davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-06-27
IMPOSING CEREMONY.
Graphic Description of Fashionable
Wedding of Russia.

Graphic Description of q Fashionable
Wedding of Russia.
The Russians generally marry quite
young in the upper classes, and
amongst country people even at an
earlier age; and to the honor of this
society be it said, love marriages are
the rule, and marriages for money are
very rare exceptions. Dowry-hunting
and marriages of interest have not yet
made their appearance in Russian
manners. Girls of high social posi-
ton readily marry young officers of
the Guard, who furnishes the largest
contingent of dancers to the balls of
Petersburg. During the carnival fetes
the two armies. the army in petticoats
and the army that wears epaulets.
learn to know each other thoroughly.
Friendships spring up. the young man
pays court, and one day, without hav-
ing consulted any body, two fances
come to ask of the parents a blessing,
which is never refused. The
church does not marry dur
ing Lent, SO they have
to wait until Easter week.
Fashion demands for the celebration of
the ceremony the chapel of some pri-
vate house, if the couple have not suf-
ficiently lofty relations to secure the
chapel of the palace. A family that
respects itself ought to have at its we'd
ding as honorary father and honorary
mother, if not the Emperor and En-
press, at least Grand Duke and a
Grand Duchess. The honorary father
gives the holy image. which some little
child related to the families carries in
front of the frances. They enter the
church. followed by all their friends in
gala uniform. The ceremony begins;
it is very long. and complicated with
many symbolic rites; a small table
a sort of movable affairs placed
in the middle of the oratQry;
the couple are separated from ii
by band of rose-colored satin:
when the priest calls, they must adj
vance, and the first who sets foot on
the band, whether husband or wife,
will be the one who will impose his OF
her will in the household. This is ar
| article of faith for all the matrons
who watch them at that moment Or
the table is placed the liturgical for
| mulary, the candles which they mus
hold, the cross which they will kiss
he rings which they will exchange
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-06-27
TANNlN FOR PHTHiStC.
Treatment Giving Excellent Results Il
All STAGES of the Disease.

Treatment Giving Excellent Results in
All Stages of the Disease
DR.. E. Houze, of the Hospital st.
Jean, Brussels, after having tried the
tannin treatment on all his phthisical
patients for the last year and eight
months, states as the result of his OBJ
servations that it gives excellent results
in all stages of the disease, and espe-
cially in the condition where cavities
exist. Indeed, he has no hesitation in
declaring that of all the different kinds
of treatment for phthisis which he has
tried this has given by far the most
encouraging results. The dose he en-
ploys ordinarily is fifteen grains, which
quantity is taken three times a day. 1t
is. as a rule, well borne. Where this
is not so. it is ordered to be taken with
meals. After the first few days the
expectoration and the sweats diminish,
the cough decreases, and in many cases
the appetite undergoes q marked im-
prOvement.
The majority of the patients suffered
from some slight degree of constipa-
ton, though in some this feature was
sufficiently marked to require treat
ment, while others, again, suffered
from diarrhea.
The character Of the expectoration
changed for the better, the sputa be-
coming white and frothy instead of
green and firm. In some cases the
diminution of the expectoration was
followed by increased dryness of the
cough, so that the patients complained
that it fatigued them more. This was
easily remedied by prescribing few
spoonfuls of sirup of codeia- The
physical signs underwent remark
able change for the better, at least
those depending on auscultation, moist
rales giving place to dry chonchi, and
large gurgling rales decreasing prog
ressively until they gave place to mere
blowing respiration. These changes
were evidently due to the drying up of
the cavities, in consequence of which
the hectic present in many of the cases
vanished, the patients increasing con-
| siderably in weight and gaining
strength in a remarkable manner. The
percussion signs were not found to
| undergo so marked change as those
dependent on auscultation, but even
| here some improvement could be de-
tected. No psychological observa-
| tons were made.-London Lancet
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-06-27
THE PUMPKIN PLANT.
It's Wonderful Possibilities as Revealed
by Careful Examination.

