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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-23
POLITICAL COMMENT.

up to date Colonel William Dud-
ley had been appointed only to row.
ing commission. The genuine offices
Constitution.
1t is reported from Washington
that Senators Quay and Sherman have
fallen out" If there is any truth in
the old proverb there should be some
hope that honest men may profit
thereby.-Chicago Leader.
The Philadelphia Press (Rep
said of Quay in 1885 that his nomina-
ton for State Treasurer of Pennysl-
vania ''would take the lid from off the
treasury and uncover secrets be-
fore which Republicans would stand
dumb"
Corporal Tanners iuterpreta-
ton of the intent and meaning of the
laws in relation to pensions IS against
the United States Treasury every
time. His generosity with other peo-
pies money is something stupendous.
Boston Herald.
The difference between George
Washington and Benjamin Harrison is
a good deal more than hundred years.
We say this advisedly and without
prejudice. 1t takes a mighty power
full microscope to bring out any salient
features in some specimens Chicago
News.
With the vote of the South,
white and black, divided upon other
than the race issue, the ''solid South"
bugaboo will no longer be of use to
the Northern demagogue and De-
mocracy will gain in the North more
than it can lose in the South.
land Plain Dealer.
After all, in this country all
power resides in the people. Some
times they are slow to exercise it, but
when their wrath is excited and they
move together nothing can stand in
their way. The trusts will not be
with US long. Sooner or later they
will have to go.-Atlanta Constitution.
Even the protect on organ, the
Philadelphia Press, admits the force
of the apprehensions of tariff reform
ers regarding Porter. 1t says: The
free-traders are afraid that under the
direction OF Superintendent Porter the
new census will show up very strong
for protection. We don't mind ac-
knowledging to these anxious gentle
men that their fears are not wholly
groundless. There is no doubt that
the new census, unlike any previous
census. will show up very strong for
protection, for Porter is the hired
agent of the protectionlsts. and that's
the kind ofcensus they want Chicago
Herald.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-23
Senators Must Be Protected.
Another lessl

Another lesson in protection" Sen
ator Mcmillan, of Michigan, has a
large establishment for the construc-
ton of freight Cars at Detroit A sug-
gestion comes from influential quar-
tiers at Washington that import duty
should be charged on Canadian-built
freight cars coming into this country
over Canadian railroads. It is esti-
mated that there are 8. 600 such cars in
use ON our railroads. Senator Nc
MILAN wants them sent back and re-
placed with cars from his shops.
Should he succeed in his protection
designs Canada will, doubtless, levy
luty on American built cars. and the
commerce between the two countries
will be again INSTRUCTED. Great is
protection" especially to United
States Senator'S Albany On. IL Ar
gus
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-23
TROUT-FISHING SECRETS.

| An Ancient and Acute Angler Imparts
Some Important Information.
Fly-fshing is supposed to be so diff
cult of mastery that many are deter red
from mourning the expense of an outfit
which is of no use in ordinary angling.
But let the veteran fisherman say his
own words:
There is a secret in fishing for trout
with the artificial fly, but it can be
learned in half an hour by a man who
has no prejudices and keeps his eyes
open. 1 do not say all will succeed
equally well, but any man who has
.gumption' and will take these hints
can't help catching fish, and he may
fish all day, if he goes about the bust
ness according to his own notions, and
not get a single rise for his trouble.
First of all get the highest rod you
can. If it is well balanced and has got
the spring it is good enough. Don't
bother with lot of flies and use only
one on tie line at time. Here are
four flies that will serve all purposes.
One is the red spinner; the second is
the black gnat; the third is the coach
man; the fourth and boss OF them all
is the red Palmer or red hackle, as it
is indifferently termed
Now for the secret Take the red
hackle as the standard and you will
understand. If you throw it out and
just drag it along the top of the water,
as most people do, what do you sup
pose q trout will take it for? Why,
just for what it is-a bunch of hair, no
more, no less You drag it along and
the hairs close on the shank of the
hook; it is just dead mass, not re-
sembling fly, or a caterpillar, or any
thing else. But suppose. instead of
this, you work your wrist very gently
up and down, so as to let the elastic
hairs of the hackle expand and close
with the stream, what then? Why,
the thing looks alive. looks like a
drowning insect, and the trout goes
for it directly. 1t is the same with
winged flies exactly. There is no use
having wings to a fly if you simply
drag it through the water in one direc-
ton.
Just one hint more" he said to the
reporter. IF trout goes for your
fly, don't strike with your arm as If
you meant to knock a mans head of
with a club or slug a ball for three
bases. just turn your wrist sharply
and on the instant, for the trout blows
out the fly directly he finds what it is,
and it doesn't take him half second
to do it Fish up stream. use one fly,
and that red hackle. work your fly
in the water to make it look alive, and
you will fill basket while your neigh
bors are firing their hearts and souls
out and catching nothing.
LET me say. too, that you can't
throw fly too lightly on the water.
To do this you must keep your body
still, throw with the arm, and the arm
only, letting the spring of the rod do
the last part of the cast In this way
the fly Is made to fall frst-which is
every thing. Watch a novice and you
will cease to wonder why he never
raises d fish. San Francisco Chron-
iNle.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-23
TOUGH ON DUDLEY.

