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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-07-06
LEARN TO TAKE 1T EASY.
Too Much Worry and Business Not Good
for q

Too Much Worry and Business Not Good
for Man.
at does seem strange to me-" said ex-
Congressman West to q New York Her
aid reporter the other day, "why some
business men cling closely to business
all their lifetime. You laugh? Well,
business is business, Of course, and Ben
franklin knew what he was talking
about when he said something about
saving penny every time you get a
chance. But what mean to say is that
a business man needn't be everlastingly
drudgtng away simply because he is
making lots of money. He should take
- holiday, and at times jolly long one. "
Mr.. West strolked his big white beard
and looked up at the ceiling as if trying
ito count the roses In the frescoed
wreaths above the chandelier, and then
went on:
'Rich men In business, no matter
whether they began business when they
were poor as church mice or whether
they had piles of money before they got
out of their teens, are becoming
sensible nowadays. can count
on my fingers ends dozens of mer
who, twenty-five years ago, never
took u week off in summer time
even, who were rich as Croesus
years and years before that, and yet
who went to their Offices as early as
they had 10 do when they were clerk
ing it; and they kept it up till they
toppled into their graves. Why,
knew some New York business mer
twenty-five years ago who had never
taken an ocean bath because they hac
never seen the ocean beyond the Bat
terry. know a thing or two about
Saratoga, and, would you believe it
last summer had as pleasant day as
v teveT Pent in my life ut Ballston with
merchant In this city who had gone ou
of town for week for the first tim,
during the sixty years of his activ,
business life? Yet that man had Away,
made his clerks go away for q weel
every summer, with a weeks salary
paid In advance.
Business men don't feel old nova
days because their hair Is gray. The
don't save up for the boys by depriv
ing themselves of needed recreation
They take their share Of jollities of life
too; and by jollities don't mean jags
And though they don't work as man
hours day as their fathers did the,
manage to accomplish much more"
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HOW GLACIERS ARE FORMED.
Interesting Facts Regarding the Wonder
full Monsters OF Frozen Territory.

Interesting Facts Regarding the Wonder
full Monsters OF Frozen Territory.
When large tract of mountain sur
face is exposed above the snow line,
and when the precipitation exceeds
that which can be removed by melting
or by evaporation, the surplus snow
gradually collects in the valleys and
gorges, and slOwly-almost impercepti-
bly-moves down the slope far below
the usual limit. Thus ara formed the
well-known rivers of ice" or glaciers.
The best-known glaciers are In Switzer-
land, where some four hundred, vary
ing In length from five to fourteen
miles, are scattered through the Alpine
valleys Their width varies from half
q mile 10 one mile, and their greatest
thickness, IL is estimated, is somewhere
about one thousand feet. But these,
when compared to some of our Green
land or Alaska glaciers, become very
insignificant Muir glacier, for in
stance, occupies a tract some thirty or
forty miles wide, from which nine main
streams and seventeen branches unite
70 form a grand trunk, that pushes
mighty wall Of solid ice, 5000 feet wide
great Humboldt far outstrips this, be-
ing fully 115 miles wide and some 1000
foot In thickness. Nordenskjold, who
penetrated 1913 miles inland, was unable
70 find It's end. Goldthwaite's Geograph-
ical Magazine thinks that In all prob
ability IL is an arm of one gigantic field
Of ice, Gaping the interior Of Green
land, and moving gradually but cease
lessly toward the sea.
These monsters, however, are much
more difficult 70 study than their
smaller brothers in Switzerland, so we
will leave them and see what there Is
to be seen on and about one of the lat
ter. Beginning with his bleak, dreary
birthplace, some two or three thousand
feet above the snow line, and following
1t TO the point where 1t is transformed
into q muddy torrent, we will first Sc
lect some summit having about that ell
ovation. Here the light, powdery
snow, which is but slightly affected by
the heat Of the sun, isSblown hither and
thither by the winds, and finally de-
posted In the gulches and ravines.
There II accumulates until, principally
by its own weight, 1t begins to creep
down the slope to the valleys below. AS
1t gradually approaches the snow line
At Is more and more affected by solar
heat, which every day converts the sur
face snow into myriads Of tiny rills.
These triclkle into every possible crack
and Granny and, during the night, are
frezea solid again. Thus, through a
succession of freezing and thawing, the
entire mass acquires a coarse, granular
composition, quite unlike the soft,
powdery substance which it was farther
up the slope.
But all this time fresh deposits of
snow are being piled on top. These
naturally tend to compress it, and of
course are In their turn compressed by
still more recent falls. In this manner,
with the aid Of radiation, the neve, as it
is called, passes, by insensible grada-
items, into clear, solid ice-the glacier
proper. This ends It's formation.
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CHINESE DRUMMERS.
Almon dyed California Merchants DOH
Without High-Priced White Labor.


