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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-02-20
The Vindictive Whale.

Approaching whale at all times is
like going into battle, notwithstanding
the abandon of the fishermen. Have
no fear that the right whale will swal-
low you; he could not do so even if he
were so disposed, as his gullet is only
large enough to admit good-sized her.
ing. The sperm whale could swallow
man if he desired to do so, but he is
no more inclined to swallow a man,
particularly with his clothes on, than
you would be to swallow small bird
with its feathers. But he will crush YOU
in his ponderous jaws if he is fighting
bull, and eject you in detail. He will
also chew up and spit out pieces of the
demolished boat, break up the wooden
utensils floating upon the water, and
fight every piece of wood until more
than seven baskets of fragments may be
taken up; and having tired himself out
in this way, he will lay off, angrily
splashing the water with his fins, and
challenge some other boat, or perhaps,
in rare cases, attack the vessel Cen
fury.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-02-20

Ina London dispatch dated Feb. 4,
is contained the following relative to
the oddities of England: 1T is rumor-
ed that the Rothsehilds and Cecil
Rhodes contemplate gigantic scheme
requiring many millions of pounds
capital to combine in a single cOrpor-
alton all gold mining companies" The
proposed scheme would be a clincher
in fastening the single gold standard
system on the American people at the
option of these sharks. If this COM
bination should prove successful this
corporation will control the gold of the
world and virtually own the people
body and soul. This is what we are
coming to; the money sharks of Eng
land will dictate what Americana
quota of gold shall be and all that Will
be left for us under prevailing circum-
stances VIII be to submit. 1t is dis
gushing, indeed. that we haven't got
n president and congress with sufficient
backbone and patriotism 10 avert this
threatening calamity.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-02-20
HUMOROUS.

-Tommy-"Paw, what does it mean
that time shall be no more?' Mr.. Figg
II guess he will DE no more when he
lays down his scythe. "-Indianapolis
Journal.
DO you believe all that talk about
Benton's being untruthful?' Bangs
No; he's the soul of honor. 1 wouldn't
believe otherwise if he told me him
self '-Inter-Ocean.
-'How do you like Lord Popping.
ton, Miss Barrow?' Miss Barrow
Not at all He can't pronounce his
RS, and 1 do detest being addressed rs
Miss BowwOw." It'll Bits.
-Freddy's First Composition on the
Seasons-"There is seasons Evry
year spring summer ortum winter and
fawl but as for Me gimme liberty OF
gimme deth. boston Courier
Why He Returned-"LoolS here,
said Mrs. Taddells to hungry Higgins,
didn't give you dinner yesterdays"
You did, madam" replied Higgins,
with courtly bow, land one good
| dinner deserves another. Detroit
Free Press.
One of the best Scotch stories which
has reached us for some time relates to
minister of the broad" section of the
established church. Meeting a mem
Der of his congregation making his way
home somewhat OBVIOUSLY, he thus ac-
costed him: John, thought you had
taken the pledge" Sac I did, sir"
replied the culprit, but it's ae thing
to TAX the pledge and quite another
thing to keep it, as We ken weel enough
wi respect to the confession o. faith. I"
The two landladies were comparing
notes. 81 find it pays to serve the
breakfast piping hot" said one. "Ex-
| sept on Sundays Then l serve it cold"
| ''Why do you do that?" asked the other.
| We'll, on weekdays my boarders have
to eat breakfast in hurry, and if it is
hot they don't have time to wait for it
to cool off; so they eat very little Sum
days they eat less because it is cold I
| assure you, Mrs. Jones, but for thi.
discovery should have lost money this
season. '-Harper's Bazaar.
"A Detroit man some time ago con.
cludG1 he would go for an Office 10
Washington, and the first thing he
knew he was confronted by a civil
service examination. He went through
the form, handed in his papers, ara
the next day the examiner called him
up. You have omitted an answe- to
one question" he said. SIS that sop
asked the applicant; (which one is
that?" This: Which raflraad would
you take going from Detroit to San
Francisco" Can you answer it or do
YOU want to let it go?" ''Oh, I can
answer it" said the applicant with
confidence. "We1, tell me and I'll
write it in for you" ''The one that
would give me pass" responded the
treuk young man, and the examine.
| aouGratulatad hin
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--A---
THE VANILLA.
It Is the Only True Climbing Orchid in the
Plant World.

