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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-08-14
THE DEACON's STRATEGY.
How He Made a Crowd of Young Fellows
Attend a Prayer-NIeetInR.

How He Made a Crowd of Young Fellows
Attend a Prayer-NIeetIng.
An Oxford County (Me.) deacon lost his
first wife, with whom he had lived fifty
years, and in due time, the Lewiston Jour-
Eal says, he took another bride to solace his
declining days. Such a proceeding, al
though warranted both by Holy Writ and
by human precedent, caused considerable
talk in the neighborhood on account of the
deacon's advanced age, and some of the
young people proposed to give the couple an
old fashioned serenade. So they gathered
large and noisy crowd together, equipped
themselves with a circular saw, chime of
COW bells and band of horns and set up
frightful din in front of the deacon's house
several hours after the old gentleman and
his bride had retired.
The first alarm brought the deacon to the
door. The serenaders expected q storm of
righteous wrath to burst upon their heads
and were prepared to meet it with q
tempest of horn, saw and cow bell.
''Gentlemen," said mild voice, won't
you come inl'
| A hush fell upon the crowd, and they
stared in silent wonder at each other.
That couldn't be the deaconi
They drew nearer and took a better look
at the figure standing IN the doorway.
Yes, they could plainly see by the candle
which he held that it was the deacon.
''Wife and would be pleased to have you
I all come in" he said again.
Disconnected, but unable to resist the In
vitation, they filed into the house.
The deacon and his wife provided chairs,
and they all sat down. Then the good old
man took his family Bible from the shelf
and read a passage of Scripture in clear
voice. Having finished the chapter, he
closed the good book, kneIt down and said,
fervently: LET US pray"
The company listened respectfully to q
long prayer, in which the deacon asked for
q special manifestation of Heavenly grace
TO the misguided youth Of the community.
'Now, my young friends" said he, II
know that some of you have good voices
Let's have little music.n
he passed around the hymn books, his
wife pitched the tunes and the company
Joined in. They sung several OF the Moody
and Sankey fayorites, and before they
knew 1t were having as good q time as IL
they were pounding the hewgag in the front
yard
At last. in a polite way, the deacon bade
them goodnight, and said he would be very
glad to see them again.
They went away full Of respect for the old
man. wishing him long enjoyment Of his
new-fonnd connuhial bliss, and wondering
whether they had serenaded the deacon or
tha deacon had earanadad them
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-08-14
An Underground Canal.

''The strangest canal in the world is one
never saw mentioned In any book or news
paper" said an English clergyman to st.
Louis Globe-Democrat reporter. SIT is q
canal sixteen miles long, between Worsley
and st. Helens, in the north Of England, and
is underground from end to end. In Lam
cashire the coal mines are very extensive,
half the country being undermined, and
many years ago the Duke of Bridgewater's
managers thought they could save money by
transporting the coal under ground instead
Of on the surface. So the canal was con-
structed, the mines connected and drained
at the same time. Ordinary canal boats
are used, but the power is furnished by
men. On the roof OF the tunnel arch are
cross pieces, and the men who do the work
of propulsion lie on their backs on the coal
and push with their feet against the cross.
bars on the roof. Six or eight men will
draw a train of four or five boats, and as
there are two divisions in the tunnel boats
pass each other without difficulty"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-08-14
A MISSOURI, ROMANCE.
How . Pretty Typewriter Girl Won
Wealthy Young Mans Love.

