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Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-04
BOSTON GIRLS ENTERPRISE.
Makes n Good Living by Mending
Fragile Ware.

A Boston girl has begun the work of re-
pairing precious pottery, glassware, porce-
lain and statuary. Last year she patched
up $500 900 worth of fragile ware, and she
got nearly 10 per cent on the value of the
goods redeemed. 1t is said to have been
more than the salary of Mayor Quincy or
Governor Wolcott. This. girl began by in
ducing a large department house to allow
her to repair, not only their own fine pot
terry and glassware, but to take orders from
customers Of the house who brought their
broken ware there in the hope that there
was some one in the establishment who
Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-04

by outward and visible signs, ceased to
honor the memory Of her mother, and worn
with the inevitable pearl hair brooches and
neokchain, 1t forms for our Americans a
wonderfully distinguished and suitable
toilet.
The Indispensable Boa.
Always with her summer gown, even II
II be a crisp white shirt waist and duck
skirt, the smart woman carries one of the
many species of short boa. II seems to be
as essential to her well-being as her neck
chain, and it is made often as not of the
grey tulle mentioned above. speckled DER
with small and large and pinhead dots OF
black velvet. Some very lovely and, be 1t
c~andidly said, very expensive examples OF
such tulle boas have their full raw cut
edges button-hole finished with black silk,
else a fine floss fringe borders the tulle.
Not one of the boas is so long that its
ends will reach more than a few inches
below the waist line. and the majority are
fat and full in the center, tapering TO very
pointed ends. A finely accordion pleated
boa of white tafreta mousselaine edged with
narrow rows of black lace, white spiral lace
boas, and those of liberty gauze gathered
up with rufies of silk muslin or chiffon,
are all doing active duty in the realm OF
the well-dressed, and no one can fail TO
remark the conspicuous absence everywhere
of the long-trusted feather boa. Evidently
this is not a feather season.
Further EyoiutiOns of the shirt waist.
Il is a season of continued evolution,
however, in the shirt waist and all that
pertains thereunto. Indeed, 1t requires a
sharp eye and busy brail to keep pace with
the protean movements OF this cherished
little garment. One of its newest develop
ments is a tail This is an appendage &c
Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-04

Thousands have tried from time imme-
mortal to discover some eficacious remedy
for wrinkles and other imperfections of the
complexion, but none had yet succeeded I'M
I'll the Misses Belr, the now famous Com
plexion Specialists, Of rs Fifth avenue, New
York City, offered the public their wonder
tul Complexion Tonic. The reason so many
tailed to make this discovery before is plain,
because they have not followed the right
principle. Balms, Creams, Lotions, etc,
never have a tonic effect upon the skin,
hence the failure.
The MISSES BELLS COMPLEXION
TONIC has a most exhiliarating effect upon
the %cuticle, absorbing and carrying off all
Impurities which the blood by its natural
action Is constantly forcing to the surface of
the skin. 1t is to the skin what a vitaliz-
Ing tonic Is to the blood and nerves, a kind
of new life that Immediately eXhilarates and
strengthens wherever applied. Its tonic eff
feet Is felt almost Immediately and it speed
lily banishes forever from the skin freckles,
pimples, blackheads, moth patches, wrinkles.
nVer spots, roughness, ~oiliness, eruptions and
discolorations of any kind.
In order that all may be benefited by their
Great Discovery the Misses Bell will, dur
Ing the present month, give to all callers at
Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-04

that scarcely a trace OF the mending can be
seen, even by the keenest eyes. Recently
a fabulous price was offered for the urn
and refused.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-11
POPULATION OF KANSAS.
According to the Assessors Latest Returns
the State Has 1,425,112 Inhabit-
ants, Gain of 34,143.

