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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-03-08
It IS IN THE BLOOD
Neither Liniments nor 0intments
Will Reach decentralization
MIR. Stephenson Was Cured.

People with infamed and aching
Joints, or painful muscles; people who
shuttle about with the aid Of cane or a
crutch and cry, Oh at every slight jar,
are constantly asking, "What is the best
thing for rheumatism
To attempt to cure rheumatism by ex-
ternal applications is a foolish waste of
time. The seat of the disease is in the
blood, and while the sufferer is rubbing
lotions and grease on the skin the poison
In the circulation is increasing.
Delaysin adopting sensible treatment
are dangerous because rheumatism may
at any moment reach the heart and prove
fatal. The only safe course for rheumatic
sufferers is to get the best possible blood
remedy at once.
Mr.. Stephenson's experience with this
obstinate and distressing affection is
that of hundreds. He says:
"About q year ago was attacked by
severe rheumatic pains in my left
shoulder. The pains were worse in wet
weather, and at these periods caused me
e the greatest suffering. I tried q number
Of treatments and ointments, but they
failed to alleviate the pains"
Then he realized that the cause must
be deeper and the pain only surface in
dication. He adds:
at had heard DIR. Williams Pink Pills
for Pale People recommended as cure
for rheumatism, and when found that
Twas getting no relief from applications,
I made up my mind that would try
them. Before the first box was gone
noticed that the pains We're becoming
less frequent, and that they were not so
severe as before. After the second box
had been used up was entirely free
from discomfort, and I have had no traces
of rheumatism since"
The change i'll treatment proved by
almost immediate results that Mr..
Thomas Stephenson, who lives at No.115
Greenwood street, Springfield, Mass,
had found the true means for the purifi-
cation and enrichment of his blood.
DR.. Williams Pink Pills are without
doubt the best of all blood remedies.
They effect genuine and lasting cures in
rheumatism. They donot merely deaden
the ache, but they expel the poison from
the blood. These pills are sold by all
druggists.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-03-08
WHERE WAR STILL RACED.
Something for the Correspondents to
Do When Nations Were
at Peace.

Even at the early dawn of Utopian civ
ilization it became evident that the era
OF universal peace had arrived, says the
New York Sun. The nations discovered
that the great gun had been invented that
would send a projectile through any
armor. while, on the other hand, the
armor had been invented that would re-
sist the attack of any gun. The submarine
boat had been tested that would destroy
any battleship, that is, if not caught by
the submarine destroyer, which in its turn
might succumb to the submarine de-
stroyer-destroyer
Quite naturally this deplorable condi-
ton of worldwide peace frightened the
Analgamated Conclave of War Core
spondents, whose members found their
occupation gone. Accordingly at a meet.
ing the president arose and presented a
resolution for disbandment.
There are no more conflicts. Cruelty
and carnage is thing of the past. We
might as well go into other professions, .
he said.
Just then Richard Chefoo O'Higgins
| arose and objected in a speech that proved
| war correspondents to be still necessary
No carnage, no conficts!" he roared
''Why, the editors can still send us t.
write up woman's suffrage meetings, col
lege hazing and the Brooklyn bridge crush
| at ski"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-03-08

back from the hospital, where he went
to grow some new bones and things on
his insides, after he rode the bucking
broncho, man gave me the prettiest
little animal you ever saw, sort Of
white and black, about the size of
cat, and 1 took it to the room. and
put it under the bed, in box the man
gave me. Dad had gone to bed, and
was snoring SO you could cut it with
a knife"
Say, you knew that animal was q
skunk all the time; now, tell me, didn't
you?" said the old groceryman. You
| was fool to take it, when you knew
what skunk will do"
Yes, 1 thought it was skunk all
right" said the boy. but the man told
wouldn't ever make any trouble for
| anyone, and he would warrant it.
thought a warranted skunk was all
right, and so l went to bed in a cot
next to dads bed. l guess it was about
| daylight, when skunks want to suck
eggs, that he began to scratch the box
and squeak, and / was afraid it would
wake dad up, so l reached down and
took the cover off the box. From that
very identical moment the trouble be-
gan. Dad heard something in the room
and he rose up in bed, and the animal
sat on the foot of the bed and looked
at dad. Dad said: Scat" and threw
a pillow at my pet, and then all was
chaos. l never smelled chaos but !
know when l smell it. o, o. but you'd
a dide to see dad. He turned blue and
green and said: 'Hennery, some one
has opened jack pot, call for the po-
lice l rushed for the indicator, where
you ring for bellboys, and cocktails
and things, and touched all the but
tons, and then got to bed and pulled a
quilt over my head, and dad went into
a closet, where my snakes and things
were, and the vaccinated skunk kept
on doing the same as he did to dad
and thought should die Dad heard
my snake rattle hisself in the box, anG
he stepped on my prairie dog and yelled
murder, and he got into my box Of
horned toads, and my young badger
scratched dads bare feet, and young
eagle l had began to screech, and dao
began to have a fit. He said the all
seemed fixed, and he opened the win
dow and sat on the window sill in hi:
nightshirt, and a fireman came up on
ladder from the outside and turned thu
hose on dad, then the police come anc
. broke in the door, and the Landlord
was along, and the porter, and all thu
chambermaids, and everybody. l hat
turned in all the alarms there were
and everybody came quick. The skunl
met the policemen half way, and sa
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-03-08

