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The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1902-02-15
The senate's Snuff Box.
Washington Post.

-
There was a great alarm in the
senate chamber when the ancient
snuff box seemed to be missing.
Inquiry, however, showed that it
had only been taken out to be fill
ed, and was soon again in its ac-
customed place.
No one knows how many years
that snuff box has rested in its
little niche on the right of the pre-
siding officers desk. Senator AL
lison has been in the senate near
~ 80 years, and it was there be-
fore he came. Tradition has it
that Clay and Calhoun and Benton
and all Of the worthy snuff takers
of the distant pEst used the now
historic Box. 1t is still kept filed,
but the atmosphere of the senate
chamber is so dry that the snuff
has to be dampened twice or three
times a week to keep the fne par
ticleS from permeating the air and
causing an epidemic of sneezing.
Verv few of the senators nSe the
snuff box nowadays. Occasional
Iy, when one of the septuagenar-
iaus has 4 cold in the head, he
takes & pinch, but otherwise the
little receptacle remains undisturb-
ed.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1902-02-15
Criticising William.

Washington, D. C.-There is
disposition here to sharply criticise
Emperor William for his announc-
ed purpose to dispatch Prince
Henry to the United States, no
matter what the result of the i'll
ness of Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.,
may be-
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1902-02-15
"PAD's" FINGER VALET.

Paderewski keeps valet whose
principal occupation is to rub the
great pianist's fingers at stated
times, to knesd the palms of his
hands and to crack his knuckles.
Before stepping on a platform to
play a solo he pluges his hands
into hot water and keeps them as
long as the pain will let him.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1902-02-15
To Change Inauguration Day.

Washington, D. C.-The Sen
ste voted to-day to changeIinaugur-
alton day to the last Thursday in
April.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1902-02-15

The ENTHUSIASTICALLY Chalk
isn't a bit of use" sueered the girl
who danced "Indeed he is, then, ,"
said the 6pstsss ;stshe has been sit
ting therShiaipg the scar in the
sofa all eseh4Rg, = ! y Chicago Daily
-Ced sas alC .2E
N6HS' HifIGG s
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1902-02-15
no CURR AI0I6i5 IN ONE DAY

Take Laxative BTpano- Quinine Tablets.
All druggiSts refund. the money if it
fails to curSs D. W. Groves signature
on each bex, sls95e+
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-02

