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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-01-09

ffSESlDENI WOOOhUFF. III W Guo KEEP
ing of Gentiles, is not until February;
yet the streets are illuminated almost
nightly by the torches of marching
clubs, and the air made weary with the
noise of drum-corps and bands. Salt
Lake was never before SO shaken up by
politics, and the tremor promises to
deepen before the thing is over.
The further control of the offices is
the main consideration with the Nor
mon leaders; with the Gentiles it is the
price of real estate, though doubtless a
certain amount of the thing called
''principle' is at work on both sides.
Nothing is more certain than that the
Government of Salt Lake City has been
for long time of the most hating and
Silurian sort. I, for one, have never
seen more dirty and ill-kept city. The
natural drainage is fairly good, but
there was not foot of sewer pipe in the
place until within the last month. Some
is now being put in on Main street.
Many Mormons are dissatisfi ed and will
vote. with the Gentiles at the approach
ing election. They are weary of paying
the church ten per cent of all they
make, besides their regular taxes, and
yet have to put up with the most an
cient conditions of life.
The real-estate men, corners from
both East and West, are assiduously
stirring the broth, and hope for nothing
better than that it may boil over. They
have put things in a condition of
change; an electrical street railway sys-
tenn is in partial operation, a fire-alarm
plant is to be put in, sewers are laying,
fine business buildings are going up,
three-hundred-t housand-dollar hotel is
to be built, and real estate has doubled
in value within year. The young Nor
mon likes this immensely, and he is go-
ing to vote for more OF it. The average
Mormon. who owns = bit Of property,
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-01-09
CONCERNING COMPOST.
Soc to Make n Compost Heap to Secur.
Best Results.

Soc to Make n Compost Heap to Secure
Best Results.
1here are two main things to be con-
1Adered at the outset in making the best
compost heap. One is how to hasten de-
composition, and the other is how to
prevent the escape of gases that are
created. The compost heap should be
so located that it can be drained, and
She drainage saved, for necessarily it
eust contain valuable fertilizing in
gradients. The site of the heap Sc
lscted and drainage provided, construct
Che heap. Barnyard manure and any
deposit that contains plenty of vegeta-
be matter are the principal ingredients.
When it can be had swamp muck is just
Che thing. There is one bit of caution
Chat ought to be given, and that is to be
careful that nothing is used in which
$here are weed seeds.
The proportions should be one part of
barnyard manure and two parts of muck
or whatever else is used. Now the foun-
dation, the basis, of the compost is
made. To this is added every thing that
is lying about the premises that can pos
sibly add to the value of the heap, and
one of the greatest advantages of the
compost is the utilizing very much of
value as fertilizers which would other
wise go to waste. Gather up the night
soil, chicken droppings, wood ashes,
. sawdust, corn stalks, leaves, straw, soap
6uds, fish or meat brine and old mortar
and thoroughly mix them with the heap.
F.. The farmer or gardener will be surprised
to see what a large quantity of fertilizer
he will get by gathering up these odds
and ends. To every load of material
about twenty-five pounds of plaster
ought to be added.
Now the chemical changes begin.
Putrefaction, or fermentation-both be-
ing the same SO far as the chemical op-
Grafton is concerned-commenc The
carbon contained in the dead vegetable
matter unites with oxygen from the air
or in the water that may be in the ma
terial, and carbonic acid gas is the re-
suit. This gas acts on the silicate of
potash in the mixture, separates the
silicate from the potash and makes car
Donate of potash, and the silica being
freed becomes hydrated silica, and both
CHEESE elements are thus made at once
available for plant growth. Observe,
therefore, the benefit of composing in
thus making these two elements avail
able. Before the changes took place
both were insoluble and utterly useless.
Suppose unrotted straw had been APP
piled to the Land. 1t would require a
year, and perhaps two years, before
these elements could be made available.
Western Rural.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-01-09
THE PENALTY.

