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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-02-05

Great Britain is consumed in the king
dom. the balance being shipped to the
continent, to the Mediterranean, and
the East.
The number of persons employed in
and about the mines of Great Britain
and Ireland in round numbers is 525. 600,
of whom about five thousand are women
employed above ground cleaning the
coal before it is dumped into the rail-
road cars, and doing, in fact, all the Ia
Dor required by men. The wages earned
by the women is from so to SO cents a
day. Until recent years they were en-
ployed underground; but the miners,
through constant agitation, had an act
OF Parliament passed compelling their
withdrawal from underground, and
there is every prospect of an act of Par
lament to prevent their employment
about the mines. The miners wages
range from an average of so cents Tin
some localities) a day to 81. IL day in
Durham and Northumberland, where
they are said to receive the highest
wages. According to the best informa-
ton at hand, both from mine inspectors
and officers of the miners union, the av-
erage wages day will not reach
shlllings (S1) for each day worked. A
year it will average about $40 to a45
tS2OO to S225). The cost of living, for
necessaries, will average 10 per cent.
higher than in the United States. Cloth
ing is cheaper, but shoes are dearer-e.
g., pit shoes" are So pair that can be
bought in this country for 80. The min
ing laws are of the most stringent kind:
no expense is spared to insure the life
and health of the miners. During the
past thirty years the ratio of fatal &C
ctdents has decreased one-half. With a
rigid enforcement of the Educational
law, rs it now exists. illiteracy will van
ish with the present generation, as it is
now confined to the older people, who
began work before the present laws
were enacted.-W. T. Lewis, Miner, in
Chicago News.
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THOMAS JEFFERSON.
A Pen Picture Of the Third President q
the United States.

A Pen Picture of the Third President of
the United States.
Jefferson was very tall, six feet two
and half inches in height, sandy-com-
plexioned, shy in manner, seeming cold,
awkward in attitude, and with little in
his bearing that suggested command.
One of the greatest of modern
writer's first made himself famous by de-
claring that society was founded on
cloth; and Jefferson, at moments of
some interest in his career as President,
seemed to regard his peculiar style of
dress as matter of political Importance,
while the Federalist newspapers never
ceased ridiculing the corduroy small
clothes, red plush waistcoat and sharp
toed boots with which he expressed his
contempt for fashion. For
eight years this tall, loosely-built, some
what stiff figure, in red waistcoat and
yarn stockings, slipping down at the
heel, and clothes that seemed too small
for him, may be imagined sitting on one
hip, with one shoulder high above the
other, talking almost without ceas-
ing to his visitors at the White
House. His skin was thin and delicate,
peeling from his face on exposure to
the sun, giving it tettered appearance.
This sandy face, with hazel eyes and
sunny aspect; this loose, Stacking per-
son; this rambling, brilliant converse
ton, belonged to the controlling influ-
ences of American history, more neces-
sary to the story than three-fourths of
the official papers, which only hid the
truth. Jefferson's personality during
these eight years appeared to be the
Government, and impressed itself like
that of Bonaparte, although by differ
emit process, on the mind of the Nation.
In the village simplicity of Washington
society he was more than king, for he
was alone in social as well as political
pre-eminence. Except the British Lega-
ton, no house in Washington was open
to general society; the whole mass of
politicians, even the Federalists, were
dependent on jefferson and ''the Pal.
ace" for amusement He
showed his powers at their best in his
own house, where among friends az
genial and cheerful as himself his ideas
could flow freely, and could be discussed
with sympathy. Such were the men
with whom he surrounded himself bv
choice, and none but such were invited
to enter his Cabipet.-Henry Adams
History of Jefferson's Administration. ;"
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zAcAARlAs DID rr.
How Old lack Secured Board and Lod
oil n

