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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-04-12
"UNClvIL KINDNESS"
Tenderness of Heart But Partially Con-
cealed by Roughness of Manner.

Tenderness of Heart But Partially Con-
ccaled by Roughness of Manner.
Robert Louis Stevenson, in his book
OF essays entitled ACROSS the Plains"
gives an example of what he calls the
''uncivil kindness of Americans-that
rough friendliness which, in it's contra
dictory character, is SO bewildering to
the foreigner newly landed. He says:
1T was Immediately after had left
the emigrant train, and 1 am told that
l looked like man at deaths door, SO
much had the long journey shaken me-
/ sat at the end of the car, and, the
catch being broken and myself sick and
feycrish, ! had TO hold the door open
with my foot for the sake of air.
I'm this attitude my leg barred the
newsboy from his box Of merchandise
made haste to let him pass when OBJ
served that he was coming; but / was
busy with a book, and so, once or
! twice, he came upon me unawares.
''On these occasions he most rudely
struck nay foot aside, and though ] N.Y.
self apologized, as if to show him the
way, he answered me never a word. !
ehafed furiously, and fear the next
time it would have come to words: hut
suddenly felt touch upon my Shout
der, and large, juicy pear was put
into my hand.
''It was the newsboy, who had OBJ
served that 1 was looking i'll, and so
made me this present out of a tender
heart
For the rest of the journey l was
petted like a sick child: he lent me
newspapers, thus depriving himself of
his legitimate profit ON their sale, and
came repeatedly to sit by me and cheer
Cae up."
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THIRp-cLAss IN RUSSIA.
The Miserable Railway Accommodations
for the Poor,

The Miserable Railway Accommodations
for the Poor,
1t is wonderful how much travel Is
done by the poor class in Russia. The
third-class cars are always full. They
are, according to the Cleveland Leader,
more like cattle cars than anything
else. There are no cushions on the
seats, and the people are crowded in in
all sorts of ways. They are not supposed
to have any rights that the railroad
officials are bound TO respect, and / saw
one man knocked down and showed
back into the station just as the car
was about to start because he aid not
have his ticket in his hand. He told
the guard shat the party of peasants
with whom he was travelling had the
ticket and they had already gotten on
the cars, but this did him no good, and
though he cried and howled he was
held back while the car bore his friends
and his family away. The peasant can
not travel in Russia without a pass
port. have not had to show my pass
port at the railroad depots except when
| came into Russia, but the peasant
dare not go from one part OF Russia to
the other without permission OF the
local government under which he
lives, and he is asked to show his pass
port at the ticket office
At TambOff ! saw a whole crowd of
peasants who were about to emigrate 10
another province. Each had his pass
port in his hand and they stood in single
file waiting their turns to buy their
tickets. It was at this same station
that saw my first prison car. Russian
roads have cars especially devoted to
the carrying of prisoners, and the pris-
oners which are taken from here to 81
IBERIA go by rail TO MIMI
whence they are put on prison boats
and are carried down the Volga and up
! the river Kama to Perm and thence
start on their march to the wilds of ST
IBERIA. These cars had iron bars and
windows, and they are guarded by sol
diers who are ready to shoot any who
try to escape, The cars themselves are
third-class ones, and the prisoners sit or
| hard boards rather than cushions.
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PERSIA IN A BAD WAY.
The Shah Now Under the Control of q
Priestly Oligarchy.

