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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-02-06
THE OLD BACHELOR.
He Gives Reasons for Not Taking Unit
Himself q Wife.

He Gives Reasons for Not Taking Unto
Himself q Wife.
A well-known citizen, who, although ap-
preaching the sere and yellow leaf as a
bachelor, and who promises to remain in
the same uncomfortable predicament until
his poor, Hsping, stammering tongue is
silent in the grave, gave a brief explanation
of his celibacy recently to the Nebraska
State Journal man.
81 have always had the most intense ad-
miration for women" he said, ian admira-
ton that age could not wither or custom
stale, and that is why I am going it alone.
am afraid that if were to marry would
follow the track trodden by so many adj
mirers of women, and eventually be known
as household tyraut and perhaps worse.
GAS it is, / have the most infinite con-
tempt for a man who does not love and
Cherish his wife until the cows come home,
but if were to lead blushing bride to the
altar, how do I know that wouldn't be
sued for divorce in q year or two Tor cruelty
and neglect Human nature is as weak as
water, and no man knows himself.
st have seen bridegrooms manhesting an
affection for their young wiz - that was
simply seraphic, and a few mo1ths later
have seen the wives splitting wood in the
back yard, while the husbands sat on the
porch playing high five with the neighbors
Nv adherence for those husbands was be-
yond expression, and would net be hated
by others so intensely for ducat coronet
$50 rather than trust myself - a star
husband will continue to admire women
from q distance, and make preparations for
q rather lonely ca eer in the sunset Of life
Better to be somewhat blue yourself now
and then than to make the Life Of another a
long stretch Of misery"
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-02-06

ders to come to Abouthis and cut OF the
head Of the child of the High Priest and
bring it to him in a basket.
But, as it CHANGED, the boat wherein the
guards came was Of deep draught, and the
time of their coming being at the lowest
ebb Of the river, it struck and remained
fast upon a bank of mud that il opposite
the mouth Of the road that runs across to
the plains of Abouthis, and as the north
wind was blowing very fercely it was like
to sink. Thereon the guards OF Pharaoh
called out to the common people, who Ia
bored at lifting water along the banks Of
the river, to come with boats and take them
on; but seeing that they were Greeks Of
Alexandria, the people would not, for the
Egyptians love not the Greeks Then they
cried cut that they were on Pharaoh's BUSH
ness, and still the people would not, asking
what Wa the business Whereou q eunuch
among them, who had made himself
drunken in his fear, told them that they
came to slay the Child of Amenemhat, the
High Priest, Of whom it was proraesied
that he should be Pharaoh and sweep the
Greeks from Egypt And then the people
feared TO stand longer in doubt but
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-02-06

thing was going on below. At last the rope
ceased shaking, and faint shout came
rumbling up the well. announcing Ali's safe
arrival. Then, far below, q tiny star OF
light appeared. He had Lit the candle.
thereby disturbing hundreds Of bats, that
fitted up in an endless stream and as si-
lently as spirits. The rope was hauled up
again, and now it was my turn; but as de-
clined to trust my neck to the hand-over-
hand method of descent, the end Of the cord
was made fast round my middle, and was
lowered bodily into those sacred depths.
Nor was it pleasant journey, for If the
master of the situation above had made any
mistake I should have been dashed to
pieces. Also, the bats continually few into
my face and chung to my hair, and have a
great dislike of bats. At last, after some
minutes of jerking and dangling. found
myself standing in q narrow passage by the
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-02-06

The famous Alexandrian obelisk in
Central Park. New York, is in trouble.
Rumors are renewed that it is suffering
from our climate and likely to go the
way of all antiquities, Notwithstanding
its overcoat of patent parafiine. Mean
time some learned pundit has discovered
that there is an error of ten years in the
inscription upon the restored bronze
crab beneath the shaft and that it is ten
years younger than the inscription as
serts. The antiquarians are at work
upon the problem, and fancy that the
rest Of the world is vastly interested,
but the outside barbarians will be apt to
think that a few years more or less
make little difference in regard to the
venerable shaft, and will smile as pleas
antly upon the results as the rest of
mankind did on the great antiquarian
discovery of Mr.. Pickwick.-N. Y. Let
ter
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-02-06
Seal Skin saoques, s1.Oo Each,

