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The Barber County Index.
PAINTER & HERR. Publishers
MEDICINE LODGE, : KANSAS
CURRENT COMMENT.
The young man who keeps hli
sweetheart comfortably filled with
summer delicacies acquires consider
able information about internal tax
ation. - ----- -
The largest goat ranch in th
world is owned by Charles S. Onder-
donk, of Laroy, N. He has 20,00C
goats, and they have 23,000 acres iu
which to roam.
The article in common use as food
tvhich has the greatest food value in
proportion to cost is cornmeal; the
article having the greatest cost in
proportion , to its food value is. the
oyster. - -
Every Russian going- to- a theater
or other public entertainment is re
quired to pay something, toward the
support of an institution established
by the government for the benefit
of the poor.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe told a wo
man's suffrage meeting in Boston
the other day that she expected to
vote before she should die, and that
she would if she had to live to the
age of 103 to do it. . ' 1
C. F.- W. Neeley, the American con
victed of defrauding the Cuban
postal revenues, announced on his
release from prison that he would
become a citizen of Cuba. A" fitting
return for mistaken generosity.
. In .the recent Oregon election an
amendment to the state constitution
was adopted providing for the initia
tive and referendum. The conditions
to the exercise of this power are
more or less complicated, yet de
signed to confine appeals to the peo
ple to serious subjects of real impor
tance.
The suggestion of the Mexican Her
ald, that "if Cuba ever grows weary
of single blessedness the big and
hospitable Mexican union would wel
come her as a sister state" opens a
new field of thought in a rather
startling way. The Monroe doctrine
would not help us to an answer U
Cuba should see fit to drop independ
ence for Mexican federation rathe
than United States annexation.
Shooting at Mormon missionaries
is not exactly the logical way of deal
ing wth those personages. The Mor
mons are making a good many con
verts in the south, it is said, and this
fact arouses much hostility to them
in parts of that section. This feel
ing occasionally takes shape in fusil
lades like that which has just taken
place in Marshall county, Ky. No
sort of a religious faith was ever
extirpated by the shotgun method.
. A Russian specialist has decided
that, contrary to the general opinion,
electric light plays less havoc with
the eyes than other forms of arti-J
ficial light. He bases his deductions
on the fact that diseases and damage
to the eye are proportioned to the
frequency of the closure of the lids
He found that the lids close in a
minute 6.8 times with candle light,
2.S times with gas light, 2.2 times
with sun light and 1.8 times with
electric light.
As a result of a legal contest in
stituted by two women school
teachers of Chicago, the city gains
$507,000 additional taxes from the
street corporations of the place. This
is the final judgment of the courts
in the case.- The teachers were hav
ing their salaries reduced because of
a shortage In the city revenue, and
thfse two set out to show the peo
ple just why the shortage existed.
The city board of education gets over
one-half the entire amount of taxes
recovered by the two women.
An average of 20,000 persons an
nually succumb to venomous snake
bites in India. The cobra is the ter
rible scourge of India. The actual
number of deaths during . the de
cade 1SS0-1S90 varied from 18,670 to
22.4S0 a year. For many years past
the government has offered rewards
lor the destruction of venomous
serpents. Notwithstanding the pay
ment of large sums for this pur
pose, neither the supply of snakes
nor fatalities from their bite seem
to have decreased.
"The city of Caracas, Venezuela, was
entirely destroyed in 50 seconds, on
March 12, 1812. " Callao, Teru, was
destroyed in 13S6, and a sea wave 90
feet high was dashed against the
Peruvian rihores. The city was again
destroyed in 1746. A great earth
quake visited Chili in 1522-and raised
100,000 square miles of land lying
between the Andes mountains and the
coast from two to seven feet. About
midnight on February 20, 1835, the
city of Conception was destroyed the
fourth time. The accompanying sea
vn 9 UPT.ihcrtvTlnvsflW
'v R I up and out;
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rt ELJ They're here with
song and there with a shout;
They're here In a flash and there in a flame,
And they fleer and jeer at King George's
name.
The Tories may bluster and fluster and fret.
3ut the Liberty Boys will beat them yet;
And the chief of the'Boys is Robert Sallette.
Robert Sallette his limbs are long.
And his good right arm Is uncommonly
strong. t
He rides like a centaur, he swims like a fish;
And the Liberty Boys will rise at his wish;
And the Tories have never a chance to
forget . , - . '
The name and the fame of Robert Sallette.
There's a, gentleman Tory, rich and old;- .
lie nas bought up acres ana noaraea up
gold. - ' ""
He sits, in his house never making a noise.
For fear of a visit from the Liberty isoys.
And he says aloud f "A price I will set
On the head' of this traitor, Robert Sallette.
"Oh, Governor TTright is'miid and kind,
And justice and -mercy are much to his
mind; - '
But a harsher voice than his should be
heard -
To uphold the cause of King George the
, Third.
And to silence this horrible noise that comes
From Boston way of fifes and drums."
