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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-08-02
KIOWA STREET FAIR AND RACES.


The Street Fair and races at Kiowa
on September 6, z and will be a great
event. The citizens of that enterpris.
ing little city are pushing it with great
energy and its success is assured. The
purses 80 far arranged are as follows:
THE RACES-FIRST DAY.
Half mile dash, purse. ......$ 1900
Half mile dash, cow ponies. 5000
Three eighth mile dash. ......... 1890
SECOND DAY.
Quarter mile dash. 800. ......$ 5000
Half mile heat race two best in
three. -. 1900
Three-quarter mile dash ....... 1900
THIRD DAY.
Quarter mile dash. .......... $780,
Half mile dash. Observation-Disclosures. 1900
Novelty Race, quarter, half,
three.quarters and mile....... 10000
For further information write J. H.
Nichols, secretary.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-08-02

Mrs. R. NJ. Woodward came up from
the Strip Saturday.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-08-02

DIR. C. l.. SPARKS, Resident Dentist
Office over Fairs store.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-08-02

NJ. Schaub, one of the prominent
stockmen In southeastern omanche co.,
was in the city Monday and yesterday
as witness in the White. Elmore case
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-08-02

VIM. Palmer and Roy Arterburn re-
turned home from Geuda Springs yes
terday looking and feeling better.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-08-02

DR.. Kociell reports nice girl baby
born to Mr.. and Mrs. Thos. Owens last
Friday the 18th ult.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-08-02
A. T. q s. T. RY. TIME CARD.
LOCAL NEWS.

Help wanted at once at the Grand
hotel.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-08-02

DIR. G. l.. SPARKS. Resident Dentist.
Office over Fairs store.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-08-02
Leave your orders
Tailor Made Clothing with
J. W. POTES,
Agent for
American Wooden Mills, Chicago.
Satisfaction guaranteed or no. Money
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT
state OF Kansas Barber COUNTY ss:

state o. Kansas Barber County, IS:
In the matter of the estate of james Finley
late of Barber county, Kansas.
Notice is hereby given, that on the 18th day of
July. A. ID. 1899. the undersigned were, by the
Probate Court of Barber County, Kansas, duly
appointed and qualified as executors with viii
annexed, OF the estate OF James Finley late OF
Barber county, deceased. All parties interest,"
ed in said estate will take notice and govern
themselves accordingly.
THOMAS ID. AND JOHN W. FINLEY
Executors with will Annexed.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-08-02

Alex Harris caught 80 pound chan
mel catfish last Friday in the river
near his farm southeast of town.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-09-09
TWain's PYiamas.

Mark Twain has an intense dislike for clothes. and if 1t were possible would remain in his pyjamas day in, day out. And whenever he can do so he eats breakfast in them, receives his friends and works in them. His favor ite mode of writing is to lie flat on the floor on his stomach in his pyjamas, with a pipe in his mouth. When on lecture tours he never gets out of his sleeping clothes until it is time to go to hall or opera house. When the 1t strikes him he likes to exercise, and then with his customary Shamble will shuttle along for miles and exhaust the most athletic companion. But he feels far more at home in his pyjamas than in street suit or evening clothes.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-09-09

