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Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-11-09

then led the way toward the en-
trance.
Stanford followed with sturdy de-
termination. Was she at heart gar
den flower or bantam? He was re-
solved to know. And if-if-? His
thought broke there and he fell to
studying the passers by with quiet
intentness.
The head of the concern had not
forgotten his presence, but that
serene moon above the darkened
trees came between her and all prac-
teal thoughts. She attempted to
reason upon the cause of his pres
ence, to remain alert. But in a mo-
ment her thoughts slipped from her
control and ran back to those dim
pines massed against the eastern
sky. Could it be possible that it was
only ten years ago? AT is she had
been a poet of limitless ideals; at
% she was a hard working woman,
given to testing by the sordid STAN
dard OF dollars and cents.
Stanford took her arm to guide her
over crossing and she smiled invol-
UNFAIRLY.
"What is it?" he asked.
Nothing" she returned.
81 did not know you were the wom-
an to smile at nothing, and" he con-
tinued, as they reached the door, ~
don't believe you are" He rang the
bell and faced her on the steps.
"what were you smiling at?"
"Why, only at the thought of my
being guided over a crossing"
Stanford followed her into the IL
brary before he spoke again.
"Youmean," he said, earnestly, you
have been a bantam so long that you
have quite forgotten the garden flow
er's love of sunshine and shelter?"
He placed his hand on the back Of
the chair and hesitated moment be-
fore dragging It near hers.
do you think that You can per-
suade me that you are bantam
quite to the heart-that all your
womanly tenderness has been lost
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-11-09
EDWARD STOKES DEAD.
Man Who Killed ''Jim" Fisk for Love OF
n Woman Passes Away In New
York.

New York, Nov. Edward s.
Stokes, once a partner of Jay Gould
and one of a group who once con-
trolled the financial interests of the
country, died Saturday after long
illness ut the home of his sister in
this city, soul-stricken by the mem
DRY of the murder of Jim" Fisk,
whom he killed for love of a woman.
1t is a memory which has lived over
a quarter of century. Josie Mans
field, adventures, is the only living
figure in the story of n woman's
treachery, of Jim Fisk's weakness
and dishonor and of Edward Stokes
revenge.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-11-09
"ONLY A WAIF IS DEAD"

While an autumn day was dying
waif stood at q gate,
Drench'd with rain and faint with hunger
All forlorn and desolate.
In her soft and trembling accents
She did entrance beg, In vain,
For a thought seem'd ever burning
In her fevered childish brain.
Mother said that she was going
To q home, far, far away.
OF joy and peace never ending,
And no sorrow night nor day.
"And she said loving Saviour
Died, to wash away my sin.
Even torn. soiled and bleeding
He will come TO let me in"
"But. an me! He does not hear me.
And my heart is aching so.
Please have pity, come and take me.
am sad, want to CO."
Then from far voice was calling,
A sweet voice forever BLESSED,
Said: Come to me, my homeless child.
And will give you rest"
Broken-hearted. bitter weeping,
For place to lay her head,
Need Of earthly comfort over,
"Only waif." twas said, 'is dead"
Thus the tide is ever flowing
Onward to that happy shore.
Where the gates are always open.
BLESSED be God for evermore.
II. r. Watson, In Boston Budget.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-11-09
THANKSGIVING PROCLAIMED.
President Roosevelt Names Thursday, No
vember 28, as n Day of Prayer for Bless
ings Material and Spiritual.

