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Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1896-01-11
DEATH m A MINE.

Nine Men Buried In CAVERN Near Victor
Col.
VICTOR, COL, Jan. GA terrible acct
dent occurred Saturday at tho Anna
Lee mine of the Portland company on
the Battle mountain. Nine men were
caught in big cavc-in. Four of them
were on the cage when the ground
gave way. The others were working
In the mine. AL are supposed to be
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1896-01-11

NEw YoRK. Jan. s.--The marriage OF
Oliver II. 7. Belmont and hrA Alya
Vanderbilt will be celebrated Of the
home Of the latter January 90 jan.
nary 90 they will sal for EUROPE.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1896-01-11

YOKOHAMA. Jan. IA serious upris
lpg has occurred 1t Furmosa. On Jan.
sary 1 1000 rebels utsRslsed Tslpeh,
but they Ners repulssd
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1896-01-11

IMPARTIAL - Browp-"Big failure Of
Smish's, wasn't II! Any preferences"
Jones-.None whatever. Borrowed wher-
ever he could. '-Brooklyn Life.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1896-01-11
Its Origin.

The expression: "a horse on you,
probably originated when the Greeks
entered Troy.-llay City Chat.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1896-01-11

Prof. Archibald Geikie. the distin.
guished British geologist, q coming to
the United States soon On . lscturing
tour.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1896-01-11

"You and yotir sister are about the same
size, and you look exactly alike. Twins,
aren't youl" asked tho visitor. "'Course
notp' exclaimed Tommy, highly indignant.
s'She's grip Chicago Tribune.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1896-01-11

BgIcHAM's PILLS for constipation 10c and
CSC. Get the book (free) Of your druggists
and 20 by II. Annual Bales 8,0O0,0O0 boxes.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1896-01-11

"BRowy's BRONCHIAL TRoCuEs" are un
riyallcd for relieving Coughs, Honrsenest
and all Throat Troubles. Sold only In boxes
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1896-01-11
Ghosts Arc Pale and shadowy,

Ghosts Are Pale and shadowy,
Say those who profess TO have interviewed
them. Whether spooks are tallow-faced or
not, mortals are whose blood Is thin and
watery In consequence Of imperfect assimi-
lalon. When invalids resort to Hostettcr' 9
Stomach Bltters, and use that unequalled
tonic persistently, they soon .'pick up" In
strength, flesh and color. II should be
used also TO prevent malarial, rheumatic
and kidney complaints, and 10 remedy con-
stipation, sick headache and nervousness.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1896-01-11

ain Lowell guess notw "How do you
know, "They never sit silent for min
uteI'
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1896-01-11

A SERMON over 20 minutes long Is cler.
ioal crror.-Texas Hiftings.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-09-17
THE PRICE OF WHEAT.

Its Decline is Due to the Introduction of
Labor-Saving Machines.
The advocates of the free coinage of
silver have made many disciples in the
West because they have told the farmers
that the decentralization of silver was
the cause of the fall in the price of
wheat. and they have said that if silver
were restored to it's rightful place in our
monetary system the price of wheat
would rise to 81 bushel or Whereabouts
The prevalence of belief in this argu-
ment is a curious illustration of the will
ingneSS of men to accept theories which
promise to them what they want even
when they have the proof of the fallacy
of those theories at their doors. All the
Western farmer has to do if he wants
to learn why the price of wheat has
fallen is to go into his barns and look at
his reaping and threshing machines. 1t
is not many years since the first reaper
was put on the market. 1t would do
the work of several men and it reduced
the cost to the farmer of raising his crop
of wheat. Then the reaper and binder
was invented and soon came the cOmbi-
nation reaper, binder and thresher, which
still further reduces the cost of raising
his product. In 1888 wheat could be
produced on the big Dakota farms for
16 cents a bushel. There is a para
graph going the rounds of the newspa-
pers this summer describing combina-
ton harvester and thresher that has
recently been shipped to farm at va
kima, Wash, to be used in harvesting
a big crop of wheat. The machine will
cut swath twenty feet wide, will thresh
the grain and put it in sacks ready for
the market as it moves over the field. AS
the labor cost of a product fixes its price
it was inevitable that the price of wheat
should fall when labor saving machinery
was used in it's cultivation. The West
ern farmers have welcomed every inven-
ton that reduced their labor. They have
not been backward in buying the reapers
and binders and threshing machines.
They have used steam engines for power
and have burned the straw for fuel to
make the steam, utilizing every particle
that all these things have forced the
price of their product down. They seek
a remedy now in the free coinage of sill
yer, which they are told would double
the price Of their crop in dollars, but
which would certainly cut the value of
every dollar in two and leave them in a
worse position than that in which they
find themselves today. They are just as
mistaken as the sawyers of England who
burned the first sawmill run by water
power that was set up and hanged the
proprietor. These men did not seek de-
basement of the currency. They object
ed to the introduction of labor saving ma
chinery because they did not know that it
would ultimately increase their wages
and improve their condition. The West
erners have accepted the labor saving ma
chinery which has been the making of
that region and they want to keep their
products at the price that prevailed before
the introduction of the pers.-Brook-
Ign Eagle.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-09-17

