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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-02-24

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Morrison streets, Portland, Oregon.
February 10, 1888.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-02-24
The total Gales amounted to SIT 1902.

The Historian says that California
flour can be delivered in Astoria
cheaper than from Portland.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-03-15
AS 1T SHOULD BE.
A Little Story which Is Too Good to BE |
True.

A Little Story which Is Too Good to BE
True.
MY dear fellows" said a protected
manufacturer to his assembled en-
ployes last week. "tlie Government
has imposed duty upon the foreign
wares which compete with those we are
producing, and has thereby enabled
me to raise the price of our wares to
the American consumer. 1t has done
this expressly that might raise your
wages; and l am going. therefore. to
carry out the purposes which the Gov
ernment had in view in levying this
duty. From this date your wages are
raised ten per cent"
Our readers will find it difficult to
believe this story, and most of them
will utterly refuse to do so without
having the name and residence of the
manufacturer, and the evidence of his
employees Our readers will do well.
For tie story isn't true. 1t ought to
be. 1t would be if there were
any truth or honesty in the
plea under which the protectionists
have maintained the war tariff for a
score of years after the war ceased.
But there in no such thing as truth or
honesty in the plea and the story is
that the employees in all the protected
industries have got no increase of
wages in consequence of the tariff
They have occasionally wrung some
concessions from their protected en-
plOyers by threatening to strike or by
actually striking; but of voluntary in
crease of wages there has been none.
The sketch of the protected manufact-
urer is a purely imaginary one.
How much longer will the working
man support the war tariff, with its
fraudulent pretense that it benefits him
in wages. while in truth and in fact it
taxes him in respect to all the neces-
saries of life and does not affect his
wages one whit?-Detroit Free Press.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-03-15
A Picture OF Sherman.

Senator Sherman has not the ele-
ments of popularity that would make
him strong candidate if nominated
nor the active sympathy with the COM
mon people that would make him n
good President If elected We have
always thought Mr.. Sherman to be the
type of a sordid. selfish. avariciOus poll
itician, actively identified with tho
money power of Wall street, and with
out an atom of genuine feeling for the
poor or even for the people of moder-
ate means We have opposed his noini-
nation to the Presidency on these
grounds. because we have realized that
his cold and calculating character -
estimated at its true value by the peo-
pie of the United States, and therefore
that he would be about the weakest
candidate that the Republican party
could propose for the popular suffrage.
Chicago Tribune (ReP.).
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-03-15

tower bringing down stone and mortar
rafting about the ears OF the inmates.
Matteo called to them to quit the place.
As quickly as they had entered, so quickly
they issued forth-twenty-two in number.
Only three killed by that hail of death or By
the falling debrisl
The power and discipline exercised over
his sailors by the man Mstteo was almost
miraculous.
Totally unacquainted with the number
and strength OF their adVersaries, in the
face Of what might be certain and instant
death to the entire band, they Immediately
fell into line, and presenting an array two
ranks deep, on they came at full run, Matteo
leading and encouraging them, the front
rank keeping up q steady fire with re-
Volvers.
Twenty-Five splendidly- disciplined and
marvelously- men, all desperate
villains, against FIVE! But those tive-there
was no time for loading the cannon again
lying fat, kept up calling, deadly fire,
while the bullets of the Italians sped by
harmlessly, whistling over their heads like
80 many evil demons.
One by one they feI-twenty-one, twenty,
nineteenl Only eighteen now left!
Fire low and don't lose your headp'
yelled Nebbitt, as he ''dropped'' another
man.
Four more fell. And. now they were but
fourteen, but all men Of unusual physical
strength, led on by man of iron nerve and
muscle, himself equal to any five of them
fourteen desperadoes, liable at any moment
to be reinforced from the Vampa or by
wounded comrades who might, also, at any
moment, recover strength sufficient to rejoin
the fray.
Suddenly Matteo shouted:
''Come on, my meni They are only two or
three; and the fewer we are, in the end, the
larger each mans share of that treasure.
Drop bullets and take to your knives ~
''One more volleyl' cried Nebbitt, as he
fired his last cartridge, and down fell an
other of the assailants. ''Then grip for your
hVesW
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-03-15

