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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-12-04

THE DEMOCRAT.
QYEIcIAL COUNTY PAPER.
Ia 90 PER- 9E1a. u ADVANCE. -ss~
WILL e. STOKE, EDITOR
AND PROPRIETOR.
GREAT BLIND - - KANSAS
local COMMENT.
Place your Soliday advertisements
District court convenes again next
Monday.
Safety, speeds comfort and low rates
by the Santa Fee
Days of virtue end usefulness make
Knights of Honoes
a doctor, to be proficient, should
Understand all tongues.
Il. A. Mcclure has removed his
music store to Forest avenue.
j. B. Owings wants 70 show you
farm Implements If sif kinds.
An increase Of pension is reported
fdr Andrew Dunns of Ellinwood.
Ladies with very small feet are APP,
to be found standing upon triAes.
"o
G.. G.. Pursell. OF the south side, is
Just over a severe sick spell of several
weeks duration.
Four weeks from sodsy will be
Christmas. Gracious how che pocket
books will sufferb
Chilly & Hays nov have q hand-
somely arranged meat shop, since it
has been enlarged.
The Earned Dist. Conference Of che
M. e. church was 5efd ss lyons on
December LIST to 3de
VIM. II. Dodge attorney, is still
officing with Mayor o. b Wilson,
over the St. Louis Store.
No one will sell you cheaper hard
ware, farm implements, cutlery, ETC.,
than j. B. Owingss east of the post
Office.
Since the joints have opened up in
regular old styles aumber of young
men have formed an anu-treating
society.
G. j. Mackenroth now has his meat
shop and provision store open for bust
ness. on Main street, opposite Il. A.
r. halle
W. =. Clark, OF the Pawnee Rock
schools attended the Southwest Kan
sas teachers ASSOCIATIONS meeting at
Kinsley, last week.
The club dance at the Morrison last
Thursday night is said, by those who
attended, to haye been the most
pleasant dance OF che season.
E. Simmons hasoadded to his stock |
of furnature complete stock of
undertakes goods and solictis a |
share of the public patronage.
The sheep is a dissipated animal
He gambols his youth away-passes
his entire life upon the turf, as it were;
the best of them are but blacklegs,
Gnd they generally get feeced at
last.
: Hon. G. F. Difenbacher of this city
is grandfather to another fise young
democrat. Q Son being born to Mr.. and
Mrs E. T.. Kent on Saturday morning
last.
Prof. E. B. Smith, of the G. n. c.,
delivered an address before the South.
west Kansas Teachers Association
which was b session at Klnsley, last
Friday.
Joseph Keenan,, son of Tom keenan,
Of this county, who has been visiting
here for about a month, accompanied
by his wife, returned to Kansas City
Saturday.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-12-04

G. 4. r.
Pap Thomas Post No. 81, meets every first ant
third Saturday evenings, at G. A. r. Hail.
Ira D. -Brougher, P. c
E. Tyler, Agt-
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-12-04
An Even Climate.

Great Bend, Fair Block.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-12-04
LOCAL. COMMENT.

Place your Soiiday advertisements
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-12-04

District court convsnes again next
Monday.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-11-10
Onions and Strong Coffee.

One of the healthiest vegetables, if not
the healthiest one grown, is the onion, yet,
strange to say, but few people use 1t as lib
orally as they should. Boiled onions used
frequently in a family of children will
ward off many of the diseases to which the
little ones are subject. The principle OBJ
lection to the promiscuous use of this vege-
table is that the odor e1haled after eating
is so offensive. A cup of strong coffee
taken Immediately after eating is claimed
to be excellent in counteracting this effect.
Although for day or so after eating
onions the breath may have disagreeabls
order, yet after this time it will be much
sweeter than before.
For Group, onion poultices are used with
success, providing the child is kept out of
drafts, and a sudden chill avoided. The
poultices are made by warming the onions
in goose oil until soft, then putting them
on the child's feet and chest as hot as they
can be borne. Unless in very obstinate
cases, when taken in,time, the Group read
| ily Yields to the onions. This, although
an old-ashioned remedy, is a good one, as
anv mother who has brought up family
OF children can attest.
Onions are excellent blood purifiers, and
| for graduating boils or any of the blood
humors are very efficacious. They are
good for the complexion, and friend who
has a wonderfully clear, fine complexion
attributes it to the liberal use of onions as
food.
People suffering from nervous troubles
are much benefited by using these vege-
tables frequently, either cooked or raw.
When troubled with hard cough, if raw
onion is eaten, the phlegm will loosen al
most Immediately, and can be removed
with very little effort. A raw onion is
made much more palatsble, if, when eat
ing, little salt or pepper is used as a
seasoning. Those troubled with wakeful-
ness may insure good nights rest, often,
| if Just before retiring they eat raw
onion.
| There are few aches to which children
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-11-10

