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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-08-12

The New York World makes an
earnest effort to fnd out how much
prosperity there is in the country.
Here it is: In Philadelphia, there
are not less than $4,000 mechanics
idle; in Buffalo, between "a 900 and
$4,000, and times are getting worse
instead of better; in Indianapolis,
there are 5000 idle, and in the State
$4,000! in New Haven, Connecticut,
5000 are walking the streets, the
State prison can hold no more, and
tx e army of tramps number $500 in
the State; in Rhode Island there are
more men unemployed than there
were year ago; in San Francisco,
15,0 900 skilled workmen are without
employment, and so on to the end of
the chapter.-Wichita Beacon.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-08-12

In giving the names of fire COM
panles in the state which have written
that they will take part in Topeka's
fall sucker net, Called festivaD the
Daily Journal of that city names the
Great Bend fire department. AS no
member of the department of this city
has notified the Topeka people to
that effect, and has had no authority
to do 80, we are at a loss to know why
the Journal misrepresents the matter.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-08-12

The DEMOCRAT, with all the county
news. for 81 year.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-08-12

VIM. j. BRYAN is a larger, more
imperious and a more forceful guam
tity in the Democratic equation of the
present than Mr.. Cleveland and all
his personal following put together.
We do not endeavor to explain it,
simply recognize the tremendous over
shadowing fact.-W Washington Post.
The reason for Mr.. Bryan's power
in his party is not hard to find. He
is so Unidentified with it as to have be.
come almost the personi6cation of the
cause of the struggling, suffering mass
of humanity. -Topeka Independent.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-12-17
4 GOOD TIME.
He knew . Game That was Batter.
- Than Golf.

He Knew . Came That was BETTER
Than Golf.
One of the old residents in the rural
community had been intently watching
the two young men from the city as
they played chess, says the, Detroit
Free Press. The game was a long one
and he ventured TO interrupt:
Excuse me; but the object of both
of you is to git them wooden objects
from where they are over TO where they
ain't2"
"That partially expresses it" replied
one.
"And you have to be continually On
the, lookout fur surprises and difficult
ties?"
Constantly" i:,.;
"And if you amt mighty keerful
you're goin' to lose some on 'em?"
"Yess', 80,
'An' then there's that other game
that you, dress up old fur an play with
long sticks an little ball."
"You mean golf."'
''I think proh'lv that's what mean.
Is that game amusin'?"
cts quite. interesting, and the exer-
else q very beneficial"
"Well, 1 reckon it's mighty good
joke on me-" 70 .-...>.-.....
"What do you refer to?"
''The way I've been havin' fun with
out KNOWN anything about it. If you
gentlemen want to rely enjoy your
sells, you come over and git me to let
you drive pigs. You'll git all the walk
in you want an the way you have to
watch out fur surprises an figger SOS
not to lose 'em would tickle you most to
DEATH"
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-12-17
Venezuelan Revolutions.

The comic aspect Of q revolution in
Venezuela are described by Captain
Cyprian Bridge in the United Service
Magazine. He got his material from
the consul in these words:-"We Of
ten have them here. Life in this
country is 80 cruely slow that they are
about the only excitement during the
year. The way it's done is, fellow
finds out that a sufficient number of
his friends to make show will join
him. Then he brides some of the
soldiery at ten cents a head, and there
he is at the head Of an army. He
marches this army out to the further
side of big valley that we have near
the town, and goes into camp there to
await the coming of the Government
troops. There is some talk Of erect
ing standing camp there to save
the trouble Of pitching one afresh
every time. Well, when the Govern
ment troops come out they draw up
on the other side Of the valley, with
all the generals in front. They are
quite safe, because the two sides of
the valley are not within range of
each other. Early in the forenoon,
before the sun gets too hot, both
sides blaze volley ut each other,
then turn round and bolt for the
town. Whichever side gets in first
seizes all the printing presses and
publishes an account of a brilliant
victory. If the rebels win the friends
tof the leader are rewarded with posts
in public service vice their vanquished
predecessors, and there is a clean out
OF the Treasury chest. You will re-
mark that the rebels, starting from
the farther sidefof the valley, haven't
a fair chan a ip the race to the town.
itit wasn't for that the Government
would change m0retreduently.'
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-12-17
PENSION ABUSES.