Tho Great Indiana Corruptionist Repudi
ated by His Friend Harrison.
The attack on President Harrison by
w. w. Dudley will strengthen the
President with all respectable people.
1t was by Mr.. Harrison's association
with such men as Dudley, Blaine,
Quay. Elkins and others of that class
that he first laid himself open to sus-
picions which ought never to attach
to a President of the United States.
That he is now attempting to redeem
himself from this association, at least
in Dudley's case. appears plainly from
the letter written by that notorious
corruptionist to S. Van Pelt, of Ander-
son, Ind. MIR. Harrison, Dudley
writes, '.has lost his backbone and is
too cowardly to be seen consulting
with me for the simple reason that the
-copperheads and rebels of Indiana
have trumped up a lot of charges
against me. He seems entirely OBJ
livious to the fact that it was through
my efforts that Indiana was saved to
him."
It will be greatly to Mr.. Harrison
credit if he remains thus Oblivious.
DQuAOy 10 uO uOE y ICS pOuSlO10, per-
haps. for the frauds in Indiana than
Quay or Clarkson, who co-operated
with him in carrying them out. but he
alone was detected. He exposed him
self and the frauds in letter over his
own signature; and though the frauds
were consummated; though through
them Indiana was carried for Harrison,
he, as President, would be guilty of the
grossest indecency in rewarding man
who not only gave him his seat by
fraud, but did it in such a way as to
put the stigma of fraud upon it.
In word, Dudley was caught So
also was Blaine, whom Mr.. Harrison
at once made Secretary of State, but
he could no more avoid doing this
than he could avoid appointing Win
dom. Wanamaker, Proctor and Clark
son. 1t is necessary, however, to draw
the line somewhere, and the inference
from Dudley's latest letter that he has
drawn it at Dudley is extremely graft
flying to that by no means inconsidera-
BILE class of people who believe that
the President of the United States
should have a sense of decency.-Chi-
cago Herald.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-23
SCIENCE AND ANIMALS.

The Potentially of SuperstftiOns in Dogs
and Other Creatures.
Do animals see ghosts? OF course
there are no ghosts. but that makes
no difference. Science and philosophy
agree that it is not at all improbable
that nothing really exists and that
nothing is, except perturbations of
brain cells. Any thing that we may
think we see may not. after all, have
any existence-at any rate. it does
not exist as we see it. Do animals
know about ghosts and do they think
they see them? In his latest book Sir
John Lubbock undertakes to tell how
the world appears to animals. but he
doesn't enter into the possibilities of
snperstitions among dogs and horses,
for instance. Certainly the world does
not appear the same to the ant that it
does to man; and not quite the same
to the dog and horse, since the dog and
the horse do not laugh. If we
take the conclusions of science re-
speeding the development of intelli-
gence. we ought to be able to believe
that the more intelligent of the lower
animals have superstitions that cor
respond in some measure to those of
the least intelligent human beings.
That many animals reason, draw
logical differences beyond the opera
ton of instinct, is pretty well settled.
When dog or a horse has exhausted
all its experience in attempting to &C
count for certain phenomena, does it
conclude that the thing is supernatu-
raj or out of the order of applicable
phenomena? Novelists tell us abo ut
the amazing fear of horses and dogs
ordinarily fearless. when placed under
conditions that excite the fear of SUI
perstitious persons. Are there facts
to warrant this? If dogs and horses
see ghosts they must be capable of the
simplest form of religious emotion;
that is to say, the fear of the inexplic-
able, which in the savage is regarded
by science as the beginning of religion
Dogs have what in science passes for
moral sense. They are conscious of
wrong doing and practice self re-
straint- OF course it all grows out of
the experience that the doing OF GER
tain things is attended with more pain
than the mOmentary pleasure, but this,
science tells US. is the basis of the
moral sense. At all events science is
bound to admit the potentiality of SUI
perstitions in animals.-Milwau kee
Sentinel
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-23
MEN OF INTEGRITY.
The kind of . Rsputatfon which Helps
One Over Many Hard Places

