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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-04-27
The Bells Concert.

The Bells Concert company gave
the music lovers of Gainesville last
night treat of supreme excellence.
y large and select audience was
present and that they enjoyed the
program was abundantly attested
by the hearty applause and liberal
encores given each member
Gainesville Chronicle.
For Whoopins Cough, Asthma,
Bronchitis, or Consumption, no
medicine equals Ballard's Horehound
Syrup. Price % and so cents. City
Drug Store, w. B. Frame.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-01-18
A Queer Hotel.

81 ran across one of the queerest
hotels in the world not long ago."
said a drummer just in from a trip
Il don't care to advertise the estab-
lishment gratuitously, so suffice it to
say it's located in a city made by
nearly all travelling men out of New
Orleans and is run by an eccentric
old chap who has named his rooms
after states, instead of giving them
numbers. The effect is somewhat
startling. 1 went there first to in
quire for friend. Yes, he's in Tex
as replied the clerk, when 1 men
toned the name. But he isn't in
Texas 1 protested, for l happen to
know he's right here in this hotel
Then he explained. While I was
standing there waiting the side talk
at the desk was enough to make a
man think he was crazy. Gent in
Massachusetts, is kicking, SIR said a
bellboy; claims dat teller in Utah is
all de time playin' de 'cordian at
nights Put him in Montana re-
piled the clerk. No towels in North
Dakota said a chambermaid, and
that fat man in Florida wants to be
changed to Vermont My friend
came down looking pretty rocky. He
said he'd been sitting in little poker
game in Rhode Island the night be-
fore and woke up in California.
Didn't know how the dickens he got
there. The place interested me, and
1 could hardly tear myself away. My
friend assured me that it was run
strictly according to state traditions
He was in Maine at first, he said, but
they refused to send any beer to his
room On account of the prohibition
law, so he had them change him
across the hall to Kentucky, and now
he likes it so we'll he has concluded
to stay indefinitely. met the pro-
prietor and found him a rabid advo-
cate of territorial expansion. You
see he wants to build an annex
New Orleans Times-Democrat.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-01-18
mannerlsms OF Fashion.

wonder if you've ever noticed how
every passing fashion brings with II
its own set of mannerisms. OF course
you can't remember when hoops were
in vogue and you never saw a woman
In crinoline gather her voluminoua
draperies about her in order to seat
herself without fitting her petticoat
hem skyward. But you may remem.
Der. ten years or so back, when reeds
and wires and other devices made
skirts more than bouffant in the
back. Women then had a way of set
thing their skirts that would seem
strange to US to-day. Four years ago
or Whereabouts Mile. Up-to-Date gave
her huge sleeves fluff now and then.
Last summer she held her head
haughtily back, because her hat was
tilted over her eyes. This fall she
droops her head meekly forward, to
balance the toque on the back of her
head, and the mannerism the fash.
ions have given her is an odd little
way Of pulling the front of her bodice
out now and then, so that it may de.
scribe as ample a curve from collar
to belt as possible. Next year she
may smooth down her skirt, or rum.
pie her sleeves, but just now the
front of her corsage engages her
hands and her misunderstanding
Pea
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-01-18
NIaxinls for the Stable.

Men who handle horses should
study the mental as well as the pby.
steal constitution of the noble ami.
mails, says the Massachusetts Plough.
man.
The study is not a mere fad or
Whim idea, for the horse is SO con-
stantiy in contact with humanity
that he is subjected to many things
that are contrary to his nature. In
domestication the horse must depend
for everything upon those who own
him or, ait least, who care for him
IN the stable and drive him. Every
attendant should keep certain -hings
in mind always. Here are 8 s+:.s IT
these things:
You can get no more power from a
horse than you give him in his food.
Yelling and jerking the brit confuse
horse and advertise a blockhead.
The horse lis mans invaluable helm.
er and should be treated as a friend.
Any fool can ruin team, but a
wise driver maint ains its value.
The best drivers talk much to their
animals.
Your horse needs water oftener
than you.
A sandy or muddy road doubles the
work.
A rise in one foot in ten doubles the
draft.
Baking is sometimes caused by
abuse, overlooking Or tight harness.
Never strike or hurt baker. Stuff
cloth IN his ears, or hold up his foot
and tinker with it fully three min
utes. Divert his attention, and do it
kindly.
No horse should wear shoe more
than four weeks.
The whip costs more than it saves.
Put lit up.
Binders are useless and injurious.
Cut them off.
Wide tires, save much horse power.
But few farm horses really need
shoes
Quiet and patient drivers are worth
twice as much as any others.
Your horse intends 10 please YOU,
but does not always know your
wishes.
Dark or damp stables cause low
spirits and various diseases.
Axle grease pays 1000 per cent.
profit. .s's
Good blankets are profitable and
save food, if wisely used.
Cruelty qualities for crime: they
are close ,neighbors. 1t is cruel and
silly to whip a. horse for fright.
Soothe him with kind words.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-01-18
VIII AnaIyze Canned xea,..

