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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-08-15
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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-08-15

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Treasurer Barber Co.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-08-15
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the Sc corner. 20 30 L
thence north 20
rods TO the riv-
err; thence west
by Z deg. north
S0l rds; thence
north by 40
de grees west
20 rods to cot
tonwood tree,
blaZed on east
and north sides
also marked by
a stone; thence
s-w up a canon
to q point on
the sec. line, Al
rods north of
the n-wt sec.25:
thence south ~
rods to the !
section corner;
thence east 100
rods TO begin
, 1888-09-16

Silver stolen in a large city rarely re-
turns to its rightful owner, for the melt
ing pot stands in the way. In Russia.
some years ago, a large mou of silver
was stolen from an imperial palace.
The silver was not only of value for its
weight of metal, but was plate of the
time of Catherine. The police followed
the plumber closely, but were not quite
so fast as they should have been. AS it
was, the silver. converted into the chlor-
ide of silver, escaped their notice, for the
Russian detective could not understand
how a mortar-like looking substance,
without metallic appearance, was silver.
During our war with Mexico, the Mexi-
cans are said to have saved a great deal
Of silver 10y means of this chemical
chanGc.--The Argonaut.
, 1888-09-16
Strange Disappearance of Gems.

Every trade has peculiarities about it
that are inexplicable. A notable in
stance of this is the strange manner in
which diamonds and other precious
stones disappear when accidentally
dropped by dealer while handling them.
at really seems, said a jeweler to a
reporter, that these valuable tones have
the power of motion. A diamond
dropped at one end of a room has been
found in the dust at the further end of
the apartment.
"On another occasion l saw a stone
that was dropped to the floor from a
loose setting, and, after hours of fruit
less search, this same stone was found in
the show window six feet from where it
fell.
"a friend of mine and a customer of
his spent two hours in looking for a
diamond hat flew from the tweezers in
which it was held for inspection, and
when they had given up the search in
despair it was found nesting cozily in
the thick black beard of the customer.
"Other precious stones seem to have
the same faculty for disappearing. A
short time ago q dealer allowed a fine
topaz TO slip from his hand. The spot
on the floor where it fell, and in fact
every part of the Office, was thoroughly
searched, but the stone was never re-
covered. Chicago News.
, 1888-09-16

Fifteen years ago two poor boys from
the old town of Plymouth in New Eng
land went down to a lonely part of the
coast to gather q certain sea weed from
the rocks, which when bleached and
dried is sold as Irish moss for culinary
purposes. The boys lived in a little hut
or the beach; they were out before dawn
to gather or prepare the moss, which had
to be wet with salt water many times,
and spread out in the sun until it was
thoroughly whitered.
They had one hour each day free from
work. One of them spent it lying on
the sand asleep. The other had brought
put his books and studied for that hour,
trying to keep up with his schoolmates.
The first boy is nov a middle aged
He still gathers moss on the coast near
Plymouth. The second emigrated to
Kansas, became the leading man in a
new settlement. and is now a wealthy,
influential citizen.
mo matter what was my work" he
said lately, Il always contrived to give
one hour a day 70 my education. That
is the cause of my success in life. -
Youths Companion.
, 1888-09-16

