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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-06-20
ONE CENTURY AGO.
When Farmers Had to Do Without Now
ers, Reapers and Leaders.

When Farmers Had to Do Without Now
ers, Reapers and Leaders.
The farmer did not have a mower
and reaper then. Although Pliny the
elder, who was born A. ID. %, describes
a machine to reap grain which was
used in Gaul, it was not until the pres
ent century that these machines came
into use. Pliny says of the Gaulic
reaper: lin the extensive fields in the
lowlands of Gaul vans Ccartsl of large
size, with projecting teeth on the edge.
are driven on two wheels through the
standing grain by an OK yoked in a
reverse position. In this manner the
ears are taken off and fall into the
yan." The first patent for a reaping
machine in England was taken out in
1899. 1t was not until 1922 that a
machine was made by school-master
named Henry Ogle. which may have
become the model of all subsequent
reapers. His contrivance was very
simple. and upon trial cut fourteen
acres of grain a day. But this ma
chine met an untimely end. Mr.. Ogle
writes of it that some working people
threatened to kill MIR. Brown. the man
who made it, if he persevered any fur
Their in it. and it hasnever been more
tried" The oldest known machine
still in use was invented in 1926 by Mr.
Bell, a Scotch minister. This reaper
was improved in 1884. Whether Amer
lean inventors obtained their ideas
from these foreign machines is a mat
ter of dispute. But the reaper has
taken the romance out of the haying-
field. Haying-time used to be the
pleasantest on the farm, and no sight
was more beautiful than a line of
sturdy men gracefully swinging the
scythe in the tall grass. The mower,
the tedder, the horse-rake and loader
have made the haying season as prosy
as hoeing potatoes Chicago News.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-06-20
Caught at Last.

Father shouting downstairs in ALI
angry vocabulary!
Mary (who is with her beau. who has
been waiting on her about three years.
Yes, sir.
Els Mr.. Slowcoaca there?
M.-Yes. sir.
Els he proposing to you that he is
staying so late?
NJ. Ito Mr.. Slowcoach, in a fright
ened whisper)-O! what shall 1 say?
Mr.. S. (trembling in his boots Say
yes.
NJ. Cto her father)-Yes. papa
F.-All right, all right; excuse me-
Tell him he can have yor- Bless you
both. my children. He needn't hurry
away.-Boston Courier.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-06-20

The honor shown Mr. Cleveland Vas
well deserved. In reading his remarks
a contrast between the late Admins
tration and the present one is made
almost instinctively, and this contrast
adds great strength to the Democratic
position.
The address of Mr.. Cleveland was
characteristic; showing earnest con-
viction and an abiding faith in the
people Few public men have rested
so confidently their cause on the right
judgment of the people; few, in other
words, have held more strongly to the
principles of Democracy. Mr.. Cleve-
land is entitled to the regard, not of
the party alone. but of all good citizens
regardless of party. That he will in
time have this confidence to q degree
equaled only by few who have filed
the high position from which he has
say this. and much more, in praise and
admiration of Mr.. Cleveland without
lntimating that he alone is to be con-
sldered as the nominee of the party
three years hence. But certainly Mr..
HarrisOn's Administration has not
diminished in the least the chances of
Mr.. Cleveland 5 denomination. Who
ever is nominated will have the en-
thuslastic support of united party,
for he must represent its truest
aspirations, and make plain its pun
poses concerning the issues of tho
-time.-Louisville Courier-JournaL
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-06-20


