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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-02-12

much for the use or money 10 0eveiOPe
and improve their farms as is charged
for the use of money employed in the
interests of great corporations. Mr..
Ingalls, underestimated the strength
and sincerity of the farmers alliance
just as hundreds of other politicians
did. but by this time he probably real
ICES that the farmers are in earnest"
"What do you think of the weight
that Senator Ingalls, successor, Judge
PETER, will have in the senate?"
Just AS long as he owns himself he
will have the weight of one vote and
that is enough to enable him to play
see saw successfully with good many
senators without asking them to give
him the long end of the plank. Just as
himself he will be all right, and his
presence in the senate will be an infu-
ence for the good of the farmers alli-
ance. His presence in the senate is
likely to be the neucleus around which
will form quite a contingent of farmers.
1 am thoroughly in sympathy with the
farmers in their endeavor to obtain re-
dress for grievances. There are good
many things in their new political
creed that l do not believe in, but on
the whole, thay are in the position
which Shakespeare contemplated when
he wrote. Thrice armed is he who hath
his quarrel just l am delighted to see
them aroused; to see them taking an
interest at least in their own welfare.
The people in towns unite easier than
the farmers. They have had the bene-
fit of organization. Now the farmers
are beginning to see that organization
means power. They know that bank
ers, merchants aud railroads are will
ing to make all they can-willing to
take the last cent from the farmer.
Discussion will do good. OF course,
they will not do all they set out to do.
But it is good thing to find out what
you can't do. The tillers of the soil
are slaves in the old world, but they
can be sovereigns here, and hope that
they will live up to their privileges. l
do not want their votes. / ask no fav-
ors, but know that no country can be
great if the soil is cultivated by ignor-
ance. We need intelligence in the
6eld-education behind the plow."-
Interview with Colonel Ingersoll in the
Chicago Herald.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-02-12
The War Is Over.

The war has been over twenty-five
years, and nothing il morally more
reprehensible than the raneor which
lives in the heart long after fray 10
ended, and invites the victor to hound
and torment the adversary whom he
conquered long ago. We have been
for more than hundred years . warm
ly cemented brotherhood of states, and
because our union was once broken by
. quarrel, shall We make Q virtue of
hatred forever afterp Many . confed-
crate soldier Who bled and suffered for
the canse he loved, has been patriotic
American citizen foc years before and
since that moment Of generous insanity
and As such he il fitted to represent
his country whether the state:in which
he lives is northern or southern.-KRn-
sas City Globe.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-02-12
WASHINGTON LETTER.

Washington, d c.. Feb. 1851
The oyster problem assumes large
proportions IN the public thought of at
least three states, Maryland. Virginia
and North Carolina. The newspapers
have excited the legislatures and state
authorities to the point of high talk at
least. In the old tar state the govern
ment has armed a launch and lies in
wait for the bivalve pirate. Gov. Nc
Kinney, of Virginia, more pacific in
temper, proposes a survey of the oyster
grounds as preliminary sep to any
consideration of war measures. The
oyster, being sustainer Of the physical
and therefore of the mental man. is q
topic no way inferior to silver, reciproc-
ity, elections or any other subject Of
live public interest and the people of
the oyster states stand in no need of
apologists for their warmth of senti-
ment.
Probably never before in the histeFy
of the Indian race has an Indian been
so far above the earth as q dozen or so
of the Sioux, now in the city, were yes
terday. They got into the elevator and
were lifted to the top of the Washing
ton monument. They were much
interested in what they could see from
the narrow windows at the top of the
monument, and some of them were
loath to come down. Perhaps it would
be impossible to arrange a mornings
pleasure for a band of rebellious red
skins that would be better calculated
to impress upon them the size and
might of the people they want to fight
with.
The loft of the post Office department
building in which the department arch.
ives are stored has for long time been
infested with rats. This rodent is as
fond of soft place in the department
as the average oftice-sseker, and thus he
finds among the stacks of old papers
stored in the attic. 1t is an ideal nest
ing place. Much of the musty ole
stuff filed away there is about as useful
for rat nests as for any other purpose
There are files of old letters from Ben
Franklin's day down; long shelves filled
with ledgers half century ole. money
order statements long out of date
quarterly accounts current from post
masters long since turned to clay. No
only the lofts, but some of the corridors
are stuffed to fatness with decrepid ole
files. The rats haYe caught on to thi.
fact. It is not every rat in the worl6
THAT can line his Rest with Ben. Frank
Inns old letters, or the love letters OF
Return Jonathan Meigs, or Montgom
cry Blair's briefs in behalf of a money
order system. Ferrets and dogs were
this week brought into the building
and so far 140 rats have been captured
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-02-12

