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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-03-06
SOME POINTS ABOUT NEEDLES.
TIA Evolved Product of Centuries of
invention.

The point of needle is a very i'm
strument, and there are many points
about needles calculated to interest
the general public. The daily con-
sumption of needles all over the world
IL something like 100000. while
every year the women of the United
States break, lose and use some 300,-
100000 of those tiny tools. Few peo-
pie while threading needle have
ever given a thought to the various
processes through which the wire
must pass before it comes out
needle. Yet the manufacture of
needles includes some 81 different
processes from cutting the wire and
threading the double needles by the
eyes to separating the two needles on
the one length of wire, heading, hard
ening in oil, cleaning out the sides of
the eye, point-setting, and final pol
1shing. For wrapping purple paper is
used, since it prevents rusting. There
are many sorts of needles, for sur
geons', cooks, glovemakers', weavers'.
sallmakers, broommakers', milliners'
and dressmakers' USE The needle is
the evolved product of centuries of
invention. In it's primitive form it
was made of bone, ivory, or wood.
Point by point its manufacture has
improved, until this little but not in
significant instrument is now one of
the highly-fnished products of TWEEN
tieth century machinery and SKILL
lions Herald
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-03-06

where our laws are made, and unless
q check Is administered the passage
OF the parcels post bill will mark one
OF its greatest triumphs.
But let us look at a few of the
simple reasons why the farmer should
patronize the home dealer. In the
FIRST place their interests are CEN
tered IN each other. Every season of
plenty on the farm means a prosper
'ous year to the country merchant So
in the prosperity Of the farmer does
the country merchant expect to gain.
The farmer finds, therefore, in the
country dealer, a staunch and loyal
friend and defender Of his rights.
They pay taxes together, live side by
side. their children play and go to
school together. When the crops are
poor or misfortune comes, to whom
does the farmer look? Not to the
mail order magnate, but to his neigh
Dor. the country merchant. How
take any interest in the political ques-
lions or legal measures beneficial to
the farmer? Yet with their bright
'hued catalogue of pictured bargains"
they reach out an open hand for the
farmers hard earned dollar. And
does he get value received? Not
often. The first order he may, but
that Is only bait. The business is
not founded on principles. it is not
builded on honorable methods. its
mighty walls are erected on graft
The goods are shop-worn or shoddy,
or perhaps many kinds of goods have
defects so cunningly concealed that
the naked eye can scarcely see a diff
ference between these articles and
those Of much higher grade. You
are expected to send cash with the
order or have 1t ready when the
goods arrive with the big c. o. D.
mark on the package. Your crop fail
ure. or shortage Of money doesn't in
tersst the mail order house, your
credit with them is good only so long
a. your pocket book is filled. Your
order IL made out and you pay for
goods you never saw. put up and Sc
lected by men you do not know. II
these goods do not prove to be worth
the money, II the shoes do not wear
well. or the suit is shoddy goods, will
the mail order firm make them good?
Not often. Yet the local dealer will
do this. He knows his honesty Is his
best drawing card. So much for the
advantage Of dealing with honest men
and not with grafters.
sim other issues present tnem-
Ness anb-stations or branch houses
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-03-06
VERY BAD FORM OF ECZEMA.
Suffered Three Years-Physicians Did
No 6ood-PerfectIy Well After
Using Cuticura Remedies.

II take great pleasure in informing
you that 1 was a sufferer of eczema in
a very bad form for the past three
years. I consulted and treated with
number OF physicians in Chicago,
but to no avail. l commenced using
the Cuticura Remedies, consisting of
Cuticura Soap. Ointment and Pills,
three months ago, and to-day 1 am
prefectly well, the disease having left
me entirely. ! cannot recommend
the Cuticura Remedies too highly to
any one suffering with the disease
that l have had. Mrs. Florence E.
Atwood, Is Chilly Place, Chicago, ILL.,,
October 2, 1905. Witness: l.. S.
Berger"
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bring comfort or necessary improve
ments in the country places? Then
why should the farmer patronize
them? By actual test it has been
found that the same goods can be pro-
cured as cheaply, If not at more rea.
sonable prices, at home Trade with
your neighbor, whose interests axe
your interests, whose hand is always
ready to assist yoH in time Of trouble.
Patronize those who patronize you.
Use the fashy catalogue Of the mail
order house to help kindle the kitchen
fire, and keep your money at home
where 1t will benefit you and your
neighbors over and over again. The
farmers dollar, earned by honest toll.
should not be added to the blood
money of these great mail order cor.
porations. The farmer must Join the
local merchant and the country editor
In battling this great peril that is
creeping, creeping onward with great
rapidity, and unless these forces are
combined and their efforts prove in
creasing. the day is not far distant
when the chance will be gone forever
the power will be too great to con.
Quer.
IVEp II CNEJrrr
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-03-06
AWFUL NEURALGIA
Pain Turned This Woman's Hair
White but She Was Cured by
Dr.. Williams Pink Pills.

