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The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-05-02
IN GEN ERAL.


The North River Presbytery Of New York
has voted in favor of revision of the con.
fession of faith.
Wyatt "a. Graves, the noted ex-president
of the Merchants bank of West Salem, Wis,
lays his downfall to the Vaccinations Of g
rival.
Joseph A. Allen, reporter on the New
York Evening Telegram committed suicide
by inhaling chloroform. He has been mar
tyr to rheumatism.
The Kansas live stock sanitary commission
has agreed upon an order under which cattle
from the Eastern states must be held ninety
days at Kansas City at the expense OF the
health signed BY the state veterinarian.
At conference Of the Illinois Non Partisan
Christian Temperance union at Chicago, a
clause was inserted In the constitution by
which NO ohlcer Of the association is allowed
to do any campaign work for any political
party while holding Office. This is the first
time such . clause has been adopted by any
similar body. The name of the association
ives also changed to read the Women's Nom
Partisan Christian Temperance Alliance"
Prominent railroad men at Spokane Falls
say that it 10 moro than probable that the
Vanderbilt interest will obtain control Of the
Great Northern at the election in few days.
The Vanderbilts now reach the Pacific coast
by the New York Central, Michigan Central
Chicago, Chicago L Northwestern to
Omaha and traffic arrangement with the
Union Pacific to San Francisco. This is not
satisfactory and tho Vanderbilts contemplate
ed extending the Dakota division of the Chi
cago & Northwestern to the coast.
A special from Muncis, Ind, says: Recent.
~ half hundred people in this city were
suddenly seized with pains and severe sickness
of the stomach, attacks continuing several
hours. A number are still quite sick, with
new cases developing. Much excitement at
first prevailed, "a physicians were foiled in
determining the cause, some thinking that
the trouble arose from diseased meat while
others pronounced it la mona, the prevailing
epidemic in Germany and Italy. At the All.
bolt House 20 boarders, with the proprietor
and wife, are victims, all being attacked at
tho same time. James Burgess was walking
along the road where he fell, and laid unat.
tended for an hour.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-05-02


imported for breeding purposes and admitted
free. OF all animal products, including wool,
there is not one that can not now, indeed
that 10 not now being raised upon our own
soil, eand yet, inr."ding wool and hides, the
imports Of these animal products amounted
this add $40, 900, for fruits. $4,000
600 for barley, over 81, 600, 900 for hay and
hops, $3,5O0,OOO for rice, 81, ZOO, 900 for
tobacco, 100000 for oils, $4,000, 900
worth of vegetables, the same of eggs over q
million dollars worth of cheese-these re-
present some Of the imports, aggregating
nearly $115, 200, 900, which in spite of the
into this country and sold in competition
with our farmers. The region of the United
States where this competition 10 doubtless
most Severely felt. 10 in New England, the
seat Of manufacturing enterprises which owe
their existence to the fostering care Of pro.
tsctivs tariff laws, and what is the result?.
1t seems to NE that oursystem oftaxation
The cost OF supporting the government
needs to be most equitably adjusted among
the different classes of our people. At pre-
sent in many States the burden of local tax
alton presses heavily upon farm property,
ito very nature rendering 1t easily assessable.
Every corporation created BY the State, and
to whom special privileges are granted either
city. should b taxed in proportion to its
earnings, and in all ways the principle OF tax
alton should b to place the burden Of main
tanning the government, whether State, mu-
nieipal, or National, upon the Injuries and
comforts which the wealthy enjoy and to re-
duce it to minimum in its application to
the hardly earned property Of the poor man.
No doubt many more causes could be as
signed for the present agricultural depression,
still lees il there any doubt but that other
and more efficient remedies thaH those sug.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-05-02
PERSONAL MENTION.