Without High-Priced White Labor.
The Chinese have discovered another
way of competing with white men, For
years the merchants in Chinatown, par
ticularly those manufacturing cigars
and clothing, have employed white men
at large salaries to drum up interior
trade. The merchant, realizing the
strong feeling against his countrymen,
knew that it would be hard for him to
do business personally with white mer-
chants. Many of the interior mer-
chants, while they were ready to pat
ronize the Chinese firms, did not like
the fact known, and when Chinaman
dressed in his national costume called
upon him he was inclined to avoid be-
ing seen with him. With the white
drummer, however, the San Francisco
Call says, it was different. The latter
could register at any of the hotels, and,
after selling a man bill of goods, could
invite the customer to drink or take
dinner with him, an invitation none
would accept from Chinaman.
A few months ago, however, the Chi
nese merchants began to discharge
their high-salaried white drummers and
travel on the road themselves, or flied
the vacancies with their own country
men. Little Pete, of jury bribery fame,
who is heavy producer in Chinatown,
was one of the first to inaugurate the
new custom. He fitted Chinese en-
ploye cut in American clothes, fur
nished him with well fitted wig and
sent him out on the road. The venture
was a success, and Little Pete soon
found his business progressing as well
as when he employed the white drum
mer.
In his American dress the general ap-
pearance of the Chinaman, which is so
Objectionable to the whites, was almost
hidden. In this attire, and with no
queue visible, the interior hotel keeper
made no objection to him, and he was
therefore allowed to extend the same
business courtesies to the white custom
ers as the white drummers.
Other Chinese firms soon adopted the
new custom and now there are nearly
fifty disguised Cinnamon, travelling up
and down this state as drnmmers- The
presence of numerous Cinnamon wear
ing wigs and American clothes has
been noticed lately in this city, but few
could explain reason for it.
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A Terrible Rife.

The very latest invention In the way
Of magazine small arms, and one not
yet submitted to the United States army
board. is the gun that has just been put
in test by the Italian authorities. The
rife is four feet long and of the smallest
caliber yet attempted, .256-inch. The
speed of the bullet Is 1850 foot-seconds,
and as regards its penetrative force it is
said that the ball will pierce two mat
tresses and two planlzs five inches thick
at distance of nearly mile Loading
is effected by means of chargers con-
tanning FIVE cartridges arranged so that
repeating fire may be obtained until
the magazine Is exhausted Many of
the experts who attended the trials are
of the opinion that the weapon is the
most destructive at present existing
among European armies
If the great daily and weekly press
of this country would tell the people
the real cause of all their poverty they
would force the enactment of laws that
in one year would transform the coun-
try into veritable paradise and there
would not be a case of poverty I'm all
the land So long as the plutocrats can
keep the people in ignorance they can
continue to rob the mass of all the
wealth they create. Colorado Work
man and Farmer.
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A MODEST CLAIM.
The Lost vallss That Suddenly Became
ValuabIa7

