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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-09-15
DON'T WORRY YOUR HAIR.

1t Thrives Best When You Leave It
Hanging Loose.
''Don't worry your hair if you want it
to grow thick and long" was the advice
of a well-known dresser. LET it hang
loosely about the head when you are in
your own room, and do not irritate it
with combingS and bruShings and
Shampooings. If it is thin rub little
hair tonic on it, and if it comes out treat
it to a dose Of hair renovator. Clip the
ends when they begin to split, and then
let it alOne.''
Nothing is worse for the hair than
the frequent washings which some peo-
pie give it. Unless the harris perfectly
dried it becomes sour and soggy, and
there is tendency to badness. Brush
ing it vigorously for two or three hours
a day, as is the custom of some people,
is almost as bad, for unless the hair is
strong and the scalp tough the little
hair roots are destroyed by the hum
dred.
Hair that is dry should have an occa-
sional application of some well-recom-
| mended pomade, and oily hair should
be treated to tonic which comes for
the purpose. Hairpins injure the hair,
| and the daggers which are now SO fash
| ionable are apt to scrape the scalp and
| cause mischief. Drawing the hair back
tightly tends to produce badness ON
the temples and back of the ears. A
| parting is never a good thing for the
hair unless the part be frequently
| changed before it has time to broaden.
At night the hair should lie loosely
over the top of the pillow, and in the
afternoon when a woman is in her own
room writing letters or taking a siesta
she should again give her hair an OPP
portunity to rest.
| It is hard to kill hair. If you do not
believe this try to get rid of that super
fiuous hair on your upper lip and see
how it resists your efforts. Perhaps if
it were possible to abuse it as many
women abuse their scalps the task
would not be such difficult one. Rusty
hair-pins, fierce brushings, tight braids,
and too many shampoos are the cause
! of the thin hair which many women
have.-St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-09-15
ABSOLUTELY ABSURD.
Secretary Fosters Crude Effort thu


Secretary Fosters Crude Effort on the
Tariff.
The country, no doubt, will be very
grateful to Secretary Charles Foster for
his wen-meant endeavor to interpret
the democratic platform. but even the
sacred demands of gratitude cannot
blind US to the fact that his effort is
not triumphant success.
Mr.. Foster explains that a tariff for
revenue means tariff that will yield
no revenue at all. By parity of reason
ing a tariff for protection is one that
will afford no protection at all
Gov. Mckinley, in one of his
speeches. undertook to show that a
revenue tariff will not yield sufficient
revenue, while protective tariff yields
an abundance. In this he directly con-
tradicts Mr.. Blaine, who says that the
revenue tariff of 1916 yielded ample
revenue. He also censureS his own
party, who, in 1857, cooperated heartily
in reducing that tariff, on the ground
that it yielded too much revenue and
that the surplus in the treasury was
dangerously large.
Mr.. Foster is on the wrong track
When the facts are properly stated 1t Is
the republican OK, not ours, that is
gored The tariff when fully adjusted
to the Mckinley theory will yield no
revenue at all. That theory is to check
importations of goods that compete
with our products. and to put all others
on the free list IL we put our tariff high
enough to stop the importation of COM
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-09-15
CONTEMPORARY COMMENT.

in all fairness it must be recorded
that nothing Mr.. Cleveland has done,
said written in any of his three cam
paigns ever cost the democratic party
q vote. He never cast campaign
boomerang.-Boston Globe.
The republican idea of getting rich
is TO pay two dollars for what might
just as well be bought for one This
removes any surprise that might exist
because the United States treasury is
depleted.-Detroit Free Press
1t is the intention of the Harrison
managers to lead the president through
the state and let him make new
speeches at different points His old
speeches about cheap coats and ''in-
dividual disappointments" do not seem
to be useful just at present-N. Y.
World.
How can President Harrison now
listen To the politicians who are urging
him to throw overheard or to dodge the
force bill in his letter of acceptance?
Should he attempt TO do so he will de-
ceive no one, and he viii throw away for
ever that which is his chief hold on the
respect of the people OF the country,
:. belief in the sincerity OF his official
utterances.- Sun.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-09-15

