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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-12-12
A sURPRIsEp MULE.
3s FINDS 1t Dinncult to Deal with E,sa
tricity.

- Minds 1t Dffacult to Deal with E1a>
tricity.
A mime foreman from t&s ,earby
coal town of Bevier was in s<xuos. the
other day, and while there related a
story OF the peculiar acuions of "a Dit
mule since an electric mining plant
has been installed in one of the prin.
cplaa Bower mines The wire runs
along the wall near the roof. In some
places It is-so low it will touch the
backs Of the mules IF they happen to
veer over TO one side. The foreman's
explanation of what followed is best
given IN his own Language, as quoted
by the Macon Republican: THAT mule
was operating on the main switch.
When they began putting in the wires
he looked suspiciousdy at them, and /
thought from the way he acted about
k he was thinking of reigning. You
KNOW some people are opposed to any
sort OF Tewfangled Inventions and j
guess Bob wtas built pretty much the
same way. Well, when we got the
wires up, l ran across him one day as
he was looking at 1t near the switch.
Then, before 1 could boiler at him, he
deliberately reached over to feel II
with his ear. You never saw such
surprised mule In your life. He jump
ed against the wall, then stood on his
head for fully Ave minutes, while the
great tears trinkled from his agonized
eyes. Then he looked reproachfully
ait me as much as to say: 81 told you
ii you putt that fool thing down here
there'd be trouble; that's a nice way
to treat an orphan who has never
had amy experience but pick mining
l put my hand to his head and tried
to console him. knew he'd get over
Ut AID right before long, as the wire
only carried $50 volts and will NOT
KILL person even If 1t Is grasped
with the naked hand. But Bob
would never pass that place until we
fixed ut. He would get that far with
his empties, but never step further.
We tried to reason with him, burt the
only result was broken clubs-he Just
wouldn't go by. Then we insulated
the wire at thab point, and walked
Bob up to It and showed him what
we did. He looked keenly ait the COW
erdng over the wire, slowly beu,t his
head over to it and found he was safe.
He now paislsas that point all right,
and he thinks It's the only place that
d dangerous. If he keeps on learn
Ing we will probably put him ON top
In charge of the Dynamo
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-12-12
, lectric Railways.

The rapid extension of the electric
railway systems Of this country rivals
that of the steam-roads in early days.
sThere must be at this minute, /"
saws an editorial writer in the Elec-
trial Review, several thousand miles
Of new construction under way.
Nearly every important trolley sys-
tenn DIN the United States is extending
its lines, and new ones are constantly
cropping up; combinations are being
formed everywhere between existing
lines, missing links are being built,
and arleady trolley systems have ex-
tended themselves 30 as to reach over
distances of more than two hundred
miles. Another summer of such ex-
traordinary activity will fairly grid
iron the Eastern and Middle Western
States with q continuous network OF
trolley roads, rivaling that OF the
sxsam-railways now in existence. It
is hard to predict the future OF Q
movement so vast and so natural.
There has been nothing like 1t In his
tory, perhaps, unless one looks back
to the records Of early days Of AL
road building in England"
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why / didn't get in yesterday, and to
ask me TO come and see her this after.
noon. Isn't 1T TOO ridiculous? l wont
| go a atep-would your"
Again there was a pause before the
iSermonetoe." Then Mrs. Kirkland am
swered very gently: You must ask
your own heart, dear" And at the
end of it Was THAI Hazel went. Or,
rather, that wasn't the end at all, but
just the beginning, for instead of hav-
ing the awkward, depressing time She
| expected that day, Hazel found three
Of the "loyeliest girls" as she after
ward told her mother, ali visiting Like
old friends with a little woman who
salt DIN a shabby wheel-chair and
looked as happy as amy queen in a
fairy book.
Good times had begun for the lone
some little Lady of the fat from that
afternoon the four girls seemed to be
trying to see which could give her the
most JOY. Flowers and fruit and mag
azines and books began to cover the
tables In the plainly furnished little
parlor. The Trio Reading Club ex-
banded Ito the extent of two more
members, and began meeting twice a
week with -.rs. Hunter. Mothers be-
gan to tahe an interest in the girls
new friend and to call and sympa-
thize and go again.
The kindest, sweetest, people L ever
SAW live in this block" said Mrs.
Hunter to her husband one evening az
they sat alone together.
The words were scarcely out of her
mouth when the doorbell rung and
half the neighborhoOd come fling
into the Hunter fiat. lit was q sur
prise party, indeed, and the reason for
1T was that four happy girls had dis
covered the date of Mrs. Hunters
birthday and had planned to give her
beautiful new wheelchair, with clfsh-
ions and springs and rubber tires and
m adjusta bic table and every conven.
fence you can think of. Mr.. Hunters
face glowed with tremulous Joy as he
lifted his invalid wife into her new
throne.
Its SO that we cam take you out
In the park" cried Genevieve, almost
dancing with delight.
"And 1 shall push the chair" added
Mabel.
ooh! oh! OH" cried Mrs. Hunter.
and then her face went into her hands
and the tears came trickling through
her fingers. But she had to stop that
IN "a minute, for four pairs of arms
began to hug her and four dainty
handkerchiefs wiped her eyes and
four sweet voices in chorus begged
her not to cry. So she sat and smiled
INSTEAD, with eyes all wet and spark
hing and pink spots glowing on both
her pale cheeks.
1T has been the happiest birthday
OF all my hfe," she told them as they
went away.
Mamma" said Hazel Kirkland at.
ter they were alt home that night: ~
just found out today that the girls
think I deserve all the credit of ali
We've done for Mrs. Hunter. They
say 1T was the example of that firsa
call of mine-'the one ] never mads
you know-'that made them think OF
going to see her i'm the first place.
And an of this talk was before Mra
Hunter, so that I couldn't explain to
them how it really was, but I've been
uncomfortable about 1T ever since. II
It were only true, and were as sweet
and good as they think 1 am, I'd be
80 happy!"
Mrs. Kirkland smiled down into thu
sweet wistful face.
make ut true, dear heart" was he,
mothers goodnight sermonette.-Ths
Chicago Record.
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PATHS Fan II Priceless.

