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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-03-16
NEIGHBORHOOD HAPPENINGS.
CLAFLIN

CLAFLIN
From the Banner
W. A. Strader left yesterday for his
home in Oklahoma
John Weltmer has purchased the old
Klein barn and has moved it on his
residence property.
If you want people to have faith in
your town, set them an example by
showing them that you are not afraid
to invest dollar yourself.
Before the snow flies next winter,
Claflin will have tWo-story stone ho-
tel. Then we'll need a big Touring
mill, to be strictly lin it.''
Editor Wilkinson can see the post
Office appointment in the distance.
Dunn will make good p. NJ. and we
wish to congratulate him in advance.
Wm. Slower is nursing broken rib,
the result of scuff1e with Billy Schroe-
der. 1t was all done in fun, which
makes it more pleasant to bear.
The prosperous farmer will soon be-
gin to plant bis spring crop, and the
prosperous merchant will plant his
spring adv's. You can always buy best
of those who solicit your patronage.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-03-16

WHAT doth it profit political party
if it gain the whole state, and then
make Il fool of itself?
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-03-16

KANSAS pOpuiists and Kansas repub-
licans have written their records at the
state capital, and if we mistake not,
each party has written some things it
would like to blot out before the next
state election. In the meantime, Kan
sas democrats, secure in the right, and
determined to continue the good work
of educating the people to needed re-
forms, will go on growing in the good
graces of all sensible men, until the
time shall come when reward for con-
servatism and business will place
democracy of Kansas in complete con-
troll of legislative affairs. Kansas
democrats who used Judgment instead
of prejudice, honesty instead of trick
cry; who displayed POLITICS instead of
partizanism, probably bui!ded better
than they knew.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-03-16

Kansas is bleeding again. because
the republicans don't know when
they are licked.-Utica. n. Y. Observer.
-
Think of the militia hurrying to put
down contingent of republican legis-
lators in the state that gave Harrison
SO, 900 plurality a little over four years
-Rochecter, n. Y. Herald.
-
Kansas is the only state in the Union =
where the sheriff is a bigger" man
than governor. 1t is a great piece of
folly in Kansas TO go to the expense Of
electing a governor and sheriff, too.
st. Louis Post-Dispatch.
-
Old Subsidy Pomeroy, the canting
hypocrite and all-around boodler;
Ingalls,, the cynic, and now anarchy.
These are the suggestive stages III the
downward and back ward development
of bloody Kansas.-Terre Haute Ga
zette.
Some good may come o: the tTesihie
in Kansas. The issue of the struggle
may be such reorganization of the
militia as Will disarm the Santa Fe
railway and deprive corporations of
their military power.-St. Louis Poet
Dispatch.
We want no Central American rev
olutions in this country. We want no
political lynch laws. 1t is not the way
in these United States. 1t cannot oe
justified on any grounds. The party
which attempts it will be wrecked
whether it wins or looses.-New York
World.
If those Kansas politicians could but
be made to realize how ridiculous they
appear 1t would be just possible they
would strive TO improve their manners.
But it is not certain that they would,
for ridicule is apparently what a Ka.n-
sas politician converts most easily into
bread and butter.-Pittsburg, Pa,
Dispatch
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-03-16

KANSAS viii vote FIRST under the
gin to educate yourself TO its intricacies.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-03-16

WANT to see, before die, this old
world decked in green; 1 want to see
the grasses wave where snow drifts
now are seen; want to hear the mead
ow lark, at early peep of day and listen
to the yellow headed black birds Orches-
ira; I'm tired of contributing my salary
for heat and using borrowed vaseline
for my frost bitten feet; want to feel
the breath of spring upon my marble
brow, and drive TO pastures fair and
green the new milch brindle cow. Pm
sick of eating one part pork to ninety
nine of beans, and want to be uphOl-
stored once with slugs of pigwe ed
greens. Aud 80 it goes-I always long
for something far away, and in my
grave I'll beef about the resurrection
day.-Walt Mason.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-03-16

