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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1905-03-10

that disdainful girl how deeply she
had wronged, as well as affFonted.
him.
He would have known better had he
had time to analyze the chagrin and
pain and jealousy which possessed him
all the long hours that followed his
morning talk with some staff COM
rades of the Second corps. 1t seems
that three days before, on the 18th of
June, while they of the Second were
pushing cautiously northward through
Maryland, they were made aware that
a column of cavalry was passing
around them from the south. and that
while they were swinging through
Uniontown the cavalry were trotting
through Westminster, only five miles
from their flank. "Gregg's division, Of
course" said they who saw through
glasses the far-distant column
"Gregg, not much,'' said Haskell, who
had ridden out toward Union Mills on
a scout of his own. Its Jeb Stuart
with his whole outfit and not a little of
ours. He must have been helping him
self every mile of his way from the
Potomac And this. indeed. proved
to be the case; for, as they lay in the
fields about Uniontown that night,
there reached them rueful. crest
fallen little party of officers, gathered
in by Stuart at the crossing of the Bal
timore pike. Two were field officers
who from convalescent hospital were
striving to overtake their regiments;
the third was Mai. McKinnon, ordered
to report without delay to the COM
manding general, Army of the Poto-
mac; and McKinnon, it seems, had also
been convalescing in Baltimore, but
not from wounds. These three, with
their light luggage, had been bounced
upon at a wayside tavern by a roister-
ing troop of Stuart's fankers and
dragged before this cavalry command
er. One of the parties presented the
three captured officers Stuart invited
his captives to be seated while an
aide took their names, regiments, ETC.,
and as McKinnon gave his there was
sudden sensation. The young cavalry
man sprang forward, seized McKin-
mons hand, shook it effusively, and,
to the amaze of every one present, eX-
claimed: Gen. Stuart. l am sure, sir,
you will treat this gentleman with
| every possible consideration. 1t was
he, sir, who so nobly defended my
father at Washington when Secretary
Stanton would have sent him to Fort
Warren-and Rosalie. too, for that
matter. 1t was Maj. McKinnon, sir,
who pleaded their cause with the sec
rotary and had them returned to Char
| lottesville. 1t was he, sir, who in other
ways most generously aided them
81 am glad to hear it Jack said the
bearded general. evidently warming to-
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1905-03-10
Several thousand two

Several thousand two and three
year old honey Iocusts, raised in Bar
ton county, for sale. See or write,
in either English or German, to Au-
gust CARING, lock box SAC, Great
Bend, Kans.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-06-17
Found a Long~Lost Deed

dead governor was sure that her hus-
band had held the title of the farm at
the time of his death. A thorough
search was made.
Finally it occurred to one of the
executors to compile list of all of
the agents Gov. Robinson had en-
p]oyed during his lifetime. All Of
these agents that could be found we're
seen and each of them searched
everywhere for the deed. Finally one
of them recalled an old desk that he
had sold to a secondhand dealer
few years before. The desk was
traced to a farmhouse almost adjoin-
ing the Robinson farm. The desk was
searched, but the missing document
was not discovered. The farmer. who
owned the desk was not satisfied with
the search made by the lawyers who
had visited him for that purpose. He
took the desk apart and behind
broken panel found the missing deed.
The document was recorded the
next day and the widow of the late
Gov. Robinson is now sure OF her
home during her lifetime and the Uni
versity of Kansas is again secure in
it's anticipation of valuable legacy.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-06-17
The Jester

