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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-03-22

Robert Merten came in Tuesday
to attend the Knights Templar ban
quet in the evening.
Will Allison, son of the late Rev.
Allison of Pawnee Rock, was in town
Tuesday from Chicago. He is here
to settle his late fathers affairs.
r. T. Ewalt went to Hoisington
Tuesday to attend the lawsuit of
McNames VS.. Dickerson. r. T.
represented the defense and came out
ahead.
w. l.. Spell, with John Chilly in
the City Meat Market, talks of bring
ing his family here to reside, this
summer. At present they are at
Hugoton, in Stevens county.
Rev. Mr.. Enyeart will preach for
the next term at Marion Center.
The conference appointed Rev. Mr..
Watson, of Pratt Center, to preach
here the ensuing term. He will
preach his first sermon on Sunday
next
John Conkie, one of the original
townsite owners of this city, has been
in the city for the past two days visit.
ing friends. He still owns consider.
able Great Bend property, and says it
is good to keep.
Such items as the following from
the Attlca, Ohio, Journal, shows how
Kansas booms: "In one day last
week forty-one families left Adams
and Thompson townships in Seneca
county, for homes in the west. They
made up two to three trains Of freight
cars with their goods. They go to
Kansas"
The banquet given by the knights
Templar Tuesday eve. was big success.
The guests assembled in the temple,
where they spent most enjoyable
time until $50, when they repaired
to the Morrison, where supper was
served, after which the party returned
to the temple, where they danced
in the armory until l o'clock.
The beauties of Great Bends sway
backed cross walks can now be seen
in all their pristine loveliness. AS
promoters of bad language and eye
sores to pedestrians they are success,
but as cross walks they are buried too
deep in slush and mud for their use
fulness to be detected. They should
either be raised to a level with the
streets, or the streets should be raz ed
to level with the walks.
Frank Hayse, of Wheatland, was
in before District Clerk Ira Brougher,
yesterday, proving up on his home
stead He says the snow of Monday
was all right, only it interfered some
what with his cutting grass. Now the
above statement was made in good
faith, and fall of some three or four
inches of sncw did not stop HIM from
mo wing grass. The buffalo grass is,
we are told, often cut in the spring OF
the year, and makes very good hay,
even after standing on the ground all
winter. Thus we have two hay ing
seaspns-fall and spring.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-03-22
Won't Hold Water.

BY late decision of the local land
office at Wa-Keeney. the title of the
land upon which Leoti, Wichita
county is built passes into the hands
of one G. NJ. Staples, instead of the
man who has been making deeds to
all the lots sold in the city. In other
words, the title to most of the land
upon which the business and residence
part of the city is built amounts simp-
" to naught. This fact alone will be
a strong card toward making Farmer
City the county seat of the sanguinary
county, Witchita.-Larned Chrome
scope.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-03-22
Remember This.

If you are sick Simmons Liver Reg
ulator will surely aid nature in making
you well. If you are costive or dys-
peptic or are suffering from any other
of the numerous diseases Of the Liver,
Stomach or Bowels, it is your own
fault. if you remain i'll, for Simmin's
Liver Regulator is q sovereign remedy
in all such complaints. Take only the
genuine which always has on the wrap
per the red Z trademark and sigma
ture of j. H. Zeillen d Co.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-03-22

Laugh, and the world laughs with
you; weep, and you weep alone". The
spirit of push, vim, pluck and en-
terprise will be commended through
out the land. But bemoan reverses,
wall over losses, groan in anticipation
of coming trouble, and you get neither
sympathy or encouragement.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-03-22

A. bargain is offered in an 80 acre
tract Of land, seven miles west Of Great
Bend, in Liberty township. well i'm
proved One mile from school, house
1920 and 12x20-6 rooms; granary
12x22, COW stable, horse stable; shade
and fruit trees; all under fence; Is
acres in pasture. VIII be a bargain
for cash Call at or address this
office. 45-6m.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-03-22
Piles Piles ! Piles I!

