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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-12-16
PITA AND POINT.

1t II odd enough that burglars take
such risks in q safe opening.
more American.
"A man can't be pretty, and know
he 10 pretty, and amount to anything.
-AtGhison Globe.
The hrst love affair Is the malady
which attends the cutting of wisdom
teeth--Elmira Gazette
-Bilkins-"I know what ] want"
Fnkins-''Then you must know a great
deal. Journal
If this world is stage the bald
headed man must be a supe, for he has
no part.-Yonkers Statesman.
The crank with a theory is like a
dog chasing his tail-it's nothing new
when he grasps it.-Columbus Post.
Everything should be in season.
The summer boarder cannot expect to
have spring chicken.-N. o. Picayune.
1t is q good rule to pay as you go.
But some men must be going very slow
II they go as they pay.-N. o. Picayune.
Advice is like counterfeit money.
Most people are ready to part with it,
but none care to take it. Boston Tran
script.
We always envy fat woman when
we see her laughing. There seems to
be so much of her having a good time.
-Atchison Globe.
The man who 'can not sing the old
songs" and won't try is the one we like
to meet at an evening party.-Bing-
hamton Republican.
-She-'Save me-I'm drowning %
He-"Will you marry me if 1 do?'
She-"No." He-"All right, then; I'll
save ou."-Brooklyn Life.
(which one do you wish to marry?"
"The younger sister," (Which one is
she?" 81 don't know. They both
claim to be.'-Brooklyn Life.
You seldom see . man so honest
that he says to his wife: "Where did 1
leave my hat ?" He usually says:
Where did you leave it 2"-Atchison
Globe.
Miss Prim Ito Mr.. Richfellow)-"Oh,
its nothing, my teeth ache little;
that's all" Small Brother (sympathet-
ically)-"Why don't you take 'em
out?"
Jealousy is the meanest of passions,
oAo yCb CNCu LAAC UcSI u WOIu0u Is
pleased sometime to realize that it is in
her power to excite it.-Somerville
Journal.
"A Rosy View-"So. young man,
you have gone and engaged yourself to
my daughter, Ell? What are your pros
poets, sir ?'' Perfectly Heavenlyr'-
Indianapolis Journal.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. you strike man
see that he deserves it." Bilkins-
"Poohl I have a better rule than
that" What is it, pray?"
Bilkins-"See, that he is smaller than
you."-Yankee Blade.
Low Associates.-Old Bellows (fu-
riously)-"I'll give you to understand,
madame, 1 know myselfP' Mrs. Bel
lows Complementary doubt of it.
Some low down person is all you care
to know. IN. Y. Herald.
Miss Smilax-"I've just been talk
ing to Mr.. Bigbrain; he is so very
clever; couldn't help thinking of you,
Mr.. Sappy, all the time was talking to
him" M. Sappy-''Yeth? 1 am so
glad, don't you know" Miss Smilax-
Yes couldn't help thinking what an
Unreasonable difference there is be-
tween people. "-Denver Sun.
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LONDON PRONUNCIATION.
The Bad English Spoken in the Home Of
the English Iancnn~a

The Bad English Spoken in the Home of
the English Language.
London, which should set the ex-
ample of purity, is unquestionably the
greatest sinner in the matter of pro-
nunciation. The first letter of the
alphabet is pronounced like i, thus
golden grain becomes golden grine;"
~ becomes ''oi;" eight" '1oight;"
so is uttered as if ''ow;" mo" by the
cockney is pronounced as now"
''keow," etc. An hours visit to any of
our London schools, for which we are
so heavily taxed. will prove this part of
our contention. Articulation must be
distinguished from pronunciation as the
consonant is from the vowel A man
may pronounce well, and yet articulate
badly, and vice versa. In schools and
colleges Bishop Wilberforce's rule ought
to be regularly carried out. use the lips
well, and spare the throat" Indistinct
reading and speaking are the NATURAL
results OF want of training in the con-
sonnatal powers in early life. One con-
sonant must serve as an illustration.
The letter ~ in Northum berland and
Durham is almost-if not quite-a gut
tural, while in London Belgravian dan
dyism substitutes "w,'' ''wunninp
wapidly" for running rapidly, and mil
lions of ordinary Englishmen are unable
to trin the e." even clergymen occa-
sionally transgressing in the opposite
direction when they read ''Canar of
Galilee," victorian our Queen" and
the ''Lawr of Moses Our advice un-
der this head is in public reading open
the mouth wide, move the lips we'll,
and utter the consonants, especially the
final ones, distinctly, as do the Irish,
the Welsh and the Scottish Highlander
New berry House Magazine.
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been born solely the one Tor the other.
After some slight quarrel, however, or
II q new acquaintance comes in the
way, they perceive as quickly as they
became full of mutual affection that
there is nothing so very lovable on
either side, after all. Still, II they con-
tinue to correspond, they will not for
that cease to sign themselves "Your
affectionate friend" which shows what
the phrase is worth in some cases.
Children, too, are sometimes compelled
quite against their inclinations, to sub
scribe themselves: Your affectionate
pupil" when writing to a school-mis-
tress or governess whom they may have
had every cause to dislike.
What we think to be necessary po-
likeness in letter, we should consider
ridiculous formation and an absurd pa
rade of words, if they were exchanged
in person. Yet these expressions can
not be classed with certain gracious
sentiments and intentions that one only
has the courage to forward in letter.
They mean nothing; perhaps that is
why we use them so freely, though we
are said to be straightforward and
practical people.-Chicago Saturday
Evening Herald.
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BOTH WE'RE BAsHFuL.

