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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-04-10
Adroit with sn,e..

The duke of Marlborough had the
reputation of being singularly discreet
and adroit in dealing with spies, and
it is on record that when the hero of
Blenheim was commanding in Ger
many he on one occasion called a coun-
Gil of war to determine whether the
enemy should be attacked on the fol-
lowing day. Every officer present was
in favor of attacking; but the duke
himself professed SO decided repug-
nance to the step that the council sub
mitted to his superior Judgment and
adjourned Immediately afterwards
Marlborough gave Prince Eugene Sc
eret orders to prepare for battle on the
following day, adding that spy was
present at the council of war who
would certainly report its decision to
the enemy, and that it was necessary
to deceive him by adopting the ruse to
which the duke had recourse.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-04-10

A FOREIGNER by the name of John
England Challinor was appointed
state accountant. lie was naturalized
three days before his appointment. He
says he will remain in this country
until his oficial term expires when he
will again become citizen of England
This is one of the offices that was ere.
ated by the legislature just adjourned
and the governor fastened to give the
first emoluments to a foreigner. We
should all be grateful that Kansas is
redeemed.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-04-10
AswAs expected, the income tax law

As WAS expected, the income tax law
was declared unconstitutional by the
United States supreme court, there be-
ing three dissenting justices. This Is
one Of the most gigantic outrages that
the judicial department has perpetrated
upon the people for many year. 1t
was only through the unwavering sup
port that was given it by the popullsts
in congress that 1T ever passed that
body, but now to have 1t render
ed imperative by an authority usurp-
ing court is enough to arouse the in
dignation of the most sanguinc. Some
of these life appointees on the bench
need dose of tar and feathers worse
than anything else. The people oa9
never hope for hearing as long as
this corrupt system exists. Capital
owns and operates our courts these
days.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-04-10
A VEGETABLE BONANZA.
A Root That Is Often Quoted as Being
the Most Valuable.

Root That Is Often Quoted as Being
the Most Valuable.
High prices are often paid at certain
times for drugs such as quinine, CO.
caine and others, but a drug is used in
North China which in actual value far
surpasses anything which has been
known here.
The substance in question is called
ginseng, and is the root of Aralia quin-
quefolia. 1t is so highly valued as a
tonic and stimulant medicine in China
that it is sold at from twenty to two
hundred and fifty times its weight in
silver, sometimes for five hundred
times that amount. Pearson's Monthly
states, however, that it possesses no
important medicinal properties. Next
to China the drug is produced in good
quality in Corea, and is the principal
article of export from Corea into China.
So much is this the case that the Co
reans are 10th to part with any seeds
of the plant lest their practical monop-
oily in this root should be invaded
The wonder is that with such a much
used commodity at such price steps
are not taken to cultivate it in suffi-
cient quantity so as to adjust the bal
ence between supply and demand.
The reduction, for example, in the
price of quinine was largely the result
of increased cultivation of the cinchona
plant, and the same may be said of CO.
caine in respect to the cocoa plant.
Perhaps, however, the foreign substi-
tutes of the real product, ginseng,
which reach the Chinese markets from
North America and elsewhere, inter-
fere with the native production. But
with silver in one scale and portions of
the highly-esteemed root IN the other,
1t seems reasonable to conclude that
the cultivation of the Aralia quinque-
1olia in North China would be remu.
nerative, whatever the cost and
frO,1hIo
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-04-10
The Oueen,s Lamprex Pie.

In accordance with an ancient GUS
tom, Queen Victoria has been pre-
sented with a lanprey pie. 1t was an
elaborate affair and was presented by
the mayor, Mr., Matthews. He signi-
fed his intention of giving it, and the
queen, through the lord high steward
OF Gloucester, intimated that she
would be happy to receive it. Conse-
ouently the pie came, accompanied by
two silver skewers bearing the arma Of
the city and the name of the mayor.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-04-10

ton, that the credit of the state would
be restored, prosperity again smile up
on us, the saloons would be closed, ev-
cry law on the statute book enforced.
and that Kansas would once more as
sumo her high position among the
states of this glorious union, etc., and
we are patiently awaiting a fulfilIment
or these pledges.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-04-10

