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How to Make savory Beef.

Savory beefis an old-time English dish,
which is highly esteemed. Take a piece
of the tender part of round of beef.
weighing about ten or fifteen pounds. Ii
ii is not perfectly tender, or has not been
well hung, let it hang in a cold place
three or four days longer. Remem Der
that the best butchers in New York and
other large cities hang their beef from
four to six weeks after it is killed. In
freezing weather this is none too long.
For savory beet, weigh out three ounces
of saltpeter, three-quarters of pound of
common salt, one ounce of coarse sugar,
a quarter of an ounce each of black
pepper and allspice, four or five sprays of
parsley, the same amount of summer
savory, a sprig of sweet marioram, if
convenient, two bay leaves and two OF
three sprigs of thyme. Pound all these
Ingredients together. Take out any bone
that may be in the meat and rub the meat
thoroughly with the pounded mixture
Let it hang in cold place for about two
weeks, and every day turn it and rub it.
When you are ready to cook it, wipe it
off, rub it with little butter, cut up an
onion and throw over it, dredge it lightly
with flour and roast it in a slow oven for
about six hours. Or, if you prefer it, in
pot with a cut-up onion or carrot, and
let it stew slowly, in boiling water enough
to cook it, for tlve or six hours. The
liquor it is stewed in should be saved
The meat is always served cold. If it is
stewed it should be cooled in the LIQUOR
in which it is cooked.
This savory beef will keep for two
weeks in cold weather after it is cooked,
and is a wholesome, inexpensive article
to keep in the house for the accidental
visitor or for general family use.-NeS
York Tribune.
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MEMS AND BOYS HATS.

We are now giving splendid value in these goods
Our assortment comprises wide range of Styles from the
Wide Kim Cowboys Hats to the latest style of Mems Soft
and Stiff Hats in all grades We have just placed in stock
some twenty of Mems and Boys Hats which will be
sold at low figures
Staple Styles in Mems Best Grades of Wool Hats in
wide and medium brims ST.
One lot of Mems Fine Felt Crushes in light tan
color, 75c:
Mems Dark Navy Blue and Black Silk Lined 81 50
Grade of Felt Crushes for ST.
Mems Black SiIk-Lined Stiff Felt Hats stylish shapes
81 50 grades for o5c
Mems Stylish Shape Black, Wide Rim Fedora Soft
Hats wide bands for 81.
Mems Extra Quality Fine Fur Felt Fedora Hats wide
bands, high crown rolling rim, s. 90
Mems Fine Fur Beaver Fedora Hats latest style in
the newest shade tobacco brown, S grades for s.
line of Mems 81 50 Black Soft Felt Hats silk lined,
for 81 So
Mems LghtCoIOred S Beaver Cowboys Hats, extra
wide rim, square crown for s. 25
One lot of Mems Black Silk S Hats, sizes I'd to
IFS at 81 So
Boys Latest Style Fedora Hats in black and brown ST.
One lot of Childs Brown Turban Felt Hats, 35c
Just received from New York several cases of Ladies'
Misses and Chidrens Shade Hats The sample and prices
of portion of the lines now be seen in our show
window.
line of Misses Wide Rim Shade Hats in different
coOrS extra quality of braid trimmed with silk ribbon 35c
Misses Wide Rim Fine Pool Braid School Hats silk
trimmed 75C
Chds Oval Crown, Fancy Brim Shade Hats 45c
Ladies English Milan Braid Shade Hats 45c
Ladies Fine Black NeapOltan Braid Shade Hats SOC
75c and 95c.
Ladies will find an immense variety of Shade Hats in
wide and medium brms in all cOlOr and shapes which we
selling at great bargains
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WIGS FOR YOUNG MEN.
Hair Patches Which Cost a Good Deal
but Can't Be Detected.

