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The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1891-09-26

As heretofore announced in THE
WORLD, the West Virginia Press Assoc
citation will convene in Parkersburg on
Tuesday, October 18th, and remain in
session two days. Such members as
desire and their ladies will then 90 On
an excursion to Mammoth Cave in
Kentucky and probably to the Licking
ton races, spending two days in Gin
cinnatti.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-01-17
WIT AND WISDOM.

True politeness is perfect ease and
freedom.
When it comes to giving advice the
most economical Of us are extravaganza
-Atchison Globe.
The design of the silver dollar is to
improved, but it is expected to be just as
hard as ever to get the coin.-Pittsburgh
Chronicle.
Turn About is Fair Play.-"Do you
love me, Marie?' Eyes, Arthur, with
every fiber of my being" 81 will be a
brother to you. IN Y. Sun.
1t is we'll there is no one without a
fault, for he would not have a friend
in the world, he would seem to belong
to different species -Hazlitt
Did lovers tell truths as they know en-,
Their luck would be very much worse,
! called her "a beautiful poem"
Well knowing she wasn't averse.
-Harper's Bazaar.
you ought to take more exercise.
Play tennis" 81 can't play tennis"
THAT don't make any difference. You
can get just as much exercise trying to
play. "-Harper's Bazaar.
Tailor Ito would-be customer)-"So!
You want me to make you a full suit?
Look here, now; whole suit is little
too much. would rather, think, lend
you S10"-Fliegende Batter.
M. Alexandra Dumas fills has begun
in morning paper a series of hitherto
unpublished maxims of his own. One
runs as follows: Give aims anony-
mously, for then they have the dou-
BILE advantage of doing away with in
gratitude and abuse at the same time.
Show me boy who loves his moth
er, and / will show you one who will
make faithful friend, a noble lover,
and loving husband. Show me one to
whom home love has no attraction on
the ground that it is too slow, and will
tell you never to trus SAat man with
any thing thatconstitutes the happiness
of others. Young Christian.
Shortening a Call.-Mother-M My
dear, when ladies call on you, you
should not spend the whole time talk
ing about your music, as you did this
morning Daughter-But, mother, the
callers this morning were married
ladies; and if hadn't kept them on
music, they would have got started talk.
ing about their babies, and they wouldn't
be through yet-N. Y. Weekly.
"A Terrible Blow No." observed
one of the neighbors who had called tC
see the new baby, 1.-The child's mouth is
none too large. And see how mobile
and flexible it is. You will live, Mrs
Banks, to see this little girl become ar
accomplished elocutionist" And the
young father, who had been listening
unobserved at the door, went off up
stairs, crawled into an attic, and wept
Chicago Tribune.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-01-17
BURNING JEWISH BODIES.
Queer Remedies Employed by Galiclan
"MiraCle Doctor"

Queer Remedies Employed by Galician
"Mlracle Doctor"
In Galicia, few weeks ago, trial
occurred that revealed the ignorance
and gross superstition among the peas
antry. At Bezesow the discovery was
made that several Jewish graves had
been opened and the bodies of two chill
dren removed. Near the village where
typhus fever had prevailed, a miracle
doctor had prescribed as cure for the
cortagion burning the bones of a Jew.
The house occupied by patient was
searched, and human flesh, the bones
and skull of child were found Tho
bones were burned, but this did not save
the patient, who died shortly afterward,
The widow related the case to the mira
Gle doctor.
He told her there we're two kinds Of
typhus, one Catholic typhus cured by
prayer, the other Jewish typhus cured
only by the means described. He
brought bones, and procured water from
well from which no man ever drank.
He burned the bones in charcoal fire,
nearly smothering the family with the
fumes Then, while the room was full
of smoke, he mumbled strange words.
He hunted around table, pretending
he was trying to catch the typhus,
which he' then put into a bottle, of
which he made all those present drink.
The doctor was arrested and sentenced
| tc Eve months impriSOnmcnt.-Our Pa.
per.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-01-17
WINTER MILLINERY.
Great Variety Displayed in the Latest
Fashions.


