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Telegram-herald., 1890-09-25
HEATH DIVORCED,
but the Divorce is Granted to III
Wife.

wife.
The Heath divorce case which has
been figuring prominentlyIn thesuperior
court for several weeks past was sud
denly terminated yesterday. Saturday
the husband was refused a decree be-
cause he did not prove his charges of
cruelty and adultery. The case was
again brought before the court ycstcr-
day and Judge Burlingame granted
Mrs Heath divorce on her cross bill.
Heath was ordered 20 pay the register
inslantor the sum OF Sl4 temporary
alimony, $50 permanent aiimony, So
solicitors fees and s4.G0 cOsts.
Telegram-herald., 1890-09-25

FIVE lines fo- 5 cents IN our classified col
A umns for next Sunday. CaSh goes ana
noon Tor the copy.
Telegram-herald., 1890-09-25

CHEAP adyertisingl Well. / should saw 50.
Five lines for a nickel In next sunday )
TELEsRAM-H BRAID.
Telegram-herald., 1890-09-25

DFNT your house for nickel iu the SvNDss
n TElNGBtv-liERsLr. C0gy in The ofice bl
noon saturday.
Telegram-herald., 1890-09-25

COME esriv 90 avoid the rush icr We always
= have q rush whea We run Nickel Ads"
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-06-05
A GOOD eRooDER.
Great Importance OF Taking Care nj the
Chicks.

Great Importance OF Taking Care nj the
Chicks.
1 make brooder of plain box three
feet square and ten inches high, open at
the top. Over che top tack a cover Of
galvanized iron allowing the iron to ex-
tend half an inch over the sides all
around. This carries off all smoke and
fumes from the lamp I next mako a
floor of matched boards we'll seasoned.
Before placing this tack on the under
side exactly in the center piece of tin
ten inches square, with half-inch wash
ers between the tin and floor. This
leaves q space of half an inch above and
below, and prevents the tin from heat
ing the floor too much in the center.
now tack a strip of one-inch lath all
around the box over the galvanized iron
and saw out half-inch of the center of
each side strip to admit fresh air and
then nail on the floor.
For the upper half make another
box eight inches high and exactly three
feet square. For the sides I use two
eight-inch side lights and for the back
and front a plain board eight inches
high with one and one-half inch strip
of fine wire gauze inserted near the top.
This gives pure. fresh air without causing
q draft on the chicks. The front is
arranged to slide in and out for door.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-06-05
DAIRY DOTS.

The following items are taken from
the Kansas Farmer:
The prayer of every dairyman should
be: s'Oh! Lord, deliver me from the folly
and certain punishment of being stingy
to my own cows"
SOME people think that cheese is sim
ply cheese and make no distinction, and
because skim chips ''lay hard in the
stomach" they can not eat cheese.
OFTEN after farmer provides himself
vides the best milk-producing food, his
cows are ruined by improper milking.
SCIENCE has demonstrated that a
cows teats possess the sense of feeling.
that they are not made of rubber, and
these facts should be remembered by
the strong handed, hurried mixer.
THE British Board Of Agriculture off,
cially announces the prevalence of foot
and mouth disease among the cattle of
Schleswig- Holstein. As consequence
cattle from that country are rigidly ex-
cluded from entering the Kingdom.
ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS worth of
cheese takes from the farm less than
one-seventh the fertility taken by one
hundred dollars worth of grain, while
one hundred dollars worth of butter
If the skim milk be fed on the farm
takes nothing from the soil.
FALL-MADE butter is always preferred
to that made in summer because the
weather being cool the milk is kept at
the proper temperature to raise the
cream in the best condition, making
butter of great solidity, and the grasses
that start after the fall rains give it .
fine flavor,
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-06-05

