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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-11-10

WANTED-A situation, by one who
has proven himself failure in every
thing he has undertaken. No ques-
tions asked about the mentality or un-
pleasantness of the. job-am used to
doing such things. Apply. before
March 4, 1898, to
MORGAN CARAWAY.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-11-10

JOHNNY, get your gun, and your
sword and your pistol, Caraway is
"kronk" and must go ri ht. quick.
Johny get your gun we'll loaded with
salt, sir; Morg. must be taught an-
other new trick.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-11-10

The Registers poultry have all got
the cholera--we warned the boys that
those yellow badges were dangerous
things to have around. One Little
rooster got out of the coop and went
on a little toot, election night. Some
of the boys caught him and flung him
into our yard--here be is:
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-11-10

hob BAILEY-"Our Bob''-Yas some
what beat; he can now go back to buy
ing wheat; while John Armstrong
viii sing the song Il got there Iii,
with both feet.r
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-11-10

THIS is the. first election in which
women voted for president. In Wyom-
ing the women voted just the same as
the men,.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-11-10

HENRY STURGIs vas knocked sky
high; bis cake is now dried apple pie;
We told you E. l. was the winner.
and-well, the votes counted out said
"That-s no iie.n
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-11-10

THE republican candidate factory for
Barton county has gone out of business,
now that the Mckinley bill has been
sat down upon by the people.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-11-10

Our in the coyote counties that went
for Long votes were hard to catch.
This cut represents one of the Long
men, cowboy politician going after
frisky voter who came near getting
away.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-11-10

Col. SOwARD's goose was neatly
cooked, the voters were not so easily
hooked; they said ''b'gosh we don't
want Wash, for the legislature he was
not booked -
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-11-10

A MAN who could not carry his OWL
county OUGHT to have been beat sai6
a republican, about A. W. Smith.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-11-10
system.

THIS is ward heeler" who pro-
fesses TO be a democrat, but who put in
the day working for the republican
ticket We had the photograph taken
that We might show Morg. what depths
he will eventually come to if he per-
sists in the downward course he has
pursued during the past month.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-11-10

TAMMANY was out with his big war
club and tomahawk, and the repuDli-
cans went down like the Phllistines be-
fore Samson.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-11-10

You calamity howlers" (?) come in
on Saturday, the 10th, and take the
town-it is yours.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-11-10

The way Brudder More, of the
republican corps of speakers. looked
when the news struck him that the
democrats had elected the president.
Figgeratively speaking, he cuts quite a
fine ''6igger" in his attempts to ''stand
MP for Kansas under difficulties.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-11-10

WONDER if the republicans now
think that David B. Hill is not ga
democratic
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-11-10
1872

A. W. SMITH lost his own county by
so votes. Hurrah for Mcpherson
countyi
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-11-10

GROVER, Grover. four years more
of Grover, will now become a more
popular song than tiara ra boom de
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-11-10
MoLLIE LEASE is Jonah, wherever

she may be. For heavens SAKE let the
republicans have her-if they want
her.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-11-10
fore Samson

YE-HAw. he haw, he hawI I'm the
biggest fool you ever saw! My name
is Morgan. of the g. o. p. "organ," and
1 now live on chaff and straw.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-11-10

Caraway, "come off the perch. "
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-11-10

Why are Caraway's hopes ike the
mercury in a themormeter? Down.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-11-10
a Big One.

Esther Willlns, Sec.
, 1892-03-13

notice in the newspapers the very in
teresting advertisement Of a lady who
''has carefully studied the best existing
authorities" upon the subject of Eng
lish pronunciation, land is able to cor
rect mispronounced words that are fire.
quently heard in pulpit, lecture room,
theater or in daily conversation"
Her terms are 800 a month, which is
not too high if she has mastered the sub
ject. / suppose that an instructress in
pronunciation must get her main client
age from ladies whose vocation at the
wahtubin early life prevented them from
having that command of English or
thoepy which seems desirable to them,
now that their husbands have got rich.
There must be plenty of such pupils to
be had, but the task of instructing them
must be a little difficult. Moreover, the
subject of English pronunciation is so
vast and difficult hat it must be almost
as hard to teach as to learn.-New York
Truth.
, 1892-03-13

