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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-08-15
q WEpptNc HYMN.

That Heaven these plighted souls may bless
How many prayers ascend to-day.
That joy and peace and happiness
May now be theirs and theirs Away.
For this the roses seem to bloom.
The sun to shine. the birds to sing;
The air is laden with perfume
The breath OF loves pure Offering.
And here amid the assembly fine.
Where the hearts are warm and true, Is He
Who turned the water into wine
So long ago in Galilee.
His blessing falls like pearly dew
Where DER the hills the rising moon
Smiles gently down where daisies new
Bedeck the emerald robes OF June.
He sweetness lends to every cup
That happy mortals taste while here.
And when in sorrow they look up
He wipes away the bitter tear.
Oh. may He be in every place
Where they may dwell welcome guest;
And may they meath His smiling face
Through all their lives serenely rest
&c. W. Crofts, in Inter-Ocean.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-08-15
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

Tanners little scheme of re-
rating pensioners has made the Ad-
ministration feel very sick. Kansas
City News.
Uncle Sans four new baby
girls are said to be doing finely. They
will doubtless grow rapidly and be a
credit to their sire. as they will nat
urally inherit a good constitution
from the old man. st. Paul Pioneer
Press.
--"Re-rating' is the name politely
given to the plan OF reducing the sur
plus pursued by Mr.. Harrison's PEN
sion Commissioner. It would be more
accurate to call it by simpler name
it is theft Louis Republic
No President before Harrison
ever so cynically disregarded the
pledges of his party, broke his own
promises and repartisanized the pub
lie service as has the pious Mr.. Har-
rison during the four months of his
ncumbency.-N. Y. World.
IAN uncalled for insult is the
way Orator Horn characterizes the
tender CT the Consulship to Valparaiso
to him. There seems to be a wide
discrepancy between Orator Horr's es-
innate of himself and other peoples
estimate of him.-Boston Herald.
There is of course no reason
why Mr.. Depew should not go to the
Duke of Devonshire's ball, or Mr.. Rus
sell Harrison dine with Queen Victoria,
if it pleases them. But the announce
ment reads somewhat oddly in con-
trast with the hatred of every thing
British expressed by Republican parti-
sans during the last campaign. The
journals which have taken so much
delight in abusing MIR. Lowell and
Mr.. Phelps for ''toadying to the aris-
tocracy" will no doubt preserve a dis
Greet silence in this instance.
Post Ond- }.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-08-15
For Diphtheria and Group.

w. r. White. of Chester, sends the
following. whose value he has tested:
In report to the French Academy of
vapor of liquid tar and turpentine
would dissolve the fibrinous tissues
which choke up the throat in Group
and diphtheria- He described the
process of treatment as follows: Take
teaspoon each of turpentine and
liquid tar; put them into tin pan or
cup, and set fire to the mixture. tax
ing care to have a larger pan under it
as safeguard against the spread of
the flames. A dense, resinous smoke
arises. making the room dark. The
ence relief; the choking and rattle
stop; the patient. falls into a slumber
and seems to inhale the smoke with
pleasure The fibrinous membrane
soon becomes detached and the patient
coughs up microbes, which, when
caught in glass, may be seen to dis
solve in the smoke. In the course of
three days the patient entirely recov-
ers. This remedy has proved success
full in many instances. and household
ers every where should bear it in mind.
A prominent gentleman in Charleston.
who applied the treatment to his child,
after the sufferer was given over as
incurable by his family physician,
suggests that before burning the in
gradients named, all such articles as
would be likely to be injured by the
thick smoke should be removed or
covered up closely. = Springfield
(Mass.) Republican.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-08-15
The SUGAR TRUs..

