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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-08-20
INDIANS AT SCHOOL.

What They Learn in the Great Govern
ment School at Carlisle, Pa.
With seventy-six Sioux children from
Dakota and fifty-one from tribes in the
Indian Territory the great Indian train
ing school at Carlisle, Pa, was opened
November l, 1879. 1t has now enrolled,
representing fifty different tribes, and
the graduating class this year num-
bered forty-three. In the early years
the school was obliged to breast fierce
opposition from many quarters, but year
by year the school grew. The name
OF Carlisle is now known in every In
dian camp, and there are few reserva-
tions east OF the Sierras which have
not in them returned Carlisle students.
The course of study pursued COM
prises ten years training in the ordi-
nary English branches and at the end
OF the ten-year period the Indian child
Is graduated. He is still two years be-
low the grade of the high-school grad
uaCe in the public schools, but he can
read, write and figure his way along
side the average boy.
The children upon entering the school
are filthy, unframed to habits Of cleanli-
and accoutred in the habiliments of the
wigwam. Their hair is long and the
comb and brush are strangers
The school work proper at Carlisle is
supplemented and made all the more
useful by systematic industrial training
Many of the boys are apprenticed to
trades, at which they are obliged to
labor part OF every day. Those who
have no aptitude for the trades are as
signed to farm work and employed in
the dairy. Hundreds Of boys have been
sent out to farmers and dairymen and
others to tradesmen and mechanics,
where they can learn not only to work,
but learn also how white people live.
The girls are likewise taught house
duties, gardening, dAirying, etc. Every
pupil, male or female, at Carlisle works
every day except holidays and when Ill.
As . consequence. every pupil returns
homo knowing how to do something
and do 1t we'll, whether he uses his
knowledge or otherwise.
There are shops in which blacksmith
ing, printing, carpentering, shosmak
ing, harnessmaking, tailoring, tin work
and wagonmaking are skillfully done
and taught. The pupils Of Carlisle
make their own clothing. boots and
shoes, and do nearly all the mechanical
work about the large establishment.
They successfully manage q large
farm and dairy. They made last year
$4,000 for themselves besides produc-
ing a great deal of food and making
numerous articles for the school. This
school furnishes the Indian service
harness, wagons and tinware. 1t is an
immense workshop, and all the labor is
performed by Indians, the white en-
ployes directing them.
And at the commencement these same
lads and lassies, who work half the time
with their hands, showed that they put
in the other half to good advantage
with their books. Their essays, ora
tions, declarations and songs would
compare favorably with those Of any
white high school. Cor. Omaha World.
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she was put to what seemed to her the
frivolous task of inserting a pocket in
dress. When she had finished her task
madame" shook her head with kindly
gravity and told her articled pupil that
the mystery of pocket-making had yet
TO be learned. 1t is fact that the de-
voted student was kept for six whole
months toiling at pockets; at the expira-
ton Of that period she was permitted to
try her hand at sleeves, and she re-
turned to England sadder but wiser
seamstress, destined, however, it is to
be hoped, to blossom into a court dress
maker of the grandest type.
AS with ladies' pockets so is it in de-
gree with those Of gentlemen. Man
kind desires its trousers pockets, its
coat and overcoat and vest pockets to
be conveniently placed, easy of access
and not given to getting unsewn. To
be perfect they should be entirely unob-
trusive. The Emperor Alexander l., Of
Russia, when he Vas in Paris, was de-
sirous of having his neither garments
made by famous "culottier," who had
supplied Napoleon with his buckskins.
But the pockets?" said the Emperor,
when the tailor had finished measuring
him. II am sure" replied the "culot-
tie, that should not know where to
put pockets unless cut them in your
Majesty's flesh" The Car was more
amused than angered by the explana-
ton. But the other one, Napoleon"
he pursued, what did he do for breech-
es pockets?" His aIdes-de-camp were
his pockets" replied with quiet digni ty
the small-clothes artist.
Later breeches-makers may have
thought out some means of intaining
symmetry while providing pockets in
buckskins or cords, but, speaking broad
ly, the resources of the tailor are taxed
to the very utmost in designing pockets
which shall hold what a gentleman re-
quires without pushing themselves into
Objectionable prominence. There are
great many things that we are bound to
find room for in our pockets. Happily,
we are absolved from the necessity of
carrying revolvers beneath our gar
ments, but it frequently happens that
small silver flask, holding some form
of alcohol, occupies modest place in
travellers pocket, and of course he
must have due receptacles for his cigar
case, his keys, his handkerchief, and. If
he be we'll stricken in the vale of years,
his spectacles- It is only the entirely
competent and long-experienced coat
artist who knows how these pockets
shall be placed and what shall be their
exact breadth and depth Thus to the
practiced sartorial eye breast-pocket
may really appear ridiculous" 1t may
be the eighth of An inch too high, too
low, too narrow or too broad. 1t may
be ''too straight in the fore part" or
just hairs breadth too much askew for
symmetry or for comfort; but it is a
pity that the estimable artists in coats
can not settle their estimable little diff
ference without bringing the refine
ments of their craft into the law courts.
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Carmeu syIva, the Poet-Oueen.

