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Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1889-03-28
LIE FRANCAIS.

| Au moment Oh certalns fanati
ques s'attaquept a la langue fran
caise. II nest pas sans interet de
| lire Particle spivant de M Robert
Franc, dams le Courier du Solr,
de Paris:
Une excel.ente soci9t6, fondee il
y II quelques annees, sous le nom
cd Alliance francaise," donnait del.
Increment une conference dams le
grand amphitheatre de la Sorbon
ne, ct une assistance nombreuse et
choisie await r6pondu a son appel
lie fran;ais fait encore heurau
sement bonne figure dams le mon
I de. II est rest6 la langue de la di-
plomntie ct des trait6s internatio-
naux, sauf en- ce qui est de l'All =
magne qul, dams l'infatuation de
ses victories, a impose son idiome
dams les affaires de la poIitique
6trangAre. Mais le francais est
tou]ours la langue de la bonne SO
ci6te ct des salons de Saint Peters
bourg ct cht z lie beau monde mos
covite elle a la suprematie sur tou
tes les autres.
An Canada, que jacques Cartier
ct plus terd Champlain ont d6cou
vert au nom de la France, notre
langue est cOuramment parlee, ct
dans lie Bas Canada, a Quebec, q
Montreal, q Ottawa, on peut dire
quill nest pas falt usage daucune
autro: les livres, les joprnaux, Ia
predication, tout Sc fait en- fran
Gals.
A sud des Etnts Unis, dams Pan
cienne Louisiana, d la Nouvel!e-
Orleans, a Saint Louis, notre Ian
que prime de beaucoup sur Pan
gIais. Dams la republique d Haiti,
Port au Prince ct au cap Haitiep,
autre fols le cap Franeais. rotre
laDgoe ma pu etre detyon6e, majgre
la corruption du patois negre
Dams les anclens Etats de Ia
Plata, a Buenos Ayres, a Mont6yi-
deo, de meme qua Santiago du
Chill, le franeais est connu ct par
l6 par un grand nombre de per
sonnes.
Dams tout le Levant asiatiqne,
notre langue est dominate. Les
Europeens y sont meme designeS
SOUS le nom de "Francs'', qntll
que soft leur natlonait6. Dams
tous les ports de l'Anatolie, a Tre
blonde, surtout a i5myrne, les ne
gociants ne parlent que francois
A Beyrouth, a Alexandrette, a A'ep
a Acre, dams tous les ports de Sy
rie, un frapcais SO retrouye I'll
pays de connalssance, gfa e a i'usa
ge a peu pres general qui est fal1
de sa langue par les Europe lbs.
II en- est de meme en- Egyptt, {
Rosette, a Saez, a Port Said.
C-st q consarver, q 6tepdre ct
developer par des ecoles IL con
naissance du franeals dams tous ces
pays que nous devons appliquel
nos forts
Q1and on parle une langue, OF
Ell lit les ouvrages ct on prend in
sensiblement les go1ts, les modes
ct presque les habitudes. Notrt
commerce, nos expectations, prin
clpalement d'objets fabriques, on
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1889-03-28

Deux jannes gems echangent des
gifAs, Dnis des cartes.
-Moasieur, dit hArem ant Fun,
je restnral chez moi dpinain.
Lautre, uon molns fiArement:
--Et mci aussl!
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1889-03-28

Les hommes suparieurs dolvent
ne :essaTeneut pas5er pour me-
chants. Ou les autres na volant
nj un def..ur, nj un riA1cuIa, nj un
vice, leur linp|scable cell Zap r;oit
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1889-03-28
POUR RfRE.

Solon otait l'un DIS sept sages
de la Greece.
Et cependant, que peut on atten-
Dire d un sot long?
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1889-03-28

Ga parle, dey4nt TN pauvre dia-
bic, du pain, don't le prix Went de.
tre baiss6.
-C'est la premiere fois, dit il,
que je me rejouis lie .'abAlssement
de mon mellleur ami,
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1889-03-28

On s'etonna desa"t G lib ollarl
que lss Au 6 cains alent Il lopte ie
systAne ftrange Gs L x6cutlon
electrlqu~:
Celia doit dsvenir, dit lie bon
idiot, de ce quits ont troav. que
leurs condamn6s ne valalent men
plus. :. la corde pour les pendr. !!
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1889-03-28

Les entrailles de la terre.
On lit dams LIE Progr@s de IEst
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1889-03-28

La plus grande science est de na
voir e!re & sol. Il faut donc de
temps en- temps Sc retirer da mon
de, Sc METRE b part. Ayez qael-
ques heures dams la joeruee pour
lire ct pour fare usage de re
hexions.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-04-04
A Butcher Bird. in Maine.


