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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-09-03
JUSTICE NEVER SLEEPS.
An Ohio Solomon Proves the Fact to an
Obstinate Prisoner.

An Ohio Solomon Proves the Fact to an
Obstinate Prisoner.
While at the post-office in an Ohio
village heard the report that a muir
derer had been captured, and so l fol-
lowed the crowd to the lookup to learn
more about it. There | found a prison
er whose every appearance proved the
professional tramp. He was about forty
years of age, very cool, and he greeted
the charge of murder with laugh. In
a short time he was taken before a JUS
tice of the peace for examination, and
found seat in the crowd. One look at
the justice satisfied me that he realized
the awful gravity of the situation and
felt the foundation stone of the
United States resting on his broad
back.
Prisoner" he began, don't trife
with this court, for it won't be al
lowed"
who's going to trileq" was the ans
wer.
Don't you do it, sir-don't you do
it! Now, then, do you want to con-
fess?"
ITO what?"
"Cold- blooded murderl''
"Where?''
SIN Cleveland"
"When?"
Last night at eight o'clock"
"Humph How far is it to Cleveland,
Squire?"
NINETY miles,
"And slept all night in barn back
here three miles?"
That's so, Judge" said a farmer in
the crowd. HE came along at nine
o'clock last night and let him in there"
"You are sure?'
Positive"
"And you won't confess?'' he asked of
the prisoner,
"How can I-being as have done moth
ingP"
Very well; such obstinacy deserves
punishment, and / sentence you to the
county Jail for ninety days"
| what for?'
ITO prove to you that Justice never
sleeps, sir-never. You may think she
do, but she don't-sEe don't, sir. You
have been overtaken at last sir-at last,
sir; and the constable will take charge
of the prisoner, and court is adjourned !"
| IN. Y. Sun
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-09-03
THE CoLONsL'S STORY.
Why He Allowed Hrs Face to I:e SIa pped
by a Drunken Ru.Ii,n.

Why He Allowed Hrs Face to Ese SIa pped
by Drunken RUN IN.
There are times" said Colonel Met
calf the other day, when men will
stand any treatment, however outra-
9eous. 4 man who has seen what it
means to stand up before a revolver ac-
uuires great respect for that weapon
when it is in another mans hands and
he has the drop on you. There was
nothing in the old days in the seven
ties which demanded reparation so
quickly and so definitely as an insult
For man to accept an insult without
demanding or taking redress was to
bring upon himself the scorn of the en-
tire community. And yet | accepted
the worst kind of an insult once and
even to this day blush when | think
of the circumstances.
Il was in Hugo at the time and was
playing billiards when drunken man
came in and began to make a disturb
ance. He was well-known desperate
and no one was anxious to get into
trouble with him. He became so OBJ
noxious without being checked that
finally he picked up one of the billiard
balls and sent it flying through win
dow. He was just reaching for another
when | reversed my cue and, placing
the butt end of it in the pit of his stom-
ach, pushed him back against the wall.
The next moment | was looking down
the barrel of Colts revolver. The
sensation in such case is simply over
powering. l was perfectly helpless, for
I 7
been wearing one he could have killed
me before my hand could reach it.
thought he was going to shoot me then
and there. but he chose not to do this
from some drunken whim.
g I'm going to slap your face, Met
calf, he said, so that you can tell peo-
pie about 1T. Turn yoQr cheek around
here
II looked way down the barrel of
that six-shOoter so far that it seemed to
me that 1 could see bullet in its
chamber. / set my teeth against the
insult. l knew that l was deadly pale.
" Turn it, he said. One, two
and l turned my cheek. ! did not feel
/ the blow, but the flame which scorched
! it afterward was like furnace fire.
=" Now he said, with drunken
/ laugh, give me the other one Again
! he counted-'one, two'-and l presented
my other cheek for second slap.
If ever l wanted to kill man it
was that fellew, but had no show al
! all. l remember the sickening feeling
which ran over me at the thought that
he might insist upon breaking my nose.
Revolver or no revolver l do not be-
lieye l could have stood that But ]
took the insults, not from him, but
from a six-shooter. A man can't argue
/ against revolver. But for months
and months 1 longed to meet that man
on even terms. l never saw him again.
IN. Y. Tribune.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-09-03
PHILOSOPHER ouNDER.
Some of His Wise Sayings Worked Ov

