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CHASED az eooMERANes.
No Easy Matter to Escape the EccentrI
Curved Sticks That Act Like Humans

No Easy Matter to Escape the Eccentric
| Curved Sticks That Act Like Humans.
No one who discharges a boomerang
for the first time has the faintest no
! ton a. to where 1t will land II let
loose In a thoroughfare It may navigate
around a corner, and take off the hat of
an unsuspecting promenader. 1t may
shoot into carriage window and fright
en- the occupants of the vehicle out of
their senses. It may soar away over
the houses and get lost, or skim upon
the surface of the pavement and en-
tangle itself among the legs of horses.
It may climb up stoop, go through
an open doorway and wander around
the interior Of a dwelling. breaking
mirrors or destroying other valuable
property before it gets tired. And If it
strikes anybody it may inflict serious
huYt, for It's rapid whirl gives it an inn
mense force, so that blow from one of
its ends may cause death, even when it
Is flung without much exertion Of
strength.
have seen pig killed In the island
OF Formosa by boomerang which APP
peared to be very lightly propelled,
saysa writer in Harper's Young People.
Worst of all-certainly most Notifying
At may come straight back upon the
thrower, perhaps follow him with q per-
sistenoe which seems almost to indicate
deliberate intention, chase him about,
no matter how nimbly he may try to
escape, and finally double him up with
thump in the stomach, and reduce him
to state in which no boomerang could,
for the tine, be anything but an object
OF aversion to him, not even if it were
made of a stick Of candy.
Out in the country, where broad. I'M
occupied fields are accessible, expert
ments may be undertaken upon a large
scale; but caution is always necessary
at the beginning, and when the little
curved stick Is launched into space it
would be wise for all the spectators, and
the thrower as well, to choose a protect
ing tree, and stand behind it, lest the
missile perform its favorite exploit and
return to the point of departure, menac-
ing every living being in the vicinity.
1t Is quite capable OF skipping round
tree, but an alert youngster ought to
be able to dodge and keep himself out
of harms way. Cows might be put to
Inconvenience, and sheep would prob
ably see no fun in the sport; but no
body could expect COW or sheep 20
appreciate the humor of a boomerang
In any case the earliest attempts should
be with instruments of moderate di-
mens!ons from which severe bruises
nesd not be apprehended
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-06-24

There are encouraging signs that the
craze for tiuger-nal polishing is in a
fair way of abatement. DO not know
exactly what instinct of barbarity led
one-half of New York to start In on a
rabid career of dissipation in the matter
of nail-polishing a year or so ago, but
whatever it was it's sway no longer ex-
lists. 1t is bad enough TO be waited on
in a shop by young woman whose fin
gers are stained TO the knucl1le-ioint
with what looks like crimson ink, and
to encounter on all sides maroon finger
nails, which have been butchered and
polished and wrought upon until they
look like anything but human. These
things are easily enough forgiven in
women, however. The rub comes with
the presence of lordly and corpulent
men who walk into a public billiard
room or cafe and laboriously display
huge knotted fists and stubby fingers
the nails of which are artifcially coll
ored mans hand, as a rule, is a
grewsome thing at best, but when his
finger nails are doctored the incongruity
approaches the grotesque.-N. Y. Re
corder
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Petrifyins ysters.

In one or two parts of England there
are wells whose waters petrify any
thing placed therein. The most re-
markable of these petrifying cisterns
are show places In the wales of Derby
shire, Water strongly impregnated
with lime springs from the surround
ing hills and is conveyed to the wells In
pipes, where scores of jets distribute it
In the form of spray. Birds nests,
baskets, eggs, pipes, the skeletons of
birds and animals, etc, are slowly
coated with limestone by the incessant
fall of the spray, and shown for speci-
mems of petrihcation. Enterprising
showmen once got possession OF well
for the manufacture of a petrifed
body, but public opinion was SO great
that they were driven in disgrace from
the neighborhood.
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STOLE HIS FATHER-lN-LAW.
An Esquinaux Love Episode with sa

