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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-11-18
BOY ATTACKED BY EAGLE.
Saved from Serious Injury by Brother
Who Shoots Bird.

Elgin, Ill.-To save his brother.
Jacob Baker, from serious injury, Ed
ward Baker, living on farm near
Hampshire, was forced to shoot
large American eagle the other morn
ing. The bird was one of the largest
ever seen in that vicinity, measuring
more than six feet from tip to tip of
its wings, and is thought to have been
driven down Wisconsin by the forest
fires.
The Baker boys were out early to
inspect some traps they had set on
the edge of the farm. Jacob was
bending over one of the traps when
the bird descended upon him like
whirlwind, striking furiously with it's
wings, and scratching and clawing
with beak and claws.
Dazed by the suddenness and fe-
rocity of the attack. Jacob was unable
to resist, and would probably have
been seriously injured but for the
GOODNESS of his brother, who waited
until the bird rose for another descent
on its victim, and then shot it through
the head.
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placed across the cut to temporarily
check the caving earth.
Hermann then crawled by means
OF the landings to the bottom of the
22-foot cut and with the two workmen
at the bottom crawled through the
sewer pipe to the next opening. The
way up to the surface from there was
easy.
Nicholas Klpsa, "a years of age,
was the workman killed. His body
was dug out after four hours of heart
breaking work.
The digging was directed by Hell
mann, the foreman, who worked line
demon, shoveling himself whenever
one of his men gave way.
The deep holes had been dug along
Jefferson street for a sewer. The
pipe had to be put down low enough
to conforra with the new grade of
the street. Instead of a solid ditch.
holes were sunk at intervals the re-
CURED distance and a tunnel cut from
one to the other for the sewer pope.
The hole in which the cave-in oc-
Cured was % feet deep. In order to
get the earth from the bottom out
into the street it had to be shoveled
from the foot of the cut to a staging
placed about eight feet from the bot
tom.
From there it was shoveled to an
other staging and then to the street.
Klusa was engaged in placing the sup
ports about the excavation to prevent
a cave-in.
Hermann, the foreman, was on the
first. staging or landing from the bot
tom, and Klusa was standing on the
one first below the level of the street
when, with low rumble, the planking
put up to hold the earth at the top
gave way and tons of dirt fell upon
Klusa and the staging on which he
was standing. lehman, below him,
heard the rumble and knew what had
happened
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-11-18
ENOCH ARDEN CASE
IN INDIANA TOWN
AGES HooslER MEETS STRANGER
WHO PROVES TO BE WlFE's
LONG LOST HUSBAND.
LATTER GONE FOR 80 YEARS
Mat Schn1tt, Highly Respected citi-
zen of Jasper, Learns Woman
Whom He Married as a Wild
ow Is Bigamist.

Jasper, Ind.-TennySon'S Enoch Ar
den has been discounted in an actual
event right here in the prosaic town OF
Jasper.
A few days ago, while Mat Schmitt
aged IS, was sitting in a saloon here
drinking beer with a stranger. he
made discovery which will cast a
cloud over the remainder of his life
While the two were enjoying a social
glass Mr.. Schmitt asked the stranger
his name. The stranger replied: My
name is Criesam.'
Mr.. Schmitt looked directly at the
stranger and asked: What's your Civ
en- name?"
Rudolph Matthias" replied the
stranger.
Are you married." asked Schmitt.
L was married" replied Criesam.
but l don't know what ever became
of my Wife
Whom did you msrry?" asked
Schmitt, somewhat excited.
Mollie Brante," said Criesam.
Schmitt turned pale and asked:
Where were you married and where
do you live now?"
I was married in Louisville, Ky,
in st. Martins church, by Rev. Father
Leander, in September, 1871, and left
my wife in November, 1875, and have
never seen her since. am now an in
mate Of the county poor asylum of this
county" replied Criesam
When Mr.. Schmitt heard this his
heart sank within him, as he realized
that the woman Criesam had left in
Louisville was now his wife, and had
been since December Z. 1885, at which
time he had married Mollie Criesam,
then pretty widow with one small
son.
Mr.. Schmitt, who for years has been
one of the most highly respected citi-
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-11-18
FIRST Principle Of CAIN
ing aDd KeePfDs
Health

