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The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1907-09-05
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A Carthage man has Just applied
for pension. He alleges that while
serving in the hospital corps in Cuba.
where the dead and dying were all
about him, he vigorously slipped on a
wet floor and sprained his wrist -
Kansas City Journal.
The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1907-09-05
In VARYING p.or.s.

IF lieutenant has q fortune he
can marry; If his hancee has a for
tune, he may marry; but IL he has
debts, he must marry. "-Meggendor
fer Batter.
The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1907-09-05
Walk on Rock crxsial,

On the Mangishlak peninsula in
the Caspian sea there is lake that
has roof of salt crystals thick and
strong enough to allow men and
horses TO cross e.
The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1907-09-05

The croquet aspect OF 1907 prom
ises well and II is gratifying to note
that this famous game Of the sixties
which at one time had become practi
cally extinct bids fair to revive IT,
bygOne 'glory-London Planet.
The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1907-09-05
Voice OF III. Critic

A correspondent of the New York
Sun cries out for a law prohibiting
the sale of low-cut, broad-laced tan
ned shoes to ladies and gentlemen en-
dowed with pigeon toes.
The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1907-09-05
BECAME HoMEslcK.
Russian Mutlnesr Returns Home and
lie Executed.

Odessa. -Matushanko, the Russian
non.commlssioned ofiiceI who led the
mutiny on the battleship Kniaz Potem
kline and was in command OF the vessel
during the sensational ca use about the
BLACK sea i'm the summer OF 1903, was
hanged Friday night az Sebastopol
After abandoning the vessel he fed
10 New York, worked there two years
i'm an iron factory, became homesick
returned here, was detected, arrested
contaminated and sentenced 70 deatn
The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1907-09-05
ENTIcEo TO HIS DOOM.

Former kentucky Magistrate Muir
dered In Cincinnati.
Cincinnati, Or. F Singleton, y
former magistrate OF Covington, KY
who was found terribly beaten In 3
Richmond street house in this city
last Wednesday, died al the City hos
initial on Friday night Singleton war
enticed TO the house by woman
known TO the police as Mrs Walter
West Arriving there he was set upon
and robbed by two men The police
have no trace OF the men or the
woman.
The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1907-09-05
ALMOST CAUGHT BY FLAMES.
Writers on Louisville courlerJournaI
Rescued From Burning Building.

Louisville, Ky.--The Courier-Journal
building at Foarth and Green streets,
In which are located the plants Of the
Courier-Journal aud Evening Times
was destroyed by FIRE early Friday.
The structure was five stories high and
occupied half a block. The FIRE start
ed at the top OF an elevator shaft, sup.
posedly from defective insulation OF
electric wires, and spread with great
rapidity
The editorial and reportorial forces
Of the Courier-Journal stuck to the
building in the hope that the blaze
would he subdued and that they could
issue the paper They were caught
mapping with FIRE at al exits and had
to be taken out on ladders
The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1907-09-05
Has Had Experience.

A South Dakota man advertises 10,
wife who is dumb. 1t were super
nuous 10 add that he is a widower.-
Chicago Journal
The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1907-09-05
Jews in ENGLAND.

Next to London, Manchester has ID,
largest Jewish population of any Eng
lish town. There are $4,000 Jews in
Manchester. and 10000 Jews in Leeds
Liverpool has 1000, There are 227..
1856 Jews in Great Britain.
The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1907-09-05
New York,s A.,.,,.

New York city's acreage is more
than that of Chicago and Philadel
phia combined, or 219.21s, as com
pared with l96.757.
The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1907-09-05
surely psnsrv.d snm.thInn

A Dublin policeman whose wife pre-
scented him with triplets has been
made a seIgeant-a stripe for each
baby.
The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1907-09-05

Mullins form tue staple dish at tea
parties IN KensingtOn palace The
king, like his mother before him. has
\ special weakness for mufins.-Lon-
don BystRnder.
The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1907-09-05
Claasea.

humanity and who'shumanlty, these
re the two classes into which man
ind now chiefly fall.-life.
The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1907-09-05
Too Many unwsd.

out Of each five persons in New
York city OF manageable age two
are married and three are not,
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-12-11
RAD Time.