3ne hundred guineas, the man shall get
wco will Dring me the neaa or tooert ai-
lettel"
The Tory sits In his old oak chair, -
With arms and blazonry carveri fair; ,
He sits and quakes, and his very heart
aches, : "
And not even the ghost of.a noise he makes;
For news' came last night that the Boys
would ride; . . t . , .
And he hears the tramp of a horse outside, ;
A jingling stirrup,- a ringing tread ;
And the soul within him sits cold with
dread. . ...-- '
There falls on the door a thunderous knock.
And it jars his ear like a cannon's shock. '
And into the room there strides, before
The trembling darky can close the door,
A stalwart man with a ponderous sack.
A sword at his side and a gun at his back.
Hs drops tha sack with a .heavy thump,
And it strikes the floor like a leaden lump.
And he says, with a look so stern and bright
It seems to pierce like a sword of. light:
"A hundred guineas I come to get,
For I bring you the head of Robert Sal
lette:" . ,
The Tory starts, and his heart grows sick, ,
And his eyes grow aim, and his breath
comes quick, :
As he stares at the thing that bulges round.
At the end of the sack thaf lies on the
ground. , . . , . - . -
"Show me the head, ere you speak so bold !"
"isay:-quoth the stranger. "First, .the
gold! -
I have ridden too fast and" ridden too far.
And have seen too much of your Liberty
War,
To run. a risk at the very end.
So out with your money, my loyal friend,
And then, I promise you, you shall get
A sight of the head of Robert Sallette!"
The gold rings out on. the table there;
It lies in a heap both broad and fair,
A glittering pyramid rich and rare,
Outshining Egypt's, beyond compare.
The stranger laughs at the splendid sight,
But again his look is stem and bright.
"A bargain's a bargain, friend," he said.
'You pay right well for a homely head!
For" he swung his hat from his forehead
clear
"The head of Robert Sallette Is here!"
There's a man who rides, and sings as he
rides
And shakes .in his saddle, and claps his
sides,
For glee at hearing the guineas chink
In his pockets so merrily tink! tink! tlnk!
He laughs "Ha! ha!" and he laughs "Ho!
ho
And he's off to the forest like shaft from
bow
"My fine old friend, 't will be some time yet
Ere I part with the head of Robert Sal
lette!"
There's a Tory gentleman, rich and old.
W ho sits and quakes with an icy cold,
His teeth they chatter with fear and rage,
And he says some things unbecoming his
age, '
As he glares at the ground, and at some
thing round
That rolls from a sack with a thumping
sound
He grumbles and groans, and he savagely
tears , '
In a painful way at his grizzled hairs s
And he cries: "Oh the murderous, traitor
ous bumpkin!
Instead of his head, he's left me a pump
Kini"
Laura E. Richards, in St. Nicholas.
CELEBRATIOM.
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A A A W H
.r..WrJlJ0UISY MAY is t0
II 1 ffllll sins a solo at the
celebration," Mrs
Hatfield was explaining to a visitor.
"And I don't know but she 11 be too fine
to speak to her own folks when she's
rigged out in all her new things. Still,
I don't begrudge her the things. She's
worked real faithful picking strawber
ries and doing all sorts of chores to
pay for what she's to have. She's a
good girl, Louisy is."
"But has she ever sung in public be
fore?"
"She's never sung a solo all bv her
self except at one or two little Sunday
school concerts. I don't know how it
will be when she finds herself on the
platform facing the big Fourth of Julv
crowd. '
"Oh, she'll get through it all right,
have heard that she sings beautifully.'
"Well, I don't know but she does sing
about as .well as you could expect a
v
girl oi only 13 to sing. It's kind of j
curious; I &n?t sing no more than a
blue jav fcnd when her pa tries it the
hens &tter in terror. She gets it
from her Grandfather Hatfield over in
V&e. He'll be 75 come the 10th of
itext months and he'll sit down to a
little organ he's got and sing away by
the hour. He's coming clear over from
Yare fo hear Louisy-May sing. He's
gcin' to leave her his organ in his will."
"A piano would be better for her."
"Yes, Louisy May's, wild to have a
piano, but we can never get her one
with five younger children to rear and
school. Her Grandpa Hatfield mebbe
could get one; but I don't know that
he's able to, although-he always has
been close-mouthed about his money
affairs. You'll be at'the celebration?"
"Oh, yes; we are all going. And I
expect to hear Louisy Mav beat 'em
all"
There' the conversation ended, be
cause a red-haired girl came hurried
ly into the sitting- room. She blushed
furiously as she heard her name.
On the morning of the Fourth of
July Louisa May was very happy as
she stood before the small mirror in
her bedroom and gave the last touches
to her toilet. Her challis had made up
very prettily, and her mother had de
lighted her by an unexpected gift of a
pretty pink ribbon sash. She had never
before had such a beautiful hat, and
there was huts one thing to detract
from her satisfaction with her appear
ance.
'If only I didn't, have such a mop
of red hair!" she said to the mirror.
If it was mouse-colored, like Amanda
Dane's, or a regular brindle, like Lucy
Trent's, I shouldn't care. But red! It
sn't as red as it used to be, though,
and I shall wear mv hat while I sing
that will hide it a good deal."
