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Telegram-herald., 1889-04-21
ABOUT SLATt PENCILS.
How They Are Hade-The Only Iactoss
In the United states.

In the United States.
In the northwestern part OF the town
Of Castleton, Rutland County, VI,
is the only mandatory Of siA'e pencils in
the United States The slate rock as j.
comes from the quarry is 3rSt sawed int-
blocks as wide as tiss slate pencil is long
These blocks are easlly split into s.abs q
ittle thicker shan the finished pencil.
which Is about Sts-sixteenths of au luch
These are passed through planning ma
chine and over an emery belt. s hicll makes
then even and smooth. Next they are
pushed into the jaws If a machine called
q Crocodile" which consists % g pair -
steel plstte~ IN tie under one OF which are
SIX rows cf curved knives. each being set
80 as 20 cut a l.ttle deeper than the pre-
cediue one. These plough ont parallel
groves haif way through the slab, which
IL then turned and laid on n steel plate
having ridges which just ft these grooves.
This slides back under tie six rows OF
teeth 81 another crocodile" " which cuts
the grooves on the other side and leaves
the square pencils s.de by side.
They are then rounded and pointed by
holding them On an emery belt. nue one
man can thus sharpen about eight thou
saud day
This factory makes 5000 pencils daily.
and employs twenty-five hands "
might wonder where so many pencils 60.
but when we consider that there are one
~ tyso million school boys and girls. and
many ~ them rather careless. and thai
slate pencils are easily broken. we have uc
douhf tie factory VIII have its "lall.
full" &C. supply tbe demand.
Ihcold way - making pencils was fl
saw them ouf square from the elab one b1
one. They were then boxed snd d'sfrin
uted among poor families. who whitfiel
them rWnd by hand for about a hali
dollar ataou-aud.
r,ncls sre rade from slate much softf,
thau flie states uqol vilch they -fe used
sna VeIy nice pencils are made from sssI.
Telegram-herald., 1889-04-21
ALI the People!

Not making haste to be rich, despising
tricking as much as treachery and should
feel our manhood were hopeleSsly degraded
if we resorted to either in the furtherance
of any scheme, however great the reward
promised to be.
We want the confidence of the people along with it the
patronage OF the people and shall all honorable
To that end chief among which guarantee OF absolute
protection IN
Telegram-herald., 1889-04-21
Those who howl the IOudeSt and fIerceSt
are, "a z rule, not the proper people
10 pin your faith IL. la the hour
Or your greatest need they


VIII De fOunu
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-07-04
Making Hay.

The dairy is an incumbrance with
out good fodder. Since last year when
many were compelled to save their own
fodder. there has been determination
to preserve large quantities of corn
fodder in good shape. It is wise de-
termination. Good corn fodder is ex-
celent for cows. But some hay must
be fed and it should be good hay. But
it matter not how much nature may do
in furnishing the grass, if the crop is
not properly harvested we shall have
poor hay. The general rules applica-
BILE to cutting the grass are very well
known. 1t is too often the case. how
ever, that the grass is but too ripe.
There is no good reason for this. Beyond
a certain point the woody fiber in
creases very rapidly, and the hay is
poorer as the woody fiber does in
crease. Grass should be cut first when
it contains the greatest amount of nu-
triment- The grass, when cut, ought
not to be in a dry condition. Cut it
before it has ceased to be green. when
it is in blossom is the rule generally
laid down. There is one thing that
should be guarded against and that is
being unnecessarily hurried in saving
the grass crop. Be prepared to COM
mence cutting just as soon as the grass
is ready to cut. Have every thing in
readiness to go right ahead without a
hitch.-Western Rural
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-07-04
viCTORiA'S DAILY LIFE.

