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Lace NrantIes for summer.

Stylish and very simple mantles for
summer are shoulder capes made Of a
founce of black lace attached to Jet
yoke, with a faring Medicis collar
either of lace or of jet The jet is any
pretty open branching pattern set on
strong black net in a posnted yoke
shape; the lace founce should fall to
the elbows, and may be accordion
plated. More elaborate mantles Of
Maltese or of Chantilly lace have color
introduced as gold net, or gold-wrought
Figaro jacket, or else velvet Of rather
bright green, or the new aubergine or
violet shades. All are made very high
on the shoulders, and quite short in the
back, but many have graceful long scarf
fronts. A girdle of Jet and some trim
Tnings of Jet rain fringe falling from the
collar or over the shoulders or below
1.-THE girdle are on some of the prettiest
of these little capes. The black corded
net like fine passementerie is effectively
FUSED as yokes and haring collors. -Hars
DeE's Bazaar.
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SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

An Austrian sculptor has discovered
a process for molding marble fluid pre-
cisely as bronze is nodded.
French scientists have anaIyzed a
quart OF water taken from typhoid in
teeted district, and found 1000, 600 to
| 100000 600 typhoid germs therein.
DR.. Charles M. Cresson, of Philadel-
| phia, states that he has more than once
found the typhoid bacilli in the Juice
that he has squeezed out of celery grown
near phia.-Annals of Hygiene.
Last year there were received in
New York 5,747,55s cans of milk. AS
each was 40-gallon can, New York re-
ceived more than 200, 10000 gallons of
milk, in addition 4, 46O, 900 gallons of
cream and large quantity of condensed
| milk
The trade of electrician, one of the
very newest, begins to be crowded. In
Philadelphia there are 200 graduates of
polytechnic institute on record as hav-
ing offered to work as electricians for 80
cents per day.
Those interested in astronomy will
have an opportunity to observe total
eclipse of the sun, under favorable con-
ditions, in the year 1900. 1t will occur
in the early morning of May 27th and
will be visible from Virginia to Louisi-
ana.
DR. Dixon, professor of hygiene at
the University of Pennsylvania, has
been making some experiments with air
and dust obtained in street cars. He
has found in them the germs of many
diseases contagious and otherwise.
Winds occurring in the vicinity of
large rivers partake of the good quail
ties of sea- breezes, but do not contain so
much ozone or saline matter These
brGezes are said to be rarely higher than
four hundred feet above the surface.
"A new wooden pulley has been con-
trived, the center being of cast iron and
the rim of wood, the device being in two
parts. 1t is claimed that by its use
better bell friction is obtained and
saving in power is realized, the spokes
being formed in such a manner as to
offer but very slight resistance to the
motion; keys and set screws are entirely
done away, and the grip upon the shaft
ing is said to be perfect
In monographs, graphophones and
similar sound recorders use is usually
made of cylinders, covered with tinfoil
or wax, for receiving, as the cylinders
revolve, the impression made by the
scribers. A new sound-recording appar-
atus operates on an entirely different
principle. The cylinder is replaced by
a fat surface, which is made to oscillate
and move downward at regular intervals
by special mechanism.
-"The Importance of placing COM
pressed air as a motive power within
easy reach of the small manufacturer
has been recognized at Birmingham,
says a London exchange. ga local
company obtained an act of Parliament
in 1884 by which they were authorized
to lay pipes throughout the public
to convey compressed air
at forty-fve pressure for the use OF
subscribers. The first installation has
now been made and there are some four
and quarter miles of main already
laid, the whole being controlled from a
central station, at which there is power
full machinery. No less than twenty
six consumers are said to be taking the |
air and using it for working engines
iaOanninO etc
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TOM SMITH KICKED.
A Denver Man who Knew How TO Fight
for His Reputation.