This is great offer. Just imagine the
aruT of ladies that win besiege the store
until the last sacQue is gone-if the bargain
is ever offered. But how much more won
derful an opportunity is that presented to
every suffering woman by the proprietors
of DR. Pierce's Favorite Prescription.
This remedy is q guaranteed cure for all
those distressing ailments peculiar to the
weaker sex. 1t is guaranteed that if it does
not effect q cure money will be refunded.
It is carefully compounded by an ex-
perienced and skillful physician, and adapt
ed to woman's delicate Organization. 1t is
purely vegetable in its composition and per-
fectly harmless in its effects in any condi-
ton of the system, and is sold under pos
itioe guarantee of satisfaction in every case,
or money paid for it refunded.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-02-06
Paper from Spider webs.

George West: of Ballston, is in posses
sion OF e2tiSsity in paper sent by a
friend in Hong Kong, China 1t is a
sheet eleven by fourteen inches, made
from the web of the SACRED white
spider" of the FIowery Kingdom. 1t is as
light as air and almost as transparent, but
is also beautifully printed, containing
about two columns of matter, giving in
English the story of how ''Midshipman
Popplestone was Presented at the Court
of Pekin." Americans know much
about paper-making, but it is safe to say
that there is not a spider web paper
factory outside the Acknowledged king
dOm.-N. Y, Star
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-02-06
ONLY ONE MOTHER.


You have only one mother. my boy,
Whose heart you can gladden. with Joy,
Or cause 1t to ache
TIL ready to break
30 cherish that mother. my boy.
You have only ono mother who will
Stick to you through good and through III
And love You although
The world Is your foe
So care for that love never still
You have only one mother to pray
That fp the good path you may stay;
Who Tor you won't spare,
Self sacrifice rare
so worship that mother AWAY.
You have only one mother to make
A home ever sweet for your sake.
Who tolls day and night
For you with delight
To help her all pains ever take.
You have only one mother to miss
When she has departed from thus,
So love and revere
That mother while here,
Sometime you won't know her dear kiss.
You have only one mother-just one
Remember that always, my SON;
None can or will do
What she has for you.
What have you for her ever done?
II c. Dodge. in Detroit Free Press.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-02-06

Y OSIRIS who sleeps
at Abouthis, I write
the truth. I, Har-
machis, hereditary
priest of the Tenn
pie, reared by the
divine SETH, afore-
time q Pharaoh of
Egypt, and now
justified in Osiris
and ruling in
Amenti. I, Fl a r
machis, by right
divine and by true
descent of blood
Kin0 of tho nAnhlo
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-02-06
Railroad Equipment.

The New York Central Railroad has re-
Gently added fifty new standard coaches,
heated by steam and lighted by the Pintsch
System of gas Illumination to its passenger
equipment which now consists of 6S1 first
class passenger cars, aS composite cars, q
dining cars, 81 second class and immigrant
cars, $50 baggage, mail and express cars,
and 2S7 passenger locomotives
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-02-06
A sunerh Achievement.

Thousands of dollars have been expended
in preparing the magnificent new catalo0uo
just issued by the Bryant & Stratton Chi
cago business College, Shorthand Instituts
and English Training School which is the
most elegant and costly volume of the kind
ever published, the postage alone amount
ing to 10 cents. 1t contains liz large pages,
91zx12 inches, with 30 exquisite full page
engravings, printed on finest enamel paper.
and every ambitious Dung man and woman
should secure copy. Address II. b. BRr-
Ant q SoN, Proprietors, to 10 W ashington
St, Chicago, Illinois.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-02-06
Consumption surely Cured.

