Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-03-03
SAYINGS AND SUGGESTIONS.

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open air as much as possible without
head covering, will find that the best
OF hair restorer."
We would advise you not to begin
this practice during March. But don't
put it off until July either, as then the
suns rays are. about as pleasant on
bare-footed pate as the shifting sands
of March.
i A story is going the rounds of a lady
who on throwing out pan of water
one morniug last week, killed her cat
by hitting 1t, the water having frozen
into ice before it struck the cat. t.-SoIo-
mon Tribune.
Quite probable. A travelling man
was stopping at Hotel Greene. that
memorable Feb. II, go. He went
out on the south side of the hotel to
hail cab passing down Main street.
He sent forth a lusty "Hellol' and
the hello froze into solid chunk before
it reached the middle of the street,
was caught by the wind and flung with
such violent force against a big dor
nick of coal in front of Winterburg &
Newcombe's Office, that it burst the
coal into thousand small bits.
In order to please her husband a wife
must be either toy or comrade-
Most women are too independent to be
the one and too obstinate to be the
other.-Eureka Messenger.
Comradeshlp is worth much more to
a husband than pretty toy. A COM
rade will encourage. assist and condole
with you. while toy is liable to break
the husband.
1t appears from recent deve lopments
that Spain only gave US a quit-claim
deed to the Philippines. Sterling
Bulletin,
And $40, 900, 900 was too blamed
much for it. If that peace commission
was not buncoed by the willy Spaniards
then we do not know the meaning of
the word. Uncle Sans quit claim has
to be enforced by intrusion-wh is
decidedly un-American.
Ike Bieser says he would like to buy
bottle of pure and unadulterated sex.
perlence." Any one knowing of a
wholesale experience" house should
drop him line. Banner.
Ike should address Deacon Arm.
strong, Beacon, Great Bend. He.;s an
expert in handling bottle goods, and as
he has had whole lot of experience
land will have plenty more when the
spring election IS over) he doubtless
has some of it bottled up.
| An exchange says that the people
| who need more religion are: "The
man who let's his horse stand out in
| the cold all day without a blanket;
the man who growls like a wild beast
when his wife asks him for money; the
woman who whispers about that some
other woman is not what she ought to
be; the preacher who is always looking
for an easier place and higher salary;
the man who walks the streets with his
hands in his pockets, while his wife
carries the baby, and the man who
keeps dog and says he can't afford to
take his home paper"
TO this list might be added: The
merchant who docs not advertise in
paper that does not suit him politically:
the fellow who sends to Kansas City
for his wet goods and keeps them at
home in his cellar, then talks prohibi-
ton in church; the woman who reads
yellow back literature when she ought
to be mendfng the children's clothes;
the girl who powders her face and uses
hand lotions while her mother washes
the dishes and carries the coal. And
there are others.
question is up as to whether poll
tics is trade or profession. In Kan
sas it is disease: chronic. Morton
Champion.
And like other chronic diseases, it
shows dts ravages in the weakest points
of the system. For instance: The
man who is always talking politics, tn
season and out of season, shows that
his greatest weak point is his mouth.
So far as the contest for city marshel
at the coming April election is GO n
cerned, the matter is practically set
tied since SONS of the friends of Sim
con Waterbury has brought him out
for that Office These friends argue
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