How . Pretty Typewriter Girl Won .
Wealthy Young Mans Love.
A pretty little romance is rounding into
shape in the Office Of an investment COM
pany in this city, says the Kansas City
Times. A handsome and worthy young lady
typewriter and young man of substantial
business standing, of good habits and pleas
ant place, are the parties to it. An aged
and rather well-to- do widower, who lives in
a suburban town, had good deal of bust
ness with the investment company and was
favorably taken with the typewriter letters
that he had from the company. ''These
things are gotten up in good shape" said
he, land I'd like to see the one that COM
poses 'em. They are easy to read and are
to the point" The old gentleman's son, by
way Of joke, told his father that hand
some young woman prepared the letters,
and that she was the sweetest and most
practical girl on earth. The old man
said little, but began an investigation, and
at the Office of the company was directed
to rougish young woman, who admitted
the authorship of the letters. The old
man meant business and very promptly
and pointedly told her that she would
win good home and a snug fortune by
marrying him. The young woman would
not make positive reply, but to carry on
suit About this time word was conveyed
to the son who had sought to be funny with
his father that the old gentleman and tho
young woman had really serious intentions.
He then set about to stop it. Going to the
young woman, he said to her in his matter
of-fact way that he was decidedly opposed
to a marriage between her and his father;
that he had money of his own and would
gladly contribute any reasonable sum that
she might name rather than have the mar
riage take place. This was the first intima-
ton that the young woman had that the at.
fair was growing serious enough to be
looked upon as certainty by the old gen.
tleman's family. She very frankly con-
fessed to the solicitous son of the aged
swain that she had only been romancing
and that he need not fear that she would
take the Office of step-mother to him. In
this interview both were enthusiastically
pleasant and frank, and they parted good
friends and so on. The young man found it
necessary to call again and again, and the
young typewriter welcomed him cordially
each time. And so visits have gone on, and
the friendship has grown into love between
them, and here is the romance. This ex-
plains why wealthy young man is soon to
marry pretty typewriter girl.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-08-14
STREET-CAR Spoilers.
How Street Railway Companies Keep rs
on Their Employees.

How Street Railway Companies Keep Tab
on Their Employees.
In the police court the other day, SAYS the
Cleveland Plain Dealer, young man giving
an assumed name was arrested on charge
OF violating the sidewalk ordinance. He
was fined the costs, as it was learned dur.
ing the hearing that he is employed by two
or three OF the street railway companies
here as ''spotter" The hatred displayed
by street-car conductors and drivers for
these monitors in their affairs needs little
provocation, and as a rule the operators Of
the cars get to know their men in time, and
are certainly well posted regarding their
movements.
The "spotter" who appeared in the police
court carried bunch of the blanks fur.
nlshed by the street railway companies for
hisuse, and their makeup is ingenious as
regards details. The spaces to be filed in
the blank report call for the day of the
week, month and year, and the exact time
or the day at which a car is boarded The
direction in which a car is going and the
name OF the cross street where the car is
met, together with the number of the con-
ductor and register, is also demanded.
Then follows the details regarding the mum.
Der of fares recorded and u space for the
''spotter'' to tell of any nickels that may be
knocked down." The report goes further,
and asks for answers to such questions as
these: "Was the conductor politea Was
the conductor careless? Was he watchful
as to assisting ladies and children on and
off the cara Was he engaged in loud talk
with any one on the carl Was the driver
careful with his team!"
Simple reference to the term ''spotter'' is
sufficient to bring on storm of indignation
from any or all of the employees of street
railways. "Every time l hear of one OF
those fellows" said a st. Clair street
driver, 81 am reminded Of what Superin,
tendent Bowers, of this road, who is now
dead, said Of that badge Of dishonesty, the
bell punch, when it was first introduced
he refused to brand his conductors with
them, and declared that the man who was
not smart enough to beat them was not ca
pahle OF running car. could point out
"spotters," any number of them, who are
laughed at by the men of this road. / re-
member when the work was mostly done
by women. One of them would get on the
car, open book, and pretend to be reading
it, while she turned over q leaf to CORE
spond with each of the passengers. That
was the poorest game of all, but the schemes
resorted to now are just as bad. Ii man
is disposed to be dishonest and Is not a
fool he need never be caught. No man on
earth can get on crowded car, as they all
are at some periods of the day, and keep an
account of all the passengers. The con-
ductor, who is bound to go through the
crowd and collect fares, has to keen his
eyes open, and at that often misses one or
two
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-08-14
ADVICE ABOUT NAeeINa.
A DisagroeabIe Habit Which Is Fraughf
with Considerable Danger.

