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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-04-19
ASPARAGUS CULTURE.
Methods Successfully Practiced by IL Wei
Known Market-0ardencr.

Methods Successfully Practiced by "a Will
Known Market-0ardencr.
President j. NJ. Smith, of the Wis
consin Horticultural Society. whose
home and market gardening IS justly
celebrated, gives report of his aspar-
agus which ought to encourage every
occupant of land to provide Il supply OF
this unequalled early green. His best
plantation is twenty years old and
yields annually crop of as fine quality
as was ever raised in the United States.
The story of the way "this splendid
bed was made and is cared for. SHOULD
be influential against the mistaken idea
so widely prevalent, that the start and
culture are difficult, whereas, in fact.
no other product is SD easily obtained
and perpetuated:
Soil, sandy-loam; MANFRED very
heavily, then plowed. turning the
manure under; plowed To 10 inches
deep. burrows 8 feet apart and about
inches deep, in no case more that 4
inches; burrows made with II common
shovel plow. Plants either one or
two years old from the seed. were
placed in the bottom of these burrows
about 10 to Is inches apart, taking care
to spread the roots in their natural posi-
tons; this is very easy to do. After
the plants were so placed the earth
was drawn back into the furrow and
pressed down with the feet, and the
bed was finished. Since that time
it has been kept free of weeds
and grass, and every spring the tops
have been cut off and burned, II good
coat of manure put on and dug under,
using the common six-tined manure
forks for the purpose, being careful not
to disturb the roots of the plants. The
result has been that since it came 10 its
best, about three years after setting,
it has never once failed to yield IA
magnificent crop.
We cut some from it the second year.
but not much. In cutting care should
be taken to cut it clean as long as it is
cut at all. AS n market crop it is a
profitable one until there is surplus.
and then have found it TO be as near
worthless as any crop we grow. To
my family and visiting friends, it is one
of the most delicious dishes that come
from the garden, and it is rare that
large dish of it does not find its way to
our table at least once day from it's
first appearance in early spring until
the season is nearly over, or until our
second sowing of peas are at their best.
One thing more. The reason for
leaving the tops on the buds without
cutting until spring is: When the
snow falls the tops catch and hold it.
1t remains there until it melts and is
the best mulch for the buds that We IAN
have. 1t always leaves the ground in
the best of order for early working,
and the plants can be started some
days earlier in this way than by any
other open ground method that have
ever tried. Farmers Reciew.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-04-19
A Story About a Hen.

A woman in Westfield who makes "a
feature of raising fowls and selling
eggs, recently found that her hens
were dying off because unable to di-
gest a certain kind of food she gave
them. There were n dozen or more
moping around, their crops full of the
food and all seeming likely to follow
the two or three already dead. As
last resort the woman took one of the
fowls into the house, and with a sharp
pen-knife opened its crop and removed
the contents The wound was then
carefully sewed up and the fowl
placed in a warm box. After couple
of hours it was taken out of the coop
and put among the other fowls. Next
morning the good woman heard a clat-
tering on her back steps and a tapping
at the door. Looking out, she saw the
hen she had operated upon eheerfuliy
leading 4 dozen or more of its afflicted
companions, all with their heads
stretched up and asking almost as.
plainly as words that they be giTen the
same treatment which had relieved
their leader.-Springfetd (MGss.) Re
publican
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-04-19
OF HUMBLE ORIGIN.
~Contemptuous Filings at the Chief Clio
of American citizenship.

~Contemptuous Filings at the Chief Glory
of American Citizenship.
The Democratic party can ask moth
ing better than general adoption by
Republicans of the tactics in favor
with ingalls,, Deliver. Foraker and
other orators or the opposition. When
these men sneer at the humble origin
of Grover Cleveland they cast reproach
upon the chief glory of American cit
izenship. Had his beginnings been
more obscure than they were there
would have been nothing in the fact
-on which to base the contemptuous
filings now so popular in some circles.
The American roll of honor is a long
one, but it contains the names of few
naen who at birth were not poor and
apparently not in the line of fame OF
greatness.
As a matter of fact. however. Grover
Cleveland was respectfully born. He
vas reared in an honest. industrious
and intelligent American family. He
came on to manhood as hundreds OF
thousands of Americans have done. and
wsat about his life work deceEtly and
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-04-19
CURRENT COMMENT.