During Cleveland's occupancy Of
the Presidential chair, he vetoed sew
eral hundred pension bills that in his
opinion. we're irregular and fraudu.
lent. In his second campaign for
the Presidency these vetoes we're
made campaign material by his oppo-
nents. The best men of both parties
though, saw the necessity for placing
some kind Of check upon the indis-
criminate granting Of pensions, even
members Of che G. A. F.. while not
receding one iota from their position
that every veteran of the late war
should be freely granted a pension,
declared In favor Of preventing an
abuse of the pension law. Now many
of those who condemned Grover are
demanding the publication Of the pen
sion roll, hoping thereby to bring tile
public eye to bear upon the abuses
that have crept into the list, and thus
arouse a sentiment that will demand
a material reduction IL pension pay
ments. Why?, Because the Dingley
bill is piling up heavy deficit and
with the pension lists growing larger
year by year, a protective tariff can
not be constructed that, together
with the other revenues Of the Gov
eminent, will meet the expenses.
The Republican party has moi the
courage to call halt of the pension
abuses, but it's leaders have adopted
the ingenious plan Of having the
Republican press Cry out in favor Of
"purgIng the fraud-tainted roll"
Thirty-three years after the war
there are nearly 100000 pensioners
drawing s14O,OOO,O6O yearly. Presi-
dent Gariieldat one time said the
pension roll would never exceed $751;.
100000, and yet it will soon be three
times that amount. The Repu5li-
cans in their efforts to make the in
come equal the ontgo Of the Nation
must deal with the pension list, and
the "patriotic protests" so vigorously
put forth by them in the campaign Of
1888, will come back to haunt them.
Ogden Standard. 49,. .
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-12-17
WHERE LIVING is CHEAP.
Some Attractive Features of Abyss
sinian Life.

Some Attractive Features OF Abyss
sinian Life.
An interesting series of letters in the
Manchester Guardian tells some of the
attractive features of Abyssinian life.
Table supplies I'LL Abyssinia are so
cheap that an economical housekeeper
could live luxuriously and yet have pin
money galore. Chickens are ten for a
penny. Milk is had for asking. But
ter is about six cents a pound. a good
sheep may be had for from fifty cents
to three dollars. Cows used to be five
dollars, but are now dearer. Potatoes
are about a cent a pound; coffee from
ten to twenty pounds for dollar. Bar,
ley sells for about three dollars for
1900 pounds, and wheat is still cheap
er. For transportation almost anyone
can have a horse, a mule or a donkey,
for the former two can be bought for
three dollars each and the latter from
ten to fifty dollars. All the gold found
is alluvial or surface gold, and the in
dustry is in the hands of few blacks,
who SEEM to make very good living
out of it. They get most of the gold
by washing the clay brought down from
the mountains by the floods that follow
the heavy annual rains. Owing to lite
mountains and valleys, the climate Of
Abyssinia varies from tropical to
icicle. 1t is mainly an agricultural
country, and the natives are mostly
herdsmen, or farmers. It grows cof-
fee, melons, potatoes, cotton; the first
named alone exported under the name
of Mocha would make Ahyssfnia a
wealthy country.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-12-17
pIsg ust,nE Toad Eating.

The other day Mrs. Herman Oel-
richs was struck in the eye by tack.
One Of the results is possible blind
ness The other is columns of. weary
narrative, i'll the telegraphc news Of
the papers. From both results it is
natural to put up a fervent prayer
for deiverance; but it we are to be
spared but one, good Lord, deliver us
from the second.
We feel profound disgust at sight
of the trucking toadyism by which
the dignity OF the press is debased
whenever a common accident of daily
life occurs TO a rich accident of social
life. The affection of Mrs. Oelrichs
excites in. us not so much sympathy
as the blindness of any of the poor
children to be found by the hundreds
in the asylums built in every part Of
the country; not so much sympathy
as the blindness Of the beggar who
grirds his dolorous hand organ on the
streets. For the blindness of one
is alleviated by all that wealth can
do; the blindness of the other is made
more distressing by sore poverty.
Yet we are quite surs that any poor
woman in Stockton might be struck
blind this day without exciting so
much rs a two line notice in any
newspaper outside of Stockton.
The father Of this Mrs. Oelrichs
was an ignorant, uncouth, selfish and
thoroughly bad man. Tho mother of
Mrs. Oelrichs was the ignorant, though
good looking, daughter Of a ID ming
camp boarding. mistress. Accident
made the father vastly rich. And be-
cause accident did make him rich,
the mishap which befell his daughter
is thought worthy of columns of space
in every newspaper. This is news!
This is the independence of the press!
This is the pit Of contemptibleness
into which a press once digniied,
powerful and respected, has been
precipitated since the metropolitan
journals have become the property
of millionaires and the business of
writer's is to tickle the vanity OF par
venus, who, having neither wit, schol-
arship, capacity nor usefulness, are
greeted by the acclaim of toad eaters
and sycophants because-God save
the mark!-they happen to have in
herited the dirty dollars of disrepu-
table and drunken debauchee.-
Stockton Mail.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-12-17

