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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-02-13
PR Method Of Endorsement.

A orides mother presented her
with check on Christmas day. With
a feeling of the utmost Importance
she took it down to the bank in which
her husband had opened an account
for her. The cashier took the check
then handed it back politely, saying:
Will you please indorse it, ma
DAM"
Endorse it?' repeated the bride,
puzzled.
Yes, across the back, you know,
replied the man, too busy to notice
her bewilderment.
The bride carried the check to a.
desk, laid it face downward, and nib
bled the end of a pen thoughtfully.
Then inspiration came. Dipping the
pen, she wrote triumphantly across
the back: For Fanny, from Mother.
Christmas, 1906. "-Lippincott's Maga~
zine.
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Know what?"
"That-Hasn't Tom told you? He
has NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. have to
get another second-if you think
that is-unless you'll suppose you'd
have told me, if you'd changed your
mind?"
Since l had become SO deeply inter
ested in Anita, my ambition-ambi-
tion!-to join the Travellers had all
but dropped out of my mind.
Il had forgotten about it," said l.
But, now that you remind me,
want my name withdrawn. 1t was a
passing fancy. 1t was part and parcel
of lot of damn foolishness I've been
indulging in for the last few months.
But I've come to my senses-and it's
me to the Wild where belong, Sam
my, from this time on
He looked tremendously relieved,
and little puzzled, too. / thought l
was reading him like an Illuminated
sign. He's eager to keep friends
with me-" thought l, until he's abso-
lutely sure there's nothing more in it
for him and his people" And that
guess was pretty good one. 1t is not
to the discredit of my shrewdness
that l didn't see 1t was not hope. but
fear. that made him try to placate me.
then what the LangdOns haa done. But
Sammy was saying, in his friendli-
est tone:
What's the matter, old MAP ?
You're sour tonight
Never in a better humor," I as
sured him. and as l spoke the words
they came true. What had been say
ing about the Travellers and all it rep
resented-all the snobbery. and smirk-
| ing. and rotten pretense-my final and
absolute remuneration of 1t all-acted
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-02-13

Most OIL US, if asked how many
points a star should have, would say
dve, and cite the flag as proof; but
the director OF the mint has lately cor
nected this misrepresentation in an
swering an inquiry on the subject. He
calls attention to the fact that the
stars on the great seal of the United
States and on the seal of the president
are five-pointed, but that the stars are
sixpointed on the seal of the house of
representatives; and further to the
six-pointed stars on the diverse of the
half and Quarter-dollar coins and the
dve-pointed stars on the reverse. The
reverse of these coins is copy Of the
great seal with the clouds and stars
emitted. So far as known, says
Youths Companion. the six-pointed
star comes from copying the colonial
coins made after the manner of Eng
ush heraldry. which sanctions that
star. The stars on the flag are copied
from the Washington coat of arms.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-02-13

Renewed agitation of the subject Of
an occupant for the vacent niche in
che Washington City Hall of Fame as
signed to Indiana has resulted from
che interest aroused by diversified
opinions as to the proper statue to
stand BY the side of Gov. Oliver P.
Morton. Morton's statue is there and
has been for several years. but no
agreement has been reached as to the
ether figure. Indiana is entitled to
two statues. General consent seemed
% give the 1rst place to the great
var governor. Several Indianians are
proposed ~ companions to Morton
shief among them, of course, Gen
Harrison. Another favorite is the
author Of Ben Hur." Gen. Lew Wal
Aoe. Gov. Thomas A. Hendricks IL
stten suggested.
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BY Endless Chain.

Speaking Of the endless chain
prayer that is going the rounds" said
the woman with the cheerful voice, ct
can't see what GOOD that can do, un-
less, maybe, it might start some poor
wretch on the road to glory but I got
an awfully nice silk petticoat through
an endless chain once. The manufac-
turers sent letters asking for five
names and ten-cent piece. / sent
five names and the ten-cent piece, not
thinking much about 1t, just trying
it, and it wasn't long before they sent
me this lovely silk petticoat- 1t was
the incest sort of silk, too. AS long az
| wore it it didn't crock"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-02-13
MAY BE COFFEE
That Causes all the Trouble.

