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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-06-26

THE MAN WHO LAUGHS" has
taken the liberty to answer some of
Bro. Caraway's questions as pro-
pounded in last weeks Register. We
are 10th to give up so much of the space
in this paper to notice of anything
such an ultra republican sheet may say.
We desire, however, to brand as false
hoods some of the statements the Reg
i.ster made last week. For instance it
said:
From the very conception of the
alliance movement, the democratic
leaders have attempted to use it for
political purposes. Its national presi-
dent indiscreetly boasted of it as was
shown in a previous issue of this paper.
A democrat began the organization
in this county, and attempted to set it
out for the DEMOCRAT and against the
Register for political purposes. Bro.
Stoke will not deny this. 1t was
through democratic manipulation that
he undertook to have the DEMOCRAT
made the ''official organ" at Hoising-
tOn.''
The first and second sentences of the
paragraph above quoted are known to
be false in every particular, and are
nothing more or less than a reprint of
the assertions made by republican
papers throughout the state for the sole
purpose of whipping republicans out of
the alliance movement. Everyone
knows that the alliance movement is a
continuation of the - Farmers Wheel, %
an organization that has for years
existed in Texas and other southern
states and antagonized the democratic
party. Next, he says: "A democrat
began the organization in this county -
Mr.. Shelton, the organizer of Reno
county who first began the alliance
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-06-26

The silver bill is. making 4 pretty
good football. 1t is kicked back and
forth between the two houses, and is
in danger OF being kicked clear out of
sight by the president. Then there
will be = thunderous kick from the
psople.-Topeka Journal.
YES, Kansas people, with all western
people, and southern people too, for
4hat matter, will ''kick' like bay steers;
but when it comes to another presi-
dental election the great majority of
Kansas ''kickers" will fall in and fol-
low the same beL-weathers who led
them in the Harrison campaign, and
again be hoodwinked and fooled into
taking their old time political dose
straight.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-06-26
Hoisington Items.

From the Dispatch.
Barton is the only county in the state
that was named for woman.
Great Bend will give the biggest cele-
bration in these parts ON the 4th of
July.
Barton county will have great many
storms this fall but they will be political
ones.
G. Iindall is In town tOdav. He is
just returning from trip to Indiana
and says Kunsas is the best state vet.
Two little boys were smothered to
death at Little River, Saturday. They
had gotten into grain elevator, which
was filled with shelled corn, during the
noon hour, and when the machinery
started up in the afternoon were drawn
down and smothered by the corn.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-06-26

Sally Verb is the name of a Kansas
girl married the other day. Parse it
along.-LaCrosse Chiettdin
We don't know much about verbs,
but We'll bet our old straw hat that her
subject would say that the present
tense of her mode was Indicative of a
redundant verb, with more than one
semblance to her past tense. Clear as
mud.-Pawnee Rock Leader.
MARK has just quit college and he
ought to know. all about all kinds of
''yerbs," bnt his evident knowledge of
the construction of the one above
referred to shows depth of thought
and experience beyond his years.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-06-26

PLUMB made strong fight for free
coinage Of silver, but ingalls, kept on
doing what his constituents are blam-
ting hin for doing all the while, viz:
Just nothing. He never cheeped a
j. word in favor of the silver bill
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-06-26
Joseph Medill To The Farmers.