some of His Wise Sayings Worked Over
Into German.
1t vhas no fun TO kick a man who vhas
too meek TO resent it, und it vhas no use
to argue nit a man who yhas too deaf
to hear you.
Eaten IL we haf bird in our bandt,
we vhas always looking for some more
in der bushes. Human nature vhas
nefer quite satisfied.
When / comes home at midnight und
my wife says n2tiags, den l know dat
she Fhas camped on my trail und Will
make me tired. When she Jaws und
blows und cries, den knows she yhas
soon oafer 1t und doan caFe.
While ! desest selfish people, hab
discovered dat what pleases me der most
is also VERY satisfactory to the major
ity of the pooblic.
Ny nabur on the left hand believes
dot shildren should be brought oop by
moral suasion. Der one on my right be-
liefs dot one licking vhas better ash five
suasions. Each vhas sooch a frm be-
lever dot it lets my boy oudtaltogether
und he has his own vhay.
It Wasn't der man in der grocery so
mooch as der people who trade NIT him
dot vhas responsible. All of us know
What he will say to us when we ask him
If dot box holds quart of strawberries
It vhas purity good advice dot you
doan' bet on somebody else's game, but
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-09-03
vnas letter aavlce aot you oOan pet

IT vnas letter ADVICE oot you ooan- Det
at all.
l doan' know how oldt dis worldt vhas,
nor how long it took to make it. but
belief my health vhas better dan as if I
sit oop nights to wonder about her.
Sometimes l meet a man who argues
NIT me dot der Democratic candidate
vhas der best. Sometimes l meet man
who offers to bet me feefty dollar dot
der Republican vhas der best. 1t vhas
dot vhay in politics-you vhas either
out-argued or bluffed.
Women must be averaged up der same
as man. Nature made her to weep over
her husbands grave one spring, und
take on a second by der next mitout any
weeping. Dot vhas all right. When a
man vhas dead he vhas no good to any
body.
1t seems to me, If should set oudt to
educate boy for State prison und der
gallows, der first shtep l should take
would be to ridicule the Bible und laugh
at der idea of a God
can keep hens und feel all right to-
wards my neighbors, but it is strange
dot when my neighbors keep hens vhas
mad at 'em all der time!-Detroit Free
Press
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-09-03

Congress refuses to let the wooden
manufacturers have free wool and they
are being crushed between the upper
and neither millstones of the high tariff
on wool and glutted home market.
A single number of the New York
Dry Goods Economist recently contained
the following news items from our wool
en- industry:
Hilton & Green, wonlen manufacturers at
Tilton, ~ H., have ass gned. heir mill has
stopped running and about four sets and
twenty looms are now idle. 1t is rumQred
that another company VIII soon start the
pant up.
The wooden mill Of p +, Wall, at Hampden
Mass has been closed owing to failure of
company. The stock in the mill has been
run out and the machinery has been shut
down. The mill is q five set one aud contains
twenty two ooms run ON union cassimeres
i he Tr y IN H. Blanket Mills are piling
etorehouses and they will soon shut down
owing to the unsati factory condition oil the
market. j. will cause the idlene of four
teen sets of cards and ninety looms, whi h
have been running on horse blankets, ctc
1t is reported that the wooden mill Of Gel
ony Bros, at Wilton, n. II shut down Satur-
day, July 26, for an indefinite perio /. The
mill runs on flannels and contains seven sets
of cards and forty broad Icons. The com
pany has been compelled to store all the
goods manufat turcd, owing to the over
500 ked condition of the market
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-09-03
CleveIand's Reason.

