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The daily sentinel., 1903-04-24
GIRL GOES HOME.

Denver. April 22.-Laura LeRoux.
the 17-year- old French girl who eloped
from her home in Montreal, Canada.
with negro, both of whom We're ar
rested here last week, left last night
for her home. Blackburn was sent to
the penitentiary three days after his
arrest on the charge of violating the
age of consent law.
When the two were arrested neither
of them had cent of money. The
chief of police telegraphed the father
of the girl for enough money to send
her home on. The chief received
word that ticket could be secured at
the depot, but as she needed money to
buy her meals on the way, a second
telegram VISA sent. The father refus-'
ed absolutely to send her any money.
Some church ladies made up a
purse of few dollars, which they
gave the girl last night as she was
put ON the train by Detective Green.
LeRoux is said to be a wealthy con-
tractor in Montreal.
The daily sentinel., 1903-04-24
LAUNCHING OF COLORADO.

Philadelphia. April 23. Governor
and Mrs Peabody, of Colorado. ac-
companied by their son and two
daughters, arrived here tonight and
viii attend the ceremonies incident to
the launching of the United States
armoured cruiser, Colorado, at Cramps
shipyard tomorrow.
The new warship will be christen-
ed by the governors daughter, Miss
Cora May Peabody.
The daily sentinel., 1903-04-24
BEGGING LETTERS BARRED.

Canon City, April %. begging let
ters sent to George Gould, John d.
Rockefeller, the Vanderbilt family
and other capitalists caused the order
restricting the mail that is allowed
to go out of the penitentiary at Canon
City. The new rule is being strictly
enforced and those in charge say they
mean to stop the practice.
Convicts have been allowed every
liberty in writing letters In conse-
quence they sent out a perfect stream
of mail to all parts of the country
Every man of wealth received begging
communications from the Colorado
penitentiary Each desired money.
the excuse being that the state did not
supply paroled men with clothing
when they We're released and every
one of the writer's expected to be pa
rolled
So many of the letters were receiv-
ed that some of the capitalists for
warded the missives to, the governor
and the board of control Former
governors and boards did not give the
matter any attention but the new ad-
ministration impressed upon the new
warden the necessity for change.
Therefore the new rule.
The daily sentinel., 1903-04-24
PREFERS DEATH TO sCoLDING

Springfield. April % Edna Rotra-
mel, aged 10 years. daughter of Robert
l. Rotramel, custodian of the state
Fair grounds, committed suicide this
afternoon at her home, because Prin-
cipal Taylor, of the school which she
attended. had reprimanded her for
writing a note in school. and had
gone to her home to inform her par
ents. of which she had knowledge. and
rather than receive scolding from
them. she took her own life. Taylor
was au the front door when the girl
took the poison in the kitchen.
The daily sentinel., 1903-04-24
FINN is ILL.

Denver, April 23 j Maurice Finn,
the well known Cripple Greek attor-
ney, is reported dangerously i'll at the
Brown Palace hotel. Several physic-
ians and nurses have been in attend
ance upon him.
The daily sentinel., 1903-04-24

On Friday, May Ist, the Of
ftces of the Grand Junction
Smelling Co. will be moved
from their temporary location
in the Currie Block to the COM
pany's permanent office build
ing at the smelter Telephone
unmber will continue to be
Junction c."
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-07-17
AUSTRALIANS GREAT NEED.
A Country Rich in Resources Suffers
Much from Dearth of
Population.