What a handsome pair of jump
ing-iacks Foraker and Boulanger
would make. Philadelphia Times
William B. Allison's boom re-
sembles that of John Sherman. 1t is
of delicate texture. and is not much
bigger than the string which is tied to
it Chicago Herald.
The Democratic party is en-
barked heart and soul in the redemp-
ton of the people from the spoliation
of monopoly, aud woe to those who
get in its way!-M. y Star.
SENATOR ingalls, has not apollo
gized vet. New England Brahmins of
the strictest sect who have been
through a course of training as Kansas
Jayhawkers rarely apologize.-SL
Louis Republican,
Ex-senator Thurman made some
very vigorous remarks in the tally
sheet forgery trial, and he spoke the
simple truth when he said the Demo-
cratic party of Ohio neither defended
that crime nor was response BILE for it.
-CLeretarsd Plaindealer.
With Foraker, Gresham, Depew
and Harrison rapidly gaining ground
in Ohio the spectacle of old John Sher-
man brooding over his Presidential
boom reminds one strongly of Marius
sitting disconsolate amid the ruins Of
Carthage. Chicago News.
Mr.. Walker Blaine has issued
manifesto against the fisheries treaty.
Is the son making an effort to get into
his fathers bootsP We hope not. for
we never liked TO see n promising
young man in his prime lost to sight
thus prematurely. = Washington Critic.
1t may be well enough as kind
of side show to denounce Hancock and
Mcclellan as allies of the COnfederacy,
to shake Fairchild's three palsies in
the ears of the groundlings, and to
wave the bloody shirt with the hope
that another President will drop out
of it. but when the Republicans settle
down to business they should remem-
Der that while the Democrats are ply
ing their artillery the other side must
have something better than buncombe.
NJ Y Herald (Ind).
The most effectual way to blot
out the bitterness of the past is for the
people of the two sections to come into
daily contact with each other. When
they do this they see that neither are
half SO bad as they are painted. Such
has been the experience in New York
and in the Southern cities where num-
bers of Northerners swell the popula-
ton. Northerners are given warm
welcome in the South and Southerners
are made to feel at home in the North.
Sectional feeling at this time is hardly
worth mentioning. Only few poll
ticians and editors try to fan its dying
embers into flame. = Savannah NeWS.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-04-19

quietly. When called to public place
he discharged his duties with fidelity,
and nothing in his career is more cred
liable to himself and to the American
system than the fact that his promo
ton was so rapid as to excite the
wrath of lifelong postulants for place
and pelf
Grover Cleveland has never been in
vestigated by Congress. John James
Ingalls, can not say as much Chicago
Herald
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-04-19
MISSOURI REPUBLICANS.
Pen Pictures of N Peculiar Race OF HUI
man Beings.

man Beings.
The old cry that Missouri has
Jagged behind other States" is re-
newed as the Republicans open their
State campaign. 1t is pernicious
and unwarrantable falsehood, but if it
had any color of truth in it it
would DE solely because of the ante
diluvian ideas of the Republican party
in Missouri. We are fully aware that
there are able and intelligent Repub-
licans in the State, but, nevertheless,
as far as Missouri is concerned, Re-
publicanism means barbarism. In the
Republican strongholds it even now
requires the utmost efforts of Demo
cratic officials to prevent homesteaders
and settlers from being cowhided and
driven away with the shotgun or MUIR
dered. The Republican Bald-Knob-
bers of Missouri belong to the cave
dwelling period. and they are as anom-
alous in the Democratic civilization
of the State as the woolly mammoth or
the cave bear would be among its do
nestle animals. We are tired of these
stale and Improbable Republican
ISLANDERS on the State, and we are pre-
pared to show. if necessary. just what
sort of an animal the tiint-lock,
smooth-bore, moss back, cave-dwell-
ing Republican of Missouri is. AS he
will be numerously represented in the
penitentiary. where he will grow some
what tame under Democratic treat
ment, there will be little difficulty in
getting a composite picture of him to
represent the type.-St. Louis Repub-
licd.s.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-04-19

-"Do you think. Miss Ethel" he
inquired, TREMENDOUSLY, "that could see
your father this EVENING"" al hardly
think so. Mr.. Lastyn." she replied with
a soft and not unbecoming blush. PA
pa is in the library with Mr.. Getthere
and L expect he will need me, too, in a
few minutes. But / am sure that any
other evening papa would be happy to
have you call ON him. He is always
pleased when young people show him
attention. Puck
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-04-19