As leap year is upon us the moment
Gus question, Shall women propose2 con-
fronts us in various newspaper columns,
with its usual four yearly regularity.
Conservative people will of course
pooh pooh the idea, and the more frivo-
lous laugh at the same. Some of our
radical, would be social innovators will
be advocates, and others will illuminate
their varied denunciations.
Considered in the abstract we do not
see why q woman should not express her
natural preferences. IS freely as a man
in regard to the opposite sex. Indeed,
she seems to be free to do so in every
other respect but that of love and mar
rage. And yet is not this the most i'm
portant of all earthly relations to the
human race as society is at present or
ganizedf
Mere reasoning aside, however, other
considerations enter into our estimates
of propriety. Here we have sentiment,
which 90 largely makes up the sum of
womanly opinions on most subjects out
side of bread and breathing.
AS the majority of people think now,
and as they will probably continue to
think fo- many years to come, there are
certain moral and social questions
wherein old time precedent will doubt
less continue to rulel The realm Of
courtship and marriage still lies fully
within these prescribed limits.
In this affair il has from time immo-
, 1892-03-13


In the United States, where the COM
munal system existed exc t in
some Of Its remote, modified forms. mu-
nicipal suffrage for women has come
slowly. In only two states, Wyoming
and Kansas, are women admitted to the
franchise and made eligible to municipal
offices generally, although in fifteen
states they may vote in the school cleo
tons. Several states have granted TO
ONE simply the right of being elected
to school offices, provided always that
they possess the qualifications prescribed
for men.
The question is thus decided in Cali
fornia. Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana,
Maine, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island.
At the present time the system of grant
ing to ome both rights, eligibility and
suffrage in school matters has been
adopted in the following states besides
Massachusetts: Colorado, North and
South Dakota, Idaho, Michigan, Mime
sofa, Montana, New Hampshire, New
Jersey, New York, Oregon, Vermont,
Washington and Wisconsin. and the ter
ritory of Arizona.
OF course to this list must be added
Wyoming, where women vote AT all
elections, and Kansas, where they possess
complete local suffrage. Finally, Ken,
lucky and Nebraska admit women only
to the school franchise, and hat under
special conditions. Boston Common,
wealth.
, 1892-03-13
Wrenched out OF shape.

Joints enlarged and contorted by rheu-
matism are among tie penalties for
allowing this obstinate malsdy to gain
full Roadway. Always is it dangerous
from its liability to attack the vitals-
invariably it is aRoniziug. Hostettsr's
Stomach Bitters has in nothing more
clearly asserted Its supremacy to the oidi-
nary remedies for this malady than in its
power to expel the rheumatic virus com
pletely from the blood, 1t is safe. too, while
colchicum. veratrum and mineral poisons
prescribed for it are not. The efficacy
of the Bitters as a cleanser of the circu-
lation is also conspicuouslv shown where
the poison of miasma Infects the vital
fluid, or where it is contaminated with
bile. Constipation, dyspepia. ia
grippe" kidney and bladder trouble,
and debility are also removed
by it. The convalescing and the aged and
infrm derive much benefit from its use.
, 1892-03-13
stocks ana uarrIe Market.

