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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-03-08
GOTH WE'RE BENT ON MARRIAGE.
How the Young Man Happened to Get a
Weeks Vacation So Easily.

How the Young Man Happened to Get a
Weeks Vacation So Easily.
These are busy times among the
worlds fair people, and the man who
gets "a day off" is counted fortunate.
This state of affairs, says the Chicago
Tribune, bothered clerk in one of the
departments who had arranged to get
married last Wednesday. lie wanted
at least week to get used to the new
order of things, and, what is more,
he did not want his fellow-laborers in
the cause of Chicago's great fair to
learn of his matrimonial intentions un-
til after the agony was over So 1t was
with fear and trembling that he waited
on the chief of his department.
''Mr. Smith," said he, 81 would like
to get a little vacation, say week from
next Wednesday,"
"Um-," said the chief. "What's
that about Wednesday? You want a
weeks holiday, CHI? What for?"
The matrimonially inclined young
man blushed a trifle, stammered little,
and finally blurted out:
I'm going to get married on that
day and don't want anybody to know
anything about it,
Going to get married Wednesday,"
echoed the chief in surprised tones.
''Well, my boy, so am /, and I don't
want anyone to know about my case
either Take the week. I'm going to
take two"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-03-08
ALIVE IN HER GRAVE,
A Yaqui Girl Falls Into a Trance aud Is
Revived After q Month

Revived After Month.
81 noticed a suggestion some time ago
that science might yet make it possible
for a man to go to sleep in the first
quarter of one century and wake up in
the last quarter of the next" said Col
Jeff McLemore to Globe Democrat
man, as he pulled away at big black
cigar in the rotunda of the Laclede
1.-The writer probably got his idea from
! the account given by Sir Claude Wade,
who relates that while residing at the
court of Loodhiana he saw n fakir re-
suscitated after being walled up for six
weeks in a brick vault without the pos
sibility of receiving breath of air.
Il was inclined to doubt Sir Claude's
| story until / witnessed feat fully as
remark able among the Yaqui Indians
in Mexico a few weeks ago. An
| old widowed squaw had daugh-
ter, a rather comely girl of four
teen, who had an unpleasant habit
of going into frances whenever she
counted her beads, mother and daughter
being devout Catholics. The girl would
! lie like one dead until her mother NUT
! tered some cabalistic words over her
and applied the crucifiX to her lips,
when she would revive on the instant,
apparently none the worse for the lapse
| into state of coma.
1.-THE mother took service in family
quite a distance removed and left her
/ daughter with the tribe. The latter
soon passed into a trance, and all efforts
to resuscitate her were unavailing. A
messenger was posted off for the moth
er, but returned with the answer that
she had accompanied her mistress to
Monterey. The girl lay for several
days motionless, and was at last pro-
nounced dead and consigned to the
grave. A month later the mother re-
turned, and, learning what had been
done, proceeded to dig her child up.
The body had not changed in the least
since being consigned to the grave. and
when the cabalistic words were repeated
and the crueifix applied to the lips the
girl started up, and, after partaking of
4 cup of water, accompanied her mother
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-03-08
LAUGHING GAS.
Interesting Information Given by
"A Dentist.
He Describes the Process by Which the
Queer Stun Is Made Its Remark
able Effects Upon Some
PeopIe,

