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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-11-01
THE HINDoo WIDOW.

Her Unenviable4Lot Graphically Described
by Ono of Her Countrywomen.
No sooner does Hindoo woman, be
she fifteen or fifty, lose her husband.
than the persecution of custom begins.
Her locks are ruthlessly
shaved clean off at the instigation OF
the butcher-priest. In these matters
the feelings of the unfortunate victim
tests are usually rudely ignored. From
this moment she is the incarnation of
all that is unlucky or inauspicious.
Her presence is Stunned; she is leper
of society, doomed to pass her life in
secIusion, and not allowed to mix free
~ with her people. If the unfortu
nate creature unwittingly intrudes her
odlous presence on any occasion OF JOY
OR festivity. tie company curses her
omen, sure to be followed by some
great calamity. Be it known that the
company which curses her very exist
ence is mostly composed of her dear
and near relatives. If an orthodox
Hindoo starts on an enterprise, but, as
i'll luck would have it, describes poor
widow on the road, he curses her to
the fourth generation, laments his un-
fortunate lot, and prays his $50, OO0,-
600 of gods to avert the certain mis-
fortune which the evil omen &. e., the
widow portends. The widow is an OBJ
ject of contempt and scorn to her very
relatives, though occasionally these
feelings are tempered with pity. Amid
whatever luxuries q Hindoo woman
might have been nurtured, no sooner
is she stamped with the stigma of wild
owhood than she must pay the PEN
atty OF her existence. She must put
food, and that, too, in many families but
once day. The mental work Of the
family becomes her lot as matter of
course. She must observe all the fasts,
of which the Hindoo calendar is very
prolific, and for her spiritual comfort
is ostensibly prescribed a round of
rigid austerities the weary monotony
and unfinching severity of which is
potent enough to extinguish whatever
spirit of mind and body she may have
at one time possessed. Any laxity in
the observance of the prescribed
course of penance is sufficient to scan
dalize the relatives of the widow and
is regarded as strange perversity, if
not downright turpitude.
entreat my countrymen to judge of the
miseries of widows by transferring the
same penalties to men. Suppose it
had been enacted that when a man
lost his wife he should continue cell
bate, live on coarse fare, to be tabooed
from society, should continue to wear
mourning weeds for the Remainder of
his life, and practice, whether he would
or no, never-ending austerities-in
short, if widowers were subjected to
the same hard lot as the widows, I
ask would my countrymen not have
long since revolted against such in
human treatment.-A Htndoo L0dy.-
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-11-01
To Take French Leave.

II we could only persuade that unwelcomt
visitant, chills and fever, to do this, we
would be fortunate. But while we can't ex
actly make it ''cut and run" we can uproo
It's hold upon the system in time with Hos
letters Stomach Bitters. This is known
wherever malaria is periodical caller. i
IS, also, a matter Of wide information tina
the Bitters cures biIiousness, dyspepsia
debility and rheumatism.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-11-01

SMITH with smiling face)-What have
you got the blues about?
JoNEs-Nothing to do. Times are dull.
SMITH-Well, now, old fellow, am glad
struck up with you. You Sit right down
and write to B. F. johnson & Co., of Rich
mond, Va, and they will put you in a way
to make money faster than you ever did be-
little correspondence with them and now
am growing fat and rich. Too busy to talk
longer now.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-11-01

A SORE Throat or Cough, if suffered to
progress, often results IN an incurable
throat or lung trouble "Bro,Un's Bronchial
Iroches" give instant relief.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-11-01

The man who brings suits 10 always
somewhat sad. There is something plain
tiff about him.-PinsbsauA CAro1,Icl&
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-11-01

TIM typewriter has banished much bad
writing, but it can't overcome the bad
apellinR.-N. 0. PicatntsaR.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-11-01

NITRATE Of silver-the change paid fos
half price telegram.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-11-01

ACTORS, Vocalists, Public Speakers praise
Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar.
Pixies Ioothache Drops Cure in one minute.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-11-01

Send your address for FREE BOOK on
the Liver it's Diseases and Treatment, to
DR.. Sanford. 231 Broadway, New York.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-11-01

A "BRorH OF BOZ" ought to make Q
good supe."-Harpsr's Bazor.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-11-01

MANY fellow who Is whole souled has
to 70 to q shoemaker and get battlefield
DGnspille Breeze.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-11-01

