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Schemes of the Enemy.

As is we'll known there are two dis
tinct organizations in the United States
known as the Farmers Alliance. The
aims and purposes of both are identical,
and they are ready to cooperate with
each other in the advancement of their
common interests. Both realize the
necessity of such cooperation. One of
the schemes of the enemy at this time
is to prevent this ana to SOW the seeds
of discord in their midst. This has
been apparent for some time. The plan
will fail, however, just as every other
nefarious scheme has failed. The peo-
pie representing the great industrial
interests of this country are coming to-
gether, and they propose in the future
to have something to say in relation to
the policy of this Government. Plu-
tocracy has brought us to the verge of
ruin, aud despite the efforts of the
plutocratic press, the cooperation of
industrial organizations will not be in
terrupted or the progress of their work
retarded. They are marshaling their
forces for the great struggle of 1892,
and all the perfdious schemes of the
enemy will not prevent their solid sup
port of common cause against COM
mon foe.-Economist.
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The vacancy in the Cabinet caused
by the death of William Window, Sec
retary of the Treasury. will no doubt
be filed as soon as Wall street decides
upon his successor. There are already
many persons mentioned in connection
with that position, but it is safe to as
sumo that the money owners and mo-
nopolists of the East win dictate the
selection. TO have the choice fall upon
Western or Southern man with pro-
gressive ideas upon financial reforms,
and as consequence in sympathy with
the people, is an event that need not be
expected The present Administration
Is in the hands OF plutocraey, as was
the one that preceded it, and nothing
that the people demand viii be granted
without contest Watch the appoint
ment of Secretary of the Treasury as
proof of the position. National Ecoao-
mist.
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CHURCHES,

DAPTIST.-Prcachlng cach sunday at II a.
Om. aud at 30 ,, m, At the courthouse sun
day school at 10 o'clock, III. Prayer meeting
Wednesday evening Ot each week. Rev w. y.
Cain, Pastor. Residence on Cor. Lincoln Ave.
and Cherry Streets.
NHRISTIAN.-Preach every Sunday al
~ IL o. clock, a. m, and 1890 p. m, by Elder
J. L. Nicholson. Prayer meeting every We'd
ncsday night Sunday school At iO O clock Il. NJ
every Sunday. Pastors residence at the par
sOnHge study at the chapel,
NHETHODIST EPISCOPAL-SerViCcs every
GN1 Sunday at II 20 Il. m and 30 p. IN. sun
lay school every Sunday ut 10 a. IN. Prayer
neetinA every Thursday evening at Z go.
strangers invited. ID. w PHILLIPS, Pastor.
OKESBYTERIAN.-Se every sunday nj
III II. m. and 80 p m Sunday school at
40 a. j. Il. NORTH, PaStOr.
episcopal. ST. Marks. Lay services will
II he held at Mr.. Martins residence, Sheldon
house, Second Avenue west, every Sunday a.
gp. m Ali are cordially invited 10 come.
CATHOLIC CHURCH - Services on End
sunday of every month at SheTlocks hall, AT
1890 a. III. REV. BITTER PASTOR
~ HERMAN BAPTIST BRETHREN-Hold reg
" ular services at Miugona, Barber county,
the second and fourth sundays in each month.
At Forrest school house on the second SUNDAY ;
Cedar Creek school house ON the third sunday.
BY Elders ShamDerger, Smith and Neher.
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MEDICINE LODGE KANSAS WEDNESDAY. MARCH 4.

