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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-07-03
A Newsboy's Gratitude.

The New York Herald recently re-
lated touching incident of newsboy
nobleness: a physician who recently
moved up town took an evening paper
from a small newsboy, and dived into
his pockets for the change.
That's all right, DOCTOR" remarked
the little fellow. Il won't take no
money. Don't you remember Jimmie
you cured last winter with the fever?'
Then the physician recognized in the
tall and sturdy boy little lad whom
he had pulled through fever without
any payment.
But that's all right, Jimmie" he
said, and you must certainly let me
pay you for the paper
No" said the boy, Il won't. Where
are you living up here, doctor? 1 want
to come to see you
He hasn't yet turned UP to see the
doctor, but every morning and evening
he slips paper under the door, and,
to have proper understanding in the
beginning, with the first paper he scrib-
bled a little notice:
Please, doctor, accept these papers
allus, from Jimmie"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-07-03
Never Tell a Lie.

How simple and beautifully has Abb
del Kader of Ghilon impressed us with
the love of truth in a story of his child
hood. After stating the vision which
made him entreat of his mother to go
to Bagdad. and devote himself to God,
he thus proceeds: 1 informed her of
what 1 had seen. and she wept; then,
taking out eighty dinars, she told me,
as 1 had brother, half of that was all
my Inheritance; and she made me
swear, when she gave it to me. never
to tell a lie, and afterward bade me
farewell. exclaiming: Go, my son,
consign you to God; we shall not meet
until the day of judgment"
went on till 1 came near Hamandai,
when our kafilah was plundered by
sixty horsemen. One fellow asked me
what 1 had got.
Forty dinars," said 1, ARE sewed
under my garments
The fellow laughed. thinking. no
doubt, / was joking with him.
What have you got?" said another.
II gave him the same answer. When
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-07-03

This old story illustrates the one pc
culiarity of the stuff we call money.
1t is just as true as a hundred other
forms of worldliness:
a soldier in battle cried to his SER
geant: I've got 4 prisoner"
Bring him on, then" said the ser
geant.
der.
Come on yourself. then
But again came the cry: HE won't
let me-"
A man thinks he has got so much
money. but rather is it that so much
money has got him. and mastered him
and prisoned him body. soul and spirit
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-07-03

and smart. hut thin and somewhat
frail looking. He had applied for the
position of brakeman and had been
told that he would not like the bust
ness; that it was rough, dirty and dan
gerous. Besides he was not strong
enough. At the first signal down
brakes" he would be hurled from the
platform. But the young man per-
severed in his request and at length
secured the position. He soon learned
to make up the train. He then ran en-
gines on short routes, doing everything
skillfully and well. He was always at
work and when engineer his engine was
always kept in the best of order. The
superintendent one day asked him if he
| expected to spend his days as an en-
gineer. He replied: mo, sir. 1 pro-
pose to be a superintendent and know
everything from the driving of a spike
! to the opening of a throttle" 1t is
needless to state that he attained his
| desire
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-07-03

they were dividing the spoil, 1 was
called to an eminence where the chief
stood.
''V hat property have you got, my lit
tie fellow?" said he.
II have told two of your people al
ready" said 1. 81 have forty dinars
sewed in my garments"
He ordered them to be ripped open,
and found my money.
"And how came you," said he. in sur
prise. ito declare SO openly what had
been SO carefully concealed?"
Because" 1 replied, Il will not be
false to my mother, to whom 1 prom
ised I never will tell a lie.''
Child" said the robber, hast thou
such sense of duty to thy mother, at
thy years, and l am insensible at my
age of the duty I owe to my God? Give
me thy hand, innocent boy" he con-
tinued, that 1 may swear repentance
upon it." He did so. His followers
were alike struck with the scene.
You have been our leader in guilt, -
said they to their chief; 'be the same
in the path to virtue
And they instantly. at his order
made restitution of the spoil, and
vowed repentance on his hand.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-07-03
A Resurrection Day Poser.

One of the strangest collins ever told
of is that for which the British war de-
partment is said to be responsible
The story is that a workman engaged in
casting metal for the manufacture of
ordnance at the Woolwich Arsenal lost
his balance and fell into a cauldron con-
tanning twelve tons of molten steel. The
metal was at white heat, and the man
was utterly consumed in less time than
IT takes to tell it. The war department
authorities held n conference. and de-
cided not to profane the dead body by
using the metal in the manufacture OF
ordnance, and that mass of metal was
actually buried and a Church of Eng
land clergyman read the service for the
dead over it.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-07-03
Capt. Glenn n Major.

