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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-07-23
THE STYLE OF TO-DAY.
Never Were Women ID: Ossed More Ad.
nlirably Than at Present,


nlirably Than at Present,
The present tendency of fashion
toward naturalness in form and design
may be accepted, at least for the pres
ent, as strong and absolute, nor does it
seem likely, with the taste for ''art"
and the general knowledge which the
masses are gaining correctness in style
and outline, that the wheel of time will
ever in its ceaseless revolutions bring
back the immense expansion of hoops
or the frightful deformity of the hustle,
Where fashion takes such hold of its
followers thatoit descends to the most
minute details, revolutionizing under
wear, and adapting every separate
article of costume to one idea, then we
certainly have reason to hope that it is
destined to more or less continued ex-
istence. For then the great business and
mercantile interests become.involved in
its permanent acceptance, machinery
employed in supplying great demands is
modified in accordance with the new
regulations, and such ponderous bodies
can only be moved at certain intervals.
The entire catalogue of women's gar
ments has gradually undergone this
Transformation. A few years ago yards
and yards of muslin or linen were gath
cred and tucked and gauged into clumsy
articles of underwear which effectually
destroyed all natural grace and outline.
Now there is little superfuous material
to be found among even the plainesf and
simplest OF ordinary garments. They
encase the form very snugly, hamper.
ing no limbs, and yet they have almost
tailor fit. This change did not take
place in an instant or month. 1t took
many seasons to accomplish it, and ii
is years since the first attempt was
made TO bring about the result.
When tide iH fashion as yell as Ia
other affairs sets strongly in one dirac.
tieR, 1t is useiess TO attempt to turn it,
1t must reach its flood. Fashions may
therefore be considered pretty we'll set
tied for year to come. Changes will
be developed in style, and much variety
in the detail of design adapted to diver
sifed wants and purposes, but the
smaoth outline with the fullness massad
low at the back win form the basis oI
them all, and all must be subject to such
limitations as these conditions impose.
fhe styles Of present are most Of them
admirabIei the only fear just At present
is that the strong natural feelings
against demi-trains on the promenade
are to be oVerruled, and that clean and
costly fabrics are once more to be trailed
in the dust-N. Y. Post
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-07-23
A word Ahout Babv,s Can.

In the dressing of little children many
fond, young mothers aim to put on what
is pretty, forgetful oftentimes of the
discomfort the little tots must suffer.
Who ever saw an infant who willingly
submitted to the tying on of the cap,
without some demonstration of disap-
proval of that bit of head-gear? AS an
article of apparel, these same little
caps must be very annoying. They are,
if starched ever so little, very stiff for
the delicate head of a baby, and they
do not serve to protect the head of the
wearer from either heat or cold, from
sunshine or from wind.-Christian at
Woply
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-07-23
THE MAJORS WOUND.
He Thought the Ball Had Gone Clear
Through His Body.

through Ills bOOys
81 was wounded three times during
the war;" said Major L., with merry
twinkle in his fine brown eye-''once
fatally, but you see l am still an inhab-
liant of this beautiful earth"
Perhaps" suggested one of his list
eners, you were like the man Of whom
the country newspaper man wrote: The
ball entered his left side, infictinR
mortal wound. With good care he will
be able to pull through all right
That's just where the ball did enter"
replied the grizzled veteran, cheerfully.
II was in the Shenandoah Valley with
Sheridan and we were having a lively
little time of it, regular hare-and-
hounds race all the time, eit seemed.
We were chasing Mr.. Johnny Rebel out
of the country and in one of our charges
suddenly stopped short, feeling as If
red-hot sword had been thrust through
me. l was wounded, badly, too. The
ball had entered my left side and had
passed clean through my body, leaving
a fierce burning trail.
"'Well, said to myself, Abe L.,
this time you are dead man. No man
way through his vitals.
II staggered out of the line. The
fighting business was so brisk just then
that wounded men were looking out for
themselves. l managed to get to log
and sat down on it to wait until should
die. The pain was so fearful that l
could barely move my limbs. 1t seemed
to paralyze my nervous and muscular
force. AS / sat there watching the
men scampering along, one of my old
comrades passed me.
Whats the matter, Abe?' he cried.
'Hitq'
They've done me this time an
swered.
Hope not he turned to yell back as
he ran. One doesn't expect delicate at
tention at such times.
well, l waited to die until finally
said to myself: If this is dying it isn't
so bad after all
81 unbuckled my belt to ease the pain
and thought would like to see what a
deadly wound looked like. l took q
look and there was no wound there. ]
could not believe my eyes. knew
had been hit, for l could feel where the
ball had come out in my back. put
my hand around there to touch the
hole and could not find it. There was
not sign of wound in my side, not a
mark on the skin. 1t took me not more
than thirty seconds to buckle my belt
around me and make a run for my COM
pany. l caught it in twenty minutes.
"'How's this?' two or three of the
boys painted. We thought you were
! killed
"'Well, you see am not, said, fall
ing into the ranks.
81 had been hit by spent ball, and
that night when l examined my side
found black and blue spot on it as big
as my cap. l didn't mind it in the
least. A man who suddenly recovers
from a mortal wound feels pretty cheer
! ful."-N. Y. Tribune.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-07-23
JAMES DIVERSION.
1t Was Awfully Funny, of Course, b.


