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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-04-03

SOME OF our readers who reside in
the city may not have noticed that
there was an election last Tuesday.
Such is the fact, however curious it
may seem.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-04-03

T. n. Brewer is on the move with
his little school bag hung over his
shoulder, looking after the people who
are entitled to pay tax. He is present
ing two petitions to the people for
signature, one to the county COM
missioners as protest again the ap-
preparation of the $500, to the immi-
grafton bureau, and one to the leg
islature on the river bridge.-Pawnee
Rock Leader.
WE ARE of the opinion that Mr..
Brewer is hardly doing the fair thing
by the immigration bureau, by the peo-
pie of this county, or by himself in
taking such action. In the first place
he has not, to our knowledge, attended
single one of the immigration meet
ings, and his information as to the
objects of the bureau and the class of
people it is expected to bring to Kansas,
as well as the amount of money which
the commissioners are asked to ap-
propriate, is evidently erroneous in
many particulars. We do not say that
he would Intentionally do an injustice
to a public movement that is for the
general good; he evidently thinks that
he is doing right; but if he would take
the same pains to ascertain the true
object Of the bureau that he is taking
to undo the good work it has COM
menced he would look at the matter in
an entirely Different lipht
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-04-03

KANSAS is the wedge which will open
to the country an era of prosperity
never before equalled. She is In
dustriously at work within herself now
and the geod results viii spread to her
sister states.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-04-03

WHEN the people Of eastern and
southern states desire to escape the
disasters of high waters, cyclones and
hurricanes, they should seek tho broad
prairies of Kansas. No use Of staying
in country where you are liable to
either be drowned like rats or lifted on
the wings of the wind and scattered
promiscuously. Come to Kansas. :
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-04-03

GENERAL MANAGER ST.. JOIN, Of
the Rock Island, has issued q circular
informing employees that they win be
discharged and not re-employed If
found intoxicated either on or of duty.
That is reform that will prove great
good to the railway service.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-04-03

1.-THE PEOPLE are the party, and II
the machine has not been run to suit
the masses it is their own fault. They
by exercising the prerogative of ballot
in the caucus, primaries and convention
may mold to conform to their desires
the actions of their representatives in
every Office, both county, state and
national. This statement will be dis
puted, but nothing can be brought forth
to show that it is wrong. One man is
just as honest as another, no matter to
what party he may belong. Party does
not mold honor, though honor molds
party. A man is not more honorable
because he is q greenbacker. a demo
crat, or q republican; his honor is q
distinct part of him. A man who by
reason Of position, the gift of the POO
pie, uses it for his personal gain to the
detriment of his constituents ID worse
than the traitor, Benedict Arnold. >
Thus truthfully speaks an exchange.
And the people of Kansas have become
awakened to the fact that they have. by
neglecting to do their duty at the pri.
maries and the polls, placed too many
Benedict Arnolds" in q position tt
sell them out. They have about real
lied that the fault lies with themselves
for being led to the altar Of politica
faith and slaughtered for the benefit ol
the party managers,
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-04-03

The Register last week called the
attention of the people to the deplor-
able condition of Great Bend concerning
cemetery privileges. This is matter
that concerns everyone, and should
receive the attention of our people.
The cemetery should not be thing
for speculation, but should be under
the control Of the people, and the sooner
we take steps towards placing it in
better shape, and more to the best
interests Of. the general public, that
much sooner will we get the vexed
question settled. 1t would be well to
call q meeting of our citizens and
discuss the best plans to pursue.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-04-03

How DEAR to my purse is the law
that prohibits, although don't often
imbibe to excess; the drug store, the
poison, the stem winding headache,
and even the jug that get by express
the little brown jug, the one gallon
jug, the whiskey-filled jug that 1 get
by express. Republican.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-04-03

Now LOOK out for something start
ling, over the s'Pumpkinvine'' tele-
graph.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-04-03
HE1eHBoRHooD HAHPEHIHas.


