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Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-12-10

BAXTER SPRINGS, G.
The Baxter Springs creamery is for
sale.
The ground is now wet enough for
wheat.
Very pleasant since the blizzard,
thank you.
L. Murray Perkius is slowly i'm
proving in health.
A. Willard's new barn is one Of the
largest In the city.
Yes, Baxter Springs will boom next
spring, thank you.
Quite q blizzard struck this section
Wednesday morning.
Whist has taken the place Of high
five in Baxter Springs.
The small streams around Baxter
were pretty full Tuesday.
Apron and necktie socials are all the
60 in Chetopa these days.
Galena now has an electric light
plant running in full blast.
The recent could snap ought to have
brought in lots of ducks, but did It?
On tubs and barrels outside yester.
day morning there was half inch ice.
Col. r. H. Talbot has purchased the
old Hibarger residence on River street.
This Is the season Of the year when
the small boy attends Sunday school
regularly.
Joplin's magnificent new hotel, the
"Keystone," will be opened to the pub
lie today.
Wedding cards of all styles, grades
and shapes printed on short notice at
this Office.
The blizzard Wednesday was only
another gentle reminder that Christ
mas is cOming.
Please remember that Christmas
comes OH the 25ih OF December this
year-salne as usual.
Don: fail to attend the Quapaw In.
dian school entertainment at the city
hall this Saturday evening.
Bring your fat COWS and hogs to
Baxter IL you want the highest prices.
Our buyers pay the top notch.
The windows OF s0lne of our stores
present a very attractive appearance
with their fine displays Of holiday
goods.
The small boy as well az the big one
is beginning to~'dig up" his skates in
anticipation of the annual skating
season.
Last Sunday morning the dead
body Of a man was found IN an old
field near Pittsburg. There is no clue
to his identity.
If this weather continues Santa
Claus will have to come in IN boat or
wagon this year instead Of sleigh as
he should come.
Col. Warner has been mark citing
some very fine celery produced OH bis
farm recently, sample Of which is
hereby acknowledged. =
Now that the election is over the
girls should be happy. Cupid can now
resume his work of protection, reci-
prOciiy and Osculation.
II will hardly 6e necessary for the
mayor 10 ask the merchants to close
their places of business on Christmas
this year. 1t comes on Sunday.
Let's pray that peaches will not be
killed this winter. This thing OF pay
ing five cents apiece for peaches raised
in California is not what it is cracked
up to be.
II is said that the much talked of
comet struck a Columbus editors
check and rebOunded, aud il Is not ex-
pecIed 10 return where it can be seen
for several years.
The Indian school entertainment
ADVERTISED for last Tuesday NIGHT WAS
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-12-10

Blankets-good onrs-at Osborn's.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-12-10

DIR. G. Z. WELLS. RESIDENT
DENTIST, GALENA, KAN.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-12-10

YOUNG AMERICA ATTUCKER'S.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-12-10

BALDW%S
Low Price Cash House.
Bargains in wooden dress goods and
trimmings at j. NJ. CooPER's.
For cheap Body Brussels and Tap,
estry Rugs see Harvey's new stock.
Heavy Beaver Shawls, best quality,
lowest prices, at J. M. CooPER's.
A nice line of Hanging Lamps, Fan
cy Lamps, Common Lamps, Bracket
Lamps, Porcelain Shades, Fancy
Shades, all kinds of Lamp goods at
J.J. FRIBLEY's.
Underwear, Hosiery, Sbawls, Blan-
kets and Yarns at rock bottom prices
at ]. NJ. CoopER's.
l will sell you u suit of clothes at
cost. j. r. TUCKER.
Toys for Girls, Toys for Boys,
Toys for Young, Toys for Old,
Toys cheaper never were sold,
AT j. G. POLSTER'S.
Overcoats and clothing to be sold at
cost. j. r. TUCKER.
Watch Pols,er's Corner Drug Store
for prices.
j. r. Tucker will sell YOU a suit Of
clothes aud an overcoat 1t cost. Go
and see him.
Largest stock of white and colored
Wool BLANKETS in the city at
j. M. CooPER's.
Turkeys were slaughtered Thamks-
giving; but j. G. Polsier slaughiers
prices OH Holiday Goods.
l want to close out my stock Of
clothing and will sell il at just what it
cost. Come aud get suit.
!. r Tucker.
The free press., 1892-10-27
What Shall the Answers BE /!

