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THE ARAUCANIANS.
A Wedding Amid Barbsrlans and th,
Ceremonies Preceding 1t.

A Wedding Amid Barbarlans and the
Ceremonies Preceding 1t.
The Araucanian people, inhahiting
the northern part of Patagonia, are of
medium height and great strength, the
principal popularity of formation being
in the narrowness of the front Of the
head and the size of the foot. Their
marriage is an odd mixture of ceremo-
MES. Theoretically. the bridegroom is
supposed to steal his bride against her
will, and in opposition to the wishes of
her parents; practically, he buys her.
Strange to say, the match Is generally
one of affection. AS in Spain, music is
the method Of expressing feeling, but,
alas for sentimental ideas of civiliza-
tion, the instrument is q jew's-harp,
without which no lover Is ever seen. It
hangs around his neck. He seats him
choice and produces a series of
dreadful sounds, and after a few days
f-this infiiction he proceeds to the mar
riage preliminaries. II wealthy, there
is no difficulty, but If poor he goes
among his friends. and borrows an OK, a
horse, a pair of silver spurs. until there
is enough. 1t is point of honor to so
oblige friend, and repayment is fire.
quently deferred until a girl-child is
born and grown old enoug to be sold.
Then he and all his friends, mounted
on horseback. visit the father, when
six of the best speakers dismount and
in turn praise the groom and the mar
riage. Then the father gravely re-
hunting for his girl among the houses,
and the speeches are prolonged until he
finds her. He seizes her by the hair,
feet or any available hold, throws her
across his horse, and, like Young
Lochinvar, speeda away. she screams,
and general fight ensues be-
tween the friends Of the groom
and those of tho girl, the lat
ter being prevented from following
until the pair escape into the surround
ing woods. Deep in some glade a hut
has been prepared. and they remain for
two days after the abduction, when the
marIisge is considered consummated.
In the meantime the presents have been
brought to the parents, and a COW horn
is blown and the welded pair return.
But now the mother In dissatisfied. 1t
is point of honor for her to be highly
outraged, and she will neither speak or
look at the husband, but sits with her
back to him. Here is a difficult point
In hospitality she is bound to entertain
him, and as the son-in-law is the hon
ored guest he has 70 be consulted first
So she says: Daughter, ask your hus-
band If he Is hungry" and carries on a
conversation in this way until at last
abe gives an entertainment which ex-
hausts her culinary knowledge. But
not until the birth Of the first child does
she ever speak TO the son-ia-law except
through third person. Home
Iournal
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HUNGRY FOR BOUNTIES.

