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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-06-18

bore up manful1y until after the de-
parture of the ladies on the following
morning, and then Bachelor hall sud-
denly grew Obn oxious to my sight
As soon as Merriwether returned
from the station asked to be taken to
town.
''For what?'' he growled.
''To work, answered savagely.
sYou have had enough of iding,
then?'
Entirely too much for my own peace
of mind It has been profitable to you,
at least" 1 added, sharply. II will
send out your hat by the boy"
He looked at me a moment, then
burst out laughing.
"Look here, my fine young fellow,
perhaps it would be better for you to
select one to fit your own pate and have
it charged to me-"
''Why to you?" 1 asked. SIT was
that lost my head and heart"
He gave a low chuckle.
''When?' he asked
Gas we returned from the cliffs yes
terday afternoon
''The hat is yours" he said. simply.
SHOW so?''
Because she refused me on the way
there"
"Whatw cried, incredulously.
1.-THE simple truth. :"
''Old boy, let us call it a drawn bet,
said, impulsively.
agreed"
We shook hands.
''But she was lovely woman
sighed, meditatively.
Our hands met in tighter clasp than
ever.-Henry c. Wood, in Leslie's News
paper.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-06-18
OTHE USE OF SPECTACLES.
Difference Between People Who Need
Them and Those Who Do Not.

Difference Between People Who Need
Them and Those Who Do Not.
The period of putting on spectacles is
often long deferred by middle-aged peo-
pie, who ''hate to seem Old or dislike
confessing to themselv that they have
reached one of the significant turning
points of life. People have. however,
different ways of accepting the inev-
table. One charming woman, who has
passed this visual limit, declares that
her comfort is thereby daily increased
81 was always so lazy!" she says
Nevertheless. had to do thousand
things l hated. Now when 1 go out
for an afternoon, can leave my
glasses at home, and SO, when am
asked to look at photographs, try a
new crotchet stitch, or read dear Mary
AIMS last letter. 1 can refuse with a
clear conscience. And it is such rest
of mind and saving of tissue!'
Another woman, and a very pretty
one, owns to bit of tacit deception in
wearing her cross.
Il try to put my glasses, on with the
air OF having always worn Them" she
confesses. Il can't help hoping that
people will think me nearsighted from
childhood
But dear old gentleman, who can't
see without glasses, actually goes to
the length of declaring that he doesn't
need them at all. He proves his case
by standing at a distance from print
and reading it without difficulty.
There's nothing the matter with my
eyes," he then explains, humorously.
The only trouble is, my arms aren't
long enoughy'-Youth's Companion.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-06-18
NOTES FROM The PRESS.

Perhaps the republican party can
''look into its past without blushing,"
because the party is past blushing--
Louisville Courier Journal
Cleveland is popular because his
administration was clean There were
no Tanners and Raums and Lemons,
and there was no lack of money in the
treasury while he was president -
Louisville Courier Journal
Senator Quay Is undecided
whether to go abroad for the benefit OF
his health or not To do almost any
thing except what he has been doing
for the last ten years would benefit the
senator's health-Chicago Times
Mr.. Blaine may have the govt.
but the Harrison family has an uncom-
Portable suspicion that If he were
offered the repu bfican nomination he
would recover as quickly as the Steve
Ellxins syndicate can skin seal-St
Louis Republic
The plain fact is the republican
party is in favor of Capitalization OF
power, trusts, combines. land monop-
oily, corporate extortion- while the
democratic party is IN principle OPP
posed to all of them Any wayfaring
man must see this, If he has vision
unblinded by prejudice and mind un-
clouded by dense ignorance--Des
MONIES Leader.
1t is announced on good author
ity that the billion-dollar congress
added more than L700 places to tho
federal patronage list at an annual exc
pense to the public of 81, 949, 49, In
the majority Of the cases, the Offices
were created with a no higher purpose
than to provide employment for an
army of hungry and thirsty republica1
henchmen--Dubu9ue Telegraph
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-06-18
THE ORIGIN OF SNUFF.
Invented by the Irish Before Shakes
peare's Time.

