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CHAMPAGNE PuSHERs.

Their Work by No Means as Pleasant as
Some Might Think.
II there Is any harder work than the
champagne pushers have had to do in this
city during the last fortnight, can not com
prehend what it can be, writes the New
York correspondent of the Providence (R
IT, Journal 1t is bestial work as well az
difficult As enc great champagne importer
put it in talking on the subject, the very
charm and merit of champagne is supposed
to lie in the fact that the fluid has not much
"drunk" in 1t, the proportion of alcohol
being only slightly greater than that IN
lager beer; yet these pushers advertise it
by getting drunk on it every night. 1t is
said for this wine that the SYarst effects are
felt by men who drink spirits; that those
who drink nothing but champagne are sci
dom intoxicated by 1t. The pushers have
to drink spirits because their systems need
brscing after each of their professional
bouts In the bar-rooms. How long 1t takes
for their work to XIII them / never have
heard.
The principal pusher in this city, very
fat, sleek Frepchman, tells me that he be
heves he can overcome all injurious effects
by sleeping all the time that he is not a.
work. He brides the hall boys aud cham
bermaids not TO make any noise at his door
or neaf his room, and not ON any accoun.
to knock at his door under the impression
that he may be dead or that they must
get him cut and smake up his room. But
although he looks fresh and shows no signs
of nervous wear and tear, the others in the
business are rather sad-looking, bloated
and coarse wretches. The young society
gentleman who took up this booty calling
for pocket money IS no longer an ex ,mplaT
of manly beauty. No amount of fine clothes
can overcome the effect of his deadened.
fish-like eyes, his bloated cheeks, his van.
ished color and his general worn-o1 dead
and-alive appearance. No money would
pay him tor what has happened to him NOR.
ally, physically or socially.
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The kaiser's way of Driving.

The attendants at the Berlin court
whose duty it is to accompany the
Emperor on his drives through the city
have less of a sinecure than they had
under William /. The first Emperor of
Germany always made out plan of his
drive before leaving the palace. The
plan was communicated to his BODY
courier, and after it had been executed
the Royal procession was taken home
William ii. has changed all this. He
gives directions to the body courier
only during the drive and by means of
mods and movements of the hand. Con-
sequently, to prevent all mistakes, the
body courier has to keep mis- eyes glued
on the Emperor's carriage window
Several accidents have been narrowly
averted by the Emperor's coachman at
four corners, and where he has all but
upset the whole imperial cavalcade on
the smooth, slippery pavement by I'M
expcctedly signaling ito the right
when everybody else was thinking he
intended to push straight ahead.-N. Y.
Sun.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-05-14
A WoMAN's COURAGE.
How She Disposed CT Mad Dog UnS
Trying ClrcumstadcAs

How She Disposed CT Mad Dog Under
Trying ClrcumstaAees.
There are very few men who can rise
superior to the terrible fear excited by the
appearance of a mad dog, says the Pitts
burgh Dispatch. A doctor whose name is
one OF the best known in Pittsburgh told
me the other day of an experience that he
had good many years ago.
There had been many reports of mad
dogs IN the village in which then lived,
and there was certainty that ct least one
Oh the reports was true. 1t was blazing
hot weather. Late one night, or rather
early one morning, ! was called by a bare
footed boy to hurry as fast as possible To
the bedside Of his brother, who lay sick
with typhoid fever in q sort of shautv cot
tage on the river bank q couple of miles
away.
81 got on my horse and rode rapidly over
the quiet road. There was q little moon
light The sky was cloudy and che moon
would be covered and disclosed again eyerv
minute. The silence was q little irving.
and was glad when the low roof of the
shanty for which l was bound came in
sight. But as it did so my horse syerved
so violently that was almost thrown from
the saddle. Every hair on KY head imme-
diately stood on end. Ny horse had SHE'D
&C = large dog which crossed the road run
ming at full speed and dragging after it q
long iron chain. knew ut once that the
dog was mad. 1t had broken loose evidently
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-05-14

