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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-17
Make Hast Slowly.

People who had their eyes open
when they located in western Kansas
are staying with the country very well.
They see in the midst of the present
depression opportunities for advancing
their interests which are not available
while boom is prevailing"
1.-The best fortune that can possibly
strike western Kansas is for another
boom never to reach her. In the line
of natural events this territory is to be
settled by one of the grandest pOpula-
tions on earth. It will be all the bet
ter for this region and for the people
at large if people henceforth will drop
in here after bargains in real estate,
school facilities, and so on, and avoid
any mad rush."
Ihsu write some OF our exchanges
and thus do we believe the best and
most lasting benefits to Kansas will be
gained. Go back ten years in the
history of Barton county, to the time
when the county was first being settled
and pick out the men who located here;
then take look at their far ms, their
improvements; enumerate their stock;
consider the health of their families,
and see for yourselves that the men
who were persistent and answering
in their determination to succeed
have done well through all the draw
backs incident to the settlement of a
new country.
The weak kneed have pulled up"
ard gone, and we venture the asser-
tion that not one in ten have done as
we'll elsewhere as have the same num-
ber of men who stayed here and over
come all difficulties.
Again, take a look at the people who
come here with the boom and excite
ment, and you will find that they have
: not all been pleased, that they some
times thought the only thing to do to
succeed was to buy farms or town prop
erty and let the boom make them rich
Push and energy, an answering will
and an untiring determination will
succeed every time, in Kansas.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-17
Their Names Would be Dennis.

We hardly know what would become
of some of our ballot-bOx suffers and
manipulators of elections in this coun-
try were they under the same laws as
govern Canada. An ex-cab1net minis
ter Hon. Jas. McShane has just been
disqualified from further political
hOnors for fraud in elections. He was
the most popular man in eastern
Canada and virtually carried the vote
of Montreal Center in his pocket. He
was in fact the big political boss. He
loses the title of Hon. before his name;
loses his seat in parliament; pays a
fine OF, $4OO, and is disqualified from
holding Office for seven i:egister
You don't ''know what would be.
come of them,'' Bro. Charlesp Let us
tell you. If your ''ballot-box suffers
and manipultors of elections were un.
der the same laws that govern Can.
ada" and the democrats of the country
had the enforcing of such laws, there
would be great crowds of republicans
who would quickly loose the ''Hon." te
their names; there would be slathers of
republicans disqualified from future
political honors; oodles of leading re-
publicans who would have to give up
their Doodle; and in the end there
would be no such a thing as the repub
lican party. That is what would be.
come of your ballot-box suffers and
manipulatOrs of elections; and that is
what would become of everybody else's
cattle of the same sort. The demo
cratic party could well afford to dis
pense with what she has in that line
and the consequences would be that
this land of the free and home of the
brave would no longer be cursed with
rings, monopOlies, and Blaine-defend'
ed private trusts
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-17
VOLUME v.
THE FAITH CURE.

Think wealth, and you viii get it.
A million, more or less;
Think silk, and in the closet
You'll find gros grain dress.
Think land, when you are drowning,
Beyond all human reach,
And by this happy theory
You'll be washed up on the beach.
Think bread, when you are hungry,
And a. feast will there be spread;
Think sleep. when you are weary,
And you'll find yourself in bed.
-Hdrper's for January
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-17

The resignation of Geo. N. Moses as
councilman from the third ward leaves
vacancy i'll the city council, and the
question of whether or not it is neces-
sary to call an election to fill the va :
cancy is being discussed AS the
regular spring election of city officers
occurs in April, it hardly seems worth
while for the city to go to the expense
OF electing councilman for only a
three months term The seven coun-
cilmen we now have are good ones,
and, we doubt not, able to look after
the affairs Of the city for three months.
anyhow. The next few meetings,
however, will seem lonesome without
the genial cOuntenance of Councilman
Moses, ST., among the faces around
the executive board.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-17
AMONG OUR HEIGHB0RS.
Clarence Items.

