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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-01-20

The retirement of President Eliot Of
Harvard has given the trustees Of the
Carnegie foundation for aged college
workers an opportunity to emphasize
that its pensioners are not the recipi-
ents of charity. DR.. Eliot has been
promptly voted the highest annuity
possible under the rules, and in this
action DR.. Eliot promptly acquiesced,
although the compensation he has re-
ceived during his long service has
lifted him above the risk Of Indulgence
In his old age. 1t is probable that one
Of the motives influencing DR.. Eliot in
becoming a pensioner was a desire to
set an example that might release
other pensioners of all thought Of
shame.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-01-20

it. Likewise there was a shell work
basket in a shell frame with about a
third of the shells missing; and two
silver coffin plates on black velvet:
and a worsted motto thing with What
Is Home Without Mother?" on it.
"There!" says Nate, happy and gen.
erous. We'll give 'em them things,
Hubby and me. Leastways they can
have 'em to look at while they're here
Have 'em strung around on the setting
room walls and it kind of takes off the
bare look. Gives 'em something to
think about. too, don't it?"
Yes" says 1; 81 should think
twould. l wouldn't think of much
else, seems to me-"
YES" says he. "Well, hoped they
could have 'em tonight afore they
went to bed. But you explain about
EN- in the morning. Tell 'em they're
from me and Hubby. I'll be around
after breakfast anyhow to fetch some
more things from the store and see if
there amt something else I can do.
Goodnight"
Goodnight" says l, absent-minded.
1 couldn't get my mind off them coffin
plates.
He kind Of hesitated.
ooh say" he says. did you eat all
of them mackerel you had? If you
didn't, and they're likely to spoil, why,
I'll take couple along home with me.
Huldy's dreadful fond of mackerel."
There amt but one left" says 1,
and
'Oh, WELL" he says; 'one'n be
enough for us. We're awful small eat
ers."
So 1 trotted out the mackerel and
he done it up in a piece of the news
paper and went away to his dory. l
lugged in the presents and laid 'em
away in the old chest of drawers in
/ the dining room. Felt like an under
| taker, too, did, all the time l was do
| ing it. l didn't want the Heavenlies to
see them relics till they'd ate a good
| breakfast-they was too much for an
| empty stomach. Then / locked up
and took the lamp and went to my
room.
After l got undressed l opened the
window and leaned on the sill and
thought. l thought about my new job
and what could see was coming to
me in the way Of work. and about
| Lord James and Nate and all. And
then thought Of Hartley and that
Page girl. Martin didn't act to me
like money-grabber. 1 couldn't un
derstand it. One thing was sure Of
them two was meant for each other
and it seemed to me that they still
liked each other. But there was Van
Brunt. 1 liked him too.
Just then laundering great green
head bit me on the back of the neck
and l slammed down the sash and
turned in on my bale of corncobs
Tired! don't talk!
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-01-20
She Was a Real Orator.

Senator Beveridge during recent
visit to Portland talked about oratory.
THE campaign" he said, has given
us oratory more remarkable for guam
tity than quality. True oratory is that
which brings results, is that which
converts an audience Of supporters.
Such oratory is rare.
81 have a friend whose wife, sui.
fragette,' is great orator. Her
speeches from the platform are won
derful, and her husband the other
day gave me an illustration of the
efficiency of her private speeches.
IAN agent called on my wife this
afternoon he said, and tried to sell
her a new wrinkle eradicator.'
land how did the man make outr
said I.
"'He left in half an hour was the
answer, with a gross of bottles Of
wrinkle eradicator of my wife's own
manufacture, that he had purchased
from her."
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-01-20
CHAPTER VII.-continued.


