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CAPITAL CONTROL Of LABOR.

Before African slavery was abolish
ed, the ''owner of the niger" had to
take care of the slave in case OF sick,
ness. He also had to provide food
shelter and clothing. He did it upon
the same principle that the owner
OF mule takes care of the mule. 1t
is done for the work that can be got
ten out of the animal
In the later days, however, the
bosses who control labor-abso-
lutely as southern masters owned
their ''niggers' not at all con-
cerned about the health of their so
called "hired men," In addition to
working for the "boss" the kired man
has to look out for his own, shelter and
clothing. In case of sickness the re-
sponsibility of the doctors services
rests upon his shoulders. In the case
of the negro slave it rested with the
master, and when the life of 'Iikely
81 900 niger" was at stake the
master hustled around lively and got
the doctor.
This responsibility has all changed,
as we have stated. There is economy
in it, and Hazard, the shrewd En-
glishman, struck keynote when he
discussed the question in the circular
which he sent to our American bank
ere away back in 1862. In that circu.
lar he said:
Slavery is likely to be abolished by
the war power, and chattel slavery
destroyed. This, and my European
friends are in favor of. for slavery is
but the owning of labor and carries
with 1t the care Of the lAborer while
the European plan. led on by Eng
land, Is capital control Of labor by
controlling wages. This can be done
by controlling the money. The great
debt that capitalists will see to 1t is
made out of the war, must be used as
. measure to control the volume Of
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money. To accomplish this, the bonds
must be used as banking basis. We
are now waiting to get the secretary
of the treasury to make this recon-
menda ton TO congress. 1t will not do
to allow the greenback, as it is called,
to circulate as money any length of
time for we can not control that"
1t did not take the Americans long
to catch on to the idea. Mr.. Haz-
Yards plan has been almost literally
carried out The control of the cur
rency was given to national banks the
very next year after the circular was
issued.
Instead of owning labor, control
labor!
Thus saith the great English banker.
But how is this to be accomplished?
by simply controlling money!
And this money must be bank
money" 1t will not do to let green
backs circulate as money-for we
cant control them"
Any one who has had sense enough
to even realize what has been going
on in the United States during the
last twenty-five years can not fail to
see how thoroughly Banker Hazard
policy has been carried out.
1t was carried out by the republi-
can party when it was in power, and
it is being carried out by the demo-
cratic party
We presume that the American peo-
pie like the Englishman's plan
for they persistently vote into office
men who enforce it.
Wages and prices OF products are
to-day as completely controlled by
Wall street as ever an engineer con-
tro!led an engine. The policy has
been to cut down wages and enslave
labor.
And, unpleasant as the assertion
may sound, it is fact that the white
man who supports himself and his
family to-day by the toll of his hands
is as much a helpless slave as ever was
poor African beneath the lash of a
southern slave driver-The Sentinel
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FLEsH-REDucINc
Has Become Craze with the CorPt-
lent In England.


