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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1904-04-22
School Report.

Report of Vinigar Hill school for
month ending April 8, 1904. Num-
Der of days taught 20; average daily
attendance IA; whole number OF days
attended by all 2S2a. Those neither
absent nor tardy for the month are:
Henry, Freddy and Katie Burmeister
and Herman Ehler. The shadow
social was postponed until the even
ing of April 10, on account of the
disagreeable weather. Let every
body come April, 10.
ETHEL STAHL, Teacher
A. Budde, prominent farmer liv-
ing in the east end of Rush county,
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1904-04-22

People who already have trees set
out, on the two streets where city
council recently ordered them set out,
will not berequired to reset, even if
they do not happen to be just the dis
lance from the. sidewalk line that the
oEdinan ce, calls for.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1904-04-22

iowa county last week

KIoWa county last week
Mr.. Elluott's had dance 10 their new
houss Saturday night.
Mr.. and Mrs Ell Gates and Mr.. and
Mrs. Albert Gates visited Mr.. and Mre.
Luther Converse SUNDAY.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1904-04-22

When you have anything to sell,
trade or exchange. small ad. in this
paper, at small expense, will do the
business.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1904-04-22
Baled Hay for Sale.

Plenty of good hay at my ranch
ten miles south and two east of
Ellinwood. M. E. RICHARDSON.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1904-04-22

GREAT BEND DISTRICT.
No. ST Scott City IL Is No. $40. e:lo
No. 555 1890 p. Mondays, Wednesdays and
Fridays,
No. & Daily.
No. $50, SIT and SCI daily except Sunday.
No. 8 stops only Ellinvood, Sterling, and
Hutchinson.
No. $50 stops at sll stations.
All freight must be at warehouse not later than
p. N.
Refrigerator freight for the East every
Wednesday by 8 p. m.
GEO. q. MOORE, Ast
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1904-04-22

The board sidewalk in front of the
Old Rome has been torn out, and
win be replaced by the regulation
kind.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1904-04-22

All the measley, measiey cases are
getting along all right now, and we hope
hat the community viii soon be rid of
hem
The Glenwood post., 1904-04-16
CHAPTER XIX.
Bill Watson,

Bill Watson.
The sheriff of Ellisville sat in his
Office oiling the machinery of the law;
which is to say, cleaning his revolver.
There was not yet any courthouse.
The sheriff was the law. Twelve new
mounds on the hillside back of the
Cottage Hotel showed how faithfully
he had executed his duties as judge
and jury since he had taken up his
of1ice at the beginning of the Cow
boom" of Ellisviile. His right hand
had found somewhat to do, and he had
done it with his might.
Ellisville was near the zenith of it's
bad eminence. The entire country had
gone broad-horn. Money being free,
whisky was not less so. The bar of
the Cottage was lined perpetually.
Wild men from the range rode their
horses up the steps and into the bar
room, demanding to be served as they
sat in the saddle, as gentlemen should.
Glass was too tempting to the six
shooters Of these enthusiasts, and the
barkeeper begged the question by
slowing away the fragments of his mir
lol anu heepllS llOSI VI HIS DtllleS OUT
of sight. More than once he was asked
to hold up bottle of whisky so that
some cow-puncher might prove his
skill by shooting the neck off from
the flask. The bartender was taci-
turn and at times glum but his face
was the only one at the bar that show
ed any irritation or sadness. This
railroad town was bright, new thing
for the horsemen of the trail-a very
joyous thing. No funeral could check
their hilarity; no whisky could daunt
their throats, long scared with alkali.
1t was notorious that after the civil
war human life was held very cheap
all over America, it having been seen
how small thing is man, how little
missed may be million men taken
bodily from the population. Nowhere
was life cheaper than on the frontier.
and at no place on that frontier of
less value than at this wicked little
city.
The sheriff of Ellisville looked
thoughtful as he tested the machinery
of the law. He had a warrant for a
new bad man who had come up from
The Glenwood post., 1904-04-16