of any yet made. The outcome will be
disastrous for both parties. The conflicts
of this order in England that the Unions
have not been able to control, or the en-
ployers to settle in their incipiency, have
proved of great injury to trade and labor.
Yet it would seem that they must come,
and that through such industrial wars the
readjustment of the relations of laborers
and employers only can be worked out aud
social issues closed. Years ago Professor
Sumner, the political economist, took this
view and declared that society has nothing
to fear from the final outcome of these
struggles, since they are incidents of
liberty. Nevertheless, the immediate re-
suits of such monster revolts are very
damaging to both contestants, and scarcely
less so to the innocent non-contestants. In
no country have Trades Unions attained
such growth, or developed such capacity
as in England, but they do not by any
means include all workers, and it is those
who are without the registered Friendly
Societies and who are attached to the
associations having no benefit funds, as
well as those attached to no organizations
whatever, that are about to precipitate a
great struggle. Some observers believe
that even yet the old Unions will be able
to prevent the revolt, and that conserva-
tive elements will succeed in adjusting the
difficulties that have arisen. Ii so the
Unions of England will achieve more
emphatic victory than any possible temp
orary triumph by laborers over manu-
facturers.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-11-10
He Was Not a CANARY Bird.

They were bride and groom, and she
was guileless thing who had been
brought up in the mountains of Pennsyl-
vania. They had come to Atlantic City
on their tour, and, like everybody else,
took the trip down to the inlet, from
which all the sailing and fishing boats go
out. A party had just come in with a
pailful of crabs, and the old grandfather
of crabs was on top of the lot. He was
chagrined, mad, red-hot, and he was ach-
ing to prove to the world that crab could
die fighting. This guileless bride had
never seen an ocean crab before, and she
uttered little screams of wonder and de
light. Nay, more, she bent over and
lifted old grandfather up in her plump,
white hand for closer examination His
chance had come. He took hold. In one
minute her shrieks had assembled 500 peo-
pie, and ten seconds later she tainted dead
away and upset her husband over bait
box. A fisherman out with his knife and
stabbed the crab in the back and then cut
him loose, and a carriage was called and
the bride with the bleeding finger was
borne sobbing away, never, no, never, to
pick up an old crab again to see whether
he was butterfly or canary bird.-Dc-
trOu Free Press.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-11-10
THE STANLEY MATTER.

Stanley is now in this country, and in
interviews maintains the position he as
sumed regarding the death of Major
Barttelot that he took prior to leaving
England. The dispatches from London
yesterday stated that the family of the
Major have legal advice that an action
will lie to compel Stanley to specify and
prove his charges. It is 10 be hoped that
the action will be brought. We have
said that we do not believe the explorer
would make charges he would be unable
to substantiate, and we hold to that opia-
ion still, notwithstanding the replies of
Lieutenant Troup and the silence of
Bonny. The whole business is becoming
disgraceful, and the sooner it is settled
before competent tribunal the better. As
we look upon it, Stanley, who is man Of
exceeding caution, would not have re-
sponded as he DID to the monograph of
PI.sSrttelot's brother unless he had the proofs
of the Majors incompetency and cruelty,
and the evidence that he was the cause of
his own death. If the action for libel is
brought, it will be one Of the most novel
proceedings ever had before Court.
There are bat four living witnesses, but
there are many documentary records and
hearesay testimony which should be re-
ceiyed in evidence, but which under the
strict rules of evidence are inadmissible
in a Court OF law. Yet to exclude them
would be manifest injustice to Stanley, and
would close the door to a full inquiry into
the charges made. In England the tide
appears to be setting very strongly against
Stanley. and statements by Troup and
Jameson are published that give the ex'
plorer the lie in some grave particulars,
concerning the charges of murder, canni.
balism and cruelty towards natives, laid at
garttelot's door. Nevertheless Stanley is
entitled to suspension of judgment until
he can be heard fully in Court In the
meantime we refuse to belieye that he Ii,
beled the dead, or has come back from hi:
terrible African journey loaded with lie.
concerning the rear guard of his expedi'
tion. The men accusing him of falsehood
were mainly of that guard, and their in
terest naturally lies in defending the mem.
orv of Major Barttelot.
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CURRENT NEWSPAPER WIT.

