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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-02-07

Time Brings Many Changes.
Fairfield (wash.) Observer.
History is made rapidly nowadays. Last
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-02-07

There is likely to be a revolution on
wheels.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-02-07

The new bond deal has been big sue
cess for the Government, but as some of
the bidders have to pay much higher prices
than others for the same goods the ques-
ton arises, "1s it fair deal?"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-02-07
Not of Retiring disposition

San Jose Mercury.
Mr.. Cleveland is not of retiring disposition.
bat he will be very much retired by another
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-02-07
Inhannis

JohanniS
ofexceptional purity and excellence.-London
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-02-07

The paradox of getting the Fire Depart
ment TO enter politics in order to keep out
of 1t involves the further paradox that
those of the department who fire up for
politics are liable to be fired out.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-02-07

Bicyclers to the front.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-02-07
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

HEIGHT OF WoMEN-Old Subscriber, City.
There is no record of the average height of
"young women, between the ages of IL and 81,
in California, natives of the State"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-02-07

According to Chicago estimates Senator
Allison is the second choice of the friends
OF all other Republican candidates for the
Presidency, and if this be true it means
that he is virtually the first choice of the
party as q whole.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-02-07

Senator Vest says, 81 would rather put
the flower in the sickroom of an over
worked girl or matron than have it said l
voted $4,000 for flowers and exotics for
the receptions and bouquets of the officials
of the Government where the chandelier
flashes its light across the red wine and
the air is fragrant with perfume like the
spicy breezes of Araby the BEST" The
sentiment is all right and the politics is
good, yet the old question arises, SIS it
art?i
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-02-07
HUMOR OF THE HOUR.

She-I admire the horse very much. He
n atches my riding habit splendidly.
Dealer-Yes, his color is beautiful.
She-Are you sure he won't fade?
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-02-07

Great Britain recognizes the sovereignty
OF Brazu over the island of Trinidad; but
Brazil will permit Great Britain to use it
as coaling station, and it won't be long
before the Brazilians learn that power
goes with the coal.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-02-07

Nine. Jeanne Hugo, the granddaughter of
Victor Hugo, who was recently divorced from
her husband, Alphonse Daudets son, is about
to marry young doctor of Paris.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-02-07

WATER RATEs-C. G., City. You have a right
to ask to have meter placed on your premises
and pay for the amount OF water that has act
ually been consumed as shown by the meter.
If the company refuses to do that then your
remedy lies with the Board of Supervisors, 20
whom you can make a complaint
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-01-30

Company, nEaEray York City.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-01-30
CHURCH DIRECTORY.

METHODIST EPISCOPAL Services every Sun
III day morning and evening. Sunday School at
$50 8. m. Young peoples meeting Sunday even
ings; Prayer meeting Thursday evenings
j. A. DAVIS, PASTOR
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-01-30
To Chicago by Daylight.

The Santa Fe has put on a swift
train, leaving Kansas City in the morn
ing and reaching Chicago the same
evening. 1t makes the run in about
fifteen hours, equaliing the fast service
of the night flyers.
Free chair cars and Pullman sleep
ers, vestlbuled throughout. Dining
cars serve dinner and supper, guests
only paying for what is ordered. The
chair cars are easy to ride in, an i'm
portant consideration for sunrise to
shutdown journey.
Close connections at Kansas City
with morning trains of all lines from
the west.
If you prefer to leave Kansas City in
the evening, the Santa Fe offers choice
of two limited trains.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-01-30
THIS MEANS YOU!

B@If you are subscriber and re-
ceive this paper with a lead pencil
mark opposite this paragraph, please
accept it as notice that your money is
due and will be appreciated at this Of
flee. If you are not subscriber, go OFF
why. If you arrive at satisfactory
reason please notify this Office.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-01-30
The School Book Question.