It's Wonderful Possibilities Revealed
by Careful Examination.
1t is profitable for us to pause occa-
sionally and look at the products of
the field in another light than that OF
their food or money value God made
nothing common or uninteresting. The
despised weeds have their uses, and
even the humblest plants are so COM
plex in structure and functions that the
life history of single one of them is
not yet fully understood. Take the.
pumpkin-vine, for example, with its.
wonderful possibilities Gas shown in:
the Nebraska "Corn Palace" exhibit
last fall, loaded with hundreds of gold
en- sphere, from three to seven feet in
circumference-or was it diameter?(
Who can help exclaiming: How is
this possible?" Only the little seed.i
the brown earth, the air. the sunshiue,s
and little brains to enrich and pull
verize the soil Let us see what the
thoughtful observer finds in this home
ly friend. A slight examination of the
flowers of the pumpkin show that they
are of two kinds-pistilate and stam-
mate; the former have three club
shaped, almost sessile stigmas, the lat
ter have five stamens united into a col
umn an inch and half in length; the
anthers or pollen-boxes are arranged
around this column and furnish a gen.
erous supply of the fertilizing dust
The flower opens but once, for few
hours in the morning. The bees,
knowing its bountiful nature, hasten
to avail themselves of its sweets,
humping around within the yellow
dell they soon become well-dusted with
pollen; in their travels from flower to
flower they visit staminate and pistil-
ate alike; the moist. glutinous surface
of the stigmas in the pistilate flowers
retain the grains of pollen, and thus.
through the unconscious aid of the
''busy bee" and probably other in
| sects, the perpetuation of the plant be-
comes possible. The regularity Of the
distribution of the seeds In the fruit is
| wonderful when their number Is cons
sidered. Each seed grows on q string
| of spiral vessels. and each seed has to
be fortified in the embryo state by q
grain of pollen before it can grow into
a perfect seed. The tendrils Of the
vine have a peculiar way of changing
their direction. After some ten or hf-
teen turns to the right they stop ana
| turn to the left; this probably is done
in their effort to find support Inc
vine was evidently climber In It's ma
tive Asia The stem of the pumpkin
is full of sap. and drop under mag
nifying glass shows some 6ne crystals
IN. Y. Tribune.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-06-27
JOHN BULL IN. PARIS.
How He Quieted an Undu1y Sensitive and
Peppery FrenchmaD.

How He Quieted an Undu1y Sensitive and
Peppery FrenchmaD.
An incident happened in little res
taurant over in the Latin quarter the
other day, which was highly amusing,
and it showed how much more reliance
an Englishman places in his muscle at
a crisis than Frenchman does. We
were all sitting at a small round table
"a big young Oxford graduate, a
junior from Harvard, a reporter on the
a very solemn German gentleman and
myself. Over in corner a small Paris
ian, with waxed mustache, pointed
beard, flowing scarf and high-heeled
shoes, sat slipping an absinthe frappee.
He was not good-natured Frenchman.
think he believed US all Germans, for
he scowled at us whenever we raised
our voices in a way to disturb him in
the reading of his paper.
Presently the solemn German of the
party began conversation with the
young Oxford man upon the subject of
the late Emperor's illness. The Ger
man interspersed his talk with many
protestations of devotion to his lost
sovereign, and then proposed the
health of the present Emperor. At
this point the Frenchman at the other
table jumped up, battered over to the
old German, and, with very fierce i'm
precation upon the heads of all Ger
mans, struck the old gentleman a light
| blow across the cheek with his open
| hand. The German rose to retaliate
when, without word, and with no ap-
parent excitement, the young Oxford
| man grasped the Frenchman about the
waist, tossed him over his shoulder.
and the next instant had dropped him
out of the open window. down into a
| flower-bed in a yard at the rear of the
brasserie.
| The Frenchman was not injured, and
came rushing back after a moment.
Offering to kill every one in short or
der. He was Immediately seized and
pitched out of the window again, in
spite of his kicks and struggles. Then
the young Englishman bolted the door
which would permit him to get back
into the room. and talked with him out
of the window, which was too high fol
him to reach.
There was great deal of laughter
over the incident, and when the En-
glishman lowered a glass of absinths
out of the window to tbs. maddenet
Frenchman. asking him tc Join in Thu
health of the republic, the humor o
the situation was complete When W.
walked up the street shortly after
ward all the girls in the baker-shop
and wine-rooms came to their doors t.
admire the big shoulders of the Ok
) ford and the Harvard boys 1 hav
| no doubt that their six feet of broa'
| strength looked like the proportion
of giants in the Paris girls eyes, use'
as they were to the diminutive appear
t ance of such peppery little fellows
the one who was dropped from tn
| window in the brasserie.-Paris Lettea
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-06-27
ORCHIDS The LATEST.
The Most Recent and Interesting Floral
Fad in England.

