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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-10-20
A Libel on the Cow.

s'The COW is born thief" said
Thomas Grimshaw to q party of COM
mercial pilgrims who were discussing
zoology in the Lindell rotunda- ''She
will leave a square meal, gotten up ex-
pressly for her by an imported chief,
to wear her tongue as thin as polit-
zeal platform trying to coax wisp of
rotten straw through a crack in a
neighbours barn. She relishes nothing
so much as what she steals. She has
long head, and could give many of our
military heroes points on strategy,
Any COW that has paid attention to her
education can open a garden gate that
fastens with bank vault lock, get in
side and do fifty dollars worth of dam
age before the Infatuated owner can re-
member that the shotgun is not loaded.
The COW is a calf, if our city butchers
are to be believed, until there is no
more room on her horns for rings.
When she is too old to give two quarts
of milk per diem and then kick it all
over the dewy-lipped milkmaid, the
careful farmer drives her on a railroad
track, wrecks a freight train with her,
and then sues the company for the
price of a Jersey. Of course the COM
panY kicks worse than the cow ever
did, but the honest agriculturist gets a
jury of fellow farmers and the soul
less monopoly has to come to taw."-St
Louis Globe-Democrat.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-10-20
A Cure for the 2s,;.ws.

Thomas Vincent, of Newark. n. J.,
who owns farms in the country, claims
to have effected successful cure of the
yeilcws. a statement of which is given
in a late Rural New Yorker. The trees,
which were heavily loaded with fruit,
had been more or less affected with
this disease. and the why twigs and
bristly growth so peculiarly character
istic of this malady are stated to be
mass of the darkest, greenest,
Notwithstanding foliage, the fruit
showing no indications of yellows-
This result Is ascribed by Mr.. Vincent
to very high manuring. TO bone dust
and phosphates spread heavy enough
s'to appan tsmid men" The disease he
considers the effect of starvation. A
single experiment of this kind. how
ever, needs repetition, as there are
many instances where the yellows
has attacked and destroyed trees
growing in rich ground. One of the
finest, highly-fertilized orchards we
have ever seen, and with rank growth,
was dying with this disease.-Country
Gentleman.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-10-20
PUBLIC SCHOOLS cELEeRArIoN.

Programme for Columbus Day, as Ar
ranged by the Executive Committee.
At nine o'clock on Friday, October
81, the schools viii assemble. At half
past nine detail OF veterans will
reach the school building in Maine as
in California, in Dakota as in Louisi-
ana A color guard of pupils will meet
the old soldiers at the entrance and
escort them into the building. At a
given signal the pupils will gather in
the large hall or in the yard where the
exercises are to take place, and the
master of ceremonies will begin the
reading of the presidents proclamation
declaring the day a national holiday.
As the reader finishes he announces:
ss1n accordance with this recommends
ton by the president of the United
States, and as a sign of our devotion to
our country, let the flag OF our nation
be unfurled above this school,
AS the flag reaches the top of the
staff the veterans will lead the assem-
blage in ''three cheers for old Glory $"
Then, at signal from the principal,
the pupils face the flag and give it the
military salute, saying: 81 pledge allie
glance to my flag and the republic for
which it stands; one nation indivisible,
with liberty and justice for all" Then
in unison will sing America"
A prayer and an acknowledgment of
God follows, and the song of Columbus
day will have its first rendition in pub
lie. The first stanza is given in the
accompanying cut. The other stanzas
follow:
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-10-20

/ sat down on box near the FIRE, and
little julius turned his attention to
roasting the chicken on the stick The
dog began to paw the ground with his
forefeet.
down, Hector!' exclaimed the boy,
angrily. ''We don't want any more
graves. We have had enough of them. ''
do you think-?''
eyes, Hector knows beforehand when
any body is going to die"
There was painful silence for a few
few minutes, and then I remarked:
..He will not have to dig many more
graves
My brother, whom I had left three
weeks before happy, romping, talka-
tive child, did not reply, but kept on
staring at the fire. placed my hand
on his curly blonde locks and said:
MY poor little brother, tell me-when
did our mother die?''
'.l don't know he replied, in the
same Indifferent tone OF voice. ST can't
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-10-20
APPLYING MANURE.
Follow Natures Method and Set 1t to Sur
face Work at Once.