For who brings smile to the care-worn
face,
And who juggles with words to tell
Of joke newborn to this world forlorn,
Fashions well-and exceeding well.
And I may be right when I hold to-
And as thousands have held before:
That there's more of worth in new
jokes birth
Than Of wit in the wise mans lore.
So come to you with my cap and bells
With my bauble and bubbles bright;
And spell I'd weave-and your hearts
relieve
Of, their manifold cares tonight
For who coins a laugh from his golden
chaff
If a friend-though a humble hind;
But who hides joke meath his somber
Is an enemy to mankind.
Then a fool I'd be-and a fool remain
TO the close of the merry feast
Till the night be sped-and the old day
dead,
And the dawn in the darkling east
And these words alone, on my chlSeled
StOne
would have as my final wage:
"Lo, the sad world smiled at her antic
child
But she wept when he left the stage!'
james Ball Naylor.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-06-17
Bank of En- gland Notes

five or six days. The returned notes
are brought into what is known as
the accountants sorting office. Here
they are examined by inspectors, who
reject any which may be found to be
counterfeit. In such a case the pay
ing-in bank is debited with the
amount. The notes come in from vari-
Gus banks in parcels, each parcel ac-
companied by a memorandum stating
the number and amount of the notes
contained in it. This memorandum is
marked with a certain number, and
then each note in the parcel is stamp
ed to correspond, the stamping ma
chine automatically registering how
many are stamped, and consequently,
drawing attention TO any deficiency
in the number Of notes, as compared
with that stated in the mem ora1dum.
This done, the notes are sorted accord
ing to number and date, and, after be-
ms defaced by punching out the let
tiers indicating the value and tearing
off the corner bearing the signature,
are passed to the bank note library,
where they are packed in boxes and
preserved for possible future refer.
ence during period Of five years.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-06-17
Roam Mare Told Secret

liked to be asked where you we're 60
ing when you-" Mother blushed and
father looked cOntrite.
Then ask the roam mare,' be sug:
gested. What that roam mare does
not know about the business isn't
worth knowing. You have Hiram hitch
her up tomorrow and give her her
head, and she'll soon show you your
future daughter-ln-law.
Mother adopted fathers suggestion
the next day, and sure enough the
roam mare trOtted off in a way so pur.
poseful it was almost human. She
turned neither to the right nor to the
left until she had come to the end OF
her accustomed route. Then she
halted, and turned to look round into
the buggy inquiringly.
The pucker disappeared from moth.
er's brow, and she beamed upon the
roam mare as if it had been all her
doing; for this was the one girl out
of the whole township whom she
would have selected herself if she had
been consulted.-New York Press.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-06-17
"In the Northern Seas

In Northern Seas" book by E.
Wilmington, recounting the adventures
Of Alfred Searcy in northern Austria
la, has the following about turtles:
when l went down the coast on one
occasion l obtained magnificent tur
tie shell, worth about $40. The coast
is infested with hawk-bill turtles, from
which the article of commerce known
as tortoiseshell is taken. There is
also an unlimited supply of the green
back turtle, from which the famous
soup is made. l have eaten the hawk
bill turtle, but the green-back is con-
sidered the proper one for edible pur-
poses. have seen the natives kill the
turtles and, after cutting out the
meat, scoop out the rich green fat,
which lies between the meat and the
shell, and eat it hot and raw. The
turtles come up above high water mark
and scratch out a nest in the sand,
where they lay their eggs and then
cover them over The eggs are
hatched by natural heat. In the first
nest l found I obtained ten dozen
fresh eggs. We used them in ONE
lets.''
Mr.. Searcy also says: when pass
ing through a belt of mangroves we
started thousands and thousands Of
flying foxes. Soon a great eagle ap'
peared on the scene and, having spot
ted fine, plump fox, started to cut
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-06-17

it out. Away the victim went, dodg'
ing among it's fellows. Every now and
then we could hear a plaintive cry,
as the eagle followed it up The others
did not seem to take the least notice.
When the creature was fairly out Of
the crowd the eagle bounced on it and
sailed away. | have never tackled
flying fox myself, but by the natives it
is considered a great delicacy, and
only old men are allowed to eat it..
To convey some idea of the numbers
which congregate together, when near
Echo island on one occasion, we saw
what we thought to be clouds of
smoke. The dense mass turned out
to be flying foxes.'
when at observation-disclosures, in
Bowen straits, on one trip, l saw a
native with a spear prodding a large
mass of coral rock,'' relates Mr..
Searcy. "This was at low water and
the native speared rock cod every
time. The fish had been left there by
the tide. Blacks at Port EssingtOn
have a very clever way Of catching
fish in rockholes under water. 1t is
done with a plant which they secure
in the jungle. The plant is we'll
brushed, fastened to a stick and
thrust into the hole. 1t must be a
strong narcotic, for if there are any
fish there they are turned up, but af-
terward recover"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-06-17
Stories Of "Joe" Jeffe rson