Washington, ID. c., january 10
Secretary Wilson has directed Chem.
list Wiley of the department of agri
culture to purchase canned meat in
the open market here, the products
OF the same concerns as furnished il
to the government during the war.
and after identifying such purchases
as the products of the same parties
that supplied army expeditions, to
make analysis of the cans contents
to determine if they were treated by
chemicals
This action on the the part of Sec
rotary Wilson is wholly voluntary.
The inquiry is now in progress ami
prompt publicity will be given the re-
suits.
Department officials are confident
that the beef as furnished under the
contracts was wholesome and pure
They say that the attacks made on
the beef. even if not sustained. will
cost the meat interests in this couu.
try an amount equal to the cost of
the entire war and furnish material
in the future for the opposition of
those countries which have been all
afong fighting the admission OF
American beef products. The secre-
tary says there is no doubt that the
discussion Of the al1ega tons made
will give setback to the negotiations
that we have been making for years
for removal of European restrictions
on our products.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-01-18
The Dying Par.op.


The pastor of a struggling church
was lying in his bed; three months ar.
rears of salary was pillowing his
head; his couch was strewn with
tradesmen's bills that pricked his
heart like thorn. and nearly all ife's
common ills were goading him like
horns.
The deacon sat beside him as the
moments licked away, and bent his
head to catch the words the parsou
bad to say:
IF l never shall arise from this
hard bed on which / lie; if my war.
fare is accomplished and it's time for
me to die; take message to the iani.
tor before pass away-tell him fires
are for December and the windows
are for May. Tell him when he laws
the notices upon the pulpit's height,
TO shove then meath the cushion. far
out of reach and sight. And when he
hears the prea cher's voice, in whisp-
ers soft expire, that is the time to
slam the doors and rattle at the fire,
And how the dea cons-tell the dea.
cons, too, through all the busy week.
to hang their boots up in the sun to
hatch Sunday squeak; with steel
shod canes to poke the man who
comes to church to snore, and use
the boys who laugh in church to mon
the vestry floor.
There's another, too-the woman
who talks the sermon through; tell
her | do not mind her buzz-my lis.
tening days are few. Tell her to leave
her mouth at home some Sunday. for
minute, and listen to text at least.
without whisper.
and tell the board of trustees not
to weep with bitter tears, for l can't
be any deader than they have been
for years. And tell half nv cono-re.
CATION that I'm glad saliva tons free;
for that's the only chance for them.
between THE desk and me.
And farewell to the choir. How
the name my memory racks! If they
could get UP their voices as they dc
get up their backs! Why, the stars
would join their music and the welkip
would rejoice, while the happy con.
greg'ation could not hear single
voice. But tell them I forgive them.
and oh! tell them that said L wanted
them to come and sing above me
when I'm dead"
His voice grew faint and hoarse, but
it gave laughing break, kind Of
gurgling chucllle as a minister might
make. But fine deacon rose UP slowly.
and sternly he looked down upon the
parsons twinlIling eyes with mos,
portentous frown. And he stiff1y said.
Good morning" as he walked out in
his ire, for the deacon was the leader
of that amiable choir.-Bob Burdette
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-01-18
The rsrst Penstouer.