81 inhale about twenty gallons Of
laughing gas every day." said surgeon
dentist who, according to the New York
Mail and Express, makes a business of
pulling teeth. mo, l don't do it for
pleasure, but for the purpose of show
ing patients how to take it. The i'm
portant thing is to initiate the lungs
with few big breaths from the gas
bag; then complete Inconsistencies
supervenes and no pain whatever is
felt. On the contrary, the dreams of
persons under the influence of nitrous
oxide are usually most agreeable. An
Irish girl who came to me the other day
to have tooth extracted exclaimed on
awaking: Sure, thought l was at a
waker A German told me that he
dreamed he was in lager-beer saloon.
A little boy said that he thought he
was up in the air, holding on to the
tall of a kite
THAT enormous bag like balloon
which you saw dragged into the office
few minutes ago is filed with laugh
ing gas. 1t is made of canvas coated
with rubber and holds two hundred
gallons. The quantity sufiices for only
oOCoO IAOAShO>; pNNoNoS
| they waste good deal from not know
ing how to take it. The stuff does not
cost much to manufacture, however.
1t is made from nitrate of ammonia,
which is a salt obtained by boiling am
monia in nitric acid. We buy it in gran
| ulated shape, and all that is necessary
| in order to get the gas from it is to boil
| it in water. III the laboratory we put
five or six pounds of it into Il long
necked flask, beneath which is lighted
Bunsen burner. The flame is very hot,
because atmospheric air is rapidly SUPP
| piled to it.
The nitrate of ammonia salt is melt
ed in the flask, ard the gas which it
| gives off by evaporation passes over
through a tube into scaled jar partly
| filed with water. Bubbling up through
| the water it passes through another
tube into u second water jar, and SO
through four jars successfully. Being
thus passed through water several
times it is perfectly purified. When
first generated it contains 4 good deal
of impurity, especially oxide of iron,
which comes from the iron vessels in
which the ammonia was boiled with
nitrate acid. But all impurities are re-
moved IN the manner / have described,
and the nitrous oxide finally goes
through pipe into great metal tank.
The tank is composed of two big cylin-
ders, one partly filed with water and
the other set upside down inside the
first. If you will take tall tumbler
and invert it inside of another tall
tumbler that is slightly bigger and
which has some water i'll it, you will
have the idea exactly.
The expansive power of The gas is so
great that it lifts the inside cylinder
steadily out of the outside one, the
water meanwhile keeping the nitrous
oxide from escaping. When the tank
is filled the operator knows it by the
height to which the cylinder is elevat-
ed. To fill one of these huge rubber
bags with the gas he simply draws the
gas off from the tank into the bag until
the latter is completely inflated and can
| hold no more.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-03-08
PITH AND POINT.

Harvest will never come for the
man who will not get out of bed to plow
and plant.-Ram's Horn.
"A thief is generally distant in his
manner if he suspects an officer is after
him.-Binghamton Republican.
AS rule mans hair turns gray
five years sooner than woman's. And
trouble whitens hair.-Oil City Derrick.
Promptly Answered - Lecturer
"What is dearer to a man than his
wife?" Bachelor-''Herj ewelry. jew
elers' Weekly.
Most people do not want anybody
else to think for them. What they want
is somebody else to work for them
Galveston News.
Don't you think" the mother said.
proudly, that her playing shows a re-
markable finish?" Yes" replied the
young man, absently, but she was q
long time getting to it."-Jury.
D-(He has come for her in buggy
and she objects to the turnout)-"You
are very particular; you put on more
airs than q music=boX!' SWELL, don't
go with crank, anyway!"-Brooklyn
Life
Lady oGn furniture store to new
clerk are those handsome
sideboards that you had last week?"
Clerk tenn barrassed) 80 I-er-I
shaved them off day afore yesterday,
ma'am.'
What" she asked, SHOULD be an
artists highest ambition?" ITO paint
a picture so good that the frame won't
attract the most attention." replied
the practical young painter.-Washing-
ton Star.
= Carl-''Mamma, did papa have to
learn all the different kinds of tables
in the arithmetic for feet and" Nam
mat think not, my son, for he always
puts his on the mantel, you see."-In-
ter-Ocean.
"A Sociologist-Phil. Anthropist-
81 can't give you money, but ] will
give you q letter to charitable soci-
ety." Onis Uppers-.:No, sir; will not
use it. am down on organized char
ity; it is productive of pauperism, sir.s
-Puck:
Young ladies who allowed leap
year to go by without availing them
selves of its privileges may be inter
ested in knowing that leap year meth
dds have been known to work quite
successfully in other years. -Kansas
City Journal
"A Way to Express His Gratitude
The Clumsy Man looming from the
ballroom)-"Howc can ever repay you
for that delightful waltz?" She (whoso
train has sufferedl -''Oh, don't pay me,
Settle with the dressmaler. Chicago
News Record.
AT the Bool1store-Custome But
this book bears date prior to the in
vention of printing" Dealer in Rare
Volumes-''S so much the more valuable,
sir; SO much the more valuable 1t is
proof of its antiquity. 1t was only after
the invention of printing, You know,
that the coanterteiting OF old volumes
was possible, - Boston Trapscript
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-03-08
AN INCIDENT BRITON.
His OR-Hand Manner of Disposing of
Rebels.

