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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-03-18

IF any other party except the republic
can party had undertaken the construc.
tion Of the Isthmian canal what q howl
would have gone up from the republi-
can managers and the monopoly press
about paternalism and communism. Re.
form movements have received much
abuse for their agitation Of government
Ownership Of public utilities, yet the re-
publican party hes been forced to adopt
those ideas. The real statesmen these
days do not get credit for their achieve.
ments. but they SOW seeds which later
Refminste into manifold blessings to
the commonwealth. The economic
thinkers are the men who move the
world, not the men at the helm who
merely carry into execution the plans
outlined by others.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-03-18
w. c. 4. U. COLUMN.
Conducted BY the Ladies Of the W. G. r. o.
A PITIABLE AFFAIR.

An old lady was on the streets this
week selling pencils aud more de.
PRAYED woman we have never heard Of.
She Is well known in the joints aud sa.
looms where she 10 often given free
drinks and Wednesday she was pretty
we'll tanked up and the vulgar things
that she said made hardened sinners
blush with shame. She IL undoubtedly
q reDrObate OF the worst type and un-
fortunately her mental equilibrium is
unbalanced. She ought not to be al.
lowed on the streets in the condition
she was in Neutrality-suspicious.
Valley Demo crat.
AFRICA AND RUM.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-03-18
Prosperity for the Working Nan.

&
A correspondent ola current Journ.
al in writing of our so called prosper.
Gus times" says:
Long before the warning shrek OF
the whistle is heard we may sec the
man with the dinner-pail hurrying from
his rented house toward the shop or
factory where all day long he tolls in
the dirt and CRIME and smoke and
SCOT and cinders amid the roar Of
machinery with hundreds of others;
knowing that today Is but repetition
of yesterday, and tomorrow the 81 me
as toda5. Do you not wonder tn at
they have courage to face such tread
well existence when the ecaat wages
barely suffice to keep the family I'm the
necessities OF life with few real comforts
and no Injuries? During the so-called
prosperous times ope is naturally led
to expect increased wages for the man
with the dinner pail. But instead OF
this the increase Is in cost Of neces
stiles. Rent raises 20 per cent, PROV
siOns OF all kinds cost more. coal deal
ers combine to squeeze another dollar
per ton from consumers. and even the
honest ~ old farmers who are dead
set against trusts and combines and
mOnopolies will get together on market
square or the city lot and ''bull" the
price of wood until the poor widow as
we'll as others must pay five or six dol.
lars for q scant cord of wood to keep
from freezing. This is what "prosperi.
ty,'' is doing for the wage-earner; 1.-THE
man with the dinner pail'' must suffer
the cOnsequence-not so much of his
misdeeds as of the greed and cupidity
of those who have the power to squeeze
ct.
With advancing years men hope for
better things. The laborer has the
right to expect to own his own home,
to educate his children, to keep his
family together in decent comfort. and,
if possible. to provide for the future of
those who are dependent upon HIM for
support. But as the years go by he
sees every cent of his earnings swallow.
ed up 10 purchasing bare subsistence
food. fuel, rent. clothing, DOCTORS
bills, taxes, etc. Trusts, mbines cor
porations, conscienceless companies
and sometimes grasping small dealers
all unite to raise the price of everything
in reach until the purchasing power OF
a dollar is divided by two while the
wage remains the same or nearly the
same. This is what the present kind
of prosperity" means for the man
with the dinner pail.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-03-18

WHEN the legislature adjourned last
week nearly every member got his graft
In by carrying away an expensive
piece of furniture and the newspaper
correspondents also got in on desks and
other incidentals. The state pays out
vast sums OF money for this furniture
every time the legislature meets and
when the session closes the members
vote it to each other. And the Joneses
pay the freight.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-03-18

The senate will probably adjourn next
week. An extra session of congress
III the fall is on the list of probabilities
on account OF the failure of the senate
to meet the administrations, ideas on
Cuban matters. Roosevelt has an ele-
plant on his hands in trying to line up
republican senators to vote for demo.
cratic measures.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-03-18

THE republican machine get March
.2Sth for date of county convention in
one column Of their organ, and in an
other column the central committee
is called to meet on the 18th to fix q
date. But that's about the wsy the
party has been controlled for number
of years.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-03-18

THE republican papers that have any
thing to say in favor of the legislature
just adjourned are very few. But when
the campaign of 1904 opens up nearly
all of them will be spologizing for its
rotten and extravaeant record.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-03-18

THR Mail and Breeze says that II Cy
Leland hasn't dug his political grave ct
this session Of the legislature there b
nothing in signs. The NJ. and B. will
be supporting Lelandism in 1904 %
II did in 1902. Soreness in the republi-
can ranks is much more easily healed
than in other parties.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-03-18