Do not seek relief from suffering
simply, but free your system from the
disease which is the cause of your
suffering. That Is the message which
former victim of neuralgia sends to
those who are still in it's grasp Hot
applications. powders that deaden the
senses and others that reduce the
heart action may cause temporary re-
lief but the pain is sure to return vita
greater intensity.
Mrs. Evelyn Creusere, who has a
beautiful home at 81 Boulevard
West, Detroit, Mich, suffered for
years with neuralgia until she tried
this tonic treatment. She says:
My trouble began about six years
ago and l did not rest as / should
have, but kept UP about my many
duties. After time became so
weak could not do any work at all.
l had severe backaches and such
dreadful headaches in the back part
and top Of my head. My eyes were
easily tired and at times I saw black
spots before them. I consulted sew
eral doctors but without the slightest
benefit. The pains were SO intense
that my hair turned white.
Il lost continually in weight and
strength and was almost in despair
when friend recommended DIR. VIII
liams' Pink Pills. tried them ac-
cording to directions and soon began
to feel relief. At the end of three
months had gained ten pounds In
weight and had no more trouble WITH
my nerves. I have been In perfect
health ever since and can heartily
commend DR.. Williams Pink Pills.
DR.. Williams Pink Pills are sold by
All druggists. or sent postpaid. on re-
ceipt OF price, so cents per box. SIX
boxes for $3.50. by the DR.. Williams
Medicine Co. Schenectady. N. =.
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AROUND THE CIRCLE
KEEP THE DOLLARS MOVING IN
YOUR OWN COMMUNITY.
IT MAKES WEALTH FOR ALL
Buy OF the Man Who VIII Buy
OF You and Your Dollar
Will Come Back
Again.
Copyright by Alfred c Clark,


AS on the western prairies In
pioneer days. the trapper's camp fire,
kindled to prepare his frugal meal or
20 warm him from the biting wind,
famed into renewed vigor, spread,
nrst on the tiny blade of grass to
neighboring blades, and thence to the
tangled masses all around until the
broad plains were one vast sea Of
seathing fame destroying all before
1t, so the mail order business. started
In the eastern cities on a small scale,
Tanned by the breeze Of judicious ad-
vertising, has spread until it now COW
ers the length and breadth OF our land
and threatens disaster to the smaller
dealers everywhere. The note of
warning has been sounded, the light
Is visible In the sky and yet, appar-
entity oblivious to 1t all, the ones
whose safety is being endangered,
heed not the alarm nor the signal of
disaster. The country merchant and
the farmer, whose combined efforts
can stem the tide of destruction that
threatens to engulf them, are alone
unconscious OF the approaching devas-
tation, that, like great sea of con-
suming flame. is threatening to engulf
them.
The country merchant and the farm
er-the simple. honest jewellers in the
rural districts, are the victims this
gigantic peril is reaching out for to
I'LL its rapacious nav. Each year it's
grasp becomes flrmer, its power
greater. Only few short years ago
the catalogue house was a thing I'M
heard OF. to-day it stands as one of
Americas greatest institutions. And
with great fortune comes great pow
er. so now the mail order business
may well be classed among the powers
OF the nation. Its efforts are already
being felt at the national capital,
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-03-06
WIDOW DONS TROUSERS,
Then DOES MANS WORK
New Jersey Woman Puts New Roof
on Her House While Neigh
bors Gasp.

