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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-04-05
Care of Teeth.

There is nothing better for the
teeth than precipitated chalk favored
with wintergreen. Amy druggist can
prepare enough for five cents to last
two months. When the tongue is
white, and wthen maldorous foods
have been eaten, put a drop of tinc-
ture of myrrh on the brush. This
wild cleanse and put sweet taste in
the mouth. Frequent use of myrrh is
not advisable. Listerine is the best
mouth wash for general use. 1t is
harmless TO the teeth and an excel
lent disinfec tant for the gums. A
teaspoonful in "a gin of water is SUI.
ficient. If the simple practice is made
OF passing "a piece of dental floss, sew.
ing silk or thin elastic band between
the teeth after eating, the particles of
6ood would be dislodged, the mouth
would tbe clean, and the teeth pre-.
served. 1T is the decay of these slight
accumulations that destroys and dis
colors the enamel and taints the
breath. The best authority on dental
surgery Prescribes the daily use of
dental floss and hsterine, brushing
after each meal, in the morning and
before retiring with cool water All
using precipitated chalk not ofteler
than three times a week. To much
dentatrice and too vigorous brushing
causes the gums to recede from the
teeth. Chewing gum for ten minues
after eating is said "to help digestion,
and clean the dentine."
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-04-05
Hans and Fritz.

Hans and Fritz were two Deutschers
who lived side by side,
Far away from the world, its deceit and
its pride.
With their pretzels and beer their spare
moments were spent,
And the fruits of theiI labor were peace
and content.
Hans purchased horse of a neigbbor
one day.
And lacking part of the GELD-as
they say
Made call upon Fritz to solicit loan.
To help him to pay for his beautiful
roam.
Fritz kindly consented the money to
lend,
And readily gave the amount to his
friend;
to quote
"Berhaps it was bedder We make us a
nOte.''
The note was drawn up in their
primitive way
II, Hans, gets from Fritz feefty tol-
lars to-day
When the question arose, the note be-
ing made,
"Fich Won holds dot baper until it vas
paid?"
"You geeps dot" says Fritz, 'und den
you vii know
You owes me dot money! Says Hans /:
dot ish So"
Dot makes me remempers 1 haf dot to
bay.
Und l prings you der note und der
money some day.
month had expired, when Hans, as
agreed,
Paid back the amount, and from debt
became freed.
Says Fritz, Now dot Zettles u.s." Hans
replies "Yaw,
Now who dakes dot baper accordings
by law?"
geepS dot. now, aind't it?" says Fritz;
''den you see
Ialyays remembers you bald dot to me-"
Says Hans. ''Dot ish so, it vas now
shust SO blain
Dot l knows vot to do ven l porrows
again."
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-04-05
A Page OF Hisf0rE

If We heed the lessons of history
we will not try to conquer the
Philippines. To own and hold
those islands 10000 miles would be
bad financial investment even tho
possession conld be obtained without
bloodshed. Read a page of history.
Algeria hes cost France $50 times
the net profit of its annual revenues.
Madagascar, up to 1896, cost the
same nation $85, 5,OOO, 900 and there is
nothing really to show in return.
Tonquin has produced mainly disease
and constant slaughter. The effort
to keep San Domingo" ''cost France
more dearly than all the crimes of
her great revolutions" And 80,
too, he sums up In q striking state
ment the effect marvelousIy ruin
GUS of a recent we'll remembered
African war upon another European
power. "Abyssinia," sshas cost
Italy $115, 100000 and thousands of
lives, or more than enough to drain
the Pontine marshs and cover the
mothers country's dry hills with
fruit trees and forest trees, and i'll
that ancient sunny land with
prosperous, contented and happy
homes"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-04-05

Two t.-iGes >.s - - b. thc i'm
perialistic Republicans who defen d
the Mckinley policy of benevolent
assimilation in justification of awar
against a people whose crime was
asking and fghting for freedom, towit:
One to spread the Christian religion
the other to open up new fields for
America commerce and American en-
terprise. Ii the Christian religion
ard commercial enterprise must rely
on such malevolent and Fictitious
agencies as are now employed in the
subjngation of the Filipinos to pro-
mote their spread and growth, then
indeed ciyiliz alton has reached the
elimination of its possibilities ori3 a
failure, and the b0asted enlightened
and human fellowship and broth er-
hood of the Anglo-SaXon race is wal.
lowing in the mire of mediaevaI
times .-AtcI ison Champion.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-04-05
A Lie About SnaiIs.

