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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-01-26
TIN AND TIN PLATE.

In 1898 the total production OF. tin
has been estimated at 1880 tons; ii
1890 it was but So. 100 tons.
The tin plate production of America
for the year is estimated at S2T. 900
tons. The total production is estimate
ed at $50, tons, and the tin re-
quired for its manufacture reaches 90
700 to $4,000 tons.
The most productive tin region in
the world is that part OF the Malay
peninsula extending from Burma and
Siam to Sumatra. A considerable pro-
portion Of the tin which is taken from
this region is carried into China, aud
thus escapes the control Of statistics
The principal consumers of tin for
1895 were the United States. $4,000
tons; Great Britain, $4,000; Germany,
14.5oo, and France. $500 tons. The ex-
portation OF tin plate from Great
Britain has been 251,76 tons, and that
country consumes 10000 tons
The greater part of the worlds tin
comes from the Malay peninsula,
which furnishes COG per cent, not
counting the Dutch East Indies,
which give 10 per cent. Following this
come Australia, with 10 per cent;
Cornwall, 81, and Bolivia, TO per cent.
Forty years ago Cornwall furnished 50
per cent. of the total.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-01-26
RUMBLE OF RAILWAYS.

Sweden has s175,54O,o 900 invested ini
railroads.
Nearly $4,000, COO was taken IN at one
Of the seven railway stations at Berlin
in 1898 and nearly $4,000, 900 at another.
The Italian railways have promised
the pope 20 per cent. reduction in rail-
way fares for the jubilee year if they,
ars assured Of ESQ, 900 visitors.
It is ascertained on scientific data
that the air resistance to railway train
Of average weight moving 60 miles an
hour is II, 374 pounds-nearly six tons
One of the old Stockton & Darlingtons
engine drivers has just retired from &c
tive service. He has been an engine
driver since 1883, and in the IS years
be has travelled nearly 1000, 600 miles
on the footplate of his engine.
Alta recent inspection of the Southern
Punjab railway in India by the govern
ment inspector 1t was found that cree
osoted pine ties in service on this road
were in good condition, while untreated
feodar ties were being seriously at
tackled by white ants.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-01-26
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

An imperial burglar went
through the protective tariff league
and found nothing worth taking away
with Hmm. 7. World.
"A democratic contemporary says
that Hannais good thing for the dem
ocrats, and that the longer he sticks
the better he is. This advice, however
is not likely to be taken, and Mr.. Hanna
should not relax his hold on his own
scalp.-Cincinnati Enquirer.
If it is right that our flag should
protect poiygamy and slavery in the
Philippines then Abraham Lincoln was
wrong when he said: This country
cannot exist half slave and half free.'
If polygamy is sacred and entitled to
the protection of our flag in the SuIu
archipelago then it is farce TO arraign
Roberts for his poly gamous practice
Los Angeles Herald.
There is far too much yagueness
and cowardice on the part of those
particularly among the republicans
who are opposed to the trusts. What
is wanted is plain, straightforward Ian
guage which everybody can under
stand, and simple propositions for the
suppression of the trusts which can be
easily ''comprehended of the vulgar
N. O. Times-Democrat.
So fast as the country can expand
rightfully, legally, honestly, democrats
everywhere will be glad to aid in the
expanding But an expansion which
must come by bad faith, by crushing
representative governments anywhere
on earth. By saddling a system of mil
itarism on the country-that sort o,
expansion viii not be Endorsed any
where.-Lafayett Qnd) Journal
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-01-26
IN SOUTH AFRICA.

