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The weekly messenger., 1889-02-02

One Of the pipes of the boilers Of the
saw mill of Messrs. Gueriniere and
Broussard bursted at about Eleven
o'clock Tuesday, the escaping steam
made such a noise as to attract conside-
rable people at the mill. Fortunately
no one was hurt, and the damages will
not amount to very much, but will cause
the mill to stop for several days for re-
pairs.
The weekly messenger., 1889-02-02
Did you ever?

W. H. Revels, N. D., Of Baltimore. Nd,
says: II have been in the practice of me-
decline for over eighteen years, tut never
have seen the equal Of Hodges Sarsapa-
rilla. 1t has worked miracles here in
curing Rheumatism and ScrOfula. Have
almost come to the conclusion that
cannot practice without it," Sold by all
druggists.
The weekly messenger., 1889-02-02
The Dudes Know it.

Or II they don't they should know that
Rangum Root Liniment cured Big Head
in mules for W. +, Hunt Of Adairsville,
Ky. j. II. Mallory OF Forts Station, Tenn.
cured his hogs of blind staggers with 1t.
In fact this King Of Liniments is inval.
liable for man and beast and no family
should be without. Sold by all drug
pists.
The weekly messenger., 1889-02-02
School Board.

Editor of the Messenger.
Believing that a statement Of the finance Of
the School Board of this parish, as regards the
expenditures for last year, as we'll rs the cash
balance on hand for the year 1889 would be Of
some interest to your readers, / herewith append
same. Respectfully, p. d. Olivier, Secy.
The weekly messenger., 1889-02-02
After three years.

w. F. Walton. Of Springfield, Tenn,
says: Il have been suffering with Neu-
ralgia in my face and head off and on
for three years. purchased a box of DR..
Tanners Infallible Neuralgia Cure and
took eight Of the pills. 1 have not felt
any symptoms Of Neuralgia since. II
gives me pleasure to recommend it,"
Sold by all druggists
The weekly messenger., 1889-02-02

Transient advertisements, 75 cents per
-nch for first insertion; so cents for each
subsequent insertion.
Official or legal advertisements, 81 per
1 inch for first insertion; and 80 cents for
each subsequent insertion.
~Brief communications upon subjects
Of public interest solicited. No attention
will be given to anonymous letters.
The weekly messenger., 1889-02-02

The Belle Of Anderaon Whiskey is the
best, Audibert keeps It.
The weekly messenger., 1889-02-02
Columbus Harrison.

DEALER IN
Fine Family Groceries, Cigars. Tobacco,
Tinwars, Hardware, Canned Goods
Fine Liquors and everything
kept In first class Family Grocery.
{EAsr SIDE OF BAYOU TEcHE.
st, Martinville, La.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-03
The Nations Sugar Bowl.

Kansas has been dubbed the ina
tion's sugar BOWL because of the sue
cess Of her sugar works. Four new
sugar factories were put in operation
the past season, and there are a num-
Der more to be made ready for next
years crop. At Fort Scott. new fac
tory is to be built which will make one
third more sugar than the sugar facto-
~ now in operation there. The Sterl-
ing syrup works Of Sterling, sent, last
spring. seed of forty varieties of sor-
ghum to Louisiana to have them ana
lyzed. The analysis show that the same
canes grown in Kansas are very mucI,
better sugar making material than the
Louisiana canes of the same varieties.
It is claimed that cain grown in Kan.
sas is richer in quality and greater in
quantity, besides being grown cheaper
than the same can be produced in Cal
ifcrnia, Tennessee, Mississippi or Min
nesota- The great industry promises
to be mine of wealth to the vast prai-
ries of the west, and consumers all over
the land may soon indulge III sweet
to the hearts content.-American
FurD. Netcs.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-03
What The Editor Has To Do.

