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Why WOMEN LOSE MONEY.
While Shopping They Become Too Much
Engrossed with bargains.

While Shopping They Become Too Much
Engrossed with Bargains.
1t is easy to see that all those hand
some, fashionably stamped leather portos
monaies. strapped and clasped beyond
peradventure of mishap, as well as the
long, cunningly knitted silken purses,
craftily linked to defy light and honest
fingers alike, are made exclusively for
feminine use. No one ever hears Of
man keeping his money in any thing OF
the sort.
Now, those who have taken the
trouble to observe a woman's tactics
when shopping are familiar with the
stereotyped rules she follows, and the
poorest rogue has shrewdness enough to
avoid them when first entering an es-
tablishment
Get shop-girl to describe how loftily
indifferent, languidly disdainful or cold
ly neglectful ninety-nine women out of
hundred look when they first step in
on the street. Then they have them
selves well in hand, firm purchase on
parasol and purse, and green clerk
would wonder what on earth ever
brought such dilettanti in to be bored.
Before ten steps have been taken,
however, those wary glances have been
ensnared. Bargains boldly set forth on
the center counter fetch a glow of ami
nation into listless faces, and every dig
nified muscle is relaxed as the light of
trade shines like lamp in either eye.
Here the fray begins. The thrifty
shopper goes hard to work to see how
much stuff she can get for the smallest
amount Bangs slowly dampen and un-
curl, powder fades as though it had
never been, collars melt, mitts creep
stealthlly down the arm, walls moisten
and part asunder and yet never does the
ardent buyers attention relax for a mo-
ment
Inspired by the devotion to the busi-
ness In hand, she works faithfully and
well; every thing is forgotten save that
ten cents difference on the embroidery,
and as is invariably the case, patience
and perseverance conquer all difficulties.
Flushed with triumph, reveling in the
victory that will create envy in the
bosom of every woman friend, she
promptly turns to count out the neces-
sary nickels.
Abomination of desolationl Where in
y hoAAO 40 AcT pOCkoJDOOKT
With feverish anxiety every article
up and down the counter is overturned,
tossed ruthlessly about or pushed hasti-
ly aside in one vain effort to catch a
glimpse of its beaded fringe or oxidized
clasp.
During this prolonged hunt every
man, woman and child is suspiciously
eyed. No one knows or has seen any
thing Of the mislaid purse, but sudden
ly the light of conviction makes the
whole thing clear.
The robbed woman sinks helplessly
On the nearest stool and tells of those
two well-dressed blondes who sand
wiched her between them at the en-
oroidery counter. Too absorbed to no.
tice aught beyond their sympathetic en-
thusiasm over the goods she had iostled
and jammed about with this result.-At.
lanta Constitution.
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gentleman ="
Never mind about that young gen.
man, said; Il have certain curiosity
to know why my house was not entered
| when the others were"
"Well," said he, s'I don't mind tellin'
yer how that was. It was on account of
your baby. We don't like to crack a
house where there's pretty small baby
that's liable to wake up and howl any
minute, and rouse up the rest of the
family. There's no workin' in a house
| with comfort when there's such young
one about. I'll tell you what it is, all
your burglar alarms and your dogs amt
worth nuthin' alongside of baby for
guardin' house. If cracksman amt
careful the alarms will go off, and if he
don't know how to manage dogs the
dogs will bark. But. by George, sir,
there amt no providin' agin a baby.
He'll howl any time, and nobody can
tell when. so waited till your baby was
little more settled in its ways and
slept soundly, and then we come along,
and here we are"
This statement very much surprised
me, and did not elate me. Without
saying so to any one, 1 had fattered
myself that the burglars had heard of
my precautions and of my excel
lent stock of firearms, and per-
haps had got notion that 1 would be
an intrepid man to deal with, and it was
somewhat humiliating to find that it
was our baby the burglars were afraid
OF and not myself. My wife was
amazed.
''Can it be possible" she said, ''that
these people know so much about our
baby, and that George William has been
protecting this house?''
ut makes my flesh Creep" said Aunt
Martha. do you know every thing
about all of us?'
'Wish did, ma'am," said the stout
burglar; wish I'd known about that
beastly liquor"
"Well, we've had enough of this" said
I, rising, 'and, my dear, you and Aunt
Martha must be ready to go to bed. and
David and will keep guard over these
fellows until morning"
AT this instant the youngest burglar
spoke. His face wore a very anxious
expression.
MAY l ask, SIR" he said, ''what YOU
intend to do with me in the morning?"
Il have already said,' answered,
that | shall then hand over all of you
to the officers of justice of this coun-
try"
but, SIR" said the young man, s'you
will surely except me. l am not at all
concerned in this matter, and it would
be of the greatest possible injury to me
to be mixed up in it, or to be mentioned
In public reports as an associate of a
criminal. I'm not acquainted with the
gentleman at the other end of the
bench, but 1 have every reason to be-
l1eve from what he said to me that he
intended to notify you if this James
Barlow proceeded to any open act. For
myself, beg you will allow me to state
who and what / am, and to tell you bv
what strange concatenation of circum-
stances happen to find myself in my
present position-one which / assure you
causes me the greatest embarrassment
and anxiety"
"We've had enough storytelling for
one night" said L, land you had better
reserve your statement for the magis-
trate.'
Here Aunt Martha put in her voice.
That's not fair" she said, s'two of
them have been allowed to speak, and
this one has just as much right to
be heard as the others. What do you
say, Cornelia?"
TO BE CONTINUED.
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GETTING INTO PRINT.
Remarkable Story Told OF Popular
Brooklyn Writer.

