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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-06-25
PAWNEE ROCK,

From the Leader.
Mrs. Amos Huls has been quite sick
this week.
J. r. Bakers two children have the
whooping cough.
Mrs. John Lille has been on the sick
list for a week or ten days.
There is some talk Of cutting school
district No. As, in half. making two
districts out of it.
PaWnee Rock will not celebrate the
4th of July. Harvest time will be here
and everybody too Busy.
1t has been suggested by a number
of our farmers that every one burn Off
their stubble fields and plow them up
right after harvest as IA possible means
of getting lid Of the fly, bug, worm or
whatever it may be that is now in the
wheat,
Over 100 visiting members of K. of
2. lodges from the neighboring towns
were in the city last Friday night. The
goat got awful urea ana DO WODOor.
eleven big fellows to tote around all in
one evening with 19 more to handle the
next two nights following would worry
most any goat.
This bids fair to be good season FOL
corn, as SO much rain has fallen, the
river having so much water in it, and
and the ground all over the state and
even adjoining states being SO thor.
oughly saturated, there is but little
prospects of us having any hot wind:
this season.
According to estimate it is though
that there will be about half crop O
wheat in this section, that is hal
crop OF the acreage sown. Some o
| the farmers tell us their wheat is no
hurt any, while others say theirs i
damaged at least half and some thinl
more than half, and SO it goes; bu
the real truth of the matter will no
be rightly got at until they get to cut
ting, which will not be fol- week O
ten days yet.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-06-25

in Rush Center last Saturday and Sun
day.
Miss Cora Hays was the guest of c.
E. Hays and family on Saturday of last
week.
Mrs. Anna Parker will close a very
successful term of school on Friday of
this week.
Miss Laura Cooper returned last Fri
day from an extended visit to friends
in Missouri.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-06-25
An Alliance Iudge.

Judge Hamar created sensation at
Broken Bow the other day by delivering
an Grafton upon motion made by
local attorney to confirm a real estate
mortgage foreclosure:
This docket is covered, page upon
page, with confirmation cases The
last summers drouth has exhausted the
farmers resources, and he is unable to
pay his loans. The act of God, for
which the people are not responsible,
has reduced one-half of them to almost
beggary, and this calamity shall not be
made worse by any act of mine. We
are asked to turn 100 farms over to
money lenders, and 500 women and
children over to pauperism. 1t shall
never be done in this district while ]
am judge. The people are not able to
pay, and 1 will not assist in their being
robbed. Let us wait till crop can be
raised and confidence restored. and all
will come out all right. If a man be
living on his land or living off of it. and
trying to cultivate it, he should have
| the reward of his work. 1 will never
confirm a sale in times like these if ths
owner is trying to make a living on tht
land. When the people are compelled
to ask aid to procure seed it would b'
cruel mockery to deprive them Of TIT
land to SOW the seed upon. have rig b
not to confirm a sale when the prop
erty sold does not bring twO-thirds it
actual value, and in these cases it ha
lnot brought that amount. The sale
not confirmed" -KesrneY, (Neb. Hui
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-06-25
HOISINGTON.

From the Dispatch.
The Methodist Sunday school will
picnic in Philips grove Thursday, June
25th.
Barton county with her three million
bushels of wheat will be in good shape
this year.
Paul Lee has been raising large
number of silk worms this year and has
had good success with them.
G. Wood Davis, of Sedgwick county.
says wheat will be worth 50 per bushel
in this state inside of twelve months.
Davis is an alliance prophet.
The Fenno boys. just west of town,
are making a nice thing off of their
straw berry patch this year. They have
about one acre and are gathering about
five bushels every day which find ready
sale iu town at good prices.
It seems to be the general opinion
that we will have about hree-fourths
of crop OF wheat this year, which will
be an average Of about eighteen bushels
per acre. Harvest will begin next
week and will be in full blast IN about
two weeks.
On Friday night night someone bent
on doing great mischief. poured ker-
osene on and between Boyle's gro
Gerry and Peugh's barber shop. threw in
a lot of paper and set fire to the infiam-
able material. For some reason the
fire went out before it was under good
headway and thus large amount of
property was saved from burning.
From indications the fire was set about
! l O'Clock and it is wonder it termin.
ated so fortunately. as wood on each
| building was cLarred as though the fire
| had a good start. What the motive
was can hardly be imagined, whether
for spite or the purpose of robbery; We
are inclined to believe the latter fol
we cannot think that Hoisington has {
citizen so mean, SO dastardly. as tx
commit such deed. The way the
! wind was it is probable that BIG, o,OO'
worth of property would have beei
DESTROYED had the fire gotten unde
headway.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-06-25

