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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-01-09
GUESS THIS is TRUE.
Hens Arc More Profitable Than Cows
Poultry Raiser Demonstrates 1t.

Hens Are Moro Profitable Than COws-A
Poultry Raiser Demonstrates 1t.
It is said that the profits from twenty
five hens equal the profits from one cow.
1t may be suggested that the truth of
this statement depends upon the hens.
Very true, but with equal truth it may
be asserted that it also depends upon
the cow. Taking the country at large
and averaging things, as it were, am
disposed, says a contributor to the Rural
New Yorker, to cast in my lot with the
hens, and if any lover of the COW with
a crumpled horn, or with no horns, is
disposed to question my conclusions, let
him take up the gauntlet or ever after
give the palm to the feathered biped.
Both require shelter. Buildings sufd-
cient to make them comfortable will, of
course, vary in cost as we'll as in archi-
tectural pretensions with the location
and the taste or financial resources of
the owner, but think that twenty-five
hens can be made snug and comfortable
for less money than one COW.
Feed is quite considerable item, but
think the twenty-five hens will be
able to show d balance in their favor. I
can keep flock Of hens and feed them
well for eggs at an average expense of
one dollar each per year. The outlay
will, of course, vary slightly in different
seasons and different localities, being as
often under as over this amount. This
would make the yearly board bill of our
flock of twenty-five just S25. Can the
cow champion beat this without starv-
ing his cow or going SO near it as to re-
duce her milk yield? Both hens and
COW must have good care, but were de-
sirous of the minimum amount Of labor
I should prefer to care for the hens. It
would certainly require less labor to
gather the product of the hens industry
than to milk the COW. The droppings
from flock of hens are usually con-
sidered of sufficient value to pay for the
care.
How about the product? An average
hen, if decently attentive to business,
will lay about 10 dozen eggs per an
mum. My % hens then will produce
about $50 dozen. 1 can sell my eggs at
an average price for the year of 80 to
40 cents per dozen, but this is too high
for the country at large; 90 cents Is
nearer right. This makes the receipts
$50 for the flock, or, subtracting one dol
lar per head for feed, have a balance
of $50. The first cost of the hens was
probably so to rs cents each, but calling
it one dollar each, have net profit Of
100 per cent. Besides this. several Of
the hens have probably acted as incu-
bators, and thus have earned something
more to, be added to the credit side of
the account. The first cost of the hens
was less than the first cost of good
COW, so the COW must earn still more
than the hens have done to make a
profit of 100 per cent. Will she do it?
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-01-09
SHOULD HAVE IT NOW.
A Lady Who Thinks Izx-Treasurer Spinner
Should Have q Monument.

A Lady Who Thinks Ex-Treasurer Spinner
Should Have q Monument.
"The women of this country ought to
erect a monument to the memory Of ex-
Treasurer Spinner" says an elderly
lady in Washington.
1t was suggested that it is too soon
to erect monument to Spinner, mas
much as some of the greatest men our
age has produced are lying in graves
which are but cheaply marked.
''No matter whether Spinner be alive
or dead" she continued, ''the women
ought to erect monument to his men,
DRY. I think it ought to have been done
long ago, SO that the old man could
have gone to see it himself. 1 don't be-
lieve in waiting for men to die and to
be almost forgotten before the world
shows its appreciation of them"
''But why, madam, do you think the
women should do this?'
because General Spinner was the
first man to come forward and fight the
battle of women with the Government.
He employed women as clerks in the
Treasury. Department, and did it in
spite of bitter opposition. I was poor
girl then myself, and could get almost
nothing to do to make an honest living,
when place was found for me in the
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-01-09
AxricuIture In England.