Great Variety Displayed in the Latest
Fashions.
The cosmopolitan character of the
new winter bonnets and hats is quite
study Seldom if ever has greater
choice been afforded. In other times
one or two models prevailed, and owners
of faces either round, square, oblong,
short, slender or rotund had each and
all to accommodate these few shapes to
their requirements; with what results
it would be difficult to imagine, had
there not been very long and decided
demonstration period, in which the dis
advantages of such conservatism in mil
linery became apparent Hats and bon
nets are now made in every conceivable
shape and style, and whatever best suits
the face and features can be adopted
with the very satisfactory knowledge
that it is as strictly fashionable as an
other woman's head-gear, though the
model chosen be but simple cloth
toque, felt sailor hat fitting the head
comfortably and faulty, and almost de-
void of trimming; and the other have an
immense halo-brim, and be laden with
plumes and ornaments. The Henri
Deux hat with soft full crown is no more
popular than the English walking hat
with its close arched brim; and the
picture" hat, in all its Partisan glory,
is displayed side by side with the
Quaker-like gray felt model with ample
brim and plain severe band, and soft
neutral plumes. And so on through the
wondrous array.-N Y. Evening Post
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-01-17
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

Men may Judge us by the success of
our efforts; God looks at the efforts them
selves. Charlotte Elizabeth.
Mr.. Trow Ahok, a prosperous mer-
chant Of Foo Chow, has just given S1O,-
600 to found an Anglo-Chinese college in
that city.
"A man can no more be a Christian
without facing evil and conquering it
than he can be soldier without going
to battle, facing the lannon's mouth,
and encountering the enemy in the field.
Chaplin.
"A good supply Of students is COM
ing forward in the Presbyterian Church
of England; the classes will be we'll at
tended again this session, and almost
entirely by young men from her own
congregations.
Philadelphia and not Brooklyn, says
the New York Critic, is the City Of
Churches" New York and Brooklyn to-
gether have only 76O churches for pop
ulation OF 100000 people. Philadel-
phia has $40 churches, besides 81 demon
national and II undenominational mis-
sions, for population Of 1,05O OOO
The recent visit of Methodist bishops
to Washington was made memorable by
the planting Of eighteen plane trees,
one for each bishop, in circle around
the highest point on the Methodist Uni
versity grounds, known as the crest. "
1t is the highest land in the District of
Columbia and commands view of sixty
miles in one direction.
The sum estimated for elementary
education in England and Wales for
1S9O-'91 is about $1S,OOO,0 OO This will
probably cover A per cent of the entire
expenditure, and with the amount de-
rived from local rates, will make uI
two-thirds the cost of the schools, the
remaining third being met by fees, sub
scriptions, and other sources. -Educa.
ton.
The Tuskegee Normal Institute,
Tuskegee, Ala, which has been from
the first Differed by colored people, has
entered upon the most prosperous veal
| III us history luerG dT6 40 SJuubub u
present representing thirteen Statea
and double this number would be pres
ent if there was room A friend in New
York has just given $1,000 toward the
endowment fund.
One of the best features in recen
college reforms is the increased atten
ton given to the study of the Bible. /
chair has lately been endowed at Prince
ton for the sole purpose of promoting
Bible study under a competent instruc
tor. Under Prof Harper there has beel
a noteworthy increase of Bible stud
among the college students at Yale
During the current year slXty-seve
seniors and ninety-two juniors elect
course Of two lectures a week on the OIL
Testament, the English Bible being tn
only textbook, while Oriental histor
with especial reference to the Bible vii
be required study in the freshma
year.-N. Y. Examiner.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-01-17

Preston's "Hed-Ake" is a specific
for headache.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-01-17
Stylish Bed-Clothes.

The latest fad of wealthy and fastidi-
Gus ladies is craze, not for crazy-quilts,
but silk sheets, daintily embroidered.
Sachets, filled with some delicate per-
fume, are fastened in the corners, and a
flower, corresponding to the one with
which the sachets are filled, is embroid-
cred over the sheet. Old-fashioned
'puffs" or eiderdown quilts are filled in
side with delicate perfumes, and one re-
clines not on, but under bed of roses.
A new bed-spread, in marked contrast,
is made of coarse linen sheeting, en-
broidered all over in gold-colored silk in
bold, conventional designs, wrought in
the long-stem stitch known to our grand
mothers. N, " Ledger
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-01-17
FASHIONABLE TEA GOWNS.
Elegant Costumes to BE Worn at tho Twi-
light Hour.

