading up to the subject OF patronage,
Gen. Grant suggested that they go
round to the stable and see u new colt
that had just been bought. Morton
dld not seem averse. and when hisser-
want had lifted him into his coupe, he
asked the president to take the place
by his side. They reached the stable
in due time. The new colt a trot-
ted out. His good points were all in.
dicated by the president, who was a
fair Judge Of horseflesh.
"Nhat do You think I gave for
him2" he asked the senator.
"About $780," replied Morton, who
knew nothing about horses and cared
less.
Wrong" said thepresident," paid
$780,
I'D rather have the money" ex-
claimed Morton.
Strange; but that's exactly what
the man said OF whom | bought the
horse"
GLOW so?"
81 offered him my note for three
months" answered Gen. Grant, evil
IDENTIFY much pleased that he had
worked off a favorite story in new
shape on the senator from Indiana.
But he suddenly stopped smiling as
the latter retorted: 'If you offered
that to a h~orseiockey | want you to
offer the vacant treasurership to John
c. New OF my state.
The directness OF The request stag
gered the president and he replied:
81 have already about promised the
place to Senator Conkling for II friend
OF ours in New Iork'-naming the
name, though l do not recall it at this
moment-"1can't disappoint him, you
know"
and you can't put off an old joke
on him as You have on me-" was the
bland rejoinder.
At this the president laughed heart
lily and John c. New received the APP
pointment.a few dayslater.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-06-04
Politics in New Mexico.

The First Assistant Postmaster
General has received the following in
te1esting letter from a citizen OF New
Mexico, who signs himself "Justice of
the Peace" The word "confidential'
Is written at the head of tho letter,
and out of considerations of human
,ty his mime and residence will be kept
a profound secret:
RESPECTED SIK-Old Dick Hanson is
circulatin' a paper around town ask
ing to be made postmaster at this
place and ! have signed it, but I don't
want it to Count, and when it Comes
IN pleas scrach my .same off. as he is
no more nit for postmaster than | am
for minister Of the holy gospel. Dick
Is an awful ruff cuss-drinlss, swears,
tights-and would belt hela ont Of me
If he knew OF this letter. Pleas burn
this, and don't give me Way, and has
no education, MOI any manners, would
whip any republican in town if he haG
that office, ana bleave would steas
U, S. poor in four years. Heisa retch
OF the first water, and sveryonei in tass
town is fraia OF him, and would pnt
on more airs than a French stud horse
and drive every r%epnblicn out of this
town. l write strong because wetave
q very refined community, and you
don't want to give him that Office I'M.
less you want to 1ysorganiz this COM
munity, tor he is a holy terrur, and
you may depend on it. We look to
the Hon. postmaster general to save
us from q sh@lazerous doom.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-06-04
Concerning. Badness.

1t has been estimated that onc-half tn,
adult men of American birth living in
our cities are bald-hnaIcd. The esti-
mate is not eXaggcratcdtif it is applied
to persons above the age of so. and it
may be rather under that mark. #.
now, it be conceded that sne-half OF our
American business and professional
men are bald at the. pse>cnt time. it
would be interesting TO speculate as to
the condition Of their descendants some
hundreds Of Years from now. The
probabilities point toward II race of
hairless Americans. fer badness is cs-
pccia!ly liable to be propayated in the
male line. and TO appear 4 little earlier
in each generation. The American ma
ton is threatened with the catastrophe
Of Il universal alopecia.. 1t appears to
be worth while, therefore, to consider
the subject of prevention. since no
means have Vet been found for the cure.
Why are so many men,bald before their
time?
The answer has always been that it
is due to the excessive strain and cease.
less mental and physical activity TO.
which American methods of business
and modes Of living conduce. From,
the visitor S gallery If the stock ex-
change. for example, .one views a mob
OF shining plates belonging, as a rule.
to rather young men,.
Any reformer, however, who expects,
to prevent badness, by changing Amer.
lean habits, may as we'll stop at once for.
he will surely fail. Now, there may BIZ
perhaps. help in some other quarter.
The sons of prematurely bald fathers.
should boar in. mind that if they wish to,
save their hair it will only be through
industrious attention to their scalr.
This much neglected surface shouldi DO
thoroughly cleansed at certain intervals.
1t should be carefully and regularly ss-
amineA> and if it be.nnhealthy, dry and
skurv,Er the proper, applications should
be made to it. The wearing of invent
Hated, hats is II of the greatest sources
OF failure of nutrition of the haiy; and
these must be avoided. The beard
never falls out. because it gets plenty OF
sunlight and air. These are what the
hair of the scalp needs, also. Women
a~re'iess bald than men, because for one
reason, their scalpj are better ventilat.
ed. In fine. civilization has. made the
ha%ir-producing organs of the, scalp deli.
aate and feeble. They .ave to be
nursed and cared for, or they atrophy
and disappear. Young Americans who
40 not wish to lose thei- hair before,
they are 40 must begin to look after,
their scalps before they are 2O.-Medi-
cal Record.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-06-04
He Was a Well Known Man.

A New York correspondent writes:
c. A. Kimball OF Chicago, who is the
United States consul at Stuttgart,
Germany, under this administration,
is one OF the men who delights to tell
good stories. He has q large fund
from which to draw. | was chatting
with him a day or two ago on his
return from Germany on a business
trip, when something was said about
presidential candidates. The COM
parative o%bscurity ofMr. Cleveland Mt
the time OF his nomination was men
toned. "That always reminds me Of
a New Hampshire story" said Mr..
Kimball. 81 was stopping in New
Hampshire for few days when Lin.
coin was nominated at Chicago. An
old countryman from a little village
back i'll the country had come to town
and a III the hotel Office when the
news came. "Who is this man Lin.
coln?' he asked. There was some ex-
PLANTATION and the old fellow went on:
well, Pm afeard they've made n mis-
take. They ought to have nominated
a man that was more ginerally known.
They should have come to IL town
and nominated Squire Ichabod Bart,
lett. Everybody knows him."