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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-11-14

him Immediately back to the Rose
mary. Instead of keeping on down
the canyon on the c. & G. R. side, he
turned up the gulch at the back of
Argentine and spent the better half
of the afternoon tramping beneath the
solemn frs on the mountain. What
the hours of solitude brought him in
the way of decision let him declare
as he sets his face finally towards the
station and the private car.
| II can't do it. can't turn traitor
to the kinsman whose bread l eat.
And that is what it would come to in
.alain. English. Beyond that l have
no right to go; it is not for me to
pass upon the justice Of this petty
war between rival corporations"
All. William Calvert! is there no
word then of that other and far
subtler temptation? When you have
reached your goal, If reach 1t you
may, will there be no. remorse-
full locking back TO this milestone
where a word from you might have
taken the fly from your pot of pre-
cious ointment?
The short winter day was darkening
to its close when he returned to the
Rosemary. BY dint of judicious ma,
neuvering, with a love-weary Bessie
for an unconscious confederate, he
managed to keep Virginia from CUES
| tioning him, this up to a certain mo
ufAnt ofseataclysms in the evening.
But Virginia read momentous things
in his face and eyes, and when the
time was fully ripe she cornered him
1t was the old story over again. OF
woman's determination to know pit
ted against a truthful mans blunder
| ing efforts &c conceal: and before he
knew what he was about Calvert bat
betrayed the Rajahs secret-whict
was also the secret Of the cipher tele
grams.
Miss Carteret said little-said moth
ing. indeed, that an anxious kinsmar
lover could lay hold of. But wheI
the secret was hers she donned Goa
and headgear and weut out on tn.
square rallied platform. whittier tn.
Reverend Billy dared not follow hsss
eTo BE coNr1NUEDy
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-11-14

around premises when game chickens
have once learned to kill and devour
them.
He is the owner of game rooster
that has taught mice killing to brood
of about so game chickens. Where
the rooster acquired this knowledge
Mr. Ramsey does not know He was
first apprized of it by finding the roos-
ter almost choked to death as the
result of trying to swallow mouse
tina. was too large for his throat
Following this discovery he watched
the chickens more closely. AS the
young ones grew up they acquired a
taste for mice, and now they are all
wonderfully expert in catching these
little rodents, and hunt for them with
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-11-14
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ROOSTER AS MICE CATCHER
MISSOURI MAN RAISES FOWLS
WHICH ARE USEFUL.
Brood of About Fifty Have All Be-
come Expert at the Business.

Jefferson City, Mo.-Frank Ramsey,
of this city, has made discovery that
will interest chicken fanciers and
arouse the envy of some writer's of
snake stories. It is to the effect that
game chickens can be taught to
catch mice, and that when one of a
brood once acquires this knowledge,
all the others readily take it up. Mr..
Ramsey says that no mice can live
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-11-14
IT'S Different There.

Il read somewhere the other day"
said the sweet young thing, that one
of the Russian grand dukes grated to
the extent of $35 200. 900 in one year"
YES" replied the reinsurance off,
cial. lover there man doesn't have
to divide up with SO many people In
order to get them to keep their
mouths shut''-Chicago Record-Her
aid.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-11-14
Queer Talk.

He's anxious to be considered
prominent socially. believe"
Yes? Well. he's going about # in
queer way"
How do you mean?"
Hes been heard to remark that a
pedestrian has as much right ON the
public highway as an automobile"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-11-14
Went Fast

Did you ever exceed the speed linn
1t, Sam?"
"Unly once. sah."
And when was that, Samr"
When de deacon's mule kicked me-
New-York tribune., 1906-07-22