A remarkable bird about the size OF
a robin and much resembling the king
fisher without the prominent tuft of
feathers. attracted considerable atten-
ton on a street in Kennebec. Me-, re-
Gently. Flying along to an English
sparrow with one dart of his hooked,
beak he killed the little bird, and then
placing one foot upon his victims
breast proceeded TO tear in pieces and
devour him a stage driver picked up
the feathered cannibal and his prey
and carried them into a nearby store.
where perched upon the counter, he
devoured the sparrow with apparent
relish. The. bird seemed to. have no.
fear of any one, and showed no an
tipathy against any thing but the spar
rows. several of which he killed dur
ing the afternoon His species was
unknown to any who saw him. but it
is thought he is one of the variety
known as. the butcher bird--Newi
Haven Times.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-04-04
Food for Reflection.

The New York World of February says:
1.-THE question as to how much Of what
they pretend to know doctors really know
is really very interesting one.
They possess exceptionally great tacili-
ties for humbugging, and the presumption
IS that they are not proof in most cases, at
all times at least, against temptation to
make use OF them. Their profession comes
as near being an eS9terlc one any that Is
acknowledged to be respectable. But the
revelation as to their views in the Robinson
arsenical poisoning cases in Boston is start
ling.
There were five deaths from the drug,
and the doctors in their certificates attrlb-
uted them respectively to pneumonia. ty-
phoid fever, meningitis, bowel disease and
Bright disease Of the kidneys. The truth
would have never been known but for sus-
picions with which the doctors had nothing
to do. There Is tpod. here for reflection-
and for doctors. ~
The above criticism is fully warranted by
the startling ignorance shown by the at
tending physicians in the Somervilie Cases
1t can be aptly said that human life is too
often sacrificed to the ignorance and big
otry Of the profession
Too often it happens that fatal results
follow an improper course of treatment
the physician treats the patient for con-
sumption, general debility or for nervous
disorders, whilst the real disease, which is
slowly destroying the kidneys and filling
the system with a poison quite as deadly as
arsenic, is altogether overlooked or does not
attract attention until too late.
Physicians too often treat the symptoms
of disease instead of the disease itself.
1t is well established that four-fifths Of
the ordinary Ills which beset humanity are
the results Of disease in the kidneys which
will yield to the curative properties of War
ner's Safe Cure if timely used, and to it
alone. What Is apparently disease in the
other organs is more oftentimes mere
symptom of ki6oeE disease. which should
be quickly eradicAaedz by Warmers safe
Cure before it seures TOO firm Q hold ON
those organs - -
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-04-04
Wanamaker's Philanthropy.

Wanamaker is a patriotic protector
of American labor, and as liberal
contributor to Republican campaign
funds gets first-class advertisement in
the New York Worlds Berlin letter de-
scribing the foreign cloak mandatory
in which our new Postmaster-Genera
has for years past employed about one
hundred and twenty of the pauper
girls of Berlin at starvation wages.
He pays 60 cents apiece for making
cloaks that sell for $40 in Philadelphia,
and between him and the girls there
are contractors who '.sweat" the wages
DOWN so low that the girls can not exc
out even the most miserable existence
without assistance from their families,
or from what they call a bridegroom. !"
This is the kind of protection to
labor which many American million
aires are practicing when they preach
high wages, just as they preach pure
elections while they raise enormous
campaign funds for bribers to spend,
and then go to church and pray with
out inquiring what is done with the
mouey.4St. Louis Post-Dispatch-
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-04-04
vEnomous SNAKES

