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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-12-22
IMPERIALISM IS COSTLY,
sfThe Necessity of Continuing Large
outlays's VIII BE COntin-
ued Indefinitely.

1t is generally admitted, the news
reports tell US, that no general river
and harbor or public buildings bill Will
be passed by the congress now in ses-
sion- In view of the heavy expendi-
lures for the army and navy it is
stated, land the necessity for continu-
ing large OUTLAWS indefinitely, the re-
publican leaders do not feel justified in
favoring internal expenditures that
can be deferred
This announcement is significantly
typical of the course to be followed by
the imperialist congress prepared to
ratify the presidents policy of militant
expansion in the eastern hemisphere.
tits logical beginning for imperialism.
1t may safely be taken for granted that
''the necessity for continuing large out
lays indefinitely for the strengthening
of the army and navy will exist coinci-
dent and equal in duration to American
imperialism itself The two evils-im-
perialism and militarism-cannot be
separated-the former creates the lat
ter, from which in turn it receives the
imperatively necessary support of the
strong hand.
Under these new conditions, what is
81 AdluIdI DIS lEdt republican 1edUSTS
do not feel justified in favoring internal
eXpenditures?" Basing their demand
for the large outlay fer army and navy
increase that must be continued in
definitely" upon the national revenues
as at present in force, it is seen that for
the increased military expenditure there
must be a. corresponding decrease of
expenses in some other direction. The
retrenchment will be made in internal
affairs-just as is the case with the
great powers of Europe, where every
thing is subordinated to the necessity of
maintaining big armies.
1t will be we'll for the people to I'M
derstand why there will be no appro-
priations for river and harbor improve
ments, for the erection and mainte-
nance of public buildings and for other
internal betterments by the present
congress. If we are resolved upon be-
coming a world power, we must pay the
price of such power-pay it in money
and in American blood and in the ar
rested development OF our country s
| legitimate growth within its own con-
| tinental limits. This necessity is as in
evitable under an imperialist policy as
that darkness shall follow daylight.
The price of imperialism will be high,
| and the terms will be both your money
and your life" Are the American peo-
pie willing to pay imperialism's price
and accept imperialism's terms?-St
Louis Republic.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-12-22

The register of Cornell university
for 1s99-1soo. just published, shows a
gain of 202 students over the figures
in the first edition of last years reg
lister, the total to date being 2,24O,
as against 2,O3s at this time last year.
A corresponding increase in the fac
ulty brings the number of teachers at
Cornell university up from 2s1 last
year to 314 this year. just about one
half the enrolment is from New York
state, which furnishes this year 1894
students.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-12-22

Secretary Wilson expresses the
opinion that $2O0,0OO,0O0 worth of the
tropical fruits we annually import can
be raised in Porto Rico, Hawaii, and
the PHILIPPINES, to which countries the
experiment station work is to be ex-
tended. Moreover, he believes that
much of the rubber and other prod
ucts we use in the United States can
be furnished by our island posses
sions. Mr.. Wilson is opposed to the
governments coming into competition
with the seedmen by the free circu-
lation of commercial seeds. but he
thinks that it can do much good by
distributing foreign seeds and plants.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-12-22

France is said to be the most i'm
portant as well as the most promis-
ing Protestant mission field. Congre-
cations of 200 members, not one of
whom was brought up in the even
gelical faith, and Sunday schools of
SO children, who a year ago had never
heard of the Bible, are a common oc-
currence. No movement of such pro-
portions has been witnessed since the
time of the reformation.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-12-22

Dover, Eng, has an electric railway
company which will hereafter carry
worlingmen during the stipulated
hours at a fare of half-penny, or one
cent. 1t takes that action for the re-
mar!table reason that in the past it
has cleared on this part of it's traffic
$4,000 per year at the full penny, or
two-cent rate, and it considers that
the reduced fare viii yield the proper
dividend on it's bona fde investment,
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-12-22
Lieut.. Deeming in Trouble.

