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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-23
CURIOUS HORSE TRADE.

How a Wide-Awake Stranger Deceived q
Michigan Livery-Man.
Speaking of horse-trading reminds
me of a curious trade Twas mixed up
in a couple of years ago in Michigan.
was in the livery business and
stranger brought in nice-looking
horse which he offered me for mere
song. The price seemed so low that
fell into the trap, but soon discovered
that owned an animal that no spur in
the State could goad into so much as
trot. traded him off to doctor who
prided himself on being able to ride
any horse that could be saddled. /
spread the report that the animal was
holy terror, and that no man had
ever managed to ride him. The report
reached the doctors ears, as expected
it would, and he soon made a bet that he
could ride the horse. The parties to the
wager came round, and. as the doctor
liked the looks Of the brute. / soon
persuaded him to trade a very decent
driving horse for it. / warned the
doctor against riding the horse through
the streets, and he said he would try
it on a quiet road. Well. he won the
bet. and the next day asked me if ]
would trade back if he gave me $50 to
boot / agreed, and lie told me had
better send wagon to his place. for
the alleged bucker could never walk
back. He paid the money over and
took away his horse. When sent for
the animal which had caused all the
sport found had traded for a dead
horse, which / had the privilege of
burying The doctor had felt so sore
about the trade the previous evening
that he had shot the alleged high-spir-
tied brute the minute he had succeeded
in dragging it to his own stable.-Al-
fred a. Parsons. in St Louis Globe
Democrat
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-23
SOME SHARK STORIES.

They Are Good. But to q Man Up 3 Tree
They Look Improbable.
: Last night. in company of con-
genial spirits, the conversation turned
on sharks, those scavengers of the sea.
Their vOracity. staying qualities, and
ability to swallow any thing and every
thing that came their way was dis
cussed at some length. A young man
who had never been to sea said he had
read stories of monster man-eating
sharks following ships for weeks. ac-
companied by an aching void which
able seamen alone could fill with any
degree of satisfaction-to the shark.
He had also read of a sailor who was
on deck one day grinding his knife,
with boy turning the stone, when the
ship gave sudden lurch. the whole
outfit went overheard and was swal-
lowed by shark. The sailor and his
boy kept at work, sharpened the knife
to a razor edge, cut their way out OF
the shark and were picked up by q
boat lowered from the ship.
The man-of-war's man said that
story was a little too improbable, but
that he could tell one himself within
the bounds of reason. when our
ship was in Honolulu" he said. Il
was ashore one day in the launch. q
small steamboat used for conveying
officers and sailors to and from the
ship. We were lying at the dock and
when the engineer attempted to start
his engine on the return trip she re-
fused to work. Thinking. perhaps, that
a rope or something had fouled the
propeller, the engineer looked over the
stern and found that a monster shark
had swallowed the wheel. and though
we prodded the cuss with boat-hook
it refused to disgorge the cast-iron del
icacy. We then slowed the boat
around. and heading for the ship, a
mile distant, we managed by jabbin2
the fish with boat-hooks, to make 1t
furnish motive power. and thus got
under way. The c0xswain stood at the
tiller and steered for the ship. but just
as We got alongside the vessel the
shark gave sudden lurch. broke the
propeller short of at the bearing, and
got away with it-Chicago Herald
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-23
SHOULD WOMEN SMOKE