We apologize for mistakes made in
all former issues and say that they
were unexcusable, As all All editor has
to do is: To hunt news and clean the
rollers and set type and sweep the floor
and pen short items and fold the papers
and write the wrappers and make the
paste and mail the papers and talk to
visitors and distribute type and carry
water saw wood and read the proofs
and correct the mistakes and hunt the
sheers to write editorials and dodge
the bills and dun delinQuents and take
the cussings from the whole force and
tell our subscribers that we need
money-we say that we've no business
to make mistakes while attending to
these little matters and getting our
living OH gopher tail soup favored with
imagination, and wearing old shoes
and no collar. and Il patch on our pants,
obliged to turn smiling countenance to
the man who tells us our paper ISN'T
worth dollar, anyhow and that he
could make better one with his eyes
shut.-EL.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-03
The Dexter Creamery.


The Creamery at Dexter is already
doing good business. The building
which has been completed only few
weeks, is large and substantial and
fitted with first class appliances for
creamery work. The capital stock paid
in, is 81 600, owned by the citizens of
Grouse Valley. An expert creamery
man from the east is superintendent.
A dollar hundred pounds, or about
123 cents a gallon is paid in cash for un-
skinned milk delivered at the cream
cry. The management declare that
Kansas creameries in the past have
failed owing to the expensive prices of
teams and men to travel over the
country daily, gathering milk. The
farmers around Dexter say there is good
profit to them at the price paid st the
creamery and the cow product for miles
around is delivered regularly at this in
stitution. The creamery has so far
sold no butter for less that 25 cents, and
has made several shipments at SO and
80. 1t is as fine butter as ever tickled
a palate. Dexter's enterprise in this
matter is most commendable. It's pluck
seems to be demonstrating practically
that creameries will pay in Kansas as
well as they do in the east, if rightly
managed.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-03
Reading Newspapers.

The newspaper has become in a very
large measure the peoples library.
The mass of the people read very little
outside of the newspapers. It is stated
that devoted wife ia northern Iowa
wrote to the editor of the State ReGsser
urging him TO insert an occasional
chapter FROM the Bible in his columns.
She stated that her husband always
read everything in the Register, but she
could not get him to read any in his
Bible. Every good has its attendant
evils. and newspaper reading is no ex-
ceptiOn. The laborer who reads the
daily paper goes to his work with the
consciousness of being citizen of the
great world about him. He becomes
interested in the movements of great
armies, in arbitrations, famines, pasti-
lence, earthquakes and revolutions al,
over the world. His sympathies are
enlarged. A man or woman who reads
the news Of the day can not be narrow
and mean in heart and soul. They
may be selfish, but they will be broad
minded. On the other hand it is not
wise to confine ones self too closely to
newspaper reading alone. No intelli-
gent and active citizen can dispense
with the regular visit of the best news
papers in the land nor can he afford to
lay aside a course of specific and syste-
matte reading.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-03

In KANSAS the republicans, with Il
platform in favor of reducing the rate
of interest to six per cent. have elected
thirty-six bankers to the state legisia-
ture. They evidently want to place the
work Of reducing the rate of interest
in the hands of the friends of the
banking system, as they asked in the
nation that the work Of reducing the
tariff should be confined to the friends
of the tariff system.-Kingman Demo-
cr1t.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-03
Kansas Schools,

If we are proud Of anything in Kan
sas more than all others it is our school
system. Each year the interest in and
efficiency of our schools grows greater,
and to that fact largely can be credited
the good name our state has gained
throughout the world.
In our own Barton county the schools
are all in a fiourishlng condition; new
buildings are being put up; new and
improved furniture procured to replace
the old; and a better system of educa-
tion is being adopted by our teachers,
who do not loose an opportunity to i'm
prove themselves in their profession.
The Central Normal College. at this
city, is also doing Trojan work in fit
ting teachers for their important work
and We hope and believe the coming
year will show still greater improve
ment in school work.
.Asan example of what has been done
in Kansas school work, the Manhattan
Iadustrialist complies from the advance
sheets Of the forthcoming report Of the
State Superintendent of Public Instruc-
ton. the following:
1.-The increase in the school census is
81. 226; increases in enrolment, 3S, ,973;
the per cent. of enrolment on the school
population. $50; per cent. OF daily at
tendance on enrolment, coo: per cent.
of increase on school census for two
years, 6,S; per cent. Of increase on en-
rollment for two years ga; per cent Of.
increase on attendance for two years,
I1,a; increase in average length of
school term for State in weeks for bien-
pial period, 10; average salary for
male teachers per month, Sal; average
salary for female teachers per month,
S33.64; decrease in average salary of
male teachers per month for biennial
period. 81 OI: decrease in average salary
of female teachers per month for bienni-
al period, 1920. The total school pop
ulation as shown by the report is So.
OlO, an increase of 130,276 over 1857.
the total amount paid out during the
year for school purpose was 81 .7a3 ,537.
81, an increase of $685. 600 over last
year."
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-03
Ellinwood Items.

