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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-10-10
A Collapsed Boom.

The Greatest Living Statesman's boom
has collapsed. "Wait till Blame gifts back, -
was what all the Republicans had been say
ing. He'll ''give 'em facts an fggers, toe, J."
it was prophesied. Blaine has been back a
month and presented a great quantity Of
'facts an fggers." Unfortunately it has
turned out that most Of them ''were not SO, >,
and he has been caught in no end of bad
blunders, Then came that remarkable
"keynote" in defense Of trusts, which not
only puzzled people, but inevitably aroused
the suspicion whether its author was not
"knihng" Harrison. To make bad matter
worse, it had already been announced that
he would stump the country. Since the
trusts speech the Western Republicans
''view with alarm" the idea of his coming
out there. ''He could hardly have made a
more unfortunate utterance,'' says the
Omaha (Neb.) Bee, for example; 'sMr.
Blaine is not fully in line with his party on
this matter" "Mr. Blaine has made mis-
take" On the other hand the Democrats
point with pride"to the announcement that
Mr.. Blaine will positively stump the coun-
try in support Jas it is allegedl of Harrison
and Morton, and the st. Louis Republic in
sists that ''if it can be accomplished in no
other way, the Democratic National Com
mittee should not hesitate moment TO as
sumo the expense" The question of the
hour with the Republican managers is:
'What shall be done with the Greatest Liv-
ing Statesmanl"
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CAMPAIGN ECHOES.

The St. Louis Pos,-Dispdtch thinks Il
is a sad commentary on the ingratitude Of
the masses that while the Republican party
is posing as the only friend of the working
men the laborers Of New York decline to
support Labor-Importer Morton and the
laborers of Indiana are bitterly opposed to
Chinese Harrison.
There is no doubt that If James Gillespie
Blaine can be induced to make a campaign
speech in this city he will get as warm q
reception from the Republicans as Allen
Granbery Thurman gets from the Demo-
Gratis, says the New York Sun. These two
men are the most notable figures on both
sides of this years canvass.
When Candidate Harrison served as cor
poration attorney he charged railroad
company $1,000 for weeks work, but
when he enlisted to shoot the railroads en-
pioyes in 1877 he was content to accept IS a
day. Does that Indicate that the latter
work was more congenial to him than the
formeri asks the Brooklyn Citizen.
Toledo Bee: GAS we go along in this cam
paign, keep an eye on Ohio The Repub-
hcan majority is not so great as to be be-
yond the possibility Of reversal. Hayes, In
'76, had less than 10000 majority, and Gar
field did not have an avalanche of votes.
The Buckeyes are doing pile of thinking
this year, and they love Grover Cleveland.
There may be slip in the twenty-three
electoral votes from this State"
The Montreal Gazette thus expresses IT.
self on the tariff question: "a good many
English free traders must have rubbed
their eyes on Saturday when they saw the
London Times praising the work Of protec-
ton in Canada, by admitting that the Ma
tional policy had welded the Dominion into
a united country. The memory of man
goeth not back to the time when the Thuu-
derer has seen any thing but evil in a pro-
tective tariff"
According to the Cincinnati Enquirer,
when Mr.. Quay accepted the chairmanship
OF the Republican National Committee he
lost all his influence as United States Sem
ator. His advice was rejected at the caucus
at Senator Evarts' house, and at the confer
ence at Senator Edmunds' hospitable homo
the wine seems to have been quite as per-
suasive and the cigars fully as strong as
those dispensed by the New York Senator.
Quay had no influence at either perform
ance.
There's more truth than poetry in these
lines from the Philadelphia Times:
Who is that mani that looks SO wise,
Who TO politicians brings surprise,
For they can not tell just what he means,
His silent ways disturb their dreams
And such.
Yes, he is the man they can not touch.
And yet his ballot decides the light.
IT'S the silent voter. He's all right
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THE MOTHER-IN-lAW.
An Earnest Plea I'm Behalf of a Much
Abused Glass of Women.