When. wee have gold we are In
fear. when. wa have none: we are in
Danger
-Flattery is sort of bad money to
which. our vanity gives cizrrency--
Locke
Give work rather than aims to the
poor The, former drives out indo-
lences the'latter ndustry.-Burke-
The three essentials to human
happiness are something to. do. some
thing to. love and somathing to hope
for.
"a man, is judged by his success in
ilfes and MS success, is, often measured
by the amount of money he has
Texas Siftings-
The church belle in the choir
often brings more people to church
than the bell in the steeple.-Bostou
Commercial Bulletin.
Fools with bookish knowledge ara
children with edged weapons; they
hurt themselves, and put others in
pain. The half-learned is more dan
gerous than the simpleton.
man.
as he can. from another boys apple is
Disgusting his real feeling and should
be narrowly watched, lest he might
make sudden grab and run off with
the whole.-American Hebrew.
Whatever mitigates the woes or
increases the happiness OF others Is a
just criterion OF righteousness One
should not quarrel without reason
sufficient to indicate one through all
the courts OF morality.
However good you may be, you
have faults, however dull you may be.
you can find out what some of then
aref and. however slight they may be.
you had better make some-not too
painful. but patient efforts to get quit
of them.-John Ruskin.
Thou mayst be sure that he that
will in private tell thee of thy faults is
thy friend, for he adventures thy dis
like, and doth hazard thy hatred; for
there are few men that can endure it,
every man for the most part delighting
in self-praise. which is one of the most
universal follies that bewitcheth man.
kind.-Sir W. Raleigh.
There is nothing which more ex-
asperates an opposer of a good man.
than that silence which grows out of a
recognition of the fact that it is use
less to discuss with one who does not
want to be fair. He who is unjust in
his words and ways feels the sting of
self-possessed silence on the part of
him whom he is ill-treating.-S S.
Times.
To marry for money, and for any
object whatever save and except i'm
mortal and all-powerful love. is to per-
jure and debase the human heart; but
to marry without some provision for
the future, such as money or moneys
worth in a well-furnished mind and a
capacity for skilled labor, is to defy
common sense and invoke the evil
fates.-Once Week.
We are most inclined to love when
we have nothing to fear. and he that
encourages us to please ourselves. will
not be log without preference in our
affection to those whose learning holds
Is at the distance of pupils. or whose
wit calls all attention from US and
leaves us without Importance and with
out regard.-Dr. johnson.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-06-20
THE CLEVELAND DINNER.
How Its Success Has Affected the Dreams
of Republican Leaders.

How Its Success Has Affected the Dreams
of Republican Leaders.
The dinner given by representative
Democrats of New York to Mr.. Cleve-
land has disturbed the dreams of q
number of the Republican leaders.
Any evidence of popular faith in the
ex-President; any testimony to the
value of his public services; any pro-
test against the methods which govern
this Administration, arouses all man
ner of bitterness among the gentlemen
who are asserting that the election of
Mr.. Harrison means a new lease of
power for twenty-five years.
But nothing Is certain in politics.
Three years before the election of Mr..
Cleveland President of the United
States he was quiet. unassuming
citizen of Buffalo. We have been told
that certain things can not be done be-
cause they have never been done. The
New York Sui says the Democrats
have never nom mated defeated can
didate, which would prove nothing if
it were true, bat it is not. Andrew
jackson was efeated when first cam
didate, and his defeat made his nomi-
nation certain.
We suppose our esteemed contem.
porary will admit that Mr.. Tilden's
failure to secure the Presidency in
1876 did not justify the party in fail
ing to demand that he should accept
the nomination IN 1880.
1t will not do to be constantly con-
structing, or reconstructing, history
to suit our desires for the future.
Whether Mr.. Cleveland is to receive
the nomination in 1892 can not be de-
c.ded one way or the other just yet.
There is time enough for such de-
c.sion, and we doubt not that the mat
tar will be wisely decided at the proper
Guns.
II is little too early to consider the
nomination. The duty of action rests
on the Republicans; they must take
the initiative just now. and the record
they are making in every executive
Office naturally fills the Democrats
with hope and with confidence
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-06-20
A WESTERN METHOD.

In Western skies, Ger prairies broad,
TIE crimson hues are blending.
While eastward. Ger the misty woods.
Night shades are soft descending.
The summer day. so calm, so sweet,
In peace serene Is dying,
And FER the harvest-laden fields
The vesper breeze is signing.
While lingering on the vine-clad porch,
Our hearts with joy o'erfowlng,
We gaze on fields, and woods, and sky
In somber beauty glowing.
You say: IF Time, in his wild fight
Would list to human reason.
And give US but four extra weeks
In this sweet summer season,
Twouid be, indeed. precious gift
To claim our hearts devotion
Another isle of fragrant flowers
Upon LIES varied ocean"
he knoweth best who loveth best:
Each season sent by Heaven,
Though summers sun or winters storm,
For human good is given.
But If our future paths of life
Were both converged together,
To me. though storms and tempests roar,
'Twould all be summer weather.
Say. would thy life as happy be.
With love the hours beguiiing,
Would every season be to thee
A vernal summer smiling?
All, sol Well, let US then proceed
To regulate the weather.
And hand in hand we gayly walk
fAdown the slope together.
-Chauncey A. Lewis, in America
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-06-20

