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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-11-07
The Original Bluebeard.

The story as it is now told is mainly
fictitious, but it has foundation in
fact. GILES de Lavel. Lord ,of Rctz
and other baronies and lordships in
Brittany. lived in the time of Charles
VII. He was known as the richest and
the wickedest man Of his day. On
December %. 1440, he was burned alive
for having murdered several wives aud
not less than one hundred children.
Before he was taken to the stake he
boosted of his horrible crimes and end
ed by saying that he had committed
enough o. them to condemn to death
ten thousand Observation-Disclosures Post
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-11-07
Held Under Heavy Bon,ls.

CHICAGO, Nov. 4.-The Cook County
grand jury returned seven indictments
for murder Saturday against Engineer
Twombly and Conductor Bufortl, of the
Rock Island railway, on account of tho
accident at South Englewood last month";
Bail was fixed at 1000 on each indict-
ment.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-11-07
Custodian Of the Grant Cottage.

SYRACUSE, N. Y. Nov. 4.-Comrade E.
P. Clark, of. Utica, was on Saturday
installed as custodian of the Grant COT
tage at Mount McGregor. There were
no formal ceremonies,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-11-07
A Big Cigar Factory Burned,

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Nov. "A Key
West special to the Times-Union says:
Del Pima Bros immense cigar factory,
containing over 1905, 900 cigars, besides
. large quantity OF, Havana tobacco, was
completely consumed by fire at o'clock
Sunday morning. The loss is $40, 900;
insurance, $4,000.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-11-07

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CURE Fits!

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every variety and Of tho 6De.t quality,
gypsum, ere clays. natural conents aud
other marketable produ Is not found
snywh hero outside of Utah.
The climate of Salt Lake il delight
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mos utains by which it is hemmed in
serving as II barrier against tho blizzard
and the storm, and the lake distant IL
or Is miles serving to cooi aud moist. n
the atmosphere during the dry season.
The valleys which stretch in successi, n
from Logan to st. George, distance
of about 800 miles, are the most fertile
of America, and the grains and vege-
tables grown There are OF such size and
quality TINT strangers would not believe
tho truthful and honest scriptlou that
may be given of them. With every
thing that serves rs the basis of manu-
features aud facilities for raising table
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bonud to sprirg into prominence ere
long that will make it the greatest city
of the Pacific Slope. Something should
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of the scenery OH the line of the rail
rond from Pueblo to Salt Lake. 1t is
worth travelling a thousand miles to
see; but 20 much has been written of
the Grand Canon, Marshall Pass, Black
Canon Of the Gunnison and Cnstle
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NJ. J. +.
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PaliSade Hotel.

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solicited.
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dren's Hats in town, also an endless
variety Of Notions and Fancy Goods,
which must BE- sssn:.to be appreciated,
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-03-20
HOMELY PHILOsoPAY.

Reflections of Man Who Knows All
About the Outrages of Fortune.
Insincerity is often mistaken for lack of
honesty.
The ring of com is often the knelI of
friendship.
They never need fear fall who never
scale the heights.
Adversely undermines MANY a structure
of prosperity.
He who wisely uses his wealth need not
leave it for his tombstone.
The sight of mans money is ofttimes
the antidote for the odor of very bad char
acter.
If you would avoid the suspicion of your
neighbors, never carry your molasses in a
demijohn.
Prosperity awaits all men, and even pur-
sues some, but it is never found in the
haunts of vice.
True genius lurketh under cover. while
arrogance stalks abroad in the full light of
day.
The most wonderful work of God is man
but brand him s.anderer aud God win dis.
own His WORK.
The wisest fish Long escapes the most
dan gerous hook and Is finally caught with
beEt-up pin.
The ambition of youth locks forward TO
the triumphs of age. While stated age turns
back wistful eye a.ons the rosy path of
youth.
1t is well the book Of life is opened to us
page by page. Were all the hard lines
barred at once the task would be too hard to
master.
Not only should careless statements re-
garding our neighbors b. Ignored, but facts
themselves should b. oflea suDdted in the
interest Of Ilsilt-thinlsing aud fairness to
our fellows Frank b Welca. in Arkan-
saw Tfaye.cr
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-03-20
OLD JoE.s STOMACH.
It Didn't Object to Aqua Forts AIthous
1t Acted "A Little fAnaar

