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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-02-28
Persevere.

1t is hard for uS to realize that. the
weakest of us can with untiring effort
and perseverance accomplish some
important if not great work; yet it is
the small bricks, carefully placed which
form the solid wall; and if tempted to
feel discouraged at the seeming inn
possibility of accomplishing anything
with our small supplies, mental and
physical, we have only to recall the
tale told by Lockman of the vizer who,
having offended his master, was DOOM
ed to perpetual imprisonment in a
high tower, at the foot of which came
his wife to weep.
Cease said her husband; ''gO
home, and return when you have pro-
cured a live beetle, little ghee''
(buffalo's butter), land three clews-
one of finest silk, one of strong pack
thread, and another of whipcord; also
a coil Of stout rope"
Z When she returned with these he
said:
''Touch the beetles head with u
little of the ghee, tie one end of the
silk thread around his body. and place
him on the wall Of nay tower"
Attracted by the smell of the ghee,
which the insect thought to be ahead
of him, he climbed tO'the top Of the
wall, and thus gave the vizer the end
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-02-28
Heaven is Our Home.

Our friend Morrell Norton, of
Coolidge, sends us the following clip
ping. accompanied by good, United
States money, to pay his subscription
to the DEMOCRAT:
An editor died and slowly wended
his way down to where he supposed a
warm reception awaited him. The
devil met him and said: 'For many
years thou hast born the blame Of the
errors which the printers made in thy
paper. The papers have gone, alas!
for one dollar, but alas! the dollar
failed to come in. You were bedeviled
by the printers for wages when thou
hast had not cent to pay them. Men
have taken thy paper without paying
for it, and cursed thee for not getting
up better paper. Thou hast been
called dead-beag and a fraud by men
VINO are wroth. All these things thou
hast born in silence, and thou canst
not come i'm here"
And Satan murmured to himself,
Heaven is his home, and besides, if
we had let him in he would have been
continually dunning his delinquent
subscribers, and thus creating discord
in my kingdom
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-02-28
Rsprimanding Kansas.

Recently Mr.. Kilgore presented house
concurrent resolution No. IL, which
after some witty talk by Arkansas
statesmen, passed by vote of 56 yaes
to IL nays. The text is as follows:
WHEREAS, The Kansas legislature
has recently manifested great concern
for the welfare of Arkansas, calling
upon the congress of the United States
by resolution passed by that honor.
able body to place its ponderous foot
upon us and crush out all crime and all
disposition to commit crime on the part
of our people, even should it result in
utterly crushing out and destroying
the liberties of our people. under the
iron heel of military despotism; and
WHEREAS, Crime seems to be hold
Ing high carnival in our dearly beloved
sister state of Kansas, and county seat
wars and bloody riots, resulting in the
murder of many citizens in their mad
attempts to murder other citizens,
demonstrating that that energetic and
progressive state is entitled to the
sobriquet of Bleeding Kansas" and
WHEREAS, We deeply deplore that
crime is sometimes committed within
our own borders, for which the good
people of the state are no more respon-
sible than they are for the changes of
the season, but though suffering under
the smart Of individual crimes, we are
not thereby prevented from sympathiz-
ing with our beloved sister state in her
holocaust Of crime, nor would we be so
unjust and ungenerous as to condemn
all her people for the acts of few, and
would gladly do anything in our power
to aid her in emerging from the lurid
clouds which now hover about her
record and political sky; and
WHEREAS, 1t is to be presumed that
the state itself is powerless or indis-
posed to correct these great and over
s,adowing evils. their opportunity to
do 50 having been ample and unob-
structed;
| Therefore, Be it resolved by the
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-02-28

