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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-08-28
AUGUST %. 1889.

oanctnR. The German Lieutenant is gen.
orally a nobleman and gentleman. He Is
always well educated and well informed
concerning topics of the day. Long after
entering the army, he frequently subscribes
to university lecture courses, and appears in
the lecture room regularly with his little
leather bag full Of notes, just as if he were
an ordinary student. He reads great deal
about civil government, political economy,
Bismarck and the Hohenzollerans. He can
say hisGoethe backward, and can cite Shakes
peare more appropriately than three -fourths
OF the Englishmen. He can quote Heine
with the professors pretty daughter or
Roscher and Rau with the professor him.
SELF He is cleVerly ventureSome, too, and,
though he may not know the difference be-
tween knowledge and belief, he does not
avoid bouts with old metaphy sicians con-
corning the theories of Kant, Hegel and
Schopenhauer He is so superficially on,nis-
cient and audacious, that his presence at
reception always ensures some one good
time. The criterion Of the success of Ger
man party is consequently the number Of
Lieutenants present
Notwithstanding all his attractions for
Fraumammas and Fraulein daughters, the
Lieutenant usually terminates his triumph
ants social career by marrying very plain
woman. This is the reason: The lieuteu-
tenants life is an expensive one, as life in
Germany goes. Three-cent cigars, wine
and flowers, and actresses. social obliga-
tons, and an occasional hand at cards play
ducks and brakes with his salary, which is
little more than one third the salary Of an
American Lieutenant. If he has no private
fortune he makes debts at every turn
These debts are piled up year after year.
IAN angel fles through the room and
Lieutenant pays his debts" is a German
proverb. The German Government has had
ahfe-long experience with the young Lieu
tenant, and knows thing or two about his
expensive habits. It has therefore forbid
den him to marry unless he or his intended
wife has money enough to support the
family. When Lieutenant's deL.s have
become mountain high and troublesome, he
begins to scurrv around after rich
manageable woman. Money is the one
sine qua non Of his choice. A woman may
be plain, stupid, erratlc within limits, or
American; yet if she has money enough to
put the Lieutenant square with the world
after he has had his fling, he Jumps ut the
chance to marry her.
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VOL. 10.
n SONG OF THE ROAD.

Come, comrades. since the way is long
Let's 'liven II by tune and song,
And greeting give 10 all we pass;
To whito-of-head, TO light-of-head,
To matron grave and laughing lass.
Hurrah for lane and by-way,
For distant path and n gh way,
For friends we greet, for foes we meet
Along the world $ broad highway
Tis morning. break: 1.-the limbs are strong;
Who dreams Of crime and guilt and wrongf
1on youngling and his violet eyes'
Nay, light-of mind and love-so-blind
Are wisdom proof and folly wise.
Hurrah for lane and by-way,
For d distant path and nigh way,
For friends we greet, for foes we meet
Along the worlds broad highway
'Tis noontide: let US spend an hour
Dream drinking ere we lose the power,
And all our pleasure disappears,
Since slght-of-hcart and blight-of-heart
Have sworn the goblet smacks of tears.
Hurrah for lane and by-way,
For distant path and nigh way.
For friends we greet for foes we meet,
Along the worlds broad highway!
IT night and low; foul thieves have mobbec
The weak ones here and left them robbed
OF hope, and faith, and love, and rest;
But sure-of-soul and pure-of-Soul
Still fold their treasures to their breast
Hurrah for lane and by-way.
For distant path and nigh way,
For every one whose journeys done,
Who's gained the distant sky-way!
Julie M Lippmann, in Century.
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A NORTH CAROLINA GAME.
How Little Compulsion Forced tho Pinin,
at the kissing Bee.