The Sugar Bounty Extended to the Maple
Sugar Men, and Other Applicants For
Public Pap Put in Their Claims Now Let
the Growers of Wheat and Cotton Speak
Out-McKInley Makes Weak Defense of
His Bounty by a Mistit Quotation From
Hamilton,
Once the Government starts out to
giving bounties there will be no point
at which it can stop without leaving
many unhappy bounty-hunters grumb-
ling because they were left out in the
cold.
No sooner was it known that McKin-
ley gave bounty of two cents a pound
on sugar than the Vermont people, who
produce small quantity Of maple sugar,
beset the Senate Finace Committee and
pleaded to be included in the bounty
clause Of the bill.
OF course they could bring forward
very strong arguments. "Why make
discrimination against our maple sugar?
Is it not sugar, too, just as well as cane
or beet-root sugar? Does it not grow
out Of the ground-and American
ground at that? Does it not require
labor-American labor2 Why not put
all American sugar on the same fOOting"
Well, the Senate committee said that
the maple sugar men had the better of
the argument, and so maple sugar goes
into the bill for the tWo-cent bounty on
every pound produced. Thus the makers
of maple sugar, as we'll as the growers of
cane and beet-root sugar, are to be paid
10 do their own business-paid out of
taxes colIaoted from the people
As the Senate committee showed itself
TO be so generous 10 the maple sugar
men other bOunty-hunters haze come
forward to ask an extension of Govern
ment charity. This time it is the
makers of grape sugar and glucose,
which are largely used to adulterate
other products. They have also an
! American article, employ American Ia
| boT, and make sugar too. Why should
| they be left out? They are just as
! thirsty for GoyerGnent aid as any of the
! other sugar makers. Now let us see
| whether the Senate committee car give
any good reason for not taking the grape
sugar and glucose men in out of the
cold?
If Mckinley and his tariff-makeFs
were asked why it is necessary to give
bounty on sagar theY would talk
/ about our sugar-growers not being able
% compete with the cheap labor of the
/ West !qdias. South America and Ger
many; and thsy yould give you care
fully constructed lspls9 ahOwing the
wages of farm laborers in taose Sogn-
tries. OF course, they will say, our
sugar-growers can not compete with the
cheap lghor, and therefore we must help
them in the uneqasi stflGgle by giving
them a bounty.
But does not Mckinley see that If the
cheap-labor argument is to be used to
defend his sugar bounty, the same ar
gurnent would apply equally well to the
growers of wheat and cotton? The
growers of American wheat are COM
PEELED to sell their crop in competition
with the cheap labor of Russia
and India; and the American cot
ton-growers must meet OF the
wharves OF Liverpool the cottoH
produced by the miserably paid labor OF
India and Egypt How can they do this
| without bopnty7 Are not the wheat
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and cotton growers good ana worthy
American citizens? Do they not give
employment to American labor?
When Mr.. Mckinley brought his Tar
if bill into the House he accompanied
it with report in which he attempted
to bolster up his sugar bounty by quot
ing Alexander Hamilton, and saying
that 1.-The sanction of no higher author
ity in American craftsmanship could be
invoked"
Then he makes quotation from
Hamilton in defense of bounties; but
the quotation itself shows in plain
black and white that Hamilton was ad-
vocating bounties ito stimulate and up
hold new enterprises" they were to be
applied ito the acquisition of new and
useful branch of industry" and Hamil-
toms bounty was to be "a temporary ex-
pense"
Seldom has public man ever quoted
an authority so inapt!y as Mckinley
did in this case; for sugar-growing is
not "a new industry" under the most
liberal Interpretation of Hamilton's
words; and to speak of the s'acquisi-
ton" of it is simply a gross misuse of
the English language. Again, Hamil-
ton speaks of temporary" expense
for the establishment of an industry.
What right has Mckinley to assume
that at the end of his fifteen years
bounty the sugar-growing industry will
be any more able to stand on it's own
feet than it is to-day? 1t has already
existed long enough to develop the nee
essary skill; and it is folly to hope that
the bounty will have the slightest ef-
feet in developing a greater degree of
skill in our sugar-making process, or
that this greater skill will be added as
a permanent factor to the wealth-pro-
ducing capacity of the Nation.
AS the matter stands Mckinley gives
the sugar men $1,000, 600 a year out of
the peoples taxes; but how much that
will grow to in fifteen years nobody
knows. 1t may be twice as much or it
may be ten times as much. But if the
sum should even remain the same, that
would mean $1O5, 900, 900 for the fifteen
years-which is certainly an enormous
sum to pay people for doing their own
private business.
Mckinley, however, is a champion
when it comes to knocking out surplus
But he sees that the people are going to
object to giving away this enormous
sum of money; and so he fixes the dona-
ton for a period of fifteen years, hoping
that thereby future Congresses can not
undo his iniquitous bounty giving.
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WHY THE SKY Is BLUE.
A Variety of Prominent Heavenly Tint.
Cleverly Analysed.

n variety OF prominent Heavenly TiDts
Cleverly AnaIyzec.
"You have all noticed" said an as
tronomer to a Cincinnati Times-Star
man, that when we look away from the
sun into the elopdless sky, the heavens
appear blue; when, however. we look In
the direction of the sun, especially
when, after sunset, we look toward the
western horizon, the color is a yellow
ish red. With the spectroscope it can
be shown that the white light from the
sun is produced by mingling of differ
ent colored rays. Indeed this can be
shown by means OF any Triangular
prism, cay one OF the pendants of a
chandelier One of these placed in the
path OF beam of light will project on a
screen band of seven colors-red,
orange, yellow, green, light blue. dark
blua ead violet. Understanding this,
we can readily see how the effect is blue
when piece OF blue glass is interpo..s
or red when red glass !. used. All but
the blue c..iu red rays respectively are
absorbed; these, however, pass through
freely, and we say that the body is
blue, or red, when really the color
Is not property of the glass in any true
sense, but of the sunlight What has
this to do with the sky colors? ] will
now show YOU Dissolve little white
CASTLE soap in tumbler Of water, 50 as
70 make the water slightly turbid Place
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CLAIMING THE MORTGAGE.


