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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-05-28
AN EXPENSIVE LUXURY.
Prohigate Practices of a SPendthrift Adj
ministration.

Prohigate Practices Of q SPendthrift Adj
ministration.
1t is very difficult for the consumers OF
the United States to appreciate the ex-
tent of the burden imposed upon them
by the billion-dollar congress
1t was supposed by the fathers of the
republic. and the belief was current
until very recently, that the mainte-
nance of the federal government would
cost comparatively little: that the prin-
cipal taxes would be levied for state
and local purposes Times have
changed. however, and taxes have
changed with them. The expenditures
authorized by the Fifty-first congress
will amount to about $40 for each in
dividual in the country. This is the
per capita tax for two years, so that
really the average individuals annual
contribution to the expenditures of the
federal government is about IS. This
is very large tax. 1t is tax of about
$40 on the head of each family.
1t is also. according to the census of
1850, much larger tax than was then
paid by the average citizen of the
United States for state and local pur-
poses The average per capita tax
| levied in the country in 1880 for state,
| county, town and city purposes was
Sc. %. In New England it was SO. "A;
| in the middle states, Ss63: in the
southern states, s.. 46; in the western
states, S691: in the territories. 81. SO.
The federal government is collecting
| this tax for pensioners, a large part of
whom are not worthy old soldiers; for
the protection of manufacturers who
buy republican seats in congress and
the presidency: for river and harbor
improvements, many of which do not
benefit commerce; for public buildings
that are not needed; for subsidies to
swell the profits OF a few ship owners,
and for increased salaries to a great
swarm of tax caters These favorites
of the party are costing the taxpayers
more than their local governments,
county governments and state govern
ments added together. The largesse
a nd bounties given away by the repub-
Ecan congress cost the country more
ira tions, for its town and village Off
GERS, for its city governments, for its
police, its health boards, its docks, its
canals and all the elements of home e6
ministration-
If to the tax actually and directly
collected we add the bounties to the
tarif-protected manufacturers and the
sugar growers we will realize that the
federal government under republican
rule is our most expensive luxury, but
Just how expensive no one can tell
And every dollar of it must come from
the earnings of the people.-N. Y.
World
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-05-28
POLITICAL OPINION.

President Harrison's farmers
wagon scheme does not seem to be ems
Enthusiastically taken up by the alli-
ances.-Louisvi1le Courier-Journal
The administration is vigorously
scraping up the half-dollars, quarters
and dimes and spending them They
are all that is left in the treasury, and
when they are exhausted Mr.. Foster
will inform Mr.. Harrison that the
pinch has come--St- Louis Republic.
Republican organs are quarrel
ing over the question whether Blaine
or Harrison should be given the doubt
full honor of originating the limited
reciproc ity scheme As matter of
fact neither of them should have IT. If
it goes to whom belongs it will be
given to the necessity of the high
takers Chicago Times
- The democrats went out of power
in 1886 leaving in the treasury one
hundred million dollars surplus of the
peoples money. At the end of two
years of republican misrule the adj
ministration organs are only able to
say that Uncle Sam will worry
through" by raking together his small
change and securing an extension of
maturing bligations--Buffalo Times
While republican congress has
been piling up the burdens of the ma
ton to an extent unprecedented in his
tory. squandering a surplus of nearly
two hundred million dollars, accumu-
lated under President Cleveland, and
rendering a suspension of the process
of paying off the national debt indis-
pensable in order to save the treasury
from a deficit, the democratic party in
trusted with the government Of the
empire state has practically extin-
guished the debt of the state, dimin-
ished the general expenditure, trans
ferred the cost of government from the
back of labor to the shoulders of
wealth and accomplished a reduction e
the tax rate to the lowest point reached
since the year 1s55.-Brooklyn Citizen
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-05-28

