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DISSOLUTION NOTICE.

NOTICE is hereby given that the partnership
~ latey existing between George Arnold
Of Burlington under the firm name of George A.
Briggs & Co was dissolved on the 18th day of
April, 1870, by mutual consent George A. Briggs
is authorized 10 settle all debts due TO and by the
firm.
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has Just been launched and the members of
the Bennington battle monument associa-
ZION are so much pleased with the name
that a bronze model of the monument,
three feet high, will be presented to the
commander of the new ship to be placed in
an alcove in the saloon of the cruiser.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1890-06-06

The Boston Home Market club held its
closing dinner for the season at the Hotel
Vendeme on Saturday evening, celebrating
the passage of the Mckinley tariff bill by
the House. Speaker Thomas B. Reed was
the honored guest and principal speaker of
the evening, aud Secretary of War Proc
tor, Congressman Dingley of Maine and
Gov Bracket were also among the speak
ers The company numbered $50 and
great enthusiasm prevailed,
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Those persons who do not need Iron, but who
are troubled with nervousness and dyspepsia, will
find in Carter's Little Nerve Pills most desirable
article They are mostly used in combination with
Carter's Little Liver Pills, and in this way often
exert most magical effect. Take just one pill q
each kind Immediately after eating and you will
be free from indigestion and dyspepsia. In Vlals
at 25 cents. Try them.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1890-06-06

The dedication Of the Lee monument at
Richmond last week was attended by dis
play of the confederate flag which atfronted
the patriotic sentiment Of the country. An
outrageous exhibition Of this kind was the
placing, the night before, of a small confed-
crate flag in the hand of the equestrian fig
ure Of Washington in the public square,
where it was allowed to remain during the
day
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ioI que 9aN az ny" liAi r'' ll'''i titts'i'il.
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my ra-., o. br Gt-,. who furNapi-d rtm,-li,,
without ,.,iug mo-. 90 flur. weeks visited HIM.
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The Senate finance committee is diligent-
rapid progress with its consideration.
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Gbc ])ermunt 19bnnit.
BRATTLEBORO:
FRIDAY, JUNE 6. 1890.

Commissioner Valentine and Mr.. Nord-
yren have been on a tour among the Swed-
ish colJuists this week
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DON'T READ THIS
Unless there is
A SPAWN On Your Horse.

Spavins Ringbones, Curbs, Spnts, Sweeney
and all soft punches can be positively and perma.
nently cured by using Mr. Millers SPAWN ONT
ment new remedy that is positive cure. Hun
dreds Of cases successfully treated. No failures
yet. F. A. Woodbridge, Spring Hill stock farm,
Nergennes Vt. says: 1T is the hest remedy in the
market for the cures 1t is advertised to effect and
the only SPAWN and RingbOne cure worthy Of the
name" Send your address on postal for books of
treatment and testimonials. The right remedy is
worth $50 to GU. We have il. Price 81 per box
and only one box required for a cure. At the
druggists. Use no other.
THE CITY DRUG STORE.
Nergennes, Vt
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y, winchester, aud TOOK possession TINS
week w. NJ. Vogel, the popular driver,
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vVv,Vvv WIS "a ,say, ''V,v,V, vVV uuaiiuis
corn meal the same of oatmeal, 215 O0O,-
NM hushals nf mats NM NM La, sh.ls ,f
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here who sympatInze with Mrs. Spooner in
her hereA Nement.
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Barneys only son, who died about year
ago.
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field and other Massachusetts towns
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1t now appears that the young man who
was run over by train at Rutland and in
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cemetery, Where graves were
accompanied by exercises. A
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Every family aud househc
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The above remarkable cure by DR. Gage is no
greater than that one performed upon well
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-11-27

horse barn is ninety by forty-five feet
with twenty-foot posts. and for a large
barn it is model of its kind. The
ground floor has single stalls for four
teen horses and six box-stalls besides.
The carriage room is large and conven-
lent, as are also the harness rooms. The
framework below is of oak and the en-
tire ground floor is sided and ceiled
with hard pine, finished in hard oil
Even the heavy timbers and huge beams
that support the loft above are planed
and oiled to correspond with the pine
ceiling. The loft, though small in COM
parison with the other barns, affords
enough room to store away one hundred
tons of hay. From the cupolas to the
floor series of hollow boxes that can
be lowered and raised as the hay Is put
in serve as two perfect air-shafts. in
surfing the thorough keeping of the hay.
Fig. 3 shows THE Hill Barn" as 1t is
called, from the fact that it is located
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-11-27

