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Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-04-13
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Il, the recipe and dise ~ va enrsS-
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Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-04-13
Great Germ Destroyer !
DARBY'S .
Prophylactic Fluid.

Fittings Of Small Pox
prevented.
Ulcers purified and en-
tirely healed.
Gangrene ted
and cured.
Wounds healed rapidly
Scurvey cured in shOrI
time.
letter dried Up.
It is perfectly harmless
For sore throat Ia is
sure cure.
CholOra d~issipated.
Ship Fever prevente,
i by Its use.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-04-13

Removes all unpleas-
ant OdOrS.
In cases OF death in the
| house. 1t should al
way be used about
the corps e-lt Will
| prevent any unpleas-
| smell.
An andidOte for ANNA
or vegetable pOisons,
stlngS, etc.
Dangerous emuviaS Of
sick rOOmsa and nOspl.
tails removed by it
use.
Yellow fever eraicated
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-04-13

Merchant
Tailoring!
Murray & Son.
new AND mob BY
.ARE THE
Spring. Suits
Being received by the above
firm. They handle nothing
they cannot guarantee.
60 The best Of Imported and
American Goods always kept
i'm stock.
A FIT OR NO A
IS their MOTTO.
Call early and select your
Spring Suits.
D. T.. SHEA,
REAL ESTATE
/ AGENT,
HAS FOR SALE A SPLENDID
!, SELECTION OF
IMPROVED A MS
Town Lots and Dwellings,
, BUSINESS H0USES
= And some good tracts of unimprove'
lands in Audrain county.
Lar REASONABLE PRICES
Also, property in this and ad~joinin
States for exchange.
Fifty thousand acres in tracts
40 acres and upwards, in Kansas, fo
sale. Numbers and description give
m upon application.
n Ifyou want your farm dwelling
n barns, and their contents insured
the "Old Continental Of New York,
D. e. SHEA,
VILLAS Office in Opera Bloc
n
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-04-13
ORDER OF PUBLICATION
State of Missouri, County of Audr,;,
In Circuit Court in Vacation .n.,
10, 1882. f
Rosa Horn, plaintiff,
VS.. Oivor,.
Wolf Horn, defendant

NOW, at this day comes pla;o,is
by her attorney. and Tiles L.,
petition. verified by affidavit, sII"a
ing, among other things, that III
defendant has abscondei him'as
from his usual place of abode in 4.
State.
You said defendant is, tberpso,,
hereby notified of the filing of .sis
petition, the object and general M.
ture of which is to obtain a decree a
divorce from the bonds of matrimorr
heretofore contracted between plairs.
tiff and defendant, Oh the grouni
among other things, that the defrD5,
ant has offered such indignitie. IA.
ward this plaintiff as to render h.,
condition intolcrable az 4 unles h
be and appear at the next regul,
term of this court, to be held in IN
City of Mexico, LIST Monday of Jmr
next, and on or before the third IA
thereof, answer the plaintiffs Def
ton, the same will be taken as On,
fessed.
And il is further ordered that
copy hereof be published accordip
to law in the Mexico WEEK.
LEDGER, a newspaper printed al
published i'll the City of Mexico.
true copy,
Witness my hand and sea- Of Il
*Circuit Court of Audrai
SEAL. County. this 18th day
-. April, 1882.
JAMES CARROLL. Clerk.
J. w, DANIEL, atty for plf, q
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-04-13

OF PUBLICATION.
State of Missouri, County Of Audrsil
In Circuit Court in Vacation, Apr
10, 1882.
T. j. Don Carlos, pltt. In debt
vs.. ny
Coleman Bruce, diff. } Attachment
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-09-15

facing and gives the requisite strength
and finish. Now comes the long seam,
closing both the sleeve and the body.
ana almost finishing the garment. This
seam must be carefully felled. Make
the narrowest hem possible round the
bottom of the shirt. Stay the ends of
seams with tiny gussets or a tape
slit ehed firmly across. The pattern
ought to be SO perfect that the neck
will need no trimming out. A circular
band is the best fitting, and this re-
quires pattern. Remember that upon
the set of the neck-band depends the
int of the bosom and the comfort of the
wearer. and use tape measure that it
may be neither too large nor too small,
but just right. Shirt bosoms should
always be lined. They are sometime.
purchased with coarse linen lining,
but the ordinary linen bosom sewed
over the front. and the cloth beneath
allowed to remain instead of cutting
away. is quite as good. Wisconsin,
State Journal
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-09-15
How TarantulaS Fight.

