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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-05-18
HOME, Farm AND GARDEN.

rrsa -
The, Parsnip is one of the best Of
all roots for mich cows.
The cider barrels are getting empty.
io prevent them from becoming musty
tins summer leave few gallons in
them ana oung up tightly Chicago
-Moiasses Cookies: Two cups
moIasstsS; ,one cup lard, -one-half cup
either coid water or buttermilk. two
large teaspoonfuls ginger, two large
teaSPoomIuls salaratus and a pinch of
salt.-7He Household. ~ -
Every cook knows how LONG a time
II taxes when II can least be spared. to
look over one or two quarts of beans.
Put the beans in a colander and ali the
fine dirt will be shaken out. and the
beans that are specked can no n;oted
out VIII ease and in a very short time
The granary should be entirely
cIeansed at least once a year, or it NAV
breed weevil in the old grain. The
wheat needed for -four for family use
shOuid DE ground during some warm
day IN spring and kept in barrels in a
cool place during summer Cincinnati
Times.
Inc common harrow can be applied
10 many more purposes than its COM
mon one OF preparing the ground for
seeding. 1t is one of the best imple-
mentS Tor lining manure after it has
Deen spread broadcast, more thorough
~ mixing 1t with the soil and making
the manure doubly effective.-M j.
Post.
-lhe Gardeners Monthly advises
owners OF 1rult-trees to remember that
the trees. like grain and vegetable crops,
must nave manure to keep up their fer
tllity. An annual top-dressing is best.
III the manure can not be had, fresh
earth from bitches or roadsides spread
half an inch or so deep under the trees,
will have a wonderful effect.
1t is every mans duty TO avoid n
hen war 10y yarding his hens whenever
there is a possibility of their iniuring
his neighbOrs' property. The cost of n
hen-yard large enough for TWENTY-FIVE
hens need not be very much. A very
good fence can be made of small posts
set eight feet apart, with three strips of
boards four inches wide nailed on them
two feet long. and on the top four feet.
thus making fence six feet high.-N.
J. Herald
"A correspondent of the Toledo
Blade recommends the method follow
ing to rid the garden of moles: Take
handful of yellow dent-corn and soak
it in hot water until the thin skin of the
kernel can be loosened; then take each
kernel and prick the skin over the
Sprout just enough TO admit some ar
senlc or Paris green. l use of the latter
mite as big as the head of pin; then
ct the skin lie back over the hole and
dry. Second, take small stick and
push 1t down in the dirt directly over
Their hole Cbe sure not to go deep. then
urop In a kernel or two of corn. The
moleS Will discover the corn and eat the
sprout.n
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-05-18
Chinese Wealth.

In China n man buys his WIFE If she
has small feet, the price paid for her l.
greater than if her feet were large. for
small feet are sign of nobility, and
noble wives are expensive i'm China.
The extent of Chinaman'S wealth may
be inferred from the size Of his wife :
feet. IL he has no wife he may be sd
down Is poor man. This way of look
ing at matrimony as an indication OF
wealth was recently cNpounded 10y .
Chinese banker in Los Angeles, Cali.
fornia:
Two gentlemen from the East stepped
into his shop to taste Chinese pastry
They found the baker willing To explain.
asf far rs his knowledge of English would
permit, how each thing was made. lie
also showed the visitors about the
bakery, and answered all their ques
tionS.
At last he turned TO the younger OF
the gentlemen and asked:
you gottee wife?''
mo" answered the young man.
laughing, mot yet
100, YOU poor man.
why, what do YOU mcan?'
Abu Ho Bbit't WIFE, YOU DpbT IldU-
Then he turned to the other American
with the same questions:
You gottee wife,
Eyes, I've got one at home," wa.
the reply.
100. you Itch mamie no Itch; he
no gottee wife. How muchce your wife
cOSt?'
Cost! don't know just how much
but she cost good deal, said the man
smiling; but have YOU got Il wife?'
mo, no; me no gottce wife. Me
no Itch: me poor. Me save money
save touSand tollar-go home China
buy Wife,
Well, how much does a wife cost ir
China?"
90, oder plices. Good wife, alice
same big feet, leetle plice; alice same
leetle feet. big plice. DO, cost heap pile,
dlceses and eateer
This cool way of estimating lady's
value was new thought To the Ameri-
cans, who were glad their home was not
in a land where all the romance OF
counting is unknown, and marrying q
wife is merely matter of dollars and
cents YOUTHS Companion.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-05-18
Don't Hurry.

