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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-06-13

Carpets are made to cover the
floors and rugs to cover the flaws.
The greatest loss of time that I
know of is to count the hourS-Rabe-
lais.
Men say OF women what they
please; women do with men what
pleases them.
We grow wise as we grow older,
out it is by forgetting what we thought
we knew.-Life.
As oysters are swallowed when
tney are opened. so is the frank man
taken In when he tells his plans to
rogues.
Nothing is earned without labor.
Hence ii any one obtains any thing
without labor, he is defrauding some
one else.
We can not be reminded too often
of the fact that brevity is the soul of
wit and tediousness the limbs and out
ward hourishes.
Solomon was esteemed a wise n.,
in his day. but then in Solomon's dav
no one had ever seen a Harvard Sopho-
more-{SomerviIle Journal.
If you have any faith. give me. for
Heavens sake. a share of it, Your
doubts you may keep to yourself, for I
have a plenty of my own.-Goethe-
1t takes something else besides
'cuteness to make folks see whatn be
their interest in the long run 1t
takes some conscience and belief in
right and wrong.-Eliot-
The good. old gentleman who is
fifteen or twenty years behind times
usually has a son who is rapid enough
to make the average about right
Merchant Traveller
1t contributes greatly towards q
mans moral and intellectual health to
be brought into habits of companion
ship with individuals unlike himself.
who care little for his pursuits. and
whose sphere and abilities he must GO
out of himself to appreciate--Haw-
thorne.
There is an ''aristocracy" of i'm
tellect as well as of birth. or of money,
and highly-cultivated people are apt to
be as disdainful of everyday thinkers
as rich people are of the poor. Yet
lives are made noble, and the world Is
made happier. very often, by simple
thinkers, to whom the refinements of
philosophy are unknown quantities -
Texas Siftings-
Happiness depends not on what
one has, but on what one is. He who
is of cheerful spirit will be cheerful
in all his privations- He who is of Q
complaining spirit will never lack oc-
casions of complaining. 1t is not ones
possessions or ones surroundings. but
ones way of looking at his possessions
and surroundings, that settles the
question of ones cheerfulness, wherev-
er he is. or whatever he has.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-06-13

ing at the foot of the main-mast. alone
remained q mute but awful witness TO
the desperate character of the conflict
through which the crew of the Golden
Gate had SO lately passed For many
seasons Captain Webster piled between
the port of Victoria and San Francisco.
but never again was he disturbed by
the Apponees,. amongst whom. to the
present day. he bears the name of the
''White Avenger. "-Austyn w. Gran
vile, in Chicago Journal
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-06-13
KIND WORDS.

O. keep not back kind words. pray.
From those Who journey day by day
With rs along LIES rugged way.
They come with help in time of need,
And every one becomes seed
That grows into a helpful deed.
You may not see, may not know.
The deeds 70 which our kind words grow;
But they are never lost, know.
Sometime and somewhere we shall find
All kind words gathered, as men bind
The wheat and leave NO sheaf behind
And from that storehouse of good deeds
Grown from all kind words scattered seeds
We each shall draw to suit our needs.
They cost as little; grudge them not,
But scatter them in every spot,
And brighten with them many a lot.
-Eben e. Rexford, in N. Y. Ledger
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-06-13
A Smart MiIkman.

1.-The milk that 1 got o. you this
morning soured."
''You didn't get it of me, n.+'am."
well, Bridget did. It's all the
same"
mo, it isn't ma'am. She's so ugly
that she'd make any milk sour. Now,
as you are very handsome. why. when
you get the milk. ma'am-"
Il didn't think of that I'll get the
milk myself after this. Epoch.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-06-13

The ways of spreading disease are
innumerable- A member of the Bos-
ton Poor Board, on visiting an italian
family, found some half a dozen
punches of bananas suspended from
the ceiling of room in which a child
had short time before died of diph-
liberia.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-06-13

The newest feature of personal
adornment Is made up of hairs from
the tail Of an African elephant made
into watch-guards and bracelets The
elephant is now becoming 50 scarce that
his relics are said to be very fashions
hlA
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-06-13
Q TIMOTHY FOR HORSES.