Clarence Items.
From Buckeye.
Mr.. j. w. Compton is no better.
Mrs. III. Kionka has been on the
sick list.
Miss Annie Tammin is reported as
beng quite i'll.
Mrs. ---, of Iowa, is the guest of
Daniel Bird and family.
Mr.. Depue of Pawnee Rock was call
ing in Clarence last week.
Mr.. August Bruemer contemplates
moving to Wisconsin in the spring.
Mrs. F. P. Cline and Master George
Hale left for Colorado last Tuesday
evening.
Miss Eva Foster of Pawnee Rock
was last week the guest of Miss Mary
Cline.
The cemetery in school district No.
IL has been recently enclosed with a
neat fence.
Another olive branch in Clarence:
1t is bouncing girl, and Henry Gagel-
man the happy father.
An exceedingly enjoyable party was
had by our young people the other
evening at the residence of d. F.
Wooddell.
Wheat containues to look fairly we'll
in this township, but it would not dis
dain little moisture should is be prof
fered.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-17
Women and Corsets.

The assertion has an odd sound, but
it is probably true, that not ten women
out OF a hundred have the faintest con
ception of what it would feel like to
have natural, unfettered body. With
in a few weeks the writer has asked
twenty-eight women at what age they
first put on corsets. Thirteen of them
said they could not remember the time
when they had not worn them. Their
earliest recollection of themselves and
their dresses included corset-waists and
corset lacings. One New York ply
sician estimated that city girls are cor
seted on an average when seven years
old. Another says that her inquiries
would lead her to put it at four years.
Women grow up in corsets and har-
mOniZe with their environments. They
put on cOrsets in. the morning before
they do their shoes, and do not think
they could comb their hair without
stays. They live In cOrsets, and would
be thoroughly uncomfortable without
them. They haven't developed mus
cles to get along without support AS
yet the corset might be made at least
unobtrusive. 1t used to be the proper
thing to wear an under bodice of such
thickness to hide or disguise the contriv-
ance of whalebones and steels. Nova
days nothing of the sort seems to be
necessary. The corset is prominent as
if paraded outside the gown. The
fashion plate marks the top and bottom
distinctly, and as for the woman her.
self, look at the next one you see on a
horse car, and you can sketch her corset
very accurately over the margin of your
neWspaper.-EE.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-17
Fair Ellinwood,

From the Advocate.
EllinwOOd will soon have a salt plant.
The M. DIS. have all retired from bus
ness. Nobody sick in Ellinwood or vi
cinity.
j. S. Winget, of Albert, was in the
city this week. and made this Office a
pleasant call.
"Old SoP' is working on the ten hour
system now. with prospect of increas-
ed time.
A large number of Col. Huttman's
friends gathered at his home last
Wednesday night to celebrate his 4sth
birthday.
Mrs. III. j. Roetzel and Fred Yettick
were called to Mendoza, Illinois, last
Wednesday, by a telegram announcing
the serious illness of their mother.
Our literary society is improving
quite rapidly in attendance and inter-
est, and we shall endeavor to give it
the space it deserves.
We may have remarked once or twice
before, and rnay again before harvest,
that wheat is looking quite well for the
time Of year, and the dryness of the
weather.
The Ellinwood Salt, Mining and
Manufacturing company has been or
ganized in this city, with F. A. Steckel.
7. P. Fair, Y. S. MusiL, w. E. Huffman
and William Manglesdorf as directors.
Application has been made for a char
ter, and in few days the books of the
company will be open.
The committee on programme for
the next lyceum consists of III. Hutt-
man, Miss Herman and Miss Huldah
West, and those having pieces or songs
should hand in their names to above
committee. Special exertions are being
made to have an exceptionally good
programme, as the next meeting will be
in the large hall.
A double wedding took place OH
Wednesday of this week at the resi-
uOAOO VI ohO OAAOCO poIcIIIS. dOOuC Two
and half miles west and three miles
south of this city, in which the Misses
Clara and Helen Wooley took the parts
of the blushing brides, and the Messrs.
John Strohlmeyer and William Hen
derleighter, as the happy and loving
erooms. The advocate joins with their
many friends in wishing them a long,
happy life and an overdowing bowl of
connubial felicity.
An exchange says the chair tidy is
getting out of fashion. We are ssdarn''
glad of it, this ''frizzly frozzily'' thing
that is getting mixed up with our hair
and finally, as We slide gracefully down
In the chair and elevate our feet several
inches above our head and rest them on
top of the stove. catches on the buckle
of our vest. and rips and tears, and
groans and splits from stem to stern is
nuisance if anything ever was. We
are glad they are going out of fashion
and hope they will also go out of the
house and stay out.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-17

