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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-08-02
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

things that every-host-
ess should avoid: Making. excuses
about the food. overlooking the table,
and the insisting on guests eating more
than they really wish.-RssruI NelO
Yorker.
The old-fashioned braided rugs are
now sometimes made by sewing the
braid around a strip of Brussels car
pet, for center. 1t is a good way to
utilize strips of less than a quarter of
a yard.
long time by packing in granulated SUI
gar, not allowing one to touch another.
The same sugar can afterwards be-
used for most other purposes.
The first and best resource for.
farm fertilizers is the farm itself. it's
stables, its vegetable matter that can
be spared for working into the soil, its
waste reduced by decay, all it has that
can be so appropriated.
Straw berry Sherbet.-One quart
of strawberry juice, one quart of
water, juice of two lemons, a pint and
a gill of sugar. Boil sugar and water
together twenty minutes, add the
juice of strawberry and lemon, cool
and freeze.
-Ruta-bagas and cow-beets can be
transplanted as well as any plant.
Pinch of the tap root and the longest
leaves, put the plant in hole and
press the soil firmly around it. Vacant
spots in the field or garden may be
filed in this way. Wet days are best.
Farmers who have no time to read
or can not digest more than is con-
tanned in little cheap monthly paper
must have very limited mental digest
i've powers. Good sensible reading is
about as necessary in this age of en-
lightenment as wholesome food and
sleep.
Lamps that stand half filled for
hours before being lighted are danger
Gus. The oil vapor mfngles with the
air in the upper part of the lamps ana
forms an explosive mixture. The safe
thing to do is to fill the lamps every
day so that there may be no room in
them for this explosive mixture.
Cottage Cheese.-Heat the milk
until it begins to curdle, then drain
through a thin muslin bag. A. colan-
der will answer, but unless it is very
fine some of the curd escapes. Let it
remain until thoroughly drained, then
break it up in a dish and mix with
spoon until very fine and smooth; add
salt to taste and enough sweet cream
to make it as moist as liked. Sugar
can be added if one wants it sweet.
1t is important for the comfort of
the COW in the summer season that she
be MIXED so as to divide the day into
two parts of twelve hours each. 1t
may not make much difference to cows
when nearly dry, but, in flush OF milk
and good pasture, carrying the heavy
load beyond her time becomes a Sc
rious burden. Some extra heavy milk
ers it is better for a time to milk three
times day-very early in the morn
ing, at noon and at shutdown, or about
eight hours apart. A COW MIXED thus
needs heavy feeding. or she will grow
Door.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-08-02
BRIGANDAGE IN CUBA.
How the "Gentlemanly" Robbers
Torture and Murder People.
They XIII Their Victims Only When Neces-
sary-Levying Assessments on Farmers
Why the Authorities Do Not
Suppress the Evil.

A few evenings ago the writer visit
ed a Spanish gentleman who has very
recently returned from Cuba. He is a
citizen of that country, with resi-
dence in Havana, and being an ardent
Spaniard has never cared to transfer
his allegiance to the United States,
though most of his life is spent in New
York. He is magniticently built
young man, with jet black hair and
eyes and fine white teeth, as becomes
Spaniard, and his wealth is as con-
siderable as his good looks. He stands
at the head Of one of the largest leaf
tobacco importing firms in all New
York, and when on request he began
to speak of the present condition Of
Cuba he had u topic with which he
was thoroughly familiar.
"YOu can not use my name in con-
nectiOn with what l am going to say,
for my partner IN Havana is one of the
chiefs of the Conservative or Spanish
party, and, as there is now split in
that party, it might be assumed that
! was trying to make mischief. The
,Spaniards in Cuba are sensitive to
American criticism, and whatever
say will probably travel in time to the
island. and so it is better on the whole
that my name be not used"
While this conversation was pro-
-ceeding, the little group which heard it
sat in cool parlOr of one of the large
flat houses of New York. the men
smoking delicious cigars and the ladies
rocking themselves and freely joining
in the colloquy. The young Spanish
sEentleman's wife was an American
lady who had imbibed many Spanish
ways and a trace of Spanish accent by
long association, but who had retained
all her power of observation and COM
ment. Her incursions into the inter-
view gave vivid and interesting pic
lures of Cuban home life, and they are
we'll worth reproducing in their place,
even though a court of law might re-
ject them as irrelevant.
Senora-Love making in Cuba. All,
how strange it seems. Opposite our
house there lived handsome young
lady, with whom good looking young
gentleman fell in love. Every evening
she sat in the front parlOr behind the
lace curtains, peering out through the
window bars, and every, evening he
walked by, up and down. up and down.
like a newly Gagged bear or a police
man on his beat. He would walk hal
a block above the young lady's house
and then turn and come back and walk
half a block below. Each time as he
passed the house he would. by cranine
his head a little, be able to see the
young lady's face, screened by the
window curtain. She sat like statue
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-08-02
A SERIOUS HuMoRlsr.