The Kind of . Reputation which Helps
One Over Many Hard Places.
s.Why is it that it is the good men
who go wrong?n asks an exchange.
This question is of much of the same
stamp as one that was formerly cur
rent: why is it that ministers sons
are so often scapegraces?" The latter
has been shown to be grossly unfair in
its implication that ministers sons
are, as whole, unworthy of their IA
theirs and of their training. The re-
verse is the case. There are excep-
tons, but these are rare in comparison
with the number of sons of ministers
who are useful and honored citizens.
many of them pursuing the noble call
ing of their fathers
So when we are asked: ''Why is it
that it is the good men who go wrong?"
the answer is that the inquiry is mis-
leading. Men who are reputed to be
good do go wrong in many cases. but
these are few in comparison to the
number of reputed good men
who do not go wrong. 1t is
no surprise when it is learned
that man who does not bear a good
name has done something dishonest or
UNIV rthy, because in this case the ex-
pected happens, and there is not ''go-
ing wrong" but further pursuit of it.
The good man by repute-and the bet
ter he is reputed to be the more sur
prise and shock if he does not bear out
his reputation-ist the one who is trust
ed, and when we hear of one who has
proved faithless, it shows that his rep
utation was not deserved, or that his
moral fiber has not been tested. The
man who is upright and honest-hon-
est with himself as well as toward
others-does not go far wrong in his
dealings.
A reputation for integrity is one
which no man can afford to be with
out But the reputation is not the
main thing. This is to deserve it. It
is won by right doing, and is kept in
the same way. Once established it is
the best letter of credit a young man
can have. Without it he can not hope
to succeed.
In most cases men of strict integrity
have had it impressed upon them in
their youth that honesty can not be
disposed with. Too great stress can
not be laid upon this truth by all who
have dealings with the young. Temp
tatiOns to be dishonest should be as far
as possible removed from the path of
those whose characters are not fully
formed, and those who are older and
wiser should by friendly counsel aid in
firmly fixing right ideas in the youth
full minds.
Parental laxity is to blame if a
young woman begins work with a
vague notions of what honesty means.
Too many parents sadly neglect their
duties in this particular. They do not
oversee their children as they should
Or hold them to strict accountability,
but faults are CLOSED over or are not
seen. Parents should not be harsh
and exacting. but they should train up
children in the very way they should
go. The honest boy is father to the
honest man.-DetrOit Free Press
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-23
sELaElARY PROCTOR.
A Specimen OF the Patriots Evolved by I
Republican Party.