dismal station where a tiresome wait
was made Tor the train that covered the
last stage of the little journey that made
the country beyond it seem uncommon
ly lovely. But for whatever reason the
panorama that unrolled itself as the
train swept on was of varied and ex-
quisite beauty. THE country around
Baileyville,'' the master of Baileyville
was to say later with that pardona Bile
pride in his home which is SO charac-
teristically American, cant be beat
any place. There's no better county
than Nemaha." And even making al
lowances for his natural prejudices in
it's favor you were bound to admit that
the prospect was exceeding fair. The
cornfields stretch as far as eye can
reach the glossy green blades of the
lusty young stalks cleaning in the bril-
liant Kansas sunshine, and you don't
need to be much of farmer to tell
that it is phenomenal corn. Almost no
small grain is raised in Nemaha county.
its big crop is corn. For an area %
miles square around Baileyville is just
a huge cornfield except for a little
meadowland and the broad pastures
where the cattle Craze. The field daisies,
the black-eyed Susans, the yellow fronds of
SONS of the iron weed splash with color
railroad track. Country roads, every
one an inviting promise of fresh charms
over the crest of this hill or in the
shadows of that ravine wind graceful
ly away, streaks of tawny dust in the
distance. Here and there they crossed
bridges over brown streams fringed
with timber where the unitarian yeo-
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the busiest little spots on the map.
Mr.. Bailey?" repeats the station
agent. HE just got off this train. l
think you'll find him at the postofice."
He politely leaves his work and accom-
panies you to the postoffice. something
less than a stones throw away and
there he indicates a tall, broad shoulder
ed, heavy young man sufficiently like
necessary. The man wears blue serge
clothes and new straw hat He is
thoroughly Drowned by the Kansas
wind and the Kansas sun, but he is not
the typical Kansas farmer in appear
ance; more like country town lawyer.
He looks about 35 although everyone
knows he is At because his position is
such that he can't keep those little de-
tails secret. 1t is said that he some
times shows his years, but that must be
in the hurry and stress of public life.
because at home, in Baileyville, he's as
young as any boy. He greets you with
the hearty manner SO free from insln-
certify or pretense that has made and
kept him friends that count.
If you think that Bai1eyvi1le is moth
ing but a railway station and the Bailey
farm you are wofully ignorant of the
geography of your state. Baileyv1lle
has 225 people, bank, an elevator,
which in the busy season handles from
eight to nine thousand bushels of corn
daily, a general store or two, town
hall, two churches, two hotels, black
smith shop, barber shop, a meat mar
ket and a number of comfortable and
attractive homes. There is a general air
of prosperity. Everything is newly
painted and in excellent repair. The
people wear good clothes and there are
such evidences of the influence of met
ropolitan fashions as loud colored hose
on the young men and ambitious POM
padour coiffures on the girls. On a Sat-
urday there are as many as fifteen or
twenty people on the main street at
once, and at the hotel they inform you
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now worth $40 an acre then sold for S..
I'VE paid $3.50 for ours said Mr.
Bailey, because we saw there was a
chance for a little station here between
Seneca and Axtell and in a few years
1T came. I've refused SIS an acre for my
place but I wouldn't part with it at any
price. It's my home and the place I
expect always to keep for my home and
1T has a value for me that it couldn't
have for any one else. 1t has associa-
tons which have no money equivalent.
When drove out here with my neigh
Dor, MCGEE, there was nothing here but
prairie grass. I set out all these trees
on my place. I've seen all these people
come and all these homes established
This fine country has developed from a
wild prairie right under my eyes"
The Bailey farm house is just one
mile north of the Baileyville railway
station, but one corner of the farm is at
the end of the main street of the village.
From this point it extends half a mile
south, mile west and a mile and O.
half north. The old California road
crossed it's northeast corner at a place
called Ash Point where there is still a
wreck of the tavern which used to be
one of the posting points of the old
pony express. The farm has 500 acres
divided into cornfields, pasture and
meadow land. 1t is the big stock farm
of the county. There is an overseer ana
a corps of men who work under him.
but they are all under the personal
supervision of the master of the place
who has careful eye for every detail
of the business of the farm in spite of
the demands which politics makes upon
him time. Il have to drive around and
see how everything's going when I get
home" he explains II only get q
chance to look in on 'em nowadays. I got
home from Crawford county yesterday
and leave for Osborne county tonight.
but We'll drive around and see what the
boys are doing" He has had his bay
horse BILLY" hitched to the top buggy
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farm-it might be called a ranch in
some localities but Baileyville people
call it farm-these are the principal
excuses for it's existence, and all the
little life of the place centers in the
personality of the sixteenth governor of
Kansas, of course, taking it for grant
ed that he will be elected. He is the
president of the bank; Bailey & Comet
is the firm name on the elevator; he
owns most of the store buildings; he
secured the appropriation for the town
hall, named for the township, Marion
hall; the plans and specifications Of the
new $4,000 school building to be built this
