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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-05-16
QuakIng Italy.

1t would seem that the soil of Italy IL
in incessant movement, there being
periods of excessive activity usually
lasting about ten days. Such a period
may be called seismic storm. These
storms are separated by periods of rela-
tive Gains. The storms have their
greater regularity in winter, and sharp
maximums are to be observed in spring
and autumn. In the midst Of such n
period, or at its end. there is usually an
earthquake. Usually these storms are
closely related to barometric drpres-
sions. To distinguish these movements
from those which occur under high
pressure they are called baro-scismic
movements, the latter being called vol
cano-seismic movements. The relation
of these storms to barometric fuctua-
ton has been observed TO be very
marked during the time of q volcanic
eruption. At the commencement of O
storm the motions are usually small,
and one storm lasting two or three days
may be joined by another storm. In
such q case the action may be q local
one It has been observed that a bar
ometrical depression tended to bring o
storm TO q maximum, while an incrt e
of pressure would cause il 10 disappear.
Sometimes these actions are purely
local, but at other times they may AZ
feet . considerable tract Of lsnd.--
Nature.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-05-16
A New Disease.

Among the curious maladies which
advancing civilization seems destined to
bring in its train not the least remark.
able is that on which Partisan doctors
are bestowing a good deal of attention
Just now-the obliquity of mind which
has been called peur des eSpdccs. The
sufferer is usually n man in apparently
good health, and is affected by no pre-
monitory symptoms, although, on the
other hand, there are cases where the
malady results from other diseases, and
Is introduced by feeling of weakness
and sickness. 1t generally comes or
suddenly. when the patient arrives at o
particular place or is brought into the
presence Of particular person. BE
then is observed to be in mortal terror
without any apparent cause The earth
seems to him TO open into a chasm be-
fore his feet. or he finds himself isolated
by an immense and impenetrable space
from the rest of the world II he Is ON
the pavement he dares not for his life
step onto the roadway. but stands stock
still to be jeered At by the street boys
II he is on . step, he Is afraid to move
mp or down for fear of being dashed 70
pieces in some imaginary abyss. An
this time he keeps his wits-or. at least
a great many of them-about him, and
Is sensible Of his absurd position. Some
times he has enough sense 70 avoid
places where the attack has come on
before. or seems likely to do 80 again.
Another peculiarly is that most Of the
liberal professions, and to the higher
ranks of society. BY examination into
\ considerable number Of cases in thu
hospitals. il was found that men more
often suffered than women. in proper
Ton OF about four TO one.-Losdou
Globe
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-05-16
Does 1t Pay the World to Grow Meats.

Considered merely from an economic
view it may well be- asked whether the
use of flesh for food is profitable to the
world. Tha the manure made by stock
will increase the fertility of the farm
may be granted only with some limita-
tions' Tor The animal can, 1t is quite
clear, give to the soil no very consider
able quantity OF matter which it has not
flrst received from the earth. The
dairy farms OF the East have become so
impoverished by continual grazing and
cropping that it has been found neces.
sary to add largely to the animal ferti.
lizers left by the herd to enable the
dalryman TO raise good calves or other
animals, although great quantities OF
food are brought from other farms for
the cattle. 1t is of course true that
there has been q profit in the livestock
business, but that by no means shows
that meat-eating pays mankind.
1t may be assumed that the average
production per acre of corn will be forty
bushels. This, with the grass, hav, OF
other necessary fodder, will keep n
bullock on full feed for 16O DAYS. At
that rate 30 bushels of corn, the yearly
product of two and a quarter acres.
will be required each year for ut least
two years, or the equivalent of that
time and quantity, for the production
oil the bullock Of ! $50 pounds. Such a
bullock, If well grown, will yield about
$40 pounds of meat, fat and bone. or
an average OF about 100 pounds per
year per acre of nutritious food, not
taking tat and bone into consideration.
IL will be seen that this amounts to less
than half apound per day for each
acre cultivated or grazed. For this the
consumer will probably pay from six
TO eight cents. which certainly seems to
work.
The land required for the support
q bullock should produce 5000 pounds
per year OF meat free of offal, or 10, 600
pounds of food at least as nutritious As
Iresh oeef, pound for pound; or it will in
s~o years yield $500 pounds of wheat;
., IN IKE time 5000 pounds Of oats.
wnlcn VIII be equivalent to thirteen and
tnree-iourths pounds Of corn. five pounds
OF wheat. or six aud one-half pounds of
oes per day Or the two aud one half
scres may be made toproduce each year
SO.vO pounds Of p0tatoes. OF eighty-two
ano one-tourth pounds Of food per day.
nne curious might 60 on through the
Llst o. oest-known grains. vegetables
ana fruits IN this way until they would
cover the entire list. and lind few, IL
any, which do not for q given amount
OF labor yield q much larger return 1
nutrition than Is obtained by raising
ocei' pork, OF mutton, Chicago Trio
we.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-05-16
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

