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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-05-07
TERROR is EPIDEMIC.
That Is the Reason Why towards Deserv
Exemplary Punishment.


Exemplary Punishment.
"a plague on all cowards!' says
Shakespeare's Fat Knight, himself the
beau tdeat of bullying poltroon.
But is it just to couple infamy with
cowardice? Would any man be chicken
hearted if he could he otherwise? Does
not every frightened fugitive from
danger blush as he runs?
1t can not be fairly imputed to the
bastard as crime that his nerves CULVER
like aspen leaves when he hears the i'm
mediate bullet whining by, or that the
sight of sheathless steel makes the per-
spiration start from all his pores. He
'oOuId face the whirlwind of battle if he
could, but it whisks him round
like a weathercock. His reason may
tell him that his back is as broad tar
get as his breast, and that he is as likely
10 he shot retreating as advancingi in
deed, more likely, for even q brave man
can take a steadier aim at a flying ad-
versary than at furious foe rushing
upon him at the ''double-quick." But
instinct is stronger than reason in the
craven, and all his locomotive muscles
are at its command.
Under these circumstances, ought a
military man who shows the white
feather in the presence of the enemy to
be shot therefor? Being, as Falstaft
says, "a coward upon INSTINCT" is he
morally responsible for running awayP
Perhaps not Nor is it for the act
itself that he is doomed, but because of
its consequences. Terror is epidemic.
1t is more readily caught than the
smallpox, and spreads more rapidly.
A Captain is smitten with it and
communicates it to his company,
the regiment catches it from the COM
pany, the brigade from the regiment,
the corps from the brigade, the whole
army from the corps, and thus q great
battle is lost and perhaps great cause
endangered or ruined. a~
1t will not do to adhere scrupulously
to the abstract principles of justice in
such cases. The offense must be meas
ured by its results. The event and not
the involuntary act which produced it,
arraigns and condmns its author. The
punishment which seems cruel is abso-
lutely necessary, and therefore right
Not because he is a coward, is the cow
ardly soldier done to death, but in order
that disasters more terrible than the
shooting of a thousand dastards may be
prevented by his public shame and dis
honorable doom.-N. Y. Ledger.
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TIE LUNA MOTH.
A Beautiful Creature That Harints the
Electric Lights.


Shadows of fitting nocturnal things that
hover about the street electric lights are
seen, thro IN upon street or pavement, by
hundreds of passers by who never know if
the creatures that cause them are bats,
moths or some smaller things whose near
ness to the light magnfies the fitting
shadow. In fact, there are all of these
creatures frequently lowering about the
lights; the bats, doubtless, in pursuit of
some OF the tiny insect brood, while the
larger moths are drawn, like the minute in
sect swarms, about the light as a brilliant
object Mr.. D. W. e. Pond, of Hartford.
Conn.,, showed a Hartford Times reporter
beautiful green moth which his wife sue
ceeded in bringing down with a stroke of a
whip 1t is the Attacus Luna-perhaps the
most beautiful of all our moths 1t is not
as brilliant, nor quite so large, as some
others, but the exquisite delicacy of its
wings, both in texture and tint, surpasses
that Of any other variety that flies here.
The wings expand about five inches-in
hue pale, delicate green. A broad border
Of purple runs along the front edge of
the fore wings, and the hind wings
are tipped with the same color al around.
In the center of each of tho four wings is q
transparent eye-li1o spot, encircled by
ring OF black and yellow on the upper side
OF the wing, ard white beneath Each hind
wing has slender. symmetrical tail, nearly
two inches long. The good sized body is
thickly covered with a har-like mantle of
white-a kind of down, which looks like a soft
kind Of slightly curled hair of the white bear.
The eyes, rather large, are deep, dark. dull
purple; and there are two minute bead Like
shining points in the white down, beneath
the head proper, that look like the creatures
sparkling little bat-like eyes, but are not
The antenne are yellow and beautifully
feathered, and the legs are purple like the
border. The worm of the Luna moth lives
on walnut trees; large, ugly-looking
creature, which spins its shroud inside
nest made Of the dead or dying leaves in
autumn by tying two or three leaves to
gether, brown looking mess, which would
attract no notice among the similarly COL
ored dead leaves on the branch or on the
ground-for it sometimes drops and is
kicked over with the rest by boys poking
the dead leaves in October in search of wal
nuts. 80 found, if taken be me and kept in
quiet place in a room, the cocoon will
burst in May, and the young moth will
emerge. Its swift growth and transforms
ton before your eyes, as 1t becomes in
few minutes beautiful green moth, is one
Of the marvels of the creatures changes.
1t changes in twenty minutes from wet,
white, half worm-like thing into a charming
green moth.
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tkornance and KeaIitr.