1t is easy to talk about the simple
life and so hard to live it, for life is
not simple any more. Its complica-
tons seem unavoidable.
The trouble lies in ourselves: the
entire trend of womanly sentiment is
away from the things the centuries
held dear
1t was not so hard to keep life sim
pie when ones best black silk did
duty for decade. Nowadays If the
silk didn't cut into ribbons the cut
of the garment would mean the patch
box in at least two seasons
1t is the craze for something new
that is the .undoing of simplicity. Nov.
city is the keynote of most of our
lives. Even friendships and matrimony
are getting infected with this microbe
of restlessness.
A mother said not long ago: Baby
Louise is so finnicky, she will only
play with her toys two or three times
before she is tired of them and have
to send them off to the hospital"
And the mother seemed to think
that it showed a progressive spirit
in her child. Such a craving for nov
city can mean nothing but unhappi-
ness, no matter what ones ability to
crafty it.
Ii we are ever TO become simple
again without some dire calamity fore
ing it upon our country, we must
change our views of much that we
now think progressive
We will have to learn to draw a
sharp distinction between our neces-
sites and our frills. A woman who
is noted for her restfulness and her
placidity in the midst of a hard life
was asked how she managed to keep
unfretted
I try to keep my life simple. Long
ago 1 learned that what women pos
sess beyond the real necessities soon
grows to be a WEAKNESS to the nerves.
The more of the unessentials we ac-
Guire the more we want Our most
coveted treasure soon grows insig-
nificant in the thought of something
still to be achieved. / make my rule
of life less change and more repose.'
That is a good rule for any harassed
mother or business woman who has
come to think life too much for her.
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Asked

zens of this town and county, brooded
over the matter, and finally decided
to consult an attorney. He did so, and
as a result has filed an action in the
circuit court here to have his marriage
annulled and to quiet title to some
valuable real estate in this town,
which Mr.. Schmitt says he bought
with his own money and decided to his
wife.
Criesam said later that after he left
his wife he received one letter from
her which he never answered. No
court could compel him to tell why he
left her, he said. He wandered over
the country for years, once visiting
a sister who doubted his identity, say
ing Rudolph Criesam had been killed
in wreck in Kentucky He left her
without convincing her he was her
brother.
Mrs. Schmitt is resisting her hus-
bands suit. She says Criesman left
her as he said he did, eand she later
heard he had been killed in a wreck.
She waited II years before marrying
Schmitt. The son is now a prominent
Catholic priest in London, having been
well educated by his stepfather.
Schmitt's suit will be tried at the
January term of the circuit court here,
and the case has attracted the great
est interest.
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mar


Dotted wells are to be absolutely
out
Colored laces are more the vogue
than ever.
Tan shoes will remain late in the
fall
There is a craze for embroidery in
trimming.
The one tone waist has had re,
bound into favor.
Button shoes for men are an edict
for the winter
Artistic simplicity is the dominant
note of gowns.
To be in the mode, even umbrellas
must be slender.
There is a metal touch in nearly
every winter costume.
For dress wear shiny leather shoes
are still predominant.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-11-18
Woman Nearly Buried Alive.

Ellis, Kan.-The timely Intervention
of physician who was not satisfied
with the appearance of the body pre-.
vented the burial alive of Mrs. Thomas
Chapman, wife of one of the best
known citizens of this part of Kansas.
Mrs. Chapman, who is SO years of
age, was supposed to have died sud
denly from heart disease The body
was prepared for burial, but was not
embalmed. The funeral was to have
taken place in the afternoon.
A few minutes before the casket was
to be sealed physician requested per-
mission to see the body. After con-
f1rming his suspicious. the woman was
removed from the coffin and placed in
bed. While her heart is weak. it is
believed Mrs. Chapman win recover.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-11-18
Edict Of Fashion Calls
for Stocks Of Fur
aDd Lace

