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Omaha daily bee., 1902-05-27
TWO KILLED BY EXPLOSION
Engineer and Assistant Meet Instant
Death by Bursting of boiler
in Houston.

HOUSTON, Tex, May 26.-Eariy today a
boiler exploded at the home Of the mil
lioaaire. John H. Kirby, where private
thestsr and natatorium. we're being built
Engineer Harry WOOdard Of Memphis and
Assistant Charles Coughlin we're instantly
killed.
The end Of the boiler went through
section Of the Kirby residence and the
Sleeplng inmates narrowly escaped death,
Omaha daily bee., 1902-05-27
CONDITION OF THE WEATHER
TemperRture a. omaha Yesterdav,

Forecast for Nebraska-Fair and Warmer
Tuesday; Wednesday Fair, Warmer in
East Portion.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-05-27
Boers Surrender.

PRETORIA, May 2s.-Forty-six Beers.
with their wagons and cattle, surrendered
at Balmoral, Trancvsal. yesterday.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-04-25
Precedent.

A clever answer in court was that
given to Chief Justice Coleridge years
ago, when he was defending lady
who had become sister of mercy and
was expelled from the convent for
refusing to obey rules.
She had brought an action for ex-
pulsion and libel. In the course of
the trial Coleridge assumed that
breaches of discipline are trivial, con-
temptible, and should never be no.
ticed.
''What has Miss Sawin done?" he
asked Mrs. Kennedy, mistress of
noyices.
"Well," said the lady, ''she has, for
example, eaten Strawberries
Eaten Strawberries? What harm is
there in that?"
cit was forbidden, sir" said Mrs.
Kennedy.
"But, Mrs. Kennedy, what trouble
was likely to come from eating straw
berries?''
"Well, sir,'' said Mrs. Kennedy, "you
might as well ask what trouble was
likely to come from eating an apple;
and yet we know what trouble did
come from it's
That closed the discussion.-Youth's
Companion.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-04-25
CONDEMNED IN MISSOURI AMI
C0NFISCATED IN
NEW YORK.

Judge Clarke of st. Louis has con-
victed and fined heavily number Of
grocers for selling baking powders
containing alum.
The week before the Health Depart
ment Of New York seized q quantity
of stuff being sold for baking powder
which they found was made from alum
mixed with ground rock, and dumped
it into the river.
The Health Authorities are thus tax.
ing effective means to prevent the in
PRODUCTION into our markets Of in
furious substitutes in place of whole
some baking powders.
As alum costs only two cents q
pound, there is a great temptation for
those manufacturers who make sub
stitutes and imitation goods to use it.
Alum baking powders can be detected
by the health authorities by chemical
analysis, but the ordinary housekeep-
er. whose assistance in protecting the
health of the people is important. can
not make chemical examinat ton. She
may easily know the alum powders,
however, from the fact that they are
sold at from ten to twenty cents for q
pound can, or that some prize-like
ePOOH, VI grass, OI piece VI cIOShCEyB
or wooden ware-is given with the
powder as an inducement.
As the people continue to realize the
Importance of this subject and con-.
sumers insist on having baking powder
of established name and character,
and as the health authorities continue.
their vigorous crusades, the alum
danger will, it is hoped, finally be
| driven from our homes.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-04-25
ORIGINAL SURGICAL METHODS.
Diseased Bone in the Shin In Success
fully Replaced with o Great
Toe Joint.

Among originalities of surgery, de-
scribed at the sessions of the thirty
first congress of the German Chirurg-
ical association at Berlin, was tkScase
Of DIR. Tietze of Breslau, who, having
removed a section OF diseased bone
from a women's shin, pieced it with
joint from her great toe, thus prevent
ing lameness.
DIR. Roth, of Lubbock, gave demon
stration of an appliance for admins
tering oxygen with chloroform,- rem
dering it possible to anesthetize weak
hearted persons Other surgeons con-
frmed the excellent results of mixing
oxygen with chloroform.
DR.. Reerink, of Freiburg, described
successful operations on animals by
patching stomachs with pieces of in
testines.
Sixsurgeon Germans and two
Frenchmen-reported to the congress
the discovery of the cancer bacillus.
AS each report was quite different
from the others and as none of these
doctors satisfactorily demonstrated
their discoveries, not much confidence
was felt by the examining committee.
Many experiments as to the origin Of
cancer are going on.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-04-25
MIDDLE AGE.