For some time there has been con-
siderable gossip concerning the Great
Bend school board and the way the
schools have been conducted. the
change of books, and the time Extend
ed half hour, etc.
[ want to say to the public chat the
members of the school board took it
upon themselves some time ago to try
to get things in good running order,
and to bring about the condition the
school treasury is in today, warrants
at par" such thing hassnot been for
many a year. The change in the
readers has proved to be good one
it doesn't only benefit the pupils but
it benefits the parents financially as
they cost considerably less money, and
let me say right here that there is
liable to be some other changes in the
text books soon, if the American Book
company doesn't reduce the prices, for
it is one of the biggest robberies that
ever was imposed upon the American
people.
AS to the extention of time, it is no
more than what we are entitled to and
what other schools have. Heretofore
for many years five and halt hours
have been taught while you have been
paying for six. [ have opposed this
method ever since [ have been on the
board, and I am the one who caused
this movement to be brought about,
and [ don't care who knows it. While
a few of our teachers don't like it very
well, [ want to remind them that thew
are getting better pay for the few
hours work they do than any other
class of people, and as long as / am a
member of the board I shall insist on
six hours of school. There are few
other changes that should be made in
the way of extravagancy, but at
present [ can't convince the majority
to see it in that light, but in the near
future it will come all right.
[ dare say, outside of the school Of
fcers, there isn't half dozen people
in the city that knows how much is
paid out for school expenses, or how
much is paid in to run it with, or what
the indebtedness of the district or
wha: we are bonded for While every
oneiis interested in good schools, but
very little interest is shower not even
will the parents visit the different
rooms in which their children attend,
to see how they are progressing. [
am informed by some of the teachers
that not visitor have they had this
term. Now this isn't right, they
would be glad to have yen call, If it's
but for short time, it encourages
them as we'll as the pupils. will say
for the benefit of those that can't, and
won't go, that the schools are running
along nicely and never in better con
dition than they are at the present
time. D. g. LUsE,
A member from the third ward.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-01-30

Hornbeck, at the old Beye stand
has the best grades of apples and sell
at the lowest market prices. See him
before buying. Also fresh cider and
cider vinegar always on hand.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-01-30
The Most Wonderful Pill.

They relieve where all others fail.
They are called Beggs' Little Giants.
and are rightly named. Remember the
name and call for them at the best
store In town. M. K. Hooper keeps
them.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-01-30

We are overstocked with heating
stoves and offer them for sale at cost.
Give us q call. Great Bend Imple-
ment Company. 81
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-01-30

Registration Notice.
The city registration books for 1896
are now open at the Tribune office.
J. A. TOwNSLEY, Clerk.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-01-30
CaStOria.

''Castoria is an excellent medicine for chill
dren- Mothers have repeatedly told me OF its
good eject upon their children
On. G. c. OsGooD,
Lowell, Mass
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-01-30

s'Castoria is the best remedy for children OF
which am acquainted hope the day is I:ct
far distant when mothers will cOnsiler the real
interest of their children, and use Cas;cria in
stead OF the various QuaclS nostrunls which are
destroying their loved ones, by forcing opium,
morphine, soothing syrup and other hurtful
agents down their Threats, thereby sending
them To premature graves"
Dr. j. T. KIScHELoE,
Conway, Ark.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-06-08

The origin of the straw hat trade is
lost in the mists of antiquity. 1t ap-
pears from "Coryat's Crudities, :"
published in 1911, that "the most del
icate strawen hats" were worn by the
men and women of Piedmont, many
with at least hundred seams.
1t is evident that the art of straw
plating had arrived at great state of
perfection more than two centuries
since, but it does not appear to have
reached England till n hundred years
later. 1t is within the memory Of
some of the old inhabitants of the
straw districts that the wives and
daughters of farmers used to plait
straw for their own bonnets before it
became an established branch of
trade.
Indeed, the custom of wearing bon.
nets at all is of a comparatively recent
date, as hoods were used by women of
the lower classes, while ladies of rank
adopted hats made of silk and other
textile fabrics.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-06-08