There had been few holidays in
Louisa May's life, and never one so
full of promise of pleasure as this.
She had been to the village the day
before to rehearse her song wjh Miss
Hope, who , was to play the accom-
HER GRANDFATHER HELD THE FLAG.
paniment on the organ, and Miss Hope
had said that Louisa sang beautifully.
She had a very clear and strong voice,
and she said to her mother as they
drove toward the grove: "I don't feel
a bit nervous or. afraid now."
She did, however, feel a little nerv
ous when her turn to sing came, and
she found herself on the platform be
fore the audience that filled every part
of the grove. The chairman of the
day stepped forward and said:
"We will now listen to a solo, The
Star-Spangled Banner,' by Miss Louisa
May Hatfield." . v ,
At this some of the grand army men
set up a shout, and Louisa May walked
to the front of the platform with the
large silk flag she was to hold while
she sang. .-
The applause died away, and the or
ganist had just begun to play the pre
lude, when a boy shouted shrilly:
"Red head! Red head! Better look
out or the fireworks will catch!"
Louisa May's pink cheeks grew pal
lid. She opened her lips, but no sound
came from them. She was trembling
from head to foot. The flag fell from
her hand down over the edge of the
platform. Then in an agony of embar
rassment she put both hands over her
face and began to cry.
The boy who had called . out "Red
head" suddenly felt a hand grip the
back of his collar, and he was jerked
from his seat by an irate little old
man
4T
I'll let ye know how ye call my
gran'daughter 'red head,' ye little sas
box! You take that!" and he smartly
boxd the howling, boy's ears. Then
he hurried toward the platform and up
the steps, A queer-looking little old
man he was, with long white hair and
beard. He had on a stiffly starched
linen "duster" and bright blue jean
trousers. Hurrying to Louisa May's
side, he. put his arm around her waist
and said, soothingly:
"There, there, Louisy May!" Don't
you mind that impudent little sass
box! You sing your song now. Come,
grandpa will startye off on it!" . "
The old man picked up the flag which
she had let fall to the platform, and
holding its staff in one hand while his
other arm was round Louisa May's
waist, he began to sing in a thin, wav
ering, "but not unmusical voice:
"Oh say, can you see, by the dawn's early
v light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twi
light's last gleaming
Whose broad stripes and bright stars,
through the perilous fight".
O'er the ramparts we watched, were so
gallantly streaming!"
, He stopped at the end of these lines
and said gently to Louisa May:
"Come, now, honey, you sing, too."
She had taken her hands from her
face, and as she looked into the sym
pathetic faces of the people before
her, she felt her courage rise. "When
the old man began to sing the next
lines Louisa May's voice, clear and
steady and sweet, rose high above his
own:
"And the rocket's red glare, the bombs
bursting in air.
Gave proof through the night that our flag
was still there.' .
Oh! say, does that star-spangled banner yet
wave . . , .
O'er the land of the free and the home of
the brave?" . ., , , ' !
Something . of the lof ty spirit of
the grand old song suddenly filled
Louisa Mays heart, and made her
forget her wounded . feelings. Her
grandfather held the flag so . that
its folds were falling about her,
and her eyes were shining and her
face was smiling as she began
the second stanza in a voice without the
least quaver. The old man did not sing
now. He stood beside her with one
arm still around her, and nodded time
with his snowy head and gently waved
the flag above the singer.
When Louisa May's voice died away
after the last lines, the applause was
deafening While it was still at its
heighther grandfather stepped.to the
edge of the platform, holding the flag
aloft. When he could be heard he
called out shrilly:
"Everybody .join me in singing the
last two lines! Come, now, everybody
sing!"
(
"And the star-spangled banner in triumph
shall wave - .
O'er the land of the free and the home of the
brave."
TheN woods and the hills rang with
the melody; they rang again with the
shouts of the people when the lines
had been sung not only once, but three
times. -
The governor himself congratulated
Louisa May, and handing her the beau
tiful little silk flag he had been holding
in his hand he said: .
. "Let me give you this to remember
me by."
Louisa May thought that she could
never be any happier than she was
during the rest of that day, but she felt
much the same way three days latex
when, on coming home from the straw
berry patch, she found Grandpa Hat
field waiting for her in the hall. He
flung open the parlor door behind him
as he kissed her, and Louisa saw in a
corner of the room a beautiful sign
ing new piano.
"Why, grandpa!" she exclaimed, and
flung her arms around his neek, half-
laughing and half-crying. His dim eve
had a strange light in them, and hii
voice was not very steady as he said:
"I tell ye, Louisy, I don't know when
I have heard anything that took such
hold of me. as the way you sung that
grand old 'Star -Spangled Banner.'
want it to be the first song you sing
on your new piano. I'll play it and we'll
sing it together." X
A few moments later a passer-by
eined up his horse in front of the house
.to listen to the fresh young voice and
the old and quavering one singing to
gether: ;
"And the star-spangled banner in triumph
snail wave . ;
O'er the land of the free and the home of the
brave." ' .
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