Topeka, Kan, Aug. 7.-Kansas has
gained 54.14 inhabitants during the
last year, according to the enumeration
OF the assessors made in March and
ju st completed by the state board of
agriculture. The states population is
i, 425, 112, so that the gain is 2.5 per
cent. The increase for last year was
22,sSS and for the year before, so, $50.
making a gain OF S7,261 in the last
three years. Eighty-one counties show
an increase of fl, 794, Cherokee leading
with a gain of 5, 421, or "a per cent,
followed closely by Shawnee with 5, Sos,
or Go per cent. Among other counties
which have made largest population
grOwthS are Sumner, with an increase
of 1.94S; Sedgwiclz, I, 674; Montgomery.
1880; Allen, lists: Atchison, 1,4S2; Bar
Der, 1,455: Harper, 1925; Ellsworth,
1,IS3, and Crawford, 1, O27. Although
having the largest number of inhabit-
ants of any county in the state, Wyan-
dOtte shows the smallest gain, an in
crease offs six. The counties ranking next
to Wyandotte in point of population
are Shawnee, Sedgwick, Cherokee,
Leavenworth. Cowley and Atchison, in
the order named. The county having
the smallest number of people is Stan
ton, with 294. The largest per cent of
increase in any county was 2S2 in Bar
Der: Harper gained 4.26 per cent. and
Ellsworth and Pratt 1873 each, Chase
II and Allen 10 per cent. Twenty-Five
of the los counties lost 1861, the small
est loss being 1. in Lane county, and
the greatest 1,794, in Franklin county
In the table of city population, pub
lished few days ago, Wichita was re-
ported as having lost DODulatiOn: the
| truth is Wichita has gained 1,2Sl-
The following table shows the popu-
lation by counties. with the increase
aacb
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-11
MEDIEVAL CUSTOMS.
Strange Survivals of Middle Age
ObserVances in Modern
England.

In Lincoln's inn, London. bell rings
every evening at nine o'clock. This is
the curfew, derived from old French
words meaning cover the fire" and it
Is an order for all who live in the inn
TO put out their lamps and fires.
OF course, nobody obeys, because the
law of curfew is rather out Of date, con-
sidering that it was made by William
the Conqueror in the year 106S and re-
pealed in ITO. Repealed or in force,
the curfew bell was rung in West Ham
until November, 1859; it is rung now at
Lincoln's inn, while it is actually be-
ing revived and brought into force. 10
some small American towns.
Another funny old custom is the.
bowling of the town crier, who goes
about with a bell announcing rewards
for lost dogs or purses, advertising en-
tertainments and telling The news. You
may hear the town crier any day IN
Dartmouth and the little boys are not
allowed to annoy him on pain of whip
ping. Several small English towns have
not yet awakened to the fact that the
middle ages are gone and that this is
the end of the nineteenth century.
There are determined attempts al
times to revive ancient customs. In
1899 there was actually a tournament
held a Eglinton castle. Young gentle.
men in bo:ler-plate a-mor tilted at each
other with lances, while hosts of fash
ionable people sat under umbrellas and
cheered them.
Lady Seymour was queen of beauty
and Emperor Napoleon III. of France
was among the ancient knights who
iousred for her favors in the lists. 1t
raineS ''cats and dogs" the whole time,
the horses slthered about in the mud
and the gallant knights rolled about in
the mire, unable to rise again without
assistance on account of the weight of
their armor. The event is said to have
been the most comic in all the history OF
England.
Another ancient and peculiarly Brit
ish custom is the peaing of church
bells. Does anybody remember that 1T
was Pope John TX, in theyear 900, who
ordered the clamor of bells to brighten
away thunder and lightning? There
are country places in England now
which are quite capable of taking the
good pope's advice.
Look at the way some of the Justices
of the peace serve out the law 20 the
commonalty. A man is savagely pun
ished Tor breaking the game laws, but
for breaking his wife's head with his
boot he gets gentle reprimand and
small fine And that is because so many
English justices of the peace still live
n the middle ages.-Chicago Chronicle.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-11
WIT AND WISDOM.

Undertaker-'Busy Pc Second I'm
Observation-Disclosures to aeath-"-Judge.
By being good to others you Will be
best to yourself.-L. =. w. Bulletin.
There are just as many seconds IN
spare moment as there are in fuu
one.-Chieago Daily News.
''Were you on the irlng-line during
the warp" Yes; 1 was one of tbs
cooks."-Yonkers Statesman. g
May-'+Thereu be lot of men disap-
pointed when 1 marry" Edith-"You
surely aren't going to marry mere than
one, are you?"-Town Topics.
The river of life is a navigable stream
which congress doesn't appropriate
much money for the improvement OF
1t, being in nobody's district in partic-
ular.-Detroit Journal.
Ikenstein-"Oh, veil, L am holding
my own, anyhow" Swindlebaum-
Wat does dot amoundt to? Ven you
get to hoidiR' oder peoples own, den
you can pegin to pragi"-Life.
Hoax-''See' that little chap over
there? He doesn't look like a ceIebri-
mouth" Joax-"So? Who is hep"
hOaN- why MS NAME . 1AOn4cI-
Philadelphia Record.
City Editor-''M-. Strong has been
IN to-day, and he had murder in his
eye. How in time did you come to
speak of Mrs. Strong's alleged hus-
band in that paragraph about her ac-
cident?" J. Fresh-''I did it to steer
clear of libel suit. You know you told
me always to say alleged thief al
legged murderer and that sort OF
thing. Transcript
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-11
A swimming Instructor Drowned.

