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The Lamar register., 1905-03-01
IT IS IN THE BLOOD
Neither Liniments nor 0intments
Will Reach Rheumatism-How
Mr.. Stephenson Was Cured.

People with inflamed and aching
Joints, or painful muscles; people who
shuttle about with the aid of cane or n
crutch and cry, Oh at every slight jar,
are constantly asking, "What is the best
thing for rheumatism
To attempt to cure rheumatism by ex-
ternal applications is q foolish waste Of
time. The seat of the disease is in the
blood, and while the sufferer is rubbing
lotions and grease oil the skin the poison
In the circulation is increasing.
Delays in adopting sensible treatment
are dangerous because rheumatism may
Mt any moment reach the heart and prove
fatal The only safe course for rheumatic
sufferers is to get the best possible blood
remedy at once. f.
Mr.. Stephenson experience with this
obstinate and distressing affection is
that of hundreds. He says:
about n year ago was attacked by
severe rheumatic pains i'll my left
shoulder. The pains We're worse in wet
weather, and Mt these periods caused me
the greatest suffering. 1 tried a number
of treatments and ointments, but they
failed to alleviate the palms.
Then he realized that the cause must
be deeper and the pain only surface i'll
dication. He adds:
81 had heard DIR. Williams Pink Pills
for Pale People recommended us a cure
for rheumatism, and when found that
Twas getting no relief from applications,
I made up my mind that would try
them. Before the first box was gone 1
noticed that the pains We're becoming
less frequent, and that they were not so
severe as before. After the second box
had been used up was entirely free
from discomfort, and have had no traces
of rheumatism since"
The change in treatment proved by
almost immediate results that Mr..
Thomas Stephenson, who lives at No.ll5
Greenwood street, Springfield, Mass,
had found the true means for the purifi-
cation and enrichment of his blood.
Dr. Williams Pink Pills are without
doubt the best of all blood remedies.
They effect genuine and lasting cures i'll
rheumatism. They do not merely deaden
the ache, but they expel the poison from
the blood. These pills are sold by all
dI lggists.
The Lamar register., 1905-03-01
lLB9[l[lQ@K SS@RASS

Agricultural Editors yrote about it.,
Agr. College Professors lectured about it,
Ayr: Institute Orators talked about it.
while in the farm home by the quiet fire.
side, in the corner grocery, in the village
post t-otice, at the creamery, at the depot,
in fact wherever farmers gathered, Salzer's
Billion Dollar Grass, that marvellous grass,
good for to IA tons hay per acre and
lots Of pasture besides, is always q theme
worthy OF the farmers voice.
Then Genes Bromus Inermis, thsn which
there is no better grass or better perma-
nent hay producer on earth. Grows wher-
ever soil is found. Then the farmer talks
about Salzer's Teosinte, which produces
100 stocks from one kernel of seed IL #.
high, in 100 days, rich in nutrition and
greedily eaten by cattle, hogs, etc, and is
good for 80 tons of green food per acre.
Victoria Rape, the luxuriant food for
hogs and sheep, which can be grown at
25c ton, and Speltz at 20c bu., both
great food for sheep, hogs and cattle also
come in for their share in the discussion.
JUST SEND 10c IN STAMPS
and this notice to John A. S,lzer Seed
Co., La Crosse, Wis, for their big catalog
and many farm seed samples. NV. N. VI
The scientist who says he can get
gold out of sea water will first try to
get 1t out of people who want him to
show how It is done.
The Lamar register., 1905-03-01
SEA LEVEL FAVORED
BY PANAMA CANAL ENGINEERS
Estimate that Work Can Be Finished
In Ten or Twelve Years-cost Of
Excavation Can be Lessened.