NEW YORK. March l2.-In the stock
market suffered from liquidations on ad-
vances of the week aud the list presented
a dull but slowly dropping appearance,
leaving most of the stacks small fractions
lower for the day. Richmond & West
Point, %coalers, industrials and Baltimore
& Ohio were the features of the day.
Favorable rumors. oI!come of the reor-
ganizstion of Richmond & West PoiHt,
made those stocks strong features in the
active list. New rumors OF the control of
the Franklin refinery by the sugar trust
caused a further material improvement in
that stock. The close was active, but
heavy. generally at about the lowest fig
ures. Richmond & West Point preferred
advanced ct, and sugar II, while Lacka
wanna lost 1t, jersey Central "a. Della
ware & Hudson 1t. Reading and Cordage
/ each.
Governments steady.
Petroleum-stagnant. April option.
closed at 594.
Copper-FiIm. Leke $40. rs bid.
Lead-Firm. Domestic, "a. 22!.
Tin-Stroug. Straits. $40. 60(Q19 IS.
Money on call easy; closed offered at 2.
Following are closing prices OF stocks:
u. s. As registered, 1l6. coupon, III;
Is registered, 100 bid; Pacific Is. l09
bid; Atchison, 80; Canada Pacific. $50;
Canada Southern. 6l3: Central Pa
cifc. 800; Burlington, l07. Delaware
Lackawanna Il Western. 1898: Denver Il
Rio Grande. preferred. $50: Erie, 335;
Kansas Il Texas. Ia; Lake Shore. l343.
Louisville X Nashville. 75b. Michigan
Central, 112; Missouri Pacific. 62; Nor
them Pacific. 23s; preferred. 665;
Northwestern, 1901; preferred, l433 bid;
New York Central. ll7f; Oregon
improvement. 253; Oregon Naviga-
ton, 874; Pacific Mail, 36i; Reading.
57i; Rio Grande Western, 383; pre-
ferrej. 10; firsts. Tot; Terminal, ISL:
Rock Island. 800; Milwaukee 4 st.
Paul, 77s: st Paul Il Omaha. 4S3;
Texas Pacific, ia; Union Pacific. All;
Oregon Short Line. 2s4; u. S. Express,
AS; Fargo Express. 43; Western Union,
87s: American cotton oil. 354: Lead
Trust 10.
CHICAGO. March IL. -Cattle-Receipts
700. No business transacted.
Sheep-Receipts. 5000. Market dull.
Ewes, SO. 65(94. 90; mixed. $5.OO(95 so;
wethers IS. 25(d6 90; Westerns, IS. $3.50
65; yearlings, IS 6O(95. 80.
, 1892-03-13
Try Jack Frost" -four.
Bids Tor Building Reservoir.

CHEYENNE Wyo., March 2. 1892
Sealed bids will be received by the city
council until March Is, 1892 at 8 o'clock
D. IN. for the construction of a reservoir,
the work to be completed within sixty
DAYS from the date of signing the contract
for same. Each bid must be accompanied
bv a certified check of 10 per cent of the
bid. as a guarantee that the bidder. if
successful. will within FIVE DAYS alter the
contract is awarded, enter into contract
with good and sufficient bonds for the
faithful performance of the contract.
The plans and specifications for this
work may be seen at the office of the city
engineer.
The engineers estimate of the cost of
the reservoir is IS. 5S5, 900.
The council reserves the right to reject
any or all bids.
All bids should be marked PROPOSALS
for Reservoir" and addressed to Frank
Dana, city clerk. FRANK DANA,
ISeal. City Clerk.
, 1892-03-13
Uncle SANS Sealing Vessels.

WASHINGTON, Marsh ~. United
States Consul Mavers has furnished the
department of state with a list of sealing
vessels which have cleared from Victoria
and says the feet OF s%ealers has been
operating during the past few weeks
along the coast between the mouth of
Columbia river and cape Flattery. All
were very successful. especially the w.
p. Sayward aud the Il. d. Marvin, both
of which are notorious poachers. The
cupsul says the %sealers have gone out
earlier than usual, fearing a renewal of
the modus vivendi and fastening to sea
to avoid the official notice of 1t.
, 1892-03-13
American Heirs to English Estates.

Every tour or five years the police, either
in London or New York, succeed in break
ing up more or less well organized schemes
for swindling by the old device of inducing
people in America to believe that great
fortunes are held for them in the English
court of chancery or the Bank of England.
About five years ago Inspector Byrnes
ound a nest of these swindlers in the
Stewart building on Broadway. They had
handsome offices, with a full corps OF
clerks. The head of the office was a DASH
ing man of imposing appearance, who
looked like a combination of cavalry colonel
and bank president. He was, however, an
ex-convict and confidence man He had
taken in many thousands OF dollars in the
few months his Office had been open.
Now comes from London intelligence of
a similar but ven more comprehensive
scheme. These swindlers had offices in
Sheperd's Bush, London, and in Stone
street, New York The unwary victim
would first be fieeced for twenty-five dol
lars or so by the American Office, and then
for a like amount by the English Office.
The Scotland yard officers in London have
broken up the establishment there. The
swindlers always represented that the for
tune to be gained amounted to a million or
so, and they asked for money for prelimi-
nary expenses and a contingent fee. There
may be a few unclaimed estates in Eng
land, but the total aggregate value of all
of them is not as great as the amount Of
money spent each rear in efforts to obtain
, 1892-03-13
Money That Patti Has Earned.