Hon. n. j. Colman, Secretary of
Agriculture under President Cleveland,
has had published some very interest
ing observations about his recent trip
through England, as an agricultural
representative on Scripp's league. The
picture he draws of the condition of
agriculture in England is far from a
bright one. The farmers there are not
land owners. They must pay rent of
from three to FIVE dollars per acre, and
when near cities from twenty-five to
fifty dollars per acre. In addition to
the rent they must pay taxes for vari-
Gus purposes, one-tenth of what is raised
going to the support of the established
church. On account of cheap ocean
transportation they are unable to COM
pete in the production of breadstuffs
with other nations. In short, farming
is improbable; times are hard among
them. and they are emigrating in large
numbers to America and the English
colonies. About the only kind of farm
ing that is now profitable in Eng land
is the raising of mutton sheep. Meat
is high and the pasturage Of that coun-
try. owing to its climate, is unexcelled.
hut already the farmers there are COM
planning loudly against the importation
Of American meats, 'as we'll as bread
stuffs. Farm and Fireside.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-01-09

1Cc-uOuSo 10 Do d.
ready built, 15xso feet, to one end add a
room of any desired dimensions. Tight
~ cover this addition and let it be
sealed within tightly with half-inch
grooved spruce or some other wood
which will not impart taste to what is
stored. The exterior of the cooling
room may be the same in appearance as
the ice-house, so that the entire struct-
ure will be one building. The cooling
apartment must be lighted sufficiently,
but not extensively, and double win
dows should be used, together with two
doors or a heavily-packed door. The bot
tom can be cemented, which is prefer
able, or boarded.
An aperture one foot to eighteen
inches square must be cut from the
cooling room into the apartment occu-
pied by the ice at the top of the room
and a corresponding opening made at
the bottom. This is to allow the heated
air of the cooling room to pass out and
the cold air from the ice to fall and
enter the cooling room at the bottom.
These openings must have closely-itting
doors and, generally speaking, they are
kept closed. If the temperature in the
cooling room should be too high at any
time it would be necessary to open
these doors for an influx of cold air. To
the person who has ever used such an
arrangement and seen it's beneficial re-
suits, return to the refrigerator would
seem like retrogression indeed. If the
cooler or retarding room can be conven-
iently located on the north side or end
of the ice-house, it will be in the most
feasible location.-Farm and Home.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-01-09

finds himself, by reason of the Gentiles
and their prospect of victory in Febru-
airy, richer by half than he was year
ago. If the Gentiles win in February
there will be a still further increase in
the value of property, and he will be the
more nabob; if the Mormons win his
real estate will depreciate and he will
be the more tithe-paying pauper.
This is the condition against which the
President, the twelve apostles, the sew
enty elders and all the fat old rams of
the flock are breaking their corns in the
most futile kicking. 1t is a case of dol
lars and dimes, and when it comes to q
question of these the average Mormon
is just as 1amentably human as the rest
of us.
OF the strong probability of the Gen
tiles winning in February there seems
no reasonable doubt. In the August
election of legislative delegates they
had the best of it in the city by small
majority, but the saints, or rather their
leaders, claim that they were unduly
sanguine and failed to put in their s'best
licks.''
That they will strain every nerve to
retain the wonderfully ''soft snap they
have been SO long enjoying goes with
out saying. They have already brought
in many floating voters from other parts
of the Territory, and are keeping them
employed about the city in one capacity
or another, and this nightly speech
making, protesting and drum-pummel-
ing bespeak their fear and agitation.
If the Genti1es gain the victory in this
city in February it will be a sore blow
to the oath-bound brotherhood of priests.
Please God, they may be nicely knocked
on the head in political sense, and the
poor sheep of Utah liberated and turned
out to greener pastures and less troubled
waters. ALvA MILTON KERR.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-01-09
MORMON LETTER.
An Interesting Budget From Salt
Lake City.
The Present Condition of Affairs in Utah
Prospects TOR Gentle Success ut
the Polls in February
Minor Notes.
Especial Correspondence