Excavation Can be le8seneo.
Washington, Feb. 27.-The first def
mite engineering plans for the con-
just been laid before the Isthmian Ca
nal Commission by the Engineering
committee of that body, consisting Of
Commissioners Burr, Parsons and Da-
Wis. The principal recommendations
are summed up in this resolution:
Resolved, that this committee ap-
proves and recommends for adoption
by the commission plan for a sea
level canal, with bottom width Of $50
feet and minimum depth of water
of thirty-fve feet and with twin tidal
locks at Mirafiores, whose usable di-
mensions shall be 1000 feet long and
100 feet wide, at a total estimated cost
of $3.50, 900. Such estimates in
cludes an allowance for administration,
engineering, sanitation and contingen-
cies, amounting to S,450,000, but
without allowance for interest during
construction, expense OF zone govern
ment and collateral costs, and water
supply sewers or paving of Panama or
Colon which last items are to be repaid
by the inhabitants of those cities"
The committee estimates that sea
level canal can be completed within
ten or twelve years from the present
time.
These recommendations are the con
clusions of a report to the committee
prepared in the canal zone under date
of February 14th last and based on
complete engineering reports on all OF
the problems involved.
The committee decided that under
no circumstances should the surface
of the canal be more than sixty feet
above the sea and estimates that at
this level the cost would be $17S,013,-
406. A thirty-foot level is estimated
to cost $194.213,406.
1t is recommended that the Chagres
river be controlled by a dam at Gam
boa, built to a crest height of 200 fees
and the waters of the lake thus created
disposed of through tunnels. The
work on the foundation of the dam
will require from one to one and a
half years should the work begin at
once. The dam at this place It is said.
involves no formidable Obstacle, which
is not the case at the Bohio location.
Actual work with the new American
steam shovels In the Culebra cut has
demonstrated that the entire excava-
tion can be done at a cost of so cents
a cubic yard. The former Isthmian
commission estimated this cost at so
cents. This reduction amounts to
total of $15,000.O00 and is given as
Justification of the recommendation OF
the sea-level canal.
The Lamar register., 1905-03-01
French Red Tape.

1t was discovered recently that Of
800 900 contributed three years ago
for the relief of the sufferers by the
Martinique eruptions, only $4,000 was
distributed by the French officers who
visited the islands, while the expenses
were 10000. This was due to red
tape. The tape has now been cut and
the money distributed. Gifts of food.
ETC., from America alone saved the in
habitants from starvation.
man who knows enough to make
his living is never thought as much of
as the genius who can't.
The Lamar register., 1905-03-01
Prince viii Visit India.

London, Feb. 27.-It has been Off,
cially arranged that the Prince and
Princess of Wales shall visit India in
November and stay until March, max
ing a tour of the principal cities and
native states, receiving the chiefs and
princes on behalf of King Edward,
who, after consultation. has directed
that for this occasion the exchange o.
ceremonial presents shall be dispensed
with. Consequently no presents will
be accepted by the Prince or Princess
of Wales
The Lamar register., 1905-03-01

nldH, VI Deppe,
N. c.. says: "a
s u Il er e d for
years with my
back. 1t was
SO bad that !
could not walk
any d 1 s t a n C e
nor even ride in
easy buggy. I
do not believe !
oul Id h a v e
ra / 8 e d t e n
no u n d q of
The Lamar register., 1905-03-01

Those London scientists who pro-
pose to secure an unlimited supply of
gold from sea water are likely to sue
ceed in their plan unless they wake
up too soon.
The Lamar register., 1905-03-01

The establishment of the Columbia
university department of journalism
has been postponed for an indefinite
time. However, the public will be kept
informed as to what is going on in the
world
The Lamar register., 1905-03-01

The Pennsylvania man who has
been arrested for stealing railroad
Is paying the penalty for his failure
TO first incorporate himself under the
laws of New Jersey.
The Lamar register., 1905-03-01

The gentleman who proposes to dy-
Mantle his way to the north pole
might get some valuable preliminary
practice by blowing a hole through the
Rocky mountains.
The Lamar register., 1905-03-01

A drunken soldier in Warsaw killed
two children. but a Russian CORE
spondent defends him. explaining that
the children were very small and hard
ly counted.
The Lamar register., 1905-03-01

1t is alleged that in Pittsburg there
are more than thirty millionaires who
have not purchased connections with
the nobility. Boys must run in their
families.
The Lamar register., 1905-03-01

Poetic Senator Pettus. Don't you
remember the box of flowers in front
of the cabin door when you were a
boy?" he queried. Don't you remem-
bre the violets growing?" You can
almost sing it.
The Lamar register., 1905-03-01

Mrs. Chadwick filed no list of cred
ftors. She evidently thinks the men
who yielded gold for hopes of gain
had their hopes. and that was all there
was coming to them
The Lamar register., 1905-03-01

In announcing that it has discov.
cred school children of from six to
eight years old that smoke, Philadel.
phia gives evidences of resorting to
desperate methods to get away from
that reputation of dilatoriness.
The Lamar register., 1905-03-01