Remarkable Story Told of a POpuIa,
Brooklyn Writer,
A New York publisher, or rather a
gentleman editorially connected with q
publishing firm in New York, told, re-
Gently, this story about a now popular
contributor to the magazines He, with
his partners, was seated in their private
of1ce one day about six years ago, when
a gentleman entered. He was in great
distress, and after some hesitation said
in words something like these: at is
with much embarrassment that have
come to you. / have an excuse.
however, that l hope you will ac-
cept. My daughter is young, beau
t1ful and talented girl. She is nv
only child, and she is motherless /
have spoiled and petted her, and l con-
fess her violent temper has given me
great unhappiness, since it greatly af-
fects her health. She is now living des-
perately i'll at my residence in Brook
lyn with fever that we fear
will terminate fatally. This fever was
brought on by excessive rage, grief and
disappointment because you have re-
jected her manuscript. She refused to
eat when she received the news of its
failure to please you, INDUCED in tears
and cries, and finally worked herself in
TO delirium. 1t is impossible for me
or her nurses or her physicians to con-
troll her She says she will take neither
food nor medicine and will die if she
can not see her story in print, and as she
has always done what she threatened to
INT 7 han
ter If you do not relent and accept it,
The poor fellow was overwhelmed
with modification after this confession.
but managed to stammer out that he
was rich man and would be willing to
pay the editors andsomely if thew
would crafty the whim of his
spoiled child, and, producing the
manuscript, begged them to re-
read it and see whether it did not have
sufficient merit to enable them 10 print
IT without seriously rejecting on their
literary taste. The editors, of course,
rejected the bribe, but, being kind.
hearted men, and valuing life more
than their readers appreciation, con-
sented, after some discussion, to take
the story, my friend having sseertained
from the girls physicians that the IA
Tiers account was absolutely true. He
also learned the result of the intelli.
gence upon the young woman. who at
once took a turn for the better. rauidlv
recovered, and began to write again
senolng her next contribution to the
same publishers, who found it so good
that she is now one of their regular
contributors.-Hartford Conn Cou-
rant
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The Trick by Which He Became a Cele
hraf fad nd