The Lost vallss That Suddenly Became
Valuable
Not long ago travelling man put his
va1ise on baggage truck on an Indian
apolis, Decatur & Western station while
he went to buy ticket and when he
returned the valise was gone. Some
one had stolen It According to the
rules Of the company Superintendent
Boyd told him to make an itemized
statement Of the contents of the valise,
and this was done. That statement
was, in the language of Mr.. Boyd, "a
daisy" Cuff buttons worth twelve dol
lars pair; collar buttons at four dol
lars each, and among other things
suit of clothes that he said his wife had
sent him from New York and which he
had never worn. The entire bill was
for one hundred and forty dollars, and
though the company believed it was
being imposed upon the account was
sworn to and it was in for the payment.
Mr.. Boyd delayed matters as long as
possible in hopes of some clew, and he
thinks himself lucky that he did One
day the valise was found in ravine
near the station, where it had been
thrown by the thieves, and Superin-
tendent Boyd made an examination OF
its contents. He says the cuff buttons
listed at twelve dollars could be bought
anywhere for fifty cents pair. The
four-dollar collar buttons were common
bone affairs that sell at 1.-TWO for five, ;"
and the new suit of clothes was not
there at all Instead was letter writ
ten by the mans wife in which she re-
GREETED that she could not send him his
new suit because the tailor had not fin
ished 1t but she would send it in ten
days, which would be three days later
than the date on which the valise was
stolen. The total value of the valise
and its contents was about six dollars
AS the loser had sworn to the one hun
dred and forty dollar statement he did
not press any further his claim against
the company when he learned that the
valise and it's contents had been recov-
ered.-Indianapolis News.
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ENGLAND AS A WAR POWER.
Ben Butler Says She Always Hires Other
People to Do Her Fighting.

Ben Butler Says She Always Hires Other
People to Do Her Fighting.
Great Britain never had more than
% 900 soldiers from her own islands be-
tween the four seas, on any battlefield,
and those were at Waterloo, while we
had in our late war more than that
number to starve or die of wounds or
sickness in single prison. Does any
one believe, asks Ben Butler in the
North American Review, that England
will ever forget that at the close of our
war we disbanded quite 1000, 900 of sol
diers and that 5000 of them are yet
alive to take hand in any war in which
the honor of our country is assailed by
Great Britain? / have said, and per-
| haps may be criticised for it, that she is
! not warlilze nation. Her government
is continually making war on small ma
tons and hiring some one else to do the
fighting.
If there is anything on which England
can pride herself for proves in war it
is her navy. But she cannot forget that
until almost within the present genera
| ton that navy could only be supplied
with sailors sufficient to man it by drag
| ging them from their homes by press
gangs The marquis of Salisbury seems
to have faith in bonds in settling
difficulties between England and this
country. Be 1t so. England has given
this country bonds in untold millions
that she will keep the peace and be of
good behavior. The first gun fred in
the Behring sea by one of her vessels
| would be war as much as the first gun
/ fred at Fort Sumte- and as the battle
| of Gettysburg. War abrogates all
treaties of amity and commerce War
permits the confscaiion of all property
| of one belligerent found on its shores
or within jurisdiction of the other.
| Every debt, demand. certificate of
| stock, dine from an American would be
lat once forfeited and conascated.
Every rood Of our Land owned By Eng
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-07-06


There is over two millions of the poor
peoples savings in the savings banks of
Michigan. Would you create "a cheap
and nasty silver dollar to the end that
they would be paid in dishonest
money!"
All.
Sounds well.
But the fact is that the average
amount of each deposit is less than
twenty-eight dollars
Query:
How long would it take each laborer
to make up the whole amount under
the increased wages bound to follow a
silver inhation?
What applies to the savings bank de-
pcsitor proposition so freely proclaimed
by the gold-bug orators and subsidized
newspapers applies equally well to the
pensioners upon the government Den
yer Road.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-07-06
GEN. WEAVER'S BOOK
"A CALL TO ACTION"
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Contains twenty chapters, as follows:
The Senate; The Speaker OF the House;
Supreme Court; ImproVldent Disposal
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inal Caricature; The Silver Problem;
Evolution in Crime. or Improved Meth
DDS OF Piracy; Public Debts; A Com
pariSon-Rome, Britain and the United
States; Finance and Land Ownership;
DIVES and LaZarus-ContrastS; Trusts;
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A Fine Distinntion.

