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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-02-10

1t can easily be made out of any card
board or wooden box of a suitable
size, from which the lid and one side
has been removed. The box should be
smoothly covered with silk or brocade.
and lined with silk or satin in some
contrasting color. The bottom should
be thickly padded, SO that it may
serve as pincushion, and the outer
edges should be bordered with thick
silk cord. The useful pockets round
the sides are made of wide satin rib
bon or silk, as preferred, gathered at
the top, and run through with an elias
tic, SO that they may serve to hold
small pieces of work, lace, scissors.
tapes, etc. A small ribbon strap on
one side formsa resting place for the
thimble and at the back of the bon
loops of narrow ribbon are arranged
to hold four reels of cotton. The cot
ton can easily be used in this way
without removing the reels from their
places.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-02-10
Roses Of Satin Rihhon..

Huge roses made of satin rib bon ir
various tones of a natural color ara
finished with thick, brown. natural
stems and sprays of foliage Only ON
of them Is used on hat.-VoguN
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-02-10
is USEFUL IN MANY WAYS.
Dainty Work Tray a Great Convent
ence for Busy Woman.

The illustration shows a work-tray-
the utility of it is seen at a glance.
For the nursery it is specially useful;
it can stand on a side table with socks
for darning in it, or any piece of work
that might be taken up at odd times
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-02-10
jamaica GINGER ou.nut.

The ginger grown in Jamaica com.
mands more than double the price of
any other. Under favorable conditions
an acre will produce as much as 1000
pounds. During the last fiscal year
about 100000 pounds was exported
from that island.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-02-10

There is in man higher than love
OF happiness; he can do without hap
piness, and instead thereof find bless
edness.-Carlyle.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-02-10
Could OnIy Guess.

How many ribs have you. Johnny"
asked the teacher of physiology.
Il don't know, ma'am," giggled John.
ny, squirming around on one foot.
I'm so awful ticklish l never could
count EN-"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-02-10
START DAY RIGHT
BREAKFAST COSTUME AN I'M
PoRTANT MATTER.
Garment Of White FIanneIette Is e.
fectiVe-FriIIs and GirdIe of Rib
bon and Lawn Ruffles for
Neck and Sleeves.

Every woman has at least one din
ner gown in her wardrobe. At lunch
con she Is careful to wear a frock
that is becoming and in good style, in
case a friend might drop in. How
often does she consider her appear
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-02-10

There is no Safer Remedy for a Cough.
or throat trouble than Browns Bronchial
Troches." % cents a box. Sample free.
John l. Brown & Son, Boston, Mass.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-02-10

GOOD HOUSEKEEPERS.
Use the best. That's why they buy Red
Cross Ball Blue. At leading grocers cents.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-02-10

You might say of legal wedding,
Certainly knot"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-02-10

1Ncu, sscu@, EEeHEys NuttEy Eyt8
Relieved by Murine Eye Remedy. Com
pounded by Experienced Physicians. Mu-
rine Doesn't Smart; Soothes Eye Pain.
Write Murine Eye Remedy Co., Chicago.
for illustrated Eye Book. At Druggists.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-02-10

Those enjoying prosperity should al
ways be ready to assist the unfor-
tunate.-Demosthen
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-02-10
Western Canada
MORE BIG CROPS IN 1908

Another $4,000 set.
tiers from the United
States. New dis
tricts opened for set
Element. 800 acres
ofland to each set.
{ Ier,-160 free
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-23
FIRE IN INSANE AsYLuMs.