D1saeroeable Habit Which Is Fraughf
with Considerable Danger.
Many estimable wives and mothers be-
come so committed to this disagreeable
habit that not unfrequently the happiness
OF the family is wrecked by it, says the
Philadelphia Press. 1t is so much the more
to be regretted because it is from the very
nature of their qualities that the habit
is acquired. 1t is not the slip-shod,
happy go-lucky people that are annoyed
by the faults of others-the Sinking,
the want OF considerateness, the total dis
regard OF every plain duty. No, they are
painstaking, conscientious souls who are
sorely tried by the negligence of others, and
waste Of time aud opportunity and sub
stance 1t may be; who find their strength
unable to bear more than two or three times
their share of the heat and burden of the
day; who have again taken up the task OF
others less conscientious; who have again
and again stood between those others and
the consequences of their own Incidence,
folly, stupidity and injustice-these are the
ones who give vent to their overweight
feeling in bitter complaining and reproach.
just here lies the danger. A careful
housewife, fully alive to the Importance Of
thoroughness in the little things in the
household, as well as in large things in the
conduct Of life, sees constantly so much
undone or worse than undone on the part
OF the husband, children and servants,
that in the constant endeayor to set them
all right, to restrain this one, or to bring
that one up to the REQUISITES point, or to
ward OF the consequences of the thought
lessness of this one, and want of consider
ateness of that one, the habit of nagging
grows stronger and stron ger upon her from
day to day. But let her possess her soul in
patience: let her be assiduous in cultivat-
ing that Sweetness which is the main
element Of Matthew Arnold's culture, and
which Is frequently spoken OF by Jonathan
Edwards, stern and uncompromlsing Cal
whist though he was.
Better that the pecadiIlces in the kitchen
should be unobserved at times by the mis-
tress than that the house should be Stunned
by all the willing servants in the neighbor-
hood; better that the faults of the children
should be lightly reproved than that they
should learn to do without their mothers
sympathy and love, which viii most likely
De the case If she pursues toward them
course OF perpetual and persistent fault
nndlngi better that the husbands petty
failings be passed over in silence than that
ne should learn to find his happiness away
from home, perhaps in some other wornanis
home.
1t IS not meant that ell reproof or fault
finding is reprehensIble: children and serv-
ants must be shown how to do better. but
with judicious words of commentator
thrown in to temper the blame. In this. az
In other things, let 8 golden mean be OBJ
served
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-08-14
THE DARBY DuckEp.
1t Was . Trick Learned During the W
and 1t Served Him Well.

It Was Trick Learned During the War
and 1t Served Him Well.
From where we sat on the tavern yeranda
we could look right across the Mississipn,
river, although at the edge of the river ON
our side there was bluff forty feet hioh
with strong current below. All along
this bluff, says writer in the New York
Sun, were commons, and we had an unob-
structed view. We were talking and smok-
ing when goat came around the corner of
an Old abandoned warehouse and began to
feed toward US. Five minutes later an old
white headed darby, using a cane to helm
him along, came out from behind the same
warehouse and stood almost or. the edge of
the bluff, and appeared to gaze across the
river.
t'What fat take that goat has got. If
he only knew it!'' whispered one of the
party.
what fool of a niger to take such a
risk3' growled second
We ought 10 have warned the old man.
who seemed totally unsuspicous of danger.
but we didn't. Human nature is Just that
way. He had been there two or three min
utes when the goat observed him and be-
gan to twitch his tail. 1t was none of his
business that the man was there, and no
law compelled him to kick up a fuss. but
K. a
gathered for run every man rose I'M To
warn the victim. but no warning was ut
tered. 1t was human nature to want To see
the fun. The goat shot away like flash.
and as he drew near he made long hmm
to give full force to the intended blow.
Next instant both had disappeared, and we
ran down expecting to see them struggling
In the muddy waters. AS we reached the
bluffs the old man rose up from a Dit dug
within two feet of the edge, and grinned and
lifted his hat and said:
"Mawnin', gem'len. 'Spected to find me
down dar, reckon
He pointed to the goat, which was swim
ming wildly about as the current carried it
down, and one of the party replied:
Yes, we certainly thought you were a
goner. You dropped in there, Ell! You
must have been pretty quick about it."
"Wall, sorter, but dat was no trick at all.
Durin' de wah when de Yankee gunboats
lay ober dar' an frowed shot at de guns up
heah, l war one of de GUILD gemilen who
handled de shovel an de sand bags. OATS
whar' / Parned to duck Dem Yankees
didn't know me, an dey kept tryin' to kill
me, an l had to duck an dodge so often
dat arter de wah closed l nebber got
Strengthened up agin. lie been layin' fur
dat goat more'n two weeks, and now he's
dun gone and won't bodder nobody no mo-
l used to cuss dat wah when it was goin'.
but now see what blessln' it was Whar'
would de ole man be now il de Yankees had
not frowed ten tons Of cannon balls at HIM
an l'arned him TO duckl'
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-08-14
BARBER COUNTY INDEX.
TOO OLD TO LEARN.

