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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-11-23

Villages in southeastern Pennsyl-
vania, and even hundreds (townships)
in Delaware, not infrequently take their
names from old inns. Bird in Hand,
Lancaster county, Pa, is an example Of
the sort, and in Northern Delaware the
old Red Lion inn has given name to a
village and hundred The village and
the hundred of Black Bird in Delaware
also probably take the common name
from the sign of an old inn. Fox
Chase, in the lower edge of Chester
county, Pa, was the picturesque name
of village that grew up about an
ancient tavern, but the post Office de
partment has ruthlessly changed II
to Appleton
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-11-23
WRESTLING a GIFT.
What a Professional Lady Whistler Say
About the Art.

What Professional Lady Whistler Says
About the Art.
Mrs. Alice Shaw, the celebrated
American whistler, has this to say of
her peculiar gift: "a clever whistler
must be born, not made. The natural
gifts necessary are = good ear, a sound
pair of lungs, q fav vable formation of
the cavity of the mouth, regular teeth
and flexibility ana agility in the
orbicular and buccinatory muscles. The
strain on these muscles are great
After an hours practice I have been
compelled to apply electricity to my
lips to get them into normal condi-
ton. breathe like a singer, from the
diaphragm, and whistle as any artist
would sing. thrilling is to me as easy
and natural as ordinary speech. 1t is
the notes which must be long sustained
that are most difficult. My compass is
two and three-fourths octaves | never
whistle on an inward breath. My
notes are always directed outward.
The higher the note the closer my lips;
the lower the note the larger the orifice.
The possibilities of whistle are almost
unlimited. The art is at present in its
pm ooC LiAtiSI| 10 w Cl1C lI1OSI
careful singers During my first per-
formances my lips became SO dry that
it was difficult to produce clear, liquid
tone. | now use an ointment which
obviates that difficulty | practice an
hour-sometimes more-daily, and this
has had doubly beneficial effect It
has not only EXCHANGED my proficiency
as whistler; il has caused my chest to
expand four inches in the last three
years"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-11-23
HOW TO LAND A BLACK BASS.
Something That Every Fisherman Does
Not Know.

Something That Every Fisherman Does
Not Know.
when u black bass is hooked the
only way you can judge of his move
ments and intentions is by the sense of
feeling exerted through the rod and
line, and by watching the line at it's
point of contact with the surface of
the Waterfront which point never re-
move your eye until he is brought safe
ly to bag" says Charles Frederick DAN
forth in the New England Magazine.
Gle will resort to every means in his
power to get rid of the remorseless
steel, sometimes breaking water four or
five times. When fish is seen to be
making pell-mell for the surface, and is
bound to get there no matter what hap
pens, he can often be checked, just be-
fore he breaks water, by moving the
rod quickly and steadily to the right or
left, keeping a taut line, of course, all
the while; but, should this not succeed
and he breaks water in spite of you,
lower the point of the rod little, other
wise it may be smashed. Care must be
taken in this in order that he may not
throw his weight and bring the whole
force of his jump to bear on the straight
taut line or fall back on the taut line
either of which is extremely liable to
/ produce the result spoken of. If you
| get a strike when trolling keep the line
taut and the boat in motion, slacken-
! ing in speed somewhat, of course; for
| give him but few inches of slack and
up he goes into the air like a rocket and
! is gone"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-11-23
PHARAOH WITH A PISTOL.
Remarkable Anachronis,ns OF the Artist
of AbyssInia.


