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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-09-17
Most Likely.

Daughter-Wasn't that a beautiful
thing was playing just now, pa?
Pa-Er-yes. 1 think, to appreciate
it, one should judge it like an oil paint
ing-at a distance, my dear.-Ally
Sloper.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-09-17
Not a Fee.

Wife-You men is jus born stingy.
Why can't you give me some spendin'
money?
Husband Ga waiter)-'Cause the only
customers I has had fer three days
~as women.-N. Y. Weekly.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-09-17

Look here, this house is clear out
of sight of the water, and you told
me before 1 signed the lease OF this
cottage that could put rod out of
the window and catch fish in the
lake"
We'll, 1 didn't say how long your
pole would have to be."-Chicage
Tribune
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-09-17

did you get any tips on the races
this year?"
eyes, 1 got one from the boss this
morning."
what was it?'
He said he'd fire me if he ever
heard that I played them" -Chicago
American.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-09-17
An Allen County Girl.

Miss Mae Scott, who was nomi-
mated by the republican state con-
vention of Idaho few days ago for
state superintendent of schools, is
a Kansas girl. She was born and
raised in Allen county. She grad
uated from the Emporia normal
school in 1892 and went to Idaho to
teach at Blackfoot.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-09-17
It VIII Shrink.

Customer-But this suit is three
times too big.
Eichenstein-Oh, but mine trent.
jhust wait It'll i'd rains.-Ohio State
Journal.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-09-17
May Send Boys to reform school.

The attorney general holds that
there is no question regarding the
right of justice of the peace to send
boy to the reform school, as the law
is very plain on that point.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-09-17
After the Start.

Clara-Young Smiley is an easygo
ing sort of chap, isn't he?
Maude-Yes; but it's awfully hard
to get him started toward home
Chicago Daily News.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-09-17
A Favored Exceptfo

The little busy bee goes forth
In exultation just
He gathers sweets for all he's worth
And fears no sugar tust
Washington Star
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-09-17
Cemetery's Distinguished Dead.

With the burial of Judge Horton,
Mount Vernon cemetery at Atchison
contains the remains of a United
States senator, a governor and a
chief Justice of the supreme court.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-09-17
It's Correct CIa..iacat,o,.

Gobang-I hear that your son has
snug berth in the consular service.
Grymes-Weil. hardly snug berth.
Rather ..-ding bed. 1t only pays
$50: year.-Brooklyn Life.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-09-17

Gas City, Allen county, which half
dozen years ago was hardly in ex-
istence, has just voted $4,000 bonds
for waterworks.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-09-17
He Founded TioEa.

T. c. Jones, who founded Tioga.
Neosho county, which afterward was
merged into Chanute, is dead. He
had lived in Chanute 80 years.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-09-17
Masculfne View.

Mrs. Bicker (readingl-A woman
IAN endure pain better than a man.
Bicker-Huh! I wonder what shoe
maker wrote Chicago Daily
News.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-09-17
Eighty Bushels to- the Acre.

Eighty bushels of oats to the acre
is the phenomenal yield of a ten
acre tract on the Isaac Baughman
farm near Centropolis.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-09-17
Abilene Woman Drowned Herself

Miss Ann Hargreaves, a middle
aged woman of Abilene, drowned
herself in the cistern at her home,
presumably while temporarily in
sane.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-09-17
Permanent.

This strange, eternal, cruel fact
Will stick when all of US are still
There's always one fly left in the room,
No matter how many you kill.
Judge
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-09-17
Howard to Issue Bond..

The attempt to tie up Towards
$1,000 issue of bonds to bore for
oil and gas was defeated, Judge AK
man refusing to grant the injunction
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-09-17
The Era of High Prices.

