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The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1898-11-23

The average yield of wheat per
acre in France has been steadily in
creasing for seventy years, until now
IT is one of the highest in the world.
There is lesson in agriculture which
even the United States might heed
with profit.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1898-11-23

may have front and revers of fanc7
silk or satin, while fancy mixed wool
en- fabrics are in better taste with solid
colors in combination.
To make this waist for woman oi
medium size will require two yards oI
material forty four inches wide.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1898-11-23
Military Costume For a Girl.

The rage for soldier clothes has
spread to the young folks and some of
the designs are very striking and
quaint looking. The accompanying
drawing is from arecent costume made
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1898-11-23

The chief of police of Norfolk, Va,
fears smallpox. He has given orders
that witnesses will hereafter not be
required to kiss the Bible but only to
raise the right hand when being sworn-
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1898-11-23

New York CrrY' Especially 1t seems
to be foregone conclusion that the
model skirt is TO fit absolutely glove
like about the hips, defining the figure
in an astonishing manner, and widen
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1898-11-23

italy has given up her scheme for
building S1O4, ZOO, 900 worth of war.
ships. She had unfortunately over
looked the important fact that she
hadn't the price.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1898-11-23

Women now spend much thought in
arranging their gems to match their
costumes. Amethysts and all shades
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-01-26
Needless ExtraYagance.

Civil Service Commissioner John B.
Harlow was before the senate civil
service investigation committee re-
Gently and presented some interesting
statements and suggestions in reply
mainly to questions on the subject
submitted by Senator E1kins of the
committee.
He said that if all of the govern.
ment employees in this city were re.
quired to work the full seven hours a
day, as required by law, it would mean
a gain of $500 extra hours day, with
saving approximately of over 100000
a year for clerk hire.
At the present the great bulk of EN-,
ployes work six and half hours. The
gain outside of Washington would be
in this proportion.
Commissioner Harlow believed that
many millions of dollars would be
saved if the departments were man
aged like the average business house
or corporation.
Chief Examiner Servon of the COM
mission testified that up to date 30O,-
go people had been examined and 81
557 appointed to Office, not including
reinstatements. The entire expense
of the examination was STA each, and
the cost of examining and certifying
these appointments to Office was $11.7S
each.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-01-26
women and Eating.

Unless woman washes or works
for living, says the San Francisco
Evening Post, she doesn't need three
meals any day of her life. 1t takes
systematic work to consume that much
fuel. Engineers are too clever to fill
the furnace with coal unless there is a
trip to make, an elevator to run, OF
work to do.
If woman is going to sit in rock
lng-chair all morning, read the paper
polish her finger-nai1s, and boss he1
servants and children, roll and a cut
of coffee will amply sustain her sys.
tenn. 1t doesn't follow that she mus,
eat ham and eggs, fried potatoes, hot
biscuits, and fruit just because her
husband needs such repast, to pro.
vide for her exquisite tastes. He has
work to do, points to make, battles to
fight, money to earn, and like the
limited express, steam must be kept
up TO the winning mark.
If a woman intends to use her brain
to do with one chin, avoid shelving
hips. and develop her spiritual nature,
she can't be too temperate. Let her
throw carrots to the cows, cabbage to
the hogs, oaten meal to the chickens,
pork and veal to the dogs, and liver to
the cats, and live like the birds, the
Bedouins, or the Romans.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-01-26
Birds ola Feather.

There was a man in our town, who
was not very wise. He went to To-
peka church and pleaded with the
skies. AS was his wont at such-a-
time he tried to make 1t out that if the
Lord would come right close, he'd tell
him all about the Peoples Party,
Popu1ists, Democrats, and such, and
try and have him take a hand, if it
didn't amount to much.
"Yoh might be able to assist the
thing a while or two, if you'd only
take hand right now, and do what
you could do. You could help us put
these Populists back where they ought
to stay,-back on the farms of Kansas
working by the day. They've kicked
up every sort of muss, contentious
war and strife, and have run entirely
out the state the New York Mutua
Life. Next in order was. the Trav
eler's,-which was pious, kind and
true; but Webb McNan got after it
with his number; 1even shoe. Wher
he'd given'it a round or two, where
the sitter always sits, it was made NJ
into sausage meat, and into little bits
of bits. Then General Boyle took VI
the fight, with a two-edge, naked
sword; and what he did was fearful
yes twas terrible, o Lord. Another
of our friends, o Lord, he surely made
it buzz, for the Kansas City stock
yards is not just what it was. Their
Bush and Stryker they got in, and
Heflebower to; and Capt. Morris took
a hand to show what he could do
While rake-offs didn't go no more, and
other things as we'll, yet they made
things look peculiar for Republicans
to tell the voters at the election, which
we will have this fall; SO we have
come to you, o Lord, with our stomach
full of gall. So here we are, o Lord
we are, with only hope in you; and
with money in our purses and rail.
road pass or two; and now, O. Lord,
do help us, till we climb the golden
staiIw But he'd been prayin to the
devil,-the other wasn't there.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-01-26

