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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1890-07-02

"Took the first prize over Billie Kemp.
He tried hard to get it. You see, he rode
Trapp's and was to have half the prize if
ne won-wanted to set up some sort of
street stand, I believe; but spun right
away from them all"
"Ah!' said Grandfather Ferris, simply,
as he turned to Ned's paper $50 you've
tried printing, eh? % as he read
For one secondhand press 5 90
For 90
For paper and cards.. 800
For inks and sundres. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 100
Total........................ .............$1OOO
BY first gift of cash ................. $40. 90
By 500 cards printed 500
BY programmes printed 800
.................$20 90
Balance on hand, press and 90
"Well you've done a little better in
making ont your statement. Mr.. May
says you do very good work, too-keep
things clean, print straight and spell all
right"
| tried to, sir; because | wanted to
build paying business in future for my
SELF" Ned replied.
'Just so. An eye to self-interest, see;
but it's right to do any work we'll that
you undertake."
He turned to Mans paper as he spoke,
and looked closely at it:
For apples and peanuts. ............. ..$ ST. 90
For grapes, oranges etc...................... 90
For something to $50
was what he read.
"Well, well! Quite little gourmandl'
he exclaimed.
Mans face flushed, but she kept silent.
81 intended to test your capabilities
for using money, children" said their
grandfather; 'and gold watch was to
belong to the one who made the most OF
it,"
The boys eyes sparkled, and Mans
lips quivered.
''MOst what?" asked Uncle Forth, sud
denly laying down his paper
"Most in every way-money and good
to every one concerned"
"Well, as happen to know something
about Mans profigacy,,I guess I'd bet
ter explain" ~
ooh, Uncle Forth, please don't" burst
forth from Nan. ,.
But he only smiled and laid his hand
over her lips.
"Grandfather has not been treated
fairly. Billy Kemp's street stand was sup
piled with apples and peanuts with that
first dollar, and he has made twenty-five
out OF it. If he'd won that prize, Oscar,
he'd have splendid start now"
Oscar colored, but Uncle Forth went
on:
can old lady told me that a certain
little girl gave her one dollars worth of
car fare tickets, so that consumptive
daughter would not have to walk to her
work in bad weather; and so she had not
missed day or been sick this winter,
when she used to have a doctors bill to
pay every spring, and be in danger of
losing her place besides, as we'll as DIGGING
into Ouick cOnSurnntiOn nv oynoSuro
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1890-07-02
Old Rhymes for the Little Folks.

Old Rhymes for the Little Folks.
Thirty days hath September,
April, June and November,
All the rest have thirty one
Excepting February alone.
Which hath but four and twenty-four,
And every fourth year one day more''
BIRTHDAYS.
Monday for health,
Tuesday for wealth,
Wednesday best day of all.
Thursday for crosses,
Friday for losses,
Saturday no luck at ALL
The lines refer to the days of the week
as birthdays. They are, in idea, the same
as the more familiar lines:
Mondays child is fair of face,
Tuesdays child is full of grace
Wednesdays child is merry and glad,
Thursdays child is sorry and sad;
Fridays child is loving and giving,
child must work for it's living;
w bile the child that is born on the Sabbath day
Is blithe and bonny, and good and gay.
BY-AND-BY.
There's a little misunderstanding
Elfin, who is ever nigh,
Thwarting every undertaking.
And his name is "By -and-By."
What ought to do this minute
Will be better done, he'll cry,
Ii tomorrow we begin it
Put it off,. says By-and-By.
Those who heed his treacherous woong
Will his faithess guidance rue;
What we always put off doing
Clearly, we should never do. s3A'
= We shall reach what we endeavor' le"%:'i r
80 II On now we more rely, .'.' =. ...s'';
But unto the realms of ''never" J.. a.s.. ..f.r.
Leads the pilot By-and-By. e,@.-,...-
LITTLE FOXES.
Among my tender vines I spy
little fox, named By-and-By. e. ~ {
Then set upon him quick. I saw
The swift young hunter, Rigl t away. 800
Around each tender vine plant,
find the little fox l can't.
Then fast as ever hunter ran,
Chase him with bold and brave l can
No use in trying-lags and wines
This fox among my tender vines.
Then drive him low and drive him high
With this good hunter, named I'll try
Among the vines in my small lot
Creeps in the young fox, 1 forgot.
Then hunt him out and to his den -
observation-disclosures
-, A little fox is hidden there
Among my vines, named don't care.
Then let I'm sorry, hunter true ..
Chase him afar from vines and YOU
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-07-03
Who Now are the Law Breakers2

