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The record-union., 1898-11-11
Electricity in Hives.

What has been called the pleasant
occupation of having bees" has been
made even more pleasant by an electric
invention which obviates the necessity
of keeping a watch on the hives at
swarming time.
The basis of the apparatus Is the
conversion Of the wing motion OF the
swarm into power. AS the bees swarm
out they cause two small, easy swing
ing doors to open outward. A little
hammer, which rests upon these doors
when closed and is connected with
battery, drops, as the doors swing
open, upon small metal leaf, and
the electrical connection thus effected
rings a. bell in the bee growers house.
Try McMorrv,s BLEND Coffee, Soc.
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THE PHILIPPINE PROBLEM.
Prof. Worcester Argues That We
Cannot Withdraw From Them.

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Professor Dean c. Worcester of the
University of Michigan has an article
in the October Century" on "Knotty
Problems Of the Philippines" Profess
sor Worcester says:
Can we withdraw and restore the ISL
ands to Spain? To do so would be to
stultify ourselves in the eyes of the
world. We have gone to war in order
to put stop to Spain's brutality in
Cuba, and we have taken the position
that this end can only be accomplished
by her expulsion from the island. We
have turned deaf ear to her promises
Of better things in future, and have
said to her that she must go.
But the Cubans have not been the
only Spanish subjects to suffer oppres-
sion. By strange chance we have 1t
in our power to strike the shackles from
other millions of unfortunates. What,
then, are we to do? Has not every
crime against civilization in Cuba been
duplicated in the Philippines hundred
times? If the taxes levied upon the
Philippine natives in the past had been
heavier than they could shear. how
would it be now, with the mother coun-
try burdened with debt as never be-
fore? Granting for the moment that
Spain would be able to reconquer the
islands, what would be the fate of the
thousands of natives who have revolt
ed against her? Have we any reason
to doubt that other scores would be
forgotten" in the Black Hole until
they suffocated? that other hundreds
would be lined up on the seawall in
front of the Luneta and shot down like
dogs, while the bands were playing and
fair women applauding?
Is 1t an answer to say that Cuba is
near and the Philippines are distant?
How many degrees Of latitude and lon
gitude measure the difference between
right and wrong? True, we might have
thought 1t hopeless to attempt the i'm
provement of conditions in the Philip
pines, had not fate placed the power
in our hands. Granted, If you will. that
We cannot right the wrongs of all op-
pressed nations, yet can We refuse to
accept the responsibility which the
logic Of events has thrust upon US?
Can We say to Spain: I'VE will have
no more of your misrule in Cuba, but
the Philippines are long way off; take
them back again. and be sure to treat
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on Parisian models, the new and splen-
did railway stations, bridges, electric
cars, handsome shops, and big factor
les, the pushing of commerce, the large
financial operations-au these mamres-
tations Of the new life of the country
seem to have crowded out the old, sim
pie, almost bare life of the red-uied
gabled town or country village in which
God was reverenced and the moral law
obeyed. Germany is apparently, amid
all her outer successes, swamped WITH
the spirit of materialism--New YORK
Times
The record-union., 1898-11-11

has been used for over fifty years by mill
ions of mothers for their children while
teething with perfect success. 1t soothes
cures wind collie, regulates the bowels, and
is the best remedy for diarrhea, whether
arising from teething or other causes. For
sale by druggists In every part Of the
world. Be sure and ask for Mrs. Wins
lows Soothing Syrup. Twenty-five cents
q bottle. NWF
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SPECIAL NOTICES.

BAKER & HAMILTON. wholesale hard.
ware, bicycles carts, buggies, carriages,
phaetons, Balm farm and header wagons.
Send for catalogue
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DATE TAKEN.

GRAND CONCERT AND ENTER
tainment at Old Pavilion, Sixth and M
December /. 1893. ~
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FIRST ANNUAL BALL

OF THE CAPITAL CITY WHEELMEN
will be given Thanksgiving evening, NO
vember Path, at Turner Hall. ADMISSION
gentleman and lady, SOC. II
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Cardinal Manning said:

The Judgment of the whole world is safe" secarus
iudicat orbns terraran
The long continued and worldwide use Of
APOLLINARIS attests its merit.
~. Y. Medical Journal
APOLLINARIS is the Table Water of
Royalty, Princes and Sovereign People.
w Y 71z6uas.
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NEW TO-DAY.