The Anthony Bulletin was sold last
week to ID. s. Armstrong of Great Bend.
w. l.. Hutchinson, county printer of
Harper county, owned the plant and
made big money. The Bulletin is the
neatest paper that comes to our ex-
change
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-03-18

SPEAKER PRNGLE got his reward
from the Bailey push last week. He
was appointed to assist the attorney
general in the prosecution of the Ar
kansas river water claims against Colo
RADIO. Five thousand plunks were ap-
propriated to fight the case.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-03-18

The political pull at Topeka is los.
Ing much sleep. It is Worrying itself
to death trying 20 devise new gratis
Wichita Eagle.
Well what in the world did you
send them up there for. If not for that
very purpOse?oRice County Eagle.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-03-18

THE legislature finally succeeded in
getting a stockyards bill through in its
last hours. 1t reduces charges Is per
cent and is about the only beneficial law
passed during the entire session.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-03-18

THE Harper Sentinel says that there
will be a crowd at the republican con-
Rressional convention a. Great Bend.
1t says that besides the candidates q
number of delegates will attend.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-03-18

The republican party labored two
years and spent thousands of dollars on
q new tax scheme aud then didn't have
the nerve to enact it into law. Now
that is what We call wisdom.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-03-18

IT is quite probable that the machine
organ will never get oyer its personal
property statement mania. Its reference
to the subject last week contained the
usual amount of lies
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-03-18

"THE present county printer" has tax.
en- the trouble to Investigate" the rec.
,ords and finds that what the Cresset
says in connection with personal prop
erty statements is untrue. Now will
Won be Oood2
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-03-18

ANOTHER legislature has passed into
history falling to spportion the state
into eight congressional districts. The
machine couldn't have 1t their way and
hence would not re-apportion at all.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-03-18
For Sale Cheap.

Shorthorn cattle and farming imPie-
ments, two registered bulls. one high
grade yearling bull, cows in calf from
registered bulls and q large outfit of
farm implements for sale very cheap.
Call at T. l.. Lindley's Office or at the
Miller ranch for inspection.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-03-18

THE Democrat congI essionsl conven.
ton will be held at Dodge City April
9th. A more inconvenient place for
Barber county delegates could not have
been found.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-03-18

THE state tax levy will be raised to
seven mills this year. We suppose the
republican machine OF Barber county
will try to saddle the responsibility on
the democrat commissioners.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-03-18

The grsfters have quit and gone home
The people of Kaneas have reason to be
grateful.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-03-18

MEDICINE LODGE has newspaper man
who says land can be driven from place
to place and marketed just like stock.
And yet the community permits him
TO run LOOSE.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-03-18

TIE Kansas City Star places Q small
estimate on the average members Of the
Kansas legislature. It says they were
machine made men who could easily be
handled.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-03-18

SPECIAL elections come high but We
must have them.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-03-18

ONE of the laws passed by the legis
lature provides that hunters shall
not kill to exceed twenty five birds in
one day. The Solons must have been
hard run to enact something.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-03-18

HEREAFTER tie Board of Railroad
Commissioners will be elected by the
people.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-03-18
Fer Sale.

A Rumely steam threshing outfit.
Will sell at a bargain il taken soon.
1t Is in good condition.
III. N. BURNER,
6 miles west OF Medicine Lodge.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-03-18

Kansas farms for sale. by w. G. Al
ford. at Hazelton. Kans.. at reasonable
prices.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-03-18

The state levy goes higher aud the
county levy promises to go lower. Do
you see the "why" of itf
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-03-18

CY LELAND and Baltic Waggener have
finally adjourned.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-03-18

For Farm Loans see Palmer & Case
Office west side Naih st.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-03-18
Clubbing Rates.

The following papers will be furnish
ed In connection with the Index at the
rates quoted. Old or new subscribers
can take advantage Of this offer and
can get both papers one year for the
price named opposite the papers:
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1903-09-03
BANKRUPTCY NOTICE.

