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ace toward the coroner's Office. But
abe was a woman and could not help
1lancing back, and, meeting my du-
bious look, she broke into an arch
smile and naively added this remark:
Loretta is busybody ashamed Of her
own curiosity. So much there can be
no harm in telling you. When ones
knowledge has been gained by nnger.
Ing behind doors and peeping through
cracks, one is not SO ready to say what
one has seen and heard. Loretta is i1
that box and, being more than little
scared by the police, was glad to lei
her anxiety and her fears overflow into
q sympathizing ear. Won't she be sur
prised when she is called up some fine
day by the coroner! wonder if she
win blame me for it?"
"She will never think of doing so,
I basely assured my little friend, with
IN appreciative glance at her sparkling
eye and dimpled cheek.
The arch little creature started tc
move off again. AS she did so she
cried, "Be good, and don't let Durbin
cut in on you," but stopped for the sec
ond time when half across the street
and when, obedient to her look, hast
u rejoined her, she whispered demure
y: "Oh, forgot to tell you something
that heard this morning and thai
nobody but yourself has any right t.
know. I was following your com
mands and buying groceries at Simp
kns' when, just as was coming out
with my arms full, 1 heard old Mr.
eimpAns mention Mr.. Jeffrey's name
and with such interest that naturally
wanted to hear what he had to say
Having no real excuse for staying,
poked my finger into bag Of sugar
was carrying till the sugar ran out
and l had to wait till 1t was put ny
again. This did not take long, but i
took long enough for me to hear tn.
old grocer say that he knew Mr.. JET
frey and that that gentleman had com,
into his shop only day or two before
his wife's death to buy-candles"
The archness with which this wal
said, together with the fact itself
made me her slave forever. As hel
small figure faded from sight down thu
avenue decided to take her advice
and follow up whatever communica
ton she had to make to the coroner by
Q confession Of my own suspicious ant
what they had led me into. If hi
laughed-well, I could stand it. 1t wa,
not the coroners laugh nor even tn
majors that I feared. It was Durbin's
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you will have to ask the coroner.
Ny orders were strict to bring the. re-
suits of my interview Immediately to
him"
''Does that include Durbin?"
"Does it include your"
ri am afraid not"
''You are right. But why shouldn't
Il include you?"
"What do you mean, Jinny?'
'Why do you keep your own counsel
DO long? You have ideas about this
crime, I know. Why not mention
them?"
"Jinnyw
"a word to the wise is sufficient
She laughed and turned her pretty
jimmy seek.
y;
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ITO be continued. J
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-09-20

health that an alarming proportion of
the children of school age in a poor
section of the city are physically de-
fective. These are foreign born, very
largely. The revelations follow the
much misquoted saying of Robert Hun
ter that thousands of New York's chill
dren are underfed. One child in 20 in
the region examined is mentally not
normal and should have separate
teaching not in the common schools
New York must tackle the problem
practically as trustee for the coun-
try. superintendent Maxwell of the
public school system long ago advocat-
ed free breakfasts for poor children,
many of whom are too hungry to do
their work in school. It sounds un-
American-but what are you going to
do?
On the first of last January there
were over 100000 all-the-time paupers
in England and Wales; besides hun
dreds OF thousands receiving part-time
assistance, still vaster army getting
private aid, and millions of the self
supporting but underfed. The latter
class rises to one-third of the total
population in a town like old York,
whose picturesqueness so many
American tourists admire. And yet the
British are about the best fed of the
immigrants we get. The Irish, espe-
cially, who so years ago used to come
to us gaunt with famine, are now so
much more prosperous at home that
the still flowing tide of immigration
brings sturdy, well-nourished speci-
mems. But assisted emigration from
the British cities means immigrants
who have to be assisted when they get
here.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-09-20
THE PRINCE OF BUFFERS.
Els Resourcefrlness Saved His Mis-
tress in an Awkward
Situation.

