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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-26

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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-26

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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-07-03
WALT WHITMAN.


tect him from the storm, nor castit aside
because of the monday suns fierce
heat, but has walked forward undis-
mayed along his appointed course. prais-
ing humanity, clarifying America, con-
fident in the future of his race, says
the New York Press. AS result he has
two constant friends. They are:
A woman and a dog.
I hope never again to experience such
a shock as I did the other afternoon on
reaching No. 32s Mickle street, Camden.
I had read of Walt Whitman's ''com-
Portable but modest home," and was I'M
prepared for the reality. Only on the
testimony of two witnesses-a passer-by
and the door plate-could I bring myself
to believe that this was the house of
the ''good gray poet" 1t needs paint on
it's weather-beaten board. it needs new
blinds at the dingy windows, but, more
than all, it needs condemnation and de-
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-07-03
AGRICULTURAL HINTS.
A GREAT ECONOMY.
Farmer Who Thinks Hay Covers Al
most Indispensable in Putting Up Hay.

Farmer Who Thinks Hay Covers Al
most Indispensable in Putting Up Hay.
Hay caps pay we'll have used them
for several years, and would as soon
think of getting hay without moving
machine as without hay covers. There
are times when they are not needed,
and. of course. will not be used. but no
farmer is fully equipped for haying
without them. In a season like last
year they were found Indispensable
Hundreds and thousands of tons of hay
will be badly injured without them this
year, and this, besides the delay of
cutting the grass when it ought to have
been cut, and could have been secured
with the needed protection. To be a
good judge of the weather is a splendid
qualification, but few men can tell the
amount of sunshine to be depended
upon when they enter their fields. With
the aid of covers 1 have cut SIS tons of
hay and so tons of rowen from As acres
OF land without getting it wet at all.
and could but pity my brother farmers
all about me, to see their delay, with
hay spelling, simply for want of protec-
ton. L have seen acres of nice grass
cut and allowed to rot on the ground for
want of covers.
Some may ask: Will not the hay mold
and sour, even covered, through a long
storm? Certainly it will, if not put up
right. never allow grass to be cut in
dull day so as to be ready when the
sun comes out Never cut it unless you
are sure of one good day, and then
down with it as early as possible, say by
10 o'clock; then, if not too heavy, put
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-07-03
HAY CAPS.

on the rake and get it into beds. If too
heavy put on the tedder, and stir it
lively until p. m. Then put it into
cocks and have the covers all on by $50
p. m. 1t is all right then for five days
pull of lowery weather if it comes, and
no storm can reach it to spoil it. Before
that time, as a rule, the sun will shine
enough to finish curing it. This rule L
have adhered to strictly and certainly
got we'll paid for it. Some farmers say
it is luck. 1t is no such thing; it is
doing it by rule. Never leave one safe
position until you are sure of reaching
another before it rains.
Some inquire: Do you put on covers
whether it is going to rain or not? AS
a rule, l do, certainly on rowen; dense
fogs will permeate it as badly as a
shower, and the less fog comes in con-
tact with it the better. 1t requires
some work and little care to use COW
erS, but in rain storm it is like hav-
ing your buildings insured, when the
lightning is wildly playing about them
1T makes one feel much better to
know the hay is covered. The covers
use most are made of heavy cotton drill,
60 inches wide, cut into 64-inch pieces.
These are hemmed all round and have
leather or metallic eyelet in each
corner with a heavy cotton cord IA
inches long, tied in it. Attached to
this is pin made of any tough wood.
1t is 10 inches long, five-eighths of an
inch thick, and three-fourths of an inch
wide. 1t should be sharpened at one
end and have hole at the other end to
receive TIE cord With such covers
tons of hay can be we'll and safely Sc
cured in catching weather. They can
be gotten up at cost of 55 to GO cents
each, and if taken care of will last
twenty years. L have used mine an
nually for nine years and they are good
for ten years more.-W. Fl. Wilkinson,
in Home and Farm
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-07-03
The. boy and the animal