By combination of the Bertillon
method of measurement with the fin
ger print system any prisoner can be
identified with almost absolute GER
tainty and in q very short space of
time. Mr.. Galton, says the Saturday
Review, calculates that the chance OF
two finger prints being identical is
less than l in 64,000,00 900, and
when we consider the relatively small
numbers of the criminal population,
and that other personal evidence
would be available in any doubtful
case, mistaken identity ought now to
be thing of the past. The method Of
indexing finger prints proposed by
Mr.. Galton is at first sight somewhat
complicated, but with little practice
we are told that about five minutes
would suffice for the complete verifica-
tion of any one OF 2632 sets forming o
directory.
A specimen directory of 800 sets
has been given, together with numer-
GUS finger prints. The method of OBJ
tanning the prints is to press the
thumb or finger upon a plate of cop
per which has previously been coated
with very thin film of printers ink.
The linked fingers are then pressed or
rolled upon the card which is kept as q
record. Although finger prints have
been used as sign manual from the
earliest times, yet it is only recently
that they have been studied from q
scientific point of view, and the evil
dence accumulated is as yet insufficient
to enable US to realize their value to
the anthropologist. Now that good
system of classification has been
worked out, it is to be hoped that OBJ
servers will multiply rapidly, and that
the bulk of material at our disposal
will soon be considerable. !
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-06-08
A BYGONE SUMNER.

An hnmble scene among the bygone sum-
mers,
When limbs were round and maidens' Inns
were red.
Among the grass the rhymes of insect hum
mers;
The katydids' harsh triolets overhead.
Where the white road the mountains coarse
hair parted,
Spilled nectar, but a moment sunshine
flowed;
The whippoorwills their night-long chansons
started,
And on the sky-plains tents of bedouins
showed.
Two stood beside the farmstead gate-a
maiden,
And he who there with Hopes misguiding
eyes
Saw fame ahead, as some child legend laden,
Believes beyond the rainbow treasure lies.
They stood together in the locust's shadows
Their faces pale beneath the twilight glow
And shesaid, soft as vespers over meadows
Il hate so much, 80 much, to see you go!"
The years went by in disappointing fashion,
For who has seen the futures scroll un.
fold,
Nor learned that those we love with youths
first passion
Are not the ones we wed when we are old?
Yet, little maid, in memory's blue now Sleep
ing,
lover yet, an old mans teardrops flow.
IL there were only one to cheer him weeping,
And say-"G hate so much to see you go!''
Memphis Commerclal-Appeal.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-06-08

The question is frequently asked :
What is vegetarian community to
use instead of leather? OF course
substitutes would have to be found.
At present, as hides are waste pro-
duct, there is no need to seek further !;
but when they become scarce other
substances will certainly take their
place. Other things have already be-
gun to compete with leather. Form
erly the doublet and breeches and
even bottles were made of that SUBJ
stance. Now we use cloth for book
binding and other purposes, and may
have artificial leather boots. Demand
always stimulates invention and pro-
duction. 1t may, therefore, be safely
predicted that to make ample pro-
vision for our clothing, even under a
vegetarian regime, is task not be-
yond the resources of civilization.
We may be sure that if We have fol-
lowed nature thus far and trusted her
for our greater wants she will as
suredly not fail us in these lesser
things. Westminster Review.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-06-08
A Meteor When i'm Business.

We owe our immunity to our at
mosphere, which serves as bullet
proof cuirass for the world. When a
meteor enters the atmosphere, the
friction produced by its gigantic speed
makes it flash up like the arrow of
Acestes, only more so. The ingenious
experiments of Lord Kelvin have
shown that the heat thus produced,
just as brake showers sparks from o
carriage wheel, or lucifer match
lights on the box, is sufficient to con-
sumo the meteor as if it were suddenly
cast into furnace heated to three or
four million degrees. Obviously the
smaller meteors are utterly consumed
before they have penetrated far into
the atmosphere, which their fate has
shown to rise to height of about 120
miles.
Only very large one can descend,
as that of Madrid is said to have done,
to within twenty miles of the earth
before being burst by the expansion
due to heat and by the resistance of
air. The fact that fragments do oc-
casionally reach the earth is the best
proof of the great size of some of the
meteors that we encounter. If it were
not for the "blessed air." the explo-
sion of them all, with the accompany
ing fervent heat, would take place in
our midst. 1t is safe to say that such
state of things would render our
great towns uninhabitable. In Lon
don we are somewhat inclined to grid
at the atmosphere, with its smoke anil
its fog and its east wind. But none
of us can tell how often it has saved
him from terrible and invisible fate,
in being, as Mark Twain has it, 'shot
with rock" If we are more inclined
to recognize the atmosphere services
in future, the Madrid meteor will not
have exploded in vain.-The Spectator.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-06-08
Warlike Indians.