Uranium has been discovered near
Black Hawk, Col. The mineral is
worth 1900 per ton, and the agents
of French syndicate have announce
ed that they will buy all that can be
produced, as it ID much desired by
the French Government for harden
ing and solidifying gun metal and
armour plate.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-12-17

To prevent lamp chimneys from slip
ping off when the lamp is tilted two
spring wires are attached to the burner
20 extend up inside the chimney and
clamp it above the fange, with cross
wire below to lock the two clamping
wires in place.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-12-17

Mr.. D'Ennery, the quiet and kind
hearted French writer of fiction, has
just been astonished to find that his
works contain more than so murders,
"a cases Of child-stealing, go poisoning
cases, 80 incendiary fires and many
forgeries.
Mrs. Craigie's John Oliver Hobbs)
new novel, "The School for Saints :,
treats of political life in the early years
of Victoria's reign. The character of a
celebrated political leader of the sos is
depicted in'this volume.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-12-17
Your Vitality?

The essence of life is
force. The measure of
force we calf vitality. If
this is lacking there is loss
of flesh, power, especially a
tendency to Consumption.
For low vitality nothing is
better than Scott's Emulsion.
It supplies force by furnish-
ingthenourishing, strength
ening elements of food IN an
easily digestcd form; en-
riches the blood, and hui1ds
up the system. When or
binary food Is of no avail
SCOTS Emulsion will Sup
ply the body with a1f the
vital elements of life.
Two sizes, SOC. and $t.00. All
Druggists.
SCOTT & BOVINE, New Yers. J,
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-12-17
$4,000

ScA1lllngg's Best baking pow
der is fresh.
But that doesn't matter-it
is stronger when a year old
than any other is when fresh.
a SChillng s. Company
San Francisco 2ol5
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-12-17
GRAND mARoB Ar $50 sBAHp.
MUSIC BY
woMACK & RODGERS.
Tickets:

All Maskers ......... 80 cents each
All Spectators. .i..t.50 cents each.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-12-17
Will be given at
HARRIS HALL,
FRIDAY EVENING,
DECEMBER "a, 1897.
Handsome Prizes

Will be given to the best sus-
tanned Lady and Gentleman
Characters.
Three disinterested gentlemen will
be selected from among the audience
to act as Judges.
All maskers will be required to
raise their masks and give their names
at the door, and no Objectionable
characters will be allowed in the hall.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-05-27
Fox md HOUNDS.

For little way the pack follows
steadily upon the line, gaining fast.
Suddenly leading hound views 100
yards in front the beaten fox. lie
raises his voice in frantic delight; the
rest of the pack, in turn, catch sight of
their prey and now, ravening together,
dash forward with crash of voices
with renewed pace and vigor. The fox
knows now that the end is very near,
yet he still holds his head straight and
presses on. The sight even to the hard
ened fox hunter is almost a pathetic
one. Here is no friendly ditch, no bush,
no shelter of any kind where the
hunted creature may Get himself up at
the last and die at least with his back
to the wall. All is bare, inhospitable
and open. The pack flashes forward,
one hound three lengths ahead Of his
fellows. He is within five yards of his
prey; the fox suddenly faces round with
open mouth and barred teeth; the big
hound grapples him fiercely, receiving
a nasty bite as he does so. In another
instant the whole pack is mingled in
one wild delirium-the death has come.
The huntsman gallops up, jumps off
his good chestnut, rescues the dead and
now tattered quarry and, with the field
gathered round him, proceeds to con-
Guct the last rites in due form.-Satur-
day Review.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-05-27