beholders. The 10y ana the animal
were enveloped in cloud of dust. but it
could be seen that as yet he chung to her
back. The battle was forgotten. Sol
diers and spectators ran forward and
shouted, but the black mare only ran
the faster. Now she stumbled and
nearly fell; now she regained her foot
ing and tore away again: now her sad
die had slipped around and hung on her
side. The boy had lost the bridle-rein,
and was clinging to her name. He was
crying out for help and momentarily ex-
pecting to be dashed under her feet
Barry Cartwright tried to save his
For days he had been
harboring angry feelings against
Herbert Fleming, but now they were
forgotten. Almost as soon as the black
mare had taken fight Barry was urging
the sorrel in pursuit. The old horse
seemed to understand the situation.
Barry knew that he could never over
take the feet black mare, but that he
must try to head her off. He rode the
sorrel across the fields, urging him to
Jump bitches and fences, and thus take
a shorter route than the mare was TAX
ing. The old horse made a mighty
effort and travelled faster than it had
gone for years. Every one shouted to
Barry to come back, that he would be
killed, but he needed no warning. His
father prayed for him and was proud Of
him.
When Barry reached the road it was
at point in advance of the black mare.
Herbert was clinging to her back. and
she came on, frothing at the mouth, and
still in frenzy of fear. Barry caught
her HUidle as she tried to rush past,
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-07-03

SOrS 30 gaze upon them. There had
been no professions in the town for six
months, and they determined that on
the Fourth of July they would have
one.
As it is q Revolutionary town, Spring
Geld is all alive whenever the Fourth
Of July arrives. 1t hangs flag from
che spire OF a church and rings the viii
Rage bells. The town folk talk of their
independence" and spend money for
fireworks. On the ''Fourth" of which
4 write it was decided that the day
should have an unusual celebration, and,
- their delight, the boys in the military
academy were to be the principal actors
In the affair. They were to have a
tle-ground, and to beat the English over
4gain. Half of their number were to
dress as the American soldiers dressed,
to wear such uniforms as were worn by
Che Hessian yagers of tn at period.
In the year 17S0 the American army
ct Springfield was commanded by Gen
ersl Greene, and the British army by a
Hessian General named Baron
Xnyphausen. 1t was decided that two
boys on horseback should impersonate
4hese great officers.
OF course all of the boys wanted to be
American soldiers, and not one was
willing to put on red coat and call
himself Hessian. 1t became necessary
20 call the teachers in to settle this
difficulty. and they wrote the words
american" and British" upon q great
many slips of paper, turned them face
downward in box and invited each
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-07-03
TIGER TRAINING.
Cow the Most Treacherous WIG
Beasts Are Subdued-
The Dangerous Methods Adopted by Fear
less Trainers-A Cup Of MIX ana
Whfp-Kindness More Effective
Than Cruelty.

1t may be significant to school teacn-
ers and others interested in the educa-
ton of children that the tiger and
hyena are trained by system OF re-
wards, not p1niShmentS, says the New
York Journal. Both are among the
most dangerous, cruel and treacherous
of animals. Only a few years ago il
was believed that neither could be
tanned. The trainer who put his head
in the lions mouth could not be tempted
to enter the cage of the royal Bengal
tiger.
The tiger, strained and lean as he is,
can carry off buffalo as lightly as .
.at does a rat He can toss man al
easily as a cat does mouse His Iongs
sharp claws would tear his victims
flesh into shreds. He is powerful. cun>
ming, bloodthirsty. To enter the cage
Of an untamed tiger would be suicide.
1t would be quite as speedy an exit
from life as an electrical execution fof
stranger to venture into the den OF .
trained tiger.
lion with impunity. When the BarnuU
show was in London a greenhorn went
into the lions cage every day with .
curry-comb and combed the lions name.
He also entered a cage of leopardss
which are even fiercer than the tiger ies
with nothing but little whip in his
hand, which would afford him no pre-
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-07-03
A Happy Medium.

For the past twenty-five years the
American horse breeders have been bent
upon the prod uction of two extremes
the heavyweight draft horse and the
lightweight. low-striding trotter. These
both have their useful spheres, but in
the mad and indiscriminate rush for
their acquisition there has been pro-
duced on the one hand too many big,
lifeleS:, flat-footed. soft-jointed bullocks
with legs full of coarse hair, of little
utility and short-1ived; and ON the other
hand, we have a small, S;iort-neched,
narrow-chested, nervous little trotter
whose ability to trot is only demon
strated after the expenditure of a snug
little sum of money, and which if he
can not trot and trot fast is of very lit
tie use to the farmer who has raised
him, and must be kept at further ex-
pense until he can be marketed as a
roadster at about six years of age. The
breeding of the typical trotting horse
for profit is a very dangerous business
for the general farmer to embark in ex-
cept he be unusually well posted in ped
igrees and possessed of considerable
spare capital. Progressive breeders have
begun to realize these two dilemmas
and they are casting about for the mate
rial with which to establish class that
shall combine to great extent the
utility of both kinds without some of
their Objectionable features; that will
meet the popular demand for coaching
horses and that will at the same. time
perform their full share of the farm
labor from the time they are three or
four years old until sold off the farm.
Breeders Gazette.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-07-03