New Brunswick, n. J.-Mrs. Aletta
Mccullough, a widow of middle age,
dressed in mems clothing, has been
putting new roof on her house. She
dOnned trousers, coat and vest,
climbed up a ladder to the roof with
the skill of man, and commenced to
work. Neighbors stood around and
gasped.
Mrs. Mccullough apparently didn't
care rap what they thought. She
wanted the job, so did it herself She
fastened a rope about her waist and
tied it to a chimney so in case she
should slip she would not drop fur
Their than the gutter of the roof.
Mrs. Mccullough is a carpet weaver
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selves In this connection. With the
rapid growth of the mail order bust.
are being established. These large
firms are daily reaching out for new
sections Of trade. What will be the
result along this line? With the
growth OF the catalogue house comes
the death OF the rural mercantile
trade. Let them once destroy the
country merchant and the markets
Of the world will be in the hands of q
few wealthy capitalists. Their branch
houses will appear in all the country
towns and the farmer will no longer
be Independent. His friend, the coun-
try dealer. who through competition
was forced to pay the value Of the
butter, eggs, etc, will be thing OF
the past, and in his place will appear
the fat, gloating face of the capitalist.
in whose benumbed conscience there
Is no thought of pity, whose breast
contains instead of a heart a great
lump of cold stony gold, whose one
ambition is to build up greater for
tune than the world has ever seen,
and who cares naught for the tears or
trials, woes or weeping of his victims
80 long as he can squeeze little more
OF the coveted glittering treasure from
him.
Again, the dollar spent with tho
local dealer stays in the community
where it blesses the spender over and
over again. The merchant pays 1t to
the butcher for meat, the butcher gets
his bread of the baker and therefore
drops the dollar into the bakers till.
the baker pays 1t to the miller for
flour. and the latter buys his grain
from the farmer, so the dollar once
more jingles merrily in the farmers
trousers pocket. But spend 1t with
the mail order house and 1t Is gone
never to return. 1t goes to build up
the great commercial interests of New
York or Chicago. Does it pay tho
farmer to send his money to help
beautify and build up these great
cities? Has he not more interest in
identifying and building up his own
section of the country? If not, he
should. If place is good enough for
a man to live in and to make his
money in, 1t is good enough for him to
spend his money in. Who helps build
the churches, school houses, streets.
bridges, etc.? Does the mail order
house help? Will they give a dollar
to educate the farmers children, or
donate anything to support the farm.
er's widow or orphans? Do they help
to pay the taxes. or add anything to
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-03-06

The blizzard had subsidized somewhat,
but the wind was still blowing a gale
and steep drifts of snow were on
every hand. Judge Freeman strug-
gled ,aimlessly about all afternoon, his
aim being to get as far down the
mountain as possible before night
came on.
1t was late in the evening and he
was in condition bordering on com.
plete exhaustion and despair when he
was seen by James DeMoss, a sheep
ranchman, who was in the mountains
looking for his flock. DeMoss says
that Judge Freeman was. stalled in a
deep snowdrift when he found him
and that he undoubtedly would have
persisted there had he not been dis
covered at that opportune moment.
Judge Freeman was placed upon Mr..
DeMoss' horse and conveyed to the
latter's ranch, where he was revived.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-03-06
Pony That Eats Tobacco.

Williamsport, Ind.-A pretty Shet-
land pony that carries lame girl to
the Methodist church three times each
Sunday is tobacco-chewing fiend.
While the girl is in the church the
pony is tied to the hitching rack It
stands quietly If it has tobacco to eat,
but attempts to break away if passers-
by do not give it the weed When the
pastor of the church approaches, the
pony puts its nose in the minister's
pocket and whinnies what may mean
in horse talk: Give me chew" but
the pony soon shakes its head in a
dissatisfied manner because the pas
tor does not use tobacco. The little
girl is unable to cure the pony of its
bad habit.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-03-06
IvER H. SMITH.
Snakes Reared for Their Skins

The idea that snakes are useless
creatures and should be exterminated
whereyeD found, will have to pass
away. says the Shoe Trade Journal.
as In Australia they are now being
Systematically reared for the sake of
their skins. which have a considera.
bic commercial value in London.
Paris and New York. Snakeskin ia
the fashionable material for slippers.
belts, bags. purses, jewel boxes, card
cases. dressing-table accessories. etc.
Rabbit trappers supplement their
means considerably by catching young
snakes and extracting their poinson.
Gus fangs. The blacks are also ex-
pert snake catchers. To them the
snake is an agreeable article of diet
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-03-06
Disease Puzzle. DOCTORS.

