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Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1888-07-04
From Kansas.

A woman in Kansas had to have her
tongue slit the other day on account Of
a cancer. 1t was at first feared that she
would lose the power of speech, but she
has since fully recovered, and can now
talk on different subjects in two Ian
guages at the same time She is unable
to sleep, however, as both Of her tongues
are striving to get II the last word.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1888-07-04
METHODIST EPISCO,
CATHOLIC
SECRET SOCIETIES.
N M and A III.

A. T. and A. M.
Olive Branch.lod No. AZ. A. f. and A. NJ,
Ssurgis Regular communication first and third
Wednesdays of each month. Visiting brethren
cordially invited. }. L. POTTER, w. NJ.
Avon fLossMAS, Sec.
]. o. o. F.
Rare Butte lodge No. rs, ]. o. O. F., Sturgis,
meets Saturday evenings. Visiting brethren cor
daily invited. MAX BLATT, N. u.
JAS. A. HOWARD, Sec.
G. A. r.
Jack G. Sturgis post No ~, G. 4. f., meets the
first and third Saturday evenings in each month,
mt G:sO, at Library hall, Fl Meade. d. L.
VS.. HORTON, Commander.
T. JOHNSON Adiutant.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1888-07-04
G.. A. r.
sTURGIs PosToFFIcE.

Below are the hours at which the mails arrive
and close Northern closes a:26 a. M; arrives
ya a, M Southern closes 1:i0 p. M; arrives m
Houfs:-Dsily. from a. m. to p. m. Sunday
from 9i5 TO 10f5 a. m. and 2:15 to 3:1o p. m.
ON week days only. No registery business done
On Sunday e. w. PRATT,
III p. ATWATEar Asst Postmaster.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1888-07-04
CHURCH DIRECTORY.
PRESBYTERIAN.

PRESBYTERIAN.
Services every Sabbath morning Mt II o'clock,
mud o'clock in the evening Sunday school at
~ a M w. A. ECHoLs, Pastor.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL.
Services every Sunday evening at 7:l5. Sum-
day school at o'clock. Z. c. WARREN, Pastor.
GRACE MISSION (EPISCOPAL(.
Eyensong with sermon every Sunday evening
in The Opera House at s o'clock. Morning SER
vice on first Sunday in each month at II o'clock.
All are cordially invited.
E.J. III. VANDEERLIN,
Priest in Charge.
CATHOLIC.
High pass every Sunday morning at 1880.
Sunday school at p. m. +. ROsEN; Pastor.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1888-07-04
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An Apt Scholar.


Papa Clearing crash in the jell
pantry Here, Tommy, what's up"
Tommy with charming innocence y
Papa, I cannot tell a lie. According TO
grammar ups either noun, adjective
or proposition Detroit Free Press.
Edison is now working ON an cleo
trical flying machine which the Spanish
government has commissioned him to
construct for the purpose of observation
in time of war. The lifting and propell-
ing machinery will consist Of revolving
fans to which power will be supplied
through wire connecting with an cleo
trio dynamo on the earth. No doubt
aerial navigation to the length of a wire
is practicable, but inventive genius will
hardly be content to rest thus circum-
scribed Man certainly will yet be able
to soar through the air as freely as the
feathered portion OF creation.
/ A fact not generally known is given
by the Scientific American. It is that
coal is found in about thirty different
states and territories. Rhode Island
produced about 6,O00 tons last year.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-08-09
THE DRESSED BEEF MONOPOLY.

