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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-05-03
GENERAL.

DURING the last fortnight the American
donations to the National League have
amounted to $4,000. The donations of the
home branches of the league in the same
| time reach e3S7.
The creditors of Colonel Mapleson, the
London operatic manager, have accepted
an offer OF $500 in settlement of all his
debts
LORI WoLsELEY, at a banquet to Sir
John Fender in London recently, disap-
proved the present army and navy sys-
tenn, which he said would sooner or later
land the country in disaster. Undoubt
eddy the reason for this could be found in
the system of government by party, the
curse of modern England, which, he said,
was sapping the manly honesty formerly
characteristic of her statesmen.
THE Queen of England arrived at Char
lottenburg on the morning of the 24th and
Immediately visited the sick Emperor of
Germany. The latter rallied somewhat
after the interview, but relapsed again at
night.
THE report of the committee OF the French
Chamber of Deputies, which considered
the Panama lottery loan proposal, recon-
mends that permission be immedi lately Civ
en- to the company to issue the loan and
expresses confidence in the early compile
ton of the canal.
THE London Chronicle announces the APP
preaching marriage of Mr.. Joseph Cham
berlain to Miss Endicott, who met and
formed an attachment to the Birmingham
statesman during his visit to the United
States.
ADvICEs from Labrador state that seal
and other fishing there the past winter was
extremely good.
THE British Parliament has refused to
pass the Irish County Government bill to
second reading.
The directors of the Chicago, Milwaukee
& st. Paul Railway Company have elected
General Manager Roswell Miller president
to succeed the late Alexander Mitchell.
CoNFLIcrING reports were current on the
25th regarding Hon. j. g. Blaine's health.
Walker Blaine emphatically denied that
his father was in any way sick, and said
that he went to Europe for pleasure and
not for the benefit of his health.
THE Manitoban Government is negotiat-
ing for loan of 81, 500, 900 TO complete the
Red River Valley road aud cover the de-
felt.
The Pennsylvania. Massachusetts and
Arizona Republican conventions have
chosen Blaine delegates. The Texas dele
cation will stand divided
SERIOUS prairie fires are reported at sew
eral places in Manitoba.
A DISPATCH from Nancy says riot broke
out there on the Goth, mob of Boulanger-
lists attacking the students clubs with
stones and other missiles A number OF
policemen were injured before quiet was
restored.
PARNELL recently expressed himself as
confident of Irish home rule in the near
future.
QUEEN VICTORIA left Berlin for London
on the Goth.
EMPEROR FREDERICK was reported much
better by his physicians on the Seth. His
appetite was returning and his recovery
was thought probable.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-05-03
Died From q BLOW.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo-, April ga tie
rafter, named Sommers, died at Usage
City, eight miles below here, this morning,
under peculiar circumstances. He was on
tie raft with two other parties, and, ac-
cording TO the story of his companion, a
sparring match was arranged Sunday. and
Sommers received blow on the side or the
mead from which he did not recover. He
was left at Usage City last night, and his
companions proceeded on down without
any further explanation. Captain G. S.
Robey, an old river man, found Sommers
n dying condition, and autographed to
his city for DIR. N. De WyI who went
iown on the night train, but Sommers was
fast dying. He never recovered.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-05-03
Murdered by vlgIIantes.

BELvIDERE, Kan, April 26.-The murder
Of w. L. Ashley and Eugene Grove, of this
place, in the Indian Territory has been con-
hrmed. They hired a team to go to the
Nation on a hunting and prospecting
tour. Near Englewood, L T.,
they were met by vigilantes, who
took Grove, and without warning, hanged
him to a saping. Ashley drew his Win
chester and opened fire. They murdered
him at once, fifteen balls piercing his body
They had two women companions, and
what has become OF them and the bodies
can not be conjectured- Sheriff Olesen
says he can not find trace Of them
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-05-03
WASHINGTON NOTES.

