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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-12-10
RACING FOR A BRIDE.

How Two Tars Settled Their Rivalry In
Amicable Fashion.
There are many different and some
times extremely novel ways to settle
love affairs One that surpasses all
that have recently been tried in this
locality was resorted to by two jack
tars. Barney Burns, a marine. and
George Lindsay, a sailor belonging to
the receiving ship St Louis, both fell
pened to be their washerwoman's
the mems wash to the ship herself. but
some time ago she sent her daughter,
who is very pretty young woman,
with the linen.
Burns was the first to see the girl,
and he Immediately became smitten,
and after repeated visits to the boat
it was evident that the girl was not
wholly insensible to his attentions
All went well until Lindsay met the
girl, and Cupid's arrow Immediately
sank deep into his heart and he decided
to win the girl at all hazards The girl
did not specially favor either sutton
and as she received their attentions
with equal kindness, they were at
loss to know who was the favored one.
It was at first thought that good
plan would be to engage in prize fight
for the hand. of the captivating female,
but as Burns weighs two hundred and
twenty pounds and Lindsay but one
hundred and seventy this idea was dis
couraged. After discussion the two
men decided to run a race, the loser to
retire from the contest for the girls
favor. Both agreed, and as the young
woman was willing. both went into
training for the sprinting match, the
course being down Broad street to the
navy yard
There was large crowd along the
line of the race, and at the word ''go''
the two men set out in lively manner
for League island.
The lighter man soon secured the
lead, and when Lindsay arrived at the
entrance to the navy yard his rival
was not in sight He finally arrived
about fifteen minutes later.
Burns accepted his defeat with as
good grace as possible, and, shaking
hands with Lindsay, he congratulated
him upon his victory, at the same time
announcing his intention of with
drawing from the feld.-Philadelph
Times
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-12-10
EXPERT COIN HANDLERS.
ashiers Who Are InfalHble Counterfeit
DetectOrs.

Cashiers Who Are InfalHble Counterfeit
Detectors.
There are men and women in New
York who handle money in small guam
titles. from five to ninety-five cents.
who acquire q skill and dexterity bso-
lutely marvellous They are cashiers OF
restaurants. popular dining aud lunch
rooms. where the rush is very great at
certain hours during the day and where
everything in the shape of payment
comes along in what is called 'change"
that is, in amounts less than one dol
lar and never uniform
1t may be young girl or a young
man, who never had any former expe-
rience in handling coin or notes, but he
or she becomes SO expert that it makes
an ordinary business mans head swim
to watch them. One of these lightning
change artists, who is in a big lunch
room near the post office, has long
standing wager of ten Thousand dollars
that he can beat anybody making
change-bar none. And that young
man is certainly wonderful
He has the touch of instinct Like
those OF many women in the redemp.
ton bureau of the treasury at Wash
ington his motions are too swift for the
ordinary eye to count, saying nothing
of the money feature. But the work
OF the treasury woman expert counter
is with round mum bers and bills alone;
his involves constantly varying
amounts of minor coin and bills to-
gether. Certain hours of every day
will find an unbrol1en line of customers
with lunch checks and money passing
the cashiers desk. To see young Hay
ward manipulate those checks and
coins and bills is curiosity.
bad money? I can tell bad coin
at the touch,'' said he. dimes are the
most common counterfeits. Anybody
can tell bad money, time enough. but
I've become able to detect it at the
touch-not rubbing, I haven't time
for that-in a flash too quick for
the eye I couldn't explain it, and
to know anything is quicker than
to see it There are bad dimes
passed here every day. Most of them
by our regular customers and with un-
questioned innocence No. we'd rather
lose the money than call such a man
back before the crowd and charge him
with passing counterfeit And there'd
be twenty people blocked up here in
front of me in two minutes 1t wouldn't
pay:
Range? 1 have everything and
every com bination from a two cent
piece to a fifty dollar note every day of
the year we run It must be done in
simultaneously. No bank note detect
ors or consultations or comparisons or
any of that sort of thing. And mostly
from lot of people you never know
anything about 1t ought to make
man expert, anyhow."-N. Y. Herald.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-12-10