Rebels.
A correspondent, writing of the late
Lord Strathnairn, says he was the most
indolent, lacl1adaisical, languid person
who ever dawdled along Piccadilly
When he was devastating central India,
winning the splendid victories that inn
mortalized his name, he was so lazy
that he could not be got to dictate the
dispatches recording his own triumphs,
says the Sheffield (England) Telegraph.
Months elapsed before these documents
could be extracted from him, and then
they were brief and meager to the last
degree.
One day, when Sir Hugh Rose, he was
entertaining gallant company to din
ncr during the crisis of the mutlny.
With the utmost sang froid he was de-
lighting those near him with one of his
best anecdotes In the middle of it his
orderly entered and, after saluting, eX-
claimed: eve have captured two hun
dred rebels, sir"
To him the general turned and, with
that elegant courtesy of manner on
which he prided himself, serenely re-
piled: Thank you, sergeant"
But the man still remained. Again
interrupting his chief, he said: But
what are we to do with them, sir?"
"Oh!' replied Sir Hugh, with soft
smile, hang them, of course" and he
resumed his anecdote.
In little while Sir Hugh was again
interrupted in the middle of another
story by the sergeant, who came in and
said: Please, sir, we've hung the lot,
sir"
The general turned, bowed slightly,
and in the sweetest manner hsped:
Thanks, sergeant, very many thanks,
and then went on with his anecdote as If
nothing had happened.
This story came to the ears of the
queen and she was so angry that it
nearly cost Sir Hugh his peerage.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-03-08
Big Game.

The magnifying power of mist has
often been described, but perhaps never
in more striking manner than by Mr.
Pike in his account of his travels in the
Barren Ground of Northern Canada"
1--WE were travelling in thick fog and
saw an animal, apparently at some
distance, bounding along the horizon
at most remarkable pace. All down
the line there were cries of Musk ox!'
Wolf! Guns We're snatched from the
sleighs and the dogs charged at a gal
lop in pursuit of the strange amin al.
After rush of ten yards the quarry
disappeared. The first man had put his
foot on it, and it turned out to be one of
the small mice so common in that coun-
try"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-03-08
Have You n CancerI

If YOU have, we invite your attention
to the work of Mrs. Mary +. 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 a 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 un-
covered the joint requiring amputation.
She also makes medicines for all
kinds of telons and chronic sores.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-03-08
CANADA'S EXHIBIT.
A Mineral Display Which VIII BE
SurnriGe.

