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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-01-14

1T will require some time for Hugh
Rankin. the retired member Of the
board OF county commissioners. to be-
come accustomed to himself as a pri.
vate citizen. The idea OF not having the
privilege OF coming to town every three
months and plugging against the Index
will work an especial hardship on him
and we sympathize with him from the
bottom Of our shoe soles. We have
seen HIM almost 90 into spasms because
the Iudex received $44 for a piece Of
work for which the Cresset two years
previous received $57 when both papers
were supposed to get the same rate and
the work was exactly the same. And
Hugh voted to allow the bill. too. Bro.
Rankin will certainly be lost since he is
no longer in position to throw it
into the Index"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-01-14
Pointed Paragraphs.

From the Chicago Daily News]
A lawyer never mistakes the will for
the deed.
A pretty Sunday school teacher is
whole church fair.
The strenuous minister dispenses re.
liglon by the pound.
Lots of poor men are the architects
of other mems fortunes.
Now the summer girl has resigned in
favor of the cuddlesome girl.
A technicelity is something that
helps the wrong to defeat the right.
When man resolves to turn over q
new leaf he should te in sober earnest.
Walters as class are orderly men,
yet are frequently called to order.
Many man neglects his own chances
while figuring out what he would do If
he had some other mans chances.
Wise is the bald headed individ ual
who fully realizes that hair will never
again grow on his Uranium.
There Is one redeeming feature about
the man who laughs at his own jokes.
You at least know that he intended to
be funny.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-01-14
The new state administration as we'll
as the new county officers began bust.
ness on Monday OF this week.

IT is now being reported that Stand
ard Oil Rockefeller will donate ten mil
lions of dollars to southern universities
and colleges. This looks big but it Is
only small portion OF his profits from
the Standard Oil company alone. There
are people whose ability to see into
things is very limited. To this class of
people Mr.. Rockefeller no doubt pears
to be very philanthropic and public
spirited citizen. But there in more cold
blooded calculation in these donation
schemes of Rockefeller than there is of
benevolence or philanthropy. He
blinds the eyes of the public with a gift
from one hand while he plumbers the
public with the other. The educational
institutions of the country are being de.
bauched by systematic bribery from
such men as Rockefeller. And there
are great many people who haven't
sense enough to see through this mask
of Hypocrisy. Commoner.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-01-14

THE privations that the people of the
entire country are suffering on account
OF the shortage Of coal, have led q good
many people to believe that government
ownership and control of the coal
mines wouldn't be such q bad thing
after all. Whenever a country reaches
: point where the people must suffer
for fuel in the face of an abundance of
1t merely on account OF the selfshuess
: OF monopoly and combines, is it not
time that the general government steps
In and brings reliefP This state of con.
ditions was not brought about In a
fortnight. Leading thinkers saw it
coming and warned the people of it,
but the pinheaded politicians scoffed at
it and the people voted for the grafters.
Now they are up against stern reality.
How long, oh Lord. how long will it
require to teach the American voter to
wake upp
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-01-14

Ii poor quarter is assessed as high
as good quarter IL is the fault of the
assessor and not the commissioners. as
frequently supposed. Index.
II the commissioners, sitting as
board of equalization, fail to correct the
valuation made by the assessors the re-
sponsibiIity is on the commissioners
Cresset.
If there is no complaint at the equal
tzation meeting, how are the commits
siOners to know Is 1t reasonable to
suppose that the commissioners can
discover By looking on the assessment
rolls which is a good quarter and which
is poor one? We would like to see
the Cresset depart from its usual Gus
tom and argue this tax proposition
sensibly for once.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-01-14

COLORADO politics is Of the variety
that might properly be termed siren.
uous. The Republicans have filed con-
tests against every Democratic mem.
Der OF the lower house. Among the
Offenses charged is that the Democrats
wlckedly circulated misleading litera-
ture, thereby causing the voter to vote
the Democrat ticket when 1t was his
patriotic duty to vote the Republican
ticket. The ruling on this point doubt
less will be watched with interest
throughout the country. Democrats in
other states have been suspected of
like proceedings in times past.-Topeka
Journal.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-01-14

THERE are always plenty of fellows
hanging around who can tell how the
commissioners Ought" to regulate
valuations but the suggestions always
come from tin horns and loafsrs who
are not able to manage their own busi.
ness, let alone the county's business.
Ii valuations are too high the equalizs.
ton meeting in June is the only time
and place under the law to remedy
them. When that time is passed the
commissioners have no power at all
TO alter the assessors figures, unless
the assessments are absolutely er.
roneous. There are few people who
are too shallow to grasp this prop
oeition and they pride themselves on
being unusually smart, too.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-01-14

The trusts have the American PEG
pie by the throat 80 effectuaDly that by
one twist Of the wrist they can para
lyze business throughout the length
and breadth Of the country. And yet
there are mnltitudes of people in this
country who Will go on worshipp;ng at
the feet Of party boss and keep vot-
Ing to perpetuate that sort of socia
and governmental system. The wild
beasts of the forests have better sense
than that.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-01-14
THE SHAM OF ROYALTY.


