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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-09-28
HOME. FARM AND GARDEN.

Telegraph Cookies: Two eggs, two
cups sugar, one cup butter, one half
teaspoonful soda, flour enough to mix
soft; roll thin and bake quickly.-N y.
Times.
"A gardener in Baltimore who has
number of large lighthouses for growing
In each house for the purpose of dis
tributing the pollen .1seaasa s
For tire last ten years mammoth
apple tree belonging to Abel -Schofield,
of Adair County, Mo-. has presented its
owner with twenty barrels of fruit each
season. 1t measures seven feet in cir
conference near the ground Chicago
Inter Ocean.
"A delicate and inexpensive dish for
dessert is made by boiling some rice
until it is perfectly tender, cook some
tart apples at the same time; when they
are soft, beat them with a spoon until
they are light; season with sugar and a
little cinnamon, and put a layer of rice
in a pudding-dish; then layer of the
apple sauce, until the dishlis full, hav-
ing the apple on top. Serve warm or
cold with cream.-N. T. Post.
An English gardener says he does
not agree with those who say that one
good wedding is worth two hoeings.
He says: Never weed a crop in which
hoe can be used, not so much for the
sake of destroying weeds, which must
be the case if the hoeing be well done,
as for increasing the porosity of the
soil, to allow the air and water to pene-
trate freely through it. Oftentimes there
is more benefit derived by crops from
keeping them well hoed than there is
from the manure applied.
"A correspondent of the Country
Gentleman deprecates the practice of
burning weeds. stubble and vegetable
refuse on the farm, saying that the soil
is being deprived of the very material
absolutely necessary to its permanent
fertility-bOth plant food and the ca
pacity for holding moisture, without
which the former is comparatively use
less. To this destruction of vegetable
matter is due the impoverishment of the
soil far more than to exhaustion by the
crops. and not until the destruOti Gus
tom is stopped can anything like former
fertility be restored. l s
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-09-28
Plant Good Seed.

Farmers often remark when sowing
grain that small grain if plump is just
as good for seed as the largest. This is
undoubtedly great mistake, not only
from the fact that it will not produce
crops of good quality under the great
general rule that like produces like and
that the best seed must produce the best
crops, but that the individual plant can
not under the same circumstances OBJ
tain so good start when the seed is
small or inferior from any cause. That
small seed viii grow or that shrunken
seed may produce plant is true, but it
will not produce so strong and vigorous
plants as the large plump kernel.
u The following on this point is from
remarks by DIR. Sturtevant concerning
the corn plant. but which will apply as
well to other grains: There are two
physiological processes which are con.
eerned in the nutrition of plants. The
first is assimilation, through which the
plant food is taken. through the root
and through the leaf, in the presence of
sunlight and stored in the plant. Then
by process called metastasis, this
stored material from the air is deoxy-
died and formed into soluble material
designed for the support of growth or
for storage. 1t therefore follows that
in the darkness plant can only grow
from the material which has hitherto
been elaborated, and when this elabo-
rated material has been utilized there
can be no more growth until, through
the action of the sun. new material is
supplied by assimilation.
The corn kernel is composed of a
germ or chit, surrounded by a mass of
material placed there for the use of the
terminating plantlet. The distance tc
which the plant can grow from the
light is determined by the amount OF
this preserved food. Consequently the
large seed is enabled to force its plant
let through a greater depth Of soil OF
its way to the surface than is the small
seed.
The seed vegetables under one-hali
inch Of soil more quickly than under the
six inches, and the growth, instead OF
being massed into extension of stem.
passes into the formation of leaf, and
the increasing of the organs of assimi.
lation- Detroit Post.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-09-28
Our Young Readers.
NOWHERE.


4 SONG ron BOYS AND GIRLS WHO ARE Al
WAYS DISCONTINUED. q
Do you know where the summer blooms all
the year round,
Where there never is rain on picnic day.
Where the thornless rose in its beauty grows
And little boys never are called from play?
oh! heyi it is far away
In the wonderful land of Nowhere.
Would you like to live where nobody scolds
Where you never are told: 1t is time for
Where you learn without trying, and laugh
without crying,
Where snarls never pull when they comb
your head? tA'ss.
Then oh! heyl you must HE away
To the wonderful land of Nowhere
If you long to dwell where you never need
wait,
Where no one is punished or made to cry,
Where supper OF cakes is not followed by
aches,
And little folks thrive on diet of pie;
Then no! hey! you must go, say,
To the wonderful land of Nowhere.
You must drift down the river of Idle
Dreams, 10 =
Close to, the border of No-man's land;
For year and a day you must sail away.
And then you will come to an unknown
strand.
And no. hey, IL you get there-stay
In the wonderful land of Nowhere
-Eud Hhceter. IN Horpers Young People
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-09-28
Where He Had Us.

