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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-09-10

wnom the ChIId was named, or 70 whom
he was dedicated, or who was the patron
saint of the donor, not always in such
cases an apostle. The images of the
four Evangelists were often thus used,
the spoons being called apostle
spoons" although all were not apostles
in the usual meaning of the word.
Shakespeare, in Henry WILL" when
Cranmer declares himself unworthy of
being sponsor to the young Princess,
makes the King reply: Come, come,
my lord, you'd spare your spoons" in
plain allusion to the gift expected on
such occasions. The earliest notice we
find in print Of this form of spoon is an
entry on the book of the Stationers'
Company, made in the year 1900 1t is
this entry; "A spoyne of the gyfte of
Master Ri cinold Wolfe. all gylte. with
the pycture of st. John" showing that
apostle spoons" were we'll known at
that early day. Louis Republic.
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EIRESlDE FRAGMENTS.


Corn beef, pressed beef and ham
should be eaten cold, and should be
dressed with hard boiled eggs, parsley
or water-cresS.
After buttering the tin for boiled
pudding, dust it with pounded bread
crumbs; baking pans can be treated with
flour in the same way and the cake will
never stick
-Custard Pie Without Milk: Wet a
heaping tablespoonful of corn starch
with cold water, add boiling water till it
Is as thick as thin cream, beat two eggs,
add three tablespoonfuls of sugar, put
in the cooked starch, beat we'll, flavor to
taste, and bake as usual.-Boston Bud
get.
Oatmeal Cookies: Threequarts -four;
tWO pounds steel-grou9d oatmeal; four
coffee cups Sugar; one and three-quarter
cups lard; two ounces ginger; one ounce
soda dissolved in boiling water; molasses
to make stiff dough. This makes a
very large quantity and will keep any
length of time. e.-Housekeeper.
Boiled Rice: This is dish very
few people understand cooking, but one
that is used extensively in the South,
and there considered indispensable as q
/ breakfast dish. Wash the rice thor
oughly three times, add a little salt,
and to one cupful of rice, allow one pint
! of boiling water, cover close. and let
sumner slowly, until perfectly dry,
when each grain viii stand alone; never
stir, or use cold water.-GoOd House
! keeping.
Veal Flukes: Chop some cooked
veal very fine; to il add half the guam
tity Of cracker crumbs; to one pint OF
the meat and cracker crumbs add one
egg, little cayenne, little grated nut
meg, one saltspoonful salt one desert
spoonful lemon juice; mix we'll; take
about tablespoonful and form into
| .oIg. narrow rolls; roll in beaten egg
ana cFaeksf ccYmbs and fry in hot fat
serve on a red napkin, garnish with
parsley and sliced lemon.-Old Home
stead.
-biae kberry Empress: Two cupful:
milk, one egg, half oupfnl of butter, q
spoonful of baking powder, and -four to
make a thin batter. Place layer in Z
pudding-dish; cover with a quart Of
blackberries well covered with sugal
epd few dabs of butter. Cover witt
the remaining batter Bake one hour
serve, either hot or cold, with sweetene6
cream. This is delicious, and other frui
may be used, ii desirable. ladies Home
i journal.
Log Cabin Peach Cobbler: Make ont
quart and half of flour into smooth
passD By working into it three-fourth
of cupfui OF lata, aRe-half teaspoonfu
of salt and sufficient water TO n4i4 it
Pare and quarter the ripe peaches, cove
the bottom of baking-dish with dough
Speesi over this layer of peaches ant
bits of butter, zsason with grated nut
meg or cinnamon, ana sprinkle owe
each layer two tablespoonfuls OF pow
dered sugar. Cut narrow strips of dough
slightly twist them, and cross until yoI
have another Layers eyer this plac
more fruit, and have the top layer o
the i0g-eabin strips; then bake in
dianapoiis Sentinel,
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ANTIQUITY OF SPOONS.
History shows That They Have Becn
Use for Many Centuries.

