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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-10-27
A Conscientious Girls Sacrifice.

The following story is told of a two
story brick house in the suburbs of
Boston, whose doors and windows are
nailed up, and which has never been
occupied: NEARLY thirty years ago a
young man built it for his bride, in
tending to mortgage it and pay for it
gradually, as his worldly goods in
creased, to all of which she agreed.
When the wedding day was appointed,
the trousseau ready, and the house
finished, he took the lady out from
Boston to inspect it. After going over
the house he presented her with deed
of it fora wedding gift. Knowing his
circumstances, she was astonished that
he had actually paid for it. He ex-
planned that, buying a ticket in a
lottery, he had drawn the first prize,
which covered the cost of the house.
The Puritan maiden protested she
would not take a home obtained by
gambling, and refused the deed. His
arguments were of no avail; she re-
mained obdurate. When they left the
house he locked the door and threw the
key into the brook near by. The next
day he boarded up the windows, and
only the spiders and mice have ever
occupied it. The man never married
he became rich, but is a wanderer Oh
the face of the earth. The woman
never married-she is still living, pool
and invalid.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-10-27
At the Old Home.

Major Swain, who was so closely con
nected with the late president, describes
the arrival Of the bereaved family at
the old home in Mentor. 1--WE accom-
panied Mrs. Garfield. Grandma Gar
field, the children and Private Secre-
tary Brown. to the old homestead at
Mentor on Tuesday. We were met at
the depot by the Rudolphs, Mrs. Gar
fields relatives, and were accompanied
quietly to the homestead. When we
came in sight of the old, familiar spot,
Mrs. Garfield was quite overcome for
moment, but soon recovered her COM
posure and entered the desOlate home.
Gen. Garheld's study remains Just as
he left 1t, and one of the sorrowing
widows first steps was to go into the
room where she had spent so many
happy hours. She is gradually re-
covering from the effects of the blow.
Mrs. Garfield said it was too early
to indicate where she will reside. but
she will spend her summers at Mentor.
In the winter season she will spend
part of the time with her relatives in
Cleveland where she will he near her
husbands remains, and part of the
time in Williamstown, Mass, where
she win be near her eldest boys, Harry
and Jimmie, while they are in attend
ance at Williams College. The boys
will leave for Williams College on Fri
day night or Saturday morning of this
week. Grandma Garfield in the future
will make her home with Mrs. Gar
field. Wherever the bereaved wife
goes the sorrowing mother will GO
The aged grandmother is very frail,
and will spend her last days with the
family of her dead SON."
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-10-27
Mrs. Eiske's Will.

There were fifty-fve different be-
quests in the will of Mrs. Willard
Fiske, of Ithaca Eight of $4,000.
two of $4,000. sixteen of $1,000, four
teen of $4,000, one of $4,000, four
of $4,000, one of 100000, six of $780,
OGO, one of 500, 900, and one of $780,
600. making total of $1,497,O 900. 1t
Is thought in Ithaca that the grand
house she was building viii go to
Cornell university, coming in as a part
of the residue, which is Civ en- to the
library fund. 1t is believed Jaer bequest
to the university may amor mt to $780,
900. The $4,000 to estal dish a hos
pital for students is esq ,ecially COM
mended as thoughtful fmd beneficial
bequest, as many stud snta living In
distant parts of the country have
suffered from poor ARE when taken
suddenly i'll at Ithaca.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-10-27
Give Us Pure Lager.

The enormous amount of glucose
and other substitutes used in the man
ufacture Of lager beer has directed the
attention of medical experts to the
fact that since lager beer has grown to
be the great national beverage there
has been correspondingly alarming
increase of kidney ailments among
beer-drinkers. These two facts carry
more than warning to thoughtful
persons. If such want another fact,
here it is: Brewers, when seen togeth-
er at the festive board. avoid beer of
their own brewing much as they would
contagion. They viii invariably be
seen to order champagne, Rhine wine,
or beer of foreign manufacture. A
friend, who is an expert, informs us
that every brewery has perfect chem
istryldepartment attached as one of its
secret departments, and that skilled
chemist is as necessary an adjunct as
the maltster. Once known, these facts
will cause a stampede among beer
drinkers.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-10-27
Health of Swine.