OF cCal per -nca5 q p0puI>i,!On ~. =
country so far advanced in civilization
appears at first sight to be very small,
and amounts to only .95 Of a ton per
head, as compared with ESQ tons per
head il Belgium and 3.75 tons per head
in the United Kingdom; but this, as
WAS stated in the first issue of these
tables, may be accounted for in great
measure by the large quantity of fuel
of other sorts, such rs turf, wood and
ignite, which are all extensively used
in that country. The British colonies
where the amount Of coal consumed is
highest are Canada and New South
Wales, where 1.16 tons and 1923 tons
t,er head OF the population are consumed
respectively.
The tables show that in the case of
the United Kingdom, Germany, Bel
eium ard the United States, these be-
ing the large coal-producirg countries,
as might be expected, most Of the coal
sumed, if not the whole, is OF native
production. OF the remaining coun-
tries, Russia consumes, roughly speak
INC, 10 per cent. of coal of native produc-
.tion, II per cent. Of british coal and 4
per cent. Of coal the produce of other
countries. In Sweden the vast proper
ton of the coal used-viz., 81 per cent.
is of British origin, 10 per cent. ofna
tive production and the remainder the
production of ether countries. In
france ~ per cent. of the coal used is
iof native origin, 10 per cent. Of British
ard 1G per cent. the produce of other
countries. In Spain the coal consumed
is, roughly speaking, balf native and
half British produce, while in Italy al
most the whole of the coal consumed
is Of British origin. In Austria-Hun-
gary CT Fer cent, of the coal used is Of
native production, less than per
cent. being of British production, and
the remainder, or about 80 per cent,
thc produce of other countries, chiefly
C cruceny.-Pa!l Mall Gazette. .,fi..sS;k
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-05-27
GOOD ENOUGH TO FOOL A FOX.
A Shooters Experience with Fancy
Decoys on AIbemarle Sound.

A Shooters Experience with Fancy
Decoys on AIbemarle Sound.
Eldridge Darlington, q New Yorker
who went to Albemarle sound duck
hunting few weeks ago, tells curious
story of fox, reports the New York
Sun. He had his decoys off a rounded
point of land one morning, and was
waiting for it to get light enough TO
shoot. The decoys were fancy ones
made of iron and rubber, painted to
represent the birds the hunter was
after, and looked very natural.
At dawn it happened that for about
ten or fifteen minutes no birds came
within range, so no SLOTS were fired.
While the hunter was wondering at this
he heard a rustic up-wind from the
blind in the grass of the point, Look
ing cautiously over the grass, he was
lust in time 10 see fox crouched for
a leap at q decoy which was about four
feet distant. The fox gave culver as
he gathered his muscles for the jump,
and then sprang ahead and grabbed the
decoy with all his might. Thereupon
the fox was the most astonished beast
that ever hunted ducks. The rubber
bag with an iron frame was hard and
soft in spots. The rubber was pierced
by the teeth of the animal, letting the
air out with q pop like a frecrackor.
The iron, however, had serious effect
on the fox's jaw, breaking several teeth
and cutting the lips in way that made
the fox squeal. The fox turned three
somersaults in the water and then
headed for shore and got to the brush,
in spite of two shots.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-05-27
TAUGHT HER A LESSON.
After That the Key Probably Found a
New Hiding Place.


New Hiding Place.
The other day a very estinlable lady
came to town to do little shopping,
saws the Atlanta Constitution. Of
course the key was put under the door
mat so that her son could getin. In her
absence a tramp, who had been hanging
around the place a number of days and
had caught on, boldly went into the
house, got some of the choicest viands
out of the pantry, put them on the table
and pitched in. He also found bottle
of wine that revived his spirits. He did
not expect anyone there for number
of hours and so took it easy.
In the meantime the lady of the house,
having finished her shopping, returned
home and seeing the front door I'M
locked expected to find her son. inside.
Imagine her horror when she opened
the dining-room door and saw sitting
at her table the rustiest-looking tramp
that ever We'd with his companions In
accommodating dirt on his epidermis.
The lady was dumfounded. In the
silence that followed the tramp coolly
remarked;
Madam, I shall become scarce now,
ez I've eaten enuff. All kin give yer
back fer this good meal and wat want
ter say ter yer is that yer ought to find
a new hidin' place fer yer key. I won't
charge yer nothin' for this advice"
With that the tramp departed.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-05-27
NO USE FOR TIE METRIC SYSTEM
I'VE Would Gain Little by Adopting
Continental EurOpe's Measures.