From the Dispatch.
A great deal Of wheat ground will be
planted to oats and corn.
The Catholics will erect a large new
church at Odin this summer.
Marbles and tops occupy the time of
the small boys of the town at the pres
ent writing.
Some farmers are plowing for corn
While Others are busily engaged in put
ting in oats.
Fruit trees are all right so far and
we may reasonably expect plenty of
fruit the coming summer.
The postoffice contest has attained to
that point in this city when bets are
being made on the chances of the re-
spective candidates.
j. S. Ewalt is happy. His family
moved over this week and are now oc-
cupying the pleasant and commodious
Bannister property on West Third
street.
Little Gustin, infant son of A. S.
Scott and wife, died Tuesday evening
after a lingering illness of several
weeks. The funeral was held at the
residence on Wednesday afternoon at
O'Clock.
Active work will commence in few
! days on tine new Catholic church build
| inc Tho buiIdipu will bo opo of +ho
largest church edifices in the city, the
plan being for a 50x70 foot building
There are a large number of members
OF this church in and about Hoislngton
and they will no doubt have a strong
organization.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-03-16

THE joint resolution passed by the
Legislature last week submitting the
question of woman s suffrage to a vote
of the people in 1894 was signed by
Governor Lewelling Monday. We have
no disposition to be discourteOus to the
ladies. but is is just as we'll for us to
say now as later that we are cOnstltu
tiondlly, democratically, diametrically,
and irrevOcably opposed to this latest
fad of Kansas crankism. 1t is high
time for the politicians of this state to
acquire little common horse sense.
-Larned Eagle Optic.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-03-16

ONE Of the new papers offered to
the public last week contained the fol-
lowing salutatory: Our aim-Tell the
truth though the heavens take a tum-
ble. Our Paper-Of the people, for
the people, to be paid for by the people.
Our Religion-Orthodox with firm
belief in hi for delinquent subscrib
ers. Our MOtto-Take all in sight and
rustic for more. Our Policy-To love
our friends and birthstone our enemies.
If thine enemy smlte thee On one cheek
swipe him with haste and deXterity at
the but of his most CONVENIENT ear.
What we advocate-One country, one
dag and one wife-at time. Our o.
ject-To live i'll pomp and oriental
splendOr. " Burlington Iudepenent.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-03-16
Outside Opinions OF It.

State papers please copy.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-03-16

Kansas is bleeding again. because
the republicans don't know when
they are licked.-Utica. \. Y. Observer.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-03-16

q Smltn s store DullQlnS. Bruce Jones,
OF Great Bend. has the contract.
The city marshal says all persons
having dogs will be called on for the
tax next month, and all dogs on which
the tax is not paid will be shot.
\ crazs editor was arrested in the
south. western part of the state. He
imagined that all of his subscribers
had paid up and that he had six dollars.
Learned men tell US that in Latin
the word editor means Ito eat" In the
United States it means to scratch
aroud like blaZes to get something to
eat.
The stock holders of the Pawnee
Rock State Bank met Monday after
noon and elected the following direc-
tors: A. G. Moffit, John Lindas, w. G.
Phillips, NJ. Sweeney, j. r. Baker. d.
r. Logan, A. II. Moffit, Chas. Gano and
E. Bowman. The directors then met
and elected the following officers:
President, M. Sweeney; Vice Presi-
dent, j. r. Baker; Cashier, A. G. Mof-
fit; Secretary, E. Bowman. A commit.
tee was appointed on building and one
Oh furniture and fixtures. The direc.
tors hold meeting Friday March IL
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-02-14
The Spectral Black Head.

