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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-11-22
rHE NAPOLEON hawai-
why the Emperor Is the Most Popular
Character In History.

Why the Emperor Is the Most Popular
Character In History.
Within the past year there has been
a revival of interest in the career of
Napoleon Bonaparte that is almost
phenomenal. In literature he has fig
ured in the pages of memoirs and1rem-
iniscences bys those who came into
more and less intimate contact with
him. In art not only has he been po-
tent inspiration to modern painters
and sculptors, but he has made price
less all pictorial records of his time. In
the drama he poses as the most. pictur-
esque figure that has been brought
upon the stage within the century.
Personal relics of the man are held as
sacred and beyond all price. AS Paul
Bourget aptiy says, Napoleon has
hypnotized the French people again"
In France the. sting of defeat after
the Franco-Prussian war turned the
thoughts OF all to their period Of great
est glory, and so it needed but time to
see Napoleon enshrined as an idol. An
equally logical explanation is found
forsthe most notable feature of the Ma
poleon revival in this country.
The Century'S life of the emperor was
projected five or six years ago. before
anyone could have foreseen the pres
ent attitude of the public mind. It
was undertaken solely with the idea
| that Napoleon was one of the greatest,
most forceful and picturesque charac
tiers in the entire range of history, and
that hitherto he had been inadequate
| ~ represented. For that reason Prof.
William NJ. Sloane, the greatest Amer
lean student of French istory, was
commissioned. to write tie life. and
his years of study among unpublished
archives have brought out his COM
pleted labor at the most opportune mo-
ment. And Prof. Sloane shows us
new Napoleon, a devourer of books, an
unsuccessful literary aspirant, an inef-
fectual Corsican political agitator, but
the new Napoleon certainly makes the
old Napoleon more easily compre-
hended.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-11-22
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.

THE late car of Russia was buried
with most imposing ceremonies at the
cathedral at ST. Petersburg on the 10Th.
THE Danish minister of the interior
has issued a decree, to take effect i'm
mediately, forbidding the import of
live cattle and fresh meat from the
United States into Denmark.
SIX persons were reported in crit
ical condition on the 10Th from the
effects of escaping natural gas at a
Methodist church at East Liverpool,
o., on the previous night.
INCENDIARIEs at Springfield, Ill, have
destroyed about twenty stables and
outhouses recently and several horses
and much valuable property have been
burned.
THE fight between Jack McAuliffe
and Otto Zeigler at Coney Island, n.
Y, on the 10Th was stopped by police
interference after the third round.
JUDGE BRgwER, of the United States
supreme court, has decided that the
Delawares and Shawnees, having been
absorbed by the Cherozees, were enti-
tied to equal benefits from the sales of
lands as the Cherolees themselves.
This w1l give the Shawnees and Della
wares about So, OO0, 900 from the sale of
the Cherokee strip.
REUBEN E. KoLB, the defeated popu-
list for governor of Alabama, has pub
lished an address calling upon his fol-
lowers to assemble in Montgomery on
December 1 and help him take his seat
as governor. Gov. Jones says that
William Oates has been elected gov
ernor. and he will see that he is seated,
and if anybody should heed Ko1b's adj
vice the consequences will be on their
own heads.
SIXTEEN cars of coal broke through
a bridge near Larimer station, Pa, and
six or seven miners were buried under
the wreck. All the trainmen escaped.
THE residence of Capt Stiles, U. S.
AZ, was burned to the ground at Okla
homa City, Ok, and Van Dacy, a young
man asleep in it, was incinerated.
A TERRIBLE explosion occurred on
the 10Th in Mcdowell county, w. Va,
on the Norfolk Sc Western railroad, in
the keystone Coal & Coke Co. S mining
camp Several colored men were at
tempting to open a keg of powder
when it exploded. Elmer Knight and
Sam Dunn were blown to atoms.
Charles Seals and Andrew Magee were
horribly injured.
AT Louisville, KY, Johnston clipped
full second from the worlds bicycle
record for standing start paced, doing
it in 1853 3-5.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-11-22