1t is strange how circumstances in
the way of geographical positions. alter
cases. The republican papers of this
state came out with fiaring headlines
the other day telling of southern bru-
tality to negroes. A short time ago a
body of men formed an organization
calling themselves white Caps" in
the state of Ohio, for the purpose Of
preventing the children of the two
races attending the same school. 2he
negroes insisted upon their rights and
continued sending their children to the
white schools. The White Caps visited
punishment upon them taking the
fathers of the children from their home
and beating them, threatening their
lives if they continued to send their
children to school. Outrages were
committed in this republican stronghold
that put to shame the Ku Klux of the
south. Yet we saw no fiaring headlines
of northern brutality to the negro. 1t
was simply a difference in the position
Of the places, yet world Of difference
was seen by the northern editors. We
believe in the equality of the races and
deplore the tyranny beneath which the
negro suffers; yet we are disgusted
with this cry of southern outrages that
fills columns, while the same outrages
perpetrated in the north is given a
three line notice.-Dode City Denaocrat.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-02-28
Clarence News.

From Buckeye.
Oh, the beau-the snow!
Rev. Kionka is attending the Luth-
eran Conference.
j. w. Campton has improved since
our last.
Mrs. H. Kionka is this week visiting
in Ellinwood.
The German school is now enjoying
a weeks vacation.
August Bruemer is making prepara-
tions to move to the Badger state.
The snow made Bunnie suffer, and
the racers of the Cheyenne sought the
coyote in vain. {COpy'd.)
The wheat will now proceed to get
up and surprise itself, together with the
rest of the world.
DIED:-Since our last, the infant
child of Mr.. and Mrs. Mansholf. The
remains were inferred in the Lutheran
cemetry.
We desire to give the DEMOCRAT
readers the valuable information that
items are not as numerous as they
might be. ~
Reuben Nelson declares his intention
Of planting corn before the middle o1
March. Come to Italy, ye showed out
and froze out sons Of the east!
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-02-28
Prepare, For It's Coming.

Samuel Benton, in his forecasts for
1889, 1890 and 1891, says: The year
1859 will open with cheerful hopes.
Crops will be abundant, the prospects
of an increased foreign demand for
surplus grain and provisions at adyanc-
ed prices will give the farmers renewed
energy. However, with fair early
crops, business and prices will show
considerable Improvement in the spring
months. We will be at the beginning
Of q prosperous period and the outlook
will be for decided improvement and
advance in the price of iron, railroad
stocks. and in all manufactured COM
uodities.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-02-28

n DELINQUENT subscriber who was
in arrears some four years, came in the
other day and paid up all arrears and a
year in advance. We were so flustrat-
ed that we socked the past brush into
the inkstand and then went out and
paid a coal bill; while the Office devil
Immediately became SO stuck up that
he went and washed his face and got /;
box of sawdust to spit in.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-02-28

The CREAMERY is receiving over a
ton of milk per day now. New terri
tory is being added every week to it's
tributaries and it is only question of
a short time until the entire capacity
is required to handle the product of
the dairies in the vicinity of Lyons.
Eighty-five cents per hundred is paid
for the milk.-Lyons Tribune.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-02-28
sAMoAI..mAHDs.

