davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-11-21
PALESTINE'S FUTURE.

Progress Made In the Holy Land Despite
Turkish Misrule.
There is no good reason for doubling
that with good government and a
thrifty people Palestine might again
answer to the description of a land flow
ing with milk and honey. Every intel
ligent resident in the country with whom
I conversed was of this opinion. The
soil is naturally rich and the climate
favorable. Under the Turkish Govern
ment, which is as whitening to all civil
tzing impulses as the sirocco is to vege-
tation, nothing can be hoped for in the
way of advancement in any direction.
The tread of the Turk is the tread of an
iron foot. His rule is an unmitigated
curse on the earth in this nineteenth
century. But, in spite of himself, the
Turk has been forced to witness and
even to languidly carry on certain inn
provements. The stage road from
Beirut to Damascus, built by a
French company in 1850, and still
owned by it, is in fine condi-
ton. There are carriage roads from
Jaffa to Jerusalem and from Jerusalem
to Hebron. Incited by the complaints
of the Russian Grand Dukes last su-
tumn, a road is being built from Tiberas
westward to Nazareth, to connect with
tolerable road from there to Halfa, on
the Mediterranean, and road was be-
gun in the autumn at Jerusalem in the
direction of Jericho. A railroad for mill
tary purposes from Egypt to Jaffa had
been talked about. There is every rea-
son to expect that in time a railroad
will be built from Jaffa to Jerusalem,
and perhaps extended from there to the
wheat fields of the Hauran. But roads
of travel and commerce, valuable as
they are, do not suffice to train and civ
ilize a people. The best thing that
could come to Syria and Palestine would
be what has happened to Egypt En-
glish occupation would mean the adj
ministration of justice and the security
of property rights, to say nothing else.
The work of the missionary from
Western Christendom is slow. but it is
progressing. An American can hardly
stand under the walls of the Syrian
Protestant College at Beirut without
feelings of pride. It is a mighty engine
of attack against the ignorance and
domestic degradation of the Mohamme-
dan East. The village schools, the
scattered churches, the mission printing
press and the personal lives and homes
of the missionaries are telling in a way
statistics can not show and only person
al contact can reveal. When Turkish
rule is withdrawn and the torch of
Christian life and liberty carried from
the West shall have been allowed to
cast its light through Syria and Pales-
tine, do not see why these lands may
not again be inhabited by happy and
prosperous people. The archRologist
would retain Jerusalem and the Holy
Land as museum. The artist resists
the engineer. But we look forward to
better destiny. So we thought as the
hills of Judea and the houses of Jaffa
faded out of our sight.-Cor. n. Y. Mail
and Express
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-11-21
a REPUBLICAN WATERLOO.
The stomach of the q. O. p. Il Now Fun
OF Nauseoua Grow.

The Stomach of the q. o. p. Il Nov Fun
OF Nauseous Grow.
There is wailing in the camp OF mo-
nopoly and privilege. Mournful epitaphs
have been hung, and all the rites per-
formed that appertain unto a burial.
The Republican stomach is full of nause-
GUS crow. garnished with wormwood
and seasoned with the gall of bitter
ness For many day the organs will
feed their readers on explanations. They
will seek to cover with petty excuses
that which appears in appropriate naked
ness. There is but one thing upon
which the party of buster can brag
now-it can show more black eyes than
all the houris of the Mussulman heaven
The Iowa Democrats have at last got
out of the wilderness of fanaticism and
free whisky, and their Moses will now
strike with his rod of right the rock Of
justice, and bring forth pure stream
that will cleanse the State of Repub-
ican sewage. He has led his faithful
followers into the promised land of Dem
ocratic ascendancy.
The rebel Brigadier, Malone, is buried
for all time. The organs should not
complain of his destruction. Their meat
and drink is abuse of rebel Brigadiers,
and they should rejoice that one of them
the worst-has met his fate at the
hands of an honest man.
The forged-letter dodge did not save
the Fire-Alarm leader of the Ohio Re-
publicans. His sham pretense at espous-
ing the cause of Sunday saloon-closing
did not save him. The respectable e1e-
ment in his own party refused to vote
for him, and he had nothing to expect
from the Democrats. He, too, is done
for.
The defeat of Foraker, Hutchinson and
Malone, the election of Campbell, Boies
and Mckinney, is stinging rebuke to
theAdministration and to the whole Re
publican party. Tuesdays votes show
that the election Of Harrison was an &C
cident and mistake. More than that,
they show that the bow of promise for
the Democrats in 1899 is already being
set in the political heaven. They show,
too, that the tax-ridden, monopoly-op-
pressed people of this country are find:
ing out that they must look to the Dem
ocratic party for their deliverance from
the chains of error, dishonesty and
fanaticism. The people have found that
the Democratic party is their party, and,
having learned this, they will stand by
the party and their rights Chicago
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-11-21
Notes About Finger Nails.

