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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-01-28
Frisco System Anew OEIervnfior
Cafe Cars.

Frisco System Anew Observation
Cafe Cars.
In addition to through chair car and
Pullman Sleeper service the Frisco Syss
tenn operates on it's trains out OF
Saint Louis and Kansas City verH
handsome Observation Cafe Cars, un.
der management of Fred Harvey. These
cars are equipped with every convenience,
including large library observation room
and platform; the former supplied with
easy chairs, writing material, fastest news.
electric fans add to the comfort of the pas.
sengers. These trains leave Saint Louis and
Kansas City daily via the Frisco System.
The world is more inclined to take man
at his own estimate of himself when he
places 1t low than when he puts it high
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-01-28
Mother Gray's sweet Powder.

For Children, used by Mother Gray, a nurse
in Children's Home. New York, break up
Colds, cure Fevershness. CONSTIPATION,
Stomach and Teething Disorders, and de-
stroy Worms. All Druggists, 25c. Sample
FREE. Address A. s. Olmsted, LIE Roy, NY.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-01-28

Even the very old colleges still retail,
their faculties.-Chicago Daily News.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-01-28

Piso's Cure cannot be too highly spoken Of
Ave, n, Minneapolis. MINI, Jan. 6. 1900.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-01-28

When the evolution of history is belt
n m It results in a revolution.-Ram'
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-01-28
No Need Of Impatience.

1t is only 81 more years until We start
another century, and if they slip along az
fast as those that are just gone il will bS
here before we know it.-Pittsburg Times.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-01-28
Six and q Half Dozen

Mrs. Winthrop-Can we really afford to
60 south for the winter, my dear?
Wlnthrop-It can't cost any more than
staying here and buying coal..Town Top
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-01-28

io-morrow is great day for doinv
thrr"s.-Chicaon Hai;r Eev. s
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-01-28

Don't be. envious," said Uncle Eben:
remember dat if you had been Julius Gaze.
sar hissef you'd have had to take de
..sassination along wifi de res of it."-Wash.
ington Star
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-01-28

Thousands ofpeople have catarrh who
would be surprised to know it, because
it has been called some other name than
catarrh. The fact is catarrh is catarrh
wherever located; and another fact
which is of equally great Importance, is
that Peruna cures catarrh wherever
located.
Ask your. drlIgpisf for q
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-01-28

II you do not derive prompt and satis-
write at once to DIR. Hartman. giving a
full statement of your case and he will
be pleased to give you his valuable adj
vice gratis.
Address DR.. Hartman, President Of
The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, O.
free Pe-ru-na Almanac
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-03-28

We frequently hear of those lovely
little groups of islands in the southern
seas. They are described as earthly
paradises. Some of them sit unoccu-
pied, and might well be coveted by one
idea people who would like to see some
hobby enthroned
But on reflection, prudent American
would prefer to live Il little farther
above water. The Society group, which
came near being washed overheard re-
Gently, were barely twenty feet above
the water, so that those Of the inhabt-
ants that were saved managed to keep
alive by climbing to the tops of trees,
and where the trees did not prove tall
enough the perchers were swept into
the sea- In the great gale some eighty
of the Society Islands were thus devas-
tated, and In all over 900 inhabitants
found watery graves. The United
States has some island possessions in
the southern seas, and it is sometimes
suggested that we might plant our civ
ilization and our flag here. There Is
no question that many of these island
gems are paradises, but 1t would be bet
ter to roost higher The land is too low,
even to plant the flag, says the Boston
Globe. Life Is too precious to wake up
some morning and find ones self miss
ing, and tidal waves and volcanoes
have become very impudent of late.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-03-28
The Universal Annie.

