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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-01-10
FOR THE RELIEF OF NEEDY ACTORS.

FOR THE RELIEF OF NEEDY ACTORS.
plan has been devised by the Actors Fund for
the relief OF actors who are out OF employment.
1t was suggested by Julian Magnus on Saturday and
already soo has been raised OF this $40 Is contrib
uted by the Actors Fund. $50 by the Actors Order
OF Friendship and the rest by individual snoscIip,
ton. The new project Is called the Actors Keller
Fund. 1t Is 70 be in charge OF committee or
fourteen including seven members appointed by the
Actors Fund and seven by the Order Of Friend nd
ship The committee Will meet on Thursday TO be-
gin its work. which viii go on thereafter on Tues,
davs and Thursdays Those who are to receive the
benefits Of fund will be required TO apply in per-
SON on one of those days.
WANTED THE CHILDREN CARED FOR.
While four as pretty little children one often
sees were singing After the Ball" In the Tombs
Police Court examination yesterday morn
ing a sturdily built man stood in one corner. with
tears streaming down his cheeks. He their
father, and wanted the city to relieve him OF the
care OF the little ones until he gets work. The
mans name is Robert Bowling and with his wife
and children has been living in single room In
the basement of No Monroe-st lie Is waiter
and has been out OF work for a long time The
mother was arrested December 10. at Four
feminist and Third-ave.. while begging She had
her youngest child In her arms. On December Is
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-07-19
DEFICIT PRODUCERS.

Incompetency OF the Republicans as
Shown by the Harrison Administration.
The receipts of the government from
all sources for the fiscal year ending
June 8, 1894, were 1926. 96O $50, and the
expenditures, 1896, 500. 359. This shows
a deficit of S69, 6S9, OPS. The dull times
had much to do with the discrepancy,
put the important fact to be consid-
cred in relation to it is the inadequacy
of the existing revenue laws. When
the Mckinley bill was passed it was
the boast of its friends that an in.
crease Of the revenue would be the re-
suit. IL increased the taxes, but ma
terially reduced the revenues, and the
consequence is the deficit.
That this is true may be proved by
the records. There has been no defal-
cation On the part of any Of the col
Letting agencies. No complaint comes
of a lack of zeal in the collections No
money collected has been withheld
from the treasury. The plain infer
ence, therefore, is that the law is de-
fective, and the obvious remedy is in
the change of the statutes 1t will not
ds TO rely on withholding payments,
as the Harrison administration did
| during the closing months, or to issue
| bonds now and then as the present ad-
ministration was Obliged to do once.
The laws must be adjusted on such a
basis as will meet the conditions
No better evidence could be pre-
tented of the incompetency of the re
publican party to administer the gov
Hrnment than the present condition OF
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-07-19
ELECTRIC FISH.
Living GaIvanic Batteries and Their
Anatomical Pecuiiarities.

Living GaIvanIc Batteries and Their
Anatomical PeculiarIties.
Electric fish have always been plenti-
full in the Nile. The ancient Egypt
ians were familiar with the capacity of
these fish to communicate a shock to
their captors. although, of course, the
nature of the shock was not under
stood. In picture in baS-relief from
the Metropolis at Memphis, dating pre-
sumablY three thousand years B. c.,
we see the Pharaoh of the day engaged
in watching the sport of spearing
hippopotamuses, while a solitary fish
erman in small boat is represented
in the act of catching an electric shad-
Galen, too GOO A. d., mentions the
electric rayfsh, the action of which he
compares to a magnet; and for CEN
turtles the Abyssinians have used the
electric eel as a remedy for diseases OF
the nerves. There are three species of
electric fish now known: The electric
shad, the electric eer and the torpedo
or electric rayfish. The electric shad
is from twelve to twenty inches long,
and is found in the Nile and the Sene-
gal. According to Brehm, the electric
organ of the shad consists of tissue,
resembling the fatty tissue, between
whole body. This tissue consists OF
six or more membranes superimposed
one upon the other, with space between
them for a gelatinous mass furnished
with a peculiar arterial and venous
system, and with very much branched
nerve. On being touched with the
hand, the electric shad gives shocks of
varying strength The utilization of
its electric energy is absolutely under
its own control.
The electric eel, first described by
Humboldt, is capable of communicate
ing the most powerful shock 1t some
times reaches length of six or seven
feet and a weight of thirty or forty
pounds. The skin, which is olive-green
above and orange-red below, is covered
with slime, which, as Volta showed,
conducts electricity twenty to thirty
times better than water
The electric organ of the electri C
ray occupies the same space between
the head, the gills and the pectoral
fins. 1t consists of small cells, close
together like the cells of a honey
comb, separated by cross-membrane
walls and permeated by nerves Its
shock is materially weaker than that
of the electric eel, but nevertheless
quite painfuL-Literary Digest
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-07-19
OPINIONS AND POINTERS.