A mysterious disease is troubling
the Dutch medical profession. 1t has
broken out In the district of Ouddorp.
not far from Utrecht, and Prof
Spronck, of Utrecht, after all the best
efforts he can devise, has had to con-
fess himself perplexed. The disease
is a contagious affection Of the heart.
and the patients invariably develop
high fever. There have been more
than 100 cases.. Prof. Spronck has
made careful anlysis of blood taken
from patients, but has utterly failed
to find cause or an origin for this
epidemic.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-03-06
U. S. DlSPENSATORY
Deserves the Principal Ingredients
Contained Ia Pe.ru.na.

Contained IN Pe-ru-na.
Are we claiming too much for Peruns
when we claim 1t to be an effective
remedy for ch-onic catarrh7 Have No
abundant proof that Peruna is In real
ity such catarrh remedy? Let US SEE
what the United States Dispensatorv
says Of the principal ingredients q
Peruna.
Take, for instance, the ingredient
hydrastis canadensis, or golden seal.
The United States Dispensatory says
of this herbal remedy, that It is largely
employed in the treatment of depraved
mucous membranes, chronic rhinitis
(nasal catarrh), atomic dyspepsia lea
tarrh of the shomach|, chronic intesti-
nal catarrh, catarrhal jaundice, Tea
tarrh of the liver and in diseased
mucous membranes of the pelvic organs.
It is also recommended for the treat
ment of various forms Of diseases pc
culiar to women.
Another Ingredient of Peruna, cory
dalis formosa, is classed in the United
States Dispensatory as tonic. So also
is cubebs classed as a stomachic and a.
tonic for the mucous membranes.
Cedron seeds is another ingredient Of
Peruna, an excellent drug that has
been very largely overlooked by tho
medical profession for the past fifty
years. The seeds are to be found in
very few drug stores. The United
States Dispensatory says of the action
of cedron that it is used as a bitter
tonic and in the treatment of dysentery,
and in intermittent diseases as a sub
stitute for quinine.
Oil of copaiba, another ingredient Of
Peruna, is classed by the United States
Dispensatory as mild stimulant and
diuretic. It acts on the stomach and
intestinal tract. It acts as a stimu-
liant on the genito-urinary membranes.
Useful in chronic cystitis, chronic dys-
entery and diarrhea, and some chronic
diseases of the liver and kidneys.
Send to us for free book of testimo-
malls of what the people think of Pc
runa as catarrh remedy. The best
evidence is the testimony of those who
have tried it.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-03-06
CAUGHT in AWFUL
MOUNTAIN STORM

had he been able to start the fire the
only available wood was that out of
which the shack was built The snow
drifted over the shack and by the
morning of the second day the only
light that entered the little room was
from the small cracks next to the
roof. Snow penetrated the room and
formed small drifts upon the floor and
over the blanket in which Judge Free
man was wrapped.
Judge Freeman reached the con-
clusion at noon on the third day of
his enforced Imprisonment that the
only hope for him to save his life was
to leaye the shack and try to make
his way out of the mountains. He
bundled himself up the best he could
and ventured forth into the snow
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-03-06
Stimulate the Blood.

Brandreth's Pills are the great blood
purifier. They are laxative and blood
tonic, they act equally on the bow
els, kidneys and skin, thus cleansing
the system by the natural outlet OF
the body. They stimulate the blood
so to enable nature to throw off all
morbid hunnors and cure all troubles
arising from an impure state of the
blood. One or two taken every night
will prove an invaluable remedy
Each pill contains one grain of solid
extract of sarsaparilla, which, with
other valuable vegetable products,
make it blood purifier unexcelled. :.
Brandreth's Pills have been in use
for over century. and are for sale
everywhere, plain or sugar-ccated.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-03-06
The Fortune Temnted.