A white mark ON the nail bespeaks
misfortune.
Pale or lead-colored nails indicate mel
ancholy people.
Broad nails indicate gentle, timid
and bashful nature.
Lovers of knowledge and liberal sem
timent have round nails.
People with narrow nails are ambitious
and quarrelsome.
Small nails indicate ittleness of mind.
obstinacy and conceit-
Choleric, martial men, delighting in
war, have red and spotted nails.
Nails growing into the flesh at the
points or sides indicate luxurious tastes.
People with very pale nails are sub
ject to much infirmity Of the flesh and
persecution by neighbors and friends
Medical Classics.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-11-21
COLONEL JOE MULHATTAN.

The Most Accomplished Liar Ever Pro-
duced by America.
was sorry to see it announced that
Colonel Joe Mulhattan has shaken the
dust of Kentucky off his feet to become
New Mexican. Louisville needs all
her celebrities and hates to lose any of
them. No doubt we shall hear of some
wonderful caves and mines and things
discovered in New Mexico. Joe Mulhat-
tan was one of the most successful drum
mers who travelled out of Louisville, a
jealous Baptist and the most genial and
entertaining liar in the United States.
His fame spreads from sea to sea. His
first great ''fake" was story about an
encounter with two highwaymen, whom
he vanquished, on trestle near Big
Clifty, KY. The ease with which he got
tie newspapers to bite encouraged him
to greater efforts. 1t would be impossi-
BILE to recount all the marvellous yarns he
has spun since then, but probably none
of his hoaxes were more ingenious than
that about the meteorite in Texas. The
story was first printed in the Fort Worth
papers and was briefly telegraphed all
over the country by the press lines. A
meteorite, the largest ever known in
scientific records, had fallen in q re-
mote Texas county, with the usual &C
compartments of noise and fire. It was
so big 1t had completely demolished q
house and killed family Of seven Tex
ans. Well, the event was so remarkable
and unprecedented thatthe Fort Worth
newspaper offices were besieged the
next day with kilograms from all the
leading journals of the country asking
further particulars. Scientific societies
were excited and sent inquiries, and
even some European scientists became
stirred up on the subject. But on care
full investigation it developed that Joe
Mulhattan was the only meteorite who
had shot across the Texas skies that sea-
son. Joe always claimed that none Of
his hoaxes ever harmed any body, but
that they gave entertainment to thous-
ands of newspaper readers--Louisville
Post.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-11-21
THE RACE PROBLEM.

A Colored Minister'S Original Views on
This Perplexing Topic.
A few Sundays since Rev. W. II.
Sherwood, pastor of the African NJ. E.
Church, of Tallahassee, delivered a
lecture to his congregation, having for
his text '"The Race Problem" Among
other things he said, according to the
Tallahassee Floridian:
Man was made to work. The construction of
his hand is evidence of this. God made all
mankind to work, but the negro he has doomed
to labor. It is left to his choice, work or per
ish, for God has ordained that the negro who
steals shall be caught, and the sooner we
recognize this fact the sooner Heaven and
earth, which seem now to be against us, will
turn in our favor.
The recent race wars are but the precursors
OF awfuler times yet to come. Futurity is Inn
penet rable by finite judgment No conformity
of circumstances enables us to fully solve this
perplexing problem, yet thoughtful observer
Of the signs Of the times may foresee the ulti-
nate issue. The problem admits of but one So
utfon.
That is this the negro must work. He must
come out Of politics. There is nothing in poll
les for the negro but death. Death to the poll
ician and death for the race he represents.
lie is toe weak to stem the food The
North has dropped him and he can not
stand alone and maintain partisan ground
n fact, he Is not prepared, il allowed,
share SO largely as he thinks in govern
rental affairs. Empowered with the use OF the
,allot too soon, he has almost worked his ruin.
Ie must get some money. What the negro
ANTS Is commercial power; then, brains and
lorals with these, he can sway a commanding
lf1uence. Without these he must remain at
he bottom. God and nature put him there,
nd promise you the white man will keep him
here. You who are dependent upon these
White people for employment had better make
riends with them. If not, they will fill your
'laces with the poor element Of their own race,
md with a catapult Of the combined forces Of
money, wealth and intellect they will
lurl US out, Oh, d:wn and under. What
rouble the colored man Is having he him
elf is making it. The constant clamor
# the so-called leaders of the race for political
,ositfon and power fills the white man with ap-
rehension of negro rule, thus tanning the
lanes Of race prejudice. They will not submit
o negro rule, and it can not be expected Of
hem. Such is unprecedented. So sudden
;hange OF slave to master more than often
langs semebody-Haman and Mordecai ex-
IMPLIES. The negro raee would be the same
Inder similar circumstances. repeat 1T, the
negro must work. Let him go to the top by
hose resistless superiorities of wealth, char
lcter and competence.
Elevated upon this basis he will stand; with
vut these he falls. He must give up politics
md come out or he will get killed out. I am
giving it to you straight.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-11-21
England Bewarei