ssthrange cattle; an the longer ye know
pthim. the stranger yell find thin.
''Maizic an me hes been marrit this
fifteen years back; and sometimes do
be thinkin' it's new Maizie I'm max
in the acquaintance av livery day. But,
faith, amy wan av the ould vans was
:good enough fer me!
Ibid we quarrel, is it. me and
-Maizie. whin we were coortin'? Did
we do annythin' else till the ring whit
IAN her finger? An it was nick an go.
but lost her altogether the last time
we fell out.
''Ye see, 1 was wantin' me fling be-
fore I'd settle down with Maize.
he'd a loose foot, an fella for it; an
there wasn't a dance or a weddin' but
L TUX the 1ure an me pick an chico av
gairls
For awhile it whit we'll enough, an
Maizie's huffs an sullSs was pepper to
the petaties-I was that sure av her,
ID we mind? But whin Long Casey be-
gin to walk home from chapel with
her an she wudn't look on the same
side o. the road was an
IAN that wasn't bad enough till he
began to stravague about the lane she
lived in; an one night l seen her on
the bank av the river with him; an
Whin she left him she hurried past me
in the moonlight. runnin' like fairy
whin l spoke to her-Maizie, runnin'
away from me!
''Afther that. for weeks, cudn't get
a word with her. She niver ken out
alone, an her mother an the childer
was always about her in the house, an
she STINT back the letthers wrut her
'ithout breakin' the wafer. An by
this time, gairls an dancin' was little
Tthrubble to me. l was 1osin me Shape
an the taste o me vittles, an me face
was the color nv a dab av whitewash
an a dhirty wall.
Casey was always hangin' about
with her father an brothers; an his
intintions was we'll known to all an
well approved av. An if it wasn't for
the widda mother he had. me own
mothers crony, an the dacintest soul
in the parish. I'd ha' bate him black
an blue, fer preshoomin' the way he
did.
''Well, to mex a long story short,
zone fine marnin' i whistled upm cour-
s;age an skirted away over the back
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-12-10
FRtllS OF FASHIONS.

New Things Noticed In the Line of Ladies'
Dress.
A pretty and stylish dress trimming
is made of narrow fancy braids applied
in straight rows, in Vandyke points or
in waved lines
Cowslip yellow satin makes q very
beautiful evening toilet, as under cleo
trio or gaslight it turns to pale, charm
ing, shining gold
A novelty in trimmings is a messy
chenille garniture that is quite as pref
ty and becoming as feather trimming
and not nearly SO costly.
Flocks of rosettes. or as the French
call them choux, of all sorts of materials
have settled on the garments and head
gear of fashionable women
A very effective and dressy material
is Soudan lace, which resembles gui-
pure, and comes in all sorts of beauti-
full shades 1t is made up over colored
silk.
For combination gowns and entire
dress the rough surfaced bourette
woods and those with the silky pile Of
the fleece of the Thibet goat rival the
familiar serges, tweeds, and cheviots
Among the recent importations are
black satin bonnets faced with white,
edged with jet. and trimmed with white
applique lace, Russian sable and feather
aigrettes. They come in small shapes
and also in the new f1aring directorie
bonnets-
The new lowered silks are too pretty
to be used for Innings alone. and many
women have already discovered their
value and have had these gay Marie
Antoinette fancies made up into charm
ing toilets, either very elegant in effect
through being enriched with black lace
trimmings, or made up simply with .
sheath skirt or with one gathered to
the edge OF a pointed bodice
The new feature of princesse dresses
is their bias back seams that give the
effect Of a bell skirt The two middle
forms of the back begin to widen Just
below the waist line in each of their
three seams, and continue to broaden
their entire length; the skirt part ID
then stif1y interlined and is held in two
distinct folds by being tackled under
meath, making q graceful bell-shaped
demi-train.
The new art" brown tint of q deep
reddish shade appears among the hand
some dress fabrics of silk. Bedford cord,
bengaline, velvet and ladies' cloth It
is also used extensively by ladies' tall
ors for recherche visiting and carriage
costumes of velvet, striped armure,
piaided camel's-hair and Venetian cloth.
These gowns are decorated with vari-
Gus rich brown furs and have full
sleeves and high arched collars of
Lyons velvet
Bright red cloth of the new taureau
shade is used in gay gowns for very
young women The newest fancy is to
make shirred bodice of sleek black
plush with large sleeves and q bell
skirt of the brilliant red cloth. The
black bodice, fastened invisibly on the
left side, has many rows of shirring in
round yoke shape below the collar. and
four or FIVE rows around the waist A
frin falling below the shirrs of the
waist is only four or five inches deep
when deubled-Chicago Post
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-12-10
The SundoNer.

