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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-06-24
Ornament for bay window.

A pretty ornament for bay win
dow where plants are grown may be
made as follows: Make a strong frame.
work for a miniature summer-house.
and cover the roof with straw cut in
equal lengths and fastened on in small
punches. The lower part of the house
may be box, the upper side of which
can be used for a shelf for the pots of
growing plants. The rest of the box
should be covered with punches of the
straw to correspond with the roof
Put pots of vines at each corner. so
that they can climb up the corner posts
and cover the roof, allowing the bunch.
es of straw to peep through. OF
course, the house must be tall enough
to give plenty of room for the plants
growing within it. Hanging baskets
suspended from the under side of the
roof add to its -Housekeeper
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-06-24

Thank Pe-ru-na for Their
Recovery After Years OF
Suffering.

Miss Murie1 Armitage, SO Green
wood Ave, Detroit, Mich, District
Organizer of the Royal Templars Of
Temperance, in arecentletter, says:
ST think that woman naturally.
shrinks from making her troubles
public, but restored health has
meant so much to me that feel
for the sake of other suffering
women it is my duty to tell what
Peruna has done for me.
''I suffered for five years with
uterine irregularities, which
brought on hysteria and made me
a physical wreck. I tried doctors
from the different schools of medi-
cine, but without any perceptible
change in my condition. In my
despair called on an old nurse,
who advised me to try Peruna, and
promised good results if I would
persist and take it regularly. I
thought this was the least / could
do and procured a bottle. / knew
as soon as 1 began taking it that it
was affecting me differently from
anything 1 had used before, and so
I kept on taking it. kept this up
for six months, and steadily gained
strength and health, and when
had used fifteen bottles I consid-
cred myself entirely cured. I am
a grateful, happy woman to-day"
Miss Muriel Armitage.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-06-24

chatter. with a promise of something
more substantial in the future if it can
be found But, after all. is it not the
little points that make the gown, the
dainty trimmings that make the at
Effectiveness? | doubt if can. do bet
ter than paragraph few of the things
| have seen and liked, and which show
the trend of fashion.
For instance, there is quite a craze
for bordered materials, sometimes it
is lowered band, or a simple branch
of roses runs across the selvage.
Blurred designs and cachemire pat
terms are most fashionable, after
which, we can mention quite a new
series of glace alpaca, mohair and can
sas in the new supple make, which is
required this season to meet OF cling
ing style of dress.
Trimmings are inset with mother-o'-
pearl. scales gold, platinum, or steel.
Greek lace insertion and Russian en-
broideries are very smart. and much
used on white silk or cloth coatlets.
Hanging ornaments. fringe, and frog
ging appear on the three-quarter
coats, many -Of when are or black
cloth or black silk. Buttons, too, are
a prominent feature on skirts and
bodices.
Black Chantilly lace is very fashion
able, and some lovey imitation is be-
ing sold in the guise of capes, rounded
or pointed, empire scarves, and inser-
ton of the wavy or square pattern.
Detached diamond-shaped pieces of
Lace are much used as transparent
trimmings of skirt or bodice.
Many of the new fabrics show lace
effects For instance, we have colored
grass lawns fine as chiffon. Lace
striped silks in new designs show in
let band- ut chine or lowered silk.
Other materials appear to be COM
posed of one strip of ribbon and one
of lace. and Bne silk foulards have
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-06-24
Female Weakness is Pelvic
Catarrh.
Always Half Sick are the Women
Who Have Pelvic Catarrh.

Catarrh of any organ, if allowed to
progress, will affect the whole body.
Catarrh without nervousness is very
rare, but pelvic catarrh and nervous
ness GO hand in hand.
What is SO distressing sight as poor
half-sick, nervous woman, suffering
from the many almost unbearable symp-
toms of pelvic catarrh? She does not
consider herself i'll enough to go to bed,
but she is far from being able to do her
work without the greatest exhaustion.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-06-24

He soul of the most fas tidi-
Gus devotee to chic tailor
severity in dress may be
more than satisfied this
season. She halls with de-
light the return of the high
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-06-24
Ruined by Seals.