In the United States court in and
for the Southern judicial district of
the Indian Territory at Ardmore.
In the matter of b. E. Trone & Co.,
bankrupts, in bankruptcy.
To b. e. Trone and NJ. T. ]. Cap
shaw and b. E. Trone & Co.:
For certain causes offered before
the United States court for the South
ern district OF Indian Territory at Ard
more as a court of bankruptcy we
command and strictly enjoin you lay
ing all other matters aside and not
withstanding any excuse, that you per
sonally appear before our said court to
be holden in Pauls Valley in said
district on the 9Th day of September,
1908, 10 answer petition filed by
Swafford Bros. Dry Goods Co, the
First National bank of Sulphur and
Barton Bros. in our said court pray
ing that you and that the firm Of B.
%. Trone & Co. be adjudged bank
rupt and to do further and receive
that which our said court shall con
slider in this behalf.
You are further warned that If you
do not appear on said date and answer
said petition that the same will be
taken for confessed.
Aud this you are in no wise to omit
under the pains and penalties of what
may befall thereon.
Witness the Honorable Hosea Town
send, Judge of said court, and the seal
thereof on this the goth day Of Au
gust, 1903 C. M. CAMPBELL,
(SeaD Clerk of said Court
First published Aug. 21, 1903.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1903-09-03
MARY CONNOR COLLEGE
PARIS, TEXAS.

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cold and hot water. equipped with all
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keeping, stenography and typewrlting
and a preparatory course for hose
not ready to enter the COLLECT depart
ment.
The rls board In tho college and
arc associated with the lady teachers
not only in the classroom bu. in the
dlnlng-room, reception rails az In
he parlors. thereby acquiring that
ease, grace and culture so essential to
heir comfort and pleasure in after
| lfe.
The college is unexselei IN the
South in the special lin,s of music.
art and elocution. Tie teachers are
al graduates OF the best SCHOOLS OF
america and Europe. The school is
non-sectnr'an but Christian in spirit
ife and work.
The girls attend the 81 'daY school
and church Of their choice, accom-
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For further particulars send for our
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II. q. AHERNETHY. Pres.
Paris. Texas.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1903-09-03
BANKRUPTCY NOTICE.

In the United States Court for tie
Southern District of the Indian Ter
ritory, at Ada.
In the matter OF A. ]. Triplett &
Co., bankrupts, in bankruptcy.
To the Honorable Hosea Townsend,
Judge of the district court for the
Southern district of the Indian Terri
tory:
A. j. Triplett, J. f. Triplett and s.
N. Mccall, composing the firm Of A.
]. Triplett & Co, of Fitzhugh, IN the
Southern district of the Indian Terri.
tory, respectfully represents that on
the 9th day of March last past, they
we're duly adjudged Bankrupt under
the acts of congress relating to bank
ruptcy; that they have duly surrend.
cred all their property and rights
of property and have fully com
piled with all the requirements of
said acts, and Of the orders of the
court touching their bankruptcy
Wherefore they pray that they may
be decreed by the court to have a full
discharge from all debts provable
against their estates under said bank
ruptcy acts. except such debts as are
excepted by law from such discharge
Dated this 27th day of August, A.
| n iona
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1903-09-03
A NntnrnI wcnthcr Ynne.

II was an old belief that III the pre-
served body Of a halcyon or kingfisher
were suspended by thread from the
ceiling its bill would always turn to-
ward the quarter from whence the
wind was blowing.
Thus Barabas in Marlowe's Jew OF
Malta" says:
"But now how stands the wind?
Into what quarter peeps my halcyon's
bill?
Ha! To the east? Yes"
Shakespeare also alludes to II in
"King Lear" when Kent in his reply to
Cornwall rebukes those who
Turn their halcyons beaks
With every gale and vary OF their mas
ters."
In more modern days n stuffed king
fisher has been seen hanging from the
beam of cottage ceiling at Botley,
near Southampton, and in other places
Of that neighborhood, where there is a
kindred belief that If dead kingisher
is hung up by It's beak its breast will
turn with the ebb and flow of the tide.
We take pleasure in doing kodak
finishing. Work OF this kind entiust-
ed to us will receive equal care with
gallery work and the result is al
ways satisfactory. 7. ]. BEDFORD,
9-tf. The Photographer
From the epicure's point of view
fine feathers do not make fine birds.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1903-09-03
ResourcefuI Major Pond.

Major Pond was never upset in dihi-
cultles. Once he was travelling with
Ian Maclaren. There was a break
down on the railway and the prospect
of lecture engagement being missed
and $1,000 lost. What he did was to
telegraph a long and merry message to
the audience about the breakdown, say
ing he pnd Ian Macaren would be ar.
irving not more than half an hour late.
Singing was provided TO entertain the
audience. When the half hour was up
in came another telegram more cheer
ful than ever, saying that they were
coming along and that Ian Maclaren
was determined TO lecture to that au-
dience IL all the railways In the world
had broken down.
The Americans are an emotional peo-
pie, and they were interested. Every
twenty minutes in came a fresh tele-
gram with something funny and bright
about 1t and always declaring that the
great novelist was advancing. II was
half past 10 when the couple reached
the platform. and the welcome given
them was hilarious.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1903-09-03
USES FOR nETT.Es.
they Are Good 10 Eat and Furnish
Thread and Clothing.