The thoughts of middle age will cling
like tendrils to the past,
And we Hurmer that the early days had
not been made to last,
When our children still were children,
and their darling baby ways
Had chased, we think, all dullness from
those half-remembered days.
Our boys have grown to mans estate,
our girl is twenty-one,
Our nursery is bedroom now, and all
things have gone
Which recalled the merry riot and the
soon-forgoten tears
Which the nursery walls had witnessed
in those half-remembered years.
All the past is silver-spangled to the eyes
of fifty-one,
Like the distant Alpine snowfields as
they glitter in the sun,
When the valleys lie in silver mist, when
silver mists enfold
What we choose not to remember in the
distant days of old.
There's a golden-gleaming future, but so
far away it seems
That we dread the nearer darkness and
distrust the distant CLEANS;
But the distant gold is better than the
distant silver past,
For the gold is Gods own sunshine which
shall through the ages last.
&C. J. Boden, in Chambers Journal.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-04-25
al Want Everyone to Know How
Completely 1t Cures Indigestion

From the Leeds Saturday Journal.
This shows the unselfish disposition of Mr..
Hodge,of Orchard Grove, 1ppleden, New
ton Abbott, who, having been cured by
Vogeler's Compound, wishes every other
sufferer to know of the benefit he has re-
ceived from this marvellous remedy. He
telles his story as follows:
Gentlemen find Vogeler's Compound a
remedy above all others; for about this time
last year was in thorough bad state of
health, and could hardly drag one leg after
the other. / had tried dozens of remedies
advertised to cure Indigestion and all ita
attendant evils, but was rapidly going from
bad to worse, when had the good fortune
to be recommended to take Vogeler's Com
pound. I did SO without much faith, and
am thankful to say it made a new man OF
me. ! should like other people to know ita
virtues and how completely it knocks I'M
der the worst forms of indigestion and dye
pepsia.-(Signed.) George II. Hodge.
Vogeler's Compound is the grandest rem,
edy of the century for all stomach disorders
and liver and kidney troubles in both men
and women. 1t is sold in 25c. and SOC. sizes
by all medicine dealers, and free sample.
of liberal size will be sent to any address IN
the country. 1t is made by the proprietors
of st. Jacobs Oil, Baltimore, from the for
nula of one of the most eminent living ply.
sicians.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-04-25
The Best Kansas News.
wouldn,t Give Them Up.

Gov. Stanley pondered several days
over a requisition he received from
the governor of Missouri. Last De-
cember M. Castleberry, o. Household
er and A. Turney, respectable citi-
zens of Crawford county, pursued a
thief over into Missouri, and arrest
ed him at Webb City. They had no
requisition for the man, and it is
charged that they forcibly compelled
him to return with them to Kansas,
committing what is known under the
law as the crime of kidnapping. When
the thief was placed on trial he was
found guilty and sentenced to the
penitentiary. In the meantime, how
ever, the Missouri authorities got
out warrants for the three Kansas
men and caused their arrest and then
applied to Gov. Stanley with a requi-
sition from the governor of Missouri
for permission to remove them. 1t
was not denied that technically they
are guilty, but Gov. Stanley asked
himself whether in common justice
three good citizens of Kansas should
be turned over for punishment when
their crime was really a service in
the cause of law enforcement. He
refused the requisition.-Kansa City
Journal
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-04-25
Carried Millions ON His Back.

When Baron Rothschild was paying
visit to New York reception was
giver him in certain great house.
The affair was in charge of Brown,
the famous old sexton of Grace
church. Another reception was being
held the same evening in a house al
most Immediately opposite, which
was also in charge of the sexton. The
baron wished to attend the second
affair, but the street was full of mud,
the night was disagreeable and no
carriage was at the curbstone. He
could not walk across without soiling
his boots and evening clothes, and
for the moment he was in a predica-
ment as to what he should do. But
he.was soon relieved of this dilemma.
"I'n carry you across myself said
Brown jovially; "now, mount my
shoulders" and grasping him as if he
had been child he carried the noble
man across on his back.-Ladies'
Home Journal.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-04-25
Don't Agree with Bailey.

