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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-09-10
pulpit orator,

the great Methodist pulpit orator.
Bishop Simpson, say:
How can anybody blame the people
for not accepting Jesus when he was
on earth? 1 don't blame them. He
was out of the ordinary. They did not
comprehend His words or His works.
He, spoke as never man spake. His
words were high above them. His
works made the wise and conservative
old Jews believe that he was mounte-
bank. He was beyond their compre-
tension"
This new business of talking in
instantaneously over an electric wire,
for distance of forty miles, seemed
a trife doubtful to capita lists, large
and small. The inventors and man
ayers queered their own business by
claiming that they could transmit in
telligence over wires thousand miles
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-09-10
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

An electric ray weighing 112 pounds
has been caught off Hastings, Eng
land.
Since 1872 1000 miles of railroads
have been laid in the japanese en-
pire.
Ninety per cent. of the $1,000, 900
people of the Russian empire are
farmers.
At Colwyn Bay, North Wales,
three policemen control summer
population of 10000.
Sweden's last census records the
lowest death rate yet attained by a
civilized nation. During the last ten
years it only averaged 16.49 per 1000.
New coal fields which have been
opened up in Poland may, it is stated.
lead to Warsaw becoming one of the
foremost manufacturing cities in Eu-
rope.
PineappIes grow so plentifully in
Natal at certain seasons that it is
not worth while carting them to mar
ket, and they are often given to the
pigs in consequence.
Betting ON the results of the re-
cent municipal elections at Rome was
permitted by the government. The
wagering was conducted on the pari-
mutual system, and the profits were
devoted to charitable purposes.
The most notable attraction in a
mosque at Delhi is single red hair,
which is said to have been plucked
from the mustache of Mahomet 1t
is kept under glass, and visitors are
permitted to look at it on payment
OF a sum equal to about one shilling.
Probably there is no more chart
table woman in New York than Mrs.
Clara Simon, who recently turned
over the total savings of lifetime
S3O,0O0-to the Lebanon hospital to
save the institution from bankrupt
cy For 40 years she has labored in
her little shoe store on the east side
and has kept even her neighbors in
ignorance of her many charitable
works.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-09-10
SAMUEL F. B. MORSE

electricity of the clouds, the power
which lifted he veil for Benjamin
Franklin. prepared in many ways for
the then-coming civil war. The same
power to decelop in Ericcson's mind
the revolving monitor turret in time,
just to the very minute and second.
The same power developed the re-
peating rife in time to hasten the
close of that war. Great disclosures
like the magnet, movable types, the
. compass, electricity in its various
forms and appliances, are not acct
dents. They are disclosed to mankind
in time for great crises. They are not
discovered by men. They are dis
closed unto men,"
The pamphlet which Mr.. Lansburgh
loaned the writer was issued manifest
ly for the purpose of booming the new
enterprise; and presumably to aid in
the disposalsof stock in order to raise
money to further develop the business.
Stock which people to-day would be
glad to buy was hesitatingly taken in
those days. It seems strange TO us
that anybody should have hesitated.
But distrust is the habit Of conserya-
tive men. The narrator once heard
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-09-10

Warden Jewett, of the Kansas
prison, says: ga regular teacher
should be detailed to take charge of
the Instruction of the unlettered con-
victs. There is a school at the peni-
Tertiary now but it is conducted by
inmates. | believe a civilian teacher
should be at the head of it. There is
no doubt that education does much
for the ignorant criminal and has a
tendency to lead him into better
paths. 1t will be slight expense to
tn. state and may result in great
cd"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-09-10
HER TRIUMPH In ECONOMY.
The Wife of the Hard Working Man
Has Her Own Ideas About Re-
ducinE Expenses.
works.

