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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-07-16
A New Industry,

Within 500 feet of the Enterprise
Office a new industry has sprung up
that is destined to make Rocky Ford
as famous as her melons and alfalfa.
Last spring Mr.. Henry F. Hagen, a
noted apiarist of Barton county, Kan
sas made a hurried trip to Rocky Ford
to see what the prospects were for bee
culture in the valley. It took him but
a moment to see the advantages of the
country for the successful pursuit of
his business and he at once returned
and shipped his bee plant here and set
his hives in Mayor Swink's orchard. On
Tuesday Mr.. Hagen very kindly showed
what success he had already had in
making honey and we were astonished.
He now has 125 hives and the larger
ones have already produced an average
of Sc pounds of honey. The latter is
made into boxes holding a pound and
are neatly packed for shipment. AL
the stores in town have the goods on
sale and it is the finest honey we have
ever seen, far surprising in taste and
looks any of the honey made from
clover. Mr.. Hagen says that alfalfa
produces the most staple article OF
honey in the market and one never
tires of it. with 5000 acres of aIfal.
ia in the vicinity of Rocky Ford the
outlook for making this great honey
producing center is very f1attering,'
said Mr.. Hagen. He further said thai
taking the honey from the blossom.
increases the yield of alfalfa seed, sc
that the bees take what would other
wise go to waste. Mr.. Hagen is now
preparing to ship large quantity OF
honey to market which finds a ready
sale at retail at 25 cents per pound
He expects to raise over 6 900 pound:
this season and is just fairly started in
the busineSs.-Rocky Ford Enterprise
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-07-16

be, at least, until some of the fearful
effects of cooperative legislation of the
two old parties have been erased from
the face of this fair land of freedom.
If there are any other little things you
would like to know please ask for them.
Beacon, July 9th.
And now that we have it, it don't
amount to much after all. It merely
proves that we were right when We
before stated that some of the would
be leaders of the alliance party were
deceiving the honest hard working
farmers, and that there are motives
back of their Outspoken assertions
which they do not want uncovered to
the light of day.
We are not surprised at the Beacon
editors reference to the DEMOCRAT in
the above text of their belief; it is
quite natural that the writer Of that
sentence should judge other men by
himself, as he has exhibited little
knowledge of others or inclination to
understand them. With the remem-
brance fresh in his mind of the won
dcrful promises he made the farmers
last fall when they chipped in their
hard earned dollars to set him up in
business, it is natural that he or any
one of like calibre, should only see
mercenary motives in others.
Concerning their belief as to what
the Germans ''have sense enough to
know" we will simply say that the
Germans, as we'll as other people in
this county, possess sufficient knowl-
edge to enable them to detect the true
metal from the false, and they have
manhood enough to condemn a man
who attempts to deceive them and
commend those who are not afraid to
take position on any question that
the public generally IS interested in.
We have tried not to use Insulting
or indecent" language in our paper,
and are sorry that the Beacon i'm
AGNES 1t discovered that kind of ''ti-
rade" in former articles in the DEMO
Graf. We are also sorry that the Bea-
con editors refuse to discuss anything
| outside of their platform, for that cuts
us out of any chance to put ourself
right in the minds of the Beacon
editors on that matter of "a little IT,
rade of insults and indecency." If the
brothers and sister will relent long
enough to show our readers wherein
we have strayed from the path of
| decorum in any editorial to or concern
ing them or their paper We shall be
much obliged. We had given the re-
publican press of the county credit
with having a man who held monopo-
| ly of the ''insulting and indecent bus
mess, and we have no desire to enter
into the pool.
Concluding, we will say that there
ARE ''some other little things We would
like to know" and we will ask you
them later on.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-07-16
BUFFALO,