Recently the farmers of Kansas
were warned by w. J. Bailey, of Ne
maha county, against using for seed
the corn grown in Kansas last season.
Mr.. Bailey said that he had raised
1000 bushels of corn, but that the
tassel on all the stalks in his fields
had been killed by dry weather, and
that experiments made by himself
showed that corn from this kind of
stalks would not grow. But now
comes Prof. Popenoe, of the state ag-
ricultural college, who says that Bal
ley is mistaken; that if the tassels on
his corn had really been destroyed,
the fields would have produced no
corn at all. The kernels cannot "set''
until pollen from the tassels reaches
the silk which leads to- them.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-04-25
Il Nasty Practice.

A nasty practice is what the Chicago
Inter Ocean calls the FASTING of. repeated
layers OF wall paper, one upon another, thus
covering up the filth and germs of disease
that may be -propagated in the very abb
paper, animal glue, colors, etc.
They give opinions of eminent health of.
fcers and sanitarians, urging that such
practice should be stopped by legal enact
these sanitarians recommend Alabastins
as a durable, pure and sanitary coating for
walls.
The Inter Ocean says: eThis is a very
Important question. and, as it costs moth
ing to avoid this danger, why take any
chances?"
How much of the alarming spread Of
smallpox and other diseases may Be due to
unsanitary wall coveringss
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-04-25
The Shortest Kan.a. Railroad.

I. ID. Woodford, of Westmoreland,
is superintendent of the shortest roll
road in Kansas-the Kansas youth
ern, which extends from Westmore-
land to Blaine, eight miles. One en-
CINE and less than half dozen cars
constitute the entire rolling stock
of the road, and half a dozen men the
entire operating force, yet it does a
good business the year round, and is
making money. Mr.. Woodford fire.
quently acts as conductor on his
road. 1t is expected that the road
will some day be extended southwark
to the southern line of Kansas.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-04-25
Took Half His Mustache.

The authorities of Paramount col
lege and the Friends university at
Wichita are worked up to a high
pitch of excitement over indignities
offered a professor of the former
institution by students of the latter.
Prof. G. I. Gavitt, of Fairmount, was
escorting a young woman from the
Friends university to an entertain
ment when he was met by a party
of university students, who sheared
off the right side Of his mustache.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-04-25
Miniature Volcano.

A miniature volcano has been
found on the Winkler farm, north of
Robinson, Brown county. A few
years ago there was an explosion
on the Winkler farm. When the
cause was investigated it was found
that piece of ground 40 feet square
and two feet deep had been thrown
up. Several hogs feeding near by
were buried in the earth and had to
be dug out. A spring of water was
running from the excavation where
no spring had before appeared. At
times the water from the spring is
warm.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-04-25

N SOrry, my idd, out you III nave
to go this time said the old man re-
gretfully. The firm would have
looked pretty fools if Waters had not
detected the mistakes in this balance
sheet. Your bungEng, itsn't it?" and
| he pointed to a serious blunder in a
sheet of typewriter figures.
eyes, sir, it isl answered Austin
on the instant. AS a matter of fact,
it was not his work at all, but Dinah's,
! as he very well knew. 81 viii go to-
night, sir, and thank you for bearing
| with me so long"
He came back alone that evening to
finish the work he was engaged up
on. Then he went into Dinah's little
room, uncovered the typewriter and
pressed his lips lingeringly to the
keys that her slim fingers had
touched.
"Geod-by, Dinah, darling" he said
aloud. '.I'll take this little handker-
chief you've left behind. It is sweet
and soft and delicate, like it's owner.
Good-by, dear!'
There was sudden slight tap on
the window. Startled, Austin looked
up, and caught a glimpse of a rosy,
1t disappeared in trfce, but he
rushed to the door and unlocked it
with trembling fingers.
"You had locked the door," she
said, land I could not get in. I have
just recollected a glaring blunder I
made in the balance sheet, and have
come to set it right before uncle
learns of it"
"You are too late. Miss Cotsford.
He has seen it. But have no fear for
your professional reputation" he
| continued laughingly, as the girl ut
tered a little cry of horror. 81 have
sacrificed my own to save it. Mr..
Cotsford thinks that am the sinner,
and is going to try to run the bust
| ness without me in future"
"How foolish of you'll" she said. cit
will not take me a minute, though,
to persuade uncle to reinstate you.
| He likes you" naively. "But perhaps
you are tired of your chains and are
glad of an opportunity of regaining
your freedom"
The blood in the mans veins quick
| cned its course to a mad triumphant
| 1eaping. She loved him-her wistful
eyes, her quivering lips, her swelling
| throat all helped to betray her close
| kept secret.
''Dinah,'' he said, manfully using
| her Christian name, 81 have all along
| been taking the firms money under
false pretenses. I never did a stroke
| OF work before I came here-simply
because, as you guessed, I never had
| need to. But I was sick of my idle
life and wanted to get away from the
everlasting treadmill. So I shut my
eyes and stuck a pin into a map of
| England, and the point went through
| Kingsbrigg. I came down here and
met you on the river bank and fell
| in love with you right away.
''That, in plain words, is my story.
I have been scamp, I know, but a
| fault confessed is half-redressed,
| they say. Have I your permission to
kiss you now, Dinah?"
81 shall begin to think soon," she
whispered, dimpling into coy, mis-
chieyous laughter, that you prefer
talking to kissing, tin!'-London
| Telegraph.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-04-25
A Practical Test.