A well known British nobleman wa,
actually engaged to Miss Coutts. but
on her challenging him one day wheth-
er it was her personality or her great
fortune which appealed to him he
frankly acknowledged that although
he was much attached to her, her vast
property had been his special induce
ment in betrothing himself.
Her seply was characteristic: lie.
- then remain she best Of friends In.
stead Of being the poorest Of soyera.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-03-06
Poetess Highly Honored.

Mile. Andre Corthis, whose poems in
the volume entitled "Gemmes ct
Moires have won high praise. has
been chosen poet laureate of France
for the year past The honor is one
conferred annually by a vote of emf
nent literary people on the most dis
tinguished poet of the year. Mile.
Corthis is still young woman.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-03-06
Mouse Causes Theater Panic.

VIENNA mouse scurried across
the auditorium OF the Royal theater
in Josefstadt during the performance
of '.Fledermaus" the other night Some
of the women stood upon the seats
and screamed. causing a panic, the
bulk Of the audience not knowing the
cause of the alarm. The performers
left the stage 20 minutes befor. calm
was restored. The mouse escaped.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-03-06

1t isn't likely that Homer knew the
difference between heroic pentameter
and milk wagon; Rafael probably
never guessed that there was SUCH q
word as genre" and the language OF
the average musical critic would
doubtless have been too technical for
the. understanding of Wagner.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-03-06

by trade and conducted her business
for many years. operating the heavy
machine unaided. The job of putting
on new roof did not seem hazardous
to her, but she did not like the idea OF
going up there on windy day wear
ing skirts. She has about completed
the work without hitting her fingers
instead of the NAH more. than dozen
times.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-03-06

He who conceals a useful truth is
equally guilty with tn, propagation of
an INJURIOUS falsehood. Augustine
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1907-05-01
Utility of Censors.

"When Maxim Gorky dined with
me-" said literary New Yorker, "he
talked about the Russian censorship.
HE said that in the course OF the
Russo-Japanese war he had occasion
in an article to describe the headquar-
ters of one of the grand dukes. He
wrote of these headquarters, among
other things:
"'And over the desk in his highness'
tent is a large photograph of Marie la
Jambe, the beautiful ballet dancer
Before this article could appear the
censor changed that sentence to, And
over the desk in his highness' tent is
large map of the theater of war;
Detroit News.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1907-05-01
Great Naval Display.

The jamestown Exposition at Nor
folk, Va, was opened last Friday, April
20, with 250, 900 visitors present. New
er yet has Norfolk, of old the post of
naval rendezvous, witnessed so imposing
assemblage of war craft as now lies in
the harbor between Old Point Comfort
and the Exposition grounds. Though
but the advance guard Of the great
gathering OF fleets that will be there
during the exposition, the feet is i'm
pressive, not only for its numbers and
power, but by reason OF the fact that 1t
is wholly American. Sixteen first-class
battle-ships, strung along line extend
ing three miles, with a number Of Sec
ondary craft make up this stupendous
array Of the nations ocean power, pre-
senting a spectacle to stir the soul OF
patriotism. Other ships are daily
lengthening this stupendous line and
never before have Americans been
privileged to witness the power OF the
nation in such compact concourse. This
fleet constitutes the greatest assemblage
of American warships ever held. 1t is
the great new navy on parade; the
new navy with which the nation has
assumed the second place among the
naval powers of the earth. The feet
is manned with over five hundred Off
GERS and thirteen thousand men. Twen-
ty abreast this splendid host of
American seamen on the march would
take two hours to pass given point.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1907-05-01
Iinhtninn sunarstItlon.

The ancient Romans avoided places
struck by lightning The houses II
damaged were pulled down or fenced
in so that no one could use the build
ing on which the gods had set the mark
Of their displeasure. This feeling was
probably deepened by the fact that GER
tain localities are visited by thunder
storms more than others, the wrath of
Jove descending In white flame time
and again in the same spot. And 1t
was the same superstition, lingering
among Christians In a slightly different
form, which made 1t SO difflcult for
Benjamin Franklin to introduce the
lightning rod, for the plous Americans
of that day declared that ut was as
impious to erect rods to ward of heav-
EMS lightning as for child to ward of
the chastening rod Of Its father"