The Most Recent and Interesting Floral
Fad in England.
When the history of English horti-
culture in the nineteenth century
comes to be written it's remarkable
feature will be the position held by the
orchid family. In period of less
than fifty years the cultivation of
orchids has developed into almost a
passion, and has become an important
commercial industry. There are mill
ions of pounds invested in orchids in
England alone. Collectors are in all
parts of the world searching for them.
They are objects of interest to all
classes of the community.
There are a few horticutlurists who
profess TO despise orchids, and who
constantly discover that a reaction
against them is setting in. But these
plants are more popular now than
ever. and this popularity seems on the
increase. And yet there is no orchid
society in England. Such plants as
chrysanthemumS, carnations, auricu-
las and roses have each their own so
ciety. Weak efforts to start an orchid
society have been made, but they came
to nothing. There is, however. special
representation promised for orchids
now, the Royal horticultural Society
having decided to appoint a committee
of specialists to adjudicate on orchids
alone. That such committee is
wanted is abundantly evident. The
number of men who possess knowl-
edge sufficient 10 enable them to decide
which orchids are good and which bad,
what is new and what is simply an old
plant under q new name, is quite linn
tied. When one remembers that at
the present time there are close upon
| two thousand species in cultivation,
not to mention the most countless va
| rieties and hybrids, the necessity for
the step which the Royal Horticultural
Society is about to take must be APP
parent and Forest
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-06-27

An Albany ga young man made
desperate love at dance to the wearer
of a mask. Imagine his surprise when
the object of his addresses raised her
face covering and said: s.You ought to
love your aunt
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-06-27

1t is hard for a naughty man ever
to forgive one that has caught him in
q fault, and whom he knows has rea-
son to complain of him; his resent
ment never subsidies till he has re-
gained the advantage he has lost. ard
found means to make the other do him
equal wrong.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-06-27


what was my chargin to learn from
negro that Flint had visited the place
for the same purpose only the night
before. de gave me the direction tax
en- by outlaw. 1 hunted for him
another week without finding further
trace than a third snare he had set for
game. On the thirteenth day my hunt
came to an end in a singular manner.
l was following up dry ravine. so full
of bushes and loose rocks that had
to creep most of the time, and I was
when heard a movement on the bank
of the ravine directly over my head,
and after minute or two heard the
squeal of rabbit. It was Flint, then,
and he was taking the game from a
| snare. We could not see each other,
but he had the advantage in being
| above me. The bank was too
steep to climb, and I was just
turning to creep back to spot where
/ could ascend, when there was a sort
of crash above me, suppressed shout
of alarm. and next instant earth, rocks,
and bushes were falling all about me.
I sprang up, and as did so the spread
eagle form of a man struck the bushes
at my right and broke through them
with a great crash. 1 made leap to
get out of the way, but the body had
scarcely come to a stop before was
at hand. 1t was the outlaw as saw at
a glance. The fall had stunned him.
While he still clutched the rabbit In
his right hand his left hand was
broken lost no time in securing
and disarming him. and when he
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-06-14
A Plentttude of Meals in Russia.