Invented by the Irish Before Shakes
peare's Time.
AS far as can be ascertained what is
known in modern times as snuff was
used by fashionable gentlemen in
Shakespeare time. Tobacco was in
use in England years before Shakes
peare made Hotspur ridicule a fop for
taking snuff in an affected manner.
From the native Virginians came the
practice of smoking taken up by the
English in 1860, but a tract in the
British museum on ''The Natural His
tory of Tobacco" says: ''The Irishmen
do most commonly powder their to
bacco, and snuff it up their nostrils. u
This makes the Irish the probable in
ventOrs of snuff. In some remote and
primitive parts of Ireland at dead
mans wake a plate of snuff is placed
on the body of the deceased, and the
etiquette is for all those who are in.
vited to attend the funeral to take a
pinch on entering the house of mourn
ing.
In the ''Life of Columbus" it Is
stated that the great voyager had no.
ticed smoking and snuff taking in His
PAMELA. Las Casas, writing in 1929
also mentions it, with much minuteness
of detail. Frequent mention is made
in the Spectator addison & SteePs
| well-known weekly, begun in I'LL OF
female snuff takers in the reign OF
Queen Anne.
Fashionable ladies, it is said, of all
ages freely INDUCED in it, even offering
their boxes to their friends as they sat
in the church-pews during divine wor
ship. Queen Charlotte, wife of George
III. and grandmother of Queen Vic.
toria. was a perpetual snuh-taker dur
ing the whole time of her residence in
England, from her arrival and mar
riage in 1861 to her death in 1913. She
had a great partiality for accepting
presents of snuff, particularly when il
was given in gold snuff boxes. The en-
nifty exhibited by Queen Charlotte
against Caroline of Brunswick, the un
fortunate wife of him who finally be-
came George ", has been attributed
to the fact that in an intercepted letter
from Caroline to her mother the queer
was ridiculed as ''snuffy old Char
lotte.'
Snuff has very much fallen into dis
| use. In our time the fair sex do no.
patroniZe snuff. The readers of Mar
| tin Chuzzlewit" must sympathize with
Betsy Prig's remarkable objections tc
Mrs. Camps untidy ways with he1
| snuff, when she had to entreat that ad.
mirable harridan not to ''go a-dropping
none of it, into the dish of sliced
cucumber, prepared in vinegar, which
| they were to have for supper. ''Ir
Cruel, barley water, apple tea, mutton
broth and that, it don't signify" Mrs
Prig added, land it stimulates pa
tent, but don't relish it myself
Troy Times.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-06-18
SITUATION OF The TREASURY.
Republican Tricks to Keep the Truth
from the People.

Republican Tricks to Keep the Truth
fron the People.
The financial sharps Of the republic
IN party are protesting rather too
much They pretend that the treasury
is not the least bit embarrassed, and
not likely to become so; and yet their
own statements distinctly imply that
extraordinary means will have to be
employed to meet liabilities about to
mature.
It has been stated that the present
surplus is not more than 312. 900, OO0
This is not democratic statement
merely. It occurs in an article in . re-
publican paper, written for the express
purpose of showing that there is'splenty
of money to pay the ~ per cents" But
Mr.. Leech, director of the mint, comes
forward and says there is an available
cash balance of S25S, OO0, 900. This is q
very remarkable discrepancy, and
shows on its face that the parties to the
two statements are proceeding upon
different theories Mr.. Leech distinctly
confirms this by attacking the system
of keeping the treasury books He
proposes to treat the hundred millions
set apart for redeeming greenbacks.
and the money issued on recent depos-
although these several sums have not
been so treated heretofore In other
words, he is trying to confuse the pub
lie mind by introducing discussions of
methods of bookkeeping, concerning
which little is generally known
Mr.. Leech's figures prove altogether
too much If there were really S25s,-
OOO 900 of BILE assets, as that term
has been understood heretofore, there
would have arisen no discussion as to
the methods by which the ~ per cent
bonds are to be met Changing the
method of statement does not put dol
lar more into the treasury, or render
the claims against it cent less. The
fact remains that until the billion
dollar congress began its baleful ac-
tivity there was a large surplus in the
treasury according to the present sys-
tenn of bookkeeping; now, the surplus
Is virtually gone, and a deficit is inn
pending unless new method of state
ment is devised to conceal the real
state of affairs 1t is proposed to avoid
deficit" by changing the meaning of
the word
1t is also worthy of notice that diff
emit plans for avoiding possible trouble
in regard to paying the ~ per
cent bonds, which will fall due in
September. The article mentioned,
which begins with the assertion
that there is plenty of money. to
pay these bonds, runs smoothly and
eweetly along to the conclusion that
Is win not bs necessary to pay three
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-06-18
THE PRESIDENTS DISCOVERY,
Important Consequences of His Tour iR
the South.