Dissolve some alum in the white
wash to keep it from rubbing of.
In planting your garden you can
save much hard work by planting
everything in drills as far as possible,
20 as to permit of cultivating with
horse. Chicago Times.
Stable manure to be used in the
garden should be worked over and over
again until it is thoroughly composted
aud as fine as possible. This will put il
in excellent condition for use in hills,
Cincinnati Times.
Caution is necessary, in using com
mercial fertilizers in the garden, that it
is not brought in direct contact with
the seed Thorough mixing with the
soil is the only absolute safety at all
times. -CleUelGnd Leader.
1t is said by one who has tried it,
that if you forget to put dried corn in
water to soak all night, steaming it for
two hours will soften it much more than
boiling for the same length of time, and
it will retain its sweetness and distinct
i've flavor better also.-N. Y Tribune.
"A correspondent says that young
horses should never have shoes imposed
upon them until it is well proved thai
they can not do without them. He pre-
diets that the day is not far off when
some humane benefactor his kind and
horse-kind will produce breed of
horses having such firm, tough feet, in
addition to all other good qualities, that
shooting will be unnecessary. -New En-
gland Farmer.
-Custard made in in this way is do
licious for the filling of a layer cake:
Hest a coflee-cup of sweet milk in a
bright tin basin, beat one egg very
light. and beat with it until smooth
one heaping tea-spoonful of -four, add
sugar to suit the taste; when tho milk
is hot stir the-fiour, eggs, ETC., into it;
1t will thicken in a very few minutes.
Take it from the fire and flavor with
lemon; if You choose, blanch some
almonds, cut them in three or four
pieces and stir into the custard. ~ Y
Posi-.
TO cure weak eyes battle your eyes
daily in salt water; not salt enough
though to cause smarting sensation.
Nothing is more strengthening, and we
know several persons who, after using
this simple tonic for few weeks, hsd
put aside the spcctacles they had used
for years. and did not resume them.
continuing, of course, the oft-repeated
daily use of salt water. Never force
your eycsight to read or work in INSULT
cient or too broad light. Reading with
the sun upon ones book is very iniuri-
Gus to tie eycS.-EIchdnQe.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-05-16
Self.Supporting Girls.

Girls, first make up your minds that
you will be something! All the rest
will follow. What you shall be comes
more easily and clearly in due time.
A girl of thirteen can not decide, with
any discretion or any assurance, whether
she will be sculptor or a wash~woman,
a farmer or n poet but she can decide
distinctly whether il is her wish or her
to remain dependent upon her parents
or to fit herself for seif-providing life.
The education by which you mean
to get your bread and butter, your
gloves and bonnets, is n very diffegefrt
affair from that which you take upon
yourself as an ornament and an interval
in life. The chemical experiment which
you may some day have to explain TO
pupils of your own is quite another
thing from the lesson that you may
never think of again. The practice in
ook-keeping, which may some time
regulate your dealings with live, flesh
and-blood customers, becomes rs inter
csting as n new story. The dull old
rules for infection and cnunciation
fairly turn into poetry, if you hope to
find yourself great public reader some
coming day. And the very sawdust Of
the French or Latin grammar becomes
ashes of roses TO the stout little fancy
that dreams of bravo work and big
salary, i'm some foreign department at
Washington, or tutoring girls or boys
for college. All over the terrible
ocean, among the lawless sailors, the
men with wives and children to work
for are those who lead the gentlest and
cleanest lives. So, on the great ocean
of school-life, the girls with aims TO
study for are those whose labor is the
richest and the ripcst. All. you will
never realize till you have tried it what
an immense power over the life is tho
power of possessing distinct aims. The
voice, the dress, the look, the very mo-
tons of person define and alter when
he or she begins to live for reason. J
fancy that can select in a crowded
street the busy, blessed women who
support themselves. They carry them
selves with an air of conscious self-re-
spect and self-content which shabby
alpaca can not hide, nor a. Bonnet silk
enhance, nor even sickness or exhaus-
ton quite drag out.-Eiizabeh Stuart
Phelps, ia 50. Nicholas.
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RoBBIEs BIRTHDAY PARTY.

