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The Grenada sentinel., 1888-08-25
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The Grenada sentinel., 1888-08-25
MATCH H-MAKING.
The Mischief Som etimes Done by
Professionals.
A Mission No Sensible Person Voluntarily
Undertakes-An American Mothers
Clever Scheme-A Fathers
"Buckwheat Straw
Principle"

Some people have a positive mania
for matchmaking. Whether from
want of better employment, or because
they believe, like Mrs. Jellyby, that
they have great and glorious mission,
they are never happier than when
scheeming and contriving to dispose
matrimonially of one Or other of their
young acquaintance. They regard all
their unmarried friends, especially
their unmarried lady friends, with an
eye of compassionate solicitude; and
their ingenuity is continually on the
rack to discover what they can do for
this, that, or the other, in the way Of
providing him or her. with partner for
life Like most other busy-bodies,
these missionary matchmakers, as we
might call them, do a world of mis-
chief, They meddle, and plot, and
manage where they have no right
whatever to interfere, and are seldom
deferred by a sense of responsibility
which attaches to any one influencing
and encouraging young people in such
serious matter. On the contrary they
think nothing of ignoring, and even at
tempting to override, the opinion of
parents and others upon whom the
direct responsibility ought to devolve.
Match-makers of this description are
usually less concerned about the future
of their young friends than about the
diversion and excitement of certain
sort which they themselves derive from
the part they play in experimenting
and promoting the negotiations, and the
subsequent Importance they will be able
to assume as the persons who have
been mainly instrumental in bringing
about the match. So long as they are
enabled to play out their favorite game,
they bestow but little thought upon the
possible consequences. If the match
prove to be an unfortunate one, they
exhibit a remarkable facility in dis
claiming all responsibility. They re-
call the many words of counsel and Of
caution they had given; and to hear
them speak, one would suppose that
they had done every thing in their
power to dissuade the young people
from marrying, instead of having done
all they could to encourage them. If,
however, the marriage is happy one,
they are seldom slow to claim a full
share Of credit for the part they have
played, and find constant opportunities
to remind the young couple and their
friends how much all this present
felicity is due to their foresight and
sagacity.
No sensible person does voluntarily
undertake the office Of matchmaker
Mothers with numerous following o.
daughters have the office thrust upor
them to certain extent whether they
will or not; but theirs is very differ
ent case from that OF the person who
b takes to matchmaking as a sort o.
recreation or pastime, or, still worse
as mission. II may be said tha
mothers would often be much better
employed, and would really be doing
more for the best interests Of theil
girls, If they devoted the same amoun
The Grenada sentinel., 1888-08-25

the Gettysburg, the Austerlitz, the Water
loo Of life, for bread.
And yet how many women there are
seated between the rock of bereavement
on the oneside and the rock Of destltutiou
on the other, Bozez aud Senah interlock-
ing their shadow and dropping them
upon her miserable way.
There is a sharp rock on the one side, and
sharp rock on the other side.
What are such to do? Som chow, lei
them climb up into the heights Of the
glorious promise:
Leave thy fatherless Children; will pre-
serve them alive, and let thy widows trust IL
me.
Or get up into the heights Of that other
glorious promise.
The Lord preserveth the stranger and re-
lieveth the widow and the fatherless.
o, ye sewing women on starving wages.
o, We widows turned out from the once
beautiful home. o, ye female teachers
kept on niggardly stipend. o, ye despair
ing women, seeking IN vain for work,
wandering along the docks and thinking
TO throw yourself into the river last night.
o, ye women of weak nerves and aching
sides, and short breath and broken heart
you need something more than human
sympathy; you need the sympathy Of
God. Climb up into His arms. He knows
it all, and He loves you more than father,
or mother, or husband ever could or ever
did; and instead of sitting down, wiring
ing your hands in despair, you had better
begin to climb. There are heights of con-
ISOLATION for you. though now "There is
suaTp rock on the one side, and sharp
rCck on the other side"
Again, that man is in the crisis Of the
text who has a wasted life on the one SIDE
and an Illuminated eternity On the other.
Though a man may all his life have cult
ured deliberatiOn and self-poise, if he
gets into that position all his self posses
sion is gone. There are all the wrong
thoughts of his existence, all the wrong
deeds, all the wrong words-strata above
strata granite, ponderous, oYershadow-
ing, That rock l call Bozez. On tie
other side are all the retributions Of the
future, and thrones Of Judgment the
eternal ages, angry with his long def
ance That rock | call Seneh. Between
these tworocks Lord Byron perished, and
Alcibiades perished, and Herod perished,
and ten thousand times ten thousand
have persisted, o! man immortal, man
r.,laen,ad man blood -bouCh+. climb M
out Of those shadows. Climb up by the
wav Of the cross. Have your wasted life
forgiven; have your eternal life secured.
This morning lust take one look to the
,ast and SEQ ,yEa+ il has baen and take
ana 1ooI. ta .t,e fn+nra and see what il
t1raa+,yns+o Ia W., cam a4f,rI r. lose
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9vs nrecions eternal nosspssior Won
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The Grenada sentinel., 1888-08-25
GLADSTONE AS A BOY.
Tsteresting "reminiscences of Nenera'
ess .ga BILE st. Louis Lady.