instability of character; on the contrary
it proves the instability of every thing
but character. Character and educa-
tion are necessary. They broaden and
strengthen a man, and develop the
better tendencies Of his nature. Edu-
cation is worth all it's cost in the mere
pleasure that it adds to living. Unlike
other things, there is no stopping place
in the attainment of this wealth, but
it increases mans power and useful
ness in infinite progression-E. T..
Thayer.
PRINCIPLES OF POLITICAL PARTIES.
Parties, a necessity in a popular
government, made possible our system
of elections, by which we are enabled
to choose between principles as we'll as
men. Parties are founded on princi-
pies. In all nature we recognize two
great forces, one producing change.
and the other resisting it. These forces
give US the division Of men into radi-
Gals and conservatives. The conflict
has ever been between the idea of
strong central and local self-govern-
ment. All history is but the record of
the struggle to maintain an eGuilib-
rum between the two ideas ''One
tends toward despotism, the other
towards anarchy" Third parties fail
because founded on narrow interests
and principles. Pushing one idea to
the front, they forget all others. Not
one of them has ever accomplished it's
end, and they often defeat their own
aims hy diverting strength of support
ers. They have not behind them the
living public sentiment which must be
behind all acts of government.-D. c..
Mcdowell.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-06-25
A Rank Apnoiutment.

The appointment of 4. B. Campbell to
be Department Commander McCarthy's
adjutant Is very bitter dose for the
old veterans to swallow. This Camp
bell is the reverend gentleman who
INDUCED in such a notorious spree in
Kansas City that the police were COM
PEELED to arrest him and his companions
and in doing so treed Campbell on the
roof of a bawdy house, in which he had
spent most of the night. Mr.. Mccarthy
now gives out that he and his adiutant
will travel over the state ''enthusing
the old vets" On this subject the
Manhattan Republic relieves itself as
follows:
Every decent old soldier should bang
his head in shame as he cOntempates
the first official act Of the new COM
manGer. 1t is notorious fact that
Mr. Campbell has forfeited all claims
upon respectable society to any place of
honor OF distinction. After his fall he
persistently spurned the loving efforts
Of his church brethren to reclaim him:
and finally they were in sorrow COM
PEELED to withdraw fellowship from
him. And from what we have been
recently told, we conclude that there is
little hope of his reformation. We
could draw the mantle of charity over
him, SO long as he was willing to re-
main in private life: but we must pro-
test when he again seeks to impose
himself upon an outraged public. 1t is
impossible that out of the tens of thou
sands of Grand Army men in the state,
Commander Mccarthy could not have
selected clean. capable man, whose
very name woald' have been credit to
the order?
I'VE are now more thoroughly con-
vinced than ever that it is the purpose
of the old state house crowd of chronic
office holders to prostitute the organi-
cation of the G.. y. r. to their own self
ish ends. They propose, by making
the agencies of that order potent and
effective, and rekindling the fires of
sectional hatred, 10y renewing the cry
of loyalty, and feeding the prejudice of
| their comrades, to re-elect themselves
and their corrupt associates to Office
during the next two years. This is
what the appointment Of Mr.. Campbell
means. He is nothing more nor less
than political striker for those who
stand above him. If the Grand Army
comrades endorse Mccarthy and his
man Friday, and support their work
you may expect to see the whole ma
chinery of the noble order worked foI
all it is worth in the interest of that
dsreputable crowd which has for years
infested the state house at Topeka. In
the name of common decency, give Us
a ehanCe''
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-06-25
NEIGHBORHOOD HAPPENINGS.
ELLINWOOD.

