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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-07-09
Seif-Sacrificing Teachers.

The ~ teachers OF the Fort Scott,
Kan, city schools have signed con-
tracts to teach next year at salaries re-
iuced five per cent from what was paid
last year. The reduction includes the
superintendent and all grade teachers
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-07-09
Germans VIII Open a College.

The college building at Enterprise
recently deserted by the United
Brethren denomination will be re-
opened this fall by the German Meth
odists, who will conduct a western
school with a complete faculty.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-07-09
Cattle Stealing Very Common

1t was stated recently that stealing
cattle and shipping them to market
aad become so common in Greenwood
county that when a man missed steer
rom his herd he Immediately took the
rain for Kansas City.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-07-09
Leavenworth Saloons Closing.

Many saloonkeepers at Leavenworth
we're reported as closing their places
because they could not afford to pay
Doth federal and city license. There
we're 100 saloons in the town
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-02-17
PINE BLUFF, AaKy MONDAY, MARCH
 3, AT HOTEL IRUL0CR.
RETURNING EVERY 1 WEEKS.

opinion every given
   Graduates the skill astonishing short with questions $0O0 gold have accepted and failed These honorable all their
  accepted chronic standing having 
 CHRONIC EYES, positively 
 quickly again made  CATARRH CURED for failure. DISEASES OF WOMEN forms cured by painless London hospital making has entered fife and is worth living ASTHMA CATAkl CONSUMPTION i'll early diseases heart and enraga St Nitns newly discovered dlgurng
  who a been PILES FIsTtA and RECTAL DISEASES promptly 
 YOUNG AND MIDDLE AGED MEN These eminent specialists attained dreadful conditions mar dies and appliances necessary without which advanced he conditions
  developed vital speedily
  Write full
 
  should be sent to their office in Little Rock
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-02-17
The Skeleton of De Soto.

The local historians of Baton Rouge, La, believe that the mortal remains oi fernando De Soto lie buried between Ro gigantic live oaks near the present ale Of Port Hudson. The books tell diff Tlent tales about the death and burial V ule great discoyerer. Some say thd S Was wrapped in his mantle and I@ioWn a into the Mississippi; others that ,ac remains were incased in q hollow " Ill 1858 three hunters--Rigsby, Da'ls and Hurin-were eneamped neal Saat ls now Port Hudson. While kin snng a fire they found q human skele Y ia hollow log that had been lying %aufl1t. The bones were those of man ~A ieet tall In the log a helmet. q 's'y sword and a large bronze erucifiS
 ''c also found, and on one of the fin
 " u tho skeletons s hand large seal
 ls' The discoverers of this ghastly s''uiehto believe that the remains were
 se oi De Soto. the discoyerer of the
 DssSsippi river. The burial place oi M 0Ones IS we'll known to tho Rigsbys,
 ~ sllll reside ill Louisiana. St.
 s'ls Republic.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-02-17
Color RIind-

John Dalton, without whose discovery ot the laws of chemical combination chemistry as an exact science could hardly exist, was wholly color blind. Ills knowledge of the fact came about by happening of the sort which we call chance. On his mothers birthday. when he was man of 26, he took her a pair of stockings which he had seen in a shop window labeled:
 Silk, and newest fashion. 5
 "Thee has bought me a pair of grand hose, John, D said the mother, "but what made thee fancy such bright col or? Why, l can never show myself at meeting in them. ''
 John was much disconcerted, but he told her that he considered the stockings to be of very proper go to meeting color, as they were dark bluish drab.
 Why, they Ire red as a cherry, John. :" was her astonished reply.
 Neither he nor his brother Jonathan could see anything but drab in the stock ings, and they rested in the belief that the good wife's eyes were out of order until she, having consulted various neighbors, returned with the verdict, Varra fine stuff, but uncommon scar lety. "
 The consequence was that John Dal- ton became almost the first to direct the attention of the scientific world to the subject of color blindness. - Youth s Companion.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-02-17
The NIereenarv.