'1t is easy for married couples to quarrel
and bring themselves to the point of ii-
yorce, y said a welIknown New Yorker re-
Gently to New York Sun reporter aAfter
had been married three laonths / came
sadly home one night to tell my wife that
business would keep me away from her the
next twenty.four hours. She was girlish.
and by way Of reply she gave herself a
little hug, with little wriggle of her body
thrown IN, and expressed her feelings in
an exclamation of unmistakable joy Deep
~ panied, said TO her that / never SUM-
posed she desired my sbsence enough to
gurgle with joy az the mere proposal of il.
Many man would have gone on angry or
darkly suspicious. Instead questioned
her. Why, yen goose, said she, when
yOu said yog weFs going away one thing
popped into my head to the exclusion Of
every thing else That was. now he's going
away, and can e4t some raw onions with
salt and vinegar. That was all have been
dying for raw onions ever since our we'd
ding.sD
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10 tne condlTlon OF the leaf Tne crush,
ing process brings about the fermenta-
ton necessary 10 develop the quality OF
the leaf. 1t is then taken to the fer
menting room, where it ferments until
1t is in condition to go to the drying
machine, its time here being from one
to six hours. In the dryer it remains
until it is cooked, process which re-
quires to be carefully looked after and
in which none but experienced hands
are employed. By being cooked is
meant being dried. The tea then goes
to the sifting-house, where the various
grades are made by sifters of the reoui-
site mesh, that is twelve, ten and eight
inches to the inch. The twelve
men Sits the best tea, because
that leaf is smaller and heavier. The
smaller the leaf the better the tea. These
three teas are straight, and are known
as Pekoe, Pekoe Souchong and SouchOng,
representing respectively the first, Sec
ond and third grades. Pekoe Souchong
is the fine tip mixed with lower grade,
or a mixture of the first and second
grades. Souchong is the third straight
grade. While the tea after these proc
essess is ready for use, it is treated up
again to extract any dampness which
may have accrued, as the leaf is very
difficult and susceptible. This done it is
packed in chests for shipping What is
the best tea? Well, fifteen days after
the first plucking the second flush is
ready, and eight days later the third
flush is plucked and this constitutes the
nd 4hA
tea. One grade excels the other in
flavor, but they all go through the same
process which have described. These
Indian teas are pure and straight and
have delicious flavor, whereas most
of those from China and Japan are
faced or second brews, which
means that the leaf has been
once drawn and then fixed up
again, being mixed with aloe
leaves and combination of iron filings
and indigo. AS to prices, the Indian
Pekoe sells for sixty-nine cents pound,
the Pekoe Souchong for fifty cents and
the Souchong for forty-fve cents. The
best Chinese teas, if you can get them
straight, can not be sold for less than
one dollar pound; second grade seven
ty-fve cents and third sixty to sixty-hve
cents. The demand for Indian teas has
greatly increased of late years. In
1870, when l first went to India, that
country sent to England only about If
teen per cent. of the tea consumed
there, while 1887, when left she sent
f1fty-one per cent. Her principal mar
kets are England, Australia, America,
Canada and the Cape of Good Hope, and
she is steadily increasing her foreign
commerce. The consumption of tea in
this country amounts to about one hun
dred and ten million pounds per annum,
and of this suppose not more than Ave
hundred thousand pounds come from In
dia. 1t is only recently, however, that
Indian teas have been introduced here"
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WEATHER PREDICTION.
The TlmO Not Far Distant When RelIabI
Forecasts Can BE Made.