DIR. Williams Indian PileOintment is
the only sure cure for Blind, Bleeding
or Itching Piles ever discovered. 1t
never fails to cure old chronic cases
of long standing.
Judge Coons, MaysvilIe, Kentucky,
says: "Dr. Williams Ointment cured
me after years of suffering.
Judge Coffin bury, Cleveland, Ohio,
says: l found by experience that DIR.
Williams Indian Pile Ointment gives
immediate and permanent relief"
We have hundreds of such testi-
monials. Do not suffer an instant
longer. Sold by G. A. Hooper. 49y
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-03-22

CLAIMS to the amount of $40, 900 have
been filed with the commissioners of
Ness county for damages under the
road law. Nearly all the claims fix the
prices of the land at so per acre, but
the Sentinel thinks if the commissioners,
if they allow the claims at all, should
only allow from 81 to SIS per acre.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-03-22

1t is by the utmost liberation of
everything that is new that the true
sitting process goes on most thoroughly,
that what is injurious OF valueless drops
silently away, and what is precious de-
velops and enters into the living pres
ent, making. it all the worthier Of the
past which has brought it forth
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-03-22
Easteri Easter Z! Easter !

The 30. Ms" have always proven
themselves ''invinclble," and they are
now making extensive preparations to
not only "hold the fort" on the oc-
casion of their Easter Entertainment"
Friday evening, March Both. but to
lead "their { would be- captors cap
tive" Don't fail to hear them
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-03-22
Died.

Wednesday morning. March Dist,
1888. of paralysis, Mrs. Lucinda
Tucker, wife of Rufus Tucker, aged
81 years, months and % DAYS.
Funeral services at Congregational
church Thursday, at 2 p. m. Friends
o f the family invited.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-03-22
City and County.


To shine in conversation?
An answer will give right now
To your Interrogation
Keep your mouth shut.
The street lighting question is be-
coming quite interesting.
Dewey Langford, of Newton, is in
town visiting old friends.
Only few more days in which to
register Don't all come at once.
Old winter forgot something, evil
IDENTIFY, and came back after it Mon
day.
Hon. Aaron S. Everest, of Law
renee, Kas., is in the city Wednesday
on business.
Nick Sherlock came in from Med
icine Lodge yesterday, to visit old
friends here.
Every citizen of Kansas, the sun
flower state, should observe Arbor
day, April 4th.
Mr.. F. G.. Rhea, who was last sum-
her with w. NJ Ireland, is now
stenographer for 0. B. Wilson.
The register of deeds office will be
moved to the county clerks office, un-
til the former room is fixed up.
The March of 1888, like "Sher-
mans march to the sea" will long be
remem bered as one of surprises.
Viroqua Burdick's many faiends
will be glad to know that she is now
able to sit up the greater part of the
day.
The three or four inches of snow
which fell Monday will assist very
materially in moistening the ground
and helping along the winter wheat
and early sown oats.
James Huckabey, who had charge
ofothe kennels of the American Cours~
ing Club last summer, found his grey
hound, Constance" dead the other
day. Some one had poisoned the dog.
The Ladies' Aid Society, of the
Baptist church, will give a dime
sociable at the residence of Mrs.
O'Brien, east side, on the evening of
Tuesday, March 9th. Refreshments
will be served, and good time is ex.
pected. All are cordially invited.
On Saturday night test trial was
made of the electric light plant
-Four hundred and twenty-five incan,
descent lamps and six arc lights were
turned on, and the result was all that
could be expected, Several parties
are talking of having them put into
their residences. The Mather system
of lamps which have just been put in
are said to be the best now in USE
Sterling Bulletin.
1t is not generally known that, on
the Is of March, 1887, there went in
to effect Il law authorizing each town
ship in the state of Kansas to provide
for township cemetery by the issu-
ing of bonds in sum not exceeding
$4,000, and drawing interest not to
exceed six per cent. per annum. The
tax levied for the. funding of such
bonds and the paying of interest
thereon shall not exceed two per cent.
on the valuation of the township
When anybody dies, gets married
runs away, steals anything, builds a
house, makes big sale. or whips g
man or his wife, breaks a leg or gets
the sense knocked out of him by 9
mule, or does anything that is any
way remarkable, and you have rea
sons to believe that you know as much
about the occurrence as any body else
don't wait for some other to report it,
or trust to luck that the reporter
hears of it, but in person or through
the postofice communicate with tbii
Office. Such things are just what the
reporter is constantly looking for.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-03-22

What men want is not talent, it is
purpose; in other words, not the power
to achieve, but will to labor. l believe
that labor, judiciously and continuously
applied, becomes genius.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-03-22

Corn and Feed, at Culver's Eleva-
tor. 37tf
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-03-22

WANTED-A load of good, clean
oats straw. Inquire at this office.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1888-02-28
EY,sSepsia Cured.

