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

DAPTIST.-P reaching each sunday AT II a.
DIN. and at 1880 y. m, at the courthouse. sun
day school at 10 O'clock, Il IN. Prayer meeting
Wednesday evening of each week. Rev. w. A.
Cain Pastor Residence on Cor Lincoln Ave.
and Cherry Streets.
,InRISTIAN.-Preach every sunday ut
~ II O'Clock. a. III, and z go p. IN, by Elder
J. T. Nicholson Prayer meeting every We'd
ncsdHy night Sunday school at 10 O'Clock a. III.
every Sunday. Pastors residence at the par
sonage study at the chapel
METHODIST EPISCOPAL;--seryiees every
day school every Sunday at 10 a. m. Prayer
mcetin. every Thursday evening at I;3O
Strangers invited. ID. w. PHITLIPs, Pastor.
ORESBYTERIAN.-S every sunday at
II n. IN. and 80 p III. Sunday School AT
- ~ J B. NORTH, Pastor.
60, TOIJC CHURCH Services on 2nd
,.Aii 81 every month at Sherlock's hall, at
Sunuhy % REV BITTER Pastor.
o,PvA,,1 IL, PTIST Hold reg
1bhmAN IN pt Mingoua, Barber county,
the second and fo RIB sundays G in eaGh sidn month
~ EoItCst school Nc use ~ the third Sunday.
nv, Eiders SheU,ner,gnr Nuqith &nd Neher.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-07-09
state 0MeerS
Barber County Omcers.
POSTAL.

pnstnHicc ~ Medicine Lodge open from NJ
e Z Pa. Sundays one hour on arrival OF mai.
Money order, open A. ". to . r. ~ Satur,
days y. q. open until y. VI. Eastern mHli
CLOSES promptly at Z a. 81.
IL A RnowN Assistant.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-07-09

The Japanese Governemnt has
taken up the matter of public telephone
service, and proposes to bring 1t into
universal use shTonghout the country.
A line of telephone has iaat iaen con-
structed between Yokahama and StFiz-
noks, distance of hundred miles. at
the cost OF the state, and large num-
Der of okher lines are to be run very
shortly.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-07-09
A Tariff Census.


The american Economist" the or
gan of the American Protective Tariff
League, has taken census of the SEN
ior classes in forty-two colleges to de-
termine the tariff views of the gradu-
ates and the tendency of their tea ching
in political economy. The result af-
fords little comfort to the protectionist
organ which undertook to gather this
information.
About 1900 answers were received, of
which 4SS were in favor of protection,
674 tariff reform and 274 free-trade
The percentages re, 81 per cent. for
protection, 4S for tariff reform and 90
for free trade; or, making two classes,
the protectionists have 80 per cent, and
the opponents of protection 6S per cent.
The students were asked to give also
their Judgment of their instruction in
political economy as regards the tariff
question. The result of this inquiry
was that 219 say their instruction was
in favor of protection, 342 say that it
was in favor of tariff reform, 457 that it
favored free trade, and 23S say that it
was impartial. Most of the great insti-
tutions Of the country show a very large
preponderance in favor of tariff reform
and free trade.
1t has been for many years standing
complaint among protectionists that
the colleges of the country are training
young men to disbelieve in the great
American system, as they call it; and
the figures of this census of the
seniors give abundant ground for
their complaints. These figures show
Enthusiastically the drift of opinion among
the most intelligent young men in the
country-the young men who will fur
nish the leaders of thought and action
in the future. The educated opinion of
the country is steadily making itself
felt in opposition to protection, and a
system which has the intelligence of
the country against it can not long sur
vive-its doom is already decreed.
The American Economist has done a
good service. to the friends of tariff re-
form in collecting these statistics. 1--WE
thank thee, Jew, for giving us these fig
ureSI'
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-07-09
An Unprecedented Occurreoce.

Wasn't that very big fellow that
just got away from your" asked one
fisherman of fellow angler.
''No," was the reply; it was measIy
little chap. I'D have thrown him back
If I'a caught thim."-The Jury.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-07-09

