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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-10-09

They say that Shamrock III. il q pref
tisf boat than the Reliance. No doabt,
remarks the Chicago Rscord-Herald,
there are prettier mares than Lou Dill
Lou
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treasure house of the Kimberley mine actually changed hands at one time for eight sovereigns, while within fifteen years the mine had produced diamonds of the value e20,000,000. Surely never in the history of the world was better value given for 8 sovereign. Even
 when these diamond mines got into the hands of companies vast fortunes were made. by many of the lucky sharehold- CTS, seeing that the original 910 shares of the London and South African Ex- plorations company, which owned the Bultfontein and Dutfotspan mines, were later salable at e600 representing the gratifying return of e60 for every sovereign originally invested.
 In spite of the marvellous harvest yielded by these South African dia- mond companies, 1t Is stated that fully fourth of the stones found never come into the companies possession at all, but in spite of the utmost care and the most exhaustive searching of the natives, are stolen. This leakage does not apear to be due to any want of generosity in treating the natives; for bonus of 7k per CSilt. OL tue Nalue ot IIle StOil6S uiS- covered is offered to the finders.
 Some of the very finest diamonds the mines have ever produced have been re- covered from boys" whao have stolen them. Fifteen years ago a. native work ing in the De Beers, mine discovered a magnificent diamond, which proved too much for this honesty, for he forthwith annexed it. It was recovered, however, few hours later by detective and was found to be an absolutely f1awless stone of rare beauty, weighing more than three ounces and measuring in it's greatest, length, nearly two inches.
 A stone of more than twice this weight was discovered few years ago at Jagersfontein by a native, who promptly handed it over to the authori- ties and was rewarded for his honesty by a present of a hundred sovereigns and horse and cart. This superb, one of the largest in the world weighed in the rough six and one-half ounces and measured almost exactly three inches across, it's major axis.
 The most dramatic feature of this dis covery was that the stone was found on the very day of which the contract of the syndicate, whose property it became, expired-London Tit-Bits.
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had gathered about them great droyes of cattle and had built themselves a luxurious home, the husband was taken suddenly i'll and died. His wife, instead of having him buried in a cemetery, had him laid in the ground fin the yard in front of their home. The little mound that marks his resting place is still there. Friends came to the assistance of the wife and gave her advice and all the assistance that generous Texans can give.
 "At length she settled down to living again absolutely alone and unprotected. She keeps no help on the ranch, as one is needed except when it is necessary to brand her cattle or when they are taken to market. On these occasions she calls in the neighbors. But she has no one living in the house with her and pre- fers to be alone with her dead-lying there in the yard. Her home is fur nished luxuriously. She has a piano and her library and magazines. Peo- pie visiting her home could scarcely be- lieve from the interior that they were in the very heart of the cattle country, far from civilization. She plays the piano exquisitely, and all the best class of music finds it's way into her ranch house. People passing that way late at night are often astonished to hear the sound of a piano played by expert hands coming from the house. She is intensely loyal to her husbands mem ory. On the piano at the moment of his death was white, duck helmet which he wore on the plains. It lay where he cast it the last day he wore it. It has never been moved from the piano, and the devoted wife will not let it be moved.
 "In the rear of the house is a little gate that hangs about half way open. Capt. Follett, the last trip he made through this gate before his illness. left it open, and his wife never allowed it to be closed. It hangs there to-day just as 1t did when he passed through it the last time. Mrs. Follett is glad to have people come and see her for a short call, but she will not hear of any one staying with her for the sake of keeping her company. She prefers to be alone out there in the great solitude, living out her life within few feet of his grave and waiting to join him in the great beyond. That's what call de- votion and faithfulness to the memory
 of loved one."-Indianapolis Journal.
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Nierkerk, in the Hopetown district: how the farmer produced for his guests inspection a handful of pretty pebbles picked LID by his children and how ' O'Rielly discovered among the pebbles diamond. which he sold at Grahams- town for 2500. .- This is an old history; but much that is equally romatic in the story of South African diamonds is remembered now by few. It was only two years later-in 1S69-that stroke of rare luck came Farmer Niekerk's way. when a native chanced to show him a large pebble looking like a lump of alum, which, profiting by his former exper- fence, he recognized as a diamond of considerable value. He purchased it for s4OO of his farm stock, and day or two later had drawn e10,O00 for it from a Hepertown firm. This stone, known the whole world over as "The Star of South Africa" weighed eighty karats, is now valued at e25,OOO, and is the most treatured of all the jewels of the Countess of Dudley, vicereinesof Ire- land.
 u IS a striking illustration of the irony of luck that these were the only two diamonds of any value that were found in Hopetown; although later ten thousand miners were ransacking the banks of the Vaal river,, sacrificing their lives by hundreds through disease and hardships in the futile quest for more Stars of South Africa
 In 1871 wealth far beyond the dreams of avarice" was tapped on De Beers farm near Duttotspan, and diamonds were being picked out of the walls of a farmhouse near the since famous Bultfonteir mine. De Beers farm, even whem it was known that it held a treasure of precious stones, was sold for 48,O0O and later exchanged hands for 91OoOOO. How excellent a bargain it was even at the larger price can be told from the fact that it has since yielded nearly &5,0O0l0O0 worth of diamonds in a single year, and that it's original value has been estimated at more than e10O,- ooe,OOO, or nearly seventeen thousand times the price originally paid for it.
 The homestead beneath which was the
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FOR RENT