An Esquinaux Love Episode with u Sad
Ending.
The frozen waters about the pole,
where the Esquimaux live, have their
love tragedies, their Romeos and their
Juliets, says Parsons Weekly.
A young seal-hunter loved the fair
daughter of one of his richest neigh
bors. She returned his passion, but it
was the old story-unalterable opposi-
ton on her fathers side, and the same
article on the mothers, with the usual
feminine improvements thrown in.
Between the cake of ice on which
the young sealer had erected his hut
and the larger foe which was preempted
by the parents of his sweetheart, the
cold had broken an impossible crevice
some hundred feet or more in depth and
twenty in width. Save for single jut-
ting fragment, just thick enough to bear
little more than his own weight, his
home was completely cut off from the
world about him. This practical isola-
ton inspired him.
He began storing up in his humble
quarters oil, blu Dber and other delica-
cies sufficient for the support of two FOR
at least six months. lie had resolved
to steal his bride, and knew that if he
gained his ice foe with her and broke
down the bridge they were. safe from
trouble or pursuit for the winter season,
or until the warmer weather of the sum
mer moved the icebergs to closer con
tact. BY that time he hoped the oppo-
sition of the parents would give way to
pardon and reconciliation.
The EsquiInaux sleep together pro
miscuously on raised snowbank on
one side of the igloo, or icehouse. En-
cased in their sealsl1in nightbags. with
huge projecting hood over the head and
face, they arc as comfortable as their
natures require.
The youth waited outside the girls
home until he thought that all within
were asleep, then creeping through the
narrow entrance he made his way
toward his darling. He seized the long
bag-like mass in which her fair form was
encased, bore it triumphantly across
the narrow bridge to his stronghold,
and ere pursuit was possible, with his
AK cut down the ice bridge and was
safe
Not waiting to hear the obiurgations
of those on the other side of the abyss.
he knelt down by the fluttering form of
his hearts devotion, sure of a short
period of bliss, at least, and drarged
back the hood to catch glimpse of her
sweet face.
He bad stolen his father-in-law.
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ABOUT OUR TREES.
America Has the Grandest AFbOreal
Growths in the World.

America Has the Grandest ArhOreal
Growths in the World.
have felt from boyhood a strange
companionship with trees, says a writer
in the st. Louis Globe-Democrat. This
anco from barbarous ancestors, who
lived in the woods; but think it is the
very best of my spontaneity. More
than that, am sure that trees have a
special power to do US good, and a
very healing effect apart from the me-
dicinal power of roots, leaves and
banks. The smell of some wood Is
soothing, and goes wonderfully to the
mind. Poems come from the forest,
such as Wordsworth and Bryant wrote,
and if we cannot write like such men,
we may learn by the trees how to read
them.
America has the grandest trees in the
world. Think of It. They are the
work of centuries-not only the red
woods of California, but the chestnuts.
and oaks, and elms in your own door
yard. You are ephemeral beside them.
They are worthy of worship and love.
They have seen one race displace an
other, and the winds whistled through
them when red men lay down to sleep
In their shade. You have in your
grove the friends of Red jacket, or Te-
cumseh, or q sachem of the Mound
Builders.
l have fruit trees planted by the In
dians one hundred years ago. and 1t
adds marvelously to the interest which
l take In tlsp apples that old Sconondo
tasted the first crop with sign of de-
light. 1t Is not the history of our trees,
however, alone that makes them COM
panionable, nor alone their relation to
health and mental quickening that rem
ders them valuable. The fact is. no
race of human beings ever attained
high culture away from groves, or
chards and forests. Animal life and veg
etable life are closely interlocked. we
are needed to improve or superintend
the improvement of the vegetable
world; in turn our civilization and Gull
ture go on in close relation to yeoeta-
ton. Greek art, philosophy, science,
religion, were all permeated with tree
love and tree lore. The earliest re-
ligions were associated with mountains
and groves.
Is It possible for our people to realize
the great value Of what ther call
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-06-24
Alta Chinese Theater.

One thing you notice at a Chinese
drama is the extraordinary absence of
gestures. If facial play viii not ex-
press the simulated emotion then the
actor leaves it to the imagination of the
audience. The interpreter tells you
that the piece is several hundred years
old. The principal actor furnishes it
up. Alb Lum puts in song or two.
And it lasts for week. The audience
resembles the play. 1t comes when it
pleases and goes when it pleases.
It knows that it can take up
the thread of the story On any day at
any point 1t is aware that theviceroy
has to conquer his enemies and that the
play viii not end till he has conquered
them all When they have all sur
rendered or are all slain All Lum packs
up his cymbals and departs. There are
Cinnamon who have seen the entire
play. They chew opium as its scenes
progress. That fortities them
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-06-24
AIoney IN Ialse Teerh.

