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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-11-03
kansas Citv. Noy. 3. lSSI.

Cattle-Receipts 1898 and shipments 100
head. There Was steady and fairly
active market at abO. the range of the pre-
Nio day. Leading sales were.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-11-03

l.. ID Hess Is keeping up with tire times
and now has fancy delivery wagon for
his store.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-11-03

w. + Moore and family. came In from
the ranch this week.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-11-03

Mule Team Wanted 1 want good
span of broke mules from IA to Is hands
high. j. b. CooL, Medicine Lodge.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-11-03

News came in this week that two negroes,
Dick, who was working for the Evans o, t.
fit and Bill, who was working for Mr.. Fra
zier, on KlOwa creek, being engaged in an
alteration when Bill shot Dick. They
were roping each other. to keep in practice,
when the row occurred. We wo Id be glad
to givelfurther particulars, inlsmuch as the
colored popI lation is so very thin in this
country, there being only two in this coun-
ty: but Our informant knew nothing more
about it. Bill land Dick is not definite
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-11-03

To vote intelligently is to vote the Dem
ocratic ticket.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-11-03
Kansas Civ Nov. l. 1899

Receipts 2522 and shipments 1873 head.
The market to-day WAS steady for butchers
stI'ff and the best grades OF Texas. Color
ado half-breetis d, II, slow and IL shade low
er: Feeders quiet and stockers steady. The
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-05-31
Manuring Corn in the Hill.

1t seems scarcely credible that such a
good, old-fashioned custom as manuring
corn in the hill should be called in
question; but we see that quite q lively
discussion occurred recently, and there
was disposition to decide that il was
better to spread the manure all over the
land equally, then plant the corn in the
hills and let it take care efitseif. II one
has good supply of manure, and can
afford TO give the whole ground thor
ough dressing, it may do very well to
let the hills alone; but we are quite sure
that where the supply of manure is lin
tied, it will be found far better TO put q
part of it at least in the hill before drop
ping the corn, and we have little doubt
but that even when the whole surface is
abundantly manured it would still pay
in many cases to manure in the hill.
We noticed some time ago the expert
ments made in one of the German
experimental farms on small and large
seeds. Small seeds, like small potato
eyes, never produce as good crops as
large seed, although the ground in quail
ity may be equally rich. If even the
mere size of q seed gives it an advan-
tage in its first start in life, how much
more valuable must be good stock of
nutritious food ready to hand as soon as
the young plant is in q condition to use
ftp It is indeed their first early start in
life which makes all the difference be-
tween good crop and a poor one. If
plants once get behind it is very hard
for them to pull up again. There are
but few months of the growing time,
aud q good start is great gain.
For the same reason, it is an error to
bury manure in the ground at any time,
when the crop Is an annual one to be
sowed in the spring and taken off in the
fall. And yet this is very common
practice. Manure is spread on the sur
face, plowed down and the seed sown
on the surface with the manure several
inches away. 1t would be far better in
most cases to plow the ground 6rst, and
then spread the manure on the surface
and harrow it in before sowing the seed.
1t is probable that most persons are
aware of this, and would follow the
practice were it not for the additional
labor involved. By manuring in ad-
vance, the hauling can be done when
we are not busy; in the other case 1t
must be done at once, no matter how
badly work may drive Us before we can
SOW the seed; and then it is so much
easier to haul over solid ground than
over ground newly plowed. It is there
fore good farming very often to sacri-
fee little of what in some senses may
be the best plan, for that greater prin-
ciple, economy of time, which is often OF
far more importance in farm profits. So
with this discussion about manuring
corn in the hill. Whether it Is good
policy to manure corn in the hill, IS al
together practical question; but as to
actual advantages of the practice in it
self, we think there ought to be no diff
ference of opinion whatever.-Gernidr
foDz TELEGRAPH.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-05-31
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

