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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-12-15
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

Judging from what Senator Han
ha said in the Ohio campaign the repub
Gcan party intends to deal very tender
ly with trusts in the campaign next
year. The democratic party can do no
wiser thing than to take it's stand
against trusts. 1t can afford to rest
its chances of winning the election on
that one issue.-Savannah News.
Secretary Gage condemned as
sentimental agitation" on Monday the
demand he yielded to on Wednesday.
Result: Spectators were enabled to
clean up. by a rise in stocks in Wall
street, just $4S, 921 $40. While this ac-
ton, which necessitated a sudden
change of front, has been severely crit
icised, Secretary Gage accepts the full
responsibility Toledo Commercial.
-''Hanna must go!" is the watch
word. 1t was uttered in whispers at
first, but now it is shouted through
megaphones. But Mr.. Hanna has deaf
ear for such voices and President Nc
Kinley keeps his mouth shut and looks
wise. 1t is not forgotten that the pres
ident acted like a rock for Alger up to
certain time and then tHrned him down
because the pressure to dismiss him ''for
the SOOQ OF the party became LOO
strong.-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
IF hostile politicians in Hanna's
party attempt too persistentiy to drive
him from the helm Mckinley's sense of
obligation may be appealed to by the
man who, more than anyone else,
brought him out as a candidate for
president and secured his nomination
and election. An appeal on this ground
made to the president cannot go I'M
needed without laying 'the chosen in
strument of destiny and duty" open to
a charge of unrequited affection and
base iDgratitude.-St- Louis Republic.
1t will be remarkable, now that
the people have given the republican
leaders a free hand in congress, if they
shall not proceed to hang themselves.
The Nicaragua canal project, the ship
ping subsidy speculation, the tempta-
ton to loot our new island possessions
and the danger always incident in full
treasury and a praeticed and hungry
army of schemers who have fattened
upon government largesses and dis
ordinations will make the coming ses-
sion of congress perilous for the coun-
try. Who, now that Tom Reed has re-
tired, can hold back the p1underers P
Philadelphia Record.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-12-15
FRIGHTENED REPUBLICANS.
Results OF the Late Elections Great
ing Much Uneastness in
Their Ranks.

Evidently the republicans, no matter
how much they may whistle to keep
their courage up, are pretty thoroughly
frightened over the results of the re-
cent elections.
Realizing the fact that Bryan has
gained ground rapidly and that even
McKinley's home state is in danger, the
republicans are now talking about an
early convention.
Recalling the history of the last pres
idential election and the amount of
time, money and printing it took to
stem the tide of Bryan's eloquence, the
republican national committee is said
to be unanimously in favor of calling
the national convention together early
in June
Another Campaign of education
must be fought, the trusts must be got
in line and ''milked'' to the last drop in
the way of contributions to the corrup-
ton fund and documents explaining
the policy of Imperialism must be pre-
pared, and it takes time to do all this.
OF course, long campaign Will dis
turb business, but the republicans Will
have all the business they can take care
of in an endeavor to make the people
believe that there are no trusts in this
country, and that trusts are a good
thing. anyhow.
Time Will also be required to demon
strate that the declaration of independ-
ence is an antiquated document not
worth regarding by advanced thinkers
and ardent imperialists such as make
up the firm of Hanna, Mckinley & Co.
Therefore an early meeting of the
national republican convention is to be
called by the frightened members of
the Mckinley cabal.- Chicago Demo
Graf
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-12-15
Minor State News.

