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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-10-24

his wife and little one, (" she added, proudly.
Marcia Lessiuge gave it one startled
glance and her head EVAN. Surely that
was Harley, standing there beside that
same lovely woman, something like she had
seen them herself. A suffocating sense
stole over her, but she asked family: "Your
son, did you say7''
ssYes'm; perhaps you may have seen him.
He resides at 122 West Fourth street this
year; last year he rented farther mp town,
but it was more expensive"
"One hundred and TWENTY-FIVE West
Fourth streetln whispered Marcia Lessinge
with bIoodless lips, sand not Harley" and
with stided cfyshe slipped to the floor.
'sGracious net" exclaimed tho old lady,
''the storms been too much for her nerves.
and working faithfully over the fainting
Marcia she soon restored her to conscious
ness. xs.--7
In a few minutes she opened her eyes.
"Her son and not poor, abused HarleyP'
flashed through her mind. ssOl it has been
such a dreadful mistake r. she moaned
aloud.
eyes" answered the hostess; ssto think Of
your being lost In such q storm is dreadfuL
It might have cost you your life ~
Marcia replied. in the Affirmative. but
family. She was inwardly thanking God
that she had MISSED Clyde This being lost
mad brought such q sweet relief in its reve-
Iation.
She could not sleep, but tossed about won
dering, with many misgivings, If Harley
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make inquiries Of Secretary Blaine he
can give it some valuable Information.
acquired by him wien the attempt was
made while he was Speaker to rush
the Force bill through the House.
showing the necessity of not only hav-
ing a quorum in attendance but of hav-
ing quorum on hand which can be de-
pended upon to vote. The Speaker on
that occasion. in response to General
Buffers angry demand that he make
the members vote, declared his igno-
rance of any method by which it could
be DONE the recorded vote not disclos-
ing the presence of quorum. although
the call of the House showed that
there was more than a quorum in the
chamber. At that time the Republic
ans had two-thirds of the membership
of the House and were led by able
men. The difficulties they then en-
countered, show how utterly hopeless
will be an attempt of the Republican
majority in the next House to run
things with a high hand. They will
go slow. not, perhaps. because they
would like. to. but because they will
have to.4Detroit Free Press.
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ORIENTAL BAZARS.

How and Where the Business of Turkeys
Capital Is Done.
The business of ConstantinOple, like
that of all Oriental cities, is done in
bazars, and the bazars of this city are,
perhaps, the largest in the world.
They are all under one roof. and this
roof covers acres of narrow streets
which in and out, cross and recross
one another until in passing through
them you lose yourself again and
again as though in the mazes of Rosa
mond's bower. The pavement of these
bazars are cobble stones. The streets
are about five or six feet wide and no
carriage or wheeled vehicle can drive
into them. The stores are narrow
cells, ranged along the sides of the
streets, with wide lodges Or divans in
front of them, and the merchants in
turbans and gowns squat on rugs
cross-legged with their goods hung up
above them and piled all around them.
You can buy in these bazars any thing
from a Glove or a needle to a pair of
diamond earrings. and there are old
gold watches by the bushel and altar
of roses by the gallon. Each bazar
SGEC06 has 1bS Wv Ii AAiAO VI HOhdduASC
upon it. The jewellers work side by
side, the shoemakers have a street of
their own, and the dealers in old arms
and old clothes each have their separ-
ate locality. There is a saddle bazaar
where all kinds of gorgeous saddles
are made and sold in cell after cell
There is spice bazar in which
the perfumes of ground CHINA
mon greet your nostrils. There
is Persian bazaar where you can buy
enough rich shawl to carpet farm
from every long bearded, richly dressed
Mohammedan within it, and there is a
bazarwhere the finest gold embroidered
curtains and other rare articles in silk
and silver are sold. There are bazars
of all kinds, and the Turkish NOR
chants and the traders that you find in
them are of all classes and sexes, and
they come from all parts of the Mo-
hammedan world Here is vailed
lady in . balloon-like silk gown from
some pasha's harem. q black-faced
eunuch with whip in his hand stands
beside her and watches her closely as
she buys of q handsome Armenian.
Near her stands the hamel or porter
with his saddle on his back ready to
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carry away for her any thing she may
buy. though its weight be i've hundred
pounds. There is Circassian with
half African cap and his breast covered
with cartridge boxes. He is chief of
his native village. and is making trip
to Constantinople. Here comes a
waist and skirts which stand out from
his body like those of the girl who rides
the trick horse in a circus, and here
comes anAbyssinians slave in turban and
gown whose face is as black as the
silk hat of that European merchant
who walks behind him. Here are
Arabians from Bagdad. Kurds from
Asia and Bashi Bazouks from the IN
terror. Here is a pretty American
lady. and there flirting with, an old
Turk as she slips on a pair of new
slippers is dark-eyed, rosy-cheeked
beauty wearing the embroidered dress
of Bulgaria There a group, of Syrians
are drinking coffee together and here
comes a lemonade peddler with four
gallon bottle on his back offering a
drink which he claims is sweeter than
honey Commission merchants and
brokers by the dozens hang round
you urging you to accept their SER
vices in purchasing. Your eyes dance
in trying to comprehend the colors of
the rainbow which you see all around
you. and your ears are deafened with
a dozen strange languages. You wan
der through street after street. find
ing something new at every step. and
when you think you have come to the
end your guide tells you that you are
only at the beginning. I have gone
again and again to these CONSTANT
nople bazars and 1 find something new
in every street every time I CO.
Frank G. Carpenter. in Louisville
Courier-Journal ae- Ill
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HYcjENE OF THE FEET.