History shows That They Have Becn In
Use for Many Centuries.
Spooas have been in use for many
centuries; in early times it was the
fashion for all ladies ana g59tlemen to
have their own spoons and spoon-cases.
which they carried with them wherever
they went Two hundred years ago we
find frequent meptl9n in the newspapers
of "a lost case containing erife, fork
and silver spoon" The spoon Was esG4
ally described as bearing the crest of
ths owner upon its handle, or picture
of the Blessed Virgin. The apostle
spoons" were dozen Of these silver
implements, each containing an image
of one of the apostles in relief upon its
handle; sometimes with and sometimes
without his name. IL the name was
omitted, there was usually some emf
6lem of the. worthy supposed to be
represented on The spoon. In case
emblems Nefe used in place of a
name. st. James would be attired as 4
pilgrim; St Jude was usually pic
tured with a club, the emblem os
his martyrdom, or with boat TO show
his occupation; st. Simon with a saw,
because he was sawn asundeF, and gen
orally with an added car to show his
earlier tastes. The use OF these spoons
as gifts from scd-parents TO god-children
dates back nearly iva hundred years
When the giyer was too poor to preseni
the whole twelve, he gave one snoor
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BEETS AS FOOD

For Milch COws-lnteresting Experiments
Made at the Ohio Agricultural Expert
ment Station A Comparison of the
Efficiency of Commercial and Green
Manures on Wheat.
bulletin of the Ohio Agricultural
Experiment Station, now in press, gives
the results of an experiment in feeding
sugar beets to milch cows, made during
the past winter, together with a sum-
mary of two similar experiments, one
made by the station in 1889 and one by
the farm department of the Ohio State
University in 1879.
In the last named experiment eight
COWS were kept under test for eleven
weeks; in 1899, twelve cows for eight
weeks, and in 1890, twelve COWS for nine
weeks, the cows in each case being
weighed daily, as we'll as their feed and
milk.
In each of the three experiments the
cows ate more hay and more total dry
matter when feeding on beets than on
other foods (hay, meal and bran in 1879,
corn silage in 1889 and 1S90) and in each
case more milk was given from the beets
than from the other foods but it is not
y
milk was produced economically.
For twelve years records have been
kept on the farm now occupied by the
station, which shows that the average
yield of beets over this saperiod has been
nearly sixteen tons per acre, against an
annual yield of about ffty-five bushels
of shelled corn per acre.
But crop of fifty-f1ve bushels of
shelled corn, with its fodder, will con-
tain nearly twice as much dry matter as
sixteen tons of beets, and these expert
ments indicate that, whether fed dry. as
corn neal and dry fodder, or as corn
ensilage, the dry matter of the corn crou
will be found about as effective, pound
for pound, as the dry matter of the beet
crop.
1t is possible to raise much more than
sixteen tons of beets to the acre One
crop of two acres is reported at 371l
tons per acre, and smaller areas have
given still larger yields, but such crops
require very rich land and thorough crl-
ture Whether it is pos3isls IL, produce
pound Of dry matter Ia beets az eco
nomteaily as 1t can : 5e done in corn is
yet dennlteIy settled, butthe proba-
bilities are against it.
COMMERCIAL AND GREEN AIANUREs FOB
WHEAT,
In an experiment made by the North
Carolina Experiment Station, a series of
plots was laid out in such manner that
one end of each plot should be on land
on which COW peas had been previously
plowed under. and the other end on land
without peas. The whole was sown tn
/ wheat, and kainit, acid phosphate and
cotton seed meal were applied to the
several plots, siagiy and in combination.
Two plots being left without any for
tilizer.
The result was that on the land which
had had no fertilizer the highest increase
OF any OF the fertilized over the nm.
fertllized plots was four bushels per
acre tor 500 pounds cotton seed meall.
while on the green manured land the
increase from the pea vines was from
SIX bushels at the least to fifteen bushels
per acre, averaging ten bushels
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Dreadful Awakaninr.

MADAM" said the eminent SURGEON.
II am happy to say we have discovered
at last the cause of your husbands
condition. A small portion of the skull
was fractured by the injury that de-
prived him of consciousness a wear or
more ago, and splinter has been
pressing upon the brain. l have To-
Gated the fracture, and in a few MIN
utes, with the help of my assistant, the
splinter will be removed. You must
not be surprised, madam" I" he continued.
"at any thing he may say when he re-
turns to consciousness. 1t has been
many long month since the injury
happened to him, but you will remem-
Der that to him there has been no lapse of
time whatever. Ifhe was interrupted in
the course of any REMARK he was maxi
ing at the time of the accident he will
finish that remark as soon as the press
ure is removed from his brain"
The surgeon resumed his place at the
bedside of the unconscious patient and
the operation proceeded. 1t was a COM
plete success. The moment the splin-
ter was removed from the mans brain a
natural look came into his eyes, and his
anxious friends in the room adjoining
heard him say in slow, hesitating
monotone:
hen and half lay an egg and a
half in day and half how many eggs
will six hens lay in seven days9"-Chi-
cago Tribune.
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A Twenty,rwo.Pound Flower.