me mercenary fighting man is 2 nor. son who seldom receives his duo ra,gara during his lifetime or his inst ,paaa os iaine a1ter his death. The character is one so alien to the age in which we live ls pe!ohgs 70 entirely to the days when nehtlhg was the only occupation for . gentleman, that it has forfeited alil,o o,,r study and our sympathy. Volunteers vva understand, but mercenaries we do not me world apparently has grown to shlhK that lighting as a professiop-the oafe trade of arms uneonsecrated hv any sentiment of cause or countrv--is not a noble thing and should not how ever ably and gallantly followed. be ad- Judged the highest praise.
 Possibly the world is right, but wa suspect that change of system in the training of fighting men has had far more Influence than mere abstract bn. manlty in creating this opinion Tn these days of short service and swift wars the old type of professional fipht- Ing man has become extinct. In every country the recruit is forced throupb 2 solalef education at high pressure and returned to civil life as speedily as nos slble that he may earn money to pay for the education of others. No man. unlass he be an officer, deyotes his whole life time to the military calling, and conse- quently the few mereenaries-the mama IS too lgneble for them-Who are known to us Ill these later times are without exception officers-Gordon, for instance Valentine Baker and Hobart. 1t was not so of old, when the rule WAS once a sol. dler always a soldier, and the only school was war. Then few men dreamed Of rising to command except through the ranks, and many gentlemen preferred to stay all their lives ill the ranks or at highest to carry the ensigns of their companies. Veteran soldiers were worth thelr weight ill gold, and though by no means innocent of rapacity followed their calling from sheer devotion to it and thought themselves unlueky if they died in their beds. .-Macmillan $ Mapa zine.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-02-17
DR. V. CONDORY.
 EUROPEAN
 PHYSICIAN
 (VIENNA, AUsTRIA.I RESIDENCE: HOT SPRINGS. ARK

To accommodate my patients in- form them hereby that l will be at their disposition every Wednesday and Thursnay in Pine Bluff, at the Hotel Trulock
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-02-17
CREEK FIRE.
y How the Terrible Engine of Destruction Was Used h Warfare

" sAS CsSu 4h w affSre.
 Joinville. who served under Kino Louis K ill tho seventh crusade of 1a4s gives a graphic description of the ter TOTS of Greek fire: "It hannened one night that the Turks brought up ali ell. zine that they called the perriere (stone thrower), 3 terrible engine of destruo tion, and placed it in front of some cot castles (chaz chateiD that M. Gaultiel de Curel and l were guarding that night, and from this engine they threw Greek fire at us ill great quantities fa plante). It was the most horrible thino that ever 1 saw. WiGn the good knipbt M. Gaultier, my comrade, saw the fire. he cried out and said to us: 'Seipneprs we are lost forever without remedy. for if they set fire to our eat castles we shall be consumed and burned, and if we leave cur post We shall be disgraced ; and so l conclude that there is no one &who can defend us from this peril ex- cept God, cur blessed Creator. Order all our men, every time the enemy throws the Greek fire, to throw themselves ou their hands and knees and cry, "Thanks to our Lord, in whom is all powerp n And whenever the Turks fired the first shot we threw ourselves thus on on, hands and knees, as our commander ba6 ordered. The nature of Greek fire was such that it advanced toward us as bio as tun, and its tail extended a yard in length (une demye-eanne edequatrepans1 1t made such g noise ill coming thai fl seemed as though it were thunderbolt falling from heaven and appeared to me like great dragon flying in the air. II threw out such brilliant light that # was as clear as daylight in our host, SC great was its flame of fire Three times that night they threw this Greek fire al us from the aforesaid perriere and for1 times from the great erossboW (arbeleste tour) and every time our good King St. Louis heard that they were throwing the fire at us in this manner he cast himself upon the ground, and stretch ing out his hands. with his face uprais ed to heaven, he cried i'll loud voice te our Lord and exclaimed as he shed great tears, Beau Sire Dieu Jesus Christi garde moy ct toute ma gent. ," C"His toire do St. Lo4is. " Petitot, volume 3, page 235.)
 The cat castles mentioned by Joinville were wooden towers Used in sieges, and the word came is French measure ol length equivalent to six feet and con. sisting of eight pans of nine inches each There was nothing novel in the mere throwing of fire. It has always been one of the usual incidents of sieges Gentleman s Magazine.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-02-17
Glory Sufficient.

