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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-01-11
Explosive Power of Music.

This new scheme of Tesla's for ex.
Pioding dynamite torpedoes by cleo
tr1c waves calls up some curious
memories, said an old time engineer
"A dozen or so years ago there was
an eccentric German chemist in this
Part of the country who was an ex
pert in high explosives. and who sn
perlntended good deal of importa mr.
niasnng work for different corpora
uons. L became we'll acquainted with
une professor, as we called him, and
ne told me a great many singular
Things. He claimed, for instances
that he could explode nitro-glycerir
Dy striking certain chord on a vie
hin. 1 laughed at the idea, and ND
long afterward, when we happened n
De thrown together in an enpineer
camp some distance up the countrv
ne performed an experiment that cen
oa1nly seemed to give a good deal o1
color to the assertion.
AS L remember it, he put a small
Pmch OF gray powder ON piece ID
sneet iron, which he supported like =
ifutle top, on four boulders. Then h,
squatted on the ground about Is feet
away and sounded shrin, penetrat
ing note on "a tuning fork. AT the seq
onu attempt the powder exploded
with considerable violence. He ner
formed the experiment several times
and thoroughly convinced everybody
present that the explosion was really
produced by the chord. This was dons
IN the open air ON still, warm dav
and while he declined to say what the
powder was composed of, / have rea.
son 20 believe it was illuminate OF
- have heard him declare repean,
guy mat ne could close up amy dyna
mlIe works in the world if he could
get within hundred feet of the m;r.
ing house with his fiddle. and as he
disappeared long ago and has neve,
Deen heard of since, he NAV have
s tes'ed ms powers in that respect once
700 often That he was on the tracl
OF some surprising discoveries is Ger
S-ssA<s
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-01-11
Flee From Endless Chain.

The endless chain started in AN idle
moment by Miss Natalie Schenck, OF
Babylon, L. l., is nearing its end
More than 100000 letters have been
received and more than $22,500 has
been received, although only $1,000
was asked for by the originator. This
sum, it was hoped, would start an ice
fund for the poor soldiers in Cuba.
Winter is here, ice has become a drug
ON the ma rket, but the fund still
grows.
Miss Schenck meant we'll when she
sent out the first ten letters asking
for 10 cents each from the recipients
and a continuance of the circle, but
she little knew what the result would
be.
In addition to the envelopes con-
tanning money there were envelopes
containing NO money, which had been
robbed en- route, and envelopes di-
rected to the postmaster at Babylon
asking about the commercial stand
ing of Miss Schenck, who is the grand
daughter of Matthew Morgan, a re-
tired New York banker, whose winter
home is at 2S4 Lexington avenue. The
receipt and answer of these letters OF
inquiry by Postmaster Dowden, OF
Babylon, netted the government con.
siderable revenue.
Day by day the mail for Miss
Schenck grew. In vain she appealed
to the press to stop the flow of silver.
The pool of charity was first rippled
in July, but the ripples have augment
ed and are still widening. The letters
are still coming in at the rate of 100
a day. Miss Schenck has fled to New
York and her grandfather recently de-
clared that neither he nor his charm
ing granddaughter would have amy
thing more to do with it.
The money has been turned over
to the Red Cross Society. Some of it
was used for the ice fund for the sol.
diers, the rest has been used in other
ways for the relief of the veterans OF
the Spanish American war.
Miss Annie Smith, during Miss
SchencKs absence, opens the mail
that still comes, and the money is be-
ing turned over to the Red Cross So.
ciety-New York Herald.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-01-11
~oLo GINGER rrsGEns..
That IL What an Artilleryman Called
General Meade.