In days TO come, the world win
crowd to see Nine. PATHS autograph
lam, says London newspaper.
though comparatively plain, it Is one
OF those few objects that gather a.
time roIs on. Even now, many of the
sign es'S written across this dainty
peSF '!.en-skin C NJ ! ct again
be The late ,, nj
AEe Xander ii Ct l.. the
OLD 49, emperor, Ito
thess "a. signatures nos, ZACH q
pat heiac interest, the more 90 when 4
Is remembered that the first two died
by the hand of am assassin Nine.
Patti was even fortunate enough to
obtain not only the signature, but q
bong sentence I'm our own sovereign'a
beautiful flowing handwriting: sIf
King Lear spoke the truth when he
said that a sweet voice was the mpsl
precious gift woman can possess,
you, my Adehna, must be the rdchesl
woman in the world"
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THE caNrER OF POPULATION.
The Recent Census Made But Little
Change In lt.


Change In lt.
Not the least remarkable result Of
the census of 1900 is that 1T arrests
the westward march of what Is known
as 1.-THE center of population" This
point, which had been moving steadily
westward at each successive census,
was established by the census, of 1890
aus being in the southern part of In
diana, at point a little west OF
Greensburg, the county seat of De-
catur county and twenty miles east
of Columbus. Geographically it is In
latitude 50 degrees II minutes and 81
seconds, and longitude IS degrees 81
minutes and So seconds.
But in the past ten years the popA
Eation of the states lying wholly eaa
of this meridian has increased to al.
most exactly the same extent as in the
states west of it the increase In
each case being round numbers 5000,
600 on. of total of 1925 900. Th,
remaining 1,225,000 increase is fur
uished by the states of Michigan, In.
dfana, Kentucky, Tennessee and Ala
bama. And it will require a distra
button OF population by census dis
tricts Ito determine whether there haa
been any westward advance or not in
the center of population. But at any
rJte the advance viii be triffing, and
the East holds its own with the Wea
In contributing to the national great
neAs.
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The squlrreli. a Good syimmer.

Williamsport Pa.-Joseph Bailey OF
PottStown and party of Fhi 'adelphia
capitalists have purchased several
thousand acres of land adjacent to
Essick Heights at Highland Lake
this county, for game preserve and
summer resort. Improvements now
dn progress and others In contempla
tiom villa cost 100000. An elaborate
hunting lodge is in course of erection
on the shore of the Srystal lake, which
b included In the land acquired.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-12-12

Cornelius Alvord, Jr., former note
teller in the First National bank, New
York. who is accused of embezzung
$690,000 form that institution, has been
held to await the action of the grand
fury. 1t is understood that Aivord
VIII be indicted Immediately, and THAI
his case will be put on the calendar
for the term beginning the second
Wednesday IN December.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-12-12
Zimmerman
Land Agency.
If you Want to
Buy, Sell, or-Trade
Don't Fail to WritesUs.
Come and See us. Our Latch
String is Always Out.
VALLEY FALLS, KAN.