This is one of the beauties of 4 depre-
ciated silver currency which the white
metal advocates fail to point out to our
wageworkers when they ask them to
vote for silver, yet they are results that
will invariably follow any appreciation
Of the currency, whether in India or the
United States.
IF the voters of this country could be
made to understand the poverty, squalor
and suffering which is calmly accepted
in India as a necessary part of exist
ence, and see that these conditions grow
worse as their money becomes more and
more worthless. the possibility of any sill
yer votes among workingmen. or among
any class outside of those directly in
terested in silver, would be remote in
decd -
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-09-17
was pointed out to him and it was

was pointed out to him and it was
pccted that in the future he would ca
,,ly verify his excerpts from the gooo
TX before uttering them But he has
one on from blunder to blunder. His
latest misquotation placed Demetrius in
Il false light. Every Sunday school
scholar is aware that it was not Deme-
trius who made the famous exclama-
ton: "Great is Diana of the Ephe-
sians," but the workmen whom he called
together. Of course, owing to circum-
stances not under his control, Demetrius
is unable to come out iEs,a card and set
Mr.. Bryan right. They used to tell
story of Prince" John Van Buren, which
may interest Bryan. John also was
little shaky when it came to quotations.
Once. in the course of an address to a
Sunday school, John undertook to tell
the children the story of Jacob and Esau.
In the middle of his narrative the man
who sat behind him on the platform
pulled his coat-tail and whispered: BE
careful, John; you are getting the hair
on the wrong man" Rochester Post
and Express
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-09-17
CAUSE OF HARD TIMES.

Foreigners Withdrawing Money in Fear
of Free Coinage and Populism.
Financiers tell us that the vaults of
Europe are full of idle money and that
foreigners, who have more clearly per-
ceived the dangers of free coinage than
our own people, have been withdrawing
money from this country for years. The
older civilizations of the world do not
offer favorable opportunities of invest
ment and until our people show prom
Use of honesty this gold will continue to
be boarded in European banks and safe
ty deposit vaults.
Those who are attributing the hard
times to the present monetary system
of the United States have only theory
upon which to base their arguments.
The country never enjoyed more pros
porous era than during the four years of
Harrison's administration under the
same sound money standard. In fact all
through the sos times were generally
good. The election of a man pledged to
destroy the protective feature of our
revenue system and the presence of an
overwhelming majority of revenue men
only" in both houses of Congress, maxi
ing certain the repeal of the Mckinley
tariff bill, first excited distrust and in
security among the manufacturers and
capitalists of the country. Nothing is
SO timid as a million dollars except two
millions, is common phrase embodying
a great truth. The want of confidence
becoming general capital became scarce.
Foreign investors withdrew thei =
Credit was hard to get. Failures fon-
lowed and down the toboggan slide W
went until the people were eager al !
ready to accept any theory, no matte
how hair-brained or visionary, as 81
luton of the impending difficulties. n
Then it was that those malconteIts
found their seed sown on fruitful soil.
Tillman in South Carolina, Altgeld in
Illinois and Bryan beyond the MISSISSIPPI
pi exercised their baleful influence to
excite class against class, the employee
against the employer, the West against
the East. They have been instrumental
in breeding discomfort in causing strikes
and creating a condition of affairs that
must ultimately lead to anarchy. When
the Chicago rioters stopped the govern
ment mails, stoned trains and attacked
those who did not sympathize with them
in their lawless actions, leader of this
movement and the governor of great
state denounced the federal government
for interfering with their destructive de-
signs.
1t is such men as Altgeld who have
done more to prevent the return of pros
perity than anything else. The people
must crush out now and forever the ele-
ment of society represented by the candi-
date of Populism. 1t will not do to
merely defeat them. They must be over
whelmed. Then and not until then will
the dawn Of prosperity reappear. Then
as the silver lunacy fades from the pub
lie view and general confidence returns,
our markets will again fall under the
control of natural developments and the
gold now stored up in the vaults of
Europe will return to America to be in
vested in our various enterprises, Great
ing new demand for labor and all in
dustrious penrl .prosper-Elmira
On. w Adyertisar ~
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-09-17
THE WONDERFUL BRYAN

"Who is this Mister Bryan, pa,
That some folks call him CREATE"
"He Thinks the father made reply
''That he's a candidate"
"And does he look like other folks,
And does lie drink and eat?''
"HiS looks and acts are common, and
He walks upon his feet
"He has no wings, then, has he, pa,
To cleave the ambient ARP
"He has no wings, my son, but he
Has wheels beneath his hair"
"And can you hear them rumble. pa
The wheels of which you speak?"
"They do not rumble much my son,
They are the kind that squeak
"And did you see and hear him, pa
This wonder from the West?"
THAT l did both, my weary look,
I fancy, will attest"
'"Then tell me Of the silvery song
This warbler has to sing
"He simply waved his arms and yawped
But didn't say thing
-CleyeIand Leader
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-09-17
(To be continued.)
BETRAYED HIMSELF.

