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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-10-14

won free for all, beating Rosaline
Wilkes and White Stockings, among
others. was the first horse he drove.
His success with harness horses dur
ing the last few years has been moth
ing short of phenomenal. notable
among his achievements being his
campaign with the great mare Amelia.
2:06%, during the 1902 season. Mr..
Sanders went TO Cleveland, O., soon
after he began driving and secured
employment with W. J. Gordon. Mr..
Gordon owned large stock farm and
Mr.. Sanders was commissioned to do
the purchasing. He was told TO buy
the horse of the century" Clingstone.
q IA, was Mr.. Sanders purchase. and
that horse, driven to a high wheel
sulky, Tas one of the stars OF his time.
Clemma l., Els; MambrinoSparkle
2:17; Nobby, 2:17; and William H..
2:1S, were among Clingstone's associ-
ates at the Gordon farm the years Mr..
Sanders was in charge. Mr.. Sanders
left Gordon's employ after having
worked for the Ohioan for 16 years.
He then started a public training sta
BILE in New York. He gave it up in
two years time and was signed by
Count valensin to go to California and
take charge of his stable. In one year
Mr.. Sanders developed two worlds
champions. They were Frou Frou.
2:25A, time made as A yearling.
driven to a high wheel sulky, and
Fosto. 2:22Z, PAGER. also yearling.
The veteran reinsman has 10 his credit
five yearlings with records better than
2:30 and one with a mark of 2:32.
Sydney was the start of Count Valen-
sins stable Mr. John Turner. of Phil
adelphia, offered 500 900 for Sydney
after the death of the count Mr. San
ders then went to work for the man
Rgement of the lakewood stock farm.
He again had great luck, winning
many races and giving the colt j. F.. B.
record of 2:25 as a yearling. In 1901
he came east again and had two good
money winners in Dollie Dillon 2:07.
and Janice. 2:0S5z
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-10-14
NEGATIVE DIErlBa
Threatens to Eliminate All NaturA
Food from Our Bill OF Fare
Fear OF Microbes.

Death by elimination seems to be the
tate that confrcnts US, that is if we con.
form to all the discoveries and forbid.
dances which hygienic scientists present
us. opines the st. Paul Dispatch. Such is
TO be the exterminating effect of food ex-
periments that nothing will be left for
us to live on and no mealtime left for us
to eat it in. The relief afforded the race
by the microbatic conquests will be OFF,
set by the knowledge that there is moth
ing good nor safe nor nourishing under
the sun; that man is born to dyspepsia
and disease and death, and that the only
amount of happiness he can expect is
for forty-day period by the Tanner
route.
In our childhood days-web believe there
are no longer such things for any men,
Der of the race-we 4.pieced" between
meals. A big slice of bread and butter,
well jammed-Heaven was the vision Of
fulfilled desire, and we had it. But the
doctors told our mothers that ''piecing'
was bad for the stomach. and that was
eliminated
This was really the signal for the on
slaught, back and forward Babies had
to have prepared foods, and the child who
was not brought up on one of these could
not hope to attain the prize, neither from
the food company nor from life But
the adults are suffering far more. At the
beginning of the day they have been de-
MED their breakfast; to go without
breakfasting has been advertised as the
wade mecum of health. If you were thin
you became fat: if you had embonpoint,
you grew gracile; if you had any i'll 1t
fled. Then came the tabloid lunch; two
or three little pellets sufficed for the mid
die of the day. Dinner we have yet with
us, but how long we know not
Meat has been slandered because it is
bad for the temperature and the tempera-
ment; vegetables have been ordered
discarded because they made too much
work for the stomach; breadstuffs are
tabooed because they make too much
work for the alfmentary canal; fresh
fruits have too much acid and cooked
fruits too little nourishment Pie, on
which New England raised a race of in
tellectual giants. is mathematical, and
Ice water, the chosen stimulant Of that
commercial giant, the American bust
ness man, is relegated to the lower re-
glons, where 1t may do good. And now
comes DR.. Wiley to insinuate that soda
water and iced tea are of the devil. This
contradictoriness of temperatures is con.
fuslng to the upright theological mind
what shall we DO to be healthy?
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-10-14

