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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-12-19

'You5 know, mother, the doctor said
that, when the roses came, my suffer-
ings would be over. Will the roses
soon be in bloom?"
SCI have seen some already" replied
the mother; "the governors wife and
daughter had them in their hair when
I saw them get into the carriage, but
those roses, I think, only grow in the
lighthouses of the rich"
There was silence, broken only by
Greta's short cough. All at once, carried
away by one solitary fixed idea, such
as so often haunts the brain of the sick,
she began to talk again about the roses,
to pine sorrowfully for their posses
sion, and by alternate beseeching, coax
ing and commanding she at last in
duced her mother to go out in search OF
some for her.
The poor woman left the bedside pos
sessed with the one desire of paclfylng
her child, and traversed the streets with
weary steps, debating in her mind what
excuse she would make on her return
for not having procured that which she
felt was entirely beyond her reach.
With bowed head and sorrowful heart
she kept repeating to herself the words
of the physician, so full OF hope Tor
| Greta: cat the coming of the first
roses she would suffer no more;" and
| we'll as she guessed the mournful mean
| ing of the prophecy, she could not help
being inspired for an instant by that
| spirit of hope which buoyed up her
child. Quickening her steps, she took
the road as if by a sudden inspiration
| bo oouorpor,s houce hnSifafad
as she reached the brilliantly lighted
! mansion, but at last, taking courage,
knocked timidly at the door, which was
Immediately opened by man-servant.
"What do you want, my good wo-
MANI"
''To speak to Madame Paterson
"I cannot disturb madame at such an
hour of the night"
ooh! imp1ore you, let me see herr
The servant repulsed the poor
mother, and was about to shut the door
in her faS@ when Madame Paterson and
| her daughter, with roses in their hair
and on their bosoms, crossed the hall,
| paused to question the servant, and
then approached the widow, who briefly
and tearfully told her pathetic story.
go, madame! o, mademoiselle! I
imp1ore you to give me one rose, only
one, for my dying child! God, who gave
His son for the redemption of the
world, will reward you"
Madame Paterson shrugged her
shoulders with mocking laugh, and
passed on. Her daughter, the brilliant
Edele, remarked that her father did not
buy roses for their weight in gold, to
throw them away upon street beggars
The door CLOSED, and the woman
turned toward her home. On passing
the Church of Sainte-Britta, she per
ceived the clergyman's wife laying
large bouquets of roses on the altar, full
blown blooms of rich red.a as well as
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-12-19

preached, large flakes were still be-
ing driven hither and thither by the
furious wind, which howled and roared
in the chimneys, shook the carefully
closed windows, and died away in the
distance like the last despairing wall
of lost soul.
In one of the most miserable houses
OF a wretched street, in the worst quar-
ter Of the town, a woman by the dim
light of Pickering candle watched be-
side the sick-bed of her last remaining
child. She was weeping bitterly, but
strove to stifie her sobs for fear of dis
turbing the fitfu1 slumbers of the suf-
ferer. AS the furious tempest shook
the dilapidated tenement, she trembled
as if she already felt the dread presence
of the Angel of Death. No Christmas
fagot blazed on the miserable hearth,
the happy voices of laughing children
and kind friends had for her long been
stilled, and the cold, sorrow, and pow
erty which reigned within seemed but
a counterpart of the desolation without.
Behind the lowered curtains of the bed
could be heard from time to time the
short cough and 1abored breathing of
the child, who at last, suddenly awak-
ing, raised herself on her elbow, and
looked across the room, where. as in a
vision. she again beheld the Christmas
trees Of her earlier years, with their
Accomplishments of tapers, bon-bons,
toys and golden stars, cleaning amid
the darkness of that somber room She
was a young girl of twelve or fourteen
years of age, and the sweet, pale face,
although in the last stage of emacia-
ton, still retained traces of delicate
youthful beauty.
With her dying voice she still con-
tinued to talk of the fete-days of long
ago, when she was rosy, healthy little
child, and her brothers and sisters,
Eric, John, Anton, Hilda and Bertha,
crowded around her with their pretty
Christmas offerings; when her father
danced her on his knee, and her mother
sang sweet lullabys by her cradle.
Those days seemed far away. Eric and
her father had persisted in shipwreck;
then, one by one, the others had fol-
lowed, till death had left behind only
the grim sisters, sickness and misery,
as the sole companions of the widow and
her child.
The vivid remembrance of past hap
piness had brought strange light into
Greta's eyes, and soon these childish
"reminiscences gave place to hope. She
spoke of the spring which would bring
back the birds and flowers, and in Civ
ing life to all else would surely not en-
tirely forget herself.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-12-19

on her ear. Kneeling reverently on the
snowy ground, the mothers heart went
UP in gratitude, and she prayed the ALL
Merciful One to look with plying eyes
on her sweet and cherished Greta,
pressing the humble flowers to her
bosom. In another moment, she had
risen and passed onward with her
treasure.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-12-19
The Stars.