of AbyssInia.
We found the walls of the churches
in Abyssinia covered with pictures of
Scriptural history and the walls of the
cathedral with the exploits of Johannes,
says q writer in the Century. His vic
tories over the Egyptians at Cora and
in the valley of Gundet are fully repre-
scented in tones as forid as those of ad-
vertising posters at home. The native
artist does not make up for erudeness
of color by the accuracy of his drawing,
and if these pictures have any merit
81 is in their originality of treatment.
For instance, in the cathedral of Gun
Diet. IN a picture representing the
Israelites crossing the Red sea, Pharoah
carries in his right hand the latest
specimen in six-shooters, and in his left
hand he holds pair of opera glasses,
while the Egyptian host sport Reming-
| ton rifles. All the movement of figures
is from right to left, and in all pictures
heads are full-faced, with the exception
/ of Satan and the hated Egyptians, who
are painted in acute profile, TO show
I their lock of honesty and good faith
( and their inability to look you square
I in the face. 1t is deplorable fact, and
one which, ladies will say at once, only
proyes the ignorance and barbarity OF
+ the Philippians, that the evil spirits IN
< these compositions are always presented
by the softer sex, generally showing
their naughtiness by exhibiting their
tongues. The church painter goes SO
far as to question the gallantry of st.
George, the Abyssian patron saint~ by
! depicting that warrior, instead of doing
1 battle with the dragon, as spearing the
graceful, undulating form Of long
tongued woman
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-11-23
A LINGUISTIC MENAGERiE.
Origin and Significance of Quaint and
Queer savings.

Queer Sayings.
Let us take turn with the animals
and insects of metaphor. The Scotch
have saying: you have a bee in your
bonnet" The meaning is that the head
had a new idea or fan ~ that is for the
time paramount Your head is full of
bees, is an old-time phrase meaning
that dreamy theories have taken pos
session of the brain. The connection
between bees and the soul was once
generally maintained; hence Mahomet
admits bees to Paradise. The moon
was called bee" by the priestesses of
Ceres, and the word lunatic, or moon
struck, still means one with bees in
his head"
THE wolf at the door is common
expression in all countries, and we say
of a ravenous eater, The has wolf in
his stomach" 1t implies hunger, star
vation It is said That there are people
who use the term literally to frighten
their young children into habits of in
dustry and economy, so that the fright
full wolf of hunger may never appear at
their doors.
"a frog in the throat" is a common
expression referring to 2 husky speaker.
Il smell rat has long been a pop
been discovered or a hidden clew found.
1t was an Irish barrister who got off
| the mixed metaphor: Il smell a rat, |
see him waving in the air, bat If we are
careful we shall nip him in the bud"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-11-23
USE OF a PASSPORT.
The Singular Experience of n Traveller

in Germany.
Mine is rather hard case" said q
discouraged graduate of young ladies'
seminary. Il can't get position as
teacher because | haven't had expert
ence, and if | am never allowed to
teach. how am Ito get my experience?"
A somewhat similar paradox was per-
petrated by a German officer, mentioned
by Mr.. Henry ". Wolff in 1.-THE Coun-
try of the Vosges" This traveller had
questions and seeing the sights, and he
says:
On my return to the station, found
a surprise awaiting me. The German
police had found me out: not difficult
task, since purposely went about quite
openly
However, that, it appeared, made no
difference. There, at the entrance to
the station, stood Prussian gendarme,
all on the alert, looking very ferocious
with what the German song calls "a
moustachioed air. He was on the
lookout for me, and stopped me at once.
''Have you a legitimation about you?''
he asked, rather grufly.
Eyes; but do / want one? Am not
entitled to travel in the country without
a passport?"
He looked angry, cycling with disgust
my Murray" which bore, all too plain
", upon its cover the title France"
ST must see it. | hear you have been
about the town looking at things and
asking questions"
''It is true; that is what am travel
ing for"
81 must see your passport"
"What? In defiance of the emperor's
regulations?''
''Do you not understand" said he,
pompously, that must see your pass
port in order to be able to judge whether
or not you are entitled to travel with
out one?''
Here was logic, but logic which, how
ever feeble, must be needed. / pro
duced my passport, and after having
studied for tedious interval, he grave
ly announced that was fitted to travel
without one.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-11-23
The RATTLEsNAkE.s TAIL.
How the Reptiles warning Rattle Il
Produced.