Mckinley has always contended
that the presidential nominatisn
should seek the man. He is keeping
himself as prominently exposed as pos
sible in order to minimize the difficulty
of finding him--Detroit Free Press.
ben Harrison will be sixty-three
years of age at the time of the next
nomina ton. This is a little too old
for n president unless he has great
ability or has rendered conspicuous
service to his party or the country.
All of which lets Ben out--St. Louis
GIobe-Democrat (Rep.).
--Conger, of Ohio, in denouncing
Mckinley and McKinleyism, is calling
down the wrath of party msnipulators
and narrow-guage organs on his de-
voted head. What hurts and gals is
that he is telling the truth, a potent
folce in political discussion with which
the g. o. p. leaders have as little as
possible to do. Conger is stirring up
the animals with q cattle puncher;
and the people are opening their eyes
to the meaning of the resulting exhi-
bition.-Detroit Free Press
1t is no new or extraordinary
thing for congress to extend the apprO-
priations for carrying on the govern
ment for . period of thirty days. 1t
has been done repeatedly before now
and without such a valid excuse. The
time of the senate has been all taken
up with the consideration of the tariff
bill, and properly so. The protest of
Senator Hoar against the adoption of
the concurrent resolution extending
the appropriations was only another
expiring grasp of McKinleyism.-B
ton Herald.
What does our distinguished fell
low-AmericaD, Gov. Mckinley think OF
his handiwork as he takes bird's-eye
view of the country in its present con
dition? The Conger stripe of repub-
icans are intelligent and honest
enough to acknowledge that McKin.
leyism is a more drastic system of rob
berry than the country can long survives
but the tin-armored champion of high
and hopelessly blind in a faith, which
if dominant. wrecks the government
that adopts it Detroit Free Press
The amount of income tax Pres
ident Cleveland would have had to pay
says journal which holds that every
thing the democrats do Is wrong and
everything the republicans do is right
would have been over one thousand
dollars annusl!y. The sugar trust
senators on the motion of Senator Hill
have relieved him from the burdens o!
this taxation The sugar trust sen
ators" is one of those shafts of tru Il
which find mark the archer never
meant" for the republican senators
voted solidly for Senator Hills motion
louisville Courier-Journsl-
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-07-19

the finances under the laws passed by
that party. It will be claimed. no
doubt, that during and for many years
after the war, that party displayed its
capability. But that was before the
control of the party passed from the
great men who organized it into the
hands of the boodlers who now direct
its affairs It Is neither unfair nor un-
just to say that now there isn't a man
in the leadership of that party suffi-
GENTLY equipped in craftsmanship to
frame q revenue law that would serve
the purpose of bringing the receipts
and expenditures OF the government
| anywhere nearly together.-Kansss
| Citv Times
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-07-19
PERSONAL AND lMPERsoNAL.,