A Tennessee undertaken thinks to
catch the public fancy by advertising
cement collins. Cement nothing,
What the most of us are looking for is
a casket made of asbestos.
An Oklahoma newspaper tells of two
tramps, one of whom stuck his head
through window of the station at Ra-
mona and said, in husky voice, to
the operator: Say. partner, report
couple of empties going north"
A wandering ventriloquist created
panic at funeral in Colorado the 9TH
er day. He appeared at the grave and
in sepulchral voice, supposedly that
of the deceased, cried out as the coffin
was being lowered: Let me down
easy" The pallbearers were so fright
ened they dropped the casket and ran.
From Texas newspaper 1 Gull this
exquisite BIZ of obituary poetry"
there being, in all, twenty-one stanzas
equally as good:
The sweet strains of that angelic band
Welcomed Charley and Leonard home.
They now have harps, parents,
To welcome you when you come
Those little feet with pit-a-pat
Will only be heard in heaven.
Those little tongues with a chat, chat
chat,
Will sing with the angels forever.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-12-11
The Black Man
The Escape.

A little friend of mine who is in
clined toward the literary life and
who has lively Imagination, recently
wrote the following story:
There was once hunter that was
on trip up west. AS he passed a
cave a black man came out.
"'Good evening, said the hunter ~as
he dropped his gun. The black man ran
into the cave and returned with lion
the lion sprang at the hunter, but no
sdoged it and picked up his gun, fired.
just then the tribe came up, the
hunter fired again and a pack of lions
came and surrounded him. Now he
was helpless he had no bullets left
When he saw some bed springs he
put them on the ground and jumped
on them as He did so he landed on a
branch of high tree which the saw
eyes could not climb, so the saveges
fell asleep. Then the hunter climbed
down and ran back to his train where
he got home in safety"
That boy is bound to be a novelist
His father says that in the original
draught of the tale, the boy had the
hunter take the bedsprings out of his
pocket and jump upon them to safety.
When his mother smiled, he modified
the statement to suit the convention
alities.
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Glencaid would scarcely appeal as a

Glencaid would scarcely appeal as
desirable place for long-continued res
idence. But such a one would have
had small choice in the matter, as it
CHANGED to be the only hotel there.
The Miners Home was unquestionably
unique as regards architectural de-
tails, having been Constructed by Sec
tons, in accordance with the rapid
development of the camp, and enjoyed
the further distinction-there being
only two others equally stylish in
although, greatly to the regret of it's
unfortunate occupants, lack of season
ing had resulted in wide cracks in
both walls and stairway, while strict
privacy within the chambers was long
ago a mere Renaissance. Without
the Miners Home put up a good front,
and was in reality the most preten-
tfous structure gracing the single clut-
tered street of Glencaid. Directly
across the street, its front a perfect
blaze of glass, stood invitingly the
Occidental saloon, but the Widow Cuff
~, who operated the Miners Home
with a strong hand, possessed an an
tipathy to strong liquor, which sue
cessfully kept all suspicion of intoxi-
eating drink absent from those sacred
ly guarded precincts, except as her
transient guests imported it internally.
Mr.. Hampton during the course Of
his somewhat erratic career had pre-
viously passed several eventful weeks
in Glencaid. He was neither unknown
! nor unappreciated at the Miners
Home, and having on previous occa-
sions established his reputation as a
spender. experienced little difficulty
now in procuring promptly the very
best accommodation which the house
afforded. That this arrangement was
ACCOMPLISHED somewhat to the present
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-12-11