The "bo-o," the largest flower known
to botanists, is found only on the Island
Of Mindina, the most southern of the
Philippine group. It's scientific name
is somewhat longer than the native
name, the botanist recognizing it as n
species of the raffiesia, 1t has been
given the name of Rafftesia Scbaden-
bergia, the first half of the name being
in honor of Sir Stamford Raffies tho
British Governor of the islands, and the
last half in honor of the discoverer. DIR.
Alexander Schadenberg. The flower
was discovered in January. 1889, by the
exploring expedition headed by the
doctor above mentioned, and who saws
that he could hardly believe his ewes
when one vine was found which had
four Of the blossoms expanded to FUN
three feet, and several buds As large as
drumhead cabbages. Three specimens
which were weighed tTrned the scales
at 1sH, 2ols and 2I% pounds. The
mower IS Beautiful creamy white, with
stamens OF the bluest violet.-St. Louis
Republic
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DEVOTED TO


VINO is the victim of the fatal drug soon
reaches condition where he must have
1t Then he will stoop to any crime or
suoterfuge to obtain it. / have had
them come in here with forged or
ders, apparently signed by reputable
physicians, which they have written
and signed themselves.
Il have tried adulteration but it does
no good. If the victim finds that the
morphine is adulterated he simply takes
more of it They know just as well as
we do the strength of the drug, and a
druggist who thinks to reclaim them by
giving an adulterated article will not
succeed.
MY experience with morphine eaters
extends back for a period of fifteen
years, during which time have come
In contact with almost every variety of
this class of peculiar beings. I have
found that morphine eaters will lie,
steal, break up families, their own as
we'll as any other, and do and cause all
the mischief possible. They are appar-
emily devoid of all the finer feelings of
humanity and have lost all self-respect.
morphine is a stimulant and narcotic.
Taken in small doses it increases the
fulness and frequency of the pulse. in
vlgorates the muscular system, ouickens
the sense, animates the spirits and gives
greatly increased intellectual powers.
Its operation, while extending to all
parts OF the system, acts principally on
the brain forces, the functions of which
1T excltes to intoxication and delirium.
In few minutes this exhilaration sub
sides and the mind becomes delightfully."-
calm and placid and the individual be-
comes insensible to all painful impress
sions, and forgetting all care and annoy
ance submits himself to a current of
underlined, unconnected, but pleasing
fancies, and is conscious of no other
feeling than quiet and vague enjoy
ment. At the end of short period all
consciousness is lost in sleep.
II have many customers who buy
their morphine here and most of them
come supplied with the necessary pre-
scription from a reputable physician.
Many physicians when they find that
the victim is past redemption give the
prescription, knowing that the victim
will procure the drug anyway. The
OhAh VI prOnG ledulnS Cn6 druggist to
sell the drug without prescription is
not true, for, the profit in morphine is
very small-too small to cause him to
take chances-but pity for the victim
will often lead druggist to sell the
drug whore money would not tempt him.
81 had a family, regular customers
for years, who were all addicted to the
habit They were very rich when they
first commenced to buy morphine, but
l believe they have lost most of their
money by wild speculations, and others
have taken advantage of their condition
to get goodly portion of it. The son.
fine-looking fellow, who was six feet
high and weighed one hundred and
eighty pounds before he became addicted
to the drug, died few weeks ago weigh
ing less than one hundred pounds. The
mother and father find all their comfort
now in the morphine habit. | could
cite many other cases. In fact, if YOU
sit here for an hour at a time you will
see the victims come in one after the
other, and all after the drug."-N. Y.
Herald.
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PEPPERMINT CULTURE.