Let Him That is Without sin Cast the
First Stone"
Suddenly great light, in brightness
like untU that wiIiche&,ea upon the eyes
Of Saul, of Tarsus, has been seen by the
professional organs of radicalism, and
with unanimity which smells of pre-
concert they have leaped into denuncia-
ton of the Kansas farmers alliance as
all order alien to republican institu-
tions, untitled by its secret signs and
grips and pass words for the political
recognition of honest men, unworthy of
affiiIation with those truly good elect
who not long ago rolled up eighty thou
sand majority in the the Sunflower
state for the grand old party of moral
ity and God. It is not untrue that a
secret society. controlled in sentry
guarded sessions by leaders who might
be political mountebanks, becomes
when it grasps great political powers a
menace to that intangible something
in our institutions which is part of
what we call freedom. It is not deni-
able that legislation which is formu
lated behind closed doors, discussed in
privacy, agreed upon by secret eau
cuses and thereafter passed without
serious open debate, by foreordained
majority; may prove of character
rabidly sectarian, unwise and hurtful.
There is, therefore, enough in the
charge that legislation in Kansas lies
at the mercy of secret society to give
reflection Pause; to create the inquiry
how far may such methods of political
control legitimately extend.
Bnt it is not the mouthpleces of the
party of the bloody shirt, the lineal de-
scendants of knownothingism, which
may properly cast the first stone. The
farmers in Kansas have found in the
secrecy of their alliance its only pre-
servatiOn as political factor. They
were driven to private compact by the
necessities of the situation. In the last
campaign, the veil which hid their pur-
poses, their strength aud their solemn
resolution to stand fast together alone
prevented the disruption of their party
by the trained and astute political di.
rectors of republican policy in Kansas
The professional spoilsmen were routed
because they did not and could not
know the extent Of the peoples revolt
The necessities of self defense, in pol
itics as well as in law. justify ans
course.
The party which shamelessly accquir
ed a working majority in the last house
Of representatives by unseating demo
cratic members whose fair election
even the brazen front of Reed could
not privately deny, which seized lonl
control of the senate by the admission
of republican territories while denying
equal privilege to democratic one o.
greater population, which in caucus re
solved the destruction of tho freedom
of the ballot, hung upon the peoplea
neck highwayman's tariff and sough
the deposition of silver, is not in, a posi-
ton querulously to find fault with tn,
secrecy of the farmers' alliance. Th'
} beam in its own eye is seen too far o
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-02-12
has q Renuhlican.

Judge Abbott adjourned court last
Tuesday for two weeks and left foz
Topeka in the interest of irrigation in
Finney county and cutting up Of the
judicial districts in southwest Kansas.
The Judge ID bon q bid eourt aud ~.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-02-12
Concerning the Classification Register.