Doubtless our unlettered friends have
fine distinction in the use of words, for
which we do not give them sufficient
credit, says the North A new pupil in
colored school took a shattered lamp
chimney TO show her teacher.
"AhI' said he, your chimney is
broken, Is it2''
No, sir" she answered, 'itsGbusted. ("
In her distinction OF terms lay all the
difference between confession OF guilt
and an assertion Of innocence. The
word broken" understood to mean
that the misbap had occurred by her
own fault; and in correcting to "busted''
she meant'to imply that some unknown
agency, a current of cold air, perhaps,
had caused the break.
Here is distinction as clear and real
as we make in more scholarly terms
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-07-06
GAMBLING IN KENTUCKY.
Young and Old Have Plenty OF Money and
Love to Risk It.

Young and Old Have Plenty OF Money and
Love to Risk 1t.
81 visited a number of the country
fairs in the blue grass region Of Ken
lucky last year." said prominent
New York lawyer to reporter for
the Evening News, land / was very
much surprised at the liberal use OF
money.
''Way out there one hundred miles
from Louisville and one hundred and
TWENTY-FIVE miles from Cincinnati could
be found handsomely dressed young
men and old men, who showed that
they had never been accustomed to
hard work, fourishing their bills like
so much paper. They were not city
chaps, but country born and bred.
could not understand 1t. There are no
manufacturing interests there to speak
of, no mining, nothing but agriculture,
q pursuit which requires the hardest
of mammal labor; yet these men sported
as soft palms as the highest bred city
folk. Further than that, they had
plenty of money and used 1t literally.
~ failed to find n solution TO my
problem until one day my host took me
behind his house, pointed to large fields
of green leaves and said: DO you see
thatY answered In the affirmative
and he said That Is tobacco. / will
get from eighteen hundred to two thou
sand pounds per acre off that field and
sell 1t for from twelve and one-half to
sixteen ccpt- per pound. ! did not
work very hare for Il either. The prin-
ctpal trouble have Is to see that the
negroes do the work, and attend to
the gathering and selling the crop
1.-THE problem was solved. Where
the northern farmer by hard labor got
twenty-five or thirty dollars the Ken
tucl1y landlord, by the aid OF his negro
help, made from one hundred and
twenty-five 20 one hundred and fifty
dollars, says the Chicago News
''But that which surprised me the
most was the amount Of gambling that
is permitted. Why, sir. / have seen
men at those county fairs shake money
Tn each others faces in the presence Of
hundreds, offer their bets and take the
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-07-06
English Orthography.

OF the proposed reform IN spelling
Prof. T. J. Child, of Harvard, says:
Zone Of the most useful things just
now is to break down the respect which
great foolish public has for the estab-
lished spelling. Some have religious
awe and some have an earth-born pas
sion for it. At present | don't care
much how anybody spells. Any par
ticular individual spelling is likely to
be more rational than the ordinary
As Prof. Child is the foremost American
authority on the English language his
opinion is most interesting. Mr.. Louns-
bury, the English professor at Yale,
says that mo fetichism among savage
tribes is SO senseless as our respect for
the present photography of the English
tongue"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-07-06
THE FARMERS SIDE.
"Where we are, how We got here,
and the Way out."
By Hon. w. A. PETER,
Us. SENATOR FROM KANSAS.
limo. doth Price, S1.OO.
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There is 6 demand for comprehensive and
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for the future. This book has been written by
Hon. W. A. PETER, who was elected to the
United States Senate from Kansas to succeed
Senator Ingalls,. The title is The FARMER's
SIDE, and this indicates the purpose of the work.
In the earlier chapters, Senator PETER de-
scribes the condition of the farmer in various
parts of the country, and compares it with the
condition of men in other callings. He carefully
examines the cost of labor, of living, the prices
of crops, taxes mortgages, and rates of interest.
He gives elaborate tables showing the increase
of wealth in railroads, manufactures. banking,
and other forms of business, and he compares
this with the earnings of the farmer, and also
wage-workers in general. In clear, forcible
style, with abundant citations Of facts and fig
ures the author tells how the farmer reached
his present unsatisfactory condition. Then fol-
lows an elaborate discussion of The Way out !"
which is the fullest and most authoritative pres
entation of the aims and views of the Farmers'
Alliance that has been published, including full
discussions of the currency, the questions Of
interest and mortgages, railroads, the sale Of
crops, and other matters of vital consequence.
This book is the only one which attempts to
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THE FARMER's SIDE has Just been issued,
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