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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-12-24
NOTES ABOUT FRUIT.

Persia and Anatolia provided the
original ounces; the Greeks took to
their culture. ard they may be seen on
the walls OF Pompeii.
Solomon wished 30 be comforted with
apples, and before and since his time
the apple has been mainstay Of peo-
pie. The Romans brought the apple
from the east.
India grew the first lemons. which
were unknown to the ancient Greeks
and Romans. Lemons were introduced
to Spain by the Moors near the Thir-
tenth century.
Pears were cultivated in most an
tique times IN Asia and were brought
from the east by the Romans. The first
cherry tree in England was planted by
Raleigh. Lucullus first brought cher
ries from Asia to Italy after his defeat
of Mithridates.
The date palm IS in Arabia the chief
source of wealth and food. The Arab
chief draws power, nerve and muscle
from the consumption of his fruit
Pomegranates and olives also were an
GENTLY cultivated and are frequently
mentioned in sacred writings.
Venerable antiquity hangs about the
banana, and by some it is believed to be
the fruit which tempted I've, while
others think that the great cluster of
grapes brought by Jewish spies from
the valley Of Eschol, so heavy that two
men were required to carry each, were
in reality bananas. Chittagong, Phil
ippine islands, Siam and Ceylon were
the original homes of this fruit.
The venerable fig was one of the
earliest fruits to be cultivated, and its
praises are sung in poetry, history and
romance, while the Bible frequently al
ludes to it. It was principal food of
the Greeks, and is now cultivated in all
The countries around the Mediterra-
mean, though our supply comes from
Asia Minor southern France and Spain.
Hindoostap had q monopoly on
oranges till this fruit spread to the
other parts of the world. The cru
saders brought back oranges, but the
ancients around the Mediterranean
were so unhappy as 10 die without hav-
ing tasted this delicious fruit. We are
all eating the descendants of one tree
if what the Portuguese claim is true.
They declare the progenitor of all
American and European oranges was
q single oriental tree transplanted to
Lisbon and still living in the last gen,
Grafton.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-12-24

in his vest pocket. Why he had no
weapons l never could understand,
for he turned out to be a professional
horse hief and a desperate man, but he
had neither knife nor pistol. He was
marched off to Jail while the roosters
were growing for Christmas, and Sam
and l were in court later on when he
was sent to prison for five years.
Boys" said my father. after the man
had been taken away from the stables
and we had returned to the house,
boys, thank We thousand times over
for this watch, which is something I've
sorter wanted for years, but let mo
jest tell We that We both orter be taken
out and licked fer not tellin' me about
that robber till We had him safely locked
up. Don't We never do SIGH a thing as
that ag'in as long as We live on the face
of this airth."
And, boys" added mother, with tears
in her eyes, as she Rugged the shawl
and US, too, 81 not only thank We as
much as father does, but I say We did
jest right in not wakin' US up; I'd have
had fit and father might have tumbled
downstairs, and there's no tellin who'd
adjusted up or who'd a tumbled into
the cisterni"
SANS BROTHER
ENro, prosS
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-12-24

do you s'pose that Teller heard
about the watch and shawl?" queried
Sam. as we got into bed.
How could hep"
81 dunno. but 1 believe he just came
here to steal 'em. If he was goin' to
look at farm on the Six-Mile road why
didn't he get off the train at Grafton :?
I'll bet you he robs the house and clears
out before morning!"
Lets tell father!"
HE wouldn't believe it. and it would
only scare ma"
We talked the matter over for a few
minutes and then fell asleep, and the
old clock down in the kitchen was
striking IL when Sam nudged me
with his elbow and whispered:
''That fellow is robbing the housed"
SLOW do you know?"
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-12-24

