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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-04-25

There are two moons this month, I"
said Mrs Waddle, who had been reading
the papers while waiting for her husband,
who had just come home. Fash right, 4"
said he. 'zackly right. / saw 'em both
ri come along the street."
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-04-25
Literature's Decline.

Great Publisher Cooking over manuscript
Your language is not as flowing as form
erly.
Great Author tapologetically)-I wrote that
on a typewriter. PHILADELPHIA Press
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-04-25
Lots Like Him.

Wales-l suppose women are all alike My
wife Is always coming to me for money.
Albelt-What does she do with itf
WaleFShe doesn't do anything with it. l
never give her any Boston Beacon.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-04-25
The Composit,on Of "a E.ca

TIC COmpOsftfOn Of q Face.
Tubts-I f1atter myself that honesty Is
printed on my face.
Grut bs-Wel - or - yes perhaps-with
some a lowance for typographical errors
Burlington Free Press
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-04-25
An Early MorniI

An Early Morning Discovery.
At the hotel: Traveller sitting up in bed
watch in hand)-Six O'Clock, and nobody
comes u wake me. I shall be sure to mis-
the train-Paris Figaro.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-04-25

Under the head of met Gains" st
Louis paper contains the following
Joy Fsatz, of Cleveland, lost his wife
the other day."
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-04-25

Use Ponds Extract for every pain or
soreness it stops bleeding from the lungs
nose, mouth, stomach. etc. Avoid cheap
and worthless substitutes.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-04-25

A cigarette manufacturer says that the
sale of Ills wares has fallen of 40 per cent
in year. Possibly due to the mortality
among smokers.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-04-25
An Evidence of Prosperi.v

An Evidence Of Prosperity.
Yellowly-I think the Whiteleys must be
In better circumstances than formerly.
Brownly-Yes. Why do you think sof
Y.-!hey don't keep so many dogs as they
used to do.-Boston Courier
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-04-25

Still another order has been started in
Maine-the Permanent Haymakers' As
sociatior." Its lodges are called "hay>
lofts"
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-04-25
Man Wants a Tonic.

Not in years, 1t is said, has the price of
live beef cattle been so low as at present.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-04-25
Intelligence Column.

yT1ANTED-RELIABL LOCAL AND TRAV-
w cling statesmen; positions permanent; spec-
ial inducements now; fast selling specIsltiee.
Don't delay; salary from the start.
BROWN BROS, Nurserymen, Chicago, Ill.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-04-25

"ANTED-AGENTsf for our NEW PATENT
w Fire-Proof Safes size csxisxIs: weight in
ess re.aI Price sSS others In proportion High
hars chance: permanent business Our prices
iioWest. we are not in the safe pool Excfueiye
territory given. Alpine Safe Co.. CINCINNATI. a.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-04-25

N7ANTED-GENERAL AGENT FOR THIS
w city, TO open an o flee and assume exclusive
control Of our business. Goods well known, in
one hundred per cent Address, with creden-
tials, THE UNION COMPANY, Broadway and
Aston Place, New York SdIw
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-04-25

SALESMEN-WE WISH A FEW MEN To
osell our goods BY sample TO the wholesale and
retail trade largest manufacturers in our line
enclose 2-cent stamp; wages s. Ger day: perma-
nent position; no postals answered; money ad
yanced for wages, advertising, etc. CENTEnIAL
MAN'F'G Co., CINCINNATI, OHIO. apl4
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-04-25
MISCELLANEOUS.

ST. LUKE'S COTTAGE HOSPITAL,
M THIRD AVENUE, between Tenth and
UEleventh streets feb l4-tf
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-04-25

0HE TO $3.50 MONTH CAN BE MADE
% - working for us; agenrs preferred who
Can furnish horse and give their whole time to
the business; spare moments may be proftably
employed also; few vacancies In towns and
cities. B. F. JOHNSON 8 CO., 1000 Main ST.,
Richmond, Va.
N. B.-Ladies employed also; never mind about
sending stamp for reply; come quick. Yours for
biz, b. r. j. 4 Co. apl Gun
The Arkansaw traveler. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1882-1???, 1889-01-26
The Sentence System. q"
Nouth's Com nanion.

