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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-03-19

LOCAL COMMENT.
Female Minstrels on the 18th.
See notice of the change in Santa Fe
time card.
Another week and day in which
to register.
The lark is up to meet the sun, the
bee is on the wing.
Cantata of "Queen Esther" on the
9th, at the Grand.
B. Owings wants to show you
farm implements IF all kinds.
You might put in your onions. SOW
the lettuce and set the old hen any
time now.
Clear up the rubbish in your back
yards, and prepare to put in spring
ssgarden truck.
S. S. Shields, who has been laid up
for some time, is now able to be
around on crutches.
The dry goods stores OF Great Bend
close no more at 6 p m.-the recent
agreement is "busted."
The coal harvest is about over, but
spring threshing in the district schools
has just fairly commenced.
nAll On the Great Bend I'm
UAIl plement Go. for Wagons,
Buggles, and all Other Implements.
In the case of the state VS.. Lunze,
in the district court, the defendant was
convicted, instead of being dismissed as
stated last week.
The home of Mr. aud Mrs. j. w.
Downey was frightened, last Satur-
day morning, by the arrival of hand
some little girl baby.
Bob Brown has resigned the marshal
ship at Hoisington, and removed te
Great Bend. Bob can't stay away
from his old love, even for the emolu'
ments of Office.
For SALE.-About 20 head OF
mules and horses, ranging from 3 to 4
years old; will sell for cash or on time
Call on or address
JACOB REIGEL
South Bend township; 8 mi. south o
Great Bend.
Some people have an idea that th'
minstrel company to appear her
on next Thursday night will not be ,
show that ANY ONE may attend. Th'
opera house people inform us that sucl
is not the case. It is respectable
attraction.
1t will pay any business man to cal
and examine the envelopes we ar
printing for So 80 thousand.
Adjoining Lands.
Do you want land adjoining you
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-03-19

RAPTIST-Services at II m. and 80 p m first
- and third Sundays of each MONTH AT German
NJ E Church hurch meetings on Saturday
afternoon at = O'Clock before the first Sunday in
each month E. M ARMSTRONG, Pastor
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-28

after subscriptions, and their civic and
military organizations and charitable
institutions are never backward about
striking the city business or professional
man for assistance. But the latest
scheme is to make the jobbing houses
in the city help pay for the Fourth of
July celebrations in the various villages
where they have customers.
"The jobber receives letter from the
subscription committee to the effect that
his customers, Messrs. Doe, Roe, Jones
and Smith, will consider it favor if he
will do something toward the celebrs-
ton. The letter says that the celebra-
tlon will call great many people into
town, and of course the sale of his goods
will be increased, for special pains will
be taken to push the sal Of the goods
purchased Of those who help the celebra-
ton by subscription.
1T is a species of blackmail that the
jobbers must wink at. and the result is
he sends his little check for five or ten
dollars, at the same time bottling his
wrath. You can see that if he receives
similar letters from four or five towns
the draft upon him is not small, and
that he pays tribute to four or five of
them is an assured fact, as have letters
to prove. There are very few flies on
the country subscription committees, l
can assure you. u ica Observer.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-28
WHISPERS ABOUT WOMEN.

Mrs. James Goldman has been overseel
Of the poor in BrookIjne, Mass, for thir,
teen years.
Congressman MilIken's daughter.
Maud, Is winning lsurels as a come
dienne in amateur tneatricais a. Bel
fast. Ne
Miss Amanda T. Jones, Of Chicago, ia
president Of the W0man's Canning and
Preserving company. which Is said to
have capital OF 81 900 600
Miss Florence Garner, a New York
girl, was married to SirW illsm Gordon
Cumming the day after the jury decided
the bacCarat scandal case against him.
Miss Marie Louise Blaine, daughter oi
the late John E. Blaine and piece Of SEC
rotary James G.. Blaine, has been ap-
pointed a clerk IN the land oiEce IL
Helena. Moa-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-28

