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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-02-28
man listened to it all with the most
friendly and sympathetic interest.

man listened to it all with the most
friendly and sympathetic interest.
1t seemed like quaint, pleasant
dream when it was all over, the beau
tifu1 music, the walk home, the state
ly adieus of her courtly old escort.
She had enjoyed it, and SO, she felt
sure, had Mr.. Barlow, and now it
would be stored away as a pleasant
memory. Her friends laughingly
questioned her about it the next day,
but Hildegarde did not care to talk
much about it. After all, what was
there to say?
1t was several days before Hide
garde went into the little shop again.
She half dreaded "a return of the old,
taciturn, unfriendly manner. But no,
there was the greeting of real friend
| illness in the old mans smile.
"Can you step here moment, Miss
Hildegarde?'' he asked, when he had
tied up her small purchase of pens.
| Hildegarde followed him, wonder
| ing. The next moment, standing in
| the doorway of the adjoining back
| room, she gave q low exclamation.
| In the farthest corner furnished,
| dusty, and silent, stood a harp, it's
strings family cleaning in the after
noon sunlight.
! cit belonged to my little girl" said
Mr.. Barlow. 81 could never bring
myself to part with it, poor as I have
become, but I will lend it to you, if
you will accept the loan. Then you
can take lessons and perhaps become
the great musician, after ALL" His
| eyes twinkled kindly though there
was a-curious faltering in his voice, as
if the words cost him something.
| "Oh!" exclaimed Hildegarde breath
lessly. so, Mr.. Barlow!" Then the
tears came into her eyes, and she
could not say any more at all.
"There, there!" said the old man
quite cheerfully. ST am glad to let
you have it, and will take it around
tonight after I close the shop
need not tell how Hildegarde tried
| to tell her thanks, nor of the talk
she had with her mother when she
reached home that wonderful after
noon, nor what they all said to one
another in the coy sitting room
when Mr.. Barlow came around in
the twilight. But if Hildegarde
thinks she has more to be thankful
for than any one else in the world,
there is one person at least who will
never agree with her, and that is the
era bbedy man. For is there not al
| ways a corner for him in that pleas
ant sitting room, with the easiest of
| easy chairs, where Hildegarde brings
him tea that she has made herself,
and then plays for him in the long
evenings, just as the little maid, dead
SO long, used to do?
I do not know if Hi1degarde still
dreams of being a great musician,
but she is working hard, and Ap-Mor-
gan himself can give no greater pleas
ure to his crowded audiences than she
gives day after day to those who love
her, the pale mother, the dear old
crabbedy man, and the young people
who make up her circle of friends,
| of whom Archie Bale is still chief
And what is music for if not for this
Young People
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-02-28
UP TO THE PRESIDENT.
The Cuban Situation Calls for Inn
mediate Action on the Part
of MI. Roosevelt.

President Roosevelt owes it to him
self and to the country to manifest
his determination upon fair play and
humane dealing toward Cuba by exert
ing his utmost influence in behalf of a
sufficient reduction of tariff duties on
Cuban products to avert the disasters
now threatening that island, says the
ST. Louis Republic.
The high protectionists in the Fifty
seventh congress have made this &C.
ton imperative on the presidents
part. Either he must nowaccept their
distinct and most insolent challenge
to a test of strength, or he must con-
fess that when matters come to SO for
midable an issue he fears to oppose
the policies of that element in his
party.
Mr.. Roosevelt cannot yield to the
protectionists without stultifying him.
self He is on record a S being earnest
ly in favor of affording relief to Cuba
by a reduction of the tariff on Cuban
products. If he now lodges the logic
of the situation, weakening because
his own policy is attacked by pow
erful republican clique in congress.
the American people will be bitterly
y
ed on Mr.. Roosevelt as having the cour-
age of his convictions. They have been
confident of the unbending quality of
the Roosevelt backbone.
The president has it in his power to
avert the pitiful wronging of Cuba by
this government. The American peo-
pie will stand Loyalty by him if he is
resolved to keep the national honor
clean of the stain which will else be
placed upon it by the contemplated sin
against a helpless people. His infu-
ence as president will weigh heavily
on the protectionist clique if he is
brave enough to exert it in the open
and make bold fight on the Cuban
tariff reduction issue. He can brighten
the protectionists into rightful action.
The solemn pledge of the United States
governments for just dealing with Cuba
demands this action of the president
Mr.. Roosevelt's own utterances have
committed him to a course which
makes impossible a change of attitude
without qualification. The country
waits to hear from the president
What is his policy to-day with regard
to the keeping of>our word to Cuba?
ing passion to tatters because Gen.
Wood has ''lobbied" in behalf of tariff
concessions to Cuba he and his excited
colleagues have forgotten the issue
Has Wood told the truth? That's the
main question: Everything else is
froth. The average citizen does not
waste his time in splitting hairs. It
does not give him spasms to learn that
+ - = 49,
have been disregarded. If Gen. Wood
is right the country ought to know it.
If he is wrong the country ought to
know it. After the main question has
been decided the senate may have
some excuse for discussing the meth
DDS employed by Gen. Wood to make
the Cuban situation known to the
country.-Detroit Free Press.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-02-28
Drops European Professors.