Hetty. "Yet you knew me well in by
gone days-none better. And it was at
one time thought you would have joined
your destiny to mine"
sNick Anderson" said she. rising In
confusion.
.You are right You rejected me. be-
cause you did not feel secure of my
principles The next day, in despair
at your refusal, left the house. and,
before forty-eight hours had passed, was
on my way to India had not formed
the design Of going to India in par
ticular, but in my then state of mind I
cared not whittier 1 went. One resolu-
ZION formed. that would prove by my
conduct that your apprehensions were
ill-founded. got into profitable BUSH
ness. In time I married-not that I
had forgotten you, but that I was soli-
tary and needed companionship. had
ceased to hope for yours. By and by a
daughter was born. True to my old
love 1 named her Hetty, and pleased
myself with the thought that she bore
some resemblance to you. Since then,
nv wife has died, misfortunes have
come upon me, and found myself de-
prived of all my property. Then came
yearnings for my native soil. I have
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-11-27

Is FIRST bored through the door or baok
of the safe. A thread is cut in the plate
to correspond with that in the drag
The tool is turned until the opposite
side of the safe is reached. When .
great pressure is put on the long handle
something will have to burst. It is
usually the door. Sometimes when the
doors promise hard task the burglar
reaches the top of the safe and bores a
hole there to introduce the powder.
Fire-proof safes are about as trouble
some to burglar as smoking pipe to
. sailor. His tools go through the metal
and other material like old cheese.
It was thought when the time-lock
was invented which unlocked the doors
automatically at a certain time. that the
burglar would have to take a back
seat" He was quiet for a brief period
and kept his experiments secret. Then
all of sudden time-lock safes began to
fly open all over the land. The burglar
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-11-27
ytIIh !
sLEpGEHAM,fER AND WEDGE

steel wire, wedges, chisels, air-pump,
powder. and oil-can, ,plate-cutter, skele-
ton keys, and clubs and weapons of as
sault and defense.
The ordinary housebreaker, says the
New York Tribune, uses only part of
these tools, and works in the night
Houses only are attacked where the
prospects for plumber is good. This in
formation is CLEANED from. the newspa-
per accounts of weddings, balls, dinner
parties, and advertisements, by watch
ing the houses and from gossipy servants.
A window is preferred to a door as a
means of entrance, as it is easier to
open.
There are many methods employed by
burglars to open a safe, depending on
the way it is put together. Their object
is to break down and loosen things. In
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-11-27
SICKNESS A TEACHER.

Disease and Misfortune Have Their Les
sons. Well Health and JOY.
All the circumstances of life are in
some sort educative. Health and hap
piness have their lesson of active duty
to teach us if we will receive it, and so,
likewise, have pain, disease and mis-
fortune, as lately stated by Mr.. Spur
geon, a purpose of correction, a chasten-
ing and mellowing influence within
them. With some natures and moods,
perhaps, it is otherwise; the sharpness
of the stroke touches no mental spring
but that of self-concern, but here, again,
it is the wise who learns. For him
these evils, for such they still remain,
are also the seeds of sympathy with
others in like trouble. If he be through
any fault of his own accountable for
them, they are in true science as in
Scripture, the natural recompense of
evil, protest ON behalf of needful self
control, which he will do we'll to OBJ
serve. There is more, therefore, than
an apparent tendency to asceticism in
this doctoring of disciplinary suffering.
OF course, it does not follow that the
prosperous and the healthy must at
some time undergo this training by re-
verses. The same lessons of patience,
fellow-feeling and self-restraint can
be learnt in other ways, and it is quite
certain that the daily round and task
abound in opportunities for such whole
some instruction. We are alike iusti-
titled, therefore, in admitting for this
purpose the frequent utility of pain,
and in seeking, to the best Of our abil-
ity, to limit and to destroy by suitable
remedies the influence of this otherwise
harsh and hurtful instructor. Health OF
mind and body and well-being of estate
are alone consistent with perfect life a.
ordered by natures plan and the Divine
Will. and every purpose of training is
compatible with their full possession
and their proper use.-Lancet
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-11-27
RATCHET DRILL.