Upon the nights black stem, behold
a million shining buds unfold
And light her gardens azure lawn
Where walks the moon from dusk to
dawn.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-12-19


T was a stormy
Christmas Eve, and
the little town Of
TromSOe was COM
pletely enveloped
in the ermine man
tie of mid-winter.
Snow had been fall
ing all day, and as
t b e night ap-
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-12-19

birthday
q Xmas
HaroldOh,
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-08-15
KILLS THE HOPPERS.
MACHINE THAT SLAUGHTERS
5000 BUSHELS A DAY.
Minnesota Scientists Tackle the
Farmers' Terror In a New Way
Canvas and Kerosene Send the
Pests to Death.
"Hopper-Dozers."

Minnesota scientists have tackled the
grasshoppr pest in new way. Canvas
and kerosene is the combination. before
which the tiny hoppers go down to their
death. Out there it Is known as hop
per-dozer." The State pays the expenses
of the slaughter, and the slaughter is
terrific Think, if you can, of 5000 bush
ell baskets packed with hoppers. That
was the average record in day of killed
and wounded insects at the height of the
scourge.
DR.. Otto Lugger, Minnesota's expert
on bugs, is the man who utilized the Gu
rious "hopper-dozer," says the st. Louis
Post-Dispatch. Why he calls it by that
name it would be interesting to know.
Perhaps il is because it sends the hoppers
to their last sleep. He was invited to do
something to rid the farms of their
voracious brigades of hoppers early this
summer. He found evidences of enough
of them to kill all the crops in Minnesota.
The rains helped to kill off some of them,
but science had to do its share in the
determination. In the neighborhood of
Taylor's Falls DR.. Lugger found grass
hopperinfested district covering fifty or
sixty square miles. The insects were de-
GRAFTON which had made trouble in 1890.
They were of the so-called pellucid or
California variety.
There happened to be State appro-
priation for killing hoppers, and this was
turned over to the eXecutioner. II had
200 hopper-dozers built after the most
approved fashion," said DR.. Lugger to a
correspondent. 'and purchased sixty
barrels of kerosene oil. All we asked
of the farmers was that they run the ma
chimes. That they were anxious to do this
is shown by the fact that there was Il
fight for the machines. Every farmer
in the section wanted one and wanted il
at once. We could not get them built fast
enough to supply the demand. The same
thing was done at Rush City, Duluth and
other points, although there were not as
many of them furnished at these places.
i estimate that these machines killed
about 5000 bushels a day during the time
that they were all running. / do not
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-08-15
Bodies of Indians Found.

Graveyard Point a mile and half
up the river from Whitehall, had been used
for years as a rollway. Some boys recent
ly discovered the ends of two old Indian
canoes projecting from the banks near
the waters edge. Men with shovels soon
unearthed from the sand of which the riv-
er is composed two old-style Indian ca
noes each of which contained the skele
ton of an Indian. The barrels and flint
locks, all that remained of two guns of
ancient pattern, Il small iron kettle and
some silver ornaments, that had once
been the property of the long since de-
parted braves, were also found in the
canoes.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-08-15

think that this is exaggerated in the least,
as there were over 400 of the machines,
and at the end of days work from
three to ten bushels could be taken out of
each machine with a shovel Just about
one hopper in ten that dies does so in the
machine, so you can see that my estimate
is not large one by any means"
'What is the nature of the machineT
he was asked.
1T is something of the nature of an
overgrown dustpan. and is made of tin.
1t is about eight feet long by two feet
wide, runs on three small runners, and
is drawn over the ground by horse. At
the front of the machine is n trough filled
with coal oil, and behind this, at right
angles, a piece of canvas rises TO n
height of three or four feet AS this ma
chine is drawn over the ground the hop
pers jump into it, the canvas preventing
them from jumping over. They fall into
the oil and that is the end.
"Some of them strike the oil head first
and die instantly. Others only touch it
with their feet or bodies and are able to
jump out again. 1t makes little difference
in the end, however, as they cannot live
over three minutes il they have even the
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-08-15

