Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-06-28

hdO NO CdgcHuC pepper at naQQ L
asked him whether he could take a
wineglassful of ipecacuanha and he
professed readiness to do il at once
The cayenne pepper l could partly un-
derstand; it would be a mere question
of standing a certain amount of pain.
But ! asked him how he managed to
control the effect of the ipecacuanha.
We only do it for a time he said.
You can learn to do it with practice.
like the rest of the tricks. But we al
ways bring the stuff up after the per-
Torrance. He also expressed his rsadi-
ness to drink OIL Among novel tricks
which he offered to perform was that
of showing the pulse while under
hypnotic influence. OF this he claimed
to be the original inventor / asked
him whether all the subjects were
equal impersonators. All, he said. He
knew them all personally. and would
answer for them. He ridiculed the
mere suggestion that there could be
anything genuine in hypnotism, wheth-
er in Paris, London or anywhere else;
but here he may have spoken beyond
his knowledge. Truth.
THE iMITABLE ENGLiSHMAN.
Much OF His Life Is Devoted to Tipping
Servants.
A rich Bostonian, who has been
spending almost unlimited leisure in
travel on two hemispheres, SAYS that
he notices a wholesale tendency to re-
duction and system in tips. People
travel so much more than they used to
do and are served by SO many more en-
ployes that some sort of a regulation is
necessary On the continent, where
walters pay for their places, though
the landlords make a separate charge
for their service. the tip is regulated
and all but Americans know it, the
local tariff being one Sou to the franc
one cent in twenty cents. Nobody
grumbles at this.
The Englishman on his own island
pays sixpence for everything to every
body, and is insulted if he doesn't. As
he has to fee walters, porters, clerks.
chambermaids, guides, vergers, police
men, dukes barkeepers and casual citi-
zens it is no wonder that he has settled
into a confirmed grumbler and can't
stop grumbling all the time he is away
from home.
But in this country it has been get
ting worse than anything in Europe.
Half dollar is no unusual tip to give
to man who serves you with q sloppy
dinner in place where You are paying
four dollars a day for board, and
where the walters receive fair wages
besides their food and lodging; but.
says the Bostonian, "dimes are general
currency for tip now"
'1n one southern hotel a negro
waiter came to me at my very first
meal, and said: Il only gets twenty
dollars month boss. People generally
allows me one dollar week / gave
him nothing. At another hotel down
there the walters change tables at
every meal, so as to break up this
striking business
Its odd, especially in Europe, how
ready the walters become in guessing
at your nationality and likings An
Englishman, who never wants to adapt
himself to any country, but expects all
other countries to adapt themselves to
him, is greeted in every French res
taurant now with 'Bifstek an palal,'
which is waiter English for beefsteak
and pale ale. IN. Y Recorder.
Sending Linen Abroad to BE Laundered.
At least one man in Brooklyn sends
his linen abroad to be Numbered, and
he isn't man of fashion either, but
merely successful merchant. If he is
not disturbed by the customs authori-
ties the. system need not be very ex-
pensive, as linen packs small. and even
Queen Victoria pays her laundresses
absurdedly low wages The European
laundress is steadygoing person, not
ambitious of lettering her position,
and remarkably tenacious of memory
where the-lames and faces Of custom
ers are concerned American naval
officers encounter at Villeffanche In the
Mediterranean French laundresses who
have done up the linen OF the same men
for years, and an officer returning tn
that sea after long absence finds that
his laundress remembers HMM. Y.
Sun.
When the bankers set up that
whine of unsettled confidence" as an
excuse to refuse loans, how long before
full-fledged panic will be upon the
country? What means of relief does
our government offer to the commercial
interests in such an emergency? None
whatever. The most sacred functions OF
of government are delegated without
condition to serve the cupidity and avari-
cious instincts of a small class whose
prosperity alone depends upon the mis-
fortunes of the community
formist.
Let us suppose two great nations
of equal population have and are using
both gold and silver, as much gold as
silver. Now, we will suppose that one
of them demonetizes gold and the other
silver, and they exchange their de-
monetized metals. Then each viii
have the same amount of money as be-
fore and prices will be undisturbed
But suppose they both demonetize sill
yer. or both demonetize gold; then the
money supply will be reduced one-half.
prices will fall one-half. debts and
taxes will in effect be doubled, the
masses will be impoverished and the
rich made richer.-Missouri World.
Money is valuable according to its
purchasing power. Its purchasing
power is regulated by it's volume
When a dollar has large purchasing
power prices are low; when it has
small purchasing power prices are
high. It's purchasing power may fiuc-
tuate, and will if its volume tiuctuates,
without its going either above or be-
low par It matters not what kind of
money, it is volume that controls its
purchasing power. If by some magic
the gold and silver of this nation were
by some means destroyed and instantly
paper money appeared in its place
prices would remain unchanged.-Mis-
souri, World.
The democrats have decided TO re-
peal the tax on state banks as feature
af their financial budget, and Cleveland
will so recommend in his message to
the extra session. The revival of wild
cat banking as a means of remedying