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Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-07-07
The Only Pure
Baking Powder.
tFrom Halls Journal Of Healthy

(From Halls Journal OF Healthy
We feel 1t our duty to state that of
number of different kinds of Baking
Powder purchased in neighboring city
for examination. the only one we found
made Of Pure Grape Cream of Tartar, and
that did not contain any Alum, Acid
Phosphates, or Ammonia, and that was
absolutely free from authorizations, was
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-07-07

Through Its excellent railroad facilities IVAN
HOE" Is paced within minimum haul of the enor-
nous deposits of Gossan Iron Ore Of Carroll county
and the world famous Limonte and Mountain Ores
OF the Cripple Greek Valley and is also within easy
haul OF the celebrated Pocahontas and F1stTop
Coal and Coke fields
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-01-16
Just The Size of It,

The Republican has not gone into the
interview business touching the matter
of resubmission, but intercourses with
Fsspgbiisgss,ns liiss,s en the subject has con
Einced it. thai there are three classes in
the party favoring resubmission-those
who desire to meet the question, dis
pose of it and keep it out of politics
those who are disgusted with the
present free whisky laws, and those
who do not believe in prohibition at all.
1t has also discovered that many repub-
llearlss ,ll sFs ptssssn.Hg tss rsstiye HEaeF the
insulting and d0miheering policy which
is now being pursued by the rule or
ruin cranks of the party. And it can
be safely put down that similar state
of affairs exists in every community in
the state Of Kansas: There is ao use
Disgusting these facts, and the sooner
the question of resubmission is squarely
met and disposed of, the better it will
be for all GENERALIZATION Repub-
lican.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-01-16
THE AMERICAN GIRL.

How She Rules Her Father In the Matter of
Foreign Marriage.
The American father discourses loudly
on the street-cars upon the folly of mar
riages between American girls and titled
but impecunious foreigners. He won
ders what Huntington and others mean
by permitting their daughters to throw
themselves away in this manner, and
AYERS with great emphasis that in such
case he, the American father, would
march the girl home without ceremony
and tell the foreign Prince to go to that
country assigned by anarchists to all
potentates. But the American father who
talks so loudly would, when the emer-
gency came, behave just as other
American parents do. He might pro-
test vociferously at the beginning, but
he would presently grow meek and sub
missive, and end by agreeing to all the
Young woman of his house desired, in
cluding not only the acceptance of a
foreign appendage to his family, but
the paying of the appendage's debts.
The American girl has the American
father too well trained to be in danger
from that quarter when she has once
caught the coveted title in her net The
father may chafe in his chains at times,
but after all is not to be pitied, since he
is alone to blame for permitting the proc
ess of family training TO be reversed
from its natural order. Train up a
young girl in the way she should go and
when she is of legal age she will not de-
part from it to marry an adventurer--
Indianapolis Journal.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-01-16
Ambiauous Advertisement

A certain advertiser wanted ga young
man to take care of horses of Christian
dispositions" shop in a London street
exhibited a card warning every body
against inscriptions persons ''who in
fringe our title to deceive the public"
ON the door of an eating-house in Lon
don may be read the following announce
ment: Sailors vitals cooked here;" q
boarding house keeper announced that
he had cottage containing eight rooms
and an acre of land;" dealer in cheap
shoes was equally ambiguous when he
counseled Ladies wishing these cheap
shoes will do well to call soon, as they
will not last long," still another adver.
tisement announces that This hotel
will be kept open by the widow of the
forper landlord who died last summer
on new and improved plan," and q
manufacturing wire-worker invites the
public to come and see his Invisible
knces.-Prlnthts' 1nk.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-01-16
CARE OF THE HAIR.
suggestions Which People Would Perha,
Do Well to Follow.