The Merchants Bluff Indicated His
True Standing to His Creditors.
"'Tis true as the book" says a Maine
lawyer, "that more crimes are discov-
cred through the efforts made to pre-
vent discovery than in any other way.
The mind Of the wrongdoer is not sat
uneasy and overcautious, and leads its
owner pretty surely to do some act he
would not have done if innocent. In
just the same way shrewd business
men read the minds Of their debtors.
Let an apparently prosperous man be-
come seriously involved, and very
often he will try to screen his real stu
alton by doing things that imply a
solvent condition, all for the purpose
Of deceiving his creditors.
"a quarter Of century ago I was
practicing in a western Maine village,
and among my intimate friends was a
young merchant who had apparently
been doing very successful business
for several years. His credit was as
good as almost anybody's in the town.
To my great surprise one evening there
came to me the principals Of two large
Portland firms, to whom my friend was
indebted, and they requested an imme-
date attachment Of his stock Of goods.
I protested that such q course was I'M
just and unnecessary. Then one Of
the merchants explained that day
or two previous he had received a let
ter from their debtor in which he ca
sually mentioned some proposed action
of his which would involve consider
able outlay Of money. He didn't be-
lieve the man really intended any such
outlay, and he asked himself, why has
he mentioned this?' Comforting with
his neighbor, he found the young man
mad at the same time written him an
exactly similar letter. That was
enough, and they decided to sue. Feel
ing almost sure they were wrong,
had the attachment made so secretly
that none knew Of it except those i'm
mediately concerned. The young mer-
chant was immensely surprised, and
at once got friends to become his Sc
curity on the Portland debts. But the
developments of the next few months
showed conclusiyely that the merchants
had rightly read the meaning Of the
unusual letter and that their debtors
affairs were at that time rotten to the
core. Only their prompt action saved
their claims which together amounted
to something more than a thousand dol
lars" -Lewiston Journal.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-09-17
CHAPTER II.-(Continued.)

I 6u.y
. Edlth Grace heard the sound Of Mrs.
Leigh's invalid chair moving towards the
oinlng room door, the door open and the
Gnalr pass down the hall and into Mrs.
Lelghs bedroom; and then the dragging,
lame footsteps of the hunchback on the
tiles of the back hall.
Suddenly she heard a sound that made
ner heart stand still, her breath cease to
come. She grew rigid with terror. She
heard something soft sliding over the
outside of her door. A hand! It touched
and ratified the handle. The handle turn
ed, and with low, dull sound the door
opened!
Leigh entered the room with slow, de-
Iberate, limpinC steps. She could hear
the football of his left foot and the slight,
brushing touch Of his right foot as he
drew 1t after the left
"Hah!' he muttered, show cool and re-
freshing the rain is. What is it came
Into this room for? Stay. Let me think
oh, yes! my mother asked me to put the
window down before I went upstairs. l
will. Therer'
He let the window down without eny
regard to the noise. It smote harshly
upon the sill Edith did not move, did
not make sound. Leigh turned away
from the window, and began slowly re-
tracing his steps to the door, muttering:
"Yes, she has run away; run away
from this house a few hours after enter
ing it. Run away, frightened, terrified
by my ugliness. We shall see, Edith
Grace. We shall see. I did not tell my
mother the name Of the girl I mean to
marry. She shall know it soon enough,
and not all the wiles or force Of man shall
keep me from my purpose, keep Edith
Grace from mel"
Oscar Leigh turned, fumbled for the
door handle, and, having found it, went
out Of the room, closing and latching the
door quietly after him. Then she heard
him toilfully, ponderously, going upstairs.
Presently a door above was closed, and
complete silence fell upon the house. The
spell lifted from the girl, and she sank
back in the chair with tremulous, heavy
sigh of relief.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-09-17

The formation Of good habits early in
life becomes the imperative duty Of
every person. The business man real
ICES it's priceless value in business hab-
it's; the educationalist recognizes its
essentials to good scholarship. Our
proper life depends more upon common
sense habits than anything else. In all
departments of life and activity man is
a creature of habit. The universe is
timed to good habits. The law of
habit makes all things easy. Habit
makes good deeds easy, and bad ones
difficult.-Rey Reuen Thomas.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-09-17
CHAPTER V.