The latest estimate places the total
number of apple trees of bearing age
in the United States at something over
200,O00,000. This is nearly three trees
to every person. These trees yield more
than 100000 bushels. Not all these
apples are consumed at home, for in
years of full crop more than 5000 900
bushels go abroad. Yet. the apples kept
at home are more than two bushels for
every adult and child. We are a nation
of apple eaters. This fact may not be
to our credit, however, when we re-
member that a good part of all these
apples are Ben Davis and other kinds
that refined and cultivated taste will
not choose for its dessert. Yet probably
half our people never raise an apple;
and Of the half who do raise them but
a small percentage grows for market;
and Of those who grow for market, only
part make profit from the business.
Yet there is money in apple growing.
Country Life In America
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-03-28

or "gloomily dark rather than mot
clearly apparent" And If the wretch
ed man should venture to declare his
honest preference for the ordinary over
the extraordinary form Of expression,
he was forthwith dismissed with irony.
arrogance. or even Insult, and without
n word Of apology for the rude inva-
sion Of his rest.
One night, n little after u O'clock
as his majesty was on the point of
going to bed, like any plain citizen Of
regular habits, he fell to thinking how
most accurately to render into English
the Samese word phi which admits
spirit, soul, devil, evil angel.
After puzzling over it for more than
an hour, and getting himself possessed
with the word as with the devil it
stands for, but to no purpose. he or
dered one Of his lesser state barges to
be manned and despatched with all
speed for the British Consul.
That functionary, inspired with live
~ alarm by so starting a summons,
dressed himself with unceremonious
celebrity and hurried to the palace
coniecturing on the way all magma
bic possibilities of politics and diplom-
acy, revolution or invasion.
To his veXation, not less than to his
surprise, he found the king en- desha-
bile engaged with a Siamese- English
vocabulary, and mentally divided be-
tween deuce" and devil" in the
choice of an equivalent.
His preposterous majesty gravely
laid the case before the consul, who,
although inwardly chatting at the situa-
ton, had no choice but to decide with
grace and go back to bed with phil
oSoDhy
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-03-28


in various cities and gives readings
and lectures. Her home is in Bridge
port Conn.
Among the most famous Gospel
hymns written by Miss Crosby are
those beginning: Safe in the Arms of
Jesus" pass Me Not, Gentle
Savior" "All the Way My Savior
Leads Me-" and Il Am Thine, Q Lord;
l Have Heard Thy voice"
Save for the heavy green glasses she
Is compelled to wear, there Is little in
Miss Crosby's manner while lecturing
to indicate her sightlessness. She reads
her notes, printed in raised letters,
with almost imperceptible movements
of her fingers, and turns her head as
though glancing about the audience.
Hymn writing is my life work."
says Miss Crosby, land 1 cannot tell
you what pleasure l derive from it.
l believe l would not live year If my
work were taken from me. A great
many people sympathize with me, but,
although l am grateful to them,
really don't need their sympathy.
What would do with iti'
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-03-28

cealed his capillary lack by wearing a
wig. The possibility of that ruling In
vading an American court Is food for
thought. However should sweethearts
coniide to one another their physical
decrepitude? Should the kneeling pc
titioner, asking for his loved ones
hand, plead in tender accents: "Dearie,
my teeth were made in Syracuse" or
Darling, the glitter of my eye will
fade? And should the coy and blush
Ing maiden loath to confess but eager
to be won, confess, Take me, though
l am not what ] SEEM? There are
many details Of makeup, charming to
the lovers biased gaze, that lose their
glory during the fourth quarter of the
honeymoon-the removable complex
ion, the adjustable hair, the jointed,
| self-acting anatomy, to say nothing OF
the thousand and one appurtenances
| which remain to the end mysteries to
the masculine mind. Should all these
enter into the matrimonial problem,
then indeed a Daulel must come to
| judgment.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-03-28
A strong Position.

Negroes usually have n ready an
swer. even for the most unexpected
question. The Washington Star tells
of man who visited the scene of the
Battle OF Antietam. and there met an
old colored man, who took pleasure In
explaining nil facts" about the en-
gagement.
The negro was asked II he was
present when the fight took place
and his answer was, "Sartninly sab;
sure, | wuz right heah."
Then you must have seen the whole
thing"
Deed did, sab; an 1t wuz right
bilious times, sab"
"What position did you occupyT"
81 wuz down in de cellar, sab.
got down dar to keep out de way Of de
Yankees, case l knowed dat | would
be 'bleeged ter whoop fer dem, an
knowed dat Marse Bob Lee didn't
spec dat OF me, so l jis got down In
de cellar an let 'em fit 1t out"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-03-28
WATERS OF The MISSISSIPPI.
They Are Inconstant, Shifting and
Not to BE Depended Upon.