The Chinese government has dis
missed all the European professors
from the imperial university. The
president, Mr.. Martin, has been of
fered a subordinate position. The
term university" has been largely a
misnomer. The instruction was
chiefly in languages and the ele-
mentary branches. The Chinese d.
rectors say that elementary schools
are more needed.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-02-28

not ashamed or the craODeOV man.
Mr.. Barlow had presented himself
at Hildegarde's home early and she
had taken him into the coy sitting
room, where her mother chatted with
him in her gentle, friendly way, while
the girl put the finishing touches to
her simple toilet. He had brought
with him a cluster of pale roses from
the little back garden that no one
ever saw but the occupants of the
house. These he offered to Hide
garde with the same old-fashioned
courtesy with which he afterward
took care of her light wrap, handed
her her fan, and folded her pro-
gramme.~ Its very stateliness was
delicately fiattering.
And in the intervals of the music
they talked. Somehow Hildegarde
found herself telling the crabbedy
man all about her ambitions and as
pirations, the girlish longings that
could not be realized because of the
want of means to bring them to pass.
She told him how she used to dream
of some day playing the harp herself
and perhaps becoming a great must
clan like Ap-Morgan. But harps were
so awfully expensive, and she might
well be content with the old piano
which Aunt Bee had given her when
she bought her new grand. She
could laugh frankly at the old dream
now, but tenderness in her voice
and her eyes revealed how much it
had been to her, And the crabbedy
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-02-28
Pure Accident.

Ascum-What's the matter with
jenkins?
Gobang-Met with an accident
while hunting.
"You don't say?''
eyes, he was hunting for trouble,
and he accidentally ran up against
ms.@Philadelphia Presss
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-02-28

Fifty years ago Henrik Ibsen was a
clerk in drug store.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1902-08-13
To See Underground Railroad.

A delegation of British engineers re-
Gently sailed for America to make a
thorough examination of the wonderful
underground railroad that is being built
under New York. 1t is said to be the
greatest engineering feat in the world.
The best all-round family medicine in the
world is the famous Hostetter's Stomach
Bitters. At no time during the past fifty
years has any other remedy been able
to take it's place as a cure for headache,
belching, flatulency, Indigestion, dyspep-
STA, constipation or biliousness. 1t there
fore commends itself to all sufferers who
want to get well again. One bottle will
convince you of it's value. Be sure to try
it. The genuine, with our Private Stamp
over the neck, is for sale by all drug
gists.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1902-08-13

or rob or burn, but there is the right to
change the law, and to change it in such
a way that all the paying shall not be
done by one side and all the receiving by
the other.
If the steel trust were taxed a sum
equal to the profits Ii pays on watered
stock, that would be an example.
1t would not be kline to those who are
trying to d to their millions, and might
even tend to shake the confidence of
capital" a bit.
But as to that, capital needs a little
Earring now n then. 1t comes to think
it is sacred otherwise.
The man with a million dollars has just
as many vested rights as the man who
works for a dollar a day, just as many,
no more, no less.
And the rights of one are no more
sacred thar the rights of the other.
Wealth robs poverty of its rights; it
rises in righteous wrath If poverty even
takes an equally legal retaliation.
When a man is on his back with the
fingers of the footpad at his throat he
sas City World.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1902-08-13
His Sight Threatened.

while p~icnicking last month my H.
year-old boy was poisoned by some weed
or plant says w. II. Dibble, of Sioux
City, Ia. 'He rubbed the poison off his
hands into his eyes and for awhile we
were afraid he would lose his sight. Fin
ally a ~neighbor recommended DeWitt's
Witch Hazel Salve. The first application
helped him and in a few days he was as
well as ever For skin diseases, cuts,
burns. scalds, wounds, insect bites, De-
Wits Witch Hazel Salve is sure cure.
Relieves piles at once. Beware of coun-
~terfeits. Brown Bros.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1902-08-13

TWO VIEWS OF THE TRUSTS.