THE Wichita Eagle declares 1t will
not support Mckinley nor any other
er gold standard man for the presi-
dency in '96. The pops may have &C.
casion to remind the Eagle of this
statement later on and. as Johnny Gill
more puts it, may be compelled to in
dulge in mess of crow. 1t isn't pol
icy for paper like the Eagle to say
what it will or will not do: its policy is
shaped and dictated by our eastern
friends
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-04-10

Now let Reed fix little silver parity
nonsense and he will get the solid west
ern delegation at the next national re-
publican convention. All that the re-
publicans in these parts want is promis
or even symptoms of a promise. They
seemingly care very little whether they
are carried into effect or not. In other
words they live in hopes rather than
leave the e. O. p.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-04-10

HARRY ST. JOHN, son of John 2. st.
John. shot and killed his wife last
week. The cause of the crime is IN
fidelity on the part OF his wife. Since
the killing he is very penitent and says
it was accidental. Had he hunted
down the brute who destroyed his
domestic happiness and perforated his
miserable carcass with hot lead, a
sympathizing public would have APP
plauded him; but as it is he is DOOM
ed man and his companion died on the
wretched bed of dishonor. 1t is bad
termination of the career of this family.
DR.. Prices Cream Baking Powder
Worlds Fair Highest Award.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-04-10
PATIENTS

Caveats. Trade Marks and Copy Rights Sc
cured for inventors and those engaged in
mercantile pursuits Do not send your appli-
cations two or three thousand miles away
when you can get your patent just Is soon
asId III u8aay cases far sooner, and with bet
ter results hy sending them direct to
HEGOOM & HiGDON at Kansas City Mo-,
where they have the most extensive depart
meats and the best equipped Offices fitted ex-
presslY FOR this purpose now in the United
States. located IN the Times building, ST the
junction OF Main and Delaware Sts Kansas
City, Mo- Their charges are the same as 9TH
er well established Patent Lawyers. For ref
erence all the banks and business houses OF
the city send for price list and book of in
stIuctions free of charge
Please mention this paper,
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-04-10
AnInf.ntil. Proarr-

An extraordinary infantile prodigy
has been discovered in China In little
girl four years old, who passed sue
cessfully an examination for literary
honors at the Hong Kong university,
and wrote "a concise essay" that made
the examiners marvel because Of the
mature thought exhibited in II.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-04-10
GOSSIP FOR THE FAIR SEX.


An eleven-year-old daughter of Eruin
Pasha is being carefully educated in
Europe.
THE crown princess of Sweden is try
ing to establish women photographers
in Stockholm.
AMoNe the notables at Lucerne the
past summer is Mary Anderson-Na-
varro, with devoted husband in at
tendance.
Miss AMvE READE, niece of the
novelist, Charles Reade, has followed
in the footsteps of her uncle to the ex-
tent of writing two novels, Ruby and
'Zerma."
QUEEN VICTORIA proposes to erect a
cairn in memory of the marriage of
the duke of York. 1t will be in Scot
land, near the one she erected in re-
nembrance of the wedding of the
prince of Wales.
ANOTHER of Queen Victoria's oldest
servants has just died. This time it is
W. III. Cover, who was ''yoeman of the
silver pantry" at Windsor castle. Yoe-
man Cover had been in the queens
service for over half a century and was
much esteemed by his mistress.
THERE are one hundred and ten
women lawyers in the United States
and eight of this number have earned
the right to practice before the SUI
preme court. To acquire this it is
necessary to have practiced for three
years at the bar without a flaw in that
career.
IT is to be feared that the infants
las been spoiled by her taste of this
land Of the free, for she is reported as
having little lark in London. She
has been living '.incog'' in furnished
house, riding in the park on hired
horse and shopping on foot. Her two
small boys. Princess Louis and Al
fonso, have been with her.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-04-10

An Arkansas editor will read pa
per at the next meeting of the Arkan-
sas Press Association on The stuff
We Get on Subscription What we
get doesn't bother us much; it's what
we don't get that Woodward
Jeffersoniau.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-04-10
THE TWiCE-A-WEEK REPUBLIC
SPECIAL OFFER,

Good Only Until nsrch sIst, 1905.
Send two new subscribers with two
dollars ard get one year free.
Send four new subscribers with four
dollars and receive the paper two years
without cost.
DO you know a good thing when
you see it? A word to the wise is
sufficient"
Address THE REPUBLIC,
st. Louis, Mo.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-04-10