The life of Carmen Sylvia is more in
teresting than that of most Queens, be-
cause she would have been more inter
esting than most women if she had not
been Queen. It is fascinating little
tale told by the Baroness Stackelberg of
her running away when she was little
girl to go to school with the bailiff's
children. There was the small poets
democracy. She wrote verses when she
was ten years old, and boldly began a
noyel at twelve. She wished to know a
great deal, to be able to pass difficult
examinations. and she achieved it. Car
men sylvia knows languages and history
and literature and philosophy and
economics enough to hold her own with
the cleverest sophomore girl to be found
IN any college within two hundred miles
of Boston,
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No. 1883. First Publication Aug. 10, 1890.
PUBLICATION NOTICE

State of Kansas to Elmer T. Anderson and
Mrs - Anderson bis wife, real name un-
known. ~ w.
You viii take notice that you have been
SIZED in the district court in and far I,.yS ~,
county, Kansas, hy Charles g.. p md
ttiat unless you answer 10 the u. iii =,
said suit on or before the tst day OF .,tV. Ia.
1S3O, said petition will b :. ken as true ami
Judgment rendered aea,..,t you accordingly
iorecioslng a mortgage exc tied aud delivered
ny Elmer II. Anderson to J.rvis, Cunklin and
Morgan, dated July LIST, 1856 on the following
SIS, to-wit: ~
rhe north half "a } of the southeast ousrter
q ; anu inc north half "a of the southwest
d.a..ef q OF section three o. in township
I'M y .Si, IN range thirteen tl3 west of
si1iu real estate, without appraisemcnt, h. nav
the debt secured by said mortgage f'
Witness my hand and official seal This tt.h
day of August, 1888. FRANK Hon NJ IS A'u
i2t3 Clerk Iis1 r;.t 60.
Bedr'lsley y Gregory. Att'ys for piaintif.
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TO ERADICATE WARTS.
Some of the Many Superstitions Abo
Getting, Rid of Than