A Stock-Raiser's Experience With Grass
That Was Cut Early.
My observation and experience have
proven that nearly every one, espe-
cially farmers, feed twice as much hay
as is necessary or best for horses, the
common practice of feeding it being to
gather up fork or arm full and fill
the manger of each horse. 1t has
been thoroughly proven that fifteen
pounds of hay is liberal days allow
ance for horse. I have in my barn
a small scale and bind up my hay
Gas grain is bound) in bundles weigh
ing seven and eight pounds each By
weighing one occasionally you soon
become so practiced that you can
guess very accurately as to pounds;
and any one who has never taken the
trouble to do this will be surprised
requires. You not only save in the
expense, but horses are much less liza
BILE to sickness and disease when fed a
proper allowance of hay regularly
(the same as you feed grain). They
relish it and do better when fed in this
way.
Iprefer timothy cut early. Do not
think a little clover any damage in
timothy hay when cut early and prop
erly cured. Horses do better on
chopped hay; and have added one
third oats straw (when nice and
bright and chopped together. when
hay is high, and found it gave splen-
did results when feeding horses to fat
ten for market The best hay / ever
fed, l cut 80 early and put in stack SO
green that all who saw it predicted it
would mold in the stack. sprinkled
with salt occasionally as / stacked it
and it came out green and sweet.
". Booker. in Orange Judd Farmer.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-06-13

"A good average is q poor attain
ment He who is not above the aver.
age is below his own fair level; for the
average in this worlds measurements
Is by no means q prAiseworthy ltne.-
s S. Times.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-06-13

"A young lady recently presented
her lover with an deliberately con-
structed pen-wiper, and was astonished
the following Sunday to see him come
to church wearing it - . cravak-
Marion Ledger.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-06-13

-Foreclosiug Really. Mr.. Cairsh.
your proposition is so sudden-you
must give me time '.Ah. but it is
very unwise to extend time where the
assets are mortgageable- am afraid
/ must attach" Attachment granted
-Upholsterer.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-06-13

in 1860 the ladies Of the country
wore q. 464. 600 worth Of wire in thair
Aoop-skirts-
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-06-13

of the freshening wind, the schooner
tore through the water.
.'She's got steerage-way on her,
Ben" he shouted. Lower away the
peak bit. and let the topsail down on
the cap. Well give those fellows
something they won't forget"
Rushing aft, he threw the wheel
hard over aud brought the schooner's
head to the wind. Right in her track,
confused and helpless, were huddled
the frightened occupants of one
canoe, half-buried in the foam
of the waves, now dashed in
to resistless fury. Erect at
the wheel the tall form of Captain
Webster. as he peered through the
drift, seemed like some avenging
Nemesis. A dreadful yell was heard
even above the tempest; terror-stricken
forms. unable to withstand the shock,
anticipated death by leaping into the
foaming water. The great bow rose
high in the air. There was loud
crash, a horrible grating sensation
along the keel of the schooner. as.
bending gunwale under before the full
force of the squall, she swept triun phi
antly forward, a solitary figure hang
ing from her martingale. only to drop
a moment later before the weapon of
the Californian. while in her wake a
few struggling forms alone denoted
the spot where the would-be capturers
of the Golden Gate had met their awful
death.
a.
utes later they were already far from
land.
The body of their dead comrade, ly-
, 1889-10-12

noticed, and the great criminal when he es-
capes, is unhurdenel. H. probably looks
his real character rs little as possible, and
AS no one knows what was happened, passes
out of Whitechapel like any other warfarpr,
as one of the endless multitude Of London.
1t would DE we'll if Mr.. MonrO would test
whether an agent OF his own could walk
unchallenged from one or TWO of the scenes
of murder to the river. If be could, the
distribution of the watching patrol might
possibly be improved.
The Congo administration state positive
ly that Mr.. FL. NJ. Stanley, after a long
stay with Emin Pasha on the Eastern
shore of the Victoria Nyanza, left his COM
rade on the Lake, and began forcing his
way towards MOmbaSSa, which he is ex-
pected to reach at about the eud of OctO-
Der next. The march will be a terrible
one, but, if it is accomplished, we shall at
least thoroughly know the route from the
Lake to the coast, and Mr.. Mackenzie, at
MombasSa, will be able to join hands with
Emin PaSha, and perhaps, in conjunction
with him, to set up some kind of dominion
in the interior which will protect the con-
structlOn OF our first necessity, a practical
ble and safe road from the coast to the
Lake. Once established there, steam and
rifle will soon do their educative work, and
reduce the country from MOmbassa to the
Nile to %endurable order. Mr.. Stanley is the
greatest of African explorers, but even he
has not solved IL tie least the problem of
establishing communications He goes
into space, and comes back ont of the blue.
, 1889-10-12

