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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1886-05-14

Miss Folsom's grandfather is furnish
ing the money she Is spending in get
ting ready 10 be Mrs. Cleveland.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1886-05-14

Five e-'Us w,re drowned in tie
Neosho river last Tuesday, at Maguirc's
ferry. \ gale upset the ferry boat.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1886-05-14

The story of mob in Meade county
tying n mm 10 wild horse, Is most
vigorously denied.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1886-05-14

Cholera is raging in Venice aud vi.
cenZl.
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Several persons went from here to the
circus at Harper to-day.
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The Chinese must go--to make room
for Poles and Russians.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1886-05-14

julius Goldsmith went to Winfield
to-day.
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10 now looks like war between
Greece and Turkey for certain.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1886-05-14

The bomb-thrower-catch-hang.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1886-05-14

Gov. Martin has issued his procla-
nation naming Monday, May 3lst as
Decoration day.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1886-05-14

Congressman Peters was re-nomi-
mated by reclamation, at Great Bend,
on the 18th inst.
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All quiet at Chicago aud Milwaukee
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1886-05-14

Some few of our republican contem-
pararles are trying to appear furious
because jeff. Davis appeared at Mont
gomery. Alabama, OH the 18th ult.. on
the occasion of the unwilling of the
statue erected to the memory of Ala
bama soldiers who died in battling for
the southern cOnfederacy. He appear
ed on that occasion in response to the
invitation of the best people III the state,
people who are loyal to their govern
ment, who are tax payers and good cit
liens. lie was surrounded on every
hand by the stars and stripes, and not
once did he or the other prominent
speakers on that occasion, utter word
that could be construed into treason or
disloyalty. His whole speech was cal
culated to encourage love of home, love
OF country, and honor and respect for
those who fight for these noble institu-
tiOns. In this free country the hum
blest citizen has the right to discuss
public questions and express emotions
on matters of the past, but not the
right TO incite riot, bloodshed or the de-
struction OF property. lie did nothing
of this sort. The lost cause is of the
past, and no discussion of it now can
resurrect it. Nothing that jeff. Davis
can say will disrupt this union. If he
could say the word that would separate
the states, and involve the country in
war, he would not do so. Time was
when he would have done so but he
and the south have been through fear
full experience, and do not desire to go
through another. Free speech, inside
of lawful bounds, can do no harm, but
does good in keeping down discomfort.
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FURNISHED BY SHANNON, SHANNON
" BURNEY, REAL ESTATE, ABB
STRACTING AND CONVEYANCING.
From Nav 9Th to 18th.
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WHAT SALT WILL DO.

Severe pains in the bowels and
stomach are often speedily relieved
by the application of a bag of hot
salt. A weak solution OF salt and
water is recommended by good
physicians as cure for imperfect
digestion, and for q cold in the
head it is a complete cure snuffed
up from the hollow of the hand.
We have known severe chronic
cases of catarrh entirely cured by
persistent use of this simple RENE
dy every night and morning for
several months, when the best eff
forts of the best physicians failed
to do any good. 1t should be used
milk warm. A good handful of
rock salt added to the bath Is the
next best thing after an "ocean
DIP" and & gsrgle of weak solu-
ton is a good and ever ready rem
edy for a sore throat; as a dentl-
frice, salt and water is-very cleans
ing and also hardens the gums.
Will also prevent the hair from
falling out. When boiling steak
throw little salt on the Goals, and
the blaze from tho d. piping fat
will not annoy. AAlittle in starch
boiled or raw, will prevent the
irons from sticking. If the irons
are rough, put a little salt on a
thick brown paper, laying a piece
of thin brown muslin over it and
rub the iron over it 'ut.l perfectly
smooth. Ink stains are entirely
removed by the immediate apphca-
ton of dry salt before the ink has
dried. When the salt becomes dis
colored by absorbing the ink,
brush it off and apply more wet
slightly. Continue this till the
ink is all removed. If new cali
Goes are allowed to lie in strong
salt water for an hour before the
first washing, the colors are less
likely to fade. Damp salt will re-
move the dIscoloration of cups and
saucers caused by the tea and care
less washing. a teaspoonful of
salt in each kerosene lamp makes
the oil give q much clearer, better
light,
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Home and Farm.


