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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-02-10
vANDAL HANDS ARE STAYED.
Grounds of the BOrghese villa Pur-
chased by the Government.

Grounds of the BOrghese villa Puz-
chased by the Government.
An "open space" that has a European
reputation has long been threatened
and has now at last been rescued from
the speculative builder. In no capital
has he been more active lately, or more
ferocious, than in Rome. He found
the old city marble and he is rapidly
leaving it plaster. Everyone who knows
Rome will remember the beautiful
grounds of the Villa Borghese, just out
side the city walls, high upon the Pin
clan hill. Thence you look down on the
city stretching southwark beyond you,
and can see the sun setting behind St.
Peters.
In the healthiest quarter of Rome, this
site was the very opportunity of the
speculative builder, if chance were to
cast it into the market. And of this
there has lately been an alarming prob
ability. The Borghese family were no
longer the inheritors of their old opu-
lence. Year by year the quantity laid
out grounds were falling into neglec
and the artificial ruins We're crumbling
in veritable decay. Once the Casino
held collection of antique sculpture so
rare that Napoleon carried them off
to Paris, and the indemnity promised to
Prince Borghese of that day-15, 900. 900
francs-was never paid. But the pedes-
tails were not left unoccupied, and to this
day the Casino is one of the sights of
Rome.
The grounds themselves are in a way
its Hyde Park. 1t is here that, in the
season, in the winter months, and in
the early spring the fashion of the mod
ern city is seen, and scarcely a day
passes but the scarlet liveries show that
the king or queen is driving in the
grounds. This "open space" was too
intimately associated with many sides
of the life OF modern Rome to allow
of its being sacrificed to the builder.
The municipality has bought it from
the family to whom viii be paid for
the concession an annuity of 6 5000
year.-London News.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-02-10
WHAT HIS PUBLISHER WANTED.
Only One Little Thing and He Would
De Perfectly Happy.

De Perfectly Happy.
There is a Chicago writer who claims
to have had all along the hardest luck
of any follower of the muses. now liv-
ing. He began trying for literary hon
ors at the age of IA. Soon after that
time he determined to make writing his
profession. With this end in view he
took great pains to get himself a lit
erary education. He neglected mathe-
matics, economics, ethics and almost
every other branch for bellies lettres.
While he was in school he contributed
to the college paper with considerable
success. After being graduated he
looked about for some permanent news
paper connection. This he did not find
so readily as he had expected. The
field was overcrowded. However, as he
had inherited means he did not mind
waiting a little while. In the mean
time, though, he determined to submit
matter regularly. He did this for
long while, but the forms continually
closed without his productions. After
Il prolonged taste of this he gave up in
despair, swearing that working for
diurnal journals was thankless task
and dogs life, anyway. He then tried
to think visibly through the magazines.
But here his offers were as ill-fated as
before. AT last, in a righteous rage.
he vowed that if nobody else would
print his stuff, he would publish it him
self. He didn't want to run paper. so
his determination forced him into the
necessity of writing a book. He cast
about for something that he thought
would sell well. Ee finally chose for
his subject ga History of the Civil
War" 1t was in six volumes. It took
him two years and a half to finish it.
Then he went looking for publisher.
When he found how much it would cost
he almost concluded to allow it to re-
main in manuscript. However, he was
itching for n little reputation, so he
made bargain with Il printer whereby
the latter was to bear part of the ex-
pense.
A few days ago the first volume APP
peared. An old friend of his met him
on the street and congratulated him.
"Doh't talk good fortune to me-" he
said to the latter. 81 am in worse
trouble than ever. I have had but one
volume printed and now my publisher
wants me to suppress parts of my
work"
What parts does he want you to
suppress?" asked his friend.
Well" was the reply, ''he wants me
to suppress the other five volumes."-
Chicago s-Herald
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-02-10
OUR DIALECT.
a Hard Thing for the Average Person
to Understand.