A BARGE capsized in Charlotte har-
Dor, Florida, and eight men were
dro wned.
FRANK c. IVES demonstrated his
right to the title of champion billiard
1st OF the world by defeating Jacob
Schaefer. the Wizard" at New York,
by the score of 3,6E to 3, O74.
A WORKMAN droppe6a lighted candle
IN Q keg of powder at the Perigo mine
tunnel at Black Hawk, Col The pow
der did not explode, but fire started,
the smoke from which suffocated to
death four workmen. The damage
done was about S., 900.
On the 18th about $50 discharged en-
ployes of the water department at Chi
cago demanded the money due them.
The comptroller informed them there
was no money in the treasury to
pay them. Cries for bread and threats
OF vengeance were made by the mob
A battalion of police was summoned
and the rioters were dubbed till they
dispersed. The large crowd attracted
were in sympathy with the eX-em-
ployes.
THE recent earthquakes in southern
Italy did considerable damage and
many people were crushed to death by
falling houses. The people were panic
stricken and in fear of a renewal of the
shocks.
DUN's trade review says that in
nearly all branches of business a grad
ual improvement appears. The cotton
movement was large. Corn receipts
were less than half of last years with
insignificant exports.
THE town of Sheffield, Is miles south
of Mason City, Ia, on the Iowa Central
railroad, was totally destroyed by fire.
Loss, 100000.
THE failures for the week ended No
vember 10 (Dun's report) were go in
the United States against 232 last year,
and SO in Canada against SO last year.
CLEARING house returns for the prin-
cipal cities of the United States for the
week ended November 16 showed an
average increase as compared with the
corresponding week last year OF LIZ;
outside New York the increase was 1. g.
MARTIN j. STRAIT, a feed dealer of
New York, shot his wife and sister-in-
law and then himself. One is dead and
the two others cannot recover. Do
nestle difficulty was the cause.
CHE loss in fences and barns around
Worthwhile, Ky, will be immense
through the recent timber fire in that
vicinity. The fire was started by
children playing with matches in dry
leaves.
JOE PATCHEN, driven by Jack Curry
over half-mile track at San Antonio,
Tex, on the 18th, broke the world s
record. He went the half in 1903, the
three-quarters in 1865 and the mile in
2:OS fiat.
AN electrician at Chicago, named
Higgings, being behind with his rent
and threatened with election, shot his
landlady, Mrs. Mclaughlin, and then
killed himself.
The police of San Francisco have OBJ
tanned evidence of the existence of a
strongly organized band of 5000 Chi
nese high binders living in that city.
the main purpose of which is the over
throw of the present Tartar dynasty.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-11-22
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary of the Daily Nows.
wAsuINoToN NOTES.

CHAIRMAN SAVERS, of the house COM
mittee on appropriations, has tele-
graphed the clerk of that committee
that he will be in Washington on the
Goth with view of getting the appro-
priation bills under way, and the sub
committees have been notified of the
fact
OWING to the illness of Second Assist
ant Postmaster-Genera1 Nelson the re-
port of his office is made by George +.
Stone. 1t deals with mail transporta-
ton. For the star service it is shown
that there are 10, 375 routes with an ag-
gregate length of 251, 1897 miles, and
the total of miles travelled is 113, 570,-
33S, at an expense of S., $40, $50; an eSti-
mate for next year, So, 900. Consid-
Grafton was given to the feasibility of
utilizing electric and other rapid motor
street car lines to facilitate the trans
portation of mails in importa1st cities.
r. A. MAXWELL, the fourth assistant
postmaster-general, has submitted his
annual report. He emphasizes the
necessity that the public should report
every depreciation upon the mails,
whether registered or ordinary matter.
Gen. Maxwell also urges the necessity
of increased appropriations for pay
ment of rewards looking to the con-
viction of mail criminals.
THE secretary of the treasury has
been informed that the currency of
British Honduras has been demone-
tized and the gold dollar of the United
States will hereafter be the standard
coin of that country.
DR.. GUZMAN, the Nicaraguan minis
ter at Washington, has received reports
from Bluefields which indicate a salts
factory settlement of the troubles
which have so long afflicted the Mos
quito reservation, Cabez, the first con-
stitutiona1 governor being installed in
Office and all opposition having dis
appeared.
IT was said President Cleveland
would soon issue an order extending
civil service rules to the gaugers in the
internal revenue service.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-11-22
FIXED.

Higgins = How do you like your
new boarding place?
Stoppit-First rate, and intend to
stay.
Higgins-But suppose your 1andlady
doesn't like you?
Stoppit-She can move any time
Judge.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-11-22
GENERAL NEWS.