AN AGGRAVATED contemporary re-
marks: "There is not country editor
In Kansas who does not put up with
more in day than Job did in year. .
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-17

The capacity of the Medicine Lodge
cotton gin is to be doubled next year.
as the farmers there have found cotton
raising profitable. Wichita Commercial.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-17

The STATE farm at Manhattan has
been experimenting with salt on wheat,
and reports and increase of six bushels
per acre, also large increase of straw,
Salt is a great insect destroyer al
SO, and has been successfully used to
kill potato bugs.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-17

The Barton County DEMOCRAT, last
week credited its Ellinwood items to
the Erpress. We must look around
and see if the Express has really come
to life again.
OGUILTY, your honor. And we hereby
tender bonds that the blunder will not
occur again.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-17

1T HURTS the eyes to read a blurred
and blotted newspaper. We would
like to see some of our exchanges buy
a new roller and quit thinning their
ink with cOal-Oil.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-17

AN EXCHANGE says "a Hindoo God
was recently sold for $l2,OOO." "Jim
Blaine, the republican God, could be
bought for less than that" remarks an
other0Ex.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-17

A NAN by the name of Osgoodby has
at last confessed to the authorship of
the "MurchisOn Letter." The fellow
lives at Los Angeles, California. He
has probably been induced to reveal
his name in the hope of receiving a
reward for his dirty job in the shape of
fat Office.-Larned EaQle Optic.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-17

On TAKING ride in the country a
week or SO ago. we were surprised to
find $50 lying in the road beside the
hedge at the cornor of one of our promi-
nent business farmers home, and the
more so to find it had lain there several
months unmolested, and beginning to
look much the worse for exposure.
The money was in the shape of corn
lister that will have to be replaced by a
new one before many years unless cared
for better than that.-Chase Record.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-17

ONE OR two foreign subscribers who
have been taking the DEMOCRAT regu-
larly for two years to our personal
knowledge, and for longer time ac-
cording to our books, without paying a
cent, and when asked to remit the
amount of their arrears have then re-
fused to take the paper out of the Of
fice and had their postmaster send us
notice to that effect. Those persons had
just as well understand that they will
be made to pay the amount of their ar.
rears. aud refusing to take the paper
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-17

WOULD it not be well to have meet
ing of farmers and business men, at an
early day, to talk over the matters of a
sugar plant and dairy? There are
many men in and about this city who
acknowledge the benefits that would
undoubtedly accrue from such manu-
facturies, and can readily see how they
could be started, but of course cannot
act without the cooperation of others.
Let us have the matter agitated by the
men who can and will furnish financial
aid.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-17

OUR neighbOrs at Great Bend have
commenced work on a salt manufactory
at that place. We wish you success, in
your earnest and laudible undertaking.
st. JOHN CGDitGl.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-17

JUDGE T.W. MCINTYRE, the able edi-
tor of the Arkansas City Democrat,
reached his 10th birthday on January
9Th. The Democrat is one of our most
valuable exchanges, and we desire to
tender the editor thereof our congratu-
lations and hope that he will enjoy
many more repetitions of the occasion.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-17

A CALIFORNIA widow had plans
made tor a $50, 600 monument for her
late departed, but when the lawyers
got through fighting over the estate the
widow was doing housework at Sc a
week for the man who designed the
monument.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-17

