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The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1913-07-24


beating out my rare young brains
against your rough right of way. will
you not think of me? do not ask
much OF you, but / do ask that we
separate forever.
As you whiz by me do not treat me
with contumely. or throw crackers al
me when have meekly turned out tc
let your naughty old train go by. |
have always spoken of you in the
highest terms and hope you will do
the same by me.
Life is short at best, and It is espe-
cially SO for those who have to walk.
Walking has already shortened my
life great deal. and wouldn't be
surprised II the exposure and bunions
of 1887 carried me on. leaving a gap
!, in American literature that would
look like a cellar.
Should any OF your engineers or
trackmen find me frozen in a cut next
winter when the grass gets short and
the nights get long. Will you kindly
ask them to report the brand to your
auditor and instruct him to allow my
family what he thinks would be right
hate to write to you in this detected
manner. but you cannot understand
how heavy my heart Is today as l pen
these lines.
wish you and your beautiful road
unmitigated success. 1t is a good
road for have passed over 1t and en-
ioyed 1t. How different the country
will look to me as / go bounding from
tie to tie. slowly repeating to myself
the trite remark once made by the
governor OF North Carolina To the ex-
ecutive OF South Carolina.
hope you may never know what Il
Is to pull into the quaint little city Of
La Junta with the dust OF many a
mile upon you and the thirst OF n
long. Uneyentfui Journey In your
throat hope congress will not pass
a law next year which VIII make IL a
felony for railroad man to say
gosh" without n permit. hope
your life will be chuck full OF hurrahs
and hallaleuiahs. even II mine should
always be black and joyless.
Can 1 do the roa dany good. either
at home OF abroad? Can be of any
service to you over your right-of-way
by collecting nuts. bolts. old iron. or
other bric-a-brac? would be glad
ITO influence immigration or pull
weeds between the tracks II you
would only be willing to regard me az
an employe.
I will now take n last look at the
fair young features of your pass be-
fore finally sealing this letter. How
sad TO see an annual pass cut down In
iife's young morning. ere one-fourth
OF its race has been run! How
touchful to part from IL forever.
What sad year this has been SO
far, Earthquakes. fires. storms. rail
way disasters. and death in every
form has visited our country. and
now. like the biting blasts from sibe-
ria or the nipping frosts from Manito-
ba. comes the congressional cut-worm
cutting on the early crop OF Towering
annuals Just as they had budded to
bloom into beauty and usefulness.
/ will now close this sad letter to 20
over Into the vacant lot behind the
high board fence. where l can sob in
an unfettered way without shaking
the glass out OF my easement.
Yours with a crockfuI OF unused
tears on hand.
Hill. NYE
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1913-07-24
BILL NYE'S FEELINGS
ON RETURNING A PASS

