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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-01-09
AMERlcA cor AMERICANS.

The Cresset, with uncompromlslng
enmity to the common people charac-
teristic to itself, came out last week
in a windy editorial arralgning us for
what We said relative to the advisable
ity OF taxing American citizens IN or
der that the foreign money power may
continue to enslave the best blood of
this country. The Cresset would have
its readers believe that in the event
that congress makes the donation the
stockholders pray, this immediate vi
cinity would be greatly benefited there
by. This suggestion is laughably alb
surd, to say the least. The st0ckbold-
ers claim they have lost money and
want this government to7make their
losses good. They didn't say anything
about investing. etc. All they want is
the rocks" and don't care whether
Barber county prospers or not. But
let us go back a little and see how
promptly these justice aspiring men
who compose the sugar mill company,
have met their Obligations. We are
reliably informed that only very
small per cent of the amount due the
farmers who delivered cane and the
men who worked at the mill last sum-
mer has been paid. Why all this de-
lay? The company is not insolyent
and is amply able to defray all the
debts contracted during last seasons
run and it is striking example OF gen
uine gall for these capitalists to ask
the farmers and laborers to wait for
their dues until they dispose of the
sugar, the legislature makes an appro-
priatlon, the general government comes
to their support and the good Lord on
ly knows what not. This is the way in
which the patrons of the mill have
been treated but when Uncle Sam with
draws his fostering hand how the com
pany does squeal. All this talk about
what an appropriation by the govern
ment to this foreign syndicate Will do
tor the country is sheer nonsense and
withal lame argument. 1t is asked
simply as a great qualification for an
already enriched monopoly and would
be nothing less than tax LEVIED upon
American citizens to benefit the finan-
cial condition of foreign syndicates. II
the government is stuck on the appro-
priation business there are places where
it could put its money where the re-
turns would be far greater than that
of enrlching aliens and improverishing
our own people. This bounty system
is becoming a formidable nuisance.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-01-09
Romantic Ceremony by which Two Lives
Wero Welded Into One

The Lithonia (Ga) Herald tells Of a novel
and amusing marriage that was solemnzed
in that city. The contracting parties were
both colored, and as the parents of Ella
Usher objected to her entering the marriage
state the groom, Andrew Williams, whose
heart was overlooking with love for the
fair Ella, obtained her consent and they
ran away. In the afternoon about so the
couple perched themselves on log by the
Academy branch and were there made one.
The ceremony was performed by Judge
James r. George, N. P, in his beautiful
and impressive style. We regret that we
are unable to give our readers the ceremony
in full, but here is part of it:
"AndreW and Ella, you have met here and
perched yourselves upon this log by the side
Of the calm but frozen waters of this famous
and historic Academy branch; under the
blue canopy of heaven and surrounded by
the grand old trees, which have been shorn
of their beautiful foliage by the cold, windy
blasts of winter, you are here surrounded
by several distinguished gentlemen---Col
Thomas Lowe, Captain James S. George,
Little Ed Bailey and Dave Albert, of Allan
ia, and many others-who have come TO see
you united III holy bonds of Wedlocll--the
grandest, noblest and sublimest state into
which people can enter; and may both of
your hearts eternally beat as one as you
Journey down the stream of time, and when
you are done with this life may you enter
into that realm of bliss where the good
darkies GO ~
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-01-09
A STORY FOR DEBTORS.
We Can't Vouch for Its Trutilfulness but
Arc IN Love with It's Moral,