display. but out Of whom you can, with care.
work wonders, because they are of the best ma
terial, after all. If you continue for several
summers to collect such remnants you will some
day have enough for bachelors hood, or even
for masters gown
OF course, there are some men at the summer
school, but somehow they don't seem to count.
Many of them are college boys going over again
the courses in which they failed. and they hard
" see any fun in the outing. Some men work
alone and independently in the laboratories and
libraries, and do not attend the lectures. And
the others, well-even when they do come to
the classroom you hardly see them. They gem
orally sift into little group in the back of the
room, where they take notes or lounge or joke
With one another; but the women-God bless
'em!-fll all the seats In the front rows, and
with upturned faces take in thirstily and CRATE
fully every word that the lecturer says about
economies or Shelley or integral calculus.
So IL was that on the last Fourth Of July "the
fair began TO arrive in great troops at Whit
tier Hail. the dormitary for women. at 10th
street and Amsterdam avenue. Nearly four
hundred OF them descended upon the imitation
marble halls OF that home for intelligent fe-
males. Most Of them were strangers to the
CITY (for the chance TO see New York is part OF
the inducement OF the Columbia Summer
SCHOOL,, and their confusions and troubles were
az first many. The hall employs a couple of
social secretaries brisk young women who are
kept as busy answering questions as is 'Infor-
nation" at the Grand Central Station. Here
are some typical questions they are asked ana
must answer. somehow. at all hours OF the day
and fer into the night:
"why won't the druggist take my check for
soda Water2"
(which % tae cheapest tailor in town? want
20 have suit made.
.will you have some one move my washstand
out OF the room at onceY
sWiu you tell me the address Of Dr. Knapp?
Some one told me he was the best oeuhst IN the
city. and I want 20 have my glasses mended'
..sry doctor told me that If / studied one bit
this summer I'd break down. and am deter
mined 10 take that Chaucer course. Now what
would you adviser
.A1ayn't / invite three cousins TO that West
Point excursion? Yes I know It is gotten UP e&-
clusively for summer school students. but
mayn't IY'
"qs President Butler in? No? We'll then-ef
can yo,l give 1ne 8 catalogue"
When L drew near the desk 20 sec no" tiae seS-
rotary was bearing Ip, TALL slow noVins
southerner with long eyelashes ano an unspea"
New-York tribune., 1906-07-22
Serious Work Characterizes Coumbia's Hot Weather
Courses, But Human Nature Here as Every
where. Provides Laughab BILE Incidents

1.-THE secretary hurried upstairs, went into her
room. and, after few minutes search, pulled
the $500 from under her pillow. She had for
gotten that she had transferred II from the bu-
reau. But dear me. the trouble wasn't over.
The news of the robbery spread all over the
house, and by the time the secretary got down
stairs every woman on every floor past which
the fire escape ran had applied for a change
Of room.
About an hour ago. continued my inform
ant. there hurried up TO the secretary a young
woman. fashionably dressed in a pongee dust
coat and flower laden hat. The only academic
marks about her were the springless walk and
the tight mouth
rs there any one here who can go shopping
with me-? she asked in the assured tones of one
who is accustomed to being heard
- don't know of any one who is going TO
shop this afternoon said the secretary.
Cant you go with me-" asked the shopper
crisply.
The secretary looked hard at her and obvi-
ously crushed down the first words that came
to her lips. Then she said gently: We'll. you
see the head of the house is away. and as am
in complete charge of this hall and the four hun
dred people in it. / could hardly leave il this
afternoon: and the we'll dressed Minerva jerked
away
I raised my eyebrows, but the secrctary's
friend said to me. with cynical smile: You
think that she was asking good deal from
stranger? Bless you. that's nothing. Last
night very young teacher came up 20 the sec
rotary and walled: My room Is No. 624. and
I'm all the way from Maryland, and I never
slept alone in all my life before, and what shall
1 do?' / know she expected the secretary 20
offer TO sleep with her. but my friend was
pretty tired by that time. so she told her the
janitOr had cat he might spare her"
watched the secretary reading the amuse-
ment advertisements and the church notes in the
newspaper, because she is sure 20 be asked all
about the theatres and the churches before the
day Is over. and then strolled under the trees
toward the recitation rooms on the campus I
visited an English class, and was at once
struck by the unusually mixed quality Of stu
dents assembled there. This Is because there
are no formal entrance examinations for the
school. and because OF the different reasons that
New-York tribune., 1906-07-22