With all the talk about Samoa, there
are scores Of people who haven't the
least idea where it is. Samoa is a
group of nine inhabited islands called
Samoan, or Navigators' Islands. They
lie in the South Pacific 400 miles north
west of the Feejee Islands.
They were called the Navigatcrs'
Islands by Bougainville, who visited
them in 176s, from the skill with which
the natives propelled their canoes.
There has been no very late census,
but the population of the whole group
is probably not more than $4,000.
Tutnila is thickly settled island,
and has a good port-Pango- RanGo-
on its southern ebast.c The commerce
of the island is small, and the German
and English ships are chiefly engaged
in its carrying trade, a very small por-
ton falling to the United States.
though Commodore Meade, by con-
vention with the natives in 1872, took
the harbor of Pango-Pango under the
protection of this country.
In 1873 Gen. Grant sent special
agent to the islands on mission to the
natives, who wished the whole group
to be put under the protection Of the
United States. Two years later a
native king was elected and Stein
berger became bis prime minister.
The natives are finely built, the men
averaging 5 feet 10 inches in height
and the women being remarkably
graceful and symmetrical. Their tint
is a clear olive and their hair is black
and streight. !. A-.'.-i
The largest island in the group is
Savaii, which has not yet been fully
explored. The climate is very even.
though rain is pretty equally distrib-
uted through the year, the winter
months of January, February anc
March abounding with heavy storms
and northern winds.
Dried meat of the cocoanut, timber,
tropical fruit, sugar cane and tobacco
are the chief staples. Horses, cattle
and swine have been introduced into
these islands.
The old religion of the natives ac-
knowledged one great God. but
admitted several minor deities, especi-
ally war gods, whb'were more vener-
ated. At present all the Samoans are
nominal Christians, at least consisting
principally of Independents and
Presbyterians. There are some
Wesleyans and few Catholics.
Ten thousand tons of coppra, or
dried cocoanut meat, is shipped annu-
ally, mainly to Hamburg. Godefrey s.
Co., merchants, of Hamburg, control
most of the trade. They have several
cotton plantations at Apia, the chief
town of the island Anuu. 1t is the
next best port to Pango-Pango.
Among the imports of the island is
lumber from California and Oregon.
The German and American interest in
the Samoan question may be better
understood from their commercial
relations.
-,5i,tA -'is.l..
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-02-28

GREAT country this. On Monday of
last week the face of mother earth
was covered by white veil of snow
six inches thick; but on Thursday of
the same week the little boys were
playing marbels and hOp-scotch on her
bare. warm bOsOm.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-02-28

THE NOTE swindler is abroad again
selling patent burner, said to be made
by Hall & Co., of Kansas City. Over
O.. 900 has been gathered in by this
racket near Oswego. Look out for
him.-Dodge Times.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-02-28

The report of Warden Smith of the
penitentiary for the month of January,
shows that the expenses exceed the
receipts by nearly $4,000. This fur
nishes another evidence of republican
economy. Under democratic manage
.ment it was self-supporting and even
made to bring a revenue to the state.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-02-28

A DAMPHOOL bill has been introduce
ed in the senate, of Kansas, and has
been recommended for passage, making
it a misdemeanor for person to wear
G. A. r. badge who is not member
of that order. Why not pass bill of
the same kind for other secret societies.
Ellsworth Democrat.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-02-28

The Texas SJtings portrays in this
wise: Applications for Office are
pouring in upon General Harrison in
such quantities that he begins to think
he has been elected superintendent of
an almshOuse instead of to the
White House,
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-02-28

WHAT an altogether lovely state
senate it is that will pass bill lower
ing the age of consent from Is to IL
years! What noble lot of men to
attempt thus to assist the liDertine in
his soul destroying work! Thank
heaven our house of representatives,
composed largely of farmers, had the
manhood to kill the measure and bring
a blush of shame to the faces of the men
who attempted to foist such a law
upon our statute books.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-02-28

THE old Egyptians were better
builders than those of the present day.
There are blocks of stone in the pyra-
mids which weigh three or four times
as much as the obelisk on the London
embankment. There is one stone, the
weight of which is estimated at $50
tons. There are stones 80 feet i'll
length which fit SO closely together that
a penknife may be run over the surface
without discovering the break between
them. They are not laid with mortar,
either. We have no machinery so
perfect that it will make two surfaces
80 feet in length which will meet to-
gether as these stones in the pyramids
meet. 1t is supposed that they were
rubbed backward and forward upon
each other until the surfaces were
assimilated, making them the worlds
wonders in mechanical skill. London
Budget.
Ir Is NOT the church's fault but mis-
fortune, that now and then some
IucIuOO1 Adl1c HULL SAnCC 1uu 10 q AAAOA aA
and public sinner. The percentage of
protesting religious people who become
criminal in the list of law breakers
from year to year is intinitesimal. To
sneer at the church's influence, or to be
satirical and derisive because a sup
posed religious man has committed
some wrong. is as unjust as it is con-
temptible. No intelligent person will
deny that without a religious system
of some kind the world would be bar
barous, and life and property valueless.
Let there be reason, common sense and
fairness among the people whose lips
are quick to curl, aud whose tongne
utters derisive words whenever a
church member disgraces himself and
his kinfolk, the latter nearly always
having to bear the yoke.-Ellsworth
| Democrat.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-02-28

