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The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1889-03-13
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BY taking Hoods sarsaparilla, which, by
the remarkable cures it has accomplished,
often when other medicines have failed, has
proven itself TO be potent and peculiar
medicine for this disease. Some Of these
cures are really wonderful. Ifyou sufferfrom
scrofula, be sure TO try Hoods sarsaparilla.
~My daughter Mary was aflicted with scrof-
alousedenec ckfromthe time meshewas22months
old tin abe became SIX years Of age. Lumps
formed In her neck, and ono OF them after
growing 70 the size Of pigeons egg, became
running sore for over threeyears. We gave
her Hoods sarsaparilla, when the lump and
all indications Of scrofula entirely dis
appeared, and now she seems 10 be healthy
child.w J.s. cARLILn, Nauright, Nj.
N.R Be sure 70 got only
Hoods SarsaparllIa
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100 Doses One Dollar
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1889-03-13

Mr.. Frank Arnold, formerly OF LuGranpe
will occupy permanently, the blacksmith
shop Just south of Q. w Horr's residence
on South Main street, Wellington, o. He
makes specially Of horse shoeing, steel
plating, and Of repairing wagons, moving
machines, etc, etc. He liyes Just south
Of the shop and win do work for his repu-
lar customers any time between D a, m.
and 0 p. m. Mr.. Arnold has had large
experience In shoeing horses as he was a
licensed blacksmith in Germany and shod
horses for some time In the Gei man army.
Terms are reasonable and satisfaction
guaranteed.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-04-04
A New Industry in Russia.

During the last few months new
industry has sprung up in Russia in
the form of nicotine extract This
product not only finds a sale in Russia
but is already exported in consider
able quantities. especially to South
America The lees obtained, when
preparing the tobacco leaf. have been
used for long time for destroying
parasites on plants. and they have also
been found eficacious when applied as
an antidote to the various skin
diseases to which sheep are liable. It
has now, however, been discovered
that the product affords a remedy
for another destructive agent-name-
~: the dry rot among sheep-and last
autumn the Russian firm of NikoIai
Bog5anow & Co, started works in
Moscow for the production of nicotine
extract on large scale. Four to five
pools of common Machorka tobacco
yield only about one pood of the ex-
tract, but in such concentrated form
that a teaspoonful is sufficient for
nearly two pints of water. and the
works produce about fifty pools of the
extract per diem. The Russian Gov.
eminent has decided to exempt this
product from excise duty. Any other
uses to which this nicotine may be an
piled, although not difficult to imagine,
have not yet transpired. st Peters
burg LetteE.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-04-04
DIGGING FOR RUeiES.
The ROthscllilds to Work the Gem Laden

Ih0 tSOthSChll0S to work the Gcm-Laden
Hills of Burmah.
1t is reported from London that the
Rothschilds are about to organize a
company to work the great ruby mines
of Burmah. This little patch of earth.
having an area of only fifty square
miles, was the only spot in his domin-
ions which King Thebaw would never
permit white man to approach. Even
under the rude native system of min
ing Thebaw derived an income of
5000 900 a year from the mines. After
the fall of Mandalay Indian troops
were sent one hundred miles north of
that capital to take possession Of the
ruby district, which has since been
leased to native miners, the income
being used to help defray the cost of
the British occupancy.
There have been loud complaints
that the government lost chance to J..
derive large revenue from the mines
when it declined Lord Dufferin's pro-
posal to lease them to a syndicate. If
the Rothschilds have now got foot
hold there, it is certain that the new
rulers of Burmah expect to make a
good thing by granting a concession to
the great capitalists.
The possibilities of the ruby mines
of Burmah are yet to be ascertained.
We know that the largest ruby ever
found there was escorted from the
Kings palace to the river. on its way
to Europe, by a military guard, and
that it was sold in London for $780,
600. The gems lie in thin stratum from
ten to thirty feet below the sur
face. and when this earth is lifted in
rude buckets and spread on the ground
myriads of small rubies g1isten in the
sun. Most of them are too small to be
of value. and are thrust aside in the
eager search for larger stones. Com
paratively few rubies are found that
In color, size and freedom from flaws
answer all the requirements of a first
class gem. But when such stone is
discovered. it is a treasure; and ex-
perts tell US that a three-carat ruby of
the best quality is worth eight to ten
times as much as the finest diamond of
the same weight. Most of the mar
ketable Burmese rubies are imperfect.
but they are among the finest in the
world; indeed, we are told by dealers
that large rubies of perfect color and
f1awless are almost unknown.
About twelve hundred Iaborers- are
now engaged in the ruby district, hired
by the well-to-do villagers around
these gem-laden hills to do the heavy
work of mining. No machinery what
ever is employed, aIe only the most
primitive methods of mining are seen.
Western energy, capital and appli-
ances will soon make a change there.
N Y. Sun.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-04-04
ELECTRIC MOTORS.