INDIAN AGENT GREGORY, who was under
investigation by Senate committee, has
resigned.
The Supreme Court OF the United States
has rendered an opinion in case No. 213,
the Missouri Pacific Railway Company,
plaintiff in error, VS.. Patrick Mackey, in
error from the Supreme Court of Kansas.
The defendant was employed by the rail-
road company and was injured by the neg
ligence of one of the company's engineers.
He brought suit and recovered damages.
The judgment of the Supreme Court of
Kansas was affirmed.
THE President on the 23d vetoed three
more pension bills.
THE President has approved the act for
a bridge across the Mississippi river at
Memphis; the act facilitating the prosecu-
ton of works projected for the improve
ment of the rivers and harbors, and the act
granting the right of way to the Duluth,
Rainy Lake River & Southwestern Rail
way Company through certain Indian
lands in the State of Minnesota
DIR. MCMAsTER, n veterinary surgeon,
was fined in Washington recently for
docking two horses tails belonging to
attaches of the British Legation.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-05-03
ANOTHER CYCLONE.
Pratt, Kan, Has Another Visitation From
the Storm, King.

the Storm King.
PRATT, Kan, April N.-The severest
nail ram and thunder storm, accompanied
by lightning, ever known in this section.
VISITED this unfortunate little city yester-
lay afternoon. Bolts of lightning re-
sembling pillars of fire swept from sky to
earth, emitting deafening roars OF thunder.
One fash struck the blacksmith shop of p.
Edigo, tearing off the roof and completely
demolshing the building. At five o'clock
a cyclone came from the south, and was
viewed by the terrified people as it swayed
and tossed its black columns. Women be-
came panic stricken, and ran through the
streets with children in their arms wild
with fright and shrieking for help. The
cyclone spared the eastern edge of the
town, a portion thinly populated, and
passed in a northerly direction, demolish-
ing several houses and barns. William
Fishers residence was torn to splinters
and scattered for half mile. His wife
was picked out of the ruins and fatally in
jured. A number Of others, including
William Breer, Dave Small, Mrs. Howell
and others were injured by flying timbers
and debris. This is the secoR cyclone
that has visited this unfortunate town this
spring.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-05-03
FREDERICK MUCH BETTER.
Favorable Signs Present Themselves High
Compliment to DIR. Mackenzie.

Favorable Signs Present mountaineering
Compliment to DIR. Mackenzie.
BERLIN, April pa bulletin issued yes
terday morning says: "The Emperor slept
well last night. His fever is very slight
and his general condition begins to i'm
prove" At noon his appetite was improv-
ing and his general condition was salts
factory. During the day the Emperor was
out OF bed four hours and his temperature
was almost normal His sense of taste,
which he lost during the critical period, has
returned. and this is regarded eX-
ceptionally favorable sign. He seems bet
ter IN every respect. The physicians are
Of the opinion that the crisis has passed.
The Emperor discussed affairs of State
with Generals Won Schellendorff and Won
Albedyll- Profs. Bergman and Leyden
signed the bulletins. Prof. Leyden, on
talking OF DIR. Mackenzie to a friend, said
that no doctor could have treated the En-
peror in IA more humane or skillful manner.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-05-03
THE SOUTH.

THE rumors current North about yellow
fever in South Florida, are SAID to be false
There has been mild type of fever at
Plant City all winter, resem bling yellow
fever but the disease has terminated the
last case being convalescent last week.
ED HALL, colored, was abusing his wife
recently at Osceola, Ark, when she fed to
Frank Warren's place. Hall demanded
that she be driven out and Warren refused,
when Hall produced a shot gun and blew
Warren's head of.
A HAILsToRM OF remarkable severity
passed over Mobile, Ala, and adjacent
country on the 23d and was followed by
heavy rain The rainfall was az inches,
the greatest in so short time ever record
ed at the signal Office.
BEssEMER, Ala, was reported in the
Gath. They had set the place on fire in re-
venge for the lynching of one of their num-
Der for an attempted outrage.
SERIOUS results followed frost on the
nights of the Gath and 25th in Virginia.
THE trouble at Bessemer, Ala. over the
lynching of Hardy Posey, a negro, was
much exaggerated. AT night on the 25th
matters had quoted down, but consldera-
BILE alarm existed. -
JUDGE T. B. MACKIBBEN. of Campbell
County, KY, was found dead III his bed at
Newport. O., recently, with an empty
choral bottle at his side.
ELIAS A. RIEs, Baltimore electrician
has filed patents for heating dwellings by
electricity. His idea is said to be ent RELY
new The heat is produced by secondary
or transformed currents.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-05-03
THE EAST.