usual hours. Bible school, 12 m.; Y. P. s, c. E., 8:30 p. m.: Mission school. 4:30 If I The Church Of the Redeemer, Orange ! st., corner Wall-Watson Lyman Phillips, D. D.. pastor; Thomas c. Shepard, organist
 Sunday school at 12 m. Young Peoples So. @ ciety of Christian Endeavor. 6:30 p. m. At Welcome Hall, Oak sstreet-Sunday school | at ?. m. Gospel meeting at 7:s0 D. ln. If East Pear! Street Methodist Episcopal Church, corner of Exchange Street-Rey. 10:SO a. m. and ,7:3O D. m. Prayer service Tuesday evenings at TAB; class meetings Friday evenings at 7:45. If First Church of Christ (Scientist}, Cham Der Of Commerce Hall. 763 Chapel Street. Reading room open week days, g:s0.5 p. m. Christian science literature for sale. If Howard Ave. Methodist Episcopal Church. corner of Fourth street, Rev. Dr. H. D. Weston, pastor-Public worship and sermon at 10:45 and 7:30. Sunday school at 12. 5:45: Rpworth league meeting Friday even. ing 7:45. If
 Center Church, Rev. Newman smyth, D. D., pastor.-Morning service at 10:30 In the afternoon the 4 o'clock devotional ser vice will be resumed.
 Davenport Church, Wooster square, Rev. George Foster Prentiss, pastor-Pastor will speak at 10:30 a. m. on Prison Reform" Sunday school at noon. Endeavor service 6:15 D. m. '.t-
 First Baptist church-Morning service 1o:30; evening service 7;3o. Preaching by Y: P. s; c. E. e:ao. Strangers welcome at all services. , \~~
 Trinity Church-Twentieth Sunday after Trinity. 8 a. m,, Holy Communion: 1o.30, Morning Prayer and sermon by Rev. Frank PraTeS sadeF snd sermon ID D. by p srey % g Scoville: Wednesday,, St. Simon and St. Jude''s day, Morning Prayer and Holy Com-
 Dwight Place Congregational Church, Rev. Wm. ". Leete. D. D., pastor.-10:30 a. m., preaching by the pastor in, connec- ti9n tnSaoy. with h. public worship 12;oo Bible m. 6:30 p. m., Y. P. S. C. D. meeting to which all young people are invited, 7:30 p. m., evening service; the Choral society with the quartette will render special mu- of the pastors discourse.
 Mid-week meeting Tuesday evening 7:45 o'clock.
 United Church--Morning service at 10:3o. Sermon by Rev. Artemas J. Haynes. Sun day school at noon. Pleasant Sunday Af- ternoon Service for Women at 4. Young Peoples service at e:15.
 n;C,hht Trinity .t,sdt. M E Church. p, George and Service at 10:30 with sermon by the Rev. A. A. Richard. The pastor breaches at 7:30. Sunday school at F. Epworth league at 6:30.
 First Methodist Episcopal. Church, cor. Elm and College streets, Rev Henry Bak- CT, D. D., pastor.-The pastor will preach Prophets Prayer.'' 7:30 p. m. subject, "A Remarkable Woman" Sunday school at F m., Chinese school at 2:30 D. m., Ep- worth league service 6:30 pm.
 Grace NJ. E. Church.-At 10:30, sermon by Rev. H. D. Weston. At 7:30, Rev. A. J. Smith; subject, "Are You Ready?"
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WOMEN'S RAINCOATS of her. ring bone mixtures, pleited back and front, capes over shoulders, hobby sleeve and cuffs. $15.50
 MISSES AUTO. RAINCOATS, stylish mixtures, thoroughly rain- proof, double cape, velvet collar, Bishop sleeve. $10.50 WOMEN'S COVERT COATS in corset style, eleven rows of strap ping, finely tailored, Skinner satin lined. $20.oo, : MISSES COVERT COATS in loose Auto. length, strap in back, three-quarter length, lined through out with satin. $1o.50
 MISSES Heavy Zibeline COATS, loose fitting, braid trimmed collar, turnover cuffs. $6.50
 WOMEN'S SUITS in black and navy cheviot, long coat, satin lined, straps on coat and skirt, satin piped, blouse shape. $15.5o
 WOMEN'S SUITS in black and navy panne cheviot, corset shape long coat, lap seams on skirt and coat, Skinner satin lined. $22.50
 MISSES WALKING SUITS in high-grade mixtures, long blouse coat, braid and broadcloth trimmed, gun metal bullet buttons. $25.00
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WoMEN's LONG COATS in panne Zibeline, tailored seams, guaranteed satin lining, velvet col- lar, long revere, satin faced. $25.00
 WOMEN'S WALKING SKIRTS in black, navy and mannish mixtures, new styles, good tailoring, checks, stripes and mixtures. $500
 CHILDREN'S LONG COATS in navy, brown and red winter cheviot, velvet straps over shoulder, cape and cuffs, military buttons. $10.50.
 MISSES "PETER THOMPSON" SUITS in navy serge, service strap, ensigna, etc., correct model. $12.50
 CHILDREN's DRESSES in navy and brown mixed serge, all wool, dou ble shoulder capes, stripe silk yoke and pipings. $e.5o
 WOMEN'S WAISTS in new vestings, white and black-and-white, newest shapes for winter wear. $500 .WOMEN'S WAISTS in fancy stripe Scotch flannel, washable, tailored, large buttons. $3.45
 WOMEN'S Colored Flannel WAISTS tucks and pleitings. $2.a5 Black and Colored SILK PETTICOATS with wide rufae of pleiting and two rows ruches, all silk dust ruffle, worth $z5o,
 %* '.. -4~..., at S5.6s
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ONE WOMAN's DEVOTION.
A Texas Wife's Loyalty to Her Dead