Try McMorry's Blend Coffee. 35c.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-07-21
DISPOsING OF HONEY.
How One Beekeeper Managed to Do
1t with Decidedly Gratifying
Financial Results.

How to dispose of the honey crop
profitably is becoming serious prob
lem with most bee-keepers. Not many
years ago it was easy to raise comb
honey, says II. d. BurreI in Bee Gull
ture. Ship it to some commission
house in a nearby city and realize 10
to 20 cents a pound for it. Now in
many places most of the honey-produc
ing timber is gone, and waste lands re-
claimed and cultivated. These causes.
with frequent poor seasons, render the
honey crop uncertain; and, worst of all,
comb honey in the cities is quoted to
IL cents.
Formerly raised comb honey almost
exclusively and shipped nearly all of il
to commission houses. But some years
ago I Unexpectedly had about ton of
autumn-eXtracted honey to dispose OF.
Shipped to a commission house it would
probably have netted four TO five cents
a pound some time. 1 had never tried
peddling honey, and 1 was very much
prejudiced against peddlers and ped
ding; but I wanted more for that
honey. I loaded some of it into the
wagon, put up in convenient packages
for retailing and started, though with
much trepidation. I knew a few re-
bluffs would send that honey to the
city for what it would bring. But
sold honey at nearly every house, over
300 pounds the first day, and decided
that peddling (honey at least) was not
such bad business after all. Many
neighbors and acquaintances who had
passed by frequently for years and
seen the sign: Honey for Sale" but
never bought a pound of my honey,
bought freely when it was carried TO
them. And they didn't buy afterward.
either, unless L carried it to them and
asked them to buy.
The ton of honey was soon sold a
eight TO eleven cents per pound, accord
ing to quantity wanted, and several
thousand pounds more were bought
and sold at a fair profit. Since that
time 1 have raised mostly extracted
honey, always retail it myself, and am
getting the same prices now in these
times of very low prices that I did ten
years ago. Honey, if good article
will sell itself almost anywhere, il
given a fair chance. have never found
place, in country or town, where il
would not sell fairly we'll any time OF
year, though in the fall is best in my
experience, after the bulk of fruit is
gone and the many needs of the winter
season have not yet taxed the pocket
book.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-07-21

the notes are sounded. 1t took him two
years to teach the dog the simplest tune
so that he could trust his pupil before
an audience. But the reward was great
Blacks first appearance was made in
Paris and the hit was instantaneous.
Prof. Fills taught Black to play the
few airs in his repertoire by the most
persistent practice. No aspiring
musician ever spent longer hours or
more labor over piano than did Black.
He had one advantage in that he never
had to do scales or practice lingering
OF pedaling. The professor guided a
paw to one key enough times to teach
the dog its location, then upon another
and another, going back to the begin
ming and repeating an infinite number
of times until the whole mechanical
process of that particular tune was i'm
pressed on the dogs brain. But even
after all this practice Black cannot be
trusted to play ar air before an audi
ence without rehearsal beforehand.
If Prof. Fills should rehearse him on
THE Last Rose of Summer" only and
the audience should demand an encore
master and pupil would be in guam
dairy, for, large as Blacks repertoire is,
he couldn't strike note correctly in
any air except the one he had rehearsed
and just played.
The piano Black plays on isn't really
a piano. It is a system of electric
chime bells, containing enough notes
to play any ordinary tune. When
Black presses key with his paw he
really presses button, causing a bell
to ring. But the tune can readily be
recognized, and with the accompani-
ment of the orchestra flows prettily.-
ST. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-07-21
RAPID FIRE GUNS.
What Distinguishes Them from the
SlOyv-Fire Cannon I'm Use Ten
and More Years Ago.

