Haddam City Times from Haddam, Kansas • 1

HADDAM CITY TIME SUBSCRIBE FOR THE TIMES Ailvertiue In THE TIMES I i FEARLESS IN PRINCIPLE, INDEPENDENT IN POLITICS. DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OP THE FARMERS, MECHANICS AND LABORING MEN OF WASHINGTON COUNTY. HADDAM CITY, KAN BAS, SATURDAY, MARCH 15, 1890. VOLUME NO. 7.

DICK'S REVENGE. The Uaddam City Times Will Tebo went to K. C. Sunday. Porter and Foster shipped two car of stock Sunday.

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1 year, WO.OO 8 month, 8 10.00 1 6.00 1 week, 2.60 QUARTER COI 1 year, $25.00 6 month, 13.00 8 I 8.60 1 week. 169 mntaHS.oonei'year, Local notices, 6 eents per lino each Insertion) The Suspicious Man. Perhaps there aresorae human beings who are meaner than the suspicious man, but there is no one who make other people feel meaner. The suspicious man is the fellow who Is always wondering If other people's motives and acts are not "crooked," and he keeps at it until all his own views of men and things ara crooked; he can't get straight again until lie is straightened in his coflln. Most men attribute bad intentions only to bad people, but nobody couies amiss to the suspicious man: if he can't find any one else to suspect, he will devote his time to twisting the minds of his own family.

If he sees a venewmle preacher paying increasing attention to the welfare of sinners, and getting the church in a better state of felling, he suspects that it is only that the old manlsdoingmore work so that he may ask for more pay. When be bears of a rich man presorting a library or picture gallery to his native town, he puts on a disagreeable sneer and asks what office the fellow expects to run for. Being himian, he has friends, or a heart, likes some people better than others, but he cauuot love any one so well that he will not suspect them to something on the slightest pretext. Help him to a job and be will suspect Special rua regular snveg i Lapsl advertlseniotrts at; 1 rnlH. fe r.3 TTT FOR SALE BY 1 1 on the battlefield had dared to sleep at his post Belzing the gun loosely clasped la the nervous fingers, Captain Cartwright pointed it at the corporal's heart, saying sternly "Swear never to reveal what you have witnessed to-night." Trembling like a leaf, the coward took the oath demanded anal then slipped stealthily back to his quarter like a criminal, wondering what evil spirit bad taken possession Dick, who used to hate Ben worse than a rattlesnake.

To be certain that there was no mistake, the Captain lit a match and closely scrutinized the face of the sleeper. Satisfied, took off his light overcoat and spread It carefully over his old enemy, for the night was cahly; then taking up the gun again he mounted guard himself, while poor, worn-out Ben slept peacefully as a child. Just about the break of day the sleeper started up suddenly, and seeing Csptaln Dick in so strange a position he exclaimed: "My God I Have I been sleeping at my pofetf Why are you here, D.ck, to taunt ma in my misery!" "Be quiet, Ben. I do cot blame you. I understand all about that long, wearisome marctandthe fatigue of three days' fighting.

Tired nature could not hold out any longer. Our regiment did not get in until tne evening of the second day, consequently I am fresher than you. It Is all right No one knows about it but Corporal Hunter, and I have sworn him to keep his mouth shut forever." Springing to his feet and grasping the arm of his old enemy, Ben cried: "Tell me why you have done all this for met Why did you, my sworn enemy, give your own rest and comfort that 1 might sleep in safety!" "Ben Rutan, do you think that I am so Inhuman as to have forgotten your noble self-denial that time you sent me home to my sick baby on your furlough! The heroism you then displayed blotted all the dark, unhappy past from my memory. For nearly a year I have been waiting to express my gratitude, but until I found you hees last night I did not know whether you were dead or alive." "Ah 1 Dick, it was a struggle for me to give up a sight of my dear mother that day, but no true soldier could have done otherwise than I did. Could I ever have faced the world again with such a blur upon my bravery? It was for the sake of the dear ones at home that I conquered my cowardice." "And in no sweeter name than home can our friendship be cemonted.

too, have dear ones In the old home nest who would and Silverware. Haddam City, Kansas J. J. MUTH, PreekUnt. A.

J. C. WESTERN EXCHANGE BANK. Capital, $50,000.00. Haddam City, Kansas.

GOFF, Vioo Prea. O. L. TAYLOR, Cashier, Business Transacted. Loan at reasonable rates.

The accounts TAYLOR, Cashier. IDiroctors: 8. STOUT, N. D. GOFF, J.

J. MUTII. J. II. YODER, R.

VIM CENT, 0. L. TAYLOR, A. J. C.

GOFF. A General Banking Exchange bought and sold. Money to of Farmers, Merchants and others received, and every favor consistent with sound banking cheerfully extended. i if rul, Mmu. R.

K. The Old Reliable BURT, TT17.M fwn rtimt At. thA SS head of your Una bad better be kept a bit apart," Daddy Iiasman whispered in Captain Manow's ear, as the new-formed company filed slowly out of the Old cburch where they had been mustered Into service. "Ah exclaimed the Captain, with a fair show of interest. Trouble of eome sort between them, I reckon.