We Can't Vouci, for Its Truthfulness but
Arc IN Love with It's Moral,
Opie P. Read, the genius OF the Arlzan
saw Traveller, is SO very excellent flnan-
cier that he usually manages to end each
month little deeper in debt than he began
it, says the Washington Post. Yet nobody
sver loses by him. In some manner, though
his general indebtedness keeps piling up,
be manages not to let any individual debt
stand long We shouldn't lire - - L.. nresseG
for logical explanation of this paradoxical
assertion, but it seems, nevertheless, to be
true, that while his aggregate Indebtedness
Keeps growing, his individual debtors ere
never permitted to lose any thing.
One morning Opie came into the Chicago
Fress Club rooms, where number of the
members were seated chatting. Opie did
not take part in the conversation, but sat
by ono of the open windows smoking his
huge pipe and evidently thinking pro-
foundry
"Something on your mind, OpieT' asked
one Of the boys.
YES. My butcher is on my mind, and
he's the biggest butcher you ever saw. If
didn't have ponderous mind never could
hold that butcher On it, Look at me-" said
he, standing up at full height, showing a
form more than six feet tall, and MASSIVE in
its proportions. Look at me, I'm pretty
big man myself, but, sir, asI came past the
butcher-shop this morning the butcher was
standing out in front. and I walked right
between hls legs. Che top of my head
wasn't as high as his instep. should have
had to reach up to unlatch his shoes"
"How much do you owe your butcher,
Opies' asked Mr.. James w Scott, the pres
ident of the club, and business manager of
the Herald.
"a hundred and twenty dollars, SIR" said
Mr.. Reed.
That afternoon Mr.. Scott sent check for
$3.50 to Opie, saying it was an advance on a
story he wished him to write for the Her
ala.
The next morning when Opie strobe into
the club somebody asked:
''Has your butcher grown any since yes
terday?''
''Grownl No, sir. This morning I walked
into his place with $50 in gold cIinking and
jingling in my pocket"
HWhere's that butcherlt I asked.
Here am said faint, timfd, little
voice hatseemed to come up from the Gel
lar.
''Wherel'' saidI
"Here, right here by your left foot. Don't
move or you'll step on me. y
l got down on my hands and knees and
examined speelz on the floor. 1t was the
butcher.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-01-09
a VANISHED RACE.
Queer Sculpture and Painting ON the
Rocks In West Virginia.

&tuCCE OCtAPbuE0 ana 1alutlnk On B11o
Rocks In West Virginia.
The erection of the new Government dam
In the river near Charleston, W. Va, has
hidden from sight the famous sspicturo
rock one of the familiar landmarks of the
Kanawha valley, and one which has occa-
stoned much wonder and fruitless specula-
ton. The rock was located near the mouth
of Paint creek, and, while the river was in
its natural condition, was visible at low
water every summer. Some years ago
part OF the stone was removed for building
purposes, an act of vandalism which should
have been prevented at all hazards, and
now the remainder is submerged at all sea-
sons Of the year. When whole, the surface
OF the pictured rock'' was about twenty
by thirty feet in extent, and was covered
with representations of animals, fish and
fowls, carved deep in the smooth surface.
On one side were the figures of man and
p bear, the latter being about life size.
Hear by was buffalo track, and short
distance away was the representation of a
large fish and a number of footprints, evil
IDENTIFY representing the imprint of a child's
feet The work was evidently done by pre-
historic people, as the traditions of the val
ley are that the representations were on
the stones when the first white men visited
the region, and that they then bore unmis-
{
worn and smooth.
The vicinity of Paint creek is rich in
aboriginal and prehistoric relics, and a
volume might be written of the discoveries
which have been made there. Almost
every excavation brings to light something
of interest to the antiquarian, and there is
every evidence that in past ages the valley
was thlckly peopied by az unknown race:
probably contemporary with the mound
| builders of the Ohio valley.
At MoorefielG, from the time Of the first
settlement, the cliff known as the Gap
Rocks, in the Petersburg Gap, has born the
! gigantic representation of common fox.
| The picture is upon the sheer and in
! accessible face of the rock, some thirty
! feet from the top and nearly one hundred
! from the bottom, and being colored dngy
| yellow, in sharp contrast to the brown
stone Recently Glen McGill, of OHIO, who
! was visiting Cell Beans, went out to view
/ the fox, accompanied by Mr.. Beans. After
! an inspection from the bottom of the cliff
! the two men assembled to the top, and max
! ing rope fast to a tree, McGil lowered
/ himself down to the fox. He describes it
! as being about twelve feet long, and
! painted or plastered upon the cliff with a
/ substance res embling earthenware glaze,
which is as hard as the rock itself. The
surface of the fox is quite rough, as though
the stuff was roughly smeared on by hand
before it hardened There was a high
wind blowing at the time McGill made his
venture, and he ran considerable risk. He
took along a mallet and chisel, intending to
cut his name on the fox, but was prevented
by the force of the wind, which swung him
| about at an alarming rate.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-01-09
HYPNoTISM IN CRIME.
The Possibility of Detecting Criminal
Through Himself,