Here are some questions that Demo-
Gratis can ask their pro.ectionists irlends
when discussing the tariff question
during this campaign
Are not the wages II free trade
England higher than iu any oil the pro"
tected countries of Europel
Have not wages in this country always
been higher than in England since the
Meyaower landed.
Were not American wages in 1850,
when we had Il revenue tariff, higher III
proportion to those OF England than
they are now.
Are not wages as a rule lowest IN the
countries with the highest tariff, like
Russia, Mexico and China. where foreign
trade is restricted as far as possible.
Did not the farmers own a good deal
o1oper share of the wealth of the coun-
try in 1860 than they do now?
WHY have wheat and wool been
dropping in price since the adoption OF
his bill2
What good do the duties on wheat
and wool do the farmerf
Why has the price of cotton declined
one-haIf IN the last year or two!
WHY were our exports OF tInware TO
Canada reduced from, SIS, ,119 in 1880
to $40, ,671 in 1912
If there are 285, 900 men in New
York State who have had their wages
raised by the Mckinley bill, why IS IL
that none of them can be found to
acknowledge 1t?
Just notice how your protectionls'
friend will wlggle to evade 1.-The ques-
tion.-Utica Observer.
The free press., 1892-10-27

can secure the necessary votes in Con-
gress, so tho Democratic Party is now
as definitely committed to the policy Of
restricting taxation to the needs Of the
Government for public purposes alone.
The gulf fixed between these two poll
cies of taxation is as wide and deep as
can well exist between political parties,
and am also convinced that the old
causes in which | am interested cannot
hope for success until the avowed policy
of the Republican Party on this subject
is overthrown.
Until then the right of each State to
control elections within its borders will
not be secure. Until then there is no
prospect of our enjoying the single and
stable standard of value which other civ
ilized and commercial Nations possess.
Until then there is no hope of placing
either our pension system or the regula-
ton of immigration upon just and
proper basis. Until then the purifca-
ton of our politics will continue "the
iridescent dream" which high Republi-
can authority has declared it must al
ways remain. Until then any pretended
reform of the civil service must prove,
as it has proved this last four years, a
delusion and snare.
And until then even ballot reform, the
best help yet discovered to honest cleo
tions, and already threatened with over
throw by the Republican managers in
Maine, Vermont, and Indiana, must
share the same fate of betrayal in the
house of its pretended friends. All these
causes are, in the very nature of things,
the relentless foes of system OF govern
ment by bounties to favored interests,
and such system is their relentless foe.
AS | believe, for the reasons have
given, that the true welfare of the conn
try would be promoted by Mr.. Cleve-
lands election, it is my duty to vote for
him, and as l recall the capacity, the
fidelity, and the courage with which he
has heretofore discharged every public
trust committed to him, the duty be.
comes pleasure. Sincerely yours,
WAYNE MAcVEAGH.
The free press., 1892-10-27
Pure Nickel Currency.

It is probable that the Austro- Hun
garian Government will adopt pure
nickel for its currency. The alloyed
coin generally used, containing only
twenty five per cent. of nickel, combined
with seventy-fve per cent. of copper,
possesses, it is considered, numerous dis
advantages, while the favorable points
of the pure nickel piece are that, not
withstanding its hardness, it can easily
be coined, that it has the quality of ex-
traordinary durability, loss by wear and
tear being reduced to a minimum; that
it is preserved clean in circulation and
that no oxidization worth mentioning
sets in.-lron Age.
The free press., 1892-10-27
Few ROund-top Trunks, Now.

There are comparatively few round
top trunks made now. The idea was
that greater resisting power could be
obtained with least weight, but, unfor-
tunately, there was no guarantee that
the baggage. smasher would always
stand the trunk the right way up. His
failure to do this gave numberless re-
minders of the fact that no box is
stronger than at its weakest point, and
the damaged sides became very common.
Now most trunks are made with flat
tops, and are so strong all over that it
is very difficult, even for an expert
trunk -smasher, to break one.-St. Louis
Globe Democrat.
The free press., 1892-10-27
Which HOrng

Every protection paradox presents
sharp horned dilemma.
If the tariff is not tax how can 1T
produce revenue!
IF taxing an article tends to make 1t
cheaoer how does it enable the manutac-
turer to pay higher wagess
If the tariff has raised wages, thus
adding to the cost of production, now
can prices be lower2
When the price of farm produce went
up under McKinleyism, how could the
cost of living 20 downa Now that the
price of foodstulfs is going down is the
cost of living rising againY
If our imports have increased, as the
protectionists now boast, how has the
tariff secured the home market TO our
manufacturers or protected wage earners
against the competition of pauper labor
abroad?
If our manufactures can, as the sta
tistics show, produce many staple ar
ticles more cheap!y than they can be
made abroad why do they need high
tariff?
II high tariffs make high wages why
are wages in Germany and in France SO
much lower than in Englanda
Finally, as we have often asked with
out an answer, if the foreigner pays the
duty why did Mckinley leave the Treas
ury so short of money!
These questions present several inter-
cstiug dllemmas. Which horn of them
will the protectionists choose?-New
York World.
The free press., 1892-10-27
It's the estate Of Maine.