A French president, if he choses, can live like prince. Ills salary is S125,- OOO, and the annual allowances for in- cidental expenses are equally large. The Elysee is splendidly furnished and kept in repair as his town residence, and the palaces of Fontainebleau and Ram bouillet are also maintained by the state for his uso during the summer. There are large shooting preserves at Marly, where he can enjoy outdoor sport during the autumn. The late President Faure liked ceremony, splen- dor and stateliness. Taking the view that the French people did not wish to have the presidential office maintained in an unpretentious way, he adopted much of the etiquette of European courts, drove about constantly in a coach-and-six under military escort, and gave brilliant entertainments in town and country. Generously as the state provided for him, he expended large share of his private wealth in keeping up luxurious appearances and in enter taining guests like the czar with splen- did pomp. President Loubet has not been long in office, but It is aparent that he intends to live less pretentiOus- ly and in closer accord with Old-fash- toned ideas of republican simplicity. In comparison with his predecessors in office he Is poor man, and he has the frugal tastes of the class of small coun- try landholders from which he sprang He represents the great element of rural France, which studies and prac- tices economy and dislikes wasteful- ness and luxury. Pleasure-loving Paris laughs over the rumors of reform and retrenchment in the kitchens and serv- ant-halls of the Elysee, but the presi- dents conduct meets with hearty ap- prOval in the country towns and vil- lages, where thrift has never ceased to be a virtue. Even the boulevard wits were silent when the president, re- turning to his mothers home in Monte limar, gave on unstudied exhibition of fllial reverence. Catching a glimpse of her white hair as he drove in triumph through the town in a magnificent coach behind an escort of cuirassiers, he sprang to the ground, ran toward the platform where she was seated and embraced her again and again, while she was sobbing from joy and pride. A president who is not ashamed of his humble peasant mother and remembers her counsels of thrift and carefulness, stands for the best qualities of staid, rural France. There is so much that is sordid and contemptlble in the pub lie life of the republic with the strange hurly-burly of the Dreyfus case, that a touch of the simplicity of earlier and better times is welcomed.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-09-09
How Birds Wash.

The feathered tribes have many pc cullar ways and fancies about the de- tails of their toilets. Some birds use water only, some water and dust, while others prefer dust and no water. Birds are not only exceedingly nice in their choice of bath water, but also very par ticular about the quality of their toilet dust"
 Wild ducks, though feeding by salt water, prefer to bath in fresh water pools, and will fly long distances inland to running brooks and ponds, where they preen and dress their feathers in the early hours of the morning.
 Sparrows bathe often in water and dust. The city sparrow must take a water bath where he can get it-in the streets or on the tops of houses-but be is most careful in the choice of his dust bath. Road dust, the driest and finest possible, suits him best. Part ridges prefer dry lOam.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-09-09
A Lucky Bit of Tin.

Telling of a narrow escape from death which he had recently ex- perienced, a railroad switchman said:
 'I was leaning up against the end of that blue box car over there, thinking of what was going to have for dinner, when I thought I saw a silver dollar lying in the street about ten feet away from me.
 ''I knew there was a shifter on the same track, but thought 1t was down on the wharf at that time. l hadn't more than stepped away from the end of that car when the shifter bunted into 1t and drove 1t ahead about 20 feet Say. suppose hadn't seen that silver dollar and started for 1t. Where would 1 have been now? Yes, a man that Is working around the cars has got to pay strict attention to business.
 "Oh, I forgot to tell you that that silver dollar was only a round piece of tin, but 1t served Its purpose just as we'll as the real thing could have done. I'm going to wear 1t on my watch chain for a charm. It ought to be bet ter than a rabbits foot."-POrtland Express.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-09-09
A SOLEMN OCCASION.
The Only Interview Buchanan Had With His Vice President.

A
 With His Vice President.
 Vice President Stevenson used to tell A story which John c. Breckinridge had told him to illustrate the tradition al relations between the president and the man whose principle business it is to wait for the possible death of the president, in order that he may take the presidents chair.
 Breckinridge said that Buchanan never consulted him about any impor- tant matter, although as Kentuckian, havin- the confidence of most of the southern leaders, he felt that his ad- vice might at times have been valuable to the president In the early fall of 1860, when Buchanan's term was near ing an end, amid the gathering clouds of war, Vice President Breckinridge received an urgent summons to the White House. He responded at once, thinking that at last the president wanted his advice on the momentOuS questions then pending. When he ar rived he was shown into the presi- 0ChL O IOOAA1 anu NIL Du(hdAdAS WAO was alone, called his private secretary and instructed him to see that they were not disturbed by anybody during the important conference which was to follow.
 When the private secretary had with drawn, the president unlocked the pri- vate drawer in his desk, took out q manuscript, sat down with great sO- lemnity, and said to Vice President Breckinridge, in his most impressive manner, " want to read you the draft of my Thanksgiving day proclamation and to get your opinion of it."
 The vice president controlled his fa- cial muscles, listened respectfully and seriously made some complimentary remarks about the important dOcu- ment, and, with his customary cour- tesy, bowed and smiled his way out from the only interview to which he was ever invited by President Buchanan. Boston Herald.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-09-09

