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About Harrison press-journal. (Harrison, Nebraska) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 17, 1903)
TRAINS THAT CARRY ARMED OUARDS FOR PROTECTION la tfce laaHaa Terrttery Oreat Precautione Arc Talasa a Necessary Step to Foil Robber Who Lie la Walt for the Treasure Trains. I Ml I 'MM I H !! Armed guard still travel , on the trains yat ruu through the Indian . Territory, the pa radix.' of train rob ber. If you take the "Katy Flyer" from Kt. Loulg to Dallas, Texas, you'll see a couple :f dark-skinned guard climb aboard at Vlnlta at about (1 o'clock In the evening, and s-e tbein Jump stiffly out at Denlson, Texas, at 7 in the morning. They'll be coddling tnelr short, neat rifles familiarly as they ico across to sleep at the hotel. The steady development of the West, Its capable Judiciary and active eon tabnlary, the multiplying network of telegraph lines. Its consistent advance toward economic and civic Importance all these Ihlnt'u tiuvu ,.i,,l.lt..wl throw train robbing as a business Into V the far Umbo ef neglect and dlsap K proval. special conditions are neccs wry to the prosecution of the trade. And special conditions exist still In only one part of this country, the In dian Territory. There, where political nd social chaos reigns. Winchester armed guard still climb into the ex press cars on the Missouri, Kansas ind Texas Railroad when a night train teaches ti? limits of Its territory; and there the sudden squealing of the brake shoes In the gloom of a creek woods or on the staring hmeli.iess of , the prairie still warns the experienced tr.ivcler to lie close in his dirt h, his purse convenient to hand In ease the ..i.,.,.,,. 1,1 k-im ii-nifii tu uie ronu 'tuuilil. falling sufficient reward from lhe express wr, decide to rob the pns- cngcts. Out of that country still fomo occaslonr' dispatches to the Mstern liewspupe-H that wake the iMi-iiim it- ui me oiu, laminar golden , age of outlawry. Wbera Criminals Thrive. f one kind and another, the Indian territory has, perhaps, harbored more ' .,.1,1.. IU It.. ..,1 (I uf the I'liitwl Slates. Granted orlgln Ily to 'ie Hole Use and occupation of the Indian, with the gunrnntee of the jciietal government to keep out all In truding white men, the country early became a rendezvous for those who knew and obeyed no law. Horse thieves, whisky peddlers, bigamists, murderers, old time road agents era, asking leave neither of the United h.'...u. I....!.. .... I .. , rmin inr juumjjN, louoweu Close on the heels of the builders of the first railroad through the new country. Die iielghlsirlng Elates were glad to be fid of a disturbing class, and left them to work out their salavatlon In the new surroundings as pleased them best, ouly keeping a watchful eye upon the Under against any attempted re turn, In vurlotis ways these transplanted rrlmlnalK worked out their fate. Not a few married Indian wives nnd set tled down to a quiet, easy citizenship in the tribe. Don't press for the man's history and you may leave an ex-convict's house with the belief that be Is cue of the finest fellows you ever met. Koine of the right-minded enrolled themselves In the police force, becom ing zealous and capable officers. A fairly numerous class maintained an Illegal tralllc in whisky with the In dians, boot-leggers, saddle-pocket men, and the more daring, who, In the dead of night,' hauled It In by tbe barrel. Tew, Indeed, dared to continue horse aud cattle stealing, for tbe simple reason that this was tbe easiest thing In tbe world to do, and, consequently, lhe iuot summarily and rigorously punished. Thus local Crimea, exclud ing tbe frequent private brawls, were of rare occurrence. Hut tbt Idea came to a member of tbe uotous "Young- - r gaug" that tbe Indian territory of- . - fered much aafer Held of operation than If laaouri or Minnesota, where tbe flute authorities were anxious to re- trier e tbe reputation of their common Healths. With two or three compuu tans be went down to the Indian ter ritory, gathered a few more followers, and almost before they had covered their heads with aha n ties, held up a tralu on the Missouri, Kanaaa & Texas ' jiear Muscogee. Iteport aald that tbe ; haul waa a rich one. Tbe matter bad , becu accomplished with a great flour ish. The "style" of tbe robbera waa v much discussed and admired. The . jaiiioitii detect ivea ; were aiscouragea. t .lhe outlaws aided in their fllghta and ' M-nniod of imrsnlt, , After a time a woman Joined the tuiiiil - wife .of one and under tbe 'oiiiiie of Belle Star, spread her fame r . far' Ix yond the Indian border. She assuredly young, and ahe rode as wildly the men, bu., beyond thla, re- .r 0 y " . .;. ' ,, . . ..