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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-02-14
ELLINWOOD EFFECTS.
From the Leader

From the Leader.
Soon the politician and early rad
ish will spring up.
Ex.Supt. Winans of Hutchinson,
will address the teachers meeting here.
Mrs. Nettie Warwick has been
teaching in the public school, during
the illness of Miss Marie Brewer.
The home of Mr.. and Mrs. @. L.
Bacon was the scene of merry
gathering of young people, Tuesday
evening, the occasion being a sur
prise party in honor of Miss Fernie
Woolley.
The infant daughter of E E Alex
ander and wife, aged six months, died
Wednesday afternoon at o'clock, OF
pneumonia. The funeral took place
Friday morning at 10 O'clock. The
family have the sincere sympathy Of
all in their deep bereavement.
Mrs Ditto. who was severely burn
ed at Russell the other day, when
starting fire in the cook stove with
coal oil, is we'll named Yet she ii
but one of large army who have
done ditto ever since the discovery OF
that Illuminating fluid, and there will
doubtless be many other dittos till the
end Of time.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-02-14
Mrs. Eliza Brown.

Deceased was born in Seneca county,
Ohio, and was 81 years and II months
old at the time of her death, February
9th, 1902, brief notice of which ap-
peared IN this paper last week. She
was married to James w. Brown in
1855 moving to Great Bend in 1874.
Four children survive her-Mrs. Belle
Decker and F. E. Brown, of this city,
c. w. Brown, of Ponca City, Oklaho-
ma, and Mrs. Grace Long, of Ellsworth
county, Kansas.
Mrs. Brown and her husband took
an active part in the early development
of Great Bend. The husband died in
this city on January 1st 1901. The
youngest son, Frank, is one of the
prorrietors of the Daily Item, of this
city.
Mrs. Brown had not been in vigor
Gus health for a number of years, blu
hex last illness. pneumonia. was but fol
few days.
In her death this comm unityeloses /:
warm harted, noble citizen, and all ou
people will join with the DEMOCRAT il
extending deepest sympathy to the be
reaved ones.
Funeral services were held at bel
late residence Saturday, the 9Th, a
2 o'clock p. m.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-02-14
Oolonist Rates to the North west.

On sale daily during March and April
by Santa Fe. To the north.Wes and
intermediate points. Helena, Ogden.
Butte and Salt Lake at S22 90, Spokane
&22. so, Portland, Tacoma Seattle anG
intermediate points S25 90 Call on or
advise. w. ToRREY.
Agent A. T. & 8. Fly.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-02-14
CLAFLIN COMMENTS.
From the Clarion

Mr.. and Mrs. A. 81. Dougan
went to South McAlister Ind. Ter
ritory, Friday last to pay short visit
to their daughter, Mrs. Stevens.
The prospect for another record
breaking wheat crop was never better
at this season of the year than it is at
present. If such good fortune should
strike this section of the country, real
estate will advance in price another
thousand dollars per quarter.
Two free rural mail delivery routes
will be established out of Crest Bend
soon. The people around Clafiin can
have like accommodation, it they
will 60 to work; but if each fello "
waits on the other to make the first
start. it will never be made.
About the most heartless joke we
ever heard of was played on a young
man by lady school mann who
teaches in the Schultz district. The
young man was greatly affected by
her charms and walked all the way to
carry her dinner pail for her. and then
she asked him to go out and get some
kindling-of course he went-and
then she turned the key on him.
which caused him to be affected
again. but his affections were differ
ent from the first spell he had.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-02-14
Around the Pan,

The reader may make up his mind
to be pleasantly overwhelmed by the
oppulence and vivacity of 'Around the
Pan." published by the Nutshell Pub
fishing Company. 1859 Third avenue.
New York.
The wonders begin with the fronts.
piece picture of President Mckinley.
drawn in a single line beginning at a
point on the cheek bone and going
round and round in constantly wind
ing circle. with waverings and down.
bearings of the pen in the proper places
to secure detachment and shading.
We are told that this portrait sis con
sidered the most unique work of its
kind in the world" and If there are de-
grees of uniqueness we are willing to
believe that this is at most the thing of
which there are no duplicates. Of
course there is text in addition to the
pictures, and we should be surprised
indeed to hear from any purchaser the
opinion that he had not got his mo-
ney's worth (Sz.oo)--New York Sun.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-02-14
Grand Lodge A. F. & A. n.
Grand Chapter r. A. M.
Grand C0uucil r. & g. M.