The top is made of we1l-m atched boards
and fastened on with hinges, for con-
venience in cleaning. Fasten the
upper half firmly to the lower and in
sert four one-inch tin pipes in the
floor. Saw out an eight-inch square In
each end of the lower box and hang a
door for the lamp. Bore one and one
half inch hole in each side for the
smoke to escape, and your brooder is
complete.
! use four of these in my brooder
rooms, and place the ducks and chick
ems in them when first taken from the
machine. 1 have never lost one from
crowding or overhead. I feed them on
shallow, wooden trays, removing the
trays at night. After four days 1 place
a platform sixteen by two feet in front
of the line of brooders. This platform
has board twelve inches wide across
the back and both ends, and is open in
front. 1t has six legs, and is divided
with four slides. Really, it is a table
divided in four parts and rallied around.
I slide back the door of each brooder,
and place food, water and coarse sand
on the platform outside. The chicks
soon learn to run in and out. and thrive
and grow wonderfully. 1 have one
brood of one hundred and ffty-ive now
in two Of these breeders, and have only
lost two since they were Matched.
have Pelkin ducks that were started in
them, and they now april 29) weigh
ten pounds per pair and only seven
weeks old. The glass at the sides gives
abundance of light, and the chicks are
not exposed to sudden changes of tenn
perature.-Farm and Fireside.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-06-05
Onion Culture.

All writer's on onion growing advo-
cate very early seeding, plenty of man
ure, and that the land should have been
thoroughly cultivated two or three pre-
vlous years to eradicate weeds and
their seeds. In 1883, says writer in
the Country Gentleman, violated all
these conditions and all other prerequi-
sites ever read of by sowing an eighth
of an acre on sod ground on the 14th of
May. and produced a crop most remark
able for size of tubers and quantity. Some
weighed over a pound each; the variety
Red Wethersfeld. The plat was in the
corner of pasture field which had not
been plowed in twenty years. 1t was
sandy loan, rich, of course, but no
manure was added. The well-harrowed
sod furnished what onions required-a
mellow, shallow seed bed with frmness
beneath. Not a scullion grew. In re-
gard to weed seeds, stiff sod is freer
from them than land which has been
recently cultivated. / planted on such
as the latter in 1889 with poor results.
shall SOW on sod again this season,
about the middle of May, when the
ground will be warm enough to ger
inmate the seed and give it a start at
once I regard this as of more impor-
lance than early sowing. Almost any
thing will do best planted when condi-
tions are right to start it quick and
push it ahead.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-06-05
POLITICAL NOTES.

You can vote as you please. says
Speaker Reed, so long as we do the
registration, the counting and the veri-
fcation.- Journal.
The House has passed the Sen
ate's innocuous antitrust bill And the
trusts are as tranquil as a May day in
in the morning. -Philadelphia Record.
If the Morrill, pension bill passes,
President Harrison will be entitled to
eight dollars per month. His admins
tration so far proves, however, that
even eight dollars per month is an ex-
orbitant price to pay for Harrison
Memphis (Tenn.) Democrat
Mr. Wanamaker is said to have
told a near friend that he was begin
ming to believe that he had paid a
pretty steep price when he gave S400. 600
for his present job And Mr.. Wanna
maker ought to know, too. for he has
had a great deal of experience in bar
gains.-Kansas City Times.
The position of Mr.. Butterworth
is full of significance. 1t will lead to
further opposition to the tariff, not suf-
ficient, we believe, to prevent the pas
sage of the Mckinley bill, but SUI
ficient to destroy any party that stands
back of measure SO oppressive and SO
full of iniquity.-Louisville Courier
Journal
The Republicans are undo ubtedly
alarmed at the prospects of a deficit.
They see that they are making a great
increase in expenditures-over $40, 00o.-
900 year for pensions alone already,
without additional legislation = and
they are planning to make a corre-
spending increase in revenues from tax
alton. If they pass a tariff bill at all
it will be with that end in yiew.-St
Louis Republic
There is some queer pension bust
ness going on at Washington The
Senate has been passing bills giving
pensions to the stepmothers of soldiers.
and now one is granted to the widow Of
a man who was drafted, who never
reached his regiment. and who Is not
positively known to have died, though
he is reported to have been killed in a
quarrel If Artemus Ward were alive
now, he would apply for a pension on
account of the cousins he intended to
send to the war.-Philadelphia Ledger
Qud. Rep).
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-06-05
PARENTS OF THE SIREN.