It Didn't Object to Aqua Forts Although
It Acted Little Queer.
In the pretty village of Haddonfield, N.
D., says the New York Sunday Mercury,
there used to reside an old fellow who was
Familiarity known in the town and country
round as sod joe" Ee had no particular
occupation except doing chores or errands,
nor any particular location. He ate where
he could get bite and slept wherever he
could find lodging place. Joe was reg
uiar old topper, and Jersey lightning had no
more effect on his inside than just so much
water. He generally made his headquar-
ters at the lower tavern, for there were two
IN the town. He would sleep aud doze away
the afternoon on an old bench IN one corner
or the barroom, but was always awake
when there was any drinking going on
W hen he was not asked to drink he would
slip TO the bar and drain the glasses of the
few drops left IN them.
OneaTternoon DR.. Bolus, the village physi-
cian, was IN the tavern mixing up a prep
aratlon He placed a tumbler half full of
aqua FORTS on the bar, and turned round to
mix some other ingredients. A few mo-
ments after he had occasion to use the poi
sonous drug, when he found to his dismay
that the tumbIer had been drained to the
last drop
MIR. Wiggins," exclaimed the doctor in
alright to the landlord" what has become
OF the aqua forts put on the bar a fewmo-
mentS ago?"
u don't KNOW replied the landlord, ''un.
less Old Joe slipped in and drank it.'
In this suspicion they were soon con-
nrmed, Tor the hostler said he had seen old
Joe swallow the fatal draught The doctor
Knowing that he must die after such dose,
instituted search at once. After some
hours spent in looking through the barn,
out-houses. woods, etc, for three or four
miles round the village, Joe was abandoned
10 MS fate. 1t was a cold night; and as the
village topers assembled around the blazing
hickory fire in the bar-room nothing was
thought of or talked of but the unfortunate
fate of poor old Joe.
Some four or five days elapsed, and moth
ing having been heard from old Joe, they
all came to the CONCLUSION that he was a
goner. The doctor, about this time, was
called upon TO visit patient some eight
miles distant. What was his surprise on
seeing old Joe IN front of fermer's house
splitting woodi
Why, joe" said the doctor. riding up to
the fence, Il thought you were dead and
buried before this"
What made you think that, doctor?"
SAID Joe, leaning on his axe handle
Didn't you drink that dose l left on old
Wlggins' bar a few days since''
Why-yes," replied Joe, half ashamed
to own up to it,
DO you know what it WASH continued
the doctor.
No" returned Joe.
''Well, it was aqua fortis-enough to kill
a dozen men,"
'Well, doctor, do you know thought
there was something queer about that
darned stuff, for after drank it, every time
bowed my nose burnt hole in my peck
ct handkerchiefr'
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-03-20
INTENSE PERSONALITY.
What Life Insurance Officers Learn About
Their Patrons.

-
"Dr. Talmage says that Joseph was presi-
dent of the first life insurance company"
SAID downtown agent to San Francisco
Call reporter. did it ever occur to you
that an application for a life insurance
policy is very interesting bit of personal
history. For instance, this application is
from well-educated, well-born young
widow. Her name is Mrs. Helen Corbett,
of Galveston, Tex. She was born in Rich
mond, Va, August 10, 1859, and is there
fore Twenty-Five years old. She has been
widow ten years and has had two chill
dren, one of whom still lives and is named
as the beneficiary for her three thousand
dollar policy. She has not paid the first
premium and never made application for
insurance in any company before. Her
fathers name was Charles Canale Smith
and he was born in Bonneville, Tenn, and
died at the age of fifty-nine oftyphoid fever.
The mothers name was Susan Kelly
Morris, who is still alive and we'll The
grandparents on both sides are dead, ex-
cept the mothers mother, and she is totally
deaf. This poor little widow never had
brother, and her only sister died when she
was eighteen months old Of cholera in
fantum. Our applicant was vaccinated last
year and does not have a regular physician.
She is very abstemious in her habits;
opium, choral or morphine. She has
never lived in the tropics and
has never had asthma, angina, pectors,
aneurlsm, alcoholism, apoplexy bronchitis,
collie, chronic dysentery, catarrh, convul-
sions or fits, cancer or tumor, diseases of the
abdominal organs, disease of the brain or
the bladder, ears, heart, kidneys, lungs,
liver, spine, skin, or spleen, dyspepsia,
dropsy, epilepsy, erysipelas, govt, general
debility, gravel, habitual constipation, head
ache, hernia, insanity, impaired vision,
Jaundice, neuralgia, palpitation, pneumonia,
pleurisy, paralysis, fistula, rheumatism,
smallpox, scrofula, suu-stroke, scarlet
fever, typhoid fever, varicose veins, verti-
go, yellow fever, open pores or enlarged
glands. The examining physician says she
weighs 40 pounds, that she is five feet six
inches IN height, has bust measure of
thirty-six inches, which expands three
inches when she takes a full breath, and
she has dainty, little waist, only twenty two
inches around. The doctor further states
that she is an American, with blue eyes and
light hair; tn at she does not look her age
and that he does not think she drinks.
There Is no heart trouble and her pulse is
steady. She is in full possession Of her five
senses. He does not think there is any
fraud about her place of residence, and on
the whole recommends us to take the risk. :"
''And you think you will do itl''
"Well, not until this additional list of
questions is satisfactorily answered"
But the Call man had fed
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-03-20
A WONDERFUL FEAT.
Colonel Wintersmith Tells ''Snal
Story, as Is a Shake, SfnrN.,,