A Specimen OF the Patriots Evolved by tze
Republican Party.
The New York World sent a member
of its staff to Rutland, Vt, to find out
what manner of a man Redfield Proc
tor, the new Secretary of War, is. He
finds that Proctor is the wealthiest
man in Vermont; that he has made all
his money in fourteen years; that he
was originally a lawyer, which led to
his appointment in 1875 as receiver
of Meyers & Dorr. who then ran
the Sunderland Falls quarries, and.
having had disagreement had their
affairs wound up in the courts; that
when the receivership ended Proctor
was found to be the owner of the quar-
ries; that the protective tariff gave
him q chance to operate them with
immense profits, which he improved
to the utmost; that by paying the low
est possible wages, running pluck me"
stores where two prices were charged
for every thing, and compelling
his employees to live in his tenements
at fancy rentals, he kept them all so
poor . that they were never able to
leave his service, lest starvation over
take them before they could get out of
town; that he organized a big marble
trust, which, however. expired by linn
itation last year; and that. as matters
stand, he comes pretty nearly owning
Vermont, and is in fair way to get
the whole State before he dies.
This enterprising statesman went to
the Chicago convention last June at
the head of the Vermont delegation;
and on every ballot, from the first to
the last. when his State was called he
responded: Vermont casts her eight
| votes for Benjamin Harrison. of In
diana" During the campaign he
gave the National Republican Commit.
tee great big check. And now he is
| Secretary of War.
| It is thus that Statesmen" are
| evolved in this Republic in these latter
days.-Indianap Sentinel.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-23
RESULTS OF PROTECTION.

The Inevitable Result Of Taxing the Many
for the Benefit Of the Few.
Among the protectionist manufact-
urers who used bulldozing pay en-
velopes in the last campaign was r.
K. Dederick. who makes hay presses.
brick machines. etc, at Albany, N. I.
One of his pay envelopes contained
the following:
THE ONE ISSUE OF THIS CAMPAIGN:
SHALL AMERICAN GOODS AND PRODUCTS, OR
ENGLLSH GOODS AND PRODUCTS, STOCK
OUR HOME MARKET
SHALL AMERICAN WAGES Or ENGLISH WAGES
BE PAID TO OUR wORkING-MEN AND
wORKING-wOMEN?
The following headlines from the
Albany Express (Rep.) of recent date
are valuable for comparison:
WAGES HEAVILY CUT
p. K. DEDERICK'S MEN MUST ACCEPT 25 PER
CENT. REDUCTION OR GO.
The woodworkers in the employ OF Z. Il
Deder;ck. manufacturer OF hay presses brick
machines ETC., have been notified that their
wages will hereafter be 25 per cent lower than
before They have not been asked whether
they will accept the reduction; it has simply
been thrust upon them.
This is only one instance out of hun
dreds OF others which occur as a mat
ter of course, for it is a matter OF
course that however favored corpora
tions are benefited by the high tariff
laws. they will keep these benefits to
themselves as a matter of business
and not part with them to their work
men out of philanthropy. The great
strike at Fall River was starved out
without loss to the corporations, but
with great loss and suffering to the
employees. Other strikes against or
ganized corporations will have the
same end.
The economic principle is plain, and
all whose livelihood is not derived
from interest or dividends on capital
ought to understand it as well as cap
italists do. It is this: Where a mar
ket is controlled by combinations or
laws favoring combinations so as to
prevent natural competition, the or
ganized manufacturing corporations
arc benefited by strikes which limit
supply. On the same principle under
which trusts shut down mills to limit
supply, they can afford to force strikes
by cutting wages. The falling off in
supply in the controlled market en-
hances the value Of the stock already
manufactured, while at the same time
it results in saving of wages. It is
only when prices become so high that
the high tariff tax can no longer pre-
vent importations that the combined
corporations must begin manufacture
ing in order to hold their market.
Under such conditions the strike
must fail The strikers do not diminish
the supply of labor so as to control
prices, for they have no control over
the labor market and they can not so
organize as to control it. The labor
market is open to the worlds supply.
The market for the corporation is shut
off by law from the world, and these
laws prevent his working-men from
forcing fair wages from him. simply
because in a single market under cor
troll he gains during general strike
the wages he would have paid as we'll
as whatever enhancement of values of
products results from increased sup
ply. If he had open competition, he
could not afford to cut wages and force
strikes. He would be obliged to run
his mill OR lose his market-St Louis
Republic
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-23

-Th7 largest tree in the world as
yet discovered is in Tulare County.
Cal, i: is two hundred and seventy
i've feel high and one hundred and six
feet in 4rcEmference at its base.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-23

Boss Book Agent-'.Havey you ever
done any canvassing?" Green appli-
cant-"Well, should smile. worked
in a Chicago ham factory for two
years. "-Washington Critic
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-23