"There are more baldheaded young
men in leading Washington social cir
cles," said the suppIier of hirsute detici-
encies to a Boston Herald scribe, than
people would think. But this is because
very little of it is revealed to the curious
glance. You see, most of the young men
grow bald Immediately above the fore
head, which leaves triangular space,
on the center of the head. The first place
is very easily concealed by patch which
looks as natural as the real thing. These
patches are readily adjusted and may be
brushed in any style. They are rather
expensive, though-that is, if man de-
sires something which will completely
battle the attempts of the suspicious at de-
tection-and cost all the way from $50 to
$50, according to size and finish. I could
name twenty young men who sport these
patches, and whose hair is universally
admired by the fair sex, but, of course, 1
wouldn't. Concerning the particular spot
on top of the head in which the hair is
especially feeting, any number of men
whose ages range between % and 40 are
so decorated. They do not come SO high
as the first named prices, but are Just as
easily adjusted and present the same i'm
penetrable finish. There are not many
of the complete wigs sold as there were
fifteen or twenty years ago. In fact, it is
hard to get a wig which does not give
itself away, and this is worse than thin
hair or badness. What is the color
mostly in vogue concerning wigs? Why,
] guess dark brown is the most popular
Most men have that color of hair. Black
haired and extremely light-haired men
seldom become bald at an early age; when
they do it is generally on the center OF
the head
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DANIEL WAS DRuNK.
Wherefore He Went on the Warpatl
md Ianded in .IniI

Wherefore He Went on the Warpath
and Landed in Jail.
Daniel McCabe, as he registered at the
City Jail, loaded up with fighting jag
about midnight last night and got into a
very emphatic dispute with colored man
in front of K-street saloon.
Daniel was small man and his antago-
mist heavyweight, armed with club,
but Daniel wanted him to come out and
fight. He got into the street, took off his
coat and hat and jumped on them in a
warlike way, swearing he could walloI
any ydark-compiected son-of-a-gun in the
United States.
The colored man was about to accom-
modate McCabe with his club, when
Officer Maley came along and took the
little man and his jag to jail.
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His Credentials.

A certain Congressman, famous prin-
cipally for his untididess, was in one of
the small towns of his district making a
speech. During the day couple from
up the creek saw him on the street cor
ner.
"Who's that, Hiram?" inquired the
wife, who was interested in all the sights.
"Why, Marthy," was the reply, don't
you know him? He's our Congress
man,
"Uh!" she exclaimed, uppishly, "he
wears powerful dirty shirt"
''In course, in course,' said her hus-
band; "but, Marthy, he'sgot to do some
thing TO show he's a Congressman."-
Detroit Free Press.
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The sunday Law In Boston.

Boston photographers are forbidden to
work on Sundays any more. The city
has so ordered, and the Chief of Police
has notified the photographers that he
will enforce the order. This action is
seemingly the outcome of general move
ment on the part of citizens of Boston,
who have made many complaints con-
corning the matter. 1t will be in order
next to stop lawyers from reading up on
cases or doctors from visiting and pre-
scribing for patients on Sunday.
The record-union., 1893-02-24
Titled American Women

The "Almanach de Gotha" of l893
mentions only four American ladies as
having married Englishmen of ducal
families. These are the Duchess
of Manchester, nee Miss Yznaga;
the Duchess of Marlborough. nee
Miss Price, afterward the Widow
Hammersley; Lady Randolph Church
i'll, nee Miss Jerome, married to the
uncle of the present Duke of Marl-
borough; and Mrs. Cavendish Bentick.
nee Miss Bessie Livingston, married to
Cavendish Bentinck, cousin of the
Duke of Portland. There are many
American ladies mentioned as having
married members of the nobility OF
France, Germany and Italy.
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A Wonder1nI strnctnre.

"Now, this house." said the native Of
Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, point
ing out log cabin to the stranger, sis
the most wonderful structure of its kind
in all this country"
What's wonderful about it?"
Its the only log cabin west of the Ale
legheny Mountains that Washington
hasn't sleptin."
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ADJUSTMENTS.

"Queena" will be repeated at the opera
house tonight. II is strong play, one
deeply emotional, full of shifting lights
and shadows. Miss Naunary in it does
an emotional part with great success.
She has fine acting ability, discriminating
taste and excellent judgment. Mr..
Cleaves' ''old man" in the play is an
artistic success and does him infinite
credit. The second and third scenes in
the play are splendidly mounted, the
American Legation reception-room in
Paris being as handsome a scene as has
ever been put on the stage here.
musical and literary. entertainment
will be given this evening at the West
minister Presbyterian Church by the
Junior Society of Christian Endeavor.
Besides a fine programme there will be
refreshments served.
Tonight the annual domino party of
Equity Lodge, Knights and Ladies of
Honor, will take place at Turner Hall. 1t
promises to be an unusually pleasant af-
fair.
1t has been arranged that when Peter
Jackson appears here in "Uncle TOMS
Cabin" there will be an interlude in
which Jackson will box four rounds with
Professor Johnson of Marysville.
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Mrs. Logan's "Hotne Magazine" and
the weekly Union.n