If afflicted with Sore Eyes use DR.. Isaac
4hompson's Eye Water. Druggists sell it.25c.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-11-01

WORDS Of cheer 4urrshi TiGefE
4Ar0s .S1tin0R
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-11-01

II is an odd fact that coal beds are fur
nished with petroleum springs
Aa0azi1tS.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-11-01

~ Loo CABINS were
x- ~ strongholds of love, con-
A47 tentment, health and hap
~ NJ piness. Coon skins were
3LLN,1 nailed to the door and
q they were the happy
homes of strong, healthy,
noble men and women. The simple
but effective remedies which carried
them to green old age are now repro
duced in Warmers 'Tippecanoe," and
Warmers Log Cabin Sarsaparilla and
other Log Cabin Remedies.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-08-31
SniIer KrnlIt.

When preparing to make sauer krant
select good, firm heads of cabbage, cut
them IN halves, and remove the hard
core; then shave up into fine shrcdI on II
cutting board made for the purpose, or
the cabbage may he sliced up with u
large knife, but the regular cutting
board is the best implement. The half
barrel or barrels used for the kraut
should be scalded out and made thor
oughly Glenn and sweet. Lay fe " cab.
bage leaves over the bottom of the barrel,
and on these sprinkle handful of salt.
Throw in half bushel of the sliced cab.
bagc, and press down with wooden
FOUNDER rs firm as possible without
crushing the shreds of leaves fiat. Then
add another large handful of salt, fol-
lowing with more cabbage, and proceed
in this manner until the barrel is full.
Cover over with a layer of cabbage
leaves, and place on the top clean
board fitting to the slaves of the barrel
moderately close. On this boatd lay u
stone weighing fifteen to twenty pounds.
Set the barrel of kraut away in cool
place, and it will be ready for use i'll from
six to eight weeks. Sauer kraut made
late in the sonson, and foruse In winter,
should be placed where it will not freeze
during cold wcathcr.-Mcn York Sun.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-08-31
Tic Useful Banana Tree.

A young Salvadorian, with the dark
eyes and inky hair of his country, talked
TO New York Mail amt Express re-
porter few days ago about the Central
American banana tree. The tree is 81
to 3 feet in circumference Mt its base. Its
tapering fbrous body, without branch,
is from 10 to Is feet in height. The
ibrcs, separated by thin pith, are rs
long as the body of the tree. These
fibrc' are used in Salvador, just as they
are taken from the tree, rs shoestrings,
and us cords for all purposes. The ma
tivcs use them largely for bride reins
and lariats. The raw material costs only
transportation TO the ropewalks. Each
banana tree bears in the twelve months
Of it's existence only one bunch of fruit,
but from two to ten trees sEring from
tho roots of the one that has fallen. In
Salvador the bunch of bananas is worth
fifteen cents, and the dead tree nothing.
4 cordage factory or paper mill or cot
fee sack maker, were not the dead trees
numbcrless, would give for each tree ten
mes the value of the fruit it has pro-
duscd. Split, dried and packed, the
bodies of the banana trees might be
shipped profitably to the United States :;
but there is no reason why some enter
pris!ng American would not take them
in hand and ship to Salvador the proper
machinery for their manufacture, as Ia
Dor is fully two-thirds cheaper there
than in New York.
4 For the accomplishment of this end a
special concession and exemption from
! customs charge would be easily obtained.
! In Salvador ropewalks are found in I'M
/ frequentcd streets and suburban roads.
/ Il. native machinery consists of crank
attached to an upright board; with which
n native boy twists the fibres of the
banana and cactus. A man skilled in the
rope makers art spices the iibres to-
gether, adding to the length and thick
ness of the revolving cord.
The stem of each banana leaf consists
nj the toughest and finest threads and
these leaves, p and feet wide and 1C
to u feet long, resting on the heads Of
native women, are umbrellas in the rainy
season in roohcss market places and
streets of Salvador. These nre the car.
pets OH which the people sit, and the
beds on which they sleep. There is fine
opportunity, said the Salvadorian, fol
some enterprising American with small
capital to do n thriving trade and make
money by introducing Western ideas an6
machinery to the people of Salvador.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-08-31
The Jungle Tiger at Home.