Rapid-fre guns are just now much
talked about, but most people have only
a vague idea of what they are. Proba
bly, the general idea is based on the CAT
ling gun. People who take the Calling
gun as a type of rapid fire" suppose
that all guns called by that name are
merely machines for showering rife
balls. But this is a complete mistake.
There are rapid-fire guns with diam
eter of six inches that throw shells
weighing 100 pounds. Mere size has
nothing to do with the classified ton
into rapid fire and slow-firing guns.
The essential difference is the method
of loading. Instead Of opening the
breech and inserting the proiectile and
the powder separately, the latter in
bunting bag, ammunition for rapid
fire guns is now prepared as for small
arms. the ball, powder and firing
primer are united, the powder in a
metallic case attached to the shot, and
the primer in the center of the base of
this case. There are a number of types
of rapid-fire guns, differing in the way
this fixed ammunition is fed to the gun
and fired. The six-pounder (2.24-inch
caliber) rapid-ire guns of the Hotch-
kiss, riggs-Schroeder, Maxim, Norden.
feldt and Sponsel types can discharge
100 shots in four minutes and twenty
six seconds, four minutes thirty-five
and one-half seconds, four minutes for
ty-one seconds and four minutes fifty
six and one-half seconds, respectively,
or 20 to 25 shots per minute, with ac-
curacy of aim. Without attempt at &C.
curacy of aim the rate can be increased
to 80 TO So shots per minute. With five
inch rapid-fre guns, or 50-pounders, sc
shots have been fired in five minutes
Engineering News.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-07-21
LIVE STOCK POINTERS.

Grow Pumpkins for the hogs and
cattle.
Smartweed rubbed on an animal Will
keep off flies.
Never keep more hogs than you can
take good care Of.
Don't feed the horse too much corn in
hot weather; don't.
The well-bred hog will pay. The in
ferior hog will not.
Filthy surroundings for the pig and
mango often go together.
The best hog has a good chest, foI
there are the vital organs.
Remember that fat animal should
not have violent exercise.
If sheep are kept in a pasture with
cattle dogs will not attack them
The bay horse with black points is
now the favorite carriage horse.
The colt should have clean stables
Unclean stables produce joint disease.
The Trars-Mississippi exposition at
Omaha viii give S35, 900 as premiums for
live stock.
shade for the horses head in hot
weather will save the life of the horse
very often
Let the colt have cnance 10 learn 10
eat oats by keeping them where 1t can
get at them.
A horse that is fed three times day
should be given no more hay than it
can eat in an hour.
just as soon as the hog viii eat give
it Just such food as you give the SOW,
with plenty of milk
a pig that has been shipped a long
distance cannot be expected to show up
we'll on its arrival.-Western Plowman.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-07-21
Antiquity OF the Mirror.

An ingenious archaeologist says that
The oldest evidence of civilization is the
mirror. The Japanese and Coreans dis
covered the art of making one from iron
at least $500 years ago. This long pc
Rod is dwarfed by the Chinese record,
which shows that mirrors, large aud
small, made of brass. copper and silver,
have been in use in that land over 1000
years. De Morgan found a mirror that
seemed to date from the second dy-
nasty in Egypt about 5000 years ago.
and the latest Investigations in the civ
ilizations of Akkad and Nippur show
that the bellies Of those half-forgotten
countries used to admire themselves in
glasses of some sort or in FURNISHED
metal at least so centuries before the
Christian era.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-07-21
SHEEP ON THE FARM.
why They Are More Valuable Than
Any Other Kind OF Stock. Even
Including Poultry.