The formal opening of the high
school in Kansas City was attended by
over ], 1000 patrons. This is one of the
finest buildings of its kind in the state
w. B. Mckinley, representing a com
pany of capitalists in Portland, Me-,
arrived in Wichita and closed a deal
for the purchase of the Wichita street
railway system. The price paid is re-
ported to be about $50, 600. 1t is sup
posed this will end the long fight to
get new street railway system
Fred Teske, a wealthy farmer of
Center township. Riley county, COM
mitted suicide by hanging himself to a
rafter in the barn on his late home
stead. Teske was in state of tempo
rarv alteration of the mind and was
laboring under the belief that some
person was going to take his homestead
from him.
The ladies of Wichita have been can
wasting the town for subscriptions in
aid of the poor. They tackled L. r.
Delaney, of the Santa Fe, in cigar
store. He had just one nickel in his
pocket. He took this out, walked over
to the slot machine and dropped it in
Out rolled SIS in nickels, which Delaney
piled into the apron of one of the la
dies
An Abilene dispatch said the mem
bers of company L, Twentieth Kansas,
are becoming restless in civil life and
several have already re-enlisted at Fort
Riley for service in the Philippines.
Nothing more has been heard of the
light artillery battery Capt G. n. Wat
SON said he would raise He has never
returned to Abilene and is at present
in Iowa, his childhood home
The case of W. s. Roark against s.
NJ. Greene, an appeal from Geary coun-
ty, was argued in the supreme court on
the 9th. While chewing gum one day
Greene got the toothache- He went
to Roark, a dentist, and had the tooth
pulled. In order to do a painless
Job the dentist squirted some stuff into
Greeno's gum. Greene claims that the
stuff was filed with bacteria; that it
poisoned him and caused his jaw to
swell up.
Toronto was closing deal with Fred
Horton, of lola, to drill two gas wells.
They pay him s1e5 per foot and he fur
nish everything.
The temperance meetings that have
been continued at Chapman for a week
closed with sos signers of the total alb
stinence pledge, many of them being
hard drinkers
Jose M. Santiago, native of Porto
Rico, has joined the classes at Baker
university.
A free rural mail route has been es-
tabiished from Elm CHAM, to run south
ward 25 miles Over 100 families viii
be accommodated.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-12-15
New York's Map of Itself.

New York city is preparing for the
Paris exposition an immense map of
itself measuring % by 90 feet, on a scale
of 600 feet to the inch, showing every
street, park, waterway, public square,
monument and prominent building.
The city typographical force is work
ing day and night to complete the de-
sign in time. It will be mounted on a
platform resting on the floor of the ex-
hibition building. Photographic re-
productions, eight by nine feet, will be
offered the public
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-12-15
To Invest;rate Cancers.

The Middlesex hospital in London is
about to open an elaborate addition
for the exclusive treatment of cancers.
Special ARCHAEOLOGICAL, microscopical
and chemical laboratories have been
fitted up. and a competent staff has
been engaged to investigate by means
of scientific methods the origin and de-
velopment of cancer and to trace it
infinitely through it's various stages,
endeavoring by every means to find
not only cure, but a prevention OF
the spread of the disease.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-12-15
Religion in the Familu.

toned, It is supposed by the actively
or passively non-religious to refer to a
condition in the protestant churches.
But it appears that it is not evangeli-
cal professionalism alone that is believed
to be suffering in some sense a decline.
Rabbi Emil G. Hirsch, of Chicago. in a
recent discourse spoke of the gradual
disappearance of home devotion and
domestic religious practice and in
struction, and OF the ''failings and fall
ures of modern religion 1.-THE
trouble knows no sectarian lines" said
DR.. Hirsch.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-12-15
Enthu..astlc Regarding Ala.kn.

John Garland Price, who will repre-
sent Alaska in congress, is a lawyer Of
Skaguay. He was born in Iowa 90 years
ago, and is an enthusiast on the subject
of Alaska. He believes that territory
should be made of southeastern Alaska.
He desires to secure from congress ap-
preparations for adequate court ar
rangements, and to arrange so that a
greater percentage of the taxes col
lected in the territory shall be ex-
pended in building up the country.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-12-15
Advocate. Compulsory Education.

Miss Estelle Reel, general superin-
tendent of Indian schools, in her an
nua1 report makes a strong plea for
compulsory education and advocates
strictly Industrial training for Indian
children. She says the industrial
branch of the work should be forced
to the front and that literary instruc-
ton be narrowed to the simple, practi-
cal elements The educational outlook
for the Indians is painted as very en-
couraging and better buildings and
more facilities for industrial training
have been provided this year.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-12-15
Removal of the Maine Wreck.

There is friction now between the
higher officials of the army and navy
as to which branch of the service shall
be charged with the removal from Ha-
vana harbor of the wreck of the Maine.
There are yet in the hulk. according
to Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, more bodies than
have been buried in the cemetery at
Havana, and it is to recover these that
the removal of the debris is desired.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-12-15
whisky and Tobacco Pay a Big Tax.

