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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-08-11
THE WELL.

Dark and cool the water lies
n the old timc-honOred we'll;
Down deep the bucket flies,
And how often, who can tell?
For the schOOlbOy, hot with play,
fOr the labOrer tired with toll,
For the traveller on his way,
Doth the tirelcss rope uncOil.
Aud how often, who can tell?
or, who first the gracious draught
Dfcw up from the bOunteOus well?
Vr' Who sunk the ancient shaft?
They are dust, who slaked their thirst
At the little silver fount
Ia the wild woods, where Il first
tallcd the huntsman TO dismOunt:
They are dust, the pioneers,
Who the strong earned forest broke,
Where the old we'll now appears,
Where now curls the village smoke.
So shall we within the vale
With our children's children dwell,
but the waters ne'er shall fail
ln Che old timehonOred we'll.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-08-11
| am yours truly,
HEzEKIAH JONES,
sfEdit0, Eslo~lo>ll.

Then these good people looked at
their blank paper and not one said o
word except the profane man, who re-
marked, ''Damme, the editor is right
let's go and mind our own business"
and Jones crept out from behind the
counter, and that evening issued tip
top paper, chuck full of all sorts of per-
sonal and local items, and news. and
everything, and there was peace in that
town for the space of long time.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-08-11
No Good Preaching.

No man can do a good job of work,
preach a good sermon, try law suit well,
docuCr patient, or write good article
when he feels miserable and dull, with
sluggish brain and unsteady nerves, and
none should make the attempt in such q
condition when It can be SO easily and
cheaply removed by little Hop Bitters
See another column.-Atbdny Times.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-08-11
Reports from all parts of Illinois indi

Reports from all parts of Illinois indi
cate that the corn crop will be fair aver
age, while the fall wheat will hardly yield
one-third of an average. Meadows are In
good condition, and the hay crop promises
well. Clover is heavy, but timothy is
rather light. fhe oat crop Will be full up
to the average. Pastures are In excellent
condition.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-08-11

A careful estimate Of the damage done
New Ulm, Mimi, by the cyclone places
the number OF buildings destroyed at $50
and the money loss at $4,000. Eleven
persons are known to have been killed and
eighteen wounded, some fatally.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-08-11

this?" said each to the other. ..and
where's that fool editor, to impose on
us in this wayY While they were thus
talking, the devil came in with letter
from the editor, which the old man
read to the crowd. 1t ran as follows
"Dear friends, you all think YOU
know how to run newspaper. and
when you come to me with your sug-
gestions 1 hate to tell you differently.
so have followed your advice and Won
see what you have as the result If
you will te kind enough TO mind vour
own business hall as well as l do mine.
and try to think / know a little some.
thing, while you don't know it all.
l will give you good newspaper, and
whenever don't give you your moneys
worth. then come and tell me so, but
don't come telling me how / should do
my work, when l have devoted years
to it, and you have never given it an
hours study.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-08-11

Photographers never try to effect COM
promise with their creditors.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1881-04-06
A Pleasant Girl.

A traveller in Norway, last sum-
mer, came 30 village early one
morning, and was struck by the air
of gloom which prevailed the streets.
Unable TO speak q word of the Ian
guage, he could not ask the cause of
this, and concluded that some sick
ness or financial trouble had fallen
upon the community.
As The day wore toward noon,
however, their houses were closed,
shop windows were covered, all trade
aud business ceased. 1t was death,
then.
Presently he saw the people gath
ering tor the funeral. There were
the village officials, the nobleman
from the neighboring chateau, and,
apparently, every man, woman and
child in the village. Ii must be
some dignitary of the church who
was dead, or some other county
official.
AS he stood Watching the crowds
passing down the little rocky street,
be caught sight Of the face of Ger
man known to him. He beckoLcd
to him.
The town has lost some great
loagnate, apparently be said.
"Ah, no. 1t is only = young
maiden who is dead. No. She was
not beautiful nor rich. But oh, such
q pleasant girl, Monsieur All the
world seems darker now that she is
dead"
IL is a singular fact that when we
reach middle life aud look back, 1t is
| not the beautiful, nor the brilliant,
nor the famous people to whom We
have known, that We remember with
the keenest regret; but some simple,
sincere, pleasant" soul, whom We
treated as an every day matter while
she was with US.
| Go into family or social Gil Gle, or
even into ball room, aud the woman
who has the most friends there as q
rule, is not the belle, nor the wit,
nor the heiress, nor the beauty; but
some homely, charming little body,
whose fine tact and warm heart
never allow her to say wrong word
in wrong place.
The pleasant women" are the St
traction that everywhere holds So
oiety and homes together. Any
woman, however poor or ugly, may
svw=5 1880 49, -
be candid, honorable, unseiHsE sdSS
loving. If she is these, tho world
will DO better and happier for every
day OF her life, aud AS in the case OF
this poor Norwegian, 1t will seem
darker when she Is dead"
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1881-04-06
An Awful Mistake.

