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Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1905-06-30
Sinks Another Steamer.

Singapore (By Cable).-The British
india Steam Navigation Company's
steamer Ikhona was sunk by the Rus
sian cruiser Terek June 5, $50 miles
north of Hongkong. The crew was
anded here by the Dutch steamer Per
ak, which the Terek met June 10. The
[khona was carrying mails and rice
from Rangoon to Yokohama.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1905-06-30
Boy Kills Baby Brother.

Port Jervis. N. Y. (SpeciaD.-Wil-
liam Smith, Q years old, shot and killed
his brother Harry, IS months old, while
they were playing alone in the parlor
The gun belonged to an older brother
and stood in a corner of the room. IL
was supposed not to be loaded. Cor
orcr Case decided that the shooting was
accidental. The mother said Willie had
dinbtheria a few months ago, and his
mind had been affected since.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1905-06-30
Port Arthur For japanese.

Chefoo (By Cable).-American and
European firms still in Port Arthur have
been notified by the Japanese authorities
to depart and to remove their merchan-
disc. Many of the firms are now ar
ranging to charter steamers for that
purpose. Shipments of contraband OF
war for the Japanese continue to be
made, particularly from Chefoo to Dal-
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1905-06-30
LIVE WASHINGTON AFFAIRS.

President Roosevelt in few days Will
pass upon the reinstatement of govern
ment employees who have resigned to
run for office.
Three new cases of yellow fever are
reported on the canal zone.
Public schools will be established in
the Panama Canal zone
Commodore Harry NJ. Hodges, in
charge of the photographic Office OF
the Navy, has applied to be placed on
the retired list.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1905-06-30
Marooned on Wedding Eve.

CLAYTON. N. Y. (SpeciaD,-George
Cooper. of Syracuse, who is to be mar
r;ed to Miss jeanette Williams, also OF
svracuse was marooned by Joking
friends on a barren island in the mid
die of ST. Lawrence River. In order
to reach Syracuse in time for the cere-
monv he swan mile to CrlndStone Is
land. where he secured a boat and ar,
rived at Clayton in time to eaten his
train
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1905-06-30
twenty-five Dead; Ten Dying.

LODI (By Cable). = Twenty-Five per-
sons were killed in the firing by dragons
and Cossacks on a procession of $4,000
workmen which had been organized as
demonstration against the government.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1905-06-30

Apropos of the new and swift ira
Of the Pennsylvania and New York c.
ira, on which extra fares are charg
Il is interesting to note that 40 per CO
If the people in Germany ride tn
class and 20 per cent. fourth class.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-03-29
gar1tt Mnttutnttu
amA 5maanttu
By MISS EDITH URMEY.
Expert Trained Nurse of the Insane.

hold on them. There
too much to do cuvang the wild pes hunting wild ami
mails But their children now 20 and 60
years OF nsted the hard work Their
horizon narrowed to these things they became rut
and IS from this class that majority of
The generation beginning rebel against
of the life led such homes the farm
When they the learn how
to the beauties of life
We have man with the hoe this country Heaven
That represented brute We have approach
to it. only the human
thing OF his cramped existence and long for something
was called not long attend
tent the oldest daughter of woman of 20
and had known nothing all life become in
Most OF her life had been dark sitting
ceiling whose solitary window by
tree which pressed close the house and view
She looked around her She
the blue sky the grass and blooming
horizon limited circle of about doubt if she
ever looked up to see the blue sky
The father genial kndhearted completely
tonshed and gved when told him the insanity was
the monoony of the life she led He would
ecy willing send her college give pleasures but
he had been with life. an intelligent man
and took interest outside things and daily papers and
kept with the times and he could daughter
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-03-29
CANDIED LEMON PEEL.
Found Very Welcome as Dessert
Dish Now and Then.