The fisheries of northern Norway
have come to standstill, owing to a
tremendous influx of seals along the
coast and in the fjords. The seals,
which come from the White sea, have
been fought without avail The large
fishing population has petitioned the
government for help to exterminate
the plague, which is partly eating and
partly hunting all fish away.-Fishing
Gazette.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-06-24

printed lace stripes Green muslins
are novelty. The Liberty" muslins
fine as ''lisse," old-world null mus
lin, clear Swiss, hand mbroidered and
ecru muslins, and dainty colored
batiste are in every shade and variety.
Hail-Spot silk. and embroidered mus
Inns in blue, pink, green and yellow are
popular. Old laces attain fabulous
prices and are being eagerly sought
after by connoisseurs. The more
transparent dress can be made, the
more fashionable it will be.
An now let us turn to a few indi-
vidual gowns. One which / saw the
other day, was intended for after
noon wear at home, and is here illus
trated. 1t told me a most enchanting
tale in rose wolfe, both skirt and cors-
age stitched with waved strappings
of rose taffeta. About the waist was
disposed a deep folded belt of rose
ribbon, knotted cravat of the latter
falling from a small collar and chemi-
settle of vandyked lace threaded with
bebe ribbon velvet.
Yet another model that rested its
chief success on the finest killing was
a scheme of palest green mousseline
de sole. the long lines Of the skirt
broken at intervals by deep horizontal
folds of soft shaded green ribbon. A
fascinating little bodice, all dropping
and limp, carrying a collar of the film
lest cream lace, this and the deep cuffs
to the sleeves decked with chrys opras Sc
and silver buttons, the whole is a har
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-06-24

mony of green as seductive in its way
as the rose.
The other illustration shows linen
frock in all its latest seductions of
embroidery and drawn thread work.
For choice, white linen, the gradu-
ated folds on the skirt set on with
drawn linen or "faget" stitch. The
congregated mass of decoration on the
blouse is noteworthy feature of the
hour. and the lines of the embroidery
can either be worked on the actual
bodice material itself or applied in the
form of bands. The unadorned YOKE
emphasizes splendidly the now decreed
heightened shoulder line, while neat
collar-band of drawn linen work COM
pletes really sweet frock.
Ellen OSMoNDE.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-06-24


linen collars. Nothing to her mind has
ever taken their place, and women who
mold opposite views, though they look
askance at the rows of linen collars
that have so suddenly filed across the
counters, admit grudgingly that the
uncomfortable things are smart.
mingling of delicate and austere
efects shows in the new high turn
over linen collars which are ornament
ed with embroidered or woven-in dots
IN white or color and single or double
row of hemstitching about the edge.
Other linen turnover collars come in
uncompromising plainness. Some of
the models have a perpendicular but
tonhole near the edge of each flap in
front. Through these bottonholes a
link clasp is slipped.
Low rolling Byron collars are popu-
Lar for sporting costumes, as they
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-06-24

Conscientious Effort.-"You say Big
gins has gone in for writing verse;" Eyes.
Heard that poets all have long hair, and
scared to death because he's getting bald"
Washington Star.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-06-24

of the dainty little auxiliaries, or the
general trend. For one whose duty it
is to keep the feminine mind informed
of what to and what not to wear this
season offers many trials that have
been foreseen. but not encompassed.
So it is that for this time my readers
must needs be satisfied with chaff and
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-06-24
A Good Thing.

Uncle Reuben says: After de world
has once giben a man a chance an got
line on him he may protest all day dat
he am no liar without changin' anybody 3
opinion.-Detroit Free Press
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-06-24
Odds and Ends of Summer Fashions

D RAPIDLY do the fashions
grow and bud and blossom
at this season of the year
that one can scarcely do
more than to take passing
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Her view of 1t.

Seedsman-You know, ma am, you don't
have to plant your potatoes whole; you
can cut them up in small pieces.
Mrs. Newmarket-Yes, l know; that
might do very well if we always wanted
to raise potatoes for Lyonnaise or for
MASKING; but we should probably desire
to have potatoes served whole, now and
then.-Boston Transcript.
A Good Thing.
Every issue of The Four-Track News
makes it easier for ticket agents and
ticket sellers to secure passengers for dis
tant parts of the country, for the rea
son that every article and every illustra
ton in The Four Track News is an in.
ducement for readers to travel and see
what marvellous variety of scenery and
climate our own country possesses. The
more these facts are impressed upon the
average person, the more certain he OF
she is to have desire to travel. There
fore, The Four Track News is not only in
the interest of all the transportation lines
and hotels, it also bears out the legend
of its title page of can Illustrated Maya
zine of Travel and Education" the
Buffalo Commercial.
Newport weekly independent., 1903-02-27
MCCONNELL STRUCK
 SENATOR CONVECTION.
Politicians Come to Blows at Capital Hotel in Little Rock But
 Friends Soon
 Intervene.

