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Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-10-26
The Kind Of a Rosebud She is.

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Pm a ro%elreadi,,g yeuuk girl. -. & -
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A romaEt1c, hak crazy. bat terrible lazy,
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a snatch 'em up qhick Young girl, -
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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-09-07
A Simple Remedy for Sun.Stroke.

A writer in the New York Herald
signing himself 81. G.. F.,' tells of a
simple cure for sun-stroke, or prostra.
ton from heat. 1t is certainly worth
republishing. The trial of the remedy
can certainly do no harm in cases
where the services of physician can
not be speedily secured after the pros
tration has occurred. The writer in
the Herald says:
% In recent issue of your paper o.
pears a list of fifteen persons pros
trated by the heat of Yesterday OF
one of this number it is said that he
died before the arrival of a physician,
and of another, he died in the ambu-
lance on the way to Bellevue Hospital.
''About fifteen years ago | diScov-
cred speedy remedy for sun-stroke.
l have had quite number of cases
which treated according to this rem
edy, and in every instance the patient
has been able TO walk home in less than
two hours. The recipe has been pub
lished for several summers in the New
Orleans newspapers and was pretty uni
versally copied. 1t has received the
approval of several physicians, coro-
ners, and captains of police, who, from
personal knowledge of its efficacy,
have so indorsed it. No man need die
in an ambulance nor while awaiting
the arrival of physician.
ANY cool-headed man or woman can
relieve the sufferer at once and without
fear of any evil consequences. The
method is simple and easily carried out.
The following is all there is to do: Drag
the body into the nearest shade; place II
in sitting position against wall, a
tree, or anything that VIII be support
for the back; loosen the collar Of the
shirt or dress; throw ice-cold water
over the head copiously; give pretty
stiff dose of the essence of Jamaica gin
ger-say an ounce or more-to q half
glass of water Keep up the applica-
ton of water after the ginger has been
given, but moderately. and need not be
ice-cold. Let the patient have plenty
of air around him. and in half an hour S
time he will get up and walk home or
to street car. This is all the treat
ment necessary, and it is based on COM
mon sense The oppression on the
brain caused by the heat is relieved
by the cold water, and the blood is sent
from the head to the body. The ginger
(if not obtainable Immediately, brandy
will answer, though the essence of GIN
ger is the strongest stimulant and quick
eSD prevents an9mia, or lack of blood.
by stimulating the vessels and sending
fresh blood 10 the brain.
= This is the principle in nutshell,
and if the police were instructed to pro-
coed in the manner have here indicat-
ed both physicians and ambulances
could be dispensed with. The latter do
more. injury than good, for the person
sup-struck should be as quiet as posi-
BILE; to Jolt him over the rough streets is
TO lend assistance to the attack already
made unon him
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-09-07

undo what could never be undone ~
this world. Could not some OF US, hN
and basty in our dealings, learn
lesson from il?
But something better was in store for
Emma Carbonel. Humphrey did not
die. Within a week the news came to
her that the injuries, which had in
duced a death-like swoon, mistaken III
the time for death, had not yet been
fatal, He was removed TO the hospital,
was being treated there by skilful sur
geons. and the issue was as yet I'M
certain.
The issue was not for death, but life.
Some months later he came home, q
MANNED soldier, bearing about him
marks which time would never efface.
just at the dusk of evening, rs she
had pictured it in her fond dream, he
came. When the fly drove up to the
door with him, she was surprised, for
he was not expected until the next day.
He came in slowly, limping. The hustle
over, the servants shaken hands with,
he lay back, fatigued, in the easy chair,
Emma kneeling before him, clinging to
him in passionate emotion, tears
streaming from her eyes, whispering
to him in deprecating terms to forgive
her.
Upon condition that you forgive
me, Emma" he answered, agiiated as
herself. ut has been sharp expert
ence for us both. My darling wife,
do not think we shall ever quarrel with
one another again"
Never again; never a single mis-
word again, Humphrey. so long as life
shall last. "-ArgoSy
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-09-07
The Handy Revolver.