The late Thomas Coldwell, the inventor
OF the lawn mower, was a great admirer
OF witty and alert persons.
At dinner in New York Mr.. Coldwell
said OF a famous millionaire:
his man, through hard luck, once
had to work as a butler. He made an ex-
cellent butler. Let me give you an in
stance of the sort of work he did.
ms mistress was giving a dinner party
OF II covers on a certain evening. One
CT the courses consisted of scallcped oy-
sters IL silver shells The set of silver
shells was broken-there were only Ill.
The mistress, therefore, told the butler
that she would not eat any oysters. and
thus there would be just enough to 60
around.
The butler, when the oyster course
came, placed before the lady one of the
shells. To his horror, she did not de-
cline it, Calmly she let it rest before
her, !Tshe started to eat it, one guest
would be short of oysters. What was
the matter with her, anyhow?
The butler watched her nervously. She
tcck up her fork. She was actually about
to plunge it into the dainty shell. Then
the man, ever alert and ready, few to her
SIDE and bent over her respectfully:
Pardon me, madam he murmured
but you said | was to remind you that
the doctor forbade your eating oysterds
on any account"
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REMINDED HIM OF HOME.
Rough Weather on the Ocean Made
Kansan Think He Was Back
on the Farm.

A Kansan crossing the Atlantic in rough
weather went out on deck when . biz
gale was blowing. Nobody was in sight
except the captain, relates the Kansas
City Journal.
The passenger looked around to zee
whom be was talking to.
you mean mel" he yelled back when
he saw there was no one else in sight.
"Of course do; 60 below" and the
captajne came alongside.
We'll, l guess not" protested the Kan
san. I'm up here to see how one Of
your mountain-high waves and terrific
gales compare with what we have in Kan
sas in the way of cyclones. This amt .
patch to what I've seen out our way"
A big wave broke over the deck, sweep
ing the Kansan aft. They picked. him up
with broken leg. twisted shoulder, Z
spra'nsd wrist, and his face looked az if
1t had been dragged backward through
briar patch. When he came to he saw
the captain.
by gravy, cap" he said, feebly, chat
reminded me of home, only it was dern
sight wetter."
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ken. A senator of the United States,
Chauncey M. Depew, is to have
>hance to explain why he took large
retainer from the Equitable for years;
and why he allowed it, while he was a
director, to loan money and lose to the
boom town of Depew, in which he was
interested; and why, having guaran-
teed the loan, he WEIGHED upon the
agreement. David B. Hill seeks a
chance to explain why, for no discover
able reason, he drew salary from the
Equitable for years. Jacob H. Schiff,
who was treated with as a high am
bassador of finance by Witte, of Rus
STA, and other financiers almost as
powerful, are to explain, perhaps, why
they, as directors, apparently sold to
the Equitable bonds in whose sale they
were personally interested. BENJAMIN
B. Ddell, Jr.-
All, there we strike frei Ex-Gov.
Hill may not expect overmuch mercy
from committee of eight, of whom
only two are democrats. But eX-GOv.
.Odell is the republican boss of the
state-is or was; some think that Gov
Higgins is displacing him. Mr.. Odell
comes into the inquiry in two ways.
First, it is alleged that money of the
Equitable was used to pay him his
losses through the shipbuilding trust
swindle, which was worked by a few
unprincipled scoundrels, some of whom
were and are Equitable directors; sec
ond, it is pretty well understood that
behalf of the Equitable but not item
lied upon its books covered, among
other queer expenses, donations both
to the republican and the democratic
state campaign funds.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-09-20
SCIENTIFIC NoTAT1oNs

Poisonous nicotine in tobacco Is re-
moved by sleeping the leaves in So
luton of tannic acid. This is the
method adopted by German chemist.
Recent discoveries seem to show
that each Of the larger planets is ac-
companied by bands of satellites rela-
lively smaller than the minor planets,
rs the primaries are smaller than the
sun.
A balance OF precision weighing q
mixture of Illuminating gas or fire.
damp against an equal quantity Of nor
NAL air is the novel gas-detecting
alarm that has been brought before
the Paris Academy of Sciences.
M. Caverau, Of France, has discov-
cred that the eggs Of insects contain
the same characteristic poison venom
as the sting of the insect. So also
the eggs Of serpents. The discovery
Is important in its bearings on the
phenomena of heredity.
A table Of pulse-beats at tue differ
ent stations on Pixies Peak up to
about 1900 feet was made by Prof.
Clayton in 1901. The atmospheric
pressure for the stations has now been
calculated by T. Okada, a japanese
meteorologist, who finds very regu-
lar increase of one heartbeat per min
ute for each third Of an inch decrease
In pressure.
The recent discovery that alloys not
containing iron can be made as mag
netic as iron has suggested the new
theory that magnetism depends upon
the grouping of the molecules. When
the special magnetic structure is made
better known, it is hoped to improve
upon electrical magnets by adopting
for them an alloy of great power, thus
Tightening the moving parts in cleo
trical machines.
Vigorite, the new explosive OF Prof.
Shulz and Engineer Gehre of Switzer-
land, is a nitrous compound which,
united with saltpeter, has given re-
suits claimed to indicate a strength
about ten times greater than that Of
any other explosive. In the air II
burns without exploding. 1t has the
further advantages of being iasensible
70 friction, shock or conclusion, while
1t is not injured by wetting or by
freezing
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-09-20