Hrs. Frank Leslie Answers tho Question
In the Negative.
The rule is no, the exception yes,
but the exception is generally mat
ter of latitude. No pun intended.
Women in Turkey. in Peru. in various
tropical countries smoke. and with
them we have no quarrel Some wom-
en- profess to smoke by order of their
sincere pity. Other women smoke be-
cause they wish to be classed as Be-
hemians, and with them we have moth
ing to do.
Tobacco may be sedative, but it is
also decolorizer of skin and teeth,
and the girl who at twenty thinks it's
use cunning" or ''chic;" won't like its
consequences at forty.
Doubtless there is something
naughty. piquante. provocative and
amusing to men in seeing a pretty girl
or woman aping their own mannish
ways and offering or accepting a
eight from them, and pretty hand
Or wrist is certainly shown to advan-
tage in managing cigarette. but the
dainty arm and shapely hand must be-
long to very stupid head if they can
find no other way of airing themselves,
and the admiration that men give to
the woman who SMOKES is very apt to
degenerate into license
Every woman should know that her
power over man lies in making him
feel her to be purer, better, more
moral than himself If she descends
to his level, even in her amusements,
she soon finds that he is her master.
A man likes to idealize the wo oman he
admires. especially the woman he
wishes to marry, but if in approaching
the ideal with timid reverence he
finds her redolent of tobacco, if the
ed with nicotine if the dainty fingers
still bear the discoloration of the
cigarette fear the idealist would fee,
as did Lamia's lover,in horror and dis
may.
Man is attracted to woman by un-
likeness, not likeness, and the less we
dress or talk or amuse ourselves in a
manly-Or rather a mannish-way, or
copy him especially in his vices. the
more earnestly will he seek to induce
us to embellish his ruder life with the
refinements and beauties of our own,
and the grabbed old writer was doubt
less correct when he said: There is
no smoke without fire, and the smoke
of tobacco from a woman's mouth
shows the smouldering of evil fires in
her heart. Mrs. Frank Leslie, in N.
Y. Herald.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-23


-Tntolerance most fntolerantly de-
nounces intolerance
All passions are good when one
masters them; all are. bad when one Is
q slave to them
Some of the most powerful shots
made fail to hit the targets center
N. O. Picayune-
The family with sixteen-year-oid
boy in the house has no use whatever
-Somerville Journal
No young man with brains will
ever expect to find a good wife in
young woman who is not first q good
daughter
"A man gets his Lost advertise
ments free of all charge when it is his
reputation that is involved.
Traveller.
Curiosity must be awakened ere If
can be satisfied And once awakened
it never fails in the end to satisfy it.
self-Hugh Miller.
1t is good for us If the contrary
winds occasionally blow on US. for
after all it is they that make US strong
as we sail the voyage of life.
There is nothing more universally
commended than fine day; the rea-
son is that the people can commend 1t
without envy.-Shenstone.
knowledge must be gained by our
selves Mankind may supply us with
facts; but the results, even If they do
agree with previous ones. must be the
work of our own minds. Earl of Bea-
consfield.
If you have great talents, industry
will improve them; if moderate abili-
ties, industry will supply their def.
cheney. Nothing is denied to well-di-
rected labor. Nothing is ever to be
obtained without it.-Sir J. Reynolds.
Young people should never forget
that they have in their brains, and
hands. while the power of brains and
hands remains. actual money-yielding
capital more satisfying than bonds.
Once a Week.
The woman who creates by her
work and smiles a happy home, and
raises family of children to worthy
manhood and womanhood is the noblest
work of God, and is more entitled to
the honor and praises of mankind than
the butterfly of fashion in the political
or fashionable world
Happy are they who, when .sorely
wounded in life, can turn to the natural
world and find in every tree, shrub and
flower comforting friend that will not
turn from them. Such are not far from
God and peace. Only mind. magma
ton and refinement can embroider the
homely details of life.
Especially do we owe a consider
ate manner to those less favored than
ourselves; for with sweet flowers of
courtesy we may do something to
brighten an otherwise barren life.
Even the degraded are quick to catch
the gentle tone. None can withstand
the power of this true fairy wand,
whose spell we love best to invoke for
''our OWL" -Elizabeth Eddy Norris.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-23
Dakota's Morning Air.

Persons coming to Dakota will do
well, in the fall or winter. to rise up
with the sun on any cool morning, and
they will be well repaid for their
trouble. As the sun is peeping over
the horizon. if the morning is clear.
one can see for ten, twenty and thirty
miles, according to the levelness of the
country. One can see timber thirty
miles away as if not more than sig
miles away, raised high in the air. so
the sky can be seen between the MIRAGE
and the earth. Elevators and barns
houses and timber, seem to be mount.
ainous in size. even though they are
twenty miles away; the air is SO cooi
and clear that people and stock are
seen with the naked eye much better
than with opera or field glasses, and
persons talking with each other two
miles away viii be distinctly heard.
Dakota is a wonderful country. -Dun-
dee Oak Cor. N. Y. Tribune.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-23
THE FIRST cRENADiER.
How He Singly Held the Fort Against q
Army Of Austrfau8,