In q recent lecture before the
Pennsylvania State Board of Agri-
culture, DIR. Harvey, among other
things, said the follwing in regard
TO the above-named topic: The
horse should be made comfortable
at his work. His harness should
fit without CALLING. His bridle
should be long enough 10 bring the
bit down to the angles ofhis lips
not so short as to bring them up
an inch or two above their natural
position, as is SO frequently the
case. The blinds should not touch
his eyes, nor his eyelids, either.
His head should not be refined I'M
comfortable high. On long jour
ney, or IN pulling a heavy load, he
should not be refined up at all. BE
is surer footed when his head is
free, and, if he should stumble, he
RECEIVERS better If he can throw his
head down and thereby relieve
his forelegs of part of the weight
of his body until they get in place
again. 1t is the same principle as
is applied when men jump and
throw a stone backward from each
hand at the same time. If q horses
neck is tired by tight refining he is
a tired horse, and he has been tired
without having accomplished any
thing to show for it. We have all
felt what 1t is-to be tired all ovea
by the torture of tight shoes, and
the relief that comes to the whole
body with a pair of slippers. He
should always have a free head
when travelling in the night. He
needs then the free use of all his
faculties. Do not understand me
as meaning that the check-rein
should never be used at all. 1T
has several uses. A horse can be
more easily managed, If he is dis
posed to be little too lively, by
checking his head up. Horses
naturally carry their heads up
when excited, and relning them up
into that position excites them. A
dull horse may, for o short time,
be made much more lively by
checking his head up little while
he is gong. This effect will not
continue long, but for short drive
about town, with a light weight
behind him, there is not much OBJ
lection to it if the horse is fresh.
When horse is checked up while
going he should be unchecked
while standing, that he may rest.
The check-rein should be easily |
shortened and heightened, SO that
his neck may be relieved without
giving him entire control of his
head while standing, for he might
rub his bride off or get his foot
over the lines if he could put his
head low down.-Colman's Rural
World.
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TO ExTERMINATE BEpRues.

Make a solution of corrosive
sublimate IN alcohol, and make it
so strong that the excess OF the
poison will appear In-the bottom
of the bottles when it is shaken.
Then with a large feather, thor
oughly apply the poison to every
hole, niche, corner and crevice of
the bedstead also TO all the seams
and corners of the mattress. The
bug Is a most prolific breeder, and
innumerable eggs are laid, on which
the ordinary bed bug poison have
no effect. The eggs are destroyed
by the virulent poison, and the
rapid evaporation of the alcohol
leaves the poison in very fine par
ticles in the breeding places. 1
moved in a house once, where this
vermIn was so abundant that upon
tearing off the wall paper great
blotches of eggs and nearly hatch
ed bugs were accumulated to the
amount of teaspoonful. My wife
and her mother were completely
unnerved, and l had TO take hold
of the matter myself. 1 used a
quart bowl for the poison, and a
paint brush. Every crack IN the
floor was painted with it, and
where the plastered walls touched
the mop boards the poison was lib
orally applied, and | came out of
the fght.-A Victorious Brother.
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No better evidence of the merit of any
original article exists than an enduring repu-
tation founded against all the attempts of
the envious and piratical imitators, who
have endeavored to palm off their worthless
substitutes, and which are offered for sale
through the medium of unprincipled
dealers. 1t has been the worthy fortune of
Glenn's Sulphur Soap to survive all such en-
croachments, and its prestige and rights
have been sustained by legal decision. This
article possesses extraordinary virtues rs a
skin remedy and beautifer, and its excellence
has been proved and eItolled by the testi-
mony of large number of persons in every
section of this country; its sale even extend
ing largely into foreign lands. This skilful
combination of soap with sulphur, and
which is well known to the public by long
and persistent advertising as "GIenn's Sui
phur Soap" is the exclusive property of
Charles n. Crittenton, of New York; and to
guard against limitations purchasers should
see that each package bears his name.
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OATS.