Gentlemen-don't forget that Twill
clean, repair or press your old clothes or
rnake new ones. Farm produce or wood
taken in payment. Lizzie FIshburn,
CAMS
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-04-10

John Sherman says that in all his
life he has never ventured prediction.
The reason for this is clear There is
no money in Wichita. Ea
gle.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-04-10
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY,

| PRESIDENT. GROVER CLEVELAND
United States senators go. ..... :. l.. Baker
of Kansas. 80. w. A. PETER
Member of Congress. 18th Dist -. go. G. /. Long
Judge of Gath judicial Dist..... g W. Mckay
State Senator, 3Sth District. n. S. Lands
Representative, goth District. It. P. Wilson
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-04-10

IT Is believed that the long-lost Piaz-
zetta column is on the eve of being re-
covered, after lying for the best part
of eight centuries in the lagoon mud Of
Venice.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-04-10

Andy Felt, who lives oyer in those
parts, says that when Senator Rogers
read the charges preferred by Cy Lee
land he jumped up, cracked his heels
together and swore an oath so loud
that it raised every roof in Washington
county.-Kansas Breeze.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-04-10
Barber County Officers.
ATTORNEYS IN MEDICINE LODGE.

2 SAMPLE,
De
ATTORNEY & COUNSELLOR AT LAW.
Office over First National Bank,
Medicine Lodge, Kans.
will practice in the courts OF this and ajoiI
ing counties.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-04-10

DR.. Price Cream Baking Powder
Worlds Pair Highest Medal and Diploms.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-04-10
SOCIETIES..

ENSIGN ENCAMPM ENT No. Sc, /. .. o
Meets first and third Friday of each month
Visiting Patriarchs cordially invited to attend.
w. T. ROUSE, s. s. p. COAN, G. P.
n K ? ELDRED POST, No. 174, meets
VI h M I'd & 4th Saturday in each month
otthe court house in Medicine Lodge, at p. N.
Allcomrades cordially invited.
j. II. OWENS, ostCommander.
W. ELDER. Adjutsnt.
G II LOREN EDWARDS CAMP. No. 15s
., Y. S. of ", meets on LIST and Sd Satur
day evenings of each month, in their hail on
W. H LOWRY, Commander.
j. U. RoMIG, Adjutant.
A. o. D. W. Meess d L s1S al, Sf f iS
J.W. SINGER, Recorder.
QUALITY TEMPLE, No. %, Pythian Sisters,
Y meet regular every 2nd and 4th Thursday
evenings. All members requested to attend.
MRS W. w. Cook, NJ. E. @.
MRS. HILL, NJ. X. aud c.
a Al. A. NJ, Delta Lodge No. =
~p%TRegular communications, first and
N * third Saturday evenings in each
\ month. All atfiiiating and non-afIili-
ating mascns in good standing, cordially in
gited to attend Fl. BANKIN, W. NJ.
1. w. STOUT, Sec'y.
CYPRUS CHAPTER No. So, R. A. NJ. meets
in Masonic Hall every I'd and Attn Thursday.
Visiting brethren cordially invited.
CHESTER /. Long, H. P
c. L. BRAMwELL, sec'y.
n II G LORRAINE CHAPTER, No 80
Va uu Ns Regular Communications. first
aud third Monday evenings in each month.
MRS. NJ. DELIsLE, W. N.
DELPHIA LODGE, No. 140, X of p, meets on
Monday evening of each week, at the X. of p
aall: Visiting knights in good standing inyi-
ed to attend. OTIS LORrOE c. c.
F. w. LONG, X. of E. & s.
/. o. o. F., Pioneer Lod, e
STSA No. 179.-Regular meetings
EA ~ 49, every Tuesday evening. v IL
&AZ~ iting brethren in good stand
@ ing cordially invited.
j. B. GAEO.
Noble Grand.
s. L. ALLEN Reading Secretary.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-04-10

The Kansas republican legislature
''redeemers'' appropriated So, $50, 600
during the last session. Kansas peo-
pie will probably be able after this to
see what fools they made of themselves
last fall.-Alva Review.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-04-10

~ W. ELLIS,
ATTORNEY COUNSELOR AT LAW.
Medicine Lodge, Kan sas.
Office first door west of First National Bank.
Will practice in all of the courts of the state.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-04-10

