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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-09-13
The Country Village.

The facilities for country residence af-
forded by the trolley lines lead the Phil
adelphia Ledger to observation literally
and figuratively, and the conclusion is
not complimentary to general good taste
and intelligence. 1t says: 1.-The coun-
try village is prone to adopt the street
plan and street names of the nearest
city, instead of growing on distinctive
lines and preserving its identity. There
are struggling villages in the vicinity
of New York which assume metropol-
itan airs by clinging to the name of
Broadway for the principal street. Many
Pennsylvania hamlets call the main road
Chestnut or Market street. There are
numerous little towns that begin with
Front street along the creek, and end
with street with an impossible num-
Der far out in the ruralities. In pretty.
old villages, with acres to build upon,
dreary, closely built rows of houses are
springing up in the new portion. The
beauty Of many promising village has
been sacrificed for severely rectangular
streets. 1t is a curious fact that, while
an effort is being made to make the city
as rural as possible, the ambitious vii
lage is not content until it adops the de.
fects of the big metropolis. Every ceun.
try town should aim to become a garden
city,
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-09-13

igan and Canada, than goes through
the Suez, and we don't howl about it
very much.
Well, sir, I have studied Gibraltar
in my geography, and read about it
in the papers, and seen it's pictures in
advertisements, but never realized
what a big thing it was. Now, who
rock right there on that prairie, but
God. 1 suppose the English, when they
saw that rock, thought the good Lord
had put 1t there for the English to
drill holes in, for guns, and when the
Lord was busy somewhere else the
English smouged the rock away from
Spain, by playing a game with loaded
dice, and when England got it, that
country decided to arm it like a train
robber, and hold up the other nations
of the earth.
When vessel passes that rock it
has to hold up it's hands and salute
the British flag, or get mess of hard
ware fired into it's vital parts, but that
is all it amounts to, cause it COULDN'T
only sink trading vessels The walls
of the rock are perforated from top
to bottom, with holes big enough for
guns to squirt smoke and shells, but
if the enemy should stay away from
right in front of the holes, they might
shoot till doomsday, and never hit
anything but fishing smacks and ped
dlers of oranges.
Gibraltar is like a white elephant in
a geological garden. 1t just eats, and
keeps off flies with it's short tail, and
visitors feed it peanuts, and wonder
what it was made for, and how much
hay it eats. Gibraltar is like a 500
gold piece that man carries in his
watch pocket for an emergency, which
in the highest place in his life, and
it wears out one pocket after another.
and some day drops through on the
sidewalk, and tramp finds 1t and
goes on a bat and gets the worth of
his money, and has a good time. if he
saves enough to buy a bromo- settler
the next morning after. 1t is like the
Russian war chest, that is never to
| be opened as long as they can borrow
money.
If Gibraltar could be put on castors
and rolled around from one country
to another, England could whip all Eu-
rope and Asia. 1t would be a Trojan
horse on larger scale, and be a ter
ror, but, say, if it got to- America
we wouldn't do a thing to it. We
would run standpipe up the side, and
connect it with an oil pipe line, fill
Gibraltar's tunnels and avenues. and
magazines and barracks with crude oil
and touch a match to it, and not an
Englishman would live to tell about It.
Gee, but l would be sorry for the
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-09-13
The Barber County Index.
PAINTER 4 HERR. Publishers.
MEDICINE LODGE, KANSAS
Saving tho Babies.