hand perfectly steady. Only some
where deep down in his mind there
burned some little, still, blue flame of
devilishness. which left Ike Anderson
not human being, but skillful, logi-
cal and murderous animal.
This" said Ike Anderson to him
self all the time, this is little Ike An
derson, little boy, playing. | can
see the green fields, the pleasant
meadows, the little brook that crossed
them. l remember my mother gave
me bread and milk for my supper, al
ways. My sister washed my bare feet
when l was little. little boy" He
paused and leaned one hand against
porch post thinking. "A little, little
boy" he repeated to himself.
NO, it isn't" he thought. ITS
Ike Anderson, growing up. He's play
ing tag. The boy tripped him and
laughed at him, and Ike Anderson
got out his knife" He cast a red
eye about him.
mo, it isn't" he thought. Its Ike
Anderson, with the people chasing
him. And the shotgun. Ike's grow
ing up faster, growing right along.
They all want him, but they don't get
him. One, two, three, five, nine
eight, seven-I could count them all
once. Ike Anderson. No mother. No
sweetheart. No home. Moving, mov-
ing. But they never scared him yet
Ike Anderson. l never took
any cattle!"
An impulse to walk seized him, and
he did SO, quietly, steadily until he
met a stranger, man whose clothing
bespoke his residence in another re-
gion.
Good morning, gentle sir" said
Ike.
Good morning, friend" said the
other. smiling.
Gentle SIR" said Ike, lust lemme
look at you watch minuto, won't
you, please?"
Laughingly the stranger complied
suspecting only that his odd accoster
might have tarried too long over his
cups. Ike took the watch in his
hand. looked at it gravely for mo-
ment, then gave it jerk that broke
the chain, and dropped it into his own
pocket.
II like it," said he simply and
passed on. The stranger followed.
about to use violence, but caught sight
of white-faced man. who through
The Glenwood post., 1904-04-16
A EULOGY ON SIN.
Woman's Declaration That 1t Is All
Worth Living For.

Woman's Declaration That 1t Is All
Worth Living For.
The Paris correspondent of the Lon
don Globe tells curious story of
certain English writer who
had always, before he came to most
disastrous end, been famous for his
want of balance" This individual ap-
pears to have come by his defect nat
urally enough, to judge from the por-
trait of his mother sketched by one
of his friends. The writer once took
that friend to see the lady in question
and this is the way in which the in
terview is described:
1t was a beautiful sunny day in
June, the sort of day when all normal
people want to be out of doors. We
went to pretty house in London, and
were ushered into drawing room.
the shutters and curtains of which
were all carefully closed, the gas be-
ing lighted, and where there was
sickening smell of some very strong
perfume. Crouched in large chair
was the most terrible looking old
dame, with long, skinny hands and
glittering black eyes. She gave me
claw to shake and looked at me fixed
ly. Young man. said she, I don't
woman like me, but l can give you
some excellent advice. Remember
this. There is only one thing on
earth worth living for, and that is
sim"
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ANY trouble?"
Yep. Plenty"
"Who?"
"Why, it's Cal Greathouse. You
know Cal Last week he goes on
west ways, a-lookin fer some winter
range that won't be SO crowded. He
goes alone. Now. to-day his horse
comes back. draggin' his lariat. We
lowed we better come tell you. o.
course, they amt no horse gettin
away I'm Cal Greathouse, not If he's
alive"
The sheriff fell into thought, slowly
chewing at splinter. "I'll tell you"
he said at length, slowly, 81 KANT
very well git away right now. You
go over an git Cap Franklin. He's
good man. Pick up somebody else
you want to go along with you, an
then you start out on Calls trail, near
as you can git at it. You better take
along that ID Greaser O. yorn.
that big Juan, fer he kin run trail
like houn' You stop at all the out
fits you come to, fer say fifty miles.
Don't do nothin' more'n ask, an then
go on. If you come to outfit that
hain't seen him, an then another
outfit furder on that has seen him.
you remember the one that hain't. If
you don't git no track in fifty mile.
swing around to the southeast, an cut
the main drive trail an see If you
hear of anything thataway. If you
don't git no trace by that, you better
come on back in an tell me, an
then we'll see what to do about it
furder."
"All right, Bill" said Curly, rising
and taking a chew of tobacco, in
which the sheriff joined him. 'All
right. You got any papers fer us to
take along?"
"Papers?" said the sheriff contempt
uously. Papers? He'll"
Ike Anderson was drunk-calmly.
magnificently, satisfactorily drunk. 1t
had taken time, but it was fact ac-
complished. The actual state of af-
fairs was best known to Ike Anderson
himself, and not obvious to the passer-
by. Ike Andersons gaze might have
been hard, but it was direct. His
walk was perfectly decorous and
straight, his brain perfectly clear, his
The Glenwood post., 1904-04-16