Even q President Must Obey the Laws Of
Health.
Probably no President was more care
less of his health than Mr.. Arthur. He
lived very high, took almost no exer-
else and kept irregular hours for bust
ness or rest. He seldom thought Of
breakfast earlier than ten o'clock in the
morning, and he usually called for his
supper at all hours from six to eleven
at night. He was exceedingly fond of
terrapin. but the steward, Crump, was
the only man who could prepare it for
him to his satisfaction. Many a night
Mr.. Arthur sat at his table until after
midnight eating the choicest of morsels
and drinking the best of wines He
slept only about six hours, but usually
dozed for an extra two hours. His
physicians used to beg him to arouse
himself and take horseback rides in
stead of those extra hours of inertia.
For awhile he obeyed their advice and
took long gallops out through and be-
yond Mt. Pleasant, on Kalorama
Heights and around by Rock Creek.
But these rides were irksome to him,
and he soon gave them up. From that
time on he grew rapidly in weight, and
lost strength and energy with inverse
rapidity. When his term of Office ex-
pired he was a sick man. While he sat
beside ruddy Cleveland on Inauguration
day Mr.. Arthur looked as pale and
worn as he did two years later as he
laid in the coffin. When he entered the
Senate chamber on March 4, 1881, and
was sworn into Office as Vice-President,
Mr.. Arthur was a magnificent specimen
of manhood. Nothing but negligence
of the laws of health undermined his
splendid constitution and carried him
into the Land o. the Lea1. S. D. f.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-01-09

in these villages
that Ingersoll's
books and the
m e &c e nary eff
forts of rea1-es-
tate men should
prove the most
potent factors in
disrupting Nor
m on i 8 m. But
such is the fact,
at least SO far as
m y observation
q n d investiga-
tions have dis
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-01-09
CONDENSED EDITORIALS.

President Harrison is a preposter-
Gus failure and John Wanamaker is his
prophet.-N. Y. Sun.
-''Taxation without benefits is rob-
bery."-Democratic platform. TAXA
ton without benefits is Protection"
Chicago Tribune Rep).
Perhaps the most marked feature
of President Cleveland's speech is the
absence of the calculating politician in
it.-Boston Herald.
Chambers complaint about in
limitation at elections is suggestive of
the VOLTS complaint against the lamb
for rolling the water.-Philadep
Times.
If the Republican Congress pro-
poses to investigate the representation
of the States in Congress at all, it would
do we'll to begin by investigating the
fraud and defiance of the constitution,
by virtue at which Frank Hiscock mis-
represents the State of New York in
the United States Senate.-Albany On.
W Argus.
George A. Macbeth, an extensive
manufacturer Of glass chimneys in Pitts
burgh, says that he has been shipping
his wares to England for long time;
that the present tariff costs his firm
$3.50 a week on raw material alone,
and that the tariff on manufactured
goods does not benefit him a PARTICLE
Detroit Free Press.
1t is fact full of good cheer for
working-men in the United States that
wages are advancing in Europe. In this
movement Great Britain takes the lead.
Longer hours of labor and lower pay
prevail in the workshops of Germany
and France, where trade is hindered
and labor burdened by protective tariffs.
Philadelphia Record.
David A. Wells puts it neatly in
his brilliant book, ssRecent Economic
Changes" when he cites 'sthe truth of
the economic maxim that ships are the
children and not the parents of COM
merce," and shows that while it is easy
to buy ships out of money raised by taxa
ton the mere fact of the ownership of
two or three hundred more ships does
no more to increase trade than the DIR
chase and ownership of two OF three
hundred more plows necessarily In
creases to farmer the amount of arabic
land to plows.-BOston Transcript
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-01-09
A Policy of Plumber.

Mr.. Harrison's Administration has 50
far exhibited policy of unrestrained
extravaganza, and with the new schemes
that bid fair to pass both houses of Con
gress, it may be safely stated that the
record for Federal expenditures will be
beaten. In this respect, as well as 9th
ers, the contrast between Republican
rule and the last Democratic admins
tration, will be most striking. The pro
lection promised so glibly TO the people
a year ago is already assuming the shape
of squeezing them more numerically
and robbing them for the benefit of
lobbyists in addition to bleeding them
to still further enrich monopolies and
favored manufacturerA-Albasy (N II
Argus.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-01-09
Free Wool Absolutely Necessary.