The T1mO Not Far Distant When Reliable
Forecasts Can BE Made.
NJ. Luigi Palmieri, the learned di-
rector OF the observatory of Vesuvius,
has made hiNself specialist in ques-
lions appertaining to the electricity Of
the earth. For some forty years he has
studied this question, and has published
various papers and more than a hun
dred notes or memoirs. Unfortunately
fer SCIENCE he has thought we'll to pub
itsh them, not only in Italian, but in
local papers having naturally restrict
ed circulation. DR.. Albert Battander
gives, in Cosmos, a resume of the results
obtained by NJ. Palmieri, which bid fair
to prove of considerable importance, if
not in the field of electrical engineer
ing, in that of meteorology and the
prediction of weather M. Pal
mieri indicates, first, that the DO
tential of objects which exceed
the height of the surrounding earth diff
fer from it in sign, in fair weather be-
ing negative, and positive only when
rain, hail, Or snow fall within GER
tain distance of the observations. Sec
ondly, the electricity of objects exceed
ing in height the surface of the earth
is not their own, so to speak, but is due
to the induction of the atmosphere.
He indicates, for example, that if
Nesuyias, were negative while Naples
below were positive, and this were due
to different disposition of electricity on
their surfaces, the two would tend to
How together and eQpaIize; whereas this
Is found not TO be the case. The cleo
tricity is, therefore, due to induction,
and is so maintained while the inductive
influence is steady, changing as it
changes. M. Palmieri has repeated
his experiments some thousands of
times since 1850 in varied man
ners to eliminate errors, and
he satisfactorily proves that the
electricity of the air is contrary In
sign to that Of the earth. The cleo
tFicity of the earth is positive and that
ct the sir negative, He gives two ex-
perimeRts showing the influence of the
natural changes in the atmosphere. 4
platinum cup, filed with water and
thoroughly insulated, is connected to
the plate of condenser electrometer, the
whole exposed to the suns rays. The
evaporation reveals the presence of
negative electricity. Inversely, if the
Same eap Is filed with snow, the dew
which Is formed produces signs 81 posi-
tive electricity, the conditions of sue
cess in the experiment being the use of
the condenser, on account OF the feeble
ness OF the potential, and the most care
IN ;gsplation of platinum cup. The
question of the eEect upon the electric
fty Of the ali. Of plants, trees, OF ri tbs
BaR, has also been carefully studied,
and # if is objected thst
these aiscnssi9Rs are purely IL PIE field
Of speculation, n Palmierf responds
that u these electrical IMPLICATIONS We
should fee. the most sure Aea4s Of the
prediction of weather. In fact accord
ing to the director of the Vesuvian OBJ
seryatory, we must discard our old
friend the barometer IS the indicator Of
weather changes which can not achieve
more than eighty Der cent of success In.
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The MODERN WOMAN.
A Washington Bride Outlines the Duti
She nUes tc Rociefv

A Washington Bride Outlines tho Duties
She Owes to Society.
ssNellie, DEAR began young Mr.. Towers
70 his bride, WHO had just come In from an
earIy constitutional, ''you-"
s.HeIen, If you please, dear. Let US begin
life In good form; Nellie is obsolete"
swell, then, Helen, I'd like to have you
drive with me after breakfast
ssImpossible, William; at $50 practice
with the pulleys and weights"
'.Well, ten viii do"
"At ten / begin muscular exercise, the
neck and chest movement and ankle exer-
else"
ELEVEN, then"
"At IL l take my Turkish, which brings
me homo to lunch with you at 1 80"
"Then surely, dear"
elbow inconsiderate, dear. have an en-
gagement with the manicure at two sharp,
and at 2 80 the lady who does my hair and
complexion"
''Good heavens, you don't mean
''That / paint or bleach my hair. o, no;
but it is now customary for ladies to put
their hair out to regular artists, massage
and oil and electric needles, you know, to
strengthen the facial muscles, prevent
wrinkles and remove superf1uous hairs.''
"But you're pretty enough"
zone must be beautiful, William Mere
| prettiness is passe. At three o'clock play
tennis, which calls into action and develops
one set of muscles. At four mount the
| tricycle. for the same reason. From five to
six go through my posing or drawing room
exercises, and after dinner"
"Will you go with me!'
"Well, perhaps; but this is my raw veal
evening"
''Raw veal! What on earth"
| Stupid boy. OF course you've noticed
that wear mask every day to keep from
tanning, and wear gloves. every night; but
the raw veal laid over ones face for two or
three hours is only an OCCASIONAL
But, Helen, " in horror, ''do you never
do any thing but this all the year rounda"
"Goosel of course this merely happens to
be my physical culture day; tomorrow is
society day. l receive and give myself up
to society visitors and the club. Wednes-
| day is church day. hunt up worthy poor.
arrange Sunday-school picnics, visit the w.
| c. T. o., Foreign Missions, Daughters of
the King meeting, and have the minister
and wife to dinner. Thursday I devote to
literature and politics. read, write, attend
suffrage meeting or lecture ON literature,
theosophical or science subjects. Friday is
art day. This time l devote exclusively to
art, to painting, modelling in clay, or in the
search for antiques and in the study OF
ceramics. Saturday give up to my dress
maker and the study of fabrics, tones and
draperies. You will notice the Greek
| model"
"Well, Mrs Towers, will you tell me what
time is left for I:ic!"
''Oh, you, William! Why. l had forgot
ten; but thcn,' clcerfully, I'm never busy
after church Sundays. That time is wasted
any way. We can always have Sunday
afternoons, except the time 1 devote to
home duties"
A modern woman IS martyr, concludes
the " ashington Post, and she rarely has an
| hour for her own enjoyment.
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AOueen,s Voluntary slaverv.