Follow Natures Method and Set 1t to Sur
face Work at Once.
Nature applies all fertilizers TO s!ae
surface, and at once proceeds to use
them. If the ground is not frozen it is
never too wet or too cold for some kinds
of grasses and weeds 70 grow and add
to the worlds supply Of humus. Some
of the best farmers very few-have
found this out. and, instead of keeping
their manure idle for months, put it to
work as fast as made They would as
soon have hired man sitting around
day after day, as to have the manure
lying around doing nothing. AS there
is never any more of manure than when
first made it naturally follows that
keeping it means shrinkage and loss.
Applied Immediately to grass ground it
at once goes to work regardless of day
or night or Sundays / have a neigh
Dor who believes in immediate use of
manure as topdressing to meadows:
He has manure-spreader, and applies
the manure evenly and carefully as
fast as made, during the nine or ten
least busy months. The result is tn lat
his hay crop on sixteen acres went
more than four tons per acre, while on
adjoining farms the yieldwas only two.
Careful deep. blowing and thorough
filth for the seeding crop, W it'll top
dressing the grass, is the only reason
that can be given for his double yield.
On several farms the manure is thrown
out and kept without care or shelter
for topdressing the wheat. The yield,
in spite of this dressing, is rarely more
than nine bushels per acre, and the
catch of clover is often very imperfect.
On farm where the barnyard is an
almost impossible slough of strawy
manure during all the wet months,
there is field that has grown nothing
but sorrel and weeds for two years, be-
cause it is too poor to grow clover or
grass. To topdress this field would
cost nothing but the labor, for the side
hill barnyard permits the chief virtue
of the manure to be washed down the
lane. until certainly it does not bring
paying crops of wheat. There is often
enough grass seed in manure to nicely
seed the ground, and I have known
bare corn stubbles transformed to
meadows by simply topdressing with
manure. In former years when 1 threw
my manure out in the then common
way. I was often bothered to see any
appreciable results from its use, but
since I reformed this practice, and used
it nearly as fast as made, never expos
ing it to the weather until used,
1 not only get very decided re-
suits, but the manure goes a
great deal farther than former
ly. A practice that enables my neigh
Dor to grow enough hay on an acre to
winter a horse does something besides.
It fills the ground with a mass of grass
roots to the depth of foot or more,
and the plow, when put in to the depth
of nine or ten inches, does not bring up
mass of yellow earth, but mass of
plantfood that with thorough filth
brings the very best crops of corn and
potatoes.-L. B. Pierce, in N. Y.
Tribune.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-10-20

who have seen her and lived to tell the
tale. Ny poor mother saw her and was
soon numbered with the dead.
My mother was dead and buried be-
fore heard of her illness I received a
written message from my little brother
Julius 1t was very short: " Mother is
dead; don't come home.''
OF course / returned home as soon as
possible. / was in despair. / was not
afraid of the cholera. What had I, in
my state of mind, to dread? In fact
almost prayed for death
When / arrived in the vicinity of our
village shuddered 20 see on every hand
signs of the desplatien that had been
wrought by the: scourge. The church
villages, at other hines so musical morn
ing, noon and nil ht, were dumb and 81
lent as the grave itself The wheat in
the fields had ripened. The golden grain
had fallen to the earth and sprouted
again. There was nobody to gather the
rich harvest. Wagons loaded with emp
ty collins were the only vehicles to be
seen on the public highways.
] lost no time in reaching my native
village. The nearer approached my
destination the more was weighed
down by a dreadful sense of desolation.
White, feecy clouds We're drifting
across the azure sky. My imagination
transformed the clouds into weird
shapes TO me they looked like troops
>of sPectcrs in white winding sheets,
carrying long scythes.
as l passed the country house of a
gentleman, Mr.. Massey, with whom
was well acquainted. saw him leaning
over the gate. He stared at me with
out the slightest sign of recognition.
There was an expression of intense
WEAKNESS On his face. After l had
passed the Eate, he aroused himself and
called out:
when you get to Kisalva, stop mo-
ment at the Silky mansion and tell
Silky that my wife. who is his sister, is
dead"
nodded assent and drove on. It was
not long before met the coachman of
the Silky family. He was on horse
back.
Where are you going?'' asked.
81 am going to inform Mrs. Massey
that her sister has just died.
delivered my message to the coach
man.
"In that case l might as well go
back" remarked the coachman, in a
matter-of-fact sort of way, as if nothing
unusual had happened, adding: "As
they both are dead they can tell each
other SO in the next world and turn
ing his horse he rode slowly back.
At length 7 reached my parents
: house and was surrounded by the scenes
of my bOyhood. There was no hurry
ing to the gate to meet me, no waving
OF handlzerchicfs, no signs of welcome.
The windows did not greet me with
their friendly eyes, for they were COW
cred by the shutters.
No door opened as my carriage drove
up. There did not appear to be a living
being on the premises. A face appeared
above the fence of our next-door neigh
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-10-20
THE ENGAGED GIRL.
She Is Always Rather Proud of He
Pleasant situation.

