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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-12-12

STANLEY says he would not accept
an increase in the governors salary.
AS he spends only about two days OF
each week in the governors office
perhaps he is justified il considering
that thirty dollars a day together
with what income he may have re-
ceived from the Grimes embezzte.
ment, and for letting the Klondike
and the saloons all over Kansas run
and for leaving the trusts unmolested
as well as thousands Of gamblers over
the state perhaps the total receipts
are ample compensation
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-12-12

1T is rather a singular coincidence
that day or so after the election, as
soon as reliable election returns had
been received, the portrait of Abra-
ham Lincoln fell from the wall of the
east room in the white house to the
floor. It was allowed to remain there
unnoticed. Upon November 6, the
American people, allowed to fall and
lie ignored almost every principle
that our revered president of the six
ties instilled into the young Republi-
can party.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-12-12

however. The other day it was dis.
covered that the Soldiers Home of.
ficials had cleared over $l3 900 last
year on beer sold to the old soldiers
in the Home. Now if it was not for
the Klondike the officials would en-
joy a greatly increased beer trad e
but of course this has nothing to do
with closing it. Of course it woulu
be wrong to suggest that the Klon-
dixie business had only been moved
over inside the grounds.
The old veterans receive about
$50 900 each pension day. There are
5000 of them. For weeks af fter pen
sion day Leavenworth saloon keepers
and the Home officials enjoy an i'm
mense liquor trade and much Nc
Kinley prosperity. 1t is said that 95
per cent of the occupants of the home
vote the republican ticket straight.
Some citizens are asking whether
it has good moral influence to fur
nish the soldiers with liquor.
Some ask if it is not in violation of
the state law to sell them liquor and
make $13, 900 on it.
Give the republicans credit for
the Klondike inside the
soldiers home and charge them with
$13, 600, and next year the profit with
Klondike inside will probably be
500, 900. This is a moral and pros.
perlty administration you know.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-12-12

LAST Monday the steamer, The EN-
press of China, sailed for the Philip
pines with $1,000 barrels of beer. 1t
required seventy-five railway trains
to haul this liquor to the ship board.
Thus are We civilizing, thus are we
christianizing such of those people
as have survived our sword. If a
barrel of beer is as heavy as barrel
of salt there are nearly fifteen mil
lion pounds Of gospel aboard the EN-
press of China.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-12-12

OF course Charley Scott favors
Bowersock, the avowed trust con-
gressman. Scott says Bowersock
ought to be kept in congress as long
as he would stay. Anything it seems,
in order to have the cursed monopo-
lists in pffice. These Two men are of
the SAND ilk and both will be repudi-
ated as soon as the Republican voters
come to their senses and know that
the Republican party and the trust
power are one and the same.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-12-12
The Proper Care for a Cow.

Feed literally, on the kind of feed
that you grow on your farm.
My feed in winter is clover hay,
hull oats, and shell corn. The main
thing in handling cow is to be as
kind to her as if it was one of your
own family. You should have regu-
lar time for milking your cows. You
should have goot shelter for your
cows.
There was smooth tongued gentle
man visitor at my place about six
years ago and said that would make
more money by sending my milk to
the factory than by handling it at
home as we had for fifteen years be-
fore. We took him at his word and
have been sending milk to the factory
ever since.
RAISING OUR CALVES ON sTERILIzEI
We saw in the Vindicator where
Bro. Maxwell's calves that were raised
on sterilized milk were not worth five
dollars per head. While l have been
offered from fifteen to twenty dollars
head for the last three years, and
have sucking calves, yearling and
two year old, that will show again
my calves that have followed the
cows of the same ages
My plan of feeding calves: To feed
from three to five quarts of steriliz-
milk twice day and this is not suffi
cient to make them look like a stuffe
toad, as Bro. NJ. said.
Now my brother, +, ed and care fo1
your cows, so that instead of your
sest being three per cent it will be
between four and FIVE per cent. In
stead Of you getting fifty or sixty
pounds OF milk from your ten or
twelve cows it should be two hundre
and fifty or three hundred pounds
per day. After six years trial of the
smooth gentleman's talk, we find
that he was about right. He did
away with the hard work OF churning
and crock washing and cur cows have
paid for themselves every year with
the butter fat that they produce
since we have teen sending to the
creamery. Beside the calves feed.
Ask your stock dealers of Valley
Falls what kind of hogs 1 sell that
are fed on what milk that is not fed
to the calves.
My cows are 10 better than my
neighbors. The secret is in the way
you handle them.
4 read the Agricultural college re-
port, the Bulletins and profit by them
/ have tried alfalfa but made a fail.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-12-12

