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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1901-05-01

THE Noftzger bill passed by the leg
islature last winter, authorized coun-
ties to sell its shares of railroad stock
without vote of the people, but it is
now claimed that the new law Is 80
worded that county selling its shares
loses all rights to proceed against the
company, under the law Of 1885, to
compel 1t to furnish adequate train SER
vice. Hence the refusal to sell. Noftz-
ger, who introduced the bill, is San.
ia Fe attorney. He would be a fine
specimen to send to Congress.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1901-05-01
STRAYEp OR STOLEN.

From the undersigned on April 5,
1901, one black mare mule, 10 years old,
lame in forefoot; one bay horse years
old, wire cut on right fore foot above
the hoof; one sorrel mare mule one
year old. Anyone giving information
OF them will be rewarded. Address,
w. H. RAIDER,
SAWYER, KaS.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1901-05-01
OLD SOLDIERS EXPERIENCE

M. Nj. Austin, a. civil war veteran, of
Winchester, Ind, writes: MY wife
was sick long time in spite of good
doctors treatment, but was wholly
cured by DR.. Kings New Life Pills.
They always do. Try them. Only 25c
at j. R. Young's Drug Store.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1901-05-01

SO long as combined wealth fixes the
price of products-either for buyer or
seJler-freedom' shout is hollow mock
cry. Oppression does not necessarily
spring from the iron will of despot.
Tyrants have different weapons and
different methods. They even dupe
people into endorsing their hellish de-
signs at the polls.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1901-05-01

You might as we'll expect horse
thief to assist in wiping out larceny, as
TO expect the present congress and adj
ministration to modest the money gam
bIers. If we had to risk our money on
either we'd put it up on the horse thief
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1901-05-01

The latest to announce their retire
ment from politics are Frank Grimes,
state treasurer, on the republican side,
and John Breidenthal, late candidate
for governor. on the Populist side.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1901-05-01

THE Populist state committee will
select the party emblem which must
appear at the head of the ticket, under
the new ballot law. at its meeting May
9Th. A farm scene and clasped hands
are the most favorable. 1t seems.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1901-05-01
ADVERTISED LETTERS.

Letters remaining uncalled for in the
dostoffice at Medicine Lodge for the
week ending, April q, 1901:
Mr.. p. F. Case, Myrtle Jarvis, Mr.. G..
e. Martin. Mr.. Chas. MCGEE, Walter
Frisbie, j. w. MCGEE. Mr.. Joe Miller,
2 MIR. E. b. Tilden. Mr.. J. w. Porter.
When calling for these letters please
state that they have been advertised.
j. N. TITUs. p. M.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1901-05-01

WANTED: About 40 good farmers to
buy as many good farms IN the best far
2 railroads. Prices ranging from So to
$l2 per acre. Fol further particulars
call on or write w. e.. Afford at Hazel
ton Kansaa
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1901-05-01

All kinds of furniture bought and
sold, stoves repaired, and. second hand
goods of every description constantly
in stock. Store on North Main street.
FISHRIJRN & Co
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1901-05-01

Jack Roberts, the puglllst who fought
Billy Smith at London, was tried before
the police court and the magistrate re-
manded the accused on his own recog
nizance, IN the sum of $500. The cause
of his arrest was on account of Smiths
death from injuries sustained in his
fight with him.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1901-05-01

If the legislature OF 1901 passed a
single law detrimental to the corpora
lions doing business in the state, will
somebody please put his finger on 1t?
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1901-05-01

NOTWITHSTANDING that history has
shown that good generals make poor
presidents, the republican politicians
have started medium sized boom for
Roosevelt and Funston in 1894.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1901-05-01
John Bloom

The INDEX will receive subscriptions
Tor VIM. j. Bryan's paper-The Com
we win furnish 1t and the
INDEX both one year for S1.75.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1901-05-01
Hardy
Duke z1!!: 5,,,,

Will make the season at my farm six
miles west of Medicine Lodge.
HARDY DUKE 3452 is one of the
best known horses in Barber county,
and as colt getter has no superior.
Terms: 81 to insure. Not response
BILE for accidents. Money due il mare
is disposed of or removed from county.
Tohr Rloopo
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1901-05-01
NEWS OF SPORT.