But IL IL Not Often n Quality OF Royalty.
The following anecdote, sent us by
our Berlin correspondent, is said to have
been related by the car himself to in
tmate friends. His elder brother, who
died at Nice, was, as is generally known,
first betrothed to Princess Dagmar of
Denmark. On his death-bed he left his
brother, the present car, q letter in
which he begged him to take his place
in the heart Of the princess. The Grand
Duke Alexander, however, was q very
bashful lover, and had not the courage to
carry out his dying brothers last wish,
till one day the Grand Duke Vladimir
said TO him: IF you will not fulfill the
wish Of our dead Nicholas, l shall pro-
pose for the hand of the princess my.
self" A short time after the Grand
Duke Alexander set off to Copenhagen,
and one day, being alone with the
Princess DAgmar, he handed her
tremblingly the letter of his brother.
When the princess read it she blushed
and said: ~ also received letter from
Nicholas, in which he begged me to be-
como your wife" Alexander asked to
be allowed to read the letter. The
princess fetched II, and together they
read It. The sequel was marriage
London Daily News.
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HE GOT HIS LICENSE.
And Was Married to Eliza Jones Tn
VERY Same Evening.

And Was Married to Eliza Jones That
Verv Same Evening.
BOSS, is dis yere de place whar yer
buys hsenses fur gittin' married by?"
asked young negro of Clerk Meigs at
the city hall the other afternoon.
This is the place, young man." the
genial clerk replied. what is YOUR
name, please?"
"Taint for myself dat wants il fur.
Deed yer is wrong dar, boss. wants
it fur er fren of mine over in George.
town, what is goin' ter marry Liza
Jones to-night-dat is, eff dar amt no
law agin marryin' on Fridays. Sim
Smith, he low dat dar is. But I toll
him dat dat law didn't tech George
town folks, nowise. An Ise right, amt
/, boss?"
WELL" replied Mr.. Meigs, 'sthe law
OF superstition is against marriages on
Fridays, but feel you are correct in
stating that it does not tech the good
people of Georgetown"
II knowed yer'd stain me, Judge, yer
honor. knowed dar wuz two difrent
laws fur Washington an Georgetown.
fur yer only gifts fifteen days in George
town fur de same tense dat yer gifts
thirty days in Washington. 1 knows,
fur.I'se tried 'em bofe. Make dat Hsens
fur Henry Jeems johnson and Liza
Jones. Of yer please, sab"
Both live In Georgetown" asks Mr..
Meigs, as he proceeds to ALI out the de-
sired document
''Yas, sab; bofe Of us-I means dew
bofs liv's dab. sab"
They are all alike, " said Mr.. Meigs,
IS the young darlEy left with the paper.
White or black. every blessed uan
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HE WOULDN'T BE AN ANGEL.