At Fort Scott Kans., Feb. II to 10th.
The Mo. Pac. Ry. will sell round trip
tickets for 81 80, on Feb. 18th to 18th,
good until Feb. 22nd. Morning train
gets you there in evening same day.
J. RAsOR, Agt.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-02-14
HoIsINGToN HUMMINGs.

Farmers should study the increas-
ed value of manure made on the farm.
Sight Us to the man that never
makes q mistake, and We will show
you q man that doesn't amount to
much anyway.
Hiss Birdie Siddorn departed suns
day eve, for Des Moines, Iowa, where
she will remain for some time.
Jacob Shafer Of Willard informs us
that his wife disposed of the following
from their farm since Oct 1901: 1926
worth of eggs and 500 worth OF
butter.
The farmers of Barton county we're
never in more prosperous condition.
With wheat land selling at $50 to $50
per acre, and the assurance of an
other big wheat crop, every resident
of the county has reason to feel jubi.
liant as to the future.
In commenting on q knock on
cottonwood trees which appeared in
this column one day this week, the
Salina Union says that it seems like q
sacrilegious attack On a worthy pio-
neer, and that writer's of the present
day should have reverence for cotton.
wood, which ''lived when others trees
died and furnished the only shade
and fuel and lumber to the early
Kansas settler" That the cotton
wood was friend of the pioneer M
one will dispute; but times hav'
changed "since Hec was pup"
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-02-14
CARD OF THANKS.
A Quick Reply,

Theatrical people see many funny
things, but one of the most humorous
incidents we haYe heard of occurred
to William Thomas, the advance rep
resentative of "My Friend From Ar
kansas which. by the way, is to be
seen at the Opera house on Feb. IA.
The opera house had burned down
where his attraction was booked, and
the agent finding it necessary to
hustle for a date, dropped off in a
small town in Arkansas, through
which state he was playing, "Whats
the population here.o he said to the
first man he met. Democratic" re.
piled the man, as he hurried past him
to the depot to see who had arrived.
Prices %, 35 & so.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-02-14

Buy your Cane Seed and Kafir Corn
early, and save money. 8. A New.
combe has two car loads.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-02-14

Convention of Federation of Wo>
mans Clubs at o~Angeles, Califor-
mia, May 1st, to 9th, 19O2.-Santa Fe
sells round trip tickets for this occa-
sion to Los Angeles or San Francisco
dates of sale April % to ~ inclusive,
final limit June 25th; good by diverse
routes and have stop over privileges.
Secure your space in our elegant Pull
man or Tourist sleeper. For further
information call upon or address
W. ToRREY, Agt. A. T. & 8. F. Ry.
Great Bend, Kansas
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-02-14

Oklahoma Live Stock Association
holds it's annual meeting at Wichita
Feb. 18th to 18th. The Mo. Pac, BY.
will sell round trip tickets Feb. 10th to
18th. good to return until Feb. 10Th.
for So 95. Take morning train, have
all day in Wichita returning in evei,-
Ing. J. RAsoR, Agt.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-02-14

FOR SALE-Three quarter sections
Of fine wheat land, Is miles n. W. Of
Larned; easy terms. $50 .. 8 mi les
south Of Larned. with new six room
house. granaries, barn, etc.. 40 A. in
wheat, A. In fruit trees, some bear
ing. Also q fine year old stallion,
weight 1850. Address:
@. E. GROVE, Larned, Kans.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-02-14
RESOLUTIONS.

Whereas, The family of Brother
Joseph Shaeffer has been sorely af~
flicted by the death of their little son
Joe, and the sickness of their daughter
Barbara. Little Joe has laid aside the
robes of earth to accept crown of life
in heaven. Therefore
RESOLVED, that Clara Barton Re-
bekah Degree Lodge No. 81. /. @. o.
F., extend to Bro. Shaeffer and fam.
lily our sympathy in this, their hour of
deepest sorrow.
RESOLVED, That these resolutions be
spread upon our minutes, published in
the city papers, and copy furnished
the bereaved family.
MRS. HATTIE LusE
Committee MRS. LYDIA TYLER
E. TYLER.
Whereas, It has been the will of the
All Wise One to remove from earth C..
L. Jones. the father of Sisters Ella
Butler and Nettie Jones.
RESOLVED, That Clara Barton Re-
bekah Degree Lodge No. 81, I. o. o.
F., extend to the family of c. L.
Jones, our heartfelt sympathy in the
loss of their father.
RESOLVED, That copy of these res
olutions be furnished Sisters Butler
and Jones, published in the city papers,
and spread upon the minute book Of
the lodge.
Mrs. HATTIE LusE
Committee MRS: LYDIA TYLER
e. TYLER.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-02-14
William Murphey, Deceased.

