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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-03-23
WILL USE HER BETTER.
Miss Wizards Last Appeal.

The national officers of the w. c. T.
U. and the trustees of the Woman's
Temple will send out through all the
land the letter which Miss Willard
wrote for distribution to the people of
the United States. The letter, which
was written after Miss Willard had
been seized with her final sickness,
gives a short history of the W. c. T. u.
movement and then plunges into the
financial difficulties of the trustees of
the Temple. After telling of the pur-
pose which animated the women who
built the great structure the letter
continues:
81 say it reverently, but doubt if
any building in the world that has
stood for so few years has had waited
toward it so much of tender hope, of
beautiful faith, of love for humanity.
A SHRINE OF HOME PEOPLE.
sit is shrine of the home people,
to which little children have given
their boarded coins and toward which
the eyes of the aged have turned with
loving hope. 1t symbo1izes a Chris
tian character, steadied and controlled
no less than Christian home built
and protected from within by the prin-
ciples of sobriety and purity. The
building is in no sense local enter
prise. 1t is the great, glowing hearth
| fire of the woman's crusade, and upon
it converge the loving and faithful
eyes of those who in all countries have
they might be the chosen guardians of
the home in this age of varied voices
and many contradictions.
81 appeal to good men and women
who care for a clear brain, a steady
beating heart and an untremb1inp
hand that they shall help us forward
until we have gained controlling in
terest in our House Beautiful so that
with the return of better times we may
have larger sum with which to carry
forward our lines of work and to bear
the light of the crusade torch to the
most distant lands"
MISS DOW THE CUSTODIAN OF FUNDS.
Miss Willard appointed Miss Cor
nelia Dow of Portland, Me-, as custo-
dian to receive the funds raised by her
for the Temple, and the national of
ficers have continued Miss Dow in
the same capacity. All of the money
raised by them will be sent to her G.
B. Shaw, president of the American
Trust and Savings bank, is the treas
urer of the Temple trustees and re-
ceives contributions made to them.
The announcement is made that
when $225, 900 has been raised in addi-
ton to the amounts already pledged
the trustees will have entire control of
the Temple and will rename it evil
lard Temple"
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California Bitten.

The heaviest frost of the season oc-
Cured in the southern part of the
state Friday night and serious damage
was sustained by the fruit industry.
Reports from Stockton, Fresno and
Sacramento, are to the effect that the
apricot, peach and almond crop are
ruined. Of one thousand peach buds
gathered at random from orchards in
Fresno county not one was found to
have escaped the effects of the frost.
Little or no damage has been done
in San Diego county, but considerable
injury was done to the topmost buds
of blooming trees in Los Angeles
county. While the orchardists through
out the Santa Clara valley complain
of lack of moisture, no material dam
age has been done by frost so far.
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A Dogs Sense.

A young girl was crossing the Pub
lie Garden the other morning upon the
main path which crossed the bridge.
She was accompanied by a magnificent
mastiff, who strobe along beside her
IN the most companionable sort of
way, looking up into her face occasion
ally as if to remark casually that il
was a very fine morning, or to ask if
there was anything he could do tor
her.
The two crossed the bridge together,
and finally came to the Charles street
gate. Here the young girl, evidently
not wishing to have the care of the
dog in the busy streets, turned to him
and said:
There, that is far enough now,
Marco. You need not go with me any
farther, but turn about and go back
home"
She did not take her hands out of
her muff to point the way, and she
spoke as she would to a small brother,
in pleasant conversational voice.
Marco looked at her with his large
eyes, then looked across the Common,
wagging his tail slowly as though he
were thinking how very pleasant it
would be to go the rest of the way.
Finally he turned back to her again
and with movement of his head and
eyes asked as plainly as though the
words had come from his mouth:
please let me go little farther, it is
such fine morning."
mo, dear; I'm going shopping, YOU
know" answered the girl, explaining
the difficulty, as if Marco we're human,
"There'n be crowds of people, and !
shall not know what to do with you.
But go along, now, there's good fel.
low, and I'll be back soon.'
Without another word Marco turned
and walked back across the gardens,
He did not stink away, as some dogs
do when sent back, but marched leis.
urely along with his head in the air,
stopped a moment on the bridge to
watch the children skating below,
then trotted on toward Commonwealth
Avenue. The Athenian watched him
until he had disappeared beyond the
gates, then resumed his own way,
wondering whether Darwin loved
dogs or not.-Boston Record.
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Where Is IL?