James j. Jeffrles and Gus Rubin
have been matched to fight at San
Francisco, Cal. The National Sport
ing Club of that city made the match.
The purse is $4,000.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1901-05-01

STEEL rails have advanced So per ton.
Who gets the increase? Not the labor
er who makes them.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1901-05-01

All kinds of chop feed and grain for
sale at Forsyth's mill.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1901-05-01

Ex-SECRETARY of State Bush Is as
sisting j. A. Wayland on the Appeal to
Raaaons
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1901-05-01

A good second hand electric battery
for sale cheap. Inquire of DR.. Kociell.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1901-05-01

Get Clark's One Minute Headache
Cure at Young's Drug Store.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-03-17
IDEAS OF HUINOR.
Comicalties OF a Generation Ago Now Regards
ed as Very Stunid

There appears to have been a vast
change in the pictorial work of the hui
morous periodicals in the last few years.
ideal seems TO have been shifted. A few
years ago the Illustrations in a certain
class of these papers were almost iuvar-
ably of some merit in a serious though
often unmeanns way; now they are. for
the most part, srotesque and broadly
comic. Before the Joke" was TO be
found in the text beneath the picture.
Now it is in the picture itself and often
the text is dispensed with altogether.
Most of the humorous papers still retain
one or two artists whose work is of the
finer order. a connecting link between
the old manner and the new in order
that he may furnish a slight counter
potse 10 the comic preponderance. But
the man whose wares are NEST readily
accepted and which command the highest
figure is the caricatCrist Of the original
who has Cs$covered some distorted point
OF view of things. Their pictures amuse
i'll themselves and the text. if text there
be, is a Fictitious aid
y New York artist who used TO
mand d comfortable living by drawing
for the humorous papers comments
rather ruefully on this change in style.
Have you observed he said that the
all flesh? There IS market for it now.
/ used to support myself doing he and
she pictures and nothing else They
would take as many of them as
cared to draw. All that had TO do was
to put q man and a woman on a bench or
{. sofa .strolling down shady Zane,
or sitting the seashore. and their
funny men did the rest. I would not
know what joke was going with the pic
ture unit! l saw it in the paper. The
jokes were always .He'-then his remark
and 'She'-and her reply That is the
way this type ct picture got it's name.
FINALLY, however, the editors of these
papers drew the artistic reins tighter
They said that there WAS nothing in the
expressions OF the he and she to- iudi-
cate that they We're saying the lines the
funny men had given them. Sometimes
YOU sec. would have man leaning
careIessly over the back of u rustic seat
smiling down at - girl. while. accord
ing To the lines, she was giving him the
'mitten- The members OF the he ard
she school were gradually crowded out
by the comics and If they could not
adapt themSeiVe: TO the new style had
to seek other fields. OF course I do not
mean to say there are no more he and
she pictures the comic papers. They
still appear, i5,lt You will observe that
they are not only very well done from
an artistic point OF view. but that the
action in them squares with the sense OF
the lines beneath.
What is the reason for this change III
the humorous papers," echoed the artist
TO question Well. it would be har,'
tn say. lie Is more than q fashion
think. Cali 1t rather an evolution One
reason, believe. is the great improve
ment in the last few years of the Illus
trations in the serious mouthlies and
weeklies. The public sees so much ex-
ceiient pictorial work in these nowadays
that it would nS surfeited if 1t found this
to them for the funny pictures. N Y.
Evening Post
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-03-17

