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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-10-12
Gems OF Thought.

The power to do great things gen.
orally arises from the willingness to do
small things.
Divine love is a sacred flower, which
in its early bud is happiness, and in its
full bloom is Heaven. -Herrey
If the way of Heaven be narrow, it
is not long, and if the gate be straight
it opens into endless life Bishop Berer-
idge.
Sin is never at stay; if we do not
retreat from it we shall advance in it;
and the further on we go the more we
have to come back.-BdrrO,O.
--Wondrous is the strength of cheer
fulness, altogether past calculation its
powers of endurance. Efforts, to be
permanently useful, must be uniformly
joyous-a spirit all sunshine, graceful
from very gladncss, beautiful because
bright. Carlyle.
Waking or sleeping, God is true to
His promises. 1t is not simply throw
ing off your troubles, but throwing them
on Him, that lightens the burdens and
opens the heart. Gods shoulder is al
ways under Il good mans burden, and
His hand is ready for dead lift all the
way.-M y. Observer.
Mere negative preaching does not
feed the soul. To find fault with one
doctrine and make vague, misty state
ments respecting another,.is like telling
hungry people that bread of fine flour
will give them dyspepsia, that oaten
cakes are not suitable food for men, and
yet offer them nothing to satisfy their
wants. The soul needs truth TO nour-
ish it. 1t is not what men doubt, but
what they positively believe, that builds
up character, that fortifies them against
temptation and makes them strong to
endure in maintaining what is right
Christian Secretary.
God is the center of all systems of
religious truths, as He is the OBJ
ject of all systems of affections
and conduct. There is con-
tinual attempt to belittle religion into a
general term meaning service Of any
deity, or weaker yet, a mere high sense
of moral obligation. The word itself
means binding back to its source, or
an inter-linking with the Creator. True,
the word has come to have signifi-
canoe that would leave God out of it,
but that is not its legitimate force. God,
as the Author and Creator, must be the
greay anchorage 10 which all must be
bound back who are religious. Golden
Rule.
How truly is the Bible the book for
busy people We do not mean that one
is not to study it, spending, if possible,
long hours over it. But in the press
ure and hurry of our modern life these
hours of quiet study are difficult to Sc
cure. We are not referring to what
ought to be, but what is. AS a matter
of fact, the business man, the mother in
her household, finds very limited time
for the study of the Divine Word. But
no life is SO busy that time can not be
found in it for setting in the memory
some single verse day by day. Such
gem of truth turned over and over in
the mind in those intervals that do come
even in the busiest life will flash its
light into the soul. Feeding even upon
such Divine morsels the soul need not
perish with hunger. The study OF
the fragments will lead TO desire for
larger acquaintance, and the man OF
God will become perfect, thoroughly
furnished unto all good works. Baptist
WepLf1f
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Large Ranches and Small Farms.

The breeding of cattle on the Western
plains has long been a lucrative bust.
ness. 1t has enriched thousands of men
of limited means. Four-year old steers
could be raised for about $3.50 each
and were then sold for SlS to S25 at the
railway station. But the old conditions
are changing. The settlement of the
Western country has limited the free
pasture lands, and, as in all other occu-
pations, the large cattle breeders have
driven out the smaller ones. The bust
ness is being concentrated into the
hands OF few men comparatively; but
this monopolizing tendency has some
advantages. The land is being fenced
in, and successful endeavors are max
ing to improve the quality of the stock.
American beef and mutton are now
equal to, and will soon be the best of,
any in the world. When ensilage is
well understood in the Middle and
Northern States we will probably be
able to raise more of our own cattle to
supply the local demand, and then
doubtless the smaller capitalists will
again have a chance. Ensilage, it will
be remembered, is the system by which
fodder is kept succulent and fresh all
through the winter months. 1t CORE
spends to the canning of fruit and vege-
tables, and is a comparatively inexpen-
sive process. But while the great droves
OF cattle on the Western plains are get
ting into fewer hands, it is also true
that the large farmers are monopolizine
the soil to the exclusion of the smaller
tiller OF the earth in all the prairie coun-
tries. This tendency to make grea.
land and cattle kings is not wholesome
one, for the hope of our country is, after
all, IN a farming class which tills its
own soil and are not hirelings. Luckily,
IN other parts of the country there is
steady increase of the number of farm
ers who own 800 and less acres. In
California, for instance, there are but
little over 5000 farms of more than 500
acres, while there are over $4,000 of
less than 500 acres. All the hilly and
mountainous region of the country, in
Guiding the ocean slopes, is more suit
able for small than large farms. In the
neighborhood of the great cities, also.
the fruit and vegetable farms are alwavs
limited In extent. Landlordism is more
likely to develop its evils on our West
ern prairies than in any other part OF
the country.-Demorest's Monthly.
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The Need and Power OF Sympathy.