There was necently received in Den.
yer, Tor store- exhibition, two full-grown
tarantulas, one of the brown and the
other OF the black Variety The brown
fellow was Gagged in common cigar
box and the black one i'm glass lar.
AS they could not be exhibited to adj
vantage in contrivances- of this kind,
and as they were not very pleasant
company to have running about loose,
box almost two feet square with a
glass top was procured, on the bottom
OF which a layer of sand was spread to
make the animals feel at home. The
cover was then drawn and the two
spiders pitched into it from their sera-
rate cages No sooner did the one dis
cover the others presence than they
rushed at each other as viciOusly as two
panthers, and Immediately closed in
deadly embrace. They came together
with a bound, and then twining their
long hairy legs about each other rolled
over and over in the. sand, biting each
other savagely, and then Juggling with
all their might asif endeavoring to crush
each other by sheer muscular power
Incredible as it may seem, this sort q
warfare was kept up for six hours,
during most of which time it could not
be seen that either was gaining the
slightest advantage. as neither showed
any sign of disposition TO end the fight
except by the death of his adversary.
At last the black one rolled over dead
on the sand while the victor immediate
ly proceeded to reap the spoils of his
long battle. Selling his yanq0ished
enemy in his stout horns, or pineers, or
whatever contrivance he has for that
purpose, he rapidly tore him limb from
limb. and eoolly proceeded. in the
cannibalistic fashion to make meal of
him. In very short time nothing was
left except little pile OF legs and
pieces of shell to mark the spot where
one tarantula had fallen and another
had dined. -Denrer TTibune
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-09-15
Directions for Making a Shirt.

The very first thing to do is to set
the linen bosom on the front. Stitch it
twice across the lower edge, and cut
out the neck by the shirt pattern. Next
finish the back. If yoke shirt is to
be made, gather the fullness, and
placing it between the front and back
OF the yoke, sew the seam and turn
the yoke, leaving the seam inside. If
1t be sack-shirt. face the back for a
depth of twelve inches. Next sew ND
the shoulder seams, always leaving the
facing of the back, or the lining of the
yoke. to stitch down on the right side.
This makes all smooth and well
finished. Then take the sleeves, which
have already had the Wristbands sewed
on, but are still open from wrist band
to shoulder, sew them into the BODY OF
the shirt, leaving half an inch to turn
down for a facing. This makes un-
necessary the troublesome arm-hole
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-09-15
Curing Millet for Hay.