objection OF q Prococious YounRster to
Going to Heaven.
Time eight o'clock D. m; mother try
In to make sleep overcome curiosity in
ayoung philosopher.
Now, George, go to sleep; that's q
good boy"
81 amt sleepy; so, there"
"Good little boys that 90 to sleep
early will go to Heaven"
Watts Heaven?"
Its the beautiful place in the skies
where God lives"
''Ain't they nobody lives with imp"
"Oh. yes-good people, little boys and
girls who mind their mothers, and an
gels"
IN angels? Watts them?"
''Oh, they're grand beings who wear
crowns and have wing"
''Jes' like our biddies?'
Something like them, and then"
"Do they fly or do they jes' flop, flop,
when you shoot at emp"
''Oh, nobody ever shoots at them in
Heaven, my dear-they are Just like
people, only they are larger and have
wings"
Can they fly way up2"
''oh, yes"
'Can they light on the teeny-tenty
end of a limb and eat 'nangle worm, jes'
Ike a robbin?"
Il don't know, George"
did you ever see an angelo"
'The boy looked at her reproachful-
ly. "Muvver, be you 6bbin' ?" he asked
sternly.
''oh, no, indeed, George"
bad DOMAINS wat flbs gets
banked"
George, the Bible tells about
angels"
Watts the Bible?" He has been told
every night for year, and therefore
the mother, knowing only too well the
bewildering string Of questions that in
eVitably ensued, attempted ruse by
making another reference to those
angel wings
"How do angels get their clothes on
over their wings?"
''They wear robes"
''Hain't they got no buttonsp"
81 guess not"
Can little nangels dress themselves
wivout their muvvers buttoning their
waists2"
81 guess So"
Don't little nangels never have pants
wen they gets big's me2" George Is
wearing his first pair.)
81 don't believe they do"
Huh, wouldn't be little nangel."
why, George SMITH"
Wouldn't"
He turned away, stubbornly. It was
evidently definitely settled, Heaven and
pants-or earth decentralization
Journal.
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An Ancient battle oath.

The Gaelic chieftain's oath before 90
ing into battle has been found in an
Irish text of the second century and de-
ciphered as follows: 1.-THE heavens are
above us, the land below us. the ocean
around us-everything in a circle about
us. If the heavens do not fall, casting
from their high fortresses the stars like
rain on the face of the earth; If shocks
from within do not shatter the land it
self; If the ocean from its blue soli-
tudes does not rise up over the brows
of al living things, /, by victory in
war. by combats and battles, will bring
TO the stable and the fold the cattle and
70 the house and to their dwelling the
women that have been stolen by ths
enemy."-Chicage Inter-Ocean.
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A CANINE HERO.
An Instance of Striking Intelligence IN .
Dog.

An Instance OF Striking Intelligence IN q
Dog.
/ recently witnessed the following
little incident on the Thames, near
Twickenham, when the river was full
OF land-water, and therefore very swift
and dangerous: Two dogs-one large
animal, the other little terrier-were
enjoying a swim near the bank; but
soon the little one was carried out some
distance and was unable to get to shore.
BY this time the big dog had regained
the shore, and seeing what was hap
pening to his companion, began run
ming backward and forward in the most
excited manner, at the same time whim-
pering and barking, and evidently not
knowing for the moment what to
do. The terrier was fast losing
strength, and, although swimming hard,
was being rapidly carried down stream.
The big dog could contain himself no
longer. Running some yards ahead of
his struggling friend, he plunged into
the water and swan vigorously straight
out until he got in line with the little
head just appearing behind him. Then
Ire allowed himself to be carried down,
tail first, until he got next to the ter
rier, this being accomplished in the
cleverest manner, and began to swim
hard, gradually pushing the little one
nearer and nearer to the shore, which
was gained after a most exciting time.
The fact of this canine hero going so
far ahead to allow for the strong cur
rent, and the Judgment shown in get
ting alongside, and then the pushing,
certainly seemed to me to betoken in
stinct of a very high order.-Pall Mall
Gazette
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Acquired Taste.

Agents from the United States are
travelling through Europe shown the
people how to cook our corn in the va
rious ways. The taste for it will be a
matter of requirement. Americans do
not like rye bread at first, but after be-
coming accustomed to it many prefer it
to wheat, declaring that it has more
substance. What the Europeans call
corn is our wheat, and what we know
as corn they designate as maize, and use
very little. They can not understand
its universal popularity in this country
as an article of food. Corn bread is as
unpalatable to their working classes as
their "black bread" would be to ours.
INDIANAPOLIS News
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No. 24I0.
40. First publication Dec. o, 1891.
PUBLICATION NOTICE.