y ride of forty-three miles from Aspen
10 Gleuwood Springs descends ., 900 feet,
with n corresponding rise in temperature.
Here the Grand river, emerging from the
wonderful canyon, is Joined by Roaring
Fork. Here. by the side of the Grand
river. are sulpho-saline springs which for
volume and heat beat the world. A cir
cular wall. so or so feet in diameter.
enclosfs bubbling springs which send up
a volume of water, which is carried in Il
stone aqueduct, along the side of a walled
IN swimming pool, $50 feet long and 100
feet wide. into which the aqueduct has
several inlets, besides discharginG a
strong stream below.
This great swimming pond of strong
sulpho-saline water is kept warm summer
and winter by these springs. The salt
water is so heavy as to make swimming
easy. The pond is three feet deep at one
end, deepening to five feet at tue other
end, and there is a row of dressing roonls
for bathers. Here the population, male
and female, disport of evenings under az
electric flare. The statement that this
great pond is kept hot all winter is bard
to believe, but travellers have to believe
much. Below the pond is a bathing
house into which the water is brought Ivy
q pipe, still too hot for use without n COIL
ing mixture. On the town side, by Tie
edge of the Grand, is a hot spring and n
bath house. the property of the town and
free to all.
a little above, neal the entrance to
the canyon of the Grand, is q natural
cave of hot vapor, called the sweating
cave, having accommodations for strin-
ping and dressing. This is a short order
Turkish bath. The person TO be sweated
strips in an apartment and then passes
through a narrow way in the rocks into
the natural cavern at the base of the
mountain, and the door is shut upon
him, making the cavern tight. A small
aperture at the top lets in a faint light
through a glass. The heat and vapor
are made by hot sulpho-saline springs in
the bottom of the cavern. A floor is laid
over these to stand on. A spring in "A
basin at the side of the cavern offers for
a dash. Here the sweater stands in the
hot air as long as he can-say ten or fif-
teen minutes, sweating for all a sweat is
worth.DCincinnati Commercial Gazette.
, 1888-09-16

Doctors talk of innovation of the scalp,
n atrophy, but it is not considered
their place to say that the cause of inner
walton, eczema, and paralysis of the skin
is want of needed cleanliness. Think
what state the face would be in if it were
washed only once in six weeks or longer;
and imagine the condition of the scalp
with its thousands of oil glands and its
hairy growth to detain all the Astounding
dust. The wonder ID nS that people lose
their hair, but that they have n to lose.
The cause of much badness and thinning
of the hair is the choking of the bulbs by
neglect. The uext potent causes are dry,
overheated air of rooms, which destroys
the vitality of everything in reach,
withers bloom, draws the skin into
wrinkles, and dries the hair by the roots
and also nervous dyspepsia, which de-
MES nutrition to the entire system, in
Guiding the hair. Those causes, want of
care and cleanliness, dry neat and indi-
gestion, lie at the root of poor hair.
Wearing hats or bonnets frequently,
or long at a time, is an unsupported
cause of grayness and falling locks. Gus
tom should be amended to allow woman
to remove onnets wherever possible-on
long journeys, in heated concert rooms,
theatres and public galleries, The iii
brary headache" familiar to women
who spend much time studying in public
libraries in senseless habit with their
bonnets on, is speedily destructive to the
hair as well as the nerves. The unnec-
essary heat and pressure on the brain
while reading is most mischievous. Wo-
men in class rooms and reading rooms
should lay aside their head gear, if only
for a half hour. The harm done by 60
ing about hours and days with a bonnet
on, shopping or visiting, is the cause,
doubtless, of much falling of the hair
which the .owner is at q loss to account
for.-Shirley Dare's Letter.
, 1888-09-16
Proper Care of Woodlands.

A German farmer would as SCOT allow
his cattle to range in his wheat fields MS
in his forests, which often prove the most
profitable part of a European estate. In
this country the wooded part of the farm
is not cared for nor protected in a way
to maintain and increase its value; it is
always used as n pasture, in spite of a
well known fact that cattle are fatal to a
forest; the trees are either all cleared off
at once, without reference to their re-
production, or are SO carelessly selected
for cutting that the character and COM
position of the woods are ruined. More
care is taken now than formerly to pre-
vent and check fires in the woods, but
the damage lone to forest properly in
this country by fire is still an alarming
item in the national waste account. No
system of agriculture can b. long success
full and profitable which ignores the ne
cessity of c~ultivating trees, and which
does not recognize the fact that much
land in every country can only be made
profitable by means Of trees.
The precepts which should be often
repeated to farmers are not that trees
produce rain, or that trees are sacred OBJ
jects, which cannot be cut without of
Tense to man and nature. The lessons
they mus learn, if they hope to COM
pete with the farmers trained under
more enlightened systems of agriculture,
are that sterile, rocky, billy ground can
not long be titled profitably and that
such land can only be wisely used to pro
luce trees; that the p~asturage of do
nestle animals in woods or on land only
suitable for the growth of trees, is an
expensive and wasteful system, as UNI
satisfactory from a pastoral point of
view as it is fatal to the forest; that
trees are as much out of place in the
strong level lands really suitable to per-
manent tillage as cattle are out of place
in the woods. And they must learn,
too that woodlands can only be made
profitable when the same care is given
to the selection of trees with reference
to the soil and climate as is bestowed
upon the selection of grain and other
crops, and that the rules which nature
has established for the perpetuation Of
forests must be studied and obeyed.-
Garden and Forest.
, 1888-09-16