Below we give you few of our
bargains. If you don't see what you
want don't be afraid to ask. We
have thousands of others.
Be sure to cut this list out as it
soillnot appear again. Others will
follow but not these:
$4,000 stock in good manu-
featuring company in Kansas City
Kansas, fully paid aud non assess
able.
Three ranches in Beaver county,
Oklahoma, free and clear, 50 and
$5 per acre, $50 acres in one and
100 acres in another and 5000 in
he OF her, will divide to suit, want
merchandise, hotel and rentals or
small mproved farms, owner will
notput i'll any cash.
A nice suburban home AMI 2 acres
OF land, close to a good tow in
Crawford county, Indiana, price
81, 200, mortgage $500, 2 years at 6
per cent.
$50 o stock of notions, musical
machines, etc., etc.
$500 stock of salvage goods, all
boxed ready to ship, total weigh hit
1900 pounds, invoice sent t. par
ties interested in such.
Two $500 bonds due in 1912,
drawing 6 per cent annual interest.
$1,000 shares in good mine in
theJ oplin and Galena zinc and lead
districts.
$4,000 share in a gold mine in
Cripple Greek district, Colorado.
A model 500 acre ranch in north
eastern Kansas, all good, rich land,
no waste, modern improvements,
S25 per acre; will exchange for
smaller.
A $4,000 health and pleasure re-
sort, is money maker, a fine loca-
ton in Wisconsin; owner wants to
exchange for timber or grass lands.
Two fine fruit farms near Gal
weston, Texas, $40, 900 and $4,000
will exchange.
100000 acres of raw timber and
coal lands, free and clear, perfect
title. 50. so and So. per acre, will
exchange, will divide to suit.
400 choice COWS, most all with
calf, will sell at bargain, no trade.
A dandy $40 ranch in Lyon
county, Kansas, s25 per acre to ex-
change for smaller.
$40, 200 northeastern Kansas farm
nearly 700 acres, to exchange for
merchandise, prefers hardware, etc.
A model farm Of over 700 acres,
nicely located, in Iowa, ownerwants
to sell or exchange for land i'll
Iowa. southern Missouri or Kansas,
$50 per acre
$4,000 general stock and double
store building, good railroad town
IN central Kansas, wants a good
grain and stock farm in eastern
Kansas.
Also fine general stock of 3d.
900 to exchange for eastern Kansas
farm.
1900 original letters direct from
owners of farms, ranches, hotels,
mill, stocks of merchandise, ETC..
all alive and mean business. l
have more than l can handle, will
let you have them at 10 cents each,
trade or cash
For Particulars Address,
ZIMMERMAN.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-12-12

The United States surveying corps
Saturday found over 100 dead bodies
In swamp just west of Galveston, On
the island, where they had been de-
posited by the storm on September Q.
The unburfed dead were in an out q
the way place near the county road
and had not been discovered by the
burying parties sent out after the
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-12-12

The Des Moines News makes tAfs
unlxind cut at sister city: ssDes
Moines has a census populattion of s..
139 and has sixty eight saiosrs.
Davenport has a census populataon o.
1884. and has 155 saloons. Lopk -
this picture and then "a Ehnk-
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-12-12
Tie ac.son O, n. .rv.,I CON

The action Of the appeal committee
IA turning down as below contract
grade two car~ceS tendere1 Phillips by
Ocunseiman and Bartl tt Fraser had
the expected effect of strengthening
the position of the bull leader and ad-
ding further worry TO the troubles al
ready heaped upon the shoulders Of
the shorts
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-12-12

w. II. McGregor. a humble farmer
near Geneva. o., has been informed
that he has been made millionaire
by the viii of his brother. A. r. Mo-
Gregor, of Cleveland. The news
came to him - . complete surprise.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-12-12

The comptroller Of the currency has
approved the application of the fol-
lowing persons for authority to orgaar
lie the First National bank of Ceal.
gate, l. T., with capital Of 81, 1000:
r. C. Garner, ], III. Carson, Mike
Mayer, J. b. McDougal and s. =.
Anker, Jr.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-12-12

Ma Little Jim, how. can you rudA
around and play 90 hard in this Aol
weather?
Jim-Aw. ma. eaznx bot at all; me
I'D Tommy Tibbs has been pia,fr
camp out In hlizsard-
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1900-01-27
CA - TO E ia.
Ra.-.+bs a The Kind You Have Always Bought
Signature "a &xXHzztZ1
The Mortgage.