1t Was AwfuIlv Funny, of Course. But
Not Very Profitable.
dot boy Shake-dot boy Shaker" he
mournfully repeated, as a friend asked
him if he was no longer in business in
st. Louis.
Jake is your sonen
eyes, my son; my idiot"
What did Jake doP''
"Vhell. goes oop to Chicago to see
my sister, who vhas dead. Shake vhas
left to run der store. Peesness vhas a
leedle on, und Shake plans dot he yhin
make diversion. belief it vhas di-
version, but my head aches so hard
vhas not sure"
es, 1t was probably a diversion
"Vhell, ehe goes down cellar, and
starts leedle fre-not mooch, but
shust enough to bring out der engines
und crowd, and smoke up der goods.
1t vhas for great fire sale. you know
goods slightly damaged-feefteen-d
lar suits for fve--greatest bonanza for
working people eafer known In St
Louis"
Il see,"
'thut he gets too much fire, und
AWAY goes der house, der clothing und
der peesnes."
But you were insured?"
80 help me gracious, but der policies
run oud at noon, und Shake makes dot
diversion at 6ve o'clock in the after
nooni All vhas gone oop-all except q
determination to go to work and build
oop anew. l vhas shust starting in .
small vhay again. May be you like me
to sell you better suit dan you haf on
for four dollars-al wool, we'll made,
indigo dye. and computed to stand in
any elimate?"-N. Y. Sun
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-07-23
The Early Use of soap.

The remains of well-1rganized soap
factory have been found in the ruins Of
Pompeii. Tyler says the first express
mention of II occurs in Pliny and Galen;
and the former declares it to be an in
vention of the Gauls, though he prefers
the German to the Gallo soap. In
remote periods clothes were cleansed
by being rubbed or stamped upon in
water. Nausicaa and her attendants,
Homer tells US, washed theirs by tread
ing upon them with their feet in pits Of
water.-Odyssey, book vi. The manu-
facture of soap began in London in 1924,
before which time it was supplied by
Bristol at one penny per pound
Christian at Work.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-07-23

$50 Dc Smith married that rich Ros-
ton sirl. after all
Yes. Ven see. while she wasn't peatr
". she was highly cultured and had .
very purse-uasiye way about heE.R-v
Washington Critic.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-07-23
business motto..

There's fine business motto" said
q peddler to the grocer: Honesty is
the best policy It'll pay you to hang
that up"
= doH't kegs" replied the grocer,
dubiousfy: '.'kut I'll try one an ses
bow it works. An you can give me
ave No Trusts there's big money in
them, PUCK,
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-07-23
Wanted a Loan.

Smita-~Say, Brown, got fYe dollars
in changef
Brownies. guess ss.
Smith-Well, loan 1t to me few min-
utes. Here comes Greene down the
street; I'm going to ask him to lend me
dollar, and know he'll say he's got
nothing less than five.-Jester.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-07-23

The average of money brought int
this country with the thousands of i'm.
migrants recently landed at New York,
Is said 70 be about fifteen dollars-ju just
about enough Z say railroad fare over
to the valley of tho Chic,
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-07-23
HI. william stin Pursued IN,

That's whatI call rank persecution"
yelled Bronson.
''What?'
why, ] gave mp my house last month
to get rid of my landlord, and now the
brute has bought the house / have
leased for three years..-N. Z. Sun.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-07-23
Rarher County Officers.
POSTAL