You might as well recall the old adj.
age wait till your hurry's over and
try and live up to it, There never was
anything done well in hurry and new.
or will be. So soon as one in any sort
of work feels himself pushed, for time
and pushed on by the thought of half
dozen things behind which must be done
within certain period, so soon does he
in his work commence to s.scrabble. -.
and ''scrabbling" ruins it all. This
best thing to do under the circumstances
(uniess the house is on fire) is to break
snort on pull up and wait till the hur-
ry Is over II it really is better to do
one thing well than six. things i'll, then
the sooner the habit of hurry is gotten
rid of the better. Some peoples minds.
however. by long life use get in the
habit OF hurry from which il is quite
impossible to free themselves. They
perform the most trivial act in breath.
less condition of haste when there is nc
necessity for it. They dress in hurry,
walk in hurry, and this mental eondi
ton is kept up all, day. Usually they
die in hurry. BY and by more ply.
sicians will tell US that these forced arid
abnormal conditions of mind beget dis.
eases Of the body. When hurry is sc
carried into every act of life. land the
tendency for this In these days Of steam
and telegraphs grow greater and great
err there IS an incessant and use1es.
frittering away of vitality. The victim
at last fails sick; some organ, sor. funclf
ton weaker than the rest gives way auc.
the doctor gives the complaint q name .
But few will trace its real cause, aue
that may be a continued unnecesssr,
strain of body and mind for years caused
by overmuch hurry.-N. Y. Graphic
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-05-18
Warrantee Of Farm and Garden Seeds.

We have several inquiries as to the
liability of persons selling farm or gar
tien seeds when there is failure TO
grow This subject has been aroused
by an article we published month ago.
There is no doubt about the law, and it
applies as well TO a person selling only
a few bushels as a regular scotsman.
Ii person asks for and obtains from
another person, for valuable consid-
eratiOn, certain designated kind or
quality OF seed, and the dealer delivers
pretending it is the kind or quality
inquired for; and if he represents the
seed TO be good and the quality desired,
his constitutes warranty that the
seeds are sound and of the quality
asked for. And if it should turn out
.hatAhe seeds were unsound and would
not grow so as to produce the usual
crop, the dealer would be liable to the
farmer or gardener for the damage oc-
casioned thereby. The damage in the
Ease would not be simply the price of
The seed. but in case the crop was not
The kind represented, or if the seed was
SO unsound that sufficient per cent. of
1t did not grow to produce a crop, the
measure of damages would be the diff
terence in value between the crop
raised, and what it would have been if
The seed had been good, or of the right
kind. If there is an entire failure of the
crop by seed failing to grow, or if the
crop fails to ripen when it was guaran-
teed to be seed which would ripen in
this latitude, then the measure of the
lamage would be the reasonable value
Of the crop for that year.
In the State of New York a dealer
in seeds sold gardener seed which he
represented to be the Early Flat Dutch
Van Wycklin cabbage seed, but they
wholly failed to produce crop of cab
bage, and the dealer was compelled to
pay the garden farmer the value of a
crop of cabbage of the kind men
toned. SO n. Y, 81.
In another case the seed was repre-
sented as Large Bristol cabbage. But
it was shown that while the seed was
raised on the stocks of Bristol cabbage.
yet they were grown in close proximity
to cabbage of other kinds and were
fertilizcd by the pollen therefrom, so
that the croperaised was, by reason of
the crossing of the different kinds of
cabbage, a crop of no known variety,
and wholly useless except for fodder
for cattle, and in this case the dealer in
seeds was compelled to pay the dam
age. IL n. Y, 118.-IoWG State Reals
ter.
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What can-we do?" she asked, be-
traying emotion by the nervous way in
which she rested her hand on the back
Of chair.
I'VE can look our position deliber-
ately in the face-yOu on your part i
on mine, and strive to find out what II
really i. Then we can decide whether
OF not " Is best for us to say goodbye
aDd it may save us some regret after
ward. - -. .-
II do not think we can do that" she
exclaimed. agitatedly. for his COM
poSurc had the singular effect of COM
plctely upsctting hers; 81 am sure that
/ can not. ~ many things come back
to mel can not he calm, and IL Is use
less To pretend IL.
His pulse Ounded; all the sober con
sidrraiions of their relative positions. OF
past doubts and possible future misun-
derStandingS. which he had been making
such n mighty effort to lay before her,
vanished from his thought. His only
sense was that she was standing there
with her bright eyes fixed upon him.
her pale cheeks flushed and lips trem-
bling.
AT least YOU can answer this he
cried. "must we part:'
1T j. a. YOU will"
AS will"
She was in his arms: they kissed.
The past. the future, doubt. fear, friends
the world were all annihilated; there
was for them only that moment Of com
plcte joy.
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An Infldel's Conversion.