most remarkable sporting event of the
year 1903. The mare. owned by c. K.
q. Billings. of Chicago, trotted the
first quarter in bon, the second in
:301a, the third in :30A, and the final
quarter in :29, reaching the goal which
breeders of trotting horses have
dreamed of, books have been written
about, and the horse world has talked
about for almost a quarter of a CEN
tury. Away back in 1906 Yankee set
the mark at 2: SO, and the three minute
trotter became back number. 1t has
required SO years of careful breeding
and training and the introduction of
hosts OF new paraphernalia for pro-
duc1ng speed and reducing weight and
friction OF the sulky to reduce the
worlds trotting record to the even
two minute mark. although the less
popular sidewheel gated PAGER reached
the goal little earlier The PAGER is
now an even second faster than the
trotter, but the ease with which Lou
Dillon reeled off her famous mile leads
her driver, Millard Sanders. s1d many
OF her admirers to believe she can
make the PAGER go faster than 1859 to
hold his place. and perhaps the Bill
hngs mare will regain for her gait
and sex the throne which was occupied
for so many years by Goldsmith Maid
and Maud S. For the first quarter of
the nineteenth century the trotter was
supreme in the harness world, and it
was not until the year 1899 hat the
PAGER came to the front with the fast
est time in harness. For eighteen
years the sidewheelers held their place
until in 1867 Dexter won back the
laurels for the trotters, only to surren-
der them in two years to a PAGER, YAM
kee Sam. In 1874 Goldsmith Maid be-
came queen of all and for nine years
the PAGER was in the background.
Then there was struggle which last
ed for years, with honors about even
between the two gaits. until in 1894
Robert j. regained the laurels for. the
PAGERS. and 1t has not yet been sur
rendered
Millard F. Sanders, who drove Lou
Dillon in her record-breaking race, is
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him as many liberties, as many oppor.
tunities for himself and family in the
way of education and refinement, and as
many or more privileges than he knew
In the States. But when he sells his
wheat for few cents less per bushel,
and his cattle for a trifie less per pound
than he knows his old neighbor in the
States is getting his love for the dollar
may, We say, kindle within him a senti-
ment for annexation. Surrounded as he
is by immigrants from every nation
over which flag of civilization flies,
and who care no more for the union jack
than they do for the yellow banner of
Spain from sentimental point, with
neighbors from Sweden, from Denmark,
from Russia, from Finland from Aus
trla, from everywhere save least of all
England, it would be easy to spread this
sentiment for annexation when annexa-
ton means dollars.
There is yet another element which is
doing it's small part to spread the an
neXatlon sentiment. That element is
the Canadians who come to the States
to live, and there are thousands of them
born Canadians residing in the United
States was 1,049,0 900, or nearly one to
five of the people in Canada. They find
more ready employment, larger oppor-
tunities for financial advancement here
than at home, and. as rule being of the
younger element. are prone even to exag-
gerate the difference when reporting to
friends in Canada. A clerk in Toronto
store said to me this summer:
Il get but six dollars week here. and
have to work three nights each week,
while | have a brother clerking in
store in Cincinnati who gets So week
without any night work l am going
over there to live this fall
An old gentleman, resident of a little
village in northern Ontario, told me of
a young friend he had in Chicago.
He is brick mason" he said, land
he is making five and six dollars day
over there. while over here he never got
better than $780,"
He was comparing city conditions
with those of the country, but he didn't
know it, and was advising his young
friends to go to the States for better
wages. He was true 10 his homeland.
he would die under the protection of the
union jack. but time had carried him
past the day of the love of the dollar
The younger element have not outgrown
it. The tales of fabulous wealth across
the boundary line 10 the south are hav-
ing an effect on those left at home.
WRIGHT a. PATTERSON.
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or the ground floor in the Manitoba
wheat belt. and to-day they are indie
pendently wealthy. l visited at the
home of one of them a year or so ago.
He owned $500 acres of land, had it
we'll improved and we'll stocked, and
had that year harvested $500 bushels
of wheat. These families were but
the advance guard of the invading
army that was to come. At the end of
the fiscal year 1902 the Americans in
western Canada numbered 1900, a
third of whom crossed the border that
year. The official figures for the past
year are not yet available, but the
railway count gives the number OF i'm
about $4,000 people.
One has but to visit the western Ca
madam plains to make it easy to be-
lieve these figures. New towns are
going up everywhere; cities of tents
are to be seen near every land Office,
and in them are Americans. Not OK
-clusively, to be sure. but predominant.
From Calgary north to Edmonton, in
Alberta territory, every station along
the line of railway has close beside it
its city of tents overlooking with emil
grants seeking locations. 1t is into
this section, more than others. that the
Americans are going. There are whole
villages of them, villages more typi-
cally American than many 10 be found
in our own northwestern states An
immigration official at Calgary, Mr..
Wren said tn me-. Next wear we shall
make it 100000 or better from the
States. You don't need them as we do,
and they are as much at home here as
they are south of the boundary line. -
But are they as much at home there
as they were in the States?
ment: Canada will soon be part of
the United States" The statement is
made by those who are not frequent
visitors to Canada Cross the line and
ask the first Canadian you meet If he
wants to be annexed. His mo" will
come so quickly as To stagger you, but
the chances are he will add. but they
ought to tear down the tariff wall be-
tween the two countries.
1t is in that sentence that one may
find an undercurrent OF annexation
sentiment all through Canada They
are faithful to England; hats come on
ito the union jack as quickly IN Canada
las in England. but they see across that
invisible line which separates the two
countries an opportunity for financial
ibstterment. a market for their enor-
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Earl of Buckingham.htr..

