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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-07-08
Feeding Watermelon. to n....

The editor OIL Agriculture once fed
l,5OO watermelons, many of which
were unripe worth in all 1880 to his
apiary of 100 colonies. from the middle
of August to the end of September,
when there was an absolute dearth of
forage. 1t would have cost him three
times as much to have fed honey or
sugar. These bees did well on their
food, and even stored few pounds of
surplus. which was of good body, but
little colored, and very agreeable in
taste. Twenty or more a day were
fed, according to size He does not say
whether the bees wintered on that
food, but it is to be presumed that
they did, for the next season. though
there was little flow of honey, he
again fed watermelons " to complete
their winter provision" from which it
would appear that it did not hurt
them. Care was taken that the juice
they obtained was fresh every day. He
noticed that they voided the watery
portion during their return to the hive.
at a distance of only few yards from
the feeding place. Before feeding the
fresh melons, he had tried boiling the
pulp with little water, but the bees
took little notice of TT. L. Tomp-
son, in Review.
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Water for House Plants.

Rainwater is best, as nothing is
more certain than that hard water will
kill hard-wooded, fine-rooted plants.
1t should be used at a temperature
somewhat near that of the room, and is
improved by exposure to sun and air.
When kept in tanks below ground it is
frequently rendered as hard as spring
water from it's absorbing magnesia or
lime from the materials of which the
walls of the cistern are composed.
Stronger liquids, containing some ma
nurial matter in solution, if given,
should generally be done at the period
of Towering. Such solution should be
weak and clear. All over stimulation
of the plant-system should be avoided,
some plants bear it, but others. as in
the carnation and the rose, distortion
of the flower may ensue The stamen
may change into petals. petals into
leaves, or the flower may become alto
gether double if the soil is too rich.
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/ wish to impress the important
truth theoretically admitted by most
thoughtful persons. but practically
ignored by hundreds of our cultivators
of the soil, that weeds spring from
seeds or some substitute for them.
There is positively no such thing as
spontaneous production of these highly
organized plants, whatever scientists
may conclude as to the origin of living
microscopic beings. The ragweeds in
the fields after harvest come from seed
in the soil having been borne by for
mer ragweeds like themselves. The
purslane in the garden puts up it's tiny
seed-leaves from the shining coat of
the minute seed of the year before
Neither is it necessary to be driven
to the hypothesis that seeds may exist
for cons of time in the soil, to account
for the surprising growth we some
times witness of plants not previously
noticed. Doubtless some seeds do re.
tain their vitality during several years
when buried deeply in the earth; but
1t is more certainly known that the
seeds of troublesome or injurious
weeds rarely last longer than two years
In such situations, termination or death
takes place within one year in the
great majority of our weed seeds. Their
immense numbers, their diverse and
effectual modes of distribution, their
production under unfavorable circum-
stances upon dwarfed plants not likely
to be noticed, amply account for their
phenomenal appearance.-Prof. T. ]
Burrill.
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mer. The four plats were watered
alike. but the locern plat suffered most.
On the other three plats one-half the
trees disd. All were reset in the spring
of 1892 and more water applied than the
previous year. The lucern by this time
seemed to have such full possession
of the land that it was very difficult to
keep the trees from drying. Some of
them lived through the summer, but
were dead in the spring of 1893. The
trees on the other three plats were in
about the condition as the previous
year.-Utah Experiment Station.
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Prepared or Unprepared. - The
farmer who is always ready for rain
when it comes may safely be said to
be up-to-date. Time and tide wait for
no man, and the same is true of the
rains. The farmer often waits for
rain and frequently waits in vain, and
know of farmers who, having waited
for rain to reduce some of the Jumps in
their fields, instead of themselves pre-
venting the formation of Jumps, are
now wishing it would quit raining SO
they can get into the field and plant
cOrn.-EX
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Orchard Culture.

In the spring of 1891 and experiment
was begun to give practical illustra-
ton of the effects of different kinds of
treatment for young orchards Plat No.
l. containing four trees, was seeded at
once to lucern; No. seeded to clover,
No. 3 to timothy, and No. seeded to
a mixture of timothy and clover. all
being allowed to grow close around the
trees. Each plat contained four trees
set twenty-fcur feet apart. All the
trees in the lucern died the first sum-
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Darwin ON F.rtilization.