am sumthin' OF a vetran. just turnin' eighty
year,
A man that's hale and hearty and stranger
tew all fear;
But I've heerd some news this mornin' that has
made my old head spin,
And I'm goin TO ease my conshuns II never
speak ag'in.
rye lived my four score years OF life, and never
till to-day
was taken for Jaclsass or an ign'rant kind
o. Jay,
Tew be stuffed with such burned nonsense bout
them crawlin' bugs and worms
That's a KILN human beins with thu cir micro
scopic germs.
They say there's microbes oil around hunt
in for their prey;
There nothing pure tew eat or drink or no safe
There's ''misasmy'' in the dewfall and 'malary:'
Tain safe to be outdoors at noon or when the
dayis done.
There's ''bactery" in the water and "trichee-
ney" in the meat,
"Ameeby'' in the atmosfeer, "calory' in the
heat;
There's 'corpussels and pigments IN human
bein's blood,
And every other kind OF thing existin' sense the
flood.
Terbacker's full OF "nickerteen." whatever that
may be,
And your throat will all get puckered up with
"tannin" In the tea;
The buffers "oily.margareen," 1t never saw
cow
And things is gettin' wus and wus from what
they be just now
Them bugs is all about US, jest waitin' for
chance
Tew navigate our vitals and tew nav US on
like plants.
There's men that sperds a lifetime huntin'
worms, Jest like goose,
And tsckin' Latin names to 'em and lettin' on
'em loose.
Now, don't believe sech nonsense, and don't
intend TO try;
II things has come tew such pass I'm satisfied
TO die.
I'll go hang me In the sular, for won't be sech
fool
As tew wait until I'm pizened by annymally-
cool.
NY. Sun.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-08-14
BLOWING BUBBLES.
A Solution from Which the Best Results
Can BE Obtained.


Can BE Obtained.
Next to white CASTLE the notified CASTLE
gives the best results, says Thomas W.
Chittenden in st. Nicholas. The soap being
obtained, a friendly druggist mustcarefuIy
weigh out sixty grams for exactness in
proportions is needfuD for each ounce Of
water. That is, one drachm according to
the apothecary's weight of the old arith-
metics), and when the weighing is done and
the oblig1ng druggist thanked for kindness,
the rest is plain sailing. A bottle with a
sound cork is the next requirement. 1t
must be large enough to hold three or four
times the quantity of solution you wish to
make. Do not prepare too much at one
time; two ounces of soap solution viii be a
good quantity, and for this six or eight
ounce bottle will be about the right thing.
The bottle must be well cleaned and then
well rinsed out with soft water-which,
by the way, should be used for all the
operations. All being ready, the soap
is cut into fragments small enough TO enter
the bottle. Measure an ounce of water for
each drachm of soap; this can be done with
a teaspoon eight spoonfuls making an
ounce. Having poured the water and put
the soap into the bottle, we have now to
await perfect solution, which will happen
in the course Of two or three hours, If the
bottle be put in a moderately warm place
Thon add glycerine to the soap solution, the
quantity varying with our ambition have
found that one-half the volume of the solu-
ton gives excellent results; that is to say,
TO each ounce of water add one half ounce
of glycerine, measuring the quantities In
stead of weighing them in both cases. The
bottle is now to be tightly corked and well
shaken: then set aside for two or three
i,snsyrs moro and vrvp1l aha kr,ra auair, Thee
alternate periods OF rest and agitation
should continue for whole day. Finally,
let the bottle stand undisfurbed and tightly
cori1ed fer twenty four hours. Bubbles Of
great size and beauty may be blown with
fhis solution
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-08-14
No. 1870. First Published July 81, 1889.
PUBLICATION NOTICE.