Little Rock, Feb. 25.-Considerable excitement was caused in the lobby of the Capital Hotel at 1:30 p. m. today, by a personal altercation between Senator Webb Covington, of Johnson county and Col. E. T. Mcconnell of Clarksville, former superintendent of the state penitentiary. According to a statement made by Colonel McCon- nell, he bad repeated to MT. Coving- ton a statement made by the late Sheriff John H. Powers of Johnson county concerning political mat ter. The senator replied that this was ia d. lie," whereupon Colonel Mcconnell struck him with his fist. Senator Covington then struck Mr. Mcconnell. Friends interfered and prevented further hostilities There is mark on Senator Covington's face but Colonel Mcconnell escaped with
 out visible injury. Senator CovingtOn declined to make any statement, say ing that he did not want any more no- tOriety over the affair. He claims to have struck Colonel Mcconnell first.
Newport weekly independent., 1903-02-27
ROCK ISLAND ABSORBS FRISCO.
Morgan Negotiates Deal By Which Rock Island Becomes Second Largest System of Rail
 roads In This
 Country.

New York, Feb. 25.-By deal com pleted in this city to-day through the banking house of J. P. Morgan & Company, the Rock Island Railway takes over control of the St. Louis and San Francisco Railway, and the mystery as to what was to become of ths Frisco is at last solved.
 The price at which Frisco control was turned over to Rock Island is said to be on the basis of $90 share, to be paid for partly in cash and partly in the new collateral bonds.
 By the merging of these two prop critics there is brought into existence an immense and powerful system which completely changes the rail- road map of the United States, and by one stroke places the great Rock Island second among the transconti- mental transportation lines.
Newport weekly independent., 1903-02-27
Officers and Directors:

It is stated on good authority that the officers of General Superintendent w. T. Tyler of the Iron Mountain will be moved to Little Rock March 1 and that he will have the entire second floor of the land office building, in the rear of the Union Depot, for his fices.-Little Rock Gazette.
 The rainfall up to press hour had been about an inch and from reports brought by incoming travellers, it seems to have been general. If north Arkansas received heavy rain at this time, White River is again ex- pected to pass the danger line of 26 feet and bring very serious overflow unless a freeze holds in check the water
Newport weekly independent., 1903-02-27
EAGLES REMOVAL
 DECLARED ARBITRARY.
Governor Receives Several Hard Knocks-Futrell Bill Another Pet Measure Laid On Table Whitley's Franchise
 Measure Passes
 House.

Little Rock. Feb. 26-By vote of 19 ayes to II noes the senate yester- day adopted the majority report of the committee on public buildings, declaring the removal of ex- Governor James P. Eagle as a capitol commis- sioner by Governor Davis arbitrary, irregular, unwarranted by the facts and without authority of law"
 By vote of 48 ayes to 38 noes the house tabled the Futrell bill to place control and management of the peni- tentiarv under board also controlling and managin0 me state charitable ln- stutions. It was declared by oppo- nents of the bill that it emanated from the governor.
 Senator Killgore introduced in the senate bill to repeal the recent act creating the Seventh chancery district. Under the act referred to, the gover- nor yesterday appointed Judge E. O.. Mahoney of Fl Dorado chancellor.
 By vote of ayes to 24 noes the senate refused to indefinitely postpone the Huddleston dispensary bill.
 The Louse passed the Whitley bill providing for submitting to the peo- pie for ratification or rejection ordi- nances passed by town or city coun- cils granting franchises.
 Senator Norwood introduced in the senate bill to repeal the railroad commission act.
Newport weekly independent., 1903-02-27

"Poly' Carlisle, the convicted Sring- dale oank robber, were yesterday tried in an examining court here for perjury. Riley was held in $500 bail to await the action of the August grand jury, but his brother Will was released.
Newport weekly independent., 1903-02-27
CARLISLE,S WITNESSES
 CHARGED WITH PERJURY.