because I can hear him moving
about. There-don't you hear that?
We've got to go downstairs and stop
him from taking that watch and
shawl"
1--WE dasn't!"
Eyes, we dast! I'll go first, but you
come along! Robbers always run il
they hear anybody, and maybe he'll get
scarf off before he gets the things"
We slipped out of bed and drew on
our trousers and socks, and descended
the stairs, which led up from the family
sitting-room. Only two rustics, ignor-
ant Of the peril of such an underta king,
would have done as we did. When we
got downstairs we found the parlor
door wide open, the room lighted, and
the stranger stood at the table with the
watch in his hand. We had crept down
SO softly that he heard nothing. He
was fully dressed, even to his overcoat
and arctics, and as we watched him he
rocl<eted the timepiece and removed
the wrapper from the shawl. Sans
idea had been to raise an alarm, or per-
haps rush in on him, but as we cow
cred there and watched, sense of help
leSsness came over him, and his teeth
began to chatter before mine did. We
were about to creep back to the stairs,
when the man turned the lamplight al
most out, and came into the sitting
room, and made for the outside door.
He passed within foot of US, and why
the humping of my heart did not catch
his ear has always been wonder to
me. He unlocked the door, passed
out and softly closed it behind him, and
we heard him going down the frozen
path to the barn. I was for going up
stairs for father, but Sam drew me
across to the side window, and pulled
aside the curtain and said:
"He's got the watch and shawl and is
now after that span of horses
Let me explain that about the first
of the month the sheriff of our county
had taken possession of span of fine
horses, supposed to have been stolen.
and they were being cared for in our
stables until the owner should turn up.
The stables were in the basement of the
barn and half underground. The win
dows were very small and the door q
stout one. This door had no lock. but
fastened with hasp and pin. We
watched the man until he opened the
door and entered the stables, and then
Sam said:
Eyes, he's after the horses and I'm
going to do something
eve must call father"
eff we do, the man will kill him.
for he hasn't got nothing to fight with.
You stand right here and hold the door
a little open for me-
'What are you going to do?"
I'm going to shut him in the stable
Don't holler nor run away, for I'll be
back in a minute
Out into the snow and cold dashed
Sam. It was about 300 feet to the barn,
and being in his stocking feet he ran
like deer and as noiseless as a cat
He found the door shut, and it did NOT
take him ten seconds to lift up the hasp
and slip the pin through the staple.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-12-24

save and buy father silver watch and
mother a new shawl for Christmas
Sam was Is and two years younger,
and we were the sons OF a farmer
who couldn't afford luxuries. We
couldn't hope to do it all by ourselves.
though we did get enough together for
the shawl. Our uncles and aunts and
cousins Clipped in, and the jeweler
threw off $4 on the price of the watch.
and on the day before Christmas old
Santa Claus had the watch and shawl
and father and mother hadn't the slight
est suspicion of what was in store for
them. Sam and I had sold apples, en-
bezzled eggs, disposed of old pIow-
points, hoed corn for the neighbors,
gathered and sold hickory nuts and
worked various other schemes to get
that sig shawl and we had right to
feel elated and proud. We had the arti
cles hidden in the hay NOW at the barn,
and about once an hour we had to go
out there and take look at them.
1t was growing dark on Christmas
eve when a stranger on foot turned in
at our gate and asked for lodgings. He
was q well-dressed, keen-looking man,
and the fact of his being on foot and
the village tavern only two miles away,
ought to have set father to thinking.
Mother eyed him suspiciously, butwhen
the man said he had rheumatism, and
that he expected to pay for his enter
tainment, father invited him in and ap-
peared to think that it was all right
Not so with Sam and I, however. We
didn't like the looks of the man, and
when we discovered that he used pro-
fame language and chewed plug tobacco
>xe put him down as bad man. After
supper the man told father that he lived
in Cincinnati and had come to look at
q farm on the SiX-Mile road. He made
an effort to be entertaining and agree
able, and though he succeeded with the
cid folks Sam and couldn't give him
any credit
There was u bedroom off the parlor.
and it was arranged that he should
sleep in there. Also that Santa Claus
should leave the gifts for father and
mother on the par1or table after he had
gone to bed. Sam and j would hang
our stockings in the kitchen. The man
excused himself about nine O'Clock and
went to bed. and ten minutes later the
watch and shawl were on the table, and
mother had promised not even to look
IT.. We hustled off to bed. and by half
past line ia Their and mother came up.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-12-24
PERSONAL POINTS.
Grafton

Rev. T. E. Vassar has resigned the
pastorate of the First Baptist church OF
Kansas City on account of failing
health and will spend his remaining
years in Newark. n. J.. his old home.
. Frank Rodrigues, a young Portu-
guese of Summit, Cal, recently won
wager of $500 by walking over the Low.
er Cascade canyon on the three inch
guard rail of the bridge 400 feet above
ground.
The oldest living graduate of Har.
Yard is DR.. William Lambert Russell, of
Barre, Mass, who was in the class OF
1926. He is also senior alumnus of the
medical school, being in the class OF
1881.
Prof. Haddon, Of Dublin, still believes
the old story that Parnell is yet alive
and is on some western ranch in this
country. He has therefore refused t.
write the life OF the Irish statesman.
Andrew II. Green, who is called the
grandfather of the Greater New York
and who for many years has been
prominent in the development of the
metropolis. is practically q well man fol
the first time in more than n year.
BEWARE of the sin whose only defense is
that it is highly respectable.-Ram's Horn
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-12-24