Paper made from strong fbers
can now be compressed into substance
50 hard that nothing but the diamond
can scratch it. m
r. P. Chittenden Is inclined TO the
belief that in the stomach there are two
stages of digestion, separate one from
the other; first, in which the action of
the saliva, can go on without hindrance;
and q second, in which pepsin alone is
active. H
--Of the sense of taste Professor
McKendrick states that the base of the
tongue is most sensitive to bitters and
the tip of sweets. A substance must
be soluble in the fluid of the mouth to
create taste, but no definite relation has
been found between the chemical con-
dition of bodies and their taste
Numerous cases of fire from the
spontaneous ignition OF coal have been
recorded. After considerable expert
menting, Mr.. w. w. Williams has con-
cluded that spontaneous combustion
takes place in some degree in all cases
where coal is exposed to the atmosphere,
although the combu stion may proceed
so slowly that the rise of temperature
will amount to only few degrees.
"A Rochester man has invented an
electrical ballot-box for use in societies.
The machine contains three knobs.
The member who wishes to vote in
favor of a certain candidate touches
white knob; if opposed he touches .
black knob; if Indifferent, knob be-
tween the two. AT each touch q bell
rings, thus making more than one vote
impossible without detection The ma
chine registers the result of the balloting
in plain figures. r.rn,l e.s. n
According to the London BngSseer,
soluble glass is capable of far more ex-
tended application in the arts than has
yet been attempted. A compact, mar
ble-like stone is formed when It is mixed
with chalk aud dried, similar stones be-
ing also formed by mixing the water
glass with bone ash, zinc white and
With clay, lime, sand, ce-
ment, etc., soluble glass enters largely
into the composition of many artificial
stones, tiles, states, etc., and also OF the
common soaps, the detergent qualities
of the glass making 1t an excellent
securing material. l.1ri r
Plans have been drawn up for an
electrical railway connecting the eastern
and western ends of Berlin with each
other. The road viii be placed above
the street on high columns, like the New
York elevated roads, and stations win
be erected at Lhtzow square, Mndge-
burg square, Potsdam station, and Dom
hof square,. A curious point in the
plans is an arrangement for lowering
the trains TO the street level at stations,
thus allowing people TO get out or in be-
fore the trains are raised again 10 the
level of the track. Power supplied by
electricity Will do the work Of raising
and lowering the trains.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-05-31
The High Price of Beef.

Inquiry as to the cause Of the present
abnormally high prices of beef has
ELECTED the following points from par
ties who profess to understand the mat
ter:
1. Probably as many as fifteen per
cent. of the cattle on the plains were
killed by the extraordinarily bitter
weather of the winter of 1S80-'S1. These
were chiefly the younger animals, they
being least able to bear aud survive the
exposure, and the loss thus fell among
the very class of cattle which come into
the States in the fall. 1t is reported
that $50 per head was paid about
month ago in Montana for two-year-olds
TO be taken upon ranches where the
destruction had been the most severe.
Also, the large immigration of last year
caused q much larger demand for cattle
to stock new farms, which was a fur
ther drain upon the available supply.
2. The scarcity of corn in many sec
tions, and its high price everywhere,
has prevented a great many cattle from
being fed into killing condition. There
were thus fewer TO market, and those
that were marketed cost more to fit
them for the hands of the butcher. The
number of animals that were kept wait
ing for grass-feed was sufficiently large
to make decline in prices probable
when they come freely on the market q
few weeks hence.
s. From New Years Day TO date our
receipts of cattle are larger than for the
corresponding time in 1881; but during
the last three or four weeks this is re-
versed, and the smaller supply is met by
an increasing demand for export of ami
mails and meat. Five to six thousand
animals now leave our shores weekly
for Europe. There Is recently an in
creased demand 10 supply the manu-
facture of canned beef. Two new fac
tories have sprung up in Chicago during
the past few months. The growing de-
mand for canned meat is possibly con-
nected with the falling off in the export
movement of pork products.
The following table shows the aver
age prices of the leading grades at the
Union Stock Yards in this city the last
week in April for three years:
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-05-31
Insanity In the Family.