Among the new stocks of imitation
! Irish lace and tucked filet net which
j all the women are wearing is one that
has a turnover of colored satin at the
top. This is put on just below the
| immense double ruching at top, and
ends in front with fat, mannish bow.
These stocks are attached TO any
soft blouse. The color scheme carried
at the top is somewhat of a relief from
the already universal satin cravat at
the base
To these high stocks are attached
Robespierre frills that drop nearly to
the waist. They. are in every form this
season and soften a severe suit in a
wonderful manner.
Many of them are not in jabot form
but attached as two frills to each side
of quarter-inch band of Irish lace in
sertion. Others are merely long 15-
inch strips of finely plated muslin
edged with lace, turned over for four
inches at the top
Others, to go in blouses, are made
of triple plaitings edged with lace at
tached to a band. These are basted
in that edge of the blouse that but
tons over.
1t is astonishing what an air of
fluffiness and frivolity these acces-
series give. A plain, almost shapeless
coat suit when worn with an immense
hat holding soft plume, high stock
of net or lace with double frills down
the front and frills at the wrist is
transformed into something most fem
mime.
1t is these frills and these high lace
stocks that give women their grace
ful look this winter
There is a wide tendency to aban-
don wide fur pieces for the neck and
put all ones money into a high direc-
toire collar of fur, edged with frills
and finished with satin ribbon, and to
add an immense muff
This is a newer and more fashion
able method of wearing fur and will
gain great favor.
The pelerine and the straight stole
pieces will remain in style, as they
never seem to go quite out of fashion,
buJ it looks as though the smart wom-
en- will wear the tight, high neck piece.
The fur pieces that drop around the
shoulders serve to take away from the
new lines this winter They are not
in keeping with the long narrow sill
houette that women strive after.
There has been no season to equal
this one in the use of Irish lace. This
weave has taken on new prestige and
popularity
Evening gowns are made of it, loose
wraps are built of it, it is quite the
thing for handsome blouses, and col
lars and cuffs are sold of it by the
The high turnover collar of baby
Irish with a tiny edge of Irish braid
has substituted the turnover of linen
Small cravats to be worn around the
base of stock and tied in front are
made of half-inch Irish insertion. and
finished in front with balls and tassels. |
These are newer than the cravats of |
velvet or satin, and will not be so |
popular, as they are more costly.
F'rills of all kinds on the neck and |
sleeves are edged with Irish lace; |
belts are made of it, also hat crowns
or brims. The whole hat of Irish lace |
has not yet returned to favor
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-11-18
STAYED GAZING WALL
WITH BRAWNY BAcKy
WORKMAN SUPPORTS TONS OF
DIRT ON HIS SHOULDERS
WHILE COMRADES FLEE.

Seattle, Wash.-With the mangled
body of one of his workmen above
him, crushed beneath IL feet OF earth,
and with two live men below him
whose lives he intended to save at
any risk, A. F. Hermann, foreman
for c. j. Erickson, supported tons of
caying dirt in narrow excavation
IN Jefferson street, between Fourth
and Fifth avenues, long enough to al
low the men below, to escape.
With his broad shoulders pressed
against each side of the cut and his
back against the staging above him.
he supported the weight. while
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-11-18
Indians Adrift Thirsty MANY dave

Victoria, B. CA dispatch from
Ucluelet says that two Indians who
were lost OF the sealing schooner
Thomas F. Bayard and brought in by
the schooner MARYLAND were adrift in
an open canoe for 13 days with only
three sea biscuits as food, and no wa
ter for ten days. The Indians allot-
ted themselves one inch of biscuit
day. After ten days rain came and
water was caught in a sail When
hope was almost gone they killed a
fur seal and cooked the carcass in the
bottom OF the boat On the fourteenth
day they landed at Bristol bay, Uni
max island, and were rescued by the
steamer Dora * Balko1ski.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-12-31