SOME people ask US for details as
to how a government is controlled by
the rich. Here is an illustration.
The Topeka Commercial club which
is composed of the wealthy business
men of Topeka, have already inyited
the Kansas law makers to dine with
them and indicated what laws they
want passed. Have the farmers or
laborers done anything of this kind?
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-12-12
Business Activity Due to Bryan's
Principle.


That business activity has followed
the increased circulation proves Bry-
ans theory of '96 to be correct. The
increase in the product of the gold
mines and the liberal coinage of sill
yer have had about the same effect
free coinage would have had, except
that the latter would have made the
silver dollar as good as the gold dol
lar, which should be the case.
Bryan was right in '96 and is right
today. The world knows that care
ity of money enables few to monop-
olize it, lower prices and brings hard
times while plenty of money produces
prosperity. 1t is Bry an 8 theory, yet
Repub leans seek credit for it.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-12-12

SEVERAL prominent eastern Repub-
licans are now making donations
which they promised to make iu case
Mckinley was elected. There are
many ways in which wealth intimi-
dates voters.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-12-12

Rudyard Kipling asks twenty-five
cents a word for the literary wares
which he produces. We doubt not
there are those who would have to be
paid an equal sum to persuade them
to read any of his stuff. POINTERS. A"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-12-12

Kansas has seen the end Of popu-
lism Lawrence World.
If this is true, it has returned to
the reign of the rich wherein the
rights of the poor are utterly ignored
or trampled under foot.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-12-12
Breeds of Dairy Cattle

1t may be put down as a general
principle that the dairy cattle of the
United States had their origin in
Great Britain and the western por-
tions OF Europe.
The breeds in this country special
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-12-12

IT is good thing for the trusts
that our national elections are not
more frequent. They would have to
go to the expense of hiring speakers.
publishing millions of falsehoods.
expending millions in bribery in
order to dupe the voter just so much
oftener.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-12-12

TRUST stocks generally are now on
the boom. A friend of trusts is in
the presidential chair and they will
make many times more than they
expended in controlling the election.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-12-12
THE ELEAvENwoRTH KLoNDIKE
A Moral ana prosperous Admin

A Moral ana prosperous Admin
iStratiOn.
For two years the frowsy roug hs
and blear- eyed bacchanals have
ruled the Klondike in open defiance
OF Governor Stanley, who according
to the Kansas City Journal gave up
two months ago that he was power
less to control it. The fact is that
Stanley has not made any real effort
to close it, but Gov Rowland of the
Home is now demanding extravagant
praise because he forb1ds the old
veterans from entering the con-
taminated region.
There is som ething back of this,
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-12-12

A Portuguese reports that $50 Brek
lsll have been killed and fifty wound.
ed at Lomanche by the Beers. The
burghers, who were estimated 30 NUM-
ber 1000, afterward returned to SwaD
Hand.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-12-12

CHICAGO board ,sef trade gamblers
have held corn up 80 SO cents BUSH
ell. Hurrah for Mckinley! That's
his style.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-01-04
TELEGRAPHlC TICKS,

