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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-12-15
Grain Gamblers.

A west side farmer says: 'Here are
lot of us farmers holding our wheat
corn, or hogs, for higher prices, and
while we are holding our stuff and
many of us paying heavy rate Of in.
terest, on short loans, there is a class
of 'non-owners' who are offering to de.
liver in the future the same kind OF
products we are holding, cheaper than
our products could be delivered pay.
ing freights, warehouse charges, etc.
in the eastern markets at the present
prices. Can we hold onto our stuff and
corner the gamblers? Or will we even.
tually have to accept their fixed prices
the prices made by lot of wealthy
understanding less--who never
owned or never expect to own bushel
OF actual grain or pound of porkf
And if we, the producers, have to sell
for the prices the non-Owner and non
producer fixes, is there no recourse
no way by which that state of affairs
can be prevented?"
At present we believe there is not.
But we have hopes that the next con-
gress will pass most stringent laws for
the prevention of all option gambling.
1t is system that has grown to NAM
moth proportions under the favoritism
of republican administration, and
thousands Of men have grown wealthy
thereby, and at the expense too of the
farmers and producers. It is profita-
BILE business; if it were not, there
would not now be gathering a power
full lobby in our nations capitol to try
and prevent the passage of the anti
option bill.
1t seems to us that the farmers, in
their organizations, should take steps
to have their brightest and most influ-
ential representatives sent to Wash
ington, to counteract the efforts OF the
option gamblers lobby, and to fight FOR
the rights of the producers.
Option gambling is one of the great
est curses to an agricultural com.
munity, and we earnestly hope that the
democratic administration will wipe it
out of existence and thus prove itself
the friend of the agricultural classes,
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-12-15
A Word to Young Sprouts.

An esteemed correspondent, a man
OF middle age, who has much Of the
spirit of youth yet remaining in his
amiable soul, sent the following letter
to the Rome Tribune. 1t is full of
sound sense, and the young sprouts
will profit by reading it:
Remember, son, that the world is
Older than you are by several years;
that for thousands of years it has been
80 full Of smarter and better younger
men than yourself that their feet stuck
out of the dormer windows; that when
tPy died the old globe went wagginp
on, and one man in a million went to
thefr funeral, OF even heard OF ebeis
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-12-15
Definitions Of Women.

Woman is mans conscience and 1t
is good thing for him to have his con.
science always with him.
| Woman is mans incentive to GO
forward-the tempting bait and the
merciless whip.
Woman is a bundle of nerves, with
extra knots in them for mind and
heart.
Women is the only female in creation
who sings; she is also the only female
whose plumage is finer that that of It's
mate. S
Woman is the happiness of one man
and the bane of two.
Woman is the pearl Of great price; to
obtain her you must risk your life in
troublesome waters.
Woman is sunfower, bending her
head only to golden rays.
Woman IS the other half of man,
mentally, morally and physically; with
| out her he would be as tree stripped
of its leaves, without ornament or the
breath of life.
Woman is only rib of man, but she
is worth all the other bones Of his body
put together.
Woman is the finishing touch; man
was only an experiment.
Woman is the leaven that leaveneth
the whole lump.
Woman is the mother Of mankind
since Adam. 1t is the material muscle
that has spanked the race into decent
manners and good behavior.
Woman is the index of the family
book; from her you can judge of the
chapters and the illustrations.
Woman is the custodian of public
peace, because she 1nterposes her deli.
cate body between the fighters. She is
also the custodian of public moneys
because they find their way to he1
sooner or later.
Woman is the sieve through which
sift the finer attributes of human ma.
ture, and the filter which separates
good from evil.
Woman is the only animal that can
breathe on half rotions, hold pins and
nedles in her mouth without misha Q
and do up back hair.
Woman is the stringing of faithful
harp, played by the wind; man is the
golden frame work.
Woman is mans refreshment in his
journey through the wilderness.
Woman is the precious porcelain of
human clay, to be handled gently and
admired from q distance.
Woman is valuable article that
costs more in the keeping than the &C
quiring.
Woman is special dispensation of
| Providence to prevent mans conceit
from running away with him.-El-
| Dorado Advocate.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-12-15
Stop The Stealing.