a score OF fences, some OF which are
made to prevent people from doing
just what you propose. Then there
are dozen hedges. which you can't
possibly get over and which would
tear the clothes from your back if you
tried to go through That's all"
sat down on the green sward and
groaned.
Take my advice and climb the hill
again. It's your only chance"
You don't want a hired man, do
you? I'd rather stay here the rest of
my natural life than try to climb that
hill. The only consolation I would
have would be that when 1 got up
there I might massacre some of those
road-makers who induced me to come
down."
The darkest time is before the dawn.
Just at this moment canal boat came
along. I shouted to the man at the
wheel in spite of the restriction there
is generally in vogue about speaking
to that individual, and asked him 1t he
could slew his craft near enough the
shore for me to get on board. He did
so and I swung on my two-ton valise
and got on after.
See here" I said, what will you
charge to take me to CINCINNATI"
twenty-five cents" was the reply.
'.All right" agree. I'll make my
self comfortable, for I'm very tired. "
DO" said the man.
After we had gone about mile he
said:
THAT don't include board, you
know"
was nearly asleep. and started up.
"What don't?''
1.-The twenty-five cents"
''Oh, all right"
81 think it's mighty cheap ride as
it is"
Its only five cents on the street
carr
Eyes. but you see we go to Toledo
first. We won't get to Cincinnati for
three weeks"
"WHAr!!!'
He was kind enough to swing his
boat to the shore and let me get off.
The Photographic valise weighed three
tons during the dreary tramp along the
tow-path to Cummingsville.- Luke
Sharp, in Detroit Free Press.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-06-20
ScandaIous and ReprehensibIe.

The contrivance by which apprais
ing officers have been coerced or per-
suaded. by no matter what manipular
ton, to report to the collectors that
wOrsted cloths are manufactures of
wool, although ever since 1924 and
earlier such fabrics have been uni
forniiy reported as manufactures of
worseed, is too bold and transparent to
misiead any taxpayer, even the most
stupid The methods and the result
OF this intrigue are as ecandalOus and
reprehensible as it would be if the
President and the Republican leaders
put pressure SUCCESSFULLY upon Judge
Lacombe in New York, Judge Nc
Kenna in Philadelphia, Judge Blodgett
in Chicago. to give rulings i. tax suits
In favor of the manufacturers and
against the tax-payerA-N 7. Even
ing Post
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-06-20
: - 80 ts7 II. - -
OPENING THEIR EYES.
fros.,etIonists BEGINNING to SEQ That the
Present TariH Is = Humbux.

