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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-10-07
Truth About Barbara Freitehie.


The house of Barbara Freitchie was
not on the line of march, and it was,
therefore, highly improbable that any
general, Union or Confederate, would
advance against it for the purpose of
shooting either her or her flag. War,
in September, 1862, was too serious
an affair to waste shot on old ladies
who lived on side streets. The real
heroine of the flag incident was
young woman-a Mrs. Mary Guam
trille, who lived on Patrick street Ac-
cording to the testimony of reliable
persons who lived in Frederick during
the war, this Mary Quantrille was one
of those young and ardent patriots
who got out of their way to shake the
flag in the face of the enemy. That
crazy Mary Quantrille." they were
wont to say, will get us all killed
yet, or sent over the line, for her flag
waving" When the Confederates
marched into Frederick, in Septem-
Der, 1862, and the wise ones drew in
the starry banners, hiding them from
lawless hands, Mary ran out on the
porch, waving small flag in the face
of the passing troops. One of the sol
diers jokingly called to her that he
wanted the flag to give to Gen. Lee
Whereupon Mary stoutly answered
that the flag was worthy of better
cause than the one for which his Gen.
Lee and himself were fighting. This
seemed to amuse some of the men,
and one of the officers ordered the
band to serenade the heroine. They
played Dixie Maryland, My Mary
land" and 1.-The Star-Spangled Ban
ner'' in front of her house. Mary still
waved the flag, and one of the soldiers.
who did not look gently upon her, as
did his more gallant comrades, came
up and struck the slender staff with
his bayonet. The flag fell, and he
trampled upon it. An officer stepped
out of the line and reproved the man
for what he had done, whereupon a
comrade of Mary's pulled small silk
en- flag out of her voluminous sleeve
and handed it to her. This flag she
waved vigorously as the men marched
on 1t seems that every one in Pat
rick street knew of this incident; but
there was no talk of shooting on the
part of the Confederates, nor was
Mary regarded as a heroine; indeed,
she was called "silly-"-Era Magazine
for August.
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Six Doctors Failed.

South Bend, Ind. Sept. 25th (Spe-
ciaD-After suffering from Kidney
Disease for three years; after taking
treatment from six different doctors
without getting relief, Mr.. ]. o. Lau-
deman Of this place found not only
relief but speedy and complete cure
in Dodd's Kidney Pills. Speaking Of
his cure Mr.. Laudeman says:
Yes, l suffered from Kidney Trou-
BILE for three years and tried six doc
tors to no good. Then l took just two
boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills and they
not only cured my kidneys, but gave
me better health in general. OF course
1 recommended Dodd's Kidney Pills
to others and 1 know number now
who are using them with good re-
Suits
Dir. Laudeman's case is not an ex
ception. Thousands give similar ex-
periences. For there never yet was a
case of Kidney Trouble from Back
acne to Bright's Disease that Dodd's
Kidney Pills could not cure. They are
the only remedy that ever cured
Bright's Disease
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AN ARsENT-MINDED MAN.

I'm up against the banner absent.
minded man of my life,' said George
Moser, the clerk of the Coates house,
says the Kansas City Times. HE
went away last Tuesday, and we
found, of all things in the world, that
he had left his evening dresscoat and
prayer book behind him. Wednesday
we received wire. Send left lug
gage my hotel but he didn't say
where it was and he left no address
when he went away. Yesterday got
an indignant letter protesting against
our carelessness, but it was written on
plain paper and contained no address.
So the dresscoat and prayer book are
still undelivered and we can't find
their owner"
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THOUSANDS OF LIVES SAVED
BY Mothers Medicine Chest" and
Patent Prescriptions.