To THE EDIToR:-Please inform your
readers that have q positive remedy for
the above named disease. By its timely
use thousands of hopeless cases have been
permanently cured. i shall be glad to send
two bottles Of my remedy FREE to any Of
your readers who have consumption If they
will send me their express and post-ofice
address Respectfully, T A. SIoCUN, III. c.,
Isl Pearl street, New York
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-02-06

Crown and Pharaoh of the Upper and
Lower Land. I, Harmachis, who cast
aside the opening flower of our hope, who
turned him from the glorious path, who
forgot the voice of God in hearkening to
the voice of woman. I, Harmachis, the
fallen, in whom are gathered up all woes
as waters are gathered in q desert well,
who have tasted OF every shame, why by
betras al have betrayed, who, in losing the
glory that is here have lost of the glory
that is there, who am utterly undone-I
write, and, by Him who sleeps at Abouthis,
I write the truth.
o Egypt! Egypt dear land Of Khem,
whose black soil nourished up my mortal
part-land that I have betrayed-O We
Gods !-Osiris Isis !-Horus I've Gods Of
Egypt whom have betrayed!-O ye tenn
pies whose pylons strike the sky; We tenn
pies whose faith have betrayed! o Royal
blood of the Pharaohs of Ed, that yet runs
within these withered veins-whose virtue
I have betrayed 20 Right divine of Kings
betrayed by me!-O Invisible Essence of all
Good! and o Fate, whose balance rested
on my hand-hear me; and, to the last day
of utter doom, bear me witness that write
the truth
What, then, is mana He is feather,
but a feather blown by the wind. He is q
fire, but q fire born of the fuel He is o
spirit, but spirit having wings wherewith
to sail to either destiny. He may choose
the good, and on him doth rest the evil
that he does. He is the helm unto the boat
OF Fate; he is the shadow that goes before
the sword; he is the dream that presages
the truth There is no Chance; for man in
his hour doth direct the Chance, and, as
with . stylus, doth map upon the tablet of
the world the thing that he brought about.
So hath the Invisible decreed. and SO for
ever to ever shall it be- And woe to him
who failethi
Even rs write, beyond the fertile fields,
the Nile is running red a. though with
blood. Bright before me beats the light
upon the far Arabian hills, and bright 1t
falls upon the piles of Abouthis. At Alb
outhis, within the temples, still do the
priests make or;son, but me they know no
more; still the sacrifice is offered, and the
stony roofs echo down the prayers Of those
who pray. Still from here, from this lone
cell within my prison tower, 1. the Word of
Shame, watch thy f1uttering banners, O
Abouthis. Haunting from thy py1on walls
and hear the chants as the long procession
winds from sanctuary to sanctuary.
o Abouthis, lost Abouthisl my heart goes
out toward theei For the day comes when
the desert sands shall FILL thy holy plaeesl
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-02-06

Sufferers are not generally aW1re thnt
these dieeases a<o contagious, or that they
are due 60 the presence Of living parasites
eustachian tubeA NicrOscopic researcA,
however, has proved this to be fact, pn4
the result Of this discovery IL that . sfzIpln
remedy has been formulated Wherehy
CAtarrh, Hay Fever and Catarrhal Deafnesa
are permanently cured in from one to fhreo
simple applications made ut home by tn
patient once in two weeks
n. B.3This treatment il not q suuR or N
ointment; both have been discarded by
reputable physicians as Injurious A pamph-
let explaining this new treatment ID sent On
receipt Of three cents in stamps to pay
postage by A. II. Dixon & Son, cor. Of John
and King Street, Toronto, CanAda.-Chrse
eian Advocate.
Sufferers from Catarrhal troubles shgRlA
C8I0IQilv "a
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-02-06
Florence, Ala.