From the Advocate
Mike Helt, a, brother-in-law of Joe
Koelsch, has arrived from Atchison
and accepted position in the mill.
There are many things which farm
Ct has to attend to at this time of the
year, out one Of the most important is
to pay taxes.
The plutocrats, many of whose wives
and daughters will spend the present
summer in Europe. wiz patronize home
industries and protect home labor by
laying in large supplies OF foreign made
goods at ''pauper" prices. Plutacracy
always keeps one eye to the windward.
Owing to the fact that pretty near
everybody will he apt to spend the 4th
of July in the harvest field rather than
in town, the S. of VS.. of this city have
decided not to have celebration on
that day, further than dance in the
evening. Everybody should attend and
enjoy themselves The ladies OF the
G.. A. R. will serve cream, berries and
cake for supper. Everybody come.
Instead of whining about being dis
criminated against by news agents, the
Topeka Capital should hustle around
and print stuff the masses of the people
care to- read. The newspapers that
publish information for the common
people, instead of apologizing for and
defending monopolists and all sorts of
political and economic skullduggers,
are in demand, and rarely have occasion
to whine as the Capital does because
the travelling public won't buy it.
Last Sunday evening quite number
Of friends of the Ludwig family re-
paired to their beautiful home two miles
north Of this city, and proceeded TO
in, in having dance in their new barn,
which they have have just completed.
and dance everybody did until the wee
small hours of the night warned them
to return. A good time was had by all
present.
There have been several samples of
wheat, rye, timothy and orchard grass
brought into this Office by the farmers
of the south and north side. Ed Ramey
living FIVE miles southeast of this place
brought in a sample of rye that meas
ured FIVE feet ten inchs high after be-
ing cut. Dave Reaugh, living four
miles east of here brought in a bunch
of rye, grown from one seed, that
measured five feet and a half, also some
very fine May wheat fsssed plump and
solid, and some Turkey wheat that
looked fine, not any of it being damaged
either by rust or worms. We are also
indebted to Mr.. Reaugh for the sample
OF timothy, which is fine, in fact it is as
good as any that we have seen raised
in the east, and some orchard grass
that stands over knee high.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-06-25
CLAFLIN.

From the Banner.
Claflin people should invest in few
small yachts. and run pleasure excur.
sions on the lake between the city and
the depot.
Mr.. Williamson is erecting an addi.
ii On to the hotel this week, and other.
wise fitting it up to accommodate the in.
creasing trade.
Pasture land in these parts is almost
a thing of the past. Almost all the
prairie is now broken out, and Will be
sown to wheat this fall.
Two weddings this week, with the
prospect of two more in the very neal
future. Clafiin cannot be Outdone in
that branch of business when she takes
a notion.
-RAENBERG-On Thurs
day, June IL, Mr.. Chris. Evanson anC
Miss Minnie Raenberg, both of near this
city. Mr.. Eyanson and bride are wel
and favorably known to all in thi:
vicinity, who will join with us in wish
ing for them one continuous round O
unmeasureable happiness.
There has been a great deal of talk the
past few days concerning the possible
failure of the wheat crop. 1t is a faci
that there are numerous fields in this
vicinity that are considerably damaged
but there are other fields that will max,
thirty-ive bushels per acre. The field
that were we'll put in are not nearly a.
badly damaged as those that were sowI
any way to get them in. Our farmer.
must find out that it takes good farm
ing to raise good crops.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-06-25
GALATIA

From "Ananias.' - -ll
Corn looks healthy when you part the
weeds and look down at it.
A dance at Mr.. Barrows. Friday
evening, was the social event of the
week.
Mr.. William Brown has purchased
the northwest quarter of section 80.
Fairview township. at S6 per acre.
The pesky and irrepressible polite
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-06-25
Is the Beacon for Female Suhrage7


