Kackley Leader (Newspaper) - September 14, 1893, Kackley, Kansas Good will eill K REPUBLIC KAtf SEPTEMBER VOLUME L NUMBER THE LILY AND THE There grew a flower In Babylon Whose perfumes make young lovers weep I tOn It Assyrian moonlight Euphrates murmured It to rings back forgotten Its petals breathe a dead loves kiss bathed It in her beams In the gardens of Egypt has a sweeter bloom The lotus of forgetful breath and embalmed In spiced The sad Nile sobbed Its dreams to 2t soothes remembered loves to rest As quiet as deaths waxen lid They laid It on Beneath her slender THE One many months before Dor othy left the stage in the abrupt manner which used to ruffle the manager so she had come walking into the office leading smaller and much more untidy little girl than herself by one grimy Heres my announced the little and her names And though the manager had a good deal and declared he not stand word had and Katherine became her Where the small actress had found no one ever but from the ragged frock which scarcely covered her plump and the it must have been in some far removed from the fashion able quarter of the But be tween Dorothy herself and her foster mother and they soon turned the smaller child into a Inside of a week she knew everyone in the in the pets of the women inside of a month she could go through her lines in Fauntleroy with the best of and with an astonishing grace and Undoubtedly the little ragamuffin either possessed the tal ent herself or else had inherited it from her relatives shown that she dropped into the company as naturally as if she had been acting since she wore long When Barry that ele blase young man who conde to grace the stage with his distinguished were the comedians sarcastic words con the Fauntleroy every woman in that ag said in her inner heart she would bring him to her feet for added to a most enchanting manner and there was an air of de licious mystery about him which was really quite No one knew anything definite of old woman whispered or twice to the leading lady that she knew ha must be a real running away from something the advance man who dropped back once a week to have a game of poker with the first was half way sum he had seen him through the window at an recep But this was mere guessing the facts were only these He never he never gossiped with the others he dressed but taste the others did not Tie played the earl as if his life de pended upon his success and he took life The one thing which made him seem real and tangible to the other men was that Tie drank a good he never got too but although he asked them to join whenever they happened in the same it was with the of a baron paying for the wine for ills All in he was a handsome and delightful Until he saw Katherine for the first Then he became a veritable He met her one afternoon he was stumbling along the abom dark and noisome alley lead ing to the for a mo the serious actor stood staring down at the little girl as if lie had seen a lobe she was anything but being quite a plump and rosy as when Dorothy had brought her into the company the yellow hair which needed no addition when went on turn Wed about her face in a very attrac tive and material manner but the 3iotor continued to until it to him that he was blocking way and possibly the little was waiting so patiently with sweetly childish smile upon her face which made every one Tier want to go WitWa hoarse I beg your ixo took off his hat gravely and step ped She looked up at him as gravely and said Thank as she which M wandered downstreet hit and went by three saloons without stopping in Which un doubtedly proved the disturbed con dition of Barry Markhams From that day forth he was a dif ferent He drank he talked more he took to haunting back al leys and he had learned very limited and he conversed with all the inhab of these unsavory portions of the city who had reached the middle milepost of day saw him doing the as the others said from his sad face when he returned from his it was evidently not for the pleasure he found If what be learned there made him he made up for it when he came for once near the little girl who had interested him he forgot his whatever they and warmed his cold heart the sun shine of her happy And it would have taken a cold in to withstand the confiding little ways with which Katherine went to Noth ing could frighten or disturb seemingly nothing seemed bad or unpleasant to her pure heart and once her faith was grounded in her new which was soon the nothing on earth could have up rooted her conviction that ho was the best and kindest man In the Before he had been with the company she had given him her full faith and love in she had crept into his heart and filled It so thoroughly that all the combined of tho ladies of the company could not have usurped a corner of It fact they soon became aware The selfpossessed Markham loved little Katherine as if she were his own She reminds him of some said the one evening daring the when he had re turned from a trip with the road company which Phillips sent out the first of and it is either that his ladylove married some other fellow and this is the or else his sister ran away and went on the stage and deserted her That is my un I never could have got any thing out of Never saw such a closemouthed man in my life aint he fond of the kid its a fact that when he plays earl to her little and she puts her arms around his Ive seen trem from a as the flashy young man lighted his he be tween puffs Ill bet hes way up in when hes Saw some of his clothes tother by thunder they had one Tf these or on you Hes been a