The barbor's trade is everywhere rec ognized as honorable, but The Common cial Bulletin tells story of one man who had peculiar reasons for magnify ing his office.
 There was once a hairdresser ill Bos- ton who numbered among his patrons many gentlemen of the medical protes- sion. Ono day, when operating upon one of them, he broke forth ill great glee;
 "Vat you dink, dogtor? haf been to dot hospital, und while 1 vait to go up und cut man s hair l see marple busts of de dogtors. Dere was Dogtor Storer und dere vas Dos tor Peegelow init de viz I dress for him desc dwenty years, in marple. Dink Of dot Von of my wigs in marplel'
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-02-17
Sure of It This Time.

John John P
 Mir Billus ceased snoring. What the matter, Maria?" There's a man in tho house. Listen p "What9"
 "I heard q heavy foot on the stairway. Listenl9
 Mir Billns listened moment. "I don't hear anything. " II do. There-I hcald it again !" There was no response but a snore. "John p
 Another snore.
 ".Iohn Billus, ato you afraid to get up?"
 No response.
 Mrs. Billus lay down again. eff yon can stand it to have the house robbed, :" sho exclaimed wrathfnlly, "I can
 At the end of half an hour she spoke again:
 "Johnl
 No answer.
 "John Billus P
 "What's the matter now?'' ''I was mistaken. There wasn' t any man in the house. And there ism any man ill the house HOW. either Hear that, do u?"--Chicago Tribune.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-02-17
EUPION COAL OIL.

Is by far the best burning oil on Pine Bluff market. It makes q good light aud is perfectly safe. It does not smoke the chimney or char the wick as cheaper oils do. Remember that it is sold only by the following mer- chants:
 John H. Talbot & Co.,,
 Robinson & Go.
 H. F. Seveke,
 c, Pumpkin,
 L. E. Goldsmith & Co.,,
 Thalheimer Bros.,
 J. T. Lloyd,
 Houston & Roane.
 Pine Bluff Mercantile Co.,,
 Fox Bros. Ferguson & Russell.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-02-17
SAVED BY A CAT.
How BashfuI Young Man at Last Got
 Spoons

How Bashful Young Man at Last Got i.
 Spoon.
 There is a man, we'll known in in dicial circles as one of the most polished and courtly of gentlemen, who tells the following story
 He had not, in his early youth, those advantages which tend to produce east of manner When about 10, he was much in love with neighbor'S daugh ter, and, according to his statement, was at this time nearly 6 feet tall, un gainly, shy and with the proyerbial ubiq. uitous hands and feet.
 One Sunday he YVES at dinner with his rosy checked sweetheart, and when the guests had been served with souT the youth discovered that he had nC spoon. He grew red i'll the face and was in an agony of modification and dismay. If he asked for a spoon, he felt sure eV. cry one would look at him; if be did not eat his soup, his hostess would be sure to remark it. What was he 10 doi He felt his hands growing larger and more in the Way than ever, and his feet caused him untold emotion by ahsolute. y lyrefusing to go under his chair.
 Great beads of precipitation stood oui on his face and trickled down like rain. The situation was becoming unendur able when q terrified cat, pursued by g small but game terrier, rushed into the room and sprang upon the table The guests jumped up, and in the general confusion the embarrassed youth retain. cd his seat, and turning to the servant lemarked calmly, 'I'll have a spoon, please. "W ashington Times.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-02-17
Cold and Clothes.

'''9 'sopl0 who are susceptible to the cold ,aa .a9 make point of wearing loose sang @, ira cold weather. Loose gar s t,' are always warner than tight
 m s ehes, not only because they allow ss 1 i0r Circulation, but also because e | permit a layer of air between the n anu the outside cold. Now York
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-02-17
SPECIAL TREATMENT.

During 30 years experience have treated especially (wiihout mercury) under guaran- tee, syphilis, nervous debility, nervous pros tration, kidney troubles, rheumatism, blood and skin diseases, blotches, pimples, eczema. piles, hstula, bladder troubles, chronic ca tarrh. heart and stomach troubles. fissure. prolapsus. ulceration pruritas spasma and all rectal diseases.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-02-17
Information For tho Teacher.

The teacher was asking questions teachers are quite apt to ask questions, and they sometimes receive curious an swers. This question was as follows;
 'Now, pupils, how many months have 28 days?
 "All of them, teacher, i" replied the boy on the front seat Utica Observer
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-02-17
Ernents the Worst.