the Indian nations, and who had cele
brated his first day in town by shoot
ing two men who declined to get off
the sidewalk, SO that he could ride his
horse more comfortably there.
Bill Watson, the sheriff of Ellisville,
was heavily built man, sandy haired.
red-mustached, and solid. His legs
were bowed and his carriage awk-
ward. He had thick, clumsy looking
fingers, whose appearance belied their
deftness. Bill Watson had gone
through the Quantrell raid in his time.
1t was nothing to him when he was
to be killed. Such a man is careful
in his shooting, because he is care
less of being shot, having therefore a
vast advantage over the desperate
of two or three victims, who does not
yet accept the fact that his own days
are numbered. The only trouble in
regard to this new bad man from
below was that his mental attitude
on this point was much the same as
that of Sheriff Bill Watson. There
fore the sheriff was extremely careful
about the oiling of the cylinder.
He finished the cleaning of his six
shooter and tossed the oiled rag into
the drawer of the table where he
kept the warrants. He slipped the
heavy weapon into the scabbard at
his right leg and saw that the string
held the scabbard firmly to his trouser
leg, SO that he might draw the gun
smoothly and without hindrance from
its sheath. He was a simple, unpre-
tentious man; not heroic figure as
he stood, his weight resting on the
sides of his feet, looking out of the
window down the long and wind-swept
street of Ellisville.
Gradually the gaze of the sheriff
focused, becoming occupied with the
figure Of a horseman whose steady
riding seemed to have purpose other
than that of merely showing his JOY
in living and riding. This rider passed
other riders without pausing. He
came up the street at a gallop until
opposite the Office door, where he
jerked up his horse sharply and
sprang from the saddle.
"Mornin', Bill" he said.
"Mornin', Curly said the sheriff
pleasantly. "Lookin' for a doctor!
You're ridin' perty fast"
Nope" said Curly. Reckon it's a
shade too late for a doctor"
The sheriff was gravely silent.
After a while he said, quietly:
The Glenwood post., 1904-04-16
A ChiId's Definitions.

The late Frederic r. Coudert, law
yer and wit, had great fondness for
children. He collected indefatigably
the quaint sayings of children, and
one of the treasures of his library
was small manuscript volume filled
with definitions that children had
composed. This volume was called a
"child's dictionary" and these are
some of the definitions that Mr.. Cou-
dert would read from it:
"Dust-Mud with the juice squeezed
out of it.
"Snoring-Letting off sleep.
"Apples-The bubbles that apple
trees blow.
Back .biter-a mosquito.
"Fan-A thing to brush the warm
off with.
"1ce-Water that went to sleep in
the cold"
The Glenwood post., 1904-04-16

Doan's Kidney Pills. Read how these
pills repair weakened physical con-
dition when this condition is caused
by sick kidneys:
Mrs. Sadie Mettles of 1894 w. 4th
Ave. Columbus, Ohio, says: Prior to
the year 1898 l suffered considerably
from backache, pain in the head, Ian
guor and depression and weakness of
the action of the kidneys. The pain
was always worse in the morning, and
/ felt miserable. l was induced to
procure a box of Doan's Kidney Pills
and l began their use. They proved
prompt and effective. They cured me
and there has been no return of the
trouble since taking them. | owe all
the credit to Doan's Kidney Pills
A FREE TRIAL of this great kid
ney medicine which cured Mrs. Met
ties will be mailed on application to
any part of the United States. Ad-
dress FosterMilburn Co., Buffalo, N.
Y. For sale by all druggists, price so
cents per box.
The Glenwood post., 1904-04-16
Deafness Cannot Be Cured

by local applications they cannot reach the dis
eased portion of the There is only one way to
cure Deafness and that is by constitutional remedies
Deafness is caused by an nfamed condition of the
mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this
tube is inlamed you have rumbling sound or i'm
perfect hearing, and when It is entirely closed Deaf
ness IL the result, and unless the Inflammation be
ttaken and this tube restored its normal cond
tion, hearing Will be destroyed forever; nine cases
out of ten caused by Catarrh, which II nothing
but an nnamed condition of the mucous surfaces
We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case OF
Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured
by Halls Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free.
+. j. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo, O
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
The Glenwood post., 1904-04-16

Every housekeeper should know
that If they will buy Defiance Cold
Water Starch for laundry use they
will save not only time, because 1t
never sticks to the iron, but because
each package contains 16 Ozone full
pound-while all other Cold Water
Starches are put up in &-pound pack
ages, and the price is the same, 10
cents. Then again because Defiance
Starch is free from all injurious chem
icals. If your grocer tries to sell you a
12-oz. package it is because he has
a stock on hand which he wishes to
dispose of before he puts in Defiance.
He knows that Defiance Starch has
printed on every package in large let
ters and figures "16 ozs." Demand
Defiance and save much time ana
money and the annoyance of the iron
sticking. Defiance never sticks.
The Glenwood post., 1904-04-16
New York Church Endowed.