Mary had little lamb;
The waiter claimed it was just
AS much as they could give and live;-
So Mary blamed the trust
Puck
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-09-17
District Judge Resigned.

w. T. Bland, fusion judge of the
Atchison county district court, has
resigned to enter the wholesale drug
business.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-09-17
historic Character Dead

DIR. George Lisle, who was the first
white resident of Labette county and
who founded Chetopa, is dead at the
age Of Ss.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-09-17
This Ought to Hold Him.

A Cimarron jointist got $1,000 and
400 days for trifing with the af-
fections of the prohibitionists.-Ot-
tawa Herald.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-09-17
No Scandal,

He kissed her. He could not withstand
The chance that offered. maybe.
He was a politician and
She was voters baby.
Washington Star
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-08-22
The short Step Between.
philadelphia Record.D

I was on the Paris when she ran on
the rocks off the English coast, a couple
of years ago." aid a Philadelphia trav-
cling man yesterday, and in the panic
that ensued there was an incident that
stands out in my memory, illustrating
the slender thread between the tragic
and the ridiculous. We had q fellow on
board who had managed to keep pretty
we'll loaded all the way across. and
when we struck the rocks he was in his
usual condition. When everybody
though for sure we were going to the
bottom, he sat down at the piano in the
saloon, and what do you suppose he be-
gan playing? Home, Sweet Home.
Somebody went to him and begged him
to stop. Immediately he switced of
from the doleful strains of the old song
TO the rollicking melody of Down went
McGinty.' The a~bsurdity OF the thing
seemed to strike everybody at once
and a general laugh followed. The ten
sion was relieved, and there was good
order after that"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-08-22
Curious TRANSLATION Errors.

Some amusing errors are made by
~translators. An Italian paper turned
Kipling's "Absent-minded Beggar' into
a Distracted Mendicant." Another
Italian editor who translated a passage
from an English paper about a man
who had killed his wife with a poker
added an ingenius footnote to say, We
do not know with certainty whether
his thing 'pokero' be a domestic or
surgical instrument" The desperate
eXpedient of the French translator Of
Cooper's Spy" who had to explain how
a horse could be hitched Ito a locust
is worth recalling. He had Fever heard
of locust trees and rendered the word
by "sauterelle," or grasshoprer. Feel
ing that this needed some explanation,
he appended a foot note explaining that
graSshopperS grew to d gigantic size in
the United States and that it was the
custom to place a stuffed specimen at
the door of every mansion for the con-
venience of visitors, who hitched their
horses to it.-EX.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-08-22
CAMPAIGN AGAINST MOROs.
Must be Dealt With Severely Before
They Will Respect United States
AuthOrity.

Washington, August 1S.-A Cabs 1s
patch has been received from Conceal
Chaffee stating in his judgment an ac-
tive campaign against Moros in Nun
danao was necessary in order to curb
the opposition that has been growing
against United States authority. The
dispatch was considered of sufficient
importance to be repeated to President
Roosevelt at Oyster Bay.
General Chaffee has been directed ID
use his own discretion In the matter Al !
will no doubt engage If an aggressive
movement against the lnsurgent MoroE.
Some time before Secretary Root left
Washington the Moros situation Was
under consideration and from a dis
patch then at hand the secretary
vas of the opinion that the Moros mUef
be dealt with severely before they
would respect the authority of the Unit
ed States.
General Chafce is now in MInlanao,
having left Manila some days ago. Ii
the campaign should continue for soma
time he no doupt will remain IN the
Philippines instead of leaving on Sep
TENDER Goth as he had planned. 1t y
understood at the war department that
General Chaffee has sufficient troo-s tC
make an active campaign.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-08-22
EXCURSIONIST KILLED.
4 Negro Fell from the Top Of the
Excursion 'Train Which Arrived
Here Last Evening from Atlanta.
He Had Gone on Top to Escape
the