Teteresting "reminiscences of Nenera-
BILE st. Louis Lady.
Mrs. Hughes, of 1916 Delmar Avenue,
knew the Right Hon. William E. GLAD
stone when he was a school boy. Look
ing at Mrs. Hughes to-day one can cas-
lily understand how the sturdy Epglish
stock insures bodily and mental Vigor
in the seventies. An American guess
at the age of this well-preserved,
strong-nerved, clear-minded lady would
fall short by dozen or fifteen Years.
1t is more than sixty years since She
was school girl in Liverpool and Bill
Gladstone was d rollicking youth.
The Gladstones were merchants. >"
said Mrs. Hughes, recalling something
of the ex-Premier's boyhood as she
knew it. They lived in a fine
part of Liverpool facing park. | was
little girl of six or seven attending a
girls school some distance from my
home. Bill Gladstone went to a boys
school not far from ours. Our paths
crossed Coming home from school we
hadto 90 along a way which the boys
/ from the other school also went. They
used to amuse themselves chasing us.
We were afraid of them. | remember
Bill Gladstone as one of the boys who
used to do this. We would run as hard
as we could. When he caught any Of
us he would toss. us up over
( his shoulder or do something to scare
us. There were other boys worse
and some Quieter than he was. | re-
member him as a boy of medium size,
strong and full of spirits. He had u
! Scotch look about him. He was then
thirteen or fourteen, perhaps. There
wasn't any thing remarkable about him,
and | should never have remembered
about his running after us little girls
and soaring us if he hadn't become so
prominent afterwards.
"My people went away from Liver
pool to Wales, and | was gone seven
years." Mrs. Hughes continued. "When
| came back Bill Gladstone was stand
ing in some borough, l have forgotten
lust where, for Parliament. | remem-
Der people talked about it a great deal
because he was so young. He could
| not have been much more than of age.
I don't remember that he had studied
for any profession. Perhaps he had
come home from the university and
entered the mercantile business in which
the family was engaged. However that
was can't remember, but know there
was good deal of talk about so young a
man going to Parliament. But he was
elected, and he went on being success
full right along in politics. l came to
this country in 1851, and as Mr.. Glad.
stone became more and more promi-
inent my memory would go back again
and again to the time when he was Bill
Gladstone, in Liverpool, amusing him.
self by chasing little girls going home
from school, and tossing them in the
air."-St. Louis Globe Democrat.
The names and locations OF the
navy yards in the United States are as
follows: Charlestown Navy Yard. Bos'
ton, Mass; Brooklyn Navy Yard
Brooklyn, N. Y; Gosport Navy Yard
Norfolk, Va; Kittery Navy Yard, Kit,
terry, Me-; League Island Navy Yard
Philadelphia, Pa; Mare Island Navy
Yard, San Francisco, CAL; New
London Navy Yard, New Lon
don, Ct. Pensacola Navy Yard, Pensa
cola, Fla; Washington Navy Yard
Washington. d. 9. '' ...
The Grenada sentinel., 1888-08-25
RAILWAY DEPOT SCENE.


