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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1886-03-05
FORGOT HIS GLASSES.
Old ME-. Johnson's Remarks About His
Daughter and Her Beau.

Old Mr.. Johnson's Remarks About His
Daughter and Her Beau.
"Good morning, Mr.. Johnson" said a
young man to au elderly and near-sighted
passenger who had come off without his
glasses; ''going up to town."
"Yes; got to do lot of trading at the
stores, an don't know how on airth III
get along without my glasses"
Getting ready for the wedding, sup
pose"
eyes; my darter Enmer is goin' to git
married. She an that good-for-nothin'
Hank Williams hev made a match Of IL at
last. thought that young man would
never get down to business. He's as slow
as sorghum molasses in January, an as
shiftless as an Iniun. don't believe ne can
earn his salt, an s'pose In have to sup
port him."
"But, Mr.. johnson -"
"Oh. he's good enough for Emmer.
That's the worst girl l ever raised She
hain't bit like her mother, nor like me,
iuther. / hev to pull her out of bed every
morning. an she's as lasy as an old dog.
She can't bake, an hain't with a cuss on
the sew. A fine poor mans wife shell make
Besides, she hez bunions on her isst AZ big
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Practical knowledge.

Aunt Johanna depending a few days with
her iece)-And so you belong to cook
ing club, Matilda. Do you find that you
gain any practical knowledge from your
lessons?
Matilda-Oh yes, indeed aunt. You
spoke last night at dinner OF the coguilIe
Of chicken, you know.
Aunt Johanna Yes, it WIS delicious.
Matilda (triumphantly-W that was
our last lesson. Our teacher made it for
as, and was SO delighted with it that be-
lore ever came home | drove around to
the caterers and ordered it at once.--N +.
Suu
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a year. But shes good enough for that
Hank Williams, an il he'll only support
her IN be tarnal glad to git her off my
banda Spose you've got an invite TO the
weddin'?"
'Yes, TIM invited. You don't seem to
know me, Mr.. Johnson2"
me seeI haven't got my glasses with me
but know you. Your name isis"
"Hank Williams, sir."-Chica9o Herald.
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Mercantile Notes.

Overcoats are increasing in popularity
but vests are being pulled down. Drugs
generally are quiet, with glue sticking at
about the old rates. Highwines are strong,
but sponges are at a great discount. Naval
stores are slow and buyers of tar have diff
Guilty in getting their stocks off their hands
Tobacco is strong and dealers are appar-
entity up to snuff. Dealers have not the
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1886-03-05
THE CHANGE.

There was man of knowledee deep, and noble
sweep, who knew q heap; Q man who
stnd ed day and night, and hardly spared
the time 70 sleep
This man 90 staid he knew q maid deu,ure
afraid, and half dlsmayed, shy as the
nymph OF ancient myths seQuestered Ia
some sylvan shade.
This maid 80 rare. with golden hair, ana mod
est air, 90 debonaire, she charmed tbIa
man OF learned lore and caught him In
her Witchng snare.
This man Of thought and learned lore. his
hair he tore, and DER and DER he loudly
sWore that be would cher sh her for ave
ana he would love her evermore
Now they are wed, In his library hooks among
MS books bis knees he crooks and secs
his wife so seldom now that he's forgot
ten how she looks.
The wife TO whom the man before so loudly
swore he would adore, foreyermore
lives with her mother aud declares Aer
husband is regular bore.
Lynn linton.
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frigerator car, 1--WE have daisy up at our
house. She is a new girl. Idon't know
where my wife got her. I only know that
she got her and that she is d daisy-green
one. The first day after she came was Sum
day, and we had some friends for dinners
The girl was told TO ring the bell when the
meal was ready. Pretty soon we heard q
lively ringing at the door-beIl, and on
going out what do you suppose we foundg
The new girl shivering on the porch"
+" Please. sir says she, L rugged the bell
to let yon know that dinner is ready 49,
Chicago Herald.
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BITS OF REPARTee.

WhsFN Pat Would Be II the GIbbet Had
Done Its Duty.
Repartee is sudden fash 1t is turning
current Of thought in an opposite direc-
tion- It is the upsetting of train of
thought. 1t is really deforming thought.
Repartee is a case where one speaker makes
n plaia statement, aimed in certain di-
rectior which hearer coilides with and re-
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A Cruel Doctor.