Cut the peel into thin strips, carefully
separating it from the coarse white in
ner skin. Soak it over night in water
enough to cover it, using one-half quar-
ter of cupful of salt to two quarts of
water. Drain it, boil 20 minutes, drain
and boil third time 90 minutes or until
tender. The peel should be dipped in
cold water each time after draining.
Now boil for the fourth and last time,
adding to every pound of peel pound
of sugar and cupful of water. Let it
boil down and when thoroughly candied
turn it into dish of granulated sugar.
After mixing it we'll with the sugar put
it into sieve and sift out all the loose
sugar. Separate the pieces of peel ana
putthem away, where it is perfectly cold.
When cold, serve them. Candied orange
peel is made the same way The superb
Ority of candied lemon and orange peel
prepared in this way is due to the re-
peated boiling, which takes out the Bit
terness, but leaves in all the fire flavor.
If cut in dainty squares or strips there is
nothing nicer to serve as 'bonbons at the
end of dinEer.-N. Y. Tribune.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-03-29

in the floor plan. Fill this bed with
fertile soil, about nine inches deep.
Cover the surface about one inch deep
with fine sand.
If the adjoining building is heated
with steam, connection may be made
with a radiator to the coil of pipes
placed under the plant bed on the
porch roof, as shown in Fig. 2. This
may be used in cold weather to prevent
freezing within the greenhouse. But in
dry, sunny weather the sun will fur
nish sufficient warmth to keep the house
in growing condition for the plants.
The entrance to the house proper must
be by way of an adjoining window or
door to the roof of the veranda. A
drainage pipe should be arranged to the
plant bed to carry away surplus water.
also SUPPLY pipe for watering. The
bed should not be wet so thoroughly as
to cause water to run through.
Such house requires much the same
management as does hotbed. Ven
tilatiOn is necessary on very warm
days, and thorough watering at fire.
quent intervals will cause the plants
to grow most rapidly. Such bed will
furnish early vegetables, as lettuce,
radish and bunch onions in abundance
during the winter. In some instances
the entire supply of winter vegetables
has been grown in such a house with
a floor space no larger than 1Ox12 feet.
Toward spring the house will also serve
to grow seedlings for planting in the
garden, such crops as cucumbers white
Spine varieties) and tomatoes Uoril-
lard and Mayfiower). may take the
place of the lettuce and radishes. These
should begin to bear fully a month
before plants set in the garden.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-03-29
HOUSE PLANTS.
Depending Upon Condition of the Soil
and Amount of Sun-Too Much
Dampness Harmful.

eat this season the sun shines at best
but few hours each day, and not only
too many days We do not see the sun at
all. This means in most living rooms
low temperature a large part of the time
and correspondingly slow growth,
amounting to practically dormant
condition of many of the plants. Dor
mant plants, or those which are not
growing rapidly, require very little
water. nor is there much evaporation of
moisture from the soil by the surround
ing atmosphere. A constantly wet con-
dition of the soil induces kind of root
rot, and further, causes the soil to be-
come heavy and hard and the elements
in it unavailable for future plant
growth. For these reasons plants at
this season should be watered sparingly
and no Oftener than the soil in the pots
becomes comparatively dry" remarks
Mrs. Mile Honaker, in the Farmers
Sentinel.
Just how often plants should be
watered depends then altogether upon
the condition of the soil, which in turn
depends largely upon the season of the
year and the temperature and condi-
ton of the atmosphere of the room in
which they are kept. In large pots, and
especially if of tin or metal, the soil
will dry out much more slowly than in
small or porous earthen pots. All these
things must be taken into considera-
ton by the woman who is anxious to sue
| coed with her window garden.
"a good way to determine when a
plant needs water is to take up pinch
| of the soil and rub between the thumb
and finger. If dry enough to become
powdery water should be applied. If
damp enough to mold between the fin
gers no more moisture will be needed
for time. A little observation will
soon enable one to tell the condition of
the soil at a glance without the help of
! the test.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-03-29
WONDERS OF SINGLE ACRE
What May Be Produced on a Bit Of
Land Containing 16O
Square Rods.