How IN Treat and Trim Toe-Nals-Soms
Practic.f suEgestions-
DIR. Izard, a Partisan authority on
the health of the feet. writes as fol-
lows to LIE Franc Parleur regarding
the nails: "a most important part of
the hygiene of the feet has for its OBJ
ject the nails. To-day an absurd Gus
tom imported from China DEGREES that
the nails of the hands should be al
lowed to grow long. but it does not
app ~ to those of the feet These last
must be cut regularly or they viii
grow so fast as to fold under the toe,
form blisters and be as much of an an
noyance TO the boot as they are In
walking They become In such cases
very painful at the roots under the in
duence of the least pressure. To eyade
all such accidents it win be we'll to cut
the nails each time a foot bath ia
taken. The water will soften them
and permit them to be pared easily
without danger Of tearing them. Scis-
sors are sufficient for this operation.
The difficulty is to know whether it is
better to cut the nails in semi-circie
or in a direct line The following
is the rule generally observed:
When the toes are well formed
and the nails equally so.
when the pressure. exercised by the
shoe does not cause any deviation. the
nails should be cut in a semi-circle in
conformity to the rotund configuration
of the extremity of the toes But
when these are displaced or deformed
by the action of the shoe care must be
taken on account of the deformity to
always give to the nail that is being
pared the shape of the extremity of
the toe. II it be not so pared and if
the sides OF the nail are left to pro-
| trude while the middle part has been
| cut. the least lateral pressure on the
extremity of the foot causes the pro-
| truding part of the nail to enter the
flesh of the protruding toe. Too mar
row Or too short shoes are apt to pro-
duce much annoyance. In such cases
the nails must be cut in conformity to
the shape of the toes. To prevent the
nail from entering the flesh of the big
toe the nail must be cut on the square
rather than on the round. So say
several physicians. but | am not of
the same opinion. because experience
has taught me that this vicious con-
formation does not in the least depend
| on the manner in which the nail has
been pared"
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DRIFTyOF OPINION.

In the hands of Private Dalzell
the pen is Fighter than dog with a
tin kettle tied 60 his tail st Louis
Giobe-Democrat.
Tanner threatens to open his cell
ebrated mouth in the Ohio campaign.
It will be the largest fall opening"
of the season. Chicago Herald
If Corporal Tanner didn't intend
that letter should be made public, he
was foolish to write it. II he did in
tend that it should be made public he
was just as foolish to write it-Phila-
delphia Call.
--.'Fitness is the sole test" but of
all the Republicans selected by the
President to talk to the Spanish speak
ing Representatives at the Interna-
tional Congress not one speaks Span
ish.-St. Louis Republic
-.:Mr. Wanamaker," says our
esteemed contemporary. the Rochester
Union and Advertiser. s'evidently in
tends to leave his mark behind him in
his department. Yes. he will leave
it He has left it 1t is On. 7. Sun.
The Republicans of Mississippi;
Chalmers, who assisted at the Fort
Pillow massacre on the Confederate
side, for Governor. and Colonel Elliott
F. Shepherd may be relied upon to ex-
tend to him the greeting of one brave
political soldier to another Provi-
dence Journal
The glorious new mountain
State of Montana Is to be especially
congratulated upon entering the union
q Democratic commonwealth. Against
the desperate odds of Federal patron
age and In the face Of the discourag-
ing fact that the Territory went Re-
publican by s. 600 plurality last year.
ana notwithstanding the active partic-
ipataon OF the rich and unscrupulous
Republican National Committee in
the, campaign, thenew State has given
a Democratic majoritys-Detroit Free
PresA
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THE NATIONS PRESIDENTS.