1t Is the Only True Climbing Orchid in the
Plant World.
Among climbing plants it would nat
urally be supposed that some of the
orchid family would develop in that
direction. and we have most striking
example in vanilla. That there are
not more scrambling vines in the order
is probably due to the fact that few
orchids can endure the intense glare
above the tree tops. The vanilla, how
ever, with it's thick leaves and stems.
is specially adapted for such position.
Unlike other climbers, it has no long
tap root, but is often cut off from the
soil, and is really an elongated
epiphyte. A small species grows below
the canopy of the Eta palm in the
midst of the swamp and here any con-
nection with the soil is impossible.
Vanilla is the only true climbing
genus, but there are signs here and
there of move in the same direction
by others. In some of the Dendrob-
iums, aerial roots and new shoots are
produced at the end of the long stems,
which in congenial situations enable
the plant to raise itself to higher po-
sition, and thus virtually become scan
dent.
Again Zygopetalon rostratum at
taches itself to growing trees and rises
with them to a considerable height.
Unlike the vanilla, it has hard stem
like extension, to which pseudo bulbs
and leaves are attached at intervals of
about a foot. The lowest are withered,
but further up they are more fresh,
while the topmost buds are those of the
current year, and bear flowers, often
extending six or eight feet up the tree,
and branching to the side if more light
can be gained in that direction. 1t is
| never attached to the soil in any way,
and is therefore truly epiphytal, gain
ing an advantage over others by chang
| ing its position for one more congenial
when necessary.
Under cultivation it appears to give
up this climbing habit, probably be-
cause the conditions are unfavora BILE
to its continuance. All these climbers
| appear to have been developed from
rock plants, and they may be compared
with the strawberry and other stolon-
ferrous plants rather than ordinary
| vines. --Longman'S Magazine.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-02-20
HELPING EACH oTHEA.
4 Southern Custom That Must Cause ia
Angels to Smile.

Southern Custom That Must Cause tit
Angels to Smile.
A gentleman who had travelled ey.
tensively through the south was one
evening seated in one of those proven.
bal corner grocery stores in a small
village talking to the people and com.
menting upon the unstinted hospitality
Of Ghe people. A tall, cad&yerous-lool-
ing chap. who had listened to him in
tently, interrupted:
That's SO, stranger; when a man
comes among ve'uns an does what's
right we'uns amt the people to see him
suffer when he's down Jn his back an
can't help himself; we're Just going to
raise him up."
And they do ''raisc him cp" If heis
sick they till mis- ground, feed his cat
tie, cut his wood and III various WAYS
render him assistance. On the eastern
shore OF Maryland and Virginia this
custom IS universal and many sick
man has silently made his grateful
prayers for blessings on his neigh bors
for the great stacks of chips and split
wood that have been gathered about
his yard. and for the hams and foul
placed in his smoke-house.
Almost in the heart of one of the
dense forests in Accomac county, Va,
Jim German lay on sick bed in his
cabin, surrounded by his wife and four
children, all suffering from that disease
SO prevalent on the eastern shore, the
"chilis,''
Luck had been against Jim for some
time, and now that he was prone upon
his back, suffering with fever, with
no one to attend to his wants but his
daughter Sallie, a girl of sixteen, and
she barely able to perform that duty.
, he was in dire distress.
= Up at the Four Corners, four miles
away, gathered about the stove in the
general store, was a group CT typical
farm hands. discussing the weather.
When "Indge" Watson-the Judge"
was She wealthiest landowner in the
neigh borhood-came in he smilingly
greeted them, and, making his pur.
chases, started to go out. He paused
and looked about him. Say boys,
where is Jim German? I've not seen
him for some time" No one knew; he
hadn't been up to the store for week
just then Nose Hanson drove up in
his ox-cart, and, all covered with snow,
stood on the steps stamping his feet
and brushing his coat.
"Good-day, gemmens; good ebening.
Massa Watson. Use jest been obber to
see Massa i'm Gornan He's been nigh
onto def 70 obber a week l fOtch him
! some water an cut him O stick or two
/ oh wood an sent de ole woman obber
! to kind o cheer him up
''Bless my soul!" exclaimed She judge
Boys, do you hear what dose says
/ about Jim Gorman?"
They did.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-02-20