the South.
President Harrison Is back in Wash
ington from a long and successful tour
of the country. He seems to have had
good time, and the trip ought to be of
service to him in more ways than as
afording a change of scene. He has
made a great many speeches, and they
have been as a rule very creditabla>
while he has not stopped over" any
where. There has been considerable
speculation as to the effect of the tour
upon Mr.. HarriSon's personal fortunes
No reason appears for attaching any
special importance to it in this respect
He returns the same sort of figure in
his party that he started-its nominal
head, but without the slightest hold
upon its affection or enthusiasm 1t
still remains as necessary as before for
his son to explain through his newspa-
per that the father is really q great
man, and the prospect of being obliged
by force of circumstances to support
him for a second term is no more at
tractive to republicans generally than
it was a month ago.
There has been one Political result OF
Importance from the trip. however. and
it is most fortunate one for the coun-
try. The patriotic tone of the presi-
dents speeches in the southern states,
his abandonment of the force bill pol
icy, his recognition that it is by '.me.
chanical and commercial development"
that ''unifcation of heart and interest"
is to come-all this involved something
more than rhetoric 1t meant not only
that Mr.. Harrlson's eyes had been
opened, but also that his party never
could go back to the narrow sectional
policy which during the first half of his
term he had tried so hard to impose
upon the country. The trip was well
worth taking for such a result as this
AS the Galveston TEX News recently
| said in commenting upon the subject:
1T is no small matter that the vast in
fuence of the republican press of the
north must now be turned in direc-
| ton favorable to the elimination OF
| sectional prejudice, task heretofore
left largely to the independent papers"
1t is a curious circumstance that tho
most important consequence of the
presidents journey should be one which
nobody anticipated when he started
the final burial of the bloody shirt m
V. Post
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-06-18
SOLICITING SUPPORT.
Republican Twaddle About the Presf
dents Great Trip.

Republican Twaddle About the Presf.
dents Great Trip.
With extraordinary assurance the
administration organ says of the presi-
dents speeches in the south that he
frankly and candidIy'' set forth his
views upon all those questions" on
which the views Of that section are di-
vergent from his own.
Did he? In which of his southern
speeches did he venture to explain 60
the southern people why he regards
them as even unfit to be intrusted with
the conduct of their elections without
the paternal supervision of Quay, Dud-
ley and their agents? In what south,
ern speech did he expound the necessi-
ty for q "bayonet behind every bal
lot?" Where in the south did he assert
that the negro vote is wickedly sup
pressed. and condemn its suppression
as frankly and candidly'' as he con-
demned polygamy in Utah, q territory
that has no electoral votes?
What is the use of talking folderol
and misrepresenting facts perfectly IA
miliar to every reader of ordinary In
telligence?
The fact is that in none of Mr. Harri-
sons one hundred and thirty mine
speeches did he frankly and candidly"
deal with questions upon which parties
are divided He spoke with good
deal of rhetorical grace. but with very
great care not to offend anybody likely
to be of use to him in securing his re-
nomination and reelection-
The trip was great electioneering
tour, and was conducted after the man
ner of a man soliciting support by all
the arts known to HMM. Y. World
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-06-18
His Great Scheme.

ST want a few dozen bottles Of hair
invigorator. the strongest that you
have" said an unlucky-lool<ing man.
1--WE tried my best making living
here in the east, and I've made up my
mind that I'm going to catch on out
west"
''What are you going to do?'' asked
the druggist.
''Well. hear that scalps are mighty
valuable among the indians"
"Yes-"
'.And they only take a small piece
from each head anyhow"
ITO be sure"
"Wen, I'm going to start q scalp
farm" Post.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-06-18
The POliceman's Club.