Going East to the rock-bound coast,
Going West to the setting sun,
Going North like mighty host,
Going South each and every one
Rushing like river.
What hurry, what furry,
Constant hustle, f1eetest rustic,
Like the leaves in quiver.
So the line Of travels sweeping
Through the railway depot, heaping
Baggage everywhere.
Has some Pharaoh been setting
Free the multitude unnumberedf
Have oppressor's rods been heavyf
Fleeing ones are surely numbered
With their earthly care.
Boxes, bundles, each one trundles
Bag or baggage trunk or package,
Precious things and rare
Who II any, homes are keeping,
While this caravan is sweeping
Over rail and stream?
Old and young, and strong and feeble,
Maid and matron side by side,
Robust sons of Anak grasping
Crying babe, the family pride,
Crying boldly, crying loud.
Loudly cndttlng ana cOmDatlHS,
What a treading. what threading,
Mid the eager, earnest crowd.
Bable scarce was worse confusion;
Balaam's pet is no intrusion
In this noisy hum
Some to meet their loved ones coming
Anxious faces look in vain
Some to pass the summer outing
mo nj rati
Save in sorrow, save in woe.
Cheeks that wrinkle. eyes that twinkle,
Laughtermerry, red lips cherry
g Telling love they dare to know.
False and true beside each other,
Enemy and winning brother.
So we touch upon lifes road.
Saintand sinner touch each other
Under stations common roof-tree;
Rain and shine fall on each brother;
Rich and poor both cross the sea
And over rail togethergo.
Ears may tingle, while they mingle,
In Time hurry and its furry
Tares and wheat together grow.
Pure5and vile in railway station
Sometimes name one destination
Farther on they separate.
Out and in the life-tide rushes,
Every language, every tongue,
Cabmen add their boisterous cal1ings,
Fill each expanded lung
Deafening ears with jargon rude.
Cinders and smoke almost Choke,
Cars are rafting, like waves battling
With The rocks by storms pursued.
"'All aboard conductors shouting
Leave behind all fear and doubling,
Flying over hill and plain.
---AlodroF Gi6benS, in DenOresPs Nonthly.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-01-12
Cleveland VS.. Blaine.

The winds are piercing cold and the
people go shivering about their daily
ayocations. The rich ones are for
tunate in being clad in sealskins and
beaver and chinchilla. The majority
however, are not able to buy these and
are glad to invest themselves i'll the
commOnest fabrics while the poor can
not afford even these. What god send
it would be then to make these COM
mon fabrics so cheap that all could buy
them and be protected from the cEilly
blasts of winter. But how is it ?
Mr.. Cleveland and the democrats say,
put the common necessaries of life,
such as food and clothing on the free
list, and tax tobacco and all other lux
uries to raise ample revenues to run the
government economically.
Nh Blaine and the republicans say
no, keep the tax as it is on food and
clothing and lift it off of internal rev
enre articles, such as whisky and to-
bacco.
This means tax the poor mans sug-
az so per cent.
Tax the poor mans rice l12 per cent.
Tax the poor mans salt S3 per cent.
Tax potatoes 45 per cent.
Tax the poor woman's cheap woolen
dress goods II per cent.
Tax the poor mems common cloth 81
per cent.
Tax on woolen hosiery, 40 per cent.
Tax on fannels, - per cent.
Tax on common shawls, 81 per cent.
Tax on window glass. Sc per cent.
Let the poor laborer as he goes shiv-
ering to his work to-day, think on these
things. Does he want Republicanism
and cold and hunger, or Democracy
and cheap clothing and food for
warmth and comfort?-E Exchange.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-01-12
He Knew His Son.

A tall Missourian called at the dis
trict school. and, eyeing the teacher,
sternly, said: .
My boy, Henery, tells me you
whipped him last evening"
YES, assented the teacher, edging
toward the door, "but he deservd it |
assure you"
And he said you used rawhide
on himp
eyes, sir, but"
"And you slapped him with your
hand as well?"
81 did, but | assure you"
"Assure nothin' Let me give you a
pointer. When you have to punish that
boy use club; he dosn't care darn
for rawhides. ."-Nebraska State .Joar-
nal.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-01-12
A Herd Of RufalO.