EllinWood Hens.
School closed at the Herter school
house last Friday.
Strange as It may seom; drummers
have the grip more than any other class
of individuals.
A bright bouncing little democrat at
the house of our genial merchant tailor
T. Osterhaus last week.
Martin Musil threshed over 5000
bushels Of fine wheat last week. Still
it is said that farming does not pay.
The K. P. bah promfses to be the
event of the season. No invitations
are out, and everybody is cordially in
vited and welcome. Don't forget,
Monday eve, April 7th, 1890.
Did any of our farmer readers ever
stop to think a basket Of eggs, which
can be carried by a ten-year-old boy,
will bring more moHey in the market
than a load Of corn? H is true; and
the sooner our farmers realize that the
money is in the Chicks and pigs, and
not in IA cent corn, unless realized
through this medium, the sooner will
they lift the mortgages on their farms.
The party given to the young people
by Mrs. Capt. Grant, assisted by Miss
Holston was one of the pleasantest, if
not the most pleasant, of social events
of the season. A merry crowd Of young
people were present, who all enjoyed
themselves immensely. The hosts did
all in their power to prepare pleasant
evening for the company and we will
remark right here that they succeeded
admirably.
The people of this ooihmunity will be
very sorry to learn that Rev. G.. w.
Howes has been transferred to Lyons,
Kans. Mr.. Howes has a host of friends
here, which he has made through his
gentlemanly actions for which he has
always distinguished himself, and the
members of the NJ. e. Church lose an
excellent pastor. Weswish Mr.. Howes
and family much happiness ic their
new home.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-04-03

IT HAS been declared by at least one
newspaper man in Rice county that it
is his intention to steer the Alliance
into the republican party. Funny,
faint it?"-LYons Denocrat.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-04-03

The butter and cheese factory started
up Wednesday (the 26th). On account
of some deficiency in machinery butter
cannot be made for a few days, but a
good grade of cheese will be manufac-
tured. The directors have decided to
pay 60 cents per hundred for milk until
the 1st of May. Buttermilk will be
sold for cents gallon. 1887 pounds
of milk was taken in, the first day, fur
nished by the following persons: F..
Reiche, 1872; J. A. McGinnis, 20; C. B.
McCarter, 20; L. Yunker, IS; A. j.
Terrell, SIS; j. w. Ford, So; ]. r. Under
wood, 78; w. C. Smith, IL; S. S. Shat
tuck, Il; c. E. Jones, 20; w. Soder-
strum, "a; D. Pfester, As; c. Corcoran,
226; r. Boxwen. 38.
A great many farmers are making
arrangements to furnish milk to the
creamery and we doubt not that over
5000 pounds will be worked up daily in
one month from the present time. 60
cents per hundred is equal to Is cents a
pound for butter and the farmer is
saved the trouble of churning and mar
keting his butter.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-04-03

WITH this number the DEMOCRAT
begins its seventh year Of usefulness,
and we hope to so increase it's good
work during the coming volume that no
family in Barton county will feel con-
tented without its weekly visits. Dur
ing the volume just closed it has 30
rapidly increased its circulation that It
now leads all competitors in the county,
and men who understand the business
of advertising have recognized that it
is the very best medium in the county
through which to reach the best classes
of our citizens. With continuation
of the good words spoken for our paper
by its many friends; an energetic effort
on our own part to be fair and just to
all men and to place the news before
our readers in plain and unbiased
manner, we hope to make volume seven
of the BARTON COUNTY DEMoCRAr q
publication that can be looked back to
in our declining years as one that has
in every sense Of the word been a
newspaper of the day.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-04-03
Joseph Cook,

Having learned with pleasure that
my classmate, Joseph Cook. of Boston,
IS to lecture in our town, shall esteem
it a privilege to address few words
through your columns to the people of
Great Bend and vicinity respecting the
treat that is in store for them. Joseph
Cook as everybody knows is lecturer
of worldwide reputation. He has done
what no other man in the country is
capable of doing. Every year for
perhaps fifteen years and for months
in succession he has drawn together in
Boston an audience of from 1000 to
1000 people on Monday noon filling one
of the largest halls in the city. His
last series Of lectures recently closed
ir Dumont Temple was listened to
with unabated interest.
AS a lecturer he is noted first for his
vast and varied information. He reads
everything worth remembering. He
knoworOVeEything that is going on
both in the world of thought and of
active life and views all things with a
philosophers eye. Hence he is always
fresh and up with the times. He has
never been caught mapping or proved
to have made an error in quotation.
His second characteristic as a speaker
is:prince of oratory. He is large man
physically as well as intellectually, with
a mighty voice, and while remarkable
for skill and vividness in the illustra-
tion of his subject, he is especially dis
t1nguished for the force of his utter
ances and tue sledge hammer blows
with which he pulverizes his adversaries.
as well as for his independence and
fearlessness. The subject upon which
he is advertised to speak Law and
Labor, Property and Poverty" is one
which he is competent to handle. as he
has given to it much of his best thought.
While not an extremist, he has strong
sympathies with the toilers of the world.
These sympathies were so strongly ex-
pressed many years ago that they cost
him his first and only pastorate in
Lynn, Mass, over a church patronized
largely by wealthy manufacturers. ]
have heard him upon this subject but
am confident that his lecture will be
instructive and stimulating and will
amply repay all who hear it.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-04-03