There is weighty and abundant evil
dence, says Darwin, that the flowers Of
most kinds of plants are constructed so
as to be occasionally or habitually
cross-fertilized by pollen from another
flower, produced either by the same
plant, or generally, as we shall here
after see reason to believe by distinct
plant. Characterization is sometimes
insured by the sexes being separated,
and in large number of cases by the
pollen and stigma Of the same flower
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the kind of wife that would suit that
young monarch and keep him in order.
1t is reported at ST. Petersburg that her
temper is ungovernable, worse even
than that of the Servian Queen Natalie.
Her latest feat has been to hurl a cup of
scalding tea at the head of her govern
ess, burning the poor woman in such
a manner as 10 confine her to her bed
for fortnight.
From this it would appear that
Princess Helen has inherited the tenn
per of her hot-headed and strong
Willed German mother, rather than
that OF her amiable and good-natured
father. The Grand Duchess Vladimir
is one of the most masterful women
in Europe, and was the only member
of the imperial family who defied the
late czar and expressed herself indif
ferent to his wishes, save when they
were conveyed in the form of affec
tionate appeals. as from one relative to
another, rather than as if from auto
crat to subject.
The Grand Duchess Vladimir is by
birth member of the German house
of Mechlenburg-S chwerin, and she is
the only foreign princess married into
the imperial family of Russia who has
absolutely declined to abandon her
Lutheran faith for that of her hus-
band-this, too, in spite of all the pres
sure that has been put upon her. 1t is
difficult to believe that conscientious
scruples have anything to do with her
attitude in the matter. and the impress
sion prevails that it is due to political
motives; for her conduct is, to say the
least. rapid, and has frequently given
rise to great scandal.
Thus her intimacy with young
Prince Lobanoff, nephew of the chan
cellor and captain of the Regiment of
Chevalier Gardes de importance, is
the talk of every capital in Europe,
not only by reason of its flagrancy, the
prince following her about wherever
she travels abroad, but also in conse-
quence of his using it to keep off his
creditors. He is frightfully in debt.
But the Grand Duchess is within a
measurable distance of becoming en-
press, there being practically but one
life between the present emperor and
her husbands succession to the throne
And past experience in Russia goes to
show that it is dangerous to offend the
favorite of an INSCRIPTIONS and self
willed Czarina such as the Grand
Duchess Vladimir would undoubtedly
become.
Then too, the Grand Duchess is re-
sponsible for the introduction of rou-
lette into the salons of the ST. Peters
burg aristocracy. Gambling has al
ways been the national vice par excel
lence of the Muscovite, but until the
Grand Duchess intimated to her friends
and acquaintance in the Russian cap
ital that she adored roulette, and would
be delighted to come to their houses if
they would provide themselves with
gambling equipments of this charac-
ter, none of the leaders of St. Peters.
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The Raspberry.-The raspberry, In
one form or another. is found growing
wild in many parts Of the world. It's
name is supposed to be derived from
"rasping," in allusion to the roughness
or prickliness of it's wood. In some
parts of Scotland the term "raspis" is
still used. It's botanical name, Rubus
Idaeus, or the Mount Ida bramble, is OBJ
tanned from the fact that it was first
introduced into Southern Europe from
Mount Ida.-Ex.
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The question often asked-"Why are pu-
pills of the New England Conservatory SO
uniformly successful as teachers or per-
formersP"--is readily answered by those
who have been fortunate enough to become
acquainted with the institution. With an
equipment superior to that of any other
school, with both American and foreign
teachers of the highest rank with Boston,
the art centre of America. to furnish the
best operas and concerts, it is easy to see
why one year of study there is better than
two elsewhere. Its prospectus is sent free.
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DisiIlusionment.

Mamma-And so he complained OF
your biscuits, did he? Well, wouldn't
mind; you will soon learn to make
better ones, and then you will please
him.
New Wife-But it is not that, nam.
ma; don't mind his finding fault with
my cooking. But to think that love,
which supposed was sentiment of
the heart, is only an affair Of the stom-
ach.-Boston Transcript
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stabbed Hi. wiz. wh,,. =. Pr,,.r

William R. Kyle, prominent Blount
county, Alabama, farmer, and his wife
separated, as she alleged, because of
his ill-treatment. Mrs. Kyle went to
church with JOAN Alexander During
prayer Kyle, who was also in church,
crawled on his hands and knees to the
pew where she knelt and stabbed her
in the back. The woman's screams
alarmed the congregation and broke ur
the service.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-07-08

At Lowell, Mass, with the exception
of the Lawrence Manufacturing Com
pany, which recently shut down, the
cotton mills are running practically at
their full capacity.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-07-08

White Buffalo, captain of Indian po-
lice, Cheyenne reservation, has applied
for pension on account of injuries
sustained while a member of the third
United States cavalry. His injuries
are such as would give white man n
pension. White Buffalo is a son of
Sitting Bull.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-07-08

A few years ago Lady Arran invest
ed SIS to secure employment for some
peasant girls in Ireland. From that
small beginning she has enabled 300
girls to become self-supporting and TO
assist their families by knitting.
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nADDeaI forAssistance.