Ono of the largest endowment funds
ever created for church in New
York City has been formed by the
will Of Smith Lafayette Russell, re-
tired business man, who died March
10th. 1t will amount to 100000 and
the testator's desire is along the line
of several recent moves to keep alive
church interest in the down town dis
trict from which many old religious
institutions have removed in recent
years.
The Duane Methodist Episcopal
Church in Hudson street on the lower
West Side is the beneficiary.
During the life of Mrs. Russell a por-
tion of the income from the fund is
to be paid her. At her death the en-
tire sum will be placed in trust and
the income, estimated at $4,000, will
be expended in building up the
church. Several Methodist charitable
institutions also will receive sums of
$4,000 each.
Little is known of Mr.. Russell and
his wife outside of their immediate
friends and neighbors in Washington
Place where they have lived many
years, devoting much of their time to
works of charity.
The Glenwood post., 1904-04-16
Remarkable Target Practice.

The United States warship kear-
sarge reports in recent target practice
six hits out of seven shots in five min,
utes with thirteen-inch gun. An
eight-inch gun made ten hits in ten
shots in the same time and a five-inch
gun eighteen hits in eighteen shots in
two minutes. This is believed to be
the best practice record ever made in
the world
The Glenwood post., 1904-04-16
Golf in EnuIand,

The playing of golf on Sundays is
practiced to such an extent that in
a certain parish in England, it is said.
the hour of service has been changed
to suit the convenience of players.
The Glenwood post., 1904-04-16
A Glass Sarcophaqus.

A sarcophagus, by the use of which
one may evade the sentence, dust tC
dust" has been patented. The remains
are first surrounded with coating OF
sodium silicate, or water glass, which
is allowed to dry. When the water has
sufficiently evaporated the subject is
placed in a mold which is to determine
the size of the glass block, and the
molten glass poured until the mold or
flask is filed
The Glenwood post., 1904-04-16
When Your Grocer Says

he does not have Defiance Starch, you may
be sure he is afraid to keep it until hfs
stock of IL OF. packages are sold. Defiance
Starch is not only better than any other
Cold Water Starch, but contains l6 OF. to
the package and sells for same money as IL
cx brands,
The Glenwood post., 1904-04-16
Insist on Getting It.

Some grocers say they don't keep De-
fiance Starch because they have stock in
hand of l2 OF. brands, which they know
cannot be sold to customer who has once
used the 16 OF. pkg. Defiance Starch for
same money.
The Glenwood post., 1904-04-16
AS Good AS Greeley,

Colorado farmers who want to own land
where they can make as much money
raising potatoes and field peas as on a
Greeley farm, should find out this
spring about Romeo. the new settlement
Land & Investment Company Zeph.
Chas. Felt, president. GIG Majestic build
ing, Denver, Colorado,
The Glenwood post., 1904-04-16

Mrs. Bacon see by this paper that
the average family in the United
States has four and seven-tenths per-
sons Mr.. Bacon suppose I'm the
seven-tenths of this family
The Glenwood post., 1904-04-16
SEND THIS NOTICE TO-DAY

to the John A. Salzer Seed Co.. La
Crosse, Wis, with SC stamps for mail
Ing, and get their big catalog, fully de-
scribing this great Hay Press, so also
hundreds of tools and thousands of va
rieties of Farm and Vegetable Seeds.
(W. N. u
The Glenwood post., 1904-04-16
Wigale-Stick LAUNDRY BLUE

Won't spill, break, freeze nor spot clothes
Costs 10 cents and equals 90 cents worth of
any other bluing. If your grocer does not
keep it send l0c for sample to The Laundry
Blue Co, IA Michigan Street, Chicago
The Glenwood post., 1904-04-16
WOMEN BREAK DOWN.

Sometimes wo m e n
drift into a condition
of half invalid" Con-
tinual langu uor. all
tired out, run down.
backache. nerves shat
tered. headache, terri
BILE pain, no appetite.
poor digestion. In nine
cases out of ten it's be-
cause the kidneys fail
to do their work Of
flltering the poisonous
system waste from the
blood. The kidneys
are weak and need the
cfrnr n nrir haln of
The Glenwood post., 1904-04-16

Mrs. Wlnslow's Soothing Syrup.
For children teehng, softens the gums reduces In
nammatlon allays pain, cures wind collie 25c bottle
The Glenwood post., 1904-04-16

Paste these notices on the wall and
live up to them: Trust, bust" Get
trusted, get busted!"
The Glenwood post., 1904-04-16
Those Who Have Tried IL

will no other. Defiance Cold Water
Starch has no equal in Quantity or Quail
ity-l6 OF. for 10 cents. Other brands con-
tain only IL OF.
The Glenwood post., 1904-04-16

Russians seldom use profanity. but their
language is full enough of bad names
without 1t.
The Glenwood post., 1904-04-16

won't shake out or blow out; by using
Defiance Starch you obtain better results
than possible with any other brand and
one third more for same money.
The Glenwood post., 1904-04-16
Hand Power Hay Press $500.