boy rushed in and dropped on the
floor the Queerest animal the old man
and the cat had ever seen. The cat
got up on the counter on pile Of
brown wrapping paper, curved its
back and permeyowed, and the strange
animal jumped into half barrel Of
dried applies and began to dig with all
four feet, as though to make a bed to
lie in.
Take that animalcule, or whatever
it is, out OF them apples" said the old
groceryman, picking up fire poker.
What is it, and where did it come
from, and when did you get back, and
why didn't you stay away, and what
do you WANT in here, anyway" and the
old man eyed the animal and the bad
boy, expecting to be bitten by one and
bilked by the other.
That's prairie dog from Texas, if
you are not posted on ornicothology, b"
said the boy, as he took the prairie dog
up and put him on the counter near the
cat. Dad is all right, only We were
driven out of Texas by the board of
health"
Il told that pirate chum of yours,
when ne read me your letter, that you
would be in Texas just about week,
and that you would be shipped home in
box. They are not as tolerant with
public nuisances down south as we are
here. But what did you do there to get
the board of health after you?" and the
old man pushed the cats back down
level. and held her tail so she couldn t
eat the prairie dog
well, sir, it was the condemndedest
outrage that ever was" said the boy,
as he gave the prairie dog some crack
ers and cheese. You see, dad told me
1 could pick up some pet animals while
l was in Texas, and 1 got quite a COL
lection, while dad was in the hospital.
Here is one in my pocket" and the boy
took a horned toad out Of his pocket
about as big as softshelled crab
and put it in the lod grocerymans
hand.
Condemn you, don't put poisonous
reptile in my hand" said the old man,
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-03-08
Cured Her Diabetes.

Halo, Ind, Feb. 27th.-(SpeciaD-H
what will cure Diabetes will cure any
form of Kidney Disease, as so many physi-
clans say, then Dodd's Kidney Pills will
cure any form of Kidney Disease. For Mrs.
L. G: Bowers of this place has proved that
Dodd's Kidney Pills will cure Diabetes.
Il had Diabetes" Mrs. Bowers says,
"my teeth all became loose and part of
them came out. passed great deal of
water with such burning sensations !
could hardly bear it. l lost about 40
pounds in weight. I used many medi-
cines and doctored with two local doctors
but never got any better till started to
use Dodd's Kidney Pills. They cured me
so completely that in three years / have
had no return of the disease. I am a
well woman now, thanks to Dodd's Kid
ney Pills"
Dodd's Kidney Pills cure all kidney all
ments from Backache to Bright's Disease
Cure your Backache with them and you
will never have Bright's Disease. Diabetes
or Rheumatism.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-03-08

as he dropped the ugly looking toad on
the floor, and got behind the show case.
while the boy laughed fit to kill. Now
tell your story and vamoose, by ginger,
or l will ring for the patrol wagon
You would murder a man in his own
house, and laugh at his spasms."
30. get out, that toad. and this prai-
RE dog are as harmless as your old
cat there" said the boy, as he watched
the old man tremble as though he had
jum-jams. 81 have got tarantula and
diamond-back rattlesnake that will
pizen you, though. I'll tell you about
getting fired out of Texas, If you will
stand still minute. You see, / had
my collection of pets in my room at the
hotel. and I had the bellboys bribed.
and the chambermam would only come
into our room while I was there to
watch the pets. The night dad got
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-03-08
SALT RHEUM ON HANDS.
Suffered Agony ana Had to Wear
Bandages All the Ttme-An-
other Cure by Cuttcura.