There are two ways to look at the
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1902-08-13


trusts.
Just two ways, and that's all.
There are those in the trusts who look
out and those out of the trusts who loo
in.
They do not see the same thing.
This is the view of one out of the
trusts who looks in and tries to tell what
he sees in plain words, with none of the
patter of high finance to hide the truth:
Industrial OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, so cal
led-have one aim in view. That is to
make money; to make lots of money; to
pay interest on watered stock and on
promoters bonds.
To a an industry or a group of in
dustries worth a million dollars and make
them pay interest on that million and
another million, in the pockets of the
men who worked the deal-that is the
idea of the trust of today put into plain
terms.
There is a good deal of ak about
community of interest" destructive
competition harmony and d%irtribution.' >
and economy of management.
These are long words, and they sound
well. But in the end they mean just
one thing-that thing is money.
And who pays it? Those who are in
the trusts ring?
Don't ever think it.
Trusts are to get money from those
who are out and look in.
The process is never reversed, and when
trust magnates fleece each other-that
is, on a side bet-the aim of the trusts
is still the same.
The stel trust, to get down to facts, is
doing a little financial juggling, chang
ing preferred to common stock. ]. Pier
pont Morgan is waving his wand. For his
work his firm is to be paid ten million
dollars.
Who is to pay it?
Mr.. Carnegie, Mr.. Rockefeller and Mr..
Schwab?
Not a bit of 1t.
You, John Smith, when you buy your
pound of nails. will give your share. Tom
Brown across the street, wants some
wire netting. He chips in a little. Then
Charles White, next door, helps when he
buys a stove. and Black. your friend
when he puts In a furnace.
All the Smiths and Browns and Blacks
and Whites give their mite, and there
is ten millions.
In the end the expenses, the profits,
the stealings of every big CUISINES come
out of the people who buy the goods.
1t does not make any difference how
many long words are used, that is all
there is to it. When a trust makes a
miilion-dollar business pay interest on
two million capital. the man who buys
the product has to pay.
Now this Is not the doctrine of anar-
chy." and is not manifestation of social
unrest Neither is it a plea to pre-
JUDGE vested interests"
1T Is just hard, plain sense.
1t is something you all know only it is
usually stated In long words.
The difference between anarchy and
political economy in a good many cases
is a matter of one and six syllable
words.
The way to meet the trusts is to go al
them with their own game.
A trust of voters could do this easily.
1t is not right to break the law, to steal
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1902-08-13

ststed communications Of Winnemucca Lodge
NO.. ~, y A. NJ, will be held at their hall In
me silver state block until further notice at
l:30p. m. on the first Saturday evening of each
month. All Master MasOns In good standing
Ar" cordially invited to attend.
w. A. BROWN, W. M.
CHRIS WOLF Secretary
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1902-08-13
Saloon for Sale.

l OFFER THE SILVER STATE SA-
loon, building and lot, bar fixtures, fur
niture and complete stock of goods for
sale. Apply to
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1902-08-13

The Lodge meets at their hall in "Silver State"
building on the first and third Tuesdays of every
month at 2 p. m. Sojourninp members In gOoc
standing are invited to attend.
j. W. GUTHRIE M. w.
g.. \. MULLER, Financler.
JOS. ROUGON. Recorder.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1902-08-13
WEATHER BUREAU REPORT.

US. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.
W~INNEMUCCA STATION, Aug IL, 1902.
Conditions of weather for the "A hours ending
JPN, 18th meridian time or 500 Pm. local
time.
Mean barometer, 1884
Maximum temperature, n degrees.
Minimum temperature SO above zero.
Mean temperature, GA degrees.
Normal temperature, 70 degrees.
Prevailing wind-direction S.W.
Precipitation for "a hours T. inches
Min. temperature. Aug 13, a above zero.
J. C. HAYDEN.
Observer Weather Bureau.
WEATHER FORECAST.
Cloudy tonight and Thursday.
McADIE.
Idaho Springs siftings., 1902-12-13
HOW JERRY STRUCK
The Story cs A Lost Cause
The Story ce A Lost Cause