She Is Always Rather Proud of Her
Pleasant Situation.
Of course, along with the pleasure
seekers at the numerous summer re-
sorts, come judiciously mixed in, like
the spicy ingredients of a mince pie, all
sorts of nice girls. Some are already
engaged, others are willing to be- Of
the former class there are two distinct
types-the fiirty and the devoted one.
Saturday night usually brings the
fiancee to join his beloved, unless too
many miles intervene between his bus
mess and her chosen warm-weather
abode. During the interim, between
Monday morning and Saturday night,
how do these young women conduct
themselves? The fiirty one gives lit
tie sigh OF relief when the bus drives
off and she is free to join some other
man in fishing or driving expeditions.
She writes little perfunctory letters to
the absent one in the odd moments she
can snatch between her engagements
with the ''stay down all the week. set.
She is rather proud of her handsome
engagement ring. but regrets that she
is obliged to take single man along
with it as the price to be paid and feels
rather put out when he claims all her
time during the occasional visit he pays
her. She is, however, diplomatio
enough to keep on the right side Of him
unless richer man comes along, when
she would have no scruples about drop
ping him like hot cake, though it is
very much doubted if he ever gets his
ring back.
The devoted fancee acts in an entire
ly different manner. When Saturday
night comes she is at the station, her
face wreathed in smiles, waiting the
arrival of the one man in the world for
her. That night and the next day seem
all too short for the strolls and beach
seances of the lovers, and when Nom
day morning comes a very fearful little
maiden bids him farewell and returns
to the hotel to at once sit down and
write him = letter telling him how
much she loves him and longs for Satur-
day to come. Every day voluminous
epistles are sent to him and many low
ing, devoted telegram flies over the
wire if one day passes by without a
correspondingly large-sized packet
from him The week seems like a year
to her, but short as a winter day to the
other, who is simply engaged because
1t Is the proper caper.-PhIladelph
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-10-20
wasn't the Generars Cow.

In seaport town, a general and an
admiral were neighbors. The generals
house was fronted by a grass plot. on
which he claimed the right to pasture
a cow. One day his wife complained
the supply of milk was falling short
The sentinel accounted for the def
cheney by saying that the pasture had
lately been much trodden down by the
public. Thereupon the martial despot
gave orders that no human or other
animal except the cow should be al
lowed on the grass plot; and added
men were not particular in those days
that, If this rule was infringed, the
sentinel should be logged Soon after
ward the admirars wife, having press
ing engagement, took short cut over
the grass In disregard Of the sentinel's
repeated order to stand back s'Com-
mon soldier" said the offended lady,
don't you know who amp" ''All I
know Is that you're not the generals
cowr'-Argonaut
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-10-20
WHAT THE SCHOOLS ARE TO DO.