The hygienic craze has permeat<d
society to quite an incredible extent.
1t has become almost q point of
honor with us all to be slim, says
the London World. / have thought
the whole matter out, and. having
watched the various patients of the
two great doctors who have made
corp1lence their special study.
have come to the conclusion that
you must in this case. as in all
others, make your choice betW cen
two evils 1t is question now of
face or figure. That the very
stoutest people can decrease their
size by following strict dietctic
rules cannot be doubted, since duke
has lost IL inches of girth and lady
lost two or three stones in weight in
two or three months, out / am sure
OF one thing.
| am sure it ages the patient, and
l would recommend any lady of mid
die age and fair proportions to leave
the cure alone. 1t is only young peo-
pie just beginning to grow stout who
really benefit by it. If the stretched
skin is no longer filled out it must
fall into wrinkle, and these are dis
tressingly ugly Shall | give you
the diet, which nearly every body has
tried. or is trying now. and which
both the great doctors recommend,
with variations? Here it is, copied
from diet card:
80 a. m--Sip three quarters of a
pint of hot water.
'9:30-Two cups of tea with moth
ing in it, unless saccharin one ounce
of dry toast, eight ounces of lean
meat or fish.
"11-Sip tumbler of hot water.
''1:30-Ten ounces of lean meat or
fowl or game, six ounces of stewed
fruit
'4:30-Tea as at breakfast, and
one or two special biscuits.
IS p. m.-tour ounces boiled fish,
four to six ounces lean meat, six
ounces stewed fruit"
And you may have brandy or
whisky and soSa when you go to bed
At lunch or dinner you may have
any vegetables that grow above
ground-not roots; and you may
drink brandy or whisky or dry Mos
ellie, as advised. One doctor recon-
mends particular Moselle; one doctor
recommends particular biscuit; and
if one doctor is more fashionable be-
cause he numbers royalties among
his patrons the other charges four
instead of twenty-five guineas. Both
allow you to drink at meal times,
which is something of a concession
| have heard many people say that
not to drink at meal times Is
in itself a cure for stoutness. Sew
eral people, among them very
pretty, smart woman (she is we'll
known cOuntess), rave about the
lady doctor in Grosvenor street, and
declare that their faces as we'll as
their figures have been improved by
a system of electrical massage.
Every body recommends exercise, and
! it is wonderful to see how many PEG
! pie do walk nowadays.
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The Coxey commonweal is a menace
even greater than was at first admit
ted. This il true. because it now tran
spires that the men who are to-day
tramping toward Washington, wading
through mud in the day and sleeping
in mud at night, begging crusts as
they go, are respectable; and respecta-
bility a-beggiDg is always more
dangerous than criminality or laziness.
The people of the United States and
the press were long ioath 10 believe
that honest, industrious, moral citi.
zens had been forced to alms-seeking;
the people believed and the press long
declared that these marching mendi-
cants were to the manor tramping
born; they called the commonwealers
hard names, buns, dissolutes, lazy
louis, and they were sincere in their
denunciation; but they were wrong.
The endorsement given this band of
misguided help-seekers by the author
tiles of Omaha and other cities, and
from eminently respectable sources of
varied nature, settles the question
OF their respecta ability; aud the testi-
mony of General Manager st John of
tho corporation which perhaps held
them in greatest fear and distrust,
was final vindication of their char
acter, if such was longer needed.
There is what increases the aspect
of danger in Coxey's commonweal
army; it is respecta BILE, it is what it is
by force of circumstances, not by
choice. Tramps may be jailed; crimi-
nails may be shot; but in this republic
neither the gaol nor the bayonet may
be made use of against the honest
citizen.
And these men are going to Wash
ington to make demands upon the
government by the sovereign and in
alienable right of petition. 1t may
be thought that they are foolish, but
they know they are hungry. 1t may
be said that they had done better re-
naming at home, but they remember
an empty larder. And they are going to
the national capital; all the editorials
and platitudes and philosophy in the
brains of hundred thousand we'll fed
critics will not alter their purpose one
Jot or turn their steps one inch.
Men who enlist in a march of 5000
miles without haversack or blanket,
know why their travel. They
are going To Washington in the face
of every quill and bubble, and it is
not to be forgotten that they are
going there to ask for work, hard
work, back breaking work, feet blist-
ering work, work of any kind; it is
only the newspaper photographers who
have seen designs on pie in the move
ment
And If 100000, or $4,000, or one
tenth OF this mum Der of these men con-
gregate in the city where the spirit of
American sentiment speaks and con-
trois-these men who ask only chance
to toll, these men who are respectable
and honest, these men whose only
crime is misfortune, these men who
can not be answered by either turned
locks or gunpowder-if 10, 900 OF this
class of citizens come before the whole
American people and cry for work,
what will be done about itP And If
nothing is done about it, how long
will honest intentions dominate the
gnaw of Observation-Disclosures kan. }
Daily Mail.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-06-06
KNOWLEDGE

Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet
ter than Others and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the worlds best products TO
the needs of physical being, will attest
the value to health of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in the
remedy, Syrup of Figs.
Its excellence is due to its presenting
in the form most acceptable and pleas
ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties of perfect lax
alive; effectually cleansing the system,
lispelling colds, headaches and feyers
and permanently curing constipation.
1t has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of the medical
profession, because it acts on the Kid
neys, Liver and Bowels without weak
ching them and it is perfectly free from
every Objectionable substance.
Syrup of Figs il for sale by all drug
gists in SOC and 81 bottles, but it is man.
ufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup of Fig,
and being well informed, you will not
accept any substitute if offered.
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Ghe 4uusehold.
Ben jones.