Washington, Nov. 3.-President
Roosevelt Saturday issued his proc
lamation fixing Thursday, November
2S, as n day of national Thanksgiving.
1t follows:
The season is nigh when, according to
the time-hallowcd custom OF our peo-
pie. the president appoints day as the
especial occasion for praise and thanks
giving to God.
This Thanksgiving finds the people stir
bowed with sorrow for the death OF
great and good president. We mourn
President Mckinley because we so loved
and honored him: and the manner OF his
death should awaken In the breasts or
our people a keen anxiety for the coun-
try, and at the same time resolute pur-
pose not to be driven by any calamity
from the path Of strong. orderly. pop
ular liberty which as a nation we have
thus far safely trod.
Yet in spite of this great disaster, II Is
nevertheless true that no people on earth
have such abundant cause for thanks
giving as we have. The past year In
particular has been one Of peace and
plenty. We have prospered In things
material and have been able to work
for ourn own uplifting in things intel
lectual and spiritual. Let us remember
that, as much as has been given US,
much will be expected from us: and
that true homage comes from the heart
as well as from the lips and shows it.
self in deeds. We can best prove our
thankfulncss to the Almighty by the
way in which on this earth and at this
time each Of us does his duty to his
fellowmen.-
Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt,
president of the United States, do here
by designate as day Of general thanks
giving. Thursday, the 18th day of this
present November, and do recon-
mend that throughout the land people
cease from their wonted occupations and
at their several homes and places Of
worship reverently thank the Oliver of
all good for the countless blessings of
our national life.
In witness whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and caused the seal of the
United States to be affixed.
Done at the city Of Washington this
I'd day of November. in the year OF Our
Lord 1901 and Of the independence Of tho
United States the 10th.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT,
President.
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rhelr Reeords aIust DO GOOD.

Washington, Nov. 3.-The president
has told his advisers that, except In
exceptional cases, he would send to
congress the names of those appoint
ess who received their appointment
from President Mckinley after tho al
journment of congress. He wanted,
however, to inform himself as to the
character of the men and the serv-
ice they have rendered since appoint
Tent.
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Fully Qualified.

Examinations for admission to the
bar are easy or severe, often accord
ing to the humor of the examiner.
A story is told of a judge in certain
district of Florida famous for its bad
roads and numerous creeks and
rivers.
A young man had presented him
self for examination. The judge
looked him over, and then inquired,
with great gravity:
"Can you ride?"
"Yes, sir"
"Do you own horse?"
Eyes, sir"
"Can he swim?"
"Yes, sir"
"Then, sir, 1 am very glad to well
come you to the practice of law in
my district" Companion.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-11-09

THEY were standing together be-
fore wide eXpanse of canvas.
The woman studied the painting and
the man studied the woman. He had
known her for year and yet he
knew her not at all. The rugged out
side of the business-woman life was
easily comprehended. 1t was the &C.
casional soft cleaning of poetic ten
derness that puzzled him. Was it
real?
If it was sham, why did she not do
more of it? Certainly it was charm
ing. If it was real, how could she in
dulge in it so little.
And yet again, if it were not real,
how could she stand so fascinated be-
fore such picture-a mass OF pine
tops against dim night sky, the
trunks lost in the darkness. Low
bands of clouds lay above, and riding
over all q serene full moon, half
yelled by q misty film-the whole
scene POLITICALLY tender-with the
evanescent usefulness of Frank
:Stanton's love-songs.' Why should it
appeal to this stern woman of af-
fairs?
Yet so strongly did it appeal to her
that she stood there oblivious of all
else. Stanford studied her at his leis-
ure.
She was not particularly cookbook
ing; the broad forehead was married
by deep lines between the brows; the
straight nose had become aquiline
from habits of persistent application;
and the mouth was disfgured by an
expression of determination. 1t
might have been good-looking face,
even a pretty one, Stanford reflected,
If the owner had never got up against
the big things of life and resolved to
win out or die. How absurd to imagine
that those firm lips could have ever
been tender!
He had had several business trans
actions with her and he knew her to
be shrewd to hardness. She was the
head of the house that had published
two of his books and rejected a third.
Suddenly Stanford remembered why
he had sought her after Office hours.
$50 your house has decided to re-
fuse "A Light in the Dark?" he
queried.
"Yes," she replied with uncompro-
missing brevity.
"Why?" he persisted. "There is no
need to mince matters. You are the
head of the house; you must have
reason and it may prove valuable
iside-light to me-"
81 am not literary critic"
= "Aye, but why did you refuse to put
ont my work?"
mo money in it."
Physiological problems may not
be vastly interesting to the multitude,
but" he paused invitingly.
''Whatever is intrinsically good is
safe investment-it will find a market
sooner or later"
"Then you hold that my book is not
intrinsically good? I have been told
by eminent critics that it was clever
piece of work."
"Critics are literary men,, not
physiognomists. You cannot make a
correct demonstration from a false
hypothesis" The unwillingness to
talk died from her eyes and she turned
70 him with eager insistence.
sTou are a physiognomist and q
shrewd one. You understand the
meaning of every line in the human
facc, but you have overlooked the un-
derlying lines. You accept to the full
that saying of Emerson's: And the
man or woman who would have re-
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-11-09
Getfinr HACK mt Him.