Ring tho bells on every splro, mako tho
stcoplcs swing and rocki
b'd the loqd.m2uthcd cannon nro with their
Make the shrilling bugic. sOundi Have the
sweetest music playi
while Robbie turn. the world around; he's
seven years old today
Ten the President he'll have % wait
And Il Tie Sins 70 should come IN state
Ho cant come IN to-day.
bvt they n have yelcomo hearty
At the Princes birthday party,
with the children IN The ring.
ia, hal Jingle. jangie, Jingle,
Who n coming. Robbie knows
How she makes tho music tingl0
With tho bells upon her toes.
And JACK and Jill win tumble
With our sleepy eyed Boy nlue.
And In noisy jumbo
Como the children from the shoe.
with his pipe and bowl you'll md him,
Happy, Jolly Old King Cole.
And bis fiddlcrs sit bohlnd him.
With fiddle. every souli
And with funny Mrs. Jarloy
tgc the gracious Queen draw nigh,
with the pudding made Of barley
And the dainty Blackbird Pie.
M, hii Jack. tho Elsnt killer.
., Hang your sword up on the rack;
NOV. you ~ welcome. Dusty Miller.
.. WIN your hnnd upon the sack.
Hnl with song and shout aud clatter,
Come the Little Indians al
Mercy on us what's the mattcr3
hurnpty Dumpty's got falli
Little clvcs 40 bright ana airy
From their homo beneath the hill
Many dainty, starcrowncd fairy.
Laughing nymphs from br1ok aud rill:
Giants. tall ~ any stcoplc,
And the Thrcc liears from the wood.
Come 90 meet the little people.
For on birthdays thcyrc All good.
How the noise will shake each rnfter
In the House Jack built himself.
when with shout and song and laughter,
Giant FAIRY. Bear and Ell.
Dish aud spoon. and Cat and Fiddle,
Cow aud Dog and everything,
Dance and sing, iii diddio dhidlOi
With the children In tho ring.
30 his years arc crowned with flowers and the
sun shines all the time
Ana with dancing feet tho hours tell his DAYS
with song and rhyme.
10 with dreams his life ~ rounded and old
-. Time must Emi'c and say.
" Why, another cyClea bounded: Robbie 4
seven years old today
-Hufiine'tun Hdtr'cur
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-05-16
HUMOROUS.

"A goat ought to be a first-class ma
terial for oleOmargarine. There is no
better butter than the goat.
A man named Limberger has turned
up at Rochester, n. Y, who claims that
lie hasn't scent to his name onkers
Statesman.
"A gun that is charged with powder
is likely to go off-so is treasurer who
is charged with embezzlement, if he
can get n chance. - Boston Star.
well. / am glad the days are
growing longer and the nights shorter"
remarked jenkins, rs he crawled into
bed at five o'clock in the morning. "A
fellow will be able to get a little rest. "
N j. Mail.
-"Ya'as," continued young Smythe,
al suppose everything created has some
use. but pom me honah it's deuced hard
TO believe it, don't cher know?' Eyes, "
replied the young lady, looking him
over inteiligently, lit is, indeed. ~
Rditad; iphia Call
The Greatest Joy
You may shout ut the splendor of spring,
OF its sweets you may soulfully sing.
. And declare that IL s simply immense;
More pleasure than some circus-ring,
For IL is then their Joy is in tents.
~. y. bWning Journal.
Here, DO you know you are riding
in the wrong direction? This train
doesn't go anywhere near Philadel-
phia." ''There! kept a-tellin' of him
that 'twa'nt right TO be ridin' back ard;
but he lowed he knowed it all. Men
is dreadful smart, arays.-Phitddelphia
Press.
A young man who believes in self
Improvement, having recently married,
suggested to his wife that they should
argue some questions frankly and fully
every morning, in order to learn more
OF each other. The first question hap
pened 10 be Whether a woman could
be expected to get along without hat. "
and he took the affirmative, and when
he was last seen he had climbed up into
the hay-lOft and was pulling the ladder
after him---AuburB Aet0s and Bulletin.
- Hello, Henderson," said Mr..
Greatheart to his friend the other day,
II hear your salary has been raised. !"
YES" replied Henderson. 'How
much arc you getting now?" queried
tue philosopher. ceNentJ-lNc uOilars
a month" was the answer. Seventy
five dollars n month"; calculated Mr..
Greatheart. why, before you were
getting a hun ell" "Yes, l know.
The raise got is spelled with u -
Washington Hdtchet.
by Jove. ''said the lynx-eyed proof
reader on Boston paper. Somebody
go down and kick Slug Nine into the
street. Here's three times I've marked
beans on him in that poem of Julia
Ward Howe's. and every time he spells
it 'p@ans.' My soul sings peans to the
gods of spring. There's lots of sense in
that, isn't there. Where'd he ever
learn to spell beans that wayP" And
his face was livid with wrath, as once
more he saved the poem from destruc-
ton. Albany Argus
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-05-16
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