Both only 81 70 per year. The Home
Magazine of Washington. D. c., con-
Quoted by Mrs. John A. Logan, is the
best and most popular low-priced period
ical ever printed. The publishers of the
WEEKLY UNION will furnish the maga-
zine to its subscribers for mere nominal
sum above the price Of subscription to
the weekly.
The record-union., 1893-02-24

special election to be called for that pur-
pose"
The committee then adjourned to meet
at the call of the Chairman.
The record-union., 1893-02-24
TOD A Y

Special sale of Ladies Black and White and Black and
Brown Silk Bicycle Hats SOC These hats extremely
neat and SNOWY and light weight The regular price ST.
The record-union., 1893-02-24

District Attorney Ryan stated that in
the case of Plummer VS.. Sheldon, Belcher
and others, to open the Grant line road,
near the Cosulnnes River, STA 20 costs
had been owing to the county, which
Auditor.
Some bills were audited, and the board
adjourned till the March meeting.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-11-15

If there Is anything absolutely tire
some it is to see in republican papers
that the election is rebpke TO Cleve-
lands Wall street administration and
gold policy. They must have an un'
limited amount of gall to suppose they
can gull the people into believing such
rot, or into believing that the reDubli-
can party is not Wall street party
from rlnd to core. 1t requires unquali-
fed presumption for newspaper to
blow over the defeat Of gold policies
when its own party is responsible for
the decentralization Of silver in 1873,
and when in the late ratification Of that
act ninety per cent. of its representa-
tives and seventy-lVs per cent. of its
senators voted for Wall street and a
gold policy. On the other hand fifty
FIVE per cent. of the democratic repre-.
sentatives and fifty per cent. of it's SEN
ators voted for that policy. Just enough
of them to help the republicans carry il
into effect. Now TO hear local republl
cans talk about the gold policy of the
administration causing democratic de
feat an Iowa and OHIO is nauseating anC
disgusting. The republican party is {
poor place to 90, for . man opposed t
gold standard.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-11-15

orado and most of Kansas ana the IN
dian territory and all of Arkansas and
Louisiana to the Gulf of Mexico.
Florida was for many years the OBJ
ject of covetousness on the part of our
government, which claimed now part
and now the whole as included in the
Louisiana purchase. The United States
finally obtained it from Spain in 1919,
when Mr.. Monroe was president.
What was known as west Florida-in-
Guiding the part of Alabama in which
Mobile is situated-had already been
seized and held forcibly. Texas,
originally a part of Mexico, set itself
up as an independent republic in 1885,
Its population consisted largely of
bold and somewhat reckless adventur-
ers from the southern states. In one
year Texas had established iadepen-
dence after a sharp war with Mexico,
and few months afterward applied
for union with this country. The
question remained open until, having
agitated American politics for many
years and having cost Mr.. Van Buren,
the democratic nomination for presi-
dent in 1914, it was finally settled in
1916. Texas was annexed and was adj
mitted as state of the union by joint
resolution approved by President Polk.
California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona.
New Mexico and the western part of
Colorado were acquired by conquest.
They were coded TO the United States
ut the close of the Mexican war during
Folks administration in 1S4S. Never
theless, nearly twenty million dollars
was paid to Mexico in settlement of
certain claims as the price of the ter
ritory. Excepting west Florida, al
ready referred to, this is the only ter
ritory gained by the sword. A strip
of land in southern Arizona was not in
the Mexican cession, but was bought
in 1858, Pierce being president at the
time, for ten million dollars. Thus
the country became possessed of all
its present territory between Canada
on the north and Mexico on the south.
Alaska was purchased of Russia dur
ing Mr.. Johnson's presidency in 1867,
and the sum of seven million two hun
dred thousand dollars was paid for it.
It's total area is almost the same as
that of all the territory obtained of
Mexico by conquest and purchase.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-11-15
GROWTH OF THE UNITED STATES.
Territory Acquired Since the Time of
Thomas Jefferson.