what in the nation?" says l.
Hello, SOL" says he. Where's the
folks?"
Turned in," says 1. What's up?"
He seemed real disappointed. Set
the bundles down on the kitchen table
and pulled. That sand is hard walk
ing, and nobody knows it better than
/ do.
Turned in so early, have they?" he
says. That's too bad. 1 wanted to
see EN-"
Want me to roust 'em out?" I
asks.
mo, guess not. But they're nice
folks as ever see and I've fetched em
a few presents"
l Topped into chair. I was getting
used to surprises, but Mates giving
anybody a present was the biggest
wonder yet. l figured that lunacy was
catching and we was all going crazy
together.
Yes" says he. Me and Hubby
AIMS been talking it over They've
hired this house and-and-all the
F
Don't want 'em to get tired and leave,
you see."
see all right When the melons
getting ripe that's the time to
watch it.
YES" he says. Il like them young
fellers wells anybody ever see, and
so does Hubby. We got to thinking of
'em over here in this big house and
we wanted 'em to feel at home; just
as if twas home. Now there's nothing
like pictures and such on the walls to
make place honey. So Hubby and
me has sent 'em these few things to
hang up round"
He commenced to undo the bundles.
"'Twas Hubby AIMS notion" he
went on. When she bought this place
at auction there was the furniture and
| fixings in 1t that belonged to Marcel
i lus. Some of EN- we left here, beds
and chairs and the like of that, and
some we took over to our house There
( was more than we needed and these is
some we had in the attic"
He'd got the newspapers and strings
! on by this time and he spread the
presents out on the floor. There was
a wax wreath from old Mrs. Berry,
! funeral. In q round case; and crayon
I enlargement of a daguerreotype of
Marcellus when he was 80 or so; he
had fancy vest on and a choker and
q fringed-end necktie, and looked like
he was freezing to death fast and knew
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-01-20
Two Perfect Cures by cutlcura.,

"For several years my husband
was q missionary in the Southwest
Every one in that high and dry at
mosphere has more or less trouble
with dandruff and my daughters scalp
became so encrusted with 1t that I
was alarmed for fear she would lose
all her hair. After trying various REM
edies. in desperation I bought cake
Of Cuticura Soap and a box of CUT.
cura Ointment. They left the scalp
beautifully clean and free from
dandruff, and am happy to say that
the Cuticura Remedies were a COM
plete success. / have also used suc-
cessfully the Cuticura Remedies for
so-called 'milk-crust' on baby's head.
Cuticura Is a blessing. Mrs. ]. A.
Darling. SO Fifth ST., Carthage, Ohio,
Jan. 20. 1908"
Potter Drug s. Chem Corp, Sole Props, Boston
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-01-20

Halls Of fame and pantheons of the
great dead are distinguished almost as
much for conspicuous omissions as for
the monuments they contain. Bun
vans Pilgrims Progress" used to be
second only to the English Bible in the
affections Of the people. and is still
widely read. and yet Bunyan is not
commemorated in Westminster abbey.
1t Is said that the Baptists of Great
Britain have started movement to
place in the abbey some shrine to the
master Of English religious prose.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-01-20
The Bitter Truth.

Diogenes slowly entered the pawn
shop and placed his lantern on the
counter.
What can get for this?" he asked
The pawnbroker picked up the Ian
tern and examined 1t curiously.
Rather antique pattern" he com
mented. What do you consider Il
WORTH"
Diogenes bowed his head. the hu
initiation of centuries upon him.
Nothing" he bitterly admitted
Nothing at alL"-Bohsmian.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-01-20
CHAPTER VIII.
Mr.. scudder,s Presents.

Twas up the next morning about
five and pitched in making biscuit and
Juggling water and so on. Lord James
comes poking down after while. He
looked pretty well used up.
See ere, Pratt" says he. 'swat
they got In them blooming beds
bricks?"
s'Why?" says L 'Was yours hard %
"'Ard? Upon me word I'm all full
of 'oles like a crater. My back il that
sore you wouldn't believe it And
wat makes 'em so noisy?"
That's the husks." says L 'They
do rustic when a feller amt used
to EN-"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-01-20
SYNOPSIS.