Especial Correspondence
SALT LAKE CIrY.-The Mormon hold
is slipping; its grip on the material IN
terests of Utah, as well as its power In
things of spiritual sort, seems slowly
relaxing. Three summers back the
writer spent the season in this region,
and now, after pleasant residence OF
two months, this loosening OF the hard,
tight coil Of Mormonism seems quite ap-
parent.
The first new thing felt conscious OF
upon my late arrival was a general
flavoring of the atmosphere with the
thing known as ''boom," a term imply
ing a febrile rise in the common
American insanity for owning things.
The ungodly real-estate man had done
it; twas he, in collective sense, who
had brought on the ''boom' condition,
and it's he who to-day is turning the
heritage of the Saints upside down, both
politically and in a financial way.
1t is curious and rather comprom1s-
ing commentary on missionary matters
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-01-09
THE SHERMAN BILL.
Its Only Object Is to Mako a Text for
BloOdy-Shirt Speeches.

Its Only Object Is to Make a Text for
Bloody-Shirt Speeches.
Senator Sherman has reintroduced
his Federal Election bill, in substantial
~ the same form as year ago. Briefly
summarized, it takes the control of the
election of Congressman entirely away
from the people of State, and turns it
over to canvassing and electoral boards
appointed for life by the President. OF
course the Northern States will not
submit to such treatment. Indeed, all
that it seems necessary to say about the
scheme was so well said a year ago by
the Worcester Spy, that we reprint its
comments as covering the whole ground:
Senator Sherman's plan would establish
new and distinct system Of registration and
election In every State, entirely Independent of
and separate from the State election system;
and this intrusion Of external authority
and substitution Of a novel and separate cleo
tion machinery for that which is familiar,
established by State authority, and conducted
by local officers, would be unwelcomed and frri-
tattug everywhere, and not least in those
StEtes and commodities where elections have
always been conducted with substantial fair
ness The plan Of giving to members OF can
vassfng and electoral boards life tenure viii
scarcely commend itself to the general iudg-
ment. As politicians, having personal or Iarty
ends to serve, they might easily be led into
misconduct which would make their continu-
anUe in office undesirable, but would not, per
haps, be SUFFICIENT to insure their removal by
Impeachment. Altogether Mr.. Sherman has
not, by this bill, enhanced his reputation for
statezmanship.
OF course men like Senator Sherman
and "Bill" Chandler can not expect the
passage OF such schemes as they advo-
cate, because their own States of Ohio
and New Hampshire would not submit
TO such treatment Why, thei., do they
briDg them forward? Apparently for NO
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-01-09
DUDLEY'S ESCAPE,
A Violation of Law and Decency Sane
toned by President Harrison.

A Violation of Law and Decency Sane
toned by President Harrison.
The open protection given to Dudley
against the law by the Administration,
through District Attorney Chambers,
has scandalized the people of Indiana,
Republicans as we'll as Democrats.
1t was, perhaps, to be expected that
technical excuses might be found for
letting the author of the s'blocks-of-
five" letter go unwhipped of justice.
But it was not thought-probable that
the United States law officer charged
with the prosecution of offenders would
go so far as Attorney Chambers does in
this declarations:
The socalled Dudley letters, construed in the
light OF the knowledge that we all possess Of
parties, have nothing in them of a criminal
character: but, upon the other hand, when SO
construed, are honorable, and indicate simply a
patriotic interest in elections
Here we have Mr.. Harrison's appointee
sin charge of the administration of the
law in the city of the Presidents resi-
dence lsuding the corrupt methods by
which the Presidents election was
bought away from the majority Of the
people. When Dudley wrote to ''divide
foaters into blocks of five, put trusted
MON "AIAA ehO hOSCoooiy III ChdHS0
of each block, and make him responsible
that none gets away" he simply gave
detailed directions for the successful
commission of the crime of bribery at
elections. There is no doubt bout that.
1t is into1erab1e that an officer of JUS
tice should declare that such instruc-
lions are honorable and patriotic. The
outrage is the greater because, as an ex-
cuse for this astonishing declaration, the
District Attorney cites the practices
that have obtained in Indiana elections.
In a word, in order to shield an &C
cused against whom the evidence is his
own writing District Attorney Chambers
declares that Indictment to corruption
is patriotic, because it has become Gus
tomary. This extraordinary official Ii
bells his State in order to excuse prosti-
tuition of his authority under the COM
mission of the United States to the
shielding of a corruptionist. No wonder
that there is general demand in Indiana
for the removal of Cham bers, and that
even Republican organs join in it.-N.
Y. Star.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-01-09
FIG. 2.

