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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-06-29
Two Essentials OF Success.

How to make farm pay, is a ques-
ton often asked, and problem with
many sides, there are such a multitude
of small things to be attended to, and
Just here is where so many fail But
the ants which carried away the grain.
one kernel at time, at last left the
granary empty. So the innumerable
small, disregarded sources of saving
and profit on the farm, leave narrow
margins and little gains at the wears
end. Most of the farmers forget Ma
poleon's banker, and waste the hall
sheet of paper without thought. o.
course, as in all occupations, the first
requisite to success is a good wife. Not
so much saving, economical, hard.
working woman, as one with clear
head-a competent and oft-consulted
adviser. A good business woman, like
a good business man, will always be
properly economical. Too often the
farmer and his family 90 on the come
penny go pound = principle, which is
an exceedingly bad one. The wife
should not only be thorough mistress of
domestic economy and correct house
hold management, but, like the man, a
lover of the farm and farm life, and
competent in case of absence or illness
on the part of the husband TO see and
know that the farm is kept properly
running. 1t has been said that if the
man is the head. of the house the
woman is the heart, but in the ideal
holding, both must be at once both
head and heart, for the least defect in
the action of either may be the cause OF
great loss A sage has written that no
man ever succeeded thoroughly without
feminine traits, and no woman without
masculine. This is more particularly
true on the farm than in any other bust
ness. For the animals to be really well
managed requires feminine gentleness
together with masculine strength and
thoroughness. Often, indeed, in case of
any illness among the stock, a woman S
hand and care<is requisite. The man S
strength is often also as requisite for
the successful performance of many
asks peculiar to the farm household.
In short, on the farm, it is especially
essential to success that the husband
and wife should in the largest sense be
true co-workers.-Cor. Country Gentle
man.
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Choice selections.

The way to preserve the peace Of
the church is preserve the purity of it.
The truly illustrious are they who
do not court the praise of the world, but
perform the actions which deserve it.
God is pleased with no music be-
low so much as the thanksgiving songs
of relieved widows and supported or
phans; of rejoicing, comforted and
thankful persons. TAYLOR.
What is good life worth if it be-
not crowned by good deathp Yet
good life is the nearest approach in our
power to a good death. There have
been comparatively few good deaths
which have not come at the end of good
lives. -Fdber.
Many people substitute loyalty to
creeds, to churches and to outward re-
ligious observances, for that personal
following of Christ and likeness to Him
in spirit and life which the Gospel re-
quires. 1t is possible for man to
stand high in the church, to obtain pre-
ferment and honor in it, on account of
of his zeal and success as an ecclesias-
teal propagandist, and yet not be a
follower of Christ. 1t is time men
learned to discern between the Chris
tan spirit and the ecclesiastical spirit.
Interior.
The hope of Immortality peryades
our entire human life. Next to the
idea of God it is the greatest, the most
elevating, the most inspiring idea of
which we are capable. Only think of
the conscious darkness, and loss, and
degradation that would befall human
life were the great hope of immortality
lost to it! Is it any wonder that in
stinctively, as we recoil from traitor,
an assassin, a desecrator of a mothers
grave, we shrink from the man who not
only gratuitously, but eagerly, vaunt-
ingly, scofiingly, thrusts at you his
shocking demonstration that man is no
more than the brute that perishes?-
ETchan1e.
Even irreligious men and women
welcome Christian interest and effort
for their children. A missionary of the
American Sunday-School Union in
Texas reports to the Sunday-school of
DIR. Cuyler's church: II recently or
gained a school at Shady Grove
school-house on White Oak Greek.
Over one hundred persons were pres
ent, and forty Joined the school. Many
rejoiced in hope of better things for
their neighborhood, as arrangements
for regular preaching were also made.
The oldest man said: II have lived
here forty years, and this is the first at
tempt to better our condition; and Q
large, rugged fellow said: L am glad,
sir-I am glad. y Church Union.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-06-29
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