Produced.
The structure from which the rattle
snake takes his name-the rattle-con-
sists mainly of three or more solid,
horny rings, placed around the end of
the tail. These rings themselves, says
the Quarterly Review, are merely dense
portions of the general outer skin of
the body, but the rattle has also a solid
foundation of bone, for the three last
bones of the tail become united to-
gether in one solid whole or core,
grooved where the bones join, while
they increase in size toward the hinder
end of the complex bone thus formed.
This bony core is invested by skin also
marked by grooves, which correspond
with those at the functions of the three
bones, and this skin becomes much
thickened. and so forms an incipient,
imperfect rattle of such young snakes
as have not yet cast their skin. When
it is cast the skin investing the tail
close to its termination is not cast off.
but is held fast by the enlarged end of
the bony core before mentioned
The piece of skin thus retained be-
comes loose ring in front of the incip-
lent rattle, and thus forms first joint
or ring of the future perfect rattle
The same process is repeated at each
mott, fresh loose ring or additional
joint to the perfect rattle being thus
formed every time the skin is shed.
Thus the perfect rattle comes ultimate
~ to consist of a nulaber Of dry, hard.
more or less loose, horny rings, and in
this way a rattle may consist of as
many as twenty-one co-egistiug rafting
rings II IS the shaafug CT these rings
By a violent and rapid @agging of the
end of the snakes tail vshiea produces
the celebrated rafting sonnd-a sound
which may be compared TO tbs rafting
of a number of peas in a rapidly shaken
paDer bar
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-11-23
WE LOVE MEDICINE.
A Doctor Says That Americans Are
Nation of Druc-TakerS


Nation of Drug-Takers.
think Americans should be described
as nation of medicine takers. The re-
turns from the sales of patent medicines
are astonishing, but no general practi-
toner is at all surprised at this, because
he has long since learned that hypo-
chondria exists almost universally, and
that medicine taking is the great de-
light of an enormous percentage of
mankind, says a physician in the ST.
Louis Globe-Democrat.
One great object doctor should have
in view is to cure with as few doses as
possible, and / believe that ninety-nine
out of one hundred medical students
commence practicing with this idea be-
fore them. If their experience is like
mine they have somewhat let down in
their efforts in this direction, and if
they have Cnot done so they have GER
tainly offended quite a large number of
patients.
There seems little to choose between
the sexes in the matter of a desire to
take medicine regularly, and it is often
impossible to persuade an apparently
rational-minded patient that cure has
been effected, that 10 more medicine is
needed and that nothing but good diet
and careful habits are required to build
up the constitution.
A number of doctors save themselves
from falling from grace by prescribing
a harmless tonic after effecting cure,
but those who pride themselves in dis
posing of cases by aid of a dozen doses
or less seldom attain any great popu-
larity.
The often quoted and much Wanted
| practice in China of paying physician
while his patient is well and stopping
his pay during sickness could never be
introduced successfully into this coun-
try, because SO many people who are
perfectly well are prepared to file aft
davits that they are dangerously sick,
that no doctor under the China regime
! would be able to earn his board
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-11-23
"Bummer" Not American Slang.

Americans get credit for great deal
of slang which originates on the other
side of the Atlantic The word bum
mer," for instance, is not an American,
but an English expression, being found
in the market laws of two hundred
years ago, where it was used to de1ig-
nate retail dealer in fish who peddled
his goods outside the market and with
out license a transition from an un-
licensed peddler to disreputable loafer
was one which came easily and natural
IL in the course of time.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-11-23
THEY'RE ALL DIFFERENT.
Nobody Ever Saw Two Women WEo
Were Just Alike.

Were Just Alike.
One of the constitutional opinions OF
the average man is that women are all
alike, writes Junius Henri Browne In
the Ladies' Home Journal II crops
ont in his speech perpe' aally, some
times in the way of kline s and sym
pathy, oftener in the way If ferision
mud contempt. When vile has tor
give1 some great wrong done by her
husband when a mother has ssscrlnceo
herself for children, we hear 1t IS
Just like WOO =" We hear che same
thing IL she hiss deceived her l5T r OF
involved her father in debt. Taa dis
sent Is due 10 the fact that some q n
are sentimentalists, and that more T.
are cynics. The former are alwa .
praising women; the latter are generg :
" sneering at or decrying her; but DO =
think that she has only one nature
The sentimentalist believes her to be
good, gentle, loyal, truthful under
every circumstances; the cynic pro-
nounces her bad, harsh. ipconstant,
hypocritical on instinct. Neither IS
wholly right or wrong. She Is good
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-11-23

water. His food consists chiefly of fish,
at catching which he is an adept. He
knows better than anybody else where
to find the cat, the btfalo, the perch
and innumerable other fish. Driftwood
serves him for fuel, and clothes, tobac-
co, spirits and a few necessaries are Sc
cured by an occasional days labor as a
7ongshoreman,r ousta bout or farm hand.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-09-21
Proposing Under Difficulties.