The Shah Now Under the Control of .
PriestIy Oligarchy.
The internal affairs of Persia seem to
be proceeding steadily from bad to
worse. A correspondent of the London
Times, who declares that he has the
highest authority for his statements,
writes: The priestly caste, which has
always enjoyed greater authority in
Persia than in Mussulman countries of
the Sunni persuasion, although hum
bled by the present ruling dynasty,
has exploited to the utmost the prevail
ing discomfort for the furtherance of
its own ends and the revival of its own
prestige. Mahdist doctrines-i. e., the
belief in the speedy advent to the
twelfth Imam, who is to sweep the I'M
believers off the face of the earth-have
always had a strong hold upon Shiite
Mohammedans. During the last Muhar-
rem festivals the priesthood announced
in many mosques that mahdi and
cavior unto Persia had risen at Samara,
near Bagdad, in the person of Mollah
Hail Mira Hassan Shirazi, and that
he was predestined to rule over the
land. This ominous announcement was
rendered still more significant by the
omission of the lIhutbeh, the prayer for
the shah, which throughout Islam is the
most ancient and sacred privilege of
royalty. These incidents acquire all the
more gravity that the shah feels HIM
self helpless to cope with the impend-
ing crisis. Treachery is rampant with
in the palace itself, and the shah's third
son, Prince Naib-es-Sultaneh, who is at
the same time minister of war, is known
to be in secret sympathy with the NAL
content leaders. 1t is no exaggeration
to say that the shah rules in little more
than name, and, as it were, on suffer
ance. The power, both in the capital
and the provinces, almost throughout
his empire, has passed out of his hands
! into those of the priestly oligarchy,
who are the masters of the situation.
| The grand vizier himself Emin-es-Sul-
| tan-has been compelled to enter into
| secret negotiations with the most infiu-
entail of these holy agitators. NOLAN
Mira Hassan Ashtiany, in the hope,
it as alleged, of persuading him
| that the deposition of the shah would
involve the occupation and possible par
tition of the last great shah kingdom
! by the very Europeans whose presence
is so loathful to every right-thinking
| Mussulman."
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Money Left by Authors.

Some one has been gathering Stats
tics about the money left by authors.
Lord Tennyson, the most successful of
English authors, left about $3.50, 900.
Robert Browning, of whose will A.
Tennyson and F. S. Palgrave were the
attesting witnesses, left personally lin
London of the value of e16,775. Victor
Hugo, who, like Tennyson, attained
the age of SO years, had personal estate
in England to the amount of 500, 126.
DR.. Charles Mackay's property was
valued at a2,640, and that of Eliza
Cook at e5, 057. Matthew Arnold's es-
tate amounted to 21,O41. His will. in
his own handwriting, was one of the
shortest that ever came under probate.
1t was: 81 leave everything of which l
1ie possessed to my wife, Frances
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-04-12

come too far disorganized Here's Q typical case:
Miss Jones, aged 20 has lost % pounds check
have the "hectic flush: coughs and raises 4
the time: has Just returned frcm The South
where she spent the winter. DID rot improve.
She takes drops Of Dr. Fenner's Golden Re.
lief. on small lump OF sugar, once in hours
Improvement begins ct once. Il weeks she
has gained 10 pounds In weeks she weighs
l30 and is CURED. The remedy is . SPECIFIC
in INFLAMMATION No inflammation, 70 sore
ness, no consumption Thus It cc-cs . long lis:
OF ailments from common sore throat, to 9
grave bronchitis, asthma and consumption,
FROM toothache to grave neuralgia, from Q
headache to q grave rheumatism anda frcu.
summer complaint to grave dysentery, chol-
era or tux This wide range CT application has
sometimes unjustly caused i 10 be dubbed a
"cure all" But ii isn't. II cures ere disease
and that is determination. Inflammation caunos
exist in its prCssnce-Gnd tat - CORES the pro5-
lem" One tablespoonful dose cures Ia Grippe
1t never olsappointS. Contains 10 opiates, mar
cotics or mineral pc!sons. Perfectly safe.
Money refunded il satisfaction not given. Take
homo q bottle to-day.
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FAST ENOUGH.
A Russians Plan for Crossing tho At
1antic in Twenty-EIght Hours.

