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CANNOT ACT THE FLUNKEY.
Americans Make Fools of Themselves
When They Undertake to BE Snobs.

Americans Make Fools of Themselves
When They Undertake to BE Snobs.
The fact of the business is, we Amer
leans do not know how to be snobs,
and when we try to do the turnkey act
we make fools of ourselves, says the
Philadelphia Telegraph. When there
is any walking backward or other
sycophantic koo-tooing to be done we
should therefore practice our steps in
private and learn at least enough to
avoid egregious blunders before appear
ing in public to make an asinine exhi-
bition of our clownish stupidity. We
laugh to scorn the servile flunkeyism
of our British brethren, but they beat
us at that sort of thing out of
sight. They are born and brought
up in an atmosphere of class distinc-
ton. The line is sharply drawn with
servility on one side and privilege on
the other. A hereditary aristocracy,
with titles, offices and honors that are
grounded in the history of the coun-
try, naturally and, in a sense, proper
" commands the homage of a heredi-
tary snobocracy. To cringe and to
trnckle is the inherited habit of the
lower classes. They are to the man
ner born, and they know how to
crook the pregnant hinges of the knee
without falling on the nose. Fur
thermore, there is reason in it, as
thrift follows their fawning. They
find their profit in the obsequious
smile; servility and assiduous humility
are the terms on which they transact
business, and to bend and to bow is
pounds, shillings and pence in the
pocket.
There are no such arguments in favor
of class feeling and class custom in
this country, and indeed the case here
seems to be pretty much reversed, as it
is the wou1d-be aristocFats who ace the
toadies with us; the common folk, our
plain people, as President Lincoln
called them, being proverbially indie
pendent of temper and manly in be-
havior. There is no pecuniary gain
in American snobbery, and as to hered-
itary sentiment, that is indeed an alb
surdity among sh0ddyites who are
afraid to inquire as to their grand
fathers, dreading to find them among
the butchers and bakers and candle
Stick makers who kept shop in the
back street. 1t as more than difficult
to account for the rise and progress OF
the servile habit in our land of equal
ity and independence; but here as
elsewhere there seems to be streak
in human nature which demands satisz
faction In Snobbish observanoes, in the
display of a slavish, parasitic spirit.
Such being the case, we might as well
recognize the fact; and to that end we
should institute measures for permit
ting snobs to disport themselves de-
Gently and in order. # they must walk
backward and drop on their knee, and
all the rest of it, let all be done prop
erly and ia due turnkey fashion.
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THE PACIFIC SQUADRON.
Chief Cause Of the Numerous De-
sertions of Seamen.
Stringent Restrictions Render Service ut
Mare Island So UnbearabIe That Com
petent Men Are Hard to
Retain.