What They arc Doing for the Working
Women of Our Large Cities.
To the student of social science the
electric motor is full of suggestions for
the future. If power can be subdivid-
ed and conveyed to a distance, why
may not our present factory system of
labor be ultimately completely
changed? People are huddled togeth-.
er under one roof because belts and
shafts are SO pitiably short If power
may traverse wire, why not take the
power to the peoples homes, or to
smaller and more healthful shops in
pleasanter places? To-day we find
sewing women crowded into hot.
stuffy room, close to the noise, smell,
dust and the terrible heat of some lit
tie steam engine at one end of the
room. The place must be on lower
floor because of the weight of the en-
CINE and the cost of carrying coal up
stairs. Let us see how the work may
be done with motors We may take
the elevator in a wholesale clothing
warehouse on Blocker street and pass
through the salesrooms to the top floor.
The building is lofty and of light con-
struction, and yet we find in the bright
and pleasant attic above the house-tops
a hundred girls, each using power.
They are seated at long tables, each
one having a sewing-machine, and
secured to the under side of the
tabls is small electric motor, one
to each machine. The operator has
only to touch a foot-pedal and the
motor starts, giving about one-tenth of
a horsepower, at very high speed. If
the speed is too fast it can be regulated
at will by the pressure of the foot on
the treadle. There is no heat, no dust
or ill-smelling oil, and only slight
humming sound, the sewing-machine
itself making more noise than the
motor. The room is sweet, clean and
light. and it is in every respect
healthful workroom. If we look out
of the window we see two insulated
wires passing under the sash down to
the electric-light wires on the poles
below. There are people who cry out
against the overhead wires, and would
pull them all down. Some day they
will be buried underground. Mean
while, is it NOT an immense gain for
these w0rking-girls to be placed in a
quiet, sunny room, far from the mad
dening engine? In another shop on
Broadway we may see different ar
rangement A two-horse-power motor
takes it's current from an electric-light
wire in the street, and redistributes its
power to shafting placed under the
work-tables. Each operator with a
touch of the foot throws her machine
into gear, and takes her share of the
se-power.-Charles Barnard, in
Century.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-04-04


ings. and still the Mohammedan child
plays with its doll The women OF
Bagdad believe that doll may event
ually come to life, and harm their chill
dren. and therefore prevent their use.
The girls, however. play with cushions
and pieces of wood instead. which they
nurse and dress. In Siberia and Arctic
America ivory dolls. clothed in furs, of
beautiful workmanship, are found; in
Peruvian graves, dressed dolls of clay
are found; and in Africa the girls play
with wooden or clay figures. In this
way Andree traces numerous ethnolog-
zeal phenomena in their distribution
among various peoples, and shows that
the human mind everywhere develops
on the same lines, and that migra-
ton of inventions must be supposed
only in such cases where its existence
can be proved by historical facts
Science
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-04-04
IMPROVE YOUR LAWNS.