Commenting on attacks made by
certain eastern publications on some
of the best known and most valuable
of the worlds proprietary medicines,
the Committee on Legislation OF the
Proprietary Association says:
"All through the country districts,
in every state of the union, you will
find in the farm houses the old family
remedies, sometimes called patent
medicines many of which have been
in use in the same household for gen.
erations. Among such people the old
fashioned proprietary medicine. al
ways at hand with full printed in
structions for use, is one of the neces-
stiles of life.
ITO families in the country many
miles from doctor such remedies are
invaluable. Mothers medicine chest
has saved many a life and met many
a threatening sickness at the thres-
hold and turned it out of doors. So
far from constituting self-prescription,
as is often pretended, acquaintance
with patent medicine often obvi-
ates the necessity of such a step; for
here is prescription already made
up, the effect of which is well known
One of the greatest advantages OF
such medicine is that its constant for
mula gives it the character of a single
drug, so far as uniformity of result is
concerned. and the people who use it
know from experience just what they
can count on-whfch is more than can
be said of many physicians prescrip-
tons frequently obtained at far
greater cost and trouble"
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SQe was the pet or the family. AS tho
children were born they were taken
to the barn to make her acquaintance.
Their earliest childhood reco1lections
were of playing in her stall and of
watching. her lift her delicate limbs
upon.
Every family Notwithstanding
the parson, having relatives come,
birthday parties, christenings-the bay
mare took part in Freed from her
stall she would stand at front win
dow and be fed with dainties by all
the guests. Yet she kept her nerve
and strength, answering to every call
for work Larry put upon her, just as
she had in the old war days.
Decoration day was the proudest
one of the year to her because then,
gayly caparisoned, she moved in the
parade with Larry, heard the bugles
call, saw the cleaning bayonets again,
recognized familiar uniforms. To
horses that had not lived what she
had she seemed to say:
i've lived the real thing. 1 was a
companion of war-tO me belongs as
much honor as to the dead"
One day Larry was taken sick and
he realized that lights OUT would
soon be sounded for him. He went to
his end as a man of soldierly spirit
should, his affairs arranged, himself
unafraid. But as he weakened he had
the mare brought out each day to a
window by the side of which stood
his bed and she would stand there by
the hour to take his feeble caresses,
her eyes mutely questioning as to what
he suffered.
So one morning while he ran his
white. knotted fingers through her
name, he said to her:
"Girlie, the bugles are calling from
the other side; I've got to leave you.
But I'll be watching for your coming"
The wife came in later and found
him asleep at last, the mares bOny
head close to his stilled lips.
Now Larry and his wife had made a
love match and through the years they
had kept tender one to the other, SO
with his going, although she gave to
the children all the great good in her.
she chung most to the bay mare.
1t was pathetic of an evening to see
her go to the stall where the shadows
were already deep and talk to the bay
mare of Larry.
I'VE miss him, don't we, girlie?" she
would whisper. I'VE want him back
badly, don't we?"
To which the mare gave quick as
sent in her own way.
Its hard for a woman to be with
out her man, grille, after she's walked
with him many years. The children
are good, the home is fair, but, oh.
grille, 1 want him back again.
The years have been many since the
bay mare, too, went her appointed
he
stall to find her dead through old age.
She was decently buried and until
time and weather obliterated the
board there marked the spot on the
old Vincennes road where she lay a
slab bearing the inscription:
"Larry's Girlie.'-H. l. G. in Chi
cago Post
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With a sudden spring he was over the
side of the boat