According to the Colonial Review of
Reviews the real, if unconfessed,
want of the Australian commonw ealth
is the want of population-due to the
total arrest of immigration and the
steady shrinkage of the birth rate,
says the Westminster Gazette.
Here is a continent equal in area
to the whole of Europe, if Russia in
Europe is omitted; it is only little
less than the United States. Whole
kingdoms can be packed within the
borders of each state of the common
wealth. The natural wealth
and climatic conditions of this great
continent are unsurpassed. 1t could
support population equal to that of
Russia or of the United States with
ease. Yet at the end of nearly 100
years of colonization its population is
less than 100000, or about equal to
that of couple of London suburbs.
There is no other bit of the planets
surface, we are told, at once SO rich,
SO tempting, and yet SO nearly vacant
and so little utilized as is the contin-
emit of Australia.
If immigration has almost ceased az
regards Australia, the natural growth
of population steadily slackens, and
the twin facts are, contends our con
temporary, the two ugliest features
in the political and social landscape"
yet they provoke scarcely any com
ment and occasion scarcely any dis
quiet. Our annual increase of popula-
ton was once over IL per cent. an
nually; it is now less than two per
cent. The general marriage rate has
shrunk from S.64 to 6.S7, and maria ges
have not only got fewer. but they are
less prolific. The average number of
| children for each marriage was once
nearly six; it is now only little over
| four
A complaint is made by the writer
quoted that Australia politicians deal
only with the superficial aspects of
Australian life and society. mo one
even attempts to consider the graver
facts such as we have described
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-07-17
BRAVE LITTLE JAPS.
Many who Come to America to OBJ
tain Employment Are
Bitterly Poor.

I make no defense of the ambition
that causes one to cross thousands and
thousands of miles of land and water
to come to strange and alien country
for the pitiful employment of domestic
service in a foreigners household.
There are not many Americans who
would do this. Still there is som ething
admiral in the spirit behind 1t,
which, after all, is superior to the pride
scorning such employment, writes
Ionta Wantana, in the New Metropoli-
tan. Many of the japanese who come
to New York are bitterly poor. 1t is
an old delusion that the average stu
panese government. On the contrary,
most of the young japanese men in
New York have come on their own &C
count to satisfy their native curiosity
and thirst for more knowledge of the
great and fascinat ting west. How many
of these youths arrive utterly penni-
less and friendless. But having reached
the land of desire, they must at once
"study the country" For this time
and money are required;- the former
they have; the latter they must obtain
at once in order to exist. And so they
go to work-the easiest work to OBJ
tain. They make excellent buffers,
Wallets and cooks. They are both clean
and ignifed-excellent traits in a
servants.
1t is told of the Marquis Ito that
when youth he wandered about the
streets of London penniless, ragged
and hungry, a starving alien in
strange land. No employment was too
long for that one whose eager and
ambitious mind was in after years to
point out to the civilized world new
sun of astonishing brightness arisen in
the east.
That the japanese merchants and
men of means appreciate the real spirit
which has brought their poorer coun
trymen to New York is shown by the
really bea utiful beneficence of these
men. Many of them are private bene-
factors on most unexpected scale, as
is shown in the case of three tea mer-
chants who have imported to this coun-
try number of japanese youths and
are personally paying for their educa
ton and living. Besides this, the num-
Der of their proteges among the clerks
and artisans is astonishing.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-07-17
HOUSEHOLD BITS.
A Few SugEestiOns Which Should
Find a Place in the Do
nestle Scrapbook.

Even the prosaic Turkish bath towel
has come under the influence of Part
nouveau. The latest productions show
borders in new art designs.
To remove stains from white and
delicate paint rub with cloth wrun @
out of warm water and dipped into
prepared chalk.
At housekeeping time, brighten tins
and other cooking utensils Put them
all in the wash boiler and place on the
fire with plenty of water and a liberal
amount of washing soda. Let them
boil for 20 minutes. remove the wash
boiler from the fire, but do not take
the tins out for three hours.
Ink stains on polished wood should
be touched with a camefs hair brush
or a feather dipped in sweet spirits of
inter. Rub the spots Immediately
with a cloth dipped in sweet oil.
This is one way of washing hand
kerchiefs, recommended by an expert
enced housewife. Dip them in warm
water, soap each one on both sides,
fold loosely and put them in pile in
a basin without water, to soak for an
hour or longer. Rub them on wash
board with large nailbrush dipped in
hot water, boil for few minutes,
rinse in clear water and cry Begin
| the ironing in the center and not on
the border.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-07-17
The Japanese Acrobat. Toes.