fall are in his Office at the bank; every
man, woman and child in the township
are his friends and most of them call
him Bill" The cemetery where his
mother who died two years ago is buried
occupies a little space on his farm.
This ground for the "city of the dead"
was donated by him a good many years
ago when the first death among the
forgetfully healthful people to a realiz-
alton of that necessity.
Mr.. Bailey has lived on his farm at
Baileyville for twenty-five years. When
he came to Kansas, young man just
out of college, there was no Baileyville,
only two houses and not a tree between
tie land he chose and Seneca. the
county seat, seven miles away. A neigh
Dor whose "80'' adjOins the Bailey farm
drove to Kansas with him from Illinois.
Another 800 in the vicinity was the
home of its present occupant who had
homesteaded it and was the only bit
of cultivated land in the vicinity. All
around was the wide unbroken prairie.
Like so many others who came to Kan
sas about that time the Baileys bought
cattle and expected to pasture them on
the big open range, but within two
years the land had been sold and fenced
in and the country filled up rapidly
The land around Baileyville which is
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to make a flying inspection. There are
other horses on the farm and much bet
ter travellers" but his namesake is the
favorite of the boss" BILLY stands
without hitching," says Billy's master
as he drops the lines to run into the
bank for a word with the cashier before
starting on the tour of the farm. When
Mr.. Bailey gets out to open a gate
Billy walks leisurely through, waits
for his driver to climb in again anc
joys on. "Bi1ly's" fly net is an envelOp-
ing duster of; checkered linen vastly
becoming to his style of equine beauty.
Some Of the farm hands are harvest
ing small aeld of fax on the south
west eighty and Bailey stands up in
the buggy and shouts some inquiries
and suggestions from the road. After
wards he drives into the field to let an
ignorant newspaper reporter see what
fax looks like.
lives with his father, Monroe Bailey,
who is now past "A years old.
Mary - the housekeeper and the wheezy
old pug dog, "Judge,"i is an unpretentious
frame structure of two stories which
looks much like any farmhouse. 1t has
been the home of the Bailey family for
% years but now only the father and
the son are left. Another son is mar
ried and lives in town and manages the
elevator. A daughter. Mrs. Cafferty.
also lives in Bailevville. 81 was going
to build new house few years ago."
says Mr.. Bailey, but my father and
mother didn't want to leave this one.
SO I've given it up for the present"
The lawn in front of the house, which
faces north, is the original unbroken
prairie sod where blue grass has gotten
a pretty good start and promises finally
to conquer. At one end is a flower gar
den, mass of brilliant. old fashioned
bloom, but a mere wreck. her son as
sures you of what it was during his
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mothers life. To the west is the orr
chard.- In the rear are the barns and
the ice house. Across the road on the
south is q grove Of tall cottonwood.
furnish shelter from the cold north
winds of winter. Bordering the road
just inside the fence is as fine a hedge
of tall pine trees as you are likely to
find in Kansas. Mr.. Bailey planted
them all. He looks SO young that you
would be a little incredulous OF this
statement If it weren't made by a man
who is about to be the governor OF his
state.
The house inside is just like any farm
house as far as furnishing goes. but it
has unusual comforts in the way of
q complete and efficient water works
and sewerage system and a large, well
equipped bath. There is nothing elab-
simple and comfortable. If different
from the homes of the neighbors the
difference is in favor of the latter.
There is an artificial lake in the
pasture across the road from the house.
1t is half mile long and deep enough
to swim a horse" and is stocked with
fish and furnished with a row boat
The winter feed lots are south and
east of the house behind grove OF
box elders planted fer windbreak for
empty now during the pasture season.
but there are about 300 shoats in the
hog lots. The Bailey farm furnishes
between 300 and 500 head Of cattle every
year for the Kansas City market. The
farm produces a big share of the feed.
People ask me sometimes why live
in the country" said Mr. Bailey of
Baileyville IT tell 'em cause I like it.
1 like this farm better than any place
good it does me to get back here after
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with some pride that there were seven
travelling men here for dinner yester-
day" I'VE do a banking and grain
business, farming, stock raising-and a
little politics on the SIDE" Mr.. Bailey
explains. Baileyville has no golf links
but between the barber shop and the
postoffice is space where the boys
pitch horse shoes; SO the sporting in
stinct does not anguish.
But although there is more to Bailey
vile than w. J. Bailey and w. J. Bailey's
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hideous, smoke be-grimed environment
and in a few notable instances it has
been made an architectural delight. But
the country station is rarely anything
but an offense to the lonely dignity of
the landscape which surrounds it, There
1t stands, in its encircling guard of Gin
ders which keep back the rank, en-
croaching weeds, it's ugly squalor typi-
Tying the sordid commercialism and bar
barous philistinism that conceived it.
Perhaps it was the contrast with the
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State Journal Reporter Visits
Him on the Farm.
The Guiding Star at the Town
of Baileyville.
LOVED BY THE PEOPLE
Refer to the Candidate For Gov
ernOr With Evident Pride.
He Calls His Home the Dearest
Spot on Earth.
In Town He Is Banker, Grain
Dealer and Landlord.
LOVED BY THE PEOPLE