Do Well to Follow.
In considering this important subject
of caring for the hair we shall find the
matter simplified if we divide it into
two heads. Under the first. let us Mace
few emphatic do nots; under the Sec
ono we Will place a few dos. Well.
then, to begin with the first:
Do not wash the head in well-water.
because the lime usually found therein
renders the hair harsh and dry: also
eventually killing off the young roots.
reducing the finest head of hair, in proc
ess OF time, to thin, wiry mass.
Do not use soap, for the same results
follow, owing to the alkalies which the
very best makes contain, and impurities
"4,cn predominate in cheap soaps.
Do not use fne-toothed comb in Or
uer tnat you may 'clean the dirt OUT of
your mead; the sharp teeth scrape the
tender, young hair just as it is fairly
starceo' thus running it. These same
1eetn may indeed draw out the dust and
dandruH, but they also quite as surely
irr1tate the scalp, destroy the chair
cells, and in the end produce a fine
new crop Of dandruff.
DO not use oil, for however carefully
applied it will simply form a more or
less st1cky trap to catch every particle
OF dust and dirt floating in the air.
Pomade is open to the same objection.
HBut," you say, ''what shall 1 do in
order to make my harsh, dry hair soft
and smooth?" Why, read on, and Won
will see just what to do. Once more do
not, and we will see what dos have in
store for us.
DO not use wire brush, it will tear
out and thin the thickest head of hair.
This is no silly prejudice, but a fact
proved true in many cases after i'm
partial trial.
10 brush the head twice day with a
hrastle-hrush, not too stiff, but sufficient
~ so to penetrate to the scalp. Brush
>>every which way'-forward, backward.
up, down and sideways. This process
will lnvigorate and soften the hair.
Fifteen minutes twice day devote to it
If you have the time.
Do clip the ends of the hair as often
as once in six weeks. It is better to
have some one do this for you, as YOU
can not reach all the short hairs at the
back of your head. If you will examine
your hair before clipping you will see
numbers of ''split ends" Well, hair
stops growing when it commences to
split, so if you would insure thick
head OF hahn you must salso insure even
healthy ends.
Do, if you find it necessary to wash
your head, do so in cold, salt water, per-
fectly clear, and rub with crash towel
until dry. This is tedious process, but
unless it is thoroughly dried dandruff
forms, and if the hair is very thick it is
apt to mildew. A young lady once
dressed in haste after long bath in the
ocean, her partially dried hair was coiled
up in hurry, and not combed again
until late on the following day, when
she was obliged to cut away double
handful of mildewed hair which lay be-
meath the heavy ''Grecian COLI at the
base Of her exceedingly pretty head.
The sacrifice was made amid a series of
groans and lamentations. Therefore we
would say:
Do wear an oilskin or waterproof cap
while bathing, no matter whether it is
becoming or not.-Good Housekeeping.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-01-16

THERE was a panic at the Odeon
last night. Several people were severely
injured. mostly internal injuries, and
had to be removed to the hospital
Some, however, were taken to Their
homes in carriages. Bill Nye and
Whitcomb Riley were arrested i'm.
mediately upon the conclusion of the
reading: Major Pond Immediately
gave bail for their aprearanee-in the
next town. It might just as well be
told, right here, that the panic was a
panic of laughter. regular rib-fracturine
laughter. The faces of the delighted
hearers were scarcely permitted to
relax for moment, and smiles and
smiles played about each countenance
like heat lightning in midsummer
nights sky, and abont fourteen times
a minute this hsat,lightning effect was
broken by peals and peals of laughter.
Everybody must surely have left with
a terrible side-acl,e. The pretty Odeon
was crowded to the doors by an
audience that was with tbem' to the
end, Cincinnati Times Star, Deeem.
Der rls. These two amusement makers
will be ut the Grand opera house, Great
Bend, on Feb. 24th. Call on OF send
to G. 81. -Hulme for tickets. Reserved
seats sl.6o.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-01-16
"a SQUELeH RUBBISH.
What Able Criticism Has Done for En-
glish Literature.

