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Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1892-01-15

We are glad to learn Mrs W.
H. Dustin il improving,
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1892-01-15

.Ino. Schade, Jr. left for
ashington D 9, last Tuesday.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1892-01-15

We call attention to the new
carl of DR., J. W. Harmon.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1892-01-15

The health of the community IS
YER, bad. La grippe has made
lis way into almost every family
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1892-01-15

Miss Matte Neeley, who has
been the guest of Mrs. W. NJ.
Cason of Columbia is hrme
again,
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1892-01-15

Robin Harvey has been quite
ill fer the past few days.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1892-01-15

Will Finn y, spent last S1n-
day at LONE.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1892-01-15

s. T. Cannon is collecting the
old accounts of the DEMOCRAT
ShiIo m ans business; letter pay
him.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1892-01-15

Who is going to give the
f s cap Yer party.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1892-01-15

Mrs. Kelen who has been
visiting her daughter MIS-. f. l..
olmms, returned to her home
IN Rus5ellvjlle Ala. last week,
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1892-01-15

Will Lumpklns, was i'll the city
Monday.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1892-01-15

Mrs. W, C. Parkes, is III
Louisville on a visit.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1892-01-15

Rev. Father Griessmyer is on
the sick list.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1892-01-15

Crank Cannon, was in Iron
CIT; last week OH busiuss.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1892-01-15

We are glad to see Mr. Jno'
X 'nedy out again.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1892-01-15

Chas Norman, is now in
Waynesboro.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1892-01-15

Jno. Schaie, Jr' has moved
his dry goods store back to hi
old quaters opposite Nee!ey
Hottl,
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1892-01-15

Citizens! Fix that monument
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1892-01-15
LOCALS

Lay those pavements.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1892-01-15

Our Wool Cards in First Class order .ll IN IT, Same
condition, with Bolt, etc, Bring in your Wheat and
Corn will make you good turn out and good
Meal and Flou st the time sell YOU goods
as cheap as you buy hem at any
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-04-28
TARIFF THE QUESTION.
1t Now Remains for Democracy to Settle
This.

1t Now Remains for Democracy to Settle
With the disappearance of the silver
issue from the canvass OF this year tariff
reform will resume the Importance that
it had in the elections of 1890, and that
really belongs to it. 1t is true that the
silver issue has not been completely or
permanently banished 1t cannot be
that until the law of 1890. with it's great
hazards and its conflicting provisions,
shall have been repealed. 1t is also
barely possible that the desperate fac
ton that has failed to fasten free coin
age upon the party by the action of the
majority in the house may show sufi-
Gent strength or sufficient ugliness at
Chicago to force into the platform some
equivocal expression that may cause
embarrassment and confusion. But the
chances all are now that the interest in
the silver question will steadily wane,
and that when the two parties shall
have spoken in their respective conven-
tions neither of them will be SO wholly
right or SO wholly wrong in regard to
this question as to give it much influ-
ence in the canvassl Some it will have,
and there will be certain number Oh
voters who will feel, and not unjustly,
that on the whole the republican party
is likely to be safer than the democratic
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-04-28

Il AM INDEED DELIGHTED TO SEE You'll"
one of his body servants, Aaron Gore, a
man born on his estate, who knew him
from childhood, and was his valet for
the last seven years"
sit is very remarkable, Mr.. Colburn.' -
Not bit of it-a mere slip of the
pen; why, have been guilty of the
same error a hundred times. You see
he was up in the hills, sick"
"He does not say So"
''Ah, my dear lady, you never knew
Harry Grahame. He was the last man
in the world to worry others with his
aftliction, especially one to whom he
was so much attached as he was to this
young lady"
There may be something in that, -
Miss Balderstone confessed
''And now that we are upon this sub
ject," Mr.. Colburn continued, in suaye
yet determined tone, may put you
right on one other matter. You spoke
just now Of this young person as Sir
Harry Grahame's ADOPTED daughter.
What do you mean by that: The legal
definition of the phrase would mean
that he had by proper process of law
acquired parental rights ever her. Nc
such ceremony ever occurred, therefore
In the eyes of the law your friend is nc
more to him than the veriest stranger. y
THAT may be so, but for nearly
eighteen years he treated her as his
daughter
''And if for eighteen years he had
treated her as his wife, would that
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-04-28
THE PRESIDENTS PLAN.

