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The Meeker herald., 1898-01-01
BOOTHS MAY BE RsconciLap
Ohlsrt Of the salvation Osassul-s Osoahs
Visit to This CoansEy.

Ohlsct Of the saIv.tios GsassnFs osaans
Visit to rhis Coanssy.
New York. Dec. 2s.-A special to me
World from London says:
General William Booth is profoundly
distressed by the news Of the gave ILL
ness Of Mrs. Ballington Booth. The
| World correspondent jOurneyed 70 Bar
net. where the general is staying u the
house of his son. Bramwell Booth, but
the venerable leader of the Salvation
Army was unable TO see anyone.
The special cable dispatch received
pointing out that the associates Of
Mrs. Ballington Booth ascribed her
dangerous illness TO the harsh treat
menf she received at the hands of the
salvation Army leader. which broke
her spirit and destroyed her health,
was shown TO the general by BrAmwell
Booth.
The general replied:
Under these sad circumstances II Is
| impossible for me to make any contro-
versial statement. I can only express
my deep sympathy with my son In his
trouble and my hopes for Mrs. Booths
speedy recovery
General Booth declined to say any
thing further on this subject. He was
busily engaged preparing for his de
| pnrturc for the United States. which is
set for January Sth. when the news II
Mrs. Booths illness reached him. This
greatly depressed him and he imme-
diately cabled message of fatherly
sympathy with his son in his trouble.
Commissioner Nicol the first plenipo-
tentiary sem to the United States at the
time Of the secession from the Saliva
| ..T NJ nd Er-s RuI N ntyfn nm
Booth. said to the World correspondent
at Salvation Army headquarters to-
| day:
General Booth Is suffering the most
intense agony over Mrs. Booths illness
and his only hope now is that he may
reach New York in time TO see her and
his SON
| Il presume "A reconciliation is the OBJ
iect OF his mission TO New York; in
| puired the correspondent.
Well am not NJ liberty" replied
Commissioner Nicol. TO speak on that
subject. but the general will explain
his object mt Il great farewell meeting
to be held at Albert Hall. London. on
the 9th of January. Ii will be one of
the biggest and most Important assem-
blages ever arranged by the Salvation
Army
rs General Booths recent cablcgram
of sympathy the first communication
made by him TO Ballington Booth since
the lattcr's secession from the army!
at is, excepting the communication
relating TO the controversy. all of
which have not been published.
Although the leaders of the salvation
Army are TOO diplomatic to make any
premature admission, the correspondent
gathered sufficient information to show
that they fully expect the dissensions
which have existed in the army for the
past Two years will be healed az re-
suit.
\ New York. Dec 2S.-There is n
steady improvement in Mrs. Maud
Ballington Booths condition. The pa
| tient passed a quiet night and In favor
ably responding to treatment.
The Meeker herald., 1898-01-01

It is truly singular that the slaughter
Of = few hundred or thousand seals on
and near the shores Of far-away Alaska
should get this and several other large
nations into what looks much like q
quarrel. while campaigns Of extermi-
nation. now In progress right here at
home. and involving interests vastly
more important. create NO excitement
q Ill. For what b the value Of every
sal alive compared With that Of our
rapidly disappeartAg forests! AZ one
ssat to \ thousand dollars. perhaps.
aad yet the work II devastation u 60
tSg on u rate :.
The Meeker herald., 1898-01-01

Four men were killed in an attempt
to settle an old feud in Louisiana the
other day. That's generally the way
with feuds. Other things may be set
tied with good results all round.
But the minute an attempt is made to
settle feud somebody is almost sure
to get killed or hurt, and then. when
the smoke clears away, 1t is found that
the feud is still unsettled. The best
thing to do with feud is to just let
II alone.
The Meeker herald., 1898-01-01

man once claimed that he was
FTenchman on the ground that he had
an uncle who played the French horn.
Some persons, claiming to be patriotic.
when questioned closely. might have to
confess that they are patriots because
. grandfather served in the revolution
or because cousin sings THE Star
Spangled Banner" effectively, Patriot
ism is an individual thing. Patriots
BY proxy do not count
The Meeker herald., 1898-01-01

NAVAL exper, declares that the only
method OF insuring the efhciency Of
torpedo boats is to keep them in har-
Dor. This is suggestive Of the never
go-to-sea" counsel OF musical com
position that need not be named. with
the promised result of the rulership OF
the queens navy.
The Meeker herald., 1898-01-01