The dog is the only enemy to the
sheep industry. 1t can successfully
battle against any sort of tariff laws
and in competition with other kinds of
stock, but the dog is invincible. IF we
will take the trouble to compare the
cost os making mutton with the cost OF
making other kinds Of meat. the sheep
viii have the advantage In a paper
read at one of our Michigan farm iusti-
tutes there was a carefully-prepared
comparison of the sheep with cows,
steers, horses and hogs, and the sheep
got the best of il every time. 1t has
often been said, and may be said again.
perhaps with profit, that sheep on the
farm are valuable because they are
good weed destroyers, good fertilizers,
produce meat at a little less cost than
any other animal can produce meat,
produce a fleece which no other animal
does and is about as handy to kill for
fresh meat as fowl is. No dry farm
should be without at least n small flock
of sheep. When I started in the bust
ness l did it with ten head, and have
never had more than 10 in the perma-
nent flock. It is not much of a flock,
but / call attention TO its uses. 1t pays
for its keep and considerable besides.
1t is better for my land than purchased
fertilizers and much cheaper than they
are. 1t has cleaned my farm in seven
years of many kinds of weeds, and it is
so easy to kill a sheep for meat for
the table, and mutton is so healthy and
so relishable that I would good deal
sooner let my chickens than my sheep
go. I have never had any trouble from
dogs. I keep a bell on one of them.
Perhaps it does good and perhaps not.
l don't know. But have never suffered
loss, though some of my neighbors
within a few miles of me have. There
is plenty of room for more sheep. and
we farmers ought to breed sheep
Howard Stilson, in Western Plowman
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-07-21
Boys Wonderful Nerve.

Life on the frontiers of civilization
is sure to develop that attribute which
we call pluck" All Australian boys
are taught the necessity of guarding
against snake bites and the method Of
treating them. Two boys had gone
into the bush to play, and one of them
pushed his hand into hole after rab-
bit. He jerked it back. with snake
attached to one of his fingers. ''Quick,
Charley!" he cried, laying his hand OH
a stump. Charley brought down his
ak and amputated the boys finger
Then the little fellow ran a mile to a
drug store, where the druggist dressed
the hand. Think of that for nerve!
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-07-21
Demana Tor Eat Lambs.

Prof. Henry says, in Feeds and
Feeding" the demand for well-fattened
lambs steadily increases, the tender,
juicy meat finding favor among Amer
leans. Not only do prices for fat lambs
rule high as compared with mature
sheep and farm animals generally, but
there are other advantages in favor OF
feeding of lambs before they reach ma
turity. a given weight of feed goes
further with the lambs than mature
sheep; the money invested is sooner
returned, and there is less risk from
death and accident. Thus, everything
tends towards hurrying lambs to mar
ket as rapidly as they can be fattened
and as early as they can be disposed OF
to secure the highest price.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-07-21

form. It thus is compelled to burn
conical flame, wide a the bottom and
tapering to a point. All flames are most
sensitive near the bases, and in this
case the most sensitive portion of the
flame is spread out, offering a very large
area to be acted upon by any sound
waves which may come in contact with
it. You may sing or play to this gas
flame and it will dance in perfect time.
You could even signal to person at a
distance by giving prolonged and short
whistles, corresponding to the dashes
and dots of the Morse telegraphic
code.
By taking advantage of the fact that
a flame is extremely sensitive at its
base, simple apparatus may be con-
structed with which a gas jet may be
made to speak. That is, it may be made
to transmit speech just like any tele-
phone. The same kind of pinhole burn
Ell must be used as is described above.
Surrounding this burner is 4 tin tube
with small hole in one end. The burn
er projects from this hole just trit1e.
The voice is sent through an ordinary
speaking tube to the tin tube which
surrounds the burner. 1t escapes
through the same hole through which
the burner projects, and is, therefore,
forced against the very base of the
flame. The sensitive flame viii take up
every sound and magnify it and cause it
to be heard all over a room.-Chicago
Inter Ocean.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-07-21

be inferred that he would have bought
a small electric motor if he had only en-
joyed the means for driving it.
His homemade wheel was about
seven inches in diameter, not counting
the buckets, which were an :nch and a
half long. radially. The body Of the
wheel was four inches thick, and the
buckets were of that height, therefore.
The wheel was of sheet iron, soldered
at the joints. To drive it he had fall
equal to 40 feet, but admitted only
small jet. For this purpose he inserted
a nozzel taken from large oil can. To
get the best effect, he incased his wheel,
and then set the nozzle in the casing at
the proper angle. On the further side
of the casing, of course, he had an out
let pipe, which discharged into basin,
and this into a drain. AS he got not
more than twelfth of a horsepower,
it hardly seems as if the work was worth
doing. Still he considers himself re-
paid by the utility Of his motor. The
case is worth putting on record, not for
precise imitation, perhaps, but as an ex-
ample of what may be done with poor
facilities
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-07-21
rh. value of the Rec.