Mira. Smith, who had two babies
very sick with the scarlet fever,
wrote to = friend. Mrs. Jones, asking
her what WAS the best thing to do
for them. Now, it happened that
this Mrs. Jones had just received q
note from another lady inquiring
how to pickle tomatoes. Ia the oon
fusion the lady who inquired about
the tomatoes found in the envelope
addressed her a remedy for scarlet
fever, and the waiting, anxious
mother OF the sick babies shnddered
with horror aud disgust as she read
the following: "Prick them all over
with FORK. Put them INTO very
large earthen vessel, cover them over
and let them remain two days III
salt; then put them into hot vinegar
and add mustard, cloves, pepper,
mace, and few slices of onions aud
in few days they will be cured
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1881-04-06
What He Did at Night.

''Tell me how young man spends
his evenings, and l will tell you how
he will spend his life" II is wiss
saying, for the leisure hours OF I
young man are the dangerous houn
and make or mar his character tol
life.
Towards the close of the last cen.
fury, boy was apprenticed to 10
bacconist in New York city. Hi
did not know how to read or write OF
cipher. Neither bis occupations mol
iRsf.s All lssss - srus-s..,
but he Determined 20 learn what
some one had wittily called The three
Rs-reading, 'rlting, arithmetic.
After working twelve hours, he
spent his evenings, not, as his fellow
apprentices did, IN amusement, but
studying the spelling book aud arlth-
metic, and in copying letters and
syllables and words.
In year or two he became pro
Gcieut in these elements of an educa-
ton. Then he began to study French.
When he could read in that language
he took up German. His father was
Frenohman and his mother Ger
man, fact which, doubtless, explains
why he studied these two languages.
In three or four years he found
himself able to read English, French
and German, but without books, and
no money to buy them. He had,
however, two brothers who also were
tobacconists. He worked for them
at night, after working all cay tor
his own "boss."
From the small wages they paid
him, he saved up enough money 10
purchase few books. Tnen he gave
up night work and read his new
books. When he had mastered them,
he resumed his work At his brothers
shop, and bought more books.
When he become Jacob Lorillard,
the millionaire, these books occupied
The place of honor In his library. For
thay were the memorials Of bis esrly
ambition and industry.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1881-04-06
Getting 1t Out of :lin
Eroa7 tI4e BaTandt0n H0spE<Te.

They had just the loveliest sleigh
ing in Philadelphia all last week, aud
young Keepitup was out enjoying it
all ore afternoon. When he drove
into the stable, oh, but tbs man was
mad. He roared when ae looked at
the horse aud danced around, and as
Uncle Remus says, che Gust, he
did"
"Look at that hoss," he walled,
look at that hoss Amt a dry hair
on him an he's nigh ready to drop
That's pretty lookln' way to bring
in boss. Nice man, you are, to let
good boss tor
Young Keepitup was fairly aston
ished. "Man alive |" he yelled, pic
turing his amazement in Fis voice,
"and what did you expect when
bred him? When horse is costing
me an even So an hour he's got to
keep moving, yoa understand. When
pm paying out more than cents
every minute, l can't afford to let no
horse lean up against an ice box
while he figures out the oat crop of
the United States for 1880. | did
my level best TO keep my whip arm
warm, and then l couldn't get more
than S4.25 an hour out OF him. l
didn't hire tina horse to rest him.
Now, if you had only charged 10
cents an hour I would have the horse
ted every thirty minutes while l was
out, aud. would have rocked him to
sleep in my arms, wrapped him up in
blankets and laid him in the sleigh
and hauled him back to the stable
myself. That is the differences, you
see, Mr.. Silkcracker. Here's your
money, and want the same horse or
better one next Saturday afternoon,
if the snow holds on
And he went away, while Mr.
Silkcracker stood looking alter
nately at the money aud the horse,
thinking it all over.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1881-04-06
THE FLORIDA AGRIC ULTURIST.
Infdelity.