money That Pattl Has Earned.
That marvellous little diva, Adelina
Patti, is with us again. When | saw
her last time she had charming Titan
hair-hair in which there was a sugges-
ton of autumnal sunset. Now they tell
me her hair is as dark as a ravens wing.
What a pretty and gifted woman Patti
isl And to think of the money which
she has honestly earned with her sweet
voicel Not less than 80, 900 900, / should
say, including douceurs from the Ear Of
Russia and the kings and potentates of
Europe. Her Craig-y-Nos castle is a
royal palace. OF all the women that
have come and gone upon this earth not
one has ever earned so much money as
Adelina Patti, the daughter Of a wan
dering Italian minstrel. Queens and
favorites have been richer than she, but
the wealth was not Of their getting.
When | last saw Patti it was in the
Hoffman House last year. 1 called by
invitation. She had been suffering from
a cold and had not been singing for
nearly a week. She was gracious and
affable and v~ivacious, but in the midst
of the chatter-which had lasted for a
half hour-her devoted husband, Nico-
lini. interposed, and informed her that
under the direction of her physicians
she was to take her evening draft and
retire. She obeyed like a dutiful child.
you see,r she said, 81 am a slave to my
throat and my doctor. New York Cor.
Brooklyn Times.
, 1892-03-13


Some pretty favors that may be made
at home for a dinner, dance or luncheon
have as their foundation the flat circu-
lar boxes used by confectioners. The
boxes should not be more than an inch
or an inch and a half high. Their cir
conference is a matter of taste, though
a box of about twelve inches is perhaps
the best. Make as many bags of surah
or China silk, in bright %colors, as you
have boxes, and leave the bags open
across the bottom. Sew the bottom of
the bag around the box on the outside,
and over the stitches put a band of satin
ribbon the width of the rim of the box.
Turn the top of the bag in a hem suffi-
ciently wide to allow of a shirring string.
Sometimes the band of ribbon around
the box is powdered with tiny painted
flowers. If for a color luncheon, these
bags should be of one color. If for
cotillon favors, rainbow hues have the
best effect. One box can be used for
two bags, as both the bottom and the
cover are of the same size.-New York
Post.
, 1892-03-13

tail and flappers or suckers on the four
feet, and o nav something like it. 1t
can walk on the floor of it's cage, hen
spring up and stick to the ceiling by sue
ton Of the fiat feet which stick upward
from its back. 1t has a poisonous sting in
the tail, drinks through the mouth and
takes nourishment by sucking blood
through the flappers on its eight feet.
Ordinarily it shuffles along on its under
feet, but when haste is required it rolls
over and over, like a boy turning cart
wheels" using all its feet INT making
good speed. 1t is amphibious and lives on
the blood of small creatures, including
''fakirs," which it kills with its tail. 1t is
so ugly looking that the spectator shivers
at first sight of it. All this, according to
The Record, can be seen at the Zoo" and
at one price of admission
, 1892-03-13

1t was Ben Johnson, we be-
lieve, who, when asked NAL
locks question, Is life worth
living replied That de-
ponds on the Aver." And Ben
Johnson doubtless saw the
double point to the pun.
The liver active-quick-
life rosy, everything bright,
mountains of trouble melt like
mountains of snow.
The liver sluggish-life dull,
everything blue, molehills of
worry rise into mountains of
anxiety, and as a result-sick
headache, dizziness, constipa-
ton.
Two ways are open. Cure
permanently, or relieve tenn
porarily. Take a pill and suf-
fer, or take a pill and get well.
Shock the system by an over
dose, or coax it by a mild,
pleasant way.
DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets
are the mild means. They
work effectively, without pain,
and leave the system strong.
One, little, sugar coated pei
let is enough, although a
whole vial costs but IS cents.
, 1892-03-13
POOLING WITH EXPLOSIVES.
The Havoc Created by Boys with n Ca
fridge and Target Rida

The Havoc Created by Boys with a Car
fridge and Target Rifle.
The danger of leaving cartridges, revciv.
ers and rifles within the reach Of young
people cannot be exaggerated Scarcely a
week passes without some serious accident,
brought about by boyish pranks.
From Chicago comes the story of a bright
little fellow who put cartridges on a street
car track for thefun of hearing the explo-
sion A lady sitting in a cable car, how
ever, was struck by one of the bullets, and
the boy was arrested. His name is George
Ely, and he is but nine years old. He is a
wait, to whom Chief of Police McClaughry
took a great fancy and whom he made his
messenger. The child is smart and quick
and soon became a general ~favorite about
the city hall. Chief McClaughry had
bought his protege a full policeman's uni
form, including brass buttons, club and
shield, and when he was stripped Of these
by Secretary Perkins after the accident he
cried as If his heart would break. The car
, 1892-03-13