Hon. Francis Dana Stedman IL dead in
Boston. Mr. Stedman was the last surviving
grandson of William Ellery. one ofthe signers
OF the declaration Of independence, and son
of Hon. William Stedman.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-05-02

culture Ms 1.Do9.S G ,o tn The
providing for the inspection al m. .S"a.e ollI
portation and prohibiting the imnor. ot ea-
OF adulterated articles af food and dr;nS sta
An amendment to the bill makes = ;.,, etc.
drugs. include
x;s Mr. Han a Of Minnesota introduced bill pro
the principal provisions are an iolIcr naeq and
an income Of over q. 900 and not 49,. Upon
$500 Of per cent; over S3. )t,o ..Sg
exceeding %, OO0, Of per cent.o-..oanr u n not
and not exessding $1o,00o,N 81 - o,voC,
and 1P"n tie The income Of any individpsl ;rn ns
excess per cent. PAU ON sseh
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-05-22
a SOLDERING MACHINE.


0ueks county. Pa, Has Scheme Tor R.
FORMING the Jolly Coed Fellows.
The Fhfiade1phia Record says: The
winter crop OF tramps In Bucks and
Montgomery counties is so abundant
this year that ordinary measures for
driving them out have proved futile, and
the county authorities are STUDYING how
best they may dispose Of the trouble
some Migrants. On account OF the ex-
tremeiy mild winter the tramps who
usually seek a warmer cline in the cold
months are lowering about the comfort
able barns and haystacks in Bucks and
Montgomery counties, and are lodging
also In the railroad stations and conven-
tently open freight-cars. The sober
Migrants are troublesome enough, but
the hundreds of intoxicated tramps are
even worse to deal with, and they not
only defy the orders to tsmove on" but
also threaten violence to country folks
whose farms they invade.
An old-time Bucks County farmer has
suggested that revival Of the SOLDERING
machine that did effective work in
Doylestown thirty or forty years ago
might have a wholesome influence on
the hordes of tramps and make them
shun Bucks County as they would fee
In terror from soap and water. Not
many of the present generation in
Doylestown are familiar with the sober
ing machine, but men who lived there
In the SOS and early '60s readily remem-
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-05-22

BUCKS COUNTY soBERING MACHINE.
Der the unique apparatus, and probably
there is more than one man in DOyles-
town to-day who would hesitate to tell
how we'll he recalls the old SOLDERING
machine.
The famous mechanism was nothing
more nor less than the shafts and front
wheels Of a light wagon gear, with . big
wooden box fastened firmly upon the
axle, making a rough kind ola cart. The
machine was kept in convenient dark
alley, and whenever one of Doylestowp's
good citizens came heme so flied
with ardent spirits that he could not
handle himself the machine was run out
from its hdding-place, the tipsy man
was seized and dumped upon his back in
the box, and with three or Sour sturdy.
burghers as the shafts he was given al
ride over tie rough streets that was
enough to shake every drop of liquor
cut of him and make him a scberer and
wiser man.
This heroic treatment was oftenest
applied to intoxicated strangers, but the
moral influence of-tAe machine was all
powerful in preserving the sobriety of
the townspeopls: The circumstances
now are such that many Bucks and
Montgomery County men bslieve it
would be we'll 20, revive this.eld-time
moral institution
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-05-22
increase of Grape CuIture.

Every year witnesses an increase of
grape culture, fact which the Western
Rural rejOices to note. This journal
does not believe that this people can
serve their own interests better than by
growing fruit, even when there is no
financial profit in it. But under any
thing like favorable circumstances grape
culture is profitable. The grape is such
a delicious fruit and its consumption is
so healthful that it Is not q matter of
wonder that the demand increases from
year year. 1t is fact that the sup
ply Of best grapes is not equal to the
demand, and we certainly need to say
that the West is scarcely felt at all in
supplying the Western demand for
grapes. Our markets are in the season
supplied by Eastern grape-growers. In
certain sections of the East the business
of growing and shipping grapes is ex-
tensive and systematic. The price
asked for grape vines is very low, at least
for the safest varieties. and people have
no excuse for not trying to grow grapes.
1t requires SO small an expenditure for
plants to set out an acre that it is
scarcely felt Two or three dollars will
buy very large number of plants.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-05-22
al Now Corn Insect.