boots frying.pan, coffee pot and his pipe, all Of
which he wisely bestowed in places too high for little
PrarIe's reach.
The energetic youngster entering fully into the spirit
OF shifting things about, trottcd quickly to inviting
little cupboard, and laying hold of an opened can OF
condensed milk, rolled two precious eggs, worth
after which she inverted the milk can with equal adro
and completed rich raw custard at her feet in
the briefest time imaginable. Big Dan looked down
from his high position on STOOL
Miss Devoe with the dripping still casped by
the lid in one OF her tenacious little hands. promptly
made the anende feminine. She fastened to the stool
whereon the man was standing and threw her arms,
can and all, about his egcs.
"Baby-do-yove-Uncc Dan" she assured him
fondly
"Yes--wcll, reckon little lovin' is dangerous
thing, said Dan. He descended to the floor, took the
from his tiny guest threw it into the fire, and for
the first time observed the cheerful blazing OF his
bootjack
With one wild dive he snatched it forth, then cner-
getically kicked it, still blazing across the ROOM and
Tipping it bodily into basin OF water succeeded III
preserving its charrcd remains. In the meantime little
Prairie eager to initiate his example and to be OF as
asd the yiscd milk toward the supply OF water,
but with only partial Success. Unfortunately the egg
stuff slippery
Dan turned about in time to tiny feet Hing
trcacherousy and upward, and the baby sit down
upon the cusard with emphatic drectncss. lie stood
perfectly still and aazed at her hclplessly lie said
nothing, since nothing adequate arose to his mind.
Little Prairie remained but moment in the cream
and golden setting then laborouy extricated her gar
nents and her plump little person from the mess, which
she turned about 10 view
by--madc-hoor-al-ni she i'm
parted cheerfuly Then coming forward, both sticky
hands held before her with fingers extended till they
resemblcd small star fishes in Distress she added;
"Unce Dan--tatc-it-oN"
wait" said the miner wait till kin wet good
big rag"
lie wet three empty -four sacks, enticed the baby
10 the steps outside The door fetched ont the bag
tanning her extra clothing locked his cabin for bette,
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exclaimed Betsey."What do you know

