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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-10-14
THE PROFESSORS DISCOVERY.

Professor Wigglewaggle was . very learned
man;
To benefit humanity he had patent plan;
"To all intents and purposes q person can" be
thought,
rLive double his allotted time-by living IS he
ought"
The way this idea struck him was by seeing
people waste
Their time and strength and energies-Which
cannot be replaced,
BY working in q hurry. without stopping once
TO think
OF better ways to manage or to oven eat and
drink.
And then he calculated that II people rightly
used
Their time and strength and energies thus
wasted and abused
They'd do their present daily work in just
one-half the day,
And then restore their powers by On after
noon Of play.
Before grand discovery like this one can DO
hurled
Upon an unsuspecting and unsympAthizing
world
The finder first must try It on his family to
sec
II there are any errors to prevent It working
free.
AAd so tho good professoF-for the sake Of
human life
Began to make a study OF his ever busy wife;
Her needless steps he counted, watched her
powers misapplied,
And noted how, for nothings was her Pc
tienOe often tried.
my dear" he smiled one evening, ~ hsve
figured out that you
Use twice tho force required for your work
that's never through
Now, II you'll run this household in my soien-
tifo way
You'll do tho work in half the time Hnd have
the rest for play"
Professor wigglewaggle," said his wife, '1f
were you
ia let a woman msnage-as It is her place to
do
And keep oOt Of the kitchen. When want
patent plan
For running my domestic work I needn't ask
a-mdn."
Alas Had Mrs. W not sat on him 30 hard,
Had she for living longer shown q little more
regard,
We might not see the worry and the hurry
people show
In rushing to their cofans long before they
ought to go.
H. @. Dodge, in Goodalrs Sun.
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PERSONAL AND IMPERsoNAL.

The jewels and bric-a-brac of the
In Paris with unusual results. A pearl
necklace of 212 big pearts brought $780,
900 francs
"A fireman at Myerstown, Pa, wore
a celluloid collar to fire, when it be-
came ignited from the great exposure
to the heat and burned his neck and
diScolored his face.
"A Russian physician brought libel
suit against widower who had pasted
on the tom bstone of his lately deceased
wife the last prescription he had given
her, the day before her death
Col Polk, the head of the farmers
alliance, is rising five-and-thirty. In
appearance he is profoundly intelli-
gent-looking man of middling height,
with iron-gray hair and long white
beard of Vandyke cut.
"A physician in New Haven washes
all the greenbacks he receives He
first uses soap, then rinsing the notes
off in cold water, and he reports that
the treatment gives clean, crisp look
to even the most dilapidated bill
The president and moving spirit of
the American Society of Psychical Re-
search, which has for its object the
scientific investigation of ghosts, is Mr..
B. o. Fowler, editor of the Arena. AL
though practical and hard-headed
young editor. he possesses a great lik-
ing for the uncanny.
1t is said that in district in Meade
county, Kan, there Is only one family
The husband and wife constitute the
school board, and they employ their
only child, a daughter, as teacher. who
of course has no pupils. Recently they
raised her salary from thirty-five to
forty dollars a month.
"A hump on his back was the most
conspicuous part of beggar who for
years had collected aims on the steps of
St Sulpice church, Paris OF late
years the hump seemed to grow. The
other day, in delirium, he jumped from
a window and was killed. This hump
contained $40, 600 in bonds and coin.
The duke of Cambridge, since the
age of nineteen, has been in the queens
employment. The following are the
rough estimates of the amount of money
he has received: Grant of R12 900 fol
thirty-nine years, 946s, 900; army emol.
uments from 1887 to 1861, e16, 600; colo.
mel of Grenadier guards, 1861 to 1869
e45, 900; commander-in-chief, 1862 to
1889. ELS, 900; rangership of parks
Eli, 900; total, G671 ZOO.
The presentshah of Persia has been
one of the most progressive monarchs
the country ever had. During his reigf
Teheran has changed from dreary old
town of one hundred thousand inhabit
ants to city of thrice that population,
and been beautifed with fine prone.
nades, elegant residences and hand.
some public buildings. He has intro
duced banks, gas, telegraphs and street
railways and modernized the army,
and he is the first ruler of Persia tc
form regular ministry on the Euro,
pean model and to nominate ambassa.
dores to foreign courts
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one way to Sell Cigars.