How . Little Compulsion Forced tho Pinfn,
at the Kissing Bee.
Back in the North Carolina mountains the
student OF customs may still find material
for research, says the Washington Post
The most unique are the kissing games,
which cling to the soil A lot of big -limbed,
powerful young men and apple-cheeked,
buxom girls gather and select one of their
number as master of ceremonies. He takes
his station IN the center OF the room, while
the rest pair on and parade around him.
Suddenly one young woman will throw up
her hands and say:
I'm a-pinin'. I"
The master Of ceremonies takes it up and
the following dialogue and interlocution
takes place:
"Miss Arsbella Jane Apthorp say she's
a-pinin'. what's Miss Arabella Jane Ap-
thorp a-pinin' furl''
"I'm a-pinin' fur q sweet kiss.~
miss Arabella Jane Apthorp says she's
a-pinin' fur a sweet kiss. Who is Miss
Arabella Jane Apthorp apinin' fur sweet
KISS frumW
I'm a-pinin' fur very sweet kiss frum
Mr.. Hugh Waddle." (Blushes, convulsive
giggles and confusion on the part of Miss
Arabella Jane Apthorp at this forced con-
fession.l Dir. Hugh Waddle walks up man
luliy anu relieves Ln6 18lr AfaDeIaS s
'pinin'" by a smack which sounds like
three-year-old steer drawing his hoof out of
the mud.
Then young man will be taken with q
sudden and unaccountabIe ''pinin'," which,
after the usual exchange Of questions and
volunteered information, reveals the name
Of the maiden who causes the s'gnawin'" {"
and sspinin'" She coyly retreats outdoors,
only to be chased, overtaken, captured and
forcibly compelled to relieve her captor's
distress.
At one of these entertainments which IL
was the narrator's fortune 10 attend there
was remarkably beautiful young woman
who had been married about month. Her
husband was present, 9 huge, beetle
browed, black-eyed young mountaineer.
with fist like a ham. The boys fought
shy OF the bride for fear Of mourning the
anger of her hulking spouse. The game
went on for some time, when symptoms Of
irritation developed in the giant. Striding
70 the middle of the room, he said:
Ny wife ez pooty, n ez nice, n sweet ez
any gyurI hyar. You uns has known her
all her life. This game hez been a. goin' on
half an hour an nobody has pined fur her
oDcet. Eff some one doesn't pine fur her
pooty soon thar viii be trouble
She was the beile OF the ball after that
Every body pined for her.
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ooULo'S PARsIMoNv.
He Il . Good Deal Like Mr. 0avhif
Point of s.Nearness.n

He Il . Good Deal Like Mr. Earhfs a
Point Of "Nearness."
So far as Mr.. Gould is concerned, SAYS ,
New York letter in the Philadelphia Press
it is well known In Wall street that he /,
parsimonious TO q degree that is almost
amusing and that his family Is now and
always has been in sympathy with him. II,
has seldom been known to assist anybody II
the street, except where the people whom
ne assisted were Of practical ana tmme
dtate service to him. In fset, the only cas-,
wherein he was known to have given
friend er acquaintance q tip on the marks
was in the case Of a welLknown man her,
who retired from ths theatrical bust
ness year or so ago, and WHOM he pu
into Union Pacific just before that stool
turned in price and began TO move yer,
rapidly upward. It Is understood that ths
theatrical man in question made some
thing like one hundred and fifty Thousand
dollars out Of the turn IN the market. Ths
walters down in Deimonico's would prob
ably doubt the truth Of the story Mr
Gould used to lunch constantly at ths
Broadstreet place, and he was never
known 10 tip a waiter in his life. When hi
came in with Charlie Osborne, and Osborne
paid for the luncheon, the fortunate waite,
received one dollar or go, but when Goule
came in alone there was q skrmishiue
ampIg the walters as TO who would be
fortunate enough to get out Of the way.
Gould went down into Texas a number OF
years ago with party of railroad men on
tour Of inspection, and at some station alons
the road the party got on and some ous
blew In round OF drinks. Gould doesn't
drink-a characteristic which Is shared by
a.number Of ether milllonaires-hut some
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The QUIET OBSERVER.

Conclusions Forced Him by Contem-
plating the Lives of His Neighbors.
Where do worthless men and women
come froml
From worthless homes
This is probably the best direct answer
that can be given to this comprehensive
query, says the Pittsburgh Commercial
Gazette.
Badly-reared children develop into worth.
less men and women. This is the rule. The
exceptions either way are not numerous
Occasionally you find boy or girl in
respectable family whose instincts are low
and whose tastes are inclined to be vicious
These are the "black sheep" They are not
uncommon even in the best Of families.
Is there any necessity for these being
black when all the others are whitel
In some instances there is, because som @
children are born with a very low order Of
moral sense just as some are born with a
very low order of intelligence
The greater number of wicked and i'm
moral men and women are such because of
defective training rather than because Of
inherent depravity. They have not had the
advantage of an environment calculated to
develop their better natures.
This should be sufficient to show the ne
cessity of rearing children in such a way as
to encourage the development of the moral
faculties as well as the mental. This will
afford the surest protection to society
against crime and immortality.
How many OF those who are interested in
providing for neglected children in foreign
countries ever think of those at home
who are really in a more deplorable con-
dition than those who are engaging their
attention?
What IL IN he dona about it7
One way is for society to take charge of
every homeless child and provide for it an
environment that will tend to develop its
better qualities.
Who are homeless?
All who are without the means Of proper
education and training. A house and
parents do not constitute home in its true
sense.
Let society take charge of all children
that are not being properly trained, wheth-
er they have parents living or not 1t VIII
be cheaper in the end than to allow them
TO grow up in wickedness until maturity,
and then board them in jail or work houses.
Besides, this viii decrease the number OF
criminals and the amount of crime, and in
the same ratio improve society.
Something can be done by improving
homes, but as a rule those who have gone
50 far as to settle down to living careless,
immoral lives, are almost hopeless. They
regard their children as accidents, and have
no care for them beyond keeping them in
food and clothing until they ere able 10 take
care Of themselves.
W hat can you expect from home the at
mosphere ef winch is reeking with profan-
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The Hardness of Woods.