1t was thought that the last buffalo
ever to be seen on Kansas soil were
those now owned and kept in pas
ture by c. j. Jones. of Garden City, but
on the morning of the Goth, herd of
sixty buffaloes crossed the Kansas line
from No Man's-Land into to the south
eastern part Of Morton county. J. w.
Kitchell, a homesteader. was the first
to see them. William Wilson, Chas.
Kell, Frank Tuttle and Park Crawford
four young men mounted their horse S
and pursued the herd. Nothing has
been heard of the party since they left
but they are expected back soon. a
prairie fire had driven the animals
nearer the habitations of man than they
are wont to go.-Ec.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-01-12
On The Move.

THE Abilene Gazette opens up a Capt.
tai removing question this morning in
good shape. 1t assumes that the chief
issue upon which the members of the
Legislature from the central and west
portion of Kansas Will be elected this
fall viii be the removal of the State
Capital. As to its location, the Gazette
asserts that sit may be Lyons, or Me
Pherson, OF Salina, OF Ellsworth, or
Abilene or some other equally good
town." The Gazette urges that the
first thing is, to agree upon its removal.
The following suggestions are made in
support of its position:
We are for capital removal and we
will fight it out on that line if it takes
all summer"
Let the press of central and western
Kansas wheel into line OH the capital
removal question.
First decide the question of removal
and then select the exact point for the
location OF the new state capital.
Let every member of the next legis-
lature elected from central and western
Kansas be thoroughly instructed on
capital removal.
Abilene, Sanlina, MCPHERSON, Lyons
OF Ellsworth, all good points for the
location of the state capital.
The Iowa state capital was removed
from Iowa City TO the center of the
state, Des Moines. The Kansas state
capital should be removed from the
northeastern corner of the state to a
more central lOcatiOn.-Salina Journal.
WE DON'T see why the above is not
worthy of consideration; and we will
think much better of it if Great Bend
is added to the list of eligible cities.
The state capital should be located at
or near the center of the state. This
will he done sometime in Kansas, and
the only way it can be done is by work
ing for it. Great Bend, the capital of
the grandest state in the Union!
Stranger things have happened.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-01-12
EllinWood Items.
From the Express

From the Express.
Will Sickle, we are sorry to learn,
is very sick with diphtheria.
There is great deal of sickness in
and around the city at present.
The prospects for large wheat crop,
SO the farmers tell US, were never bet
ter at this time of the year.
Rev. Finley is conducting Il large re-
vival at the Fletcher school house five
miles east of this city.
Another Kansan took up his resi-
dence with Mr.. and Mrs. Partridge on
the 29th inst. Full weight according
to the Kansas rule.
Miss Katie Day, of Great Bend, came
down on Sunday evening to take charge
of her school few miles from this
city.
A bouncing young lady made her
appearance at the residence of John
Komark ON Friday last. At last ac-
counts all were doing well.
a protracted meeting VIII commence
in the Presbyterian church ON Sunday,
January 15. Prepare yourself, and be-
gin the new year by living as near
right as you possibly can.
Mr.. Mangelsdorf was presented with
an elegant, $40 gold headed cane on
NeYl Year'sTmorning by his clerks,
Messrs. John Schwerdtferger, Nick
Sprinkler, F. Strothman and Otto
Schwerdtferger,
The Eilinwood Nurseries are receiv-
ing a large number of orders for the
spring planting. This speaks well foI
our home nursery, and our farmers are
beginning to realize the fact that home
grown trees are the best and thf
cfes9est-.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-01-12
Brudder Gardner,s Advice.

Remember, dat a lawyer will
work harder to c'lar murderer dan
he will to convict thief
Remember, dat de naybur who
offers youde loan of his hoe am fishin
round to secure de loan Of your wheel
barrer.
Remember, dat you can't judge Of
de home happiness of man an'wife
by seein' 'em at Sunday skule pic
mic.
Remember, dat while de average
man will return de k'rect change in a
business transackshun, nell water his
milk an mix beans wid his coffee.
Remember, dat all de negatives
of de best photographs ain retouched
an de wrinkles an freckles worked
out.
Remember, dat society am made
up of good clothes, hungry stonlachs,
deception, heartaches and mixed
grammer.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-01-12

WH BELIEVE the board of COM
missioners were in error in not taking
some action in regard to the unjust and
unequal valuation claimed by property
owners in the Lafferty and Riverside
additions. In one or two instance we
doubt if the property could be sold at
forced sale for the amount Of the taxes
There are serious doubts about the
ligality of the re-ixing OF valuations
by the assessor this year, and the mat
ter may yet get into the courts.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-01-12
Company Orpanized.