Territory Acquired Since the Time of
Thomas Jefferson.
When independence was established
the bounds of the new country were
extremely indefinite. The limits of the
sonable exactness, although there were
at the outset disputes both between
the states and between the United
States and the European governments
whose possessions lay alongside ours.
The first great acquisition of territory,
says the Youths Companion, was that
of Louisiana, which Spain had ceded
to France and which Emperor Napo-
leon sold to the United States for fifteen
million dollars in 1903, when Mr.. JET
ferson was president Dir. jefferson
did not believe that the constitution
permitted the United States to annex
foreign territory and wished that an
amendment should be adopted to sane
ton it. but the amendment failed after
the annexation had haen accomplished
and Mr.. jefferson stified his scruples.
Louisiana, as acquired from France,
included the territory bounded on the
east by the Mississippi river from its
mouth to its source; on the north by
the line OF the British possessions; Oh
the west by the Pacific ocean to the
south line of Oregon The other.
boundary follows the north line of
California, Nevada and Utah as far
east as the Rocky mountains and
thence in a general enthusiastically
direction, SO as to include part of Col
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-11-15
IN THE PASTURE.
Story OF a Blind Mare and Her Equin,
Friend

Story OF a Blind Mare and Her Equine
Friend.
l will tell you a little incident that
came under my observation when l
was taking my vacation last summer.
l stopped alta farmhouse and the farmer
was the owner of pair of chestnut
horses named Doll and Jack He had
raised them from colts, had always
stabbed and driven them together and
they We're consequently much attached
to each other. L ast summer he turned
them out to pasture and while wander
ing around the fields / noticed the in
cident. Doll has been blind several
years, but she never betrayed it by her
gait when travelling. In the pasture
she would sometimes become sepa.
rated from her mate and as soon as
she discovered it she would COM
mence to search for him. Some
times she would whinny and he would
respond to her, when she would go
directly toward him and when she
found him they would rub their noses
together. At other times Jack would
not answer, but would stop eating.
raise his head and watch the course his
blind mate would take back and forth
across'the pasture, each time turning
toward the left and nearing the fence
at each turn. Frequently she would
stop and listen. If she was nearing
the miSchievous Jack he would stand
perfectly still, but if she was some dis
1anoe away he would stamp his feet
two or three times when Doll was lis
tening. She was always sure of find
ing him, though sometimes it would
take an hour to do so, and then they
would go away, side by side. cropping
the fresh grass. When they went
to the spring in one corner of the lot to
drink Jack always led the way and he
would stand beside the trough and call
to his mate until she stood beside him
and both would drink together. One
day terrible racket was heard in the
pastures, and it was kept up so long that
one of the men was sent to see what it
was all about. Doll had got one of her
feet caught in the spol1es of an old
wagon wheel that lay in the pasture.
She stood very still and quiet in the
trap into which she had walked, while
Jack was thrashing around the pasture
and neighing as though he had been
hired to rouse the neighborhood. Doll
was released, while Jack stood by and
watched the operation with apparent
delight that was manifested with wild
gallop around the lot when she was
once move free.-Utica Observer.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-11-15
Confined Sound.

The intensity of confined sound is
finely illustrated at Causbrook castle,
Isle of Wight, where there is well
two hundred feet deep and twelve feet
in diameter, walled and lined with
smooth masonry. Although this is an
unusual depth for a well even in the
British isles, yet when pin is dropped
into it the sound Of striking the sur
face of the water one hundred and
eighty-two feet below can be distinct
ly heard. In the cast-iron water-pipe
of Paris, which forms a continuous
tube, with only two slight crooks, and
those near its middle. the lowest
whisper at one end may be distinctly
heard at the other, although the pipe
is three thousand one hundred and
twenty feet in length. When some ex-
periments in this line were being con-
Quoted, a pistol fred at one end of the
tube actually blew out a lighted can
die held at the other end and violently
elected the shavings, feathers, paper,
etc, which had been placed in the end
Of the pipe by the experimenters.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-11-15
THE HIPPOPOTAMUS.