An Illinois farmer thus addresses the
Breeder'e Gazette on the dressed beef
question:
81 have read the editorial in your is
sue of July 4th, headed More about
the dressed beef trade While you
have vastly better opportunities to
gather information concerning the
Big Four as they are styled meaning
Armour, Swift, Morris, etc.-I have an
idea that they are the biggest monopoly
in America, and are grinding one of
the best interests in this country, and
destroying all competition in their
power. 1 read a very interesting piece
in the Peoria Journal of May IA, 1888,
entitled the Pig Four 1t stated that
they had $50, ,0O0, 900 under control and
monopolized a circuit from the Atlantic
to the Pacific and from Detroit in the
north to Ft. Worth, Tex, in the south,
and that they had recently sent car
load of meat to Akron, Ohio, and re-
quested the butchers there to sell their
meats. The butchers held a meeting
and resolved not to handle Armour's s
meat. Armour wired his agent to es-
tablish as many markets as necessary
and sell meat at cost. The butchers
had but one thing to do, and that was
to comply with his demands. Now. /
argue that in so doing 1t made the price
of cattle about Akron subject to freight
to Chicago for slaughter and return
rate for the meat for consumption.
Who pays the bill? The producer OF
the consumer? The price of steak is
the same when competition is removed,
so it is not hard question-who pays
the billp
Good beef COWS are worth 81 cents
to cents, and last summer and :
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-08-09
NEWTON STRUCK GAS.

The flow of natural gas at the pros
pect we'll at the carriage factory prom
ises to be the biggest thing in the gas
line ever known in central Kansas
The quality of gas issuing from the
well now is really enormous when it is
remembered that it must come up
through sixty feet of mud that has fall
len into the hole, and which has col
lected in and around the drill and rope
almost sealing the well. When match
was applied to it yesterday for the sec
ond time the flame was much stronger
and brighter. There is no question but
that thorough search will develop a
flow of gas that will be of great utility;
a source of vast benefit to the city, and
it is just that sort of search Mr.. Hoag
intends to make.-Repasblican.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-08-09
TRUTH WILL OUT.

An original pension has just been
secured through the William B. Smith
agency of this city for Mr.. George N.
Baxter, amounting to $500 back pay
and s12 per month during the balance
of his life time. This reminds us that
a leading republican of this city, and
gentleman who is in position to know
just what he is talking about, remark
ed in our hearing last Monday ''that
the present administration had been
more liberal in granting pensions to
old soldiers than any former adminis-
tration since the close of the war. That
President Cleveland had signed more
private pension bills than Grant, Hayes,
Garfield and Arthur all together
This was truthful republican testimo-
ny, and we felt proud to know that the
gentleman who gave it, although an
uncompromising republican, had suffi-
cient moral manhood and honesty TO.
avow It.-Larned Eagle-Optic.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-08-09
INJUSTICE AND UNWIsDON.

1t is a dsplorable state of affairs
when any political party is reduced to
such straits that its leaders will seize
every bit of unsavory public disturb
ance, in whatever part of the country
it may have occurred, and distort the
reports of the trouble for a political
purpose. No matter in what state dis
turbance arises, where lawlessness
reigns and abuses obtain, some papers
will snap up the matter. color it to suit
the ends of their argument, and pre-
sent it to their readers as actual facts,
just related. This has been done, by a
few SOd-houSe sheets, concerning the
recent race war in Crittenden county,
Arkansas, where the negroes and
whites came in conflict, and a general
uprising of both races resulted. Cool
heads and fair minds have brought
about temporary peace, and the chances
are that the trouble is over.
Mr.. E. B. Smith, editor of the Lar
nec ChronoScope, very fair republican
paper, largely quoted throughout this
part OF Kansas, gives in a recent issue
a very fair report of the whole trouble
in Crittenden county. Mr.. Smith is
southern gentleman, only few months
from the south, and is pretty we'll in
formed as to how political affairs are
conducted down there. He does not
like the idea of his countrymen being
held up before the public III certain re-
publican papers as bull-dozers, shot gun
experts, etc., and concludes his article
in this wise:
There seems to be both injustice
and unwisdom in the attempt Of GER
tain republican newspapers to make
political capital out of the Crittenden
county troubles. Both blacks and
whites are guilty, and the law and
those who are charged with enforcing
it appear to be impartial"
The argument that "solid north''
must be arrayed against a 'solid south"
in the present campaign is of course
one of the groundwork plans of certain
republican leaders, and the plan will
not be altered, for the simple reason
that tariff reduction overshadows all
other issues to such an extent that re-
publicans are forced to the eXpedient
of working up the eXcitable element in
their party in some manner, so they
may not soberly and earnestly consult
their own interests and study the
matter soberly and quietly. TO do this
the cry of southern outrages'' is
raised wherever there is the ghost of 2
foundation upon which to build a SEN
sational story.
Neighbors, it will not win. Enlight-
ened Americans will not be misled by
tales of bloodshed and courage over de-
sire for Office moulded and evolved
from the minds of desperate politicians.
Even the better class of your own lead
ers are not willing to stand quietly by
and submit to that kind of campaign.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-08-09
WALK CAREFULLY.