WELL" groaned the Hard. Working
Man, ''woman's ideas Of economy are
certainly wonderful"
And the six married men who were
listening groaned a sympathetic as
sent, says the New York Evening Tel
egram.
Il was going over my wife's account
books the other evening"" he contin-
ued, land I found to my surprise and
CONSERVATION that we were living at
fearfully expensive rate. My wife
is quite young, you know. In fact,
we have only been married about five
months, so she does not know much
about running an establishment. Of
course, l did not want to hurt her
feelings by demonstrating or kick
ing up rumpus, so 1 said to her as
mildly as possible:
i find. my love, that you are spend
ing 81 200 year more than I can pos
sibly allow you. 1 know that you are
young and inexperienced. but your
expenditures must be cut down, and
that imm ediately, for I am man of
very moderately means, and if we 90
on living at the present rate l shall be
forced into bankruptcy. else entertain
my friends in apartments at the Lud-
low street jail
This naturally discomposed her.
and there was a suspicion of tears in
her eyes. She gulped hard several
times before replying, but finally she
faltered:
VERY well, Henry, darling, 1 shall
be more careful in the future. I'll
begin to save, and scrape and econo.
mize this very week.-Mrs. very day
| and you shall see that your little wife
is not such a spepdthrift or bad man.
ager as you take her to be-
"Well, week later my wife met me
at the door on my return from the
days grind and kissed me with the
| light of future shining in her ewes
like a limelight on matinee idol.
Henry said she, I promised YOU
| that [ would begin an era of economy
| instanter, didn't I?'
"'You did, my pet I responded
and you have
Succeeded she interrupted with
shrek of joy. I have already re-
| duced our expenses
"'You don't say!' cried, thorough.
| ly enraptured. In what way. NAV
| inquire. dearest hearth
| You'd never guess in the world.
she responded, bound to keep me il
a proper condition of suspense AND
expectation before breaking the GLAD
tidings.
Don't make me try retorted.
Henry said she proudly and inn
pressively. 4 have stopped the morn
ing paper and given away the cat,"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-09-10
FIogged Out of Town.

Residents of Mayetta, Jackson
county, did not like the actions of a
shiftless fellow who showed up there
and a committee waited upon him
and requested him to get out of town
quickly and take a certain woman
with him. AS he didn't move rapidly
enough to suit the committee, u
number of buggy whips were brought
into play, and -. was fairly fogged
out of town.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-09-10
Don,t swear at the Telephone.

Don't swear at the telephone girl,
no matter how provoking may be the
delays. A doctor in st. Louis who
permitted his Impotence to overcome
his politeness in this way was fined FIVE
dollars and costs for disturbing the
peace" Most of US are sorely tempt
ed at times to unburden our souls to
the telephone wire. but the ruling OF
the st. Louis court. If not our own
sense of propriety, win give US pause.
Minneapolis Tribune.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-09-10
Historic Mule Retired.

John Peter ST. John-not the ex-
governor of Kansas, but mule which
has done yeoman service in the prison
coal mine at Lansing-has been put
on the pension list. For nearly 20
years he has been in the coal mine.
He was sent down there when ST.
John was governor. The cOnvicts
named him John Peter ST. john
and the name stuck to him.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-09-10
Two New Amendments.

At the election this fall two con-
stitutional amendments will be voted
on. One provides for the biennial
election of all township, as well as
state, county and judicial officers.
The other provides for raising the
pay of legislators to $500 session.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-09-10
More Stringent Law Needed.

The wholesale slaughter of prairie
chickens in western Kansas for the
markets has brought forth a demand
that the next legislature pass a law
prohibiting the shipment of prairie
chickens out of the state; also pro-
hibiting their slaughter for the mar
kets within the state
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-09-10
Unique Political Convention.

The Kansas City Journal calls at
tention to perhaps the most unique
political convention ever held in Kan
sas. In Gray county the republican
convention for the nomination of
county officers was composed of Is
delegates, 8 of whom named the en-
tire ticket of IL officials
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-09-10
Col. Anthony Prefers Charges.

Col. ID. r. Anthony, editor of the
Leavenworth Times, has sent a letter
to the post Office department. COM
planning that the assistant postmas-
ter at Topeka, j. X. Rodgers, is
treasurer of the republican club and
is taking an active part in the cam
paign in the interests of Congress
man Curtis candidacy for the United
States senate
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-09-10
Law Persistently violated.

John Haughey, state fish commits
sioner, has distributed in the state
two cars of black bass from the
United States hatchery this year
Meanwhile vandals continue to use
dynamite and to seine the streams
and ponds. contrary to law, and the
law requiring persons who own dams
to provide fshways is ignored.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-09-10
Grain STACK. are Green.