The artillery fire ait Gettysburg"
said a gunner TO Pittsburg CONNER.
cial Gazette writer, ''was simply mag
n1flcent. 1 was in an Ohio battery,
posted on Cemetery Hill. We were
running short of ammunition, when
General Meade, dismissing his staff
below, rode with a single orderly to
our exposed position. The boys were
all at white heat and in state OF
frenzy because the ammunition called
for had not come. They heard the
quiet man ON horseback say repeat
eddy to the captain that the hill must
be held at all hazards, ammunition or
no ammunition. This veXed them,
but they knew that the officer, who
ever he was, spoke the truth, and they
began to collect the unexploded shells
that had been fired at them from the
Confederate batteries.
There were a great many of these
scattered over our part of the hill,
and when Meade comprehended what
the boys were doing he was greatly
pleased. He dismountel and in a
quiet sort of way proceeded to super
wise the collection of the shells. He
was in fatigue dress and wore no
shoulder straps, and none of the men
recognized him. They thought he was
some ordnance officer, and finally,
when he turned his horse over to his
orderly and proceeded to carry shells
himself, they did not resent his super
vision. AS a rule the shells were
heavier than the general expected,
and he did not. compare in efficiency
with the stalwart artnlerymen rush
ing about with the recklessness and
energy of madmen.
John Smoker was one of the best
men in the battery, but was rough in
speech and action. Seeing, as he sup
posed, lieutenant or captain from
the outside STOPPING to pick UP a
shell, he pushed the officer aside with
the remark: Get out of this, old Gin.
ger Fingers! Your minds willin', but
your body's weak, and you are in the
way Meade, surprised and amused,
stood aside. A few minutes later Gem
eral Warren and staff rode up for a
conference with Meade, and the cat
was out of the bag.
Smoker was so overwhelmed with
confusion that he almost had a fit.
The sergeant tried to comfort him
with the assurance that General
Meade would excuse informality I'M
der such circumstances, but John in
sisted that what scared him was that
he never came so near kicking a man
in his life without doing it as he did.
General Meade when he stopped to
pick up the shell. He was grieved
to think he hadn't recognized Meade,
and was in a panic whenever he
thought about what might have hap
pened had he acted ON uhe impulse
and kicked the General commanding
the army"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-01-11
Treasure Lost at Sea.

| On the Cornish coast, about five
miles from the Lizard, it is quite
common to pick up Spanish dollars
which have been washed ashore from
the wreck of a galleon that went
down in 1884 with a large amount of
! bullion on board.
1T is surprising that with all the
modern appliances for diving, syste-
matte attempts are not more fire.
| quently made to recover treasure
from the deep.
As early as 1898 a great deal of
treasure was recovered, including the
historic golden cup which once be-
ionged to Frederick, King of Sicily,
from the wreck of one of the ships
of the ''invincrble Armada
In 1850 an American named Will
liam Phipps came over from Virginia
10 this country. and craved the as
slstance of Charles ii. toward recoy-
erlng some wrecked treasure on the
coast of Uispaniola. Charles provided
him with ship and the necessary
funds, but the first attempt proved
unsuccessful
In a second effort he was financed
by the Duke of Albemarle, and this
time he succeeded in recovering
specie to the value of 100000, and
after paying all expenses he was able
to give the Duke the sum of 100000
as his share in the venture.
The specie ON board H. NJ. S. Lu-
time, wrecked in 1899 off the coast of
Holland, amounted to G1,200, 900, and
the whole of this still remains at the
bottom of the sea, with the exception
OF Egg 1853, recovered in he year 1859
Attempts to recover the remainder
are still being made.
Diving operations resulted in the
recovery of 9S0O00 in gold from the
wreck of the Inflated Royal Charter,
which took place close to Moelfra, off
the Anglesea coast, but a vast num-
Der of diamonds are still lying about
the wreck.
Forty Thousand pounds in specie
was recovered from the wreck of the
Hamilha Mitchell, in the Chinese sea,
after lying in twenty-three fathoms
of water for upward of twenty years,
and 100000 in gold was saved from
the wreck of the Alphonse XII, which
was sunk in twenty-six and one-half
fathoms of water off the Canary ISL
ands in 1885.
Some of the French ships sunk at
Trafalgar contained vast treasure.
Five tons of silver plate, excluding
the famous silver gates of ST. Johns
Cathedral, Malta, and ton and a
half of gold plate, mostly studded
with jewels, the plumber of the Nal
tese churches, were ON board one Of
these ships.
Not am ounce of this treasure has
been recoyered.-London Mail.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-01-11


