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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-11-24
species of red jelly fish tossed up by the

species of red jelly fish tossed up by the
waves.
Filippo' displayed his skill by serving
us up a splendid four course dinner, to
which we did full justice after our
twenty-five miles in the saddle. The
khan where we stopped was nearly an
approach to q hotel, beds being fur
nished but no meals. The building was
arranged about court. Each group of
travellers brought out their provisions
and had their respective tables. The
camels and horses and donkeys were
stabbed in the court below where they
grumbled and brayed all the night long.
We arose the next morning to realize
that we were actually in the ancient
Phoenician city-Sidon, the mother Of
Carthage, the mother of Tyre, the city
whose wickedness is denounced byIsaiah
and Ezekiel; the home of Jezeb bel, who
was a daughter of the king of the lid
onians. We read over the wonderful
chapters in the Old Testament as well
as the New Testament passages con-
corning the visit of Jesus to the coasts
of Tyre and Sidon. The city is built of
stone, with low, narrow arched streets,
about which it is impossible to find ones
way at night without lantern. The
population is intensely moslem, tho ugh
the Christian missionaries have for
years held here a prosperous mission
which we visited.
The old city is we'll worth study. The
Phoenician cemetery, just outside, has
within the past few years given forth
some rare treasures. In Constantinop1e
there are seventeen or eighteen SPLEEN
did sarcophagi taken from these
old tombs. One of these splendid sar-
cophagi was supposed to be the tomb of
Alexander the Great, but while this is
not proven the great coffin itself, which
l saw in the museum at Constantinop1e,
is, in my judgment, one of the finest
pieces of sculpture preserved to us from
that period. More pleasant than crawl
ing on hands and knees among these
old Phoenician tor1bs was it to ride
among the glorious orange groves of
Sidon, to behold the luscious fruits and
to breathe the air fragrant with per-
fume.
For six weeks our sturdy horses bore
us over hill and plain, visiting Syria's
monuments and holy places. But there
was a peculiar beauty and freshness
about this first days ride from Beirut
to Sidon- AMOS w. PATTEN.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-11-24
extra SESSION Talk.
senator Carlisle .aa Representative W

Senator Carlisle aad Representative WI
son Make sageestons-
WASHINGTON, Nov Ex-senator Car
Isle was in Washington yesterday. He
put aside the talk OF his going into the
cabinet as thing not to be discussed
at all Speaking of the prospect of an
extra session he said that it was abso-
luteiy impossible to say whether or not
there would be an extra session It
would all depend upon conditions not
yet developed and which in the ma
ture OF things could not develop IN
til later on He had seen Mr.. Cleve-
land before leaving Ne,y York and was
satisfied that 1t was not possible for him
to tell yet what would be done
If there is an extra session. he
said. lit will probably not meet till
late in the fall 1t depends upon cir
cumstanceS The tariff alone will not
furnish sufficient reason for an extra
session The financial affairs OF the
government may be in such shape as to
make an extra session imperative. It
appears probable that we shall find
that there is not enough mony in the
treasury for the needs of the govern
ment There is situation in the treas
ury which every thoughtful man
who has considered the matter has fore
SEEN There is an accumulation of de-
hciencies and obligations that have
been contracted and will come over to
us 1t may be that this situation will
furnish reason enough why an extra
session should be called We shall have
to see what congress does at this ses-
sion If they do not repeal the Sher-
man law relating to the purchase of
silver and take such other action as the
situation demands, we may be swamped.
Upon these things depend the calling
of an extra session.
81 cannot see the need of an extra
session for any other reason, but of
course have nothing to say about that.
II Mr. Cleveland does not favor il that
settles the question. As to tariff legis-
lation, think the party viii go slowly
and be governed by wise counsels- Mr..
Depew and Mr.. Reid say they are
in favor of giving the democrats a
chance to go ahead at once with
their reform programme, and that
would seem to mean that they
would like to see some tariff legislation
at the coming session of congress.
Nothing would give me greater salts
faction than to see the senate take up
the bills that were passed by the house
last winter and put them through
That would be at least a beginning and
!. the sooner we begin the better"
The other view of the case was taken
by Representative Wilson, of West Vir-
ginia, the chairman of the last national
democratic convention, who before
leaving Washington to-day for New
York said:
''The true worth and value of tart f.
bill cannot be tested in a short time
and the first effects appear sometimes
to be what they really are not think
it would be most impolitic to place a
new tariff bill before the country just
previous to the elections of 1894. There
is reason to favor the extra session idea,
and 1 think the sooner the proposed
tariff changes goiuto effect the better.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-11-24
THE CARNEGIE ISSUE.
The senseIess whimpering Of Republican
Organs.