Hester Cora Mitchell, as she was
known here after becoming the slave of
Ex-Governor Mitchell, is buried in the
cemetery in this city. She was Queen
of some African tribe, and came to this
country voluntarily, bringing with her
all the insignia of her royalty-crown,
and robes and jewels, etc. She was
pleased with this country, and resolved
to lay down her robes of royalty and be-
come slave, as above stated. Every
Christmas, until her death, she would
appear before the negroes in all the
gorgeousness of her queenly parapher-
MALTA. After this exhibition, she would
retire, lay aside her queenly attire, and
go into the kitchen as humbly as any
of the other servants of Governor Mitch
ell When Hester Cora died Governor
Mitchell had her buried in her regalia.
-Milledgeville (Ga.) Chronicle.
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WOMEN AS INVENTORS.
Some of the Most Remarkable of Thei
Achievements.

Some of the Most Remarkable of Their
achievements.
1t was California woman who in
vented baby carriage, which Melted
her over $50, 600: while to Mrs. Catharine
Greene, the wife and widow of Washing
toms ablest officer, is due the honor of
inventing the cotton-gin, which is one
of those distinctively American inven-
tions the value and Importance of which
have been recognized by the whole in
dustrial world. There is the reaper and
mower, the idea of which came into the
brain of Mrs. Ann Manning, of Plain
field, n. j., to whom is also accredited
a clover-cleaner. Mrs. Manning seems
to have stimulated the inventive genius
of her neighbors, for few years after
her reaper and mower was patented
Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, of the same State,
took out patent for an Improvement on
this machine, being device for chang
ing the knives without stopping the
wheels.
One OF the most complicated machines
ever made is that for the manufacture
of re-enforced- bottom paper bags 1t is
so curiously ingenious that how it was
contrived passes the ordinary compre-
hension. 1t was the invention of Miss
Maggie Knight, who from it and other
inventions in the same lire realized
great fortune, A street-sweeper of
great merit was devised and patented
by New York lady, who had a costly
dress ruined by the mud splashed OLA it
from defective machine.
Most remarkable of all is the inven-
ton Of Mrs. Mary b. Walton for deaden-
ing the sound of car-wheels. She lived
near the elevated railroad in New York.
and was greatly annoyed by the sound
of the roaring trains passing her house.
The most noted machinists and inven-
tors of the country had given their at
tention to the subject without being
able to furnish solution, when 10, a
woman's brain did the work, and her
appliance proving perfectly successful,
was adopted by the elevated roads, and
she is now reaping the rewards of
happy thoQght.-St. Louis Globe Demo
crat.
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which never is found in default. He
argues for the extension of electrometer
observations at numerous stations, with
instruments standardized to the same
measure, adapted with methods of test
ing the varying layers of atmosphere,
and believes the time of absolute pre-
diction of weather to be no longer an
unrealizable, Utopian dream. = Elec-
trical Engineer
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Not Entire STRANGERS.

Simon Greenleaf, the eminent jurist, who
for fourteen years previous 10 his appoint
ment as professor in the Harvard Law
School was practicing lawyer in Portland,
had charming daughter. A foppish young
man named Darrell, meeting her at social
gathering in this city one evening in early
spring, remarked to her that he had that
day seen in behring's woods something
that reminded him of her. When asked
what it was he said: "a green leaf" ''And
l saw something this morning from my
window tLat reminded me of you" returned
Miss Greenleaf. MAY ask what it was 2"
said the youth. San empty barrelP'
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he Had Boon Fixe,l.