When he came back we ran upstairs and
aroused father and mother, and just as
we all got down, we heard the man
kicking on the stable door. He had
both horses ready to bring out before
he discovered that he was locked IL.
From the rumpus he made you would
have thought that he was tearing the
whole barn down, but it was useless to
kick against that door. In daylight he
could have made his way up through
one of the feed-racks. but he had used
his last match and had to go slow in
the darkness. We routed out the neigh
bors, sent for the sheriff, and in about
an hour the door was unfastened and
the fellow invited to come out. He had
strapped mothers new shawl on one OF
the horses for a saddle, and fathers
Santa Claus watch was ticking away
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-12-24
Not That Kind of Boy.

Visitor-Johnny, are you making
great Preparations at your Sunday school
for Christmas?
Johnny-I'm not going to Sunday
school now, ma'am.
Visitor-Not going to Sunday school?
Johnny-Nome. I quit last Sunday.
I don't want folks to think I'm one Of
these boys that's only good durin' the
holidays. I'll start again after Christ
mas is oyer.-Chicago Tribune.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-12-24

(sz|Ef g y s
SSEISSM GOD WILL to menI
): !: :: !: ::
EIo F.E7G.aEa Q. loud and high, o,
EN\ { NM GH sweet and clear.
SSNV <ssssS.H | The a e
@AS through TIL e
dazzling space
In that wintry time
OF year.
Good will to men! Good will to menu
All, who sits wan and wistful there,
No Christmas joyance IN ner souis
Upon her lip no prayer!
Good will to men! Good will to men!"
In the rich place the tones made way.
The pictured saints leaned down to hear,
Green-wreathed for Christmas day.
"Good will to menu o, lady fair!
Z In splendor weeping thus apart,
How strange il seems ragged boy
q Should have so glad a heart.
For hungry are the helpless ones
Who look and long for his return;
And bare the chamber where they sit,
And low the hearthfires burn.
Good Will to meni" The meaning pierced,
Though selfish impulse barred the way,
Deep to the lady's inmost heart,
That shining Christmas day.
And dimpled children, cherub-fair,
Who into Heaven had slipped away,
Seemed whispering to the mother there
Thoughts meet for Christmas day.
OF little ones who moan for bread
While Christmas bells ring merrily.
80. give to them one seemed to say.
LAS once you gave to me-.
Then to. herself that lady said:
For my lost babes I've sorrowed long,
There comes a cure for aching hearts
In that sweet Christmas song
She called the singer from the street
He sang it DER and DER again
Peace on earth to all who mourn:
Good Will, good will to menu
Through lane and alley, side by side
The singer and the lady went;
And. strange to tell he was her guide
To meaSureleSS content.
Within her stately rooms no more
She sits and signs the hours away.
The pictured saints look down and see
Sweet children at their play
Mary T. Butts. in Youths Companion.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-12-24
The SUNDAY SCHOOL

International Lesson for December 81
1S96-Review.
ARRANGED from Peloubet's Notesl
GOLDEN TEXT.-Let US hear the con-
eiusion OF the whole matter: Fear God and.
keep His commandments; for this is the
whole duty of man.-Eccl. 1913.
THE REVIEW.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-12-24

BEWARE of the sin whose only defense is
that it is highly respeotable.-Ram's Horn.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-11-12
A AND TRAIN.

Engine No. 694 arrived in Las Vegas
from Ration, to-day, where it received Al
o~verhaulIng.
Firemen Thomas Cloud and Clarence
Roberts have been assigned regular en
gines, Nos. 1917 and 500 respectively.
Bureaugard Lee, a former member OF
the Atchison police department, wat taken
home from the insane asylum Sunday,
morning, much improved in his mental
condition. 1t Is to be hoped that be will
soon be himself again.
Milo Wilcox, who has been doing service
in the Las Vegas yards as brakeman, nos
has a regular caboose. No. 343 on the south
end. Brakeman Sullivan, late of Milwau-
kee, fills the vacancy In the yards.
Fred Talbot, who holds a position In the
Atlantic & Pacific shops at Albuquerque,
met with a painful accident last Saturday.
The index finger Of the right band got
caught and vas badly smashed. Fred will
take a rest for q few days.
A change has been made in the working
- wy OhpAoycS VI ZIG ALCQlSOu
shops at wellington, The men now 20 to
work at 7:3O In the morning and quit at
b:S0 in the evening, but work only five
days in the week. The hours were for
merly from s a. m to 5 p. M, the men
working the entire week. The change
gives the men four hours less work each
week.
julius ~Ahramowsky received word, this
morning, that Joe Hodgson, an old time
passenger engineer On this division, Of the
Atchison, died at Excelsior Syringe, Mo.
his remain will arrive in Ration on
No. l, for interment, to-morrow. He was
in the service Of the Atchison for fourteen
yeare. and during the A. R. u. trouble
Notwithstanding the threats OF the en-
remained loyal to the company,
the hrst train out Of Ration.
Many brother knights and masons, both
Of which he was a member, will at
tend the funeral. They will leave Las
Vegas, in the morning, and return on No.
|. In the evening.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-11-12
Blood In His Bye.