I. There are many infidels who are con-
tent to shut up their own hearts to the
truth, without disturbing the beliefs of
others. Mr.. Hone, of London. was not
one of that kind. He was noted for his
active opposition to Christianity, and his
hatred of the Bible was such that he
woald not have copy of it in the
house, nor suffer any of his family to
own one if he knew it.
He could not. however. prevent his
little daughter from picking up some
religious knowledge, through the secret
teaching of her mother, and her associa-
ton with friends, nor could he ALWAYS
be aware of the way their Sundays were
spent. 1t was painful to be obliged to
thrust the lesson of concealment and
unnatural caution upon child, but the
mother recognized a higher duty than
obedience to prosecuting mandate,
and contrived to send the little Girl to
public worship with some regularity for
three years, without the father knowl-
edge. -....
One of her teachers presented her
with a Bible, and soon fervent love of
it, and its Author, was born in the heart
of the child. r
One day her father. passing the door
of her room, heard her voice and
stopped. She was praying, and he
heard her mention him in her PRAYER
She had brought home her hidden
Bible with fear and. trembling, and was
asking God to change her fathers
heart, so that he would let her keep it
and be willing to read it, too, himself.
The man went away strangely dis
tressed. He became so agitated that
when summoned to the tea-table, shortly
after, he could neither eat nor drink
AT length he said: s e1aas rt +.
'.Is there a Bible in the kouse?''
The little girls heart sank. She now
believed that it was anger at some new
discovery that had made him so excited
and absent. The mother spoke:
did you not burn every Bible-the
last one we had?'
SIS there any good book, then?" said
he
BY that time the whole family saw
that there was something unusual in his
manner. The little girl took courage,
and said: @N
Father, if you will not be angry, |
will get you Bible"
She brought the book, and instead of
rebuking her he took her in his arms
and kissed her, and his tears fell upon
her face.
That evening he went with her to the
Weigh-house Chapel, and heard Thorn
as Binney preach. A new world seemed
to open to him, and he sought instruc-
ton with all the earnestnesS of young
disciple. God gave him another heart,
and he renounced his infidelity as pub
licly as he had professed it.
William Hone became one of the
best-known Christian workers of En-
gland. He was the author of 1.-The
Everyday Book" favorite volume
which has been read in almost every
God-fearing family in the Kingdom.
Unstable and insecure must have
been the basis of the belief that SO sim
pie an incident could change Con-
scious effort at self-deception sometimes
vanishes Mt touch. 1t was doubtless
thus with William Hone YOUTHS Com
pdhi0u.
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PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