AT Weatherford, Tex, John Hud-
Scl and Mrs. Leave were married by
telephone.
Representative L. p. Poland. of
Vermont, Is mainly distinguished as the
Dnly man in the House who persistent
yAppeaIs in the old-time blue swallow
tail with brass buttons - Washington
Star.
Cora F. Mitchell, a Boston book
agent, has received from Mark Twain's
business manager $500 as a reward for
he sale of ZIP of "Life on the Missis-
,ippi," within eight months.-Bosto1s
Herald.
George Vanderbilt the literary
member of the family, is the owner Of
he chess-table and chessmen that for
mcrly belonged to Napoleon l., and
which he used during his exile at St
Helena
William Black. the novelist, some
times smokes as many as forty pipes
day while writing. His copy is so bad,
however, that his daughters time is
occupied in translating It for the print
srs.-C Chicago Inter Ocean.
The latest return of the number Of
volumes IN the British Museum is just
over 100000. There are 100 miles of
shelves, and about twenty more miles
20 be filed. II is calculated that about
Lne ton of literature day is sent into
that institution.
General George Washington Gusts
Lee, the eldest son of General Robert
Z. Lee, has the reputation of being the
handsoniest man in Virginia. His bear
ing as he grows older is remarkably
Ike that of his father. The Youngest
son of the family is a quiet farmer near
Richmond.
About n year ago the late Mr..
Danielson, of the Providence Or. IL
Journal, wrote Senator Anthony's obit-
uary. expecting to use it shortly in the
paper. When Mr.. Danielson himself
died, short time ago, by strange
chance it was Senator Anthony who
wrote his obituary.
-Ex-President Hayes is said TO have
q more elaborate set of scrap books,
classified and indexed, than any other
public man in the country. He began
the collection of scraps when he was a
young lawyer in Cincinnati. When he
was President he kept one of his
cler. constantly busy cutting and past
ing slips from the newspapers.
Carlos Aquero, the Cuban revolu-
tionary leader. is a man below the me-
dunn height and weighs only lis
pounds. He has black curling hair and
a small mustache which turns up at the
ends. His smiles are grim and there is
look of iierceness about his face, but
ordinarily he is the most harmless per-
son imaginable in appearance. Aquero
belongs to a wealthy family in Puerto
Principe. He is not yet thirty. and has
been in arms against Spanish authority
in Cuba almost continuously since he
was fourteen. No one who knows him
doubts his bravery. - Indianapolis
Journal
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-05-16
Our Young Readers.
NAMES REQUEST.


Dear Rain, without your help. know,
The trees and flowers could not grow;
MY roses all would fade and die,
III you staid ur behind the sky.
But lonely little girls. like me,
Don Ike to stay indoors, you see,
All through the long aud lonesome day
I'm tired OF books, I'm tired of play;
I'm tired of listening to the sound
u pattering drops upon the ground,
And watching through the misty pane,
The ciouded skies, o dreary Rainl
And so wish you'd tell me why.
just 70 please me, you couldn't try
To let the bright Sun shine all day,
And in the night, when he's away,
And ali the world is dark and still,
And I'm asleep-then, IL you will.
Come down. and make my flowers grow,
Dear Rain, and will love you so.
YOUTHS Companion.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-05-16