make it appear that the democratic
candidate for the vice presidency was
''disloyaF' during the war period, not
w1thstanding the testimony of we'll
known union men and brave officers of
the union army that he gave the union
cause valuable aid in many ways.
Without referring directly to those con-
temptible Slanderers, Mr.. Stevenson
stated the facts Incidentally in speech
at the dedication of the Watterson club
house in Louisville. He said to the
assembled Kentuckians: ''As an Illi-
noisan l may be pardoned for remind
ing you of the fact that knew Mr..
Watterson first in the memorable strug-
gle for the presidency which immedi-
ately preceded our great war. His
political fortunes, like my own, were
cast with the great democratic chief
tain, Stephen A. Douglas. When the
momentous issues that then divided
people and sections passed from the
domain of debate and of the ballot to
the dread arbitrament of arms 1 be-
lieved with the great senator of my
own state that the most direct road to
peace lay through the most stupendous
preparation for war From the begin
ming to the close of that great conflict
/ was for the maintenance, at whatever
cost, of our federal union. With the
browning victory at Appomattox. the
disbanding of the hostile armies and
the restoration of federal authority in
all of the states, came questions which
to the people of the south overshadowed
all other questions. 1 believed with
the democratic party in the north that,
with our arms triumphant, the perfect
restoration OF the union was to be
wrought out, not in the spirit of hatred
but in the Hottest spirit of patriotism;
that sublime patriotism which inspired
the words: With malice toward none,
with charity for all, with frmness in
the right as God gives us to see the
right.
If there was ''disloyalty" and ''cop-
perheadism'' in that position the repub-
Iicans are welcome to make the most
of it. The sentiments that inspired
Mr.. Stevenson were those Of another
Kentucky-Illino the great presi-
dent who uttered those memorable
words.-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-09-15
PRACTICAL POLITICS.
Progress of the Democratic Campaign In
the West.

Progress OF the Democratic Campaign In
the West.
The decision of the national demo-
cratic campaign committee to establish
branch headquarters at Chicago and to
conduct an active campaign in the
haf-dozen or more doubtful west
ern states which have hitherto been
republican, will be applauded by the
democracy. 1t means that the democ-
racy Is the party OF the entire ma
ton, that there is no section OF the
country in which the party cannot pre-
sent its candidates and its purposes
with conf dence that they will be in
dorsed by that section. 1t means that
its principles are for the welfare of all
American citizens, not merely for those
of a section or OF certain classes. and
that everywhere democracy. when or
ganized, may be hopeful of victory.
1t exposes the weakness of the repub-
Hcan party, which plans its campaigns
on no higher level than the concentra-
ton of a big corruption fund in a few
places. In itself it makes broad issue
between the two parties which no in
te1ligent citizen will lose sight of.
Furthermore, it is practical politics
of the most approved kind. TIE hold
OF the republican party on the west has
been shaken. Unaided and practically
ignored, the democrats of the west in
their own fashion, have been winning
victories for the past two years which
may well put to the blush the efforts OF
eastern democrats in more than one
state. In Illinois. Iowa, Michigan,
Wisconsin, the democracy won their
spurs in the elections of 1890 and 1891,
and it is advisable as well as right
that they should be made part of the
army now fighting the battle of tariff
reduction. Two years before the last
national election Illinois gave a repub-
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-09-15
Politeness Is Kindness Expressed.

Never be economical with politeness.
1t pays to be courteous, especially to
children and servants, who catch YOU
tone and manner, and reveal you to
your friends in a way that you hardly
dream of as possible. The manner of
good society does not denote or imply
insincerity, nor need the sincere person
be brusque or boorish. Tact is gift
worth striving for, if it has been denied
to that unsatisfactory being, the
natural man." Indeed, the natural
man or woman is not always the most
agreeable of associates 1t is the disci-
plined, cultivated man or woman whom
we enjoy meeting and are generally
the better for living with.-Christian
Intelligencer.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-09-15

