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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-02
Feather Beds and Hay Fever.

.'You would scarcely believe that
asthma and hay fever would knock the
bottom out of the live geese feather
business. would you?" asked a bedding
manufacturer. but it's fact Fiji
teen or twenty years ago. when hay
fever first came into fashion. some one
who was addicted to it discovered, or
thought he discovered. that feather
beds and pillows aggravated, II they
really did not cause the malady. The
idea was just as contagious as the hay
fever had been, and It got so with
some victims of the habit that they
couldn't remain in room where there
was q feather bed. Then the man with
the asrnma found that feather beds
and pillows was what had been ailing
him for forty years and more. and the
result was that the downy goose feath-
ers gradually had to give way to hair
and husks and pine needles. This is a
fact There isn't one goose plucked
to-day where there were twenty few
years ago. The goose may not know
it. but he owes a great deal Of his lat
ter-day comfort to the asthma and the
hay fsver. Philadelphia Press
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-02
THE FARM DAIRY.

At 1t Il Produced the CIeanest, Sweetest
and Best Butter.
There is no plan yet invented, nor
place discovered, where as good, clean
and sweet butter can be made as well
as at the farm dairy. Where the pas
lures, feed. water are all right, and
where neatness. sweetness and skill
are fully combined. no creamery or
machinery for butter can compare
with it. The farm dairy is the only
place where the imperial PARTICLE can
be. or every was made. In this branch
of industry the world Is advancing
faster than in any other branch Of in
dustry. 1t is hard to conceive of the
difference in the butter brought to the
market now and that twenty years ago.
And while the creamery has done
good missionary work in showing the
farmers wives that they will have to
make better butter or allow the cream
cry to occupy the whole field. the
dairy butter makers have bravely met
the contest And now in almost any
direction contracts can be made with
the surrounding diaries which VIII
furnish regularly sweeter and purer
butter than any creamery ever did or
ever will make. In fact, from the best
farm dairies is the only place where
there is any assurance of getting posi-
lively clean butter. The creameries
may have every thing right about
them, and operators who are superior
in every quality of butter-makers, but
they can neither control nor direct
the operations of the one hundred or
five hundred places from whence they
gather their cream. In fact, it is UNI
reasonable to expect that any one hum
dred farmers in a township who fur
nish cream have their feed, water,
stables. yards, pals and all other
utensils equal in purity to private
dairy. where it is their pride and
pleasure to excel all others. Those
who furnish cream have no pecuniary
incentive to excel. Their cream goes
in with hundreds Of others, and moth
ing to excite pride or ambition. We
take the dairy always and want but
ter from no other source.-Boston
TRANSCRIPT
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-02
DRIFT OF OPINION.

Mr.. Wanamaker has an eye for
harmonious color. He is making his
postmasters of the same shade as his
postage stamps. -Philadelphia Record.
There was great talk about high
wages for labor when the Republican
party got into power, but there is now
no prospect of an increase except in
the wages of Congressman. Atlanta
Journal.
III Mr. Bayard. whose worst
enemy ,,ever Questioned his absolute
integrity, had made his son Chief Ex-
aminer of Claims in the State De
partment what would the Republican
press have said about it? This is what
Blaine has done, and Mr.. Blaine's per-
sonal reputation is as bad as Mr..
Bayard's is good. while young Blaine
is notoriously without qualifications
for the Office. We notice that most OF
the Republican organs are silent about
The matter and we don't wonder!-
indianapolis Sentinel.
If the New York post-ofice was
to continue to be conducted on bust
aess principles, Mr.. Pearson would
obviously have been the man to con-
duct it. II 1t was to be converted into
political machine we know of no
better man than Van Colt to take
charge of it he will make very
poor postmaster, and the deteriora-
ton of the service Is inevitable; but the
Administration is consistent; we know
where to find it There is no Civil
Service reform nonsense" about It.
Any pretense on that score hereafter
can only excite laughter.-N. Z.
EmeA
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-02
rnE rwlNE MONOPOLY.