4 Peep ut the Inner Scenes Of the Queen
Of England's Household.
The inner life of the court has little
in it to tempt Sybarite-simplicity.
dutifulness, conscientious performance
of work are its characteristics At
nine her Majesty breakfasts alone. un-
less some of her children, grandchil-
dren or personal friends are staying in
the palace. and she is rarely without
them. In summer. at Osborne. Wind
sor or BalmoraI, this meal is generally
served out of doors, in some alcove,
tent or summer-house, after which the
Queen drives in a small pony carriage,
accompanied by one of the Princesses.
or she walks attended by a lady in
waiting or maid OF honor, with whom
she converses with friendly ease. and
followed by two Highland servants and
some favorite dogs
Luncheon is served at two, the
convives being Her Majesty's family
or royal guests Until this hour. from
her short after-breakfast exercise, the
Queen is diligently occupied with ON
cial correspondence and business OF
various kinds Long training has made
her a politician of no mean ability and
breadth of view. her natural common
sense forming an admirable basis for
such q superstrueture- It assists, too,
In enabling her to choose her friends
well and wisely. though the court sur
roundings are not calculated to helr
royal personages in forming . Just
judgment of character. Human nature
puts on a somewhat too angelic guise,
where every thing may be won BY
amiability and nothing By the reverse.
In the mornings the maids of houos
(they are nine in alp in waiting fol
the time are with the Processes, read
Ing or practicing on the piano. singing
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-07-04
EXOTIC LITERATURE.
A Protest Against tho Tendencies q
Writers OF Fiction.

a Protest Against tho Tendencies OF
Writers of Fiction.
The erotic in American fiction is a
recent and exotic growth. not native
to the soil. 1t is, therefore. un-
healthy and unwholesome. 1t is out
of place in this cold. northern air. In
its own climate it is gaudy flower;
in this temperate zone it is poisonous
spotted lily, rank of smell and blister
ing to the touch. The licentiousness
of Theophile Gautier is elevated by
the power of his transcendant genius
to the plane of true art. In America
it sinks into a denizen of the gutter.
A remarkable feature of this noxi-
Gus development is the prominent par,
taken in it by women. It is somewhat
startling to find upon the title page OF
a work whose cold, deliberately inn
morality and cynical disregard of all
social decency have set the teeth on
edge the name of woman as the au-
thor. We are so accustomed to asso-
ciate mOdesty of demeanor, delicay of
thought and word and purity of life
with women that certain set of adj
morality have come to include the idea
of femininity in their Specification. II
is certainly surprising, if not repell-
ent, to find women the most industri-
Gus laborers in the work of tearing
down the structure of honor and re-
spect for their sex which has so long
been regarded as the basis of social
existence.
If this breaking of the holy images
be but another manifestation of the re-
volt of women against the too narrow
limits of ancient prejudice, it is only
additional proof that misguided revo-
luton easily becomes mere anarchy.
While the dispensatiOn which would
confine women to the nursery and
kitchen and exclude them from broad
er fields of action is happily dead
letter, it is quite certain that no condi-
ton of civilization. however liberal.
will ever justify loose morals or lax
manners, or, what is almost as repre-
hensible and much more despicable,
the cynicism which sneers at virtue
while it prudently keeps its own skirts
unsoiled. But it is probable that the
women who write this kind of fiction
are misled by vanity rather than actu-
ated by evil impulses They imagine
that in thus throwing OF all restraint
they are giving evidence of originality
of thought and force of character;
whereas they are, in fact, counting I'M
worthy suspicion and winning only
that sort of applause which is thinly-
vailed contempt Magazine.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-07-04

The hair-dresser seized his soft
brown hair with both hands, and with
a vicious jerk removed it from his
head It was a costly wig, and his
head was as white and bare as bill
lard ball
THAT Is whym he murmured bitter
ly. ''And 1 am not only a hair-dresser.
but one skilled in every tonsorial art. If
there were help for badness other than
the skill OF the wigmaker. do you sup
pose for a moment that I, of all men,
would not know it, and. knowing it,
would not only have rescued myself,
but have saved to myself hundreds of
my most profitable customers? If that
is not proof enough that man once
bald is always bald. just call to mind
doctors of your own acquaintance who
are bald as glass globes They are
learned in the mysteries of drugs and
their preparation They know what
result their combination and applica-
ton will produce. IF any one living
were capable of curing badness some
one among these experts in the science
of medicine ought to be. You never
had occasion to go to a doctor to get a
prescription for badness. have.
Come to me for a cure for any
thing else.' my medical adviser said.
ANY thing else said he. and I will
cure you. But badness! Why my
dear sir, Esculapius himself was as
bald as-as bald as-well, as bald as
ann
''And he was bald, this doctor of
mine. An onion has more hair than
he had! No, my son. If there lurked
anywhere in all the medica, of not on
ly OF this age but of past ages, the
name of one little herb or drug, or
whatever you may call it. that could
bid even one hair to grow where there
had been ten before. there would be
no bald doctors nor bald hairdressers.
and the discoverer of this boon would
live longer in the hearts of men than
would the much-spoken-of individual
who is expected to reach the summit
of all greatness some day by making
two blades of grass grow where only
one grew before. Y. Mail and Elk.
press.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-07-04