QUITE number of the farmers are
realizing the benefits to be derived
from the dairy business, and intend
increasing the number of their COWS the
coming season. After a thorough trial
they are convinced that supplying milk
to the creamery is a profitable business.
The more milk a creamery receives, the
greater the profit for all, and the farm
ers the coming season should milk all
the cows they have, and thus aid in
makingsour creamery the hest in the
state.-LindsbOrg Nctrs.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-02-28

SIxTY-FIvE girls are learning to sew,
and thirty-five are learning to cook at
the state agricultural college at Man
haitian. Marriage must and shall not
prove failure in Kansas.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-02-28

A NEwsPAPAR advertisement drops
the same thought into thousands of
minds at one and the same time" A
newspaper with a circulation OF 1000
will be read by at least 5000 persons.
A little less than 1000 copies of the
DEMOCRAT are printed each week
and the number increases weekly.
Can business men find a better way to
bring their business directly before the
people than by inserting an advertise
lnent in the DEMOCRAT?
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-02-28

GREAT BEND has been doing hel
full proportion of business this winter,
and though it was not crushing" III all
cases. still our merchants have just
cause to say that it has been better
than thew expected.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-02-28

SALlNA Gazette, republican: ''There
seems to be no end to the senseless dem
agoguery of the Kansas legislature -
ut begins to look rs if the legislature
would entirely ignore Gov. Humphrey 8
financial recommendations as embod-
led in his message" The Gazette is
evidently not burdened with very
exalted opinion of the executive ability
of this republican legislature.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-02-28
PENCIL AND SHEARS.

AT THE election to locate the county
seat of Kearney county, held on the
10Th. Hartland won by a plurality of
66 votes.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-02-28
NUMBER 4s.

of the silk thread by which he drew up
the packthrcad, and by the thread
secured the cord, and by the cord the
rope capable Of sustaining his weight
and by which he escaped from his
prison.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-02-28

TALK about hungry deInocrats!''
The way republican politicians are
already clawing and fighting for Office
under HarrisOn's administration, is
causing the devil much uneaslness
His satanic majesty has discovered
that his little fireworks kingdom ain:
even respectable side-show to a re.
publican sheol, and he fears that he
will have to abdlcate his throne in
favor of the 60 p.-Arkansas City
Democrat
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-02-28

general assembly of the state of Arkan-
sas, the senate concurring, that the
congress of the United States be re-
quested to require the secretary of the
interior to kindly but firmly reprimand
the state of Kansas, and admonish
said state, more in sorrow than in
anger, to ''cease to do evil and learn to
do well.'
Resolved, further, That we also
sympathize with our respected big
sister, Ohio. in her desperate struggle
with the '.suppressed'' White Caps.
who are SO persistently and continuous
~ employed in whipping defenseless
women and numbering and terrorizing
nOncOmbatant men, and recommend
that our dearly beloved sister make at
least one effort to get the beam out Of
her eye in order to see more clearly the
mole, if there be one in Arkansas, eve.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-02-28

The Samoan difficulties tend to con-
firm the impression that General Har-
rison will call Colonel Blaine into the
cabinet. That Colonel Blaine is q
fighter and has q ''swashing and
martial outsider was evidenced not
only by his valor in the last civil war but
by his exploits at the republican con-
ventions of 1875, 1880 and 1884. With
Colonel Blaine on deck we may prepare
for gore.-Pratt Reqister.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-02-28
creamery Results.