An island in the Gulf of California
is inhabited by queer human beings.
The Ceris, without doubt, are one of
the most interesting tribes of abor-
igines to be found on this hemisphere.
They are said to have fair skins and
blue eyes, and bear no resemblance
whatever to the Indian tribes of the
mainland or of the peninsula. In
former days they made excursions
upon the mainland, spreading havoc
along the coast, but in later years
they have kept closely to their island
home. They are extremely fierce and
warlike, and use venomed arrows in
fighting. The island is known to be
very mountainous, with innumerable
rugged canyons and gorges, where the
Indians ambush, and which renders
subduing them almost an impossi-
bility. Beyond the fact of tho ex-
istence of the Ceris tribe very little is
known. Their habits and language
are said to be peculiar to themselves,
while their origin is a subject of con-
lecture. The island shows no sign OF
vegetation from the Gulf, and their
method of gaining subsistence is un-
known. Shippers cruising in those
waters carefully avoid this island
peopled with blue-eyed savages, and
its rugged outlines, which loom up in
the Gulf, are shrouded in mystery
Oakland (Cal. Echoes.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-06-08

The Roanoke Colony Memorial AS
sociation of North Carolina intends to
erect an appropriate memorial on Ro-
anoke Island, North Carolina, where
Sir Walter Raleigh's colonists settled
in 1885 and 1887, and on which was
born in 1887 Virginia Dare, the first
shild of English parentage born in
America. The association appeals to
all users of tobacco, and dealers in it
especially, to contribute to this object
at least the value of two or three
cigars, inasmuch as Sir Walter Raleigh
FIRST discovered tobacco at Roanoke.
The President of the association is
Graham Dawes, of Newbern, North
Carolina.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-06-08
THE TWO TIDES,

In vast tidal-wave of rosy light
The morning breaks on the receding shore,
Where sounds the swelling, multitudinous
roar
OF Life and Labor rising in their might;
While, far behind, with scintillant speoks of
white
Drowning the tumult which 1t deepens
DER
In earth-long curvature, rolls evermore
The black and silent avalanche Of night.
o thou of selfish power and fortune proud,
The world rovolves. The night shall over
shroud
Its face, unshadowed though it be with
cloud.
thou from whose sad life all light seems
gone,
Beyond the black horizon limo the dawn
In rosy tide comes rolling swiftly on.
Edward P. Jackson, in Youths Companion.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-06-08

The Property Protection Society of
England sends out little leafiet en-
titled "The Expenditure of q Great
Landowner" The landowner is the
Duke of Bedford, and the lands are
his Thorney and Wansford estate. His
outlay, according to Mr.. Wilson Fox.
one of the assistant commissioners to
the Royal Commission on Agriculture,
during the twenty one years from 1872
to 1894, was over $2,650,00O. The
total rent received from the property
during that period was $3.50, 900.
Thus the average annual outgoings
represented 10. per cent. of the aver
cge annual rent received, without de-
ducting income tax. The net income
derived from the estate in 1898 gave
no rent at all for the land, and repre-
sented only "a per cent. on the sums
spent on buildings.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-06-08
Defects of Speech Remedied.