1t was a shrewd saying which the
Archbishop of Canterbury quoted in
recent address to workingmen. Of a
great French preacher who. two CEN
turtles ago, told the court OF France
that they might judge how little God
thought of riches by the sort of people
to whom He had given them
The Meeker herald., 1898-01-01

A new zone. the Incorporate. is to
bs added to the list. II the words OF
Dean Farrar prove true. He lately
said, with refreshing bluntness. that
he was afraid England was creating .
zone OF drunkenness in all parts OF her
empire which was destroying many OF
the native races
The Meeker herald., 1898-01-01
knpxaroo ra,l for sour,

kangaroo tails for soup have been
sent to London from Australia. A
shipment of twenty-five hundred
weight was sold at the rate Of s. q
dozen tails. In Australia they are con-
sidered a great delicacy.
The Meeker herald., 1898-01-01
rerr,bl. Effects Of Powder Exyso.,..

Asheville. n. c., Dec. "a crowd =
one hundred or more men and bon
were firing Christmas salute from q
old cannon on the outskirts Of town y.
day when can Of thirty pounds y
powder exploded In The thick Of ~
crowd. Thirty or forty persons were =.
jured, but noue, It u believed. fan1t,
The Meeker herald., 1898-01-01
An Operation Needed,

Maria-"Humph! You needn't 90
around like that with your nose in the
air jus becaise you've been ter III
city" Joshua" 'Tain't that. amt
stuck up bit, Maria; but since my
sightseeing down ter New York burned
if l kin git it down agin."-The Yellow
Book.
The Meeker herald., 1898-01-01
Ch,ue,, ob.a,,pc, 70 P.r,n...

Chinese Obsdiencs to Parents.
II Chinese children do not obey their
parents, and the latter whip them to
aeath, the law has no punishment for
the parents. as obedience to parents is
the cardinal virtue.
The Meeker herald., 1898-01-01

y Oas OF the dry-goods stores In Bos-
~ has substituted the CRY "tsilse" to-
,6naA.s
The Meeker herald., 1898-01-01

expectations OF the promoters ha1 been
fully realized. even surpassed.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-03-24
FAMOUS FIRE HORSES.
The Quickest Ones in the World Are
in Kansas City.


f. S. Dellen baugh writes of THE
Quick Horse" i'll ST. Nicholas, his ar
ticle telling of the training of horses
for the FIRE department. Mr.. Dellen-
baugh says:
The quickest horses in the world were
at one time in Kansas City, at the head
quarters of it's fire department, directly
under the office of the chief, Mr.. George
c. Hale. To Mr.. Hale's genius, more
than to any other factor, the quick
horse owned his first Developments; for
Mr.. Hale is the inventor of the earliest
swinging harness-which made the
quick horse possible. When Mr.. Henry
NJ. Stanley and his wife were in this
country. they witnessed an exhibition
drill of the Kansas City fire department.
The drill so impressed the visitors that
an account of it was published in Lon
don journal, and this English article
brought an invitation to Mr.. Hale to
visit England as the representative of
the American fire service at the interna-
tional fire tournament.
Mr.. Hale and picked corps went to
England, taking with them the re
markedly quick horses Joe" and
"Dan," and they became world ia
nous. AS the quickest harness
ing time of the London fire brigade is
1 minute 171a seconds, and the Kansas
City horses were harnessed in 1a4 sec
onds, and were out of the engine house
in less than eight seconds, there could
be no competition. In Kansas City. four
fine bays were harnessed to the hook
and-ladder truck almost as quickly as
even Joe and Dan could jump into their
harnesses. 1t was pretty sight to see
these four well-kept horses spring to
their places at the stroke of the gong,
and in two or three seconds stand ready
to run with the apparatus Joe was
killed by an accident; but Dan, with a
new mate, is still in service. and as
quick as ever.
The record for quickest time from the
engine house to the throwing of water
on the fire is held by Kansas City COM
pany. In this instance the horses were
harnessed. a run of 2,194 feet "a little
less than half miIe) was made, and
water thrown from the hose in the
wonderfully brief time of minute 81.
seconds.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-03-24
Room for the Children.