-., v i mnM MM in ! port said that she was a crack shot with the rltle and pistol, tliat she rode "a straddle," that she actually took part In the hold ups. and that was, in truth, a "Queen of the liandits." Sombrero-topped, liooted,. and spurred like the men, erect In carriage, supple, grn.-eful, beautiful the picture of Hello Star graced the pages of the il lustrated papers. And It were after all, beiier to think of her so than as a broken, consumptive woman dying in a dingy jail, where she was sent with her mute when a determined lit tle posse of United States deputies swoocd down on the gang unan nounced and carted them away to Fort Smith. KiM or the Ualton Oanc. The later Dalton gang, four broth ers and as many more brave and Intel ligent associates, came nearer to re producing the real flavor of romance than any who had preceded them In the business of pilfering express cars. The Drltona came Into the territory trulned to the trade, three of thein having worked with the famous Evans, Sontag, and Soutng trio In Southern California. The spectacular ending of the Evons-Sontag partner ship, after an all-day duel between a houseful of deputies and two of the outlaws behind a stack of stable re fuse, sent the Daltons packing from California to the Indian territory. Here they lived quietly for a time, .winning friends all over the country, working as cowboys and winning reputations us hall-fellows, good rifle shots, and stanch friends. One or two hold-ups, cleverely managed, carried through without a hitch, set people to wonder ing who the robbers were. Still the Iinltons held their Jobs and were not suspected. Hut the hold-up of a train on the Missouri, Kansas & Texas, near Adair, on which half a dozen armed guards were posted, and from which an unusually large haul was made, served to rouse the otlliers to au ex traordinary activity. HoIiImts who could sweep the length of a train with a lire that kept even a Winchester armed guard Inside, who could un couple the express car from the pas senger coaches, run away into the woods with it, crack It open, take It back to the train, and send the whole on to the next station without expos ing themselves to a single shot cer tainly these were of an extraordinary cleverness. Finally the otlleers picked the Imltons as the criminals, but the community was Incredulous, knowing and caring little for the brothers' for mer reputation. So completely hud these getilnt Wuws won the confidence, of the ranchmen and cowboys that I the otlleers for n long time dared not try to arrest them. A sense of security emboldened them; they mussed an at tempt on the Arkansas Valley road. Hob was wounded, and the community had Indisputable evidence of rhelr guilt Hut still public opinion shielded them the railroad could. In the opin ion of the countryside, easily afford their losses, and the boys had made themselves popular and pleasant. One day three of the Imltons, accom panied by three others, rode leisurely up to Coffeyvllle, Kan., four miles over the border of the Indian country, hitched their horses, and walked over to rob the bank. An obstinate, faithful cashier delayed them unduly, the towu woke out of a lethargy, and when the boys made a rush for their horses, shotguns, rltles and pistols popped at them from all sides. These were an noying but not fatal until a calm, slecpy-4yed livery stable helper climb ed into a barn loft with a Winchester,, stretched himself comfortably on his stomach, nnd began to pick off the bandits as they mounted and started to ride away. Two of the brothers were killed by the livery stable man, tbe other was wounded and captured, and but a single member of that band reached the territory to tell young Hill Dalton of the fate of his brothers. This young brothers, Just past "JO. resented bitterly the summary taking off of his relatives, lie talked freely with the sympathizing cowhoye of re venge. Ho came and wVnt free of mo lestation, and at hist he drew together a little baud of his own. He whs a brave boy and shrewd, but he spent most of his energy running away from the officers 'after he had Indlscretly murdered an Inoffensive cltl.en. It waa all very w-ell to rob n rich railway corporation, said the Indian territory "people In their view It was mere re taliationbut when a rnuchman was not safe from the whim of a fool, hot headed buy il was quite time to stop him. BUI Ia!tou led his pursuer a long choae, but waa finally wounded. captured, and thrown Into prison to die. Bob Hogers, an Insignificant-look log, alight-limbed little cow-puncher, who had known the Daltons, induced two of hla companiona to help run off two carloads of cattle from the Iudian country to Kansas In the night. The cattle were sold, tbe buyers shipped them to Kansas City, where the terri tory ranchmen's spotter saw them, and the theft" wes soon charged to Rogers. That made him an outlaw, and wilb bis companions he tried train robbing. One