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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-03-02
NOT so STUPID.
The Old Man Had Good Reason for
Telling the Traveller to
Walk On.

It was an old man in Sweden who
gave to stranger an answer that was
wiser than it appeared. The stranger,
one of prospecting party searching
for gold, had wandered away from the
rest, to find himself at last with fair
piece Of quartz as a reward for his
pains, in a region he knew nothing of,
with no guide, and night coming on.
Friend" he asked of an old man
smoking in his doorway, "how long
will it take me to walk to the next
town."
zically.
'Walk on" he said. with a wave of
his hand in the right direction.
eyes, L know which road; but how
long will it take me to walk there p
asked the stranger again.
Walk on" repeated the smoker. stol-
idly.
But can't you tell me how long it
will take me to reach the town ?" per-
sisted the other, impatiently.
walk on a third time directed the
old man, and the stranger did walk on,
inwar6ly matchmaking the stupidity
of the smoker.
Young man." called the resident,
when the stranger had gone a few
yards.
He turned impatiently.
81 just wanted to tell you, that if you
keep up that gait you'll get there in
half an hour"
'Why couldn't you say so before?"
demanded the stranger, hotly.
The old man removed the pipe from
his mouth, blew a volume Of smoke
skyward, and answered coolly:
How did 1 know how fast you could
walk P'@Short Stories.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-03-02
CELESTIAL cHAFF.
rae Pointed Retors Of . Small Bat
Smart Mongoltan to an Amer
fcan SchOolmate.

The young daughter of former Philadsl-
phiaa il q schooImate of little WI, the
SON of the Chinese ambassador at Washing
ten. During q, recent visit here she ottS ;s
tales about him that seemed to indicate that
little WI at times gently guys his Christian "a
scheolmates. He Is awfully cute, she
said, land speaks very correct English.
He's just my age, yet he's ahead OF me
What he likes best to eat, he says, is miihi:
That is young mice, dipped in honey and
swallowed raw. A horrible thing, isn't 1t
But WI says that milhi aren't half 50
sqsashy and Shiny as raw oysters His
mothers feet are so tiny that she can hard
ly walk at all. She is pushed about in .
wheeled chair. asked WI once if ne dldn
think it was cruel to torture the Chinese
ladies' feet like that He said: Virginia,
my papa says that whenever any person asks
me that question / must make the follow
ing reply: TT is not more cruel than for
American ladies to torture their waists IN
steel corsets until their noses are beet red
and their shapes like an hour glass" Then
he gave a loud laugh and walked away with
his little hands in the pockets of his baggy
brocade trousers. He looks awfully grave
and funny. "-Philadelphia Press.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-03-02
TO MEET sTEAMsHIPs.
New Service by the New York Cen
trail Railroad.


George a. Daniels, general passenger
agent of the New York Central and Hud-
son River Railroad, has added a steam
ship bureau to the equipment of the passen-
ger service of the road. He has engaged
Captains Louis Ingwersen and +. A. G..
Schultze to superintend the bureau, and one
of their duties will be to meet all incoming
transatlantic and the principal coastwise
steamships to assist passengers who wish
to leave the city via the Vanderbilt system.
Capt. Ingwersen will have charge OF the
American, Cunard, White Star, Atlantic
Transport, Wilson, Anchor and Allan-State
lines, and Capt. Sehuitze has been assigned
to the North-German Lloyd, Hamburg
American, French, Rotterdam, Red Star
and Thingvalla lines.
They wiz meet all incoming steamships,
and will be prepared to furnish railway
tickets, parlor and sleeping car accommo-
dations and to assist passengers with their
baggage and check it to points on the line
of the railroad, after it has been passed
by the customs inspectors. They will also
furnish passengers with cabs operated by the
railroad company, and furnish time tables
and general information to passengers. The
two men have also been directed to assist
passengers who come to this city with a
view of going abroad, and such passengers
wild be met at the Grand Central Station
on incoming trains and conducted to the
steamship. Their baggage will be attended
to, and steamship tickets can be procured
in advance by communicating with Mr..
Daniels.-FrOm the New York Commercial
Advertiser.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-03-02
ONLY A BRAKEMAN.