The earl of Buckinghamshire who sue
ceeded his grandfather eighteen years
ago, is among the very few peers who do
not own an acre outside the county from
which they derive their title. The APP
pearance of his Buckinghamshire seat,
Hampden House, has changed but little
since the day when John Hampden, his
ancestor on the female. side, occupied It
3ree centuries ago.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-10-14

- HE American invasion OF
Canada" is no longer a
" meaningless phrase. 1t is
NWAX an invasion in reality, and
~ one which is assuming such
proportions as to cause the
Canadians to think seriously of what
the end may be. 1t is an invasion both
of people and products.
Across the borders of the central and
western states our farmers are flock
ing to the free lands of the northwest
in much the same way as they flocked
to these western states but a few
years ago. But a few days ago an old
Canadian in Ontario explained the rea-
son of this to me:
These men who are now crossing
the border went into your western
states but few years ago with Moth
Ing" he said. They took homesteads
which the government offered them
free of charge; they have improved
them and cultivated them; the coun-
try has developed until to-day they can
dispose of the holdings which came to
them as a gift from their government
and have only to move across the bor-
der to get new farms again on the
same terms upon which they got their
first ones.'
Seven years ago there were compar-
atively no Americans in western Cana
da. Manitoba had probably a dozen
families from the states. They got in
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-10-14