Brief notice was given last week OF
the death of this old Barton county res.
ident, which took place at his home
seven miles west of Great Bend. on the
morning of February 9th, 1909.
William Murphey was native of Ire
land. He came to Kansas and located
on the claim in Liberty township in
the spring of 1873. and since that time
has experienced all the hardshlps, the
hopes and fears, the disappointments
and successes of the early pioneers.
At the time of death he was aged 81
years. months and 9 days. He leaves
a wife and one son, VIM. ]. Murphey.
The funeral occurred from the Cath.
Ole church in this city at 10 a. M,
Saturday, the 9Th inst, and the re-
mains were LAID to rest in the Catholic
burying ground in the Great Bend
cemetery, a large number of sympa-
thizing neighbors and friends paying
their last respects to the departed.
CARD OF THANKS.
We desire to extend our heartfelt
thanks to our neighbors and friends for
their kindness during the illness and
death of our husband and father.
MRS. WIN. MURPHEY,
w. ]. MURPHEY.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-02-14
Light Brahmas For Sale.

Fifteen fine c0ckerels and thirty
puIlets and. yearling hens, bred from
hens that scored so to 943. and cock
that scored 933. Scored by Scball-
barger Must be sold soon.
JAMES KEPPLE, Great Bend, Ks.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-02-14
For Sale.

Good, choice corn, price now Toe per
bushel. Better buy now, 1t will look
cheap when harvest time comes. Also
corn, barley and wheat chops, at THE
Rock GRAIN Cos Elevator, Great
Bend Kansas.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-09-18
Better Thnn Smashing.

An estimable young married lady of
Kansas village waited until the small hours
for her husband, and he came not. She
could rot stand it longer, and, rising, she
dressed herself, armed herself with re.
yolver, and proceeded to saloon in the
village, where her suspicious that her hus-
band was there were found to be well
founded. The wayward husband had spent
the evening and night until a. m. with
four or five companions in convivial pleas
ures in the saloon, and when the indignant
wife marched into the place behind a
cleaning revolver barrel there was star
tied party of tipplers indeed. Straight
way she commanded her husband to leave
the saloon and go home. Then she turned
to a man in the party who had demurred
to leaving the place:
"You have a good wife at home, too"
she remarked quietly but firmly 'You
had better go home, and go right now"
He went
"Now," said she, turning TO the proprie-
tor, you blow out your lights and lock
up this place. Eleven o'clock is late
enough and il the village authorities can
not enforce the law. | will" she said, as
the whole party left the place The sa.
loonkeeper closed his door, and they
walked away in the night, the woman with
her hand still firmly grasping the handle
of the revolver. She had closed Joint
without smashing it, and the best senti-
ment in her own town applauds her act
journal Press
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-09-18
LABOR AND INDUSTRY

Expressmen at San Francisco have
organized
Norfolk (Va.) street railway men are
taking steps to organize.
Omaha (Neb.) street railway men
have recently organized union.
About 1000 diamond workers in Ann
sterdam, Holland, are out OF work.
The Seattle (Wash.) Central Labor
Union has secured the necessary fund:
to build labor temple.
At Sacramento, Cal, 100 women wer,
recently initiated as members OF the
Retail Clerks Union.
Mexican labor is so scarce as to nc
cesitate sending for negroes from ia
maica. The latter are guaranteed EN-
ployment for year.
In wages alone $Ioo, 100000 is annu
ally expended by the United Statei
Steel Corporation, better known as th'
Steel Trust
The Bank OF England employs abou
1000 people, pays quarter OF a mil
lion year in wages and f35,ooo yea
in pensions.
Journeymen tailors OF New Haven
Conn, will organize and again dcman
an increase in wages. The last move O
the workmen in the latter direction wa
q faslre@ Ia.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-09-18
EpwORTH LEAGUE MEETING TOPICS.
September 2l.-The Fulness OF God, How Se'
cured.-Eph. 3. l4-2l.