terIeSS men of The country with strong
backs, many of them good labuurprs
out Of work, many Of them with no
capacity but physical strength, many
OF them unhung rufians, whose death
would be a blessing to the body
polite, a swpltering undiscipIined
haIt,frd crowd, large enough to re-
cruIt an army, from among whom
the dock foremen, from hour to hour,
clutch the supply OF force they want.
There never was such a system in a
civilized country, or such u waste of
human power. Thousands of men
waste six hours a day in waiting to be
employed for the other six MT one
man IL three is Sufficiently paid, tax
ing one week with another, and not
one man in sixty ENJOYS the security
without which life becomes 10 all but
the utterly reckless Il mere burden.
1t IS a sort of lottery of labour which
has been created, and so bad is the
method that an increase in the prizes
will, probably, only increase the stuff
erlng OF the ticket holders for if the
docks paid a shilling an hour, the
rush from all England for the chance
would only be multiplied fve-fold.
Not one Of the conditions which
sweeIen, or elevate, or mitigate hard
ton, is, or can b., secured while the
severest of al compulSion, that of
a direct chance of hunger, is perpet-
uaIIy present. The only wonder is
mat such men, collected in such
crowds to play in such n lottery, and
to suffer, as thousands OF them do,
such a torment of perpetual waiting,
are as quiet as they usually are, or rs
amenable when they strike to any
sort Of control short of military force.
The whole system ought to be swept
away, and we rejoice t" believe that,
as a consequence of the strike, there
Is at least Il chance that this reform
Will be carried through. The men
who under any natural system would
provide for the loading and unload
ing of ships are the shipowners, who
control every other incident of mari
time conveyance; and Sir Donald
Cnrrie, the most experienced and
successful of the class, says they are
ready to do il. They will pay the
dock owners tor the accommodation
they provide, but they will do the
work with their w men, in their
W way, taking their " time.
Being thus independent, they can,
they say, pay better wages, and all
their habits and traditions will incline
them towards the maintenance of re-.
guIar forces, and the use Of casual Ia
bour only when they are too hard dri-
ven, a matterover which,moreover, they
can exercise much more control in the
way Of regulating arrivals than the
dock owners can. The latter say
they are willing to accede to this
arrangement, and though we suspect
when it comes to the point that the
dispute on the question Of payments
will be a very bitter one, still, it is
probable that an arrangement will, be
made. We only wish it might
" - II -L:-1-L =
, 1889-10-12
Some Lessons OF the Strike.
From the SPECTATOR

It takes a thousand pounds a dqy
to maintain twenty thousand idle men
in full health and strength, to pay
their rent, and 10 provide even for a
small proportionate average of wives
ana children. Some forty thousand
men atlel>t wer' throWn gu 0fwOrk
by the strike al the docks, and though
the public were liberal, and the
Trades Union sympathetic, neither
charity nor comrade~hip a keep up
IL con ribution of twD thousand pounds
every twenty four hours. 1t was in
evitable, therefore, that if III" employ
ers held out, the men must yield;
and we may, we think, consider that
they have shown the first signs of
yielding, ana lhat in a few more
hours or days the suspension of la,
bpur which has so graveIy threatened
the prosperity of London will, for a
time, be at an end. The strike, how,
ever, though il has partially failed, has
not been altogether useless. The men
have obtained some great advan-
tages, having got rid of the sub
contracts which pressed 50 heavi-
ly on their wages, having modi-
fed to some extent, the Casual,
system, so hat il employed at all,
they get a minimum wage of Is. a
day, and having acquired some ex-
perience greatly required both as to
their strength for resistance and their
weakness. They are strong, for they
can stop trade +; but they are weak,
because without public help they can
stop it only for a few hours. The
public, moreover, has learned some
lessons, of which these two, one local
and One general, seem TO us the most
important.
1t is time the system of providing
labour for the docks of London were
finally done away, even if the State
has to interfere 10 do it. Right in
the centre ofIthe complicated organ
isation@ of London commerce, with
their fingers, as it we're, on the valves
of the heart of trade, The dock COM
panies maintain a system Of collect
ing labodr as dangerous to the State
and the community as it is oppressive
and merciless TO the labnurers. They
have spent too much TO expect a
reasonable return, and in order to do
their work with extreme rapidity, ye'
, 1889-10-12