Another cure by Cuticura Is told Of by
Mrs. Caroline Cable, Of Waupaca, Wis,
in the following grateful letter: My
husband suffered agony with salt rheun
on his hands, and had to keep them
bandaged all the time. We tried every.
thing we could get, but nothing helped
Cuticura Soap, Ointment, and Pills cured
hum entirely, and his hands have been as
smooth a. possible ever since. I do hope
this letter viii be the means Of helping
some other sufferer"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-03-08
The Bad Boy and His Dad Return
from Texas-The Boy Tells the
Groceryman About the Ex-
element at San Antonio.
BY HON. GEORGE PECK

BY HON. GEORGE w. PECK.
Ex-Governor of Wisconsin, formerly pub
Usher Of "Peck's Sum-" author Of Peck S
Bad Boy" etc.)
Copyright. 1904, by Joseph B. Bowles.)
T HE old groceryman sat on an up
turned half-bushel measure, in
front of the stove, drying his old-fash-
Toned boots. AS he fried the soles in
front of the red-hot stove, there was
an odor of burnt leather, but he did
not notice it, as the other odors, nat
ural to the dirty old grocery, seemed
to be in the majority. The door opened
quietly. and the old man got up to wait
on possible customer, when the bad
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-03-08
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Send no money-just your name and
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Address THE r. PAXTON COMPANY,
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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-03-08

luted them as polite as could be, and
they fell back for reinforcements. Dad
got his pants and yelled that he was
stabbed, and I don't know what didn't
happen. Finally the policemen got my
skunk under blanket and walked on
him, and he was squashed, but, by
gosh, they can never use that blanket
again, and l told 'em So"
Its a wonder they didn't put .
blanket over you and kill you, too"
said the old groceryman, as he moved
away from the horned toad, which the
boy had placed on the counter what
did they do to you then? What way did
your dad explain it? how long
did you remain at the hotel after
that?"
1--WE didn't stay hardly any after
that" said the boy, as he pushed the
prairie dog along the counter toward
the groceryman's cat, hoping to get
them to fighting. THE landloard said
we id yankees were too strenuous
for his climate and if We didn't get out
of his house in Is minutes he would
get gun and see about it, and he left
two policemen to see that we got away
Dad tried to argue the question with
the landlcard, after all the windows
had been opened in the house. He said
he had come to Texas for a quiet life,
to get away from the climate of the
north, but he had no idea any landlord
would turn animals into gentleman's
room, and he would sue for damages,
but the bluff did not work, and we left
San Antonio on freight train, under
escort of the police and the board Of
health. Say, that freight train smelled
like it had hot box, but nobody sus-
pected US. When we got most to New
Orleans dad said: 'Hennery, I hope
this will be lesson to you,' and told
him two more such lessons would kill
his little boy dead"
What did you do with your clothes?"
said the groceryman, as he snuffed
around as though he thought he could
smell something.
20, we bought new clothes in New
Orleans and let our old ones out of the
window with a rope. A man picked
them up, and they sent him to the
quarantine for smallpox patients. o,
we came out all right, but it was a
close call.
I'll drop in some day and have some
fun with you." said the boy
, IF you do I will stab you with q
cheese knife" said the groceryman. az
he picked up the broken glass
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-03-08
If You Are Going East

and want up-to-date service at lower rates
than via other lines, take the Nickel Plate
Road. No excess fares charged on any train.
Excellent Dining and Sleeping Car Service.
All trains leave from La Sale Street Station,
Chicago. For particulars address j. Y.
Callahan, Gen Agent, No. Ill Adams Street,
Chicago, Ill.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-03-08

Political forms touch the life of the
people intimately. Thus, under a mon
archy or a theocracy or an oligarchy, a
uan with long hair passes for poet,
TO be paying an election bet, merely
Puck.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-03-08

$500 per NJ. Lewis "Single Binder
straight DC cigar costs the dealer some
more than other sc cigars, but the high.
er price enables this factory to use high
err grade tobacco. Lewis Factory, Pc.
oria Ill
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-03-08
Dissection in a Meat Market.

Butcher-Come, John, be lively now;
break the bones in Mr.. Williams chops
and put Mr.. Smiths ribs in the basket
for him.
as / have sawed off Mrs. Murphy's leg
N. Y. Times,
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-03-08

A cynic remarked the other day: can
old acquaintance of mine died recently
at the age of 90. In all that time the
poor, dear fellow hadn't lived more than
20 minutes!"-Puck
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-03-08
A Wife's Advice.

Undertaker-That fellow who thinks he
can get the nomination for mayor is a
dead one.
Brooklyn Life.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-03-08

1t would be awfully handy if man
could send his lungs out of town for a
breath of fresh air these days.-Butte
Inter Mountain.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-03-08

"The life of an insurance agent" sighed
PREMIUMS, lis full of wolmwood and
gall" II hadn't noticed the NORWOOD"
growled the victim.-Cleveland Leader.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-03-08

Don't Get Footsore! Get Foot-Eas
A wonderful powder that cures tired, hot,
aching feet and makes new or tight shoes
easy. Ask to-day for Aliens Foot Ease.
Accept no substitute. Trial package FREE.
Address A. S. Olmsted. LIE Roy, N. Y.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-03-08

A Chicago man calls his dog Weine1
because it is the worst dog in the block
Chicago Chronicle
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-03-08