Sir Richard Owen had two remarka-
BILE ghost stories, which it was a high
privilege to hear him relate. The one
about to be recorded here was perhaps
the better of the two. In his early days,
when Owen held the post of n surgeon
of the prison at Lancaster, negro died
in the Jail, and post-mortem as well
rs an inquest was necessary. After the
inquest the young surgeon saw the
body put in the coffin and the lid
screwed down, to be ready for the
funeral next day. Owen had at the
time been already attracted to the
study of comparative anatomy, and ne
groes' heads were not plentiful; so he
made up his mind that this one should
not be lost to the cause of science. In
the evening he returned to the prison
with bag containing brick. From
his official position he had no difficulty
in getting admission to the mortuary,
where the coffin lid was unscrewed, and
screwed down again. During this pro-
cess the brick and the negro's head
changed places. The ground outside
the principal entrance to the Jail had a
considerable descent; and the time be-
inc winter, with snow and frost, Owen
had scarcely passed out when he slip
ped and fell all his length-the bag
went from his hand and the head tum-
bled out, and rolled down the paved
way. He jumped up, caught the bag,
and, following the head, clutched it
Just as it finished it career in q small
Shop where tobacco was sold. Pushing
it into the bag again, he vanished out OF
the shop with all the speed he was Ca
pable of.
Next morning, when Owen was go
ing to his usual duties at the prison, he
was called in by the woman at the shop
where the accident had occurred on the
previous evening. She wished him to
see her husband, who was very i'll. He
had had, she said, a fright the night be-
fore that caused him to look wild and
dazed-like. The man, it turned out,
was retired sea captain, who had been
in many adventures among the West
India Islands, when many deeds were
done that did not at that time require
to be accounted for.
Among these had been the killing of
a negro in which he had hand, and
the transaction had left touch OF
trouble on his conscience. After Civ
ing these details the old captain told of
the horrible event that took place the
night before. He was sitting in his
shop, all was quiet, and it so CHANGED
that he had been thinking of the negro,
when suddenly he saw his very head
roll into the shop in front of the coun-
ter, and it was followed by the devil,
all in black, with black bag in his
hand. The devil snatched up the
head, and both disappeared through
the earth like flash oflightning. The
description was perhaps not quite com
plimentary to the young anatomist,
but it was satisfactory so far that it
showed that his identity had not been
recognized.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-02-14
ned a petition of General Ruggles OF

sen:cd petition of General Ruggles OF
Fredericksburg, Virginia, for the pay
ment of 81, 293.45 due him for commu-
tation of rations.
The House judiciary committee to-
day reported favorably bill making
railroad corporations organized or in
corporated under L. 5. laws, for pur-
poses Of court jurisdiction, citizens and
corporations Of the States into which
their lines extend.
Mr.. Moon, virginia's agent in the dir, ct
land tax matters, was at the Capitol today
tying to get III; Virginia Congress TO nave
small sum added to one of The appropriation
b lis for the payment of the penalties that
were collected when the tax was. he amount
would not exceed six thousand dollars.
According to to days Capitol cabinet slate,
III. names of Representative Culbcrson OF
Texas and Mr. Benedict, a capitalist man OF
a lars of Connecticut, have been substituted
f Two of those that were on the same slate
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-02-14

Edward Hazen, 81 years old, of Jer-
sey City, started out Sunday after din
ner to take walk. His brother James
is quarryman and was getting out
rock near the blufl'at Palisade avenue
and Franklin street. The distance
from the top of the bluff ut that point
down to the Junction railroad track,
which runs along the foot of the hill on
the intersecting line between Jersey
CITY and Hoboken, is about sixty feet.
The quarry is just at the brow OF the
cliff, short distance from the long
flight of steps leading from the foot of
the hill to the top and opening out on
Franklin street. There are about 120
steps in all, and it is considered quite
an athletic feat to climb them all with
out stopping to take breath.
On the way over from Newark ave-
nue. Edward stopped at several resorts,
and when he reached the quarry he
was drunk. He staggered across the
short space between the street and the
top of the bluff, and, looking over,
shouted
"Hello, Jim, I'm coming down to see
yerw
At the same instant he lost his bal
ance, and fell over the cliff His broth
err and the other workmen with him
fully expected to see him dashed to
pieces on the rocks sixty feet below.
To their surprise he struck on Il pro-
iecting ledge of rock about thirty feet
down and remained there The fall
sobered him up considerably, and he
grasped the stumps of some shrubs and
chung on. He shouted for help. His
brother called to hold on and not to
move. Then lie sent one of the work
men for a rope. He assembled to the
top of the clill, and, with the rope fas-
tened under his arms, the quarrymen
lowered him carefully, but the rope
proved to be about ten feet too short
and he was pulled up again.
Finally Truck Company ofHoboken
and Truck Company 3 of Jersey City
were summoned by Policeman Walsh,
and they came with their apparatus.
There were by that time 1000 people
looking on.
The Hoboken iremcn began to raise
ladders The Jersey City liremen low
cred ropes. The crowd shouted to Ha-
zen to hold on and he would be all
right. The ropes lowered by the Jer-
sey City lircmen over the precipice dan
gled within Hazen's reach, but he was
afraid to let go of the shrubs. At the
end of about two hours the Hobokcn
fremen, under the direction Of Capt,
Stanton, reached him with ladders and
got him down safe.
After being rescued he was forced to
climb up the 120-odd steps by police
man and was locked up in the Sixth
precinct police station in Jersey City on
charge of being disorderly person.
When he was released on bail in the
evening he declared, with an emphasis
which carried cony lotion. that he would
never drink another drop as long rs he
lived.-N. y. Sun.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-02-14
BY TELEGRAPH