What is the matter with prosperity?
Where has it strayed? Trade is dull
and the country is not prosperous.
The party press generally fixed jan
uary l as the date of the beginning of
good times. Two months have since
expired, but no noticeable improve
ment of the wretched times is mani
fest. The tide will soon set in strong
ly against the Republican party un-
less the depression in business is al
tered. 1dleness and want breed a bit
ter discomfort, which will never be
overcome until there are ample en-
Payments. People at present will
turn to any leadership that offers
promise of better times, believing that
worse times can never come than those
now existing.-Wine and Spirit Gaz-
cite, IN. "
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May Take Six.

A good deal of encouragement was
created at the navy department by a
report from the capitol that MAORI
ty of the naval affairs committee is
disposed to substitute six battleships
for the three provided for in the pend.
ing naval appropriation bill. This
number is supposed to represent about
the normal working capacity of the
three ship building concerns in this
country that are about at present to
undertake the contraction of battle
ships.
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The Art of Pleasing.

Give a boy address and accomplish
ments, and you give him the mastery
OF palaces and fortunes wherever he
goes. He has not the trouble of earn.
ing or owning them; they solicit him
to enter and possess. "-Emerson
with hat in hand, one gets on in
the world. Proverb.
There is no policy like politeness, ~
says Magoon; "since good manner
often succeeds where the best tsnpue
has failed" The art of pleasing is
the art of rising in the world.
A tine illustration of the business
value of good manners is found in the
Bon Marche, an enormous establish.
ment in Paris where thousands of
clerks unemployed, and where almost
everything is kept for sale. The two
distinguishing CHARACTERISED, of the
house are one low price to all, and ex-
treme courtesy. Mere po1iteness is
not enough; the employees must try in
every possible way TO please and to
make customers feel at home. Some
thing more must be done than is done
in other stores, so that every visitor
will remember the Bon Marche with
pleasure. BY this course, the business
has been developed until it is said to
be the largest of the kind in the world.
No other advertising is so efficacious.
A. T. Stewart initiated this store in
his.
Good manners often prove fortune
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rescue with ''Never mind, Frank, if
you aren't the handsomest girl in
school you are the smartest!' Thus
home love and loyalty healed the sore
spirit until the girl grew to woman
hood and realized that beauty of ex-
preston, of manner, of utterance, of
achievement, of character outweigh
beauty of person even in the scales of
society, to say nothing of celestial
values.-The Congregationa1ist.
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To Cross the Waters.

A new air ship will shortly make a
trial trip between Grand Street park,
Newtown, L. l., and Washington.
If the trip proves a success, the in
ventor, Gaetno p. Mansione, proposes
to cross the ocean.
Mansione, who is 48 years old. a ma
tive of Naples and scientific engin-
eer, has been at work on his ship for
the past six months. He expects to
fly us miles an hour, as maximum.
and 120 miles as a minimum speed. In
the event of an accident to the flying
apparatus while the ship is over water,
the inventor claims it can be lowered
to the surface of the water and be rap
idly converted into boat, with a pro-
peller. In this form a speed of from
10 to 20 miles an hour may be attained.
The ship is in the shape of cigar,
except that the center is greater in
proportion to the ends than in a cigar.
1t is 90 feet long and 20 feet in diane.
ter at its greatest thickness. There
are pair of wings, measuring O. feet
from tip to tip, which project about %
feet from either side of the ship.
The motive power is a secret of the
inventor. The balloon part of the
ship can carry 1000 cubic feet of gas.
This is to be sustaining power, the
motive power being wholly obtained
from the wings.
The trial trip to Washington will be
made on May 1. The trip to Europe,
the inventor says, will be made in less
than two days.
Signor Mansione has already formed
a stock company and several Italian
bankers are behind him.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-03-23