It cannot be denied that democracy is
gaining ground throughout the earth,
when, while the son and daughter OF
tho oldest house in Europe are disgrace
ed wanderers, with none to do them rev.
erence, woman of republican birth, the
daughter of q Chicago dry goods mer-
chsnt forms the center in great pageant
in the famous city of Delhi that beggars
even oriental splendors of the past.
Important q parsonage in the great
durbar as the viceroy is, he is
still outshoue by his lady, who not 80
very long ago, was plain Mary Letter,
extraordinarily rich. but not particularly
remarkable for accomplish ments, graces
or beauty.
The people Of this country need not
Judge the royal personality through
Prince Henry of Prussia, the crown prince
of Siam and other Royal dignitaries,
who visit this country on dress parade,
but We may judge at closer range through
the women who have gone from among
Us into the royal CIRCLES.
Miss Letter wss worthy girl, but
there was never anything observable
about her that should cause the people
OF India to bow down before her in rev.
erence and awe.
This country possesses, even in the
humber grades OF life, innum.rable
women Of better qualities than she has
ever shown herself to possess.
Thousands of American homes are
presided over by nober women than
this one whom the people of India look
up to with aupersti.ious awe.
The close exclusiveness with which
reigning royalty hedges itself about ie
not without practical purpose. A close
view might penetrate the thin veneer of
pretense and sham that makes ROYALTY
30 awe-inspiring.
If the subjects had opportunity to see
how commonplace and often degenerate
are the little demi gods they set upon
psdestals Of superstitious reverence. such
aff,irs az the great durbar would inme
diately cease
The people of this country have bet.
ter opportunities to correctly judge these
royal personagee, who by their shallow
pretense of greatness that they are far
from possessing. hold sway over mil.
lions. And the more Americans know
of royalty. the more respect they feel
for themselves.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-01-14

ONE of Barber cOunty's heaviest
taxpayers remarked to us on Friday
that 1t seemed very strange to him in
in view of the claim made
by the republican organ in this
city, that all that was necessary to
reduce taxes was complete republican
control of county affairs, that the levy
In Medicine Lodge is 1913 mills. Medi.
cine Lodge has always been under re-
publican control and her taxes are out
OF sight. The evidence dlscloses that
reDublicanlsm is poor remedy after
all,
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-01-14
Wanted.

We would like to ask, through the col
umns of your paper. if there is any per
son who has used Green's August Flower
fer the cure of Indigestion, Dyspepsia,
and LIVER Troubles that has not been
cured-and We also mean their results,
such as sour stomach. lamentations of
food, habisual costiveness, nervous dys-
pepaia. headaches. respondent feeling,
sleeplessnese-in fact, any trouble con-
nected with the etomach or liver. This
medicine has been sold for many years in
all civilized countries. and We wish to
correspond with you and send you one
of our books free Of cost. II you never
tried August Flower, try Is cent bot
tie fret. Re have never known of it's
failing. II so. something more serious
is the matter with you. The 25 cent
sizs has just been introduced this year.
Regular size IS cents. At Gem Drug
Store.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-01-14

A RAILROAD can appropriate goods
shipped over its lines, to It's private use
and the shipper and consignee have no
remedy. But let citizen appropriate
railroad property to his own private
use and he goes behind the bars before
the sun sets on the evil day. And this is
what the American people tolerate in
the name of freedom. justice and human
equality. What mockery!
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-01-14

WHILE $4,000 people in Chicago are
suffering because they can get no coal,
1900 miners in southern Illinois are
suffering because they can get no work
in the coal mines. Thus we see that
the poor people in Chicago and the
poor miners in the coal regions are
both freezing, one for lack of coal and
the other for lack of an opportunity to
mine lt.-Pratt Union.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-01-14
Enforce the Law.