Look here, doctor, don't want you Il,
go to my house and irighten my wife again
as you did this morning"
"Frighten hera How did frighten
her?"
Didn't she ask You what the symptoms
Of hydrophobia are?"
Yes
"And didn't you tell her the patient al.
ways has strong aversion to water?"
"Cortainlv."
"Yes WELL the poor woman is down sick
with fright. She thinks rvegot the hydro.
phobia. Chicago News.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1886-03-05

10 Illustrate what is expected Of Post
masters throughout the country and to aid
q worthy object the following letter re.
ceivsd recently Il published:
Daubury
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Talking abs,at hired girls . snsd North
si19 e BE- trisi 70 look p:essant n . 10
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children from Newark
and other cases OF
supposed hydropho-
bia, but the puzzle
will always be whether
the dogs had the dis
ease at all. The re-
turn of the children
cured will not prove
anything.
"As to cholera and
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forinstance. produces
only smallpox, but
the poison 10 a chem
ical one. The bacteria
getsaturated with the
poison and carry it.
They are not in them
selves the poison. !
completed only last
year for DIR. 8. Wier
n. n.
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Democratic Central Committee.

=. y. CAHurHERs, Medicine Lodge.
W. n. WILLIAMS, sharon.
4. r. DfCKrUsON, Fin Mills
II. =. PROgTOR, sun city.
H. NJ. mason. Lake city
y. SIMMONS, New kiOwa.
.C. ALFOHD, Hnzelton.
y. e. CuAun, sexton.
,fN. MUHnOCK, Lodi
IHOs. J. DYEH, Cummnsford.
T.. i. CARUTHERs. Chairman,
". Il. WILLIAMS, Secretary.
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20 Post Master e Chicago ia
Dear Sir wish 70 Enqnirc Of you n there
Is eny German femase Charitable frssitu-
tsons am 90 Requested BY young German
who Wants 60 get Msrid who is . Well sse-
spcrted young man n ron win give us some
Infor,natIon Regarding this matter woald
be gladly
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1886-03-05

~N1HN11l ''OHA OIh
the venom ofserpents, ING FEVER
which has convinced me of that fact. The
only disease OF which bacteria are proven
to be the primary canse is anthrax or ma
hgnant pustule.
Every year new bacteria are found and
new diseases are attributed to them. The
greatest craze now is hydrophobia Pas
teur's claims are not consistent with sci
ence. Hydrophobia is not a blood disease,
and can not be cured by 'inoculation. 1t is
probably produced by an injury to the
nerve. II is difficult to tell it from tetanus
or loek-jaw.
with all due respect to Pasteur, think
this time he viii slip up. He may cure those
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ABOUT BACTERIA.
DR.. Formad's Lecture on Germs at
the Franklin Institute.
Bacteria ~ . Means of Determining Inn.
puritles In Water-A Display Of
BaeiilI Eating Chicken Stew
and GeIatins.

Prof. Henry F. Formad OF the Uniyer.
sity OF Pennsylvania, in his lecture last
evening at the Franklin Institute on
"Germs and Their Influence on Health. :"
developed an entirely new system of water
analysis by which the precise nature of
organic impurities can be determined. The
plan is the capture of baeilli in water.
After they have been secured their nature
is aseertained by color, form and other
characteristics. Then the analyst deter.
mines what species of organic impurity
those particular bacili live on and the
presence of the organic impurity that the
bacilli affect is thus deduced.
On this plan Prof. Formad has lately
been analyEing the water of the schuylkill
River, and he says that his results are per-
fectly satisfactory. The lecturer last even
ing had before him q dozen finger glasses
on which there were exposed potatoes sliced
in hall. On the fiat sides of the hall Do
tatoes were patches oibacilli and bacteria.
They look like daubs of paint. The colors
were fine browns, reds, handsome yellows
and pure whites. There were, too, a few
jars containing the bacteria of lung and
other diseases. Pots of gelatine crowded
with invisible microbes and test tubes full
OF the spores OF germs that appear in chol-
era and other complaints were also shown.
The lecturer said:
This is a very large subject, and one on a
few OF whose branches I can barelv toucb
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1886-03-05
CHURCHES