There were seven or eight of us in the
smoking-car. and by and by the CONVEX
sation turned upon hotels. Six of the
crowd were going to stop off at the same
village in Georgia, and one of them re-
marked:
"Well, gentlemen, you can make up
your minds to 60 through purgatory to-
night"
"WhyP'
"Well. there is only one hotel in the
town. and that is run by the meanest
man south of the Ohio River"
do you know him?' asked chap
who was suspected of being lightning
rod agent from Chicago.
Il rather reckon"
land what's he mean about?"
Everything. He has bugs in his
beds. uses beans in his coffee. his rooms
are dirty, and he's robber in his
charges"
And there's no other hotelP''
"No. If there was he wouldn't get
custom enough to keep a cat alive.
He's the meanest man in the State of
Georgia, and if l ever catch him outside
Of his town I'll put head on himr'
% move that we resist any swindle
on his part, said drummer from Chi
cago.
IF find bugs I'll fire the bed out of
the window" said patent churn man
from Ohio"
And thus it went on for half an hour,
everybody anticipating and predicting,
but the conversation finally closed by
the originator remarking:
"Well we'll have tn mt nv, with n
suppose, but you can make up your
minds to see the meanest, low-down,
hang-dog tavern-keeper in America
1t was after dark when we reached
the village, and after delaying awhile
with the baggage five of MS rode up to-
gether in the bus. The sixth man had
disappeared, and we didn't see him un-
til we reached the hotel. Then he was
discovered behind the desk, pen over
his ear, his coat off-in fact, he was the
identical landlord HIMSELF One after
another walkednp, took look at him
and fell back, and we had adjourned to
the veranda and were talking of Sleep
ing out on the grass that night when ne
came out and said:
Gentlemen, will you walk in and
registerP"
One IOIfOWeu the other, and though
we all remained until the next evening.
not a word was said nor hint dropped
about the conversation on the cars. II
was only as the train was ready - go
that he shook hands all around and
kindly remarked:
The meanest, low-down, hanc-doo
tavern-keeper in America hopes to see
one and all again. Have a cigar, gen
tlemen?''
We sent him gallon of wine and A
box OF cigars from Augusta. but he was
still our creditor.-DetrOit Free Press
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-09-28
About Wrinkles.

wonder, children, if when you look
ut your grandmother who sits there
nodding in her chair oil WASH {
asleep" says grandmother, with. a
start; "Of course not" returns grand
father, with twinkle in his eye1~I
wonder if, when you look at those
wrinkles in the dear grandmother s
face, you think of the thought and the
care and the trials that helped time to
make them. She is sweeter 10 me,
children, than she was in the old DAYS
when she was like a wild rose I'm June.
Grandmother made quaint, old-fash-
Toned courtesy, and everybody went
over and kissed herr ..,.......,
~ But we won't talk of grandmother in
particular, we'll talk of wrinkles in gen
eral. When was boy was taught
to look with respect on a wrinkled face.
Each wrinkle means a great deal 1t
means suffering and care, and anxiety
for others; for that old person has been
very selfish, indeed, who has lived only
for himself. Few have been so selfish.
Yesterday, as / was crossing South
Ferry, saw q wrinkled hand before me
on the rail of the boat. 1t was a mans
hand. 1t was hard and brown. And.
though the man himself had his back
towards me, Tread him from that hand.
He had his Sunday. coat on and a tall
hat, but the hand was the hand of la
borer. The wrinkles were made as
much by constant use as by stime.a 1t
was an honest hand, .and I-grandfather
thought it would be more sitting to a
gentleman to kiss that-toil-stained hand
than the hand han dot Of the Sovereign Lady
them at least, so badly. When the man
furned his face grandfather saw he was
not mistaken. The face was an honest
one, and when the boat touched the
wharf with an awful bang against the
woodwork, two boys, neatly dressed.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-09-28
His Revenge.