No matter what has been said to the
contrary it is safe to Judge a man by
the estimation in which he is held by
his neighbors. This is exemplified in
the case of Mr.. Bailey of Baileyville.
Republican candidate for governor of
Kansas.
There is not a more hopeless spot upon
the fair earth than a little country rail-
way station. The city depot at its worst
has the advantage of comparison with a
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man has converted ideal picnic grounds
into feed lots for cattle and hogs.

The train stops out in the midst of the
cornfields and you get off much against
your will because, although the brake
man insists that it is Bailexville the
home of Willis J. Bailey, the next gov
ernor of Kansas, you are on the wrong
side of the train and it looks to you that
a mistake has been made.
But later you find out that it's one of
The Coconino sun., 1902-04-12
"california George" Dead.

The Douglas Dispatch says: ''Cali. f0rnia George" us he was known all over the coast, died yesterday morn ing at the Cave saloon. For the past few years George never lay down, day or night, but was obliged to sit up the whole twenty-four hours. The poor devil is, at least out of his misery, and has already solved that "great prob lem" which has so worried the sages of the past and present."
 Geo. Richards, "California George,' D was well known in Northern Arizona during the eighties, and was we'll liked by all who knew him. He became ad- dicted to the morphine habit and lost every ambition in life.
The Coconino sun., 1902-04-12
Wants to Help Others.

'I had stomach trouble all my life, :" says Edward Mehler, proprietor of the Union Bottling Works, Erie, Pa., ''and tried all kinds of remedies: went to sev- eral doctors and spent considerable money trying to get a moments peace. Finally I read of Kodol Dyspepsia Cure and have been taking it to my great satisfaction. I never found its equal for stomach trouble and gladly recon mend it in hope that may help other sufferers" Kodol Dyspepsia Cure cures all stomach troubles. You don't have to diet. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure digests what you eat. w. H. Timerhoff. 1
The Coconino sun., 1902-04-12
Good for Rheumatism.

Last fall was taken with very severe attack of muscular rheumatism, which caused me great pain and an. noyance. After trying several pre-. scriptions and rheumatic cures, I de- cided to use Chamberlain's Pain Balm, which had seen advertised in the South Jerseyman. After two applica. tions of this remedy was much better, and after using one bottle was com. pletely cured.-Sallie Harris, Salem,
 N. J. For sale by Pioneer Drug Store.
The Coconino sun., 1902-04-12
LETTER LIST.

List of letters remaining in the post office, uncalled for, for the week end- ing April l2, 1902: Blythe, Jesse Daws the Barber Horral, J s KOontz, RC Uber, Wm R Stevens, H When inquiring for the above mail please say advertised.
 T. J. COALTER, P. M.
The Coconino sun., 1902-04-12
Episcopal Church Service.

Services of the Episcopal church will be held on tomorrow, Sunday, in the Masonic hall at 4:3O o'clock p. m. The public are cordially invited to attend.
The Coconino sun., 1902-04-12
THE TOWN COUNCIL.
Tho Old Council Canvasses the E1ec- ton Returns R Reports of Town
 Officers Filed.

Pursuant to the call of the mayor, the mayor and common council of the town of Flagstaff, incorporated, met in town hall Wednesday, April 9, 1902, at 4 o'clock p. m.
 Present, Mayor Pollock, Councilmen Aubineau, Babbitt and Gosney; l.. w, Quinlan, clerk.
 The minutes of March 10 and April l, 1902, were read and approved.
 The following bills were read, ap- proved and ordered paid:
 Wells, Fargo Co.,, express dog tags 30 c. A. Green, cord wood ......... 3 co Mutual Phone O., March rent. 50 c. M. Funston, quarterly printing 50 80 Sewer Co.,, rebuilding sewer .... 3 % L. w. Quinlan, justice court fees 10 % Babbitt Bros., supplies. ......... g Sl Labor at reservoir. Oir......-........ 75 % J. Chisholm, hauling to reservoir 5 %
 The reports of l.. w. Quinlan as town treasurer, to March 2e, 1902, and of w. c. Bayless, tax collector, for quarter ending March 2S, 1902, were read, approved and ordered filed.
 Mir. Gosney of the legal committee reported that the matter of reservoir site was still under investigation; that he was in correspondence with w. F. Baker of the Saginaw Lumber Co.,, from whom he had assurance of an early designation of the 40-acre tract that the town owns in and about the reservoir in Section B. He requested that the town clerk notify County Re cOrder Hibben to note in his abstracts the exception of 40 acres, as appears in the deed records of Saginaw land, if any relinquishments are made to the government. The report was accepted and approved.
 The returns of the town election held April !, 1902, having been filed with the town clerk by the board Of election as required by law, the council opened the returns and proceeded to canvass the same. The canvass was made in public, and by opening the returns and estimating the vote for each person voted for, and declaring the result thereof.
 The whole number of votes cast in the town election was 305. For mem- bers of the common council the vote was as follows: T E pollock lQQ
The Coconino sun., 1902-04-12
To Cure a Cold in One Do,