Ex-senator Ingalls, can now be read
out of the Republican party with both
feet. In his Chicago interview of the
18th he is guilty of species of treas.
on not to be tolerated in this Chris.
tian land. He says:
"The state of Kansas is just now
enjoying a greater degree of prosper.
ity than for many years, induced by
the large crops and god prices" If
the Senator had told the exact truth
only just once, and had added the
Populist government, we would feel
inclined to retract some of the unsa-
worry facts heretofore published con-
corning him.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-01-26

HAMBURGER STEAK can be made a
most enjoyable or an almost UNBEATABLE
dish. Have the butcher put the meat
tcut from the round) twice through
the chopper, and with it some nice fat
"a quarter of pound for each pound
of the lean beef. Without this fat the
steak will be too solid, and also dry.
Season with salt. pepper, little nut
meg, ginger, and sage, and make into
a ball. Fry one or two sliced or
minced onions in spider until light
brown, draw them to one side, and put
in the meat, fattening it into a cake
less than an inch in thickness. Fry
(covered until brown, then turn and
brown on the other side. Now remove
to platter, make good brown gravy
leaving in the onions). pour over the
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-01-26

after she was 10 months old, might
have received an impression of the
cold Crow" song when it was sung to
the younger children through the
peculiar vibrations communicated to
the floor of the room; but the other
two songs could only be perceived
through the ear when she was a baby
younger than Is months and could
hear, and are therefore a part of her
earliest memory. We are therefore
justified in assuming that the vibra-
tons of the piano from the two plan
tation songs, communicated to her by
touch over IA years later, have trav-
e1ed to the center where her early
aura1 impressions are stored mp, and
that they in their turn reawakened
the memory of the "O1d Crow" song,
which she had heard before her ILL
ness, and possibly also felt by vibra-
tons afterward when it was sung to
the younger children.
1t appears to me that this striking
instance proves beyond a doubt, and
as nothing else could more, the per-
sistence of early impressions, as well
as the intimate connection that the
centers of two different senses, though
physiologically related in many ways,
may assume in. certain cases. The
mental quality of sound thus conveyed
by vibration alone must, it is evident,
be of peculiar nature, different from
such sensations of the normal person,
for it is composed of elements of the
immediate skin Impressions associa-
ted with those of the earlier ones de-
posted in the normal sound memory.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-01-26

meat, and serve. Ii there is much fat
in the spider after taking out the
meat, drain off all but couple table
spoonfuis before making the gravy.
Following this recipe your steak will
be tender and delicate, not a dense
wad of lean beef-fber. If the meat is
chopped at home, and you have no
fat, use cold boiled potatoes, half and
ha1f.-Woman's Home Companion.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-01-26

parts of the city. John ]. voorhees,
has been elected president, and a
board of governors appointed, consist
ing of thirty prominent citizens, both
ladies and gentlemen, headed by Mr..
E. F. c. Young, president of the Con
so1idated Traction Company.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-01-26

A general exodus to Colorado and
Oklahoma Is contemplated by the cit
liens of North Blue Rapids. The heirs
of Uncle Andy Scott's estate will set
tied on the mountains near Idaho
Springs, Cplo., where new church of
the Latter Day Saints will be started.
Other Saints from Blue Rapids viii
settle in Oklahoma.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-01-26

The increased earnings of railroads
is being advanced as an argument of
present prosperity. Admitting the
fact, as Republicans contend, that
there is an exact fixed number of dol
lars in this country, did you ever at
tempt to figure it out just how for
eign owner of these railroads can in
crease his pile and at the same time in.
crease yours?
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-01-26

Obstreperous Cy accuses John James
of the free silver heresy. How terri
blel Such accusations, or any other,
considering their source, would have
a tendency to polish the dome on the
state capitol, but when applied to
Ingalls,-just think of it, from Cy to
Ingalls.-how can we be expected to
deliver written opinion as to the ex-
tent of its ravages.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-01-26

Secretary Gage is again before the
committee. Like the boy with the
new pair of skates, he continues to
skate on the side walk, while he fond
ly imagines that the river is frozen
over, and he has showed his Chicago
bank into the government business.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-01-26

If prosperity has struck us, why
must Republican journals devote their
columns to long arguments and re-
peated assertions in an effort to force
the people to believe it?
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-01-26

The biggest farm in the world is in
the southwestern part of Louisiana.
1t is owned and operated by a syndi-
cate of northern capitalists and en-
braces 500, 900 acres of land, which
were originally big pasture for cat
tie The land is devoted to the cult
vation OF cotton, corn, sugar and rice.
East and west the estate extends 500
miles. The Southern Pacific railway
runs through it nearly forty miles. A
good deal of attention is paid to rails
ing cattle, of which the syndicate
owns 1900 head.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-01-26