One very curious point is the method
in which tigress teaches. her cubs to kill
This she does by disabling the animal
attacked 80 that it cannot make its cs-
cape from tho cubs, who then complete
the work. Mr.. Inveraritv witnessed a
scene of this kind, or at least came on the
spot after 1t had been enacted, and when
the marks were so fresh as to admit of the
whole story being read at q glance.
An old bull nilgai had been the
victim and the tigress had disabled
him by breaking one of his fore
legs just below the knees. She never
touched his throat, the usual place of
selling, but allowed the cubs to man
gle the disabled brute. Mr.. Inverarlty
frightened the three tigers from the car
cass and secured photograph of it in
its then condition, showing how the
throat had not been laceratcd. He got a
second photograph next day, after the
tigrcss and her brood had again visited
the spot and completed their meal. In
the end he succeeded in shooting the
tigress and one of her cubs.
MIR. Inverarity has n number of other
photographs which show the appearance
OF tigers prey after its first meal. His
experience goes to show that the animal
first devours the hind quarters, while if
tiger aud tigress are together, the one
eats n. the headquarters and the other ut
the forcquarlers Again, when the tiger
has not dcvonrel the whole carcass, and
returns to his kill the next night, Inc
never eats Mt the same place, but drags off
the remains forty or fifty yards before
beginning operations. Therefore, sports
men sitting over kill tie it by the fore
leg to q tree. Otherwise the tiger wonld
creep up and be off with it without stop.
ping second.
Mr.. Inverarity has timed tigers when
at their meals and has found that full
grown tiger takes two hours steady eat
ing to finish the fore quarters of n bullock.
He dissipates the myth about the 'sledge-
hammer stroke of the forcpaw of the
tiger" showing that tho tiger simply
clutches with his claws exactly like man
might clutch another's arm with his
fingers. lie also gives Il variety of
curious information about the immense
distances tigers wander during the night;
how they keep the jungle roads and
footpaths, avoiding the more difficult
tangled undcrpath on the roads, rolling
about i'll it with evident satisfaction;
how they do not like moving about in
the heat of the day, MS the hot ground
burns the pads of their feet and makes
them quite raw, and how they are some
times discovered sitting in pools Of water
in the heat of the day.-India Times.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-08-31

Not far from St. Simon's, Ca, is an
island cullcd Black eaid. The name (, it
is said. originated from pirate called
Black beard, who long ago inhabited it
with his crew of desperate men. a
long black beard flowing to his waist
gave tho pirate his name. When the
Government dispatched vessels laden
with money to pay off tho men sent to
COLOMBO the State, these lawless pirates
would lay in wait and secure the treas
ure at any COST. Some years since a
colored,,man was piowing on this island
when his plowshare turned out $4,000
in Spanish gold. A crafty white man
told him it WINS too old to be good, and
that he would give him $3.50 for it. lie
The offer was accepted, and -=hen it
was too late to recall, the poor darkcy
found out that he had been swindled
Even now on the neighboring island of
.Teckyl, the trees are often found notch-
ed. and people suppose that these marks
denote where the treasure booty CT
the old pirate is buried. Blackboard
did not live to DO very old. A vessel
coming by wns attacked by the pirate
and his men, when the Captain Of The
besieged vessel f ved upon Kim and
killed him.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-08-31
The DandeliOn

The dandelion is a neglected flower.
1t blows and dies, returning
TO the vile dust from whence it sprung,
Unwept, unhonored and unsung.
Yet it comes early, blossoms freely and
lifts SO bright color to the sky that it
rivals the very sunshine that coaxed it
from the cold ground. Not the Cali
fornia poppy, the pride of the Pacific
coast, glows with more brilliant yellow.
or shows more delicate gradations OF
color. The heart of the dandelion is
warm and fervid like the rich gold of a
ripe orange, while the tips of each deli
cate calyx reflect the fainter tints that
shine on the tender leaf of buttercup,
and so perfect is the shading that we
cannot tell when the orange passes into
yellow, and the yellow into the palest
amber. What can be prettier than this
bravo blossom set in the vivid green OF
the new grass2--Des Moines Register.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-08-31
Tomatoes.