success and one failure within a year made him talked about consider ably, but he was never regarded as a clever leader When the United Statea deputies were ready, after the rail road's offered rewards had mounted to a respectable figure, tbey were led by Heck Kroner, who was a blacksmith by trade, to Rogers' rendezvous. Here, lu the middle of the night, a freezing winter wind howling outside, they fell upon the gang asleep in a cabin, killed two, and captured the other three With the extinction of the Hogers gang train robbing fell Into disfavor for a number of years, and the railroad com panies tired of paying guards to ride in their express cars. Hut a holdup down at the edge of Texas, another wild chase with a posse, later forays of little parties, and occasional single handed attacks, warned the express egeifts to renew their vigilance. TALE OF A HAUNTED HOUSE. Blood-Stained I'haatom Keen by Pho tographer ia Uueruaejr, iiKlaad. A remarkable ghost stusalloii Is disturbing the serenity of St. l'eter I'ort, Guernsey, where a local photo grnplier has just vacated his residence on the ground that he aud members of bis family have been terrified by fcupernatuial visitations. The ph tographer states that when taking bis meals he has seen arms reaching over his head and endeavor ing to take away his food. The pic tures on the walls have moved In weird fashion, and there were sounds of rattling chains and ringing bells. One evuiiug, aeocidlng to a writer in the London Expre.-, the tenant daughter taw an apparition chid in white cumlng dow n the stairs. It pos sessed ouly one hand, the fingers (t which were twice the ordinary length and streaming with blood. This spectral visitant, sei-ti on an other occasion by' the daughter, Indi cahd that her mother's brooch, which was missing, would be found in t lie range In a certain room. Here it was discovered. This so preyed on the girl's mind that she had to lake to her bed, and finally the weird miinlfetiatlous be came so frequent that the photographer decided to leave the house. Crowds gathered nightly around the place and the authorities deputed sev eral constables to watch the house. When one of these entered the prem ises a mat flew in his face. Another ollk'er, while sitting In one of the rooms, felt his chair being lifted in midair. lie fled In terror. After this a number of prominent residents endeavored to solve the my stery. They chalked the stairs, locked a chocolate box in one of the cupboards and left the premises apparently se cure. When they returned shortly after ward tin ro were footprints on the chalked staircase, and the chocolate box was on the ml Idle of a table, with a feather balanced on the top of It. Yet the cupboard In which the box was placed was still locked. Prunes Tor lligli Spirits. Man In this rigorous climate and strenuous life needs ment. Hut what proportion does it sustain to the rest of his dietary? I'erhaps he Is eating too much of everything. Why doesn't the henpecked husband recommend ft diet of prunes for Ids wire? They have been known to transform the sourest, most Irritable disposition In to the most gentle, tranquil amiabil ity. The secret of an amiable dispo sition Is a well-balanced, carefully-selected diet, one that Is adapted to the particular needs and physical condi tion of the Individual. And In this cultivation of an agreeable disposition the science of cookery plays on impor tant part Don't waste time and en ergy In spearing at the grumpy grouch. Change his dietary and give him bet ter cooking. What to Eat A Human Clod. Tess Some men are awfully alow, aren't they? Jes Yea, and they're so aggravat ing. There waa one aat alongside of me coming down lu tbe car thla morn ing. Teas You weren't trying to flirt with blm. Jess (jiraclona, no! But ha waa reading a novel and ho was nerar ready to turn the page when I waa. Philadelphia Preaa. RrnCient. Patience Did you say your brota er's automobile Is unmanageable ' at times? l'arrlce Why, yes; thla afternooa wheu be had hla wife out It Stopped twice lu front of millinery stores and three times lu front of saloons. Yeo ker's Statesman. Hani to Tell. "Wluit Is that you're baking there, my dear," Inquired 'young Mr. Newll vved, "bread or some cake?" "I don't know. I have not finished yet," replied the young bride. Phila delphia Press. Don't say "If" more than one a day If you want people to think wall at ou ' ' ' .. yfcience Invention An ingenious chemist bus made tbe claim that tbe average human being la worth about $18,:t00 from tbe chem ical standpoint His calculations are based on tbe fact that tbe human body contains three pounds and thir teen ounces of colcium; and calcium. Just now. Is worth $:iuO an ounce. The last discovered and most distant of great planets, Neptune, extended the solar system more than one thou sand million