I always expect the worst in all things and all cases, because I know the worst i'd nossible; therefore 1t isnatural for me to expect the worst, and as it IS the un- avnacted that happens, the worst does not often happen to me. Fiber and Fab rio.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-02-17
An Ann1icatinn.

.sa aal' one morning at family pray. t'ss. hsssa Tor q good neighbor in great Ilon. ~, After the prayer his boy t0s nun, Papa, give mo your pock- hhi and l wili go over 10 Mr. D qua answer your prayer my
 louisville Western Recorder.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-02-17
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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-02-07
LOOKS WARLIKE IN KENTUCKY.
Militia To He Called Out to Help Elect /:
United States Senator.

Militia To He Called Out to Help Elect a
United States Senator.
LOUISVILLE, Feb. IA special to The
Couricr-Journal from Frankfort says:
The Republicans last night at secret eau.
Gus in the rooms Of DR.. Godfrey Hunter
decided to establish a military guard over
the joint sessions Of the legislature on the
election of United States senator. There
were present at the conference besides DIR.
Hunter, Governor Bradley and Adjutant
General Collier.
The Hunter managers announced to the
governor that something had to lie done.
1t seemed certain that when Tompllins and
Kaufman were unseated the Democratic
senate would retaliate instantly and
would not permit the uns0ated Republi.
cans to go into the joint session, the
Democrats having the chief sergeant at
arms and doorkeeper.
They also stated that quite a number of
Senator Blackburn's friends were going
to be sworn in as deputies in order to
help keep out the unseated Republican
senators. This furnished the basis for the
request for the militia. 1t is said that
nothing will be done until Monday, as
Lieutenant Governor Worthington will
be out of the city VI il then.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-02-07

that purpose. In anticipation Of the loan
the gold Withdrawn from the treasury
during the month from Jan. to Feb. s
amounted to $3.50. 5i5, which added to
yesterdays Withdrawals makes an aggre-
gate Of about s. so, 900. The magnitude
OF the subscriptions to the loan calls at.
tention to the fact that the total amount Of
gold coin and gold certificates in circular
ton in tho United States is less than
$3.50, 10000
The natural inference is that a great
number of bidders must have depended
upon getting their supply from the treas.
ury or outside sources. What will be the
result upon the reserve is a matter OF
grave concern, and while it is expected
that it will be augmented by at least
t111, 0O0, O0o as a result of the present SALE
1t Is not SO apparent that on the date the
last installment becomes duo the reserve
will not have been reduced to a point not
greatly in excess of the S1O0. 900 900 re-
Gurement.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-02-07
Iowa Legislative Summary.

Dies MONIES, Feb. 1.-THE senate re.
ceived many petitions asking the removal
of the Bonaparte dam and legislation 70,
mutual beneficiary organizations. Bills
introduced: Governing building and loan
associations; regulating farmers live
stock mutual insurance organizations;
increasing the support fund Of the boys
industrial school; making $50 the mini.
mum amount involved in cases of appeal
to the supreme court; punishment for
grave robbing. Tho house spent the
greater part of the session considering the
bill to prevent gambling, but killed the
proposition. Bills introduced: Prohibit.
ing poultry from running ut large in a
city; providing for uniform insurance pol
icies; providing home for epileptics.
The senate code revision committee de.
cided to recommend the adoption of a res
olution shutting off the introduction of all
bills except legalizing acts and appropria-
tions after Feb. 90
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-02-07
Tho Old and the New NAVY.

The old Constitution could with her
best guns at LOCO yards, pierce 20
inches Of oak. about the thickness of her
own hull at water line. The five-eighths
inch steel covering at the Atlanta's wa.
ter line had nearly the same resisting
power as the Constitution % inches OF
oak. The Atlanta's six inch guns will,
at 1 600 yards. bore through a surface
having 20 times the resisting power Of
her own or the Constitution hull at
water lines At the same range her eight
inch guns pierce IA inches Of iron
Scribcer's.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-02-07
COUNTRY Is SAFE ENOUGH NOW.
Fitzsimmons and Maher Can't Fight in An
Of Our Territories.