The infant of the household was in
its cradle. The head of the house was
at home, peevish and fault-finding. At
length he became uncomfortable.
you've done nothing but make mis-
takes tonight" he growled.
EYES," she answered, meekly; II
began by putting the wrong baby to
bed ."-Tit-Bits.
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A Hard Fate.

"Ah yes" sighed the fat lady. my
husband died hard!"
"Poor fellow" said the woman who
is always sympathizing with people;
"what was the trouble with him?'
81 don't know the scientiffickle
name for it. He was the ossified
man."-Chicago Record-Herald.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-11-09
but Not from Her.

"well, what on earth did he marry
for?"
"For sympathy"
"And he didn't get even that?"
ooh, yes, from his friends. "-Phila.
delphia Press.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-11-09
PhiiadelphIa's Recreation Piers.

The city of Philadelphia nowhas two
recreation piers, the second. 20 fee
wide and $50 feet long, having been
opened to the public last week.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-11-09
Eorthwestern Canada Crops.

Manitoba and Canada northwest
farmers win have $so,ooo,oOo distrib-
uted among them when their crops are
marketed this season.
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Poser for the Judge.

Pat, having been unduly familiar
with corkless bottle, found himself
enjoying a nights lodging at the ex-
pensc of the city.
"How long have you been in this
country?" asked the judge the next
morning.
Faith, an it's noigh on to siven
months, yer homer" replied Pat.
"Have you a trader" asked the
judge.
"Sure an it's n sailor Oh am" an
swered the Irishman.
BE careful what you say" eau
toned the Judge. ~ doubt very much
if you have ever been to sea in your
life"
.'Begory!" exclaimed the son of
Erin, IAN is it in wagin yer honor's
afther thinkin' Oh came over from
the ould counthry?"-Chicago Daily
News.
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beneath determination to bring the

beneath determination to bring the
house through"
"Why, yes"
"You think that you can quite con-
vince me of all that--and yourself?"
"Why, yes. I assure you / feel
quite strong and woody" but she did
not meet his eyes. The memory OF
that moonlight was troubling her.
that, and other things.
"You quite believe that? Then you
will not mind reading ttis for me-"
and he laid Stanton's Even Song on
her knee.
She took it up at once:
Dear heart. life is not long.
The shadows deepen and the waning
light
Drifts to the music of the even song
And then-Good night.
Dear heart, though love may live
In loftier realms through Gods eternal
years.
IT'S here we heed the Joys that 1t may give.
Its tenderness, its tears.
And yet such barriers rise
10 keep tHe outstTetcheO' euHueieu HahNs
apart,
What is fulfillment In the far. faint skies
When earth Is dumb, dear heart"
Stanford's hands closed over hers.
"Tell me-" he whispered, sis tho
garden flower quite dead?"
The hands in his quivered and he
stopped to kiss them passionately.
"'My queen rose of the rosebud
garden of girls"
Garden flower or bantam. stern
hearted or tender. love knocks alike
ut the heart of all, and to each that
opens unto him he brings n flood OF
light, soft-tinted and glad.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-12-08

