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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-11-12

sort of manner, if one chooses to take
the trouble; but the Van Tweedles
somehow felt themselves older than
e. other foil S: and as there were now
only two of that particular branch
alive it seemed likely that they would
soon also have that other much adj
mired quality of be ing very rare.
The Van Tweedles, in fact, thought
so highly of their family that they
could think of no other fit to mix with
it, and remained single at an age when
most people find themselves married
They were very like each other-high-
nosed, thin, with prominent white
teeth and scanty, reddish hair. They
appeared to remain thin because they
thought it far more genteel to do so
than to become fat and while Mr.. Van
Tweedle thought it proper to have
constant interviews with his lawyer,
Miss Van Tweedle believed it proper to
say that she knew nothing about bust
ness whatever. However, her great
boast was that she had never had an
offer. Most spinsters are constantly
declaring that they have had a hundred
offers, but Miss Van Tweedles pride
was all the other way.
mo man has ever dared to approach
me with any such suggestion" she
would cry. Ny conduct has ever been
too particular
Mrs. Bly,, the family housekeeper,
had habit of struggling her shoulders
when Miss Van Tweedle made this re-
mark; but the housekeeper was widow.
and could not be supposed to under
stand spinster's feelings She was a
! little, plump, black-haired woman,
with high color, who naturally took
to reds and yellows. She had seen bet
5ter days, and was no common house
keeper. in her own opinion. At least,
sshe used to think to herself she was
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-11-12
THE OPEN SWITCH.

All the summer, early and late
In the autumn days 50 drear,
"A maiden stood ut the orchard gate
And waved at the engineer.
He liked to look at her face so fafr
And her homely country dress;
She liked to look at the man up there
At the front of the fast express.
There's only a fash of the maiden's eye
AS the engine rocks and reels,
And then she hears in the distance die
The clfnkety -clInk of wheels.
"-Ciinkety clink. and q mile apart,
And the fireman seems to hear
The clinkety -cliuk of the maiden's heart
And the heart Of the engineer.
"Over the river and down the dell,
Beside the running stream,
she hears the clang Of the engine bell
And the Whistles screech and scream.
slClinkety-clink so far apart
That nothing can she hear
Save the clink Of her happy heart
And the heart OF the engineer
Even the trembling steed Of steel
Seems to understand
Their sweet distress, and seems to feel
The touch OF a magic hand.
s-Clinkety-cink. so far away
In the twilight dark and drear;
But what does the heart of the maiden say
To the heart Of the engineer!
The softening sound Of the engine bell,
AS the Rogers rolls away,
Seems soiemnly to toll the lxnell
OF the dim and dying day.
TClinkety- clink- there's an open switch
Oh, angels. hide her eyes!
sC!inkety clink-they're in the ditch
Oh, hear the means and cries!
Clinkety- clink-and down the track
The tram will dash to-day;
But what are the ribbons of white and blacl
The engine wears away.
Clinkety-clink-ohw worlds apart
The fireman hangs his head;
There is no cllnk in the maiden's heart
The engineer is dead.
-Cy. Warman, in Chicago Mail
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-11-12

there was . warm fight between
Nicholson. the alliance nomination.
and Judge Humphrey, who was
supported by both republicans and
democrats. This Is an alliance strong
hold and they were confident of elect
ing Nicholson by a large majority, but
the returns show that Humphrey has
carried the three counties and is elected
by at least 1000 majority.
The Ninth district includes Reno and
Harvey counties and there were three
candidates in the field In the triangu-
lar fight f. L. Martin, republican, is
elected by a majority of about 500, car
rying both counties
Wichita constitutes the Eighteenth
judicial district and each of the three
parties had a candidate in the field.
Judge Reed, republican. is elected by a
plurality of not less than /, 600 votes
The Twenty-fifth district. made up
of Mcpherson, Marion and Chase coun-
ties. is where the most hotly contested
battle of all was waged- The alliance
candidate was Judge Doster. Repub-
ncans and democrats combined, nomi-
mating Lucien Earle, OF, Mcpherson
county. The returns show Earle elect
ed by plurality approximating 900.
In the Twenty-sixth district, COM
posed of Butler and Greenwood coun-
ties, the race has been a very close one
between Cloggaton, republican, and
Sham, alliance. At an early hour yes
terday morning the election of the lat
ter was claimed by a maj GRITTY of 100.
Returns from the Twenty-seventh
and Twenty-eighth districts are very
incomplete, but are sufficient to show
the election of Abbott republican. in
the former, and Bashore, alliance, in
the latter.
In Wyandotte county Judges Alden
and Anderson were reelected by large
pluralities, and in Shawnee county
johnson. the fushion republican and
democratic candidate, is elected
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-11-12
"MR- sCRATCHERD. HERE. PLEASED!