Charles Dickens, while visiting the Massachu-
sets school, ship, called upon for speech"
lie responded by saying, Boys, do all the good
you can, and make no fuss about it."
Mr.. Dickens, as his novels attest, believed in the
beneficial effect of pithy saying and striking
proverb-pointed words which would fasten them
selves in the memory. The conductors of the
Netherlands Mettray," one of the model reform
schools of Holland, use this sentence system" as
means of moral education. They hang on the walls
such sentences these:
ale who seeks himself will not find God ;""A
poor man he who has nothing but money !" ale is
a fool who lives poor to die rich ;" Labor has
golden bottom ;" "Care for the moments and these
will care for the years."
Sometimes boy is made to learn a sentence by
heart One boy was overheard using foul speech
to comrade. He was ordered to read to the boys
every morning for eight days this sentence, ait Is
better to be dumb than to the tongue for filthy
talk" 1t made him clean In speech.
The Arkansaw traveler. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1882-1???, 1889-01-26
FUNNY EPISODES AT THE ALTAR
Cornhill Magazine

Gornhll
Timothy Duggan was a stevedore perhaps six
feet two in height and proportiOnately broad lie
appeared as a bridegroom; the bride a charm
ing young person of tender years. All went well
until the moment came for Timothy and his bride
to give their troth to each other in the prescribed
manner.
"Say after me-" said | to Timothy, a. limo
thy"
There no response.
Say after me- repeated the parson, al, limo
thy"
Timothy was still silent, puzzled look creeping
over his broad face.
''Say after me-" said for the third time with
perhaps shade of annoyance.
"After you, sir" responded Timothy, with the
polltest possible duck of his bullet head.
But this indifference to the rubrics is so great
that upon the Injunction "Place the ring ON the
third finger" have more than once seen the bride
groom clap it upon the third finger of his own
hand with all the compacency in the world. Once
L detected bridegroom trying TO force the ring
onto the brides thumb; but there was lust a sus-
picion that he had been making merry before COM
ing to church to that morning. The same excuse
could not be offered for bridegroom from whom
l could get no word of response, not even a sulky
Il will" The situation was becoming most en-
barrassing, when the solitary bridesmaid his sister,
casually observed, Els little ard of caring sir ;"
The man was stone deaf; yet they had not thought
1t necessary TO tell the parsOn Ii the bridegroom
understood not word of the service, what did it
matter?
But the marriage from first to last is full of pit
falls for the unlearned man. In some cases il be-
comes painfully clear that the contracting parties
recognize but few of the words they are hidden to
say, and merely initiate the sound with such accu-
racy as their imperfect knowledge will permit.
The words "to have and to hold" ought to be sim
pie enough, but, as a matter of fact, they the
subjects OF some astounding blunders. l remember
one bridegroom who had brought very charming
young bride to church, and perhaps regarded her
as thing of beauty to be in his home joy for
ever, rendering "to have and to hold" as "to have
and behold"
. Another, who possibly had some cause to dread
the fate of Mr.. Cdudle, struck out an entirely new
version, and faithfully promised "to have and be
told" "To love and to cherish" is another
frightful stumbling block "To love and be cher
res" was the nearest to the original of many varia
tions popular among the males of that parish. The
brides were happy with the FAMILIAR rendering ito
love cherries and to bay" Goods holy ordinance"
tripped up man. "Holy orders" was convenient,
The Arkansaw traveler. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1882-1???, 1889-01-26
BLIND MANS BUFF.
RN GEHTRt III HAt.t