1T is the experience of all con-
ductors that strange things come to
pass on railroads.-N. o. Picayuna
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-23
CHAPTER XXI.
rA-1--

Found at lastr'
lmpenetrable gloom surrounded the per-
son who uttered these words, save for the
small circle of light made by a strong
smelling taliow dip, that sputtered and
threatened to go out at any moment.
Weird shadows danced along the rafters
and played hide and seek among queer
little hooks. A young man knelt on the
rough boards Of the garnet at Lone Hollow,
with an old, battered, hair-covered trunk
open before him. That which brou ght from
his lips the words opening this chapter he
held up to the light in his hand-a folded
legal document, yellow with age, tied with
red tape.
The young man who held up the folded
paper read on one side these words:
Last viii and testament of Morgan Van
dible"
Found at lasty" again CALCULATED the
young man. my search has not been in
vain. I have looked everywhere, and was
on the point OF giving up, when, lol it pops
up like thing of life from the bottom of
this old chest. Your course is well nigh
run, Clinton Starbright, falsely dubbed
Captain, and"
A sound below cut short the young mans
speech. He concealed the precious paper,
extinguished the light, and hurriedly made
h,s exit from the close air of the garrett.
ucu uo guinea the hau below, which
was dimly lighted by bracket-lamps. the
mans face stood revealed, and we recog-
nize him as the genial hunter, Louis Fin
gal. He passed to the end of the hail. Ii fled
q window and peered out into the NIGHT
listening intently.
81 hear no sound of Wheels he mutt
tered. 81 hope DIR. Cotton and his patient
will not dissppoint me tonight. To watch
that villain, and guard a precious life,
dangerous. 1t must be time, too, for that
infamous Captain to come nosing about
heard him tell Lucy that she need not look
Tor him in several days, but judge that to
be blind. Possibly, however, he may
have taken the alarm. He was out until
late last night, and seemed pale and agi-
tated when he returned"
The reader can readily guess why the
captain Was agltated on the previous night.
The apparition at the pool had completely
unnerved him for time. On the morning
following he had driven away toward
Stoneheld, assuring both Lura and Lucy
shat he intended to be absent several days.
F1ngal had been where he overheard this.
but he had not believed it,
After listening a minute Fineal closed
the window and turned his steps toward
0race's room. He found the door closed.
and at once applied his hand to the Knob n
refused TO yield.
Dropping to the floor Fingal attempted to
oeer into the room through the keyhole. No
xeht glimmered there, and then the young
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-23

PAT says we never have moon in q darl
night when we need i most
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-09-02
SPORT AND ADVENTURE.
Graham Goes Over Niagara
in a Barrel.
THE FEAT SAFELY ACCOMPLISHED
San Francisco and Oakland Play
Good Ball-An Aeronaut's
Thrilling Experience.

Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD
NIAGARA FALLS, September Last
Sunday afternoon Carlisle D. Graham
made successful trip through the
Whirlpool rapids, the Malstrom and
Fosters Flats, that was preparatory to
his effort today to pass over the falls,
which, according to Graham himself and
few witnesses, was accomplished
in safety. The same barrel was used.
At O'Clock this morning it was towed
out into the river by two friends OF
Graham, and at AS it was let 60 at a
point opposite Chippewa creek. Down
the current it swept, plunging over the
reefs, often out of sight, till at Z 10 it ap-
preached the brink and dropped 200 feet
into the abyss below.
The barrel soon rose, intact, and was
deserted in an eddy. Elmer Jones swan
out from the Canadian shore, caught
b ,ld of alrope attached to the barrel, and
towed it in shore, where just at 7 :25 q. 4.
Graham was lifted out by Jones and
Cahill, and was quickly brought, more
dead than alive, to Hore's saloon, on this
side. Graham himself says: "The first
thing I knew was when someone struck
the barrel and said, Graham, are you
alive?'"
He complained of terrible pains in the
back and head, from the rocking he had
received, and could talk but incoherently.
About dozen people verify the state
ment that Graham was in the barrel,
and many more will say they saw the
barrel 60 over.