1t is desirable that growing children
should have a room all TO themselves,
where they can be free to move around
and disarrange things if they feel like
it. In England the nursery is made
much more of than it is over here, and
the children's quarters, as they are
called, frequently consist of study,
pIayroom aud individual bedrooms at
tended by their own corps of servants.
This is rather an extravagant idea for
the average American home, but it
often proves possible to devote one
room 20 the sole use of the young MEM
beers of the household and their goods
and chattels. The mother is happy who
knows that her young men and wom-
en- are where they can indulge in mis-
chief to their hearts content without
danger of harm. The liberty which
this gives her TO devote certain portions
of the day TO other occupatio proves
valua be acquisition to her economies
Chicago Journal
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-03-24
Paris a. /. Financial center.

That Paris is and has for two cen.
turtles been by far the greatest intel
lectual center in the world is, of course
true, but she is Il great money center
also; she has the power of the purse
She contains the ministry of finance
ard the Bank of France, and she con-
scquently wieids supreme power in
France quite apart from the fact that
she is the greatest artistic and literary
center in the world, and that, political
", she often stands out as the repre-
sentative of all France. as she did in
1793. in 1880, il 1s4S and in 1870. Take
from Paris the power of the purse.
transfer the Bank of France and the
haute finance to Lyons or Toulouse, and
we should find Gf the transference
could be made permanently that Paris
had declined greatly in the esteem of
France and of the world. While Paris
is a grade below London in its power
as a financial center, Berlin, is perhaps
n grade below Paris; not because it is
not very influential center of finance.
but because it shares that position with
Frankfort, which still, though no
longer a capital, maintains its old rep
nta ton, and will probably continue to
do so.-Loudon Spectator.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-03-24
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Father, mother and children, in
0ae family of a dozen az Lincoln Cen
ter, Kan, are ali in school. the parents
and two elder children being in the
same class. The father is an ambitious
minister, 10 years old
An order has been given tina. the
curfew law shall be read at least twice
a week in every public school in Denver,
Col. and that its provisions be strictly
enforced hereafter, that boys and girls
may be kept off the streets in the even
ing.
Osiris has lost his divinity and
turns out 10 have been a mere mortal.
NJ. Amelineau. the French Egyp;olo-
gist, announces that he has discovered
lis grave at Abydos- Marietta Bey
hunted for the Tomb without success
fol nineteen years
The board of managers of the Cen
trail Presbyterian church Of Hamiltoe,
Ont. has just passed resolution in
dorsing Sunday street cars, declaring.
among other things, that they are 4
great convenience to churchgoers, and
that 1.-The evils so extravagantly pre-
dicted by the opponents of Sunday cars
are conspicuous in Hamilton only by
their absence"
Venice has asserted the s<ght OF
ownership over the famous pigeons of
ST. Mark. Some enterprising street
boys who had made a business of kill
ing the birds, when brought up in court
pleaded that the birds had no1egal own
ers, as they were fed by the public on
the Piazza San Marco. The city au-
thorities maintained that the pigeons
were the wards of the old republic, and
therefore of the present municipality,
a view that was adopted by the court.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-03-24
TO MAKE SHOES LAST LONG.
An Observant Man Gives Some P0int-
ers to His Fellow Men.

An Observant Man Gives Some Point-
ers TO His Fellow Men.
\ man who is a city man and has been
a patron of boot stands for 80 years,
has learned something about shoes and
how they should be cared for.
Il do not buy the most expensive
footwear" he said, because 1 consider
it to be waste of money, but pair of
shoes viii last me two years before
they show sign of break. They-have
to be reheeled always and sometimes
haif-soled, but the uppers are good gen
orally when 1 get tired of them and
throw them away. 1t is all matter
of supplying the leather with the oil
that it got from the animal in n nat
ural way when it was hide and I'M
tanned. If you will remember, tam
mic acid is used on the hide in prepar-
ing it for commerce, and that is very
drying. Instead, leather in which too
much of it has been used can never be
made durable. 1t cracks and breaks
in little while. I am talking now of
black shoes. L do not wear tans or
greens. 1 am not so foolish as that.
Insist always that your boothlack
shall use a slight quantity of oil when
giving you a shine. Rubbing little of
it on with a rag Will do 1t sinks in
readily, and, as it prepares the surface,
you get better and more lasting shine
No bootblaok will do this unless you
tell him, because the bootblack is about
the most trifiing human being that
lives. 1t is his idea always to get
through the world with as little trouble
as possible to him. He has an easy and
lucrative way of making a living. and
he does not propose to change it in
any way unless you make him.
After the oil and backing have been
put on, see that the final polishing is
done with a piece of canton flannel
Brushes have tendency to roughen
the leather. and the cloth works the
oil into the shoe more perfectly. A.
shine CT this kind obtained from COM
petent man will last two days, and
look we'll at the end of the second
in dry weather. Never allow anyone
of the prepared polishes. They are all
injurious. Three oil shines n week. and
you will find your shoes lasting as long
as mine do. 1t is n big saving in the
course of year or two."-Chicago
Times-Herald.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-03-24