you hear me whisper And Katies as good as a gold cure for him dd if hell take a drink of now Whereat the speaker laughed and nudged his friend between the ribs as Markham passed them on his way to the A month and closer and dearer to each other grew the strangely matched pair they took long walks about the city they went to the Zoo together they even had a drive in a beautiful carriage with two and the driver clad in some ones castoff now and then and they were very The young man and the little girl each and the company wondered took it out in Matters came to a crisis one after noon soon after Dorothy took her peremptory The manager was in anything but a good owing partly to that affair and part ly to the new play now being gone and which seemed determined to go wrong from The cast had started out being and when he as he always did when they became sullen and Markham was on one of his slumming said the leading to cap the forgot her lines and could not rer member them when angrily prompted by the lost control of himself plunging at he struck the patient little face a cruel blow with his open Take you little fool he with a while the others stood staring at him in incredulous astonishment you havent brains enough to live Get off the I tell and dont you comft back till you can say those lines first to do y understand And if I catch He stopped and his un pleasant face grew fairly livid stand ing in wing Vras the towering form of Barry Markham looking at the manager in such a way as to make him With a little cry of love and between her sobs of Katherine ran to him with outstretched he gathered her into his strong arms and held her closely to She laid ono soft still red with the mark of the mana gers heavy upon his and began kissing the hand she loved so much and which held her tightly One of the women pressed her handkerchief to her eyes quickly tind looked For a minute Markham held the loving baby to and then he put her gently down upon a pile of in tho Then he shook off the big topcoat he always stripped his gloves quietly from his laying them all beside Kath crossed tho stage to where the manager For tho first tims he and his though low artd foil upon oara like the cold Put up your hands The manager turned a shade paler and started to Put up your said Markham a little doing KO The hardly he was doubled his fists and held them in front of The next mo ment ho was staggering across the green as if ho had been He was a powerful man and with a roar of rage he recovered him self suddenly and hurled himself upon the But Markham had been a gentleman and an and he was ready for three blows but so terrifically scientific were so entirely square and that no more were The manager fell against the backdrop in a senseless mass and with a grim picked up his coat and hat and put them on He turned to the others as two silent stage hands car ried the blooding manager to the nearest and slowly I sincerely beg the ladies pardon for this disgraceful but waa quite I have just learned this afternoon that wile is and that as I hoped and is my That is He taking the little girl into his arms once he bowed to the and picking his way through piles of rope and tarnished past worn out drops and broken and into the little alley where he had first met the little one who was cling ing about his neck now and smiling through her tears As they passed under the dim light which flared and danced in its wire cage above tho he stooped and pressed his lips again and again to those of his baby though she knew he was there was some thing like tears in his eyes and his voice trembled a trifle when moment he called a cab take them to the You have seen Markham and daughter play Fauntleroy P Then you have seen the best little lord and the most natural earl on the for the love they show for each toward the end of the little does not have to be acted vat BATTLES WITH THE HERO PIERCE OF NUMEROUS Incident ID the Life of Man Who Was n Brought to Very Exciting Puw a to his How He Oat His Apropos of queer Henry Cooper writes the York Sun as follows in Canada gome years ago on a farm near Lake I was struck by the peculiar ity of the name of one of the sons in the family I was It was Happen this and Happen that until I was I said to him wore Forgive me for being but I nothing of your Will you tell me what it is He flashed up in a moment You Yankees are too darn inquisitive if you want to know about my name ask When the opportunity I very re information from bis ma Drat that she he sends everybody to name is that was what he were christened When he was born I happened to be at a camp and I didnt want to forget it I hope you are sat I Alfred New Englands most famous bear died at Wont aged 60 and although the hero of many a hard fought he loft this world from natural his death resulting from a cold and of This was born in and the asso of tho state proved too strong for him to sever during his In nis early boyhood the fascinations of the chase ob such a strong hold upon although flattering induce ments were proffered to follow agri cultural or mechanical the woods and streams claimed him as a willing His reputation as a crack shot and daring hunter rapidly spread through out the and the appearance of any largo wild animal of dangerous character was immediately followed by a message to when ho repair to the and as a general thing the life of the varmint paid the penalty of his Bruin was his favorite and ho would follow tho trail day and in fair weather and missing many a meal in his earnest pursuit of On ono occasion way back in the Pago was taking a hunting trip up on Carrs