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certainty made dumb The boat was hauled
up to the dock and the form Of Uncle Aaron
was slowly lifted out. ~ a.
.'Oh Ii / not dead ~ cried out woman's
voice with q lonely wall in it like the cold,
shivering sigh Of the wind on the winters
night - not dead7''
The crowd trembled q moment In sympa-
thy and then staredas q beautiful woman
knelt down by the dripping form and wept
and cried IN agony: .Oh-h! Noblest and
bestl Noblest and bestl II it were not for
me you might yet have been alive! Oh! it
is not right! til not right!''
On the grand old face, now so white and
still, fingered yet an expression Of Joy as II
he would say, if they could but understand,
that all was right with him. Jacob stood
at his feet, faint with tumult OF feeling
within him.
ssPoor thingp' said man in the crowd,
wiping away tear; lit was her. father, l
suppose"
.'No," murmured Jacob, family; The was
nine"
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-04-10
FRENCH NEWSPAPERS.
Fiction Takes Precedence Over News of
Every Description.

Fiction Takes Precedence Over News of
Every Description.
France is a great country for journal
lists, but Is a mighty poor field for news
paper man. In Paris they produce the
handsomest best edited, best illustrated
periodicals in the world, and they have
the meanest newspapers The English
newspapers are slow enough to set an
American editor crazy. But newspapers,
as we understand them, can be hardly
said to exist in France: for news oeeu-
pies but very secondary place in their
composition Take. for example, LIE
Petit Journal, the daily paper with the
largest circulation in the world, genuine
and undoubted 1t sells for FIVE sous
one cent-and it is the worst looking
little rag ever laid eyes on. Printed
on miserable paper, with heavy-faeed
type and poor ink, it presents a cheap
smeary appearance, which would Hi
the soul of the most slovenly backwoods
editor with disgust 1t contains con-
densed reports of the proceedings Of the
Chamber of Deputies, political articles,
short police news and . story. The
story is the main features the special
articles next and the news IS last to be
considered Dynasties may be over
thrown. cities may be destroyed, Kings
and Emperors may die; the Petit Journal
viii probably print ishe information some
time. but, if the entire Western hemis-
phere should be destroyed by an earth
quake, and it was a question between
publishing the the news of the catas-
trophe and the story, the news would lay
over every time.-Allan Forman. in
Journalist
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-04-10

greater disparity between population
and number of sheep than existed in
1880. In 1910 there were 1000, 600 more
sheep than people in the United States.
In 1890 there are, it is estimated. g.
600, 900 more people than sheep.
Whatever else protection has done it
has not built up the sheep industry. It
has been demonstrated that no tariffs
can do this. The industry could scarce
~ decline more rapidly under a policy
of absolute free trade than it has done
under the system of Chinese protection.
Indiana State Sentinel.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-04-10

That was significant remark of Sem
ator Sherman in the Senate the other
day, that he thought perhaps it would
have been better had the amendment
giving the negroes the suffrage not been
adopted. This was his conclusion after
an experience OF twenty years. There
is no doubt that it was at the time q dis
tasteful expedient to the Senator and
many of those who acted with him. It
was not a measure calculated to pro-
mote the immediate interests of the
emancipated slaves, as they were utterly
ignorant and unfit for the duties In
volved in domination at the ballot box.
1t was not such policy as Abraham
Lincoln would have favored. He would
have made the approach to that prerog-
ative gradual and the result of prepare
ton But the partisanship Of the hour
was intolerant, and its work is . final
ity. Mr.. Sherman can not. recall it If
he would. No wonder there has been
friction and disorder 1T times. and in
localities, as the sequence of Che sud-
den advent Of = million of untaught
men at the polls. inspired by delusi 20
and chaotic dreamA-St Paul Globe.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-04-10
ONE HNIOXR

oNR ENJOYS
Both the method and results when
Syrup Of Figs Is take<H = pleasant
and refreshing to thehste, and acts
gentlyyetpromptly o1the Kidneys,
Liver xnd Bowels, cleanses The sys-
tenn e6ectually, dispekc oldA, bead
aches and fevers and cures habitual
constipation. Syrup Of Eigs il the
only remedy of Its kind ever pro-
duced, pleasing to the hste azd &C
eeptable 70 the stomach prompt In
its action and truly beneicial 10 its
effects, prepared only frunthe most
healthy and agreeable substances,
Its many excellent qualities CON-
mend it te al and have made It
the most popular remedy Known.
Syrup Of Figs is for sale In SOC
and 81 bottles BY all leading drug
gists. Amy reliable druggist who
may not have It on hand will pro-
cure It promptly for any enc who
wishes to try It Do not accept
any substitute.
CALIFORNIA re SYRUP co.
SAE FRANCISCO. cAL.
LOUISVILLE. XIV. NEW roRk. nv
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-04-10
AN ABSURD REPORT