From such information as can be
obtained the sale in Texas of highly
graded and registered bulls during the
last twelve months has been twice as
large as during any preceding equal
period of time, and that it does not
fall short of and probably exceeds ST.
100000. OF these sales a much larger
number than ever before are of regis
tered animals, showing that our stock
men have learned the principle of
breeding that is most uniformly eff
fective of valuable results.-Texas
Stock and Farm Journal.
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The Farm.

A newspaper interested in the Aus
tralian frozen meat trade with Eng
land candidly admits that this class of
meat cannot compete with American
meats in quality or condition after an
ocean voyage. England will have to
hunt up some other excuse now for
not buying American meats in open
market, but it is a certainty that ever
resourcefu1 Great Britain will find a
new reason immed ately why Ameri-
can meats are not to be sold freely in
in her markets.-k. c. Packer.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-03-23

The Kansas Woman's Press associa-
ton will hold its eighth annual meet
ing in Topeka, Apri17. The meetings
will be held at Royal Arcanum hal
725 Kansas avenue. The morning
and afternoon sessions will be devoted
to the transaction of business and the
discussion of subjects of interest to
newspaper women. In the evening
there will be banquet at the Cope
land hotel.
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SHOULD NOT ADJOURN.
Efforts of BOndhOlders Toward Adj.
jOurnment Discovered.

JOurmmemt Discovered.
New York Special
That the money manipulators and
bondholders are making every effort
possible to induce the United States
to swallow all Spanish insults and
preserve peace at any cost, is evidenced
by the sterotyped journalism furnish
ed by them, intended to feel the public
pulse on the scheme to adjourn con-
gross aud open the way for the admin.
istration to smooth matters over, if so
inclined, and render sufficient protec-
ton to stocks and bonds. Recently
| articles have been sent out advocating
an early adjournment; members have
| been approached and induced to grant
interviews to that effect; reports have
been sent to the press of the pacific
and conciliating tone of the Sagasta
government, and everything possible
has been done to prepare the mind of
the public for the final outcome of
their schemes.
Referring to these efforts, United
States Senator, Julius c. Burrows of
Michigan, in a signed statement in
the World, says:
81 am profoundly impressed with
the belief that in our relations with
Spain a crisis is near at hand; in
very few days the government will re-
ceive the report of the court of inquiry
that the Maine was destroyed by the
explosion of Spanish mine or a tor
pedo.
IF the court makes the report l an
ticipate it will, then will come the tug
of war.
what is the situation with which
the country is confronted?
"a vessel of the United States gov
eminent lies at anchor in the port of
friendly power in the exact spot
fixed by that power, and that vessel is
on peaceful mission. She is DESTROY
ed.
'"The question of ports does not en-
ter into the discussion of responsible
ty. Spain was as much bound to pro-
tect the Maine and her crew from
harm in the port of Havana as if she
had been anchored at her own immed-
late door. 1 care not whether the ex-
plosion was produced by or through
the connivance of a Spaniard or Gu
ban, SPANS responsibility for the
dead is not lessened thereby.
United States had visited Spain on
friendly mission and was a guest of
the queen regent, and during the night
was murdered by some member of the
queens household, or by some fanati-
cal Spaniard not connected with the
queens household, would not this gov
eminent have the right to hold Spain
responsible for the deed? 1 contend
that it would.
Wherefore it is that say that in
our relations with Spain, we are APP
preaching a crisis, the solution and
settlement of which congress alone
must determine. The country expects
congress to do its duty in the premises
and that the president will do his.
Neither can shift the responsibility of
the hour upon the other.
"Any proposition of congress to
shirk responsibility or repose special
powers upon the president to meet
emergencies as they arise, will be re-
scented by the people.
congress must not only remain in
connected with the loss of the Maine,
but must not adjourn until it has set
tied, and settled right, all the other
questions that are pressing for
speedy solution
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to young man. Mr.. Butler, mer-
chant in Providence, r. l., had once
closed his store, and was on his way
home when he met little girl who
wanted spool of thread. He went
back, opened the store, and got the
thread. This little incident was talk
ed of all about the city, and brought
him hundreds of customers. He be-
came very wealthy, largely because OF
his courtesY.-Success,
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Pensacola, Lila.