When the house is afire, it's like q
body when disease begins to show, it's
no time to talk but time to act-delay
Is angerous-remove the cause of the
trouble at once.
For number Of years." says a
Kansas lady, Il felt sure that coffee
was hurting me. and yet, was SO fond
Of it, could not give it up. 1 paltered
with my appetite and of course yield
ed to the temptation to drink more.
At last got SO bad that made up my
mind l must either quit the use of cof-
fee or die.
Everything l ate distressed me, and
| suffered severely almost all the time
with palpitation of the heart. l fire.
quently woke up in the night with the
feeling that I was almost gone,-my
heart seemed so smothered and weak
in its action that / feared 1t would stop
beating. My breath grew short and
the least exertion set me to painting.
slept but little and suffered from rheu-
matism.
1.-TWO years ago stopped using the
old kind of coffee and began to use
Postum Food Coffee, and from the
very first I began to improve. 1t
worked miraclei Now / can eat any
thing and digest it without trouble. I
sleep like baby. and my heart beats
full. strong and easily. My breathing
has become steady and normal. and
my rheumatism has left me. / feel
like another person. and it is all due
to quitting coffee and using Postum
Food Coffee. for I haven't used any
medicine and none would have done
any good as long as kept drugging
with coffee" Name gwen by Postum
Co.. Battle Greek. Mich. There's q
Reason" Read the little book. 'Ths
Road to MELVILLE" in pkgs. All
grocerA
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MEDICINE LODGE.
The Superstition of seamen.

Seamen are superstitious, but their
-sotion that certain vessels are unlucky
seems often to be borne out by facts,
Gays -Leslie's Weekly. The steamer
Saratoga, which was sunk on the Hud.
son river several weeks ago by col
hsion with the Adirondack, had long
seen accounted unlucky by Hudson
rtver captains. Her misfortunes be-
gan by her success in getting aground
nysteriously and often when she was
aew, though she had one of the most
skillful and careful of commanders;
and it was her way to get stuck in the
mud for a good long stay. An unlucky
chip which had a very eventful history
vas the Cromartyshire, which was re-
Gently wrecked off the coast of Chile.
She was built in Scotland in 1879, and
ner quarter century of life was full Of
tragedy. On July 4, 1898, she sank the
French liner La Bourgogne in col
dsion. 562 lives being lost. A few
years ago she caught fire, narrowly es-
Gaping total destruction, and her cap
tain lost his life in attempting to
lump into one of the lifeboats Some
tines naval vessel is believed by it's
Grew TO be hooded" A bad state of
mind for fighting men in case of a
brush with hostile ship
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-02-13

BehanEin. formerly king of Daho-
ney. In dead. The event recalls the
admirable work the French did few
years ago In suppressing the barbarous
and inhuman customs of an African
tinEdom. Dahomey. which Is on the
vest coast, disgraced the present civ
died era by an annual semireligious
and semifestive celebration, during
~hich hundreds of human sacrifices
we're made. The kingdom was annexed
~ the French In 1894 and the king
skilled to Fort Dc France, Island of
Martinique. where he was living with
dis family at the time of the eruption
Of Mont Pels. He did not like Mar
r<dnique. and was allowed to move to
Algiers last April.
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lar. Soon after began taking Doan's-
Kidney Pills I passed several gravel
stones. 1 got we'll and the trouble has
not returned. My back Is good and.
strong and my general health better"
Sold by all dealers. so cents box.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-02-13

Tribes in the Indian territory are to
iSe formed into companies to control
seAs coal and asphalt lands in the ter
ssteory; II there is any scalping done
N the subsequent business transao-
sions Of the companies it will be OF the
good. old-fashioned sort.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-02-13

and how to cure
them. Mrs. w. g.
Davis, of Groesbeck.
Texas, says: Back
aches hurt me so I
could hardly stand.
Spells of dizziness
and sick headaches
were frequent and
the action of the
kidnovS was irregu-
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-02-13

coior-Sergeant James Gregory, q
'orimean hero. who has died at Taun-
Aon. England. has seven sons and four
daughters. OF whom ten are six feet
Align. Six Of the sons were in the
army a the same time.
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XVII.

ANITA BEGINS TO BE HERSELF.
l had asked Sam Ellersly to dine
with me; so preoccupied was l that
not until ten minutes before the hour
set did he come into my mind-he or
any of his family, even his sister. My
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-02-13
oats-Heads 2 Foo. Lono.