@ " LOREN EDWARDS CAMP, No. 152
" Y S. of ", meets on LIST and Sd Satur
day evenings of each month, in their hall on
North Main street.
w. 81. LOWRY, Commander.
J. II ROMIG Adjutant
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-04-10

The more people see of the Morrill,
administration the more dwellings
administration is appreciated and as
the years roll by that appreciation will
increase. There is no more of com
parIson between the former admins
tration and the present one than there
is between heaven and hell.-Kingman
Journal.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-04-10

ENSIGN ENCAMPM ENT No Sc, /. .. o F
Meets first and third Friday of each month
Visiting Patriarchs cordially invited to attend.
w. T. ROUSE, S. S.P. COAN, c. p.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-04-10

4 n TT NEI Fidelity Lodge No. 3d.
IA VI VI w - Meets I'd and 4th Friday
night. l. w. STOUT. 81. w.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-04-10

QUALITY TEMPLE, No. 2s, Pytbian Sisters,
~ meet regular every 2nd and 4th Thursday
evenings. All members requested to attend.
MRS. W. w. Cook, NJ. Z. @.
MRS. HILL, NJ. X. aud G..
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-04-10

g. 4 R. 81 sLD RE POST; No: IA, meets t.
otthe court house in Medicine Lodge lat p. N.
Allcomrades cordially invited.
]. II. OWENS, PostCommander.
J W. ELDER, Adjutant.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-04-10

sntler sex. every one OF whom should subscribe "a,
emorest's Magazine. II You are unacqnainted with
. merits. send for q specimen copy nree), and
81 viii admit that seeing these THUMBS has put
3u in the way OF saving money by finding IN one
Agszine everything 70 satisfy the literary wants e
whole family. =
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-04-10

During the last long session of con-
gress when the legislative day of Sat
day was made to extend over Sunday,
MIR. Broderick, of Kansas, came upon
Bailey, of Texas, and asked him if he
thought congress could fool the Lord
by that sort of trick? II don't know"
replied the Texan, this congress has
fooled everybody else; perhaps it can
fool Him."-Ottawa Journal.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-04-10

The politicians won't catch Gov. Nc
kinley mapping. When he was in the
East recently he gave out that he
would not accept the presidential NOM
ination on a platform of free silver
But he is West again and winked the
other eye and now announces he is in
favor of bimetaillsm. Ever, body
knows Billy Mckinley will accept the
nomination on any Kind of platform
or no platform at all just SO he gets it.
He IS getting that republican attitude
Of all things to all men, so he gets the
Office and has whole year ahead of
him.-HiawaIha Journal.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-05-02
FAME WON BY ACCIDENT.
Bastien LrpaSe's First SuccrssfuI Picture
 Was an AdNcrtiscmcnt.

The great French painter, BaStien LcFagr. wIS pursued hy unmrrciful dis a>tvr through his youth ill his efforts tu study art His mother worked ill the fields tu h,v? that sirkly hoy at school At l1 he went to Paris alone. starved for seven wears, painted without success. but still painted Ho had just finished q picture to svnd to tho salon when Paris Was hvsipsed. and hc rushed with his comrades t1 the trenches.
 On tl" first day shell fell into his studio and destroyed his picture. and another shell fell at his feet. woundinE him. He waS carried home and lay i'll and id!r for two wears. Then ho rr. turned 10 Paris. and. reduced to ah>o- lute want, painted cheap fans for a liv ing. On" day a uanufActurcr of some patent medicine ordered picture from him to illustrate its virtues Lepage. who was sincere, gave his best work to tho advcrtr>, urnt. Ho painted a land scapo in the April sunlight. The leaves of tender green Quivcrod in tho breeze: n group of rrautiful girls gathered around a fountain from which the elixir of youth sYranS in d hUhhlinG stream. Lopago believed there was real merit i'll it.
 Let mo off,r it at the salon." he asked his patron.
 Tho manufacturer Was delighted. ''But first pain, a rainbow arching over tho fountain. he said, with the name of my mvnlriuo upon it." Lrrage ro- fuSrI. "Th,n l will not pay you d sou for tAo picturt!" The pric" of this pic turc meant hvr.il for months, and the painter Eal l,rS n,cdyI hr,al. Tn" chance of aIIAl~~i"n tn tho salon Was small. lie hv,Ii4t,d Thrn hc >llrnc,d his huuE,r and carried the canvas [" the salon IL Wu~ u Imttrd. lI> great Succl s> in>urrd l., rI-,'a !'lIC,' in rul:ll" rccuGnitInn and his later work d plac" among ih" .;rvAty>t "f living aIti>ts,- Current Lit: rHtUrC.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-05-02