An Earnest Plea I'm Behalf of a Much
Abused Glass of Women.
Perhaps to-day there is no relation in life
in which a woman is so persistently abused
and misunderstood as in that to her daugh-
ter's husband, says the New York Press. 1t
has been made the theme of the Jest book,
the circus clown, and the topical songster
ad nauseam. In the vulgar and witless
warning against matrimony, sung by
NadJy, 1t is encouraging to note that the hit
at " mother-in-law " extracts only a sickly
smile from the audience. No doubt this is
due TO the staleness of the subject quite as
much as its false sentiment, but let us hope
it marks a revulsion in public taste. not
withstanding that fair BRIDE, Amelie Rives,
who makes Herod say:
Methinks that Satan was a married man.
and his wlfe's mother egged him to rebel see
ing Heaven would not hold them both
People are beginning to find out that
when man vIliiies his mother-in-law il is
generally safe to assume that he ill-treats
his wife. A young girl, when she marries,
takes it for granted that her husbands S
love and devotion will continue to be hers
as much as the sunshine and the air. The
mother, from her wider observation and
perhaps bitter experience, is full Of vague
fears and alarm. When her daughter stood
not only her child, but her power of insur-
ing that child's happiness. Her maternal
eye, keen as eagles, seeks to pierce the
future; but no, she must fold her brooding
wings and wait with beating heart to learn
II this marriage meant the highest happi-
ness or the greatest misery that comes TO
woman.
In the former case the mother ioyously
feels she has not been robbedof daughter,
but been given son. Her heart turns in
gratitude and love to the man in whose
hands her daughters lot is secure; indeed,
it is doubtful If she feels more tenderness
for her own SON As TO the young husband,
he regards with reverence and tilial affec-
ton the mother of the woman he adores,
and who has made her what she is.
On the other hand, what intolerable an
guish comes to that mother who, condemned
to see the child she has so tenderly reared,
so carefully sheltered from every rough
wind and word, now the victim, or the serv-
ant, of a man whose "love" expired with
possession, or whose cruelty or neglect is
sapping the life of the young wife If the
mother interposes to reason, remonstrate,
or save her daughter, the fioodgates of
abuse are opened, and in that portion of so
clety IN which the master of ceremonies is
the police justice he accepts the excuse of
"mother-in-law," when he should ask
"Why was she driven to Tnterferei"
Of course there are weak, foolish and
even tyrannical women who would like to
rule their sons-in-law as they do their hus.
bands, with Mysteries or rods Of iron, but
these are the exceptions, not the rule,
which should permit large class Of women,
mothers in the first place, to become tar
get for cheap wit and an excuse for marital
brutality.
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NOTES FROM ABROAD.

A CANAL across Italy is being planned, to
connect the Adriatic and the Mediterranean.
1t will begin at Fano.
The wearing OF gloves Of adifferent color
the right hand different from the left
is increasing in Paris.
PorE LEO has decided that all his Jubilee
presents which are of sacred nature are
to form Leonine Museum.
The Hondurian Government has ordered
scientific survey to be made of the ruins
OF Copan, aud take sketches of the same.
THE Sultan Of Turkey lately ordered
several typewriters for the ladies of his
narem who can write in the French Ian
guage.
"A STATUE Of Shakespeare is TO be erected
In one OF the most conspicuous and fashion
able parts of Paris, but it is at the expense
Of Englishmen..
AFTER an expenditure of three-Quarters
OF million of dollars for machinery and
prospecting, Egypt has abandoned the
search for petroleum.
THE consumption Of wheat in New South
Wales, Australia, is said to average 6.4
bushels per head yearly, rate claimed to
be higher than that Of any other country.
THE number Of rabbits killed for the boun-
ty last year in one Australian colony was 19-
1889, and the bounties paid that year have
been estimated at s2.5O000O. In addition
millions of dollars have been paid for hun
dreds Of miles Of rabbit-proof fence. And
still the rabbits seem to be as numerous
as ever.
QUEEN VICTORIA has now reigned over
England longer than any monarch but two,
Henry LII, and George Ill She overlook
Queen Elizabeth six years ago, and has out
done Edward Ill, who only reigned 14S
days over half century. II she lives n
few years longer Victoria will have reigned
longer than any royal parsonage OF history.
As THE annual local consumption In
France of brandy is 1900 coo gallons and
the yearly product only 100000 gallons,
American lovers Of eau de we are wonder
ing what the stun Is which comes across the
Atlantic labeled as French brandy. Scien.
ufic experts say that most OF 1t is cheap
German spirits. favored with cunningiy
devised extacts and cordials.
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A FASHIONABLE BRIDE.
Take my cloak-and now fix my vail, Jenr
How silly 10 cover ones fscel