I'm the boy save the man." In the
child lay the foundation for future
good citizenship. Long ago the health
authorities Of Chicago adopted the
substance Of the foregoing as their
motto, states the Post of that city.
Among other things, they set out to
introduce sanitary measures that
would have particular bearing on the
health of children. The success that
has attended these efforts shows the
wisdom Of the course adopted and en-
ergetically followed. First an attack
was made upon the living conditions
In those parts Of the city where the
infant mortality was the highest.
Plans were laid to let in more SUM-
shine, to give the babies pure air, to
see that the food supply was whole
some and free from authorizations. And
while these plans were working out the
health authorities turned their atten-
ton to the treatment of diseases Pc
culiar both to childhood and insanitary
surroundings. Improving the quality
OF milk was a powerful agent in this
direction. Antitoxin valiantly attacked
diphtheria and Group. Even the
measles-popularly supposed to be
every child's INTELLECTUALLY re-
treated before the vigorous onslaught
OF the chemist. the physician and the
sanitarian. Look at the results. For
ty years ago the chances Of a child
taking measles were three in 100;
now there is but one chance in 100.
In the eight years preceding the in
PRODUCTION of antitoxin II, 4SS children
died from diphtheria and Group; dur
ing the eight years of antitoxin treat
ment the deaths from the same causes
have been 6,0SS, a decrease of nearly
80 per cent. Last year only six per
cent. of the milk samples tested were
found below grade; ten years ago As
Per cent. Of the supply was question
able. And in these ten years reduc-
ton of rs per cent. in the number OF
infant deaths has been recorded. The
average death rate Of children under
five years of age has been cut from
11.1S in 1000 for the decade preceding
1873 to 5.65. This vast Improvement
in the saving of children's lives has
been due almost entirely to the appli-
cation of scientific sanitary methods.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-09-13

IuScu, L WOutU set = SLOW m8IcQ on
every oil vessel, and have the crews
get in skiffs and pull for the opposite
shore, and when the oil got on fire
and rolled up all over Gibraltar, and
burned every living thing, would
throw water from the fire department
boat on the rock, and she would split
open and roll all over the prairie. and
then would bury the cremated dead
out on the desert, and seek other
worlds to conquer, like Alexander the
Great But don't be afraid. l won't
do it unless they make me mad, but
you watch my smoke if they peck on
your little Hennery too much, when he
grows up.
But haven't any kick coming about
Gibraltar, cause they treated dad and
all right, and the commander detailed
an ensign to show us all through the
fortress. Now don't get an ensign
mixed up with antique, such as showed
us through the Turkish harem. An
English ensign is just as different
from Turkish unique as you can
imagine. Every man to his place.
You couldn't teach a Turkish unique
how to show visitors around an Eng
lish fortress, and an English ensign in
Turkish harem would bring on a
worlds war, they are SO different.
Well, we went through tunnels in the
rock, and up and down elevators, and
all was light as day from electric lights,
and we saw ammunition enough to
sink all the ships in the world, if it
could be exploded in the right place,
and they have provisions enough
stored in the holes in the rock to keep
an army for 40 years, if they didn't get
ptomaine poison from eating canned
stuff.
1t was all revelation to dad, and
when we got all through, and got out
| into the sunlight, we breathed free. and
when dad got his second wind he broke
up the English officers by taking out
pencil and piece of paper, and asked
them what they would take for the
rock and its contents, and move out aud
let the American flag float over it.
Well, say, they were hot, and they
told dad to go plum to, but dad wouldn't
do it. He said America didn't want
| Iuc Olo StOAO quarry, duy way, anu IL
| it did, it could come and take it, l
guess they would have had dad arrested
for treason, only when we got out into
the town there was the whole British
Atlantic squadron lined up, with men
up in the rigging like monkeys, and
every vessel was firing salute, as a
yacht came steaming by.
Dad thought war had surely broke
out, or that some rich American owned
the yacht, but it turned out to be Queen
Alexandria and a party of tourists, and
when the bank played God Save the
Queen" dad got up on his hind legs
and sang so loud you would think he
would split hisself, and a fellow went
up and threw his arms around dad, and
began to weep, and the tears came into
| dads eyes, and another fellow pinched
dads watch, and the celebration closed
with everybody getting drunk, and
the queen sailed away
Say, we are going to Spain on the
next boat, and you watch the papers
| We will probably be hung for taking
Cuba and the Philippines. Yours.
HENNERY.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-09-13
Crows, Gold and Silver Nest.

A pair of crows have constructed \
nest out of gold and silver spectacle
frames purloined from the factory of
Messrs. Lawrence and Mayo, in Bonn
bay. The materials for this nest (of
which the value is about E30) were
stolen by the willy crows during the
luncheon hour. 1t was noticed that
the spectacle frames were disappear
ing from the factory in mysterious
manner, but it was some time before
the thief was discovered. -Allahabad
Pioneey.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-09-13
BY HON. GEORGE w. PECK.