Experience proves that persons who
carry pistols to protect themselves
against danger need more than anything
else to be protected against their own
weapons. Almost Invariably the only
persons they shoot are themselves or
their friends, either by accident or de-
sign.
A peculiarly sad case of suicide was
chronicled in New York last Thursday.
A young man of wealthy family, excel
lent business position and prospects,
engaged to be married in n few weeks
to an estimable young woman, happy
in all his relations and anticipations,
planning for his wedding trip and the
purchase of future home-in a word,
surrounded with everything that to out
ward appearance goes to make life en-
joyable and happy-shoots himself
through the heart in the middle of the
night, and is found lifeless in the morn
ing by his family. No cause can be as
signed for the rash and awful act. He
had seemed anything but depressed.
HIS last evening was passed in pleasant
conversation with his relatives. Hii
mind was occupied with the prepare
tions for married happiness.
But one explanatory fact appears.
The young mans father shot himself at
the grave of his brother in Greenwood
some years ago. This had evidently
haunted him, for he once said to his
fiancee that his father had killed him.
self, and that was the only thing in him
she would have to contend against.
Now comes a second fact. The young
man carried n pistol as protection
against being robbed while on his way
10 bank with deposits. He was fond OF
practicing with the weapon. and kept il
with him constantly. In doing this he
was sporting with death. Heswas like
burnt child playing with fire.. With
the haunting thought of his father S
manner of death before his eyes, ne ex.
posed himself constantly to the very
danger he ought of all dangers to have
avoided. Everybody knows the i'm
( pulses that are born of surroundings.
A man who walks along a precipice is
almost sure to wonder with a strange
sort of fascination what would be the
| experience of a fall over its steep. The
mailman is not the only one who is taken
with the impulse TO leap from dizzy
height. So in this case, the presence OF
the pistol was sufficient to suggest what
was in moment of impulse carried
| into irrevocable act.
The handy revolver is responsible for
a large increase of crime, and of acct
dents that are close related to crime.
The habit of carrying revolvers is al
ways pernicious in its effects, even when
not fatal to its results. The boy that
starts out by putting a pistol in his
pocket and thinking he is more of q
man for doing it, starts in a way that is
sure to be disastrous. He is safest as
well as wisest who, living in peaceful
and lawful community. relies on an up.
right life and an Almighty Father fol-
his safety, rather than on the habitual
carrying of deadly weapons.-M y
/
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-09-07
Copper in Wheat.

A few years ago there was no little
fuss made about the dangers of eating
the French timed peas, owing to the
allegation that they owed their fresh
green tint not to natural causes, but
to the addition of poisonous salt of
copper. We learn now that still more
universal food is contaminated with the
same metal. M. Gallippe, in French
chemical journal, asserts that copper
can be detected in all plants, and espe-
cially in wheat, so that when, upon an
alysis, bread is found to be charged
with certain amount of cupric salts, it
must not be supposed that such salts
have been introduced for the purpose of
making the bread whittier (and sus-
picion has existed that bakers have
used sulphate of copper for this pur-
pose), but they must be regarded as
natural adulterants. Doctor Burg, who
has for some time been investigating
the action of this metal upon workmen
who are constantly exposed to its influ-
ence, believes that it is in one respect
extremely beneficial. He gives it as
his opinion that copper-workers under
60 a kind of metallic impregnation
which renders them proof against in
fictitious diseases. An investigation of
the death-rate among such workers
during the last epidemic of typhoid in
Paris has confirmed these views. He
proposes now to study the effects of
salts of copper upon the organisms cul-
tivated by M. Pasteur's method. and
his experiments may possibly prove a
valuable addition to our knowledge of
germs and their bearing upon disease
london Graphic
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-09-07
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

The King of Cambodia, formerly a
Province of Siam, has conferred the
order of General on John A Halder-
man, United States Minister to Siam.
F. v. Greene is the youngest Cap
tain of Engineers in the United States
army. He is known in literature by
his clever writings on military subjects.
Josh Billings was born in Lanes
boro', n. H., and he has directed his
children to bury him there and mark
his grave with rough stone from a
quarry hard by.
Cornelius Vanderbilt has a taste
Tor book collecting, and paid one thou
sand dollars for copy of '.Elliot's In
dian Bible" which the old Commodore
would consider ridiculous waste of
money,-M. 7. Graphic.
Miss Ida Ward. the English actress.
has come over to stay. During form
er visit she conceived so strong liking
for America, the people and their WAYS
Of living, that she has come to 60 back
no more. Chicago Journal.
Henry Labouchere, the editor of
London Truth, never writes at night.
not being a believer in the midnight oil
as applied to the journalistic machine.
His working hours are from ten in the
morning till three in the afternoon, aft
er which comes recreation.
Among the citizens of this republic
there is at least one undoubted child of
royalty in the person of Rev. William
j. Barnett, pastor of the Shiloh (col-
ored Baptist Church, Williamsport,
Pa. He is the son of a once powerful
African King, Dumba by name.-N Y.
Herald.
Josiah Human, founder of Monta.
ma. the first town built in Colorado. died
recently at his home in Vergens. VT.
He was the leader of the first party that
left Lawrence, Kan, for Pixies Peak in
May, 1858. In February, 1859, the new
town of Montana was Incorporated by
the State of Kansas. Not even log
cabin now marks the towns location.
Among the interesting political
relics in the estate of Montgomery
Blair are six large trunks containing
letters, manuscripts and various public
papers left by Frank p. Blair, Mont.
gomery's father, for the purpose of pre-.
pairing his life. The father did not take
time to write his life, and left the papers
to his son, who in turn leaves them in
their original shape, never having had
the time or inclination to prepare the
book. Among these papers are many
manuscripts given to the elder Mr..
Blair by Andrew Jackson Chicago
Herald.
The Pail Mall Gazette, in its crit
cism on Ouida' new novel Wanda, -
draws attention to the extraordinary
size of the heroine's library. The critic
says: ut contained half million vol.
umes; or. as is stated on another page,
a million Taking the former number,
and estimating that the room had
twenty shelves, and that each volume
had on an average an inch of shelf, we
find that the wall space in this great
cedar-lined room must have been a
little over 1000 feet; or that the apart
ment measured say 800 feet long by
200 wide-a large room for Tyrolese
castle"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-09-07
Number Three.