Spirits made by far the largest con-
tribution to the internal revenue taxes
the past year, as usual, and tobacco
came next, as usual, also. Spirits and
fermented liquors paid taxes of no less
than $16s, 900, 600, and tobacco paid $50.
600, 600. Together these two items &C
count for nearly two-thirds of the
whole internal revenue receipts for the
year covered by the commissioners re-
mort
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-12-15

The men with dinner buckets,
who are the professed objects of Mr. Nc
Kinley's tender solicitude and in whose
behalf he advocates the policy of pro-
lection, help to pay the enormous prof
its enjoyed by the producers of tin
plate, amounting in some instances, to
100 per cent Thus the contributions
to the republican campaign fund are
swelled by the wage earners, who are
compelled to pay more than is just for
everything they use for the benefit, as
Mr.. Mckinley puts it, of American Ia
bor.-Kansas City Star.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-12-15
Rapid Progress of Women.

The remarkable increase in the num-
Der of young women enrolled in the
graduate course of Yale is the striking
feature of the graduate department
catalogue. 1t is only six years since
the faculty threw the graduate courses
open to young women at Yale, yet to-
day, out of total attendance of 900
students in the department, more than
half are graduates of women's colleges
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-12-15
KANSAS ITEMS CONDENSED.
Statistics of Kansas Post once.

The annual report of Fourth Assist
ant Postmaster General j. L. Bristow
contains some interesting information
concerning Kansas post Offices Ac-
cording to it the state has 1,6S5 post
offices. of which 1,552 are fourth-class
offices and 1SS presidential offices. Of
the presidential offices 5 are first-class,
lS are second-class and III are third
class This is an increase of over
1898. Kansas stands eleventh in the
number of presidential ofiices-ISS-be-
ing tied with Wisconsin. This state is
twenty-fourth in point OF population,
while Wisconsin is twelfth.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-12-15
EdIson's New Invention.

Thomas A. Edison, Jr., has invented
a long-distance telephone that he says
will enable him to talk TO people in
Europe as easily as he can to those in
another part of New York. He uses a
transmitter 1000 times as sensitive as
those to be found in ordinary telephone
instruments.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-12-15
Consumption of Flesh Food.

The consumption of flesh food per in
habitant in the United States is 100
pounds; in Great Britain, 1O5 pounds;
in France, IA pounds; in Germany, SO
pounds; in Spain, 40 pounds; in Russia,
4S pounds, and in Italy, % pounds.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-12-15
Judge Price to Resigs

T. C. Price, of Ashland, judge of the
Thlrty-frst judicial district, covering
IL counties of southwest Kansas, has
announced his intention to resign and
remove to Sandusky. O., to practice
law.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-12-15
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
Ratio OF births and Deaths.

It is computed that the death rate OF
the world is 81 and the birth rate 70
minute. This seeming light percent
age of gain is sufficient to give net
increase in population each year OF u
ono 00O
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-12-15
Court OF VIsItation Case.

Western Union Telegraph company
case pending before it until the case
attacking the constitutionality of the
law creating the court is finally deter
mined by the United States supreme
court or the supreme court of Kansas.
Attorney General GODDARD and Solicitor
Wyatt were authorized to take any le-
gal steps necessary to get a quick de-
cision and to employ additional counsel.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-12-15

Conferences OF Census SUPERVISORS.
The seven Kansas census supervisors
held a meeting at Topeka last week to
arrange preliminary plans for next
years census. 1t was announced that
the enumerators will not be appointed
until after the spring elections.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-12-15
Friends Want Him Pardoned.

Charles Boman, of Wilson county,
serving term in the penitentiary for
manslaughter, has applied to Gov.
Stanley for a pardon. Boman was
constable in his county and killed Sam
Smith while attempting to levy on
goods belonging to the latter. Smith IS
friends had Boman convicted, and now
over 1000 residents of the county have
petitioned the governor to release Bo
man.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-12-15

me Best Prescription ro< CANA
and Fever Il q bottle Of GROVES TASTES
GRILL ToNc. Tt is simply iron and quinlns 81, =
tastesess form Nocure-no pay Pf7ce-aS<-
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-12-15
Leland Favors New Apporti.

Cy Leland, Kansas member of the re-
publican national committee, stated
that he was decidedly in favor of the
Payne resolution for the reapportion-
ment of representation in the national
convention, and he expressed the opin-
ion that the present time was oppor-
tune for the change, there being no
ability of strife for the nomina.
ton.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-12-15

Sometimes marriage ought to be dehneo
as the art by which two people manage %
1--we together and yet apart.-Puck-
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-12-15

To Cure n Colo In One Day
Take Laxative Brono QuiniDe Tablets All
druggists refund money lift fails to cure 10
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-12-15
Topeka Heads the List.