You may remember away back IN
1887 there was an anti-pass agitation.
A bill passed congress regarding in
Iterstate commerce that made the rail-
roads shut down for while on
passes. The editor OF the Record re-
members 1t distinctly, for that year
he had a job in the legislature at
Springfield. ILL.,. and for a time a pass
was hard to get. even at that time,
when passes usually flowed as freely
as water.
Bill Nye held an annual pass over
the Santa Fe railroad. But owing to
the provisions OF the interstate COM
merce law passed that year he was
asked to send 1t in. as many pass hold
ers were recently asked to return
their valuable little pastboards.
MIR. Nye returned the pass to W. z.
White. the general passenger agent.
with the following letter-the senti-
ment of which many Canon City peo-
pie in position to appreciate:
Hudson. Wis. March 80. 1857.
w. F. White. ESQ.,. General Passenger
Agent Atchison. Topeka & Santa
Fe Railroad. Topeka. Kansas.
Dear sir:-I enclose herewith an
nual pass No. o-os5 for self and fami-
ly over your celebrated road during
the year 1857. l also return your
photograph and letters you have writ
ten me during the past five years.
VIII you kindly return mine? And so
this brief and beautiful experience IS
to end and each must so his way
hereafter.
Alas.
To you this may be easy. but It
brings pang to my heart which your
gentle letter OF the LIST inst. cannot
wholly alleviate.
Whenever hereafter you look upon
this tear-specked pass will you not
think OF me? Remember that you
have cast me from you. and that l am
wandering over the bleak and wind
swept plains. sadly enumerating the
ties of my way TO eternity.
l do not say this to reproach you
for / fear that you care for another
and SO We would not be happy again
together. But oh, do not pause to
fully comprehend the pang 1t costs
me to return this pleasant faced little
pass with its conditions on the back
Should you see me now. as l write
these lines. turning away ever and
anon. laying aside my trembling pen
to go and sit on the crate and shud-
der and weep and put out the fire
with my bitter tears. your heart
would soften and you would say:
Return. oh. wanderer, return,"
You do not say in your letter that I
have been false TO you. or that have
ever grown cold. You do not charge
me with infideiity or failure to pro-
vide. You simply say It would be bet
ter for each to go his several ways.
forgetting that my several way sare
passing away. passing away.
1t Is all very well for you to talk
about going your several ways. You
have every facility for doing so. but
with me 1t is different. Several years
ago a large northwestern cyclone and
myself tried to pass each other on the
same track. When the wrecking crew
found me was in the crotch OF but
ternut tree with a broken leg Since
that time have walked with great
difficulty and to go my several ways
has been very serious matter with
me.
Bat do not want you 10 think that
I am murmuring. accept my doom
calmly. yet with slight sigh of una.
vaiiing regret.
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ground with a cry of despair that left
with me another memory.
MY legs were growing numb from
the exertion of it all. Ahead of me
fed the army, or what was left of 1t.
Behind me echoed the wall Of the
wounded, the vivas of the victorious
Federals, the hiss and scream OF their
bullets. Ever present was the men,
ory OF the Alamo and Tecate, where
our wounded and those of our fellows
taken prisoners had experienced liv-
ing bells before death relieved them
OF their torment
On and on l stumbled, falling now
and then, but always my burden. 1t
had ceased to urge me forward, this
manned bit Of boyhood, but its lone
arm still encircled my neck with a
vise-like grip that at times made it al
most impossible to breathe.
Sounds of the battle left me now.
| no longer saw men. | dared not
stop, however, for fear of not being
able to rise again, but at last l STUN
bled and fell with my burden for the
last time. For long time remained
on the ground, breathing heavily and
resting.
How sweet that rest was. cared
not for Federal soldado or rural. Let
them come! / would sleep The
weight slipped from my back and
breathed freer. l must have lain
there for an hour. When / arose the
little figure at my side did not speak.
/ bent over him. He had cheated the
torture chambers. They could not
get him now. From his pocket a
worn and thumb-marked bit of paper
protruded. In the hope of learning
his name read it.
1t was message from a mother to
her son. There was no post-mark.
No address. Nothing to lead to his
identity. Just Jim, come home.
Mother needs you. Your little sister
and | pray for you every night We
alo very lonely with you away. Come
home, dear boy"
That was all. Just a good-by mes
sage-the last he was ever to receive
from that little mother somewhere in
the states. If she could see her boy
now!
The Price of the WanderIust.
And what did he die for?" | asked
myself. What would l have died for?
Just the battle-lust, that is all The
inside of us that makes us
soldiers of fortune. The wanderlust!
buried him, in the night, on the
side of hill where the soil was softer
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and little grass grew. A nameless
grave with not even mark to show
that body rested there.
Perhaps the mother may read these
lines and recognize in the little soldier
OF fortune her boy. At least she may
console herself with the thought that
his flesh was not food for coyotes; his
bones not bleaching white in the sun
like two hundred others of his com.
rades who in five short months paid
the penalty of the battle-lust in Mexi.
CO.
AS for myself, stole like thief in
the night across the border and sur.
rendered to the United States author
tiles. With ninety-three of my fellows
was penned up in Foft Rosecrans at
San Diego for five days, while the
government in Mexico we had sought
to overthrow pleaded for our posses.
sion. Uncle Sam refused to give us
up, but he kept our general, daring
young Jack Mosby, veteran of five
wars, beloved of his men, who is now
at the naval disciplinary barracks Pu.
get Sound, for taking French leave
of the United States navy when the
Mexican war cloud broke.
OF the ninety-three who survived
that bloody day which cost us so
many men, some are now fighting in
the Balkans under different flags, and,
if the powers of Europe clash over
the division of the spoils. I feel that
l must join them, even at the penalty
of the cost!
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-08-01
NegIiaence Called MansIauqhter.