At Ottawa, Kan, on Sunday last a
minister of the gospel announced the
determination of 500 citizens to go to
any and all agents of original package
houses and tell them THAT II they de-
fed the wishes of the people they would
tar and feather them and send them back
Missouri as original packages, whose
delivery here was refused" We did
suppose that the place of all places to
seek for law abiding men was the pull
pit; but it seems not. We are as much
opposed to original package shops as
anyone, but so long as the supreme
court of the United States grants them
the right to sell, no law abiding person
has right to interfere without due
legal process. Mob law should be- dis
couraged, and we are surprised to see
such spirit cropping out on the part
of professed misunderstanding Cham
pion (Rep.)
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-07-03

question of fact. IF the dramshop is
blessing; if it makes honest voters and
citizens, kind husbands and fathers; If
it leads to morality, manhood and intel
ligence; if it discourages crime. vice,
pauperism, illegal voting, and bribing;
then there can be but one position to
take on the question. Then every good
citizen owes it to his honor to stand
by the traffic, to talk for it, work for it,
vote and pray for it. But if the reverse
is true-if it makes drunkards, cruel
husbands, and fathers, breaks womes's
hearts. degrades children; if it fills our
jails and almshouses, causes rioting,
assists in stufiing ballot boxes. leads to
perjury on the witness stand or in the
jury box; if tits an enemy to law, order
and civilization. then give us one single
reason why you and 1, as honest men,
should vote. talk or pray to sustain it
for a single hour. Respectfully,
JOEL MILLER.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-07-03
What it is Doing.

The alliance movement, during it's
brief existence, has done more to edu-
cate the great mass of the people in the
principles of government than all the
schools and colleges in the past CEN
tury. The people, those plain, unas-
suming men and women. who consti-
tute the conservative element of soci-
ETY., and are really the safeguards of
national freedom, are, through the
methods in use by the alliance, learn
ing the rights and duties of citizenship
with rapidity and clearness truly
alarming to the chronic politician The
alliance has taught the wealth-produc-
erS of the north and south that their
interests are identical; that it s their
duty to eliminate all sectional feeling
and work together for the common
good. 1t has done more: 1t has
taught them to look upon all attempts
to array one portion against another.
OF revive old animoslties as cruel
wrong, and intended to serve political
purposes. They are learning to class
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-07-03
THE GREAT TALMAGE.

Having ever had desire to hear the
famous minister whose name appears
above, the editor of this paper attended
the Chatauqua meeting at Winfield, !,
last Sunday and had that desire graft
fed. The Winfield assembly, by the
way, has proven grand success this
year, as thousands of people will testify.
On Sunday morning there were between
two and three thousand people on the
grounds, and the large, open air
amphitheatre was packed to its fullest
capacity to hear Rev. Talmage. His
text was; ''The Statutes of the Lord
are Right" and the speaker proceeded
to prove it in his own peculiar way.
We have always enjoyed reading Tai
mage's sermons. but we doubt if we
would travel very far again to hear one
of them. To the writer he appeared as
pompous, strong willed, bull-headed
aristOcrat, who expressed in every word
and movement that he was conscious
of the worldwide fame he has gained
and thought his hearers should no.
lose sight of the fact that it was he,
Talmage, who spoke. His voice is
harsh and strong, and his manner of
delivery startling in gesture and
peculiar onlv to himself. His hearers
gave him close attention, and his SER
mon was a good one; but the general
opinion of the public was that he was
better on paper than in the pulpit.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-07-03
A Revolutionary Pensioner.