What Is Known Concerning Their ReIIg-
fous Views and Associations.
All that we can ascertain concerning
the religious views of the Presidents
of the United States is included in the
following: Washington was a commu-
meant in the Episcopal Church. Adams
was the son of Puritan parents, who
left England to enjoy religious freedom
in the wilds of America. 1t was in
tended by the parents of John Adams,
when they sent him to college. that he.
should become a clergyman in the
faith of the Puritans; but he soon
found himself too much of free
thinker to feel at ease in the rigid
pulpit of that day. He was often
called a Unitarian, but of dOgmatic
theology he seems to have had very
little. Jefferson was an Episcopalian,
nominally, but seems to have been
what is now called an agnostic. In
later life he was the originator of the
Charlottesville University, of which
he was chosen rector-an Office he held
until just before his death. Andrew
Jackson was real Blue-stocking Pres
byterian, proud of his faith. Martin
an buren was a SCauQcn Ola I1Ol-
lander. not. we believe, a commune =
can't in any church. but through his
Holland blood connected with and adj
herring to Presbyterianism. William
Henry Harrison. the grandfather of
the present President, was a devoted
Episcopalian. Polk was of Scotch
Irish descent, and had the blood of the
Covenanters in his veins. He was not
connected with the church of his
fathers during his administration. but
was baptized on his death-bed. Pierce
was Presbyterian. So was Buchan-
an. Hayes is regular attendant of
the Methodist Church. Garfield was
a member of the Christian or Camp
bellite Church, both by choice and in
heritance. Arthur was the son of a
Baptist clergyman. but was not. him
self, a commitment in any church.
Cleveland was the son of a Presby-
terian dominic. was not q church MEM
Der while in Office, though both he and
Mrs. Cleveland were quite regular in
their attendance at the services in the
First Presbyterian Church of Wash
ington City. President Harrison is
consistent Presbyterian and a ruling
elder in the church.-Toledo Blade.
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was not distracted with grief at her alb
sence Poor Harley She could remember,
now that the other was of her mind, how
kind and tender he had always been to her.
The morning dawned beautifully calm,
and, although the water was still rough,
Marcia was on the sands before sunrise, so
eager was she to get back to the husband
she had so wrong fully misjudged.
2 Over the waters she fairly few. Did
frail bark ever skim the blue foam-crested
waves with as. earnest an occupant befores
But the blinds were ALI drawn and a
strange stiffness reigned in the Lessinge
great dread took possession of her.. OF
what had happened to Harleya
"Be Quiet" commanded Theodore as he
let her in; perfectly quiet, Harley is very
i'll. He raved all night about you," he
added. meanlugly.
Marcia gave low cry Of agony. "Let me
go to Harley!" she mOaned entreatingly,
clutching her brothers. arm in frantic
way. -
Compose yourself" said he, while the
tears dropped from his own hot eyes. And
with an almost superhuman effort the
= broken-hearted wife Gained herself and
prepared to meet the worst-if it came.
Clinging to her brothers. arm she stole
suffering Harley lay.
Many were the kisses, tender and kind,
pressed on the unconscious husbands burn
ing brow; many were the tears of bitter
contrition shed over that couch of pain be-
fore the light of returning reason dawned
again in the dear eyes. But at last they
beamed once more on her with the old love,
stronger than illness or death in their
depths.
Then it was that Marcia hid her face on
her husbands breast and made it her con-
fessional. II can never forgive myself for
the days Of pain have caused you, farley,
dear!" And she sobbed out her repentant
anguish in his arms. a 4
''Never mind, y he said, with tender, COM
passionate love, while his own tears min gled
with hers: 'snever mind. we viii be drawn
closer together for having suffered.
st was but mistake, Marcia; and the
world is full of Mistakes
e MANDA L. CROKER.
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MARCIA PULLED IT HIGH UP ON THE BEACH.
they might find Marcia Lessinge or her re-
mains, for none were scarcely sanguine
enough to expect safe return.
Marcia sped along the path in the rushing
rain; it was growing dark very fast now.
81 may survive the night" she muttered,
''and reach Clyde tomorrow, if I find shell
ter''
'sBut she was beautiful" catching her
breath in whispers, with little, painful
gasps, 1.-THE woman whom he caressed, and
know that he loves herl" (
Not needing her steps, she caught her
foot in a tangle of vines and fell; strug-
Cling to her feet she pressed on toward the
terminus of the little woodland path.
ssIt certainly leads somewhere trying
to see through the stormy twilight. A faint
glimmer of light rewarded her aching
vision.
A few rods further and she came to q
small cottage. 81 did not know that this
bit of land was really inhabited" she said,
much relieved; 'but it is somebody's
home"
MAY come ina'' she asked, family, rap.
ping at the door.
'4Gracious me- Why, come right in."i -
In q trice Marcia Lessinge found light and
warmth in the plainly furnished, but pleas
antiuterior. A bright fire burning on the
hearth reelected its coy CLEANS on afew
old-fashioned portraits on the smoky walls,
and the neat and tidy appearance Of the
room was altogether home like and restful
After q change Of clothing and a cup OF
fragrant tea. the CHEEKY old woman asked
.sYou lost your way, did your
ayes" answered Marcia, my boat is
ashore near by"
s.It's awful to be out In such q storm as
this. Especially on the water. You were
going to the city, supposed"
ssNo." said Marcia: s'coming from. I was
eping to Murray on Clyde"
40. yes that is little farther NORTH" re-
iofred the hostess. stMy husband Is over
there for to-day; would have been back to
night but for the storm.
Nrve son Ia che city," she continued
s.and here,s his picture, " taking up . case
from the table Ct her elbow. THAT'S hin,
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1t is only in the comic newspapers
that the small boy gets doubled up by
eating green apples and gives the I'M
dertaker job. The small boy in real
life will start out nutting in the morn
ing. and before he returns home in
the evening he will have put himself
outside OF half peck of green apples,
IL dozen big turnips, quart of chest
nuts and three pints of spring water.
and attack his supper with the appe-
tite of a half-starved bear Next
morning he feels. well enough to re-
peat his tramp and feast-Norristown
Herald
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-10-24
IMPROVING HEAVY SOIL.