William H. Ashmead, of Florida, has
described in a recent number of Psyche,
a new insect which promises to be of
considerable Importance to corn grow
ers in the Southern States. It belongs
to the division Homoptera, and to a
family Delphacide, in which no species
have hitherto been described as of
practical importance economically
Nevertheless. many species related to
the one described occur in abundance
in different kinds of vegetation, and
there can be no question that a more
thorough investigation of their habits
will prove them to be of considerable
economic Importance. It is to be hoped
that entomologists will give more at
tentin to the study of the habits of
these insects. Most of them are easily
destroyed by the use of kerosene
emulsions. and whenever application of
this insecticide is practicable it will not
be difficult matter to destroy them
Orange Judd Farmer.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-05-22
AGRICULTURAL HINTS.
OILERS PiG-FEEpER.

A Farmers Useful InventI0n-It Il Not
Patented.
OF the many inventions for feeding
stock there is none of more utility than
simple continuance invented by q
breeder of Poland China swine, Mr.. A.
c. Diller, Marshall County, Ia There
is no patent on it, and any farmer may
make as many as needed. 1t consists
of an open-ended box, twenty inches
square and three and one-half feet deep.
with notch two inches deep and five
inches wide in the middle of each side
at the bottom end. The bottom Is
thirty-eight inches square. Inside is .
pyramid fourteen inches square at the
base and sixteen inches high. fastened
on the center Of the bottom. The box
is set over the pyramid with the notched
end down. Strips two and one-half
inches wide are fastened on each edge
of the bottom. Eight blocks of board.
nine inches wide and one and one-ha1f
inches high at one side and six inch
cs high at the other, are set one at
each side of the openings from box to
trough. They should be eight inches
apart and form the ends of the feed
troughs. The covers are each made with
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-05-22
A scriptural Tramp.

Tramp Ito the conductor, about to put
him of the train for non-payment Of
fare)-Are you Christian?
CONDUCTOR hope / am.
Tramp-And do you follow the pre-
cepts of the New Testament?
CONDUCTOR try to; but what has that
got to do with my putting you of?
Tramp-It has q great deal to do with
it. The Bible says: '.Put not of until
tomorrow"
Conductor-That's all right so far as
it goes, but / reach little farther and
do shat which should be done to-day"
And he bounced him out.-Texas Stiff
ingS.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-05-22
THE FIBER INDUSTRY.

Some Valuable Suggestions On Hemps
and Ramie Culture.
Miscellaneous bulletin No. 1, of the
Statistical Division of the United States
Department of Agriculture, is report
on the fiber industry, by Mr.. Charles
Richards Dodge, special agent, and in
preparation for which Mr.. Dodge, last
fall, visited several of the flax and
hemp-growing districts of France,
Belgium and Ireland. 1t is an illus
trated pamphlet of over 100 pages,
and is arranged in two parts, the
first relating to fax aud hemp culture
in Europe. In reviewing the methods
there pursued, the author has taken
into account particularly the wants and
condition of the fiber industry in the
United States. The second part is de-
voted to fax, hemp, ramie and jute in
the United States. The fact that
1000, 600 acres are sown to fax in this
country annually, the straw of which is
wasted or burned after the seed. has
been removed, while we are importing
millions of dollars worth of fbers every
year. emphasizes the Importance of the
present investigation. some of the re-
suits of which are detailed in this re-
port. 1t is shown that by better meth
DDS of culture and by little more care
full handling of the product we may
grow fax both for seed and fiber, and
that there is a demand for the quality
of fiber produceable.
The cultivation of hemp in States
north and south of the Ohio river, is
treated in full, with accounts of recent
inventions in hemp cleaning machinery.
Hemp culture is being extended, the
product being utilized in the manufact-
ure of binder Irvine, which is shown to
, be equal to binder Irvine from Sisal and
Manila, with the merit of being several
cents cheaper per pound. In regard to
these two fibers, fax and hemp. the par
ticular advantage to our farmers in
their culture will be the saving to this
country, out of q total of imports
amounting to S44. 900, 600, of $50, 200, OOO
now paid for foreign fbers and manu-
features that should be produced here,
and for which native fax and hemp may
be substituted. The ramie question has
been most carefully studied, and the
present status of the industry summed
up, with full consideration of past dis.
couragements, present obstacles and
future possibilities Of the success of the
industry in all its phases. The fact
that an Eastern manufacturing firm has
created a demand for American ramie il
encouraging. A perfectly satisfactory
and economical decorticator is only
needed to put the industry on its feet
The report closes with q short chapter
on jute. This bulletin will be sent free
on application to Hon. j. NJ. Rusk, Sec
rotary of Agriculture, Washington
ID. c.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-05-22