The sailor is a generous soul. He is
willing that anybody should take his
watch.
"Oh, take me up, mamma, it'sse muddy
Mamma-"Walk across, that's good girl
Mamma has all she can do to carry poor
Fido."
Bloomer-"W (Which do you prefer, beer or
champagne ?" Blossom-"It all depends
Bloomer-"On what?" Blossom-"Who
pays for it."
Slmeral-'I don't see how watch can
keep accurate time" Snooper =" Why
not?' Simeral-"Well, time flies, but a
watch only runs"
"Why do they call it the 'Woolly
West p" Because, | suppose, 50 many
young Eastern lambs have been feeced
there by the real estate agents"
"Mr. Trotter," said the bank messenger
"here is a sight draft on you for S50.'
Trotter-"It can't be sight draft" "Why
not?" Because 1 don't see how l can
pay it."-Chicags Inter Ocean.
'By Jove," said the artist, "the wolf i:
at the door, my last paintings gone fol
rent, and Pm hanged if 1 can think Of
anything to paint" Paint the wolf,
suggested the janitor of the studie.-Nei
York Sun.
'Its funny. isn't it," he said to his com
panion, as they were riding up town on tht
elevated railroad. "What's funny p
THAT there are $3.50 languages in the
world, and not one of them is good enough
for that brakeman" Puck.
Benevolent but near-sighted employer
'Patrick, what's that under your coatT
Pat (who is working the growler)-"Fn
sorry to say it is can, sir" Employer
'Great Heavens, Patrick Stop work anG
go straight to the hospital !'-Munsey
Weekly.
"What queer name you have, Mis-:
Booglespeeglew he said, after he had asked
her once or twice to pronounce it for him
"Well," she responded, with just the
sweetest smile, ''you know what you can
do with that name, Mr.. Smith. - Wash.
ington Star.
Mr.. FresAman-"Excuse me, Professor
but are you good at figures ?" Professor
Matthew Matics-"Aheml Why do yor
ask, Mr.. Freshman Mr.. Freshman
moving away)-"Only to find out whether
your preferred Mrs. Langtry's or Mne
Modjeska's."
Little Brother-"Can't you walk straight
Mr.. Mangle?" Mr.. Mangle-"Of course ]
can. Why do you ask 2' Little Brother
ooh, nothin'; only heard sister say she'd
make you walk straight when she married
you. And ma said she'd help her."-North.
1gest Magazine.
Young lady-"Give me one yard Of
why, haven't l seen you before?" Ribbon
clerk-"Oh, Maud, have you forgotten me!
l saved your life at the beach last month";
Young lady (warmly)-"Why, of course
you did. You may give me twO yards OF
this ribbon, please"
"Now, Mr.. Murphy, while on the subject
of physical science, what are the proper
ties of heat?' Murphy, Tipperary can
didate for the license-"Expanshun, SURF. :"
Correct. Give me an illustration in
summer, sur, the sun being hotter, causes
the days to lengthen."
Didn't -Mother-"Well, did you
get that situation as Office boy ?" Little
Nope" "HAat was the matter p
"Don't know. The gent is lawyer, and
he asked me if | was good whistler, and
| told him was the best whistler on our
street, and he said wouldn't do. Guess he
must want regular professional. Sire
u Smiths Good Negs
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-11-10
THE cITIzEN,s FIRST DUTY.