anywhere else in the world except. l
nave heard, Bombay. And not even
in Bombay, plague-stricken as it is. do
the tall houses shut out the sun as in
New York. The nine-story tenement
has become a common feature upon
New York streets; many of its middle
aged tenements were built under law
that permitted 80 per cent. of the lot
to be covered by the building: and
upon single floor in 25-foot plot in
genuity has cheated even the benef-
cent new law by crowding an unbeliev-
able number of people.
At times the population bursts out
of the East side, like water out of a
full barrel when hole is bored in it.
When the great new WILLIAMSBURG
bridge was completed, 1876 feet wide
and mile and quarter long, piercing
the very heart of the East side, it soon
caught the name of the Jewish Pass
over. A hundred thousand people have
literally swarmed over it into Brook
Ign. Their coming changed. wherever
they went, the very conditions they
sought. Cheap rents? A corner plot
on wide street in Brownsville. sub
urb six miles from the city hall, inhab-
tied almost exclusively by Jewish tail
ors, rose in value from s., 900 to $22, 900
in less than three years. What chance
mad cheap rents in place like that?
Ii the city presently undertakes the
Titan task Of partly feeding the Chill
dren of the very poor before they set
out for school no one need he srr-
prised. Private charity is already do
ing this upon liberal scale, and leav-
ing the ethics of the case for theorists
to argue about.
OWEN LANGDoN
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city's guests like a gentleman, not like
a boor, as did Van Wyck. 1t was the
proudest hour of the life of the latter
when he affronted the polite captain of
a Spanish man-of-war who visited
New York in the ticklish days just be-
fore the war.
Mcclellan is happy in his name, his
ancestry, his wealthy wife, his friends,
his literary ability, his statesmanlike
ability, which is not small. But the
gang that follows him! The leaders
he has to placate. The following he has
to satisfy! Jerome's challenge to him
to deny that he had made appoint
ments of unfit men for political rea-
sons remained unaccepted. Half the
utterly unfit men-men known to be
unfit by the meanest intelligence. The
city suffers from this; yet Mcclellan
is personally popular and is hailed as
a good mayor.
If to be good is to be personally sat
isfactory and yet to surrender the city
to the boss, the present head of the
city government fills the bill. Nor
would partisan republican be much
improvement at present. The bare fact
is that the best men of the city are
outside the machines of both parties.
1t Jerome only could smash both ma
chimes, the whole country would be
merry at its downfall, including many
very excellent machine men.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-09-20
HONEST PHYSICIAN
Works with Himself First.

