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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-08-02

Do not set up wall that your corn
crop is gone up until you are certain
off
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-08-02

Regular Monthly meeting of the city
council next Monday night.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-08-02

|THE BARTON COUNTY DEMOCRAT.
WILL Z. STOKE,
EditOr and Proprietor,
! (Ofhce in Opera Block)
GREAT BEND, KANSAS
LOCAL NEWS.
The American boys win paralyze Ben.
Goodbye, my lover, goodbye;
With his rice and rats and cinnamon,
! Goon-bye, nay lover, goodbye.
The republican train is on the switch;
Goodbye, my lover, goodbye;
On November 4th, she will be ditched,
Goodbye, dear Ben, goodbye.
Kendall Boomer.
Threshing coal SIS ton Allison Bros.
Tommie Johns was up from LArned
Friday Of last week.
Barton county corn stands Is feet
high in its stalk-ings.
Regular Monthly meeting of the city
council next Monday night.
A good shower livened up some
parts of the county Friday morning.
Do not set up wall that your corn
crop is gone up until you are certain
oft.
Cabinets 81. so to s2-duplicates 81
per dozen at Mrs. Hale's for the next
two weeks.
1t is a noticeable fact that mosquitoes
are less numerous than they have been
tor many years.
Harry Kline is fixing up the base
ment of his Main street store building
preparing it for a business room.
Our country school teachers have
now got their papers and are rust
ling for the most desirable schools.
Remember the U. & I. league enter
tainment at the Congregational
church to-morrow-Friday evening.
Judge Ogle has granted a marriage
license to August Hemering and
Mathilda Thuror, both of Ellinwood.
When you fill mp on green cucum-
bers ut night you may expect to see
Mrs. Jarleys wax works free of charge.
There are ''no flies on" the man
who has the door and windows of his
house well covered with mosquito
nettings.
For the next two weeks Mrs. Hale
will make duplicates from Mrs. Gains
ford's or her own negatives for 81
per dozen.
The Moses Bros. building is going
up faster than any building of its size
that has been built for many day
in Great Bend.
Cholera has moi made its appearance
in this country yet, but time of year
has arrived when the annual scare will
be perpetrated.
w I'LL IAO pICoSAl OuC1OOk 1OI SOOu
corn throughout the country, what
more can the farmer ask? He wants
the taxes reduced.
Herbert Porter came up from Larn-
ed last Friday to attend the examina-
ton preparatory to entering Lawrence
College the present year.
Prof. Stryker and his assistants are
busily engaged sending out advertising
matter for the Central Normal College,
preparatory to beginning of the fall
term.
G. H. Young, E. w Waynant and
j. j. Chapel have organized croquet
club-capital stock, don't know how
much object, amusement pure and
simple.
1t is desired that all members of
Hose Co. A turn out to the regular
monthly meeting next Tuesday even
ing. Business of Importance is to be
attended to.
1t has been said there is more good
wheat in the vicinity of Olmitz than
in any other part of the county, and
several grain buyers are already 10
Gated there.
Before you decide where to send
your son or daughter to school, write
4 L 4 N II
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-08-02

Barton county corn stands Is feet
high in its stalk-ings.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-08-02
LOCAL NEWS.

iOON1 NE :" -.
The American boys will paralyze Ben.
Goodbye, my lover, goodbye;
With his rice and rats and cinnamon,
GOon-bye, nay lover, goodbye.
The republican train is on the switch;
Goodbye, my lover, goodbye;
On November 4th, she will be ditched,
Goodbye, dear Ben, goodbye.
Kendall Boomer.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-08-02

Threshing coal SIS ton Allison Bros.
Tommie Johns was up from LArned
Friday of last week.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-03-29
Thoroughbred and Pure Blood.