Ben Jones has helped me hay three yeaI
Err curis genius, too,
Do well enough erlong at first,
But shirk fore he got through.
When It come erbout the last two week
He get ten times as rich
Err swappin' HOSES up in town,
As helpin' NOW and pitch;
An then, of course, he want no good.
Might just as wall set still;
His mind wus alwus on er trade
Or recknin' up his bill.
An so last year l says ter him
When he begun ter plan
II never want ter keep or teller
From maxim all be can.
II you can do er better thing,
Wy, / will let We go;
Wen settle up come Sat'day night
An see how much / owe.'
He'd worked er little more'n thought
1t come ter forty-four;
So paid him up and off he went
With mighty things in store.
The next knew he'd bought or boss
Up there of ole Joe Brown,
An Sos, you know, was alwus called
Ths worst dead-beat in town.
Wall, see Ben t'her blacksmith shop
Soon arfter that, one day,
An SO l says, us business good!
An how dye make it pay"
He seemed ter kinder hawk and haw,
An said he'd had hard luck,
But then was on the pint of jest
Their biggest trade he'd struck
never heered how that come out
An kinder lost his track,
Was gone nigh on or month. guess,
Afore he worked round back,
But come erlong bout dark one night
With cash all swallered up.
He brought er Shanghai rooster home
An er little mong'rel pup.
New England Farmer.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-06-06
REDEMPTION OF MONEY.
A Strange but Popular Fallacy.

A Strange but Popular FaIlacy.
Ii one was to assert that the earth
was fiat he would not only be rated
crank, but would be considered as a
very ignorant person. Yet this world
was known to be populated for nearly
six thousand years before it discovered
that the earth was not fat. Less than
have a century ago it was thought
that the transmission of news by cleo
tricity was only the wild chimera of a
disordered brain. So with majority
Of great discoveries.
Ono of the popular fallacies of to-
day is that money-any kind
OF moneY-must be redeemed in
some specific commodity. Money
is merely a medium of exchange
and we take it, not for the value it
contains within itself, but for the
value of that which it will exchange
for. A man is hungry. He agrees to
perform service for money, not that
he expects to keep the money-to eat
it or wear it-but that he wants to ex-
change it for something of real value,
something that he can eat-that will
satisfy his hunger.
We are told that our silver dollars
are only worth As cents, yet there is
not single instance on record where
they would not pass current for 100
cents for that which goes to sustain
life. Silver money has never been dis
credited by those who feed and clothe
the world. 1t is the men who add
nothing to the wealth of
the country, who make their living
by manipulating the medium of ex-
change, that have set up a howl
against silver. Whatever a people
agree to receive az money-a medium
of eXchange-is money. One man ex-
changes his products for it because he
knows some other man will in the
same manner receive it from him. No
man, when he receives money, thinks
Tor an instant of the actual intrinsic
value it has within itself 1t is what
1t will buy or exchange for that he
considers. In this respect paper
money is just as good and much more
convenient than either gold or silver.
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MuLTILATEp STAMPS.
According to the Law . Torn Stamp WIN
Not Garry n Letter