She Possibility OF Detecting q Criminal
Through Himself
The recent discussion before the New
York Academy Of Anthropology of the re-
markable results of hypnotism led one of the
gentlemen present at it's last meeting to re-
late to a reporter for the New York Times
some experiments which he witnessed with
in short time at the lecture of Dr. Dray-
ton at Nantes, France.
while there" he said, 81 was invited by
Frof. Jacques Liegoi, of the Faculty of Jurls-
prudence, to witness some hypnotic trials
by himself and other members of the fac
ulty He had avowed that it was possible
to detect, in case of crime committed under
hypnotic influence, the identity of the oper-
ator from the subject-a possibility pre-
vlously denied. A female subject was hvp.
Noticed, and NJ. Liegoi told her that upon
awakening she should seize pistol lying
near and shoot bystander who, he said.
had grossly insllted her, but not to tell
who suggested the deed She revived
from her trance, and at once did as she had
been directed, dlscharging a revolver point
blank at the person mentioned, declaring
that thus she revenged herself. She was
asked who told her to shoot, and she denied
that any one had done SO, declaring with
the utmost vehemence that she had been in,
suited, ana mad repaid the man for his in
suit.
she was put to sleep again and she was
Told that, when she saw the person who
told hsr to do the shooting, she should look
at him t1xedly and that she should then go
TO him, greet him and endeaver to conceal
him with her skirts. She was awakened
end NJ. Liegoi appeared. She glared at him
Tor time, and then walked around him,
finally stopping in front of him, saying:
Bon Jour, NJ. Liegoi,' and at once spread
out her skirts as though to effectually shield
him from observations
The gentleman thought that while hypno-
tlsm might safely be used in suggesting
crime when the same means was used to
discover the operator by the use of direct
question, it was by no means safe when the
detective sought to discover the identity of
the principal criminal by indirect means,
such as was USED in the case of NJ. Jieyoi
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-01-09
Fowls as Insect Destroyers.

The value of poultry for destroying
insects is greatly underestimated. A
turkey hen, with large brood, will
work industriously over a large area
In one day, ana they will consume hum
dreds of insects. During an entire
season the useful work so performed
will be very great. A flock of hens on
range will find all the in sect food de-
sired, and will need no aid from the
owner This is well enough as it APP
pears, and saves expenses, but to their
credit should be given the destruction
of insects. If some correct estimate of
the number of insects destroyed by one
hundred fowls could be made. for one
year, the result would be astonishing.
Ii we could put it at half peck for
each hen, it might not be too large.
but allowing only two quarts of insects
for each hen, during one year, and we
have over three bushels of insects de-
stroyed by one hundred fowls. This
means fewer insects to be killed the
next season. We have seen a brood OF
turkeys clean out all the worms in a
tobacco field in one day, and though
the adult potato beetles are injurious
TO fowls, yet the hens viii eat the eggs
and grubs of the beetles If given an
opportunity. The destruction of in-
sects should always be considered in
The matter OF poultry management
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-01-09
HE FoREsAW THE CONSPIRACY

