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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-05-03
FEEDING THE DEAD.
New York Cinnamon Pay Tribute to TheiR
Departed Relatives.

Departed Relatives.
The Chinese fed their dead recently.
The Evergreens Cemetery and Wood
lawn and other burying places were
alive with laundrymen. The wind
interfered greatly with their joss stick
burning. and they set up umbrellas
over the graves to keep off the strong
Southwestern, so that they could send
off properly their hosts of paper serv-
ants and hundreds of yards of prayers.
On golden-hued paper were the money
prayers, and the black paper prayers
were for cooking utensils.
To prevent the spirits of their dee
parted relatives from constantly COM
ing home to see them, the Chinese have
an understanding with the dying that
once they leave their mortal coil they
shall '.stay out" ard that all the nee
essaries of life in the other world shall
be faithfully transmitted to them twice
a year, once at the opening of spring
and once at the beginning of winter.
1t has been discovered that the way to
transmit servants, songs, plays, books
and money is to manufacture them in
paper and burn them. But actual
eatables are carried to the graves.
Wagon loads of roasted pigs, chickens,
ducks, Chinese and American sweet
meats and fruits went to the cemeteries
yesterday. The food was piled before
each grave, amid burning red carrot
shaped candles and joss sticks. The
Chinese Frustrated themselves before
their dead, begging them to rise up
and enjoy themselves. Chinese wines
were then thrown literally upon each
grave. Many graves received boxes
of five-cent cigars. while others goe
only packages of cigarettes. 1t took
about two hours to get the essence OF
the eatables conveyed to the essences
who were awaiting it, and then the
devotees gathered up the incidents"
and carried them home again to feed
their own material bodies. But the
cigars and cigarettes were burned on
the graves. Homemade heather spec
tators tried to snatch them off the ire.
but the devotee heathens stopped
them.-M y Sum-
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-05-03
BUSINESS EDUCATION.
why 1t Is Needed on the Farm as Much A.
In the Store.

why 1t Is Needed on the Farm as Much a.
In the Store.
The man who thinks practical bust
ness education is not needed on a farm
does not have a very exalted idea of
farming as business, for it is becom-
ing more apparent every day that the
richest and most productive fertilizer
put on farm is brains. 1t is becom-
ing just as apparent, too, that farming
is legitimate business and not mere
means of eking out livelihood. 1t
takes a better head now to run a farm
successfully than it did fifty years ago.
1t is one thing to raise crop and it 10
another thing to convert it into the
most money. Industry, brains, and
good judgment will secure the former,
and good business education will sug-
gest methods and system which will
lead to the latter. 1t is just as impor-
tant for the farmer to know with mathe-
NAUTICAL exactness the sources of loss
and gain as it is for the merchant.
The annual waste on farms which may
be attributed to a lack of business
methods, would, we have no doubt,
pay the cost of "A business education
for every farmers son in the land.
We claim, and think we can readily
prove, that no farm system is complete
without a good set of books to keep a
record of what it has cost and earned,
and we claim, too. that farm of eighty
acres with good business methods tc
control its management, will produce
more than one hundred and sixty acres
on the slip-shod plan A farmer is a
better farmer when he can keep books
and transact business in business-like
way Western PiolomGn.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-05-03
A REMARKABLE WATCH.
Description OF Really Wonderful spec
mems OF Mechanism.