1t Is impossible for us to compre-
nend the entire fullness of God. VI
course the finite cannot surround the
Infinite. But we may apprehend Coo
and know certainly something OF him.
There are certain lines we may follow
to the extent of our limited abilities.
Creation stands before us as an un'
mistakable evidence of his omnipo'
tence. HE hath made us, and not we
ourselves. Having been created by
him and in his image, and voluntarily
falling so beneath his design in our
creation, we wonder that he has not
cut man off from the earth. That he
has borne with such a wayward and
rebellious race is a demonstration or
his infinite, exhaustless patience.
Such long-suffering patience must
be the outgrowth of his great sym
pathy with us. We know little about
human sympathy but this measuring
line is very short in comparison with
lnfinitude. Only this is so small COM
pared with Gods sympathy His max
ing us in his own likeness, his won
derful patience, and his fathomless
sympathy have all sprung from his
goodness. To benefit the universe. to
increase the sum total of its real
wealth and its true blessedness, must
have been his design in our creation.
Now he is doing all he can to bring
us into cooperation with himself in
achieving the consummation OF his
wise plans. How grand is the end
contemplated Does 1t not give to
lie SURPRISING grandeur? How long
must be the line that would measure
his goodness!
His omnipresence Is marvellous.
Think of him in the completeness of
his Personality being present every
where every instant! Thought wearies
in trying to grasp so broad truth.
Faith comes to our rescue, and we be-
lieye much that intellect fails to eX.
plain. His omniscience is another es-
sentlal of his perfectness. He knows
all that can be known from the begin.
ming to the end of time, and even
reads like an open book the wonders
Of eternity. His word affirms that
from him mo secrets are hid" When
our knowledge is SO limited our brains
whirl In striving to imagine the bound
less extent of his omniscience. Again
faith comes to assure us of the inconi-
prehensible, Looking only at these
majestic elements of divine perfection,
we stand in awe oI God, do VIC not?
So very insignificant are we in con-
trast with him, 1t seems scarcely pos
sible that we can DO of any value to
tho mighty Jehovah. But just hero he
comes to lift up our heads while ht
points 10 tho cross Of Calvary. For
God so loved us. Loved u9 Yes!
How glorlous Every heart that really
knows this must De overjoyed. How
1t leaps and bounds with delight!
Praises I'LL our whole being. Hallelujah
to our King. Beautiful as heaven 1t.
self is 1t to know the love of God!
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-09-18

The persistency with which the idea is
being advocated that the first step OF the
reform against the drink evil ought to be
the establishment of a substitute for the
saloon indicates that the propagandists OF
that idea have entirely overlooked one OF
the most patent of all facts bearing upon
the question: The saloon is not good in
stitution with incidental features that ara
bad; it is a bad institution that tries to
BOSE as public benefactor for the purpose
of Disgusting its badness.
Those features of the saloon system
which we are told minister to fundamen-
:al needs of society,"" facilitate social ex-
pression," etc, etc. are without exception
exaggerated in the presentation that is
given to the public. As a "poor mans
club" the saloon is a farce and a failure.
True, there are saloons where comforts and
!uxuries can be found, but the saloons that
are patronized by the men who are without
comforts in their homes are bare OF COM
fort, foul Of air and dirty in every appoint
ment. There are very few homes, even in
.he worst sections of American cities, that
are not cleaner and more comfortable than
the average poor mans saloon.
But even where the saloon may furnish
certain comforts and advantages, those
things are only incidental to the saloon
business The saloon exists for the purpose
Of selling drink, and is resorted to prima-
rily for the purpose Of drinking
During the discussion of Bishop Potter's
outburst the early part of the year 1899,
the New York Telegraph, which is in no
way to be regarded as a temperance paper,
made an illuminating remark as follows;
'I never had any use for whisky except
to get drunk with it. 1t was a wise man
who said this. He had made a speciality
of drinking for some years, and eventually,
seeing the futihty of his pursuit, had
ceased, and was subsequently giving his
opinion upon the value of whisky as an aid
to civilization. He might have continued
with the cognate assertion that the only
use for a saloon is place in which to get
! drunk. Whisky is made because
men wish to get drunk, and saloons are
maintained as convenient depots for the
distribution and dissemination of whisky.
Saloons are not poor mems clubs. New
| Voice.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-09-18
Our Greatest Curse.