1t is a mistake to assume that physi-
clans are always skeptical as to the
curative properties of anything else
than drugs.
Indeed, the best doctors are those
who seek to heal with as little use of
drugs as possible and by the use of
correct food and drink. A physician
writes from Calf. to tell how he made
a well man of himself with Natures
remedy:
Before l came from Europe, where
/ was born" he says, cit was my Gus
tom to take coffee with milk (cafe au
lait) with my morning meal, a small
cup (cafe noir) after my dinner and
two or three additional small cups at
my club during the evening.
I'm time nervous symptoms devel-
oped, with pains in the cardiac region,
and accompanied by great depression
of spirits, espondency-in brief, the
blues!' / at first tired medicines, but
got no relief and at last realized that
all my troubles were caused by coffee.
i thereupon quit it's use forthwith,
substituting English Breakfast Tea.
''The tea seemed to help me at first,
but in time the old distressing symp-
toms returned. and quit it also, and
tried to use milk for my table bever-
age. This l was compelled however to
abandon speedily for while it relieved
the nervousness somewhat, it brought
on constipation. Then by a happy
inspiration was led to try the Postum
Food Coffee. This was some months
ago and l still use It. I am no longer
nervous. nor do suffer from the
pa about the heart, while my blues
have left me and life is bright to me
once more know that leaving of
coffee and using Postum healed me,
and make 1t a rule to advise my pa
tients to use it." Name given by
Postum Co.. Battle Greek, Mich.
There's reason.
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on trial. Failure to be thorough will
hurt the state in a business way by
arousing resentment against 1t in the
west-and there is enough already.
Finally, the voters will not have it.
They are thoroughly aroused and de-
termined not to pardon any sighting.
The six republican members of the
committee are of good average ability
and repute; they know the public feel
ing in the matter; and while they may
try for the name of the party to shield
Odell, they will really do their best to
recommend good code of laws to pre-
vent stealing in the future Insurance
men themselves are now convinced
though it took a four months cam
paign of brilliant fighting on the part
first of the World and afterwards of
other papers to bring them to the
point-that the work must be thor
oughly done.
The counsel selected typify the nat
ural hesitation, the irresolution of the
committee, confronted by tremendous
scandals and half retreating before the
storm. Charles E. Hughes, the senior
counsel, is legal bloodhound, relent-
less, alert, resourceful, unconnected
with politics, unpledged to anyone. He
will, from instinct and from sense of
duty and from professional pride, do
his utmost to lay the fostering wound
open. The other counsel, Mr.. McKeen,
was year ago better known law
per; he is of more snowy oratorical
type and has had rather more to do
with politics
So, for once, legislative investiga-
ton is going to be rather dramatic
affair.
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INVENTION AND INDUSTRY.

A needle machine can turn out 800
600 needles week.
About 10000 tons Of butter are
made yearly in Great Britain.
America makes more barrels than
any other country. The annual produce
ton is 200,000,0OO barrels and circu-
lar packages.
An ironmaster in South Wales
claims to have invented a process by
which the cost OF making steel can
be reduced 20 per cent
California produced 29,649, 434 barrels
of petroleum last year-a fourth of
the total of the United States. Ohio
produced 1S,S76,631 barrels and Penn
sylvania 100000 barrels.
1t is stated by a leading paper manu-
facturer that during the year 1905 the
paper makers of this country will con-
sumo 100000 tons of wood pulp. Yer
lily this is reading people.
A barrel of salt is produced In the
United States each year for every four
Inhabitants. New York is the leading
salt producing state, the yield being
one barrel for each inhabitant.
A few months ago the pearl button
industry of Birmingham, was practi-
cally dead. To-day it is flourishing
and millions of pearl buttons are be-
ting turned out, thanks to the fad that
soft-fronted shirts have come into IA
vor in England.
pneumatic fabrication" is what DR..
Carlo Del Lungo, of Genoa, calls his
new plan for increasing the speed of
ships. 1t consists in reducing the
density Of the surrounding water by
pumping air into it, creating a foamy
Stratum in which the vessel slips for
ward against greatly lessened resist
ance.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-09-20
The Children Detectives.

HE rest OF the
country may think
of New York what
it will, it does one
great service. 1t
acts as a catch
basin and settling
pool for the huge
stream of immi-
grafton, much of
which gathers in
New York and
costs it amounted
millions.
An instance of
this is the report
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Cure to STAY Cured.

Wapello, Iowa, Sept. 18th, Especially
One of the most remarkable cures ever
recorded in Louisa County is that of Mrs.
Minnie Hart of this place. Mrs Hart was
il bee for eight months, and when she
was able to sit up she was all drawn up
on one side, and could not walk across
the room. Dodd's Kidney Pills cured her.
Speaking of her cure Mrs. Hart SAYS:
Yes, Dodd's Kidney Pills cured me
after was in bed for eight months, and I
know the cure was complete, for that was
three years ago, and I have not been
down since. In four weeks from the time
started taking them was able to make
my garden. Nobody can know how
thankful / am to be cured or how much l
feel ! owe to Dodd's Kidney Pills"
This case again points out how much
the general health depends on the Kid
neys. Cure the Kidneys with Dodd's
Kidney Pills and nine tenths of the suf-
fering the human family is heir to will
disappear.
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The Real East Side.