John ID. Probert. Mary Z. Probert and John
ders, az plaintiff, ala on the Both Gay of July
1891 file his petition In the strict court in and
Tor Barber county. state Of Kansas, a2iifnst
them and John Aofett, l.. &. Mny, W. r. Knote
aud Mrs W +. knUte. his wife, az defendants
setting forth that said John ID. Probert and
Mary E. ProDert gave II mortgage TO Emily 81
Sanders on the following described lands eitu-
ated in the county of Barber and state of X an
tas, viz: The south half of the northeast quar-
ter ami the north half OF the southeast q ar-ter
OF section twelve az. township fhirIy-four
(34), range thirteen U3l, west OF tbf. 9th r. NJ to
secure the payment OF the sum OF $4,000 ac-
cordlnS to certain notes referred TO In said
mortgage, ana praying Judgment against said
John ID. Prooert anG Mary r.. Probert for the
sum OF $4,000, now claimed TO be cue and un-
paid. with interest at II per cent per annum.
on S4l2.UO from the LIT day of October. A. ID.
1889, or that said premises may be sold TO pay
the same
Now said defendants. first above named are
hereby notified that they must appear and an
sWeF said petition or before tbs .lst day of
January, 1852, said petition will lie taken
Judgment for said amount. and a decree fOrev-
or Ddrri them Of any n, ut, title or interest i'm
and to said lands. after the sale thereof. will
be- rendered against them, and Ordering said
lands to be sold TO satisfy ans sum found to be
due the plaintiff upon said notes and mortgage.
Attest. ii s. Lands, Clerk.
IL. 81 BY AUG. SCHMIDT. Deputy 2e-3
W. j. PATTERSON, Attorney for Piaintin
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TERMINATION OF LETTERS.
some Formal Phrases Used in Core
spondence.


spondence.
There is a great amount of untruth
about the formal examinations of many
of our letters. Formally is doubtless
always more or less false; but it seems
q pity and a mistake that civilization
should prompt us to utter falsehoods.
The savages have the advantage over us
there; they tell white lies and black
lies, to the best of our belief, as fire.
quently as civilized people do, but not
for forms sake. Your most obedient
servant" Is, of course, every word 'of
IL false, when IL precedes the
signature of = person with whom we
have never, perhaps, exchanged
q word in our lives. II those who pro-
fess to be SO were to sign themselves
"Yours respectfully" there would be q
little more semblance of truth in the
assertion. and we should be able to
form a mo correct estimate of our
establishment of most obedient serv-
ants Ever yours sincerely" goes a
step beyond Yours truly" and it might
lead 10 q number OF most painful decep-
tons, II long use had not taught us to
know better than to believe in such sim
certify. It ought TO be quite cheering,
II not touching. 70 observe how
easily lady correspondents In par
ticular sign themselves "Your Affec-
tionatO friend" to one another.
They become Affeotionate by instinct,
- Il were. especially by post Ladies'
sometimes have an odd way of clinRing
TO each other desperately after a short
po0naintapceahip e though they had
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"How did it happen. madame in
quired the physician, as he examined
the fractured limb.
WAY, doctor" explained the LADY.
who had more wealth than education.
those pavements are in dreadful con-
dition. had no sooner stepped from
my coupon than slipped and FELL
Pharmaceutical Era
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MIRA Staggers-I don't know what
70 do with nay husband He just stays
around the house all the time and
growls
Mira. Dimling-why don't you make
him 60 to work7
Mrs.. Staggsrs-It isn't respectable to
work the growlcr.-N. Y. Sun.
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Sno L0uI1 49,

A Texas lady sent her servant over to
the house of sick neighbor.
Mrs. Smith saunt me over to ask
you how your husband am comm on
dis mawning?"
Very bad, indeed. The doctor sa,
he may die any minute" was the reply.
Den l reckon / had better wait a
little while, as hasn't got muffin eles
to do jess now."-Texas Siftings.
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Mr.. C. Allard. wealthy rancher In
the Flathead country, Montana, has a
herd of forty-seven fine buffaloes. There
are forty-six COWS and one large bull,
all magnificent, full-blooded bisons.
They are kept with the domestic cattle,
and are herded with but little trouble.
1t is not generally known that such a
fine private herd of buffaloes is in ex-
istence. The superintendent of the
Yellowstone park said the other day
that there are from 200 to 500 buffaloes
in the park now, and they are increas-
ing in number.
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Matrimonial Item.