The John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse,
Wis, are bringing out new oats this
year with heads 2 foot longl That's q
wonder. Their catalog tells!
Spetz- the greatest cereal hay food
America ever saw! Catalog tells!
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Lz
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FREE

Our mammoth l4s-page Seed and Tool
Catalog is mailed free to all intending
buyers, or send &c in stamps and receive
free samples of new Two Foot Long Oats
and other cereals and big catalog free.
John A. Salzer Seed Co., Box w, La
Crosse, Wis.
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AlLlNo WOMEN.
Keep the Kidneys Well and the XII
neys Will Keep You Well.

Sick. suffering. languid women are
learning the true cause of bad backs
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-08
HANDLES LAND
BILL ROUGHLY
SENATE DEFEATS MEASURE
BY CLOSE VOTE
FuIl-Blooded Indians viii Not Be Al
lowed to Dispose of Surplus
Holdings for Twenty
five Years
BY Associated Press.


WASHINGTON, Feb THE Indian
appropriation bill received rough ham
ding by the senate today The amend
ments of the committee especially
those suggested by the special commit
tee which went to the Indian territory
last summer to investigate conditions,
were nearly all rejected on points of
order.
The provision which allowed full
blood Indians of the Indian territory
to sell their surplus lands was defeated
by vote of 81 to 80, which leaves in
force the provision of the law known
as the McCumber amendment, prohibit
ing the alienation of such lands for
twenty-five years.
The defeated provision has been the
subject of debate for the greater part
of the discussion for the past two days
After it had been disposed Of late to-
day the other committee amendments
were defeated on points of order
The coal land amendment. allowing
the surface of the coal lands in the
Indian territory to be sold, and which
was regarded as of equal Importance
with that providing for the removal of
the restriction on alienation, was
ruled out of the bill on a point of order
made by Senator Tillman.
The debate on the bill today was con-
fined to the amendment allowing land
alienation. Senator Stone made the
principal speech for the amendment
and Senator Spooner the principal ar
gument against 1t.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-08

there Is any one who wants to get any
legislation through a Republican Leg
islature I want to tell him that he had
better do II now. You will never be in
power again In this state. You refuse
to put IN form the law for the election
Of United States senator's by the peo-
pie as you promised. You do not rep
resent the rank and file OF the Repub-
lican party, but represent king eau
Gus or perhaps l may say king ma
chine'"
The committee on ways and means
today reported favorably upon num-
Der OF appropriation bills. Among
them are the following:
Eight thousand dollars for the state
normal school at San Diego; S1S2,OOO
for the California polytechnic schools
$4,000 for object lessons, oil roads and
Frank Higgins claims of $4,000 FOR
his services in the extradition of Geo
ID. Collins from British Columbia.
Lemons bill asking for the Southern
California state hospital was adversely
reported.
stanton Of Los Angeles today in
troduced a bill prohibiting the sale OF
liquors outside of an Incorporated
town within four miles of any camp
or assembly of men numbering 25 or
more, who are engaged upon any
public work
1t is intended to keep drinking re-
sorts away from the construction
camps on the Owens river water sys-
tenn project.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-08
HOSPITAL NURSES
TO STRIKE TODAY
RESENT DOING THE WORK OF
MENIALS
Discharge of an Attendant Brings
Resiqnatlons Of Six-Hospital Sur
aeon Denies That Trouble
Is Brewing

Asserting that the hospital authori-
ties have i'll treated them by compelling
them to do work beneath their sta
tions. six nurses employed at the
emergency and general hospital at AIS
Crocker street are said to have made
preparations to leave that institution
in a body today and refuse TO return
to work unless some agreement is
made with them whereby the distaste-
full WORK win be done by women en-
plOyed especially for that purpose.
For some time the nurses at the hos
pital have been complaining. They say
they have been compelled to do the
work of char women in addition TO their
other duties, Yesterday the authori-
ties are said TO have discharged one of
the nurses, Miss Lucille Duffy on a
charge OF insubordination and this was
the thing which led up TO the sudden
decision of the remaining six girls to
send in their designations.
According TO the nurses, Miss Duffy
was not insubordinate, but simply re-
fused to do work she felt was not in
the nurses line. Miss Duffy could not
be seen last night and the nurses in
the hospital refused TO give any in
formation in regard TO the matter.
Dr. Henry f., Keyes, the hospital sur
geon, was rung up by telephone and
asked i'm regard 10 the trouble
Miss Duffy left OF her own accord
and i do not know of any trouble
there" was all he woult say in regard
to the affair
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-08