There is no difference between q
thoroughbred and pure-blooded ani-
NAL, for the first term means of pure
and unmixed breed, stock or race; bred
from sire and dam of the purest or
best blood; but the English idea is that
The word thoroughbred should only be
applied to the thoroughbred race horse.
an animal supposed to have descended
from the best horses of Spain, Barbary,
Turkey and Arabia. Out Of such ma
terial as was to be obtained from the
countries named the English race horse
has descended. but is now called a
thoroughbred to distinguish it. perhaps.
from other equally pure breeds which
are not race horses. The name
thoroughbred is usually applied to a
race Of horses. and not to other kinds
II domestic animals. z. Sun
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-03-29
SHORT-SIGHTED PEOPLE.
individuals Who Do Not Recognize Thei
Friends on the Street.

Individuals VINO do NOT Recognize Ineii
Friends on the Street.
"Why don't you recognize that man!
You know him perfectly well, -don'i
you?" Certainly; but he has cut me
three or four times, and propose that
he shall do the recognizing hereafter. "
This isn't, by any means. an infrequenl
dialogue. 1t opens up the question OF
the inability of some people. even Of
those who are not short-sighted, to re
cognize other people readily. There
are men and women whom we know
and whom we can not suspect of any
prejudice against us or any disposition
to "cut" us, who ordinarily make nc
sign of recognition when they meet
us. More than that there are people
whom we know and like perfectly well,
who accuse us of cutting" them in
public.
The writer has an acquaintance
whom he occasionally meets on per-
fectly friendly terms. and who has
honorably proved his courtesy, and YET
who never recognizes him on the street.
1t is not n slight. HE never reccg.
nizes anybody" his friends will tel
you. And yet he has no ordinary de.
feet of vision. His case is one of q
number which seem to prove that there
is such thing as the recognizing
faculty. and that some people may be
deficient in it, such as others are de-
ficient in the musical sense or in the
power of distinguishing colors. Ones
identity has to be impressed upon such
peoples consciousness by long serie:
of recognitions before it can be said to
have established itself in their sense,
so devoid is that sense of accuteness.
Such people are rather to be commiser.
ated than congratulated. They are
likely to be unjustly accused of snob.
berry or Indifference, and to have tc
carry burden of uufriendly prejudice
on account of their defect --Bnfalt
Commercial,
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-03-29
MiZPAH.

..sd the word while thou and I
- elose together in life's working way:
49, M need for it, when hand and eye
.s,set. content and faithful, every day.
1sa. n nth 18th anguish from a stricken heart,
E Es, 7 cry; the Lord keep watch between
". md mine. that death hath riyen apart
~ ~ ~ ,eyond the awful vail. unseen.
:. .oor Nv broken being, which must glide
- vays familiar to US both, till death
y a surety, lead me to thy side,
80 fbe chance and change OF mortal
breath
:, YEA. lore, In all my bitter pain,
ssGod keepeth watch betwixt US twain.
- arc dumb from which used to hear
vords of counsel, tender words OF
j INST 20 my way without the cheer
= mnshine Of thy presence all my days.
"a keeps watch my ways and days upon,
mi do on all bear for thee.
~ Is left me, though my mate is gone;
.sefnr trust hath love bequeathed to me.
y he task thy languid hand laid down
Z. summer evening, for mine own alway;
-, the Giyer OF both cross and crown
..,o,nce me faithful at our meeting-day!
"A, The word gives comfort to my pain;
q Cod keepeth watch betwixt US twain.
All the Year Round.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-03-29
FOUND IN THE SNOW.
An Honest Farmer leaves a Package at
the Police Station.