to Understand.
The two men approached each other and
spoke as follows:
'Hellole man, wutZ news"
"Noht'n alter know of. Zher wife got
baa kyet?"
No. Spectnerback never train. Woan
chav some'm?"
"Mutcher bligeder jus tad one. How
zeverting?"
"Oh, bout Unusual. Sp: sweather w ravin'
now?'
Certain liz. But fdone train farmer
SLAYER hard timerther wheat. Say, gotcher
nor soce ainter fraidether car shet?"
''Oh, yessezer gentlezer lamb now. When
zher brother gointer selly zouse?" ''Soony
zeek'n fine mantle Pare price. Sawful hard
nowter sell anything fwuts sworth.'
THAT sright. Jerreck'n thing sloose
snupper little this fall"
"Yesser guess THIRTEEN wheat'll may KEY
erything moo fong"
We'll. Ines be going. Drop pin some
timenyer passing"
"All ri; chew dothersame."
81 will. Gladter metcher'
No, son, this is neither Scotch, Irish Gre
ole, New England, Wild West, Kipling-
American, Georgia Cracker, Dowery or Grad
-Moonshiner dialect; it is simply the
English language as she is spoken every day
in any town in the United States by the
average American citizen.-Detroit Free
Press.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-02-10
An OLD war-Horse OF Journalism Df.-
covers the Virtue OF y New
Medicinal Variety.

There are only few of them left.
Since Chas- a Dana's death, Joseph Ne
dill, the war-horse of the Chicago Tribune.
is the chief surviving representative of the
old school of virile, aggressive editorial
giants.
To have mud thrown at them was part of
the profession at all times, but to find health
in mud is rather a modern innovation That
is what Joseph Mediil has been doing OF
late.
Mr.. Medill is an investigator and when
the stories OF the miraculous MagnO-Aud at
Indiana Mineral Springs began to spread
over the country, the great editor became
interested and eventually decided to try this
mysterious substance on his own rheumatic
limbs and weigh its value. He was accom-
panied by his private physician, a young
Armenian scientist Of high attainments
The great editor was ud,mummified daily.
for several weeks and gained visibly inv
weight, strength and vitality.
The final result of the experiment was an
unqualified success MIR. Medill went
back to Chicago in September, and wrote an
editorial about Magno-Mud with his own
hand Next, he sent his son-in-law for
little of the mud-treatment. In November
he went down again, and since the new
bath house is completed he expects to be
regular visitor four times year.
This mud-treatment in which Mr.. MedilI
found so much virtue, is peculiar, yet logical
After all, every form of life springs from the
earth, which is the great destroyer and assim-
ilator of dead and effete matter. At the
Indiana Mineral Springs is beautiful little
natural amphitheatre, the slopes being
grown with magnificent oaks. AT the foot of
the converging hills, a big Lithia spring
gushes forth at the rate of 5 900 barrels day
and floods the soil, which consists of rich.
black porous loan, fed by the deciduous
foliage of the oak trees. This peculiar soil
saturated with mineral salts for ages, is as
soluble as sugar, and being devoid of CLAW is
not sticky IN the least. 1t is not, therefore.
in any sense related to the conventional mud
of the roadway, of the Chicago street or to
the variety which clings to your heels
The mud is applied to the patient on a cot.
the subject being entirely encased in the
substance, steamed to a proper Temperatures
1t then acts as a poultice stimulates the
skin, superficial blood vessels and nerves,
opens the pores and Initiates the blood, dis
solving all uric acid deposits. Nothing can
be simpler or more rational.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-02-10
COLLECTING BAD DeersiN INDIA
Creditor Sits on the Debtors step Tin
His Bill is Paid.

His Bill is Paid.
Many queer stories are told of the
persistence and clever devices of the
collectors of bad debts. but even pro-
fessional humorist would find it hard TO
invent anything more absurd than the
method actually in use among the Ma
harattas-at least, if travellers tales are
to be trusted.
In that country, so they say, when a
creditor cannot get his money and be-
gins to regard the debt as desperate,
he proceeds to sit "dhurna" upon his
debtor, that is, he squats down at the
door of his victims tent, and thereby
in some mysterious way becomes mas
ter Of the situation. No one can go in
or out except by his sanction. He
neither himself eats nor allows the
debtor to eat, and this extraordinary
starvation contest is kept up until eth
er the debt is paid or the creditor gives
up the siege, and in the latter case the
debt is held to be cancelled.
However strange it may appear to
Europeans, this method of enforcing a
demand is an established and almost
universal usage among the Maharatas,
and seems to them u mere matter of
course. Even their "scindiah,' or chief
tain, is not exempt from it.
The laws by which the ''dhurna'' is
regulated are as well defined as those
of any other custom whatever. When
it is meant to be very strict the claim
ant takes with him u number of his
followers, who surround the tent, and
sometimes even the bed of his adver-
sary, to make sure that he obtains no
morsel of food. The code, however,
prescribes the same abstinence for the
men who impose the ordeal, and, of
course, the strongest stomach wins the
day. After all, we have little right to
ridicule this absurdity, for our own
laws still provide, nominally at least,
for starving a jury into a verdict.
a similar custom was once so preva-
lent in the province and city of Benares
that Brahmins were sometimes system
atically put through course of train
ing to enable them to endure a long
time without food. They were then
sent to the door of some rich person,
where they publicly made a vow to re-
main fasting until certain sum of
money was paid, or until they persisted
from starvation. To cause the death
our an offense that the cash was gener-
ally forthcoming. but never without a
resolute struggle to determine wheth-
er the man was likely to prove stanch,
for the average oriental will almost as
soon give up his life as his money
Boston journal.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-02-10
BIRDS EAT 400 SHEEP.