A dispatch from Emporia said:
Wheat and rye that has been stacked
is in bad way. The wet weather has
caused the grain to grow as far
down as the water reached. Many
of the stacks look like huge green
mounds in the middle of the fields.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-09-10
Value of Fishvvays.

The value of fishways has been
proved this year. For the first time
in many years fish of the large size
have been caught in the headwaters
of the Kansas streams, and it was due
wholly to the extraordinary floods
which let the fish pass over the dams.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-09-10
His Plea Didn't Go.

Charles and James Monnett are
in Jail at Salina charged with rob-
bling residence. Charles in order
to clear Lewis, who is married, tes-
titled that he (Charles) had commit
ted the burglary, but the officer
wouldn't believe him.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-09-10
BuiIdinr for the Frisco.

The Cherryvale, Oklahoma & Texas
railroad will be built at once. 1t will
be backed by the Frisco. From
Cherryvale the road will run south
west through Caney to Perry, Ok.
and eventually to El Paso. Tex.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-09-10

In many counties of the state the
county commissioners will take adj
vantage of the law and bar dealers
in tax deeds from the September
sales. One provision of the act gives
the county the right to take in all
real estate upon which taxes are de-
linquent, and thereafter, until re-
demption by the owners, the invest
ment draws Is per cent. interest.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-09-10
Alfalfa as a Money Maker.

Alva Crandel, a farmer near Little
River, has $50 acres of alfalfa. He
let the second crop go to seed and il
made four bushels to the acre, or
$50 bushels, which is worth $40 per
bushel, or $4,000, or $40 per acre. He
will get two cuttings of hay, which
will make him about 200 tons of hay,
worth SIS per ton, or $1,000, a total
of S6,20O-this on land which was
bought few years ago for less than
$40 per acre.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-09-10
Rev. Lowther a Socialist.

Rev. Granville Lowther, who was
dismissed from the Methodist church
and ministry for his peculiar re-
ligious views. is now delivering So
cialist speeches.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-09-10
Jumped from Fast Moving Train.

Harold Pierce, arrested for forgery
at Sylvia, leaped from a train near
Partridge while it was going 40 miles
an hour. No trace of the fugitive has
yet been found.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-09-10
Poor start I'm Life.

In the past three years five babies
have been born on the Franklin
county poor farm.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-09-10
coroner tor 30 Year..

At the republican convention in
Marshall county DR.. w. F. Boyakin,
who lacks but four, years of being
100 years of age, was made the NOM
inee for coroner. He has held the
position for 80 years.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-09-10
EIopers Sent Back Home.

Arthur Jones, aged %, and Daisy
Alexander, aged II, eloped from FL
linwood but were arrested at Newton
and sent home to their parents.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-09-10
Charges WIN he sifted.

Gov. Stanley directed thorough
sitting of the charges that the boys
at the Topeka reform school were
half fed.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-09-10
This Is Prairie Chicken Time

In Kansas prairie chicken may be
killed between August Is and October
1; doves and plover, between July Is
and September Is, and quail in the
month of December. It is unlawful
to kill. at any time, partridge, grouse,
pheasants, meadow larks, robins,
thrush, red birds, bluejays, turtle
doves, blue birds or orioles, except
that the owners of orchards may,
for the protection of such orchards,
kill orioles and bluejays at any time
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1902-04-10

Autumn haze. says a meteorologic.
al expert, is dust composed of the fin
est particles Of soil. dead leaves, smoke
or ashes from wood fires. salt from
ocean spray. the shells or scales from
microscopic siiceous diatonls, germs of
fungi. spores of ferns, pollen Of flow
ers, etc In the still air of damp nights
these dust particles settle slowly down,
and the morning air Is comparatively
clear. During the daylight the sun
warns the soil, which heats the ada
cent air. and the rising air currents
carry up the dust as high as they 90.
Under certain conditions this layer Of
dust reaches higher and higher each
day. During long. dry summers In In
dia II reaches to a height of 1000 feet,
with well defined upper surface that
Is higher in the daytime than at night.
The reason why we have more of haZy
weather in autumn is because there is
then less horizontal wind and more ris-
ing air.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1902-04-10