for His Reputation.
One day in the years gone by, when
was on the editorial staff of struggling
Denver daily, man came tramping up
stairs with copy of our last issue in
his hand, and said:
Gentlemen, want to know who writ
this piece about me-"
1t was an item copied from a San
Francisco paper in regard to the hang
ing of man named Tom Smith by
vigilance committee, and the editor
looked it over and replied:
This wasn't writ about you. It is
about Tom Smith who was hanged in
California
That's me. I'm Tom Smith,
''But you are not that Tom Smith. Il
tells how he was cut down and buried. .
Makes no difference to me; I'm Tom
smith, and it is all lie about my being
hanged" +" growled the visitor.
Cant there be any other Tom Smith
besides you?" demanded the editor.
Never heard of any. That was writ
to slur me-"
You are mistaken, man. Can't you
see that we copied it from San Fran
cisco paper.
We'll, that's all the same to me. The
idea was to ruin my reputation in this
town, and I've come up to lick both OF
you"
He was proceeding to doit when lame
compositor came in and shot him
through the left leg, but even after that
he chewed the old mans ear to a pulp
and broke two of my fingers. IN. Z. Sun.
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NUMBER "a.
PuNeENT PARAGRAPHS.

-Cholly Peachblow-"Ow! say, BAH
bah, that razor pulls" Barber (con-
temptuously)-"Pulls whatP"-N. Y.
| Sun.
She latter conjugal tif)-'T won
der If there are any men in Heaven?'
He cit is sad to think, dear, that this
will always be matter of conjecture
| with you. u."-Philadelphia Press.
You may charge this said jay.
smith, indicating a watch he had se-
lected. "You seem to mistake it for a
gun," replied the jeweler, as he placed
it back in the case.-Judge.
-He(pathetically)-"All great men
have smoked, my dear" She with ami
mation)-"O, if you will only swear of
until you are great, shall be quite con-
tent"
Wife (reading)-"Here it tells about
man ninety-two years old who brings
up all the coal and chops all the wood
used in the family. What do you think
Of that?" Husband (contemptuously)-
''Well, he must be a foolv'-Lowell
Citizen.
AT the boarding house.-Miss Bet
terdaies-" Mamma, 1 wish Mr. Margin
would not help himself with his fork. "
Mrs. Betterdaies (consolingly)-"Don't
mind it, dear; he never eats with it,
Detroit Free Press
-Stager-''The critics have been very
complimentary to me. They all say
that in my last performance deserve a
word of praise" Gall-"Yes, so I see;
but l notice that none Of them give it "a
you. Transcript.
-Lady-"Sir you should introduce .
little change in your style Of dancing.
Gent-"How do you mean, Mademoi.
seller" Lady-''You might occasionally
step on my left foot; the right one has
had enou b. London Tid Bits.
AT Soiree. Miss Gushlere-"HoW
torturing, how fearful the thought must
be for a great singer to know that she
has lost her voicer' Mr.. Praclere-"H
is much more torturing when she doesn9
know it. Harvard Lampoon.
Physician (rehectively)-'H'm ThG
case is one, think, that will yield to
mild stimulant. Let me see youI
tongue, madam, If you please" Hus
band of patient( hastily )-"Doctor, her
tongue doesn't need any stimulating
Chicago Tribune.
Miss Nuborder-'T believe I will
work nice motto and pre- sent it to Mrs.
Hashcroft to hang up in the dining.
room. Can't you suggest something, Mr..
Billings?" Billings-"Open your mouth
and shut your eyes. ."-Terre Haute Ex-
press.
81 will be sister to you" she said.
NO." he replied sadly; ''I've got one
sister who wears my neckties, borrows
car-fare, loses my hair brush, puts tides
all over the furniture in my room, and
expects me to take her to the theater
twice week. l think I'll 20 out into
the world and forget you. Washington
Post.
-''Mr. Scribbleton, I have q compli-
ment for you" "Indeed?" "Yes; a
friend of mine, Miss Belle Pepperton,
says that you are developing very marked
literary tastes" 30, indeed, - said Scrib-
bleton, with sad smile; ''it wasn't
more than an hour since that told Miss
Pepperton that 1 hadn't written any
thing for over month"
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THE OLD FIREPLACE.