Take Laxative Bromo-Q -Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. E. W. Groves signature is on each box. 25c.
The Coconino sun., 1902-04-12

sureties, was read, approved as to form by the legal committee, received by the council, approved, accepted and or dered filed. The oath of office required by law of town clerk was subscribed and sworn to before Mayor Pollock by l.. w. Quinlan, as also before @ notary public. The council thereupon de- clared L. w. Quinlan legally qualified as town clerk of the town of Flagsta fl for the ensuing two years.
 The town clerk was ordered to inn mediately make out and deliver to the persons above declared elected a cer- tifcate of election, authenticated with the seal of the town and signed by him. On motion the council here took a recess until Thursday, April 10. at ! o'clock p. m.
 Approved: T. E. POLLOCK,
 Mayor. Attest: L. w. QUINLAN, Clerk. Pursuant to recess the mayor and common council of the town of Flag staff, incorporated, met in town hall April 10, 1902, at o'clock p. m.
 Present-MayorP Pollock, Councilmen Aubineau, Rabbit and Gosney; L. w. Ouinlan, clerk.
 The minutes of the meeting of April 9, 1902, were read and approved. No further business coming before the council the body here adjourned. Approved: T. E. POLLOCK,
 Mayor. Attest: l.. w. QUINLAN, Clerk.
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1HC CVVHOIf VHoFcuPUH UeCIdTeU UUU following persons elected to office:
 Members of the common council-T. k. Pollock, J. c. Blake, s. Millsap, T. E. Pulliam and J. A. Vail.
 Town clerk, who shall also be town treasurer, Larry w. Quinlan.
 Town marshal, who shall also be collector of taxes, W. c. Bayless.
 Supervisor of streets, c. A. Green.
 The official bond of Larry w. Quin- Ian as town clerk and ex-officio town treasurer and ex.officio town assessor, in the penal sum of 5000, with two
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SUN office for neat job printing.
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NECKwEAR ,

In Neckwear-such as Neckties, Scarfs, etc., we have a large and varied as- sortment in the latest east ern styles.
The Coconino sun., 1902-04-12
HATS > >

Hats are one of our lead CTS and we have the best in this line - Stetson and Lion Hats all the varied shapes and styles.
The Coconino sun., 1902-04-12
. > SHOES > >

Shoes are our speciality and we take especial pains in fitting our customers. We can suit you in anything from a brogan to a patent leather.
The Coconino sun., 1902-04-12

You will need Rubbers and Overshoes and other wet weather protectors and have them in all styles and at all prices.
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Attest: L. w. QUINLAN, Clerk
The Grit-advocate., 1902-11-14

solitary grandeur, the load Of pack
camel
When a mishap necessitated re-
packing a load in the middle OF the
road, one got glimpse Of costly car
pets, of tents with walls OF many
colors, robes of honor, silken enbroid.
cries and quilted bedding. Here and
there silver ever or piece OF gaudy
French furniture, tied on loosely with
bit Of string. kept clanking at the
side Of the mule.
"Omcers of the household, with
silver slaves, fiunkeys In scarlet coats,
high odcials in full-waisted black
coats, mullahs with green and white
turbans, Persian ladies' shrouded in
ample black dominos and with thick,
white wells, jostled in bewildering
confusion along the roads or sat in
groups in the rest houses. Farther on
were the two huge camps Of the i'm.
perial harem, suddenly commanded by
telegram from Europe to meet the
shah at the frontier. The total cost Of
this motley pilgrimage probably was
more than 100000"