Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-06-27

wheat neld, out VIII snow up aIteF q
while.
Yesterday two little black negroes,
five to seven years old, passed this of
fee, when one of them remarked to
the other in an injured tone: "Willie.
Is I as brack as Richie!" Was it per-
sonal pride that prompted the inquiry!
Sam Gwinn got letter from Geo.
Kincaid yesterday, in which Geo. says
he is having a nice time-plenty of
fruit but nothing to do. Geo. will
some day tire of California fruit and
rarified climate, and, pining for the
old haunts, will return, like all the rest
do, to bountiful Barton.
Not satisfied with being beaten two
times in succession the Lacrosse team
has arranged for game with our
boys, here or at Hoisington, on
the 4th of July. They will play for
800, and if the same men are played
by both teams Great Bends LAOS will
carry off the ''scads." It is
thought that Lacrosse will have a
a new battery on that day. The
game will be an interesting one.
There is more than one way to kill
a cat, and more than one way to culti-
vate garden patch when horses are
not at hand to pull pillow. Just
south of the river bridge we saw an
old southern plantation scene repro
duced the other day. 1t was an
ancient negro hitched to cultivating
pillow, guided by the ten-year old son
of the darkey, as they stirred up the
rich Kansas soil, bringing smiles to
the face Of nature and sweet to the
face of the 'cOon."
The following good one is told at
the expense of an old Kansas farmer.
He was at q revival meeting when the
preacher called upon ali who wanted
to 60 to heaven to rise to their feet.
He firmly kept his seat. When the
invitation was given to all who wanted
to go to hell to rise, he still remained
sitting. "My poor perishlng friend"
said the revivalist, coming down from
the pulpit, "you don't want to go to
heaven or hell, may I ask where you
do wan: to go?" ''No where" was the
blunt reply, Il want to stay right
here in Kansas"
One day recently an old man,
whose name we will not mention, hav-
ing bought a wagon in this city, came
after it with his team. While hitch.
ing up, one of the horses threw his
head to one side to knock off flies and
in doing so struck the old man on the
head. The blow must have knocked
him crazy, for no sane man would do
as he thereupon did. He attacked
the horse with his bare fists and after
beating the animal until his hands
were disabled he reached out with his
teeth and bit the horse in the nose,
tearing large piece out.
Squire E. J. Dodge has a splendid
orchard on his farm north of town,
from which he thinks he will gather
some 600 or 700 bushels of apples this
season. The trees are all well loaded
and the apples are already good size.
THERE'S no reason in the world why
most of the farmers in this county
should not have plenty of apples.
Orchards are doing the best where they
are protected by rows of forest trees
fromthe cold winds of winter and the
hot winds Of summer. A good plan to
protect young orchards, while growing,
is to plant corn between the rows of
trees, and keep all we'll cultivated. The
corn shades the ground and keeps it
cool, and also keeps the scorching sun
of midsummer off the bodies of the
tender trees.
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