Not Garry . Letter.
The question of the exact extent to
which stamp may be mutilated and
yet be passed by the post Office clerks
Is one that is often raised. There is
an order of the post Office department,
says the New York Post, that letter
cannot be forwarded in the mails if
any part of the stamp is lost. This
would mean that even if the merest
corner of the stamp were torn it would
not be accepted. Although the de-
partment Acknowledges that occasion
ally in the application to this rule
some hardship results complaints are
rarely made. AS regards it's observ-
vance in the New York post Office AS
slstant Postmaster Gaylor said the
other day:
1T is an order which is impressed
upon every new clerk, although we ex-
pect them to exercise certain amount
OF discretion and common sense. The
validity of a postage stamp, under the
law, depends upon it never having
been used before for postage, which
must be determined from the condition
OF the stamp itself. There are many
stamps on mail matter that go from
post offices insufficiently cancelled; the
DETACHMENT is often inconspicuous
sometimes only in corner or along
the margin. If the practice were such
as to admit the use of mutilated
stamps, one part of which might be
from another stamp, the government
would be defrauded. We have never
in the New York post Office had com
plants from people whose letters were
not forwarded because the stamps
were imperfect. The cases of rejection
of letters on account of mutilate6
stamps are very few"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-06-06

Otting for June contains, in addition
to smuch interesting matter relative
to seasonable sports, capital descrip-
ton of Samoa. Under the title of Sin
the Land of the Breadfruit,' the author
+. NJ. Turner, portravs Samoan life
and methods with the skilled touch of
one thoroughly familiar with every
detail of his subject. A number of ex-
cellent illustrations lend additional
interest to readable and instructive
article.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-06-06
Frequent on,I.nrh..

On the delicate membrane Of the bowels and
stomach with drastic purgatives must have
their natural consequences-to weaken and
disable both organs. Nature exacts severe
penalties for infringements OF her laws. and
there Is no more glaring one than that which
consists In frequent and unnecessary dosing
with violent cathartics. This is however. the
course pursued by many unwise people who
seem to think that the bowels unless con-
stantly relaxed, are not in a healthy state.
" men laxative is really needed Hostetter' s
thorough. 1t neither gripes nor operates
violently or excessively. 1t inyigorates the
intestlnee and stomach, and arouses the liver
nae. Sleep promoted. appetite restored. are
among among It's benign effects. A tendency to
by it; and it completely eradicates maiariai
complaints
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A Summer woman. Magazine.

The mother of Americas favorite boy
hero, Little Lord Fauntleroy," Mrs
Frances Hodgson Burnett, writes to
The mothers of boys in the June issue
of the Ladies' Home journal, upon
when He Decides" in which she
points out 20 what extent mothers
should influence their sons in regard
to their choice of an occupation. Mrs.
Amelia +. Barr sketches the mental
implements of the modern women in
an article on "Have Women Found
New Weapons?" Mrs. Frank Stockton
takes the quaint Pomona" through
some ridiculously funny escapades in
this installments of her travels" Mr.
Howells reaches the seventh install
ment of his literary autobiography,
My Literary Passions" The biogra-
ply of the number consists of four
sketches, with portraits, of America S
favorite illustrators, Charles Dana Glib
son, Albert b. Wenzell, Reginald b.
Birch, and Frank o. Small. A prac-
tically illustrated article on timely
subject is Mr.. John Gilmore Speeds
explanation of '"The Game of Golf for
Women" w. Hamilton Gibson oc-
cupies an entire page with one of his
out-of-door illustrations of "a Garden
OF Long, Long ago. The ed1tor dis
cusses with frank directness the
question of social purity. Palmer Cox
takes his inimitable, Brownies on a
visit to ''The Goddess of Liberty" and
the words and music of one hundred
dollars was given in the Journals
Musical Series, are given. Mrs. NAL
lon describes what will be proper and
newest in Summer Evening Gowns
tins season. Maria Parloa, who is in
faris in the interest of the journal
describes THE Apartment House of
Paris" A carefully-prepared article
on the serving, canning and preserving
of The berries of Summer" by Eliza
Il. Parker, will prove valuable to
house-keepers generally, and mile
stones in a Married Life" is charming
ly instructive on the subject of we'd
ding anniversaries. Frank o. Small
has made for the issue an exceedingly
dainty cover.
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His Autograph Machine.

A story is going the rounds of the
foreign press which ought to interest
collectors of autographs. 1t relates to
the late Hans Won Bulow, and tells
how. on one occasion, being requested
for his signature by an American visi-
tor, the musician rang the bell, and
fiercely babe the servant to send up
the man who writes my autographs. :"
This is almost as good as Mark Twain's
plan of having his autograph pounded
out of a machine by his typewriter.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-06-06
@ Gaming Windows.

