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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-08-16
THE LITTLE BROWN DOG.

Early and late you watch and wait,
Little brown dog at the door.
Tor quick football and boyish call,
For your master 20 come once more.
Eager to follow, through field and hollow.
Wherever his feet may roam,
Content to stray, If he leads the way.
Wherever he is, is home.
But you never hear the whistle clear,
Nor the sound of the boyish call.
Nor the scamper of feet all bare and feet
Down through the shadowy hall;
Though long you wait at door and gate
For your play-fellow of old,
With his eyes so blue and his heart so
true,
And his hair like the sunshine's gold.
"rls year and a day since he went away
To country beyond our ken.
And those who go that way. we know.
Never come back again.
Still early and late you watch and wait
Little brown dog at the door,
But the voice is still. and watch as you
will,
Your master comes no more.
Dorothy Deane, In Youths Companion.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-08-16

near Akkra, on rne gold coast
knocked off the top OF one OF these hills,
the warriors Immediately sailed forth
to defend their castle while the labor
ers withdrew to the inner recesses. Re
turning after an hour. Buchholz found
the labOrers busy patching up the
holes, which work was finished next
day.
Deserted termiue hills are also of
great interest to the naturalist, since
the afford quarters for a variety of
animals. The termites themselves are
q favorite dish of the natives. In the
Lulua station, which Lieut. Wissmann
founded on his Kassai expedition, a
quart of termites cost ten brass nails,
while for quart of rice or beans only
eight brass nails was paid.
The termites, in spite of their raw.
ages in human habitations, are not
without use in the economy of nature.
In tropical Africa the worm is pre-
vented from work during the greater
part of the year. His soft body cannot
dig through the ground, which be-
comes very hard during the dry sea-
son. This is especially true in the
prairie districts, and here the termita
takes the part of the plower. From
the depths of the earth it brings the
material for the construction of tho
hills and hollow passageways. 1t turns
the ground over and over. carrying tho
earth even to the treetops, from where
the summer rains wash it down again.
The Importance of this work is
brought home to us when we remem-
Der the millions of termite hills which
are scattered over large part of Cen
r..
which the termites bring to light are
being washed away by transforms and
deposited by the brooks and rivers in
the valleys, and thus the fertile low
lands are to large extent j creation
of the much-feared and much-hated
white ants of the dark continent
y KRAUsZ
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-08-16
HILLS BUILT BY ANTS.
Characteristic Marks Of a Central
African Landscape.
Termite Habitations Twenty Feet In Height
Life History of Peculiar insect
Its Castles Used by Eu-
ropean Settlers.
Especial Letter.l


Max Buchner, the German explorer,
gives the following graphic directions
how to picture to the imagination the
Central African prairie: Scatter as
far as the surface is brick rcd several
millions of gigantic ant-hills of the
same color. at least five to the nectar
Then take four times as many trees anc
plant to every nectar about twenty,
more or less Do the same with like
number of various bushes. Then fill
the intermediate space with high,
coarse grass, taking care to leave some
of the red surface round the big
punches of grass visible, and you have
the Central African prairie before
you"
Thus the termite or white ant hills
appear as the characteristic mark of
the Central African landscape. They
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-08-16