y
spreading salt on the ground under
plum trees as far out as f6e branches
extend viii, it is stated. aid in Securing
good crop, as it interferes with the ON,
eratlons of curculio.
"A careful farmer says that his best
wheat Is that on which his sheep were
Pastured last winter. He permitted the
sheeP 10 run in the wheat-fields only
when the ground was solid.
President j. M. Smith, of the Wis
consln horticultural Society, is reported
as saying he is satisfied it paws to pick
OH ali strawberry blossoms from new
plantations the first season, thus keep
inc the entire strength and growth of
the plan within itself, and preparing
II 10 yield the largest possible crop the
tollowlng year.-Chicdgo Tribune.
There are two. garden vegetables
which, OF all others, are hardest to pro-
cure In prime condition from the mar
ket-green peas and sweet-corn. Both
begin 10 lose their peculiarly delicious
havor soon after picking. The peas are
lnslpld after few hours exposure, and
the sweet-corn is sweet no longer. Those
VINO want them in preference must grow
them.-N y. Examiner.
There is no plant more pleasing to
the eye in the garden than bell pep
per-plant, and two or three of these will
yield enough of the green peppers to
make nice little jar of pickles. The
ming, II made exactly as YOU make
chopped pickles, is excellent. A few
seeds dropped in the hot-bed, or few
plants purchased, will well repay for
the trouble.-N. Y. Post.
Strawberry Fritters: Make a batter
with coffee-cup full of flour, two we'll
beaten eggs, tablespoonful of melted
butter, and enough milk to make it as
stiff as pancake batter Add pinch
OF salt. and beat it well. Mix in pint
and a half of large strawberries and
drop a small spoonful of it into hot
lard and brown lightly. Drain on a
sieve. Cover with powdered sugar and
serve hot with roast meats. Exchange.
When baking fish that is not oily
IT is an addition TO the goodness of the
dinner to bake potatoes in the pan with
it. Peel the potatoes and cut them in
thick slices, and serve them on the
platter with the fish. The gravy that
accompanies the fish should in this case
be sent to the table in the gravy-boat,
and not be poured over the fish. The
potatoes. if perfectly cooked, will be
brown and crisp and excellent.-Th
household
A pound-cake, with cocoanut i'm it,
keeps well. Beat half pound of but
ter and one pound of pulverized sugar
to creamy froth; stir in gradually one
pound of sifted flour in which you have
thoroughly mixed two teaspoonfuls Of
baking-powder, pinch of salt, and a
teaspoonful of grated lemon-peel-th
may be fresh or dried; four well-beater
eggs, cupful of sweet milk, and &
quarter of Il pound of grated cocoanut
beat this in rapidly; bake in butteret
tins in moderate oven.-N. Y. Post.
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How to Destroy Currant Worms.

Several methods have been set forth
i'm the newspapers for the destruction
of the currant pest. One authority has
said that hellebore, put into water,
must be used with a syringe so as to
wet the under sides of the leaves;
another has said it must be sprinkled
on dry when the leaves are wet; and
still another has said it must be
stepped in water and then applied AS
regards the first method named, if there
were fifty bushes it would be no small
task to go STOPPING around with what
the boys call squirt-gun to apply the
liquid to the under side of the leaves.
No less would be the task of applying
the dry powder with pepper-box, and
as for sleeping the powder, it is wholly
unnecessary. The successful and east
est method is as follows: If your
watering-pOt holds pailful, fill it with
cold water. and then put in two
tablespoonfuls of hellebore, stir it a
minute or two, and when the bushes
are dry sprinkle them. This has been
my unfailing method for ten wears.
Two years ago l had seventy bushes,
besides six Houghton Seeding goose
berry bushes, and before | was aware
of it the worms had commenced their
work on almost every bush. Having
the powdered hellebOre on hand, in
twenty minutes / sprinkled every
bush, and the next morning but few
worms were alive, and those that were
living had the palsy so badly that all
fell from the bushes before night If
more should chance to come after this
process, give them another dose A
neighbor states to me that he gets his
hellebore in its crude state from the
swamp, and sleeps and uses it effectu-
ally. OF course in this state it must be
stepped in order to apply it, but as few
can obtain it froAi the swamps the best
method is to use the powder as / have
stated. Ten or fifteen cents will pur-
chase enough to clear hundred bush
els of the vermin. Let the bushes be
sprinkled all over and not merely where
the worms are seen, as there may be
some secluded from view. This mode
of treatment was made known to me by
a friend years ago, and doubtless many
practice it, while~there are others who,
Judging from the periodicals L read,
suppose that the syringe or pepper-box
must be used and tbs powder stepped,
and as this is such a Task the worms are
left to destroy the bushes and others
are deferred from attempting to raise
what to many is a choice fruit. -BOst0n
Journal
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-06-29