The case of Stehr vs. State before
the Supreme Court of Nebraska, in
volved the sentence of a father for
from one to ten years in the penitenti-
airy for criminal negligence, because
during a blizzard in Nebraska, when
the weather was bitter cold, he per-
mitted the fire to go out, snow drifted
through a crack in the door and a
broken windowpane, and the bedding
of all the members of the family was
frozen stiff. The feet of one of the
children were frozen, and although
such fact was apparent to the father
no physician was called in for 16 days,
when amputation was found to be nee
essary and the child died of blood pois-
oning. The defendant was convicted
OF manslaughter for criminal negli-
gence in failing to provide medical
care after he discovered the frozen
condition of the child's feet In af-
firming the conviction the court held
that for parent having special charge
of an infant child culpably to neglect
1t so that death ensues as a conse-
qence is manslaughter, although death
or grievous bodily harm was not in
tended, and if the parent has not the
means for the chlid's nurture it is his
duty to apply to the public authorities
for relief.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-08-01
cLoUDED BRAIN
Clears Up on Change to Proper Food,

The brain cannot work with clear
ness and accuracy, If the food taken is
not fully digested, but is retained in
the stomach to ferment and form
poisonous gases, etc. A dull, clouded
brain is likely to be the result.
A Mich. lady relates her experience
In changing her food habits, and re-
suits are very interesting:
"A steady diet Of rich, greasy foods
such as sausage, buckwheat cakes and
so on, finally broke down a stomach
and nerves that, by inheritance, were
sound and strong, and medicine did
no apparent good in the way of relief.
MY brain was clouded and dull and
/ was suffering from case Of consti-
patton that defied all remedies used.
The Road to Wellville,' in some
providential way, fell into my hands,
and may Heavens richest blessings
fall on the man who was inspired to
write 1t.
Il followed directions carefully, the
physical culture and all, using Grape
Nuts with sugar and cream, leaving
meat, pastry and hot biscuit entirely
out of my bill of fare. The result
am in perfect health once more.
81 never realize have, nerves, ano
my stomach and bowels are in fine
condition. My brain is perfectly clear
and am enjoying that state OF health
which God intended his creatures
should enjoy and which all might
have, by giving proper attention to
their food" Name given by Postum
Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read The
Road to MELVILLE" In pkgs. There's
a reason"
Ever read the above letter. A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine true and full ~ humaA
interest,"
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-08-01
uaIIeet Man the Most Married.

Lupungu, chief of the Basongi, one
of the wealthiest chiefs in the Congo,
is much-narried man, for he is the
proud possessor of 300 wives, for each
of whom he pays yearly tribute OF
two francs to the state. This, how.
ever, is not his sole claim to distinc,
ton, for 'he has also been dubbed by
the officials of the province "the ug
Hest man on earth" with some rea
son." says Vice-Consul Casteus, who
describes him as a Misunderstanding
native possessing but one eye, and a
countenance horribly SCARED by small
pox.
AS a young child, Lupungu was de
serted by his father, and afterwards
adopted by sub-chief. In later years
he persuaded the gullible natives that
his one eye gave him certain occult
powers; he then made friends with
band of Arab traders, and with their
assistance made war upon his father
whom he conquered and succeeded as
chief of the Basongi.
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Young Grammarlan.

Jack walked into the house rubbing
his nose, and trying hard to keep back
his tears. After he had gained control
of his feelings, he turned to his mo.
Their and said:
Mother, Bobby Brown is the worst
est boy that ever lived"
There is no such word as 'worstest,'
my dear. You mean that he is the
worst boy that ever lived"
Worst, mum! Well, he's lots bladder
than that"
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gold carpet-weights encrusted with
diamonds, were prepared in the reign
of Khande Rao Gaekwar (1S56-1S7O).
probably at the instigation of his Mo
hammedan wife, as an Offering to the
tomb of Mohammed at Madina.
The panel, which is suggestive of
the wonders of the whole carpet, con-
sists of an arabesque design embroid-
cred in pearls and colored glass beads
with applied gold bosses and studs
set with lasque (fiat) diamonds and
cabochon convex form rubies, emer-
aids and sapphires In the center q
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-08-01
IHENOMDATAGLANCE
BEST OF THE NEWS
Interesting Items Gathered From All
Parts of the World Condensed
Into Small Space for the Ben.
eft of Our Readers.
Washington.