Capt. Ludlow's requisition to the sec
rotary of the navy for men for the
Behring sea feet and the desertion by
the dozens of sailors from north-bound
vessels in Puget sound have attracted
considerable attention in marine cir
cles to the fact that enlistments in the
United States naval service are be-
coming beautifully less every day.
Not only is the Behring sea fleet hav-
ing hard time getting men, but the
news has leaked out that the whole
Pacific squadron is short of seamen,
and that there exists spirit of discon-
tent among those that are enlisted
which almost borders on mutiny
A San Francisco Call reporter inter
viewed a dozen or more seamen from
the navy yard separately, and as these
mems statements, with the exception
of two, agreed in every particular, it
might be well for the secretary of the
navy to investigate the cause of some of
the mems complaints.
why do men of the Pacific squad
ron desert?" was asked of a seaman of
the United States steamer Alliance.
He answered: For the simple rea-
son that the restrictions placed on the
men of the Pacific squadron are more
stringent than at any other naval sta
ton of the Uaited States. A sailor is
allowed absolutely no privileges at all
when on duty at Mare island. Unlike
the British navy yard at Esquimalt, or
even the yards on the Atlantic coast of
the United States, Mare island is bound
wit of Of nd
which makes a sailor a slave in every
sense of the word every hour of the
twenty-four. Vessels of the Pacific
squadron, especially those on local
coast and Behring sea duty, appear to
be commanded after the fashion of the
Mare island navy yard. Fines are i'm
posed for the least incivility and
breach of discipline, and no other time
save that allotted for shore leave is
given to seamen during which they
might call their souls their own.
80 degenerated has become the
naval service of the Pacific coast
through the enforcement of trifiing
and aggravating rules at the navy
yard and also on board of vessels of
the Pacific squadron that good men
will no longer sign to serve here. The
consequence is every greenhorn that
comes along is picked up, and the aver
age crew of a naval vessel on Pa
cific station consists of the scum of all
nationalities. Naval seamen dread
duty at Mare island about as much as
they do life in prison. Nearly all the
time of the men stationed at the yard
is spent in bowling and scraping around
officers and working on senseless jobs,
sometimes of very mental nature"
Several of the late crew of the The
tbs, men from the Omaha and a few
of the Monterey's crew told stories al
most identical with that of the ALI
ance man. Perhaps it is not the fear
of a northern voyage alone which
makes men desert the United States
navy and renders the present scarcity
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self little less with the pretty girls
who work in the press-room and f1irt
with the proofs little more, such
blunders would not happen. To this
paragraph the proofreader appends a
note to explain that his eyesight is
not very good and that he needs new
spectacles, which he has been meaning
to buy out of the S1025 which the edit
or has owed him since last December.
Besides, the best reader in the world
would be of no use in an Office where
the compositors throw every day more
type at each others heads than thew
set. Then the compositors take their
innings, assailing the reader of proof
with many unkind and discourteous
remarks, of which the least offensive
is that the oldest settler has never seen
him sober. All this, Michel Defines
informs us, is only the plain unvar-
nished truth about American newspa-
per ways. 1t is simple, unexaggera-
ted record of events which has lust
found dams un recent numero de
fArizona Kicker" and which he swal-
lows whole without one gasp of in
credulity.
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A STRANGE STORY.
Death Of the Notorious Black Canon o.
LYona.

Death of tho Notorious Black Canon of
Lyons.
The death is announced in Paris of
Able Boullan, the famous - or in
famous-defroque the Black Canon
of Lyons, the real hero of LA Bas,"
says a correspondent. Though he
makes but rare appearance in NJ. Huys-
mans romance, his influence dominates
the book from beginning to end. And
well it might, for in truth he was
among the strangest spirits of his gen.
Grafton. La Figaro says: ITO the cum
ming of an impostOr he added pro-
found and devious scholarship. Magic
and the arts of a darker age hid no Sc
crets from him. When he renowned
his allegiance to the church the arch
bishop of Paris, unwilling to lose SO
learned a colleague, sent two worthy
canons to reason with him. But he
called down so many devils upon their
heads that they were only too glad to
leave him in peace. For many years
he has devoted himself to the practice
OF his art and profited greatly thereby.
1T was his wont to administer la
messe noire, with all its obscene rites,
80 % wy OhN IAlc
of Mont Parnasse, and from many dis
traught soul he exercised tormenting
demon. He died at the zenith of his
power. It is but few months ago
that he was called upon to relieve an
unfortunate lady from double spell.
Not merely was the victim harassed
by physical pain, but trees and plants
withered upon her estate.
THE Black Canon by his incanta-
tions, INSTANTLY cured the bodily
anguish and would have restored the
leaves and blossoms of the lady's gar
den had not she too suddenly closed
her purse. A strayling from the mid
die ages, he leaves none to inherit his
occult power, for he would have de-
spised the experiments of SO patent an
amateur as Col. de Rochas. Was he
the slave of superstition or reason
able and contemptuous cynic? For the
sake of humor and his own peace of
mind, it is trusted the latter"
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LIVING ON SAMPLES.
A Smart Man Who DIned ON tho Fat Q
the Land.