| "Shubah Smith, don't believe you
belong to the Limekiln Club, !" said his
Z Honor to q tall and lathy African, who
bowed and scraped on the mark. "a
i g No, sab, DOESN'T ~. sa.1z s9ifa
Z" That club wouldn't keep member
who was up 10 such business as you were
on last night" ssss 80 .s-sr,5r5
"Was 'toxicated, sahp" .a-,T
You were, and you also hit man
with brick" ,1t -s-rg.-i ~ iao1'
SHOW, Jedge, let me dun tole you
! how it was. You see, I seed Cundu-
range Jones gwine up de alley. He's
q great Joker, an he likes fun. / picked
up de brick an gin 1t q toss to skeer
him, an you doan' know how wuss 1
felt when it hit him between de eyes
an he fell down In a heap. An
wanted was to play an April Fool joke
on him." = - : y, ~ -
aBut April Fool doesn't come on the
last day OF March," slC .zrszas
"Dat,s so, sab, but 1 was gittin' dis
one in ahead" llI-g-1. ...r -r--'eH
"Oh, You were. Well III have to
by boosting you for thirty days. sa5
Gwine to send me to ToledoP'' ~.
"No, sir. You are going to the Work
House" se7asa no .. II .l.l=,
ado dey want me up dar?"
"I presume so. Fall back and take
O seat" -o si-5 = li --i.-'-si
"yedge. kin I tole you how dat fuss
wasp e5s & So, .-..-.s
81 You have already told me. You hit
Mr.. Jones with q brick In fun.",> s.a
"Jedge, wasn't de mani At de time
he was bit Iswas asleep in bed, an kin
move IL bv fo, soussons -, ., -E
"What did you say you hit him for if
ss Ksse insanity runs in de family.
We's s1l got it, an we am not 'sponsible
fur what we do" ~ -.
"We'n see about that. The SEN
tence stands at thirty days, and il see
any rolling of the ewes IN double it"
There was no rolling. The prisoner
retired to seat In the corridor, bor
rowed chew Of tobacco, and remarked
to Bijah: 50 %
aSoon's I git out o. dar' Ize gwine 70
advise de family to gin up de insanity
bizness an lib like oder folks -"-D Detron
Free Press.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-05-31


Great age and painful disease are q sad
combination. Yet Mr.. William WestfalI for.
merlv OF Rock City, Duchess Co., N Y, now
came 10 the office OF DR.. David Kennedy, the
eminent Physician and Surgeon of Rondout,
n. Y, some time since, in a condition to ex-
cite the sympathy of the most hard hearted
and cold blooded person in the world. We
say he came-he was, rather, carried to the
Doctors office, for be was totally helpless,
and bore the weight of so years besides. He
had suffered long from Retention of Urine,
and had all the symptoms of an aggravated
case Of calculus formations in the bladder
The usual instrumental examintion revealed
the presence in the bladder of a urinary cal.
culus OF uncommon size. DR.. Kennedy
frankly told Mr.. W.stfall that, owing to his
age and debility, an operation was ont of the
question, but that he could, by the prescrip-
tion Of "Kennedy's Favorite Remedy" to-
gether with local treatment, make him COM
Portable and leave him to live out all his days
The outcome of this was thai the patient en-
Joys good health to this day.
THE REASONS WHY
DR.. kenney's "Favorite Remedy" is being ex.
tensively used py our people are as follows:
1t Is pleasant to the taste, adapted to both
sexes aud all ages, effective IN afiording i'm
mediate relief In all cases of Kidney troubles
Liver Complaints, Constipation of the Bow
els and arrangements peculiar to women. At
Is combination of vegetable alternatives. 1t
the same time purities the blood, thus giving
tone and strength TO the system debilitated
by disease or age. "Dr. Kennedy's Favorite
Remedy" for sale BY all druggists. S74
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-05-31
HOME AND Farm.