Illinois has narrowly escaped terri
BILE disaster in the partial destruction
by fire of its central insane asylum at
Jacksonville. Much property was de-
stroyed and a considerable section of
the asylum burned to the ground.
Happily no fatalities are reported from
among the unfortunate inmates, some
of whom are said to have escaped and
to be still at large. The possibility
forces itself that some may not have
escaped but are under the ruins of the
buildings.
In this day of absolutely fireproof
buildings no insane asylum or other in
stitution where the insane or Incapable
are confined should furnish the story
of a dangerous conflagration Had the
Illinois fire developed horror as it
might easily have done Illinois would be
under great and we'll earned shame. II
should be impossible to burn an asylum,
a school for weakminded, a penitentiary
or Jail; and yet hundreds of state and
county buildings where human beings
are held in restraint are necessarily
dangerous, the more dangerous because
of the character of their inmates.
II Iowa has such buildings she should
look we'll to them. We are building
fireproof to protect and preserve the
common trade stuff of days traffic.
Let US not forget the larger duty.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-23

the inevitable hour comes when he kills
some one or is killed by some one. We
wait until we see our own dead and
the stain Of our own blood.
The parents who "let the girls go
down town" night after night because
they tease so and bother the Life out
of me" are only waiting. That game
is just as dangerous as ever. 1t is the
same tonight, last night and tomorrow
night. The chances have not changed.
Some day the inevitable will arrive.
And the father who lets his boy run
loose will see his own cripple some
day when it is too late. The game
hasn't changed. 1t is the same old
dangerous game that breaks lives and
tears hearts and souls.
SO we wait. And our waiting never
fails of its reward. Why do we wait
for Willie to learn the lesson by weeks
OF pain and leave Mary to gain COM
mon knowledge thru her own shame?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-23
Value of Manure.

The plant food in a ton of manure
varies somewhat with the kind Of live
stock. Thus young, growing animals
and animals giving milk will retain a
larger proportion of the nitrogen and
phosphorus than fattening stock, work
horses or other mature animals. On
the other hand, it is well to understand
that the difference in value frequently
considered, as, for example, between
sheep manure and cattle manure, is due
almost entirely to differences in water
content. AS a matter of fact, manure
from work horses or from fattening
steers fed on clover hay and heavy
grain rations is fully as ricf1 and val-
liable as sheep manure If both are re-
duced to the same percentage of dry
matter. OF course, sheep manure con-
tanning only so per cent Of water is
twice as rich as cattle manure contain-
ing 80 per cent of water.
Average moderately fresh cattle or
horse manure, made from clover and
timothy hay and some grain, with suf-
ficient straw bedding to absorb and
retain the liquid manure, will contain
per ton of manure about ten pounds OF
nitrogen, two pounds of phosphorus
and ten pounds of potassium, on the
basis of 25 per cent of dry matter.
Computed at the present market values
for these elements-15 cents pound
for nitrogen, IL cents for phosphorus.
and cents for potassium-such man
ure is worth $2.34-Cyril G. Hopkins,
Illinois Experiment Station.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-23
WHAT ROAD pRAGs CAN'T DO.

D. Ward King, he of blessed road
drag memory, had the superlative
nerve to get up before a gathering of
farmers from Iowa, Nebraska anu
other middle western states at the
oihaha corn show the other day and
tell them how simple a matter it is to
Keep the roads in perfect condition
with the drag.
we do rot know how many road
arags there are in Iowa; there may be
10000. We will bet cent that few
among them have been hitched to for
two months. There comes a time in
Iowa when even the road drag is not
worth plcayune. 1t avals nothing
when the roads are a mire. 1t avails
hcthing when that nlire is frozen up
tghi.
We have no fault to find with the
road orag. 1t is great institution,
but the appearance of Mr.. King on this
oeeasi6n strikes US as peculiarly inap..
1t inevitably calls attention to the li.n-
itations of the drag. An ordinary had
.cad can be made more than orJinari-
IS good by persistent and cons an use
Of tie drag, under fair conditions, but
when the roa@s get so extraordinarily
oaG as they have been rea:n.:v IN
Iowa. the drag is a good deal to the
nature of the candle that was burnt
at Dover to show light at Calais. 1t
can't deliver the goods.
Dirt roads may be reliable year in
and year out Where weather conditions
are different from what they may
sometimes be in Iowa, and dirt roads
may be good in Iowa many months in
the year, and possibly not TO go clear
back for years at time, but that
they will go clear back when the
weather conditions are right, is some
thing Of which we have had ample
demonstra ton of late.
We wonder that those farmers at
the corn show do not realize that if
they are to have good roads at all
times they must supplement dirt with
something else.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-23
1nIEsREPUB1CAN, MARsHAILTowN,

