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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-07-09
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The University of Mississippi has
received from sthe State more than a.
million dollars
1t was fayorite ambition of Pro-
fessor Mather to erect great art build
ing at Amherst college.
The Baptist Church at Nursarava
Petta, India, Of 1000 members, was re-
Gently divided into twelve, each with its
own pastor.
According to a Japanese editor. the
Protestant churches have grown from
3s to Isl, and the members from s, TOO TO
11,6o0 in the last three years.
According to the. English Congre.
gational yearbook for 1890, there are
4.5S5 churches and mission stations in
England and Wales, an increase for the
year of 80.
What is called a Bosom Pledge"
has been introduced into the Church of
England in connection with a crusade
to make clean sweep" of Popery and
ritualism.
"A Chinese University has been IN
corporated in New York The institu-
ton will be wide in scope, embracing
philanthropy, literature, science and
religion. A dozen savaps from China
are expected to take charge of it
Chicago, which has larger Bohe.
mian population than any other city in
the world, except Vienna and Prague,
dedicated Its first Bohemian Protestant
Church, recently 1t is built by the
City Mission Society of the Congrega-
tionaI Churches.
AT recent meeting of the parish
Oh fynnlga in Vestergotland, the ques-
ton of heating the church was under
discussion, and warmly opposed by the
majority of the parishioners- Even
though the vicar, Pastor Fogelgoisb,
finally offered to contribute the sum OF
200 crowns for the purpose, the scheme
was defeated, as being new tangled
innovation"
Rev. Henry Preble. VINO resides near
Watervilie, is one of the oldest minis
ters in Maine, and it is thought that his
horse has carried him over more miles
OF Maine roads than have been SINH
larly travelled by any other preacher in
the State. lie has driven his own RIG
over ninety thousand miles in the forty
i've years which he spent in active serv-
ice of the Lord. He used to travel
from ten TO sixty miles to attend meet
ings. and he has never failed to keep
an engagement.
Harvard University is to have .
beautiful and exclusive possession in .
very valuable collection of glass how-
ers made by secret process by Dresden
firm named Blatcka. Three hundred or
four hundred specimens have been
already received. The collection, when
complete, viii illustrate all the families
of plants in North America, all economic
plants and the more important of the
lower plants. inclnding enlarged parts
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THE YANKEE DRUMMER.
One Who Usually Gets Even with Those
Who Snub Him.

One VINO usually Gets Even with Those
Who Snub Him.
A very neat little reminder to one of
the worst bores we ever knew, New
York dude with big cane, was admin
istered by clerk who attached to the
cave the legend: This is my busy day"
1t was not received with the best grace,
but proved very effectual on subsequent
visits. The man who fools with drum
mer had better trouble the business end
of a wasp, full many business man
knows. A salesman recently told us his
experience in neighboring State. He
knew the proprietor slightly, having
called on him once or twice in the pre-
vious years, and, finding him all alone.
after few moments conversation called
his attention to neat little article in
his line that he was introducing.
The proprietor turned on his heel at
almost the first word, without looking
at the article, and curtly said: mo, sir,
don't want any part of it. l never get
any thing until have call for it," The
salesman waited few moments, MAX
ing no reply until the proprietor was at
leisure again, then heading for the door,
pun OuI MS 0dUQ anu ROOQ-
bye, invited him to come up to Boston
and he would extend such courtesy as
he appeared not to be accustomed to.
The proprietor felt the justice of the re-
mark and apoligized in his own fashion.
In certain town is business man who
is rather biggish for the size of the
place. If salesman calls he must send
in his card to the Office and humbly seek
an audience.
On one occasion salesman sent in
his card by the boy, and word came back
that the proprietor wanted nothing
The salesman told the boy to return and
ask for the card, as they cost the firm
money The boy soon returned, saying
the proprietor had torn up the card and
sent five cents to pay for the same. The
salesman quickly took out two more
cards and writing on the back of one
''My firm does square business and
never takes advantage of any one. They
only cost three for five cents" then SEM
them in to the proprietor. Give the
salesman fair show with generous
treatment, and our word for IL you viii
have no just cause to regret it They
are an Indispensable adjunct to our civ.
ilization.-New England Grocer.
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HEALTH IN THE SUN.
Stimulating Influences OF Soils Cheerful
Rays on the Eyes and Nerves.

