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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-11-25
A READY EXPLANATION.
1t Took Quick Thinking, But 1t Ar
rived on Demand.


rived on Demand.
y Washington man is accustomed to
using what he considers very choice
product of the distiller's art His pref
erence for the liquor in question has
been approved by n number of COR
noisseurs in such matters, and he be-
gan to suspect that a colored man in
his employ had added his Endorsement
in manner tacit, but sincere. The
compliment was n high one; for the
colored man has long been employed
in the culinary department., and he had
a sense of smell and keenness of taste
which many q gourmet might envy
The demijohn which contained the
liquor emptied with such surprising
rapidity that its proprietor concluded
to adopt radical measures. In the abb
sence of direct proof, he decided to try
strategy. He allowed the demijohn to
become empty, and, instead of filing
it again, put the liquor in bottles in
his cupboard, and labeled them poi
son. The word was printed in heavy,
black letters, and skull and cross
bones were added, of size calculated
to make an impression on the most
stolid. He kept an eye on the cupboard.
too, and one night, as he came home
from the theater, he caught the colored
servant in the act. Selling the bottle
in mock terror, the employer ex-
claimed:
Great heavens! Do you know what
you are doing? Don't you see that
what that bottle contains is marked
poison?"
The colored man held it off and
looked at it. Then he smelled it, and,
with a look of melancholy, replied:
Tain poison, sub. rs done been
fooled ag'in.''
How dared you tamper with it,
whether you knew it was poison OF
not?"
BOSS, it wus dis-a-way. Fun de
way you acted bout dat demi john in de
cellar, 1 done thought yoh had yoh
s'picions oh me, an it made me melan-
choly, fob sho'. rs been tryin' fob
mos two weeks now ter commit sui
eide out'n dat bottle!" = Washington
Star.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-11-25

as a rule, had reached after more i'm
posing effect in the square, sham fronts
SO popular in mining-camp architecture.
while these had further emphasized
their pretensions to style by washes of
paint in which preference for pure
white had with the passage of time
brought painfully bedraggled appear
ance to the dusty place.
Rising abruptly behind the shabby
procession of buildings on that side
facing the hotel was a mighty hill ter
minating in castellated heights of red
sandstone, a mass of color showing in
superinduced brilliancy above the faded
slopes which appeared dead beyond any
hope of resurrection; and the stunted,
dull-hued pines, sparsely dotting the
eXpanse, gave scarce more vivid show
ing of life All up and down this color
starved surface yawned prospect~holes
beyond counting, a few gray dump
piles at intervals telling of deeper
work; the smaller number still that had
gone so far as to erect shaft-houscs
showing now for the most part deserted
1t is the common background of the
mining camp, this disproportionate
showing of failure and success; and es-
pecially were failure and gaunt Woe
most in evidence in Windy Culch in
this summertime of 1894, for its veins
were mostly but rich in silver, the i'll
omened metal at this time cast into
limbo by the powers that shape the
financial policy of the world.
But the camp wore an air of lethargic
Indifference to all its ills on this warm
August afternoon. It's day began early
when the steam whistles of the working
mines shrilly cried out for change of
shifts" and up and down the hills Oh
every side the miners, always with tin
dinner-pails swinging in their hands.
might be seen going to or coming from
their labors like struggling professions
of overgrown ants Then women, bare
headed and bare-armed, came out to
fetch water from the creek or to stand
gossiping at their doors, while with
loud cracking of the drivers whip the
stage for Orodelphia would wheel up
before the post office to have the lean
mail-sack heaved on board with mighty
show of Importance And after the
stage would come disjointed follow
ing of men on horseback and dusty
couples in open carts; more often still
heavy freight-wagons laden with ore
| and others piled high with fresh lumber
exhaling clean, resinous odors; oil
| these cumbrous conveyances with a gay
jangling of bells at the horses heads.
for the road down the canyon was mar
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-11-25
WHY DON'T you LAuoHq