ABROAD, and thus harm them instead OF
helping them.
In reply to all this attempted decep-
tion let the farmers tell these would-be
bribe-givers that we exported last year
S125, OOO 900 worth of corn and wheat
and -four, and that we have no reason
whatever to fear the few thousand bush
els brought into the country by some
body who wants seed wheat.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-07-09

srue m the case OF chrome ve1low ana oSszs.
preparations in which white lie ad and lin
seed oil are ingredients. Before the forma-
ton of the lead and linseed oil trusts we
were exporting these goods
"a manufacturers agent, exporting agri-
cultural tools, handles, ETC., says:
the differences between home and export
discounts in this line ranges from ia to l5
per cent
"a watch manufacturing company says:
'Fse difference between home ami ex.
port price is about 15 per cent
This company threatened to withdraw
their advertisement from the Engineer ing
and Mining Journal because we quote their
export discount in papers that circulate in
the United States. A tool company whi b
makes picks, hammers, etc.,
'Refus abs 'lutely to give the Engineer
ing and Mining Journal an adyertisem ent
as long as it continues to publish their ex-
port discounts'
9TH agent for a blower manufacturer says
they
"'Give a discount on all of their goods of 10
and per cent for export whereas they
only give 10 per ce t. for home trade
"a company manuf acturing water motors,
hammers, ETC., makes the following dis
counts:
"'OE water motors ALLOW 10 per cent. for ex-
port, so per cent. for home trade: on ham,
! lners, 40 per cent. for export and 20 per cent.
for home trade; slaters' tools, they give sc
and So Pr cent. for export, only 20 per cent.
for home trade
"a manufacturer of packing writes us:
"'Tne very bottom home price on pack ing
is 40 cents net per pound, and the best for
export 80 cents; the list in both cases being
Is cents per pound
'These examples could bs multiplied in
definitely and are merely cited in conhrma-
ton of what 'eve y enc knows'-that our
manufacturers sell goods for export cheap.
| er than to the home trade The fact Is indis-
| putable.
"Wiil 1t be surprising if the people of this
| country who are impose upon by tariff
! protected trusts, and who are taxed SO
| enormously through the operations of a war
| tariff, some day arise and sweep the whole
| protective policy away without considering
| the incalculabe injury that this sudden
| change of conditions will bring upon many
important lndustries?'
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DEIPmIA LODGE, No $40, X. of p, meets on
Monday evening Of each week at the Il. OF T..
mall Visiting Knights i'm good standing invi-
bed To attend. SCOTT HUBERT, u =.
II. A. BHOwH, X. of X. ;.
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!. o. -. F., Pioneer Lode
"a E1SfSS II No. l79.-Reguar meetings
~ ~ &&A-, every Tuesday eVen.ng.N
ngbrethren I'm good stand
ing cordially invited.
II. l.. LINDLEY, n. g..
r. NJ. BYERLEY, Sec.
ENStGN ENCAMPMENT No. ~, /. o. o. +
Meets frst aud third Friday of each month
Visiting Patriarchs cordially invited to attend q.
+. l.. ALLEN. IL. p. q. X. HARRIS, Z; +.
w. r. ROUSE, =. w. j. q. WALsrAD, ..
NAOMI No. 81. REBECCA DEGREE, O. O.F.
Meets he 2d and Attn Wed. nights, each month
Mrs. r. NJ. ALLEN, N. q,
Mrs. AUG. SCMmT, Secy.
X d ELDRED POST, No. ia, meets
III, a, n, the last Saturday in each month
elt the court house in Medicine Lodge, at p. NJ;
All comrades cordially invited.
LOREN EDWARDS, Post Commander.
JoHN W. UPPERMAH, Adjutant.
q II LOREN EDWARDS CAMP, No. l52,
., Y s. of ", meets on LIST ana {d Saturs
dny evenings of each month, In X. OF +. nan.
E s. NORRIS, Capt. l.. W. SNODDY, LIST Lieut..
ROBT. CANERON, lst Seargent.
A. o. u W. Meet; isSS'$ q $5, TSPIt1 $@5 ,d + %l$"y
f.. NJ. BYERLEY. Recorder.
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SOCIETIES,

A. +. 4 A. NJ, Delta Lodge No. =
"a Rcuiflar communications, first and
W ~ third saturday evenings in each
w month. All atiiliating aud non-aihii-
atin9 masCns IL good standing, cordially IN
itcd To attend FRANK bEEtS' W. NJ.
n. VI. M.lNGRAHNM, Secretary.
CYPRUS CHAPTER No. G3, Il. A. NJ, meets
I'm Masonic Hall every "a and 4th Thursday.
Visiting brethren cordially invited.
CHESTER !. Lose, II. +.
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n u q LORRAINE CHAPTER, No. 80.
W Liz D. Regular Communications first
and third Monday evenings in each month.
Mrs. EVA l.. MERRELL, W. NJ.
NANNIE V. o. BRYAN, Sec.
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/. o. q. F., Pioneer Lode
No. l7g.-Regular meetings .
every Tuesday even.ng.V 5
itingbrethrenin good stand
ing cordially invited.
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farmers; and accordingly he changes
the duty on corn from ten to fifteen
ceaiS bushel, and on wheat from ten
to swenty-iga cents bushel.
Governor Gear, u iowa, is reported as
saying that thi: will DO Tao farmers a
great deal of good. bst the farmGaa
know that these little ive-cent and
hfteen-cent duties are worth to them
simply nothing at all, and that even >
duty of five dollars bushel on wheat
and corn could not help them one pen-
nyworth. Such duty might prevent
them from importing few bushels Of
seed wheat which we now get from
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-03-15
What Makes a Cat Tread Softly.