Stimulating Influences OF Soils Cheerful
Rays on the Eyes and Nerves.
All life on earth depending on sun
light, and the development of all or.
ganic beings being influenced by it, an
cient physicians knew that protracted
absence of natural light was not indif-
ferent hygenically-Thess, Hippocrates,
Galenus and Avicenna Experimental
investigation of this subject, however,
does not begin, it seems, before our CEN
tury. w. f. Edwards (Les Agents ply
siques de la vie, 1929 found that frogs
and quabs developed normally in trans
parent vessels. while when kept in en-
tirely dark vessels their growth was
slower and their development not en-.
tirely normal. Moleshott, Fubine,
Ronchi and others observed that epider-
mis- in light secretes more carbonie aoid
than in dark and Won Platen found that
at the same time absorption of oxygen
is greater. Consequently sunlight in
creases carbonic rotation of matter.
According to Loeb, sunlight only acts
stimulating from the eye on the nerves
which ina@.1cTice the rotation of matter.
This is not so. 1t is rather probable
that light exercises the same influence
from the sensitive nerves of the exterior
skin. But even portions of tissue, en-
tirely separated from the body tneryous
and muscular mass). yield more carbonic
acid in light than in the dark, and blue
and violet light possess much stronger
action than yellow and red light. This
actually compels us TO suppose chem
ical action of sunlight in the animal
body, besides its stimulating action on
the nerves Such a chemical action
may be found to take place in the de-
posit of dark coloring matter in the
Rete Malpighu. in the browning of the
skin, in the formation of freckles.
The hygenic Importance of light is al
50 visible in psychic atfectations, dis
position, etc. On sunny day every
healthy person is gayer. more cheerful;
on dark day more serious and depress-
ed People of morbid irritability, also
those affected with acute fever, are con-
siderably more excited by clear light;
they become qnieter by dim, especially
blue or green light The eye is strong
~ excited by direct rays of the sun;
they are able to cause central scotoma
and rstinitis. On the other hand. TOO
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EFFEcTINo THINGS.

