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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-06-13
QUick-wlTTED WOMEN.

Verbal Punishment They Infict on Incon.
siderate Members OF Their Sex.
The GOODNESS with which woman
will punish woman is only matched
by the celebrity ofs the performance.
saw Mrs. Blaine in this role lately.
She was passing down Broadway when
she met a lady who returned her quiet
smile of recognition by the rudest of
I-don't-you-know stares. Mrs. Blaine
went on a few steps. suddenly wheeled.
passed by her quondam acquaintance.
and paused before a store window till
the latter came up; then, advancing
with extended hand and a bright
smile, she exclaimed: ''Oh. / beg
pardon for passing you without recog-
milton moment ago; was lost in
thought till too late" The exquisite
assurance was irresistible, and the
gloves of punisher and punished
touched for an instant, when Mrs.
Blaine snatched another laurel leaf by
adding: '.Pray excuse me- am on
the way to rehearsal" and continued
her leisurely walk down the street
Quite as prompt and effective was
the action of thin, keen-eyed woman
whom I saw in the millinery depart
ment of big store. Spinster was
written all over her face. and a defiance
of age was noticeable in the material
and cut of her wardrobe She informed
the saleswoman that her bonnet must
be bought then and there. She was
too tired of shopping to go a step fur
Their. The willing but inconsiderate
clerk took down q bonn of sober
character, with the remark: This,
think. will please you; it is very suit
able for a middle-aged lady" The
spinster quietly requested her to put
the bonnet on her own head, which the
unsuspecting woman. herself of an I'M
certain age, promptly did. Then. look
ing her full in the face, the irate and
ancient maiden sweetly said: ''It fits
you perfectly. perfectly; you were
right, it is just the bonnet for middle
aged person" The saleswoman bit
her lip and removed the bonnet in
speechless chagrin. She knew her
want of tact had cost her a customer.
The bonnet was sought for elsewhere.
Not less striking, and somewhat
questionable as to good taste. was an
instance of this verbal punishment
that saw while lunching at fashion
able restaurant Two quietly-dressed
ladies, evidently strangers. were at a
table near me, and both had CHANGED
to call for chicken-pie. Presently two
stylish. busting ladies took the seats
opposite. and one reaching for the bill
Of fare and glancing at the plate OF
her vis-a-vis, said to her companion:
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-06-13
HOW GRANT MET DEATH.

HIS Physician Thinks Him the Bravest
Man He Ever Saw.
1.-The bravest person in the face of
death have ever seen was General
Grant," said DR.. Shrady in a recent
interview. General Grant in his last
illness was an example of a man who
could face death without fear. Grant
was a man who had faced death many
time and had schooled himself to ex-
pect it.
HE was prepared in every way for
it, and I think that every thing that
has been said about his bravery and
his firm determination to be hero to
the very last has not been exaggerated
at all. To one who saw him during
his trial-and it was one of the most
severe trials any one could have-he
appeared to be the typical hero.
He was the type of a thoroughly
well-educated man. who, like all edu-
Gated men, did not expect impossible
things to occur. and knowing that he
had to die, he faced it bravely. He
said to me one day:
81 have been thinking of taking
this journey all my life, and now that
the time has come am ready to start
This was the only reference I ever
heard him make to his approaching
end.
His great idea was to be free from
pain if possible, and he asked me if it
could be guaranteed, thus showing that
his mind was fully made up to the in
evitable character of the disease and
the end that was to come. assured
him that it was quite possible, and we
kept our promise.
He died without pain, which was
his reward. He faced the music like
the grand old soldier that he was.
He was no doubt buoyed up by the
sympathy of his friends. He would sit
and look off in the distance in a sad
and dreamy sort of way, which inn
pressed those about him with the fact
that his thoughts were beyond the line
of time.
ITO sum up, he was type to all the
world of how a man can meet death
with calmness and bravery. IN. Y.
Journal.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-06-13
POTATO CULTURE.