FIG. 2 stall in width, and
4igh enough to slip between top and bot
Com strips. This frame is shown in Fig.
2. On this make the front of Manager.
Wine has V-shaped cut as shown, but
every one can suit his own fancy as to
shat. Slip this portable front in place
ond up to bottom of Manager; nail a
block behind, also a block on each side
ot top (G. If this makes the stall too
short for the cow loosen the front, take
out manger bottom boards marked d and
. and push the front up to desired posi-
zion and secure as before. can lengthen
my stalls eighteen inches, which think
Is enough. If you use a plain front
changer the side strips and b need be
only as far apart as height of manger
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-01-09
STARTLING CONTRAST.
The Difference Between George washin,
ton and Benny Harrison.

The Difference Between George Washing.
ton and Benny Harrison.
The hundredth anniversary of the in
augura ton of the first President of the
United States finds his place filed by a
descendant of one of the men who worked
with him for independence and freedom.
The spirit which then governed in the
conduct of the affairs of the Executive
Department is indicated in the inaugural
address of the first President
$40 the preceding observations Ihave
one to add which will be most properly
addressed to the House of Representa-
tives," he said in concluding. 'sWhen I
was first honored with a call into the
service of my country, then on the eve
of an arduous struggle for its liberties,
the light in which I contemplated my
duty required that / should renounce
every pecuniary compensation. From
this resolution have In no ms lance de-
parted, and being still under the inn
pressions which produced it. I must de-
cline as inapplicable to myself any share
in the personal emoluments which may
be indispensably included in a perma-
nent provision for the Executive De-
partsaent, and must accordingly pray
that the pecuniary estimates for the
station in which 1 am placed may, dur
ing my continuance in it, be limited to
such actual expenditures as the public
good may be thought to require"
The spirit of the present Administra-
ton has been not less clearly indicated
by the action of the President in ap-
pointing to the head of his Cabinet a
man who, in trading on his trust as
Speaker of the House of Representa-
tives, wrote: 'sYou urge me to make as
much as fairly can out of the arrange
ment into which we have entered. 1t is
natural that should do my utmost to
that end"
The first President Wild not even
take money from the Government for
his own work. The present Administra-
ton finds it only natural to do its ut
| most to make all it can out of the ar
rangement into which it has entered.
The President, drawing his full salary
of $50, 200 year, devotes himself to the
work of earning it with zeal in finding
lucrative places for his horde of impecu-
| NOUS relatives. They make all they
can out of the augmentation the
President and his poor kin; from the
Vice-President and his s'buffet' with its
twenty-cent whisky; from the Postmas.
ter-General using his Cabinet place to
advertise his bargain counter; from the
Department of State with it's puffs fol-
wine dealers; from the Secretary of Ag
| riculture with his advertisements fol
yeast powders, issued from the Govern.
| ment press as official documents, to the
| petty bosses of Missouri Congressional
| districts, who use their power as1depu
| ty presidents to sell fourth-c1ass post
| offices at $25-$15 cash and $40 on de
| livery.
| trastS, but there are none sharper thar
| that brought out by the memorial exer
cises in the House of Representative.
| the other day.-St. Louis Republic.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-01-09