Following are some of the evil
results of the mortgage, the one
great enemy to prosperity among
our country people. Read them
and note carefully its indestructi-
bic nature and peculiarities.
The mortgage is self-support-
ing institution.
1t always holds its own.
1t calls for just as many dollars
when cotton Is cheap as when it is
dear.
1t is not affected by the drouth.
1t is not drowned out by heavy
rains.
1t never has the rust.
Late springs and early .frosts
never affect 1t.
Moth and worms do not destroy
and ruin it.
1t grows nights, Sundays, rainy
days and. holidays.
1t brings a sure crop every year
and sometimes twice Il year.
1t produces cash every time.
1t does not have to wait for the
market in advance.
1t is not sui ject to speculation
of the bulls and bears on the
board of trade.
it is load that gals and frets
and chafes.
1t is burden that the farmer
cannot shake off.
1t is with him morning, noon
1t eats with him at the table.
1t gets under his pillow when
he sleeps.
1t rides upon his grain and cot
ton crops.
1t devours his cattle and hogs.
1t selects his finest horses and
I fattest steers.
1t stalks into the dairy where
| the busy housewife tolls day after
day and month after month and
takes the incest butter and the
best milch COWS.
1t shares the chIldren's bread
and robs them of half their shoes
and clothes.
1t sto0ps the toiler's back with
its remorseless burden Of care; 1t
hardens the hands, benumbs the
intellect, prematurely whitens his
locks and Oftentimes sends him
and his aged wife over the hill to
the poor house.
Its whip is merciless and cruel
as the lash Of the slave driver.
1t robs the farmer and his good
wife and children of all the hap
piness and pleausure and of the
rights and liberties of a free ant
independent people.
1t is menace to liberty, hin
erance to progress. curse to The
world.-Exchange.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1900-01-27

The House of the National Con-
gress spent Tuesday in lauding
free delivery. The debate was
occasioned by an item in the Ur-
gent Deficiency Bill calling for an
appropriation of $15O,o00, in adj
dition to the already existing ap-
preparation of 100000, for the
purpose of extending rural free
delivery. There was scarcely a
word in opposition to the scheme,
but members, regardless of party
affiliations, seemed to vie with
each other in praising the merits
of the system. There is no doubt
that the item will pass in fact 1t is
believed by Congressman Stokes
of South Carolina, sthe leader OF
the fight for larger appropriations
for this purpose, that sl,0Oo.ooo
could be obtained, ,and this amount
is likely to be asked when the re
gular postoffice and post roads
bill comes up for consideration.
Let us have it, is the cry. 1t Is
the farmers time to reap some OF
the benefits of the Governmental
appropriations.
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HANCOCK COUNTY.

R4-Ceventv acres Of land with clay euhzofl
good natural drainage, sixty acres OF timber,
good FOR saw logs, plies a7d wood, ono acre IL
cultivation. Rough box G0lse 2iX2) feet, dag
well, h7arirG plums, m--b@rrias, pear aud
peaches. One mile ard nalf 70 "avelal1 de-
Dot on Main County road. one mile from S"hoo.
ard church Tile direct from government -
present owner Price SnD cash. 1850 or time,
S!15 cash, balance one year 8 per cent interest.
o.
s5-Ore hundred and twenty acres, good land. .
one hundred acres ia tin five acres uHder
cultivation. ana fifteen acres n aid grass,
House 22x3t feet. rooms, k.tck3n i0Il2 feet,
FIVE acres, ,ralua so "ateEeI by navIgah.e
bayou three bearing apple trees, scUpernorK
ar5ors lF0i0 feet, ten pear trees Eighteen
rniies TO depot Bay St Louis, two niles and
% poetoiflce, warranty deed. Price $50 cash.
ca
Sa-Elere1 acres cleared jcud On Main street,
two miles aad q half from Bay St. Louis, War-
rantv deed. Price $50, SIS cash, balance one
year, 10 per cent. interest. o.
s7-0ne hundred and twenty acres vest OF L
& H. r r. between Taveland and Gulfview
Price 500 casn. 81
Ss.-Twerty-fve acres on east side I. e NJ r
81 & adjoining 0'sf"'n' 0'''' f''ss '0'' '1-'
sl.-Threa hundred and twenty feet by half mile
on Dunbar avenue, half mile from l.. &. y, Il. z.
depot at Bay Louis. One thousand cord Of wood
on land good for truck. Price $50, .SlU0 cash,
s25 per mouth. toj
e0.-Forty acres OF land on Bayou Philip, near
RavS t. Louis. Part of land has been cultivated
One mile to school, one mile and q half TO nearest
village, shanty on tract. Price Si00, S25 cash,
balance one year, 10 per cent interest (59
a.-Twenty-two acres on Main street, one
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To Aguinaldo.