While his grandsons. before they were out OF
bibs
Were acknowledgment ScottL Ito fire OF squibs
And so each Independence morn
Grandfather Watts took his powder horn,
And the f1intlock shotgun his father had
When he fought undr Schuyler, a country lad.
And Grandfather Watts would start and tramp
Ten miles to the woods at Beaver Camp;
For Grandfather Watts used to say-and
scow1-
That decent chipmunk or woodchuck or owl
Was better company, friendly shy
Than folks who didn't keep Fourth of July.
and so he would pull his hat down on his
brow, m
And march for the woods, sou'cast by SOU.
But once-ah long long years ago;
FOR grandfather's gone where good men go
One hot, hot Fourth, by ways of our own,
Such shortcuts as boys have always known,
We hurried and followed the dear old man
Beyond where the wilderness began,
70 the deep black wooks at the foot OF the
Hump,
And there was a clearing and a stump
4 stump in the heart q ia great wide wood;
And there on that stump our grandfather
stood,
Talking and shouting out there in the sun,
And firing that funny old flint lock gun
Once in minute, his head all bare,
Waving his Fourth OF July out there
The Fourth of July he used to know
Back in elghteen-andtwenty or So
First with his face to the heavens blue,
He read the Declaration" through;
And then, with gestures to the left and right,
He made an Grafton erudite,
t'ull of words six syl1ables long;
And than our grandfather broke into song,
And soaring the squirrels in the trees,
Gave "Hail, Columbia" to the breeze.
And tell you, the old man never heard
When we joined in the chorus, word for world
nj ha Sony O11tc CT fr, fho oh
And IL voices joined in his Fourth of July,
He heard them as echoes from days gone by.
And when he had done, we all slipped back,
AS still as we came on our twisting track;
While words more clear than the fint-lock
shots
Rang in our ears.
And Grandfather Watts?
He shouldered the gun his father bore,
And marched OF home norwest by nor.
H. c. Bunner, in Harper's Young People.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-07-03
Appreci alton Before Praise.

There are persons in this woodland
the pity is there are not more of them
who care less for praise than for APP
probation. They have an ideal after
which they are striving, but which
they consciously faI. short of-as every
one who has a lofty ideal is sure to do.
When that ideal is recognized by
another, and they are praised or COM
mended for something in its direction,
they are grateful-not for tbs praise.
but for appreciation. An element Of
sympathy enters into that recognition,
and they feel that they have some
thing in common with the observer who
admires what they admire and praises
what they think is most worthy Of
praise-N V Ledger
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-07-03

0HE OLD HORSE MADE A MIGHTY EFFORT.
boy to draw one. Every one who drew an
american" ticket went into the jersey
regiment and every one who drew a
British" ticket joined the Hessians.
Then the teachers decided that Barry
Cartwright and Herbert Fleming should
oct as Generals. Both boys could ride,
and they knew more of military
maneuvers than any other boys in the
academy. Each of these two boys was
fourteen years old, and it was astonishing
how much information they had obtained
about artillery, cavalry, infantry, gun
nery, etc. They seemed to know just
how to attack an enemy, how to rout
him ana all about it. Barry had drawn
an American" ticket and Herbert a
British" one. therefore Barry was en-
titled to represent General Greene and
Herbert was expected to impersonate
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-07-03
PORTABLE SPRAYER.
Here Is One Home Made-It Costs But
Little and Works Well.

