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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-04-17

THEGreensburg Times several weeks
ago got off its feed and exploded in this
manner:
Harry Lands from this district who
voted to let Kiowa county farmers
travel 100 miles by wagon and team in
order 10 attend court in
chambers, was not chosen as one of the
clerks to the appellate court but got it
IN the neck where he deserved it.. =
we understand our interests were
snapped OH for prospective job.
The Times dislike for Harry grows
out of the redistricting of the state.
Judicially. From its unwarranted and
Rroundless attack on Mr.. Lands we
are led to believe that the Times favor
ed the Bone bill-a bill that would have
resulted detrimental to the interest of
the common people. Harry was there
TO guard the interests of the people of
the state and to preserve the organiza-
ton of the peoples party and was OPP
posed to depriving us of Judge Mckay
who was just elected last fall, hence
the Times sets up kick which sayors
of hot headed republicanism. The fact
is that the state had TO be redlstricted
IN some manner as we had too many
judicial districts and as a matter of
course and right the large districts
would fall in the sparsely settled west
ern counties, thing to which no rea-
sonable minded man can take excep-
ton. The statement that Lands
snapped anything off for prospective
job. . or anything else is false and its
author is altogether inexcusable. We
challenge the Times to offer an iota Of
proof to substantiate itself in its un-
manly insinuations.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-04-17
IDLE FIELDS III ThE souTH.
Plenty of Suitable Land Ready for CuIta-
Yation in South Carolina.


yation in South Carolina.
The principal cause of the abandon
ment of so much rice land in South
Carolina is the lack of capital, due to
heavy losses sustained by the planters
during the late war. They were left
without working capital and the
meanE to employ labor, and freshets
had broken the bikes and filed up the
canals and bitches so that it would
have required a considerable outlay of
money to have put the rice planta-
lions in their former condition. There
is no lack of the best rice lands in the
state, with good water facilities,
which can, according to the Boston
Herald, be purchased for merely
nominal sum. Another reasoL why SO
much of the rice land has been aban-
doned is the scarcity and inefficiency
of the negro labor, the good labor hav-
ing been drawn away by other indus
tries which afford better pay. There
is every opportunity for the intro
duction of improved machinery, which
would do away with much of the in
efficient labor in the building up and
repairing Of bikes, canals, ETC.. and
IOlAAtt ei1oO Oc uS6O Lu0
preparation of the land and the cult
ration and harvesting of the crop. 1t
is not unusual to find plantations OF
ten thousand acres, with perhaps half
of this amount of land available for
rice culture. in a narrow strip along
the river front from a half mile to a
mile in width, and it is quite possible
for anyone starting in with sufficient
capital to secure the finest rice lands
1T very low price, and by the intro
duction of improved methods, and es-
pecially by the introduction of i'm,
proved machinery, to be largely indie.
pendent of the scarcity and inefficiency
of the labor. The cultivation of rice
is very expensive undertaking, and
ks rule it can be carried on much
more economically on large scale
than on a small one, and probably for
the production of no other purely ag.
ricultural crop are capital and strict
business meth DDS SO necessary as for
the production of rice by the method
of water culture, of which there is an
abundant supply, which comes down
laden with the most fertile portions
of the soils OF the up country. 1t
would seem that here was fine field
for the employment of dormant north
err capital, which if rightly applied
would bring in large returns.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-04-17


WE hear so much from republican
politicians about the incompetency of
populist officials, especially IN such of.
fees where an attorney is required.
The Kansas City Star of recent date
contains a dispatch wherein Archie
Williams, the general solicitor of the
Union Pacific railroad, relates how a
common horse doctor was nominated
and elected attorney general OF the
state, that too, when such men as AS
sociate Justice Brewer, 4. J. Jenkins,
Williams himself, and numerous 9TH
er reputable lawyers were candidates
before the republican convention. The
pops may have had an occasional in
competent officer but we never elected
horse doctor, who never knew that
there was such thing as law, to the
Office of attorney general.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-04-17