Take my cloak-and now fix my vail, Jenny
How silly 10 cover ones fsce!
might a. well be an old woman;
but then there enc comfort-ft's lacaI
Woll' what has become Of these ushersf
Oh, Pa have you got my OouQueti
I'll freeze standing here In the lobby
Why doesn't the organist playf
Theyv started az last-what bustlel
Stop. Pa'-they're not far enough-waitI
One M mute more-nowl-do keep step, Pal
Thera, drop my trail, Janei-is IL straight
hope look timid and shrinking;
The church must be perfectly full
Good gracious. now don't walk so fast, PAT
He don't seem TO think that trains pull.
The chapcel ~ last-mind the step, Pal
don't feel embarrassed at all
But, my what's the minister sayingt
oh. TOW; that part bout St Paul
hope my position is graceful:
Bow swkwardly Nellie Dane stood
" Not lawfully be Joined together
Now spesk"'-as II any one would
Oh dcsri now Us my turn TO answer
wish that Pa would stand stu
Serve him, love, honor and keep him"
How sweetly he says It'll viii.
Where Pay There, knew he'd forget it
Wnen the time came to give me away
" l. Helena, take Observation-Disclosures
And'-wel can't helpit-"obey."
Here, Maud, take my bouQuet-don't drop itI
hope Charley's not lost the ring;
Just Ike him m!-no!-goOdness, how heavy,
It's really an elegant thing.
It's a shame TO kneel down in white satin
Aud the hOunce real Old laee-but must;
hope they have got clean cushion,
They're usually covered with dust.
All over--ah thanks, now don't fuss, Pa
just throw back my vail Charley-there-
Oh, bother! why couldn't he kiss me
without muss ng up all my halrl
Your arm, Charley, there goes the organ
Who'd think there would be such a crowdi
Oh, mustn't look round; I'd forgotten
See, Charley, who was it that bowodi
Why-its Nellie Allaire, with her husband
She's Rwfully jealous, L know.
Most OF ali my things were imported,
And she had q homemade rousseau;
And there's Annie Wheeler-Kate Hermon-
didn't expect her NJ all
II she's not in that same old blue satin
She wore at the charity balli
Is that Fanny Wade?-Edith Parton
And Emma. and Jo-all the girls;
knew that they'd not miss my Wedding
hope they'll notice my pearls.
Is the carriage there?-give me my cloak,
Jane
Don't get IL all over my vail
No, you take the other seat, Charley,
Ineed all this for my trail
-George A. Baker, Jr.. IN ". Y. Telegram.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-10-10

any considerable extent The farmer,
therefore, has the home market pretty much
to himself now.
But he furnishes more than 20 per cent.
OF all our exports. In the census year the
total value Of our farm products was S2,-
213, 402,5 ,564 OF this total s5i6, ,476, ,7O4, or
nearly 25 per cent, was exported. This
surplus above the home demand was nearly
25 per cent. of his total product Now If he
had been confined to the home market
what would he have got for this extra 25
per cent that the home market didn't
wanta And how would the value of his to
tai product have been affected If he had
glutted the home market with a surplus of
25 per cent above the demand? And as he
himself consumes about one-half of his
product he may judge for himself about
how much his home market would have to
be enlarged in order to absorb his % per
cent surplus at remunerative prices. He
would do well to ponder such facts as these
before swallowing the magnetic talk he
hears about the home market
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-10-10
What Ben Butler One. Thought.

IHHV]-1 oPooVu DoIINeIou IN Iooz-
am one OF the largest woolen manufact-
urers in the United States. do not say
this boastingly, but to show that am NOT
selfish in the views hold The cloth
wear is OF my own manufacture, and I
notice several gentlemen around me who
wear the same. On these goods there is a
tariff Of sixty per cent. Republican orators
and newspapers tell you this tariff is to pro-
tect the mill laborers. Twenty per cent.
wiz pay our entire labor expenses. What
do you suppose becomes of the other forty
per cent? These same Republican orators
and newspapers tell you it goes into the
United States Treasury. Not a dollar
reaches there. Every cent goes into my
pocket. And every one Of you is paying
this bounty to the wooden manufacturers.
The whole tariff scheme is an imposition
and fraud on the American people.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-10-10

The story has reached US of an Italian
nobleman who at the altar refused to marry
a young English heiress because her bridal
dress was trimmed with the dead bodies Of
white doves. The tale is good enough 10 DC
true, but unfortunately such stories are not
always trEe, aad the use Of birds for orna-
Pienting the person is not wholly dispensed
WIN OrnIthologists, however, assure us
that the decided progress already made by
tae press in creating public sentiment
against this cruelty and barbarism has
largely increased the song birds at the
Northern nesting haunts. ANY woman
WHO persists in the use Of real birds and
birds wings should be socially ostracized.
Let her lay aside her prayer-book and learn
mercy and grace, and to be faithful 70 her
natural obligations.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-10-10
The Home nfarke,,

The high taxers are administering home
market talk TO the farmers in big doses.
One dose Of it they administer in their plat
form, wherein they say they s'would effect
all needed reduction of the National rev.
enue by such revision of the tariff laws as
viii tend TO check imports Of such articles
as are produced by our people" They seem
TO mean to have the farmer understand by
this that they would give him the home
market TO himself by keeping ont foreign
products.
Now, suggests the Chicago Times, let the
farmer consider few facts before he swal-
lows tins. With the exception of tea, coffee,
sugar, and some articles which our farmers
do not produce at all, or only in small Quan-
zties. our IMPORTS ere not farm products ia
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-10-10
Crazy for women's shoes.