Joseph Medill To The Farmers.
The farmers of the west do not need
to be told who Joseph Medill is. He is
not only the editor of the Chicago
Tribune, the leading republican paper
of the northwest, but he is man of
broad information, wide reading, stud
ious habits, serious thought and earnest
devotion to any cause whichhe espouses.
For this reason his words ought to
appeal with especial force to the repub-
Gcan farmers of Kansas and Nebraska.
And following is what he said concern
ing the relations of high tariff and
the American farmer, the occasion
being the assembling in Chicago of
representative republicans from the
various counties of Illinois for consul
tation as to the welfare of the party:
"Where, then, is the remedy from the
heavy burden of fifty per cent tax on
the necessaries of life, both imported
and domestic? There is only one
element or class able to remove it, and
that Sampson is sleeping on the lap of
Delilah and will not awaken. L, of
course, mean the farmers. The plum
dered, unprotected, twenty-five million
of geese-like farmers who permit them
selves to be plucked of almost every
feather by hundred thousand PRO
tected" monopolists. So long as the
simple minded bucolic class do not kick
off the burdens laid upon them con-
gress will not disturb the war taxes and
the manufacturers corresponding
bounties. While the plOughmen act
like IsSaehar'S ass, and crouch between
two burdens, both will be kept on their
backs. The lubricants live localized
in the cities, and plot and scheme for
the promotion of their selfish interests
and bring their united lobby influence
to bear on members of congress,
whereas, our farmers live isolated and
scattered, and can't or don't combine
in defence of their interests. Hence
they are unprotected, uarepresented and
unconscious Of ,Uhat keeps them poor.
They are capt,trted by the specsoas cry of
''prOtecti0n to american industry" tho
they get none of 1T; and of the e>ralse of the
-'protected home markets to them, as u
protected ,,aonopolists eat any more than,
any other men. Not until the verdant.
imposed-upon agriculturists wake up
TO realization of the confidence game
being played upon them will the war
tariff be reduced OF reformed; but when
will they gSt their eyes open and act!
In your lifetime? Samson the farm
erS-is under the spell of Delilah--the
manufacturers his locks are
shorn and he feels no strength to resist.
Until the protected manufacturers
themselves ask congress to reduce their
protection bounties in order to enable
them to cheaper the process of fabrica-
| tion with view to finding foreign
markets for their surplus wares, there
will be no reduction of the high tariff,
and no relief from the heavy burden it
imposes on the fool farmers and
oppressed consumers. But when will
that be-"
These words, coming from such a
man as Joseph Medill, sought to open
the eyes of every republican farmer in
Kansas and Nebraska to the enormity
of the fraud practiced upon him and
his class under the name of protection.
kansas City Star.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-06-26

OUR solid democratic friend, Joe
Dillon, editor of the Hartland Herald
is a candidate for representative to the
state legislature from Kearney county
Mr.. Dillon would look after the inter.
ests of his county and the west part of
the state in good shape.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-06-26

THE Ellinwood Adrocate of last week
had an excellent letter on Prohibition
and Resubmission,'' from the fluent
pen Of G. r. Archer, of that town.
The letter should be read by everyone
taking an interest In the question dis
euSSed
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-06-26
EDITORIAL COMMENT.

II HARRISON has really and hon.
estly asserted that he is not can
didate for reelection it is about the
greatest exhibition of wisdom he has
given during his term of Office.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-06-26

SENATOR PLUNBS' denunciatiOn OF
She Mckinley bill is an eye-opener TO
many thick ,skulled republican politi-
Clans who imagine that thinking men
in the party are going to gulp down
everything labeled protection even
Though it impOveyishes the country
The republican national platform in
AysS demanded tariff reform, but the
Present tariff measure is far from
xefofm in any sense Of the word
Topeka State Journal (Republican).
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-06-26

We deisfe to make no dictations but
% urge those most interested, to be
awake 60 their interests, and let us
have farmer representative this year
fOx our Register.
WELL, WELL! What a change has
GONE o'er the spirit Of his dreams!
How about Booth, and Edwards, and
32allOWe1l. ana all the rest of the
''farmeg" candidates. In all candor
now. which one are YOU fOx.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-06-26

INGALLS,. whom Caraway says is
the farmers friend, is still a director
in the Southern Kansas Mortgage Co.,
which is foreclosing on Kansas farms
at the rate Of so to 60 day. He is also
the same fellow who slipped into the
house of representatives and put a
bug" in the ear of Farmer" Funston
which caused the said Funston to flop
over and oppose the passage Of the free
coinage of silver act.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-06-26
Pawnee Rock.