Mustard for the table should be
mixed with water that has been previ-
)usly boiled and become nearly cold.
Sc says the London Caterer.
Probably the largest cow in the
GRANVILLE, White County, Ill. She is
seven years old and weighs 8, 900 pounds,
is seventeen and half hands high, ten
feet six inches long from the nose to the
end of the tail, eight feet nine inches
around the girth, twenty-six inches
around the forearm and thirty-one inch
es across the hips.
do you want an evergreen that
holds its deep green color better than
almost any other; that never grows to q
large size; that is, therefore, well suited
TO both large and small lawns; that
grows compactly and possesses an
Individuality most msrkedp 1t is the
broad-leaved hemlock-Abies !Canaden-
sis macrophyna. Try it.-R,uaI Neso
Yorker.
Sometimes after beating the yelks
to find that they are not smooth and
light yellow, but are ssstringy," and
have little Jumps; If for custard they
spoil its good looks, but by straining
through very fine wire sieve this
trouble will be obviated, and only a very
little of the egg be wasted-not so much,
in fact, as If she tries to take it out with
fork or spoon--N. 7. Post.
To purify muddy water, dilute each
quart of water with an ounce of phos-
phate of lime and allow it to settle, and
it will be found that most of the impuri-
ties are carried to the bottom. The
supernatant water Is now filtered with
out any trouble through absorbant cot
bon. Ordinary cotton will answer as
well, If previously moistened with alco-
hol and then washed with water. OF
course, either of them must be pressed
tightly into the neck of the funnel.
Clear water can be obtained in about
five minutes.-Dearer Tribune.
If the plentiful use of bells will not
protect sheep from dogs, herding or
yarding should be resorted to- The
expense of erecting rough fence, say
seven feet high, and. of course, impene-
trable .e dogs, from 100 to $50 feet
square, is nothing to compare to the
loss of sheep. A fence soldly built of
rails, poles, ETC.. would last the best
part of q score of years, and there would
be no trouble of gathering the sheep
into it when once accustomed to it,
GeT7Rdnt0ion Telegraph. -'
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-05-31
PITH AND POINT.

Cast your nets In the right water,
and they may take fish while you sleep.
Some humorists must have been re-
visiting the glimpses Of the moon. Its
center of gravity is said to be changing.
-Neto York Commercial. ,.-.-,'.,..-,-
A Philadelphia man has setter dog
so intelligent that when he lies about
the dogs wonderful accomplishment
the dog actually blushes.-PhilGdelphiG
NetDs. ~. t..e,-,,
"A club has been started for making
meat jelly for soups. The soup stock Is
to be made of bones, and we suppose
there win be q joint stock company
". Y. Herald. -. ---s--.-.... ,7vl-.g3
Nine American colleges have adopt
ed the Oxford cap This is well. Here
tofore about the only thing that distin-
guished a college student from other
people has been the bad spelling In his
letters home asking for money TO 'sbuy
books. s."-Bsrdette- = ESQ
The late DIR. Chaplin once asked his
daughter, who was a pronounced bru-
nette and very small: ssMarian, why
are you like a certain Boston book-pub
fishing housef" s'I give IL mp, father"
said she. Because you are little and
1AOWht Woo eAAO e<tno
Not to be caught was the woman
called as witness IN the Hinman-Hare
libel suit. She could not fix the age of
asked: "Did she look like Mother
GooseP" Quick came the answer:
'Show me Mother Goose, and win tell
you" .....5 .5r
"A contemporary asks: "How shall
women carry their purses to Illustrate
the thieves" Why, carry them empty.
Nothing illustrates q thief more than to
snatch a wonian's purse, after following
her half mile, and then find that it
contains nothing but recipe for spiced
peaches and faded photograph of her
grandmother.- Y. Post. ~. -.,.-.--
lie Figaro thinks the following
s'ferocious but authentic" story proves
that the heart Is very near the stomach:
A little girl of five, while in the country,
had present of pretty white rabbit,
to which she became frantically at
tached. At the end Of the season the
family prepared to return to Paris.
'.What shall we do with bunnyP" asked
the little one. s'My dear, we can't take
him with u.s." said the parent, not
little troubled at growing the child.
"Really, can't we take himp" said the
infant; s'then let's eat him."
An Irishman one day came running
into farm-yard, and hurriedly cried
for a spade. The farmer, coming out,
demanded what he wanted with it,
when Pat replied that his friend had
stuck in bog and he wanted to dig him
out "How far is he inP,' inquired the
farmer "Up 10 the ankles" said Pat.
"Is that all P'' said the farmer. "Theu
he can pull himself out again. You'll
get no spade here" Pat, scratching his
head, while his face bore evident signs
of grief, blurted out: "Och, but be
jabers, he's in head firsti''-N. Y Lgie-
I,e,aIes,f t. Al .a st
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-05-31
Why Nervous Diseases Increase.