decay. The traveller frequently en-
counters in the grass pieces Of wood,
branches, etc, which, on closer inspec-
ton, turn out to be only images OF
earth.
The inside of Z ternite Hill consits of
numerous passageways and rooms.
There are storerooms and Matching
places in which the young generation
is carefully fostered, and 6eep-down-
sometimes in the grounds the state
room, the abode of the queen. The
ants form a kingdom, the citizens of
which are divided into various ranks
There are winged males and females
constituting the royal couples. How
ever there is but one queen suffered in
each hill, and the superhuous ones fly
away to found new kingdoms. The
pregnant queen changes to cylinder
shaped being OF more than an inch in
length, whose head only betrays it's
termite extraction. She is carefully
fed and watched by her vassals and
rewards their efforts by laying thou
sands of eggs every day for months
The warriors are remarkable through
their big, square heads which are
armed with mighty pinchers- They do
not work or build, but are ever ready
to defend the fortress against invasion
by enemies. The laborers have small,
round heads and are the most in
dustrious members of the realm. They
feed the young ones and take care Of
the nymphs N such a way that they
may serve as substitutes IN case the
queen dies. The laborers also build
the castles of the realm, the big hills.
In these castles the termites are
70 haox~x- c1,c Of f1 -
rainy season as we'll as against the fire.
quent prairie fires. To the natives the
hills are of great use in hunting, since
they afford a good cover, without
which hunting in many districts
would be altogether impossible. They
also furnish good building material.
Franz Leusehner says in one of his let
1ers from Togoland. THE termites,
in constructing their hills, bring up
from the depth of the ground the clay,
which the blacks like to use in the con-
struction of their huts. This clay,
which is quite hard, IS mixed with
particles of grass and wood and is so
thoroughly 4neaded with the saliva Of
the terInites that it possesses great
dura bility. Since the termite hill is
often twenty feet high it furnishes ma
terial fo~ many hutS." The Europeans
frequently follow the example of the
natives, and the houses OF the Scot
fish missionary station on Lake
Nyassa are built with ma ter1al from one
termiTe hill. Leuschner even tells US
that his travelling companions used the
hills as ovens. and he recommends
their use for this purpose to every
African traveller. The ant hills in
South Africa have also often been used
for this purpose by the English
troops, who followed them out and
piastered the walls o. the cavern with
clay.
If the terInites inhabit hill. one can
watch its daily growth. When Buchols
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-08-16
GAMBLING IN ALLEYS.
The Game of Craps Is Very Pop
u1ar IN Washington.
All the Newsboys OF the National Capital
Are Addicted TO 15-Liver Lip Jack,
the Famous King of the
Bone Throwers.
Especial washington letter.


In every avocation OF life, in every
aggregation of human beings, there is
a superior man Who is called The ooss
the chief, the king, OF the emperor as
a designation Of inc general recogni-
ton Of his superiority. Il is narrated.
of King SAIL, IN the Scrtptura1 history,
tba. ne was bead and shoulders ABOVE
his brethren; that IS to say, that he
was very large man physically. in
all the Scriptucal descriptions of the
Philistipes there is one man -vko stands
out most prominently, and thai is Go
Hath OF Gath. and he receives particu-
lar mention because OF his immense
stature.
In The baseball world OF the present
day there IS a player who is called the
king, and there is also king OF chess
men, king of checker players, and in
the big capitol building there is king
of guides. Likewise in this city, among
the colored people, there is man
called Oliver Lip Jack" or King of
the Bone Throwers." 1t is necessary
to explain thai The bone throwers are
Che people VINO play CRAPS" a game
which has become an American institu-
ton, pure and simple. The game is
especially adapted to the people of
the present generation, where every
thing is expected to go with rush,
and the fastest of all gambling games
IS the game of craps In playing poker,
or other games with cards, great deal
of time is consumed in putting up the
money, in dealing and shutting the
cards, drawing and discarding, in study
ing hands and in deliberation as to
what to do in order to win or deceive
6n opponent.
In the game of craps. however,
which is a fascinating game to the
lower elements of sporting society, all
is chance and everything is done with
a hop, skip and jump. 1t makes no
difference what the stakes may be,
whether a penny or a dollar, it is all
the same with the crap players. News
boys, bootblacks, beggars and all
classes of people who are able to raise
enough money to make bet, play
craps. The game can be played upon
the pavement, or in the dust of the al
ley, as well as it could be played upon
the green cloth of billiard or faro
table.
Although there are number of crap
players, particularly of the co1ored
race, who indulge in the game of craps
in this city and vicinity, the most in
veterate gamblers are the colored
newsboys of the morning and evening
papers. A great many of them are
adept in throwing the bones, and they
win considerable money from each
other; but the harvest time is on Sun
day afternoons when they take stran-
gers into the game in the alleys, the
highways, the by-ways and the hedges
which are not thoroughly patrolled and
examined by the agents of Him who
instructed his followers to go out into
the world and preach the gospel unto
every creature.
The stakes for which these little fell
lows play are sometimes remarkably
large for such little bits of humanity.
They not only play for pennies and nick
els, but very often they play for quar-
ter dollars; and, if you know anything
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-08-16
Did Her Rest.