smallest drop of the oil upon their bodies.
The fact that only those which get into
the oil head first die instantly is the rea-
son that such small percentage of them
are found in the pan at the close of the
days work.
"Of course the hopper-dozers are only
a makeshift. am conducting experiments
now which l hope will show me a much
better way of getting rid of the pests than
the very clumsy one of gathering them
up on a dustpan. A little while ago |
read in some paper that in certain coun-
ties in Colorado the hoppers were dying
iN great numbers with some sort Of a dis
ehse. l sent to the postmasters of n num-
ber of towns in that State asking them
to rend me some of the insects that were
diseased. / received large number. and
there is no doubt in my mind that they
are really afflicted with disease that is
contagious in its nature. We are trying
to find out II the insects which we have
In this State are liable to this disease. If
so we will then know how to deal with
them in scientific manner"
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-08-15
News of Minor Note.

Comedian Edward Leslie stopped run
away team at New York and saved four
lives.
A. G.. Cade was shot and killed at
Sparta O. T., by Bud Ray, marshal of
the town.
AS a result Of feud dynamite bomb
was thrown in the hamlet of Mart Texas,
and five members of the Phillips family
were killed outright.
Hector Louis Francois Pessard,
well-known publicist, died at Paris He
was at different times connected with
a number of Paris papers.
At Atlanta. Ca, DIR. Hawthorne
preached n red-hot sermon against BIZ
cycling, declaring that personal devil
was responsible for the evil.
The Omaha Board of Education elect
ed Prof. Frank Il. Cooper, of Des Mones,
superintendent of the Omaha public
schools for the coming year.
Messrs. Dudley, Tatro, Troche and
Trudas, of North Adams. Mass, were
killed at railroad crossing near Will
JAMESTOWN. Their carriage was struck by
a train.
Porter Jones, nephew of Sam Jones,
tHc cNdHStllSt, tOHlHiltttu rulClut Ut AZ
lanta, Ga, in the penitentiary camp,
where he was serving a five-year sentence
for killing a man.
III. NJ. Saunders, passenger, and Con-
ductor Emmett Burdick were slightly in
jured in a railway collision on the West
ern New York and Pennsylvania Road
near Southport, Pa.
Mrs. Helen Fenger, aged 80. and
Charles Church, aged 80, she mother Of
four children and he the father of three,
eloped from Boston, Ind. They are sup
posed to have gone to st. Louis.
Thomas III. Peterson, agent for the
Hooking Valley Railroad and merchant at
Longley, Ohio, was found on the track
with lis head severed from his body. He
fell from an excursiep train.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-08-15
Fourth Michigan Cavalry.

The surviving veterans of the old
Fourth Michigan Cavalry will be re-
joiced to know that Gen. Robert III. G..
Minty will be present at the dedication of
the regiments monument at Chickamau-
ga, which takes place directly after the
national encampment at Louisville. Gen.
Minty has given such assurance TO JAS.
II. Hurst, president of the rcgimental as
sociation, and the ''old boys" know his
word is all that is necessary in the mat
ter. Minty went out with the regiment
as its colonel, and by his gallant heroism
and service was made full major gen
eral. The following is list of the dele
gates who have been appointed to attend
the dedication of the national park on the
battlefield of Chickamauga to represent
the old Fourth Michigan Cavalry, Sep
tember next: Gen. Robert III. q. Minty,
Ogden, Utah; Gen. B. ID. Pritchard, AL
Logan; ID. III. Haynes. Three Rivers; Ed
ward Racine, Grand Rapids; Col. II. B.
Robbins. Adrian; l.. Wells Sprague,
Greenville; ii. A. Backus, Detroit; III. s.
Boutell, Ypsilanti; David Dillon, Paw
Paw; James Vernon. Detroit; George X.
Stone, Jackson: James II. Hurst, Wyan-
dotte; j. G.. Dickinson, Detroit: III. ID.
Treat, Ovid; 5. X. Pierce, Laingsburg.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-08-15
Short State Ifems.