UP to date the Kingman Leader
Courier has not accepted our challenge
to produce evidence in support of its
charge that Jerry Simpson sold his
quota of seeds, public documents, ETC.,
and pocketed the proceeds. OF course,
the dirty scoundrel knew he was lying
when he published the article. and he
Is now cowardly sneaking off like a
whipped cur. There are several other
papers that have made like statements
and our challenge applies to them as
well. Gentlemen, how do you like to
admit to the public that you are noto-
riOus liars?
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-04-17

The investigation of Warden Chase
and the penitentiary is proving to be
another republican farce. This inves-
tigating business is costing the state
of Kansas great deal of hard cash
which could be put to far better use.
This thing of creating an investigating
committee simply to give some fellows
job IS getting monotonous and almost
intolerable. After all this redeem
ing" is in full blast 1t will be in order
to raise the tax levy to fill up the state
treasury
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-04-17

WE are glad to note the resignation
of Chief Justice Horton. His success
sor is Judge David Martin of Atchi-
son. Whether Martin Will prove as
corrupt time alone will tell. One thing
- certain, he can't be moreso. Horton
will engage in an extensive practice as
salaried attorney for wealthy corpor-
alton. This shows plainly that the
people lave been domineered by cor
poratiOn tools Martin is also a Mis-
souri, Pacific attorney.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-04-17
DROPPED OUT OF THE SKY.

The Academy of Sciences Discovers a
Rare GIeteor:te.
The academy of sciences is in posses
sion of q treasure that it has made fire.
quent efforts to secure before and
which is of deep interest to scientists.
The specimen is a meteorite recently
found in Butte county.
Several years ago, says the San Fran
cisco Chronicle, large meteorite was
seen to fall near Oroville, and parties
under the lead of DR.. Hardness, of the
academy of sciences, and others made
extensive researches for the precious
celestial wanderer, but no one found it
until lately. It was Immediately pur-
chased by the academy, and DR.. Hark-
ness considers it one of the finest spec
linens of the kind extant.
The irregular mass of meteoric iron
weighs fifty-three pounds, is fourteen
inches in length, six inches thick and
ten inches high, and in shape some
what resembles small ham What
makes the specimen Of more than ordi-
nary interest and value is the remark
ably clear Development of the Wild.
nannstattian figures by the applica-
ton of acid These figures, first dis.
covered by Widmannstatt in 1908, are
sections fplanes of cleavage or of crys-
talline structure along which segrega-
zion or chemical change of some sort
has taken place and whose form and
position with reference to each other
are in accordance with the laws gov
erning the development of crystalline
substances belonging to the isometric
system.
But few meteorites have been found
in this state, the San Bernardino me-
teorite found in 1880 being the largest
and weighing one hundred and twenty
pounds. 1t is the property of the state
mining bureau and is now on exhibi-
ton at the worlds fair. The Ell Do
RADIO meteorite, found in 1870, weighed
eighty-five pounds and was the first
discovered in the state. The origin Of
these fragments, which contain mete.
ORIG iron, nickel, cobalt, silica, sulphur
and other substances found on the
earth. is disputed, but the generally
accepted theory is that they are pieces
of material thrown off by planets.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-04-17
Merits OF the Esauimau Dog.

Lieut.. Peary was asked the other
day what kind of dogs he would takc
north with him. He replied: The
EsquiInau dogs which we brought back
on our return from our former expedi.
ton. Any other dog than an Esqui-
mau dog will not last three days in the
cold weather there, while the Esquimau
will endure a degree of cold that is
surprising. Some of the dogs had be-
fore would travel for three or four
days without eating food, and they
slalzed their thirst with the snow. A
pound of pemican a day to each was
thc usual rations. They do not feel
the cold and will not seek shelter ex.
cept when the wind is blowing.
have seen them curl up to sleep, APP
parently perfectly comfortable, on the
snow, with no covering, when the
thermometer was forty degrees below
zero. Any other dog that 1 know Of
could not endure this"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-04-17