One wrong step has brought many a
man to crime, to prison, or sorrow and
destruction. One wrong acquaintance
has lead many person to rags and
ruin. One wrong bargain has brought
many man to poverty and want. A
wrong courtship or marriage has en-
bittered many joyous life, and broken
many noble heart with anguish and
distress. On one single rock a ship
may make a fatal wreck. The first
cigar, the first oath, the first dram, the
first game, the first theft-ah, what
myriad wrecks are heaped about such
rocks as these! Beware of the first
wrong step, and you viii have no
trouble about the second. Walk care
fully, as in the sight of God, and you
will walk honestly in the sight of men.
-Er.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-08-09
WHAT Is BEST7

The question as to which corn stood
the dry weather the best, the early
planted or the late? is now being pref
ty Thoroughly discussed in this county.
And it is a subject of great Importance
to farmers. We have talked with sew
eral farmers, and most of them agree
that the very earliest corn has stood it
the best. Others, however, claim that
the very late corn will still make all
right if we get late rains. 1t should be
the business of every farmer to study
thoroughly this matter of early or late
planting, and profit by the knowledge
thus gained. Some of our people will
be sadly disappointed in the yield of
their fields, but it should not be cause
for serious encouragement. Barton
county is all right. While one man
may not have enough to pull him out
ofCthe kinks, his neighbor has more
than enough, and the general good will
be the Individual good.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-08-09
MIR. EBEY QUITE CONFIDENT.

a dispatch from Wichita says that
republicans here admit that the nomi-
nation of Hon. C. s. Ebey for congress
by the democrats was a good one, and
will add great strength to the ticket in
this and other counties where the dem
a brilliant young lawyer only twenty
eight years of age but full of energy.
He is very enthusiastic and will go to
work at once. Speaking to-day of the
kind of a campaign he would make he
said: 1.-The central committee is COM
posed of hard working, earnest demo-
Gratis, and the democracy of the dis
trict will be thoroughly organized. The
committee will make. the appointments
for the speaker and will see to it that
these appointments are filled. l be-
lieve that a revulsion of sentiment
against Peters and his iniquitous pro-
lection tariff idea will take place, and
L am confident that he will be defeated
on his record and on his PLATFORM
When asked if he felt confident of
his election, Ebey said: 1T may seem
egotistical to do so, but L am, neverthe-
less. We have the right on our side
and the right always wins. The de-
mocracy is better organized in this dis
trict tlran ever before and perfect or
ganization means success. The repub-
licans are sick of being misrepresented
by Peters and confidently expect that
many of his own party will support me.
With oil these things in my favor,
think no one will deny that my cleo
tion is practically secure"
1t being suggested that there was a
big republican majority to overcome,
Ebey says: II know it. and right there
lies my strength. There are about
800 voting precincts in this district
and the change of two republican votes
in each would give me the election
! figuring on the basis of the election
two years ago. 1 will wager that can
name two republicans in each precinct
who voted for Peters two years ago who
will vote for me this fall. l shall make
thorough canvass of every foot OF
ground in the district and if vigorous
work will be of any avail l shall win. :
I-Larned Edgle-Optic.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-08-09
THE CHARMS OF AN EDITORS LIFE.