How He Sfngly Held the Fort Against -
Army of Austrtank.
Doubtless the larger portion of read
ers have read or heard of the story OF
the First Grenadier of France" but
for the benefit of those who are ignor-
ant as to it. I will relate the story as
heard it. Many years ago, in the reign
OF Napoleon Bonaparte, there was q
veteran grenadier in his army who was
noted for his courage and many brave
acts At one time during the war be-
tween France and Austria this man was
on leave of absence. Having to go
close to a certain pass near the
boundary line, he stopped at the fort
commanding the pass. To his amaze
ment he found it deserted, due to the
approach of the Austrians. Going
within, he found large supply of fire.
arms and ammunition left there in the
evacuation.
He knew that every hour was pre-
cious and that if the Austrians could
be prevented passing but for twenty
four hours it would be certain victory
for the French. Collecting all the am
munition and firearms. he loaded each
one and placed it at the loophole, after
arranging the triggers so with cords
that they might all be fired at once.
Then he barred the door and made all
secure as possible. Now came the
weary watching and waiting through
the long, long night. Just after mid
night he heard the roll of drums in the
distance. The Austrians having come
up to the pass. were deferred from en-
tering by rafting volley. They were
effectually stopped from forcible entry
by the narrowness of the pass.
After short parley the garrison
was ordered to surrender, but firm
refusal was given by the grenadier.
just when he was almost ready to
drop with fatigue the Austrians
offered capitulation. This was accept
ed under condition that all firearms
might be taken, and just after noon the
fortress door was open and out marched
one man, literally loaded down with
muskets. He walked to the command
ing officer, and depositing his burden,
saluted and waited in silence. The
Austrian asked in wonder where the
remainder of the garrison was. Judge
of the amazement when the grenadier
proudly said: II. by myself. have sue
ceeded in holding YOU" The Austrian
gave him a note to Napoleon, and he
was escorted. under a flag of truce,
back to the French. On Napoleon's
learning the case he offered the highest
rewards to the grenadier, but they
were all refused.
Yet ever after at roll-call, even at
his death, his name was called first,
and one Of the soldiers stepping forth
and saluting, would answer: ''Die6 on
the field of battle" Thus was his
byave deed commemorated more effect
ually than if he had been made one of
the highest officers.-Daisy Senoj, in
Philadelphia Press.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-23
SOUNDS OF NATURE.

Music whose interpretation Needs No
Ancient Secret Art.
The sonata has been called the most
perfect form of piano music known,
and in that. although Haydn and Mo
Fart exceled, Beethoven is the chief of
all the composers. and all that can be
said by a single instrument has been
written for the voice of the piano. But
although it takes Beethoven to make
the theme and its variations one. and
although it takes the first of mechani-
clans and designers to elaborate the
instrument that is to give them musical
expression, and although it takes pa
thence and skill and talent, and some
times even genius to be able to use
brain and fingers so as to interpret the
thought of Beethoven, yet there is an
other music. unwritten, and to be
played on no one instrument, and it
takes neither genius. nor mechanism,
nor industry to hear and feel and in
terpret these unformulated strains of
nature-that music which exists every
where throughout creation, which has
its tone in every object, which re-
sounds where the sea touches the shore,
air, where the voice strikes the hill
side, where the leaves stir against one
another. where the wind wings and the
stars soar through space. 10 read this
music one needs no ancient or secret
art, no written page. no Instrument
nothing but soul. One can not crit
iclse it; one can not say its time is i'm
perfect. its measures are incorrect; but
one can watch its themes develop al
most as easily as in the music rendered
by the player where the left had keeps
the time and marks the measure, the
''leader of the orchestra, "aS Beethoven
himself said. while the right hand
wanders away at its own sweet will in
all subtle freedom of variation to re-
turn to it again.
One hears the melancholy in the wall
OF the rising wind at twilight, when
the trees murmur together in sadness:
one recognizes it, marks it deepen and
strengthen, diminish and die away:
one hears the joy of a sea- breeze in
the sunshine singing in over the
crested ridges, and signing itself soft
ly away in full contest as it washes up
the sand; one hears the hum of happi-
ness any summer morning blending in
rich chord with the murmur of bees,
the futter of idler insect, the soft
rustic OF boughs. the singing of the
distant birds; one gets the note of in
enable sweetness and sadness in the
sound of evening bells strained
through reaches of air and floating
over water, of aerial remoteness and
alien Indifference in the faf-off feeting
OF the echo; one gets the Voice of con-
quest roaring on its way In the cry of
the wintry storm; for in every thing,
from the resonance of granite to the
whispering of a breath, the stroke of the
stone-cutter's hammer, the measured
falling of the fail, there is music for
the ear that can hear it; and even
when the tones held In the heart of all
these separate objects of nature are
not music in themselves, and struck
together make not music, but discord.
vet as the sound recedes it filters itself
20 harmony. for the discord dies before
me sound does. and leaves only at last
sweet sorority swimming and failing
along the air. -Harper's Basar.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-23
POINTS FOR ENGINEERS.
Useful Suggestions, Practical Hints and
LabOr-Saving Notes.