The relative hardness of woods is calcu.
lated by the hickory, which is the toughest.
Estimating that at 100, we get for pignut
hickory, So; white oak, "a; white ash, II;
dogwood, "A; scrub oak, %; white hazel, 72
apple tree, 20; red oak, 50; white beech, IS;
black walnut, 65; black birch, 62; yellow
and black oak, 60; hard maple, SO; white
elm, So; red cedar, Sc; cherry, 55; yellow
pine, So; chestnut, 50; yellow poplar, 81;
butternut and white birch, 43, and white
pine, 35. According to this formula woods
possessing degree of hardness equal tc
about 40 per cent. less than that of hickory
should not be classed as hard woods. Such
woods are, however, limited in quantity
and are not of sufficient Importance to JUS
tify classification, and the trade will con
tinue to construe hard wood to mean any
thing except white pine.
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CHURCHES.

DAPTIST.-Preachlng each sunday at II IA.
Om. and at Z 30 y. m, at the courthouse. sun
day school at 10 O'Clock, u IN. Prayer meeting
Wednesday evening of each week. Rev. w.
Cain, Pastor. Residence on North Walnut st.
HIHRISTIAN.-PTeach every Sunday at
- II o'clock, a. IN, and $50 y. m, by Elder
David Nation. Prayer meeting every We'd
ncHday night. Sunday school mt 10 o'clock n. m.
every Sunday.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL.-Services every
GN4 Sunday at II 100 u. III. and Z 80 p. IN. Sun
day school every Sunday at 10 "A. III. Prayer
meetins every Wednesday evening at Z 30.
Strangers invited. X. SANDERSON, Pastor.
SBYTERIAN.-Scrviccs every Sunday at
y II n. IN. and 80 p IN. Sunday School ut
10 n. IN. j B. NoHTH, Pastor.
CATHOLIC CHURCH Services on 2nd
Sunday of every month at Shcrock's hall, at
1000 u. IN. REV. BITTER Pastor.
GERMAN BAPTIST BRETIIREN-Hod reg
" ular services ut MingOna, Barber county,
the second and fourth Sundays in each month.
At Forrest school house on the second sunday {;
Cedar Creek school house ON the third Sunday.
by Elders Shambcrgcr, Smith and Nehcr.
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THE NEWSPAPER PUFF.
Writing One Is Like Taking the Phot
graph OF Homely Babv.

graph OF Home1y Baby.
The newspaper puff is something that
makes men feel bad-if they don't get it,
observes Bill Nye in Texas Siftings. The
groundwork OF the ordinary newspaper puff
consists of good moral character and a
good bank account Writing newspaper
puffs is like mixing sherry cobblers and
mint juleps all through the summer months
for customers and quenching your own
thirst with rain water. Sometimes q man
Is looking for puff and don't get 1t: then
ne says that the publication is going down
hill, and that it is in the hands of a mouopo-
~, and be would stop subscribing if he did
not have to pay his bill first Writing a
newspaper puff is like taxing photograph
OF homely baby. If the photograph doesn't
represent the child with wings, and halos.
and harps, and things, it shows that the
artist does not understand his business. So
IL is with the newspaper puff-if the puffee
doesn't stand out like the bold and fearless
exponent of truth and morality it shows
that the puffer doesn't understand human
nature. 1t is more fun to see a man road a
pun OF himself than it is to see a fat man
slip up on an orange peel The narrow
minded man reads it over seven or eight
tlmes, and then goes around to the different
places In town where the paper is taken
and steals what copies he can. The kind.
hearted family man goes home and reads II
to his wife, and then pays up his bill on the
paper The successful business man, who
advertises and makes money, starts i'm
medlately to find the newspaper man and
speak word of grateful Acknowledgement
and encouragement. Then two men start
out OF the sanctum and walk thoughtfully
down the street together, and the success
Iul business man takes sugar in his, and
a
sweeter, and peace settles down like q
turtle-dove in their hearts, and after a
while lamp-posts get more plentiful, and
every body seems to be more or less intoxi.
Gated; but the hearts of these two men are
filled with nameless joy, because thew
know 5ast where to stop, and not make
themselves ridiculous.
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A STORY FOR DEBTORS.
We Can't Voucli for It's Truthfulness b.
Are in Love with Its Moral.

