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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-02-21
The c,,rse of Riches


The very rich are by no means t.
healthiest members of the COMMUNITY,
and to escape the perks 81 luxurious
living requires Unusual will power and
prudence, Great capital at. the dis
posal of single individual confers on
Its possessor great power over the
course of Industrial development,
over his fellow-meD, and sometimes
over the course Of great public events.
Ike peace or war between nations.
1t enables man to do good or harm,
to give joy or pain, and places him
in a position to be feared or looked
up to. There is pleasure, said Presi-
dent Eliot of Harvard, in recent, adj
dress, in the satisfaction Of directing
such power, and the greater the
character the greater may be the sat
isfaction. In giving this direction the
great capitalist may find an enjoyable
and strenuous occupation. For con-
OF responsibility accompanies this
power. 1t may become so powerful
as to- wipe out the enjoyment itself.
There are no more successful business
enterprises than are these conducted
by remarkably intelligent autocrats.
and probably the same would be true
of governments if any mode had been
invented of discovering and putting
into place desirable autocrats. The
prevailing modes of selection, such as
heredity and transmission, have been
SO very unsuccessful that autocracy
as a mode of government has fallen
into disrepute. In business enter
prises the existing modes of discovery
and selection of autocrats seem to do
better than in the government, for au-
tocracy in business has been justified
by results. The most serious disad-
vantage under which the very rich
have labored is the bringing up of
children. 1t is well-nigh impossible
for a very rich man to develop his
children from habits of Indifference
and laziness. These children are so
situated that they have no opportuni-
ty of doing productive labor, and do
nothing for themselves, parents, broth
ers or sisters, no one acquiring the
habit of work. In striking contrast
are the farmers children, who coop
crate at tender years in the work of
the household.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-02-21
The Modest Income.

Our good friend with million dol
lars a year cannot eat much more or
better food, or drink much more or
better drinks, than we can. If h
does, he will be sorry, writes Edward
S. Martin, in the Atlantic. He can
have more places to live in, and enor-
mously more and handsomer apparatus
of living, but he can't live in more
than one place at once, and too much
apparatus is bother. He can make
himself comfortable, and live health
fully. So can we. He can have all
the leisure he wants, can go where he
likes and stay as long as he will. He
has the better of us there. We have
the better of him in having the daily
excitement and discipline of making a
living. 1t is a great game-that game
and hazards, hopes, surprises, thrills,
disappointments and satisfactions.
Our million-a-year friend misses that
We may beat him in discipline, too
We are apt to get more than he does
the salutary discipline of steady
work, of self-denial, of effort. That is
enormously valuable to soul, body and
mind. lie can't buy it. We get it
thrown in with our daily bread. We
are as likely to marry to our taste
and live happily in the domesticated
state as he is. We have rather better
chances than he of raising our chill
dren we'll. We are as likely as he to
have good friends worth having, and
to find pleasure in them.
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than struck the fire in a sitting posi-
ton, and filled the air with the odor
OF fried buckskin. before the whole
tribe jumped on Pa, and they kicked
him with their moccasins, and were
going to murder him, while the chief
who acted as the burnt Offering. got
out OF the fire, and sat down in the
cold mud to cool himself. He held
up his hand as a signal for attention
and he called council of war. while
the squaws sat on pa to hold him
down
The council of war sentenced ma to
be burned at the stake, and thew tied
him to tree and began to nile
sticks around him, and pa told me to
go to the circus lot and give an alarm
and send the hands to rescue him
Gee. but didn't 1 run though, and veil
an alarm big enough for a massacre
told the hands, who were sleen;no
unoer the seats, or playing cards ON
the trunks that the Indians were
burning pa at the stake, and some of
the hands said that would serve him
right, and the fellows that were NAV
ing cards said they didn't want n
break up the game when they were
losers. to rescue no baldheaded cnr.
mudgeon. thought pa was q eoner.
sure, cause I could hear the Indians
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-02-21

and drive them off, but he said he
hadn't no time to go and wake up the
police, and they wouldn't get around
anyway before the middle of the
week. So pa took a tent stake and
started for the green corn roast. The
Indians were taking turns dancing
and eating roasted corn, and they had
a barrel of beer, and 1 knew enough
about Indians to keep away from
them when they mix beer with green
corn, for it has about the same eff
feet as committing suicide with car
bolic acid.
Pa put his hat on one side of his
head and went right into the midst
of the Indians, and grabbed a chief
called p" One Ear at a Time" and hit
him with the tent stake, and knocked
him down, and said, Now, you git"
Well, sir, that Indian had no more
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-02-21
WHEN HIS WIFE CAME HOME
Earlier Than He Expected and Saw
Him Entertain His
Friends.