The revenues from the Topeka post
office last year were S117, $50. which was
the largest in the state Kansas City
is next with receipts of SS4. 400 and
Wichita third with So, Zoo. These are
the only irst-class offices in the state.
The total net revenue from the Topeka,
Kansas City and Wichita offices was
S19S, us so, or ~ per cent. of the net
revenues produced by all the presiden'
tial offices of the state.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-12-15
Death OF John c. Sheridan.

John c. Sheridan. who died at Paola,
aged 45, was brother of Editor B. J.
Sheridan and one of the best-known
democratic politicians in Kansas. He
had resided in Paola about 40 years,
and when % was elected county attor-
ney. In 1855 he was an elector-at-large
on the democratic ticket He was tenn
porary chairman of the democratic con-
vention that elected delegates to Chi
cago in 1896.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-02-18
HOslner and BeaucOudray
In Amite City.

Amite City, La, Feb. IA
Sheriff Strobe of st. Tammany
Parish, brought to Amite last
night Charles Hosmer and Emile
Beaucoudrsy. They, with Charlie
Bradley and Owen Swinson. q ne
gro, were indicted at the last term
Of court held in Covington, st.
TammanY Parish, with lying in
in wait armed with dangerous
weapons and shooting with intent
to kill City Marshal Dnlion. They
have since been in the Parish Prison
at New Orleans. Several days ago
Hosmer and Boaucoudray made APP
plication to be moved to the Jail at
Amite. This was granted, and
last night they were brought to
Amite and delivered to Sheriff Ed
wards. Judge Reid has ordered
special jury drawn to serve during
the civil term Of court, which meets
next month IN Covington, when
their cases will come up for trial.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-02-18
Blessing to the South.

Washington, Feb. ls.-Viewed
from a Ii = tic standpoint in its
effect on III, yellow fever germs,
the freeze in the South is a blessing
to the people Of that section, ac-
cording to DR.. Wyman. the Sur
geon General Of the Marine Hos
pital Corps.
'slt is just what we wanted" he
said tonight in speaking on the
subject, sand believe it will he
productive of great good in stamp
ing out the germs that may still
exist after the very thorough work
which has been done by the State
and national officers, eradicating
all restiges of last summers cpl
demic. It certainly is a blessing
to the people Of the South as far as
next summer is concerned.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-02-18
When the Century Ends.

II is frequently remarked that
this, 1899, is the last year Of The
century, but it is not. The century
does not end until midnight Of Dec.
3lst, 1900. Not until that momen.
will 1900 years have elapsed from
The date OF the birth OF Christ. from
which our time is reckoned.
For instance, II . man owes 100
dollars aud pays one dollar at q
time, be will not have discharged
that indebtedness until he puts
down the last one hundredth dollar.
II he stops when the 99lh dollar
has been paid, the debt will no,
have been discharged. just SO, IL
we close the century at the begin
ming Of the l9OOth year. We will not
have . complete century.
It seems almple enough. still there
are hose Who contend that : new
centnry begins the first day Of Janu-
~. 1900.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-02-18

A memorial to the President and
Congress is before the New Mexico
Legislature, providing that large
part OF Southwestern Texas be an
rexed to the territory OF New Next.
CO. According to a especial dispatch
from Santa Fe, N. H., in the st.
l.Ouis Globe Democrat. q commits
sion will be appointed, consist
ing OF three Senators and three
Congressman and 200 Texas and
Mexico citizens, who will arrange
q basis for the new order OF things.
El Paso, Tex, is figuring Oh being
the capitol Of the proposed new State
OF Mexico. and three-fourtlls 1T the
citizens nf the section to be annexed
favor the move. Tue new acquisi-
ton will include AL area quarter as
large as the present Territory Of
New Mexico.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-02-18
Anent the Reunion.