The Feast Took Place 100 Miles From
Dawson and Cost SsO,OOO.
Jack Collins. who started for Dawson
City with band of sheep last summer.
has been heard from. He sold part of
his flock for 900. The other and
biggest half of the flock fed the birds
Of the arctic zone. This is how it hap
psned:
He drove the sheep in over the Dali
ton trail. Some time before Dawson
was reached cold weather came on. and
Collins decided 10 kill his sheep. He
killed aud sold coo. and received nearly
100000 for them.
Then he concluded to hold the re-
mainder for Il better market. He killed
the remaining 400 in Il sort of secluded
place off the line of travel and SUSPEND
ed the carcasses on poles far enough
above the ground to be out of the reach
CT bears, wolves or other wild animals
He left two young men to watch the
mutton, and proceeded to look for a
mining section. Having found one, he
located claim and proceeded to test
it. After he had dug out a few thou
sand dollars worth of gold he thought
he would, as the French say, return
to his muttous."
His stay had been prolonged that
the young men had become weary of
holding a wake over the sheep, and.
imagining Dawson to be only a few
miles away, had started for that city
to enjoy some of the pleasures a met
ropolitan city can afford. It proved to
be about 100 miles TO Dawson, so their
absence was more extended than they
hadeinended, and when Collins reached
the place where he had left the car
casses of 400 sheep he found only 400
bleaching skeletons.
The eagles. ravens, crows. kites.
hawks and other birds of prey which
inhabit that region had been feasting
on mutton. where the carcass is,
there will the eagles be gathered" is
a proverb which applies to other birds
of prey. Collins had left so many car
casses that invitations had been sent
out and general roundup of all the
vultures and things in that region, from
Behring sea to the Mackenzie river. had
taken place. Whether the claim Col
Inns secured will make good the loss
of the mutton or not remains to be seen.
but when he drives in his next band of
sheep the birds of prey will not get
so large percentage of them.-Port-
land Oregonian.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-02-10
IN ALL SORTS on WEATHER-

He tried the best physicians but without
being benefited and has used several specific
rheumatic cures, but was not helped.
About one year and six months ago he read
in this paper of case somewhat similar to
his which was cured by DR.. Williams Pink
Pills and concluded to try this remedy.
After taking the first box he felt some
what better, and after using three boxes, the
pains entirely disappeared, the dizziness left
him, and he has now for over a year been
entirely free from all his former trouble and
enjoys better health than he has had since
his boyhoed.
He is loud in his praise of DIR. Williams
Pink Pills for Pale People and will gladly
corroberate the above statements. His post
office address is Lorenzo Medley, Horton,
jackson County, Michigan.
All the elements necessary to give new
life and richness to the blood and restore
shattered nerves are contained, in a con
densed form, in DR.. Williams Pink Pills TO:
Pale People. All druggists sell them.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-02-10
HIS SINISTER INTENTION.
A Landlord Who Was Not BE Tridea


Oklahoma Landlord-If thar is shootin'
star or two along towards midnight don t
git scared, Mr.. Eastman You won be in
no danger yourself.
Eastern Tourist-Certainly mott I have
seen such sights before; but was not aware
that there was to be meteoric display at
this time
oval, / don't know for certain that thar
is goin' to be any, but I've got it fggered
out that them three members of busted
Uncle Toms Cabin company that have
been boardin' on me for the last two weeks
while they waited for remittances from
home are goin' to try to vamous tonight an
leave me holdin' the bag, and am yere to
say that they hain't goin' to git away with
out .settlin' in full, not if my old revolver
works with its usual neatness an dispatch,
That's the kind of a-by gosh-iandlord
AMIN Y. World
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-02-10
RAINY REMINDER.
Characteristic Bit of '.Ou1d'' Ireland
in America.