The Harlem resident emerged from.
the city hall subway exit. He was plain
ly detected. relates the New York Globe.
Why, hello, Jimson," cried a COM
rade of the night before You look as
blue as an undertaken at a health resort.
Cheer up. l feel just as sick as you this
morning."
''Oh. it isn't that groaned the defect
ed man.
But you were the life and soul of our
jolly party last night. You even insist
ed on waltzing with the dignified head
waiter"
Il remember"
Then we took hack to your house.
and we all cheered when you got up on
your front step and made a neat little
speech to the effect that your wife would
be home from the mountains on the
morrow, and you were glad to let loose
at least once before you settled down.
1t was large night"
Bah! My wife returned day earli-
er and was in the window watching nv
performance. Please kick me down
these subway steps and back, up again
will you?"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-02-21
wearing Grape OF our arms, but cir.
Gus is not built that way.

wearing Grape oE our arms, but cir.
Gus is not built that way.
Ordinarily it may be quiet enough
in Philadelphia on Sunday, but pa
found that he had more Of a run for
his money than at any place we have
been so far. We have had a tribe of
Indians with our wild west depart
ment all summer, and pa has not
stood very well with the Indians since
he was in charge of the show at Fort
Wayne, and they all got drunk, and he
had them tied up to the poles around
the ring until they got sober. They
have laid for pa ever since, and it
was only a matter Of time when they
got him. Then at Pittsburg our man
ager picked up company of canns-
balls that had got left over from the
ST. Louis fair, and who agreed to per-
form for their board and clothes, and
as they don't wear any clothes to
speak of, and only eat dog week days,
and hope to get human being to
roast on Sunday, 1T seemed a pretty
good bargain.
Well, the Indians got permission to
hold a green corn dance in a piece of
woods near the circus lot, and the
management got them a wagon load
of corn, and they had built a fire and
were roasting the corn, and dancing.
and pa didn't know about it, and just
after dark the Quaker who owned the
woods complained to pa, who was on
watch Sunday night, that his Indians
had got off the reservation and were
preparing to go on the warpath, and
he wanted them ITO get off his prem
Uses. Pa said he would go right over
and drive them back ITO the tents.
j tried to get pa ito let the Ipolice go
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-02-21

William Marion, deputy assistant
treasurer of the United States, stationed
In New York, thought he had joke or
a stranger the other day, but later
found 1t was on him. The stranger ap-
peared in the subtreasury and asked for
a new 1905 silver dollar. I'VE have not
one in the subtreasury," said Mr.. Mar
lor. "As a matter of fact, there is none
in the treasury at Washington. am
willing to pay $1,000 for one myself. ="
well, don't want one that badly" said
the stranger with smile as he went
away. Within short time the tele-
phone began to ring, and for the rest of
the afternoon Mr. Marlor was kept busy
by persons who wanted to know why a
1905 dollar was so valuable. After the
day was over he said: Il will never
joke with a stranger again Why, have
heard from that $1,000 offer from all
over the city. AS matter of fact, there
were no silver dollars coined in 1905"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-02-21

Ever since we knew the show was
billed for Philadelphia for a Saturday,
and that we would have to stay over
Sunday in that town, there has been
symptoms of a revolt. Everybody
connected with the show has a horror
of being found dead in Philadelphia
They claim it is too dead for live peo-
pie, and not very satisfactory to dead
people.
A performer who was with the show
last year says that nobody but the
newspaper people who had free tick
cts attended the performances, and
some of them wouldn't go in the tent
unless the press agent promised to
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-02-21

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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-02-21

A young man from Kansas City
went out into the country recently to
get work. He had seen the advertise
ment of a farmer who wanted a man
to work eight hours day. The youth
did not take the job, as he found an
eight-hour day on a Kansas farm
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eight hours after.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-02-21

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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-02-21
naMEEsE TOBACCO PURCHASE.

roTty- EISht IhOus0nd DOlIaI8 F0Id
for . Fancy Lot or Tobacco.
The biggest purchase Of high grade
tobacco ever made in the West by a
cigar manufacturer was made last
Wednesday by Frank p. Lewis, Peoria
ILL.,, for his celebrated Single Binder
cigar. A written guarantee was given
that the entire amount was to be fancy
selected tobacco. This, no doubt,
makes the Lewis factory the largest
holder In the United States Of tobacco
Of so high . Observation-Disclosures
ocripf,
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-02-21

1t is hard to beat woman. Public
sentiment has finally induced them to
remove their hats at the theater but
they now wear pompadour with q
CAT In 1t foot high.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-02-21
lCopyrigksay J. B. Bowles-A