On Brady street a boy about thirteen
years old stood outside the fence and
received hatfull of cherries from a
boy of nine or ten on the inside. There
was something so sweetly friendly and
charitable in the action that a pedes-
trian crossed over and said to the small
boy after the big one had moved on:
Sonny, did you sell him the cher
RESP
..No, sir.'''
''Gave them of your own free will,
ehp''
Eyes, SIR"
'.Well, he looks like poor boy who
can't buy fruit, and it was noble
action of yours
That's what / think, too, sir. He's
been licking me all summer, and"
And You heaped Goals Of fire on his
head?''
mo, sir. fixed to heap a quart OF
half-ripe cherries into his stomach, and
if he doesn't howl and twist and yell
and tie up in hard knots before night
then he's too mean for the colo to
tackled He's the third one I've paid
off that way this week."--Detroit Free
Press,
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-09-07
Advice to Dairymen.

Our advice to every dairyman is to
have just as little wood about the dairy
room as possible. 1t will get full of
grease from coming in contact with the
cream or butter, which will eventually
become stale and make trouble Have
all the utensils possible made of tin,
even to the milking pals. Paddles
may be made of cedar, but be sure that
they are well soaked in fresh water be-
fore they are brought in contact with
the cream or butter, and this should be
done every time they are used. A
wooden churn also is pardonable, for
metal will not do for this purpose; but
be sure and keep it well and thoroughly
aired. Butter tubs and firkins are bet
ter made of wood than of metal, but
they must be well soaked in fresh water
and then in lime before using. With
these exceptions, and perhaps one OF
two others, there should be scrupulous
care to exclude wooden utensils from
the dairy, for no amount of scrubbing
can take the grease out of wood, while
very hot water will take it from tin
without the labor of scrubbing. There
is work enough to be done in the dairy
without wasting time in trying to keep
wooden utensils clean and sweet
american DGirunan.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-09-07
THE DAIRY.

Cream from Jersey cattle is said TO
require less churning than that of any
other breed.
The odor from fresh whitewash is
apt to have very bad effect upon
milk. For this reason great care should
be exercised in putting fresh supply
upon the inside of dairy-room. If
the milk cannot be removed for two or
three DAYS while the whitewash is dry
ing, then put but little on at time.
The length of time that young
heifer keeps in milk after her first calf
is likely to measure her staying quail
ties for all after life. For this reason
Young heifers should have their first
calf in the fall. BY good care and
ensilaged. food in winter an abundant
flow can be established, which can more
easily be kept up the next summer. If
heifers calve in the spring they are very
liable to go dry early in the next fall.
Every farmer who expects his wife
to make good butter, after furnishing
her with some good, well-fed milch
COWS, should provide her with good
milk pans-large and shallow-so as
to present large surface on which the
cream may rise and allow it to remain
sufficiently long for all the cream
to rise. These pans should be
we'll washed every time the milk is
emptied from them, and should be clean
/ and bright when filled.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-09-07
HUMOROUS.