We Can't Voucli for It's Truthfulness but
Are in Love with Its Moral.
| Opie P. Read, the genius of the Arkan-
saw Traveller, is so very excellent finan-
| cier that he usually manages to end each
month little deeper in debt than he began
| 1t, says the Washington Post Yet nobody
ever loses by hun. In some manner, though
his general indebtedness keeps piling up,
he manages not to let any individual debt
stand long. We shouldn't like to be pressed
for logical explanation of this paradoxical
assertion, but it seems, nevertheless, to be
true, that while his aggregate Indebtedness
keeps growing, his individual debtors are
never permitted to lose any thing.
One morning Opie came into the Chicago
Press Club rooms, where number of the
| members were seated chatting. Opie did
not take part in the conversation, but sat
| by one of the open windows smoking his
huge pipe and evidently thinking pro-
| foundiy.
Something on your mind, Opiei' asked
one of the boys.
| "Yes. My butcher Is on my mind, and
he's the biggest butcher you ever saw. If
didn't have a ponderous mind never could
hold that butcher on it. Look at me,' said
he, standing up at full height, showing a
form more than six feet tall, and MASSIVE in
ltS pTOpOFtlOnS. LOOK al me, i m preILy
big man myself, but, sir, as came past the
butcher-shop this morning the butcher was
standing out in front, and l walked right
between his legs. The top of my head
wasn't as high as his instep. should have
had to reach up to unlatch his shoes"
"How much do you owe your butcher,
| Opiei" asked Mr.. James w. Scott, the pres
ident of the club, aud business manager of
| the Herald.
"a hundred and twenty dollars, sir,'' said
| Mr.. Reed.
That afternoon Mr.. Scott sent check for
$50 to Opie, saying it was an advance on q
story he wished him to write for the Her
| aid.
The next morning when Opie strode into
| the club somebody asked:
HAS your butcher grown any since yes
terdaya''
.'Grownl No, sir. This morning walked
| into has place with $50 in gold clinking and
! iIngling in my pocket"
"Where's that butcheri" asked.
"Here am" said faint, timid, little
voice that seemed TO come up from the Gel
lar
'Wherel" said L
"Here, right here by your left foot. Don't
move or you'll step on me.''
1 got down on my hands and knees and
| examined speck on the floor. 1t was the
butcher.
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now or other ne seemed 70 have 1elt Il N.
cumbent on him to return the courtesy
thus offered and invited the party to smoke.
The cigars were passed around and dozen
or 90 Of them were taken out. Mr.. Gould
asked the bar-keeper how much he owed
him and the bar-keeper returned the infor.
nation that the cigars were twenty-five
cents each.
isn't that . pretty high price," re
man ked Mr.. Gould, in his slow, mild way.
Perhaps" returned the baF.keepeP;
shut then you know we're not down here
for our health"
Mr.. Gould paid the bill for the cigars and
said no more. Perhaps there was nothina
more TO saw
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Tho Humorist OF Plants.

A good-natured plant has been discovered,
one which has the same desire as Punch
is supposed to feel, namely, to make people
laugh. The seeds are black, resembling q
French bean in size and shape, and have Q
sweet taste, a flavor somewhat like opium.
and sickening odor. Small doses Of the
pulverized seeds give rise to peculiar mani
festations. The person laughs boisterously,
sings, dances and cuts up all kinds of fan.
tasttc capers. The excitement continues
about an honr, when the subject falls into a
deep sleep Of an hour or more, and awakens
utterly unconscious OF his late ridiculous
hohar rrio,.
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A woMAN's LOYALTY.
An Incident That Increases One. Reaae
for Human NaHIre

An Incident Tint Increases Ones Reflect
for Human Nature.
well remember visit to the New Hamp-
shire State prison at Concord which made
Few years ago IN company with several
friends. writes an Augusta Me.) journal
correspondent One little incident of that
visit made vivid impression on my mind
Ipthe horse cars with us. on orr wav to
the prison, sat quiet, faced little worn-
On. She was neatly and plainly dressed
and had a certain air of refinement about
her which showed her TO be a lady. She
came into the prison guard-room with US
and was at once shown to the warden s
private office. moment later, as stood
look Ig out through heayy-barred win
dows across the stone-paved prison yard
al the plain, gloomy-looling stone build
ings. containing the workshops, the door
of one Of them oDened and an oficar hold
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HE QUIT SMOKING.

