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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-09-11

NATURE has wisely arranged matters so
that a man can neither pat his own back
nor kick himself
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-09-11
DuRIFY YOUR
BLOOD.

But do not use the dangerous alkaline
and msrcurial preparations which destroy
your nervous system and ruin the digestive
power OF the stomach. The vegetable king
dom gives US the best and safest remedial
agents. Or. Sherman devoted the greater
part Of his life to the discovery Of this reIia.
bic and safe remedy, and ali its Ingredients
afs vegetable. He gave II the name Of
Prickly Ash BiHers |!
name every one can remember, and to the
present day nothing has been discovered that
Is % beneficial for the BLOOD, for the
LIVER, for the KIDNEYS and for the
STOMACH. This remedy Is new so well
and tayorabIy known by NIL who have used
Il hat arguments as to its merits are uss-
less, and u others who require correct
I've 10 HE sysism would but give u trial
HE health Of Ibis country would b vastly
Improved. Remember the Rame-PRlcKlY
ASH BiTTERS. Ask your druggist for b.
PRlcklY ASH BITTERS CO.,
ST. LOUIS, mo-
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-09-11

In the condition of a disorderly or torpid
liver is no sooner instituted by Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters, than the headaches, pains
in the right side, yellowness of the skin, fur
upon the tongue, and constipation, which &C
company this malady, take their departure.
Dyspepsia, also, twin brother of biliousness,
vacates the ranch. Kidney troubles, ma
larial affectionsS and nervous complaints
also succumb to the Bitters.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-09-11

lation, to secure to the country Mt the earii-
est practicable date deep harbors on the
Gulf of Mex CO, to be under the ownership
and control of the United States Govern.
ment so to afford to this great ay ricuit-
ural region the, lowest possible freight
charges to foreign markets
We commend the legislation pas sed by
Congress at its pr, sent session, and the Leg
isature of this stste at lis last session,
against trusts, combines and monopol ies
whose OF ject it is to interfere in any manner
with trade, or control either produces or
their prices; and we earnestly urge Congress
to prevent, by proper legis alton. all gam
bling in grain and other agr cultural prod
ucts.
The admin istration of National affairs by
our present chief magistrate, Benjamin Har-
rison, has been in line with Republican
principles and policy and has been respon-
sive TO the demands of the people, and IS de-
serving OF the most hearty Communication.
We commend our distinguished Senators,
John J. ingalls, and Preston B. Plumb for
their faithful and inestimable services in
the National Congress. And we favor the
reelection of John J. ingalls, TO the United
States Senate.
Ten years. exemption from the evil effects
OF the trafdc In Intoxicating liquors, secured
by faithful observance of the Constitu-
tfonal amendment and the statutes supple.
mental thereto. by which vice has been les
sened and crime decreased, leads us to
express q determined opposition to any
changes in the prohibitofy legislation of
our State. except such as will make the laws
stronger and more efficient and Increase the
good order, sobriety and welfare Of the
people.
The organisation of trades into distinct
bodies binding them together In ties SO
loose to leave each trade entirely inde-
pendent In the management of its own
affairs. yet holding them al together closely
enough to insure concerted action and mu-
tua1 assistance, is q powerful factor for the
protection of the laboring masses of this
adopted the arstday cf September in each
year as devoted to labor as an entity and an
economic fierce. and as cause in which
hundreds Of thousands are enlisted; and we
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the calm, sympathetic control which the
farmer exercised over his horse. Every
time the animal plunged forward, she
found herself checked by his vice-like
grasp.
Then be would stroke her gently, and
seem to reason with her. The door OF
the barroom attached to the depot
opened, and a tall man came out wiping
his lips. He was dressed in black and
had fierce black mustache, and carried
himself with great dignity. In one hand
was gold-headed cane, in the other was
a morocco case.
Here was the model hero of romance.
The tall man caught sight of the
rancher struggling with the spirited
horse.
"what's the use of fooling with an
animal in that fashionl' he demanded
impatiently. "You take stout whip,
lay it over her-raise the welts on her
back-and you won't have any more
trouble. -
"That isn't my way, doctor, - said
the ranchman, quietly.
At length the animal yielded to the
firm and gentle control, and stood per-
fectly still, only. shiveriug slightly as the
engine Numbered away down the track.