From the Leader.
Wheat will turn out better here than
some people thought.
City Marshal Reecher is hustling the
small boys off the streets at eight now.
All the section hands have quit except
one, to go into the harvest field. There
is great need of more hands here now.
The east bound train Saturday even
ing set fire. in Fosters wheat, also in
Leitners. Very little damage was
done.
Farley Willis has resigned his posi-
tion in Danials anc Sons drug store,
and is now tanning himself in the har-
vest field.
Mrs. r. b. Warren, Mrs. C. w. Muir
ply, and Miss Julia Miller. of Great
Bend. visited in this city on Wednes-
day. Miss Miller is one Of Great Bends
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-06-26

TOPEKA is arranging to have tenn
perance mass convention on July 10Th.
Wonder if she will "sock it to" the
visitors on that day, as she did to the
X. of Z. visitors? We have an idea
that is about all Topeka wants to
gather crowd fOr-to get what money
she can out of 10.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-06-26
Dartmouth Gleanings.

From Harvester"
Weather quite warm.
Buenavista Alliance is progressing
finely.
Mr.. j. d. Brown bought Il new
header this week.
Hurrah for Lakin township, two
good rains last week.
The wheat crop in this locality will
be much larger than was anticipated.
Mrs. Tullis, of Great Bend, was Wis
iting with Mrs. Amos Johnson We'd
/ nesday.
Mr. Charles Hammer is another
| header this season.
August Schraple was the first we
have Heard of to begin harvest; he
began Wednesday, June 11th.
Miss Myrtle Elliott, one of Ellin-
woods most estimable young ladies,
was visiting Saturday and Sunday with
Miss Clara johnson, of Dartmouth.
Mr.. Yard, the census enumerator for
Lakin Township, made this place a
call last week to ask how many children
! we had and so forth and so on, but he
got left for we don't was got any y et.' y
Amos johnson is now building a
new granary, which will cost, when
done, something over $500, and will
hold II, 900 bushels o: grain. Isaac
| SummerlOt, of Ellinwood, is doing the
carpenter work.
Amos Johnson, of Dartmouth, went
to Great Bend Tuesday, to attend to the
trial of Wyible, johnson and Huitt VS.
Santa Fe Railroad Company, for the
burning of said plaintiffs livery stable
in EllinwoOd on the 10Th of July, 1889.
Success to Amos.
| Vernie Hamilton, who came here the
first of the week to harvest, had the
misfortune while coming from Great
Bend to lose red leather book
containing the value of $50; the adver-
tisment of the same to be found else
where in this paper.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-06-26
Ellinwood Items

From the AdvOcate-
Harvesting is in full blast now. The
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-06-26
Heizerton Shots.

Heizerton Shots.
From t'Remington."
Harvesting is the order of the day.
Henry Schultz shipped a carload of
wheat Monday.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-07-18

WE make fatal mistake to devote
the whole of our strength and energy
to wooing prosperous circumstances
and warding off adverse ones. Much Of
it must of course be thus employed, but
enough of it should be reserved for the
reception, in the right spirit and with
the right aims, of whatever comes. Bacon
tells US that the virtue of prosperity is
temperance and the sirtue of adversely
is fortitude; but it depends upon our
selves whether we gather those and
other precious fruits from either OF
those plants.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-07-18
Fined for Washing Lis 60.

Before I went to South Africa I was
under the impression that it was a tim
bered. swampy country that the mining
fields were in. In this I was very
much mistaken" says a returned
miner. "The country is more like Ari-
IONA, being dry and barren. There is
no timber, and the land is covered with
bush and cactus. The interior is in
habited by native blacks, who are too
lazy to farm more than a few acres.
Irrigation is necessary. The men dOnOt
work except in the spring, when they
get out of food, and then they go off
and work, while the women put in the
crops. AS soon as the crops are ready
to harvest they return home and live
in idleness until the next spring. The
women are the slaves Of their hus-
bands. There are no half-breeds ex-
cept In the towns. In the interior the
black women are extremely virtuOus.
The natives wear no clothing except a
kind of breech-clOut. I penetrated
1, 200 miles into the interior without
seeing q tree of any size, he added. 81
don't believe there is any timber in
Africa. Travellers are not permitted
to gather any fuel to build camp fire
without paying a license. The license
per wagOnIoad for the privilege of cut
ting wood is So. When I was in johann
nesburg wood was worth about Is cents
a load. People not acquainted with
the customs of the country are liable to
get into trouble with the authorities at
any time. He was arrested only once,
and that was for washing himself in a
river. ct was hot and dusty and we
camped by the stream opposite the
town, said the traveller. early the
next morning I went down the bank
and began washing my face and hands,
when L was interrupted by two black
policemen, who took me in We could
not understand each others language,
but they took me over to town, where
I was fined 81 %.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-07-18

NEVER put a bird in the window 2
says Olive Thorn Miller in the Chris
tan Union. Il rarely go into the
street in summer, or even on q mild
day in winter, that I donot see unfortu-
nate canaries hung in the window
Even if the sun is not broiling the
brains under the little yellow cap, a
draught is blowing all the time over the
delicate body. People have been told
a thousand times that they must not
put bird in the draught, yet how few
remember that there is always a
draught in an open Window
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-07-18
A Fresh Agent.