The bankruptcy courts the other
day relieved man of debts amount
ing to s4,00o,0OO. The courts proba.
bly, took the broad ground that a
financial genius of that kind ought
not to be hampered.
The Lamar register., 1905-03-01

According to dispatch from st.
Augustine, the big sun spot, 10000
miles long, observed by Prof. Cole of
Chicago, was plainly seen through
smoked glass ION the northwest cor
ner of the sum-" Comparatively few
people have known that the sun has
corners until now.
The Lamar register., 1905-03-01

A polar bear has frozen in Chica-
go. This will surprise the people who
have always thought the Windy City
was a hot town.
The Lamar register., 1905-03-01

A cranky scientist up North wants
to drown all idiots. like we drown sur
plus rats and puppies. If that scheme
should become popular some States
would soon be mighty hard up for leg
islators.-Richmond Times-Dispatch.
The Lamar register., 1905-03-01

An expert says that boys who like
TO kiss the pretty girls are feeble
minded. Can you picture what the
ugliness of that expert must be?
The Lamar register., 1905-03-01

The Chicago man who has been
fined for swearing over the telephone
probably won't quit the use of pro-
family all at once. but he will be like
ly to hang up the receiver after this
before he starts in to express his feel.
ing5.
The Lamar register., 1905-03-01

John Burroughs starts the question.
DO animals Think" Harry Lehr says
he has a parrot that thinks; but the
sagacious fowl knows better than to
say what it thinks of its owner.
The Lamar register., 1905-03-01

Canon Lyttleton of England says
q man cannot eat meat and lead a
pure LIE. The canon should under
stand that biliousness is not incur
able.
The Lamar register., 1905-03-01

The Kaiser does not object to the
drinking of toasts in water by Off
GERS of the army If the officers do not
mind it.
The Lamar register., 1905-03-01

The idea of extracting gold from
salt water is by no means new. Gold
in small quantities has been found
frequently in sailed mines.
The Lamar register., 1905-03-01

One of the courts has decided that
an American girl who marries a for
eigner with a title doesn't have to
pay his debts. Hereafter tailors, bar
bers and boarding house keepers who
trust the noblemen of Europe will
do SO at their own risk.
The Lamar register., 1905-03-01

The Chicago woman who froze her
nose while riding in cable car was
thankful that it wasn't her chin. now
that she wants to tell about it.
The Lamar register., 1905-03-01

The New Yorker who said that
every married couples life is dull
should study the case of the Phippses.
The Lamar register., 1905-03-01

A Boston poet makes Eliza rhyme
with advertiser" 1t must require a
good deal of lashing to get the muse
to perform in Boston
The Lamar register., 1905-03-01

One hundred and thirty-five million
people to-day speak the English Ian
guage-some of them correctly.
The Lamar register., 1905-03-01

Now that Anna Held has cleared
100000 on financial deal she can af-
ford to take daily baths In cream.
The Lamar register., 1905-03-01

King Peter of servia hasn't yet for
warded his sympathetic telegram to
the revolutionists.
The Lamar register., 1905-03-01
billion Dollar Grass

When the John A. Salzer Seed Co., Of
La Crosse, Wis, introduced this remark
able grass three years ago, little did they
dream it would be the most talked of grass
in America, the biggest, quick, hay pro-
ducer on earth, but this has come to pass.
The Lamar register., 1905-03-01

Perhaps Mrs. Chadwick is among
the other debtors who would be will
ing to sign a protocol.
The Lamar register., 1905-03-01

The demand for automobiles largely
exceeds the supply. A good many peo-
pie must have quit eating meat.
The Lamar register., 1905-03-01

There is more pleasure in giving
than in receiving. This applies to
medicine. kicks and advice.
The Lamar register., 1905-03-01

Society youths in New York now
leave cards for their dogs when
the party honored by the call may not
be confused in addressing the puppies.
The Lamar register., 1905-03-01
TEA

Which do you spend most
money on, tea or whiskey?
Which pays?
The Lamar register., 1905-03-01
COULDN'T LIFT TEN POUNDS.
poan's Kidney Pills Brought Strength
and Health to the Sufferer, Ma
king Him Feel twenty-five
Years Younger.