The class of music to which the Hot Time" belongs is, of course, not ex- alted. It is not chamber music or con- cert music. 1t is just the slap-dash, go- as-you-please sort of thing that suits the crowd in its hours of effervescence and outdoor celebration. The Ameri- can people happen to be built that way" They gravely chant America" in the parlor and when they take to the street or to the battlefield they change the tune to the primitive Tilt of Yankee Doodle" with its words of superlative banality. If this tendency is immoral, then Lord help us all! As a nation, we are doomed, and the won der is that the ghastly end has not come long ago.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-09-09
other of the two extremes In neither of
 which is to be found the truest happd-

The sympathies of the whole country were aroused by the recent abduction from New York City and the subse- quent recovery of little Marion Clark, a baby 20 months old. Many aspects of this case are worthy of study. In earlier days 1t was a comparatively easy act to steal child and carry it where its Identity was lost, while the bereaved parents were left without hope of its return. Such cases were so common that the accidental reunion of parents with their long lost children be came familiar feature in literature and on the stage. The prompt recovery of the Clark baby shows that, while the world is all the time growing larger, in another sense 1t is constantly decreas- ing in size. The growth of great mod ern cities, and the free movement of people from place to place, would at first seem to make 1t much easier to carry out successfully a crime of this kind to-day than it was in the past; but modern inventions have more than off set these changed conditions of society. When this child was stolen, such a glare of publicity was thrown upon the crime that no nook or corner of this great country could long afford the criminal hiding-place. The telegraph, the steam railroad, the perfected police system all lent their aid, but more val uable than all else were the services of photography and the newspapers. The daily journals so faithfully reproduced the baby's portrait that a young wom- an in country postof1ce, as soon as she saw the strange child, said: "Why, that looks like Marion Clark" The modern daily press has many faults, but occasionally 1t performs service so important as somewhat to condone them.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-09-09

The Boston Journal" quotes the prediction uttered by General Horace Binney Sargent in his oration on Mem orial day, 1869.
 Comrades, though few of us may live to see it, l feel sure that the last survivors of the Grand Army of the Republic will celebrate this anniversary after some day of glory, when the sons of rebels and our sons shall have fallen side by side in some common cause of foreign war, as our sires and their sres fell side by side under the eye of the great rebel, the Virgin ian, Washington.
 This prophecy has been literally full filled. The predicted foreign war; has re-emblazoned Americas national character, restored the unity of her peo- pie, and-as Editor Watterson phrases !t-"fung her geography into the sea. !"
The St. Johns herald., 1899-09-09
PAID WITH A SNUB.
A Case of Badly Misplaced CiTiltty
 by the Younger Woman.

by the Younger Woman.
 If anything rolls a woman, 1t Is to have some younger woman get up and offer her a seat in a street car. This misplaced ciyility infers that the elder woman is to be considered on account of her age, when, in fact, there is little difference in years between the two
 l witnessed droll bit of comedy the other day in a BrOokline electric that makes me smile every time l think of 1t. The car was full, with several pas sengers standing, when in bounced a stout, well preserved person, with white hair beautifully pOmpadOured- She was dressed in deep mourning, but bunch of viOlets in the front of the coat gave a touch of mitigation" to her grief, which was quite borne out by a merriment lurking in her mouth and eyes. The lady grasped a strap and looked out of the window. Then suddenly a young person sitting near, observing perhaps that no man in the car intended to offer his seat, rose and leaning forward touched the other on the arm, saying:
 Wont you have my seatT
 Are you going to get outT asked the standee.
 "No. ma'am," replied this taetless creature, "but you are older than 1, and"- but the sentence was never fin ished. If a glance could slay, that young person would have fallen on the floor dead.
 ''Thank you. When I am too old to stand up, shall not enter a public conveyance"
 That was all. The junior woman slunk back into the seat, and some of the passengers Uttered. - Cincinnati Enquirer.
 It Helps the Cashier.
 Odd bits of change thoughtlessly left by customers form no inconsiderable part of the income of cashiers In res taurants, saloons, cigar stores and sim liar places where, during many hours of each day, there Is a steady rush of patrons.
 "I get $15 week salary" said a cashier, and always count on an ad- ditional $3, or 90 cents per day. through forgotten change. I do not consider that I am doing anything dishonest. either because I always make an effort to attract the customers attention to the fact that he is leaving his change behind. Nine cases out of ten 1 sue ceed, even if I have to send a waiter to follow the man clear out into the street But there are enough of the tenth cases to make my receipts foot up all of the sum weekly I have nam ed. The majority of them are people in a hurry to catch a train or car or to keep an appointment, and they haven't the time to return, even if they did dis cover their loss square or so away. The next day they don't care. or at least the majority of them do not, to speak about such a small matter. the overlooked change seldom being more than or 10 cents. and I am just so much ahead. The proprietor get 1t? Certainly not. It doesn't belong to him, and just so the money In the cash drawer balances with the register he Is satisfied Philadelphia Inquirer.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-09-09
QUEER eoPHERs IN FLORIDA.
Burrowing Turtles that the Natives lat Like Epicures Do Terrapin.