TheDepartment of Agriculture has
ssued a pamphlet on American Pork"
giving the result of its investigation
concerning trichine and the diseases
of swine. We make the following
extracts from it:
The hogs of Illinois and Ohio, and
douptless of other Western States, are
of various improved breeds, mainly
high-grade Berkshires and Polan
Chinas, and are unsurpassed for purity
by the hogs of the best British fancy
breeders. The pigs are generally
farrowed in April and May, and as
soon as they are able to do so, are
allowed to follow corn-fed cattle, with
the range of grass pasture and pure
running water during the summer and
fall. When not following corn-fed cat
tie, the pigs are fed with corn until
the spring grass and their age make it
possible for the animals to subsist and
thrive on grass alone.
Formerly hog was all done in
the winter, and the farmers consequent
ly had a special season for preparing
hogs for market, but now that summer
killing. especially in Chicago, has
attained proportions nearly as large as
the winter-killing, the farmer can find
market for his hogs at any time of
year, and has only to consult his con-
venience as to the time of fattening,
being sure of finding a market when
ever he has carload ready for trans
portation.
When the hog reaches the age of six
months or more-and it is previous to
this age, and while he has no present
marketable value to the farmer that
the most of the deaths from "hog chol-
era" Occur-he is put into pens and
well fed upon corn and given access to
pure spring water. Should the hog be
attacked with cholera" during this
period, he is Immediately separated
from his fellows, and the disease
being fatal, the dead animal must be
disposed of by burial or utilized
as fertilizer. The disease effects
the hog suddenly. AS DR.. Stet-
son observes. sit destroys life at
once" and adds that cit is impossi-
bic to make good meat of such a hog,
by any process, decomposition setting
in before the death of the animal, in
most cases."
1t may, in fact, be stated as beyond
doubt, that all rumors or reports that
American hogs dying by disease or even
by accident. ever entered upon any
market in the shape of meat or lard,
are founded wholly upon ignorance or
malice, for it is not in the power of
the hog-meat curer or the lard reiner,
whatever his inclination, to utilize the
meat of hogs which have died of
cholera, in any edible form that could
pass the most superficial inspection.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-10-27
Neatness in Women.

A woman may be handsome or re-
markably attractive in various ways
but if she is not personally neat, she
cannot hope to win admiration. Fine
clothes will not conceal the slattern. A
young woman with her hair always in
disorder. and her clothes hanging about
her as If suspended from a prop, is
always repulsive. Slattern is written
on her person from the crown of her
head to the sole of her feet, and If she
wins husband, he will turn out, in
all probability, either an idle fool or a
drunken ruffin. The bringing up of
daughters to be able to work, talk and
act like honest. sensible young women,
is the special task of all mothers, and in
the industrial ranks there is imposed
also the prime obligation of learning to
respect household work for its own
sake, and the comfort and happiness il
win bring in the future. HousewOrk
Is drudgery, but II must be done by
somebody, and had better be well than
III done.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-10-27
The Pay of Teachers.

The Rutland (Vt) Herald and Globe
says very wisely in regard to the pay
Of teachers: "The low wages that ad-
NIT Of no savings, if the teacher has
a family, is the blight upon profession
that contains within its exercises more
possibilities for good, in multiplying
the best manhood and womanhood
through the unceasing manipulation
Of character in its plsstic immaturity,
than even the pulpit, for the teacher
comes into closer contact with the
growing youth of the country than
even the parent Three-fourths of
the teachers who serve for meager
wages have no call to their profession,
for the very reason that they take no
permanent interest in It; they never
expect to follow 1t for hfe-cailing. so
they cannot give it the necessary pains,
the essential enthusiasm; but once let it
be understood that good work and excep-
tional gifts for teaching are sure of a
reward that did not by its meagerness
compel celibacy, or the domestic econ
omy Of a church-mouse, and more
men Of exceptional tact, talent and
manhood would follow teaching for a
life-woEk."
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-10-27
A Spider Draws up a Mouse by the
Tail.