Awful the shock when the engines met;
All was terror, confusion. din;
None who saw 1t will e'er forget
The picture that daylight ushered in.
Shattered fragments Of iron and steel,
Spltntered wood and battered brass
Mingled with broken rod and wheel
And some ones blood stained the wayside
grass
Some ones body, all crushed and torn,
Covered with wounds. bereft of breath,
Was found meath the wreck; the jacket
worn
Told how brakeman had met his death.
Some one wept when the news was borne;
Some one mourned Ger the mangled dead,
In line of duty from some one torn
Yet ''oniy a brakeman" the papers said.
Sadly they buried him meath the sod.
Then took the Grape from the cottage
door:
Over grave the roses nod
The grave of a brakeman whose run Is
Ger.
w. II. T. Shade.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-03-02

under ground by this, for 1 had heard moth
ing of him, and if the negro was pris-
oner in hulk he might as well have been
in q tomb.
Of what was taking place in the world out
side I knew nothing save from rumor. and
Iumor oft contradicted itself. The only
report seemingly sure was that Washington
had sat himself down on the Hudson just
north of the Harlem (the very spot from
which he had been driven two year, be-
fore), and was there awaiting the arrival of
the French feet in order to strike blow.
And there he remained inactive, for the
French did arrive early in July, and, find
ing Howe's fleet drawn up to receive them,
but peered into the bay, and then turned
tail and sped away to Newport on the fruit
less mission of blockading that port.
In the seemingly open yet wholly secret
life / led l made many friends-Inostly pot
house companions-to whom I listened but
spoke little, fearing to be recognized as an
rnpostor. 1 kept both ears and eyes on
the alert the while, fighting shy of broils,
yet holding the respect of the toughest of
the camp oHscouring, owing to my size and
apparent strength. I even dared make a
map of the lower defenses of the city; but it
was so disguised, SO crossed, and recrossed
in a manner clear only to myself that l
would have trusted it to the eye of any of
them without fear of their coming by its
true nature.
This / did not to be idle, for nothing hap
pened in the way of military movement, or
even threatened to, for some weeks after
my arrival By then was practically a pris-
oner, for without pass and clear state
ment of business / could not have gotten
beyond the lines, which now extended across
the island from the heights of Corlears Hook
to the Hudson ION about the general line of
the present Grand street,
My wound healed in the space of two or
three weeks, but still 1 kept the arm in a
sling, using it in privacy that the muscles
might not weaken or stiffen from lack of
exercise. The sling saved me from many
awkward questions, for when asked why /
did not join the army or apply for berth in
the feet, had but to point to it, gently NOV
ing the limb, and say: "An in good time %
adding for weight that had no call to fur
ther serve his majesty until he paid me the
! money ! had already earned
But for the arm, backed perhaps by the
way my muscle filed out my coat sleeve.
| would have been pressed into the service
whether or not, and the sling being safe
gard let il bide.
had taken quarters in the tavern of the
Kings Arms" on King street (now Pine
| street,, near the Broadway, making terms
| en- credit, an easy matter with my prize
| money claim in my pocket Twas the gath
| ering place for tories of the better sort, and
but little affected by the military, the dash
| ing element Of which favored Fraunce's, on
Broad street.
| But my time was not spent here Twas
| the Bulls Head" on the Bowery Lane ION
| the site of the old Bowery theaterl, and
| near the inner line of defenses. that saw
the most of me.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-03-02
Catarrh Cannot Be Cured

with Local Applications, as they cannot
each the seat of the disease. Catarrh is g
blood or constitutional disease, and in order
to cure it you must take internal remedies
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and
acts directly on the blood and mucous sur
faces. Halls Catarrh Cure is not quach
medicine. 1t was prescribed by one of the
best physicians In this country for years,
posed of the best tonics known, combined
with the best blood purifiers, acting direct
ly on the mucous surfaces. The perfect
combination of the two ingredients is what
produces such wonderful results in curing
Catarrh. Send for testimonials, free.
E. j. CHENEY & CO., Props, Toledo, D.
Sold by all druggists, price 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-03-02
CHAPTER ".
NEW YORK IN 177s.