hhN NANhhhHhs
There was time once when the
common nettle was not the usually de-
spised weed II is now People did not
root ii out OF existence or shun II as
nuisance, but cultivated IL for use as
food. for clothing and for paper manu-
facture.
II certainly does not look inviting as
a food. and yet during the Irish famine
hundreds Of poor people existed entire
ly on II. cooking the young plant as
greens. There was a method of blanch-
ing II by "earthing up" as Is now used
for sea kale.
Animals, while refusing TO touch the
growing nettle, devour II eagerly when
made into hay, and i'm Russia. Sweden
and Holland 1t is moved several times
a year for fodder.
The common name given TO the nettle
In some languages means that with
which one sews," for the fiber was
used as a thread several centuries ago.
In Kamchatka the natives use the
thread for fishing lines and cordage. In
France II is used for paper. In Hindu
stan and China II is woven into grass
cloth, and the Scotch have prepared.
spun and woven II into as good linen
as the fax makes.
The Chinese nettle yields a fiber as
soft as silk and there is now In Dres-
den "China grass" mandatory de.
voted 10 the industry Of weaving cloth
from this and the common nettle.-
Stray Stories.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1903-09-03

From the eplcure's point Of view
fine feathers do not make fine birds
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1903-09-03
c. NJ. CAMPBELL.
BY B. p. GIBBS, Deputy Clerk.
First published Aug. 80, 1908.
owes HisLhe TO a Neiehbor's Kindness

Mr.. d. p. Daugherty, well known
throughout Mercer and Sumner coun
ties, w. Va, most likely owes his
life to the kindness OF a neighbor. He
was almost hopelessly afflicted with
diarrhoea; was attended by two ply
sicians who gave him little, If any, re
lief. when a neighbor learning of hi
serious condition, br)ughJ him a hot
tie of Chamberlain's Collie, Cholers
and Diarrhoea Remedy, which cured
him in less than twentyfour hours
For sale by City Drug Store, f. J
Ramsey and Ardmore Drug Co.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1903-09-03
A. J. TRIPLETT,
]. e. TRIPLETT,
s. N. MCCALL.
Order Of Notice.
d.. 1903.


United States Of America, Indian Ter
ritory, SIS. Southern District
On this 27th day of August, A. D.,
1908, on reading the foregoing petition
IL is ordered by the court that hear
ing be had upon the same on the 30th
day Of September, A. d., 1908, before
said court at Ada, in said district, at
9 o'clock in the forenoon, and that no
tice thereof be published in the Ard
moreite. a newspaper published :
said district, and that all known cred
itors and other persons in interest
may appear at the said time and place
and show cause, IL any they have
why the prayer of the said petitioners
should not be granted.
And it is further ordered by the
court that the clerk shall send by
mail to all known creditors copies OF
said petition and this order, addressed
to them at their places of residence
as stated.
Witness, the Honorable Hosea
Townsend, Judge of said court and
the seal thereof, at Ada, in said dis
trict, on the 9th day Of August, A.
D., 1908.
(Sean c. NJ. CAMPBELL,
Clerk.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1903-09-03
Raised Erom the Dead.

C. w. lands, "porter" for the
Oriental hotel. Chanute, Kan, says:
Il know what is was to suffer with
neuralgia. deed did, and got bot
tie OF Ballard's Snow Liniment and
was raised from the dead tried
to get some more. but before | had
deposed of my bottle. was cured
entirely. am tellin' de truth. too. y
25c, soc and $1.00 at w. B. Frames.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-13

to be done. Accordingly a petition was
circulated Wednesday. addressed to the
village council praying for that body to
grant Messrs. Haywood & Beach any ac-
Communications on the lake front which
might seem Of mutual benefit to them and
to the village.
There seems no doubt but the council
will take such action at its next meeting
as will assure the Minneapolis men of
hearty support and cooperation.
The third annual banquet Of the Ladies'
Afternoon Whist Club will be held at the
Sampson House tomorrow night.-The
s-year- old son Of Edward Creelman, Way
zata. died after a short illness.-Rev. Mr..
Peterson will close his meetings. at tfs
Methodist chulch Sunday night-The Ia
dies Of the Congregational church are ar
ranging q o'clock chicken pie dinner to
be served at Masonic hall Feb. 81.
The Bay View hotel Wayzata. will be
under the management of William Ben
son the coming season. Wayzata Is also
to have new meat market The ladies
of the Methodist church will serve a New
England dinner from to o'clock on the
evening of Feb 17.-Premonitfons of sum
mer activity are already manifest. Many
are coming from the twin cities to Sc
cure the most attractive locations for the
summer season.