GEORGE LEY ERNEST COOK.
tridges which George had. put upon the
car track were picked up by him from one
of the officers desks. OF course he will not
be prosecuted, but his experience will teach
him a lesson which he Is not likely ever to
forget.
Another boy who has got himself into
trouble by means of a target rifle and a
spirit Of jocular realism is Joseph Riley, of
San Francisco, who shot and dangerously
wounded thirteen-year-old Ernest Cook,
his best friend. On his last birthday young
Riley got a target rifle, and thereafter for
several weeks the air of the neighborhood
resounded with the sharp crack of the
weapon, with which the boys were almost
in~cessantly practicing on the improvised
range" in the rear of the Riley residence,
But Mrs. Riley soon tired of the noise, and
realizing that there was also a considerable
element of danger connected with the boys
sport she secreted the rifle between the
mattresses of her bed
For a time the marksmen were non
plussed, but finally succeeded in getting
possession of the gun by a plausible tale to
the effect that it required cleaning. Then
a game of Bandits" was proposed by
Ernest Cook, who had, somehow or other,
secured an old pistol. Riley in the mean
time went across the street to examine an
electrical appliance which had just been
put into the house of a n~eighbor. He had
his trusty rifle with him, and when Cook
pushed open the door and presenting his
pistol in the most approved dime novel
style, shouted, Throw up your hands;
you are my prisoner" Riley, in the same
spirit, thoughtlessly pulled the trigger of
his weapon, and the next moment his
friend fell pack with a bullet in his head.
Riley is well nigh inconsolable at the ter
rible outcome of the boyish prank.
, 1892-03-13
La grippe succesg.-Iy treated.

II have just recovered from a second
attack of the grip this year" says Mr..
Jas. o. Jones, publisher Of the Leader,
Mexia, Texas. In the latter case | used
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, and [
think with considerable success, only
being in bed a little over two days
against ten days for the first attack.
The second attack | am satisfied would
have been equally as bad as the first but
for the use Of this remedy, as | had to go
to bed In about six hours after being
struck with it, while in the first case | was
able to attend to business about two DAYS
before getting down" Fifty cent bottles
for sale by druggists.
, 1892-03-13

Choose freshly cured hams. Formerly
the years supply was packed in the win
ter, and after smoking must needs be
canvased to preserve it against the raw
ages of flies, and in this shape carried to
meet the demand through the summer
and fall. This necessarily resulted in a
considerable loss of the juices of the
meat by evaporation, while the surface
of the flesh gradually became densely
covered with mildew, which often gave
a modify flavor to the entire ham. This
has now been entirely obviated by such
improvements in curing by ice that hams
of the very finest quality are prepared
even in the hottest weather.-New York
, 1892-03-13
Highest of all in Leavening Power-Latest U. S. Govt Report
Bsxiss
ABSOLUTELY PURE


American girls 10 not seem to cnre 60
become great singers. They do nnt ike
to study.
"h a girl is blessed by nature with a
voice, she must study hard to cul,iy1so
1t, not study systematically, but go at it
with determination and keep at it. OF
curse she should begin right. There ia
a right way and a wrong way to begin,
and it does seem to me often that some
of our girls have poor advisers and poorer
teachers. A new method? Oh, dear
me, no. There is only one method, and
that is first a voice, and second, proper
cultivation and study. All the great
singers. of the world know this to be
true. 1t is the only way to. succeed
Foster Coates in New York Mail and
Express.
, 1892-03-13
R o AFRICAN WlLDs.

The Remarkable Animal Now Visiting
Philadelphia
When the ornithorynchus was discov-
cred in Australia scientists thought nature
had exhausted her possibilities in paradox.
but according to the Philadelphia Record
that city has secured a specimen that
makes the Australian creature look COM
%monplace. 1t was sent to the Geological
garden by "the Rev. Adam Kidder," as
The Record reporter calls him, a mission
airy at Unzinyati Station, South Africa,
and the natives there call it the Puda-
muck-meaning ''many legs"
A description is impossible. Take a very
large frog and press it back downward on
the body of a Guinea pig, add the nose of a
hog, the mouth of a frog, a short, stubby