A Republican Paper TeI,s HOY the Wool
Growers Are Demanding the Pound Of
Flesh.
The opponents Of our present tariff
system often assert that the yariQps
protected industries of the country hola
a mortgage upon the Republican party,
and that, in its present effort TO put on
new and enormously increased duties.
the party is simply paying off that
mortgage The high tariff leaders in
dignantiy deny this and denounce it as
3 wicked free-trade stande1
Now is it not positively refreshing to
see one Of the most prominent of those
protected industries frankly take the
same view of the matter; anu - IT not
stH more refreshing to see a leading
protectionist paper publish the fact to
the world?
A staff correspondent of that sturdy
protectionist organ, the Philadelphia
Press, writes to that paper from Wash
ington TO sayi
"The proposition In Secretary Blaine's
letter to the President on the SUBJECT of
reciprocity with south America, which in
wolves the free admission of outh American
woods, has caused something like a sensa-
ton among the Western wool-growerA
Chairman Mckinley, of the House COMMITTEES
% Weys and Means. and Senator shsrmqn
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CHURCHES.

DAPTIST.- Preaching each sunday at II a.
DIN and at ~ y. M, at the courthouse. sun
dny school at ~ O'clock,H a N. Prayer meeting
"Wednesday evening OF each week. Rev w. a.
CAIN Pastor. Residence on Cor. Lincoln Ave.
and Cherry streets.
rNnRlSTIAN.-Prcac every sunday at
- II O'Clock, a. M, and 80 =. m, 10y Elder
J. e Nicholson. Prayer meeting every We'd
ncs,lnv night. sunday school at 10 o'clock a. m.
every sunday. Pastors residence at the par
-sonagc study at the chapel,
N6ETHODIST EPISCOPAL.-Scrviccs every
IX1 Sunday at 100 n. m and 80 y. III; sun
dny school every SUNDAY at 10 n. IN. Prayer
mCctiu. every ThursGny evening at ':5o.
strangers invited. ID. ". PHILLIPS faSlor.
DRESRYTERIAN.-S every sunday at
i II II. IN. and 30 y. IN. sunday SchooI at
lO a. IN. j. Is. NolVTH' i"S''l'
CATHOLIC CHTRCH Services on md
Sunday of every month at ShcrlOcks hall, at
Iu.OO A. m REV. BITTER Pastor.
n ERMAN BAPTIST NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. reg
L, ulnr services at MinVonH, Barber county,
thc ocond and fourth Sundays in each month.
Al Fo, lest school house ON the second sunday
Cedar Gro, X school house on the thlrd Shhuhy'
Uv Elders St ambcrgcr, Smith and Ncher.
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TIL. coubox,s Iasso.

The cowboys lasso is made by cutting
q rawhide into thin strips, bali tanning
it with hair on. These strips are then
stretched over block and braided into
. rope. the strands being braided very
tight The lasso is then buried in sand
for week or two and absorbs moisture
from the ground, which makes 1t soft
and pliable. When taken out OF the
ground it is stretched out and the hair
is sandpapered OF. 1t is then creased
with mutton tallow and properly noosed.
and is ready for use,
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Co-OperatIon . Failure,

Cooperation has not been successful
in Berlin Thirty-five cooperative So
cieties have been organized there for
manufacturing purposes since 1868.
Thirty of them wound up their affairs
after an average existence Of six years
each. Five still exist The various
reasons for discontinuing business were
lack of funds, differences of opinion
among members and dwindling away of
membership.
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MKINLEYS HAND FELT.


Effect of the High Tariff Bill Already Felt
in the New York Dry Goods Market.
The pretense is sometimes made by
protectiOnists that the tariff does not
increase the cost of goods. How false
that claim is may be judged from the
following fact. The New York Com
mercial Bulletin in a recent market re-
port has these words on the conditions
now prevailing in that city among the
importers of foreign dry goods: 'Im-
porters, confident of the passage of the
Mckinley Tariff bill, are firm in their
insistance for advanced prices. Buyers,
on the other hand, refuse to do business
save at old prices, tariff change or no
tariff change, and there the matter
stands to-day as for some weeks past.
Importers are massing large supplies in
warehouse in anticipation of the pro-
posed tariff. -
This is a clear case of cause and effect.
If Tariff bill is to pass putting in
creased duties on goods, these duties
will raise the price by precisely so much
to the American sugar. Not only 80,
but, as this market report shows, the
price of the goods already on hand will
be raised for in order to replace them
it will be necessary to import others at
a cost enhanced by the amount of the
new duties.
Buyers, however, have become accus-
toned to the old prices; the new McKin-
ley prices frighten them, and so they
hold off in the vain hope that the Nc
Kinley bill will not become law. The
buyers are not of that silly class of peo-
pie who pretend that the tariff does not
increase prices. They know that when
the importer has paid the high duty at
the custom house he is compelled to add
that duty to the price of the goods; and
they know, too, that when they them
selves buy these goods and take them
home to their stores, they will have to
charge up the duty so that the consumer
will pay it finally. They know further
that when the cost of these goods has
been increased by Mckinley, some peo-
pie will do without them rather than
pay the higher price. The merchants
prefer large sales at low profits rather
than small sales at h gh profits; but the
Mckinley bill means precisely the lat
ter of these alternatives. Merchants
gill sell fewer foreign goods, and for
this very reason they will have to make
higher profit on what they do sell.
This state of affairs leaves the mer-
chants in uncertainty and hence they
hold off in the hope that Mex nley's
barbaFous measure viii not become law,
This market report is simply thing
that has been published in the ordinary
course of business; but it should throw
a food of light on the effect of tariffs
among people who have been beguiled
| with the false teaching of the politicians
| that the tariff is not a tax.
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State ORcers
Barber County Ohcers.
"a ~
POSTAL

