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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-03-13
THE SILENT TOWERS.

Where FlocI1s of VuItures and Ravens
Dwell Among the Dead.
One of the most remarkable customs
of the Parsees is their method of dis
posing of the dead. On the rocky
crest of Malabar Hill, from whence
the admiring beholder looks down on
a magnificent panorama of city, sea
and bay, the Parsees own a beautiful
plot Of ground. which is ornamented
with lofty palms and Towering plants,
In this garden or cemetery stands the
Dakhma, or Tower of Silence"
The interior of this structure is
divided into three circular or concen.
tric chambers, each of which is in turn
divided into numerous smaller cham
bers. The inner circle is for the
bodies of children, the next for the
women and the outer circle for the
men. When a corpse is brought to
the cemetery by the rel atives it is re-
ceived by attendants, clad in white
robes, and, amid the chanting of
priests, is placed in one of the COM
partments of the Dakhma-
Almost Immediately the "holy birds
of Ormuzd," the sedate vultures
perched on the Palmyra palms in the
cemetery, swoop down into the open
tower. and in a few minutes devour
the flesh of the dead body. Swarms of
ravens follow and voraciously swallow
the remnants of this feast. Later the
bleached bones are gathered into re-
eepJacle under the tower. To most
Europeans this is horrible mode of
sculpture; but, as collating zoologist,
confess | think the swift destruction of
dead body by vigorous birds of prey
OF by fire, as with the Hindus, more
aesthetic and poetical than the slow,
wasting. worm-eating corruption of the
grave-a method that is just as revolt
ing as that of the Parsees. 1t is in OPP
position to sanitary laws, and is often
the source of disease. London It'd
Bits.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-03-13

How He Won and Lost Bride All
Account of an Uncle's Death.
Then this is your final answer,
Miss Stubbles?"
My final answer"
Nothing can move you?'
Nothing"
"Then my life will be lonely one
and my fate harsh one, for my uncle,
with whom lived, has just died and
left me-
Just died?"
Eyes, and left me-
That fact somewhat alters the
case, Henry. [ can not be harsh to
one who has sustained such recent be-
reavement. If l could believe that you
are sincere"
"Sincere? Oh. Miss Stubblesi''
You have certainly made an i'm
preston on nay heart. Give me time
to think of it. F"
''How long?"
AFTER all, why think of it? Henry,
am yours.
"Oh, Geneviever'
''Do not squeeze me so hard, Hen
ry. Your poor uncle! Was he long
ill?"
Three days.
at is too bad! You say he has left
you-?"
Eyes, he has left me"
How much?''
How muchP I said he had left me.
lie had nothing else to leave. am
alone in the world now, homeless, pen
niless, but with you by my side-Gra-
cious, she's faintedr'
Curtain. Boston Courier.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-03-13
a ONE-ACT TRAGEDY.

How he Won and Lost Bride All
AccounS of Uncle's Death.
Then this is your final answer,
Miss St1bhleSpb
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-03-13

An Austrian Pompeii, a special
Gays. has just been unearthed near
lara lara is the capital of the Aus
trian province of Dalmatia- Thous-
ands of coins of the Diocietian period
and OF other early times, rare speci-
mems of Grecian and Roman sculpture
and Byzantine architecture were dis
covered along the Dalmatian shores.
Amphitheaters, temples, catacombs
and other evidences of a busy and
highly-ciyilized community were un-
sArthed.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-03-13
-"Red-headed girls don't tan ali p.'

-"Red-headed girls don't tan, ehr'
said Poots, scornfully, as he laid down
the newspaper in which he had been
reading statement tn that effect.
well, when | was boy there was a
red-headed girl teaching our district
school, and she tanned SO much that [
haven't forgotten it to this day." and
ne rubbed his shoulder ruefully with
the thought--Texas Siltings.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-03-13

Missile Fl. Bedloe. Of Burlington, VT,
had disease of the scalp which caused
her hair TO become very harsh and dry
and to fall SO freely she scarcely dared
comb it. Ayers Hair Vigor gave her
healthy scalp, and made the hair beauti-
fully thick and glossy.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-03-13

When Baby '. IS sick, we gave her Castoria,
When she was Child, she cried for Castoria,
When she became Miss, she chung to Castoria,
When she had Children, she gave them Castoria
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-06-20
Men Who Follow the Plow.