Mrs. Alexander Bremen, deputy fac
tory inspector of the state of New York,
knows more about the machinery used
in factories than half of the men who
run the factories.
Mrs. Emma P. Ewing, the lecturer on
cooking, declares that while improve
ments have been made in all other direC-
tons practical cooking stands where it
did 100 years ago.
Mrs. George w. Childs, of Philadel-
phia, has returned from Europe, her tour
being brought to a speedy conclusion
owing to the impaired condition of her
health. She has suffered much from
rheumatism.
Mrs. Hopkins-Searle, widow of the
California millionaire, now living at
Great Darlington, Mass, has established
in the grocery business at Methuen a
man who rescued her from the wheels Of
a moving railway train at Worcester a
year or 80 ago.
Mrs. Charles G. A1nes, of Boston, one
of the two women recently appointed by
Governor Russell as factory inspectors,
has made study Of organized charity
for years. She worked in the hospitals
during the war, and after her marriage
to the present pastor Of the Church OF
the Disciples in Boston was made presi-
dent of the Children's Aid society.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-28
4 Story of Love and Marriage

The statement of the marriage license
clerk in Covington to young lady yes
terday afternoon was one that wo1ld
disappoint even an ardent lover Of the
male persuasion. She applied for a mar
rage license, and was told in cold. judi
cial accents that it was not yet leap
year, and that it was custom, sane
toned by the laws of Kentucky, that
the gentleman in a marrying affair
should call for the license and do the
necessary oath taking. She was some
what abashed, but soon recovered her
serenity and went on to explain. Her
name was Leonora Schloenker, she said
and the gentleman to whom she was to
be married was John j. Ruby. 1t was
almost impossible for him to leave his
occupation before dark, and then it
would be too late to get the license.
Therefore, she had consented to come
over and secure the paper.
II seemed deserving case in the eyes
of the clerk, and ne proposed a plan ID
circumvent the difficulty. He agreed 70
hold the Office open to certain hour
and secured the promise of Judge Shine
TO be present at the appointed time TO
perform the marriage ceremony. Miss
Schioenker went back 10 consult Mr.
Ruby, who was more than delighted
with the arrangement and readily as
scented to the proposition. Last evening
they met and went across the bridge,
and 8 half hnrr later returned husband
and wife.-Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-28
Practical Philanthropy.

A sound scheme of philanthropy has
been carried out with good results by
NJ. Felix Deleuze, a gentleman of for
tune in Paris, who some years ago, be-
reft of wife and children, adopted six
teen orphan girls. These he installed in
his fine but desolate house under a suita-
BILE staff of governesses, and had them
educated carefully under his own super
vision. Two of the girls, now grown to
be women, were happily married last
year, three more, attended by nine of
their companions, were welded at a
triple ceremony this spring, and two
have taken the veil. Each girl is pre-
sented with $4,000 and an excellent
trousseau on her wedding day, but as
the magnificent fortune of their bene-
factor is not to become their property
they are brought up with no luxurious
tastes or extravaganza expectations
New York Sun.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-28
His First Visit to the Barber,s.

Which of Us does not recall with q
gentle futter of emotion the unutterable
delight that we experienced when we
gravely set about that delicate operation
1.-The first shave"?-an innocent subter-
fuge to which a youth resorts by way of
proving to his own satisfaction that be
has reached the stage of full manhood.
He has beard! Everybody knows that
little joke of barber at the expense of
ayoung 'lyceen," who, glowing with
pride at the discovery, fancied or real,
of the first appearance of tender down
on his chin, hurried off to the hair
dressers to get shaved. The willy Figaro
offered him a chair, placed napkin
round his neck, covered his face with the
fragrant lather, and then walked away
to attend to other business, apparently
quite oblivious of his new customer.
Growing impatient, the latter at length
exclaimed, well, what are you wait
ing for?"
For the beard to grow" was the
BARRIERS reply.-Petit Parisien.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-28

Suburban Resident-See here, sirl You
told me that that country place bought
of you was only thirty-iive minutes
from the city.
City Agent-Yes, sir; thirty-fiye min
utes by express. You remember when
we went out to look at it, the time was
thirty-tive minutes exactly.
"But, confound it. sir, the express
trains don't stop there, not one of them
and the accommodation takes about an
hour and halfp'
You and l went by express, and il
stopped for Us, you know
Yes, know; but it hasn't stopped
since"
1T viii stop If you hire a man at your
station to buy through ticket for some
where. That's the way did the day
we went out. Good News.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-28