She watched the flying train out of sight,
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g thing. You'll want them yourself, -
exclaimed the brothers in breath.
"No, don't. Haven t the least me-
ehanical genius in the world. Can't
drive a nail without hitting my fingers.
You'll find them in an awful mess,
though. / broke the bulI-n Sc plane the
day got them, trying to scrape a nail
out of my boot. And last week turned
a screw on my bicycle with the ohisel
and nIcked piece out. Now boys, IN
going. Success to you. Goodby, Hope.
l m coming up to see you all some day. -
They had another welcome addition to
their stock. a thriftless mechanic, one
of their fathers fellow workmen, came
up leading a half-stsrved, broken
down old horse.
"Your father lent me $50 once, and l
couldn't ever seem to pay it back, - he
said. "Somebody said you was going to
try farming. Now if you can make any
use of this old mare you're welcome to
her. She's old and banged up, and she
looks bad because she's only been straw
fed, but she's sound and gentle as Il
kitten.
FWe shall need a horse for farm
work - said Ned.
"Take her. She's no beauty, and
she can t trot in PAD; but she III pillow or
haul good sized load, well as q hand
some animal. I'll throw in an old har-
ness and saddle. -
Before they left Ned took very SEN
sible and practical step. He went to an
old man close by who had the reputation
of being a jack of all trades and served
short apprenticeship in various simple
crafts.
He learned TO set pane of glass, to
file and set a saw, and do numerous other
things that to procure done is the tor
ment of the farmer.
CHAPTER v.-THE MAN WITH HISTORY.
When the children aliGhted from the
train they found crowds of people on the
plat orm. Martin scanned them eagerly
TO find among them some impressive
figure-"'The man with history
1t was hard to decide upon him. There
were brisk-looking travellers coming and
going. At one side of the platform q
ranchman wearing a gray felt hat had
just stepped out of n light wagon and
was trying to calm his horse, noble
bay, which shIvered at svery puff of the
engine, and seemed possessed with q
furious desiresto leap forward upon the
platform and dash herself against her
iron rival.
It interested the children to observe
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his head, but it can be done nv No..
and the practice is "good fun >, '''''s,
II you ride you may now becfr,
oack work; first, standing, at o.
then looping slowly and irwin, =, post;
something stationary but not fvaS [ope
Il shock OF corn or anything Iirh. "as
rope post while riding woUI5 -. 10
good deal more than the nost, you
whatever you cast at while in A-l,
you must at the same instant ION
sharp turn around the horn Of vo,, ,'As
die with the free end of the rome I I
OF all, if you have an available o,;- Las'
you may practice real Iassoipe y5.I,
hurting it. 'uoui
Head-lassoing is as far As thu Ava.
youth will ever care to 20; and how ,'1Ss
that l have explained. The .r-. 10
skill with whion the best expsrts I'm. Ls
running animal by either hind - ',o d
legs-which is done by THROWING '.'s
moose forward close TO the ground '- u
front of the hurrying hoof, with 80 il
a calculation that the next stem win . '.''7
the hoof within the moose ber,-, ' "a
moose has quite fallen Hat, and NJ, ,-'
backward jerk so welI-timed and 80,
that 1t shuts the moose upon the la, -
fore the hoOf can be out again. s,r,s
thing TO be acquired only bv vsrr ,'.,
ana patient practice. But the vs.
who has learned head lassoiug bs,aT
the necessary knowledge for the r.-.
branch, and can acquire that, too ~
have the necessary perseverance.
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THE PRIZE SERIAL.
copyrighted 1890 by the Author. ]

hadn t heard anything about-why you
left school, you know. Besides, Beauty
is getting to be a terrible nuisance. She's
getting dangerous. Her horns are grow
ing. You don't want her to go to the
slaughter house? The governor de-
clared he'll send her there if he finds
her around another day.
Ned could not but own that he would
not like to have the pretty creature meet
such tragical fate.
There was tone of Indifference in
Tom 8 speech about his father that the
other boys, who had been brought up so
differently. could not understand. Tom
Bateman was the type of many San
Francisco boy whose father was too much
given over TO business speculations and
his mother to society, TO take much
thought of their child.