Come, now. my lad, but you want to
run away. No boy ever yet reached
the age Of fifteen without having several
times firmly resolved 10 leave home
When boy has made up his mind to
thing of this sort he ought to carry it
out by all means The first step in the
programme is TO begin saving up bread
and meat When you have a bushel or
SO of provisions hidden in tho barn or
under the wcod-shed you are-ready for
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-05-16

Thus. all unknown TO himself, those
calm eyes had pierced through the alb
surdly rough husk Of cynicism. and
saw beneath q kernel OF manhood so
true, so tender. so pure. that in her
heart Of hearts. she made n resolve.
which. out OF consideration for her,
win leave the reader to surmise.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-05-16

"A bee-keeper says that by feeding
heterogeneous food the queen can DO In
duccd to lay at any time. She can be
started to lay and as fast as the bees
hatch out, strong enough to cover the
brood, every cell of fresh frame OF
empty comb inserted viii be found to
contain . freshly laid egg.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-05-16

"A paper in Minnesota starts out
with. "Our platform Is the abolition Of
poverty, ignorance. wickedness, un-
chastity. drunkenness. injustice, per-
version of law. oppression and evil.n
LIS success is looked for with fsverish
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-05-16

-as " AOSOhe W resentment. VI STRAIT
egg ne knew nothing. AS near rs he
couiu approach to IL was to form the
policy OF neutrality, of non-commit-
ment. But. in the deeper diplomacy OF
Jeanne, 1t was indispensable that he
should be committed. So she contin-
ued:
shall we say trimmit wi cherry-red
or wi blue?" io''
''Joanie, woman, haze mercy. am
nae staumreL 1 Gamma put INV pow In
ony sic bag as that "
Yes; he was committed
Jeanne busted herself n monnen, -
picking the dried leaves from the MI,
ow-plants, and then, as she Turned
toward the door. said:
IL hae IL. Il maun be blne t.o
match your cen" '"e
The soft closing of the door made the
vehement demurrer heard only hv ths
attentive Watty, who merely wined Ne
eyes and stared the harder At the In.
valid. '"0 u"
In due time the absurd artifice was
carried TO n successful issue. Althonoh
the neatly-trimmed cap was commonlv
orumpled under his neck, or. when ~
grew sleepy, was mashed over his ewes
like surgical compress, he made M
least = pretcnse OF wearing il until he
was able TO leave the bed.
His convalescence was rapid; but no,
50 rapid but that before he could Ieave
his room Jeanie's little hand had al
lently unwound the matted and nm
slightly weeds OF misanthropy (bs
thought Il such) from his heart ND
touched and awakened chords he never
knew were there And the strange.
new strings were sweet. very sweet 4
not with harmony at least with
prophecy.
20 II came TO pass that more than
once. during their daily drives up the
shady valley road. John tried hard to
say something. something which Jen-
ME was not at all 10th 60 hear. And
though these attempts we're usually hu-
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-05-17
TO a Cold-Footed Lady.

DIR. Dio Lewis in his journal says:-Mad-
am, allow me to prescribe for you. Thave
had long experience in the manage
meut of delicate women, and believe 1 can
give you some important advice. For the
present 1 prescribe only for your feet.
1st. Procure quantity Of wooden stock
ings-not such as you buy at the stores
under the name of lambs wool that you can
read newspaper throughput the kind
that your Aunt Jerusha in the country
knits for you, that will keep your feet dry
and warm in spite of wind and weather,
End, IF you want to be really thorough,
change them every morning, hanging the
fresh ones by the fire during the night.
3rd. Procure thick calf-skin boots, double
uppers and triple soles, and wear them
from the first of October till the first of
May. Make frequent applications of some
good oil backing
4th. Avoid rubbers altogether, except a
pair of large rubber boots, which may be
worn for a little time through snOw-drifts'
or food of water.
9TH. Hold the bottoms of your feet in
cold water quarter of an inch deep, just
before going to bed, two or three minutes,
and then rub them hard with rough towels
and your naked hand.
9th. Now, madam, go out freely in all
weathers, and, believe me, not only will
your feet enjoy good circulation, in the
lower extremities, your head will be re-
lieved of all its fullness, and your heart of
its palpitations. Your complexion will be
greatly improved, and your health made
better in every respect. sr ~ s.s