The Chicago Inter Ocean, under the
head of s'Burchard and Carnegie" en-
beavers to show that Andrew Carnegie
was the Burchard of 1892. Blaine had
his Burchard, Harrison his Carnegie, -
it walls, and goes on to say that as it
is an open question whether Burchard
was a blunder-heels or an assassin so
it may be so whether Carnegie really
wanted protection continued or over
thrown. Carnegie, it says, must have
known when he precipitated the
Homestead difficulty that he was doing
Mr.. Harrison and the republican party
the greatest possible injury; therefore
Mr.. Carnegie desired free iron and free
steel
This is pleading the baby act with a
vengeance. 1t does not require a very
long memory to recall how persistently
the republican organs argued that
there was absolutely no politics in the
Homestead incident. Whatever may
be the truth about the contrib ution of
Carnegie, Frick & Co. to the repub-
ican campaign fund. there is no con-
troversy over the point that toward the
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-11-24
CONTEMPORARY COMMENT.

-DIED-November s, the Grand
Old Party. Burial private. No flowers.
No mourners. No hope of resurrec-
ton. No nothing. Chicago Times.
The election is over and the
necessity of Candidate Reid posing Sas
the friend of the workingman is past
Detroit Free Press.
There is some consolation in the
thought that the protected monopolists
were bled To the last shelkel by Benny's
campaigners, and now they are holding
the bag.-Toledo Bee.
The Australian ballot works
from the standpoint OF
the gentlemen who would fain manipu-
late the gentle voter at the polls
Minneapolis Tribune (rep.).
The proposition that the tariff is
no. a tax, and that the foreigner pays
it, seems to have been little more
than the American stomach could di-
est.-Indianapolis Sentinel.
The puerile and absurd plea that
the election of Cleveland would destroy
elect Mr.. Harrison. You may fool
all of the people part of the time. but
YOU cdii AOOA oil INC PooPiO Gal .iS
time. kansas City Star.
Many OF the leading democratic
and independent newspapers of the
country unite with the Sentinel in
urging that an extra session OF con-
gress be held next spring to repeal the
Mckinley law and the federal election
law, and admit Utah, New Mexico and
Arizona as states Sem
tinel
There is no saying that the vic
tory was an accident The phi
has come from long four years fight
for principle, and we have won on
principle. Democracy knows that it
can win now every time Federalism
has been driven out again and IL cannot
reenter without new disguise OF
speciousness.-k City Times.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-11-24
PERTINENT PERSONALITIES.
Sly Digs Directed at Discounted Repub-
IicanS,

Iicans.
Poor old Carter!
The tariff is tax.
Step aside, Mr.. Hiscock!
Carry the news to Carnegie
A public office is public trust
Who frowed dat brick?-McKinley.
The Illinois Germans fought nob1y.
Your and. Judge Gresham, y'r and.
Who said New York could be bought?
Doodle campaigns haveh had their day.
What do you think OF the ice cart
now?
Matt Quay feels very comfortable,
thank you.
Now let Pat Egan challenge White
law Reid.
The rainbow chasers'' got there in
great shape.
We are glad now that Dave Martin
remained
If it had been rainy day Harrison
would have lost Vermont.
1t was what Mr.. Ham, of Georgia,
would call a ''snollygoster.
Oh, no: the slumps in Maine and Yer
mont didn't mean anything.
Blaine's appeal to the Irish voters to
vote for Harrison was very effective in
piling up votes for Cleveland.
Hon. Benjamin Harrison, Executive
Mansion, Washington: Am sorry to
learn that you fell outside the breast
works.-Warner Miller.-N. Y. World.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-11-24
SEES ULTIMATE SUCCESS.
Gen. j. y. Weaver Sanguine of the Future
OF His Party.