Appointing Foreigners to Represent the
United States Abroad.
President Harrison has appointed
Nicholas WertheiIn, a German subject,
consul of the United States to Moscow.
The president seems to be heartily in
favor of the practice of appointing citi-
zens of other countries to represent this
government at diplomatic posts. Should
he be reelected he may adopt it as a
regular custom during his second term.
He commenced his present administra-
ton by appointing Patrick Egan, fu-
gitive subject of Queen Victoria. to the
important position of minister plenipo-
Tertiary of the United States to Chilli.
There is something to be said, from a
political point of view, in favor Of the
plan of selecting foreigners to repre-
sent the United States as ministers and
consuls abroad. 1t would never do, of
course, to give these places to demo
Gratis, and by bestowing them upon re-
publicans a good many votes which may
be badly needed at the next election
will be lost. The president might save
state otherwise doubtful by recalling
all of its citizens who are on duty in
foreign countries and naming as their
successors subjects of other govern
ments or unnaturalized residents of the
United StateS.-Chicago Herald.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-04-28

He bounded round her and barkcd,
but made no effort to recover her lost
headgear; but in his gambols he APP
preached the verge of the high bank.
and Kate, vexed at his stupidity, gave
him a push which sent him with great
splash into the stream. Caesar was
strong and a superb swimmer. but, like
his Saxon ancestors, was nightly
afraid of a cold bath, and instead of
striking boldly out into the river, made
Intellectual attempts to scale the preci-
pice. only succeeding, however, in pull
ing down the red clay into the water
and exhausting himself in his frantic
efforts. In vain Kate ran to shall
lower spot and called him; her cries
only urged him to wilder struggles.
Then she got frightened, and tears of
distress began to roll down her cheeks,
while the dog gave a piteous howl and
sank back into the river with hardly
strength enough left to make way
against the stream.
It was just at this critical moment
that young man leaped lightly ever a
stile and ran swiftly up to her. Her
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-04-28

south, rejoiced that the bloody conhict
which had cost tens Of thousands OF
precious lives and untold wealth had
come TO an end President Lincoln,
whose heart throbbed in sympathy with
the impoverished south, had already
given serious consideration to recon-
struction measures, and everything
promised to be settled to the satisfac-
ton of both sides when band Of ire
sponsible conspirators, headed by J..
Wilkes Booth, almost caused renewal
Of hostilities and the Inauguration of
system OF reprisals entirely foreign to
the views of Mr.. Lincoln and his most
trusted advisers
On the evening Of April IA 1865,
President Lincoln, Mrs Lincoln,
Mai. Rathbone and Miss harris oc-
cupied box at Ford's theater,
on Tenth street. Washington, to wit
ness q performance of sour American
Cousin" At about half-past nine J.
Wilkes Booth crept steslthily into the
box occupied by the presidential party,
shot the president, brandished large
knife, with which he stabbed Mai.
Henry r. Rathbone. and shouted Sic
semper tyrannisi The south Is avengedI"
Leaping on the stage, the spurs of the
assassin became entangled in an Amer
lean flag and, according to some author
tiles, injured his leg. He did not lose
his se1f-possession, however, but rushed
to the rear of the building, leaped upon
horse which was held there in readi-
ness for him, and made his escape.
After ten days wandering and misery,
the criminal was tracked to a barn near
Bowling Green, Va, and refusing to
surrender was shot by Boston Corbett,
sergeant in the United States army,
on April %.
The wounded president was conveyed
to a house opposite the theater as
soon as those surrounding him realized
his condition The physicians ascer-
tanned that the murderer's aim had been
accomplished, the ball having entered
Just behind the left ear and lodging in
the brain At twenty-five minutes past
seven o'clock on the morning of April
Is, 1865, Mfr. Lincoln expired. and in the
afternoon Andrew johnson took the
oath of Office as president
The CONSERVATION caused by the pres
ident's assassination was augmented
when it became generally known that
at about the same hour an attempt was
made TO kill Secretary Seward and his
son, both of whom were slightly
wounded
Proceedings were at once instituted
to bring the conspirators to justice
Three men, named Payne, Atzerott and
Harold, and one woman, Mrs SurTatt,
were tried, found guilty on June "a, and
executed July z, 1865, a day which viii
forever live in the memory of those
| who have personal knowledge Of the
excitement following the great crime
The body Of President Lincoln lay In
state at the capitol in Washington on
April 20 and was viewed by a great con-
course of people. The next day the
funeral cortege set out for Springfield.
| Ill It halted at all the principal cities
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-04-28