products boarded until the necessity of
the people creates such demand for
food or raiment that they are willing to
part with large sums of money for.
which they have labored for
small quantities of the farm
products. And thus the infexi-
BILE volume of money is used
by the wealthy exploiter as lever to
force the producer and consumer alike
to part with a large share of the fruits
OF his labor. With the sub-treasury to
guarantee a fixed ratio between the
supply of money and the demand for its
use, the lever would be broken and the
wealthy exploiter would no longer at
tempt to lull the people to sleep by
singing that demand makes prices,''
SO that he might rob them while they
slumbered.
$50 long as there is no foreign de-
mand, foreign prices have no influence
whatever" says Mr.. Dodge, and then
deliberately shows that domestic prices
have produced foreign demand. But
perhaps the most absurd position taken
by Mr. Dodge is: IF the demand is
partly foreign and partly domestic,
each has its influence in proportion to
its extent" A practical application of
this doctrine would be very interesting
and it is to be hoped its author. its sole
anthor, will not delay giving the pub
lie some light on that subject. If
the price of cotton is now II cents q
pound, it would take a two-cent drop
in England and a one-cent drop here to
make it worth cents, because two
thirds of the crop is exported; or it
could not rise in price one cent here
unless England would furnish condi-
tions to make a rise of two cents. 1t is
hard to conceive of two bodies occupy
ing the same place at the same time, or
OF two supreme laws being in force on
the same subject at the same time.
What trouble the price would be in if
the export price should go one way and
the domestic price the other!
Mr.. Dodge demolisheS 1.-The stupid
idea in some minds that a foreign dol
lar is better than domestic one," and
he must have credit for doing it admir-
ably, and for having read Adam Smith,
who over a hundred years ago did the
same thing in as good style.
Mr.. Dodge has been chief of the di-
vision of statistics in the Department of
Agriculture for eighteen years, and
should be one of the best
posted men in America upon sta
tistics and their uses by the
Government. His long service for
the dear people and as public func-
tionary should not have impaired his
stomach so that it will be nauseated by
the plain, unvarnished and uncooked
truth. 1t is said that old topers some
times acquire SO vitiated taste that
every thing will nauseate them but
whisky If this be true, it is not be-
cause the pure and crystal water that
God designed man to drink has become
an improper beverage, but because
there is something wrong with the
stomach. Economist.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-03-04

comparison of the amount OF our ex-
changeable wealth and volume of do
mestic exchanges, at the present time,
as compared with the same items in
1856. bearing in mind, as we proceed,
that our population has increased, from
1855 to $780, almost exactly so per cent,
while the volume of money in circula-
ton has decreased about 81 per cent. in
actual volume, and from 40 to 75 per
cent. in per capita circulation. sub
NIT the following table as an approx
lmation to the facts in the case.
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a coMmERciAL FALLAcY.

mand Than Demand Does Rexulatipr
Prices.
The Economist CONS dangerously near
falling into an economic error. in saving
that no corner on farm products can be sue
cessfai N tni> country while the price of
the American pro:.vctfs fixed by the price of
the amount cxn0r cd" reiteration by
loose thinkers, ir,an dawn 10 doomsday. viii
pot make il trse tlla. f5e;ga demand alone
makes nsices- repetition by member of
Consr. - Dr m IN er of Parliament debater.
or publication Il efBfn relai or Cangrcs-
slonas rretsrs' DO rot cstshlish its truth. 1t
Is the saline silly srros Sill.
u . demand thai makes prices, So lpas -
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4 sad Mistake.

Mrs. Yerger- Bridget, there is some
thing the matter with the soup. 1t
tastes queer. and every body who has
taken any feels sick. What did you
put in it?
Bridget made it the same as usual,
mum, except that as there was no salt,
mum, in the salt-cellar, took some of
the other salt mum, that ye put up on
the shelf
Mrs. Yerger-Great heavens. that
was EPSON salts.-Texas Siftings.
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barber County 0mcers.
POSTAL

'ostoliicc al Medicine lodge open from \ y
i.M. sundays one hour ON arrival OF mrIl
ouey order open a. IL p. u. Satur
days =. -. op untl Il. Eastern Iaaii
closes promptly az I a. ~
j.. ". AETISE, +. -.
II 4 BnOFN. Assistant.
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There IS present craze among col
lectors Tor old tapestries. Six tapestries
which We're sold some fifteen years ago
from the old Livingston manor house
for 500 have just been resold for 500
600, and i've large old Flemish. speci-
mems, which William C. Prime. the
weli-known arch@ologist, paid 5000 for
In 1872, are now valued at S., 600 apiece.
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There is no surplus and no deficit in
the imperial treasury of Germany. The
receipts and expenditures of the fiscal
year balance az 1,134, 4e1, ,942 marks, or
about S2sS, 1928, 600. This. is very neat
National financierinp.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-03-04