Description OF Really Wonderful Spool
mems OF Mechanism.
A remarkable watch which cost
$4,000, and was stolen from Cleve-
land. o., man has just been recovered
by him. The watch was made to order
in Geneva and is thus described: The
cases are of plain gold, but the in
teriors represented the most delicate
and intricate workmanship known to
the horologist. On the face of the
exposed dial is seeming forest of
hands moving in every direction, while
within the circumference no less than
four smaller dials were to be counted.
The one at the head or beneath the
noon mark is a tiny armament in lapis
lazul, studded with golden stars. As
the moon reVolves in her course in the
heavens, a counterpart wheels this way
on the watch's dial, showing every
change. Advancing around the next
dial is that showing the leap year, the
tiny band moving around the circum-
ference once in four years, and an
auxiliary showing each month. The
next dial is the subdivided second,
hand splitting into quarters
and moving with corresponding
rapidity. Moving on this same dial is
n hand showing the day of the week.
On the next dial hand points out the
standing of the tides as it GIBBS and
flows; another shows the day of the
month. Around the watch dial moves
a second hand, dividing the minutes
into seconds. Besides the minute and
hour hands is still another, an extra
horse timer. The mechanism is SO ar
ranged that two horses can be accurate
ly timed, and the distance between
them at the finish at once noted in
quarter seconds. By pressing a small
button fairy chime of bells strikes
the exact times. One deep-toned bell
strikes the past hour, more silvery
mate chimes the quarters and n rapid
ly-beating companion tinkles off the
minutes. Tnis wonderful bit of mech
anism is wound and set by L wheel At
the stem instead of a variety of keys,
as is usual in complicated watches, one
spring furnishing the motive power for
all the various devices--AIbany
Journal
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-05-03
Casper Was Learning.

A white man who owed a small
amount to negro fish dealer and who
had been repeatedly dunned, went into
the negro's ill-smelling place of bust
ness. and handing over the amount OF
the indebtedness, remarked:
Here's your money, Casper. sup
pose by this time you have learned one
thing"
'Whut's dat, sah?'
'.You have learned that when owe
you any thing it is of no use to bother
me about it"
''Yas, sab, rs Parned dat, an, tell
you, rs Parned ernudder thing"
What's that?' =.
81 has Parned, sab. neber ter let you
hab ernudder piece o fish tell you put
de money right down yere on de slab:
Oh, rs er mighty ham ter Farm, tell
you, I'm larnin' so fas' dat after
vile folks'n pint at me an say. Oars
de eddycatedest pusson in dis town =
Arkansas Traveller.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-05-03


to the 'squire's daughter as he handed
her her mail: Miss Mary. do you
know how old Mis- Youngs is getting
along?''
why. nicely. 1 guess. never heard
OF her wanting any thing"
"Well, she was up here thiS morning
for pound of crackers, and che looked
so white and faint tried TO make her
sit down. You know my wife always
sends me down hot lunch, and it
came just then. I happened to look
up and saw her eye it SO wistful-like,
when my little Mary spread it out. that
1 sent Mary off quick. and then said:
Come. Mis- Youngs. sit down here
and take lunch with me. I've got
enough here for dozen. and it's
lonely eating by ones self. Besides. 1
want to talk over old times with you
Just minute I thought she was going
to do it, when there came steps on the
bridge and she Strengthened herself up
stiff as poker and said: Thank you,
Mr.. Curtis. must be going and she
was of. l looked out and there was
Mis- Bruno coming with cid Jack be-
hind her. Miss Mary, I'm afraid that
woman is suffering and afraid of the
poOr-house."
30, Mr.. Curtis!' Miss Mary did not
wait for any thing more. She flew
home. Old Prissy Youngs, suffering.
starving it might be, and she. absorbed
in her own selfish happiness, had never
dreamed of it "Inasmuch as We did
Oh
known How long the way was! Yet
truly she had never SO flown over 1t,
even to meet her lover.
At the house she filed little basket
with dainty things. fresh-laid eggs and
new butter. wine and jelly and little
chicken broth and delicate bread, and
then she started.
Pins had gone home with her crack
ers and sat down in the little room.
There was little fire in the old stove
and she went to the cupboard to make
herself some tea. But there was so
little tea left in the caddy! she looked
at it and then she put it back. ''They
mustn't find it empty she said, and
she sat down in the old armchair.
There's wood in the box" she
said gently to herself, sand crackers
and tea in the pantry, and nobody need
ever know but what 1 had enough al
ways. an there's ten cents in my purse,
too" She laughed feeble laugh of
gladness.
Then she went to the old hair trunk
in the corner and took out her savings
bank book. Ten dollars there still!
She scrawled feebly on an old piece of
paper: For my burying." and laid
it with the book on the table; then she
sat down in the old chair and fell
asleep.
'Miss Prissyl Miss Prissy! o Miss
Prissy. wake upi I've got something
for you! Won't you speak to me? It's
Mary. Mary. Don't you know me?
Mary you used to give the ginger cakes
to. Miss Prissy! Dear Miss Prissyr'
1t is useless, Miss Mary; she will ne yer
wake again. But what is it that is
saying: ''Inasmuch as We did it not?"
eve therefore commit her body to
the grave-in the hope of glorious
resurrection"-but all through the
burial services rang those words: .'Inas-
much as We did it not" and the answer
of the town, 'sealed proposals for the
keeping of the town poor, the con-
tract to be awarded to the lowest bid
der. "-EvG L. Ogden, in Good Cheer.
AAA
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-05-03