London, Sir John Lubboeksand MT. Sydney
Buxton. submitted to the leaders a proposal
that the Dock Directors should grant the
Cd an hour. instead of sd .Athe only point re-
manning in dispute, from Janu airy ISL next
Messrs. Burns and TiletC accepted tneser
terms for their own part, and promiSeot TO
recommend their acceptance blythe men.
The Dock Directors, on their slde, tnluKlhS
that this promise was equivalent TO an
agreement, yielded the terms proposeu'
and it was believed that the strike Was
over. The men, however, as might nave been
expected-dockers knowing no more aOoul
four months hence than about the next
century-unanimously rejected the arrange
ment. which we are bound to add, their
leaders, finding it unpopular, did not heart-
ily defend, The compromise, therefore
fell through, amidst the usual charges OIL
want of good faith; but on Thursday tue
-mediators tried again, suggesting NoVem,
Der LIST as the date for the new tariff, anu
securing the mems adherence first. II was
believed on Friday afternoon hal the DOCK
Directors would yield, and that on Monday
work would recommends. We have dwett,
elsewhere on some hopeful features Oh 1.-the
strike. but would repeat here that / no
scheme can be satisfactory to the com.
munitv which does not get rid OF casnal
labOur.
, 1889-10-12

The paralysis of trade in london mas notS
involved any paralysis of trade IN the
Kingdom, the total export for Angus
showing an increase of $50 per cent. over
the same month last year, while the I'M
ports are greater by sc per cent; me
retNrn for September will probably De less
favourable, but it is nearly certain that the
effect of the strikes will fall on LONDON,
and not on England. Ships are diverted
to other ports, especially Liverpool anu
Southampton, in which Labour is not suS-
pentled. This relieves both Dock Directors
and men Of the charge of want OF pattio-
rism, as the depletion of london to the
benefit of other English cities is a most pa
triotic object. The workers, though they
NAV suffer iutermediately, must at last FOL
low their work, and the growth OF LONDON
which is becoming a menace to the natlon'
will thus be checked. If it stopped alto
gether, London would be much happier
il is simply impossible to organize any I'M
provement, and more especially any I'M
Drovement in the lodging OF the people,
while the ~caIjtal adds to itself a new cry
of $4,000 Inhabitants in every Twelve
months.
, 1889-10-12

1t was thought on Tuesday that the
Wbitechapel murderer had been at his
work again. A constable, passing through
Pinchin Street in that district, Iouhu III
the l~ailwav.a arch the trunk OF a wOmah'
naked. except for a torn piece OF men,
and with the head and legs cut OIL ono
had been dead, according to the surgeons,
Al least three days. The figure was thaI
of q young woman, own-nalre" wol
nourished. and in health, but without any
marks which might help to ldenClnc"Ulon.
The trunk had been mutllated IN a way
which suggested previous murders anu
the butchery, as i'll those cases, nau ooen
performed by a left-handed man.
now however. doubted whether the muir
der is duo to the Whitechapel mlscreanU'
whose work is less scientifically perfect,
who always left his victim Immediately on
the completion of bis crime, and VINO na0
no motive whatever for preventing ner
Identification by so risky q process as car
rving off the head. The police 1ncrneIo
the theory that the murderer is the same
man-prObably a surgeon engaged IN lie,
gal operations-who cut up a woman !Ounu
at Rainham, and that he conveyed the
body to Whitechapel in order 20 dlVerC
susnicion from himself to the we'll known
murderer. One main objection to tnaI
theory is the difficulty of conveying Q 9u'
man body through q district speclsAly
policed at that early hour without attract
ing notice, and then disappearing sudden.
ly into space. Another difficulty II, tnaC
to dispose of a body in Whitechapsl rsslo
attract attention, not TO divert ~ = spAp
a whole population into derectlYes.~
This incident shows clearly that the ieS''
cape of the Whitechapel murderer IL not
so wonderful as it is sometimes descrlDeu 70
be. Whether the body was that OF
murdered woman or taken from q dlssect-
.ing.room, it was carried to Pinchin Stfeet
aud laid there naked without any one sqnes-
tioning or perceiving the man who pore
the CHASTITY, and very heavy, burden. y
is possible, therefore, for.a ,burdened muir
derer to. pass through ,Whitechapel IN
"A5iJas3 &Sz&spJ y
Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1889-01-21
Court Life at The Hague.