How to Make the Grounds Around Country
Homes Attractive.
Nowhere does individual taste more
clearly betray itself than about the
homes of the more or less well-to-do
people scattered all over the country
Village improvement societies have
done something toward awakening
public sentiment in this direction, but
individuals can do more by making
their own grounds attractive and keep
ing them in order. Herein lies the
secret of success. No amount of elab-
crate designs can compensate for I'M
shorn grass. untrimmed trees Or neg
lected fower-beds. If only one of the
three essentials of good lawn is
practicable, namely, grass, trees and
flowers, by all means give US grass.
distant hills and plains may be made
beautiful by trees alone, but all near
grounds require this velvety covering
to render them attractive to the eve
and interesting to the mind" Indeed
it has been truly said that mo splendor
of flowers or of foliage would COM
pensate for the absence of grass in
which exists the nurest green of vegeta-
"0 nOW0N0r, a poor ana
Indifferent article on many country
lawns. This is usually the result of
too much shade and a neglect to keep
up the soil. The best way to remedy
the trouble, if moss and weeds pre-
dominate. is to pillow up and enrich the
soil. Grade. if necessary, and SOW with
lawn-grass seed. and take proper care
thereafter If grass is ONLY thin mora
food is evidently wanting. An occa-
sional top-dressing of some approved
fertilizer through the summer is adj
visable, but it should be put on just
before rain. A coat of well-rotted
manure is beneficial in the fall. When
this is raked off in the spring, grass
seed should be sown ~herever bare or
thin places are visible. This treat
ment, with the frequent use of the
lawn-mower, leaves little to be desired
in this Observation-Disclosures Agricult-
urist-
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-04-04
THE USEFUL TELEPHONE.

me Part It Il Destined TO Play I'm the
Development of the Country.
It is certain that the telephone IS to
play a. much more important part in
human affairs in the near future than
it is now doing, and the immense
utility to the general public years
hence is now only very imperfectly
comprehended by the most sanguina
man among us In 1898 the telephone
will become public property. and the
only restrictions upon its utility after
that date will be those involved in the
apparatus for its use; and the more
general its employment the cheaper
will its operations and benefits become.
For obvious reasons the telephone is
capable of meeting the wants OF the
people much better than the telegraph
is, especially in the sparsely settled
districts of the country. and for short
distances, and its adaptation to the ne
ccessities of the farmers will be appre-
ciated at once.
One of the first innovations to be
carried forward with the use of the
telephone is in connection with the
weather service. which has already
been made to play most important
and useful part in the shipping bust
ness, and which, like the telephone,
has usefulness for future generations
not dreamed of by those of the present
time. The State of Iowa has already
made movement to establish State
weather. service and make it and the
telephone subservient to the necessi-
ties of the farming population. 1t is
proposed to establish signal service
at each county seat. and from thence
extend daily information to the local
inhabitants by means of the telephone
or the telegraph, or both Next to the
sailor, the farmer is more interested in
the weather than any body, especially
in harvest. and the benefit that would
be derived from daily knowledge of
this kind would be immense. A COM
petent State weather service, with sig
nal stations at every county seat and
at all the principal cities. and COM
plete and cheap telephone connection
Herewith, would not only keep the
farmer advised of the approach of
storms, but post him on the state of
the markets and give him useful in
formation in regard to his business.
The time will come, and it is not far
distant, when the telephone will be
used as extensively in the country as
it is now in the large cities, and the
farmer will call the village doctor, or
the undertaken, or give an order to
the butcher or the groceryman by the
use of the most wonderful of modern
inventions. Every farmhouse will be
brought into communication with every
other house in the neighborhood as
well as with the nearest village; the
isolation of country life in w inter will
be destroyed; there will be a wire from
the home to the country school-house,
and neighbors will exchange news and
gossip, though the midwinter blizzard
RACES outside in all its fury.-Milwau-
kee Wisconsin,
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-04-04
THE HOLLY TREE.