WHAT THE SCHOOLS ARE TO DO.
Francis Bellamy, chairman of the
executive committee, offers the follow
ing among other suggestions:
The first duty Of each school is TO attend to
its own morning celebration.
Teachers superintendent and school boards
should confer that action may be harmonious,
and the best results attained. The pro-
posed celebration should be explained to each
school at the earliest moment 1t should be so
presented as to awaken enthusiasm In
teresting topics relating to Columbus
and the discovery should be suggested
be: 1.-The Map of the World Before the
Discovery" Important Inventions and Events
Of Europe Just Before the Discovery" 1.-THE
Story of Columbus, - 1.-THE Ships of Columbus"
''What Columbus Expected to Find" Geo
graphical Growth of the United States"
Estates of South America" etc. The teacher
should assign the address and the ode to those
who can render them most inteliigently. The
flag salute and the songs should be perSistently
rehearSed.
Important committees of pupils should be
appointed: L A committee of invitation, whose
duty is to see that the family Of each pupil re-
ceiveS special invitation to the morning exeF-
cises Of October q, and also, when they arrive
to show them seats; 2. color guard, whose
duty is o. to see that the school has flag and
staff in proper condition; (2) to meet the vet
Grams as they arrive, and escort them with dig
nifty to the principal in the schoolhouse; go to
act aids of the principal
An efficient adult committee of ARRANGEMENTS
should also be constituted. This committee
| must see ~ that seats are prepared out of
doors in hope of fair weather and that room
| is also engaged for the exercises, should the
day be stormy; ca that fitting decorations and
| printed programmes provided; 81 that the
local press is interested and invited; "a that
arrangements are made with the veterans and
other special guests for the parts they are to
take.
The school principal must make himself per-
sonany responsible for the work of each COM
mittee.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-10-20
An Artistic Portiere of serge.

Very effective decorations can be
rapidly executed IN what is named
''Old Lady's Work." because 1t is easy
and not trying to the eyes. Fruit sab
jects are the most suitable. The
curtain itself is serge, the oranges
are of plush in their natural color, and
are slip stitched on invisibly with silk
to match, being raised slightly by
means of a wadding of cotton wool
The result IS as the plush catches the
light the fruit has the effect of being
deeply shaded. Where one orange over
laps the other, the under one should
not be raised, and may be of a darker
shade, The leaves are of thin wooden
materials in various tints:: and can be
applied by a couched line or button
stitch The best method OF getting an
assortment of colors is to obtain, If pos
sible, a package OF samples from a dry
goods store; enough will be found in
each piece for several leaves The
stems are worked with a coarse wooden.
or siiken thread and the blossoms IA
white silk-Ladies' Home Journal
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-10-20
AGRICULTURAL HINTS.
fIRsT-clAss PIGoERY.
The Model Structure Planned by an Iowa
Farmer.

The Model Structure Planned by an Iowa
Farmer.
AS many farmers have requested
description of my hog house. will an
swer the request. writes A. Fl. Sheldon,
of Iowa. through the American Agri-
culturist- The house is built for eight
brood sows in the spring or fifty pigs
in the fall, and furnishes plenty of
room for this number. The size is
twenty feet wide. by twenty-four feet
long. The pens are each six feet square,
making the alley through the center
eight feet wide. giving plenty of room
to drive a load of corn under cover of
the roof, to unload in the fall. Four of
these pens are on each side, and one
swin trough. eight feet long, answers
for two pens. Over each trough is
placed swinging door three by eight
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-10-20
WHAT SHEEP WILL DO.


store Lost Fertility.
''Sheep have golden feet" says a
Swedish proverb-which is not so.
will tell you some things that are true
about sheep. They will rapidly improve
scores of plants that cattle and horses
cleaning foul lands. They completely
weed seeds have no terminating power
after passing the ordeal.
A brother in hillv. eastern New York
bought 100 acres, upon which few
cows could barely live. He stocked it
with sheep. After three years it fed
$50 well. In five years whortle berries,
blackberries and wild roses had given
way to white clover, blue grass and
red top. He SAYS: 81 have a pasture
that was nearly worthless few years
ago that is green and smiling as a
lawn, with every inch among the
stones covered with the richest grasses.
Not mullen or worthless plant in
sight. The sheep grazing there afford
ample evidence of the richness of the
grasses.
To renovate or clear farm of briars
bushes and noxious weeds there i
nothing like sheep. A hundred acres
fed poorly twelve sheep and six cows.
The next year it sustained twenty
sheep and twelve cows, and continued
to increase in fertility until forty sheep
and twenty-four COWS were well fed
upon it. Sheep manure is most active
and enriching and evenly spread,
which aids the instruction of choice
grasses. / have brother in this coun-
ty who is as noted here for his success
with sheep as some of the rest of US
with cows. have myself wintered on
this farm $50 sheep. The dogs were
the destruction of my fock.-A. x.
Hyatt, in Breeders Gazette
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-10-20
! the lirht of its sta-. as fold ou roo Is runs