A Russians Plan for Crossing tho At
1antic in Twenty-Eisht Hours.
1t is said that new maritime inven-
ton, intended to revolutionize the pres
ent system of marine locomotion, is be-
ing perfected by Lieut.. Apostolow, of
the Russian navy. The other day a
private exposition was given of the in
geniOus models before Admiral Van der
Fleet, Baron Bistrom, Capt. Pereleschin
and other naval officers, in the directors
room of the Russian company's estab-
lishment at Odessa. Sufficient informa-
ton has been collected by the London
Transcript to show that Lieut. Apostle
lows new ship has neither screw nor
paddle. There is, instead, kind of
running electrical gear right round the
vessels hull, under the water line, and
a revolving mechanism, which will pro-
pei the ship from Liverpool to New
York in twenty-eight hours This, how
ever. is but one part of the Russians
scheme. Some unreasonably timid per-
sons, Lieut.. Apostolow imagines, might
object to the discomfort of being
swished through the Atlantic pillows
at the rate of one hundred and thirty
knots an hour. To these he offers the
alternative of Submarine passage
without rock, roll or vibration, and
with good supply of oxygen and
hydrogen during the short voyage. =
What the cars officers think of the
Apostolow plans is not recorded AL
that is known is that the lieutenant has
quilted Odessa for Moscow and St.
Petersburg, where he intends to exhibit
his models before lie errbarl1s with
them for that valhalla of invention
the worlds fair.
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view of the Irrant rerr.,,le.

There was a middle-aged woman at
the Grand Central station the other
morning, says the New York World,
attired in a dull, dark-red cloth travel
ing gown of the conspicuously incon.
conspicuous order. She was much adj
mired by little girl who held gayly-
dressed doll IN t.ar arms. BY and by
the well-oressed woman arose and
moved across the waiting room, lifting
her train as she did so. and revealing a
silk lining OF the most gorgeous char
acter II was of q warm shade Of red,
shot with golden light that shimmered
as she moved, and couple of pinked-out
dust rufties added to its elegance. The
little girl watched in opened-cyed won
Ser, and then said to her mother: MARI
ma, Why do suppose that lady wears her
dress wong side out? Is it to keep the
right side clean?"
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A Freak of Lightning.

A man who gets his clothes wet in a
thunderstorm may take comfort from
the following remarkable tale recently
published in New York paper: "Three
men took. shelter from a thunderstorm
under a pollard willow. flash of
lightning strnck the tree and took in
one man. 1t did not. injure him in the
least, but threw him down and violent
ly stripped off his clothes, which were
hurled distance of twenty yards. The
explanation given is that the clothes
were stripped from the man by light
ming just as bark is stripped from a
tree. The discharge finds a moist pas
sage down between the bark and the
trunk, converting the moisture into
steam and thus blowing off the bark.
1t is supposed that the mans clothes
had become drenched by the rain, and
by a similar generation of steam there
had been an explosion severe enough to
rend his things from him and throw
him to the ground. Fortunately for
him his wet clothes had formed better
conductor than his own body"
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ment. But they would not obtain
majority in the house of commons, and
so could not do anything; and the
queen would have to ask the ministers
whose bill she. had vetoed to return to
power. They would refuse to return
unless she signed the bill. Meantime,
parliament would be at odds and ends;
everyone would be indignant at the
queens venturing to refuse to do some
thing which the peoples representa-
tives wished her to do; and unless she
turned about very promptly she would
find herself minus throne. The queen
might dissolve parliament, but there
would be no one in Office to issue writs
for a new parliament. so things would
still be at loose ends. The sovereign
has the right Of veto still; but the right
has not been exercised since 1907 and is
practically out of date in Great Britain.
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growing among these young lions, and
occasionally a stand-up fight for a min
ute, but their mother did not take any
notice of them, except to give them a
sharp blow with her paw If they got in
her way. There was now little left of
the zebra but few bones, which hun
dreds of vultures were circling around
wanting to pick, while almost an equa;
number hoped awkwardly about on
the ground within fifty or sixty yards
of it, and the whole lion family walked
quietly away, the honess leading and
the lion, after turning his head to see
that they were not followed, bringing
up the rear"
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WHAT PAwNBRokERs SEE.
Pathetic Scenes That Are Everyday Oc-