Elegant Costumes to BE Worn at the Twi-
light Hour.
People in general have curious ideas
OF a tea gown, and peculiar and mis-
taken habit of confusing this important
and elegant bit of feminine finery with
all manner of loose and tapping matt
nee gowns, dressing-gowns, and ILL
shapen ill-ftting wrappers which o
woman should allow herself to wear on
ly in the sanctity Of her own apartment
The tea gown proper is, in its way, as
elegant as dinner gown, rich in mate
rial, costly in decoration, carefully fitted,
and exquisitely combined as to colors;
it is supposed to be worn at the twilight
hour in the fragrance of the steaming
cup that cheers when parlors are bright
with lady visitors, when men drop in In
formally and are at their brightest and
best, when the lights glow family
through roseate shades over dainty SER
vice and delicate china, and fair woman
is fairest and most irresistible. Stiff,
rustling brocades and heavy velvets en-
ter into its construction, but so arranged
and fitted that it adapts itself readily to
the pretty unconventional attitudes a
woman drops into in the Sleepy Hol-
low chairs OF the tea room, or the
double rocker in the library, or may be
on the luxurious divans, piled high with
bright soft pillows These new gowns
seem to be more closely fitted and less
suggestive of comfort and somnolence
even than those seen last year, and
while loose in front are fitted smoothly
in the back and at the side in Princess
fashion. One gown in golden bronze
bengaline, with generous train, has a
front Of lemon surrah. wrought with
gold, and bordered with bronze velvet
ribbon. 1t hangs very straight and
smooth in front, and has train of con-
siderable length. Full bengaline sleeves
are pulled to the elbow, and fall over
deep gold cuffs, and high collar faced
with lemon color rolls back from gold
neckband. Another gown, in an un
common and beautiful shade of green,
has a loose front of cream China silk,
embroidered at the bottom and laced
down with a Swiss girdle of black vel
vet. Point de Venise sleeves and deer
collar finish the dress, which is very
stylish and pretty in every way. Yor
can't go wrong if you duplicate it,
Still more elaborate and less sugges
tive of its purpose is tea gown o
striped cream satin and crepe de chine
The sash encircling the slender waist i
of pink and green satin ribbon, bounC
round and round, to be tied at one sid
in the late pretty device affected b,
slim women, and the yoke and armlets o
beautiful silver embroidery. Tn
sleeves are Of cream chiffon, and tn
atmosphere of the whole is decidedly Q
the French, Frenchy. OF the two te
Jackets which follow and are worn b
some ladies in preference to the gowns
one is of pale blue nun S vailing, wit
white China silk let in the front an
back overlaid with cascades of Waller
ciennes lace, and the other of viole
bengaline, with paler violet pouf i
front and gold decoration.-N !
SIM
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-01-17
A Now Remedy.

Father-Now listen to me, children; 1
want you from now on to be just as bad
as you know how.
Tommy-Won't you whip us, pa?
Father-Not if you are very bad, but
III whip you if you behave yourselves.
Your aunt is coming to visit us, and |
don't want her to- stay long. Texas Sift-
ings.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-01-17

n YOUR HACK ACHES
or you are all worn ont, really GOOD for nothing
il iS general debility. Try
BROWNS IRON BTTTERS.
II will cure you, and give q good appetite. Sold
by all dealers in medicine.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-01-17

Ifyou have headache try PrestOn'S
"Hed-Ake."
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-01-17
Many Persons

are brosen down from overwork or household
cares Browns Iron BittcTS
rcbuilds the system. aids digestion. removes OK
cess of bile and cures malaria. Get the genuine.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-01-17

Why suffer? PrestOn's "Hed. AXE"
will cure you.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-02-19
NATIONAL MECHANICS.

THE Danes are known as DanSkers.
THE Switzer rejoices in the name Of
Colon Tampon-
THE Italians are almost invariably
known in Europe as Lazzaroni.
THE Irishrnan derives his name OF
Paddy from his National patron saint.
A SCoTCHNAN is known the world
over as Sandy and never objects to the
title.
COUSIN MICHEL is the name by which
the German is known to the continental
nations.
ENGLIsH,IEN have accepted the name
of John Bull as suited to the National
character.
THE Russian Bear and the Unspeak-
able Turk are hardly real nicknames,
but they go.
An ancient nursery rhyme records
the fact that Taffy is a Welshman and
so he is called
DoN WHIsKERANDos is almost a ma
tiona1 nickname for the Spaniards,
dating from Elizabethan times.
MYNHEER -CLosH, an authorization Oh
Nicholas, sums up the Hollanders, who
are often known simply as the Myn-
heers-
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-02-19
NEW RAILROAD BILL.