Mock Oyster Soup.-Take one pint
of tomatoes and put to boil in half a
gallon of milk, add an ounce of butter
and teaspoon of soda Let boil and
skim. Break in pieces half pound Of
crackers, throw in the soup. let boil
up. Season with salt and pepper.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-04-19

When Mr.. Hamlet remarked: Eye.
there's the rub" he is supposed to
have just got off railroad train with
q cindcr in his optic.-LosCeH Coz
Tier.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1888-07-21

go on until the victory is gained, no
matter from what quarter disapproval
or opposition may come" sit is your
eminence's intention to 60 to Ireland?"
'sIt is unlikely, for shall have to spend
some time in France and Belgium, ar
ranging for some new teaching orders
who are being trained for Australia in
the Irish houses of the French Christian
Brothers and the Brothers of Charity,
established by myself; and if do go to
ireland it will be either in company
with DR.. Walsh, who will probably be
in Rome when I arrive, or for the pur-
pose Of paving ms grace friendly
~~s.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1888-07-21
Great Wonders Of America.

| Niagara Falls-a sheet OF water of
q mile wide, with a fall OF IT'S feet.
The velocity'of the current in Whirl-
pool Rapids is q miles an hour. 1t is
estimated that 1,500, 100000 cubic feet
OF water pass through the gorge each
minute.
| Yosemite Valley, California Eight
to ten miles long and a mile wide. Has
very steep slopes 8, $50 feet high; has a
perpendicular precipice S,OS9 feet high; !;
rock almost perpendicular 1910 feet
high; and waterfalls, 700 to 800 feet high.
Mammoth Cave, Kentucky-H Has been
explored for ten miles; has a subter.
anean lake, 1.-The Dead Sea- 80 feet
deep, with navigable river for Its cut
let.
Yellow Stone National Park-Its
{, ,575 square miles are filled with gey-
sers, hot springs, rivers, falls, noun
tains, valleys and forests, making it
yeritable wonderland, THE Old Faith
full Geyser sends into the air every hour
a stream of hot water 200 feet in height.
Perhaps the strangsst thing is the
"paint pots" pools Of boiling paint
Of many different colors.
Liberty Enlightning tie World"
.Bedloe's Island, New York Harbor---
Presented by the people Of the Republic
Of France to the people Of the United
States, was the creation of the sculptor,
.Auguste Bartholdi, and is the tallest
statue in the world. 1t weighs 450, 900
pounds, 10 persons can stand conaforta
bly, in the head and the torch will hold
12 people. It is S05 feet high.
Natural bridge over Cedar Creek,
Virginia.
City Park, Philadelphia, largest in
the world.
Washington Monument, D. G., tallest
monument in the world.
The Erie Canal, connecting the Hud-
son river at Albany and Troy with Lake
Erie at Buffalo, is 1853 miles long, feet
deep, 20 feet wide at top and 56 feet
wide at bottom. It was begun in 1917,
and finished III 1925. costing $7,602, 200.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1888-07-21
Killarney Lakes by Moonlight.

Among the many beautiful spots
which adorn the Emerald Isle the Lakes
Of Killarney hold a very prominent
place, partly on account of the air Of
perfect tranquility which it's very
waters seem to breathe. and because of
It's lovely surroundings-for lovely in
deed they are.
Although in the daytime we can see
more plainly the real beauty for which
it is so famous, yet when we look upon
the enchanting scene by moonlight we
wish we could always live on the green
sloping bank, with the tall ash and pop
lar, the sturdy oak and elm waving in
the soft, balny breeze, and the pine
now and then joining with them in
mournful way which seems to make
the scene more striking and impressive.
Through the thick green foliage, the
siivery light Of the moon is seen, en-
deavoring, as it were, TO catch a glimpse
of the shadowy pictures of fantastic
shapes and curves which it is rejecting
on the broad expanse Of water at our
feet. And that little plant that grows
in such profusion all around us, even
to the water's edge, through the green
meadows and up the rugged sides OF
the Galtee Mountains. The Shamrock
The green little shamrock, with it's
three little leaves on one slender stalk,
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1888-07-21
and Co.'s. docks at Washburn, struc1.
Saturday for 40 cents per hour. Il

George Foley, Of Superior City, dieiI
at the Sisters Hospital, in ST. Pau
last Saturday, and was buried Monda!S
Deceased owned considerable propert
in this city, and for years skept a meI
market on West Superior street Il
Duluth. X,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-23
AUCTION SALES.