In a recent number of The Nuova An
tologia, published at Rome, Professor
Masso gives the results of some expert
ments that he has lately made with the
blood of cells and of certain marine fishes.
If the conclusions drawn by the profess
sor from these experiments are sound. it
would seem that, were an eel provided
with an apparatus to inject its own
blood into a wound as the serpent in
jeots his venom when he bites, an eel in
the mud would be every bit as objec-
tionable a thing as a snake in the grass.
Professor Masso, being anxious to ascer-
tain whether the blood of those salt
water fishes that died when put into
fresh water differed from the blood of
those that survived the transition from
salt water into fresh, compared the serum
of the blood of the dogfish and of other
salt water fishes that died when placed
in fresh water with the blood of eels and
certain other fishes that were not hurt
by the change from salt water to fresh.
OF the first named, he found the serum
of the blood clear and limpid and tasting
Of salt water; while of the others the
serum was of a yellowish color, with
white and blue reflections, like petro-
leum, and of a burning and acrid taste.
experimenting Win Tie ldIIeI ny III
iecting it under the skin of rabbits, frogs,
mice and pigeons, he discovered that it
was a deadly poison, its effects being
similar to viper poison, inasmuch as
death was caused by paralysis of the
respiratory organs. Experimenting on
dogs with this fish poison and with viper
poison, the professor found that, minute
as was the quantity of the latter poison
required to cause the death of the animal
in a few minutes, it was one-third more
powerful than the fish poison-that is to
say, it required three times the quantity
of the fish poison to produce the same
effect that a certain quantity of the viper
poison produced. In regard to the cure
Of snake bites, Professor Masso says that
the stimulants usually given are wholly
useless and that the only hope of recov-
cry lies in tracheotomy and artificial
pumping of air into the lungs.-St.
James Gazette.
, 1888-09-16
A FRIGHTFUL SKIN DISEASE.
s~nfrerings Intense. Head Nearly Raw.
Body Covered with sores. Cured
by the CuLicura Remedies.

MEssRs. STEVENS & BRUNER: Monroe, N. C..
Dear two months ago, on read
ing your accommodation, l bought a bottle
Cuticura ReSolvent, one box Cuticura Salve,
and one cake Cuticura Soap, for my son, aged
ID years, who has been afflicted with eczema
for a long time, and l am pleased to, say that l
believe the remedies have cured him. His
suferings were intense, his head being nearly
raw, his ears being gone except the gristle, and
his body was covered with Sores. His condi-
ton was frightful to behold. The sores have
now all disappeared, his skin is healthy, eyes
bright, cheerful disposition and working every
day. My neighbors are witnesses to this re
markable cure, and the doubling ones are re-
quested to call or write me or any OF my neigh
bors WIN. S. STEPHENSON
Winchester p. o., Union Co, N. G.
, 1888-09-16

