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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-11-09
TRADE OF THE ORIENT
Unusual Interest in the Discussion of
China.
FRANCE Has NOT YET ANSWERED
Awaiting Formal Assurances From
the Powers of Their Intention.
PORTS TO BE KEPT OPEN

The fact that the diplomatic representa-
tive Of every nation Interested directly In
the Chinese question called at the State
Department today could perhaps scarcely
be explained entirely on the theory that
this was diplomatic day. for the number
of callers was unusually large even for
that day 1t was noticeable that the Rus
sian ambassador, Count Cassini and the
French charge of embassy. NJ. Thiebaut,
spent more than the usual period of time
with Secretary Hay, while the Chinese
minister Mr.. Wa, extended his call to in
cIude Assistant Secretary Hill, who has
been giving much attention To the subject
of the trade relations of the United States
in the orient
Ne DESIGNS China.
The interest Of the Chinese government
in what is going on between the United
States and the European powers Is in
tense. but it is believed that Secretary Hay
has relieved the main apprehension which
was founded upon a suspicion that our
government in the event that the Euro
mean D1verz failed to give the formal as
Surance of the maintenance of the open
door that II seeks. will, in sef-detenSe
and TO insure an entrance into the interior
of the country, take possession of a sec
ton of the Chinese coast before 1t IS all
taken up by other powers.
Ii IL not even limited what course our
government will take should it fail to Sc
cure the assurances it asks on this point
and 50 confident are the officials Of sue
cess that ii is intimat7d that they have not
even gone To the length of framing a poi
lev to recur to n the event of defeat. How
ever it is improbable that the integrity OF
the Chinese territory will suffer at our
hands in that case. and it is believed that
the Chinese government has been so in
formed
No Answer From France.
No answer has yet been returned by
France 70 our inquiry as to a formal as
surance of the retention of trade privileges.
But though NJ. ThIebaut. the charge of the
French embassy, had no instructions on
that point this morning, it is believed that
there is reason for the departments conf
dence Of an acquieSCeUcc in our request. II
IS scarcely expected that the French sttp-
ulatiOn will apply to Tonquin and the sec
lions of China that have been under French
influence for long time past, under we'll
established customs regulations, but SIM
ply that in the event that France seeks to
extend her holdings in China so as TO affect
any portion now open 10 United States
trade, it shall guarantee that our trade
shall not suffer by any discrimination by
means of tariffs or otherwise as a result.
This is held to be reasonable Il PROPOSE
ton that il could scarcely be refused. espe-
cially il view of the promised aquiescence
Of Germany and the well-known sentiments
OF Great Britain upon that subject.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-11-09

STANFORD. Conn, November AIRS.
Sarah II. King, aged sixty years, was muir
dercd at her home, about nine miles from
here. last night. Charles Cross, seventeen
years old, who vas employed on the farm
is under arrest on suspicion of having COM
rniltei me crime.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-11-09
Marines Reach Mare island.

VALLEJO, Cal. November 9-The Sd
Battalion of United States marines, con-
sisting of fifteen officers and go men, has
arrived at Mare Island, en- route To the
Philippines for shore duty at Cavite
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-11-09

James Henderson, alias James Henson,
colored, indicted for assaulting Ellen Dyson
by cutting her the 18th of September 1898.
was tried today In Criminal Court No. l.
A verdict of guilty was reported.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-11-09

CLEVELAND, Ohio, November 9.-Clar-
ence A. Carpenter, assistant chief engineer
OF the Lake Shore road died early today
at the Cleveland General Hospital as the
result of being struck by u fast passenger
train a SaybroDk on Tuesday last ....
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-11-09

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio, November "a
fire at New Carlisle today destroyed the
opera house ard a business block Com
munication was cut off after help had been
requested. Springfield sent fire engine to
the scene.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-11-09
Session of Retiring Ro,rd

The police retiring and pension board will
hold a session. Saturday morning April
cations for pensions filed by the widows
of the late Policemen Heller and Herndon
will be considered
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-11-09
Naval Movements.