Why don't you laugh. young man. when
troubles come,
instead of sitting round sour and glun1?
You cannot have all play,
And sunshine every day;
When troubles come, say. why don't you
Why don't you laugh? Twill ever help to
soothe
The aches and pains. No road in life is
smooth;
There's many an unseen bump,
And many a hidden stump
rer which you'll have to jump. Why don't
you laugh?
Why don't you laugh? Don't let your spir-
it's wilt,
Don't sit and cry because the milk you've
split;
If you would mend it, now,
Pray let me tell you how:
lust milk another cow! Why don't you
laugh?
Why don't you laugh, and make US all
laugh, too,
And keep MORALS all from getting blue?
a laugh will always win
If you can't laugh, just grin
laugh?
James Courtney Challiss, in n. Y. indie
pendent.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-11-25
A GREAT REMEDY.
Greatly Tested. =
Greatly Recommended:

The loss of the hair is one of the most
serious losses woman can undergo.
Beautiful hair gives many woman a
claim to beauty which would be utterly
scanty. 1t is almost serious loss when
the natural hue of the hair begins to fade.
and the shining tresses of chestnut and
auburn are changed to gray or to a faded
shadow of their former brightness. Such
a loss is no longer a necessity. There is
one remedy which may we'll be called
great remedy by reason of its great sue
cess in stopping the falling of the hair,
cleansing the scalp of dandruff, and re-
storing the lost color to gray or faded
tresses.. DR.: Ayers Hair Vigor is stand
ard and reliable preparation. in use in
thousands of homes. and recommended by
everyone who has tested it and expert
enced the remarkable results that follow
its use Tt makes hair grow. 1t restores
the original color to hair that has turned
gray or faded out. 1t stops hair from fall
ing, cleanses the scalp of -dandruH. and
gives the hair a thickness and gloss that
no other preparation can produce
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-11-25
CHAPTER VI.

Windy Gulch seemed bare and bal-
ing in the sultry afternoon sunshine as
Dorothy Meredith idly looked out upon
its one dusty street from her window at
the Palace hotel. The Palace, a fiimsy,
two-storied frame structure, wholly I'M
pretentious except as to name, occupied
position well to the center of the
place, its back to the creek which dis
puted with the road for right of way
all through the narrow defile in which
the camp had located itself. Across the
street was general store, which also
served as post office, hanked on either
side by saloons, that to the west being
joined to an unfinished building of
which the sun-browned timbers told of
work long since abandoned, the one on
the east followed by a small log house
set well back from the street, which
gave it an air of burrowing into the
steep hillside behind. Farther along,
as one looked in either direction, were
to be seen other stores and saloons, the
latter considerably predominating,
their lines broken at near intervals by
the door yards of modest residences
where the homemaking instinct strug-
gled against heavy climatic odds in
sickly showing OF geranlumS and morn
ing glories. There were Chinese
laundry and a bakery; rickety frame
blacksmith shop Haunting a covering of
out-of-date circus posters, and an I'M
pretentious drug store, developed out
of the office of the one physician, who
generally attested the healthfulncss of
the place by sitting all day long before
his door, idly occupied with literature
which bore no outward semblance to
medical treatises.
The houses were generally of logs, the
few of frame for the most part left I'M
painted, and, like their more primitive
neighbors, wearing an air of premature
age and decrepitude from the dark
brown stains which the fierce Colorado
sunshine had wrought on those sides
which looked to east and west. Few
were of more than single story in
height, although the stores and saloons.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-11-25
PARROTS HAD THE LAUGH.
Instructor OF Infants Meets Difficult
ties In the Park Zoo.