Some of the Many Superstitions About
Getting Rid of Them.
''Wartsp' exclaimed the oracle to the
presiding member of the oyster cracker
convention in a Main street grocery
store in Lewiston Saturday. I've had
'em. Yes, sir, I've had 'em, but
charmed 'em away"
After this statement, says the Lewis
ton (Me.) Journal, the members of the
convention fell into silence, consider
ing the departed warty days of youth.
''If man will write down the number
of warts that he has on his hands on
the hat-band of tramp without the
tramp knowing it the latter will carry
the warts away with him." suggested
George William, the elderly oracle on
warts, after long silence. Warts
used to give in" he continued, "when
you cut one notch on green elder stick
for every wart you had and then rubbed
the stick on each wart and then buried
it in the barnyard until it rots. That
fixes 'ec1. Take a black snail, rub him
on the warts and then stick him on a
thorn bush. Do this nine successive
nights and the snails and the warts will
be dead together.
Chalk marks on the stove funnel
used to fix my warts" said the chairman
Of the meeting Get 'em on when no
body could see you and when they dis
appeared the warts went too. This used
to get sort of mixed when my mother
saw the chalk marks and wiped 'em off
When l used to see funeral go by I'M
expectedly used to rub the warts up
and down and say: Warts and corpses
pass away and never more return That
was intended to fix 'em."
Charming warts was the popular way
in my day." said the minister. "A man
of elderly mien and sad features was
| the king of charmers. / went to him
surreptitiously one day and he looked
me in the eyes and said something that
sounded like 'wobbly, gobbly, gum and
lot more of the Same interesting de-
scription. I've forgotten whether the
warts went or not. We used to think
that to take as many pebbles as we had
warts, touch them to the excrescences,
sew them in bag, take them to the
four corners of the crossroads and
throw the bag over the left shoulder,
would do the business The only bad
feature about this was that if any per-
son should find the bag and open it he
would reap the warty treasure of the
bag"
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1900. ,-pv1. .i.e ;ioor of the be:e-y ee-,e1
of strips of zinc, which he connected
with a wire leading down into the little
chamber below. Another wire was con-
nected with the bell, from which he re-
moved the rope. Then he connected
the poles of his machine with the wires
from the belfry and awaited develop
mentS.
AS soon as it was fairly dark the boys
began to assemble about the academy
and it was not long before the boldest
and most agile of the invaders were
climbing up the lightningrod, their
usual road to the belfry. The teacher
heard them remarking that if he
thought he could fool them by taking
the rope off the bell he was mistaken.
"Catch hold of the BELL" the leader
said, and from the wild howl of surprise
and fright which Immediately followed,
it was evident that the order had been
obeyed Standing upon the strips of
zinc and taking hold of the bell, the
boys had completed the circuit, and had
in consequence received shock, which,
of course, was not dangerous, but which
they did not find pleasant
Two or three times the boys tried to
ring the bell without getting struck by
lightning" as they called it, for they
were not long in deciding what the
trouble was; then they abandoned the
enterprise, and for the first time in
many years the townspeople were able
to sleep on the night before the Fourth.
The next afternoon the master an
nounced that his machine was ready,
and that the boys who had been so
anxious to know what an electric shock
was like could have one if they would
come forward. Nobody stirred, except
to shake the head knowingly.
'Oh, If you have tried it already"
the teacher said, significantly, ''of
course it is no matter"
The boys looked at each other, real
izing that to hold back would be equiv
alent to owning that they had been
beaten on the evening before; then they
set their teeth together, and all walked
out to take the strongest shock the
master thought it wise to give them
Youths Companion.
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Feathared MIIitarY Messengers.

The popular name of ''swifts" is like
ly to be more than ever appropriate if
the following announcement is verified:
1.-THE training of swallows for military
purposes is being proceeded with active
~ at Roubaix, under the observation Of
Captain Degouy, who has been detached
for this duty by the Minister of War.
The birds will be swifter than the car
rier-pigeon; at the same time it will be
More difficult for the enemy's bullets to
hit them All the swallows which are
at present in training are young, and so
far have given fair proofs of their capa-
bility for carrier service. One, after
having been taken to Paris, was set
at liberty, and reached its nest at
Roubaix in hour aud 80 minutes, the
distance being about $50 kilometres OF
T,oi1oo
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CRUEL sLAvE-DRIvkRs.
Narrowing Sights OF the Inhumanity Prac'
ticed by Arab Slavors.