The little japanese acrobat, in his
short robe of black embroidered with
gold dragons, walked slowly up the
slanting wire cable TO the very roof of
the circus tent. There he paused a
moment, and then-swish. swish swish
he slid smoothly and gracefully
down the steep wire to the ground.
Elevating his voice above the loud APP
plause, an old circus man said: THAT
sliding trick has never been learned
by a European. It's a trick that the
Japs alone do. If you watched our
little friend you noticed that he always
kept the wire between his big toe and
the second toe. When he slid the wire
was between his toes. That is the
way the japanese learn to walk the
wire, but we English and Americans
can't learn to walk in that way because
our toes have not the same suppleness
and strength. Our toes, confined for
generations in unhygienic, tight, heavy
leather boots, have no muscle and no
mobility. To slide down a wire re-
quires well-deyeloped toes first of all
We, therefore, can't match the Japs in
fSis snowy. telling and difficult feat
Philadelphia Record
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-07-17
THE MINES OF OPH|R
It. Is Believed They Have Been
Discovered in Egypt.
Every Evidence Points to This Spot
rs That from Which Queen
Sheba Secured Her Presents
for King Solomon.

Biblical authorities, geographers
and many others, have taken a keen
interest in locating, or attempting to
locate, the Ophir of the Bible, and as
during the past three years the ex-
istence of an extensive and rich min
eral field has been discovered in
Egypt, situated in that belt of coun-
try lying between the River Nile and
the Red sea, and between the TWEEN
tieth and twenty-eighth parallels of
latitude, some particulars rela ting to
the prehistoric and present working
of this region may be interesting,
together with suggestion that this
mineral belt which is particularly
rich in gold and precious stones-is
the much-sought and oft-located
Ophir.''
So writes a well-known Egyptolo-
gist in a recently published pamphlet
on the subject of mining in Egypt;
but 1 will not trouble my readers
with the pros and cons of the mat
ter. 1 merely content myself, and
hope at the same time them also,
by informing them that conclusive
evidence is now existing proving that
extensive gold and gem mining OPP
erations were carried on in this dis
trict of Egypt at different periods Of
the earth's history, and that vast
population were so supported.
It is impossible to affirm that this
is the real Ophir, whence the queen
of Sheba journeyed to visit Soho
mon with her caravan of camels car
rying magnificent gifts, which in
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-07-17
OUR ORIENTAL TRADE
An Impetus Will Be Given It By
New Line of Steamers.
Seattle Is Becoming the Greatest Of
American Ports for Far Eastern
Trade-TvvO Mammoth Ships
Soon to Be Completed.

The rapid unfolding of the CONNER
cial possibilities of the great markets
of the orient and the developments of
Seattle as doorway from America to
those most desirable markets has
marked the dawning of a new era in
American railroad and steamship his
tory. In connection with the Great
Northern railroad, two mammoth car
rying ships are being built at New
LONDON, Conn.,, the Minnesota and the
Dakota The former was launched
last April and the twin sister, the Da-
kota, is to be slid into the water in
few days. They will run from Puget
sound to Asiatic ports, over the north
erly route via Behring sea. The yes
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-07-17

THE. MINNESOTA" BEFORE LAUNCHING.
capable of sending the ship along at Ia
knots an hour. will be placed in the YES
seis.
In addition to the immense cargo
capacity of these vessels, they will be
able to accommodate in staterooms of
the latest design and improved pattern
$50 first class passengers, 100 second
and ITO third class. besides 500 or over
in the steerage. Used as an army
transport ship it could carry ten full
regiments.
With COG. 900 900 of people across the
Pacific to whom to carry the America n
products, these two leviathans of the
Pacific are to be the pioneers in our
new expansive trade developments,
with Seattle as the chief American
port. these ships are destined to ex-
ert Mighty influence in shaping the
futu, commerce of the world. and
the orient in particular. where our
country is destined toeplay a leading
part in the years to come
e L. RILEY
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-07-17
Steak All Right for Once.

Wife Qate to breakfast -Mercy!
chat cook has ruined this steak! One
end is burned black, and the other end
S raw.
Husband (who came down early)-
Tisn't burned at adjust nice and
brown, that's ALL The other end is a
title rare, but 1 like it that way.
'Nonsensei I'll ring for the cook
It once"
Cooks SICK
''Then who broiled the steak?"
81 did.'-N. Y. Weekly.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-07-17
EncourasinE the Horses,