"Grandpa, what makes q cat tread
softly?" asked little Tommy Findout Of
his aged relative, as the pair sat down
to improve their minds when the even
ing lamps were lighted.
"It Is faculty provided BY an all
wise Creator, my son, which enables
the cat to walk softly" replied the old
man, as he laid down his paper and
beamed on the youthful seeker after
knowledge.
"All members of the cat tribe are en-
dowed with a noiseless tread, which
greatly facilitates their capturing theic
prey. You have doubtless noticed
that the pedal extremities of the feline
are furnished with soft, velvety balls
or coverings instead of hoofs. These
balls extend below the claws, which
are drawn up when not in use, enab
ling the cat to walk across board
floor without the slightest noise"
"Oh, that isn't what makes a cat
tread softly" said Tommy, when the
old man had finished.
"No? What is it, then ?" asked
grandpa.
Rats" replied the boy, while hap
Ply, happy smile lit up his ingenious
face.-Chicago Times.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-03-15
lHE TORTURE .LUTT.

in imitation of the keys or stops. wives
who disobeysd their husbands wore one
of the mock fiddles, and if they persist
ed in disobedience or RIGHTEOUSNESS they
were carried O the market pla e to receive,
the ieers and jests of their neighbors. Ii
two women quarreled they were yoked to-
gether and also taken to the market place
and subjected to the curious gaze OF the
multitude. Unchaste women were Obliged
to wear a crown of iron thorns and long
heavy plat of straw. Then We find in the,
collection the thorn cradle, the torture
bed, and the s'retcher, with its grooves,
rollers and pulleys. On the stretcher the
bones we're slowly broken and limb torn
from limb. These were resorted to. it IS
said, In extreme cases; and yet 1t is I'M
rossible to conceive how any crime could
Justify such death The most fright
ful instruments of torture are tho Spanish
Stock and Iron Virgin, which were used
to punish real or alleged political Offend
ers. The unfortunate victim was first
put in the stock, AID here he was kept for
days in the hope of extorting confession
of some secret which it was believed the
uccused would divulge. The hands were
fastened in the clamps aud the feet or
ankles in tte stock. Failing after GER
tain time to extra information, the poor
wretch was placed in the Iron Virgin and
slowly crushed to death. Beheading
seems bad enough, but beheading is mild
punishment comp red with this slow and
ngonizinq death There are innumerable
other .o.ture in ruments in the collec'
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ton, but the ones enumerated will suffice
to show that there is sad, dark back
ground to the rose tinted pictures which
are generally given of the good old
times"
The part which Nuremberg plays in
'Goethe's great tragedy of Faust p" has
given to that ancient city prominence
that otherwise it would not enjoy, though
it deserves it fully. At least to Goethe is
due the credit of having increased an ap-
probation of its artistic beauty. In En-
gland Mr.. Henry Irving has recently
awakened fresh interest both in Faust"
and Nuremberg, and has perhaps created
on interest among a large class of English
readels and play goers that never before
heard either of the picturesque town or
the great tragedy. In doing this he rem
dered signal service to art, to German
literature and to play goers in England.
During the summer of 1855 Mr.. Irving
81 ent his vacation in Nuremberg, study
ing every phase of life in that city and
every popularity of architecture. lie.
was accompanied by distinguished paint
ers who shared the great English actors
Enthusiasm, and sympathized with his
desire to reproduce Nuremberg on the
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-03-15
Men without Names.