VALUABLE EAST SEVENTH ST.
Business Lot at Auction-A. II. Nicolay
will sell at auction Saturday afternoon, Sept.
%, 1888, at 3 O'Clock sharp, on the prem
ises, on East Seventh St, between Maria and
Bates avs. Dayton'S bluff, that very valuable
business lot, south-facing, known as lot 8,
Gammell's subdivision of block 3, Lyman
Dayton's addition to st. Paul, 40 feet front
and rear, by 152 7-lC0 feet deep; this Is one
of the very best locations for stores or any
other business purposes to be found on East
seventh ST., and ready for immediate i'm
provements; stores with fats above contain
ing all modern convenienees are In great de-
mand by reliable and responsible business
men that understand and can appreciate the
great future of this rushing business thor
oughtare, and are anxious to secure stores
on this part of East Seventh ST., knowing
that the completion of the new Seventh
street cable line, guaranteed to be IN running
nperation by August 1889, will greatly
Stimulate and increase the valuation of this
desirable business property; safe absolute
aud terms only one-third cash. balance three
or five years on mortgage. For further par
teulars apply to Nicolay & Co.. Aueuoneers
and Real Estate Agents for forty years. A.
H. Nicolay, Auctioneer. Our Real Estate
Anction Sale No. 1873. 267
BEAUTIFUL NEW RESIDENCES ON
ID Dayton's Bluff, Ten-Room House ana
Large Lot: Fine Location; Good Barn for
Six Horses-at Auction-A. II. Nicolay VIII
sell at duC ton Monday afternoon, Oct. Ia.
1888, at O'Clock sharp, rain or shine. on
the premises. No. SS5 Hastings ay., fronting
Mound ST., that very attractive and beautiful
new house with large porch, front and SIDE,
built in the very best manner, containing
parlo7, library, dining room, kitchen ana
laundry, all large rooms, on the first floor.
and six large sleeping rooms on the second
floor with large attic above; good cellar and
wash rooms below; the house is beautifully
situated on an elevation of several feet above
the avenue: large lot, sixty feet front, fine
shade trees; good barn on the rear for the
accommodation of six or eight horses II nee
essary; neighborhood frst-class. being IN
close proximity TO the fine residences OF
Messrs. Pugh Scheffer, Middleton, Lake ana
other Prominent citizens. and oulv one block
from the corner of Plum ST. and Bates aV;,
the great leading thoroughfare from the back
country and extensive farming trade, max
ing this place very desirable for any business
gentlemen doing business in this rapidly
growing section of Daytons bluff, and only
fifteen minutes from the wholesale district
of St.4 hul. combining city with rural life;
as a profitable investment this sale offers an
excellent opportunity to the most cautious
investors; terms one-third cash, or more, at
the option of the purchaser; balance, three
years on mortgage; sale peremptory 10 the
highest bidder on account Of owner leaving
the city. For full particulars apply to Nico-
lay 4 Co.. auctioneers and real estate agents,
No. ll6 East Fourth ST. Our real estate auc-
ton sale No. - 754. 26I
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-23
The Imprinted Indian.

Forest and Stream.
Of all misunderstood and miSrepre-
scented people 1 consider the North
American Indian the most so. BY some
he has been painted as an incarnate
fiend; by others he has been repre-
scented as a sage and stole. his mind
stored with philosophy, in demeanOr
grave. taciturn and delighting in soil
tude; his body capable of great endur-
ance, and his spirit sustained by I'M
fiinching courage. By such wrestling,
twisting and misrepresentation as
would make a poem out of the
multiplication table, or an allegOry
out of the problem q Euclid, his child
ism fetishism has bloSsOmed into a
sublime theology. His myths, which
are like the dreamingS Of insanity, are
remOdeled to resemble legends of the
lives of the saints, with dash of the
Arabian Nights" With a Language of
but little more than a hundreds words
he has become the author of sublime
poems, dealing with the abstract and
complex. Even gentlemen of the Ma
sonic fraternity have discovered that he
has anticipated the signs and secret of
their order.
He is described as stoical. yet it is an
every DAY aHalr 10 see run grown III
dian buck sit down, lift up his voice
and weep over the most trifing disap-
pOintment.
He is called taciturn and loving soli-
tude, and yet he will chatter like a
magpie; gossip is his principal bust
ness in life. and he will ride for miles
TO be the first to tell any news; while
there are not sufficient inducements on
this whirling globe to induce him to
live solitary for single month.
He is supposed TO be naturally brave
and physically strong, but he is not;
nor does he pretend even to himself to
be either.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-23
LAZY GIRLS WISH.