His afmless face grew frmer; said the neigh
bors: Il declare"'
His father took his hand. his mother beamed
her pride,
The wintry day he marched away foolish
maiden cried;
Full fifty folks forgot their sneers. full fifty
roughly smote
With friendly slap the back that bore his army
Oyercoat.
He sent his parents letters they were long in
making out;
He faithful a sentry, in the fight his
heart stout;
The day he saved the captains life that day he
lost his own,
And spoke some manly parting words and died
without groan.
The captain closed his eye.ids with choking
I'm the throat
And sent him to his mother in his army over
coat.
burial day,
And scores and scores passed down the aisle
to see him he lay.
The foolish maiden noticed on his hand ring
of bone,
TIE union shield cut it, and wished it were
her own;
And after prayer and hymn and speech and
wartime anecdote
The earth received the soldier and his army
overcoat.
And now, when Decoration day comes round, a
flag they put
Above his head and deck his grave with flowers
from head to foot,
And here his worn old father and his mother,
bowed with years
Stand sadly by and listen to the chaplain
voice with tears:
And an ancient, foolish maiden sees before her
memory float
The vision of soldier in army overcoat.
Mrs. George Archibald in Judge.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-05-28

is seen part of the east front and one
of the towers of the electrical building.
Beyond this is seen the eastern facade
of the palace of machinery, with it's
domes and towers. A long colonnade
connects this building with the agri-
cultural building. In the hollow square
thus formed rises tall obelisk. To
the extreme left is seen a corner of the
manufactures building. The center Of
the picture shows the lagoon spanned
by graceful bridges which connect the
terraces surrounding the buildings On
a lower terrace are beautiful gardens,
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-05-28
This Is a Big Country.

A German publisher has issued an inn
pressive map of the United States with
various European countries overlaid
upon the states which are equivalent in
area. The result is astonishing even
to Americans accustomed to the big
ness of this great country. England,
Ireland, Scotland, France, Germany,
Austria and Italy are all contained
within the area east of the Mississippi
river. In a diagrammatic representa-
ton of areas from which Russia is
omitted Texas heads the list, being
larger than Austria, Germany, or
France, or Sweden. California, North
and South Dakota and Montana are
bigger than Turkey or Norway, and
New Mexico exceeds in size Great Brit
ain and Ireland. There are nineteen
states each bigger than England and
Wales. and thirty-eight states and ter
ritories each bigger than Ireland. The
United States not only heads the list,
but ends it also. for Rhode Island is at
the bottom, with Montenegro between
it and Delaware. adelphia Ledger.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-05-28
THE ADMINISTRATION BUILDING.

grated pediment. The building will
be made of ''staff," and colored an ivo-
~ chrome. This material and color
will be used in all of the worlds fair
buildings, and as no soft coal will be
used on the exposition grounds, and
all precautions will be taken against
smoke, the delicate coloring will not be-
come dulled or soiled.
The next view shows the south ele-
vation of the electricity building. The
style is Roman-Corinthian The grand
entrance is a vast semicircle surmount-
en- by half dome: On either side ex-
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-05-28

"A young workingman in Dubuque,
Ia, bought a colored shirt In tearing
off the tag he discovered a note therein
requesting the purchaser to correspond
with the maker of the shirt in New
Jersey manufacturing town. She said
she was working for starvation wages
and hoped to find home and husband.
when she would be happy. He wrote
to her, was pleased with her replies,
went to New Jersey and married her.
Three weeks after they were united for
life she received letter from England,
the home of her ancestors, containing
draft for FL 600. and notification of
the fact that she was sole heir to for
tune of over $780, 900.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-05-28

L OLD MOSLE1
had not been so
pa t h e t ic, he
w o u l d have
b e e n funny:
and if he had
n OF be en- so
funny, he would
have been pa
thetic, but take
MIN altogether,
it was hard to
tell just how he
did impress one.
1t w a S S a d
that he had lost
a lie g; b u t i t
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-05-28

IF the world will be inscribed over the
windows looking ON the colonnade and
below the pediment on either side viii
be broad spaces for inscriptions.
The grandest Of all the buildings is,
however, the administration building.
Even with the view here presented be-
fore one it is not easy to give any ade-
quate conception of the glory and
beauty of this noble edifice. It is a
perfectly symmetrical building, alike
on all its four faces. 1t consists of four
pavilions each 81 feet square, one at
each angle of square of the plan and all
connected by great central rotunda
and dome 12O feet in diameter and ESQ
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-05-28

and sea-walls confine the waters of the
lagoon
This view represents a part of the
grounds where the buildings are most
thiclly clustered; where distances are
at the minimum and where the per-
spective is the least extended. Impos-
ing as it is under these circumstances,
some faint notion of the magnificent
vistas which will be afforded in the
great exposition may be gathered
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-05-28