They were riding up from the Wall.
street ferry in bus. He lifted his hat
to her in a gingerly manner, and She
bowed with the coldness of an iceberg.
Know her?" asked a man at his 81.
bow. ''-' -
her last falli''
And what?''
And she gave me the bounce. She
'aid she loved me, but she could not
endure the thought of a struggle with a
french nat and tapestry Brussels car
pets. went forth crushed man. bu,
revenge is miner'
"How?"
why, her father put one hundred
and fifty thousand dollars in a summer
hotel. and the company hasn't made
enough to pay the wages of the head
waiter!''- Val Street Nescs.
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SUNLIGHT ALL THE WAX

Goodbye. Jennie: the road Il long,
And the mour Il hard Co cross.
But well you know there IL danger
In the boEs and the marshy moss.
So keep In thc foot-path. Jennie;
Lct nothing tempt you 10 stray;
Then you'll vet safely over n.
For there's sunlight all the way
sunlight all the way:
So never you fear.
Keep Rupd heart dear.
For there's sunlight all the way"
The child went OF with blessing
And " Mss Of mothcr-lovc;
The dais ps we're down 10 her feet,
And the lark was singing above.
On, on in the narrow foot-path-
Nothing could tempt her 90 stray;
20 the moor wns passed No niRht-falL.
Aud she'd sunlight all the way
sunlight al the way:
And she. smiling. said.
A. her bed WIS spread:
" had sunlight all the way"
And I. who followed the maiden,
Kept thinking. NJ went.
Over the pcrllous moor OF life
What unwary feet are bent.
~ they only could keep the foOt-path,
And not IN the marshes stray.
Then they would reach the end Of lifo
Ere the night COuli shrOud the day.
They'd have sunlight all the way.
Hut the marsh u wide,
Aud they turn aside.
And the nieh t falls ON the day.
Far hcttCr to keep tho narrow path,
Nor turn o. the lcft or ril ut:
For N We loitcr at morning,
What shall We do when the night
Fails black on oar lonely Journey.
And We mourn our vain dclRyY
Thou steadily onward. friends and We
shall have sunlight Hll the way
sunlight all tho way,
TIL tie JOURNEYS o'cr.
And We reach the shore
" nCyCr-Cnding diy.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-09-28
Advertising Difficulties.

The Paris Police Magistrates evident
ly believe, like all sensible people. that
the only proper place to advertise is in
the newspapers. For some years past
one OF the most conspicuous features of
the Paris thoroughfares. has been the
staring red carts of an enterprising En-
glish tradesman The driver was inya-
rlably attired in gorgeous POSITIONS
costume, and the horse, by curious ar
rangement, is almost concealed from
view inside what wasreally huge Der.
ambulating square box. These ingen-
i"us advertising mediums have now
disappeared pursuant to a decree of
the Prefect of Police, to whom COM
plants had been made that they i'm
peded the traffic in the streets. besides
frightening the horses of other vehicles.
Inc decree was at first disregarded, but
TINS led to three of the offending struct-
ures being confiscated by the authori-
es.-Pdris Paper.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-09-28

Mrs. II. B. Stowe is about to begin
q new story. which will be entitled
"Orange Blossoms.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-09-28

"a rash man: YES" said. Fopr.
fIirolier is brave man. no
aount, but ne carries his bravery too
Lar, he is foolhardy, SIR; never saw so
Iasn man Called him to see Mrs. r.
so-aay. and ne actually asked her to let
INN see her tongusi : Fact. sir.
wou,9n't have believed any living man
wouid have had the courage to meet
That tongue Of .''-Bosfon Tras-
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-09-28

A black and tan dog belonging to
the slaughter of rich Chicago parents was
accidentally killed in New Y ork the 9th
er day. The body was placed in a satin
ined walnut coffin and sent to Chicago
Tor burial. For heavens sake don't
say anything about it. y said the under
taker who had the job in hand to re-
porter. .'or we shall be swamped with
mat sort OF business. 1t is growing AIN.
the time. No such thing as dog flu
neral was heard of few years ago. but
now we have about two dozen Of them
year" - Chicago Herald.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-01-05
SHOREHAM.

l.. G. Remele killed two pigs eigh
months old, that weighed 1926 and l.;
and 403 pounds respectively.
At meeting of the Sabbath schoo
of the M. E. church, December 81
7. Brookins was elected superinten
dent; E. P. Wolcott, assistant super.
intendent, and Mrs. Emma Pratt sec
rotary, for the ensuing year. u
The Newton (Iowa) Journal gives al
obituary notice of Judge E. N. Gates
former resident of Shoreham. Mr.
Gates was born in Shorehsm, Addison
county, VT, June 81, 1916, and died
December Is, 1882, in the sixty
eighth year of his age. He was @
lawyer of extensive practice, and 9
man of prominence and influence
throughout Jasper county. He went
west In 1858. Judge Gates was the
youngest of ten children, who all lived
to q mature age. Hannah j., widow OF
the late Dorastus j. Wooster, of Corn.
wall, is now the only living membepof
that large family. ~
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-01-05
Local News.