Smithers-You told me night before
last you were going to sleep, but in
stead of going home you went to the
theater, What did you lie to me for?
Mr.. Henpeck-I didn't lie to you at
all. Where else can poor married
man get chance to sleep except at the
theater? Ii you suppose can sleep at
home it is because you don't know nv
wife.-Texas Siftings.
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1T has not been known until -

1T has not been known until re-
Gently how the French explorer, Paul
Crampel, met his death in central At
RIGA. Some survivors of his party say
he was killed treacherously in ambush.
While in a village he asked for water.
The natives took him to well, and
when he drew near it other natives
jumped from the bush. stabbed him in
the back, and then threw his body into
the well. The survivors, on their re-
treat to Brazzaville. were reduced to
such extremities that they were forced
to eat the leaves Of trees.
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"A report comes from Moberly, Mo-,
that the young lady members of the
Methodist church of that town have
started out to pay off the church debt
in somewhat novel way, They have
pledged themselves to pay ten cents
into church treasury every time they
are kissed, the young men who do the
kissing to pay the freight.
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An UnanswerabIe Argument.

Now, for instance" said Watts
who was airing his views on evolu-
ton, ''if the conditions were such that
horses were compelled to climb for
their food, it would be but matter of
time until race of horses with claws
would be developed.
What nonsense" replied Potts.
Haven't cats been trying to learn to
sing for the last four thousand yearsp'
-Indianapolis Journal
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May-There is one good thing about
you, Frankly; when you take me to the
theater you never go out between the
acts.
Frank don't need to; your beauty
Is so intoxicating that il answers all
purposesl-Jury.
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JACOB KNlRR,
Merchant Tailor.
Your patronage solicited. All work
guaranteed.
Notice OF Sale OF School Land.

NOTICE is hereby given that on the End day
n OF January, le93. at the CouutyTreasurer's
oihce. in the court house, I'm the city of Medf-
cine Lodge, between the hours of ten o'clock
g. M and three O'Clock y. m, L will Offer for
SAFE the southeast quarter OF the northeast
quarter OF section thrty-six &c., township
tnlrty-tWo GSSl. south. range fifteen Qbl, west
OF the 9th +. NJ. appraised at three $3] dollars
per acre.
The southwest quarter of the northeast
quarter of lection thirTy-six f36 township
thirty-two t2'. south, range fifteen Q5), west
oi the 9th +. NJ. appraised at three so dollars
per acre.
The northeast quarter of the northeast quar-
ter or section thirty-six 36j. township thirty
TWO t32). south. range fifteen 10 west of 9Th
r NJ. appraised al three t$3i dollars per acre,
and Improvements thereon appra ised at tWen-
ty-sevcn ana o2-100, 81 81 dollars.
The northwest quar- er of the f,rtheas AZ utIar-
ter oi section ttir;y-sIx $3.50. township thirty
Two t52) SOUTH range fifteen Q5). west of 9th P.
N appraised ut three ($3J dollars per acre
aud improvements thereon appraised at twen-
ty-seven and oO-1eO $21o.G) dollars.
E. b. PECK.
ZSt4 County treasurer.
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NOTICE on suRYEY.

Office Of County Surveyor. Barber County,
Medicine Lodge. Kas.. New. 18th. 1891.
ITO land owners in sections tWenty-three,
J. twenty-four, twenty-five and twenty-six
iz3 "a. ~ and 26l, township thirt y-four s3ll,
south, of range eleven ia. west of 9Th p. IL.
Take notice that In pursuance of Q notice
signed by 4. J Howard. -. u Circle ard
James Smith. ownersof nv section q, swk
and sex Of section "a, township a. south.
range II. west. shall proceed in the manneP
prescribed By law, on the
2lsr DAY OF DECEMBER, 1891,
to make q survey 10 permanently establish the
corners and boundaries of the following tracts
OF land, viz: NWH section Is. SW1 and SIX
OF section "a. township "a, south. range III,
west. IN which you are Interested, and ehaf1
continue from day to day UNI completed. II
you are In possession of any information,
or can produce any evfderce of any kind
which VIII assist in idertf<yine any original
government corner or other legally established
corner, you are earnestly requested 10 pro-
duce the same before me at the time Of max
ing the survey. 3. W. HILL,
~ County euyveyon
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unas comes mere Tor a marriage license
In which he figures as one of the prin-
cipals endeavors in every possible way
to convey just the opposite to our minds.
Strange, isn't it?"-Washiurton Star.
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Three peoples party men were
elected to the Legislature in Virginia