ing strange animals; curious stuffed
birds, which peered down from high
shelves and were laced together by cob
webs laden with dust, while many other
objects strewn about told of the trade of
the taxfdermist.
eyes," said the old man in reply to my
questions, 81 am a mermaid-maker, and
I flatter myself that I have produced
some of the most artistic mermaids ever
placed upon the market. Why, sir"
continued the speaker, warming up I'M
der the recollection of his triumphs, II
produced one that fooled even the doc
tors. You see, mermaids have been
made as long as any thing. The Chi
nese manufactured chem centuries ago,
and so we'll that large number of peo-
pie believed in them; and If the work is
fairly done the production is ono OF the
best cards q show can have.
''One day a man came to me, and
knew the moment / saw him that he
was Snowman. He said he had mer-
maids, but that on the last trip man
had offered to wager him five hundred
dollars that he would not dare to allow
the mermaid to be cut open; SO he
wanted something that would bear in
spection and be ready for such a con-
eingency. told him could do it, and
eeceived the order to go ahead.
''Generally in cheap work stuffed the
ekins with cotton or something of the
Kind and let them go, but in this case
went to work on scientific principles. I
cook the skin of a monkey and separated
It at tie waist; then allowed it to dry as
. mummy would, all of which helped
along by. the application of heat. now
took fish, common in the China Sea-
one that would not be familiar-and
treated it in a similar way, and finally
joined them together. 1 fastened scales
upon the monkey portion and carefully
graded them up among the hairs, then
introduced some hairs down upon the
fish portion. Barnacles were fastened
here and there and great cut was left
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-06-05
TWO HAPPY LOVERS.

The Daughter of the Confederacy and Her
Husband That Is to Be.
Our esteemed correspondents are still
asking questions about Miss Winnie
Davis and her lover.
Nothing is more natural than this
lively interest-this warm-hearted SYM
pathy and affectionate curiosity.
All the world loves a lover, said one
poet. Love rules the court, the camp,
the field, said another.
When the Daughter Of the .Confeder.
acy weds a Northern lover the agitators
who delight in sectional strife will feel
that they have met with an overwhelm-
ing answer. This winsome woman, the
child Of the prisoner of Fortress Monroe
this girl who was literally rocked in
tho cradle of war, and who first saw the
light in the Confederate capital, has
said with an eloquence all her own that
there shall be no North and no South,
but in their place there shall be union
of love and perpetual peace.
Something has been said about the
politics of the grandfather of Miss
Winnie's sweetheart. Who cares any
thing about his politics? Miss Davis
and Mr.. Wilkinson are not preparing
for a political campaign. They are not
discussing matters of ancient history.
They are not Haunting the stars and
bars against the stars and stripes, and,
at the present moment, they do not care
a snap whether the Nation is spelled
with big ''N" or not.
Love will have its own sweet way,
and even the malignant politicians are
secretly glad of it. They are only
malignant on the surface. At least
they are good fellows, and they are re.
jolcing over the happiness of this young
couple, and getting ready to dance at
their wedding.
And a royal wedding it will be. The
old Confederacy proposes to be on deck
when the matter of bridal presents
comes up-she will see to it that her
favorite daughter is not forgotten.
Our esteemed correspondents who are
asking so many questions may as well
put it down as fact that there is not
only a new South and a new North, but
q new Republic, too. This is as it
should be.-Atlanta Constitution.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-06-05
KISSES BY MAIL.
Revival of . Story Which Hath an An.
cient and Fish-Like Smell.

Revival of . Story Which Hath an An.
cient and Fish-Like smell.
The young postmaster of an Eastern
village was hard at work in his Office
when a gentle tap was heard upon the
door and in stepped a blushing maiden
of sixteen, with a money order which
she desired cashed. She handed it with
bashful smile, to the official, who, aft
er closely examining it, gave her the
money it called for. At the same time
he asked her if she had read what was
written on the margin of the order
mo, have not" she replied, 'sfor /
can not make it out. Will you please
read it for me?'
The young postmaster read as follows:
81 send you three dollars and dozen
Kisses"
CHANGING at the bashful girl. he said:
Snow, have paid you the money and I
suppose you want the Kisses
''Yes," she said, ''if he has sent me
any kisses want them, too"
1t is hardly necessary to say that the
balance of the order was promptly paid
and in scientific manner.
On reaching home, the delighted
maiden remarked to her mother:
Mother, this post-office system of
our is great thing, developing more
and more every year. and each new
feature seems to be the best Jimmy sen,
me dozen kisses along with the money
order, and the postmaster gave me
twenty. 1t beats the special delivery
system all acknowledgements Free Press
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-06-05
a MARVELLOUS FASTER.