If the proper effort is made in
children from the age OF two to five
years of age, it is in no way difficult
to correct defective pronunciation.
The faults lies usually in the necessity
of the child's learning how to correct
ly pronounce certain words which to
him seem incorrectly learned, A little
practice on consonant sounds will
sometimes correct many defects. The
idea that "tongue-tie" is to blame for
defects of speech is usually erroneous.
1t is surprising how quickly little
methodical education will permanently
correct defects of speech, and this is
almost equally true of stammering. =
Chic ago Medical Times.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-06-08

The Columbia Is. C.) State says: "It
is not to the interest of the South that
its commercial and financial operations
shall be limited to one channel; it is
greatly to its interest that it shall
have close relations with more than
one metropolis. We want to see New
York and Chicago competing for the
trade of the Southeast, for the newt
able result Of that competition will be
to give US better terms and greater
consideration. The Eastern metrop-
oils has heretofore taken our trade as
a matter of course, with hardly an of,
fort and without thanks. Southern
trade moro than Northern has made
New York great. Now we want Chi
cago to bid for it, and get what she
can of it by offering cheaper goods,
better accommodations, easier terms
There is no prejudice, no feeling in
matter. We simply offer our trade to
the highest bidder. The West has not
sent money here to build cotton mills
and uphold banks because it had no
business relations with us of the sort
requiring or prompting such action,
and because it has been until recently
itself very great borrower from the
East to develop its own resources.
We do not assert that the feeling OF
the West towards the South is warmer
than that of the East, or that the East
merits our commercial hostility. We
only say that it e better to have two
buyers of our products than one two
offerers Of goods and money and &C.
commodations than one; two investors
and developers than one. There is
no sentiment in the matter so far as
we are concerned. IT is business,
strictly business.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-06-08

On March 27, 1898, package con.
tanning $87, 900 in Treasury notes was
received from the Assistant Treasurer
at New York. 1t was counted in the
usual manner and found correct.
Fifty-one of the notes were for $1,000
each. These were done up in pack.
age by themselves. Holes were
punched through the package for can
collation., and it was then cut in two
in the customary fashion, one set Of
halves being sent to the Office of the
Secretary of tie Treasury and the
other set to the Office of the Register.
Both sets counted up only $50, 900, in
stead of $51, 900. OF course, the per-
son who did up the notes and marked
them $51, 900 was responsible, but it
is hardly practicable to subtract
$1,000 from the wages of clerk who
gets only $1,000 year. She was dis
charged. and the Treasurer of the
United States, E. Fl. Nebeker, made
good the sum out of his own pocket.
If any money disappe ars anywhere in
the accounts of the Treasury Depart
ment, the Treasurer must go down in
his clothes and square it.
Frauds on the redemption division
of the Treasury are constantly being
tried. What are called ''drawer
scraps" are presented almost every
day with demands for new money in
exchange. These are the torn-off frag-
ments of notes which are found in tills
and cash drawers. A young man en-
ployed in New York bank once sent
in box full of them, claiming 5000.
They were the result of many sweep
ings carefully accumulated. Unfor-
tunately, they represented $1,000 or
more, if anything, and the youth was
lucky to escape prison. An Ohio wo-
man not long ago mailed to the Treas
ury a number of rolled-up pellets of
paper, which she said represented a SIS
note torn up by child. The pellets
were Strengthened out and found to be
thirteen centre strips cut lengthwise
from as many bills. 1t is hardly neces-
sary to say that the woman got moth
ing in return. People seem to think
that Uncle Sam is precious green; at
the eame time the redemption division
does get cheated now and then, un-
doubtedly. --PhIladelphia Times.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-06-08
How Fast Does Electricity Travel2

The above question is frequently
asked in everyday conversations, but
is seldom asked to the satisfa otion of
the querist. Wheatstone says that the
speed of electricity from point to
point along a proper conductor is
practically instantaneous. Various at
tempts have been made to ascertain
the exact number of miles which the
current will travel in a given length
of time. According to the most re-
liable estimates which such expert.
ments have made, its speed is not less
than ia, 900 miles per second. The
writer adds: "Such speed is incon-
ceivably great; the mind cannot con-
template it without staggering"