acter, the ticket-of-leaye man, was a
hero instead Of villain. The sue
cess of the piece was immediate and
Jefferson was the idol of the town.
Jefferson used to tell an interesting
story Of how his father and company
were rescued from a distressing pre-
dicament in Springfield, III. Arriving
there they used the last of their funds
in building small theater, There
was religious revival in the town,
the leaders of which not only denounc.
ed the players but persuaded the
town council to impose a heavy
license upon the "unholy calling.'
All the actors we're in despair,
when they were visited by young
lawyer, who offered, in the interest of
fair play, to have the license fee re-
duced He appeared before the coun-
Gil, and in an eloquent speech, filled
with logic and pathos anil interspers-
ed with anecdotes which raised roars
of laughter, won his point. The law
year was Abraham Lincoln. M H..
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-06-17

"All Bank Of England notes are
printed in the bank ITSELF Six print
ing presses are in constant operation,
the same machines printing first the
particulars of value, signature, etc.,
and then the number Of the note in
consecutive order. The paper used is
of very peculiar texture, being at once
thin, tough and crisp; and the com;
bination of these qualities, together
with the peculiarities of the water
mark, which is distributed over the
whole surface of the paper, forms one
of the principal guarantees against
imitation. The paper which is manu-
featured exclusively at one particular
mill, is made in oblong slips, allow
ing just enough space for the printing
of two notes, side by side.
mo note,' declares the Chicago
Banker, lis ever issued second time.
When once it finds it's way back to the
bank to be exchanged for coin it is
Immediately Cancelled, and the reader
will probably be surprised to hear
that the average life of bank note,
or the time during which it is in &C.
tual circulation, is not more than
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-06-17

Annoy is an island city on the China
coast, near FOrmOsa. There are
mountains west of Annoy and accord
ing to a correspondent there are tigers
in them. These tigers lead an easy
and independent life in the caves and
dens which abound. They come out
Of these every evening just as the
shadows creep over the land and the
blue mists rise from the lower ground
and hide the hills. Then the lnhabl-
tants get within their houses and keep
the door between them and these
savage brutes. Many a poor woman
coming with water from the we'll, or
farmer, delayed too long in the helds'
has fallen victim to them. The nights
are spent by the tigers in foraglng'
and the foxes and wild cats that roam
the hills and the dogs in the villages
become their prey.
There is nothing, however, that
gives the tigers such supreme delight
as the capture of good-slzed pig.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-06-17

An unrecorded deed was found in
an obscure corner of an old desk in
Lawrence, Kan, not long ago, which
insured to the University of Kansas
valuable legacy, says the Kansas City
STAR After the death of the late Gov.
Charles Robinson it was found that he
had followed up a number of valuable
gifts made to the university during
his lifetime by bequeathing to the uni
versity his valuable farm a few miles
north of Lawrence. His widow was
to have the farm during her life and
then it was to go to the state uni
versity.
A few months ago L. S. Steele, an
abstractor in Lawrence, was commits
stoned to make an abstract of the
farm. He found the title vested in a
sister of Gov. Robinson by virtue of
deed more than twenty-five years
ago. The executors could not find any
deed or other instrument transferring
the property to Gov. Robinson. For
a time it seemed as if the legacy
would be lost. The woman in whom
the title was vested had been dead
for several years. The widow of the
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-06-17