The Resolute has arrived at Santiago
the Monocacy at Wuhu and the Essex at
Leghorn. The Eagle has sailed from Port
Royal for Nuevitas The Lancaster has
sailed from st. Kits for Guadeloupe.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-11-09

FURNISHED by w. B. Hibbs & Co., bankers
and brokers, 1i19 F St. members New York
stock exchange correspondents Messrs. La
denburg. Thalmapn q Co, New York
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-11-09
Government Bonds.
Steamship Arrivals.

At New York-Southwark. from Ant
werp; Mesaba, from London; Koeningin
Luise, from Bremen, etc
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-07-21
A MAN OF PRUDENCE.
He Thought Cyclone Cellar Might
Come in Handy When He
Was Married.

Speaking of wives and their dispositions
and tendencies" said Mr.. Biskum to the
evening crowd In front of his crossroads
store, there was John Brunt, that lived
for ten years in the cyclone belt in Kansas,
trying to raise corn and mortgages and
things like that, until he was able to Dor
row money enough to get back to Mary
land again without walking more than half
way. John come right to me, and let him
have job on my farm at $50 month,
for he was a hard worker and thrifty. At
the end of the first year he had got the
Widow Allen ; promise to marry him IN
October, and he rented a nice little farm
to do business again on his own hook.
John was widower himself, and being a
practical sort of a man, he went to work
right away putting the farm and the house
into shape. One day l happened over his
way, and found him digging hole in the
back yard.
"'What's that for?' says I, walking
around and looking over things.
That's cyclone cellar, Mr.. Biskum,
says he.
"' a cyclone cellar?' says I, considerably
Rstonished. What do You want a cyclone
cellar for? This amt kansas
- know it amt says he; but you
know, Mr.. Biskum,' and he got very con-
fdential, I'm going to git married, and a
cyclone cellar may come IN mighty handy oc-
caAonally. Washington Star.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-07-21
CONVENIENT PIG HOUSE.
The Plan Here illustrated Can BE
Adapted to Suit the Size and
Condition of Any Herd.

Concerning a modern up-to-date hog
house costing 5000 or more, large
enough to accommodate 40 or so, would
say that in building pigpens, like every
thing else, the best is always cheapest
The plan shown herewith needs but lit
tie explanation, as it can be construct
ed according to the means at the build
er's command and it can be made to
suit the size of ones herd. You could
easily construct four-room feeding
house on this plan out of good dressed
lumber for less than 5000, especially
if you are able to do your own car
penter work. When as many as 40 or
so hogs are to be kept they always do
better if kept in different pens accord
ing to size and age. 1t is also neces-
sary that different aged animals be
fed a different ration for best and most
satisfactory results, and this can only
be done when we have our hogs prop
erly graded and separated. One thing
we would have in making a hog house
and that is concrete floor. Any other
floor is Objectionable in some way. All
kinds of wooden floors make bad rat
harbors unless they are built up high
off the ground, and in most cases they
soon begin to decay and make pens I'M
healthy. By letting the concrete extend
out to the walls all round no rats can do
any damage and you can scrape or
wash out your house as clean as jug
at any time. The cost of a concrete
floor may be a little more thdn wood
to start with, but it is cheapest in the
end.
Let the sleeping rooms be made like
lean-to, roof sloping just one way
and facing the south if possible. In
these we would have no floor. They
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-07-21
STANDARD VARIETIES.
Why Farmers Should Select Their
Poultry from Breeds known
to Be satisfactory.