A Mineral Display Which VIII BE q
Surprise.
Canada is preparing a surprise for
American competitors in some lines of
exhibition. The fisheries, agricultural
and live stock contributions from the
dominion are to be significant, both in
magnitude and quality. Another great
display from across the border will
come to Chief Skiff of the mining ex-
hibits department. Ontario has great
meteorological display about ready for
shipment Mr.. David Boyle has charge
of it and has outlined its principal
features. Some of the best specimens
are gold ores of great value, some of
the contributions by individual mines
reaching half ton in weight The Bel
mont and Crescent mines are especially
well represented Nickel ore will be
arrayed on n scale never before at
tempted. One specimen alone weighs
seven tons, and one piece of matte
nickel, after rough refining, weighs
five tons. The Sudbury district, with
one of the richest nickel deposits in the
world, will have a special exhibit pre-
pared by R. II. Aim.
Perhaps the most curious, because I'M
usual, will be the magnificent specimens
of mica. In the Ontario collection is a
crystal, eighteen by twenty inches and
nine inches thick, weighing four hun
dred pounds. Another bit, foot thick,
weighs one hundred and twenty
pounds. Graphite is also to be
shown from Perth, where it is claimed
the largest deposit in the world is
found. Marble, granite, phosphate of
lime, tale, sulphate of baryta, asbestus,
all are comprised in the collection.
photographic stone of unusual value is
also to be shown. The rarer specimens,
exhibited in cases, include topaz, anne
thysts, garnets, agates and zircons. Al
together two thousand square feet in
the mines building is set aside for the
Ontario section of the Canadian eShibit
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-03-08

the invitation rendered him by the
United States government to take part
in the great Columbian ceremonies at
Chicago next year.
Possibly it may occur to some patri-
otto readers of this column that the
achievements of the great discoverer OF
this country might most appropriately
be commemorated by setting his de-
scendant once more upon his legs,
financially speaking.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-03-08
METHODS OF VULTURES.
They Are Guided to Their Food by Their
Remarkable Power of Sight.

They Are Guided to Their Food by Their
Remarkable Power of Sight.
In the month of December, as our
party was ascending the gorge which
leads to Petra from the Wady-el-Arabah,
one of our camels suddenly dropped
down dead, SAYS a writer in the SFec-
tator. This was in the evening, and
we returned to our camp without sue
ceeding in our object that day. But
early next morning we started again
for Petra, and on reaching the carcass
of the dead camel in the early dawn we
found about a dozen vultures congre-
gated around 1t, some of which had al
ready gorged themselves and were al
most unable to fly. Now, when the
camel dropped down, none of these
birds were in sight; but here next morn
ing, while the carcass was still fresh,
they had swooped down on their prey.
There could have been no smell of car
rion from this carcass; but it might
easily have been within sight of bird
soaring at an elevation which would
have rendered it invisible to a traveller;
at the same time, an animal of the size
of a camel lying motionless on the
ground would have been easily visible
to vulture while out of sight.
In order to account for the assem-
bling of n group of vultures in so short
a time as is here indicated, while none
of these birds were apparently within
sight, we may suppose that the birds
spread themselves at wide intervals
throughout an extensive district and at
u biCb altitude. aocb hind SOo1.c n bO1,t
keeping steady gaze on the ground
for the carcass of some animal, at the
same time being within sight of his fell
lows. As soon as prey is sighted by one
of the group he swoops down toward it,
and this action is the signal to the
other birds that meal is to be had
where the bird descended, and they al
flock down accordingly. ''Wheresoevel
the carcass is there will the eagles (vul-
turcs) be gathered together"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-03-08
GENIUS AND GREASE.
The Comparative Earnings of Teacher
and Cooks.

The Comparative Earnings of Teachers
and Cooks.
A year or two ago there was printed
a list of questions concerning domestic
service in the United States. says the
New York Evening Post. They were
prepared by Miss Lucy Salmon, the
professor of history at Vassar college,
Among other interesting facts CLEANED
from the answers to these questions
which have lately been made public are
these: BY comparison made between
the wages received by teachers in the
public schools of Cambridge and cooks
in the neighboring city, Boston, it is
found that fifty-siX per cent. of the
teachers in the former city earn 1920 q
year. If the very small sum of 1886
were deducted for board for one year,
this would leave a balance of 1885 for
clothing, travel, books, lectures,
charity, pew rent and the inevitable
rainy day.
The average wages of the Boston
cook are, according to 574 returns, 81. IS
weekly, or S231.4O AS the cook has no
outlay for food, fuel, light, or laundry
expenses, it is estimated that this
added money value would amount to
s275. a nd bring her wages up to s5O6. 40.
The difference in the amount of money
left the teacher after paying necessary
expenses. and that received by the
cook who has no such outgo would
therefore be only sos. The teacher
must dress better, as becomes her DO
sition; she must attend lectures, to
keep in touch with improved methods
she is urged to subscribe from her pit
lance to Journals of education and has
street car fare to pay daily in stormy
weather. BY comparing two of the
tables in the report it is seen that the
Boston cook is probably in possession
of more money at the end OF the yeal
than the average teacher in Albany
Atlanta, Baltimore, New Orleans, Pat
erson, Rochester and Syracuse.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-03-08