"Oh Lord" exclaimed Betsey"What do you know
about kidsi"
She lost time in running the rear of the cabin
There, in half minute she discovered a hole that
ton Down her knees she dropped at and
applied her eye to the opening
II can't see thing, she announced, but know
she's there and probly sound asleep ! went under
house once myself and I know"
IF only she is II only she isl" said the angu:shed
Dan, in a new, wild hope. Il don't believe she can
be, Betsey-but leave me look
He got down and attempted to pierce the darkness
beneath the cabin. but to avail.
Prairie he called. "Prairie-baby-Miss Devoe-.
out to Uncle Dan"
There was no response.
"Ill dig in and see, he said and with all his might
and main he began to scratch away the earth to
large the hole.
But the sand lay in shallow deposit solid rock.
He bafed in the bricest time. However, he could
thrust part OF his head beneath the beam.
81 her she's there" he cried in Joy that nearly
overcame him "Baby-baby! out here Uncs
Dan She's fast asleep"
What did | sayi" said Betsey, triurnphanty you
can't wake her up. You'll have to hoist up the house.
Dan for crowbar, block and a beam The
glad he could scarcely think. But with
Bctsey boss him and his blocks and rrsh big
rocks beneath the rising shack to hold it while he tciied
and pried he lifted it up giant night have done,
side went crashing down and broke the hoor above
the babys head.
Then she walked and Dan crawled wildly in under
there and got her in his arms.
"Baby-was-tred," she vouchsafed In her engaging
little way "Baby-had-a-nap"
seen the cabin oddly tilted its base, charging
headlong down the hill, behed big Dan with Prairie
in his arms and, grabbing Miss Bctsey crafty about
the waist, danced and yelled in his gadne,s Like boz.
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1t fully hour before all the searcbers could
be summoned out of the mountains Some, whom they
learned where little Miss Devoe had been all the time,
were angry and Disguised. They went home.
Miss Betsey Dodd finally became discouraged in her
effort to remain at the place until Billy Partridge
should be gone. So, finally. when the fairly
sinking in the west she started reluctantly away With
faint hope that Dan might, perhaps, follow her to
say guod-by.
Big Dan had held to little Prairie as if he never
release her from his again, but he gave
her Billy and walked to the summit with the pretly
blushing Miss Dodd,
Be,sey, he said, when they quite out of sight,
you made me feel awful bad when you told me you
wouldn't marry me il Miss Devoe stayed in my house
over Sunday-d'you remember"
Betsey had been exceedingly sorry for many things
said at their last important interview, but she could
confess it all too abruptly. However, she smiled
roguishly, up at him as. she said "Well|
We'll" said Dan, III nervous fear and happiness,
She didn't stay in my house Sunday; she stayed
under il"
Besey smiled, then sweet. warm ehuc+ele broke
81 guess that's So" she said and suddenly NOV
ing step forward she kissed the unprepared miner
Just beneath the eye, then turned and ran for home
like frightened doe.
Monday morning little Miss Devoe resumed her en-
poyment of fetching tiny particles Of shining sand
Uncle Dan he sat outside the cabin clunsily sew
ing on the tiny dress he had carefully washed.
At length she grew weary OF placing all the little
grains OF sand in the gold pam She wanted her Uncle
Dan to look at the pretty things.
"Shine-Uncle Dam she said, as she held one up
for him to take; "nife-shine."
lie held out his hand indulgenty, and into his palm
She dropped smooth bit of gsenlng material at
which he stared in utter establishment. It was tiny
speck of god-a nugget no larger than the head OF
PIN
In sudden excitement he glanced at the pan There.
with lot of common sand and mica were fully score
of similar speck that the baby had found ard fetched
to lay at his feet.
That afternoon Tom Devoe and his wife came back
to POGO del Orc camp to announce that the trip to
Rley's had been all in vain II had cost Tom nearly
hundred dollars to ascertain that the restaurant
project was diluted consomme
1t cost big Dan less than fifty excited words to
make Tom his partner in mine of gold from which
little Prairie had fetched tiny Shine"
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coat! Burn it Quick! I've got to git fer home like
blazes and strip off my buds month ahead of time -
lie deserted his coat his hat and his precious paper
instantly and racing down the mountain trail left the
helpless Dan absolutely alone and unprotected with
the tireless little girl
Having undertaken to transfer the entire population
of the ant-hill to field OF greater usefulness Prairie
had lost no time, during Biy's excitement While
Dan was engaged in beating Biy's coats she to
the steps again with captive insect in her grasp.
Tick, she said, i'll expectation OF a great
ward. "tck-for-Uncle DAN
NASTY tick Throw him away said the foster
uncle cmphatically. Baby throw him away
NASTY tick" repeated the youngster hurting the
an the earth directed, and then Uncle Dan con-
tnung to be occupied with the infested coat She
tottcd off fetched her ant before and Calculating,
NASTY ticsl' threw it down the boot of the miner
and trudgcd patiently off for another.
The following day appeared to justify many OF his
approximations. Little Prairie very carly succeeded in
filing his Sunday boots with water and sugar ind-
ferently mixed, and Billy remained away and Besey
made sign. Dan finally obliged to dig up and
scatter the anthill, after which he adopted variant
ton to tiny spcck OF mica in the sand This he
picked ZIP and placed in gold pan, resting on the step
Shine he said Nice shine. Baby git shine for
Uncle and put it in the pan
She went to work at once, most faithfully, and at
length big Dan bchcld the last of her clean little dresses
and Dusty ruin ard the knees Of her tiny stock
ings entirely worn away
How he got through that day and night he could
never have told. Sunday morning he was heartsore
and exhausted Bctsey had ignored him utterly, and
little Prairie had not. 1t bright warm morning
Seated on his doorstep he finished a hour-sack gar
her at work fetching tiny speckS OF dross When at
.ength the dress he had made placed upon her he
leaned against the shack in rcef-and dropped into
;""'Ncr most profound
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BY PHILIP VERRTLL MIGHELS

$50 long said Dan "If you see Billy Partridge,
send him up here to the shack
'Wcu Miss Devoe" said Dan to the enerprisng
little tot left thus abruptly his guardianship you're
dom pretty fancy far with my goods and chattes
and the shack comes next, | reckon, fer it cant git
aWay-and not cent of insurance the place.
The youngstcr had discovered nothing novel in his
pockets, all Of which She had rhed many times before
She therefore stood up his knee and patted his face
with eXtraVagant affection
whats this" inquired Dan. "Payn' the damage
down in advance fer something you want to git at"
Baby-do-yove-Uncle Dan," all the young
ster answered, and scrambling out of his she
started inside the cabin without delay Dan hastened
to follow with commendablc alacrity and snatching
various household utensils, right and left began TO
hang them and stow them away in lofty positions with
a zeal that almost fanatic.
The baby undismayed. She tried to help She
went across the 10 the bunk and laying hold Of
bootack, that certainly resembled ordinary piece
Of kitchen fuel she promptly conveyed II to the fire.
place and dropped it in upon the lazy blazing logs.
Dan storing loaded revolver the opmost beam
OF the dwelling Descending he caught tip his extra