Cyrus Townsend Brady says that
during his missionary life in the west.
he had occasion one day to ride in
full stage coach up a steep'h hill. The
driver, wher. the ascent was sheeNst,
got out and walked, and as he walked
he would frequently open the door of
the coach and then shut it again with
slam. This the passengers found an.
noying.
Look here, driver" one of them
said, "why Go you kick up snch an in
ferna1 noise with that door," .
ITO hearten up my horses" the driv-
er answered. Every time they hear
this door close they think that one of
you, taking pity on them. has got out,
and that makes them imagine that
their load is lighter"-N. Y. Tribune.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-07-17
THE MINNESOTA" COMPLETED.

sells are each $50 feet long and have
gross tonnage of about 81 900 tons, and
an extreme load displacement of about
3S, 900 tons. The amount of steel which
will be put into these ships will aggre-
gate 2S,0 900 tons. Each vessel will have
a cellular or double bottom extending
the whole length of the ship, so divided
into compartments that the sinking
of the ship is an impossibility, and
these compartments can be used to bal
last the ship by filling with water, or
they can be used to carry an extra
supply of fresh water for the boilers.
Five continuous decks run from stem
to stern, giving over five acres of space
for the carrying of freight. Each ship
can carry over 900, 900 bushels of wheat.
And that you may more clearly under
stand what these figures mean, let us
load on freight cars this cargo of
grain. Putting 10000 pounds on each
car of. 36-foot length it would take
train nearly seven miles long. To
transport a full mixed cargo for one
of these vessels would require fully
$500 ordinary railway freight and pas
senger cars, or 125 trains of 20 cars
each Two hundred thousand barrels
Of -four, which, if placed end to end,
would cover distance of 100 miles,
could be slowed away upon the decks
of each of these ships. In fact, they
will carry double the cargo of any
ocean steamer in existence, and six
times as much as any ship now blowing
the waters OF the Pacific.
These vast cargoes will be handled
entirely by 3S electric winces of the
most improved type. In fact, these
vessels are the only vessels that handle
their cargo by electric power. and it is
interesting to note that all auxiliaries
in these vessels including practically
all the machinery outside of the pro-
polling machinery, will be electrically
operated. Two propelling twin screw
engines of 10000 horse power and
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-07-17
Beating Around the Bush.

John sheepishly)-I-Is 'pose youth
b. gittin' married some time?
Betty with frightened air)-Oh, i
dare say I shall some time.
81 dare say I'll git married, too"
"Oh.''
'P'r'aps we might git married at the
same time
Wouldn't it be awful, John, If the
parson should make a mistake and
marry US to each other?"
IL shouldn't mind"
''No-neither should I, to tell you the
truth, John."-Tit-Bits
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-07-17
A NEW SHAFT OF OLD MINES.


Guided 100 talents of gold which she
afterwards supplemented to a total
of 666 talents in the course of year,
but extensive ruins of ancient cities
and villages, numerous old mines, old
mining implements, dams, wells,
roads, ETC., have been discovered.
which all help to support the suppo-
sition.
The country is now being thorough
ly examined by explorers, Egyptolo-
gists and mining experts, who are
daily bringing to light fresh evil
dences of the original wealth of the
country. Indeed, the word "originaP'
might well be omitted, for sufficient
gold has already been won to indi-
cate that the old mines are far from
worked out. Modern appliances en-
able us to proceed where the ancients
had to abandon their work for fear
of the mines subsiding.
These mines have probably not
been worked for thousand years.
for an ancient Arabian historian
ell Macrizi-tells us that the Ara bian
chief Omary was forced by the
Egyptians to abandon working the
mines of Darehieb (Wadi-Allagi) over
900 years ago, and, from all evil
dences, that is probably the last time
they were worked. The Wadi Allagi
was apparently the center of these
extensive mining operations, and the
| old ruins of large city, named Dare
HEB, are there. 1t is situated be-
tween two ranges of hills, and in
these hills the old ancients burrowed
| for gold.
The ruins of Darehieb are most in
teresting The buildings were com
| prised of slate and stone slabs of ir-
regular shapes securely cemented to-
| gether by the liberal use of mortar
and there are still several buildings
| which have not altogether fallen to
| pieces, although they were probably
| built two or three thousand years
ago. One of these, an old castle, was
| in sufficient preservation to allow a
whole party of mining experts to
live in it after clearing it out, and they
| actually inhabit it at the present mo-
| ment.
| This castle. called Darehieb (Dare
| beautiful. and HEB, convent), is sit
uated on the Wad Allagi, and has
been the depot for all the ancient
gold workings of the AIlagi GOLD
| mines. There are two odd castles
| built of solid slate. three stories high
most strongly built. with portcullis
| and handsome entrance. The remains
of very considerable town surround
the old buildings, and on the opposite
| side of the Wadi are the remains of ar
old mosque and an ancient ruined
| town, half buried by the sand
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-07-17
and Misunderstandin