miles. Prof. George Forbes is seeking au even more dis tant planet, so confidently that he fcas actually named it Victoria, and he ex pects that it will be found about 10, iami,Ooo,(x) miles from the sun. Cotton growing has lately attracted much interest lu Paraguay, and many Inquiries have been addressed to our Consul at Asuncion about American cotton gins, presses, tires, baling, and so forth. The native cotton of Para guay grows on tall bushes, approach ing the size of small trees, and Is con sequently difficult to pick. These bushes produce during from seven to ten years. The question of planting American cotton In Puroguay Is under discussion. A new illuminating material has been discovered by Herman Iilau, the Huvuriau chemist It Is made from oil gas. By a process of rectification the methane and hydrogen contained In It are separated from the gas, and, by a pressure of 4o atmospheres, are reduced to the liquid form, in steel receivers. The new compound can be used lu the place of petroleum, alco hol and acetylene, and It is said to give a light of a beautiful color, pref erable to that of the electric light The German government has erected a new lighthouse on Helgoland, lu which a return has been made from the Fresnel lenHes and prisms of oth er modern lighthouses to the old form of parabolic reflector with a power ful Illumination in the '.icus. The il luminator is on ore-light, with a cur-' rent of 34 amperes, and an estimated candle power of 30,000,1)00. The re volving reflectors are parabolic glass mirrors, Ritvered on the back, and no protection against the weather is pro vided lu front of the light Prof. It. H. Thurston, of Cornell University, calls attention to a curious variety of nickel-steel alloys, recently invented in France, which he thinks may have more Importance for the world than the form of nickel-steel that has given us the modern armored battleship. The new alloys are prac tically non-dilatable thut is, their di mensions do not alter with ordinary changes of temperature; Thus a pen dulum of constant length can be made, and already the new material is em ployed In making clocks and watches to run true In both winter and sum mer. For measuring Instruments of precision, like those employed in geo detic surveys, these alloys are partic ularly suited. The Inventor, Monsieur Guilliiume, is also experimenting with nickel-steel as a substitute for the car bon filament of the ordinary incandes cent lump. FOUND IN A CURIO SHOP. Ptranse Mecoverv of a Family Kelic After KiftT-three Year. Truth Is strunger than fiction, to re vert to the time-honored and worn phrase and if ever an Incident proved It the experience of a Chicago woman in New Orleans recently does so to u satisfying extent. Like many who erne down from east and west, she first wanted to see French market and then she made a happy, fanatical tour of the curio and second-hand shops and pawn shops for souvenirs, says the New Orleans Times-Democrat. She thought she wanted pearl and corals and jeweled daggers and one afternoon about a week ogo, with, these luring her along the quaint sun ny length of the "quarter," she enter ed a shop dingy, dusty and of de lightful promise. In the process of "nosing" about with a veiled eye for "finds" she cn upon a broken plate filled with old-fashioned seals and be gin half Idly picking them over. Pres ently she chanced upon one for n fob peculiarly odd, a beauty of antiquity, with Its heavy curved gold ring. "I'll let you have that very cheap," the man said. "It's n locket as well an' has a piece of hair Inside. It's funny sort of hair, gold and brown, au' al ways seems to me like It's alive. I can't sell It and that hair In it Most people don't want to keep bnir and won't take it out bceuuse it's bad luck. Tbe ring has some letters cut on- K, you ee, H. W. V." "B. W. W.," exclaimed the lady, "my brother's Initials: how strange!" "Well you are the first person I've ever been able to find that bad 'em In any part of the family.- Nobody wants to buy It I'll let you get a bargain on it I'd have melted the ring for gold long ago, but I never could git up the courage to take out that there halt. Somehow It wouldn't let me." The woman opened the locket and there was the little shining curl seem ing "till to vibrate with a beautiful fresh life that must have crumbled to dust many years since. "Well, I'll come In liefore I go and see," she said, and went on her search for pearls. Hut the thing haunted her and finally impelled her, so she says, to write to her brother describing It If you want the Iblng I'll bring it to you," she wrote. He sent her an Im mediate reply. "Get the ring at all costs. Mother says It la father's aad tbe hair that of hla mother. It was given to him with her blesaing when he waa a boy and be bad treasured it dearly." Fifty-three years