The personally conducted excursions To
cessfui that the Chicago & Eastern Illinois
Railroad, Evansville Route, will run one on
each of the following dates-Feb. 4th, 18th,
18th and 18th. For copy Of " Alabama As
1t Is" and further information send to
William Hill, Gen. Pass. Agent, Chicago, IL
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-02-06

In moments of decision there Is danger OF
mistaking the exhaustion of long spiritual
struggle Tor resignation to fate.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-02-06

SUDDEN Changes of Weather cause
throat Diseases. There is no more effectual
remedy for Coughs, Colds, etc, than
BRowN's BRONCHIAL TRoCHES. Sold only in
boreS. Price rs cts.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-02-06

MI face is my fortune, sir, she said Yea.
You could easily get long engagement in
O dime museum.-Boston Herald
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-02-06

For Constipation or Sick Headache, use
DR.. Pierce's Pellets; Purely Vegetable.
One dose
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-02-06

TIE philosophers trouble Is that while hs
can give fifty years to evaluating life i'm
partially, HE has spent several thousand
years in shaping his Notwithstanding.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-02-06

DoBBINs' Electric Soap does not chap the
hands, being perfectly pure Many people
afflicted with Salt Rheum have been cured
by its use Preserves and whitens clothes.
Have your grocer order it and try it no,C.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-02-06

As FAST as you master the difficulties of
life, new ones arise to demand your atten-
ton
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-02-06

I SHOULD Hike to see any kind of man
distinguishable from q gorilla that somo
good and even pretty woman could noe
Shape Q husband out of.-Q W. Holme4
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-02-06

A LUCKY man: man who marries q
widow whose first husband was mean to
her.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-02-06

HAVE no equal as a prompt and positive
cure for sick headache, biliousness, consti-
patton, pain In the side, and all liver troub-
les. Carter's Little Liver Pills. Try them.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-02-06

MAN likes to think the world o stage bet
Ter than Ne likes to think that he is an anna
teur performer on it.-Atchison Globe.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-02-06

FREQUENTLY late election returns seem to
come very properly from outlying districts.
Merchant Traveller.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-02-06

CURE your cough with Hale's Honey of
Horehound and Tar.
Pixies Toothache Drops Cure in one minute.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-02-06

IoI1I,
Messrs. A. T. SHALLENBERGER d. Co
Rochester, Pa Gentx-Last spring
received by mail a bottle of your Antidote for
Malaria for my brother, who had chills for
more than six months. He frequently broke
them with Quinine but they would soon re-
turn. / gave him the Antidote and he has
not had a chill since. 1t has made q per-
nadnet cure. Yours truly,
W. W. PERDCK.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-02-06

DoN'T fret over your trials. The more q
plate of soup is stirred the cooler it be-
comes.-Boston Transcript
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-02-06

IT IS 30 easy for a man to say that the
people dislike him because of envy.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-02-06

REGRET not yesterday, despise not to-day
depend not on to-morrow.-Texas Siftinga
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-02-06

AGREEABLE to popular demand the
Kansas City, Wyandotte & Northwest
ern railroad has reduced its passenger
rates to two cents per mile. Passengers
will save money by purchasing tickets
over this line.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-02-06
CLEOPATRA.
Being an Account of the Fall and
Vengeance of Harmachis, the
Royal Egyptian,
AS SET FORTH BY HIS OWN HAND
By H. RIDER HACGARD,

Author OF " King SOlonnOn's Mines
"She," " Allan Quaternaain,"
ETC., Etc., Etc.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-02-06
CHAPTER L

OF THE BIRTH OF HARMACHIs; cHE PRoPu-
ECY OF THE HATHORS; AND THE STAY
ING OF THE INNOCENT CHILD
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-02-06
INTRODUCTION.

Illustrated by NICHOLL. after CATION WOOD
VILE and GREFFENHAGEN.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-02-06

A BOX wind matches free to smokers OF
'sTansilrs Punch &c. Cigar.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-02-06

Sunsrers from Catarrhal troubles shoRla
carefully Ssad the above
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-02-06

TIE good die young, but it is the old
who live to be wicked, who improve thu
world.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-02-06

A NICKEL in the hand beats two in the
slot.-N. q. Picayune.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-02-06

BRONCHITIS is cured by frequent sma
doses Of Piso's Cure for Consumption.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-11
TO FLOAT IN THE AIR.
A Vessel That is Expected to Outstrip the
Ordinary Balloon.