J. B. corton, farmer and lumber.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-11-01
Business Paws Best.

One of the striking manifestations
of the times is the tendency of young
men to seek opportunity in the word
OF business, rather than in the profess
sions. Fifty years ago every well-to-
90 father of six sons made one Of
them preacher, one of them a physi-
clan, one of them a lawyer, and one
8 politician or a soldier Only the
black sheep, the harum-scarum and
the unstudious were sent into count.
lighthouses and factories. To-day be.
hold the change. The flower of Amer
icas young manhood is at work not
in the hospitals or the courts, but in
iron foundries and slaughter houses.
The younger Vanderbilts are firemen
and engineers. The younger Armours
STAY the protesting swine. The pro-
fessions, beginning by being over
crowded, have become Improbable,
and soon they may be sadly neglected.
The law does not offer such prizes as
the canned goods trade or copper
smelling. The ministry Is not COM
parable, in point Of profit, with fren-
zled finance of the mail order bus1-
ness.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-11-01
The "Comine Nation y

Now the American immigration ques-
ton in Canada has reached a climax.
1t takes only three years for an immi-
grant to earn vote in Canada, and
$4,000 former American voters will
soon come into their Canadian suffrage.
There are in round numbers 10000
males more than 10 years Of age in
western Canada, who formerly lived
In the United States, 10000 Of whom
are old enough to vote. There are now
between 100000 and 100000 settlers.
with a possible voting population of
100000, a high percentage because
many cattlemen without families are
emigrating from Montana and Wyo-
ming. BY the end of 1905 the Ameri-
can vote in the Canadian west will be
overwhelming. In eastern Canada
thousands Of people believe that this
invasion means the ultimate annexa-
ton Of western Canada by the United
States. It is called "the coming ma
ton"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-11-01
The Barber County Index
MEDICINE LODGE, KAN.
PAINTER & HERR. Publishers
State Universities.

No one interested in education can
repress a thrill Of exultation as he
looks forward to the future of the
great state universities. They were
started at fortunate intellectual
epoch. Their foundation stones were
laid when the battle for scientific free
dom and scientific teaching had just
been won. They were dedicated by the
pioneers who founded them in a spirit
OF intellectual and spiritual freedom.
They are essentially and in the broad
est and simplest way democratic, and
the logical outgrowth of a democratic
system of public schools. 1t is to this
real democracy, writes Henry s. Prit-
chett, in Atlantic, to the fact that they
were founded, not by few men or by
single man, but by the whole people
OF the state, that they owe their great
est fortune, and no one looking into
the future can doubt that they are to
be amongst the most influential, the
richest and the most democratic uni
Tersities of our land, vying with the
Oldest and most famous institutions Of
our eastern states in a rivalry which
we may well hope to-see the noble
rivalry Of the scholar rather thaE a
rivalry of riches, of buildings and Of
numbers.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-11-01
Graft Scandals

While there are alarmists who see
In the recent disclosures of corruption
IN high financial and commercial cir
cles the knell of our national prospect
ty, 1t does not require visionary opti-
mism for the great majority of Ameri-
cans to view these recently uncovered
scandals both with equanimity and
with certain degree of satisfaction.
To the intelligent, observing citizen,
says the Kanzas City Journal, it is a
hopeful sign, indeed, conclusive indi-
cation that the business world is vim
dicating Itself and is rendering to it.
self that treatment which will in the
end bring about cleaner, healthier and
more ethical methods. The revelation
OF graft and general misconduct among
officials Of some of the large financial
institutions Of the country means that
the disease with which they have so
long been afflicted can no longer be
concealed. The symptoms developed
externally and thus became a source
OF public concern. The light of pub
licity, like a reviving flood of sunshine.
has entered the malignant atmosphere
OF graft-incumbered counting rooms
and in the end the whole business and
financial world will feel it's benefcent
effects.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-11-01
Whv Men Die Fast.

Col. Bent Murdoch, who is good
liver himself, hasn't any sympathy with
the high liver who goes to rack. So
called big Reinstatement, warriors,
professional and business men-go all
to pieces in an hour" says he. And the
why and the wherefore? They know.
We know Everybody knows, and yet
nobody cares. The world says, let them
die, there are plenty left. The man who
stuffs like a pig. drinks like fish and
loafs like hobo will collapse. The man
who lives fast dies fast No getting over
that proposition. While the one who
lives nationally, sanely. lives long and
dies slowly and peacefully. Too many
people are burning the candle at both
ends. But then WHY preach, why pirate.
why refer to it? They are not missed
and there would be no place for them
should they come back.-Kansas City
Journal.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-11-01
BY HON. GEORGE w. PECK.