The Only Way to Believe the People Il
Put sugar the Free List.
Sugar raw and refined should go on
the free list The tax paid last year
directly into the Treasury amounted
to over three-fourths of the actual
value of the enormous quantity of
1881. O98. 473 pounds 1.-TWO thousand
five hundred and twenty-one million
pounds). In addition to this tax
combination of Captains of Industry
known as the Sugar Trust is this year
taking advantage of the restrictions
imposed on this market by the tariff
laws to extort an enormous amount In
private taxation for their own benefit.
The estimated net profits of the re-
finers' tariff ring last year was $751;
100000. This year the robbery will
be much heavier. The trust claims
that the advance is due to a decreased
supply of raw sugar-to natural laws
of supply and demand. It is not worth
while to argue on that point while
tax of thr ee-fourths OF the value of all
sugar used in the American market is
paid by the consumer. Such tax so
interferes with the laws of supply and
OOLdad tAd6 w LILO Al OAISto IL ID az,
surd to talk of high price being due to
natural causes. If with all sugar, re-
fined and raw, on the free list, the
Refiners' Trust can then control the
market, it will be fair trade and no
robbery.
As a matter of fact no trust can long
control an open market on any staple
article. Abolish the sugar tax and the
refners' ring will be abolished with it
The Republic is heartily in favor of
the abolition of both the tax and the
trust created by the tax. The Repub-
ican party is urged by certain Repnb-
Iican papers to pursue this course ard
Republican speakers have frequently
attacked the tax as tribute paid to
Louisiana. This is untrue, as the
Louisiana industry is already virtually
ruined under the tax, but even if the
Louisiana planters were highly pros
porous. it would be grossly unjust to
the people to keep them SO. The tariff
question has assumed a shape where
the fight, if made at all, must be made
for impartial justice 1t is plainly
impossible to scale down the present
tariff horizontally. The only method
by which reform is possible is through
abolishing or cutting the tax on one
article at time, and this is the time
for sugar.
The Republican party has control of
both houses of Congress and the Presi-
dency. 1t will be obliged to show its
relations to the sugar trust which now
has its fingers in every sugar bowl in
the land" Without Government assist
ance and connivance, the trust could
not practice this extortion. The tax
should be abolished outright. Put all
grades of sugar on the free list, and
if the trust can survive by fair trade.
in an open market, let it survive.-St
Louis Republic
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-08-15

ure of advantage gstnod BY the
American farmer. it benefits only
those who grow wool, and every other
farmer pays the tax without even this
small and questionable benefit. This
is only one example OF hundreds
which might be mentioned. all OF
which bear heavily upon the farmers
No doubt every thoughtful farmer
will b< able to give an answer to the
question just now so widely dis
cussed: Why are farmers poor? it
he will turn his thoughts this way
N Y Times
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-08-15
Divorce in Five Countries.

If the wife of Turkoman asks his
permission to go out, and he says
Co." without adding Come back
again" they are divorced.
In Siberia if man is dissatisfied
with the most trifling acts of his wife,
he tears a cap or vail from her face,
and that constitutes divorce.
In Siam the first wife may be di.
vorced, but not sold. as the others NAV
be. She may claim the first child.
The others belong to her husband.
Among the Moors if the wife does
not become the mother of boy she
may be divorced with the consent OF
the tribe and can marry again
In the Arctic region a man who
wants a divorce leaves home in anger
and does not return for several DAYS.
Toronto Mail
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-08-15
WHY FARMERS ARE POOR.

a Condition OF Things Due to Oppressive
Tariff Taxation.
Why are farmers poor? This ques-
ton is exciting much discussion in the
special agricultural journals. Itseems
to be agreed that farmers are poor,
and all the communications published
that are written by leading farmers
all over the States and Territories
unite in this admission. The reason
for the prevailing poverty among half
the population is not so much a cause
of dispute as might be expected.
Burdens that fall unequally and that
lie like an incubus upon the agri-
cultural interests are recognized by
all as the chief cause of this distress
among the farmers. Increasing taxes,
chief among which is that which
comes like thief in the night under
cover of false theory and pretense,
but which cuts into the farmers
pocket at every turn and mulcts him
ruinously every time he makes a pur-
chase of any thing needful in house
hold business. The onerous tariff
presses upon the farmer like those ex-
actions levied upon agriculture in
such misgoverned countries as Tur-
key, Egypt and India, and which take
every thing from the cultivator of the
soil except bare living. which is left
to him that he may continue to live
and work aud be taxed.
One example of how the farmer is
taxed may be given as it comes to the
knowledge of the writer. A manu.
fn ~ 4le -
advertised in an English farmers
journal that he would sell his cloths
at retail to farmers or exchange them
for wool The writer wrote for SAM
pies and prices of the goods. They
were of excellent quality; Scotch
tweeds, cheviots and such cloths as
make the best clothing for farmers,
and were OF pure wool and free from
''shoddy," ''mungo" and the waste
trash that is Sc largely mixed with
wool in ordinary homemade goods.
The prices were so low as to astonish
an American purchaser; so cents, 624
cents, Is cents and less than one dol
lar yard for the best grades. For
IS. so cloth for full suit of such goods
as cost $40 here could be purchased.
But on looking up the list of import
duties it is found that our supposed
paternal Government exacts a tax
upon these cloths of so cents per
pound, and in addition thereto of S.
per cent ad valorem. thus increasing
the cost more than 100 per cent; on
the cheapest of the goods i: is 40 per
cent And this tax is said to be for
the farmers interest and for their pro-
lection.
Let us see how this tax protects the
farmer. 1t is supposed that the inn
port duty on foreign wool makes up
for this loss to the farmers. In En-
gland the wool of which these goods
is made is worth 90 cents per pound
In New York It is worth so centaL
Supposing the difference is the meas
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-08-15