Major Beecher R. Ray of the army
pay corps has applied to the district
supreme court to enjoin Secretary
Garrison from certifying to the Presk
dent for promotion any other officer
who would thus be jumped over him.
The senate has taken its first plunge
into the intricacies of the Underwood
Simmons Tariff Revision bill At the
end of day of hard work only a few
paragraphs of the voluminous measure
had been completed when Adjournment
was reached at night. On every test
vote throughout the day, the Demo-
cratic leaders were upheld, in some
cases receiving the support of Repub-
licans aligned with the progressive
element.
President Wilson has determined
that no faction in the present Mexican
revolution shall obtain arms or ammu-
milton from the United States and that
neutrality must be observed in its
StrlcteSt sense.
Concerted opposition has developed
in congress to Postmaster General
Burleson's order reducing parcel post
rates anu increasing the maximum
size of packages to be handled in the
service
The gunboat Wheeling has been or
dered to Frontera, Tobasco, Mexico,
where revolutionary activity has en-
dangered the lives and property of
Americans.
There was considerable war talk
in the senate the other day while
discussing the Mexican situation.
Plans for the extension, improve
ment and reduction in rates of the
parcel post have been announced by
Postmaster General Burleson. This
changes, which are to become effective
August 10, include an increase from
eleven pounds to twenty pounds in the
maximum weight of parcels and
material reduction in the postage rates
in the first and second zones.
A new policy towards Nicaragua In.
volving the virtual control of the af-
fairs of that republic by a United
States protectorate similar to that
now exercised over Cuba was out
lined by Secretary Bryan at private
conference with members of the SEN
ate foreign relations committee.
Glass and commodity freight rates
from st. Louis and other Mississippi
river ports taking the same rates, to
destinations in interior Kansas were
held by the Interstate Commerce Com
mission to be unreasonable and dis
crimlnatory. Reasonable maximum
rates, materially lower than existing
rates, were prescribed.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-08-01

conventional full-blown flower en-
closes a large bass of soft gold mount
ed with a, rosette of diamonds, the
field filled with jeweled palmettes and
flowers proceeding from leafy stems
scrolling, encircling, and interlacins
on close ground of iridescent seed
pea!is, In the border are twenty-fou
diamond rosettes.
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GRAND CARPET FOR ONE ONLY
Is Gorgeous With Gold and Jewels
and No One Has Sufficient
Wealth to Buy II.

The Gaekwar of Baroda has lent to
the Victoria and Albert museum.
South Kensington, one of the four
magnificent panels which together
constitute the celebrated pearl car
pet of Baroda." These panels, with
other intended gifts, including can
opy (the Pearl veil') and set of
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Domestic Items.

A stick of dynamite in the hip
pocket of Martin Funk exploded and
blew him to pieces when he fell in a
playful wrestling match with his
brother at Poughkeepsie, n. Y.
Twenty passengers were injured
when a Minneapolis & st. Louis local
passenger and freight train was de-
rallied Just outside of Fort Dodge, la
Railroad representatives have Joined
IN the fight to prevent Postmaster
General Burleson from increasing the
size of parcel post packages trans.
MISSILE through the mails and reduc-
ing the rates, to become effective Au-
gust 10.
Announcement by Senator Cham
berlain of Oregon that he was not
bound to vote for the Tariff bill as it
came to the senate from the finance
committee, came like a bolt to disturb
Democrats of that body,
Four bold bandits who fitted from
place to place in a large touring car
committed series of daring holdups
in Tulsa, Ok, the other night.
Three persons were killed by train
while on their way to church, a mile
south of Jerseyville, Ill., The victims
were Mrs. Hattie Ryan, her 5-year-old
son, Stewart, and her 3.year-old daugh.
ter, Lillian.
Damage to the extent OF $4,000
was done at Alliance, O., when fire.
works stored in a mill went off pre-
maturely.
Parcels post stamps Will be valid
on all classes of mail on and after
July l, and ordinary stamps, includ-
Ing commemorative issues, will be
good on parcels post packages under
an order just issued by Postmaster
General Burleson.
The proposed reduction of express
rates throughout the country has been
approved by the Interstate Commerce
Commission. In a decision which will
be made public shortly the commits.
sion will announce its rejection of the
pleas made by the express companies
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-08-01
In the Same Game.