al see that the cream Of the British
army is now in the Transvaal." Yes
the whipped cream."-Life.
The average age of the British sol
der now at the front is nearly two
years higher than that of the soldier
who fought at Waterloo.
Juvens-"Wen, Stanley called il
Darkest Africa you know" Senex-
Yes; and the British censors are keep
ing it ark."-Town Topics.
There are large furniture stores in
johannesburg and Pretoria, and the
better class of Beers have their houses
furnished in the most modern styles,
In 1895 the imports of wooden furni'
tCre alone were valued at 81 ,112, 900.
The remark was passed by lady
at luncheon that reading down the
list of officers killed and wounded was
almost like reading leyee list in the
season, so many were thu names well
known in society.-London Morning
Leader.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-01-26

without bloodshed, without taxing the
American people, without giving the
world. the melancholy spectacle of a
democratic republics president deny
ing that human beings have human
rights.
Because Mr.. Mckinley started wrong,
because he has gone on from folly to
folly, is that any reason why the Amer
lean people should continue to tolerate
his laundering in the costly effort to
initiate England at her worst?
Does not the superheated Mr.. Nc
Kinley need a vigorous cold douche of
American common sense? = n. y
World
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-01-26

receiving these deposits is wanted, it
is because it is valuable; if it is val
liable, the privilege should be paid for,
whether it is held by one bank in one
city or by several banks in several cit
les" The Providence News approves
of ''thc storm of criticism in which it
is Endorsed by the Baltimore Amer
lean, and the Milwaukee Sentinel de-
c1ares shat the prejudice against
loanlng the public funds to banks at
present is too strong to be disregard
ed" Even the Boston Traveller feels
called upon to protest, and the Ban
gor Commercial feels that sit is a gil
gantic job" Thus we might go on ill-
definitely in showing how Mr.. Gage
has stepped off the line, and with pro-
tests from republican newspapers
against his action.-Atlan ta Constitn-
tiOn.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-01-26
Facts
For Sick
omen

First the medicine that
holds the s-eoos-d f0s. tire
largest number Of aEssO-
fufe Cures Of female Ills
IS EyazEa e. PiaEzzsaszsss
Vegetable c0s.sp0szsld.
Seco7d-Azrs. REnkhasss
can Show by ksaF letter
flies IN Lynn that q sszH-
Hon women ksave been
restored "a k0affks by EeF
sssedzcEsse and advice
ThEszs- AkfEsfkeE.s 70 Hars-
PfBkksass1 are received
pResedr READ and an-
ssyered by women only.
7EsEs fact Is Oer-kffEsns 6o kw
the mayer ana n0sfssaas-
fer At lynn and Others Of
Ezrss Pznklksazss,s osssn CITY.
Write for free Book corr
Eaznkaa khese oeszkfkcakess
Every akzzng woman e
ANsfed "a write ca Hzrss
HAakkazs ana get her aH-
vice 1res q Charge
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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-01-26

Terry McGovern, the prize fighter.
says his purse winnings since he en-
tered the ring amount to $4,000, of
which he still has over $25,000. He
has provided a home for his mother
and purchased q house for himself
and wife. He owns two saloons and
some real estate in Brooklyn, and has
an interest in the show OF the "Gay
Morning Glories." He expects to net
5000 to $500 weekly from his theat-
rical engagements and to be worth
more than 500, GOO within the next
two years, by which time he will be
% years old.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-01-26
TIME TO COOL OFF.
ting Up Too Much Steam for
the People.

Mr. Mckinley has been at Manila a
year and four months. He has had I'M
disturbed possession. Underline protec-
ton of scores of thousands Of bayenets
he has had the fullest opportunity to
put into practice his benevolent as
similation."
What is the result OF this intimate
intercourse? A general uprising of the
people plotted and only prevented by
a lucky chance: the garrison of Manila
doubled to overawe the people
He has been practising what may be
called a more ''strenuous" sort of ''be-
nevolent assimilation" in the outlying
districts for IL months. He has swept
the towns and the rural districts of
Luzon with fire and sword.
Result: He can show himself only
| where he is protected bys a circle OF
| bayonets; guerrilla warfare in the
| north; insurgent armies in the south.
Mr.. Mckinley has spent upon his
war:
In appropriated money. .-...,-..: $500 o0o. Oct
In debts which congress is expect
In American lives NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. I.s2;
Mr.. Mckinley has got ''the open
door, in China, without killing any
body, by the expenditure of a few dol
lars in telegraph tolls and postage.
What more do we want in the Philip
pines than the opportunity for Amer
leans to develop the commercial pos
sibilities of the islands and use them
| as depots for the oriental trade? These
objects and all the naval stations and
a protectorate, if we wish it, could all
have been gained. can all still be gained
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-01-26
The Toga and the Man.