The year ISL MIS- chronological
oddity of the addesi klni. besides being
Il mathematical curiosity seldom equal.
ed. Froll rightto left ard left - right
Il reads ihe same. Eighteen divided
by gives . rs Il qeotient: 81 divided
by . gives .: If divided By o. the quo.
tient contains a .: II multiplied by ..
the product contains two Is. and 5
are .; 8 ard are o. II the IL he placed
under the 81 and added. the sum Is %.
II the figures be added thus--1. s. S,
1T will give Is as the result. Reading
20 the middle from right To left or
from left to right it is 1s, and Is is
two-ninths of 81. BY adding, dividing
and multiplying ten 0s are produced,
being one . for each year to the begin
ming of the last decade of the nine
teenth century.
No wonder the fortune tellers. the as
trologers and the mathematieians
weave so many strange fancies around
that curious combination of figures. II
may have been what induced Mother
Shpton TO end her prophetic jingle
with, "And at last the world TO an end
shall come in eighteen hundred and
eighty-one.'
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1902-04-10
Cnrlyle,s View of Aprons.

Carlyle in his "Sartor Resartus" was
able to find deep philosophy in aprons
Aprons are defenses against injury
to cleanliness. to safety, TO modesty
sometimes 10 roguery From the thin
slip of notched silk las il were, the en-
blem and beatified ghost OF an apron
which some highest bred housewife has
gracefully fastened on TO the thick
tanned hide girt around him with
thongs, wherein the builder builds and
at evening sticks his trowel, or TO those
jingling sheet iron aprons wherein
your otherwise half naked Vulcans
hammer and smelt in their smelt fur
mace, is there not range enough in the
fashion and uses of this vestmentf"
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1902-04-10
DECREASE oE KISSING.
Women Now Greet Each other wit
Grasp of the Hand.

4
Grasp of the Hand.
Is THIS page right or is it mistaken
In thinking that kissing among women
is greatly ON the decrease? Time was
when feminine relatives met they in
yafiably saluted each other on the lips,
not because of any great esteem that
they felt one for the other, but because
the tie of blood seemed to demand
some warmer greeting than mere
handshake.
Why, one country church In Southern
Maryland that this page attended as a
child had congregation In which ey-
eryone was related TO everyone else,
and before the morning service OH Sun
days a regular osculatory meeting was
held In the Yestibule, even the rector
being sometimes involved, though, of
course, without scandal, for nothing
less than second cousins were expected
to salute him. After service adieus
were said in the same warm fashion,
and then the flower of the countryside
drove away well pleased with itself.
'OhhNAthlt5 DDAS anu SclI-GOH-
seious youths wrlthed out of the grasp
Of those who would caress them, and
managed TO elude their pursuers, but
generally everyone submitted with the
best grace he could muster to n cere-
mony that was plainly perfunctory, but
done in the best interest of the com
munlty.
little later than this the cheek be-
gan to be offered for the salute instead
of the mouth, and this page remembers
well with what embarrassment did she
wonder what she was expected to do
with the ear her Cousin Bella, late from
New York, turned toward her. Luckily
she gave It dutiful peck, and did not
scream into 1t as she was half minded
TO do.
Turning the cheek, it now becomes
apparent, was an expedlent intended to
let ones friends and relatives down
easy before ceaslng to kiss them alto
gether, for ii was shortly after this that
the masculine grasp of the hand came
into such vogue. Said grasp seems now
more than popular. One rarely sees
warmer greeting between two femin-
mites In public, but it seems sufficient
TO express rare degree of cordially
The bachelor girl would scorn anything
more enthusiastic, of course, and her
mother almost as rarely forgets her
self.
Occasionally white-haired old lady
INDUCES in some show of tenderness
when people are about, but she quickly
checks 1t as she remembers that she
may have an audience
After all, why may not a warm clasp
of the hand express as much affection
and sincerity as kiss? Perhaps 1t may
Perhaps it expresses more. At all
events, femnity seems to think II the
most lifting greeting at this period of
the worlds history. Baltimore News.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1902-04-10
HOLIDAYS IN CUBA.
About 200 of Them in "A Year-Ameri-
cans Disastrous Experience.