HNrrOWInK olknSo Oh J0o AnnunhuAJy HEBC@
tIced by Arab SlRVors.
M. Menon, Of the Island of Reunion,
who was formerly engaged in promot-
ing what he calls the African emigra-
ton to the French colonies, describes
the following scene on the River Lin
die, on the eastern coast; IAN Arab
chief told us he had, in the forest at
some leagues distant, a depot of eight
hundred men, whom he would bring to
ns the next day. asked the chief to
conduct US to his camp, and at first he
stubbornly refused But when prom
isod Kim a rifie-musk8k which he eager
" desired to get, he consented, and led
us thitner. After three hours march we
arrived, bur gould see nothing.
"'Where are they lodged% we asked,
and he pointed to pSlisade Of bamboo
open to the sky. where they were ex-
posed, at the worst season Of the year,
to fiery sun, alternating with torrents
of rain, and sometimes of hail, without
any roof to cover them. A man of tall
statue, with a spear In his hand and
poniard in his belt pulled up three
posts, which served for a gate to this
Enclosure, and we entered. There they
were, naked as on the day Of their birth;
some of them with . long fork attached
to their neck-that 10, . heavy branch
OF tree, of fork-like shape so arranged
that 1t was impossible for them to step
forward, the heavy handle of the fork,
which they could not lift, effectually
preventing them from advancing, be-
cause Of the pressure on the throat; othr
ers were chained together In parcels Of
twenty. The expression is trivial one,
but IL exactly expresses the idea. The
Keeper OF this den utters hoarse cry;
it Is the order for the merchandise to
stand up But many of them do not
obey. What Is the matterP Our inter
prefer, who has gone among the groups,
will tell US; listen to him. z.
The chains are too short; the dead
and the dying prevent the living from
rising. The dead can say nothing; but
what do the living sayP They say they
are dying of-hungerr But let us leave
the consideration of this traders pict-
ure as q whole, and let US look to some
of the details, Who is this creature
who holds tightly In her arms q sleep
less object covered with filthy leavesf
On looking close you see 1t is g woman,
lying in the mud, and, holding her
dried-up breast to the child of which
she has just been delivered And those
little girls, who totter as they strive tc
rise, and who seem to ask for pity, or
what are they leaRiRg7 On a dead
body. And this man, who 10 working
with his hands piece of mud, which
no Is continually placing on his eye
what 10 the matter with him? Ou
guide tslls Us: He 10 troublesome
fellow. who set . bad example by
throwing himself ct my feet this morn
ing and saying, In . loud voice. Il an
dying Of hunger" and ] gave him (
blow which burst his eyOi he is hence
forth good for nothing and, he added
with q sinister look, he won't be hun
CRY long, To the question addressed
Q tho Arab chief, why he dealt thus
with the men, his reply was; 1 do q
my father did before me. '"-LOndoI
Timea
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STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.
A Funny Incident Recalled by an Old
Yankee SchOOlmaster.

A Funny Incident Recalled by an Old
Yankee SchoOlmaster.
The present talk about electricity re-
CALLS TO an old school-teacher an expert
ence which he once mad in o village in
New England, in the days before vil=
lage academies had given place to high
schools. His pupils, without being in
the least vicious, were often full of
spirits, and sometimes rather unrulX,
He did all sorts of things to arouse
their interest, and it CHANGED that just
as Fourth Of July came round he had
managed 70 get an electric machine of
considerable power, with which he in
tended TO illustrate the lessons of the
frst class.
Much interest was taken by the boys
in this machine. None of them had
ever seen one, and they were all curious
to try shock.
There had long been an annual strug-
gle between the boys and the town au-
thorities as 10 Yhether the academy
bell should be rung all night befors
the Fourth. and it came into the head
of the schoolmaster. who loved joke as
well as any of his pupils, that this year
he would take hand in the con-
troversy.
He went to the academy in the dusk
pt the eve Of the National holiday. and
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ATE OF kansas 20 Henry T. Ebert and Alice
Ebert. his wife:

State of Kansas TO Henry 2. Ebert and Alice
Ebert. his wife:
You will take notice that YOU have been
sued, in tire District Court tn ana fer Rarler
county, KANSAS by ~ X. McCinley aud that
unless You answer To the petition fled in said
suit, on or before the LIST day of November ISfsl
s.lld petition will be taken as true and iudp-
nient rendered against you accordingly fore
closing mortgage executed and delivered hy
ltenry =. Ebert AMI Alice Ebert to Jarvis
tonkln ana tloFgan. dated january 1st 1856.
on the following uescrit ed real estate in Rar-
Der county, Kansas tO-wit
The southwest quarter. a, of the southwest
quarter, \. of section five, y; and the west
hair \ OF the northwest quarter a of section
e'ghi 9; aud the southeast quarter of the
northeast quarter of section seven Z i'm
township thifty-One, 81, in range twelve. ".
west OF the sixth principal meridian, and for
the sale of said real estate. without appraise-
gage.
Witness my hand and official seal. this. IIth
day of August, 1880.
I2i3 FRANK HOLMES
SEAL Clerk Distri Court
BEARDsIEY GREGORY. Att'ys for Pf'f.
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a-The home producers, by trusts and
combinations. limit ing production, fore
ing idleness, or hals-time work on their
operatives, and maintaining prices
fraction below the foreign prizes, with
the tariff tax and the cost added, pocket
all that Congress authorizes them to
compel the people to pay.
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}. 1872. FIRST Publication Aug, 10, 1890.
PUBLICATION NOTICE.