ouTrOWln& mat the Natives
 lat Like Epicures Do Terrapin.
 ''The most interesting creature I ever saw in Florida" said New York man who spent the winter there, twas the burrowing turtle. This turtle is pecu- liar to Florida, and 1t Is an important factor in the domestic economy of the cracker population, for the Florida cracker dotes on the gOpher-thats what they call this burrowing turtle and thinks it is the finest thing in the edible line that ever existed.
 Another thing that induces the gopher to dig its burrow out of the reach of water is that in those dry and sandy places the rattlesnake and vari- ous kinds of hideous-looking lizards are most plentiful, and the gopher is never happy unless it's burrow is shared by colony of either one or the other of these, If not of both. Find a gopher hole and uncover 1t and you will be sure to find from half dozen to a dozen or more rattlesnakes, and maybe fifteen or twenty lizards of various sizes and colors and degrees of ugli- ness occupying it with its proprietor The gopher plainly loves the compan- ionship of these deadly things, al- though 1t is itself as meek and harm less as dove.
 No dweller in those parts of Florida ever goes anywhere about without bag slung over his or her shoulder. This is to put gophers in, as some are pretty sure to be found pasturing in the wild grass patches. The moment a gopher Is surprised by person with a bag 1t shuts itself securely in its shell, and the cracker picks it up and tumbles it into the bag. The gopher is likewise trapped by digging a hole close to the entrance of its burrow and sinking a barrel or box into it and covering the trap with loose twigs. When the gopher comes out and starts on a foraging trip it tumbles into the trap and can't get out. What terrapin are to the high-living epicure, the go- pher Is to the Florida cracker"
The St. Johns herald., 1899-09-09

Another of the school of imaginative scientists asserts that he has discov- cred that music when properly pro- duced is so soothing and lulling to the digestive organs that 1t can be made in time to take the place of food. As the scientist neglects to tell just how long this interesting experiment would take 1t is quite evident that he hasn't carried his tests that far. But it's a nice theory and there can be no objec- ton to the learned discoverer's follow ing it out to the bitter end.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-09-09

When a girls engagement to an out of-town man is reported, 1t is first said that she is to marry king. AS time progresses, the girls mother confesses that the young man is a prince. It leaks out later that he works on a sal ary, and has to work Saturday nights, and later, just before the wedding. no one Is surprised at learning that he is a clerk, and gives dancing lessons on the side to make a living.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-09-09

A French medical paper contains a strange story by pr. Koveos of a rela- tive of his, whose beard and mustache from being prematureIy white sudden ly became dark. The editor adds a story of an old priest whose white hair fell off because of an attack of erysipe- las and was replaced by raven locks. Are these stories myths like those of the ancient Greeks regarding rejuven- essence, or was goats juice" used by any chance?
The St. Johns herald., 1899-09-09

The czar of Russia is quoted as say ing recently: Il am sick and tired of life. What with its responsibilities, its hypocrlsies, its festivals and its lies. I wish I were out of it." It would be strange, indeed, If ruler so conspicu- ous had permitted himself to express this sentiment publicly, but the atti- might appear to some young person who has tired of life because of its poverty and hardship. The cZar's fate is that
The St. Johns herald., 1899-09-09
Parental Diplomacy.