The common tall sunf1ower is said to
have derived its name from its resem-
blance to the radiant beams of the SUM-
This flower is turned to many economic
uses 1t furnishes the finest honey and
wax When the seed is crushed as
hnseed is it will produce the finest oil
in larger quantities in proportion to
any other seed for the table as well as
the painter, particularly in mixing
green and blue paints. The cake is
superior to linseed for fattening cattle;
the oil makes most excellent soap,
very softening 10 the hands and face,
and better than any other for shaving.
Sheep, pigs. pigeons, rabbits and poul-
try of all sorts will fatten rapidly upon
the seed, pheasants in particular. be-
coming much glossier in plumage and
plumper in body. And when shelled
and ground, it makes the finest kind of
-four for bread. especially tea cakes
Detroit Free Press
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-12-10
Dinner Coats.

Tricky repped yet soft Muscovite
silks and bengalines of light color are
made up in shirred basques called din
ner coats, to be worn with q skirt of
white or light colored faced cloth Dor
dered narrowly with fur. The back ID
seamless, and is widely shirred at the
waist line, while the front turns back
with a revers collar to disclose full
blouse of chiffon. lace or silk Rose
pink Muscovite silk makes q beautiful
coat of this fashion, with garnet velvet
revers. and white blouse of China silk
with ruffles down the front mitred with
pink. There are full long sleeves Of
the white silk gathered to wristband,
with shorter over sleeves of the pink
Harper's Bazaar.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-12-10

Don't go. Harry" 81 must love;
it's after ten" "Indeed It isn't; it's
only half after" And Harry stayed. =
h Y. Herald.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-12-10
COLONIAL SUPERSTITION.
Stories of the Early New
Englanders.

BIood-CurdIing Stories of the Early New
Englanders.
Since the days when the Mathers
governed New England opinions, and
peopled the sky with witches and the
graveyards with avenging specters, and
had attributed most nervous diseases to
obsession, many curious customs in re-
gard to death and burial had prevailed
in the superstitious towns. In the old
colonial houses on the capes, the wood
tick was held to be death watch; and
on the decease of a mem Der of the
family in rural neighborhoods, the
nearest relative went and told the bees,
and sometimes trimmed the straw hives
under the ounce or peach or apple
trees with Grape. 1t was a touching
the green yard and knock on the hives,
and give the final word to the golden
inhabitants of the air and flowers The
bees in those domestic times, like the
cat and dog, were a part of the
family, and were supposed to
possess occult knowledge, and
so to these mysterious botanists
were taken the family bereavements.
The dog howled when deathswas ap-
preaching; the cat saw spirits, and
occurrence fell under the suspicion of
being death-fetch.
Most curious of the old-time super
stitions was the custom of requiring
lovers to watch the corpse 1t asso-
ciated the hopes of marriage with the
| silent vigil, was poetic, and has only
disappeared from the oldest towns
within generation No obligation Of
the social conscience was more scrup-
ulously regarded than that a dead body
should never be left alone at night In
the earliest days the solemn watchers
were old men and women, deacons
select-men; but as the colonies grew.
honest lovers with plighted troths
were frequently selected for these long
vigils Awful were the stories that
! used to be told in the old inns and or
dinaries of lovers who were disturbed
amid such depressing duties by cats,
owls, mysterious noises. and spectral
visions. Butterworth, in
Harper's Magazine
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-11-14
A Popularity of One Author.

A great point about Laurence Oil
phant, which is fit to make one have
some patience with his extraordinary
performances, is that he never lost his
character He never even lost his
friends. Whether he was his own man
in London, or Harris man in Brocton
or Paris he was always a person of in
tegrity and of fascinating qualities. He
was trusted and was fit to be trusted
up to the day of his death. That he
should have retained through life the
affection of those who knew him best,
the lively interest of all who knew him
at all, and this in spit eof the extraor,
dinary things he did, means a good deal.
For all that he lost a good deal of his
money, and much agreeable society and
domestic comfort that should have been
his; in spite even of the fact that his
latest books are all but Incompetent.
sible-it is not clearly established that
his life was such pitiable waste as some
commentators upon it have thought. -
Scribners.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-11-14
a VISIT TO AN ANIMAL PAINTER
An ArtIst's Workshop That Resem Dies -
AIrseym Because Of PTS Contents