Flossie-Psychology! I'm disap-
pointed with it-every bit of me.
Hypatia-Of course. it has not yet
solved all our difficulties but
But what's the use of it? Here am
I with two men wanting to marry me;
and I want to marry one of them.
and which it is goodness only knows
And the book doesn't help in the
least. Life.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-04-25
Doing a Great work.

Twenty-Five young men were pa
rolled from the Hutchinson refoma-
tory in a body the other day. In
mates of this institution are not SEN
fenced for a definite time. They
are there on good behavior, and when
in the Judgment of the board of con-
troll they are fit to go out into life,
they are given provisional liberty
which ends without process of law
in case of bad behavior. The institu-
ton is doing great work, particular
ly in teaching boys a trade.-Kansas
CITY Journal.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-04-25
Impersonated Hi. Brother.

James Henry Mccarthy, who for
the last 80 years has drawn a pension
under the name of John j. Mccarthy,
pleaded guilty in federal court at To-
peka of presenting a false claim for
a pension, and was sentenced to two
years at hard labor in the military
prison~ at Leavenworth. Mccarthy
is over go years of age, and was de-
serter from the federal army.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-04-25
Curtis, the Seed Distributor.

Representative Charles Curtis has
in all probability sent out more con-
gressional garden seeds to his state
than any other member in congress.
In addition to the regular congress
sional allotment of some $4,000 pack
ages, Mr.. Curtis has obtained nearly
100000 extra packages. These were
secured by exchanging public docu-
ments and favors otherwise with con-
gressmen who have a city constit-
uency.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-04-25
Kearnx COUNTY Must Pax.

The federal court decided in favor
of eastern bondholders against
Kearny county. Years ago a county
seat war existed between Lakin and
Hartland and $450,OOO in bonds were
voted to secure money to employ men
to work the roads and become resi-
dents long enough to vote for one
or the other of the towns. The coun-
ty afterwards attempted to repudiate
the debt,
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-04-25
Were Wed in a Hospital.

Paul Noble, a young man employed
in the Offices of the Frisco road at
Wichita, was taken to a hospital a
few days ago for an operation for
appendicitis. His fiancee, Miss Clara
Hines, of Kinsley, went there to nurse
him and they were married in the
hospital. The wedding had been ar
ranged for June.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-04-25
The Modern ver.ron.

where are you going, my pretty maid 90
MAY l go with you, my pretty maids"
Yes, if you like, kind sir, she said.
She led him away to the ping-pong net,
and then came an hour he'll never forget,
for his shoulders ache from the many stoops
to pick up the balls, and his eyelid droops,
where she smote him twice with her racket
small, which left her hand as she struck
the ball, and he'll never ping when she
pongs again, for she heard him swear when
she pinged him then.-Baltimore American
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-04-25
EIGHTY ON the Black List.

Since the supreme court upheld
the constitutionality of the medical
registration law the members of the
medical board propose to go after I'M
registered doctors rough shod. 1t
has a list of about 80 in the state
and unless they shake the dust of
Kansas from their feet it will begin
a wholesale prosecution of them.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-04-25
No Provision for Cinnamon.