Useful Suggestions, Practical Hints and
LabOr-Saving Notes.
When using jet-condenser let the
engine make three or four revolutions
before opening the injection valve, and
then open it gradually, letting the en-
CINE make several more revolutions
before it is opened to the full amount
required.
Open the main stOp-valve before you
start the fires under the boilers.
When starting fires don't forget to
close the gauge-cocks and safety-valve
as soon as steam begins to form.
An old Turkish towel cut in two
lengthwise is better than cotton-waste
for cleaning brass work.
Always connect your steam-valves
In such a manner that the valve closes
against the constant steam pressure.
Turpentine well-mixed with black
varnisl makes a good coating for iron
smoke-pipes.
Ordinary lubricating oils are not
suitable for use in preventing rust
You can make hole through glass
by covering it with thin coating OF
wax-by warming the glass and
spreading the wax on it. scrape off the
wax where you want the hole, and
drop a little fuoric acid on the spot
with wire. The acid will cut a hole
through the glass, and you can shape
the hole with a copper wire covered
with oil and rotten-stone.
A mixture of one ounce of sulphate
of copper, one-quarter of an ounce of
alum, half a teaspoonful of powdered
salt, one gill Of vinegar and twenty
drops of nitric acid will make hole in
steel that is too hard to cut or file
easily. Also if applied to steel and
washed off quickly it will give the
metal beautiful frosted appearance
1t is a fact that thirty-five cubic feet
of sea-water- is equal in weight to
thirty-six feet of fresh water, the
weight being one ton (2.24O pounds).
Remember that coal loses from ten
to forty per centum of its evaporative
power if exposed to the influence of
sunshine and rain.-Safety Valve.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-23
TREATMENT OF MANURE.