ago the father had come south to Mobile and the seal fob with ita locket bad been stolen by a superstitious black, who, discov ering the hair, waa afraid of the Ill luck and a possible hoodoo and left it In a bundle on tbe doorstep of that same old curio shop. So fifty-three yeara afterward the granddaughter found by accident the precious little relic, preserved for ber until now by the intangible protection of the glinting curl of hair. SHE KNEW JOSH ALL RIGHT. - Thia Witneaa Not at All Keluctant to (peak Oat. "Now, madam," said the counsel for the defendant to a little, wiry, black eyed fidgety woman, who had been summoned in a case, "you will please give your evidence In as few words as possible. You know the defendant?" "Know who?" "The defendant Mr. Joshua Hagg?" "Josh Hagg? I do know him, and I knowed bis father before him, and I don't know nothin' to the credit of either of 'em, and I don't think " "We don't want to know what you think, madam. Please say 'yes' or 'no' to my questions." "What questions?" "Do you know Mr. Joshua Hagg?" "Don't I know him, though. You ask Josh Hagg if he knows me. Ask him if lie knows anything about try ing to cheat a poor widow like me out of $ 2T.. Ask" ' "Madam, I" "Ask him whose orchard he robbed last and why he did it in the night? Ask his wife, Ketsy Hagg, It she knows anything about Bllppln' into a neighbor's field and niilkin' three cows on the sly. Ask" "Look here, madam " "Ask Josh Hagg about that uncle of his that died in prison. Ask blm about lettin' his pore -old mother die In the workhouse. Ask Betsy Hagg about putting a big brick Into a lot of butter she sold last spring " "Madam, I tell you " "See if Josh Hagg knows anything about feeding ten head Df cattle on all the salt they could eat, and then let ting them swill down all the water they could hold, just 'fore he driv them into town and sold 'em. See .what he's got to say to that!" "That has nothing to do with the case. I want you to " "Then there was old Azrael Bagg, own uncle to Josh, got kicked out of his native town, and Betsy Bagg's own brother got ketched In a neighbor's henhouse at midnight. Ask Josh " "Madam, what do you know about this case?" "I don't know a Ilviu' thing 'about It,' but I'm sure Josh Hagg is guilty, whatever It is. The fact is, I've owed them Haggses a grudge for the last fifteen years, and I got myself called up on purpose to get even with 'em, and I feel I've done it." London Tit Hits. The Jlrenin Hook Man. 'Have you got any of those fool dream hooks?" ha id a short, stout man entering a downtown second-hand book tore. "Lots of 'em," replied the salesman, tossing over a pile of paper-covered books, with demons in red and black adorning the front pages. "My Mrvmit glil wants them," ex plained the man, half .apologetically. "Yes," said the salesman, looking lsired, The man selected three of the liooks, one on dreams, one on fortune tel.ing, and oiiu on handkerchief flirtations, paid for them, and went away. "His servant glil wants them," said the salesman to a friend. "The o.d g:tg. He wants them himself, and is ashamed to fisk for them. I "We get seveial dozens of that kind In Iktc every wei-k. They are crazy over dream books and fortune-telling books, and all that kind of thing, but they are so afraid someone will know I It. "Almost every one of them blames the po r servant. That's the most pop- uhir bluff. They laugh, and say they don't know why the servant wants i them, but they supopse they'd better humor h:r. "Then they take the books home and read them by the hour. When they've finished them they come back for ! more. "It's best to let them think they are fooling you, for we sell more books that way." Chicago Inter-Ocean. In the Kaily Days. The world has been a long time in making a little progress. The delight with which the public had greeted the slow-going stage coach shows how lit tle was required to arouse the people and call forth their astonishment. That a vehicle which required two days to make the trip from New York to Phil adelphia should have been known as 'The Flying Machine," no longer ago than 1700, seems almost Incredible in this day when wo go from New York to Chicago In half that time. As a study of contrasts, before and after the great awakening which fol lowed the birth of steam power nnd the inauguration of the locomotive, this chapter fropi a hundred years ago Is Interesting. The stage coach was the marvel of a slow age which the world had been centuries In reaching; the locomotive Is the necessity of a rnpid age, which has not yet celebrated Its centennial. From "The Era of Stage Conches," lu Four-Truck News. The women are cih'rylug such big pocketliooks now that they use them for valises when they trnvel. ODD WESTCHESTER WILLS. tatareatiag BacarSa of BlaapU Hal to aaa Fracalitr. collection of odd sod