An old and famous policeman insists
that a police club is clumsy instru-
ment only in the hands of clumsy men.
Artistic clubbers. he says, find that to
handle a club well is to learn a deep
and nice science The perfect master
of a club can hit blow that will crack
crown, or he can deliver thump that
will stun man, and yet raise no lump
or sign of bruise; better yet, true
adept can hit a man so as to make a
clean, fine cut as with a knife blade.
While the policeman told what could be
done with the club his hearer thought
of the advice of a distinguished New
Yorker uttered some years ago: Don't
ever let a policeman hit you with a
club. No matter how brave you are,
run before you're hit. A blow with q
locust may develop insanity or para,y-
sis ten years afterward." IN. Z. Sun.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-06-18
"DON'T FRET"

~ss Oh, am so tired" good wife said,
Il" With washing dishes and kneading bread,
And sweeping floors and mending clothes,
From ragged jackets TO ragged hose!
There's Tommy has torn his coat to-day,
And NeIlie's best frock begins to fray,
And Bennie's stockings are out at the toes
Dear. dear! my trials there's no one knows.
80 1t is sew sew, sew, and cook, cook cook,
With never a minute for paper or book;
"A drudge, drudge drudging from day to day.
Till tits wearing my very life away;
And get SO tired sometimes sigh
For the rest we sing OF beyond the sky.
And almost wish-come in, Mrs. Brown,
What's the best news from your side OF town
-"No best at all but worse than bad,
- The very thought of things makes me sad.
Sam Bunce is still down sick in bed.
And his wife is washing. to earn their bread;
Mrs. Jones' baby will die they say,
Ned Parks was drunk all yesterday,
And they say went home in this beaSt1y state
And beat his wife at a terri IDLE rate.
With our healthy children, our husbands
kind.
And our homes of plenty, 1t seems to my mini
Though little vexations may daily annoy.
We can't be too thankful for what we enjoy.
Your baby's such sweet little love, declare
He has your blue eyes and your soft sunny hair
c Cant you bring him along, please and cal
very soon?
must really be going now; good afternoon"
" The good wife. left alone, sat with down drocp
ing head
And unused on the things that her neighbor b u
said,
Till somehow her burdens appeared to grow
light,
The day seemed less weary, the sunshine me: &c
bright.
And next morning the good wife arose with tae
day.
And she sang and she smiled as the work rollet
away,
And was filed with surprise, at the set Of the
sun,
To think with what ease all her tasks had beor
Said her husband, one day: evil you tell mo
my Kate,
What makes you so young and so handsome o
late?
For a long while, month or six weeks. shoult
say.
You've grown younger and handsomer eve.!
day"
" 1 believe" she said, smiling, ito tell you ta
truth.
I've discovered the font of perpetual youth;
In the vale OF the soul, like wellsprng It's sat
And contains equal parts OF Be patient 'Doo'
fret"
Harriet A. Chute. in Good Housekeeping.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-05-22
Items From Prospect Hill.
EDITORS; Cooper, Etfrick and Darcy.
MoTTo: Work TO Win"

Emma Richardson missed school
Tuesday.
Stella Darcy was absent Monday
morning.
There is window broken in one of
the lower rooms.
Mrs. McCarty, of Emmett, called at
the school house.
Anna Owens called at the school
house last Thursday.
Leah Darcy is in school again after
an absence of a week.
Willard Darcy called at the school
house Wednesday morning.
The Sth Grade Arithmetic class is
doing some excellent work.
The editors and teachers went fish
ing Friday night. Caught a frog and
several fish.
Helen Bettes and Chas. Perkins Wis
tied the High School Room one after
noon recently.
The Program has been altered. A..
Francis did the work. 1t is nicely
done and we wish to thank Alex. for
it.
QUESTIONS.
| q. W nat was the occasion ana VINO
was the user of the words, "God alone
is great?''
b. Who said, "Some birds are too
big for any cage?'
G. Name the faculties of the mind
in the order of their development.
d. When was Scotland united to
England and under what name?
e. What is the recent decision of the
n. Y. Supreme Court concerning cleo
tricity as a means of execution?
ANSWERS.
a. Judge Mitchell, of PIT. Huron.
b. The power of two courts to adjust
the same cause.
c. Charles II. of England.
Il. BY virtue of office. On the face.
An addition to Il will.
e. No.
+. By fees.
QUOTATIONS..
''Who knows his heart S.truly WISE"
| "PresumptuOus man! the reason wOulds't thou
| find
why formed so weak, so little and so blind
Pope.
Educate everybody as well as you
can and as far as he goes. Edward
Everett Hale.
"There is no distinction between po-
litical honesty, and common every day
honesty. ."-E. p. Church.
"a school without enthusiasm is like
food without salt"
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-05-22
A Wonder Worker.