BY HON. GEORGE w. PECK.
| Ex-Governor of Wisconsin, Former Ed
itor of 'Peck's Sum-" Author Of
| Peck's Bad Boy" Etc.
| Copyright 1905, by Joseph B. Bowles)
Gibraltar, in Spain and England
My Dear Foster Uncle: 1t seems good
to get somewhere that you can hear
the English language spoken by the
Irish, and the English soldiers are
| nearly all Irish. When you think of
! the way the British government treats
the Irish, and then you look on while
an orderly sergeant calls the roll of a
company, and find that nine out of ten
answer to Irish names, and only one
out of ten has the cockney accent, you
| feel that the Irish ought to rule Eng
land, and an O'Rourke or an O'Shan-
messy should take the place of King
| Edward. 1t makes boy who was
| brought up in an Irish ward in Amer
lea feel like he was at home to mix
with British soldiers who come from
| the old sod.
Dad says that there is never an
army anywhere in the world, except
| the armies of Russia and Japan, that
| the braveSt men are not answering to
| Irish names, and always on the ad-
vance in a fight, or in the rear when
there is a retreat Dad says that
| in our own army and when the north and
south were fighting, the Irish boys
| were the fellows who saved the day.
| They wanted to fight nights and Sun
| days, and never struck for an eight
hour day, or union wages. When the
| fighting was over, and soldiers were
sick. or discouraged, and respondent,
an Irish soldier would come along,
maybe on crutches, or with bullet in
| his innards. and tell funny stories and
| make the discouraged fellows laugh in
spite of themselves, and when another
| fight was on, you had to tie the wound
ed Irish soldiers to their cots in the
| hospital, or put them in Jail, to keep
them from forgetting their wounds
and going to the front for-one more
| fight Dad says if there was an Irish
nation, with an army and navy, the
whole world would have to combine to
whip them, and yet the nation that
has the control of the Irish people
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-09-13
Not ALWAYS Money

Give man ten-cent cigar and he
will beam all over and love you for
Six hours; offer him the ten cents with
which to buy it for himself and he
will throw it in your face. Give a
man pass to show and he will call
you good fellow in all the languages
at his disposal; offer him the money
TO buy ticket and he will call you a
fool. Ask man to your home to take
pot luck" and he will jump at the
chance; give him two dollars and tell
him to get good meal at a cafe with
your compliments and he will knock
you down. The dollar is mighty. saws
an optimistic Nebraska contemporary
but 1t isn't warm. Nothing chills hos
pitality and good fellowship more than
the touch of cold metal. You may
spend money on friend, but you must
not ask him to touch it. Silver isn't a
good conductor and you can't transmit
half as much cordiality and hospital
ity to friend through the medium OF
n dollar as by means of a bad cigar
Money substitutes for good looks and
good sense with great success, but
can't take the place of good fellow.
ship worth toothpick.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-09-13
Sure Cure at Last.

Monticello, Miss, Sept Especially. =
Lawrence County is almost daily in re-
ceipt of fresh evidence that sure cure
for all Kidney Troubles has at last been
found, and that cure is Dodd's Kidney
Pills.
Among those who have reason to bless
the Great American Kidney Remedy is
Baggett had dropsy. Dodd's Kidney
Pills cured her.
81 was troubled with my kidneys -
Mrs. Baggett says in recommending Dodd's
Kidney Pills to her friends, my urine
would hardly pass. The Doctors said /
had Dropsy. l have taken Dodd's Kidney
Pills as directed, and am now well
woman"
Dodd's Kidney Pills cure the kidneys.
Cured Kidneys strain all the impurities
out, of the blood. That means pure blood
and sound, energetic body. Dodd's
Kidney Pills are the greatest tonic the
world has ever known.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-09-13

ferry across little stream out west,
where there is no other way to cross,
except to wade or go around, and the
old ferryman sizes up the wagon load
that wants to cross, and takes all they
have got1oose, and then the travellers are
ahead of the game, cause if they
didn't cross the stream they would
have to camp on the bank until the
stream dried UP. Some day an earth
quake will split that desert wide open,
and the water in the Suez canal will
soak into the sand and the steam
boats will lay in the mud, and be COW
cred with sandstone, and future
ages will be discovering full-rigged
ships down deep on the desert Dad says
we better sell our stock in the canal
and buy airship stock. And talk about
business, there is more tonnage goes
through the 500 canal, between Mich
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-09-13