The Circus Strikes the Quaker City
They Go on Ginger Ale Jag-Pa
Breaks Up an Indian War Dance
and Comes Near Being Burned
Alive-The Worlds Fair Cannibals
Have a Roast Dog Feast.
The Glenwood post., 1906-03-31
Afflicted With Rheumatism

II was and am yet afflicted with
rheumatism says Mr.. ]. C. Bayne,
editor of the Herald, Addington, In :
dian Territory, but thanks to Cham
berlain's Pain Balm am able to once
more attend to business. 1t is the
best of liniments. II troubled with
rheumatism give Pain Balm trial
and you are certain to be mole than
pleased with the prompt relief which
it affords. One application relieves
the pain. For. sale by''all dealers.
The Glenwood post., 1906-03-31

A Paris paper advises a rapid in
vasion of Germany in the event of
war The editor has evidently not
taken the time to figure out what Ger
man would be doing while the inva-
sion stunt was being undertaken.
The Glenwood post., 1906-03-31

A ST. Louis woman who has been
sued for payment for a rair of expen
court that they do not fit her snugly.
The case will be tried before jury
of Missourians, and-well, you know
the rest.
The Glenwood post., 1906-03-31
JAM ES
BARTON
ADAM s
JINGLES and JESTS
A GOLDEN MEMORY

Ali there crowning joy boyhood long
The wise kids of the present brand
A radiant soul -exating joy the youngsters of today
Might laugh might
But and l. old reader, will in
In reverence that'one worth gold
When
New boots with red copper
The almost heavenly thrill of boysh pride
That shot like velvet lightning
AS we would hasten from the
That other boys might the
If they would squeak" every joyuy pranced
Along the walk their value enhanced,
And wee marc in boyp
To show pretty top boots with shining copper
Stoop
Might catch the precious
Would flash in alternating STEP oft pausng n our pace
To wipe accumulating is settling place
We il never feel the pride in golden slippers may
II we fortunate enough to climb the
AS that which in nexultat
When first donned copper
The Glenwood post., 1906-03-31

A dollar saved is a dollar made.
Save the dollar by buying a berth in
the new Pullman tourist sleeper to
Denver on Rio Grande train No. 8.
Train leaves Glenwood 8:27 p. m.
The Glenwood post., 1906-03-31

The Denver and Rio Grande operates
through Pullman tourist sleepers from
dlenwood Springs to Los Angeles and
San Francisco every day without
change of cars.
The Glenwood post., 1906-03-31

A woman in Wall street, New York,
calls all of her employees into her pri,
vate Office every morning for prayers.
1t is believed hers is the only private
wire working between Wall street and
heaven. The others are all crossed
with the hades line
The Glenwood post., 1906-03-31

Eczema, letter, Salt Rheum, Itch,
Ring Worm, Herpes, Barbers'
Itch
All Of these diseases are attended
by Intense itching, which is almost
instantly relieved by applying Cham
berlain Salve and by its continued
use permanent cure may be effected.
1t has, in fact, cured many cases
that had resisted all other treatment.
Price, 25 cents per box. For sale by
all dealers.
The Glenwood post., 1906-03-31

A new Pullman porter uniform that
will be more pleasingto the travelling
public is talked of. Must be pocket
less.
The Glenwood post., 1906-03-31

Now that we have left them moth
ing worth taking, congress is consid
ering bill making it crime to rob
an Indian.
The Glenwood post., 1906-03-31

See Colorado Midland agent for
cheap rates to California and North
west.
The Glenwood post., 1906-03-31

Suppress the campaign orator !
Physicians declare that overheated air
is dangerous to health
The Glenwood post., 1906-03-31

1t is gratifying to learn from
statistician who has been looking up
the sti If prices charged for preparing
one for the final journey and starting
one upon it, that it is now cheaper to
live than to die.
The Glenwood post., 1906-03-31

Those Lincoln people who are won.
dering If Col. Bryan will be content
to live in that town after seeing so
much of the word need not worry. If
they will follow him into his halter $
after his return they will hear him
The Glenwood post., 1906-03-31

That woman instructor in Chi
cago school who says cat is prefer
able to husband may be an old maid
who has never experimental with
husbands
The Glenwood post., 1906-03-31

81. 90 to Denver for double berth in
tourist sleeping car daily, commenc-
ing Feb. 10.
The Midland Route.
The Glenwood post., 1906-03-31

call for the same number in lid that
he has always worn.
The Glenwood post., 1906-03-31

lone should never eat while one is
worried, says health paper. But
how can one help but worry when one
does not know what one is eating,
may one ask2
The Glenwood post., 1906-03-31