concerning the CLASSIFICATION Register.
Written for the DHMoCRAr.
An article in the Beacon has again
set me to thinking. The article appears
over the signature of Mrs. E. n. Ford
and is only a mild ontburst of the pop
ular indignation felt over the introdue-
tion of the new idea" When Mrs.
Ford insinuates that the progress of
pupils depends upon the kind OF
teacher" rather than upon the kind OF
Register" she makes an incontrovert-
ible statement.
In number of school officer inter
views, it has been impossible to find a
single case who favored the new idea. "
This register was considered a
good book, until it was attempted to
organize the classes of a new school
from information furnished through it,
by the previous teacher, when its utter
uselessness was discovered.
The very theory of The Classification
Register is FALSE; as it presumes that
pupils remain, during vacation, pre-
cisely where they ''left off, at the end
of the term.
In the "IntrOduction" to the Register
the following extracts may be found:
The following graded course of study
corresponds to the work as outlined in
'Speer's Manual and Course OF Studies
The subject matter is here specifically
designated in terms work, SO that a
definite record of what work each pupil
did each term and where he left off at
the close of each term, may be left for
each succeeding teacher. + Each
teacher using this Register should read
How to Organize, Classify and Teach
Country school, published by VIM.
NJ. Welch, Maquoketa, Iowa = the
chief object of this record is to convey
Information to succeeding teachers"
When we consider the above words
in HUMAN way, and reflect on the
number Of names-Speer, Welch, Nc
COllum, Donahue and Henniberry-all
connected with the publication of this
book and interested in its extensive in
PRODUCTIONS; our weakness in assuming
that the reason for it's intrDduction was
a financial one, and not one of public
necessity. must be excused. BY per-
using the above quotation it will be seen
that several other admirable little pub
lications follow the Register. The pur-
chase of each connected with little
expense. The gentle reader is obliging-
ly told where this literature may be
procured 50 she will be at no trouble at
all in becoming the proud possesser
thereof.
AS is clearly stated. the object of the
Register is to show where each pupil
left off, at the end of term, to begin
there at the commencement of the
next. But where the whole system
| falls to the ground, is in the fact that
| pupil may continue her studies during
vacation, or SO neglect them as to
make the showing in the Register faI
beyond actual abilities. One pupil will
advance her showing in the Register
during vacation, while another will &c
behind it. What can the Register be to
the new teacher but mass of jncOn-
gruity and inconsistency? Is it any
| wonder that teachers seldom refer tC
the new idea" in the organization of !
new school? Very Truly,
FL. G.. BENKE.
Claflin, Kans.. Feb. 4th, 1891.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-02-12

IN THREE weeks more. thank good
ness, Reedism, McKinleyism, force bill
bulldozers and gold-bug- leggers will
step down and out of congress, and a
party whose aim is to govern the people
for the true interests of the people
will step forward and take up the cause
OF humanity as against the cause of
oligarchy. 1t is true, a republican
president will still sit at the nations
head, but his power to do harm be-
tween now and his retirement in 1892
will be taken from him. The truth will
prevail, and democracy is again recog-
nized as being the exponent Of all. the
people and the champion of Americas
freedom and prosperity.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-02-12
That's Different, You Know.

Senator Hoar having entirely failed
in his effort to get an automatic cutoff
fitted en- to senate debates, he may now
resume the opinion which he entex-
tanned last fall when he wrote for tue
Youths Companion:
''In this assembly speech is absolutes
ly unfettered. Every measure can be
discussed fully without restraint and
amended without limit. This is Of i'm
mense importance, not only to the per-
fection of legislation, but also to the
dignity Of the senate and, in my opin-
ion, to civil liberty itself. An attempt
was made by Hr. Clay, during the pres
idency of John Tyler, to introduce an
hour rule and the previous question"
into the senate. The democratic mi
nority threatened forcible resistance.
Some OF Mr.. Clay's political friends
flinched from his support, and the plan
was given up"
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-02-12

1T Is little queer. to say the least,
that in the calculations of General
Manager Quay of the republican sys-
tenn. Harrison is not even mentioned an
a presidential possibility. Put away
great t-great-grandpa's bat for Baby Nc
Eee.-Xsnsas Cry TIMES.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-02-12

haps knows best; but q man by the
name Of Hopkins was elected to repre-
sent Finney county and If he cannot
hold down the job it seems to us he
ought to resign and let some one At
tend the legislature who can. When
it comes to dismissing the reuglar
term of the district court for two weeks
and thereby discommode SO or a 100
people in various ways for the purpose
of helping out the representative and
fghting the alliance. there ought to be
something more at stake, in our judg-
ment, than what is at present. If one
man cannot represent Finney county
fully it would be better to elect two or
three additional members instead of
lifting the judge of of the bench when
he is already behind with his work
Garden City Democrat.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-02-12