1t seems strange TO see a grave on the
prairie marked by marble stone and care
fully kept. Here and there one comes across
grave on the open prairie, and the marks
generally employed to designate these iso-
lated tombs consist of pile Of stones so ar
ranged that the observer knows at glance
that the formation is not of nature, but that
the hand OF man must have shaped the little
stone-covered mounds usually found near
the submits Of grassy slopes. Between
this point, says dispatch from Altamont,
d. T., to the st. Louis Globe, and Big Stone
Lake, northeast Of here, is a carefully-kept
grave, marked by slab of marble It is in
the vicinity Of sheet Of water which orig
inally bore an Indian name, but which is
known to the settlers as Punished Woman's
Lake, An Interpretation Of the Indian name
which 1t received because an Indian squaw,
who was looked upon by her superstitlous
race as being possessed of witchery, was
burned at the stake on the shore of the lake
some years ago.
The little marble slab strikes a stranger
as being out of place there on the prairie,
but the most striking part about it is the
inscription on its weather-stained surface.
1t reads:
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-05-14

Tho Corsase Sachets and DeIicateIy.
Scented EardrObes.
The sweetest thing in the garden of fash
ion is the society bud, who breathes of VIC
lets one week, of lotus beds the next, elder
berry the third and lemon-verhena when
the moon is waning. a couple of years ago,
says the Ne W York World, 1t was the proper
thing for girl TO rinse her lace handker-
Chief IN her sccht-bottle; such proceeding
now would be considered a yulgarism, for
II there Is any one article in asfashionable
toilet which is not perfumed II is d handkere
chief Hosiery and gloves slumber in beds
oi sweet grass and rose leaves; laces, wrar-
and underwear have their sepa~ate sachet
pillows; dresses are hing among the bags
OF sWeeI Cover that perfume every closet:
even oonnet-boxes emit fragrant oders
when uncovered, and in the linIngs Of many
'evercoats the wadding Is busted with orris.
but not trace OF scent hangs about the
sheer little square of lace-edged null.
The deficiency, however, is more than
counterbalanced by faint sweet odors that
anger about the folds and hem of dress
skirts and the bows of ribbon pendant from
leweled carriers. Even card-cases and
pocketbooks are perfumed, and so is the
small blotter bought with fashionable sta
tionery. But these items are insignificant
compared with the cost of pertaining a
summer outfit which requires the services
OF maid and an outlay equivalent to that
expended for gloves or Shoes
For instance, there is the corsage sachet
made OF dne satin to match the dress and
niied with perfume too delicious for de-
scription, The sacks, which are an inch
square, retail at nine dollars a dozen, and ii
takes about twenty TO go ronnd the edeeof
Josephine dress. OF course every low
earsage has to TO secheted, and if a belle
cares to buy them by the hundred she is
charged atthe rate of fifty cents each. An
other perfume trick is to pour scent over the
hair Just back of the crimps or frizzes.
Every woman rghs tins stopper of her scent.
bottle across her lips and eyebrows before
leaving the mirror, and the habit of dousing
q leather or satin fan with wild rose or blue
bells OF Scotland is as old as vanity itself
La. runed sleeves of the hour are also used
to sweeten woman S presegsc, the essence
OF chypre, mpgneiis or Jasmine being poured
among the gathers at the elbow where it is
least liable to be detected and mcSt readily
perceived Desirable perfumes cost seven
~ five cents an ounce, and the least popular
girl in society win dash twelve dollars
worth over two weeks visit and half
dozen summer toilets.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-05-14
NObOtlvta Mul0.

The mule seemed pensiVe, even sad,
AS II by conscience pricked;
But when they came to share his woes
He raised objections-kicked.
The cat came up TO sympathize,
With NEW and gentle purr.
Alas she got within his reach.
Observation-Disclosures and fur.
The dog, in pity, neared him, too.
To alleviate his care.
He tried to pass around him once.
But-sausagemeat and hair.
And John, the honest farmer boy,
Who had the beast in charge,
Tried recklessly to harness him
His funeral was large.
Oh, trifling were the causes which
His fexile legs unfurled,
And many were the quadrupeds
That sought another world.
He never did q decent thing,
He wasn't worth q ducat;
He kicked and kicked until he died,
And then he kicked the bucket
American Standard
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-05-14
HE QUIT SMOKING.
How q Quiet Little NJ an Subdued a Buri,
Rough-LoOklng Fellow.