From the Express.
Boston Wilson has been on the sick
list for a few days.
Judge Toepke's Christmas tree was
one of his own raising, beautiful
evergreen.
Henry Theis, Of Great Bend. is open
ing stock commission house in Kan
sas City.
We are glad to learn that both J. D.
Ronstadt and wife are much improved
and will soon he about again.
Howard Hotchkiss has been very sick
for several days, but we are glad to
learn is now getting along all right.
The salt fever" has struck Ellin.
wood, and it will not subside until we
stand at the head of the salt producing
cities.
The mill mcn received from the gen
erous hand of their employer. a Christ
mas turkey and sack of flour each, as
a Christmas present.
The clerks in the employ of Mangels
dorf Bros Co. are each wearing a nice
winter cap. presents from Mr.. William
Mangelsdorf
Miss Winnie Rhoads entertained
quite a number of her young friends Al
a party given in honor of her eighth
birthday, on Wednesday evening.
The pigeon shoot" Monday after
noon passed off without ye editors
knowledge or presence, but Charley
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-03

IN VIEW Of the fact that the republic
can party is cla lining that in the late
election the intelligence Of the country
decided in favor Uf the republican tariff
policy, would it be unkind to remind
them that the democratic policy was en-
dorsed by a majority of 200, 600 of the
white voters Of the country and of lOO,-
600 Of all voters.--Hutchinson Demo-
crdt.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-03

A NEW swindle with "South Ameri-
can corn," something like the Bohemi-
an oats fraud, is being tried upon the
farmers in this state. The game will
probably reach here i'll due time and
find the usual number of victims among
those too poor to take = paper, or too
foolish to be guided by advice.-Ells-
worth Democrat.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-03
KANSAS.

Kansas is q charmed name. One
among the newer states, and yet in the
geogrsphieal center of the UNION. AT
first = desert BY reputation, then a
garden, an oasis, the granary Of the
west By actual experience.
Devsstated by grasshoppers and
abandoned by many Of her citizens, yet
she has Increased in population and
wealth more rapidly than any of her
sister states.
ScOrched by hot winds, the crops
dried up and blown away, get her place
is high up towards the top notch of the
grain producing states.
So rapid has been the development
that in riding two and half miles on
a Car propelled by electricity, 3 few days
ago at Wichita, we went from busy
thoronghfare past an Institution of
learning of high grade, on out between
two corn fields to the end of the line
where We could see many acres of
prairie covered with the native buffalo
grass.
. If Kansas misses q crop or two, as all
states and localities frequently do, she
comes up smiling the next year with
sllch an abundant output of farm pro-
ducts that the boom in real estate sets
in, and all kinds of business goes rush.
ing on, the farmer pays off his mort
gage, forgets his dependency, remem-
Sers hard times no more, goes in debt
for another piece Of land, builds new
house or barn. frequently both, and is
in just IS bad fix for the next return
Of financial depressions as he was for
the last.
Most people, especially those in the
newer states, forget that fat and lean
years alternate and succeed each other
with almost the same precision they
did in Egypt, in the long, long ago.
This brings to mind the fact that We
are just emerging from series of lean
years, during which we have prospered
not as Kansas people desire, or are in
the habit of doing, but more rapidly
than the people of the older states ever
dreamed of, even when accompanied by
their strict economy.
If We had practiced New England
economy during tue last three years Of
short crops in this part of Kansas, eur
financial prosperity would have over
shadowed theirs, when every thing goes
at its sbest with them. But now the
time for a change has come, and We
confidently look for Kansas to be her
self again for series of years, at the
end of which her people will be better
able to withstand a similar depression
which is sure to come in due time
Mulyane Record.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-03