or playing lH.n tennis with them. .
any young fsdies. companions togeth-
er. might The lady-in-waiting ac-
companies the Queen in her afternoon
drives and visits. which are most fre-
quently to the poor and to humble
! workers. often to simple gentry or any
one in trouble Afterward this lady
reads aloud to Her Majesty in her pri-
vate sitting room
The royal dinner hour il $50. and
that meal is shared by those of the
royal family then residing with the
Queen, by distinguished visitors and
some of the household in rotation.
viz, lord and ladies in waiting, maids
of honor. equerries and grooms-in-
waiting, this latter Official holding 6
considerably lower position than the
equerry. though TO the uninstructed 1t
sounds like distinction without diff
ference.
The Queen is a woman Of strict bust
ness habits and steady application
The amount of correspondence she
gets through is enormous In the
private portion of this correspondents
Her Majesty is assisted by her private
secretary, q lady-in-waiting, and q
maid of honor. especially the Dowager
Warehouses of Ely. one of the ladies,
who is a valued friend.
When the court is at Windsor. the
members of the household in attend
ance are one lady-in-waiting (thess
ladies are always peeresses), two
maids of honor. a lord-in-w waiting, two
equerries, one groom-in-waiting, also
the keeper of the privy purse. the
private secretary, assistants in both
departments and the master of the
household. The attendance is the
same at Osborne and Balmoral, with
the exception of the lord-in-waiting.
To attend to Her Majesty's toilet
and wardrobe there are five maids,
viz, three dressers and two wardrobe
women. The senior dresser. who has
been many years with Her Majesty, is
specially charged with the work of
conveying orders to different trades
people = jewelers., diapers, dress
makers, ETC.; one dresser and one
wardrobe woman are in constant at
tendance on the Queen, taking alter
nate days
Dress is a matter in which. even In
her young days, Her Majesty does not
appear to have taken much interest.
At present her perpetual mourning al
lows of no crude color combinations
Some of US elders have a pleasant, If
vague, recollection of Victoria Regina
q good many years ago. say forty or
forty-three. in a very simple and be-
coming bonnet tied beneath the chin.
wreath of wild roses under the brim
framing sweet kindly young face.
All. me! sorrow and experience have
writ their cruel marks on hers and
ours since then.-Cor. Philadelphia
Times
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-07-04
NO CURE FOR elLDNess.
Fortune Awaits the Man Who Can Solv
thu Riddle.

Fortune Awaits the Man Who Can Solve
the Riddle.
''Can hair be made to grow on bald
heads?" said a fashionable hair
dresser, in response to reporters
query: ''Yes-and no. If person be-
comes bald owing to illness the hair
can be made to grow again. In fact.
it will grow again without making, but
it can be aided and stimulated in its
growth by tonics. But if a person is
deprived of his or her hair by natural
loss of vitality. it will not grow again,
and nothing has ever been compound
ed that will restore it Natural bald
ness comes on gradually, and the awful
day of its complete triumph over the
hairs existence may be postponed by
the use of tones, but the final catas-
trophe can't be prevented. Long ex-
perience has taught me that fact,
although years .ago I had the
personal opinion of the renowned
DR.. Balm, of Paris, to that effect ]
have dressed heads for more than a
quarter of a century. Ihave lamented
with hundreds of my patrons from
whose heads not only the hand of time
but the indiscretions and carelessness
OF youth were gradually but persist
emily plucking the natural and often
luxuriant covering, and have annoint-
ed. drenched and plastered their too
apparent polls with lotions, tonics and
pomatums, and rubbed and kneaded
and manipulated their failing scalps
until. if there had been one ember of
hair life left slumbering there, it must
surely have been brought back to its
wonted fire and vigor, and have given
it up at last and handed them the card
of the wig-maker. If have used one
hair restorative have used five hum
dred. and every one was warranted to
not only prevent badness, but to re-
store to bald heads their sometime hir-
suite glory. Look at me- See what .
remarkable growth of youthful gloss Of
hair l have It has not changed in
twenty-five yearA Why?"
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-07-04
ZEPHANIAH EZEKIEL.
His Lengthy and Futile Attempt to
Escape Punishment.