Southern Congrsssmea WIN Noe treat
with Republican Revolutionlsss.
Commenting on an absurd report from
Washington of some sort Ct s'dicker''
between the Republicans and some of
the Southern members Of Congress Tia
New York Times says:
Tho fact is and It Is becoming more and
more plain every day, that the best policy for
tho South Is patience. Time is fits great and
powerful ally. It has very little to gain from
any positive legislation and very much to gain
from waiting. It is slowly but surely settling
tho race problem Little by little 1t various
vote. It was done last fall in Virginia in some
portions Of Mississippi, Louisiana and Florida.
ana 1t can and win be done more and moro sS
time goes on. Tho day that it Il recoe.
nfzed In the North that division and not SUD-
preston OF the vote OF the negroes Is the
policy Of the South. the Southern question
VIII entirely disappear. Even now II has
30 far disappeared that the majority in
Congress will not be able, and win hardly
dare to try, to pass any election law directed
against the South alone, or capable Of being
worked against tho South alone. The schemes
OF the leaders-the Chambers, Shermans, Reeds
arc mischievous In appearance. but they are
vain 1t would be very bad bargain for South
ern men to try to defeat them by making con-
cessions In other matters, for they would have
every thing to lose and nothing substantial to
gain"
The talk Of Concessions from South
eTn Congressman is ridiculous. They
are not treating" with the Republican
revolutionists. The South is In the
Union; it is an integral part of il; it has
equal rights and equal duties. It is in
terested just as the other sections in
sound legislation. and can pay its part
to the piper for saturnalian dances. It
proposes to protect its interests openly
and boldly, relying on the American
people. 1t has no favors to ask of, and
none to give to, the Republican party
managers. Legislation good enough for
the North may be bad. truly, but we can
stand it as long as can any other
section.-Louisville Courier-Journal
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-04-10
HOUSEHOLD sREvlTlss.


Never hull strawberries il you wish
to keep them
Milk and bread are far better for
children than the cakes and pies that
are fed to them in such abundance now.
As the laws of health become better
known such things as milk and eggs
will have better market They aro
Natural products, while cakes, pies and
the whole brood of continental dishes,
are devices that discredit good sense
more or less
Bran water is very good for washing
Madras curtains without soap Use .
wooden pailful of bran to a washboiEer
OF water. Let it boil half an hour -
more; strain part of it and use for wash
boil, then strain it and use for rinsing
water. Shake wrinkles out of the cur
tains as much as possible and hang them
up to dry.-N. Y. World
Steamed Eggs--Butter a pudding
dish and put in layer of bread crumbs;
add little butter in bits and season
with pepper and salt Break half
dozen eggs carefully over this layer and
a little pepper. salt and hits of butter;
cover with new milk. Set the dish in a
SUCouiCI OsCI OOi41uS WdtCk anu StCoh q
few minutes, or until the eggs are suf-
fciently cooked--Orange Judd Farmer.
Peach Cake.-Bread dough enough
for loaf, mix one egg, oDe-half cupful
sugar and two tablespoonfuls butter into
it; add enough -four TO roll ont. one-half
an inch thick, put in the baking pan, let
rise till light, peel peaches, halve then
and cover the dough with them Make
a sweet ccsuard, cover the peaches with
it, bake in moderate oven; when cold
cut in squares, dredge sugar and serve.
Can use apples instead of peaches only
slice them about one-quarter OF an inch.
Toledo Blade.
Make OF drilling or some other stout
material a bag about ten inches long and
between one and one and a half inches
wide. Stitch it in the center length
wise, so as to make two long, narrow
bags. Fill these with shot Then make
a cover of ribbon or silk or any thing
one fancies. A pretty cover is to sew
together two narrow widths of ribbon of
contrasting colors, finishing the ends
with fringe. When You are reading
book, lay this weight across the pages
and you will find it a great saving of
time and temper.-Advance.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-04-10
DANGEROUS LEARNING.
Progress Made I'm the Education of Childre
Within One Century.