actly with those Of a little quarter Of an
inch flash of lightning produced arti-
ficially in "a small tube or Ia the open air.
RhctoSraphlng star spectra is, of
course, nothing new at Harvard observ-
atOry, where stellar photography has
been more fully developed. perhaps, than
anywhere else, so that IL may seem
strange at first glance that the Harvard
photOgra phic telescopes should not have
been earlier utilized in the study of light
ming. The main difficulty lies IN the fact
that lightning is almost always accom-
panied by rain and that the rain inter
feres with the use of the telescope. Last
summer, however, there were several OPP
Fortune dry showers clouds and light
ming without rama condition which
made it possible to secure the much de-
sired pictures.
The process by which the lightning
spectrum has thus been finally captured
as described by Mr.. King Of the Observa-
tory, who directed the work, IS not un-
like that of taking a snapshot with a
pocket camera with the important ex-
ception that the apparatus is larger than
the photographer. When the stars are
photographed this apparatus sometimes
weighing several tons, moves by clock
work, following the movement of the
celestial bodies The rate of speed. how
ever, Is very small fraction faster than
the star Itself, in order that the star may
trail somewhat in the photograph, thus
producing a spectrum in which the colOrs
are spread out more conveniently than
If the star were secured in seemingly
stationary position.
Lightning is an obviously different mat
ter. Where the flash will come can only
be guessed at, and the Instrument is con-
trolled, therefore, not by clOckWOrk and
electrical attachments but by the hand
or the operator. The flash itself. once il
comes in the field of the telescope, is an
automatic, or natural, flash light
The situation. however, is further COM
plicated by the fact that the prism re-
tracts the lightning-that is to say, the
nghtnlng enters and leaves the prism at
an angle-and the telescope must be aimed
not at the flash but a certain number of
degrees. according to the prism in use to
one side of it. There is. of course. no
possibility OF time exposure. and the
success of the photograph depends 1lDou
the good luck as well as the good judg-
ment Of the man behind the telescnne
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YOU WANT TO SEE OUR LINE
OF sc AND Ice HANDKERCHIEFS
FOR LADIES. THEY BEAT ANY
THING IN TOWN.
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the men. They appeared TO be ex-
tremely anxious for money and he
sought to squeeze" them. Finally he
agreed to pay $4,000 for the brick if the
assays showed it to be genuine gold.
The vendors and the purchaser adj
journed TO a second-story room and
there began to bore the brick TO secure
the material for the assay. One of
the miners sat in the front window,
while the other, watched by the bank
er, bored a hole in the end and the
bottom and took a chip off one corner,
depOsiting the filings on slips of paper.
The banker watched closely to make
sure that everything was all right.
Suddenly there were heard in the
street in front yells and the sounds of
shots. Two men came riding up the
street, shooting, apparently at each
other, and shouting at the top Of their
voices. The banker, fearing an at
tempt was being made to rob his bank,
rushed to the front window. The men
in the street fired a few more shots
and then disappeared The banker re-
turned to the brick. He did not see
that the filings from the brick had
been deftly exchanged for genuine
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Carpets.

WE ONLY HAVE A FEW ROLLS
or CARPETS LEFT AND WILL
CLOSE THEM OUT AT A GREAT
BARGAIN.
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Why the Drum Was Silent.
Baltimore sun0


Here is a delicious story Of the war
times that has an unmistakable air OF
freshness and human interest.
The torn nd tattered remnant Of q
close or the war was lined up by its
colonel and told that the commanding
general was to pay a visit Of inspec-
ton on the following day. The soldiers
were sdmoniehed to 'dO their pretticst'
Just brace up as though your clothes
were brand new uniforms and as though
you had the best on earth To eat and
plenty Of II. We haven any bugle left.
but smith there has got a drum. and it's
a plump line One-blg as a barrel Now.
Smith. when I give you the word tom0r-
row YOU Jet her go for an she's worth
Thus spoke the colonel.
The next day came the general to ''ir-
Spect the poor half-starred fighters and
as he appeared In the distance the colonel
gave order TO line up As the CONF
handing officer drew near the colonel
shouted; Now, Smith. let her g0r and
turned TO salute the general.
But not a note came from the big bar
rel drum.
The colonel. red in the face. turned to-
ward the drummer and again shouted .-,s
order for music
But stiH the drum remained as mute
as the harp of Tara Hall fame
Infatuated AT this open disobedienCe of
orders and In the presence OF his COM
handing officer. too. the colonel rode
down the line. and as he reached the re-
fraCtory drummer. cried OUT
say, Smith. what in -- and - do
you mean by not beating that blaHkety-
blank drum
IL can't colonel. whispered Smith.
''The old drum is fun OF chickens, and
half Of 'em are for you.
The colonel paused but a moment bc-
fore he shouted so that the general and
the soldiers might hear:
"AI right Smith. but if YOU were too
sick to play the drum, why IN thunder
didn't you say sou
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II PEACEFULLY REPOSING on the
desk Of James A. Pollock is an
object lesson Of the fallibility of
human wisdom and the gUllibility Of
even bankers This object lesson is
about ten inches long and four inches
high 1t was once sold for $1,000,
marked down from $4,000" 1t was
represented to be of gold-but it
wasn't-and thereby hangs the tale.
A few years ago there was a pros
porous bank in an Idaho town. 1t did
a good business with merchants, stock
men, ranchers and mining men, and
the last named class was so plentiful
in the vicinity that the banker did not
become at all suspicious when a couple
of men dressed as miners came in to
him with a brick which they offered
for sale.
I'VE have been mining out in the
mountains" they said, "and this rep
resents our seasons cleanup. We need
the money right away. and so we are
willing to sell it at a discount for cash.
The brick is worth $4,000, but we viii
let you have it for $4,000"
The banker began to paTley with
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-12-08