John ]. Deeming, company A, Twen
tieth Kansas, was arrested at ST. Jo-
seph, Mo-, and taken to Council Bluffs,
Ia, on warrant sworn out at the lat
ter place by Miss Tena Leonard, aged
%, who charges Deeming with betray
ing her. Deeming was in the insur-
ance business at ST. Joseph. Lieut..
Deeming enlisted at Topeka and
served with the regiment throughout
the Philippine campaign until it was
mustered out. he had lived in To-
peka with his parents before he went
into the army.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-12-22

Among the victims of a railroad
wreck in Paterson, n. j.. was Sterling
S. Smith, nephew of Gen. Joseph
Wheeler. One of Smiths legs was
caught between heavy iron and wood
work and mangled. When the res
cuers reached him after they had
cut through the roof of the car in
which he was imprisoned, he said, al
though suffering circulating pain:
Don't bother about me. There are
women below me. Get them out first. IS
This instance of heroism serves to re-
mind us that those engaged in war
have no monopoly Of courage.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-12-22

Judge Nash was cut for the pur-
pose of rebuking the two bosses who
made him the republican candidate
for governor. 1t was a natural mani
festation of the sudden dislike of Han
oa and Cox which prevails in both
Hamilton and Cuyahoga counties and
elsewhere in Ohio. 1t is feeling
which must be allayed by different
poIicy in 1900 or the state viii be in
syitably lost.-N. Y. Tribune.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-12-22
His Case Not Proven.

At Girard the other day the district
court decided that Henry Roberts
should not have divorce from Dora
Roberts. Henry had accused his wife
of unbecoming conduct with one
James Riley, but the court found
nothing more serious than that Mr..
Riley had taken Mrs. Roberts out BIZ
cycle-riding five times, which did not,
in it's opinion, constitute the undue
relations" alleged.-Kansas City Jour
nal.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-12-22
Youthful Couples Married.

In Howard the other day the Lydell
brothers married the Campbell Sis
ters. One of the Lydell boys is aged 10
and the other II, while the brides are
also II and IS. The parents of both
couples appeared at the probate
judges office and gave their consent,
and local paper says the affair re-
minds it of one of those ''baby par
ties where the mothers sit around to
keep their darlings out of mischief"
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-12-22

The power of the Standard Oil COM
pany is conceded everywhere, but it's
overwhelming influence on the sec1lr-
tiles market is far from being realized.
1t is said to carry a cash balance of
from $4,000, 900 to soc, 1000, 900 in gold
deposited either in the Deutsch Bank
of Berlin or the National City bank of
New York! The average man car
scarcely even comprehend this.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-12-22

AS soon as it was discovered that the
present manner of baling hay was not
adapted to the exigencies of war
times. necessity went to work and in
vented a round bale, which can be
used for food, fuel, breastworks or
ammunition.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-12-22

BY a misplaced comma, a paper in
Greedy county, Kan, raised a great
row. It said: 1.-TWO young men from
Leoti went with their girls to Trib-
une to attend the teachers insti-
girls got drunk" The comma be.
longed after girls. u.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-12-22

Some of the veteran regulars in the
Philippines say there is a marked SIM
ilarity between the native Filipino
dialects and those of the American
Indians. The theory that this CONT
nent as populated from Asia is not
new and some of the scientists will
proceed to investigate the FILIPINO
languages.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-12-22

Mr.. Herbert, the sculptor OF the Trim
ity church bronze doors, New York. has.
completed n statue of Alexander Mac
kenzie. the Canadian statesman. (which
is to be srected in Ottawa. All travellers
will remember Mr.. Herbert's master
piece. the Maisonneuve monument in
Montreal.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-12-22
Gen. sIetcalf i'm Washington.

Brig. Gen. Metcalf, of Kansas. was
in Washington City last week. He
called at the war department to pay
his respects to Secretary Root and
Adjt. Gen. Corbin and later went to
the capitol and called upon the men,
bers of the Kansas delegation. The
charges of cruelty against the officers
and enlisted men of the Twentieth
Kansas, Gen. Metcalfe said, were not
worth discussing.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-12-22
They VIII Appeal.