HERE is no place
in the world like
the East side of
New York. Com
pare it with Lon
don. The people
are better fed,
more hopeful, less
careless of appear
ances than those
one sees in an
English city; but
also they are
more crowded to-
gether upon the
6 r o a n i n g acres
4
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The People Are Aroused.

UT there are rea-
sons why the COM
m i t t e e ca n not
whitewash the dis
honesty which has
smirched the Equi-
tablescompany and
others. P o | i C y
holders in every
part of the nation
are interested. The
state of New York
has chartered the
company to do
what it has done.
The state itself iS
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-09-20
DISFlCURlNG HUMOR.
Brushed Scales from Face Like Pow
der-Doctor Said Lady Would
Be Disfgured for Life.
cUT1cURA WORKS WONDERS.

'1 suffered with eczema all over my
body. My face was covered; my eye
brows came out. / had tried three doc
Vent v to another deetoa ' Thought .n NEW
face would be marked for life, but my
brother-in-law told me to get Cuticura l
washed with Cuticura Soap, applied Cuti-
cura Ointment, and took Cuticura Re-
solvent as directed. I could brush the
scales off my face like powder. Now my
Emma White, GAL Cherrier Place, Cam
den, N. j., April Is. 'O5."
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impairment Poet.

why" said Mrs Oldcastle, "did your
daughter break her engagement to that
handsome young poet:"
He insulted us, replied her hostess, as
she carelessly ran her fingers through the
pages of $500 copy of "Squints and
Chances" I'm poem he wrote about her
he SAID she had Iambent eyes, and Josiah
just wouldn't stand for that, because it
was an insinuation about us gettin' rich
in tn, meat business. Chicago Record
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-09-20
In Temptations WAY.

''This is the first time you have been
to prayer-meeting in a long time" said the
pastor of colored congregation.
Il had to come" replied Mr.. Erastus
Plnkley. Il needs strength'nin'. I'se got
a job whitewashin' a chicken coop an
buildin' q fence around a watermelon
patch. "'-Washington Star.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-09-20
Jerome and Tammanv.

dILE the pushing
of District Attor-
ney Jerome as a
c a n d i d a tie for
mayor is now seen
TO have been pre-
mature, it has
plainly shown that
no one cares so
cents about poll
tics in hot weather
except the profess
SIGNALS.
1t is a queer sit
uation. Most peo-
pie like Mayor
Mcclellan person
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The Splendid Passenger Service Of
the Nickel Plate Road

has become popular because of the care
and attention shown patrons of this line.
ance ON both LIST and End class passengers.
Ladies travelling alone or accompanied
by children are shown special attention.
Excellent Dining and Sleeping Car Serv-
ice. and no excess fares charged on any
train. AL trains depart from La Sale
Street Station, Chicago. For full in
formation regarding tickets, rates, routes,
sleeping car space, ETC., call on or address
J. Y. Callahan, General Agent, Ill Adams
St., Chicago.
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Bil1vi1le Rabv

"Bless his heart!" exclaimed the fond
mother. as the squalling baby rolled on
the floor; Molly, run out an kill
rattiesnake an git rattle for him.
Atlanta Constitution.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-09-20

Whenever we hear of an aeronaut who
has made successful fight with his fly
ing machine we wonder how many more
he will be able to make before the fatal
one.-Kansas City Journal.
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OUR new YORK LETTER
MIDSUMMER GOSSIP FROM THE
EASTERN METROPOLIS.
COMING INSURANCE INQUIRY
Investigation Committee Cannot Do
Job of Whitewashing in Face
Of Public Sentiment-Je
rome and Tammany.
EW YORK. A

EW YORK. A
humdrum legisla-
tive inquiry-eight
sleepy statesmen
behind a high
bench, a lawyer
droning long Ques-
lions at a forget
full witness = that
is not a picture of
the legislative in
Quiry into insur-
a n C e corruption
which the state of
New York has re-
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-09-20
Where Music Doesn't Charm.

The Office boy who thinks that he can
make himself popular by whistling all the
latest tunes to his employer while he
works hasn't tact enough even to be APP
pointed ambassador to England.-Somer-
vile Journal.