Progress Made in the Education OF Children
Within One Century.
No reform has been greater. during
the past century. than that in the edu-
cation of children Not only has the
brutal system of promiscuous flogging
been abolished, but girls and working
people are supposed to be as greatly
benefited by study as those who were
once considered their superiors. Han
nah More, who believed only in the
merest elementary instruction of the
poor, sought to establish village Sun
day school for those of her acquaintance,
but the farmers of the neighborhood
begged her to cease her efforts, as 're-
ligion would be the ruin of agriculture. I"
The children therefore assembled un-
der an apple tree to sing hymns, but
were driven away by the owner of the
tree, who said he was afraid hymn
singing was ''Methody, and Methody
had once blighted tree belonging to
his mother"
Mrs. Barbauld, who lived at the same
period, the first part of the eighteenth
century, was very DESTROYS of following
was thought to be quite enough for
women if they could read, land perhaps
write their names or So" AS her father
was a schoolmaster, however, she was
able to persuade him to share with her
few crumbs of classical learning.
The father of Maria Edgeworth had
of education. Obedience was one of the
principles which he strove always to up
hold, and it was part of Maria's dis
- III 4 n ,n%1 ;o1,
was uncongenia1 to her.
A guest one day imprudently made
some exclamation in regard to the
beauty of the golden hair belonging tc
one daughter. Mr.. Edgeworth instantly
and with a large pair of scissors shipped
off the golden treasure.
Charlotte, what do you say?" he in
quired, as the ringlets fell into the
drawer.
Thank you. father" she answered.
Then Mr.. Edgeworth turned to the
guests, and remarked:
81 will not allow daughter of mine
to be vain"
Mary Somerville, who as little child,
lived a free, outdoor life, was pro-
nounced ''a little savage" by her father,
when he returned from long absence
at sea. She was then sent to board
ing-school for year, and there her body
was inclosed in stiff stays, with steel
Dusk in front; metal rod, fastened tc
a semicircle which went under the chin,
was clasped to this busk, and. thus inn
prisoned, she was set to learning col
umns of Johnson's dictionary by heart.
Fortunately she proved very stupid
at this intellectual exercise, and her
mother took her out of school Then it
was that the child began that process of
self-education which ended only with
her long life OF ninety-two years
Youths Companion.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-04-10
THE BROKEN ENGAGEMENT.

A Tragedy Which Ruined the Prospects of
Deserving Youth.
Adolphus Hawkins bounded up the
steps of the Dusenbury mansion with a
confident air and a package of caramels.
He wore a happy, contented little
smile and an imported London cane.
There are several kinds of smiles.
The one we speak of now is the brand
which cheers but does not inebriate.
Miss Arabel1a Dusenbury was accus-
toned to be waiting in the parlor at this
hour and on this evening, but tonight
she was not there.
They were engaged-were these two
people-and it seemed to the friends of
each that the alliance was a most suit
able one in many respects, including
self respect.
For one thing it would unite the noble
American houses of Hawkins and Dusen-
bury.
On this particular evening Arabella
kept Adolphus waiting a long time, and
when she appeared she was not alone.
High authority tells US that it is not
good for man to be alone, but it says
nothing about women, the inference,
therefore, is that it is better for women
to be alone than for man.
At all events, Arabella came not alone.
She brought with her an air of con-
straint.
The young man rose to meet and greet
her, but she sternly waved him back.
''Why, Arabella," he gasped, ''what
does this mean?"
''It means, sir, that all is over between
u.s.
''You don't mean that our engagement
is broken"
yes"
''Why, o, why, do you discard your
faithful Adolphus?'
Faithful! Ha, ha! Faithful! Well,
I like thatr'
This was said in sarcastic tone.
which impelled Adolphus to draw him
self up to his full height of five feet one
inch and demand plans and specifica-
tons of the alleged unfaithfulness.
"Why, sir, you have basely deceived
Deceived you, Arabella! What non
sense!''
'''Tis true, alas" she cried, and her
lovely eyes filed with tears.
''How have 1 deceived you, Miss Du-
senbury? 1 demand to knowv'
''You never told me- began the
girl But her face blanched, and she
chung to a chair for support
She seemed about to faint.
Told you what?" asked Hawkins,
imperiously and pitilessly, and as the
fair young creature lost consciousness
she gasped:
THAT you-wrote jokes-for the
funny papers. WIN. II. Siviter, in
Munsey'S Weekly.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-04-10
TIE VANISHING SURPLUS.
AuIlions wasted By Greedy Rspsbncaa