0AO C0nstrucf1on 8ad Location OF ThefU
DeAth-DeazknG Poison Fanss.
If . drop Of the oil from foul pipe
be placed in the mouth Of snake the
action IL instantaneous. The muscles.
become set in knotted Jumps and the
creature becomes rigid If much Isl
given the snake dies. but if a SMALL
amount only is PLACED ins the mouthi
the snake may be restbreds This, as
Mr. Oakley has suggested, may ex-i
plain the stories of Indian snakes
charmers being able to tusn a snake.
into a stick. This feat is performed
oy splitting in the snakes mouth and
then placing the hand on It's head
until the reptile becomes stiffened.
The effect may be produced By opium
or other narcotic introduced with the
saliva They then rub the snake
between their hands, restoring it
to its usual animation The sting of
snakes is neither in the tail nor the
tongue. The death-dealing organs are
the great poison-fangs- The fatal
wound is a bite and not a sting. And
among all the special notifications of
snake structure none is more remark
able than the developments of the
poison fang. In the harmless snake
there is a longish bone on each side of;
the upper jaw, which may be
armed with dozen teeth or
moro. But in the vipers this
bone is shortened to a wedge, which
bears only one great fang, though be-
hind it there may be two or three re-
serve fangs, one of which will rapidly
become attached to the bone should
tn e poison fang IN use be broken. In
all snakes the jawb are but loose
ly attached to the brain case But ID
the vipers this fang-bearing bone is so
hinged to its neighbors that, when the
creature is not reused, the poison tooth
can be laid back in the mouth and pro-.
tected by fold of skin Should the
creature, however, be enraged, and
the mouth be opened widely, its poison
fangs may be separated or simultan-
eoIfsly erected so as to stand out at
right angles TO the jaw. In the less
developed venomous snakes the curvedl
fang is grooved along its anterior
margin; but in the cobras the groove
has sunk so deep into the fang that it
only opens by narrow slit, while in
the vipers and the ring-hals even this
slit has closed, and there is a completes
canal running from the base of the
tooth to slit-like orifice near, but not
quite, at the point. Into this canal at
its lower end opens the duct of the
poison gland. deadly modification of
a harmless salivary gland In fair
sized puff adder dissected this was
about as large as bean. About half
a dram of clear gummy poison may be
collected from a fresh and vigorous
lcobra--Murray's Magazine.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-04-04
CURRENT COMMENTS.

The Buffalo Courier is response
BILE for the following: ''In religion
Wanamaker is Presbyterian, but in
politics he is a Quayker."
Blaine to Harrison: 81 accept
this trust, with the understanding, you
know. that trusts are largely private
affairs Buffalo Courier
Whenever there exists
struggle for freer government and for
mans enfranchisement there will be
found the aid and sympathy of the
people of the United States. ''-Grover
Cleveland to the Friendly Sons of St
Patrick.
When Abraham Lincoln was
strugg ling with the office-seekers
Arternus Ward offered to take his
House and turn the anaconda loose.
General Harrison would give any thing
just now for the presence of the genial
Artemus. Atlanta Constitution.
"A new trust has been formed.
The manufacturers of sc Binder Irvine"
have combined, and propose to tax
farmers all that the traffic will bear.
Well. the farmers voted at the recent
election that taxation was a blessing,
and they have no right to complain at
the increase of their blessings.-Chi-
cago Leader
We do not believe in protection
as it is practiced by the Republican
party of to-day, but it is an infinitely
less mischievous thing at its worst
than the narrow, greedy, hypocritical
Southern policy which Chandler and
men of his stamp would wish to make
the chief end of Republicanism. Y.
Times.
Mrs. Platt, who is skillful
amateur photographer, has several
pictures of her husband, the ex-Sena-
tor, taken by the instantaneous proc
ess. One of them shows him throw
ing stones from his garden walk into
a wheelbarrow. It is apprehended in
some quarters that a picture to be
taken about three years hence may
show him throwing stones into Presi-
dent Harrison's back yard.-Chicago
Tribune.
-Ex-President Cleveland may be
sure that he carries with him into pri-
vate life an earnest assurance of pub
lie respect for the honesty of his pur-
poses. for the patriotism of his inn
pulses and for the cleanliness of his
administration. It would be unjust in
this hour to deny that his record as
President has been courageous. self
respecting and possessed of dignity
beyond the level of his party. Hail and
farewell to you, Mr.. Cleveland. Phil
adelphia Press (Rep.).
Mr. Albert 6. Porter, ex-Gov-
ernor of Indiana. has been appointed
Minister of the United States to Italy.
The job is rather a ''soft thing" for
person who desires season of leisure
with fair salary; but it is one of the
second-rate missions, and Mr.. Porter.
who thought himself an available
candidate for the Presidency year
ago, might be justified in hesitating
| about its acceptance. He Is thor
ough Republican, however, and OF that
variety OF the species few decline any
| thing that is offered.-Chicago Globe
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-04-04
FIRING AWAY MONEY.