4N1 sunday M ~ .OO n. M. aud Z 30 n. m. sun
day sChuul every sunday ~ a.OO y. m. Prayer
meeting every "Wednesday evening az $40
Strangers invited. W. n. GILLIAN. Pastor.
DRESnYTERTAN.-Sc ON second AMI
y fourth sundays Of each month sunday
school at 10 A. NJ. A. AxLtNE, Pastor.
CNWWlSriAN.-- prrnchinu every SUNDAY NJ
~ clock a. W. SUNDAY school Ht ~ o'clock
a. nm. every sunday. a. ". NULKEY. Pastor.
CATHOLIC CITTRCTt - Services ON thir,l
sunday Of every month NJ SheriOCks hail. nt
lOan u. m. SUNDAY school imrediatrlv after
Wssd. JOuN ~. MCkUNU. Pastor.
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0oe0i' its germs. Well, we
had none here last summer / don't think
we need fear it until it has spread seriously
in Germany and England. The cause of
cholera is ptOmain, a substance in the
nature OF cadaver poison. 1t is eminently
a filth disease, and it is dstributable
through the medium OF drinking water,
it's chief means of getting into
the body being by the alimentary
canal. If one case appeared in Manayunk
it is likely that the whole city would suffer
through it's water supply. In pure. water
we have few no bacteria. The Test for
bacteria is test for organic substances.
Water put on n potato to develop bacteria
should contain organic matter. The guam
tity and variety OF bacteria found in water
will indicate what quantity and kind of or
ganic substances there are in it. The bac-
terra are there because there is some
thing impure for them to live upon. Bac-
terra are harmless. I've swallowed many
of them. They are first-class food think
if cleanly cultivated they might make
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NV SADxs
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1886-03-05

good nourishmentfo for
invalids and children.
They reproduce at the
rate Of twenty thou
sand to thirty thou
sand a minute on a
potato. To find out
what kind of bacteria
are in water take ten
drops of water and
put it into some jelly.
Pour the ielly on n
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1886-03-05

Pour the jelly on q ANThhA bACCiLLI.
glass plate and little colonies OF bacteria
will develop from the germs that happen
to be in the water. The gelantine is good
food for them. You can readily read
from their appearance what the germs are
and you can calculate the percentage of i'm
purity in the water.
''The air can be easily examined for bac-
terra. Cut clean potato in half and ex.
pose it to the atmosphere for few hours.
Some germs will fall on it, and, being on q
nutritive material, they will begin to grow.
On this particular potato Exhibiting one)
four different kinds of bacteria have fallen.
You can see that by the colors, white,
brown, yellow and so on. Plates of gelan-
tine exposed develop bacteria in the same
way. Air can he examined for germs by
passing it through tube on the bottom Of
which gelantine is lying. The air can be
measured and the percentage of germs cal
culated."
DIR. Formal exhibited an apparatus for
doing .-Philadelphia Press
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LODGE BARBER CO. KAS. FRIDAY ARCH 4

erysIpefas.
The lecturer continued:
while these are seen in diseases, there h
no proof whatever that they are themselves
the cause of the diseases. To the normal
individual bacteria are harmless, but as
soon as the powers are enfeebled the bae-
terra fight with the blood cells and may
easily get the best Of them and cause death
by septicamia.
1T is beyond question that there are dii-
ferent poisons in different diseases, each
one having q distinct poison. Smallpox,
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1886-03-05

BAcLIA WITH SPORES. sands OF them can find
ample room in a single drop of water Their
weight il 30 small that to express it you
would use up pot OF ink in writing down
your fractions. They are vegetable, and
their constitution does not differ much
from that of a cabbage. Although plants,
many OF them are endowed with little pro-
pellers, by means OF which they move.
Their motion appears, although they have
no brains or senses, to be a hunt for food
'There are four chief forms of these germs.
There are round ones called micrococci.
elongated ones called bacteria, longer ones
known as bacilh and spiral, screw-like ones
answering to the names of screw bacteria
Sr spirill. Then there are big ones called
ycelial fungi which belong to the .nolds
Bacteria are found absolutely every
where. The air in this room contains
plenty. 1t is approximated that there are
two hundred bacteria to every cubic meter
OF air. There is nc substance at all in which
they are not present, except in oils, metals
and acids. There are multitudes on our
bodies and inside them. Different kinds of
bacteria grow best on different soils, Just
as watermelons grow well in Jersey and
some weeds flourish best on a sandy soil.
They have special likings for different
kinds of food, as l have found out in my
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1886-03-05