whom Mrs. Ryan had expected to
wash that day had been called out
of the city and there was nothing for
Mrs. Ryan to do but return home.
Much as she needed the money she
was still almost glad of it, for it would
give her a chance to make Jerry
big plate of cookies with raisins in
them.
AS she put her hand on the knob
she suddenly paused. Then one ear
was laid cautiously to the keyhole.
Saints alive! Was she a-standin' or a
settin'?
Now listen, all youse kids" a voice
was saying in tones which were un-
mistakably those of her offspring.
Who's a-leadin' this yer strike? Did
MT git up the hull thing? If the rest
of youse kids wants ter go there and
be jawed by the old lady Kennedy, ye
kin. AS fer me"-and Jerry's voice
fairly ratified the windows-"I'm
agoin' ter strike. l dunno as l will
ever go to school ag'in. And if any
kid dares to peach"
Swifter than Mont Pelee and almost
as deadly the Wrath of Mrs. Ryan fell
upon Jerry. Her strong right arm
had not been weakened by it's years
of contact with the washboard. Up
and down, sideways and back, Jerry's
body dangled between the ceiling and
the floor.
Stroke, air ye! Dump! BumpD
Oi1l larn ye (Whack! WhackD to dis
grace yer pore old mar what's a-slav-
in day and night fer yez!" And his
irate parent jabbed him into chair
in bis body.
It was not until Jerry saw that his
Idaho Springs siftings., 1902-12-13
Brave Engineer Saves Lives.

Twenty-four Lancashire miners owe
their lives to an engineers gallant de-
votion to duty while in the throes of
death. The men were being lowered
down the Tyldesley coal pit the other
day, when the engineer, Scott, was
seized with sudden dizziness. His
whole thought, however, was for the
safety of the men in the descending
cage. By supreme effort he applied
the brake and stopped the engine.
thus saving the men from being
dashed to the bottom of the shaft.
This accomplished he fell back and
lied in a few minutes.
Idaho Springs siftings., 1902-12-13
Tibet's Mysterious citv.

Sarat Chandra Das, a learned native
OF India, who visited Lhasa, capital of
Tibet, in 1882, thus describes that
mysterious and forbidden city: THE
whole city stood displayed before us
at the end of an avenue of gnarled
trees, the rays of the setting sun fall
ing on its glided domes. 1t was a
superb sight, tho like of which have
never seen. On our left was Potala.
with its lofty buildings and gilt roofs; |;
before us, surrounded by a green
meadow, lay the town, with its tower
like, whitewashed houses and Chinese
buildings with roofs of blue glazed
tiles. Long festoons of inscribed and
painted rags hung from one building
to the other waving in the breeze"
Idaho Springs siftings., 1902-12-13
Claim Motto Is Welsh.

"Ich dien," the motto which belongs
to the Prince of Wales, is usually
translated Il serve and tradition has
it that it was taken by the black
prince from the royal helmet of the
blind king of Bohemian who was killed
on the field of Crecy. 1t is a notable
fact, however. that the late DR.. Will
liam lime, professor of English litera-
ture at Heidelberg. rejected this
theory. He held that the motto was
of Welsh origin and took its rise at
the time when Edward l presented his
newborn eldest son to the Welsh
chieftains at Carnarban castle as their
future sovereign. He held the child
up in his arms and exclaimed in
Welsh. "Eich dyn," meaning "This is
your man." The explanation is ac.
cepted by many antiquarians.
Idaho Springs siftings., 1902-12-13
Actress Murdered bx Lover.

The celebrated Russian prima DON
na' Theodore Enmova, was recently
murdered on the stage at Kaluga, in
Russia, by a rejected lover, Count
Paul Kremervic. The assassin had
pestered the actress with his atten-
tions for many weeks, having follow
ed her from town to town, and al,
ways being repulsed. One night at
kaluga he took box in tho theater,
and when the prima donna was sing
ing love sing, shot her through the
heart. She fell dead before her hor-
rifed audience. The murderer, who
is only eighteen years old, has been
arrested. The dead artist was thirty,
and had amassed large fortune.
Idaho Springs siftings., 1902-12-13
Snake in Paris Cab.