WE ARE under obligations to Hon.
Frank III. Betton, Commissioner of
Labor and Industrial Statistics, for the
fifth annual report of the labor bureau.
The report is complete in every detail,
and is mighty valuable book to have
around. Major Betton evidently appre-
ciates the benefits to Kansas which
have been brought about by her news
papers, as he devotes full IS pages to
the printing business of the state.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-04-03

HAS ANY farmer in Kansas ever been
benefited by the election OF Harrison
and the defeat Of Cleveland? Are his
taxes any less? Has the price of the
clothing, the lumber, the salt, the
machinery he buys been reduced? Has
the prices of wheat, his corn, his oats,
his cattle and his hogs been increased?
Will he wear a rubber cape and carry a
torch next fall in the procession and
shout himself hoars for the grand old
party?" not if he knows himself, and
we think he does.-Guthrie Democrat
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-04-03


the fields near by where his daughters
had to pass along. He knows nothing
Of the apprehension that parents feel
that live in the country and have to
send their girls to school or on errands
to their neighbors, or who sometimes
have to leave wife and daughters unpro-
tected at home. Only two weeks ago a
''cut- throat" was lynched near Madi-
son. The sweet and innocent child of
only twelve summers was found in q
deep ditch where he had outraged her
and then cut her throat from ear to ear,
and afterwards confessed that "she
begged him mighty hard not to kill her
but he was afeered she'd tell on him. -
How did our hearts beat wildly and
grieve over the agony Of that poor
child. Hardly q week passes that our
newspapers do not record similar case
s0mewhere-not so heart-rending, per
haps, but always brutal and fiendish,
and always perpetrated by the new get
that have grown up since the war.
These things are ever before US in
memory and our vengeance, though
smothered il burning in the southern
heart. II was q negro preacher, OF
teacher, and loved the peace and the
welfare Of my race I would preach and
teach to them continually the enormity
Of such crimes, bnt they do not.
DR.. Austin Phelps answers to all
this, sWhy don't you educate him uE
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-04-03
Hoisington Items.

d01s1ngton Items.
From the Dispatch.
A. S. Houck has returned from
Indiana.
Joe Degan is having a kitchen built
to his residence.
Joel Dickerson shipped from this
place last Saturday evening very fne
bunch of shorthorn cattle.
Now is the time to plant fruit and
shade trees. Every ysowner of lot in
Hoisinsoou shouid sss % beautify his
property.
II. w. Patterson, of Ft. Dodge, Iowa,
has been employed as butter and
cheese maker at the creamery. He has
had sixteen years. experience.
The first quarterly meeting of the NJ.
E. church at this place will be held at
the church building on Saturday, April
5th at 2 p. m. Presiding Elder Waite
will be present.
w. III. Rice has resigned the position
of secretary of the creamery association
on account of other business calling
him so far away from the factory. max
ing it inconvenient for hin to attend
to the necessary business. w. W. Car.
ney was elected secretary.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1890-01-29

frank kind blue eyes-possibly some
sudden recollection. too-seemed to reas-
sure him
sit was to Mr. Cowan's little house,
sir He interposed to save me from
worse beating at the hands of three
brutes who were employed there and had
some grudge against this garrison OF
which was ignorant. They attacked
me without word of warning. 1t was
he, too. who called in DR.. Quin.
"Have you-did you see any of the
people at Dunraven besides this young
manT'
Il saw his mother, sir. She is a nurse
there, and has been in the family for
years, am told.
Perry was silent moment Then he
spoke again
Have you heard any further threats
among the men here since the arrest of
Sergt LearyY
Gwynne hesitated, coloring painfully:
1T is something hate to speak of, sir.
The talk has not alarmed me in the
least.
II know that, sergeant. All the same
performance, and it was that, mainly
that brought me over here l saw some
men stealing out of M troops quarters
awhile ago, and lost them in the dark
ness. | thought they might be coming
over here, and-got here first.
Gwynne's face lighted up. 1t touched
him to know his officers were on the
lookout for his safety
Il have heard nothing, sir. The men
would hardly be apt to speak to me on
the subject, since the affair of the other
night. What fear is simply this-that
there is an element here in the regiment
that is determined to get down there to
the ranch and have satisfaction for the
assault that was made on you and your
party They need horses in order to get
there and back between midnight and
reveille, and are doubtless Matching some
plan. They failed here; now they may
try thastables of some other troop or the
quartermaster's. Shall l warn the sen,
try that there are providers out to.
nightY'
"Not yet They will hardly make the
attempt while your light is burning here.
What I'm concerned about just now is
this: We all know that there is deer
sympathy for Leary in the command,
and it is not improbable that among the
Irishmen there is corresponding feeling
against you. l don't like your being
here alone just now, for they know you
ere almost the only witness against
him"
II have thought of that, sir. answered
Gwynne, gravely, ''but want nothing
that looks like protection. The captain
has spoken of the matter to me, and he
agreed, sir. that it would do more harm
than good. There is one thing would
ask-if may trouble the lieutenant.
"What is it, sergeant"
'Ihave little packet, containing some
papers and trinket or two, that would
like very much to have kept safely. and.
if anything should happen to me, tc
have you, sir and Capt. Stryker open it.
and-the letters there will explain every,
thing that is to be done
Certainly. will take care of it fol
you-if not too valuable"
'sIwould rather know it was with you,
sir, than stow it in the quartermaster's
safe," was Gwynne's answer. as he
opened little wooden chest at the foot
of his bunk, and, after rummaging
moment, drew forth parcel tied and
sealed This he handed to the lieutenant
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1890-01-29