lus likes chicken soup,
another likes relapsing
fever. The relation OF
bacteria to dyeing and
depends upon
this principle.
Bacteria are very
useful in the economy
of nature. Their great
est use is in putrefac-
lion. By living on an
ia decompose it into
and gases. By this
ssolved into their con-
help to keep up the
the soil could not exist
y are necessary, too,
e fermentation which
egar and preserves is
I bodies.
on OF certain drugs,
and coloring matters
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Ao VI AOCAs 90 n a.
artificial culture oi
them. II / want to
raise a certain kind OF
bacterium l have to
give it potato, be-
cause it likes potato.
Another sort lives on
bread. Still another
prefers gelatine. This
sort (indicatin !
raise on chicken soup,
because it is particu-
larly fond OF chicken I
there gets its nour
cerum. This shows
attracts bacteria. al
go anywhere and just
in their liking for dit
certain forms OF bacil
consumption.
at is because tho
different soils. AS on
Arizona silver belt., 1886-01-16
4 JeyAH IN THE PARTY.

"On a weak and sickiy platform" :" says United States Senator Vance, i've were promised that the tariff would be reformed. There will be no reform of the tariff during this Con gress. Then we were told that the rascalS would be turned out, and that promise has been broken" He said he did not wish to come out too heayi- ly on the Administration at one time, but will have to oppose its recom- mendations on the silver question, and also make a speech agalnst civil ser vice reform and cnde&vor to show the follies oft.
 Vance is a man of magnetic ability as public speaker, and stumped the state of North Carolina for the cleo tion of Cleveland, but has gone as squarely back CT his administration as has Beck, Voorhees and other lead ing Democrats who were largely in terested in the election of the ticket At a great Democratic meeting in lii nois speaker was loudly applauded who used the following forcible lan- guage:
 "There is law of necessity when q vessel is stranded. If two men get hold of plank sufficient to float one, but not enough. to float two, it IS not murder for one to kill the other And so it is with Grover Cleveland and the Democratic party. They are in the middle of the river and have hold of plank sufficient to float one, but not enough for both, and the question is, shall Grover Cleveland kill the Demo- cratic party or shall the party kill Grover CIevelard?"
 Cleveland should more closely read political history and profit by the lesson it taught in the case of John Tyler, who ignored his obligation to the Wing party while acting president forty-fvo years ago, and who was ostracized by the party which elected him, and never again taken into fel- | loWshIp.
Arizona silver belt., 1886-01-16

James B. Beck, Democrat), who made the speech on the silver question in opposition of the views of the ad- ministration, was born m Dumfries- shire, Scotland, Tn 1922. He is a law yer by profession and has acquired habits which enables him to move with a directness and fxedness of purpose. He is a ready speaker, thoroughly informed upon all ques- tions coming up for legislation, and always aims to expedite business. He served eight years as representative in congress from Kentucky and de- cllned a reelection and now repre- sentS that state in the United States Senate. Although his speech in 1888 on Presidential succession rendered him famous, his effort in opposition to striking down our silver coinage, or the currency based upon it, rendered his name a household word.
Arizona silver belt., 1886-01-16
TGE LATE STORM.

The storm of January 8th and 9th will long be remembered as one of the most severe on record. The area cov- cred by the storm was extraordinary. It spread from Western Montana to Scotland, and from Manitoba to the Cult of Mexico. It included the three elements of destructive storms: Se- were cold, high wind and heavy snow. On Saturday the thermometer re- corded the astonishing degree of 51 degrees below zero on the Northern Pacific and 50 degrees below zero in Manitoba. This is as cold as anything which Arctic explorers encounter, and nearly 20 degrees below what a mer- cury thermometer will record. The cold wave spread over the whole coun- try. At Mobile, Ala, Il degrees be- low zero was reached-a point that has not been touched in that locality for thirty odd years.
 The wind was furious. Shipwrecks are reported from New York, Phila- delphia, Boston and the entire Allan tic coast north of Hampton roads. Vessels were blown from their moor ingS and carried out to sea. The gale extended to the British islands, and wrecks are reported in the British channel. With all this, the snowfall was prodiglous. For three days it had been showing in Iowa and Ne braska; and all or nearly all the roads trains had been abandoned. InSouth- ern Kansas the Atchison line is block aded and all travel has stopped. No trains have left Denver for several days. In New York the railroads are blockaded by snow drifts. Even Tn Scotland railway communication has been arrested by an accumulation of snow in the cuts, and the municipal au- thorities ofLondon are dumbfounded by three inches of snow in Cheapslde. $. F. Chronicle, Jan. 11th.
Arizona silver belt., 1886-01-16
SALE.