Gen. j. Il. Weaver Sanguine of the Future
OF His Party.
DIES MONIES, Ia, Nov. 1T--Gen- j. B.
Weaver, candidate for president on the
peoples party ticket, has issued a
lengthy address to the voters of that
party declaring that the organization
is but little behind the repu blican party
in the number of states carried and viii
doubtless hold the balance of power in
the senate; has doubled its adherents
in the house of representatives
and secured control of num-
Der of state governments hold
the balance of power in q major
ity of the states, has aroused spirit of
political independence among the peo-
pie of the northwest, gained a large
following in every state in the south
and has in Kansas. a state containing
more union soldiers than any other,
elected a one-armed ex-confederate sol
dier of the peoples party to represent
the state at large in congress. He says
that the humiliation almost OF that
party organization leaves the former
adherents of that party free to ally
themselves with the great anti-monop-
oily and industrial movement
In Gen. Weaver's opinion, the violent
political storms of 1888 and 1892 which
first swept the democratic and then the
republican party from power in spite OF
the weight of patronage which they
carried, signify a turbulent condition
of the political atmosphere which plain
ly foreshadows an approaching crisis
He urges that the work of organ ization
of the peoples party be now pushed
with energy throughout all the states
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-11-24
TRIUMPHANT DEMOCRACY.

The People Have Turned Down the Party
of Monopoly.
The next president will be a democrat.
Grover Cleveland is elected.
The people have triumphed over the
plutocracy. Men are stronger than
money. The hidden and abhorrent
forces" of corruption have not pre-
vailed over the intelligence and virtue
of the voters.
The election has proved to be land
slide, an avalanche, cyclone, a tidal
wave-everything that typifes irresist-
1ble power.
The overtaxed, insulted, defed peo-
pie have risen in their might and over
whelmed the republican party.
The voters have entered final judg-
ment upon the verdict twice rendered
by them in condemnation of the repub-
lican policy and practices. The issues
in a national election have never been
more thoroughly debated or more gen
orally understood. The will of the peo-
pie must now become the law of the
land. To defy them further. as the re-
publican senate and administration
have done for two years past, would be
moral treason.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-11-24

tinuing southwark to the great Philis-
tian cities of the southwestern plain.
Thus our first days journey was from
Beirut to Sidon, a distance of about
twenty-five miles.
The coast journey is one of rare in
terest. Part of the way on this first
day was exceedingly rough, over rocks
where the way had to be carefully
picked, or over large stones on the sea
shore, occasionally varied by stretch
of smooth beach. The latter was great
ly enjoyed and frequently we rode SO
near the sea that the incoming waves
would cover the horses feet. At noon
we reached the village of Muallaka, sit
uated on a decided slope, prosperous
looking place devoted to the culture OF
the mulberry tree and the raising OF
silk worms. About a mile from MuaI-
lalka we found khan where we lunched.
The khan is sort of wayside inn where
travellers find an empty room to sleep
and take their food, no food being OBJ
tainable on the premises. Filippo SOON
produced out of his capacious sacks a
splendid lunch consisting of roast NUT
ton, chickens, marmalade, bread and
butter, sardines, oranges, dates, eggs,
pickles and tea. Our lunches on the
entire trip were usually at some such
place or beneath some old fig or syca-
more tree, near water. Usually the
villagers gathered near and squatted at
a distance surveying the procedure with
hungry looks. Beyond them was often
line of village dogs and then a group
of chickens-all anxious to pick up the
scraps which Filippo generously be-
slowed.
We forded two rivers in the afternoon,
which were up to the horses bellies.
At place where there was a beautiful
beach we stripped and had a glorious
plunge into the salt waves. At six
o'clock we reached Sidon standing out
prominently into the sea with huge
lodges of rocks jutting out here and
there. just before Sidon is an island
connected with the main land by a
bridge. We passed fishermen casting
nets from the rocks. l could look down
into the clear blue water and see q
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-11-24
STORMING THE BUILDING.