A colored excursion party of between
seven and eight hundred people r'rived
here last evening from Atlanta by way
Of the Seaboard Air Line. The train
came by way of Chester, S. c., and
Monroe, n. c., and when the train was
between those places one Of the SXcur-
sionists ran on top of the train 10 get
out of the way of the conductor. he
had bought a ticket but sold it and de-
cided to beat his way on the t ain.
Some of the eXcursionists saw him
scramble on top of a car and as the
train was running at the rate of fifty
miles an hour, the car gave a lurch and
the negro was whirled over the SIDE.
They saw him hit h~eadforemost and he
never moved after falling alongside the
track.
The train was slowed down and a tele-
gram was sent back to h section mas
ter to look out for the man. He was
found and the section master tele-
graphed ahead of the train that the
mans neck was broken.
Several other ecursionists were OH top
of the train to beat their way.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-08-22
Not at all Excited.

In a certain Wisconsin city lives ar
old German, now past eighty, who has
for years been in the hotel business.
The old gentleman is very fond of card
playing, and pitch is his favorite game
One day a couple Of years ago a party
was sitting about a table playing and
just as the cards had been dealt and
sorted and it was up to the old gentle
man to bid for the trump a boy rushed
into the office and in great excitement
said the barn was on fire.
Without showing the least perturba-
ton the old gentleman turned TO him,
and the following conversation took
place
Did you get out the horse"
Yes"
Did you the buggy get out?"
Yes"
We'll" turning to'the players, Il bid
observation-disclosures Magazine.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-08-22
HABEAs CORPUS HEARING.
All Released Exec II
Three Washery viii start ID
Again.

W~ilkesbarre, Pa, August 1S.-The
hearing in the habeas corpus proceed
ings in the case OF The guards and
workmen employed at the Warrske
washery at Duryea who We're arrested
last Thursday by the authorities OF the
town charged with melting d riot and
~felonfous w~ounding came up before
Judge HaIscy in court today.
A large number of witnesses were
and the testimony was con-
ficting. The attorneys for the defense
said ii was a travesty Dr. justice To
arrest the officers and Jail them for
doing their duty. After hearing the
evidence Judge Halsey discharged all
the defendants except thrCc-Kinney.
Reynolds and Madden They held In
200 bail each for trial at court. Fred
erick Warnke. the owner OF tie washery
where the riot occurred. saws the ac-
quittal of the deputies Will Justify him
in starting up the washeTy again and
he has serve notice oil Sheriff Jacobs
that IL he does not provide a protection
for his workmen and property on We'd
nesday he will max an appeal To- the
governor for 0
The beginning % he fifteenth week
OF the strike shows no apparent change
in the situation. It was thought that
the Lehigh Valley would start
their Malthy colIiery today md early
this morning 4 number Of strikers
gathered in the vicinity Of the mine,
but no effort was made to resume
work
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-08-22
Admiral schIey visits His Son.

Pittsburgh, n. Y August Admir-
al and Mrs. SchIey arrived at Platts-
burgh barracks today on a ten days
visit to their son, Captain Thomas F.
Schley, of the BIRD infantry.
A reception was held in their honor
and this afternoon fhey attended the
baseball game between Plattsburgh and
Paul Smiths. After the game many OF
the spectators shook hands with the
admiral as he was leaving the grounds.
Tomorrow he will review the Twenty
third regiment
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-08-22

!. F1ee Press CDem.