My story is sad one. and won't take long to
tell.
To any sort of meter can suit 1t just as we'll
1onn understand my misery before the tale is
1t all began one hapless day-the day made a
pun;
And ever since that fatal hour The people do
declare
That became humorist. alas! right then and
Though to be considered serious I'd give lot
of money,
{. Whatever may say or do, they will insist it's
@ funny
might perhaps have since escaped the direful
a, consequences
Had not penned q feeble joke when hardly in
my senses
Twas printed in a paper of tremendous circu-
lation,
And was dubbed a humorist by all the laugh
ing nation.
In vain tried to prove myself libeled indi-
vidual
@fhe fatal truth confronted me-the Joke was
quite original.
Where'er we1lt there followed me that dread
e full reputation,
And every word I spoke aroused uproarious
exclamation.
II remarked in casual tones upon the gloomy
weather,
The people laughed until they cried, and laughed
and cried together:
When gave information of some accident dis
tressing,
They roared with mighty merriment exceed
ingly depressing;
And when failed in business, and despairing
told my wife,
She, laughing Vow'd I'd never been SO funny in
my life!
dressed in somber black, assumed a grim,
funereal air,
And spoke in woe-enveloped tones. my face
distraught with care.
I wept n little when could, all steep din mel
ancholy,
But people only laughed again, and whispered:
"Ain't he jolly!''
In fact, the more that became o sacrifice to
=, sadness.
The more 1 met the wretched glee that drove
a % me near to madness.
Full half my time is spent in declining pressin g
invitations
80 humorous banquets and to write for comic
publications,
And scented notes and letters couched in words
as sweet as honey
''Now won't you send your autograph? and
please TO make IL funny"
II should sink beneath my trials, and leave this
mortal sphere,
The world would give me credit for the best
joke of the year;
And doubtless folks who came to gaze upon my
monument
o Would find it quite impossible to keep their
" laughter pent.
'Tis useless to deny 1t now, alack! the mischiers
. done;
And must be humorist tho ap unconscious
I've only this request to make which no one
resist:
Please call in my epitaph the Serious
Runl0riSt
Herbert Hall Winston, in Ra,per's Magasins
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-08-02

doctor, I hear that Brigsby has
started a new paper" 80 am told.
but 1 haven't seen copy" HE told
me the other day that it would be bold
and aggressive. l wonder if it's that
kind of a sheet?'' Il guess it is.
sewed up a scalp wound for him this
morning. ''-LincoIn Journal
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-08-02

Married woman - ''MatrimonS
without love is perfectly dreadful. ="
Old maid-'.Not more dreadful than
love without matrimony." - flashing
ton Critic.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-08-02

War will be possible at long range
hereafter. A cannon has been invent
ed which throws a 500 pound cal
twelve miles. ..- Bf.ts =
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-08-09
The Record Of Casualties.