ming of any trains on Sunday, except
those carrying the United States mails.
The questions asked by the RGiiUdy Ags
were as follows: ..Do YOU consideri il
practicable to abandon the running Of
railway trains on Sunday? II not. Is il
practicable to diminish the number Of
trains now run? If practicable, is Il
desirable to prohibit all Sunday work
on railways? Has your company taken
any action toward dimirution Of Sum
day labor? What is the present prac-
tice on your road in respect to Sunday
labor? What, approximately, would
be the net annual loss to your company
from stopping all work on that dayp
Would the public as whole be bene-
fitted or injured by strict observance Of
the Sabbath by railways as a day of restf
An early reply in regard to this subject
will, we are sure, be of much general
interest and profit" Answers were re-
ceived from the managers of three rail-
way lines. and published. The Presi-
dent of the Wisconsin Central says
large part of Sunday railroad work lie
done under the pressure of what Is con-
sidered necessity. There are cases
when to abandon the running of trains
on that day would cause suffering to
man and beast which would not be justi-
fable. The Wisconsin Central runs no
excursion trains on Sunday, and no
labor is done on that day that can be
done on another. The President of the
Illinois Central Road declares that
"a rest of one day in seven is necessary
to the physical and moral welfare of the
employees, aside from any religious
question" He thinks that trains leav-
ing Chicago Saturday afternoon and
evening, and which are kept in motion
all day Sunday, might be abandoned.
The General Manager of the Chicago
Burlington & Quincy Road says that
company aims to have as little work
done on Sunday as practicable. For
convenience to trans-continental pas
sengers, to avoid delay to through
mails, and to guard against loss
of perishable property, a few trains are
run on Sunday. The President
of the Michigan Central Road also takes
strong ground against Sunday labor.
The editor of the Raiitody Age says:
"Probably there is no man, officer or
employee, who does not often wish that
on the general day of the worlds rest
it might be possible for every one con-
nected with the railways to rest also;
that the iron steeds might for one day
in week stand quiet in their stalls;
that the weary wheels of cars might
stop their noisy revolutions, and that
the rails might cease to vibrate with the
clangor of worldly traffic and grow cool
under the breezes of the Sabbath morn
ing. But the railway has become dis
turber of old ways, and its management
has introduced new habits and created
new necessities. How far shall this
| tremendous innovator be allowed to go
in subverting Christian customs and be-
| liefs? how far shall it be allowed TO de-
stroy peace and invade the happiness
of the home?" The public is respon-
sible for Sunday railway travel. There
is no doubt that perhaps one train each
Sunday should be run; but that the
amount of traffic done on that day is
much greater than is necessary, we
have no doubt. N w. Christian Advo-
| rate
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-06-29
HUMOROUS.