Eureka Springs, Ark, Feb. 25.- Riley and Will Vandevor, living at Rogers, Ark, and by whom the de- fense attempted to prove an alibi for
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-05-16
HABITS OF SOUTHERN BOYS.
Two Characteristic MARKS by Which
Their Home Section May he
Determined.

"I'll bet that boy is from the south, !"
said man, as he saw a lad of about IL
come in and take his place at another
table in the dining-room, relates the
New York Sun.
slave you heard him speak?" asked
the other man.
mo; that is not necessary. You viii
notice that his hair is correctly
brushed in front, while behind it looks
as if it had been tumbled up in a west
ern tornado.
ut is southern boys way. Inever
knew one who brushed the hair on the
back of his head. do not know why,
nor do know why southern boy who
has to shine his own shoes never puts
a polish on the heels. He will labor
in getting up a mirror shine on the
front of his shoes and leave his heels
untouched until they become russell in
shade.
''There is another thing that you
will notice about boy who has been
raised in the south-he rarely parts
his hair in the middle. 1t is either
parted on the side or reached.
81 don't know what has become of
the boy with what we used to call the
cowlick on his hair, but at one time he
was very numerous. haven't seen a
boy with a cowlick since the war, but
when l lived in the south he was often
seen -
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-05-16

from the left barrels rip through them
when they are ten feet above the wa
ter in an almost solid mass.
They dart away into the night, find
ing shelter elsewhere and the men kill
the cripples and pick up the dead. Tho
destruction from this kind of battery
is terrific Sometimes $50 to 200 ducks
are. killed by the three guns. 1t j.
cheap meat and sells well in the mar
ket.
Getting it is little trouble and the
fire platform is favorite device Of
southern pot hunters. They run the
risk of being taken and thrown into
Jail, because fire-hunting wild fowl 10
against the law, but there is tremen-
dous stretch of coast and few officers,
so the risk is not great.
This hunting is done only on dark
and moderately still nights. The torch
is not effective in moonlight and moth
ing can be done if there is storm, so
altogether the fire hunter cannot go
out oftener than five nights in .
month. When a roost has been dis
turbed by a torch and guns new one
must be found, as the ducks will mot
often return to the old one.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-05-16
NEVER SET FOOT IN VIRGINIA.
Soil of North America and In
teresting story II Spoiled.

.Walter Raleigh never set foot in
North America. Yet SO pernicious is
the legend connecting him with Vir-
ginia that doubt if anyone even
in this learned assembly is not salts
fed that he did"
So spoke Edmund Gosse, the leading
authority on Elizabethan literature,
before the Royal Geographical So
ciety on the tercentenary of Queen
Elizabeth's death. Mr.. Gosse added:
"But in spirit he was there,
through good and evil estate. His
was the brain that planned, the per-
sistence that carried out, the courage
that would never relinquish the de-
sign, and the promised land, Virginia
is in history, although he only gazed
at it from the fringes of the cloud"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-05-16
A California Dog Hero.

From California comes a tale of a
heroic rescue by dog. During for
- fire which ragged along the border
between Yuba and Butte counties,
prnno. a Great Dane dog, fought his
,rav through the flames bearing in his
laws the living body of s-year-old Flor
snce Rogers. The parents of the child,
hen the alarm of fire was given, has
.ened to assist neighbors, leaving lit
.,e Florence on the kitchen floor.
when the wind shifted Rogers and his
life rushed for their home, but when
.hev reached the clearing it was to
-. the barn in a blazs. Rogers tried
!. : pet to the house, but was restrained.
4Inst then Bruno burst through the
S,;tchen window with the child, her
~orments knotted in his teeth. The
ioaby's clothes gave way as the dog
landed, but in an instant he had her
arain in grip and reached safety. The
ohild's face and hands were cut and
.hurueds but she recovered.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-05-16
Growing Young.