IT is to be hoped that the legislature
this session will provide room in the
Statehouse for the library of the State
Historical Society. 1t is a matter in
which every part of the state is inter
ested. The materials of the history of
the whole state are being saved in this
library. 1t is the most remarkable IL
brary in the country, in that it is pre-,
serving the regular issues of all the
newspapers published in Kansas, and
has been for nineteen years past. OF
Barber county there are now IN the IL
brary "A volumes of newspapers, of
years from 1878 to 1894. In all, the IL
brary contains l0,6S0 volumes of Kan
sas newspapers. These have been the
gift 10 the state by the publishers.
They who gave them can reasonably
demand that they should be cared for,
These files alone are worth more to the
people of Kansas than all the Histori-
cal Society has ever cost the state
But the library not only contains
newspaper files, but books, pamphlets
manuscripts, pictures, ana numDerleS:
historical relics. The institution ha:
created worldwide interest, and ha!
attracted gifts from every quarter, un
til it numbers now nearly $4,000 vol
umes. The plans of the State Capitol
made many years ago, make no ado
0uate provision for this library. Fo
want of room, the library has beer
crowded into announcement basement
and cellar rooms. and considerable
part stored in packing boxes. A small
portion of the vast room in the Capito
building, if set apart for the use o
this library now, would accommodate
st for many years. The legislature
should provide rooms for its immediate
nse. and direct that in the complete
Capitol building there shall be prepare
ample and suitable rooms for its future
growth.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-02-20

AMONG the beer advertisements
carried by the Leavenworth Times is
that of the Brandon & Beal Brewing
company, 40 Klckapoo street, in which
the citizens Of Leavenworth are admon.
ished to 'patrOnize the home brewery;
best beer in the city."In addition to
this the Times carries the advertisement
of four other companies whose places
of business are plainly stated, and where
they openly advertise beer for sale. 1t
certainly cannotbe difficult to find these
places when they thus give their street
and number in an open advertisement.
What do the redeemers propose to do
with them?-TOpeka Advocate.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-02-20

IT requires 226 million dollars IN
gold com to pay the annual interest on
800 million dollars worth of gold bond
ed railroad debts held chiefly IN Eng
land.
Just put your leather specks on and
polish up your thinking tube and see If
you cannot account for the great will
ingness of railroad attorneys setting
under tho dome of the capitol at Wash
ington to vote for more bonds every
time Clevelandbaum, Kothschllds
Carlisleheimer and Shermanburg pull
the string.
We are willing TO wager our lives
that there isn't gold enough IN the Un-
tied States at this time co pay the in
terest on bonded railway debts due in
June and December of 1895.
The owners of stocks (second mort.
cages prsetically--and principally wat
err would ruin the nation to keep the
railroads out of the hands of DondhoId.
ers under foreclosure, in order to pinch
dividends out of the people on stocks,
The Road.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-02-20

By this issue will be seen that the
Wichita Eagle has taken occasion to
literally tear us into shreads for our
criticism on its peculiar position OH the
silver question. 1t is our opinion that
the editor CT the Eagle ja q free silver
man if he dared express his honest con-
victions. but there is where the trouble
lies. In this age of latter day republi
can supremacy no one can be prominent
in that party and be free silverite.
a republican these days is simply a
tool of the money power and he is pow
erless to resist. The gold magnates
have the press under their thumbs and
accordingly shape their editorials and
press dispatches as they see ht. We
know it is humIliatlng and uncomfort-
able for such prominent journals as the
Eagle to be reminded of that fact but
it Is nevertheless true, and as startling
as 1t is true. We don't blame the Ea
gle for squealing; we know the shoe
pincheS.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-02-20