American history as it is printed in
English papers is always interesting. and
often surprising to Americans. The
death of Gen. Sheridan has called forth
the English writer of American history,
who, unfortunately for him, left his ref
erencc book behind, Thus The Birming-
ham Post informs its readers that
Gen. Sheridan had the good fortune
to witness many of the most re-
markable battles Of the FTanco-G German
war, when representing the American
government at the German army during
the invasion of France. There can be no
doubt that he protited immensely by the
lessons of that war, and by the counsels
and criticisms of the German s~trategists
with whom he was in daily contact; and
when the war crisis arose in his own
country, therefore, he met it with a much
better equipment of knowledge and ex-
pcrience han most of his colleagues and
contemporaries" The little circum-
stance hat the Franco German war did
not begin until more thar five years after
our civil war ended is not allowed to in
terfere with the Birmingham EDITORS
assumption that Sheridan was a pupil of
the Germans and learned of them how to
win battles. Boston Transcript.
, 1888-09-16
Slavery Praoticed Among Ants.

Slavery when practiced among ants has
consequences no less evil than when prac-
ticed among men. The ants decline in
strength and vigor, and every generation
finds them become more utterly helpless.
They lose at last the power even to eat;
placed within easy reach of food, they
wait for their faithful servitors 20 come
and put it into their mouths. 1t has been
shown by experiment that these naughty
patricians prefer starvation to the effort
of helping themselves to their dinners.
The slaves are really the masters, and it
seems to be from their force of habit that
they remain in their position of bondage.
1t would be perfectly easy for them to
free themselves from it. Nature, how
ever, is rapidly doing this for them. The
Shareholders are so fast diminishing in
strength and numbers that they will
sooner or later undoubtedly become ex-
tinct.-New York Star.
, 1888-09-16

THE POTTER DRUG n CHEMICAL Co.
Genlenen:-Mr WINS. Stephenson of this
county brought his son to town to-day to let
us see him and to show us what Cuticura
Remedies had done for him. This is the case
referred to in our letter to you some time ago
To look at the boy now one would suppose
that there had never been anything the mat
ter with him-seems to be in perfect health.
We have written and herewith inclose what
the father has to say about the matter,-wrote
IL Just as he dictated.
We are selling quite a quantity of Cuticura
Remedies and hear nothing but praises for
them. We regard the Cuticura Remedies the
best in the market, and shall do all we can to
promote their sale. Yours truly,
STEVENS q BRUNER,
nrrlupistS and pbarpnoaiSt
, 1888-09-16
Best Tonic for the Hair.

How common it is to see a woman
under thirty with only a tiny twist of
hair behind her head" remarked q fash
ionable hair dresser to a reporter. Il
venture to say, however" the speaker
went on, that II you ask her she will
say that when she was a girl she had
q splendid head of hair. Now, what is
the reason for this2 The woman has lost
no other of her physical charms, but her
hair has well nigh disappeared.
Ell think that l can solve the problem.
On retiring at night she goes to sleep
without releasing her hair or giving it
the vigorous combing n brushing which
is absolutely necessary to it's healthy
vitality. Hundreds of careless women do
that. Then, too, she is not careful as to
the kind of hairpins she uses. Metal
hairpins should be used as little as posi-
BILE, for rubber or gutta percha pins are
far preferable, although they may seem
more clumsy; but if metal pins are chosen
they should be straight and smooth.
What is the best tonic for the hair?
In my experience l have found that a good,
brisk and regular brushing is the best
tonic. If the hair is coming out rapidly
let this treatment begin at once. Every
morning unbraid the hair and brush it in
its natural hanging position with a stiff,
white bristle brush-never a wire one.
First brush ne-half of the hair. Then
change the brush to the other hand and
treat the remaining half in the same
fashion. The same operation should be
repeated in the evening.
Begin with about fifty strokes on each
side and gradually increase the treatment
until not less than two hundred strokes
are given each morning and evening. 1t
will soon become a habit, and before long
the hair will cease to come out. "-Chicago
Herald.
, 1888-09-16

"Aunty," said a little New Jersey boy
who was on a visit, Il thought you said
yol didn't have any mosquitoes il this
pat of the country"
I'VE don't, dear"
But l can hear them singing just as
they do at home"
No, Tommy; that is 4 saw mill you
hear. "-Harper's Bazaar.
, 1888-09-16

