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Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-03-17
Republican Primaries and Convention.

In pursuance to a call Of the Co.
Chairman the Standing Committee
met at Laporte Pa. on February
2Sth and fixed the date for the pri-
maries to be held in the several pre-
eincts of Sullivan county on April
End at which time delegates to the
County Convention to be held at
Laporte on April 5th will be elect
ed to represent their respective dis
tricts in said Convention. The
purpose of convention being to
elect our delegate to State Convent
ion and to name conferees for SEN
atoiral and Congressional Confer
ences and any other business that
may properly come before the Con-
vention. Following is the rules of
the party governing the primaries
and representation.
PRIMARY ELECTION
The primary elections shall be
held in each district, at the place
for holding general elections in
said district unless otherwise order
ed by the vigilance committee; the
vigilance committee may fix some
other place, and may name the
hours for holding the primary pro-
viding said committee shall post at
least six notices in suitable public
places of the time and place of
holding said primary election, at
least five days before the date fixed
by the chairman for holding pri-
mary elections.
In case any member or members
of the election board shall fail to
appear at the place advertised for
holding elections within fifteen
minutes after the time set for hold
ing the election, the other member
or members of the board present
shall appoint a republican or re-
publicans to fill the vacancy, who
shall take the oath as required by
law. In case all members of the
board fail to appear within fifteen
minutes after the time advertised
for holding the election the repub-
lican voters there present shall pro-
ceed to elect two persons from
among their number to act as in
spectors and one to act as Judge,
and they shall administer to each
the oath, and Immediately proceed
to hold the primare election.
REPRESENTATION.
Each election district in the
county shall be represented by at
least two delegates; districts which
had Republican votes at the last
previous State election exceeding
forth, shall have three delegates,
and districts which had republican
votes at the last previous State
election exceeding eighty, shall
have four delegates; districts which
had republican votes at the last
previous State election exceeding
100 shall have five delegates and
one delegate for every additional
forty republican votes.
In case district under any call
by the Chairman of the county
committee fails to elect delegate
or delegates, that district shall not
be represented in the convention,
the convention shall not have the
power to fill such vacancy. But
in case a delegate duly elected is
unable to attend said convention
by reason of sickness or other un-
avoidable circumstances he may
appoint republican residing in his
election district to act as his sub
stitute.
Yours and etc.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-03-17

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ing. In: ldiilig buyers OF carriages or har.
nes5 caii save dollars by sending for the
and Harness Mfg. Co., EllShart, Ind.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-03-17
A Horrible Railr,

is q daily chronicle in
the death Of some dear fr.
died with Consumption, VII
she had taken Otto's Cure f.
Lung diseases iii time, life
been rendered happier and peril
Heed the warning Ifyou have
or any affection Of the Throat and
Call on T. j. Keeler, ,Laporte;
Hoffman, Hillsgrove; B. S Lane
Forksvilte; c. b Jennings, Agt. Es,
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Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-03-17
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Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-03-17

Educate Your Bowels With Cascarets.
Candy Cathartc, cure constipation forever
Zoe, 25c. II c. G. G fail, druggists refund money.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-08-04
HEAD LICE ON CHICKS:
They Get Along the Arteries I'm the
Throat and in the End XIII
the Little Fowls.