the Land.
lie was well-bred and when he chat
ted of sights in other lands one did not
feel like doubling his word He talked
of the execution of pirates in China,
described the diamond mines of Kim
berley, and when he dwelt for few
minutes on the great exposition in Paris
1T was an easy step to Chicago and the
Worlds fair,
"Expositions are snap for fellows
who are broke, and I'm awfully near it. !"
is that sop queried an interested
listener.
Yes, he con tined. For six months,
when the Partisan show was on, | lived
like lord and it didn't cost me a sou,
either Had course dinner every day,
TOO, from soup to cognac and cigar
cites. l guess the graft ought to be
just as good in Chicago
How did you do it?" eagerly ques-
toned his companion, whose outward
appearance did not betoken wealth.
Samples, samples" responded the
man of the world. You see, the man.
ufacturers Of all kinds of prepared
food always have samples of their stuff
on exhibition. The soup man. the
maker of beef tea, the preservers of
game, the Gamers of beef and other
meats. the people who put up all kinds
OF fruit are each and every one repre-
sented. So are the men whose brands
OF coffee are known all over the world.
In Paris they all had NINA ture kitchens
where they prepared the goods and all
you had to do was to walk up to the
exhibitors booth and look interested
and you would be politely requested to
test the food. OF course it was i'm
possible to refuse the invitation and If
you made few eulogistic remarks it
was nearly sure thing that you would
got q second helping"
should have thought they would
have got on to you in a week or So"
well, had to be somewhat diplo,
matte, put by skipping the soup every
other day, only calling ON the beef
tea man twice week and other
wise Judiciously distributing my
patronage managed to avoid any un-
pleasantness. Before I'd been at it a
week | had system, or route, call it
what you We a mind to, which worked
like charm
"YOu had it down fine"
u had
ut would pay fellow to trot round
after fairs if he could be dead sure not
to call too often on the same man.
Practice your memory on the high
lamp every day and you will be ready
to start
':l'll think of that. mister"
''say," qperied his interested friend,
''you said you we're broke"
"And / was
Then where did you sleep?"
''Sleep? Why, in one of the numer-
Gus sample beds, to be sure. "-Chicapo
News
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SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Amherst college was founded In
1921, mainly for the purpose of edu'
eating poor and pious young men for
the ministry"
Mrs. Geo. II. Whitney has given
Herring medical college, Chicago. $780,
600 for grounds and buildings for col
lege and hospital purpose
-CRauneey pepew said TO the stu.
dents at Yale recently: What made
the class of SO so famous is that half OF
its members went into journalism and
praised the other half"
The minister of public instruction
in France has decided to establish !, zoo
more experiment fields in addition "a
the 600 that now exist in connection
with the primary schools.
Cardinal Rampolla, papal secretary
Of state. is one of the youngest mem
bers of the sacred college, not being
yet fifty years of age. He is tall,
handsome man, but already begins to
be bent-not with the weight of years,
but with the weight of work which the
pope imposes on him.
AT the recently-heid thirty-ninth
general assembly of the United Pres
byterian church of North America it
was reported that there are ga young
peoples societies in the denomination,
which have 2s,092 members, these con-
tributed $50, 900 last year to the general
work OF the denomination.
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AMERICAN JOURNALISM.
Its Oddities As Set Forth by Literary
Gentleman In La Belle France.

Its Oddities As Set Forth by Literary
Gentleman in La Belle France.
The common saying that one has to
go abroad 20 hear the best of the home
news is admirably exemplifed in a re-
cent number of the Annales Politiques
ct Litteraires- Michel Defines devoted
a column to the setting forth of an
astonishing feature of American
journalism. French newspapers, he
says, do not mind misprints very much.
coquille that does not absolutely
tear up and threaten To bring the roof
down on the compost ors' heads is left
for the reader to correct. At the yerv
worst, the correction would be limited
to a simple erratum. Far different il
1t in America. There editor, proof
reader, compositors attack each other
In the columns of their paper when a
misprint occurs. This is what happens
constantly in America" Mr. Defines
says, land the numerous Parisians who
are going TO Chicago will have occa sion
to find 1T out as l have Just done. I"
And then he goes on to relate the
appalling case that he refers to. An
American editor apologies for his mis-
print, laying the blame on his n. oof-
reader, and adding the remark tn 1T if
that careless person would occupy him.
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Have You a Cancer!

lfvou have, we invite your attention
to the work of Mrs. Mary z. Straw, of
Medicine Lodge, Kansas. She COM
pounds her own medicine, and can
guarantee cure if cure is possible. She
can produce abundant proofs of her
work upon application. Among others
she would mention recent case of Mrs.
Christian Donaldson, OF this city, who
had started on her finger one Of the
worst kind OF rose cancers. The can
Ger was removed, but completely I'M
covered the joint requiring amputation.
She also makes medicines for all
kinds of telons and chronic sores.
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InAtinct in Cohraa.