peting goods-and nothing else viii
satisfy the protected interests-and put
all others on the free list, where is the
revenue to come in?
Instead of occupying their valuaol
time in futile attempts to interpret the
democratic tariff position, which is clear
enough, the republicans would do well
to hold a consultation and decide ex-
actly what kind of tariff they think
they really have at present Two years
ago they wanted a tariff to save us
from the curse of cheapness, the
ignominy of wearing cheap coats and
thereby becoming cheap men. They
explained that cheapness was IN
American, and that the American peo-
pie would not stand law that would
permit prices to become any lower
About a month later, when they read
the election news, their views as to
what the American people would stand
were revolutionized very suddenly.
Since then they have been declaring
that their tariff entirely failed to keep
up prices, but has had the effect of
cheapening everything.
The plain fact is, the republicans,
beyond affirming their confidence in pro-
lection, put forward no fixed theory
about the tariff at all. They put up
rates to increase the revenue and also
to decrease it. They demand protec-
ton to keep up prices. and yet affirm
that it puts them down. Their various
assertions are utterly irreconcilable
and absurd. = Until they can offer a
coherent theory of their own, they had
better let democrats interpret the dem
ocratic platform. Courier
Journal.
STEVENSON DURING THE WAR.
Sentiments Which Contradict Republican
ISLANDERS.
The baser portion of the publican
press has sedulously endeavored to
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-09-15


In my last annual message to CONGRESS- said
Il must yet hope that it is possible to secure q
calm, patriotic consideration of such constitu-
tional or statutory changes as may be nee
essary to secure the choice of the officers
OF the government by fair entertainments
and free elections. believe it will be
possible to constitute commission non
partisan in its membership and composed of
patriotic, wise and impartial men to whom a
consdera ton OF the questions of the evils con-
nected with our election systems and methods
might be committed with good prospects of
securing unanimity In some plan for removing
or mitigating those evils
1.-The constitution would permit the selection
OF Inc commission 10 be vested in the supreme
court. If that method would give this guaranty
OF impartiality. This commission should be
charged with the duty o; inQuiring into the
whole subject Of inquiring into the law of cleo
tons as related to the choice of officers OF the
national government with q view to securing to
every elector a free and unmoles ted exercise OF
the suffrage and as near an approach to an
equality OF value in each ballot cast as is at
talnable. The demand for limitation OF suffrage
shall be found in law and only there is a lust de-
mand, and no just man should resent or resist
it,"
| 1t seemed 10 me that an appeal to our people
10 consider the question OF readjusting our legis
latfon upon absolutely non-partisan lines might
md some effective response Many times
have had occasion to say that laws and election
methods designed to give fair advantage to the
PSA ~ noHlu ooHlotlmc DC USED 10 perpetuate a
powerful faction Of party against the viii OF
a majority OF the people OF this we seem to
have an illustration in the recent state election
| In Alabama. There was no republican ticket in
| the field.
The contest was between white democrats.
The kolb party say they were refused the rep
resentation guarantee by law upon the cleo.
ton boards, and that, when the courts by man
damus attempted TO right this wrong, an ap-
peal that could not be he heard until after the
| election made the writs Intellectual Ballo,
boxes were thrown out for alleged irree liar.
/ tiles or destroyed ana it is asserted on behsl,
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-09-15
Homnouafhy.

Gus-What is a fellah to do when he
is awsked to dwink?
Maud-Take some innocent beverage
that agrees with you.
Gus-What would you wecommend
for me?
Maud-Did you ever try clam-juice.-
Truth.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-09-15
a Congenfal rate.

Persevering Widower-lt was sne
VINO drove me to drink.
Miss A. "a little weary}-What could
she have driven you to that you would
have liked better?-Lifa.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-09-15

President Harrison gladly be-
slowed promotion on so politically serv-
iceable a Judge as Woods. but he denied
promotion to so upright a judge as Gresh-
am. The president might retain MI
Depew to explain the matter to the
electors of the republic = Chicago
Times
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-09-15
A Typical American.