'Ureamer5 Results.
The creamery must have an effect
upon the hab:tsiof the patrons. The
rules for patrons make regularity.
tidiness, study and Improvement
necessary, or there is a failure to
secure good results; so that the patron
will be a loser. It must make him a
better dairyman, fer it is cream results
that he is after, and he soon finds that
q poor dairy cow cannot be fed into good
results. and he must get better COWS,
have better stables and barns, feed
rations that make good milk, and not
beef. He will soon begin to compare
results with those of better dairymen,
and seek to correct his errors. He will
soon find that comfort is the great
motto to be hung conspicuously, in his
barn. He will soon find out that milk
for the creamery needs to have cream
in it, and that the bulk of milk or
Fcream is no indication of it's value for
butter, and he will recognize the fact
that a cow need not be the. size Of an
elephant. Study in this matter will
make him adept, not only in selecting
COWS for the creamery but in breeding
them and feeding them as well, and
the creamery will have double effect
on the farmer, both Intellectually and
financially. Yes, the creamery would
help the ''scrub'' farmer, because he
can at small expenses start to do
better. He need not say 81 can't sue
ceed at bound, and so won't try"
The start can be made. Stables can
d made better. clover and corn fodder
can be cheaply raised for the big, cheap
ration. Ice can be had cheaply-for
the gathering-and the COW that he
has can be treated better, more like the
great mother she tries to be, and less
like the scrub steer the farmer SO often
tries, unwittingly, maybe, to make her.
Sires of good families of dairy cattle
can be had cheap, and if breed once
selected is held on to, and not changed
every year for some other breed, tile
''scrub' dairyman will soon find him
self possessed of a fine herd of high
grades, and he himself, as he fosters
their development, will have left the
ranks of ''scrub farmers. ."-MirrOr aud
Enraxer
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-02-28

WONDER if the democratic admins
tration which goes out next week don It
leave the country in just as good shape
as it was four years ago? Wonder how
many of the predictions Of dire disaster,
made by the reps. at the time of Presi-
dent Cleveland's election, have been
fulfilled? Wonder if the verdict of the
people is not that all the republican cry
about democratic misrule was lot of
cOnfOunded fOolishness?
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-02-28

JOSEPH A. JOEL, editor of the Grand
Army Gazette, leading G. A. r. paper
in speaking of the split in the G. A. r.
OH political issues says: Democratic
members have always been treated as
more or less interlopers in the order.
The G. A. r. has alway had politics in
it ard the republicans have always
controlled it. Democrats have been
ostracised and treated as traitors, even
when MANNED in battling for the
Union"
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1889-03-30

WE call the attention Of our read
ers to the showing of Orange Coun-
tvs Flnancia. Condition Published
on our Sd page this week. 1t is tie
best exhibit of the Connlv's finances
thai we have seen, and Major II. /.
Jones, Chairman Of the Board q
County Commissioners, deserves a
great deal Of credit for the interest
he has taken il getting it up. SiEce
Major Jones election as Chairman
OF the Board, be has iuaugur.tei a
system Of bookkeeping that make
It easy to keep up with the finances,
aud will be the means OF saving
many dollars tor the tax payers q
Orauvc.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1889-03-30

This i what You ought TO have,
'o tac;. Yen mus ha>c.il,.lo :c!iy Gu
joy LIE. Thousands are searching
Tor i, l.ly, and mourninst.b because
they find Il not. Thousands upon
thousands OF dollars are spen, an
nualIv by our people IN the hope
tlat they may attain this boon. And
yet II may be bad by all. We
Gaarantee lha, Electric .Bl,,ers, il
used according 10 directions and the
use persisted in, Will bring YOU
Good Digestion aud Gust the demon
Dyspepsia and install instead Eupep-
y. We recommend Electric Bit
;ers for Dyspepsia and all diseases
OF Liver, Stomach and kidneys
SOLD at SOC. and Sl.00 per bottle by
W. \. Hayes, Druggist.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1889-03-30

Postmaster General Wauamaker
says IN his department po.tmaslers
VIII be Icrmiv,el To serve ont their
term, unless removed for cause
If there is a Democla'ic postmaS,cl
in the United States holding al
office worth 500 per annum, on tie
lst OF June, 1883, it will be because
no Radical can be found to fl, hi.
place. At least tia, is VIA, We
think about II, Notwithstanding Tie
Postmaster Generals promises.