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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-08-29
HEARTY HOSPITALITY.

1t Is the Plain, transformations Kind That
Has No Shams.
The essential elements of hospital
ity seem to be:
A sound, simple, everyday life, with
no shams to hide and no pretenses to
keep up.
That which makes hospitality bur-
den and not a delight is the foolish
vanity which wishes to appear to share
something better than it really has to
divide.
Living in wholesome, comfortable
style we are not contented to offer our
guests the entertainment we find
ample, but weary ourselves and lose
all the real delight of companionship
in assuming for the time manner of
living beyond our easy attainment.
We are not thinking of the social ele-
ment, but of the mere eXterna1s of liv-
ing, and derange the whole household
machinery by trying to keep in mo-
ton half a dozen new wheels
If we would make our everyday life
more simple, and strip it of all pre-
tense, it would leave US ample leisure
to let our hearts expand toward 9TH
ers, and then, if we would pay our
friends the usual compliment of treat
lug tASin dS IL IhSy WOIO dGG1d CICo "
us-and not to our feasts and batteries
we might make our homes centers of
a beautiful hospitality that would be
both restfu1 and blessed.
If ones life is frank and sincere so
that there is nothing to conceal; If
gracious manners and gentle courtesies
are every day wear and not simply holt
day garb; if bright talk and stimu1at-
ing conversation rule the tab instead
of gossip and criticism; if we are hon.
estly seeking to be rather than TO
seem, we shall not look with dread and
terror upon the advent of guests. or
exhaust ourselves in our attempts to
entertain them. -Chautauquan.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-08-29
AN OUTING.

aud closets, and altogether has a very
attractive appearance, within and with
out It is a popular place, for MEM
bers have the usual club privilege OF
bringing their friends as guests, and
many happy hours are spent beneath
the hOspitable roof, and in the cheer
full homelike rooms
The membership is not now composed
exclusively of wheelmen, although the
large majority of active members are
experts at cycling and have their own
wheels. They have card parties, dances,
musical entertainments and public re-
ceptions. Their lady friends assist them
upon public occasions with piano re-
citals, songs, solos, duets, quartettes,
and in serving refreshments Altogether
the club is a credit, not only to itself,
but to the wheelmen of the entire
country.
Insurance agents, and even book
agents, US wheels in this city, and
many prominent business men have
taken to this mode of travelling from
their homes to their stores. Apparently
the bicycles have come into our civili-
zation to stay, and seem to be be-
coming as necessary as telegraph wires
and telephones. SMITH d. Fey.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-08-29

than "feld hands, and they held them
selves higher in the social scale. When
cotton and sugar advanced in price,
field hands also became higher priced,
and the slave dealer selected the more
prosperous seasons for the shipment OF
his human cargo to market.
When sold he returned to his slave
farm in ''old Virginia, the mother Of
presidents" or Maryland, purchased
another supply and shipped them to
Vicksbnrg or Natchez to supply Missis-
sippi and north Louisiana. He fol-
lowed his trade, dealing in human
flesh and misery, from season to season
and was regarded as little better than
q pirate even by those who purchased
Of him. He was ostracised from so
ciety, and when he died no one mourned
his death-there was not even a cor
tege of negroes at the lonely funeral.
Another similar character was the
slave hunter or patrol-a self-e1ected
unofficial hunter of runaway slaves for
the sake of the reward. He had a
pack of b1oodhounds always at his
command and was constantly securing
the swamps for negroes who ran away
from masters, and some, however, from
mere desire to escape labor. The usual
reward was $50 for a man and S25 for a
woman. On apprehending runaway
he usually, without any authority
whatever, gave him fifty or one hum
dred lashes. This was the usual Gus
tom and so glad was the master to re-
gain his slave that he seldom demurred.
Unless it was an aggravated case no
further punish ent was iAflicted. If a
slave was caught even going into town
without pass" from his master, he
was liable to apprehension and fog
ging by anyone who CHANGED to meet
him.
The slave hunter was ever on the
lookout for such absentees; for the re-
turn of each he received SIS, but was
prohibited from whipping them. Usu-
ally, when slaves were permitted to
attend church in the towns, their time
expired at four o'clock, at which hour
bell was rung warning all strange
negroes to leave town. If caught in
the city after that hour, they were
taken to jail, logged by the jailer, and
then told to make tracks for home. The
jailer's fee was SIS
On visiting plantations pass" in
the following form was given:
FLOYD PLANTATION, Dec. 4, 1S52-Ander-
son has my permission to visit his wife, Lucy,
on Mr.. 3. s plantation. to be absent not later
than eleven o'clock, p
III FLOYD, Master"
How strangely this reads in these
after years! The old colored men OF
to-day, now fast passing away, who
were slaves, look back upon the past
with amazement, and wonder why they
did not question by what right they
were made slaves?
But, being born in slavery, they knew
no other condition, and deemed it to be
their natural state. It must now seem
to them as dream-but a very sad one
There seems not to be the Joyous
laughter and merry ring in the song o.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-08-29
JAPANESE STREET EMeLEMs.
Their Meaning Is Seldom Guessed by q
European Visitor.