State OF Kansas To Phelps & Bigelcw
Windmill Company and Mary A KinImelI
and Mi, her husband, real name un-
known:
You viii take notice that you have been
sued, together with Alamautier Blake DENY
\. Blake, his wife, J. W. McNcal and Mary s
&cNeai. bis wife, George n. Men and Mary r.
Nell. his vile, III The district court in and for
Barber county. kaHsas. Icy 4. h. Mckinley
ana that unless You answer Ia the petition
tiied in said sat on or before the lSt day Of
November. tSisl. said petition viii be taken as
true. and judgment rendered against YOU ac-
eorulnSlN, f0rect1SisT mortgage eXpclIt Ell
and delivered 10y Aiaiuanier Blake and Deby
A. Blakc. 20 jarvis, Conkiin and Morgan, da-
ted January list, leSe, ON the following desert
bed real estate, in Barber county. Kansas. to-
wit: W
The southwest quarter of sCctioa eleven II
III township thirty. -, in range eleven H. west
OF the sixth principal meridian. and for the
s'lie oi SAID real estate without ;,rpraisemcut
10 pay the debt secured 10y said MORTGAGE
Witness my hand and Official seal this. 18th
day os August, 1886
l2t5 FRANK HOLMES
District Clerk.
Beardsiey Il Gregory, Att'ys for pl'tff
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No. lseS. First Publication August q, 1890
PUBLICATION NOTICE.

aezon ID. Hovious and Maggie L. Hovious:
You will take notice that you have been sued
IN the district court OF Barber county Ks In ac-
non wherein Clarence A. Parks, trustee. and
VI. harrington are plaintiffs, and Riley Lake
Nevada Lake and you are defendants and
must answer plaintiffs petition filed therein
on or before tho twentieth day of September
\. d., 1890, or said petition will be taken as
true. and Judgment will be rendered against
Non for the sum of Five Hundred and Fifty
Dollars, with interest ut II per cent. per annum
from the hrst day 81 August, lSSS and COSTS Of
SUIT, that deed of trust or mortgage execII-
ed 10y you and described in said petifion no
declared foreclOsed and first lien to secure
SAID sum on the east half TelIl of the south
cast quarter ls-c Il and east half g !. OF the
northeast quarter ln-e i section thirty-four
- township thirty t;Nl, OF range fourteen
~ west, barber county, Kansas and that
'illd real estate bc sold in satisfaction thereof
r'cordinE to law, without apprasement and
ne proceeds be brought into court and APPLIED
% the payment of, list, TIE taxes due and paw
thie on said premises -, the costs of suit
"a, the claim of piaiutit's with interest and
mar each and all of defendants and ali persons,
claiming under them toe forever barred and
!oreciosed of all interest. lien and equity of
redemption in ana To said real estate
HAYWARD Il GRIFFIN
lltj Gil ESTER !. long
Attorneys for Plaintiffs
Attest; FRANK HOLMES. Clerk.
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REGARDING PocKErs.
D,noult Things for TailOFs and Dress
Makers to Handle Well.

DlFRcult Things for TauoFs anq Dress
Makers to Handle Well.
The present pocket, both for ladies
and gentlemen, Is an extremely difficult
feature to mako thoroughly well, both
in dress-making and in tailoring, says
the London Telegraph. There ts story
of an English couturiere who thought
that she had all but perfected her
self in the art OF dress-making, but who
took trip to Paris in order to go
through final course Of instruction in
the atelier Of celebrated robe artistic
She paid handsome fee for years
lnstrpnton. and after signing articles
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Turn About.

Smiley-Pm going to be married to
the beautiful Miss Sharpe. Congratu-
late me, old boy, and come and drink
her health.
Slimley-Yes, you're right 10 toast
her now--she1l toast you when you're
married. West Shore.
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Practical Economy.

First COllegiate-What in the world
have you stopped smoking cigarettes
and started in on cigars for?
Second Collegiate--Oh, father rade me
promise to try to save money by swear
ing of cigarettes, you KNOWN unsey's
Weekly.
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at Sidney, O., there are two large
trees close together on the edge of q
clover field. A fence touches either
tree, but the gap has no fence. A COW
squeezed into the gap, and without
passing through began to browse. She
soon began to swell with gas generated
by the green clover, and to get her out
enc of the trees had to be cut
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A Cow with No Pedlrr...

A Vermont editor boasts that he has
q stub-tailed, one horned COW, with no
pedigree, which not only furnished the
milk for his family Of ten persons last
year, bat 500 worth which he sold to
his neighbors-