New York, Aug. S.-Davis Dalton, a
well-known swimming instructor, who
has been stopping at Far Rockaway,
was drowned at Hog island, near Rock
away, yesterday. He was in the water
giving an exhibition of swimming,
when he suddenly disappeared from
sight. He did not rise. and it is sup
posed he was showing how long he
could remain under water. After the
longest time for a person to remain had
passed, boats were sent and the body
recovered. 1t was found that death re-
suited from apopleNy.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-11
MISCELLANEOUS.

THE whites were said to be driving
the negroes out of Paragould, Ark.
THE authorities of the Russian en-
bassv at London denied the truth of
the Paris story of the intended abdica-
ton of the car.
CAPT. A. B. WATKINS, a county Off
cial at Chattanooga, Tenn, was
stabbed to death by his 11-year-old son,
Clarence. Watkins was whipping the
boy on account of breach of family dis
.ipline when the lad became enraged,
pulled knife and plunged it through
his fathers heart.
THE treasury department has made
requisition upon the bureau of engrav-
ny and printing for the printing of
$40, 900, 600 gold certificates in denomi-
nations of $50 each. It is the evident
Intention of the treasury department
10 be in position to issue gold certifi-
Gates freely for gold coin, should the
fall movement of currency lead to de-
nand at the treasury for gold certif-
Gates in exchange for gold coin.
BENJAMIN II. SMELL, aged Is, spe-
cia1 examiner in the pension office at
Washington, murdered Liza Weissen-
berger, a girl % years of age. who had
been a domestic in his household. The
nan was infatuated with the girl. but
she resented his attentions and went
nome. Smell got into her house and cut
her throat while she was in bed.
FIVE persons were drowned at Balti-
more, Nd, by their boat upsetting.
Two illicit distilleries were raided
near Chattanooga. Tenn, and 1900
gallons of beer and sc gallons of low
wine were destroyed.
HENRY BROWN, a mill sawyer at DunS-
muir, Cal, shot his wife and then him
self. They were separated. met on the
| street, quarreled anu the tragedy fol
lowed.
AT the wagon-road crossing on the
| Chicago & Northwestern railroad. two
miles northwest of Decotah City. Ia.
| three young men and their team We're
killed. Nothing was found by which
the victims could be identified.
WILLIAM WALDORF AsToR was
hanged in effigy by hooting. jeering
crowd at New York. Across the chest
IF the figure was the legend ''Astor the
Traitor" Aston has recently become
British subject
| DURING 1895 the total production OF
| lead In the United States was 222. 00(
short tons.
| Mrs. VINCENT RoTTER caught fire
while near her gasoline stove in her
kitchen at Lincoln, Neb. She died
from her in juries Fastened In high
chair by the table was her four-mon:hs
Did baby. The blaze was communi-
Gated to the chair and the child's cal
was burned off and other wounds thai
caused death in a short while after
they we're inflicted. The house was
also consumed.
THE Pennsylvania regiment landed
from the transport Senator at SaT
Fran cisco on the Sd, and escorted by
1.-The Nebraska troops marched to the
l2residio where they will camp unit
they are mustered out.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-11

IF the discovery of DR.. II. c. Brace
proves to be all that he is convinced it
IS trouble and worry will soon be ban
ished from the world. the New York
Evening World says. In Il little pocket
instrument, called the "senser," con-
sisting of some fibers, contained in a.
triangular metallic case, he has what
he says will in IS minutes make the
mind of a troubled business man as
placid as that of a fve-year-old child.
1t puts the nervous system in harmony
and restores the balance between it
and the physical body.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-11
| NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

