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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-30

Tough citizen Ito fellow-crook, just ont Of
penitentiary)-Well, Bill, you've tried burg.
larry, arson, highway robbery, picking peck,
cts and counterfeiting and got caught at II
every time. What are going to do nows
Bill Cbitterly)-Pm going to join firm OF
school-book publishers.-ChicaG Tribune
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-30

Lionel-why do you remain In the ball
room. You are not q guest, sir.
Stranger-Ia am detective employed to
guard Mrs Van Stamps diamonds.
Lionel-But her diamonds are not worth
watching. They are paste!
Stranger-My presence gives them the
appearance of reality.-ChicagO Journal
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-30
Mr.. Hobbs Blue Boon

Hobbs-Where're you going with that
dressl
Mrs. Hobbs-Out calling; this II my new
directory costume.
Hobbs-Ah, / see, it helps you remember
the names Of the people you want to call
on Those directory publishers have long
AeAG;s--Deeroit Free Pres.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-30

-Beujan.in Harrison has been
President two months and SO far he
has strengthened nothing the
public service. nor his party, nor him
selt - Chicago News
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-30
A HUSTLING TOWN,

A Native Explains How 1t Got It's Pc.
cuiiar But Appropriate Name.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-30
In MEMORIAM.

A Romantic Story OF Memorial
Day.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-30
Written for This Paper-J

HE white lids OF
day, sinking slow
~ to repose, began
to cast long shad-
8 upon it g
peaceful C b e e K.
There were bronze
clio uds dawdling
through the high
pale sky, moved
on Iy In their
fray d, gid e d
edges by the low
west wind wan
toning downily
But for this wind
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-30
1882.

:
MI s "a W. 1892
.2sN - ksf EEP In the grass .
AZ ~ l3-$S maiden knelt
Wn3Et Turning the green
IHS4{& 2f2 ~ blades over,
a4AHi ~ kzk4XR With duttering heart
UlW3xy and anxious eye.
81 uniting four
~ |8zflkf r. 1eaved clover.
~ IN XXI No treasure rare Of
sSSS"s<s0- jewel or gem
seemed half 50 fair 70 her vision
n That slender wand OF palest green,
Prophetic OF lands elysian.
With joyful CRY she held the prize.
Ohi darling four-ieaved clover
Wilt BRING my lover back to me,
When this cr1ael war Is over?
wilt thou give him q sword, and shoulder
straps,
And honor. and fame. oh clover,
GIVE riches and health, and bring him back
When this cruel war is overr"
A faded woman with streaks OF gray
Her scanty brown locks threading,
In sorrow and loneliness took the way
Which many feet were treadtng
To honor the brave and noble dead
With chaplet and wreath and emblem,
With roses, and daisies, and violets fair
And lily-bells noddng and trembling
In a narrow grave, flag at his head,
Meath a simple stone she found him,
No hoGors, NO fame, no riches were there.
No tokens Of rank around him
No, none Of the gifts she had asked that morn
OF the treacherous four-leaved clover
Had come to the man who lay at her feet
Her youthful and beautiful lover.
No cross, no crown. no wreath OF bay
DID she place on the grave of her lover.
But, tied with ribbon of blue and gray.
A bunch OF four-leaved clover
Elijah eth v. Hyatt in Detroit Free Press.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-30

EEP In the grass .
maiden knelt
Turning the green
blades over,
With duttering heart
and anxious eye.
n u q ting q four
leaved clover.
No treasure rare Of
jewel or gem
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-30


him finally, and recognized him. He fired
with the intention Of taking life. Somehow,
Is seems that Brandon, alias Starbright,
lived to concoctf urther schemes of villainy,
among them the poisoning of Grace Penroy,
that he might, through forged will, seize
upon the million left by Morgan Vandible."
THAT will is not a forgery"
keep quiet" ordered Lura
ST have come near to the end of my
story" proceeded DR.. Cotton, with the ut
most gravity. "Before you went to Cali
Miss Joyce. She read your character and
despised you. Afterward, when she learned
that you were at Lone Hollow, she re-
solved to thwart your designs upon the
unsuspecting old man Vandible and upon
Grace. although at that time she knew moth
ing of the crime you had committed among
the gold hills of California
Disguise Fingal, the hunter, she has
been quite successful in thwarting your
villainy. Your attempt upon her life on
two occasions failed signally. She discov-
cred your attempt to poison her COUSIN
ssBy heaveni this is too much" grated
the Captain, white and trembling, at the
same time coming to his feet This plot
arranged between you and this shameless
girl win mot succeed In good faith came
here. scas the friend Of Karl Vandihle.
Ny name is Starbright, and"
"Do you deny that you attempted his
lifea' interrupted the doctor
81 do. most emphatically."
"You did not strike him down in Cali
forniaP'
NO"
"You did NOT set hired assassins on his
track but . few weeks since, and sink hin
BODY in . dark pool in tho woodsr'
White, stern, grim q fste was the face
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-07-13
Ripened Tobacco.

