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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-10-07

Cries 81 "Hoppole!" rang MP and
down the field. The pole-pullers,
with their hop-dogs Gan instrument
for pulling poles consisting of a
toothed clamp attached to a stout
strap hung about the neck), fastened
hither and thither supplying the
needs of the pickers, stripping and
stacking the poles as fast as the
hops were removed from the vines.
Acquaintance shouted greetings and
gossip from one box to another.
Then, as the sun grew high, awnings
were suspended for those who OBJ
jected to the heat.
Rossiter thoroughly enjoyed it all.
The odor of the hops was delightful
to him, and erelong he found his fin
gers growing nimble, so that he was
gratified to see from the pile in his
box that he was holding his own fair
ly well with his fellow-toilers. By
and by, shortly after half-past eight,
some one shouted "Hop-sack!"
MY goodness" exclaimed the car
penter's wife, that's quick work!
They must have dumped Suppose
we try it, Ben, and see how much
we've got"
To dump" Rossiter discovered,
meant to empty the hops from one
partially filed box into another, so
that they should have less time to
settle. The carpenter at once pro-
ceeded to carry out his wife's sug-
gestion, but when he had finished
they still lacked two inches of hav-
ing one level box.
Lets hustle" said he, perhaps
We'll get the second" They made
their fingers fly, and soon he, too,
was yelling "Hop-sack!"
Jack Parmelee speedily appeared
with several bags of coarse stuff I'M
der his arm, into one of which he
emptied the hops from the now brim-
ming box. Then he handed out a
strip of cardboard upon which was
printed
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he could acquire the knack of pole
pulling quickly-knack, it was evil
dent, had much to. do with it. He
had watched the young man whom
Jack Parmelee had named a number
of times that afternoon, as he
groaned over lifting an obstinate
pole, and told himself that he did
not believe he should make such a
TODD.
He walked on several PAGES, medi-
tating the while. Pole-pulling was
much harder work, doubtless, than
picking hops, but then the pay was
more. If he were going to turn his
back upon his old ways, he might as
well begin whole-heartedly. He
wheeled swiftly towards the two
men seated in the door of the hop
kiln. They ceased speaking as he
drew near, and realizing that his
mood might change if he beat about
the bush Rossiter went straight to
the point.
II overheard you say" he began,
las was passing just now, that you
are going TO be short of pole-puller.
I'd like to have a chance at the job,
If you'll let me-
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ONE BOX OF HOPS.
RICHARD E. MERTON.

This the carpenter, with much evil
dent satisfaction, slipped into one
of the pockets of his vest. By II
o'clock Rcssiter also had the pleasure
of pocketing one of those little tick
cts, and he began wondering how
many he should be able to accumu-
late during his tarry at the Mertons'
The afternoon picking had been
but short time in progress when
Rossiter noticed two farm hands
crossing the road carrying a hop-box
arranged for two pickers.' This was
placed a few rows in advance of his
own. Erelong he saw two girls
emerge from the house and come to-
wards tire hop-feld. A glance told
him that they were not ordinary fire.
quenters of the hop harvest, and then
were the young ladies who had
passed Joe Becraft and himself the
evening before. AS they advanced
he had an excellent view of them,
for he was facing in the direction
from which they were approaching
The one whose beauty he and Be-
craft bad remarked upon was tall
and Slight, and carried herself with
a singular grace and charm. The
great hat which shaded her features
and was tied beneath her chin
showed her countenance as though
in a frame-the delicately arched
brows, the appealing eyes, the re-
fined and sensitive mouth. Her skin
was unnaturally pale, as though
from illness, yet she betrayed no fur
ther. evidences of ill-health, laughing
and chatting with the one who &C
companied her in an animated way.
The other girl-Rossiter judged that
both might be 81 or 25-was much
shorter and plumper than her COM
panion. There were roses in her
checks, and while with some she
would hardly have passed as pretty,
there was about her a wholesome at
Effectiveness.
Rossiter was tempted to turn and
watch them, but restrained himself
from doing so. He CHANGED to look
towards the Becraft box and caught
Joe's eye. That young man gave. a
little emphatic nod of his head which
told its story of admiration.
Il shall. have to threaten to re-
port to his sweetheart thought
Rossiter.
What can they be doing in the
| hop-yard?" he unused.
His unspoken query was answered
| an instant later by the carpenters
wife, who said to her husband:
That's Miss Merton, the one with
the red cheeks, and the others a
Miss Densmore, cousin of the Mer-
tons from nlica, who's come out to
pick for her health. I heard Mrs,
Merton tell some one so last night"
During most of the afternoon the
face of Miss Merton's cousin was be-
fore Rossiter, although he did not
actually see her again till towards
the time for the picking to cease,
when she and Miss Merton passed
on their way to the house. 1t was
her eyes especially that haunted him
the searching tenderness in them
That he should dwell upon her thus
was quite as ridiculous, he confessed
to himself, as was Becraft's display
of susceptibility. Rossiter had long
considered women, at least those OF
J the class with which he had once
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Unexpected.