the lepers, and by the sixteenth century
the disease had begun to disappear from
Europe, save in Portugal, Greece, Nor
way and Sweden, in which countries, az
writer tells us, ''it has mysteriousl,
survived from the Middle Ages" To-day
the fearful disease occurs epidemicall,
in northern and eastern Africa, Egypt
Arabia, Persia, China, Japan and India;
Russia, Norway, Sweden, Italy, Greece
France and Spain, and the islands of the
Pacific and Indian oceans; it is prevalent
| In Central and South American, Mexico
the West Indies, Australia, the Hawaiian
islands, and New Zealand, and is found
in New Brunswick and other parts OF
Canada
India, which country contains over
100000 lepers, is one of the principal
places where leprosy exists Noprovince
in India is free from it. Segregation is
not at all strict; the man who brings
you bread may be leper, or the woman
that passes you freely in the street NAV
be afflicted.
1t is estimated that there are 80 900
Iepers in the Philippines. Leprosy was
introduced into the Philippines in 1888.
when the emperor of Japan sent to these
islands ship with $50 lepers on board.
the exiles to be consigned to the care of
the Catholic priests. The govern
nent is now engaged in searching
or the present day lepers and
providing for their isolation. In
be Hawaiian islands strict segrega-
ion has been the rule for many years.
:hough considerable number of lepers
ire aided by their friends in eluding the
vigilance of the officers and the exile to
The leper colony on Molokai The leper
settlement on Molokai is shut in by
mountain and sea, and escape from 1t is
almost impossible. Catholic sisters are
he nurses there, the immediate care
takers and the territorial government
makes liberal provision for the support
If the victims.
Though It is not generally known.
.eprosy exists in many parts Of the
United States, Louisiana, Florida, Cali
,ornla and Minnesota being the chief
centers. Leprosy has been known in
louisiana since 1855, and has increased
there of late years. becoming epidemic
about 1866. A report sent to the senate
commission of medical officers of the
marine hospital service, shows that lep-
rosy is distributed in the United States as
follows: Alabama. onS kase; California
"a Florida. "a: Georgia, 1; Illinois, S;
Iowa, /; Louisiana. 155; Maryland, 1:
Massachusetts. 2: Minnesota, 20: Mis-
sissippi, 5; Missouri, 5; Montana /; Ne
vada. 1; New York, z: North Dakota
&c; Oregon. 1; Pennsylvania. 1; South
Dakota, 1; Texas. 8; Wisconsin, 3; MAX
Ing a total of 2I8 cases.
The disease is now generally regarded
as both contagious and infectious and
scientists urge strict segregation. Inter
national conferences on the subject are
held from time to time, and the reports
given at these meetings show that as yet
no progress has been made in the cure OF
the disease The bacillus of 1eprosy was
discovered in 1873 by DR.. Hansen, of Nor
way, but scientists confess themselves
ignorant of the conditions under which
the bacillus grows and develops. as we'll
as the way of its invasion ito the human
system.
rya,rrrr.nK&-rr rr.nr,
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a pupil of the old
time reinsman, r.
S. Carr, who in
the '60s enjoyed
the distinction of
owning two of the
greatest trotters
of the day-Dixie,
2: 80. and Tackey,
1925. At that time
Mr.. Sanders was
just branching out
as a successful
driver. The black
horse, Guy, which
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Readville, Mass.
the other day, she
not only estab-
lished a worlds
record but turned
a trick which has
been the ambition
OF the trotting
horse world to
reach since Maud
S.. brought the
mark within hall
ing distance. The
race will doubtless
QO down DC tho
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-10-14
KATHERINE POPE.
just So.

Little Elmer (who has an inquiring
mind)-Papa, which bone was it that
was taken from Adam to make woman
of?
Prof. Broadhead-The bone OF conten-
ion. my son.--ss~-Fn Topics.
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SPORTS AND
AT HLETICS

When Lou Dillon, the sensational
trotting mare. stepped mile in 200 at
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-10-14

Millard F. Sanders, who drove Lou
Dillon in her record-breaking race, is
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-08-13
ALexamNria Gazetfe.
THURSDAY EVENING. AUG. -. 1908.
Tic Bnrtender's Revenge.

Since the bar is a necessary eNh--'o
some folk-and is an institution OF the
state being licensed, reference to 1t oc-
casionally must be excused. There are
come very clever men behind the par
and once in awhile a gentleman. Iap
is usually kept on him by the metal
cash register. He feels that he Is
watched at all hours by maze OF pat
ented machinery. If he steals a check
of IS cents he is caught, you may say.
Not at all! The other day in a fashion
able resort the proprietor, big ana pom
nous. "called down" one Of his men be-
fore some customers. As to the ques-
tlon of right or wrong / say nothing.
But presently, when Signor Pomposity
turped his back, the bar man empueu
full bottle of the finest whisky into the
washing trough under the bar 1t was
worth Mt least 81 80. That was his way
of getting even. am informed that 1t
IS the usual way of resezfing an Insult
from the proprietor. The mere stealing
of 10 cents is a small matter when the
her man Is to be trusted with thousands
of dollars worth of liquors. If man
f. not to be trusted with change how
IS he TO be trusted with liquors!-New
York Press.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-08-13
Grammar and writing.