The court and the capital at The
Hague, which is city of about 140, 900
inhabitants, are not much frequented by
foreign visitors, owing to their lacking
in general gayety and those lavish en-
tertainments which are considered to be
indispensable features, and which exea
else such fascinating attraction in h
continental capital. Dutch court life
and society are pronounced by tho elite
of the fashionable world to be absolutely
dull in their distinguishing home like
plainness and narrowness. Necessarily
a court presided over by an aged king
and queen, if their tastes reign, must be
forbidden ground for extravagant festiv-
tiles, and as the staid character of the
people, with the quietude which must
accompany the capital of such people,
are really not calculated to offer any
very lively field for frolicking, SO it Is
not astonishing, on the whole, If out.
siders are wont to give them the go by.
Baltimore Sun.
Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1889-01-21
Couldn't neat the Widow,

The Albany journal states that dirty,
foul mouthed tramp called at the house
Of a Bethlehem widow, living alone,
about o'clock in the morning, and
offered to saw wood in return for. a
breakfast. The woman eyed him sus-
piciously. "Are We hungry" she asked.
"Yessum, hungrier nor bear" "Well,
We can have yer feed first, guess" He
was given bountiful meal. At its con-
clusion the tramp rose and took up his
ugly looking bludgeon. I'm keep my
eyes wide open tight" he said, grinning,
and if see a man as wants ter saw yer
wood fer his breakfast IL! give him yer
address," Then he opened the door and
slouched out. He had gone but few
steps when he heard the widows sharp
voice calling a halt. He turned with an
oath and saw gun pointed squarely ut
him. The widow ordered him 10 cosn.
right back. He came back and sawed
not one, but two, cords of wood, killed
and plucked two chickens, whitewashed
the hen house and cleaned out the COW
stable. He will not repeat the visit in q
hurry
Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1889-01-21

Sir Arthur Sullivan's music, composed
specially for the revival of Macbeth,
in London, consists Of an overture, pre-
ludes to the second. third. fifth and
sixth acts, incidental music with chorus
in the fourth act. and incidental music
in the first, third and sixth acts. The
overture. so far as it is possible to judge
from single hearing, seems to be
strictly orthodox, and opens with
three loud chords in the key Of 9 minor;
and then. without further preamble, APP
pears the principal subject-a suave but
somber theme. played by string instru.
ments alone. In the second part the
overture works up to tremendous eli
max. The musical critics consider It
one of the finest examples of its class
that Sir Arthur Sullivan has ever pro-
duced. The two choruses are very
sweet 1t is in the fourth act, however,
that Sullivan has displayed the greatest
art and his richest wealth Of imagina-
tive power. Music of an either weird or
agitated character is heard well nigh
throughout the scene in the cavern be-
tween Macbeth and the witches. 1t
punctuates the utterances Of the hays as
they mix their hell broth in the caldron.
Musical Courier.
Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1889-01-21
SUBURBAN.
As a substitute for granite blot

AS substitute for granite blocks,
steel paving is attracting considerable
attention, its durability being said to
be quite point in its favor, and its
cost being somewhat less. 1t consists
of steel strips about two and one half
inches wide and one inch thick, rolled
with channel on the side exposed to
traffic, and with notches about six
inches apart; these strips weigh eleven
pounds to the yard, are laid across the
street distance of about five inches
between centers, and their length is
only sufficient to extend to the middle
OF the street, so that the proper slope
from the center to the cutters can be
secured. They are bolied together, so
as to insure them against lateral slip
ping, and are fastened to wooden stills.
A firmly constructed bed of gravel
composes the support of this pavement,
while between the steel strips mix.
ture OF pitch and cement is poured
filling the interstics to level with the
tops OF the strips and rendering the
surface comparatively smooth.