impel the students thither. The conditioned
college freshman. a sturdy. careless wag. sits
aanked by the middle aged lady principal OF aw-
full intensity OF purpose and by the red haired
girl with the turned down collar and the artistic
attitudes. It must be very difficult. feel. 70 adj
just lecture or questions 20 such heterOge-
neous audience. notice another difficulty for
the instructor presented by the reticence and
caution in the responses of the adult pupil. A
class of college freshmen will be anxious TO speak
almost before they have formulated their ideas;
they have nothing TO lose and all 20 gain by their
artless gabble. For. by talking. Il is well known
one impresses ones instructor with the deep in
terest one is taking in the course and even II
ones written work is sliRshod "class interest
may pull one through. But not so the weary
adult With scholastic reputation 20 lose.
The instructor puts a question. That each
member OF the class has an opinion you may
see by the glittering eye and attentive poise OF
the body. But shall that opinion be launched?
Suppose the head OF the English department Of
a Little Rock Ark. institute should make
mistake! Should be corrected by that young
gosling of a college professor who sits there with
his indulgent smile. And it is not him that the
one from Little Rock breads so much as the
opinion OF the principal OF an Oshkosh school, 70
whom she was only last night indulging in a
little stately 'brag." The OshkOsher is sitting
beside her in similar nervousness.
was glad to leave that class. Il made me as
uneasy as Ibsen play. where the characters
speak nothing but cOmuOnplaces. though the
scene is Greadfully important just the same.
asked the instructor. one OF those brilliant
but absurdly young looking scholars that may
often be found teaching in big universities.
If ne didn't fnd some difficulty in teaching the
old sdea how 90 bend. He laughed, and said
"Yes"-that a good many OF his pupils were
bit infexihle. When man or a woman has
been teaching for ten years in a certain way he
is not going 70 give up that idea easily-and es-
peclaly az the suggestion OF a comparatively cali
low youth. 1T is often rather awkward teaching
ones elders" he said. "A very sweet faced. gray
haired woman walked into the Office az the open
Ing OF the school and asked for Mr. - nam
Ing the instructor put down for the course Il
am he.' replied She was visibly staggered. and
after few moments she said. with gentle
severity: DO you think. sir. that you are old
enough 90 teach me?'
'srhey take advantage OF my youth, too
these elderly ladies. They Try 20 bully me. oAe
has been here already 20 know what her marx
for the term Will be. But I haven't made ouN
the marks yet.' / objected. Now, my dear poy'
New-York tribune., 1906-07-22
Written for The Tribune by a Teacher.

Up on Morningside Heights. where stand the
big buildings that cost Columbia University
many plaintively solicited millions, the green
lawns ard red brick walls OF the college are
ehe scene Of a pleasant academic picnic just
nov. visitor 10 this pretty spot last week
noticed several sunburned boys. with their heels
n the air. lying under the trees studying loga-
r1thms. while an elderly woman with white
dress and pink sash sauntered by with a book
on deductive logic. She received an distracted
bow from lean ascetic man OF prodigious
solemnity who was sitting on the stone steps OF
the library counting the metrical feet in By
rons Don Juan" Two well known professors,
IN negligee shirts. were smoking cigars together
IN the shade. All over the campus were fitting
spectacied women with white parasois ana
round shouldered men in outing hannels, while
from the open windows Of the stone halls fioated
ne odor Of chemicals, the clang OF the recita-
uon bell. the drone OF the lecturer and all the
nun Of the educational mill The Summer
school Of Columbia was in full swing Here is
good chance. IL you are a school teacner' 70
get some more education without giving up
your paying position in the winter. II you don't
80 TO Europe, go TO the summer sessions.
Those people Of perennial enthusiasm who
write Hints 20 Shoppers in the New York news
papers wiz tell you that if you can only endure
ne heat Of the summer in the city there is no
uine Ike July for real bargains in the shops.
me credulous and the amateur shopper may
flse with the lark. or rather. in New York, with
tAe mikEnan. 20 attend the white sales Of
SsnuaEy, but your expert shopper waits till all
me vel dressed and wealthy have left town ana
tnen takes q leisurely way down Fifth avenue.
"nere she picks up''-a, phrase that means buy
Als something you don't really need-the most
beautiful Partisan confections for one-ha2 their
"lslnal price. Now though the female school
teaener may seem 20 have set her heart more
upon the Doctors hood than upon the Partisan
"'Aaet she never loses the eternal thFiftlncss OK
"onankind. and she spends just much tine
N trying 70 get another academic degree cheap
e does the more primitive woman upon laying
:" bargain necklaces. So when that great
ana wise man, the president os Columbia Uni
sersity, offers In the summer educational
bargain on Eorninsside Heights, the ewige
"eabLche from the utteFmost parts OF the
aeademic world rush 90 New York. Here you
may get the remnants OF perfectly good lectures
-ad were fashionable last winter; also short
.ehsths OF COURSES that were very expensive in
s'le whole piece. and splendid instructors who
ere little shopWOrns OF oouFse. after a wtsteT OF
New-York tribune., 1906-07-22
BLACK HENS EGGS.