John A. Cozine and Eliza A. Cozine are here
by notified that they, as defendants have been
sued by Lew E. Darrow, as plaintiff i'm the
district court of Barber county, Kansas. and
that they are required to answer the petition
of said plaintiff, filed herein, on or before the
18th day of September, 1889, or the same will
be taken as true, and judgment rendered in
accordance with said petition for the SUM of
tifty-Two and Fifty One-Hundredths ($S2 5Ol
dollars, with interest thereon from the LIST (ay
of June, 1888, and the costs of this action,
against each of said efendants ana the fore
closure of Il certain mortgage. executed by
John A. Cozine and Eliza A. Cozine, upon the
following described real estate, situate i'm the
said county of Barber, to-wit:
The south one-half of northwest quarter of
section number thirty-four township number
thirty-four, south. of range twelve, west, con-
tanning eighty acres. moro or less and nd
judging that said plaintiff has first lien upon
said land, and ordering the sale of said land,
without appraisement, according to law, and
forever barring and fOreclosing tie said de-
PENDANTS of and from all interest estate and
claim I'm and to said lands, and for such other
ana further relief as is just and equitable.
OVERSTREEr a. DENTON,
Attorneys for Plaintiff.
Attest: FRANK HOLMES. Clerk. 1913
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Land Office at Larned, Kans., July 8, 1889.

Notice is hereby given that the following
named settler has filed notice of his Intention
TO make final proof in support of his claim,
and that said proof will be made before Frank
Holmes. clerk of the district court OF Barber
county. Kansas, at Medicine Lodge, Kansas on
August IL. 1889, viz: William a. Cox. q. ID. s.
NO 4l55 for the sc = NV "a. \ ne i, and
sc a NE y sec II, twp - south, range Is west
He names the following Witnesses 10 prove.
his continuous residence upon and cultivation
of said land. viz:
Charles Gragg, Fred. B. EikIor, OF Aetna
Barber county. Kansas; William C.. Dark T. L.,
Lindley, of Medicine Lodge. Kansas.
Any person who desires To protest ngainst
the allowance of such proof or who knows of
any substantial reason, under the law and the
regulations of the Interior Department, why
such proof should not I've allowed, will he given
an opportunity at the above mentioned time
and place To .cross-examine the witnesses of
said claimant. and TO offer evidence I'm rebuttal
of that submitted by claimant.
zig HEEKY w. ScoTT, Register
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-08-14
Land unice al Larned Knns Inro % 1sea

Notice is hereby given that the following
named settler has filed notice of his intention
70 make hnai proof IN support of his claim.
and that said proof will be made before Frank
Holmes, clerk Of the district court OF Barter
county. Kansas. at Medicine Lodge. Kansas.
on August II. 1852, viz: II. Will Guthrie, q. ID.
y I2I2. for the n Il ne i sec. II. and n = NV
= sec IS, twp 81 south, range Is west.
lie names the following witnesses TO prove
his continuous residence upon and cultivation
of said land. viz:
Green Adams. y. A. Whitaker, G.. II. Doug
lass, J. v. Fishburn. all of Sun City, Kansas.
ANY person who desires TO protest against
the allowance OF such proof, or who knows OF
any substantial reason, under the law and the
regulations Of the Interior Department. why
such proof should not be allowed, will he given
an opportunity AT the above mentioned time
and place. to crOssexamine the witnesses OF
said claimant,ran tO ofIcr evidence In rebuff
tai of that submitted by claimant
5-R HENRY w. SCOTT, Register.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-08-14
me EvoIu,ioD Of Jonrn.,,.,

In the evolution of journalism the big
dailies viii gradually drop the sensational
reporter, with his CORY subjects and his
eplleptic style, and will substitute for him
the intelligent correspondent, trained To
know what the people want to read and how
they want 1t written Ten years hence II
will take mighty big crime 10 be worth q
column in daily paper, and the space thus
surrendered from the horrible viii be much
better filed by the readable
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-08-14

The following sentence, said to be taken
verbatim from law passed by the Nebras-
Ia Legislature, has a very strange and
alarming sound. Perhaps proposition has
dropped out OF the last phrase: at shall be
unlawful for any person TO fire OF or dis
charge any pistol, revolver, shotgun. rife
or any firearms whatsoever on anv nubli,,
road or highway IN any county of the State
OF Nebraska, or within sixty yards of such
public road or highway, except to DESTROY
some wild, ferocious and dangerous beast
or an officer in the discharge of his duty.n
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-08-14
How to Isemove P.,n,

The ordinary method of seraping or burn
ing of old paints hardly expeditions enough
for general purposes, and is also Iaboriols.
Soda and quick lime are far more thorough.
The solution of half OF each is thus made:
Dissolve the soda in water and then add
the lime and apply with brush to the old
paint. which can thus be removed in few
minutes