She was prim, elose-6tted looking young
woman in a dGsk dress, and as she walked
through the Lincoln park zoo with body
guard of ten IN: j little girls explaining mat
tiers generally, the monkeys yawned and
murmured with that tired feeling:
'kindergarten-seeI EN- before
She paused before the parrots cage, adj
justed her eyeglasses on her classic nose, and
prepared to enligten the innocent mind of
youth.
These are parrots, girls Mamie may
spell parrot"
.Pa-r-r-u-t," spelled one of the small
maidens.
=, g Rot Mamie, rot said the fair
Rot, Mamie, rot, rot, rot,' yelled the
little gray parrot that laughs, and a SYM
pathetic chorus took up the refrain. Mi
nerxa redeemed, and the maidens giggled.
birds, girls, have the power of articulation
and if carefully instructed are capable of al
most perfect ennunciation; but while pos
sesslng this gift of mimicry, they have no
ances as the human consciousness has, and
consequently are unable to converse intel
i!lgently, being simply echoes SO far as speak
ing is concerned"
other leg and eyed Minerva with microscopic
scrutiny.
''You understand she continued, "they
nave no mind and consequently no person
state they are as other birds; but upon be-
ing associated with human beings they rap
idly acquire the use of the peculiarly shaped
larnyx, which, as science tells us, enables
them to articulate. The theory has been pro-
pounded that at the time of protoplasm-"
But Polly felt i'll with baleful resentment
80, rats!" he broke out. you amt so
hice"
And the gray parrot laughed in diabolical
glee as the kindergarteners were hastily led
to where the canaries Chicago
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-11-25

row, and for safety's sake it behooved
that all give warning of their coming.
All this was in the early morning, for
the majority would choose to have the
day before them for the long, hard trip
to town. making their homeward way
when the shadows had begun to length
en- and the air had grown COOL Now in
mid-afternoon nothing disturbed the
sleepy calm OF the place save a few
children and chickens pottering about
in the thick dust of the street, the one
brood apparently as listless and void of
purpose as the other. Across the way,
the postmaster, secure in belief that no
body would come bothering him for
either mail or merchandise at this hour
of the day, smoked in dreamy content.
his thin form luXuriously telescoped in
wooden armchair. his long legs dis
posed across an iron wheelbarrow,
which was evidently part of his stock
in trade. The saloon man next door
was visibly snoring, his mouth a very
cavern of escaping sound; while so long
time had elapsed since the doctor
had turned n page OF his book that it
would seem he might we'll have commit
ted the last to memory. There was a
soft, broken murmur from the creek. a
drowsy swish of leaves among the cot
tonwoods along its banks, and the
stamp-mill at the far end of the place
went on in a dull monotone, like "A
devils tattoo that would never stop;
but withal it seemed deadly quiet.
Dorothy Meredith yawned helplessly
as she turned from her outlook behind
the dusty lace curtains of the Palace
hotel parlor to purposeless survey of
the large, bare room. She had brought
her book here in the hope of finding 4
cooler place than her room on the floor
above; it was cooler, but the atmos-
phere seemed oppressively close, while
there was that in the stiff arrange
ment of the conventional parlor suit of
cheap furniture which somehow con-
veyed the impression that the apart
ment was not intended for everyday use.
Now thai she was here, Dorothy found
herself instinctively stepping about OF
tlptoe. with a vague sense of intru-
sion, very soon deciding that even as a
choice of evils the place would not do
She only halted while fretfully consid-
ering whether she should return to her
room and take nap or shake off creep
iiiS 'S'hsii Sy ny going Ior d Walk, ue-
termining finally to take her chances
out of doors, although it seemed we'll
nigh like counting sunstrolze.
But she loitered by the window Il
moment longer, now moved to idle curl
osity by the sound of hoof-beats com
ing down the road, small mischievous
hope stirring in her mind that it might
be somebody to poster the postmaster
for mail or rouse the saloon-man from
his dreams. But the rider had naught
to do with either of these, as it soon
appeared. He rode straight on to the
doctors office, man who sat his horse
with the easy, slouching grace of one
accustomed to much riding, a young
man at sight of whom Dorothy drew
back hastily behind the sheltering cur
tain, her face all a warm, pink glow.
ITO BE Continued
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-11-25

Mrs. Hermann, of $50 East 6sth St, New
York City, writes:
A little more than a year ago, my hair
began turning gray aud falling out, and
although / tried ever many things to
prevent continuance of these conditions,
] obtained satisfaction until tried Dr.
Ayers Hair Vigor. After using one bottle
my hair restored to its natural color
and ceased falling out."-Mrs. HERMANN,
$50 East oSth St, New York City.
al have sold DR.. Ayers Hair vigor for
fifteen years, and do not know of a case
where it did not give entire satisfaction. I
have been, and am now using it myself for
daudruff aud gray hair, and am Thoroughly
convinced that it is the best on the market
Nothing that 1 ever tried can touch it. 1t
affords me great pleasure to recommend il
to the public."-FRANK NJ. GROVE, Fauns-
dale, Ala.
There's more on this subject in Dr.
Ayers Curebook- story of cures told by
the cured. This book of 100 pages is sent
free, on request, by the ]. c Aver %.
Lowell, Mass.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-11-25

