Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1895-08-09
TWO m1U FROM PRISON.
LOO NJ MIehIla raeIe.


years Gid 10 Lansing. Kansas. last Sun
day 10 was Arthur winner Win
ner aud McNutt were tho two most
famous prisoners 10 the Kansas peni-
tentiary. These men were liberated
lasJ Sunday after an imprisonment Of
over twenty sears. At5 o'clock Sun
day morning Warden Chase unlocked
the cells. lie took Winner and Nc.
Mutt TO the prison barber shop and
latter they were shaved gave them two
government snitS, which dld not ilt at
lall. Wineer, who worked in tho pris.
on shoe shop bad brought Two pairs Of
pateat leather shoes. The men put
these on. With the highly japanned
and sJylishly pointed footgcar and the
lridicuieusly cheap and awkward
clothes, they in company with ex-Sen-
ator o. a. Benlley OF Wichita, stepped
outside the great stone walls.
For twenty years they had seen
neither tree, shrub, flower, grass. nor
domestic animal. Two OF Warden
Chases daughters met them just out
side the door and presented them
with two beautiful flowers. Several
TRUSTEES approached them boaming
and presented them with bouquets rs
they went down the path. Tears
Ewere in both mems eyes.
'See, cried Winner, the more de-
monstratlye OF the TIVE. Therc is a
town. There was no town here when
l went inn "That is Lansing" said
Mr.. Bentley Lets not go there, r
said Winner. 81 want TO go over TO
those woods McNutt agreed and
they went over TO Il thickct by the
roadside The two came across a
COW, us that a cow?n said Winner,
hesitatlRgly. Don't go on. Let me
look at IT," Aud he circled around
the annual much rs a man examines a
lion in Barnum's. Then he approach
ed her timerously, aud laid his hand
upon her back. This he said, lis
the only COW have seen for twenty
years"
A little later they met flock Of
geese. 'Lookm said Winner again.
"Tell me, / really do pet know, are
those geese OF ducksSn lie was told
they were geese and he tried TO pei
them. Winner" said McNutt mo
ment later, what is that scent? Do
/ you smell it?" Yes, it must he fropl
those flowers Both men descended
upon an elderberry bush and stripped
Z it OF its blossoms. Thcy were like Two
children. They pluched every Hover
they saw aud carried it with them.
"See here,r said Winner, "here is a
good old mikweed. How green and
beautiful 1t isl" and he plucked it aud
added it to his armful OF yariegated
vegetation "Arthur," said McNutt
very slowly and deliberately, "do you
notice how queer it is to talk loudly:
Row queer the words Gomez" II Won
der il could sing. / guess not, said
Winner lie did not try.
Both men curlously ielbthe bark OF
every tree they came upon. Finally
with their arms filed high with green
twigs and flowers they went to phe
hotel in Lansing. Mr. Bentley had a
breakfast waiting for them. Winner
drank three cups Of coffee. "How
nice it is p be said, 10 have sugar ia
your coifeel And cream, tool Think
Of thatw GLOW does the butter
strike you?n asked Mr. Bentley. "Oh,
well, said Winner, am quite used
to that. We had butter every Fourth
of July"
Aftor the two men bad eaten every
thing ia sight they were shown tI
their room and there put on tailor
made suits thar had been ordered foI
them and white linen shirts, collars
and Ties. They had eaten at the
prison early in the morning, again al
nine o'clock, and at eleven o'clock the
same morning they sat down TO an
other feast, prepared by Mrs. w. o.
{ " iultis LhI Wllt VI bAc AAaLnao AiNl
capitalist and Winners brother. Thi.
was a great banquet, and both mer
ate voraciously.
Later 10 the day the whole partl
went to Kansas City. The long i'm
prisonment had not dulled the mems
minds. They asked about everything
they saw. McNutt wanted to know
what grapeyines were. When the
reached Kansas city they both begaI
to place things they had read abou
in the newspapers. McNutt coul'
Ringing Noises
] In the ears, sometimes a roaring, buz
zing sound, are caused by catarrh
that exceedingly disagreeable an'
very common disease. Loss OF smell
or hearing also result from catarrh
Hoods Sarsaparilla, the great blood
purifier, is peculiarly successful rem
edy for this disease, which it cures b
lpurifvinn the blood.