Benefits Resulting From q Liberal Appli-
cation of Sand.
There is perhaps no more profitable
method of improving heavy clay than
by liberal application of sand, when
this material is at hand Such soils
are naturally lifeless. and by supply
ing this element the land is made
porous. which insures better results
from cultivation. Bottom lands which
contain large amount of sand never
become hard and compacted. Sand
will in a measure modify heavy up
land soils in the same. way. Sand not
only 1mparts porosity. but warmth.
Manure may be applied. and indirectly
add warmth to the soil; but when the
land Is In this condition the full value
OF the manure can not be realized.
Another advantage sand has Ii that
when once applied its effects are per-
manent. Hence the outlay may be-
considerable and yet pay. A gravel
bank was being opened in one of the
fields of the farm. and while blowing
and scraping away the upper stratum
of earth considerable of the fine gravel
which lay underneath was mixed with
the soil Thinking this might be of
value, it was drawn upon the field to
a heavy" spot some distance away.
The result was satisfactory. No man
ure was applied, but the crops grew
there as they never did before. and
though it is past fifteen years since
this was done, the improvement Is
almost as marked as ever Addition
of sand for Improvement of soils Ii
not new. but It has not been made az
as it deserves to be. Flor
lists invariably recognise this fsot-
Prairie Farmer
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-10-24
THEY WILL GO SLOW.
Why tho Republicans Can't Run Thing.
In tho Next House. 49,