with a sudden spring he was over the
side of the boat.
. People almost always seemed attract
ed to Dick and the plate seldom came
back empty when he carried it,
The two had a merry time racing
digging holes in the sand, as all boys
love to do, now stopping before a
group of children or a little picnic
party for a dance or two, and more
pennies. When the boat left they
were tired out and Tom found a cor
ner where they hid behind some boxes
and both fell asleep. Later there was
commotion and a sudden rush. Tom.
only half awake, jumped to his feet
and was pushed along by the crowd.
Dick saw him waver a moment on the
edge of the boat and heard a shout.
Boy overboard!' With a sharp,
piercing cry he sprang after Tom, but
the crowd separated them. He could
not understand all that happened for
he was so short he could not see
much, and he could not ask, but he
knew that they were trying to save
his friend. He looked piteously into
the faces about him, uttering the shrill
moan of the dumb. He heard a voice
say:
''Of course, it was useless, the boat
was moving so fast they could not
| find him. Poor little street beggari
he is better off as it ISL
The mate had tears in his eyes
! when, passing across the deck, he
| spied Dick
Poor little fellow, what is going
to become of your" and he lifted him
up. Nobody ever wanted to touch
Tom, but some way Dick never looked
dirty and his hair was not so untidy
I'll take you home and you shall
live with me-" said the mate, putting
his arm around him, but Dick kept
up the same pitiful cry and his eyes
were fastened on the dancing water
that had seized his loved companion
He had nobody in the whole world but
Tom, there was nobody else for him to
love. Tom was there in the blue
lovely. shining water-his Tom, and
that was where he wanted to be
| Where his Tom was he could be happy
again Poor ignorant, untaught wai1
of the streets, but faithful unto death
He wrenched himself free from ths
mate and with sudden spring he wa:
over the side of the boat and the
water closed over him. There was
stir and cry among the passengers, ant
the man who had spoken before sait
in a subdued voice:
We'll. I've seen a good many acci
dents in my life, and I've heard tina
men commit suicide for many rea
sons, but never before to-day knew
dog to deliberately drown himself be
!, cause that was the death his maste
died"
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Iarry's Bay Mare.

When Larry came home from the
war he brought the bay mare with
him. She had done good service from
the day he captured her from Blu
chanan, the Confederate spy. In Lar
rvs life that was a day never to be
forgotten. He was serving in the 11th
Illinois on detached duty, acting as
scout for Grant and Sherman outside
of Vicksburg.
Buchanan, disguised as a woman,
had entered the federal lines and
gained valuable information Making
his way out, he found his mare hid
den in thicket, and started for the
Confederate headquarters. Larry was
sent to overtake and capture him.
He rode a black stallion.
The two men met on yellow, wind
ing southern road Buchanan fired
twice at Larry and missed him. and
then jumped the bay mare over a
fence, into a cornfield, and headed for
a distant crib. Larry followed. Blu
chanan rode round and round the crib.
Larry pursuing.
Suddenly Larry .whirled his horse
about so as to come face to face with
his foe. They met on the corner Lar
rvs bullet killed Buchanan; the lat
ter > eAQcu Tic iilS VI INC bidCh. Stdl-
lion. Larry mounted the bay mare.
put the dead mans body in front of
him and rode into camp That's how
he won the mare
She was true to him. In all the wild
riding that he did for three years,
scouting for Grant, she never COM
planned at any hardship put upon her.
When he was shot down on Pearl
river and sick almost to the death
| hung over her neck, she took the
water and carried him to safety.
On his return to duty she turned
her soft eyes on him and welcomed
him in true beast fashion One night
he left her in a corn brake with the
one Injunction:
.sStay here, grille, until 1 whistler
He was gone thirty-six hours and
then came back hard pressed by cav
alrymen He whistled as he entered
| the brake and she came to him
straight front the spot where he had
left her Now he was in the, saddle
and OFF for the fence on the far side
| Twice he turned in the saddle and
killed a near pursuer. Twice the mare
was hit But she took the fence and
brought him out of danger
With the war over, Larry and the
bay mare came to Chicago and Larry
married.
He drove the mare to cart now
through the stockyards district and
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soft, green grass beneath him, cIove:
and daisies gently waving as he walk
ed, creaking, slippery pine needles
sending up their fragrance at ever,
step, the great bending ferns, whose
sweet odor lulls and satisfies wearied
brain and body, he longed intently for
all this without ever having known it.
The nearest he had come to it was
an occasional hour in a city park, and
his country birthplace claimed recog-
milton in his heart. But it cost none.
to ride even in trolley car, and th =
boat was free-to him-while there
was a certainty that Dick would col
lect pennies, and they were hungry.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-10-07