for pupils in these classes, and no ex-
pense beyond that already authorized
would be incurred. Perhaps the plan,
or some modification Of it, could profit
ably be extended to schools other than
those attended by necessitous children,
here in America as we'll as in England.
The milkman who refuses to modern
lie his business and then has the nerve
to advance the price, ought to be a
railroad president or Wall street
broker, or something on that order.
He is burying his talents in the milk
business,
Apparently just to make sure of
himself, Carnegie puts out an addi-
tional library every one in a while.
There has been but one divorce in
Ireland in five years. What are we to
understand by this when there is con-
sidered in the same connection the
marked disposition of the Irish to emil
CRATE?
A Chicago woman declares that the
cook in the kitchen has more spending
money than the mother of the family
in most cases. We think the dear body
confused little, since the cook in the
kitchen and the mother of the family
are in most cases one and the same
person. But, otherwise. which would
this Chicago woman rather be- the cook
with the spending money or the moth
err without?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-23
FEEDING Ration..

There are five classes Of materials in
feeding stuffs. viz. protein, carbodyd-
ates. oil or fat, minerals, and water.
The mission of protein is to produce
lean meats in the body, make blood.
build up new tissues. etc. By carbo-
hydates we mean the starchy materials,
which give heat fat and energy. They
represent simply that part of hay, corn,
potatoes and bread that go to keep the
body warm, produce energy for work
and fat where the animal enlarges.
Cotton seed has q good deal OF fat,
or oil, while corn has moderate
amount. The latter constituent, like
starch. will also furnish heat energy,
and fat, and, being more concentrated
than the starchy materials, will afford
more than twice as much heat, fat or
energy as will an equal amount Of
starch or sugar.
Mineral substances make teeth and
homes. and to certain extent contrib-
ute to muscle and tesn. Fr0iossOF
Burkett of the Kansas experiment sta
ton, says we take the bran from the
wheat and give it to our cattle and
hogs, giving only the soft, white part
Of the wheat to our children, which is
lacking in mineral materials. This is
often the way with good deal Of our
food. That explains why our children
often have poor teeth and weak bones.
Plain, common water is an Import
ant ingredient in our foodstuffs. We
must have protein for bone. muscle and
blood; we must have the starchy ma
terials and fat to keep the body warm.
to create energy and to make fat.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-23

eight Of the congressman kept the en-
gagement and proceeded to indicate to
the president that whenever some
other justice OF the supreme court In
the vernacular, pass in his checks"
then the Iowans would be much fiat
tered If Mr.. Taft would give to the
merits Of Judge Deemer, say, as much
consideration as he has given them on
the present occasion.
Senator Cummins, Congressman Hull
and two others of the Iowa congress-
man were not parties to this farce;
but we do not know what significance
is to be attached to their absence. They
are understood previously, to have ex-
pressed themselves to the president
favorably to Judge Deemer, and Con-
gresham Hull at least is supposed to
be resolved to keep on terms with N1r.
Taft
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-23
Looker-On In Iona