An Italian organ grinder at Eighth
and Main streets had = rather novel ex-
perience X hen lie started TO grind his
machine a swarm Of bees suddenly
poured forth from the barrel and fairly
made the Italian dance 10 keep oct Of
their way.
The swarm then took up its quarters
in the electric light globe Just overhead,
and when ths electric light man came
along 70 clean that globe there was Az
other seance similar 70 the first Essrc-
ceeded IN disiodging tie insects OF III
dustry, however, and the last seen of
them they were vending thelr fight
heaven inward. kansas City Journal.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-28
s'Teamster Jim"

It amt Jest the story, parson, to tell in crowd
like this,
weth the virtuous matron a-frownin' an
chidin' the gigglin' miss,
An the good old deacon a-noddin' in time weth
his patient shores,
An the shocked a1eet Of the capital stalkin'
away through the doors.
But then it's story that happened, an every
word of it's true,
An sometimes we can't help taIkin' OF the
things that we sometimes do,
An though good society coldly shets its doors
onto "Teamster Jim,"
I'm thinkin' there's lots worse people thet's
better known than him.
] mind the day he was married, and 1 danced
at the weddin' too,
An kissed the bride, sweet Maggie, daughter
of Ben McGrew.
] mind how they set up housekeepin', two
young, poor, happy fools,
When JiIn's only stock was heavy truck an
four Kentucky mules.
Well, they lived along contented, weth their
little joys an cares,
An every year a baby come. an twice they
come in pairs,
Till the house was full of children, weth their
sboutin' and playiu' and squalls,
An their singin' and laughin' an cryin' made
bedlam wethin its walls.
An Jim, be seemed to like it, an he spent all
his evenins at home;
He said it was full of music an light an peace
from pit to dome.
He Joined the church. an he used to pray that
his heart might be kept from sin
The stdmblin'est prayin', but heads and hearts
used to bow when he'd begin.
So they lived along in that way, the same from
day TO day,
With plenty Of time for drivin' work and a lit
tie time for play,
An CROWN around 'em the sweetest girls and
the liveliest, manifest boys,
Till the old gray heads of the two old folks was
crowned with the homelest joys.
Eh2 Come to my story2 Well, that's all.
They're livin' Just like l said,
Only two Of the girls is married, an one of the
boys is dead,
An they're honest an decent an happy, an
the very best Christians know,
Though Lreckon in brilliant comp'ny they'd be
voted leetle slow.
oh, you're pressed for tirnel Excuse you?
Sure, I'm sorry kept you so long
Goodby. Now, he looked kind o. bored-like,
an reckon that | was wrong
To tell sech a commonplace story of two sech
commonplace lives,
But we can't all git drunk an gamble an fight,
an run OF with other mems wives.
r.. j. Burdctte.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-28
Emulation.

Emulation.
The process of the youthful mind
when it gets to logical deduction is apt
to be fearful and wonderful, and ths
adult intellect is not always easily abls
TO follow.
At kindergarten class not long since
the teacher asked her pupils TO give an
example of cylinder from some objecs
which they had at home.
Asparagus" one little boy Responded
very promptly.
My mother had rhubarb," another
said briskiy, thus catching at half tbs
cylinder idea aud yet improving an OPP
portunity to boast of something whicn
his family enjoyed.
The third, overcome by the connection
of ideas on the culinary side. lost sight
of the original proposition altogether.
and cried ont with the air Of one who Is
not to be beaten:
"Well. my mother is going to make
some root beer anywayv'-Boston Con.
Tier.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-28
The Designs on Our Money.