Yoa may talk about your furnace fires
That warm your city homes,
And tell me how the heat aspires
And through the building roams
sTis handy, I'll admit, to push
little iron wheel
And let the ghost Of summer out
About the room to steal.
But oh, I'd love to see once more
My fathers big fireplace,
TO hear the old logs sing and roar,
And watch the dodging sparks outpour
And up the chimney chase.
Your modern CRATES nice affair;
When full Of anthI acite,
II lends the room pleasant air
On any winters night.
The glowing Goals a 1ower-bed-
Lilies and crimson pinks,
And 'neng them many an elfin eve
Peeps through and winks and blinkS
But Oh long to see once more
My fathers old fireplace;
To watch the shadows flicker DER
My mothers Whitley sanded floor,
And round the ceiling racel
These patent parlor stoves are fine,
And charm away the chill
WIN WlluONS WAeuCc LUc lIEQJ may ShlnA
The room with cheer to fill.
Some people love to boast abou
Our stylish modern ways,
And thank the Lord who cast their lines
In these progressive days,
But oh, that I might be once more
Beside the old fire -placei
To see the fleet-winged flames upsoar
And watch the flashes on the foo
Entwine and interlace.
Hearty and jovial fires were those
IlcTed so when a boy.
They tinted darkness like the rose
And warmed the heart with JOY,
They chucSled in an undertone,
They caekled, whistled, laughed,
They burned so bright, the cares Of life
Flew upward in the draughtI
And oh, I'd love to be once moro
Beside the old fireplace,
To browse upon the sanded floor
And find my mother bending o'e1
With love.iight on her face!
George Horton. in Chicago Herald.
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Not AN a Bed OF Roses,

A man who writes for newspaper is
Of few years and lots of grief, says an
exchange. He riseth in the morning
and knoweth not what day may bring
forth. II he telleth all the news he
runneth a great risk of having a tin ear
put on him, and if he teIleth not the
news the people say he is n. e., and
there is no joy it. The crafty man ca
joleth him into giving him fifty-cent
puff for a fve-cent cigar, and fond moth
ers frown on him if he fails to fiatter
their freckle-faced broods. And all his
ways are ways of woe, and his days are
full of sorrow. The life insurance man
tracketh snares for him, and on the
whole he hath deuce Of time.-Ger-
mantown (Pa.) Telegraph.
The butterfly is greedy creature;
no sooner does it come from grub than
It goes for grub.-Texas Siitings.
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be Could co out Rut onos.

First Woman-You ought to get your
husband to take you to the - Theater.
There is an excellent play there.
Second Woman-Is it four-act play7
First Woman-No; only two.
Second Woman-Then he wouldn't
go,-~Munsy's Weekly.
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Out for Keeps.

Mrs. Rambo-Is your mother at home,
Thomas?
Tommy Dodd-No, ma'am; she's out.
Mrs. Rambo-How unfortunate: Tell
her shall call again tomorrow, viii
you?
Tommy Dodd- -Yes'm, P1l tell her, but
1t won't do any good. heard her say
that she was always out whom you called.
Lippincott's.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-10-22
Old Timer Talks.

MINGONA, KANSAS, OCT. IL, 1890.
EDITOR INDEX: This is out of my line of
business, but seeing the extremes to which
the old party leaders are put in trying to elect
their man, Corporation Eldred, some of their
ring leaders have gone so far as to offer to
vote the rest of the peoples ticket fos a vote
for Eldred. which is proof enough to the labor.
ing people that he is not the man to represent
their interest. The past has taught the peo-
pie that ring rule was not in their interest
have been in this county from "a to the
present time. know that few politicians in
and around Medicine Lodge have always run
things pretty much their own way. The farm
ers have left it to the politicians until they can
now look GROUND and see mems homes sold by
the sheriff, in this great free state; where 10
per cent. is legal Interest, but bankers anss
money sharks charge 2 to 3 per cent a MONTH
Farmers and laborers, let US stand up solid
for the Peoples ticket know that ringst
are going over the county telling republicans
that it is a democratic scheme to get in power
wish to say , word in behalf of Simpson.
He has always labored for the cause of reform
If it had not been for Simpson the ..eaIary
grab would probably be going on in this ooun-
ty to-day. / see that the Cresset don't give
him credit for that, but gives credit to the
commissioners. watched that closely ana
say place the honor where 1t belongs.
The ringsters ride out in this part of the
county and set their heelers on, but the people
don't scare; they know the heelers too well.
Brother laborers. stand UP solid for the Peo-
pies ticket in November, and then We can
sing goodbye. ring rule. good byes you have
finished your work; your mission is ended; you
have become as corrupt as God ever intended:
He sends us a reformer in the Peoples party,
backed by the farmers alliance, and other
kindred organizations. OLD TIMER
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TELL THE TRUTH.