Postonicc AZ Medicine Lodge open from A NJ
t. PM. Sundays one hour ON arrival oi mail
Money order, open \. N. To r. NJ. Satur,
dnys p. q. open until =. VI. Eastern man
closes promptly at \. NJ. =,
n 4 BEDvN Assistant.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-07-23

IF man does not (because he can
potl haye good opinion of himself, he
is badly of, since no one else will per.
form that duty for him.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-07-23

Z l. o. q. F., Pioneer LOd .c
y E&34sSS 4 No. l1g.-Kcgular meetings
N-e5X ~ S{elA-1 every Tuesday cyen.ng.N $
%~ iungbrcthrcu in good stand
SWSD lug cordially invited.
II. l.. LfNDLEY, n. G.
T.. VI. BYERLEY, sec.
ENSIGN ENCAMPMENT No. 81, /. q. o. +
Meets first and third Friday Of each month
Visiting Patriurchs cordially invited To- attend
:. l.. ALLEN. u. =. &. X. hAkltls, y. =
W. II. ROUSE, =. W. j. Z. "MsTAb' -
NAOMI No. 81. REBECCA DEGREE. DOE
Meets the 2d Hnd 4th Wed. nights, each month
Mas. r. NJ. ALLEN, n. q,
MHs. AUG. SCMtpT, Sccy.
~ D ELDKED POST, No. ia, meets
w. p, n the last saturday in each month
ot the court house in Medicine Lodge, at p. NJ
All comrades cordially invited.
LOREN EDWARDS Post Commander
JOuN ". GPpERMAN, AdiutHnt.
q " LOREN EDWARDS CAMP, No l52
D. . :. OF ", meets ON lrt ana 3d ShiuI i
tav evenings uf cHCh month. III X. OF +. hall
T. i. MORRIS, Capt. T.. W. SNODDY, lst Lieut.
ROBT. CAMERON, lst ScHrgcnt
A. o. u w. SS': HS$ss "a AZ %%5 I'll II F'l%a,
night W. =. fiNNEf' NJ. W
r. NJ BYERLEY, Recorder.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-07-23

Mr.. Gladstone allows ali the people
in the neighborhood of Hawarden 70
freely use his splendid library of 20. 600
Fclumcs.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-07-23
CHURCHES.

DAPTISr- Preaching each sunday at IL a.
DIN. aud at 80 y. IN, AZ the courthouse. sun
day school at 10 O'Clock, a IN. Prayer meeting
wednesday evening Of each week. Rev. w. a
Cain Pastor. Residence on Cor. Lincoln Ave-
aud Cherry streets.
NHRISTIAN.-PrCach every Sunday at
~ II O'Clock, Al. m, ana go p. m. by Elder
j. r. Nicholson. Prayer meeting every We'd
ncsduy night sunday school nj lOo'clock Il. M
every sunday. Pastors residence at the par
sonugc /; study at the chapel
AHETHODIST EPISCOPAL.-Serviccs every
.aNl Sutda! at II 30 a. IN. and 30 p. m; sun
.iay school every sunday at 10 Il. III. Prayer
rncctin- every Thursday evening at I:JO.
Strangers invited. ID. w. PHILLIPS, Pastor.
DRESBYTERTAN.- Services everySunday ut
4 II ~. III. and 80 p. IN. Sunday school AT
10 a. m. J. . Is NORTH, fhSlor.
CATHOLIC CHURCH Services on Ind
Sunday of every month at ShcrlOck's hall, at
IO.OO a. m REV. BITTER Pastor.
GERMAN BAPTIST BREHHiEN-Holdr reg
" ulur services at MingOna, BHrhcr county,
the second and fourth Sundays in each month.
At Forrest school house on the second SUNDAY /;
Cedar Creek school house on the third sunday.
by Elders Shambcrgcr, Smith and Neher.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-07-23

DELrIItA LODGE, No. l40, X. of p, meets ON
Monday evening of each week, at the X. OF T..
hall. Visiting knights in good standing lnNl-
tcd to attend. SCOTT RUBERr, G. G.
II. A. BROwN, X. of X. ;.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-07-23
gNCIETIES.