Mosley had been making good use OF
his time while confined to the house
he had been reading. Whenever Mos
ley felt himself coming down" with
the rheumatism he would beg or bor-
row all of the papers and books he
could lay his hands on, to keep him
company in his temporary seclusion.
And this bright May day he was filed
with enthusiasm over plan which he
had made. He had been reading of the
plans for observing Memorial day all
over the country. and he resolved that
Daysville should. for once, be up with
the times, and that Memorial day
should be celebrated there.
So, as he mounted to his accustomed
perch on the fence, after a military
salute to his companions, Mosley laid
his scheme before them.
Now, Mosley knew full well that in
taking his boon companions into his
confidence from the first, the most OF
people would think that he was
beginning at the wrong end Of the
social scale; but he reasoned it in this
way: The young minister who preached
once each month in the schoolhouse
was not due in the village for three
weeks. If he were to be in town, Mos
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-05-28
THE ARMY ovERcoA1.

E WAS idle a. q
boy, he was shift.
less as a youth,
He was slovenly In
dress and b / 8
manners were I'M
couth;
The n e ig b b or s
looked their scorn
when they 8 u "
him passing by,
His father used to
scold a n d his
mother u 8 ed to
sigh;
But he volunteered
the day he was old
enough to vote,
And they hardly
knew the fellow
in his army over.
coat.
For he braced his
azy shoulders
with military air
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-05-28

tends an immense co1onnade. The
grand entrance is to be one Of the most
beautiful features of the whole exposi-
ton; the walls and the over arching
half dome are to be decorated with a
wealth Of rich and brilliant coloring
which VIII glow amid the broad extent
Of ivory yellow.
In the center of the entrance there
viii be q colossal statue of Franklin.
The names Of the famous electricians
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-05-28

Roman. A portico of four Corinthian
pillars, each SO feet high and 5 feet in
diameter, leads to the great vestibule.
in the center of which will be placed
a colossal statue of Ceres; this vesti-
bule leads to the central rotunda, 100
feet in diameter, surmounted by dome
$50 feet high, copied from the Pantheon
at Rome.
Between the pillars of the portico
and vestibule there will be other
groups of statuary. Above the cornice
other sculptures will be placed below
and on either side of the richly dec
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-05-28

vations'' taken from the architects
drawings.
They give. however. the main tea-
lures of each building, and are salts
factory evidence that the worlds fair
in Chicago will be grandly and WORTH
ly housed.
The first view shows the central por-
ton and entrance of the agricultural
building. This building will be 500 by
500 feet. The grand.entranceis $50 feet
wide and Of imposing magnifcence.
The style of architecture is severely
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-05-28
ENTRANCE TO AGRICULTURAL PALACE.

feet high. The whole building will oc
cupy e space ESQ feet square. The
height of the building may be divided
into three parts. The first story will
be IS feet high. This story is of the
Doric order and is surmounted by a
lofty colonnade. The second story,
also IS feet high, is a continuation Of
the central rotunda ITS feet square and
is entirely surrounded by a colonnade.
The magnificent dome sweeps grandly
upward from a base which rises 80 feet
above the second story. The dome is
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-05-28
ELECTRICITY RUIIpING-PART oF SOUTH ELEYATIoN.

RI OF SOUTH ELEVATION.
divided into panels enriched with elab-
crate sculptures. The whole dome is
to be gilt.
Each of the four great enterances
will be so feet wide and so feet high.
On either side of them will be placed
emblematic groups and statues. Color
will also be used both in the exterior
and interior decoration of this really
palatial building.
The last view is perspective looking
south through the lagoon between the
manufacturers building and the cleo
trical building. On the extreme right
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-05-28
THE WORLDS FAIR.
dlimpses at Some Of the Buildings
to Be Erected.

The Entrance to the Palace OF Agricul-
: ture-The Electricity and Adninistra-
ton Buildings-Looking South
Through the Lagoon.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-05-28
MOSLEY'S CELEBRATION.
How Memorial Day Services Were
Inaugurated in Daysville.
Written for This Paper.1

FOLD MOSTLY
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-12-02
a BIG S SALE.

We are convinced that L. Wolfson
is in earnest about closing out entire
stock of tall and winter clothing prior
to January LIST, 1892. For the next
thirty days they will positively sell
ten dollar cashmere sack suits for Sc so;
twelve dollar extra fine frock and sack
suits for 1915; eighteen dollar fine
custom made suits for $l375; and
twenty-seven dollar fine tailor made
suits of choice imported fabrics for
$40 rs. II II
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-12-02
NOTICE.