The following circular letter is be-
ing cen, to newspapers throughout
the country:
Baton Ronge, Jan. %, 1899.
Dear S,r-Camp No. II, U. c.
", 1t . meeting some time since
adopted > resolution inviting oil
Confederate veterans and conSed-
crate camps to . general State re-
nnicn to take in the city Of Baton
Rouge on july Srd and 4th, 1899.
Elaborate preparations are now ~
progress for the accom- m"dation
aud entertainment Of the veterans
and their families and the affair
promises to he q re1-letter event
in the history OF the Confederate
veterans II Louisiana. President
Boyd has rendered the nae Of the
spacious University grounds aud
dOmitories for the accommodation
Of the visiting veterans; eminent
eaders Of the late civil war from
many States will be- on hand to
mingle with their comrades OF
Louisiana fetes aud entertainments
will take place 1T the Fair Grounds,
to which the veterans will be adj
mitted free OF charge. and all
together the reunion will be one
worthy OF tile occasion aud OF the
distinguished guests who will be
present. from every parish in Lpnis'-
ara aud fr.sm every Southern State
special excursion rates will be
granted by I'll railroads and steam
boat lines irad,ng into the city. the
hotels Will furnish acc0,n n0dations
to tiiose desiring it It greatly re-
duced rates, tue ladies will furnish
lunch aud refreshments Il the mess
hall u the University free. hence
tile cost OF attending will be but .
trltle. I'LL you not keep this mat
ter before yvur readers aud join US
ia pressing upon Confederate Vet
Grams Ia your locality cordial invi-
tation to be present aud 10 assist IN
making this the must notable event
Ut the year!
Fraternally Yours,
". e. CHEvIs: Chairman.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-02-18
ORDINANCE.

Be it ordained, by the Police
Jury Of st. Tammany Parish. La.
That lhe sheriff shall continue to
collect for The year 1893 the public
road licenses and taxes due fnr the
year 1898, which funds shall be DIS
tribIied equally in each ward. and
placed in the hands Of each member
Of said wards, who shall have the
roads worked to the best advantage:
Tue Public Roads shall be worked
immediately after the Tax Collector
makes his final returns TOR the said
year, 1893.
Air. Koepp moved. seconded b.
Mr. Smith, that Sheriff StrOhle he
authorized and instructed to pay
over to the Parish, Treasurer all
morey on hand. Carried
Mr.. Koepp moved, seconded by
Mr. ". r. Parker. that the Sheriff
be instructed 10 deposit in the Cow
ington Bank all monies belonging To
the Parish proper. in the hsme Of
J. NJ. Abbey, Parish, Treasurer,
aud that the receipt from the Bank
be received q evidence and cash in
= settlement. Carried.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-02-18
Ofhcial.
ORDINANCE

Be it ordained, by the Police
Jury OF the Parish Of st. 'rammany.
La, That in accordance with Arli-
Gle 1913 Of the Constitution Of the
State of Louisiana, Justices Of the
Peace aud Constahles Of tue Parish
of st. Tammany shall receive the
following salaries in Criminal mat
tiers for ihe year 1899, and no more:
First Ward Justices OF the
Peace, Dupar,, $40 90; Alfred
Richard, SIS 90. Constables, Oc-
tave Oull,ber. $50 90; John Atten-
dorfer, 81 80.
Second Ward Justice Ut The
Peace, l.. A Perreand, $50 90.
Constable, R.a Mckee, S17 90.
Third Ward--Jussices OF the
Peace. w. Kennedy, SO 90; 4.
Strain, SS7 30. Constables, Chas.
Hein,z, IT,, $37 so; E. j. Pechon,
Sl8 %.
Fourth Ward-Justicc of the
Peace, jos. Dicks, $40 90; 1.
u. Strain. $40 90. Constables. +.
C. Smith, $50 90; r Holiday.
S. 90.
Fifth Wa:d Justice Of the Peace,
John Mizell, S25 90. Constable,
" IN. Crawford SIP SO.
Sixth Ward - Justice OF the
Peace. j. Y. Crow, SIS 90. Con-
stable. +. Bowman. 81 80.
Seventh Ward Justice Of the
Peace, r. G. Denny, $50 90. Con-
stable, Alcee Ducre. $40 90.
Eighth Ward-Justice OF the
Peace, Merrill Crockett, $50 90.
Constable, John Crawford, $40 OO.
Ninth Ward - Justice OF the
Peace, q. l.. Dittman. SO 10.
Constable, b I. Carroll. $3i 90.
! Be it further ordained, That this
ordinance shall repeal all ordinances
or parts Of ORDINANCES on this SUBJ
Iiect. carried.