their lives. Greetings at their meet.
ing must have satisfied the officer
that the judge had told the truth
Hello, Tevisi' exclaimed the presi-
dent; glad TO see you. What are YOU
doing here? business in the supreme
court, eh?'
No, Abe, replied the Judge '.I am
here because Your sleuths have
brought me on a criminal charge.
They accuse me of membership in
the Sons of Liberty
"Ahi that is the trouble, is it? Well,
1 really do waGl't to find out something
about these Sons, and you can give
me the facts, perhaps. Mr.. Officer, /
viii relieve you OF your charge till
you are sent for, and take this pris-
oner over into my own custody. l
will be responsible for him"
The marshal Withdrew and the two
friends discussed old-times for awhile.
AT length the judge inquired:
What do you want to ask me about
the Sons of Liberty?"
There will be time enough for that
before your visit is ended" said Lin.
coin. "Now you are my guest, and it
is my duty to make your stay as
pleasant as possible"
Greathouse was given "a guest cham
Der and told to occupy his time &C
cording to his own desire, at the
White House or anywhere about the
city of Washington. When HE awoke
in his room ON the morning of the
fourth day of his visit he found the
president sitting beside his bed with
SJrO1Jhla ON IN tar
Gus tomary greetings, he said:
"Tevis, l have looked into the
charge against you and found out all
want to know about the Sons of
Liberty. Most of those among them
whom I remember are good people.
but they are misled by ideas which
you and l ought to oppose, and which,
If generally favored, would imperil
our government. I am at work as in
dustriously as possible to countera ct
such notions and to replace them by
sentiments of common patriotism, and
in this effort 1 need your help in that
part of Illinois for whose prosperity
you and / have toiled together in
time past. I do not wish to limit
your visit, which I ann much enjoying,
but here is a railway ticket THAT will
take you home when you are ready to
go, and when you get there I want
you to tell my old friends that l am
doing my duty TO the best OF my abil-
ity, and hope they will always do
theirs as true1hearted Americans. /
do not ask you for a promise of any
kind. You have seen our efforts and
cam appreciate our needs, and / feel
the strongest confidence in your judg-
ment and honesty of purpose"
In concluding this narrative Judge
Greathouse said:
''Both the president and myself
were in tears before he had finished
speaking and it was impossible for me
to reply verbally. 1 started for home
in the evening of THAT day, and upon
arriving there | called AN extra meet
ing of the Sons and related my expe-
rience and repeated the presidents
words verbatim. Then l resigned my
official connec ton with the organiza-
ton. Only one meeting was held aft
onward, and from that time the order
was practically dead in southern Hi
nois. The good president had Killed
it with kindness at a time when perse-
cution would have strengthened and
made it dangerous"
L. BARNEY.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-01-11

above Whisper, Come mere. Ton
see i-oSe two young people away
there? They are our young people
Tcgs..'ier they watched the two.
who, ali unconscious that they were
observed, were telling None >aaother
the sweetest story IN the world
The widow was the first to speak
al felt sure it would come" she
cried. "Farcy this is the 18th year,
without a 5reak!"
"The 13 h yeari" Numbered the ma
jor. "Do you mean TO tell me that
the girl has for 13 years
Maj. Bumsey!" interrupted the lit
tie woman md then she explained
and explained so well, that her list
ener became as enthusiastic as her
self, acd swore with characteristic
military oath that he could have de
sired no better mate for his lad
Suddenly the widow started up.
"Ch, DEAR she cried in dismay
at mustn't be. | WAS forgetting. 1t
would never do"
What wouldn't do?" inquired the
major.
why, it's the 18th. and that would
be un4ucky. 1t was on the 18th that
my poor Robert"
Nonsense, my dear madam"
growled her listener. Surely you
don't believe in that old woNnan s
tale"
"But Robert-on the 18th"
- Robert" the major thunder
ed, AND Immediately apologised. 81
forgot myself. What l wanted to say
is this: Why should we risk the hap.
piness of our boy and girl?"
why, indeed?" murmured the
lady.
Suppose, for instance, two other
people found they could join forces
with advantage and advance on the
enemy's line better together than
sirgly. Suppose, | say. But, da sh
1T all, Mrs. ltworth-Helen-wh
do you say to taking me ?''-and here
the major Popped down. on his knees
in most 'unmilitary style-"me-an
old lhalf-pay officer without a friend
IN the world? Now, what shall we
say?"
And like the soldiers daughter and
the soldiers widow that she was. the
blushinig proprietress of the Esmer-
aida answered, Yes" with precision.
This is how it is that the ESmer-
aida is under entirely new manage.
ment," and the young people who
congregate there in the summer
speak regretfully of the old days
the days that are no more.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-01-11
Just Feeding Them.