A MALIGNANT disease resembling
black diphtheria has broken out at
Five Points, small station east of
Brocton, Ill. There were over twenty
cases in the village on the 18th. The
schools at Five Points and Brocton
had been closed, in order to keep the
disease from spreading.
THE executive committee of the
American Bimctallic league has called
a conference at ST. Louis for November
27, at which the present situation will
besfully discussed and the policy to be
hereafter pursued by the friends of
free coinage of silver be decided upon.
THE Shiloh Battlefield association
desires the names and post office adj
dress of all the survivors of the battle.
The secretary has the names of over
10000 of the survivors and when all
are in a complete roster will be print
ed. All names should be sent to e. T.
Lee, secretary of the Shiloh Battlefield
association, Monticello Ill.
THE thirty-sixth anniversary of the
bounding of Denver, Col, was celebrat-
ed in that city on the 18th by banquet
under the auspices of the Denver Real
Estate exchange.
IN a fight near Muskogee, /. t., be-
tween deputy marshals and the Cook
gang, one marshal was wounded and
Cherokee Bill, an outlaw, was killed.
RUSSELL SAGE and George Gould
moved before Justice Truax, of the
New York supreme court, on the 10th
for an extension of time to answer in
the action brought by the Soldiers
Orphans home, of st. Louis, to recover
about 81 900, 600 from the bondholders
0 of the Kansas Pacific railway. LAWYER
j. L. Morrison, for the plaintiffs, said
the defendants knew about the case
and should have been prepared. He
said Gould and Sage were guilty of
what in plain language was larceny.
WHARTON BAKER, of Philadelphia.
has written an open letter to Gov. Nc
Kinley, of Ohio, asking him to publicly
state his views on the money question,
and at the same time suggesting that
the republican campaign of 1896 should
be made for American protection and
American bimetallism against British
free trade and British gold monometal-
iism.s'
TWELVE millers, representing SEQ
merchant Touring mills. with a daily
capacity of $4,000 barrels, met in Sc
cret session at the Auditorium, Chicago,
on the 10th, to consider the proposition
10 Feuuce tne output IUO,OoO barrels OF
-four day for thirty days, or 5000, 000
barrels in all. Those present repre-
sented mills in Ohio, Indiana. Illinois,
Minnesota, Wisconsin, Missouri and
North Dakota.
CAROLINE AGNES BEREsFoRD, dow
. ager duchess of Montrose, died at Lon
don on the 10th. She maintained a
Splendid stable and raced horses under
the name of t'Mr Maufouo Ovv;1o To
her favorite costumes being of fiery col
ors she became known as the Red
Duchess
A STORM checked the forest fires
around Gold Hill, Col, and the people
were reported returning to their homes
on the 18th. The damage to property
was estimated at 81, 600, 900. several
hundred people being made homeless
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-11-22
In OIden Times

People overlooked the importance of per
manently beneficial effects and were salts
fed with transient action, but now that it
is generally known that Syrup of Figs will
permanently cure habitual constipation,
weIl-informed people will not buy other lax
atives, which act for time, but finally in
jure the ystem.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-11-22

RECEIPTS for making restaurant chicken
salad should begin ''First catch your
calf. Texas Siftings.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-10-19
Going Our of I.usin.ss.

New York special: The Wholesale
business of Hilton, Hughes ~ Co. the
old house of ~. Il. Stewart ~ Co., is
TO be closed out. In its palmicst days
IT. sold slo.ooo,C eco worth of goods in IL
single year. and made ~. L. Stewart
princess. Since his death the firm
has experienced various mutations.
but this change Is the most radical of
All. All the employees of the whole
sale department have been notified
that that branch of the business
would be closed as speedily as
The stock on hand could be
disposed OF. and they were advised 10
seek positions elsewhere. There are
about AGO of these employees, with a;
salary list OF several hundred thou
sand dollars Il year. The manager is
James L.. Thayre. who WAS formerly
Ohio salesman for the firm.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-10-19
south Dakota Briefs.