WHEN the income tax law was
declared unconstitutional, the decision
OF the people was reversed and their
hopes frustrated. 1t is time that the
people reverse the courts. 1t is time
that this judicial tyranny be severely
dealt with.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-04-17

hcro'S TO d0rt
NY theme is one that's been too long unsung-
! sing the woman who can hold her tongue.
AT evening circle, picnic or high tea
An iact wherever she may chance to be,
ana listen to the gossip of the town
How Mrs. has turned her cashmere gown.
AND MI has cut young DR.. G
For telling tales OF f1irty Widow D.
And Lawyer e is smitten with Miss F.
And Deacon G is fast becoming deaf,
ana Oi much more-as IL she never heard
VI al the ceaseless chat single word
ana who-not only at such times as these
mean lawn parties, sewing bees and teas
But at all seasons, when it's for the best
Can Keep her thoughts close prisoned in hey
breast,
ana though spark may glitter in her eve
10 speech unworthy 1t ne'er give reply.
Alas alasl let no one look at me,
For with regret own am not she.
Were I, really shouldn't think it wrong.
For once, to celebrate myself in song
But she must be somewhere, so had sung
Ihe wondrous woman who can hold her toncue
Detroit Free Presa
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-04-17

BY special invitation the bankers at
tend the cabinet meeting. Ordinary
people must keep off the grass.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-04-17

THE Taylor case terminated in a
hung jury. 1t Is openly charged that
some of the jurymen were bribed. The
case will be tried again.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-04-17

THE only railroads of North Carolina
not in the hands of a receiver are tho, Q
in which controlling interest is owned
by the state. Another argument in
favor of government ownership.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-04-17

THE way to lessen crime Is to give
idle men employment. Men on the
verge of starvation will do anything to
perpetuate their existence.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-04-17

The Kingman Democrat has suspend
ed publication. 1t was an ardent sup
porter of Morrill,, Long ct al and this
is the legitimate outgrOwtb.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-04-17
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.

PRESIDENT. 80. GROVER CLEVELAND
United States Senators I -. 80. l.. Baker
of Kansas, fW. A PETER
Member of Congress. nth Dist &c. l. Long
Judge of oath judicial Dist.... C. W. Mckay
State Senator. 3Sth District 49,. Fl. :. Lands
Representative, e0th District. It. P. Wilson
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-04-17

Any populist has reason to doubt his
or her identity as such, if he is not in
vestigated at an expense to the state
of few thousand.-Ashland Clipper.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-04-17
EXCHANGES.

A Philadelphia paper says there are
still a few honest politicians in the
land" Most of them are III the Gene
teries.-Newspape- Union.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-04-17

There may be something IN name,
but the appointment of A. G. Merritt
for grain Inspector strikes the Abilene
Reflector as decidedly lacking in merit.
Wichita Beacon.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-04-17

The ChiIdren's Room,
How peaceful at night
The sleeping children lie.
Each gentle breath so light
Escaping like sighi
bow tranquil seems the room how fair
10 one who softly enters therel
Whose hands are those unseen.
That smooth each little bedp
Whose locks are those that lean
Over each pillowed head?
whose lips caress the boys and girlsp
Whose fingers stroke the golden curlsp
Whose are the yearning eyes,
And whose the trembling teaP9
Whose heart is this that cries,
Beseeching God to hear?
whose but the mothers, in whose face
Love shows its sweetest dwelling placep
Her hopes in beauty bloom.
ana heaven sends down its light
Which fingers in the room
Where mother says: GOOD nish4 -
Soft treading by the sleepers there.
her very presence seems a prayeri
Buffalo Commercial
The Word He Didn't Say.
When we went to campmeetin' had word to
say
But kept a-pullin' roses till they all was in
the wayi
An did say: Here's a red uni an this vio
let-ain't it blue?"
But what wanted most to say was-"ain,t an
sweet as your
Irecollect, twas rainini-no, pears ike the sun
was out,
Fer seen your curls a-shinin' on your neck An.
roundabout;
An the moon was-no. she wasn'ti-don't think
the moon had riz!
pof
turn that head O. hisp
When we went to campmeetin'-here goesi !
had word
To say 10 you, and that was les the one tina,
wasn't heard!
But, since you amt here listenin', with them
bright curls round your brow,
III say, 1love you'll an'-an-an' I'm loyin' a
you nowi
Prank L Stanton, in Atlanta Coustttutioa
Keep Your Eye on the Compass.
Keep your eye on the compass
II the sea runs high,
And the oceans fnky pillows
Mock the blackness Of the sky;
When beating up against the winde
So pttiless and strong.
Keep your eye on tie compass
And you can't go wrong.
Keep your eye on the Compass,
And your white light trimmed,
Though the moon hide In the heaynna
And the stars are dimmed:
Though the voyage may be loaely
And the way seem long,
Keep your eye on the compass
And you can't 60 wrong.
Keep your eye on the compass.
1t VIII guide you DER the deep,
Win show you where the north star q
And where the flowers sleep
iA the sunny south No matter
II the way seems long,
Keep your eye on the compass
And you can't go wrong
-Cy Warman, in u. 2. 61A
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-04-17