Senators Sherman and Hoar and
ex-Secretary Evarts are all related-i
The latter two are double cousins, both
on their fathers and on their mothers
side, and when Mr.. Evarts was-a youths
Senator Hoar's father was his guar
dian.
The wife of a Scotch minister, who
was cipher in his own house, once re-
monstrated with tinker, who had g
craze for collecting buttons ''Weef,
men," was the reply, ''ilka ana has
their craze, an mines for buttons an
yours for breeks!''
Prince Ito, the japanese premier,
is called by his countrymen the Bis
marck of Japan" Ito, who is a mani
kin physically, compared to Bismarck,
saw and talked with the latter during
visit to Europe, and has since been
copying his character and methods.
Mrs. Naomi Hayes Moore, who
died recently at Helena, Ark, built in
that city the Ophelia Polk Moore hons
for orphan girls in memory of her
daughter. Mrs Moore was a niece OF
President Polk and used her wealth.
largely for the benefit OF charitable in
situations.
Thirty years ago, Horace Greeley
said to Susan B. Anthony: The ballot
and the bullet go together. You
women say you want to vote; are you
ready to fight, too?" Yes, Mr.. Gree
ley" said Miss Anthony, I'VE are ready
to fight at the point of the goose-quuls
the way you always have"
AT the closing reception to Miss
Willard in England, as she was about
to sail for America, there was pre-
. a
would seem, a loving cup. Of course,
one may drink lemonade or raspberry
shrub from a loving cup, but it is
rather more associated with a brew.
and certainly brew and Miss Willard
are as widely separated as the poles .
The royalties of Europe patronize
the bicycle with as much energy as the
boys of America. The king of the Bel
/ gians exercises upon one daily, little
| Queen Wilhelmina rides one when she
/ is at her castle of Het Loo, and the
] czarowitz, Princes Waldemar and Carl
! of Denmark, and Princes George and
! Nicolas of Greece, are all cyclists The
bicycle of the khedive of Egypt is a
| gorgeous machine, almost entirely COW
cred with silver plating
/ -Denys Puech, whose marble figure
of the Seine is the best piece of sculpt-
ure exhibited in Paris this year and
who is regarded as the hope of the
young art of France, is the son of one
/ of the poorest peasants of the republic
"a farm hand who has struggled
against poverty with one cow, half q
dozen sheep and a tiny bit of land in
the south of France. The son began
to mold figures in clay when a small
boy, and passed years in the direst pow
erty until he worked his way to Paris
Archibald Forbes relates that once
after Henry NJ. Stanley had delivered
an unsuccessful lecture when his man.
ager called on him about it, he heard
an unearthly noise going on below.
whats that?" asked his manager-
That's my black boy; he always makes
that noise when he is cleaning my
boots-'' ''An right" said the manager.
You divide to-night's lecture in half
and at the end of first part have your
black boy on to make that noise" The
experiment was,a triumphant success
such a success that the audience wouli
not hear of his leaving of for Mr. Stan
ley to resume.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-07-19
MuLTuM IN PARVO.

POVERTY is the sixth sense.-German
Proverb.
LIGHT is the task where many shar-
the toil-Homer.
PRAISE undeserved is satire in dis
Observation-Disclosures
Ill company viii make this earth
hell--Omar Khayyam-
THOSE who would make us feel must
feel themselves.-Churc
BEEEvoLENcE is allied to few vices
selfishness to fewer virtues.-Home-
HAVE freproOf perennial enjoy
ments, called employments--Richter.
KNOW of nothing sublime which l.
not some modification OF power
Burke
THE little Shakespeare in the maid
ems heart makes Romeo OF plowboJ
on his cart-Emerson
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-07-19
PRINCIPLES DON'T COUNT.
Republicans Resort to Any Means to Gain
Votes.