Now that the cold weather is ac-
tually here the place to buy good
heating stove is at Thomas B. Wren,
No. ALB East Houston ST., who also
keeps cooking stoves, hardware, etc;
and if you want your old stove quick
ly and carefully put up he is the man
TO have il done for you, 1l-23 If
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-12-02
BUY NOW GENTLEMEN I!

Don't study long on Christmas
present. Your better half will GER
tainly be delighted to have Plume
feather Boa for evening wear.
If she has one already, we've got
hundreds of other things in the USE
full or the ornam entail.
1885, JosKE BROTHERS.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-12-02

w. Dawson, stable, Comal street, 3rd
ward.
" TROLL, gallery, corner Of East and
DOloroSa Strert, 3rd ward.
f. F. Rodgers, awning. corner avenue
D and Bird street. 5th ward.
Mr.. Hartman, dwelling, North COnchO
street. Bird ward
c. l.. Lowday, addition to dwelling,
Macon street, 4th ward, $3.50.
Mrs. Theresa Fest, dwelling, North
Flores street, 4th ward.
The speakershIp candidacy grows
lively and all are hopeful.
Interior cotton quotations rule high
or than at New Orleans.
Cotton reports show supplies of in
terror towns growing larger instead Of
smaller.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-12-02

Ladies' visiting cards, engraved
or painted, in all styles. Maverick
Printing House. 1919 If
Friendship Council, Order of
Chosen Friends meets tonight. All
members are requested to be present,
as business of Importance will be
transacted.
"A foundryman named Lewis, en-
plOyed at the San Antonio foundry,
near the Arkansas Pass railway depot,
broke his leg in two places Monday
afternoon, by a heavy piece of iron
falling on it.
The steam laundry employees pro.
pose giving ball Saturday night.
Frank Brown has been changed
from walking to q riding police
man.
The park gates on Milan square
are so rusty they will not turn and
people generally have to take the
long way around.
MFR. G. D. Lallier and Miss EN-
ma Philippe were married this morn
ing at $50 o'clock, at the residence of
the BRIDES mother, on Kingsbury
and Cameron streets. They took a
short trip to Galveston.
"A number OF young gentlemen
serenaded some of the girls at st.
Mary's female college, last night.
They were not applauded, so they
gave it up as bad job. People should
appreciate good music. o.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1891-01-01
Sister Catharina S Order.
MISS pnExlsi4 AND HER IS, 500. coo.

MISS pi.ENisL AND HER IS, 500 coo
a special correspondents from loittsburg
to the Philadelphia Press, dated the
18th, says
The Sisters Of the Most Holy Sacra-
nenT sthe name decided upon for the
new religions orderthat Mss Kate Drex~
el, or sister Catharine, as she is now
called, i IL establish, and which viii
have for It's special object the ameliora-
ton and Improvement Of the condition
OF Indians and co.ored peGpe.
Sister Gatharine has jast returned from
Washington, ID. G., ana is at the Mere,
Convent AIermission 10 the capitol was
tohaYesa conference with Secretary No
bft-, OF the Department OF the IntaFiof,
regarding the establishment OF schools
fer the Indians. She also wished TO
make some definite beginning for the
work OF benefitting the colored race
With that object in vieW IL site was pur-
chased at Arundel near Washington,
and the erection OF a convent and u
school will be begun Immediately This
viii be the foundation of the extensive
work contemplated by SISTER Catilarinc,
and to this point, Size with her n0yices.
twelve in number, VINO have been with
her in ST. Mary's Convent viii repair
early III the spring, ani actively e;Au-
nrise ''-'''''' - '''''''' -
Sister c,tbari,,a.s xa,,.s ~ ,,a,.a..t,,
c1asfitr and ,|,e.Ii4n,e ~
talsen in ral,r,,a,, ana .,
will he ortcc,l IL > I,r,. ,,,,,l,o~ ~ ti,a
i Chnrcl, d;r6ffarins frr,,, t:.is .,,1 lf3'a,
cities # viii tnke ,,l,;t.e. /, tha cha,,al
az Mercv Convenf M, ~ 49, +i,,,a Il
tor Cafharina viii rasi.sn la, i,,,,,o1,sa
fortune cst;,natad ~ het,rea,, ~ ,,l,o nf,0
and %2 Goa 600 10 tha now orlio.. hecr,,,,
/ mo bersaIf , eimrla .,ie,,has ~, ~
I.e7.uast ..tha SieIa,e ~ ~ 49, AN,
Sacra,nent,, viii haeo,no tho ,.,..,,4hiast
reIi@ions order j., no <rn,.ld ,eifl, +iaa,
cartio,, ,.a,,.,,, ~ 90 ~,
an1 lor,, nst.,hI;st,a5 80 .,, t Nv,
Jas,ijts
Che mother houee i l,e;no hnil+ 81
Andalngia uear philadelnhia and viii
he tha nayjt;ata IF no fa!lcusors (f 81,
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1891-01-01
A BAD Wreck