Upon seeing fire-engine at work,
an exquisite remarked: "Who would
evan have dweamed that such vewy
Misunderstanding apparatus would
hold so much wattah!'- Chicago Trib-
ane
The last case of Incidence related
is that of man named John Hole, who
was so lazy that, in writing his name,
he simply used the letter ''J'' and then
punched a hole through the paper
~ Y. NewS.
"A newspaper is much excited owe,
what it calls the Diseased wife's sister
Bill" But what the wife's disease
was, and why her sisters name was
Bill, is not at all plain in the article
discussing the subject.-Detro1 Free
Press.
One man was asked by another.
with whom he was on the best of
terms, where he had taken up his
abode. ''Oh," he replied, I'm living
by the canal at present. l should be
delighted if you would drop in some
evening""
sit was pitched without" said a
clergyman, having Noah's ark for his
theme, and an old baseball player who
had been calmly slumbering awoke with
a start and yelled foul" The first
bass from the choir came down and put
him out.--N. Y. independent.
-"Send anything to this office in pay
ment for subscriptions, potatoes, cord
wood, string beans, rags, old iron, any,
thing, only send it, walls an impe-
cuniOus country editor, and then adds:
"Not necessarily for publication, but as
a guarantee of good faith. ''-PocheSter
POSt-ErprcSS.
land how old did you say she
WASP" asked Mrs. jenkins of the muse
um attendant, pointing her sun-shade at
the Egyptian mummy in case.
-Four thousand years, ma'am," an
swered the man." "Do tell; wonder
fully well preserved at that age, amt
she? Are her teeth false?''
The scarcity of gentlemen at a
neighboring summer resort was so APP
parent that a Boston lady telegraphed to
her husband: George, bring down lot
of beaus for the hop this evening""
Thanks to the telegraph manipulation.
George arrived with "pot OF BEANS"
boston courier.
His Vacation
He wanders the street in an old striped coat,
With ink marks all over his arms,
And never a shirt collar graces his throat,
And no waistcoat his brave bosom warns.
A scraggy beard grows all over his face,
And he looks very much like a tramp;
His hair is uncut, and in heats grim embrace
He appears most decidedly damp.
Why docs this young man. so careful in dress
Now look very much like hummer?
All bitter the truth that must here confess
His girls gone away for the summer.
-WdshfngtOn Republican.
Everybody in Texas knows Colonel
Bill Fritz Hugh, the man who talked
old General Holmes out of the ring dur
ing the war. Bill was at the Great
Windsor, in Dallas, and sent waiter off
with his order. In course of time the
fellow came back. Bill looked at him
in establishment a moment and then
asked: care you the same man gave
my order top To which the waiter
replied: Eyes. sir, am that same"
swell, my goodness retorted Bill,
you have aged so that 1 would not have
known you from Aaron's scape- goat!"
-TerGs Stftings.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-09-07
A Thief as a Witness.

"Yes," said the old prosecuting law
yer, ''we have some pretty sharp wit
nesscs to handle sometimes. These
thieves get so they can dodge question
very successfully if they don't wish to
answer IT, L remember once l had a
weIl-known thief on the stand as wit
ness against another thief. | was pref
" sure he wouldn't testify to the truth,
but L determined that if he did not /
would convict him of perjury. wanted
to prove that th0re were less than a
dozen persons in q certain room at the
time the theft was committed. and that
the defendant was one of them. 1t was
my purpose to show to the jury that the
defendant and this witness were the
only persons not of excellent repute in
the room at the time. and thus heighten
the probability of defendants guilt.
''How many persons were in the
room when you and defendant were
in?r / asked.
Between three and four hundred, >
said he.
Il knew l could prove by every other
witness that there were only ten or
eleven, and it struck me i would do the
public service by giving this witness
full opportunity to perjure himself.
asked the stenographer 10 read the
question and answer, and asked the
witness II that was his answer He
said il was. Now, sir said /, on
your oath You say there were between
three and four hundred persons in that
room?'
Yes, sir"
DO you know the law RELATING IN
perjury" asked.
Yes, sir
=" Do you know that intend to send
You to the penitentiary if YOU persist in
swearing thus falsely?'
You can't do it; 1 am telling YOU
truth, " said he, as cool as a yellow dog
under an ice-wagon. Il piled the
thing mp on him mountain high; asked
him all the questions i could think of
that would tie him tight. As soon as
possible after that / had him indicted
for perjury, and on trial he beat me
sky-high.''
How on earth lid he dGsthat?''
why, he simply swore that he meant
there were between three persons and
four hundred in the room. And that
let him out. He was quick one at
repartee, too. / asked him q question,
and, as he wanted to gain time to think
it over, he pretended he didn' hear me.
Perhaps said /. sarcastically, I'D bet
ter write the question; NAV be YOU cam
hear No. said be, in the same tone,
perhaps I'd better hear it; may be YOU
can't write. Chicago Herald.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-09-07
Packing Pound Prints of Butter.

A very good way for keeping pound
prints of butter is to pack them in
brine. Make a saturated brine of the
purest salt you can get, using a pound
of saltpetre to about twenty pounds of
salt. Scald the brine by bringing it to
boiling heat, skim and apply. when
sufficiently cool. The casks should be
carefully prepared, as well as the brine.
If the gum and sap in the wood are not
removed before the casks are used,
they will work out into the brine and
affect the butter. To remove the woody
flavor from the casks, a thorough steam
ing with high pressure is the quickest
and best means. If soaked before the
steam is applied, hot steam will cut the
gum and woody flavor all out in a
short time. If steam is not convent
ent, soak in brine till the wood is
saturated. Then fill with boiling-hot
brine, and let it stand until it gets cold,
when the woody flavor will be suf-
ficiently removed. BY keeping the but
ter under the brine and the cask in a
cool place, the butter will keep safely.
-ETchduOe.