ME FIRST successful experiments in
photographing the spectrum of light
ning-the divisions of color which
combine TO produce the white glare of the
lightning flash and offer the physicist his
opportunity to aualyze the elements that
compose it's announced in a circular
sent out by Professor E c. Pickering,
the director of the Harvard observatory.
The photographs were obtained at the
observatory last summer with the same
apparatus that Is used in phOtOgTaphing
she speCtra of the stars. consisting of
big eight-inch or eleven-inch telescope
with a camera at one end and a prism
at the other, the latter being placed in
front Of the objective lens So as to break
up The object photographed into parallel
bands Of color, which are seen I'm the
photograph by differences in degree of
black and white The effect will be ia
miliar 10 anyone who recalls the COlored
border produced by the pendant glass
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gold dust. He knew, however. that
the assays showed the gold to be al
most pure. So he paid the $4,000 and
the men disappeared
The banker sent the brick down to
Mccormick & Co. in Salt Lake to be
cashed- It was asssyed here. The
brick was Of brass. and the Idaho
banker was so informed. He thus
gained sadness and wisdom.
Mr.. Pollock secured the brick from
the bank for exhibition when the min
ing congress met in Salt Lake, and he
mas been its possessor ever since ex-
cept when practical jOkers have Dor
rowed it in usually futile attempts to
gold brick" their friends.
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spectrum of lightning is an achievement
that opens a new field of comparative
study. The photographs secured-thTee
of them taken in July by Mr.. J. H. Freese
of Harvard, and one by the same Observ-
er in September-include several flashes
and naturally suggested immediate COM
parisOn with the stars These compar-
isons are given at length in Professor
chickering's circular Briefly, it may be
said that the hydrogen lines are found
to be very much like those shown by the
speCtra of new stars. such, for exam
pie. as Nova Persei the discovery of
which by the Edinburgh astronomer, DR..
Anderson, is still fresh in the public
mind. The chief difference is that the
spectrum of Nova Persei shows dark
lines, proving the presence Of a solid
body. while the lines of the spectrum of
lightning, which Is simply a flash in the
sky, are all bright. Another interesting
comparison shows that the hydrogen
lines of "a lightning flash that Illuminated
the whole heavens correspond almost ex-
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prisms on old-fashiOned lamps Photo
graphic spectra. however. range only
from yellow to blue, the extreme colors,
violet at one end and red at the other,
as seen in the rainbow. which is the spec
trum of the sun, being impossible to re-
cord by the camera.
The scientific value Of these spectra
arises nom the fact that the various ele-
ments of the atmosphere, as we'll as the
various elements of intense heat, give off
different cOlOTs, by which they can be
differentiated. The element of hydro
gen, which is found in the spectra of
nearly all stars, produces a series of well
marked lines quite different from those
made by the element of iron, for example,
found i'm some but not all stellar spectra.
The photograph of a star spectrum is not
so much "a photograph of the star as Of
the luminous vapOr Immediately sur
rounding it, from which it is possible to
deduce the constitution of the burning
mass Of the star itself.
The successful phOtographing of the
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Omen Evenings.

McConahay-Sharp Jewelry Co,
Al West Second South.