fro,.,et5onists Beginning to SEQ That the
Present Tariff II Humbug.
The fact that the very disasters
which the tariff shriekers predicted as
certain to follow Cleveland's re-elec-
ton are coming thick and fast.
although Harrison is in the White
House, is opening the eyes of thou
sa.ds of people to the fact that the
present protective tariff is, for the
most part, humbug and a swindle.
Wade's Fiber and Fabric. an able
trade journal. which supported Har-
rison vigorously on the tariff issue, no
doubt voices the curiosity of a great
multitude of deluded victims of mo-
nopoly sophistry, when it wants to
know where are the good times
that Harrison election was to bring.
1t says: I'VE were led to believe
that if the party of high protection
secured control of the Government,
we would then. very soon. have good
times. We are firm believer in pro
tecting American industries if it could
be done under the guidance of honest
statesmen, but in the hands of quaclz
protection" It is indignant at the
folly of the manufacturers and grow
ers of wool in combining to continue
the tariff on wool, when any one can
see. if he will, that free wool would
be great move toward honest pro-
lection" This was the kind of pro-
lection that the Mills bill proposed to
give the wooden industries of the coun-
try by giving them untaxed raw
materials. honest, scientific. legitimate
protection.
The National Labor Tribune, of Pitts
burgh, which preached Harrison and a
high tariff to working-men in the last
campaign, has also discovered that pro-
lection does not protect any body but
capitalists. It calls the attention of
it's readers to the fact that at the pres
emit price Of steel rails in London, with
freight from London to Pittsburgh
added, the cost laid down in Pitts
burgh would be 1921 ton without
the tariff of SIT. The Allegheny Besse-
mer Company. of Pittsburgh. has just
taken a contract for rails at 500 ton,
or less than the English price without
including duty. The National Labor
Tribune wants to know why the Ale
gheny Bessemer Company cut so much
under American prices and therefore
compelled a reduction of wages in
stead of maintaining rates and giving
part of the $17 a ton protection to
American workmen. It very natural
ly concludes that the s17 duty is a
''howling sarcasm and an outrageous
fraud.
All over the country trade and labor
journals are talking in the same strain
as Wade's Fiber and Fabric and the
National Labor Tribune. The logic
of events is opening their eyes-and
we hope the eyes of the readers-to
the folly and wickedness of our Chi
nese system of taxation. The lies
and sophistries of the protectionist
demagogues will not Ego down" in
1892 with tens of thousands of voters
who eagerly swallowed them last
year. indianapolis Sentinel.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-06-20
THAT SOUP PHRASE.
Fortunately 1t Is Gradually Losing
Hold on the Public.

Fortunately 1t Is Gradually Losing Its
Hold on the Public.
The reasons why we do not and
never have Endorsed the phrase He
fell in the soup" are manifold. When
it first came into general use it was
harsh and grating, and now that it has
become old. rheumatic and moscow
cred. it is positively. diObolical in its
discordancy. Fell in the soup" was
primarily intended to convey the mean
ing to the auditor Or auditors that a
man or a woman, or a collection of
men and women, had in some way be-
come downed, or more elegantly speak
ing. been compelled through force of
circumstances or events to acknowI-
edge the corn. While this was un-
doubtedly the object of the phrase, it
has manifestly failed in reaching the
goal of its intentions. 1t is not
graphic, and that is absolutely essen
tial to any real claim to the public
consideration. There have been So
called improvements suggested such
as ''he fell in the consom-
me-" ''in the mulliga-tawny, and
stumbled into the tureen.', but
none of these are one iota better than
the original In some unaccountable
manner, however, the phrase came
into quite general use, but most as
suredly not through any real worth of
its own. but because of the peculiar
fancies of the American people. In
the first place it is important that a
phase should be so constructed and
composed as to instantly convey to the
uninitiated the idea intended 10 be ex-
pressed In the soup fails manifest
ly in this regard, especially when adj
dressed to an individual ignorant of
the idioms of speech of our country
How many people would understand
by lin the soup" that a person had
failed in his undertaking? None, un-
less they had previous acquaintance
with this combination of very uneu-
phonious words We are glad to note
that this really obnoxious phase is
gradually losing its hold on the pub
tic. and our sincerest hope is that lin
the SOUP will fall so deeply into the
bouillon as to become tangled in the
vegetables and unable to Chamber over
the side Of the tureen.-Minneapoli
Tribune.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-06-20
HAVING THE EVIL EYE.