The director OF the mint, authorized by
set of congress, has recently issued a
circular letter TO artists inviting them 10
submit new designs OF authorized en-
blems or devices to be prepared or adopt
ed for the coins Of the United States.
This on its face is highly to be CON-
mended. for our coinage at present Is
calculated 70 make the judicicus weep
and the lukewarm patriot sympathizs
with the structures of the foreigner OF
our degree Of civilization The criti
cisms on our coinage could indeed be ap-
piled with equal force to all our moneys,
for the treasury notes, with their wealth
Of turning lathe tTscery and their E.n
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-28
Bea Iteous Eyes.

want no stars in heaven to guide me,
need no NOON, no sun to shine,
While have you, sweetheart, beside me.
While know that You are mine.
need not fear whate'er betide me,
For straight and sweet my pathway lies;
want no stars In heaven to guide me
While gaze In your dear eyes.
hear no birds at twilight calling,
catch no music in the streams,
While your golden words are falling,
While you whisper in my dreams. a.
Every sound Of JOY enthralliGg,
Speaks in your dear voice alone.
While hear your fond lips calling, Y
While you speak to me, mine OWL
want no kingdom where thou art, Lowell
want no throne to make me blest,
While within thy tender heart, love,
Thou wilt take my heart TO rest.
Kings must play a weary part, love.
Thrones must ring with wild alarms;
But the kingdom Of my heart, love,
Lies within thy loving arms.
Frederic Z. Weatherly.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-28
caIifornta,s Lack of Song Birds.

In the autumn the society organized
for colonizing foreign song birds in this
state will commission a practical dealer
to select and purchase as many song
birds in Europe as the money at his COM
mand will permit. The money is being
secured by contributions, and is being
paid in gradually. The absence of song
birds in California is a misfortune. The
presence of song birds in California
would be an everlasting enjoyment
Golden Gate park should be alive and
merry with them. They would be an
attraction there as beautiful as the many
hued flowers, the graceful trees and the
smiling landscape.-San Francisco Post
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-28
Aferward.

There is no vacant chair. The loving meet
A group unbroken-smitten. Who knows
how?
One stitch silent only. In his usual seat
We gave him once that freedom. Why not
now?
Perhaps he is too weary and needs rest.
He needed it too often, nor could we
Bestow God gave it, knowing how to do so
best.
Which of US would disturb him2 Let him be-
There is no vacant chair. If he will take
The mood TO listen mutely, be it done.
BY his least mood we crossed, for which the
heart must ache.
Plead not nor question! Let him have this
one.
Death is a mood of life. 1t is no within
BY which life's Giver mocks broken heart
Death is life's reticence. Stin audible to him
The flushed voice, happy, speaSeth on, apart
There is no vacant chair. To love is still
To have. Nearer to memory than to eye,
And dearer yet to anguish than tocomfOrt, will
We hold him by our love, that shall not die.
For while it doth not, then he cannot. TryI
Who can put out the motion or the smile2
The Old ways of being noble all with him laid
by?
Because we love he is. Then trust awhile.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-28
An Old Venetian Ship Launching.

Admiral Canevaro, commander of the
Venice arsenal. has arranged that in
stead of the Stella being baptized in the
usual way, by having bottle of cham
payne broken on its bows, the ancient
custom of the Venetian republic shall be
revived. That is, that gilt ring shall
be attached 10 the vessels Prov in such
a way by the godmother that when the
ship Is launched the ring shall be the
first thing 10 touch the water, this fur
filling the wedding Of the sea. Lon
don News
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-28

Gilhooly-ISay Gus, wish you would
lend me Il dollar.
Gus De Smith-What 90 you want to
do with it?
You see Hostetter McGinnis over
there? Well, l want to lend the dollar
TO him.
What viii he do with it, do you sup
pose:
He will give it back to me. He owes
me a dollar"-Texas SiftingS
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-28

Rats have taken possession Of large
mulberry tree along Fra1kfoTd creek
They eat the ripe, luscious berr7es AID
drive OF al birds, bus when disturb
by tns approach 81 human b@1ng they
drop hsadlaug from TIE branches u TIE
tree TO me groand and III CT mail fas
coast IS clear for thar return after mere
be-Tlss. Seven sleek rodents were s-sefl
70 drop from the tree in succession ye<-
tezday.-Bo<tCn Record
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-28

painters lettering, are no better than
our coins. The one excuse for their ex-
istence has been the difficulty which
they were supposed to oppose to counter
feiting; but this, it appears from late de-
velopments, is largely imaginary, and
their ornate ugliness is therefore with
out extenuating circumstances.-Scrib-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-28
PernlnnpnCE.