The ''Pawnee Rock Fuel Co." has
been organized and Will be chartered
soon, with a capital stock of $40, 900.
The Leader states that money sufficient
to bore 3,0G0 feet is already sub
scribed. and that the drill will hs at
work in sixty days ii Pawnee Rock
should go ahead with their enterprise,
and by a lucky chance land the chances
are not so uncertain as might be inn
agined) should strike natural gas, salt,
coal. or some other valuable mineral. it
would be great slam on the Great
Bend company which has been dIiiy
dalIying for SO long.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-01-12
NUMBER Al.
CHAFF.

A spanking team: A pair of nurs-
es.
Watef-A clear fluid, once used as
drink.
If told to take ''back seat" one
will invariably take affront
States Evidence-A wretch who is
pardoned for being baser than his
comrades.
Dress does not make the man."
hut it makes the woman-supremely
happy.
The man who wants the earth, my
son, is the very man the earth doesn't
want nt-Bardette.
Somehow men seem to enjoy it
when their tailors give them fits
Detroit Free Press.
The hardest train to catch, after it
gets started: A train of gunpowder.
Detroit Free Press.
Teacher: "An engineer is one who
works an engine. ."-Pupil: 'Is a
pioneer one who works piano?"
Even fishermen who wouldn't
steal are always ready to hook some
thing, if they get chance.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-01-12

SOME people may want to know
where the Kansas congressman are
housed, in Washington. From an ex-
change we get the following: 'E- y.
Morrill,, 621 18th street. northwest; Z.
II. Funston, O05 18th street, northwest;
B. w. Perkins, Hamilton House:
Thomas Ryan, National Hotel; John
a. Anderson, 1888 G. street, northwest;
E. j. Turner, 1913 Fifth street, north
west: S. r. Peters, Ebbit House
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-01-12

L. Is. MURDOCH, who was stricken
blind two weeks ago, has suspended
the publication of the DAILY Reps6!icd1a
for the present and will go to Phila-
delphia for treatment. We sincerely
regret this sad misfortune to Butler
oonnty's oldest and most talented
writer and the poineer publisher of the
southwest, having founded the Walnut
Valley Times in January. 1870, when
there was not Il paper in the state,
south or west of e. Dorado. We hope
that he may recover his sight and re-
turn soon to continue the life work to
which he is so well adapted.-Er.
THE sympathy of the entire press OF
the state is with Mr., Murdoch, and we
sincerely hope his affection is only tenn
pogaTy.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-01-12

II IS now pretty accurately deter
mind that the preposterous stories that
have been going the rounds of the east
ern press concerning deaths by freez-
ing and starvation ia Kansas, had
their start in the sensational town Of
Wichita Most of the dispatches to
eastern papers were sent from that
town. The object evidently vas TO get
a little more Of the cheap notoriety in
which that town abounds, but when
the whole state is made 70 suffer
through such lying misrepresentation
it is about time that the Wichita SEN
.sationalists were chOlsed ofts Shame
npSn themi
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-01-12

TIE twelfth annual meeting of the
Kansas State Historical Society will be
held in the hall of the house of repre-
sentatives, at Topeka, on Tuesday
evening, Jan. 18th, 1883. Members of
the board of directors Will be elected,
and other business transacted. Brief
addresses, pertaining to subjects of
Kansas history, will be delivered. The
public are invited to attend.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-01-12

Now LOOK out fnr All exodus from
Wichita. The claim is made that the
to wn is without liquor stronger than
Arkansaw water, and if such is the
case there will be great Settlement of
the larger portion of her population.
Our grand jury will soon be in session,
and therefore this city will not bid for
the eXOduSters.