NOT TO 13c Oepcnueu OpOns
There is little reason, however, for a
settlement in these parts to bestir it
self It's future too uncertain, says
the New York Mail and Express. The
town that Is on the river this year may
be OH useless swamp the next; the
town that Is five miles inland, with
no dream Of the Mississippi may be
awakened any morning by the roar of
steamboat whistle There are many
points in desperate straits to-day. Tip
tonville, Tenn, town Of more than
ordinary prosperity depending alto
gether on the steamboat service, once
on the main channel, now finds her
self, because of cutoff, on a shallow
backwater, which goes dry as her
streets In low season.
Which brings me again to the rivers
vagaries To begin, its crookedness
is something appalling. Approaching
Cairo from the north by boat, the
stranger, seeing the city's elevators
and church spires within stones
throw, Is pretty certain to rush into
the cabin to assemble his belongings
when he has still before him tortu
Gus ride Of two hours. Yet this phe-
nomenon Is not wholly without adj
vantages. The citizen of before-men-
toned Tiptonville, who misses the up
bound boat at breakfast time, does not
worry over the accident He calmly
spends the morning at home, then,
after dinner, trudges four or five miles
across country to Slough landing, ar
irving there in plenty Of time-likely
within an hour or two to Spare-to
catch his boat, which, In the interval
since leaving Tiptonvilie, has been
wandering through some thirty miles
of bends Down in the Great Bends
country, below Memphis, the south
going steamer at the end of n half
days travel may be farther from the
Gulf of Mexico as the crow flies than
she was at the beginning. One may
go from Memphis to Orleans by rail
the distance is 400 miles-in a single
night. BY steamboat 1t Is, at best, a
four days run; the Mississippi dilly-
dallys through exactly 800 miles of
twists and turns between the two
cities.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-03-28
A Lover of Nice Distinctions.

The Siamese differ from other ORR
entails Ii kind of youthful curiosity
which has made them reach out for
European ideas, whereas most Eastern
races have repealed the West or been
Indifferent to 1t. A recent writer on
Siam gives an account of the learning
of the King of Siam who died in 1868.
He was a trained Oriental linguist,
and correspondent in fluent English
with many Englishmen of distinction.
From the book by Mrs. Leonowens,
English governess at the Siamese court,
the writer quotes an account of his
majestys Habits Of study
Before my arrival In Bangkok 1t had
been not uncommon practice to send
for a missionary ut midnight. have
him beguiled or abducted from his
bed, and conveyed by boat to the pal
lace, some miles up the river, to In
Quire IL 1t would not be more elegant
to write .'murky" instead OF obscure, "
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-03-28


No'''i'ioh cider vinegar Is 8,
''l , "''iuote 10 carooIic acid h
Id i'''ei ''olh Wrung out Of
~. - al excellent remedy ID
'oro VIZ o"''
"'e anu water Is one OF TIL
tenieoles lof sore eyes, and h
IL 'lAie WIN scatter the maaI
=, al ene''iNe remedy for b,
- a. ou"oe Vi "SaletIda stee
p " not s''leSar' the ling(
U'ppeA ~ 1t frequently.
VI Ni'rIol ptlrnS cover II
burned with a soft thick pas
clled magheSia and water.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-03-28

The utterances of two Presidents
he Of Harvard University and he OF
the United States-on the subject OF
the threatened extinction of the Amer
lean family have revived the old talk
about tax on bachelors as a correct
I've of the pending menace Doubt
less many more women than we sus-
pect have had worthy marriage oppor-
tunlties at one time or another. Some
have grown up with faneiful notions
OF the kinds of husbands they must
have; some have made wealth rather
than sturdy manhod the test Estab-
fish good, stiff tax on voluntary fe-
male celibacy and generation or so
would weed lot OF this sort of non
sense out OF the sex at large. Let us
give the bachelors n rest and try the
effect OF a threat, at least. on the fair
ones.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-03-28

Canada will perhaps before long
realize that this treaty Is not designed
to submit the case to an arbitration
at ALL was not so intended by either
England or the United States. but is
merely polite means Of putting an
end to boundary claims in behalf of
which England has never been able
to advance the first substantial argu-
ment and in opposition to which the
United States has only to point to the
British admiralty globes and maps,
American contention now and always
has placed it,
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-03-28
OF LITTLE THEY GIVE MUCH