What Able Criticism Has Done for En-
glish Literature.
Even in its severest form sharp criti-
cism does good, and it saves society from
what would otherwise be the infliction
Of second-rate or third-rate workman
ship. 1t is amazing to think of the
amount of bad work-literary rubbish
of all sorts-that would have been al
lowed to live for time if the strong
hand of criticism had not swept it into
oblivion. Our literary treasure house,
the British Museum, caEtainly contains
some useleSS books, stored away in its
exeEaccumulating archives; but what
would it not have contained but for the
work of the critics in exposing preten-
tious books and booming tho majority
of those thar appear to extinc-
tieae On the other hand, origi-
Ral works, the appreciation of
which is beyond the capacity of the
merely-smart reviewer, certainly suffer
from the obtuse as we'll as from the rash
verdict of the critics; and immediate
popularity is the most deceptive test of
merit, simply because the average mind
and the average critic is a product of
the average mind-can not appreciate
an original creation. It may be struck
By It, but it can not correctly appraise
il. It does not see that, however strange
and just because it Is new-a work of
genius may be the natural development
Of preceding literary art Some very in
telligent persons make a point of not
reading the books of the hour, the books
of which every one is talking and some
are raving. They wait till the en-
thusiasm has subsidized, that they
may see whether the favorite will
pass out Of sight, like fashion in
Dress I went the other day into the
shop of a well-known London dealer in
old books, and asked if he had - q
book just published. With really ma
jestio air and the most deliberate STAG
cato voice, he replied: ''No, sir. only
deal in books that have stood the test of
time. For new ones go to Mr.. or
to Mr. -, in - square," 1t was i'm
possible not to sympathize with a man
who felt that his function as dealer in
old books was infinitely higher than that
of one who merely retailed the publica-
tions of the day, because his transac-
tions were with permanent literary work.
It is, perhaps. a similar feeling that
leads some persons not to read the books
Of the ehour.-Nineteenth Century
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-01-16

tect their persons and property, and
will not tolerate the assumption by the
political authorities way off in Wash
ington of the functions that properly
belong to the town meeting, the county
board and the state legislature. No
natter how loudly interested individ-
uals may talk the other way. the sober
second thought of the people of the
United States is in favor of the lowest
taxation that will provide the govern
ment, economically administered, with
sufficient money. The people of the
United states do not want their dis
trict schools and their local elections
managed in Washington; they are
really for home rule first, last and all
the time, and no offers of money will
divert many of them for any consider
able time from this fundamental prin-
cipal of popular government. The
people of the United States will in the
long run tolerate only those taxes that
are for the good of the whole COM
munity, and they are rapidly finding
out that republican tariff system is
for the good of certain classes. The
farmers are finding out that they are
burdened for the sake of manufacture
ers, while the manufacturers are fast
finding out that they are heavily taxed
for the benefit of the men who own the
mines and forests from which their
materials come, and the manufacturers
of the fine classes of goods, who employ
the most men at the best wages, have
already found out that they are taxed
for the benefit of the manufacturers Of
cruder forms of Merchandise who en-
plQy less intelligent laborers and fewer
of them and pay them lower wages.
The American people discovered
several years ago that the sqbsidizing
Of steamers was the use of public money
for the benefit of the business of private
citizens, and for that reason, and tor
the farther reason that the subsidy
policy did not even SECURE the indirect
benefits promised by its promoters, who
were usually its benedciaries, the
American people definitely abandoned
the subsidy policy and they will sternly
rebuke any effort to revive it.
All these discoveries are discoveries
of the worthlessness or the wickedness
of republican projects, and they make
tlis speedy and permanent restoration
Of the deinocratie party, Ihe party of
the people, to power cerIain.-Nataoaat
Democrat.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-01-16
A AsomnambuIist in q CoaI-Bin.

Over on the West Side is very hand
some young woman who is afflicted with
somnambulism. When she puts her
pretty head upon the pillow at night she
does not know what may befal her before
she awalzes in the morning. and she
worries great deal over this strange
aff1iction- Her people watch her as
closely as possible, but she objects to
any regular espionage during her sleep
ing hours. One night not long ago she
went to bed at the usual hour. Along
about one a. m. her sister, who slept in
an adjoining room. awoke and went in
to see if the girl was all right Her
bed was empty and her door was open:
The house was aroused and search for
s'La Somnambula" was begun She was
found-but where? Curled up in little
ball on the coal in the cellar coal-hn
sleeping soundly- She was aroused
quietly and went back to her bed
where she slept well until morning In
her dresns she must have imagined
that coal cost more than good bed, ana
he was about fixht-CAicag6 Hefs,a
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-01-16
Your Evenings, NY Boy.