lnfijelity is a disease of the heart,
not OF the head. Let the morals be
corrupt, aud the sentiments will soon
become loose. Let the heart be in.
fected with vice. and infdelity will
forthwith spring up. like green scum
upon the surface of foul and stag
nant pool. Beware Of inidelity ! 1t
wars against reason and common
sense, against God and the best In
terests of mad. Beware Of infdellty !!
1t teaches that man is not RESPONSE
bic to his Maker for his actions, how.
ever atrocious they may be, and that
in the end, it will be as well with the
gambler and the pirate as with the
man OF virtue and religion. Beware
of infdelity 1t curses the body,
and curses the soul; it curses you in
time, and it will curse you through
all eternity. Beware OF inidelity !
It will poison the stream Of public
morals, and public happiness; 1t will
rob you of your dearest hopes and
sweetest comforts; it will rob you Of
the favor OF God, and it will hang
around your dying bed the curtains
OF gloom and despair. IL will lay
your body in an unblessed grave, and
your soul "in the urn of everlasting
death n have heard the saying,
"Cry havoc, and let slip the dogs OF
war;" but he who encourages inf
deity, in . more fearful sense, cries
"havoo !" and let's slip, not the dogs
OF war, but the spirit of Pandemo-
mum, and the demons of the pit.
Young man, listen to me; repeat
it, your Christian mother is right
the Bible is true! And if you die
without the repentance which it en-
joins and the Savior which it reveals,
mark nay word, in the great day OF
Judgment you will wish you had
never been born.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1881-04-06
HOE OUT YOUR ROW.

One day lazy farmer boy
Was hoeink out the corn.
And modify had listened long
To hear the dinner horn.
The welcome blast was heard as last.
And down be dropped bis hoe:
But the good man shouted in his car
my boy, hoe out your row."
Although a hard one7 was tho row.
TO use a ploughman' g phrase
And the lad, as sailors have 1t.
Beginning well. to haze"
II can" he said. and manfully
He seized again his hoe
And the goodman smiled TO zoe
The boy hoe out his row.
The lad the text remembered long
And proved the moral we'll.
That perseverance, to the end
At last will noblv tell.
Take courage, man! resolve you 0@n :
And strike vigorous blow
In life's great field of varied tohs
Always "hoe out your row."
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1881-04-06
HOMESTEAD NOTICE.
n - = = = = = 4 O11'
Land Office at
Gainesville, Fla, March 16, 1880.

NOTICE is hereby given that the following
N named settler has fled his intention to
make final proof in support Of his claim, and
that said proof will be made before 3. A.
Jameson, Deputy Clerk at Altoona, Orange
county, Fla, on Monday, May 9th, 1884, viz:
sJno. W. Caldwell. Homestead Number ass,
for the east of southwest t, northwest of
southwest and lot l. Section Is, Township IT
south, Range 81 east.
He names the following witnesses to prove
his continuous residence upon, and cultivation
of, said land, viz: James p. McEwen, Allen
&. Blair, d. T. Rivers all of Altoona, Florida,
100 ia l.. A. BARNES, Register
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1881-04-06
ADMINISTRATION NOTICE.

NOTICE is hereby given that after six months
~ publication of this notice will present my
vouchers and final account as Administrative OF
the estate of Douglas Dummett, to the Judge
of the County Court of the County of Volusfa
and apply to be discharged from my duties al
such administrators ofsaid estate.
ANNA DUMMETT,
Administrative.
St. Augustine, Fla, Oct, 18th, 1880. 1sT l5a
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1881-04-06
HOMESTEAD NOTICE.
Land Office !

AAouQ 0uuCO ~
Gainesville, Fla, March Is, 1881. I
NOTICE is hereby given that the following
~ named settler has filed notice of his inten-
ton to make final proofin support of his claim,
and that said proof will be made before
J. w. Dickins, Clerk Circuit Court at Enter
Henry Morris, Homestead Number D 2,Iis, for
the southwest t, of northwest t. west / of
northwest and southeast I of southwest t.
Section 8, Township 16, south of Range 30 cast.
He names the following witnesses to prove
his continuous residence upon, and cultiva-
ton of, said land, viz: Rich'd G. smith
Daniel Blaekwelder, J. w Odun. S. Il. McOor-
kle, all of Spring Garden, F1a.
$50 Isl L. A. BARNES, Register
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1881-04-06
HOMESTEAD NOTICE,
Land Office at
Gainesville, Fla, March l8, 1881.