From" Pauline"
The farmers of this vicinity viii
nearly all finish harvesting this week.
w. B. WEIGH, of Cheyenne bottom,
spent Sunday with friends In this
neighborhood.
Owing to the busy season Buffalo
alliance failed to hold their regular
meeting last Thursday evening; the
first meeting they have missed for
nearly a year.
There will be quarterly meeting at the
stone school house district zS, ON Sat
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-07-16

toms have been dying on account of the
prevalence of mosquitoes.
]. w. Ford and wife have returned
from Indian Territory and Jim is very
busy in the harvest field at present.
Hoisington's creamery remains idle
while neighboring ones are doing good
business. There is good opening here
for a man who thoroughly understands
the business.
1t has been discovered that the recent
school bond election was not held
according to the letter of the law and
it will be necessary to call another
election which will be done in a short
time.
The greater part of our immense
wheat crop is now safely In the stack,
and from present appearances very
nearly all of the grain will be saved.
Prices are too high to allow any grain to
go to waste.
A Sunday school convention will be
held in this city two weeks from
next Saturday. 1t will be participated
in by the officers, teachers and older
scholars in the three appointments of
the Hoisington charge of the M. E.
church.
We visited the market garden of
Fenno Bros, one-hah mile west of
town this week and were very much
pleased to see the success with which
the young men are carrying on their
business. They have a very nice forty
acre tract of land, all of which can be
watered from one point. They have a
large reservoir from which they can
water their garden land with very little
trouble, however, they have found but
little use for it this ye1as the season
has been very wet. The reservoir is
supplied with water by a wind pump,
| the hoisting APPARATUS of which shows
the ingenuity of the boys, consisting of
an endless chain on which are strung a
line of buckets each one holding gal
! Ion. With a moderate wind the pump
will easily throw one hundred gallons a
minute. The boys have out II acres
of cabbage, a great many tomatoes, on
ions, etc. They have one acre of straw
| berries from which they have marketed
| this year several hundred dollars worth
of fine berries. In addition to
their gardening they have a nicely ar
ranged ice house and furnish four tons
of ice a week to the people of our city.
The boys are rustlers- and in time vii
have very valuable place.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-07-16

IN THIS day of destructive criticism
nothing is permitted to stand as it has
been. The dollar sign, 5, is not a mono
gram of the letters U. S., it seems, but
a figure 8, with marks representing the
Pillars of Hercules drawn through
them. This is of Spanish origin, eight
Spanish reals being equal TO one dollar,
and the Pillars of Hercules being the
Rocks of Gibraltar and the headlaDd
opposite. We do not care what they
do with the old explanation of the dol
lar sign so long as they leave large
supply of the thing it signifies New.
ton Republican.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-07-16

THE supreme court has given its de-
cision that the eight hour law does not
effect the officers and the employees
of :.the state institutions. So the talk
about an extra session, closing of
the asylums, and all that was little
s'preyious" to say the least.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-07-16
Oaraway and Sam Wood,