aalnions wasted By 0rsedy Republics
Money-0fabbeFs.
In less than four months time after
getting full control Of the Government
the Republican party has succeeded in
more than disposing of the surplus and
placing itself in such a position that it
must either repudiate all its pledges to
the soldiers or place heavy burden Of
debt upon the country. In an interview
ex-speaker Carlisle says: s'It is already
apparent that the appropriations for the
ordinary expenses Of the Government
for the next fiscal year will be largely
in excess Of the Secretary's estimate.
1t has been stated on the floor of the
House by Republican member Of the
committee on appropriations that tho
sum of S442, O99. 1000 will be required.
and if this is correct there will be .
deficit of S57. 900, 10, instead Of q sur
plus, even if none Of the extravagant
appropriations (new pensions, Blair
bill, direct tax, etc. that / have mem
toned shall be made" When asked
whether or not all these bills would
pass, the ex-Speaker responded:
OF course It is impossible for me to say
whether they win or not. But one thing Is
certain. and tho country ought to understand
H.
wants to pass them. It has the Senate, the
House and the President. and the rules have
been 50 changed that the Democrats can neither
defeat nor delay any measure that the majority
may see proper to introduce. The pension
bills can be taken up any day and passed and
80 can all the others. II tho repeated pledges
made to the soldiers and others by tho Repub-
lican party are not redeemed at this session Of
Congress, it viii be because that party does not
want to redeem them and does not intend to
do m II has no excuse whatever for 4 failure
to promptly pass all these bills, and If this
session closes without their passage, it will be
useless for Il hereafter to pretend that 1t is in
come, and the party must take the whole re-
that the passage Of these bills, or any consider-
able part Of them, would make It absolutely
necessary to impose additional taxes upon the
people, or largely to increase the public debt by
the issue OF new bonds; but the Republican
party knew this just as well when 1t made its
promises to the soldiers as It knows it now,
and, therefore, it can not escape responsibilities
ON that ground
Mr.. Carlisle might we'll have said that,
so far as the pension bills are concerned,
they will not be passed. The Republican
party cares nothing for the old soldier
after it gets his vote. The only pledges
the Republican party ever redeems are
those made to the corporations, monop-
olies and trusts. These will be redeemed
though the veterans die in the poor
house. Sentinel.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-04-10
M.KINLEY's REFORM" BILL.
1t Reduces the Revenues Without Reduc-
ing Monopoly Protection.

Il Reduces the Revenues Without Reduce
ing Monopoly Protection.
The bill of the ways and means COM
mittee for reducing the internal revenue
and the tariff, now ready to be reported
to the House, goes far toward redeeming
the promise of the Republican party to
make the leading vices of the country
free and prosperous. The removal of
the tax from alcohol used in the arts is
equivalent to free whisky, as no method
has yet been discovered for preventing
frauds under such law. Manufactured
tobacco is to be four cents q pound
cheaper, and the tax on snuff is re-
pealed altogether. These changes are
presumably among the great moral
ideas for which the Republican party
claims distinction.
This alleged reform of the tariff in
cludes large increase Of the tariff on
wool, causing clothing and carpets to
cost the consumer more than ever, and
offers the farmer as a solace an increase
of the tariff on butter, eggs, barley
and buckwheat, which are i'm
ported in such small quantities as
not to affect the great mass of the
farmers at all. The bill makes cut of
from so to 60 per cent in the duty on
sugar and OF 25 per cent in the duty on
molasses, because these reductions will
benefit the veal thy North and West at
the expense of the 'sinfant industries"
of the South, and because the tariff
on these articles was almost an entirely
revenue tariff, as distinguished from a
monopoly-protectlng tariff The tariff
on tin-plate is raised to a prohibitive
point thereby cutting of entirely the
So, 600, 600 revenue which the Govern
ment has hitherto derived from that
source, and at the same time enabling
the infant tin-plate monopoly of this
country to double its prices If it
Pleases. Such are the effects of intrust-
ing the reformation OF the war tariff
to the scheming villains who first de-
vised it.
The important point in this bill is the
fact that it reduces the revenues of the
Government without reducing monopoly
''protection." Its policy all the way
through is to build up and enrich the
Eastern manufacturers at the expense
of every other industry, and especially
at the expense of the Western farmer
Chicago Herald.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-04-10
OUTRAGEOUS FRAUDS.
Wicked Schemes Formulated by Selfish
Surplus Busters.