Eldora. Dec 23-There is at pres
ent in Iowa and has been for the past
two or three weeks an epidemic of
late" passenger trains that is hard to
understand. No railroad seems to be
free from this trouble. The switch
mems strike might possibly explain
why trains in and out Of st. Paul and
Minneapolis are later, but passenger
trains as well as fast mails" from
Chica go have all got into the bad habit
of being late. If the ground was COW
cred with snow and billiards. were re-
ported that would be given as the reas-
on. Holiday trade and extra express
packages will delay passenger trains
this week, but this late train business
commenced weeks ago. One railroad
is about as bad off as another, this
whether 1t is single or double track.
And the freight business is also demon
allied. Business men report the fall
ure to get Christmas goods in time to
sell them before the demand is over.
Carload stuff is many days behind times
The writer IS told that there were 300
carloads of coal in Marshalltown one
day last week "billed out" but not en-
gines and freight cars enough to clean
up the yards. There's something wrong
somewhere. Why not swear it on to
our railroad commissioners.
And that suggests the following, a
clipping from the Hartford, Conn,
Courant:
The Pennsylvania state railway COM
mission got busy on Wednesday in re-
Spouse to complaints that street car
service in Pittsburg was not adequate.
1t gave a public hearing which lasted
just two hours, and then the commits
sioners announced that they had heard
enough to convince them that the SER
vice was so bad as to naturally arouse
the antagonism Of the public" Be-
fore night, the company was obeying
orders issued by Judge Ewing, chair
man Of the board. All the cars avail
able were in use and hurry calls had
been sent for new rolling stock.
| And not SO long ago, the governor of
Kansas wrote one Of the Goulds that
unless q certain branch railroad in
Kansas was improved, in road bed, in
rolling stock and In passenger service
he would appoint a receiver, fix up
things, pay the expenses thru the re-
ceiver's income and then turn the rail-
road over to the railroad COMPANY
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-23
WHICH WAY LIES HARMONY?

[Des Moines Register and Leader.l
Every foreseeing republican, who has
lent any aid or encouragement to in
surgency, must have known that sooner
or later he would be met with an APP
peal for harmony-harmony meaning
a cessation of activity on his part.
Every foreseeing republican must
have known in exactly what form to
expect this appeal 1t was bound to
come with the congressional election
as demand for Endorsement of the ad-
ministration. The common interests
of the party would be emphasized, and
the old familiar illustration of the man
with the bundle of sticks would be
utilized.
This appeal has come, If the Wash
ington correspondent of the Boston
Herald may be believed:
The successful issue of the congress
sional campaign would be regarded by
the president as an approval Of his ad-
ministration. 1t would silence the crit
les, who have been active Of late, and
would be a most effective argument
against the more radical contingent of
republicans already clamoring for the
nomination Of Roosevelt in 1872"
Continuing, this correspondent fur
Their outlines the basis on which har-
mony is to be restored:
The plea for harmony now being ur-
gently made, proceeds along those lines.
Insurgent republicans have been urged
to cease their operations for the pres
ent session for the sake Of party SUI
premacy, which, after all, is the essen
tial thing from the republican stand
point. 1t is also pointed out that ces-
sation of the factionalism is more like
ly to result to result in the elimination
of Speaker Cannon. He is not a man
to quit under fire. But if the fight
against him subsidies during the winter,
it is claimed that he will have no par
ticular desire to succeed himself as
speaker and probably can be persuaded
to retire. Some of his closest friends
are ready to urge him to put down the
gayel at the end of this congress, but
they say the situation must be COM
posed before they CAN nope 10 Pressin;::
the case to him effectively"
This Is all as familiar as the rules
of croquet or lawn tennis. 1t has been
rehearsed many times in our political
history. It may be said that it is the
subjective proposal upon which nine out
OF ten reform movements have found
cred.
The question is here, as 1t always
must be. what in the end works to
party harmony and success, covering
UP differences and submerging con-
victions, or debate and the gradual
supremacy of vital issues urged by
courageous and fearless leaders? Deal
ing with the immediate situation, what
will most serve to return a fighting
majority to the next house, sudden
cessation Of hostilities on the bart of
the insurgent leaders, or reinsurance
among the rank and file Of the party
that Rooseveltism is yet alive at Wash
ington?
This is an old time question, and
| it will be answered again as it has
been hundreds of times before, accord
ing to the temperament of the men to
whom it is put. There will always be
the many who will yield to the seduc-
lions of harmony. And there will al
ways be the stalwart few who will be
able to say, first pure. then peaceable.,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-23
Topics of the Times