1t is usually said, in hasty generaliza-
ton, that the poetry of the present age
is unique in the extreme refinement of
its exterior mechanism. Those who saw
this are not aware that the great poets
whose verile simplicity and robust care
lessness of detail they applaud have al
most without exception been scrupu-
lously attentive TO form. No modern
writer has been SO learned in rhythm
as Milton, so faultless in rhyme ar
rangement as Spencer. But what Ia
true is that care for form and a con-
siderable skill in the technical art of
verse have been acquired by writers of
lower order, and that this sort of per-
fection is no longer the hallmark of a
great master.-Forum.
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"A two-year-old pabv in Son

"A two-year-old baby in Somerville,
N. j., the son VIM. Porter, was lately
seen on the kitchen floor, amusing it
self with fat-headed adder, three feet
long. The mother tainted as she saw
the serpent coiling itself around the
ehild's neck and arms The little one
continued to stroke the snakes body.
a Eeighbor. alarmed by the mothers
scream, entered the kitchen, and enticed
the snake away with bowl of warm
milk.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-03-04

If wrinkles must be written upon
our brows let them not be written upon
the heart The spirit should not grow
old.-James A. Garfield.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-03-04

The French customs authorities did
not allow the bottle of lymph which
Koch sent Pasteur 70 pass the border
because it's composition was unknown
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That was All.

''Oh, by the way. John," said the
new-made father-in-law to his recently
acquired son-in-law, ''of course you
haven't cashed that check of mine-the
wedding present. you know
.'0h, no; I've merely had it certified"
replied John.-West Shore.
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-Brown-'fhat was curious blum
der you made in your note to Miss
Smith You dated it 1880 instead of
1890" Fogg-"That wasn't blunder
at all, old fellow. 1t was a fine touch
OF gallantry on my part She told me
the other day she was only thirty-fve,
and when wrote to her 1 thought I
couldn't do less than make the year cor
respond with her statement Boston
Transcript.
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DEIPHIA LODGE. No. l40. K. of p, meet On
Monday evening of each W ck, ~ tue h oi T..
han Visiting knights in good standing inNi-
ed to attend. Z. ID. COIDINGTON {. {.
IL. A. BRowS. X. of K. * >.
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ENSIGN ENCAMPMENT No. g., /. o. ..
Meets first aud third Friday of each mont
Visiting Pntriarchs cordially invited TO attend. d.
:. l. ALLEN. II. =. q. K. HARRIS, {. +.
w T. ROUSE =. W. j. G.. WALSTaD, ,.
NAOMI No. 81. REBECCA DEGREE.l. O. OF.
Meets the "a Hnd4t Wtd. nights, each mouth
MRS. f. Nj. ALLEN, \. Il.
MRS AUG. SCMGDT, Sccy
X D ELDKED POST, No. ia, meet
VI ~ N 2d & 4th saturday n each Hloni
u the court house ia MedlCine LOd sc,dt Z. NJ.
All comrades cordially invited.
LIT. WILLIAMS, Post Commando.
JOHN w UPPERMAN, AdJutant.
q N LOREN EDWARDS CAMP. No. I52,
., Y $. OF Y, meets on Isl ana 3d Sajur
day evenings Of each month, in \. of p. halt
f. W. SNODpY, Capt. " G. Matthews LIST Lieu.
ROBT. CAMERON, list Seargent.
A y II W Fidelity lodge No; :, ~ ,,la.
tIpht w. :. FINNEY. NJ. ".
f. NJ. BYERLEY, Recorder.
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.pyeu.or oi Kansas .... l.. 4 Humphrey
.iruttuaut-frCfcTuui'.- -.---. .---...-A >. ret
,.c.aiHf5 oi nate .......... %n Higgins
>.fif.. Treasurer. .............J. W. Hamilton
tturucy-. t.ilct.tl .tl................... } y. ives
ale Ad.,itor ..... ................ G. 81. Hoyey
Stltr SUPERINTENDENT ..... go. Geo. ". " iIdn
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SOCIETIES.