The man who would accomplish most
in this world must have sympathy with
his fellow-men. He must be quick to
feel another's woes. He must make
men feel that his sympathy in them and
for them is real and deep. If he sue
ceeds mere, the avenues of the heart
open to him, and through it he can
nightly affect the intellect.
The successful teacher takes real
vital interest in his pupils. And as
they come to see that that interest is not
affected they give him their confidence
heart and the life. The workings of
young minds are fully disclosed and
many knotty problem solved. Hidden
forces and tendencies in character, hab-
its and life come to light, and upon these
the skillful teacher may play as the mu-
stefan upon the keys of piano. 1t
now lies in the teachers power to de-
velop this tendency and repress that; to
change habits still in the gristle and
mould character. In this way many an
aimless life receives a mighty purpose,
many dullard passes up into life of
intense activity and high scholarship,
and many an Unbalanced. misdirected
life is set right.
The lawyer with this gift takes
deeper interest in his client, and makes
court and jury feel that the latter's
cause is his own. He finds his way to
the heart till the waves of sympathy run
mountain-high, and his case is won.
So. too, the good physician, when he
enters the sick room, brings life and
nope. He gains his patients sympathy
and inspires fresh courage. He does
not carry cold, sour yisage, or curt
words for anxious friends. BE does not
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Treasure Trove.

Recently Judge Lawrence, First
Comptroller of the Treasury, received q
letter from Indiana containg $500 OF.
$500. The writer said he found he
money while chopping up some wood
in his yard, and inquired if it was good.
Judge Lawrence replied that it was, but
that the Government would keep it, as
the finder admitted it did not belong to
him. Another somewhat: similar case
was that of young foreigner who
found $1,000 Government bond in
New York and forwarded it for paw.
ment. The First Comptroller acknowl-
edged its receipt, but refused payment.
If the finder had forwarded the bond
without any statement as to how il
came into his possession it would have
been promptly paid. Judge Lawrence
says he has no right to even pay a re.
ward to people who send in money OF
bonds In this way. Under his ruling
the Government is entitled to all prop.
erty or valuables that have no acknowl.
edged ner.-Troy Times,
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HOME, FARM AND GARDEN

The best wheat always comes from
and previously sown to clover.-N. y
Herald.
Try Persian Insect Powder on the
bugs, and if that is ineffective, pulver-
Ized borax.-M Y. Tribune.
To keep tnware nice and bright,
scour it every two or three weeks
with finely-silted coal-ashes. = Prairie
Farmer.
Bees will 60 from three to seven miles
In search of honey, but it is believed
That when they have to 90 over two
miles they bring back but little honey.
Vegetable Rank
Captain Corn. in the garden,
Straight and strong and tall.
NO matter how high his neighbors grow,
He overtOps them ALL
With silken plume and bright green cloak.
He really cuts a dash;
But when he marries Lima Bean,
He'll lose his rank-I think its mean
And be plain Succo-Tash.
-Hdrper's Young People.
"A Kentucky paper saws that the
breeding of fast horses has been much
condemned, but it has done immense
good to agricultural interests. 1t has
turned the farmers pot-bellied, long,
headed. stumbling, staggering plug into
a smart, bright. quicE-stepping horse
that can do twice the amount of work
his predecessor was capable of, and trot
off to market or to church in a quarter
of the time.
The Gardeners Chronicle relates an
instance where apples and pears were
planted on heavy clay, which had been
trenched down to IAN iron hard pan. :"
The trees made no growth, and moss
and lichens grew on them. The orchard
was then thoroughly drained. In six
months the lichens began to disappear,
and the next year fine growth was
made. The soil had been warmed by
the drainage, and the fertility had been
made accessible to the growing roots.
Cinnamon tarts please the children.
To eight ounces of butter allow one
pound of flour, one pound of brown
sugar, three eggs; rub the butter and
sugar TO cream, add the eggs, leaving
out the white of one, stir in the -four.
roll thin and cut in three-inch squares.
Before putting into the oven, rub the
top with the white of the egg, and
sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar
mixed. A blanched almond or an En-
glish walnut may be placed in the cen.
ter, or may be broken in bits and a piece
put at each corner.-DetroI Post.
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THE DAIRY.