Jesse F. Gates. the first pensioner
OF the war with Spain. is at home a,
Highwood, rear this city. He arrived
last Monday. and was met by his anx.
Fous wife, who id not find him as
handsome as when he went away.
Gates was gunner al tacheSi 10
battery A, Second United States artil
lery, which, under Captain Grimes
did such execution in the early DAYS
OF the fighting aoout Santiago de Gu
ba. During the second dav of the
lighting on San Juan hill a piece OF
shrapnel struck BIN in the face. tear
ing off his upper lip, knocking out his
teeth and otherwise iniur;ng him. His
wounds were given such at temtion as
possible ON the field. and he was
afterward hurried to New York
where surge ons did all they could TO
ward restoring his physiognomy. Be.
fore coming west he stopped in Wash
tng'tcn and saw President MCKINLEY
and Secretary of War Alger. Upon
hearing his story they urged his case
before the pension commissioner and
succeeded in placing his name on the
pension rolls.-Chicago Record.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-01-18
Russell Sage's fad is horses. and he
takes the keenest delight in driving.
Archbi.h OPP ireland Leaves for Rom


st. Paul, Mimi, January 10.-Arch-
bishop Ireland quietly left home Sun
day. night for trip to Rome, having
kept the time of his departure from
all inquirers. He goes on his regular
visit to the holy see. It is customary
for all the archbishops to make such
visit every seven years, and the last
visit OF Archbishop Ireland to Rome
was made in 1892. All matters in
which the particular visiting prelate
may be interested are gone over thor.
oughly. and in that way this visit will
probably call for the consideration Of
many of the important questions that
are to come up in the United States
during the next few years. Arch.
bishop Ireland does not expect - -.
tpFD bs5ors June. sigz s
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-01-18

Casey-''Phat? Yez be's a hero iv
tn war? Ply, yez niver lift home"
Hennessy-"Thrue When Oh see thin
all a-rushin' t th' front, eyther fer
glory er fer Doodle. seq OF to mesilf,
Hinnisy. me boy. thrue heroism con.
sists> in self-denial. Twill be t. yer
honor t SHAY at home an lit TIL
other FELIX'S reap tn rewards An so
[ sthayed. Life.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-01-18

On board ship wife was trying to
comfort her seasick husband, and
change the current of his thoughts:
Darling has the moon come up yet ?"
she asked. at has, if / swallowed it,
was the weak-voiced reply.-Western
Medical Review.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-01-18

What" inquired the psychological
student, edo you regard as the chief
end of man?" WELL" answered Mr..
Biykins, ct depends on what you
want the man for. If you want him
to do brain-work, it's his head, and if
you want him to run errands, it's his
feet.s-Washington Star.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-01-18

Mike" said Ploddfng Pete, "did yer
hear bout Alaska ?'' ''Lots. Are you
t'inkin' of de trip?" Il dunno; I'm
told dat daylight lasts twenty-four
hours ait stretch. Eff I could git a
in dat locality as night Waterman /
dunno but I'd be within to work.
Washington Star.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-01-18

Reporter-"Mr. and Mrs. Chatter
ton, at the Park Slope Hotel, are the
proud parents of son." City edito,
can 60 in under the heading
of Recent Hotel Arrivals Puck.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-01-18

"The German emperor" said the
shoe-clerk boarder, seems TO be
carrying things by storm" YES"
assented the Cheerful Idiot, che reigns
and blows. "-Indianapolis Journal.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-01-18

Miss Terry-"Do you know the Ian
guage of fowers?" Jack Ardupp-
'sWhaJt do you meap-the language
spoken by the girl who gets them. or
by the fellow who pays for them?"-.
New York Evening Journal.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-01-18

Mrs. Oatcake-"Well, you know
what the prophet said: Figs do moi
grow on thistles.' Farmer Oatcake
1 s'pose the dern fool he'd
ben tryn' to graft i''-Life.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-01-18
Greater Than Ever.