How q Quiet Little NJ an Subdued a Buriy
Rough-LOOklnS Fellow.
A correspondent who recently visited
Jeh Davis at his home at Beauvoir relates
this:
Over on table was short, dusty sword
that had been recently sent from Mexico.
and attached to it was card which said
that the weapon had been found on the spo.
where Lieutenant DAVIS made his famous
charge at the battle of Buena Vista, and
turned the tide of victory in favor of the
Americans.
. / 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. IL was in the early days, and
Clay was travelling in a stage-coach where
the only other passengers were q pretty
girl, a big rough-looking countryman, and a
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
figure bundled up in the corner.
when no became conscious that the
pretty girl was begging the rough coun
tryman not to smoke, as it made her ILL
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 quick move
ment, reached down its collar, brought a
knife that in the excitement of the moment
looked a yard long, and with another cat
like movement seized the fellow by the
throat. Throw that pipe out of the window
or Pill A comprehensive sweep of the
murderous- looking blade finished the SEN
tence and sent the pipe SCATTERING on the
ground. In another minute the knife had
again disappeared down the capacious collar
and the limp figure had resumed it's former
vertebreless condition, but the rest of the
Journey said Mr.. Clay, 4 spent in wishing
was the little man in the great coat, who
was none other than Bowie, with his famous
knife'n
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-05-14
Silence.
h and primrose skv:

A strip OF peach and primrose sky;
A hammock IL Don; q mist-maid fair,
And Angels skins-the clouds that ply
'Twixt earth and heaven, on seas of afr;
Ger these the day-star fair in flight
A bright spur on the heels OF night
This Is the time-nights noiselesS WRno-
The time OF Angerona's reign.
Fair Angerona. tranquil one;
Goddess OF Silence, whose reposo
Il grand in temples of the sun,
Or Egypt. where the dark Nile flows.
On earth her haunts are tempted lands,
'MonR ruined towers, on lonely strands;
She seeks the dim cathedrars light
She loves the purple bloom OF night
But OIL her most illustrious hour,
Her most supreme abiding place,
Is in the heart when passions power
Seeks tho fair purpose to deface.
At noisy noon, IN busy mart,
When strife aud discord rule the heart
She comes. she reigns, all Is serene
AS beyond heights where eaRlets presA,
M. Z. Huddleston, in Arkansaw Traveller.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-05-14
VINO WAS the Scoundrel2

Banker Rosenthal directed his book,
keeper to address sharp letter to Baron
Y, who had promised several times to paw
what he owed and had as often neglected to
do so. When the letter was written it did
not please Banker Rosenthal, who is very
excitable, and he angrily penned the follow
ing: "Dear Baron Y.-Who was it that
promised to pay up on the first of January?
You, my dear baron, you are the man. Who
was it that promised then to settle on the
first Of Marchl You, my dear baron Who
was it that didn't settle on the first of
Marcha You, my dear baron. Who is
it. then, who has broken his word twice
and is an unmitigated scoundrel? Your
obedient servant, Moses Rosenthal.n
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-05-14
Patronize the Printer.

A sensible merchant says; ut is well
worth any shoe merchants while to use
writing paper in sending orders or writing
business letters instead Of postal cards.
And now that writing paper is so cheap,
and we have ounce instead of half-ounce
postage, would advise that they use post
size instead OF note, and good paper instead
Of poor. l would recommend every mer-
chant 10 have his name and place OF bust
ness distinctly printed at the top Of each
sheet. 1t would prove q very great con-
venience to wholesale houses in filing
orders and the like Il the writer Of letter
would leave margin OF an inch on the left
hand side of the paper.n
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-05-14
Invention Of Ell. omnibu,.

The invention Of omnibuses is due to the
philosopher Pascal, who, IN February, 1857,
obtained 'privilege"-what we should
call patent-for public carriages to travel
through certain streets of Paris. They
held eight passengers, who paid six sous
each, and were very successful, although
an act Of the parliament Of Paris forbade
them being used by lackeys, soldiers and
other humble folks. Pascal died in 1857, and
his useful invention did not long survive
him. The omnibus reappeared in London
about the beginning Of this century, and
was adopted in several Frepch provincial
towns before Paris accepted it again.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-05-14
His Secret.