What is the boundary that sep
arates smile from tear?'' "Give it
up" 1.-The nose"
We have seen it asked who painted
Henry Kirke White. 1t was probably
the same person who painted William
Black, Thomas Gray and the other Tom
Brown. -BrOokiyR Eagle.
-" YOU'RE the plague of my life"'
exclaimed an angry husband. Il wish
the Old Nick had you!n $50 | might
plague you in the next world?' calmly
inquired the EieUdtcd RaiIrodd
Journal.
After popping the question, next in
order is to question the pop.-Does your
son play the flute? Not well; but lre is
under tOotle-age. -Clock-worked stock
ings are not necessarily secondhand
stockings.-N T. World.
Say, Mrs. Bunson." said n little
girl to lady visitor, lido you belong to
brass band?' mo. my DEAR Il
thought you did" why did YOU, nv
child?" Because mamma said you
was always blowing your own horn. -
Chicago Times.
Things one would rather not have
said: Mrs. A" Come and lunch with
us tomorrow. You will be interested
in the schoolmaster' bride. Mrs. b
''Oh. yes; how do you like her?' Mrs.
Avery well, only she's a little I'M
used to the ways of society. Ishouldn' t
ask her to meet nice people. F2iegende
Biatter.
An American young lady singer
-, a. - 4
Mary Jane Boggs, and her cognomcn
is now Miss Nina Lafonti. 1t does
twist some persons names most terri
bly, out of shape to travel across the
ocean with them. 1t must be in the
saline qualities of the water.-Noyris-
torn Herald.
A debtor who was sued bv his cred
itor acknowledged that he had borrowed
the money, but declared that the plain
tiff knew at the time that it was n
Kathleen Mavourneen loan. "A Kath-
leen Mavourneen Ioanr' replied the
Court, with puzzled look. That
it, Judge-One of the : it may be for
years, and it may be forever sort -
". y. Journal.
The latest anecdote about the old
lady who thinks that she knows every
thing is about how she went to a church
sociable, and, as she entered the room,
the young ladies said Good evening,
auntie, we are glad you came; we are
going to have tableaux this evening. -
Yes, l know, know" was the reply,
IL Smelt EN- when | first came in. -
Chicago Herald.
"A gentleman who had been allured
by the announcement of quiet country
hotel, came down the morning after his
arrival and made complaint that his
boots had been outside his door all
night and until eight O'clock that morn
ing, and nobody had touched them.
The landlord, who in his shirt sleeves
was tipped back in chair and picking
his teeth with knife, beamingly re-
marked: Law, bless We, We might
have left yer purse out there all night;
nobody would have touched it. Hon
est critters down here, tell We. - Chi
cO0O TribNOc
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Summer BOnnets.

AT the May openings of fashionable
millinery many novelties are shown for
bonnets and round hats. One of the
most original fancies is the skeleton
bonnet, a dressy affair that shows the
hair very plainly. This is made of
few gilt wires going forward from some
round rows of wire that form the crown,
and every semblance of foundation is
omitted. Two rows of large shell or
amber beads are on the front of the bon
net, forming a brim, and there are two
rows as center in the crown The
sole trimming is a breadth of India red
Grape which is passed across the top
through the spaces between the wires,
where it is fastened by u shell-pin
shaped like hair-pin, and the ends
hang long on each side, and serve as
strings. This Grape is the diaphanous
gauze-like crinkled Grape known as
French Grape, and is very fashionable
for entire bonnets, being made up in
shirrings on gilt wires that are quite far
apart. The crowns of such bonnets are
shirred across, or else lengthwise, but
not round and round in successive rings
as they formerly were. The front is
pulled thickly over other wires. and is
trimmed with gilt ornaments, the new
wool pompons that look as if made of
Grape, or else with lace. Dark brown
Grape with white lace, gilt flowers and
velvet ribbon is a stately bonnet for a
middle-aged lady. Pink Grape pulled on
appointed brim poke frame, and trimmed
with single great bow of brown velvet
ribbon, is simple and quaint for Young
To- 'ha AZ
silver cords and white ottoman silk rib
bons are worn for light mourning.
Olive green Grape shirred over gold
wires, with "a bunch of twelve wool
pompons of different olive shades on
one side, and some long gilded stems
set under the pompons, with strings the
whole width of Grape (Which is about
five-eights of yard), showing both
selvedges. makes refined and stylish
bonnet for wearing with green, white,
pink or black dresses, or for the ele-
giant combinations of black and green
that are now seen in velvet grenadines
with ottoman silk or brocade. Thick
er silk China Grape is also much used
for dressy bonnets of ivory white, rose
pink, pale blue, and yellow, with either
smooth or shirred crowns, while soft
crushed roses, or daisies, or other flow
ers that may be fiattened and used with
out foliage, are laid in two rows along
the entire edge of the bonnet, and lace
or silk embroidery is gathered slightly
Just back of the flowers, and drawn for
ward to fall upon them, half conceal
ing, half disclosing them. Other Grape
hats have two crimped lace frills on
their brims, narrow velvet strings. and
bunch of flowers on the left side; this
bunch of flowers adds nothing to the
height, is quite wide at the top, and
tapers narrower below.-Harpcr's b.
gar
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-06-29
A COlOred PhilOlOgist.