SHOULD you ask whence comes Phil Sheridan.
Our sole reply should be:
From Albany, from Somerset,
And from beyond the sea.
Chicago Tribune.
The public is left utterly in the
dark as to MIR. Blaine's actual inten-
tions. His letter certainly does not
operate to take him out of the race
NJ y Commercial Advertiser (Rep.J.
1t has taken Mr.. Blaine some
time to read Alright the lesson OF thS
late election in this pivotal State. and
to acknowledge the futiIity OF his {
candidacy. But he has done it at last
N y World
After all that is said Of AlP,.
Blaine it must be acknowledged tha1
there is no other candidate whom the
monopolies and rings and combines
and trusts would so unanimously and
enthusiastically support - Chicago
Herald.
The noble sentiment of Mr.. Lin.
coln-deeply pathetic as it is now in
the light of all he suffered during long
years of conflict and of his death:
with malice towards none. with
charity for ALL" should blister tha'
tongues of the scheming demagogues
who appeal to his memory to aid them
in their campaign of malice and all
uncharitabieness. Y Times.
If he were nominated, John
Sherman's name would fall upon the
country with the chilling effect Of "A
polar wave. Just imagine the attempt.
70 oraafa aDfbu=iasn, in tho camnaiDn
with John Sherman's name ut the head
of the Republican ticket. The Sher-
man banners would be |ringed with
icicles and the brass bands would have
to play frozen music.-!Sk Paul Globe. .
Never swap horses in the middle
of stream. When Mr. Cleveland went
into office he found simply The ruins OF
good government. The Republic
ans had taken every thing that was
portable. The only things they lett
were out of reach. He began to cieans
up the house and get it into something
like order. 1t has been a difficult task
and it is only half done.-M j. Herald
(Ia1dJ.
Tho Republican party is the
apologist if not the euio@ist Of so-called
trusts, and has spent its strength in
defense of grasping monOpolies. 1t
voices a policy which protects pooled
capital and creates an aristOcS acy
that would divide our population into
two classes. the very rich-themselves
included in the number-and the very
poor, with the motto: 1.-THE devil take
the hindmost IN. T. Herald.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-03-15
ITO BE CONTINUED
A cosBLER'S WISDOM.

Tho Science Of Feet with National and
Individual PecuHarities.
eyes," said a gray-headed shoemaker, on
whose venerable forehead the bump Of
thought stood out like meeting house in a
fog, az have not been adjusting boots and
shoes to feet size too large for them all
my life without picking up many life-sized
nuggets Of wisdom. There is good deal to
be learned about feet, and have made a
close study of them for twenty years and
flatter myself have the science down finer
than Cleopatra's needle or anybody else.
have fitted shoes, sir, in every country Of
the world inhabited by the Caucasian race,
and I have fitted shoes to the feet OF every
nation on the globe except Hottentots and
Esquimaux"
The above monologue was fired at a re-
porter in a Market street shoe store in
which the speaker was proprietor, head
clerk and chief workman all in one.
1.-THE Spanish" continued Crispin, " are
generally supposed to have the prettiest
feet in the world, but do not think so, al
though they are certainly the smallest.
The foot is very slender and the instep ex-
traordinarily high, result in a very largo
measure of the constitutional antipathy of
the people to walking, as a Spaniard will
ride on horseback when he has to beg for a
living. The Germans have strong, stoclzy,
but many of them exceedingly shapely for
all that. The French foot is smaller boned
and rounder in outline, a graceful, agile
foot, not so slender as the Span
ish, but longer than the German. 1t
does not lack strength, but is more
remarkable for quickness and agili-
ty. All the distinguishing qualities Of
the nation are embodied in its make up. 1t
is no SLOUGH of foot. tell you. The Hol-
land foot is very different from either the
Teutonic or Gallo. 1t is longer than either
and lower. Ihave seen little thin Holland
women, but four feet high, with feet foot
long, as sure as you live. They have the
longest, lowest feet of any nation on the
globe except, perhaps, the negro, whose
foot exceeds the Holland in length of heel,
although it somewhat resembles it in gen
eral makeup. The Mexican foot is modi-
fication of the Spanish. 1t IS triie longer
and not quite so classical in outline. The
Chinese have a pretty foot, short, small
boned and quite shapely."
'1How about the American pedal extrem-
ltyr'
'.Ah! that is to a certain extent in forma-
ton, not fully crystallized into type. 1t is
a composite foot, lighter and daintier than
the English or Teuton, more nervous and
longer than the French, stronger and more
developed than the Spanish, fated to be the
finest, most shapely foot OF the world, and
partaking somewhat Of the good qualities Of
all. OF course, sir, there are individual
variations upon all these types, but would
bet all have got that if / had In a room
one hundred representatives Of the lead
ing atoms and could only see their feet
could tell the nationality of each every
time.'-St Louis GlOoe-DemOcrGt.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-03-15
COMING INTO CAMP.
Honest Republicans EnthusIastIc0IIT EoIa-
ing the DemocratIc Rankh