Were and how do you spend them?
For YOU, that is q very important
question. It matters not whether on a
farm, in the village, or in city, your
evenings shape your destiny. Young
men can 60 to the devil as easily from
village as from a city. And all farmer
boys are not angels. The mighty men
of this generation, and all proceeding
ones, were wise after the sun went
down. A good book is royal compan-
ion; an intelligent and sweet home, a
very Eden. Make much of them. You
want to be out every pight, de yopS
Then you'll soon be out Of money and
without character. Gadding and giddy,
grow ghoulish. Whatever your busi-
ness is, you want to know more about
it than anyone in the establishment.
The right use of your evenings will
lift you up to that pinnacle. Try my
suggestion. You'll find it will give
you both money and self-respect; also
the favorable opinion of every good
man, apd when yoH aye ready to be
married ino hurry you'll have no need
to elope to avoid the old mans boot.
This has money In 1t, and money, our
bible tells US, answereth all things;
but better to be without money than
to become a miSer-a mean, stingy
fellow-Creation's blot, whom nobody
loves.-New York Witness.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-01-16
WRETCHED RICH MEN.

No Interest in Life.
One of the saddest things in the world
| next to real poverty of distress is the
sight of a man who has acquired bound
less wealth and lost his happiness and
his capacity to enjoy what money secures.
,, Such cases are by no means rare. They
, are very common. / saw a man to-day
whose income is believed to be about
81, 100 a week, whose whole day was
spoiled because cabman overcharged
him one dollar for a short ride. Of
course the millionaire knew he could
not possibly spend his income, but
nevertheless the idea of losing dollar,
of being defrauded out of it, of getting
nothing in return for it, was almost
agony to him. Many man in making
great fortune completely loses the
power of enjoying it. This is one of the
worlds eompensations. The happiness
OF sound sleep and a good digestion is
often enjoyed by a man with an empty
purse, while the millionaire epicure has
neither painless digestion by day nor
healthy rest at night.
I saw one afternoon one of Philadel-
phia's richest men. He is one of those
wretched old millionaires who have
spent the best years of their life getting
control of bank or a brewery, or
boom of some sort. He is sitting back
in corner of his swell landau now and
wondering what he did it for. He has
fine old face. heavy gray mustache,
bushy eyebrows and gold-rimmed eye
glasses. He is dressed carefully, and
his face is absolutely empty of interest
in any thing. He can't even work any
more. Because he has so much money
that all motive is gone. His wife! Oh,
well, he loved his wife long ago and he
bows te her now when he meets her in
the hallway of his house, and they never
had quarrel. Children! Yes, several
of them. They used to be pretty, and
were fond Of him when they were
babies. Then boarding school, college,
balls, parties and-checks, checks. Now
he hardly knows any thing about them.
All sympathy is lost between them.
Living under the same roof their hearts
are always wide apart. In fact he
doubts whether he has heart at all
Cor. Philadelphia Press
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-01-16

District court convened yesterday, at
Lyons, with Judge }. H.sBaiiey on the
bench. AS an attorney before the bar
fPd sH @ not tngI aus bm a tIss lss ea%s ohs
members would not be long in finding
1t out. But as Judge, the case is quite
different, and it is said that whenever
an attorney would address him as
Your Honor" or MAY it please the
Court" he would blush like maiden,
look at the pleader, turn his eyes up
to the cealing, and wonder if it were
not all dream. But this shyness will
sseaon wear pR-then lst the hapless
HE DID NOT blush Rose red, did
he, Tom? And we know you are well
pleased that the schemers and trick
sters of your party did not succeed in
fQoling the people into voting any other
man into the judicial chair.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-01-16
The Cruel Editor,. PrefereDee.