What page, still standing on the START
Art frozen to the marble therei
Or dreamest of some maiden fair,
Who's robbed thee OF thy hearth
Dost fancy that each moonbeam bright
Is but her form enshrined in light
Entrancing to thy lovers sight
All, foolish, foolish pagei
Where'er she is thou shouldst be near,
Not dreaming far with moon-dimmed tear;
No lady's won with timid fear,
But sweetly bold address.
Suppose thy lady thus should stand
So near thee thou couldst touch her hand
Couldst thou thy feeling then commando
Come, speak, my gentle pagel
Would thou not softly breathe her name,
Or, silent, watch her as she came
Towards thee, with blush half shame
And half thy love confes'ti
why, page. what's this-you must be madi
A lIissl my hspdl-I made thee sadi
Dost thou not know els bold and bad
To love above thy rapki
Thou canst not help it, Dost thou dare
Excuse thyselff But hushi have carel
A footstep cometh down the stair
Begone my loving pageI
All ne-his passion seems intense
Why did he heed me and rush hencei
TO kiss my handl-how void Of sensel
He might have dared my lips.
IN. o. PioavunO
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-05-14

There is wisdom in proverbs; but
every body knows that the statement,
speech is silvern, silence is golden"
was not made by dumb man-Puclx.
FACTS ABOUT PERFUMES,
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The Wall of the ReIected.


The Wall of the Rejected.
o dear I am nearly thirty.
And years fly by so fast
That each successive birthday
Comes close upon the last;
While unappreciated
My charms will soon lie low
Beneath spinster's gravestone-
I've never had beaui
Although I'm not beauty,
My eyes are very fair;
And several carpinR critics
Have raved about my hair.
Yet If do put venture
To any bali or rout
My getting left is certain
I'm never taken out.
I've wandered from Bar HarboF
TO Newport and the pier;
With Paris frocks and bonnets
Becoming, chic and dear.
But, though the women praise me
In whispers each to each,
No man has ever asked me
To stroll upon the beach.
Ali lassies who are followed
BY an adoring train,
And find in every corner
An unsuspected swain,
The world has griefs aud sorrows
OF which you little knowi
just think OF me-the only girl
Who never had beaul
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-05-14
A Doc-Day AspiraSIon.

I'll hie me away to my summer place
Where the polar bear lies low;
I'll hobnob, too, with the Eskimo race
And live in hut of snow.
TIL prance around with the sportive seals
That bask in the midnight sun,
And SILVER and freeze as nay blood CONCEAL
When my daily work IS done.
I'll hunt and fish with the Arctic chaps
And skate in their native Kinks,
I'll play 'old sledge' with the Jolly Laps
Or ''freeze-out" for the drinks.
I'll play baseball in q field Office
In the pal8oorystic sea,
Where the diamond is ever cool and Moe
And no hot balls can be.
o, far away in this frigid zone,
Tllinger at my case;
And there on q glecier of my own
I'll calmly sit and freeze.
On pancake" Ice I'll sometimes sup,
On "calr' ice will dine
And '.polar currents" TO finish up
And make meal divine.
Then HE with me to my summer place;
Why sit ye stewing heref
y, come, and the festive Walrus chase
In the northern hemisphere
Don't boil and sizzle and worry and fret
In this and warmer zones,
But fly to colder zone, and let
The wind blow through your bones.
Sam 7. Glover, in Chicago Herald
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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-05-14
A DAKOTA ROMANCE.
The Story Of a Curious Hpitauh.
as Told by a Settler.

How the wife OF Dakota Pioneer Learned
OF the Death OF Former LOver-A
Discovery That Ended In
Sad Catastrophe.
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BARBER COUNTY INDEX
WEDNESDAY. MAY IA, 1890.
PLEASING POEMS.
WHOM I Wa : GIrI.

When was a girl" said grandmammA
Who stopped with her weight OF yearA
" My step was as light as your steps are,
My form was as straight my dearSi
With laughter and song my youth was Rayl
had more bright days than sad,
And so, little maids, to you say,
And bear IL mind-Be GladT'
When 1 was a girl"-she sweetly smiled
On each fair young face upturned-
81 kept the love and faith OF q child,
And in all things God discernedi
His constant blessing my spirit knew,
His guidance understood;
And so, my children, / say to you,
And lay it TO heart-Be Goodw
Thu nufv0n
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THE ADVANTAGES OFTALLAPOOsA
Exemption from TAXATION for Ten Fears
Gbain
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HoW IS the Time to Locate fnUest in 7ahopoosa Ca
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81 have it all tanned myself" said Mr.,
Gee. 1.-THE skin is brought To me and then
! have II tanned. That's ray greatest
trouble.''
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-05-18
DO IT NOW.