Captain John Glen, the drummer boy
of Chickamauga, has been promoted to
the rank of major in the United States
army. Captain Clem's life story is in
tereSting: He was born in Newark
o., Aug. Is, 1852. He was the third son
Of Roman and Elizabeth Glen, of Ger
man descent. He had five brothers and
three sisters. All are dead now except
himself and one sister. His mother died
in 1860, and shortly afterward his faith
er married again. Having a child S
prejudice against a Stepmother he ran
away from home when not quite nine
years of age, and his family heard
nothing from him for over two years.
How he came to join a Michigan regt-
ment 1 never learned. but probably he
wanted to get among strangers, so he
would not be recognized and sent back
home. Being fond of music, he soon be-
came an excellent drummer, and he had
such winning ways that the men made
a pet of him wherever he went. There
have been different stories about his
shooting the rebel officer, but the fol-
lowing account is as nearly correct as
I can remember: after the battle the
troops were somewhat mixed up, some
Of both sides having got beyond the
lines. Johnny did not hear the COM
mand to retreat, and finding himself
in a crowd where the men were taking
prisoners. thought he would take one
He had picked up a revolver that had
been dropped by some officer. and step
ping up to a rebel general said: You
are my prisoner The general swore
at him and threatened to kill him, but
before he could make a movement
Johnny fired; the man fell from his
horse. Johnny climbed into the sad
die and rode back to the Union lines. -
The story was confirmed by General
George H. Thomas, and at the close
of the war he had Johnny sent to West
Point. He is now stationed at Atlanta
Ga, and ranks as captain and assistant
quartermaster. He was married al
Fort McHenry May %. 1875. to Miss
| Anita French, daughter of the late Gen
eral French.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-07-03
"she Was a Stranger"

The following story brings with it Q
lesson for all, old and young: A Sun
day school missionary while address
ing a Sunday school noticed a little
girl shabbily dressed and barefooted,
shrinking in a corner, her little sun
burned face buried in her hands, and
sobbing as if her heart would break.
Soon, however, another little girl about
eleven years of age, got up and went to
her. Taking her by the hand she led
her out to a brook, where she seated
the little one on a log. Then kneeling
beside her this good Samaritan took
off the ragged sun-bonnet and dipping
her hand in the water bathed the
others hot eyes and tear-stained face,
and smoothed the tangled hair, talk
ing cheerily all the while. The little
one frightened up, the tears vanished
and smiles came creeping around the
rosy mouth. The missionary who had
followed the two, stepped forward and
asked, us this your sister, my dear?"
NO SIR answered the child with
tender, earnest eyes. II have no Sis
ter
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-07-03
Twice In a Place.

The old theory that lightning never
strikes twice in the same place, or the
same object, is stoutly refuted by Will
lam Tussick of West Chester. Pa. The
other night he had been in bed half an
hour when lightning struck his house,
ran down the wall on the inside, picked
him up and threw him out of bed to the
floor 1t was no gentle hand which
used him thus. and it was some time
before he recovered from the shock.
Lightning seems determined to secure
Mr. Tussick for victim. About twenty
years ago he was struck and knocked
insensible by a bolt, but was all right
again in a few days.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-07-03
She Omit Then and Their.

Mrs. Mary ]. Nugent, of ShelbyvilIe.
ind, a washerwoman with n house full
of children, was the other morning no.
titled of the fact that she had been
granted a pension Of SO per month with
81, 600 arrearages. When the agent in
formed Mrs. Nugent of her good luck
the old lady was standing over the
washtub. and without a word she
reached for the axe near by and
smashed the tub into a thousand pieces,
after which she sent for her neighbor
to come and get her dirty duds." stat
ing that she was through washing for
other people.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-07-03
Who Follows 2

Coming home in the darkness one
night, child chung to his fathers hand
in fear.
Listen, father" he said, someone
is following u.s.
Il hear nothing; no one is following
answered the father.
And then, partly to divert the child's
mind, and partly because a solemn
truth glimmered through the timid
words, the father made little parable
of them:
Somebody is always following you,
my boy, as fbng as you live some foot
steps follow yours. You cannot always
hear them, you cannot always see them;
but as the years go by the procession
grows longer of those who are drawn
east or west, right or wrong, to help
fulness or to despair, by following you"
Listen, lads and lassies, Who fol-
lows you? In the home are tender little
feet, perhaps, just beginning to walk
alone; whether you wish it or not, they
turn with loving instinct after the big
brother or sister, admiring your doings,
coveting your gifts, repeating your
words. In what direction are you lead
ing them-upward or downward? In
the same house are servants, doubtless,
fellow-beings who are less favored than
yourselves; secretly they watch your
walk and conversation; secretly they
try to reproduce in their own lives wha
your education and training and accom-
plishments make them admire in you.
Are you on guard against leading them
astray? And as your path leaves your
own door, this line of followers widen,
too; at school, in sociey. in the work
shop, in the market-place, still you lead,
still they follow. The noise and stir
of life is so great that you may hear the
footsteps behind you; you may think
you are treading the journey alone, but
it is not so; not day passes that your
actions or your inertia, your silence OF
your speech. do not influence some one.
Listen. theni Who follows. And where
are you leading
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-07-03
XIII Him Where He Il.