A benevolent-looking Quaker, in drat
clothes and broad-brimmed hat, walked
into the lobby of a Philadelphia hotel &
short time ago, and was walking up te
the desk, when he stubbed his toe on ar
uneven place in the flooring and meas.
ured his length on the floor. A bell boy
rushed to assist him to his feet.
Boy" said the old gentleman, sol.
EMMY, docs thee swear?"
"Oh, no, sir; indeed said the boy
taking his cue from the Quaker's piou,
appearance.
'Um! Too bad, too bad" said he of the
broad brimmed hat 81 would have PAID
thee handsomely to have sworn for me-
philadelphia Ledger.
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A Comparison.

Simeon Ford, the New York hotel mar
and wit, who has just returned from 9
visit abroad, was discoursing upon the
relative merits of European and Amer.
ican hostelries, much to the disadvan
tage of the former. Don't you thinb
that our cuisines are inferior to theirs?
was asked Not at all, was the re.
ply, "and our service in many instances
is infinitely better Why, the only tive
warm things that could absolutely re-
ly upon getting abroad were the ics
water and the butter"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-10-07
A KNIGHT OF
THE HIGHWAY
By CLINTON SCOLLARD.
Author Of "A Man at Arms, The Son
OF Tory" Etc.
Upright, 1901, by J. B. LiPpincott Co.
All rights reserved.
CHAPTER V.
AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE.


A gruff clamoring from without,
md tremendous humping on the
Iide of the building, awakened Ros-
sitter the following day. The unusual
sensation of finding himself in a clean
and comfortable bed created for a
brief space a great wonder in his
mind, and it was not until he espied
Joe Becraft sitting upon the edge
of his cot yawning and stretching
himself that he became fully aware
where he was lying. The instant
he scrambled out upon the floor he
knew that the air had changed dur
ing the night, for fresh breeze
swept in an adjacent window. Drops
of rain glistened in the pale dawn
on the grass where it was not shell
tered by the trees, but Rossiter dis
covered when he went towards the
barn for morning scrub that it was
only the edge of the shower that had
touched the Merton farm. The at
mosphere, however, had cleared and
the dust was laid, so that everyone
was in excellent humor.
AS he came out from breakfast
with the Becrafts two men were
bearing the last double hop-box into
the yard across the way where the
picking was to begin. Presently Jack
Parmelee appeared and announced
that everything was in readiness,
whereat there was a general move
ment towards the yard. The women
and girls had provided themselves
with great sun-hats and cotton
gloves, and Rossiter observed that
some of the boys had also procured
a protection for their heads.
Does one need gloves of any
sort?' he inquired of Joe Becraft.
II don't see that you have any"
Jim an l never use"em," was the
reply. IF the vines bother you at
first, you'll find your skinn get
toughened to 'em after a little"
Jack Parmelee had the apportion-
ment of the pickers, and at Ros-
siter's request he was placed at a
box adjoining his friends, where he
could talk across the rows to them
He had for his companions a car
penter from Illica, who was out of a
job, and his wife and son, boy OF
Jim Becraft's age. He fell into pleas
ant conversation with them, and as
they had frequently been in the hop
fields before, they gave him such
simple instruction as was necessary
in regard to picking. Shortly after
operations began an additional Is
Pickers arrived from Hintonville, and
The scene became an animated one
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-10-07
BEFORE THE FIRE.