According to the current rumors all
metals except lead can be found in
Alaska, and lead will be used extern
sively there pretty soon unless all
symptoms are misleading. There is
every reason to believe that anyone
who is looking for trouble in Alaska
can find it early enough by waiting
there until spring.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-01-26
The Drinking Habit. of Women. {

An English writer in the Glasgow
Herald says: These are sadly on the
increase in our midst. You may shake
your. dear head in unbelief, and point
to the records of drunkenness at the
police courts for denial of my horrid
assertion, for it is horrid, and paused
ere l made it, but having made it 1
keep to it in spite of all the statistics
IN the world, for the evils which 1
mean rarely come to court. These ex-
cesses are hid in the home, and con-
cealed by the love and the shame of
the home people. Only in the shatter-
ed households do you find them in all
their blasting realities-fiends that
creep into mans house unawares, to
wreck all he holds dearest, to haunt
his every waking moment with dread.
to make his sleep hideous with fore
shadowings.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-01-26
BE Careful of How Much Baby Eat.

BE Careful of How Much Baby Eats.
Most of the illness of infancy is due
to improper feeding, says an ex-
change, reinforcing what our DR..
Lyman has already told us. The baby
eats either too much or too little, and
in either case what he does eat is more
than likely to be just what he ought
not to have. If mothers would remem-
Der that the baby's stomach is as weak
as its body, they would save the help
less little one great amount of suffer-
ing.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-01-26

He-..My heart is on fire NIT lofe for
you" She fcoldly) ''vell, as dere In
no insurance, you hat peter put dot
FIRE oudt."-Puck.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-01-26
The Star Grocery.
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
112 East Sixth Street
Groceries, Fresh Meats, Queensware nc Tnware

ated
Fancy Colorado Potatoes, bu
IL lbs fancy handpick Navy
IL los Wrlghts Wisconsin Pure Buckwheat
our..
5 pkgs Aunt Jemima Pancake III
500 lbs Sugar Cured California Hams, peril :
2 cans 3lb solid packed Tomatoes. -.
4 cans Sweet Corr.
20 lbs Pearl Homny
1 pkg Rolled
3 lib pail VOLTS Pure Lard
5 Id pail VOLTS Pur LeafI.ar
10 Id pail VOLTS Pure Lard.
20 lib Pur Leaf Lard.
Good White Lard n bull per
"arrens Al Salmon,
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-01-26

How TO MAKE GOOD vINEGAR.-Take
the incest of your apple parings, wash
and put in a jar. Pour over them
fresh rain-water, put in three table
sPoonfuls of sugar to a gallon of
water; let it stand two or three weeks.
Add the parings as you have them.
and after it gets sour add water and
sugar occasionally.
Govanstown, Md. x. w.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-01-26

"A NEW DELICATE PUDDING.-Take
two eggs beaten to a froth, add one
cuptul OF sugar, one tablespoonful of
sweet cream and pinch of baking
powder well mixed in one cupfu1 of
flour. Pour in a square bake-pan,
well creased, and bake. Cut is squares
and serve with lemon sauce, made as
follows: Take the grated rind and
juice of one lemon, one and a half CUP
fuls of water, and sugar to taste. Let
it boil and thicken with one egg we'll
beaten and one tablespoonful of corn
starch.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-01-26
Women and Home.

Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Miss
Helen Gould, Mrs. Charles D. Stickney
and Mrs. Arson Phelps Stokes, all
society women of national repute,
serve no wine with their dinners.
Princess Theresa of Bavaria, daugh-
ter of the prince regent, has been made
an honorary doctor of philosophy by
the University of Munich. She is also
a member of the Royal Academy of
Sciences.
Mrs. Franc E. Finch, of Evanston,
ILL.,, widow of the late John B. Finch,
the well-known temperance lecturer,
has announced that she will be can
didate for justice of the peace at the
annual election next spring.
Mrs. Ade1ine NJ. Fassett, an artist
of national prominence, dropped dead
on the street at Washington, D. c., on
Janunry 4. Mrs. Fassett's most noted
work was 1.-The Electoral College. "
now among the paintings hung in the
Capitol.
The new city charter of Kalamazoo,
Mich, provides for the appointment
of police matron by the sheriff. AT
ter delaying the appointment as long
as possible, Mrs. Mary Sti11we1 was
named, and the board of supervisors
has now fixed her salary at $40 per
year, making it practically impossible
for any woman to give her time to the
work.
Mrs. Brimby:-"'No, marriage is not
what single persons think it is. I
used to think that Brimby and 1 were
made for one another; but we are sad
ly mismated."
Mrs. Ferson:-"Why, you surprise
mel"
Mrs. Brimby:-t'A1as! it is too true.
He tells me talk in my sleep, and Pm
sure that he often sleeps in my talk. ;,
Boston Transcript.
On the Pacific coast there are two
women who hold responsible positions.
Mrs. Fish is the keeper of the Point
Pinas lighthouse, at Monterey, and
Miss Fuller is harbor mistress of Ia
coma The latter is said to be an ex-
cellent official, keeping all records per-
tanning to the extensive shipping bus
mess of one of the most important
harbors in the west in perfect shape.
She will this month send in 'harbor
masters" report for the year, which
will be the first report of the kind ever
made out by an American woman.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-01-26