Mr.. q. A Frost. artist and photographer,
accompanied Mr.. Kennan, and the results OF
his work will form a wonderfully interesting
series of pictures OF Russian and Siberian
life and scenery.
The articles begin in the May Century,
which is q great issue in many other re-
spects, containing also an interesting illus
of 1.-The Liar" novelette, by Henry James;
the exciting narrative, "a Locomotive Chase
in g orgia;' a suggestive paper on THE
Chances of Being Hit in Battles" an essay
on Milton by Matthew Arnold; ga Love
Story Reversed" by Edward Bellamy, etc,
etc. Our local bookseller will have the num-
Der after the first of Nav.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-05-03
PINS AND NEEDLES.
How They Managed to "Keep OF
the Town

.''Pins and Needless" that was what
the irreverent youth of the town
dubbed them. There was a comical
fitness in the name. Both were so
thin that you wondered as you gazed;
neither was ever guilty of DOMINIC
crinoline or hustle, and both. conse-
auently, tapered down to the feet in
way strongly suggestive of coming to
Q point But Pins wore black poke
bonnet. which. being very full. gave
her little top or head, while Needles.
blue-eyed needles, was smaller in the
head than elsewhere even, and that
clear sharp eye of hers that looked up
at you demanded imperatively to be
threaded right away.
Pins had been married twice and
had had an ailment which had been
relieved by the efforts of the church.
Likewise, her last husband had been
run over by train-thus furnishing
her the sum of five hundred dollars,
four hundred Of which had been kind
ly appropriated by the relative who
had aided her in getting it from the
railroad company. Hers had been an
eventual life. But Needles had never
had an adventure. She had lived with
Pins always through all her troubles.
and being the weaker physically, as
she was the stronger mentally. of the
two, lad been taken care of by her
younger sister, who loved and cher
ished her tenderly. The two supported
themselves by making button-holes in
cataract of shirts that poured into
their little room every Wednesday
and out again the following Tuesday.
Fifty cents a dozen for finishing of
'em off amt much when you come to
look at it, said Pins, ..for there's
eleven button-holes and six buttons
and the gussets to every shirt, but it's
better'n nothing" and they got along.
So thin, so worn, so patient, so
cheerful and accomplishing So the
twain lived on through long years like
two beams of pale, wintry sunshine, or
like two withered, shrunken apples on
a bare bough.
1t was one day in Lent. and Pins,
who had been to the weekly service,
was coming down the church hill
eloWly, when two women just ahead
OF her stopped abruptly at the sign
board.
-'Look at that" said one, and she
read it out: Sealed proposals will be
received by the selectmen of the town
OF W for the keeping of the Town
Poor for the year beginning May l,
1sS-. All proposals will be opened
at the town house, Monday. April Is,
and the contract awarded to the lowest
bidder amt that shame?''
''If women ever do vote in this
town that's one of the things they'll
change anyhow. Who's got 'em this
yearp"
Mrs. Bruno. and guess she'll put in
the lowest bid"
1.-The Lord have mercy on 'em then"
The two moved on as they spoke,
and Pins, who had paused involuntar-
lily behind them and heard all they
said. moved on too. But her poor old
heart was beating 50 fast and loud that
she could scarcely breathe, though she
pulled the old green vail she wore
down over her face, as though the
mild, spring air was all too sharp for
6er. Under the great old elm trees,
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-05-03

Gus De Smith, say. Kosciusko.
your overcoat looks shabby. Why
don't you get a new oneP" Kosciusko
Murphy-"Mose Schaumburg has shut
down on my credit" Then take it
to q tailor and have it turned. !"
''Humph. do you think this overcoat
has got three sides?'-TeIGs SiftinQA
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-05-03
TALE OF THE PRINTERS STICK.