An old man named John Kaufman, who
died in Brazil, Ind, the other day, had a
most peculiar monomania, His desire to
steal women's shoes was uncomfortable,
though he was never accused Of stealing
any thing else. A few years ago he was ar.
rested, and forty OF fifty pairs Of women's
shoes and slippers recovered. He had buried
them on the commons. He was sent to the
penitentiary for q short time for this Of
Tense. His wife got divorce during his
term in prison, and he has ever since lived
alone The day he died over sixty pairs of
women's shoes and slippers were found IN
his hut He was veteran Of the Mexican
and civil wars.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-10-10
How to Eat soft-Roi,ed rn,.

The very incest way of eating a soft
boiled egg is from the shell, says Table Talk,
OF Philadelphia. Place the small end of the
egg into an egg cup, or you may stand it in
a small napkin ring. The large or butt end
OF the egg should have the shell removed
from 1t; then if you take away small
piece OF the white you have ample room for
salt, pepper and small piece of butter,
which may be mixed with the egg without
dli1culty. Long-handled porcelain tea
spoons are the incest and only proper
things to serve with boiled eggs Soft
boiled eggs may also be eaten from heated
egg-glass; the egg being opened carefully
and turned into the glass. Salt, black pep
per and butter are the proper seasonings.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-10-10
WOODEN FRUiT-6oxEs.
How They Are Made In the Great r
tories of the Ernft Districts.

How They Are Made In the Great Fac
tories Of the Fruit Districts.
How many of those who buy box of ber-
ries, cherries, plums or other small fruit, OF
the grocer or vender at the door, know how
the little wooden boxes which hold the fruit
Light and fragile, thinner than pasteboard,
and apparently simple IN construction, they
are by far the best thing yet devised for
the handling and marketing Of small fruits.
They are made bf shavings. The thin
sheet II wood which form the sides and
bottom OF berry-box are nothing more nor
less than small pieces cut from great pine,
tir or whitswOod shaving, and bent and fast
ened together IN the shape Of box. These
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-10-10

New York World: The highest indorse-
ment tnat can be given to the Democratic
policy OF tariff reform is the assertion of it's
opponents that it "will make this country =
iree-trade land within twenty years" The
necessity of raising an enormous revenue
VIII render this impossible. But the pre-
dictlon that little reduction will work so
well that the people will vote for more at
every Congressional election for the next
twenty years is confession Of the sound
ness OF the policy which was unlocked for
in its enemies.
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nadIelna Lodre omcert.
soCIETIEs

SOCIETIES.
A.F. a A. ". Delta Lodge No. -
"a Regular communications, hr~t and
!" month. l. W. stout, w.M
ANuHOsE ALLEN. secretary.
CYPRUS CHAPTER No. ~. Il. 4. ". meet.
in Masonic Hall every "a aud tth Thursday
Visiting brethren cordially invited. q, -
Gro. X. STONE, ". II.
EP P.CARrrHgRs. scc'y.
u. II, S. RSgniar Communications, is'i ilrsi
and third Monday evenings Ia each month.
DR. a. YANr, Sec.
DEtrniA LopGE, No. 100, x. Of r.. mects ~
Monday evening uf each week ut Odd Fellow
hall. Visiting Knights in good standing invi
HGRRY PLioNAN. X. OF Il. 4 :.
LOO r., Pioneer LODI,
No. i1o.-Rcgular meetings
AS every Tuesday cNcn.ng.N :
iungbrethrcni IN good stand
/NLS - j: q. THURMAN, N. q.
1A~ J. y. DIAL. sec.
ENstON ENCAMPMENT No. Gs, !. q. q. r
Meets FIRST and third Friday Of each month
l.. v. HUBHAHp, ". y. j. l.. NELSON, 9. y.
AMBROSE ALLEN, =. j. y. HALL, >
NAOMI No.g7. REBECCA DEGREE, I. q. OF
Meets the "a and 9TH Friday nights, each month
EN-. BYERLEY. socy.
n D ELDRED POST. No. ia, meet,
VI ~ M the last Saturday IN each month
OF the court house VA Medicine Lodge, at : 4. ~
All comrades cordially invited.
-. q. HOWE, Post Commander
J. w. UrrEWAN, AdJutant.
A. O, u, W. Esss ESsl'y cys1s ES4yo fSar.&a; NSi :G
J. W. SINGER. Recorder.
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CHURCHES.

