Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-01-21
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| <System, pains should be -
a the final layer of ice is n wv
pl the covering with sawdus5 I'd that
lfess not to clog these air chat olicy.
'No IeeI OF space shoa great
leoI I,ipber in the sid. 81 ,h p ary. but
two windows should F-relY lives to
Heh should be left open V from his
her to allow free ventils
Twanowing the escape -7eo
"a: .ngress for any cool VIZ
rtEso eo and storms may brin over the
IconaIuantities of ice, it is { but some
th with these air spaces. e ian for 2
re OF at least six inches bet ...a,,,..o
-ner icehouse wall and the --- -
lust be filed with tampt
lK-inch studding will G tnaS under the
de chamber and "a erirfaryt Sur
nonnt r nam am per lning- lie is dead noM
.pber viii do.t Jas Ill and during lucid
"a wo incl lsent for another doctor. but
aft< zyIISs doctor had gone. my physic-
ian, while ,delirious, prescribed for him
self, and how the sage hen monkeys
DER his lex,y tomb.
For two years be had his fingers on
my pulse and in my pocket all the time.
He was young western ply sician. who
prescribed for me on Tuesdays and Fri
days The rest Of the week be attended
to diseases of horses and children. He
said he attended me largely for my
society. felt hst.ssS11e551, - know that &c
/ enjoyed my society, after associating
, with horses all the week, horses who
/ had had much greater advantages
! than /.
My wife first objected seriously to an
insurance on my life, and said she
would never, never touch a dollar OF
the money if L died, but after i had
been i'll few months and my dispo-
sitiOn had suffered good deal, she said
that need not delay the obsequies on
that account.
But the insurance slipped through my
fingers somehow and / recovered.
In these days, however. of dynamite
and swiftly changing presidential
administrations, and dark tunnels
through which an engineer goes cropping
{ his way at twenty-five miles an hour;
these days of tumbling signs of the
times and tipsy telegraph poles, live
wires and dead repairers; these days
when the politician and the deadly
bridge policeman with his pull lie down
: together lunder the influence of the
same stimulentl; these days when
death turks in the air we breathe, the
ho Il
water-the water we battle in, the
say it bebooves US to look well to ou1
insurance and our future state, and
take pleasure in hereby certifying and
saying to those to whom these present.
shall come that since l became fully
, insured my health has improved 81
, much that it is subject of profound
congratulation on my part and the
, deepest disgust on the part OF those
who would naturally inherit my vasI
wealth.
The Knights of Pytiias held con
clave at Dallas while L was there.
wore a badge in order to be sociable
and by that means learned Of different
- grips VI OASLlCoS- lHlnt
that could work my way into lodge
if / could have time and large cork
screw. In shaking hands with man,
:, strangers during the past year or twt
while travelling and making a wide
acquaintance. looking into any turn il
affirs in 1892, am struck by the larg,
and varied number of grips given 10,
which am not able 10 classify.
1 would think that man who be
Ionged to most all of the secret societie.
must have very little time TO devote t.
his business after successfully remem
. bering all the grips, signs, passwords
;. explanations, signals, rituals. work o
degrees, constitution. bylaws, report
of committees, limitations. communica
!! tions and new business. good Of th'
:. ordd violations of obligations. opening
odes, manual of arms, laying of corne
stones and funeral services. If 1 ha,
all these in my head L could just abou
remember the combination of my safe
but would not be mentally adequat
i, to anything further than that. If i
4. rained, some good friend who had 10,