Something About the History and Nature
of This Beautiful Evergreen.
Although the holly is one of the
most beautiful of our evergreen plants,
it is comparatively rare that it is found
domesticated and adjoining the lawns
either of our suburban villas or the
grounds of more extensive and remote
country places. Many forest compan-
ions of the holly have been removed
from their parent soil and made to
flourish in all their original vigor and
beauty near the abodes of men, but it
has for the most part maintained it's
wild estate of savage freedom, and in
general is only to be seen in it's full
glory in the spots where it has been
planted by natures own hand. This
apparent neglect of plant which is
second to none of the evergreens in it's
ornamental character is due to no want
of esthetic appreciation on the part of
arbor-culturists, but to the belief which
generally prevails. among amateur
gardeners at least. that the holly will
not bear transplanting. and will
languish and die when removed from
its native SOIL Many country gentle
men and farmers have made the at
tempt only to fail, and the failures
have been so frequent as to discourage
many others who would have been
happy to have adorned their grounds
with this healthy, wholesome tree.
which, with its suggestions of the
Christmas season of good will, seems,
as it stands amid the winter snow, with
its red berries and wealth of glisten-
ing green, to be a tonic and refresh
ment to the spiritual nature no less
than delight to the physical vision,
and to bear on every Dough genial,
hearty message, full of good cheer and
hope.-Baltimore Sun.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-04-04
WEST INDIAN PIRATES.

How They Attacked Trading Vessels and
Divided the Booty.
The West Indian pirates were COM
monty known by the name of fllibus-
tiers or freeboOters, which some author
tiles refuse to trace to s'free'' and
'tbooters," Cor plunderers), and find
its original in the Flemish wlibot or
fibot, a kind of small, swift boat, spe-
cially adapted to practical cruising.
The earliest flibusters were English
and French hunters, who lived by the
chase and by their plundering excur-
sions in the sea of the Antilles. In
order to provide themselves with
common rendezvous and asylum they
made descent in 1880 on the island of
Tortuga, two leagues to the north of
San Domingo, and captured it The
settlement which they formed there
increased rapidly in numbers, and was
divided into three distinct classes-the
buccaneers, who were engaged in
hunting oxen and boars, the hides of
which they sold when sun-dried, or
6accGned; the inhabitants, who labored
at the tillage of the ground, and the
filibusters. who pursued the avocation
of pirates. The last-named were
recruited to great extent from
the French marine. and obtained
their chiefs among the Knights of
Malta But there were large bodies
OF English seamen engaged in the illicit
trade, and some of the most successful
and notorious buccaneering chiefs were
English captains. Their ships, at all
events in the early years of West In
dian piracy. were small and badly
provisiOned, and hotilla of three or
four would not carry more than $50
men. They took up their positions at
the mouths of rivers, lying in wait for
the Spanish trading vessels When
one appeared they threw out their
graphing irons and carried it by
boarding. Then they repaired to the
nearest island and divided the booty;
or, if their prize proved to be a vessel
of Importance, armed it as ship of
war, appointed to it a captain, and,
with the assistance of half dozen of
the foremost men, arranged a plan of
voyage, and, having settled every
thing. each mans rights, the partition
of prize money, and the extra allow
ances in money or slaves for wounds
received in combat, hung out their
canvas to the wind. In this way the
filibusters gradually (and even rapid
ly) replaced their tiny craft by we'll
found ships of goodly size and equip
ment. -Gentleman's Magazine.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-04-04
SOILS AND FERTILIZERS.
A Subject of Never-Ceasfng Interest t.
Progressive Farmers.