A correspondent of the Stock
man and Farmer tells how to raise
oats, as follows:
They should be sown In this
climate in the fall, sown broadcast
upon the land and plowed in with
a strong two horse pillow; a bush,
or light harrow, turned over,
should follow the plowIng. This
is to get your seed a good depth in
the soil. Three seasons past my
oats were sown on half the land as
above directed, and on the other
half the land was broken well first
and oats narrowed IN. Tho last
was never cut; the former made a
fine crop. The majority of our
farmers allow the oats to become
too ripe before cutting, which pro-
duces q great loss in seed and in
the value of the straw. Cut when
the grain is in the milk or cheesy
state and allow 1t to lie on the
ground only short while, and
cure in the shock,
All seeds require to be sown
much thicker here than further
north. Two bushels and a peck is
none too much seed to the acre.
The crop will do well cut with q
seli-binder and shocked the same
day,
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COTTON MANuPAcroRrEs.
Dallas Herald.

Dallas Herald.
Did you ever make calculation
of how much Texas loses every
year by shipping off her cotton
crop and then shipping back the
manufactured goods? 1t Is in the
neighborhood OF $40, 100000. This
is handsome sum of money TO be
rung from the toll and sweat of the
agricultural masses, especially
when there is no necessity for it.
We want cotton mills IN the state
to manufacture the product our
farmers work so hard to make, and
1t is the extreme of folly not to
have them. Here is a mission for
the farmers Alliance. They can
build cotton mills, and by so doing
they can get better price for their
cotton, get the cotton goods they
need at a cheaper price, bring
more population to the state OF
skilled workmen, open a new field
of industry for hundreds and thous-
ands in our midst who need work,
and produce a market for the meat,
breadstuffs: vegetables, poultry,
fruit, etc, they raise. Let the far
mers of Texas take the lead IN this
matter, and then other states will
fall into line, and directly the pro-
tectlve tariff, in so far as cotton
goods are concerned, will be killed
dead and the monopolies of New
England will be given their death
blow.
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But it is positively inexcusable TO administer
or take narcotics or potent sedatiyes to re-
lIeve intranquility of tho nerves, the easily
discoverable cause Of which IL simply indi=
gestion. Hostetter's Stomach Bitters is the
remedy indicated when the nervous system
is weak, and consequently super-sensitive and
untranquil. Braced and quieted by this SUI
perlative tonic, the system obtains needful
repose at night, dyspeptic qualms cease to
disturb the stomach, and mental inquietude
disappears. The habits of the body become
regular, the liver and kidneys are healthiully
and bodily or mental exertion
ceases to be a vearlsome and difficult task
Neuralgia, rheumatism and malarial dis
orders, and kidney troubles are entirely
eradicated by this matches invigorent and
regulator.
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LABOR Us. MACHINERY Prof.
Thompson of Harvard gives figures
compiled from congressional de-
bates and elsewhere showing that
in spite of the introduction of ma
chinery competition the price of
labor has tended steadily upward
in America during the century. 1t
appears from debates IN 1898 that
the wages of farm laborers in YER
mont were 'S4S a year and found
In Rhode Island in 1895, So q month
was good wages for the farm work
er. In 1929 wages for the day la
borer on Pennsylvania canals were
go cents a day, and the wages of
women had a maximum in 25 cents
q day. While the purchasing pow
er of money was greater then than
now, the increase IN the amount of
money IN circulation has not been
great enough to account for the in
crease IN wages. 1t is an evident
fact, though one not easily ex-
planned, that wages have increased
in the face of the machinery COM
petition; that there is more work
for more men at the Increased
figure, and that the money value of
wages represents a greater value
in the necessaries and luxuries of
life now than fifty years ago.
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A HOMEMADE WASHING FLUID
1 have found the following "spIen-
did" for washing: One pound of
Rabbits potash, one ounce of salts
of tartar, and one ounce of car
Donate ammonia. Dissolve IN one
gallon of rain water. Put 1t in a
jug snd cork tightly. For a large
tub Of clothes use two tablespoon
full. Let them stand fifteen minutes
until the water gets cool enough to
rub them out, and you will be sur
prised to see how clean and white
they will be. 1 pour scalding wa
ter over my clothes, LET them cool,
rub out, boil and rinse, and they
are clean and white. 1 would be
glad if some sister would try it and
report.-Ashland Mayfower.
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PLANT TREES.