An Artist,s workshop That Resem pies ,"
a1,s.,u, Because 81 PTS Contents.
III. Dolph's studio is one OF those
great, ugly houses called studio ouild-
ings ever so many stories high wilicn ii
rich men build for artists to live in' II
tIiev can pav a good high rent u you
were 10 see one you would know WIN
ont being told that it is not an ordinary
house for it has great, high wlndo"S,
a,.h one as large as three or four OF
the windows in your house.
And when Mr. Dolph's door is open
to Won YOU think of some fairy tale you
have read perhaps of some kindly
soirit wliu takes the unfortunate prlii
epss through gloomy dark passages
and fIi-u at the open SesameF brings
nor sud,lrnly into a beautiful palace;
for ber,, once in the studio, you thlhh
tl,st Won are in one of the rooms oil
some old palace away in Europe.
Here are beautiful eastern carpets IN
the soft, rich colors which artists love;
great high backed chairs, all carved,
brought from Italy, chairs on which
knights and ladies have sat hundreds
OF years ago old, curious musical in
strumpnts which make you wonder
what they would sound like and how
they were played; a carved chest
which some old Venetian noble gave
to his daughter filed with brocaded
dresses and dresses of cloth OF gold
and silver. table linen and so on, not
forgetting the little silver casket fitted
with money and jewels, her wedding
dover when she was married. perhaps
400 years ago, guns, swords daggers'
pistols. from Arabia, Persia and other
far away countries, of curious shape and
80 wonderfully wrought and inlaid with
gold and silver and precious stones as
to make you wonder why tools for
killing people were made so beautiful.
But the funniest things are behind
an old Spanish screen of many folds,
where you might think the artists wife
keeps her gowns-for skirts and robes
hang there, so many that she might
change her dress three times a day for
a month But should Mr.. Dolph give
You permission to take them down and
examine them you would know that
she does not wear them, and that any
body who should nowadays would be
well laughed at, for they were all made
for people who died before your great
great grandmother was born.
| fancy that some of you think this
must be a museum. Well, yes, in one
way it is, because the things are all
curious and interesting and out of the
way. But a museum is place where
people go to look at things, and this is
a place where everything you see is
made of use. why" you say, 'Mr.
DoIph does not dress up in these funny
dresses and wear armor and carry these
odd shaped guns and pistols2" Oh, no;
but he paints them in his pictures.
They are his patterns-that is, they are
the things he works from, just as the
plans and sketches and photographs in
an architects workroom are the archi-
tect's models.
That is the reason why in France a
studio is called an atelier, which is
French for workshop. w. L. Fraser in
st. Nicholas
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-11-14
UNIVERSITY NOTES.


T. III Robnett, absent for time
has returned TO school.
Good words are said by the Greg, 4
press in favor of the Willamette
Collegian.
+. l.. MOore was at chapel We'd
uesday. He is a senior and will re-
turn at the third term to complete
the course,
Hereafter the semi-term exami.
nations will be abolished, except for
those wh1 are required to pass a
second examination.
The urw roof progresses, the attic
floor Is laid, the cornice being put
on, the chinineys beiug completed
We are now in the dry.
First term closed Friday. The
standing of the classes is better than
last semi term-a fact very worthy
Of note. Examinations were had in
all classes with good results.
The rooms in the northeast cor
ner of the east wing are being torn
out, 20 admit of better stairway
being put in. The old one was some
what difficult of ascent.
The weeks Observation-Disclosures
May Huover and Cora Litchfield re-
cited, Miss Mabel James, read an
essay on "uutumn leaves, and q. w.
Jones, an essay, on Government"
IL is a mistake for a student not to
master all the details Of subject,
thinking they will be Of little I'M
portance. 70 think this is self
delusion. Life is made of detail and
success in life is mastery of details.
The sncieties held a good reunion
in the chapel Friday evening. Pro-
badly no event is looked forward to
with 81 great anticipation as these
useful n.d social occasions, The
sociriies are to be congratulated on
The success they have in pleasing and
Entertaining.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-11-14