An English writer tells an amusing
story of country house where regu-
lar daily routine is observed, and where
no chance is given one of breaking the
monotony. 1t is of man who wanted
to stay in country house, thinking it
would give him the opportunity of pro-
posing to girl with whom he had been
in love for a long time. His visit was
to last fortnight, but the last evening
came without his having the one chance
of being alone with her during the
whole time. AS he sat at dinner (of
course he was at the opposite end of the
table where she waS) he felt the time
was fast passing away, and in few
hours he would no longer be in the same
house with her.
When the ladies went to the drawing
room he would have TO sit on in the
dining room. His host might allow him
to look in at the drawing room for few
minutes that evening, but after that his
presence would be required in the bill
lard room. In utter desperation he
took up the menu card and on it wrote,
Twill you marry me-" He doubled It
up, telling the butler to give it to the
lady in question. He did so. She read
it and with the perfect sang froid born
only of the Nineteenth century said,
"Tell the gentleman Yes"
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-09-21
CONE!

Ny sweetheart my loveling! you darkened an
the day,
When from my silent dwelling your footsteps
turned away;
The morn was dark midnight, the MONDAY
sad as dawn,
The milk white daisies dropped their heads
along the dewy lawn.
My darling! my dearest! sought the garden
round,
But never in a blossom your precious face
found;
No rose was red beside your lips, no lily like
your throat,
No sound or thrilling of your voice in any
thrush's note.
Ali What is like your eyes. dearI gray sparkles
OF the sea,
So clear and crystal shining their beryl chances
be;
And where is any flower of ALI that may com
pare
With the softly dancing glitter of the sunshine
In your hair.
Alone through lingering daytime 1 listen for
your feet,
Those springing steps no longer along the path
way beat;
hear the dewdrops rustic in the branches
overhead,
But home and you together for many day
have fed.
My life is sad and weary too dark with want
and pain,
But Your dear eyes would bring it's light and
gladness back again;
My soul Is tired of desert sands, bereft of cheer
and balm,
For you were like the diamond spring beneath
its lonely palm.
Come back, come back, my darling! Across the
spaces heart
Hrbt ia iyhf of a
Hesper shining clear;
Not long have l to linger, not long to call or
cry;
Come back my treasure! come. my heart, and
bless me e'er diet
Rose Terry Cooke in New York Independent.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-09-21
OFFICIALS IMPLICATED.

I'VE feel justified in fearlessly
asserting that opium smuggling has
now reached to be an organized
traffic in which several ships are
engaged that two rings at least,
if not more, actually exist, to
which belong not only wealthy
traders, but also many of the Gov
eminent Custom and Police Off
cials,-that is to say, the very
officers whose duty it would be to
check it; and the general suspi-
cions are such that higher men,
bers of the Government, lawyers,
merchants, and even men in bank
ing business, are publicly charged
of being connected with it, thereby
rendering possible the permanence
in office of suspected officials more
than that, the evils extend even
unto the very steps of the Throne,
as it is boldly asserted by those
who take into consideration the
notorious favor, the extraordinary
and unjustifable though undis-
guised intimacy existing between
persons of the highest rank and
some noted, well-known opium
smugglers, who do not deny, but
rather glorify themselves in being
such %
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-09-21
OPIUM TRAFFIC.
The Special Committee Made Their
Report Yesterday.

The Special Committee on
Opium appointed by the Legisla-
ture made its report yesterday, and
appended will be found some inter-
esting extracts from the document:
That the smuggling of opium
in this country has grown to such
proportions, so many prominent or
influential citizens are said 10 be
engaged or interested in it, and its
profits are so large, that it is next
to impossible to obtain any sub
stantial information or to find any
man willing, simply for virtues
sake, to run the risks of encurring
the wrath and vengeance of those
engaged in the opium rings, who
are bound to use every effort to
procure the acquittal of such of
their accomplices who may be dis
covered"
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-09-21
Big Lamps.