Now old Red Cloud has passed be-
yond the horizon. Crazy Snake is about
all the nickel libraries and the moving
picture shows have left of the real
thing.
The decision by a court that poker
is not a game of chance was not needed
by the farm boy Who has been frisked
out of his money by the gang of tin
horns who are permitted for some
reason not evident to decency to hang
about the city plying their crooked
games when they should be shoveling
snow under sentence as Migrants.
If the consumer has troubles in sum
mer time the iceman sometimes has
his in winter
Somebody has evidently been steal
ing President Elliot's signals.
Chicago court rules that no land
lord can keep child out of a fiat.
Certainly, who ever could keep a lively
child out of anything?
When she gets hold of those crooked
sugar weighers, justice should show
them a stunt with scales that will keep
them guessing.
Judge Ben Lindsey is being sued by
"Tramway Bill Smith, of Denver. on
account of the articles in Everybodv's.
But neither Lindsey nor the magazine
seems to be worrying about it. Ben
Lindsey is liable to make himself
pretty popular if he doesn't watch out.
1t is declared that the butter bus
mess of the country is in the hands of
a trust. Yes, this is a, trust that has
met in Washington and will refuse to
reduce the tax on oleomargarine.
A New York man who went thru
bankruptcy ten years ago has just had
his case reopened to give his creditors
a chance at newly discovered assets.
Don't hasten to remark on the oddity
VI llfe tlllHS lest you put yOurSelT IN a
false light. The man is merely honest
that's all.
The cowless dairy has followed in
the wake of high-priced milk. The
scheme is to dilute condensed milk
with water and sell it as the real thing.
We would think that, considering the
energy or the lack Of energy, that is
put into the enforcement of milk regu-
lations in some Iowa cities, those cities
would be an attractive field for this
fraud.
Manual training gets into the school
curricula in one way and another 1t
is proposed that the boots and clothes
of necessitous children in attendance at
the London county councils day and
residential special schools shall be re-
paired free Of cost to the parents, In
connection with the boot making and
| tailoring classes conducted at such
schools. 1t is held that the work would
lafford useful and necessary practice
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-23

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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-23
Protecting Your Fruit Trees.

Protecting Your Fruit Treas.
Aitho 1t will be some time before the
1ruit trees will be in danger from att
Jacks by rabbits and mice it is time
that protection against the rodents be
given consideration since, If 1t is nee.
essary to send for protectors, by the
time they are received the danger will
be with us. There are many home-
made remedies that are effectual. The
mounding of earth about the base OF
the trunks Is all that many of the most
advanced growers provide. Others feel
that the little extra cost Of protectors
and the short time required to pu(
them on is not to- be compared with the
insurance that their trees get thereby.
This, Of course, may be Influenced by
the number of the pests in the differ
ent locations, as in some places the
danger is not large and the mounding
would be all that could be asked, while
in other localities where the animals
are plentiful, or the sources of food for
them is small, the danger is multiplied
and the extra precautions are required.
Usually where the protectors are used
mounds are also provided as the she'd
ding Of the water away from the crown
of the tree is advantageous. The temp
tation to use tars. and oils on the bodies
of the trees should be discouraged UNI
less the material has been tried out and
the person is aware of what he is doing,
for oils and tars are often more detri-
mental to the trees than the rabbits
and mice, the substance penetrating to
the growing parts, killing the tissue
and destroying the trees. The writer
has seen a young orchard in which a
large number of the trees had been
killed by the application of a coal tar
to the trunks of the trees. There was
no trouble from rabbits or mice, to be
sure, but the remedy did many times
the damage the animals could have
done.-Exchange.