Lebanon Ky Standard.
a very curious and interesting spec
tacle was to be seen on Monday after
noon in the Office of Mr.. =. G. Clever's
livery stable in this city. Against the
wall of the room stands a tolerably tall
desk, and under this a small spider,
not larger than a common pea, had
constructed an extensive web reaching
down 10 the floor.
At about ii 80 o'clock Monday FORE
noon it was observed that the spider
had ensnared young mouse by passing
lilaments of her web about its tail.
When first seen the mouse had its hind
feet of the floor, and could barely
touch the floor with its fore feet. The
spider was full of business, running up
and down the line, occasionally biting
the mOuse's tail, making it struggle
desperately. Its efforts to escape were
unavailing, and the slender filaments
about its tail were too strong for it to
break. In short time L. was seen
that the spider was slowly hosting its
victim into the air. BY two o'clock
I'm the afternoon the mouse could bare
II touch the floor with its fore feet; /;
by dark the point of its nose was an
inch above the floor. At nine o'clock
at night the mouse was still alive, but
had made no sign except when the spi-
der descended and bit its tail. At this
time il was an inch and q half from the
| floor.
The next morning the mouse was
dead and hung three inches from the
/ floor.
The news of the novel sight soon be-
came circulated, and hundreds of peo-
pie visited the stable to witness it.
The mouse is small one, probably less
than half grown, measuring about one
and one half inches from the point of
its nose to the root of its tail. How
the spider succeeded in ensnaring it is
not known. The mechanical ingenui-
ty of the spider, which enabled her to
raise body which must weigh forty
OF fifty times as much as herself, has
been the subject of much comment
and speculation, and no satisfactory
solution of the difficulty has been
found. All agree that it is a most re-
markable case. and one that would be
received with utter incredulity if it
were not so amply attested.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-10-27
Driving With The ParasoI.


The other evening the Jester was
bathing his eyes in cold water. and
suspended the operation long enough
to remark:
eff a woman can't take her parasol
to heaven when she dies, she won't be
happy there. She win come pack
after it,
An impressive quiet followed this
dogmatic statement, and the parasols
of the court knew some of them were
in for it.
1--WE were driving this afternoon"
the aggrieved Jester resumed. "and the
princess kindly shaded my head with
her parasol. 1t was very kind, indeed.
1t limited my view of the country. at
times, to my knees and the dashboard
of the wagon. Whenever we met a
team, especially if the road was very
narrow, the princess lowered her
parasol between myself and the pass
ing wagon, so that turned out by
faith, or stood on my head to catch a
glimpse of the colliding wheels. When
we started down a steep hill she drop
ped the parasol between me and the
horses, and / trusted to the good sense
of the animals to keep out of the
ditch. When we met any acquaintan-
ces to whom 1 wished to bow, she
knocked my hat into my eyes. When
she would point my admiring gaze to
some exquisitly tinted autumn leaf,
she jabbed a projecting parasol rib
into my eye. When she turned to
speak to any one in the rear seat, she
rasped the back of my neck. Oft as
the carriage struck stone or lurched
over rut, she prodded my long-suffer-
ing head with vicious little jabs, 1
drew my head down between my
shoulders and sat crouched and bent,
but the remorseless parasol still pursu-
ed me. l have been pelted and rasped
and prodded, and all from a mistaken
sense of kindness. A wOman's un-
selfishness and kindness of heart always
prompts her to hold her parasol over
the man who drives. And if the man
who drives is allowed to choose for
himself, he will choose sunstroke in
preference to the parasol every time.
L do not complain, mind you, merely
make simple statement of plain fact.
Any man who has had to drive pair
of horses while some gentle-hearted
woman held a parasol over him knows
what l have suffered. And when she
holds an umbrella it is infinitely worse,
Then the man is utterly and hopelessly
extinguished, and the material world is
to him only a wild, blank chaos of
alpaca and whalebone,"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-10-27