DArrIST. Preaching every sunday evening
- go o'Clock. 81 the courthouse. sunday
school NJ 10 o'clock, a. ~. Prayer meeting
"Wednesday evening Of each week, over store of
nycrlCy, Dark Runyan. Rev. W. A. Cain
Pastor. Residence on North Walnut street
HtIRIsTtAN.-Prcac every SUNDAY nj
~ u o.cluck. u. m, AMI 5:aDp M. by Eldcl
W. a. Emhtcy. Prayer meeting every Wed
ncsday night. sunday school at 10 clock a. m
every sunday.
METHODIST EPIsCOPAL.-Scryiccso ovcry
NsA sunday at li.0O v. m. aud 7;aO y. m. sun
day school every sunday at i0a. M. Prayer
meeting every "Wednesday evening nt 30
Strangers invited. n. sASDERsON, Pastor.
DHEsnYTERtAN.-s Services every sunday nj
~ -. IN. and I'3 =, IN, .!tis sunday school school al
CATHOLIC CHURCH. Services on End
iu.uO u. m. HEv. BITTER Pastor.
nERMAN BAPTIST BWETHREN-Hold reg
" ulnr services nt MiuWunH, barber county,
the scCOnd aud fourth Sundays in each month
a. Forrest school house ON the second SUNDAY
Cedar Crcck school house un the third sunday
hy Elders ShamhCrrCr, Smith and Nchcr.
Southern Kansas Railroad Time Card.
GofNG EAST.
Passenger and Express, leaves. ......3;e5 y. m.
froiEht, leaves s..s.................... ef5 "a. m
COMING WEST.
l,asscsE,r and Express. arrives. .ls;es p. IN.
u. e. CIsr, Local Agent.
POSTAL.
Pustuficc NJ Medicine Lodge open from A N
loers. sundays one hour ON arrival of mail
Money order uitcc. n A. MCCLEARY, =. ".
4. A.MCCLEAHY. Assistant
The Mails;
FROM Attica and nll Eastern points, arrive,
daily 30 is3l1 q NJ. leaves daily ut g..urM.
frum Ashland, ColdwatCr, NcsCatuuFa, Sun
City, Lake city and Minguna, arrives daily.
FROM kiuwH, g. ~, CunCmu, sexton. Eldrcd
uutoltou, Harttner aud .Etna. arrives daily
10 D. ni. Leaves at 10 a.. ma.
PROM kiuuman, Hruss. Hates. Nashville. ar
rivcs 30 1.an, pm. Leaves at a. M.
frum sawyer, Film Mills aud Amber. arrive,
ON Mondays, Wednesdays aud Friii - at s:g
y. N Departs Tuesdays, Thursdays and S6tur
davs atsAM. Arrives at SAWYER at rs y. m.
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PHYsIcIANsIN MEDICINE LODGE

s, KOcIELL'
HOMEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN & SURGEON,
Office East Side Main Street.
MEDICINE LODGE, KANSAS.
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DEfrnfA LOpGE, No. 100, X. Of T., meets on
Monday evening ~ each week, ut Odd Fellow =
hall Visiting knights in good standing invi-
.ed o. attend. n. r. NtNCEST e. &.
HAHHY PLNgNAN. X. OF Il. * :.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-10-10

a. W. MCNEAt., President.
~. q. TuoNrsON, vice Prcs't.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-01-10
What Beaver County Desires

There will b, six petitions presented
to the Legislature from Beaver County.
One of these petitions will ask. that
Sewer and Willard Couu ties be annexed
10 the Second Judicial District. One
asking that the boundary line running
between Willard and Beaver Counties
be permanently located on the Fifth
Standard parallel Oae asking appro-
pristion of 81 800 for bridge over
Beaver River. One asking that the
boundary lines of Beaver City be
changed making the limits of Beaver
City 400 eres. Two petitions from
MinersvilIe will be presented, one
asking that a bounty be paid on rabbit
peIts, smother asking that 1t be made
eonpulsory upon parties in adjoining
fielGs TO make rabbit-proof fence
fif13l NJ