LONDON, Feb. 1.-THE FOLLOWING
statement of the contents Of
the home rule bill have been
officially published. The bill Of.
fers Ireland a Legislature, free deal
in all Irish affairs, and an executive
government responsible to that Legisl,.
ture. In all the main principles. and
in the political machinery it is provided
much better than the bill of 1856. The
Irish parliamentary party, at y meeting
specially summoned after the delivery
ofMr. Gladstone's great speech. cordial.
ly accepted the new home rule constj.
tuition as satisfactory scheme of Irish
national self-government, subject to en-.
deavors in committee to improve the
proposed financial arrangements, and
to have the time shortened wherein
the land question is to be Withheld
from the purview of the Irish national
Legislature. They are authorized by
the party to transmit this resolution to
the friends and supporters of Irish
liberty in the United States and
Canada.
The Prince of Wales was the first to
congratulate Mr.. Gladstone yesterday
in a private room at the House Of Com.
mons, after his address introducing the
home rule bill. Then the Duchess OF
Teck, and the Princesses Louise and
May of Teck, congratulated the pre-.
mier
Mr.. Labouchere declares that he in.
tends to move as an amendment to the
home rule bill the exclusion of Irish
members from the imperial parliament
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-02-14
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Tie statement is now made officially
that the Secretary OF the Treasury will
not issue bonds.
Members of Congress say that the
rlsh for Office under the new admins
lration is becoming absolutely terrific.
The inaugural procession, in Wash
ington on the fourth of March, will be
from the Capitol to Washington Circle.
Carlyle w. Harris says he has six
new witnesses who know of Helen
Potts use of morphine and her threats
to kill herself.
The men sent by the health authori-
ties to fumigate the White House car
ried off some personal effects belonging
to Mrs. Harrison.
Judge Hagner, in Washington, has de-
cided that a husband has the right to
his wife's letters, though they may not
be living together.
The United States delegates to the
International Monetary Conference
met in Washington yesterday and
agreed upon Il report to be submitted.
A constable's posse summoned to ar
rest Thomas Johnston and his wife,
near Asheville, S. C.,yesterday, fired on
the house and killed Johnston and his
wife.
Charles de Lesseps has been given
permission to visit his father in prison.
it is current gossip in Paris that the
Panama convictions were the result OF
political intrigue.
A book is said to be in press in Chi
cago on the Whiskey Trust, showing
how the government has been defraud-
ed of millions of revenue while the
Trust was asking to have the taxes
raised.
The congressional committee engaged
in investigating the Panama canal scan
dial resumed its session in New York
Yesterday and examined Nathan Apple
ton, general agent of the canal in
America, who admitted that he re-
ceived a salary of 81 900 year, but he
never knew what his duties were.
Mr.. Cleveland received letter yes
tcrday from President Harrison couch
ed in the most friendly terms and
proifering the Inequalities ofthe White
House before the Inauguration. Mr..
Harrison also offered to assist Mr.
Cleveland in every way in his power
in regard to public business and mat,
tiers ofState.
Mr.. Cleveland has got to the end OF
his patience with oilice-seekers, who
have been annoying him since he went
to Lakewood, and last night he said
that if they did not heed his warning
he would be obliged to go to some 9th
er place where they could not reach
him. Mr.. Cleveland selected Lake
wood for this preliminary work before
he went to Washington.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-02-14
TUESDAY EVENING, FEB. IA, 1893.