=. f. & \. NJ, Delta Lodee No -
yA - RCpuur communications, INST ana
u - third Saturday eVCrH-gs in each
w month. All atii iating aud non-aihli-
ating rlasCns il good standing, cordially in
viiCd to attend II \. }UitsET4, ". ~.
/. W. STOUT, Secretary.
CYPRUS CHAPTER No G3, r. - NJ, meets
IA Masonic Hail every - and Attn Thursday.
Visiting brethren cordially invited.
CHESTER /. LONo, II. p.
L. y. PECK. Sec'Y.
n II G LORRAINE CHAPTER, No. 30.
vs. Liz Ns Hegtuar Communications, Ef-;
tad third Monday t.Vo., iuxs, iu t..i.h uu1gsi
Mrs. FIX NCIs kLLls, "a NJ.
MAMIE V. o. BRYAN, Sec.
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/. q. .. T., Pioneer Lad +,
No. is3.-itegulHr Wcctinn
every Tuesday eVcu.ng.N :
iting urethrcniu EuDi iDEnd-
Ing cordially invited.
T. L. LIN LEY, n. q,
T.. ". BYERLEY, See.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-03-26
A CANADIAN PACIFIC PROJECT.

Chicago March 25-The old rumor that tie Canadian
Pacific is seeking an entrance to Chicago is being ne
newed with every indication that the road VIII accom-
plish that result But, instead OF only getting Oh
cago opening for It's Canadian business. the ioad VIII
MAY an important part I'm through New York Western
freight and passenger traffic. Under the gulse OF the
Queenstown and Niagara Railway and Bridge Com
panv the Canadian Pacific has applied TO the Canadian
Parliament for permission to build q road between
Niagara Falls the American side, and ST. GATHERINGS
q terminal pnint on the Canadian side road between
Niagara and Buffalo is projected. The runner current
, railroad circles is that there the Can dian Pacific
,ilI mite with the ackawanna thus giving the latter
the longsoughtf for Western connection. AT the west
ern termnu, of the Canadian Pacific Detroit, tho
Wabash will be brought in. and thus itm great trunk
line between NewIOrk and Chicago. such an dunllloh
al the present time TO the through lines can hardly be
aid TO be desirable Opportunc. Tho continued ue
messiah i'm traffic business shows no necessity Of an
thar line aud hc addition Of another would merely
add another mouth 70 be fed by the West.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-03-26
pOpJ-I ALTON OF THE SOUTH BY RACES.

Washington, March 25.-superntendent Porter. OF
the Census Bureau has in preparation an important
bulletin giving the population OF the South Atlantic
and South Central States. Missouri and Kansas, by
races. The total population embraced in this count Is
given as s75250 OF which 1865 EOS were whites
eoo6 l66 colored and 1o,s6S Chinese. japanese and
Indians. In the States included were found In $500
Hfeensixteenths of the entire cOlored population OF
the United states. The abnormal increase OF tho
colored population in what is known the black bel
during the decade ending in 1850 led to the belief that
the negroes were Increasing at much larger rate than
the white population This error from the diff
Guilty OF ascertaning how much OF the increase shown
by the Tenth Census real, and how much was due
to the omissions Of the Census Of 1870. The facts sus
tain the theory that the high rate of increase OF the
colored population shown in 1850 was due to tho
imperfect enumeration in the Southern states in 1870
During the decade the colored race has not held
its own against the whites Since 1e3O the "hlt"s
have steadily increased at rapid rate than the
colored people,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-03-26
AFFAIRS OF THE PENNSYLVANIA ROAD:

Philadelphia. March 2J.-Thc directors Of the Penn
svlvanin Railroad Company met for organization To-
day The present officers were reelected as follows :;
President George b. Roberts: first vice president
Frank Thomson second vice president. j. y. Dubarry
third vice president John T. Green; secretary Johh
G. Sims ir.: treasurer. Robert w. Smith, Inc
directors ordered minute Of the death Of Wistir
Morris who had been a director for many years, 70
he prepared resolved to attend the funeral In a
body President Roberts will now appoint the eN'cn
five staff Of the company. II Is understood That nc
will make no important changes.
statement Of the business Of all lines OF the com
many has been issued follows All lines cast OF
pittsburg and Eric for February 1901, rs compared
vtb the same month in 1890, show decrease In gross
earnings Of $111,77l, decrease In expenses OF
soi 600 and a decrease In net earnings OF S76,lo2
The two months Of 1901 As compared with the same
ncrod Of 1890 show increase in gross earnings OF
9;s 3g3 an increase IN expenses Of $33s2 and an III
crease I'm net earning Of Sjj0l1. All lnce west OF
pIttsburg and Erie for February, 1891, compared
with the same month I'm 1890 show decrease IN
gr1ss earnings Of S3iO9J7. decrease I'm expenses OF
sol !, OG7 and decrease in net earnings Of tl@J''o
TIE Two months Of 1891 a. compared with the same
noriod of $50 show decrease III gross ca'niE> OF
st5a $50 a decrease In expenses OF S302,s11, ana u
decrease in net earnings OF Sl25,017.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-03-26
MR. CORBIN AND THE CONCORD.
LEGAL OPINION TO BE SOUGHT ON ihH
STATES RIGHT TO TRANSFER lIs
INTEREST IN THE EOAD.