A South Illinois street druggist man
worked a novel cigar-selling scheme
few weeks ago in the following fashion
He found a stray nickel on the floor of
his store one morning and resolved to
post this notice on the window of his
store: "a sum of money found on
Tuesday last in this establishment.
i. The owner will receive same within up-
on describing the money" The scheme
worked like a charm. Hundreds of
citizens came in daily for over a week,
while the notice was left on the win
dow, describing their losses and bewail-
ing their misfortune. Invariably every
applicant for the lost money bought a
cigar. Some were satisfied with five
cent straight whifs. hut the great ma
jority, anxious to impress the drug man
favorably toward their claims, invested
in two for quarter. So great was the
rush that the fortunate druggist had to
order a fresh consignment of choice
brands None of the applicants ever
applied for the nickel. ALI the claims
ran up into the hundreds of dollars, one
man stating he missed his bank book
with fifteen hundred dollars -Indiana-
polls Sentinel
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HONEST MONEY.

A HypocritIcal Cry Which, Like Charity
Coveretb n Multitude of Sins.
Will the plutocratic howlers tell MS
what they mean by honest" money?
The silver dollar was the unit of value
for over-eighty years of our history. 1t
was the dollar of Washington, Jeffer-
son. and all the patriots, including Lin
coin. 1t was the standard of value dur
ing and till long after the war; Do
these yelpers mean to tell US that this
big, one-hundred-cent shining silver
dollar is not honest? If they do not
then please explain what is meant by
s'honest" money.
When the late rebellion burst upon
us in all the fury of civil war gold skunk
away and hid its cowardly self in the
musty cellars of Wall street Green
backs were issued and the gold bugs
stabbed them twice, but crippled as
they were they carried the nation
through its greatest struggle and fur
nished life for years afterward After
the battle flags had been furled and the
sod was green over a multitude of fallen
patriots the gold-bugs crawl out of their
Shiny, treacherous hiding places in
their dungeons, their bodies besmeared
with the filth and CRIME of dishonor,
and their first cry is honest money.
Then there is John Sherman over in
Ohio croaking about honest" money.
He was the special tool in the hands OF
the British in striking down the money
of the people in 1873. He is responsible
above all others for the crime of de-
stroying the peoples money. And now
he rises up with his garments smelling
of British lucre and joins in the chorus
of honest" money.
The same class of men that called
the greenbacks Lincoln skins;" the
same class that struck down silver;
the same class that are doing all in
their power to Cypress the people, are
the identical same class that are howl
ing about "honest" money.
The other evening we passed by
frog pond. The waters were covered
with slime and filth, and the stencil
seemed to rise to heaven and impreg-
nate the air with malarial poison.
Down out of sight in the gaugrene and
the foul and dirty mass came croal<-
ing, and all the croaker said was
''honest money. "-Kokomo Qnd.) In
duStrial Union
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"a LITTLE NONSENSE

you see," said the salesman, ''this
coat contains cigarette pocket" But
/ don't smoke cigarettes. 'Oh, well,
then, the pocket can hold the money
you save by not smoking them. MEMS
Outfitter.
Your daughter refuses to be my
wife, Mrs. Jones'" "She's foolish
then. Have you pressed her at alp"
mo. To tell the truth she is always
so distant that 1 have been afraid to
try. IN. Y. Press.
Fond PARENT fear, young man,
that you seek my daughters hand for
her wealth" Young MAXWELL, look
at her candidly and kindly mention
what other qualifications she possesses,
will you?"-Truth.
-"And what have you been guilty of
now? This is about the twentieth time
that as magistrate have had you be-
fore me-" "And is it my fault, your
honor, that you haven't been promoted
to some better Officer"
Mrs. Figg (writing)-"Shan l send
Uncle George your 1ove?" Laura-"Of
course; and you had better make it my
undying love. Perishable goods can
not be sent through the mail, you
know. indianapolis Journal
-Lucy-"Such an exquisite skirt as
your dear little daughter wore at the
children's fancy-dress party! Was it
your design" Ella-"Not exactly.
You see, the time was very brief, and /
Just let her wear the shade of the par
lor extension lamp Pittsburgh Bull
letin.
II hear that your rival has been
successful in becoming engaged to Miss
Cumrox," said young man to his
more clever than l." Indeed? How
was that?' He knew enough to let
her father beat him at billiards and
didn't Washington Star.
He was a farmers boy and very
little. His father was pulling off his
stockings preparatory to going to bed,
when his mother asked: g Freddy,
what is father doing?" Freddy had
witnessed the process of treating
ripened corn and replied: Hes husk-
in his feet. "-Demorest's Magazine.
Ruined His Business Mrs Dogood
Even if you are just out of prison,
that does not prevent you from going
to work" Dusty Rhodes-''It do, mum;
they cut my hair, and my business is
ruined" Mrs. Dogood-"What bust
ness were you imp Dusty Rhodes
1.-THE Circassian beauty line, num-
N. Y. Sun.
He Was Rich. -Hurly-''We always
hang Uncle Johns pictures in promi-
nent place. He's an artist. you know. :"
Burly-"A good one, suppose" Hurry
mo, indeed. He doesn't know. the
first thing about painting Burly-
"Then why-?" Hurly-'Oh. he's very
wealthy, and my wife expects to be-
, come his heiress. Yankee Blade.
Genus Irritable First Bard -
Seen my sonnets in the Pacific Week
ly?' Second Bard-"Yes" First Bard
Like them?" Second Bard-"Well-
a-candidly-I--" First Bard-''Oh,
if it comes to that, candidly / always
hated your beastly ballads, and rom
dels. and rot in the Erechtheum-but /
had the decency not to tell you so."-
Punch
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NOTICE.