What 1t Costs to Fire the Guns of an Or
binary Man-of-War.
War is an expensive undertaking,
and even playing at it costs great
deal of money. After paying out two
or three million dollars for a ship,
that is only beginning. To keep an
ordinary man-of-war lin commission"
that is, to furnish the necessary sup
plies, and pay the officers and men
costs about thousand dollars a day. Z
The armament of a man-of-war Is
very costly-much more so than most
people imagine. Affteen-inch Krupp
gun weighs eighty tons. and costs
1925, 900; the carriage weighs forty
tons, and costs $40, 600. Every time one
of these monsters is fired, it costs
81, 900.
The great dynamite gun on board the
new gnnboat Vesuvius is fifty-five feet
long. has a bore of fifteen inches, and
the profectiles are eleven feet long and
weigh nine hundred pounds each.
The cost of the gun and carriage is
$40, 900, and every time it is fired $500
goes up in smoke.
1t is true that all guns are not mon
sters, but ali gun-fring is very costly.
The Fortifications Committee of Con-
gress has made an appropriation to
test eight. ten and twelve inch guns.
from which some idea may be gained
of how money is fired away during a
naval or army contest. fss
Two hundred and fifty rounds for
one ten-inch gun costs. for powder,
81, 900; projectiles, FL. OOO-a total
of $4,000. The same number of
rounds from a twelve-inch gun costs
1896 Each shot weighs half ton.
which costs $500 if made of steel, and
S75 if made of cast-iron. The eight
inch guns fire a shot weighing three
hundred pounds, and every discharge
costs about 500.
In old-time warfare, when a sixty
FOUNDER was monster and a thirty
two-pounder considered large, guns
were worked very rapidly; but nova
days, with increase of length and
weight. comes slowness of execution.
But even supposing the Krupp gun
mentioned above to be fired six times
an hour during a six-hours' engage
ment, that would represent So. 600
fired away. And that is only one gun.
So you see war is expensive, even as q
pastime.-Golden Days :
: -
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-04-04
NEuRALclc TooTHAcHE.

o. what Wretched painI
1t thumps and comes again;
It racks, it racks my brain:
Humping. humping. humping,
Jumping, ever jumping
It seems my head would bust
It must, I'm sure 1t must.
Here on my humble cot
No more sacred spot
All night long I've tumbied;
All night long I've grumbled.
In vain I've tried to sleep,
But cometh not wink;
An angel sure would weep,
II he'd only stop to think,
Midst his host, SO bright and pure,
or the signing and the moaning.
or the endless hours of grooming
That we mortals here endure
When a grinder gins to growl,
And his mates like demons howl,
Each one humping with will,
And his nefghbor harder still
Humping, ever humping;
Jumping, jumping, jumping,
TIL ones head is nigh to bursting,
And his soul is eager thirsting,
For q rest
From the pest.
Let the bust. ring blizzard bliz.
Let the heated Heavens siz,
Let the storm and tempest rise,
The winds go no Wing through the skies;
Come, we horde of creeping things
Serpents' fangs and scorpions stings;
Hail! We bedbugs, jumbo size;
HALL brigades of pest'ring flies.
Imps of Satan, ghosts and COLLINS:
Hail mosquitoes, big as robins
Sucking at my blood and singing,
Crucifying me and singing;
Barking dogs,
Squealing hogs;
Cats at midnight promenading,
Meath ones window serenading.
Come each sight and sound and pest
II the change shall bring me rest
From this humping, throbbing, jumping,
From this throbbing jumping, humping,
.Madly crashing through my brain.
Health Monthly.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-04-04
MILK AND CREAM.

Income of Their Farms.
One of the papers at the farmers
convention held at Madison, Wis. was
read by Prof. S. M. Babcock. of the
State University. In his paper the
professor maintained that there we're
ers who owned two or more COWS. and
that there were not one hundred of
them that knew which cow paid profit
and which made him no profit or an
actual loss. The remedy urged for
this want of knowledge was to test the
milk of individual COWS, to ascertain
the amount of butter fat produced by
each. The question: (Which is the
best cow?" is usually answered.: 1.-THE
one which gives the most butter from
the churn." This is not really tho
truth. If the milk contained more
butter than you get out of it. you do
not know how good the milk is, with
out testing. After you have found the
amount of butter fat contained in a
given cows milk, you want to so manip-
ulate that milk that you get the largest
you do not do this it is not the cows
fault, but yours. A great many men
say all they wish to know is how much
butter they get. That is not enough
to know, if you are going to get the
best results from your COWS. You want
to know whether you are getting the
butter your COW is giving. Test your
milk tn find ont f
A COW should give one pound of but
ter day when at her best. No cow is
profitable that can not do this.
Allowing the salt and water in the
butter to make up for what butter fat
is lost in churning, you should get a
pound of butter fat in your milk.
The fact is. fifty per cent. is the COM
mon yield, that is half a pound day.
Such cows should be discarded or a
change made in the manner of manipu-
lation.
If you are using the deep-setting
mode OF Dreaming your milk. the milk
should be set in the cold water as soon
as drawn from the cow. After skim
ming keep the cream in a warm place
until the acid is formed. This may be
fastened by adding little of the
former setting. It is detrimental to
churn sweet cream.
To sum up. test your COWS to find out
how much butter fat their milk con-
tains. then see what you churn from it.
If not as much, change your manner of
caring for the milk. or the care of the
cream, or the churning, or all of them.
Do these and you will make more from
the dairy.-Farm. Field and Stockman.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-04-04