Doctor-H'm! Nervous dyspepsia.
Is it a case of long standings
PATIENT don't think that's got any
thing to do with it.
Doctor-What do you mean?
Patient-The long standing. I'm Q
motorman-Philade Press.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-07-17
Severely Un.xmpathetie.

Mister" said Meandering Mike .'if
I was to tell you dat 1 had seen better
days would you believe me2"
Certainly" answered Mr. Leander
Scraggs; "this is one of the most I'M
satisfactory days that our versatile
climate has yet produced. Iva shing-
ton Star.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-07-17
Home. Sweet Home.

Mrs. Chugwater-So that's the pho
ograph you had taken the other day,
it? I'd like to know why you can't
ook as pleasant as that when you are
the house?
Mr., Chugwater-Wen, it may be that
he photographer tried to bring out
ny pleasant expression, and you don't.
-Tit-Bits.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-07-17
At the Dime Museum.

Ella Famine (the Fat Woman)-I
wouldn't marry you if every design on
you was by one of the old masters.
When say no, mean no. and no pow
er on earth can move mel
N. D. r. Ink (the tattooed man)-
Say, I guess you've never seen steam
derrick at worki-Brookly Life.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-07-17
Sure Enoueh.

Patience-Before he married her he
couldn't do too much for her; btlt
now he won't lift his hand to help
her.
Patrice-WelI. you know, she says
she has made another man of him.
Yonkers Statesman.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-07-17
TaxatiOn's Triumph.

The Count-What think of re pro
position to tax bachelors?
The Baron-It do not interest me,
nv friend. But / think it would, be. a
very good thing to tax Re unmarried
heiresses!-Puck.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-07-17
a Eeeless Case.

"a case came to me this morning. -
said the great lawyer, that I propose
to handle without gloves"
t'What kind of case is it ?'' asked
the human interrogation point.
ga case of SOAP" replied the legal
luminary with an open-faced grain
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-07-17
The Power OF the Pre.l

Didactic Editor-The pen is might
Ter than the sword
Practical Sub-Editor-Yes; and the
scissors and paste beat the pair Of
them-Alley STOPPER.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-07-17
The shade and the Rake,

Coral think mother is altogether
too outspoken in her criticism of my
husbands actions.
Mildred-Yes, it's not always wise to
call a spade spade
Cors-No, nor a rake arakei-Brook-
I'm Lie.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-07-17
Not Encouraging.

She-What would be the result If
women were to get their rights?
He-Well, my private opinion is that
more men would die old bachelors
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-07-17
Not Very Complfmentnrv

Its only week since l met you,
Miss Mabel, yet L feel as if I'd known
you for years and years and years"
well, you needin' pile the years on
so thick. I'm only Chicago Amer.
lean.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-07-17

Caller-Since your husband began
taking that anti-fat medicine he has
changed wonderfully. He doesn't
look like the same man.
Hostess-He isn't-by 90 pounds
Chicago Tribune.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-07-17
Nm Relief.

If yegetarians held sway
Meat wouldn't be so dear as now
But then some trust would corner hay
And keep US guessing anyhow
-WaShingtOn Star.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-07-17
Eirst Record of shavfaK.

The first record of shaving is in the
RibIe. Genesis 61:14. Joseph is de-
scribed as shaving himself, changing
his garments, and going to see
Pharaoh.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-07-17
Nothing in a Name.

A farmer had a COW he called Zephyr,
Because she seemed an amiab1e heifer;
But one day he drew near
And she kicked off his ear
Now the old man is trifle dephyr.
Chicago Daily News
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-07-17
EXPLANATION.

"Why is your country board SO highx-
The farmers wife drew nearer
And answered, with a little sigh.
Canned goods are getting dearer."
Washington Star.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-07-17

A new word has been coined for ap-
plication to sight-testing optician.
He is to be called an "optologists