Delegate Catron got homo from Las
Vegas. this morning, says yesterdays Ne,o
Mexican, with blood in his Eye. He's on
the war path. He doesn't think the 1900
majority for Mr.. FERGUSON was honestly
obtained, and he's been over 10 LAS Vegas
gathering data with which to prove it to
the house Of the fifty. fifth congress, which
opens at the old stand Es Washington in
December, 1897. Notwithstanding his ig-
nominious defeat In all but three counties
out of the nineteen in the Territory, Mr..
Catron claims that Fergusson's election
Ices not represent public sentiment andhe
is going to Washington next year to see
about it. In the meantime. he is busily en-
gagged in gathering data which, he alleges,
is calculated to indicate that the voting
population Of New Mexico really didn't
know their minds when they voted for
Ferguson. He came home, to-day, feel
ing that he had at least made a beginning
as her result of his visit to Las Vegas, for
he solemnly declares that he has discov-
cred in W precincts in San Miguel coun-
ty, 175 alleged fraudulent votes.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-11-12

~-u =H
The United states court OF prI.
| claims met, this morning, at 10 O'Clock with
a full bench says Yesterdays Neto Menicon.
The Canon del Rio Colorado grant case,
wherein Clarence P. Elder, Of Denver,
claims 40, $780, 81 acres Of the most valuable
mining land in the Taos county came MP
for hearing, this morning, and Lawyer
Riley, OF Antonito, Colo, representing the
miners with all his witnesses on the ground,
made a vigorous effort to have the case
taken up at once, but at the solicitation Of
Mr.. Catron, attorney for Elder, the case
was put over until o-morrow. The 81.
legged grant includes the Red river district.
The Lucero spring and Otto de los
Medanos grant cases, consolidated, wore
set for trial, to-day, but, as Mr.. F. W.
Clancy, attorney for the claimants of the
latter grant, had failed to get service on
Mellet, an adverse claimant in Kansas
City, the case went over until next week.
The Vallecito de Lovato grant case, in
v~olying 114,4G0 acres of land in Rio Arriba
county, was set for trial on Monday.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-11-12
Tim. to Call a Halt.

The Tamme opera house was fled with
| people, last evening, who had paid for
their right to witness the performance Of
Faust. They in all reason were entitled to
see the best efforts of the actors and to get
the full meaning and spirit Of the play.
To this they were denied by the lcon-
duct of q few hoodlums, In the right wing
of the gallery, who apparently did not
nave brains enough to enjoy the perform
ance, or manners to respect the rights OF
others. Their whistling and cat calls at
inopportune moments, disturbed the In
telligent and genteel people in the balcony
and galleries even more than It did those
on the lower floor of the house.
1t can hardly be expected that the city
police can take their time from street duty
to keep order in the opera house, but it 10
quite certain that men, whom the mayor
would gladly deputize, could be obtained,
without one cent cost, who would be glad
to see that perfect order reigns In the up
per house, at the price of their own admis-
sion. At any rate, right at the beginning
of the season, let this intolerabls nuisance
cease.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-11-12
A A op LnpRosy.


"
The Territorial board of health has re-
! Gently received report Of a case OF leprosy
existing In this Territory. The victim Il
a Mexican man living a hundred miles OF
so from any railroad and near no large
town. The case has been inspected by q
clever physician who has seen the disease
in other countries and Is sure OF his
diagnosis.
Under the present status there seems to
be no way in which the case can be isolated
and properly cared for. A statute OF six
or eight years ago provides for an unpaid
health officer In each ounty but the act
has remained a dead letter.
At this time, the best that could be done
would be for the county commissioners Of
that county to appoint a local health Of
ficer and themselves effect the isolation OF
this sufferer.
1t is doubtful II any Of the few hospitals
10 the Territory could take in this case,
ever II the people Of the larger towns
would consent to its deliberate bringing
into their community.
That the case appears to be genuine
leprosy, would readily be understood, by
physicians, when 1t is stated that the mans
fingers and toes have dropped of, that
swellings, characteristic of the disease,
have occurred and that various spots OF
his skin are anaesthetic, that Is, without
feeling.
II is not known whether leprosy has
been seen before in New Mexico, but 1t
exists In Old Mexico, New Orleans, San
Francisco and other ports OF the United
States. But 1t is the aim Of modern saDi-
tary science to prevent the establishment
of this dreaded disease ia America, with
Its horrors, as they prevailed in the orient
in ancient times.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-11-12
Las Vegas commanderx. No.