The Trick by Which He Became a Cele-
brated and Distinguished Man.
1t once happened that Paracelsus was
walking through forest when he heard
a voice calling to him by name. He
looked around and at length discovered
that it proceeded from a fir tree, in the
trunk of which there was spirit, in
closed by small stopper, scaled with
three crosses.
The spirit begged of Paracelsus to set
him free. This he readily promised on
condition that the spirit should bestow
on him madeleine capable of healing
all diseases, and tincture which would
turn every thing it touched to gold. The
spirit acceded to his request, whereupon
Paracelsus took his pen-knife and sue
ceeded, after some tSouble, in getting out
the stopper. A loathsome black spider
crept forth, which ran down the trunk
OF the tree. Scarcely had it reached the
ground when 1t was changed, and be.
came, as if rising from the earth, tall,
haggard man, with squirting red eyes,
wrapped in a scarlet mantel
He led Paracelsus to a high, overhang-
ing, craggy mount, and with a hazel
twlg, which he had broken off by the
way, he smote the rock, which, split
ting with crash at the blow, divided
Itself ip twain, and the spirit disap.
eeaFed within it. He, however, soon re-
turned with two small phials, which he
handed to Paracelsus-a yellow one
which contained the tincture which
turned all it touched to gold, and white
hn Iinir
all diseases. He then smote the rock a
second time, and therenpon il Instantly
closed again.
Both now set forth on their return, the
spirit directing its course toward Inns
pruck, to seize upon the magician who
had banished him from that city. Now
Paracelsus trembled for the consequent
ces which his releasing the evil one
would entail upon him who had con-
Jured him into the tree, and he thought
how he might rescue him. When they
arrived once more at the fir tree he
asked the spirit if he possibly could
transform himself again into spider
and ist him sos him creep into the hole.
fne spirit said that it was not only pos
sible but that he would be most happy
TO make such display of his art for the
qualification of his deliverer.
Accordingly he once more assumed
the form of spider and crept again in
to the well-known crevice. When he
had done sa I1aracelsus, who had kent
the stopper all ready in his hand for the
purpose, clapped it as quick as light
ming into the hole, hammered it in firm-
~ with q stone, and with his knife,
made three fresh crosses upon it. The
spirit, mad with rage, shook the fir tree
as though he might drive out the stop
per which Paracelsus had thrust in, bux
his fury was of no avail. 1t held fast
and left him there with little hope Of
escape. for, on account of the great
drifts OF snow from the mountains, the
forest will never be cut down, and. al
though he should call night and day
nobody in that neighborhood ever vent
ures near the-spot,
sazaaels,i. however, found that the
phials were such as he had demanded.
and it was by their means that he after
ward became such celebrated and cis-
tlnguished man. Ger nan Folk Lorr.
= <e~--s
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rhe Poorest People on Earth.

In both India and Egypt it is women
who collect the fuel for the family.
They do this by going along the road
and gathering up the droppings, which
they take home and dry for 1re-wood.
Their wages are very small where they
work by the day, and neither men nor
women get more than enough to keep an
American laborer in cigars. Farm
laborers in India get from six to eight
cents day, and masons receive about
ten cents day. In my tour around the
world 1 found no place where the people
were so poor as in India, and nowhere
else in the world will you find food so
scarce that the people look like living
skeletons, and regulate the amount they
eat according to the amount necessary
to sustain life. In Japan and Burmah
and in Korea the people are poor, but
their poverty ia nothing like this. In
Egypt they are ground TO death with
taxation, but their stomachs are not
stinted to such degree that they can
barely keep alive. There are no sipns
OF suffering in the faces and limbs of
the people OF Palestine and Turkey. and
the only place where starvation is con-
tinually staring the man in the face Is
In certain districts of Jndia.-F. g. Car
penter, in National Tribune.
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wanted The cop he took the gold
mouse out of my pocket, and says he:
L know this fellow, and if I'm not mis-
took they'll be more charges than
yourn made agin him. There wasn't
no chance to show fight, so / didn't do
II, but [ says to old Groppeltacker:
There's my expo nses; you've got to pay
them any way 'Al right says he,
list you send in your bill, marked COR
rect by my daughter, and I'll settle it, ,
and he laughed again, and the cop he
took me off. Well, ladies and gents,
that little piece of business, together
with some other old scores, took me to
Sing Sing for three years, and it amt
six months since l got out, so you can
gee for yourselves what hard times
fellow in my line of business some
times has"
WELL" said Aunt Martha, II don't
approve of the Groppeltacker sort of
people, but if there were more of that
kind believe there would be fewer of
your kind. That story shows you in
such bad light that 1 believe it's
true"
Every word of it, said the man. II
wish it wasn't
And now spoke. .:Since you claimed
to be truth-telling being said to the
stout burglar, suppose you tell me why
you never attempted before to break
into my house. Every considerable
dwelling in this neighborhood has been
antered, and / have no doubt you are
the men who committed all the burg.
laries.
s.No, sir" said he. mot men. am
the naR who did 'enlsz1l. but these two
friends of nlino was never with me bc-
fore In a bit of business like this.
'Tain't in :heir line. I have had pals
with me, but they was professionals.
These amt eracksmen; they cont know
pesAial about il, but this one Is handy
at tools and that's the reason brung
hirl along, but ycu see he kicked and was
goin. 70 give me away. and this young
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n ". ora IOr sIoTners.