discomfort of two vociferous eastern
tourists did not greatly interfere with
his pleasurable interest in the situa-
ton
Send those two fellows in here to
argue it out" he said, languidly, after
listening disgustedly to their loud Ia
mentations in the hallway, and ad-
dressing his remarks to Mrs. Guffy,
who had glanced into the room to be
again assured regarding his comfort,
and to express her deep regret over
the unseemly racket. THE girl has
fallen asleep, and I'm getting tired of
hearing so much noise"
No, be hivings, an We don't do
nuthin' of tibet sort, Bob" returned the
widow, good-naturedly, busying her
self with dust-rag. This is me own
house, an Owe tended ter the loikes
OF them sort er fellers afore. Therell
be no more bother this tonne. Be
soides, it's a PEACEFUL house Dim run
min, an Oh know yer way of sitting
them things. It's too strenuous We
are, Misther Hampton. And what did
We do wild the young lady. OF make
bould to ask"
Hampton carelessly waved his hand
toward the rear room, the door of
which stood ajar, and blew thick
cloud of smoke into the air, his eyes
continuing to gaze dreamily through
the open window toward the distant
hills.
Who's running the game over at
the Occidental?" he asked, profession
ally.
Red Slavin, bad cess to him!" and
her eyes regarded her questioner with
renewed anxiety. But sure now,
Bob, We mustn't think of playin' yit
awhoile. Yer narves are in no fit
shape, an won't be fer wake yit."
He made no direct reply, and she
hung about, Tapping the dust-rag I'M
easily.
can what did we name ter be dom
wild the young gyurl?" she questioned
at last. in womanly curiosity.
Hampton wheeled about on the
hard chair, and regarded her quizzing-
ly. Mrs. Guffy," he said, slowly,
you've been mother to me, and it
would certainly be unkind not to give
you a straight tip. Do? Why, take
care of her, of course. What else
would you expect of one possessing
my kindly disposition and well-known
motives of philanthropy? Can it be
that 1 have resided with you, off and
on, for ten years past without your
ever realizing the fond yearnings of
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-12-11
The Barber County Index
Painter q Herr. Publishers.
MEDICINE LODGE, KANSAS.
Tho eIrIs Who Arc Snapped Up.

The Girls Who Are Snapped Up.
All young men are not silly. and apt
70 be fascinated by pretty face when
more enduring charms are lacking.
Marriage is 4 serious affair, and thus
they contemplate It when looking for
a wife. 1t is no wonder. then. says the
New York Weekly. that the girls de-
scribed below are the first to be
snapped up when they appear in the
matrimonial market: The girl who is
her mothers right hand in household
matters, and who is not above taking
an interest in the most trivial things
IN connection with household duties.
The girl who is bright, entertaining
companion, and who has ever a kind
word and pleasant smile for those
around. The girl who is always neat
ly dressed, no matter II with mex
pensive materials, and who never
dresses loudly or in questionable
taste. The girl who can adapt herself
to any society, and who never puts on
airs and who would scorn to do an
action Of which all the world might
not know. The girl who, in an emer-
gency, can turn her hand to anything,
from cooking the family dinner to re-
trimming an old hat. The girl who is
unselfish enough to give up some
pleasure of her own to benefit another,
and does not consider herself ag-
grieved at having to do so. The girl
who can talk of more important things
than dress or the last new play, and
who can listen intelligently when
deeper subjects are introduced
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-12-11

my heart? Mrs. Guffy, / shall make
her the heiress to my millions; / shall
marry her off to some eastern nabob
and thus attain to that high position
in society l am SO well fitted to adorn
sure, and what else were you ex
pecting, Mrs. Guffy?"
"A loikely story" with sniff Of dis
belief. They tell me she's old ellis
daughter over to Bethune."
They tell you, do they?" a sudde,
CLEAN of anger darkening his gra.
eyes. Who tell you?"
Sure, Bob, an thet's nuthin' ter gi'
mad about, so fur as l kin see. TIL,
story is in iverybody's mouth 1t WI
thin sojers what brought we in the
tould most ov it, but the lieutenant
Brant of the Seventh cavalry, no less
who took dinner here afore he win
back after the dead bodies, give M,
her name"
'Brant Of the Seventh" He faced
her fairly now, his face again haggare
and gray, all the slight CLEAN of fur
gone out of it. WAS that the lads
| name?"
Sure, and didn't ye know him?"
"rEo; / noticed the q on his hat, o:
course, but never asked a. questions
for his face was strange l didn''
know. The name, when you just spok'
it, struck me rather queer. IL usel
| to know a Brant in the Seventh, bu'
he was much older; it was not this
man."
She answered something, hngerine
| for a moment at the door, but he made
no response, and she passed out s.
lently, leaving him staring moodily
through the open window. his eyes ap
pearing glazed and sightless.
| An hour later he was still sitting or
the hard chair by the window, a cigal
between his teeth. thinking. The low
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-12-11
The president of the State Agricu

The president Of the State Agricul-
tural college of North Carolina is a
real reformer. He advised the students
to substitute man-to-man fighting in
the open, for hazing, and the students
have taken up the system with en-
thusiasm. There have already been
encounters with from so to IS men on
each side, with some broken noses
and numerous black eyes, but that is
vastly better, remarks the Indianapo-
lis Star, than having a crowd jump on
one unfortunate and maltreat him. If
college classes wish to demonstrate
their physical prowess, what can be
fairer than an open, fair fight, on
equal terms? And that Is American,
for this country takes no stock in
sneaking, cowardly or underhand
methods.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-12-11
Millinery.