ing the Democratic RAnkA
Colonel Charles p Goldman, the
well-known Massachusetts Liberal Re
publican. who supported Cleveland in
1884. made speech to the Norfolk
Club" the other evening. in which he
announced his utilization with the Dem
Ocratic party. He said:
HI confess that every day I am drawn by
bands that can not resist 10 range myself In
the ranks OF the old Democratic party. [Great
applause-1 / had been feeling for Z number OF
years discontinued with my party associations;
dissatisfied with much that was go .ng on in the
Republican party: dissatisfied more especially
with what seemed its inevitable tendency,
namely, 30 become the champion OF the pres.
emit high tariff. with which had been for years
utterly disguste1- And il only needed the nom
ination OF Mr.. Blaine to let that discomfort ex-
press itself II 1 am acting with the Demo-
crat party to-day IL Is because believe the
Democratic party Is returning TO its FIRST love.
AS remember II in It's early days, IL was the
party that was opposed TO the taxing OF 10
people for the benefit OF the few monopolies.
and that is. believe. the principle OF Abe Dem
ocratic party to-day, and it is for LhiA reason
range myself with them"
That is the way it strikes many
other sensible and patriotic Repub-
licars. The fact is that the Repub-
ncan party in its inception was COM
posed largely of Democrats who were
willing for time to subordinate their
principles so far as economical quess
tions were concerned to their supreme
desire to check the growth of the in
stitution of slavery. After the abOli-
ton Of slavery they no longer had
any thing in common with the Re-
publican party. Tho subserviency OF
that party to monopoly. its reckless
and wasteful administration of the
National finances, its neglect to re-
lieve the people of unnecessary and
oppressive taxes, its gifts of vast areas
of the public domain to speculative
corporations, its theft of the Presi-
dency in 1876, and its final resolution
to oppose the reduction of the war
tariff. have operated to drive back to-
their old love many of those who left
the Democracy during the anti-slaverv
excitement and the war period. And
they are still coming. Besides. there
are thousands of original Republicans
who admire the integrity and man
illness of President Cleveland. and
who will cheerfully support his re-
election. Colonel Goldman is simply
pioneer in the movement of this class
of Republicans toward the Democracy.
Harrisburg Pa. } Patriot
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-03-15