The value of the bee in the work of
fertiiizing plants by carrying pollen
from one plant to another is greater.
than its use in producing honey, Says
the Southwest. In fact, without the aid
of bees many crops would be complete
failures. Darwin found that in 100
heads of purple clover protected from
the visitatioDs of bees not a.seed was
produced, while 100 heads visited by bees
produced nearly 5000 seeds When two
varieties of certain plants are grown in
the same neighborhood there is liabil-
ity of cross-fertilization, as bees forage
over wide territory. 1t will. therefore.
pay the farmer or fruitgrower to keep
at least one hive of bees or encourage
his neighbor to do so.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-07-21
Bear Chewed spruce Gu,,.

There is man in Maine who has dis
covered that bears eat spruce gum, and
he thinks he knows why they do it.
One day this man was hunting for
spruce gum in the mountains, and he
had filled one basket and was working
on another, when he heard a growl be-
hind him. He looked, and saw black
bear eating the spruce gum in the first
basket. He hurled a stone at the. ami
NAL and it ran away, but not before it
had eaten all the gum. This was in the
foil, and the man says bears always eat
gum, ''to keep their stomachs from
growing together while they take their
three months nap"
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-07-21

tryhouse. Meal and bran can be put
in and mixed in the tub with the water
from the house. Scald the tub frequent
" in hot weather. Where one has no boil
er for cooking the morning mash for
fowls the work can be done very well
in such a tub as this. Put in the meal,
bran, meat and table scraps, and pour
in boiling water, making a thin mix
ture. Cover tightly with an old wooden
blanket and leave over night or several
hours, at least. Meal thus cooks very
and swells up to dry
crumbly mass.-N. Y. Tribune.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-07-21
SIMPLE WATER WHEEL.
chanic Can Do with Poor and
Limited Facilities.

Many machines, like lathes, churns
and sewing machines, are operated by
hand or foot power; but if man has a
small stream of water at his disposal,
and possesses certain amount of in
genuity, he can make wheel that will
utilize the power of his stream, and
keep it at work, if he so desi:cs, in his
absence. y correspondent of the Iron
Age tells the editor of that publication
of a motor which he constructed recent
~. He says that he lived in a city
where he could get water, but not cleo
tric:ty. From the latter remark it is to
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-07-21

karrying it in circle. One of the
boys then grasped the rope as high up
as possible and ran in circle around
the pole as far from it as the rope would
allow until the centrifugal force raised
him from the ground. This start and
the unwinding of the rope caused him
to make four or five revolutions at
distance of Is or 90 feet from the pole
before his feet touched the ground.
This performance was then repeated by
all the other boys and was declared
the most pleasing feature of the day.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-07-21
THE BOY INTHE HARVEST FIELD.

Out in the fields in the midsummer heat
The reapers were busy binding the wheat.
And the farmer looked with anxious eye
At the ''thundercaps'' in the western sky.
''All hands must work with a Will, said ne;
There's a storm a-brewing up there, I
See."
Then the bright-faced boy at his fathers
side
To help bind the sheaves most patiently
tried;
But he could not manage the work at all,
For those willing hands were too weak and
small;
'T can't do this" said the brave little man,
$50 I'll give 1t up and do what can"
The men were thirsty and far from the
spring;
cit will give them lift thought he, ito
bring
A pail of that clear, cold water. that flows
Down the mountain-side where the sweet
fern grows"
And soon he was dipping his little cup
In the messy place where it dubbed up.
And the joy of doing something he could
Shone in his face as he came through the
wood.
God bless the boy,'' every man cried out,
AS he passed the pure cold water about;
Twas sustaining power-they bound the
grain
Just in time to save it from drenching
rain.
Then the father said that night, with a
SMILE
While the mother listened with pride the
while:
my boy, you helped harvest the field of
wheat,
Bringing water when we were parched
with heat.
Remember through life, my dear little man.
God only bids us to do what we can
Susan TeaH Perry, in N. Y. Evangelist.