hOTICE.
In the Probate Court OF Barber county, Kan
sas.
In the matter of the Estate Of Elias S. Taylor.
deceased.
To Whom il may Concern:
Notice ~ hereby given that Margaret W .Tay-
Tor did, on the 18th day of September 1891 6le,
in the Probate Court of Barber county Kan
sas, an application for the probate of the LAST
will and testament of Elias 5. Taylor, deceas-
ed: and with such application did file a duIY
authenticated copy OF the said last will ana
testament OF the said klias S. Taylor, deceas-
ed, together with the probate thereof az made
IN the Probate Court of CoIumbiana counfv
IN the state of Ohio. That such application
1or the probate OF the foreign win of the said
Elias >. Taylor, deceased, has been Continued
oy the probate court of Barber county. Kan
sas, Tor the period of two months. and until
the 18th day of November, 1881; and that the,
application for the probate OF the said foreign
viii viii be heard by the said court on the 18th
day OF November, 1881, al nine O'Clock g. m
MARGARET w. TAYLOR
Executrix.
attest: GEo w. STEVENS. Probate Judge.
Is Z. SAMPLE. Attorney.
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shrewd Delivery BOYS.

The boys who deliver packages for the
dry goods stores have shrewd trick by
which they make a few extra pennies.
AS everyone knows dry goods are
never sold for even money, but foot up
bills that always end with either fifty
seven, forty nine or twenty-seven cents.
The boys are always given a generous
supply of small coin to make change
with when they deliver goods sent C.
o. d. They pretend, however, never to
have it. and as there is seldom the
right change in the house. they get the
odd pennies Y Herald
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CuItiYating Grief.

Grief is the poorest thing in the
world to cultivate. Yet some people
go to a great deal of pains to keep their
griefs thrifty. They are like the be-
reaved mother of our acquaintance who
several times day takes dress of her
dead child's and hugs and kisses 1t.
Then realizing that her girl is only a
memory, her grief is at the boiling
point to which all her efforts have been
directed to carry it. There is no wis
dom in cultivating grief.-Western
Rural
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NOTICE
First published Sent. 3. 1901 /


Notice is hereby given that will on Satur-
day. october 10th. 1891, make application at the
local land Office at Larned, Kansas for the re-
payment of the purchase money ON the fol-
lowing described tract of land to-wit: The
southwest quarter "a of the southeast quar-
ter IA of section tbIrty-five CS5), I'm township
thtrty-three t33J SOUTH of range fourteen 0il
west. in Barber county, Kansas. for the rea-
son that my original entry of said tract of land
has been cancelled by order of Commissioners
of General Land Office.
1916 ISRAEL aPTRa
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-Customer-"Are these colors fastp"
New Salesman-"Well. black is never
considered fast color, but we have
some pretty loud variegated colors that
might please you. st Paul Globe.
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"a Maryland railroad not long aeo
carried female passenger half 4 mile
cut Ct her way, and has lately had Is
pay 1850 fer 90 deins.
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DELINQUENT TAX-LIST,
sHERIFFs PROCLAMATION.


STATE OF Kansas. COUNTY OF BARRIER, IS:
The State of Kansas to all whom these pres-
ents shall come, Greeting
Know We. that I. j. W. Dobson, sheriff of
Barber county. Kansas, by virtue OF authority
IN me vested by law, do by this proclamation
give pnnlic notice that on the FIRST Tuesday af-
being
TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 3RD, A. d. 1891,
a general election will be held fol- the purpose
OF electing the following county and township
officers, to-wit:
One Sheriff.
One Register of Deeds
One County Treasurer
One County Clerk.
One County Surveyor
One Coroner.
One Commissioner of the End District.
Also in each municipal township in the
county:
One Trustee.
One Treasurer.
One Clerk.
Two Justices.
Two Constables.
One Road 0verseer for each road district
Provided, that justices of the peace hold
their offices for two years or until their sue
cessors are elected and qualified and justices
of the peace shall be elected only in townships
where vacancies occur either by expiration of
term. or otherwise.
Votes of electors will he received for the
candidates for the above offices at the usual
voting places in Barber county, on the above
named date.
Witness my hand this Goth day of September,
a: d. 1871. j. w. DOBSON,
10 Sheriff of Barber county. Kansas
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DO you Know why the voice OF the
cat at night Is so high?" ssNo. Why
Because it's generally pitched on the
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-13
THE HANDS TRAINED IN SCHOOL.