Here in my easy chair 1 sit
An old, old man before the fire,
Deaf to all sounds of every day
And dead to every past desire.
Perhaps the failing outward sense
Quickens the spirits inner ear,
For sitting here before the fire
You'd scarce believe the sounds 1 hear.
All this long afternoon 1 heard
The brook in the old orchard sing
lust as it used to, on the farm,
When first the grass grew green in
spring.
You know that gurgling, gladstone noise
The voice of water wild with glee
When 1t has burst its icy bond
And finds itself alert and free.
The birds too, in the beech-tree grove,
1 hear them, as in days of yore
When 1 went forth at break of day,
Call through the sunrise hush once
more.
And that one bird that nested high
1 thought she had silver throat
a trickle Of clear melody,
1t thrills m3 oft, her slender note.
My mothers voice, too-oh, so plain
1t calls across the fading light:
Come, children, time to leave your play;
Come in the house, It's almost night!'
Sometimes when you have left the room,
And l alone am sitting here,
I speak the answer right out loud:
Eyes, yes, I'm coming, mother dear!'
Then there's one song comes back to me,
Your mother sang it, my dear wife,
A slender girl dressed all in white,
First time 1 saw her in my life.
She used to carol like a bird
Tis an old fashioned song I know,
But day by day / hear her still
Singing: John Anderson, my Jo.''
! sometimes think that when I go
To join her in the angel throng,
Her voice, above the heavily hymn,
VIII rise once more in that loved song
An old, old MAINLAND common speech
But seldom reaches my dulled ear;
Yet sitting here before the fire
You'd scarce believe the sounds I hear
Martha Baker Dunn, in Youths Com
panion.
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associated, as having gone out Of his
life forever. Indeed, from the time,
year and half before he had cut
loose from his kin and all social ties,
when, on learning that his fortune
had vanished, the girl to whom he had
given his heart had thrown him over,
he had regarded the sex from an iso-
lated standpoint. The love of beauty
in its many forms which had been
born in him, and which no series of
experiences could eradicate, had
often, in his vagabondage, riveted his
attention upon a lovely woman, but
he had always considered her from
the artists position. That, after
all this time, face should so take
hold upon him struck him with
sense of the preposterous, he who
had sunk to the level of the veriest
dregs of humanity-a common tramp.
He was inclined to shout aloud with
mirth.
Two days before he would have
sworn that such thing was beyond
the bounds of possibility, but even
in the life of vagrant two days
may work strange things. The mo-
ment his feet touched the ground at
Illica the change began, and Rossiter,
regarding himself impersonally, be-
gan to wonder if he were actually
the same person who slowed him
self in the freight car at Clevalo not
great many hours previous. Some
thing that he could not analyze was
crytallizing within him. Another,
more familiar with the workings of
the brain towards that which is reso-
lutte, fixed, and definite, might have
recognized it and called it purpose.
AS Mrs. Becraft desired an errand
done in Hintonville, after supper Joe
got ride into the village with one
of the hired men who was going for
the evening mail. Rossiter, left to
himself, wandered down into the
great orchard below the small close
where the mems sleeping quarters
| were. A wagon track led through
it, and he followed this till he
reached meadow that dipped gently
to a dense strip of woodland. Far
away in the west the streamers of
the sunset laced the sky. Leaning
against the fence rails, he watched
the splendor fade, filed with a more
uplifting sense of spirit than he had
| felt in many day.
With the shutting down of dusk
| he walked back towards the house.
| AS he drew abreast of the hop-kiln
| he saw two men seated in the door
way whom he made to be Mr.. Merton
and Jack Parmelee.
"We've done very well for the first
day." Parmelee was saying. "Only
| had one piece O. bad luck
whats that?" inquired Merton.
''Why, young Gridley, who was
pullin' poles, claims he's got to quit.
He amt very strong, an says he
can't stand it,"
Gridley-that was the name, Ros-
sitter recalled, by which he had heard
the slender fellow addressed who
pulled for his box and that of the
Becrafts.
"What'll you do?" demanded Mr..
Merton. ''Pole-pullers are mighty
scarce this year"
We'll have to try an break in
one of the pickers, I suppose
One of the pickers!-the words
rang in Rossiter's ears. Why not
himself? Certainly he was strong
enough, and, he fattered himself,
clever enough. He was very sure that
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A LaudabIe Attempt.