BY the burning of barn on Mrs. Ellen
Buolzminister's farm, near South Vine
land, N. j., the other day, her aged mother
and her ten-year-old son persisted.
A CHANGE of venue has been refused to
Kerr, the New York street railway mag
nate, indicted with Jacob Sharp for brib-
cry.
THE Roman Catholic Cathedral at ALLIE
gheny City, Pa, was dedicated on the 22d.
THE final arrangements for the purchase
of the Stewart mansion in New York by
the Manhattan Club have been made The
price agreed upon was $500, 0O0
THE steamer Catalonia, loaded with John
L. Sullivan, arrived at Boston on the oath
FIRE in the upper stories of the fat build
ing No. 15S East Twenty eighth street, New
York, the other night, caused the death,
by burning, of Mrs. Lizzie Cook. Several
other people were severely burned or had
legs broken by jumping from windows.
The pecuniary damage was small.
THE keystone Investment Company, of
Philadelphia. virtually big bucket shop,
has gone to the wall with 500, 900 liabilities
and no assets.
THE New York Board of Aldermen has
passed over Mayor Hewitt's veto the reso-
luton curtailing his power in the matter of
displaying flags on the City Hall. This is
the outcome of the st. Patrick's day row.
THE body of ex- Governor John T. Hoff-
the steamer Fulda, of the North German
Gloyd's line.
F. B. BLAKE & Co., coal commission mer-
chadts of New York, have made an assign
ment Liabilities 100000 to $4,000, of
which a considerable portion is said to be
due to banks which hold the firms paper.
THE high school building and the Unitar-
ian Church at Concord, N. H, were en-
tirely destroyed by fire recently. All the
children escaped in safety. The loss was
$4,000.
SIX laborers were buried in a trench and
killed at Yonkers, N. j., recently. a
water pipe burst, causing the ground 10
cave in.
BIZ fire in a boarding house on Twenty
eighth street, New York, the other morn
ing four servants were badly hurt.
The machine and pattern shop of the
Delamater iron works in New York were
burned recently; loss 100000.
NEARLY every saloon in College Point, L.
L, about fifty in number, has discontinued
the sale of pool beer. Labor organizations
were insisting on the boycott.
GENERAL ABRAHAM MERRITT, a retired
merchant of Nyack, N. Y, committed sui
eide in the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York
City, the other night.
THE Atlantic engine works at East Bos-
ton were nlrned recently. Loss heavy.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1888-08-01
SOME DETROIT ARTISTS
Carl MELcHER's PICTURE IN THE
PARIS SALON.
WHAT THE CRITIC or FIGARO SAYS
RorsHovks. THE rvKs. RATION, HOP
KINs. AND OTHERS.

With the present rejoicing over Mr..
Melchers' success at the last Paris salon,
our readers may be glad to have the fol.
lowing extracts which relate TO his pic
ture.
The first Is from letter written by Miss
Ellen X. Baker, who herself has picture
among the thousands admitted to this
exhibition, and who judges from an
artists standpoint, without any personal
acquaintance with the artist. She saws In
this letter: "Your Detroit boy, Carl
MeIcheu, has without doubt the best
American picture In the salon. II Is called
The Pilots -Four or I've stolid old
chaps are sitting around q table near a
window; one Is amusing himself with the
model OF ship and some smoke. One
can see they arc not ganulous men, but
cool, intrepid and used 10 danger. The
types are excellently chosen and full OF
character. II Is not u picture to tickle the
fancy, but thoroughly good. Detroit
ought to buy II for its new gallery"
The next Is from the pen OF the able
critic OF the Paris Figaro, who says, after
mentioning tho great influence OF the
French school on all foreign artists, and
acknowledging reactionary influence from
only ione-Josef Israels: "The best pict-
ure by foreigner, The Pilots OF NJ.
Melchers, sings the praise OF the modern
French school. IL is at Paris, IN our
salons, that he has caught the simplicity
OF the misc ca scene and the sober execu-
tion. He could not have been thus devel-
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1888-08-01