Says a Boston dentist. .'Out of sheer
curiosity 1 dropped in>to an auction
sale of unclaimed express packages.
Buyers can only guess what they are
bidding. on, for packages are not
broken, SO the whole thing is a regular
lottery. = Each buyer generally opens
up his package as soon as he gets it.
The mau next me opened a bundle he
had paid fifty cents for. 1t was fall Of
loose false teeth lie was diagllsted,
and bought the lot for one dollar
Within forty-eight hours / had sold the
lot and got just eighty dollars for them. >
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-06-24
Flowers arowlna In SNOW

Recently Explorer John w. Kelly
assembled the Pitnegsa river for dis
lance of twenty-five miles, where he
found q large glacier emptying into the
river. The glacier faces southwark and
receives the full benefit of the sunlight
during the short polar summer. Gales
have deposited on the glacier particles
Of soil and seeds of plants to depth Of
from four inches TO foot. The snow
fall of winter soon vanishes before the
June sun. Then vegetation on the
glacier is warmed into life and in re-
markably short time the brown crust of
soil Is covered with a robe of green and
with bright flowers, such as buttercups,
dandelions, daffodils and yellow pop
pies.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-06-24

4 practical joke which caused q
young jeweler at Oswego, \. Y, and a
Lady school-teacher considerable an
noyance was recently perpetrated. The
couple made little excursion out of
town, and were literally shosyered with
rice by their friends. who believed that
they wculd be married before their re-
turn. As the jeweler and school mis-
tress had no matrimonial intentions the
situation was rather embarrassing
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-06-24
Hotter bye and BNe.

If you take summer vacation, why not go
to Colorado! Nestled around Pixies Peak,
there are plenty Of places where one can cool
OF for a little money. Manitou, Cascade.
Green Mountain Falls and Woodland Park, in
the & nous Ute Pass, will be lovIier than eyer
ibis year. They are almost directly reached
ia Santa fc route. You change cars in Tn
ion depot AT Colorado Springs, and take broad
guage trains on our Colorado Midland division
for destination. Cheap tourist tickets row on
sale until October 3Ist returning at SO. IL for
round trip Stop off in Colorado allowed if
desired. Inquire of w. .. Horr, local agent
Santa Fe route
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-06-24
fire Plug Signs in 1:ngland.

On the dead walls in the cities In all
parts of England one sees staring signs,
legible enough, but unintelligible to the
stranger. IF. p. 90" or IF. z. 81 they
read, and the passer-by who sees them
for the first time wonders why Z. p. is
28 at one place and only at another
f. 2. stands for fire plug" or hydrant,
and the figures following the letters
show the distance in feet of the hydrant
from the letters. The fire plug is never
more than so feet away from the sign.
1t is sunk level with the sidewalk.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-06-24

woods? Can 1t be drilled into them
that forests are quite as essential to civ
nization as wheat fields? Nations have
ever been swept out of existence and
others rendered insignificant from de-
struction of forests.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-06-24

4 woman fell e7e.l.lard III Jupiter
inlet, tiorida esld W.. ss,ten ~ shark,
For three gears .ler husband has done
nothing but hnat Jupiter inlet sharks,
and NJ 70 date he has landed about
three hundred 81 thela. and IS still fish
ing
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-06-24
To Whom 1t May Concern.

Notice is hereby given that have fled I'm
the Office of the probate Judge of Barber coun-
ty: Kansas, petition in due form of law, for
druggists permit under the law known IA
Ihe Prchibitory Law, and that my appIica-
ton for such permit, and the hearing of such
petition, will be considered by said probate,
Judge on Thursday. the 10th day of July, 1884,
judge, at The court house in the city Of Medi-
cine Lodge. In said county and state
June 9th, 1891. a JoHRs
Druggist doing business on Main street Medi
cine Lodge Kansas. Az
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-06-24

-s.MT. TauISer is a brilliant con-
yersialist she is an intolerant b'Vot. >
lyon think sog' OF course [ 10. He
never agrees with me in Anything !.
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A Book of 900 PAGES.