A Combination That Has Proved Itself =
Thorn In the Farmers Side.
The honest farmer is beginning to
assemble in indignation meetings.
where he discusses his wrongs and
passes resolutions expressive of his
outraged feelings. The Irvine monop-
oily is a great thorn in the honest
farmers side. It is not the only one,
but it is the one that he is the most
conscious of. and he is getting ready
to vigorously protest against it He
Is not less the victim of the steel trust,
the barbed-wire trust, the oil trust,
the impending salt trust, the coal ring
and the rest of the robbers who are en-
trenched behind our blessed high-tariff
wall. but he is used to their exactions
and rather likes them; in fact, he
doesn't see how his grain could grow
and his focks multiply without the
glorious stimulus of protection to the
infant industries of Pennsylvania But
this Irvine trust in some mysterious
way has chafed his sensibilities; it has
CALLED him until he winces; it has got
him as mad as q wet hen. and he is
indignating and resoluting with a fire
and a copiousness which show that his
spirit is not wholly broken, however
much it may have been cowed by long
standing abuses not the less effective
because they were unperceived by the
deluded victim. For a wonder he has
discovered that high-priced Irvine
doesn't mean high-priced wheat;
no, not by a jugful. He might have
found out some time ago, if he had
pleased to inquire, that high-priced
lumber, iron, steel, woolens and cot
tons were equally Intellectual in max
ing high-priced grain, but he has been
SO busy preserving his country from
the hated rebel and the accused Brit
Usher that he really hasn't time to ex-
anime the facts. He has just voted to
keep up his '.home market" and to
''enable" Mr.. Carnegie to pay high
wages, sweetly trustful in the gilded
promises of the prophets of high taxes.
1t is hopeful sign that he has at last
opened his eyes and thrown off his
lethargy. It BODIES no good to the
kings and barons. The enemy in sight
Is the Irvine trust, but the honest farm
er will presently see behind that the
serried ranks OF the other trusts and
combines and protects; and then will
come the deluge. Meanwhile the hon
est farmer is doing some thinking on
his own account. He Is putting two
and two together and finding out that
the sum of the addition is four. When
he has got. far enough along in his
practical arithmetic to determine that
if he gives 81, 900 worth of wheat for
$500 worth Of goods he is out of pocket
the whole difference, whether that
difference be collected by the Govern
ment for revenue or by Mr.. Carnegie
for protection, it will be just as we'll
for statesmen of the Mckinley and
Randall school to take to the woods.
The corn-fields will be too hot to hold
them. News
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-02
Cellars as PouItrv-Houses.

While a cellar or side-hill house may
be warm. yet, as rule. they are damp.
and fowls kept In them seem more sub
jet to roup than when kept In houses
made Of boards. II boards are new, il re-
quires at times several weeks for them
to season. the consequence being damp
wallis The cold. stone walls of cellars
condense the moisture. thus lessening
the degree Of evaporation. the moisture
given OF by the birds being considsE.
able Cellars should be ventilated dur
ing the middle of the day. and plenty
of sunlight should enter. II the walls
remain damp. remove the Birds e
roup win result Il they remain--Far1
md Preside.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-02
November Fools Repent.

The farmers of the Republican State
of Kansas are beginning to wipe the
dust from their eyes. and their vision
is better now than previous to the
November election.
They have just discovered that
trusts are the outgrowth of high
tariff, and furthermore. that they are
detrimental to their interest.
At public meeting held recently.
they discovered the twine trust, and
resolved to unite to crush it Ali Of
which shows that there were Novem.
Der fools as well as there are April
fools. Harrisburg Pa) Patriot s.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-02
A ROTTEN BOROUGH.
Has Rhode Island Republican Form Of