Doubtless there are many people who
will visit Detroit during the exhibition 70
whom sny hint a. TO how TO reach the
museum building will BE- OF more or lee
value. To snch we will say that II you
come In over the Michigan Central, Flint
a Pere Marquette, or Detroit & Lansing
railroads you will arrive at the Michigan
Central station. from which the Jefferson
avenue cars run directly past the
museum, which Is on jefferson avenue
at the corner OF Hastings street.
The distance from the station to the niue
cum Is about three-quaters OF mile. II
you come over the Grand Trunk or Detroit.
Grand Haven 4 Milwaukee railroads you
viii arrive at the Brush street station. A few
minutes walk directly up Brush street
will bring you TO jefferson avenue and
only three blocks distant from the
museum. The Wayne hotel and Grimm
house are directly opposite the Michigan
Central station. To reach the other
hotels take the Jefferson avenue street
ear line, changing at Woodward avenue.
The Congress street line will also carry
visitors past the Griswold house, and
the Cass avenue line runs from the Michi-
gen Central station past this hotel, tho
Brunswick. and within one block OF tho
Russell house and the Hotel Cadillac.
Arrangements are made for caring for
packages In the basement OF the museum
building at merely nominal charge.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1888-08-01

gifts. and IL has thus been left free TO ex.
pend its funds In the purchase OF works OF
art. Its valuable gifts have won for Il
even European reputation, since day
has done for Now York what years did not
do for any old country gallery.
Among the many gifts 10 the museum
are the following: Thirty thousand dol.
lars from Henry @. Marquand, one OF tho
trustees, for an art school fund: 10000
from Gideon II. T. Reed for the same pur-
pose; 100000, gift by bequest of w, III.
Vanderbilt, for an endowment fund; over
5000 for library fund, from two gentle
men; over $4,000, the bcquest OF Levi II.
Willard, for the purchase OF architectural
Illustrations; "The Horse FAIR by Rosa
bonheur, purchased by Cornelius Vandcr-
Dit for $4,000 and presented 10 the
museum; the noted "Frledland," by
Mcissonior purchased at the Stewart sale
by Judge Hilton for eco, 900 and presented
70 the museum; noted Reynolds, pre-
Rented by Junlus S. Morgan, cost about
$4,000; Miss Catherine LorIllard Wolf
gave her entire collection OF oil paintings
Ind also her water-color drawings, and for
the preservation OF these and future in
crease OF tho collection So00,O Mr..
George sency has given 90 valuable oil
paintings; and Mr.. William schaus and
various members OF his family have en-
riched the gallery with gifts In sculpture
and painting.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1888-08-01
THOUGHTS ON ART.
srh JOHN EvKRETT nILLkrs IN THE xAoA-
ZINE or AIT ron Au0usr


ZINE or Art ron AUGUST.
am emphatically OF opinion that the
beat art OF modern times is as good AZ
any Of lie kind that has gone before, aud
furthermore, that the best art OF England
can hold It's own against the world. II ID
manifestly impossible TO make Just com
PARSONS between the widely divergent
styles OF the ancient and modern masters,
| or 10 attempt TO strike balance between,
say, Rubens and Hogarth; but to say that
the old alone Is good bctrays great lack
OF Judgment and is an ingratitude 10 the
living. Ability and talent are more abund-
ant than ever; but In forming an opinion
OF them the critic falls into two great
errors-the first. In forgetting that the
form and demands OF art have changed
aud expanded with the advance Of time:
and the second, In failing--unconsel
OF course-to judge of the great works
OF the past, with which he compares
those OF the present, IN fair and proper
manner. He makes noellowances for the
charm OF mutilation or the fascination Of
decay.
The only way 10 Judge Of the treasures
the old masters OF whatever age have
lett us--whether In architecture, sculp-
ture, or painting-with any hope OF sound
deduction, Is 10 look at the work and ask
oneself" What was that like when It was
newf" The Elgin marbles arc allowed by
common consent to be the perfection OF
art. But how much OF our feeling OF
reverence Is inspired by timer Imagine
the Parthenon as II must have looked
with the frieze OF the mighty Phidas
fresh from the chisel. Could one behold
i In all It's pristine beauty and splendor
we should see a white marble building,
binding In the dazzling brightness OF
southern sun, the figures OF the exquisite
freze In all probability painted--thcre is
more than a suspicion OF that-and the
whole standing out against the intense
blue sky; and many OF US, / venture 10
think, would cry at once, Chow ex-
cessively crude"
No; time aud varnish are two of the
greatest OF old masters, and their merits
and virtues are too often attributed by
critics. do not OF course allude to the
professional art critics-to the painters OF
the pictures they have toned and
mcllowed. The great artists all painted
IN bright colors, such as II is the fashion
nowadays for men 20 decry as crude and
vulgar, never suspecting that what they
applaud In those works is merely the re
suit OF what they condemn In their con
temporaries. Take case in poInt--the
"Bacchus and Ariadne,r In the National
gallery, with It's splendid red robe and its
rich brown grass. You may rest assured
that the painter OF that bright red robe
never painted the grass brown. He saw
the color as 1t was, aud painted II as II was
distinctly green; only 1t has faded with
time to It's present beautiful mellow color.
Yet many mon, nowadays, viii not have
picture with green in It; there are even
buyers who when giving commission 10
an artist will stipulatc that the canvas
shan contain none OF Il. But God
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1888-08-01
TREASURES FOR THE MUSEUM.