THE farmers of the country have for
many years during republican misrule,
been knocking at the door of congress
for admission. They have rupg the
bell time ard again, and although the
party on the inside often came to the
stoop and announced that the door
would soon be thrown open, it has not
been done, until now the '.hayseeds' s:are
mad and out of patience and are pro-
ceeding to kick the door down and
throw the whole business of republican
star-chamber exclusiveness open to the
gaze of the world.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-02-12

HERE is one of the demands of the
farmers alliance that seems like SEN
sible solution of vexing problem: I'VE
demand law making null and void
and uncollectable any promissory note,
due bill, stocks, bonds or chsttel mort
gage, or any other evidence of indebt-
edness held after the first Monday in
April of Any year, provided the same
shall not have the assessors stamp upon
it, showing that the same has been
listed for taxation" just let the Kan
sas legislature make this a law and
when the merry springtime shall have
rolled around the assessors personal
property list will swell like dried apples
on foggy day.-Ellsworth Democrat.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-02-12

ALTHOUGH Senator PETER is prohi-
bitionist, he favors a constitutional
convention, and many of the alliance
representatives are also SO disposed.
They believe that. as many years have
passed since the present laws were
made, the people have an undeniable
right to vote again upon the adoption
of our laws. 1t is quite probable there
fore, that the much needed constitu-
tional convention will be called by the
present legislature.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-02-12
NE1eHBoRHooD HAPPENINGS.
ELLINwOOD.


From the Advocate. "a
q. S. and M. S. Clark left Tuesday
morning for an overland trip to Doug
lass.
Frank Schultz has great smile on
his face, owing to the arrival of =
bouncing girl baby, at his home.
Messrs. John and Mat Dick left last
Friday morning for Cedarburgh, Wis
consin, having been called there by the
serious illness of their father.
V. s. Musil, having again been elect
ed and accepted to the position Of Sec
retary of the Creamery Co.. found it
necessary to enlarge his Office, and ac-
cordingly did so, now having one of
the neatest business Offices in the city.
He has also an elegant set of books. to
conduct the creamery business with.
Quite a surprise was rendered our
venerable townsman, c. Schrepel, last
Sunday, it being his list birthday. His
sons planned to capture him according
ly VIM. Schrepel. of Dakota, and Hen
ry Schrepel, of Minnesota, met their
brother John, of Pratt county, at
Hutchinson. from which place they
came to Ellinwood, and with the assist
ance of Aug. Schrepel, of this city, cap
tured the gentleman and found him
hale and hearty, and enjoying life.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-02-12
PAWNEE ROCK.


From the Leader.
One of Joe Williams little ones has
been at deaths door this week with
spinal meningitis. 1t is better now.
There was ice on the creek this week
five inches thick. Our ice men failed
to get any of it however. The thaw
set in too quick.
Mr.. Ash Nairn has severed his con-
nection as partner in the firm of
Nichols s. Nairn, having sold out bis
interest to young John Bauer.
One of the Brady boys brought nice
lot of German carp up to French Is
butcher shop this week. He had
caught them down in Ash creek.
They weighed from one and half to
four pounds each.
Stella, youngest daughter Of Amos
Huls, has been confined to her bed fol
some weeks with some kind of linger.
ing disease that, thus far, the doctor
has not been able to fathom. She bears
her sufferings with great deal OF
patience for one so young.
On Tuesday night Judge Day, one OF
Great Bends new converts, came uI
and talked to the people of Pawnee
Rock OH the subject of their souls sal
walton. The Evangelical church wa:
crowded with an expectant lot of people
and their expectatiOnS were fully real
lied.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-02-12

which signs himself G. e. NJ. He has
been informed Of no such thing. The
editor of the Banner does not want the
post Office; we only ask, and the patrons
of the Office demand, that a man who
possesses some sense of duty and justice
toward the patrons of the office De
placed therein. instead Of tie Hon. On
Alphabetical Hartman. As to our
language in former issues. we have no
apology to offer. other than that We
might have drawn it stronger. From
all accounts the writer of the item, has
been either wrongly Informed or is, in
plain English, a wilful liar.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-02-12

Claf1in, Kans.. Feb. 4th, 1891.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1891-05-16
THE STAGE HERo's BOOTS.