Tomatoes are healthful vegetable,
says Mrs. Parker in the Courier Jyu,mai,
acceptable to almost every one, aud can
be prepared in such variety of ways
that they may be placed on the table
throughout the season without the ap-
pearance of sameness, which might cause
the appetite to tire of them. The follow
ing recipes are all excellent:
DRIED TOMATOES. = Select large,
smooth tomatoes; peel and cut in thin
slices; set on the ice or in cold place
for an hour or two; season with pepper,
salt and little oil. Serve with vine.
gar.
BRoILED TOMATOES. Peel large toma.
toes and cut them in two; butter the
bars of the grid-iron, and lay the toma-
toes on; broil over n clear fire until done
and well Drowned, season with pepper,
salt, bits of butter and sugar; serve very
hot.
BOILED TOMATOES. -Sclcct dozen
tomatoes Us near the same size rs posi-
BILE, wipe and put them on to cook in
be soft. Remove from water. place in u
warm dish, and send to the table for
each person to skin and season to wish
CURRIED TOMATOES one cup
of rice. To one quart of stcwed toma-
toes add q tablespoonful of curry
powder. Put layer of tomatoes in the
bottom of baking dish, then n layer of
rice, and layer of tomatoes, sprinkle
the Top with bread crumbs, put over q
few bits of butter, and bake in moder-
ate oven.
STEwEp TOMATOES boiling
water over the tomatoes and remove
the skin; cut them in small pieces. Stew
in porcelain kettle for half an hour,
then add to every quart OF tomatoes 8
tablespoonful of butter, O Tablespoonful
of sugar, with little salt and pepper
and a teacup of grated bread crumbs
Stew fifteen or twenty minutes longer.
FRIED ToMAroEs-Cut smooth. solid
tomatoes into slices, dry each slice and
dust with salt and pepper. Beat an egg
until very light, add teaspoonful Of
boiling water. Dip each slice first il
the egg, then in the bread crumbs. Put
lard in the frying pan, set on the fire
when very hot drop in the slices of toma
toes, fry brown and turn, take up care
fully and serve hot.
STUFFED TOMATOES. dozer
large tomatoes, cut OFT the ends, take OH
the seed, sprinkle the inside with sal
and pepper. Have ready q pound of colo
lean meat, half q pound of cold chicken
slice of cold ham, all minced, to which
add tine tomato juice, and fry brown will
minced onion in a little butter. Mix il
toa-cup OF crumbs, two eggs. salt ant
pepper, fill the tomatoes, glaze over will
beaten egg and bake half an hour.
| BAKED ToMAToEs.-Peel eight larg
ripe tomatoes; cut q thick slice off tn
top, scrape out the seeds and pulp, which
put in a saucepan with pepper, salt,
tablespoonful Of butter, a teaspoonful-o
grated onion, half teacup of grated
bread crumbs, two tablcspoonsful of COLI
boiled lean meat, minced fine, let al
heat thoroughly; fill the tomatoes witt
the dressing, put on the tops; arrange ii
pudding dish and bake in a hot over
one hour.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-08-31
DIR. SCHENCK,S
MANDRAKE PILLS
CLEANSE the mucous mlss.

CLEANSE the mucous me NJ
brancs of the stomach and bowels of all slime
and foreign matter. start the secretions, assist
digestion and assimilation. nutrify the blood.
They relieve the liver of congestion, give il
q chance TO extract bile poisons from tho
blood, to make them into good bile, and TO
secretc just what is needed. They do not
tear their way and irritatc like most purga-
tives, but they treat all the surfaces and or
gans. SO that tho entire system responds
They are based on scientific principles.
They are entirely rational and natural.
They always do what is claimed for them.
They work on the system n the way claimed.
They work together for the greatest good.
They are not like new and untricd medicines.
They need no praise, but only simple men
ton of merit.
EB-Dr. Schcnck's purely vegetable and
wholly reliable family medicines are for sale
by all Druggists. Every package has neatly
printed directions for use. If you would
understand yourself send for DR.. Schenck's
new Book on Diseases of the Lungs. Liver
and Stomach. Sent free. Address ID. ].
H. Schenck s. Son. PhiladriphiA Pa
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-08-31
. R,,ltn nercb.nt. Who adyerti,ed ,oy