F. Augustus Heinze. the copper man. vas
talking about certain fnancier.
''He is willy one said Mr.. Heinze, smiling.
There is no getting around him. Even as a
boy he had all the wiles Os the serpent In his
breast.
'He tells himself how in his boyhooa 70
used 20 do the marketing for his mother. and
how easy he found it. even then. 20 get the better
Of people.
lone day he went into grOcer's to get sons
eggs.
Give me- he said. "a dozen black hens egss.
please
s''The grocer laughed down at the little fellow.
BLACK hens eggs?' said he. And how can
any one tell the eggs Of black hen?'
''I can do it, said the boy.
Then go ahead said the grocer. waving his
hand towards a huge basket OF eggs.
"And the boy went over TO the basket. picked
out twelve Of the largest eggs. paid his money
and walked out"
New-York tribune., 1906-07-22
PROGRESS OF THE NEGRO
Hoo 1T Compares scith That of Irish
and Germans in america.

The physical record OF what W. z 3. Dubois IA
tne publications OF the American Ec0nor1ic Asso-
ciation' refers 70 as the 5000 Independents Ne
grOes. including 100000 farmers 10000 t.arhers
1900 clersymen and 1000 merchants Is according
to his statement. far better than the record of ths
irish and as good as that OF the Americans
IN tnrty-fOur Of the great life insuranee companies
and the best class Of this group is fully ahr4asr n
education and morality with the great r1lss. rga.
OF Americans This group has furnished notable
names IN literature art. business and professional
me- ana us members have repeatedly. "a Boston,
New York. Philadelphia. Washington Chicago and
other great cities. proved their right 20 be treated
as American citizens on plane Og perfect equality
with other citizens. 10 has made progress Mr.
Dubois says. in spite Of the fact that this ns---s-
eally small class with little inherited wealth. has
had laid upon IL the responsibility for the car.
guidance and reformation OF the great stream OF
emigrants from the rural South simply hecause tae.,
are Of the same race. although no one would think
Of asserting that the risen Negroes are in any .4n..
responsible for the degradation q the plantation
ones
In the case Of the Irish immigrants o. Of the
Jews, Mr.. Dubois points out that Il would Be con-
sidered hard thing 20 require them see Co ths
poor Of their own race. and Il this were dou> shsy
mTnity in their GndsrtaEHE " In he e. Sac se az soH r.
Negro. however. every disability every legal social
GhsTgSd with G GTssgO9slsility foE ss ssa5s q Shs
only that. but the group Is judged continually and
repeatedly BY the worst class OF those very people
the city at large The result OF this tas been ths
submerging Of the talented tenth under the 7are of
immigrat%ion % ., Mr. Dubois continues: "Nss York
do. thrifty and skilled Negroes as the nation ras
ever seen. Forty thousand strangers dropped on
them The city formed a Gordon around them. ara
not only cut of every Of economic and social
escape. but narrowed beat and crowded back tbs
better class out Of their vantage ground which rad
been gained by work and diligence. and this group
was literally suffocatsd beneath the delngs q Taas
grants II hes not wholly recovered lt.et 60 this
day" He finds the remedy for existing conditions
In the organization Of Negroes into self-suf+cfsnt
self-suppying groups. as IS already being done IA
ma
New-York tribune., 1906-07-22