CUSTER expects her new opera
house ready by November 1.
A HEAVY fall of snow has fallen in
the Bald Mountains,
The water works almost completed
at Dell Rapids We're tested last week
and burst an cight-inch main.
COMMISSIONER BROWNING has gono
to the Lower Brulc and Grow Creek
agencies on Il o of inspection.
STockMEN along the White River
and i'll the lad Lands country have
formed an association for the purpose
of Kidding That country OF wolves.
The Methodist Conference for the
state will hold its sessions at Water.
town during the first part of October.
Bishop Fowler is expected to be pres
ent.
T. THE Chicago and Northwestern
Railway has made another contract
for transporting several thousand head
of cattle from Forest City to Chicago.
The first l50 carloads will be shipped
this week.
Thus far this season fully 10. 900.
head of cottle have been shipped from
Belle liourche and Brennan stations in
the Black Hills, 1t is estimated that
the shipments this year will be heay.
Ter than eve before.
CHAIRMAN PETERSON of Lead of
the regent committee of the State
University at Nermillion has called n:
meeting Of the committee in Vcrmili-
ion on October l. to consider matters
pertaining to that institution.
The Lead City Call, which is pre-
sumably the official organ CT the coun.
ty seat executive committee, once
more asserts that the county seat fight
is not dead, but merely sleeping, and
that the committee is still quietly at
work laying its plans for a contest two
years hence.
JAMES HARDIN. working the stamp
mill at Perry. ncar Deadwood, milled
fifty tons of ore within the past few
days. and the net result was 1910.
While prospecting in n place where it
would he easier to handle the ore thew
sunk q shaft twelve feet deep and un-
covered a body of ore that goes from
$3.50 to SlG0 to the ton.
p. b. MCCARTHY, one of the fish
wardens of Pennington County. re.
ceived a letter from Creston inform
ing him that wners of irrigatinr
bitches had taken all the water out Of
Rapid Creek. so that only pools re-
manned in different places in the bed
of the creek, and that fish in conse.
qucnce were dying by thousands. Tl.
fish wardens Mt once took hold of the
matter and will prosecute parties in
future if they do not leave sufficient
water in the creek to form q current.
The ferry boat Josie T.. H., in SER
vice between Yankton and the Nebras
ka side of the Missouri River, was
sunk by a %forty-mile wind. She will
PROBABLY he raised.
IT is reliably reported that n worm
has made its appearance in Edmunds
County that is destroying the Russian
thistle. 1t is said that there are lit
orally millions of them in a small L
They r small green worms, less than
an inch in length. and appear to ut
tack the Russian thistle only. The
state entomologist has been asked to
make an investigation Of the matte.
and report.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-10-19
LEARNING OUR WAYS
AUSTRALIAN FARMERS LEARN
ING AMERICAN METHODS.
Ghcy Send an Envoy to This Country to
Get Full Details Oh the Economics of
Production IN Grain CROWN. In the
United States.


OMAHA Mob, special: james Nj.
Sinclair of Victoria, Australia. has
come to America on an interesting
mission. Mi. Sinclair is i'm town to
visit the South Omaha packing houses
and the big grain elevators of this
city. He to this city with cree
aentlals signed by the Premier of Vic
tol'la, j. B. Patterson, and has been
sent by the Department of .Agricul-
tnre OF Victoria to report upon the
system In vogue. among American
farmers. His duties laid down by the
authorities are to note and Dol. on
all the details on the economics of pro-
ductlon i'm grain growing in the United
States, Canada and the ARGENTINE RE-
public. This is to embrace every
thing i'll connection with the tilling.
harvesting and handling of wheat
from the field to the scal,oald.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-10-19
cocE!aM JoT7",es.