John O. Packard, a pioneer miner of
Utah, is the donor CT Salt Lake Cfty's
new public library He first gave
$4,000 and subsequently increased
his gift to $125.000. Taking note of
Andrew Carnegie's libra-v giving, Mr..
Packard said: Il think Salt Lake is
entitled to a public library, and 1t will
not have to be under ay obligations to
Mr.. Carnegie for 1t either-Im just
build one myself" The building Is
now ready for use, thoroughly equip
ped after the modern way, and the
city is to supply the books Mr.. Pack
ard now lives in California.
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~ NI1=JZE AEl1 MILF

Tom and Dick were two poor little
waits From morning till night they
roamed the streets of the great city.
Tom was the older and always took
the lead in everything. He was a
bright-eyed, handsome boy, in spite of
his dirty face and tattered clothes.
He had taken care of himself ever
since he could remember. First he
had begged, but having been born with
a faculty for getting along in the
world he sold a few matches. bought
with his first savings. He knew he
could polish shoes, but he never had
a chance to try. He wished he could
have peanut stand, but he was only
a little boy and that ambition seemed
to him as lofty and unattainable as
the stars. Meanwhile he plodded
along, putting on as brave a face as
he could when he was hungry, and
whistling when bread was plenty.
He believed a living was to be had
for the asking if anybody would work.
but when Dicks mother died and he
was left all alone in the world, he
wondered what would become of him.
for Dick could not talk, consequently
he was unable to ask for work. Then
he was not so old as Tom and did not
know how to do anything; added to
this Tom loved Dick better than any
thing or anybody else in the world, so
he opened his arms and said:
Come, Dick, I'll take care of you,
and we'll live together
Now this was not a very munifcent
offer, for Tom lived nowhere or any
where. Some nights he slept in an
old box behind a great warehouse, or
In doorway If he could get in there
unObserved. When the weather was
warm, he lay down in one of the
small parks where the grass was soft
and the trees waved over his head.
Next to Dick he loved the trees. If he
had known anything about heaven
he would have said it must be full of
trees and that one might live under
them forever. He would lie on his
back watching the moon glide slowly
upward, with the leaves dancing
across it's shining face, and dream of
the village where he was born and
which he only remembered as one
recalls dimly a beautiful dream of a
far off unknown country. However.
such as he had he offered to Dick and
it was joyfully accepted. Protection
and love are gifts not to be despised.
~ Selling a few matches would hardly
Ieeu TWO, anu lOI1, WIFI Teduy INV Gu
ton tried other means of livelihood.
He bought harmonica and learned
few of the popular airs he heard the
hand organs play. He had often
danced on the pavement in the even
ing with the other children to the
music of those same hand organs. anc
he set to work to teach Dick to dance.
The loss of one faculty often quickens
the others and soon the two chum
were able to do a little dance to-
gether, to the strains of the harmoni-
ca. Then Dick would take a little
plate and pass it around, and often the
pennies piled up.
Dick had never been so happy in
his life. Though he could not talk
about his gratitude as many people do,
it was none the less deep and sincere.
and he loved Tom with the siren gt b
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All men agree in the abstract that
"punctuality is the. soul of business
but few act up to the maxim with the
strictness of the king of the Belgians.
says the London Globe. Wherever CT
however he may travel, whether the
visit be of business, pleasure or cere-
mony. he is punctual, not only to the
hour. but to the minute-it might al
SO be said to the second. And yet
his majesty is never seen to consult a
watch. But his familiars know that
his habit OF passing his hand along
his flowing beard is Only a device for
glaAcing at small watch which he
wears fastened to his wrist
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Unless Peace Doth Reign.