Husbands Memory.
 An Indianapolis young woman whose winters are spent in Texas, where her father has thousands of cattle and acres of grass to feed them on, always brings North with her fund of interesting stories from the Lone Star State
 ''The greatest case of woman's devo- ton to the memory of dead husband I know of, said she, "is to be found on a big ranch in the foothills of the Sierra Madre mountains. She is a sweet faced English woman who is living a life of sacrifice from her friends because her husband lies buried In that country. Capt. Follett and wife came to Texas from England and settled on big ranch. The captain was successful and made money. Ills wife, refined and cultured woman endured the early pri- vations because she was with her hus- band and because he was doing well. After years of hard work, when they
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DEATHS.

PERKINS--In this city, October 9, 1903, Catherine M. Perkins. aged "A years. months and days,
 The funeral services will be held at the residence of her son, Wm B. Perkins, l42 Park street, Sunday afternoon, Oct. 25 at 8 o'clock. o24 1t X 0YIATT-In this city, October 24, 1903, Sidney Benjamin 0viatt, aged 5S years at the family residence, 24 Howe street. Notice Of funeral hereafter. oA 1t FISHER-At Detroit, Michigan, on October 20 George Park Fisher, Jr., son of Prof. George F. Fisher
 Funeral service at 27 Hillhouse avenue on Saturday, october 24, at 12 m. o23 2t
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Dr. and Mrs. Kowalewski have re- turned from their wedding trip and are at their home on Campbell avenue.
 William Gay is arranging to prosecute his jewelry and diamond business CD New York, with headquarters in Maid en Lane.
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SOUTH AFRICAN DIAMONDS.
Wealth in Discoveries Beyond tt
 Dream of Avarice.