foi the coming of another day, that he
might start forth on his ride TO Dunra
ven. A spin around the parade or out
on the star4it prairie might soothe his
nerves and enable him to sleep
All lights were out in the quadrangle
save those at the guard house. Even at
Belknaps quarters. where the veranda
had been throaged with officers and la
dies only an hour before, all was now 81
lence and darkness Unwilling to attract
attention by tramping up and down on
the board walk. he crossed the road and
went out on the broad level of the pa
rade, but took care SO to direct his steps
as not to come within hailing distance OF
the guard house 1t would he awkward
work explaining the situation to the ser
geant of the guard in case the sentry
WATeto see or hear and challenge him.
he edged well over to his left as he
walked, and SO it happened that he found
himself after a while. opposite the
northeast entrance to the post and close
to the road ON which stood the commits
sary and quartermaster storehouses
There was Il sentry posted here, too, and
it would not do to be challenged by him
any more than by Number One.
Stopping a moment to listen for the
sentry's football Perry's ear was at
tracted by the sound of door slowly
and cautiously opened 1t was some
little time before he could tell from
which one of the neighboring buildings
looming there in the darkness. the sound
proceeded Then he heard muff1ed foot
steps and a whispered consultation not
far away. and hurrying on tiptoe in the
direction of the sound he presently
caught sight of two or three shadowy
forms moving noiselessly along the
porch of the company quarters nearest
him Stryker's troop, that to which he
belonged, was quartered down beyond
the guard house on the lower side of the
parade: these forms were issuing from
the barracks of Capt. Wayne's troop
and before Perry could realize the fact
that they were, out either in moccasins
or their stocking feet. and presumably
therefore on some unlawful enterprise.
they had disappeared around the corner
of the building He walked rapidly
thither. turned the corner and they were
nowhere in sight or hearing Stopping
to listen did not help matters at all He
could not hear sound. and as for the
, shadows of which he was in pursuit, il
was simply impossible to tell which di.
rection they had taken, They had van
islled from the face ofs the earth and
were lost in the deeper gloom that hung
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1890-01-29
DUNRAVEN RANCH
A Story of American Frontier
Life.
By Capt. CHARLES KING, US. A.,
Author o The CotoneTs Daughter" From
the Ranks" "TRe Deseyter," Etc

Copyrighted 1888 by J B Lippiucott Company
Philadelphia and published by special arrange
ment through the American Press Association
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-11-06

Antoinette was srra,gned, Madame Elisa.
beth was dragged forward as g witness
against her sister-lr-!aw. Her conduct
amid the vile and indecent questions pour
ed upon ner. showed ell The greatness Of
her soul After the Queens death, she Law.
ished all her care on the education of the
princess. daughter Of Louis XVI, whose
admirable courage and noble resignation
were to undergo such cruel trials.
After an imprisonment of twenty-one
mouths, this woman, whose life had been
spent in doing good and in self forgetfulness,
was torn from the arms of her beloved pupil,
and conveyed amid the e1ecrations of the
mob to the Ooncisrgerie, which she left the
next day to hear her death sentence. The
frmness Of Madame Elizabeth did not waver.
More than twenty victim were hurried to the
scaffold that day, and among them several
ladies, who saluted her respectfully as they
passed before her. Madame Elizabeth en-
braced them all affectionstely, and CON.
tinned In fervent prayer until the fatal mo-
ment. She died May 10, 1884, at the age of
thirty. Her correspondence, which has
been published, shows excellent judgment,
Hrm character, and pure and sensitive
soul.-Fraak Leslie's Magazine.