The "Forty Immortalsn are TO be con-
graduated that they do not enter their
temple Of art wholly empty handed. With
the Marriage OF st. Catherine" which
was sent them by Pope Leo XIII. as
prenatal gift, the Martyrdom of st. An
drew by Murillo, and seaport view by
Claude Lorraine, both purchased by Mr.
James Il. Scripps at the Leigh court sale
in London in 1884 and presented by him
10 the museum the same year, there Is no
lack OF cold masters"
Add TO these a fine collection OF Braun's
autotypes presented by Mr.. George W.
Balch, q pen and ink sketch by Michael
Angelo OF man seated, and another by
Raphael from his Vatican tapestry group
Paul and Barnabas at Lystra--both the
gift OF Mr. James Il. Scripps, and there Is
anucleus for collection Of original draw
ings and reference photographs. The
series OF etchings, presented by Miss Avery,
OF the Franciscan missions Of California
by Henry G. Ford pave tbs way TO his
torical records Of things that are rapidly
passing away even In our new country
while the Rembrandt Peal ("The Court of
Death'D, presented by Mr.. George
scripps, Is a very good commencement
for a complete chronological series OF
works by leading American artists. Some
OF these are already represented, such as
+. d. MIllet, in his Reading the Story OF
Enone" "a picture that was much
admired by visitors at the old Art Loans
and afterward, through the proceeds of
the Loan and private subscription, pre-
sented TO the society; f. X. NJ. REIN Of
Now York, In "The Missing VESSEL
purchased with the proceeds OF the last
exhibition in 1886; j. G.. Browns "sur-
prise Party" purchased by the trustees
from the exhibition at the Detroit club.
and a bequest OF the late William w.
Murphy (who was for many years United
States consul at Frankfort-on-the-M MANI.
of an ideal landscape by frankfort artist,
A. Morgenstern.
With these valuable pictures on hand,
aud the collection OF casts ordered, there
Is no doubt that the Dsroit Museum OF
Art viii rapidly amass treasures TO Oil its
new building.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1888-08-01

The nations and colonies which admit
works OF art free are Austria, Belgium,
Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, tho
Netherlands, Italy, Sweden, Great Britain,
India, New South Wales and Victoria.
Russia imposes tax OF 30 cents per 30
pounds on certain staiuary, but includes
pictures, curiosities aud articles mot hav-
ing the usual qualifications OF merchan-
disc on the free list. China has tax OF
0 per cent on works OF art, II for sale; and
Turkey charges 40 cents pound on pic
lures, and allows the importation of
% pounds OF statuary for 81.
This is splendid idea - taxing
sculpture and paintings by the poundi
How could our solons in congress have
let their rivals OF the Celestial kingdom so
get ahead Of themS Portugal collects 8
per cent on paintings aud per cent on
statues, and Spain gets a specific duty Of
10 cents of every picture, and seven
cents Oft every 10 pounds OF statuary Inn
ported. Hawaii and Corea collect 10 per
cent adj valorcm. New Zealand, 10, and
Canada, following bad example, 90.
Mexico. however only exacts 90 cents
per kilogram Of paintings and eight cents
per kilogram OF statuary. Honduras lays
a tax OF ti 30 pound ON all art Near
aqua Al cents pound ION paintings), San
Salvador, 8 per cent al valorcm, and
Ecuador four cents a pound. The Art
amateur.