LOCAL.
Through the doorway, into the glare,
Into the hot and sitting air,
Into the realm OF constant clicks,
Into the realm OF types and sticks.
Lightly the hand goes to and fro,
Putting in type tale of woe.
Telling of death by the treach'rous rail-,
cfelling of-death by storm and gale.
Clickety-clicki Clickety-click!
There it goes in the printers stick. Q
By CABLE.
Under the ocean, under the roar,
From ev'ry cline, from ev'ry shore,
Comes the news by the cables flash
News OF the good, news OF the rash;
News OF the noble, news Of the squire;
News of the floods, news OF the fire;
News OF murder by pistol shot;
News of cold, news OF hot.
Clickety-click! Clickety-click!
There it goes in the printers stick.
GBY TELEPHONE.
There where the willows thickly grow;
There where the waters gently flow;
There where the throng is kneeling low;
There in the sunlight's golden glow,
With face the hue of virgin snow,
Lies the form of maiden fair,
Driven to death by fell despair,
Victim OF want or treach' rous snare.
Clickety click! Clickety-click,
Goes the tale in the printers stick.
BY TELEGRAPH.
Out in the cold and silent street,
With half-clad form and frozen feet.
Whom none did know and none did greet,
Numb and cold in the wintry sleet,
Passed q child with step so slow
She PRAYED 10 God who loved her so,
And starved and died in the winters snow.
Clickety-click! Clickety-click!
Goes the tale in the printers stick.
BOOK NOTICE.
The rich and poor alike will seek
The precious words these books bespeak,
Words of fire that sway the heart;
Words OF love and eharitys part;
Words that tell of the ages old,
OF martyrs, saints, and heroes bold;
Words of the truth and words that lie;
Words that will live while nations die.
Clickety-click! Clickety-chck!
Go these words in the printers stick.
THE MORNING PAPER.
The good and true, the base and false.
The paths of sin where honor halts,
Whatever happens worthy to see,
Out in the world or down in the sea,
Behold them there on the cleaning page,
Gems OF genius, statesmen and sage
All are printed and sped away
For TIE world to read at break OF day.
Clicliety-clickl Clickety-click!
This is tale of the printers stick.
Sydney T. Bates.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-05-03


Tent Life In Siberia, etc, had spent four
years in Russia and Siberia, was thorough
ly conversant with the people and the Ian
guage, and had reached the con clusion that
the Russian Government had been mIsrep-
resented, and that the exile system Of Sibe-
ria was not SO terrible as was supposed.
Knowing that Mr.. Kennan held these
views, the Russian Government gave him
every facility for thorough
INSPECTION OF MINES AND PRISONS
Of Siberia-the most thorough that had
ever been made by traveller. Armed with
letters from the Russian Minister Of the
Interior and other high officials, Mr.. Ken
nan went everywhere, inspecting mines and
prisons, convict barges and hospitals, and
travelling with chained exiles along the
great Siberian road. He made the intimate
personal acquaintance Of moro than three
hundred exiled liberals T" and Nihilists,
many OF whom wrote out their histories for
his use. The actual facts, as revealed by
this searching investigation, were far re-
moved from Mr.. Kennan's preconceived
ideas, as this thrilling narrative Of fifteen
months Privation and adventure viii show:
As Is already known, the publication OF
Mr.. Remnants preliminary papers has re-
suited in his being placed
ON THE BLACK LIST
by the Russian Government, and copies OF
The Century containing them have the OBJ
jectionable article torn out by the custom
officials before being allowed to enter the
Cars dominions.
al expected. of course" says Mr.. Ken
nan, in q recent interview, TO be put on
the Russian black list. The stable-door Is
locked, but the horse has been stolen-and
I've got him.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-05-03

"A big oak tree was recently felled
In Pike County. Mo. It made four
hundred and twenty-nine fence posts
and nine cords of stove wood
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-05-03
SIBERIA.
SIS Secrets Reveaisd-GeorEo Keunmu,s
Wonderful journey. >

MOST interesting contri-
button TO secret history
will be the illustrated pa
pers on " Siberia and the
Exile System" by George
KEENAN,, which are to begin
in the May Century maya
zine. They will embody the
results Of what is be-
heved to be the first sue
cessful attempt by q com
petent investigator TO make
a thorough study Of the
Russian exile system. Be-
fore undertaking his ardu-
GUS Journey Of Is, 600 miles,
in the interest OF The Centas-
m. Mr. Kennan- author NJ
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-03-29
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RENTON,S HAIR GROWER.