OF COURSE Kansas leads in every
thing! The Rditscdy A9e, Of Dec. 24th,
says that kansas still leads the list in
the extent of new mileage, and she has
done 80 for several years"
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-03

THE EDITOR of an esteemed contem-
porary wonders how he will get his
clothes on over his wings when he gets
to heaven. Don't worry, dear brother,
on that score. You may sometimes
6nd difficulty in getting your boots OIL
over your cloven hoofs or making your
hat cover your horns, but don't bother
about the wings.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-03

He WAS a wise man who said: "God
keep me from all manner of assumption
of superiority" But some people seem
to have been born bristling all over
with that spirit. They have to learn
by painful experience that men will
recognize genuine superiority, but will
equally rebuke the assumption Of it.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-03

PEKAaINa IARAG1ARHH.
Does 3 standing army ever sit down?
True pakhos is found only in an
empty rockctbook.
The age Of man may be told by the
number Of his secrets.
A romance of middle ages-An old
maids love affair.
The man with no opinions is the only
man who never changes them.
The wise man never prophesies the
future until it has become the past.
A small boy rises to remark that most
doughnuts come from Greece.
Socrates died like philosopher. but
the average old widower dyes like 4
fool.
A husband in this city calls his wife
an anarchist. because she is always try-
ing to blow him up.
No matter how loose ring may be
the diamond never slides around on
the inside OF lady's finger.
To be lied about;teaches us to not
believe the one-tenth of the bad things
said about others.
''Can lost writing be restoredl" Not
after it has found its way into the
waste basket of the editor.
Some men are like bantam ROSTERS;
they are not good to eat, and they are
not pretty, but they are q variety.
A man has just been discovered in
AtchisOn who mailed a letter for a lady
without looking at the address.
Strange that in the werld, when you
get on, you commence to be well Off.
Some author tells us that ''much is
said about the tongue True the
thing is in everybodys' mouth.
Stories first learned at a mothers
knee are never wholly forgotten, but
remain in our memory little life
spring that never dries up.
s'Thank heaven . exclaimed the fond
father as he paced the floor at midnight
with his bowling heir, .'thank heaven
you are not twins!'
A little boy was told that there was
on politics in heaven. He thought for a
mement, and then said, 81 guess that's
because there are no politicians there"
Leavenworth girls wear rings on their
toes, so local paper states. Not
circus rings, but regular brass curtain
rings.-K. G. Nesrs. Ring the belle
softly.
The Kansas banker rolls in wealth,
the merchant does the same, the editor
doesn't make so much, but he gets
at this juncture the pencil dropped
from the nerveless fingers of the writer
aud he now occupies an unknown
grave.
One of our modest and refined
young ladies who wanted pair Of
garters, Ii few days ago, entered one
Of our dry goods stores and addressed
the gallant young man who presides
behind the counter, thusly: II desire
to obtain pair Of circular appendages
capable of being contracted or expanded
by means Of osciiated FURNISHED steel
appliances that sparkle like gold leaf
setting with Alaska diamonds, and
which are utilized for retaining in
proper position the habiliments of tie
lower extremities which innate delica-
cy forbids me to MENTION
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-03

SEVENTEEN thousand ladies voted
at the recent municipal election in
Boston. The issue was one of what
school bOoks should be used in the
public schools. The ladies as usual
were upon the right side of the ques-
ton.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-03