Eugene Shuart, q blacksmith and we'll
known resident of st. Joseph, committed
suicide by hanging. He was 80 years old.
DR.. Solomon G. Salter. native of Ohio,
soldier of the Seventh Michigan Infantry.
graduate of Ann Arbor, died at Lena, Ill.
In Manstee, East Lake and F1fer City
there are fifty-eight factories, employing
3,199 persons. This includes no children
under IA
Battle Greek has gone dry-not the city,
but the stream of that name. In many
places the bed is as dusty as the path of
the Israelites across the Red Sea.
Three weeks ago Charles Chatfeld. a
12-year-old son of G. B. Chatfeld, of Bay
City, ate thirteen green apples. He was
taken i'll. Saturday afternoon the boy
died.
The Michigan Home for the Feeble
Minded and Epileptic, located at Lapeer,
has been formally declared ready for the
reception of patients by proclamation Of
Gov. Rich
The name of the hermit known as the
"Old Spaniard" who was burned to death
last week in Horton Township, Newaygo
County, proves to have been Christian
Bennett. Nothing more is known about
him.
The Escanaba Lighting Company will
sell out to the city for $21 900. subject
to a bonded Indebtedness of $4,000. or
$4,000 in all. The city will pay $4,000
and no more.
Rogers City people may live far away
from metropolitan joys, but the smell of
pine has made them self-respecting and
sensitively proud. The other day crowd
of swells and swellesses from the steamer
Michigan paraded the streets with tin
horns, pans, bells and strdent voices, yell
ing their dsdain for the "jay" town. Sud
denly from a dark corner jumped out n
small squad of irate citizens. "Biff.
Bang! went the decayed hen-fruit; there
was q helter-skelter run for the boat;
then" says local paper, "all was quiet
save the hoarse scrcech of the night bird
and the soft murmuring of silvery ripples
as a light breeze playfully ripped them
over the placid bosom of Lake Huron"
and Rogers City was avenged.
White Cloud has concluded the village
il large enough to demand the establish
ment of n fire district. and has passed an
ordinance TO that effect, ard all buildings
hereafter erected within the prescribed
limits must be of brick or stone.
Harriet Guild Burton, the first woman
married in Grand Rapids and member
of the first family to locate here In 1893,
died Thursday, aged so years. Tuesday
night paper which she was reading
caught fire and the injuries she sustained
hastened her death. She leaves no chill
dren. Her husband died several years
ago.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-08-15
BARRED BY A RAILROAD.
Illinois Central Refuses to Allow Chi
cagoans to Cross It's Tracks.

cagoans to Cross It's Tracks.
Actual conflict between citizens and
armed officers of the Illinois Central Com
pany on the Chicago lake front because
passage to and from the lake front was
denied to the people has brought the
question of rights to a decisive issue.
Mayor Swift declares the crisis has been
reached. He proposes to protect the peo-
pie against repetition of the outrage of
exclusion. John Dunn, assistant TO the
president of the company, announces he
will not bulge from the determined stand
taken by his force of men with revolvers
He says citizens were denied right to cross
the tracks out of regard for their lives
and intimates the corporation will fight
any opening of streets. In short, the
company's position is construed by city
officials to be determination to stick for
alleged vested rights. This earnestness
any more conferences and consequent
agreements impossible.
Chicago's lake front on Wednesday
was in the possession of fifty armed men,
hired by the Illinois Central Railroad
Company to blockade passage to the har-
Dor from Randolph to 18th streets. They
had clubs in their hands and revolvers in
their pockets. They We're instructed to
use both if necessary on any person who
insisted on his right to an approach to
piers in navigable waters, and, in carry
ing out the instructions, they compelled
n score of women to imperil their lives
"Wednesday night.
This climax of the contest between the
corporation and the municipality was
caused by the action of the company in
retaliation for the order to tear down the
Van Buren, street viaduct. Special Off
Ger O'Keefe was called into the general
managers room and ordered to secure a
large force of assistants. He was in
formed that at sundown the people were
to be taught they had no right to pass
age to the lake front. He was told to fur
nish his assistants with weapons and to
arrest peacefully in all cases where u
beating was not necessary, any man,
woman or child who tried to enter Chi
cago from the steamboats,. This order,
said to be without precedent in the his
tory of maritime matters, was put into
working force at the time when the people
were returning from Lincoln Park and
Windsor Park Beach by boat.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-08-15
Aged Man Is Forced to Live.