The American Historical association
is in session at Boston with President
Jas. H. Rhodes in the chair.
The executive committee of the Ma
tional Business league of Chicago Wed
nesday elected Erskine NJ. Phelps presi-
dent to fill the vacancy caused by the
resignation of Ferdinand w. Peck.
The National Board and Paper Co., OF
New York Wednesday decided to ad-
vance the price of pasteboard $3.50 per
ton.
Boston & Albany railroad stock
holders Wednesday voted in favor OF
leasing the road to the New York
Central.
At Richmond the torpedo boat
Stockton was launched yesterday. 1t
is IT'S feet long, II feet of beam, and
4 feet, inches of draft
Governor Taylor of Kentucky has ap-
pointed w. H. MKay, anti-Goebel dem
ocrat, and A. NJ. J. Cochrane republi-
can, state election commissioners.
Cash contributions by R. L. MeCor-
1AiINt\ VI Lay W al u anu OI1SI p1
citizens of Wisconsin Wednesday
wiped out a debt of $4,000 which had
hung over the North Wisconsin Acad-
envy at Ashland since 1872.
Mrs A.V. Brumby, mother OF Lieut..
Brumby, who died recently, has re-
ceived from President Mckinley a let
ter speaking in the highest terms OF
her sons career in the navy, and ex-
pressing deep sympathy of both him
self and Mrs. Mckinley.
The Panama Canal company OF
America, authorized capital stock $50
100000, was incorporated at Trenton
\. J., Wednesday. The object Of the
company is to acquire by purchase the
Panama canal as far as completed and
the railway cross the isthmus, to con-
struct. equip and operate the canal and
railway and various allied enterprises
At Chippewa Falls, warrants were
sworn out Wednesday evening for the
arrest Of Frank Poplanski of Big Bend
charged with the murder of Martin
Meegus, viii mysteriously disappeared
1t is alleged the deed was done for re-
venge, Meegus having denounced Pop
lanski to the husband Of the woman
with whom it is said Poplanski was in
innate.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-01-04
from Idaho in 1889. He served in the
expedition against Santiago before go
ing to the Philippines
A RECORD BREAKER.
SO Say Bradstreets Of the Year Now
Closing.

New York, Dec. 30.-Bradstreets' re-
view of THE Year in Business" today
will say: "A widespread and general
upward movement of values, alike of
staples and securities, linked with i'm
mense business and record breaking
production in nearly all lines
of business and industry. ex-
cent, perhaps, in some pro-
ducts Of agricultural interest served to
establish the year as a record breaker
and set up new standards. The vol
ume of domestic and foreign trade alike
was the largest ever recorded. Prices,
as the result primarily OF the stimuia-
ton proceeding from the supply and
demand conditions, secured probably
the greatest advance in any single
year and brought the general level OF
staple values to the highest point
reached for more than eight years past.
In industrial affairs the year has been
one of enormous expansion. Certain
ly nothing like the general advance in
wages of industrial employee shas been
witnessed for many years and this &C
complished with minimum friction en-
titles the year to special attention on
this account"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-01-04
A FATAL FLYING MACHINE.
Fate Of an English Inventor Who Es
sayed Aerial Navigation.

serious accident attended the trial
on Saturday of a new flying machine"
IN field near Stanford hall. the seat of
Lord Braye, near Market Marlborough
Inc contriVance is the invention of Mr..
Percy S. Pitcher, who has for con-
siderable time been making expert
ments with the object Of devising such
a machine. A correspondent who was
present sends the following account Of
the accident:
Mr.. Pitcher. a clever young in
Ventor (whose brother, Lieut.. Col
Pitcher, is well known military Of
hcer), had given several years to the
study OF flying machines, and had from
d personal acquaintance with Hiram
Maxim so realized the difficulties to be
overcome, that he manufactured a ma
chlne on the lines of that designed by
Herr Lilienthal as being, in his opin-
ION, the nearest to perfection. The ma
chine, with which he had previously
made several successful ascents, re-
Sembled great eagle The two wings
were covered by about 10 feet of sail
cloth, and the tail, or rudder, with its
sails, was fixed about two feet from
the main body of the machine The
frame itself consisted Of bamboo with
lnnumerable wires like the ribs Of an
umbrella. The weather on SATURDAY. was
the most unfavorable for such a trial.
Rain fell heavily up to 2 p. M, and
gusty winds followed The visitors
Included a number of country people.
VINO took refuge under trees. After
several Intellectual attempts to start, a
signal was given about APO. and Mr..
Pitcher rose slowly in the machine I'M
I'll he had Travelled about $50 yards and
had risen to the height of about so or
80 feet. Then a sharp gust of wind came
and the tail of the apparatus snapped.
Instantly the machine turned COM
pletely over and fell to the earth with
terrible thud, Mr.. Pitcher being un-
derneath the wreckage His devoted
sister was the first to reach the scene
Of the accident. Adrian Verney-Cave,
Eyerard Fielding and DR.. Stuart. all
friends and companions of Mr.. Pitcher,
removed him from the machine, and
found that he was unconscious. Rails
ing his left leg it was discovered that
it was fractured above the knee. A
shutter was procured, and Lady Braye
sent orders to Stanford hall for blank
cts and warm water to be got ready.
Mr.. Pitcher was carried to his room in
the house, and Dr. Stuart and Dr.
Nash carefully examined him, another
surgeon being summoned by telegraph
from Rugby. Later on, as most of the
visitors ware returning to London, re-
assuring reports were given, but Mr..
Pitcher died before he regained con-
seriousness. london Times.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-01-04
FIX AN EARLY DATE
ILLINOIS REPUBLICANS TO HOLD
CONVENTION APRIL 10.
SPRINGFIELD LOVE FEAST
Congressman Lorimer Pledges Cook
County Delegation to Judge Hanecy
for Governor-Tanner Denounces
Democrats as Colleagues of Calam-
ity and Pestilence.