Judge GrOsScup, one OF the federal
judges at Chicago, recently delivered
an address at Lincoln, Neb. In that
address Judge Grosscup cited the fact
that of the l12 leading so-called trusts
in the United States all but thirteen
have been created since the passage of
the Sherman act and asked whether,
confronted bv such spectacle, we may
not pause and inquire if this method of
dealing with the 80 called trusts is after
all, on solid ground" Mr.. F. M. iris
sal, reader OF the Chicago Chronicle,
commenting upon Judge .Grosscup's
statement, makes this interesting point:
May we not, when confronted with
the spectacle Of a member of the federal
judiciary publicly and extrajud,ciaily
censuring a law that it is his sworn
duty to enforce and at the same time
questioning the wisdom of cO-ordt-
nate branch Of the federal government,
also pause to inquire whether the
creation Of the SO. called trusts since
the passage Of the act has not had
some OF the federal district and circuit
courts? A learned Judge once said
that 1t was not the existence of a law.
but the certainty of its enforcement,
that deferred men from committing
crime. If the inferior federal judges
who dismissed the proceeding against
the Addyston Pipe and Steel combina.
ton and sustained the Freight Traffic
association and the express companies
monopoly had enforced and given the
act proper construction in these and
other instances possibly the promoters
of trusts and mergers might not have
looked upon the federal courts as their
protectors and proceeded with their
work In defiance of the law."-Com-
mOner.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-01-14

SENATOR PLAIT of Connecticut, who
is protectionist from the ground up.
objects to removing the tariff ON an.
thracite coal because he knows that any
effort to do so will react on some of
Connecticut's tariff fed monopolies.
Pennsylvania has great many votes
and it will not yield any of it's bonus
without attacking that of others-Bea
con-
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-01-14

SEN. MASON promises to introduce
bill providing that when coal mine
is not being operated by the owners it
may be taken in charge by a govern.
ment receiver and operated for the ben:
eft Of the public. The senator seems
to overlook the fact that his interests
in the public's welfare is the thing that
has arrayed his party bosses against
him.-McPherson Opinion.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-01-14
Official Paper Of Barber County.

If anyone believes that the commls-
sioners are responsible for high taxes
assessed against different individuals
let him call at the county clerks ONCE
and examine the assessment rolls as re-
turned by the various assessors and the
township and school district taxi yies.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-01-14

IT is said that man has been found
in Doniphan county who does not de-
sire or expect job at the hands of the
Leland machine. Great excitment
prevails and scientists are said to be
much interested in the curious find
Topeka Herald
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-01-14

THE Legislature convened Yesterday
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-07-27
Wonders In Nature.

A thousand wonders i'll nature are
lost to the human eye and only reveal
ed to us through the microscope. THINK
Of dividing spiders web into thou
sand strands or counting the arteries
and nerves in the wing Of a gossamer
moth. Yet by the powerful lens or a
microscope it is found there are more
than 1000 muscles in a caterpillar
The eye Of drone contains 1900 mir
rors. and the body Of every spider Is
furnished with four little Jumps pierced
with tiny holes from each OF which Is
sues a single thread, and when thou
sand of these from each lump are join
ed together they form the single line
of which the spider spins its web ano
which we call spiders thread. Spl-
ders have been seen as small as grain
Of sand. and these spin thread so fine
that it takes 1000 Of them put together
to equal in size single human hair.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-07-27
THEIR OLD FORM
Resumed by the Local Club. The ChiIIicothe
Team OutcIassed in Fine Game Saturday.

on the same. Collins delighted his
friends with the second two Dagger
of the inning, scoring Salsdine.
Deane was caught trying to come
home on Taylors short infeld hit
and the inning was over with two
runs to our credit on the black
board, and our boys hitting the
ball and playing like machine.
We added another one In the
fifth. Taylor walked. second on
Adamson's safe sacrifice, and third
and home on Outcalts little bunt to
Hessenthaler, who threw the ball
where no fielder happened to be at
the time. 1t was a very funny play,
and thoroughly enjoyed by the
congregation.
In the sixth hits by Sweeney and
Collins ard an error of Willis
scored Saladiue. With Collins on
first, and Taylor out, Adamson sent
the ball fairly over the left field
fence fer home -un, bringing Dean
In ahead of him.
In the ninth, a base on balls to
Abrams, a sacrifice by Bera, and
hits by Saladine and Sweeney
netted three more runs, giving US
nine and the game.
The visitors got their only run
In the third. Sigman hit safely,
reached on Hesseuthaler's out,
Collins to Outcalt, and came home
on Haidt's long hit to middle field.
It looked little like scoring
several times after that, but Deans
strong right arm and the agility of
the boys behind him, nipped In the
bud any hopes they had of again
crossing the home plate.
1t was good game, good be.
cause we won, but especially be
cause we played ball all the time.
The score.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-07-27
WE GUARANTEE IT.
If It Fails It Is Free.