Their Meaning Is Seldom Guessed by q
European Visitor.
The sign of the average Japanese
shopkeeper at once deceives the for
eigners, as. for instance, pair of huge
square spectacles. filed with gold leaf,
is not the sign of an oculist or spectacle
maker, but that of gold-beater
working jeweler.
Druggists do not display a mortar
and pestle, but simply an enormous
bag, an imitation of the small ones
they use for infusing their medicines.
Tobacconists hang out a sort of
snuff-colored banner, bearing Chinese
characters, setting forth their name
and perhaps their trade mark. They
never indulge in wooden images of In
dian chiefs or ponderous Dutchmen.
The Japanese saloonkeepers, or
rather the dealers in rice whisky or
sake, advertise their business by ex-
hibiting a painting of Fujiyana, the
sacred mountain. What possible rela-
tion there is between a noun tain and
rice whisky the unsophisticated west
ern mind cannot easily discover, unless
it is intended to convey the informa-
ton that, as Fujiyana is unsurpassed
among mountains, SO is sweet sake
among liquors
Hatmakers hang before their shops
long string of hats which look like
row of gigantic mushrooms dangling
in the wind. Hat dealers also sell
straw sandals, or wooden clogs with
plated grass soles, and all similar
articles for the shoemaker and the
halter are usually one and the same
individual.
The grocer hangs out two tin fishes,
painted red, and fastened together at
the gills with straws, while the kite
makers utilize the cuttlefish as an ad-
vertisement of their business
Florists plant slender willow tree
at a corner of their houses as sign
that they sell cut flowers. Lacquer
shops may be known by the sign of a
chipbox like those in which the lacquer
comes packed.
The hair-worlers have a very singu-
lar sign; it consists of an octagonal box
with fringe of hair suspended from
it, which makes it look as if some one
had tried to put wig in the box, but
neglected to tuck it all in.
The dealers in cosmetics, who sell
that metallic red the Japanese women
spread SO thiclzly on their upper lip
that the green luster frequently shows,
are recognized by the small red flag
hanging over the entrance. Houses
where ''soba," or buckwheat maca-
roni, is for sale have a paper lantern
in front, bearing the name Of the
house.
Merchants who sell sushi-the little
roll of rice and fish of which the jap
anese are so fond-put out a little ban
ner with the name of the restaurant
and some of the other articles of food
they are prepared to place before GUS
toners.
In Toxic a few of the shopkeepers
are beginning to translate their signs
into English, with disastrous effect
One shop near Gina, the Broadway of
Toxic, bears the following legend:
1.-THE honorable meet to sail her."
notwithstanding building on
the Gina itself recently attracted
attention, for in front of it hung
great white sign, with black
letters, and on it were the mysterious
words: THE Before Station" This
was in reality an express Office or for
warding station.-Printer's Ink.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-08-29

to-day as in the olden days of slavery.
morrow. When his days work was
done he spent the night in ''froliclz
ing;" and when sickness or old age
came he was taken care of for the
good service he had done. Now be
must himself provide for the futures
and, as he is a natural spendthrift, he
never does, and when too infrm to
labor he suffers, starves and dies. As
rule, the plantation negro practices
economy only when he has neither
money nor credit. His freedom has not
inspired him with ambition, and he
labors only that lie may live, and just
enough to meet his Immediate ueces.
sites. Nearly every neigkborhood is
oversupplied with doctors and preach.
ers- The doctors practice vOodoism and
prescribe charms or talismans, in
stead of medicine, which in many in
stances is more effective, as it inspires
faith in the superstitious patient.
When darby becomes too lazy to work,
he goes to preaching. Three or four
ministers of different denominations,
''hold forth" from the same pulpit, on
the same day and the same congrega-
ton The collection is generally di-
vided. This mixing of dogmas saves
the ccngregatiation the trouble of
wrangling over mooted points. Being
uneducated, they give their crude ideas,
and repeat the sermons of the white
ministers which they have memorized.
j. NJ. SCANLAND.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-08-29