The Pension Office report for 1889
shows there is one pensioner of the war
of the revolution still living in the
State of Maine. The person is Mrs. Su-
san Curtis, of Topsham, widow of Caleb
Curtis, revolutionary soldier. Mrs.
Curtis age is ninety-seven years Mrs.
Susan Curtis was the third wife of Ca
leb Curtis, and was thirty-one years his
junior. John Merrill, Esq, of Topsham,
performed the ceremonies at Mr.. Curtis
first marriage, soon after the revolu-
tionary war. Colonel Abel Merrill, his
son, married Curtis to his second :wife
early in the present century, and the
late Octavius Merrill, Esq, grandson of
John Merrill, Esq, married Curtis to
the present Mrs Curtis, who yet enjoys
good health.-Brunswick (Me.) Tele-
graph
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-07-03

pAwHEE is one of the banner repub-
NeHn counties, the vote generally stand
ing about three republicans to one
siemoeSat. Asa indication of the way
Che farmers of that county propose to
stand By the alliance it may be inter-
essing - know that, at the primary
election held there recently to select a
fepuclican candidate for state congress
cnaa Only 413 votes were cast in the
county, most of them being in town.
In fivs townships there was no cleo
zion held at all. the farmers refusing to
take any part in republican nominat-
ting election; and in each of two of the
townships one lone farmer got himself
together, appointed himself judges and
clerks, and held the polls open the
s1quired time, voted, and counted his
cote and sent it in to the central COM
mittee. Verify the road looks rocky
for the ring politicians.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-07-03

the average politician as an enemy to
labor in production, and in the near
future will put this knowledge to a
apparent that all labor, whether it be
found amid the snow and ice of the
north, the rough and rugged portions
of the west, or the mild and balmy
sections of the south, must stand
together for mutual protection. The
alliance is the initial movement which,
if continued, will bring about unfit
cation of sentiment based upon ques-
tions of national Importance that will
benefit labor, wipe out all sectionalism,
and prove a lasting blessing to the
whole people.-Nationa Economist.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-07-03

COLONEL MURDOCH, of the Wichita
Eagle, calls the republican party 'the
whipped whelp of corporate voracity,,
and characterizes the Mckinley bill as
''an outrageous performance and a
cheap monkey show in the face of high
heaven and the American people.
George w. Martin says that Kansas is
"a purely agricultural constituency
with such vague interest in protec-
tion as to require deep argument and
many mistifying figures to see where it
~" An old Methodist revivalist once
said chat he always tried to convert
Che fed-headed sinners first, because
. troublesome adversary was sure to
make useful recruit. In this view of
Che case the prospect for tariff
seduction is brighter in Kansas today
chan it has been for many a year.
Kansas City Star.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-07-03

There is a class of demagogues
called editors" who are harping about
the party press" throwing cold water
upon the efforts of the farmer and
other laborers trying to emprove their
condition. These aud other soulless
schysters always air this howl when
they have an ak to grind. Watch them.
They are wolves in Sleeps clothing. A
majority of the press is favorable to
the farmers or any other class that is
trying by fair means to better their
condition. Register, of June 26th.
For a sample of the class referred to
see the Register of last week. Note its
articles on 1.-The Southern Alliance, -
''Ex-Farmer and the New Party"
s'The Alliance, "s'About Judge PETER, -
and the article credited to "Corespon-
dent Capital from Junction City" If
each of those articles are not published
for the purpose of throwing cold
water upon the efforts of the farmer
and laborer" to unite in wiping out
the old political ring that has so long
cursed Kansas. then we are mistaken.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-07-03
Dartmouth Gleanings.

OdfGulOutu Ul6dulugSs
From Harvester"
Warm.
102 in the shade Sunday.
Another soaking rain Monday night
Will Suitor called at Dartmouth Sun
day.
Grant Adams was in Dartmouth
with his fine horse, Sunday.
G. B. johnson has been keeping the
road hot getting repairs.
Mrs. John Harris has gone to Bush
ton Illinois on short visit.
Mr.. A. w. Strong was the first to
finish harvesting in this locality.
Amos johnson has harvested about
thirty acres of wheat which will at the
least calculation go forty bushels to the
acre.
Two of Ellinwood's beautiful bellies
wish their escorts, were following the
Randolph around the field last Sunday
afternoon.
Amos JohnsOn's new granary is
about complete and we believe when
finished will be the finest to be found
in Barton county.
Harvester and his crew were COM
PEELED to harvest on Sunday, last, in
order to save the grain, which was
shattered badly.
Gus Hanning has bought a new
threshing machine and begins threshing
Monday July 7th. John Armstrong
also begins threshing July 9Th.
The'S. of V's. will give large ball
at the opera hall in EllinwOod on the
evening of July 4th.
J. d. HAMILTON,
Dartmouth, KS.
Harvester will have finished harvest
ing at Dartmouth in time for the 4th
of July celebration, after which he will
take his place with the Minnesota
Chief for the rest of the season.
Messrs. Armstrong and Burtchfield
two of our worthy neighbors, entered
into a copartnership and bought new
header, of which we heard too late to
give in last week.
Who can beat this? Cad johnson,
one of our worthy harvest crew. run
his wagon one whole day without
knowing that one tire was gone.
Ask Cad what did dad say when he
got home.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-07-03
Pawnee Rock.