The increase in area of this crop and
the favorable reports of those who have
fed 1T In quantities, so as to test its ex-
cellent qualities, are now causing it to
be counted an important factor in our
agricultural economy; for its great pro-
duclng ard feeding qualities are becom-
ing better known, and its coming in at
opportune times tides many a farmer
over time when otherwise he would
have to buy feed very largely. Being
easily raised and, if one knows how.
harvested, 1t is truly an economical
feed, and first-class one besides.
Strange it is that one is continually
hearing of the difficulty of curing it; but
the trouble is that, under a wrong i'm
preston, "big job" is planned, when
one no greater than the curing OF a
heavy crop Of Timothy hay is needed,
and so, to meet this demand" much
useless labor is performed. The idea
is that it must be made "as dry as tin
der" by stirring, raking, cooking, air.
ing: recocking, and airing again, before
setting up; when the fact is that it will
go in as green as any hay and does not
need more work.
When the weather promises fair for
few days, / cut down about four or five
acres and let it lie until the third day.
Them as soon as the dew is of. put it
into large cocks of 200 or even more
pounds each. Then the fifth or sixth
day, as the work may direct, it is
pitched directly from the cocks into the
barn. In the Intervening days 1 cut
more, and work, it also towards the
barn, by the same means.
If on the second day the weather be-
tokens foul turn. the millet is raked
up and put IN smaller and higher
cocks; and when the weather again be-
comes fair the cocks are simply
'whopped' bottom upward, and in the
afternoon Onelarge cock is made of two,
and then, when their time comes. thew
are drawn either TO- the stack or barn.
Two things are peculiar to millet.
Ii 1t does get rained upon before it is
dry, no visible. damage is done; and
when put in, coeks-it settles down very
compactly, andilOng stalks of the millet
make very complete thatch and it
takes a very heavy rain to- wet into
them.
1t needs Judgment when pitching, for
It's weight is always underestimate A
0On-huuuIeu-pouIA lOaU DV GStlmato
will always weigh few hundred
pounds more on the scales, and,
in pitching, small foEkfulls will
be amply large before. night.
In securing. the barn is preferable to
stack and one handling is thus saved.
Cured and secured in this way, I do
not see how any large crop can be
gathered with very much less labor,
and when, in March and April, one has
a big NOW of well-cured millet to feed.
he laughs at snow storms. throws down
an extra forkful. of blossom cut nlillet;
and, in return, ''old Brindle. NOW known
as Coomassie JERSEY, Think, gives a
summers mess of milk, and, her owner
declares that he will plow up, that old
north meadow in April and put the
whole lot into German miliet--John
Gould, IN Rural NeW Yorker
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-09-15
WHY a Kerosene Lamp Bursts.

Girls, as well as boys, need to under
stand about kerosene explosions. a
great many fatal accidents happen from
trying to pour a little kerosene on tbe
fire to make it kindle better, also nv
pouring oil into lamp while it is licbt.
ed. Most persons suppose that it is the
kerosene itself which explodes, and thai
if they are very careful to keep the oil
itself from being touched by the fire or
the light there will be no danger. But
this is not so. If can or lamp is left
about half full of kerosene oil the oil
will dry up-that is, "evaporate''-
little and will form, by mingling with
the air in the upper part, very explo-
sive gas. You cannot see this gas any
more than you can see air. But if it IS
disturbed and driven out, and a blaze
reaches it, there will be terrible explo-
sion, although the blaze did not touch
the oil. There are several other liauids
used in houses and workshops which
will produce an explosive vapor in this
way. Benzine is one; burning fluid is
another; and naphtha, alcohol, ether.
chloroform may do the same thing.
In New York workshop lately, there
was can of benzine, or gasoline, stand
ing on the floor. A boy sixteen years
old lighted cigarette, and threw the
burning match on the floor close to the
can. He did not dream there was any
danger, because the liquid was corked
up in the can. But there was a great
explosion, and he was badly hurt. This
seems very mysterious. The probabil-
ity is that the can had been standing
there good while and good deal of
vapor had formed, some of which had
leaked out around the stopper and was
hanging in a sort of invisible cloud over
and around the can; and this cloud,
when the match struck it, exploded.
Suppose girl tries to fill a kerosene
lamp without first blowing 1t out. Of
course the lamp is nearly empty or she
would not care to fill it. This empty
space is filled with cloud of explosive
vapor arising from the oil in the lamp.
When she pushes the nozzle of the can
into the lamp at the top. and begins to
pour, the oil, running into the lamp,
nils the empty space and pushes the
cloud OF explosive vapor up; the vapor
is obliged to pour out over the edges of
the lamp, at the top, into the room out
Va NOuAoO IL SbIlhCS dUdluSG Tic
blazing wick which the girl is holding
down by one side. The blaze of the
wick sets the invisible cloud of vapor
hire, and there is an explosion which
lgnites the oil and scatters it over her
clothes and over the furniture of the
room. This is the way in which kerr
osene lamp bursts. The same thing
may happen when girl pours the oil
over the fire in the range or stove, if
there is cloud of explosive vapor in the
upper part of the can, or if the stove is
hot enough to vaporize quickly some of
he oil as it falls. Remember that il is
not the oil but the invisible vapor which
'xplodes. Taking care of the oil will
lot protect YOU There is no safety ex-
:ept in the rule: Never pour oil on a
lighted fire or into y lighted lamp
Christian Union.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-09-15
Singing Small.