1t was eleven o'clock on forenoon
when our grandfathers were young.
The scholars in Aunt Sally Wood
bridges long dining-room knew it was
eleven. because every day at that hour
the tin baker went down upon the
kitchen hearth with bang, and the
cOffee-mill, nailed to one side of win
dOw-casing. was heard sending forth
it's periodical clatter
In those days not only did the mas
ter of the district school board round"
but the school likewise accompanied
the master in his peregrinations from
house to house; in each of which a
room and II few chairs. settles or boxes
were set apart for the cause of educa-
ton.
The long, -old-fashioned dining-room
OF the Woodbridge domicile was at
present given up during few hours
of each day to this excellent use. But
no sooner had the masters stout ferule
raped smartly on his little green
table at twelve o'clock. than a trans
formation scene took place in the iu-
terest Of hungry Woodbridges.
l am an hour ahead of nv story.
however, and must 60 back. The
bang of the tin baker had just been
heard, and Aunt Sally's hand had now
grasped the handle of the coffee-mill
with its usual vigorous touch when
Zephaniah Ezekiel Trask, youth who
frequently varied the monotony of
school life by efforts to amuse HIM
self. slyly SHE'D small wad Of paper,
with the evident intention of lodging
it in the open mouth of q member of
the arithmetic class. who was deeply
absorbed in the interesting process of
subtracting one-half from seven
eighths.
Unlucky shot! The paper pellet
went wide of its mark. and CHANGING
from the forehead of it's intended
victim, struck the nose of the disnified
but peppery master!
The whole school saw it. some with
carefully-concealed glee. and others
with unbounded amazement, as if the
: whole fabric of Learning had been
menaced. On the face of one small
boy was such a mingled look of fear.
CONSERVATION and despair that his de-
lection was an easy matter, although
the master was somewhat advanced in
years. and wore huge goggles over his
eyes.
Zephaniah Ezekiel" roared the
master. take off your jacket and
come herei'
The old mans eyes were flashing be-
mind their huge casing of glass. while
his hand clasped firmly the long hard
wood ruler which could boast an init.
mate acquaintance with every boy in
the room.
To what extent the walls of his wrath
would have been poured out upon the
present victim, had not good-fortun.
in the person of Aunt Sally, appeared
at the door. l am not able to state
But certain it was that while poo,
Zephaniah Ezekiel stood in jacketless
detection beneath the appraised hickory
the mistress of the kitchen. HAVING
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-07-04
PEeoY.s HAND.

It is the baby's hand sing:
The baby's hand. So small tninR
Needs but little song. you say: :
A few sweet words that slip away
On sweet notes, falling one by one,
And then the little song is done 49,
Think you a breath will serve to sing
The little dimpled dainty thing?
If every apple bloom took heart
And TO the music lent part, snH
III every leaf upon the tree
Should tremble into melody
With summer wind and meadow iii,
And birds should twitter, pipe and trill,
Yet when the evening shadows fell.
There would be more than half to tell -
A little songt My love would reach
The sweetest words of English Speech
And finding every one amiss.
Blend all sweet words in one Wafm Hlss'
Sometimes with heavy heart go
About my household tasks, ana sioW
Tears hurt my eyes. All. then creep
Where little Peggy lies asleep
The white sweet blossom OF her haEo
kiss as there in tears STAND.
Tell me the secret Of that power
That sends me singing tor an hour.
The laying on of hands, see
The meaning OF that mystery
sing the DaDy manu. anu Jos
surely never would forget
The baby's mouth, the babys smiie. -
know I'd sooner miss mile
OF fiower-white meadows in the sun.
With lace of grasses overspun,
For daisies blossom every year;
Next spring her smile may not be hera
sing the baby's hand. But stayl
For know you not that on the way
7 mass the baby's silken hair,
Ruf1ed By breezes here and theref
To me 'twould little wonder be
To catch a breath Of melody:
What wind would seek for fairer strings
To give its soul Of music wings?
What mortal lips could be so near
And leave unkissed the babys ear.
Untouched the dimple that turks in
The tiny, rounded, fragrant chm?
And underneath the chin-ah! there
Lie kisses all unseen as air.
Yet there know they are, as true
AS they in clouds like white moth Dew.
All, Peggy Sunshine, dear thou art
Best of the treasures OF my heart.
The patter of thy little feet
know not from my own heart beat
All, baby dear. If this be true.
That all the love have for You
Is but a hint whereby I guess
At Gods unmeasured tenderness.
Then every soul of every race,
Guided by Love, will find Loves place.
For reads it not in Holy Writ:
HE seeketh till he dndeth it"'
I will be glad at heart and trust,
II Love creates, redeem Love must
But tits the baby's hand sing.
On. little song! Upon the wing
or rhyme and music flutter fast,
For now the day is nearly past:
And know st thou not at set OF sun
Thy little singing must be done!
For then begins the song that seems
To lure her to her happiest dreams
A drowsy measure. soft and slow,
or little waves that come and go:
A merry measure, low and light,
or ''lammies' tinkling home at night.
All, oft I've sung in tender tone,
Her little hand within my own,
While her white eyelids softly sank
Like white lambs on q violet bank.
Alas! the evening chimes are run2;
Her little hand 10 half unsung.
You sigh: you think the little song
BY many q word and note too long.
Poor dull of heart. what would you do
If should sing the baby through?
Christine c. Brush. in Harper's Bazaar.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-07-04