I am sure Piso's Cure for Consumption
Robbins. Norwich, N. Y, Feb. II. 1900.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-03-08

The social millennium will not have ar
rived until every man is richer than his
neighbors Magazine.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-03-08

You can't preserve the peace in alcohol.
Judge.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-03-08

1t is easy to preach contentment when
you have all the cake.-Chicago Tribune.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-03-08

TO Cure q Cold In One Day
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. Al
druggists refund the money if it fails to cure
E w. Groves signature is on each box. Csc
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-03-08

Lots of narrow-minded men are quite
chesty.-N. Y. Times.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-03-08

A Guaranteed Cure for Piles.
itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles
Your druggist will refund money if PAzo
OINTMENT tails to cure in 6 to IA days. SOC
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1905-01-06
QUEER ~sUPERsTITloNs.

oene Medicines, Cores and Omens -
Former Operations.
= sure cure for the ague, according
10 an old time specific, was to rub q
live spider In butter and then eat II.
The late Vincent Stuckey Lane, who
died In England after spending much.
OF hi4Elife In the collection OF folk lore,
glves many other instances OF the med
1cinss re former generations. To rub q
drted mole to powder and to swallow
- mnch Of 1t an would; lie on shilling
foF hinesdays In successionawa anoth-,
cure for ague. a hare'R foot carried
onthe person prevented collie, eels APP
pnads e the ears were Z specific against
deafness. and epilepsy yielded to !
gentle treatment IL toadetools gathered
int assthey were topcing their way
through the ground and aWallowed ID
slaaret at midnight There were many
1EEays of curing dte. bpt the simplest
Man was to 80 into y church ct MD
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1905-01-06
MEXICAN DRAWN WORK.
che Women Who Make II Accordins
to Peon Contract.

The Women Who Make II Accordin0
to Peon Contract.
The woman who makes drawn work
on q Mexican estate Is not an independ-
ent worker to whom comes the money
Tor all the work her deft hands accom-
plish. She 10 a woman whose father
or brother or uncle or mother IL in debt
TO the great don" She can do the
drawn. work, 70 the don's agent sup
plies her with linen or lawn, a frame
and the requisite Implements and In
dicates the design that she is to fol.
low, for, though you may not know It,
there are fashions in drawn work quite
~ exclusive and quite as popular AZ
there are In women's hats, for instance.
When her work is done that poor wo-
nan cannot fare forth to market and
Offer It for sale. It is by the term Of
her Deon contract perhaps already sold
to the great dom" whose tenant she
Z. Miguel, his agent, takes the work,
BY now as grimy as the overalls Of an
engineer. He has kept account Of the
time the woman has been engaged up.
on It, and for each OF the many days
she may have worked he gives her Z.
9. {. at most u cents. but never tbs
last amount unless she be a thorough
mistress OF her craft,
Once q year the Mexicans for whom
the women do this work, somewhat AZ
the sweatshop toilers Of Chicago and
New York drive their needles for q
maafAr maaf IN anlnmn cnnfprnnno and
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1905-01-06

night and walk three times round the
communion table. A snakes skin worn
round the temples was good for the
headache, but If that failed the sufferer
might try moss grown on a human
skull, then powdered and taken as
snuff.
Whooping cough could never be
caught by a child who had ridden a
bear, but If no bear was handy the
child might be soundly thrashed or
drawn backward through a bramble
bush. The subject of signs and omens
dlls a number Of pages Of Mr.. Lanes
i've volumes. Under the heading "Good
and Ill Luck In Marriage he shows
on how trifing a matter the marital
happiness or unhappiness Of our ances-
tors could turn. It was unlucky, for
example, to receive a present Of doves,
to marry on the anniversary Of birth,
to tread on the tail of a cat, to put on
ones stockings wrong side out or to
try the wedding ring on before mar
riage.
On the wedding day the happy cou-
| pie had to redouble their vigilance, as
a horse looking at them through a
gateway, a pig running across their
path on the way to church, a dog run
ming between them or the clock. strik-
ing during the ceremony might wreck
their happiness. For the bride to look
in the glass after she was attired in
her wedding fnery was sure to bring
Ill luck. On the other hand, 1t was
lucky to be followed by a strange dog
when going counting, to be touched by
the wing of a bat or for the bride to
hear a cat sneeze on the eve Of her
wedding.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1905-01-06
Fam II NEWS AND fam LORE
By GEO. B. DAILY

Noscountry has better roads, on
average, than South Dakota, but
might be, with q little more wor
the right time, made infinitely BID
The Frederick Free Press repoI
farmer having recently brought
that village 9 load of hay, the3
Wpight Of which was $500 pou|
three and quarter tons. Load
over one hundred bushels of vi
have frequently been drawn.