When the South Carolina Legislature
had completed its gerrymander for Con-
gressional elections, there was a grand
Wagnerian concert of criticism from the
Northern Republican press; but we no.
tice that the chorus now sings small.
and the enthusiasm has evidently abated.
IL is not the custom of our Republican
contemporaries to let good thing drop
when once they get 1t in working order,
anu there must be some exceptional rea-
son IN the present instance. The rea-
son IS fully apparent in the revelation
that has been made to the critics. that
the fortifications from which they hurled
their moral prOjectiles were made of
glass, and such exceedingly thin and
brittle glass that they have heard at
frequent intervals lately the fearful
sound of shattered crystal. The Charles
ton News and Courier has gone into the
map business, and il is publishing an
Illustrated serial upon the subject of
Republican gerrymandering. that is
very interesting and instructive. It's
latest is map of the Senatorial districts
sot Connecticut, arranged i'm such n way.
that while the State is Democratic on a
popular vote. the Republicans feel rea-
sonably sure of getting over two-thirds
OF the Senate. We have seen that man.
before in one or two Democratic papers
otConnecticut but we have never seen il
IN the Boston advertiser. though placed
side by side with the South Carolina won
uer' NJ would take the medal every time.
The charleston paperdoes not claim that
MI this justihes gerrymandering i'm the
South, but says: "Our purpose in dis
playing the gerrymandering feats of the
Republicans Is TO remind those worthless
that they themselves are steeped to the
lips In political sin, and that they are
the last persons on earth who shouId
cast stone at the white people of Sontb
carolina. We mean that the public
mere and everywhere else shall know
that the Republicans have. for years.
gone Tar beyond the poor efforts of the
south Carolina Democrats in the matter
OF gerrymandering If this has the
eiiect OF disgusting the people with such
practices in the North as well as in the
south, we shall be satisfied, and one of
the objects Of the honest and we'll
meaning gerrymander in South Carolina
VIII have been handsomely accom-
pushed An honest gerrymander''
may sound little paradoxical, and so
TAR rs we are concerned, it seems a
rather irreconcilable idea. But the
Ne'cs and Courier has made an honest
presentation Of the evil in its broader
relations, and we unite our hope with
that which it expresses, that the North
rs wei as South may come to see the
nniairness Of this way of dividing States.
II our theory OF government by the PEG
pie Is correct. then is the gerrymander
never justiiiable. II il is a mistaken
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-09-15
Harmony in Human Life.