the Police Station.
..They amt mine, and I'm going to
take 'em to police headquarters, said
farmer on the market yesterday as he
bundled up several articles of clothing.
"Find 'em on the road?' asked one
of the men he had been talking with.
mo, sir. Found 'em right in front
of my stable door the other morning.
There's pair of mittens, a cap, an old
handkerchief, plug of tobacco and
necktie.'
..How did they get there?"
"Well, Figure that a tramp openeo
the door and walked in to find lodg-
ing place. keep the door unlocked,
but never go in by it. turned the old
mare around last fall with ber heels
within two feet of the door"
..And what?"
..WeN, about the time that tramp
stepped in she let go with both feet.
One foot hit him just little below the
belt, and the other under the chin. 1t
was nine feet from the door to the spot
where he lit. There was evidence that
he paved around for spell, got up
and fell into wagon-box, got up again
and fell out, and then he made a bee
line across the meadow for the section
line road. He didn't come back for his
duds. and I'll just leave 'em where
they'll be safe when his memory re-
turns and he wants 'em. Detroit FIRE.
Rrsxs
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-03-29
DICKENS CHARACTERS.
Why They Are SO Deiiciousiy Bewitching
to the Average Reader.

Why They Are SO Deiiciousiy Bewitchlng
to the Average Reader.
Dickens must not only have had ex-
:eptiona! powers of observation and
imagination. but extraordinary inten-
sity of sympathy with ordinary feel
ings and beliefs. His genius in charac-
terization tends to the grotesque and
extravagant; his personages, in their
names as in their qualities, produce on
us the effect of strangeness; the plots
of the novels in which they appear,
would with any other characters seem
grossly Improbable, and yet his mind
is unmistakably rooted in common
sense and common humanity. He thus
succeeds in giving his readers all the
pleasure which comes from contem-
plating what is strange, odd and eccen-
trio, without disquieting them by any
paradoxes in morals or shocking them
by any pervcrsions of homely, natural
sentiment. The christmas Carol,
for example, is as wild in grotesque
fancy as dream of Hoffman,, yet in
feeling as solid and sweet and humane
as sermon of Claiming. 1t impresses
us somewhat as we are impressed by
the sight of the Bible as illustrated by
Gustaye Dore. Thus held fast to conf
mon, homely truths and feelings by his
sentiments he can safely give reins to
his imagination in his creations. The
keenest of observers. both of things and
persons, all that he observes is still
taken up and transformed by his imasi-
nation-hecomes Dickenized. in fact
80 that, whether he describes a land
scape, or booljaek, or buila-
/ ing. or q man, we see the object,
not as it is in itself, but as it is de-
Iiciously bewitched by his method OF
looking att. Every thing is suggested
by his outward experience, but modi-
!. fied by his inward experience. The re-
suit is that yves do not have i'm him an
texact transcript of life. but an i'm
iiyidualized ideal of life from his point
Of view.-E, r Whipple. IN scrtbner'
Magazine
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-03-29
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

If you want to get up'a subscription
for broken head, just ask policeman
what his clubbing rates are.-Burlinq-
ton Free Press.
1t is n satisfaction to know that ii
we were pretty bad when we were. boys
our own were not there to make note
of it. s-s
America is ahead of Europe in
everything. We have more weather
here in one week than England can
produce in six months. aaK s@
1t is said that joint committees in
legislative bodie frequently discuss
rib at the expense of the publie.-Bos-
ton Gazette.
-"Charlie, didn't you leave Miss
Smith rather suddenly the other eyen-s
ingP" ''Well, yes. To tell the truth,
she was beginning to get tender and
got frightened. Philadelphia Cali.
--Caligula once spent 100000 on y
single supper So history says. The
truth probably is that he spent 800 on
the supper and handed over the rest as
tips to the walters. Baltimore Ameri-
can. e
Queen Victoria has. been photo
graphed smiling. The photographer
brought the pleased expression 70 her
face by promising her the pictures at
half price. Binghamton Republican. -
If some one who knows would ex- s.
plain why there is so much more cough
ing to the square inch in a church CON !.
gregation than In q theater audience
he would solve much vexed question
of the hour, Rostoa COMMONWEALTH. ~
1T is said that women are not =
naturally financiers. This is just
about as true as the statement that all
crows are white. Hand a s5-bill to the
fair occupant of bazar at church,
fair and see how much change YOU get
back. o, no, women are not finan-
ciers, o, no!-Burlington Free Press.
The BARRIERS pole used to represent
an arm with blood streaming down. rs
BARRIERS of the olden-- times were also
surgeons. There is a question rs to =
the origin of the blue stripes. but it is 4.
supposed to have been taken from the
the patients couutenance when the.
doctors bill came in.-St Paul Neaos,
and why are you surprised. Mr..
Sampson" she said. drawing herself up
with hauteur, ''that l play the piano so
wellP'' because your hands are so
small. Miss Smith, that you must find
| it difficult to strike an octave Then.
she played some more for him. --fid-
Bits.
The civilized gormand expresses
disgust when he hears about the birds
nest puddings and rat pies OF the China
man or the redolent knappee of the
Burmese; but half an hour later. Yo,l
may see him sitting dewn to a hotel
table, and ordering such offal as calves .
brains, sleeps kidneys, beef liver, pigs
feet and other viscera too offensive to
mention. - Good Health. ~
When Georgia man became en-
gagged to his present wife .au number-o of
years ago he gave her ayearling heifer
in lieu of an engagement ring. The
woman now has a large herd of cattle.
the product of her present Few young
women would accept heifer in place
of an engagement ring, but in some
cases. when the marriage ceremony Is
performed, they accept calf.-Nor.
ristoWn Herald
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1888-07-12
Nevada.s Angry Tree.