main entrance OF the rctunda or the
capitol are eighty in number, and at an
angle Of forty degrees II. S. Owens,
cycier OF local note, descended these
steps from the bronze doors to the
ground on q single wheel. OF course,
this might not be regarded as much ot
an achievement on safety bicycle
with its low wheels, but on vertical
machine 1t was certainly a very dam
gerous and difficult performance. An
other very hazardous feat was that OF
riding over the coping of Cabin Johns
bridge. This was achieved by ". s.
Robinson. The coping on the side OF
the bridge is four feet above the
bridge floor, is 500 feet long and 100
FEET above the canal There were two
joys or offsets in the coping, which
made the achievement more difficult
and dangerous. The bridge is the
longest single span OF arched ma
sonry in the world, and the height
above the ravine is such as to make
any man or woman dizzy. A single
error in manipulating the handles
would have resulted In certain death
on the one hand, or a dangerous and
Gripping tumble on the other. It has
never been attempted since; and Dir.
Robinson was glad enough to get back
upon safe ground without q mishap.
He would not try it again.
There are several clubs Of wheelmen
here, but the Capital Bicycle club is
the oldest OF its kind in this country,
having been formed in front of the
capital in 1879. Its organization,
growth and prosperity are evidences of
the great interest in wheeling. Its
membership is limited to men, and It
has become OF late q good deal of
social organization. It has more than
one hundred active resident members.
These are chiefly young professional
men and men of good positions in the
various departments. There are also
about fOrty-eight nonresident mem
berS, and number of honorary mem
bers. Some men Of prominence are at
tached to this club, and when they
have regular outings they are accom-
panied by lady friends and present
gala spectacle on the streets, avenues
and country roads Quite a number Of
congressman take to the wheel when
in Washington, and many of them are
warm personal friends of the members
OF the capital club and their lady
friends Jerry Simpson, of Kansas,
far-famed as the soclxless statesman, Is
one of the most enthusiastic of cyclerz
This club of wheel-pushers long since
erected a homelike building on Fiji
teenth street and fitted it up very
neatly. The total cost was $50, 00O The
building is q three-story structure, of
modern architecture, and is entirely oc-
cupied by the club. The moving-in took
place in September, 1886. On the low
er floor are the wheel room, the repair
shop and the buffet. On the second
floor are the parlor, the room for the
club meetings and for smoking, and the
library and committee rooms. The club
possesses an excellent collection of BIZ
cycle literature, including complete
files of every leading wheelmen's pub
location. On the third floor are the
billiard room and some living rooms
for the use of officers and members.
Above these is an attic. The parlor is
hung with pictures presented by local
artists and with engravings. The
building is supplied with bathrooms
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-08-29
THE OLD-TIME DARKY.
Even in the South There Are Only
Few Left.
Graphic Description OF Ante-BeIium
Slave Mart-The UnenviabIe Social P0-
sition OF the Trader in HUI
man E1esh.
Special Shreveport Oa.) Letter.

The present generation knows very
little of the old slavery days in the
south. With great many people it is
q mere tradition. The Importation of
slaves being prohibited by law, and,
furthermore, as the savage negro did
not understand agriculture, he was of
little value until he was tanned and
taught to work. Consequently there
arose in the southern border states,
such as Kentucky, Maryland and Vir-
ginia, class of men known as ''slavs
traders" The slave trader was a dis
tinct type; he ''made money" rapidly,
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-08-29
THE BICYCLE DISEASE.
More Virulent at Washington Than
Anywhere Else.
Everybody. from the Sedate StatesmAa
Down to the Noisy Messenger Boy,
Rides 3 Wheel Even Book
Ag0sts Push the Pedals.
Special washington Letter.