The Russian eats on an average once every two hours. The climate and cus- tom require such frequent meals, the digestion of which is aided by frequent draughts of vodki and tea. Vodki is the Russian whisky, made from potatoes and rye. It is fiery and cOlorless and is gen. erally favored with some extract like vanilla or orange. It is drunk from small cups that hold perhaps half a gill. Vodki aDAtea are the inseparable accompani- mathts of friendly as we'll as business in- tercourse in the country of the czar. Drunken men are rare. Russia and Sweden are the only countries in which the double dinner is the rule.
 When you go to the house of Russian, be he friend or stranger, you are at once invited to a side table, where salted meats, pickled eel, salted cucumbers and many other spicy and appetizing yiands, arc urged upon you with an impressive ness that knows no refusal. This repast is washed down with frequent cups of ''vodki' That over. and when the visi- tor feels as if he had eaten enough for twenty-four hours, the host says, "And now for dinner" At the dinner table the meal is served in courses, with wines grown in the Crimea and Bessarabia. where excellent clarets and Burgundies are made and sold for from a shilling to half crown a bottle.-N. Y. Star.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-06-14

ter was allowed to drag its slow length along until the people were tired of the legislature and all its doings and were crying from all sides for it's adjournment, with the hope that when the cumber- some and unwieldy nature of the new ballot was thoroughly understood it would be rejected. Simpler and better bills, like the Wolfe or Cleveland or Chapin bills, were not considered simply because they would conflict with the plans of the republican leaders who de- sired to throw down the whole frame work of a secret ballot. And the sequel shows that they builded wisely in allow ing only the defeated bill to come before the legislature and holding this off until the small hours of the session. The whole business is the best possible proof the people could have that the republican party of Connecticut is in the hands of politicians and that 1t is rotten to the core. It is the most con- vincing evidence that could be given that the voice of influential republican OTSullS, llke tuS I1dItlOIu OSl dl(l COuI ant, the Bridgeport Standard, New Ha-
 ven Palladium and Norwich Bulletin, is not needed when it conflicts with the designs and wishes of republican poli- | ticianS.
 The republican party will be held re- sponsible if the legislature is allowed to adjourn without passing secred ballot law. The pledges of its platform, the promises of it's governor, the profes- sions of its leading organs, the pretended wishes of it's members all gave reason to believe that Connecticut would be pro- vided with the safeguard of secret vot- ing to prevent the intimidation and brib. l cry that have been the scandal of the state. Governor Bulkeley and the sen- ate have been false to their promises and | the pledges of the party. The people
 will not be deceived by the tlimsy ex-
 cuses they allege in defence of their ac.
 tion. On Governor Bulkeley and tho
 republican party will fall the responsi
 bility of continued intimidation anl
 bribery at the polls.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-06-14
THE SECRET BALLOT FIASCO,

As was indicated would be the result when it was found that Governor Bulk eley and other republican politicians were opposed to ballot reform, the . Henney- -Hotchkiss bill was killed yester- day by the senate. Nothing else could have been expected from senators who, like republican Senator Clark of the twentytirst district, were opposed to the secret ballot idea from the first"
 The defeat of this bill gives strength to the fear that no secret ballot legisla- tion will be enacted at this session. From politicians like Bulkeley, Senator Hall, Lynde Harrison and others who manipu- late the republican party little encour agement may be expected for any secret ballot law, even one that would be ''simple in its character, and at the same time effective in its operation," which the governor professed to favor in his message. It is quite probable that these politicians would find some excuse to cause the defeat of any measure pro- posed at this late date. Nor is it at all likely that any law that might now be urged on the legislature would find the almost universal favor that the vetoed and defeated bill did from the press and people of the state. From all of which it appears more that probable that noth- ing will be done by this legislature to redeem the pledge made by the republi- can state platform last fall to secure a secret ballot.
 The whole proceedings attending the Henney- -Hotchkiss fasco form curious commentary on republican sincerity and lend color to the suspicion that the secret ballot plank of the platform was piece of buncombe, and that it was never intendedsby the leaders that its provisions should be fulfilled. The mat
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-06-14