Why do the people of our most North
western States always talk OF the State
of Maine instead of simply using the one
word "Maine9" The explanation is as
follows: Up to the year 1920 this por-
ton of the country was politically at
tached to the State of Massachusetts, and
was known as the "District of Maine. ="
After it was incorporated into State
and admitted into the Union the Ieople
from long habit continued to place the
rreposition sof" before the word
,.Maine," and the custom has been con-
tinued to the present time. boston
Globe.
The free press., 1892-10-27
TIE MODEL HUS BAND,

,,o,t wives will end their story with:
.Ab well. men are but human.'
JIonc TO tell the secret Oh
A truly happy woman.
Through all the sunshine-llghted years,
Lived new in retrospection,
Nv husbands word brought never tears,
Nor caused sad reflection.
Vhateer the burdens Of the day,
Unainching, calm AMI steady,
70 bear his part-the larger half
Ialways find him ready.
House cleaning season brings no frown,
No sarcasm, pointed keenly;
Through carpets up, and tacks head down
He makes his way serenely.
Our evenings pass in converse sweet.
Or quiet contemplation,
We never disagree except
To keep up conversation
And dewy morn of radiant June,
Fair moonlight OF September.
Anril with bird and brook atuae,
Stern, pitiless December
Each seems to my adoring eyes
Some new grace to discover,
For he unchangng through the years,
Is still my tender lover.
So life no shadows hold, though we
Have reached the side that's shady;
Nv husband? Oh! dream is he,
And Pm maiden lady.
Ladies' Home journal.
The free press., 1892-10-27
"AmenF' And al the congregation

"AmenT And al the congregation
answered together, "Amenw
Up sprang the hitherto motionless
listeners-women to the rear, men to
the front-and from the pulpit the old
minister, with sword and gun, led the
way to the aid of the others, who were
beginning to give ground before the of
hideously. painted figures who were fore
| ing their way through the entrance.
Then came out another side of the
Puritan character. The fierce energy
almost joy-with which the colonists
fought was as susprising as the stony self
control they had shown but a moment
before. Ahead of them all, Parson
Pladley swung his mighty sword with
cries which betrayed the old horse
soldier of Cromwell and Harrison, for
such he had been and of those who fol-
lowed him, more than one had stood in
the ranks of the pikemen who met the
charges of Prince Ruperts Cavaliers,
and repelled them, too.
As ii he remembered this, the minis
ter lifted up his strong voice in stern
Psalm which had thundered over the bat
tledelds of Naseby and Marston Moor
the war song of David the King, re.
| joicing over his victory;
II have pursued mine enemies and
overtaken them; neither did I turn
again till they were consumed.
"I have wounded them that were
not able to rise; they are fallen un.
der my feet.
"For Thou hast girded me with
strength unto the battle; Thou has sub.
dyed under me those that rose up
against me-"
The Indians were like wolves combat
ing lions. They shrank, wavered and
we're pressed back to the door, through
it, and outside of it. Then, by one last
rush, they were broken, scattered and
dispersed. They ran in every direction
for the shelter of the woods; many of
them fell by the way under the pixies
and swords of their pursuers. Hudders-
field was saved.
Within the meeting house, now half
ruined, dim with powder smoke and
heaped with broken benches, arrows and
dead bodies, the congregation gathered
around its minister, who, blackened and
bloody, with gown torn to shreds and a
great slash across his forehead, once
more raised up his voice-this time in
the glorious strain of one of their tri-
umphant hymns.
All joined IN it-even the wounded,
who could scarcely lift their heads from
the ground, and the dying, who sang
their own breaths away in the grateful
chorus.
When the injured had been cared for,
and there was once more time for Or
dinary matters, Parson Pladley called
Abner True to him.
"Son Abner, thou didst well so cum
ningly to avoid those ruthless savages,
and privily warn US betimcs. For this
thou meritest reward"
Abner looked up, astonished.
"And this shall be thy reward-that
for thy wilful tarrylng away from the
sanctuary thou shalt receive no discipline
from the church"
"But my father will" stammered
the boy.
"Of surety he will, placldly replied
the minister, "and / trust it may do
thee good"
'Come with me, Abner," said Deacon
Amos. Youths Companion.
The free press., 1892-10-27