How Old lack Secured Board and LodR.
Ing for Sixty Days.
Old lack shuffied forward, as his name
was called, closely followed by the off,
Ger who had captured him in one of his
nocturnal misunderstanding expeditions.
He held his catskin cap tightly under
his arm. rubbing his woolly head
thoughtfully with his disengaged hand.
''Well, prisoner, what is your name?''
t'Zacharias Tobias"
''What?''
"Zacharias Tobias"
t'Are you sure it is not Ananias?"
IT amt sure of muffin, yer honor; but
I 'spects it'll be Dennis To- / gifts out OBJ
yere."
well Dennis-I should say Ananias
you were found in Deacon Smith S
chicken-coop this morning at three
o'clock, believe"
Quarter pas three, yer honor"
''Well, then, 3:15, to be more exact. I
suppose you went there to read poetry. :"
''Sar?''
did you go there to read poetry"
Eat poultry? No, sar; don't want no
raw poultry bout dis niggah. Don't eat
poultry till it's done cooked
''Well, Dennis, am afraid your poul-
try will be cooked this time-your goose
at least. Do you think you can get it
done in thirty days?"
''It's pretty tough, yer honor"
''Well, then, make it sixty days, so as
to be on the safe side"
And as old Zach moved away he muir
INJURED, softly: dun fixed it this time;
bound ter get three square meals day
fur the next two months, o'n-Texas
SiftingS.
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vANDEReILT's FIRST BOAT.
Some Good Stories OF the Founder of thu
Family of MiIIionaires.

Some Good Stories Of the Founder of the
Family of MiIIiOnaires.
The reading given recently by Mrs.
Coventry Waddell at her Stuyvesant
Square home served to bring out many
interesting new anecdotes of Commo-
dore Vanderbilt. Mrs. Waddell's friend
ship with the founder of the Vanderbilt
family was lifelong and her r"collec-
tions of the great money-gcttcr are of a
nature to cast strong light upon his
personality. The following story illus
trative of his energy and push in early
youth was told.
1t is well-Known fact that for years
Commodore Vanderbilt sailed a per
iauger' and in it took daily a cargo of
green groceries to the New York mar
ket. The shrewd way III which he be-
came skipper of bis first craft is thor
oughly characteristic. 1t seems that at
the age of sixteen Nelly" had deyel-
oped strong affection for rowing. sail
ing and other water sports. An old
Staten Island fisherman had a sail-boat
which he offered to sell for 500, and
NELLY" thought that if he could only
become the owner of this particular boat
he would indeed be happy. He hadn't
the money, however, and as a. last re-
source, applied to his mother.
Nelly" she said, ''you see that
eight-acre lot out there" pointing to an
unpromising-looking stony field.
Nelly" said he did. well, if you
will pillow, harrow and seed that lot you
shall have the $780," NELLY" induced
several boys of the neighborhood by
promises of jolly excursions, to turn in
and help him. In week they had the
job done, and the 500 was paid over.
NELLY" then beat the owner of the
boat down to S95, and purchased the
craft at that price. The Commodore to
the end OF his days never ceased to re-
greet that on his first sail he broke hole
in the boats bottom that it cost SIS to re-
pair.
Mrs. Waddell once remarked to the
Commodore, II dare say, many wealthy
New Workers would be happy if they
had pockets in their shrouds, in which
they could carry to the next world the
wealth they accumulate in this
"Ah, no" replied Mr. Vanderbilt. eff
shrouds had pockets the strife and tur-
MOL on Wall street would be increased
RuF-fOld.
At one time, while living on Staten
Island, the Commodore had an exasper-
atingly balky horse. He never could be
sure that the brute wouldn't stop in the
middle of the road, and he often walked
in preference to taking chances with
the animal. One day he started out and
had driven only about half mile when
the beast came to a dead halt An en-
energetic belaboring, backing and saw
ing had no effect and the Commodore
turned around and went home. He got
. bag of lump-sugar and again started
out, leading the horse and feeding him
lump Of sugar every few steps. This
discontinued until the place where the
horse baked was passed, after which he
got in and had no difficulty in driving to
his journeys end. In telling the story
to Mrs. Waddell, he said: 81 have tried
the same course of procedure with wom-
en- and il has always proved effective."-
N " Trihuua
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Hints on Clearing the Table,