"Don't you, sisY' with a sly wink.
"Do you think the old place Is fit for
the richest girl in MayvilleY'
"My wedding, fatherp" Esther
gasped.
Certainly. why not9 have always
thought DIR. Bell was sweet on you and
today he asked me for you could
not be better pleased to"
"Father, hush, 1 cannot marry DR..
Bell"
"Why notT"
Because l can never love him.!
"Oh, that's all right. In the mean
time Ill have the carpenters round in
the morning and have them throw out
a bay-window in the sitting room"
And with a jovial laugh the old man
sauntered down the steps.
Upin her chamber that night Esther
stood at the window and raised pale
tear-wet face TO the stars.
"I will die FIRST" she murmured res
olutely. IL will be true TO George and
will not break my promise"
Bright and early the following morn
ing she appeared at breakfast, and
though her father eyed her keenly, he
never mistrusted the conflict she had
been waging through the previous
night.
With a shuddeT of horror Esther
heard the carpenters begin work at the
sitting room window, and while her
father stood in front Of the house plan
ming some alterations with the archi-
tect, she fled TO her room to read let
ter she had long ago received from
George.
Scarcely had she commenced reading
when a rap came upon the door, and
on opening it Esther encountered the
maid-of-all-work.
"Miss Esther" the girl said, extend.
ing something in her hand; "the car.
penters found this as they were tear.
ing away the mop-board under the sit.
| ting room window"
Esther took the object, uttered a
wild cry and darted down the stairs.
Father, father, look! she screamed
George is innOcentw
With puzzled air the farmer took
the dirty envelope and with trembling
fingers extra ted q mildewed note for
800.
"Slipped out of my fingers and into
the pesky hole" he gasped. "What
would l give if the poor boy was here
now! I'd give him to you without one
cent for the wrong 1 have done himp
In his bewilderment the old fellow
did not notice the stir beside him, and
when he raised his eyes at last-thert
stood George Stanley.
"Your wish is granted" the young
man said, "the boy is here but no,
poor. There are the bills you wanted
TO see before 1 claimed Esther"
But Farmer John pushed the prof
fered wallet aside and faltered broken
ly:
"Say no more about it, George, TAX,
her, she is yours, and may Heaven for
give me and bless you both. See here
Mr.. What's-yer-name, L want you Il
get through with these improvement:
in double-quick time for there's to b,
a wedding here next week"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-10-27
A Clever Grow.

The London Field.
1 have had my Australian piping
crow for about two years. AT first he
was uneducated, and rather disrep.
utable looking party, but, with good
food and exercise, his musical talent
soon developed itself. He began
with the first part of "The Bells" then
he got off perfectly the trumpet call of
"Cease Firing" "Charlie is my Dar-
ling" '.Nix my Dolly" and h3 is dill
gently at work at "God Bless the
Prince" and has the first part fairly
well off. He fetches and carries like a
dog, and seems never tired OF running
after a ball of crumpled paper, and
bringing it back and putting it into
ones hand and waiting for another
throw. He will tumble about on the
floor, and play more Ikea monkey than
a bird. He will get into slipper
with a string tied to it. and allow him
self to be coached round and round tn'
room, holding on all the time to tn
string. Some time ago we wer
troubled with mice. but "Peter" 500
brought them to sense of their situa
tion. He ferreted them out, chase
them, killed them, and having dull
washed them in his water tin, hun
them up to dry, picked them, an
swallowed them. 1t requires great pei
severance training these birds. The
win eat almost anything. Some day
ago our bird swallowed a piece Q
glass. and for two days and nlgnt
was very i'll, moaning pitifully; but b
at last brought it up in the usual wa
hawks and owls do. He is now quit
recovered, and in full song.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-10-27
"pon't know half their Value .

sThey cured me of Ague, Biliousness
and Kidney Complaint, as recommended.
I had q half bottle left which used for
NV two little girls, who the doctors and
neiehbors said could not be cured. /
Would have lost both Of them one night If
/ had not given them Hop Bitters. They
use until they were cured. That Is why /
said you do not know half the value Of
HOB Bitters, and do net recommend them
high enough."-B., Rochester, n. Z. See
other coIumn.-Americon Rural Home.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-10-27
Badly Trained Husbands.