Once Alexander the great, pass
ed by an old man who was plant
ing an apple tree. He said to him:
"Old man, why do you weary
yourself by digging into the hard
groundl You are too old to even
hope to enjoy any of its fruits"
al know that" replied the old
man, "but 1 enjoyed what others
planted, and now 1 am paying my
debt of gratitude by planting for
those that are to come after me-"
Could there be any nobler ans
wer than that? and what q pity
that men of to-day do not possess
the same spirit. Look at the wan
ton destruction of timber all over
our country, going on from day to
day. The ruthleas destroyer with
his axe is cutting the trees down
right and left, and nothing done to
secure a new growth. Thousands
of trees are destroyed and not one
is given back to the soil. 1t is
wrong and unless stopped will turn
our fertile lands into q desert.
Plant trees, not only fruit, but
other trees. In going over the
country one is impressed with the
conspicuous absence of trees about
the home. A place, no matter how
nice the house may be, it does not
look complete without trees. They
are the greatest of all beaut1fiers.
To think of any one having farm
and living In a house with the
yard bare of such ornaments it is
q reproach, when just a little trou-
BILE would make them to be proud
of Plant trees. This is the time of
the year to do it. You can do 1t
and never miss the time. You will
never regret it. They will be a
source of delight to you and your
children; and those who come af-
ter you will bless you for 1t.
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SOME HORSE TALK.

Havo as good horses as anybody
else in your neighborhood.
Provide good blankets for your
teams before cold weather sets in.
Made your income much greater
each year by improving your
horses.
Give your horses all the COM
forts possible when they cost you
nothing.
Makes reputation by being the
most successful horseman in the
country.
Keep your horses in good condi-
ton by feeding and grooming them
regularly.
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Some people suffer from sick headache all
their lives, dragging out miserable exist
ence. If they would only try one dose Of
Smiths Bile Beans Zone BEAM they would
never say that nothing would afford them re-
lief This wonderful remedy is pleasant,
harmless and always effective. The price,
% cents per bottle makes it very popular.
For sale by all druggists and dealers in med
icine, or sent by mail.
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W. D. Host & Co., wholesale and retail
druggists of Rome, Ga, say: 1--WE have
been selling DR.. Kings New Discovery.
Electric Bittcrs and Bucklen's Arnica Salve
for two years. Have never handled remedies
that sell as we'll, or give such universal salts
faction. There have been some wonderful
cures Effected by these medicines in this city.
Several cases Of pronounced consumption
have been entirely cured by use of few
bottles of DR.. Kings New Discovery, taken
in connection with Electric Bitters. We
guarantee them always. Sold by R. E. Luhn.
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Carlton & Nash tell us OF remarkable
cure effected by Ackcr's Blood Elixir. A
gentleman was literally covered with sores,
brought on by negleoting his system; ulcers
or boils came out all over him, but a
thorough course of Acker's Blood Elixir
cured him. They say that they will warrant
this as being the best blood medi-
cine that can be bought. 1t is always
certain to cure Syphilis in its worst form.
1t is positively guaranteed.
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Thomas L. Lavrno of Pittsburgh