About 200 of Them in Year-Ameri-
cans Disastrous Experience.
II never did find out exactly how
many legal holidays they have In
Cuba said an American who had once
run sugar plantation over there, but
was green enough in the beginning
to figure them out ut eight or ten.
knew they had three or four more than
In this country, and didn't take the ex-
ira ones into account when signing
contracts. | had to sign contracts with
my forcmen, engineers, french, and 50
on, to the number of twenty, and 1t was
by the month, with all legal holidays
thrown In We had been cutting cane
and boiling sugar three or four days
when | went down to the sugar house
one morning to find all the hands idle.
"'What does this meant asked of
about.
ITS saints day and legal holt
day, senior, he answered.
"But we can't stop business for a
saint protested.
1.-The contract, senor-the contract"
The whole gang wasted the whole
day doing nothing" said the planter,
but went to work again next day. At
the end of three days the calendar
brought around another saint, and bust.
ness was shut down again for twenty
four hours. When they had played It
on me for the third time in a fortnight
| went to the alcalde of the village and
said:
"'Look here, now, but how many
holidays do you have in this countryr
"T have never counted them up,
senor,' he replied, but believe there
are about two hundred
"'And are my hands obliged to keep
them nllT
"'Not all, senior. should say that II
they kept $50 of the saints days the
others could go by
"And must lose third of the time
and pay for all of itT
"'Sl, senior. A contract Is con-
tract Surely you would not wish your
laborers to lose their souls?
"They had me tight, and as conse-
quence | made only half crop and
came out loser by $4,000 Mt the end
Of the year. 1t was not until had sold
the business in disgust that learned
what fool had made of myself.
/ had signed contracts, as | have said,
but If had creased that alcaldo's palm
I with $25 In gold he'd have seen me
through"
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1902-04-10
A Serinns Defect.

Paderewski Joseffy Fortissimo Lee
Was the greatest pianist you ever did see;
He rendered fantasias. gavottes and can
tatas,
Cadenzas and oyertures, fugnes and soma
tas.
He could play like the sweep of a rush
ing cyclone,
Or as softly and low as the south winds
faint moan.
lie knew all the works of Beethoven and
List,
or Wagner and Chopn-not one had he
missed.
He gained honors and aurels wherever
he went
And he knew he deserved them. SO he
was content.
But his pride had fall, for one summer
day
A dear little girl came to hear this man
play;
And she said, as he turned politely to
greet her,
Please, sir. can you play Peter. Peter,
Pumpkin Eater
He was deeply chagrined. and he felt
very blue,
But he meekly replied, NO. | can't dear
Can you?"
ooh, yes" she responded. She flew to
the keys,
With her two fat forefngers she played
it with ease.
And she afterward said Il would rather
be me
Than Padercwski Joseffy Fortissimo
Lee"
-Judge
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1902-04-10

Dan, colored man, was employed as
porter in mercantile establishment in
a town in Florida, and his duties re-
quired him to have the store swept by
Z O'Clock in the morning. He had been
late for many mornings, and on the
sixteenth consecutive time his employ
er demonstrated with him thus:
Dan. why can't you get here on
timer
well, Mr.. L. said Dan, yer see,
live the other side of Mount Hermon
cemetery and can't always get yere on
time
why in the world do you live so far
from your work. said his employer.
Without a moments hesitation Dan
responded:
Yer see it's dis we're way, Mr.. L.
I'll be homes wild yer-I wants home
beyond the grave"
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1902-04-10

Among the curiosities preserved by
the Minnesota Historical society is n
autographed copy of an engrossment
of the emancipation proclamation. The
engrosser, one w. II. Pratt of Daven-
port, Ia, was SO very skillful in his
manipulations of the pen that he sue
ceeded, by careful and exact shading
of the letters. in producing n very ex-
cellcnt portrait of Abraham Lincoln,
the author of the famous document, in
the center Of the copy. In other words,
the lettering itself is made to form a
portrait of Mr.. Lincoln. There were
probably a large number of them orig.
inaly struck off, hut copies of 1t are
now very rare. As a specimen of pen
work ii is certainly very unique