4. r. < 4. NJ, Delta Lodge No -
N Regular communications, first and
X x third saturday, evenings In Giii each
otiny utalcus il lood standing, cordially in
viinI to attend FHASK BEERS, w. NJ.
II. .INGHNHAM, Secretary.
CYPRUS CHAPTER No. Gi, Il. a. ~, meets
I'm Masonic Han every ~ ana attn thursday.
Visiting brethren cordially invited.
CHESTER |. LONG, II. p.
f.. Il. PECK. Scc'y.
n II q LORRAINE CHAPTER, No. 80.
", Il, o. Regular Communications, nrst
and third Monday evenings ia each month.
Mrs EVA l.. MERBELL, W. NJ.
NANNtE V. o BRYAN, sec.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-07-23
He Thought OF Immortalitx.

If the soul be immortal, it requires to
be cultivated with attention. not only
for what we call the time Of life, but
for that which may follow-I mean
eternity; and the least neglect in this
point may be attended with endless
consequences. If death were the Anal
dissolution of being, the wicked would
be great gamers by it, by being deIiv-
cred at once from their bodies, their
souls and their vices; but, as soul is
immortal, it has no other means of be-
ing freed from its evils, nor any safety
for it. but ii becoming very good and
very wise; for it carries with it nothing
but its good or bad deeds, its virtues or
vices, which are commonly the conse-
quences of tho education it has re-
ceiyed, and in themselves constant
causes of eternal happiness or misery.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-07-23
-Retween fha ITral and tha Okhots

Between the Ural and the Okhotsk
seas there is , spot half as large as the
State OF Michigan, which is frozen
ground to the depth of ninety-four feet.
That is, it has never thawed out since
the world was created. and probably
never will.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-07-23

"A colored woman nearly hundred
years old was bapt zed day or two ago
at Atlanta, Ga.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-07-23

/. o. q. f., Pioneer LOd .c
No. l1g.-KcgulaTmeetings
every Tuesday cVen.ng.N $
itingbrethrcuing in good stand
lug cordially invited.
IL L. IINnIEN- N q
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1890-12-11

"Do you know how 1 have kept my
umbrellas for years?" said New York
man one morning to his companion in
the train. swell, I'll show you," and
he lifted up a fold of the handsome silk
one he had in his hand. Right in the
center of the fold was a round hole.
"First thing do" he said, "when get
q new umbrella is to cut hole in it
about as big as a cookey close to the
edge. That doesn't hurt the umbrella
for service any, but it looks queer and
nobody ever wants it. Nobody at home
borrows it, nobody ever takesit by mis-
take;' or, if it is taken, the mistake
never lasts longer than it takes to open
the umbrella. It's surer than ones
name, even when you put stolen from
before it, because nobody ever really be-
lieves that legend, you sec, and 1t passes
for joke. l began putting this mark
on my umbrella twelve years ago, and
I've carried every umbrella I've bought
since until the silk wore out. And not
one would havo been taken of if had
carried it until the hole wore out"
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1890-12-11
The Cha mpion PretzsI Eater.

There is German boy employed in a
barber shop in Newark, says the New
York Sun, whose claim to distinction
lies in the fact that he ate twenty pretz-
els one day to win dollar. The time
limit was two hours, and the pretzels
were Of standard size and well salted.
He was eating pretzel when a customer
asked him how many he thought he
could eat.
"About dwendy," the boy answered.
The customer remarked that he would
give him dollar and pay for the pretz-
els If he ate twenty in two hours. The
boy went out and soon returned with
twenty-five pretzels on a stick. Then
he began his task, and, after eating six,
he took drink of water. The seven
teenth pretzel burst button off the
waistband of his trousers, and after that
eating became laborious. On the nine
teenth he consumed ten minutes, and
was inclined to give up, but the sight of
a bright silver dollar spurred him on,
and, getting cup of coffee, he soaked
the twentieth in it and ate it triumph
antly.
He was uncomfortable for several
hours afterward, but he incurred no bad
effects from the unusual meal. Now two
of his friends want to back him in
pretzel-eating match with any boy Of
his ape
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1890-12-11
A Cats Long Fast.

An English immigrant who landed at
the barge Office the other day from the
steamship Nevada. says the New York
Sun, unsuspectingly brought with her a
vagrant cat of the sterner sex from Liv-
erpool The woman's household articles
were stored in big box. After the box
was dumped on the Guion lines pier at
Liverpool, she found that there was
something in 1t that she wanted to use
on the voyage. She had the box opened.
The cat surreptitiously got into the
opening, and presumably finding the
feather bedding inside luxurious and
soporiflc, permitted itself to 60 to sleep,
and was nailed up. When the Customs
Inpectors opened the box on the Guion
line pier here they were startled to find
the cat, so emanciated from his seven
teen days fast that his ribs protruded
like barrel hoops. The ships carpenter
gave him bowl Of milk and he braced
up immediately. The carpenter appro-
priated him and he will hereafter be the
Nevada's mouser.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1890-12-11
A MATRIMONIAL BRIEF.
Proposal of Bashfui Lawyer In True
Legal Form.