hAZELTON, UT. 10, 1oJU.
EDITOR INDEX: l wish to say word
in regard to Jerry Simpson. l notice
that the report is being circulated that
Jerry is an infidei. / want to say that
nm, ;, :, .,a,iAuA the report; the reason 1
don't believe it is, that I attended a
sunday school picnic during the cam
paign of 1888, at a place 1 think they
called Lockard's Grove; am not pos
tive of the name, but it was in the west
part of Barber county. After dinner,
ON that occasion, Jerry came among the
picnickers and was invited to make a
speech, and he did so.
l remember very distinctly that in
his talk he started out by saying that
he was sorry to say that he had not
shown the interest in the Sabbath school
work that he should, and that he beliey-
ed the Sabbath school was doing a grand
and good work, and that he could
think of nothing that was calculated to
be of a more lasting benefit co the young
people than the study of the bible in
the Sabbath school. Jerry talked about
20 minutes. using in substance language
as strong ifnot stronger. than the above.
There was good number present on
that occasion-the whole community
to say nothing of a few candidates.
Those present. and doubtless others,
can tell more OF Jerry's talk than can.
Now, Mr.. Editor, we are not one of
Jerry's disciples; we don't belong to
the alliance, or any other secret pOlIti-
cal society; we don't even have the re.
moteat idea of voting for Jerry to 90 to
congress, but We are simply saying this
because we believe In fair play. and
have never believed in the plan of run
ming campaign on false foundation.
Respectfully, W. q. Afford.
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THE BRIBE GIYER.

The following testimony is little
old. but it is just to the point:
Representative Hossack, of Crawford
county, said: "Ingalls personally offer
ed me one thousand dollars providing
would vote for him-$5OO down and
$500 to be paid on March LIST, 1879. Jim
Merritt and j. Wilson paid me the
$780,
Representative G.. l.. White, of Re-
public county, testified under oath: Il
was offered $500 to vote for Ingalls,.
was told might name my price,
Representative w. S. Wait, of Lin
coin county, testified under oath: 81
was offered $500 to vote for Ingalls, by
Representative Anderson, of Ellsworth
county,"
Representative J. T. RaybelI, of
Greenwood county, testified: Il vas
paid $3.50 and promised $3.50 more to
vote for Ingalls,
J. B. Clogston, representative from
Greenwood county, testified under oath:
"Ingalls said to me: If you will vote for
me you can command the appointments
of your county, was offered $500 to
vote for Ingalls,"
Representative H. c. Fisher, of Har-
per county, testified under oath: Il
was offered $3.50 to vote for Ingalls,
Jim Merritt testified: "Mr. Hossack is
not the only man to whom l loaned
money during that (senatorial) fight. l
loaned no man money who was not
working for Ingalls, success, and who
was not one of his pronounced friends.
Representative J. M. Hutchinson, of
Jewell county, testified under oath: II
was offered 81 800 to vote for ingalls,.
Was approached by inference several
| times"
Representative G. w. McClintOck, of
Mcpherson county, after refusing To
disclose names for several days, finally
testified as follows: Jim Merritt offer
ed me $500 if would vote for Ingalls,.
Shuttuck, of Hutchinson, said Ingalls,
lacked five votes of enough to elect him,
and that could get $500 to vote for In
! gals
Representative John BIssell, register
of the Kirwin land Office, (18S4 testified
as follows: >'IngallS said as near as !
can remember these words: IF you
will vote for me and do what you can to
assist me, will give you anything you
want-land offices, post offices, or any.
thing else."
The above is evidence taken by the
Kansas house of representatives in
1879. Do you believe it? Of course you
do. Has ingalls, hand lost its cunning
since that time? No. Do you see any
signs of Doodle for ingalls, in the pres
ent campaign. OF course you do. Will
you vote for any man who Will vote fol-
Ingalls,? Do you want briber, bit
ter scoffer at honesty and decency, to
represent yon in the q. S. senate? We
hope every voter will weigh the above
honestly, and then vote honestly.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-10-22
GLOOM Is SPREADING.