The country is not very likely to take its opinion of the Clan-na-Gael from the societies are not generally chased as un-American institutions, and it will take a good deal more than the unbaked wisdom of a Chicago jury to convince the American people that the men con nected with that organization would do anything to bring dishonor on the land that has given them shelter. Between the anarchists and Clan na- Gael there is very wide difference, and man would be very stupid who failed to realize it.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-06-14

The base ball umpire is an accommo- dating and versatile individual. Last week when New York and Boston played at the Hub the New York papers laid the Boston victories to the umpire, and now the Boston papers are claiming that the games at Staten Island have been won for the Giants by the umpire. The particular umpire in question seems to have one virtue at any rate-he knows the home crowd is the correct one to please.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-06-14

MRS HARRISON complains that because her husband is president that is no req son why the rest of the family should be made public characters. Probably they wouldn't if the president would stop nominating them to positions in the public service. The country has long since tired of the Harrisons, and if the president would give Us a rest on them everybody would be well satisfied.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-06-14

water in Pennsylvania next Tuesday when the question of constitutional pro- hibition is to be passed upon by the voters, than there was two weeks ago when the Johnstown dam gave way. Pennsylvania is not at all partial to cold water in what ever shape it may come.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-06-14

POSTMASTER GENERAL WANAMAKER is credited with never having seen a circus that is, until he had held his first in terview with Matt Quay in relation to the Philadelphia postotfice. Barnum couldn't equal that.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-06-14

IT is related that a colored sleeping car porter who assisted Private Secretary Halford's wife during the recent flood i'll the Conemaugh valley has been given at Washington. Those who assisted other women can continue to shift for themselves This administration has re- wards only for it's friends.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-06-14

CHARLES A. DANA keeps on shouting vigorously for the democratic party to get together. We have an idea that when the democratic party gets together Dana will get out.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-06-14

Those papers that are denouncing Alexander Sullivan as a murderer should go slow. Sullivan hasn't said anything yet. When he speaks there will be a different state of affairs indeed.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-06-14
London Without End,

London never fails to impress the tour ist with it's peculiar place among the cities of the world. There are many pre- sentinS far finer groups of buildings; it's main thoroughfares, such as Regent and Oxford streets, are not to be compared with those in Paris or Philadelphia but there is a solidity in it's pavements. a steady progress in it's vehicles, sense of continuity in the endless succession of it's streets, an air of unpretending confidence in it's crowds, an unabaShed, mOnOtonouS ugliness in its lines of suburban villas which is unique. London is the place where incidents and gatherings which would move many a metropolis ito its center" are wholly unnOticed except by such as happen to come across them. Even the most popular events, which may attract some hundred thousand people, do not make sign or ripple in the sur face of the great brick and mortar sea which surrounds the city proper. He must be very big man indeed who can draw direct personal notice in London.
 Metropolitan news is conveyed not by conversation or verbal rumor, but by journals. The talk of the clubs," ex- alted by some ''society" papers, is an in- tinitesimally small fraction of that which engages the metropolis. There is really nc "talk of the town" as distinct from that of the nation. It is sheer size which distinguishes London. Not long ago stood by the castle in Edinburgh and no- tised that I could discern men at work in the fields all around me. There were indications of separate outside life. It is so, moreover, in the large transat- lantic cities. Down the straight streets of New York you can catch glimp5es of white sails on the Hudson or East river
 but when you look at London from any square or open space within it's borders there appears no proof that it has any borders at all, or that it ends anywhere. It might cover the whole earth for all you can soe.-The Cornhill Magazine.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-06-14

THE residents of Hartford had chance to see Barnum's circus to-day. It would be interesting to know whether they found it more interesting than the one they have chance of seeing four days in the week on Capitol hill.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-06-14

THE action on the secret ballot bill was good deal like picking cherries before they are ripe. The tree is the proper place for such cherries, and with republicans the proper place for ballot reform iS-in VOLT eve