SaIvationists il Switzerland Not the Meek
and Lowiy Soldiers of Elsewhere
BERNE, Nov. 17.-Ever since the ap-
pearance of the Salvation Army in
Switzerland there has been trouble be-
tween it and the government At Basic
the authorities notified the army that
they must hold their meetings in one
hall, but they tried to hold a meeting
in another hall and when the police
attempted to dispense them they
chung to benches and tables and
resisted. The police were compelled
to use considerable force. After
they had all been put out they gath
cred outside the building, formed
in ranks. advanced at the double quick
and tried to retake the hall bX storm
The police met them at the doors, and
a hand-to-hand fight followed a num-
Der of the combatants on both sides
were injured Quite number of the
salvationists were arrested
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-11-24
FARMERS ALLIANCE.
Difficulty of Preventing Politics shapfn
Its Ends.

Its Ends.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, Nov. 16-The Ma
tional Farmers alliance and Industrial
union met in convention in this city
yesterday. In the absence of Gov. Bu-
chanan, who was sick, Col Robert
Gales, superintendent of the CONNER
cial association, delivered the welcom-
ing address, which was supplemented
by an address by Hon A. l. Min, state
president of the alliance in Tennessee.
Delegate Dean, OF New York, respond
ed and then began to appear the first
symptoms of partisan division which is
conceded to exist in the ranks.
Mr.. Dean said among other things:
1.-THE alliance is non-partisan in char
acter but as full of politics as an egg is
of meat"
Delegate Marion Butler, president of
the North Carolina alliance. in the
course of his remarks, said: What
ever may be said of the politics of some
of its mem bers, the alliance has other
objects rather than politics.
The lex non scripta OF, the alliance
prohibits members seeking official pref
errnent, but it is claimed that this law
is being violated and that a lively con-
test is in progress between the friends
of the present incumbent, Mr.. Louclzs,
of North Dakota, aud those of Mr.. CIV.
of Washington, d. c., editor
of the Economist The former is being
pushed forward by the third party ele-
ment, the latter by the democrats
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-11-24
THE PARTY.

for nothing SO tests the quality of q
man as trip of this character. Moth
ing SO tends to take the sweetness out
of ones disposition and to develop the
sour qualities as a journey where one is
obliged to rough it most of the time and
to run the gauntlet of fleas and bed
bugs.
Six of us came together last winter in
Berlin, representing Princeton, Yale,
Boston and Northwestern universities.
We were united in desire to visit Pal
estine. We had ample time to study up
the entire trip and make our plans.
March II found us rendezvouSed at Cairo,
Egypt, some having come down through
Greece, others through Italy. Passing
over to Ismailye we went up the Suez
canal to Port Said and there took the
steamer Austria, of the Austrian Lloyd
line, for Beirut.
The next morning Sunday, March
2O) found us rolling in the sea off the
coast of Palestine, at Jaffa. We sighted
land at six o'clock-a low coast line
with the mountains of Judea in the dis
tance. At eight o'clock Jaffa was but
four miles away and we could see the
surf breaking on the rocks. Here it is
that most tourists begin the Palestine
trip. Boats soon put off from the shore
freight boats and boats representing
the various tourist agencies. / counted
thirty-six boats, pulled by stalwart
Arab sailors dressed in their variegated
costumes. 1t was a picturesque sight to
see these boats racing. for the ship,
rising and falling on the waves, the
oarsmen pulling until the perspiration
rolled and timing the strokes to some
Arab chant-like music. Reaching the
ship they poured over the sides with a
shout, and soon the tourists were seen
descending into the boats, each held
firmly in the grasp of two brawny boat
men to prevent him dropping into the
sea- Gradually each boat secured its
passengers and pulled away for the
shore. Jaffa rises from the shore alb
ruptly, savage reef of black rocks
standing out at some distance, making
"A very dangerous landing. No wonder
old Saewulf saw his comrades perish
before his eyes as they were dashed on
these rocks.
The next morning at six o'clock we
were at Beirut. the largest and finest
city in Syria. Here we arranged for
our Palestine outfit. We succeeded in
= ullics d 4hdlCCoSs II 1liPDO oC
Bono, who contracted to furnish us
with horses. saddles, etc; to provide
provisions, sleeping accommodations;
to go where we wished him, and to do
all this for the sum of two dollars and
twenty cents a day for each person.
Eilippo was not u regular dragoman.
He could speak Greek, Arabic, Italian
and English; had worked for British
officers in the Soudan, and was alto
gether an obliging and geutlemanly
fellow. We were obliged to test our
horses, examining their feet, their
backs, putting them through their
PAGES, discarding the uncertain ones.
We finally had q good set of tough
little Syrian horses. With the horses
went ''Abdur,' a cross-grained, hash
eesh-eating old Arab, to take care Of
the animals. Abdur had his own
horse, on which he carried our pots,
kettles, etc. We had also Soudanese
negro, 'Farras," whose skin was black
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-11-24
DEPEW AND PLATT,
A Post-Election War Between Repub-
Ican Eigureheads.