There Is more Catarrh in this sec
tion of the country than all other
diseases put together, and until the
last few years was supposed to be in-
curahie. For a great many year
doctors pronounced II local disease,
andprescribed local remedies, and
by constantly failing to cure with
local treatment, pronounced IL incu-
rable. Science has proven catarrh
10 he a constitutional disease, and
therefore constitutional treatment
Halls Catarrh Cure, manufactured
by r. j, Cheney n Co., Toledo, O.,
is the only constitutional cure on th,
market. IL is taken Internally II,
doses from 10 drops 10 "A teaspoonful,
IL acts directly upon the blood ana
mucous surfaces Of the system. They
offer one hundred dollars for any
case Il fails TO cure. Send for circu
lars and testimonlals. Address,
+. J. CHENEY n Co., Toledo, o,
Sold 10y druggists, 70 cents.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-11-14

One of the most carefully guarded
possessions of the United States treas.
ury is scrap book that is always kept
shut up in a massive burglar proof safe
in the bureau of engraving and print
ing. Scarce any one has ever seen il
save high officials of the department
Its shabby outside gives no suggestion
of the precious contents, yet pasted on
the yellow pages are proofs" taken
from all the important counterfeit
plates for paper money that have ever
been captured by the government -
Washington Star
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-11-14
Electric BittePs.

This remedy is becoming so well
known, and so popular as to need no
special mention. All who have used
Electric Bitters sing the same song
of praise. A purer medicine does
not exist and it is guaranteed to do
all that is claimed. Electric Bitters
will cure ali diseases of the liver and
kidneys, will remove pimples, boils,
salt Iheum aud other affections
caused by impure blood.-Will drive
malaria from the system and pre-
vent as well as cure all malarial fe-
vers.-FoT cure of headache, consti-
patton and indigestion try Electric
Bitlers.-Eutire satisfaction guarail-
teed, or money refunded.-Price soc
and Sl00 per bottle at Fry's drug
store, 225 Commercial street.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-11-14

More cases OF sick headache. bihousness,
constipation, can be cured In less time, with
less M dleine, and for less money, by using
Carriers Little Liver Pills, than BY any
other me Ma.
no not suffer nom sick headache a mo-
ment longer. II Ia cot necessary. Cartefs
IAttle Liver pills will cure you. Dose, ona
pill. small price, small dilse. small pill.
Mrs. Chas. smith of Jimes, Ohio, writes
haVeused every remedy for sick head
ache l could hear of for the past nftoen
years, but Carriers Little Liver Pulls did
mo more good than al the rest. Try them
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-11-14

No nation on the face of the globe
is so fortunate in its patents and in
ventions as the United States and the
number of queer and useful articles of
human contrivance recorded at the
patent office at Washington is far in
excess of the same class of products of
any other civilized country The wood,
carvers and workers in bronze and metal
of Switzerland and Germany, and the
skillful makers of odd japanese and
Chinese novelties present a marvellous
variation of certain types of conven-
tional articles which are admired the
world over, but for pure, original in
ventions the Americans take first rank.
George e Walsh in New York Epoch
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-11-14
SAN FRANCISCO.


NOChtU III IHe OT"UI6 OI UHo D0oP
sounds nice, don't 1t? But ., how fast and
furious are the rockings in rough weather.!
rhe intestinal warfare begotten in your
vitals by the seas commotion beggars de.
scription. What's the proper caper under
these circumstances? Take Hostettcr's
stomach Bitters. Nothing comparable to
it for reniedying sea sickness or the
kindred nausea from which many delicate
land travellers suffer. dyspepsia, cramps,
constipation and bliousness also are in
Yariably ana promptly remedied by the
f3itters. Exposure in rough weather il
often productive of hurtfui consequences
which may be averted by the timely use
of the Bitters, which diffus6s an agreeable
warmth through the system, and promotes
an active circulation of the blood in the TX
tremeties when benumbed and chilled
Malaria, kidney trouble, rheumatism and
debility are remedied by the Bitters.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-11-14
HOTEL ARRIVALS.
"WILLAMETTE''

WILLAMETTE
NJ p Glierson, G. G Sutherland, c
r Ferguson. G. w Holman, James
Levigiven, Chas CaIaue, j w Nc
CracSen, Portland.
Geo W Hubbard, Tustin City,
W II Clark, st. Paul.
HUI a Wood, Ed f O'Connor,
San Francisco.
E s Brooker, Fred Schultzer,
Chicago.
w II Clark, st. Paul.
Il H $hannOn.
"COOK."
S Fl Mason, r Il Lee, Thomas
Melton, San Francisco.
A LIE Roy, La Grande.
E q Shelby, Eola.
H Lampman, Portland.
A E Taxon, Cal.
NJ M Holton, Helena.
n J Shank, Jas Shank--