vote. Among those now sitting in tho house of commons are three native Americans, and two who, though born under the shadow of the British flag, at some time ill their lives have lived ill the United States and assumed the du- ties of American citizenship, but hay ing returned to England have won the right to sit in the British lower house and to the honors that such right carries with it. The American born members of parliament arc Sir Ellis Ashmead- Bartlett, MT. Bartlett Burdett- -CouttS, both of the old Bartlett family of Plym- outh, Mass, and Mir. F. A. Charming, born ill Boston. The two members of parliament born on the soil of Victoria's s lOminions who havc been American Citi- zonS, but havc returned to the old cOun- try. arc Major F. B. Jones and Dr. ]. F Fox
 Of theSo five men Mir. Bartlett Bur lctt Coutts is best known ill America. There is no doubt whatever that he is of the old Bartlett family. nor that his uamo when he first went to England was William Lchmann Ashmead Bartlett. but there is q question as to where he was born, one authority giving his natal placo as Plymouth, Mass, another as Brooklyn, and still another as New Brunswick, N. J. According to the last mentioned authority. the father of the man now under consideration was a merchant, who had two sons, Ellis, born in IS49, and William Lehmann. born in 1851. Thcsc boys were sent to England | early i'll the sixties to be educated The | older studied at Christ Church college, the other at Kchlc. Oxford, and both were duly graduated with honors. It Was while the younger was ill col | lcEc that he met his present wife, the Baroness BurdCtt CouttS, who was and is distinguished as the richest woman | i'll England. From the time she set eyes on the young American she exhibited decided preference for him and engaged him aS private secretary. a little more than a year after his graduation in 1876. At first he decided to follow the legal pruf,.S$iOn and to that end was called to the bar of the Inner Temple. but the emolumcnts of his private secretaryship were so considerable that he gave up all thought of tho law and devoted himself | to the barOneSS and her fortune. In 1881, | after he had been i'll her service for about five years, he married her, in spite of | the facts that she was nearly half q cen | tury older than he; that she was un- comedy in appearance tO the verge of positive uglincSs. and that she had tho reputation of being almost as eccentric as she was rich.
 It was one of the conditions uf this marriage that the young American should abandon his own namc a1d as sume that of his wife. and that is the reason ha is now Mir. Burdctt- -Coutts in stead of Mr AShmrad Bartlett. It took a royal decree to l"galize this change of namr, but rp such thing was nCccs- sary tu the realization of the other lead ing Cunditiun-that Gi0, 900. or $250,
 900, a year should bc settled upon him from the enormous income of his aged wifc's estate. This great sum, it should
 be understood. is his absolutely for
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-05-02

Burdett- -Coutts is said to be oI ''dls- tinguished appearance and pleasing man. ners, an excellent speaker, an earnest politician and n regular attendant at the house" to which he was first elected in 1885. He has done some writing, has a fine stud of horses, mostly hackneys, keeps dogs and is considered true sportsman. Despite the disparity as to age between himself and his wealthy and aged wife, he now looks almost as old as she.
 The older brother of Burdctt -CouttS, Sir Ellis Ashmcad- Bartlett, has been more of Il success on his own merits than has the hushaiid of the baroness. He has been ill parliament ever since 1885 and has also served as n civil lord of the ad- miralty, and it is this office from which he derives his title. Some four or five years ago he was named correspondent in a divorce suit. all tho interested parties tOwhiCh. saving himself. were members of the British Iristocracy. He was de cidedly unpopular ill London before that and has been more so since. Although no part of his unpOpularity is due prob ably to his American birth, it Is un- doubtcdly true that both brothers have made themselves somewhat OdiuuS by their persistent attempts tO give casual acquaintanceS the impression that they are English born.
 Like his brother, Sir Ellis AShmcad- Bartlett Is true blue" Conservative.