To prevent steam on bathroom win
dows rub them with glycerine. When
your windows are clean take pad of
cotton rag. soaked in glycerine, and
rub them all over inside Then take a
piece of clean, dry rag or cotton flannel
and lightly polish the whole window
until the glycerine is invisible, but not
all entirely rubbed away. Do it when
the glass is fairly warm and dry. The
operation is rather long one, but the
reward is shining windows, no gather
ing of steam, and, it is promised, a
much longer period of cleanliness be-
fore another washing is needed.-Phil-
adelphia Ledger
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-06-06

A horrible murder is reported from
the Sac and Fox country. A few
nights ago the settlers near by saw
that the house of John O'Connor was
on fire, about dark in the evening, and
by hard work succeeded in extinguish-
ing the flames. After the fire was out
they discovered the dead body of
OConnor sitting in chair at the sup
per table with the skull crushed in by
blow from some blunt instrument.
Another plate, with partly eaten Wet
uals, at the other side of the table
showed that the murderer had been
eating supper with O'Conner who
lived alone. After killing the victim
the murderer had robbed the body of
about 5000 and then set fire to the
house hoping to hide the evidence of
his crime.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-06-06

Mrs. Peterby is a woman with head
for business.
Just see here ] have bought a
beautiful rocking chair at auction
worth So, and only paid 81 for it; so
you see have 81 clear profit. Don't
tell me after this that the women have
no business sense"
do you need the rocking-chair?'
asked MIR. Peterby.
"No."
"Then what did you buy it for?"
ITO save meney, of course. How
could have saved dollar, if had Mt
bought it, stupid?"-Alex Sweet, in
Texas Siftings.
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ShnCL ed.

"No sir" said the man who prides
himself on being precise. Il shall
never associate with Turkton again.
What's the matter with him?''
HE has shown conclusively that he
is not fitted to mingle in the society o,
people of refinement. He referred to
me as mendacious liar"
That was rather low"
Low? Why it was one of the mos,
glarlng and offensive cases of tautol'
ogy that ever came under my observa-
ton. Washington Star.
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New Hampshire's Grasshopper Bount,

New Hampshire's Grasshopper Bounty.
The state OF New Hampshire pays
81 bushel to farmers for grasshop-
pers that they destroy The insect
pests have been very troublesome
for the last twelve years They
hatch out in the first part of June,
and the farmers have found that this
time is the best time for destroying
them by blowing them under. The
half-growing grassnoppers, that have
been Matched early, escape the pillow
by lively hopping, and to catch
these machine has been invented
which consists of two shallow pans
of tin or galvanized iron eight feet
long and two feet wide, and having
back eighteen inches high These
pans are supported two inches above
the surface of the ground, and are
fastened to pair of wheels. The
pans are filled with kerosene and
water, and are run over the ground
at a rapid rate The half-grown
grasshoppers jump up in their terror
and alight in the kerosene. When
the pans are full the grasshoppers
are taken out to be measured for the
bounty, which in some cases amply
pays for the time and trouble ex-
pended in catching the insects.
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Only Reason She Could Think or

A mission school-teacher had been
telling her class of little girls the story
OF Adam and Eve. At its close she
said: Now, girls, can any of you tell
me the reason why Adam ard Eve
were put out of the garden of Eden?''
Whereupon one little voice piped
out: please, ma'am, cause they
didn't pay their rent. Judge.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-06-06

The lamp with the paper petticoat
is doomed. The newcomer is made of
cut crystal, pedestal, oil well and globe.
1t is Vendome, the height varying
with the length of the purse, thing
of beauty by day and jewel by night
Pedestal lamps, of Dresden and French
china. are graceful and very orna-
mental. The globes are usually opaque
glass with gold decorations. Twenty
five dollars is the price of the cheapest
china, while the cut crystal lamps are
as dear as diamonds.-St. Louis Repub-
lic