The following officers were elected for
the ensuing year.: John Hill, e. c.; F. B.
January, Generalissimo; Lew d. Webb, G.
g.; G. I. Gould, Prelate; 81. M. Smith,
Senior Warden: O.. l.. Gregory, Junior
Warden; A. F. Benedict, Treasurer; L. FL.
Hoffmeister, Recorder; j. A. Murray,
Standard Bearer; H. J. Dague. Sword
Bearer; :. g.. Clark, Warden; b. F. Mo.
CURE, Sentinel; G. A. Rothgeb, G. D.
Boucher and B. F. Forsythe, Guards.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-11-12
PERSONAL rENolIrNes,
I. o. Fort Is ia Denver.

Captain L. O. Fort Is In Denver.
DIR. Prlng Is in the city from watrous
M. Cohn Is back from a quick trip &c
Denver. e
Il. l.. Hamblin went up the road, this
morning.
John CLARK aud M. A. Otero went south
last evening.
Richard Dunn came in from the north
last evening.
Judge q. ". Long went over to Santa
Fe, last evening.
DIR. O. J. Logan and wife. have returned
to their home In Mora.
Iake Rlnck les. :: .s= 11=T -.S..sus
train for Salt Lake City.
L. l.. Lyon, the we'll known Denver
drummer, is In the city.
&. y. Warren, Of Maxwell City, came
down to Las Vegas last evening.
J. M. Hernandez, deputy United States
marshal, went south, last evening.
II. B. johnson and wife were down from
their Mount Aspen ranch, yesterday.
o. NJ. Cramer. Walter Bourne and r. A.
Kistler lyft for Denver, this morning. n
T. A. Grey, deputy United States mar
shall, of Clayton, returned to his home this
morning.
J.. Francisco Chavez, Of Valencia county,
10 In town, to-day, and is registered at the
New Optic.
Harry Brown is back from Los Angeles,
CAL, where he had been attending a bust
ness college.
M. W. Mills, of Springer, was a south
bound passenger last evening, it Is said on
a political mission.
Joe Schoen, w. E. O,Leary, DR.. J. II.
Heatwole and W. e. Gorter visited the hot
springs, this afternoon.
j. K. Newcomb, Denver; Mrs. Walker,
Mrs. German and T. A. Gray, Clayton, are
guests at the Central hotel.
DR.. J. H. Heatwole, mayor OF the city
of Goshen, Indiana, is visiting his friend
w. e. Gortner for a few days.
Monico Tafoya, the superintendent Of
schools elect, is in the city, to-day, and is
feeling quite elated over his success.
J. van Houten, vice president Of the
Maxwell land grant company, is in the
city on business connected with his office.
F.. /. Long, the sheep feeder. Of Illinois
leaves Las Vegas for his home, in the
morning, having already shipped 10000
sheep from this point.
Manuel and Eligio Martinez, Sons of Ne.
pomozino Martinez, Of Geneva, are In the
city and win leave for Santa Fe, tonight,
to enter st. Michael's college, down there.
Chas. Trussell, OF Winslow, Arizona,
formerly a we'll. known conductor on this
division of the Atchison, was a passenger
home from a trip east on No. 1 last even
ing.
DR.. ). H. Heatwole. Goshen, Ind John
Browning, Chicago; Richard Dunn, Cats
kill; F. J. Long, Underwood, ILL.,, and
AZ IA 7; Logan and wife, Mora, register
Matt Robinson. st. Jos; burr ~
Topeka; Fl. 8. Ferguson, Albuquerque;
James Durbin, Denver; s. Black, Chicago;
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Kening, Philadel.
phia; Mr.. and Mrs. s. W. Fort, Kansas
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-11-12

Aman by the name of Simms, who had
been doing considerable talking lately
about having seen Billie Green in Texas,
recently, was called into court, yesterday.
but upon oath his story proves it to have
been John Green that he saw.