The London Lancet says: Nervous
diseases and weaknesses increase in
country as the population comes to live
on the flesh of the warm blooded ami
mails. This is point to which atten-
ton has not been adequately directed.
'Mest'-using that term in its popular
sense-is highly stimulating, and sup
plies proportionally more exciting than
actually nourishing pabulum to the ner-
vous system. The meat-eater lives at
high pressure, and is, or ought to be,
peculiarly active organism, like preda-
tory animal, always on the alert, walk
ing rapidly, and consuming large guam
titles Of oxygen. In practice we find
that the meat-eater does not live up to
the level of his food, and as a conse-
quence he can not or does not take in
enough oxygen TO satisfy the exigencies
of his mode of life. Thereupon follow
many if not most of the ills to which
highly civilized and luxurious meat eat
ing classes are table,
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-05-31
THE DAIRY.

-.
me oieomargarine factories of New
10 norS nave producing capacity of l16.-
Uo,oo pounds annually, while the pro-
oue1on OF dairy butter in the State ia
only Ill ,000. 600 pounds. =
-California has lately Skinned % ooo
pounds of spring grass butter IN New
York The freight amounted To s;x
cents per pound, at which fio,,re but
little more win be shipped.
Corn is the basis of butter product.
ana oats, barley, rye, oil cake meal and
mnu feed are the lighters and flow regu-
iators- Tame hay and corn-stalks or cut
up corn form the chief coarse fodder.
a New York chemist declares that
me refuse fat of a pork packing estab-
nshment is to his knowledge sent to ar
nficial butter factories, and another
found in oleomargarine horse grease and
other refuse which Is ordinarily used in
making candles.
Mr.. Woodman. at Minnesota Butter
Association, stated that better average
results were obtained from small dairies
than from large ones The reason given
was that as rule where few cows were
kept they would average better than
where many were kept, but this would
NV apply W oHCSidA uCEuc- 11io ucIQ Vi
ten to fifteen cows had averaged him
$50 pounds each, of butter, in year.
The usual yield of butter in cream
cries where the milk is set twenty-four
to thirty-six hours, or where ice is used
and the milk set twelve hours. is about
four pounds of the finest butter from
each 100 pounds of milk. On our farms
in the West it takes, on an average, 112
r,on1r1a ~ milk m, ~, aIa fnsrr r,ounds of
average quality. In point of fact, there
fore, our farmers wives lose from fifteen
to twenty per cent Of the profits from
their COWS by not knowing, or not prac-
ticing what they know, in the manage
ment oe their milk Would not this loss,
If avoided. enable them to buy q good
many pins and needles and threada The
skill required in making good butter
costs less than the value OF the labor
bestowed in making inferior, to say
nothing of bad butter. Globe Democrat.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-05-31
PfTH AND POINT.

Pittsburgh is preparing 10 supply
the country with sheetiron lath. Why
not have 'sheet-iron walls in the first
place p-Free Press. ,e.liiC
Z The Baltimore San asks g why
don't the millionaire editor" Hold on,
siri Stop q moment; which of US do
you meane''-Detroit Post.
-"Yes, sir" said Gallagher, Z" it was
funny enough TO nuke donkey laugh.
laughed till cried" And when he
saw smile go around the room he grew
red in the face. .sufai ST. 81
Recently an Ohio man on his travels
found a shell on the Gettysburg battle
field. he took it home and put it in the
stove 10 see II it was real.A Itwas genu-
inc. But the stove Is the most glaring
imitation you ever looked dat.-HaaoLeye.
Town has been asked whether it is
unladylil<e to carry pug dog, and it
answers that p1gs are not going out
of fashion, but Ia 1t the uglier the dog
the better the CO -rast it gives to the
good looks of the y xner. The saffron
tinted pug Is the best, because it con-
trasts well with tie fashionable mastic
red. sa
Some men wi never give up o cent
until they are obi ed to, object to hay
ing donations published. "Let not thy
right hand know what thy left hand
doeth," said one who never gave any
thing but advice. ''Yea, verify" said 8
bilious brother in the corner; "what I
give is nothing to nobody" He was
rightly. o. Rodyx,se. -
If young man il of proper age,
can support q wife, and Is reasonably
industrious, be Is pretty sure TO walk
into the trap before thirty. After that
age-well, Of course, he has had expert
ence and Is probably matured in his
Judgment, and, having glanced at the
married life of many people, concludes
to jog along toward the home stretch in
single Chicago bster-O Ocean.