Adam was a farmer while yet in
Paradise, and after his fall he was
commanded to earn his bread by the
sweat Of his brow.
job, the honest, upright and obedient,
was farmer, and his stern endurance
has passed into proverbs.
Socrates was a farmer, and yet
welded to his calling the glory of his
immortal philosophy.
CincinnatuS was a farmer, and the
noblest Roman of them all.
Burns was farmer, and the Muses.
found him at the pillow and filed him
with poetry.
Washington was farmer, and retired
from the highest earthly station to en-
joy the quiet rural life at Mt. Vernon,
and present to the world spectacle of
human greatness.
To these names may be added host
of. others who sought peace and repose
in the cultivation of their mother earth;
the enthusiastic Lafayette, the stead
fast Pickering, the scholastic Jefferson.
the fiery Randolph, all found a paradise
of consolation for life's cares and
troubles in the green and yerdent lawns
that surrounded their hOmeSteadS.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-06-20

From "Oueeaweek."
Over one hundred students enrolled
by Friday.
Supt. Grant is too busy now to be
bothered with foolish questions.
The hail storm Saturday broke q few
ranes of glass at the HerfHal-Pfef.
Gaines thinks hail is expensive.
Prof. Wright went to Marion. Mon
day morning to work for the &. N. G..
in the way of teaching reading for the
Marionites.
Several of the old students of the
normal are out trying their hands mt
the plow and this week they expect to
try harvesting.
The writer saw Mr.. Hobert on the
street Monday evening and was told
by that gentleman that he is well
pleased with his new quar- tiers. It is
told in secret way that Mr.. III. sets
one of the best tables in town.
The Reunion at the college Friday
evening was a grand successful the
boys-as there were only about thirty
of them and one hundred ard thirty
girls. The boys say it was Too much,
and the girls thought it was not enough.
Prof. Wright will give play in the
Grand opera July 4th, look out for the
future notices. Every one can 60 to
the play in the evening and then have
plenty of time to attend the grand hop,
at the old opera, given by the fire boys.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-06-20
nmGHBoRHooD NEWS.
Hoisington.

From the Dispatch.
Mr.. G. Samuels was over from Great
Bend Friday looking at the many i'm
prOvements in the town.
The farmers have been making good
use of the clear weather of the past
week by cleaning the weeds out of the
corn fields.
Wheat is on the rise at the great
markets. Don't get excited, it is only
few cents. DrOuth IN the great
wheat producing states of the north
causes the advance.
The Great Bend ball club defeated
the Lacrosse club at the latter place
yesterday by score of Is to Is.
Apparently the Lacrosse club is not
altogether invincible.
Providence is certainly smiling on us
this year. A better season for the i'm
mense wheat crop could not be desired,
the grain is ripening slowly and just in
the manner that insures full plump
kernel. We have so much to be thank
full for.
The Masonic hall has been fixed up
nicely during the past week, carpeted
and supplied with furniture such as
chairs, desks, etc. It will be used in
which to hold meetings of the different
societies represented in the city, the B.
of r. B., B. of L. F. and Masonic
order.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-06-20

The following composition on 1.-The
Schoolma'am" was handed to us for
publication a few days ago: "a
schoolma'am is a verb, because she
denotes action when you throw paper
wads At the girls. Switch is a con.
junction, and is used to connect the
schoolma'am to the noun boy. This
is compound sentence, of which boy
is the subject and switch is the object.
First person, plural number, hellish
case. A schoolma'an is different from
a boy; a boy wears pants and a
schoolma'am wears her hair all banged
on the forehead. She puts paint on
her face and has some big teller come
and take her home. Ma says .
schoolma'am never gets to be older
than eighteen until she gets married.
It takes two schoolma'ams all day to
cook dinner. optic.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-06-20
Book Notice..