through the hole where the hands of
the figure are supposed to be, as shown
in Fig. 2; then, if couple of boys have
hold of the two ends of the thread, it
will be found that the figures can be
made to struggle and push each other
about in most comical manner. They
should be placed on A dark tablecloth.
so that the black thread will not be
noticed. If a bent pin is fastened to one
end of the thread so as to be hooked into
the cloth at one side of the table, one
person placed at the other side of the
table can work the figures without any
help.-Golden Days.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-03-24

while the lower part is used for making
his legs. The legs are joined to the
body by piece of wire, such as half of
a hairpin, which must be twisted up a {
the ends to keep things in their place.
To bore the holes through the legs
and body, a wire skewer made red-hot
will answer very well. The thin ends
of the pieces that form the legs must
be attached to the body. so that the
thicker ends hang downward and make
the legs move loosely.
For the arms, two pieces of thin, fiat
wood are required, each PA inches long
and three-eighths inches broad. Holes
are bored at each end of these, and also
in the middle, and, with penknife, it
is well to shape the middle part a little
SO as to roughly represent the joined
hands of the two figures. These arms
are secured to the figures in the same
way as the legs-that is, by a wire
passing through the body; and when
this is done the figures are completf.
To work them, a piece of black
thread, a yard and a half long, is passed
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-03-24
CAUGHT BY A BUTTON.
The story of n Little Boy Who FrOze
fI,a Ice

The story OF n Little BOY W no = rOZc
to the lee.
Recently a small boy who wore a
coat with large brass buttons went
down to the pond with his older sister
and her cousin, who were going to
skate.
The small boy felt very much injured
because lhe could not skate, too.s So he
lay down fiat on his face, on the ice, and
began To cry. His sister fastened to
him, and tried to make him stand, but
he refused TO do so, being of an OBJ
stinate disposition. Finding that her
entreaties were of no avail, she left
him for a moment, and when she re-
turned he was trying to get up, but
could not-one of lis brass buttons was
frozen in the ice!
A crowd of curious skaters collected
around the small boy, whose position
was now pitiable indeed. ''Unfasten his
coat said one, land take it off"
That's sensible!" said another, don't
you see it's buttoned 2" ''Well, let's give
him a pull and see if it won't come
out But it was no use. The button
was sewed so firmly that it would not
pull off.
''We'll have to rip up the back" said
his cousin.
"No, not that said his sister, cant
some one get a pick, or a hatchet?"
Some one said he would try, and skated
off. Meanwhile the salt tears from the
small boys eyes were making inroads
on the ice under his face. He felt very
damp and uncomfortable, and wished
very heartily that he had not been so
naughty. His sister was afraid that he
would catch pneumonia, or at least
heavy cold.
sob, say" said the cousin after they
had waited a short time; why won't a
skate do for pick?" So saying he
took off one of his, and tried to pick at
the button by pushing back the child's
fat little body. At last he succeeded in
chopping the ice away so that the but
ton was freed, and the small boy was
able to stand once more. He now rec
ognizes the advantages of an erect pos
ture.@Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-03-24
Black Dye for woolen..

