The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-03-22

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her spine was badly injured, but she
lived to be almost helpless and a
cripple for life. This awful afflc-
ton almost paralyzed the poor par
ents, but the neighbors were unre-
mitting in their solicitous care and
attention, deeply sympathizing with
them in their sore troubles. A few
months later one of those devastat-
ing prairie fires, which were such
terror when the country was new,
laid desolate great part of Wilson
and Neosho counties. Hundreds
of settlers lost their little all, and,
of course John Miller was among
them. John and his wife were back
firing and with the neighbors were
fighting the advancing flames, and,
happening to look behind them, they
saw the roof of their own house
burning, in which was the helpless
girl. They did not reach the house
moment too soon, for the fire was
falling all around and on the bed in
which the girl lay unconscious. The
poor girl, in her weakened condi-
ton, never recovered from the
shock. She thought her father and
mother too far away to notice the
house being on fire, and that she
must lay there and burn to death.
She fingered along for few months
and then, gently, like a child falling
asleep, died in her mothers arms.
Now, indeed, these poor, suffer
ing parents were bereft of all. Their
children gone-all gone. Even the
neighbors were cut to the heart to
see their deep misery and despair.
So hapless and heartbroken were
the poor father and mother that all
they could say was that they wanted
to 60 back to the old home in the
East and take Lucy with them.
With the assistance of friends the
arrangements were all made, and
the poor old people, with the body
of their child, were put on the train
at Chanute. The parting from these
distressed parents was most affect
ing one, and all wept to think we
should see their dear faces no more.
Within a year after their return
East they we're all resting side by
side in the village churchyard.
MRS. BRowNFIELD, of Indianapo-
lis, sued James c. Wheat for 81 900
for hugging and kissing her against
her will. The
Must Have jury carefully
Been Rare. considered h e
matter, and, af
ter close scrutiny of Mrs. Brown
field, decided that she was asking
an exhorbitant price for the COM
modify, and scaled her down to
81 500, for which judgment was
rendered. So the price of one hug
and one kiss in Indianapolis is now
duly established.
1t seems that Mr.. Wheat did not
bring in bill for any offset he
might have had. 1t has usually been
supposed that there was a sort of
reciprocity of benefits in such cases,
and Mrs. Brownfeld should have
been charged up reasonable price
for any benefits or pleasures she
may have received by the transac-
ton.
Query: If it is worth $500 to
hug and kiss married woman in
Indiana, how much is the indebted
ness of a young Kansas man who
has "solld" on whom he has been
calling two or three times week
all winter?
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GEO. T. FAIRCHILD, for eighteen
years president of the State Agri
cultural College at Manhattan, died
in a hos
Ex-PreSident pital a t
Fairchild Dead. Richmond
Kentucky,
March I6. President Fairchild will
be remembered and mourned by
of former students of the
College. He was
man of broad culture and advanced
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