After 'Disraeli had become prime
minister For the first time in 1874. his
old travelling companion, Clay, the
whist-player. met him in the house of
commons and said to him: well,
Mr.. Dfsraeli, when you and l Travelled
together, some years ago, who would
have ever thought that you would be
4 prime minister" who, indeed
said Disraeli; but as they used to say
when we were in the East: God is
great, but now he's greater than
ever"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-01-18

Mr.. Mixup Ito his son at a concert,
during the performance of duet)-
"D'ye see, Tom, now it's getting late,
they're singing two ait time, SO as
to get done sooner."-London It'd Bits.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-01-18

To know how to grow old IL the
nYaster-work of wisdom, and one of
the most difficult chapters in the
great are of living.-Aimel.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-01-18

Speaker Thomas B. Reed went TO
Portland Monday to attend the funer.
81 OF his sister, Mrs. Copley.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-01-18

Isaac-'Papa, there is trout bone
stacking in my throat" Father
trout everv dav."-Fliepende Blaetter
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-01-18

MRM6E0 posftiyei, cured; NO knife used fl,
OQUV60 tie pain, cure guaranteed. We ri.
patients as references. Write for informa tioi
6aa~. cured without pain. Nc pay accepted uo
sis cured; consultati~- free. Write for testimQfl
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-01-18

The chaplain of congress will soon
take look at that body-and then
pray for the country.-Ohicago News.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1899-11-23
Grand JuryTs Report.

The grand jury submitted it's report
to the district court on Friday evening,
and it indicates that the affairs of the
county are well-administered. The
following is the full text of the report:
To the Honorable D. B. Sear3e, Dis
trict Judge.
We, the grand jury of Stearns coun-
ty for the general November, 1899,
term, of district court, do respectfully
report that we have duly considered
and disposed of all criminal matters
brought before as of which we had iur-
isdictiOn. We examined the county
| Jail and interviewed the prisoners con-
| fined therein, and find that the Jail is
kept in clean and orderly manner,
and they all claimed they received kind
treatment from Sheriff Schilplin; and
that the cell room and accommodations
for prisoners are good, and there seems
i to be ample room for all prisoners
likely to be confined in the jail of this
county.
# We visited the other offices of the
county and find them pleasant, and &C
recommendations ample for the conduct
] ing of the public business, and ths
county commissioners are entitled Il
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1899-11-23
Sank Centre needs a new char

Sank Centre needs a new char
ter. The present one is mass OF
inconsistencies, wholly inadequate,
and the city council does wisely in
ignoring many of its provisions.
That it has served its purpose as
we'll as it has is due to the fact
that there has been no occasion to
appeal to it, or its authority. This
condition of things is neither salts
factory nor safe. A condition or
emergency may arise at any time
when strong, positive, cIearly-de-
fined and carefully drawn charter
will be all-important. And now is
the time to frame it that it may be
ready ior submission in the spring.
Alderman Bennett moved along
right lines year ago, and but for
little technical law point his work
in securing a commission would
have been effective. That techni-
cality has been disposed of now
will he not re-undertake the work?
He may be assured in advance of
the hearty cooperation of all good
citizens.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1899-11-23

great credit for these improvements,
as there seems to be adequate room to
do the county business and the safe
keeping of the public records.
We would recommend that the cells
in the Jail be painted lighter color,
say gray or light drab, at least lighter
than they are now, so they will look
and be more cheerful.
We also wish to report that, so far as
we are able to ascertain, all the officers
of the county are performing the du-
ties of their respective offices in ca
pable manner, as required by the laws
of this state.
We further report that the grand
Jury unanimously voted their thanks to
the county attorney, J. D. Sullivan, for
the courtesies extended by him to the
grand jury during the term, and for
the careful manner in which he pre-
sented and attended to the various
matters requiring his attention.
Also for the attention. and kind and
watchful care of Deputy Sheriff John
F. Dimond, while the grand jury was
in session. L. Z. ALDEN,
w. D. TOWNSEND, Foreman.
Clerk of Grand Jury.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1899-11-23