You ask, II 1 could be
That which l would be,
What. from all Natures sisterhood,
Would l change place with
Would circle in space with
The stars, % a star? or, from yonder wood,
Pour my soul singing
As, upward Winging,
I sought the blue, tit home for birdf
No, bird is too busy.
And a star might get dizzy,
So, I'd be neilher-now, don't say world
Pray, do you suppose that
Lovely red rose that
Mods ana beckons and beams on me,
Ever gets wearys
That ever a tear she
Sheds but for JOY that she can bef
And that great daisy,
So white and lazy.
That stands with her sisters there in the sun
Has she a care,
Burden TO bear.
Trouble in lite? oh, no! not one.
I've read the story
OF the King in his glory
Who was not arrayed ike one Of theses"
Twas Solomon; still he
Couldn't equal lily
a red feld-lily that flaunts in the breeze.
So, if 1 could choose me,
With none to refuse me,
The lot I'd ike best of all on the earth,
'Twouid be that of the flowers,
Who, all through the hours.
Have nothing TO do from the hour OF thet
birth.
There are no traces
On their fair faces
Of sickness, sorrow, Of grief or sin;
Their only duty
On earth is beauty
''They toll not neither do they spin"
Mary Norton Bradford
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-23
REAL ESTATE NOTES.

Next Saturday lot will be offered
for sale. at auction, on Sixth street, in
the rear of the chamber of commerce.
It is thought that this will. in a meas
are, test the market. and show whether
there is anybody ready TO buy.
Messrs. Weed u WilliuS are putting
into their new block, corner of Seventh
ana Cedar streets, new kind of brick
called the rough range brick. These
brick are made in Chicago and are very
strong, hard and durable. The face of
the brick looks like the stone that is
SnOwE as rough range work. and when
laid in wall makes a very striking APP
pearance.
Col. James II. Davidson will exhibit
during this week his new motor on the
street car track. This motor, it is
claimed, runs without noise, smoke or
steam escaping from it. Mr.. Lowry
mas taken great interest in the inYen-
ton, and will give 1t fair trial.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-23
THE MARKET.

The record for the week shows that
the considerations for the transfers re-
corded during the past week were $685.
$50, an average Of S97, $50 per day. There
aas been considerable inquiry in West
St. Paul, at Midway. out Rice street and
on DaytOn's bluff. The popular sale OF
OTIS in Stone Il MGrtOn's addition and
IN the Denny-Hill addition continues
active, and good many were disposed
OF in those two additions.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-23
The Origin fthe Word Daisy.

August Wide-Awake.
The word daisy" was formerly used
in the English counties of England as
an adjective meaning excellent. remark
able-as,' for instance, ''She's a daisy
lass to work" or Pm daisy hand for
pudding" meaning, Il eat good deal
of pudding"
Here is only another curious example
of the fact that what we call ''slang" is
often only a revival of an old phrase.
And the American youngsters YOU'RE
a daisy!" is simply old provincial Eng
lish.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-23
Sanso.ne's Co, Auctioneers.
tOOn PARIOR REnROn0I nINING

GOOD PARLOR, BEDROOM, DINING
Vt and kitchen furniture at public auction
on Thursday morning. Sept. q, commencing
at l O'Clock sharp. The entire contents Of
the pine-rOom tenement. No. 354 East Ninth
street, near the corner of Olive, will be sold
at auction without any reserve whatever.
Read the following, a partial list only: l
paEor suite Off pieces, 2 marble top bed
room sets complete, other sets, tables,
chairs, heating stoves, carpets, 1 fine light
double harness; Concord make, cost $50;
l coupe harness, buffalo overcoat etc. All
these goods are nearly new, having been in
use only q short time, and those parties in
search of bargains should not overlook the
sale. Sansome's Co., Aucuoneers. c. J.
Meilicke, salesman. 267
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-23
..sI5,5OC
Will Hold His Place.

The Cartoon.
Father-Did you get to the head of
The class to-day?
title Dick-No, sir.
lather-Did you get down?
Bick-NO, sir.
Father-Get down yesterday?
Ilick-NO. sir.
Eather-Well, that's doing well. Hold
on 10 the place you have until you can
get a better one.
Dick-Yes, sir. will.
FatheT-Here's quarter, Dick. By
Ne way, where is your place?
Dick-At the foot.