The democrats and populists of
Wyoming, Montana and the other
northwestern states where the republi-
cans are bent upon stealing senator's,
are right in resolving not to submit
tamely to this outrage.
The fusionists should use every legal
and legislative device at their command
to protect the verdict of the people
from reversal.
If the republicans, having control of
one branch of the legislature, unseat
democrats or populists who were fairly
elected, the fusiOnists would have great
provocation to retaliate in the house
which they control.
The senate must not be stolen.
The democrats ask only that the ver-
dict of the people shall stand.
They have nowhere issued certi6-
Gates to Legislators who were not
elected. They have proposed to unseat
no one who is properly certified as
elected. They have resorted to no tricks
to obtain power.
The people have elected democrat
as the next president. They have
elected a democratic house of repre-
sentatives. They have elected legisla.
lures 10 change the political complex.
ion of the senate.
This peaceful revolution must be
permitted to proceed to its logical and
legal end. Elections must elect. The
senate must not be stolen.-New York
World.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-12-15
HQISINGTON.

hSioANUION.
From the Dispatch.
John Swartz is erecting a farm resi-
dence.
w. B. Pearson is just completing a
fine residence on his farm.
Mrs. John Case. of Eureka township,
died Saturday merning of typhoid fever.
The Vincent property on east Broad
way has been nicely painted the past
week.
There is another rumor of an extra
passenger train-but then we promised
to say nothing about it.
John Johnston, our enterprising liv-
eryman on west Broadway, is having an
addition built to his residence.
Rev. R. A. Dadisman went to Kansas
City this week to purchase furniture for
the new Langford church building.
Cooke & Wildgen have sold Frank
Eveleigh nice bill of lumber to be
used in the erection of fine farm resi-
dence.
The German Methodists are making
| arrangements for the erection of com.
modious church building in Hoisington.
It is much needed.
Henry E. Smith, the postmaster at
Redwing, is having business building
erected in which he will keep the Office
and run ganeral store. H. G. Benke
| will assist In the store.
The Chase Record gives a gentle hint
to its delinquents in the following ian
guage: The wind bloweth, the water
| howeth, the farmer soweth, the sub
scriber oweth and the Lord konweth
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-12-15
SOUTH BEND AND LIBERTY.

SOUTH BEND AND LIBERTY.
From 'sNoah Webster"
Rev. Kessel is still holding meetings
at the Hood school house.
Bud Weathes sold to Dan Hood the
old house which formerly belonged to
Johny Riegel.
Judging from the appearance of
things, there will be a wedding in the
neighborhood.
Roberts team got buried in the snow
last Wednesday morning, while taking
his children to school.
Mr.. N. E. Acker was seen todling off
to his school last Wednesday morning
with his head about a foot and a half
above the snow.
There was free supper at school
house No. II, last Friday night. The
supper consisted of cake and coffee.
The girls furnished the cake, while the
ceffee was furnished by the old bache-
lors.
There seems to be tendency on the
part of some. when in public building
to spit tobacco on the floor After this,
in school house No. II, the patrons oi
the district will consider it an insult fol
any one to spit on the floor. For the
school house is the child's second home
and ought to be kept clean.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-12-15

DIVIDE Kansas? Well hardly. What
would the republicans do with two Of
them? One Kansas knocked them out
so completely that they don't care
about tackling two Kansas
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-12-15