Colonel Wintersmith Tells "Snal1e
Story as Is "A Shake Story"
Colonel Dick Wintersmith listened with
apparent good-natured disgust to some of
the snake stories which the youngsters
were trying to crowd down his throat the
other evening at Chamberlain's, says the
Dallas News AS yarn after yarn was I'M
wound by the enterprising narrators the
Colonel seemed to get restless, until finally
he broke out with:
"That's all right, boys, but the trouble
with your snake stories is they are not"
'Wen. suppose you tell US one that is abb
solutely true" suggested one of the COM
pany.
81 WILL" said the Colonel, promptly
And then Dick' told how he found HIM
self travelling one hot summer afternoon
along cart road cut through what seemed
miles of chaparral, somewhere in Texas,
believe. Suddenly his pony stopped, and
he was nearly thrown over the animals
head. 81 got off," Colonel Wntersmith
went on to say, ''looked about to see what
the trouble was, and soon found about
rod ahead, a huge rattle-snake asleep across
the roadway, his head down the slope
on one side and his tail in the gutter
on the other. l tried to make the pony
jump the snake, but he wouldn't bulge
There wasn't stone or a stick big
enough to handle In sight, and l had
no firearms. / was IN a pickle, but
l couldn't go back, and didn't like to
stay where was. However, while cousid
ering the situation, saw away ahead on
the farther side of the RATHER a sapling
such as is used to bind hay upon a rick.
Hitching my pony to the brush / stepped
back SO as to get good start, took run
ming jump, leaped over the snake, ran to
the sapling, grabbed it with both hands.
ran, swinging it over my head, back to his
slumbering snakeship and whacked him
right across the head, breaking it at
once"
Here the Colonel took a long breath and
something else besides. The company
looked disappointed.
rs that all?' some one asked.
The Colonel cast look of whitening con-
tempt upon the youth, adjusted his gold
trimmed spectacles and then continued:
Yes, breaking it at once. And hang me,
gentlemen-you may believe me or motif
l didn't discover that my sapling was the
snakes mate, and
''Oh, Colonell Come, now, that's little
too" came IN chorus.
'And that went on the Colonel, not In
the least disturbed, ''and that the same
blow had killed it also"
After that nothing remained for the COM
pany to do except to break up.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-03-20
AN ELEPHANT SALUTE.
How the Huge Trained Beasts Greet tn
King of Siam.

How the Huge Trained Beasts Greet the
King of Siam.
In the ''Zig-Zag' volume we find very
amusing description of the salutat1on with
which the Siamese hunters and the ele
plants they de greet the presence of the
KING: Arrived at the Kings palace we
mounted a steep fight of stairs that4ed us
to a pavilion or tower, about two hundred
feet from the ground, whence we could
command magnificent view of the wide
country about US. Adjoining the tower was
a large chamber, which held nothing but
one huge drum, and round it were stationed
no less than twelve men, who struck it
simultaneously with immense drum-sticks.
Right in front of the pavilion below were
ranged in regular order hundred and fifty
hunting elephants, and on each were seated
two men-one at the back, the driver, with
his long goad or forked spear in his hand to
urge the beast to his onslaught, aud the
other the hunter armed with lances, spears
and culver attached to his seat full of ar
rows, rea " to be discharged at a mo-
ment's notice When this forrnid able-Iook-
ing hunting party saw the royal assembly
they wheeled around and formed a semi
cirCse: then each hunter raised aloft his
spear and saluted the King. After which
each of the drivers gave the word of com
mand IN deep, loud voice TO the elephant.
NO sooner was the word spoken than each
beast lifted his heavy frank in the air and
brought it soiemnly down to the earth
never saw more coInical sight than this
elephant salutatlon to the King of Siam.
This done, the colossal drum from The ad
joining chamber numbered out the signal
for the hunt to begin. Away went the
mighty company of hunters, one half on one
side, the other half on another, darling OF
in semi circle TO scour the forest for the
white elephant which, it was said, had been
grazing there with a troop of black ones.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-03-20
A Chestnut from Germanv.