Something About the Habits of the Great
and Ungainly Brute
Its legs are shorter than those of the
elephant, so that the lower part of the
body almost touches the ground, hut
the bulk of the body is little interior "a
that of an elephant With It's thick.
hairless hide, short neck, small cara
and eyes. large muzzle, great nostrils
and lips. it presents a singular appear,
ance.
The Good of this enormous animal q
entirely vegetable, such as the plants
winch grow upon the margin of lakes
and rivers, the roots and stems of
which 1t tears up with it's great tusSs,
cutting them through as cleanIy as
though done with a scythe Unfor-
tunately it does not confine itself to
these, blt leaving the water under
cover of night whole herd of these
amphibians will invade cultivated
fields, aevouring and tramplipp
the crops in terrible manner. Tho
natives of Afnlca RI some parts eat Dor.
tions of the flesh of the hirpopotamus
Its tusks are valuable for ivory. The
hippopotamus is generally inoffensive
unless attacked, but can be reused 70
fits of rage vesy dangerous to those
who pursue 1t.
fhere are several methods of DESTROY.
ing this animal. The natives dis. nits
in the usual track leading to the wa.
ter, or they shoot it with poisoned ar.
rows. Europeans shoot the game with
rifles while it is In the water. If at.
tackled from the land the hippopotamus
may become enraged and make rush
for the enemy, and then it will be found
that it can run with speed, crashing its
way through the African forest more
rapidly than man can do. Hunting
the hippopotamus in boats on the river
is dangerous sport, for the animal is
active and buoyant in the water, SWIM
ming with ease, sometimes diving un-
der boat and heaviDg it upward
broken into pieces. The mother hir,-
popotamus is very careful of her Young
one, and may sometimes be seen swim
M ing with the ungainly little creature
seated on her back.-N. Y, Herald,
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-11-15

house journal cost So, 26l 65 or S43s per
copy, aid $500 copies of the Dunsmore
house journal cost 50, 2333 As or SO cents
per copy.
Superintendent S. II. Snider, OF the
insurance department, is endeavoring
to collect with good prospects of sue
cess) reciprocal tax due the state from
insurance companies to the amount of
oYel $58, 900, and also about $4,000 in
court fees due the state from clerks of
the district courts of the state, both Of
which former superintendent tailed TO
collect.
In the laborious task of preparing the
foregoing facts. and figures, my only
aim has been to thew to Che line and
let the chips fall where the may"
DANIEL &. ZERCHER,
Asst Sec'y of State.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-11-15

THIS is more like a Thanksgi wing
proclamation. The usual palaver in
that annual document about being
thankful for our prosperity, qualified by
any number OF adjectives, has become
a chestnut and the American people
are tired of reading lies every year.
Realizing thls. Governor Pennoyer Of
Oregon issued proclamation this year
that has the right ring to it:
SALEM, Ore. Nov. 1.-Governor Pen
mover has issued the following Thanks
giving proclamation: Il do hereby ap.
point the fourth Thursday of the pres
ent month as q day OF thanksgiving to
Almighty God for the blessings he has
bestowed upon this commonwealth
during the present year, God has in
deed been most benefcent TO our state
and nation. And yet unjust and III
advised congressional legislation hav-
ing made gold alone full legal tender
money has SO dWarfed ana paralyZed
business that the bountiss Of providence
are now denied to hundreds OF thons-
ands of people within the national do
main who not only are without employ
ment, but also without means of pro-
curing food. Faiment or shelter. While
therefore, the people of Oregon return
thanks to God for His goodness, / do
most earnestly recommend that they
devoutly implore him to dispose the
president and congress of the United
States To secure the restoration OF sill
yer as full legal tender, IN accordance
with the policy OF the fathers OF this
republic. whereby our industries may
be revived and honesttoileFs OF the land
may procure their daily bread as the re-
ward OF their labor"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-11-15

THE voting OF colored ballots IN
Deerhead township was unfortunate,
because it involves a question that has
not been passed on under the new law
There is no question but that the board
of canvassers should have counted the
returns from that township, since their
duty is clearly defined by law and the
issuance of certificates to the vlcters
was also matter of course. 1t has
been said by some that Boyd will con-
test the election Of Mills: but in the in
terest of the people we anticipate no
such action. The will of the people
has been clearly expressed, and contest
upon a technically that would only add
to Mills majority, IS something un-
called for. We should be sorry to see
contest, not that we dread the result
for it would elect a populist recorder,
coroner aud commissioner; but it is a
bad thing for the county. The matter
should be dropped and Will be if some
attorneys hungry for fees do not mis-
represent matters to defeated candi-
dates.