Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-08-12
BUSY BETTY's" COLUMN.

BUSY BETTY's" COLUMN.
The Ottawa Journal, published by
+. H. Snow, ex-state printer, one of
the leading populist papers. has sus.
pended.
When the police from the cities in
Washington, and those sent by Uncle
Sam get to the KIondyke that country
will contain lots of copper.
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If for one day were let loose to boss
things on this mundane shore, water
melons would have less juice, and ba-
nanas would have more.-Pennsylya-
mia Grit.
The Topeka Capital sees thusly: s'If
it wasn't for the cursed system that
makes want stalk through the land the
prisons and insane asylums would not
be half so FULL" That's good deal
for rank republican paper like the
Capital to admit.
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1t would appear that some of your
exchanges had been struck by ''wave
of prosperity" judging from the
amount of unnecessary ink spread
over their pages. Or can 1t be they
are mourning over the unredeemed
pledges of the republican party7
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The la Cross Clarion sympathizes
with the small boy after this fashion:
Little Tommy declares that he's not
treated right, and it seems that with
him most folks will agree: they put
him to bed when not sleepy at night,
and wake him next morning too sleepy
to see."
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The armys of miners and other la.
borers who marched to Canton last fall
carrying banners enscribed mckinley,
Protection. Higher Wages, and Cheap
Provisions" are now out of work be.
cause their wages were reduced to the
starvation point, or shops and factories
closed. But then they have Mckinley
and the Dingley tariff law and are not
much ahead of the fellows who voted
the other ticket.
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Woman brings US into the world,
woman is our first teacher, woman
makes the world what it is, from CEN
tury to century. We can Io more es-
cape from woman, and yet continue to
live our lIyes as they should be lived,
than we can hide ourselves from nature.
We are in her care or in her power
more than half our years, and often
during all, from first to last. We are
born of her, we grow of her, as truly
as trees and flowers come of the mother
earth and draw their life from the soil
in which they are planted. The man
who denies his mother is bad man,
and the man who has not loved woman
is man in darkness.-From Marion
Crawford's ''A Rose of Yesterday"
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Your city fathers are at last ON the
right track, having adopted an ordin-
ancs to work city prisoners on the
rock pile. In passing through your
streets have often wondered why the
aforesaid fathers did not provide
weed ordinance whereby they could
give work to the army of tramps who
are looking (?) for it, and thus regu-
late the growth of weeds-not allowing
them to grow higher than one story
buildings in one summer. We like to
advertise to the outside world our fer
tile soil and lubrious climate; but
there is great danger that the eastern
tourist will otherwise take your beauti-
full prairie city for a hamlet in some
tropical jungle if the weeds are allowed
to do as they please. 1 would suggest
rock pile for winter and weed bri-
gade for summer.
twenty-five years is long time to
learn lesson; but A. S. Allen of the
Allen Drug Co. seems to have his by
heart as he is now doing business on
cash basis. May success crown his
efforts. Pay as you go, would be the
safe and sure route. There is not so
much business Fin it, if it is work you