We strive for wealth. tell for fame,
We labor after sound and show;
We deem no sacrifice too great
And stake a fortune throw
What splendid triumph shall be ours
What wondrous rapture in each gaini
How soon we find the grandeur naught-
Unless within sweet peace doth reign
How old the cautionI Still we fret
For sun and moon, for stars that CLEAN;
We seek the distant, spurn the near,
And barter substance for dream
What seas we cross, what hills upclimb-
o. roses in the Alpine chaint
We find too soon the prizes fade
Ii IN the heart no peace doth reign
And though our years be hunnbly spent.
No star of glory in our sky.
No grandeur cleaning our way.
But simple duty ever nigh
When love inspires us to each task,
The roses in our path to train,
How clear resounds the joybellS' chime.
For in our heart glad peace doth reign
Boston Transcript.
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that grows and heaps up through lack
of expression.
Tom found it was profitable to get
on one of the excursion steamers
which made short rum to the nearer
resorts on the shore. He paid the
fares a few times, but he managed to
ingratiate himself with the mate. who
took great liking to Dick and so they
often got a free sail under his care.
One day they started out for the
boat 1t was no.. what Tom wanted
to do. He longed with all his heart.
not for the blue water rolling at his
feet and splashinE in his face. but for
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Civilians Part in the War.

What man who served as officer OF
soldier will say, that he would not
rather go into a battle like Shiloh.
Chickamauga, Antietam or Gettysburg
or any great contest than to run cn
engine with train load of soldiers
through a country where any moment,
through the lifting of rails or a weak
ened bridge, lie and a greater or less
number of his passengers might be
hurled to eternity? Both in the east
ern and western armies there were
large numbers of these men who
through four years offered their lives
in their countIy's service just as much
as any man IN the army offered his,
and scores of them gave their lives.
Have any of them been recognized?
We know too well that they have not.
1 can lift my hat to any of those old
war time engineers and it would do
my heart good to call them comrades
and companions.
81 presume there are others The
nation comedies that the patriotic men
and women who remained at home
performed a service of boundless
worth. but for forty years we have
been recognizing them and praising
them for what they did, and the whole
ndt1On mas recoSniZeu anu idiSSu Inc
soldiers and sailors, and L suppose
they will go on recognizing and prais-
ing them for years to come 1 know,
and you know, that much of this rec
IGNITION that much of this praise, has
come because of the organization
among the soldier element. l am sor>
ry, very sorry, that telegraphers, war
correspondents, commanders of army
transports and military engineers did
not vigorously organize long ago and
thus secure recognition--Lieut- J.
A. Watrous, u S. A
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Mrs. Dewey Gives FIaq.

Dr. Thomas M Owen, director OF
the department of archives and his
tory of Alabama. has received from
Mrs Mildred Dewey, wife of Admiral
Dewey, a letter relinquishing her own
ership of the battle flag of the 18th
Alabama regiment, captured by Gen.
William B. Hazen, the first husband of
Mrs. Dewey, at Orchard Knob The
flag. which is in the National Museum
at Washington. will be returned to
Alabama by Mrs. Dewey
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RESTORED HIS HAIR
Scalp Humor Cured by Cuticura Soap
and Ointment-After All Else
Had Failed.

st was troubled with severe scalp
humor and loss of hair that gave me
great deal of annoyance and inconven-
ience. After unsuccessful efforts with
many remedies and so-called hair
tonics, a friend induced me to try
Cuticura Soap and Ointment. The
humor was cured in short time, my
hair was restored as healthy as ever,
and 1 can gladly say 1 have since been
entirely free from any further annoy
ance. 1 shall always use Cuticura
Soap, and keep the Ointment on
hand to use as a dressing for the hair
and scalp. (Signed) Fredk Busche,
213 East 57th ST., New York City
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

A woman can be happy because she
wants to and unhappy because you
don't want her to.
High finance is when your money
goes up like rocket and comes down
in somebody else's pocket
When a man comes home and gives
the excuse that he went to sleep in
the car from being worn out with
work and was carried out of his way.
his wife will believe him when she
tells it to her mothcr--New York
Press
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Difference.

"Why don't you get up and give that
seat to your father, Bobby" repri-
manded the lady. Don't it pain you
to see him reaching for strap"
mot on a street car" chuckled
Bobby, "but it pains me to see him
reaching for a strap at ome."-Cht-
cago News.