Common-Sense Advice Regarding the
Righting of Public Abuses.
1t was the remark of man who had
done good deal of public service of
that sort which is wholly unremunera-
tive, and which must be done from
pure love of seeing abuses righted, that
every body would apply himself to the
righting of public abuses were it only
generally known how easily things Of
this sort can be done. THE first time
/ undertook any thing of this sort" he
said, 81 went into it without the
slightest hope of really accomplishing
any thing more than the easing Of my
own conscience. and possibly Of pre-
pairing the way for some one who should
come after me and finish what
could not more than begin, but to
my astonishment / discovered that
after all one has only to set
to work to do about what he will. The
public is so observed because 1t is too
indolent to take the trouble to find out
that 1t may have most of the abuses
which torment it remedied almost for
the asking"
1t is feared that this view is not to be
taken too literally. 1t was probably
too highly colored by personal expert
ence to be reliable as far as the public
in general goes. And yet 1t is undoubt-
edly true that the people who hold back
from the attempt to have the unpleas-
ant and undesirable things which vex
the community righted W ould be amazed
at the things they could do If they
would but try. 1t is often the mere
starts that cost, as has been so continu-
ously remarked by the proverb mongers
for hundreds of years.
In matters touching the well-being OF
the community, 1t is almost always to
those who are anxious to retain some
hardlY-bought political preferment that
of offending possible voter Is in itself
not infrequently sufficient to bring
matters about. 1t is to be noted,
moreover, that as a rule people are good
natured enough to be willing to do any
thing for the public good II 1t is not too
much trouble, and the amount of urging
in such a case not usually large that is
needed to bring them up to the working
point. The reason that things 60 un-
done is because people in general are
persuaded that it is of no use to trouble
themselves about them. while people
in particular are apt to be SO engrossed
in following out their private affairs
that they have no time to give to the
rightning of public wrongs, even
though SO doing may be their manifest
and individual duty. Il only folk will
take hold with will it is not essential
that they have a great deal Of influence
or power, but they can effect q good
deal simply by making beginning-by
taking that first step which provebrially
coStS.-Boston Courier
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OF the place OF meeting. Barefooteo Ines-
sengers often run fifty miles in the
course of day carrying the news Often
the courier is seated on horse which
jumps the hedges and bitches, where it
is impossible for jaunting car to fol-
low with the police. The meetings
usually take place in the evening or on
Sunday afternoon in field on the out
skirts of village. 1t is not unusual
for 10000 men to gather at the place of
meeting They come in little knots of
two or three by unfrequented paths,
and resorting to all kinds of subterfuges
to avoid the police, for these guardians
of the peace are about to repress these
demonstrations. When the speech is
made at night there is rough platform
just large enough to contain the speak
er, and lit by single homely torch.
The audience gathers around in dense
mass, packed together like clothes pins
in box. O'Brien climbs on the plat
form, and is saluted by subdued roar
of applause. which is quickly hushed
when the speaker waves his hand and
enjoins silence upon his listeners.
OBrien wears a Prince Albert coat
buttoned up to his chin. He is seen
to be of slim figure, about five feet sew
en- inches in height, and not at all an
imposing figure. His face is pale with
emotion, and the light of patriotism
glows in his eyes. He stretches out his
slim, white hand, and every lear in the
audience is intent to catch his words as
he begins in the poetical style so dear
to the Irish heart:
Fellow citizens: Irish patriotism is
high as the round towers, deep as the
holy wells"
He does not get any further than this
for many minutes, for the uent-up en-
thusiasm of the people can not be
restrained, and a mighty roar of assent
to the lofty sentiment goes up. When
silence is restored he resumes, and such
a torrent of eloquence pours from his
lips that the vast crowd forget their op-
preston for the time being and be-
come almost delirious with JOY The
very fire of his utterance awakens
the speaker. and in the middle of his
speech he is forced to sit down, covered
with perspiration, and painting for
breath. Scarcely has O'Brien resumed
his address, filled with fowery meta
phor, when some one on the outskirts of
| the crowd exclaims:
''The boobies are coming!''
Two minutes later the field is desert
ed. Many of the audience have been
caught, and some have been taken to
! prison, there to serve out sentences of
| from three to six months
When these meetings take place in
the daytime football is always taken
along, so that when the police appear
the ball can be thrown into the air, and
every body makes believe play the game.
! Cor N " Sun
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LODGE KANSAS "WEDNESDAY, JULY g. 1890 e
NO. Z.

small quantity OF light imposes an in
creased effort on the active eye-com-
pels it to bring itself nearer to the OBJ
ject observed.
OF the highest Importance is another
property of light. 1t contributes to the
purity of air. Especially under the in
fluence of the yellow rays living plants
absorb carbonic acid with the apertures
of their leaves, decompose it and exhale
oxygen. It is probable that sunlight
also favors oxidation of organic sub
stances present in the air. Direct sun
light has the property of killing certain
microparasites and their germs, as DEM
onstrated by Arloing and Duclaux-e. e.,
cultures of fanthrax-bacillus in two hours,
when sporiferous in $3.50 hours. Lymph,
when preserved in light, gradually loses
its virulence.
Even the locomotion of microparasites
seems to depend on sunlight Engle-
man observed it in bacterium ph0tome-
tricum. Merellus lacrymans Chouse
fungus) develops its mycelium in dark
ness only, and in the real stage of
growth it does not support light, which
it only searches in the stages of putre-
faction. Lack of natural light is prob
ably injurious to children, as illustrated
by scrofulosis, rachitis Malaria also ap-
pears to originate easier in dark houses.
Every dwelling therefore, should be
provided with sufficient quantity OF
sunlight during part of the day as long
as possible. The sunniest among the
rooms should be selected for actual hab-
itation, especially of children. Direct
sunlight should not be excluded to a
greater extent than necessary for the
safety of the eyes. In plans for streets,
schools, asylums, ETC., hygienic technics
and hygienic regulations should follow
these principles Medicinal Zeitung.
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AN IRISHMAN'S TRIALS.