To color wooden goods black, use one
ounce of extract of logwood and hall
an ounce of blue vitriol for each pound
of cloth. Put the vitriol in water
enough to cover the cloth, and when
they are thoroughly mixed, put in the
cloth and let it scald 20 min utes. Then
take the cloth out and throw it into
clear water. Put the logwood into a
vessel with sufficient water for the
goods, press the water from the cloth
and put it into the logwood water and
scald it 30 minutes. Then take out the
cloth and air well. Meanwhile put the
vitriol water into the vessel with the
Iogwood, and again put in the cloth
and scald it Is minutes longer. This
will prevent the goods when pressed
from rubbing off-Housewife.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-03-24

their ornaments. To the sheiiis at
tached a tiny gold chain that can be
pinned on the corsage by a safety pin.
The illustration represents one of
these ornaments. 1t is a tortoise covered
with fine trellis work of rose dia-
monds and brilliants in Louis Qninze
style. Some are ornamented with bril-
liants and rubies. others with tur-
quoises and emeralds. In some the
stones are set in the shape of mono
gram.
When not exhibited on their plush
background in the shop windows the
animals are allowed to crawl around in
little doll garden in the store. which
is planted with real shrubs and has a
rustic bridge and gravel walks.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-03-24
AGRICULTURE AROUND DAWSON
Not a Good Place for Oranges, But
Potatoes Attain Good Size.

Recently Tom Mallory, of Spokane,
returned from Dawson and to a Chron-
icle reporter he submitted to an inter
view upon the agricultural capa bilities
of that country.
"It isn't he said. "a very good place
to raise oranges. but some kinds of
farming are all right. Potatoes attain
a good size for table use on Forty-Mile
Creek, and about the old trading post
at Fort Selkirk. II is believed the early
varieties may be cultivated through
succession of seasons of experimental
ton into an early hardy variety that
will mature in the country. Turnips
grow on Forty-Mile and in the vicinity,
attaining to an enormous size.
1.-THE ground is prepared for cultiva-
ton by removing the moss growth and
turning up the soil to a depth of IS OF
20 inches, from which the warm rays of
the sun soon thaw the frost. But the
frost extends down an indefinite dis
lance below this
'tAre there any fruits?"
'Both high and low bush cranberries
grow abundantly in the Klondile re-
gion and throughout the Yukon valley,
so far as explored by whites. They are
extensively used. being for the most
part supplied BY the Indians Huciie-
berries. currants and red raspberries
also grow in the more sheltered sec
tons. Straw berries, maturing rapidly
under a hot sun, and being hardy, il is
believed they can be successfully Guilt
waited in all the lower valleys of the
Yukon. The strawberry plant is a ma
tive of the country. but only found in
sheltered pIaces-Spokane Chronicle.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-03-24
Changing Color of Flowers.

By immersing the cut stalks of vari-
GUS flowers in aniline solutions great
variety of beautiful hues and: iints can
be impaired. The colored water can
be watched through the microscope
flowing through the vein tubes in the
leaves and petals and other parts OF
the flowers. This process, which has
been used by Messrs- Brockbank and
Darlington, is quite different from that
of changing the color by adding par
ticular chemical element to the soil.
If the aniline dyes are placed in the
soil they do not find their way through
the roots The chief purpose of the
artificial coloring is to produce brilliant
effects for table decoration.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-03-24
MANAGING INFANTS.
Babies Need a Reasonable Amount
of Letting Alone.v

Although the baby is an exceedingly
tiny member of the establishment. it
requires more steps and more care
than any other, and sometimes more
than ali the rest put together. Espe-
cially is this the case if the child is
at all ailing or irrita bic. or has been
spoiled during the first few months of
its existence. The docing fondness of
mothers for their babies, especially the
first ones, is responsible for a great
deal OF hard work and unnecessary
trouble as they grow older. There is
nothing so beneficial to a baby of any
age as reasonable amount of judicious
letting alone. This does not by any
means presuppose neglect or even the
lack of sufficien: attention, but it does
include among other things that rest
and quiet and freedom from continual
nervous strain that wrecks so many
babies, and is one of the principal
causes of the remarkable number of
deaths that our statisticians are forced
to chronicle.
Careful feeding, warmth and quiet
ere three imperative necessities for
healthy and happy children. Continual
fussing over ba bies is the cause of a
great many bad tempers and great
deal of illness. There is very much
more in the infant incubator idea than
the general public is willing to admit
1t seems a dreadful1y cold-heaTted ana
cruel thing to put the dear little crea-
lures into a boXy place and shut them
up there, where one cannot set at
them to kiss and cuddle them, but all
the same this kissing and cuddiing
business is just what does the most
harm. Of course, all of the mothers all
over the country cannot have incu-
bators and brooders for their babies,
but they can exercise a little self-denial
and let the little ones alone when they
Iced rest and quiet. They can dress
them properly. feed them at regular
intervals and prevent their being dis
t1rbed by enthusiastic friends, who