1t is figured that four acres of land
are necessary TO the sustenance of one
dairy cow.
The Dairy is of the opinion that there
IS grand opportunity for some public
spirited wealthy man, whose tastes in
cline t. the dairy, to do a helpful thing
Tor thousands of his fellows who have
not been so favored by fortune as he has
been, by the establishing of dairy ex-
pertinent station and school.
The Holstein COW, Echo, owned by
Fred Z. Stevens, the proprietor of the
Maplewood stock farm. Attica, N. Y,
has just completed her years milk
record, which foots up 1S,12O2 pounds,
which Is lis pounds more than the
record OF the famous COW Aggie, which
has heretofore led all the boyines of
the world. Echo is ten years old, and
weighs 1,610 pounds, consequently has
given over ten times her weight in
milk during the year. The largest
yield In one day was eighty-five pounds;
in month 4,196 pounds.
1t is our custom to pay visits to the
farms of breeders of dairy cattle, and
note particularly the changes that are
taking place in their management.
There is no feature of this nature that
we have been more struck with than
the increased interest that these breed
ers are showing in root culture. Anew
years ago growing roots for dairy cows
was confined almost exclusively to
breeders of foreign origin, usually
Scotchmen, who had become accus-
toned to the work in the old country;
but now some of the best fields we have
seen were grown by native born Amer
leans. There certainly is no better
feed, when properly prepared. for dairy
COWS than sugar beets and mangolds.-
The american Ddirymdn.
The main obstacle in the way of
extending dairying in the West is the
fact that the raising of dairy stock
takes time and the old cows are con-
stantly dropping out. Another is the
extensive deaconing of calves, the
haste to reap the fruits of dairying
causing the killing of the goose that
would lay the golden egg. The pre-
Vailing tendency is to depend on buying
calves in the fall or cows already de-
geloped. These two things materially
check the growth of the dairy business;
and, considering the present low prices
IF dairy products, perhaps this is a
blessing to dairymen, whatever it may
Oe to consumers. 1t is pretty certain
that the creamery men will be large
losers this year in the West if prices do
not 60 up in the fall. Thus far the out
,OOk has been very discouraging for
;hem-N r. Farmer
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He HUNDRED Him.

A New York stock-broker, who was
on his way to Buffalo, observed that one
OF his fellow passengers was closely re-
garding him, aud after time the man
came over and asked:
Did L see you in Chicago, in 1922
The broker wasn't in Chicago in that
year, but thinking to humor the
stranger he replied in the affirmative.
don't you remember of handing a
poor devil silver dollar one night in
front of the Tremont?''
81 do" tr
"Well, I'm the chap. was hard up,
out of work, and about ready to COM
init suicide. That money made a new
man of me. By one lucky shift and
another l am nov worth TWENTY-FIVE
thousand dollars.
"Ah, glad to hear it."
Now L want you to take five dollars
in place of that fifty cents. l can not
feel easy until that bill is paid"
The broker protested and objected.
but finally, just to humor the man, he
took his twenty-dollar bill, and gave
him back fifteen dollars. The stranger
soon withdrew, and everything might
have ended there if the broker. on
reaching Buffalo. hadn't ascerta;ned
that the twenty was a counterfeit
and that he was fifteen dollars out OF
Wall Street NeIcs.
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A Great Deer Story.