xmuch handsomer than the aristocratic
Miss Van Tweedle.
If that everlasting old maid was
only out of the way" she used to
think, II could marry Mr.. Van Tweedle
tomorrow. He admirss me-"
And here she was not wrong. But
for the old family and the bondage of
aristocracy, Mr.. Van Tweedle might
indeed have become her sutton How
ever, though King Cophetua came
down from his throne to marry the
beggar maid, it never occurred to the
solitary male representative Of the Van
"Tweedles that he could descend from
the parlors of his mansion to the house
keepers room.
Love, they say. Is blind. Miss Van
Tweedle was not considered beautiful
sgenerally. but there was one who
thought her so This was Silaa
SScratcherd, Mr. Van Tweedle's aman.
suensis.
de used to put on his near-sighted
s9iasses to look after her when she went
sup the street. -
Isn't SO much her features" he
would say to himself, nor her figure,
either It's a kind of an air. what the
French call her tout ensemble. that
eeakes me. And when she goes up the
strees with ner head in the air and her
sskirt going hip-hap over the pavement
n think OF Queen Elizabeth and Sir
Waiter Raleigh" and thereupon poor
-Siias would dolefully examine the ell
abows OF his dusty writing. jacket, and
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-11-12
ATTEMPTED LYNCHING.
A Mob of 5000 Persons Hunt EruitIessl
For Topeka Murderer.

A Mob of 5000 Persons Hunt Fruitiessly
For Topeka Murderer.
TOPEKA, Kan, Nov. 5.-Frank Nc
Lain. who makes his living cleaning
alleys and acting as general scavenger,
was arrested yesterday afternoon for
the murder of the nine-months-old son
of his wife, to whom he was married
last August, and last night two mobs
made vain searches for him in order to
lynch him.
Monday evening Mrs Hargrave and
Mrs. Stewart two neighbors were
called in by McLain, who told them
that the baby was dying. They found
that its left leg had been broken just
below the hip and its body was COW
cred with bruises and cuts. Yesterday
morning the child died and McLain APP
pealed to the county for aid in burying
it and a coffin was furnished.
McLa;n had three daughters by a
former wife. His children told in
school yesterday that their father had
taken the baby by the heels and pound
ed it against the door. The story was
spread by the school children and the
police were notified and arrived at the
house just in time to find McLain max
ing preparations for burying the child
himself without calling in an under
taler
The body was taken in charge by the
police and post norton examination
proved beyond doubt that the child
had been treated in the most brutal
manner imaginable. The face was
covered with scars; both legs were
broken; the left ear was deeply gashed
on the inner side, and the body was
bruised in several places.
News of the brutal crime spread rap.
idly over the city, and shortly after
dark excited crowds began to gather
about the county jail and city prison
and at o'clock over 5000 angry men
surrounded the two prisons. which ad-
joined each other. The doors of both
were guarded by officers, who informed
neither.
Most of the mob then quietly dis
persed, but portion went to the coun-
ty courthouse, it having been rumored
that the prisoner was confined in the
basement, which had formerly been
used as a Jail.
Here the mob rapidly increased. At
10 o'clock there were fully 5000 people
in the streets about the courthouse
Finally the front door was forced
open. torches were procured and the
keys to the old cells were found in the
sheriff's Office. A thorough search was
made, but the prisoner could not be
found.
The officers say that McLain was
taken out of the city when the first
signs of a mob were visible.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-11-12
CONDITION OF THE TREASURY.
Effects of the Mckinley Bill on the
Nations Finances.