Wheat is, anG will continue to be one
of the best foods for laying hens, as it
contains the elements that stimulate
egg production. 1t is best to feed
moderately owing to its fattening quail
tiles, as fat hens soon forget how to
lay.
The Rural World observes: Thorough
cultivation has another demonstration
in its favor in the Kansas corn crop
this year. Fields that will yield forty
bushels per acre alongside of others
that will yield nothing but nubbins tell
/! the tale
*x*
Why do not more of our people in
this county raise celery? Those who
have tried it here find that just as fine
celery can be produced in Barton county
as in any place IN the world. In and
| about Kalamazoo, Mich, there are up
wards of 1000 people engaged in the
celery business.
you left standing out by the stable?
Will it be able to weather the season
and do service next year? And the
binder, drill, and cultivator left stand
ing where you unhitched from them?
Are they paid for? And have you
money to pay for others next season?
~
A French scientist obtaine the re-
markable yield of forty-two tons of
potatoes per acre by treating the seed
tubers with sulphate of ammonia. He
STEPPED the potatoes for twenty-four
hours in solution of six pounds of
saltpetre, six pounds of sulphate of
ammonia and twenty-five gallons of
water. He then allowed them to stand
and drain for day, in order their buds
might swell, before planting them.
~
1t is a problem how so many dairy
farms make a profit although the dairy
men buy their COWS without regard to
breeding. 1t is proof that dairying is
a paying business, even under such
drawbacks, and shows what could be
accomplished with the use of COWS
specially adapted to the production of
milk, and butter. One of the most
difficult undertakings is that of con-
vincing farmers that it pays better to
raise their dairy stock than to buy their
so-called ''fresh" COWS from whoever
has them for sale.
Farming is business, and the man
| who would make real success of it
nowadays must be good business man.
He must be an all around good busi-
ness manager. Besides buying and
selling the employment of labor. there
are the planting, cultivating and har-
vesting of crops, the breeding, feeding
and care of live stock. the use of ma
chlnery and a hundred other important
| things that require intelligence, skill
and executive ability of high order.
There are a thousand little details of
the business to be carefully looked after
| to make the farm do its best. Taking
everything into consideration the
| wonder is that there are not more fail
| ures on the farm than there are. No
| business in the city would long stand
under the easY-going management of
an average farmer.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-12-15
NEIGHBORHOOD HAPPENINGS.
CLAFLIN.

Fromthe Banner.
An excellent program is being pre-
pared for the Christmas exercises.
The rain and snow of the past few
days did much good to the growing
wheat.
District number thirty-two is making
preparations for big Christmas enter
tainment.
If you want AN illustration of some.
thing that is "out of sight" try to buy
pig. They are only ten cents a pound
now.
There is talk of an evangelist holding
series of meetings in this city in the
near future. He will have good field
to work in.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Schoeppel are
the happy parents of a bran new eleven
pound son, which took up his residence
at their home on Monday of last week.
The contract for building the M. E.
church was let to Slower Brothers. of
north of Hoisington, who will begin
work as soon as the material arrives.
We will soon be city of churches.
Nebraska has a law requiring insur-
ance companies to pay full amount for
which property is insured, in case of
loss, whether it is worth that amount
or not. This is as it should be. No
company ought to insure property for
more than its value, and # it did, it is
only just to the insured, that the full
amount of policy be paid.
From the Advocate.
The supply of milk at the creamery
has doubled during the past six weeks.
Love is the worst ailment human
flesh is heir to. 1t has but one sure
cure and that is death.
There will be two masquerades in
this city on the evening of the 26, one
given by each of the dancing clubs.
If a premium were to be given at the
Worlds Fair, for tough kids, Ellinwood
could easily capture the honors.
Mrs. Thomas Scott and daughter
Jessie returned from their visit with
friends in Illinois, last Thursday even
ing.
Ellinwood is getting to be little too
tough for comfort of late. Things need
investigating little with view towards
improvement.
The man who is always sick and looks
as if he were going to die at any minute,
will still be here after good many
more robust men are gone. 1t is always
the unexpected which happens.
A young colored boy by the name of
Smith who was sent to the penitentiary
from this place about three years ago
for the murder of man by the name
of Hilton, served his term, was released
and returned to this city last Wednes.
day morning.
Quite number of the town folks at
tended party at the residence of C.
H. Christensen of the south side, last
Saturday, night and had a jolly good
time. He has just completed a fine
large barn and granary in which a So
cial dance was held for those who like
dancing.
Down in Virginia, one of the southern
states, they have already filled their ice
houses, while here in sunny Kansas we
have not had a quarter of an inch of ice
yet. and ice men do not expect to put
up any ice until January or February.
Hurrah for Kansas.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-12-15
HOW TO MAKE A GO0r TOWN

SIS
Grit.
Vim.
Snap.
Push.
Energy.
Schools.
Morality.
Harmony.
Cordially.
Advertising.
Talk about it.
Write about it.
Help improve 1t.
Speak well for it.
Advertise in its paper.
PatroniZe its merchants.
Good country tributary.
Help good men to office.
Honest competition in prices.
Make the atmosphere healthy.
Faith exhibited by good works.
Fire all loafers and dead-beats.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-12-15