How Mr.. O'EFien AIeaaGes to Make
Speeches to Ills Countrymen.
The man who has the heartfelt ad-
miFatioh OF every man, woman and
Child in ireland to-day is William
pBrien. His bust in plaster is in every
cabin, and his pictare ornaments every
wall. He has spent two out of the last
three years In prison for making what
are called incendiary speeches, and his
confinement has made serious inroads
on his once vigorous health. OBrien
is ubiquitous. During the season when
Parliament is not IN session he is apt 70
appear unexpe ctedIy in almost any part
of Ireland, notwithstanding the sur
veillance of the police. Especially is he
liable to appear in those districts where
eyietions are in progress, or are about
20 take place, On these occasions he is
in the habit Of making speeches. These
addresses never take place in pub
lie hall, but are always made in .
locality unknown to the police. The
way in which he gets his audiences on
these occasions is unique. The fact
that he wishes to make an address is
made known To some OF the prominent
men in the National League, and by
secret means the peasantry are notified
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THE HOUR HAND.

A Tale Which Teaches That the smartast
People Are Not the Most Useful.
0'Come, come, you won't get around
this week If you don't hurry upI" said
the Minute Hand to the Hour Hand.
and he winked at figure One as he
passed along. Here comes old Hour
Hand" he said TO figure Two. Look
out he doesn't run over you. Hello,
Threep he cried, FIVE minutes later,
s'my short friend will be around after
I've made about two more trips. Oh,
he's travelingl An, Fourl Don't stop
me for goodness sakei Old Hour Hand
is after me-"
And so the Minute Hand went round
putting them all up to poke fun at his
slow friend. The figures laughed and
called out TO one another that the Min
ute Hand was too smart q chap for the
Hour Hand to travel with. The Pendu-
lum down below knew what was going
on, and laughed softly as 1t rocked to
and fro. Even the pale face of the
clock seemed about to break out into a
smile at the general hilarity.
Meanwhile the poor Hour Hand crept
laboriously on.
'Ah, Shorty!' cried the Minute Hand
close behind him, t'been taking a nap?
Come, I'll bet can go around the ring
twelve times to your once; look out nowl
I'll soon pass you"
The little bell struck sharply, "one-
twop
''Hello, he's got as far as Twor' The
figures saw, and they all laughed loudly.
''Oh dear. dearP' sighed the Hour
Hand, II can't go any faster to save my
life. How wish was as smart as the
Minute Hand. I'm the butt of all his
jokes, and the others laugh at me, too.
haven't a friend on the face of the
clock. ! can't endure it any longer.
won't go on. I'll just stop right here"
where's our moderate friend2" asked
the figures Of the Minute Hand an hour
or two later.
20, he stopped back there" was the
answer. "He started to race with me.
but guess he got out of wind"
After awhile the owner of the clock
came into the room, 'Hellor' said he.
''clock stopped9 No." he continued.
"but 1t might as well be for all the
good it'll do without the Hour Hand. -
Then no gently touched the Hour
Hand, seized the Minute Hand, showed
him round and round the circle, waited
TO see that they were going properly
and went away.
"Whew!" exclaimed the Minute
Hand, dizzy and breathless: 'eHow he
did shove mel" and ne was nightly
crestfallen because the figures bad seen
him so roughly used.
But the Hour Hand travelled on with
4 happy face and the figures looked upon
him with great respect.
The moral Of this tale is that the
smartest people are not Away the most
usefuls detroit Free Press.
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AMAZON FREE LANCERs.

Emperor Franz Joseph Importuned to
Permit tho Enlistment of Women.
Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria has
just narrowly escaped having an amazon
corps showed into his army in spite of
all the objections of his General staff
and the Minister of War. Three Polish
widows from Lemburg applied at
the Ministry of War in Vienna
for permission to organize a volun-
teer amazon corps for the imperial
Austrian and Hungarian army. The
petition, containing the arguments of
the three Polish women, urged that
they should be allowed to enlist all
young girls and married women whose
stature and general health insured to
them the muscle and endurance of the
average male soldier. 1t was a right,
the petition said, of every female sub
ject of the Austrian throne to do as much
for the fatherland as her brother OF
father. The three Polish women gave
proofs OF their ability to handle the new
Mannlicher rifles with the proper skill
and thorough military evolutions. They
offered to mount, uniform and arm the
amizon corps at their own expense.
The Ministry of War received the petit
ton, passed it through the proper off,
cial hands, and pigeonholed it. The
Polish women then appealed personally
to the Emperor for the permission which
the Ministry of War had refused. The
Emperor apparently desired to smash
the whole scheme with pocket veto,
for he listened to the detailed argument
OF the Polish women in silence, and has
shown no sign since the audience of
satisfying their thirst for military glory.
The Kuryer Lwowsky, a Polish daily
published at Lemberg, said recently
that the three amazons had determined,
in case they could get no encourage.
ment at Vienna, to organize the corps
under the name of the Amazon Free
Lancera
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An lngenlons sugge.tion.