A French Widow Who Says She Has Been
without Food For Nine Years.
The little town of Bourdeilles, in
Perigord,. France, is becoming famous,
saws che; New York Sun, through a
woman named Zelie Bourivu. who pre-
tends to- have tasted for nine years and
who is now actually undergoing sixty
day fast, under scientific precautions
against fraud. The woman is the widow
of a farmer of Paussac-Saint-Vivien
named Guillame Garron, by whom she
had four children, all now dead. The
death of her husband was the beginning
of her fast. She is brunette with
brilliant eyes and excessive nervous
ness. She has lived since her alleged
fasting began under the care of DR..
Lafon, who says that he visited her fire.
uuently, and, while unable to say that
her story was untrue, doubted it very
much, and endeavored frequently to in
duce her to submit to systematic course
of observations that would scientifically
test her claim.
She always refused, and this con-
firmed the doctor in his suspicion that
the woman was merely an ordinary hys-
terical, and perhaps unconscious. fraud.
Last month, however, she voluntarily
offered to submit to the closest sur
veillance the doctor might wish to phase
upon her. and the present tests were be-
gun. The doctor declares that he took
every precaution against trickery or de-
ceit. For three weeks the woman has
remained under guard in place where
no one is allowed to bring solid food OF
any sort. She has drank only little
water in which toast has been dissolved,
which she rejected at once, and has
sucked, once a day, bit Of orange to
take the bad taste from her mouth. DR..
Lafon proposes to keep her under guard
for sixty days. He does not attempt to
explain tho case, but has referred it to
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-06-05
HOUSEHOLDS eREvlTlEs.

Delicate colors in embroidered hand
kerchiefs can be set by soaking Tor ten
minutes previous to washing In q pail Oh
tepid water, in which desserepoonful
of turpentine has been well stirred
Whenever eggs are used in baking,
it is better to beat them thoroughly De
fore any other ingredients are added
This is especially true when baking
powder is used, as too much beating
after the powder is added seems to kiil
its essential qualities
"A nice way to fry mush is to take
one egg and beat it well; take two
crackers and roll fine. Then slice your
mush, cut it in rather small but nicely
shaped pieces. dip it in the egg, then in
the cracker dust, and fry in hot lard as
you would doughnuts-
Bacon Omelette.-Cut up a table
spoonful of minced bacon into finest
pieces. half fat and half lean: add pep
per to taste; beat up three or four eggs,
and stir in the bacon; cook in a hot and
very small pan that has bit of melted
butter or dripping already sizzling in it
Leeds Mercury.
Dressing for Lettuce.-Rub the
yelks of two hard-boiled eggs to
| smooth paste with two tablespoonful on
salad oil or butter, one-hah cup OF
sugar, one-haf teaspoonful of salt,
and vinegar TO thin. Pour over the Lett
tuce and garnish with rings cut from the
whites of the eggs.-The Household
People who suffer from chapped
hands should be careful to dry them
thoroughly after they are washed This
prevents chapping. If the hands are al
ready chapped, however, there is nothing
better than camphor ice. This prepar-
alton contains no glycerine. a component
part of many other ointments used for
this purpose, and consequently of ne
use to the large number of persons to
whose skin glycerine is irritating.
| Strawberry Dumplings.-Put one
pint of -four into bowl and rub into 10
two ounces of butter, add a teaspoonfal
of salt and heaping teaspoonful OF
baking-powder. mix well, and add suSs
fcient cold milk, about a gill, to m axe
a soft dough; knead lightly, and roll OUT
into a thin sheet. Cut, with round
cutter, into good-sized biscuits Put
three strawberries in the center of cache
pinch up the dough, and make into Q
dump1ing. Stand these on a plate and
place in a steamer, and steam for fifteen
minutes. Serve hot--Boston Budget
The bilious attacks which are "a
common at the present day are generally
very easily cured; no medicine is neces-
sary. A week or ten days of rather
spare and judicious dieting will oftel
put an end to them without further
treatment, though a certain amount Of
bathing, handwriting, etc, will fscili.
tate recovery. A bowl of thin Cruel fog
breakfast (no suppers), and dinner OF
pla bread and fruit 1.-THE latter acid,
and both unsweetened) are about what
the patient requires. A few lehnons
would be an advantage, these taken on
an empty stomach, and not too near the
mealS-Demorest.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-06-05
AesuRDLv INCONSISTENT.