interestla Vestcbeater wills, aays the New York Mbune, has Just been brought to light 0 sn octavo volume prepaied by Wil ls in Pelletreau and published by franda P. Harper of New York. The rills date back to 1604 and furnlah aa lea of tbe frugality and simple habits f the people of that time. William Merritt of Hamaroneck-on-lound, says in bis will, probated in larch, 170i5: ' My body to be buried la solemn and Cbristianllke manner, i voiding all of the funeral ceremonies ind corrupt customs of tbe world, par icularly that unnecessary, unsuitable ustom of handing strong liquor about inongst those who come together upon uch a solemn occasion, by which those s-caslous which call for solemn medi ation are perverted and made sources if worldly pomp .and gratification; igainst which I have often borne my estimony while living, and now bear n y hist testimony." Mary Elizatieth Gulot of Mamaro ieck, iu January, 177G, provides that ier "negro slaves shall have one whole iionth to look for masters such as they ike." Thomas Senbrooke of Westchester now a part of the Bronx) died intes ate in 1C75. The deposition of John Clarke states that "when there waa in alarm of Indians at Castle Hill last lunimer he was a sojourner in the louse of Thomas Seabrooke, who was 'oinmanded, among others, to go t ' Zupt. Osborne's house, and at bis going iway he, the said Thomas Seabrooke, ook his wife (now present Widow Sea irooke) by the hand in the door as he ?as going out and said: 'Wife, I am foing out I know not but I may be mocked on the head. If I never come )ack I give all I hove to thee.' " He lever did come back, and on this testl nony letters of administration were jranted to his wife, Mary. The will of Anne Iltchben, Mamaro leck, gentlewoman, proved iu Febru try, 1700, said: "I leave to my daugh :er Elizabeth 80, my gold ring with in emerald stone in it and my little Bible." Isaac Denman, a gentleman of Rye, Kho died in 1723, left to his wife, Han iuh, the use of all movables and "all 3mt she can make appear she brought tvlth her when she became my wife." William Wiilett, Westchester, 1733, 'eft "use of personal property to wife, llary, to Daughter Ann Jones silver 'ankard, to Daughter Mary Rodman tlx silver spoons and as much money is will be equal to the sliver tankard it 8 shillings an ounce. I leave to ny friend William Foster, to wear in nemory of me, my black cloth coat rest and breeches, black stockings and latband which I bought for mourning 'or my brother Gilbert." John Fowler, farmer, North Castle, eft to his wife, Mary, the use of the louse, barn and, orchard, etc. "Also ny sorrel mare that goes by her name, with side saddle and my silver tank ird." Robert Dingee, Cortlnndt Manor, 1701, left to his wife, Sarah, "all her ioathes and my liest riding horse, a bed and furniture and a chest called tier chest, with all that is therein." Rest of estate to be sold. Abraham Miller, North Castle, 1703, eft to bis wife, Letitia, "the best bed ind blankets, sheets, bolster and pil lows and all sorts sufficient to furnish 1 complete bed for her forever." The World's Great Want. 1'liey are trying to arrange it so that man may safely fly; I'liey are trying to leurn more about the stars up in the sky; They are digging up old ruins so that each of us may know lust what people did for pleasure and for profit long ago; Here aud there is some one trying to revive the love of art, Here and there some poet bravely sings a song that's from the heart. But away with art and science and the Babjiouian brick, What we want is some sure way ia which to Get Rich Quick. Men are fighting still for freedom, fight ing still to have the right To address their God unhindered whea they kneel to pray at night; They are chafing 'ncath oppression as their fathers did before. They are tugging at Che fetters which their luckless parents wore; Here and there some man arises and attempts to let us know How to make fair Peace forever th sweet mistress here below, But we have no time to bother over sock affairs; we stick To the hone of finding ways in which tt Get Rich Quick. The preachers keep on preaching of tha glories over there Where the boodlers cease from troubling and the prospects all are fair, The anxious, eager doctors keep on striv ing to defy ft rim Nature and arrange it so that peo ple needn't die; But away with all the dreamers aud the foolish ones who preach, Who cares what the stars are made of, or whnt ancient tablets teach? We are looking for the hero who will show ns oil the trick, Who will kindly point the way in which to Get Rich Quick. Chicago Record-Herald. Didn't Deserve It. He Won't you give me Just one tlss before I go? Site And if 1 give you just one will ,'ou bo satisfied? He Yes, darling. She Then you won't get It Buf falo News. 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