A number of experiments in anneal-
ing metals has lately been carried out
in Berlin. DIR. Lowenherz, lwho has
taken prominent part in these tests.
has been lecturing before the Polytech-
mic Society of London, and in tho course
of his remarks he suggested that, prop
erly worked out it may be possible to
insulate electric-light wires with coat
ing OF oxide A means of insulating
copper bodily, without India rubber or
other compound, would be nightly val
liable at this particular stage of the dis
cussion concerning the relative merits
Of the overhead and the underground
systems. 1t is hardly possible 30 re-
gard the suggestion as practicable. but
It Is certainly novel and ingenious IN.
\. Sun. :
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Beautv of ..DravhacE..- -

The men who are running the pro-
tectionist mill sometimes argue that
their complicated system of 'sdraw-
backs" is quite as beneficial to the peo-
pie as free raw materials could be. And
Mr.. Mckinley is very much in love with
his scheme providing for the repayment
of 80 per cent. of the tariff taxes on i'm
ported stuff which is made up into
articles for expectation.
But why should there be this dis
elimination? That is what it comes to.
A manufacturer makes two cloaks. One
he sells in the United States. A part of
the price, which the consumer pays, is
the duty on the imported goods which
has gone into its manufacture. He sells
the other one abroad, and as he gets
back 90 per cent of the duty which he
has paid on the imported wool, he can
afford to and does sell 1t at lower price
than he gets for the home-sold article
Such is the protectionist idea of fair
ness. This is what they give us when
we ask for free raw material. And who
gets these rebates after alp The for
eign consumer gets some of them-but
not all.
Mr. Outhwaite, of Ohio, showed that
the rebate on tin-plate last year reached
the very respectable sum of of S1,31I.-
Ill, of which amount the Standard Oil
Trust got SS00,000. And he showed
further that if the McKinleyites had
their way this same monster would get
in draw backs something like 80. 900. 600.
Besides all this, drawbacks are of
very little practical value to the manu-
facturers- The raw material can not
always-or indeed usuallg-be followed
and identified. In very many cases it
is absolutely impossible to identity it.
Even Mr.. Mckinley must know this.
So that drawbacks either have no eff
feet at all, or when they are operative
they discriminate in favor of foreigners
and OF the rich and prosperous. We
have thus one more case of the big fab
eating up the little ones
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ana sections OF the finer details Of plants
for study. Mrs. Ware. of Boston, Is the
donor Of this valuble addition to the IA
cilities of the university.
Rev. Theodore Pryor. DID,. fur
nishes the following: "Fifty years ago
John Fl. Rice. of Richmond, Va. went
North to beg aid for Hampden Sidney
College, In Philadelphia poor wash
srwoman said to him: I and my chill
dren live from day to day from my
labor. After hearing your appeal for
the college yesterday went home and
tasted and now bring you for the col
lege the amount saved by the fasting
DR.. Rice said that was the greatest con-
tribution of all the great gifts he raised
during that trip. Richmond Religious
Herald.
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in one of the interior counties of
Maine a case was called that had long
been in Irrigation. The Chief Justice
who at that tiine Ras PLATA Judge
Peters = thought it impraeticable to
keep the suit longer in court and ad.
vised the parties to refer the matter.
After due deliberation they assented,
agreeing to refer the case to three
honest nen :Vith grave smile, in
perfect keeping with judieial ligAity,
Judge Peters said that the case involved
certain legal points which would re-
qnire one of the referees, at least, to
have some knowledge of law; therefore
he would suggest She prosriety of their
selecting one lawyer and two honest
men.-Argonaut