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward
for any case OF Catarrh that can not be
cured by Halls Catarrh Cure
+. j. Cheney & Co., Props, Toledo, o.
We, the undersigned, have known F. j.
Cheney for the last Is years, and believe
him perfectly honorable in all business
transactions and financially able to carry
out any obligations made by their firm
West & Truax, Wholesale Druggists, To-
ledo, o.
Walding, Kinnan & Marvin, Wholesale
Druggists, Toledo, Ohio
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken interaally,
acting directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system. Price 75c per bot
tic. Sold by all Druggists, Testimonials
free.
Halls Family Pills are the best. :.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-11-25

run my chances than drag along this
way day longer than necessary. Let
us know the worst and be done with it."
'Oh, in this case it will be the best
Never fear, old fellow. Only we want
to make as good fight as we can. Per-
haps we can get along without your
man, though: I will think it over and
decide. Meantime, remember that
man is never undone till he is hanged;
and a case is not to be counted lost till
it has passed the court of appeals"
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-11-25
To Please His Pnhi.c

These are the ittlest sandwiches I
ever saw for the money" said the trav-
eler.
Its like this" the railway restaurant
man explained. There was so much
complaint of the quality of 'em that 1
thought I would make 'em smaller, so
there would not be so much to kick
about. Journal.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-11-25
DIR, Nansen's expedition

DIR. Nansen's expedition to the
North pole returned after an absence
of three years The highest latitude
reached was Sc degrees II minutes, or
200 miles further north than ever
reached before No land was found
north of latitude 80 degrees.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-11-25
Cruel NSn.

'sI cried all day yesterday
'What fors'
cit was our wedding anniversary, and
Henry said: Tt seems &c me that some
thing awful occurred ten years ago to-day,
but / can't remember what it was De
troit Free Press
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-11-25

Aspirations without faith are powerful
only for destruction. They can kintife a
revolution, but they cannot mold a new
order.-Westcott.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-11-25

When woman sees a pretty sgiri, she
says she wouldn't be bad looking If she
didn't know of her beauty so well.-Wash-
ington Democrat.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-11-25

Piso's Cure for Consumption is an A No.
Asthma medicine.-W. R. Williams, An~
tioch, Ill, April II, 1894.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-11-25

1t really isn't much fun to smoke
if you have to be careful where you
spit.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-11-25

A treasure laid up is st. Jacobs Oil.
1t cures the worst Neuralgia.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-11-25

When did YOU arrive-not to know st.
Jacobs Oil viii cure sprain right off.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-11-25

Wearing glasses seems to go in families
like consumption and red hair--Washing-
ton Democrat.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-11-25
The OLD SILVER TRAIL.
BY MARY E. STIcKNEY.
CHAPTER Y.

[Copyright 1896. by j. g. Lirpincc.t Gel
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-02-12
GOLD CONTRACTS
Stir Up a Political Discussion in
The House.
SILVER MEN GAIN THEIR POINT