NolgnDer Stoke thinks we should give
prominence to such sensational matters
AS the death of a man down in Stevens
county, at the hands of an inveterate
enemy, as the result of county seat
fight, before the facts were known, as
he did. He thinks it should be done
no doubt, from the fact that the MUIR
dered man was notorious in the state,
not for anything good that he has ever
accomplished, but the reverse in the
extreme. Now the devil. has a royal
time rewarding him for his democratic
deeds while in the body and we presume
the furnace will be heated seven times
hotter than it was wont, all to do him
justice. If Sam Wood had been an
honest man and remained in the repub-
lican party, he might now be leading a
happy life for his allotted time on earth
and had some hope of a different re-
ward in the future.-Register.
No, Bro. Caraway, you are off again
about what the editor of the DEMO
Graf thinks about you and your paper.
Taking the history of the Register,
under its present editorial manage
ment, it would be very inconsistent for
any one to think that you would have
sufficient enterprise and unbiased in
clination to give your readers an it EN-
of news of such general interest as was
the killing of Sam Wood. Especially
would it be foolish for anyone to think
that you would inform your readers of
the circumstance when, as in the Wood
killing, there was circCmstantial evil
dence to indicate that one of your most
beloved political assOciates-Botkin-
was in some way connected with the
killing. Ne, Caraway, we know you to
be toe good ringster, too much of a
party crank to enlighLen your readers
under such circumstances.
Some of your friends may have
thought that your professions of relig-
ion would deter you from gloating over
the death of Sam Wood as you do when
you say, "Now the devil has a royal
time rewardlng him. and that you
presume the furnace will be heated
seven times hotter than it was wont,
all to do him justice" We say some
of your credulOus brothers in the church
may have thought you above that; but
we did not. We knew that in your
political fanaticism you rejoiced that
Sam Wood had been put out of the way,
that his wife had been widowed and
his children orphaned: all because of
the power the dead man welded during
the overthrow of your republican plans
last fall.
We have no word of opology for the
missdeads of the dead man-and they
were many-but we hope that he re-
pented for them when he left your
party, and before he was so ruthlessly
hurried into the dark unknown.
We know, and so do you ,Caraway
that there are men occupying high
places in this great state Of Kansas,
who have stopped to as low tricks, as
dishonest transactions as ever Sam
Wood did; and that they continue to
60 unpunished; that they are defended
and shielded by partizan press. for
political reasons only. We hope they
may also repent and make amends
before they too are called to the bar of
Judgment
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-07-16
NUMBER 16.

urday and Sunday, July IS and 20.
Rev. Waite is expected to be there.
Mr.. ]. w. Compton, of No. 40 died
very suddenly last Thursday morning
and was buried Friday in the Everitt
cemetery.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-07-16
EDITORIAL COMMENT.

IT LOOKS as though the New En-
gland farmers and the Knights of
Labor were assuming the same attitude
toward the farmers alliance. Are we
to have fourth party City
Times.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-07-16
HOISINGTON.
From the Dispatch

From the Dispatch
w. d. ]. Whitechurch had S2S
stolen from his coat pocket in the depot
Friday afternoon.
Quite a number of calves on the bot
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-07-16
NEIGHBORHOOD HAPPENINGS.
PAWNEE ROCK.


From the Leader.
finish the harvest.
Good corn weather, this, and the
corn is taking advantage of it and
don't forget it.
Mr.. John Lindas went to Denver
Thursday evening and will go on to
Georgetown, Col. and join his wife and
Mrs. Ella Duer, who went there some
three weeks ago. O
Geo. Gano played center field with
the Great Bend boys on the 4th in the
match game between that nine and the
Sterling club, in the latter city. They
say George carried off some of the
honors.
The boys who dug Willie Ratcliff' S
grave last Saturday morning say the
ground was so moist that they didn't
have to use a pick but were able to
spade it down the full depth, six feet.
Not in the memory of the oldest inhab-
liant has the ground on the hill where
the cemetery is located been in the
condition that it now is.
About the first object our eyes rested
upon this morning when we first came
down town was DR.. M. L. Daniels.
Old predictions, ''that no one leaving
Pawnee Rock can stay away" has
again been verified. Haven't learned
yet whether he will remain here, but as
that, in his case was part of the pre-
diction, of course he will.
CARD OF THANKS.
To our friends, we take this method
of expressing to you our sincere thanks
and gratitude for the kindness and
sympathy shown US in our sore grief in
the loss of our son Willie. We have
not the language to express our graft
tude to you for the kindness, but trust
your reward awaits you at the end OF
the race, where Willie is waiting fol
us.
!. w. AND G. A. RATcLIFFE.
Our main business and private
dwelling streets have lately undergone
some needed improvements, but there
is need of some more. The two side
walks, one from the corner store to the
M. E. church and the one from the ole
Leitner drug corner (now the Leader
ofice) to the first cross street west is il
bad condition, so that when it rain:
they are impossible. It~-s1it.s be :
good idea for some one to get up peti
tios, circulate it and present it at the
next meeting of the council. The re-
pairing of these walks should be of in
terest. to nearly everyone in town as
they are traversed by nearly everybody
on Sundays.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-07-16