Gather up the fragments, that nothing
may be lost. If you use a crumb tray,
gather first the broken pieces upon a
plate. Take the knives, forks and spoons
separately upon tray; remove the
salters and pepper-sprinklers and butter
dishes in the same way. Remove the
plates and other dishes; quietly take
those of the guests first, and not pilinf
up more than can be easily removed at
once. After the plates, take the food
platters or dishes. Then remove the
crumbs. Some ladies prefer using two
table-cloths, leaving the lower one on
for the Intercourse. System can be OBJ
served in small house with homelv
fare as we'll as in palace, and taste can
be as well displayed in the arrangement
of dishes on a pine table as in the groups
of silver and china of the rich. Skill in
cooking is as readily shown in baked
potato as in some French entree. Poy-
erty is no excuse for careless habits and
bad cooking.-Detroit Tribune.
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sh1vers slightly, although the day is
warm. She tries to smile, but does not
speak. Wilfred takes her silence for
timidity, but there is look in her eyes
as she gazes from him to Eleanor that
Eleanor understands better than her
husband can.
my husband has told me of you,n she
says, kindly. land we are both glad to
see YOU"
She wins the girl to say a few words,
and then they move away, and Elise is
left alone as she was a year ago at the
gate of the Chateau de Tracy, but this
time not even the faintest CLEAN of a
shadowy hope stays with her to brighten
the future. And Wilfred will never
know. The secret was safe with
Eleanor, who read it instantly when she
looked in the eyes of Elise. She is sure
of it when they meet Elise again with
the same look of dumb pain in her eyes.
They leave Arromanches in a week or
two, and from behind hedge on the
Bayeux road Elise watches their depart
ure. She has never put her thoughts
into words. She is conscious only of
suffering that she can not help, suffering
that is no ones fault, unless it be a fault
to be handsome and kind and -unob.
serving.
A month after the Averys leave AFRO
manches there reaches him a packet
from Nine. Chretien inclosing some
articles left behind by accident, and in
an accompanying note the writer says:
Monsieur will be grieved to know of
of nj I,,k
a day or two after Monsieur and his
wife left Arromanches. 1t is thought
by some that she left one of her nets on
the rocks behind the PLACE, and, going
= to look for it at high tide, she may have
fallen on the stones and into the water
It was Alphonse Cauchon who found her
there floating in the water, in a narrow
place between the rocks, which perhaps
Monsieur remembers. 1t is very strange
to US at Arromanches, for Elise could
swim, like all the girls who go out with
the nets. 1t may be that the fall on the
rocks made her unconscious, but 6 bon
Dteu only knows"
Poor Elise~ says Wilfred, pityingly,
and by and by goes out of doors and for
gets.
Poor Elisew says Eleanor, and when
Wilfred comes back he sees she has been
weeping.
Tender little hearth he says, "weep-
ing for one whom you saw but two or
three times, and of whom you know SC
little"
And Eleanor is silent-Oscar Fay
Adams, in Christian Union.
F1NDLAY, O., has sixteen glass fac
tories runninp
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wAsHINo1oN's .rT."

Its Experience in Mrs. LOgan's Hospitabl0
Calumet Place.
A Topeka newspaper contributes the
latest and freshest acquisition to the
corps of Washington correspondents.
He is youthful blonde, with blunted,
aquiline proboscis. A pair of gilt eye
glasses lends ornamentation to his
bleached physiognomy. A dude suit of
$40 plaid, fragrant with benzine, stick
and derby comprised his toilet. lie is
known on the row as SIT"
The pomposity of his manner and evil
dent sense of self-importance affords a
passing diversion for lounging members
in the Hall of representatives, whom
he approaches with the stereotype form:
81 am Mr.. --, of the Topeka
controlling journalistic influence in
the great and growing State of Kansas.
Pray advise me for the benefit
of the paper of the condition of
affairs political, statistical, economic,
or otherwise in your interesting constit-
uency."
A story is told of recent stroke of
adolescent effort on the part of this en-
bryotic journalist which capped the
climax. 1T appeared at the portals of
Calumet place, and having been curious
ly scanned by the servant with a what
is-it" expression of surprise, was usher
ed into the reception-room of the man.
sion.
In few moments the queenly lady of
the house appeared.
Jumping to his feet and sucking the
head of his cane, simultaneously inclin-
ing his head with patronizing air, ''It''
is quoted as having CALCULATED, with
self-conscious impressiveness: "Ah, my
dear Mrs. Logan, it delights me to see
you. l always enjoy conversing with
old ladies. l coincidently acquire so
much valuable knowledge from her."
The stately matron of Calumet place,
as young and beautiful in appearance
and spirits as a lady of twenty-five, cast
whitening glance at 1T" ''coinciden :
| ly" observing: II shall endeavor to make
my conversation as interesting as is con-
sistent with the infirmities of old age,
and 1 shall hope to make no lapses OF
| grammar"
The verdant youth, swelled with ego
tism, received the repartee with the
head of his cane in his mouth and a pro-
fusion of bows in Difference to what he
accepted as a complimentary term to his
well nodded salutatory observation.
ut" unconsciously was soon frozen out,
despite repeated efforts to further en-
thuse. "-Washington Cor. Philadelphia
| INQUIRER.
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ABOUT EYE-STRAlN.
1t Is the Most Prolific Source of COntinu
HRadach