From the Leader.
We hear that a new elevator is to he
put up here for this season.
a girl at Harry Halls Sunday night.
Mother and child doing well.
The store box politician is out of
town now. He is in the harvest field =
lying in the shade.
Andy Galbreath has been doing some
night work this week repairing headers
and binders.
The roar of the milk shake and the
hiss of the soda water are about the
only sounds that greet our ears now.
Rev. Davis will be down Sunday,
the 9Th, to assist in baptising
the converts that were taken in last
winter.
This is the season of the year when
news is scarce. You will be doing us
favor by telling us any item that will
be interesting to our readers.
The wheat crop has been greatly
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-07-03
Albert Items.

Albert Items.
From 'Spunk."
Are you going to celebrate?
Mrs. Jones Mckinney, south of town,
is quite i'll this week.
DR.. Daniels, of Pawnee Rock, was in
town Thursday last.
Several of the boys took in Great
Bend last Saturday night.
DR.. Shaw, of Great Bend, was in
our village Monday last.
Rev. DAVIS. of Lyons, preached an
interesting sermon at this place Sun
day last.
Quite number of the farmers will
spend the ga-lorious fourth in the
harvest field.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-07-03
A DANDY SLATE-BREAKER.

What magnificent slate breaker the
alliance in Kansas promises to be.
How the old ring howls and fumes
about and tears it's hair and yanks the
bloody shirt from out the mouldy grave
of the forgotten past with the vain hope
that by once more Haunting it in the
faces of the common people they may
excite them into madness and unreason
able acts.
For years and years the republican
party in Kansas has had its plans laid
ahead, and its leaders have worked
together for the continuance of GER
tain few in power. There have always
been plenty of candidates and more or
less of rush and scramble for nomin-
ations; the air has been blue with
scandalous charges and counter charges
(all more or less we'll founded) by one
set of candidates against another; but
in due course of time the rotten ele-
ments have been fused together, one
set has been quieted down with the
promise of assistance in the future; the
states have been fixed for years ahead,
and the whole gang of hungry office
seekers have nested together in their
own filth and united to win by the old
methods of bulldozing, trickery, and
false promises. And the working man,
the farmer, and the old soldiers who
had neither time nor inclination to
take any active part in politics, have
gone blindly to the polls and voted
straight, and the states were intact.
But now, there is danger in the air.
There are mEtterings of discomfort
among the rank and file. There are
quiet men awakening from the sleep
of the oppressed; and there are men, and
women too, who have never before
entertained thought that they were
considered as so many cattle by the
ings of the slate makers; who know
their objects, and have learned by hard
earned experience the falseness Of the
entire crew. And the name of these
awakening people is legion. They are
scattered over the broad praires by the
thousands; they are today earning their
bread by the sweat of their brow in
hundreds of work shops in our towns
and cities; they are giving some time
and some thought to. the vital questions
of the day. and they do not confine
their source of information to any
particular party organ Or local wire
puller. They are breaking states with
vim. We bid them God speed. We
care not that the slate makers charge
us with trying to help the people to
crawl from beneath the feet of the ring
politicians. We care not, that they
falsely charge us with intrigue; with
conniving to shatter their states by a
union with the independent movement.
The most of our readers know that
there is no understanding, no contract
between the democratic party and the
peoples movement with the end in
view of downing the republican party.
If any of them believe such rot. and
are driven against their better Judge
ment to again listen to false promises
of the old ring, to again join hands
with the monopoly party, let them go;
they are deserving of no better fate
than to be betrayed and barterad as of
old. Go in slate breakers, and go in
to win.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-07-03
Clarence.