blematic trophy extending around the
earth-and IMPLYING the universally
of his discovery to the human race.
The monument will stand sixteen
feet high, and will rest on pedestal of
rough granite. The proposition for the
erection of this memorial originated in
the Photographers Association Of Amer
lea, and it has received the hearty sup
port of all persons connected with this
branch of art. Mr.. J. Wells Champney
is in charge of the New York COM
mittee in charge of the work, and Mr..
III. McMichael, of Buffalo, n. Y, is
president of the Photographers Associa-
ton of America.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-05-22

a circular hole six inches in diameter,
and reach from the strips on the outer
edge to the box. In order to make the
ground feed settle with regularity into
the troughs. strip of hard wood about
seventeen inches long is fastened to the
top of the pyramid on each side and
reaches into the trough little. This strip
will vibrate back and forth, being fast
ened with a small bolt or screw, and cause
the feed to drop slowly into the troughs
whenever the pigs try to clean out the
corners. No waste feed when this box
is used. Shelled corn and oats can be
successfully fed in this way.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-05-22
NOSE BOARD FOR CALVES.

are bored, narrow notch sawed in the
side of the holes, and then with a knife
the whole is finished off and the points
rounded, as shown in the engraving.
The notch between the points is made
just wide enough to allow the contriv-
ance to slip snugly upon the cartilage
between the nostrils of the animal that
Is to wear it. When properly adjusted
1t does not interfere with grazing, but
is an effectual barrier to obtaining sur
reptitious supplies of tactical fluid
American Agriculturist.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-05-22

seating iron," but wished to WOO the
maiden in the American style.
The parents, who had travelled and
seen the new world, agreed to his re-
quest, and allowed him to meet their
daughter in the parlor, unchaperoned.
Tourists who get their information
out of old books will tell you that the
Spanish lover courts his girl by planting
| himself under her window and serenad-
ing her with voice and guitar or man
dolin. This was true century ago;
| but even in Washington Irving's day it
was a rare sight, as he tells US, and to-
| day you would have to go to regions
very remote from railways to see it.
And it seems as If even the Orien tai
| ish custom of ''eating the iron," with its
insulting insinuations against mascu-
line honor and feminine discretion,
| were fast becoming obsolete, for al
though spent many hours in the even
ing walking about the streets in search
of such scenes, came across only one,
writes Henry T. Finck in Scribner's. It
was at CortfOva, and the young lady was
sitting on a chair in her iron cage, en-
gagged in dangerous conversation with
her adorer outside.
The opinion prevails that Spanish
girls are restricted in their opportunb-
ties for meeting young men, and as
little considered in the choice of hus-
band as French girls. but this belief h
utterly erroneous. in Spain, it is true,
young girls of the "best'' families are
not allowed to go across the street With
out a chaperon, nor do they walk With
the men in the alameda, butt in other
respects they have almost as many OPP
portunities to meet men as German and
English girls.
Instead OF being deliberately secluded
from the masculine eyes, as In France.
they are placed on daily exhibition. as.
it were, in the alameda. In the even
ing a. young man. it relative, or If he.
has been once invited by a family. may
meet all its members at the tertulia. or
reception in the patio, and while the
elders discourse politics or play cards
the young folks taK and flirt and sing
and dance ad libitum. ShouM he be
total stranger he may even thus seek to
win her favor by 'teating the IRON
He has perhaps repeatedly seen her on
the alameda, and her eyes may have
told him that she certainly does not abb
hor him. So he follows at respectful
distance, notes where she lives, and in
the evening seekSa stolen interview at
the barred window:
II he finds her agreeable he calls
again, and after he has been there halt
a dozen times be- becomes known as
no7io, which is something halfway be-
tween an admirer and an accepted lover.
A girl may have as many novios as she
chooses to encourage, and if one OF them
tires Of her he simply stays away and no
harm is done nor breach-Of-promises suit
instituted. There is no formal and pub
lie engagement, as in some European
countries, but after the young man has
come to an understanding with the pa
rents he is permitted to see her inside
of the iron bars.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-05-22
Nose-Board to Prevent Sucking.