time work of the employees at the navy
Yards of the country during the Spanish
Var and got for these workmen 100000
He reported the bill from the Committee
on Claims, of which he had been a hard-
working member and before which there
are many Virginia claims always. Mr..
Rjxey introduced the resolution to pay
these overtime claims reported it from
the Committee on Claims and got the
consent of Speaker Reed for recognition
and secured it's passage. The resolution
carried about six hundred thousand dol
lars. A good many people in Virginia.
and especially a large number of labor
ing men in Alexandria and Norfolk We're
directly Interested IN. this legislation and
financially helped by it.
Carter of Montana, has had just praise
showered on him for defeating the Piver
and Harbor bill. which provided for an
expenditure of sixty millions and yet lit
tie or no notice has been taken of the
fact that RiXey, leading the fight in the
House, finally secured n reduction in the
Naval Appropriation bill Of nearly TWEEN
ty-fve millions of dollars, by cutting off
provision for sundry new battIeshps and
cruisers ] do not approve of this because
] do not believe the United States can
have too large q navy, though [ am OPP
posed to the retention of the Philippines.
They are too far away, but I would hold
on to Cuba forever and a day. ltir.
Rixey- also took part in the last Congress
in the dscuSs.ol OF the reapportonmrnt
bill. The truth is RiXey is a man OF
sound sense, clear head, half lawyer half
farmer who likes his work and gives
faithful attention to it. He is on :Wo
good -commttees-Clains and Naval At
fairs-and is justly esteemed both as q
good man on committee work and in at
tending to his duties before the depart
ments and on the floor of the House
I NAV add in concession that Mr.. RlXey
believes that all claims against the Gov
eminent should be disposed of by the
courts and that every claimant against
the Government should have his day in
court and that the Government should al
WAYS he represented in the hearing of
their claims by counsel. and il the court
shall find for him. the Government should
pay his clan and not beat him out of it
as has been the policy OF the United States
fof. fifty years or more, and for this pur-
pose he introduced bill in the last House
to increase the membership of the Court
of Claims to nine, instead of five judges.
This bill the Acknowledgement has APP
proved, and the Court of Claims of the
Senate without an effort on Mr.. RiXey's
mousy reported it favorably, and there
is every reason to believe that this bill
will become q law during the next Con-
greSS.
The Eighth District has been ably rep
Barbour. General Lee and others, but
never more ably or efficiently than by
John f. Rixey.
A
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-03-17
The Carnegie Library.
Editor Of The Times:

Editor of The Times:
Sir-ThouSh not now a resident OF
Richmond. as a citizen of one OF its SUI
burbs, I feel a special interest in it as a
CITY and the caDital of Virginia. This in
terest has been felt for nearly fifty years.
Therefore please allow me to give some
reasons which, it seems to ME, should M
duce those in authority to accept the
offer made by Mr.. Carnegie.
A reference to the list OF public libra
ries for the general benefit in the Uni
ted States, will bring to light the fact
that there is not in Virginia such
library as ought to be found in all of the
larger cities of the State; and that Rich
mond is behind several of the smaller
cities of Virginia. 1t is only recently
that it has had q circulating library at
ALL and this one is maintained by prl-
waite contributions. Compare this condi-
ton with the public libraries to be found
in the Northern cities, where towns OF
one-tenth the size of Richmond have
almost universally superior advantages.
Have our people no literary taste; II they
have nothing will cultivate and promote
this taste more than library free or
access at all times. If they have no liter
airy taste it would seem that 1t is high
time something should be done to gen
crate and cultivate it.
In connection, with the condition OF pup
lie libraries, look at our universities and
colleges They are advanced as any one
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-03-17
THE TIMEs RICHMOND. VA. SUNDAY. MARCH IL. 1901.

Industrious and law-abiding citizens The
amount of crime among the negroes is due
/ 10 iGieness, among that class . our. race
Z who care very little for themselves ana
les for COED government; and, by their
acts .he race much suffer. Therefore m
order that the white man may SHOW his
aurree :tion of the good efforts the esro
is putting forth to become an honest ana
PATRIOTIC citizen, it is necessary, aad cob
cations. makeSit his bounded dirty. to SO
changeTthe Constitution of Virginia thar
it may result in building up every citi-
zen. this is making an honest effort in
stead of taking away, to add to her IN
teIligence and wealth
To produce a feeling of mutual Interest
between the negro and the white man.
existing conditions must he changed.
Politics has well-nigll brought JUS TO our
ruin. and the sooner that bad element
OF. our people is eliminated from the
polls the better. Without any delaw, I
venture to say, that every colored man
with any reason and Intelligence would
vote for a change from existing laws, in
regards to suffrage, to a: law putting a
value on citizenship.
One more item I would like to say
something on is in regard to the DIVISION
of the school tax. The Angio-Saxon's
future can be best judged by his past
All along, from their rearlest history, it
has been the trait of the Anslo-SaXon
people to lift up help and to instruct, at
whatever cost, those OF a weaker people
who come under their charge. And 1t is
my belief that nothing less can be said
of the white people Of Virginia. There
may be some who advocate extreme mea-
sures but the rank and file of the white
men and women, who constitute the man
hood and womanhood of Virginia. would
never suffer the descendants of those old
slaves who. in the trying hour Lro.n 1861
to 1855, worked their farms, fed their SOL
dierS and protected their fireSidnS, and
with vigilant eye cared for their women
and children, to grow up in ignorance and
thus withhold the progress Virginia is
now making. I believe we would be better
otis instead of having SO many coll. ses,
to have better primary and intermediate
Schools with longer terms ard better
teachers. The thing the aeS:o needs IS
to teach him to work, to save, to have
and love a home, and I reliave that is
the opinion Of the majority Of the white
people of this State. When the negro
shall have been taught thrift, Industry
and seif-reliance the ,auch-taiked-ot
NEGRO Problem will be ,ol.ed.
III conclusion, Will say I don't believe
the question of a division of school taxes
will come up in the convention. If it does
l believe it will meet with defeat. l will
say nothing further as TO the reduction
of taxes and doing away with ;in,ieces-
sary offices and the reducing of salaries
They belong solely to he white inan, and
are his affair. and can receive better dis
cussion at his hands. But. whatever the
outcome be- I ask all the intelligent and
thinking members of my 'ace t" do all
they can to uphold the Constitution OF
their State and to become laW-ahiding
aad self-respecting citizens.
ROBERT L. a. REID.
Richmond, Va, March 10th, 1901.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-03-17
A CoIored Mans View.