Senator Stewart, in the great silver
debate In 1898. was keen enough to
foresee the result of the demonetiZa-
tiOn Of silver. He anticipated a cur
rency based upon gold and also pre-
dicted the present plans of the admin
istration on the money question. The
following extract of his speech clearly
shows that he apprehended the subse-
quent outrage:
1.-The banks want permission to is
sue their notes UP to the par of the
bond 1t is supposed that this class of
money would not endanger the reserve.
But at all times it is the movement of
prices Of commodities internationally
dealt in that makes it necessary for
gold to be sent from any one country
to any other. Any increase in the
quantity of mOney-in the number Of
dollars-in the country, Of whatever
material these dollars may be compos-
ed, will have the effect OF raising pric-
es to a higher level than the level
abroad. An increase in the number of
bank notes placed III circulation would
have precisely the same effect i'll send
ing out gold that an increase of treas
ury notes issued under the Sherman
bill or any other form OF money would
have. Gold would De doing no more
service In this country than would a
money exclusively national, and there
fore the cheapest and most adYanta
geOus thing for merchants to send out
in payment for imports would be gold
rather than products, because the range
of prices of products of International
trade would be higher here than
abroad.
Il will venture the statement, that if
the United States government were to-
| day to issue $500, 600, 600 of bonds, while,
should them all be taken by European
bankers and money lenders. it would
be on condition that the gold should be
demanded In installments only and at
considerable intervals of time apart.
| Suppose they send us $50, 1000, 600 as q
| first lnstallment. This would tend to
depress prices abroad and raise them
here, with the result that our impOrta-
tions would increase, and we would
shortly send back to Europe in pay
ment for those goods the very $50 ,0O0,-
600 we had received for the bonds. The
| Europeans would then pay the second
| instailment on the bond contract with
the same 50,00O,0OO with which they
paid the first. And so the perform
ance would go on until the entire $780,
100000 had been sappIed-all with the
$50,OOO,OO0 of actual gold-while the
taxpayers would be saddled with inter.
est CT the entire bond issue"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-01-09
TRANSFORMING DAYS.
& Story Of Edwin Booth That Is Good
Enough to Be True.

Oace during the days of his early strug-
gles, says the Baltimore American, Booth
WIS Transforming down in Virginia at a
place called Lees Landing. Tneimprovisod
theater was a tobacco warehouse, and it Iyas
crowded by the planters from miles around.
Booth ana his companions had arranged to
take the weekly steamer expected to call
late at night, and between the acts were
busy packing up. The play was "Tne Mer-
chant of Venice,'' and they were Just going
on fer the trial scene when they heard o
whistle and the manager came running in
to say the steamer had arrived and would
leave again in. ten minutes. As that was
their only chance for a week OF getting
away, they were in terrible quandary.
The narrative proceeds:
''If we explain Matters, said the man
ageT, "they viii think they arc being cheat
ea and we shall have free fight. The oaly
thing IS for you fellows to get up some sort
OF 4 natufal-like irnpr6mptu ending of the
piece, and ring down the curtain. Go right
ahead, ladies and gentlemen, and take
your cue from Ned here" and he
hurried away to get the luggage
aboard. Ned, of course, was Bas-
sanlo, and he resolved to RELY on
the ignorance Of the Virginians of those
days to pail him through all right. So.
h--SAA S~Nl N'So- 90 4Id5 S4CS. WHO was DONG
Shylock, began TO sharpen his knife on his
boot, Booth walked straight up to him and
solemnly said: You are bound to have
your pound of flesh, are youa"
You bet your life!" said Ruggles.
Snow, / Il mako you one more offer, ~ con-
tinued Booth SIN addition to this big bag of
ducats, II throw in two kegs Of niger
head terback, shotgun and two of the
best coon dogs in the State.n
Pm blarmed if L don't do It'll" responded
Shylock, much to the appreciation of the
audience, who We're tobacco-raisers and
cOon-hUnters to man.
"And TO show that there's no i'll feeling,
put il Portia, GWEN wind up with Viz
ginny reel -
When they got on board of the steamer.
the captain, who had witnessed the conclu-
sion of the play, remarked:
''I'd like to see the whole of that plav
some time, gentlemen. I'm harmed if I
thought that fellow Shakespeare lad so
much snap in hi,nn
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-01-09
UP IN A BALLOON.
Things Seen and Experienced Willie
Flying Through the Clouds

Flying Through the Clouds.
To some extent rain retards upward prog
ress, but have made number of ascen-
sions in the face of storms, writes Prof.
King in the Nashville American Snow.
however, is much more of an obstacle. and
IN short time win accumulate upon the
top of the balloon sufficiently to drive it to
the earth. The clouds are sometimes as
much as three thousand feet from top 70
bottom when the sky is entirely overcast.
Often even above such body OF cloud may
be seen smaller clouds with clear spaces in
between. When within one of these spaces
the sensation is that of being in a vault.
/ With the solid, snowy clouds below you
and the smaller clouds below you being by
perspective brought close around, it ap-
pears as if you were in cavern.
/ have been above the clouds during a
snow-storm, and the light of the moon
shining so brightly through the rarified air
produced an illumination rather super.
natural. l have very frequently passed
through frozen clouds. This is where vapor
has fallen below the freezing point and
been concealed into a substance resembling
-four in appearance. This falls, and ir
doing so reaches a higher temperature
where the small particles are aggregated
into flakes of snow.
Some clouds, however, present very much
the appearance of a vail, and objects on the
earth can be distinctly discerned from a DO
sition above them.
l have never known of an instance in
! which a balloon was hit by lightning The
thunder does not make a perceptibly great
ernoise than when you are on the ground
The sound proceeds from the upper layers
of clouds, as does also the rain; and in
many cases, when the lower strata appear
very violent, perfect quiet there reigns, ex.
cept for such motion as is produced by the
rain falling through from above. The up
per currents are the most active, and cy-
clone or wild storm is perhaps produced
according as those upper currents descend
| to or remain above the earth.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-01-09