7. F. McGraw, in the Reliable Poultry
journal, sounds the note of alarm by
asking this pertinent question: will
we ever perfect few good varieties. or
will we continue to drift into new"
This is. indeed, a serious question and
one of vital importance to practical
poultry breeders everywhere, COM
ments the Southwestern Farmer. The
question plainly stated is, will we re-
tain the practical features of poultry
culture or drift into exclusive fancy?
In the past decade there have been
MANY new varieties introduced, and
among them all there are none with
more good qualities, or that have
proven more profitable to the practical
breeders than those we had before. II
all the effort and money spent booming
new breeds had been directed toward
the improvement of the old varieties it
might not be necessary now for breed
ers to want to remove color and other
disqualifications from the standard.
They practically admit they cannot
breed them true and want authority to
conform the standard to their flock.
1t is true that many who are merely
| ''fanciers'' have made money from new
succeeded in bringing more desirable
points than existed in the old breeds.
Brown Leghorns are superior in every
way to the buff, but there has been
thousands invested in this variety, and
[ may add. there are hundreds of disap-
pointed breeders, also. The same may
be said of .early any of the new ones.
Farmers, especially, will find it to
their interest to make their selection of
breeds from the old standard varieties
and thus avoid the trouble that will
surely follow in attempting TO breed
any of the new additions to anywhere
near the standard requirements.
Let US perfect a few varieties first,
| increase their laying qualities and
size, and greater profits Will be realized
than from any other course.
We are now neglecting breeds which
have merit and looking for something
new and of uncertain value, from Q
practical standpoint.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-07-21
PACKING BOX COOP.

front. we nail a strip four inches wide
down the center and tack fine wire net
ting, f, over one side. A second strip
is put over the first to cover the edge
of the netting, and to leave room for a
groove for the sliding door, 6, on the
other side This may be either of wood
or a skeleton frame made and covered
with netting. y groove must be made
in the box for the other side of the
slide. Nearly all the boxes come with
well-stayed corners, so this is not dit
ficult.
Paint the outside. roof and all, to
prevent the cracks from spreading. Or
the roof may be covered with roofing
paper or cheaper still with tarred pa
per, which will last a season or two.
These boxes vary somewhat in size,
but they Will hold from Is to 25 chick
ems till they are pretty well grown,
and as they are strong and we'll built
they Will last many years - Orange
Judd Farmer.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-07-21
PAcKING-Box CoOPS
They Are Strong and If Properly
Built Are Sure to Last for Many
Years to Come.

Tip large packing box on one side,
making the open space or original top
the front. Nail boards, a, across this
space half way down, letting the top
one, b, extend nearly its width above
the top edge of the box, and several
inches beyond the ends. Nail similar
one. c. on the back, leaving this couple
of inches above the top. Two side
boards, d, are now added. sawed slant
ing to make a smooth slope between the
front and back for the roof. As they
are six inches beyond the ends of the
box, it makes a protection from the
weather, besides leaving space for cir
culation, while to make this of value to
the interior a square must be sawed
from the top of the box before the roof
is put on, as this top floor has been left
whole. This makes the ventilation
good without danger OF leaks, and the
roof is now added.
Returning to the unboarded space in
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-07-21
Keep the Calves Separate.

In my experience, the best way to
grow calves when you want them to do
their own milking is to not let them
run with the COW, but let them take the
milk night and morning, having good
pasture for them near the barn or shed,
where they can come into the barn dur
ing the heat of the day. Have a trough
there and put in fair ration of ground
oats and corn and it will not be many
days until they Will have the trough
licked out nice and clean for you every
morning. Then keep right on with your
feed and you will not have to wean your
calves, but will have to wean your
cows, and by the time your calves are Is
to 20 months old they viii weigh from
ten TO twelve hundred pounds and Will
bring you the top of the market. Short
horns are what 1 am talking about.
Your COWS will be in much better condi-
ton in the fall and viii be more apt to
bring another calf next spring.-Wal-
iace'S Farmer
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-07-21
Food of the BrOOd Mare.

The mare with foal should have
plenty of nutritious food, but it should
not be the kind that promotes the ac-
emulation of fat. The foal is devel-
oped through the feed to the dam, and
for that development is needed the class
of feeding stuff that builds up its
frame. Aside from that it is not well
for the foal for the mare to have much
fat, as there is with such condition
often a certain tendency to a feverish
state which would prevent the foal
from receiving healthy support. Let
the feed contain but little corn. con-
sisting mostly of oats. bran and good
roughage. Just before the time of foal-
ing the feed should have somewhat
laXativ effect, and at the same time
should have the constituents that pro-
mote milk production.-Texas Stock
and Farm Journal.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-07-21
MODEL PIG HOUSE.