lT is the swell headed spirit of official
ism displayed by general managers. mine
bosses. petty superintendents, Iackeys
and pnderlings imbued with the idea
that little brief authority makes them
superior to the men who do the hard
manual work, that is productive of
much OF the strife and ill-feeling be
twsen labor and capital. Often it is
the official nnderling who is more grasp
ing, exacting and inconsiderate than
the easy going capitalist himself. who
as the head of the cancern leaves details
entirely to subordinates; takes his pro-
fits and enjoys life without making
inquiry into the condition ard welfare
of his workmen The Age.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-02-20

HARD times will exist as long as
gold is the standard money of
the country, The nation, or even the
world, doesn't contain gold enough to
do half the business of the people of
the United States, and without a sufTi.
Gent volume of money, prices for la
Dor and products are bound to depre-
ciate. Most anyone with ordinary
sense can see that much.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-02-20
CHURCHES.

(fHRISfIAE.-Regul services. each alter
~ nate sunday at ii a. m. and D. m. sun
DAY school every Sunday at 10 a. m PRAY
ermeeting Wednesday 1880 p m
M ETHODISI ACKNOWLEDGMENT
- Sunday at III 200 a. and 40 D. M Sun
lay scnn0l every Sunday at 100 N. PRAYER
neetine every Thursday evening at :3G
SfranSers invited. REV. KsGLg Pastor.
pHESBITERl Services every : uutIax q 4
=. IL a. m and 1880 p. In. Sunday Schoo! at
HHH0LIC OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES once every
~ month in the GobielIe building on Nort6
S IL s.feet: REV. o. HARA. Pastor
- L. nAhh MISSlON-Sunday School at
~ 3;30 O'Clock on every Sunday a fter0oc,, a.,
ne y a. X. hall. Children please come.
APflSf:-PreachIng ST and 3rd Sunday II
81 Z. ia aau at e.OO p. every Sunday. Sunday
1 ss ynooi az ~ o CLOCK, q. m Prayer IN
wednesday evening of each week. Rsvu
am, Pastor. Resil con Cor. Lae3i %
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-02-20

THE last hero" OF the Douglass
holse rioters was turned down last
week. j. w. F. Hughes was an aspir-
ant 10 the adiutant generalship but
Sim Fox captured the plum. The she
roes'' did such dirty work that even
their own party IS ashamed of them.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-02-20

ISSUE bonds to pay interest on a pre-
vous issue; how is that for wise and
patriotic iinanciering? Brass belly and
gall are running the government at pres
ent and the people are footing the bill.
How nice it is to have an autOcrat
executive.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-02-20

CURTIS and BroderIck voted fol-
Reeds Infamous anti-silver scheme
These gentlemen committed themselves
for the free and unlimited coinage OF
silver at the ratio of is to l last fall
during the campaign. This is the mean
average of the life of a republican
promise.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-02-20

"A New York photographer has
adopted p. All which was in opera
ton last summer, and is following it
with great success. He takes for his
field of operation the better portions of
town, and when the sun is warm
enough to bring the children out in
force he goes forth with his camera.
When number of well-dressed chill
dren are encountered they are asked if
they don't want their pictures taken.
As may be imagined, the children are
delighted with the suggestion. The
photographer groups them artistically,
takes an impression and then gets the
address of each. A week or two later
ne calls on the parents and offers the
pictures, handsomely finished and
mounted, for sale. The children sur
rounded by their companions in a pref
W group make an instantaneous appeal
20 the parental eye, and it is an ex.
ceptional case when at least one or two
are not purchased
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-02-20

THE senate has confirmed George L.
Anthony's appointment as state in
surauce commissioner. The State
Journal says that the appointment of
such notorious rascals to Office will
cost the republican party It's neck.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-02-20
A Little Lower Than the Angels