The wise old farmer and his good
wife were discussing the case of their
eldest son. The eldest son had been
asserting himself from the family
circle on Wednesday and Sunday
evenings with suspicious regularity
now these many weeks. Not only that,
but on those evenings he donned the
very finest of his clothes. Father re-
membered that in the counting eti-
ouette of his youth Wednesday even
ing calls were considered by the girls
parents to mean BUSINESS; also that
staying to Sunday night supper was
equivalent to publishing the bans.
Mother looked troubled. She con-
fessed she would like to know who
the girl was.
II Go hope she knows something
about housekeeping and isn't girl
wao is always gadding about" she
said wistfu]ly, with an anxiops look
on her usually placid brow.
"Why don't you ask him?' said
father, with a twinkle in his eye.
ASK him! How would you have
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-06-17


Operating a gold mine to secure
funds for the juvenile court of the city
of Denver is the latest fad of Mrs.
J. J. Brown, one of the society lead
ers of Colorado's capital, according
to the Cleveland Leader. The funds
of the treasury upon which the judge
of the juvenile court in Denver has
drawn to reclaim boys from their
wicked ways have been fearfully low
of late. Judge Ben B. Lindsey, father
of the juvenile court movement in the
west, appealed to a Mrs. Brown,
whose wealth and social position have
made her the patron o. all the chart
ties of the day.
If YOU could only insure us an in
come of $4,000 a year, said the Judge
to this resourceful woman.
Mrs. Brown was lost in thought for
a brief space and then said: II will
insure you twice that sum; the boys
CT Denver deserve attention from so
ciety. l will lease claim in Cripple
Creek and give them the proceeds"
The next day Mrs. Brown penned re-
erets to a round of fashionable func-
tons and was off to the great mining
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-06-17
Mine Dividends for. Waits

camp. She exchanged the frilled and
fiounced gowns of costly material
which had set two continents agog by
reason of their cost and beauty for
the rough "togs' OF frontier woman,
and surmounted her wealth of glossy
hair with a sombrero instead of Pa
risian creation.
Personally she inspected the ores
of the claims from which she hoped to
select the property she would operate
for the Denver juvenile court. She
went down into the mines often in
the iron-bound bucket dangling from
a rope Windlass. She knocked frag-
ments from the hanging wall with a
miners pick and took them to an
assayer to determine the value of the
lead" She examined more than a
dozen claims in the four days she
spent in Cripple Creek and out OF this
number she selected one that was
rich enough to pass muster.
Since the mine was opered six
weeks ago the smelter receipts, be-
sides paying expenses of operation,
have added over 1000 to the juvenile
court fund in Denver.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-06-17

rade upon the planking of Long wharf.
The boats are waiting that will take
them over to Charlestown.
These scarlet coats will be the par
Elephants in an act Of more than sim
ply dramatic interest. They can see
the hill in Charlestown~ which they
are to assault, and they know that the
recount will be a slaughter pen for
some of her own number.
The boats are receiving their loads.
There are plenty Of places for people
that will take no more room than
you and I.
What if we also embark? We may
have tramped in thought over
Charlestown neck with the Continent
ais and looked down on Britain's
troops. What if we go with the Brit
ish and look up with them at the
Americans waiting in those earth
works? 1t is not a lengthy boat ride
to Morton's point where our navy yard
now is. Morton's point is good place
to start a thanking movement.
You have been looking at little
Charlestown while crossing the river,
Charlestown village of about 1000 peo-
pie, and they cultivate farms. There
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-06-17
One Requisite Of Success

dullness instead of enthusiasm and
alertness, to the performance of the
most important duties of their lives.
The man who comes to his work in
the morning unrefreshed, languid and
listless cannot do good, honest days
work, and if he drags rotten days into
the year how can he expect a sound
career or successful achievement:
Good work is not entirely question
of will power; often this is impaired
by low ply steal standard. The quail
ity of the work cannot be up to high
water mark when every faculty, every
function and every bit of your ability
is affected by your physical and men
tai condition. You may be sure that
your weakness, whatever its cause.
will appear in your days work
whether it is making boots or selling
them, teaching school or studying,
singing or painting, chiseling statues
or digging trenches. Success. :
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-06-17
VOL. 21. NO. "a.
Russia 1905