Coolest.
Dancing school last night. First lesson
In waltz.
Henry Mcleod, Esq, is on the sick
list.
A. P. Upper, Esq, does not recover
very fast from his illness. He is not yet
able to be about.
The annual masquerade ball, or sheet
and pillow case party, Is to occur the lat
ter part of January.
The winter term of Middlebury College
began yesterday, nearly all the boys be-
ing on hand.
There were only fifteen marriages
licenses granted by our town clerk dur
ing1ss2, against twenty-six in 1881.
Prof. d. N. Burke of Mineville, N. Y,
aud Prof. p. Burke of Cobleskill, N. Y,
hAse been spending their vacation in
town.
We are sorry to learn that Robbie Col
linsis lying Ill with lung fever in john
SON, VT, where he went to spent the
holidays.
Tom Flint is said to have had an offer
efsbout $l0,0O0 for his "Patent Car Fire
Escape" Hope it is so-provided he
cent get more.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-01-05
WEYBRIDGE,

The social at John II. Sprague's was
we'll attended, A fine time. plenty Of
first class music, vocal and instrumental.
and good supper was the comment Of
all. Net proceeds $22.5O.
Rev. L. C. Partridge OF North Benning-
ton, former pastor of this place preached
at the w. M. church on Sunday at Z
O'Clock, p. M.
we have to chronicle the sudden death
L of one of our best boys, Carroll II. eldest
son of Mr.. F. E. Stewart. He has been
ailing some three or four weeks during
which time DR.. Woodbridge was consult
ed. His disease was diabetes. a disease
rarely found in those Of his age, which
was II years. His funeral was attended
at his home on Sunday at II o'clock Rev.
Charles Hubbard of Middlebury officiat-
ing. =
SThieves attempted recently to effect an
entrance through window of the house
of M. II. Wilkinson. but failed by its be-
ing securely fastened. At the sight of
tho light of a lamp they fled. A liberal
reward will be paid for any information
that will lead to their arrest and convic-
ton.
The happy New Year was ushered in
here by gathering of the parishioners
and friends Of the Rev. Mr.. Matthews at
the w. M. parsonage on Monday night.
After a social meeting and hand shaking
which gave COED evidence Of the happy
state Of feeling, came refreshments plen-
ty and rich. The presents, Of which
there were we'll filled table. were then
distributed by Miss Minnie Samson, and
all the children were made to rejoice,
and not only the children but quite q
number of others were remembered with
presents, among which was noticeable q
purse of $40 for the pastor. and beauti-
ing each other many returns of the Happy
New Year.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-01-05
NEW HA YEN.
Mrs. G. S. Russell is quite i'll.


Mr.. Saxton Doud .Iwho was i'll two
months with fever, is able to be out again.
L. Saxton Doud enters this week in
II. B. Dodge's hardware store in Middle
bury as clerk.
Mrs. j. A. Caldwell is absent for few
weeks visiting friends In the north part
of the state.
The annual meeting of the New Haven
auxiliary of the woman's board of mis-
sions will be next Wednesday afternoon
at the ladies' rooms.
Another surprise party last week Civ
en- to Mr.. and Mrs. Knowles. on the
twenty-fifth anniversary of their mar
riage. Refreshments and presents the
order.
The .lay-out" of Christmas presents
In this locality this year was flair to
good" but we have heard OF nothing more
Shandy in family" than the gift OF five
hundred dollars received by Mrs. ID. A.
Roleau from her brother. Hon. X. Is.
Landon, Of Minneapolis MINI.
The annual meeting of the Congrega-
ton society occurred on Monday after
noon, January l. The following officers
were elected for the year ensuing: mod
orator, Edward 8. Dana, clerk. A. M
Roscoe; treasurer, Mills j. Landon
auditor Henry q. Roscoe; prudential
committee, James Wilson, John A. Cad
well, Herbert K. Powers.
The installation of Rev. c. s. Sargent
will take place at the church or
Thursday Jan, IS. Rev. s. b. Speare OF
Middlebury will preach the sermon. and
Rev. s. Calhsan of Orwell. Rev. q. L
Hall of Vsrgennes, President Hamlin
and Prof. Foster OF Middlebury College
will take part In the exercises.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-01-05
County News.
LEICESTER.