When Oscar Leigh emerged from the
door Of the public house he moved rap
idly along the front Of Forbes bakery
until he reached the private entrance to
that house. Then he opened the door
with latch key ana entered. He as
cended the stairs, found himself oppo-
site the door Of his fiat, opened that door
with another latch key, and went in.
The little man slammed the door behind
him, came to the sitting room, passed
through it, then through the sleeping
chamber beyond and thence into the
workshop or clock room. The latter door
he unlocked with small patent key. He
pushed the door open very cautiously.
Some small object placed on the inside
1t was caused by the overturning of
small metal egg-cup on the floor. 1t had
been so placed that the door could not
be pushed cpeD from the passage without
upsetting it.
''Here is conclusive proof that my sane
tuary has been inviolate while I have
been from home" he muttered. "Poor
Williams. A useful man in his way;
very. A worthy soul l have succeeded
in my first great experiment. 1 wonder
how It goes with my DUMB deputy OF
last night? Ha-ha-ha!'
He turned away from the door and
confronted q ihicket of shafts and rods
and struts and Orders and pipes and
pulleys and wheels and drums and chains
and levers and cranks and weights and
springs and cones and cubes and hammers
and cords and bands and bells and bel
lows and gongs and reeds, through all of
which moved a strange weird tremulous-
ness and plaintiye perpetual low sounds.
and little whispers, of air ard motion. as
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-09-17
CHAPTER w.

IT was early in the afternoon the same
aav The rain of the night before had
baen general 1t had fallen heavily in
tba CITY and washed and freshened the
sustv. marched streets. Even Chetwynd
street a third-rate thoroughfare, looked
eo, in comparison with its usual squalor,
sor # had been secured clean and sweet
aned nv the waters Of heaven.
The two most prosperous shopAeepers
:, tho Mace were Mr.. Williams, landlord
- the public house, and Mr.. Forbes.
balSer. at the opposite corner. Mr.. Will
1;ams, house was all glitter and bright
Moss on the ground floor. 1t had two
iarga Mate glass windows, divided only
nv a green and gilt iron pillar. Mr..
1Iorhes was not so lavish of glass or gas
Iiebt rs his nelghbor. His only window
on the shop floor was composed of panes
" moderate size. Beyond the shop door,
,,.,s another door belonging to him; the,
door 10 the staircase and dwelling part OF
tbe house above the shop.
For the second floor he had most re
s,,act.ble tenant, who paid his rent with
,1nnctuaIity. aud gave no trouble ut all.
irbnra were three rooms on the second or
+on aoor. A sitting room, bed room ana
a work shop.
The tenant Of the top floor OF the
,,.,tarv was Mr.. Oscar Leigh. The room
over the hall was his bedroom; the room
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-09-17
CHAPTER III.

Edith did not know how long she sat
with her face covered with her hands.
When she took them from before her
face and looked at the window it was
light. Oscar Leigh had lowered the win
dow. She caught the sash and raised it
very gently. In minute she was outside
the gate on the open road. She closed the
gate noiselessly behind her, and fastened
away.
In five minutes she located the village,
and in an hour she was at the railroad
depot. The city-bound train was wait
ing She bought ticket and went into
the rear coach. No one else was yet
aboard, and entering the last seat, she
sat far back in it's dim corner. Now the
full effect of her long walk, the reaction
from the excitement of the night and
want of sleep fell upon her with leaden
weight of drowsiness. Other passengers
began to arrive, but she did not even open
her eyes to observe them. One Of the
newcomers paused as he saw her, stared
vaguely, and quietly sat down in the
seat opposite across the aisle. In less
than a minute the train steamed out of
the station The girl slept on with a
smile Of relief and deliverance around her
fresh young mouth.
The traveller was a short, deformed
man, and carried heavy, crooked walk
ing stick. For few minutes after the
train began to move he remained with
ont moving. The girl slept heavily, sway
ing slightly from side to side with the mo-
tion of the train; her two gloved hands
Law placidly on her lap. Between the
thumb and foreinger of her right hand
r-os tho ticket she had bought, represent
ing all the money she had had.
When the train had been five minutes
on its way and had gained its full speed
the man leaned toward the sleeping girl,
and, with infinite gentleness and care
drew the ticket out of her hand, keeping
bis ewes on her eyelids the whole time.
Without taking his eyes off her face he
raised his right hand, thrust it. holding
the ticket between his thumb and finger.
out of the carriage window, and dropped
+he ticket into the rushing air. Then he
sat back in his corner opposite Edith, and
sighed and smiled.