4 red haze hung over the mountain
The fail in the valley was still,
A lone woman Wept DER BABY that
slept
And the grain lay unground at the mill.
A pillow in the half cloven furroW.
A forge that was smokeless and dead,
While over it all hung the stiffness,
pail,
And the haze Ger the mountain, blood
red.
And over and over and over
By village and farmhouse and hill,
A haze. bloody red, all the landscape
o'erspread,
And the valleys deserted and still.
The earth at the seedtime unbroken,
The fields at the harvest ungleaned,
And lone vigil kept by woman who
With babe at her bosom unweaned.
Then down from the mountain horse
Dashed: plumed and sworded and
Nor heard he the moan Of the woman
alone,
Nor saw he the grain all unfailed:
TO arms!' For the battle was bloody;
TO arms arms; For the columns were
And over the land rang his brazen COM
mand,
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-06-17

For his horse wore the wings of the
Then fatherless lads from their novels
Went shouldering ponderous guns,
And old men and gray tottered weakly
away
To find the rude graves Of their sons;
For country is higher than kindred,
And what is the glory of Sod
Unwet by the food of its yeon1ans red
, blood?
And warts it not more than God?
So. women with babes at their bosom
GazeO out Ger the burrows untitled,
Through the haze resting red like the
blood that was shed
In faraway struggle unwilled;
And eyes that are swollen and anguished,
Uplifted in silent appeal;
40. God Of the Poor, does Thy mercy en-
dure
When Thy monarchs know naught but
of steel?"
And over and over and over.
BY village and hamlet and hill:
The haze. resting red like the blood that
But the fail in the valley is still.
The earth at the seedtime unbroken
The fields at the harvest ungleaned.
And lone vigil kept by woman who
wept
With babe at her bosom unweaned.
j. w. Foley, in New York Times.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-06-17

It makes all the difference in the
world, in results, whether you come
to your work every day with all your
powers intact, with all your faculties
up to the standard; whether you come
with the entire man, so that you can
fling your whole life into your task or
with only part of yourself; whether
you do your work as giant or as a
pigmy. Most people bring only a
small part of themselves to their
tasks. They cripple much of their
ability by irregular living, bad habits
in eating and injurious food lack of
sleep, dissipation of some other folly.
They do not come to their tasks ev-
cry morning whole men, a part of them
selves, and often large part, is some
where else. They left their energy
where the were trying to have a good
time, so that they bring weakness
instead of power, Indifference and
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-06-17

Joseph Jefferson had many griefs
during the earlier period of his long
career. His first wife died in 1861
and this, in connection with the fail
ure of his play, RIP Van Winkle,"
left him heartbroken. He went to
San Francisco and then to Australia.
While there he announced his inten-
ton of putting on a new play, THE
Ticket of Leave Man, This being the
popular designation Of convicts who
had been deported to Australia from
England, the idea was looked upon by
the public largely ticket-of-leave
mem with great disapproval. Jeffer-
son was warned, over and over again,
that the result would be disastrous,
and that he would be mobbed.
Stin he persisted and on the even
ing of the first production Of the play
the theater was crowded with hard
characters, ready to Go violence to the
players. But, to their surprise and
qualification, the play turned out to
be one in which the principal char
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-06-17
Fierce Tigers Of China

They are truly Chinese in their tastes
in this respect. One OF these animals
will go at a steady trOt with dead
pig thrown over it's back up the sides
Of steep hills, jumping over huge
powders and taking cross cuts over
the most inaccessible ground. The
physical strength of tiger is some
thing enormous, and it's capacity for
devouring large quantities of food is
scarcely less amazing."
"A Chinaman asleep in tiger-trap
is something of novelty, even for
Perak," says a Penang writer. "A
coolie was discovered one morning
near a. Kinta mine, having apparently
passed the night in the trap. When
reused he said that sleep had over
taken him and so he chose the one
spot least likely for the tiger to visit
the trap that had been set for
year without result. He thought that
the tiger knew thing or two about
traps"