Mr.. Henry Walsh Is moving some OF
his old buildings once belonging to the
old hotel place on Min street to his
place on Railroad street.
Tho dearth Of coal at the Junctlon Is,
we hear, at an end; two carloads were
recently received, which very much glad
dened the hearts OF every one using that
commodity who had not supply.
Mr.. o. G. Huntley has made a capaci-
GUS cellar under his hotel, and also a
drain from there to the creek some 30
rods "a very wise forethought) to allow
the water to run out after heavy spring
flood.
The Rail- road Co.. have built large
reservoir or water tank at the Junction
capable of holding 10000 gallons OF
water, and also have erected a windmill
Of two horse power, to which Is attached
pump to force water from the creek in.
to said reservoir for the purpose of fill.
ing their engines.
The Brandon Lime Co. have been
running but one kiln for some time fast
on account of being short Of wood, but
at the present both are now in full blast
having as many orders as can be filled
The Leicester Co., are in the same fix
prospecting; both companies, it is under.
stood, have purchased large amount o.
wood.
Business lively at the Junction as wei
as througho ut the town. Every team
that can be procured is now used fol
hauling wood to the Lime Kilns. He'll
Is in great demand, for chopping cord
wood and driving teams. Several car
loads Of hop poles have already left tin
town for the hop country in N. Y. an,
Pennsylvania. The present high price o
hops has enhanced the price Of hop pole
correspondingly. Wood, also is in goo,
| demand
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-01-05

List of letters remaining in the Mid
dlebury post Office Dec. 28th, and not
called for within 80 days. In calling
for the above say advertised.
Gentlemen-W William An stin, DR.. E..
Cook, e. Cohn, Henry Collins, Constane
Deloney. James G. Davol, P. 5. Dodge,
Byron Farnham, A. A. Golding,
Stephen Herrick, Thomas K. Hunt,
Thomas Kurdlausky, Alfred Marville,
d. p. McGleuchy, Frank McGrath,
Frank Mayhem, ii. p. Maynard, Joseph
hurry, W. f. Macomber, VIM. MelleD,
Wm. il. hurry, Alfred Patterson,
Lewis Parker, John Rite, Sidney g.
Rowe, Stephen Smith, DIR. Powers, j.
s. Spencer, DR.. j. B. Sumner, p.
Gnselm Strack. Adelbrrt w. Water
man, Geo. G.. Webb, II. II. Wright, II
A. Walker. r. A. Williams, 2, T. Well
c. Young.
Ladies Mrs. W. j. Austin. NJ. j.
Boardman, Miss jamie Baton, Mrs
Julie Bradley, Mrs. Jennie M. Downer
Mrs. Melissa Dou, Phillip Delphia
Miss Aida p. Fuller. Mrs. Arson Gates
Miss Zuba w. Hubbard, 2, frankie
Laura, Miss Matte K. Lorne, Mrs
James Leahy, 2, Mrs. A. b. Miller
Miss Maggie Mcguire, Miss M. A. Miles
Miss Matte Magee, Mrs. Ellen Nichols
Mrs. j. Il. Palmer, Mrs. Chas. A. Reid
2, Mrs. f. o. Rose, Miss Anna j. Stew
art, Mrs. Harriet Sprague, Miss Soynt
Mrs. M. W. Thompson, Mrs. Jonathan
Wrisley, Miss Mary G. Weeks, Mrs
Robert v alker.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-11-06
Virginia in Sackci0th aud Ashes.
WHAT HON. THos. F. BAYARD SAYS OF
VIRGINIA.

On last Friday night. Hon. Thomas F.
Bayard, of Delaware, delivered a speech to a
large mass-meeting at Masonic Temple in
Baltimore from the report of which we make
the following extract:
Now one mark of the centralizing process
which has been going on has been the alli-
ance which never was intended between the
power of the federal executives and be-
tween the governments of the States. Es-
pecially has this been So where the Repub-
lican organization could scarcely pretend to
exist The patronage of the State was nsed,
and in the Southern States, where it pros
trated society, where it broke into its So
cial relations, was it wonderful that men
should yield to the tempter and take an Of
fee? We have seen it, we see it to day in
that State, sitting as she is in sackcloth
and ashes, the State that was the birth
place and is the grave of George Washing
ton. We see Virginia handed over to the
most profigate, the most shameless body
of men that ever sought to rule in free
republic. To that end every evil element
of that community was combined; ignor-
ance and compatibility are joined in a most
dexterous and INSCRIPTIONS leader. Whose
hand is held out to him? That Of the
President of the United States. There
stands the picture. The power of the peo
pie; the treasury of the people, the offices
of honor and trust of the people, all con-
signed to the hands of an INSCRIPTIONS ad-
venturer for the purpose of bringing CEN
tralizing power to sustain an organization
from which, in freer States, power has been
Withdrawn, and confidence no longer exists.
My friends, it is that feature of centraliza-
ton from which I pray God to deliver the
State of Maryland. APPLAUSE