The man who is charitable to himself will listen
to the mute appeal for assistance made by his
stomach, or his liver. in the shape OF divers dys-
peptic qualms and uneasy sensations in the
gions OF the glands that secretcs his bile Hos
letters Stomach Bitters, my dear sir madam
IS the case may be--is what you require. Has
len to use, II you are troubled with heartburn,
wind in the stomach, or note that your skin or
the whites OF your eyes are taking sallow hue.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-07-08
A CHILD ENJOYS

The pleasant favor, gentle action, and
soothing effect of Syrup of Figs, when in
need of a laxative, and If the father or
mother be costive or bilious, the most
gratifying results follow its use; so that it
is the best family remedy known and ev
cry family should have hnttle
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-07-08

School directors of the district of
Duverne, Iowa, have ordered cyclone
cave dug at each of the school houses
in the district.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-07-08

If the armies of Europe should
march at an eight-mile gait, five
abreast, fifteen inches apart, it would
require nine and one-half days for
them to pass a given point.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-07-08

In Court-"How comes il that YOU
committed robbery in so crowded a
street in full daylight?" eff your
Honor please, because l had laid out
some other streets for the evening"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-07-08

How Goes ,eurtsh;p lo0,ss? She looks
and he looks; that is how it looks
What is it like? She signs and he
signs; that is about the signs of it.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-07-08

Mrs Homespun thinks fire esca pes
very proper things to have She says
1t is well enough to give fire chance
to escape from building if it will.
If it won't, why, then put it out of
course.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-07-08

Origin of Arbor Day.-The phras.
and the anniversary "Arbor Day" were
originated by the present Secretary OF
Agriculture when president of the Ne
braska board of agriculture. The date
of its adoption by the Nebraska board
was January 4, 1872. The first proclaim
alton declaring it holiday was issued
by Gov. R. w. Furnas, March 81, 1874
That proclamation made April Arbor
day. Premiums were offered on this
holiday by planting trees, making reci-
tations relative to forests and wood
lands and by other methods paying
tribute to the necessity of the conserv-
alton of the forests of the United States
and likewise of the restoration of those
sections which have been entirely de-
nuded of trees.-Secretary ]. S. Morton
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-07-08

It was charged that a Brooklyn
Alderman was an escaped State prison
bird, but the paper making it has
been compelled to apologize. As a
matter of fact, he served out both his
Germs.
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Necessity for Spraying.-The fact
that insect and fungous enemies of the
orchard may be held in check by care
full attention to spraying with certain
materials, has been SO often and so
plainly demonstrated that further
proof seems unnecessary. By our
more progressive farmers the practice
is now looked upon as necessity ir
successful orchard management.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-07-08

Cow Peas and Corn.-When the corn
is from six inches to knee high, go
through few rows and plant two or
three southern cow peas in or near
each hill. They will start and grow,
slowly at first, but rapidly later, and
when the corn is ready to lay by, they
will spread and nearly cover the
ground. After the corn is cut off the
hogs may be turned in to eat the peas,
or the whole mass may be turned I'M
der for green manuring. In some
ways, this will be better than trying
to SOW row of peas between the rows
Of corn. AS green crop, this will be
surer than crimson clover, and more
valuable than rye. Try it in a small
Way.-Rural New Yorker.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-07-08

Application has been made at WASH
ington for patent upon a watch whose
hands run backward. It's meant for
sale in Turkey, where folks read that
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Among the four longest lived trees
are the olive and the yew-both ever
greens. The maximum age of the for
mer is 1000 years and of the latter p
$50.
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Within the four months just passed
there have been chartered in South
Carolina Is cotton mill companies
with a capital Of 81 $50, 900.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-07-08

The whole of the spinning and weav
ing machinery for India comes from
Great Britain, and will no doubt con-
tinue to do so for years to come.
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1t is habit of the summer girl TO
put her hand back in order to aseer-
tain whether belt and skirt have part
ed company.
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Plants that have been recently re-
ported, palms especially, should not be
brought at once into living room,
but kept where it is cool. nor should
they be watered so plentifully as whep
they were in pot-bound condition.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-07-08