If am to name the typical Ameris
can. the man who loves and believes in
his country beyond everything else, the
man who, determining once in what
direction his duty leads, cannot be
swerved from the path-the man who
is doggedly persistent in what ne be-
lieves to be right-the man who thinks
not of self, but of his country and its
needs, I would name Grover Cleveland.
What he has accomplished is the very
highest attribute to the possibilities of
American citizenship. a country law
yer in the city of Buffalo he shed 1us-
ter upon the high pro ression which he
had chosen. AS the mayor OF his native
city he presented as his record a clean
and economical administration Com
ing into the highest position of the land
without previous experience and with
out scarcely precedent to guide him
in the conditions which surrounded
him, he won the affection of his party
and commanded the respect aud admir-
alton of his opponents. 1 find myself
in one of the proudest positions OF my
life in being permitted to present TO you
Grover Cleveland as the typical Aneri-
can.-Chauncey NJ Depew. III 1890
There has never been an admin
istration in this codntry in which there
have been SO many petty con
femptible acts as have characterized
that of BENJAMIN Harrison 1t has
been dishonora BILE In many respects,
undignified, imprudent and unpatriotic-
The less that republican newspapers
have to say about the administration of
President Harrison the better 1t will be
for that gentleman in The coming cam
paign.@Sioux City Tribune
President Harrison has been sub
jected to some criticism because he
made use of the word ''enthuse" in his
speech in response to Gov. Mckinley
when officially informed of his nomina-
ton for president of the republicans
We violate no confidence in saying that
the people did not ''enthuse worth
cent over the Harrison and Reid ticket
Detroit Free Press
President Harrison gladly be-
nv, On T1Ollt1cailV S6Ty-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-04
MOONSHINE WHISKY.

Some Pittsburg Wholesalers Thought to
vestigstins the Rumor-IIIieit Distillers
Held for Court.
Charles Bolesley and Amos Critchfeld,
two of the moonshiners captured last week
in the Fayette county mountains, were yes
terday held in 81, 900 bail for trial at court
They are still in Jail in default. Their COM
panions will have hearing tomorrow.
The Government agents are still at work
in hopes of uncovering and capturing more
of the illicit whisky makers said to infest
the Blue Ridge Mountains. The agents are
also endeavoring to find out what disposition
the moonshiners had been making of their
product. 1t is estimated that The gang re-
Gently arrested were turning out from their
mountain stills about three barrels of whisky
per da,., and the authorities have as yet
been uSable to find out where their product
was sold.
81 understand the agents who came here
from Washington are now at work on
this matter" an authority in the revenue
service said Yesterday. ''The information
they received when they made the arrests
last week led them to believe that the great
bulk of this illicit whisky has been bought
by Pittsburg wholesalers. Mr.. Culbertson
is now working on that information and 1t
is believed he will procure all the facts re-
garding this moonshine whisky before he
returns to Pittsburg The evidence he is
gathering now he will use against the moon
sinners when they are called for trial and if
it turns out as we think it will he may
make some lively business for the Pittsburg
wholesalers who, it is alleged, have been
dealing in the mountain whisky"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-04
DEATH OF JOEL l.. BIGHAM.

He Suddenly Expires ut His New Home in
Winnipeg, Msnitoba-Delay in Receiv-
ing the News-His Brother Goes After
the Body.
Councilman K. @. Bigham yesterday re-
ceived letter from Winnipeg. Man, that
his brother Joel L. Bigham had died there on
the goth of last month. On Thursday and
Friday preceding, Mr. Bigham had ridden
so miles in an open vehicle in a tempera-
ture q dozen degrees or more below zero. He
caught cold ON Saturday which soon de-
veloped into pneumonia. He went to the
hospital on the 10Th ultimo and died the
next day.
The detention in getting the information
by Councilman Bigham was caused by his
brothers reticence and the people ac-
quainted with him in Winnipeg had trouble
to find where his friends lived, finally get
ting it from some papers found among the
dead mans effects. Mr.. Bigham will start
after the body to-day, but it will be week
before he can get back with it, even if there
be no snowdrifts to hinder away up 800
miles north of ST. Paul
The deceased got into financial trouble
years ago here, and while. he then had a
law practice worth $1,000 to sc, 900 year, at
the time of his death he was in the employ
of Egan & Bros, railway contractors, as q
clerk. He was in the prime of life, being
but A years old at the time of his death.
The funeral will be from the family home
in this CITY.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-04
A TAXATION CONFERENCE.