In commenting on the addresses of
the peoples party speakers, in the issue
of the DEMOCRAT of the 18th inst, we
said:
'One of the assertions of Mr.. Allen,
that the peoples party would one day
give the women the right to vote in
Kansas at least, was taken with very
WHY faces by some of the following
present. While we believe a number
of the leaders of the third party move
ment are in favor of wOman's suffrage,
they have not yet come out boldly and
advocated the thing. 1t would be in
teresting to know what is the position
of the Beacon of this city on the
woman's suffrage question:
Knowing Bro. Armstrong, and in fact
all the editorial force of the Beacon, to
be strongly in favor of woman's suff-
rage, prohibition and all that, we
thought they would have the courage
to announce the position on the matter
asserted by their speaker, Mr.. Allen.
But it would seem from the following
editorial in the Beacon of the 18th
inst, that that paper dares not state
its position on the question of female
suffrage. The Beacon says:
In answer to the DEMOCRAT of last
week, we will say: For clear and
concise view OF. the political faith of the
Beacon, just read carefully the result
of the Cincinnati conference, and plant
us firmly on that. You are welcome
to quote this paper as endorsing that
paper in all it's particulars. And now,
to be courteous, we will ask the DEMO
Graf a fair question. Do you support
and endorse the democratic national
platforms of 1876 to the>preSent date?
Now We hope to have this question
fairly and plainly answered, as we are
preparing a scrap book for campaign
purposes, and desire to get as many
good articles as possible
If there is any single word of the
above quotation sin answer to the
DEMOCRAT ''or any part of the query we
propounded, We would like to have it
pointed out. 1t would have been better
for that paper to have kept silent than
, to thus dodge the real question, aDG
never been asked it.
No one has questioned how the
Beacon stands on the Cincinnati con-
ference platform; it is natural to sup
pose that, being an old time politician
it's editor is willing and anxious to gulI
down the whole business; it is his stock
in trade, the anchor of his hope. Blu,
he has not been called upon to reaffirn
his faith inAhat direction. We simpl,
suggested that the people of Barton
county would be interested in KNOWN,
whether the organ of the peoples part.
had or had not the courage to stand b.
the assertions OF the leading speakers o
the party.
As to the question Bro. Armstron
wants the DEMOCRAT to answer; whii
he has not shown the same willingness
to enlighten us by answering our ques
ton, we will not use his methods an
shirk the responsibility of reply.
The DEMOCRAT does, in the mair
support and endorse the democrati
national platforms from 1875 to th
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-06-25
Comments On the Wheat Worm.


Below we give few of the comments
we have noticed in neighboring papers
on the condition of wheat and the
causes of damage:
The principal damage in Rice county
will be in the north part. seme fields
there being hurt past reclamation, and
will be plowed up. that sown last Aug
ust being affected the worst. Itcannot
be considered, however, an argument
against early wheat sowing. That sewn
early and pastured heavily seems less
affected than that not pastured at all.
Some suggest the late frost in May nip
ped the pollen, which was just begin
ming to form, and the earlier fields
were thus not fertiliZed, but the most
plausible theory obtainable is that the
moisture and rainfall for two or three
weeks, with scarcely any sun and no
wind at all, has settled in around the
developing head and produced a sort of
black rust. Whatever the cause, some
fields are greatly damaged, while ad-
joining fields are not injured in the
least, and are good for thirty to forty
bushels per acre. Those damaged will
not produce over five to ten bushels.
and some fields will be p1owed up and
planted to corn.-Lyons Democrat.
An insect is at work i'm some neigh
borhoodS and seriously damaging a
large acreage of wheat on East Elkhorn
some southwest of town three or four
and burrows in the stalk between the
head and the first joint between the
head and the first joint below, COM
monly.-Lincoln Beacon.
We have talked with many farmers
during the days of this week before GO
ing to press, and they are all discour-
aged as to the wheat prospects. Blight
OF some sort is efecting it and the yield
is going to be materially decreased and
the quality lowered. Of course each
man has his theory as to the causes of
the trouble and the probable yield, but
the prospects are not nearly as good as
ut this time last week. 1t is to be hoped
that the damage is over estimated and
the result will exceed present expecta-
tions.-Salina Herald.
1t is an unpleasant fact, but the crop
of wheat is not what was expected a
few days ago. 1t is uneven. Some men
will have fair crops, others little or
| none. Nobody seems to be able to ac-
count for this. The very earliest whest
is the worst as rule, although there
are exceptions. Some are of the opin-
ion that much of the wheat was sown
SO early that its growth weakened it.
Those fields were in many cases infest-
ed with a growth of volunteer wheat.
There will, however, be much more
wheat in the county than there was last
year, and prices will be much higher. SO
we shall come out ahead after all.-Mc.
Pherson Republican.
There is no longer any further doubts
about it being the Hessian fly that is
causing the terrible destruction in the
wheat fields of this part of the state
By stripping stalk that looks blighted
you will discover thousands of little
eggs, deposited there by the fly who has
punctured the stalk just above the first
OF second joint, thus destroying all the
substance and causing the grain to wilt
and die. What to do to get rid of the
pest is question for the scientists to
determine Sterling Champion.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-06-25