-"You don't mean to say that you
wish your wife would turn into pill
lar of salt?
sNot exactly, but"
= '.But whatf'
"Iwish she wasn'tquite SO peppery. :"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-01-26

WHEN YOU WHIP CREAM.-When
cream is extremely rich it can be
whipped more easily if little milk is
added to it. 1t will also whip more
easily if it is well chi11ed.-New York
Tribune.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-01-26

-Gussy: why do you so persistent
ly wear the hair of another woman on
your head?"
Beatrice: For the same reason
that You wear the skin of another calf
on your feet.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-03-30
woMAN's WHIST CONGRESS.
Practice VIII BE Incessnnt Until After
1t is Held.


From now on until the meeting OF the
woman's congress at Philadelphia the wo-
men minister's will be continually occupied
Strengthening the play of the team and
rubbing off the rough edges of any indi-
yidual play. To the Washington trophy
generously donated by the ladies of Wash
ington several trophies have been added,
each of them furnishing a great incentive
for good pley if nythfng more than the
love of the game is needed for each OF the
ladies to play their best. many of the play
ers being handicapped when there was so
much at stake iE trying to get more out OIL
their hands than there really was IN them,
and consequently making errors 1roil over
zeal. Tho Toledo trophy is a beautiful af-
fair % sterling silver, in the shape OF
loving cup, with deerhorn handles. 1t Is
said to be the most expensive affair OF the
kind ever donated to eny whist congress by
any whit club The CollingwOod Whist
Club Of Toledo and its sixty-odd members
are to b., congratulated upon their Hber-
atty and thoughtfulness. particularly Mrs
Claren ,e Brown, president OF the club, who
is also second vice president OF the Wo-
mems Whist League. and who originated
the idea, and. with the aid of the enthu-
siastic members, carried it out success
fully.
The Washington trophy. which was won
by the Whist Club of Philadelphia, is COW
eli ed very much by the Washington Club,
and the strongest KIM CT pay IL cApSCtcu ny
the home club. who hope to bring the trophy
back with them. The members of the team
have more confidence in each other. and are
playing very strong whist, Mrs. Leechs
play being particularly fine. Mrs. Hawley's
play has not been up to her usual standard
in the last four or five plays. but her play
al Philadelphia last year at the women's
congress shows that she can always be de-
pended upoa when good whist is required,
as she is one of the closest readers Of the
cards, and President Barney of the A. w.
L. League thinks she is one of the strong
est strategy players in the Women's
League. Miss de Sibour is playing in her
usual form. and in the last four or five
contests has made very high score and has
been top score in the last three OF four
plays, with Wooten as a partner. Mrs
McRae is in great form, and is familiar
with all styles of play. and will make
creditable showing at Philadelphia. Miss
King. the new addition to the team, is
rated very high. being thoroughly posted
In all whist literature, ard is familiar with
the different styles Of play Of the different
clubs.
Mrs. Walls of the Capital Club will have
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-03-30
TO PLAY LAFAYETTE.
First Game of the Catholic University
Tomorrow.

First Game of the Catholic University
Tomorrow.
The Catholic University base ball season
VIII open at Columbia Athletic field tomor-
row afternoon at $3.50 o'clock with Lafay-
etc College. This is also Lafayette's first
game. This is the third year of base ball
history at the Catholic University, and
from indications it will be by far the most
successful. The personnel of the nine has
undergone considerable change. The entire
infield is new. The men playing the infleld
positions are all clever. Green at third
base and McCarrich at short stop are par
ticularly strong. quick players. The bat
terfes will be far superior to any hitherto.
McTighe is pitching in excellent form, and
even better work than last year is ex-
pected. Last year he struck out fifteen on
Lafayette's team. In the Lehigh Univer-
s.ty game he struck out twenty-three. Re-
gan has developed into an experienced
twirler, has speed and curves and will ably
supplement Capt. McTighe in the box. The
team comprises: McTighe. pitcher; Regain.
pitcher: T. OfBrien, first base; I. Burns,
second baSe; McCarrfch. short stop; Greene
third base;. J. J. O'Brien, left field; Jago,
center field; Boulton, right field; McGraw,
catcher.