controlled and enjoyed about sixty
three per cent of the national wealth.
The non-producing classes-that is,
those not engaged in active industry,
but living upon speculative invest
ments-comprised the remaining thirty
seven per cent.
Now, after some twenty-eight years
of republican legislation, the statistics
show that the producing classes own
but about twenty per. cent Of the ma
tiona1 wealth. The rest has been
mortgaged, assigned, sold or trans
ferred in one way or another to the
non-producing class, who control at
present nearly eighty per cent of the
national wealth It is now nowhere
disputed that thirty thousand men own
more than one-hah the national wealth,
while the rest OF the people, over sixty
four million, own the other half.
It is facts like these which form the
basis of the protests which we hear
coming from Christian pulpits constant
~. To such facts the vast organization
of labor is chiefly due
How far legislation is responsible for
this unfortunate drift the mass of the
people mean to know between now and
next November. That a system OF
sweeping taxation, which has thrived
for nearly thirty years, is largely re-
sponsible, great majority OF the peo-
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-04-28
HER PET.

party in its action on the currency. But
the issue will not be very definite and
will not be at all dominant.
It is well for the country that the
tariff will be again brought forward
and that it will be the controlling issue.
It is now nearly half century since,
with the exception of the elections OF
1883 and 1890, the commercial policy of
the nation can be said to have been
passed upon fairly by a popular vote.
McKinleyism is but the ripened product
of the protective system growing out of
the war. But that system as protec-
tive one dates from the repeal of the in
ternal revenue taxes between 1866 and
1872. 1t was not originally protective
in any extreme sense, and the excess Of
duties on imports over the compensat-
ing internal revenue taxes would now
be regarded as free trade, and pretty
rank free trade at that. The Mills bill
was very far from a return to the
Morrill, bill less internal taxation.
Shortly after the war, as soon as the
real effect of the repeal of the internal
taxes began to be obvious, the move
ment for tariff reform began, and it has
been advancing steadily ever since.
But until 1888 the people never had an
opportunity to vote directly on it. It
was always presented to them compi-
Gated with and obscured by some other
question of great popular interest. At
most the vote for tariff reform was ten
| tative and but partially efectuaL
Sometimes the interference was from
the southern question, sometimes it was
the currency question, and on one occa-
sion at 1east-1S76-it was both. Mr..
! Tilden was the first democratic candi-
| date who succeeded in largely reducing
the Importance and influence of the
| southern question. No one really
doubted his loyalty or feared that any
| of the ''fruits of the war; would be
| lost under him, or that the national dig
| nifty or stability would be compromised
| by him or with his assent. But there
was deep-seated suspicion as to the
| financial soundness of the party and his
| capacity to control his party on ques-
tons involving the currency. He stood
on platform that demanded the repeal
| of the resumption act of 1875. 1t is, per-
| haps, not too much to say that without
this source of weakness Mr.. Tilden
might have been indisputably elected.
| However that may be. it is clear that
in 1876 the tariff was not controlling
1
| but even then it was the southern ques-
ton, artfully revived, that decided the
vote of the northwest and kept that sec
ton from the path it would otherwise
have taken. In 1884 the tariff was OBJ
scured by the personal element brought
into the canvass by the nomination of
Mr.. Blaine. In 1855 the issue was more
| plain, and the popular vote was in favor
| of reform, but its fruit was lost through
the treachery of Hill. In 1890 there
was no doubt as to the issue or the re-
| suit. The harvest was at last ripe, and
| it was gathered so far as it could be. 1t
| only remains to complete the task this
year and to start the country fairly on
a career of steadily-growing prosperity,
in comparison with which even the Won
derful past will seem tame.-N. Y.
| Times.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-04-28
PARAGRAPHIC POINTERS.