Very often the poultry-keeper is GER
tain there are no lice on his fowls be-
cause he cannot find any about the
perches. the little insects. red in color,
that ure found about the perches and in
cracks about the poultry house are nos
true lice. They are mites more like
little spider, but the true poultry louise
is another sort of an insect altoge Their.
The gray IT yellow poultry louise IL
many times larger than the red mite
and has different habits. The rite
leaves the fowl it has been preying on as
soon as daylight comes, while the big
louise takes up his home among the
feathers and stays there day and night.
The mite deposits its eggs in cracks and
crevices while the louise attaches its
eggs 10 the plumage of the fowls, usual
" under the wing, about the head and
between the legs.
These lice may be plentiful before
their presence is discovered. They are
oftenest found doing damage TO young
chicks and turkeys. If chick or poult
begins to droop it is a pretty good sign
that the big lice have got on it and are
sucking its ife-blood away pretty rap
idly. They get on the head and along
the arteries in the throat and increase
in numbers until they kill the little fowl
in the end. They deprive the bird Of
blood and this weakens its vitality un-
til digestive troubles begin and finally
il dies, its death being very often at
tributed to cholera" or some unknown
disease, while lice were the destroyers.
Grease of any kind is sure death to
these lice, the least particle of it kill
ing them on contact. Greasing chick
ems makes them look bad and often
where it is overdone leads 10 plastering
the down to the body in such manner
that it does not protect them from the
cold and they die. Persian insect pow
der is snre death to the lice. 1t is cheap
and easily applied with the ordinary
powder gun that can be bought at drug
stores Tor 25 cents. 1t does not hurt
the young fowls at all, and where they
are running with hen it may be ap-
piled by thoroughly busting her feath-
ers with the insect powder after she
has settled for the night. From her
the powder gets on the chicks and
the lice are killed. The powder should
be applied repeatedly at intervals of
that hatch from the eggs deposited be-
fore the first treatment is given. The
powder soon loses its effect when eX-
posed to the open air, and care should
be taken to get it fresh when buying
and keep it in some tight vessel until
used. A baking powder can or wide.
mouthed bottle makes a good receP
tacle for it.-Farmers' Voice.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-08-04
Ready for Winter.
ITO BE CONTINUED

Teachers in the public schools of
large city hear many stories, some of
them amusing, some of them pathetic.
A young woman who teaches in a kin
dergarten in Boston, upon learning
that one of her little pupils was sick,
went to. visit her. The teacher had
been to Katie's home before, and so had
no difficulty in finding the two little
rooms at the top of a tenement house
where Katie and her mother lived. The
mother was absent, and Katie, we'll
wrapped up, was sitting up in bed.
After the usual inquiries and condo
lences, the teacher noticed that the lit
tie girl seemed to speak with some diff
fculty, and said:
lungs"
"Yes'm." responded the child. duti
fully, and Miss c. began to loosen
the child's waist. After removing it
she found layer after layer of flannel.
which she unfastened with some diff
Guilty. Satisfying herself that there
was no danger of pneumonia, she began
to replace the child's dress. when Katie
began to cry.
MY mother'n be awful mad at you
when she gets home and finds what
you've DONE"
why, Katie, what have done?"
you've unfastened all my fannels.
and ma had just got me sewed up for
the winter!"-Youth's Companion.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-08-04
An Anecdote by Mark Twain.

Years ago, as I have been told, n wild
owed descendant of the Audubon fam
lily, in desperate need, sold a perfect
copy of Audubon's Birds to com
mercially minded scholar in America
for 500. The book was worth $1,000 in
the market. The scholar complimented
himself upon his shrewd stroke of bust
ness. That was not Hammond Trum-
bulls style. After the war lady in the
far south wrote him that among the
wreckage of her better days she had
book which some had told her was
worth 500, and had advised her to offer
it to him; she added that she was very
poor, and that if he would buy it at that
price, it would be a great favor to her.
It was Eliot's Indian Bible. Trumbull
answered that if it was perfect copy it
had an established market value, like a
gold coin, and was worth $1,000; that
if she would send it to him he would ex-
anime it, and if it proved to be perfect
he would sell it to the British museum
and forward the money to her. 1t did
prove to be perfect, and she got her
$1,000 without delay, and intact-Cen.
fury.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-08-04
EvENER FOR SIX HORSES.