Detroit F1ce Press (Dem.)
With characteristic Roseveltia1 d.
rectEess. the president has carried his
Cuban reciprocity quarrel TO the people.
IN his Fourth OF July speech At Pitts
burg. Mr.. Roosevelt declared. with that
bluntness which mas brought him most
Of his political success and all his poll
tival enemies: Il regret that n meas
ure OF reciprocity with Cuba Is not al
ready embodied IN statute or in treaty
but II viii be just as sure as fate" The
boldness Of this challenge 10 the beet
sugar interests and the beet sugar
cabal Will startle the senatorial clique
that was responsible for the smother
ing OF the reciprocity act
They are becoming accustomed 10 the
presidents "you-be-damned" methods
in private, but it Is an innovation 10 deal
with a president who does not tanely
submit 20 defeat in the interests OF
party harmony. Mr.. Mckinley caught
all mis- flies with molasses. and when
the fly refused to stick he accepted the
seemingly inevitable in a spirit OF
cheerful resignation. Mr.. Mckinley re-
garded free trade with Porto Rico as n
plain duty: but when congress de-
clined TO accept MS opinion. he grace
fully adopted the opinion OF congress.
He had led the congressional horse 10
water. and If the obstinate beast would
not drink, he himself was disposed to
stoop down and wash his hands Of all
responsibility. Not so with Mr.. Roose-
welt The animal ought to drink. So
the president gleefully seizes the horse
by the neck and proceeds to chuck its
nose into the water. II is an interest
ing performance. and the sympathy of
the spectators is certain TO be with the
bronco buster.
A president can seldom make a mis-
take by appealing to the conscience Of
the American people, and few citizens
Will think the worse of Theodore
Roosevelt for refusing to accept the
inaction of congress in respect to Cuba
as final. IN the side Of the beet sugar
combination are nineteen senator's, ac-
tuated by various motives: but on the
side of the president is the great ma
jority of American people, who have
some little pride in the honor and good
faith Of their country, and see no rea-
son why these should Be pr~ostituted in
the interests of a single industry that
a soon sustain itself off its by-pro-
ducts.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-08-22

Nesquehoning. Pa. August lS.-Ir 4
flash between striking mine workers
and deputies here tonight. Patrick
Sharp, a striker. OF Lansford, was shot
and killed almost instantly by a deputy.
The shooting caused considerable ex-
element for 4 time, but order was soon
restored without any other person
being injured and the town Is now
quiet \ deputy named Harry MoEl-
royle vas arrested charged with me
killing OF Sharp, and was taken TO tae
county jail ut Mauchchunk.
The shooting occurred shorty after 8
O'Clock. Five deputies were on their
way to shaft No. / of the Lchigh Coal
and Navigation company just outside OF
the town. In the centre Of tho town
they were met by a number of strikers
who began ~persuading them not to go
TO the colliery. The officers did not
stop but Kept on their way and tried
10 prevent any trouble. n strikers, it
is said then began to abuse the men
and followed them nearly up TO the COL
liery. There are conflicting stories As To-
actually brought on The clash, but
tAAS EAh@ g.
shot was heard and Sharp dropped To-
the ground. The bullet entered his
body close to his heart and he died al
instantly. Witnesses say that the
shooting was done by McElmcyle and
that he stood only six or seven feet
from Sharp when he fired his revolver.
Only one shot was fired.
The deputies Immediately withdrew
TO the colliery and n large crowd gath
cred about the place. When IL was
learned that Sharp was dead there was
the greatest indignation among the
strikers and other town people, and for
a time 1t looked as though serious
trouble would follow. Cooler heads
among the workers, however prevailed
upon the crowd TO dispense. using the
argument that If there Is any bloodshed
troops would surely be sent here from
Shenandoah. The crowd dispersed and
| the town soon claimed down To its nor
NAL state.
Witnesses to the shooting went TO the
] office of w. r. Watkins, the justice OF
| the peace, and made information
against Harry McElmoyle, charging
| him with the shooting of Sharp. The
| justice placed the warrants In the hands
| of Constable Decker who found Nc
| Elmoyle at Shaft No. ! md accompan-
led by a guard Of other officers o
him prisoner to the county Jail ut
Mauchchunk.
Sheriff j. H. Gounbert OF this Gar
bon) county is at MauchchunR. Il il
reported here that he may ask that a
| detachment of the troop now statiored
| at Shenandoah be sent into the Pan
| ther Creek valley.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-08-22
National Florists in Session.

