The Globe-republican., 1895-11-21


Father John Begley, who was stationed
in Dodge City for few years, seven or
eight years ago, but HOW of Kingman,
has made one of the most remarkable
rides on record. a Wichita dispatch of
the 14th, says:
A Catholic woman from New York,
named Mrs. Quinlan, was dying on the
ranch Of her son, in the Panhandle of
Texas, and Father Begley was sent for
to give her the consolation of religion.
The distance was 80 miles and he had to
cover it within thirty-six hours at the
longest, as Mrs. Quinian was not expect
ed to live much longer.
About l6O miles of this distance was
overland, over the wild prairies of West
ern Oklahoma, No Mans Land and
Northern Texas. Six relays of horses had
been arranged for him by the ranchmen
along the route, from the end of the rail-
road at Englewood, Kas. He rode the
entire 16O miles in twenty lone hours and
thirty minutes, arriving at the ranch five
hours before Mrs. Quinian died, and just
an hour before she became unconscious.
He ate nothing during the trip and took
only one drink of water.
Father Begley is to some extent used
to such trips, as the parish oyer which he
has charge 10 in three diOceses, and is as
large as Ireland and Scotland combined.
The wife of MIR. Leonard Wells, of
East Brimfield, Mass, had been suffering
from neuralgia for two days, not being
able to sleep or hardly keep still, when
MIR. Helden, the merchant there sent her
a bottle of Chamberlain's Pain Balm, and
asked that she give it thorough trial.
On meeting Mr.. Wells the next day he
was told that she was all right, the pain
had left her within two hours, and that
the bottle of Pain Balm was worth $500
if it could not be had for less. For sale
at so cents per bottle by w. F. Pine.
There are still farmers on the great
plains who insist Oh putting out hum
dreds of acres of wheat, barely scratch
ing 1t into the upland ground and trust
ing in n.ercifully strange Providence
to reward them for rot cultivating and
not watering their land. But the day
for haphazard farming is passing away.
Under irrigation the tOiler has an in
slrance on his crops that pays annually
the full face of the policy. Those who
have given thought to the subject assert
that the reclaimable area which is now
worthless will support directly and in
directly three times the present popula
ton of the Union. OF course, there are
large farms in the central states (that we
used to look upon as being away out
west) that can be and vii! be divided in
to smaller ones and which will be more
intensely titled and some day, perhaps
irrigated; but our immediate safety valve
lies in the water supply of the arid
region. The statesmen of to- day look to
the conquering of the desert, to the re-
demption of the now waste places. rather
than to the acquisition of more territory
for the safety of American institutions.
Great Bend Register.
The Capital is of the opinion that
will be the issue in Kansas
in 1896. 1t will not be the issue between
the parties but it may get mixed up 10
the campaign. Well, let it come; the
Eight will come some time and might as
we'll come in sc as at any other date.
We are not AS much scared about pro-
libition as some people appear to be.
The saloon has been an outlaw in Kan
as for fifteen years and we don't believe |
he majority of Kansas people care to
lyain let it into respectable society il they |
10 we might as as well know it in '96 as
., 700 ToDs.ka Mail and RrpeZe.