Has Rhode Island a Republican Form OF
Government or Not?
THE minority majority" in Rhode
Island still holds its grip on that
State, and the candidate for Governor
who received the largest number OF
votes is now about to be defeated by
the Legislature. Governor Davis re-
ceived a large plurality of the popular
vote, but in that oligarchy-ridden
commonwealth this fact is of no inn
porrance. He must have a majority,
or more than one-half of all the votes
cast, and if no candidate receives that
number, then it becomes the duty OF
the Legislature. representing a much
smaller minority. to elect the Gov
ernor and such other State officers as
have not received majority vote.
Besides the fact that the State is
districted in such way as to give the
manufacturing lords complete control
of a majority of the districts. it is
necessary that each legislative can
didate should be elected by majority
vote of his district, and in case no
candidate in any district receives a
majority, then the incumbents whose
terms were about to expire hold over
and continue as legislators until the
next election.
One can easily see how, under such
circumstances. the whole law-making
few wealthy and INSCRIPTIONS men.
and the State made to support political
opinions that the mass of the people
reject The legislative districts are
rotten boroughs within rotten
borough, and the entire State is SO
small that it can be more easily man
aged and controlled than Cook Coun-
ty. It is safe to say that if political
matters were conducted in Cook
County, or in any Western State or
county, with the same reckless disre-
gard of popular rights as is done in
Rhode Island there would be such
popular uprising as would drive the
''ringsters" from power forever. 1t
was a much less threatening show of
power on the part of 1.-The machine"
in Chicago that caused the people to
rise at the recent election and crush at
one blow all its pretensions. Such
ring" methods are not in consonance
with Western ideas of popular free
dom. But the Rhode Islanders do not
seem to know how to get rid of their
devil fish, and SO continue under the
rule of the machine"
1t looks as if Congress would have
to take a hand in the matter sooner or
later. and investigate the question
whether the State of Rhode Island has
a republican form of government or
not The minority, and not the ma
jority, of the people appear to rule in
that State. Herald
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-02


Use plenty of seed In sowing grass.
whether it is lawn, meadow or pasture .
by keeping the cattle on the past
ure one day in the spring. you may
keep them upon it two days longer in
the fall.
Applying kerosene with rag
when you are about to put your stove0
away for the summer viii prevent them
from rusting.
When pies are ready for the oven,
put little bits of lard all over the top
paste, letting some ice water run over
it, and place at once in the oven.
1t is said that daut;ng common tar
around rat holes will cause the fastidi-
Gus rodents, as soon as they get 1t on
them. to leave the place. rarely to re-
turn.
keep few panes of window glass
and paper of tacks or some putty on
hand. When the window pane is
broken, don't make-shift; replace it,
American Agriculturist
If steamed meat is left In the
liquor to cool of. it will be found TO
have absorbed back much of the good
ness of the soup. and will be so much
more nutritious as food.
"A new rival to coffee is '.Mussa-
cuda." or wild orange, plant produc-
ing a purple fruit About twenty-four
thousand acres of this plant are now
being cultivated in the Island Of Be
union.
-Copperas dissolved in water, q
spoonful of the crystals to pint.
makes about the cheapest and best
disinfectant and deodorizer for closet
pans and chamber utensils This 10 q
most destructive internal poison;
therefore, never allow 1t to remain
about SO that ignorant persons or chill
dren can get at it
DO not allow the birds to be de-
stroyed. They are of too much bene-
fit in destroying insects. worms and
pests. that prey upon the fruit and
trees. The cat bird eats and destroys
pear bugs; the woodpecker digs in
and destroys the borer. while the jay
bird. chickadee. wren. thrush. robin
and bluebird all do good work in the
orchard.
OF cold ham, or any cold meat or fish.
fine. Make a custard of one quart of
milk and six eggs, add . teaspoonful
of salt (unless ham is used, when less
will be needed). Mix meat and Gus
tard together, pour into deep dish.
put little bits of butter over the sur
face and charlottesville.
"A fruit now found in the market is
the bitter. acid grape fruit 1t is ex-
celent for people of bilious habit, and
many people learn to like it after eat
ing it a few times In eating it every
particle of the skin should be removed
from the sections of the pulp. as the
inner white skin is very bitter and
quite unwholesome.
The efforts of seedsmen to breed a
type of field corn that shall prove val
liable when widely distributed is futile.
for effective enterprise. Every farm
should be an experiment station to i'm
prove the native sort This duty can
not be delegated to some person over
the line in another county even, but
must be an individual enterprise for
individual use. To grow good seed
corn. plant fewer kernels TO the hill.
and do every thing on your part which
nature seems to demand, and leave the
breeding to the forces of nature, that
always act consistently with the sur
roundings. -Rural New Yorker.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-02