Features of the Latest Kansas Railroad
BilI-The Commissioners to BE Elected
BY the PeOple-Passes Forbidden.
The ma ority of the House Committee
on Railroads, in the Kansas Legislature
has prepared substitute for Speaker
Elders railroad bill. 1t provides for a
two-cent passenger rate, and makes the
Railroad Board elective by the people.
The term of office of the present board
expires April l next, and the bill makes
it the duty of the executive council tic
appoint successors for the members to
serve until January, 1892. The House
and Senate are each required to elect
mem Der.
The Railroad Board is also vested
with the control of the express, tele-
graph and telephone companies and all
other persons, companies or corpora
tons doing business as common carriers.
Section of the bill provides that the
commissioners shall have power to
examine any of the books, paper or doc
uments of any such company or corpo-
ration, or to examine under oath or
otherwise any officer, director, agent or
employe thereof or any other person. ="
Any person who obstructs the Commits
sioners in the performance of their du-
ties, or who refuses to give any infor-
nation within their possession that
may be required by the Commissioners.
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and
shall be liable, on conviction, to a fine
of 81, 900. 1t is made the duty of every
station agent, on five days notice of in
tended shipment, to furnish suitable
cars.
Section of the bill meets the ALI
ance idea in regard to passes. 1t pro-
vides that sit shall be unlawful for any
railroad company or corporation, re-
ceiver or any employe thereof, to
issue, give or deliver any pass, ticket,
card or other device for free transpor-
tation to any person over any railroad
within this State, other than the en-
ployes or their families, or shippers of
livestock on such railroad, provided
nothing in this section shall be con-
strued to prevent railroad companies
| from transporting INDECENT persons
without compensation when seeking re-
lief"
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-02-19
TO CONSIDER IRRIGATION.
A Resolution in the Kansas Legislature For
q Western Convention.

a
Western Convention.
TOPEKA, Kan, Feb. 1.-THE people
of Kansas are daily becoming more in
terested in the subject of irrigation, and
it is generally conceded that the only
salvation of the western counties, es-
pecially, is the establishment of a
thorough system for supplying the
ground with moisture. Many schemes
for accomplishing this have been sug-
gested and there is general desire to
secure all available information which
will aid in the accomplishment of the
result desired.
To accomplish this Speaker Elder has
introduced a concurrent resolution in
the House calling a mass convention to
be held in Topeka April Is, and re-
questing Governor Humphrey to invite
the States of Texas, Nebraska, North
and South Dakota, Wyoming, Nevada
and California and the Territories of
Oklahoma, New Mexico, Utah and Ari-
iona to send such number of delegates
to take part in the convention as shall
seem proper to their Governors.
The resolution also declares it the
sense of the Legislature that Congress
should, by liberal system of appropri-
alton, irrigate the arid lands of this
country as far as practicable to be done,
and that the movement to do this might
in Justice to homeseekers be inaugurated
without delay.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-02-19

is not exactly natural to an English
man to back out when there is any fight
ing in prospect so accept your propo-
sition. This gentleman on my right
will perhaps act as my second"
The man alluded to was the one he
had walked home with week before,
and he agreed to act for Percy. Then
Lowell pondered for a moment before he
proceeded to name his opponent. Each
of the Spaniards stood eying him as
much as to say: ''Oh, please take me; 1
would like to spill little Of your cold
English blood on the fertile plains uf
this Republic; only give me the chance. 2"
The coolest of the lot was Mr.. limerick,
who seemed as unconcerned and indif-
ferent as Lowell himself. But Percy was
not considering whom he should fight;
on that point his mind was fully made
up. He had other thoughts in his mind.
He seemed, as it were. in trap. He
| knew full we'll that if he further incur
red the anger of these men he might
never leave the place alive, and his body
might float out on the next tide to the
| ocean. It was bold break he was
about to make, but it meant a great
deal IT he was to be killed, he wanted
to know who killed him. If he killed,
he proposed to know whom he had
killed. He stood erect, his enemies be-
| ing on one side the table and himself on
| the other.
Looking Mr.. Limerick straight in the
eyes he riveted that gentleman's gaze
in such a manner that there was no es-
cape. Then in clear. calm voice he
uttered the words: Icon Velasqwes.
will fight YOU"
: But If Mr.. limerick was indeed We
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-02-19