In work upon the prisons Of Siberia,
nj. Edgar Boulangier, French engl-
neer, who spent q long time in the SER
vice of the Trans Caspian Railway, de-
scribes strange class Of beings in that
country. They are the men who do not
know who they are.
No doubt many of these men merely
assume this ignorance, in order to mys-
tify the officials. but their identity is in
many cases totally unknown to the au-
thorites and all their acquaintance.
The prison of AleXandrovsk, M.
Boulangier says, contains several Of
these singular people. Now and then,
driven by hunger, vagabond comes
to the prison door and asks TO be
taken in.
al have come to deliver myself up
says the vagabond.
"For what reason? Who are you?"
Il don't know"
"Don't know? What's your name?"
81 have forgotten it; it was SO long
~e..
Where is your passport"
81 have none"
"Then you are brodidgG-~a vaga
bond; you have escaped from prison,
What crime were you in for?"
81 have forgotten"
Nothing more definite can be got out
OF him. Sometimes these vagabond
exiles accuse themselves of crimes that
they have not committed, in order to
make interesting journeys at the ex-
pense of the government. Frequently
their imnostI1re is datacted after thew
have been transported long distances,
but who they really are the authorities
seldom ascertain They are kept under
surveillance, aud NJ. Boulangier is of
opinion that they sometimes really for
get what their names are.
Nearly 5000, 900 of tn, citizens of
Fran &c dec are that they have no re-
ligion, there are fewer tGan 900, 900
Professionals in that country.
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lady friend, who should know some time
ago. "'Obligated' you-uns' i'll the
singular! Whoever hoard SUCH"
She attempts realism, and yet is most
realistic" said bright writer, u member
of the old ante bellum school, but who
has long since ceased taking an active
part in literature Feeling and romance
and subtle, intangible senses in n noun
taineer2 They are as insensate, as in
capable of SUCH as that bowlder there?"
Could 1 have politely said that the
speaker was blind--was dispossessed of
that fine, sympathetic insight nece ssary to
the full appreciation aud understanding OF
the things he enumerated, wherever they
exist2
The child of this wild wilderness could
be nothing else than an anomaly That
curious animal known as tho human be-
ing is but an odd creature at bcst-with
mind attuned and in a manner adjusted
by culture or sophistica'ion. Without a
solitary trace of such or the sud ment ,ry
parts of that thing known tanSibly TO some
las education, he must prove interesting at
least.
Ethically, such is the Southern mount
aineer. AS he lives now in The great
smoky mountains, so his father and his
fathers father lived before him, geenra-
tons back into the days of Nolichucky
Jack and his yelling devils Of the mount
aims.
The house he lives in--cabin is not the
word and hovel is tainted by ill-usage-is
generally two roomed structure of logs,
with lean-to kitchen of pine poles. Here
the family hearthstone is. The ructure
may be 100 years oil. Over the door
hangs q ritie-pcrhaps lengthy, flint
locked affair time hon Ored but service
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also quite common. There are instru-
ments of torture her than these to be
seen here that are rare, but [ cannot say
4hat they were known only TO the great
dynasty Of which this town was the cen
tor Some of these instruments suggest
novel modes Of punishment, and there are
some OF them that even in this aI,V anced
age might be applied with harm to few
hud profit to many, but l shall not at
tempt to Point out which to adopt and
which 10 reject. II that remote age the
trials which women had to undergo wero
shocking, and l. hope that at this junct-
uro no irrevercnt reader will remark -
"they were indeed good old times"
The penalty for drunkenness varied
For the first drunk the offender was
obliged to wear the Spanish cloak. :" he
Spanish cloak" is churn-s shaped device
that incloses the body from the neck to
tho knees, tho arms passing out through
arm holes. Tbs coat he vas Obliged 10
wear for a stated period, and If the Of
fense was repeated, heavy weights were
fastened to his wrists and thus burdened
he was marched through the streets.
Those convicted of bearing false wit
ness against their neighbors, very prop
ery we're more severely punished. An
iron or steel coutrivHpce, oval shape, was
place in the liars mouth, and this had
an attachment with which the trap was
expanded. Pity its use has been aban-
dOned.
NlIknen in those days it would SEEM
were honest, since 40 provision was made
10 punish them for mixing water with
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-03-15
WORK OF THE WITS.