We presume the Supreme Court is
packed against the greenback also
Look cut for a suit 10 be brought.
claiming the greenback unconstitutlon-
aI.-Missouri World.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-04-17

Oklahoma will be a fertile field for
the money-loaner. The legislature
has repealed all usury laws and any
rate of interest which may be named
is legal.-Harper Advocate.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-04-17

If those who have so recently become
converted to free coinage Of silver will
give the same thought and unprejudc-
ed investigation to land, labor, and
transportation, together with the mon.
ey question in it's entIrety,a las they gave
to the silver question, they will become
as enthusiastic in the support of those
principles as they are in the support of
sllver.-Salina Union.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-04-17

TWAS generally supposed that Gov.
Morrill, had evidence enough to Dust
Dick Chase, but it seems to be the gov
ernor has relied mainly on ex-convicts
to accomplish party demands. Chase
will probably get fired. If he does
honest people will never believe him
guilty. The whole business is one OF
the rottenest cases of political investi-
CATION we ever heard of and disgrace
to the great state of Kansas.-Kiowa
Review.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-04-17

The Legislature has adjourned and
will not convene for two years hence.
The city elections are over. The time
has now arrived to talk business and
get down to practical work Western
Star.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-04-17
PRETTY POEMS.


Loves Language DECEASED.
When golden speech was given man,
Fair Venus then proposed plan,
That poets through all coming time
Might sing their loves in jingling rhyme
She called the bluest ether skies"
And rhymed them with a maiden's "eyea;S
She called the tender passion '1ove,"
And typif1ed It by dove.
She took the worlds supremest bliss
And rhymed 1t with a maiden's kiss:
She framed a word for each caress
The sweetest of them all was yes"
This was truly wise arrangement
But soon came days OF cold estrangemenA
And now we find that even "wife''
occasionally rhymes with strife"
For when man now takes mate
II some times, later, rhymes with sshataS
since love tales now are mostly told
To music made by jingling gold
The world no longer knows the 1oy
Of Venus and her smiling boy;
1t worships. in stupidity,
Not Cupid, but cupidity.
-MacGregor Jenkins, in Brooklyn Life
The Royal Test.
"A king who honors his own word as If It wesa
ais God's"-Tennyson.
Great was the singer who sang,
And greater the song that he gave:
Nobly the music outrang;
This is the truth that we have:
Such is the soul of king,
(Be it thy friends or thine.)
Whose word is his sacred thing.
Accounted by him divine.
He is the king, teach,
though born Of the throne or the sod
Who doth but honor his speech
AS If 1t were said by his God.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward. in Youtb,.
Companion
1 Cannot Tell.
a cannot tell
II all these fever'd longings
For something that to-day's walks do not bo,a
Would be stilled in having them, or weary
when the tinsel gins to show beneath thu
gold
Or mayhaps when our minds scope do be
wider
Our noblest thoughts these yearnings will dis
pei
And read brighter message in the stars
cannot tell
I cannot tell
Yet If beyond lifes shadows
Some sweet hope may lie
Or if the eyes we love will beam the hr,ohte,
"hen the tears they weep for US be dry.
OF when this day has died away in shadows
Ana naught in all our future does seem well.
WIN tell our hearts "Ah, yesterday was fairI"
Il cannot tell
cannot tell
If the sweet wild roses
mat Hing their fragrance round my path to-
day,
Would be as sweet as If some one did not Iovs
me,
And turned the offerings OF my heart away.
OF, II some one whispered her more softly.
ana broke the magic Of my loves sweet spell.
my heart would turn in scorn or break in
anguish,
II cannot tell
g. w. Ogden. in Kansas CITY Star.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-04-17