the old ''knob" safe, which was covered
with bolts connecting two iron plates,
powder was blown through the keyho1e
and the door lifted from the hinges by
explosion. Then the keyhole was bid
den in one of the knobs but the burglar
did not look for it. He made hole in
the door with drill and put in the
powder. Safes were made with bolts in
the door that could be sprung into the
frame work on all sides with spindle
connected with T-handle on the ex-
terror. This was thought to be puzzler
to the burglar, but this mechanical gen.
ius knocked off the handle with ham
mer, softened the spindle with lamp
and blow-pipe, drilled it out, put in the
explosive which carried away the bolts,
framework, and all Safemakers defied
the burglars by making safe of alter
nate layers of iron boiler-plates and
drill-proof steel, hardened so that they
would turn the edge of drill. The
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-11-27
rglars taught the safemakers a lesson

burglars taught the safemakers lesson
SO quickly that it made them dizzy.
The burglars invented the plate-eut-
ter, powerful tool, but did not patent
it. Holes were bored in the outside
iron plate Of the door and the cutter
was fixed in place. The blade of the
cutter was kept we'll oiled, and the han
die was turned until a round hole was
cut through the iron plate and the disc
was removed. This exposed the first
steel plate. This plate was extremely
hard and therefore brittle, and the cut
ter being removed the steel was easily
broken with chisel and soft metal
hammer. The metal would resist a
drill, but could not Withstand repeated
shocks. The alternate plates were thus
cut and broken until the bolts were
reached, and the safe could then be
opened easily. Then safes were made
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-11-27

beats them all. When a heavy charge
of dynamite has been used the lock has
been, in several cases, blown entirely
off the inside of the door.
One Of the cleverest pieces of work
done by burglars is picking combination
locks. There are few who can do it. 1t
is done by the sense of touch and hear
ing, after long practice with locks of
every style.
With all the inventions that have
been made it is admitted that there are
no safes that are absolutely burglar
proof, provided time enough is given to
the thief to work at them. The object
of safe manufacturers has been to keep
thieves from getting through the doors
between Saturday night and Monday
morning, and this has been done by
massive blocks of metal and stones sur
rounding the vaults with all kinds of
alarms and watchmen armed to the
tooth
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-11-27
AGRICULTURAL HINTS.
BROWNS BIG BARNS.