Two Places Where 1t Is One Of the
Leading Industries.
There are two places in the United
States where the cultivation of the
peppermint plant is one of the leading
industries. The oldest of these places
is Wayne County, New York; but for
thirty years the business has been a
well-known one in St Joseph County,
Mich.
Halls Big Marsh, of Florence" at
Three Rivers, Mich, is the largest
piece of land in America devoted to the
raising of this plant. The farm con-
tains about nine hundred acres,% of
which four hundred acres are put into
mint each year, and alternated with
clover to keep up the strength of the
soil.
The cultivation OF the crop requires
more than ordinary care. The ground
is plowed in August, September or Oc-
tober, then thoroughly narrowed, and
the following spring it must be har-
rowed again, then marked and planted.
Old roots from first" crop are re-
moved from the ground in spring, and
planted in rows three feet apart. A
man carries the roots in a sack ON his
back, throws them into the rows, and
they are then kicked in"
From the time the mint appears
above the ground until it is gathered,
it should be constantly cultivated and
hoed to keep it free from weeds, which
are the bane of the peppermint grow
er's existence. The plants mature from
the middle of August to the first of Sep
tember-as soon as the blossom is out.
1t is cut with mower, or by hand with
scythe, and if weedy the weeds must
be sorted out by hand.
After cutting, the mint is allowed
partly to dry or "cure," and is then
drawn to the still-house, where it is inn
mediately distilled. The still is
large wooden tub, with tight-hinged
top, steam supply connection at the
bottom, and an outlet to the condenser
at the top of one side.
The mint is drawn to the still-house
in wagons, and pitched into the still;
the packer packs the tub" the top is
fastened down, and the steam turned on
for about an hour, or until exhausted
This is told by pulling out a plug in
the top of the still. The exhausted
mint, or charge" is lifted out of the
still and carried away on a wagon The
mint straw" is dried and used as fod-
der for sheep and cattle.
Two or three crops are gathered from
each planting. The first and second
crops are the best, and twenty pounds
OF oil to the acre is good yield. The
third crop is very apt to be weedy, and
the yield only about ten pounds to the
acre.-Youth's Companion.
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CHURCHES.

DAPTIST.-Preacung eeach snnIay at II Ia a.
6m and at Z 80 u. m, AT the courthouse. sun
hay schOol at 10 O'clock, II IN. Prayer Heetiig
"Wednesday evening of each week. Rev; W; a
cain. Pastor. Residence on Cor Lincoln Ave
,lnd Cherry Streets.
SOtHRIST4 ST4AN.-Preaching every sunday NJ
" n a. clock, 4. m. and 7:3O p. m, by Eider
/ t. Nicholson. Prayer meeting every Wed-
nesday night. Sunday school at 100 clock Al. IN
every Sunday Pastors residence AT the par
ssonage; study at the chapei.
"A FETHODIST EPISCOPAL.-Seryices every
.N1 Sunday at ll:O0 n. m ana :5o D. M sun sun
sIay school every Sunday at 10 n. m. FRAZER
VneetinA every Thursday evening at ;oo.
strangers invited. q. W. PHILLIPS, Pastor
DRESBYTERIAN.-Se eVcry sunday at
EOa m J. B. NoRTii, Pastor.
CATHOLIC CHURCH Services on End
SUNDAY of every month at Sherlocks hail. al
SO.00 ~ m REV. BITTER Pastor.
NERMAN BAPTIST BRETHREN-Hold reg
U ular services at Mingona, Barrier county
the seCoud aud fourth Sundays in-eacn hoiiih
At Forrest school house on the second SuutiiS
Cedar Creek school house on the tnlro SUNNY
Ay Elders Shambergor, Smith ana Neher'
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wanderInss of a Needle.

Fergus Mccarthy, of Philadelphia, was
the subject of a peculiar operation at the
Presbyterian Hospital. A needle which
protruded from his abdomen was re-
moved by DR.. w. B. Gilliard. The nee
die was muctr corroded and blackened.
Mccarthy said he could not explain how
the needle got there, but remembered
that about twenty years ago he tread
upon needle which troubled him
slightly. 1t was never discovered Nc
Carthy says he did not experience much
pain at the time, but since then he has
suffered extreme pains less or more all
around the left leg, which gradually
moved upward. The pain shifted to his
side, and he has latterly experienced the
stinging pain in the region of the alb
domen. While at work at the foundry
he was doing some work which heeessi-
tated his STOPPING considerably. He
felt keen pain as if something wass pene.
trating his fie5h ike a needle. and
had to get up, and, on examination, he
siscoTeFed the blackened point OF the
needle. The case is one of the most pe-
culiar that has come under treatment at
the hospital for many years
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If man smokes his cigar only
enough to keep it lighted, and reIishes
taking 1t out Of his mouth to watch the
curl of smoke in the air. set him down as
an easy-going man. Beware of the man
who never releases his grip on the cigar,
and is Indifferent whether it burns or
not; he is cool. calculating and exact
ing. The man that smokes bit, rests
bit and fumbles the cigar more or
less, is easily affected by circumstances.
II the cigar goes out frequently, the
smoker has whole-souled disposition,
is hail fellow we'll met" with . live
ly brain. glib tongue, and generally a
fund Of capital anecdotes. A nervous
man who fumbles his cigar a great deal,
is q sort Of popinjay among men.
Holding the cigar constantly between
his teeth, chewing it occasionally, and
not caring If it be lighted at all, are the
characteristics of men who have the
tenaeity of bulldogs. The fop stands
his cigar up on end, and an experienced
smoker points it straight ahead, or al
most at right angles with his course
El Povener.
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VICTIMS oE MoRRHINE.
The Effects of the Drug Explained by
New York Pharmacisf