Of the Salt Lake and Union Pacific
Is greater than tho mileage from Los
Angeles to the eastern terminus of the
Southern Pacific.
What difference does II maker
asked Judge Kelly.
ut might make a difference to the
stockholders OF the Southern Pacific"
lnterposed Commissioner Lane.
Mr.. Clark said the fruit traffic orig
mating on his line was only about
per cent of the total, and that the
additional traffic was secured by So
llcitation.
To many questions regarding traffic
arrangements Mr.. Clark referred the
attorney to the traffic department of
the road. He said that the Salt Lake
once ram fruit trains to Chicago In
i've days, but that such service was
found to be both expensive and dam
gerous.
Mr.. Clark declared that the Salt
Lake did not have an agreement with
the Southern Pacific and Ur ion Pacific
for an exchange of cars and that II
was not interested in transpacihc traf-
nc.
The hearing then was adjourned until
10 o'clock this morning.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-08


129 East Third Street.
Phone-Home 297.
LONG BEACH, Feb. Tn the novel
club house OF the Long Beach Ebell
club the annual banquet of the cham
Der of commerce was served tonight.
About $50 men and women, including
a number of invited guests from SUR
rounding cities and towns, enjoyed the
feast. At four long tables the BAN
queters were seated. Each table was
profusely laden with red carnations.
The club house, the interior of which
Is finished like a ship, was aglow with
light. The pounding OF the breakers
on the beach just south of the building
and the ropes and anchors, prominently
displayed within the hall, made the
banquet seem like a feast spread In
the dining room of ship at sea.
The following menu was served under
the direction of Mrs G.. T. Butterfield
of Hotel Julian: oyster cocktail, cream
of tomato soup, potato salad. roast tur-
key, cranberry sauce mashed potatoes,
green peas, ice cream and cake, fruit,
nuts, raisins and coffee.
The Toasts
Music was furnished during the ban
quet by Kingore's orchestra.
Dr.. L. A. Pierce as toastmaster intro
duced w. w. Lowe, who gave a brief
but hearty welcome to the guests; the
response was made by l.. f. Chaplin of
Pasadena. w. l.. Green Of Pasadena
responded to the toast Good Roads"
Baker P. Lee followed, his subject be-
ing 1.-THE Development Society of Cali
fornia" THE Past, Present and Fu-
ture of Long Beach" was discussed by
Stephen Townsend; Seward A. Simons
of Pasadena took his hearers on a de-
lightful trip enlarging on the beauties
of "The Mountains and the Sea-" Lee
C. Gates of Los Angeles had the appro-
pirate subject, "The Metropolis of the
Southwest" DR.. Pierce spoke on THE
Chamber of Commerce." the toast to
which j. A. Miller was to have re-
sponded. Mr.. Miller is in Sacramento.
All the toasts were responded to in
delightful style, and the speeches were
we'll received. A male quartet composed
of E. A. Knight, Rev. Charles Pease,
A. L. Parmly and DIR. w. Hartman
Jones sang two numbers.
The guests from out of the city
We're: w. T. Bill, Redlands; Herman
Charles, Riverside; Mr.. Cutie, prest-
dent Riverside chamber of commerce
and D. w. Coolidge, secretary; d. NJ
Linnard, w. l.. Green, H. c. Hotaling
j. o. McCament, Mayor William Water
house, Chester d. Sargent, T. Early, w
B. Loughery, Pasadena; Dana Burks
Ocean Park; o. ]. Rowley, Downey; J
H. Strine, Downey; Frank j. Cornes
president, and E. E. Rives, secretary
Monrovia board of trade; Frank Burns
San Pedro; W. NJ. Scott, president, and
j. A. Wilson. secretary Santa Ana
! chamber of commerce.; o. V. Eaton
Los Angeles; Lee c. Gates, Los An
geles, president and secretary of this
Wilmington chamber of commerce.
Those to whom invitations were sem
and returned regrets together with bes
wishes were: A. P. Ferl, president Sar
Pedro chamber of commerce; Frederick
Horribly, Redlands; George l. Cochran
Los Angeles; Frank Iller, Riverside
u. S. Grant. Jr., San Diego; Robert j
Burdette, Pasadena.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-08
.DEMENTED WOMAN
THROWS STONES
Windows Are Endangered and the
Patrol Wagon ls Sent For.
Her Sanity Will Be
Investigated