rot course she would" agreed the young
hunter, touched deeply by the emotion
evlnced by Wentword. 81 will go for the
girl myself. l know her like a book, and
am sure she will not delay coming one
moment when she learns that her cousin is
injured
% You are very kind"
Not a word Of that sort, Austin. like
you and Grace, and hope that you may both
live to be united and happy in spite OF the
Vaccinations of contemplate villain"
Then Fingal turned from the room.
Austin Wentword sat like one in dream
until he heard the outer door clang behind
the departing hunter, then he leaned his
head on his hands and moaned in an agony
of spirit.
A pair of glIttering black eyes looked in
upon the sorrowing young man, the malev-
olence in their depths indicating how ven
omous was the heart beneath.
1t is well The game is now completely
IN my hands," muttered Captain Star
bright, as he passed down the hall to the
front door, after glancing in upon the
bowed form of Wentword. He stood on the
steps and peered down through the trees
70 the road and the gloomy hollow beyond.
Night held full sway now, and a mist hung
over Lone Hollow, as il the blue armament
was mourning for the beautiful girl 80
cruelty stricken down this night
Captain Starbrlght became nervous after
little and began pacing the wide veranda
with solemn steps and slow, his chin bowed
upon his breast, q thoughtful, troubled look
In his eyes.
He remained pacing here until the roll of
wheels announced the coming Of the ply
stefan from Stonefield
Mrs. PeAroy and young Wentword were
ut the heds3de of Grace when the doctor en-
tered Both fell back to permit the man Of
medicine IN opportunity for examination.
The widow, after recovering from the
1rst shock vaa extremely oeryous, Jet sha
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-02

The colored mans mouth is open
wide, but President Harrison puts no
gum in it to chew.-NorfoIk Landmark.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-02-16
TALK OF THE DAY IN LONDON.
Parnell Feeling Better-Froude Writ
ing "a Novel of Irish Life

Special Cable Dispstch to THE EVENING STAR
LoSDoS, Feb. l6.-Mr. Parnell told me yes
terday that his health was better. He has
slight rheumatism in his left shoulder.
Froude is writing a novel describing the wild
country life in Ireland a century ago.
Lord Coieridge, addressing the Archaeological
society, described Froudes history as a ro-
nance and says he is a brilliant, fascinating
writer, but neither Oxford nor Cambridge in
cludes him among the authorities in history ut
the examinations.
Cerdy Jeaffreson. author of Lady Hamilton"
and Nelson" is writing a further volume,
clearing the queen of Naples from Lady Ham,
ilton's charge Of being the mother Of Nelson's
Horatio.
Students at st. Andrews university boycott
Andrew Lang, the lecturer on natural religion,
partly owing to his interference with the GUS
tomary student songs and partly because Of
his alleged sneers at orthodoxy
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-02-16
Interior Department Chanres.

The following oficial changes have been
made in the Department Of the Interior: Patent
ofice-Appointment: Mrs. Ella Akin. Of Ohio,
model attendant, $500, under civil-service rules.
Pension Office Resignation: John n. Thomp-
son, OF South carolins, clark, tl,2o0. Promo
tions: Abial W. Fisher, Of North Carolina, .
clerk, at e2,0o0, vice Michael r. Gallagher,
transferred to principal examiner; Edward A
ballock. Of District Of Columbia, e1,000 to
Sl600; Alvin =. Craig, Of Pennsylvania, Horace
9: Slower, Of Missouri, and Joseph y. TwitchelI.
Peyton, Of Illinois, VIM J. Bushall, Of North
Carolina, Miss Clara e. Mott, Of New York, and
samuel B. Weaver, of Psnnsylvania, el.2oo 10
el,40o. Death: Hubert Y. Mcdowell, of Penn
sylvania, clerk, u, l0a.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-02-16
DISTRICT IN CONGRESS.

TEE EcKuorox AND soLDIKRs' HOME RAILWAY.
The Senate bill to amend the charter of the
lexington and Soldier Home railway COM
pany was passed yesterday by the Senate. The
bill authorizes an extension Of the company's
tracks 70 18Th and = streets. II was amended,
on motion Of Senator sherman, the additional
section being - follows: That any company
authorised by Law 70 run ears propelled BY
horses within the DISTRICT Of Columbia u hereby
authorized p substitute for horses electric
power BY sturage or Independents electxioal
batteries Or underground wire, or BY under-
ground cables moved by steam power, On tie
whole Or any portion Of IT. Roadway, the same
approval a. ~ Ooumissiouers Of the DISCREET
Of Coidmbia, v1lh authosity 70 purchase snd
ne any tes1fnn1 orognds and fAoflffies nesss-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-02-16