It would be impossible for ne to de-
scribe what + suffered from InG igest;on
auG Headache up to the time I began
taking Ayers Sarsapariiia. Twas under
tbs care of various physicians, and tried
q great many kinds OF medicines, but
never obtained more than temporary re-
lief. After taking Ayers Sarsaparilla
t0g short time, my headache disap-
peared, and nv stomach performed its
,,u5ies nore perfectly. To-day my
nea.th is completely restorod.- Mary
.{ariay, Springfield, 5-ass.
/ have been greatly benefited ~ the
oroI1p5 ass Of ayers saTsaTarilla. It
tones and invig0rotes IAe system, rar'E-
latos the acti0n Of TIE digestive and
ass.r;il2tiYe organs, and vitalizeS the
.,ocG. Il is, without doubt, the most
ec.:2bie blood purifier yet discovered. -
Il. .. johnson, .5o3 Atlantic aEon;,c,
}-ooAI-1, X \. II
kva. 4 c:soeeo~r.riI7o.,
;>'~a- = = 90 -&~A-N'-g3
o@e.i. 1-ass
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1888-02-28
Falling Health.

Ten years ago my health began to fail.
was troubled with distressing Cough,
Night Swea's, Weakness, and Nervous
ness. I tried various remedies pre-
scIibed by different physicians, but
became So weak that could not go up
stairs without stepping 30 rest. Ny
friends recommended me to Try Ayers
Sarsapariila, which I did, and ana now
as healthy and strong as ever. = Mrs.
e. l.. Williams, Alexandria. MINI.
I have used Ayers sarsapa-iila, in my
family, fer Scrofuia, and know, il il is
taken faithfully, that it will tnorouoh,y
eradicate tits terrible disease. I have
also prescribed It as tonic, as well rs IN
alterative, and must say that L honestly
believe it to be the best blood medicine
ever rcomPounded.-W. f. Fowler, VI. D..
n. ID. s., GreenYillc, Tenn.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1888-02-28
Beef, Lamb Mutton, Veal, Sausage, Etc.

My
toner AN a "a he asst
The cold By
sh njmoSo Tint n eS.afe.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1888-02-28
MISCELLANEOUS.
I he st Sign

OF falling health, whether in the form OF
Night Sweats and Nervousness, or IN o
sense Of General WEAKNESS and Loss ct
Appetite, should suggest tho use OF
Ayers sarsaparilie. This preparation
IS most effective for giving tona and
strength to the enfeebled system, pro-
motnS the digestion and assimilation CT
food, restoring the nervous forces to
their normal condition, and for purify
, 1888-03-27

1 saw some remarks upon this subject
the other day from an old trapper and
hunter which eeince a most thorough
knowledge of the matter, and which Co
incide in every particular with my own
personal experience.
He says: Il have hunted and trapped
the grizzly bear scores of times, and if
any one thinks there isn't peril rs well as
excitement in the sport, let him go out
into the grizzly's country and try it. 1
know that the grizzly bear, next to the
Indian, was the u9iiest customer thirty
years ago that the hunter had to deal
with. In those days we used to think
there was more danger in trapping the
grizzly bear than there was in chasing
him with the rifle.
There have been times when t%rappers
ave come up with the bear at the very
moment he has succeeded in tearing loose
from the trap. l know one man, James
Carver by name, who happened to reach
his grizzly ut such n time. The bear
made n rush, and before the compan-
ion who was with Carver realized the
situation the bear had torn Carver to
pieces.
81 heard some n say once that when
you have trapped a 1000 pound grizzly
you haven't caught a bear at all, but
simply the devil incarnate, and l tell you
that's pretty near the truth. Gen.
Marcy in Outing.
, 1888-03-27

The Chinese are fast extending their
telegraph system, and it will not be many
months before every town and hamlet of
any size in the empire will have a tele-
graph office. In extending the lines a
great deal of work has been necessary,
and several large rivers had to be crossed.
This was difficult work owing to the
great floods that at different seasons of
the year cause them to overflow their
banks and sweep everything before them.
Some of these rivers, when at the flood,
are from five to eight miles in width. In
extending the work across the rivers it
was found necessary to use the heaviest
kinds of cables, but at times these were
torn away and the work was delayed.
To offset this mishap a laid line was
built to high points and the wires were
run overhead. One of these overhead
cables has n span of 1000 yards. This
aerial line is the second longest in the
world. The offices are daily increasing,
and the work of construction is being en-.
gineered by Americans and Englishmen.
Much of the material used in the con-
struction of the system is manufactured
in this country.-Demorest's Monthly.
, 1888-03-27