Fitzsimmons and Maher Can't Fight in Any
of Our Territories.
WASHINGTON, Feb THE senate. real.
izing the necessity for prompt action,
took up the house Observation-Disclosures
territories bill and passed it without a dis.
senting vote. So it only needs the pres
ident's signature to become law. No
promulgatirn of the law will be neces.
sary. The law becomes executive from
the moment it is signed by the president,
and all persons must at their peril take
cognizance of its enactment. Indeed, un-
der well established law as laid down in
the settled opinions Of the United States
supreme court any persons violating its
provisions on the same day, but after the
hour in which it is signed, would be liable
to all the penalties OF the act.
The authorities, in advance of the laws
signature, will not say what course they
will take to prevent its violation, but ex.
press absolute confidence that the fipht
will not take place on United States soil
after the act is signed by the president,
The governor of New Mexico Ia in hearty
sympathy with the movement to break up
the fights, and the Catron bill was framed
largely at his suggestion in order to stou
them. 1t is probable the United States
district attorney and marshal for New
Mexico will be instructed promptly to see
that the fight does no. take place The war
department would cooperate with the de.
partment Of justice in this movement by
the use Of troops
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-02-07
PRESIDENT ON THE NEW LOAN.

Chief Executive Says 1t Is Drawing Golden
Hoarts to the Treasury.
NEW YORK, Feb. THE Evening Post
publishes an interview with President
Cleveland regarding the bond issue in
which he says: From such information
as comes to me from various private
sources, I I'm convinced that more small
holdings of gold will be drawn into the
treasury by the present arrangement than
appear on the surface. The small coun-
try banks, for instance, which are buying
bonds for their customers, have made
their bids through their New York and
Boston correspondents and this give the
loan the appearance of having been taken
up by the big financial institutions, al.
though Us a matter of fact not a little of it
will ultimately come from the small in.
VestOrS"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-02-07
WOULD FORECLOsE ON THEM.
Secretary Smith Tells the House Commit
tee His Views of the Pacific Roads.

Secretary Smith Tells the House Commit
tee His Views of tho Pacific Roads.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.-Secretary Smith,
OF the interior department, was before the
house committee on Pacific railways and
and with them. In brief he would forecloso
sell them. Concerning the granted lands
OF the Union and Central Pacific COM
panies the secretary recommended that
instead of proceeding to patent these lands
to the road congress pass an act of for
fixture which would exempt bona fide
purchasers of lands from the rail road CON-
panies and provide for pltenting their
lands to bona fide purchasers.
The general subject of the governments
relations to the roads being taken I'D Sec.
rotary Smith was asked by Boatner
whether it was possible to have q fore
closure on the roads carried out without
government ownership.
Yes, SIR" answered the secretary.
"There would be no difficulty We should
approach this matter solely as the repre-
sentatives Of the governments interests.
Other parties can bc trusted to represent
themselves" While he was utterly op-
posed to government ownership the secre-
tary said the threat of government own
ership should not prevent the government
from foreclosing and making a re- sale.
AS for the lease of the control to the
Southern Pacific, foreclosure would wine
that out, as that contract had been made
subject to the governments lien. Score.
tary Smith said that any purchaser of the
roads could pay fair rate of interest on
bonds. pay a fair sum every year for the
redemption of bonds, and still have a
handsome profit. If the company stood
ready to purchase the roads of the govern.
ment, giving first mortgage bonds at 8
per cent, and making a small yearly pay
ment on the principal, the offer should be
accepted.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-02-07
STILL PURSUE JUDGE mcxs.


KuiGhts Of Labor Want That Congress.
ional Report Unearthed.
CLEVELAND. Feb. 7.-Districs assembly
No. "A, Knights of Labor, at a meeting
here instructed its master workman to re.
quest Representatives Burton and Beach
to recall the Kicks investigation to the at.
tention Of congress. The Investigation
was made by a congressional committee a
year ago on charges of improper use OF
funds by Judge A. j. Kicks, of the United
states court Of northern Ohio.
A report was made at that time by the
majority Of the committee generating
Judge Kicks, and minority report was
prepared arriving at different conclu-
SION Every local assembly Of the Knights
OF Labor in Ohio was also requested to
take similar action with regard to the rep.
resentatives in their districts The object
Is to reopen the inquiry