You who think that it must be SO
acres or nothing, will be surprised to
know that unless you are farming for
the markets and need pasture and sta
bles and grass land, you can almost
live on the crop that an acre will yield
you, writes Charles NJ. Skinner in Good
Housekeeping. 1t will require work
and care and knowledge, for you can
not spend your time at tennis and ex-
pect the weeds to stay out of your let
tuce, or the smut to affect your neigh
bor's corn and not yours. or the cater
pillars to keep off from your pea vines,
or things to stay green after month
OF drouth. Now here, on this common
acre-for it is ordinary, being near the
sea and hummocked with rock, the
lodges cropping into sight just outside
the fence-the farmer raises no end
OF beans, peas, onions and like mat
tiers, and strawberries to eat, to give
away and to sell. He has patriarchal
apple trees that yield bushels of fruit.
His tomatoes supply his own family,
various friends rejoice in them no
less, while few pecks of them go to
town. His wife puts up so many fruits
and vegetables in jars that she has to
give them to relatives, and she seldom
visits her son in the city without car
rying basket of fruit to him. There
are bits of lawn and beds of posies and
curtains of vine and-what do you sup
pose? After the acre has been worked
To this degree there iS room for chick
ems at least a hundred of them, with
their runway extending the length o.
the place.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-03-29

MHkMN which donor ableboded pauper fined
y ~ E ten times the amount given. There thousands
who persstenty refuse to work. and they not
DIS possibly you may suppose who have
Psonmen criminals hopeful
they have had the benefit of good governors cpans
me reason that prefer loang adgng (begging
working that cadgng Anybody pocket
smngs day at it, One lpose when
ago was proved to have been netting He
tave type No doubt there
by cadgng ten hings dav at the game
should myself with would purport to be
written to mother 1t would
up and not to be downhearted the sickness father
should cadge around for This proa
bic dodge.
How much be amased by disreputabe trick
able to Some time ago discharged
the Church Arnys homes for dng
captain OF the labor establishment happened
he esped his late guest The latter mporunng passb
letter Inquiries that he was begging
LOT penny stamps explaining everybody he accoted that his wife
was dying in the north of England and
De unable to communicate with her The rogue
captain that in hour he had sngs penny
stamps.
Another chronic who offered employment Church
Army inquired what the would that he should
have four shlngs day Remarkable relate this
o4im He did throw greasy perform
dance He paused, and then answered:
i m but I've wife and family wouldn't be fair
to them for take four bob day dav
the roadH'
The experienced always sure of living He dresses
himself to suit his oeragged Clothes eakv boots
and in this gue the public may sure that he
mas decent wardrobe home Indeed OCCASIONS
tired as swell The only thing to do with this individual is
to starve him into working Work regeneration and the oaer
must De forclb reformed Unless the
ed TO- you can't turn him into useful citizen ecoct rascal
who protested vigorously
was thorough humbug and ultimately blank
mat his one prayer was that he should never have
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-03-29
An Ex-sherin Talk.

Scott City, Kan, March 2Oth-(Special)
Almost every newspaper tells of cures
of the most deadly of kidney diseases BY
Dodd's Kidney Pills. Bright's Disease,
Diabetes, Rheumatism and Bladder trou-
bles, in fact any disease that is of the
kidneys or caused by disordered kidneys
is readily cured by this great American
remedy.
But it is in curing the earlier stages Of
kidney complaint that Dodd's Kidney
are preventing thousands of cases Of
Bright's disease and other deadly ailments
by curing Kidney Disease when it first
shows its presence in the body.
Speaking of this work Ex-Sherif James
Scott of Scott County, says:
ney Pills and must say that they are Just
the thing for Kidney Disease. We have
tried many kidney medicines but Dodd's
Kidney Pills are the best of all"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-03-29
Injury by Mice and Rabbits.

Valuable suggestions for treatment
of trees which have been girdled by
mice or rabbits are made by the Iowa
experiment station. The growing layer
which lies just beneath the bark will
grow over if it is kept moist by bank
ing up with soil two or three inches
above the girdled portion. The soil
should be firmly tamped about the stem
and not allowed to dry and crack open.
Another. but more expensive method,
is to wrap the wound with a broad strip
of cloth coated with grating wax Such
wounds should not be allowed to dry
out, and where not too severe the tree
may be saved.-Farm and Home.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-03-29
SKIM-MILK FOR PAINT.
How the Careful Farmer May Utilize
the Surplus Product of
the Dairy.