Mr.. Solomon Pratt began comical mar
ration of story, introducing well-to-do
Nathan Scudder of his town, and Edward
Van Brunt and Martin Hartley, two rich
New Workers seeking rest. Because of
latter pairs lavish expenditure of money.
Pratts first impression was connected
with lunatics. The arrival of James
Hopper, Van Brunt's valet, gave Pratt
the desired information about the New
Workers. They wished to live what they
termed '"The Natural Life" Van Brunt,
1t was learned, was the successful sutton
for the hand of Miss Agnes Page, who
gave Hartley up. THE Heavenlies" hear
long story of the. domestic woes of
Mrs. Hannah Jane Purvis. their cook and
maid of all work. Decide to let her go
and engage Sol. Pratt as chef. Twins
agree to leave Nate Scudder's abode and
begin unavailing search for another
domicile. Adventure at Fourth of July
celebration at Eastwich. Hartley rescued
boy known as "Reddy," from under a
horses feet and the urchin proved to be
one of Miss Pages charges, whom she
had taken to the country for an outing.
Miss Page and Hartley were separated
during a fierce storm, which followed the
picnic. Out sailing later. Van Brunt,
Pratt and "copper" were wrecked in a
squall. Pratt landed safely and a search
for the other two revealed an island upon
which they were found. Van Brunt rent
ed 1t from Scudder and called it Ozone
island. They lived on the island and
Owner Scudder brought ridiculous pres
ents, as a token of gratitude.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-01-20

The extraordinary popularity of fine
white goods this summer makes the
choice of Starch matter of great Inn
portance. Defiance Starch. being free
from all injurious chemicals, Is the
only one which is safe to use on fine
fabrics. Its great strength as stiffen-
Or makes half the usual quantity of
Starch necessary, with the result of
perfect finish, equal to that when the
goods were new,
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-01-20

On an income of ten millions the
kaiser IL reported to be in pressing
need of money. And they are devising
ways and means of increasing the
taxes In Germany. After all. our form
Of government has some economical
features to commend It in its absence
Of royalty and it's concomitants.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-01-20
His Pedigree.

The calf, which Gideon King had
taken the summer resident to see,
surveyed his owner and the stranger
with q wary eye. "Er-what breed Ii
your calf?" asked the visitor.
Mr.. King removed wisp Of straw
from his mouth and said:
'That critters father gored justice
O. the peace, knocked a lightningrod
agent end over end, and lifted tramp
over a picket fence; and as for his
mother. she chased the whole Ran
bury brass band out O. town last
Fourth o. July. If that amt breed
enough to pay Sc for, you can leave
him be. I'm not pressing him on any.
body."-Youth's Companion.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-01-20

Mr.. Rockefeller suggests that the
way for young man to get rich is to
borrow $4,000 and sail in. If the dis.
tinguished oil merchant will kindly put
his telephone number in the book he
may hear from a few thousand deserv-
ing young men who are willing to start
by borrowing the $4,000 and give his
plan a trial.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-01-20

The new prince regent of China is
to receive an annual salary of Sos. 900
and house rent free. And II they don't
Ike him he is guaranteed an expensive
funeral.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-01-20

Hon. Emil Kiang, Vienna, Aus, one Of
the worlds greatest horsemen, has written
to the manufacturers: "SPOHN'S DIS
TEMPER COMPOUND has become the
standard remedy for distempers and throat
diseases in the best stables of Europe.
This medicine relieves Horses of great suf-
fering and saves much money for the own
err" SOC and 81 a bottle. All druggists.
SPOHN MEDICAL CO, Goshen, Ind.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-01-20
A Toast.

The latest thing in toasts comes
from upstate" and was responded to
by the father of IL daughters. who
claims that he ought to know.
ITO the Ladies-to their sweetness
we give love; to their beauty admira
ton, and to their hats, the whole side
walk.-New York Times.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-01-20

Thy yesterday is thy past: thy to-
day Is thy future; thy tomorrow II
q secret.-Wycliffe.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-01-20
Near Goodness.

Mother-Have you been a good girl
while I've been away?
Little Girl-Not quite.-Harper's
Weekly.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-01-20

Lewis Single Binder straight Sc cigar.
dealer or Lewis Factory, Peoria, Ill.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-01-20
ACCOMMODATING.