A great many men, friends as we'll as
enemies of Mr.. Cleveland, have thought
that he made a mistake in sending his
great tariff reform message to Congress
in 1887. st is admitted that he was
practically sure of reelection if the
message had not been written.
Through it all Cleveland gave no ex-
preston of the motives which influenced
him in sending the message to Congress.
Recently, however, a gentleman in New
York City has given to the public Mr..
Cleveland's own explanation of his mo-
tives This is Mr.. Walter Stanton, a
wooden manufacturer. Mr.. Stanton says
that Cleveland said to him some time
after the message was written: 81 had
but one idea in my mind and but one
desire in my heart when / made that
declaration of principles, which was to
extend helping hand 10 the agpieaitutal
and laboring classes"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-09-03
FREIGHT HANDLING
A st. Louis Railroad Man Explains HO
the Work Is Systematized.

A st. Louis Railroad Man Explains How
the Work Is Systematized.
A stranger might think that the busi-
ness of freight handler at a railway
freight depot was of slight conse-
quence. But the recent strike of the
freight handlers in East St. Louis
made manifest the Importance of hav-
ing men who were experienced in
working on the platforms. The large
majority of the strikers had been with
their respective roads long time, some
as long as eight and ten years. The
work of handling freight is thoroughly
systematized, like every other branch
of railroad work. For instance, take
the handling of iH-freight, which is un-
loaded from the cars here, A man calls
off the name OF the firm to which the
box is directed, and marks on it the
number of the car with chalk.
The box is placed on a
truck, and the truckman, as he
passes the tallyman, is told where to
put it. whether in the East ST Louis
pile of freight, the Missouri Pacific the
Transfer Co'npang's, and so on, wher-
ever 1t belongs. The unloading gang OF
men work one car after another in this
manner. There arc separate gangs of
men for each delivery clerk, called the
loading gang" They receive dray
tickets from the delivery clerk, and
pick out the freight according to the
tickets, and load it on the wagons The
dray tickets tell the fraa name to which
the box is shipped, and the number ef
the car that carried IL. The car nun
Der is given so that if one firm. say. has
twenty-five boxes of freight distri buted
through several cars, tho boxes will not
be mixed up in loading a wagon All
the boxes from one car are to be loaded
en- the same wagon. As to the out
bound freight, II is brought 10 the
freight houses by WAGONS and nnloaded
by the drivers a. different stations. The
dray tickets are handed to the receiv-
ing clerks. N, ~" tally Tie freight and re-
ceipt to the drivers. It's u en- taken by
. gang Of men ta the pile OF freight
where it belongs Ihe duplicate dray
tickets are passed into the platform Of
fee and arranged In or,aer By the plat
form foreman Nlten be has sufficient
quantity TO start a car he hands the
tickets over TO Tie load NJ clerk, who
takes. q gang OF men and loads the
freight. Scna skill Is required IN load
Ing freight car for various stations
along the line. 'Fs.e fse gslt for the
nearest station : iaa s,i last rs it ia
taken out FIR : The skin is displayed
in arranging tie bsxss of freight so
that q car VII hosd as much as
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-09-03
ENGLISH COURT ETIQUETTE.

Some of the Things Which Make q Court
Ball Well Worth Seeing.
Etiquette is the very life and health
of a court. 1t is observed even in the
arrangements of seats. On each side of
the small low dias, intended exclusively
for royalty, are rows of chairs which,
was told, were definitely and clearly as
signed, not by law, but by absolute al
though unwritten custom, to the differ
ent orders in the social scale who accept
the Queens invitation, No one but
those prescribed might occupy them.
Thus on one side are Duchesses and
Marchionesses; on the other, Ambassa-
dresses and ladies of the Corps Diplo-
matique. 1t was my good fortune to
witness very pretty and graceful
little ceremony in connection
with these distinctions, when
young and beautiful bride arrived,
who, within the last few months, had
become a Duchess. This was her first
appearance as such at court ball, and
she was making her way difiidently to-
ward the position to which her newly
acquired rank entitled her when the
whole of the Duchesses present rose
simultaneously to greet their sister
peeress and to receive her into their
circle.
What makes the court ball so wei,
worth seeing is the fact that almost
every body in the room has some we'll
grounded claim to distinction. My own,
| will admit, was but reflected lustre,
and entered paradise under the wing
of others, like the rest OF thedebutantes
But these others represented all that is
most notable and prominent in London.
Social rank of all the higher grades was
fully represented, wealth where it was
associated Imeritorious money-getting,
distinguished service to the State, and
high professional repute Nothing
proved this better than the brilliant dis
play Of decorations, the constellation of
stars, crosses and medals, all attesting
the presence of every degree of merit,
and every form OF celebrity. Little less
distinguished but from extreme contrast
was the plain, almost homely, black
dress suit of the American Minister
who, OF course, wore no decorations
whatever. He was the only man there
thus simply attired, the type of great
Republic which acknowledges no kind
of distinction but that of personal merit,
and perhaps, SO my father says, thinks
more af such baubles than the most aris-
tocratic nation in the world. -Murray's
Magazine.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-09-03
WORDS OF WISDOM.