The fact that the President of the United
States the other day left his Executive
residence and his business and travelled
several hundred miles to his polling place,
for no other purpose than to vote, ought to
convey to the indifferent" lesson. Not
that his vote would change the result did
the President go to such palms. but to
testify to the Importance he attaches to
the duty and the privilege Of every Amer
lean sovereign to exercise his right to
vote. The vote Of the President is no
more than that of any other eleetor, but his
example, because of the distinction he has
been given through the act of the people
is Of greater value than that of the voter
who does not fill a place of high i'm
portance.
1t testified to the equality of the electors
of the country, it is true, but of that no
voter is ignorant. Thousands do, how
ever, fail to express themselves at the
ballot-box, and not through inability, but
because of sheer neglect and preoccupa-
tion. Against such neglect and indiffer-
ence the vote of the President was pre-
test. When Mr.. Cleveland was President
he took the same view of the matter and
travelled to his home from the National
Capital for no other purpose than to assert
his right as private citizen and SOW
ereign. In view Of such examples, the
men who last Tuesday, no matter what
their political beliefs, failed or refused to
go to the polls and add another unit to the
total, ought to feel shame for their re-
fusal to take part in the making of the
laws and the appointing Of the officers to
execute them.
We may never expect to have a law to
compel men to vote. The act must be
voluntary to be of any value to the State
or the nation but we may entertain hope
of the dawn of a period in which such
failure as that complained of will be es-
teemed by all good citizens as an ofIense to
the community, stigma upon the charac-
ter of ones citizenship, a reproach which
no man will be willing to incur. The
voter who is too good, too clean to mingle
with his fellows before the ballot-box in
the supreme act of sovereignty, is too good
for American citizenship. The electOr
who is too busy to discharge the highest
office committed to an American citizen
the casting of ballots too busy to re-
ceive the protection and the benefits Of a
free government, and ought to remove to
land where u ruling class will attend to
all the affairs of state for him, and with
out consulting his wishes.
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COAST DISPATCHES.
lrnc1AI DrsfArcHrs 70 THE ssoosD-usIos.I
BOLD CONSPIRACY.
An Attempt to Burn Property in Order
to Secure the Insurance.

An Attempt to Burn Property in Order
to Secure the Insurance.
SAN JOSE, November CHA bold con-
spiracy to burn a building for insurance
was unearthed by officers here yesterday,
and j. H. Aiken, Nat Goodwin and Charles
C. Branson are now under arrest.
Aiken, saloon keeper with stock
worth $500 insured for 81 800. made an
agreement with Brsnson. barkeeper. to
burn the saloon for 500. Branson in
formed the insurance agents, Roberts,
Austin & Darby, and an officer was given
the knowledge.
On the advice of the District Attorney he
concluded to let the fire be set, and have
man present TO smother it. The man did
not show up and the building burned about
down. 1t was the property of James Phe-
Ian. Loss, $500; no insurance. The agree
ment between Aiken and Branson was
overheard by two concealed witnesses.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-11-10
REMARKABLE ROMANCE.
A Man and Wife Discover That They a.

A Man and Wife Discover That They are
Brother and Sister.
KANSAS CITY, November 9th.-A most
remarkable romance came to light to day.
Twenty-Five years ago two babes, brother
and sister, were abandoned in Castle Garden
by their parents. They were adopted by
different people, and the girl lived with her
foster mother, Mrs Evans, in Philadelphia.
The boy was adopted by man named
Barr, and grew up, learned g trade and
went to Philadelphia. There he met Miss
Evans, fell in love with her, and in due
course of time they married and came to
Kansas City to live. A couple of years
ago Mrs. Evans died, and soon after q
relative in Canada died intestate, leaving q
large fortune. The detectives, in searching
for Mrs. Evans adopted child, discovered
the story and told it to Mr.. and Mrs. Barr.
No issue has resulted from the marriage.
Legal proceedings will at once be taken to
annul it, and the brother and sister will
then take possession OF the fortune.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-11-10
WEST INDIES HALF-BREEDs.
Men and Women with Good Figures and
Graceful Walk.