SHANGHAI special: Masters Of Chi.
nese junks from Che Foo report that
they sighted u fleet of seventy Japan-
csc transports and warships entering
the Gulf of Pe-Chi-Li Tuesday night.
After steaming westward some dis
lance they altered their course to the
northeast. The reports caused the
greatest excitement here and else.
where. 1t is believed hal this Is an
eXpeditionary force OF 10000 c
from the Second Japanese army corps.
converted by the second Japanese
q%uadron. which left Hiroschima Sep
command of Field Marshal Count
nese are in full retreat from Mouliden,
which is threatened by Japanese
forces advancing from Coca and those
landed near Possiel Bay. bordering on
Corea and Manchnlri;. 1t is believed
here that the retreat from Moukden
was the result of IL hasty withdrawal
for the purpose of opposing the pro.
Jected landing of the Japanese eNpc-
dition in the bay of Pc.Chi-Li. or in
the Gulf OF l.ae-Top. The Chinese
have been hulriedly strengthening the
Notifications of New Chwang. in am.
ticipation of Il Japanese attack on that
port.
OANACA. Mex, special: Antonio
Cerevas. IL noted scientist. has lust
reached here from the state of Taias.
70. where he has discovered some o.!
the most wonderful and interesting
runs yet found in Mexico. while ex.
ploring II wild and wooded district in
the valley of the San Pedro River.
In II a state he came upon an ancient.
deserted village. which is surrounded
by eighteen pyramids. These pyra.
mids are thirty meters high and arc
constructed of brick and stone.
BRFsI.AU special: \ st. Pete S.
for lhe worse has taken place i'm the
condition of the Car. + aintin. ti,.
are said to have %supervencd. render.
ing an operation Immediately ncrcs-
sary. Court digiiitarles and other
high officials have hurriedly started
for Livadio. These disquicting lie
ports are said to come in the shape OF
II telegram direct from L.ivadiu.
PARIS special: \ dispatch from
ltome says: The Italian Minister III
l'ekln,. at the request of his Govern,
ment. has offered his services to bring
N'oup III NV W iIc WIZ UClWt CIl VII
na and Japan. 1t is also stated thai
the general OF the .%Icsuits has SEN I
memorial TO the Pope. asking til. lat
ter to use his influence with the pow.
crs of Europe to the same end.
SHANGHAI special: \. second Japan.
csc army is reported 10 have crossed
the Nalu River. advancing ON Monk.
den which. it is believed. will soon
fall, as the Chinese are uemoralized.
The Chinese have blorkaded the
mouth of Min River, leading to Foc
Cho". The report tAat the ,Iupare.e
have landed near Port Arthur. is con.
iirmcd.
CHEZ Foo special: British and Rus
sian Ministers have started for Pckin.
The object of tho visit to the capita;
is unknown. Nil the women and chill
dren belonging to foreigners have lief,
l'eiiin for places of safety,
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-10-19
QUEEN VICTORIA

now possesses. The Prince of Wales
Is %. and thereto G no longer young,
and SO it is about time that he had
some taste of his natural heritage.
Another ] oint which assists in Civ
ing probability to this possibility of a
coming change in the occupant Of the
throne IS that the 9Th of November,
the Prince of Wales birthday. is also
the date which for many centuries has
been celebrated throughout London as.
the Lord Mayors Day. tho occasion
upon which the chief magistrate Of
the city of Londcn ascends the civic
throne Upon that day O pageant
traverses the city of London, escort-
ing. with the assistance of q regiment
OF cavalry. the new Lord Mayor to his
official palace. the Mansion House,
which he is to occupy during the
twelve months of his reign. IN 1887,
tho year in which Queen Victoria came
to the sovereignty. she chose the 9Th
OF November as the day upon which
she would make her first formal entry
into her capital cit. London, and as
sovereign of the realm she headed the
procession of the sovereign of the CITY
and dined with the Lord Mayor and
sheriiis.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-10-19

appeared this week there a.c features
pointing to continued progress in the
direction of Improvement. This is
true OF h country at large. All the
industrial lines, notably manufacture
ing jewelers., have received liberal Or
ders, with the exception of munufac-
tturers OF machinery. From Omaha u
better feeling is reported throughout
the tributary region, and there is
buying of dry goods, clothing.
shoes and groceries. Duluth also
iinds business improved. st. Louis
and Kansas City report stimulation
In Wholesale as we'll us in retail lines.
due in part to influx of visitors to the
carnivals. From the south the most
favorable reports come from Jackson
Vile. The previously reported large
volume OF business of Chicago jobl,crs
is maintained. AT u number OF points
east and west the demand for money
has Increased, and the changes in the
character of mercantile collections, aus
Il rule. are il the direction of im-
prOvement.
NEW YORK special: After being
Kept alive several months in al incu-
bntor. the .prematurcly born badly
of Mrs. Il. G. Haight, who lost her life
ut its birth, was said by eminent doe
tors in attendance to be 'all right
and probably fated to Il long life. MIR.
Haight, who is Il wealthy man. was
delighted at this intelligence. The
baby, born February 81 last. only
weighed two pounds when it came into
the world and, but for the incubator.
it's little tlickering flame of life would
have gone out. During the hot wealth
or of last summer the baby was taken
to Nyacll, on the Hudson, and seemed
to thrive. Snc was brought bacl. to
New York two weeks ago. Now she
is dead.
DAYTON. Ohio. special: The police
search for the perpetrators of the :wo
recent murders of veterans of the Sol
diers' Home on pension day, develops
IL situation more horrible than the
terrible Bender crimes in the west
Forty old soldiers have he robbed and
murdered at the National Military
Home here. and only passing notice
has been taken Of the crime. The g..
~. IL. Is taking hold of the matter and
Il feeling exists that the Government
should place detectives here to collect
evidence against the murderers who
have grown rich by robbing veterans.