They Are Faultlessly Clean In Wet o. Dry
Weather.
The stage hero always wears patent
leather boots, and they are always spot
lcssly clean. Sometimes he is rich, and
lives in . room with seven doors to it,
and at other times he is starving in .
garnet, but in either event he still wears
brand-new patent leather boots He
might raise at least three and sixpence
on those boots, and when the baby is
crying for food il occurs to ms that it
would be better II instead Of praying to
Heaven he took of his boots and
pawned them. but this does not seem to
occur to him. He crosses the African
desert in patent leather boots, does the
stage hero. He takes . supply with
him when he is wrecked on an uninhab-
ited island. lie arrives from long and
trying journeys; his clothes are ragged
and torn, but his boots are new and
shiny. He puts ON patent leather boots
to tramp through the Australian bush,
to fight in Egypt. to discover the North
Pole. He goes boating in patent leather
boots, he plays cricket in them. he goes
fishing and shooting in them. Some
times he is . gold digger. sometimes .
dock laborer, sometimes . soldier.
sometimes q sailor, but whatever he is
he wears patent leather boots.-James
K. Jeume, in Stage Land
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1891-05-16
the AIR WE NEED.

A Timely Suggestloa - - the veotllaeSoo
ofLiving Rooas. - .-a
! With the coming of colder and winter
weather there is . natural tendency to
stop up the cracks and crevices in our
homes. For this purpose the weather
strip and other devices ere resorted 10.
With this shutting out Of cold air pure
air is often excluded it1G =
Il Is as to this latter and very praeti-
cal view Of the subject that the atten-
ton Of the average households should
be intelligently directed Il sAoald -
seen to that proper and .ade-
quste ventilation be insured ct
all times to our living and
slesping apartment& Otherwise injury
and disease are likely TO Be entailed
upon those most deaP 70 ~ This 4
especially true Of women snd children,
who ere often mnch more cootinuoualy
confined within doors than are the men.
The hest authorities tell rs that no Les
than sixty cubic feet Of air per minute
Il required for each person 70 maintain
. reasonable degree Of purity. A fam
lily Of six persons should therefore have
about three hundred cubic ieet Of fresh
cir per minute flowing through the room
they are occupying. II isnot snough to
have provision for entrance unless there
is also adequate arrangements for exit.
How many Of our homes are. reaspuar
bly, provided With natnEa's safeguard 8
! taas vesyscef -RittshsuIA Os.ea1sk !
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1891-05-16
IRusHED FORWARD.

ceased, and l heard light football.
My first impulse was to hide myself
completely under the bedclothes and
await further Developments But
nobly resisted that impulse, and, rising,
hastily donned wrapper and slippers.
saying, half aloud: ut must be father
come back unexpectedly"
j think l never was more sure of
anything in my life than I WAS then,
that it was not father
softly stole downstairs and along
the hall. The dining-room door was
ajar. and l paused . moment on the
threshold. There. by the dim light of a
lantern, held in the hand Of one, saw
the forms of two barly. rough bearded
men, one apparently middle-aged and
the other much younger. The butt Of
. pistol protruded from the pocket of
the older. At almost the same instant
they saw me, and gave . slight invol-
untary start of surprise.
1t Immediately flashed over me that
these were men from the neighborhood,
that they knew of my fathers absence,
OF the presence of the money in the
house. of my mothers illness, and that
they had supposed. my mother. was
alone. Il had been away from home
tor some time previous to thix)
l knew that the unexpected presence
u . young giri would not turn then