As tobacco ripens it assumes spot
ted appearance, the leaves feel sticky,
and they will break of short when
bent, and this appearance and this con-
dition are an Indication that the crop
is done close to the ground, and the
leaves are then allowed to wilt Then
they are taken to the playhouse. The
leaves should not be bruised or broken
in handling. and they must therefore
be handled with care. Sometimes the
stem is split from the top down to
within sixteen inches OF the ground,
before cutting. Those who follow this
practice say that the tobacco cures bet
ter. When this is the practice the
tobacco is hung astride the stocks.
When the plants are not split they are
sometimes srailed and sometimes tied
to the stocks. The leaves are stripped
from the stems as soon as the curing is
complete, and assorted into grades.
To grow tobacco on large scale re
ouires more knowledge than we car
rive. and more than can be got from
any work on the subject that is pub
lished. There are many things which
can only be learned from experience
Western Rural.
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CURES FOR FITS.

For fit OF ambition, go into the church
yard, and read the gravestones. They will
tell you the end of ambition.
FoR fit of extravaganza and folly, 90 to
the work house, or speak with the ragged
ard wretched inmates of Jail.
FoR fit of idleness, count the tickings Of
clock. Do this for one hour, and you will
be glad to pull of your coat the next and
work like negro.
For fit of passion, walk out in the open
air You may speak your mind to the wind
without hurting any one. or proclaiming
yourself to be simpleton.
For fit of repining, look about for the
halt and the blind, and visit the bod
ridden and afflicted, and they will make
you ashamed of complaining Of your lighter
Affections.
For a fit of despondencv, look on the good
things which have been given you in this
world. He who goes into his garden t.
look for cobwebs and spiders viii fins
them, while he who looks for flower MAJ
return into his house with one blooming y
his button-hole.
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To Make Good Crops

In the making of good crops three
things are essential. These are good
soil thoroughly prepared; good seed
carefully planted in good season, and
thorough cultivation, given at the
proper time. The growth and yield OF
the crops are largely dependent upon
these three items. and failure OF
either one will affect the yield to
greater or less extent With the rich
soil the elements Of plant growth are
furnished, the preparation places 1T in
a good condition to be taken up and
used by the growing plants. and in adj
dition aids materially to secure better
termination. For good seed planted
in well-prepared soil not only germi-
nate in a shorter time, but there Will
be less of the seed that will fail to
grow, SO that with these conditions
provided not only will a better germi-
nation be secured. but thriftier and
more vigorous plants will be started
up.
With these secured the next import
ant item is thorough cultivation, given
in good season. With vigorous. thrifty
plants at the start, good growth can
be readily kept up If good cultivation
is given. 1t must be given in good
season. as the best growth can be OBJ
tanned only by keeping clean and in a
good filth. If five or six workings are
necessary to give good crop, as far as
possible the first three at least should
be given in the first four weeks after
the plants appear above the ground.
If good growth is secured from the
start and the crop is planted in good
season, so that good growth is made,
the plants will withstand a drought
with more or less damage than when
this has not been done, and it is posi-
BILE, by securing this growth, to KEEP
it up by good cultivation. so that fair
weld may be obtained, even in an un
favorable season. But neglect OF either
one of the essentials will be certain to
affect the growth and yield.
The quality of the seed and the man
ner of planting largely determines thu
stand, while the fertility OF the sol
and the cultivation largely determine
the growth and yield of the plants tina
have started up. The best yield cal
only be realized by getting good
! even stand of healthy. vigorous plant
.. and then keeping up a good growth ur
,, til the crop is made by thorough cul
: tivation. The more Thoroughly thes
conditions are supplied the better tn
yield and the profit.-St. Louis Reput
, lie.
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The Dairy Cow.