| It Is the Most Prolific Source of Continual
| Headache.
Pain Is often caused by an irritated
nerve far distant from the seat of the
pain, especially in the case of persons
who have inherited very susceptible
nervous organization.
The Medical Record has an article on
| eye-strain as a cause of headache and
neuralgia, by the eminent expert, DIR.
Ambrose l.. Ranney, in which the writer
gives record of fifty consecutive cases
of headache and neuralgia which he
treated exclusively by correcting visual
defect. The success of this treatment
was signal, and in many cases marvel
Gus.
Dr. Ranney's special attention was
drawn to the subject by his own expert
ence. Ten years ago he was almost in
despair from continual headache. Two
able physicians had treated his case
without result. AS his sight was appar-
emily perfect and unusually acute, no de-
feet of vision was thought of. At length,
however, he requested that atropine be
instilled into his eyes. This revealed a
defect, which was at once relieved by
appropriate glasses, with the immediate
and permanent cessation of his head
ache.
1t seems that this eye-strain may ex-
ist and be the source of most painful
neuralgia, not only in the head, but
elsewhere, and the person be utterly un-
conscious of defect of vision Some
cases require not only glasses, but the
serving of some ocular muscle-tenotr
omy.
One of DIR. Ranney's patients was a
young lady who for five years had been
unable to write, read, sew or to see her
most intimate friends. A constant pain
in her head was rendered intolerable by
any use of her eyes, or any excitement,
She could not walk across the room
without difficulty. Tenotomy was per-
formed ON three of her ocular muscles,
rapid improvement followed, and
after several weeks she returned home
cured.
Another patient had succumbed to
headache, insomnia and nervous pros
tration; he was compelled to abandon
business, and took trip to Europe with
out benefit. No medical treatment
helped him. His brother, prominent
physician of New York, advised him to
consult DIR. Ranney, who, treating his
eyes restored the mans health, strength
and mental vigor within six weeks. Two
years have elapsed without return of
the symptoms.
distinguished theological professor
In the vicinity of Boston. who suffered
severely at the base of the brain, went
to Europe and consulted eminent spe-
cialists of Germany without any relief.
After his return home he was at once
and perfectly cured by the use of
glasses adjusted to his eyes.
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IN TRIPoLrs STREETS.
The Variegated Human Panorama Visibl
in Every Thoroughfare