weigh me. pleased" said Briggs,
as he stepped on the grocer's scales.
The man who manipulated the weights
looked at him in establishment. Briggs
looked as though he ought to weigh
about one hundred and twenty pounds,
but the beam balanced at two hundred
and two. ''You must have somethin 2
heavy about your clothes" '1Oh,
that's it" rejoined Briggs; 81 have nv
summers ice bill in my pocket"-N.
Y. Sun
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-08-15
The cheapest pork is made b,

The cheapest pork is made by the
wise use of clover pasture The COM
position OF the plants meets the wants
OF the animal system to make rapid
growth. The season favoring the
growth of the plant is most favorable
to animal growth, particularly swine.
When they have good shade and water,
the animal digestive organs do not
convert themselves into furnace as
in the winter to keep the body warm.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-08-15
Society in the West.

Mrs Gotham-So you live in Kan
sas City, 1 suppose you know Mrs.
Van Aston who moved there from New
York;
Mrs. De Boom-Not intimately. The
fact is. she is not in my set She as
soclates with very respectable people,
OF course-lawyers, preachers. bank
ers, manufacturers. and such folks.
but she has not been admitted into the
real-estate cir cle.-N. Y. Weekly.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-08-15

it with him.
There is nothing perhaps more calculated
to bring out all the reckless daring of a
man than a battle; but there certainly is
nothing which brings all his sympathetic
humanity to the surface quicker than the
scenes on the field after it is all over.
But, it is nine o'clock. The firing has be-
gun again on the right. Lee and Jackson
are bearing down upon US, our division is
needed to support the extreme right, and
away we go; but not all. There'll be fewer
Of us at roll-call tomorrow; but such is
war. MANDA l.. CROKER.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-08-15

Mime. Janisch, the actress, is said
to be confined in an insane asylum
near Vienna. the result of morbid de-
lection brought about by financial re-
verses. Formerly she handled money
freely. bathed in champaign regularly,
lived in luxury that equaled any
thing Vienna has ever seen in its
private life. and became famed for
her reckless disregard of the ..sinews
of war" and for her joyous disposition.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-08-15
swArxRi wATER!'' he MuRMuREp.


and painfully, pointing toward q clump OF
bushes little to the right and a few rods
away.
went to the spot indicated and began
searching by moonlight for-Teddy Nickel
vie. was certain of 1t before / had gone
half way round the bushes.
Presently came to the foot Of shattered
tree and the soft moonlight fell over two up
turned faces never shall forget.
Rigid in death lay tour Teddy" One
arm was gone and from a CHASTITY wound in
his head the blood had flowed until his gold.
an curls were matted together.
His face. not marred by battle, still bore
that look OF intense anguish which had
haunted me all day.
verilyl Teddy was right, and I doubted
not that it was the banshee's mournful cry
that we heard.
Two facesa Yes; the other, white and
calm in the soft light, was that of Captain
Acton.
they had fallen side by side and the
Captains hand lay caressingly on the boys
shoulder.
And the Captains words of the morning
came to me again with painful distinctive
ness: Isl may die to-day myself, who
knowst''
Kneeiing by McKelvie's side took curl
from among its blood-stained fellows, said q
prayer for ssthe pore old mother" and went
back to the wounded comrade.
He took my hand and asked family:
ssFound them, did youa"
eYes,'' answered; sthey are resting
now.' $50
s.As I shall shortly be-" he said, quietly,
seeming to catch my meaning at once.
ssHs,t Il isn't any difference in my case.
T,ve no loved ones to leave that core-you
nrderst5nd me, comrade, none who carer'
ssYes."I answered, and sat down and
smoothed the damp hair back from his cold
Il loved her, eomrade," he continued,
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-08-15