There are three hundred women
Employed as journalists in the United
States. -71 81
+ Mrs, President Tyler dresses her
hair precisely as she did when young
bride in the WhitefHonse. T
After q lapse of thirty wears. Sir
Walter Scott works are being retrans-
lated and republished in France.
Mayor Hutchinson, of Utica. looks
40 much like Napoleon I'LL. that when
Eugene saw him in England. while
ago, she tainted away.-Uticd On ~
J Herald.
Rev. James Freeman Clarke, of
Boston, recently completed his seventy
fourth year. Physically and mentally
ne yet seems as vigorous as he was
thirty years ago.-Boston Transcript
The youngest of Delaware's Judges,
Associate Judge Wales, is sixty wears
Did. Chancellor Salisbury is sixtv-six.
Chief Justice Comegy is past seventy.
Judge Houston is close .oh to seventy.
Judge WOotten is nearly eighty.
Samuel Crump, of Pittsford, near
Rochester, n. Y, has recently sold to
Nathan Greeley, of Kansas CITY, file
of the New York Tribune covering the
entire period of Horace Greeley's ed
itorship, n period of twenty-eight wears.
The editions were weekly and semi
weekly, and were sold for fifty dollars.
Mrs. Susan Boylston Treadway,
the granddaughter of President John
Adams and the niece of John Quincy
Adams, is living in Baltimore at the
age of eighty-six. Mrs. Treaaway has
been twice an inmate of the White
House, the first time Mt the early age
of four years, and her recollections of
events and distinguished people extend
over period of eighty years. Chicago
Tribune.
"A Scamper Through America ="
is the title of a new hook written by an
English giant in intellect and just pub
li>hcd in London. which describes.
among other interesting things, visit
to the Hoffman House hotel at New
York, where they have the finest drink
ing bar in the world, presided over
by the notorious Fiske, who got off 80
easily after short incarceration for
shooting Mr.. Seward on the staircase of
the Fifth Avenue Hotel.-N L. Times
Governor Crittenden. of Missouri,
Is said to be every vain for so able a
mar" When the Legislature appro-
priated Sl0O,OO0 for the State UNIVERSE
~, he sent from jefferson City to st.
Louis and bought ten-dollar gold pen
with which to sign the bill. Then he
sent the pen as present to James RoI-
lins, accompanied by letter saving
that the only time the pen had been
dipped in ink was To sign the bill APP
propriating 800. 900 for the University.
- Chicago Tines.
Marie Roze is the only singer of
distinction who isn't afraid of catching
cold. Nilsson treats her throat as she
would sick baby; Kellogg was afraid
to venture out of doors twenty-fOur
hours before she sang; Hauk goes to
bed and remains there i'm complete ST
lence six hours before she appears in
concert; Abbott has the doors and win
dows of her room hung with bed blan-
kcts lest draft strike her precious per-
son; Gcrster wears a heavy shawl while
walking the halls of her hotel; but
Marie RoZe is aS careless of exposure as
n chill Tjicnata UoroLy
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Gloves.

Matching gloves to the dress is en-
tirely out of fashion for both day and
evening toilettes. Lighter shades of
tan-colored gkves than those worn dur
ing the winter are used with spring cos
TUNES for the street and on full-dress
occasions; there is also tendency to
more yellow shades of tan-cOlOr, show
ing ecru rather than brown. Slate
color in va4ous shades is offered as a
rival to tan-colors with street dresses,
while pale blue and flesh pink are seen
with evening dresses, not, however.
matching the dress in color, but more
often in contrast with it. White IN
dressed kid gloves are again i'm good
style with evening dress at dinners. the
opera, balls and receptions, Black kid
gloves are less IDed with dressy toilettes
than they were last year. The Suede
(undressed kid) gloves are more fash
ionable than those of dressed kid, and
these retain the long loose-wristed
shapes closed on the arm and fastened
by two or three buttons at the wrist
These are made plain, entirely without
ornamental stitching, and with street
dresses are now put inside the sleeves,
not drawn up over them. For half-long
sleeves the gloves extend in wrinkles
up to the elbow, while for wearing with
short slee yes are gloves that cover the
arm its entire length in wrinkled. care,
less-looking fashion; these gloves are
fifty-four inches long, and dealers keep
them in three pieces. sewing on the
third part across the top, or emitting
it. as the purchaser wishes. There are
also stylish English=looking gloves OF
heavy kid with three broad lines OF
stitching on the back; these have slen-
der. close wrists, smooth on the arm,
fastened by six buttons, and are put in
side the long, nearly tight sleeves OF
the plain dresses that are worn in the
street. Reddish mahogany and terra
Gotta gloves are not now worn. even
with black dresses; for these dresses
yellowish tan, slate, black, and cream
white shades are used, while with white
dresses are cream, tan, ciei blue and
pink gloves. Later IN the season silk
Jersey gloves and lace mitts will be
worn In many fancifuI colors, while the
quiet tints quoted for Suede gloves VIII
be repeated in Esle-thread gloves fol-
midsummer.-Harper's Baz0r.
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HUMOROUS.