EDITOR i lie IllneS:
Sir-As the Constitutional Convention
is low being warmly discussed. I world
like TO speak in behalf Of the negro -thct
is. in behalf of the majority of tie intel.
':gence of the negro racC.
My idea is. and | think .. the ma. iority
of tll .eople. is the greatest inJ#ry ever
done the negro was the giving him the
fl: exercise of the ballot with the white
man. Intelligence and patriotism arc. TO
4 certain extent inherited The Negro.
p.;or to 1868, was slave. having been
tlkcn from his savage and barb ,,,us ite.
il Africa, and brought - Nnieiicl and
held as a slave until God rl,ed ti.;iL he
should be free he was intellectually
incapable of exercising the right "a ,cf-
frage. Therefore, as would sbe naturally
expected. Nirginia's fair name has ..een
furnished by dishonest elections. and race
prejudice is beginning TO work with ltlil
races to a remarkable degree |, fo:' enc.
will vote TO restrict suffrage 70 suc;l an
extent that only persons who can read
knowing, how to read ard writ ne w2rth
and I believe every other int .llig.:lt col
ored man who has the s.ct.,re OF MS
State. as we'll as his rae,. 1T herr, ;trIs.
are the lovers OF good government, VIII
voice my sentiments
An educational, or. in lieu thereof. a
small property qualification. being the
lprere,uisite to voting. would make orr
people more ambitious to become good
citizens, and the result would be less
idlencss among us. and we would become
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-03-17
Congressman Rixey Hard Worker.