Charlotte Cushman, a celebrated ac-
tress. was filling an engagement at the
operahouse in b. a man in the gal
lery created such a disturbance that it
seriously impeded the progress of the
play, and finally brought 1t to a stand
still. Immediately the audience. furious
with anger. cried: Throw him overt
Throw him Overt"
Miss Cushman stepped to the edge OF
the footlights. and in a sweet and gen.
tie voice exclaimed: mo, / pray you,
don't throw him over. / beg of you.
dear friends, don't throw him over. but
kill him where he is"
With II population not much over
half that OF London, New York City
proper consumes daily $500, 900 gal
Ions of water, against 100000 900 for
London.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-07-03

The New York Mercury says that Re-
eorder Golf is the first judicial officer to
send an unsuccessful suicide to state
prison. In the isolated cases of at
tempted self-destruction that had pre-
viously occurred the judges had some
what yielded to the inevitable English
custom Of a coroner's jury awarding
verdict over a suicide to the effect,
Committed while of unsound mind"
This decision is apt to again raise the
question. Is suicide a crime?
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-07-03

Applicant see you advertise for .
window dresser.
Dry Goods Merchant-Yes, sir. Have
you had much experience?
al arranged the window display in
the store worked in last, and every
woman that passed stopped and look
ed i'm
That's something like. You arc
just the man we want. BY the way,
what line was your firm imp"
Mirrors. New York Weekly.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-07-03
Too liberal Theology.

Pat and Jamie had been converted
under the preaching of repentance for
sins. They applied TO become members
of the Presbyterian church. Appoint
ment was made for them to meet with
the session for examination. Pat came
first and it was deemed best to refuse
TO admit him at that time. He was sor-
rowfully making his way upstairs when
he met Jamie coming down.
jamie" he said. how many Cody
are there?"
"One." replied Jamie.
'Ah." said Pat. you had just as well
go home. me boy; you don't stand the
ghost OF a chance. They asked me that
and told them there was a hundred OF
them. and they wouldn't let me in; you
never in the world will get in with only
one Godfrey. G.. w. Bull, Opelka,
Ala.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-07-03

Each congress leaves a souvenir Of IT.
self in the shape of a few welcome ad-
ditions to the American navy. The Fiji
ty-third ordered eleven new vessels.
Two were seagoing coast line battle
ships Of formidable size. There were
ordered six gunboats, / 900 tons each.
These will be capable of running up
shallow rivers. The gunboats will cost
S23O,O00 each. Three torpedo boats
complete the list. They will cost $175,-
900. The gunboats and torpedo boats
would be more useful than the big coast
defenders If we could not have both
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-07-03

Shanghai (China) papers report
CHASTITY incident at a recent execution.
Just at the moment of the execution
the victims hands nervously grasped
the garment of the cXecutioner and
held on after decapitation. Before the
grip could be loosened the executioner
died of fright.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-07-03
R>!aZa!l! RsklRs
ABSOLUTELY PUEE
Lost n Brothers Ashes.
ABSOLUTELY pUEE

A novel claim is being made upon one
Of the great French railway companies
gentleman. who came to Paris to
have the body of his deceased brother
cremated at the crematorium at Pere
Lachaise cemetery. took the ashes
away in handbag. and. previous to
setting out on his return journey to his
home in the country, deposited the bag
at the 'consigne." or cloakroom. of the
railway station When he came back
to claim it 1t had gone Someone had
come and claimed a bag and IL had
been given up. probably by mistake.
Inquiries were instituted. but the miss
ing bag could not be discovered. The
gentleman has therefore brought action
to recover damages for the loss he has
sustained. and the Judges will be called
upon to decide what is the money value
Of a brothers ashes.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-07-03
Women Have More Endurance.

While men have more strength
women have more endurance and
greater capacity for protracted and
monotonous labor? In those countries
where women work in the fields side by
side with their husbands and brothers
the later may accomplish more work,
but the former can labor greater num-
Der Of hours.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-07-03
Don't Get Scared

II you should hear that in some place TO which you
are going malaria is prevalent. To the air poison
which produces chills and fever. bilious reutient
and dumb aguc there is a safe and thorough anti
dote and revent.ve, viz: Hostcttcrs Stomach
Bitters. The great anti-malarial specific is also
remedy fer biliousncss, constipation. dyspepsia,
rheumatic and kidney trouble, nervousness and
debility.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-07-03

Tom Reed came near losing his
watch the last time he attended polit-
zeal meeting in New York. He would
rather miss a dozen good dinners with
Chauncey Depew than lose the watch
which is a memento of his two years
as the Gear Of the House of Represen-
tatiyes"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-07-03