Among the larger members of the
lamp family Turkish lamp more than
half as large as -four barrel is the
most conspicuous. Its top and bottom
are made Of copper and the body is of
linen, after the style Of the ordinary
Chinese lantern. Next in size to this is
a Japanese might lamp" used for all
night burning in the Jap's house. 1t is
a square wooden frame nearly four feet
high, with sliding frames on two sides,
covered with white paper. The other
tom, are also paper covered. A trans
verse board half way up this light tower
holds brass saucer, in which is burned
"brassica" oil with wicks of rush.-Me-
chanical News.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-09-21
FROM LAYSAN ISLAND.
Arrival of the Schooner LiholihO
With a Cargo of Guano.


The Hawaiian schooner Liho-
Tho, Captain H. H. Berry, arrived
in port on Tuesday morning, Sep
TENDER Goth, nine days from Lay
san Island. She made the round
trip in nineteen days, the down
trip occupying her seven days.
Captain Berry reports all we'll on
the island. Three japanese, one
Chinese and one European return
ed by the Liholiho. After unload
ing her 50 tons of guano for H.
Hackfeld d Co., the Liholiho will
sail again for Laysan Island, prob
ably next Saturday. She brought
information that the American
bark Mary S. Ames, from Homo
lulu bound for Hamburg, left Lay
san Island on August 81, with 100
tons of guano for Hamburg.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-09-21
To Preserve Milk.

There are many ways of preserving
milk SO as to keep it sweet, but one of
the most satisfactory is that which is at
present practiced at an establishment in
Texas. The milk, fresh from the cow,
is subjected to a boiling heat, and after
the air has been expelled from it the
cans are Theoretically sealed. When the
process was first invented, about fifteen
years ago, several dozen bottles were
sealed up. Every year some Of these are
opened, and after fifteen years keeping
the milk has in every case been found
perfectly fresh.-St. Paul Pioneer Press.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-09-21
The Reason for IT.

eff cigarettes cause insanity, why
don't more young men go crazy!' asks a.
correspondent. That is an easy one.
Brains are prime requisite to an at
tack Of insanity. That's why more
cigarette smokers don't go to asylums.-
Pomona Progress.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-09-21

A negro living near Chokee, Ga, is
the owner of hound which, he says,
attends all the religious meetings of the
negroes, stands up and tries to follow
them in the singing, and regularly goes
to the altar 10 be prayed for with the
rest of the mourners.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-09-21
Gfnfral 1Opfrtisrments.
THE RISDON
Iron and Locomotive Works
CORNER OF BEAL AND HOWARD STREETS
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.
" III. TAYLOR, President
n o MOORE, Superintendent
Builders 8 Steam Machinery

IN ALL ITS BRANCHES.
Steamboat, Steamship, Land Engines &
Boilers. High Pressure or Compound.
STEAM VESSELS Of all kinds built com
plete, with hulls of wood, iron or com.
posite.
ORDINARY ENGINES compounded when
advisable.
STEAM LAUNCHES, Barges and Steam
Tugs constructed with reference to the
trade In which they are 90 be employed
Speed, tonnage and draft of water gua-
ranteed.
SUGAR MILLS and sugar making Ma
chinery made after the most approve,
plans. Also, all Boiler Iron Work
connected Herewith.
WATER PPR, of Boiler or Sheet Iron. Of
any size, made in suitable lengths for
connecting together, or Sheets rolled,
punched and packed for shipment,
ready to be riyeted on the ground.
HYDRAULIC RIyETrNG, Boiler Work and
Water Pipes made by this establish
ment, riveted by hydraulic riveting
machinery, that quality of work being
far superior to hand work.
SHIP WORK, Ship and Steam Capstans,
Steam Winches, Air and circulating
Pumps, made after the most approved
plans
SOLE Agents and manufacturers for the
Pacific Coast Of the Heine Safety
Boiler
PUMPs-Direct Acting jumps for irriga
ton or city works purposes, built with
the celebrated Davy Waive Motion
superior TO any other pump.
JOHN DYER, HoNoLuLu
Room No. 3, upstairs, Spreckels' Block
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-09-21

A lady of Eastbourne, England, has
just offered the sum of $3.50 to the Sea-
mems mission if the society will ap-
point reader for that town, and the
offer has been accepted. The fisher
men of Eastbourne are all residents,
without any admixture of nautical
STRANGERS