Long-Haired Individual (entering the
sanctum)-I understand, sir, that you
are very fond of poetry. Now, can
write any kind. Epics, bucelics, SON
nets. madrigsls--in fact, any thing in
the shape of poetry flows like trickling
water from my fertile pen- What kind
do you prefer?
Editor (savagely)-The poetry of mo
ton. Jimmy open the door for the gen.
femap-
He 2os-Lawtence AmssnsAA.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-01-16
STUDY OF PIE-EATERS.
Views of Lunch-Counter PHILOSOPHER On
Human Nature.

views of Lunch-Counter Philosopher On
Human Nature.
A lunch-counter offers many advan-
tages to a student of human nature.
Here you can see the cranky man,
avar1c1ous man, who hunts all around
Tor the biggest piece of pie, and the man
with the bad liver, ''The last-named
usually affects such dainties as lemon
merlngue," said the man behind the pie
counter in a well-known lunch cafe.
Il think you can tell persons nature
after watching his actions here for
awhile" he continued. ''Some men
look over the tempting array of pastry
you see here. You can almost see them
smack their lips in anticipation of the
treat that is apparently in store for them.
Then they suddenly switch off and
tackle sandwich instead, with the air
OF one who has successfully withstood
temptation. You will notice that each
pie has a small card in front of it
on which the name is conspicuously
displayed. But, bless you, the individ-
ual known as the average man doesn't
mind little thing like that. He must
get me to call off the name of each pie,
and now and then I have to furnish a
bit OF biography, especially when mince
pie is nnder consideration. You can
imagine the awful consequence if man
should eat piece Of apple pie in mis-
take for peach. For downright good
heartedness the man that eats apple pie
is the man to tie to. He is apt to be
plain, everyday sort of chap, without
any frllls. If fellow is in hard luck
he is the chap to strike. Customers who
Whet their appetite on sweet potato pie
one day, cocoanut the next, custard the
next and SO on through the whole list
are usually of vacillating disposition
and easily displeased. A man told me
one day that it was his day for eating
custard pie. We happened to be out of
it and he glared at me when told him
the sad news, as if were to blame.
'sBoston folks usually ask for squash
pumpkin won't do. A facetious fell
low asked for hunk of cranberry one
day. Sorry, but it has just run OUT
replied. Which way did it go?' said
he, and out he went, too. We had a
new boy behind the counter one day. A
gentleman pointed to whole pie and
asked him; How much is that a cut?'
The bright youngster quickly answered.:
That's according to the way you cut it. >
Mince pie finds favor in the eyes of
those who like something with snap in
it. What is snap? Why, cider, be-
lieve. One old man told me confiden-
TALLY the other day that our mince
wasn't juicy enough. Then he winked.
Now, I'm greatly puzzled to know what
he meant. A person that works at a
lunch counter sees so many cranks that
after-several years experience he gets
to be confirmed cynic. The disagree
able features are too apparent. So it is
with waiter. Very few of them are of
sunny, cheerful disposition. Instead,
you are likely to find them irritable and
disposed to talk back. Thus it happens
that foreigners are more Of success as
walters. If they are angry they can
swear in boulevard French or Platt
Dutch and not offend the sensibilities
of their rhearers.-Philadelp Inq uirer
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-01-16

A WRITER to the New York World
says: You will do favor to the many
readers of The World by telling them
npal, ths disaoysEy that they have the
grip, to take good dose of that old.
fashioned medicine called No. 6, stay
in bed thirty-six hours and wrap up
warm when they go ont, and they can
defy al the ugly results of loss of time
and money. The writer knows what
he is talking about. FRY it, "
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-01-16

THE Louisville Courier Journal re-
marks that with frightfully corrupt
legislature and no market for her corn,
the state of Kansas is not beginning an
excessively happy New Yaar." The
Courier 1esnngl is not acquainted in
Kansas. The legislature that did the
mischief and is alleged to have been
corrupt because few Of its members
had themselves elected for the money
there was In the office does not meet
again, and the next one will not have in
it many of that kind of people. And so
far as the low price of corn is concerned,
while that is true; yet they have plenty
of it and can afford to hold it until it
does bring a good price. If there are
no people more unhappy than the
Kansas farmers the world is in shape
to get along swimmingly for some years
yet.-K. C. Globe.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-01-16

THE county commissioners have
shown their appreciation of well
rendered service by again naming the
DEMOCRAT as the official paper of
Barton county. for 1890. They have
placed the official printing where the
greater number of people will read it,
and that is the main object.