This is the difference between a noble
thought and a merely brilliant thought:
The former, like a friend, improves on
acquaintance; the latter loses its force on
. second meeting,--.Ivan Panin.
, 1888-09-16

Sold everywhere. Price, Cuticura, SOC; Soap,
Csc; REsolvent, 81. Prepared by the Potter
Drug and Chemical Co., Boston, Mass.
co. Send for "How to Cure Skin Diseases
"a pages, 80 illustrations and 100 testimonials.
, 1888-09-16

Cuticura, the great skin cure, and Cuticura
Soap, prepared from it. externally, and Cuti-
cura Resolvent. the new blood purifier, inter
nally, are a positive cure for every form of
skin and blood disease, from pimples to scrof-
The Odessa herald. (Odessa, Del.) 1888-1892, 1888-11-03
RrriISl I'm Odessa.

Odessa, up to 1852, and for some
years afterwards, was very thrifty
town, and more business was done here
than any town of its size in the State
of Delaware. / am told that hundreds
Of thousands Of bushels of wheat, corn
and oats were hauled here by wagons,
for sale and shipment; some Of it hay
ing been hauled from beyond War
wick and other parts of Maryland and
Delaware; coming right through
Middletown Gas in 1852 there was no
railroad completed to Middletown
and it was small village.
Now the grain trade has dwindled
down to few thousand bushels per
year and the stores are doing COM
paratively a small business. If it
were not for the tomato cannery of
Mr.. Watkins, and the fertilizer works,
there would hardly be trade enough
to support one store.
What is the cause of this decline
and fall off in trade? Plainly because
the Delaware railroad was not per-
united to come to Odessa, but was
forced to pass through NIiddktown.
Now that town has a population
several times greater than Odessa and
still is growing, while Odessa is going
backward. How c4n this be changed
for the bettesY
know Of no better way than to
take FOR example the experience Of
most Of the thrifty towns Of the great
West. There wlian hey want to
boom thair town, every one Of thciI
citizens rich end poor all take hold rs
,?n~l . DER Mems viii allow GRO
The Odessa herald. (Odessa, Del.) 1888-1892, 1888-11-03
PROGRESS.



The chimney fthe Odessa Hotel Is receiving
repairs.
The Town Hall has a much better appearance
after two coats of mint
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The Odessa herald. (Odessa, Del.) 1888-1892, 1888-11-03
Home Affairs.

.satnrday, Novenlher 8, 1883
The Odessa herald. (Odessa, Del.) 1888-1892, 1888-11-03
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The Odessa herald. (Odessa, Del.) 1888-1892, 1888-11-03
List Of Cheap Farms Farms

NO. !. The Cochran Farm 2iO acres upland, n
mile from Odessa, nice Home AND Farm IN
good condition. ,. IL is;af
No .. Tho AIDA Delhi Farm, 100 acres At
Hyntt's Corner, Thfs IL h iiiee piece " land aud
good home like plntd. i3ss n
No,3. The Reybold Estate, containing 1000 acres
Divided Into four farms. This Is the tineA lRulin
the state Very highly i;npnyed and tho very
best of buildings; will besoid rs wlloleor sepor-
a..iy on best of terms amt nt Il sacrifice. and
wholly because the owner cannot attend 70 IT, In
consequence 10 a1licton, s,.a -. /,
No Three small fittHls az MeDonough Nies
Home like places, beautiful lpcatious good land
and Buildings Soldbecauso the ownerl ives Rcst
and iri'Httend Of them -, u. ~
Nos Thirteen Farms d9Ar. Fnow Hill ana
Pnconiokc City These arc valuable lands for
peaches and truck and arc offered ut very low
figures
NOD 213-acre farm In complete condition. oive
mile from Middletawn aigg liotie
Nor 900 acres AtNNnalns fleHssnt Nice place
and ifl:gtodi Condition Good buildings
Geo. w. ingram, Agent. ; = s:m