How soon the wakening trees will bud
Obey the laws Of natur'
And in the veins the sluggish blood
Will need renovator,
And many sore disfgured lass,
Who'd fain wear only dimples,
Will drink the tea of sassafras
To 'radicate the pimples.
A Boston paper informs the bach elor
world that there are more than six
thousand young, charming, warm
hearted and in every way eligible
widows in that city awaiting what
ever ate Fmay have them booked for.
Charming That's good. Warm
heartedg Excellent. But say, how
is their foot temperature3
AT the advent of spring when the
birds are awing
And the cows gently moo at the
bars,
When the farmers in pride on their
auto plows rid
And puff their hayvana seega1s,
When the flowers resume their eye
gladdening bloom
And the hens chant lay o'er their
lays,
In the sunshine we'll trot, giving
never thought
To the measly snow shoveling days
The tongue jabbers must be saying
awful things about a Richmond, Mo,
editor. In his last issue he says:
Gossip has caused more trouble than
all the bedbugs, flies, ticks. feas,
mosquitoes, grasshoppers, chinch. bugs,
rattlesnakes, smallpox. yellow fever,
rats, blizzards, earthquakes, and even
whisky that this great United States
knows or will know when the uni :
verse shuts up shop and begins max
ing the final invoice. In other words
it has war and hades in a corner yell
ing for ice water.
The Glenwood post., 1906-03-31

hoW can one nelp Dut worry when one
does not know what one is eating,
may one ask2
The papers are commenting upon
the courage of Russian girl who
carried bomb in her hair Are not
our American girls who carry rats in
theirs just as courageous2
A New York chemist has compound
ed fluid that will take the redness
out Of noses, but it will never be able
to overtake and keep undone the work
of the fluid that puts it there.
The Kansas man who is running Il
skunk farm refuses to advertise it in
the papers. He seems to think it at
tracts sufficient attention to itself
without the aid of printers ink.
The name of Henry Watterson is
ever found in the forefront says
Kentucky paper. Not always 1t is
away back in the hindrear among the
VS. in the Louisville city directory.
Those who complain of the decay of
fiction should possess their souls in
patience. The spring political canl-
paigns will soon be here and the spell
binders will be abroad in the land.
A "Jack the Hugger'' on trial in
Massachusetts town advanced the
extenuating plea that the girls liked
to be squeezed; an argument which
the prosecution could not successfully
controvert
King Alfonso refuses to give out
any more interviews to reporters. The
young monarch is madly in love, you
know, and when fellow is that way
he says things that wonld look ridic.
ulous in print.
Boston kodaker who was arrested
for snap shotting ladies on a muddy
street crossing pleaded that he was
doing Legitimate business, but the
court regarded it as low down work
| and fined him.
The Glenwood post., 1906-03-31

The papers are commenting upon
the courage of Russian girl who
carried bomb in her hair Are not
our American girls who carry rats in
theirs just as courageous2
The Glenwood post., 1906-03-31

A New York chemist has compound
ed fluid that will take the redness
out Of noses, but it will never be able
to overtake and keep undone the work
of the fluid that puts it there.
Amador ledger., 1906-04-06
Let the Courts Decide.


The attitude of a portion of the
press toward the prosecution IN the
Moyer-Bayward cases. for alleged
completely in, the assassination OF ex-
governor Stelnenberg of Idaho is de-
ploIable. Papers of socialistic lean
ing have been teeming with articles
written for no other purpose than to
prejudice the public mind against the
officers engaged IN trying to unearth,
not only that particular outrage,
but other heinous crimes in Colo
rado and elsewhere. A man is pre-
sumed to be innocent until his guilt
is proven beyond reasonably doubt.
That is wholesome legal maxim,
and all fair journals are disposed to
follow its spirit, at the same time
being free to publish the facts as far
as they are ascertainable, without
prejudice to either side. But this
rule has been shameIesly set aside
by number of sheets in sympathy
with the Western Federation officers,
and the organization of which they are
the head and front. They are trying
to convince the public that the pro-
secution of Meyer ct al is conspiracy
on the part of the mine owners
association, to get rid of the fedora
tion organization; that the detectives
who have been working on this mur-
der case are in the employ of the
mine owners; that Meyer, Hayward
and Pettibone are being prosecuted.
And all this stuff is being sent broad
cast over the country before the men
are placed on trial. A paper mis-
called "AppeaI to Reason" published
in Colorado, has devoted pretty much
all its space since the arrests were
made to convince the people that
Mcfarland and the mine owners are
the real criminals, while the arrested
men are paragons of social and do
mestic virtue. That the labor organi.
cations should furnish funds to de-
fend the accused is nothing out of the
way. There is nothing inconsistent
in such action with desire that the
men should be given a fair and i'm
partial trial; nothing inconsistent
with good citizenship. But to pre-
judge tn cases, and condemn all who
have taken part in trying to get at
the bottom of the crimes, is nothing
short of trying to undermine the
foundations of our free institutions.