One of the beauties and charms of
an editors life is in his dead-heading
it on all occasions. No one who has
never tasted the sweets of that bliss,
can begin to take in his glory and hap
piness. He does 500 worth of adver-
tising for a railroad company, gets a
pass for a year, rides S25; and then
he is looked upon as a dead-head, or a
half blown dead-beat. He ''puffs" a
concert troupe 80 worth, and gets 81 in
''complimentaries,' and is thus passed
''free." If the hall is crowded he is
begrudged the room he occupies, for if
his complimentaries were paying tick
cts the troupe would be so much more
i'll pocket. He blows and puffs a church
festival free to any desired extent, and
does the poster printing at half rates,
and merely gets a ''thank you" for it..
1t goes as part OF his duty as an editor.
He does more work gratuitously for the
town and community than all the rest
of the population put together. and gets
curses for it all, while in many in
stances where a man donates a few
dollars for the 4th of July, base ball
or a church. he is gratefully remem-
bered. He passes free, - you know
Utica Observer
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-08-09

cents were common prices; but II cents
for steak continued. Why? Because
Armour said so. a year ago or more
pork was from SIS to $50 per barrel,
but live hogs kept on III the even tenor
of their way at to cents. Why?
Because Armour said so. Now, you
think TO interfere with Armour would
be calamity. 1t might be. So was
the civil war; but it had better be done
than ruin the best interest of America.
I argue that the horse interest is un-
monopolized, and is a great success.
while the cattle interest as it is, is ru-
inouS. / don't know a cattle man in
the country that is prospering. 1 see
tally unable to get remunerative prices.
Mr.. Paddleford will excuse me for
using his name. He came to my sale
before Armour got hold and gave me
good prices for good cattle, and he
knew what good cattle were, and how
they should be bred. But alas! such
luXuries as Phil. Armour cost too much,
and our tax to suppress 100000 honest
butchers and their business TO convert
them into Armour hirelings, or a ser
want of a servant. Perhaps 1 am put
ting this too strong, but 1 have host
of argument to back my opinion, and
you may hear more further on. L
would like to give my opinion as to
when the depression started, and trace
the movement down to date. ."-KanSaS
Farmer.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-08-09
IF2

If you want to be taxed as you were
during the war; if you think it good
thing to work hard all the year and
then to have the government come to
you and say, Il only need ten dollars
to pay expenses, but I'm going to take
twenty, and congress will easily find
some means to squander the extra ten;"
If you want the people divided up into
classes, an arriStocratic, capitalistic
class, which absorbs everybody's busi-
ness and swallows everybody's profits,
and a poor class to do the drudgery
without any hope of ever betteriHg their
condition, then you will do right to vote
the republican ticket. That party is a
party with tendency, and is ten
dency toward an aristocracy, ten
dency to crowd the laborer to the wall
and to pin him there forever. If that
is your idea of free institutions, all
right, go ahead. You must do your
own business in your own way.-Wil-
son Eagle.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-08-09

have their own way about everything
of this kind, entirely irrespective of the
sections of this country remote from
the seat and sources of power. The
people want no higher taxes, but lower
taxes, and in giving the protection for
American industry they want to give a
decent chance to class of people who,
by reason of their calling, can not be
protected at all, but who have got to
take their chances in the markets of
the world for the products, hard pro-
ducts to raise, expensive products to
get to market, and in the production
Of which there is the smallest margin
of profit. was talking with farmer
from Massachusetts to-day about the
thing. He said he had as good farm
as there was in the old Bay state, and
yet he could barely make both ends
meet, and he complained to me that one
of the reasons why he could not do so,
was because everything else that sur
rounded him was so much protected
that it simply took the difference be-
tween profit and loss in his calling and
left him a very slim chance indeed from
year to year."
They may listen also to another re-
publican, MIR. Kelley, of Pennsylvania,
who said on the 7th of this month in
the house:
"The agricultural interests of this
country at the present time are under
going an almost unparalleled depres-
sion. To raise a bushel of wheat costs
more to-day IN the average wheat
growing states than it ever did-so too,
with cortland the market price the
world over runs down each year."
The great mass Of unprotected
totally unprotected working people of
Iowa, Minnesota, Kansas and other
states who pay, that the lords of pro-
lection may roll up their millions, may
trust republican Senator Plumb rather
than the Inter Ocean, which is evidently
not on their side.-New York Herald.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-08-09
STUBBORELY BLIND.
Farmer.