When growing calves are allowed to
run together, they often acquire an in
furious habit of sucking one another,
and still more serious in its conse-
quences is the trick, which some cows
have, of self-sucking. A very easily
made and effective restraint on such
animals is the wooden nose-jewel, de-
picted herewith. It is made of pine or
Eastwood board, half an inch thick for
calves and three-quarters of an inch for
older animals To shape the imple-
ment, two holes, an inch in diameter,
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-05-22

should do the same thing on their own
behalf, should this ill-advised measure
be adopted with the oppressive and out
rsgeous provisions which arouse against
it so justly the indignation of the COM
mercial classes of the Old World
This may be resented by us as an un-
warrantable interference on the part Of
foreign nations with our right to pass
such laws as we please; but it will not
help matters to ask what right Europe
has to intermeddle in our affairs The
point which deserves our attention is
that Europe may hit back and hurt us
worse than we can hurt it Snch action
Is very probable The most recent news
from Holland is that the Dutch also will
take hand in this business of retalia-
ton We sell vast quantity of petrol
leum to them, and they have threatened
to put heavy duties on it in retaliation
for the enormous increase of the duty on
Sumatra tobacco as proposed by Mr.. Nc
Kinley's comm. ttee. And so it goes on
to the end of the chapter. Tariff battles
are in prospect for US which viii prove as
foolish and wasteful as the usual rate
wars between railroads.
David Hume startled England more
than century ago by asserting that
each particular nation is benefited by
the prosperity of every other nation.
England had believed up to that time
that her prosperity could come only by
lnjuring other nations. 1t was thought
necessary to shut out foreign wares, and
thus to cripple the industries of foreign
countries before England could prosper.
But Hume showed that the more pros
porous other nations were, the better
able they would be to buy English
goods.
The truth of this is now admitted by
practically all intelligent men; and it is
rather late in the worlds history for the
protectionists to come forward with their
idea of non-intercourse and of making
the country commercially indepen-
dent" Trade between nations has
always been recognized as one Of the
chief civilizing agencies in the world.
And who is harmed by it? One man
does not trade with another unless he
finds it to his advantage to trade. If the
market for our farm products can be en-
larged in foreign countries, where is the
Justice in Congress passing laws whicas
endanger that market? Are we not only
to give the highest kind of protection to
manufacturers, butsls to ask the farmer
to surrender his foreign market for the
benefit of the manufacturer. And are
the farmers to be hoodwinked by pre-
tense of protection for them, which, as
protectionist papers have already con-
fessed, will do the farmers no good at
all?
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-05-22
Tears THAT Are Rips and Rents.

Woman-Why don't you try and mend
up your clothes and look semi-respect-
able? What did you ever do, any way.
to get your trousers and coat in such
condition?
Tramp-Well. mum. it's painful
subject for me to tackle, but I'll be
honest with you. My pard died two
years ago and 1 was SO much affected
that burst into tears all over.-The
Jury.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-05-22

American Photographers to Honor the
Memory of the, DiscOverer Of Their
Art.
We give herewith an illustration of
the monument which is to be crested by
the photographers, OF this country to
Dsguerre, the discoDerer of the art of
permanently fixing"an image on agiven
surface - which is the art of photog-
raphy. The memorials will be placed in
front of the Smithsonian Institution at
Washington-then nearest body we have
akin to the French, Academy and
Mr. j. Scott Hartley selected as the
scz1ptor, is now carrying out in granite
and bronze the design shown in. our
picture.
This design, in a. word, represents
Fame, a reverentiaI figure, framing the
head Of Daguerre with laurel an: en-
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-05-22
TO Bee Or Not TO Bee,

Breslow-Say, Cummings. don't you
want to buy hive of bees?
Cummings-Not 1. Tried 'em year.
and was stung just six hundred and
forty-seven times.
Breslow-They must have been cross.
You didn't get on the right side of 'em.
Cummings-Great Scott! did, too. /
was extra careful about that, but I al
ways seemed to strike the wrong end
The Jury.