1t is a common belief in India that
if cobra is killed and the remains are
left in bungalow, others of the spe-
cies will be attracted to the spot. A
correspondent of the Pioneer Mail
records an incident which appears to
indicate, as he says, that there is some
truth in this theory About nine
months ago Col. Ilderton killed a very
large cobra in the compound of his
bungalow at Dinapore, and had its
skin stuffed and set up by a native mo-
chez. Since then the compound has
been infested with these snakes, and
no less than eight full-grown cobras,
measuring from four feet eight inches
to five feet four inches, have been
killed there, one of which was sitting
up, with its hood extended, contem-
plating the house where the rema ms
of its preserved friend were, 1t is q
curious fact that every snake when
found was making in the direction of
the bungalow, and most of them
showed fight when tackled. The last
two We're within few feet OF each
other when Col. Ilderton killed them
with stick, and We're advancing up
the carriage drive together. No cobras
have been seen in other parts of the
station.
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FIDDLlNG JIMMIE
Why He Resigned His Position at n,
her Thirteen.


Der Thirteen.
The Southwestern Stage co. needed
man to take care OF the relay station
down in No Mans Land, known on
their books as No -. As no one who
knew that country could be persuaded
to go there for love or money. it was a
case of anybody at all. Hence it was
that ''Fiddling Jimmie fresh from an
eastern Kansas farm, was sent down to
ELL the vacancy. H. was tai, lapk,
red-haired, and he carried a black,
shiny satchel in one hand and violin
case in the other. The office people told
him 1t was lonesome place, but he
said he didn't care so long as they kept
him in grub and his fiddle-strings stayed
with him. They failed to tell him
that the last man there had been found
with "a bullet ia his head o few
yards from his dugout, and that
all the mules had been run off either
by rustlers or Indians straying up from
the territory reservations. 1t might
have made some difference had Jimmie
been told of this; but he was not. so
sSe mead not speculate on the ma tier.
No. 13 was lonesome place. Twice
a week each way buck board came by
with the driver and the Tascasa mail.
The mules we're changed, a sack of
flour or bale of hay was dumped off,
and then Jimmie was left to himself
and the solace of his violin. The sta
ton consisted simply of a corral and
dugout in high bank overlooking
deep water hole in a creek. Jimmie
set a line in the hole and always had
fish for dinner. He shot wild game at
times, and the report ran around among
drivers that 1.-The blamed fool at No.
ID was getting fat and fresh in his
talk
Things went on until the summer
passed into the early autumn. 1t was
night. Jimmie had eaten his supper
and was sitting on his solitary stool
saving away for dear life on his violin,
at peace with the world and himself,
while up the creek valley came steal
ing Big Tooth, Yellow Horse and seven
other proteges of the government,
fresh from the reservation, bent on cat
tle-stealing, thievery of any kind and
general deYiltrY. So silently ard swift
ly did they file in the dugout that Jins-
ME only had time to lower his bow and
stare open-eyed across the vanished
surface of the instru ment, while the
fragrance of their many uunwashed
years filed the little interior.
The Indians calmly squatted in a cir
Gle around him, and Big Tooth. patting
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his Winchester with one hand. pointed
with the other at the violin and SOL
EMMY grunted out:

his Winchester with one hand, pointed
with the other at the violin and SOL
EMMY grunted out:
play tune
Jimmie played at once with energy.
When he wanted to stop another buck
with the same movement. made the
same command, and Jimmie PLAYED
again. Then another commanded and
still another. The night advanced.
Occasionally mule outside brayed, a
coyote howled, but there was no cessa-
ton to Getting Upstairs" Cotton
Eyed Joe. " THE Arkansas Traveller"
and all the melodies in Jimmie's reper-
toire: The late moon rose: still it was
Play tune" and Jimmie played. Mid
night passed away and the early hours
of dawn. 1t grew first gray. then rose
colored. over in the east, and still the
strains of music foated out from the
open-mouth of the dugout.
Just when it grew good daylight Big
Tooth and his companions arose, pos
sessed themselves of Jimmie's amuni-
ton and gun, and also of sundry port
able articles, and with parting Much
good time" betook themselves off and
to other parts
About ten o'clock the man who ran
Station No. 12, down on the Beaver.
happened to look out of the open door
way of his cabin. He saw a black dot
way up the valley. The dot was NOV
ing. 1t soon resolved itself into a
larger shape, and moving arms and
legs became discernible. Then it soon
became manifest that it was red
haired man on very tired mule, rid
ing for dear life. When the mule
stopped, tired and blown, at the door,
the man keeled over in a dead faint.
He had a fiddle in one hand and bow
in the other. The fiddle-strings were
broken and the bow bent, for they had
been used on the mules sides with
energy and vim. Fiddling Jimmie had
resi- gned.-St. Louis Globe Democrat.
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The true gospel erpoundtd.
Bridget hits her hand against the stove and
cries out with pain She applies DR.. Feuner's
Golden Relief and the pain is gone
Johnny nwoke in the night screaming for the
pain In stomach the cherries had brought on. A
teaspoonful Of the Relief is given Immediately
Johnny is dreaming.
The sick mother, just returned from her
Southern trip, is no better. The hectic flush -
Is still on her cheek and gloom hangs over the
family circle The Golden Relief is used q
month, and cure results. The explanation is:
Golden Relief cures inflammation. No tnfam-
nation, no sore from burn, no hurt from cher
ries. no consumption. Contains no opiates, mar
eotics or mineral poisons. Safe and certain.
One tablespoonful cures La Grippe-it never de.
eeives nor disappoints Money refunded II sat-
isfaction not Riven Take bottle home to-day.
For Sale by DIR. ]. d. Karr.
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The value of the bullion in silver
dollar fell from 1903 cents in 1878 to
53 cents in 1898, yet the purchasing
power of the dollar has increased in
nearly as great a proportion. Why?
The number of dollars in circulation,
not the value of the material of which
they are made, govern their purchasing
power. Tribune
The annual production of gold and
silver combined is almost exactly the
same as in 1873 How VIII bimetallism
help us9
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Forms of Animal Life.

Humboldt and Cuvier estimated the
number of species of mammalia, or
creatures which suckle their young,
to be but little short Of 600; of birds,
1000; insects, $4,000; reptiles, 700; in all
about $4,000 species. In the southern
hemisphere birds are five times more
numerous than the mammalia. To.
ward the equator both birds and rep
tiles are most plentiful and most highly
colored. Cuvier said that the record
left by the fossils proves that the NAM
malta were once as numerously repre-
sented as are the bird species at the
present daY.
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a PHZ2IE

10 many ladies is how to keep their
hair in curl on rainy DAYS. The solu-
ton is easy. Ask j. II. Young or j. D.
KaTr for Nonpareil Hair Curler and
the puzzle will be solved.
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On your teeth will cause their decay
and will make your breath disagreed.
bic. SeXafroC will remove the cause of
trouble. This favorlte tooth wash is
sold by j. II. Young and J. ID. Kari.
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Essence of Ponuiis,n.

tlnance.-Goverpment legal tender
notes the only money.
Land.-Occupancy and use the only
title thereto.
transportation. - Government own
ership.
Nlth all collaterals that these imply.
-Pittsburg Kansas.
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SILVER THREADS AMONG THE GOLD"

Are sign that your hair needs invig
Grating. Beggs' Hair Remover pro-
notes healthy growth of hair, pre-
vents its falling out or turning gray.
Sold and guaranteed by J. r. Young
and j. ID. Karr.
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THE DEMON OF DESPAIR

Insomnia, and its twinbrother Dys-
pepsia, are the offspring of a disordered
stomach. A positive cure is found in
Beggs' Dandelion Bitters. Sold by FL
druggists.
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state Officers.
Barber County Officers.
PHYSICIANS IN MEDICINE LODGE.

8 KoC1ELL,
homeopathic PHYSICIAN Il SURGEON,
Office on Kansas Avenue next to Index office.
MEDICINE LODGE, kANFAS.
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The Silver Dollar

1t is better to be right and lose.
than to be wrong and triumph.
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X x n ELDRED POST, No. ia, meets
VI n N I'd x 4th Saturday in each month
OF the court house in Medicine Lodge, at p. NJ.
Allcomrades cordially invited.
l.. Il. VILLAINS, PoStCommander.
JOHN W. UPPERMAN, Adjutant.