The time so long waited for by the
reading world has come when The
History Company would allow incom-
parable historical series of Herbert
Howe Bancroft to be broken and sold
in seperate sets, and it marks a period
in the history of literature. Thousands
who have desired to possess some of
the volumes, but did not care to buy
them all, can now be accommodated,
greatly to their own benefit and the
benefit of the country.
The manner in which Mr.. Bancroft
accomplished his unique undertaking
is generally known to our readers-his
in-gathering Of material from the four
quarters of the earth; his expenditure
of the best thirty years of his life and
over million of money; the erection of
a building specially for the accom-
mediation and preservation, of his
priceless library; the writing of his
history, ETC., etc. Had not this been
done this history of Alaska never could
have been written. The country should
be proud of the man who has done this,
unaided and alone, and should patrO-
nize his work literally, as well from
motives of patriotism as ON account of
their merits.
It is a most fascinating study to follow
this author in his labors. 1.-The whole
story, ''says the British Quarterly Revieso,
s'Mr. Bancroft has told with much force
and eloquence and lmpartiality." The
New York Nation declares that
especial good judgement has been
shown in balancing conflicting author
ities," while the Sacramento Record
Union says that lin gratifying the
desire to add to the treasure-house of
the worlds knowledge, we are indebted
for records that will endure as long
as this country has a history" Sec
advertisement in another column for
agents, to whom most liberal terms
are offered.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-06-20
Galatia Items.

Galatia Items
From Our Correspondent.
The wrangle over the Galatia post
Office continues.
The name of our town has been
changed to Galatia.
Warren Vincent, of Great Bend, was
out to Galatia last week to see his best
girl.
What has become of 81. II. B." Sup
pose that 35,O 600 bushel of wheat story
was too much for him.
There was dance at Mr.. Hutton s
on Wednesday evening. The dancers
cooled off and filled up on ice cream.
The winners named: For Treasurer,
Krause of Walnut; for Clerk, Jones of
Great Bend; tor Reg. of Deeds. StrOth-
man of EllinwoOd; for Sheriff, Wilson
of Great Bend; for Coroner, Lightfoot
of Great Bend; for Com. Sd Dist. o.
Racy, of Fairview.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-06-20
Pawnee Rock Echoes.

Pawnee Rock Echoes.
From Daisy.
Harvest is here.
Good rains Saturday.
A silverware man took in the town
Tuesday.
Miss Dora Hanon went to Missouri,
Thursday.
Miss Mollie lies is visiting at Larned
this week.
J.H. Jennison is visiting his brother
Tom here.
Mrs. Kemerling returned to Hutch
inson, Thursday.
David Wilson and family have re-
turned from Clark county.
Joseph Rutherford, from near Wichi-.
ia, is working for 1. Goatley.
Tom Shaughnessy, of Great Bend, is
type-slinger in the Leader Office.
Geo. Ratcliffe has gone to Vernon,
Texas, to work for w. B. Newton.
J. D. WEIGH and G. L. Oneal, of La
Crosse, were visiting in town Sunday.
c.. Nv. Edwards, president of the
Kansas Lumber Co., was in town this
week.
OAd11Co ACWlS3 VI OulC<tSO, lOImcIIy
of this place, has been visiting here sew
eral days.
N. G. Breed has returned from Mon
tana, where he has been at work for
some time.
: A platform dance in II. C. Lambs
grove, Friday evening, was well attend
ed and much enjoyed by all present.
Uncle Phil Flick, south of the river,
is very low with DrOpsy and is not ex-
pected to live but very short time.
The Kansas Lumber Co. and John
Lindas have formed a partnership here
and both yards will be conducted by
M. Lindas.
Nichols & Haight have purchased the
butchers tools and cooler of L. X. Bene-
feel and are now running meat market
in connection with their restaurant.
Something must be wrong with
Pawnee. Twenty men have engaged
work through harvest in Fairview and
Grant townships. "-Hawkeye in last
weeks DEMOCRAT.
Fairview and Grant must have a light
wheat crop this year as the boys gener-
ally find the light work.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-06-20
EXCHANGE aLEAHIHas.