A man of pluck-A pickpocket.-
Burlington Free Press.
Marriage is lottery, but we have
not heard that love letters are denied
the privilege of the mails.
An Old Song Revised
What is a ship without q sail?
Adieu my lover. adieu.
What is a monkey without a tail?
dude, my lover, dude.
-"Sdlchers AUNT"
The first passenger train passed
over the Pemigewasset Railroad short
time since. II THAT word should over
get upon the track there will be fear
full smash-up.- SOmerriIie journal.
A young man, while out hunting
for his fathers pig. accosted an Irish.
man rs follows: Have YOU seen a stray
pig about here?n Pat responded
''FaiX, how could l tell a stray pic
from any Other?"
They are not very fashionable on,
on the Western frontier, but they know
how to lead the german. The other
day some vigilants put a rope around q
German horse thief's neck and led him
to tree.-HHriem Times.
-Tcacher-'' Well, how stupid YOU
are, TO be sure! Can't multiply eighty.
eight by twenty-five! I'll wager that
Charles can do it in less than no time. "
Absurd pupil-'I shouldn't be sur.
prised. They say fools multiply very
rapidly these days"
The editor of the Breckenridge
(ky)- Netes says he put the poem OF
The Beautiful Snow" in type in the
fnll nf Is
Commercial, first wrote it. Thus the
logs of The-Beautiful-Snow war are lei
loose again.-Detrod Post.
Heard in the great West: "Is that
the Big Bonanza mine over there?''
YES" And did that big pile of ore
come from it?' Yes" "All rirht. |
will stake out claim right here. 90
back East and form company" but
there is no ore in this part of the dis.
trict, you know" Never mind about
that. can say there is plenty of ore in
sight. "-Iht'dHe'pbid NecS
A man who bought a badlv-fttinc
suit that was much too large for him.
was constantly taken to task by his
good wife for his folly. One evening
rs their little daughter was retiring,
they were much surprised to overhear
the following conclusion of her evening
prayer: please, God, make pa over
again. so as his clothes III fit him. and
then ma won't nag at him no morer'-
Rural NcU Yorker.
II wish YOU would have the pegs
properly taken from these shoes" said
Chicago gi1 to n shoe dealer, from
whom she had purchased pair the dav
before. "they hurt me SO l can not wear
them" Certainly, Miss" was the
obliging answer. ''but am afraid YOU
will have to wait day or two.' why
So" well. we already have a job OF
the same kind at the foundry, and the
steam peg scraper is not in very good
working order. st. Louis Republican.
And you say that YOU are inno-
cent of the charge of stealing a rooster
from Mr.. jones'" asked an Arkansas
Judge of a meek prisoner. Yes, sir.
am innocent-as innocent as child. :
"You are confident that YOU did not
steal the rooster from Mr.. Jones9'
''Yes. sir. and | can prove it. can
prove that / didn't steal Mr.. Jones'
rooster, Judge, because l stole two hens
from Mr.. Garston the same night, and
Jones lives five miles from Garston's. ~
THE proof is conclusive" said the
Judge; discharge the prisoner
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Huxley ON Rats.

Prof. Huxley presided at the second
annual meeting of the London Sanitary
Protection Association. In the course
of his opening address Prof. Huxley
said he had made very great discov.
cry which he would make present OF
to the members of the association. He
had found, i'm fact, that there was .
great body of extremely active and un.
pahl sanitary inspectors, to whom he
was sufficiently ungrateful to say that
he should be glad to hear of their i'm.
mediate eXtirpation. These sanitary
inspectors were rats. He had had 2
curious example of their action in hi.
own house. Some time ago it had beer
reported to him that there were rats in
particular room in the basement.
Rats had no place in-any London louise
The mouse one need not quarrel with.
but rats meant mischief. The rats
came from the rats place, the sewer,
and If the rats could come from the
sewer all other abOminablc things could
also get up. He had the floor of the
room at once taken up, and very
curious state Of things had revealed IT.
self. When the house had been built
n particular drain of an unimportant
character had been designed to lcaC
out in n certain direction. The bust.
ness of the builder and of his workmer
naturally should have been TO close uI
the drain in the one direction which hac
been finished and to carry it out in an.
other way. That had been done with g
degree of carelessncss and neglect OF
common precaution which was ALSO
lutely criminal. The bricklayers had
not taken the trouble TO shut up small
opening Of the drain. For twelve years
there had been in the house that con.
nection between the sewer. the drain.
and the basement of the house, which,
had il not been for the rats. would have
been impossible to have been discovered
even by the most careful of inspectors.
-FdH-NdH Gazette.