"A fOSC-E1ectIOn war between hRpuD-
hcan FiSureheads.
Platt lays it on Depew. Depew laws
it on Platt. Neither seems to realize
that the other had practically nothing
to do with an election where the peo-
pie were bent, no matter what Platt
or Depew said. on electing Grover
Cleveland
1t is clear that the truce patched up
between the so-called big four of
New York and paraded with theatre
cal effect at Minneapolis was hollow.
Not as cats and dogs. but none the less
with asperity Platt is charging defeat
upon Depew and Depew is charging
defeat upon Platt. The glibber tallxer,
Depew, has the later and more plausi-
BILE word. He declares that Plat, in
sisting that Depew was an orator and,
therefore, good enough to make
speeches (modesty is one of Depew's
strong points,, was of no earthly serv-
ice as manager, and that
Platt on the contrary was expert
and experienced as politician. De-
pew thinks he did his speeches in great
shape. and we may recall that he
talked wildcat. withdrew his eulogy of
Cleveland, pictured anarchy and con-
fusion in the event of Harrison's over
throw. praised that political accidency.
Whitelaw Reid, and emitted no end of
rhetorical rubbish. While he was on
the stump Brother Platt, as he calls
him, was running the machine. His
hand was on the lever and lie ran right
into a landslide. 1.-The engine simply
plunged into the Instructions, and we
all know the result"
We all do know the result. and it is
none the less acceptable in that it will
make a permanent retirement from
political activities of the so-called big
four of New York. Warner Miller
may return to the building of his Mic
aragua canal, HiscoclS will be dropped
from the senate and Platt and Depew
may go on to their hearts content in
mutual chickering's as to which of them
is most to blame for a result upon
which neither had the slightest infiu-
ence.-Chicago Times.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-11-24
Pensions and the Deficiency.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 1G.-CommisSioner
Raum, of the pension bureau. in an in
terview, in statement made in regard
to the heavy pension roll and the large
deficiency that would have to be met,
said that the assertion that deficiency
of $50. DOC, 600 would have to be met was
preposterous. as the workings of the
office could not elevate it to that figure.
While the pension roll is on the increase
now, owing 70 the new laws, it would,
he tn ought, reach a maximum figure in
two or three years, and then a decrease
would take place Gen Raum said he
could not perceive that he was in any
to blame for the pension legislation.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-11-24
Post ofHce thieves Captured.

TOPEKA, Kan, Nov. III. W. and
Birch Handy. of Phillipsburg, Kan,
were brought here for arraignment be
fore the United States commissioner
on the charge OF robbing the Phil
lpsburg post Office. On the night
of September IA they entered the
post Office and compelled the assistant
postmaster to open the safe They
were concealed behind masks and used
pistols rs arguments They got s416 IN
cash The assistant postmaster thinks
he recognized their voices and their
walk. They have long been residents
of Phillipsburg.