Writing from Tennessee corre-
spondent asks: What do you call
good dairy cow We presume our cor
respondent means to ask how to select
good dairy cow. Any body knows
what good dairy cow is when he sees
and tests her products. Still there is
something more to COW than simply
Welding an abundance Of milk or even
an abundance of rich milk. She ought
to be able to produce a good CALI
under proper conditions. A COW, too.
ought to be just as good beef-pro-
Queer as it is possible for her to be-
without interfering with her milk-giv-
ing qualities. Much is said about the
general-purpose COW, but while we be-
lieve that the dairy cow should be
selected first and foremost for. her
abilities in the direction OF giving
milk and producing butter, the
beef side of the COW Is worth
looking after, for some good
COWS are much better beef-pro-
ducers than other cows of equal dairy
merits. Perhaps the chief thing about
the beef side in the dairy is quality.
Quantity can not be got beyond a GER
tain limit, we do not believe, without
injury to the milk production Prof.
Robertson gives these characteristics
as the proper ones to find in a good
COW: Broad, higa forehead; large
prominent, bright and lively eyes
long, clean-cut face; small, lively ears
dewy, lustrous nose with broad muzzlt
and oblong nostrils; long, fine neck
deep chest, full behind the elbows
unctuous, mellow, movable skin with
fine, soft. messy hair; round barre
with fine muscles under the belly; fla
ribs, wide apart; stright-back will
Joints loose and open; broad loin; wild
pelvis, slightly arched; tail shank
and bones all of fine structure; udde
large, long and deep, elastic in qualit
and not feshy; teats wide apart; thi
hips; milk veins prominent and tortr
Gus; thin, spare habit of body and ger
tie. quiet disposition
This correspondent also asks us
every Jersey or Holsteiu-Friesian is
good COW. By no means, The ide
that such is the case has done gre'
harm. That is one reason that som
people are always ready to jun
on the pedigree business They buy
worthless or inferior pedigree COW an
then they conclude that the registry
q colossal fraud. If q COW does n
possess individual merit never b.
her, whatever her pedigree may b
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pEcuLIARIrIEs OF PEOPLE.

LEW DoCKsTADER, the wellknown min
strel, las queer passion for pepper and
salt business suits, and has any number OF
them.
HENRY CLEws is one Of the most success
full fnanciers in New York and the head
of a great house. But it is Mr.. Clews' am-
bition to be rated a litterateur.
THE venerable Judge Thurman takes
great comfort in smoking. The cigars he
prefers are large and strong, and he was
seen to get away with two Of them in less
than two hours while on his recent visit to
Washington.
BILLY" FLORENCE is q slave to his hobby,
which is salmon fishing. He is said to have
the best collection of hooks and other appli-
ances for the pursuit of this fine sport In
the country. 'sBilly'' has also weakness
for practical joking.
PRETTY much every one knows the fad Of
Hon. James w. Hustled, who was so many
times Speaker Of the Assembly. It Is the
said he has different scarf pin for every
day of the Legislature and each Of an orig
inal design, too.
Ex-MAYoR HEwIrr's hobby is the study OF
our coinage system, and his ambition Is to
write work that will help settle the aues-
tons of the coinage Of gold and silver
which are now pulling Europe and Amer
| ica.. He has an immense array OF docu-
ments bearing upon the matter.
BRArToN Ives, the well-known financier
and society man, is bibliophile This may
| not seem to be an expensivepu pursuit, but Mr..
Ives manages to spend q good deal Of money
upon it. Only the other day he spent some
81, 200 upon q rare copy Of an early edition
of the Holy Writ.
s.NEDn HaRRIGAN, the author and actor
when not enga ged upon his plays, finds hi
chief enjoyment in hunting through the
second hand clothes stores, or driving bar
gains with Irish or Italian laborers on thu
streets for the fearful and wonderful gar
ments thata are worn in his stage represen
tltions.
JUDGE PATRICK GAvAN DUFFY is the hes
known and most original Of New York
police magistrates 1t is his fad to wande
about the corridors Of the uptown hotels
with his silk hat on the back of his head
and enjoy the salutations Of the throng
of politicians and men about town VIII
know him.
IT is a somewhat peculiar fact that Will
the Vanderbilt family has hobbies they or
of an intellectual and religious turf
Pretty much every person OF wealth an
position attended the great fancy costum
ball a few weeks ago. It was the socii
event of the season Cornelius Vanderbi
instead of going to the ball sent some otht
members of his family, and himself went
a lecture at the New York Historical Soci
ty. Historical research is one Of his 10
| bieS
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But such COW Ia consequences II her
breeding may produce good calves
A good COW must possess excellent
respiration, good action and conse-
quent vigorous circulation; good di-
gestion and good assimilation. Now
COW may be well bred and yet may be
lacking in the necessary qualities as
the result of bad management Hence
the necessity of giving attention to the
individual merits National Stock
man.
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HERE AND THERE.