And Have Payment in the Yellow Metal
Struck Out Of . Bill Referring to Terri
torial Bonds - Lively Debate ON the
Ouestion-Morgan Again Crlticises the
President in the Senate Reed
Disregards the Anti-Smoking Rule.
Washington, Feb. 1.-THE major Dor
ton of the day in the house yesterday
was consumed in a political debate on
the financial question which was pre-
cipitated by an innocent provision in a
bill providing for funding the debt of
Arizona territory. The bill aroused
the opposition of McMillin of Tennessee
because it provided for gold bonds and
the payment of interest in gold or its
equivalent. Knox of Massachusetts
said that the stipulation regarding gold
bonds applied only to Arizona which
had outstanding gold bonds to be re-
funded. Payne of Kentucky said he
saw no reason why the other territories
should not be permitted to issue gold
bonds. He said this bill bore no rela-
ton to the question of whether we
should put gold in the bonds of the
United States. He had voted to put
gold in the bonds, he dded. when the
administration put the country in a posi-
ton where not to do so would cost the
people s12, 600, 900. Congress refused. and
now the taxpayers would have to pay
those s12. 2.0OO, 600.
Gold Notes in Silver States.
"And yet you maintain" interrupted
Terry of Arkansas. that we should pay
those bonds in gold. although we paid
ST., ,OO0,O for the privilege of paying
them in silver"
Every one maintains-almost every
one maintains" replied Payne, that
the bonds are payable in gold. Even
the late Democratic candidate for vice
president [Sewall] who ran on a silver
platform, held gold bonds. and the sill
yer mine owners who were rampant for
free silver sentiment wrote gold in
their notes"
Hartman Indignantly denied this
statement, but Payne insisted that he
was right. He said that the western
debtors, in order to get money at a
respectable rate of interest, were obliged
to agree to pay principal and interest
in gold. He said he believed every Unit
ed States bond should be paid in gold.
Mcguire Explains i'm Business Principles.
Mcguire of California replied to
Payne. He said the honesty of the be-
levers in free silver was to be ques-
toned because some of them in loan
ing their money made gold contracts.
Silver had by law been deprived of its
legitimate function as money. Why, he
asked, should business man abandon
the business advantage which the law
gave him because of his conviction that
as a matter of policy silver should be
remonetized?
Bailey of Texas made a brief argyll
ment to demonstrate that a gold con-
tract. being contrary to public policy.
was illegal.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-02-12
FAVORABLE FEATURES IN TRADE.
Bradstreet's Finds Several, Which Indicat.
BETTER outlook.

Brodstreets Finds Several, Which Indicate
Better outlook.
New York, Feb. 12.-Bradstreet's says:
The more favorable features of the bus
mess week include sales of 300 900 tons
of steel rails on the collapse of the pool.
which promises work for the mills for
months to come: the advance in the
price of print cloths. following the sale
of 100000 pieces from accumulated
stocks. and the starting up Of a num-
Der of important metal and industrial
establishments trouhghtout the east and
middle states. There is a moderate in
crease in demand for pig iron at Pitts
burg and purchases have been made by
st. Louis stove makers.
The movement OF prices is, on the
whole. favorable. Exports of wheat
(fiour included as wheat) from both
coasts of the United States and from
st. John, N. B., amount to 2.051 ,345 BUSH
els from Feb. S to Feb 10 inclusive (the
week being one day short). as COM
pared with 3,16S.000 bushels last week.
2,71S.0O0 bushels in the week a year ago.
and 2.512.0G0 bushels in the week two
years ago. Exports of Indian corn dur
ing the same period show a very large
gain. amounting to 4.159.274 bushels as
compared with 3.659. 900 bushels last
week -....-....-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-02-12
NEW ILLINOIS CANAL COMMISSION.
Tanner Removes Atlgeld's Board and the
New Men Are Confirmed.

Tanner Removes Attgeld's Board and the
New Men Are Confirmed.
Springfield, Feb. 12.-In announcing
the appointment Of new canal commits
sioneTs in place of those appointed by
Governor Altgeld, Governor Tanner yes-
terday told the senate that he had re-
moved Thomas H. Cannon because "he
does not possess the kind Of ability
needed for the discharge of his duty"
and created a sensation in the senate
thereby. The new commission is: H.
o. Hildon, of Rockford; c. Z. Snively,
of Canton. and T. NJ. Ryan. of Streator.
The nominations were confirmed. The
bill to authorize the governor to borrow
$3.50. 900 was advanced to third reading
and made special order for Tuesday
next. The Cuban syhpathizing resolu-
ton was adopted. A few bills were in
troduced and the senate adjourned to
Tuesday, practically.
In the house committees on congress
sional. senatorial and judicial appor-
tionment were announced with Ander-
son, r. c. Busse and Warder chairman
respectively. One of the bills introduced
was an antitrust bill which forbids
the formation of pools, trusts and all
combinations for the purpose of fixing
prices: another limits the expenses of
candidates for public office. and a third
authorizes cities and villages to erect
gas and electric plants. Adjourned to
Tuesday. same as the senate.