a man away back in Bernardstown.
Massachusetts, writes us that he does
not want us to send him the DEMOCRAT
any more because he has plenty Of
reading matter that suits him better"
than the ''Republicans Prayer" pub
lished some weeks ago. Wonderful to
relate, also, he does not like the posi-
ton we take on the tariff question. We
do not know whether or not the man is
of the protected class, but we do know
from the tone of his letter that he is
one of the fellows who won't look on
but one side of any question and would
rather close his eyes and go the repub-
lican ticket blindly, than read one col
umn of argument on the other side of
the question.
The DEMOCRAT is paid for to go to
that mans address for about five
months more. a friend who, doubt
less, sees the need Of enlightenment in
the mind of the Bernardstown man.
kindly paid for the paper six months.
Now if the gentleman cannot stand it
to read a democratic paper for few
months without flying off the handle
and writing personal letters to the ed
itor, we advise him not to do it. Such
undue excitement as is brought about
by reading such things might make
his mind jump cog or slip hinge.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-08-09
A GLoRIoUs(7) RECORD.

The following from correspondent
TO the Kingman Democrat we respect
fully refer to young men casting their
first vote this year:
Among the resolutions adopted by a
republican convention were the follow
ing:
"WHEREAs-The republican party
of Kansas, in convention assembled,
sends greetings to the republicans of
the nation and reafirms unalterable
devotion to the great principles of that
party which has done so much for hu-
man liberty, equal rights and exact
justice to all, and it is with just pride
that we invite the attention of the
young men of the nation to the splen-
dor of its achievements, The grandeur
of its aspirations and the imperishable
glory with which it has illuminated the
pages of American history"
Young men, here are the leading
features of the republican record for
the past nineteen years:
The Boss Shepherd fraud.
The Dick Harrington safe burglary
business.
4HO w Hlohy IIduOS.
The Freedman's bureau swindle-
The selling of Indian post tr adel.-
ships.
The Belknap Impeachment.
The credit Mobiller frauds.
The Robson naval frauds.
The Sanborn contracts.
The Indian bureau frauds.
The theft of the presidency.
The buying of Indiana in 1880.
The glorifcation of Dorsey as soap
manipulation by vice-president.
The Star-route frauds.
The assassination of President Gar
field by a spokesman.
The forgery by which Folger was
nominated.
The Howgate frauds.
The Keifer business.
The Burnside robbery.
Swain SwindleS.
The frauds in the medical bureau Of
the navy department, not to mention a
long list of other offences. any one of
which ought to overthrow any political
party that ever existed in this country.
The republican convention at Chica-
go was in the hands of Wall street, and
the railroad kings of this country. Mr..
Depew, of New York, was their repre-
sentative. Iowa and Michigan dele
gates said if Depew was nominated for
the presidency their states would go
democratic. When Depew returned to
New York he said to reporter Of the
New York Tribune: 1.-THE dinner
which gave to the delegation on Sat
urday night made dark horse an i'm
possibility and made the seventy-two
votes of New York trip-hammer
which pulverized everything that got
in its way. We have got our men
Harrison and Norton
If Wall street could elect the ticket
Blaine would be secretary of state and
Depew secretary of the United States
treasury The republican platform is a
wolf dressed in sleeps clothing. Help
to pull the sheepskin off and let the
wolf out. Young men, sons of patri-
otic sires, how much stock will you take
in the grand and glorious record of the
republican party?
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-08-09

EVERY vote gained for Cleveland and
Thurman is a vote for true protection.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-08-09

THE Salina Herald, one of our valued
exchanges, has changed hands, Mr.. ].
NJ. Davis retiring from the business.
The paper is published by 1.-The Her
aid Publishing Co."