which was a favorite resort of Wi th him was a young man of little ex in the Ono night they made their camp on tho side of the mountain in a spot that was covered with knew how fond bears were of the beech nuts and kept his eye out for bear He found a place where there were unmistakable marks of one of these animals having boon and began to think how he could trap the old Knowing that it would be of no use to set his traps on the he thought perhaps he might coax the animal down to a little brook that ran near So he took two large traps and set them in the brook some distance apart and baited For two days nothing was but on the third the upper trap was Page and his companion followed the tracks down stream and occasionally found tracks of blood and signs of a struggle where the bear had got the heavy trap caught in the roots and behind Turning a little mound sharply they came plump upon Mister Bruin caught in some clawing and growling in a way that showed whatever came in his way would have to As the two came the bear made a sudden turn around the bushes and came face to face with much to his Both fired at but just then ho succeeded In tearing his paw out of the trap and made for them Pages companion turned and but the though a young at that had faced bears often enough to bold his A second shot hit the brute and he went as it he was fac from Pago thought ho might as well make it a sure and was loading up again for a final when the bear shambled to his feet and went for hint Clubbing hia the hunter hit the animal again and again do ing much damage beyond shatter ing his rifle stock and angering bis Only the tallest kind of dodging kept him from the infuri ated animals Fortunately for him his hunting which had heard the fuas just at that came tearing through the bushes and pluckily teeth in one of tho bears hind The bear turned and snapped at but tho dog be ing game and lithe simply let go one leg and grabbed tho Then ensued as lively a dance as Old Carrs mountain ever All tho time and hunted were working their way down stream toward the other which no one thought It was brought to attention quick for in one of the measures in tho furious cotillion dog and bear were the latter suddenly set his foot square in the jaws which snapped and held Page now saw his and ran back to hore his companion had dropped his rifle in his hasty seized reloaded and put a bullet into bruins brain just as he had suc in tearing trap 2 from its and was coming up for round 2 with anything but good That settled Page for taking green woodsmen out with He and his dog kept company alone after whenever deeds of ursine slaughter were in the Its Biting the fingernails is belnar classed among the phobias by a member of the French He alls the practice which is Week for nail and has boon making a careful study f it Perhaps he goes too far in pronouncing the habit to be a sign of though it is probably placed among the incon and treated as an Indica tion of nervous Tho child or man who is constantly biting his finger nails down to the quick will often be found to be of an impulsive character and liable to err on the sido opposed to It is an old English saying that nail biting and sad temper go But the orco of example has also to be child that as with a child will almost certainly become a Toll That to tho A visitor to ono of our war having heard an unlikely story from a exclaimed tell that to the A sargeant of marines He turned to a reporter who was standing near and said it seems very funny to somo people to slur tho They call us turkeys and talk of the horse marines and tell all the liars to como and spin their yarns to Its tire The marines are just as useful as tho sailors and have as much to Ive been in the service eight years and I toll you the standing of the marine corps is every bit as good as tho The men know as and behave as well as any enlisted men in government be tween you and they dont drink as much as tho They dont get pay NOVEL The linen of Ireland gives employment to upward of per and has an estimated capital in vested of There are now between and miles of telephone circuits in the metropolitan area of a re gion covering about 500 square in hie Annals of Ma rine Hydrography and published by the observatory of Ham details the effects upon waves of the sea of different sorts of and comes to the conclusion that soap pro duces still far superior Wax figures are slowly disappearing as advertising The cheap tailors uso figures of wire with heads of plaster and paper and the cheap dentists have taken in some of their horrible with staring eyes and teeth that were gnashed by ma Among the large shipments of bones from Mexico to the United States re cently made for fertilizing and sugar refining were ton car loads of human said to have been ob from ancient mounds in South ern but more probably gath ered from various old and abandoned SO SCIENTISTS Princess one of richest has lately been and as an evidence of good faith haft discharged two of the three husbands she had previously a noted Russian phy is about to make public what he claims to be a positive cure for The chief ingredient in the re medy is a whey from A female codfish will lay eggs during a single Pisca authorities that were it not for the work of the natural enemies of fish would fill all the available space in the rivers and Tho rate of multiplication of which of contagious are capa ble is A single placed in favorable surroundings for growth quickly divides into two each of those divides Into these four into and so the number soon reaching rato the and by the end of twentyfour to