Mr.. CLEVELAND was elected last fall
upon the promise that the Mckinley
bill should be repealed as soon as posi-
bic. Those who are opposed to the re-
demption of that promise attempt to
conceal their opposition by urging q de-
lay in the call of an extra session Of
Congress until late next fall, upon the
ground that by that time the Treasury
Department will have prepared tariff
bill which Congress will at once enact
into a las. The opposition ofthe DEM
Gratis in the present Congress to adopt
ing the ideas of Mr.. Cleveland on the
silver question, right as those ideas are,
shows plainly enough that his equally
as right ideas on the tariff will also be
opposed in the next Congress by mem
bers of his own party. And, with such
opposition, supplemented by that of all
the republicans in that body, the most
sanguine friend of low tariff cannot
hope for reduction in the tax on the
necessaries of life until the approach of
the next Congressional election. If it
be the intention of Mr.. Cleveland to re-
deem the promise referred to, he should
issue a call for an extra session of Con-
gress the day after his Inauguration, so
that the ways and means committee OF
the House, with the assistance Of Sec
rotary Carlisle and the tariff experts,
Messrs. Wells and Atkinson, may report
a tariff bill as soon as practicable, and
thereby prevent its opponents from
talking it to death.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-02-14
Thc Woman off PIcasurc.

1.-THE Woman of Pleasure" was the
subject of the Rev. DIR. Wharton's SER
mon at Brantly Baptist Church Sun
day morning. His text was, "She that
liveth in pleasure is dead while she
liveth."
"The woman of pleasure sets her af-
fections and her thoughts on having 4
good time" said the preacher. Money
is squandered for her, no matter how
hard her father may have to work nor
how long the bills remain unpaid. The
home may be comfortless, but she must
dress: she must attend all fashionable
entertainments and have attention.
"The useful affairs of life are drudg-
ery to her. Some one else may do
that. If mother can hire servant, all
we'll and good; if not, then let her
mother do the work herself. If she is
married her husband must meet all the
expenses. 1t is none Of her business
where the money comes from. The lit
tie ones may be left neglected; the tired
husband may amuse himself the
best he can, but she is a woman
of pleasure and pleasure cannot
be laid aside. Such life is unsatisfac-
tory. 1t is injurious to health. The
body is soon wasted and worn. She is
old at twenty-five. If, indeed, her at
tention is turned to charity, it is as a
social fad, resulting in ball or theatre
cal performance, where more is squand-
cred in show than is doled out to the
needy. Live for usefulness, not pleas
ure.''
At night Dr. Wharton preached SER
mon on "a Young Man of Merit" He
said in part: SIN these words God
meant men-not mummies or muskrats.
He wants you in whom heart beats.
God wants men with hearts that know
how to love. If you want to win q
man you must touch his heart, not his
head. Christ wept, and | want to see
more men weeping over sinners. Then.
again, you must be men with courage
brave men. God can't do much with
towards. You must have belief and
faith at ali times. We want more re-
ligion in our everyday work. Do little
things. Put not off what can be done
to-day. Begin at once. "-Balto. Ne'cs.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-02-14

SECRETARY NOBLE, disguised at Mr..
Clarkson's pretentious assumption OF
superior knowledge Of the management
of party affairs, says "if he, Noble,
couldn't manage campaign in Indiana
or any where else better than Clarkson
managed the last one, he would quit
the business, and not only do that, but
keep his mouth closed up" The
trouble with Mr.. Clarkson is that he
has much higher opinion Of his own
Importance than any body else has, and
is incapable of realizing and appreciat-
ing that patent fact, and that, too,
though President Harrison gave him
an object lesson by refusing his appli-
cation fora cabinet position, and though
the national republican committee
made him their costumer, instead OF
their chairman, as his ambition led him
to believe they would do.