In seventeen Northern States the
total vote cast was within less than 2
per cent. of the Presidential vote of
1855 And in these States the Demo-
cratic gain in the popular vote was over
&C.. coo, In 1855 the Republicans car
ried every one of these seventeen
States In 1890 the Democrats carried
twelve of them The House of Repre-
sentatives was made Democratic by
safe-working majority without count
ing a single member from the South
BY an antiquated and unrepublican
arrangement OF sessions the new Con-
gress viii not meet IN regular order
until December next. But 1t represents
the latest expression of the popular
Will In contending for obedience to
that viii the Democrats in Congress are
simply insisting that the majority shall
rule--N- " World
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-02-19
THE usuRY BILL.
Speaker Elders Bill to Regulate the Rate
OF

Speaker Elders Bill to Regulate the Rate
of Interest.
TOPEKA, Kan, Feb. 1.-THE follow
ing is the text of Speaker Elders bill
regulating the rate of interest:
Section l. That creditors shall be allowed
to receive interest at the rate of six per cent.
per annum, when no other rate of nterest is
agreed upon, for any money after it becomes
due; for money lent or money due on settle
ment of accounts, from the day of liquidat-
ing the same and ascertaining the balance;
for money received for the use of another,
and retained without the owners knowledge
OF the receipt; for money due and Withheld
by an unreasonable and vexatiOuS delay of
payment or settlement OF accounts; for all
other money due, and to become due. for
forbearance OF payment whereof an express
promise to pay interest has been made; and
for money due from corporations or individ
uals to their monthly employees. from and
after the end of each month, unless the same
shall be paid within thirty days thereafter;
and such rate as has been stipulated in the
original contract sued upon in courts of
record and justices of the peace from the day
on which they are rendered, which rate shall
be specified in the Judgment
Sec. 2. That the parties to any bond, bill,
prOm:sSory note or other instrument of
writing, for the payment or forrearance OF
money, may stipuiate therein for interest
receivable upon the amount of such bill,
bond. promissory note or other Instrument
in writing at a rate not exceeding 10 per
cent per annum: provided. that any person,
corporation, company or CO partnership so
contracting, either direct or Indirectly, for
q greater rate of interest than 10 per cent
per annum hall forfeit the principal and al
the interest contracting for. and the
courts shall render no judy ment for any sum
against the payor, maker, his heirs, assigns,
administrator, other legal representa-
tives on such bond, bill, promissory note or
other evidence of indebtedness wherein
such greater rate of interest than 10 per
cent per annum has been contracted for
either directly or indirectly; and any dis
count or bonus in excess of ID per cent. per
annum, whether taken in advance of matnr-
ity otherwise, either directly OF indirect
1y, shall be deemed and held in law to be
usuriouS interest within the meaning CT this
act.
Sec. 8. That when it can be shown by testi-
mony or evidence. either oral OF in writing,
than any greater sum or rate than 10 per
cent. per annum has been charged, taken or
received, either directly or indirectly, by
any person, company, corporation or CO.
partnership, the party so paying, his heirs
or other legal representatives shall have his,
her their right of action in any court OF
competent jurisdiction to sue and collect
from such party receiving the same with
interest at the rate of per cent. per annum
from the date of such payment any time
within three years from the date of such
payment.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-02-19
A. Il. Grover Dead.

ATCH1soN, Kan, Feb. IA. ].
Grover, of this county. a somewhat
noted character, died yesterday of pa
resis. Several years ago he was prom
inent in Illinois politics and was once
the Republican candidate for Congress
in Chicago district. He was defeated,
and he accused the Catholics of being
the cause of it. Later he wrote a
pamphlet abusing the Catholic religion,
and soon after came to Kansas, pur-
chasing a farm. In 1888 he was the
Union Labor candidate for Congress in
this district. He sought Democratic in
dorse ment, but his anti-Catholic pam
phlet was sprung on him, which de-
feated his plans, and at the election he
received less than 9, 900 votes. OF recent
years Mr.. Grover has been frequent
contributor to the press of the country
on the tariff.