Mothers, let US bear ia mind that
what we desire our children to become
we must be before them If we wish
them to grow up kind. gentle. affection
ate, upright and true, We must habitu-
ally exhibit the same qualities as regu-
lating principles in our conduct, be-
cause these qualities act as so many
stimulants to the respective faculties in
the child. II We can not restrain our
ewn passions. but at one time over
whelm the young with kindness and at
another surprise and confound them by
our caprice and deceit, we may with as
much reason expect to gather grapes
from thistles or figs from thorns as to
develop moral purity and simplicity OF
character Ia ntheu--Household
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CHURCHES.

d DAPTIST.--Preacning each sunday at II n.
.Dul aud at 80 p. m. at the courthouse. sun
tlny school at 10 o'clock, III. Prayer meeting
Wednesday evening of each week. Rev. w. \
Cain, Pastor. Residence on Cor. Lincoln Ave.
and Cherry streets.
HHRISTIAN.-Preac every Sunday at
- IL o'clock, a. m, and 7:3O p. m, by Elder
David Nation. Prayer meeting every We'd
nesday night. Sunday school ut 10 o clock II. nj.
every Sunday.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL.-Scrviccs every
4N4 Sunday at | 200 II. III. aud 80 p. m. sun
day school every Sunday at 10 n. III. Prayer
mectinh every Wednesday evening ut 1:30.
strangers invited. X. SANDERSON, Pastor.
DRESBYTERIAN.-Sc every Sunday at
\ II II. IN. and Z 80 p. III. Sunday school at
10 n. III. j. B. NORTH, Pastor.
CATHOLIC CHUR rich - Services on End
Sunday of every month at Sherlocks hall, at
1000 u. m. REV. BITTER Pastor.
GERMAN BAPTIST BRETHREN-Hold reg
" ular services at Mingona, Barber county,
the second and fourth Sundays in each month
At Forrest school house on the second Sunday !;
Cedar Greek school house on the third Sunday
BY Elders Shamberger, Smith and NCher.
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What the TrouhIe was.

'sfeu look weary said one travelling
man to another.
81 feel it."
May be Fosf dipnerdidn'tagree with
EQu,
No. that isn't it Ny wife and dis
aRree. Merchant Traveller.
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uooa and healthy girls are almost
always cheerful. No novelist would
consider his youthful heroine complete
II ringing laugh" were omitted from
the list OF her charms; and in real life
the girls who do not laugh now and
then are seldom trusted or liked bv
their companions. Even beauty will
not save them, A belle who fails to un-
derstand the jest of her admirers and
smiles in amiable bewilderment while
other people are laughing is soon left
with no consolation save to wonder
what any body can see in her rival
girl with "tip-tilted" nose, perhaps, and
large mouth and freckles. but the
happy possessor of a pair Of merry ewes
and cheerful mind, The gift of eayetv
is indeed of great value; but it must be
gayety which originates in kind and
cherry heart, not that which is born of
mere excitement or gratified vanity
n. Y. Ledger.
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"A smart Columbus (Pa.) shoe dealer
had drawer full of faded old slippers
he hung out sign, s'Old slippers to
throw at Brides and they all won't
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-02-12
THE NOISY DRUM.
1t Is an Ancient Instrument That All Ma
tions Use.


tions Use.
They have got little barrels.
The heads be kvered wiz leather:
They beats upon 'em WI little clubs.
To call their folk together.
Thus somebody described the first an
pearance of the British soldiers sent tn
America to quen the rebellion of the
colonists.
Since that time the English drum
Deaters have attained such precision in
their art that 1t is stated that If all the
drun1mers in the British army were COL
lected together, they would go through
with all the beats in use (there are fif.
teen principal ones) in perfect time.
Could our drummer boys do that?
The drum is at home in almost all ma.
tions.
The Laplanders venerate their sacred
drums. These are followed from piece
OF pine or birch trunk. and covered at
one end. A portion of the wood on the
under side is left for handle
The ancient Romans used hand
drums in their religious dances. and
more than thousand years ago other
nations used them to give signals in
war.
In Asia, immense kettle-drums are
carried across the backs of camels in tba
trains of all crowned heads. The drums
are adorned with gorgeous trappinps.
and seat is prepared for the PLAYER
upon the camel's back.
The musicians of Hindostan play very
dexterously on very small pair of ket-
tle-drums, called toublabs, which are
fastened before them by lengths of
cloth wound several times around the
body. They are beaten with the fingers.
Single drums, beaten with two sticks OF
hard wood, are sometimes used to
frighten away tigers,
Drums used in Hindoo religious pro-
cessions are called doles. They are
made OF baked earth, are sometimes a
yard long, and twice as large at the
center as at either end. Kettle-drums
are thin copper basins or bowls, COW
cred with parchment or calf-skin. which
Is held in place by an iron hoop.-N. Y.
Mail and Express.
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DELPHIA LODGE, No. liO. 4. of p. meets on
Monday evening Of each " elk. ut the h OF L.
hail Visiting knights Va good stlndmg inVi-
.ed Co attend. SCUrr RUBERr, Z. =.
n. a. BROvN. X. of X. X >.
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LEGEND OF PARACELsUS.