Esthetic Bostonian Carving duck,
to Miss W1ngate from Chicago)-Ah,
Miss Wingate, here is a beautiful pinion
l have saved for you.
Miss Wingate from Chicago -
Thanks, awfully; but 1 never take a
pinion s'long as there's trotter in
sight-Judge.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-02-20

Ed IIOCH is also ''chawing the rag
over the Leavenworth banquet. But
we surmise that Eddy is no better than
the crowd that went on a drunk at
JeaVenworth
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-02-20

EVERYONE can now see the signif-
canoe of the irrigation plank in the
republican platform. That's about al
the republicans are doing just now
It's what enc might call abdominal
irrigation.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-02-20

"And are you really so badly broke,
my friend?' he said as he rendered the
tramp a penny.
"Pm as badly broke as the ten COM
mandments."
"Well, that means a good deal in
New York." and he she;led out quar-
ter.-Texas Siftings
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-02-20

People of more than one denomina-
ton have laughed over that yarn about
the little girl trying to sell Phillips
Brooks some Episcopal Kittens" and
defending her subsequent description
of them to Edward Everett Hale as
Unitarian Kittens with the explana-
lions that ''they had gotten their eyes
open" But it probably was not gener-
ally believed that the incident ever oc-
Cured. A distinct denial of the story,
addressed by the late bishop to two
inquiring children, is printed in a recent
magazine article.
"A story comes to us from Montana
of the tanning of two Rocky mountain
lions. The lion was trained to tricks
apparently entirely through fear. as
her trainer used during the entire per-
formance a whip which he snapped
constantly, producing sounds like the
explosion of pistol. Among the most
wonderful things told of this lion is
that her master took from the corner
large piece of meat, ordered the lion to
rise on her hind legs, and then laid the
meat across her nose, where she sat,
evidently wild with excitement, but
did not attempt to eat the meat The
greatest trial was when the trainer
ordered his dog to take the meat from
her nose, which the dog did, and ate in
the presence of the lion.
"A writer in the Atlantic gives this
as the origin of the slang word ''socdol-
lager" which was current some time
ago ''Socdollager" was the unedu.
Gated mans transposition of "dox.
DIGGER" which was the familiar New
England rendering of "doxology."
This was the puritan term for the
verse of ascription used at the conclu
sion of every hymn, like the Gloria"
at the end of a chanted psalm. On doc
trinal grounds it was proper for the
whole congregation to join in the sing
ing. so that it became triumphant
winding up of the whole act of wor-
ship. Thus it happened that 'ssocdol-
lager" became the term for anything
which left nothing else to follow: de-
cisive, overwhelming finish, to which no
reply was possible.
1t is reported that near Currizo
| Springs, Tex, an oval-topped mound
covered with petrif1ed human skulls
has been discovered The mound is
circular in form, and about 100 feet
high, and on one side is joined to a
| short range of hills of about the same
height On the summit, and for some
| distance down the sloping side, it is
covered with what appear to be
| smooth, spherical bones, which upon
close examination prove to be human
skulls distorted into grotesque shapes
| 1t is further stated that by removing
the loose dirt and sand from the orifices
of the face the unmistakable human
contenance is revealed Bones of other
classes are also said to be found there,
and from all appearances the whole
mound Is formed of human skulla
| A Excess of Gallantry.
| Miss oldgirl-A woman is simply just
as old as she seems
Woodcn-Oh. my dear madam, I
should have placed you twenty years
beiow thak-Iury,
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-02-20

SEVERAL bills to reapportion the
state INTO eight congressional districts
have been introduced in the legislature
but there is very little LIKELIHOOD of the
massage of any of them.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-02-20

ANOTHER populist paper has been
started at Topeka recently. 1t is be-
ing published by A. o. Grigsby and
has been christened the Shawnee
Drum Beat" Thus our numbers swell.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-02-20

A BILL IS pending in the legislature
10 make it unlawful for the railroad
companies or hotel men to discriminate
against colored people.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-02-20

THE resolution calling for constitu-
tional convention was defeated in the
House by vote of 30 to GA. 1t would
haye required two thirds vote to pass