Young ducks drink water very
often when eating and should be plen-
tifully supplied with all they can
drink, bu tshould not be allowed on
ponds until they are well feathered.
"A man who buys horse must make
use of his eyes. That is law and that
is what eyes are for. If your eyes are
not reliable in a case of that kind, get
the use of somebody's eyes that are.
As soon as q sufficiency OF green
food can be provided. cut down the
grain ration of the hens. BY so doing
they will keep in better health and lay
larger number of eggs AS a rule
too much grain is fed to poultry.
After each rain the ground should
be cultivated lightly in order to pre-
vent evaporation OF moisture. The
loose dirt serves as covering, and
shields the earth from the direct effects
of driving winds and the heat OF the
sun.
| Sorghum is an excellent forage
plant. but it is not equal to corn.
The seed can be proftably utilized for
poultry. Broom corn Is a prontaoie
crop to those who understand how tt
prepare the brush for market. Int
seed is also excellent for all classes o
stock.
Present condition points to yer.
rood incyease in this years whea
crop over that of last year. The lie
partment of Agriculture reports pu
the condition at "a per cent this yea
against 80 last. Kentucky stands Il
the list 81 against rs last year. Ten
nessee SO, last year 81.
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An OLD lime Partisan.

It is easy to recall to mind his familiar
figure as he sits, during winter evenings,
in his favorite corner.
In his easy chair, with pipe in hand and
his silver-rimmed ssspecs' pushed back
until they find soft resting place on his
beloved snow-white head, with eyes spark
ling and his face beaming with pleasure as
he calls back old memories OF days long
gone by, he is likely to talk something after
this fashion:
s.It's long time since was a boy. All,
but that was many years ago. Sixty long
years have gone and the good Lord knows
they were short enough. l was then as
spruce and pert as any chap thereabouts-
"Oh, but we boys were boysl Things
have changed heap since those days.
Boys then didn't take much stock in stylish
clothes and they didn't carry canes like
| they do now. Clothes and canes didn't cut
much caper then, but it was good hard
sense and work.
THE boy who could do the biggest days
work-could cut the most wood, split the
most rails, plow the most corn, was the
most euvied for he was sure to have the
sweetest and best lookin' gal at the 'singin'
school or 'apple-peeip'.'
81 tell you those were good old timesl
| luluh dLy ehAhS Va 6cAA6 WIZ y
mile or more to see your grandmother
and we didn't have very good roads either,
but generally had to follow some old Indian
trail.
"Talkin' about sickness then, there wa:
no sickness like now. If we had cold, 1
pain, or any thing, there was the best med
icine in the world found in any log cabil
home you came across. Why, remembe
that my old grandmother, God bless he
soul, she's been dead these fifty years OF
more, could make the best home mad
medicine for miles around. Her 'sarsapa
rilly' couldn't be beat. Come to think
lust read in the paper about somebody VIII
: is making this same old log cabin medicine
under the name of warmers Log Cabi
Sarsaparilla.'
ut does seem splendid to think that 20
can buy those good old home cures at th
druggists nowadays.
s.Mebby you think people were NJ
: healthy in those days, but tell you that
/, was mighty seldom anybody was sick lor
, when they had such good old gran
) mother medicine so handy.
0 sPeople used to be stronger, healthie
and they lived longer, when WAS boy
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SOUTHERN AGRICULTURAL.
Parasitic PIants..-Rust on Cotton.