Some day somebody viii write book
on the Development of the Bicycle: or
Every Man His Own Horse 1t is lust
within the memory of men who are
now getting gray and bald that a two
wheeled vehicle was introduced and
became popular in this country 1t
was heavy machine, and both wheels
were Of the same size. They were
made OF wood, with iron tires, like the
front wheels of a buggy. Everybody
wondered that men could sit astride Of
two wheels and propel them without
falling off; and the men who pedaled
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-08-29
The Ideal and the Real

Years and years he spent at college.
Filling up his head with knowledge
Learning Hebrew. Latin, Greek.
Growing wiser week by week.
But one thing he did not learn
How his daily bread to earn,
Now his time he does employ
Hunting for Job, poor boy.
kansas City Journal
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-08-29
The Modern Hat.

a ribbon and flower takes
The maiden thin or fat:
A bit OF lace, bit Of wire,
To form modern hat
Each thing, in turn, she pulls and twist4
And sticks them all up high.
Then proudly bears them all aloft,
And pointing to the sky.
brooklyn Eagle
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1895-10-26

The old story of Pronethcus is a parable,
an allcgory. Prometheus was on terms Of
intimacy with the gods. From them he
stole FIRE, and gave il 10 men For this sin
he was bound 10 the rocks of Mount eau
casus. and vuliures were set upon him.
They only ate his liver. This grew again
as fast as it was pecked away. Are his suf-
feriugs 20 be imaginedl Yes, and realized.
Take a modern Interpretation OF the par
able There IS no cooking without FIRE. In
cooking and eating the mischief lies. The
stomach is overtaskcd, the bowels become
clogged. they cannot dispose of the food
that is given them. The impurities back
up on the liver. Then come the vuliures
The sufferings from an outside, visible
hurt, are a mere pin-scratch to the torne u Is
of diseased liver
But, moderns are ahead of the ancieuts
There is a sequel TO the old story DR.
Pierce is the author. His Golden Med.
ical Discovery" is more than equal 10 ine
vultures Of dyspepsia aud its kindred dis.
eases. Every atom Of the Discovery" Is
an active agent against disease II hies
like a ferret, wherever il is sent. II is As
sure as the needle Of the compass There
is no more need Of suffering from dyspepsia
than there is Of hanging ones self
Mr.. W RocEas Of So7 GfaJIoH 81. Loniiriir
hy. has this 1 say for himself aud the g Soide =
Medical Discovery " was dyspepuc. had
not had a comfortable aight in ak years. have
taken three bottles u Or. Pirrces Golden Med.
ieal Discovery am nov dfiy years old. fee!
thirty years yogugsf." Yours tr.ly.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1895-10-26

John S. Aydelotte and James ii. Rich
ardson, Assignees of Eliza +. Rich
Assignee OF Levi A. Purnell, Mort
gagee of Morrison I. Rich and Eliza
+. Rich, his wife, VS.. Eliza +. Rich
In the Circuit Court for Worcester
County. In Equity. No. 1868
September Term, 1895, to wit
October 17th 1895.
ORDERED that the sale made and
reported by Oliver ID. Collins, Trustee
for the sale OF the real estate in tn,
above cause described be ratified and
confirmed, unless cause to the contrar,
thereof be shown ON or before the ii
day of November next, provided :
copy Of this order he inserted in som,
newspaper printed in Worcester Coun
~, once in each OF three successiv,
weeks before the 18th day Of November
in the year Eighteen hundred and
ninety five
The report states the amount of sale,
TO be S255.0O.
FRANCIS HENRY PURNELI., Clerk
True copy, Test:
FRANCIS HENRY PURNELL, Clerk
oct. 1881.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1895-10-26

REMEMBER

The Baltimore Sun has been and is
now foe To re. assessment. 1t has
twice caused Governor of MARYLAND
to withhold his signature. 1t cannot
control John +. Hurst and is fighting
him for Governor.
The SIN is opposed 10 Free School
Books and can be depended upon to
keep Mr.. Lowndes from signing such
a bill if presented 10 him for his
signature.
The SIN cannot tell the truth about
Senator German, because it is against
the policy OF that paper. Senator
German makes this cha llenge to Mr..
Lowndes
The combination within the Dem
ocratic party who fought in the pri.
maries to prevent just such a man as
Mr.. Hurst from being nominated, was
combination between the Baltimore
San. Mr.. Edwin +. Abel, and the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, which
is exempt from taxation, aud the Re-
publican party. | repeat it, and say
that ii the case is brought into court,
| think | can prove it by both Repub-
lican and Democratic testimony. They
entered into contract with the leaders
of the Republican party that if they
could get the nomination OF Demo.
crat who would be of their way of
thinking, then Lloyd Lowndes would
nc: run for the candidacy OF the Re
publican party but if such man as
MIR. Hurst was nominated by the Dem
ocrats, then Lowndes was to run and
they would help to elect him. 1t was
the most infamous combine that was
ever gotten together in the State of
Maryland. challenge Mr. Lowndes
to deny it. Ii he dares to deny it, |
will prove it just as certain as | make
this statement before this intelligent
audience.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1895-10-26