The farmer had five huNom girls.
Joan. BETTY. Hester. Peggy aud kat',
Aud all hal limplcs, hlushcs. curl-,
Had dewv lips and noses straight,
And four. IN truth. were not sc'latc,
Eut kate va quiet A. a mouse,
AMI loved kate,
And dwClt IN her fathers house
and when Al nj sht All work vase Ger,
The girls and VIC, the farmer bows.
Would clear the great worn Kitchen floor
Dor games accom- panied " lth noise,
And " hen none Anew what more 90 play
The gamC- each having ~trN eel enough,
Id shNlv say
Lets have a round AT blind mans bun.
Then. while all minds we're occupied
With ehiug Tor that kerrhICt real
OF SIC 81 lietent - lie tied
About the bovtsh bullet head
nate With one finger on her lip.
Her long. moist eve on mine that glowrd.
Would suliX slip
Prom out the busy, laughing crowd,
And spend among The lndoW plants
one careless minute. "a ~UallN.
Lifting the window blind, perchaucc.
And gazing out-as II 10 see,
Returning "a hence ste held between
slim dnger ami unconscious thumh
tribe green
sTTlg of rose geran'um.
That. when the game began at last
she'd tease II TIL her finger smclt
With rasca swiftnc~~ she'd make fast
Between her painting heart aud belt,
AMI v hen my turn came To De- blind
late must have silver been than fate,
Eat could find
My little rose gefaulum Kate.
oh. happy, grepiu- in The dark
Fhrou2 fifteen thltkues~r~ 81 red
i stop and make believe To hark
When Il snin Tho afr instead.
And At Inv sleeve far PCg would pluck.
And Joan INTO my arms would burst.
But no ! a duck
she must smell of gtranium iirst'
bh, plea sure hludlv follow IuC
That HcetIug perfume haunting. d re
Aud " hen Il caught he sweet scared thing,
Nine. for one little moment mine
oh. bliss for | might iS- her check
As was the custom NJ that date
She : not 80 meek
\ she was then-now. Are YOU. kate
The Arkansaw traveler. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1882-1???, 1889-01-26
4 kentucky Colonel.
A Cheap Pair OF Pictures.

For 40c we will mail, post paid, to any address,
the splendid colored engravings the "Arkansaw
Traveller and "The Turn of the Tune" also, without
extra charge, the original story of the "Arkansaw
Traveller, as told by Col. Sandy Faulkner, and the
music of the "Arkansaw Traveller, arranged for the
piano. The pictures are gotten up in the highest
style of art and possessing such historical interest
they should have place in every household Post
age stamps taken. Address The Arkansaw Traveller
Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill.
The Arkansaw traveler. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1882-1???, 1889-01-26

Passengers who once try the .Monon" route, which
q the model line from Cincinnati and Louisville
Chicago, never name II but to praise Il.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-07-04
UNDERGRADUATES DAY.

To-day the grand old American
eagle is Topping his wings over the
land from the shores of the Atlantic to
the great Pacific. The noise OF his
glorious pinions as they cleaveothe air
from sea to sea and flash in the sun
light like shield of might can be heard
by every lover of freedom and prosper
ity, and his undaunted eye piercing
the ambient atmosphere sends defiance
to the old world and fathoms future
freer and better and brighter than all
the past. We honor the bird, fit
emblem of American independence; we
are proud Of his strength and his cour-
age; we are grateful for his protecting
care and pledge again and agin our
allegience to him. Long may he
scream defiance to oppression and
monarchy. Long may his widespread
wings furnish a haven Of protection
and shade of rest for all who flee
from despotism, and, as the years roll
on, may our people the moro plainly
see that the life and prosperity OF our
land depends upon the freedom and
purity Of the ballot, the supremacy OF
the individual franchise, and the
danger of nepotism and GENERALIZATION
Of money power.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-07-04
HEIGHBoRHOoD NEWS.


6k0QW000s
From the Advocate.
Joe Hulse pleads guilty. It's boy,
usual weight, and arrived Sunday.
The farmers and even the town peo-
pie are busy harvesting this week and
our streets are as lonely as a wilder
ness.
County Superintendent Grants
father, who has been visiting here for
two months, returned to his home in
Middleport, Ohio, last Sundas- evening.
Last Saturday Capt. Grant received
a telegram from one of his customers
at Cimarron, inquiring for one James
Shackel, and announcing the death OF
his wife at her home several miles
north of CimarrOn. Shackel was found
working in a harvest field about eight
miles north west of this city and left
for home Saturday evening.
An exchange says that some time
ago man wrote to the secretary of his
county fair association as follows:
Please offer premium for the big
gest fool in the county. I stopped my
home paper and three weeks later u
travelling swindler did me for eighty
dollars in money. I renewed my sub
scriptiOn and secured all the back
numbers, and by the beard of the
prophet, the very next issue of the pa
per after quit contained full expo
sure of the. trick that got away with me.
want to hire a dozen men to kick nae
all around my new barn."
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-07-04
Clark.DeLOng.