Our surroundings should be harmoni-
Gus with our life. 1t is not necessary
to sound the same notes to produce
harmony. The word implies blending.
but it almost forbids repetition. Nat
ure is the great teacher. Her means
and ends are consistent with each other.
Nature understands too well the art of
harmony to attempt impossibilities. She
is always up to the mark. but she does
not oVersteP herself. Where the soil
will not grow lilies and roses, she con-
tents herself with daisies, but left to
herself, she will always cover man s
mistakes with carefully spun shroud.
1t is to learn this lesson more perfectly
That IN later life we are drawn away
from mankind to live with Nature. A
fuller growth takes place when we feel
ourselves in unison with all we see, and
when intercourse with nature restores in
us the balance that human conflict has
destroyed. Life in great cities is in
imieal to harmony. The clash of interests
Is too fierce, and those who live much
in great centers of human effort cannot
sustain the sense of harmony, unless
they come away for time. The form
and manner of modern society increase
the difficulty. The multitude of &C
quantances, and the little time given
TO each, make intercourse necessarily
broken and unharmonious. Converse
ton takes the form of epigram, and
each sentence must be cast into such a
form as not necessarily to demand a
second for its completion. By degrees,
our thoughts follow our words, and
each opinion becomes rounded and
finished off to fit into each question that
may arise. Nothing can be viewed as
whole-we are too near to its de-
tails. SO near are we in great cities
that it Is almost impossible not to take
each detail for the whole. Then arises
irritation, from the sense of the un-
fitness OF each separate opinion ex-
pressed to bear the structure of our
whole line of thought. We have
uttered an epigram. but we have not
stated our judgment as it really is. To
do that requires time and opportunity,
which society, neglectful of the in
dividual in its care for the whole, can
not afford to any one of its members.
The utterance, unfathered and without
offspring, must stand or fall by itself.
while we may be thankful if we are not
through it labeled and placed in a
pigeon-hole to which we are as FOREIGN
as dove to a hawks nest. Then it is
that we fall back for consolation upon
ourselves as a whole.-London Specta-
tor
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-09-15
WhiteIaw Reid rs a Presidential Ad.
wiser.

Star Route Dorsey is being hauled
over the Goals for his presumption il
addressing letter to Mr.. Garfield after
the latter's election to the Presidency
but before his Inauguration, in which
he gave him advice as to the compost
ton of his Cabinet, or, rs Dorsey put it,
presented some frozen facts" 1t was
no doubt, presumptuous on the part Of
Dorsey to assume the Office of Presi.
Dental adviser, yet if a copy has been
kept of all the letters which. Mr.. Gar.
field received from the time of his cleo
ton in November until his Inaugural
ton in the March following, no doubt
hundreds OF similar epistleS from other
Republicans than Dorsey can be found.
Republicans of all breeds and all de.
scriptions volunteered advice, made
suggestions and warned the President
elect against this or that '.snake in the
grass" Most of them had far less
claim to have their views considered by
the President than Dorsey had. The
latter stood in with Brady and the Star
Route crowd. He was an efficient col
lectOr and an equally efficient distribu-
tor of money where it would do the
Republican party and Garfield the most
good. He visited Indiana in the interest
of the grand old party" and did not
60 there empty handed. His services
were recognized by banquet in New
York City, at which Vice-President Ar
thur made 1.-THE greatest effort of his
life, and alluded in terms of pleasantly
to the purchase of State election. Dor.
sey was one OF the leading instruments
70 oil 81 II 4
he felt that he was entitled to be heard.
Among the men who assumed the of
flee of Presidential adviser with more
than was, displayed by Dor
sey, was Whitelaw Reid, of the New
York Tribune, who constituted himself
a midnight adviser by telegraph of the
Administration. 1t is something of q
coincidence that as Dorsey was a. tired
OF this blathering talk about James to
go into the Cabinet from New York, sc
Reid cautioned his correspondent tc
" beware of James soft, insinuatino
way" Each, from different motives
dreaded James, and each wanted to be
n Presidential adviser.
The truth is that the spoils system has
developed an impudencc ON the part OF
AOAIAhShO AAOPuOlCdIS WulCu WOulu DC
simply astounding were it not 50 com.
mon. They regard the offices in the
gift OF the Presidency much as if por-
ton of them were their own property,
and take liberties with President-elect
which would be regarded as downright
lnsolence If the unfortunate Chief Mag
lstrate did not feel that he was under
obligations to them and disliked TO of.
lend them. Dorsey is properly con-
iemned for the gall which he exhib
ted; but, as we have said, he did not
10 any more than hosts of Republicans
who now set themselves up as a great
zeal better than he. 1t is pure affec.
ion on the part of the Republican press
20 assume that the Dorsey letter. il q
unique Republican production. If Dor.
'ey had to hang for it a great many 9th
er Republican leaders would feel as, il
hey were under sentence of death
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