The Brighton Qll.) News man evil
IDENTIFY has to do with the purchasing
Of hats. At any rate he says of the
prevailing style:
The latest agonies in feminine headgear
are frights. To build a fall hat, the mill
ner takes a wash-basin-no; it's tub
inverts the vessel, throws on forty-eight
yards of bronze velvet enough feathers
to stuff five bed ticks. and four bolts of
pink satteen. She then places the crea-
ton on the bed-post. procures a broom.
and beats the hat until it presents that
droopy appearance familiar to the
man on the morning after a night out. :
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-12-11

The most valuable opal in the world
is to be seen in the imperial cabinet
at Vienna. Another, worn by the En-
press Josephine. known as the Burn
ing OF Troy" which only is little less
magnificent. is In the possession of
the marchioness of Butte. How the
idea arose in the first instance that
the broken rainbow of the unlucky
opal" brought i'll luck it is not easy to
tell. Some 9lege that the word is de
rived from the Greek for an eye; that
the gem shares the evil influence of a
peacock's feather and acts as a spy
In the house; others that the opal only
got Its reputation after Sir Walter
Scott had connected it with bad luck
in Anne of Geierstein"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-12-11

Roland Blake.

NOldno Blake
do not envy Roland Blake
Who lives upon yon titled hill
Whose land runs down beyond the town
And swallows up the mine and mill,
Blake never feels the touch of want.
The narrowed sense of pressing debt.
And yet, I know within his heart
There dwells but longing and regret!
His castled home is grim and strong,
It's turrets pierce the azure sky,
While mine is but a modest cot
Quite lost to view of passerby-
And yet, within my home there dweIis.
A spirit that he cannot buy:
The breath of true, unselfish. love.
Devotion that shall never die!
Upon the hill no cherubs play
To glad the measured pulse of day.
No chubby legs dash down the path
To greet their daddy's honeward wayt
AT night. when stars are glinting out,
And all the world has gone to bed.
There lies asleep on Roland's breast
No bud of life with tousled head.
Blake cannot laugh the old. free laugh
That takes him backward to the boy:
His heart is cold from shutting out
The tenderness of love and joy!
Despising what he has at hand,
For weeks each year does Roland roam
In vain pursuit of what find
Within the glory of my home!
All. Roland Blake, how poor he is!
How stepped in perjury and need,
God pity him! His heart is cold.
And piling gold is all his creed,
Ah poverty of heart-how cursed:
How desolate and sad is he
But I, within my humble cot,
How rich be! How rich be!
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-12-11
Belgium and the Congo.

The latest turn in Congo affairs is
the decision of the special commits
sion of the Belgian chamber, by. vote
of nine to seven, not to interfere with
the kings control of the budget Of the
proposed African colony. Tie world
must, then, hereafter hold Belgium it.
self and its people responsible for the
misgovernment attributed to Leopold,
declares the Boston Transcript. 1t is
evident that public opinion regarding
this open sore of modern civiliza-
ton must be concentrated rather
upon the supine community which tol.
crates a money-making king in his
atrocious exploitation Of fifteen to
twenty millions of unhappy natives
rather than upon the case-hardened
old sinner mself. Still, as shown by
the size Of the minority of the com
mission in this vote, there is large
and respectable opposition to the scan,
dalous commercialism which has made
the name Congo Free State a sinister
joke and fraud.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-12-11

