Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-08-26
BUSY BETTY'S' COLUMN.

BUSY BETTYS' COLUMN.
How true: when you dispute with
fool he is certain to be similarly EN-
ployed.'
"What did your father leave you
when he died, Pat2" HE left me an
Iorphan!''
A farmer when asked what was his
coat of arms, replied, "a pair of shirt
sleeves.'
The young ladies of Harper, Kan
sas, have banded themselves together
to boycott all individuals of the mas.
cullne gender who ''swear, chew,
smoke or drink Good enough. girls,
if you will only stay with it.
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A good many grown people are like
the little boy who went to church and
was ask9dby his father on his return
how he liked the sermon. He replied:
The beginning was good and the end
was good, but there was too much
middle to it, papa"
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The ladies of Garden City and vicin-
ity have charge of the Grrden City
cemetery and keep it in good order.
They have cemetery association up
there and find 1t a great improvement
over having it owned and controlled
by man or set of men for profit only.
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Those who advertise are sure to come
| to the front. "a new woman" in
Oklahoma, advertised for husband
The cost of advertising, husband, wed
ding outfit, etc., was S11O. In less
than year her husband died leaving
her $4,000 life insurance. Who will
say it does not pay to use printers ink :?
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The Wichita Beacon is authority for
this: "a man strolled into one of the
churches before services began. at Elk
City. The sexton followed him and
| tapping him on the shoulder, pointed
to a cur that had followed him in
dogs are not admitted" said the
sexton. ''That is not my dog" replied
| the visitor. but he followed you.n
well. so did you" The sexton re-
| moved the dog.
The Council Grove Republican says:
IF your friends go to the Klondyke
gold fields and don't come back you can
rest assured that they are yet in
good state of preservation. A miner
| who went to that country four years
ago was dug out of snow drift the
other day and he looked just as natur-
al as the day he was frozen. Cold pre-
served mineron ice promises to be the
| principle product of that country for
the next win ter.
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If the editor of the Wichita Star
should go to the Klondyke country his
| readers would know what allied him.
He says: eff our sweetheart had gone
for except peaceful repose in the cold,
cold ground; OR if we had received the
marble heart Fl om any other soar g and
| longed to end our miserable existence;
inst cad of paying out ten cents for
morphine. or risking being smothered
to death by the dust in the bottom Of
the Arkansaw, we'd start for Klon-
dyke. It's surer.''
| WoEder how many married women
of Great Bend find themselves in the
same situation as the Atchison woman
who wrote to the Globe thus: 81 wish
[ can manage my children myself.
They do not need a curfew bell, but
my husband does. I find that many
other women are in the same situation
and wish to appeal for change in the
curfew ordinance. Let the councilmen
make the ordinance fit husbands in
stead of children" Perhaps the council
men of Atchison are something like
doctors, i. e.. would not like to take
| their own medicine.
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Every newspaper worker knows there
are some people. who, when they are
not suited with some article which ap-
pears IN paper for which they have
subscribed, rush to the Office and stop
their paper, thinking to ''get eyen," as
they call it. Such actions only makes
the newspaper man smile. and reminds