By virtue of an execution issued out of the District Court of the 2nd Judicial District, in and for Gila County, Arizona Territory, dated the 4th day of December A. D. 1885, in a cer- tain action wherein B. F. Pascoe, defendant, recovered judgment against The McMillen Silver Mining Company, as plaintiff, for the sum of $420 and Cost of suit taken at S223 so on the 27th day ot March A. D. 1885, l have levied upon the following described property, to-wit:
 That certain lead, lode or mining claim sit uated at McAIillen, in McMillen Mining Dis trict Gila County, Arizona, known as the Stonewall Jackson mine, owned by the above named plaintiff, together with the mine, hoist ing works and machinery belonging to said plaintiff, the said McAIIllen Silver Mining Company and connected with said mine and situated thereon.
 Public notice is hereby given that on Mon day the 18th day of December A. D. 1885, at 10 o'clocl; a. m of that day at Public auction in front of the Sheriifs office in Globe, in said Gila County, I will sell all the right, title and interest of the said plaintiff in and to said de scribed property tOthe highest and best bidder to satisfy said execution and all costs.
 T. c. STALLO, Public Administrator and ExOfficio Coroner, dec5td of Gila County, A. T.
 DISAPPOINTMENT.
 The above sale is postponed until January 20, 1886, at 10 o'clock Q. m.
 T. c. STALLO, Public Administrator and Ex-Oficio Coroner, dec. jan2 -tdl of Gila County, A. I.
Arizona silver belt., 1886-01-16
THE SILVER QUESTION.

The following extract from an ex- tended article in the New York Min ing Record is so pertinent to and ex- planatory of the silver question, be- cause of it's brevity and directness, we republish it here:
 1. That the 412a grains of silver Tn our standard dollar, which is stigma tized by the secular press as so short weighted as only to be worth eighty cents-if they were coined at the val uation given to $443,OOO,OOO in the four greatest banks of Europe, would be worth 103.O6 cent.
 ?. That all this clamor for the sus- pension of silver coinage is made when there is in this country barely S3.75 of these standard dollars per head of our population. coupled with but S9 per head of gold, whereas, the French have $14 per head of legal tender sil- yer coupled with S22.5O of gold, the Netherlanders have $12.66 of silver per head with $10 per head of gold and the Belgians $9.22 in silver per head with S11.13 of gold.
 3. That during the last ten years instead of losing gold, France has ac- quired, under her bi-metallic system, about S276,O0O,OO0 by importation in excess of her exports while mono-me- tallic England, in the same period, has acquired in the same way not more than $14,0OO,0OO.
 1. That at this time the countries such as France, Holland and Belgium, which have accumulated the greatest amount of gold per head of all the States of the commercial world, are also the States that have acquired with equal pace the greatest amount of sil- yer. In other words, it is under the bi-metallic regime that even gold has been most largely acquired by the States of the commercial world!
Arizona silver belt., 1886-01-16
DzmocnArIC APPOnTEOSlIESTs-

The following is the apportIonment of delegates, to the several countles' decided upon by the Democratic Ter ritorial Committee which met in Tue son last week, che same being based upon the vote cast in 1885, for C. r. Head, for delegate: Apache. s; Co., chise, P; Gila, 4; Graham, 5; Mari copa, 8: Mohave, 3; Plnal, 5; Pima, s: Yavapai. P; Yuma ?. II addition to the above there are to be ten delegates at large--one from each county making a total of Y. The next con- vention will be held in Tucson on the first Monday in September.