Mrs Cralk, nee Mul0ck
How many unhappy girls have paid
dearly for the upbringing of their
young husbands, who, the first glamour
of love passed, treat their wives as they
were allowed to treat their sisters, and
as they saw their fathers treat their
mothers, carelessly, disrespectfully,
with a total want of that considerate
tenderness which is worth all the pas
sionate love in the world. This, though
they may pass muster outside as excel
lent husbands, never do anything really
bad, and possessing many good and
attractive qualities, yet scontriving some
how quietly to break the poor womanly
heart, or harden into that passive ac-
ceptance of pain which is more fatal
to married happiness than even tenn
porary estrangement. Anger itself is
safer thing than stolid, hopeless in
difference.
The best husbands ever met came
out of a family where the mother, a
most heroic and self-denying woman.
laid down the absolute law, "girls first"
Not in any authority, but first to be
thought Of, as to protection and tender
ness. Consequently, the chivalrous
care which these lads were taught to
show their own sisters naturally ex-
tended itself to all women. They
grew up true gentlemen-generous, un-
exacting, courteous of speech and kind
of heart. In them was the protecting
strength of manhood, which scorns to
use its strength except for protection; /;
the proud honesty of manhood which
infinitely prefers being lovingly and
openly resisted, to being ''twisted round
ones finger" as mean men are twisted,
and mean women will always be found
ready to do it; but which, 1 think, all
honest men and brave women could
not merely dislike, but utterly despise.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-10-27

GEN. John Echols, of Virginia, reports
that on a tour through the backswoods OF
Kentucky and West Virginia he found
even the cabins Of the colored people with
their bits of Grape in mourning for Presi-
dent Garfield.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-10-27

An Elkton, Nd, paper mentions the
case of Mr.. T. Deenen, of that place
who suffered severely with rheumatic
pains until he tried a bottle OF st.
Jacobs Oil, which completely cured
him.-Indianapolis (I,ad) Journal.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-10-27

Cited by the Washington Qnd.) Ga
zette is the fact that the colts In that
locality have a sort Of lameness In the
Joints. j. F. Myers cured bis by an
nointing it with st. Jacobs Oil.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-10-27

A collection recently taken up BY the
king of Sweden for the benefit Of Luth-
eran church in Philadelphia has produced
about 600 CROWNS, or $500.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-10-27

Mr.. Fairchild, the United States minis
ter to Spain, was among the guests at {
state dinner given in Madrid by the mar
quis Of Northampton, who heads an em
bassy sent 70 confer the Order Of the Gar
ter on King Alfonso.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-10-27

The Mormon missionaries have recently
gained 800 converts In Schleswig- HI HolsteIn.
The National tribune., 1881-08-27
LOCKJAW.

The death of Willie Cahill, of Utica from lock-
jaw, revives these remarks from an exchange:
Every little while we read of a case of lock
jaw terminating fatally, arising from a wound in
the feet or limbs from rusty nails. OF course
every rusty nail wound does not give the lock-
jaw, but it is so easy to prevent anyone from do
ing it, that are surprised at peoples careless
ness, and tie danger they submit themselves to
thereby If wound caused by rusty nail, a
cut of an axe, or other tool any incised wound,
or even a sprain, is thoroughly exposed to the
smoke of burning wood or wOOlen fabrics unless
the wool is very, very bad the inflammation is all
taken out, the wound heals from the bottom, and
all danger of tetanus is removed. The modus
operandi is as follows: In convenient recep-
taele of iron or fire-proof vessel place quantity
of live Goals from wood fire. On these throw
small handful of wool or wooden rags, then hold
the wound over the smoke, as close to the burn
ing mass as the heat will allow, covering the
wounded portion with blanket draped over
that and the fire. Continue the smoke by add
ing fresh fire weol often necessary for
from twenty minutes to three-fourths of an hour,
according to the severity of the wound, the
amount of inflammation already existing After
smoking the wound should be dressed in the ap-
proved method, leaving the mouth of the wound
open for the discharge. The treatment will i'm
mediately al1ay the pain, remove inflammation,
and put it in condition for healing by the first
Intention 1t is positive prevention of tetanus
and the best healing agent known. The smOk-
ing should be repeated if the inflammation in
creases or the pain returns
The National tribune., 1881-08-27
WHAT A MAN DOES IN FIFTY YEARS.

According to the French statistcian, taking the
mean OF many accounts, man of fifty years of
age has slept 5000 days, worked $500 days,
walked 800 days, amused himself 1000 days, was
eating 800 days, was sick 500 days, &c He ate
1900 pounds of bread, $4,000 pounds of meat
46OO pounds of vegetables, eggs and fish, and
drank 1000 gallons of liquid, viz: water, Coffee
tea beer wine, &c. all together This would
make respectable lake of 800 square feet surface
and three feet deep, on which small steamboat
could navigate. And all this solid and liquid ma
terial passing through human being in fifty
years.