ssW:lliam!" exclaimed Mrs High
strung, as she laid down the paper.
There's likely to be a war with En-
gland over Behring sea-
s'What do I carer" growled her spouse,
who took no interest in military mat
tiers.
81 don't care what you care or don't
care" returned Mrs Higkstrnng, with
some vehemence. ssThis war is about
seals, and if England wins they can
charge any price they please for seal
skin sacks, and amt got one yet If
. war breaks out you've got to go and
fight for y'r country, dye hear'.-N. Y.
Weekly.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-11-21
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

The bottom principle of De-
mocracy is to give every man q show
N. Y. Sun.
We refrain from expressing an
opinion of the Pan-Americans until it
is seen how they pan out.-Troy Press.
No Northern Republican need feel
aggrievea because the spurious Repub-
licanism of Malone has been rejected at
the Virginia polls. Buffalo Express
Rep.)
Couldn't DR.. Harrison spare a few
United States troops for the lawless Re-
publican counties of Kentucky? The
militia is weary.-Louisville Courier
Journal.
Tanners idea, as reflected in his
annual report, is that the men who en-
listed in the army during the war made
themselves residuary legatees of the
Nations estate, and are now en-
titled to inherit all that is left of it
N. Y. World.
-Congressman Morse calls for Re-
publican boycott on Harvard College.
We respectfully remind the rising son
of Canton that Harvard does not teach
what he calls free trade" because it is
Democratic, but because it is the truth.
Boston Globe.
-First the scholars who left the
Republican party were scoffed at; then
the clergymen who did likewise were
lampooned, and now the wealthy men
who have got sick of the old machine
are the subjects of sarcasm. Well, we
guess they can all stand this longer
than the Republican party can--Boston
Herald
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-11-21
CARE OF THE EYES.
Use Your peppers Carefully 50 rs to Make
Them Last Many Years.

Use Your peppers Carefully 50 rs to Mako
Them Last Many Years.
Sit erect in your chair when reading,
and as erect when writing as possible.
If you bend downward you not only
gorge the eyes with blood, but the brain
as well, and both suffer. The same
rule should apply to the use Of the nil
croscope. Get one that will enable You
to look at things horizontally, not al
ways vertically. :
Have reading lamp for nigh: use.
n. BIN regard to reading the light
should be on the book or paper and the
eyes in the shade. If you have no
reading lamp turn your back to the
light, and you may read without danger
to the eyes.
Hold the book at your focus; If that
begins to get far away get spectacles.
Avoid reading by the Pickering light
of the fire.
Avoid strainins the eyes by reading in
the cleaning.
Reading in bed in injurious as q rule :,
1t must be admitted, however, that in
cases of sleeplessness, when the mind
is inclined to ramble over a thousand
thoughts minute reading steadies the
thoughts and conduces to sleep.
Do not read much in Q railway car
riage. 1 myself always do, however.
only in good light, and invariably
carry good reading lamp to hook on
behind me. Thousands of people would
travel by night rather than by day if
the companies could only see their way
to the exclusive use Of their electric
light.
Authors should have black-ruled pa
per instead of blue, and should never
strain the eyes by reading too fine type.
The bedroom blinds should be red or
gray, and the head of the bed should ba
toward the window.
Those ladies who not only write but
sew should not attempt the black seam
by night
When you come to an age that sug-
gests the wearing of spectacles let no
false modesty prevent you from getting
pair. If you have only one eye an
eye-glass will do; otherwise it is folly.
Go to the wisest and best optician you
know of and state your wants and your
case plainly, and be assured you viii Be
properly fitted.
Remember that bad spectacles are
most injurious to the eyes, and tina:
good and well-chosen ones are decided
luxury.
Get pair for reading with, and If
necessary a 1ong-distance pair for use
out of doors--Cassell's Magazine.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-11-21
THE PENALTY O. POLISH.