Pathetic Scenes That Are Everyday Oc-
curreDces.
i On recent cold day a young man,
who looked at first glance to be well
dressed, slipped into one of the numer-
Gus pawnbrokers' places on the Bowery,
/ says the New York Times. His over
coat, which he wore tightly buttoned
about his body. was SO nearly new that
the store creases'' had not yet disap-
peared. It was of good material and
had probably cost forty or forty-five
dollars. As soon as the door closed be-
hind him the man took of the overcoat,
threw it on the counter and laconically
asked of the pawnbroker: How much?''
/ -Four dollars" was the response, after
the garment had been examined. sit
cost me forty dollars l want ten dol
lars" pleaded the man "I1l give you
five dollars" No" "Well'-after
another critical examination-''rll let
you have six dollars aud not n cent
more" With curse the man put the
six dollars in his pocket and walked out
! into the street to shiver in an old, thin
and ragged suit of clothes which had
previously been concealed by the over
coat. THAT coat" said the pawnbroker
to a friend who had watched the trans
! action, ''has probably come from some
careless PERSONS front hall; but can't
be expected to know about the people
who come here or the articles they
bring. Besides the coat is cheap at six
dollars
Within five minutes after this Incl
| dent n really well-dressed man, but
without an overcoat, stepped into the
place by side door. Without a word
he took off his coat, cleared it's pockets
Of a handkerchief and two or three
letters, which he jammed into his
trousers pockets, and laid the garment
on the counter. The pawnbroker
looked over it and remarked: Seventy
Eve cents" The man shook his head.
zone dollar said the pawnbrol1er, and
the customer held out his hand and
clutched the money. The only word he
spoke was when he gave name to be
written on the pawn-ticket. He hur-
ried out in his shirt-sleeves and ran into
saloon few doors away. THAT sort
don't come often" said the pawnbroker.
Hes gambling with somebody and he
expects to come back and get his coat
before night. Perhaps he will, but 1
| don't look for him"
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AT THE WORLDS FAIR.
Electrical Exhibits Are Nearly Ready for
Installation.

installations.
The electrical exhibit will cover in
round numbers 100000 square feet on
the main floor and galleries of the elec-
tricity building The Offices Of the de.
partEent chief are in the gallery at the
south end and the two bays in the mort,
end Of the gallery viii be devoted
restaurants. The remainder OF the $50
600 square feet of flooring in the build
ing will be taken up ty aislcs. Tn
work of Installing exhibits viii begi
Immediately. Some exhibits are already
on the ground and Others are arrivin;.
1t is expected that during the wee
fifty exhibitors viii arrive to look afte.
the installation of their displays.
OF foreign countries France and Ger
many viii give the greatest electrical
displays. France having been assignee
100 square feet on the main floor, anc
Germany 1882 square feet on the mail
floor and galleries. France will occup,
the entire northwestern bay" a par
of section p, just south Of the bay. anc
the greater part of section K, which lie.
east of section p. Germanys exhibi
will occupy 1884 square feet on tn,
ground floor east of the French display
and spas feet in the galleries.
England viii have 1850 square feet
in the western part of the building ad-
joining the French territory. and to-
gether with Canada will occupy sos
feet in the galleries. Just north of the
center Of the building an area of All
square feet has been allotted to Thomas
A. Edison, and in the center of the
building is a circular plat 80 feet in di-
ameter which will be occupied by the
Phoenix Glass company of New York.
The southern half of the ground floor
has been allotted to large electric firms
of this country, the Bell telephone COM
pany, Brush company, Westinghouse e
company, Detroit Electrical works, and
others, each having a large space as
signed to it. In the galleries will be
shown monographs, scientific instrl.-
ments and specialties. Here also will
be the exhibit of insulation and wire
people and small exhibits of foreign
nations.
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What the Indian. Think.

There is something for the native
American stock to reflect upon. seTs
the WORCESTER spy, ia the remarks Of
one of the Indian girls fron the Car
Isle Indian school. which was repre-
scented by three hundred and '-- ,,ty-
two Puplis IN - - great parade of school
children in New York this week. This
girl had been taking in the sights Of the
met, opolis with otlle.s II, charge of a
white teacher. They had been down to
Ellis island to witness the landing of
some emigrants, and after witnessing
for awhile this great horde of foreign
ers who were crowtiing ashore, this
Carlisle girl remarked to her white
teacher: Your people drove Us nut
centuries ago. Now these people are
coming 70 drive you cut II you don't
stop them you will be In few ccntu-
r:es what ray people are now"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-04-12
The Life of Niagara,

Concerning the wearing away of Nj
agara Falls, Prof. LIE Comic says: The
upper stratum of rock is Niagara lime
stone, hard rock, but beneath it is a
stratum of shale. 1t is the slow under
mining OF this shale that causes the lime
stone to break of from year 20 year
and the falls to recede. They are reced-
ing now at the rate of three or four
feet a year. What will be the final re-
sultP They may go back to the lake,
but the limestone is growing thicker
and thicker and may finally extend to
the bottom OK the falls. in that case
the rock would not break off, but would
ssear away and form rapids. In any
case, ii the falls should racede to Lake
Erie. at the present rate it would take
at least twenty thousand years"
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What n Parrnt nin.