BY throwing stones at houses in the
neighborhood. Mrs. Sarah LaBetta,
Spanish woman, said to be insane,
made things interesting for the resi-
dents on Center street early this morn
ing.
1t Is said the woman has been slight
ly demented for some time, but to
have become violently insane last
night. She is said to have taken a
position in the middle of the street,
from where she had clear shot at
houses on each side OF the street and
to have hurled number OF stones at
them, The family living at S26 Center
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-08

street at last telephoned the police and
the wagon was sent for her.
After the woman had been arrested
and the wagon was making it's return
trip to the station, James j. Gillen,
said to have been very much intoxi-
Gated and looking for a fight, was
found walking up Broadway, shouting
at the top Of his voice. He was also
arrested and with Mrs. LaBetta sue
ceeded In making the remainder OF the
ride to the police station thing which
will long remain in the memory OF Pa
trolman Hurt who was in charge.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-08
LAW MAKERS
ENGAGE IN A
WAR OF WORDS
Senator Caminetti in
a White Heat
Child Labor Bills and Other important
Measures Are Favorably Acted
Upon During the
Day
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
SACRAMENTO Feb. THE senate
went into caucus for an hour this
morning and Immediately after con-
vening Senator Keane withdrew his
bill amending the present law in order
to give boards of education the power
to exclude Japanese children from
schools attended by whites. The bill
was then re-referred to the committee
on education which yesterday reported
1t with the recommendation that it be
passed.
Helds constitutional amendment pro-
viding for direct primary law was
adopted by the senate and has now
passed both houses. Senator Caminetti
wanted 1t to include the election of
United States senators by direct vote.
1t was voted down repeatedly and
Caminetti's attempt to place the Re-
publican leaders on record as opposed
to the election of United States sena-
tors by direct vote stirred up intense
party strife and precipitated the most
heated debate that has yet taken place
in this session. On the ground that he
had insulted the majority by stating
that 1t represented king Caucus and
king Machine" President Porter re-
fused Caminetti recognition and or
dered the sergeant-at-arms to compeI
the senator to take his seat,
Leavitt's Bill Passed
The senate passed Senator LeaNitts
bill providing that judgments IN other
countries shall have the same effect IN
this state when this is reciprocated 1t
is aimed at insurance companies.
The assembly today again gave eX-
preston of it's attitude toward the
press by passing resolution intro
duced by Kohlman of San Francisco
ordering the newspaper men moved to
the extreme rear of the assembly room.
Representative Birdsall'S anti-mono-
poly, Strobridge's child labor bills,
Johnsons measure providing for the
recovery by a wife, children or de-
pendent parents of money lost in gamp-
ling and O'Brien's bill making $S Gay
minimum compensation on public work
were passed.
Johnson of Sacramento introduced
another mo seat no fare" bill, making
it a misdemeanor to collect fares on
street cars without providing seats ana
a bill reducing the time between an IN
terlocutory and final decree of divorce
from one year to six months. helu
presented a measure to abolish the
state board OF charities and corrections
this morning.
Governor Gillett sent a message TO
both houses this morning, recommend
ing the passage of the bills creating
department of state engineering and
abolishing the offices of highway, debris
and public works commissioners.
The message was read in the assem-
bly, Just before the adjournment of the
afternoon session. The governor set
forth the saving and other penetits that
would accrue to the state by the con-
solidation contemplated in the bills.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-08
Harbor Bill Passes
By Associated Press.

By AssOCIdItu ITtss.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-The house
today completed and passed the river
and harbor appropriations BILL carry
ing more than 100000, with sundry
amendments, all of which were sug-
gested by the chairman of the commit
tee Mr.. Burton. Among the import
ant amendments adopted We're: For
the maintenance and continuing of the
Improvement of the Chicago river. $780,
900. being an increase of $3.50, 900; a sur
vey of the Missouri river was author
lied from it's mouth to Sioux City. A
bill amending the denatured alcohol
bill was passed. The naval appropria-
ton bill was taken up and made the
continuing order.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-08
Homestead Measure Passes
~ Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, Feb THE senate
today passed a bill providing that no
homestead entry upon public lands
shall be Cancelled because of the fall
ure of the entryman thereupon to here
after reside upon the land during the
months of December, February and
March. In computing the homestead
proofs no credit is to be given for the
period of actual absence.