Irish soldiers, but guess they
wouldn't be there, cause they wouldn'.
fight America.
Well. if England ever has big war,
and she gets chesty about Gibraltar,
and says it is impregnable, and de-
f1es the world to take it, bet you ten
dollars it could be taken in "a hours.
Ii l was a general, or an admiral, I
would have about 40 tank steamers,
loaded with kerosene, and have them
land, innocent like, right up beside
Gibraltar. ostensibly to sell oil for
perfumery to the natives, who would
all be improved by using kerosene on
their persons. Then / would get on
barrel. on deck Of my flagship, and
command the English general to sur
render Internationally, and Il he re-
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-09-13

]. Pierpont Morgan is said to be at
tended everywhere he goes, except
when on his yacht Corsair or on special
trains, by two discreet private detec-
tives. Mr.. Morgan is not aware of the
presence of these men and new officers
are constantly employed in order that
he may not learn their identity. Mr..
Morgan has several large policies on his
life. In addition so many financial in
terests in this country and abroad are
deeply interested in the distinguished
bankers health that pool has been
formed to protect him.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-09-13

The following conversation recently took
place In India:
Physician with his ear to the patients
breast)-TheIe is a curious swelling over
the region of your heart, sir, which must
be relieved at once.
Patient (anxiously)- THAT swelling il
my pocketbook, doctor. Please don't re-
cuce it too much.-Medical Record.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-09-13

What's the use of worrying abou
whether or not we shall know each othe
in heaven? Few of us really know eacl
other here.-N. Times
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-09-13
Desired Effect.

"Try to look little pleasanter," said
the photographer to Mr.. Tyte-Phist. "Re-
half my usual rates. There, that will
do nicely.-Chicago Tribune.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-09-13

Clear white clothes are sign that the
housekeeper uses Red Cross Ball Blue.
Large OK. package, 5 cents.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-09-13

Speaking of sure things, there is, in ad-
dition to death and taxes, the rent col
lector.-Chicago Daily News.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-09-13

The conquest of peace may be made on
the fields of Mars, but lis the jawbone
of the diplomat that arranges the thrifty
details.-Philadelphi Ledger
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-09-13

The Bad Boy Describes a Trip on the
Suez Cana1-He Goes Up Through
Gibraltar in an Elevator-He Out
lines Gigantic Plan for the Cap
ture of the British Fortress.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-26
RENTS A CASTLE
Countess Rosslyn, Formerly Anna Rob-
inson, Leases an Estate.

The Countess Rosslyn, who was for
merly Anna Robinson, the actress, and
who began her career in Minneapolis,
has leased Thurso castle, Scotland, with
its fifty magnifcently furnished rooms,
just to entertain her friends during the
grouse shooting season.
Thurso castle is a very old and his
toric edifce, associated with the noble
blood of the country, but the former
chorus girl has taken possession with
an easy confidence, as if she was to the
manor born.
One of the main reasons for leasing
Thurso castle, it is announced, is to give
the Countess Rosslyn the opportunity
Of being near her sister-in-law, the
duchess of Sutherland. 1t is to be the
countess first attempt to entertain the
friends Of her noble spouse, and the
experience of the duchess, she believes,
will be Of invaluable aid in establish
ing her in the position of social leader
in his majesty's realm.
A great sum of money has been spent
on fitting up the great mansion as a
proper basis for the elaborate functions
to follow.
The Countess Rosslyn has personally
directed this extensive and lavish re-
furnishing. and her success has been
such that her friends say her social con-
quests are sure to follow.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-26
SMALL ECONOMIES