The Churchman, speaking OF the
death of Damien, the leper priest. says
that outside of the walls of Jerusalem
is a lepers' hospital tended by dea-
conesses from the German religious
houses. Year after year these heroic
women, without pretentiousness, with
out any trumpeting of their work, al
most unknown to the world. have
waited upon lepers. while they were
literally dying by inches Their
courage has only come to light by
the chance notice of travellers"
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-07-04
WHENCE WHEAT CAME.
Classic Accounts of the Distrfbution Of
the Precious Cereal

Classic Accounts of the Distrfbution OF
the Precious Cereal.
Wheat, which is now the bread corn
of twelve European nations. and is fast
supplanting maize in America and sew
eral inferior grains in India, was no
doubt widely grown in the prehistoric
world. The Chinese cultivated it 200
B. C. as gift direct from Heaven; the
Egyptians attributed its origin to Isis
and the Greeks to Ceres A classic
account of the distribution of
wheat over the primeval world
shows that Ceres. having taught
her favorite Triptolemus agri-
culture and the art of bread-making,
gave him her chariot, celestial We
hicle which he used in useful travels
for the purpose of distributing corn to
all nations Ancient monuments show
that the cultivation of wheat had been
established in Egypt before the inva-
sion of the shepherds. and there is evil
dence that more productive varieties
of wheat have taken the place of one
at least, of the ancient sorts. Innumer-
able varieties exist of common wheat
Colonel LIE Couteur, of Jersey. cultivat-
ed 150 varieties. Mr.. Darwin men,
tions a French gentleman who had
collected 322 varieties, and the
great firm of French seed mer-
chants, Vilmorin-Andrieux ct Gle,
cultivate about twice as MANI
in their trial grounds near Paris. In
their recent work on Les Meilleurs
Bles" NJ. Henry L. de Vilmorin has
described sixty-eight varieties of best
wheat, which he has classed into seven
groups. though these groups can hard
iy be called distinct species. since n
Henry l. de Vilmorin has crossbred
three of them, Tr5ticum rulgare, Tritf-
cum turgiduns and Iriticnns durunn,
and has found the offspring fertile.
Three small-grained varieties of COM
mon wheat were cultivated by the first
lake jewellers of Switzerland (time of
Trojan wary. and as well as by the less
ancient lake jewellers of Western
Switzerland and of Italy. by the people
of Hungary in the stone age, and by the
Egyptians on the evidence of a brick
of pyramid In which a grain was i'm
bedded, and to which the date
of 1859 B. C.. has been assigned
The existence of names for wheat
in the most ancient languages confirms
this evidence of the antiquity of its
culture in all the more temperate parts
of Europe, Asia and Africa, but Ii
seems improbable that wheat has ever
been found growing persistently in q
wild state. although the fact has often
been asserted by poets. travellers and
historians In the Odyssey, for exam
pie. we are told that wheat grew in
Sicily without the aid of man. but q
blind poet could not have seen this
himself, and a botanical fact can hardly
be accepted from q writer whose own
existence has been contested Diodo-
rus repeats the tradition that Osiris
found wheat and barley growing pro-
miscuously in Palestine, but neither
this nor other discoveries of persistent
wild wheat seem to US to be credible,
seeing that wheat does not appear to
be endowed with q power of persist
ency except under culture. Edinburgh
Review.