NEW YORK IN I77s.
New York at this period was a scene of
confusion.
The fear of the French, which had occa-
stoned the evacuation of Philadelphia. had
brought horde of 1900 soldiers to be set
down among 5000 others, where but scant
preparations had been made to receive
them. What with the smart of the flashing
administered by Washington at Monmouth
On their march across New Jersey, the
weakness of Howe's fleet, the fear of sud-
den movement on the city by the Americans,
and the intense heat of the weather. the
army was in state bordering on panic.
1t was an army, too, that through rank
and file had been demoralized by inactivity
and debauch, and nothing could have been
more apt or prophetic than the remark made
by Franklin when it became known to him
that the Delaware had been opened by
Howe: philadelphia has succumbed to the
British, but they in turn will succunb to
Philadelphia
1t had been even SO, but the effect had be-
come apparent in New York The civil law
had long been PROSTATE; the military au-
| thority lax. Now the British were waking
| in the condition of man after nights dis
| sipation, battling with a muddled brain. and
| feeling the internal economy fairly out of
gear. Fraud, fear and incompetence reigned
| in every branch of the service, and betwixt
| fire, vandalism and the necessities of war,
| New York, which had never known and was
never to know the dignity of battle, suffered
| as no besieged city could suffer more.
All this suited my purpose, as well as di-
rectly favored my interest. The influx of a
| host of newcomers saved me from being
prominent as a stranger, and the extra prep
| arations for the defense of the town, to-
gether with the knowledge that the French
| were at last upon the sea, diverted atten-
| tion from small naval ventures.
| I had feared the Phantom would be i'm
| mediately reftted and armed for sound
! or river cruising, and was nightly pleased
| to have the days go by and see her, as the
saying gees, taking root 60 the bottom"
Never did the sun set without my having
i 6 lock at her swinging at her anchor. She
| lay off the half-descrted shipyard, which be-
| came favorite haunt of mine when tired
CT the mask wore and wished to ease into
| my true self.
| And there I would walk mp and down
| and each day watch the growth Of the muck
| that had fouled her cable on the sbS and
| low of the tide. She had not evea beer
disnantlsd. and, for aught I could see. wa,
| without q guard save at night; but to have
gone out to her and worked upon the cabin
bulkhead would have been impossible The
! boat from her larboard dayits had beez
taken away, but the dingey stin hung owe,
| the stern, as tantalizing as a cup of xasel
just beyond the reach of thirstiRg neu.
4 sweet sight (but melancholy one) ths
schooner made to me as she swung on the
broad river well from land, the fair light o.
an evening over her, meliowing her lines ant
diminishing the rustiness of her sides. Be
| yond her was the bald work of Fort Sterling
Quilt and deserted unharmed by the pa
I triots two years before). standing GEAR aH<
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-03-02
Eunnx Eonfnofea.

If girl can make lovely chocolate car
smels a man thinks she can cook.
Success is like chicken; if you get it
eooped up, it is well to keep an eye on the
coop.
When some women get the blues the
family find it out by having to eat dried
peach pies.
When the truth is told all our good
resolutions last longer than We thought
they would.
After a girl has taken three French les
sons she can do the French shrug better
than her teacher.
Two souls with bat a single thought
surprise everybody by finding an awful lot
to talk about.
Birth doesn't amount to so much; indo-
lence often presents a fine imitation of the
correct aristocratic air.-Indianapohs Jour
nal.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-03-02
aamnses ACROSS the ssa

Is the charming title of charming book
from the faciie pen of Mr.. Sam T. Clover, the
well known author and newspaper editor.
The "Glimpses" are particularly peril
nent just now when so many people are con-
and many people viii be glad to know that
the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
has purchased an edition of Mr.. Clovers
work for distribution.
In sending your address for a copy pLef Sc
e@close six cents to pay postage. Geo. II.
Heefferd, General Passenger Agent, Old
Colony Building, CHICAGO, Eli.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-03-02
circumstance Alter Cases.

Lady (excitedly)-Have you fled my
application for divorce yet?
Lawyer-No, madam; but I am at
work on the papers now.
Lady-Thank fortune, am not too
late. Destroy all papers and evidence
at once, please.
brought about between you and your
husband, I infer?
Lady-Gracious. mol He was run
over and killed by freight train this
morning. and I want to retain you in
my suit against the company for dam
ages.-Chicago Daily News
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-03-02
AZ the Ernnf

He was a newspaper man. Late war news
kept me downtown" he stammered, as he
entered the house at $50 a. m.
"HumPh!" replied his wife. ''Well, we'll
make little more war news right here for
late editien." And the battle was on
Phladelphia North American
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-03-02
suggested by the L

TeacherNow, Johnny, you know the
eagle stands for America. What animal
typifes Great Britain?
JOHNNY dunno.
"Oh, yes you do. Think for a moment !;
It begins with L"
Eagerly Lobster!''-Catholic Stand
ard and Times
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-03-02
Next Thing TO 1t.