full Market Gardener.
have before me several inquiries
about the best modes of planting Irish
potatoes, and will dispose of them,
rather summarily, by giving a review
of what l consider the essential points.
l. Prepare the land so thoroughly
that the whole depth of the surface
soil is perfectly broken up and mel
low.
2. Be liberal with fertilizer, select
ing high-grade. special potato ma
nuer Cor whatever is thought to answer
the particular case best), applying
part of it broadcast, and part in the
drills above the seed pieces.
3. Strike out burrows three feet
apart running a trenching pillow or
winged shovel pillow repeatedly in the
bottom of the furrow without going
into the subsoil; then refill the burrows
partly before planting, 50 that the seed
will be four inches below the level OF
the ground,
4. Select varieties known to do well
in your particular locality, and use
fresh. plump seed.
8. Place good-sized chunk, with as
few eyes as you wish, every six to
eighteen inches apart in the row, &C
cording to variety whether dwarf or
tally, size of pieces and local con-
ditions; then cover two inches deep,
putting the fertilizer on top.
6. When the young plants begin to
push through the two-inch covering,
gradually fill up the trenches by CIV
ing the field thorough narrowing
with the smoothing harrow. Repeat
the narrowing once or twice, until the
plants are we'll up.
z. Afterward to keep the surface of
the ground between the rows thor
oughly pulverized by the free use of
the horse hoe-one with very narrow
blades.
8. Prevent injury from potato
beetles. by keeping the vines well
busted with a mixture of Paris green
and plaster-one pound of the former
to barrel of the latter-well shaken
before taken.
9. At last cultivation, just before
the vines occupy the entire ground,
use blades that will throw just enough
soil upon the rows to choke out what
weeds may have started among the
plants.-Farm and Fireside.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-06-13

ibid you ever try their boneless chick-
en-piee" mo" was the answer. .-and
I'd rather not. If you please. Nobody
in New York but Delmonico can cook
chicken Pie here wouldn't be 1it
to eat" and her handkerchief sent
q perfumed remonstrance to chick
en-pie in the very faces of tho
ladies opposite. who continued their
luncheon unmoved. apparently till the
newcomers had settled down to tomato
soup. Then the blow came from the
elder of the chicken-pie consumers in
the remark to aer neighbor: by the
way. when you go to Delnaonico's again
try their tomato soup. Tiers nothing
in the city like it. 1 never touch it
since friend of mind saw a scullion
drop his dish-cloth into the boiling pot
and then composedly fish it out, with
no further comment than that it would
color and flavor the SOUP" Two spoons
were dropped, and the white-faced
creatures with handkerchiefs over their
mouths disappeared in the direction Of
the dressing-room- beg your par
don. said the punisher to her aston
ished neighbor. II beg your pardon for
addressing you SO Familiarity. as I
crave your dissolution from my con-
science for the fib 1 told. but that
woman needed lesson, and think
she has had it IN. Y. Sun.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-06-13
THE FASTEST TRAIN.

Experience OF the Train That Ran Away
at ITO Miles an Hour.
The papers of the country recently
contained q dispatch to the effect that
a runaway train on the Duluth & Iron
Range railroad attained the frightful
81 ee of ITO miles an hour before being
wre ,ked. An interesting account of
the wild ride is given by Superintend-
ent Sydney T. Pope. OF the road. for
merly a Boston man. He wrote to q
friend as follows:
Il had been up the road the day be-
fore, and coming back had my car
hitched on the rear of the ore train.
All the cars had been newly equipped
with air-brakes, which worked all right
until we reached the big hill which ex-
tends back from here (Two Harbors,
Mich. about twelve miles. When we
were about three miles from the sum-
NIT the air gave out and the train ran
away. 1 was asleep at the time it
started, and when we had gone about
three miles the conductor woke me.
We were going then faster than / ever
rode before. and knowing that the train
was sure to leave the track soon, we
cut off our Car. As soon as we set
our brakes the train was out of
sight like a flash. We followed up
slowly, and in about twelve miles
found them in a ditch. The cars evil
IDENTIFY left the track first and dragged
back on the engine, stopping her with
out throwing her of the track very
badly. The fireman and head brake
man, both of whom were on the en-
CINE. were not even scratched. The
engineer had one leg broken, but is
doing we'll 1t is a wonder that the
engineer was not killed, as the rods on
the engine broke and smashed the cab
almost to pieces He thinks he fell
through the bottom of the cab just as
the engine left the track. The ma
chinery of the engine is, most of it,
literally burnt up, owing to the fric-
ton of the great speed, and the en-
gineer says that the last part of the
way the lower part of the engine
and the track looked like a streak
of fire. OF course it was only
a guess. but / don't think the state
ment made that the train was running
ITO miles an hour was much of an ex-
aggeration. Two-thirds of the cars
were total wreck. If the speed was
IOO miles an hour and the train went
but one mile and a half after the car
was cut of, it may be called a close
call for the occupants of the carr
Boston Letter.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-06-13
POISONOUS WALLPAPER.