Trip Through the Genesee Valley with
Camera
Thomas Brown. of Scottsville, n. Y,
has one of the finest and most product
i've farms in Monroe County. Half of it
is on the Genesee Flats, at this point
two miles in width, and the other half
is upland Every thing that wealth
and the architect could do to make
large practical barns with an immense
storage power has been done, and as a
result Mr.. Brown has the finest harms
of their class in the Genesee valley.
The farm is principally devoted to rails
ing hay and wheat and the buildings
are designed chiefly for the storage of
those crops Fig. L shows the largest
barn and perhaps the most interesting
one owing to its peculiar construction.
1t is 100 feet long. 60 wide, with 2s foot
posts, and. as the cut shows, a drive
floor running the entire length with
bays on either side. The roof. which
by the way used up IS. 600 shingles, is
supported by an ingenious system of
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returned, as you see, not as departed,
but poor and careworn."
While Nicholas was speaking, Hetty's
mind was filled with conflicting emo
lions. At length, extending her hand
frankly. she said:
81 feel that was too hasty, Nicholas.
I should have tried you longer. But,
at least, may repair my injustice. ]
have enough for US all You shall come
and live with me-"
81 can only accept your generous offer
on one condition. said Nicholas.
"And what is that?''
''That you will become my wife,"
A vivid flush came over Miss Hetty's
countenance. She couldn't think of
such thing, she said. Nevertheless.
an hour afterwards the two united
lovers had fixed upon the wedding day.
The house does not look so prim as it
used to. The yard is redolent with
many fragrant flowers; the front door
is half open, revealing little girl play
ing with kitten.
''Hetty," said matronly lady, ''you
have got the ball of yarn all over the
floor. What would your father say if he
should see it?''
''Never mind, mother; it was only
kitty did it,
Marriage has filled up void in the
heart of Miss Hetty. Though not SO
prim, or perhaps careful as she used to
be, she is good deal happier. Three
hearts are filled with thankfulness at
every return of Miss Henderson's
Thanksgiving day.-Yankee Blade.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-11-27
PRAIRIE ROADS.

Suggestions for Making and for Keeping
Them Up.
J. NJ. Hollingsworth, Ridge Farm.
III, writes Orange Judd Farmer Keep
all stock of the roads We farmers do
nate a portion of our farms-on which
We pay taxes. toto the public for
highways-not for cow pastures and
hog lots, but for travel 1t is the height
of absurdity to turn domestic animals
out upon the highway. One great res-
son why this practice has become SO
prevalent is because only about half OF
the strip of land set apart for the high
way purposes is rsed for roads Let as
be more careful in this direction En-
force the law on eight foot hedges, and
allow no hedge brush to remain at the
sides of the road Keep the weeds also
moved down clean.
1t is time we abandoned the practice
of throwing up high, narrow grade
with a yawning chasm on each side to
collect water, sad as the years go by
and better road is determined upon.
putting a foot of gravel in a narrow
strip right in the middle of that In
winter you can hardly keep on top of IL
and in summer you sincerely wish You
could get somewhere else without up
setting.
The gravel and the horses feet are
continually wearing each other out and
much of the time TO no purpose. Farm
ers always will object to gravel roads in
summer, and justly, too. A good, dry
dirt track is by far the best for man and
beast saving much expense for shoeing
and blacksmithing, saving the horses,
and immensely saving the gravel during
a greater part Of the year
Suppose we have ffty-foot roadway.
Allowing six feet on each side between
fence and gutter three feet would do
with wire or picket fencing), and four
feet for gutter and slope, we have left
thirty feet of clear roadway. Make
with an improved grading machine a
slightly rounding grade, the middle
about one foot above the cutters Give
full width Tile each gutter three or
four feet below the surface; sewer pipe
is good for culverts If put down deep.
Now lay out two fifteen-foot tracks side
by side on the grade, and as fast as the
township can stand If, gravel one of the
tracks Put all the gravel to one side
of the middle Of the grade You now
have highway with room for four wag-
ons abreast, and upon which travelling
at any time of year will be a pleasure
With the right kind of men in charge
the cost OF such roads Will not exceed
in the next twenty-five years the entire
cost of the miserable excuses on which
we now travel.
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its own--came fully freighted both in
side and out. There were children and
children's children, who, in the pursuit
of fortune, had strayed away from the
homes where they first saw the light.
but who were now returning to revive
around the old familiar hearth the as
sociations and recollections of their
early days.
Great were She preparations among
the housewives 0of Castleton Hollow.
That must indeed be poor household
which. on this occasion, could not boast
dts turkey and plum pudding, those
well-established dishes. not to mention
dts long row of pies-apple, mince and
umpkin-wherewith the Thanksgiving
board is won't to be garnished.
But it is not of the households gem
orally that propose to speak. Let the
reader accompany me in Imagination to
rather prim-looking brick mansion
situated on the principal street. but at
some distance back, being separated
0om it by front yard. Between this
yard and the fence ran a prim-looking
hedge of very formal cut, being cropped
in the most careful manner, lest one
twig should by chance have the pre-
sumption to grow higher than its kim
dred. 1t was two-story house, con-
tanning on each story one room on either
side of the front door, making, of
course, four in all.
If we go in we shall find the outward
;primness we'll supported by the appear
lance Of things within. In the front
.iparlor-we may peep through the door,
but it would be high treason, in the
present moistened state of our boots, to
step within its sacred precincts-there
are six high-backed chairs standing in
state. two at each window. One can
easily see from the general arrangement
of the furniture that from romping chill
dren, uneeremonious kittens and unhal-
lowed intruders generally this room is
most sacredly guarded.
Without speaking particularly of the
other rooms, which, though not fur
nished in 80 stately = manner, bear a
family resemblance to ''the best-room,' -
we will usher the reader into the oppo-
site room, where we will find the own.
er and occupant of this prim-looking
residence.
Miss Hetty Henderson is maiden OF
some thirty-five summers, attired in a
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-11-27