SENATOR PEFFER says that "Ingalls
is now on the right track, and I don't
know of any man who can do Kansas
and the people as much good as he. F"
1t would be no surprise to see Ingalls,
come out as died-in-the wool peoples
party man, and there be leaders in the
party who would like to help the rebel
skinner to the front. Why not head
the peoples party national ticket. in
1892 with Ingalls,? Would he not just
capture the state of Kansas? Would
not the eminent haberdasher of invec-
tive and peddler of party prejudice help
to unite the people of the south with
the third party? Senator PETER is
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-07-16

BROTHER TOwNsLEY suggests that
Judge BOtkin's mouth ought to be pad
locked, and his tongue put in solitary
confinement. Should that be done there
of red liquor and stale beer in the judic-
ial district that Botkin haunts; or else
the shipments from Kansas City would
be almost entirely discontinued. No
Botkin's mouth will not be padlocked
unless it goes behind padlocked bars
with the rest of his body; and trust the
republican party with preventing that
happy denouement.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-07-16

LAST Saturday about 6 p. M, Miss
Edith, 16 year old daughter of VIM.
Bottomly, residing about four miles
northwest of Burden, reached home.
Just as she entered the house bolt of
lightning crashed through the roof,
splintered the joist, ran along the wall,
struck Miss Edith and then went out
the door, demolishing the screen door.
The bolt struck the young lady on the
breast near the shoulder, blistering a
space three or four inches in dia meter,
then passed to the floor, severing her
garters and cutting cash down the
outside of each limb, split her shoes
down each side and boring hole in
the sole of each. She was wearing a
black lawn dress with the waist and
skirt made separate. The waist was
torn to tatters. Strange to say, it was
but few minutes until she could
speak and at last accounts was living,
though suffering intensely. The other
members of the family were knocked
down, but not inj ured. Winfield Cou-
rier.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-07-16

A RUSSIAN, who has had much ex-
perience in wheat raising tells how to
q beat the Hessian fly. He says that as
soon as possible after harvest strip of
land about rod wide is plowed all
around and thickly sown with wheat.
BY the time he is through seeding this
strip first sown is nice and green and
all the Hessian flies in the neighbor-
hood have laid their eggs in it. But
as soon as he has finished seeding the
rest he plowed this strip turning the
flies and their eggs under. He then
seeds it down and in that manner
avoids much damages from the fly
Newton Journal.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-07-16

The declaration by the New York
SUN that under certain conditions it
will support a republican against a
democrat, will not be construed as an
alarming threat. 1t is an old story
Kansas City Star.
AND as the Sun says so says the To-
peka Democrat, therefore the "cld
story" is likely to be carried into Kan
sas-''under certain conditions" If
people did not understand the methods
of the old piratical Sun, there would
be some cause for uneasiness on the
part of democrats, but the game old
Dana has played is pretty we'll under
stood, and his bunco steerers will not
be able to do much harm to anybody
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-07-16

TARIFF reform is democratic. Free
sufficient for the peoples need is DEM
ocratic. Low taxation and strictly
limited expenditures ia century old
democratic motto. All these things
were parts of democratic education
before the alliance or it's imItators took
shape in dreams. No democrat should
forget this or fail to credit the faithful
custodian of the welfare of the masses
with its work or it's perseverance.-Ar-
kansas City Democrat.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1891-02-03
Furious NewfoundIanders.