Some New Facts Prescribed by the Bos-
ton Medical Improvement Society.
The subject of poisonous paper
hangings has lately been discussed. in
the light of some new facts. by the
Boston Society for Medical Improve
ment
Some of the important papers still
contain arsenic in quite dangerous
amounts. and even American manufact-
urers. though they use less arsenic
than formerly. are not yet wholly
within the limits of safety. 1t is found
that one-tnird of grain to a square
yard is decidedly deleterious; but
papers are in use that analysis shows
to contain ten, fifteen. and even twenty
grains.
The following are important facts in
the case:
1. The harm varies, as would natur-
ally be supposed, inversely with the
individuals power of elimination.
This power may be fully adequate in
some persons, and quite inadequate in
others.
2. The symptoms of two persons in
juriously affected by the same expos
ure and the results may be quite diff
ferent Inflammation of the kidneys for
instance, may be induced in the one,
and not at all in the other.
8. Arsenic may not give rise to the
ordinary symptoms of arsenical poi
soning, but may stir up and strengthen
dormant, morbid tendencies, and thus
divert attention from the true disturb
ing cause.
HI -
square yard is likely to harm an adult,
young child may be injured by q
mere trace, and the cause of the trouble
may be wholly unsupported.
5. While arsenic is not a cumulative
poison, like lead, yet it is very slowly
eliminated from the body. 1t requires
weeks, and sometimes even months, to
effect its complete expulsion after re-
moval from an arsenious atmosphere.
Hence inhaling it constantly, perhaps
day and night, may cause a very dam
gerous accumulation of the poison in
the system. This accumulation Will
be very rapid if the organs of elimina-
ton, one or more of them. are feeble.
6. A new and conclusive method OF
detecting the presence of arsenic In
the system has been discovered. which
leaves no room for doubt This test
has been applied in many cases. and
has led to the removal of the paper
from the wall, or of the patient from
the room, followed by relief. and. in
due time, by full cure
z. The covering of arsenical paper
by non-arsenical is not sufficient to re-.
move danger, for though this exPedl-
emit may prevent the arsenical dust
from impregnating the air. yet it Is
surmised that moisture develops q
volatile arsenious compound. which
readily finds its way into the air OF tns
eoom-Youth's Companion.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-06-13

sionary to see II he would go back to
marry Chris and Hilda, and then We
heard the shrek of the engine. and the
long train rolled in.
Pete was standing on the platform,
his long fur-cap pulled down over his
ears, his hands thrust into the pockets
Of his coat that reached the ground.
He was as stiff as an image.
Several passenger alighted, and I
was beginning to wonder which Of
them we were to carry back, when
suddenly Pete gave q great shout,
dashed among them. and threw his
arms about y young girl.
ut are Ola, he cried. cit are my
own Ola"
And sure enough it was. The peo-
pie looked from the Car windows and
smiled, as the train moved away, and
Pete was too much excited to say
any thing but ut are Ola, it are
Ola"
And no one was more surprised than
Ola herself Hilda had dreaded the
lonely journey. and had persuaded her
friend Ola to come. too. and keep her
company, and make q visit.
We managed to find room for all in
the sleigh. and drove to Pete's dug
out where Chris and Hilda were mar
ried. And Ola told how, on her pas
sage over, she lost the one letter she
had received from her father, and had
no means of knowing his address. and
had come on to Minnesota and found
work there And then she set herself
to putting two dug-outs to rights.
Chris and Pete are both to build
neat little frame houses next year,
and their farms are already in fine con-
dition.-Hugh Mitchell, in N. Y. Ex-
aminer.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-06-13