FINDLAY, O., has sixteen glass fac
tories running.
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State Officers.
Barber County omcers.
SOCIETIES.

a AZ. & A. NJ, Delta Lodge No. q
N Regular communications, first and
" " third saturday evenings in eaCh
j" month All affiliatiug and non-athli-
atin9 masCnS In good standing. cordially in
" fed 10 attend FRANK BEERS, W. VI.
"a. M.INGKAHAM, Secretary.
CYPRUS CHAPTER No. G3, II. \. NJ, meets
in Masonic Hail every ID and 4th Thursday.
Visiting brethren cordially invited.
CHESTER |. LONG, II. p.
f.. B PECK. Scc'V.
n II q LORRAINE CHAPTER, No. 30.
W. La % Regular Communications, hrst
and third Monday evenings in each mOnth.
Mrs. EVA l.. MERHELL, W. NJ.
NANHIE V. O'BItYAN, Sec.
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L. q. q. F., Pioneer Lod g.
q E6tNSN No. lT9.-Reguar ectings
kG1A NTre .$&h1 every Tuesday cveu.ng.N
Uingbrethren in good stind-
ing cordially invited.
r. L. LINDLEY, \. g..
T.. VI. BYERLEY, Sec.
ENSIGN ENCAMPMENT NO. 62, /. q. .. +
Meets first and third Friday OF each month
Visiting Pntriarchs cordially invited TO attend
&. T. ALLEN. II. j. &. HARRIS, I. +.
w. II. RoUsE, ;. W. j. G. wAGsTAD, ).
NAOMI No. 81. REBECCA DEGREE. 1. o. OF
Meets the I'd and 4th We'd. nights each month
Mrs. Il NJ. ALLEN, n. G,
Mrs. AUG. SCMDT, Sccy.
n D ELDRED POST, No. ia, meets
VI IA N the last Saturday in each month
OF the court house in Medicine Lodge, at p. NJ.
All comrades cordially invited.
LOREN EDWARDS, Post Commander.
john w. UPPERMAN, Adjutant.
A. O. D. w. MSels ESs'y "a LGnSSe %aS 4tS h? F. fd iday
night. W. :. FINNEY, NJ. ".
E.E NJ. BYERLEY, Recorder.
St. Paul daily globe., 1890-04-06
ELECTION UNIFORMITY.

The Australian system of voting has
been so thoroughly discussed that no
further explanations are necessary; but
it happens with this. as with all other
similar experiments, thre are some mat
tiers of detail omitted, or not made clear
by the law which puts it into effect. For
instance, there is no provision made for
returning or accounting for mutilated
ballots. The number of ballots in the
box at the close of the polls must tally
with the number given out by the elec-
ton officers. There is a pretty big per
cent of voters who are just awkward
enough to mutilate or deface ballot on
their first attempt to fill it out.
Then the natural thing for the
voter to do is to tear up that ballot
and proceed to fill up another one. In
such case the election judge gives out
two ballots and gets back but one. An
other instance of trouble may arise
where the voter places but one cross
mark on the ticket. Under the law if
the cross mark is at the head of the
ticket or opposite the name of the can
didate first on the list it will be counted
as vote for the whole ticket.
Yet voters who do not keep the full
details of the law in their head are as
liable to put the one cross mark down
at the middle of the ticket as at the top.
Then it will become question with the
Judges whether to count the vote for the
entire ticket or for just the one name
that the cross mark happens to-