tach the evener of the rear team to
one end, the upper end for conven-
fence, and that of the forward team
to the lower end. This will work per-
fectly with team of four horses.
If but three are used the central
hole should be One-third of the dis
lance between the end holes and the
single horse attached to the long end.
For six horses use the evener as de-
signed for four horses for the two
leading teams, then use the three
horse evener inverted for the wheel
horses. By drilling the central hole
two-1fths of the distance between the
end holes, this evener will be adapted
to five horses worked in the awkward
fashion of three abreast and two ON
the lead, or, as they are less often
used, two on the pole and three on the
lead.-American Agriculturist.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-08-04

did you hit your man?" asked the
captain.
mo, sir" replied Joyce. 81 believe
not, sir"
Next best thing to tell the truth"
muttered Capt. Smollett. Load his
gun, Hawkins. How many should you
say there were On your side, doctor?"
II know precisely" said DR.. Livesey.
Three shots were fired on this side.
/ saw the three fashes-two close to-
gether-one further to the west"
''Three!" repeated the captain. And
how many on yours, Mr.. Trelawney?"
But this was not so easily answered.
There had come many from the north
seven, by the squire's compute ton;
eight or nine, according to Gray. From
the east and west only a single shot
had been fired. 1t was plain, therefore,
that the attack would be developed
from the north, and that on the other
three sides we were only to be an
noyed by a show of hostilities. But
Capt. Smollett made no change in his
arrangements. If the mutineers sue
ceeded in crossing the stockade, he ar
gued, they would take possession of
any unprotected loop hole and shoot us
down like rats in our stronghold.
Nor had we much time left to us for
thought. Suddenly, with loud huzza,
little cloud of pirates leaped from the
woods on the north side and ran
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-08-04

I stand here and tell you SO, and they're
the last good words you'll get from me;
for, in the name of Heaven, I'll put
bullet in your back when next I meet
you. Tramp. my lad. Bundle out of
this, please. hand over hand, and
double quick"
Silver's face was picture; his eyes
started in his head with wrath. He
shook the fire out of his pipe.
''Give me hand up!" he cried.
"Not t. returned the captain.
who'll give me a hand up?. he
roared.
Not man among US moved. Growl-
ing the foulest imprecations, he crawled
along the sand till he got hold of the
porch and could hoist himself again
upon, his crutch. Then ne spat into
the spring.
''There!" he cried. that's what I
think of ye. Before an hours out. I'll
stove in your old block-house like rum
puncheon. Laugh. by thunder, laugh!
Before an hours out. yell laugh upon
the other side. Them that dell be the
lucky ones"
And with a dreadful oath he
stumbled off, plowed down the sand.
was helped across the stockade, after
four or five failures. by the man with
the flag of truce. and disappeared in
an instant afterward among the trees.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-08-04
THE coTTIER cHiLD.s LULLABY.

Bright on the hearth are the fiame-billows
leaping,
Lurid and live do the live enabers glow.
While the old iron tea kettle. singing and
hopping,
Is weaving a lullaby. soothing and low.
''Whfz-z-zee whizz. oh! hush-a-by. baby,
Whir-r-zee whirr. oh. close your blue
eye,'
The old iron teakettle, singing and hop
ping,
Weaving the baby lullaby.
Close by the cradle the mother is sitting.
Sitting and knitting the hours away,
With her clumsy shoe on the wooden rocker,
While her needles click to the sleepy lay
OF "Whiz-z-zee whizz," from the old iron
kettle.
whir-r-zee whirr. sweet dreams will
bring,
Beautiful dreams of the fairy Children
Mother will rock and the kettle will sing.
Sleep, oh! sleep. Hear the wind from the
Northland
Hungrily sweeping the moor. OH sleep.
Heaped lies the snow by the doorway and
hedges
But red CLOVIS the fire. Oh little one sleep.
The red fire will warm thee. and bark to the
kettle,
The old iron kettle that whistles and
swings:
''Whiz-z-zee whizz," OH hush little baby,
Mother will rock while the tea kettle
sings.
-Maude Morrison Huey, in Chicago In
terror.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-08-04
HINTS FOR BEEKEEPERS.