The Pension Office clerks wash
ington) buy cigars and chewing to-
bacco OF the oldest Of the three living
relations of General Washington. Col
onel Ebenezer Burgess Ball. who looks
so much like the immortal President
that strangers who know nothing of
him frequently remark the resem-
blance. He keeps cigar stand just
to the right of the southern entrance
to the Pension Office building. He is
strikingly handsome old man, and
wears his long white hair in the col O
NAL style.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-06-13

Young clover eaten when wet II
fruitful of bloat
"A mess of cooked meat. chopped.
Is an excellent food for the hens. in or
der to promote laying.
The quickest way to fatten an old
COW is to confine her in q small yard
and give her all the sround grain and
hay she can eat She should be got
ten in condition in as short q time as
possible.
"A craze for taking flowers to
school recently sprung up among chill
dren in Athens, Ga, and eventually
resulted In so much extra work for the
janitors that an order excluding flowers
from class rooms had to be issued
II never 60 by the calendar or
newspapers" says the best of natural
lists, the hale old farmer "Itrv seed
corn in the trial pans, have nv ground
fitted, and when / hear the bobolini
laughing up in the meadow Iput it in
the ground"
Young weeds and grass come up
after each rain. No matter how often
the ground may be cultivated there
seems always to be q few more seed of
weeds left and they germinate at in
tervals during the season. To destroy
them run the cultivator over the ground
after each rain.
Potatoes Drowned with the roast
beef make an occasional pleasant
change, and this is an especially good
way to prepare new potatoes. Parboil
them for about fifteen minutes in sailed
water, drain and bake until brown and
tender, turning once or twice They
will require about thirty minutes to
bake
Instead Of filing bread pans. oat-
meal kettles, and dishes of that kind
with water. that they may soak before
they are washed, an easier way is to
wet them thoroughly. then turn them
upside down on a fat surface In a
little while they can be cleaned easily,
and you have saved yourself the trouble
of carrying water to pour into them,
only to be poured out again and carried
away.
Each for the other, and either for
both" certainly applies to money
getting and money-spending. as to
every thing else in domestic life.
There is no hard-and-fast rule for the
household purse. which applies to
every family-differiug circumstances
cause different arrangements; but no
wife should be obliged to aSk-per-
haps to beg-for money with which to
meet legitimate expenses--RuralN New
Yorker.
-Cympote OF Cherries: Take quart
of early red cherries; boil three-quart-
ers of a pound of sugar until it can
dies; drop the cherries into the strip;
let stand five minutes; then return to
the fire; let boil gently until clear:
take out the cherries with a skimmers
lay them in a dish; add a small teacup
of red currant juice to the sirup; boil
until very thick; pour over the cher
ries when nearly cold--Louisville
Courier-JournaL
For packing away furs and winter
clothing during the summer, Good
Housekeeping advises the purchase OF
a number of paste-board boxes. such as
tailors use in delivering clothing. pack
ing the articles in them, and cumming
a strip of wrapping paper around the
edge of the cover so as to leave no
crack. But all clothing should be
thoroughly shaken and aired before
shaken and aired before packing away,
and special care should be taken that
moths do not get at them W lille they
are being aired.
POISONOUS WALLPAPER.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-06-13