In the light OF its sta-s as fold on fold Il flung
to the autumn -skyi
Cplift it. youths and maidens. with songs and
loving cheers.
Through triumphs' rapsures Ii has waved,
through agonies and TEARS.
Columbia looks fran sea TO sea and thrills with
joy to know
Her myriad sons, SIS one, would leap to shield it
from foe,
And you who soon VIII be the state, and shape
each great decree,
Oh, VOW to live and die for it, il glorious death
must be,
flag have wrought;
In dungeons dim, of CORY fields, its light and
peace were bought;
And you who front the future-whose days our
dreams fulfill
On Liberty's immortal height, Oh, plant it
frmer still,
For it floats for broadcast learning; for the
souls supreme release;
and peace;
For valor born OF justice, and its amplest scope
and plan
Makes queen Of every woman, a king OF every
mani
While forever, like Columbus, DER Truths IN
fathomed main
It pilots TO the hidden isles, grander realm to
gain.
Ali what mighty trust is ours. the nObless
ever sung,
To keep this banner spotless its kindred stars
among,
Our fleets may throng the oceans-our forts the
headlands crown
Our mines their treasures lavish for mint and
mart and town
Rich fields and hocks and busy looms bring
plenty, far and wide
And statelier temples deck the land than
Rome's or Athens pride
And science dare the mysteries OF earth and
wave and sky
Till none with rs in splendor and strength and
skill can vie:
Yet, should we reckon Liberty and Manhood
less than these.
And slight the right of the humblest between
our circling seas
fathers God forgetting,
This banner would lose its luster, our sun be
nigh his setting!
But the dawn will sooner forget the east, the
tides their ebb and flow,
Than you forget our radiant flag and fits match
less gifts forego!
Nay you Will keep it high advanced with ever
Frightening sway
The banner whose light betokens the Lords
diviner day
Leading the nations gloriously in freedom
holy wayl
No cloud on the field of azure-no stain on the
rosy bars
God bless you youths and maidens. IS you
guard the Stripes and Stars!
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-10-20
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panying cut may afford some sugges-
tons 1t represents a willow fence
made some years ago at Cornell uniyer-
sity. The sticks were about four years
growth and two inches in diameter
cut four feet long and sharpened at one
end double furrow was plowed and
manure placed in it, and then subsoil
pillow passed several times. The sharp
ened willows were driven in seven
inches apart. A strip of board was
placed on the even top. If the sticks
are of different sizes assert them and
place the same sizes together. This
fence may be changed to hedge by
the side shoots coming out at the
ground The willow must be of kind
that sprouts apidly.-Country Gentle
man.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-10-20

FIG. l.-PERSPECTIVE VIEW OF PIGGERY.
feet so that any litter which may be
rooted into them can be easily cleaned
out. and the pigs can also be shut back
until the swil1 is poured into the
troughs, great advantage as any
feeder knows.
There are little doors from each pen
into the alley. also into the yards On
the sides of the house. These yards
should have a board floor, unless the
ground is very sandy and well drained.
a small pen near hog-house becomes
a mortar bed after every rain, and the
object of the small yards outside is to
give early pigs sunshine and more
chance for exercise than six by six
pen affords. Over each pen under the
upper roof is a small window to admit
air and light. This slides on the scant-
ling which supports the lower roof.
The outside posts are only four feet
high and the center posts eight feet.
The roof is boarded and shingled. The
house is inctosed with No. boards,
then paper and drop-siding are put on
to keep out frost in winter. Large
doors at each end can be opened when
occasion requires, but for every day