How Quiet Little Gan Subdued . Burly,
Rough-LOoklng Fellow.
A correspondent who recently visited
Jef Davis at his home at Beauvoir relatea
this:
Over on table was short, dusty sword
that had been recently sent from Mexico
and attached to it was a card which said
that the weapon had been found on the spot
where Lieutenant DAVIS made his famou,
charge at the battle of Buena Vista, and
turned the tide of victory in favor of the
Americans.
i touched the rusty old sword, and
almost unconsciously Mr.. Davis drifted
into talking of the heroes of the Mexican
war, OF Bowie, and Houston, and Crockett.
"Henry Clay once told me-" said Mr..
Davis, with smile, ''of his first meeting
with Bowie. 1t was in the early days, and
Clay was travelling in stage-coach where
the only other passengers were a pretty
girl, big rough-looking countryman, and q
limp, little figure in great coat. With the
consciousness of his own perfect physique
Clay said he was congratulating
himself on not being the limp, little
ngure bundled up in the corner,
when he became conscious that the
pretty girl was begging the rough coun.
tryman not to smoke, as it made her ILL.,
The fellow replied with savage oath that
he had paid his fare and would smoke when
he ID pleased. Mr.. Clay said he was
just trying to screw his courage up to the
point OF demonstrating with the country
giant, when the limp little figure undoubled
itself like magic, and, with a quick move
ment reached down its collar, brought a
KnlIe tnat In the excitement Of the moment
looked yard long, and with another cat
like movement seized the fellow by the
throat. Throw that pipe out of the window
or Fu@' A comprehensive sweep OF the
murderous looking blade finished the SEN
tence and sent the pipe shattering on the
ground. In another minute the knife had
again disappeared down the capacious collar
and the limp figure had resumed its former
vertsbreless condition, but the rest of the
Journey said Mr.. Clay, I spent in wishing
was the little man In the great coat, who
was none other than Bowie, with his famous
knife'n
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Iry ana vuIgarItys You would De surprised
to find purity and refinement coming from
1t. These are two of the most desirable
qualities in men and women. Without
them society would go to sticks In short
order. They distinguish the civilized from
the unoivilizod
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The Babe Has Grown.

A Salem Cd. IT, newspaper prints the fol
lowing uniqne advertisement: "If John
Jones, who, twenty years ago deserted bis
poor wife and babe, will return, said baba
will lick the stufan, out Of him.
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Abrahaln and sarnh.

An Alabama paper says: San aged
couple, Mr.. and Mrs. Gray, residing near
Wadsworth, have recently had born to them
o br1ght-eyed babe. The father and mother
are aged respectiYelY % and 67 Yearsn
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~ %. o. f., Pioneer Lod. e
ARRAN% No. i1g.-Rcgulur meetings,
NeA NSTVF ~13lA.1 every Tuesday even.ng.V 81
itinghrcthrcn In good stHnd-
ing cordially invited.
w. ID. NANSLYKE, N. q.
J.C. WALSTAD. Sec.
ENSIGN ENCAMPMENT No. 81, /. y. o.
Meets first and third Friday OF each month
Visiting Patrinrchs cordially invited to- attend.
l.. u. HUBBARD, II. y. JOHN DOLLAR, G. T..
s. l.. ALLEN =. W. w. II. ROUSE, ).
NAOMI No. 81, REBECCA DEGREE, !. O.O.F.
Meets the 2d and4th Wed. nights, each month.
l.. T.. HUBBARD, N. g,
z. M. BYERLEY, Secy.
X D ELDRED POST, No. ia, meets
VI n M the last Saturday in each month
OF the court house In Medicine Lodge, ut p. NJ.
All comrades cordially invited.
LOREN EDWARDS, Post Commander.
JOHN mccoy, Adjutant.
A. O. U. w. ElSs!'$ ES$s "a Lead' %ad III S%i Friday @
night. w. s. FINNEY, NJ. ".
J.W. SINGER, Recorder.
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PHYSICIANS IN MEDICINE LODGE.
d R. BURNEY, M. D.

PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
Medicine Lodge, Kans.
OFFICE 90 Pearson y Co.'S. drug Store. At
night, at residence. Allcalls promptly attended
to. Charges reasonable.