Doctor Ito man who mas fallen)-
1ou need a strc1g punch of some kind.
Mr.. Flynn Gan old enemy)-Let me
give 1t to him, doc!
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-01-20

The secret of success is q secret
women never tell.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-01-20
DREADFUL DANDRuFF.J

Girl's Head Encrusted-Feared Loss
Of All Her Hair-Baby Had Milk
Crust - Missionary's Wife Made
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-08-13
The Cost of Sickness

Prof. Fisher of Yale has been figuring
on the cost of sickness to the nation at
large. He calculates that 100000 peo-
pie are needlessly and continuously i'll in
the United States. and that this condi-
ton might well be prevented by strict
attention to even the simplest hygienlc
measures. According to his data, tuber-
culosis alone Is responsible for 100000
persons being continually i'll, yet it is ad-
mittedly possible that this scourge may
be wiped out within one generation. Ty-
phoid alone costs the country $3.50 0OO,-
600, and this is a disease that can be
wholly prevented by attention to neg
lected details. In support of this state
ment, and showing what can be done in
an individual instance, Prof Fisher
quotes the case of the city of Lawrence,
which, by the Introduction of a new wa
ter supply, reduced its typhoid mortality
by over so per cent. 1t is shown by care
fully gathered deta that malaria costs
the country $100,000,000 and is wholly
preventable.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-08-13
Placing Ii Right.

After waiting several weeks without
hearing from her story, the amateur
author wrote the magazine editor, re-
Questing an early decision, saying that
she had other irons in the fire"
Promptly came the editors re
Sponse:
Dear Madam have read your
story, and after giving it careful con
sideration / should advise you to put
it with the other irons" - Success
Magazine.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-08-13

sential. Teams should be big enough
to keep a reserve power constantly
on tap; they should draw any nipple
ment with ease and at a steady, lively
pace. II they are OF standard draft
type and are shifted occasionally
from one class OF service to another
they will go through the season with
out breakdowns. This depends. how
ever, to a large extent on how they;
are fed and managed. Much depends
also on the ease and comfort which
they enjoy in the collar; sore necks
and CALLED shoulders, due to poorly
lifted collars. prove serious obstacles
to good. continuous work. Corn-belt
farms should be equipped with heavy
draft teams; the highest type of di.
Versined agriculture in that territory
depends on this reliable, efficient mo-
tive power. Big horses bear a close
relationship to big corn crop.-Chi-
cago Live Stock World.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-08-13
PRINTS TICKETS AS NEEDED.

German Railroads Have Unique Ma
chine for Reducing Work.
With view of reducing the work
of railroad ticket office, and for the
purpose of rendering the pasteboard
or other material of ticket valueless
up to the moment of purchase, an in
genious printing machine which prints
the tickets called for, has been in
vented and placed in use In Germany.
Now, instead of being surrounded by
thousands of different tickets for the
stations of the railways of Germany.
there is only a small unpretentious
machine standing beside the clerk at
the ticket window. In this, the tick
cts are printed with lightning rapid-
ity when the travellers give their des-
tination. The only stock the clerk
has to trouble about it an adequate
supply of blanks. while the only book
keeping is the totalling of an auto
matically printed duplicate record
upon which every ticket printed and
sold Is mechanically registered by the
machine.
The machine Is AZ inches long by %
inches broad, and about 4 feet in
height 1t has a series of small
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-08-13
APERS b 4Hp PEOPL

her. without any regard to what she ought doing
at all. Seven out of ten married America
pay just about much attention what their hus-
bands want they do to the mewng of the cat under
the window. Sc long they themselves are housed
and fed and dressed-that's the most important part
the dress-they don't to what becomes of
patient pa who works all day at things he hates
just to give them the things they like.
Every married has right to home-and a
home that is home-when he provides the money
to sustain It. When his wife refuses to make a home
for him. don't blame him for leaving her with plenty
Of time for her particular fads woman can
leave man for failure to provide Why isn't 1t just
as bad crime for to fall to make use OF what
the man does provide, because she is too selfish to
bother her head about the kind of home he wants?
Greetings to YOU brother of the West heartfelt hearty
greetings | sympathze with you.-Chicago Examiner
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-08-13

Every lady who desires to keep up her
attractive appearance, while at the The
alter, attending Receptions, when shop
ping, while travelling and on all ocea-
sions should carry in her purse booklet
of Gouraud's Oriental Beauty Leaves.
This is a dainty little booklet of ex-
quisitely perfumed powdered leaves
which are easily removed and applied to
the skin. 1t is invaluable when the face
becomes moist and flushed and is far
superior to a powder puff as it does not
spill and soil the clothes.
1t removes dirt SCOT and grease from
the face, imparting a cool delicate bloom
to the complexion. Sent anywhere on
receipt of Five Cents in stamps or coin.
T. T. Hopkins, 81 Great Jones st.
New York
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-08-13
The Real value of sheen.