GEN. ALGER was given an enthusi-
hstic welcome at Detroit. Mich, on the
I'd, from four O'Clock until nine o'clock,
when the eX-secretary of war ceased
grasping the outstretched hands, being
a constant ovation. Gov. Pingree made
a characteristic speech. asserting that
Alger's best service to his country was
in his management of the war depart
ment. Gen. Alger responded in a mod
est and conservative manner.
Two of the assassins of President
HeureauX were captured and shot at
Santo Domingo.
DAVID c. JACCARD, vice president of
the Mermod & Jaccard Jewelry COM
pany of St. Louis and president of the
Jaccard Jewelry company of Kansas
City, died at his home in the former
city on the Sd. He had been suffering
from complication of kidney and
bowel trouble for some time.
DR.. w. III. MILBURN, the blind chap
lain of the United States senate, was
Frustrated by sunstroke and fell I'M
conscious on the Sd while delivering a
lecture at the Nebraska Epworth as
sembly at Lincoln, Neb. He was
brought round under the care of a ply
stefan.
The republicans Of the Eighth con-
gressional district of Missouri held a
convention at Jefferson City on the 4th
and nominated J. w. Vosholl, of Usage
county, as their candidate for congress
to fill the vacancy caused by the death
of r. P. Bland.
JUDGE DORSEY W. SHACKLEFORD was
nominated on the 4S6th ballot at Full
ton, Mo-. as the democratic candidate
for congress for the Eighth district,
the late Richard P. BANDS district,
bringing to a close one of the longest
deadlocks ever seen in a Missouri con-
gresSional convention.
A WASHINGTON dispatch of the 5th
stated that the army was now in pos
session of sufficient supplies to meet
all probable emergencies, this condi-
ton existing for the first time since
war was threatened.
GEN. ToRAL and Gen. Pareja, who
were court-martialed at Madrid for
surrendering Santiago de Cuba, were
acquitted on the ground that they
acted on the orders of their superiors.
LLoYD's agent at Manila cabled to
London that the Filipino insurgents
at San Fernando had captured and
burned the United States steamer
SaturnuS
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-11
SECRETARY ROOT 5 TASK.
The Complete Restoration of Peace
in the Philippines Before
May I Wanted.
The WAR SECRETARY TO RUSH MATTERS
Hint That IF Secretary Root Ends the
War by That Time He May BE Put on
the Republican Ticket as McKinley's
Running Mate-Dispatch from Admit
raj Watson.
raj Watson.

Washington, Aug. s.-The complete
restoration of peace in the Philippines
before May L is the task which Secre-
tary Elihu Root has set himself, accord
ing to personal friend and busin ess
associate of his, who is now in Wash
ington. This man declares, moreover,
that the secretary will carry out the
programme on schedule time if he re-
ceives from the administration the sup
port he has d right to expect, and If his
plans are cordially and theoretically
carried out by his SubordinateS in the
various bureaus of the war depart
ment. Secretary Roots hopes of bring
ing about the utter defeat of Aguinal-
do before May ar e based on the belief
that up to the present the campaign in
the Philippines has not been pushed
either at this end of the line or on the
scene of operations with anything like
the energy that should have been in
fused into it. This defect the new war
secretary means to remedy without
delay by insisting that every branch OF
the service shall be worked at high
pressure until all the troops that can
be utilized in Luzon in this winters
campaign are actually in the field there,
thoroughly armed and equipped and
supplied with every convenience that
will tend to make them effective. With
this object in view the secretary will in
sist that there will be no more uncertain
ties and delays in the transport service
at San Francisco and that every officer
here and elsewhere in the military es
Establishment shall perform his full duty
and a little more if need be, energet-
ically, promptly and conscientiously.
If the secretary's plans meet the sue
cess which he fondly hopes for, it is
limited by his friends that he may pos
sibly be rewarded by being put on the
ticket as McKinley's running mate in
place of Hobart next year.
Dispatch from Admiral Watson.
| Washington, Aug. S.-The following
dispatch was received to-day from Ad-
miral Watson, in command of the
Asiatic station:
Secretary of the Navy: Nazro. the COM
mander of the Manila, July IL established
lighthouse at Cape Melville, Balabac, Philip
pine islands; hoisted flag with appropriate hon
ors. July 13, on his return, Is Moros, under
arms, were found to be in possession of the
lighthouse Landing party. commanded
by Ensign E. L. BisSett, encountered resist
ance. No casualty in our party Loss in
killed, one officer and one of the enemy.
Dieago Manolo, chief of the Balabac MOroS.
was killed. seven taken prisoners; two escaped.
Chief of the party very unpopular with the
to fear of him. Light has been restored Ma
Mia has landed force Charleston is on her
way to Balabac; will render all aSSiS lance
oSSible.-WatSon.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-11