Wednesday evening about 8 O'Clock,
~ the south bound passenger train,
which is due here at $50 p. IN. was
speeding on towards our town, ii ran into
a snow drift just north OF Steefs cut,
and between il and the kratzer road
The train WAS being hauled by three Ell
gifes but it eoui;l not get through, 50 il
was backed abodt five hundred wards
and running start taken. When the
drift was reached the cowcateher Of the
foremost engine caught IN the snow and
dlyed down us it weia, turning almost a
sOniersanit, the second engine fell across
the track, while the third reared up on
the second.
The conductor and five men connected
with the engines were injured-two OF
the names we could not learn W. W
hropk the conductor, was scaIded, Jen-
kii}s ana Young We're also badly sealded
while Donovan was scaised and also had
his hip broken
MI OF the passengers escaped without
injury except Il pretty rough shake up
Two OF TIE tiirines were almost destroy-
ed, while one Of them was not injured
50 badly. Tie track was badly torn up
The company's loss is very large-p prob
ably as much as forty thousand dollars
lite passengers reached town last night
III he storm after ;, ROACH experience
iaffiSoHburg Spirit })ec. 49,
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1891-01-01
For Over Fifty Years

MRs. MINsLow's SOOTHING SYRUP
has been used for over fifty years by
millions Of mothers for their children
while teethiny, with perfect success. 1t
soGthes the child, softens the gums,
;sllays all pain, cures wind collie and il
the best remedy for diarrllesa. 1t will
relieve the poor little sufferer inme
diately. Sold by druggists IN every
part OF t;'e World. Twenty-Five cents 6
bottle. BE sure aud ask for Mrs. Wins
lows Soothing Syrup" and take Tx
other kind.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1891-01-01
A Currency COMPROMISE.


New 0fK FTess.
The plan Of financialrelief reported to
tile Republican Senatorial cattclis last
night by he committee appointed for
that purpose is calculated 10 win support
alike from the silver element, the nation
a bank element. and the greenback Gle
ment Twelve millions of silver are to
be bought during the next year, and ma
tional banks are to be allowed to issue
notes mp to the par valne Of their bonds,
with further purchases of silver if the
bank circulation fails below $50 G00, 900,
or issues of greenbaeIls il silver cannot
be had. We can see no serious objection
to the enactment of this compromise as
soon rs possible, and it will certainly
help the money market.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1891-01-01

English SPAWN Eminent removes al
hard, soft and ealoused Jumps and blem-
isles from horses, blood SPAWN, curbs,
spiints, sweeney, ringbone, stiles, sprains
and swollen throafs, coughs, etc Save
$50 by the use Of one bottle. Warrant ed
the most wonderful blemish cure ever
known. Sold by w. NJ. Allen, druggist,
Staunton. Va.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1891-01-01
Every Home Should Have I

Il is not always convenient to call 4
physician for every little ailnent. Eiav-
ing Red Flag Oil ia the house, yon have
a physician always at hand; it Kills
Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Burns, Bruises
aud all aches and pains. Price = cents.
There are few things il life OF which
we may be certain, but this is one Of
them, Pan Yin& cough ;,ud consumption
consumption Price - and 80 cents,
Trial 5otties free tt 7. Z. Aliens drug
store.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1891-01-01

ENR. I. w. SHELTON, with an experience OF
~ thirty five years in the PRACTICE or MEpf-
1lHE, OFFERS bis professional services to the citl
1esis Or Stanton and vicinity 0flce at his resi-
ceHcp on Main street aug2
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1891-01-01

Dr. {. + LINDSEY, DIR. NJ. O. BURKHoLDRa,
OF Stanton, Va. OF Richmond, Va.
r lindsey & BURkHQLDER.
Z SURG EON DENTISTS,
New Post Onlce building, Main Street.
apo SrAUNTON. Va.