Poor human nature Is at least as ro-
bust In the slums as 1t is among the
brownstone fronts. Good ana evil go
together in the tenements, says Jacob
Riis in 1.-THE Battle With the Sums;
and oftentimes the evil Is prominent
merely because 1t Is nearer the sur
face. Here, as elsewhere, the good
outweighs the bad. Two or three sim
pie stories which Mr.. Riis tells are suf-
ficient to make one accept his optim-
ism.
| remember, he says, tenement at
the bottom of back alley, where |
once went visiting with the pastor Of
mission chapel. Up in the attic there
was n family Of father and daughter
in two rooms that had been made out
of one by dividing off the deep dormer-
window.
1t was midwinter. but they had no
fire. He was peddler, but the snow
had stalled his puSh-cart, and robbed
them of their only other source of
income, a lodger who hired cot room
In the attic for a few cents night.
The daughter was not able to work.
But she said cheeerfully that they
were getting along
When 1t came out that she had not
tasted solid food for several days, was
starving, in fact Gndeed, she died with
in year Of the slow starvation OF the
tentments that parades on the NOR
tality returns under variety of sci
entic names which all mean the same
thing), she met her pastors gentle child
ing with the excuse, ooh, your church
has many that are poorer than |.
don't want to take your money
| found that in their time of dire
distress they had taken in poor old
man who was past working, and kept
him all winter sharing with him what
they had. He was none Of theirs;
they hardly even knew him, as 1t ap-
peared. 1t was enough that he was
poorer than they, and lonely and hun
CRY and cold.
It was on the East Side that the chill
dren of Mr. Elsing's Sunday school
gave, oul VI the NNp'i Va >'>AA ~.
erty, $54 in pennies to be hung on the
Christmas tree as their Offering to the
prosecuted Armenians. One of their
teachers told me of Bohemian fam
lily that let the holiday dinner she
brought them stand and wait, while
they sent out to bid to the feast four
little ragamuffins of the neighborhood
who would otherwise have gone hun
CRY.
And here 1t was in "the hard win
ter" when no one had work, that the
nurse from the Henry Street settle
ment found her cobbler patient enter
tanning a lodger although there was
barely bread enough in the house for
himself and his boy. He introduced
the stranger with some embarrassment
and when they We're alone excused
himself for doing It, The man was
just from prison~a man with "a his
tory"
But" said the nurse, doubtfully, sis
It good thing for your boy to have
that man In the house?"
There was passing glimpse of I'M
easiness in the cobbler's glance, but
It went as quickly as 1t had come. He
laid his hand on the nurses.
"rhis," he said, ''ain't no winter to
let a fellow from Sing Sing be on the
street"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-03-28
A Chinese Joke.

In his recent book on China and the
Chinese" DR.. Giles gives specimen OF
Chinese humor which, IL the source
were not known, might well be mis-
taken for American humor.
There is a Chinese story which tells
how very stingy man took paltry
sum of money to an artist-payment is
always exacted in advance-and asked
him to paint his portrait. The artist
Mt once complied with the request, but
when the portrait was finished nothing
was visible save the back of the sitter 8
head.
what does this mean?" cried the SIT
ter, Indignantly.
We'll" replied the artist, II thought
man who paid so little as you paid
wouldn't care to show his face"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-03-28

The most astounding discovery In
connection with the recent raiding of
the "get-rich-quick" men Is the char
acter Of the men to whom the swim
ding circulars were sent. Upon the
mailing lists are the names OF 10000
clergymen, 100000 physicians and
other professional and mercantile men
I'm proportion. or course. not all these
men bit" If one in hundred did so
1t was enough for the swindlers. But
how could any educated man have
been SO foolish as to expect from the
unknown something for nothing?"
How could any moral teacher or any
healer of men accept profits which
could only be gained at the cost Of
cheating others2
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-03-28
HIS CLEVER NEpAEV
Young Man Who Was set Tn
ness Fhrcc Times,