room should be provided with soap
dish. Soap reduced to a jelly by leav-
ing it in the water is a frightful ex-
DISH by the way, is worthy the name
unless it is properly drained by perfora-
tions at the bottom or by other means.
Strange as it may APPEAR a coal eel
! lar needs ventilation as much as soap
| dish needs drain. Coal kept in a
place almost alright loses much of its
gas, and is consequently wasteful to
burn.
A point not to be forgotten is that
potato Feelings, well dried, are as use
full as orange peel treated the same way
for lighting fire and making it burn
up quickly. Both save frewood.
Boots and shoes will last much longer
! if the new leather on the soles is soaked
for a few days in linseed oil before
and when the boots are taken out they
should be allowed to dry for a, few
DAYS. This treatment also prevents the
! Objectionable creaking.
| Where there are boys it is wise to
have the heels and knees Of new stock
ings carefully darned before putting
them into use. This presents a tougher
substance for the wear and tear OF
those parts.
The first thing to do with gloves and
ready made garments of any descrip-
ton is to sew the buttons on more Sc
curely. Buttons are rarely well sewn
on anything that is ready made.
To .mend a hole in an umbrella, stick
firmly on the inside piece Of black
court plaster. This is not so noticeable
as a darn.
It is wise to purchase towels rather
large. Laundries charge no more for
washing large articles than small ones,
and large towels do not wear out SO
rapidly. 49,. =,
newspapers is that of placing them as
pads under stair carpets. And even
common soapsuds may be saved if you
have a garden, as they make an excel
lent fertilizer;
Won can make all sorts of things at
friain Hsn expense. Mirrors, for, instance,
much cheaper if the fpd plate sng gs ss
is purchased 6y dne sq9 ashoned bV the
home carpenter.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-26
The Bridegroom Wanted to Be Married
in Switzerland and the Bride in Italy,
TALLY Completed simplon Tunnel that
Will Connect the Two Countries.
TT He building Of the Simplon tun-
1 mel which now connects Switzer-
land and Italy. was marked by as

TT HE building Of the Simplon tun-
hel and aGW Waa afkeS T by
planned. The Bridegroom, August
kraeken, young Swiss, recently grad
uated from the University of Berlin,
was employed by the Hamburg com
pany which first proposed the tunnel
which runs 1000 feet under the Alps.
It was while he was busy in the first
stages Of the gigantic work that he
met Rosetta Giolini, a pretty Italian
girl, and fell in love with her. She
returned his love, but surrounded her
Eyes with so many obstacles that the
course of true love ran anything but
smooth. +
Kraeken wished to be married in
Switzerland to obey the dying request
of relative, but Rosetta refused to be
we'd anywhere but in Italy. At last
the girl pointed to the ssnow-capped
mountain top and exclaimed.
81 will marr>7 you under that noun
tain when you have dug thru it.. We
viii meet at the frontier, in your horrid
sunnel, which shall be our church,
For six years the bridegroom labored
with his men to pierce the mountain.
and when at last every difficulty of
heat and cold, frost and flood, had
been overcome, the bride kept her
word. The wedding ceremony was per-
formed on platformed erected over a
whirling torrent of water that rushed
from the Swiss to the Italian side of
the mountains. Over 5000 feet above
the bridal couple was the crest Of the
Alps. The bride was accompanied only
by her uncle and priest and the bride
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-26
MOUNTAINEERING STUNTS

It is the "stunt' ways of making
money that exercises the native inven-
ton of the self-supporting girl college
student and that delight the soul OF
the uninitiated. If a college is near a
city, as are Wellesley, Bryn Mawr and
Vassar, many industries grow out OF
it's location. At all of these places a
popular plan is the renting out Of fifty
trip tickets, which make the trip less
expensive than the ordinary fare and
earn good, percentage for the lessee;
Some Of the girls 90 into the. rental
business much more extensively and
such signs appear on the bulletin board:
FOR RENT.
Of interest to all students going to
Brand new dress suit case, rs cents
New raincoat, 20 cents "a trip.
: Liberty evening wrap Gust import
ed), 40 cents "a trip:
Stocks, gloves and handkerchlefs'
pro rata.
Apply after lunch daily at ID Penn
broke East. ..
The first of semester sees the
boards plastered with notices Books
for any course can be rented at about
one-fifth of their cost. Hockey sticks
90 for 25 cents a season. Gymnasium
Shoes, fencing foils, golf clubs and ten
mis- racquets range from 10 cents to 80
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