SOME people think that industries
that will be beneficial, that will give
work, bring money into community
may be secured as well without as with
aid. IF a community has monopoly
of the natural inducements, it is correct,
but not otherwise, because there are al
ways places where aid may be secured,
and business is business and will all
ways SO remain. Emil Shirmer who
returned from Wichita last week i'm
formed us that the enterpsising busi-
ness men of that city, had just made
up fund of $1.0OO.OOO, to be used
variously, as an aid fund, for the pur-
pose of inducing new and more indus
tries to locate III that city. We have
an idea that those enterprising busi-
ness men of that city don't consider
that money thrown to the Winds
st. John Capital.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-17

TELL your neighbors the DEMOCRAT
Is the Official county paper.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-17

Two whiskey peddlers were killed at
Usage Agency last week by the Indians.
After selling the bucks lot of forty
rod whiskey they attempted to escape
ir row boat on the Arkansas river
and were filled full of lead.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-17

WE SEE by the Sterling Gazette that
several farmers in Rice county have
tried the experiment of sowing salt on
their growing crops, and the result has
been, in every case we see reported,
that salt drives away the chinch bugs
or destroys them. Even corn border
ing on a wheat field was saved by salt
from the ravages of those insects. We
hope these experiments will be carried
on until it is thoroughly demonstrated
that men can overcome the chinch bug
in a dry season. 1t will not cost much
to try the experiment. The salt is at
our doors and can be made in unlimit-
&c quantities and sold for trifle per
ton.-Nickerson Argosy.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-17

SHALL the capital be removed? is a
question that will bob up during the
present session Of our state legislature,
and will make the citizens of Topeka
prick up their ears and be attentive
but it won't remove the capital.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-17

''HARRIsON and high wages" was
the slogan of many a poor working
man during the last campaign. Well
they elected Harrison, now look out
for the high wages! When they arrive
you will observe them sliding into the
Golfers of the sugar trust, the beef COM
bine, or some other monopoly. But
the working man who expects to dine
off of his increase of pay will go hungry
to bed. The leaders of the party of
''great moral ideas" and big trusts will
make many poor voter hungry for
their twenty dollar bills before 1892
the date on which they will have to
shell them out again.-Marshall. Mo.
Democrat.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-17

SENDING missionaries to India and
maintaining societies for all kinds of
humane and religious purposes is all
right, but the field for missionaries
and philanthropists in American cities
certainly is large one, should not be
overlooked. At st. Louis recently a
policeman reported case most horrible
and shocking in its nature. An old
woman named Peasley had been sick
for several weeks from chronic alcohol
ism. Her husband was a drunkard
The policeman called to see how the IN
fortunate rwoman was getting along.
Opening the door of the squalid den in
which the Peasleys lived he beheld. an
awful spectacle. The man was lying
on wretched bed, drunk and sound
asleep. BY his side lay his wife dying.
An army of rats mad gnawed the flesh
from her feet and ankles, and when
the officer interrupted their shocking
feast they went scrambling to their
dens. Something more terrible may
have happened in heathen lands on
that day, but we doubt it.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-17

OUR advertisements are not numer-
Gus these days. They do not take up
all the space in the paper. But the ad-
vertisers are worthy gentlemen, every
one of them, and men who will treat
customers well. Read their advertise
mentS.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-17

A SHERIDAN county man raised
10000 stalks of celery on an acre of land,
1000 head of cabbage to the acre, and
800 bushels of onions to the acre. Who
said nothing would grow in western
Kansas?-Leoti TranscYipt.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-17

will not and cannot stop our sending
the paper until such back subscription
is paid. The law is so plain and has
been published so often, making fell
oDy OF taking newspaper for years
and then refusing to pay for it, that it
seems unnecessary to inform persons
OF Its provisions. Pay for the. DEMO
Graf for the time you have read it and
the paper will not be forced upon you.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1889-05-02