cleared fields, !or every soul in the place
from the old man of ninety to the young.
est child, was in the meeting house on
the hill-every soul, that is, except
Abner True.
Abner True, whose father was a
deacon and tithing- man, and counted
second only to the minister himself in
rigid piety, was actually playing truant
from meeting; and this in a village
which looked upon Plymouth and Wey.
mouth as dangerously worldly towns,
relaxed in morals and manners By over
much prosperity.
But Abner had worked from sun to
sun every day of the last week, and
Knew he must do the same every day of
The next week and the week after that;
Tor the corn was to be hoed, the grass
crops got in, and a score of other tasks
to be done.
it seemed to him too hard that, on
tnls one day rest, he should be obliged
to sit upon backless plank bench all
,le forenoon, if, indeed, he did not find
himself forced to sit there longer; since
rdEson Pladley, who rarely preached less
.nan three hours, sometimes preached
iour' and once or twice had been known
to exceed five hours.
Aoner felt sure that the sermon would
ao' be short one this day, even accord
'ng 10 the preachers ideas of brevity;
anu the more he thought of it the more
ne dreaded it, until he became willing
=" incur any punishment for the sake of
escaping that discourse.
90 when Deacon Amos, with his wife
auu younger children, were ready
w ,J' meeting, no Abner could be found.
.iluuen In the little hay-mow of the
,Susa IL. Darn, he saw the family depart
%, MO, ia'her marching ahead, equipped
%a %.A nusket, bandoleer and powder
~u'n' ior King Philip and his Indians
m.' m"' a d. war against the whites, and no
aiau throughout the colony went to field
" caurch without his arms.
oI'1ilar groups, similarly accoutred,
i"". ra'su soiemnly along toward the rude
e'uary upon the hill, until Abner,
~. .ss .nat all Huddersfeld had passed,
and taa' ,a ne was sa(e-for the present
raa naa ay down upon the soft hay to pre-
io' tr'' '0f The sound nap he had so longed
and I''o" w old Fly, the farm horse, stamped
in q. t"uuched; without, the hens crowed
shoa,, ' sunshine, with drowsy note that
snm% a nave been favorable enough for
sc,onss i But between his guilty con-
dTsaa d,ues' OF what he had done and his
cnId VI Deacon Amos would do, Abner
ua uo' manage to go to sleep.
lactos oegan to wish himself upon that
wsra .Ss plank bench, even if the sermon
woO,s % - last all day; yet tardy arrival
cOma a - oe nearly as great offence as not to
to ma. .. an and he had not the courage
plsdl"" tue public reproof which Parson
tbs 'y ~; might administer, or to hasten
AMI M'vate chastisement that Deacon
III, would surely infict.
s,s e .';n une went on. The old house
occas;on.i now' the hens uttered only an
lie praaa. o.'a. croak. From the far distance
ssm r'aoners voice came down on the
lb,er ma' eeAe IN a softened murmur.
'1Tsr w, was doing.
mat was that2 He heard so,na
o. to "snened 1;s.' him quite, and he sprang
htae tall ~ uut slight swishing SCUM 1
Ing but ~ s'ass behind the barn-noth-
CT polees, cav. It was probably some fox
CHICKEN "a the watch to sn atch q
ADner peered out through a
The free press., 1892-10-27
Horse Thieves Lynched.

A special of Monday from Cheyenne,
Wyo, states that ]. S. Bedford and Dob
Burch, acquitted of horse stealing but
held in the charge OF contempt OF court,
while on the way to Jail handcutfsd, were
taken from the deputy sheriff aud killed
by masked men thirty miles from Bo-
nanza
The free press., 1892-10-27

l was 'nneeClnS =
time" in Hudder.
field, Massachusetts,
Bay Colony, on a
Sunday morning in
June, 1876. The
fifty or sixty log
buildings W h C b
made up the settle
ment stood silent
as so many tomb;
among the black
stumps of the half.
The free press., 1892-10-27

crack to see if he could discover the
animal, for the swishing sound seemed
drawing near.
The free press., 1892-10-27

The street surface roads of New York
CITY carried 226, 6,650,613 passengers
during the year 1891, a daily average
of 629,15
The free press., 1892-10-27
PARS0N PLADLEY.

BY MANLEY II. PIKE.
The Irish standard., 1892-01-16
THE RAINBOW TROUT.