'Your husband doesn't SNAKE. Mrs.
Price?"
'sNo; but he sometimes fumes."-Chi-
cago Record.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-03-02
Nc CompuIs4on.

Hicks-What was it. anyway, that
drove Browne to drink?
Wicks-I never observed that Browne
had to be driven.-Somerville journal
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-03-02
More Than Equals IT.

"What can equal the warmth of true
woman's lover" asked the dearest girl.
"Her temper" replied the savage
bachelor.-Tit-Bits.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-03-02
"Charffy Begins
At Home. -

Be Kind to your BODY. Re
member It IS fed not BY
thoughts of Suhat you think
You'll do, but BY fhe strong
Oofun,e of 0itaf force Suhsch the heart
distributes. Treat yoas Rfe,s Blood 0,eL
HOODS Sarssparna Is = medicinal sister
of charity. and aids to keep yoG IN good
Health as nothing else can
Pure Blood. Ky Hood zDss poor.
I had headaches and Bat lille appetite.
Since taking tu,o bottles of Hood $ Szrsa-
parina, the headaches are gone, my Blood
IS in good condaion and ! ha0e good sp-
petite" c. 4. Hoffman. $50 8road1zY.
Lon1 Island City, ". Y.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-03-02
By cE1AUNcY G. HOTcHkLSS

copyright. 1897. by D. Appleton & Co. Al
rights reserved
The Meeker herald., 1900-07-28

supports, according to the census of lSl2
not les than III million human beings,
MAKING it the most dense!y settled Of
any part of the world of the same size,
its inhabitants amounting TO nearly two
thirds Of the entire population OF
EurNrN
The Meeker herald., 1900-07-28
From Nome City.

l.. L. Beatty, an old time Aspen boy,
now at Nome City, Alaska, writes to a
friend under date of June %, as follows:
ave got here June Is. Haven't done
anything yet. 1t is hard scheme just
now. There are lots of people getting
ready to start back but I'm going to
stay, until fall. anyway. have been
building boat for the past two days,
and will finish it up tomorrow morning.
1t is cracker-jack-made it with a
hammer and saw. l will coast up for a
little, ways to see il / can lind place on
the beach that will pay. The country
has been staked for seventy five miles
in all directions from here, SO there u
no use booking for claims.
II was offered job at So day and
board THAT is the wages here) but don't
think will take it until can see what
can do on the beach. I will go up
about 100 miles if i don't find anything
closer.
There have been five men killed
since got here-two this morning.
There are tents along the beach for
over twenty miles and five miles as
thick as they can set, only place left
once In while for teams. The beach
is from quarter to a half mile wide.
ut never gets dark here--is as light
at midnight as at noon. There were
three nights last week that the sun
never set at all.
There are about seven dogs to the
square inch. They 60 mp on the tundra
and howl and fight all night. Nobody
sleeps more than three or four hours
up here.
1.-The main street of Nome is twenty
feet wide between sidewalks and the
teams have to pick out place to pass
one another.
Everything is from two to five times
as high as it is there. There were
about fifty ships in here at one time
but they are beginning to thin out now.
Aspen Times.
The Meeker herald., 1900-07-28

@. o. Taylor whs.Lse.. reliable brand.
The Meeker herald., 1900-07-28
Incorporation Election.

The election to vote upon the question
of incorporation came off yesterday and
votes were poled, of which sixty-eight
were for incorporation and fourteen
against incorporation. After the proper
report TO the clerk of the county court,
the commissioners will call an election,
probably about the middle of August,
to vote fol- officers for the newly incor-
porated town of Steamboat Springs
Steamboat Pilot of the 18th.
The Meeker herald., 1900-07-28
Boxers Not a Representative
Type.