PAWNEE ROCK.
From the Leader.
The youngest child of w. A. Chase
is sick with a cold.
DR.. Koch is in Kansas City this week
buying holiday goods.
Tom Morris youngest child has been
very sick for a few days, but is now
better.
The Christians have had baptistry
made and will put it in the church and
fit up a dressing room soon.
The mill has been grinding feed and
corn meal this week. Next week they
will begin making -four, which Mr.. Ba'
ker says he will guarantee to be as good
as any on the market.
John Rhodes and family returned
from a two weeks visit at Pennington,
Ia, last Thursday. He says it die
nothing but rain and snow while he was
there, and he was glad to get back to
Kansas. Iowa people think Kansas is
the garden spot of the world, so he
says.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-12-15

that we are in need of our dues. So
come runnin', before we go gunnin' ,
we are not funnin', as this thing of
DUNN gives US the everlasting blues.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-12-15

come runnin', before we go gunnin'
we are not funnin', as this thing OF
DUNN gives US the everlasting blues.
From the Blade.
Mrs. Crosby is visiting in Pueblo this
week.
Geo. w. Mitchell has been granted
an increase of pension.
Conductor J. B. Lonberger is visiting
in Parsons and Kansas City until after
the holidays.
The Cabben election case will be con.
tested. That is right and he should be
declared elected.
County Treasurer Bosse is holding a
reception every day now, and they are
ten-hour days at that.
Mrs. Mary E. Post has been granted
pension with handsome shack pay'
streamers, for her son George.
AS we understand it, Mr.. Rosenthall
was elected representative from Haskell
county, and should be seated.
Grandma Childs, of Bunker Hill,
mother of Ed. Childs and Mrs. Cy
Townsend of this city, died last week,
surrounded by all but one of her family
of eight children.
Sam Mclean returned from his visit
to New York last week. Owing to the
illness of his brother he did not go to
Ireland, as was his intention when leav-
ing here month ago.
Another week gone and old mother
earth has not been smashed into smith
Greens by a comet. This old earth of
ours is too ancient and steay to be hirt-
ing with every stranger that comes
along.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-12-15

The Rural World observes: Thorough
cultivation has another demonstration
in its favor in the Kansas corn crop
this year. Fields that will yield forty
bushels per acre alongside of others
that will yield nothing but nubbins tell
the tale.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-12-15

Why do not more of our people in
this county raise celery? Those who
have tried it here find that just as fine
celery can be produced in Barton county
as in any place IN the world. In and
about Kalamazoo, Mich, there are up
wards of 1000 people engaged in the
celery business.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-12-15
FARM NOTES.

Wheat is, and will continue to be one
of the best foods for laying hens, as it
egg production. 1t is best to feed
moderately owing to its fattening quail
tiles, as fat hens soon forget how to
lay.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-02-04
DIR souANDERED SUBSTANCE.

When Mr.. Harrison and the Fifty
first Congress came into power there
was a surplus in the Treasury so
large as to be embarrassing.
In less than three years that sur
plus has been squandered and the
Government so burdened with new
and permanent obligations that the
Wavs and Means Committee has
had to ask the Secretary OF the
Treasury to inform it whether or not
the country can meet It's expenses
without the adoption OF devices tor
getting more money out Of the peo,
pie.
And this startling change has mo-
been brought about by the reduc'
ton of taxes. On the contrary, the
Fifty-frst Congress multiplied taxes
The Strengthened condition of th'
Treasury is due solely to wantol
| waste and reckless squandering-t'
bounties, subsidies and the diversion
of taxes, by means of prohibitiv
duties, from the Treasury to the col
fers of fat frying, favored class q
monopolists-
What do plain men of sense thin
of such stewardship? And what ar
they going to do about it at the poll
next Fall?
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-02-04
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