This is the only Government in the
world that imposes duty on raw wool;
and yet it has an immense surplus reve-
nue.. There is NO duty on raw cotton.
New cotton manufactures are springing
up all over the country, at least all over
one part of it, and the owners thereof
are making money. Wooden manu-
factories, on the contrary, are not only
diminishing in number, but they are
suspending operations, and their owners
are breaking. Nor do the number Of
sheep, nor the profits of sheep raisers,
increase under the alleged protection
afforded by the tariff. Indeed, so in
furious has the high tariff on wool
proved TO both wool growers and wool
manufacturers that large numbers Of
both have united IN a petition to Con-
gress for the removal of that tariff, so
that they may at least be put upon an
equal footing with the cotton growers
and cotton manufacturers.-Alexa
(Va) Gazette
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-01-09

other reason than to mako them the
text for bloody-shirt speeches But this
is as snort-sighted from the politicians
point of view as from the statesman's.
So far as the South is concerned, tho
agitation of such propositions insures
its continued solidity for the Democrats,
while, instead of making the North solid
for the Republicans, the readiness Of
Republican leaders to support such
schemes renders independent voters
more and more suspicious Of the party.
In short, it is clearly losing game all
around.-N. Y. Evening Post.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-01-09
Weiehtineas ilo.

cover my silage with paper, says .
farmer in the Rural New Yorker, after
it has reached a proper heat; then put
eight inches of sawdust on top of the
paper. have just opened my silo and
find the silage the best have ever had
have sweet silage this year. I intend
to cover my silo another yesr with dried
swamp muck or peat in lieu of sawdust
and then I will utilize as much as 1 can
of it with manure as an absorbent. !
think this plan will work well.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-01-09

which threaGenS
to ingulf tn 9
Great Fraud are
felt the most.
The election,
which shall con-
tinue the gov
eminent of the
city in Mormon
hands, as it has
been since the
first stone in its
foundation was
laid, or transfer
If To tho loon.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-01-09

every cake of ice
has to be handled
after it is packed be-
fore it can be used
t o k e e p butter,
meats, fruits, etc.
1t is a simple matter
to arrange a cool
ing-room in connec-
ton with the ice
house. One method
is to proceed as fol-
lows: Surprising the
90 - L. II
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-01-09
AGRICULTURAL HINTS.
COW STALLS.
some Good Suggestions Regarding Thei
How They Should BE Built.

some Good Suggestions Regarding Them
How They Should Be Built.
saw an inquiry short time ago re-
garding cow stall, says a writer i'm the
Ohio Farmer. 1 have seen none de-
scribed like mine, and will therefore
send it. 1 believe in manure drop for
the comfort and cleanliness of all con-
-cerned. To have it serve the purpose
every COW must stand right, so that the
manure will be deposited in the drop.
Cows vary in length, and hence stalls all
of same length will not bring all to the
drop; they fall short or over-reach. My
device will remedy this difficulty.
make my stalls, lining up between,
boarding up in front to the desired
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-01-09
LITTLE ADELINA PATTI.