Dnr Hp,dv,s home from boardin' school;
She's been there now three year,
But things she's learnt bein' there,
Strike me as mighty queer!
Somehow we don't do nothin' right
Melissy Ann an me
Though Hubby never noticed this afore
She went away, you see.
I'm blowed IL don't b'lieve the cash
I've gin to make her bright,
Haint well nigh made Ounce O. her
An mebbe it has quite!
She says, we mustn't eat out loud,
An'forks an knives shouldn't clashi
An forks want made for stirrin' things,
Nor knives for eatin' hash,
An then we mustn't "soup' our tea
Or pour it out the cup;
No matter if it burns our moths,
An tongues an palates up!
Nor must we ever "snap" our food
As hoptoads do q fly,
But put things slowly in our mouths,
Then eat it quietly.
An wuss than all the rest, she's got
Sech names for things she sees!
She bitches on a Latin word
To all the weeds an trees.
Why that old vie skunks cabbage plant
At walters in the mire,
Is "Symplocarpus fBtidus"-or some
Sech blamed high filler.
An then the weed that yallers up
The roadsides an the ways
Is "SOlidagO''-this an that,
An fetched in for bouquets!
One day she picked lot o. weeds,
Though Hubby called 'em fiowersJ
An got her microscope, an viewed
The trumpery for hours.
It seemed like wastin' time to me,
But gals are somehow changed.
Nebbe it's right, an am wrong,
The way the things arranged,
But when see Melissy Ann
A sweatin' bout her work
It makes me think, 'mong other things
Our Huldy's learned to shirk.
But folks are driftin' out o. ways
AT used to be the style;
Bumbye two pints won't make quart,
An cheatin' won't be vile.
N hens'll hatch out chiny eggs,
An crows'll pass for quails,
An cars IL float along the air,
An hoptoads'll have tails
I'm blowed if know where I am,
Or what on earth be,
This eddicatin' Hubby has
So disseminated mel
katharine H. Terry, in Good Housekeeping
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-11-21
EDIsoN'S INVENTIONS.

Classified List OF the Patents Secured BY
the Famous Electrician.
Telegraphy-Printing and automatic
So; chemical and perforating. "a; per-
forating machines, g; chemical stock
printer, 1; multiplex, L; relays, 8;
switches, 9; phonoplex, 8; induction re-
lay tel, 2; acoustic, 3; amir. and ind sig
nal app, f.
Electric Lights-Incandescen lamps
and manfr., 1o4; arc lamps, 4.
Distribution-System of regulation
and indicating devices, meters, sockets,
switches, 66.
Generation - Dynamos, motors, 8;
transmission Of power, 81; regulation, so.
Railways-Electricm motor and tracks,.
Conductors, underground and over
head. 3.
Telephones-Transmi and receive
ers, 81.
Batteries, galvanic and secondly, s.
Photograph, 81
Ore milling, 4.
Observation-Disclosures pen and stem
Gil app, 66; typewrites, 8; shafting, 4;
malleabling iron, 1; vocal engine, l.
preserving fruit, 1. Total, 493.
Besides theee he has over 500 applica-
tons for patents pending on all sub
5Sects-
The various interests bearing his
name own many hundred other patents
covering details and notifications Of
Mr.. Edison's inyentions.-America An:
alyst
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-11-21

Sarcastic brakemen on the New York
elevated roads have taken to calling out
after the name of the street warning
to the women not take the car along.
This extreme measure has been rendered
necessary, it is said, by the fact that
women now and then try to carry out the
iron hat-racks and the cushions.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-11-21
No Good Cause for Complaint.