The snail is blessed with great pow
er of vitality. A case is recorded of an
Egyptian desert snail which came to
life upon being immersed in warm
water after having passed four years
glued to card in the English Mus
cum. Some species in the collect
ion of certain naturalist, revived
after they had apparently been dead
for fifteen years; and snails having
been frozen for weeks in solid blocks
of ice. having recovered upon being
thawed ont. The eggs are as hard
to destroy as the snail itself. They
seem perfectly Indifferent to freez-
ing, and have been known to pr I'VE
productive after having been shrivel-
ed mp in an oven to the semblance
Of sand.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-04-05
STAHLEYS NEGLIGENCE
AND A LEGISLATIVE BLUNDER
MAY CAUSE TROUBLE.

Section of the Law Giving Mayors of Cities
of First Class Power to Appoint Muuici-
pal Officers Repealed.
Topeka, Kan, March. 30-Governor
Stanley has been too busy during the
past few weeks to attend to public
business. One entire week was devo-
ted to his private law practice in Wich-
ita; the McNall removal was 80 press
|! ing and Cy Leland and Lit Crum
have taken up so much of his time
thst the executive Office has been
permitted to run itself by default.
By legislative blunder a bill
which was supposed to be purely
socal was passed which prohibits
mayors of cities of the first class from
appointing marshals, fire msrshsls,
city engineers, street commissioners
and subordinates in all of these de-
partments. The passage of the law
may result in depriving Topeka.
wyandotte, Leavenworh, Atchison,
wichita and Fort Scott of the ap-
po1ntive officers named.
Largely to guard against such mis-
carriages of legislation the constitution
provides that all bills must receive the
governors approval in writing before
they become laws. Had Governor
Stanley taken the trouble of reading
the bill through the blunder would not
have occurred. But the governor was
occupied by more important matters
pertaining to his private law practice
and the removal of Webb McNall, so
he signed the bill aud it became law.
Probably Mr.. Stanley relied on the
lobby to instruct him what bills to veto
and the one in question not being one
of the number the fault is, of course,
the lobby's and not Stanley's.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-04-05
Death I'm Various Forms

A man came running into this office
and said that man had swallowed a
two foot rule and died by inches.
The editor started out at once to learn
further particulars of the death, and
meeting one Of our doctors told him
about the case. He said that's moth
ing; that he had a patient once who
swallowed thermometer and died by
degrees. A couple of bystanders
just then Clipped In. One of them
said it reminded him of fellow down
in Topeka who swallowed a pistol and
went off easy. The other one said he
had a friend in McLouth who took a
quart of applejack and died in good
spirits.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-04-05
FAuRE,s SUCCESSOR.
Rev President OF France Ii short and
Jolly aud Very Honest.