A CIvIL-SERvIcE ExAMINAT1oS.-Ane exami-
nation will be held at the rooms of the civil
service commission on the 25th instant, COM
mencing at a. m, to fill a vacancy in the
office of experiment stations, Department Of
Agriculture, at a salary of 81 800 per annum.
Competitors will be required to have an ac-
quaintance with the history, work, status, and
tendencies of agricultural science and educa-
ton, especially of the United States; knowl-
edge of languages, ancient and modern, as far
as necessary to the proper study and compila-
tion of the literature of these subjects; famil-
iarity with the general theories and methods of
education, and an understanding of the princi-
pies of rhetoric, literary taste and style. The
work required will be largely of literary and
editorial character. and will require consider
able technical knowledge of science and educa-
ton,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-02-16
LIEUT.. HENRY G. FISHER.
Sentence Of Dismissal from the Marine
Corps Mitigated by the President.

The long delayed findings Of the court
martial in the case Of First Lieut. Henry O..
Fisher, .. s. marine corps, which has been one
of the problems of the Navy department for
many months, were made public to-day. Lieut..
Fisher was tried by court-martial, Of which
Capt. F. M. Ramsay was president, convening
at New York, Nov. %, 1887, ON the charges Of
conduct unbecoming an officer and q gentle
man. and Of ''scandalous conduct tending TO
the destruction of good morals"
The specifications as 10 the first charge we're
that Lieut. Fisher, then attached 10 the New
York marine barracks, made extracts from the
press copies of certain oficial correspondence
in the Office of Major Forney, the command
them for his own use, this being in September,
1887; also that he obtained possession of ex-
tracts from press copy Of report from Major
Forney 10 Secretary Whitney, and sfterward
denied having seen the report.
The second charge was specified Is follows;
League Island yard, Philadelphia, in 1856, pur-
chased from money in his possession a. treas
urer Of the company fund. belonging 20 en-
listed men. . hay-cutter which he used for
about six months, and then turned it over on
his books to the account Of the men. charging
them with It's cost a. e7.50, while he had paid
but o. for the machine; also that, - treasurer
of the fund, he made report 70 his command
ing oficer that the total disbursements out OF
the fund from October 10 70 December 81. 1886,
were els7.I8 and the balance ON hand se3- q,
while IL was . fact that his disbursements
amounted to but 3ls6.68. and he had . balance
Of e8S.7a II wss claimed that he has failed 20
pay for the hay-cutter. for which he charged
the fund and received reimbursement.
The court found him guilty Of both charges
and ssutenced him 70 be dismissed from TIE
marine sorpA The President, however, his in
dorssns.t dnting February II, 1859. in approv--
IL ssno.nce 70 suspension from rank and duty
fer one ysax fron that date, Lieux Finhor =
rs1nin his present number on he lit Of o.
csrs Of his grs1e during s1spsnsion, and 10 fB-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-02-16
War Department Chances,

Appointed-Wm. Conard, of Maryland, clerk
at $1,000, surgeon-general's office; Sophia
Mahon, of Pennsylvania, clerk, class /, Office Of
the chief of ordinances Max F. Ellrich, of Wash.
ington territory, clerk, o., 1000, commissary gen.
erals Office; Will Stanley Pitts, of Iowa, and
Gilbert d. Fox, of South Carolina, clerks
S1,0OO. surgeon-generars Office. Promoted
Henry s. Goodall, of Vermont, from q, 200 "a
q, 200; adjutant generals Office. Transferred
John A.Moran, from clerk, 81, 900, signal OF.
flee, to clerk, 81 900, adjutant generals Office
to clerk, 81 1000, adjutant generals ONCE. Per.
manently appointed-Geo. w. Ashworth. OF
Georgia, and Noble Moore, ofTennessee, clerks
$1,000, surgeon generals Office.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-02-16
Shot at by an Assassin.

JOURNALIST IN NEW MEXICO ATTACKED YoR
CALLING FOR PUNISHMENT OF cRIMrSALs
Los ANGELES, CAL. Feb. 16-A dispatch
from Atlantic and Pacific Junction, n. NJ, SAYS:
sinate c. F. Lumnus, journalist and magazine
writer, who has been wintering there. Lum-
nus stepped outside his adobe cabin, when q
man fred two charges of buckshot at him.
several of the shot striking him in the face,
but producing no serious injury. Lumnus has
written several articles fayoring the punish
ment Of certain wealthy men whom he claims
to be murderers