On the logging road about Is miles east OF
Otsego lake IN Michigan a train of empty
Hat cars struck the dry limbs Of q fallen tree
across the road and jumped the track.
Twenty-Five workmen are reported injured,
10 seriously and three will probably die.
They are nearly nll Polanders.
William Small, an old citizen and prosper
Gus farmer, living On q large farm between
Utica and st. Charles, Mimi, was in his field
shocking barley. The sky was clear, but the
oppressiyeness of the air gave warning of a
coming storm. Suddenly q bolt Of tighten
ing struck Mr.. Small dead. The current en-
down the spine, tearing his trousers and shoes
completely off.
The hosting works of the bimetalic mills
of the Granite Mountain grant, at Phillips
burg, Montana, was fred while the bucket
was being heated to tar ropes. A spark
ignited the tar and it spread quickly to the
rafters and roof, and owing to the scarcity
of water nothing could be lone to save the
works. A hundred men were at work in the
shops, but escaped through q 2OO-foot level
to an air shaft and to the surface. The
works were the finest in the country, but will
be Immediately rebuilt.
A. Hart, of st. Peter was drowned in the
Minnesota at LIE Sueur, Mimi. He had been
to Henderson after q a. of malt, and was
returning via the ferry road. Upon ARRIVING
at the river, it is supposed that he had fallen
asleep and awoke up just as his team arrived
at the waters edge, the ferry boatsbeing on
the opposite side. The bank being steep, he
was unable to turn his team around, and he
jumped off his load, unfastened the horses
from the wagon, and in getting them around
they stepped off into over fourteen feet of
water, drawing him with the M.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-08-09

A curious story anent the Japa.
ness emperor's opinion of dancing is
told by The Toxic Dempo. That
journal relates that recently a mini
'ster of state, while in audience
touched upon the subject of dancing
%whereupon his majesty expressed
the opinion thatEtf1e prevalence 81
such syoluptu1oris custom was q snft
Indication Of the decay Of the nation.
The state minister ID questinI, hear.
4 express such strong
yiisssps on subject, upon retiring
lE0sa HIS presence Immediately gave
private orders to those engaged il
the construction oftIe new palace tc
dismantle the dancing saloon in thu
new building, which was already com
pleted.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-08-09
The British Admiralty has been

The British Admiralty has been
aware for some time thathidden dan
ger was lurking somewhere in the
Southern part of the Red Sea. Two
British steamers had o brief but bit
tiers experience with the invisible
enemy, and then they folundered, but.
strange to say, their captains wers
unable to- tell within quite q number
of miles where the trouble could b
found. Last year three British men.
sofwar cruised around, one after thu
other, from shore TO shore, only e
report at last that their search wat
ffuitless: mApril Of this year, how.
evef, another vessel stumbled upor
the cause Of al the damage. II wat
q little patch Of coral, hardly 20 feet
square, hidden under Is feet ofWater:
while al around it the sea vas about
$50 feet deep. II was noticing befor
dynamite made trouble for that
coral reel, and mariners j again
able ID traverse the Red Sea il tran
auility Of mind.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-08-09
The Minnesota Election.


The election in Minnesota this fall includes
oil the state offices, presidential electors, con-
glessmen, members of the house, possibly
part of the senators, and several district
judges. The list which will be voted on in
the state is as follows:
Seven presidential electors; governor to
succeed A. r. McGill; lieutenant governor to
A. E.. Rice; secretary of state to succeed Hans
Mattson; treasurer to succeed james Boble-
ter; attorney general to succeed NJ. +. Clapp:
chief justice of the supreme court to succeed
James Gilfllan, and an associate justice to
succeed M. W. Collins.
Congressman are to be elected to succeed
Thos. Wilson in the First district, John Lind
in the Second, j. L. Macdonald in the Third,
Edmund Rice in the Fourth and Knute Mel
son in the Fifth. The judges of district
courts throughout the state whose terms ex-
pire and whose successors are to be elected
IRE as follows:
First district, William M. Mcclure; Second
district, William Louis Kelly; Third district,
C. M. Start; Fourth district, William Loeb
rem, j. p. Rea, II. E. Hicks; Fifth district,
Thomas 8. Buckhan; Sixth district, NJ. p.
Severance; Seventh district, ID. ,. Searle;
Eighth District. James G. Edison; Eleventh
district, O.. P. Stenrns; Twelfth district, J.H.
Brown; Fifteenth district, G. b.. Sleeper; six
teenth district, Calvin j.. Brown.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-08-09

"A young blacksmith of Long
Branch has died from hemorrhage.
due to the extraction of a tooth by
o New York dentist. A physician,
who was called to attend the case,
succeeded in stopping the flow OF
blood for a time, but it was finally
found necessary to take the patient
to the hospital, where he died in
spite of everything that was done
there to stop the hemorrhage. A
New York paper says that the oc-
currence is notsan unusual one in the
metropolis, as there is about thirtyo
the same kind reported at the
Coroner's Office every year.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-08-09
A dentist in Calgary, Manitob