PRESSING misunderstanding.
A sHoER sign" Horseshoeing donc
here"
THE ditch digger is the man who al
ways gets in his work"
EDIToR's shears-How do you feel?
Exchange-All cut up.
A SCHOOL board whose doings never
need whitewashing the blackboard.
A YOUNG man whose girl went back
on him says that he suffers from heart
failure.
THE GROWER that goes too often to
the bar is broken at last-ovcr some
ones head.
SHE Gbetwccn the acts)-Wherc arc
you going? Out to see man for
moment. She-ls he going to buy 1T,
Or are you?
GuEsr-Say, waiter, can't get my
teeth through this ham. Waiter Ga Y.
NJ. c. A. Young man)--Wcll, Ham was
always little hard to Noah, You know!
HE-I like parlor matches better
than the ordinary kind. She (ncarly
thirty)-I like all kinds of matches,
whether they are made in the parlor
or not.
APITTsDUBG news paper IN its an
swers to correspondents says, "A ma
Dickinson was born in 1922" then it
CALAMITY adds, I'VE do not know the
lady's age"
OLD Gcntlcman-I don't know what
to think of the coming generation.
80 10 4
you can make me your in-law if
you want to.
YELLOwLY-Tt seems strange to me.
Brownly, that Whitley enjoys the most
perfect health and yet takes no eXer-
else. wnly-Nothing strange about
it at all. Whitley is too lazy to catch
any disease,
GAzzAM-I sec that a lighthouse on
the shore of Lake Michigan has been
blown away by a gale. Mrs. Gazzam
Well / think the Government ought
to stop building light houses and build
heavier ones.
GAGGs-By George. how tired some
of these jokes look one sees in the al
legged humorous papers. BaSgs -
Guess you'd look tired if you'd trav-
eled around as much as they have, and
been declined with thanks as often.
INQUIRING Boy-Pa, what do sailors
mean by scuttling a ship? Pa--(wor-
ried over family expenses)-They
mean, my son, that they put Il big hole
in it like the one which Bridget's scut-
tie has made in that last ton of coal.
SWELL, sir" asked noisy disputant,
don't you think I've defeated my an
tagonist to some purpose? "Oh, yes"
replied the listener, "you have. If ever
/ should happen 10 fight with such
Philistines. I'll borrow your Jaw bone"
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u ys,/alar response, although the critics
xsd reviewers everywhere received her
with open arms. But few writers, II l
may be excused for advancing an opinion
which has been advanced oft.tlmes before,
says a writer in the Detroit Free Press,
approach this marvellous woman in
strength and in range of vision. The field,
too, which she has SO ably worked has
proved particularly rich to her. Setting
aside the dogmas and violent denuncla-
tions of the anti-dialecticians, we find her
work to be little short of wonders-the
polished, we'll silhouettes of a
delicately poised genius.
We who have formed an acquaintance
with that strange creature, the Tennessee
mountaineer, are better enabled to appre-
ciate the intensely realistic pictures hich
Miss Murfree has drawn. Thero is,
nevertheless, an amusing diversity of
comment on her work by Tennesseans.
Her dialect is absurd" said Noun 6
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the matter go, when, by o happy IN
SEPARATION, he saw an easy way out Of
the difficulty.
Dora" said he, suddenly, "will you
marry mel"
Dora was SO startled by this abrupt
question that she was unable to reply for
moment, and Jack, remembering the
old adage that silence gives consent"
concluded she was too much overcome
with emotion to speak, and so put his
arm around her waist reassuringly.
"Mr. Bronson" said Dora, rising to
her feet, Il am very sorry. | never
meant to encourage you to think we
could ever be more than friends"
Jack was completely overwhelmed
by this unexpected reply. He, too,
rose to his feet
IL suppose from that that some one
else has won your affections?"
Dora made no reply.
"Then" continued Jack, in the most
am sure I wish you much joy, but
must confess I am little surprised at
your choice" And he walked majes-
tically forth, slamming the door as he
went, leaving Dora standing in the
middle of the floor, speechlcss with in
dignation.
Not until he had nearly reached the
end of his run that night had Jack
passed through successive stages of
anger, disappointment and chagrin and
recovered his usual complacency sufli-
GENTLY to remark to his fireman:
Il understand, jim, that Dora Che
ney is going to marry that brakeman,
Charley Dunlap"
That SOP"
"Yes; pity to see that girl throw her
self away on such good for nothing
brute, amt it"
CHATS what it is"
Somebody ought to tell old Cheney
what's up. He'd stop Mister Dunlap's
little game.
"Ye-ep."
81 never did have any use for that
Dunlap. If he ever crosses my path
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I'll drive him into the ground-notion
to do it anyway on general principles. :"
A week later solitary figure walk
ing down the quietest of Warren's
quiet streets had his attention at
tracted by two persons coming out Of
the Methodist parsonage. One he
recognized as Dora Cheney; the other
was well-dressed stranger, who i'm
proved the opportunity to press kiss
upon Dora's unresisting lips as he as
sisted her into waiting buggy. This
proceeding so engrossed the attention
of the solitary figure that he did not
notice the rapid approach of man
from the opposite direction. equally in
tent as himself upon the scene across
the street.
There was a muff'ed thud, q mutual
recoil, glare of recognition, and
Charley Dunlap and Jack Bronscn