WeaItI III DISCUVErI6S DEyUIIU IH6
 Dream of Avarice. . The recent important discoveries of diamonds in South Africa draw atten- tion to an industry more full of TO- nance even than that of gold mining; for the story of South African diamond discoveries is crowded with happenings more startling and dramatic than most fiction.
 The story of the finding of the first diamond has often been told-how a man of the name of o'Rielly, travelling south from the Orange River, sought a nights rest at the farmhouse of one
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RELIGIOUS SERVICES.

Calvary Baptist Church, corner Chape, pastor.-Preaching morning and evening at
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WANTED.

SITUATION in small family as chamber maid, lady,s waiting maid, or genera housew0rk in a small family. Call at s3l EAST STREET. o2l ifu
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wants.

ons cent . word for each insertion; ays cents . Nsrd for fun week. ssvsz nzsA
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WANTED.

POSITION by an experie.ced sesmstress 1. q family; nurse to q child or d lady. goot aairdresser, good references. Address 4 S.. Courier office o22 3tp
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WANrRn.

FOR the U.. s. Army; able.bodied, un1nar. ried men, between the ages of 2f and 35 eitlzens or United States. of good char speak, read and write English, For in formation apply RECRUITING OPTIC, FIX, S9O Chapel street, New Haven: Gt state street Hartford; 1922 Main street bury, Conn. oi.d3l
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SLEEMAN'S Reliable old Employneni Agency has removed to T6S Chapel street
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The Busy Cloak Room.

KeSOnS The vaStne of assortment The exclusiveness of for I The correctness of models The moderation of prices
 Here's q Feb Neps Hints for Safnrday:
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MARINE LIST.

MARINE LIST. sslAM PORT or NEW HAVEN
 ~ ARRIVED Sch Onyx (Br.} McSfillan, Bear River, N. S. Sch Sarah Jane, Martin, Greenport. Sch Florence, Quinlan, N. '. Sch Keystone, Roberts, Elizabethport.
 CLEARED. Sch Frank and Ira, tBr.). Barton Perth Am boy <. !, Sch Olive. Curtis, N. Y, ..e <. v- Sch Bessie and Annie, Williams, N. Y. Sch Neptune, Holbrook, N. Y. < Sch Onward. Moulton. N. Y.
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Jones' Employment Agency,

23 Church. Telephone f4oI-lz.
 Wanted-cooks, waitresses. houseHorkers ehamhermaids, kitchen girls. porters. bel boys, kitchen men, farm men, teamsters fol elty, country and seashore. Over 100 vac ancies. Call at once. f21 tf
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Sternharg's EmuIpymaut IpanoY