MARRIRD-At the residence of the
brides parents, in Walton, Kansas, on
June, ~, 1889, at $3.50 p. NJ, by Rev.
Wharton of the M. +. church, Ira 81.
Clark, of Ho;sington, and Miss Nellie
belong, of Walton.
We extend congratulations, and
welcome the bride to Barton county.
Mr.. Clark, as editor of the Hoisington
Dispatch, has shown himself man of
good newspaper ability and gentle
man, and if there is anything the new
couple needs to go to housekeeping
with, from bottle of paragoric down
to dust pan, we will generously loan
it to them. For all newly married
couples our heart is large and our
circulation increasing.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-07-04
Galatia Items.

60laflA Items
From Our Correspondent
Heavy rains Tuesday and Saturday.
Harvest is about half over with us.
Galatia merchants are enjoying a
good trade.
Warren Vincent of Great Bend was
out to Galatia, Saturday.
Stella Hutton, went to Great Bend,
Sunday.
Suspicious and unfamiliar looking
kegs are becoming so numerous as to
alarm the faithful.
Certain parties are reminded that
our s.able'' county attorney is
s'pledged' to enforce the bogus and
much evaded liquor laws of Kansas.
A few weeks since young man who
had lived in Pawnee eight years, came
through Grant township looking for
a job. He stopped at a place where they
were putting up header; after he had
viewed the machine in silence for a
time he then exclaimed: "GOsh! amt
that thing heavy on horses necks?"
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-07-04
For a Terrible Crime.

Two young men are now confined
in our county Jail, one charged with
attempting to ravish little girl but
five years old, and the other with
attempting the same crime with a
girl fifteen years old. We have not
learned the names of either one, and
have not time before going to press
this week to learn the particulars. A
third man was arrested, but escaped
from the night marshal at Ellinwood
Tuesday night.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-07-04
Committee On Irrigation.

A circular has been received from
the special committee of congress on
irrigation and retaining of arid lands.
It would be well for our people to fur
nish the committee with what facts
can be gained concerning the Cheyenne
bottoms and the proposition to make an
immense lake at that point. The
following extracts from the circular
will show what they desire and what
they propose to do:
''As you are aware, the United States
senate has appointed committee on
lands, and charged it with an inquiry
into those subjects. Said Committee
will meet at St. Paul, August LIST, next,
and on that date will commence its
tour of field investigation. It will be
accompanied by Director Powell of the
United States Geological Survey, and
by an engineer expert, assigned to Its
service.
1.-The Committee desire the active
cooperation of the newspapers pub
Used within the dry area; that is-west
of the Tooth meridian of west longitude,
in the work of arousing public attention
to the Importance of this great subject.
It especially asks for their aid in the
gathering of data and the collection of
facts. It is unnecessary to recapitulate
to you what these facts are, but their
collection will be q matter of essential
service in laying the foundations of
intelligent opinions for legislative and
other action in the future. Each dis
trict and section should endeavor to
secure as full a presentation of its own
condition as may be practicable. It
will prove of value to the Committees
work if copies of any publication ySu
may make are sent to the committee.
Feeling assured that you will compre-
bend the Importance of this investi-
CATION, and asking, therefore, your
active aid, in such ways as your judg-
ment determines, the Committee leaves
the matter with you. Communications,
papers, reports, maps. ETC., may be
addressed: u. s. COMMITTEES on
IRRIaATION, (Care q. s. Geological
Survey Washington, D. c.
The special committee consists OF
the following senator's: Hon. VIM. M.
Stewart, tChairman) Carson, Nevada;
Hon. p. b. Plumb, Emporia, Kansas;
Hon. VIM. b. Allison, Debuque, Iowa;
Hon. Frank Hiseock, Syracuse, n. 7:
Hon. J. x. Jones, Washington, Arkan-
sas; Hon. J. II. Reagan, Palestine,
Texas; Hon. A. p. German, Laurel,
Maryland.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-07-04

An old physician retired from active
practice having had placed in his hands
by an east Indian missionary the
formula for certain simple vegetable
remedy for the speedy and permanent
cure of Consumption, Bronchitis,
Catarrh, Asthma and all Throat and
Lung troubles, after havin g thoroughly
tested it's wonderful cuIati We powers in
thousands of cases, feels it his duty to
make it known to his sufft ring fellows.
The receipt sent FREE to all who may
desire it with full. direct ions for pre-
pairing and successfully using. Ad-
dress, naming this paper,
Ill DIR. M. e. CvSS,
21O Grand-st., Jersey City, N. J.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-07-04
Will IT BE REsUB1ussIoN9