ProtectIonists Admit That In Foreign
Countries - Tar'ff Il "a Tax-Sen tor frye
aud the New York Tribune Understand =
Thing or wo About r riff.
1t is an amusing thing to see what
damaging admissions Gur high tariff
statesmen and organs can make when
they get TO talking about tho effects of
tariffs away off in foreign countries
One of their queer doctrines is that the
tariff in our country is not tax at all,
and therefore that it does not increase
the cost of goods or ebstruct the course
of trade.
But get these protectionists te talking
about the effects of tariffs in foreign
countries, and you W IL find that they
are men of ordinary common sense, and
shat they understand just as we'll as
anybody else that tariffs are burdens
on the consumer.
Here. now, is Senator Frye, of Maine.
to whom Blaine sent his two famous
letters on the subject Of raein-"cc'''.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-09-03
Boring for Honey.

A successful boring for honey has
been made in North Tennessee. For
many years swarms of bees have been
noticed by boatmen on Fox Bluff, on the
Cumberland river, near Franklin, KY
The bluff is one hundred and seventy
feet high, and the rivers channel runs
directly under il. The bees have been
observed about big fssure near the
center of the bluff, and the opening
could not be reached from above or be-
low without great danger of being Stung
to death. As the bees had never been
robbed, it was believed large amount
of honey was stored in the cliff. Be-
Gently well-borer visited the blum and
vas at once Impressed with the idea
that he would reach the wonderful
honey storehouse with his drill After
some eoaxing, he persuaded number
OF farmers to undergo the expense, and
three-inch hole was bored from the top
of the bluff Alta depth of eighty-five feet
the drill struck the honey Barrels anG
tubs by the score were filed and carried
of % neighborlag tasms. and the syn
dlcatc has sent to Louisville for more
receptacles.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-09-03
HUMOROUS.