Type.
Although the vast mobs which infest
Pekin and the larger cities of China,
worked up to state of frenzy and
fanaticism, have rendered impossible
any satisfactory action by the available
forces of the powers, the great Chinese
population proper is agricultural and
naturally extremely peaceful and peace
loving. Agriculture, however, is most
primitive and the wonder is how such
an immense population can be sup
ported from the soil, until the great
economy practiced in all things is
understood. On the Great Plain OF
China, every available foot of land is
utilized for growing something and
every particle of fertility returned to
the soil Waters are used for irrigation
and in many cases laboriously dis
tributed over the fields.
The Great Plain itself is one of the
most wonderful sections of the globe.
1t is about 700 miles in length and
varies from 200 to 400 miles in width,
occupying the northeastern part of the
empire, and containing over 100000
square miles of wonderfully fertile soil.
The most interesting feature OF this
plain is its enormous population as 1t
The Meeker herald., 1900-07-28

The Chinese situation seems to be
getting more complicated than ever
In modern vernacuIar, none of the
powers know where they are at.
The Meeker herald., 1900-07-28

Blythe way, there are several fine
consulates absolutely going begging at
present. They are located in China and
the salaries begin only when the consuls
reach tlieir posts.
The Meeker herald., 1900-07-28

Germany it is said, has shipped 200, coo
rifles into China within the last two
years. and Das certainly sent dozens of
officers there to teach the Chinese how
to use the firearms. Now Emperor
William is grieved because his pupils
have proved themselves SO apt.
The Meeker herald., 1900-07-28

Roosevelt is Eutch for field of roses.
Well, the Governor has often been
called daisy.
The Meeker herald., 1900-07-28

Astronomers tell us that in our solar
system there are at least 100000
comets of all sizes.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1900-08-14
Masonic Banquet.

This evening the democratic
prince Of Wales" OF the Hawaiian
Islands, who at one time might have
been as close TO the succession es
"Tummy" OF England, will pass
through certain degrees OF mystic
masonry; an order as ancient as it
is honorable.
The nephew OF The late King,
who reached the highest degrees in
masonry, lie following out the ideas
OF his ancestors, be they by con,
sauguinity or affinity, OF bringing
himself in touch with the brightest
minds OF the world, the men who
control destinies in the interest OF
right and justice and act on the
level and the square.
After David Kawananakoa is duly
installed there will be banquet
superintended by George Lycurgus,
the result Of which is left to our
morning contc mporsIies. II they
are not there we shall be.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1900-08-14

close Tough with one OF the occu-
pants OF the Circuit Court Bench
tJudge Humphreys) they cannot be
disregarded. l respectfully take the
liberty OF calling the attention OF
tie Grand Jury to these charges 10
this open letter, requeftirP, as a
practitioner OF 20 years standing be
fore the courts OF Honolulu, and
with the approval as l have reason
to believe OF many other attorneys
OF the local bar, that the charges OF
the Republican, certainly in go FAR
as it charges the presence now in
this community Of corrupt attorneys
or corrupt courts, be most search
ingly Investigated.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1900-08-14

they we're interested iu tried imme-
diately or postponed at their
pleasure, IS they would demaDd.'
This constitutes a charge OF cor.
ruption aud corrupt practices
against some OF our courts and
some OF the practitioners before
them. 1t is an indictment that
reaches the majority OF one court
as at present constituted, to wit;
the Supreme Court and number OF
attorneys still in active practice.
The charge has been made wide
enough to cover existing conditions
aud thus TO raise issues OF vital in.
terest to the public.
Judge Fresr has been member
OF the Supreme Court for number
OF years, including presumably the
period when, according to the Re
publican, this corruption existed in
the "courts OF Honolulu" and Judge
Perry has just been appointed an
associate in the same court, leaving
the Circuit Court OF this district to
accept the appointment, II Judge
Perry, while Circuit Judge, has been
guilty OF "open and notorious favor
itism" 80 that at the comm ,nd OF
favored few" he ordered the cases
"tried Immediately or postponed at
the pl easure" OF his favorites, there
facts, il tiue, would certainly render
him unworthy OF the confidence Of
the public and unfit him now to re-
tain his Office. Moreover, il there
has been ring OF corrupt attorneys
practicing before the courts OF Homo
lulu in the past, the fact that one OF
these courts alleged to have been
under their control has been filed
with new appointoes does not do
away with the serious charge that
there is to day, according to the
Republican, in this community
ring OF attorneys, now holding
license to practice law, who have
yet the majority OF one court (the
Supreme CourD VI der their corrupt
control, and who are now trying to
break down the standing OF the new
appointees OF the Circuit Court be-
cause they cannot be manipulated
as their predecessors were.
II these charges had come from
some irresponsible source they might
possibly be disregarded, but coming
as they do from newspaper in