Attorney George Barker, of Law
renee, one of the attorneys for the in
surance companies in the celebrated
Hillmon case, declared that the COM
panies had no intention of dropping
the fight. eve will take an appeal at
the earliest moment" he said. "The
insurance companies will fight this
case, brought to collect a fraudulent
claim, to the last ditch.''
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-12-22

The car has an income of 81 900 an
hour, the sultan $3.50, the emperor of
Austria $500, the kaiser $3.50, the king
of Italy $3.50, Queen Victoria the
same, the French president $3.50, the
king of the Belgians $50 and the pres
ident of the United States $3.50 per
hour
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-12-22

A revolution in bellmaking is at
hand. They will be tubular. 4 tubu-
lar bell of 2A inches in diameter and
with range of one mile weighs 1910
pounds, while an old fashioned bell
with the same range would weigh Co.
600 pounds
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-12-22

A miner in Denver, disheartened by
hard luck dug grave, intending to
get into it and blow his brains out.
About three feet down he struck a
lead of sylvanite and sold it to ten
derfoot for $4,000.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-12-22

AS was the case thu year before
last, the Harvard Football association
has this year earned enough to pay
most of the expenses of the other
athletic associations of the university,
finishing the season with surplus or
profit of more than $4,000.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-12-22

According to the official returns
from France, the number of births in
that country last year was S43,933,
and the deaths, s10,073, showing an
excess of births over deaths of only
SO, $50, while in 1897 the excess was
los, OS3, and in 1896, % 200.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-12-22
Tie Vote for Kansa. sherifr.

The contest on sheriff in Geary
county resulted in a tie vote, as
shown by the recount, and the board
declared no election and assessed ex-
penses to the contestee. Mr.. PESOS
attorneys will carry the case to the
district court. Terrell, the present
populst incumbent, was defeated by
seven votes and made a contest.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-12-22

In an interview in New York Pad
erewsl<i said the piano is 'tcapable of
greater orchestral effects than any
other instrument" He might add
that, in his hands, it produces greater
effects in the box Office than any or
chestra extant
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-12-22

The Rest Prescription Tor ChIExEl
and Fever is q bottle of GROVES TASTEIzsS
CHILL. TONIC. Il Is simply iron and 9uinine in
q tasteieSS form. No cu-e-no pay. Price.5lAc.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-12-22
Drank the Disinfectant.

At ST. Marys the other night James
Graham visited a drug store and pur-
chased a bottle of smallpox disinfect-
ant and a bottle of whisky. On the
way home he met William p. Cunneen,
a mutual friend, whom he invited to
take drink. The two stepped into a
dark hallway, and by mistake drank
from the disinfcctant bottle, which
contained corrosive sublimate. Both
men were taken violently i'll and their
cases were critical. Graham is a prom
inent democratic politician and was
lieutenant colonel of the Twenty.
second Kansas volunteers.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-12-22

Selishness is the only thing that stands
between some people and happiness.-Chl-
cago Daily News.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-12-22

Feeling Ill again? Blow me tight, you
must like it. Why, I believe if you was to
feel quite well and 'ad nothin' to grumble at
you'd die.'-Ally Sloper.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-12-22
The Groom, is 81.

Jones Mitchell, aged 90 years, and
Marie Keyes, aged So years, were mar
ried at Kansas City, Kan, by Probate
Judge Snyder recently. Both are ne
groes and es-slaves and both have
been married several times. Mitchell
claims to have been married three
times before the civil war, and to have
served throughout the war in the
union army. He says he was born at
Capia, Miss, in 1902. and recalls Incl
dents of the war of 1912.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-12-22

Gratitude, like everything else. is OBJ
noxious when it is overdone. - Atchison
Globe.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-12-22

Piso's Cure for Consumption relieves the
mueller. Lexington, Mo-, Feb. q, '94.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-12-22
WIN Collect Pauper statistics

Secretary johnson, of the state So
ciety of labor and industry, is prepar-
ing blanks to be used in gathering in
formation for the annual report of
the society. The report will contain a
chapter devoted to the investigation
of pauperism in Kansas. Mr.. johnson
will also investigate the creamery and
packing industry of the state.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-12-22
Ha. Money to Pay Warrants.