''Uncle Rube;' said spruce youth.
stepping up to the old man as he rested
for moment on his saw, Use been
delegated by Duh pasture to AK YOU the
precise meaning OBJ de word confIab-
bergasted. We wants ter use it for de
Foth.n
The old man looked tired. ut am a
hard word and l doan't wonder yer
wuz froun. Did yuah consult de dix
innary?'
well, sab, had nary dixsh: il am
done got away for suah, and it amt
mowally certain de word am deere. epy-
how. / comes to yuah, sab, as better
dethaurity."
docs de word begin wild a vowel or
syllabub?" inquired Uncle Rube.
Oats wot / axes you, sab; dat wot
we wants ter find out, said the Young
man.
''Doan use it." said Uncle Rube.
''dere is . law elder for or again usin'
big words / disremember which. but
it's more eleganter to leave 'em out.
Dat am confOund word wild heap oh
meanin', but eff / wuz going to crate on
de Foth I'd say was teetotallv busted
ensted. and den everybody wo uid know
wot wuz talkin' about"
dat suits me, ~ said the youth. ST
hates TO be put out of lint by trifie.
but dat word made me lonesome. y and
he walked away as if relieved of great
burden -Detrott Post and Tribune,
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Religious Reading.
cHILDHooD's MEMORIES.


Crouching In the twilight gray.
Like hunted thing at bay,
In his brain one thought is rife:
Why not end the bootless strife?
Who in Gods wide world would weep.
Should he brave deaths dreamless sleep
Harki child's voice. soft and clear.
Pulsing through the cleaning drear;
And the word the singer brings
Like new evangel rings:
Jesus loves mel this know"
Swift his thoughts to childhood go.
Memories of a mothers face
Bending to her boys embrace,
And the boy at eventide,
Kneeling by the mothers side,
Like "sweet visions of the night"
Fill the lonesome place with light,
While the singers tender trill-
Jesus loves mel loves me still ~
Hovers in the dreamlit air
Like an answer to the prayer
offered in those happy days
When he walked in sinless ways.
"Jesus loves mel" Can it be
His, this benedicitee
Is there One who knows and cares?
One who all his sorrows shares?
Jesus loves mel" While the song
Guileless lips with Joy prolong,
Loi a soul has ceased its strife,
Reconciled to God and life.
-Mdry b. Sieight, in Chicago Adudncc.
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The Majesty Of Shoshone Falls.

In the midst of one of natures drear.
lest solitudes-America'S Sahara-sur-
rounded by what seems an interminabla
wilderness barren of all growth but
sage; walled in on all sides by precipitous
and unsurmountable cliffs and walls of
rock, are Shoshone Falls. There Snake
Rivers mighty volume of water, emery
ing from its placid stream above, sud-
denly leaps distance of seventy-fve
feet, pauses an instant, as il hesitating
to take the fearful bound, and then
takes its final plunge into a watery pro-
found, nearly three hundred feet below!
have stood for hours and watched,
without wearying, upon the summit of
the mighty walls of basalt which tower
so grandly about this marvel of nature,
and watched the descending waters as
they poured down, down, down, into
the awful abyss that yawns SO far be-
low; watched the clouds of spray as
they rose up and formed in misty mag
nlflcence between the sides of the ire
mendous chasm blending their tender
frost-work of silver and glass with the
purple and green and gold of the suns
light until all the lines of the prism
were seized, woven into fantastic bands
OF beauty, and bound around the stormy
brow OF the majestic cataract; watched
the great river as it hurried away from
the fearful scene; heard the deafeuinc
roar and crush of the madly-rushing
torrent as it swept in terrific grandeur
by, and my soul has stood still, awed
into silent reverence by the incompar-
able spectacle. Nowhere else in nature
have these great falls counterpart.
Nowhere else in nature is there such an
overwhelming manifestation of irresist-
ibie power, coupled with such rude
sayagery as hovers around Shoshone
Falls. In vast sea of sage, and re-
puisiye as vast, bounded in all directions
by dull monotony of plain, in the
midst OF a desolafion inconceiyably DESC
late, they are gem of matchlcss
beauty set.-Cor, Idaho World.