"TheIe's no question but Beauty
would ruin Mr. Roberts if he kept her
three months longer Tom went on.
"'The directors have got their eyes on
her, and either she III have to go or he IL
be fired If she could get out IN the
country and be put on grass or alfalfa,
there d be some reason in 1t. But when
it comes to keeping her on school books
and hats and satchels, and choice roses
orchids IN our conservatory yesterday
Cyou see Mr.. Roberts made me take her
home, she 's-she's ruinauon. Hold
on! she's got your handkerchief now. -
So she had, and was calmly chewing it
with the prospective enjoyment of new
and delicate cud by and by. The shout
that went up at this discovery restored
good feeling among the boys, ana en-
boIdened Tom to discharge another er-
rand, no act of atonement in this in
stance, but an unselish impulse to give
lift to the boy friends whose way must
henceforth be an uphill climb.
look here, boys, - he cried, kneel-
ing down and fitting key to the large
box the man had put down on the porch.
"Can It you make some use of these
things out on your ranch?'
He threw up the lid as he spoke, dis
closing what had been u well appointed
chest of boys tools of excellent manu-
facture, but now in sad disorder.
"Oh, Tom, we couldn't think OF such
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cowboy, which include not only lassoing
but dragging cattle from boys, etc. =
because of their combined lightnsss,
strength and freedom from kinks. If
the learner becomes sufficiently expert
to make it worth while, he can then pro-
cure one of these pleated lassos from any
large saddlerY house in San Francisco or
Albuquerque or probably Kansas City,
for about IS.
An ordinary rope, however, Is the
proper thing to L arm with; and indeed
many cowboys use it altogether, because
of its Gheapness. II is almost as good,
IN every way, as the pleated reata, but
costs only a twentieth as much.
Get a three-eIRhths inch hemp rope,
forty one feet long, secure the end from
fraying by winding tightly with wsxed
shoemaker's or carpet thread, and make
the houda Qoop) by "grafting' the
other end back on the rope, and wind the
graft in the same way. Never tie knots.
The houda should be two or four inches
in diameter, so as to let the rope play
through it with perfect freedom.
Having the lasso thus made, give it
two hours IN clean water; then whip It
out free from kinks, aud stretch It tight
between two posts or trees-never putting
the ends around the posts, but stretching
by another rope at each end, and leave
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ward, bidding them jump into the spring
wagon, while he went off to see about
their luggage.
Martin, smarting under the sense of
his error, looked critically after DR..
John. and saw only q man of medium
height and slender figure, who moved
aud spoke and acted precisely like other
men. There was not the least sugges-
ton of the hero about him, and Martin
felt defrauded.
1t was plain that DR.. John was a gen
eral favorite, from the friendly greet
ings he received as he progressed along
the platform. Some of the villagers
! drew near and addressed friendly in
quiries to the childfen. They seemed to
be at once adopted into the community,
because they were DR.. Johns charges.
"What is 1t, Ned?'' asked the doctor,
as he returned and found Ned waiting on
the platform.
This way of addressing them by their
Christian names seemed to place the chill
dren on a near and friendly footing from
the first
al must have freight bill to pay"
replied Ned.
The children could not understand the
merriment that this remark appeared to
arouse among the bystanders.
"Here IS the freight agent, - said the
doctor genially. Hatton have you any
bill against these young people?"
''Dr. John, this is too bad, - protest
ed the man called Hattou.
"Ned,'' said the doctor solemnly,
"that calf of yours is a fiuancier. She
breakfastsd off from her own way bill. F"
''And ali the others l had in my
pocket, sheepishly confessed the
agent.
The children could not help but laugh.
1t was so like Beauty.
Soon they were riding swiftly over the
smooth road and past the village. Mar
tin added one question on the road.
''Dr. John, who was that tall, dark
man who spoke to you about the horse;
the one you called 'doctor? -
"He? Oh, he is q sort of itinerant
dentist, replied DR.. John, carelessly.
eve don't think very highly of him.
He CANDLES and gets drunk, and it is ru-
mored that he beats his wife
All of the land they saw under culti-
walton. Although 1t was the last of Sep
TENDER there was still an abundance of
fruit everywhere. Apple trees were la
den with red and green and yellow fruit.