meeting line. / traced the ball
about a couple of inches upwards
and inward, striking" the lower
and under part of the clavlc!e
and fracturing it. That was as far as
attempted 10 trace it as he was too
weak to attempt any further opera
ton. administered dose of NOR
rhine to quiet him down, rs he was
suffering considerable. | did not
think he would live long, and told
him if he had any statement to
make before he died, he
had better make it. He said
that that fellow had been
robbing and stealing from him
and that he had told him of it and
Hawkins took out his pistol and
shot him. Death resulted from the
wound.
/ assisted in the post mortem eX-
animation to-day and we found that
the ball Nhad entered the left
chest fractuling the left clavicle
about the middle or the inner third
and from there the ball DETECTED
downward into the right chest cav
itv entered the right lung. 1t passed
diagonally down through the lung
and lodged in the outer wall. We
found the lungs completely collapsed
and both full of blood. This wound
was necessarily fatal.
Here the doctor presented the ball
that had been taken from the body
Of f. H. Ogle. The ball was cut
almost In two or flattened. This was
caused by striking the bone as it
,ntered the body.
The inquest will be continued un-
il late hour, IS there are many
witnesses to be examined. Amongl
hem are Ed McAfee, NJ. b. Gold
tein, G. Paulus, DR.. j. n. Smith,
!. n. McNary and others.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1889-05-02
LOCAL SUNNI AIRY.

For your Paints, Oils, etc., 90 te
Gilbert X Patterson's. dit
Last night and to-day there has
been considerable of rainfall.
e. 5. Lamp0rt has moved TO 4IS
Commercial street opposite Marion
square.
Cox n Boggs will move into the
room just vacated>by j. ID. McCully,
the clothing merchant.
After this week there will be no
school at the university in the aft
ernoon, the facuitShaving adopted
short hours for the remainder of the
term.
Y Northcutt is doing consider
able work op'the livery stable prop
eFty he owHs oW State and Front
StNe's' This hsfn is doing hand.
some husiness3ond they are in need
of mon room.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1889-05-02
THE ToRGERs AGAIN.
T. burn Acquitted and the L'i"'he
of Guilt Turns to Jordan.

T. burn Acquitted and the L'i"'h'
Of GuiIt Turns to Jordan.
Charles Pyburn was given per-
hmlnary hearing yesterday before
Recorder Conn on the charge OF hav-
ing written the forged order upon
which Willis Jordan and Jack Nor
gan obtained two suits Of clothing
from the sure Of G.. W. Johnson.
In 50 mucu as sufficient cvi.
dence was ad1uccd to satisfy
the court that Pyburn cannot wli.c
he wa, rel ,ascd. Fherr i no rccoro
Of Pybmn ever having performed
any writing. Upon all occasior
where hi. signature haa been II
uuired he has made his nalk.
Jordan is quite apt with his pea
and the opinion gains ground tina
the forged order was Of hi- creation.
The court had Jordan produce II
sample of his chirogrnphy y,stcr-
day during the trial and, although
disguised, it bears u mark
ed resemblance to the general styl'
Df the forgery.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1889-05-02

DR.. Luke \. Port left this morn
ing for Vancouver, B. c., where he
has some landed iutcrcstsand where
he Il contracting for the erection Of
n big Drick block ON some Of his lots
there. From Vancouver the doctor
win sail after n few weeks for san
Francisco. He will spend few
wecksNu the Golden Gate, when he
will go overland 10 New York City.
Thence he, takes II steamer for the
Azores Islands and Europe and Ger
many. Dr. Port goes upon II mission
in which he has the prayers for sue
cess Of his many friends, his object
being to try and learn something of
his lost son, Omega. II will be re-
membercd that the son sailed from
New York December -, 1887, on the
vessel Gleunvon, bound for Liver
pool, where he was to have cOmplct-
ed his education. Nothing was ever
heard of the ship, and II faint hope
exists In the breast of the anxious
father that the son might have been
cast away aud rescued ON some of
the islands of the Atlantic. DR.. |
Port will continue his search for
three years, when he will return to
Oregon Would that he may he
successful.