How the Future Queen OF Song Looked
and Acted I'm 1856.
A writer in Belford's Magazine tells
this anecdote of Adelina Patti as she
was before she made her first public ap-
pearance. The contrast between the
picture he draws and the vision that the
name of the petted diva now calls up is
a striking one. He says:
In the year 1916 l was an artist, hav-
ing drifted into the line of drawing on
wood for engravers; and my studio, ii it
could SO be called, was in a most curious
locality, on the corner of Ann and Mas
sau,v the building, removed long ago,
being an old church transformed into
Offices, in which artists, literary men,
journalists, architects and brokers were
jammed in a heterogeneous way to-
gether. This was not an uncommon
thing in those days, when dwellings
were common downtown, and the ad-
jacent streets, now entirely devoted to
stores and offices, were full of families
of absolute pretensions to gentility. al
most aristocracy, and even Wall street.
and Maiden Lane had not lost their
last private dwellings.
Into his Office or studio one day
walked an old friend leading by the
hand tall, gaunt girl. with nothing no.
ticeable about her but her eyes, which
were of piercing hazel-brown, and'an-
nounced to me that he wanted a portrait
of the little girl The man was Maurice
Strakosch, even then a well-known
operate manager. and the girl was the
since world-famous Adelina Patti. the
sister-in-law of Strakosch, who had mar
ried Emile. the oldest of the Patti girls
Strakosch told me that he was about to
bring Adelina out as singer In con-
certs, and, finally, on the operatic stage;
and very quietly and confidently said
that she would make the greatest prima
donna the world had ever known How
far this prediction has been answered
leave that world to Judge, but freely
admit that inwardly scoffed at it then:
and even when he got the little, brown.
shy. awkward creature to sing verse OF
II Segreto in English, my own transla-
ton, and the first published translations
of the italian operas in this country,
failed to see the budding genius
Strakosch did, however; and was so sure
of it that he almost alienated the affec-
ton of the little donna by the severity
of his training.
The drawing was made, the first ever
taken of her, and, being engraved, was
used for advertising purposes. Two
weeks after this she made what be-
lieve was her first appearance at Tripier
Hall, which then stood on Broadway OPP
posite Bond street and was aftcrward
burned, and the Winter Garden Theater
built ON the ground. At this concert,
as recollect, she sang in English, ale
though she ~as then good Italian
linguist, :7d 70 her own accompani-
ment; md when the audience enthu-
siastically applauded she sprang to her
feet, and, with flashing eyes, clapPed
her hands as enthusiastically as any
one. Then thought she was pretty
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-01-09
A Consider.te Little BOY.

Mother-Tommy, I hear you got q
thrashing in school to-day.
Tommy-Yes, ma. the teacher whipped
me, but he is getting SO old and weak
that it didn't hurt much.
ibid you cry?'
go, yes, I bawled so you could have
heard it on the next block
Why did you do that?''
81 wanted TO make tho old nan feel
happy once more. '-Texas Siftings.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-01-09

Treasury soon after General Spinner
issued his mandate upon the subject. I
was doing homework, sewing and all
sorts of mental labor for my daily
bread. I was a good-1ooking girl, and
vice was calling me with alluring voice
to life of ease when this opportunity
to earn living, and good living, came
to me. I have been saying daily
prayers for that good man ever since,
and shall continue to do SO as long as
I live. I shall try to impress upon all
others the fact that he was one of the
greatest and best men in the world and
shall never cease to urge women to
unite in erecting a monument to his
memory. He was practical friend of
our SEX S. d. F.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-01-09


OF stall, and other
strips (b) at or near
the top, all same
distance a p a r t.
Now build. in bot
tom of manger, 2L
feet. as in Fig. 1.
Make a light frame,
of 2x2 inch ma
terial, that will fit
between sides of
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-01-09
TRY THIS.

Hint to Builders of Ice-Houses-Don't
RehandIe the Ice.
Farmers building ice-houses are foolish
to put them up in such way that
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-01-09

Weight as though intended to quit at
that. Stalls are ~ feet from front of
manager to drop, allowing 90 feet for
manger, which leaves feet for the
COW, but can be shortened to 315 feet If
necessary, by the method 1 shall now
describe.
Build stalls as above directed. Nail
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-01-09

-Jones-"I suppose you take lots OF
comfort with your new baby, Brown
Brown-''We1l, should say so. Let me-
tell you how cunning he is Jones
I'D very much like to hear, but to tell
the truth I'm due on the next block In
four hours from now Some other time.
Brown. Judge.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-11-21
Once a Prominent Garrett Man.