Che Double-Ender Policy Of Mckinley and
His Shallow-Patod Crowd.
The avowed purpose of the Mckinley
tariff bill is to discourage and, as far as
practicable, to prevent the importation
Of foreign goods. If articles largely
consumed in this country can not be pro-
duced here as cheaply as they can be
imported the duties are to be raised so
that manufacturers may be encour-
aged to supply the home market. That
Is the general principle of the bill as its
friends present it. In palmer words, it
proposes to plumber the great body of
the people by compelling them to pay
extravagant prices for articles of neces-
sity which under a liberal tariff they
might buy more cheaply.
One sure effect of the policy adopted
in she hill must be to greatly diminish
the expectation of American prod ucts.
Commerce can not be maintained on the
one-sided principle. No country can
afford to permanently maintain trade
it in exchange for the merchandise we
export That is proposition
which will hardly be disputed.
Nevertheless, while Mckinley and
his tariffite followers are thus
preparing to abolish the foreign COM
merce of the United States, the same
party proposes to offer millions Of the
peoples money in brides for the estab-
lishment of lines of ocean steamers to
foreign countries. Such brides are man
ifestly the only means by which the
proposed lines can be maintained, for,
as consequence of the tariff bill, if the
confessed purpose of its authors and ad-
vocates is accomplished, there can be no
commerce to give the steamships legiti-
mate and remunerative employment
Any thing more absurdly inconsistent
than this double-ender policy of the
dominant party can not we'll be
imagined. One end of the scheme is
directed to the development of larger
foreign commerce.; the other to the
adjustment of the commerce we al
ready have. In one point only these
conflicting policies are harmonious.
The suppression of foreign trade is to
be achieved by robbing the people, and
the creation of steamship lines for the
maintenance Of the trade which is to be
abolished will also be accomplished by
pIundering the Treasury. We shall
have great fleets sailing in ballast, sup
ported by subsidies, while we pay three
prices for homemade goods, instead of
buying for fair price such goods as the
ships might bring. Chicago Globe.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-06-05
THE SIREN COMPLETE.

open up and down the abdomen, through
which any one could readily see the ribs
and the joining of the vertebr@.
1.-The face had been given an agonized
look, the hands were clenched. and, all
in all, it was one of the most disagreed
BILE sights l ever saw-even though did
produce it.
Eyes, it gave complete satisfaction.
When they exhibited it cloth was
thrown over the body, and when tho
question was raised the proprietor would
say that he would leave it to a commit
tee of medical men, thus being confident
OF obtaining some notoriety. In one
case a number of provincial doctors
were completely deceived, and signed a
paper retracting certain statements
which they had made to the effect that
the mermaid was sham"
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-06-05
A MERMAID FACTORY.
IN Old Artif1cer Tells How the
Sirens Are Made.
Monkeys Bodies Joined to Fishes Tails
with Cunning and Dexterity-A
Favorite with Showmen-
Even Doctors Deceived.

''Mermaids made and repaired" Such
an advertisement, says writer in the
Philadelphia Times,w was we'll calculated
to attract attention, and, as it confront
ed me one day in little-frequented
street in large Eastern city, | de-
termined to make the acquaintance OF
the maker of these incongruities. Pull
ing an old-fashloned brass bell-handle,
a little old man crowned with a square
paper cap came to the door. and after
cycling me suspiciously for moment
invited me in. There was the ''beggar~
ly array of empty boxes;" walls contain
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-06-05
A Wonderful Transformation.

tadpole, the larva of a frog, has a
tail and no legs. gills instead of lungs,
a heart precisely like that of a fish, a
horny beak for eating vegetable food
and spiral intestines for digesting it.
With the approach Of maturity the hind
legs appear, then the front ones; the
beak falls of, the tail and gills waste
away, the lungs are created; the digest
i've apparatus is changed to suit the ami
NAL diet; the heart becomes septiliau
in type by the addition of another auri-
Gle; in fact skin, muscles, nerves and
blood vessels vanish, being absorbed
atom by atom, while a new set is beino
substituted.-St Louis Republic.