Since the result of the election in
Pennsylvania on the prohibition ques-
ton, Kansas people have began again
to talk of resubmitting the matter to .
vote Of the people. Kansas has been
held up as q shining example OF the
workings Of prohibition, and many
things have been said of her and her
law, by both sides, that have no foun-
dation in fact.
It is the province of the citizens Of
this state to make her laws, and it
should be their duty to stand by them
when made. It is also our privilege to
repeal such laws as are, upon proper
test, found to be injurious, obnoxious
or unjust to the mass of the people.
As a state we have an intelligent, In
dustrious, moral, and ambitious peo-
pie; no other kind of people could have
succeeded in making the wonderful pro-
gress made by Kansas throughout her
history; and no man need fear that
the will of such population, when
formulated into law for their own
government, will ever Intentionally
work an injury to the public good.
That the prohibitory law should be
repealed is not for one man to say; that
it should be rigidly enforced, so long
as it is on our statute books, all persons
who have the right conception Of true
and just government will acknowledge.
That it is not enforced. but used for
political purposes; evaded by the
officers when they can gain influence
by such avasion and construed more
stringently when it can be applied as
a political whip or a means OF revenge,
all men of common sense know. If it
is law to be handled as shuttle-cock
by men who wish to weave about them
a network of political strength; if it
is not to be carried out in its full
meaning and honored and respected as
other laws of the land then let it be
repealed.
A resubmission of the question to a
vote of the people could not hurt it if
it is what the people of Kansas, or the
majority of them, want; it would not
hurt the state nor any part of the state.
If again voted by the people 1t would
be strengthened and made more potent.
If defeated, such defeat would show
that after fair test had been given it
it was found to be not wanted, not
needed, and against the desires of the
popular voice.
If the advocates of prohibition have
confidence that it will be sustained they
will not strongly oppose resubmission,
for they cannot help but see that it
again brought to a vote and the law
sustained as it is there would be better
chances of enforcing it; less oppor-
tunity for officers of the law to evade
its enforcement, and more respect
shown it by those who now treat it as a
farce and an imposition. =
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-07-04
A Nuisance.
Communicated.

COMMUNICATES. y
Almost every city of any pretentions
whatever has an ordinance prohibiting
the obstruction Of sidewalks by boxes,
barrels, or other merchandise whereby
the pedestrian is put to Inconvenience.
There is, and always has been, since L
new anything of Great Bend, nui-
sance on the sidewalk which is not only
q nuisance, but a disgusting one to
ladies most especially. refer to the
buzzard rOost on one of the most proml-
nent corners in the city. where men
and boys who have nothing else TO do,
perch upon railing or stand about and
swear and expectorate tobacco juice
onthe sidewalk and the dresses OF pas
sing ladies.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-07-04

We regard the Fort Hayes ball club
as a stronger team than the Great Bend
club, whice have defeated our boys
two successive games. and the only
conclusion we can arrive at as to the
reason for defeat is to lay it to the
colored population of Great Bend.
They are said to bring luck.-LaCrosse
CRieftain.
LACROSSE boys had better quit
monkeying with luck and the colored
population.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-07-04
Land Office at Larned, Kansas, /
June 19. 1881.

June 19, 1882 I
Notice is hereby given that the following named
settler has filed notice of intention make final
pruof in support of his claim, and that sid proof
viii be made before B. F. Ogle, Probate Judge of
Barton county, Kansas at Great Bend, Kansas, on
August 10, 1899, viz: Ignatz Budig. Presumption
Declaratory Statement No. s46, for the southwest
quarter of section 10, township 10, SOUTH range H.
west.
He names the following Witnesses to prove his
continuous residence upon and cultivation OF said
land. viz:
Albert clifford, Joseph Getsel and Fred H2rdten,
of Odin. Barton county, Kansas, and Florian Koh-
Ter, of ElIinwood, Kansas.
Any person who desires TO protest against the
allowance Of such proof. who knows Of any sub
stantial reason, under the law and the regulations
not be allowed win be given an opportunity 1t the
above mentioned time and place TO eFuss-rxamine
the witnesses of said claimant, and to oer evidence
in rebuttal of that submitted by claimant
1918 HENRY W. SCOTT Register.