State Treasurer Grimes on the 18th
issued call for warrants stamped
not paid for want of funds" These
warrants aggregate s175.Oo0. Interest
on the warrants stop within 80 days
after the issuance Of the call.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-12-22
Killed Him Gin Fun.

Dick Justice, Topeka crap shooter,
now serving a seyen-years, sentence in
the penitentiary for killing Milton
norman, another negro crap-shooter,
here in november, 1897, has applied
Tor pardon. He admits killing Hor
man, but says he did it in fun
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-12-22

To Cure 4 Cold In One Day
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. Al.
druggists refund money If Ii fails to cure. sc.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-12-22
Got Out of Federal Prison.

Three convicts escaped from the
federal penitentiary hospital at Fort
Leavenworth the other night. They
cut a hole through the floor and
crawled into the prison yard. They
scaled the wall by means of a board
ladder and were not noticed by the
tower guards, owing to the falling
snow. The convicts who escaped are
from the Indian territory and were
convicted of theft.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-12-22

The remains of the late Frank G.
Armstrong, surgeon of the Thirty
second regiment, will be brought
from Manila to Ell Dorado for burial
The bodies of all the Kansas soldiers
who fell in the Philippine war will
soon be brought home for final inter
ment. A corps of undertakers has
sailed for Manila to prepare the
bodies of all dead soldiers for ship
ment.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-12-22
VIII Demand Full Pay.

A dispatch from Paola said: Jurors
of the district court here will try to
secure regular pay for the days when
they are excused by the court. It has
been customary for many of them to
return home during intermissions,
charging only mileage Judge Burris
told the jurors this week that they
are entitled to the regular pay of So
a day if they stay in town. County
Attorney Lane says if they make this
charge he will refuse to approve the
bills.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-12-22

Suit was filed in the Wyandotte
county courts to gain, possession Of
300 acres of land on the bank of the
Missouri river, valued at $1,oo0.000.
The land was donated by the original
owners many years ago for use as
public levee and steamboat landing.
Since the railroad supplanted the
steamboat, the land has been taken
possession of by the railroads run
ming into the city, and is now occu-
pied by tracks, elevators and ware
heirs of the original owners, who
claim that since the land has been
diverted from the purpose 10 which it
was dedicated, the title reverts to
them. There are 45 plaintiffs and 60
defendants to the suit.
Candidate of the Young Democrats.
E. E. Brown, who started the move
ment to organize the Young Mems
Democratic league of Kansas, the
young democrats would have as can
didate for governor Frank L. Gordon,
a cattle man of Barber county. He is
a college graduate and came to Kan
sas nearly fifteen years ago from Lib
erty, Mo-, where his father is engaged
in the banking business. Brown says
he has consulted democrats in all
parts of Kansas upon Gordon's candi-
dacy, and that the Barber county man
will poll a big vote in the next dem
ocratic state convention.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-12-22
The BIN WIN BE Dropnea.

1t is understood the bill dividing
Kansas into two judicial districts.
which was introduced in the last con-
gress by Judge Broderick, will not be
reintroduced, as it would not be
passed owing to opposition to it in
the Kansas delegation.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-12-22
No Surplus in November.

Warden Tomlinson, of the state
penitentiary, last week turned into
the state treasury $1,919, earned by
the prison during the month of No
vember, and drew out $18,755 to pay
the expenses for running the insti-
tuition during the same period.
George Kanavel, treasurer of the
board of charities, also drew out $685.
900 to meet bills of the various in
stitutions for November. State Grain
Inspector Mckenzie turned in $4,000
as receipts of his department for No
vember and then drew it all out ia
pay salaries of inspectors.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-12-22
KANSAS NEWS OF RECENT DATE.
oustea the popu1ist Regents.