Doubtless the rufhans, long ere this, had
rified Haydee's "strong-box'' and learned
the secret of the hiding place of her treas
ure. Their vessel was slow and their coal
supply probably short. If, he could only
reach England and Nebbitt in eight daysl
1.-THE Namovna," then, could not fail to sight
Tang1ers before them.
90 Tocer FL Baba''-he clearly recalled the
ruined tower, as it looked on that sweet
winters day, when merry party from the
house OF the Greek merchant picnicked be-
meath its crumbling walls on the shores of
the billowy Atlantic. The "Namovna' could
easily land her crew opposite to it and await
the coming of the villains.
Ayei But time was shortl And what he
did, that he must do quicklyi
Taking her ring, her locket and that
matchless necklace of pearls, he stood by
Haydee's PROSTATE form, and raising them
high in his hand to heaven, swore a mighty
oath:
"Above thy body, dead girl-O Haydee,
whose love passeth the love of ali women
/ swear that thy wealth shall be used only
as thy noble heart itself would have die
tated. I swear that forever and forever
shall this the long-kept secret of thy love for
me be buried and hidden from man. And,
once again, 1 swear that on the finger,
throat or bosom of woman shall never again
rest this ring, this locket or this necklace
until Natalie, the Hohenzollern, give me
her heart and handr'
So saying, he found followed spot
among the rocks, wherein he reyerertly
laid the twain, mistress and slave, and be-
side them the faithful bird, and, over all
that was left Of the household of the dead
Greek merchant prince, heaped a pile of
stones high in air, committing their bodies
to earth, from whence they sprung, and
their souls to God who gave them.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-03-15

CHAPTER XXX1.-CONTINUED.
The Nubian's garments were all torn and
shred so that they scarcely hung together.
But Fairfax found a small scrap OF parch-
ment-evidently that from which the main
portion had been rent in Ais struggle with
the murderers pinned tightly to the fan
mel over his chest.
That was all
But in that little scrap lay the fate of
Arthur Fairfax-countless millions or moth
ingl For it afforded the only clue by which
he could ever hope to find the treasure
trove.
His fingers trembling with excitement
and his face as pale as that Of ghost, he
fumbled at the pin, seeking to remove it,
then, with mighty effort, nerved himself
to meet fortune-or defeatl
A rapid look, an upward glancing Of the
eye, short, quick sobs and fast-falling tears
what meant they! Let the reader decide
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-03-15
THE ToPMosT RoUoH.

SAT want the fruit Of the topmost bough.
Who cares for the prize that costs no painf
What boots the bay on the lght-pressed
brow?
IT'S the iron crown as of Charlemngne;
ETis the palace girt with the lion guards;
The Eden beyond the stormy sea;
Let those give way whom the toll retaros,
But the strife and the heat and the dust for
mel
kThere is Alexander's bitter tear
Ger the lack OF worlds for the vlcscrs
quest;
There is Cromwell stretched on his gorgeous
bier,
Taking his first and his only resti
There is Milton, blind TO the suns of time,
Star-eved, in jasper courts at last;
Like the bird that steers through the azure
cline
To the eyre with hard-won repast
~Iwant the fruit of the topmost bough;
Let him who trembles desert the fray;
think OF the crown on the victor's brow.
And not of the lions that guard the way.
For the time Is short and the arm Is frail,
And the bark may weather no other gaze;
And the dews of death may be gathering now;
But my gaze Is fixed on that topmost bowl
III want the fruit on the topmost bough-
tbs a dizzy height and it's lonely there;
But the breezes play Ger the weary brow,
And the fruit OF that bough is fair-so fai-i
Can rest and dream while shred OF LIE,
w nile d spark Oh nOpc II iOAS w A-O.
Is this the may to the need of strifef
Is this the Eden beyond the seaf
yin the marble efigy and bust
read but a dream of the prize seek;
For, spite of 1t all. it is dust to dust
A willing mind, but a frame that's weak.
Do call memorials like these
A fitting prize for the deafness souif
Is this the fruit long to seize?
Is this my star, my crown. my goalf"
Nh -aarv heart If he furn
From the maze OF doubt and the 66st OF
strife,
And look, for once, on the empty urn
And the wide-strewn ashes OF vanished life;
And then, beholding thy better hope,
In starward gaze and with dauntless brow,
Seek the pearly gates which the angels ope-
This is the fruit of the topmost bough.
-HiHiGnl b. Chisholm, in ". Y. Observer.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-03-15
CHAPTER xXx1L.