On Treatment and care Of animals, 10,
cattle, sheep, dogs, hog and poultry sxy ses
Address Humphreys Veterinary sper' irce
William sGd John streets. New Yor mes cor
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k ~ sayA All We show you how
y 49, Can work IN time
&(AA all the time. Big money for WORK
Failure unknown among them.
A.Hauet1<1kT NEW and wonderful Particulars free.
o., BOX $50 Portland, Maine
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Medicine LODGE and Sawyer
STAGE LlNE,-
G. w. COULTER, PROPRIETOR.

WILL carry passengers. baggage and express
w between Medicine Lodge and Sawyer.
VIII leave Medicine Lodge on Tuesday, Thurs
day and Saturday, at 80 a. m and arrive at
sawyer at ii 10; leave Sawyer at As p. m; ar
rive AT Medicine Lodge at 600 p. IN. 30
| pASSENGERS travelling in any direction will
consult their own interests and promote
Alton Railroad whenever that line can be used
Tor the whole or part of u journey. The Chi
cago q Alton Raiiroad is the only completely
stone-Daliasted line running between the cities
OF ST. Louis, Kansas City and Chicago. This
line has the proud record of being the first
road IN the world to adopt Pullman Sleeping
Cars, Dining Cars and Reclining Chair Cars,
and the first road to incorporate these three
INJURIOUS features of modern travel in vesti-
buled trains. The Chicago & Alton Railroad
makes no extra charge for seats i'm fits magni1-
cent and luxurious Palace Reclining Chair
Cars, which are run in all through trains, day
ana hlghi, nor Tor passage in any of it's fast,
famous and solid
VESTIBULED LIMITED TRAINS,
CONSISTING OF
NEW SMOKING CARS,
, Palace Reclining Chair Cars
- Pullman Buffet Sleeping Cars
. and
. PALACE DINING CARS,
running through without change between
ST. LOUIS AND KANSAS CITY,
ST. LOUIS AND CHICAGO,
KANSAS CITY AND CHICAGO.
DENVER AND CHICAGO
ALSO NEW AND SUPERB
PULLMAN PARLOR BUFFET CARS
ON DAY TRAINS,
AND NEW AND UNEQUALED
PULLMAN COMPARTMENT SLEEPING Cars
ON NIGHT TRAINS
BETW ZEN ST. LOUIS AND CHICAGO.
The best and surest connections are made i'm
Union Depots in st. Louis, East St I,ouis
Kansas City. Chicago and Bloomington
Ask your home Ticket Agent for tickets via
the Chicago Alton Railroad, and thus secure
the lowest rates, the quickest time and the
best accommodations.
CHICAGO a ALTON RAILROAD Tick EFT OFFICES
st. Louis-2l6 North Broadway near Olive
street, and Union Depot.
East st. Louis-Relay Depot.
Kansas City-SI4 Main Street; 1893 Union
Avenue topposite Union Depot, and Union
Depot.
Chicago-l95 South Clark Street, and West
Side Onion Depot.
Information as TO rates, time, connections.
etc, viii be checrfully furnished on appIica--
ton to
ID. BOwES,
Gen'l Western Passenger Agent.
Zlo North broadway, ST. Louis, Mo.
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STOCKHOLDERS MEEYING.

The regular annual meeting of the
Stockholders Of the Virginia Coal & Iron
Company will be held at the Braddock
House, in the city Of Alexandria, Va, on
Wednesday, February 18th, 1891, at II
O'Clock, p. m.
By order of the President.
JonS O. ToMBLER, Sec'y.
January 30th. 1891. 4-3t
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The New Kansas senator.
(Kansas CITY Star


While the election of Judge PETER as
United States Senator from Kansas has
not awakened much enthusiasm among
the Peoples party, the fact remains that
he is man against whom no valid obiec-
ton can be raised. His record is good,
his character is above reproach, his integ-
rity is unquestioned and his ability is
above the average. He was a soldier,
which will tend to conciliatc the G. A. r.
members of the Alliance; he is prohibi-
Zionist and churchman, which satisfies
the moral and religious element Of his
party; he is sufficiently advanced in the
economic questions which are engaging
the attention Of the people to be rcckoned
as a reformer. In thus choosing man to
succeed ingalls, who cannot be assaulted
from any point, the Peoples party has
greatly disappointed its enemies, who
have been counting upon its incxpcriencc
in politics to lead it into serious and fatal
bunders
The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1891-02-13