In some parts OF Nevada is curious
plant called the ANGRY Tree" II Is u
native OF Australia, and somewhat re-
sembles the century plant, Its name Is
duo 10 its apparent vexation at being
disturbed. When transplanted each.
separate leaf stands up In different d.
rection, like Guills on n porcupine or
hairs on tho tail of an angry cat. At
such times 10 gives forth an unpleasant
otor, like that OF rnttlesnake when
leased. and sometimes II Is fully an hour
before its leaves resume their natural
condition. Another curiosity In tho
plant world is peculiar kind Of weed
which grows in the Arkansas Valley.
II is shaped like ball, and varies
In size from ono foot or less In diameter
to FIVE or six feet. some specimens being
rs tall as man. When ripe these balls
snap of their stems, and 90 tumbling
over the prairies with every gust Of
wind. They presenta very strange APP
pearance, and in the distance hunters
have mistaken them for bisons. Often
they come bounding along In hundreds
mt great speed upon the hunters. who
are compelled TO crowd upon the ground
TO escape being hurt. IN y. Voice.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1888-07-12
BRIDGING The TUNNEL.
A French Engineering scheme of stipend
Gus Magnitude.

Gus Magnitude.
The Paris Temps, which thinks that
though England objects to underground
visitors, she will not be afraid OF arriv-
ais by viaduct. says: "T'he scheme of
constructing bridge over the English
Channel has just been completed. II
has been worked out by the Creusot en-
gineers and NJ. Hersent, ex-president
of the Society OF Civil Engineers. The
progress OF metallurgy makes the con-
struction possible of an immense bridge,
fifty kilometers long, with platform
at the height OF fifty meters above the
sea at full tide, and supported by piles
at a distance OF five hundred meters.
The Forth bridge which is being COM
pleted in Scotland, and under which the
largest vessels can pass, is an advance
towards a more important structure.
The height allowed for the bridge over
the channel would allow large steamers
and sailing vessels to pass freely. II
would support four railway lines, be-
sides road for carriages and footpaths.
This will be satisfactory for those who
dread sea-sickness. The only trouble
left them will be that of choosing
their mode of locomotion-w whether by
railway carriage, omnibus, cab, or veloc-
ipede. Places OF refuge, watch house 6
and alarm-bells will be placed on each
pile, with powerful light. The au-
thors OF the gigantic scheme believe
that this foundation may be constructed
by means OF compressed air diving
bells, the depth of the strait between
Calais and Dover not being, on an aver
age, more than twenty-five TO thirty-nine
meters, and in few places exceeding
fifty meters. The bridge will cost 80O.-
000, 600 francs, its metallic weight will
amount to 100000 tons, and II
might be constructed in six years, The
scheme will shortly be submitted for
examination TO an international techni.
cal committee. When this examination
has been completed the Channel Bridge
Society will apply for concession to
the French and British Governments,
from which it will ask for no subsidy. I'm
der these conditions the concession
might be easily granted and the works
Immediately begun. In a few years the
commerce OF the two nations would
benefit from the simplifcation intro
duced into their relations by the execu-
ton OF a work which might be consid-
cred as one Of the most important Of
the century"
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1888-07-12
AN ovToAsrs LIRE
How It Begins. Develops and Goes out d
Misery and Sin.