years ago a minister of one of the Cen
tile churches in the southern part OF the
Territory told me he had never known
single instance of a genuine "saint"
being proselyted to another Sect Once
Mormon always Mormon seems to be
the rule, or else nothing so far as re-
ligion goes. / have talked with several
whom Ingersoll's ''petard" had hoisted
out of Mormonism, but with none,
hoisted by whatever means they might
be, WAC landed in any other church.
I state this, not in the least degree to
discourage or prejudice the patient and
well-directed efforts of the many good
men and institutions working here, but
to indicate how hard the real Mormon
animal is to trap, even with the most
decent bait. He is, in truth, too animal
to comprehend fine spiritual things,
and, seemingly, about the only help
practicable in his case is to pull the
black cap of total unbelief over his
head, kick away the very foundations
of faith, and let him drop, hanging him
religiously.
This is the old, tough Mormon.
Tough? All, what an impenetrable
moral rind covers him! and the layers
of moss that are on him! But the chill
dren; there is where the leaven is at
work; the schools of the several
denominations throughout the Ter
ritor7 are slowly liberating them. do
not now remember ever having spoken
with young Mormon who was not
''dead against the plural tie. What
ever his predictions for the mother
church, the youthful Mormon can not
be brought to swallow Joe Smiths
special abomination. It's rot and won't
go down.
The polygamous relations being Sc
cretly entered into throughout the Ter
ritory, and there is deal of this am
told, are almost wholly assumed by new
corners to Zion. If the poor sheep from
over seas could be shut out, Mormon
ism as polygamous institution would
soon fail of nourishment. But still they
come in fiocks, herded by as fine set of
wolves as ever wore a fleece.
Yet it is not now as it once was; the
palmy days of polygamous license are
over, the plural privilege a good deal
stove in. AS it once was, the husband
sought safety on the cupboard or roof
only when the numerous wife of his
bosom fell a-fghting; as it now is, he
seeks safety ''on the Underground
while the numerous wife signs in quiet
loneliness beside his Impressed pillow.
There is little cause for jealousy now;
he is gone-with a United States Mar
shall after him.
But here at the heart of Zion the
tremors of the political EARTHQUAKE
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-01-09
A NATIONAL LOSS.

Death OF Henry w. Grady, the Great
Southern Orator and Editor.
Henry w. Grady, the brilliant young
orator and editor of the Atlanta Con-
stitution, is dead. During his recent
visit to Boston to attend a banquet, at
which ex-President Cleveland was a
guest and a speech-maker, he con-
tracted typhoid pneumonia, which de-
veloped Immediately upon his return to
Atlanta, anu ended in his demise. Mr..
Grady was the most conspicuous repre-
sentative of the great So.th. and was
beloved by all the people who claim
that part of the United States as their
home. He was only thirty-eight years
of age, yet within the last ten years
had achieved fame as an editor, as an
orator of great eloquence and power
and as broad-minded man, who, while
loving the South, yet recognized that
the old war issues were dead, and that
the duty of all Northern and Southern
sons of the blood-bathed flag was to
help the body of the people to forget
the animosities and differences of the
past and join hands in working for the
future advancement of the whole
country. He labored zealously for
the best interests of his beloved
OOQlu Ou ILLS line, anu luo
laying aside of sectionalism which
has begun to take such gratifying form
is due very largely to his logic, his elo-
quence and his earnestness of purpose.
Indeed it was in this cause that he met
his death. He attended the Boston ban
quet as the brilliant representative of
the Southern people, and made one of
his characteristic speeches there, shar-
ing with ex-President Cleveland the
honors of the occasion. 1t was on this
mission that he was stricken by disease.
In his own words, he fell talking for the
South, even as his father fell fighting
for it. And it is fitting tribute to his
memory that his battle for the land he
loved was one whereof the weapons were
reason, generosity. charity and love as
opposed to the fire and sword of his
fathers strife. 1t was his fortune to
| hold a warm place in the hearts of all
Southerners, not because he opposed or
hated the North, but because he sought
| to bring the erstwhile antagonistic Sec
| lions into that union of sentiment as
| we'll as of being which marks the typical
republic. 1t may be we'll said of Henry
| w. Grady: ''He was the foremost South
ern man of his time."-Chicago Mail.