Mr.. Frank Huffman, young man
of Burlington, Ohio, states that he had
been under the care of two prominent
physicians, and used their treatment
until he was not able to get around.
They pronounced his case to be Con-
sumption and incurable. He was per-
suaded to try DIR. Kings New Dis
covery for Consumption, Coughs and
Colds and at that time was not able to
walk across the street without resting
He found, before he had used half of
a dollar bottle, that he was much bet
ter; he continued to use it and is today
enjoying good health. If you have
any Throat, Lung or Chest Trouble
try it. We guarantee satisfaction.
Trial bottle free at Grant Holden g.
Bros. Drugstore.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-05-22
Additional Expositions.
If YOU happen i'm our Office
When our paper Is nearly ripe,
Do not chin with our compositor
Nor monkey with the tVDe,


DO not chin with our compostor
Nor monkey with the type.
The spring races of the Inlay City
driving park Association will be held
at that place on June 11th and 18th.
The premiums will amount to $500.
For SALE-Three valuable building
lots in Reid & McNutt's addition also
two in Tappan q Laws addition. For
terms and further particulars call on j.
A. Menzies, ExPosIToR office, Yale.
When you hear a man sneering at
his local paper and claiming that the
town or community at large derives no
benefit from it, you may know at once
that he is kicker from the first water.
Every town embraces one or more of
these chronics, and they not only find
fault with the local paper, they kick
and grumble at every proposed public
improvement. If any new enterprise
talks of locating in the place they will
kick simply through fear that its loca-
ton may benefit their neighbors more
than themselves, or for fear that the
town may outgrow "their" business
capacity. This class of people, with
their peculiar, selfish makeup is q
curse to any community.
An exchange says: "Did you ever
stop to think what tireless letter
writer a good local paper is? Week
after week, reaching into year after
year, it goes on telling of the births,
marriages and deaths, and the COM
ing and going of the people of the
town, business successes or failures, ac-
cidents, crops, meetings, in fact, events
of all kinds. All is q grist that comes
to the hopper of good local paper.
Why, if you undertake to write a let
ter every week to an absent friend and
tell half the news that your local
paper gives, you would soon give up
in despair. The supposed pleasure
would become tiresome, and the let
tiers grow shorter, farther apart and
finally quit. Why, the difference?
People in a live town recognize this
and take pleasure in giving the ed
itor news items you would never
learn" The ExPosIToR always appre-
ciates the favor if anyone hands in an
item of news, such as births, marriages,
deaths, accidents, people coming or
going, etc. Don't depend on someone
else to give it into us, come and hand
it in yourself.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-05-22
Notice..

The Board of Review for the town.
ship of Brockway will be in session on
Monday and Tuesday May 25 and 26,
1891, at the village hall in the village
of Yale, for the purpose of reviewing
and completing the assessment roll of
said township.
VIM. HoDGINs.
Supervisor.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-12-08
INCIDENTS IN SOCIETY.

Mrs. William Astor will give her first large dinner
PARTY OF the winter on the evening OF December 22,
when ii Is hoped that Mr.. and Mrs. John Jacob Aston
will be present.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. G.. Francklyn have sent out In
vltations for dinner party In honor OF Mrs. VI. o.
Roberts and Colonel Ralph Vivian, to be given al
their house in Washington Square on Monday evening,
December o8.
Mrs. Marshall o. Roberts will give n dinner party
on Monday evening December 81, when 1t is expected
that her future husband. Colonel Vivian, will be in
this COUNTRY lie win sail from Liverpool on Saturday
u tbs week.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. Mex. Twomby gave dinner last
night for their neces, Miss Adele Sloane ard Miss
Edith Shepard The dinner was for young people.
Nrs. Douglas Stewart Grant, who was formerly Miss
Isabel Scott held the first q. scries ~ Monday re-
ceptlohs yesterday afternoon Miss Scott, Miss Otis
and Miss Bradhurst poured tea. Among the callers
were Mr. and Mrs. Reginald De Koven Miss Cowdln,
Mrs Scott Bond Emerson Julian Potter, A. W. Bbby,
NJ A. Wllks, John G.. Beresford, the Misses Cameron,
Mss Baker Henry Redmond and J. W. Woodfed
Receptions will be gwen this afternoon by Mrs.
Magrane Coke to introduce her sister, Miss Alice
Crawford. Mrs james Hartman for her daughter.
Miss Hartman aud Mrs Carlos de Garmendia for her
daughter Miss de Garmendla.
Mrs John T. Halls dancing class Will hold Its
erst meeting ar the Mendelssohn Rooms tonight.
These meetings will be held fornighty until the middle
NJ February.