"A dentist in Calgary, Manitoba,
has been busylately extracting teeth
from Indians. It is stated that be-
fore the advance of civilization, when
the natives subsisted solely on Buffa-
10 meat, decayed teeth were unknown
among them. Braves who stand
the torture of the sun dance without
1inching are reduced to a state of
1Ib1ect terror Wien hoy feel theacold
grip of the forceps.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-08-09
The Irrspreasibls Apaches.

The war Department. has received q telegram
from the commanding officer at San Carlos,
Ariz, as follows:
At the request Of the acting Indian agent
with his troop and some scouts up San Car
los t o arrostthree Indians reported intrenched
in rocks and resisting. Lee, upon arrival,
found they had fed. The command followed
several trails, upon one Of which they were
found. Scouts exchanged shots with g small
The sconts think they killed one Indian.
Some scents and herders driving 25O agency
cattle tc, grazing camp were attacked by o
party Of Indians fifteen miles from here. The
scouts and herders fed, and what becameOf
the cattle ID as yet u1knOwn. will do AZ j,
can to quiet the Indians, but there may be
serious trouble. The bands are those q Cas-t
eadais and E~hilchuana. Seicef thinks II the
Indians viii leave the reservation they will
20 North and West
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-08-09
Indians Refuse to Sign tho Sioux Treaty.

Sitting Bull has returned to the Standing
Rock agency, and if his influence has been
used at all it has been in the direction of en-
gendering still stronger. opposition to the
nearly all the Indians now at the agency
participated. Speeches were made by John
Grass, Long Dog, Mad Bear and others,
all against the measure. The feeling was
more intense than ever, and not only was
a vote taken which was unanimous
but the most solemn oath known to the
Sioux was taken. Each arose and swore by
the Great Spirit that he would never sign
the papers. 1t is evident that the commits
sion, when it met the Indian in council, did
not know of this part of the proceedings
Pratt was confident that after the days
council the Indians would sign.
Gov. Church, who arrived from Bismark
was introduced to the Indians as being next
to the great father, and he spoke for about
half an hour, urging the Indians to reconsider
their action and sign the treaty.
great father and that the measure under dis
cussion was in their interest; that they ought
to accept it. Maj. Mclaughlin also talked.
He told them that, as he had
always had their confidence, he
would not advise anything that was not for
their best interest. He advised them to
olShi oudSC "AiShC ohoo HouO SoahA "Au
convincing argument, the best that has yet
been made, but, SO far as could be observed,
not the least impression was made upon the
Indians.
John Grass said he could not understand
| why the whites were SO anxious to get q
| portion of their lands. when there was SO
much vacantland on the other side ofthe river.
He said he would not sign, and that all the
Indians had decided not to sign either pa
per. His declaration discouraged the com
mission somewhat bat they continued to a.
que. Mad Bear also spoke against the meas
ure. Sitting Bull did not say anything, but
he talks freely to the Indians individually.
Gall has not said much thus far, but what
he has said has been emphatic.
Running Antelope, who has al
ways been friendly to the whites, and be-
cause of friendliness heretofore has had but
little influence with the braves, is also OPP
| posed to the measure md does not hesitate
to tell the commission of" his opposition.
Sitting Bull and Rain-in-the-Face would not
even sit in the council, but remained outside.
Sitting Bull refuses to state where he has
been during the past ten days, but it 'is SUP
posed he has held conferences with emissa-
ries from Red Cloud and other chiefs An lower
agencies, who are also opposed tQsthe meas
ure. b e.Indianspa ara aFxfaN9Nt0s have the
Esc0nneiIS end ~ some Of them bAyYahey nave
crops up the Cannop-la to iook ter, and
that it viii ddasRa6Eood to keep them longer.
..TAsy fe1z6in, however, u they p~utitssbecause
they did not want tfefF agent
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-08-09