The saloon is the greatest curse of the
present day, the fountainhead from whence
flow streams of evil. 1t fills our prisons
with criminals, our insane asylums with
victims and our graveyards with paupers'
graves. 1t turns happy homes into barren
wastes. 1t debauches and ruins the hus-
band the son, the father; it destroys the
happiness of the wife, the mother, the
daughter. 1t clothes them in rags, starves
them and breaks their hearts. And for
what? That few men may grow rich and
flourish on the burnt ashes of homes.
Every conscientious thinker admits that
all have said is only the sad truth. Then
why allow this terrible cause of crime and
wretchedness to go on? Why not inaugu-
rate war against it that would overthrow
it? If every good man should vote as his
better nature dictates this evil would be
abolished. Do not say that it is hopeless
to war against it. that this foe is too
strongly intrenched in human hearts and
selfshness, for right will triumph in the
end.-Josiah Aliens Wife, in the Woman's
Home Companion.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-09-18
A NovelIat,A Opinion.

1t is dark and difficult problem, but
one thing see clearly, namely, that drink
is the greatest and most baneful hypno-
tist on the earth at present, and that its
influence is more awful than any plague,
more devastating than any war. Looking
back from more than middle life, | can
hardly remember a case of wreck and ruin
that has not been, directly or indirectly,
the result OF drink. 1t is terrible roll
call my memory goes through of men Of
good and even brilliant opportunities, who
are dead or worse than dead, at the hands
Of the great hypnotist Against that rec
ord l cannot recall single case of man
who, free from the tyranny of drink, has
been utterly destroyed by misfortune. The
hardest blows of fate seem powerless to
slay the man whom the great hypnotist
cannot subdue. And though / think in
temperance is often as much consequence
as cause, I truly believe that if drink
could be utterly wiped out of the world to-
night, humanity would awake in the morn
ing with more than half its sorrows and
sufferings gone.-Hall Caine, in Household
Words
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-09-18

"God is light, and in Him is no darkness
at all" I John |: 8. A Goddess life is
worse off than a sunless world better to
miss the light Of day than the light of all
life. Yet men will suppose that the only
way to live the light and happy life is to
get as far away from even the thought of
the God of all light, sunshine and bright
ness as they possibly can. We wait till the
cloudy days are past before we go out on
our search for recreation and enjoyment,
but many feel they must wait till God, the
Sun of life, has set to their view before
they can hope to find happiness. There can
no more be happiness without God than
there can be flowers without the sun. Men
ought to feel and do feel, when their hearts
are right the same Joy at the thought OF
Him as we feel when we step out on
bright summers morn for whole day of
baskngin its warmth.
Where darkness is He cannot be. II you
are hiding yourself under the shadow of
some great sorrow you are but dwarfing
your life, chilling your heart and secreting
yourself from the only power able to make
the light shine in the darkness of despair.
What is the cause of dark days but the
hiding of part of the interests of the life
from the Lord? AS soon as you shut the
light out you shut the darkness in, to shut
God out is to shut the devil in.
And how can we who walk in the light
live with faces eclipsed? These brief afflic-
tions are but the vaDors that rise from the
soil; they cannot shut out the sun over
head. In fact, God is not only a light
above. He is light within; no matter
how heavily roll these mists and fogs they
cannot make it dark where He is shining in
the heart. Men do not fear Affections so
long as they are in fellowship with unfail-
ing love. Before the clear shining OF that
eternal goodness our fears flee like those
of children when the light is turned on in
the dark room and they see the mothers
face. His perfect light casts out fear be-
cause it is the light Of a perfect love.
Alas, the hidden and dark places they
make our cloudy days and they form the
black spots on our professions They are
the recesses where sin is conceived and
cultured; they are silent yet eloquent ar
guments that make all our verbal testi-
mony vain and void.
If we turned our calendars upside down
it would make no difference to the year; if
we called the nights day they would be
just a. dark. A life is known by the way
it leads and not by its label. A false life is
lie in itself. Men are not saved by their
words about heaven, but by their walk to-
ward heaven. The world is convinced by
the logic of lives lived in the light, where
the finest language fails. Men may know
little of theology, but they are quick to
recognize the shining of the divine in your
life. The only hope of this Door world is
the light of God shining in the hearts and
faces of men, and its greatest danger is
that those who profess to have this light
should be but empty and dead lamps, walk
ing in the darkness and leading others
deeper in.-Ram's Horn.