Turks and Arabs occasionally come
through Castle Garden with designs on
America as a dwelling place, and they
generally stay and succeed right well.
They pick up the language in no time,
and are soon busy at small tobacco
stands, or in Oriental bazars and Turk
ish bath houses, or selling Turkish CON
fections and highly diluted altar of roses
on the streets and in shops and offices.
AS peddlers they get on beautifully.
Their handsome faces and Oriental man
ners draw nickels and quarters from
those they approach with magical celer-
ity. They always Eave a God be with
you," or a Peace be yours" aver for
those who resist their Establishments.
Their patience is something miraculous,
and their persistence is without the irri-
tating vulgarity which sometimes mars
the otherwise perfect symmetry of the
American born vender of small mer-
chandise, who becomes in time a bull
dozer of high degree. Only the male
Turks and Arabs engage in the scuffle
for bread. They usually discard their
twistiied names, and rechristen them
selves by some easy and comfortable
Christian name, such as Charley"
George" or civilian. New York
Press EVERY Day Talk"
, 1888-03-27

The running of rapids is the climax of
the voyageur's adventurous life. Even
the most experienced voyageur changes
color with excitement when he feels the
canoe crouch and spring, sway and dart
over the first swells of a rapid. The
voyageurs that 1 have known all pos
sessed keen observation, a cool Judgment,
and a decisive u of mind. In a small
canoe of, say twelve feet, without much
load, a man alone will kneel on the bot
tom about one-third of her length from
the stern, and paddle down a rapid pretty
well. But the typical crew in an
eighteen foot canoe consists of n captain
in the bow and a helmsman in the stern.
C. II. Farnham in Harper's Magazine.
, 1888-03-27

Col. Fred Grant and Robert Lincoln
were conversing in low tones in the Fifth
Avenue hotel corridor. Col. Grant pulled
a cigar out of his pocket and stuck it in
his mouth. From his trousers pocket he
drew forth a solid gold match box,
studded with diamonds. He touched the
biggest stone with his thumb and the
lid of the box flew open.
quite a match box" said Lincoln.
YES" said Col. Grant. at was
given to father by the sultan of Turkey.
L would not part with for the world. 1t
is very valuable. Father carried it for
years. Do you carry anything that was
precious TO your father7"
YES" was the reply, and the speaker
pulled out of his pocket an open face solid
gold watch.
at was given to father by mother"
said the speaker. The inscription read:
ITO Abraham Lincoln, from his loving
wife. Foster Coates Letter.
, 1888-03-27

Thousands of the ''unemployed' earn
no wages because they do not want to
work. They do odd jobs, they loaf, they
tramp, they pilfer, they steal, and so on
through the whole gamut of laziness and
vice. Why is this1 We have already
said. Human nature is far from perfect
yet. Many rogues are born; many
Others are easily turned into rogues by
circumstances. 1t is likely enough that
the instinct of evil living is transmitted;
it is certain that the contamination of
vicious surroundings has its natural eff
feet. Necessity holds the born felon in
n pitiless grip. Birth gives the infant
the fatal bent; home life develops it.
The unwieldy bulk of modern society is
traversed by hard lines of moral as well
as of social cleavage.
Crime runs into pockets like ore in
the mine. The Ishmaelites dwell alone
and propagate among themselves. There
Is nothing to alternate the vicious strain.
We have OF the fringe of the decent
population a class of creatures who, at
best, are worthless, and too often are
pure pests. 1t is recruited, but it is not
regenerated, from the outside; on the
other hand, it feeds the ranks of the
thriftless, the reckless, the ne'er-do-
wells. What must be the result of such
a state of things2 With a rapidly in
creasing population, with a greater mass
of poverty, a greater number of viciously
disposed people crowding into East
ends in all our great cities, what can we
expect from a continuance of the present
system of dealing with the criminal
classes? Reason answers that we are to
expect nothing but evil.-St. James
Gazette.
, 1888-03-27
Lending Keys to Strangers.