Here is a little book our daughter should read" said MT. Wisemann. Tt contains some excellent advice for a girl of her age"
 "Very well, my dear" replied his better half. ''I'll lay it on the parlor table and forbid her to look at it."
The St. Johns herald., 1899-09-09
On the Wrong Shelf

A correspondent of the London Acad. emy writes that bookseller in a large provincial city recently discovered an assistant arranging four new copies of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass" on the shelves devoted to books on gar. dening.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-09-09
line Retort Courteous.

The vicar of a South London church school, having finished his scrip ture lesson the other day, congratu- lated the top class on coming holiday, finishing with the expression of hope that each boy would return with clearer and better brains" He was somewhat taken aback with the uni versal response of Same to you, sir"
The St. Johns herald., 1899-09-09
Makinna Choice,

(Which do you prefer?" asked her indulgent father.
 Tt is so hard to decide" she an swered, but at the price quoted l think the duke is better bargain than the count. I guess you may buy me the duke"
The St. Johns herald., 1899-09-09
A Ore.s;ded Affair.

Smith Whats the trouble with Brown and his wife? They are always quarreling.
 Jones-Oh, it's the old, old story. Each declares the other is at fault.
 Smith-Well, perhaps they are both at fault. Each should make some al- lowance for the other.
 Jones-But that's impossible. You see, Brown hasn't got penny of his own, while his wife is quite wealthy. She makes him an allowance of $6 a week and her refusal to increase it is at the bottom of the trouble.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-09-09

The statement that the telephones ID England are very poor will create no surprise. Electricity as a household and business agent Is little too swift for the conservative Britons to manage with perfect satisfaction. That Is pos sible only in America, which might be profited by initiating the more deliber' ate habits of their English cousins
 while the latter could easily stand 8 slight infusion of American enterprise
The St. Johns herald., 1899-09-09
CruIIers for Ouoits.

Weary Walker - Lady, would yer please give me few crullers likes dose I got last week?
 Mrs. Newed-Yes, poor fellow. Here are three of them for you.
 Weary Walker-Can't yer make 1t four, mum? Me and me pardner wants ter play quOits.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-09-09
Re-ore and After.
Topics.

"My dear," said Mrs. Hunewell, as she poured the coffee at breakfast the other morning, do you believe in the eternal fitness of thingsW
 "I used to-" replied Hunewell, "but that was before you began to make my shirts"
The St. Johns herald., 1899-09-09

The hostility to the Americans which was so pronounced in France during the Cuban war has so far subsided that the Parislans are now wiling to furnish lodgings to visitors from the United States at much higher prices than have ever been charged before.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-09-09
A TeIl-TaIe Trail,

The great detective paused.
 ''The horseless carriage containing the murderer passed here just twenty minutes ago." he said.
 The other man looked astonished. "But see no wheel tracks" he cried. "No," said the great detective, calm ly, ''but if you'll sniff little you'll get the odor of the kerosene"
The St. Johns herald., 1899-09-09

Emperor William has bought two eie- phants. which will be used hereafter in his big parades. This, however must not be regarded as conclusive evidence of the EmperOr's intention to make a show of himself.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-09-09

pr. Skinnem-Have you made care full X-ray examination of the patient?
 Assistant-I have; here Is the chart. It shows in all T2 cents in change dis tributed in various pockets. Also key and a meal ticket.
 Dr. Skinnem-Um, I see. Tell him we don't care to treat him. - New York World.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-09-09

King Corn won a gallant victory Ill England last year. During the t"elVe : months the British Government useo I24.oOO gallons of corn whisky in the manufacture of smokeless powder.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-09-09
What He Was After.

Mr. Stubb = Maria, what was that tramp after that was preaching so loud out in the yard?
 Mrs. Stubb-He was after dinner. MT. Stubb-Hm! one of those after. dinner speakers, I suppose.