THE Republicans see it coming.
Their plans for demoralizing the Dem
ocrats have failed. The Suns many
columns of bare-faced lies and in
geniously constructed letters from the
people, made up in the editorial
rooms of that once honest luminary
are discountenanced by the fair minded,
right-thinking people of the State.
And now appears the handwriting on
the wall. 1t proclaims the vengeance
Of the honest Democracy upon the
Sun and all other Benedict Arnolds.
II proclaims that the Democracy is
eager for the fray and is driving the
SIN and its Republican mess-mates
into their holes. They have COM
menced to cry fraud in the registra-
ton, losing sight for the instant that
il was only last week that Chairman
Wellington boosted that he had beaten
the Democrats at their own game.
Fraud has always been their
; vail The SIM itself has said so and
yet il adopts the dishonest tactics
which il only few years ago so forci-
bly, denounced the Republicans for.
John T.. Hurst will be elected Gov
ernor-not by the 10000 predicted by
the MESSENGER in the opening Of the
campaign. but a much larger majority
than that. The SIN sees il. Lowndes
sees it and they are cursing their luck
The SIMS course has done much to
solidiiy the Democracy for the ticket.
II has so outrageously abused and
throttled the truth as to open the eyes
Of many Of its old readers who now
glance at its editorials (those who have
not stopped taking the paper with
disgust. Instead Of injuring Senator
German il is now beneftting him. Its
subscribers once believed It's charges
against the Senator but there are
now thousands like those Democrats
in Worcester who were led by the Sun
TO dislike Senator German through its
plausible and well spun editorial lies.
but their eyes were opened when he
visited Snow Hill and spoke here y;
and when they who listened at his
speech read an account of il in the
SIM next day and saw how It was
garbled and how editorials we're based
upon words which he never uttered
the whole tissue of misrepresenta.
iion-it SO Disguised them that they
turned away from the Sun and are
to-day believers that Senator German
Is more u he trusted than the Balti.
more SIN. lie is doing good work
for the ticket wherever he goes and he
will do more for the cause Of the white
men in Maryland this year by driving
back TO IFS place the Republican party.
than he did in his gallant fight in the
Force Bill. for which service the peo-
pie of Baltimore and the owners Of the
Baltimore SIN presented him with n
handsome silver testimonial.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1895-10-26
REPUBLICAN oRAToRY.

At Republican meeting, largely
attended by colored voters, held in
18th district OF Baltimore county, on
Wednesday, October 9th, much en-
thusiasm was created by the speakers,
who promised the gathering mixed
free schools, should the Republican
ticket he successful
One of the speakers, Republican
politician of the LIST ward of Baltimore
city. gained the widest approval ofthe
crowd by advising the colored people,
who are two hundred and fifty strong
in that precinct, mot to come to the
polls five or six ut time, but march
there in body, and stay there all
day, and we will make the Democrats
swallow lead
At the same place about two weeks
previous, another white Republican, in
an extravagant harangue to the color
ed people, told them that il any Dem.
ocrat advised them as to how they
should vote, TO up with their fists and
knock him down"
Another speaker at this meeting,
addressed the colored voters as follows:
I'VE will have twenty hundred
offices to give out when we get in
power, and you. my fellow citizens,
will get your share of them there
won't be any Murphys or flannel
mouthed lrishmen on the police force.
but You American citizens with Amer
lean names, shall have them"
These are few instances selected
from the hundreds of like promises
made TO colored voters by the Repub-
lican speakers during the campaign,
and despite the complacent assurances
of Lloyd Lowndes, the seli-respecting
voters of the State will hesitate long
time before turning Maryland over to
a party which will be by necessity COM
PEELED 70 keep the promises to its most
important Numerically element.
And yet, the SIN says: "The ne
gro isn't in it," b.