Isn,s 1t possible for football team
to be bs..ssn without converting them
into blasass aardt end aegtsasying theiy
|veracity week ago last Saturday
the Paynesyille team came TO this city
and played a friendly game with the
high school team, and were beaten by
score of 30-to-0, and apparently
everything passed off pleasantly. But
the New Paynesville Press took occa-
sion to write a bitter article, charging
that our team had only three high
school boys In it; that the boys were
profane and obscene in their abuse OF
the visitors, and attempted to gouge
out the eyes of the New Paynesville
boys, and furthermore that they did
not secure the money promised them.
Now, these are serious charges, and
should not be- lightly made, and the
HERALD has taken every means OF in
vestigating them, and lays the plain
facts, without comment, before it's
readers.
The Sank Centre team was composed
of: James Irsfeld, sophomore; Will
liam Davis, junior; Ed. Bay, fresh
man; Ray Dean, senior; Ray David.
son, junior; Roy Smith, special
course; William Johnson, freshman;
Gland Doyle, freshman; Chas. Was
son, eighth grade; Rob. Carr, and
Mat Vanish, who left school before
gradution The list of names is suf-
ficient REPUTATION of the charge OF pro-
family, obscenity and slugging. They
are all young gentlemen. So far as
the money question is lnvolved-ten
dollars was guaranteed Raymond
Dean met Prof. G. J. auckland, man.
ager of the team from Paynesville,
who expressed himself pleased with the
treatment, and said that his team had
been fairly outplayed. Mr.. Dean, In
counting out the money, found that ne
had but 1915 in his pocket, and OF
fered to step into the Dean Office near
by and get the balance. The PROBES
sor said, s'neyer mind-this is all
right The HERALD touches for this
statement on the word of half-dozen
honorable men.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1899-11-23
ANTI-EvERYTHING.

Senator Mccarthy of Grand
Rapids, using as a text an express
sion of Hon. Charles A. Towne:
"Not anti-expansion, but anti-im-
perialism," writes keen article TO
the Duluth News Tribune, in
which, among other things, he
says:
In 1896 the democratic party said we
never could have good times without
free silver, that is to say, without the
democratic party. The country would
not have the democratic party nor free
silver, and good times came right along
with the republican party; and now the
democrats say that it is all delusion,
a dream, ''a painted ship upon paint
ed ocean, To the man receiving $50
per month where he received only SIS
in good old democratic times they say
''you are poor deluded man, we pity
these good times?" they wag their
heads in sorrow and look volumes but
say nothing. Upon their faces are
spread tablets of unutterable thoughts.
One year ago last March they
damed Mckinley because he would
not begin war, now they damn him be-
cause he will not back out of war. One
year ago last March Mckinley was a
weak, vertebraless man, now he is an
autocrat with too stiff backbone.
Because they could not drive him a
year ago, they called him weak, be-
cause they cannot drive him now, they
call him an imperialist. This is good
democratic doctrine. ''We'll damn
you if you do, we'll damn you if you
don't" We don't know what you
ought to have done; we don't know
what you have done; we don't know
what you are doing; we don't know
what you intend to do; we don't know
but we'll just howl. If we
do know anything it is this, "we're
anti; we're agin ye." "You're imper-
al; we're anti-imperial.
Imperial, well that is good, good and
quite correct. The republican party
is imperial. 1t was imperial from 1860
to 1865 when it preserved this union
and struck the chains of slavery off
4, 900, 900 men. 1t was imperial in its
efforts to remove every scar of civil
war. 1t was imperial in it's achieve
ment in restoring and preserving
the credit of this nation. It was i'm
perial in the conception of American
commerce, American production, Amer
lcan trade, American industry. 1t was
imperial in its efforts to develop the |
Industries of this country. 1t is i'm
oerial in its achievements in taking
his nation in the year 1896, then in
jhe very depth of the industrial ruin
Ind business paralysis, and lifting it in
;wo years to the sublime heights of in
lustrial prosperity and business &C
ivity, the greatest the world has ever
cen. With a genius imperial, the re-
publican party touches the silent fac
cries, the smokeless chimneys, the
'aralyzed business, the ruined indus
ries, the industrial death of this ma
ion in the year 1896 and 10! they
prang upon their feet filed with life,
'itality and power. That is imperial
SIN; and 'anti-imperialism" is anti
verything THAT makes this country /
rand, prosperous, great aud free.
pom the issua Of imperialism we will l
i'm the fight in 1900 by the greatest
lajofity the sreHkaran party ever
ad.