James Burgess, who lives in the rear of
n small shanty at West Bay City, has
prayed for death. When he received no
response to his prayer, he endeavored to
starye himself to death. The starving be-
came tiresome. Thursday he got out of
bed. went TO the back door and returned
with a small hatchet. This he held in
his two hands and struck himself in the
forehead twice. His feeble wife called
for help as loudly as she could and as
sistance soon came. The weapon was
taken away from the old man, who had in
ficted serious wounds. He will recover.
Both man and wife are near the 10s.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-08-15

growth cultivation and harvest, made by
the directors of the different State wealth
er services, say that the general outlook
Tor an exceptionally fine corn crop contin-
ues fattering. Except in the Dakotas
and Minnesota where il is somewhat late
and in Indiana where il is maturing slow
ly, the crop is generally in advance of the
season and early corn is now practically
made over the southern portion of the
corn belt. Kansas and Missouri report
much of the crop made, and i'm Missouri
the largest crop ever raised in that State
is promised. Six hundred Iowa reports,
all counties being represented, show the
condition of corn as much above the aver
age in sixty-one counties, above average
in eight counties, while thirty counties
promise crop below the average. In Ne
braska corn is in excellent condition in
the southwestern part of the State and in
the counties along the Missouri River;
but has been much injured in the south
eastern section. except in the river coun-
ties. In Indiana, while corn is maturing
slowly, il is in good condition. In Ohio
the outlook is less favorable, being poor
in the uplands and on clay soils. Ken
tucky reports corn prospects unprecedcnt-
ed. No unfavorable reports respecting corn
are received from the Southern States
except from portions of Texas and the
Carolinas, where in some counties drought
is proving injurious. In Texas cotton is
needing rain on upland; and the south
west portion of the State, North Carolina,
Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Louis
lana report Improvement in the condition
of cotton over the previous week. while
the outlook in South Carolina is less
favorable. In Missouri there has been
too much rain for cotton and the crop is
grassy and the outlook unfavorabe in
Arkansas. Spring wheat harvest has be-
gun in North Dakota and continues else
where in the spring wheat region. Tobac-
co is in good condition in Virginia and
growing rapidly in Kentucky and con-
tinues in excellent condition in Mary
land, but in Ohio il is not doing we'll
Light local frosts occurred in Northern
Indiana and in Northern Maryland and
in the mountains of West Virginia, No
damage reported except slight injury to
corn in Maryland Drought continues
in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Southern Texas
and in portions of Maryland and the Car
olnas, where crops are being injuriously
affected.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-08-15
NEWS OF OUR STATE.
ITEMS OF INTEREST TO MICHI-
oANDERS.
Ella Soma mb bula" at Grand Rapids
Found Skeletons of Indians in An
cient Canoes-Jamcs Burgess Wants
BADLY to Die.
Girl Sleeps Nine Weeks.

Maggie Ley, of Grand Rapids, has fall
en- into sleeping habit which thus far
the doctors have been unable to over
come. For nine weeks she has slept for
twenty-five or twenty-three hours daily.
She can be aroused for her meals and eats
heartily and talks intelligently when
awake, but these lucid spells are of short
duration, and she drops off asleep again.
The sleep has all the appearances of be-
ing natural and healthy, but cannot be
shaken off. The girl is otherwise well.
and before the attack came on attended
school regularly, but was never very
bright. Her father is an inmate of the
Kalamazoo asylum, and her grandfather
was also insane. The doctors think the
sleep is the result of an inherited disease
of the brain
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-08-15
Notes of Current Eyent..

The Good Citizenship League of Wich-
ita, Kan. has taken steps to start a daily
paper.
Plows are being operated by electricity
in Germany more cheaply than they could
be by steam.
Twenty-Five prisoners were injured by
a falling bridge in the pcnitentiary at JEFF
ferson City, Mo.
Lee Thomas was hanged at Corsicana,
Texas, for the murder of j. NJ. Farley.
The murder was the reoult of game Of
cards. --<s
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-08-15

Grand Chief Powell, Of the Order of
Railway Telegraphers, has asked for
conference with the managers of the Cot
ton Belt Railway relative to the COM
pany's abolition of its agreement under
rhicA its telegraphers work.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-08-15

Philip Kaufman and Michael Snyder
were arrested at Coney Island, New
York, charged with running an Illicit still
atHkeptune avenue. The men rented the
house one year ago, since which time they
have lived in 1t and carried on their
work. The whisky was stored in a cellar
under the rear extension of the house.