A little darkey boy was recently brought
before the police court of Richmond, Va,
charged with some triflng eaense. He
asked to have his case postponed for one
day, so that he might bring ia a witness
another darkey boy who would exonerate
him. TIE next morning his friend was in
court, but, to the surprise of every body,
his testimony was entirely against the &C,
cused boy and resulted in a conviction.
When the prisoner was asked to explain
this fact he remarked, phiIose aa.,jally
s'Oh. he done beer seen since 1 sawn him
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CHANCES IN BATTLE.
The Amount of Powder and Ball 1t Takes
to Kill Man.

The Amount of Powder and Ball 1t Takes
to Kill Man.
No doubt every reader has seen the
statement that it takes a mans weight
of lead to kill him in battle, and they
may have considered it to be merely a
rhetorical hyperbole, suggested by the
fact that comparatively few out of the
whole number of shots fred in heat of
battle take effect. Marshal Sale, we
believe. first made the assertion which
forms the base of the above, when he
said it would take 125 pounds of lead
and 3S pounds of powder to put each of
the enemy in the long trench. Wild
and visionary as this may seem, it APP
pears that there was more truth than
poetry in the remark With all the i'm
provements which have been made in
the art of war since the days of SAKE
Cassendi, the French savant, proves that
the great Marshal's philosophical re-
mark still holds good.
At the battle of Solferino, according
to Cassendi's carefully-deduced calcula-
lions, comparison of the number of
shots fired on the Austrian side with the
number of killed and wounded on the
part of the enemy, shows that 700 bull
lets were expended for each man
wounded, and 4,2OO for each man killed.
The average weight of the ball used
was 80 grains, therefore it must have
taken at least 1875 Kilograms, or 227
pounds of lead for each man killed! Yet
SOlferino was a most important and
bloody battle. In the Franco-Prussian
war the slaughter caused by the needle
gun among the French soldiers shows
how much superior that gun is to the
Austrian carbine; yet, with that deadly
weapon 1900 shots were fred for every
soldier destroyed in the enemy's ranks
Verify there was good foundation for
Bogert's ungrammatical remark: ''War
| is awful, but the noise of war is awful
Ter. st Louis Republic.
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BARBER COUNTY INDEX.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 1880.
THE SEVEN STAGES.

Only baby,
Kissed and caresscd,
Gently held to a mothers breast.
Only achild,
Toddling alone,
Frightening now its happy home.
Only a boy,
Trudging to school,
Governed now by a sterner rule.
Only youth.
Living in dreams;
Full of promise life now seems.
Only a man,
Battling with life,
Shared in now by a loving wife
Only a father,
Burdened with care,
Silver threads in dark brown hair.
Only a graybeard,
Toddling again,
Growing old and full of pain.
Only a mound,
O'ergrown with grass;
Dreams unrealized-rest at last.
Boston Traveller.
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ODD CHURCH MUSIC.
The Queer Practical Joke Played by .
Russian OrgRnlSt.

The Queer PRACTICAL Joke Played by .
Russian OrgRnISt.
A handsome, clever and highlv,edu-
Gated young Russian, bankrupt through
operations on the bourse of st. Peters
burg, came to this city some years ago
with the wreck of his fortune, and for
time figured largely in the most ex.
elusive social set After a time, all
his money having been spent he
dropped out of society, and for some
years earned precarious living in
various mysterious ways. Later
he took to the stage, and
his fortunes began to look
up. 1t was soon after his
latest turn of fortune that an old &C.
quaintance, going to church in fash &.
ionable suburb, saw the Russian bound
on the same errand in company with
some of the set with whom he had
mingled in earlier days. The Russian,
who is highly-skilled musician, was
asked to play the organ, and eyer body
was delighted with the delicious,
dreamy voluntary with which he
opened.
month later, the Russian and his
old acquaintances met again at the
rooms of friend in New York, and the
subject of that marvellous voluntary
came up. The Russian was asked to re-
peat il, and he acceded to the request,
saying at the same time that it was
an improvisation. He played it
as before, and all present were delight
ed. Don't you recognize it2'' he asked.
Several Of them found something IA.
miiiar in the music, but no one could
place it nLiS.en," said the Russian,
while 1 play it rapidly" and sitting
down at the piano he ratified OF what
all recognized as Johnny Get Your
Gun" BY playing r. slowly with new
notes skillfHliy iRterwoyeR, be hAd pro-
produced the dreamy composition With
which all had been 20 charmed. -Ghica-
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