Senator Hanna has caused to be
published a complaint against the
newspapers for paying too much at
tention to him. He says: s'They for
get that am member of the United
States senate, a position which should
carry dignity with it," Mr.. Hanna is
both right and wrong in respect to
this matter. The position of United
States senator should indisputably
carry dignity with 1T. and, just as in
disp1tably, it does carry dignity with
it if the person who occupies the po-
sition is himself g man of dignity. But
if he lack those characteristics which
become the occupant of the great Of
fee of senator, or if he himself be not
dignified, it cannot clothe him with
dignity. The dignity depends upon
the man inside the toga, not upon the
toga or the seat in the senate. IL he is
d wise. pure statesman, rot q mere
politician; it he has patriotism. is zeal
Gus in safeguarding the public veal;
If he puts country before party and
the peoples interest before his own,
TO senator of the United States viii
have cause to complain that the news
papers do not honor him as a senator
or recognize his senatorial dignity
Philadelphia Ledger.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-01-26

The United States has always been
a nation of peace, having on an aver
age hardly one war in a generation,
and England has always been a ma
ton of war, hardly a year in her his
tory when the smoke of her guns was
not somewhere ascending. And that
is why it seems strange that the
United States should be better pre-
pared for war than England. There
seems no doubt at all that the heav-
lest British reverses in South Africa
have been due to the fact that the
English artillery was inferior to that
of the Beers.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-01-26

A resolution looking toward sepa-
rate schools for boys and girls from
the fourth grade up through the high
schools will be submitted to the Chi
cago board of education soon. Trus-
tee Schwab, who is at work on the
matter, says: 1.-THE inherited traits
and home training of many of the
boys in our cosmopolitan schools are
not such as to make them desirable
companions for girls. The language
you may hear on any of our streets
from boys bears this out"
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-01-26

According to the Wichita Eagle a
western Kansas merchant was at his
dinner one day when some one en-
tered his store and stole $500 in cash.
The merchant said nothing of his loss,
not even to his wife. Seven years
later a prominent merchant strolled
into the store, and while gossiping
from the top of a sugar barrel, re-
marked: flake. did you ever catch
the man who stole that $500 from
you?" And the merchant grabbed
the prominent citizen and yelled for
the police.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-01-26

Another blue law revival is on in
South Norwalk, Conn, and the mayor,
who appears to be the leader of the
movement, has ruled that Sunday
shaving, ice cream, soda water, shoe
shines and Sunday newspapers are
necessaries, while cigars, fruits, con-
dictionary and peanuts areintirely un-
necessary, as well as harmful to diges-
ton, and, therefore, not to be allowed
on sale on the Sabbath day.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-01-26
More Births Than Deaths.

In Cherokee county during the past
year there were S11 deaths and 842
births. Of the deaths 50 were from
pneumonia, 40 from typhoid fever. 81
from meningitis and % from heart fail
ure. The number of marriages was
$50, and this compared with the S42
births might indicate to the super
fetal statistician an extraordinary
number of twins.-Kansas City Jour
nal
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-01-26
1t Is ParaIyzIng Business.

A Wichita dispatch said that small
pox in that city and adjacent towns
was paralyzing business. The entire
southern line of this state, east of
Wichita, is under guard by shotgun
patrol Guards are stationed at all
railway stations along the line with
instructions to turn back any persons
who are coming into Kansas from the
TERRITORY.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-01-26
Another .Cattle King, Missing.

Considerable excitement was mani
tested at Kinsley when it was re-
ported that cattleman who lives a
few miles east of there had departed,
also that several hundred head of cat
tie, upon which mortgages were held,
were missing. Kansas City commits
sion firms had Representatives there
looking for both cattle and man.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-01-26
Metcalf WouId BE a DeleSate.