Surplus Busters.
Those organs which are pretending
that the proposed pension bills are for
the benefit of needy veterans, or which
are denouncing those who do not be-
ieve in squander1ng the peoples money
in undeserved payments to deserters.
are sowing the wind and may reap the
whirlwind. If it had ever been neces-
sary or proper for the people to pay
500, Oo0, 600 year to the deserving pen
sioners, there would not have been q
voice raised against the most liberal APP
preparations. But when it is announced
that the pension rolls are to be increased
that the surplus may be dissipated;
when it is proposed that the safeguards
adopted by the Grand Army shall not
be applied in the payments of pensions;
when such blatherskites as Tanner and
Dudley shall be foisted upon the coun-
try as Representatives of the soldiers, it
is time for honest citizens to take the
alarm, and speak for those who are really
deserving of the Governments attention.
Every name wrongfu1ly placed upon
the pension rolls is a disgrace to worthy
veterans. The long list of men who are
drawing from the Federal treasury
monthly stipends which have been
allowed by scoundrelly officials, forms
. menace to the very existence of q
pension system. It is beyond the
bounds of possibility that the people
will permit this disgrace to outlive the
term of the Harrison-Dudley admins
tration, and it is the part Of those who
believe in the full performance Of the
peoples pledges to the soldiers to guard
their interests in this matter against
the worse than rebels and traitors who
have been placed in power by Mr.. Har-
Leader.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-04-10
SLEEPING NOW.

There were lovers a hundred years ago
Whispering vows in the dreIight's glow:
sSweeter than light was the low said word,
sSweeter than life to the ears that heard;
And the rich blood flooded the cheek and
OF that maid who heard her lovers vow.
But the fire has gone out: and the embers
there,
Blackened and SCARED, speak NO word of the
And the brave who that calm winter night
-Pligbted their vows In the dim freight
Where are the lovers of the years long
Sleeping nowi
,On yonder hill two white shafts stand;
From afar they look like friends hand In
hand;
In the midnight black or the rudy dawn
Stand they cold and chill while the years
roll on:
And the names carved there In the marble
white
Are the names of the lovers who that night,
In the winter a hundred years ago,
Whispered their vows In the firelight's glow.
The fire has gone out; see, the ashes how
white,
And ashes those pale shafts guard through
the night
IT'S hundred years. and the lovers are
gone.
Sleeping nowi
There were mothers a hundred years ago,
Singing sweet lullabies soft and low;
AOAAA $3.50
pressed?
Fairer the mothers who hushed them to rest;
Their tresses as yellow the tasseled corn;
Their eyes bright as the dewy morn.
%! strong young mothers, good and fair,
Yoar babes long since outgrew your care;
Long since those tresses lost color OF gold,
Long since those eyes grew dim and cold.
Where are the mothers OF the years long
gone?
Sleeping nowi
There were babes q hundred years ago
flushed to sleep by lullabies low;
Their cheeks as sweet as the dew.bathed
rose,
Their eyes undimmed by q rough worlds
woes;
Secure from unrest or griefs or alarms,
Nesting they slept within fair, sheltering
arms,
But the years have gone-the hundred
years
They woke to knowledge, to pain, to fears;
They hearkened at length to Deaths lula
bies,
To the songs sung at night, and then closed
their eyes
Where now are the babes of the years long
gone?
Sleeping now!
Rev. o. c. {. Wallace, in z. Y. Ledger.