Emile Loubet, the seventh president
OF the third French republic, recently
elected to fill the vacancy made by
the death OF the late President Faure
- by no means man of genius or
marked ability as a statesman. He
u noted chiefly for his sterling hon.
esty and his amiabflIty, two charac-
teristics which in France are suffi-
cient to attract attention in public
life.
N. Loubet is short and rather stout
In figure. His hair and closely crop.
ped pointed beard are rather gray. He
Is 60 years old. The one thing you
remember longest after seeing him 10
his clear, steady, honest blue eyes. His
parents were well to do bourgeois
folks, and he was sent to study law
at -Aontelimar. He became q good
lawyer, drifted into politics and in
1876 was elected as a Conservative Re-
publican to the chamber of deputies.
de was made a senator in 1885.
About this time NJ. Loubet had the
good fortune to gain the friendship
and confidence of Carnot, and to this
10 due much of his subsequent success.
he became a cabinet member in 1886,
and in 1892 he was called to reorgan-
ize the cabinet. He retired in 1893
untouched by the Panama scandals,
but after the political sky had cleared
he again entered public life.
N. Loubet is no diplomat. His hon
esty is Of the blunt, straightforward
kind which allows him to do nothing
that hints at double dealing, and he
10 frank to a degree. Democracy is
another of his characteristics. Among
the many stories told of the new pres
tdent is one which we'll illustrates this
trait.
Several years ago, when he arrived
In Paris one night to assume the pre-
miership, he was met at the railroad
terminus by an exceedingly well
dressed and important looking gentle
man whom he It once assumed to be
one of the superior officials of the
ministry.
The gentleman in question, having
greeted the new premier, informed
him that his carriage was waiting and
conducted him TO it. AS soon as NJ.
Loubet had taken his place he pulled
the skirts of his coat aside in order
TO make room beside him for his COM
panion. Noticing, however, that the
latter was aDout to shut the door
without getting in, he inquired why
he did not enter.
"I am going to ride on the box, your
exceliency," said the stranger.
Nonsense, not a bit of it," exclaim-
ed M. Loubet. you'll get wet. Come
inside"
"but, your eXcellency -
Come along! / insist upon it!"
The stranger thereupon took his
seat beside the new prime minister,
who was not at all disturbed when he
discovered that his companion was
nothing but one of the footmen of tho
department.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-04-05
WHRTHKR on NO.
Some Superstitions 70 which the Fem.
tninc Mind Ii Attached.

Perhaps of all superstitions the ones
concerning marriage are the longest
to die. In some part of England q
girl settles the question of her fate by
taking a tumfbaer of water from q
stream flowing in southerly direc.
tion. She borrows a ring from some
wife, suspends it over the glass by q
hair from her own head, and il the
ring hits the side of the glass she will
die an old maid. If it turns quickly
round she will be married once; If
slowly, twice.
In Hull, instead of the usual piece
OF wedding cake under the pillow q
bladebone of a rabbit is chosen, nine
pins are stuck into it, and then it 10
placed beneath the pillow, when the
object of the sleeper's affection is sure
90 appear.
AT Burnley wedding ring is put
into the posset during a. marriage
feast, and the first unmarried person
in whose cup it is found will be mar.
ried before many weeks are past.
To make sure of a lovers affection
you should, if you were an English
girl, take a crooked bone from the
in side of a frog, which, when cleaned
WIN hiiSu OsCf tnC OIl JOIlu
eve, and then ground finely and mixed
with the aforesaid lovers food, will
render his love undyfng for the one
who administers the powder.
To look at the first new moon Of
the year Through new silk hand.
kerchief is another method of finding
out how soon you viii be married,
for as many moons as you see multi.
piled through it shows you how many
years will pass before that event.
Should red rose bloom early IN
the garden 1T is a sure token OF an
early marriage and a long and happy
life, with no quarrels. In Scotch folk
lore many virtues are ascribed to
the rose. girl who has many low
ers and wishes to find out which OF
them She win marry, takes a rose
leaf for each of them, and, naming
each leaf after one of the lovers, she
watches them float down a stream
TILL one after another sinks. The one
which disappears last will be her
future husband.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-04-05
Los. on Hi. own Trick.

II don't play it and don't approve
OF 1T, but a recent poker story from
Lansing reminds me of am incident
There few years ago. and with this
prelude a Detroit railway man tells
the STORY.
The scene was in the upper STORY
OF the hotel, five men sitting in the
game and several looking on. Among
the players was "a lawyer of this city
whose name would be recognized
throughout the state. He had cold
deck on his knee to be introduced
when a rich jack pot was at stake. BY
shuftlng the cards in use and then
making a. deft change before dealing
he would have four aces. One sof Che
outsiders saw the trap, slyly abstrict-
ed rhe fixed deck and substituted an
other. When the time came for the
coup the lawyer made the change
without detection, neglected to look
art his cards the first round and made
a stiff raise as he lifted his hand.
He let out gasp, threw the caasis
face up on the table and shouted:
Gentlemen, decline to have any
thing more to do with the game. Some
body's been monkeying with the
cards! !"-Detroft Free Fress.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-04-05
INGERsOLL ON MRS. PLACE
Thinks Her Execution VIII be a
Disgrace.