Proposal of a Bashful Lawyer In True
Legal Form.
1t is said that certain legal bachelor,
who is soon to be married, is not as bold
an advocate before the romantic tribunal
Of love as he is at the bar of justice,
says the Louisville Post. For many
years he conducted his own cause in
such faint-hearted manner and de-
ferred his argument for SO long a time
that the case promised to be as inter-
minable as some of the attorneys own
legal actions which have been dragging
through the legal courts for years. The
lawyer-lover had, on several occasions,
made up his mind to submit his case to
his lady love on it's merits, but his cour-
age invariably failed him. Being unao-
qusinted with the arts of love and the
language thereof, he feared to address
her by letter, but he finally hit upon the
novel plan Of "briefing" his case. He
reviewed the whole courtship from a
strict legal construction, couched his
appeal in legal phraseology, entered a
formal motion that the case be decided
on its merits, and dispatched the doc
ument to his lady love by his Office
boy.
The same morning it came back with
the following Endorsement in chiro-
graphy that the delighted counsel REQ
ognized as that Of the fair arbiter Of his
destiny: "Came this day into court A. B.,
by attorney, who moves that the cause
Of A. B. vs. @. d. be decided upon the
testimony now before the court; the de-
fendant having waived jury it is Or
dered by the court that judgment be en-
tered for the plaintiff and the process Of
execution issue at once"
The plaintiff, however, was not quite
ready, and he permitted the defendant
to file replevin bond at six months.
At the expiration of that time the law
yer will take possession of his fair prop
erty, and cause celebre will como to o
fitting end.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1890-12-11
A Novel Advertis ement.

Not long ago an enterprising adver-
tiser hit upon the idea of making an
electrical tricycle. carry his placards
through the streets. A more realistic
idea is that carried out by firm of bell-
makers in Western city. A miniature
set of chimes has been designed, to be
attached to an electrical tricycle., which
will travel around the city. In the
lower part of the frame on which the
chimes are fixed is keyboard Of be-
tween two and three octaves. This is
played in exactly the same way as the
organ or piano keyboard, and some very
beautiful combinations are rendered
possible. All the thirty bells forming
the set which are hung on rack are rung
electrically. Attached to each Of them is
an slectro-magnet, and the keys make
the ciscuit from battery in the base to
the electro-magnets at the bells.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1890-12-11
A WONDERFUL PLANT.
Tho Seed Found In the Craw Of .
CIson

-
Crane.
A truly wonderful plant is at the Allie
ghany conservatory, says the Pitts
burgh Chronicle. No one knows to what
class it belongs or any thing about it.
1t is the subject of much speculation
among botanists, and they anxio usly
await the development of bud that is
forming. Then, they say, they can place
the plant. The botanists have sus-
picion that the plant is tropical one,
and Superintendent Hamilton is treat
ing it on that supposition.
The history of the plant SO far as
known is a unique one. During the
summer one of party of gunners
brought down crane. 1t was beauti-
full specimen and the taxidermist of the
party set to work to mount it. In the
birds craw were found several seeds.
With view of learning if the seed was
killed by the bird eating it they were
placed in water. In few days the seeds
sprouted. They were planted in loan
and kept in warm room. Edward v.
McCandless took charge Of it. The
plant was an object Of interest to Mr..
McCandless and his botanist friends and
its development was closely watched.
1t was transferred to the conservatory.
The leaves are long and broad and
heavy, not unlik species of palm.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1890-12-11

: Mons. Argellio, of the Paris Perfect
ureof Police, calls attention to the re-
m arkable degree in which the division
of labor principle is being applied to
the operations of the criminal classes.
There are associations of professional
horse-thieves and mutual aid societies
of professional burglars, and division of
labor has resulted in producing several
extremely deceptive counterfeit treas
ury notes. One specially clever hun
dred francs bill was ascertained to have
been the work of five confederates-one
paper-maker, one artprinter and three
expert engravers.