The President OF the United States gave
feast Among the guests, as frequently
happens, were certain Indian chiefs, says
Flegende Blaetter. A young chief noticed
that one of the white brothers helped him
self to mustard. The Indian also helped
himself overplentifully and transferred
the entire portion to his mouth. Notwith-
sta nding the blistering quality of the mus
tard the stoicaI son of the wilderness with
out moving muscle of his face swallowed
the dose. He was, however, unable to keep
tn tears from trucking down his checks
An old Indian, noticing his dolorous plight,
asked why he wept. Il weep" said the
young warrior, "because my poor father IN
the waters of Lake Huron before one year
drowned was.'' The old chief made no
comment, and in turn helped himself nc
less literally to the mustard than has young
companion had done. Having swallowed
his portion he also began TO weep silently
''Old father, why weepest thou, then!'
asked him now, with knowing look, the
young chief. Il weep SAID the older, ''be-
cause thou not before one year with thy
father together in Lake Huron drowned
vast
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-03-20
AN ARMCHAIR SERMON.
Sarcasm That ChiIls Enthusiasm and Kill
Love in Many a Home.

sarcasm Ihat Ch1IiS Enthusiasm and Kills
Love in Many Home.
If am TO xiii a chicken "a Ihing l
wouldn't do, my deal, tor u thousand
poundsi do not proceed to 10 the deed by
cruel anu protracted methods. writes
amber" in the Chicago Tribune shoul1
be arrested by the Humane Society if
went to work to put poison in the doomed
fowls daily rauons, or MP it slyIy now and
then with red-hot halrpin
The cat that was killed by care suffered
far more than the cat that persisted by a
quick bullet.
When horse is disabled and unfit for
service, the merciful man KNOCKS It 10 the
head with well-aimed blow, and that's the
last of it But we have different ways of
killing love, and trust, and kindly feeling in
one aBother's hearts. We make use. all too
often, of the North American Indian orig
mai nSthod of protracted torture. And
love, and trust, and kindly feeling. although
they Gle hard, and are long time dying.
under the process, are as certainly doomed
as the chicken, the cat and the dis,
abled horse are by the blow of the
hatchet, the sting of the bullet or
the crash of the club There is
many home to-day where love is
slowly dying under the torture inflicted by
a sarcastic tongue, or where It already lies
dead under the peculiar processes of this
cowardly mode Of torment. The drunkard' s
wife IS not more to he pitied than the wife o.
the coid-blooded husband whose tongue
holds the venom OF dozen serpents. ]
would rather be mated TO a man who should
throw chair at me now and then than "a
such husband as we see occasionally. who
murders his wife's peace aud happiness
slowly yet surely from day to day with cruel
and biting words OF suspicion and contempt.
might dodge the chair. bat | couldn't
dodge the word, and, besides, bruises in.
fiicted on the body hea, under the apa!ica-
ton Of iiniment and arnicsa, but there has no
salye been found yet to cure the hnrt Of
sarcastic tongue. There are many un.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-03-20

There is good deal of truth in the rumi-
nations of paper which says: 1t is rather
an odd thing that if you paste a printed slip
on a postal card the Government will charge
the receiver letter postage; if the same
matter is printed directly on the card moth
ing extra is demanded The same slip,
which if pasted on postal card would be
charged extra for, may be put into an un-
sealed envelope and it Will then go at print
ed matter rates, or the whole paper from
which the clipping is taken may be sent,
containing the article marked, at a much
less rate than the Government would charge
for the same article attached to the card.
That is, the Government would rather car
ry four ounces for cent than the four
ffths of sn ounce for the same money.