"Speaking of strange attachments"
said well-known Arkansas railroad
conductor, reminds me of the strang-
est freak of affection of which think
any record has been kept. On one of
the railroads centering ut Little Rock
there is, a short distance from the city,
n stretch of wood pasture about a mile
and half long. The land is as level
as the floor and is surrounded by a high
fence, with deep cattle-gaps where the
road runs through. One day while we
were rushing through the woods deer
jumped up and ran close to the train
until we reached the fence, when he
turned and was soon lost to view. Next
de-, when the train came along again,
the deer met us at the fence and ran
along in great glee until we reached the
other side of the woods, when lie turned
aside. My engineer became very much
attached to him, and always blew the
whistle just before entering the woods.
The old engine, too, seemed TO have an
affection for the animal, and would seem
to chuckle when the deer was at its
side.
lone day we were delayed by an ac-
cident TO a freight-train, and did not
reach the woods until after niphtfall.
The engineer blew his whistle. A light
flashed in the woods, and, l hope never
to tell the truth again if that deer wasn't
there carrying lantern on his horns.
won't pretend to explain how he rot
the lantern. l am giving you the facts.
and you can draw your own deductions
When we passed he tossed the lantern
aside One of the boys told me-and
mind you 1 don't vouch for its truth
that the lantern fell from a freight
train, and that the deer took il up and
kept IL on q stump until our train came
along"
How do you suppose the deer light
cd the lantern?" asked one of the
company.
1T may have been already Lit. but II
Il wasn't it's no lookout of mine, for
am only giving the facts as they oc-
CURED, leaving all speculation to YOU.
Some time after this we were rushing
along, nearing the deer's woods, when
We saw the animal standing on the track
waving red flag. We stopped and
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discovered that an immense tree had
blown across the track. Well, sir, when
we chopped the log out that deer put
his horns against it and helped us roll
it away"
Where do you suppose he got the
red flag?" asked an incredulous list
ener.
Il won't attempt to explain anything.
am giving you the fact, and, OF
course, yOu can do your own figuring
for conclusions; but one of the boys
said that he took up an old white rag
that he found on the ground and rubbed
1t in bed of red clay"
What became of this wonderful ami
mal?"
That's what I'm going to tell you.
One day, about six months ago. we ar
rived at the woods a usual. The deer
met us and leaped alongside of US. The
engine, feeling pretty gay that morn
ing anyhow, seemed TO prance along the
track. just as we got about half way
through the woods ~ immigrant looked
out the window, and yelling. Look at
that ar deer snatched up dOuble-bar-
relied gun and fired load of buckshOt
into the poor thing. We stopped and
went over to where the deer lay on the
green sward in the last agonies OF
death. He held out his tongue and
shook hands with all the trainmen, but
when he saw the immigrant, whom we
dragged TO the spot, he frowned dark
~, folded up his tongue and put it back
into his mouth. The immigrant was a
nervous fellow and was much excited.
He bent over the deer as though to get
forgiveness, when the animal, brave and
revengeful in death, raised up and
brought him crack across the head
with his stick-like fore,eg and laid him
low. The deer and Immigrant are
buried near each other, and our engine,
which has never recovered from the de-
pressing effect of the tragedy, always
means when ii goes through the deer's
woods. Little Rock Gdzette.
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Some Peculiarities OF Tigers.

Tho quickness Of hearing is in these
animals. admirably supplemented by the
complete silence Of their own move.
mcnts. A man when walking after
game has 90 stand still i'm order To listen
Tor other unds, rs his own passage
through the bushes and his football on
the ground make it impossible for him
To perceive whether fur or feather j.
a,tir in his neighborhood. But the
tiger though walking over dead leaves
and twigs that rustic loudly il lizard
glidcs across them, and which crackle
under the light step of the Jungle fowl
or the foX--is absolutely noiseiess. II
comes into sight like an apparit:on, and
vanishcs with the same ghostly still.
ness. Sometimes, therefore. i'm an cx-
cess Of audacity, either from hunger or
despair of other means Of escape. the
great carnivora will double back upon
their pursuers, and trust To silence in
passing to carry its conspicuous hide
unframed through the very midst of its
enemies. Thus, on one occasion, man.
eater, which had killed an officers sery.
ant, was tracked up. and. the BODY be.
ing found, il was determined to punish
the murderer. A ''machan. therefore,
was prepared in convenient tree, but
while all were ut work, the tiger came
back, and in spite of what was going on,
carried off the corpse!
The tiger in this wonderful auietness
Of its approach shows itself true cat.
but in other respects, besides its obiec-
tons 10 climbing, il differs from its fam
lily in its tastes. Thus l have seen a
4 lys,N 20 q "a
and paddle about in il with ms much APP
parent pleasure as n Newfoundland dog.
Indeed, the beast has been frequently
shot when swimming. and IL is supposed
to be curious fact that the BODY sinks
mt once and never comes to the surface.
But as there are generally crocodiles in
the neighbOrhOod, l do not think there
Is room for much surprise at the non.
appearances of the carcass. Nor in the
hatred of the wild dog for the tiger is
there anything adverse to the usual
theory of the relations between the ca
nine and feline species. But IL would
hardly be believed that the tiger, in the
that ensue with these Jungle
packs, sometimes gets killed. Several
sportsmen, however. have found corpses
of dead tigers with the corpses of wild
dogs killed in the battle scattered
around it. Nor do other animals hest
tate to meet the Raja of the Jungles in
fair fight-notably the wild boar. A
case is in my recollection where party,
being out in the jungles after miscel
laneOus game, came upon = huge boar
lying dead, and tracking up the blood
which led from the scene of the strug-
gle, found fine full-grown tiger with
a score of wounds, ripped up and life
less. II must have been n grand sight
to have watched that woodland duello.
Bears also will sometimes dispute the
path with the tiger. but they have no
chance. and the tiger generally ends BY
eating up as much Of the bear as il
wants. -LOndon Teleoraph.
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Drying the Cows.