AonuE Man W no Was Set upI
' '''' '''"'''
~ cei'"'" ''''''"'F Oh 'ne y
chanSe mas SET HIS nephew Up
ness lhree tunes, Out The yOl
lacks something essential to i
the line selected for him, o0dI
cd with each clIort kecentl
he came WIN the lourjn req
hhanclal assistance, lhe Y
INJURED:
You must learn to lean on \
he said. Il can't carry You aIIl
1t would be an unNtndncSS \
keep supplying YOU with mon9
ry on enterprises that lnyarl
In assignments. III tell you
do. You owe Il great d'aI as \
OF that last failure. Tltch M
own nook ana go II alone IlILl
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-03-28

The cheerful unanimity with which
the physicians pronounce DR.. Sejou's
pituitary gland theory to be as old as
the hills or absolute rubbish affords
further demonstration of the great and
abiding love which medical gentlemen
bear one for another. When every
doctor pronouuccs every other doctor to
0e quack-or words to that effect
II Is small wonder that the laity occa
sionally takes the profession at its
word.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-03-28

In all the discussion of the size or
families which has been provoked by
President Roosevelt's words on the
subject, it is somewhat surprising that
no one has gone back to Herbert Spen-
Ger and Walter Bagehot, both Of whom
considered the question with much
care. Both concluded that rs men
and women became more intellectual,
that as their brains and nervous sys-
TENS grew larger and more complex,
they would tend to have fewer chill
dren. 1t Is not argued that intelligent
parents may not or do not have large
families, but simply that with increas-
ing intellectually the tendency Is de-
cidedly toward small families. The
theory seems to be that with the strain
OF modern life and the pressure of the
struggle for existence the brain has
grown far larger and that with this
increasing brain there Is decreasing
fertility. Doubtless this Is a correct
analysis. But it may be that the strain
of life and the struggle for existence
operate directly on the prudential fac
ultics, as we'll as through the effect Of
the increased brain development. At
any rate, there seems to be natural
law at work that we must acllnowl-
edge. But Mr.. Bagehot goes further
and insists that in an age of discus
sion-such as that which we have and
are likely to have from now on-fam-
lilies are likely to be small. He agrees
with Spencer that increasing intellect
ual power has a tendency to check re-
production, but he goes beyond and
back of this and argues that nothing
does so much to stimulate intellectual
power as to live in a country where
government by discussion prevails. If
all this is true, IS it surprising that
there should be some decrease In the
size of American families? For wheth-
err we are markedly intelligent or not,
we are certainly prone to discussion.
Possibly this matter of race preScrVa-
ton Is being very well attended to.
Multiplication should be on diminish
ing scale. And with the substantial
disappearance of the old checks on
population such as war, famine and
pestilencc, which formerly operated
with a deadlness that we cannot now
conceive Of, and with the saving of life
through better medical and surgical
care, it may be that there Is not such
great need for large families as there
once was. Nor is it bad idea to have
society recruited from what we speak
Of as the lower classes, which Is what
now seems to be going on. There are
no indications that this country is soon
to suffer from lack of people to do
its work On the whole, therefore, 1t
may be doubted whether there is any
such problem before us as that which
the President and those who agree
with him speak Of. Certainly the adj
miration of large families simply be-
cause they are large has nothing what
ever to rest on. Quality must count
for something, and the ability Of the
parents to care for their children must
count for great deal
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-03-28

1t IS an occasion for public congratu-
Iation that the Supreme Court has
dealt another blow to the lottery evil.
The states have forbidden lotteries to
do business, but they still exist and
still do business. This final adjudica-
ton by affirming the constitutionality
of pains and penalties imposed upon
those who assist them to do business
will make it more difficult for them to
do it.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-03-28

though h er real
name Is AIrS. Alex
ander Van Allstyne,
has written more
than 5000 hymns,
m a II y OF t h e m
known all over the
world. And though
she Is now SO years
old, rather feeble,
and totally blind,
she still travels to
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-03-28
Times.

A strange tale is told Of d .
the menagcrie in Central al, "a =
York. Two birds live IN '"' - =
and some time back oI ,o, /
veloped a tumor IN III" ',,,5 5'' tbt
bird thereugon attacked ,,.,. ,I,
with its claws and '"'''
cling 1t. II