When much younger than I am
nOw," said an old newspaper man, 81
sold sewing machines. You may rest
assured I was a tribe fresh, and sui
fered therefor, as the following adven-
ture Will show: Near the close of u
hot August day I was driving through
the little village of c. to the town
where 1 made my headquarters. Sud
denly a big black cloud appeared in
the sky, and when my pIayed-out horse
had covered half a mile the rain came
dancing down. I had two machines on
and no blanket. To save myself and
machines from getting drenched, I
drove for the only house within a ra-
dius of a mile. I was a sorry sight
when I reached that old country man
sion half hidden by tall naples. Jump
ing out, I knocked at the door and eI-
planned that I would like to leave my
machines temporarily, in order to save
them from the storm. Before / made
the request L discovered that the young
lady who responded to my knock was
one with whom, much against her will,
I had left a machine on trial a month
or two before, and had only taken it
back after repeated prOtestatiOns on
her part that she did not want it. You
understand, we used to get a machine
into a house by representing that we
would leave it on trial. But once we
got it into the house we insisted on its
being bought, and used every per
suasive art to accomplish that result.
Frequently this was very embarrass-
ing to the lady of the house, and she
never forgave US for the annoyance Of
leaving the machine for weeks, and
asking her every other day if she
wouldn't buy, when she had emphati-
cally declared she would not. Now was
the turn of the young lady in the old
fashioned house to get square. And
although the rain had nearly washed
the machine out of the wagon, she
slammed the door in my face, and then
sat by the window enjoying my discom-
future to her hearts content As I
prepared to drive away, turned my
head, and beheld her pretty face bub-
bling over with smiles. When I reached
N I was sight to behold But
the experience cured my freshness. -
Boston Globe.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-07-18
How a Connecticut Tailor Was Cured Of
Prophetic Revelations.


A tailor in Connecticut, some years
ago, living near a certain minister took
it into his head tina he was especially
and divineIy inspired to interpret the
prophecies, and especially the Book of
Revelations. Quitting his work he
turned prophet, until his customers had
all left him and his family were likely
to perish.
His monOmania was well known to
the minister, who benevOIently watch
ed for some convenient opportunity to
turn the current of his thoughts, One
night the tailor, as he fancied, had q
revelation that the minister greatly
needed him, and the next morning
early he started for the parsonage.
The minister, whose study was fur
nished with a glass door, saw the tailor
coming and instantly surmised the ma
ture of his errand. Throwing himself
into an attitude Of solemnity, with his
eyes fixed on the tenth chapter of Rev
Citations, he awaited his approach.
The door opened and the tailor an
nOunced in his unearthly voice the
message:
''Parson Jones, I am sent by the Al
mighty to you To-"
Come in, my friend, said the min
lister. Il am in great trouble, and no
doubt the Lord has sent you to help
me out of my difficulty"
This unexpected welcome inspired
the tailor, strengthened greatly his as
surance in his own prophetic character
and disposed him to listen to the dis
closure.
"My friend, said the minister, 81
have just been reading the tenth chap
ter Of Revelation and am greatly dis
tressed with a difficulty l have met
with, and you are the very man to help
me out. Here is the account of an an
gel that came down from heaven who
was so large that he put one foot on
the sea and the other on the earth and
lifted up his hand to heaven. Now my
knowledge of mathematics enables me
to calculate exactly the size and form
of the angel, but I wish to know how
much cloth it viii take to make him a
pair of breaches, and as that is in your
line Of business, I have no doubt the
Lord has sent you to show me-"
This sudden exposition came like an
electric shock to the poor tailor. He
rushed from the house, ran to his shop,
and a quick revulsiOn of thought and
feeling came over him. Making
breeches was exactly in his line of
business. He returned to his Occupa-
ton thoroughly cured of his prophetic
revelations by the wit of the minister.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-07-18
Chinese Metal YYorking.