Mr. HarriSon'S republican league
OF Office holders is steadily saving wood
for the denomination pile.-St. Louis
Republic.
President Harrison is not likely
to. say anything against the Rhode
Island gerrymander. How would Mr..
Harrison's party get senator without
it?-Louisville Courier-Journal.
If the democratic cheap clothing
bill becomes law it will save the peo-
pie at least four hundred million dollars
a year and give them much better cloth
ing for their money than the Mckinley
article.-St. Louis Republic.
The cut in the wages of workers
in the highly protected iron mills con-
tinues, both east and west. The wage
earners are finding out why republic
an congress rejected the proposition to
condition the increase in duty upon an
equivalent increase in wages That
wasn't their game.-N. Y. World.
The republicans are growing
weary as it becomes more and more ap-
parent that tariff reform will be the
leading issue of the presidential cam
paign. They have created war clouds
and turned on their jingo thunder to di-
vert the attention of the masses. but
they must face the music = Detroit
Free Press
The free wool bill has passed the
house by an emphatic vote of 1ss to 60.
This is the first gun in campaign
planned to attack the Mckinley tariff
law in detail. The result warrants
faith in the success of other raids upon
fully as Ubiquitous measures, such as
the binding Irvine, tin plate and lumber
taxes.-St. Paul Globe
The Oregon republicans have met
In convention, applauded the Mckinley
law, denounced the free wool bill and
instructed their delegates to vote fo1
Harrison first, with Mckinley for sec
ond choice. The day of the convention
word was received in Chicago from thu
worlds fair commissioners for thai
state that Oregon is too poor to be rep
resented officially at the worlds fair
In indorsing MeKinleyism the Oregon
republicans lick the hand that robbst
| them.-Chicago. Times
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-04-28

and eloquent speeches ever delivered
Its tenor is lofty, aud even the mild
sectional illusions are softened by the
magnificent perorat1On. Each looked
for an easier triumph and a result less
fundamental and astonishing" he said,
when speaking of the magnitude and
duration of the civil war. But" he
continued. 'read the same Bible and
pray to the same God, and each invokes
His aid against the other. It may seem
strange that any man should dare to
ask just Gods assistance in wringing
their bread from the sweat of
other mems faces. But let US
judge not, that we be not
judged. The prayer Of both could not
be answered; that of neither has been
answered fully. The Almighty has His
own purposes. Woe unto the world
because of offensesI for it must needs
be that offenses come; but woe to that
man by whom the ofenSe cometh-' If
we shall suppose that American slavery
Is one of those ofenses, which, in the
providence of God, must needs come,
but which, having continued through
His appointed time, He now wills to re-
move, and that He gives to both north
and south this terrible war, as the woe
due to those by whom the offense came,
shall we discern herein any departure
from those Divine attributes which the
believers in living God always ascribe
to Him? Fondly do we hope, fervent1y
do we pray, that this mighty scourge of
war may speedily pass away. Yet, If
God wills that it continue until all the
wealth piled by the bondsman's two
hundred and fifty wears of unre0uited
toll shall be sunk, and until every drop
OF blood drawn with the lash shall be
paid by another drawn with the sword,
as was said three thousand years ago,
so still it must be said: The judgments
of the Lord are true and righteous alto
gether.' With malice toward none,
with charity for all, with firmness in
the right, as God gives us to see the
right, let us strive on to finish the work
we are in, to bind up the nations
wounds, to care for him who shall have
borne the battle, and for his widow and
his orphan-to do all which may achieve
and cherish Just and lasting peace
among ourselves and with ell nations"
Never was speech uttered farther
reaching in its effect. It encouraged
the people of the north and softened
the. wrath and eamity of the soldiers of
the south. It Is believed by thousands
that the speech put in Marc Anthony's
mouth by Shakespeare is the most
eloquent Grafton ever reduced to writ
ing. Such may be the case when the
immediate effects of speech are to be
considered only. But as regards last
ing and universal results no Grafton of
which we have knowledge, and no
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-04-28
CHAPTER ".
KATE HAS AN ADVENTURE.