Ta3tonicc ~ Medicine Lodge open from
20 . ,.N. Sundays one hour on arrival of mall.
NJ Oncy order, open 4. N. to =. 81 Satur,
days T.. %. open until =. NJ. Eastern niali
f.. NJ. ANIME, T.. NJ.
Ill A RROMN. Assistant.
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The treasury receives annually about
sec, 900. 900 from tariff taxation. The
protected pets OF Congress, many of
Whom are in both Houses voting tie
peoples money into their own pockets
are receiving at least $3.50, 900, ,0C0.
This is exclusive Of all bounties or az
ticles on which there is a high-tariff tax
which prohibits importation, or which
home producers sell here for less than
the foreign price with the tax added.
In all that large class OF products the
tax is in fact prohibitory. The Govern
ment gets no revenue.-Senator Beck.
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l. q. q. r.. Pioneer Lode
- ISS<S No. I1g.-Keguar meetings
TX ESFVF ZAElv1 every Tuesday eVcn.ng.N
iting brethren in good stand
SS ing cordially invited.
II. l.. LINDIEY, n. g..
T.. NJ. BYEULEY, See.
ENSIGN ENCAMPMENT No. G2, l. q. o. +
Meets first and third Friday ot each month
Visiting Patriarchs cordially invited te attend
:. l.. ALLEN. H. i. u. X IAlttlS' =. L.
w r. ROUSE, =. w. j. G. WALSTAD, ).
NAOMI No.GT REBECCA DEG kEE. l. .. o. F.
Meets he 2d and 4th Wed. nights, each month.
MRS. II NJ. ALLEN, n. q,
Mrs. AUG. SCMtDT, Secy.
X d ELDRED POST, No. ~, meets
VI AZ N the last saturday iuchch month
OF the court house in Medicine Lodge, at T.. NJ.
All comrndrS cordially invited.
LoREN EDWARDS, Post Commander,
JuuN w UPPERMAN, Adjutant.
q " LOREN EDWARDS CAMP. No. l52,
., Y s. of ". meets on lst ANA 81 Saiurs
dav evenings of each mouth, in X. of L. hall.
H. s MoUKtS. Capt. T.. W. SNODuN, LIST Lieut..
ROBT CAMEROS, lst Scargcnt.
4 O. u w. S"s: S$$5 q I%%5p s5s4 %%5 .S II n
+. NJ. BYERLEy. Recorder
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DELPHIA LODGE, No. 40, K. of p, meets on
Monday evening of each week at tue Is. OF r.
hail. Visiting Knights in good standing lnNl-
ted 90 attend. L, Z. MOLLOf, - =.
OTIS LORTON, X. of Il. 81 ;.
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pHYsIc1ANsIN MEDICINE LODGE

q KOCIELL,
homeopathic PhfSicIAN & SURGEON,
Ofhce on Kansas Avenue. next to iBdcE olEcc.
MEpICINE LODGE. kANSAE.
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SnCIFTIES.

\. +. Il a. NJ, Delta Lodge No. =
IA Regular communications, first and
" - third Saturday evenings IN cuch
i" month. All atiIiatinS and non-af1li-
9ttny nascns in good standing, cordially in
SIttcd TO attend FRANK BEERS, W. NJ.
~. NJ. INGRAHAM, Secretary.
CYPRUS CHAPTER No. SO, II. a. NJ, meets
I'm Masonic Hall every 2d and 4th Thursday
Visiting brethren cordially invited.
CHESTER !. Long, Ii. p.
t. B. PECK. Sec'Y.
n 2 9 LORRAINE CHAPTER, NO; 49,
W. Lis OG Regular Communications, hrst
and third Monday evenings in each m0nth.
Mrs EVA l.. MERitELL, W. NJ.
MAMIE V. O. BRYAN, Sec.
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. D. KARR, NJ. D.

oFFICE-In Karr's drug store. Wood s. Vim
cent building. All cnls promptly filed. Par
iicular attention given to Obstetrics and dis
eases peculiar to woman.
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.rroRNEys MEDICINE LODGE.