The wiles of the criminal classes are
often so ingenious that l can't help be-
lieving that if those who practice them
were to turn their energies into other
courses they would attain no small need
of honor and fame. Some little time
ago, for example, a burglar was caught
red handed in a strong room, opening a
safe with a key that could not have been
more perfect had it been supplied by the
maker of the lock. The man, after hav-
ing been convicted, was asked to say
how he had obtained the key.
Nothing easier" he replied. 1--WE
knew who carried the key and what it
was like, so me and my pals got into the
same railway carriage with your man
ager when he was going home one day.
One of us had a bag which he couldn't
open. Has any gentleman a keyP' he
asked. Your manager produced his
bunch, and my pal, who had wax in his
palm, while appearing to open his bag,
took a likeness of the key of the safe.
There's the secret for you."-Cassell's
Saturday Journal.
, 1888-03-27

Are any of the cents valuable9" Mr..
Richard Cogan was asked. "The date
that is usually considered most valua-
be-" he replied, lis the 1899; but the
highest price l ever knew to be paid for
N was for an 1904. 1t was n fine speci-
men-a bright red. This, unless a coin
has been secured or treated with vinegar,
shows that it is u~ncirculated, just as it
came from the mint. An old dealer can
tell in a moment when a coin has beer
'doctored.' People sometimes speak of
anything that is not worth much as mot
worth a red cent, but If that cent hap
pens to be Of a rare date its redness is
$50 in its owners pocket. This coin
brought $205. 1 think it was the high
est price even paid for a United States
cent. New York World.
, 1888-03-27

In the cafes and other public places
there were placards advertising American
wine presses, but l-saw none of them in
use. AT a farm house near us we looked
on mt h use of one of the old fashioned
Swiss presses. Under it lay a mighty
cake of grapes, stems and skins, crushed
into a common mass, and bullying further
beyond the press with each turn of the
screw, while the juice ran in a little rivu-
let into a tub below. When the press
was lifted the grapes were seen only half
crushed. Two peasants then mounted
the cake and trimmed it into shape with
long handled spades, piling the trimmings
on top, and then bringing the press down
again. They invited us with charming
politeness to taste the juice, but their
heavy boots bore evidence of too recent a
visit TO the cherished manure heap, and
we thanked them with equal courtesy.
This grape cake, when it had yielded
up its last drop, would be broken to
pieces and scattered over the fields as a
fertilizer. The juice would meanwhile
have been placed to ferment in the tuns,
twelve and thirteen feet deep, which lay
in the adjoining cellar Wv. d. Howells
in Harper's Magazine.
, 1888-03-27

A striking confirmation of the theory
of the source of supply of the artesian
waters has been observed at Tours, where
the water, spouting with great velocity
from a well 40 meters in depth, brings
up, together with fine sand, fresh water
shells and seeds in such a state of pres
ervation as to show that they could not
have been more than three or four
months on their voyage. Some of the
wells of the Wady Rir have also elected
fresh water mollusks, fish and crabs, still
living, which must, therefore, have made
a still more rapid transit. -Professor G.
A. Daubree in Popular Science Monthly.
, 1888-03-27

Tramp Ito fussy old gentleman)-Win
you give me ten cents, sir; I'm starving.
Pussy Old Gentleman producing a bilD
Dear me, starving. Can you change $12
Tramp-Yes, sir.
Pussy Old Gentleman pocketing the
change)-Dear, dear, starvingl Bless
me, but this world is full of misery i
The Epoch.
, 1888-03-27
NOCTURNE.

Soft night with the touch of a lo-er
Is waking the universe;
The forces of nature in chorus
A thousand responses rehearse.
The pale moon shining In heaven "
Draweth in rapture the main;
The stars go singing together,
Joining in loves refrain.
The warm night breezes whisper;
Gently murmurs the sea;
The earth feels loves heart beating
And trembles in ecstasy.
They oil to my soul are speaking;
Quiet and dumb / lie;
And yet, though my lips are silent,
Flashes my heart reply.
E. Knapp in Godey's Lady's Book.
, 1888-03-27
Eshimo Mourning cnstoms.

All the Eskimos are superstitious about
death, and, although they hold festivals
in memory of departed friends, they will
generally carry a dying person to some
abandoned hut to drag out his days in
hunger and neglect. After the death of
a husband or wife the survivor-among
the coast tribes, at any rate-cuts the
front hair short and fasts for twenty-five
days.-Chambers' Journal.
, 1888-03-27
Mistrcnted Her Doll.

a little girl who made too much noise
in the early morning in her sick mothers
room was put out in the hall, and soon
after n miserable old rag doll, of which
she was very fond, was tossed out to her.
This was the straw hat did it.
.Snatching up her beloved and hugging
it tightly in her arms, with streaming
eyes, she sobbed put to her grandma: Il
wouldn' a tared, but what has Judy
done2n-Boston Globe.