ST wish could keep that boy In
check" said the irate parent. as be
signed another voucher for $50.-H ar
ward Lampoon.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-11-06
INDIAN UPRISING
POSSE IN WYOMING ENGAGES THEM
MA SECOND BATTLE.
Ten of the..Redskins Sent TO the Happy
Hunting drounds-Nine Are Captured
-Whitos Escape uninjured-General
Uprising Is Feared-lndians Headed
Towards Bad Lands in Nebraska.

Cheyenne, Wyo., Nov. A second
battle with the Indians who murdered
Sheriff Miller and Deputy Falkenburg
on Saturday, reinforced by large
body of redskins who had been hunt
ing in the vicinity of the scene of the
fight, is reported to have taken place
today near the Horseshoe ranch. The
fugitives were traced by posse, and
with their re-inforcements made de-
termined stand. Nine Indians are re-
ported killed outright and 10 captured.
The white men escaped without loss
or injury.
The news of the battles has spread
to the reservation and to other hunt,
ing parties and general uprising OF
the Indians is feared. There is rea,
son to believe that Indian couriers are
enticing the red men to deeds of vio-
lence. Governor Chatterton is inves-
tigating the report of the second bat
tie, and should the story be confirmed
he will Immediately order troops into
the field to suppress the Indian up
rising.
Authentic advices from the scene of
Saturday evenings bloody battle state
that six Indians were killed, 10 wound
ed and five captured. Four made their
escape. Twenty horses, IL wagons
and considerable game and Indian par
aphernalia were also captured
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-11-06
DEATH IN CRASH.
Train Carrying Football Hosts Wrecked
and Fifteen Persons Killed.

Indianapolis, Nov. 3-Fifteen per-
sons were killed and 81 injured, some
aftally, at 1920 today in a collision
between special passenger train on
the Big -Four Railroad, and a freight
engine with cut of coal cars The
accident happened in the edge of this
city. The passenger train of IL
coaches was carrying 954 persons.
nearly all of whom were students of
Perdue University and their friends
from Lafayette TO Indianapolis Ior
the annual football game between
Purdue team and the Indiana Uni
verslty squad for the state champion
ship, which was to have been fought
this afternoon.
In the first coach back of the en-
glne were the Purdue football team
subplayers and managers. Three
players, the assistant coach, trainer
and seven subplayers of the univers,
1ty were killed, and every one of the
63 persons in the car were either
fatally Or seriously injured
From the 12 coaches were coming
the joyous cries of a thousand rooters
trained to the hour, on whom hopes
colors streaming, while in the front
coach sat 20 great muscular fellows.
u diAcu 10 HOur, on WnOm the hopes
of brilliant victory on the gridiron
We're confidently placed Rounding a
curve at the Eighteenth-street cut.
Engineer w. H. Schumacher found di-
rectly in front of him the freight en-
glne and coal cars moving slowly
from switch leading to a gravel pit.
He. reversed his engine and jumped.
The crash hurled the passenger en-
CINE and three front coaches against
the steel freight cars loaded with
coal, that plowed their way through
and buried under a pile of wreckage
weighing many tons fully 60 human
beings.
The first car, in which were the
players, was completely demolished.
the roof being torn away and falling
across car of coal, while the body of
the car was reduced to kindling wood
against the side of the steel freight
cars. The second coach, containing a
brass band, was partly telescoped. and
the third coach was overturned and
hurled down a 15-foot embankment.
The other coaches did not leave the
track.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-11-06
pendIeton Owns Its First Park.

Pendleton-Pendleto is now the
owner of a city park. For years such
a move has been agitated, but nothing
was done until a week or so ago, when
the council bargained for the property
in the east part of the city, where the
water supply is secured. The money
has been paid over and the deeds
filed. The land was purchased from
Jessie S. Vert, consisting of one en-
tire block, and for which she received
$500, and four lots from " Stroble
The city purchased this property to
prevent buildings from being erected
there.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-11-06
CROW OUTBREAK.
Indians and Posse Engage in Battle in
Wyoming.