M, H. MCAGUE.
ATTORNEY Ar LAW,
Medicine Lodge. Kans.
ENWil practice i'm the state aud fodera
courts.
psg- Collections Speciality. -Aei
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WI H. MOORE,
ECLECTIC PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
Medicine Lodge, KGe.
Fast side Main IT, one door south Of Higgins
Furniture Store.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-08-20

m A. McNEAL,
NTToRNEY y COUNSELLOR AT LAW,
OOicc: East Kansas Avenue, near Courthouse.
MEDICINE LODGE, kANS.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-08-20

whipping In Queen Elizabeth's Time
FlasellatiOn In France and HOlland-Use
OF the Rod In Russia and the Orient.
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L SAMPLE.
ATTORNEY s COUNSELLOR At LAW.
Ohicc over F;rsi Eatioual Bank.
Medicine Lodge. kgus.
VIII nractice in the courts oI this eGd adjoin
ing counties.
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CHESTER LONG,
ATTORNEY & COUNSELLOR AT LAW.
Onice over Fra National Bank,
Medicine LpdGe knns.
Will practice in all the cO'sris ot the state
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-06-29
THE LADY JOURNALISTS.
Some Late Information A b out the Woman's
National Press Association.

The Woman's National Press Association has
issued Summer Bulletin for $780, giving the
names of the officers for 1890, of whom Mrs.
Martha D. Lincoln is president, Mrs. NJ S.
Lockwood vice president, Mrs. \. H. Moh cor
responding secretary Mrs. Mel. King recording
secretary, and Mrs. VI. r. Moore auditor There
are eleven States represented byvice presidents,
viz: Michigan, Iowa, Oregon, Texas, New York,
Nebraska, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland,
and Kansas. OF standing committees there are
eight, viz: Credential, finance, printing, repor-
torial, reception, entertainment, social, and Wis
iting. The membership as registered is sixty
five. 1t has doubled during the past year. State
and place of residence are given for each. Olive
Logan Skies Gas she spells her name is the only
woman honored with an honorary membership.
The objects of the association, as set forth on
the third page in the constitution and bylaws,
are "To advance and encourage women in liter
airy work, and to secure the benefits arising
from organized effort. Any woman who has
published original matter in book form or in
any reputable journal is eligible to member
ship paragraph is devoted to Events of
the Year. Six members are reported as having
brought out books Twohayeina inaugurated gymna-
Sums for women and girls. The reading of origi-
nal paragraphs on current topics has become Il
permanent feature of each meeting. One member
mas openeua cnlluren NURSERY lorlhsiuclloh Oh
young mothers. The first woman's banquet
given in Washington by the association was in
honor of Olive Logan Skies, in May, 1889. On
February % tea was given for the benefit of
the Washington Monument Fund, and netted
S169 On March 81 a card reception was given
the Pan-American delegates at Wizards Hotel
The president of the association made the ad
dress of welcome, and Mrs II. L. Ralston fur
nished an original poem. Papers read by the
delegates from Central and South America and
Mexico were an original feature of the occasion.
The Woman's National Press Association always
lards Hotel as guests Of Col Staples, and Will
lard's being headquarters, all communications
should be addressed to the corresponding secre-
tary of the Woman's National Press Association,
Wizards Hotel. This association of earnest
professional women has had its ups and downs,
but it is quite apparent from extracts from the
Bulletin" that henoeforth its progress will be
onward and upward.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-06-29
Complimenting Lawyer Browne.

Lawyer \, X. Browne has been appointed by
the Court in General Term United States
Commissioner for the District of Columbia In
making the appointment Justice Hagner, pre-
siding, said, in effect, that it would be the
policy of the court, now and hereafter to eXer-
else great care in the appointment of these i'm
portant officers, and none but the most capa-
this case he was glad to be able to say that
from the signatures accompanying the petition
for appointment and the personal knowledge
of the ,members of the court, the appointment
was one worthy to be made. A close eXamina-
tion of the acts of Congress of 1896 and later,
creating and defining the jurisdiction of these
commissioners, shows that they have co0rdi-
nate jurisdiction with the Judges of the District
Court in offenses against the United States, as
far as holding to bail is concerned and also
with the judge of the Police Court, save where
that court has been specially clothed with
original Jurisdiction.