So Miss Balderstone's romance was
crushed in the bud ere it had attained
maturity, and she set out for Brighton
to enjoy her well-earned holiday, but
not before she had seen to the departure
of mademoiselle and her young charge
for the farmhouse near Chertsey on the
Thames.
England boasts no fairer scene than
the banks of this beautiful river, wind
ing among grassy meadows and verdant
woodlands, and Willoughby farmhouse
was just the large, rambling, old-fash-
toned, picturesque building in which to
get the most enjoyment out of the love
ly landscape. Moreover, John Barlow,
it's yeoman owner, and Dame Deborah,
his wife, seemed to have been especially
fitted by Providence to dispense it's hos
pitalities-to say nothing of their brown
armed, blue-eyed daughter Nellie,
whose rustic beauty might have made
her the heroine of pastoral poem.
To Kate Grahame the quiet retire
ment of this lovely spot was as heal
ing balm, bringing color to her cheeks
and peace to her mind, though must
confess that Mile. Campignon, who re-
garded a cow as aswild animal with
chronic designs on her personal safety,
and dreaded even covering the tips
of her toes with the morning dew,
pinned for the gay streets and brilliant
boulevards of her adored Paris.
The days flew by with winged speed.
Old Cesar, the house-dog, a 1ineal de-
scendant of the famous mastiffs of the
Belvoir valley, had taken the young
girl under his especial patronage, and
woe-betide the tramp who should dare
to modest her in their daily scampers
down grassy lanes or lonely country
roads
It was Cesar, however, who brought
her into the vortex of her first adven-
ture in this scene of Arcadian SIMPLE
ity, where one would think that
a young lady would be as free from
startling incidents as though she Were
immured in the walls of a well-regula-
ted schoolroom, and it happened in this
way.
Mademoiselle had a headache =
which meant that she was anxious to
retire to hammock under the apple
trees in the orchard and feast her soul
on the thrilling incidents of French
novel, of which she always pictured
herself as the heroine - and Kate and
her four-footed friend started on ram.
BILE down the river bank. 1t was q
lovely morning for walk, for, though
| the July sun shone with unwonted ra
| dance, fresh western breeze famed
| the air and made tiny white-caps on the
ruff1ed stream.
Kate stood on little knoll enjoying
the pretty landscape, her hand resting
on the great dogs head. when-whif
a gust of wind swept the dainty straw
hat from her head, whirled it like {
kite in the air, and dropped it ignomin
| iously into the middle of the current
where the small eddies played around
it and bore it triumphantly to the weir,
a hundred yards below, lodging it a
last in a little island of willows JUS
above the miniature Niagara.
The girl, with little moue of comica
distress, appealed to the mastiM fol-
assistance, but the honest fellow re
sponded with a mute reproach In hi:
brown eyes, as much as to say that he
was not that kind of dog at all.
Fetch it. Cesar! Fetch it, sir!' SHIT
! cried, impatiently stamping her foot.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-04-28
Especial letter.

tSpec1ai LeTter-t
No year IN the history of the United
States was more pregnant of far-reach-
ing events than 1865. Every reader Is
familiar with the events preceding the
close OF the civil war; but it Is eminent
~ proper that every year we should
contemplate-thou and without
malice-the close of career which has
left indehble imprints upon the sscial
and political institutions of our country.
The anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's
death, which occurs April Is, and the
words of wisdom uttered by the great
war president on the 4th of March, 1865,
are so intimately connected in the public
mind Of to-day that they may well be
considered in one article.
It has been stated by foreign writers,
whose opinions are known to be abso-
lutely unbiased, that President Lin
coins second inaugural address might
Justly be called one of the most finished