ABerlin merchant, who advertised for
6 wifo lately, received 377 answersS OF
these, 81 were widows, varying IA ago'
from 25 to 90; fotty-two of them had no
children, and 81 possessed fortunes en-
;tirely under their own control, ofsYrcm
$500 to $50 600. -Four ladies, who Ind
been separated from their husbands, also
wrote to express desire to try their
luck at marriage for o second time-one
of them for third time. OF the remain-
ing 1885, only two gave their ages as over
so; eighteen OF them protested to have
just turned 10. Sevcnty-one Photographic
were enclosed, and 81 of them are said
to represent remarkably pretty girls.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-08-31
Tho Indian Smokenine

A plant which, ON account of its odd
ity is worth starching for, is the Indian
smokcpipe. Itgrows in dark woods on
the roots of trees, and instead OF being
green, like other plants, it is white,
leaves, stalk and flowers. except where
the sunlight falls on it, which makes it
black. Look for this peculiar plant. 1t
is so different from most Others that it
pays for the little trouble required in
finding it. 1t is usually found under
beech trees. ~-Nationai Eau:as4y,
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-08-31
HOUSEHOLD MATTERS. ,
childsen's Sleeping Apartments.

The importance of pure air In tho
rooms allotted ID children Is strongly
urged Upon parents, and no language can
be too Emphatic, for in ill-ventilated
Apartments tho little ones languish, be-
come pale, feeble and sickly. Their con-
stitutions are 80 undermined, poisoned by
stagnant and impure air, perfect develop
ment Is absolutely impossible, and the
diseases common to childhood find them
ready victims, death occurring, not be-
cause those diseases are in themselves so
fatal. but because the children attacked
have not the strength to rally and throw
them off. Perfect ventilation and strict
cleanliness 60 hand in hand. Without
the latter, it is utterly impossiblet to keep
the air of room purc.-Boston Journal
of Health.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-08-31

III a burst Of loving confidence, told hot
how 1t was he proposed to her. Her
face clouded for an instapt only, and
then she threw both arms about his neck
and kissed him.
"D6 you know how the glove and
photograph came to be in your pocket2'
she asked, as she hid her blushing face
in his bosom.
.No,' he replied, wOnderingly.
81 put them there just to tease you,
you were SO bashful. But you'll for.
give me, won't you my own dear Hill
lery2"
Certainly, I will, my precious one, !"
he cried. as he gave her hearty EN-.
brace. - Yankee Blade.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-08-31

DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Purgatiye Pellets are
preventive as we'll 81 curative. Afew OF these
Little Giants" taken Mt the light time, with
little expense and no inconve nience, will nc-
complish what many dollars and much sacri-
fee of time Will fail to do after Disease once
hod you with his iron. grasp. Constipation
fed, will fortify against fcvers and ali con-
tagious diseases. Persons intending travelling,
changing diet, water and climate, will find in
valuable, DIR. Pierce's Pleasant Purgatiyo Pei
letR In Vinls convenient to carry
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-08-31

DO you know. Mary, I once actually con-
temPl9ted suicide?n you horrify me, Mrs
chronic e,kness. I believed myself the
most unhappy woman in the world. I looked
twenty. Life seemed to have nothing in it
worth living tor" 81 have experienced nil
those symptoms myself. Welt" "Wcll,
WIS savcd Mt the eleventh hour from the COM
mission of deed which shudder to think of.
friend advised mo to taEo DR.. Pierce's Fa-
vorite Prescription. did so. In an incredibly
scription' cured M, and l owe DR.. Pierce q
debt OF gratitude which can never repay"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-08-31
utilizine Pinch Of This and That

I promised you nice receipt, says
Madge in London Truth, aud here it is ::
Take pound of spinach and wash it
thoroughly in three or four waters, pick
ing off any faded leves, but not cutting
them. The knife should only be used
Mt the root. Boil the spinach in a little
water tillit becomes quite tender. Press
oil the water away from it, and then
chop the leaves very fine. Now chop an
onion very small, fry it in beef dripping
till quite done, and then add it to the
spinach, stirring them together with n
tablespoonful of flour, little pepper
and q soupcon of sugar. Take either n
small stewpan or frying pan. Put in
1t tablespoonful of butter, and then
put in the spinach, stirring we'll until it
is quite hot. Set it aside in warm
place, where it cannot burn (Which it
will do on the smallest prctcxti, and set
to work to make savory omelct. When
completed put in the middle of n hot
dish, surround it with the spinach and
garnish with croutons. This makes q
nice little cntree, and an extremely in
expensive on.