The success atten dant upon the estab-
lishment of the in dustrial course in the
public school system has been demon
strated by the manner in which the classes
formed have been filled with pupils. Not
only are they crowded, but there are many
pupils enrolled, awaiting their chance to
take the course, and it is apparent that
to accommodate all who desire to fit them
selves for artisanship other classes will
soon have to be organized.
The industrial course attachment of the
public school system is not new venture.
1t has been tried for several years in other
cities and its success has been such as to
make it certain that no system is now COM
plete without it. The failures, and they
have been few, resulted from the incom-
petence of teachers and managing boards,
but when both were good the course has
proven more valuable adjunct of the
school system than the kindergarten. The
object of an industrial course is to educate
the hands SO that they may be made of
service to their owners. The majority of
pupils in the schools will have to depend
upon their hands for their means of sup
port and system that fails to include the
industrial course is faulty and out of date.
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NAMES OFTEN SPOKEN.

CAPTAIN HAwLEY SMART, the English
sporting novelist, is an old soldier, and
fought in the Crimea.
BISHOP COLEMAN, of Delaware, has Just
started off on pedestrian tour through the
mountains of Virginia.
EX-SENATOR INGALLS, comes high. He
thinks his services for q lecture tour are
worth about 81, 900 night.
GENERAL ALIKHANoFF ANARsKY, of
the Russian army, was arrested as Russian
spy in Cabul, the capital of Afghanistan. He
was disguised as a Moslem devotee.
GEORGE A. PILSBURY, of Minneapolis,
presented soldiers monument to his native
town. Concord, N. H. 1t was recently dedi-
Gated in the presence Of 1000 persons.
JAMES LAND ALLEN, the Kentucky
author, lives in a little frame house on the
Tates Creek pike, just out of Lexington.
Here he passes nearly all his time in literary
work
HENRY NJ. STANLEY says that mans
wife is too sacred for the world to know and
discuss, and he is much opposed to having
his wife paint, publish book, or in any way
attract public attention.
A GRANDSON of Thomas Hart Benton,
Missouri's great Senator, lives in Neosho,
Mo- He is q smart young lawyer and is am
bitious to become member of the Court of
Appeals of the st. Louis district.
FRANK STOCKTON dictates to a ste
nographer and seldom writes more than
1000 words day. He must be peculiarly fas-
tidious, as he confesses that he sometimes
waits an hour to select the correct word
EDWARD ATKINSON, the accomplished
statistician and wealthy mill owner, is a
handsome man of large, robust figure His
beard is white, he wears steel trimmed spec
tacles, and for 40 years he has been a close
student of finance and economics.
THERE is only one man now living in
Edinburgh who knew Sir Walter Scott
This is James stille, the bookseller, who be-
gan his apprenticeship with John Ballan-
tyne & Co. in the year after Waterloo He
is full of "reminiscences of Sir Walter, who
was to him both the greatest and the best of
men.
IT is lucky for certain people that the
Prince of Wales rather than the Emperor of
China sets fashions. The latter gentleman
rises every morning at o'clock, and after
light meal goes to the temple for prayer and
meditation. Breakfast is served at and
dinner at 8. After this he works hard till
sunset and then retires.
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any other way. We can readily see that If
the deyotees of Thuggee in India, or of
Mormonism in Utah, were entrusted with
the enforcement of the criminal laws, the
laws against murder and bigamy would
not be likely to make much of success.
How much more reasonable is it to en-
trust law prohibiting railway pools to
men who have avowed their belief in pool
ing and then blame the law for the con-
tinuance of pools? The Interstate COM
merce law is widely denounced as failure,
when the fact is that after four years, dur
ing which violations have been frequent
and notorious, the cases in which its pen
alties have been enforced can be counted
on The fingers of single hand.
This is the result of that principle of
selection which has deemed it wild ex-
pertinent to entrust the Interstate COM
merce to those who believed in its enact
ments. This idea has been more or less
prominent in the appointments of both
administrations. AS long as it prevails
we can expect no more success for the law
in the hands of the commission than the
perfunctory respect paid oft during the
past four years.