Growth In Popularity and Numbers OF a
Carney, Handsome Fish.
Favorable reports continue to reach
the United States fish commission as to
the result of planting yearling rainbow
trout in streams of Missouri and Arlxan-
sas. In a letter recently received by
the commissioner of fisheries, Mr.. G. S.
Dickinson, secretary of the Rogers
Electric Springs Fish Farm Company,
Rogers, Ark, states that in February
last five hundred rainbow trout were
received at Rogers by Prof. Scoggs, OF
the Silver Springs Milling Company,
from the commission, and were depos-
tied in the spring stream. They now
average fourteen inches in length.
This species of trout is indigenous to
the Pacific slope, but several years ago
it was transplanted in the waters of the
central and eastern states, in many Of
which it has found consenial environ
ment and bids fair to become the most
desirable variety of the salmonide for
pond and stream culture. 1t is hardy,
gamey and handsome, while it possesses
all the qualities of an excellent food
fish. At the trout breeding stations of
the fish commission at Wytheville, Pa,
and Neosho, Mo-, the propagation of
the rainbow trout receives considerable
attention, and it's popularity is strik-
ingly demonstrated by the increasing
and urgent requests for this species
that are constantly being received at
the Office of the commission.
The Irish standard., 1892-01-16
GOT THE PASS.
His Road Was Not so Long, But 1t Was
just as Wide.

His Road Was Not SO Long, But 1t Was
just as Wide.
A good story is told of the PRESIDENT
of a certain railroad in Illinois and how
he obtained pass over the Great
Northern railway from President Hill,
says the St. Paul Globe. The gentleman
in question walked brusquely into Mr..
Hills private office not long since and
said he would like to see President Hill.
Mr.. Hill informed the caller that he
was talking with the parsonage he was
seeking, whereupon the stranger asked
in blunt tones for an annual pass. II
have sent you pass, and think l
ought to have one," he said. Mr.. Hill
questioned the fellow railroad presi-
dent about his road and found that it
was only thirteen mileslong. The man
who controls one of the largest railroad
systems in the country harA y thought
that a pass was due to the president of
q thirteen-mile road Your road" he
replied, seems to be rather short, and
we have so many calls for passes from
officials Of small roads that don't see
etpw we can grant them" ''Wel, = ex-
ellaa4.4.l the visitor, ''my road may not
oe quite y long as; yours, Mr.. Hill, but,
Sby gosh, it is jhst as wide. :" The argu-
g mEent was unanswerable, and the man
who IS president Of aroad as wide as
The Great Northern got, the pass he
wanted. & .s8 Il.
The Irish standard., 1892-01-16
NOT RELIABLE.
A Historical Picture That IL Not Entirely
Correct,

A Historical Picture That II Not Entirely
Correct.
The writer went into Wabash ave-
nue. house, says the Chicago Tribune,
where pictures are made a speciality
and asked for Carpenters picture OF the
death bed scene of Abraham Lincoln.
It was shown, and then followed the
conversation below.
This does not contain the figure of
Andrew Johnson"
mo; that was left out"
"Was johnson not present at the
time of the death of Lincoln?"
YES" .u
1.-THE figure of Colfax appears in the
group; is it not a fact that Colfax was
not present on that occasion?''
II understand it So"
''Then why is it that johnson is
left out, when it is certain that he was
there, and Colfax is put in, when it is
certain that he was not PRESENT."
I'm told that when Carpenter was
pa .1ting the picture he put in Johnson.
As the picture neared it's finishing
touches the feeling against johnson in
creased, and the enemies of the old
man, as he was called, made a demand
on the artist to have Andy left off the
canvas So the figure was painted out
and that of Colfax substituted. Il have
been told that the artist simply painted
out the head Of johnson and pus on
Johnson's body the head Of Colfax.
do not vouch for that part Of the story"
The Irish standard., 1892-01-16
Complexions of Long Ago.

Our grandmothers, according to the
traditions, took the same morbid inter-
est in their compilations that is mani
tested at the present day. Everyone
has heard of the famous Ninon d'En-
close and her bath of distilled dew.
And there was famous baroness in
the time of Louis Philippe who lived
entirely on oranges. Twelve oranges
for breakfast, twelve at luncheon and
twelve again at dinner, with one glass
Of Burgundy, and a little crust of
bread. There was also the marquis de
Cregny, who hourished in the last CEN
fury and died far on in the nineties, and
lived for the last twenty years Of her
earthly pilgrimage on vegetables
cooked in chicken broth. Wine she re-
nounced for hot water, sweetened,
which tastes the most like nothing of
anything yet concocted.