Husband-Our bills for household cz-
penses arc as large as ever 1 told you
to reduce them
Wife, did. / took from ten to TWEEN
ty dollars off of each one, but the
tradcs1ncn acted so about it 1 thought
you'd better go around and reduce them
yoursclf.-N. Y. Weekly.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-08-16
Passed the Worrrin- Size.

ct is going to be pretty tough sled
ding for me the next few months !
owe SO much that it Is going 70 take
every cent 1 can make TO pay out"
That is where 1 have the best Of
you. 1 have quit worrying. 1 owe so
much that 1 have given up all idea OF
paying out n-Indianapolis Journal
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-08-16

-"Goot museek,'' said the German
professor, beaming kindly on his class,
''aidts der dichestion undt INCREASES
dot appetite" 81 wonder" unused
the thoughtful girl who wore glasses
and had a high forehead, IF that is
the reason why pianos in boarding
houses are never tuned?"-Detroit
Free Press.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-08-16
Tho Hammock

It's nice to lie and while the time away
These summer days. By truant fancy led;
But while you doze You do not feel so gay
To wake and ind you're standing yozE
head
-Judza.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-08-16

Dog Fancier-Yes, Madam, have
all kinds of dogs here Is there any
particular kind of breed you wish2
Old Lady (zvhO reads the PaPersf-Oh,
anything that's fashionable Let me sea
an ocean greyhound-N. \. Dispatch.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-08-16
Dnerent ReszIts.

JacI-Wo1nen spend too much time
looking in the glass
Jesuit they walk all the straight
er for it, which the men sometimes
don-t-N V World
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-08-16
Poll Tax.

"What sort of o tax does the tele-
phone company have to pay, pa?"
''Pole tax. Now run away and don't
bother me any more."-N. Y. World.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-08-16


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Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1894-01-19
Mortgage sale.

ITO HERMAN STERMER and Tinse Stermsr,
i mortgagors: Default having been made in
the conditions of mortgage containing a
1883, executed and delivered by Herman Ster.
mer and Tinse stermer, his wife, mortgagors.
to the Mortgage Bank & Investment Company,
mortgages, mortgaging the northwest quarter
Of section twenty:two t2s), township one hum
(77) west Of the 9Th r. NJ, in Emmons county,
Territory Of Dakota (now state Of North Da-
kota); which mortgage was duly recorded in
the Office of the register of deeds Of Emmons
county, Territory Of Dakota (now state Of North
Dakota), on the 7th day of January, 1889, at 9
sM,which mortgage was on the 23d day Of Febru-
ary, 1888, duly sold and assigned to Mcclure,
and the same was recorded in the Office Of the
register Of deeds Of said county on the 9th day
February, 1889, at o'clock p. M On April IA,
1893, said mqeoEtgage was duly sold and assigned
holder thereof and the same was recorded in
the office of the register of deeds of said county
on the 3lst day of May, 1898, at o'clock p. m ),
and recorded in book Of mortgages, on
Of sale in, said mortgage has become oper-
alive, and no action or proceeding at
law or otherwise has been instituted to recover
the debt secured thereby, or any part thereof,
and there Is claimed to be due on said mort
gage at date hereof 81 principal and interest
terest thereon. Said mortgage Will be foreelosed
and said. premises will be sold by the sheriff
Of said Emmons county or by his deputy, at 2
o'clock p. M, January 10, 1894, ct the front door
Of tho county building in Williamsport, EN-.
mons county, North Dakota, to pay said indebt.
MoaTaAsn % ii BAHK 8 Isvrsrnssr coxrAuy, Mort,
gagee. CARRolL +. EAsToN, Assignee,
Dated December /, 1883, - u
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1894-01-19
They Can't Get TOO Fat.