While lady was seated in a cab
in the Ternes quarter of Paris the
other day she suddenly gave utterance
to a succession of piercing shrieks.
The cabman Immediately stopped and
inquired what was the matter The
lady, who was extremely pale, jumped
out of the cab and pointed to where
an enormous boa constructor reared
its ugly head from beneath the seat.
The cabman took the reptile to the
commissioner of police, and investiga-
tion showed that it had been left in
the vehicle by the proprietor of me
nagerie who had hirec the cab earlier
in the morning.
Idaho Springs siftings., 1902-12-13

one didn't strike because ones teacher
wasn't removed. Then it was that
Jerry had his thought.
When his mother came in from her
days washing she was surprised to
find Jerry industriously studying his
geography lesson. A pleasant smile
lighted up her tired face, for it must
be admitted that Jerry's career at
school had not been the cause of much
pride on the part of either herself
or his teachers.
Behind his geography Jerry worked
away. The man of Asia stared him in
the face. but Jerry saw it not. Nu-
merous slips of paper lay 15ffere him
Idaho Springs siftings., 1902-12-13
STRIKE, STRIKEi
Wensday.
DOWN with 4-eyed KENNEDY!

The next morning group of eXclt-
ed children gathered around Jerry. He
displayed his wonderful blue tickets
to the admiring, not to say envious,
gaze of all and disclosed his plan.
1t was received with vocrerous ap-
plause. 1t was a proud moment for
Jerry. Never since the day he had
punched Mike Dougan's face, the rec
ognized "champeen" fighter of the
neighborhood, had his bosom so
swelled with pride.
Jerry suggested that as his mother
went to work at o'clock every morn
ing. all the children should meet in
his kitchen half an hour later. There
they would form in line and march
past the sehoolhouse, giving their yell.
Jerry had wrestled with this yell until
far into the night, and he fairly tin
gled with satisfaction as he repeated
it over and over until each one knew
It,
"Strikel Strike! We're on strike!
It's four-eyed Kennedy we don't
like
Bim-bam-bout!
Put her out,
Out! Out OUT, out!"
The long day passed, as all days
will, and at $3.50 o'clock the next
morning three small boys marched
boldly into the alley which led to the
Ryan shanty. Jerry had expected
thirty or more and for a moment his
heart was heavy. Only for moment,
though, for he remembered that Miss
Kennedy had said that all great re-
formers had had to stand alone at the
start.
Now, it happened that the lady for
Idaho Springs siftings., 1902-12-13
Chinese Government ADVANCING,

The Chinese imperial government
has taken another step in advance by
appointing a Japanese scholar of dis
tinction, DR.. Unokichi Hattori, to a
professorship in Pekin university. The
doctor was in that city during the
siege. He is to be dean of the school
of literature. The appointment is a
sequel of the visit of the famous Chi
nese educator, WI Ju-lun, to Toxic 10
familiarize himself with Japanese edu-
cational methods.
Idaho Springs siftings., 1902-12-13

dancing that was done by the others,
for she smiled and clapped her hands
whenever a particularly loud yell was
uttered or a difficult gymnastic feat
performed.
The girl who stood next to her was
rather tall and very pretty. Next in
line was the slender girl; then the
woman with the guitar and at the foot
of the line was an attractive looking
brunette.
Praise the Lord. feel so good that
l wouldn't give up religion if l was
threatened with eternal damnation for
keeping i'll" exclaimed the slender
girl. Then she smiled happily at the
crowd and began dancing.
I'VE will all feel better when we
repent" sang the tall, pretty girl, and
the others joined her in the song. The
woman with the guitar moved her lips
and worked her fingers. but no sign
of tune came from the instrument.
"Whe-ew!" suddenly shrieked the
brunette. "oh, it's such a pleasure to
know your soul is savedi"
Yes, and the Lord gives you that
feeling" said one of the others.
The brunette's shout brought in a
batch of about fifty additional specta-
tors. She smiled as she saw them
running toward the gathering, and
then said;
Come on. Come from all sides. We
want you to hear us, for the Lord
wants your souls," At this juncture
the little woman in black knelt down
and began praying. The crowd lis
tened in respectful silence, half a
Idaho Springs siftings., 1902-12-13
MANY OFFERS OF MARRIAGE.
Twenty-Five Thousand Black Maidens
for Paul du ChaiIIu

iOT raul uu OhdllIu.
M. Paul du Chaillu, the African ex-
plorer, is in st. Petersburg to study
Russian life and intends remaining
in the country some years with a view
of eventually describing his expert
ences in a book. He was honored
with an audience of the czar, who ac-
cepted fifteen volumes of his various
works of travel
Lecturing in the hall of the British
American church, before an audience
of members of the English colony
here, M. du Chaillu related that dur
ing his sojourn in West Africa he re-
ceived about $4,000 offers of marriage.
On single day he was offered 753
brides by some black king He got
out of the difficulty by telling the king
that if he married one the remaining
752 would be Jealous. His Majesty
agreed with him and invited him to
marry all of them