Springfield, ILL.,, Dec. Environment
republicans from all parts of the state
attended the annual love-feast here
Yesterday under the auspices of the
state central committee. Representa-
lives hall was full to overlooking when
Chairman Chas. S. Rannells called the
meeting to order. The morning ses-
sion was devoted to the representatives
districts on which hopefuletaolin
from the twenty-five congress
sional districts on which hopeful
prospects of future success
were held up and the national and
state administrations lauded Friends
of the several candidates for state
nominations announced their candi-
dates for governor, names, presenting
the names of Elbridge G. Hanecy OF
Chicago, Walter Reeves of Streator
and Richard Yates of Jacksonville and
for lieutenant governor w. A. North
colt, the present incumbent. Senator
OrVille f. Berry of Carthage and
Charles A. Works Of Rockford
were named for attorney general
for state treasurer. In the afternoon
Congressman LOrimer, responding for
the second district pledged the support
of the entire Cook county delegation,
over one-third of the state convention,
to the support of Judge Hanecy foi,
governor Speeches were H. de by
Senator Cullom, Gov Tanner, Judge E
G.. Hanecy, Congressman Walton
Reeves, Richard Yates, Jas. A Con
nelly, II. J. Hamblin and others
Senator Cullom and Gov Tanner were
given enthusiastic ovations by the
crowd when iley appeared. Gov. Tan
ner greeted the assemblage as the rep
resentatives of a political party on
whom rested great burden Of respon-
sible political action for the state and
nation. He alluded to the democratic
organization as "a noisy herd of guer-
rillas, mere political ghost dancers,
who have mistaken Billy Bryan for tue
Messiah, and colleagues of calamity
and pestilence. At last nights meet
ing of the state central committee
Peoria was selected as the place and
April 10 next as the date for holding
the state convention.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-01-04
PARTISAN NEW YEAR S.

Visiting cards to your entire list,
even to those that you never think of
on another day, kisses on each cheek
to those that you do meet and sugar
plums galore, with or without other
gifts, are distinguishing marks of the
Parisians' new years The sweetmeats
take every conceivable form. says a
letter from the other side. "In the
windows there are monkeys and ba-
boons in chocolate, cats, dogs, pigs and
doll millinery in tinted cream; sugar
lilies, roses and orchids; even cab
bages, carrots, turnips, onions and as
paragus incredibly natural, and all OF
which, when their crisp outer crusts
are bitten into, will send down the de-
lighted throat streams of cordial.
Even men relatives and friends ex-
change satin bags Of chocolate or cara
mels. st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-01-04
SCAVENGER OF THE vELDT,
Quick Eye and Hearty Stomach of The
AasvOgel