use to which skim milk. sour
milk, buttermilk or even whole sweet
milk is often put is paint making. vet
this product of the dairy, says the Sci
entlf1c American, makes possibly one of
the most enduring, preservative, re-
spectacle and inexpensive paints for
barns and outbuildings. 1t costs little
more than whitewash. provided no great
value Is attached to the milk, and it IS
question whether for all kinds of rough
work it does not serve all the purposes
and more, of the ready-mixed paint, or
even prime lead and paint mixed in the
best linseed oil.
1T is made as follows, and no more
should be mixed than is to be used that
day: Stir into one gallon of milk about
three pounds of Portland cement and
add sufficient Venetian red paint pow
der to 1mpart good color Any good
colored paint powder may be as we'll
used. The milk will hold the paint in
suspension, but the cement being very
heavy, will sink to the bottom, so that it
becomes necessary to keep the mixture
we'll stirred with paddle.
Six hours after painting, this paint
will be as immoyable and unaffected
oy water as month-Old paint 1t is a
splendid preservative, and I have
known buildings which were painted
20 years ago in this manner, in which
the wood was well preserved. Whole
milk is better than skim milk, as 1t con-
tains more oil, and this is the constit-
uent which sets the cement. With the
addition of small quaidity of crude
carbolic acid, it makes 6ne disinfect-
ant and is in every way suitable for
dairy work.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-03-29
ART OF FURNISHING.

Purple and green is one of the latest
decorative schemes for bedrooms
Chairs of East Indian rattan, hour
glass shape, SO popular for porch use
in warm weather, are to be quite as
much seen in fashionable living rooms
this winter.
japanese and Indian cottons, in
either old blue and white or old blue
and yellow, make both unusual and
very attractive, as well as inexpensive
curtains.
In buying chairs it is we'll to bear
in mind the rules laid down for the
cabinet makers themselves simplicity,
stability, strength, perfection of exc
cution. in harmony with it's object, and
last but not least, beauty of outline
An ingram filling is the most practi-
cal covering for the edges of floors
where the floor itself is too bad to be
left exposed. If it is possible to stain
the edges of the floor it is both more
satisfactory and less expensive in. the
end.
Don't get the white-enamel fever. 1t
is only passing fad, says the Philadel-
phia Inquirer. It will not last long,
and when You have all the odd pieces
in your house In white and its vogue
is over you will regret 1t.
The colonial fashion of hanging a
three-paneled mirror framed in gilt
over the parlor mantel has been re-
vived with the interest in the furnish
iugs Of that period but does NOT aJwava
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-03-29

faces the south or southeast may be
utilized for this purpose. Wall in
with close weather boarding portion
of the roof after it has been covered
with zinc. Roof with sashes made up
of Sx10-inch glasses. Hinge some of
the sashes so they may be raised and
lowered for ventilation.
Within the house construct plant
bed of one-inch lumber IL inches deep,
and wide enough to allow narrow
passage about the outside, as shown
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-03-29
GOOD ROADS.
They Need Not Necessarily Be Con-
structed of Stone-A Pres
emit Danger.

While good roads are of the utmost
Importance to the farmers themselves,
good roads do not necessarily spell
hard roads, as many hard roads advo-
Gates seem to imagine, says the Prai-
RE Farmer. A movement to better our
highways does not necessarily mean
that they are all to be surfaced with
stone, but there are indications that a
strict watch will be necessary to pre-
vent legislative bodies from putting
such construction on the movement
when enacting laws in regard thereto.
Many of our roads can be greatly
improved over their present condition
by undertakings and better grading.
These are the first essentials where a
hard surface is finally to be provided.
Proper undertakings is of the most
vital Importance during a rainy sea-
son. No road can remain good at such
times without it. In many cases the
work of grading up that is done during
the summer is very largely, and some
times entirely, annulled during the fol-
Icing spring months because OF a lack
of undertakings. Roads often be-
come impossible during the spring
months that would remain i'll fairly
good condition if proper drainage were
provided.
We can see no objection to federal
aid for road improvement along these
lines, or why it is not just as proper and
important for the government to give
assistance in rendering an impossible
road passable and in rendering an all
ready fairly good road superfine.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-03-29

SACK HOI DER tnaL mas the auVdu-
tage of portability can be made from
one-inch plank Is inches wide and three
feet six inches long and one piece Is
inches wide and two feet long. Nail
these together at right angles and Sc
curely brace as shown in the cut. Build
a hopper with hooks around bottom to
hold sack. Place wedge-shape piece at
top of long plank and firmly screw on
the hopper. This will be found very
convenient for use anywhere.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-03-29
FOR WOMEN.
Much That Every Woman Desires to
Know Is Found in Cuticura-
"Cuticura Works Wonders"