Gen. Wilder S. Metcalf, of Lawrence,
authorized the statement that he
would be delegate-at-large from
Kansas to the republican national con-
vention, declaring however, that he
would make no canvas or fight for
the place, though he would be glad to
have the honor if the republicans Of
Kansas saw fit to give it to him.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-01-26

Our army losses in the Philippines
covering the whole period back to the
beginning of hostilities with Spain are
364 killed, 2O3 died Of wounds and acct
dents, 7S3 died of disease, and 1892
wounded. The total is 3,242, or about
one-third of the British losses from
bullets, disease and captures in South
Africa
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-01-26
SECRETARY CAGES BLUNDER.
Even the Republican Press Is Up I'm
Arms Over His Financial
Policy.

There can no longer be any doubt of
the fact that Mr. Gage has irreparab:.y
damaged the administration of which
he is part by his action in designat-
ing the National City bank of New
York az the general depository for rev
enue collections.
The severity of the blow which he
has struck is best shown by the man
ner in which leading republican news
papers have received it. The Chicago
Tribune characterizes it as foolish .
and says:
"a policy of governmental interference
in financial affairs for the benefit OF
stock market spectators is not viewed
with favor by the public. 1t prefers that
the government should remain neutral
This preference is shared by the Tribune.
Tt believes ii neither right nor expedient
for the government to attempt to bolster
up a sagging stock market by exhibiting
gross favoritism to particular bank.
It is too big contract. The government
may be harmed more than the stock mar
ket is helped"
The Journal, of the same city, SAYS
Mr.. Gage has done the administration
more harm than any Of its enemies.
and the Inter Ocean follows:
SHOULD Mr. Gage resolve to quit the
cabinet and the service of a people which
good-humoredIy but firmly declines to
regard him as a financial genius, no one
outside the diminishing mugwump coterie
would lament his departure; the repub-
lican party would feel sense of relief
and the nation would proceed upon its way
rejoicing SO
The Philadelphia Press, of which the
postmaster general is the inspiration,
gets at the heart of the deposit deal
when it says that eff the privilege OF
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-01-26

Rev. DIR. Radcliffe, pastor of the New
York Avenue Presbyterian church
the church which claims to have more
congressional members than any
other in Washington-has been called
upon to decide that progressive
euchre in the church parlors, at the
church socials, is not quite the proper
thing from a Presbyterian viewpoint.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-01-26
Oil Inspection for Eight Months.

The report of the state oil inspect
or for the past eight months, from
May 1 to December 81, shows that A.
6O7,773 gallons of kerosene and 81
752, 146 gallons of gasolene were in
spected The total amount of fees col
lected was $16,1S2, of which S7,023
went for salaries and expenses. leav-
ing SO, 159 to the state.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-01-26
Decided Against Mr.. Osborne.

S. o. Osborne, of Garden City. had a
religious antipathy against vaccina-
ton for smallpox and he refused to
obey an order of the board of educa-
ton compelling children to be vacci-
mated. His children were barred from
school and he appealed to the district
court, which sustained the school
board. He has now appealed to the
supreme court
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-01-26

Labori, the famous lawyer who de-
Tended lola and Dreyfus, is to visit
the United States and deliver a series
of lectures in the chief cities, if am
nesty is granted, as seems now likely
in those cases arising out of the Drey'
fus trial
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-01-26
Candidacy of MIR. Lardner.

The candidacy of Hubert Lardner,
of Fort Scott, for the fusion nominal
ton for congress in the Second dis
trict, is announced. Mr.. Lardner is
clerk of the district court, and was
deputy United States marshal under
Cleveland. He so closely resembles w.
J. Bryan that he has been mistaken
for him
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-01-26

An old rusty safe in the Office of
Edward Elliott, near Atlanta, Ga, I'M
disturbed for half century, was
opened the other day and, to the
amazement of his aged widow, found
to contain gold, silver and green
backs in excess of $1,000. Elliott, who
died last month, was farm hand and
of miserly disposition.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-01-26

Honore Palmer, eldest son of Pot
ter Palmer, and one of the two pros
pective heirs of 500, 100000 dollars,
and a graduate of Harvard college, has
gone to work as a. manager for a loan
and trust company, at $50 a month.
Wealth and a university education
seem of little use to young man in
Chicago.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-01-26
Hits Parsons Hard.