Messrs. Will and Carl Render left
Sunday for Asheville at attend the an
nual meeting of h Society Of Ar' ricGn
Florists and Ornamental Horticulturists
which will be in session August 18th,
Goth, 21st and 22nd. They carried alol;
a lot Of emu fly trap, m plants.
sea moss and other bontanical speci-
mems of this section. The venus fly trap
and trumpet plants always excite great
interest among florists.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-08-22
iced of Trust Filed.

A deed OF trust was filed in the Office
Of the register OF deeds yesterday by
the American Wood Speciality Com
pany, Of Wilmington. TO the Knicker-
booker Trust Company, OF New York.
The company gives a mortgage on It's
wharf property. on Surry street be
tween Church and Castle streets, 'front.'
ing on deep watar PA feet and extending
from the river 20 Surry street; also on
the company's patents for manufacture
ing kindling wood. and It's corporate
franchises.
The mortgage Is to cover the issue OF
$4,000 ten year five per cent gold
bonds, payable IN 1872.
The document is signed by John b.
Eccleston. president OF h American
Wood Specially Company and by Fred
w. Bartlett, its secretary.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-08-22
CONGRESSIONAL CONVENTION.
The Democrats of the Sixth District
Will Meet at IL O'Clock Tomorrow
at Fayetteville-SOme of New Han
overs Delegates Gone and Others
Will go Up Today.

The democratic convention for the
nomination of a candidate for congress
will meet at Fayetteville tomorrow and
be called to order at II m.
Major VIM. H. Bernard, chairman of
the New Hanover county delegation,
left for Fayetteville yesterday morning,
and Hon. JOIN D. Bellamy, New Han
overs candidate, left in the afternoon
on the 3:45 p. m, train bound by Cha
bourn and Elrod.
A number Of delegates left on the
steamer Highlander, but the majority
will go up on the regular train on the
Atlantic and Yadkiu branch of the At
lantic Coast Line, leaving this morning
at $40 o'clock.
Mr.. Bellamy and mis- friends go to
Fayetteville confident of winning the
nomination.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-08-22
INVITATION FROM PRESIDENT.
Senator Pritchard Will Lunch n
Oyster Bay on the 21st.

Charlotte, n. c., August 1S.-A special
to the Observer from AshevIle, y. C,
says:
Senator Pritchard has received from
President Roosevelt an ceedIng kind
letter of sympathy prompted by the re-
cent death of Mrs. PritchaId. and ex-
pressing a desire for a conference with
the senator. As President Roosevelt
will cave for his trip 10 New England
on the 22nd. he invited Senator Pritch-
ard to lunch with him on Thursday.
This invitation Senator Pritcnard has
accepted and he leaves tomorrow for
Oyster Bay"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-08-22
yery Bold Thief.

Yesterday afternoon when Mr.. James
E. Wilson left home. SIS Princess
street, he had eleven fine chickens run
ming around in the yard. The cook let
at 2 p. M and between that hour and S
p. IN. a thief bodily invaded emises
and ran down and stole every chicken
in the yard. He took up a coop hat
was sitting out in the yard Some or
the neighbors heard the thief catching
the chickens but thought nothing OF II
Mr.. Wilson has 40 clue 10 the thaa.
and feels outraged that sucn a lni1s
could occur In broad day light.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-08-22
Impending.
(The Baltimore News.)

CThe Baltimore News.)
The Angry maiden readjusted the hat
she wore, cher oI other's,) gave a pull
at her tie. Cher sweetheart's,) stuck
her hands defiantly into h pockets OF
her oat (cut like her fathers) and
continued.
In the course OF time women will
not have a distinguishing garment.
There goes a man who has actually
apoted woman's shirt waist"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-08-22

A story is told on the eastern shore
of Maryland of a young man who called
one evening on an old farmer to ask
him how il was that ne had become
rich.
TT is a long story" said the old man,
and while 1 am telling ii We might as
well save the candle" and he put II
out.
You need not tell It." said the young
man. II see."-Baltimore Sun.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-08-22
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