They were nearing an ice-cream
saloon. and the young man casually
remarked: They say that ice-cream
is full of tyrotoxicon this year" ''Ohs
is it she gushed. THAT must be .
new flavor, and should like to taste It
Tn about sick of all the old fiavors-
And the young man hadn't twenty
cents In his pocket!-N. 7. Ledger.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-08-15

The cuckoo is an insectivorous
bird; the hairy caterpillar which ter
rites many birds Is readily devoured
by him.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-08-15
MAGGIE.
= Leaf Torn from q Soldiers
Diary.
June q, 1862.

June 20, l006.
HERE was a luu in
the strife. The bat
tie had waged all
day, and the weary
and wounded lay
down with the dead
and dying to snatch
q moments repose,
If b apply tn ey
might.
One gets used to
almost every thing
in war sayoring of
hardship, and reck-
lessness, I was go
ing to say, though
that may not be the
best term to use.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-08-13

"That win bring my workman he
said. "It's a signal we have agreed
upon among ourselves for just such an
emergency as this. Youand Jones, jamie,
shall go around to the back door, Robins
will watch the front and I'll go and
throttle the fellows"
jamie glanced with shy admiration into
his set, determined face. After all, it
was something to be a man.
The little campaign was skillfully con-
Quoted. The two thieves were taken red
handed; the diamond rings were deliv-
cred into jamie Barr's keeping, and the
rufians were dragged to the nearest Jail.
30, Ralph" said jamie, when all the
little crowd was gone, ''how can / ever
thank your"
"By letting me put on those shingles
for you," said he.
81 can't" said jamie, laughing and
blushing. "They are put on already.
But I'll promise you my next job Of car
pentering."
sWill you let me be your carpenter
always, .Janie?" he asked. will you
promise one day to be my wife?'
The words had risen almost involun-
tarily to his lips as he held her hand in
his-the words he SO longed yet dreaded
TO speak.
And jamie hung her head and colored
like a carnation, and said, "She would
see." And Ralph Parsons knew that he
had won the day.
Mrs. Barr and the boarders were alike
amazed when they returned home.
"Our jamie to circumvent a gang of
burglars" said the proud mother.
"To save my three diamond rings"
Historically cried Mrs. Lepell.
"But that isn't all I have done, moth
err" said jamie, laughing. 81 have shin
gled the roof. And-I have promised
20 marry Ralph Parsons next spring.
Upon the whole, I think it has been rath-
er an Aventful day, don't your ~
at
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-08-13
Notice to Contractors.

CEALED PROPOSALS WILL BE RECEIVED AT
y the office OF the Board, OF Street and Water Com
missioners on Monday, August ~, 1889, at ten o'clock
nm, for the construction of a 2Ainch sewer in
HANCOCK AVENUE, FROM HUTTON STREET TO
II CORNER OF BOWERS STREET
AND HANCOCK AVENUE.
in accordance with plans and specifications on file
in the Office OF the Chief Engineer, corner of Jersey
avenue and Mercer street, where blank forms of
bid and agreement of surety must be obtained.
ESTIMATE OF QUANTITIES.
About Loo cubic yards of rock excavation.
About LOO lineal feet of 24inch brick sewer.
Abont 5 new receiving basins.
About % cubic yards OF concrete.
Time allowed for completion Of the work, two
hundred laUl working days.
The making OF the above Improvement and award
for the contract therefor, will be subject to the re-
monstrance of the owners of the property liable to
more than one-half of the assessment therefor,
Proposals must be enclosed In sealed envelopes.
endorsed, proposals for building Brick Sewer In
Hancock avenue" directed to IL. A Dugan, Esq,
chairman OF Committee on Streets and Sewers"
and handed TO the clerk of tho Board in open meet
ing when called for in the order of business relat-
ing to sealed proposals.
The attention of bidders Is especially called to
Section Is, of the New Charter OF 1889" under the
terms whereof, no contract shall be binding upon the
city until the bondsmen offered by the contractor
have been approved by the Board Of Finance, the
President Of said Board having power to examine
the proposed bOndsmen nnder oath.
BY order of the Board OF Street and Water Conn
GEORGE t. BoUToN.
Clerk.
Dated JERSEY CRY, N. j., August 2. 1888.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-08-13
The I.orlllar ds. Games.