Wyoming.
Cheyenne, Wyo., Nov. 4-Governor
Chatterton has been advised of a
fierce battle that was fought late yes
tarday afternoon on Little Lightning
creek, SO miles north of Luck, in
Eastern Wyoming, between Sheriff
w. H. Miller, with a posse of six men
from Weston county, and a band of
Grow Indians on the way to the Sioux
Agency at Rosebud.
Sheriff Miller is reported to have
been killed, one of his deputies fatally
wounded, two others slightly wound
ed, while three Indians are reported
killed and several wounded Only the
most meager details of the affair have
been received, but posses are hurry
ing to the scene from Lusk, Douglas
and Newcastle.
The Indians who have been slaugn-
tering antelope, deer and other wild
game in violation of state laws and
in some instances have killed cattle,
are hurrying toward the Rosebud
Agency, and an effort will be made t.
head them off.
Governor Chatterton has instructed
the troops at Douglas, Buffalo and
Newcastle to be in readiness to be
moved on short notice and further de-
tails of the affair are anxiously
awaited.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-11-06
NEXT tsTEP in ALASKA CASE.
Negotiations Will Be Commenced for q
Survey of the Boundary.

Washington, Nov. 4.-John W. Eos.
ter, agent for the United States before
the Alaskan Boundary Commission,
has arrived in Washington, bringing
the official text of the commission S
findings and all the records of the
American case. General Foster had
an interview with SeeFssary Hay il
further explanation of the actual re-
suits obtained in London and later in
the day dined with the President
Upon the delivery of the findings
together with General Fosters own re-
port within few days, Secretary Hay
will enter into negotiations with the
British Government for the appoint
ment of expert surveyors to mark the
lines of the boundary as they have
Teen described by the commission
The findings of the commission, as
they will be deposited in the state de-
partment, bear the signature of the
American commissioners, Lord AIver-
stone and the American Secretary.
Contrary to the common impression,
Canadian charts will be used as a
basis of the survey work. 1t appears,
according to General Foster, that the
Canadians spent an enormous sum of
money in the preparation of their case
and the work of their photographers,
being very much more extensive and
elaborate than that produced as part
of the American case, was accepted by
the commission as the standard
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-11-06
CHINA BEds FOR AID.
Helpless Against Russian Occupation OF
Mukden, Manchuria.

Pekin, Nov 4.-The Chinese gov
ernment is greatly disturbed at the
reoccupation of Mukden, the capital
of Manchuria, by Russian troops. The
foreign Office is appealing to friendly
foreign legations for help and advice
admitting it's own helplessness in the
| matter.
The communication relating to Muk.
den is as follows:
'"The Russians employed a noted
brigand, who was accused of many
crimes against the Chinese, as chief
of one of the irregular bands of 20
lice that are organizing in Manchur-
ia. The authorities repeatedly re-
quested the surrender of this man,
and the Russians recently consented
to give him up.
"Thereupon a Chinese officer decap-
itated the brigand without giving him
a trial. When this became known,
the Russians demanded the execution
of this officer within five days, giving
as an alternative the seizure of Muk-
den.
"The Chinese foreign Office was ,1e-
gotiating with Paul Lessar, the Rus
sian Minister, on the matter, and of
fered to Danish the officer, pleading
that he had exceeded his instructions,
and to remove the taotai, his super.
ior, from Office.
There was misunderstanding as
to the time limit set for these negoti-
ations. The Chinese thought it ex-
pired yesterday. Before the negoti-
atiens were completed the news was
received here that Russia had full
filled her promise to reoccupy Muk-
den."
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-11-06
ASK FOR EXTRA SESSION.
Montanans Want Legislature 10 Remed
Existing State of Affairs.

Il
Butte, Mont, Nov. 5.-A Helena dis
patch to the Miner says that petitions
from all sections of the state are
pouring into the governors office ask
ing that an extra session of the legis-
lature be called to remedy the state of
affairs existing in Montana as a re-
suit of the suspension of the Amalga-
mated mines and smelters. Governor
Toole as yet has made no announce
ment as to his determination in the
matter.
A move is on foot to haye a memor-
ial presented to the legislature, in the
event it is convened in extra session
skiing that body to submit to the voters
of Montana an amendment to the con-
sitution providing that eight hours
constitute a workday for miners and
smelling men,
Notwithstanding Mayor Mullins or
der, every gambling house in the city
was open all night. The four big es-
tablishments were notified to close at
midnight, but they paid no attention
to the order. Long after 12 O'Clock
and until an early hour this morning
the houses did a rushing business.
President William Scallon, of the
Anaconda mining company, and F.
Augustus Heinz, both deny that any
negotiations are on for the purchase
of the Heinze properties in Butte.
This denial followed report emanat-
ing from Boston to the effect that Mr..
Heinze had been offered 100000
for his Butte mines.