Ex-President Cleveland received
great welcome at Atlanta, Ga.
Liggett & Meyers have withdrawn
from the general agency system on
account of recent cutting of rates.
Samuel R. Mathis, wealthy man
of Cameron, Mo-, has disappeared
in this city and foul play is feared.
1t is said a factory will be built at
Anderson, Ind, to employ 1000
hands and to make aluminium for
% cents a pound.
Davis Porter of Savannah, Ga.
was killed by his 16-year-old son,
Porter had come home late drunk
and had struck his wife.
Leading Democrats OF the House
show timidity regarding the silver
question. Mr.. Bland informally
chides them therefore.
The sale of a pretty white girl by
her mother to a negro for $500 de-
veloped in the trial of the divorce
case of Mary A. Jackson at Belle
vile.
Carlyle Harris, the New York
medical student on trial for poison
ing his girl-wife, Helen Potts, was
found guilty of murder in the first
degree.
The Whiskey Trust reduced the
price of whiskey 2 cents a gallon
and refused to accept the resigna-
tions of President Greenhut and
Director Morris.
The proprietor and the editor of
the Beaver (Pa.) Star were sentenced
to six months Imprisonment and a
fine of 5000 each for charging Sena-
tor Quay with completely in the
Bardsley embezzlement.
Captain O'Grady of the British
ship Glendon, who refused to haul
down the Union Jack and unfurl
an American flag at Bridgeport,
Conn, will be presented with a
Union Jack by admiring Britishers
in Canada.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-02-04
WALKER DISTRICT ITEMS.

Correspondence of the Ledger.
WALKER DISTRICT, Feb. 2.-This
is ground hog day and it is so dark
that he can't see his shadow, conse-
quently we will have fine weather
from this on.
Wheat is still holding its own.
Cattle are doing finely and there is
an abundance of feed to keep them
so.
Mr., Rush Ball moved last week to
the farm lately vacated by Mr.. c. P.
Nichols.
Mr.. N. Spencer is digging a well
at his house.
J. w. Coakley says he has twelve
feet of snow in his yard this time.
The protracted meeting at Rush
Hill is being well attended.
There was a birthday reception
given at the residence of Mrs. Lee
and Mrs. Coekley, tho former being
80 and the latter 46. There were
many useful presents given and all
enjoyed themselves hugely at the
table.
The Walker Wide-Awake Society
is in a flpurishing condition.
PUFEER.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-02-04
MAIDEN MATTERS.

Correspondence OF the Ledger.
MAIDEN, Feb. LA grippe is
still at work in this vicinity. Quite
a number have it.
Mr.. Cropper, of Mexico, was call
ing on the people here Monday, TAX
ing orders for fruit trees.
Mr., Perry, near Martinsburg, was
talking wall pockets to the la
dies of Maiden to-day.
Mr.. Jake Brigal sold II very nice
hogs to VIM. Perry, of Martinsburg,
for $40 per hundred.
Our merchant was very busy
Monday. He bought 31a dozen
turkeys and 1 dozen geese, besides a
number of chickens and other pro-
duce.
Mr.. Otto Holmes, of Martinsburg,
was calling on J. III. McGinnis
family Sunday. He said he was
going to build him a new house.
suppose he is looking for keeper.
Mr.. julie Yelton has been APP
pointed admins traitor of the estate
of G.. M. Earnest.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-02-04
Public Sale !
Tuesday, February 16.

I will sell at the place known as the
Dave Horton farm, miles southeast
of Benton City and miles southwest
af afMartinsburg, on Tuesday. February
16, 1892, the following described prop
erty, to-wit:
Three head good brood mares, all of
them safely in foal.
One good work horse, eight years
old.
Eight head of cattle, consisting of
two good milk cows, five heifers and
one pedigreed Shorthorn bull.
Five head of brood sows, one having
pigs; four with pig; some shoats and
one boar.
One good mower and dropper, one
harrow, one 3-horse breaking plow.
one Diamond plow, one New DEPART
ure cultivator, two double shovel
plows, one good grindstone, one farm
wagon, one buggy, some plow harness,
one stack of millet hay, one stack hay,
one rick of straw, about $50 shocks of
fodder, some corn, about so bushels of
good oats, household and kitchen fur
niture and other things.
TERMS OF FSALE.-Sums of s1oand
under, cash over SO credit of nine
months at per cent; purchaser Civ
ing bankable note.
III. FRED. BOEGER.
J. n. stephens, Auctioneer,