The poorest food gathered by bees
IS the juice of fruits-honey dew.
Thick, well-ripened honey will not
granulate SO readily as that which
is thin.
Dry and warm is the rule for honey
If you want it to retain its flavor and
richness Never put it in a cellar.
Uniting colonies will usually be more
successful if you kill the condemned
queens two or three days before unit
ing.
Narrow bottom causes the bees to
build their combs clear down to the
bottom and attach their combs to
them.
Have your new hives ready and the
new colonies swarming over full when
the honey flow comes. This is where
luck comes in
When returning frames to the hive
adjust them slowly and carefully. Then
no bees will be pinched or crowded be-
tween the frames.
One of the best places to locate the
hives is in the orchard. There usually
they will be free from annoyances that
are likely to arise when the hives are
placed elsewhere.
One person with a very little help
can easily attend to 100 colonies of
bees if comb honey is the product.
More help viii be needed if extracted
honey is the objeet.zSt. Louis Re-
public.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-08-04
RYE FOR PASTURE.
In Many Respects Its Value Is Greater
Than That of Amy Other
Northwestern Crop.

Rye is one of the most valuable
plants that we are likely to have in
this northwestern country, and espe-
cially in sandy soils. But it has not
as yet been generally grown for such
use, and it does not matter very much
whether it is wanted for sheep, cattle,
swine or horses, it is highly useful in
any case. There are but few sections
in all the northwest, says Prof. Shaw
in Farm, Stock and Home, where it
will not stand the rigors of the win
ter, and there is no kind of soil on
which it will fail to make more or
less growth, unless it is soil soaked
with water in the winter, or unduly
impregnated with alkali. And after
the rye has served its purpose in pro-
viding pasture there are but few To-
calities in which it cannot be followed
by another crop the same season.
When winter rye is sown for pasture,
it should always be as early as Sep
TENDER, and if it is to be pastured in
the autumn, it should be so,vn as early
as the 1st of August. But, il is evil
dent in dry seasons it may not germi-
nate thus early. The difficulty may be
obviated sometimes by narrowing and
rolling the land alternately after it
has been plowed. Moisture will in this
way be brought to the surface. And
when the crop is pastured in the fall
it should not be eaten too bare to-
ward the approach of winter. When
thus eaten, and hard winter follows,
the produce of the rye Will be much
less the following season. And when
rye is sown so late that it enters the
winter in weak condition. the results
the following spring will also be disap-
pointing. The growth viii be much
more feeble than that of rye which
has gone into the winter in a strong
and vigorous condition. Because of
this late sowing many who have sown
rye have been led to under-yalue it as
a pasture. It may be sown in with
corn at the last cultivation, out the
plan that would make it follow small
grain is n grand one, for then the
Glowing of the land buries an army of
weeds and thus greatly helps to clean
the land.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-08-04
To Prevent Smut in wheat.

Smut in wheat may be prevented by
putting bag of wheat in barrel of
cool water and leave it until all the
seeds are moist, usually two or three
minutes. Drain off surplus cold water,
then immerse for minute or two in
a second barrel containing warm wa
ter. The object of this is to warm the
wheat so that it will not cool the water
in a third barrel. When warm, plunge
quickly in the third barrel and leave il
Is minutes. Keep the temperature (by
steady thermometer test between $50
and 134 degrees, preferably at Isl. Pc
move wheat after Is minutes and
spread on floor, that has never had
smutted wheat, &c dry.-Pref. & Gar
mar, KY. Exp Sta
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-08-04
CONVENIENT EvENER.
Draft When q Number OF Horses
Are Driven Tandem.

a very convenient evener designed
to equaiize the draught when the
horses are driven tandem may be
made as follows: Take fat piece of
iron 11s inches wide by three-eighths
of an inch in thickness and IL or Is
inches long. Drill half-inch hole at
each end and another midway be-
tween. Fasten this iron to the load
by means of a bolt or clevis through
the center hole in such a manner that
the iron shall be upright and be free
to move forward and backward. At
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-08-04
How tn Stake Lime.