Sometimes you mean to mend your ways
Why don't you do it now?
You hope to win the whole worlds praise
Why don't you do it now?
you've always read in prose and rhyme,
The present is the golden fme;"
If you are ever going to climb,
Why don't you do it now?
Maybe you've promised to swear of
Why don't you do it now!
On taking quinine for your cough
Why don't you do it now?
Quinins ia such bitter pill,
TIN time ,% te stop y wnss s&id R, down hill
Why don't you do it now?
You've said you'd promise not to smoke
Why don't you do it now!
Unless you mean it as joke,
Why don't You do it now?
You know the habit is an Ill
One, even if it does not kill.
4 You can stop it when You will,
Why don't you do it now?
You mean to we'd charming miss
Why don't you do it now!
You hope TO win her with kiss-
Why don't you do it now9
It may be she has other views;
But if You think she can't refuse.
And that you only have to choose,
Why don't you do itnOw!
In short, no matter what you've planned,
Why don't you do it now?
e YOU have work right at your hand,
Why don't you do it now,
Successful men are never late;
You'll fail il you procrastinate.
Il you have vowed to conquer tate,
Why don't you do it now?
,-Somerville Journal.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-05-18
THE BORROWING OF BOOKS.

Written for THE SUNDAY INDEPENDENT.]
The ethics of book-borrowing are lax,
Try lax, indeed. Such was my reflection
. other evening as gazed upon several
wning chasms in my bookshelves, and
lculated in vague kind of way the prob
Silities of volume here or pamphlet
ere ever being able to resume its former
bright mode Of life. Such, I unused, is the
ter-dependence of the various individuals
at constitute what we call society. Take
kay from man or woman the loving sup
TT and kindly sympathy he or she has
me to look upon as thing of course,
ke from boy the tender ties of home,
Dm man the interests and pursuits that
I've become to him second nature, from
woman the hopes that have twined them
Ives around her very heart-strings. and
nat fearful chance there 10 for each and
of thec, to fall, ''like Lucifer. never to
10 again.
Stretching out my slippered feet towards
blaze that leaped and sparkled merrily
the open CRATE: gazed into the glowing
hen, after due and solemn preparation in
. shape of a new pen, an immaculate
otter and a painfully constrained po-
Zion. we would tenderly and delicately
BEN new book at the fy-leaf and with
es glued to the page, with sympathetic,
otruding tongue, write thereon, in char
Eters of most laborious construction that
Isplayed perverse tendency to spill over
| the further edge, the following lines:
''If thou art borrowed by friend,
Right welcome shall he be
To read, to study, not to lend,
But to return to me.
Not that impaired knowledge doth
Diminish learning's store,
But books, find. if often lent,
Return to me no more"
With what an air of satisfaction we would
ntemplate the finished work unblemished
single blot! How softly would We
1se the book and how carefully lay it
ide. Never had African savage more pro-
sund faith in the power of his fetch or in
lie mysterious rites of Mumbo Jumbo
IAN we felt in the efficacy of these
aes. The boy or man who could resist an
peal of such lofty generosity, of such
|Sgh moral tone al that, must be lost in
ed!
besides, the poetry itself seemed SO salts
ctory. It was SO intensely practical,
ere was no attempt to hide the meaning
cloud of misty verbiage. 1t went
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spirit that could almost initiate the ex-
ample of celebrated book collector, who
had his splendid volumes inscribed with
the generous words, "Grollierii ct AMIGO
rum. The property of Grollier and his
friends" But to calmly confscate book
on the pretext of borrowing it-that is too
recall another of our boyish rhymes, and,
writing sharp note to the delinquent, in
form him that
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-05-18

Many have lived on pedestal, who will
never have statue when dead.-Beranger.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-05-18

In condemning the vanity of women, men
complain of fire themselves have kindled,
.Linpree.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-05-18

It was felt, as I have said, that the