The scarcity of ivory has set invent
i've wits to work, and now in Sweden
hollow balls of cast steel arc found to
be satisfactory substitute for ivory
billiard balls
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-07-08

That all talk is not cheap is illus
strated by the report of the American
Bell Telephone Company, which shows
. profit of So, 900, 900 for the past year.
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dramas before the age of 90, at which
age he died.
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Kant began his philosophical and
metaphysical speculations before the
age of Is.
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large blocks of land in the introduce
ton of tenants not bound to the local
1ty by personal investments or perma-
nent interests can scarcely be consid-
cred gain when the system replaces
sturdy farmer from native stock OF the
community. Fortunately the summer
corners content themselves with lot
or at most moderate sized farm, and
generally leave for the protection of
the buildings in winter a very good
class OF men. The introduction of the
new forces that now tend to a CONSOLE
oatlon OF farms may change all this,
ana large blocks of land may be at
tacned TO virtual immortal estate.
Col. Hlgginson, after recounting the
natural conditions induced by large
estates in Ireland, said: "Yet now,
"nen ne looks from the windows of
MS summer abode in New Hampshire,
almost every inch of land he sees. in
cluolng several thousand acres, belongs
70 Two or three, or at the utmost five,
proprletors, and tends from year to
year 10 rather concentrate than to fur
Iner subdivision. All of these are city
proprletors who have bought up what
once were cultivated farms, in some
cases throwing several farms into
one. Some of these proprietors have
undertaken farming and abandoned it,
lettlng afterward little portions of
tnelr land to tenants; others have sim
ply let their farms relapse into forests;
only one still farms on a large scale
Nevertheless, the old order is changed
SO effectually by the process that it is
pretty certain that it will never return
rms will not again become a COM
munlty of small farmers until the city
people practically abandon it, and then
the forests will have so grown up
again that a new generation of pio-
neers will have to clear it anew. And
what is going on here is proceeding
as steadily over many square miles of
each OF our older states. Even in the
comparatively new state of Iowa it will
be observed, although new farms are
being opened, yet the increase of ten
ant farmers is almost five times as
great as that of freehold owners"
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The difference between sea and g
saw is in tense.
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shall recommend Piso's Cure for Con
sumption far and wide.-Mrs. Mulligan
Plumstead, Kent, England, Now, s, 1875
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Lamartine's best poetry was written
when lie was no more than 20 years Of
age.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-07-08

Whistler, the artist, wears a hat
which makes him look like a Pennsyl.
vania Mennonite.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-07-08

What part of the wheel makes the
most noise? Why, the spol1es, man, of
course.
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Slight repairs to the stone well AZ
the Bloody Angle, Gettysburg, made
the other day, uncovered over 100 bull
lets, pieces of shell, parts of guns, etc.
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Dryden's poems were extensively
read before their author was II years
of age.
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The late shah OF Persia grew avari-
cious with old age.and the fortune lac
leaves is estimated at $4,000, O0V.
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FITS stopped free and permanently cured. No
PTS after first day'SIse OF DR.. Kline ca eat Nerve
Restorer. Free 81 ira bottle and teat % Mary.
eous cures. DR. KLINk 93l Arch ST. Phi ephla. Pa.
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The difference between a husband
and wife-no, no, there should never
be any difference between them.
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Five hundred bushels of potatoes
were sold at Sheriff's sale in Kent
county, Michigan, recently, for cent
a bushel.
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We are all the time making charac-
ter, whether we are doing anything
else or not.
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HOoke's first works were published
when their author was barely Is years
of age.
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There will be sufferings in the world
so long as people suffer rings.
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Horses were the first to wear CALI
soles.
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"What is SO refreshing as a green
spot In the desert?" exclaimed Fogg as
he laid down the unripe fruit.
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Goes Cough BaIsan

Is the oldest and best 1t will break up a cold quicker
than anything else. 1t is always reliable. Try It,
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God never made law without also
making penalty for its violation.
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The difference between a corn ker-
mel and coined colonel is that one
is large grain while the other ap-
pears to be a grain small.
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Is A SAUCY DUCHESS.
THE DAUGHTER OF DUKE
VLADIMIR IN ILL-REPUTE.
Has an Ungovernable Temper and In
the Habit of Singing the Tableware
ut Her Attendants About HeI
Mother.
~ T is greatly to b!

AZ 6hOotAJ W OC
regretted that the
Grand Duke Vlad-
imir of Russia can
not see his way to
giving his hand
some daughter
Helen in marriage
to the young King
of Servia. Ac-
cording to all &C.
counts, she is just