ID hun. GEOfS6E W. 1ESh.
Ex-Governor of Wisconsin, Formerly Ed
itor of "Peck's Sum-" Author of
''Peck's Bad Boy" Etc.
Copyright, 1908. by Joseph B. Bowles)
Say, old geezer,' said the Bad Boy
to his uncle as he settled himself on
one of the groceryman's cracker boxes
Il never wrote you about our trip
across, did l. Well, l tried a dozen
times to write, but the sea was so
rough that part of the time the table
was OH top of me and part of the time
l was on top, and l was so sick seemed
to have lost my mind, over the rail
with the other things supposed to be
inside of me.
"Oh, old man, you think you know
what seasickness is, cause you told me
once about crossing Lake Michigan on
q peach boat, but lake sickness is easy
compared with the ocean malady. l
could enjoy common seasickness and
think it was a picnic, but this salt
sorry for dad, because he holds more
than do, and he is so slow about Civ
ing up meals that he has paid for, that
1t takes him longer to commune with
nature, and he groans so, and swears
some. | don't see how a person can
swear when he is seasick on the ocean.
with nc sure thing that he will ever
see land again, and a good prospect of
going to the bottom, where you got to
die in the arms of devil fish, with a
shark biting pieces out of your tender
loin and a smoked halibut waiting
around for his share of your corpse,
and whales blowing syphons of water
and kicking because they are so big
that they can't get at you to chew
cuds of human gum, and porpoises
combing your damp hair with their
fine tooth comb fins, and sword fish
and sawtooth piscatorial carpenters
saving off steaks.
Gee, but it made me crawl l once
saw dead dog in the river, with bull
heads and dog-fish ripping him up the
back, and l kept thinking had rather
be that dog, in a nice river at home.
with bullheads that l knew chewing
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-11-01
Adaptability of the Japs.

When Lord Elgin visited japan and
insisted on making the shotgun a present
of a yacht and also insisted on arrang-
ing a treaty with him on behalf of Eng
land, he noted the extraordinary thirst
for knowledge and quickness in learn
ing which distinguish the Japanese.
Within a week raw Japanese crew had
learned how to manage the shogun's
new yacht The japanese commission
ers even took pains to initiate the
cheers which their guests gave after din
ner when the queens health was drunk,
as soon as they understood that when
you in the west wish to honor person
especially, you roar and shout after your
meals"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-11-01

me at their leisure, than to be a dead
BOY miles down in the ocean, with
strange fish and sea serpents quarrel
ing over the tender pieces in me. A
man told me that if you smoke cigar
cites and get saturated with nickoteen.
and you are drownded, the fish will
smell OF you, and turn up their noses
and go away and leave your remains,
SO tried a cigarette, and, gosh, but I
mad rather be ct by fish than smoke
another, on an ocean steamer. 1t only
added to my sickness, and I had
enough before
i pTayed some, when the boat stood
on its head and piled us all up in the
front end, but chair struck me on the
place where Fitzsimmons hit Corbett.
and Knocked the prayer all out of me
and when the boat stood on her butt
end and We all Slid back the whole
length of the cabin, and | brought I'D
under the piano, l tried to sing
hymn such as l used to in the 'Pisco-
pal choir, before my voice changed
but the passengers who were alive
yelled for some one to choke me. and
l didn't sing any more.
Dad was in the stateroom when
we were rolling back and forth in the
cabin, and between sicknesses he came
out to catch me and take me into the
stateroom. but he got the rolling habit.
TOO, and he rolled match with an
actress who was voyaging for her
health. and they got offully mixed up.
He tried to rescue her, and grabbed
hold of ner belt and was Keeling her
in all right, when a man who said he
was her husband took dad by the neck
and said he must keep his hands off or
get another nose put on beside the
one he had, and then they all rolled
under sofa, and how it came out
don't know, but the next morning dads
eye was BACKED, and the fellow who
said he was her husband had his front
teeth Knocked out, and the actress lost
her back hair and had to wear a silk
handkerchief tied around her head the
rest OF the trip, and she looked like a
hired girl who has been out to a dance
The trouble with dad is that he
butts in too much. He thinks he is
the whole thing and thinks every
crowd he sees is a demonstration for
him. When the steamer left New Yorl,
there were hundreds of people on the
dock to see friends OF, and they had
flowers to present to the friends. and
dad thought they were all for him, and
he reached for every bunch Of roses