You couldn't think OF anything
PAD about Ady that had semhIance
OF truth, so you just opened your hlarst-
cd pop NAV and told blamed lie.'
Thus spake Hutch, the gent who
Enterprises in water far colder than
the abyss which will surely be his fu-
ture landing. We don't especially care
TO mar the dignity Of Ady's senatorial
boom and hence for the sake of Gu.
phemism we will say he didn't exactly
sell out but by reason of emoluments
received, he didn't prosecute as becomes
an able prosecutor but became aware
of the fact that urgent business was
awaiting him in distant climes. Oh
yes that man Ady is an honorable
and "unstained" rascal. We mean. he
is one of the Cresset's successful bus
mess men,"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-01-09

WHY DON'T the c.ti2ens OF the com.
munity get together and petition con
gress to make an appropriation to the
Cresset for encouraging the sugar IN.
dustry? Were it not for the Cresset
and the English syndicate We fear that
Barber county and the State of Kansas
would be visited by hard times. Atali
hazard, make the appropriation quick!
Both of these magnanimous institu-
tons might give up the ghost and quit
the country cold. By all means give
'em bounty and thus avoid this dire
full and threatening catastrophe.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-01-09
ATTACKED BY WEASELS.
Battle Waged by These Fierce Little Ami
mails Against Three Men.

mails Against Three Men.
George Gray, an employe of Farmer Bull,
near Pine Mill, Pa, recently went out in one
of the farmers fields to haul away some stone
piles that had been lying in the field since
last fall. He had thrown on the drag but
few stones from one of the piles when
weasel jumped out of the pile. Gray kicked
at the animal as it was passing him, and the
fierce little brute turned on the man and
sprang for his throat. Its teeth closed on
Gray's flannel shirt at his chest. In tearing
the weasel loose it set its teeth into Gray's
arm, tearing the flesh down for three
inches The taste of blood seemed to in
crease the fury of the weasel, and Gray had
all he could do to keep it from sprin ging on
his throat He at last succeeded in stunning
the weasel by a kick, and was about to
hurry to the house to have his wounds
dressed when six other weasels, one after
the other, trooped from the stone pile and
made a combined attack on Gray. They
swarmed upon him, biting and tearing his
flesh on the legs, arms and body. Fearful
for his life, Gray turned sand fed, followed
by the weasels, which chased him clear to
the house, over half a mile away, inficting
still further wounds with their sharp teeth.
Gray's shouts for help brought son Of
his employer and another man out of a
barn, where they were threshing, and the
Two ran to Gray's aid. Even these rein
forcements did not daunt the weaseEs, and
before they were routed, which was not
until three of them were killed, they had
inflicted many ugly wounds on their foes,
and the three men were covered with blood
from head to foot. Gray has been confined
to his bed ever since. 1t is well known that
weasels will fight to the death when cor
nered, or viii attack a sleeping person, but
for them to fight three men in an open field,
assuming the aggressive at the start, is
! something unheard of before in this region
OF hunters and trappers
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-01-09

The fee and salary law passed by the
last legislature has been declared nm
constitutional by the courts. This
was probably anticipated and intended
by it's trainers. Most of the laws pass
ed by congress or the state legislatures
are apparently passed for buncombe
and purposely left in such condition
that they can be rendered imperative.
What is the use in continuing to sepd
lawyers to the Legislature and con-
gress if they won't or can't make laws
that will stand in the courts.-State
Journal, tRep.l