A Cleveland landlord has one of his
houses tenanted by family that is out of all
proportions to the size of the dwelling. In
fact, he strongly suspects that there are at
least two distinct families in the house, and
he is quite anxious to get rid of them. He
doesn't want to turn them out, and he has
been hoping they would take the frequent
hints he gives them and seek some other To-
cation. Lately they have complained of a
leaky roof, but the landlord has determined
to make no repairs until they leave.
A few days ago the head of the household
waited on him.
'.Well, sor," he said, chat roof has been
leakin' agin."
Has it?' asked the landlord
'sYis, sor. 1t leaks right over me sisters
bed. Draps right down on her, sor. This
marnin' she came out O the room a-cryin
sor. 1t had been raining on her all night.
Yis, sor, cryin'."
"Well, why in Tophet," inquired the
landlord, didn't she move the bed?"
g Twasn't that, sor," hastily remarked
the tenant {" 'Twasn't that"
"What allied her, them"
why, you see, sor; she were Just a-cryin'
because it reminded her so much of home -
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-02-10
THE WORM TURNS.
Suffering Humanity VIII Not Always
Tame1y Submit to Afability.

Suffering Humanity VIII Not Always
Tame1y Submit to ARabiIity.
The affable passenger had been searching
for victim for long time He had made
ordinations when reading his paper, in the
hopes that it would attract the attention
of some one and give him the opportunity
to show his power as a conversationalist, but
all his little ruses failed. The people who
sat near him seemed to be wholly conferred
on themselves, but still he was not COM
pletely discouraged. He looked about him,
and, selecting one man to whom he thought
he might be able to impart much interesting
information, he began operations BY re,
marking:
Pardon me, but you look very much like
a man 1 know"
Theman who was addressed looked over the
affable passenger gloomily, and. recognizing
the type, he replied, in tones that would
cause the thermometer to sink, even in the
Klondike:
Yes, that is possibly so; but at the same
time you must excuse me, for you look ex-
actly like man / don't want to know
Puck
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-02-10
RESCUED BABY.
Brave Deed Of n Heroine for which
She Got No Reward.

Doubtless woman in town swims bet
ter than Miss X, but since last summer
she has ceased to take pride in her accom-
plishment. She spent the season at one of the
northern lakes. One afternoon, just at the
fashionable promenade hour, she was walk
ing along the lake shore drive, when she
heard a scream from the pier near. She runs
like ATLANTA, and she dashed out to the
pier. An deliberately dressed woman was
wringing her hands and screaming:
''Oh, my babyl My baby! My baby s
drowningi''
Miss x was dressed in her newest
gown, but it wasn't a time to think of
gowns. She dived from the pier. She saw
no baby under water. She rose and few
brown, four-legged fat body, that yelped
as it padded shoreward Baby" was a
pug, and the one lone man who heard Miss
ks remarks to baby's owner a few min
utes later tells me that he thinks of them
still at night and quakes.-Washington
Post.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-02-10
HOW'a ThiSf

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward
for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured
by Halls Catarrh Cure
+. j. Cheney & CO., Props, Toledo, O.
Cheney for the last Is years, and believe him
perfectly honorable in all business transact
tons and financially able to carry out any
obligations made by their firm.
ledo, o.
Walding, Kinnan & Marvin, Wholesale
Druggists, Toledo, o.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally.
acting directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces OF the system. Price 75c. per bot
tie. Sold by all Druggists TestiTsonials
free.
Halls Family Pills are the best
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-02-10