Late peach trees bent beneath their
golden burdens. Fig trees sheltered
great purple lobes beneath their abun-
dant foliage. The russell of pears. the
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ing or hanging up or drawing things, be-
comes in some hands one of the most as
tonishingly effective weapons in the
world. It is hempen rifle
which needs no loading and has no
more report than a snowflake; which is
as accurate a bullet within its range, and
kills its game or secures it unscratched i,
with equal ease and certainty; a trap
which does not await the uncertain COM
ing of a victim, but runs after him and
shuts down on him and holds him as with
teeth OF steel. And as nearly all weapons
are also adapted to amusement, this
magic rope is one of the most fssci-
mating of toys, beside which rife prac-
tice, archery and similar diversions are
very tame indeed. A great advantage,
too, is that it is never dangerous unless
the user designs it to be-s virtue pos
sessed by no other weapon-and 1t is as
easy to learn as real experiences with rifle
or bow.
There is but one race in the United
States that is, as race, expert in the
use of the lasso-the Spanish speaking
people. 1t is peculiarly their institution
-on4 which they first brought here from
South America, and one still chiefly con-
fined to that part of the United States
which they occupy, the Southwest.
Thousands of Western Americans, how
ever, and most of the Southwestern In
dams are handy with la reata-the
proper name OF the lasso, ''lariat" be-
ing Texas corruption.
There is no reason in the world why
any American boy with common, out
door pluck may not become an expert
with the reata If he desires, and the edi-
tor of this department has asked me to
tell him how. I am very glad to do so,
for it is beautiful and useful accom-
plishment and a noble training to eye
and hand, and I wish all my young
countrymen were as clever at it as is my
Indian friend, Francisco, who has kindly
come over TO let me photograph him in the
positions desired to make my descriptions
perfectly clear.
The standard lasso is forty feet long,
and from the three-eighths to one-half
an inch in thickness. The best are of
pIeated rawhide; but they can not be
had in the East, and only an expert can
make one. They are preferred for
"cow-work 1.-THE various duties OF the
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diameter, dry and scorched by the long,
hot season, and crowned with dry pods
that ratified when they were touched,
and showered their seeds down on the
parched vegetation under foot.
With difficulty they threaded this little
forest, starting all sorts of wild things as
they progressed. Cotton-tail rabbits
fed before them. Gophers stuck their
heads out of their burrows, and viewed
them with jewel-liKe eyes, then noise
Iessly retreated to their underground
preserves. Large, gray ground-squirrels
sat up on their launches with their great
tails curved gracefully around them, and
their wee torepaws dropped downward as
ST in mimic courtesy, but scampered OF
at their approach. Flocks Of birds arose
from their feeding grounds, and lizards
rnstled through the dead leaves.
When they had advanced few rods
they were surprised to find narrow /,
open trail, where the ground was packed
hard. as if by daily usage. They stopped
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short, little excited, and looked at
each other.
''what if some one should be living
here-some hermit or crazy person?
suggested Martin, who was given to SEN
sational theories.
"Nonsense!'' exclaimed Ned. cit is
probably some wild thing-a coon or
coyote.
When they came out of the tall mus
tard field they saw before them an old
adobe house, clumsily built and badly
orumbled away in pieces.
The children tied the calf to the
cypress and bent their footsteps toward
the house
It was q low structure, long and mar
row, with the front door under the
caves, and thanked by two windows on
either side. Beside it was Monterey
cypress, and before it stood two pepper
trees, through whose fernlike foliage the
air and sunshine played. A pink rose
rioted over the small porch and flung a
leafy screen over one of the windows.
1t seemed strange to them that the
front door should be ajar, but they OBJ
served that the thumb latch was broken.
What dismayed them as they climbed
the rickety steps and walked into the
that went ahead of them and seemed to
wander aimlessly over the floor.
The room in which they found them
selves was some twenty-four feet long
and fourteen feet wide, with q solid floor,
and walls sealed with rough boards.
There was rough fireplace at one end,
but it was lily constructed, and the
place within was Uttered with crumbling
brick. The chimney was built out into
the room and had no pretsnse at man.
tel, but the lodges of brick, where the
fire arch narrowed into the fiue, still held
pieces of broken clay pipes and some
rusty nails.