The census report cannot give the
real value of sheep. Outside of the
value of sheep as producers of meat
and wool, there is a benefit conferred
by them to land, Pastures occupied.
by sheep become richer every year,
and bushes, weeds and briars. which
SO readily grow where they are not
desired, are kept down by sheep and
their places occupied by grass. The
poorest kind of land, if given up to
sheep, even If 1t is necessary to allow
feed to them. will be made productive
in a few years.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-08-13
THIEVES TO CATCH THIEVES
Many Former Bandits Now In Mexico,0
Mounted Police

The rurales or mounted police have
pretty nearly put stop to brigandapa
Several years ago the government reeog.
nized the wisdom of the old adage "Set
a thief to catch a thief" and Offered
pardon and protection to all brigands
who would enlist as rurales.
Most of them took advantage Of +ba
offer, writes Dillon Wallace in OUTING
and with these men on the side of Ia ~
and order hold-ups soon became infra.
Quent, and the rurales developed into q
wonderfully efficient mounted force to
hunt down bandits. They are fearless
riders, they know every mountain mass
and fastness, and when they once start
after a man he is pretty sure to he
caught or killed-generaliy killed.
The rurales of Mexico compare favor
ably in bravery and reckless daring with
that wonderful organization, the NORTH
west Mounted Police of Canada. and
are by far the best armed force in Mex-
leo. Their calling gives them opportnni.
ty for wild adventure. and thus salts.
fes the craving for a life of danger
which led many of them to be brigands
in the first instance. They are a free
and easy lot, quite in contrast to the
peaceably inclined policemen of tbe
towns and the slow moving, indolent SOL
diery of the regular army.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-08-13
Horses ana Corn Growing.

In growing corn one of the factors
that is seldom rated at its true worth
is first-class motive power. Anyone
who has plowed, narrowed, planted
and cultivated with an Unmatched,
short-weighted, high-strung team
knows how difficult it is to do good
work. No farm hand thus handicapped
can render a service that is satisfac-
tory to a good farmer Farm teams
should be evenly matched as TO age.
size and temperament. Weight is es-
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-08-13

Fertilizers may be divided into two
general classes-direct and indirect,
or nutritlve and stimulant A direct
or nutritive fertilizer is one which
furnishes nourishment to the growing
crop. Nourishment means simply nj
trogen, phosphoric acid and potash.
These are the three ingredients which
must be renewed through the medium
of manures and fertilizers A stimu-
liant or indirect fertilizer is one which
does not furnish an actual plant food
to the SOIL but by its stimulating ac-
ton renders available some plant food
which previously existed in the soil
in an insoluble or unavailable condi-
ton.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-08-13
CHILD HAD SIXTY BoILs
And Suffered Annually with a Red
Scnld-Like HumOF on Her Head
Troubles Cured by Cuticura.

And Suffered Annually with a Red
Scnld-Like HumOr on Her Head
Troubles Cured by Cuticura.
when my little Vivian was about
six months old her head broke out in
boils. She had about sixty in all and
l used Cuticura Soap and Cuticura
Ointment which cured her entirely.
Some time later a humor broke out
behind her ears and spread up on to
her head until it was nearly half COW
cred. The humor looked like a scald,
very red with a sticky, clear fluid COM
ing from 1t. This occurred every
spring l always used Cuticura Soap
and Ointment which never failed to
heal it up. The last time it broke out
1t became so bad that l was discour-
aged. But continued the use of Cuti-
cura Soap, Ointment and Resolvent I'M
til she was well and has never been
troubled in the last two years. Mrs.
M. A. Schwerin, 674 Spring Wells Ave,
Detroit Mich, Feb, "a, 1905"
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp. Sole
Props. Of Cuticura Remedies, Boston.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-08-13
An Animated Mirror

Mark Twain is constantly raceivi,,
photographs from men who have been
told that they look like him. This
latest one is from Florida, and Mr.
Clemens is said to have written tbe
following acknowledgment:
81 thank you very much for vour
LETTER and the photograph. In nv
opinion you are more like me than
any of my doubles, In fact. am SIRE
that If you stood before me in a rir.
roriess frame, 1 could shave by Won .
From Success Magazine.