Great guns!" he exclaimed, eagerly,
but know you. You're old man Gill
lis gal from Bethune, amt ye?"
Yes" she acknowledged simply,
"but he's dead"
Never mind, little girl" the lieu
tenant said, with boyish sympathy. Il
knew ellis, and, now the sergeant has
spoken, 1 remember you quite well.
Thought all the time your face was ia
miliar, but couldn't quite decide where
had seen you before So poor old
ellis has gone, and you are left all
alone in the world! Well, he was an
old soldier, could not have hoped to
live much longer anyway, and would
rather go fighting at the end. Well
take you back with us to Bethune, and
the ladies of the garrison. will look
after YOU"
The recumbent figure lying a few
yards away half lifted itself upon one
elbow, and Hampton's face, white and
haggard, stared uncertainty across the
open space. For an instant his gaze
dwelt upon the crossed sabers shield
ing the gilded az" on the front of the
lieutenant's scouting hat, then settled
upon the face of the girl. With one
hand pressed against the grass he
pushed himself slowly up until he sat
fronting them, his teeth clinched tight,
his gray eyes cleaning feverishly in
their sunken sockets.
I'll be damned if you will" he said,
hoarsely. she's my girl now"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-12-11

An incident which shows how Sc
cure women have made their place in
the industrial structure of the times
has lately occurred in Rhode Island.
A woman who had worked for q single
great manufacturing concern for 80
years was discharged for causes which
her fellow workers. men as we'll as
women. believed to be unjust. The
whole power of the trade union, in
volving all the 5000 employees. OF both
sexes. was brought to bear, to secure
a fair hearing for this one working
woman.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-12-11

When you enter a shop state just
what you want For then the mer-
chant can go intelligently to work to
sell you something else. The great
Law of commerce is to sell people
what they don't want. What they do
want will sell itself.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-12-11
Snake Story.

According to the Tribune at De
Kalb, Mo-, the snakes around Rush
vile are getting nervous for some
thing to do since the saloons closed.
The Tribune says:
Zone man there declares that when he
went home the other evening he found
a large blacksnake getting milk from
the mother while it was keeping the baby
quiet by having its tail in the baby's
mouth"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-12-11
SYNOPSIS.

A detachment of the Eighteenth in
fantry from Fort Bethune trapped by
Indians in a narrow gorge. Among them
Is a stranger who introduces himself by
post trader, and his daughter. ellis and
a majority of the soldiers are killed dur
during q three days siege. Hampton and
the girl only escape from the Indians.
They fall exhausted on the plains. A
company OF the Seventh cavalry Lieut..
Brant in command find them.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-12-11

Canada has just made us a present
OF another strip of Alaskan territory
which belonged to US because we
bought it from Russia. In order that
there may he no bitter feelings this
time let " ~Stend hearty thanks
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-12-11
Lone Record Of Usefulness.

After 80 years of faithful and ef1-
Gent service as president of the Young
lens Christian union. of Boston. VIII
lam H. Baldwin has resigned the Of
ice on account Of advanced ASe.
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CHAPTER v.

A New Proposition.
To one in the least inclined toward
fastidiousness, the Miners Home at
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couIdn,t stump Him.

Quite a number of Charlton count,
residents died last week, but the editor
was equal to the emergency One
breathed his last, another answered tb,-
final summons the third crossed tn.
dark river. the fourth was no more. tha
NTH was called to his eternal home as a
result of becoming overheated. the six,.ts
yielded up the ghost, the seventh vas
numbered with the dead, the eighth hs :,
gone to the great beyond. the ninth So
cumbed to the grim reaper, the earthi.e
career OF the tenth came to an end. ana
the spirit of the eleventh was wafte., -
his Maker.-Chariton (Mo.) Courier. y
R~.eus.=.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-12-07
TROOPS HURRIED
TO GOLDFIELD, NEV.
Strike Among Miners has
Become Serious.

GOLDFIELD NEV, Dec. 6.-(Spe-
ciaD 1.-Two regiments of United
States troops are being hurried here
to quell the disorder among the strik-
ing miners The troops are from
San Francisco and are under com
mand of General Funston. Condi-
tions have been threatening for sew
eral days, but today the strikers
made demonstrations against the
mines and the call for troops was
hurriedly sent to Washington.
Nevada has no State troops and
hence it was necessary to call on
the national government for aid.
The mine owners charge that the
miners violated their agreement by
striking without the agreed two
thirds vote, while the miners charge
that the companies broke the com
pact by paying in checks instead of
gold
The strike at Goldfield was due di-
rectly to William d. Haywood, secre-
tary of the Federation of Miners, who
was recently acquitted of murder in
Idaho The men had decided to ac-
cept the terms offered by the mine
owners when Haywood reached Gold
field and counseled them to strike.
The mine owners have now announc-
ed that they will make Goldfield an
open shop camp