A Subject of Never Ceasing Interest 70
Progressive Farmers.
The principal constituents of plant
food are nitrogen. potash and phos-
phoric acid Exhaustion of soil may
be brought about either by the with
drawal of the ash ingredients con-
tanned in the crops that are annually
taken off without any return being
made. or by washing of the surface
that gradually robs it of its plant food.
Complete exhaustion would require
the removal of all the mineral elements
of plant food, which never occurs. AS
commonly expressed. a soil is said to
be exhausted when the crops pro-
duced on it cease to be profitable This
condition may be brought about by the
removal from it of one single neces-
sary mineral element of plant food. al
though all the others may remain in
abundance. In general the essential
constituents above named. phosphoric
acid and potash of the mineral ele-
ments. and nitrogen of the organic. ara
all that will be required to produce re-
munerative returns from worn soils.
providing a judicious rotation OF crops
is observed by which a liberal amount
OF vegetable matter is returned.
If all the vegetation yearly produced
was allowed to remain and decay and
become plant food. the soil would be
constantly improving in fertility, but
to make cultivation profitable aprinci-
pal part of each crop must be annually
removed ard used for other purposes.
Hence it becomes necessary to return
to the land mineral substances eQuiva-
lent to those distracted by the crops.
otherwise the soil will decrease in
fertility. If we had the power to de-
termine exactly what particular ele-
meut of plant food alone was wanting,
then the use of single fertilizer might
be sufficient This, however, can only
be done by chemical analysis of the
soil or experiments, or both conjoint-
~, and SO the attempt to supply sim
gle element usually proves failure
From this cause it is only safe to use
what are called complete fertilizers, or
such as in their composition contain
all the principal elements OF plant
food. and as nearly as possible in the
same proportions as they exist in the
plant to be produced.
Again. while chemical analysis will
reveal approximately the ingredients
contained in a soil, it fails to show how
much of these elements can be used by
the plant In the process of its growth
One or more of them may exist in such
a state as to be wholly unserviceable
until reduced to q soluble form by the
slow natural process of disintegration
and decomposition. or the application
of some chemical agent that shall pre-
pare them for more immediate useful
ness In this way the application Of
lime to certain soils often proves sur.
prisingly beneficial, although the
article itself Is not considered strictly
= manure--N. \. World
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-04-04
GOING TO LAW.

A Luxury Which No Sensible Man Should
Indulge In.
Law has been called q luxury, but
surely more with view to its cost
than to the pleasure men can derive
from recourse to it. Save in very ex-
ceptiOnal cases-such as the settlement
of great question of principle in
which whole classes may be involved.
and in which the parties to the case
are really representative individuals,
through which circumstance personal
bias or luminosity is largely removed
from them-law is the resort of the
foolish and imprudent- In nine cases
out of ten of mere litigation, narrow
mindedness and ill-temper have much
to do with it, and, once in, the whole
machinery seems contrived, by a
hundred little articles, to fan the
flame rather than to allay it.
We gratefully remember, as a
relief to the depressing story
of what we may call legal hunger, the
case of Ne Thomas Brassey, who, in
all his long experience as a contractor,
engaged in most extensive and COM
plicated transactions. only once al
lowed himself to be led into a lawsuit,
and that. he tells us, was in the case of
Spanish railway in which, unfortu-
uately. he. had a partner who would
not rest satisfied without recourse to
law on some point in dispute. Mr..
Brassey declared that he would not
enter on another lawsuit in any cir
cumstances whatever; his conviction
being that, even if you won your case,
it would not repay you for the loss of
peace of mind the strength taken from
your business, and the general disar-
rangement in your affairs consequent
on such process.
Sir Walter Scott, who knew well
what going to. law means, being him
self q lawyer. has embodied for us the
passion for law which grows with what
it feeds on in the person of Peter
PEBBLES; and Charles Dickens in moth
ing showed more humor and more
sympathy than I'm his most graphic
pictures Of the characters who like
Rho6ts. haunted tbs Old Chancary
cpprls ia London And Georee Eli6l
- ~ 'sllill on the Hees Ns1l nlp6.