The attorney general rendered an
opinion holding that the state board
of charities had no legal right to con-
denim a site for new insane asylum
at Parsons. This is a hard blow to
Parsons, because the board of char
titles will follow the opinion and re-
fuse to take any action toward the
construction of the new asylum.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-01-26
The Pr,.o, Gates CIosed.

Warden Tomlinson, of the state
penitentiary, has notified the sheriffs
of Kansas that he will not take any
prisoners from them at present until
the chickenpoX and smallpox epidemic
in the state is abated. Owing to
smallpox cases near the penitentiary
gates the prison gates have been
closed to visitors.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-01-26
Pomeroy VIII BACK It.

= J. P. Pomeroy, the Cripple Greek
millionaire mine owner and philan-
thropist, will put up funds for the
establishment of model farm near
Hill City, this state, to be operated
under the direction of III. w. Camp
bell, who claims to have developed a
system whereby crops can be success
fully raised in spite of the droughts in
western Kansas. Campbell has a
method of preserving the moisture
in the ground in winter. which, it is
claimed, will revolutionize farming in
western Kansas.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-01-26
May Sell to Farmers Direct.

The directors of the Kansas peni-
tertiary are puzzled to know how
they shall market the produce of the
penitentiary Irvine plant this year.
The directors would rather deal di-
rectIy with the farmers if they can
without allowing the dealers chance
at the profits
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-01-26
NIust Paw Bie Alimonx.

Gaunt Crebs, president of the tele-
phone system in Parsons, and presi-
dent of the Oklahoma & Ockmulgee
railway, was ordered by Judge Gates
at Kansas City to pay Mrs. Laura A.
Crebs, his wife, 500 a month until
further order of the court. Mrs.
Crebs sued him for separation, which
is not divorce, and for maintenance
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-01-26

South Carolina, it is estimated,
ranks next to Massachusetts in the
number OF its cotton mills, and ex-
poets to lead Massachusetts, by the
end of 1900
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-01-26
,z.a. ne = Kans.s Farm.

The doctors told John Merklein. of
Phillips county, that his days were
numbered, and forthwith he divided
$4,000 worth OF property among his
children Every dollar was made on
Q Kansas farm
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-01-26

No comet, so far as known, has ever
come in contact with our atmosphere.
The nearest approach ever observed
was the comet of 1770, which APP
preached to within a short distance,
extraordinarily speaking-that is, l.
400. 600 miles
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-01-26

The Congregational church has
opened two schools in Puerto Rico, one
at San Juan and the other at Utuado.
Together they accommodate 400 chill
dren, though it is said that IL 900 aps
piled for admission IN two weeks.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-01-26
Cooke WIN Be Retained.

A letter was received from Kansas
congressman stating that Col. Sid
ney G. Cooke, of Herington, would be
reelected as a member of the board of
managers of the National Soldiers
home for another term of six years.
Mr. Cooke is a gold democrat.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-01-26
Renewed the Attack on Netoa1f

Lieut.. J. F. Hall, of the Twentieth
Kansas, last week renewed the attack
on Col Metcalf which was begun soon
after the regiment was disbanded.
Halls latest attack was a protest to
Secretary Martin, of the state histor-
ical society, because Metcaf was Sc
1ected to read history of the regl-
ment before the society.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-01-26

It is observed by travellers in Siberia
that the effect of constant cold is
practically the same as the effect of
constant heat. The people develop a
Discrimination to work and become
strangers to ambition of any descrip-
ton
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-01-26
Barton County Democrat.
WILL z STOKE. EDITOR and Publisher.
GREAT BEND. KANSAS.
CURRENT COMMENT.

The wife of President Loubet, of
France, celebrated her New Years by
giving $50 widows enough money to
pay their January rent.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-01-26
Elecfric Lime 60 Oiathe.

Kansas City is to have another in
terurban electric railroad. It viii
run from OIathe. The capital has all
been subscribed and the first steps
were taken the other night when the
Olathe council was asked for fran
chiSe.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-01-26
valued War souveaIr.

D. A Guilds, of Fort Scott, has re-
ceived the gun which his son was car
rying In the Philippines when he was
killed. In the strap of the gun is the
mark of the bullet which killed the
boy.