CHICAGO, Ill.,-Colonel Robert G..
lngersoll, when asked what he
thought Of Governor Roosevelt's
refusal to commute the sentence of
Mrs. Place to life imprisonment. said:
II think the refusal OF Governor
Roosevelt to commute the sentence
vi hars Piaceis a disgrace to the state.
What spectacle of a man killing q
woman-taking poor, paid, fright
ened woman and strapping her to q
chair and then arrange the apparatus
so she can be shocked to death
Many call this a Christian country.
A good many people who believe in
hell would naturally feel it their
duty to kill wretched insane
woman.
Society has right to protect
itself, but this can be done by i'm
prisonment AMI it is NOR human to
put criminal in a cell than in a
grave. Capital punishment does
not prevent murder, and sets an ex-
ample-an example by the state
that is followed by it's citizens. The
state murders its enemies and the
citizen murders his. Any punish
ment that degrades the punished
must necessarily degrade the one
inficting the punishment. No pun
lshment should be inflicted by q
human being that could not be in
flicted by gentleman.
The great novel on which Count
folsoi has been spending the last
three years, has been secured for The
Cosmopolitan and will appear in the
April number. 1t is story of three
kinds of mans love, and is said by
those who have been permitted to see
the manuscript to be by all odds the
most powerful novel ever written by
Tolsoi. 1t is illustrated by Faster
max, famous Russian artist. It will
unquestionably be the literary event
of 1899.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-04-05

McNALL the best superintendent
of insurance the state has ever had
was the first officer to be turned out
by Stanley. McNall saved Kansas
people several hundred thousand
dollars; but Stanley don't want a
man to save the peoples money.
That is why he was discharged. The
insurance corporations pressed the
Gov too hard, McNaIl examined them
and made them pay losses and kept
them from stealing. Stanley their
friend and pal has let the old liners
all in around the crib, aud the peo-
pie must look out for themselves
now.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-04-05

As the result of the adoption of a
Populist Democratic principle Kans-
as farmers can buy binding twine
this year at abou, s cents a pound
instead Of atout Is cts as heretofore.
Who can not see that these parties
really legislate in the interests of
the people. The twine will be made
at the state penitentiary and the
trust "annot control the out put as ii
will be sold direct to consumers.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-04-05

IT is evident that insurance
companies make immense profits, or
they could not pay such great losses.
Leland of New York receives $3.50 q
day from his "use and occupancy
policy" which he held on the Wind
sor hotel. Co operative insurance
is the solution of the insurance
problem. 1t is just, equitable and
can be had at exact cost.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-04-05

IT is certainlya bold, brazen political
step for the republicans to make an
0flice for the banker Johnson and put
him in at salary of $3.50 year i'll
spite of the fact that there was abso-
lutely no need of the extra judge and
if there was Johnson is entirely inca
pable of filing the position. Johnson
is admitted at the bar but has not
Iracticed even before Justice of the
peace. The people who pay this 81, 800
for the unnecessary services of an in-
competent official viii assert their
rights at the next election. A more
brszen thing has not been done in po-
litical history.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-04-05

AN unedited Republican paper ex-
presses the hope that ExGov. Leedy
will be more successful at mining than
he was as governor Of the state. OF
course the republican object in being
in politics is to make money. Leedy's
policy saved Kansas million dollars.
Stanley's has already cost the state
several hundred thousand. Leedy saw
ed for the state. Stanley saves for
Stanley and his political friends.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-04-05

ANOTHER excuse to give Repub-
llcan political tixers a place at the
public crib is found at the state
university. That is a Republican
institution and the Stanley legis-
lature gave it sbout twice as much
as the agricultural college whose
president is not a gold advocate.
Now eleven hsve been added to the
university pay roll. Chancellor
Shows salary was raised from S4 900
to $4,500, making It about $5 80 an
hour. The salaries of deans were
raised from S1,750 to 1000 and
s. ,250. Other professors and
assistants now get from 1000 to
81 ,9C0. The nav members added
to the faculty are not needed, but
some excuse must be found to get
jobs for favorites. It was not
necessary to increase the salaries
Shows services could have been
retained at the same salary aud the
$500 saved. Nor is be Sd poor that
he needs a donation. Every where
we see the high salaries raised. No
increase in jsnitor's wages is
mentioned. Republican politicians
are rich men aud thsv want to
make the rich richer. There is no
hope for the common people while
these money kings are upon the
throne.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-04-05
Slept Thirteen months.