A lover carved upon n bed Of Stone
His lady's name, and set thereto a rhyme;
And on the rock were marks beside his own,
Scratched by n glacier in primeval time.
And yet the passion that his spirit stirred,
The while ne cut her fond and neeting name,
Nethinks was more eternal than the word
The ice age spoke-time's snow against loves
flannel
Richard L. Burton.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-28
FnuaI 70 th. occa.ion.

Robber (dsrting out Of the thicket TO
German student walking alone in the
wood}-Stop, young gentleman, there's
nothing else for tive must divide all
our ready cash on the spot.
Student-AIl right! How much have
you got?-Humoristieche Batter.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-28
The Cities Help Pay.

The country towns generally manage
TO make the city pay the freight. !" re-
marked prominent Wholesaler the other
day When they build their churches
they often send delegations to the city
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-28

Ols q tae soufn's Isoss szccsSstul
evsugel.Ets Is william Evz1der Penn.
who has Just finished 4 great revival IN
Mississippi lie = 4 mar q ss19y-iATee.
Ead has been constantly pEsaeElE day
and nsshi ioE s.xseea yeazz
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-28
He Was Outelassed.

"Go" she exclaimed imperiously,
pointing toward the door.
Il shall" he said abjectly, "but, my
dear Miss Fortstrete. this is 10 horse
race. "-Detroit Free Press.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-28

Don't 20 70 tss beach on a hot day
with tie expectation Of lowering yogr
temperature. Il . hotter ~ the SEASIDE
than II town, exoeps when TIE wind
blows from TIE east, AID ia that case Il
l. easy snough 70 keep cool II toyn.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-28
A Marine Caress.

Mr.. Bumstead-Go on, Myrtle. OATS
berry soothiD'.
Mrs. Bumstead-I amt dom muffin.
Mr. Bumstead-Go on. chile. Doan'
yo' spec ! knows d touch ob dat sof
hand on nah providence a Week.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-28

He loved her, having felt his love begin
With that first look. as lover oft AYERS.
He made pale flowers his pleading messen-
gers,
Impressed sweet music, drew the springtime
in
To serve his suit: but when he could not win,
Forgot her face and those gray eyes of hers,
And at her namo his pulse 10 longer stirs,
And life goes on as though she had not been.
She never loved him, but she loved Love so,
So reverenced Love, that all her being shook
At bis demand, whose entrance she denied.
Her thoughts OF him such tender color took
As western skies that keep the aftergiow.
The words he spoke were with her till she died
Helen Gray Cone.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-28

When Baby was sick, We gave her Castoria.
When she was Child, she cried for Castoria-
When she became Miss, she chung to Castoria.
When she had Children, she gave them Cas.oria.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-28
A Strange Relic.

visitor-Is that Columbus skull? Ism.
II very small:
Lecturer-This, madam. was the skuIl
of Columbus when he was little boy
Muasey's Weekly.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-28

Ask my agents for w. l.. Douglas Shoes.
IL not for sale iu yoar place ask year
dealer TO scnd for catalogue, secure the
agency, and get them for you.
- TAKE No 81 BSTITITE. III
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-28
One Seaside Grave.

The words he spoke were with her till she died.
Helen Gray Cone.
One Seaside Grave.
Unmiudful Of the roses,
Unmindtul of the thorn,
= reaper tired reposes
Among his gathered corn:
So might /, till the morn.
Cold as the cold Decembers
Pas, Is the days that set,
y lille only one remembers
And all the rest forget
But enc remembers vet
Christina u. RossettL.
Man.
q little ant toilinC along The ground!
You cannot see the eagle on the wind
Soaring alofc; and so You go your round
And measure out the earth with your small
line.
An inch Tor all infnity!
Constance Fenimore Woolson.
The Difference.
Some weep because they part,
And langulsh broken hearted,
And otherS-O my heart
Because they never parted.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-28

The ar to reliable They furnished 9str