| Kansas is now the second state in the
Union in the production or manu-.
facture Of salt.
| Many mothers would expect daugh-
ter to 60 straight to destruction if she
associated with degraded woman, but
they never dream of investigating the
character of the man whom they allow
their daughter to associate with
Kingman Democrat.
: Marshal Jones (democrat) was
bounced Ostensibly for the reason that
some of his deputies filed on land or
town lots. Marshal Needles (republi-
can) recently appointed is retained, al
though his deputies did the same thing.
This is the republican idea OF honesty.
|-Hutchinson Democrat.
It is nearly three months since Ben
jamin Harrison became president, and
the government deposits in national
banks are still growing. Last fall Har-
risOn personally denounced the Cleve-
land administration for making such
deposits. Queer, isn't it?-McPherson
Democrat.
What is the matter now. Germany
is high protection country, but, never
theless, there are 9O,0O0 of her me-
chanics out of employment and on
strikes. But come to think of it we
don't have to go to Germany to see the
beauties of protection. We have it
right at home in all its glorious eff
fects.-Ness City Sentinel.
There is grim humor about some of
Judge Lynch's executions. A bank
president in southwest Texas made way
with all the funds under his charge and
then posted on the door of his institu-
ton: "Bank Suspended" That night
he was interviewed by number of de-
positors, who left him hanging to tree
with this notice pinned to his breast:
Bank President Suspended"
The results of protection for the
protection OF the poor labOring men are
visible in the east. The roads are
crowded with tramps and the protected
manufacturers have shut down their
works and are preparing to visit the
Paris exposition and the stony hills of
Scotland. It is a blessed thing to be
poor enough to vote the republican
ticket as the benefits derived from them
after the election drive hundreds to
suicide daily.-Harper Sentinel.
The cry of hard times is chronic. No
one ever hears of good times except
that they are always coming. If a man
is making money he don't think times
are particularly hard, but he is so used
to talking the other side he hardly ever
acknowledges the facts. If he is not
making money, he is blue, and then it
is ''hard times" as an excuse for every
thing. It is the universal cry, even
now when the business outlook was
never more promising.-Ka City
HOlSinQton Bank Rep0rter,
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-06-20
Olnitz.


From j. H. g.
We had a nice rain Monday fore
noon.
Farmers are laying in a supply OF
groceries for harvest.
Three or four firms are preparing to
buy wheat here this fall.
Peter Shireman and Mary Hardman.
of Otis, were married week ago last
Sunday.
There will be celebration here on
the 4th of July, and big dance in the
evening.
Harvesting begins this week. The
farmers are expecting on an average
of rs bushels to the acre.
Brack s. Kreisel are fixing up their
elevator, preparing for the big crop.
They expect to buy wheat in three
weeks.
Henry Zoos and Sophie E. King,
living ten miles north, were
married on the 9th. Pete Brack was
at the wedding, and said they had big
time.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-06-20
Cheek of An English OockneY.

1.-The dispatches on Tuesday an
nOunced the appointment of E. L.
Chapman, proprietor of this paper. as
Receiver of public monies at the Larned
land Office, vice H. M. Bickle, removed.
This appointment was recommended
by the entire Kansas delegation in
congress, and without the solicitation
of Mr.. Chapman. 1t mag not become
this paper to make any personal COM
ments about the merits, ETC., of Mr..
Chapman, as the new Receiver, but as
he is not at home, and cantin no way
be held responsible for this publication
we volunteer the assertion that he will
make one of the most efficient officers
that has yet had charge of the Receiv-
ership at Larned. He has been through
all the hardsfips of the new settlers of
this country, and while he will comply
with the laws governing his depart
ment, he will be of valuable assistance
to the homesteaders and preemptOrs.
Mr.. Chapman has been hard worker
for the republican party of Kansas for
years, spending time and money for it's
success, and is entitled to reward. His
appointment gives very general satis-
faction through the district Register
June 18th.
ONE has only to read the above in
Chapman own paper, written, doubt
less, by his own hand, to know the
supreme abundance of brazen cheek
and selfish egotism possessed by his
class of political manipulators. He
exhibits wonderful stupidity if he ex-
rects the people of Barton county to
believe that his slime and money" was
spent for ''the success of the republican
party" alone. The "hardships' he has
been through consisted of his incessent
search after Office, his scheming and
manipulating of his party to his own
personal ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. When
farmers reflect that Chapman has spent
time and money; has run about the
country for months at time; with no
otEer visible means of support than his
small newspaper business, they easily
understand his motive for taking an
active part in politics. In course of
time the people of Barton county will
learn that partizanship is not so strong
in the hearts of such would-be repub-
lican leaders, as personal ambition for
fat offices. If you recall the speeches
of such political ringmasters during the
last fall, when they promised
SO many good things that would result
from the success of the high protection
party, you will only be able to deseern
that the good things have only fallen to
those same ringmasters, while the
condition of the masses is in no wise
bettered. So long as people let other
men de their thinking and talking, so
long will such schemers as Chapman
obtain possession of the public funds
and handle the reins of government.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-06-20
CHERIFFS SALE.
State of Kansas, l.
Barton County,