Spiritual life grows toward the
qualities of youth. It's growth is to-
wards vigor, towards a larger exhil-
aration and interest. towards great
err vitality. How often have we seen
a body going from strength to weak
ness while the soul was going from
weakness to strength. ''The oldest
angels are the youngest" The long
er a man lives near God, and the
nearer he lives to God, the more
bright and joyous and enthusiastic
his spiritual life becomes. 1t takes
grown men and close disciples to
climb with the briskness of youth
the mountains of TRANSPORTATION.
Though our outward man is decay
ing, yet our inward man is renewed
day by day" A growing old in years
can be growing young in life.-s. s.
Times.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-05-16
FIRE HUNTING FOR DUCKS.
One Method by Which Southern Pot
Hunters Kill the Fowl by
Wholesale.

Migration having thinned out the
ducks pretty well along the gulf coast,
the fre-hunters will put up their guns
and wait for another season, but they
had good time at their peculiar sport
while it lasted and made money. This
way of killing ducks is simplicity it
self, but owing to the conditions there
is entirely successful, says the New
York Sun.
From Mobile westward to the Rio
Grande the mainland is fenced from
the sea by low-lying sandy islands
which run parallel with the coast.
There are hundreds of them from two
to five miles from the mainland and
the water between is shallow, seldom
more than 20 feet in depth.
These waters are incorrectly called
bays. They are really straits. Ducks
roost on them at night in countless
thousands, being protected from the
perils of the land ponds on the one
hand and from the heavy wash of the
sea on the other.
The fire hunters first locate roost,
which is an easy thing to do, by watch
ing where the focks pitch at shutdown.
Ducks if undisturbed will continue to
roost on the same piece OF water all
through the season.
Having found the roost, the hunters
get their boat, which is large sklff
having wooden platform built across
its bows, platform about a yard
square. On this platform they put
clay to the depth of three inches, max
ing of it an open fireplace. Then they
take the oars and start little before
dark.
Probably they have row of five
miles and are in no hurry. They in
tend to reach the roost about 10
o'clock, when the ducks have become
settled for the night. Three men are
in the boat, two rowing and one steer
mo. and when the time comes they will
all use their guns.
Mallards, or teals, sleeping thus on
the water in enormous throngs, will
sometimes cover more than an acre
solidly. The fire blown by the breeze
makes a ftful light over wide ex-
panse of water.
When roost is approached no speed
is made. The men row softly until
they come within shot. A final stroke
is given and then, they take up the
guns.
The ducks have all been awakened
by the light, but they make no effort
to fly, being !eathe to take wing into
the dark night. At 30 yards distance
the right barrels of three guns are
fred and then they get up. The shot
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-05-16
THE SPIDERS WAY OUT.
Little Insect Showed SO Much Intel
ligence That Its Captor Re-
stored 1t to Liberty.

A close observer never has to travel
and instruction. One bright-eyed young
person, who had grown tired of read
ing, tells in an English paper how he
found a spider an interesting play
mate
I took a washbowl and fastened up .
stick in it like vessels mast, and then
poured in water enough to turn the
mast into an island for my spider.
whom named Crusoe, and put on the
mast. AS soon as he was fairly cast
away, he anxiously commenced run
ming around to find the mainland. He'd
scamper down the mast to the water,
stick out foot, get it wet, shake it,
run round the stick and try the other
side, and then run back to the top
again.
Pretty soon it became serious mat
ter to Mr.. Robinson, and he sat down to
think over it. As in a moment, he acted
as if he were going to shout for a boat,
and as if he were afraid he was going
to be hungry, put molasses on the
stick. A fly came, but Crusoe wasn't
hungry for flies just then. He was
homesick for his web in the corner of
the woodshed. He went slowly down
the pole to the water and touched it all
round, shaking his feet like pussy when
she vets her stockings in the grass.
Suddenly thought seemed to strike
him. Up he went like rocket to the
top. and commenced playing circus. He
held one foot in the air, then another,
and turned round two or three times.
He became excited and nearly stood
on his head before I found out what he
knew, and that was this: that the
draught of air made by the fire would
carry a line ashore on which he could
escape from his desert island. He
pushed out a web that went floating in
the air until it caught on the table.
Then he hauled on the rope until it was
tight, struck it several times to see if
it were strong enough to hold him, and
walked ashore.
I thought he had earned his liberty,
so I put him back in the wood shed
again. .,.