How seldom do we pick up farm pa.
per, says correspondent in Dakota
Farmer. without seeing somewhere in the
poultry department these words Don't
let the hens get too fat" This little say
ing has done worlds of harm-more harm
than it will ever do good. In the first
place, our Dakota farmers cannot afford
with the past and present market for
! dressed and live poultry, to keep any,
thing but the great layers the Leghorns
-or some of their cousins or crosses
Now, when one out of every hundred of
those light active, laying hens gets too
fat, ninety nine of them won't get enough
to eat An active, laying hen. will sci.
dom, if ever, get too fat. Given the free
run of the yards, and we believe it is an
utter impossibility to get them SO. But,
every time this old advice is put in print,
some careless poultryman who has never
fed his hens enough to make them profits
able will, from the moment lie sees it,
feed them a little less. The shiflless
farmer will think his hens have had
SuoueA NuCu eASJ oiS ACTUALLY ololNAuS,
and the tboughtless fellow who always
thought handful of barley an overdose
of grain for dozen hens will omit to
feed them at all, excepting, perhaps, two
or three times week during the winter.
Never let this ''too-fat" business trouble
you. Try and try hard to get them fat
enough. The heavy staked down.horse.
power breeds may get too fat but farm
I ers have little use for them IN Dakota.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1894-01-19
What to Do With an Estray.

Between Nov. and March 81 you can legally
take up an estray only when the same is tres
passing on your premises. After taking up the
animal you must within fifteen days send SO
to county paper. and have it advertised in
three issues. The Inv says s., but the Record
charges g. for a single animal and S. for more
than one, $3 being the limit, whatever may be
the number of estrays published by one person
in ono notice. If an owner appears he must
pay back 70 you the amount spent by you for
advertising IF the animal has brands, describe
the brands by registered letter to the secretary
of state. If the brand is recorded with that off,
cial, he will inform you who owns the brand.
You must also, In case there is no brand, or, if
branded, the secretary of state knows nothing
OF 1t, notify the board Of county commissioners
to appoint an appraiser for the animal. II the
appraised value does not exceed $50, and no
owner appears, the estray is yours at the end of
year without further action. In case the ami
NAL should be appraised at more than $50, and
the owner does not come, at the end Of year
you must report to justice, who will set date
and place for selling the animal, and advertise
the same for three weeks in a county paper and
out Of the proceeds of the sale pay to you your
proper fees and charges. If anything then re.
mains (Which is not likely), the Justice, after
taking whack at it himself for his own fee,
pays the balance to the county treasurer If the
owner appears within six months a nd convinces
the county board of his ownership, the money
is paid over to him and he goes on his way a
sadder but wiser man. If the owner does not
show up within six months, the Doodle passes to
the county school fund, and the only way the
owner can ever get 1t back is by marrying u 10.
cal schoolma'am who has saved her salary.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1894-01-19

is the man who was brought up to verify
the affidavit villifying the grand jury
an affidavit written by Mr.. Armstrong
and made by Mr. Thurtle and it is not
surprising that Mr.. Armstrong desires to
reward him for his loyalty to the cause in
which the auditor himself was so deeply
interested. If there is any other reason for
his supporting the candidacy of Mr..
Hasper, the Record again offers him a
column of space in which to make it
known 10 the people of the Third dis.
trict 1t will not do for the auditor to
continue to ''poo-pooh' and treat with
disdain all criticism of his official acts.
Public Office is public trust and the
people have right TO know what were
the governing motives for the exercise Of
so much secrecy and haste in the recent
selection of commissioner.
In the meantime, Commissioner Nc
Lain, as before, holds the key to the situ'
alton
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1894-01-19
BEAVER CREEK VALLEY.