1T seems strange that he could plum
der a great corporation like that for
years without being found out" well.
you see, the corporation was pretty
busy tself."-Chicago Journal.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-08-01
Its Usual Nav.

"The hot spell came rather sudden
ly."
"Oh, no! It's been getting warmer
by degrees"
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All a Means of Advancement.

Apply myself earnestly to thy task,
whether it be small or great, for the
achievement of years is but the study
Of many days.-Simon de Bruges.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-08-01

Enormous Damage by Floods.
The flood damage in the United
States is estimated at about 100000,
900 annually,
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-08-01
Anyway, it doesn't take nine tailors
to make a self-made man.

Mrs. Windows soothing Syrup Tor children
teething, softens the gums, reduces inhAmmH-
ton, allAys pain, cures wind collie ,26S bottle-r
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-08-01

The mild mellow quality Of LEWIS
Single Binder cigar is what the smokers
want. Adv.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-08-01

HE battle was lost.
Even the most san
guine of Mosby's dare
devils admitted that.
So, after the manner of
their kind, they broke
the firing-line into a
hundred pieces and
hAl
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Foreign Affairs.

Forty thousand citizens OF the
United States now in Mexico are about
to lose all they possess, according to
Mrs. Paul Hudson, wife of the pro-
prietor of the Mexican Herald, the
American newspaper published in the
City of Mexico
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1913-05-15

membrane which lines the genital or
gans. If this secretion is acid in re-
action it is fatal to the male cells or
spermatozoa, and of course, the COW
will not conceive. If this is the case
the acidity may be overcome by the
injection of weak alkali solution,
such as a very weak soap solution.
Sometimes the opening to the uterus
is closed so that the male cells cannot
enter. This last diff Guilty can usual
ly be overcome by the insertion Of the
arm we'll oiled, and then gradually
dilating the mouth of the uterus
with one or two fingers until the pass
age is considerably enlarged.
Fat animals are seldom good breed
ers, and it is often difficult to i'm
pregnate them. Active exercise just
before the animal is bred is conducive
to fertilization.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1913-05-15
What the Farms Owe to Asphalt

When you stop to consider the won
derful economies effected on the farm
in different ways by the use of natural
asphalt in various forms it may we'll
cause you to run back in your thought,
trying to trace the origin of this i'm
portant yet seeming mysterious sub
stance which has made itself really
indispensable to the modern aggressive
farmer.
Natural asphalt is found in various
deposits in different parts of the
world. Those in Egypt having been
used by the Ancients in nearly the
form they found it, to waterproof
walls and as an embalming substance
to preserve the bodies of their dead,
which has kept the mummies of Egypt
to the present day.
The Dead Sea, as well as the waters
of Cuba, have yielded natural asphalt,
and various deposits have been found
in veins in this and other countries,
but the most remarkable deposit be-
cause of it's combined uniformity,
largeness of area, and apparently in
exhanstible supply, is the Lake of
Trinidad.
From this source is secured most of
the natural asphalt used for modern
commercial purposes.
The multiplication of uses, to which
it has been found that natural asphalt
is particularly adapted, have extended
most helpfully to the farm.
In the form of prepared roofing it
makes covering of positive and last
ing waterproof qualities, and has the
added advantage of being in such
form that any handy man about the
farm can apply it to any of the build
ings.
Then the asphalt prepared in the
form of cement is invaluable for
rendering damp-roof the walls of
cellars dairy houses, concrete floors
or any similar surface.
Again we find that asphalt paint
does invaluable work in protecting all
kinds of iron and steel-work such as
fences, Orders and the like, from rust
and all corroding influences.
And in yet another form, as a wood
preserver, natural asphalt effects al
most incalculable savings.
Fence posts dipped and impregnat-
ed with it can be made to last in
definitely. The same can be said of
planks or lumber of any kind which