Effects of the Mckinley Bill on the
Nations Finances.
The effort of the secretary of the
treasury to make the governments in
come appear to equal and surpass its
outgo is very palpable. By holding
back appropriations and by putting
every obstacle in the way of the pay
ment of the just claims of the creditors
of the government MIR. Foster has
made it appear that his receipts for
September exceeded his expenditures
by SO. 1872, 965. But this merely shows
to all who recall the extravaganza of
the billion-dollar congress that he is
not paying the current demands on the
treasury.
A sum amo uniting to between s40,-
600, 900 and $50, 900, 900 due during the
first quarter of the fiscal year has been
withheld in order to make the govern
ment's books balance. In other words,
the expenditures were really about
500, 900, 900, while the receipts were
actually 500, o97, 7S0-a deficiency for
the quarter of about $50. 600, 900, indi-
eating deficiency for the year of
$3.50, OOO, 600.
The prediction made by the World
more than a year ago is receiving sim
gular verifcation. On July %, 1890,
the World predicted q deficiency of
$S4, 900, 900, assuming the correctness
of the estimate of the friends of the
Mckinley bill, who stated that that
measure would reduce the revenues
$50, o00, 600. The present indication is
that the reduction will reach SS5, 000,-
600. and the difference, S35, 600, 600,
added to the &S4. 600. 600 would make q
deficiency of s119, 600. OO0.-N. Y. World.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-11-12
PARAGRAPhIc POINTERS.

Now that Mr.. Harrison has seen
a sample of genuine American tin
plate" and has written a letter about
it, he should come to St Louis and see
Mr.. Niedringhaus in the act of trying
to persuade the impaired Welshmen to
work against the American scale of
wages.-St Louis Republic
The sweeping democratic victory
in the election at Indianapolis shows
two things: That the secret ballot of
the reform law helps the democrats by
putting a partial stop, at least. to the
Dudley style of vote-buying. and that
President Harrison viii have to go
away from dome for political indorse-
ment--N Y. World.
The tin plate continues to come.
Two hundred and forty-seven thousand
six hundred and sixty pounds arrived
in Chicago from Wales q short time
ago. This is no dampener on home pro-
duction, however. and If that Ohio con-
sern keeps at it long enough it Is pos
sible it will make q sufficient quantity
to cover one good democrats barn
possibly, If the good democrat III ques-
ton will accept the plated lead--De-
troit Free PresA
An administration organ calls il
. ''clever stroke in Secretary Foster
70 have secured an extension of S25.
0O0, 900 of the governments matured
bonds It would have been q far
cleverer stroke TO be able to pay the
debt when it became due But the
clever stroke of the billiou-dollar
congress in squandering the surplus
put a stop to that II viii be the clev-
N n r.
fterate in thu selections this year their
condemnation of all this spendthrift
and t<ickery clevernesA-N.Y Y. Woxld
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-11-12
THE "AoNEST MONEY" PARTY.
Fraudulent Methods OF the Minions %
Monopoly.

Fraudulent Methods OF the Minions q
Monopoly.
There is but one possible definition
of an '.honest dollar''-as the republics
ans employ that term 1t is a dollar
that would be worth Just as much un-
| stamped it. 1t is a dollar intrinsically
| worth its weight in gold, stamped On
unstamped.
The gold dollar is, according to this
de6nit on, an honest dollar on its
| merits, because 25s grains IN bar ara
| worth 25S grains in coin 1t is an honest
dollar because 25s grains with the gov
eminent stamp are worth no more than
25S grains without the stamp.
If this is true OF a gold dollar, why
| can it Eot be made true of a silver dol
lar? Silver as commodity on its COM
mercial merits has huctuated no more
| for the past fifty years than has gold
| If there is any difference in relative
f1uctuatiop, the balance is certainly In
| favor of silver.
If a man takes five gold dollars to tha
mint for recoinage, he gets five dollars
back If he takes five silver dollars to
the mint for recoinage. he only gets
four back. The recoinage of the five
silver dollars has cost one dollar, be.
cause twenty cents on each dollar ara
not intrinsic, but are. in the language
of Mckinley, ''the mere breath of con-
gress-"
1t is as plain as your hand before
your eyes. then. that the republican
party is engaged in the business Of
coming fraudulent dollars under its
own definition of an honest dollar. In
vulgar phrase it is a Skin" dollar pure
and simple
This crime has been known for cen.
turtles in the world as debasing coin
Tyrants in the last shifts of desperation
have done it just as the fepu blicans are
doing it now. They are coming annu-
ally S54, 600, 900 worth of silver dollars,
each containing only so cents worth OF
silver. The fact is patent that the sec
rotary of the treasury is paying 9s cents
for $50 grains of silver and only putting
371X grains into the dollar that he
coins and passes off on the people
This is an interesting party to b0
talking about 'fhonest money" The
big flag that floats over Washington
street, proclaiming honest money" a.
the watchword of the party in this
state, faunts big lie every time 1,
shows its skirts to the passer-by.@
Boston Globe.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-11-12
wEPT WITH vExATiON.