TAPIocA PUDDING.-Take one quart
of milk, four tablespoonfu1so of tapioca
soaked over night in milk, piece of
butter the size of a small egg, the
yolks of four eggs; sweeten to taste.
Put all together in pail and boil in a
kettle of water until tapioca boils
clear; turn in earthen dish and frost
with whites of four eggs; set in the
oven to brown, and then set in cool
place until wanted. KY. z.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-03-23

A Great Mother is a lust title for
Frances Wizards biography of her
mother. She was indeed remarkable
woman, and in the daughters auto
biography parents of girls will find
many helpful suggestion in connec-
ton with the training and education
of Frances and her sister Mary. One
instance of the wise and tender home
influences surrounding their girlhood
was the tactful treatment of Frances's
sensitiveness in regard to her personal
appearance. She says of herself in
her youth: "All happy hopes were
mine save one-I wasn't a bit good
looking" In comparison with her
sister, who was remarkably attractive,
she describes herself as being ''thin,
with sparse red hair, though mother
never permitted me or any one else to
call it red" Nevertheless, boys some
times teasing1y dubbed her .'redhead''
and girls pitied her for being 'home-
ly." Smarting from these taunts she
who soothed her by the assurance that
her hair was "like Grandfather Hills,
which grew to be lovely gold brown
color when he grew up" and adding,
You are like him in every way, and
he was the noblest looking man in all
the country round" Then sister
Mary would remind her of her ssnice
figure" and small hands and feet and
the brother also would come to the
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-03-23

Edward Kane, boy Is years old
living at Kickapoo, was dragged to
death Friday. The lad was driving a
pony just purchased for him, when the
animal ran away and he was thrown
from a wagon. His foot caught in a
spring and he was dragged for mile.
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TheHon1e.

A GOOD CAKE.-Take one cuptul of
sugar and one half cupful of butter,
and beat the butter and sugar to a
cream; then take two eggs, break in
with the sugar and butter and beat
again; then add one cupfu1 of sweet
milk, and one heaping teaspoonful of
baking powder in three cupfuls of
flour, and f1avoring to suit the taste.
-(Mrs.) w. H. WILLIAMS.
Pensacola, Lila.
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Chicago Liyes,oek Marker.
Chicago. March

Chicago. March p.
Hogs-Receipts. 5000: left over, 800. Mar.
ket slow, and shade higher. Light, ; Is to 971s
MIXED, IS TO 4 90: heavy, 90 to or; rough
80 to ) IS.
Cattle-Receipts. 1000. Market strong.
Beeves, 3 81 to IS; cows and heifers 10 to 4 4s:
Texas steers, 3 so to 10; stockers and feeders,
10 to 10.
Sheep Receipts, II 600. Market strong.
Natives 3 10 to 65; westerns, 90 to 50:
lambs, 30 to 5 go
Official yesterday:
Hogs-Receipts. 4O.slo; shipments, $3.50.
Sattle-Receipts.l4,9 1894; shipments, 1904
Sheep-Receipts, lab; shipments, 23O
Estimated receipts of hogs tomorrow, Is 600.
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MARKET REPORT
Kansas City Livestock Market

Kansas City, March p.
Cattle-Recepts. 200. Market unchanged
Only a retail trade.
Hogs-Receipts 5000. Market weak to Sc
lower. Bulk of saleA. 1898 90; heavies
Ss94 o.; packers, 65G4 90; mixed, 70(d5 971S:
3 20. fe'' wy
Sheep-Receipts, 800. Market steady
Lambs, sO@5 IS; muttons, 3d4 IS.
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Kansas City Produce Market.
Kansas City, March