can be moved about the yard from time
to time and thus keep a nice pure
place for pigs to sleep, every time it
is moved using clean bedding, or rather
moving every time clean bedding is
used. Water is best supplied out in
the lots instead of in the feed room,
as hogs will keep the feed room more
or less filthy if water is supplied there,
especially if they can get to it to wal
low. A small cistern or we'll is located
in storage room from which under
ground pipes may extend to the sew
eral lots. In making fences between
lots do not make them more than three
or four boards high, just so a man can
straddle over them comfortably. This
you will find very convenient in look
ing after your hogs. The outside fence
may be higher if other stock have &C
cess to pens and are likely to jump.
Two and half feet is high enough for
all inside fences. - Orange Judd
Farmer.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-07-21
CuItivating Sugar Reefs.

In the early cultivation the ground
should be stirred as deeply as possible.
To accomplish this without covering
the plants the ideal implement would
be a cultivatOr with numerous long,
hooked teeth, not more than an inch
wide, one of which might be called a
cross between a harrow and a cult
vator. Such culticators are now on the
market. After the beets have become
larger a cultivator with broader SHOW
els may be used in order to cut the
weeds more effectually, but deep work
ing of the soil should be carefully avoid
ed, after it has become filled with the
feeding roots of the crop. The after
cultivation should consist in keeping
the ground free of weeds and keeping
the surface loose, both points being
necessary to the preservation of the soil
Observation-Disclosures Review.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-07-21
Test of Good Farming.

- believe that no man can claim to be
L good farmer who does not maintain
the fertility of the SOIL" says Waldo f.
Brown, land that to do this the best
way is to keep as much stock as will
consume most of the grain and rough
food produced on the farm. To get the
best results in winter feeding, some sue
culent bulky food is needed, and so
silos have multiplied. But the small
farmer often thinks he cannot afford to
build one, and / have found that by the
use of beets and sorghum the silo is not
necessary. To get the most fertility
from our stock, we must save all the
liquid manure, and so 1 have adopted
cement floors in all of my stables and
have found them very satisfactory
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-07-21

but somewhat as suggestion to young
men and women of other communities
who may desire to get up novel enter
tainments for good purposes.
The first man in this country to at
tain distinction and fame in the circus
business was Dan Rice, who reached his
ninetieth year only few months ago.
His real name was Daniel McLarren,
but he will be known to fame by his cir
Gus name. When he was young man
travelling about race tracks he became
known as an athlete and tumbler, and
was generally nicknamed dusty Dan"
but why he took the name of Rice no.
body has even been able to ascertain.
One of the elderly men who attended
the country circus of the Carroll insti-
tute told a number of interesting things
about Dan Rice, as we were walking
home after the performance. He said
that when quite young man Dan Rice
became known as wrestler, boxer and
prize fighter: and that his agility,
strength and scientific sparring made
him formidable antagonist. 1t is a
matter of official record that in 1925 the
Pennsylvania legislature at Harrisburg
ADJOURNED to witness a boxing match
between Dan Rice and George Kensett,
celebrated fighting man of that day.
What do you think of a legislature adj
1ourning for the sake of witnessing
such a performance? 1t seems almost
incredible that such thing could have
occurred, but it did.
The circuses which come to the peo-
pie of the Ohio and Mississippi valleys
begin their annual tours on the Allan
tic coast and end their seasons along the
coast of the gulf of Mexico. They are
already billing to appear in Washing
ton; and the little men and women of
the rising generation are saving up
their pennies in order to be sure of
funds enough to buy red lemonade and
neanuts, as well as to secure admission.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-07-21
CIRCUS FOR CHARITY
New ang1ed Entertainment Quite
Popular in the East.
Some Memories of Dan Rice, the Ven
cradle King of Clowns and Orig
inatOr of the One-HOrse
Show.
Especial Washington letter.