We guarantee Thompson's Barosma
to cure all diseases of the Kidneys,
Liver and Bladder. also Backache.
Sideache, Lumbago, Sciatic Rheuma-
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ton of the Heart, Nervous Debility
and Female Weakness. The soreness
begins to go and the pain to stop
from the moment you take the first
dose of Thompson's Barosma. No
opiate or injurious drug of any form is
used in its manufacture. Thompson,s
Barosma is absolutely harmless. Our
offer is this: If after taking three,
fourths of bottle of Thompson S
Barosma your are not perfectly salts
fed with the results, return to us the
bottle and we will refund your money
as cheerfuly as We took it. Price
$1.oo, six bottles for $500.
Out of all the cures made by Thomp.
sons Barosma We have never known
in a single instance Of any return OF
the disease, even after a period Of a
number of years.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-07-27

The critics who have been roast
Ing the local aggregation of ball
tossers-and they had some
grounds for it-did not have any
chance to indulge In their favorite
occupation on Saturday. The
home team went after revenge tor
their defeat Of Friday, and 1t was
good for the spirits of the lovers OF
base ball to see the way In which
they played the game at every
point. They batted the young
pitcher with the unprononnceable
name all over the lot; they helded
almost perfectly, but one little
error being counted against them,
and 1t not effective; they played to-
gethe1 and they RAN bases like In
dams. It was a great game on our
side. And 1t was not such a bad
game on the other side. While the
Chillicothe boys were up
against 1t" good and hard, they
kept their grit to the end, and
made every effort possible to head
off the champions In their rush for
the game.
The attendance. while good, was
not up to the standard for Satur :
days game. But few such exhi:
billions of fast ball as they saw will
soon bring the crowds back, and
base ball will again be the one real
thing In the city.
The feature of the game Satur-
day was the batting and fielding of
Adamson. Jack was In the game
all the time. His home run In the
9th inning was the longest yet seen
on the home grounds, while some
of his plays In the field were of the
Hans Wagner variety.
Dean was there. That good right
arm was In evidence all the time.
The Buckeyes could do nothing
with his delivery. The only man
who solved the mysteries of his
curves was that little German from
Cincinnati, named Schweitzer,
who got three of the five hits fer
Chillicothe. He would have had
four had not Adamson eaten sure
one In the ninth.
The first inning was blank for
both sides.
We made two IL the second.
Abrams the first man up, hit the
first ball for two bases. A neat
sacrifice by Bero sent him to third.
Solly reached first on Willis error,
stole second. Sweeney sent a long
fly to Parsons, and Abrams crossed
the plate and Solly reached thru
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-07-27
Smokers Heart.

Smoking, as a rule, agrees with per
sons for many years. perhaps for twen-
~ years and longer. although by de-
grees cigars of finer flavor are cho-
sen, but all ut once, without any as
signable cause. troubles are expert
enced with the heart, which rapidly
increase and compel the sufferer to
call in the help of n medical man. The
age at which disturbances Of the heart
become pronounced varies very much
It is but rare that patients are under
thirty years Of age; they are mostly
between forty and sixty years old.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-07-27
Massage and Hair Treat
ment, Hotel Mercer

Removes blackheads, and wrink-
les, restores faded and grey hair to
Its natural color, no hair dye used.
Hours from 8 to IL and from to S
and for business people from 7 to
10 In the evening. Prices reason
able. Satisfaction guaranteed or
no charges. Only intended to re-
main one week, but business Is fine
so shall open parlors here.
MRS. J. J. BARTLETT.
AJAX
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-07-27
Explains 1t.

"Why is it," asked the curious guest
"that poor men usually give larger
tips than rich men"
"Well. suh," said the waiter, ode
no. man dom want nobody to fin out
he's DO, an de rich man don want no,
body to fin out he's rich, suh."-Chi-
cago Tribune.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-07-27

Capt. Eph Wells left this morn
Ing on the e:21 westbound train for
points In Texas. Mr.. Wells mis-
sion to the Lone Star State Is to
look after his extensive zeal estate
interests. He will be absent sew
eral weeks.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-07-27

TWO base hlts-UutcaIt, CHntWollu, EuIlIHs'
Abrams, Sweeney.
Home run-Acams
Double play-Salsdine, Adamson and OutcaN
Struck out-Hessenthaler Collins 6
Base on balls--Hessenthaler,I Collinso.
Attendance 500.
Time 1885
Umpire, Hart,
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-07-27
Catafrh of the Stomach

When the stomach Is overloaded;
when food Is taken into 1t that falls
to digest, 1t decays and iuAames the
mucous membrane, exposes the
nerves and causes the glands to
secrete mucin, instead of natural
Juices of digestion. This Is called
catarrh of the stomach. For years
I suffered with catarrh of the stom.
ach, caused by indigestion. Doc
tors and medicine failed me until
used Kodol Dyspepsia Cure.-J. R.
Rhea, Coppell, Tex. Sold by
Opera House Drug Store
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-07-27

Mrs. and Mrs. w. W. Christie,
of Elk Fork, returned home Sat-
urday evening from Pittsburg,
where they had been attending the
Golden wedding of Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert W. Jemison.