ARE you looking for frst-ciass heIp. city q, country, or good situationf Come ssf ne Fair dealings. German spoken, Opel evenings. 51 COURT ST. Tel. 1S21-2.
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SLEEMAN'S RELIABLE EMPLOYMENT AGENcY.763 CHAPEL STREET. Estab
 Best male and female help for any and Iii
 kinds of work. Sent Anywhere. na II
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marriageab1e and had a diamond big
ger than your head I should counsel
even my, maid against a union so unin-
viting and disastrous. AS for you, Mr..
Hartley" she continued, turning on the
secretary, you have sufficiently ex-
hibited your valuable qualities in this
house. We are now persuaded that
you equally lack manhood, sense and
self respect, and I can see only one
course open to you-to withdraw in
stanter and, if possible, return no more.
For your wages you may rank as
creditor in my late husbands bank
ruptcy."
Harry had scarcely comprehended
this insulting address before the gen.
eral was down upon him with another.
and in the meantime" said that
parsonage. follow me before the near
est inspector. of police. You may i'm
pose upon simple minded soldier, sir,
but the eye of the law will read your
disreputable secret. If I must spend
my old age, in poverty through your
underhand intriguing with my wife, !
mean at least that you shall not remain
unpublished for your pains, and God,
sir, will deny me a very considerable
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where the pursuer would he could find
no trace of the fugitive.
In the deepest dependency, Harry
revisited the scene of his mishap,
where the maid. who was still waiting,
very honestly returned him his hat and
the remainder of the fallen diamonds.
Harry thanked her from his heart, and,
being now in no hul1ior for economy,
made his way to the nearest cabstand
and set off for Eaton place by coach:
The house on his arrival seemed In
some confusion, as if catastrophe had
happened in the family, and the serv-
ants clustered together in the hall and
were unable or perhaps not altogether
anxious to suppress their merriment at
the characterization figure Of the secre
tary. He passed them with as good an
air of dignity as he could assume and
made directly for the boudoir. When
he opened the door. an astonishing and
even menacing spectacle presented it.
self to his eyes. for he beheld the gen.
eral and his wife and, Of all people.
Charlie Pendragon closeted together
and speaking with earnestness and
gravity on some important subject.
Harry saw at once that there was but
little left for him to explain. Plenary
confession had plainly been made to
the general of the intended fraud upon
his pocket and the unfortunate mis-
carriage Of the scheme, and they had
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satisfaction II you do not pick oaEum

satisfaction II you do not pick oakuln
from now until your dying day."
With that the general dragged Harry
from the apartment and hurried him
downstairs and along the street to the
police station of the district.
Here, says my Arabian author, ended
this deplorable business of the band
box, but to the unfortunate secretary
the whole affair was the beginning OF
new and manlier life. The police were
easily persuaded of his innocence, and
after he had given what help he could
in the subsequent investigations he
was even compltmented by one of the
chiefs Of the detective department on
the probity and simplicity of his beha-
vior. Several persons interested them
selves in one so unfortunate, and soon
after he inherited sum of money
from a maiden aunt in Worcestershire.
With this he married Prudence and
set sail for Bendigo or, according to
another account, Cor Trincomalee, ex-
ceedingly content and with the best OF
prospects. .;.> - a.
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DContinued from last week. I

uCOhtlnued from last week..
When this was finished, both proceed
ed to the front door, which Raeburn
cautiously opened to observe the
street This was apparently clear of
passengers. for he suddenly seized
Harry by the nape Of the neck and,
holding his face downward so that he
could see nothing but the roadway and
the doorsteps of the houses, pushed
shim violently before him down one
street and up another for the space of
perhaps a minute and a half. Harry
had counted three corners before the
bully relaxed his grasp and, crying,
"'Now, be off with your sent the lad
dying headforemost with a we'll direct
ed and athletic kick.
When Harry gathered himself up,
half stunned and bleeding freely at the
nose, Mr.. Raeburn had entirely disap-
Deared For the first time anger and
pain so completely overcame the lads
spirits that he burst into fit Of tears
and remained sobbing in the middle of
IKE road.
After he had thus somewhat assuaged
his emotion he began to look about him
land read the names of the streets at
whose intersection he had been desert
led by the gardener. He was still in an
'unfrequented portion of west London,
among villas and large gardens, but he
could see some persons at a window
who had evidently witnessed his mis-
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Compliment to His Abilities Not En-.
tirely ReIished,

When Rufus H. Choate was in tho
heyday of his career as a practitioner,
he undertook the defense of two men
accused of burglary. The prosecu-
tons chief witness contributed some
damaging testimony, and among other
things swore that the defendant tried
to induce him to join with them in
the burglary, offering rare induce
ments. Choate leaped to his feet, re-
minded the witness that he was under
oath and then menacingly asked:
Now, tell the Jury just how my
client tried to persuade you to join
in a crime!"
The witness hesitated; and Choate
repeated the question. The bench
upheld him in saying the witness
must answer.
WELL" faltered the witness, per-
SEPARATION starting from every pore as
he encountered the lawyers angry
gaze, they said no harm could come
to us, for there was a lawyer here in
Boston named Choate who could get
us of even il we were caught with
the money n our boots : S..