Bacon IS reported champion, having
scored ten straight hits.
Found, on Wednesday Of this week.
On the east end Of the depot pizfSoem
in this city. yellow covered account
book. leather Of cover stained imitation
of alligator. Owner can have the same
BY calling at this oe6ce. -.
Master Freddie HUFFMAN had exs
tracted from his foot last Tuesday, =
piece of q steel needle about one inch
long. the remainder Of needle which
was stuck into the foot some time last
summer, part of it havine been cut
out in August, Last. The little fellow
has suffered greatly from the presence
of the agRravating bit Of steal. and az
may be supposed, enjoyed Christmas
all the more for its removal.
We visited the new school house one
day this week and was shown through
it by Mr.. F. w. Paroth, one Of the gem
tlemaniy contractors. The building Is
95x54 feet and the top Of the bell tower
reaches to the height Of seventy-fve
feet, the first story taking up twelve
and the second fourteen feet of that
space. The four school rooms, three
of which are on the FIRST floor, are
23x4O feet in the clear, while the hall
on the second floor is AOx50 feet. Each
room has q handsomely finished and
commodiOuS cloak room opening into it.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-03

ONE By ONE the little, iim-crow
pauers retire into ''inocuous disuetude''
and the best papers keep on doing good
and drumming up delinquents. An
other example Of ''the survival Of the
fittest.'
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-03

AUTUMN is gone and winter is here.
1t autumn make a nam 90 winter
the house and shiver around the fire,
but instead the weather is balmy and
8pring like.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-03

Hon. HENRY w. SCOTT, register of
the Larned land office, has now in print
law book for the guid.sAce and assist
ance of county officials. The need of
something of the kind has been recog-
nized by every county officer upon TAX
ing his Office for the first time. The
book spoken of will contain all the
forms and modes Of procesdure of all
county officers, and ought to be rut in-
to every county in the state.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-03
EDITORIAL oonfENT.
TALK about Kansas not being all
right! There are only $40 publ ications
Of all kinds in the state.

The KINGMAN county Jail contains
thirteen prisoners. being fuller than
the joint patrons usually got before the
jointists went to jail.-Kingman Demo-
cr0t.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-03

"VOTE AS YOU SHOT" was text
which Governor Palmer handled in a
way that pleased his audience im-
mensely. ~ know of boys who we're
born after the war ended going round
now and advising my old comrades how
to vote. You must vote as you shot
they say. Well, suppose the old fell
lows obey the command? What will
the young men do? They comprise
nearly four-lifths of our voting pOpula-
ton. They can't vote as they shot,
because they never shot. 1t seems that
everybody in the country, except the
old soldiers, have right to do as they
please. If We old soldiers are to vote
as we shot how shall we vote? What
shall we vote for? I never shot in
favor Of Il protective tariff, did L? And
yet must vute for it because republi-
can politicians say SO; no other reason.
Slavery is gone, rebellion is crushed,
the union is restored; now, how can /
vote for themp How can vote AS !
shot? There is no way OF making this
thing more ridiculous than it is. Does
the fact that you were soldiers make it
incumbent on you to vote as the repub-
lican bosses dictate? l thought when
the real fighting was over that the
internal system of slavery that en-
chained the black would he forever
buried. I thought the country was
really free. Chicago Herald.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-03

DAILY the fight for spCils among the
great republican leaders of the day be-
comes more interesting. Ohio seems to-
have taken the initiative in the way of
bringing matters to an interesting
point. Gov. Foraker has given Senator
Sherman a side wiper. over the head of
Gen. GrOsvenor, and wise men say that
Harrison Will have TO keep out Of the
buckeye state IN his hunt for cabinet
timber. The worst thing about the re-
publican party is that there are SD many
more leaders" in the party than there
are leading positions for them to Gil,
and as consequence the needs of the
country are neglected while these
great political giants are engaged in
attempting to kill each other off.
The American Historical society
want new, fair and impartial history
of this country. There is great dea, of
mis-information palmed off upon inno-
cent children under the name of s.His-
tory Of the United Htates.c
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-03

ALIENS hold much of the best land
in Kansas, which holdings will probably
clear within three years. The legisla-
ture will give them that much time to
sell. The following hold Kansas lands:
British Land Company, $4,000 acres;
Alexander Grant of London, $4,000
acres; Lord Scully Of England, $4,000
acres. The amendment to the consti-
tuition just adopted will result in great
good to the state.-Larned Democrat.