sing the formula for such a very valuable
Temedy-"-W. H LAWRENCE. Editor. The
Ohio Farmer. Cleveland, Ohio.
Keep a bottle of DR.. Ayers Cherry Pee
toral handy. on the desk, In the ONCE. on
the shelf or in the closet at home, and yoss
will have at hand remedy that IS apable
at any time of saving you suffering, money,
and even life There Is maiady so
prolific of evil results as neglected cold
There Is medicine 50 promptly effective
IN curing cold and absolutely Graduating
its effects. as Dr. Ayers Cherry PICTORIAL
Every traveller should carry it Every
household should keep it It cures every
variety of cough. and all forms of lung
and throat trouble Asthma. bronchitis
Group. and whooping cough, are promptly
cured by it. and 1t has in many cases over
come pulmonary diseases in aggravated
forms. when all other remedies failed too
help and physicians gave no hope OF cure
Those who for convenience have wanted q
smaller sized bottle of Dr. Ayers Cherry
PectoraI. can now obtain II of their dealer
in half size bottles. at half price-So cents
Send for Dr. Ayers Curebook, and read
more of the cures Effected by this remedy
The book contains 100 pages, and Is sent
free, request, by the ]. c Aver Co.,
Lowell, Mass
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-02-10
Pres. McKiniey VS.. Free silver

A battle of giants is going to take place
this summer on 10000 farms in america not
in talk or votes, but in yields. Saizers new
potato marvels are named as above, and heo
offers price for the biggest potato yield.
also $500 in gold for suitable narle for his
corn az inches long, and oat prodigies Only
seedsmen In America growing grasses,
clovers and farm seeds and selling potatoes
at $3.50 barrel. The editor urges YOU to
try SalzeF's Northern grown seeds. and to
SEND THIS NOTICE WITH ID CTS. IL STAMPS
to John A Salzer Seed Co. La Crosse, Wis,
Tor IL new farm seed samples, worth $1,000.
to get start, and their big catalogue
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-02-10
Chronic Rheumatism.

From the Industrial News. Jackson, Mich.
The subject of this sketch is ifty-six years
When seventeen years old he hurt his
shoulder and few years after commenced
to have rheumatic pains in it. On taking a
slight cold or the least strain, sometimes
without any apparent cause whatever, the
trouble would start and he would suffer the
most excruciating pains
de suffered for over thirty years, and the
last decade has suffered so much that he
was unable to do any work. To this the fire.
quent occurrences OF dizzy spells were added
making him almost helpless invalid.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-02-10
Where the difference Lay.

One day last summer gentleman at
Plainfield, n. j., had notice served on
him by his cook.
''Why do you leave?' he asked.
IT'S too hot here for Christian in
summer"
Its no hotter for you than it is for
me-" observed the employer. yet I
have to stay
That's the difference between you
and me-" returned the cook. s'I
n't."-Harlem Life.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-02-10
EIogging In Russia by Machine.

Flogging has become so indispensable
in Russia that some inventor has per
fccted a machine which saves the hui
man arm the infamous labor of blows.
Under the fiage1lation of the machine
taxes and arrears are to become speed.
lily Chicago Tribune.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-02-10
old Wooden ChrrAe..

Some of the wooden churches Of Nor
way are fully 700 years old, and are
still in an excellent state of preserva-
ton. Their timbers have successfully
resisted the frosty and almost arctic
winters, because they have been repeat
edly coated with tar. Norway pine,
thus treated, seems to best resist decay.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-02-10
styles for the New Year.

The circular skirt still retains its
vogue, although many of the models
are greatly narrowed.
Cloth and corded silk and drape d'ete,
or doublefaced cashmere and moire,
will be very fashionably combined next
season.
The small pad hustle is now worn
with the latest day costumes and even
ing toilets, and those of larger proper
tions are announced Chicago Record
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-02-10
one for the LAWYER.

a celebrated New York lawyer asked a
distinguished actress in a breach-of-contract
suit:
What is your age:"
She held back and refused to answer
'Oh, speak up If you had answered the
question promptly You would not be as old
as you are wv. Y. World
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-02-10
up-to-Date Sociology

Son-Papa, what is meant by the classes?
Sprocketts-Why, they're professionals
and and b amateurs-the BIS really aren't
amateurs at ALL
well, and what are the mssses?''
Oh they're the folks who pay gate money
to see the races Is'pose."-N z. Journal.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-02-10
what He Obtected To

DIR. Molar (kindly)-Now, does that hurte
Horsphiz-I don't mind you working on
the tooth so much, if you would only keep
your sleeve button out of my eye.-Roxbury
Gazette