1u& &t4A868 0<30 8ulQc160ElY 06mOUSCE8t-
ed that fact.
But perforce resigned myself to my
fate. At any rate it would the sooner
be all over. In fact, almost forgot
my awful situation in the interest
awakened by the phenomena of the
comet was in the midst of its very
head. l was one of its compo-
nent particles. I was meteor
among million millions of others. If
l could only get, back to the earth,
what news lcouldI not carry to Signor
Sch1aparelli, and Mr.. Lockyer. and DIR.
Bredlchin about the composition of
comets! But, alas! the world could
never know what I now saw. Nobody
On yonder cleaning earth. watching
the magnificent advance of this specter
OF the skies, would ever dream that
there was lost astronomer in it's blaz-
ing head. I should be burnt and rent
to pieces amid the terrors of it's peri
hel1on passage, and my fragments
would be strewn along the comets
orbit, to become, in course of time.
particles in a swarm of arolites. Per-
chance, through the effects of some un-
foreseen perturbation, the earth might
encounter that swarm. Thus only
could [ ever return to the bosom of my
mother planet. took a positive pleas
ure In imagining that one of my cal
cined bones might eventually flash for
a moment, a falling star, in the atmos-
phere of the earth, leaving it's atoms
to slowly settle through the air, until
finally they rested in the soil from
which they had sprung.
From such reflections / was aroused
by the approach of the crisis. The
head of the comet had become an ex-
ceedingly uncomfortable place. The
collisions among the meteors were
constantly increasing in number
and violence. How escaped de-
struction / could not COM
prehend, but in fact I was unconscious
of danger from that source. 1 had
become in spirit an actual component
of the clashing, roaring mass. Ire
mendous sparks of electricity, verita-
BILE lightning strokes, darted about me
in every direction. but I bore a
charmed life. As the comet drew in
nearer to the sun, under the terrible
stress of the solar attraction, the me-
teOrs seemed to crowd closer, crashing
and grinding together, while the whole
mass swayed and shrieked with the
uproar of million tormented devils.
The heat had become terrific. I saw
stone and iron melted and dissipated
in vapor like snow. Stupendous cata-
racts of this vaporized material shot
upward, and, driven off by the electric
al repulsion of the sun, streamed
backward into the tail.
Suddenly myself became sensible
of the awful heat. It seemed without
warning to have penetrated my vitals.
With yell I jerked my feet from
boiling rock and flung my arms de-
spairingly over my head
''You had better be CAREFUL" said
my wife, who had been sitting by me,
''or you'll knock over the telescope"
I rubbed my eyes, shook myself and
rose.
II must have been dreaming" l
said.
II should think it was very lively
Dream" she replied.
At this moment the occultation be-
pan-N Y Sun.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-04-04
A Valuable Catarrh Remedy.

Gentleman Ito village eobbler) -
What's that yellow powder you re talk
ing so constantly. my friend?
Cobbler-It's snuff-catarrh snuff.
Gentleman-Is it any good? I'm
somewhat troubled that way myself
Cobbler with the air of a man VINO
could say more if he chose)-Wen.i
I've had the catarrh for more'n thirty!
years, an I've never took nothin' for il
but this.-Ep0ch.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-04-04
Any soil that win grow a fair CT

Any soil that will grow fair crop
of corn may be selected for peaches.
The same cultivation is given peaches
the first year that is necessary for
corn. which means that the cultivator
should be passed over the ground fire.
quently and the grass kept down.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-04-04

When farmers let their sheep go
because wool was low they forget that
sheep Independent of wool are worth
more than their cost in what they do
for the farm and in the meat they fur
nish. saws a writer.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-04-04

When modern youth beeomes
ensconsed IN a street car the ladies
discover that he doesn't belong to the
rising generation.-Yonker Gazette.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-04-04

-Cppersten child-'.My papa II
Stvaas u yours?" Lower-ten child
Yep. Mine is At large ag'in"-N
I Weekly.