THE RUINED TOWER, Ell BABA"
Night had long since fed and the broad,
bright sun was now shining with all the
glorious effulgence Of morning
Fairfax recognized the shore as that of a
remote, deserted island, of which there are
many OF the coast of Maine.
His pains grew more and more intense.
Suffering the most exquisite torture, he
Strengthened out and set the bent arm,
while the bones cracked and grated and
gritted one against the other. Constructing
rough spiint, he bound it about the arm
with strips of clothing
Besides the torture from his wounds, the
pangs OF hunger now began to trouble bin.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-03-15

Nearer and nearer came the stranger.
Finally, the two vessels met and passed
close TO each other, perhaps four and half
miles from the shore. With bated breath
and straining eyes, the little party watched
the sNamovna-" She pursued an onward
course, veering neither to port nor star
board
sits the vampaI' cried they together
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-03-15

walls ready TO pick on 1t their couvsassnss
five unprotected foesi
In an instant both Nebbitt and Fairfax
sprang to their feet, amid that whining
hail of lead, and, each sighting cannon,
pulled the strings
Two broad, binding sheets Of fame shot
out far into the darkness, lighting it far and
wide, and, with roar like thunder, each iron
tube hurled out OF its huge throat mass OF
shot and grapnel that went screeching and
tearing and plunging through the dilapi-
dated arches and windows of the crumhiin
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-03-15

with these cannon, we five men ought to
annihilate them, if need be. So advise
you not increase the number of your con-
hdants. Your brother, Oxford and Roger
and myself are quite enough to let into the
secret of this vast wealth.
Near night-fan faint line Of smoke was
seen curling up-ard some fifteen or sixteen
miles to the northwest Nebbitt. who had
returned to the yacht, said to the Captain:
suppose you steam out about SIX knots
an hour, and meet that craft If she is the
Vanpa, signal to me by passing her, with
out altering your course; and don't return
till morning II it is not the Vampa, come
back at once"
On steamed the .sNamovna," the Eve men
observing her from their hiding place
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-03-15

A srREEr-cAR Of Ansonia, Conn, was the
scene of a queer little episode the other day.
The car was OF the ''bob-tail'' variety in
which the fares are deposited In box by
the passengers A young lady unused to
the system dropped in a larger coin than
the requisite fare, and being unable 70
get any return from the driver, stationed
herself at the car door and played conductoE
until she was reimbursed
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-03-15

WHENEVER q man says, snow, Pm not
bit superstitious,'' prepare yourself for
hair-raising ghost story or q renarksbl1
dream philadelphia Cal.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-03-15
CHAPTER XXXL-CoNr1NuEp.

copyrighted, 1887. by O. " Dillingham; Al
Rights Reserved.l
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-03-15
BAR HARBOR.
A Wild, Weird Tale Of Love
and Adventure.
By AMOS LEE.

PUBLISHED BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT WITH
THE AUTHOR.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-03-15
CURRENT COMMENTS.

SHOULD you ask whence comes Phil Sheridan.
Our sole reply should be:
From Albany. from Somerset
And from beyond the sea.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-02-16
No More Nrother-in-Law In Hi..

PHILADELPHIA, Feb 10.-The American
line steamship British Prince, Captain
NOVEL;, arrived at her dock yesterday
from Liverpool and Queenstown, after a
stormy passage Of fourteen days, with
one hundred and sixty-eight passengers.
Emigrant Inspector Rodgers detained
Mary Hunter, ON old Scotch woman,
under the pauper act. About ten
days ago q man called on Mr.. Rodgers
and informed him he expected his
wife on the Prince. He told MIR. Rodgers
she was accompanied by her mother, and
he did not wish her to be permitted to
land here, as he could not keep her and
she had no means of support. The man
was compelled to fee to this country to get
rid of his mother-in-law, who made IL
very unpleasant for him. The daughter
was landed, but the old woman is held on
board the ship and will be returned.