From Buckeye"
We again bob up serenely.
A good rain Sunday morning.
We are having fine corn weather.
Henry Gagelman visited the city,
Thursday.
The busy harvest prevented our
writing last week.
All who are not harvesting will take
in the Bend tomorrow.
Threshing will soon be commenced
at district No. II, and elsewhere.
Mrs. 7. F. Craig, of Great Bend, was
visiting J. II. Bement last week.
j. thinner, of Buffalo, has returned
from Iowa. Referred to Remington.
D. M. Button is by far the most
inqulsitive man in Clarence. Census.
Mrs. Eliza Parks, and family, of
Stafford county, have been visiting w.
Parks.
A large portion of Great Bends
population may be found i'll Clarence
header boxes.
VIM. Gagelman has wisely decided
to pump no more water by hand while
Boreas is OH the move.
If any person desires rapid and
graceful method of descending from a
wheat rick, he can elicit valuable
Information by interviewing J. Both.
Poor Claflin and Clarence will now
hide their faces in deep humiliation
and regret and declare they did not
wish to furnish the probate judge any
how.
We beg ten thousand paruUns
Remington, for our unseemly dis
play of such gross, dense, sodden
ignorance. We were really unaware
that your city(!!!D embraces the whole
of Buffalo. If such be the case Clar.
ence should also assume metropolitan
airs. We were astounded, however
that such judge of Literary acquire
ments" should employ such word as
posted" and omit the subject of a
declarative sentence.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-07-03

TINES are improving, things are
moving, business no longer is dead;
grain is advancing, value enhancing.
Kansas is forging ahead. Interest is
stopping, mortgages dropping, moneys
more easily found; hard times are going,
confidence growing, feeling is better all
round. Leave off your growing, shut
off your bowling and Danish that shark
from the tomb" timber your muscle,
wake up and hustle-Kansas IS shifting
a bOom.-Emporia Republican.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-07-03

You will soon begin to see, in the
tepublican press, statements of the
reports of census enumeratOrs in the
south which purport to show that. there
6re not near so many people there as
generally thought. The census in the
eOuthern democratic states will be
shaded with a view Of cutting off repre-
asl effort will be made, and it's success
Will Depend upon how many republican
statesmen will he willing to go on
record ~ supporting such "a gigantic
fraud.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-07-03

We do not believe that the alliance
has chosen a wise course, to attain the
original purposes for which it was
organized. and is being duped by it's
Register.
BIO. CAsAwAT and hi5 paper have
been "duping" the republican farmers
Of Barton county so long that he thinks
that all men who take any sort of an
active part in bringing about. political
results are ''dupIng" their followers, OF
et-wOEkers. He hopes to make his
readers believe that the farmers are
being "duped' by their ne1ghbors, their
best friends. .. Cafaway, Caraway!
How are the waters of thy political
CesspOoi troubled:
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-07-03

JOE FUGATE, at one time editor of
the arkansas Valley Democrat, the first
democratic paper published in Great
BEND, but at present postmaster at
Newton, has bought Che Oklaohma City
daily Democrat, and will take charge of
1t as soon as the Harrison adminstra-
tion relieves him Of his present job.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-07-03

The news Of the appointment of J.
T.. Junkin as postmaster of this city
was received with considerable indig-
nation by a large number of our citi-
zens, especially those belonging to the
Il. A. r. American citizens Of Eng
1ish OK Irish parentage had no show
whatever Sterling Champion.
TAkE.youY medicine like a little man
Tom. You have been a straight repub-
liean so long you ought to be able tC
swallow anything and everything. 1t is
true, the old soldiers were promised
remembrance, but that was before you
had Harrison, and Reed, and the gold
bugs in power. Now that you have
them, make out to swallow your chOler
and get a good ready to back the same
outfit in 30. Let us see; Bro. Junkin
came to Kansas only recently. Was ii
from Indiana?
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-07-03

ON JULY 22nd the alliances of this.
the seventh congressional district. will
hold convention in this city to put in
domination a candidate for congress.
a large and enthusiastic convention is
anticipated, and the people Of Great
Bend should prepare 70 entertain the
visitors.