Timothy Healy Sore Over His Horsewhip-
ping-The Cork Election.
DUBLIN, Nov. 5.-Tim Healy is
greatly disturbed by the publicity
which the story of his horsewhipping
has received. He now declares that he
throttled McDermott and prevented
him from striking. There are plenty
of witnesses to the contrary. These
witnesses heard at least fifty strokes
of the horsewhip as McDermott rained
the blows on Healy, while Healy
danced and jumped about yelling with
pain and calling for some one to help
him. Healy must be black and blue
all over from McDermott's blows
It is believed that the real reason he
refused to complain against McDer-
mott for the assault was his fear that
the whole story would come out in the
courts After the horsewhipping
Healy wept with vexation and pain
and has since been unable to sit down,
at least in public.
CORK, Nov. 5.-The result of the
Cork election will not be announced
until noon on Saturday with view Of
avoiding the conflicts that might arise
from an announcement on the night of
the polling. There are 5000 unionist
voters in Cork who do not appear to be
settled as to their course in the election.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-11-12

The Free Trade Idea Takes . Hold %
/ the President.

The Free Trade Idea Takes . Hold %
the President
If q member of the cabinet fnok
namedl is correctly reported the presi-
dent may surprise the country and dis
gust the Mckinleys Of his party by APP
pearing in the character of a tariff ~
former next December. According TO
the report this anonymous member OF
the cabinet would not be surprised il
the president were to recommend .
material reduction of the tariff taxeo
on certain imports in order that reci-
procity treaties of q range much great
er than is now warranted by the reci-
procity clause of the Mckinley bill
may be made.
The cabinet officer does not cay to
what tariff taxes he refers. but h. givee
q hint upon which we may base guess
when he says THE markets o. the old
world are far more precious to us thaue
the markets of South America The
latter in time will rank with If not sur.
pass those of the eastern hemisphere
but that future Is too tar away The
present is what concerns us. This is Q
business administration, and to pro-
mote the business of the country is our
most earnest desire You have seeS
the impetus resulting from Germany
action in regard to our pork Let me-
tell you that the benefits coming from
that are but a drop in the bucket corH-
pared with the benefits that will result
from treaties which we hope to make"
So we are told plainly enough that
Mr.. Harrison is going to advocate
reciprocity with Europe; in othe1
words, that ne is going to try to steal
the platform upon which Mr. Cleveland
placed himself long time ago. That
is enough to cause both Mckinley and
Blaine to fall in dead swoon. 1t i
enough to cause an expression of blank
tenance from the northeast corner OF
Maine to the southwest corner OF Cali
fornia-
Why, Mr.. Harrison is the man who
told the people during the period of hie
candidacy in 1855 that the tariff was
tax on foreigners; and now he proposes
to take the tax off from foreigners and
put it on Americans He is the man
who swung around the circle last
spring, telling the farmers that the
ideal condition" was one in which
they would sell all their produce to
consumers from their farm wagons
and neither buy nor sell abroad. And
now he proposes to make treaties
under which they will not only sell.
more abroad but buy more abroad.
yea, even in Europe What, then, will
become of the home market? What
will become of the American wage
scale?" What has happened to Harri-
SON? There has been no such miracu-
lous conversion since the memorable
case of Saul of Tarsus- The dazzling
light emitted at the polls last Novem-
Der seems to have penetrated to ths
presidential Chicago Herald
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-11-12
G1s;E,ld
a - wy

HE Van Twee-
dies were an
''old famil Y. -
Most familie S
are old. since
a n y b o d y , s
grandf a t h e r S
and grandmoth-
e RS m a y b e
counted up in
the most won
der full co IN :
pound = interest
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-11-12
shipxrecked Sailors Rescued.