Graceful walk.
The haIf-breeds of the West Indies are
called the finest mixed race of the An
titles. Tall, supple, straight as palms, these
tcolored women and men impress one by
their dignity of carriage and easy motion.
They walk without swinging the Shout
| ders the perfectly set torso seems to re-
main rigid, yet the step is a full stride, and
the whole weight is poised springily on the
very tip of the bare foot. All, or nearly
all, are without shoes, and the passing OF
hundreds of naked feet makes great
whispering sound over the pavements.
But what produces the most novel
impression on the stranger is the singular
ity and brilliancy of the women's cos
tunes. They were developed at least a
hundred years ago by curious sumptuary
law regulating the dress of slaves and col
ored people of free condition, law which
allowed considerable liberty as to material
and tint, prescribing only form. The
couture especially is striking. 1t is only
an immense Madras handkerchief, which
is folded about the head with admirable
art, like turban, one bright end, pushed
through at the top in front, being left
| sticking up like a plume. Then this tur-
ban, always full Of bright canary color, is
fastened with great golden or silver
brooches one in front and one at either
side.
The remainder of the dress is an en-
broidered, low-cut chemise with sleeves;
skirt or jupe, quite short in front and
very long behind, but caught up and fast
ened in front below the breast so as to
bring the hem everywhere to level with
the end Of the long chemise; and finally a
foulard, or silken kerchief thrown over
the shoulders. The jupes and foulards,
however, are bright crimson, bright yell
low, bright blue, bright green, lilac, vio-
let, rose, sometimes mingled together in
plaidings, or chickering's, or stripings /;
black with orange, sky-blue with purple.
To this display add the effect of costly and
curious jewelry, immense earrings, each
pendant being formed Of five gold cylin-
ders joined together the cylinders some
times two inches long and one inch at
least in circumference.
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are subject as hard to bear and as painful
as earache. One of the best remedies we
know is to take out the heart of an onion
"a red onion is the best if it can be had, al
though lacking this kind any other can be
used) and roast it. When soft, SO it can be
handled without mushing, put it into the
affected ear as hot as can be borne. Unless
the cause is deeper than ordinarily, the
pain will cease in very short time and
will not return.
A cough syrup in which onions form an
important part is made by taking one cup
of vinegar, one cup of molasses and one
half cup of cut-up onions. Put on the
stove and simmer about half an hour, or
until the onions are soft. Then remove
and strain. Take teaspoonful of this fire.
quently, when troubled with cough, and
unless very deep-seated, the cough will not
last long-Fdrm and Fireside.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-11-10
THIRTY YEARS PRACTICE
ALetter from an Eminent Physician

Mr.. EDITOR: At tho risk of indorsing
proprietary preparation, have few words
in favor OF new laxative principle But
first, how I came ts discover it. a patient
asked about taking joys Vegetable saFsa-
parilla. As sarsaparillas usually contain
mercury or iodldes objected, and asked for
the formula, which finding purely vegetable,
AID 20 mild as 10 be 10 my mind almost
inert, consented. Imagine my astonish-
ment whsn perfect laxative action was re-
ported. Il has two great points. First, being
purely vegetable, II is tanlike mercury not
cumulative in the system, being easily car
Rcd ofby the digestive processes: and second,
It is effective with less quantity of the
cathartic principle than has hitherto been
attainable. It IN this respect ranks as q
discovery, and approaches the IDEAL viz:
the least medicine consistent with the great
est good. II harmonizes natural laxative
action and perfect safety, and should inter
est both the public aud the profession.
AcITT PHYSICIAN OF THIRTY YEARS FRAcrIcI.
San Francisco EzamiHer, March 10, 1899.
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CrinoIine Once More,

A lady just home from an eighteen
months stay in Paris says that not only is
the pouf, or, as we Americans know it, the
hustle, surely coming back, bat "hoops,"
genuine, old-fashioned hoops, though on a
small scale, are among the certainties Of
the near future. Some Partisan danes
have already appeared in them, but not
many, and as this fashion will hardly be
met half way, New York will probably
not know much of them for another six
months. Their advent is heralded, how
ever, by the gradual expansion of dress
skirts and their greatly increased length,
two conditions which will tend to give the
coming crinoline more cordial welcome,
long, full skirts Topping about ones heels,
being, as every woman knows, an abomina-
ton and nuisance.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-11-10

The RECORD UNION, SUNDAY UNION and
WEEKLY UNION are the only papers on the
Coast, outside Of San Francisco, that receise
She full Associated Press dispatches from all
part, Of the ,rorld. Outside Of San Francisco,
they hare no competitors either in influence or
home and general circulation throughput the
State.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-11-10

THE suggestion Of General Howard, that
the maximum of the standing army should
be raised to 10000 men, is wise. 1t is not
practically an increase Of the army pro-
portioned to the extension Of the territory
Of States and Territories. The standard of
25,oo0 men was established when we had
but about one-third the population we now
have, and less than one-fourth the territory
in which military posts must be nam
tanned. Under existing conditions the
army is so subdivided that there is but one
regiment that has been able, since the close
of the civil war, to maintain a full regi-
mental organization at any given point.