To many ladies is how to keep their
hair in curl on rainy DAYS. The solu-
ton is easy. Ask j. r. Young or j. ID.
Karr for Nonpareil Hair Curler and
the puzzle will be solved.
PuglliSt Mitchell has been permit ted
to land.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-03-08

English Spawn Liniment removes all
hard, soft OR calloused Jumps and tlen-
lshed from horses, blood sravIn, curbs,
spllnts, ring bone, sweeney, STILES.
sprains, sore and swollen throat.
coughs, etc. Save $50 by use of one
bottle. Warranted the most wonder
full blemish cure ever known. Sold by
J. ID. Karr.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-03-08

The king of Uganda Is n s,.lnge
young man of whims and fancies. He
lives at present on the top of hill, and
his palace stands on pillars 1t is adj
visable to write at present" because
the king is constantly changing the
locale of his palace. When a change Of
residence is made the capital is changed
at the same time, and all the courtiers
have to pack UP their establishments
and remove with Mwapga, the king,
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-03-08
Two Kinds of Tempes,.
J. ID. Kar

An original feature was introduced
into the performance of Shalsespeare's
Tempest" in French provincial town
recently. The actual tempest was pro-
duced by fifteen men hiding under the
green cloth which served as the surface
of the sea and produced the swelling
of old ocean by bobbing up and down.
On account of a falling off in the box
Office receipts the manager lowered the
mems wages, whereat they decided to
strike. Next evening when the wind
howled over the stage and hailstones
made of beans fell on the boards the
green sea remained sullenly silent
.'Swell and roar at once.' the director
cried in despair. IF you promise to
to give Us eighty confines instead of
fifty we will" mo; sixty; not sou
more The audience shouted with
laughter: the sea remained calm.
Seventy centines?" ''We said eighty
And eighty it had to be. Then there
began roaring and swelling of the
ocean which for Tigor had never been
equaled. The result was that suddenly
the green cloth burst ard the heads Of
the fifteen appeared on the stage, "a
the uproarious delight of the house.
The theater paid" after this
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-03-08

Before the Court Dora s.Mr.
Jimpson. the young lawyer. made a
motion as If he intended to hug me, be-
fore nc had ever made love to me- !"
Cora-"That was lawyer-lilke, making
a motion before the court, ~ Yankee
Blade.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-03-08
The ARMY BILL

Is not the one that worries us but the
doctors bill. Keep supply of Beggs'
Family Medicines on hand and reduce
your doctors bill 05 per cent. Sold by
J. j.. Young and J. ID Kari.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-03-08
A NEW JOKE

On the liver. When it is out of order
and you feel blue, try a few doses of
Begg's Little Giant Pills. Your liver
will appreciate the joke. So will you.
For sale by j. r. Young and J. d.
Karr.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-03-08
ALITTLE TARTAR.

On your teeth will cause their decay
and will make your breath disagreed
BILE. SeXafroC will remove the cause of
trouble. This favorite tooth wash is
sold by J. II. Young and J. ID. Karr.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-03-08
He Does. Though.

Gazzam-Prof. Garner is Investigate
ing the conversation of apes
Maddox know: but don't approve
of such monkey business. Truth.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-03-08

Insomnia, and its twin brother Dys-
pepsia, ale the offspring of Il dsordered
stomach. \ positive cure is found in
Beggs' DaHdeiion Bitters. Sold by FL
druggists.