One of the Most Familiar SuperstitiOns
Among the Italians.
Shortly after his election Plus TX.
who was then adored by the Romans
and perhaps the best loved man in
Italy, was driving through the streets
when he happened to glance upward
at an open window at which a nurse
was standing with child. A few
minutes afterward the nurse let the
child drop and it was killed. No one
thought the Pope had wished this,
but the fancy that he had the evil eye
became universal and lasted till his
death. In Carniola, if you tell
mother her baby is strong and large
for it's age, farmer that his crops
are looking well, or a coachman that
his team is good. all three will spit at
your feet to avert the omen and, if you
understand the custom, you will do
tho same as an act of pOliteuess. A
person who wandered through Upper
Carniola and praised every thing he
saw would soon come to be
considered the most malevolent
of men. In Naples the same feel
ing exists. The terms of endear-
ment which mothers of the lower
class use to their children and the
pet names they call them by are often
so indecent that it would be impossible
to reproduce them in English, and
always SO contemptuous that they
would be offensive in any other rela-
ton.
The well-known habit of Neapolitans
to offer a guest any thing he may
praise has probably the same origin.
1t is, of course, now to a very large
extent only form of courtesy; but
even now another feeling turks behind,
at least in a good many cases. Your
host has been delighted at your adj
miration of his possessions; he would
have been disappointed if it had not
been SO warmly expressed as it was;
but still he is little afraid of the i'll
luck the kind things you have said
may bring. By offering the objects
you have liked best to you, and receiv-
ing your certain refusal to accept them.
he puts them in a bad light, and thus
counteracts the evil effects of your
praise. He says to fate, you see their
value is not great after all.
This superstition, however, is by no
means confined to Naples or Italy; it
is said to be common in China and
Japan, and among negroes and red In
dians. Even in England it is unknown
In fact, in all countries when visiting
sick acquaintance it is better to say:
Il am glad to hear you are a little bet
ter to-day" than II am glad to see
you looking so much better" Nor is
the belief by any means confined to
the lower classes. A person who is
highly educated, very Intelligent, and
by no means prejudiced in religious
matters. was once asked whether the
words acted as an evil charm or wheth-
err they merely foretold evil The re-
ply was: II don't know; but l do
know from experience that whenever
any body tells me am looking well l
fall ill within three days; and the more
intimate I am with the person that
says it the worse the illness is There
may be connection between this su-
perstition and that of the evil eye-we
are inclined to think there is-but they
must not be COMPOUNDED, as one is often
found in districts where the other is
unknown Review.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1889-05-01

O. E. Alvord committed an act yes
 tsrsiay. which, while creating a sensa.
 ton at the public school, he will nc
 donbt regret It was the abduction o
 his twelve year old child, against hel
 will. IS che was entering the schoo
 building with other children AlvorG
 and his wife have not lived together
 for several months. although they have
 raised family, one son being of age
 Aivord and this son have lived in Pres cott for several menths, and few weeks ago the latter sent for his mother and sister to join him here. which they did. About the first of this month the father applied for . divorce from Mrs. Alvord. the suit for which is yet pend- ing, in the meantime an order of the court was issued prohibiting him from interfering with her property. He has made his threat that he intended to steal the child and return to Michigan, but was warned against such . course by his attorney. He however carried his threat into execution. as above stated, yesterday. A warrant was issued for his arrest. and Deputy Sher- if McInernay went out on this morn Ing's train to serve it, having discov- cred that he left by private conveyance last evening, going as far as Chino val ey, with the evident intention of taking he train this morning, on route east.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1889-05-01

Ex-Governor McCrrery. Of Keatucky, during hls nine years service in the United States senate, saved $4o. .ooo from hts salary and won a reputation for economy, which is still talked about at the capital. There was . cheap hotel in Georgetown, whose rates were some S7 per week tor bnard ard lodging, and here McCreery lived. He would walk from this place 10 the capi- tcl and back every day thus saving $I or SO q week in car fare. al q his per- sonal expenses were insignificant. None of his salary went to hackmen. to florists, to Wormley or Chamberlain 1; he never played poker or went to ,hea- ter, and when he left congress he had enough to live on the balance ot his Aave !
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1889-05-01

The Phenlx Gazette in a recent edi. toual IS very nervous lest some one gets into the constitu ionsl convention ty a proxy. The editor of that sheet ought to know that proxy there would he as unheard Of . thlng as in the ,srri- rial legislature. Members ofthe oonsen- tion are elected tn the sane way as members o the legislature and are ad- miited on certificates of el, s,ion. duly attested in the same wly.-
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1889-05-01

The Tucson Star has discovered a new species of democratic poh,icians. which Il has named the Ornith shynchux The species originated in New Jersey, where ii thrives. The t~, or ,lmee Arizona transplAnts. ho~ever. have not proven satisfactory so the piry in this territory.