Have YOU been to the circus this year?
Or hasn't the circus come around yet?
When some of the fathers and mothers
of the present day were boys and girls
the circuses moved very slowly.
In those good old days the elephants
aided the horses in pulling the wagons
and cages along the country roads, for
the circuses were nomadic caravan
saries. Nowadays the circuses travel
On railroad trains. But from the day the
first bills are posted until the day of the
arrival of the circus is probably just is
long as it used to be to the little ones
of the former generation.
The circuses of the present day are
really travelling vaudeville shows with
animal attachments. The menageries
have become essential features of each
show, but formerly the circus consisted
only of a few trained horses, men and
women riders, ringmaster, a single
ring and a clown. There were no eX-
pensive adjuncts to the original cir
Gus.
st. Patrick's church in the national
capital has an institute for young men,
a social and educational organization,
called Carroll institute. The young men
ments, and resort to all manner of
churchly devices for maintaining them
selves in an organization. Not long ago
they gave what they called "A Country
Circus" and it was indeed a very at
tractive affair, worthy OF description.
In a large room they erected a tent.
When ticket holders entered the door
they stepped beneath the canvas. There
al q
o center pole with acrobatic rigging at
tached to it, small brass band dis
coursed circus music, and the tiers of
common board seats were soon filled
with boys and girls, and a few older
people. AT the appointed hour dozen
men and women, gayly dressed in
tights, mounted on gaudily-trapped
horses, came into the ring from the
dressingroom, and pranced about the
place, just as the genuine actors used
to do, so many years ago. There was a
funny clown, with baggy trousers,
painted face and impudent manners.
There was trick mule, and a seeming
ly drunken man to ride it, who was ar
rested and thrown out by an alleged
policeman.
During the performance a typical
haySeed greenhOfn came walking ABOUT
the ring. He was warned by the ring
master that he must take a seat, so that
other people could see the show. He
paid no heed to the warning, and the
policeman threw him out. AS he went
flying through the door, the big bass
drum sounded, and it seemed as though
the hayseed had fallen down several
flights of stairs.
This is novel sort of performance
and it proved to be so attractive that il
was repeated several times, to please
the public. This fact suggested to the
narrator the idea of writing about it
not merely as a national capital affair
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-07-21

The modern circuses are too big
There are three or four rings, and a
separate performance is conducted in
each; and ali this is confusing to the
eyes and the brains of beholders. While
we are watching the japanese jugglers
in front of US, we are at the same time
squirting at the sylphlike form of the
girl in pink tights at the other end of
the big tent, who is dangling on the
bareback of a horse, and jumping
through hoops of fire.
These circus bills which are to be
seen everywhere now in Washington
are more gorgeous than those faring
old wood cuts which delighted the
ina gination of childhood generation
ago, but they present very few really
new feats, so far as the real circus is
concerned. The vaudeville perform
ances have grown up within the past
ten years, and they are also assuming
a sameness which is giving them a
tameness.
Readers under 80 years of age have
heard but little of Dan Rice, the great
est of all sawdust showmen, but his
memory lives green with the older boys
and girls who saw his performances and
heard his jokes. There never was, and
it is not likely that there ever will be-
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-07-21
Filling the Gan.

The bright boy of fiction is playing with
his Noah's ark.
what are these two chips of wood?"
asks the bright boys father.
1t is necessary for the bright boy of fic-
ton to have a father, you know; there has
to be somebody TO draw him out.
Chem, replied the bright boy, without
hesitation, is the microbes"
Of course, if we think minute, we per-
ceive that there must have been pair of mi
crobes on the ark.-Detroit Journal.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-07-21
ReautifuI Women.

Every woman should have the beauty
vivacity and vigor OF perfect health a strong
stomach is the first essential to physical
of the sickness of the human race comes
from weak digestion. Thousands of people,
after years of encouragement, have tried
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters and regained
their health. There Is nothing like it for the
cure of stomach troubles. See that a PR.
vate Revenue Stamp covers the neck of the
bottle
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-07-21
\ New Game.

McSwatters-I hear that you put a stop
to your wife's going through your pockets.
McSwitters-Yes.
"How do you work it?
Put tacks in your pockets. Berlin
Md Herald.