able hat was blocking the tide of humanity the
secretary had just written out some directions
on a slip of paper and had handed them to her.
The girl contemplated the paper. while the Sec
retary glared at her and motoned those behind
TO step lively and pass in their requests.
Aren't you going to blot this?" said the South
erner, softly and sweetly and very slowly. How
can fold il up all wet and put it in my purse?
She was standing over a desk covered with big
blotter. but the long suffering secretary said
nothing She only took the paper from her,
slammed it down on the botter in front of the
girls nose and gave it back to her.
Tired? 1 should say she was.' said friend Of
the secretary to me when the luncheon bell rang
and the last dozen women had received explicit
directions how to reach the dining room on the
ninth floor They'll learn soon; but for the first
few days they are just ridiculous You wouldn't
believe that thinking women could be so unrea-
sonable You see a great many of them come
from little Southern towns. and it's hard for
them to adapt themselves to the big city. Just
now nv friend the secretary noticed one who
had been sitting ove- there for ever so long.
She looked anxious. so the secretary went over
and asked her what she wanted 7 waiting
for telephone message she said. and can't
understand why the Office boy doesn't bring it
70 me-
Ibid you leave your name at the ofice?
asked the secretary.
'why-no-I thought if sat right here near
the door
"'How do you suppose said the secretary.
that the telephone boy will know you are Miss
c. no matter how close TO the telephone you
may sit? He has probably been TO yo1r room
already and can't find you. She thanked the
secretary for the hint but ] think 1t saddened
her 20 find that nobody knew her. At home she
is probably the cOlonels daughter. and bows to
every one she meets.
"some OF them arc overconscious OF being
alone in q great city. They get fiustsred at
everything We have just had a scare over a
robbery. New Orleans spinster came sobbing
90 the secretary with the news that she had
locked her door carefully on leaving II for
breakfast. but that $500 had been stolen from
her bureau.
"T knew anybody could crawl UP that flre
escape. she said bitterly
New-York tribune., 1906-07-22
Count Albert Mensdorffs Nomination to this Important
Post PIeases the Aysrians Also the
Hungarans, Says Ex-Atache.

land on the retirement OF Count Deym few
years ago.
Inasmuch as the present Prince Diedrichsteln
has only one little frail seven-year-old boy by
his marriage with Princess Olga Dolgorouki. it is
quite on the cards that Count Albert may event.
ually succeed to his brothers title and to the
possession Of the vast estates. including the
castle of NicOlsburg. The count is unmarried,
and although his has frequently been
mentioned as the suito- of this and that relgnIng
beauty in London, and even as likely to contract
a matrimonial alliance with the widow of Prince
Henry Of Battenberg who has been his closest
friend he sfiE remains single. He speaks Eng
lish without the slightest trace Of any foreign
accent, and until he became ambassador was
the bright particular star of those amateur the
New-York tribune., 1906-07-22

atricals which were a feature Of the house
parties at Chatsworth and other grand country
houses in England, being usually associated with
the lovely Princess Of Pless and with Miss Muriel
Wilson in these entertainments. He is short
rather than tall, is about forty-ive years Of age
and holds the rank of captain on the reserve list
Of one Of the crack dragon regiments Of the
Austrian army.
AS far as this country Is concerned. 1t may be
safely asserted that when Count Mensdorr as
sumes office as Minister Of Foreign Affairs he
will bring an atmosphere of unprecedented good
Will toward everything American into that great
department on the Ballhauspatz of the Hofburg
at Vienna. where old Prince Metternich devised
and organized the Holy Alliance against the
United States, thereby calling into existence the
New-York tribune., 1906-07-22

she caioIed. svou know lust as well as DO that
vol, have made up YOUR mind about those marks.
even IL you haven't put them down on paper
Now ten me, what Is miner felt Ike a very
bad boy. but I couldn't tell her."
But one must not think that life at the Co
lumbia Summer School IS all a horrid grind
Il has. as I said at the beginning the
elements Of a picnic. only not a foolish pc
mic, with indigestible cakes and laughter tnas
Is as the cracking Of thorns under po,- ms
picnic Is educational in It's effect The rela1a-
tion OF the summer school takes the form Of ex-
carsions 20 West Point. TarrytOwn, the nlu-
seums. city hospitals. the immigrant station
and so forth. There are receptions where lsh.
gossip about college entrance requirements Is
exchanged and the relative amounts OF salarieA
in different localities. At the first reception each
student wears small placard on which Is writ
ten her name and native city, so that al may
get down 20 conversation without any p-elirn.-
nary fencing. They are 20 have dances. hear.
but have not as yet seen their Joy uncon-
fined. The most hilarious pleasures so far have
been on Tuesday and Thursday evenings. when
fine brass hand plays classic airs and the stu
dents stroll around the great dim bulk OF the
domed library and under the yews and poplaEs
Of the softly lighted campus.
do not think that there are many Hirtattons
at the summer school, From what know Of
men and women IN academic life. gather that
they rather despise one another physically. And
this IS very natural. Can man who loves Ten
nysOn's Guinevere get up a romantic passion for
q woman with a sharp smile and thin hRfrt Can
a woman who knows Ruy Bias admire little
cautious pedasOsue? Not much And 50 they
wander solitary In the moonlight. perfect EXAM
pies OF that good old lyric that begins;
such perfect Joy therein md