Behind this room was an open door
leading into little 'lean-t to-
which a csptious housewife might
have called sitting and stuff
fly and man other dlsagreeable
names; but our little housekeeper
looked cheerfully into it and declared
that it would be nice and snug when it
was cleaned out and fitted up. Ned OBJ
served that there was stove-pipe hole
In the wall and drew a rule from his
pocket and took its height and measure
ment, with an eye to business.
One more room waited to be exp ored;
this opened off from the front room and
had a window wreathed by the bling
rose. AS they took their way to 1t they
were startled by hearing a movement
within, as of some heavy body dragging
along the floor.
TTO RI coNTTNrEn
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then gave an apologetic whinny, and
laid her nose on her master s shoulder,
docile as kitten.
The tall man turned away.
"Dr. john
It was Martin who spoke and hailed
him.
Here, my boy; where are the rest of
you?''
A hearty voice with sound of honest
welcome. Martin stopped short and
Ned and Hope looked pleasantly be-
wiIdered, for 1t was the ranchman who
spoke, and who now came cordially for
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pneumonia fredlander. they may be cs.
ried along in the stream until they i mere
IN some of the finest vessels anu 4,
produce an abscess. They are knU u,;cro,
the pus-produciug organisms, or ms. m.s Of
cocci. and they have been the c1 n,sn 10
death of hundreds of thousands oil Hl'1
years gone by. nearly 50
But they have not caused ne a,nr, Of
-aot loss of life as have the anees1y mi;
some of the other plants growing - ,ous
garden. Before trying to desofiU' have
Of these it will be convenient - di-
some names for them. All oil theI ,',opb
te-snt kiEds of organisms are ,TSo,s
coIIeotively as "bacteria. OF
which are like little grams E,,c-o.
snheres are called cocci or W are
cocci: those which are rod-sn ii!nd bs,
called bsoilli. Each particular AiN-
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Bacillus Of autleras. their structure. were
If not for them the dead tree, or weed
or beetle, or man, would remain T ,t1
little change, instead of being resolved
into vasses, fluids, and salts which are
needed for the development Of other l.a
living things. If you look at them VIII. with
a noWerfuI microscope you find that they
are little globes or rods, or oval-'naPsl
bodies, sometimes separate, some I,anS
linked in pairs or long chains, ana ueA.-
10 AN the plants in this garden have one
or the other of these shapes. Ih'y Ste
found almost everywhere upon the lan No.
in all drinking water, in the air, in the
upper layers Of the soil, on the surface ,5s %.
the skin, in our mouths-in snol' i mi.
are in and about us night aud day ~ .ss
onIv in the air far out at sea, or near ' 'ls
noIes. or on the top of the very n'sD
mountains, that they are absent .,.
I said that some of them are dang
Gus. One or the Tubes before ms, me . tHs
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HOW To THROW THE LAsso.
By Charles E. Lummia.

ny ShaEleb t.
Copyrighted, 1880, by the Author.I
The "biggest half'' of this world is
what my Mexican and Indian neighbors
here in New Mexico call eel ssber''
"the know how Even the great me-
chanical inventions require skill in their
usei and still more striking is the power
of 1.-the know howl in getting wonder
full results from very simple means. Per-
haps there is no better example of this
than the lasso affords. That which is to
the vast majority of Americans g mere
rope with loop at one end, good for ty-
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Nd so you want
to take up land F,
eh? Turn rancher .
What foT?''
The register had
come forward, his
fine face lighted with
interest.
ITO make a home
and earn a living for
my brother and sister
and myself, - re-
piled Ned promptly ,
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bright yello" '.i
upon the jelly,
which streak Is
formed by an ag-
pregatiou Of seyer ,al
millions Of Lite
spherical cells
grouped together
like little punches
of grapes Ifson Is
of these get into ~
omen wound, suel
as that made By .
knife or by q pl'''
ban, they may pro-
coed to grow and
multiply raP a.,! ,
producing Imam ~.
nation an d ~
formation oil P .ss
If they get into ON "a
LYMPH or U'O,
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are q few which are
extremely dangerous.
Each kind is growing
in a glass tube about
as thick as your
thumb aud as long as
your hand. Some are
planted in small slices
of potato, some on a
paste made Of bread
crumbs. but most of