To Stake lime properly three pints of
water to one pound of lime are re-
quired. Lukewarm water is the best,
which is not always to be had when
shaking large quantities of lime. IL
slaked in a box or vat put the neces-
sary quantity of water in first. then
put in the required amount of lime
During the progress of shaking it is
well to cover the box or vat and the
same should be stirred occasionally
for the purpose of placing the lime SO
that all viii receive its share of water.
Do not put the lime in the vessel first
and put the water on by turning it
from hydrant or pouring it in with
buckets. If you do the whitewash VIII
be granular and lumpy.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-08-04
SHADE FOR THE POULTRY.

ton from the snow and cold. Get the
houses ready this summer for next
winter. If the house is already built
and has sufficient windows already, cut
large, square opening in the south side
of the house and use the piece of wall
removed as a solid window to be opened
on sunny days, as in the case of the one
shown. 1t is thus possible to secure the
great advantages of an open scratch
ing shed in old houses. Where fowls
cannot get to the ground for months
during the winter, as is the case in
many of our states, such plan as this
is a necessity, if one is to secure winter
eggs and fertile eggs for spring. hatch
ing.-N. Y. Tribune.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-08-04

ade. And yet. in this breath of time,
the fight was over, and the victory
ours.
Gray. following close behind me, had
cut down the big boatswain ere he had
time to recover from his lost blow
Another had been shot at a loophole in
the very act of firing into the house.
and now lay in agony. the pistol still
smoking in his hand. A third, as / had
seen, the doctor bad disposed of at
blow. OF the four who had scaled the
palisade. one only remained unac-
counted for. and he, having left his cut
lass on the field, was now clambering
out again with the fear of death upon
him.
''Fire-fre from the housed" cried the
doctor. "And you. lads. back into
cover"
But his words were unheeded. no
shot was fired, and the last boarder
made good his escape. and disappeared
with the rest into the wood. In three
seconds nothing remained of the at
lacking party but the five who had
fallen. four on the inside, and one on the
outside. of the palisade.
The doctor and Gray and I ran full
speed for shelter. The survivors would
soon be back where they had left their
muskets. and at any moment the fire
might recommence.
The house was by this time somewhat
cleared of smoke, and we saw at
glance the price we had paid for victory
Hunter lay beside his loop-hole, stunned;
Joyce by his. shot through the head
never to move again; while right in the
center, the squire was supporting the
captain. one as pale as the other.
''The captains wounded" said Mr..
Trelawney.
s'Have they run?' asked Mr.. Smollett-
CAL that could, you may be bound"
returned the doctor; "but there's five
of them will never run again"
'Five!" cried the captain. "Come.
that's better. Five against three leaves
Us four to nine. That's better odds
than we had at starting. We were
seven to nineteen then, or thought we
were, and that's as bad to bears
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-08-04

treasure by, and drop shooting poor
seamen and slowing in their heads while
asleep. You do that, and we'll offer
you q choice. Either you come along
aboard of us, once the treasure shipped,
and then I'll give you my affydavy,
upon my word of honor, to clap you
somewhere's safe ashore. Or, if that
amt your fancy, some of my hands, be-
ing rough, and having old scores on ac-
count of hazing, then you can stay here,
you can. Well divide stores with you,
man for man, and I'll give you my affy-
davy, as before, to speak the first ship
I sight, and send 'em here to pick you
up. Now, you'll own that's talking.
Handsomer, you couldn't look to get,
not you. And I hope" raising his
voice "that all hands in this here
blockhouse will overhaul my words, for
what is spoke to one is spoke to all"
Capt. Smollett rose from his seat, and
knocked out the ashes from his pipe in
the palm of his left hand.
as that all?'' he asked.
Every last word, by thunder!" an
swered John. Refuse that. and you've
seen the last of me but musket-balls."
Very WELL" said the captain. .'Now
you'll hear me. If you'll come up one
by one. unarmed, I'll engage to clap you
all in irons. and take you home to
fair trial in England. IF you won't,
my name is Alexander Smollett. I've
flown my sovereign's co!ors, and I'll
see you all to Dayy Jones. You can't
find the treasure. You can't sail the
ship-there's not a man among you fit
to sail the ship. You can't fight US
Gray. there. got away from five of you
Your ships in irons. Master Silver-
you're on iee-shore, and so you'll find.