A Vessel That is Expected to Outstrip the
Ordinary Balloon.
CHICAGO, Dec. -sWithin three weeks
we will sail into Chicago in the first of our
air ships" declared E. j. Pennington at
the Grand Pacific Hotel to-day.
Mr.. Pennington, who is the principal in
ventor of the air ship soon to be tried
for the first time, had come TO
the city to attend the meeting of
the stockholders of the Mount Carmel
Ernautic Navigation Company, which
convened at the hotel this afternoon. 1t is
virtually the first meeting of the stockhold-
ers OF this big corporation which, it is said,
has already paid up capital of $40, 900, 600.
1t is proposed to invest this great sum in the
manufacture OF ships for travelling in the air.
Mr.. Pennington, a neatly y-dressed, intelli-
gent and studious-looking man of about so
years of age, explained that the first of the
ships was nearing completion, and that the
plans for trial trip over the country had
already been completed. This trial will occur
in about three weeks. The ship he said, will
ure at Mount Carmel and travel to St.
Louis, distance OF 1S5 miles. From St.
Louis it will sail up to Chicago and from
here to New York. Mr.. Pennington and
his associate, R. H. Butler, propose to make
the trip, taking with them half dozen
newspaper representatives and any of the
stockholders who wish to accompany them.
The vessel with which the first trial is to be
made will be 200 feet in length. The cabin
will be made OF aluminium.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-11
SUICIDAL POSSIBILITIES.
Individual Responsibility is the Key of the
Whole Situation.

Individual Responsibility is the Key of the
Whole Situation.
1t is commonly believed, says Hospital,
that the tendency to suicide. like the ten
dency to madness, runs in families, and that
is no doubt true. But the strongest-minded
and clearest. headed man in the world has
the possibility of suicide in him. On the
other hand, the disposition to madne and
suicide, which is so decided a characteristic
of some families, is, in many cases, easily to
be kept at bay by resolution and intelli-
gence on the part of particular individuals.
So that, in most cases, if the story of sui
eide be read from the very beginning, the
full responsibility must be placed upon the
victim himself.
In our own time the pressure of highly
civilized environment urges men in the
direction OF brain weariness and so of dis
gust with life. But it is to be borne in mind
that no man is compelled to enter into the
keenest competitions OF his age. The brain
is fairly mature be ore the age of %; and be-
fore that age lew educated men are married,
and fewer still are irrevocably committed to
a particular calling or way OF life. A young
man of average intelligence is then quite
able to judge his own intellectual force and
staying power, and he is also able to take
into consideration the history of his family
and his own inherited tendencies. 1t is in
cumbent upon him at that stage to take stock
of his mental and physical resources exactly
as he takes stock OF his capital. II his
available money amount to no more than
81, 900 or 81, 000 he would consider himself
a madman were he to embark in business
requiring a capital of $500, ,000
But is he not lust as much q madman If
with mind OF merely average powers, he
enters upon line of life requiring an in
tellect of the strongest and clearest order
and mental endurance of the most persistent
kind? A young man acting thus invites brain
worry, Invites chronic dyspepsia, invites
sleeplessness; throws the door wide open for
the entrance of all the physiological foes that
destroy health and drive sanity out of the
home
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-11

a family OF four motherless children,
to Mary Angelina johnson, a col
ored woman OF the upper colored
circles. When the wedding guests assem-
bled in the parlors tonight the presents
were spread out on table, and the expect
ant groom awaited in the parlor
with the minister. Angles foot
steps were heard descending the
stairs. Someone told her that she was
wanted in the rear room, and she went
there, to find James Russell, colored, an old
fame who had been thrown over for Hurst.
He urged her not to throw herself away on
any white trash, but to marry him. Angles
heart softened, and she told Russell to
come along and they would be married by
the minister whom Hurst had hired.
When Angie appeared, leaning on the
arm of Russell, the guests were surprised,
but not half so much as when she burst out:
"Dar'll be wedding here tonight, people,
but Jim Hurst won't be de groom. Mister
Russell and 1 will he married. 1 don't
want any white trash husband" Hurst
avowed he wouldn't pay the minister, and
the party broke up. the guests carrying
away the presents they brought. Hurst
tried to get al Russell to thrash him, but
was prevented by friends.