me Sariegated Human Panorama Visible
in Every T'horoughfare.
In the variegated crowd filing the
streets scores of types may be distin-
gulshed: Arabs of the town, draped in
their blankets like Romans in their
togas, and in fact, the ''jaram" is the
direct descendant of the toga, and, iudg-
ing from its looks, seems to have re-
tanned all the dirt of those intervening
centuries; others, whose costume con-
sists simply of flowing robe, generally
white, or, to be precise, which was once
white! Sometimes this robe is of silk of
vivid hue. and the effect of that CAV
note in a bit of street is like poppy in
wheat field. Bedouins, whose limbs.
wiry and strongly muscled, shine
superb bronze color through their scanty
coverings, elbow Jews in ridiculous cos
tunes, half native and half European.
In few moments one has met with an
infinite variety of negroes, from the
pure type, almost without nose and
with enormous jaw bones and huge lips,
to those whose lineaments are absolute
ly Caucasian. Porters in simple tunics
corded about the waist, carry heavy
On lOIH pores rest
ing on their shoulders. cheering their
progress the while with an invocation
to Allah and his innumerable prophets,
chanted by an old man and repeated by
the chorus; true song of savages, burst
ing forth like fanfare of trumpets.
Yelled women, unanimously wrapped,
pass by like ambling bundles of clothes.
Officers by scores, those of the new
school, stiff but neat, trying to resemble
their German confreres, since the fash
ion in Turkish circles is to initiate the
lions of the day; the older officers kindly
looking enough, but in what miserable
costumes! Moorish dandies stroll and
pose languidly about, seemingly abb
sorbed in preserving their immaculate
patent-leather slippers from any i'm
pertinent fleck of dirt. Crafty-featured
Greeks and Levantines thread their in
sinuating way among the molly groups.
AT each step it is new tableau, and the
desire seizes you to stop while the eyes
follow curious type, and turning from
it with regret you see ten as interesting.
-Scribner's Magazine.
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BARBER COUNTY INDEX.
WEDNESDAY. February 5, 1890.
A COMMON LOT.

IT'S common story have to tell,
And perhaps you may think you have known
her we'll
The little old woman who touched in me
The magical spring Of sympathy.
She was not heroine, not at all
A farmers wife, with sphere so small,
Though she often dreamed OF deeds sublime,
Yet she never did them; she hadn't the time.
She worked in the morning, she worked al
night,
And her labors were never completed quite;
There was milking and baking and churning TO
do,
And cleaning and nursing and mending, too.
And the weeks seemed alike as they whirled
away,
And Sunday was never a resting day;
She heard from afar the church bells chime
But she rarely went there; she hadn't the time.
She was never accounted a woman OF taste,
For her garments so plain were put on in such
haste.
The vast world Of books and the rich realms OF
Were regions in which she had scarcely part
Though the song OF the birds and the scent OF
the flowers,
And the hues OF the clouds in the soft evening
hours
Would thrill all her pulses like music or
rhyme,
But she seldom watched them; she hadn't the
time.
Were her tolls for her household expended in
vaini
o, no, they loved Mother though poky and
plain,
She had a kind heart, and they knew It full
well:
They felt she was dull, and they couldn't quite
tell
Why she sometimes was cross, and was i'll at
ease,
When some women seem born TO be pleasant
and please
She loved them with love Of a tropical CLINE,
Without its caresses; she hadn't the time.
Was It strange, ere the evening of life had
drawn nigh,
The summons was heard, she must take time
TO dief
She folded her worn hands and lifted her
prayer:
20 God, have had so much labor and care;
I never have given Thee my thoughts as
should;
wished to be sanity; longed to be good;
But the cares OF this life choked each purpose
sublime,
Dear Father, forgive me, havn't had time"
Annie X. Henderson, in Housewife.
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MINERS OF ENGLAND.
An American Toiler Tells the Story
What He Saw in Europe.

An American Toiler Tells the story Of
What He Saw in Europe.
The process of mining coal, as far as
the actual work of the miner goes, diff
fers but little in Great Britain and the
continent from the same kind of em-
ployment in the United States.
The dangers incident to this employ
ment have been described so often that
it would be only repetition to attempt il.
The coal mines of the sspld world.
prove that it is becoming Sold in re-
atty. The surface veins or stratas are
nearly all exhausted and fouv or FIVE
hundred yards is an ordinary depth TO
sink for coal-some shafts being sunk
nearly half mile. This, of course, re-
quires a great outlay of capital, the
cost of sinking and coupling one mine
ready for operation ranging from $780,
600 to 81, SOC. 900. 1t can readily be seen
that none but the very wealthy ara able
TO engage in the business. CONTRAST
this with the United States, whore men
with few thousand dollars investsdf
very often few hundred, go into the
coal business and have as many men
employed as those in the old world Who
have q fortune invested.
About s. per Gent. Of the product ok