VANCOUVER, B. c., Nov. 5.-The
steamship Empress. of Japan, arrived
from China and Japan yesterday. twelve
days from Yokohama She brought
They sailed from Port Townsend July
with LOCO. 600 feet of lumber for
Shanghai. and were wrecked Septem-
Der 8 on Barodin islands The Kitsap
broke up and the wreckage hoated
away. The crew remained on the
island Water and food gave out, and
the men suffered terribly. The captain,
mate and two sailors left for Loo Choc
islands and were picked up by q steam
er and taken to Hiogo A passing
steamer rescued the remainder from;
Barodin. None were lost
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-11-12

In a religious riot at Aazanderan
Persia, q mob set fire to the house o
Gen Sandal Cody Khan, who wa
killed with twenty dependents.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-11-12

Two white men suspected of assas-
sination were lynched in sAorehouse
parish, La
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-11-12
The Judicial Outlook.

Including two judges in Wyandotte
county and one in Shawnee county
there were twelve judges voted for in
Kansas on Tuesday.
In the Sixth district, composed of
Crawford, Bourbon and Linn counties,
Judge West. republican, is undoubtedly
elected over Allen. alliance. by at least
1000 majority, carrying all of the three
counties
In the Seventh district. composed OF
Woodson, Neosho and Wilson counties,
Stillwell. republican, carries every
county and his election by a safe ma
jority is conceded by the alliance lead
erA
In the Eighth district, composed Of
Dickinson. Geary and Morris counties.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-27
KIDNAPPED THE BOYS.
TWO GERMAN PROFESSORS GET THEM
SELVES INTO TROUBLE.

They Entice Polish Youths to Their Theo-
logical Seminaries and Demand Ransom
Money-A Threat to Send Them to Amer
lea Brings the Police.
Thy DUNLAP's CABLE CoMPANT.l
BERLIN, April 26.-The Breklum and
Kropp Theological Seminaries in Schleswig,
where German preachers for the Western
States of America are trained, are again en-
gaging public attention. This time it is a
case OF kidnapping, in which Pastor Jeusen,
of the Breklum institution, figures as the
abductor, and Pastor Paulson, of Kropp, as
the receiver OF two sons of wealthy Polish
cleric.
The boys had been enticed into visiting
the BreklUm Seminary and were detained
there against their will and made to write
letters to their parents, asking to be per-.
uitted to finish their studies there, for
which privilege Pastor Jeusen took care to
demand fees commensurate, as he doubtless
thought, with the high educational advant-
ages to be enjoyed BY the bows. The
parents however, failed to see their way to
gratifying the wishes OF their sons in this
case, so the good pastor simply transferred
the lads to Kropp, where the same process
of intimidation and extortion was gone
through.
The climax was reached when the Kropp
pastor threatened to pack the BOYS off to
America unless the required money was
paid at once. 1t was the last straw, as re-
CARDS the Polish parents, who turned the
whole matter over to the police, and lost no
time in extricating the boys from the
clutches of the greedy pastors
1t is considered doubtful, however,
whether the latter will be prosecuted, as
they have powerful patrons in the heads Of
the orthodox church.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-27
UNLUCKY OFFICIALS.
The Deuunclation of the American Hog
Transferred to Hog Inspectors.

The Deuunclation of the American Hog
Transferred to Hog Inspectors.
fBY DUNLAP's CABLE coMPANY.l
BERLIN. April 26.-The opprobrium
which has been so long and so patiently
borne by the American hog has, now that
he is once more allowed to enter the Brand
enburger gate, descended upon the shoulders
of the American Hog Commissioners. The
Cologne Gazette, the grand organ of the in
dustrisl population, and the Kreutz Zeitung,
the 'mouthpieee of the feudal barons and
native pork producers, be it said, can
not find epithets harsh enough
to ftly characterize these unfortunate
officials. Of course, they:are thieves, per-
jurers and wholly unprincipled, and the
only wonder is that they have escaped
Judge Lynch. Their judgment counts for
nothing, and if they are not actually
stricken with trichinosis they deserve to be.
A highly placed official was asked why,
under the circumstances, the German Gov
ernment would not adopt the simple plan of
having the pork inspected on arrival and
judgment passed upon it without regard to
the conclusions OF the Washington authori-
ties, but ne only shrugged his shoulders and
professed to take a very slight interest in
the matter