New York Pharmacist.
There entered an uptown drug store
the other night a tall. slim young man,
with clothing hanging in rags all over
his body. who ambled up to the counter
and asked in low tone for some drug,
which was hastily put up by the drug
gist and eargerly snatched and paid for
by the customer. who quickly with
drew. As the druggist returned to my
side he said:
There is one or those poor, unfor-
tunate young men who started in to
play with morphine. to find in the end
that morphine was playing with him,
He has reached that condition now when
to be without the drug means hours of
the most intense agony. l have deal
ihgs with many morphine fiends, and
knowing as do the power of the drug
when once it gets the upper hand.
pity the victim. Why do sell the drug
to the fend? Well, do not know, uii-
less il is pity that prompts me. have
been IN bis condition myself and /
know what the intense longing for the
drug is. and probably on that account
more than any other furnish it when
nAhe.. ---z:s --55aaiy raxase II = man
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meant rsus,, -.

Il like that young Mr.. Freshreigh,
Amanda He was graduated this wear.
was be aetaa
s'fes. pa l am glad you like him.
for think he is real smart"
He is real smart. He came to me at
my Office yesterday and said that.as he
expected to get through his vacation in
September he wanted to go into busi-
ness; and whatdo you suppose he offered
to do?''
What papafa
tSaid If I'd make him a full partner
In the business he'd marry Tou-"-
Harpe-'s 5az<- :.
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Hna-pnren Nan.

Its pretty hard work earning an
honest living" said the tramp to the
farmers wife.
''You don't mean to say that you
work?"
'Oh, no! Ny remark is simply the re-
suit. OF my observation along the high
ways and l.YWaYs When / see how
had some people work and how little
they get for ii, am encouraged TO fol-
loE my simple vocation without MUIR
mur. Puck.
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"It's worse the times are getting" /"
observed Mr.. o'Raferty, laying down
the evening paper he bad been reading.
"Nhss's the matter now9' asked his
wife.
The paper tells OF brute OF . saaa
thai kilt his wife an two children, an
then kilt himself
Wouldn't il be nice" remarked Mrs.
o'RafTerty, = .nlm maj 4c-~rnits mur-
der would only kill thel.---lvas frst2''
--Harper's Bazaar.
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POSTAL

,,..,,,,,;,,. ar Medicine Lodge optr from A NJ
7pM sundays enc hour or arrival ui hi'llI'
Money order. open \. to =. ". Sa.mF w.
daVs =. q. open until 3, .. NJ. P"'SiCrh "''''
cIos'S P''''' l.. NJ ANIME, j. VI.
u RuowN Assistant.
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Intensely Patriotic.

Johnson Hello, Grizzly. how as Eou?
Grixzly-I was out with the boys last
night ana I'm national colors this morn
ing.
Johnson National colors2
Grizzly Yes. Ny eyes are red, my
face is white and feel blue West
Shore
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DgJPurA LODGE, No. 40, X of p, meets on ,,
Mondgy evening of each week, at the n. ol Il
Iod to attend #. @. MOLLOY, Z. Z.
OTIs LORTON, X. of X. Il ;.
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THE INDEX
lis THE -
OFFICIAL ORGAN
or THE
FARMERS ALLIANCE
Up THE
SEVENTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT
OF KANSAS.
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.

PRysIDYNT ............. BENJAMIN HAURISOS
n nited states Senators ..........P =. B. Plumb
KHnFas, .........,. . - ihgaIIs
Nembcr of Congress. 18th Dist .....S. X. Pcters
Judge of Hth Judicial Dist...........C. W. hlhs.
State Senator. jSth District. Chester j. Long.
Representative, g0th District. ..... H. Il. Iarter'
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PHYSICIANS IN MEDIUIrE LODGE

q KoCIELL,
HOMEOPATHIC Ph YSICIAN a SURGEON
once on Kansas Avenue. next To Index office.
MEDICINE LODGE, KANSAS.