Colonel "Jim" Fennessy, the we'll
known Theatrical man, has stocked
the lake on his Kentucky farm with
bass and other game fish. Recently
he discovered a stranger fishing in
the lake. Jim" didn't know it, but
the stranger had been fishing all day
and had caught nothing. Are you
aware that this lake is private, and
that you are not permitted to catch
fish in it?" asked Colonel Fennessy
I'm not catching your fish," said TIE
stranger: GIN feeding en- >,
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-01-11

within 60 days. but he is now entirely well, ank
can eat anything desired Mrs. Thee. L. His
bee. Schell City, Mo-, suffered with . uterine
treatments from Prof. Weltmer the tumoa
passed away. Mrs. s. Maggard, Nevada, No,
said there was no hope for recovery. She Wa
fully restored in thirty minutes by this Rros3
Healer. Hundreds and Hundreds of ofkers
deFful man. He performs cures at q distance
with the same ease. copy. Of the Magnes1s
Journal containing long list of remarksbio
method reaches every known disease. no naS
ter in what stage. It is the only positive eafe
for sexual weakness Prot. Weltmsr als9
most profitable profess ions known. Ad6rsr
. rsSfs 90 j q 5HSaf YSs;h Ne e
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-01-11
A Pertinent Ouestion.

When the present emperor of Ger
MANY was little boy, his governess
one day found it necessary to inflict
bodily chastisement. She said, how
ever: Believe me, your highneSs, +
pains me as much as you," 'D-Does
it h7hunt in the same p-place?" in
quired the victim of her discipline.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-01-11

He-"Why did you fail to recognize
me on the street today?" She"
didn't see YOU" He-"That's strange
I saw you twice" She-"Oh. tina
probably accounts for it. / never nc
tice man in that condition. Chi
caCO News.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-01-11

Actress Marie (excitedly)-"They
found man under the bed in room
sixteen last night" Actress Ethel
"And only think, Marie! we could
have had that room and got our
names in the newspa pers."-Judge
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-01-11

Fond parent-"What is the matter
Bobby? You don't generally keep on
crying after your father .ras given
you a beating" Bobby-"I know it
But he says I've got to sit down and
think it over. Before. I've always
stood up and forgotten it."-Life.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-01-11

The Woman's Institute, London
has published Lexicon of Employ.
ments for Women" from which it ap
pears that there are in England fe-
male cab and omnibus drivers, street
porters, walking posters" cattle
dealers. auctioneers and one locomo
tive engineer.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-01-11

OF MIRACULOUS cures pc
formed by him reads III
q romance, although Q
cry claim made for b
method Is fully substan
tfated by reliable men and
women. Some Of his
.ures have never been du
'licated in ancient OF
modern times. Col. Johr
Sobieski. the renowned
temperance lecturer, af
ter suffering over IS year
with stomach trouble
was restored to perm6
nenthealth by Prof. Welt
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-01-11

How is Ruben doing at college,
Uncle SIP" asked . neighbor. "Splen-
did," replied Uncle 81; hes been
studyin' Scotch, and they do say he
beats ALL" Scotch ?" "Yes. They
calls it by the name Of Golf down tc
college. He addressed Bail the other
day at Golf, am, as far as I can see
none o. the other dancers was in it,
--Harper's Weekly.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-01-11

He had just finished a fairly good
dinner which the housewife had sci
before him, and rose to go. But,
She protested, you said you'd saw
wood" Not at all, madam" he re-
piled; 81 said L saw wood. '--Chica GO
Post.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-01-11

Of song birds the nightingale is un.
questbonably the sweetest. But the
common or garden hen is the one
that pleases us most with its lay
Roselpaf
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-01-11

An Ohio man wrote S00-line poem
entitled Come Back to Me-" and
every time he sends it to an editor
it does.-Chicago News.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-01-11
Sagasta,s Condition.