I'VE .oaId Gain Little by Adopting
Continental EurOpe's Measures.
Why should we change these units to
adopt one which agrees with neither of
them, and which, at best, was originally
the visionary scheme of a congress Of
philosophers? We have little to learn
or gain by adopting the measures of
continental Europe, says Casters Mag
azine. Three-quarters, or nearly so, of
the commerce and traffic of the world
is carried on by some form of appliance,
whether moved by wind, water or steam,
which has been built from English
measures by some English-speaking
PEOPLE, and the proportion is all the
time increasing.
Why adopt another and more incon-
1epient system which will render all
systems of screw threads, gear teeth,
foundry patterns, shop drawings, ETC.,
obsolete as well as shelving the most
valuable collection of mechanical liter
ature in the world and requiring all its
tables to be translated into foreign
measure, merely to obtain the advan-
tages of a decimal system which, as I
have shown, we already have to all in
tents and purposes in far more con-
yenient form than we should obtain
from the introduction of the meter and
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-05-27

DISSOLUTION-Notice is hereby given
Othat the partnership heretofore existing
between w. ]. Higginbotham and 7. A.
Gillespie in the milling business carried
on at Cedar Bluff, Tazewell County, Va,
Is this day dissolved by mutual consent,
ia. Gillespie retiring, and will be succeeded
by J. H. Kirby an experienced and prac-
teal miller. The style of the firm will here
after be known as that of Higginbotham &
Kirby, who respectfully solicit the patron
age of the public. All accounts due the old
firm will be collected by w. j. Higgin-
botham. Very Truly
HIGGINBoTHAM & GILLESPIE.
We, the undersigned, successors to the
firm of Higginbotham G. Gillespie in the
milling business,a lat Cedar Bluff,in Tazewell
County, Va, having first class facilities for
manufacturing the best quality of Roller
Flour of all grades, Corn Meal, Chop and
mill feed, respectfully solicit the pat
ronage Of the public, believing that we
can give as good satisfaction and do as
good work as any mill in the State as to
quality and quantity. Give US call.
Very Respectfully
w. j. HIGGINBoTHAM.
]. Ii. KIRBY.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-05-27
Glover answers.

It is curious freak of circumstances
that the first of the British isles to
grant the right of franchise to women
should be the Isle of Man. It rather
reminds one of the story English wom-
en- are fond of telling: a school in
spector once asked a class to name the
islands of the British isles. No one
mentioned the Isle of Man. To remind
them, the inspector asked: "Well, what
would you call an island that had no
women on it?" And a gallant small
boy promptly cried: II know, sir. The
Scillv isles"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-05-27
-Chocol6fe Pfc,

Half square chocolate, one and one
half cups milk, two eggs, one-half cup
sugar, two teaspoons cornstarch or
three of flour, one teaspoon vanilla.
Mix the cornstarch or -four smooth
with little of the milk and heat the
rest. Beat the yolks of theeggs and the
sugar together. Melt the, chocolate in
a cup set in boiling water. When the
milk IS hot stir in the thickening and
add the eggs and sugar. When smooth
remove from the fire andIadd the choc-
olate and vanilla. Whentcooled little
bake with one crust. Beat the whites
of the eggs to u stiff fro tn and add six
teaspoons sugar, and spread on the pie
when done. Brown in the oven.-Bos-
ton Globe. -----1
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-05-27
The School Boards of Fredonia and Pres.

The School Boards of Fredonia and Pres.
ton Townships, in Plymouth County, la ,
have arranged to build storm caves at each
of the schoolhouses, and they have already
advertised for bids. These storm caves
are to be twelve feet long and six feet wide
and six and one-half feet deep. They will
be lined with cement, have brick arches
and be proof against rats and snakes, as
well as cyclones.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-05-27

Mr.. William Gross, of Bush, Ky, says:
"My wife had suffered for about 40 years
with a severe cough and had been given
up to die several times by the best doc
tors. Lately, 1 resorted to Lightning
Cough Drops, and this medicine affected
complete cure. She is now again able to
do her daily work and enjoy health. -
F [ sale by Tazewell Drug Co.