INTEREST IN THE ROAD
Concord y. H., March 23.-The hearing beiore 'fe
Uouse Judiciary Committee on the proposition Oh
Austin Corbin for the states interest in the Concon
Railroad was resumed this forenoon. F. :. streetef'
counsel FOR the Concord Railroad Company sad lha'
his clients desired to the opinion OF the supreme
Court taken at once upon the proposition as 10
whether or not the state could take the road under
its charter whether. IL il had that right, II coud
assign IT, and what should be paid IL II took the ro~i
lie did not doubt the good faith of Mr. CorbIh In
making his proposition, but lie believed that some
persons who were clamorng for the determining OF
the questions involved did not want them settled by
the court.
Chairman Briggs said that other and higher oners
had been made for the property than that submitted
by Mr. Corbin. The hearing then closed.
The committee later reported the following to the
House, and ii was adopted
Resolved That the opinion Of the Supreme Court be
requested upon the following questions:
Tirst-IIas the state right TO purchase the concord
Railroad under Section II Of it, charterl -,
SecOnd-If tho state has such right ana should
exercise it, can the State then sell and transfer the
Concord Railroad Ia third parties u.
Ihird-What must the state pay the corporation II
IL has the power 10 purchase ana should exercise
this powerl . ..,
opinion that the State has some rights under Scct'0
II Of the original charter Of the Concord Railroad, VIII
the court define in what property their rights now
exist,
II Is stated that the offer made to the judiciary
Committee in excess Of that made by Austin Corbin
comes from a Ncw-YOrk syndicate, and the sum
named IS $4,000 above Mr. COrbins offer.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-03-26
Suspicious OF MR. GOILD,S ROAD.
THE MISSOURI PACIFIC ACCUSED OF MANIPU-
cL.l. .n

LATINO THE SUGAR TRAFFIC.
Chicago March o5.-It is learned that the line quot
Ing the 40 cent rate sugar from the seaboard TO
Kansas CITY IN connection with the Missouri Pacific
road is the Kanawha Dispatch, operating over the
Chesapeake and Ohio. The reduction is cents per
100 pounds II IS reported here to-day that the
Missouri Pacific slrlnks It's proportion cents and the
Kanawha Dispatch cents but nobody appears to have
douit that the Missouri Pacific will claim that It's
Eastern connection IS entirely responsible for tho
reduction. and will he able TO show that ii is rccelv-
ING its full proportion Of the rate this business
The matter + 10 be Investigated, and will probably
como up before the Board of Commissioners at to-
morrows meeting. There is an agreement among the
Western roads 10 divide the sugar traffic both by
way of st. L0us and Chicago. and the Burlington
The Alton and the Wabash Will demand their full
proportion Of the business by way OF II. Louis at
the fall tariff rates Of A. cents per 100 pounds.
This however viii not prevent division of the bust
moss fnm the Chicago routes and there Is to be
fight unless rates are speedily adjusted on non
dscrminatve basis.
Railroad men here are growing more and more
s,sr,cious ~ Mr. Gould every day. and they do not
acouit the Missouri Pacific Of Intentional violation
~ its agreement In allowing the new sugar tariff
70 60 into effect The ten years traffic contracs
ho,reon tbc Chicago and Northwestern and the Union
pci,c has meyer been cancelled yet since Mr.. Gould
,coucd control the latter road III !. Su thal uc
nrovisons Of the agreement are pracucaly lgnoteu
and that whenever it Is possible inc mon l v
is turning over its through business 70 the Missouri
pacific Another charge made against the MlN>oull
Jad0c + that il Is making the same rates on certain
commodities from Memphis TO kansas ny W way
Of St Iouis that in effect from ST. Louis 10