Although the term "vulture" has
been used for all times as a term of
the vilest opprobrium no one who
knows the bird, its appearance and its
habits could doubt for a moment that
it expresses a depth of DEGRADATION
which is barely conceivable.
And yet the vulture does a great deal
of good in acting as the scavenger of
the veldt. But for his quick eye, car
rion taste and love of dead meat. the
disease germs in the carcasses of dead
oxen would be far more groliic and
dangerous.
Throughout South Africa is found
the aasvogel. Go anywhere Won like
on the veldt, and sooner or 1ater-and
in all probability the former-you will
find the remains of his CHASTITY meal
There are hundreds OF thousands of
oxen used in the transport and trek
king service. Many of them die from
exhaustion, want OF water or crueltv
from their boer masters. Or thew NAV
eat of the poisonous tuIp. a bulbous
plant growing in marshv n1acas
A kurney, or teamster, soon knows
II any one or more Of his oxen have
been eating tulip. The neck of the ov
swells, his eyes close up. he gives
short, sharp coughs. and his case is
generally hopeless. Sometimes how
ever, he may be saved. and this bv 2
peculiar homeopathic sort of remedy
II the bulb of the tulip plant is crushed
into pulp, mashed with hot water and
forced boiling hot down the throat OF
the OK he may recover.
The quickness Of the eve of the
aasvogel is simply astonishing An OK
falls out OF the team, evidently i'll. he
is outspanned from his yoke-fellow
and he goes down to the spruit, OF
stream. The sky above and away to
, the horizon OF all sides is absolutely
clear and cloudless.
Hardly has the breath loft Tho ho5r
of the poor OK than vou NOV ob-.r,-o
a. la away, up IN the sky, a tiny
oiaeA speeA' theh another. and another
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-01-04
A WOMAN.

Fame there is, applause of people,
Beauty Of a day and hour,
Fads that pass and fancies passing
Honor cringing low to power.
What the world wants is a woman,
Queen of home and queen of heart
All her fame summed in this saying:
She doeth well her part"
John Troi W cd Moore
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-01-04
SCARE THE NATIVES.
FILIPINO INSURGENTS RETURN
TO TOWNS AMERICANS LEAVE.
Col. Hare Loses Track of nAmerica
Prisoners-Gen. Wheeler Anxious
For Fighting.

Manila, Dec 30.-The insurgents
who evacuated the coast towns
between Dagupau and Vigan, fee
ing to the mountains before the
advancing Americans, are return
ing in small bands to towns the Amer
leans do not occupy, and terrorizing
the natives and Cinnamon who showed
friendship for the Americans. The
hatives and Cinnamon are seeking the
protection Of American garrisons. Col.
Vessels cavalry while scouting in the
vicinity of Trinidad found evidence of
Filipino soldiers being in that viYinity,
but it was impossible to bring about
an engagement. The recent increase
in the garrison Of Namacpacan against
threatened rebel attack on Christmas
day averted trouble Colonel Hare
who had been following a party of
American prisoners, lost track Of them
about Dec. 20. 1t is thought the pris
oners were separated and conveyed to
remote parts of the mountains, thus
increasing the difficulties of Young's
troops to effect their rescue. Gen
Wheeler, who was recently in Manila
requesting an appointment south in
the line of the expected campaign, is
now at Panique.
Lieut. Taylor Killed
Washington, Dec. 30.-Gen. Otis
cables: First Lieut.. Edward r. Tay-
Tor Of the 18th infantry was run over
by a train crossing Agno river nea
Bautista, Dec. 26, and died in few
hours" Lieut.. Taylor was born in
Illinois and appointed to the army
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-01-04
WILL AID GREAT BRITAIN.

Calumet, Mich, Dec. ga hundred
Englishmen and Scotch Canadians of
this city held secret meeting and de-
cided to volunteer their services to her
majesty for the defense Of Canada in
case of Fenian raid. The British in
this city are very much worked up over
the reported raid. A large sum has
been raised among them for the help
of orphans and widows Of English SOL
diers who lost thei rlives in south
Africa
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-01-04
UNITED STATES TAKES HAND.
Proposition Regarding Spheres of
Influence in China.

Chicago, Dec. 29.-The Records
Washington correspondent says all
of the European governments except
Russia have notified the state depart
ment that they are prepared to give in
writing the guarantees requested some
weeks ago by the merchants and man
ufacturers in the markets of China
wherever their spheres of influence"
extend. This is the most important
commercial proposition that has en-
gagged the attention of our diplomatic
service for many years 1t is the first
time the United States has assumed or
expressed determination to assert it
self in oriental affairs.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-01-04

ana another until there are 20 of them.
GRADUALLY they get larger and larger.
clrcIlng round in ever diminishing
circles all the while they descend. The
dead OK forms the center of the cir
cumference Of their fight. Within a
few minutes the grisly horde swoon
down upon the still warm breast and
commence their ghoulish task.
An hour afterWard there is nothing
IN the spruit but a bundle of bleached
white bones that might have been
there for months. The sky is clear and
speckless again. The aasvogel has
scavenged the veIdt.-London Mail