It's an awful thing for the alliance to
help Jerry Simpson. The g. O. p. don't
help its candidates; but why the gloom
at Topeka.
The clerks and employees at the state
house are clothed in gloom. A smile
is an unknown event and where two OF
three are congregated profanity, more
or less according to their youthful train
ing, is heard IN pushed whispers. The
republican al-committee will have
all the sins to answer for.
An assessment OF 10 per cent. of the
annual salary, without regard to race,
color, previous condition of servitude
or position, has caused the commotion.
Heretofore the central committee has
simply requested contributions. This
scar the assessments are compulsory
1t illustrates the desperate straight in
which the party finds itself and the
hard fight which it proposes to make.
The revenue which tbs central COM
mittee will derive from this source is in
round numbers 100000. Not even the
appointiye positions were overlooked
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Truth For All.

ED. INDEX: hear that William Lightburn
told in the Medicine Valley Alliance that had
changed my politics. 1t is a lie, and he knew
1t, just as he knew it was not the right
thing to do to hide himself in ]. o. Clarks car
of stock and household goods to dead beat his
way to Illinois, it being against the railroad
law for two to go in such car
And such raking as got from my Uncle
and partner, L. p Miller, in last weeks Cres-
set. Boys, he skinned over the line into Mis-
souri, before 1 saw that piece. He left me
some samples of lead ore from his Missouri
mines, which 1 shall throw al him when he
comes home. knew that would get thunder
II l wrote anything about the tariff, but he
will find four barb-wire fence running on the
east line of Kansas, through the United States
His lead mines will be on the tariff side-our
Kansas farms will be in the great, glorious,
free trade states. This is where the line will
be drawn, DR.. e. P. Miller.
Boys, vote for your interests. If had more
time, would go over his article with whip
and spurs.'' ELI BENEDICT.
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In the railroad commissioner Office.
the agricultural department. the public
library and all there was the same
sweeping demand. IL came hard, but
Secretary Smith explained that it must
be done. Everybody knows what the
name of the present attorney general
is. But the clerks IN his department
put up their shekels just the same.
These assessments did not apply to
the officials. Something like 25 per
cent. straight through was their limit,
while the pOStmaSterS and other federal
officeholders were not suffered to go by
without their pro rata.
And the central committee will need
every cent. The almost certainty that
the party with majority of 10000 in
1888 will have minority of the votes
in 1890 is an unheard of change In the
politics OF Kansas or of any other state
with no more than 100000 voters. The
central committee has listed the better
class of orators on salary, and it pays
the expenses, of about sixty others
The committee is at work day and
night and the opposing parties bad as
well realize that hard work will be re-
quired to Offset it.
The peoples party is in better con-
dition to poll its full strength than the
politicians realize. Its lecturers in the
various congressional districts have
been preaching for months. There are
i'll addition more speakers regularly in
the field than either of the old parties
have and the number of speeches made
exceed those OF either the republican or
democrats by some thousand and odd.
1t will be news 10 the republicans who
think they are covering the state thor
Oughly to learn that there are at the
least calculation 1000 speeches to the
alliance each week. And the beauty
of 1t all is that it does not cost the CEN
trail committee red cent. Each sub
| alliance has a lecturer, who discourses
once week on the current issues and
his especial duty is to roast the old par
ties for their broken pledges to the peo-
pie.
The part which the women of Kan
sas are playing in Kansas politics is a
study for those publiclsts who fear
that woman suffrage is coming. Mrs.
Lease is hummer. Belva Lockwood
is not IN it with her. She has a voice
like the sounding sea, and it is ever
with her. She knows more politics
than three-fourths of the state house
statesmen, and has no tlmidity.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-10-22

An attempted fraud on the people is
being worked at Cherryyale. A paper
called the Southern Kansas Farmer,
and claiming that its editor is mem
Der of the alliance, is doing all it can to
InJure the order. 1t is full of bogus
stuff, claiming to be alliance news, all
of which is calculated to disgust ALI
ance men, and drive them out of the
order. The editor is unknown, but he
claims to be member of an alliance
in Haskell county, 800 miles from Cher
ryvale. AS soon as the campaign is
over the dirty thing Will pull its freight
to some other quarter. We wonder
what great moral party is putting up
money to sustain this fraud. Such fell
lows don't work for nothing. All the
g. o. p papers exchange with it, and
copy freely from 1T, and pretend to be-
lieve its utterances. 1t is a fraud.