Greatest, simplest. best invention of
the age. boy can make regular
sized 14x1Sx4S in. bales like fun. and
two boys can bale three tons per day
easily,
The Glenwood post., 1904-04-16

You can't sharpen your wits by grind
Ing your teeth.
The Glenwood post., 1904-04-16

Is because made by an entirely different
process Defiance Starch is unlike any
other, better and third more for 10
cents
The Glenwood post., 1904-04-16

Many a man who knows there is
room at the top sits Gown and waits
for the elevator.
The Glenwood post., 1904-04-16
Why II Is the Best

Other people troubles bore a man
more than his own.
The Glenwood post., 1904-04-16
More Flexible and Lastinu,

A friend in need seldom hesitates
to tell you so.
The Glenwood post., 1904-04-16

The judge charges the jury, but not as
much as the lawyer charges his client.
The Glenwood post., 1904-04-16

a deaf person has time TO do a lot of
thinking without being disturbed while
others are doing the talking
The Glenwood post., 1904-04-16

Some girls would rather flirt than
eat and some do both simultaneously.
The Glenwood post., 1904-04-16

Carpets can be colored on the floor
with PUTNAM FADELESS DYES.
The Glenwood post., 1904-04-16

Ftso's Cure cannot be too highly spoken of as
a cough cure.-J. w O'BRIEN, 322 Third Avo,
N. Minneapolis, Mimi, Jan. 9. 1900
The Glenwood post., 1904-04-16
Cheap Rates Again via Union Pacific.

One-way second-class coonist tick
cts at the following low rates will be
on sale daily from March l to April
80. inclusive. via Union Pacific r. r.:
To San Francisco. Los Angeles.
San Diego. and many other Cali
To Everett, Fairhaven, Whatcom.
Vancouver and Victoria. via Hunt
tngton and Spokane ............ 25.OO
To Tacoma and Seattle via Hunt
ington and Portland. or via Hunt
ington and Spokane ............ 25.OO
land. Roseburg. Eugene. Albany
and Salem. including branch lines
in Oregon. via Portland ......... $500
To Spokane. all intermediate main
and branch lines on o. r. e. N. Co..
also to Wenatchee and interme-
To Butte, Anaconda Helena and all
intermediate main line points,. 20.OO
Very liberal stop-overs allowed in
Nevada, California and at and west of
Pocatelo, Idaho.
For full Information call on your To-
q. R. GRIFFIN.
Genl Agent. U. p. r. r..
941 18th St. Denver.
''I am ready to grant" said Mr., Meek
that polygamy is a sin: but | maintain
that the polygamist gets his full punish
ment in this world
ETC permanently No fits or nervousness, after
rst days use of DR.. Klines Nerve Restor-
sea S5 EfEE E 81 90 of ssd
II never think of business out of bust
found that | was doing business with peo-
pie who did"
The Glenwood post., 1904-04-16

If man has stiff income he can
afford to have stiff backbone.
The Glenwood post., 1904-04-16

Il am ready to grant" said Mr.. Meek
that polygamy is sin: but maintain
that the .polygamist gets his full punish
ment in this world
The Glenwood post., 1904-04-16

E1Y$ permanently cured No fits or nervousness After
irst days use of DR.. Kline's Restor.
er. Send for FREE %. 90 trial bottle treatire,
DE- r. H. KLINE, Ltd 9Sl Arch Street, Ph1ladelphia Pa
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1904-12-10
We Ran Some, Anyhow.

The Donaldsonville Chief says its editor ran
ahead of the Republican ticket in Ascension
parish on the Sth, but it failed TO say how far
behind the Democratic ticket he ran.-Cata-
houla News.
The full returns of the Ascension
election were printed in the same issue
and same column of The Chief thai
contained the statement quoted by The
News, the figures showing the vote re-
ceiged by both the Democratic and
Republican candid ates at every poll in
the parish, but perhaps our Cata-
houla contemporary is not accustomed
to finding such information in the
Louisiana country press and over
looked it. Surely, The News doesn't
begrudge us the satisfaction of brag-
cling a bit because we ran ahead of
Roosevelt il our parish and district?
President Teddy has made the best
run on record, and if we outstripped
him on even little piece of the course,
can we strut round and crow a few
times without having a lot Of rural
Democratic roosters pecking and
cack1ing at US? Shoe, you Catahoula
shanghai!