Papers from Newfoundland re-
present the people of that island as
being in a furious state of indigna-
ton over the official announcement
THAT the modus vivendi between
England and France is to be ex-
tended another year, and that
meanwhile England undertakes to
effect a settlement with or without
the assent of the Newfoundland
Parliament. A writer in the Herald
says: eve are determined that
only one flag shall float over New.
foundland, and that flag will be the
Stars and Stripes, If England does
not do her duty. There is a move
ment on foot in connection with
this matter that will startle the
people when Parliament meets"
Affairs of the Navy.
The Marion now fitting at Mare
Island, will be assigned to the
China station. Commander john
LIZ. Bartlett has been ordered toI
hold himself in readiness to conf
mand her and will leave for SAM
francisco shortly after January LIST.
The report from the Board of
Survey on the Swatara, received
from Mare Island Navy Yard, saysI
she is in need of extensive REPAIRS
Orders are to be issued to suspend.
work on the Adams in order toI
have funds available for repairs onL
the Swatara. Engineer William
Bush has been ordered to the Swa-|
tara from Mare Island.
Assistant Engineer William NJ.
Bush has been detached from duty
connected with the San Francisco
and ordered to duty on board that
vessel.
The Universal Postal Union.
The Government has decided toI
make arrangements, if possible, for
Australia to join the Universal
Postal Union. Mr.. Duffy, the Post
master General, has directed that
a letter should be sent to the Gov
eminent of New South Wales ask
ing them to cooperate in bringing|
this about and to suggest the pref
liminary action to be taken.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1891-02-03
Dressed in White.

Twas, quite clearly remember,
On Sunday in September,
Sunday night;
And in church we were together,
Shea night of Summer weather.
Dressed in white.
I'd no book, by some omission,
And the space of our division
Lesser grew;
Lesser grew since she perceiving
Plight, half hers would be relieving,
Nearer drew.
Then if fingers strayed together
Round the soft marocco leather
In that song;
II in singing l bent nearer
To her cheek, to read the clearer,
Was it wrong?
Wasit wrong? The cheek was blushine
Next to mine, and mine was flushing
Next her signs
II thrilled was 1t amazing
At the unexpected raising
OF her eyes?
And / always shall remember
Twas morning in December,
Frosty, bright;
That, in church again together,
She was rightly-spite the weather.
Dressed in white.
Philadelphia Ledger.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1891-02-03
$oo5, oIo AN OUNCE.
The COstIiest Drug in the
Worlds Great PharmacO-

The COstIiest Drug in the
Worlds Great Pharmaco-
pGia.
Here is q list of scarce and costly
drugs: Three-pound bottle of al
kaloid of aconitine, S485.50; quarter
ounce phiaI of chelidonine alkaloid,
a new drug used in skin diseases,
scropula and dropsy, s88; cocaine
about s12O per pound. A fve-|
ounce bottle of true cotoin" will
cost about $3.50, or about $40 per-
ounce. Crystals of elaterin, poi !
son, used in cases OF hydrophobiaI
and lockjaw, prepared from q plant
called South American Indian ar
row,is worth about S175 per ounce
Among other costly drugs wei
might mention the following, and
the different sized bottles and phlals|
in which they are sold: Agaricin,
l44 ounces, s43.75; colocynthln, 81
ounces, s114.75.
Besides the above there are var
ious preparations made from the
Calabar bean. the cost of witch are
amazing. They are chiefly used in
diseases Of the eye.
The costliest of these prepara-|
tons from the Calabar is physostig-I
mine salicylate crystals, an aristo-
cratic drug that is furnished to theI
customer who is able to buy att
the reasonable charge of $3.50, O2O|
for two-ounce phial--St. Louis
Republic.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1891-02-03
The Home.

Nothing's gained by worrying,
By hurrying,
And scurrying,
With fretting and with iurrying
Z The temper's often lost;
And in pursuit of some small prize
We rush ahead and are not wise,
And find the unwonted exercise
A fearful price has cost.
It's better far to join the throng
That do their duty right along;
Reluctant they to make fuss,
Or make themselves ridiculous.
Calm and serene in heart and nerve,
Their strength is always in reserve,
And nobly stands each test;
And every day and all about,
By scenes within and scenes without,
We can discern with meier doubt,
That quiet ways are best.
New York Evangelist