No Good Ca0De Tor ComPIAint'
The Harrison Administration settles
the fight over the post-ofice at indie
pendence, Mo-, by deciding to retain the
Mormon recently appointed. Compare
lively speaking, the people of Independ-
ence have no right to complain. They
may not like Mormons, but they should
remember how much better off they are
than the people of the New York town
who had burglar appointed for their
postmaster, or than the Arkansas town
whose new postmaster had been con-
victei In the Federal courts for sending
obscene matter through the mails.-St
Louis Republic.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-11-21

The other day Chinese cook at
Livingstone, Cal, made a pie for the
guests of hotel 1t looked all right,
but he added two ounces OF pulverized
glass for seasoning. The first bite caused
a stalwart Transfers mouth to bleed
and he beat the cook to jelly.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-11-21

-Alger Is going to provide Tanner
good job in a private business The
Republican statesman who has any
longings for the Presidency does not,
like Noble, regard Tanner in the light
Of back Chicago Herald.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-11-21

helm jammed the wheel hard over, the
great frigate, in that gale, with nearly
every stitch of canvass slowed, was
slow to answer, and on she went with
terrific velocity, until suddenly there
was tremendous crash, as she struck
the brig amidships with her enormous
COWS.
I heard the noise of the splintered
woodwork, the grinding sound Of the
frigate's keel as sLs dashed along,
scraping few cracking fragments
under her forefoot; then she went boom
ing on, probably leaving behind only a
few shattered pieces of the craft she
had destroyed.
Meanwhile I had listened for some
wholesome cry-from the Inflated YES
sci, and had fancied-though it might
have been the wild shout from one of
our own crew blending with the din OF
the fierce ga16-that I had heard a yell
of agony as we went crashing through
and over the brig.
But whether or not that cry had come
from the destroyed craft, the terrible
sense of my being to blamo for the loss
of her crew and of her Captaln-ny oson
father-lay like heavy weight upon my
conscience, and as / now unfastened
from my breast the rope which had
saved my life when fell from aloft,
wished, for the moment, in my wild
grief, that there had been no hindrance
to my being dashed to instant death on
the deck below.
In that tempest and in the deep gloom
there was evidently no chance of any o.
the briggs hapless crew being saved
nevertheless, as the wind by this time
had slightly shifted and abated, the
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-11-21

MI. Cl8rkSOn S01Q: line fr0SlQont mad
made memorandum directing the APP
pointment Of Mrs. De La Hunt, suppos-
ing the Office to be Presidential, but the
appointment was really of the fourth
class, and I had already appointed Mr..
Zimmerman upon the recommendation
of Congressman Posey, whose indorse-
ments are usually followed in the dis
trict, knowing nothing Of the desire of
the President for Mrs. De La Hunts re-
appointment, nor of the circumstances
of the case. am inclined TO think that
it will yet be changed, and that Mrs. De
La Hunt will be appointed, rs it was the
intention of the President to appoint the
Union soldiers widow to the Cannelton
post-of1ce."
[From the Dover on j. Index October 8, 1880 I
CANaELroN, Ind, Oct. 16, 1882
Aessrs Hunsnsd d 1Izyer, Docer, NJ j. ::
Gentlemen: In reply to yours of 10th
inst, I have to say that have not re-
ceived the appointment, and it is with
out doubt settled that I am NOT to re-
ceive it, for have learned that shortly
after the statement made by the New
York Press and other papers Exon
gresham Posey wrote to the present in
cumbent to have no fears of any change,
as he (Posey) had made such state
ments to Mr.. Clarkson as would pre-
clude all danger of his removal. From
this it Is conclusive that If the idea OF
my appointment was, at any lime, Sc
riously entertained by the President, he
has been forced by Mr.. Posey, State
Attorney-GeneralM Kitchener and others
to abandon it. Very respectfully,
IaABELLE De La Hunt.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-10-04
NHckI.NcE NoTI:s.

Necklaces in the reign Of Charles 7.
We're made of amber sci in gold.
Southern colorcd women wear head
necklaces, looking upon them rs genuine
charms.
Pharaoh put n gold chain around
)oscph'S neck as mark OF his authority
in Egypt.
Among The Tartnrs Of The time of
Genghis Khan the necklace was often
madc OF human teeth.
In the reign Of Henry Will any one
who had moi $1,000 per year income could
not wear u necklace.
One oI the most valuable and coveted
possessions of the Western indian is the
ncciilacc of grizzly bears claws.
The puriiams abolished neck nccs, MS
they abolished everything they laid their
hands on which savorcd of ornament.
Thousands of panplc place necklaces Of
coral beads around The nccks of babies,
with the belief that they will assist the
children in tccthn"
When The SaXony dynasty was over
thrown by the Normans, ali persons be-
low certain rank were forbidden to
wear necklaces under heavy penalties.