Thorough Satursting With Water VIII
Keep II from Burning.
The ground where it is intended to
pile the manure should be nearly
level (for although it takes deal OF
water to keep horse manure from
burning, it should not be placed in a
hole or depression where water can
collect); make the piles about nine feet
i, or more wide and as long as the manure
will go or the room permit Build the
ollie as nearly Straight upon the sides
as you can, and every layer of one foot
| or less must receive a thorough sprink-
ling with water and be tramped as in
building hot-bed. After the pie is
as high as desired and heat rises, the
| tramping must be repeated for few
days until the pile appears solid.
There it is to be left undisturbed till
wanted. If good rain strikes it, SO
much the better. as the manure will
absorb all that fails on top of it
if the pile is fat. 1t should be ar
ranged conveniently for getting the
water there. Putting barrels on the
wagon and throwing the water over
the pile with a pail, did not prove
satisfactory to me, as the work will
often be neglected until one or more
days haulings have accumulated; then
the water will not soak through and
the lower part will fire-fang and spoil.
The better way is, if well is not by
the manure already to have one dug
for the purpose with a good force
pump in it. A tank or lot of oil
barrels should be prepared for the
water and stand little higher than
the pile is going to be, and there
should be rubber hose of sufficient
length with spraying nozzle at
tached to it. Do not think this
will entail too much expense or
labor, for if the manure is worth haul
ing it is certainly worth preserving,
and the more carefully and thoroughly
this is done the better satisfaction will
be given. There is a difference be-
tween heating and fire-fanging. Iwant
manure to heat to a considerable ex-
tent in order to destroy grass seeds
contained in it, and to hasten decom-
position. Horse manure treated as
above is the best covering and mulch
for Strawberries that I can find. As to
swine. think they are entirely out of
place on large pile of heating horse
manure; they like to lie on it, but they
generally take cold from it, and it is
the worst place for them to lie down.
Roofing it over and exposing it to
the air is of no benefit to the
manure. Where small quantities of
are thrown out daily or week.
ly, cattle tramping and lying down on
it will preserve it in the best manner.
] compost nearly all the manure use
and do not spread Or pile any on land
that want to plow early in spring,
until the ground is dry enough to
pillow; then having the manure a. hand
and in good condition. man can
spread half an acre and pillow it the
same day. If the manure is spread in
winter, it may be better for the land,
but it keeps the latter wet or heavy
too long in spring and renders it unfit
for early gardening. At least this is
the case with my soil unless the manure
has been perfectly rotten.-Cor Ru raj
New Y orker.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-23
TREATMENT OF HOGS.
How to Build Good and Comfortable
House for POrkers.

How to Build a Good and Comfortable
House for Porkers.
1t is "a feet 8 inches long, 161 feet
wide; is built so the front end forms
the yard fence running north from the
house, the east side of house forming
west side of lane fence; lane running
square up to yard fence. The house
is weather-boarded with dropped
Notwithstanding and painted. has
nice windows and a good panel door in
front. Next to yard in front or south
end is a room cut off, IA feet 8
inches by 16a feet, to cook feed in and
to keep feed in. The next pen north,
24x1O4 feet, is used to feed in. Flat
bottomed troughs are placed around
the walls for slop feed. This room
is ioored with two-inch oak plank
ing. In center on the floor we
feed the corn, and let the hogs
IN at the east side from the
lane. Just north of the house is
gate across the lane to keep the hogs
from the house, if you choose. Over
this part of the house joists running
long ways of the house ~ feet long,
bottom edge 6 inches above head, with
cleats nailed on lower edge for gambril
stick to lay on, north end of joists to
lay on partition. south end hung with
large bolt going through between
lower jOists 2x1O inches, and up be-
tween two running the other way.
When we butcher. the floor may be
washed up clean and nice. Our gam
bril- sticks are cut so as to fit between
joists with a notch on top side, so as
to hold ham string. Then we have no
pole in the way in quitting; have box
to stand on SO as to be high enough;
have big turner hay pulley and rope
to pull up hogs with one hand. The
north pen same way about feeding; it
is 16x164, trough around to feed slop
from.
We have cooked about $50 bushels
of potatoes, meal and bran with them,
then lots of pumpkins, cabbage leaves,
potato-peelings, and, in fact, every
thing we could get hold of. and fat
tened 45 hogs. 1 have 1873 head of
stock hogs. The furnace walls run
from fue, which is far enough from
east wall to leave a good passa4e-way
to west wall. have left about feet
of a hole on the west end of furnace to
get down in to make fire, sides being
filled up to top of furnace with gravel,
forming cook-room floor. In bad
weather we can cook as well as in good
weather; have two gas-lamps; can cook
OF. feed as we'll at night as day Any
one, 1 think, who will build such a
house and use it right will be well paid
and well satisfied. =,
Hope some one will try this plan, as
no one can afford to cook in cold and
rain or hot sun, nor to carry meal from
barn or some other place. water from
somewhere else, and slop across the
road or barn lot, or edge of pasture.
By this plan 81 900, 900 could be saved
in year in Indiana Indiana Farmer.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-23

The latest woman's club is a New
York organization It is called the
Kindly Club. and its object is the sup
preston of 'sevil speaking. lying and
slandering" It has a;wide field for fits
work.