We know of no perfect portable spray
ing apparatus put on the market. ex-
cept the Eureka, which costs something
over $40 each. To people of little
mechanical skill and inclination the
description of home made sprayer
given by Prof. r. ThaXter in a recent
Bulletin of the Connecticut Experiment
Station (New Haven), and the accom-
panying illustration of same repro
duced from same source, may be of in.
terest and help.
The machine consists of an ordinary
small copper wash boiler. The
hose Of a force pump (hydronette
pattern) enters the water through
a short collar of tin into which the
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-07-03
HOME MADE PORTABLE sPRA. N

HOME MADE PORTABLE SPRA.
hose is pushed. These pumps do not
throw continues spray, and so piece
of 6ve-eight-inch heavy rubber tubing
is fastened to a Vermorel nozzle at
one end and the regular pump nozzle
at the other, by winding it tightly
with small copper wire. The two MOBILES
are then connected by two heavy
copper wires fastened by winding
once around each nozzle. The fol-
lowing prices are quoted in the Bulle-
tin. for articles sold in Hartford and
New Haven: Sulphate of copper from
619 to 10 cents per h., according to the
amount sold; ammonia from 8 to 10
cents; carbonate of copper as cents per
Ih; rubber tubing IS cents per foot;
wash boilers, 1925; force pump. $780,
Popular Gardening.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-07-03

struction at the hands of the city aU-
thoritieS. The door was opened in re-
Spouse to my ring by gentle-faced,
wistful-eYed, elderly woman.
''Please step into the parlor," she
said, ''while I take your card to Mr..
Whitman. His health is precarious
now
A spotted coach-dog shifted sus-
piciously about me. .
'Don't mind Homer" she added;
she's harmless, and Mr.. Whitmans
favorite companion. Why? Because he
doesn't bother him with silly questions,
I Think
In response to the announcement I
climbed a narrow stairway to an upper
room. I went directly to one object of
my mission, and told him that an adj
mirer was anxious to furnish him easy
employment of cclgenial nature.
The fine pink skin flushed, the elo-
quent, gray blue eyes lost little of
their luster.
'sTell Mr. -" he said, ''that Walt
Whitman thanks him. These are all
bad days now, but when they are only
half bad I like to scribble yet. This
offer meanS''-a pause-''it means that l
shall be glad to do the work if 1 can"
Was there not another meaning also
to that broken sentence? I thought so
as 1 looked at the great table, piled
high with books and papers, at the
hard bed and uninviting lounge, at the
windows, through which no waving tree
or nodding flower smiled welcome to
their lifelong friend, at the man him
self, royal and se1f-respecting, a
diamond set in dross, but shining with
greater brilliance because of the mean
surroundings.
We talked of ''Leaves of Grass" the
book which secured Whitman's dis
charge from the Interior Department
by Secretary Harlan and gained him the
friendship of Tennyson, and of the days
when ats author nursed the soldier boys.
81 never married., he said, ''for in place
of a bride nature gave me sufferers to
care for and scenes to clOthe with poetry.
Here" he continued, changing the SUBJ
ject, sis my message to the young
authors: Employ not evil for its own
sake. Make it foil for purity
told him of passages in his writings
which admired, and referred particu-
larly to my Captain" that eloquent
lament that marks the martyrdom of
Lincoln like monument. quoted:
Exult, o shores, and ring, bells!
But I, with mournful tread.
Walk the deck; my captain lies
Fallen, cold and dead.
s'I'm glad you fancy that" he said,
quietly. Il thank you for your appre-
ciation.''
Not a word of self praise; not syl-
liable of self depreciation; simple,
proud humility in the acknowledgment
of pleasure that his printed thoughts
were remembered by stranger.
had outstaid the moments to which
I was pledged to limit my visit. I rose
to go, and our hands met in friendly
farewell. Stay he exclaimed. ''Do
you care for this?' and he wrote with
firm stroke the following:
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-07-03

popular misap-
prehension the
optimistic tenn
permanent and
faith in his kind
that character
ize Walt Whit
m a n. Unduly
abused by the
many, extrava-
gantly praised
by the few, he
has ne i t b e r
drawn tigh ter
his cloak to pro-
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-07-03
THE SHAM BATTLE.
a Fourth Of July Hero Who Won
One Victory at Least.

HE boys in the
Springfield Mil
itary Academy
were fond of
pr oce IS i o Ms.
Their teachers
d &c l AIRED that
they would run
a mile to see
three men walk
behind a fife and
a drum. All
they wanted to
make them hap
py was a band
ofmusio, a broad
street to march
through, and a
linz of Snacfa.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-07-03
oRANDFATnER.s FOURTH.