The all-around events of the Lorillard
Debating and Athletic Association for the
games to be held September Z, at Caledo-
MAN Park, will include a 100-yard dash.
haif-mile rum, n mile run, half-mile
walk, running high jump, and throwing
sixteen-pound hammer. The winner will
receive five points in each event, the sec
and so on. Among those who will contest
are Brabo, Salters, Acheson, Frank Rior-
dan. William Farrell, Hodnett, Wander
most, Moran, Lewkowicz and Hutwohl,
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-08-13
North Hudson Notes.

Frank Purcell has lived for years on the
Paterson Plank road, West Hoboken,
with his pet goat. "Billy" dined luxur-
iously yesterday on a filet de tomato can
and barrel hoop. A severe attack of govt
assailed him and now he is no more.
Frank intends to bury his pet with all
possible honor.
Ma a ia IN eIRloe No ] n tne residence Of
Hoboken, last evening, and set fire to the
window curtains. The Fire Department
was promptly summoned and ex-
tinguished the flames.
The Sunday school of the Union Evan
gelical Church is picnicking today at
Klees' Hudson County Park, Gutenberg.
church and has spared no pains to give
the little ones of his flock a merry time.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-08-13
Notice to Contractors.

CEALED PROPOSALS WILL BE RECEIVED Al
- the Office OF the Board of Street and Water
Commissioners on Monday, August 10, 1883. at ten
O'Clock a. m, for the constructions Of q
24INCH BRICK OVAL SEWER IN HANCOCK
AVENUE.
from a point about i5 feet south of South street TO
street, In accordance with plans and specifications
on file In the ofice OF the Chief Engineer. corner OF
Jersey avenue and Mercer street, where blank forms
OF bid and agreement of sureties must be obtained.
ESTIMATES OF QUANTITIES
About $50 cubic yards of ROCK excavation.
About ESQ Iineal fset Of 2inch sewer.
About IS cubic yards of concrete. I
Time allowed for the completion of the work, one
hundred and twenty five f125 working days.
The making Of the above inprovementand award
OF the contract therefor win be subjecf to the re
monstrance of the owners of the property liable to
more than one-half the assessment therefor.
Proposals must be enclosed in sealed envelopes,
endorsed "Proposa1s for Building Brick Oval Sewer
IN Hancock avenue, directed to 'E. a. Dugan, ESQ.,,
chairman Of Committee on Streets. and Sewers
and handed to the clerk OF the Board In open meet
ing, when called for in the order OF business relat-
ing to sealed proposals.
No city official will be accepted as surety.
The attention of bidders Is especially called to
the terms whereof no contract shall be binding
upon the city until the bondsmen offered by the
contractor have been approved by the Board of
Finance; the president OF said Board having power
to examine the proposed bondsmen under oath.
By order Of the Board OF street and Water Com
GEORGE T. BoUToN,
Clerk.
Dated JERSEY CITY, August 2, 1883.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-08-13

Bobby (who has been sitting pa
tiently half an hour)-Mr. Boomer,
wish you would pop the question to
Bella.
Bella-Robert, you naughty boy,
what possessed you to make such a
prosperous remark?
Bobby (snlkily)-Well, anyway, ma
said if he did you'd jump at the
chance, and | want to see you jump.
-IerGs Slftsngs.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-08-13
GOSSIP OF THE CLUBS.
what the Sporting Men of Hudson
County Say and DO.

Uhat the Sporting Men of Hudson
County q and DO.
The following members of the Scottish
American Athletic Club, have been en-
tered for the games of the American Ath-
ietic C~lub-John Rumpf, M. Corcoran'
David Entwistie and Q; Skiilman, one
nnd david Entwistle, 440 yards run. The
aames viii ocrcu on Saturday, August "a.
Tommy Mccarthy, OF the Scottish
AMERICAN Athletic Club. will begin
+raining O for the coming boxing and
,rrastiing season. He intendssto fight at
1io hounds. Last season he made q good
showing in the amateur boxing tourna-
Tihe Marion Rife Club. Of this city, will
hoid its regular weekly shoot tomorrow
afternoon On the Club range IT Marion.