0ae OF the e!eyeHest performances
ever recorded of parrot is told in the
Chicago News. IN a certain home in
that city the heads Of the household
were absent, leaving t:ie servants in
charge and Polly, as us.;:i, u. her perch
in tae dieips soola rusiag the eren-
ing burglars e; tered e1a bcgaf, ,---;gnag.
Ing among the sil--- ana other valua-
u.s- the diaing-roorl. As it was
dark. the men did not see the parrot.
The sagacioUs creature seemed to real
i2e that something was wrong. and, as
the electric bell which summoned the
servants was within reach, she quietly
pressed the button with her claw, as
she had often see her mistress do. 1t
may have been only imitation on Polly's
part. bat II worried IS well as if she
had reasoned oEt the matter. The
tcrrants cane rushing in and secured
the burglars, AID doubtless Polly had
an extra '.erae!scr" for her services
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DANGER OF Football.

Muscular and Nervous Stamina Needed IN
the Came, and Plenty of Each.
Few except those who have been
through the experience are aware what
exertiop and strain and exhaustion a
holly contested football match in
wolves. 1t is all great deal more than
appears on the surface, and the self
control required in the midst of great
excitement adds to the nervous tension
besides the physical fatigue. This of
itself is enough to try an average man,
but when to it is added the struggles,
the falls, the grapplings, the blows
(for, according TO the Philadelphia
Times, there are blows once in awhilel,
it REQUIRES stamina and real endurance
as we'll as strength to stand it. Be-
cause the men on the opposite sides in
the field are not seen squaring off and
striking at each other IN Eeellar Sullis
van-Corbett style, it does not follow
that there are not scientific ways in
which in the tusseis a man can be ma
terially weakened, or some particularly
aggressive member of it disabled. Let
any man in fair condition be suddenly
thrown to the ground and then have
one or two heavy men, or it may be
seven or sight, fall and throw their
weight on him. Possibly his hard may
be under one of their feet, ar Ia the fail
one OF their foFearms may have chol1ed
him across the neck. How much wind
and energy will an average man have
after one such experience as that? And
yet it is a common football experience.
Many a man is hurt more in football
fight than he cares to admit, and so he
makes light o. it and plays on for the
sake of the college or team and from
self-pride. But games appear to be
growing Pougher, and there are great
many accidents" and injuries. and,
taking all the teams in and around
Philadelphia, it would be astonishing il
the extent of the injuries received in
football were known. There is one doc
tor in Philadelphia who has on his list
thirty cases of injury at football, and
they ars nearly all cases requiring sur
gical treatment.
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sIar.r.iaz In : ,aia.

It is not tile custom for ladies' to 20
to lE1ar..et Ia Madrid. and even the first
cook n great houses tiisdaius to expose
herself to the jokes Il the market WON
en-. 1t falls TO the place OF the second
cook 10 DO the marketing, and she pre-
fers to pass her life il tie position. for
ii has many perquisitcs- 1t IS under
stood that she cxacts her commission
on al she buys. and as prices vary. this
is easy Without detection. '.::siie is too
dear is sometimes said when a servant
is discharged, but no imputa tiou IS
| made against her character.
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Moorish Architecture.

An American engineer recently re-
turned from visit to Spain is con-
vinced that the durability of Moorish
architecture is overestimated in popu-
lar opinion. That which he examined
be found extremely defective from the
engineers point of view, and he believes
that where one ancient Moorish struc-
ture remains scores must have persisted.
The famous horseshoe arch and the
prevalence of pillars seemingly too deli
cate oto do the work imposed upon
them he ascribes to fondness of the
Moors for creating in great structures
the impression of instability, trick the
result, perhaps, of something deeply
Embedded in the Moorish intellect.