The case is reported from San
Francisco, Of a Miss WILDER who has
slept for thirteen months. On the
night Of Feb. IL, 1897 she quarreled
with her lover James Dunphy, to
whom she was engaged. The next
morning she was found in the trance
in which she has been ever since.
The gas was turned on, and it il
thought that she attempted suicide.
She begins to sho Y signs OF return.
ing conciousness, aud the doctors
who have given her up again and
again, now have hopes OF hel
recovery.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-04-05
Queer Chinese Nuts.

The Ly-Chee nut has appeared
above the horizon as the latest ac-
cessory to the luncheon or dinner
party. 1t comes from China, and in
appearance, t:Aste and odor has all
the Orientalism of most such pro-
ducts. Besides being hard to obtain,
it is sufficiently dear to prevent its
becoming common, while 1T also pos
'sesses the virtue of being a decided
novelty.
But no hostess need fear that his
guests will consume too many Ly-
Chez nuts. to the exclusion of the
other viands on the table, for while
they taste as sandalwood sweetened
might be supposed to taste, two are
about as many as the ordinary palate
cares for.
Ly-Ohee nuts must be put on the ta-
BILE in their shells. In size and shape
they resemble the walnut, while the
shell is not unlike the shell of the but
ternut in respect to color and CORFU
cations; when pressed it crushes like
an egg shell. Besides its weird taste,
the Ly- Chez nut has a subtle and very
penetrating sweetness, which per-
fumes with an unmistakable odor
everything it comes in contact with.
Probabay the thing that makes a
mam feel the most foolish is to help
his wife hang out the clothes the day
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-04-05

LOOK about you and show apprecia-
tion to whom it is due. Perhaps your
next door neighbor is an extraordinary
genius. His wife may possess most
noble heart. Be kind and just Re-
ward merit. Appreciate and encour-
age goodness. Our treatment of our
fellow being sdetermines to great ex-
tent their character and their happiness.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-04-05
Didn,s Know She Took rwelvss.

A private soldier named Murphy
was brought before the commanding
officer, at Devonport, charged with
selling part of his kit. Said the colo
mel: "Now, Private Murphy, why did
you sell your boots?" I'D worn thin
for two years, sorr, an / thought be
that time they was me own praperty."
Nothing OF the sort, man! Those
boots belong to the queen" To the
quane, is it, your amer? Sure, thin,
I didn't know the lady took twilvesi"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-04-05

The people of Troy, Kansas, are
seriously considering placing the
pulpit over the doors in the churches
SO that the worshippers will not be
troubled to turn around to see who
enter.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-04-05

WE are sometimes SO unjust as TO
request man to attend to his own
business when he has no business of
his own to attend to.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-04-05

TIC our notion the only canine at the
fancy dog show at Chicago that has an
intrinsic value is the one with the gold
filed teeth.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-04-05

The Oskaloosa young man who was
requested by the doctor to send his
sick mother-in-law to warm climate
called upon the doctor later and,
handing him the ak said "You do it
Doc. ! have Mt the nerve"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-04-05

Gov. STANLEY's private secretary
Allen emphatical)y denies that he be-
gan life as 4 barber but he was a
little shaver nevertheless.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-04-05

Burris A. jenkins. professor in
Butler College, Indianapolis. has been
chosen as the first president OF the
University of India napolis, which has
been constituted by union of Butt
Ter College, the Medical College OF
Indiana, the Indiana Law School and
the Indiana Dental College. Mr..
Jenkins was educated ct Yale and
Harvard
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-04-05

Our language, as spoken and writ
ten, is too often infected with tot
many crippled words.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-04-05

THERE are fewer family rows and
divorces in Wyoming where they
have equal suffrage than in the aver
age state west of the Mississippi.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-04-05

A prisoner escaped from the Toledo
workhouse and took the bloodhound
along with him. That man ought to
be at the head of some trust.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-04-05

A good deal of attention is being
paid to new spring styles of revolu-
tions.