Pfttsburgers Lcavs for the State Capital
to WrestIe With the Problem-A Con-
vention of the People May Be Called
Features Now Demanding Attention.
A convention made up of five representa-
tives from the various industrial interests of
the State and some of the County CommIs-
sioners will meet at Harrisburg to-day to
wrestle with the tax problem. County
Commissioner Mercer and Joseph d. Weeks
left for the capital last evening to be pres
ent. Iron will be represented by B. f.
Jones and Joseph D. Weeks; oil, by
ex-senator j. w. Lee, of Franklin;
labor, by William Weihe and Master
Workman T. V. Powderly; the
farmers, by President Rhone, of the grange,
and A. Taggart of Montgomery county,
mining by Joseph Harris of the Lehigh
Coal and Navigation Company general
trade and commerce, by Colonel II. j.
Price, Scranton, and Joseph D. Potts and
D. Heber Clark, of Philadelphia. Mr..
Clark is secretary of the Manufacturers Club.
The convention was worked up and called
by Colonel Price, who has devoted consid-
cradle time to studying the tax problem.
Mr.. Mercer said the object of the meeting
was to try to arrive at some method OF max
ing an equitable valuation of property for
State and local taxes. A scommsion was
appointed for this purpose several years
ago, and they reported = bill to the Legisla-
ture in 1889. to which the corporations and
the Attorney General objected 1t was not
passed The commission had visited vari-
Gus sections OF the State and
had gathered information at great
expense. Mr.. Mercer saws taxes ought to
be equalized in some way, but marking
fair valuation of property is the difficult
task. People living in small towns and
townships are afraid to have their valua-
tions pushed up lest the councils and Off
cials should take advantage of the oppor-
tunity to use the money for alleged i'm
provements, and and in this way maintain
a high levy. 1t is possible that recon-
mendation will be made to the Legislature
Mr.. Weeks spoke in a similar vein. The
object is not to fix an equitable basis of tax
alton, but to see if something can't be done
to accomplish this desideratum. If they
think necessary, convention of the people
may be called. President Rhone, of the
Grange, has had considerable to do in get
ting up the present meeting. The farmers
have always claimed that they are paying
more than their share of the taxes. The oil
men are sending ex-senator Lee to look
after their interests and make suggestions
for them
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-04
Interfering With an Officer,

Last evening Joseph Shale and Michael
Maloney were arrested in Hatfield by Off
Ger Smith on the suspicion of being the
men who assaulted Officer Hutchinson, at
Forty-eighth and Harrison streets, last
Saturday night. Officer Hutchison was ar
resting a man named Pat Riley on charge
of disorderly conduct. Riley called on his
friends to set hin tree. They began to as
sauh the officer and hurled clubs and other
missiles at him. He held on to his pris-
oner, however, but Vas badly hurt about
the head by being hit with stones. He APP
peared before Alderman Leslie and swore
out q warrant against these two for aggra-
waited assault and battery, and they were
arrested last night.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-04
CHARGED WITH sAFE-BREAKING
Albert Davis Arrested for Robbing Horse
shoeing Shop.

A1Dert Davis Arrested Tor hoDDlng Horse
|, shoeing Shop.
Albert Davis was arrested yesterday
afternoon by Detective Steele, of Allie
gheny, on charge of breaking open safe
in the horseshoeing establishment of Halzer
& Knauer, at No. 90 North avenue. Davis
is watchman at Donaldson's livery stable,
next door to the place. For some time the
proprietors of the place have been in the
habit of leaving the key to the door of their
shop in the Office of the livery stable. Be-
tween 1 and o'clock yesterday morning a
gentleman who was passing along North
avenue heard noise in the horseshoeing
shop. He called out, and received an answer
from Davis, who was then standing in the
front part Of the room. and who said he was
looking for piece of iron. In the morning
Mr.. Halzer found his safe had been broken
up, and two purses containing small sum
of money and some very valuable papers
taken.
Detective Steele, who was sent to investi-
gate the case, talked to Davis, who claimed
that he was not standing near the safe when
he was accosted by the passer-by, and also
asserted that ne had a lantern with him,
which the passer-by denies. He was placed
under arrest, and will be given hearing
this morning.