Too much stress cannot be placed on
the great value of Cuticura Soap, ONT
ment and Pills in the antiseptic cleans
ing of the mucous surfaces and of the
blood and circulating fluids, thus afford
ing pure, sweet and economical local and
constitutional treatment for weakening
discharges, alterations, inflammations.
itchings, limitations, relaxations, displace-
ments, pains and Irregularities peculiar
to females, as well as such sympathetic
affections as anaemia, chlorosis, hysteria,
nervousness and debility.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-03-29
SEEDING IN PROGRESS
IN WESTERN CANADA.
Mild Weather Is Bringing Thousands
Of Settlers.

The splendid yields of wheat, oats
and barley produced by the farmers
of Western Canada and the excellent
prices received for the same, have
been the means of giving an increased
interest throughout the United States.
AS a result the inquiries made of the
Agents of the Canadian Government
have nearly doubled over those Of the
same period last year. Railroad COM
panies are putting on increased carry
ing capacity to meet the demand made
upon them for carrying passengers
and freight. Everything points to q
most prosperous year. There is room
for hundreds of thousands additional
settlers, much new land having been
opened up for settlement this year.
1t Is quite interesting to look
through the letters received from the
Americans who have settled in West
ern Canada during the past few years.
and considering the large number It
is surprising how few there are who
have not succeeded. An extract from
letter written by Mr.. Geo. M. Girls
void. Of Red Deer, Alta, formerly OF
Grever, Montana, written on the I'd
Of January, is as follows:
81 am located one and one-half miles
from beautiful lake ten miles long,
where there is church, school, three
stores, creamery and two post Offices.
The fine stock, both cattle (cows and
steers), horses, hogs and sheep are
rolling fat, grazing in pasture to-day,
just little snow. hardly enough for
good sleighing, as we just had a Chi
nook which has melted the roads and
laid bare the fields and pasture. There
are fine wheat, oats, barley and fax
raised here, also winter wheat and
timothy hay for export to British Co
lumbia. This is mixed farming and
dairy country. This is the right time
to get foothold in the Canadian
West, as 1t was some years ago in the
United States. We are free from wind
gumbo and a1kali here and have fine.
clear, soft well and spring water at q
depth OF from 5 to Is feet, and lots Of
open ever flowing springs"
Telegraphic advices from Medicine
Hat say that seeding has commenced
at Medicine Hat, Lethbridge, and 9TH
er points. At the former place the
temperature moderated gradually un-
til on the 18th the maximum was Is
and the minimum 26. THERMOMETERS
readings since then have been as fol-
lows: Goth. AZ and SO; 21st. "a and
"a; 22d. Sc and 80; 23d, 4s and 40:
oath, IS. and 26.
During the last few days in Febru-
airy considerable blowing was done
near Lethbridge. p. A. Pulley, q re-
cent arrival from Montana, plowed
and narrowed Is acres and e. LAli-
borty about the same amount. Rev.
Coulter White has also been harrow.
ing his farm. All report the ground
frost free and In excellent condition.
Bricklaying has also begun In town.
At Hartney, further east, on the 18th
Of February the sun was warm ana
bright, wheeled carriages were IN No
and the plowed fields look as II they
are ready for the press drills. There
Is every appearance that spring has
arrived. but farmers do not wish to -
deceived by appearances and conse-
Queutly have not commenced 70 -.
their bluoDtono 49, aaod Whooe
=
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-03-29

1t is from the chill
dren of the pioneer
farmers that most of
Our insane come. The
pioneers, who came to
this country to settle
on farms, had too
much to occupy their
time for insanity to get
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-03-29
Cleaning the udder

No matter how clean the udder of
the COW looks. it should be rubbed with
a damp cloth before the milking oper-
alton begins. There is on 1t dust that
is not apparent to the eye, and this dust
may become very harmful in starting
the milk to souring. A single particle
Of dust that is invisible to. the eye may
contain several tactic acid ferments.-
Farmers Review