Once Prominent Garrett Man.
Jonathan HuddIes IN, m any years
ago a very prominent man of Garrett
County. died in Preston County. w.
Va. at the great aye of 90 years, on
the 18th instant, and was inferred in
+ ostburg on the 14th. He was born
in Montgomery County. in this State,
but removed to AIIegany County in
the thirties. He lived at Flintstone
for a number OF years and was elected
while there to the Legislature in 1887
and 1888. In 1912 he WAS appointed
superintendent of the National road
ian Off 'e then of great impOrtance)
by Gov. Francis Thomas. The same
year he moved to the Little Mead.
OWs Stone House, in Garrett County,
where he remained six Year, rs Il no.
tel keeper. merchant and AN extensive
farmer. making the place the most
cherry and attrartiye summer resort
in Maryland. 1t was n lively, gay
house in those years. President
Polk and his party dined there on a
cold Sunday in 1915 when on his way
to Washington to be inaugurated.
The distinguished party certainly re-
ceiyed no more real courtesies on the
way than from mine host at the old
Stone House.
He moved TO Preston County, w.
Va, IN 1849. aud some years later
was elected State Senator. and served
a number Of years. In our great
troubles of 6I-65, his feelings were
strongly with the South. He was u
political prisoner for some two years
at Wheeling and Camp Chase. till re.
leased by the great and good Lincoln.
After the war IIuddlescn was not in
any active business. He had con.
siderable family OF children. Gaugh
tiers and sons. The third daughter
was the wife of the Hon. It. G. Nc.
Culloh, who lately died. The oldest
daughter, Jane, IS a quiet resident OF
Cumberland.
Mr.. Hudlleson was man of intel
Iigence and integrity. with great en-
ergy of character and purpose. There
was always activity wherever he had
sway. He was always just to these
who served him.
NoU. II. 1890. J.B
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LODGE MEETINGS.

LOCAL BRANCH, No. So, ofthe Iron Hall
meets in Sturgiss' Hall LIST and Sd Saturday
nights II each month.
ALTA LODGE, No. 574, X. orH., meets in
same Hall I'd and 4th Thursday nights of each
month.
The Y. NJ. c. A. of Oakland meets in the
same Hall Friday nightofeach week and Sun
day afternoon.
meets in LeSge's Hall every Monday night.
PATMOS COUNCIL, No. 3S6, A. L. of H.
meets in same Hall LIST and Sd Thursdaynig
OF each month.
GARRETT LODGE. No. llS, X. of p. meets
In Garthright's Hall, Lake View, every We'd
n9s'iay evening, at 1880.
q. A, II. meets in Sturgiss Hall second and
fourth Saturday nights in each month.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-11-21
OUR AGENTS..

Tha following named gentlemen
ere authorized to receive and receipt
for subscriptions to THE REPUBLIC
CAN:
Accident-J. E. Gnagey.
Altamont-J. z. Browning.
Blaine-E. KitZmiller.
Bloomington-Dr. H. M. Kemp,
Bittinger-ThOs. b. Wiley.
Cranesville-E. ]. Fringer.
Deer Park-Dr. ]. w. Laughl!n.
Elkins, w. Va.-John H. Riley.
Elder-Mell Coddington.
Engle's Mills-Austin Speicher.
Friendsville-Leslie Z. Friend.
Commanded. w. Moon.
Grantsville-A. l.. Gnagey.
Hoyes-Wm. A. Smith.
Huttons-Chas. F. White.
JohnsOns-Geo. w. Blocher.
Keyser. Md.-Solomon o. Beachy.
McHenry-D. w. Fraker.
Mt. Lake Park-Jas. A. Enlow.
New Germany-C. ]. Otto.
Selbysport-Jonas Frazee.
Sunnyside-John G. Knauer.
SwantOn-A. F. George.
Westernport-Geo. L. Mlchaels.
Wilson's Mills-Geo. w. Wilson.
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Positively the Last Notice

On the LIST day of January, 1891, I
will place in the hands of an attor-
ney for collection all my outstanding
accounts on account of subscription,
etc. / feel that have been rs for
bearing as the nature of the case will
Init. So if any costs are added the
fault will not be mine.
JAS. A. HAYDEN.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-11-21
Notice,

There came to my place, miles
north of Oakland, about Sept. l. 1890.
red heifer 2 years old. She ia
marked with slit in the left ear.
Owner will please come forward. pay
damages and costs and take her
away. 3S-2t* DAVID ENLoW.