BY JEssAMINE SLAUGHTER.
Tune-"The Bright Little Valley"
o they Say far away from our valley
Are lands that are brighter far than these,
Where the warm breezes carry sweet perfumes
Prom the orchards of fruit-laden trees.
CHORUS.
But hurrah for this county OF EmmOnsi
Well not hasten to bid IL adicu;
Well remember the Beaver Creek Valley,
And the friends we have proved to he true
They say that our bliZzards and long winters
Are enough to mike us wish to go;
But remember the warm, bnlmy spring-time,
With the 'chinnook" a-thawing the snow.
Chorus-Then, hurrahl etc.
Some laugh vt the stock that we raise here
The horses too small for their brand;
Yet they re tireless the wind of the prairie,
And, like IT, they have ''plenty of sand"
Chorus So, hurra etc.
We have watched the bright waters in summe
OF tho Beaver, flowing swift and clear;
Or, locked III the embrace OF winter,
|. We have seen it and still deemed it fair.
Chorus-Then. hurral, etc.
We may wander fur away from our valley
Through regions far fairer may roam;
Yet our hearts will return to this valley,
For we know there is mo place like home"
Chorus-We'll hurruh, etc.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1894-01-19
WILLIAMSPORT NORTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY JAN.

hopes that the income of the two gentle~
men may be sucfficient to place them on
the lists of the income-tax law-when it
becomes law. One thing is certain: If
Messrs. Jewell and Capehart do not make
paper that will be of value TO inventors,
it will be the fault of the inventors. Both
gentlemen have had experience along the
lines to which their new publication is
devoted. Cape" invented type.setting
machine few years ago, rights in which
he sold for several thousand dollars !;
while tradition has it that i'll the early
days, when Mr.. Jewell and the erratic
Stanley Huntley were publishing the Bis
marck Weekly Tribune, n. H. was wont
to lie awake nights inventing excuses
that would soothe the feelings of importu
nate creditors. Kind and obliging as the
veteran Bismarck editor always was in
his intercourse with the country publishs
ers of the Slope, there is not one Of them
that will not, while wishing him prosper.
ity, regret the existence of conditions
that compel him to take up his abode
elsewhere.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1894-01-19
LOW RATE

The Northern Pacific Railroad has just
put into effects series of low round-trip
rates to Pacific coast points. These Cali
fornia tickets are good until April 80,
1884, and are, good for stop.over under
certain conditions.
These rates will cnublc those DESIRING
to do so to spend the winter in Southern
California, or to visit the mitlwinter fair
to be held at San Francisco. This latter
event will undoubtedly be second ouly to
the world's.fair just closed, and will re-
pay visit, as it will exhibit the resources
and capabilities of California.
St. Paul, Minneapolis and Duluth to
North Pacific Coast points and return,
S65 so; to San Francisco and rcturn 10
Missouri River, $e0.50 to Los Angeles
and return to Missouri River, $4,000.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1894-01-19

ALTHOUGH times out here are not what
the people would like to see them, they
are not to be compared with those in the
older parts of the country. Thousands
and tens of thousands are out of work,
and many have been idle for months.
Even the thrifty have exhausted their
savings, and fathers of families of little
children hear those dependent upon them
crying for bread. But the revelry and
rout Of the deYotees of fashion goes on
in the palaces of the rich, regardless of
the sufferings of the poor. Yet these
same suffering and sQrrowing ones who
are bearing the heaviest burdens of tho
evil times are the men whose strong arms
and willing hands have made the nation
great in material wealth. And, though
the farmer and the wage-worker are being
sacrificed ID financial policy in the inter-
est of the great capital centelb of the
east, should war break out to. morrow,
these same Shylocks would cry out tor
| the aid of the hewers of wood and the
| drawers of water in saving their property.
Legislation has been chiefly in the inter.
est of money Isn't it about time that
something were done for the salvation of
the blood and Drawn that have made the
! country greatS