Misery and Sin.
A city missionary gives his CONVERSE
ton with one OF these outcasts:
"Well. my hoy, whit do you wantP"
"A homo, please, SIR"
"What is your name"
"Haint got no name, SIR the boys
call me Pickety.r
.'well, Pickety, whore do you live"
rDont live nowhere, sir"
"But where do you stayP"
II don't stay nowheres In the day
time, but sleep in hay-barges, sir, and
sometimes in dry-goods boxes, ana
down on the steam gratings In winter
till the NJ. P.'s came along. and juss
now cove has taken mo in at the iron
bridge at Harlem.
.'Iron bridget What doyo meanP"
''Why, them hollor iron things what
holds the bridge up. He got 1t first,
and he lets mo In"
"Pickety, who is your fatherP'
"Hain't got no father, sir; he died
afore knew, and me mither she drink
ed and bate me, and We was put out by
the landlord, and she died and the city
hall buried herr And something like
n shadow came over tho cunning blue
eyes.
"Pickety, did you over hear OF
Godpn
Eyes. sir; I have heard the fellers
swear abou, him. and know It's lucky
10 say something 10 him whom you sloep
out in bad nights"
did you ever 60 to school, Pickety,
or 10 churchpn
mo, sir; never went TO no church
nor school. / should kind o like TO
learn somethin.n
My hearers. these unfortunatcs are
all about us.
When they got up from their hands
and knees TO walk their first step was
on tho road TO ruin, and every day
since they have been plunging down TO
lower depths. and wilder despair, and
deeper darkness.
There are many about us in boyhood
and girlhood In comfortable circles that
are going TO DO something very good or
very bad, very bright or very Ignorant,
and they will yet mako their parents
glad with nm infinite gladness or pain
them with infinite sorrow. They 30
bounding through the halli they shout
in tho yard; they sing in the school.
This activity that now strikes the ball.
and runs the race, and rolls tho hoop.
and flies the kite, will soon be ready for
the higher game OF life, whore fortunes
are TO be made, and regulations
achieved. and temptations combattcd,
and immortal souls joopardized. and
Kingdoms OF glory won.
Call up that child; push back his hair.
Shall this face be ever Frightening np
with beneyolcncc, or SCARED, aud
pinched, and blasted with low exccssesT
Shall those Dyes become more and more
intelligent, or shall they acquire the
dishonest glance and tho seryile down
cnstP Put your hand on that child's
heart. Shall II always beat with mobile
impulses, or win IL be a theirs heart, n
coward's heart, traitors ncart9- Tai
magc's Sermon.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1888-07-12

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The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1888-07-12
"A novelty in the way

"A novelty in the way Of commence
ment exercises was seen at n New York
grammar school. After the singing
and recitations the girls made straw
borry shortcake and poached eggs in
the presence OF their guests and dis
tributcd them among their friends. One
OF the trustees said In n speech that the
time would come when, II any one
wanted cook, he would come straight
to the school TO get one.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1888-07-12

The American Is an energetic van
DIAL in carrying away relics. Its said
that ito such an extent has vandalism
been carried on at the now court house
in Pittsburgh that visitors are no longer
admitted. Some Of the mlscreants
Clipped handsomely ornamentcd mar
bio pillars and did much other irrepar-
ablo damage"