Henry Gay Henry A. Norman, ct al.
By virtue of special execution to directed and
delivered issued out of the Goth district court of
the State of Kansas, sitting in and for Barton
county, in said State, will, on Monday, July "a,
A. d. 1889, between the hours of 10 O'Clock a. m
and O'Clock p. of said day, at the court house
door in Great Bend, in the county and state afore
said. offer at public sale, and sell to the highest
bidder for cash in hand, the following described
real property to-wit:
The northwest fourth % of section sixteen (16)
township sixteen (16}, range eleven t11), west, in
Barton county, Kansas.
Said property to be sold as commanded by the
said special execution.
F. D. WILSON, Sheriff.
Sherif's Office, June 10, 1889. 1916
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-06-20

Lad o0cs at IArnsl. Yaans.1
settler hes njed notice Of biz intenoa 20 ske 6ssl
pref IN support q his claim. and that sd 1sssl
will he made before the Register o. B0caivor n
lArsed. kansaA on June -. 1seo, viz Reinhssd
FSs8ef. who made Homestead ApplicAtica No.
1gsoi. for the southeast = OF section II, township
49, south IT range Is. vest.
lie names the following witnesees to prove hia
eeBtiauoas restdeDce upon and cultivation at MD
land. Wis:
Charles oabbert, L. B. Con, Henry Swhear,
Christian Giles, all Of Great Bend, Barton county
Kansas.
AHy person who desires TO protest against the
allowance 81 such proof. or who knows Of any sub
stsstisl Fessoa, under the law and the reguleaon.
Of the Interior Department, Why such proof snouto
not be allowed, win be given IN opportunity 1t the
above msassosed time sad place 20 cfoss-exnmine
the witnesses Of sid claimant. and TO or evidence
In febattal Of that submitted by claimant
sig HENRY w. SCOTT, Register.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-06-20
South Bend.

South Bend
From our Regular Correspondent x.
The Farmers are busy gathering the
golden grain.
G. Miller has returned to South
Bend to live.
b. Marley returned from Mo-, where
he shipped four car loads of cattle last
week.
The boys of South Bend have organ
lied base ball club anc are practicing
regularly, andoere long we expect to
hear Of them challenging the firemen
or lawyers of Great Bend.
South Bend is represented in the
Barton county teachers institute, held
at the c. N. c., in Great Bend, by the
following list of teachers: Miss Mary
McIaggart, Katie Marley, Carrie
Marsh, George Ward, Nellie Lamb,
and A. McIaggart. The institute is
proving decided success.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-06-20

A Farmers alliance has been organ
lied in Brown county, Kansas, which
will proceed at once to the erection of
a mandatory for binding Irvine at
Hiawatha. If this enterprise shall
prove successful, it will stimulate, to a
large degree, the growth of flax in
Kansas, which is already produced
abundantly In different sections of the
state, for the seed. The soil and
climate is well adapted to it's growth;
and if the means for the profitable uti-
lization of its fiber can be established,
it would prove highly valuable pro-
duct. If the manufacture of binding
Irvine can be made remunerative in
Kansas, the trusts" and monopolies
which its people voted last fall to per-
petuate may yet prove = source Of indi-
rect benefit to the state.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-06-20
CHERIFF'S SALE.
State of Kansas, /.
n.~<4n -EDnnt~ .

8. l. Nelson VI. F. H. SeweIl and Martha Sewen.
By virtue of special execution to me directed and
deIvered issued out OF the 10Th district cou OF the
in said state, will, on Monday, June "a, A. D..
1889, between the hours of 10 O'Clock .. m, and
o'clock p m. of said day, at the court house door
in Great Bend, in the county and state Aforesaid,
eer at public sale and sell to the highest bidder
for cash in hand, the following described real
property, to-wit:
The southeast quarter 60 of section ten (1ol.
township twenty (29), range twelve 12), west, In
Barton county, Kansas
Said property to be sold commanded by the
special execution.
f. D. WILSON, Sheriff.
Sheriff s Office. Great Bend, May -, 1889.
Maber Osmond, Attorneys for Plaintiff. S-l2
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-06-20
Mules Killed By Lightning.

Saturday afternoon as Mrs. Henry,
a widow woman, and her son were
driving home, and while just south of
the river bridge, a bolt of lightning
struck the wagon, killing her mule
team and shocking into unconscious
ness the mother and son.