"Augi," you do not know what
a good thing you are missing by
not wanting to become a citizen
Of this grand country of ours?
There isn't anything like it under
the sun. You ought to send a de-
legation over to see US. This land
of the free; this land of churches
and 10000 licensed saloons, BIZ
bles, fort and guns, and houses of
PRAYER. The millionaireS and
paupers, theologians and thieves;
libertines and liars. Christian and
cham gangs, politicians and pow
erty, schools and prisons, scala
wags, trusts and tramps, virtue
vice.
A land where we have men in
Congress who have three wives
and lot in the penitentiary for
having two wives. Where some
men boil or make Sausages Of their
wives when they see a Younger
woman they want. Where we
make bologna sausages of dogs,
and canned beef of sick COWS and
old mules and horses, and corpses
of people who eat it. Where we
put men in Jail for not having
means of support and on a rock
pile if he hasn't Job.
Where we haye a Congress of
400 men to make laws and a su-
preme court of nine men to set
them aside. Where good whiskey
makes bad men and bad man
makes good whiskey. Where
newspapers are paid for suppress
sing the truth and made rich for
telling lie. Where professors
draw their convictions and salaries
from the same source. Where
preachers are paid from 81, 900 to
s25, 900 a year to dodge satan and
tickle the ears of the wealthy.
Where business consists of getting
property in any way that won't t
land him in the penitentiary.
Where trusts hold you up and
poverty holds you down.
Where men vote for what they
do not want for fear they will not
get what they want by voting for
1t. Where women were false hair
and men dock their horses tails.
Where men vote for a thing one
day and swear about it another
364 days in the year. Where
we have prayers on the floor
of the national capital and whlsk-
ey in the basement. Where we
spend $4,000 to bury a congress
and $40 to put away a working
man who is poor; where govern
ment pays an army officers widow
$4,000 and a private who faced
the shell S144, with insinuations
that he is government pauper
and burden because he lives.
Where to be virtuous is to he
lonesome and to be honest is tC
be "crank." Where we sit or
the safety valve OF conscience anc
pull wide open the throttle of en-.
e5ty; where gold is worshiped anc
God is used as a waste basket fol-
our better thoughts and resolu.
tions; where we pay SIS for a dos
and Is cents a dozen to poor ole
woman for making shirts; where
we teach the "untarnished" tht
way of eternal life and treat hin
with bad "boose;" where we pu
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1900-01-27

man in prison for stealing loaf
of bread and in congress for steal
ing a railroad or a bank; where
check-books talk and sins walk in
broad daylight, justice is asleep
and crime runs amuck, corruption
permeates our social fabric, and
satan laughs at every street corner
Come to US Augi. we've got the
grandest aggregation of good
things, soft things, and hard things
OF all sizes, varieties and colors
ever exhibited under one big tent.
Send your delegation and we will
prove all these assertions for
truths.-Exchange.
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pubIicans are fayoring 1t because
they feel that not to do so will
subject them to charges of undue
friendliness for the trusts, and
also because they think that the
trusts have forfeited their rights
to protection by their actions.
There will probably be a warm
debate on this subject before
Congress adiourns.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1900-01-27

No adjournment of the Legis-
lature should be entertained un-
less a bill providing for a textile
school be passed, In this era of
industrial activity, factories and
cotton mills dotting every COM
munity, that education born of
such a school and so justly due
our young men should not be fur
ther disregarded. The time is
ripe and the demand imperative.
Will Mississippi give her sons a
textile school or Southern capital
continue erecting cotton mills and
seek Yankee skill TO operate them?
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1900-01-27

The century seems about to
close in blood. Britain and Boer
are at each others threats, Japan
and Russia are snarling and max
ing ready for the conflict that can
not long be deferred, Germany,
Russia and France are restless.
Even peaceable Uncle Sam is in
volved in a bloody rebellion.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1900-01-27

Mr.. Sims of Tennessee, has in
troduced bill approprlating $40,
900 to enable the Secretary of
Agriculture, through the Division
of Chemistry, to investigate the
chemical composition of cotton
seed and its economic use.