Kansas City, March 81.
Wheat-Hard, active &c higher, soft, neglec.
ed. No. hard, 9Oc; no. ?, SS1l and 9Cc: no 3
u and SIC; no. red, % to 9sc; no. ?, 92c: no. 8
Ssc TO 9lc; no. spring, 81: no. B. SIC.
Corn-Active, Is to 14c higher. No. ? mixed
Is to 25Ac.
Oats-Firm, higher NO. white. "a to 24Hc
Rye-Steady No. ?. 4Sc.
Hay Firm. Choice timothy, 8 so TO 900;
choice prairie, to I Is.
Butter-Activa, especially for creamery.
quotable is to 1Sc; dairy, II to lac.
Eggs-Weak, nc.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-03-23

A large cattle deal has been made
by B. F. Tatum of Kins1ey with New
Mexico and Arizona parties. The
deal numbers from 10000 to u 900 cat
tie, which will be shipped to Kinsley
and sold in small punches to cattle
buyers over the state.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-03-23

After years of most bitter expert
ence, 1 learned that for a person with
weak or deranged digestion, one of
the worst attractions of the laws of
health is the eating of soft or sloppy
food and drinking with meals. In
fact, one should not drink within less
than two hours after eating. After l
had learned this lesson and persisted
in following it for some little time,
the change for the better that I ex-
perienced was wonderful. Dry or
solid food we'll masticated and retain
ed in the mouth until it is thoroughly
insalivated will do more to cure dys-
pepsia than all the doctors prescrip-
tions in the land. It is, of course,
also necessary to make a proper se1ec-
ton of food. From observation 1 am
convinced that thousands upon thous-
ands of people suffer in various ways
from failure to comply with above
rule. L. E. T.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-03-23

Editor of the Housewives Cuba
young mother can learn by experience
and inquiry many little helpful rene
dies for emergencies and colds, coughs,
ETC., without having to call in ply
stefan for every i'll; and it saves many
drug bill besides.
My father was physician, but he
advised the use of simple home rene
dies for children, and he thought pow
dered borax most excellent and use
full household article. He said it would
prevent contagion when such diseases
as diphtheria and scarlet fever were
prevalent. If child is made to lave
its mouth and tonsils freely with a
strong solution of salt water and borax
every few hours, also to keep the pow
dered boraX on the washstand and in
the bathroom, and put it in the water
it washes in, it will escape any con-
tagion. Our neighbors use to think
my father gave his children some fairy
wand to carry about with them, we
were so we'll, and escaped any serious
maladies. But we were simply made
to garg1e with this lotion three times
day, and put it in our bath-water,
and, in the spring, our kitchen sink.
Water pipes were flushed every day
with strong solution of borax water.
Borax is the best disinfectant; de-
stroys germs, and it is cheap, safe
and clean. Children don't mind garg-
ling with it or putting the dry powder
on an ulcer in the throat. 1t will heal
quickly. 1 know of nothing so help
full in household.
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People Va. Gold Bugs.
People, or The Politicians.
Merrie Englan 1. Political Novels-Iot
IN stamps. THE WRIGH rs, Topeka.
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The most perfect little home ever
saw was a little house into the sweet
incense of whose fires went no costly
things. A few hundred dollars served
as years living for father, mother
and three children. But the mother
was the creator of the home; her rela-
tons with the children were the most
beautiful | have ever seen; every in
mate of the house invo1untari1y looked
into her face for the. keynote of the
day, and it always rang clear. From
the rosebud or clover-leaf, which in
spite of her hard house work she al
ways found time to put beside our
plates at breakfast, down to the story
she had on hand to read in the even
ing, there was no intermission in her
influence. She has always been and
always will be my ideal of mother,
wife and hOmemaker. If to her quick
brain, loving heart and exquisite face
had been added the appliances of
wealth and engagements of wide cu1-
ture, hers would have been absolutely
the ideal home. AS it was, it was the
best have ever seen.-HELEN HUNT.