THE New York Commercial says that
eff England could reduce the national
consumption of alcoholic liquors to the
measure of the American consumption
per head her drink bill would at once
be reduced by more than 1885, 600, 600.
This sum is equal to more than one
half of the national revenue and would
be sufficient to provide $50. 600, 900 for
Did age pensioners and also secure the
entire extinction of the national debt
in less. than % years.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-11

THE Indiana Afro-American league
has issued memorial to the country
at large pertinent to the race problem.
1t pronounced in strong terms against
the taking of human life without trial
by jury and charged that within the
last seven years more than 1900 per-
sons had been lynched in the south.
More than one-third of these, it was
asserted, had been accused of assault.
1t favored the death penalty for the
crime of assault after conviction in the
courts.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-11
Regiment Filled.

ing for the Thirty-second regiment has
ended so far as the recruiting station
here and the sub-stations under Lieut..
Haines III Missouri. Kansas and Okla
homa are concerned. On last Friday
Lieut.. Craig, of the regiment, sent
word that he would need only 60 more
men from his district. These have
since been sent there and the lieuten-
ants who have been acting as recruiting
officers at the temporary stations have
been called in.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-11

a room in the second story of No. 112
North Second street and arrested
Charles NJ. Tissue, a clerk for the Sc
dalia Gun company, and Charles NJ.
Funk. a painter. on the charge of coun-
terfeiting. The officers captured SIT
in 25-cent counterfeit coins, molds,
metal and an electroplating apparatus.
During the past month Sedalia has
been flooded with bogus coins and the
mint was not positively located until
the raid was made.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-11

CHARLES q. SHEPARD, who is in
charge of the experimental tea garden
at Summerville, S. c., has made a re-
port to the secretary of agricult ure
covering the progress up to date. He
i. says there are now about so acres of
land under tea cultivation and that g.
900 pounds were sold last year. It is esti-
mated that when all the plants now
growing arrive at maturity they will
yield 10, 900 pounds annually. Mr.. Shep-
ard expresses the opinion that the fact
that the tea plants lived through last
winter, when the cold was intense. is a
guarantee that the weather conditions
will prove satisfactory.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-11

AS result of the success of mum
Der of women in Jersey City, n. il, in
causing the streets of that town to be
properly cleaned, it is proposed to turn
the department of street cleaning over
to the women, having all the employees,
from superintendent down to street
sweepers, of the feminine gender.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-11
Fusionists Indorse a Repub,ican

Fort Scott, Kan. Aug. THE demo-
cratic and populist parties, in separate
convention here effected, fusion by an
equal division of the six county Offices.
The populists took treasurer, register
and surveyor and the democrats sheriff,
clerk and coroner Both conventions
unanimously Endorsed Judge Walter
L. SimOns, republican, for reelection
to the Office OF judge of the Sixth judi
cial district.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-11

Greentown. O., Aug. s.-Ruth Swartz.
aged Is, was killed with a razor by her
mother. Mrs. Catherine Wise, yester-
day. The luurderess then went mile
and half and threw herself into a
pool of water in an abandoned stone
quarry. Her body was recovered this
afternoon. The coroner's inquest
brought out the fact that the young
girl had been indiscreet- and that the
distracted mother had declared that
she would find some way to save her
DAUGHTER
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-11

THE San Francisco Call recently in
terviewed a number of the Oregon vol
unteers who landed in that city. Most
of the troops believed that the land of
the Philippines is well adapted for
American agriculture, but the best of
it is in the possession of church author
tiles and would have to be purchased.
The Oregon regiment were almost to a
man opposed to making natives of the
Philippines citizens of the United
States. AS for Americans working in
the Philippines, the soldiers declared
that the climate is too enervating and
the islands are the last place on earth
for poor men to seek.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-11

AT the annual conference of the pre-
siding elders of the African Methodist
Episcopal of Georgia and Alabama at
Birmingham the other day a committee
reported resolution recommending
that a committee be appointed by the
council to set before the United States
congress the deplorable condition of the
negro population in several of the
southern states, and to petition con-
gress for an appropriation of SO, 600. 900
to start . line of steamships between
the United States and Africa in order
to enable all negroes who may desire
to do so to emigrate to Africa.