Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-02-05
THE FEBRUARY WIDE AWAKE


Is both timely and seasonable, in
Lieut.. Fremont's account of Life at
Frontier Forts" with illustrations from
photographs, and in William Zachary
Gladwin's opening s'Valentine:''
Twas an eye tor an eye and a tooth for tooth
In the old-time Scripture day;
But tell my love that q heart for heart
Is by far the better wayi
A curious little article about ga Fish
Army" Is q sort of military pendant to
Lieut.. Fremont's article ssSir Grim
bald's Ransom is a ballad, by Mary
Bradley, Of the brave Crusader an
cestor of the present British Minister of
Washington, Sir Julian Pauncefote,
whose drawer lady gave her right hand
to ransom her lord from the Saracens.
The unusually clever short stories of
the number include the strange true &C
count of "Aunt Dolly's Two Robbers"
by Sydney Quarles, Diamonds and
Toads," by Mrs. Burton Harrison (au-
thor of 1.-THE Anglomaniacs'', and 9TH
ers.) "a Little Nobody Who Became
Great Somebody" is Mary Wager
Fishers account of poor French boy,
who established cotton weaving in
France and thereby became the friend
of Napoleon. Miss Runners drawing
lessons are developing most ingeniously.
Dorothy Holcomb tells of ''Home-Made
Games" There are poems by Mrs.
Whiton-Stone, Elizabeth w. Bellamy,
Mary E. Wilkins, and others. Kirk
Munroe's railroading serial, ''Cab and
Caboose,'' becomes exciting, Margaret
Sidney's Peppers" is full of delightful
doings, and ''Marieta's Good Times'is
unique as the naive autobiography of a
little Italian girl. Men and Things
sparkles with wit and anecdote. Bridg-
mans amusing pictorial skit, Through
the Dark Continent" drops the curtain
to the laughter of the audience.
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The English Poacher.
In England the poacher is under a
ban; he is looked upon as criminal;
consequently he displays skill and
cunning to which our gunners do not
attain. He selects one kind of game to
which he devotes his entire attention,
and against which his knowledge Of
woodcraft is exclusively directed. In
the winter and autumn the man who is
after fur knows the whereabouts of
every hare within his territory-not
only CQ0 uClO III WHICH IL Is, OuG Tile
very clump of rushes which contains
its form. AS the hare goes away down
through the turnips he notes its every
twist and double and records the mi
nutest details. He is careful to note all
the openings through which it passes,
and these spots he always approaches
laterally. He leaves no scent Of hand
nor print of foot, and does not disturb
the heritage; all this with view to his
silent work. The intelligent poacher is
always naturalist, and he knows by
heart the signs Of wind and weather
essential to his silent trade. The rise
and wane of the moon, the rain bring
ing tides, the local migration Of birds
these and hundred other things are
marked on his unwritten calendar.
Through his outdoor occupation he has
imbibed an immense amount of knowl-
edge of the life Of the fields and woods,
and he is that one man in a thousand
who has accuracy of eye and judgment
sufficient to rightly interpret the moods
of nature.-Chicago News.
Napoleon Bonaparte dictated and
afterward signed his love letters to Jo-
sephine-a somewhat formal method of