Jones latter delightful waltz =
And now, Miss Brown, let us go and
seek some rcfreshment for man and
beast. London Punch.
-Bloomer-'.W (Which do you prefer,
beer or champagne?" Blossom-'It all
depends" Bioomer ION what?'
Blossom-''Who pays for it Epoch.
oh, Mother Earth, receive thine own;
BY thee filst was nursed.
i came to greet thee, humble, prone;
The hammock strings have burst
Washington Post.
-Bunker-'I never wear the same
pair of trousers for two days without
change" Hill-''Neither do I. | al
ways take mine off at night" IN. Y.
Sun.
Mamma" said little Willie, who
had felt the instrument of maternal
correction; do they truly have golden
slippers in Heaven?'' Washington
Post.
NO, thank you, Cleopatra" quoth
Antony that happy Sunday afternoon at
dinner. ''I'll.no partake of that deli
cacy. 1t was Roman punch that killed
my good friend Caesar"
-Will-"How proudly that man
walks" Phil-sIt isn't wholly mat
ter of choice with him. What do
you mean?" HE has a boil on his
neck. "-Y Yankee Blade.
Laid ont by tho outlayn is the
touching manner in which an unsuc-
cessful merchant appriscs the public of
the fact that he has gone out of busi-
ness. = Washington Post.
Mrs. Upton-''Yes, that is nv
daughters piano; but she has scarcely
touched it since she has been married. y
Mrs. Downton-'SJ Jest the same with my
darter an 'er typewriter. IN. Y. Week
iy.
First Tramp-''An' how do We
travel widout money! Second Tramp
(haughtily)-"I travel on my shape !"
First Tramp-"Then ye can't have
COON far, an ye haven't far to CO.
Harp er,s Bazaar.
Van Rensselaer, De Blom-s'Aw-er
my good fellah, will you allow mo to
pass2 1 belong TO the 400, don't yer
know. . Glagerty "Ah. come off
What if you dos ] b'long to de nine. y
-Terre Haute Express.
-..Mr. Bunting, said the doctor af-
Ger an exam mination, Il fear your wife's
mind Is gone THAT doesn't surprise
me-" replied the POOR man, ''she has
been giving me n pieae Of It egerz day
for seven years Figaro
MIR. Brown TO stranger who has
saved him from drowning) My dear.
--az-s-- ---->7a-a-
gcod friend, IA never forget you as
long as live Come mp to my store and
get some nice, dry clothes; III let you
baye them as cheap as any body. -
Golden Days
Young Smallpurse-s.say. will you
write an editorial on the terrible effects
of poison IN ice cream?" Editor-.'I
suppose it could be done at our regular
rates for moIding public opinion and
guiding the affairs of the Nation, dol.
! lar line What Is yoor cbiecs?''
Young Smallpurse-''I want to send a
marked copy to Daisy Perkins. and ii
viii be money in my pocket even if you
charge two dollars liue. America.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-09-03
WIT AND WISDOM.

-''Oh, you darling old papar'
''Y-e-e-s-dress or bonnet?"-Ashland
Press.
Truth is as impossible to be soiled
by an outward touch as the sunbeam
Denver Road.
You have not fulfilled every duty
unless you have fulfilled that of being
pleasant-Charles Buxton.
"A Long Branch belle has girdle
made of silver dollars, and it looks like
waist of money.-Yonkers Statesman.
The woman who is least popular
with men in general is most apt to make
one man happy in particular
Globe.
He (despairingly)-'I wish could
find something to take up my mind"
She (softly)-'Try blotting paper
Boston Post.
This is the time of the year that
good deal of comfort could be found in
the possession of cool million.-Terre
Haute Express.
"A writer says: There are some
things woman doesn't know" There
may be, but no man can tell her what
they are.-N. Y. Ledger.
1t takes man with keen eyesight
and brain of much scope to see and
grasp the golden opportunity before 1T
turns the corner.-Ram's Horn.
Whoever will reverence the glimpses
of his better mind shall find them null
tiplied, and even while they pass, they
may be rich in revelations.-Martine
"A broken heart is a sad sad thing
A broken head is worse,
But broken pocket-book, my friend,
Is mankind's greatest curse.
-Kearney Enterprise.
After you have weighed your neigh
Dor in the balance, drop nickle of fair
ness in the slot of self-examination and
ascertain your own moral avoirdupois.-
Dover (Del.) Sentinel.
Teacher Ito class)-In this stanza
what is meant by the line, The shades
of night were falling fast?" Bright
scholar-The people were pulling down
the hlinds.-Lynn Press.
An admirer said: 'Of all that is
given him, woman is mans sweetest
loors to affirm that she is also sweetest
nt.-Philadelphia Press
What is the difference between ice
and water? Ice is frozen water, that
is ALL" There is greater difference
than that" What is it?" ''Water al
ways finds its level, but ice is constantly
going up'-I;oston Courier.
1t is easy in the world to live after
the worlds opinion:it is easy in solitude
to live after your own; but the great
man is he who in the midst of the crowd
keeps with perfect sweetness the inde-
pence nee OF solitude Emerson.
They had been discussing the sub
ject of intelligencein the lower animals
the other evening over in Coffee's gro
Gerry store, when large farmer from
Bethel Township stated as fact that
he had dog at home that did all his
churning That's nothin'," remarked
wag who had recently come into pos
session of brindle cow; i've got cali
that dots all my milkin'. ."-Harper'i
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