The metal smiths trade is very DOW
erfuI and influential in China, wrought
metal being a favOrite decoration for
houses, affairs in churches, town halls,
assembly rooms, and business places of
the more wealthy business firms. The
metals used are brass, white bronze
which closely resembles Britannia
metal; gold bronze, ordinary bronze,
and silver. The work of the Chinese
metal smiths is greatly superior to that
of our own in variety, originality of
design, and in artistic finish. The
smiths turn out bowls, vases, urns,
pitchers, ewers, basins, cup standards,
pipes and other smoking utensils, sal
yers, lamps, candelabra, lanterns, bed
steadss tables, chairs, churns, fur
nitUTe, and numerous other articles, all
Of substantial workmanship and stand
ard material.
The metal smith makes good wages
and has a good social position in China,
but the industry isn't a healthfuI one,
the Chinese not understanding the
physiological action of the metallic OK
ides on the system, and not knowing
how to prevent or remedy the injuries
they suffer. The Chinese system of
casting Is very similar to ours, but In
cleaning and polishing they use no
chemical agents, relying almost en-
tireIy on manual labor and the use
of lathes fitted up with polishing
brushes. They understand oxidation,
and produce maIachite and azure eff
fects and the like very effectively,
They secure these, not by the direct
action of acids and acid vapor baths,
but by burying the objects to be
treated in various kinds Of decompOs-
ing organic matter. This is, of course,
a slow and expensive process. In one
respect the work Of the Chinese smith
Is peculiar.
The soldiers in many parts of the
Chinese Empire still wear fine mail
armor, helmets, breastplates and
shields, and the same articles are worn
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-07-18

sailors on a man-Of-War endure the
efduvia of a cockpit, even In the LFop-
les, rather than sleep on deck where
the moon might shine upon their
eyelids.
The Neapolitan beggars. who roam
bare-headed through the streets in the
glare of the nOontide sun, are all pro
vided with little bags which they draw
over their scalps like nightcaps, while
they sleep on an open porch or among
the ruins of the PelazzO Vecchia, for
fear that the moonlight should make
them gray haired, and the mountain
GERS Of the Jura go so far as to ascribe
their gOitres to the poor satellite.
The same origin had, probably, the
frightful stories which the Greeks used
to tell about their goddess, Hecate
zone of the dozen appeIlations of the
noon, who made the dogs howl if she
entered a village upon her nocturnal
rambles, poisoned crops that crossed
her path, blighted flowers and petrifed
men and animals that met her ice-cOld
optic.
It is almost certain that the moon is
as innocent of the cause of sOmnambu-
ism as of 1unacy, but there is no doubt
but that, even in summer time, the air
of a chilly, moonlight night does not
agree with a majority of men; and army
officers know that two or three night
expeditions exhaust veterans and old.
calvary horses that couldn't be knocked
out by a dozen forced day marches in
the hottest time of the dog-day season.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-07-18
Noxfous HoonIfeht.

The injurious effect of moonlight Is
almost a ubiquitous belief, and, though
an erroneous one In its literal sense. is
founded upon experience which makes
it probable that moonlight nights often
coincide with atmospheric conditions
that exercise a noxiOus influence upon
day creatures, especially men, pigeons
and horses.
IF the children of the Yucatan In
dams are playing outdoors in the even
ing, their parents are sure to drive
them in as soon as the moon rises, lest
It should make them night-eyed and
unfit for day labor. For similar rea-
sons the French TurcOs screen their
eyes with the fringe of their turbans
during a moonlight march, and most
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-07-18

A SCHOOL of journalism has been es-
tablished in England by two young
ladies, both being competent and ex-
perienced journalists. Pupils are re-
ceived on the apprenticeship system
and required to pay fee on entering
the Office, where they viii be trained
as oOmpositors, proof-readers, short
hand writer's, reporters and journalists.
Toward the end of the three years for
which they are bound, they receive a
certain fixed salary