One of the interesting relics sold
at the auction of the furniture of Bar
NUNS Hotel. in Baltimore, a few days
ago, was q card table on which Henry
Clay once lost q. 500 at poker to Geo.
Ao2Emun. of Massachusetts,.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-06-13

$50 Chris went down Wednesday,
did hep" said.
yes"
did he get backP"
Yes"
THAT same day?"
Yes"
s.Alive?"
Yes"
els he all right now?"
NO.
And then Pete told how Chris had.
on that Wednesday afternoon, started
for home; of his struggle with the
storm. how again and again he fell
from sheer weakness. and then rose
and fought his way on until he dropped
at Pete's door. too benumbed even to
knock. There Pete found him, took
him in, and had been caring for him
ever since. without assistance.
He is ferry weak STILL" said Pete;
"he can not sit up. And he did get a
letter on Wednesday from Minnesota
Hilda says she shall be here to-day.
and tell Chris to meet her. So he hat
to send me-"
t.You are not fit to walk there"
said. I'm going down, you can ride
with me-"
So before long we were on our way.
We reached the station half hour be-
fore the train arrived, and it was easy
! TO see that Pete was not sorry to know
that help was coming. He went over
to the house of the Norwegian mis-
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-29
KLETN'S VERSION.

KLEIN's version of the Samoan trouble
puts an entirely different face On it
from what the German consul had
given it. DR.. KNAPPE'S order directing
the citizens of the island to bring all
their arms on board of the German war
vessel is sufficient evidence that the
Germans alone were responsible for the
outrages. The conduct Of the German
officials throughout the entire disturb
ance was eXasperating to the natives
and insulting to the American and Brit
ish representatives. If, as Secretary
BAYARD says, the authority Of the eX-
ecutiye branch of our government is ex-
hausted, and there must be additional
legislation before this nation can seek
redress. then congress should promptly
supply all the needed authority. Sena-
tor CULLoM recently struck the chord
of popular sentiment when he said the
United States was too big country to
allow other people to throw brickbats
at us with impunity. From what
KLEIN says. the Germans have been
hurting brickbats, and with consider
able force.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-29
IMPORTANT DISCOVERY.

An elaborate description is given in
one of the Chicago papers of discov-
cry that will, apparently, mark an
epoch in civil and mining engineering.
1t is the use of cold as a factor in the
operations, as heat, air and electricity
have been applied. 1t was the discoy-
cry of a German physician. and has
been found specially useful in digging
through QuicksandS, which have often
been an almost unconQuerable barrier
to operations in engineering. 1t has
beeAthe only notable obstacle that has
baffied, or seriously INSTRUCTED, the delv-
ers III the earth. By this new process,
when the treacherous sand is struck,
freezing is applied, and the solidified
substance becomes free from all diff
Guilty. The uses of the discovery are be-
lieVed to be almost innumerable.
Among its possibilities is said to be the
freezing of vast bodies of ice at the
bottom of deep water, through which
tunnels may be cut. The experiments
made with the new process in Europe
are reported as entirely successful, and
fully demonstrating its value.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-29
KICKING WITHOUT CAUSE.

While the GLOBE is always inclined
to approve economy in the adminiStra-
ton Of all public departments, we do
think that the proposition to reduce the
expenses of the city's health depart
ment has parsiminicus tinge of the
penny-wise and pond-foolish policy
about it. In the first place, the depart
ment is not an expensive one, not eX-
ceeding $4,000 year. In the next
place, if it were ever so expensive. there
is surely no department of the city
government to the support of which the
taxpayers would contribute more
cheerfulIy. Every one knows that
city of the size and population of st.
Paul demands the most thorough SAM
tary measures that can be devised.
Good sanitation is the first requirement
Of every city, and everything else
should be subordinated to it. When
men remember that we have here a
city of 100000 population, with the
lowest death rate in the world, and this
remarkable record obtained at public
expense of $4,000 year, we confess
that we fail to see where the chronic
economist has room for grumbling.
Still he is kicking and kicking vigor-
ously, to have the expenses of the health
deDartment reduced