Votes
1t is anything to win with the repub-
licans this year. Principles don't
count Nothing counts but votes-twice
if possible. Nothing matters except to
get back to power, staked recklessly
and lost on McKinleyism- To that end
no deal will be surprised, no concession
of principle refused, no fusion untried.
no straddle too great to be attempted
AS to the silver question the repub-
Hcans propose to be all things to all
men, but with a decided tendency to
abandon former declarations in favor
of sound money, and join hands again
with the silver extremists in an effort
to save protection at the expense of
the currency.
AS to the tariff they will reaff1rm
only so much of their devotion to Nc
Kinleyism as they think they can win
on. Should they win by pledge of
moderate protection, their treatment
of former promises of this character
leaves no doubt of what they will do
when they have the chance. They
are prepared to trick the country if
they can, by any pretense of repent
ance and reform, such as they made at
the time of their famous tariff COM
mission.
One republican member of the house
from Pennsylvania was frank enough
to say the other day that in his judg-
ment his party, in selecting a presi-
Dental candidate and constructing a
platform in 1895, would be governed,
not by what is right or wrong in an
abstract sense or by what this or that
candidate thinks, but by considera-
| lions entirely apart from either morals
| or statesman ship"-probably very fai
apart and par tly financial. These con
siderations were further explained il
this simple fashion:
The democratic party is going to pass bill
which will be moderately protective, but vii
| impose lower taxes on the whole than the Nc
Kinley act II business revives next winter
| and keeps up pretty well the republican ma
| tional convention will undoubtedly adopt
| moderate protectionist platform, contendinl
| that the revival Is due to the fact that the pro
tective principle has been preserved in the
! democratic bill II times continue hard, how
/ ever, the convention will insist that the reason
of this is to be found in the fact that dutie:
4 were reduced too far. and will accordingl!
adopt stin tarin programme, outdoing tn,
| Mckinley act II anything"
And SO they hope to catch us ''a-com
ing and a-gwine,' and pen Us between
the sea and the iron works, where the
laundering cowardice of our leader:
has placed us. AT any rate, this utter
auce, and the demand of the Ohio re
publican state convention, that the
Mckinley rates be left untouched un
less they can be made higher, express
the real purpose of the republican
leaders, whatever may be the promise
by which, before the election, the,
may seek to bamboozle the voters
They are for protection, the highest
they can get, and to get it they will
promise tariff reform, free silver coin
age, more pensions, comfort for tn
populists, offices for everybody, an
anything else that is good for votes.-
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-07-19
"a LITTLE NONSENSE

Like Oliver Twist.-She-''Jack
kissed Mabel last night and she cried-''
He-"Why did she cry?" Se-"Fo<
more, suppose"
The Force OF Habit.-Commercial
Traveller popping the question)-''Ohl
Fraulein Anna, may 1 offer you my
heart?-extra quality-durabl e-inde-
tructibler'-Unsere Geselschaft.
-Madge-''This is the kind of a day
that poets rave about" Harry
they're blamed unreasonable, then. It
is perfectly delightful; neither too cool
nor too arm-"-Inter Ocean
He murmured, did the captain
OF vanquished baseball nine,
AZ know not of the fruit crop,
But the goose-egg crop is fine"
Washington Star.
-Cantley-'sThere is room for inn
provement IN every home" TOpfiore
MOT in mine" Cantley-''Why,.i
your home so perfect?'s Topfore-
mo, but we live in a fiat."-N. Y
World.
u amt had nothin' to eat for
week, sir" said the tramp Cant yer
do suthin' for me?' Certainly" said
the pedestrian. Fast for two months,
and,Tn get you place in dime mu-
scum. "-Harper's Bazaar.
-Vox Populi.-Johnnie- mann
ma, what does 'Vox popul' mean?''
Mamma-'It means the voice OF the
people" Johnnie-"Then. IL you
wanted to speak of the voice of only
one man, would you say 'Vox popu-
liar?' Detroit Free Press.
DO you believe in the novel with
a purpose?'' said Squi1dig to an author
friend. Certainly" the latter replied
'sAIl the novels ever wrote have tho
same purpose what is it?'' ITO
improve my bank account. Pitts
burgh Chronicle-Telegraph-
why do you use such peculiar
terns?'' asked a lawyers wife of her
husband, who had returned home worn
out by his days labor II don't see
/ how you could have been working all
day like a horse" well. my DEAR
! he replied, I've been drawing a COM
veyance all day-"-Tit-Bits-
| in the cleaning. oh. my darling.
! Where the nights are six monEels long,
II I stayed till midnight darlings
Would you think that it was wrong!
Would you work the old gags on me.
| Would you murmur. soft and low,
| That might be late for breakfast
! Or the clock was six weeks Slow
Detroit Free Press
-s'Oh, Mr.. de Cromo! had such q
time finding your painting at the exhi-
bition today 1t was hung away up in
an obscure corner" Yes, I am disap-
pointed. I shall quit art and start .
laundry" '.Mr. de Cromor' Yes
Then nv work will always be hung on
the ine"-Browning, King s. Co.'S
Monthly
Poor Mike was very nl-almost as
i'll as he was short, and what thaS
meant those who know him can best
saw, for physically he was hardly more
| than a dwarf The doctor was called
! in and, after investigation, informed
| Mrs Mike that her husband was suf-
fering from actinomycosis. a name
which appeared to strike terror to the
soul of the anxious woman Act,
phwat2'' said she ''Actinomycosis,' -
replied the doctor. 'sHim?' cried Mrs
Mike .'Ah. docther, how can yea say
thot? little man loike Moizel
couldn't hould the name of ut, much
Iiss tn disaze thot goes wild utP'-Har1
per's Drawer.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-07-19
EXPLAINING A cARicATuRE.
The Diplomat Let the Emperor Dow
Easily.