Editor Of The Times:
Sr.-The question is often asked What
does the average congressman do IL re-
turn for the 5000 salary. besides nileaga
a clerhship and allowance for stliio ,,ry
that he gets IN many instances ecrn
would answer, what? But there is one
congressman from Virginia who earns
every dollar that he gets, and who IL
every duty and relation has been TAI i'll
ful and efficient, and of that one the
writer wishes to take notice. lie cr.nes
from the Eighth Congressional Virginia
District, and his name is John +. l,i: cy.
The Eighth Congressional District, l,y
the way, has mad in the forty years crd-
ing March l. 1903. eight Representatives
not counting any so-called representation
OF il from 1861 to 1870. EX-Govcrlvr I'm
ira Billy Smith represented the dotricc
from 1853 10 1861. Hon. Lewis Mckenzie,
OF Alexandria, represented it from .j;,lti-
AIRY ~. $50 10 March. 1871. lion. j.. II.
BraXton. Of fredericksburg, represented
The district from iSIi 10 lSI3 iIuu. Eppa
Hunton was then noS"G aud scr.,Cl uatli
1881, ana he was followed ~ Tbs late
Hon j. $. Barbour. Who served uIl..:: ~.
ll.en came Gcusrll w. II. r. lie" who
Sa"Scd until '.is ...ath i'll 1891. Tiiel Jlon.
j. L. Meredith s2tE d until 1885,, rnI now
Hon. j. L. ItiXcI :, Culpepar, is ';St en-
tering upon his l,i;t term III the Hals.:.
This reorganization Of service will show
that 10 district III the State 'las been 50
ably served as The Eighth Dis L. a!ls
meme is more eXacri ~ y its calls %ro or
requirements of It's conSreSSiO al mem
Der.
1t is a nearby district and needs and
wishes of constituents arc manifold. IT
is safe to say that Mr.. RiXeS has an
average Of thirty callers day; then he
has All average of at least thirty letters
a day to answer: and these callers and
letters are all seen and answered. and as
far as possible served, and this requires
visits to all or nearly all, of the depart
ments Of the Government.
I Mr. RiXey keeps books. so to speak, ior
every letter is indexed and jacket
ed and answered by his faithful and
is not only working, but he is
often q. speaking member. not in the
way of getting leave TO print and then
writing out speeches aud putting in that
there was applause, when that. like the
speech. is simply ls.;tde TO order and nete'
is spoken in he 1iot Sc
Rut during his service Mr.. RiNey had
founa time TO discuss with credit to huT-
self on the floor Of the Ilouse. notably in
tbe first session of the fifty-tiith Con
..r,,ss the bankruptcy law, the Hawaiian
h,,I and the bankruptcy act, the ARM
Reorganization bill aud the Naval .Appra-
pr.at;on bill.
AIR. Rixey has made several notable ;nts
I'm me House ~ s,turing legislation.
T.i.Sf He secured the establishment of
M experimental car.;l at Ar,inS:on+ ;,nd
la, obtained appropriation of S2aln .tt
dif.,.ent times $4,000 each time, 10 DO.
velop the farm.
Second. lie secured pay for the over
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-03-17
The Constitution aud Amendments.

Editor of The Times:
Sir-The subjoined statement appears
10 be mathematical demonstration that
the Constitution of the United States
was found and ratified by the States and
not by we. the people OF the United
States as Mr.. Webster commended y con-
vention to amend. by the terms of the
Constitution, must be called unou the
demand of two-thirds of the States
and we will take the thirty smallest
States The proposed amendments can be
ratified by three-fourths of the States
thirty-four States-and we again take the
smaller States. 4 majority of votes cast
in a State determines the vote of the
State.
The census of 1900 gives the population
of the forty-five States 74.6lo.523.
Population OF thirty smaller States be-
ing two-thirds of tt,e whole number OF
States, % ,5si.310. Oae-half of this L.
T92. 155. Therefore, the voters representing
q population of .oco may call a Con-
stitutionai Convention.
Population of thirty-four smaller States.
being three-fourths of whole number of
States. 33. IL, go. one half of this. 1881.
AIS. therefore the voters representing :.
population Of 16,S5S,eo1 may ratify propos-
ed northumberland is, voters represent
ing about one-hfth of We. the people.
ETC." may change the Constitution Hence
the Constitution was formed by the States
and not by We, the people. o. e D.
SCOTT SHtPP
p. S-For proposing AM! ratifyinS
amendments TO Constitutions. the Vote
of Nevada, population f. 335. is equally
potent with thar of New York, popula-
ton 7.a6S,ol2.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-03-17
Constitutional Convention.

Editor Of The Times:
have observed with admiral ton Your
kind proposition to allow to the public
space in the columns of The Times to
discuss questions in connection with the
proposed change in the organic law OF
the state. and avail myself OF it for a
line or two. Constitutions are not The
work of a day nor are they expected TO
he of only short duration. The Coustitu-
ton under which we live has been per
petuated through well-Ight = third OF a
century. and tits i Monument to the
serene folbcarance and conservatism of
orr Virginia people. when The agencies
aud circumstances Of its formation arc
considered. that they have endured it so
long.
Perhaps the most formidable and deli
cate question with which The convention
viii have 10 deal and the one which en-
cages, the most serious Solicitude of all
thoughtful men. is that of suffrage. That
the convention can do nothing TO deny
or. abrid,se the right Of citizens of the
United states 10 vote. on account OF race.
color or previous condition of scrvitude.
an must agree. for it is expressly for
b;dden by the fifteenth amendment OF
the Constitution of The United States. ana
that Constitution declares that This
Constitution and the laws which shall be
made in pursuance thereof shalt be the
supreme law of the land, and the judges
in every state shall he bound thereby.
any thing in The Constitution or laws
Of any State 10 the contrary notwitl1-
standing.
While. however. this mas not be done