Ousted the POpuIist Regents.
By a majority opinion the decision
of the court of appeals in the agricul-
tural college case was reversed by the
supreme court. The case grew out of
the removal of C. B. Hoffman and J.
NJ. Limbocker as regents of the col
lege by Gov. Stanley, who named J. S.
Mcdowell and W. 7. zoe as regents
to succeed the two removed. Hoff>
man and Limbocker then went to the
court of appeals with quo warranto
proceedings to GUST the two republic
an members. That court granted the
writ by a majority opinion, Judge
Wells, republican, dissenting. An APP
peal was taken to the supreme court
and that tribunal, by majority opin-
ion, Judge Doster, populist, dissent
ing, reversed the court of appeals.
The question involved in the case was
whether sufficient grounds were
shown to justify the governor in re-
moving the populist regents. Judge
Smith, who wrote the majority opin-
ion, declared that the findings showed
sufficient grounds for the removal of
the regents. In his dissenting opinion
Judge Doster held that the grounds
were insufficient. He concluded:
These charges are trivial. They are
made and prosecuted, as everybody
knows, for the purpose Of ousting the of
hcers named and thereby gaining politi-
zeal control of one of the institutions
of the state. They were not made
and prosecuted for the purpose
of advancing the interests of the insti-
tuition, but were conceived and prosecuted
in that spirit of malignant craftsmanship
which is curse to American politics,
and they but provoke a retaliatory as
sault when the trembling balance of po-
the other way. They were made and
prosecuted to subServe the ends of office
for politicians, and not of education for
the youth. Similar charges and proceed
inSs by the officeseelSers of my party
shall never have countenance by me; nor
will be deferred from denouncing those
made and conducted by political oppo-
nents as causless, wicked and despicable.
No SucnIuS I'm N0xaIlaIle
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-12-22
smalIpox in Northern Kans.

There were Is cases of smallpox at
and near Loring, Leavenworth coun-
ty. The epidemic is spreading and
nine cases were reported across the
line in Wyandotte county near Bon
ner Springs.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-12-22

Mrs. Elizabeth Metz, who died in
Sumner county, left four children.
81 grandchildren, SS great-grandchil-
dren and one great-great-grandch
For a Public Building at Lawrence.
Congressman Bowersock introduced
bill appropriating $4,000 for pub
lie building at Lawrence; also bin to
reimburse the Kansas university to
the amount of $4,000 for the destruc-
ton during the civil war OF the Free
State hotel at Lawrence.
The Farmington times. [volume] (Farmington, Mo.) 1874-1902, 1899-11-16
Southeast News.
our hat

a turnip Is On exhibition nj Sikcstou
that weighs nine pounds.
The Southeast teachers will meet at
SikcstOu Nov. 30, Dec and ,.
Edmond Spalding of Cape Girhr.
dean county died on tbs 9th, aged 81
years.
Richard Welsh Of Fcslu,, while talk
ing to some men in his shop on the eth
inst, dropped dead from heart failure.
The DcSolu creamery has resumed
Operations, and has butter aud cottage
cheese constantly ON hand aud will fur
ni,h Ice cream.
Willis Hall, fireman at the II. X.
l.. q l.. Go. "a, treenyillc, fell ON the
st inst, and fractured hi, skull, dy ing
IN few moments.
Fred Cross Of Dunklin county had
the doctors cut bali out Of hi. knee
last week. he !, certain now that his
rifle was loaded, though be did not
think Il was
Two men have been sentenced to bc
hung at Kenneth January 10, j. II.
rcllaton for the murder Of his step
mother and ipu: children, aud Milo
Gregory for the murder Of Joe Covert,
a mill man with whom be had u dini-
Guilty.
4 dozen band boxes were on the plat
form al lrnulon, containing bonncts
and bats 10 be expressed to Piedmont,
on the "a inst. 4 train came ilying
along and The suction was 50 great that
the boxes were drawn under the cars
and were torn to shrcds aud patches,
to the loss Of the express agent.
Georgc Travis, a colored man, was
IN a saloon q, DcSotu on the 9Th aud
got into a difficulty with number Of
men aud cut one, Bert Jarvis. Ills
wound was not serious, as Il was speed.
ily dressed. The night marshal, Gull.
Ion, and q couple Of men went after
Travis, and lhOugh hc made no resist
ancc, they shot and killed him.
Three years ago man visited Vine
land selling certain Kind Of medicine
lie left a dollars worth with n number
Of families on the condition Il il were
not satisfactory the box could bc re-
turned and no charge made. lie came
back last week aud collected q dollar
from all those who had thrown the box
ui pills away.