AFTER conversation with many
farmers of this county we have come
to the conclusion that wheat was injured
more by the heavy, late frosts than by
the worms or bugs; and the extent of
the injury will not be, we think, so
great as ar one time supposed.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-06-25
EDITORIAL COMMENT.

MANY Harper county farmers are
listing corn on their wheat stubble this
year. They use what is known as the
ninety-day corn which natures early
and they are thus enabled to harvest
two crops of grain off one field in the
same year.-Anthony Enterprise.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-06-25
ALBERT.

From "Spunk-
Us. Winget is preparing to build an
addition to his dwelling.
r. F. Pieger, Of Great Bend. was in
our village on Tuesday of last week.
Tom wilkinson and Fred BriniDg
took in the picnic at Timken last week.
Miss Bertha Singleton visited friends.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-06-25

The Knights of Reciprocity is a
secret political organization. designed
as counter irritant OF antidote to the
Knights propose to perpetuate the back
lumber memories and emotions, rather
than adopt progressive and living
issues adapted to present conditions
and needs. In the language of our
quondam friend, Sol Miller, of The Troy
Chief, 1.-The Knights will be their own
hoo-dOo. kansas Farmer.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-06-25
KANSAS.

Out of q mosionless ocean of sand
Whose PefIifed biIlovs stretched far 10 the Ve1p-
Kansas sprang up like enchanted land,
With wealth more than many king can com1apoe
Where Civilizations first faveu expand.
Pork psckers, pap- passes and poets on hand,
Who says that state is not wonderfully hlesGDA
VIII A Wh6te.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-06-25
AS THE merry-go- round of public

AS THE merryg go-round of public
comment whirls about it becomes more
apparent every day that Harrison is
not ''in it" for the nomination to a
second term. Culion, Alger, Mckinley
and various others of the men who have
the pull in the g. o. D. are freely ex-
pressing themselves to the effect that
Blaine can have the nomination for the
asking. and if Blaine is doomed again
and don't get it, the nomination will
never fall to grandpa's hat-some other
silk tile will get it,
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-06-25

HEAL estate transfers were not very
numerous last week, in Barton county.
but it is a fact worthy of note that there
wassmOre transfers and the aggregate
of the money consideration was greater
for the week than in Johnson county,
one Of the oldest settled counties in the
state, and also one of the wealthiest.
Barton had ten transfers last week,
amounting to 81 $3.50, while johnson had
but nine transfers aggregating $6, 800.
ONE of our exchanges has this to
say: There is moral. social, and
political unrest in the land. There are
two ways by which each individual can
settle this for himself. One way is to
adopt the theories of others without
question, just as little bird swallows
a worm dropped into its gaping beak by
its parent. This is the plan of multi
tude. 1t is lazy, careless plan and
puts an end to intelligence and progress.
The other method is to investigate for
ones self, to search for truth with the
firm resolution to make it ones own
guide when discovered. This is not
the easy way but it is the best way"
The first method is the one that has
been too much in vogue in our land,
and by that method has the republican
party held the balance of power in
Kansas for many years. The last
named way of settling the matter is
the one that we have always advocated,
and We notice that some of the best
men in our county have ceased to swal
low the worms so temptingly held up
and subterfuges. They are investigat
ing, are searching for the truth on
every hand, and are no longer the will
ing tools of the wOuld-be leaders.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-06-25

TUE LATEST man in TIE world lives in
Missouri lie has just invented an
automatic milking machine worked 10y
the cows jaws while chewing the cud.
TIE milk runs into bucket suspended
beneath the cow.