The people own and operate the
roads, the schools, the Libraries, the
museums. the art galleries. the courts,
the parks, the postal system, the ships
of the navy, the armories, the forts and
the military reservations, the govern
ment printing bureau. the police sys-
tenn. the poorhouse system. the wafer
works and the street lighting systems
They operate under receiverships near.
ly one third the railway mileageof the
country, several trusts. and many cor
porations. But when it is asked that
they own and operate coal mines. rail
roads and street railways, telegraphs
and telephones, express, and other bus
mess. and the land. at once is heard the
cry 'paternalism. SOCIALISM. . IAN
archy,' or this demand Is called The
rawlings Of cTank.-Ottawa Journal
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-04-17

emoFest's Magazine. II you are unacquainted with
nerite, send for specimen copy drce), and
on VIII admit that seeing these THUMBS has put
1u in the way Of saving money by finding IN one
Agazns everything 70 satisfy the literary wants e
q whole family. -
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-04-17

Sol. Miller has swallowed it all and
accepted the appointment as a member
of the board of public works In his
paper he says: "When we refused the
other appointment it was said that we
did SO because we were mad. Now we
are asked to refuse another one, in or
der to be consistent. If we did so we
would be mad again, no doubt. But
we can't refuse this one. There is an
Atcaison man on the same board, and
we have to accept IN order to hold him
level" The tone of the Wichita Eagle
has also changed somewhat since Vic
tor Murdoch was forced into an APP
pellate court Wellington
Voice.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-04-17

1t looks as though the problem of
the unemployed was at last in fair
way of solution. A large number of
this class of citizens appear to have
gone into the business of robblng rail
road trains and employment will prob,
ably be afforded the remainder in
guarding against these depredations.
State Journal.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-04-17

The liberty loving American people
have succeeded for more than a hun
dred years in every contest against
wrong and oppression, and we have
faith in their ability 10 win III this
conflict Commoner.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-04-17

Now, ladies and gentlemen. we will
witness the greatest tumbling feat in
the history of circus performing. 1t is
the most stupendous exhibition on
earth, and consists of the republican
party defining its position on silver
Alva Review.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-04-17

The greatest crimes in America are
national crimes-crlmes that turn
American citizens out to Starve. steal
or beg; crimes that destroy manhood,
debauch pure womanhood, and murder
helpless children.-Topeka Advocate.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-04-17

There are thirteen candidates for as
sistant bank commissioner under Mr..
Jobes. Thirteen is an unlucky number
and if Mr.. Jobes is at all superstitious
he had better get Alex Terrell to make
it fourteen.-Anthony Bulletin.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-04-17
SOCIETIES..

ENSIGN ENCAMPME NT No g., /. q. o F
Meets first and third Friday of each month
Visiting Patriarchs cordially invited TO attend.
W. L. ROUSE,S. s. COAN, G. 7.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-04-17

y Why not dispense with the Iegisla-
lures and congress? Let the supreme
court make the laws-they cOnstrue
them to suit the money that's put up
and save the cost of the law.making
bodies to feed the poor bondholders!-
Pratt Union.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-04-17

Cy Leland reads the notice served
on him that he can't go 10 the national
convention with less interest this year
than usual. 1t has come earlier than
ordinarily, and there are two May
frosts to get show at tx C.Star.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-04-17

X K D ELDRED POST, No. ia, meets
vi III M I'd 4th Saturday in each month
ottbc court house in Medicine Lodge at p. NJ
Allcomrades cordially invited.
J. II. OWENS, PostCommander.
j W. ELDER, Adiutant.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-04-17
! cannot tell
Here's to Herf

g. w. Ogden, in Kansas City Star