Madrid, December 27.-Althouef
the latest bulletin rega riding Senior
Sagasta's condition, which was issued
Monday evening. says shat he passed
a quiet day and THAT the fever has di.
unfinished, it is feared by some mem.
bers of the cabinet 'tIhat he will not
recover. a rumor is in circulation
tonight that his respiration is much
more difficult.
George Bell. aged IA, accidentally
shot and killed himself while playing
with a target rifle Monday night on
the ice near the Home mine, Leaven-
worth, Kan. The gun would not GO
off, and Bell struck it on the ice. The
bullet entered the hee1
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-01-11
WONDERFUL HEALER
HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE PERMAH-
EMILY RESTORED T0
HEALTH.

The long lost art Of hea'in diseases witho
man living at Nevada, Mo-, and the hundre6
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-01-11
STAR NOVELTY co, Valley Falls, Kansas.
The Blue Sweep Feed Mills

Made in two sizes. Finished in four styles
GrIndS Corn Cob ant all or any Sm Ill
grain. Fully warranted II one wear.
The best mill made. Write for prices cata % cue
etc. etc to
BLUE VALLEY MANUFACTURING Co,
Manhattan, Kansas.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-09-15
Story of a Slave.

To be bound hand and foot for years
by the chains of disease is the worst
form of slavery. George ID. Williams,
of Manchester, Mich, tells how such
a slave was made free. He says:
my wife has been so helpless for five
years that she could not turn over III
bed alone. After using two bottles of
Electric Bitters she is wonderfully
improved and able to do her own
work" This supreme remedy for
female diseases quickly cures nerv-
business, sleeplessness, melancholy,
headache, backache. fainting and dizzy
spells. This miracle working medf-
cine is godsend to weak, sickly, run
down people. Every bottle guaran-
teed. Only so cents. Sold by Hartz
6 Ullemever. druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-09-15
DEATH OF w. w. CRAWFORD.
Former Rock Islander Passes Away at
Cedar Rapids.

The remains of w. w. Crawford,
son of ex-senator and Mrs. w. f.
Crawford, of Edgington, who died at
his home in Cedar Rapids, Iowa,
Wednesday, of stomach trouble, were
inferred today in Edgington, where
the deceased was reared. Mr.. Craw-
ford was II years of age. In 1881 he
left Rock Island county and located
at Aster, Iowa. where he was married
to Miss Nellie Colmer. He afterward
took up residence in Chicago. engag-
ing in the general transfer business
there. Later he moved to Cedar
Rapids, establishing a retail grocery
house. He succeeded admirably
in his new home and was looked upon
as one of the thriving business men
of the city. He is survived by his
wife and two sons, f. E. and q. q.
Crawford.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-09-15
The IIIInoIs state FaIr.

Sept % to so inclusive is state fair
week, during which time the Spring
field carnival occurs with grand at
fractions every day and night the
entire week. Tuesday night, Sept.
20. occurs the Pete of the Fairies, the
beautiful $50, 900 pageant. The great
flower parade occurs Wednesday. Six
military bands will furnish the music.
The St. Louis, Peoria & Northern
railway will sell tickets for one fare
for the round trip. Onlyan hour and
a half from Peoria to Springfield over
this line. w. J. Mclean, G. p. A,
St. Louis.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-09-15
EVENING HOME WEDDING.
James ii. Bostock and Miss Emma Einfeldt
Married.

i
Married.
At 8 O'Clock last evening at the
home of the brides parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Christian Einfeldt, 1912 Fourth
avenue, was celebrated the marriage
of James II. Bostock. of Converse,
Ind, and Miss Emma W. Einfeldt- A
company of relatives were present,
the binding words being pronounced
by Rev. K. F. Sweet, of Trinity Epis-
copal church. Frank PAYNE was best
man, and Miss Amelia Einfeldt, the
BRIDES sister, was maid of honor. A
wedding supper was served at the
conclusion of the ceremony, the cou-
pie afterward starting for their future
home at Converse, where the groom,
who is son of Harry Bostock, for
mer Rock Islander, is employed in
the glass works.
Justice David Halves tied the nup-
tial knot Yesterday afternoon for Ste
phen Whitaker. of Avoca, Iowa, and
Miss Savila c. Keller, of Davenport.
The ceremony was performed at the
'squire's office.
Louis Eromme and Mrs. Freda
Bengston, of Moline, were married
yesterday at the court house by Judge
Lucian Adams.