In response to the question, "When
should cows 60 dry?" the Dairy says:
There is such a thing as burning a can
die at both ends. One may easily do
this in the dairy, and while the good,
easy man" thinks he is making a good
deal of light at the same cost, suddenly
his candle may go out. This kind of
thing may go on when one milks the
cows up to the time of calving, or near
it, and even encourages it by feeding
for that end. But then it may not.
And it is the dairyman's business to
know all about it and not take any gen.
eral rule for his guide. There is no
rule without multitude of exceptions,
and these are as numerous as times,
places and circumstances; and as cir
cumstances alter cases, so the reply to
the question we have put above de.
ponds upon circumstances. There are
cows that will not go dry, but will milk
from calf to calf. Is the dairyman tc
worry himself and the cow in useless
defiance of her natural habit? By nc
means. He must suit his case to the
circumstances, and reduce the milk
yield as much as possible by milking
once day perhaps, and compensate
the cow for her extra burden by giving
her more feed up to safe limit. What
this limit may be depends wholly on
the ability of. the cow to healthfully d.
gest and dispose of the food. And no
one but the intelligent owner can say
what this limit may be, for it will vary,
as cows vary, and no two cows are pre-
cisely alike. As long as the cow Is in
a thriving condition, not losing flesh or
making fat, the limit is reached.
But, as rule, to be contracted and
expanded judiciously and safely. it
might be said that a cow should be
dried off six weeks before she is due to
calve. Thatup to that time she should
be literally fed in the usual manner: that
thenceforth her food should be cur
tailed, or even changed to dry hay; and
If her condition is reduced somewhat,
so much the better. II will make it
safer for her and the calf. The milk
ing may be done once a day, or not
wholly completed, leaving q little in
the udder. We have even taken a lit
tie milk several times day from a COW
i'm this condition, with the effect of
rapidly drying the udder But il is Q
thing. and one to be avoided,
to leave any considerable quantity of
milk in cows udder at this time.
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ROMANCE.

khc didn't Ike mo when we met
Hut turned away ami poutcd:
Twas very cool. { own. 90 get
Al nrst n snuh so nnal. yet
/ Clung to hope, and doubted.
Strange as u seems. few short weeks
Cuunrm"d INV sanguinc Rueszos.
! came ~ understand her freaks.
And even dared a. Mss her checks
And stroke her golden trcs-cs.
So time went on, and a. we grew
To- know CnCh other better.
Fhc brnvrly learned tp Mss me. ton:
And Whom she strangely tricI 10 WOO.
Somehow u-ei 90 let her.
Tho p-ivilcg~ SIN yet T. mine
with kiss her lips to smother;
stu round my neck she likes 20 twIno
Her soft. white arms. IN drou "A lime
guess. md ask her mother.
This rhyme pr duccs cnvy-strifc.
Within your reason, mny be-:
~ lrt M take u leaf from llfn.
Her mother j. my darling wife.
Aul she my blessed baby.
~ D. 4. In Iife