Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-05-13

ty printing he says it will amount to
| only 5000. When the other fellow gets
it he says it amounts to 100000.
Topelxa's x-beers-for-a quarter club
seems to fill long felt want. The
drug stores reported only 3,57s sales
of drink in April, against 5,Os5 in April
1895.
Chancellor Snow says the orchard
worm, which is now doing business in
Kansas, is the forest tent caterpillar.
1t will run from London purple or
Paris green.
Walter Price, who has gone to South
Africa to superintend some gold mines
formerly was printer in Atchison,
and ten years ago was a page in tho
Kansas legislature
Badly Bentley, whose light went out
some years ago, has got a tallow dip
and is working toward the front
again with lecture on deep water
| and gulf freight rates.
Girls are so scarce in Lacrosse that
young men are compelled to embrace
opportunities, and they say editor
Nhiteman has a very sweet .'oppor-
tunity'' which he often embraces.
Tie papers in eastern Kansas are
getting to differ entirely from the
other Kansas papers. They are full
of talk about wells, oil and derricks,
and corn and wheat are forgotten.
The editor of a western Kansas pa
per invites his subscribers to visit him
| at ~.s home and see him push a lawn
mower He is advertising the mower.
The advertisers are asking a little too
much of the editors
"A Lyons paper makes the aStound-
ing and cold declaration that you
can't plant pumpkin seed and raise
a rose bush. Yet some people declare
nothing can be learned from reading a
country paper.
A number of Topeka musicians as
sisted in the program of the Social
Science federation free of charge, and
it is said that the church in which the
sessions were held was given gratuit-
| ously. Topeka is really becoming
liberal
A tally-ho party from st. Joseph
broke into Atchison one day last week
and rounded up at the Ingalls, man.
sion for luncheon. The mates stared
as the pageant passed through town.
1t reminded the old settlers of Ben
Halliday's express.
Farmers say that there is going to
be a tremendous output of hogs in
southern Kansas next year-more
than ever before. f. NJ. Sumpter of
Argonia, last week butchered a hog
that weighed $40 pounds. He secured
forty-one gallons of lard from it.
The orchard worm has wrought
great damage in Wilson county. John
Callahan testifies that he saw an or
chard of twenty-five acres that had
been stripped clean. At points along
the railroad the ground was covered
an inch deep with the pests and the
track was made so greasy with their
carcasses that the sand boxes had to
be used to keep the car wheels from
slipping. Their work of destruction
was not confined to fruit trees, but
shade and forest trees and even the
jack oaks along the railroad had been
stripped bare.
Thirteen years ago this spring a
herd of Texas cattle passed Gene Mil
ler's place in Lane county, and left
behind a little heifer calf, too weak to
follow the herd. Gene raised the calf.
and promised it and all its increase to
his oldest son, then babe, till he
should be of age. Last week that
calf died, but the increase amounts to
twenty-three head, and there will be
an addition of fourteen this spring. If
you want to get rich, just go to Lane
county, invest a few dollars in Texas
cows, turn them out on the buffalo
grass, and the thing is done
The condition of the Kansas wheat
crop to-day surpasses anything in the
record. Not word of complaint has
been heard from a spot in Kansas.
The government report last heard from
put the condition at about sc per cent
of full crop, but it is now considera-
bly, over 100 per cent. There never
was a first of May before when wheat
showed as fair promise as it does to-
day wherever the seed has been put
in the ground Owing to the favora-
bic season, the area was no doubt con-
sidera bly, increased after the reports
were in last winter, and it may now
approximate million acres. On this
acreage, If crop reaches the average
of 1889, twenty-five buzhels per acre,
we will harvest this summer 80 mill
ion bushels of wheat, exceeding the
greatest crop ever produced either in
or out of Kansas In, 1892 Kansas
produced "a million bushels of wheat
the largest crop ever made by any
state.
The Topeka fall festival will include
a lot of floats representing scenes from
Venice A good many people will go