FIG. L HAY BARN
brac:Eg known as the horseshoe truss -
This peculiar truss is used in all the
barns and is so cheaply and convenient
1y constructed as to become prominent
feature in modern barn building, sup
planting in time purline posts and plates
and tie girts with all their many incon-
veniences- Light and airy as the truss
nent engineers, after careful examina-
ton, have pronounced 1t capable of car
rying with safety railroad train Of
loaded cars.
The capacity of the barn is something
enormous, holding, as l. does, three
hundred and fifty tons of hay in the
bays and loft above the floor The base
ment is divided into number of COM
partments designed for the care of cattle.
One is fitted up with stalls for feeding
forty-ive steers, and each has stall,
manger and feeding rack to himself
Adjoining this room is the cow stable.
having room for eight COWS only. which
are kept solely for the purpose of sup
plying the house with milk and butter.
Directly under the drive floor in the
middle of the basement. safe from the
action of the cold, is the large root cell
lar. Near this is the granary holding
three thousand three hundred bushels
The rest of the room is cut up into box
stalls for bulls, calves and colts, and
they are also used for 1ying-in stalls for
the cows.
Fig. shows the horse barn, ice-house,
and Mr.. Browns private Office The
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-11-27
FIG. 8. BROWNS HILL EARN.

on hill about half a mile from the
other buildings. As will readily be seen,
this differs somewhat from the other
grain and hay barn. and, to my mind,
is really the most practical barn on the
place. Its dimensions are as follows:
Length one hundred and twenty-six
feet width fifty feet with twenty-four-
foot posts, and only one drive door.
The structure stands on a fine
wall ten and one-half feet high.
The barn-yard. while not exactly on the
Cornell plan, is, / think, equally
good. In the center of the yard and di-
rectly back of the doors. big locust posts
set Ave feet in the ground and rising
above it nearly to the top of the wall.
support an open framework on which
the straw is stacked as it comes from
the thresher. This straw-shed, covered
barn-yard, or whatever one chooses to
call it. is sided with matched pine. and
will last for years. On stormy days
stock is turned into it to exercise, or if
the basement should be crowded it
would provide warm, comfortable quar-
tiers for at least two hundred sheep. ALI
off the barns ana Easements have an
abundant and eser-constant supply Of
water provided by cisterns, and a
very complete system of water-works,
connecting with an immense storage
reservoir, holding enough water for q
weeks supply, which is filed by .
twelve-foot windmill from never-failing
springs The total cost Of these three
barns is somewhere in the neighbor-
hood Of $751; or 80. 000-a consider
able sum to put in barns, you may say.
Yes, and this season when 1 was there
Mr.. Brown was building another Of the
same size as THE Hill Barn"
To the common farmer" these barns
would be. Of course, extravagant and
unnecessary. But they are just what