In England there is just space
enough between the edge of the rail-
road station platforms and the foot
boards of the passenger cars to let
an unwary traveller fall between and
be ground to pieces by the moving
train. An accident or two has hap
pened, and an agitation has begun
in favor of reform in either the foot
boards or the platforms. SIN Ameri-
Ca" the reformers urge, "such an ac-
cident could not happen"
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-08-09
The Locomotive Boile

Among the curious as well as
esting facts in locomotive const. \
tion, not patent to the unfamiliar eye,
is that Of the obscurlty Of thelocomol
tive boiler. It is not seen. It is al
rough, unpublished mass OF steel, overl
this being a complete casing Of weod,i
matched like flooring. and over all an
ornamental sheath Of thin Russia iron
with brass bands, called q jack ,. the
casing il, to protect the bo:lerfrom the
cold of winter, which, blowing ON the
surface Of the mass of iron, would
tend to chill it and condense the
steam. tt is, Of course much more
difficult to keep up steam in an engine
on q cold day than In warm weather.
The dome on the boiler, midway be-
tween the smokestack ind the cab, is
q sand box, from which, down in
front Of the drive wheels a tubeleads.
When, therefore, the rapid and spas
modic putting Of the engine indicates
that she is slipping, the engineer pulls
q small lever, and fine stream eft
sand is deposited on thetrack. Great
care has to be exercised in selecting
thesand, the ten bushels required to
fill the box having alsotb bereplenish-
ed every long trip, making the cost of
This item alone to RAILROAD companies
quite considerable, in gonle instances
thousands OF dollars yearly.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-08-09
Personal Gossip,

BARLEY Campbell, the well known play
wright and manager, died OF the Middle
N. Y, insane asylum. He had been i'll
An bed for some weeks and his death was not
unexpected. Mr.. Cambell was born in Allie
ghsny CITY. Penn, in 1913. At the age OF
fourteen years he went into newspaper life at
Pittsburg.
Hon. Samuel J. Randall has been taken in
q special car to Wayne station. tt was said
BY Or. Malin and Col. Gerker that Mr.. RAN
dali bore up well throughout the entire jour.
ney from Washington, and that the only dis
comfort experienced was at the latter. city.
when being removed from his residence to the
car. He was Intrigued BY the transfer, and
gave evidence OF it.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-08-09

In Webster county, Ca, recently,
twenty hogs belonging to O farmer
took refuge from a storm under a
clump of bushes that grew near atall
pine tree. The tree was struck by
lightning and every hog instantly
killed.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-08-09

About the maddest man in North
Carolina is he who, while in New York,
ordered the "pie with the biggest
name on the hotel bill of fare, and
found "nothin, but, huckleberry"
which he had eaten all his life, and
worse, that when he got home some
wig all his neighbors of it.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-08-09

Deer are e nearly every day in
the vicinity Of Bangor, Me-, and seem
to be gaining confidence in man.. A
line specimen was seen grazing in a
pasture II few days ago by a man
driving past, and the animal did not
leave at his approach.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-08-09

Some time ago q woman was
drowned in a creek near Americas,
Ga. Now it is said that her ghosts
haunts the place and walks back and
forth across the bridge spanning the
stream, carrying torch in her hand.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-08-09
BOttin6du Pioneer
John W BENNETT, Editor 4 Publisher.
The late James Freeman Clarke
left an autographs win giving his EN-
hire estate to his wife, from whom he
says he received it.

The champion fish liar lives at IRON
wood, Mich. He tells Of a party of
four trouters who caught 5000
trout in three days, gave 25Oto their
friends and ate the others-2,75O.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-08-09
Foreign Cuttings.

The Winnipeg banks decided that Ameri-
can money cannot go in Manitoba and a big
discount will be made on the currency of this
country. The discount is 8 per cent IN all
paper none Silver dollars go for SO cents;
hO-cent pieces for 40 cents; 25-eent pieces for
90 cents. There is no discount On 10 and g.
cent pieces. Winnipeg is flooded with Ameri-
can money. 5
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-08-09

Out in Delano, CAL, q black ram
was meal enough to chase q black
bear and run him up a tree, where
he vas shot by the gentle shepherd
IN charge of the flock.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-08-09
Miscellaneons News Items.

McGarrigle, the mated Chicago boodler,
registering q q hotel under VI assumed