DIR. Andrew WI, Chinese doctor of
Topeka. appealed to the state med
ical board and to Gov. Stanley not
to modest him. Chinese practice med
icine differently from American doc
tors and the legislature made no Chi
nese provision in its law.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-04-25
An Agreeable Sunrise.

Bank Commissioner Albaugh says
the latest reports from Kansas state
banks show a decrease of deposits
of 100000 over the report three
months ago. This, he thinks, is a
phenomenal statement. He expected
the reports to show a big falling off
in deposits ON account of the farmers
having to buy feed for their stock
this winter.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-04-25
Cheap Telephone Service.

Members of the Lukens family Hv-
ing south of Beloit, have their homes
connected by means of barbed wire
fence telephone. Four telephones
are in operation, the length of the
line being five miles; all of it barbed
wire with the exception of half a
mile, where smooth wire is strung.
The line cost each one of the four
$3.50.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-04-25
Arranging a ssFarmers, Day"

The Ottawa Chautauqua is arrang-
ing for Farmers Day" on Wednes-
day, July 16, and is trying to secure
Secretary F. D. Coburn, of the state
board of agriculture, and Secretary
Wilson. of the United States depart
ment of agriculture, as speakers.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-04-25
Bt.hop for western Kansas.

The house of Episcopal bishops Sc
lected Nathaniel Seymour Thomas,
son of the late Bishop Thomas, of
Kansas, as bishop for the western
Kansas district with headquarters at
Salina. DR.. Thomas is rector of a
church in Philadelphia.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-04-25
Ended a Long Contest.

Congressman Bowersock Endorsed
q. s. Sartin for postmaster at Kan
sas City, the largest office in the
state. Sartin is the law partner of
E. A. Enright, candidate for gov
ernor on the republican ticket.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-04-25
BOON fer Rev. .. ID. Betkin.

James N. Allen, a populist of Cha
mute, is asking for contributions for
a 81. 600 campaign fund for Rev. J. d.
Botkin for governor. Botkin was
formerly congressman-at-larg ane
is now a Methodist evangelist.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-04-25
Prof. CottreII Resfens.

HenryM. Cottren, professor of ag-
riculture in the Kansas state agri-
cultural college, has resigned and
VIII take the superintendency of
vrooman's 1RusIin college" farm at
Trenton, No.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-04-25
Mfssfnr from, Altamont.

eral days ago to enter Kansas City
(Mo.) hospital for treatment. but
he was not received at any hospital
nor has he been heard from.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-04-25
Probab1y the Meanest Man.

]. w. McNinch, of Willard, pleaded
guilty in federal court to sending
obscene photographs of his wife
through the mails, and was sentenced
to Is months in the penitentiary.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-04-25
His Risibilities TickIea.

1T was right funny" stated the chef Of
the cannibal king. at was right funny to
hear that cook we captured last week tell
ing Us how to prepare soup stock 1t made
me think of lobster giving lectures before
the chatting dish party began.
And then he graysiy swallowed pepsin
pill that had been left by the piece de re-
sistance of a wedding breakfast-Judge.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-04-25
Smashed a Slot Machine.

Mrs. John Carey. Of Armourdaie,
smashed a slot machine in the cigar
store of e. ". Brown. Mrs. Carey's
son had been losing money playing
the machine.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-04-25
For overmyer and Resubmissfon.

Shawnee county democrats elected
delegates to the state convention
pledged to David Overmyer for gov
ernor and to make resubmission the
leading issue.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-04-25
Good Work by warden Jewett.

Warden Jewett, of the Kansas pen
itentiary, has just completed the set
ting out of a large apple and peach
orchard on the old prison farm.
Within the last two weeks 600 apple
trees and 1000 peach trees have been
planted. The planting was done by
convicts. Large trees were purchased
so as to bring the new orchard into
bearing as soon as possible.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-04-25
The Partner Pleaded Guilty.

The dead body of George Crowley,
junk dealer of Council Grove, was
found floating in the Neosho river
five miles northeast of Emporia. At
the coroner's inquest it was judged
that he was killed by a blow on the
head, presumably with a club. Crow
ley's partner, George Dumpoope, was
arrested and pleaded guilty.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-04-25

he sneers at things as they are, withoua
helping to make them as they should be-