Parasitic PIants...Rust on Cotton.
The Southern Cultivator recently !
had letter of inquiry which began In
these words:
'.Dr. Pendleton says that exhaustion
causes the rust on cotton. and your
veteran associate, DR.. Lee. laughs at
that He says fungi causes it. The
professor at our State college says not
fungi, but multitude of mites do the
mischief" The contradiction wit
messed in the above statement is easily
traced to a misunderstanding OF as
sumed facts. DIR. Lee does not say that
fuugi cause rust on cotton. but that
rust on cotton is a fungus. a living
plant that has, in the economy OF nat
ure. both parents and offspring. The
learned professor of State college,
the intelligent correspondent OF the
Cultivator and its editor, overlook this
pregnant fact in treating OF rust on
cotton. One talks about ''mites." an
other tells of cotton exempt from rust
on ..fresh land and in '.fence rows, }"
while still another regards potash as
the lacking element in soils most sub
: ject to rust.
Not one of these three gentlemen
appear to regard rust as parasite,
whose life is as independent OF that OF
cotton, wheat and other hosts on which
it feeds and fattens, as it is OF any
known place for spending the winter
and early spring months. Rust has
been known as living parasite on
wheat and cotton for more than one
hundred years. Stacks of straw may
carry a cereal parasite through the
winter, but how does the seed OF cotton
rust hibernate? Not in cotton seed, as
smut on wheat passes months and
years with its host The germs Of
smut lie torpid from five months to
year, according to the climate; planted
with a seed of fall or winter wheat
and then awaken into life and activity
and move at once from the buried seed
up and up the tall culm to the new
head and new seed forming. and seiz'
every particle of sugar, gum. starcl
and gluten designed for wheat to maxi
a sinking mass of poisonous smut
Smut and rust are very nearly related
Horned rye has killed thousands WHIT
eat rye bread in the north OF Europe
and it is about time to make whit
mans war Of determination agains
these hurtful parasites.
Seed wheat washed in strong brin
or bluestone water has all the germ
of smut killed; and If all wheat-grower
would practice this system. this hurt
iul parasite would probably be exteI
minated from our wheat-growing lane
From the cradle to the grave huma
life is a battle for existence with pal
asitic plants and animals Babes ar
hardly born before they are filed wit
worms; pigs. lambs. calves and coll
fare no better. Cats and mice, dog
and rabbits are full OF parasites;
are all fish. birds and insects. Ever!
where it is life against life. and it
madness to deny the truth OF this Wit
matter In destroying hotbeds Il
multiplying the germs OF malari
fevers in and near the-city Of Nasl
Vile, ponds and pools of water adapte
to breeding mosquitoes have disal
peared, and two or more parasites. Il
blood-sucking fly and pestilent feve
have left perhaps forever.-Daniel lie
in Southern Cultivator.
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DopGE & CHANDLER, of Cambria Mills,
Michigan, wrote DIR. Schallenberger:
We are selling five different kinds OF
Ague Pills. but yours are in the lead. After
trying all other remedies our customers In
yariably fall back on Shallenberger's Pills
They never fail to effect cure, ana living
in the midst of Fever and Ague country
we speak from experience.
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PERSONS subject to headache not arising
from acidity Of the stomach or over-lnaul,
have their ewes examined by skillful ocu-
list, who will discover any defect in the VS.
ion which is likely to produce the head PAIN
and if SO, he will give direction for the man,
ufacture or selection Of such glasses as WI,
relieve the eye strain which has produced
the sufferiug
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physicians wise in Their Generation.

The above class of scientists recognize,
and have repeatedly borne testimony, 70
the efficacy OF Hostetter's Stomach Bltters
as a remedy and preventive Of fever and
acme. rheumatism, want of vigor, liver COM
plant. and some other ailments and inhrm
conditions of the system. Experience and
observation have taught them IT'S value
They but echo the verdict long since pro
nounced by the public and the press. n,s
ica's tonic and Alternative
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AVN In Rothschild, Neb, dressed him
self i'm q shroud and laid himself carefully
into q coffin which he had purchased. In
this position he went to sleep When MS
friends discovered him, some hours LATER
he was dead.
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DE-. Wow BULow is q very nervous man.
At a recent performance no left the stage
in the middle Of piece, and returned with
q helper who moved the piano some ols,
finished the performance. The dimculty
was q lady who sat directly in the range
Of his vision was tanning herself vigor'
ously.