NOTICE Ia hereby given that tho following
named settler has filed notice Of his inten-
and that said proof will DO made before J. W.
Dickins, Clerk Circuit Court Court at Enter
prise, Florida, on March 9Th, 1881, viz: Daniel
the north OF northeast i. southeast Of norsh.
west /, and northeast Of south west /, Section
s, Township is south, Range Fl east.
He names the following witnesses to
prove his continuous residence upon, and cul-
tivation of said land viz: Henry Morris, j,
Ooum, Ricd'd G. Smith. and Mary Ann Yed-
der, all of Spring Garden, Fla.
100 ~ i. A. BARNES. Reniatar.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1881-04-06

Once as Charley Lamb sat waiting
in the Highgate coach, a female came
to the door and asked loudly and
sternly, "Are you all full inside p
swell madam" Charles meekly re-
piled, Il cannot undertake to speak
for the others, but the last piece OF
Gillman's pudding has done the bust.
Cor me-"
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1881-04-06

A Georgia boy, who wrote to Santa
Claus for a pony, was wise enough
to add: "Poscript. If he is mule,
pies tie his behine legs" They know
what . mule 10 in Georgia.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1881-04-06
HOMESTEAD NOTICE.
Land Office a.
GaineaYilla. Fla March 18th 1891

OaInesVlIle, + Ia, MARCH 18th, 1881.
IN named settler has fled notice of his inten-
ton to make final proof in support Of his
claim, and that said proof will be made before
J. w. Dickins, Clerk Circuit Court, at Enter
prise, Florida, on Friday, May, 9Th 1881, viz:
James w. Odum, Homestead Number ,S5a
for the east OF southwest and south ! OF
southeast t, Section 81, Township Is south OF
Range so east.
He names the following witnesses to provo
his continuous residence upon, and cultivation
OF. said land, viz: Henry Morris, Richd G..
Smith, 8. T. McCorkle and Daniel Blackwell
der. all of Spring Garden, Fla.
100 lA l.. A. BARNES. Register.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1881-04-06
Benevolent Mr.. Wixhanl.

At meeting of the Ladies' Benev-
olent Society, held the other day. 1T
was resolved that committee OF
four ladies be appointed TO canvass
for donations, and in the course OF
their peregrinstions this committee
Yesterday dropped into Mr. Wixhams
Office. He received them as q gentle.
man should, and after the usual for
malities one of them began:
"Mr. Wixham, we are asking aid
for benevolent purposes.
"Ahl yes. Benevolenoe is bump
which should be cultivated. Are
you looking for poor folks p
I'VE are"
".Very proper-very proper. You
all have children OF your ownr
"Oh, yes"
"All OF them arc well fed, well
clothed and we'll cared for, are they"
"Yes, sir"
81 presume their stockings are
properly darned, buttons in their
places, and they say their prayers
when they go TO bed Ana cor
rect >"
Tho women looked at each other
in a SLY way, and then at aim, and
one of them said
"We shall be happy for any contri-
button"
"Yes'nl. yes'm. You don't want
this contribution for your own fam
lilies, eh ~
"No, sir answered four voices IN
VrEssxvsrvsus
benevolence Hardly . day passes
that l don't do something for charity.
Here's an old account of 500 against
Mr.. -, know he's hard up and
having 3 close time TO get aloug, and
yesterday l Cancelled the debt"
One OF the canvassers turned red,
white and blue and looked out of the
window. That was her husband,
but Wixham didn't know it.
"And yesterday, found = poor,
iorlorn looking little boy out here
crying with hunger and cold. He
said his name was Tommy, and
he lived at No. So street He
hadn't been washed or combed Tor q
week, and felt sad for him. WAS
going 10 take him home and feed
him, but he slipped away.
Another woman suddenly looked
out of the window, and her pulse ran
up TO 120 y minute, but Wixham
was as innocent as a lamb of any
knowledge that it was her boy.
Then you won't aid us ?" queried
the spokesman.
"Oh, yes, certainly l will. | was
simply figuring TO see how much |
could spare. l signed a note with
Mr.. - last fall, and had to pay
it yesterday. That makes me feel
rather poor"
The third woman didn't turn red,
but green, but Wixham couldn't have
possibly known that it was her hus.
band.
Lets see. Let's see. | want TO
give you all / can spare. Mr. -
on - street, owes nae four months
house rent, and I'll give you An order
on him tor $40"
The tour women rose up. They
rushed in Q solid body for the door.
They went out in heap. Some
were red and some were pale, and all
mad. They tried to speak, but they
couldn't, aud as they fastened to get
away from each other, Wixham held
up the halt written order and gasped:
"How very, very singular! Per-
haps they thought they couldn't col.
lect the money"
Once as Charley Lamb sat waiting
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-16