RAN DFAT III T. r
WATTS used to
tell us boys
T b a t a Fourth
want q Fourth
W i t b out any
noise.
He would say, with
a thump of his
hickory stick,
That it made an
American right
down sick
To see his sons on
the Nations day
Sit round in q sort
of a listless way,
w i t h no grafton
and no t r a i n.
band,
No fire-work show
and no root beer
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-07-03
A Grateful Tramp.

Gaustic Griffin (the tramp)-Madam,
will you please give me a piece of that
mince pie you had when visited this
part of the country last?
Housewife-No; go away, or I'll call
the dog.
TraLp-Thanks. madam, thanks!
Housewife-And for what?
Tramp (satcheting away)-For giving
me another chance to live. called for
that pie with the intention of commit
ting suicide, but now I feel a little
fonder of life. Good-day, madam
Lawrence American.
ENERGY me! what is that noise?''
cried old Mrs. Bensel, as huge cracker
exploded beneath her window. 81 don't
know" said the innocent son aud heir,
who was responsible for the explosion,
unless it was sister Mary's bang ycr
heard -Harpex's Bazaar.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-07-03
A Man OF NJ light.

Cumso of strength. jay.
smith is a second Samson.
Fangle-O, rats!
''It's fact. You know how strong
his breath is?'
eyes"
swell, he can hold that two whole
minutes. Jury.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-07-03
LIVE STOCK NOTES.

HAVE pen partitioned off from the
mother SOW, out into which the pigs can
go, where you can feed them little
milk and oatmeal, or good wheat bran,
by themselves, says the Northwestern
AgriculturiSt. They will learn to eat
and it will be better for them when
Weaned.
The best way to increase the appe-
tite of a horse, if such thing is neces
sary, is to change his diet frequently,
says an exchange. In the spring horses
often lose their appetites when worked
hard. Bran mashes, chop-feed, ETC..
make good substitutes for grain ratiOnS
at such times.
MUCH of the coal delivered in cities
is drawn by single horses, that easily
draw 3, 900 pounds at load often over
sidewalks and into soft alleys and I'M
paved streets, writes correspondent of
the New York Tribune. Many Ohio
farmers imagine they have a load if
they draw 5000 pounds with two
horses. Recently, when roads were al
most impossible, l met a man with a
very heavy load of shorts drawn by
four horses abreast. One span was a
heavy team, the other an ordinary
road team. The teams were well
matched; that is, large horse and a
smaller one were together on either
side of the pole, the larger one next the
pole. Thus the heavy team guided the
wagon and held back down hill, while
each pulled against smaller horse
that was given an advantage on the
double-tree. The quadruple-tree was
2x6 oak scantling slightly tapered,
about seven feet long. This team was
more easily handled. and appeared
more effective than tandem team. as
all the horses could be made to pull
steadily together.
Quick Haying.
When grass was cut with scythes,
moving was best when the dew was On.
With the moving machines came other
ways. A mower does best when there
is no water on the grass. I have found
grass cut between eleven and twelve
o'clock a. m. is cured better at two
o'clock than that cut between nine and
ten and it makes better hay. My plan
is to run the machine from eight or nine
o'clock to twelve m. Between one and
two p. m. start the rake and hands to
put up in small cocks. As soon as
done raking start the teams to hauling
to the barn. If possible it should all
be in the barn by shutdown. If any re-
mains over, that should be carted in the
morning. If the prospect is good for
another fair hay day. 1 sometimes NOW
two or three hours after noon. but never
enough to risk having lot of wet hay
to dry. This seems slow work to many,
but 1 manage to get my hay into the
barn in less time per acre than others
who work all the time. 1t is as much
work to dry lot of hay after being wet
as it is to cut and rake the same amount
without being wet, and the hay is worth
twice as much as after wetting. snake
hay when the sun shines" The more
haste the less speed" whatever is
worth doing. is worth doing we'll"
These three rules are the rules to hurry
hay making and good hay.-Farm and
Home.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-07-03
An Iadustrious Boy.

Mrs. Fangle-How industrious your
bow is! I saw him digging in the garden
lust now. Twish could get our Freddy
to work like that
Mrs. Cumso with a sighl-He's dig
ging bait to 60 fishing