Thomas l.. LavTne Of Pittsburgh
went to the theatre recently and sat
through one act of a very emotion.
al character with legs crossed and
locked in the rungs of chair.
When the curtain fell he drew Il
breath of relief, attempted to rise,
and found that his right side was
paralyzed. He was carried home,
and is very slowly recovering.
Doctors suppose the paralysis to
have been caused either by an IN
usual tension brought to bear on
his brain by temporary excitement
while following the drama, or bya
violent check to the circulation of
blood caused by the position in
which he had been sitting.
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Are you disturbed at night and broken Of
your rest by sick child suffering and crying
with the excruci.ting pain of cutting teeth !
II so. 60 at once and get bottle of Mrs.
Winslow's Soothing Syrup. 1t will relieve
the poor little sufferer immediite'y-depcnd
upon it +; there is no mistake aboutit. There
is not a mother on earth who has eyer used
it, who will not tell you at once that 1t will
regulate the bowels, and give rest to the
mother, and relief and health to the child,
operating like magic. It Is perfectly safe to
use in all cases, and pleasant to the taste, and
is the prescription of one of the oldest and
best female physicians and nurses in the
United States. Sold everywhere. % cents
a hottie
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r. E. Luhn can always be relied upon to
carry in stock the purest and best goods, and
sustain the reputation of being active, push
ing and reliable, by recommending articles
with well established merit and such as are
popular Having the agency for the cele-
brated DR.. Kings New Discovery for con-
sumption, colds and coughs, will sell it on a
positive guarantee. 1t will surely cure any
and every affection of throat, lungs or chest,
and in order to prove our claim, we ask you
to call and get a Trial Bottle Free.
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COHEN BROS.
OPIUM! I: &C. e 4!
LAND FOR SALE.

The undersigned offers for sale the follow
lowing described tracts of land and town
lots:
80 acres south side of II: & T. C. R. and
north of L. Lehmannis, SECTION house
on this tract-in three tracts or ono.
b6 acres, james Schrier leagus, thre miles
west Of BRENNAN,
90 acres James Sohrier league, four miles
south west of Brennan, west of the Gid
dings tract and south of the Petty place.
166 % acres in Lee county out of j. f.
Moncha league on Nails creek.
9S acres James Goochu league, eight miles
north of Burton, south side of Burns
cFeek-paft Of the N. Atkinson place.
Lot on Main street BreHham, 66xel feet
east Of Mrs. ..Shropshrire's.
Lot on Church street BRENNAN, 39x1e0 feet,
between Mrs. Norris residence and
Wood & Laws brick building-half
interest owned by Mrs. Rippetoe,
Lot No. 2, Block 25, wilkins addition to
BRENNAN, Also other desirable tracts
and lots.
For particulars apply to
j. T. SWEARINGEN & G. c. GARRETT,
BRENNAN TEXAS.
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Three American horses are to be
shipped to Rosa Bonheur. One
was bred on the Sun River, IN the
Rocky Mountains another is a
wild horse caught on the head wa
tiers Of the Niobrara, and the third
is a mustang from the Brazos
River, Texas; they are designed as
specimens OF horses used on our
frontier.
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Whatever name or designation is given to
Fever and Ague, or other intermittent dis
eases it is safe to say that malaria or dis
ordered state of the Liver is at fault. Ellmi-
nate the impurities from the system, and s
sure and prompt cure is the-immediate re.
suit. Prickly Ash Bitters is the safest and
most effective remedy for all hillary troubles,
kidney diseases, and like complaints that has
ever been brought before the public. Atrial
is its best recommendation.
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In order that our town may have the best
goods possible, the popular druggists, Carl
ton e Nash have agreed TO sell Ackers
English Prescriptions, among which is
AcEer's Dyspepsia Tablets. They act upon
the system when suffering with Dyspepsia,
bad breath, sour stomach, flaLulency, heart,
burn, &C., &C., with wonderful certainty,
hence they guarantee them to cure always,
or will refund the money.
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About three years ago the agent for
Acker's English Remedy first called at his
town, and since then the number of testimo-
mails that have been sent in to Carlton &
Nash concerning the merits of the
Remedy, and the many cures effect
ed surprises them. They wish It
to be thoroughly understoo that for all
colds, hoarseness, asthma, Group, whooping
cough, all phthisical troubles. they have
never known its equal, and positively guar
antee It.