OF the twenty-four new members, four
teen 60 to the West. Nebraska's quota
of three is doubled. Minnesota and Hill
nois gain two each. One each is added
to California, Colorado, Michigan, Ore
gon, Washington and Wisconsin. The
South profits by the increase, but not SO
much as the West. If Missouri be counted
Southern State, that section gains to-
tai of six seats. Four Of these 60 to Ala
bama, Arkansas, Georgia and Missouri
and the remaining two to Texas. In the
Middle States Pennsylvania gains two and
New Jersey one. Massachusetts, with an
addition of one, is the only New England
State that shows a change.
These changes will exert an important,
though not decisive, bearing on the
electoral vote. Under the existing ap-
portionment that vote is 40l Under the
new bill there will be 40l members in the
Electoral College, requiring 223 to
elect. The gain in electors by States is
~ fOllOwu.
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cHI-DLEss AMERICAN WOMEN.
'>''"''''ns Figures Developed by the
Last Census.
4'hicago 1,ribune.l

49,. me i"tl thar The total population Of the
om'cd States has fallen below the nopu-
i@' estimate Of $4,000, 900 is likely to call
"''e'''oh 10 the tccundlty Of American
"o"cii' MOI long ago sensational news
f"PVi look census OF the children in
e, wv, fashionable quarters in this city
" ~. Drought to light the fact that compar-
w le" children gladden. the homes of
.'9''@a MI, and that the birth rate there
"'N "'atmnsly low The last State CEN
,r..'.. massachusetts, brings out some i'll
.... s.'"S i4c'. III relation to the percent
IT, married "omen having no children.
ct ,'' y liable complied from the Massa-
a. .a ,... census showing the percentage
;nn "@'''e ana of foreign horn women hav-
The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1891-02-13

foreign born womcn of Massachusetts, arc
childlcss, What is true OF this State is
undoubtedly in greater or less degree
true throughout the country The time
has come when we must face the fact that
the increase OF population 10y birth is de-
crcasing-tha, the tendency of the times
among weli-to-do Americans is to small
families, and that one-tifth Of our native
married women are chiidless..
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THE NEW AppoRr1oNMENT.
How 1t Effects the Representation In Con-
gross and the Electoral Vote.
(BrookIyn Enrjel

While the Apportionment Bill is gen.
enerally regarded as compromise, there
can be no doubt that it does injustice to
several States, including New York. I'm
der it's provisions the total membership
of the House Of Representatives after
March 4, 1893, will be 356, an increase of
twenty-four over the present number. No
State loses Representative. One mem
Der each is gained by thirteen States,
two each by four States and three by one
State. This table illustrates the gain by
SfafnN
The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1891-02-13

If in 1892 the States should vote rs the
States and Territories voted in 1883, the
Republicans would have $50 electors to
Ia for the Democrats, Republican ma
ioritv Of sevcnty-six.
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and winning as he pleased II is proha
BILE that Mr.. Belmont won more outside
money on this race than any one ever won
by any horse he own,d, and with the colts
Kentucky owner they literally divided the
nnnl hoy
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fTrains stop only IN signal.

ITO j. Wesley Stewart, Joseph c. Stewart, John
Il Sampson Stewart, Jackson Stewart, Daniel HE
sell Tor HySelJ and Nina Hrisell Tor Hysel), his
wife, Patton Stewart. Eliza Carter and Mary Carter,
his wife, Melvin Gilly and Nina Giy, mis- wife,
W. H. Elkins and Nancy Elkins, his wife, Monroe
Stewart, BENZ. Tate aud Margaret Tate, his wife.
Cahnrne Stewart and Nancy Stewart,
TAKE NOTICE,
That OH the first day OF the Wise County Court to be
held February "a, 1891, the Big Stone Gap Water
Company will apply to said Court to appoint five dis
interested reeholders for the purpose Of asceraining
what will be just compensation to you for the land,
OF which You the tenants Of the freehold, which
said company proposes to take for its use, and the
damage to the residue OF such tract OF land beyond
the peculiar benefits 10 be derived in respect 10 such
residue by reason Of the work to be constructed
BIG STONE Gar WATER COMPANY.
by RuiLrr 4 Mcdowell, Attorneys.
[24-4tl
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E'NElfD WOVEN WITHOUT cu,IprrN.

RED no We mud that one-ffth of the mar
Les. "J :, OF massachusetts, are child
Franc ~, = said that in no country save
be foa. S"h similar condition of affnirs
over ~ on The other hand, instead Of
pcr cent only 1927 per cent Of the