Easily.
Emperor Alexander II. had favor
tie dog called Milford, which never
left him. We were dining at the
palace, and, it being a small party
there were only the imperial family
and court attendants), we retired after
dinner to the empress private apart
mentS. l suddenly heard the emperor
calling Milford" and supposed he was
calling for me; but it was his dog that
was wanted, to receive the biscuits
which his majesty was in the daily
habit of bestowing on his favorite.
81 immediately fastened to his
majesty and learned the explanation
from the emperor, who was highly
amused by the incident. At the time
his majesty was seated in an inner sa-
loon Ia sort of alcove), and placed near
him was small table, on which were
the illustrated London News, Punch
and other journals It was the num-
Der of Punch in which a cartoon repre-
sented the sovereigns of Austria, Rus
STA and Germany at a whist table. the
emperor of Russia holding down his
hand with card.
THE emperor put the paper in my
hand and said: 'Expliquez moi celia
felt the difficulty of the explanation,
| and to col ect my thoughts asked to
be permitted to study it After a short
time said: oh, sire, it is quite clear.
The political European position is here
represented by whist party, and your
majesty is represented apparently as
hesitating whether to continue the
game 1t was a perplexing question,
and 1 felt very much as Daniel may
have felt when called upon to explain
Nebuchadnezzar' dream!''-Diplomat-
| ic "reminiscences, Lord LOTUS
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-07-19
A PICTURE.
the cameras lens was open:

The cameras lens was open;
A vision quickly passed
In through the lifted shutter,
Which closed and held it fast
Although twas but an instant,
By some mysterious art
The camera drank its beauty
And treasured 1t at heart;
And wrote the vision down
With all its charming grace,
And gave to me copy
1t was my sweetheart's face
So here it is before me,
Pertaining all my room,
Among sweet apple blossoms
Which never cease to bloom
"A picture and framing
Which sweetest, who can tenS
Tho frame of dainty blossoms
Which from the magic spell
OF her deft touch drew life,
And seeking her blushed pink,
Or her own pretty likeness
OF whom love to think?
Just so one day saw hs&.
And by Sir Cupid's art
I, too, drank In the beauty
And wrote 1t in my hea.1
And as she sits before me
With flowers fer a frame
So sweet that natures flowers
Must wonder whence they came,
So in my heart she stitch
And evermore shall reign, Z
While round her thoughts the sweetest
Are woven for q frame.
Robert II. Lord, in Chicago Record.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-07-19

ACCORDING to a decree issued by the
French minister of war, the following
defects, among others, viii no longer
exempt man from the obligation OF
military service: Toothlessness, dwar-
fish stature, hair-lip, squint-eyes, super
fluous or deficient fingers or toes, vari-
cose veins, hernia, suffering and bald
ness
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-07-19
A SSrsIrht-Ticket Incidert.

YES" howled the ardent republican
orator; 1.-The police of New York are q
fair sample of rampant democracy
venal. bride taking and corruptr'
They were all right, though, until
they imbibed the pernicious principles
OF protection" answered a steady
voice from the re,-r Of the hall And
even the band couldn't drown the tl.-
multuous appla
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-07-19

I'm North Dakota the white voters
of native extraction form but 81. Is
per cent. of the total possible voters