One day Julian Hawthorne was COM
plimenting a certain writer on his
wonderful facility In his handling OF
words and in his construction OF sen
fences. "You are a master Of phrases
said the novelist, with twinkle, and
then added:
"How do you do it, anyhow
81 don't know" replied the writer
"You see, 1 have forgotten all that
ever learned at school except that the
proposition governs the objective case.
To save my life couldn't tell you the
difference between the present tense
and a predicate. l write by ear and
don't know any more about grammar
than a cockroach knows about paint
ing roses Oh jugs"
"That's all right, my boy, that's all
right" said Hawthorne dryly. "No
man who's purist and a master OF
style ever knows anything about gram
mar"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-08-13
uo,v 1r,ebt Joined Golden.

John Bright's account Of how he
and Richard Golden came to join
forces against the corn laws early in
the last century is as follows: Il was
in the depths of grief, might also say
of despair, for the light and sunshine
of my house had been eXtinguished'
All that was left on earth Of my lie
and of a too brief happiness was lying
still and cold in the chamber above US
Mr.. Golden called upon me, and, hav-
ing expressed words of confidence
said: There are thousands of houses
in England at this moment where
wives, mothers and children are dying
of hunger. Now, when the first paroX-
ysm of your grief is past would al,
wise you to come with me and we Will
never rest till the corn law is repealed
The offer was accepted and the work
was done"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-08-13
RAILROADS
RAILWAY.
Schedule effective June %.

Schedule effective June %. 1908.
Trains leave Southern Railway Station
Alexandria:
1850 A. M.-Daily-Local for Harrisonburg
Warrenton, Danville and way stations.
11:l0 A. M.-Daily-Washingto and
Florida Limited, first-clsss coach to Jack.
sonville and drawing-room sleeper TO Jack
sonville. Dining car service.
1875 A. M.-Daily-U. S. Fast Mail. First
class coaches and drawing-room sleeper to
New Orleans. Dining car service.
4:23 p. M.-Week Days-Local for Har-
risonburg and way stations on Manassas
branch.
ASP P. M.-Daily-Local for warrenton and
Charlottesville.
900 P. M.-Daily-New York and Atlanta
Express-First class coach and sleeper to At.
lanta. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays
Sunset Route Tourist sleeper Washington to
San Francisco.
1910 p. M.-Daily-Washington and Chat
tanooga Limited (via Lynchburg). First
class coach and sleeping to Roanoke,
Knoxville, Chattanooga and Memphis. Sleep
err to New Orleans. Dining car service.
HOS p. Washington and South .
western Limited All Pullman train club
and observation cars to Atlanta and Macon.
Sleepers to Nashville, Augusta, Atlanta, Ma
con, Memphis and New Orleans. Dining car
service.
TRAINs-oN BLUEMONT BRANCH.
Leave Alexandria s:lS A. NJ, 1909 and 4:5
p. NJ. week days for Bluemont. $50 P. NJ.
for Leesburg. 9:0S A. NJ. on Sundays only
for BluemOnt.
Through trains from the South arrive at AL.
exandria 6l7, 6:32, 7:20 and 9:25 A. NJ and
1:40 and $3.50 p. NJ. daily. From Harrison
burg 1875 A. NJ. week days and S:45 p.
NJ. daily. From Charlottesville sos A. N
and S:45 P. NJ. daily.
For detailed schedule figures, tickets, Pull
man reservation, ETC., apply to w. G. If
| HEW, ticket agent, Alexandria, Va.
! c. II. ACKERT, General Manager.
S. II. HARDWICK, Gen. Passenger Agent.
J.. S. BROWN, General Agent.
WASHINGTON n O.