why tho Republicans Can't Run Things
In tho Next House. &C.,
We do not hear so much of late
about the way in which the Republic
an majority in the next House are to
shake up things after the organization
is effected. Their ambitious pro-
gramme has been materially short
ened as the time approaches for Con-
gress to meet, and it will not be sur.
prising If, Immediately after Speak
er and other officers have been chosen.
a Republican member makes the usual
motion that the rules of the old House
be adopted until otherwise ordered. 1t
took the Republicans some time to
realize that majority of three or four
was not omnipotent and that without
the presence of full quorum thew
were absolutely helpless without the
cooperation of the minority. This of
course they will have on all questions
in which they can with Justice or pro-
priety claim it. In the election of a
Speaker their slender majority will be
no source of embarrassment, nor will
their inability to muster quorum at
all times interfere with the TRANSACT
ton of public business. It will only
be q fatal weakness when they attempt
to turn out Democratic members BY
sheer party strength without full
and fair hearing, or when they at
tempt to pass measures that are con-
cocted on purely partisan schemes.
Then they win find that they can do
nothing except waste time. sEss.
N " IN
at Last found. out that quorum is
necessary to do business, takes COM
fort in the fact that less than quo
rum may compel the attendance OF
absent members. II the Tribune viii
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THE SOUTHERN BUTCHER.
Why Chalmers Nomination IL an Ins ul
tn ha in ISlua

Why Chalmers Nomination IL an Insult
to the Boys in Blue
The hypocrisy of politics never had
more striking illustration than the
nomination of Chalmers by the Mis-
sissippi Republicans, especially as it
came so soon after the nomination Of
Malone by the Virginia Republicans.
There are no two men in all the coun-
try, either North Or South, so purely
typical of the bruiser element in poll
tics. 1t has not been a great while
since the Republicans were holding
Chalmers up before the country as the
model of all that was corrupt and
despicable in Southern politics. They
ousted him out of seat in Congress
because he had secured his credentials
through fraud and violence. And
now they have made political Moses
of him. and commissioned him to lead
the black cohorts through fire and
blood, if necessary, in order to obtain
Republican success in Mississippi 1t
is pitiable condition Of affairs when
a great political party is forced to the
extremity of heaping its honors upon
a bloodthirsty renegade who first
gained notoriety by his butchery OF
negro troops during the war. Chalm-
ers' conduct at Fort Pillow was so
outrageous as to incur ostracism in
his own section, as well as the con-
tempt of the Confederate veterans.
His nomination now by the Missis-
sippi Republicans is an insult to the
veterans of both armies, more particu
larly to those of the Union side.-St
Paul GlOhe g sa
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THE RECENT ELECTIONS.

The Time VIII Come when Men Z. II
Voteas They Think. Not rs They Feel. .
The Democrats in the new States OF
the Northwest have not done so badly.
There was reasonable prospect that
eight. Republican Senators would be
added to the unholy hierarchy that
dominates the so called upper house OF
Congress. Instead, there may be but
six .4 3 - .sif .4s'~
Although the result is mixed, Mon
tana is Democratic. 1t was in Mon
tana that the Australian ballot scheme
prevailed. There was an honest vote
in Montana.
Years hence, when the farmers of
the Northwest have been brought by
hard experience to. a realizing sense
of the wrongs they suffer from the
war tariff. the palm will be awarded
to Montana for being the first to de-
clare against this iniquity. If there
is one class of people that more than
another is injured by the present re-
strictions on our trade it is the farm
ers of the West Singularly enough,
this is the class that has been most
tardy in realizing the need of reform.
The Herald sees no occasion for de-
spair in the result of the elections.
The new States were peopled largely
from Republican States at a time when
it was the fashion in the North to be
Republican, or at any rate, not to be
Democratic. They contain, besides,
a large foreign element which for
some inscrutable reason has always
affiliated with the Republican pa rty.
Nor is this the only instance where
prejudice and sort of inherited
prediction have proved stronger
motives in mems minds than sober
considerations of self-interest. In due
time those prejudices will tade away
and men will vote as they think. not
as they feel.-Chicago Herald.
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"A little boy OF three years. whose
mother played the organ in. the
church. and who was; obliged to be
left to the care of others, was asked
one Sunday morning what his kitten
was crying 20 piteously for II don't
know" said he. in fearful tones. .sbus
1 'spect the old cat has gone to
church"