All who are BALD, all who are be.
coming BALD, all who do not want to
be BALD, all who are troubled with
DANDRUFF, or ITCHING of the scalp,
should Use Benton's Hair Grower.
EIGHTY PER CENT. of those using ii
have grown hair. 1t never fails to
stop the hair from falling. Through
sickness and fevers the hair sometimes
falls off in a short time, and although
the person may have remained bald
for years, if you use Benton's Hair
Grower according to directions, you
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have fully substantiated the following
facts.
We grow hair in every case no mat.
ter how long bald.
Unlike other preparations it con tains
40 sugar of lead. or vegetable or min
eral poisons.
1t is specific for falling hair, dan.
druf, and itching of the scalp.
The Hair Grower js hair food, and
its composition is almost exactly like
the oil which supplies the hair with
its vitality.
Ifyour druggists have not got it we
win send it prepaid on receipt of price.
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The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-03-29
Weather-Prognost ~.

From classic times, down to the
commencement of this century, it can
hardly be said that this branch of
meteorology made any advance. Few,
if any, new prognosties had been dis
covered, and neither their physical
explanation nor their meteorological
significance had been found out. But
about eight years ago some physical
explanations were given. 1t was
found that the air always con-
tanned certain quantity of uncon-
densed vapor, and means we're in
vented for measuring this amount
accurately. From this, the nature
aud conditions of the formation of
dew were discovered, and also that
before many cases OF rain the air be-
came more charged with vapor- This
latter fact gave the explanation of
several rain-prognostics. For instance,
when walls sweat, stones grow black,
and clouds form OF hill-topS. rain may
be expected almost all the world over
But when these reasons had been
discovered, the science tagged. A
large number of frain-prognostics could
not be shown by any means to depend
on an increase of moisture, and, as
vaper can not grow in air, some ex-
planation was needed to account for
its varia BILE quantity. And even when.
in general way, the prognostic had
been explained, no clew whatever had
been found for what we may call the
meteorological significance. What
was the relation of the damp to the
rain? Why did the prognostic some
times fail? Why are there many rain
prognostics associated with tolerably
dry air? Whyis not all rain preceded
by the same set of prognostics? To
all these questions. no answer could
be given. Prognostics had almost
fallen into disrepute; they were con-
sidered no part of science, and had
been supposed to be only suitable for
rustics and sailors.
So the subject remained till the in
PRODUCTION of synoptic charts. Then
regions the broad features of weather
depend on the shape of the isobaric
lines. and later on it was shown-the
author believes, mainly by himself
that nearly all prognostics have deli
nate place in some shape of isobars,
and that all the above questions, form
erly insolnble, receive a ready ex-
planation. 1t has also been demon
strated that prognostics can never be
superseded for use on board ship, and
that even in the highest developments
of weather-forecasting by means of
electric telegraph. prognostics often
afford most valuable Information
Hon. Ralph A6ercrO8l6y, IN Popular
Science Monthly.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-03-29
Needles Versus Pins.

Somebody has Rad the moral courage
to pitch in. as the small boy does in a
fight. to the seam sewed by women.
o, blessed pitcherin! o, most truthful
of writers! Why can't woman sew
a seam so it will last? And why is it
a man can? The material of your
gown will tear before the man-sewed
seams will rip, while the seam will rip
if given severe glance when joined
together by the tender hand of woman.
Woman is not productive of morality,
/ mean in the ay she makes clothes.
Now, just imagine tailor concluding
that mans trousers would set better
if he pinned them in one or two places.
Yet this is conclusion not only fire.
quently reached but acted upon by
the courteous modiste. Cue grows
to know to ones SORROW that pins can
be put where needle and thread will
not reach, and one grows to wish that
it would be allowable TO get up as the
spirit moves one and tho pin touches
one and in audible language give one's
opinion of pinned skirts.-Bab Ia
NeU York Star.