We have no idea that any Democrat,
with any respect for himself or his party
will, in the friendly competition for the
few honors which his party in this coun.
ty has to bestow, stoop to practice the
tricks which have made the Republican
primary elections here a carnival of
fraud" But it is just as we'll to remind
all classes Of politicians that by tworecent
acts of the Legislature, every possible
sort of Irregularities and fraSd, at pri-
mary meetings and delegate conventions,
in the poll or the count, are made pun
ishable with severe penalties. For voting
at such places without proper qualifica-
tions, for intimidation or bribery, for a
false count or misconduct of the election
officers, severe punishment is prescribed.
The Republican primaries were over be-
fore these acts .were passed. The ap-
preaching Democratic delegate elections
are the first held in this county under
them, and it will be we'll for the minor
ity lparty to set the opposition an ex-
ample of strict compliance with these
strict laws.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-16

vanoed state of decomposition. A razor
was neat BY, with which It d presumed
tho man had committed suicide. The
body is supposed to be that Of William
Kolb, . laborer, who has been missing for
over month.
Mr.. Thomas Fennimore, a farmer, living
near Lumberton, N. j., was driving home
ward from Mount Holly in company with
his three -year-old child and a female rela.
tive. When about two miles out of town
the carriage was struck by lightning, the
lady and the two horses killed. while Mr..
Fennimore was stunned severely burned
on the right side. The little child, how
ever, escaped without injury.
John Allguire, aged twenty three years,
surrendered himself at Grand Haven.
Mich, stating that he had killed colored
man named Frederic Green, who for sew
eral years had lived at Grand Haven with
Allguire's mother, white woman. Green
got into a quarrel with his mother, and
struck her on the head with a gun, and
also attacked him. He shot Green in self
defence. The top of Green's head was
blown off. In the fight between Green and
his mistress the latter's skull was frac
tured.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-16

clerk under Thomas A. Scott in the Penn
sylvania railroad Office at .PhilaSelphis.
He is now the executive head of the Rio
Grand and the Mexican national system,
owned by two separate companies, but
under one head.
Capt. CARLILE POLLOCK PATTERSON,
superintendent of the United States coast
survey, died yesterday afternoon at his
residence, Brentwood, near Washington,
D. C. He was born at Shieldsborough,
Bay St. Louis, La, on August "a, 1916.
His father was the late Commodore D. T.
Patterson Of the United States navy.
General WALKER hopes to be able TO SO
arrange his duties as superintendent of
the census as to permit Of his presence for
at least portion of the time this fall,
after the opening Of the college year, at
his new station as president of the Massa-
chusetts school Of technology. He will
feel obliged to consult first the require
ments of the census, and will not resign
his present Office till the work can pass
without embarrassment into other hands.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-16
Thieves Arrested.

Yesterday Constable j. S. Warsel, of
Leacock township, arrested two men who
gave their names as George Slime and
Henry Myers, for drunken and disorderly
conduct on the road near Intercourse.
They were brought to this city, and Alder
man Barr committed them for hearing.
When taken to Jail and stripped it was
found that they had wrapped around their
bodies nearly thirty yards of uncut flannel
goods. As it was known that a
quantity of dry goods was stolen
from the store at Winners station, a
day or two previous, it was supposed that
this flannel was portion of the stolen
goods. Mr.. c. Musselman, the storekeeper,
was notified and came to town this morn
ing to identify the goods, and, although
he did not see them Constable Warfel
having taken them away. lie described
them so accurately that there is little
doubt they are the goods stolen. Suits
for larceny have been entered against
Stone and Myers.
This morning Constable Warfel brought
to this city, two other men-Benjamin
Davis and Joseph Spencer, suspected of
being implicated in the same larceny, and
they, too, were committe for hearing.