Though the Prince of Wales and
most of the royal family are martyrs
to indigestion, Queen Victoria has
never suffered from dyspepsia She
attributes this to her eating little, but
often, and to Der taking whisky at
mea S. She drinks it clear, without
water.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-07-03

''Oh, one of the neighbor's children"
replied the missionary-"a little school
mate perhaps?"
mo, sir, she is a stranger. 1 do not
know where she came from. l never
saw her before
Then how came you to take her out
and have such a care for her if you
do not know her?"
Because she was a stranger, sir, and
seemed all alone. and needed somebody
to be kind to her"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-07-03

The late Baron Won Richthofen, who
had for many years been the project
of the Berlin police, was feet. six
inches in height and a man of massive
build and giant strength. His cour-
age was unquestioned, but he was
wholly lacking in tact.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-07-03

An Irishman was on trial for commit
ting a burglary, and had conducted his
own case. The evidence against him
was strong. and the judge, after sum-
ming up. remarked, while looking ut
the prisoner, that he could detect the
rascal and william in his face. Hold
therei' shouted the prisoner. 81 OBJ
ject; that is a personal reflection
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-07-03
He Won His Way.

Two engineers were in a depot. One
of them was a merry fellow, smoking
and laughing with the crowd. He was
a good hand as engineers go and ran
a freight engine. The other engineer
was Furnishing his engine with some
cotton stuff He was we'll educated
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-07-03

Otto Lehman Of Chicago killed him
self because his girl rejected him. II
Otto had understood woman nature he
would have paid desperate court to
some other girl and his ex-sweetheart
would have done the shooting.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-07-03
Tickling The Baby.

Askins Good gracious. kidder! How
came you by that fearful cold?
Kidder-My wife leaves the window
wide open every night when the baby
is wakeful and allows the wind to
blow on me because it amuses the
baby to hear me cough. Truth.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-07-03

81 guess that young man who called
to see you had rather rough time of
1T in camp" said Ethers mother.
Yes" was the reply, I'm sure he
had. He hasn't had a chance to get
shaved for over a week. Washington
Post
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-07-03
Accidental Sarcasm.

AIkali Ike-So you are from Eng
land?
Briton Touring in oklahoma)-Yahs.
my deah fellah, Hi ham.
Alkali Ike-H'm, What did you do
in England that you had to leave
thar?-New York World.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-07-03
A Eacetious Visitor.

'See vat little boy over zare?" said
Mabel. "Yat's my little buzzer. an his
name is Nat"
''Indeed?" said the visitor. well,
think gnat is a very good name for a
buzzer."
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-07-03

Miss Mary Cary Thomas has been
nominated for enc of the alumni trus-
tees of Cornell University. She is the
first woman to be SO honored in any
of the great universities
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-07-03

Ransom = Women are welded to
fashion.
Ramson-Yes; and they love, honor
and obey it, too.-Tit-B Bits.
The Sultan of Turkey has given 5000
towards the New York free ice fund
during the hot summer months.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-07-03
Getting 1t,

Fact is, said the one man. ''I mar
ried because was lonely as much as
for any other reason. To put it terse-
ly, married for sympathy"
well" said the other man, YOU
have mine. ''-Indianapolis Journal
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-07-03

''our first impressions most readily
slip our memories said the teacher.
"Oh, l know why" shouted Johnny.
well, why?" Our first impressions
are slippers. "-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-07-03

Fresh Guest-What makes those
chairs look SO worn and discouraged,
wonder?
Proprietor-Guess you would, if you
had been sat on as much az they have.
-Boston Courier.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-07-03

Preparations are being made for
wedding in Topeka at which the bride
will wear boomers. She is an emanci-
pated woman, and will wear no evil
dences of her recent thralldom to the
altar
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-07-03

Seven cases are recorded in England
during the present century where the
bride has been married to the best
man by the clergyman's mistake or the
groom's stupidity.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-07-03

don't care much for the postage
stamps
Themselves-'tween me and you;
The fun get collecting comes
From sticking 'em in with glue.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-07-03

Understanding the spirit of our in
situations to aim at the elevation of
men, am opposed to whatever tends
to degrade them.-Lincoln.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-07-03

In 1850 the United states produced
s32, $40, 600 of gold. OF this total. a
little over two-ffths came from Cali
fornia, which is still the principal
pold-producing state
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-07-03
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 ia
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 a perfect lax.
alive: effectually cleansing the system,
1ispelling colds, headaches and fevers
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
ueys, Liver and Bowels without weak
ening them and it is perfectly free from
every Objectionable substance.
Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug
Eists in SOC and 81 bottles, but it is man,
fractured by the California Fig Syruv
Co. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup of Figs,
and being well informed, you will not
aecept any substitute if offered.