A sweetheart, perhaps." "They love their country a eight better ner each other, that's a fact; but for once no woman is at the bottom of the loud. Dick Cartwright has a wife and baby down in that little cottage yonder, and Ben Rutan likes his mother better than any woman living. It's not that, I assure you. Once the lads were sworn friends, and would have knocked a fellow down If he had told them that any thing could come between them, They both took to larnin', and it was while at college that they fell out about the honors, I guess. At any rate they hain't spoke to each other since hey brought their sheepskins home, though there la not a day they don't meet face to face on the Btreet," explained the old sexton, eager to Impart the information.

"It's none o' my business, I reckon; but It would not be out of place for you to keep a sharp eye on 'em; otherwise you may have fightln' in your own ranks, which would not be pleasant. After this take an old fellow's advice and put your hundred men between Dick Cartwright and Ben Rutan instead of walking 'em together as you did just now." The Captain smiled at the old man's fears, but promised that no trouble should come from the belligerents' proximity in the future. This was the Fourth of July, 1S63, and before twilight the soldiers had taken leave of their peaceful homes many of them forever. They were eager to see active service, but regardless of their murmurings they were detained in camp for several weeks. The same command that ordered the regiment to be ready to move In ten days gave the officers the privilege of issuing furloughs, cot exceeding ten In, a company, to the tired soldiers.

As only one In ten could go Colonel Cameron ordered lots to be east in his regiment to decide whom the hundred lucky ones should be. No one watched the box over which Captain Marlow presided with more anxiety than Dick Cartwright, for the morning's mail had brought him tidings of the serious illness of his little boy. Therefore when the last name was drawn and instead of hearing Dick Cartwright, as he had hoped, that of Ben Rutan was read, he turned away sick at heart, muttering against the hard fate that had befallen him. From a mutual friend Ben had heard of the sorrow in the bone of his enemy; and, much a. he old mother and tve the lot hw fullt-a Utiie Instead of to hUnsalf.

He saw the agony depicted in Ike fltrongriB, face as he realised the otter hopelessness of bis case, and, enemy though he was, hie heart went out in pityto.j&e stricken parent, whose child might, flyen then, be dying. "If things wore different I would give up my lce to hun," Ben soliloquized as he watcned the Captain writing the passes. "But he is my enemy and embraces every opportunity of injuring me. No, I can not give up seeing mother tor his sake." He turned away, determined not to listen to the leadings of his heart, but he oould not shut out the consciousness of his own weakness. "You are a coward, Ben Rutan he said aloud through hie clenched teeth.

"A coward, I say I You are afraid to do what you know to be right. If Dick did treat you like a dog, it Is mean to retaliate now when It is in your power. You are a brave sol dier, truly. You know your mother and the girls would be ashamed to have you go home and Dick's baby dying." Straightening himself up, he turned on his beels, muttering: "For the little one's sake," and walk ing over to the Captain's tent teld him to make out the furlough for Dick Cartwright Instead of Ben Rutan. Captain Marlow looked up in amazement, but Ben made no explanation and only waited a moment to see that his request was carried out properly.

Dick oould not understand it, but as it was train-time and the Captain assured him it was all right, he hurried away, Intending to express his gratitude to Ben upon his re turn. On account of the dangerous condi tion of bis child his furlough was extended, and before his return his regiment was sent to reinforce the Army of the Potomac, then under command of General McClel- lan. At the expiration of his second fur lough Dick was transferred to a Western regiment, and thus his opportunity of malting amends to Ben was unavoidably delayed. They did not meet again until the night after the last day's flgkt at Gettysburg. Dick had been promoted to a Captaincy, and during the battle had lost none of his laurels.

8ome time between midnight and day-dawn he was rudely wakened by Corporal Hunter, who whispered hoarsely In his ear: "Now's your time for revenge. Captain. As I was coming across the ridge I stumbled upon a sentinel fast asleep at bis poet. a WATCBia xna Cirrus siu ocr ri FAMES. By the light of tba moon I discovered the wretch to be your old enemy, Hen Kutaa.

Without disturbing his slumbers I has tened forward to warn you tnut your enemy was in your power. Be qmrk, or he may wake before you can re a him. "Lead gasped the Captain, springing to bis feet. until you reach the spot," he muttr his companion went on to (ewnn the manner in which he had made so Important a clcov- ery. gdeatiy and swiftly see two dark figures crept along the intervening distijijce, never Fi8inruntl they tood by the i ros-trete fjra cf a r--a- n-e Jones, juong and Morrow shipped a couple car stock Sunday.

Young men who go to see their lady love ought not to forget themselves and go to sleep. Mrs. Cora E. Blocker has transferred her real estate interests in Mill creek township to E. II.

Bickford. Our article, "Worse than Whisky," seems to have touched a tender spot ia some of our long tongued neighbors. We last week gave a list.of probable candidates for mayor and promised to give some of the objections offered by tho people, but we find so many that we are not inclined to tackle the job. LOOK! For a nice trimmed hat, or a good corset at 50 cents, also the finest and cheapest line of millinery and notions, ever brought to Haddam call on Mrs. Taylor Brace, Art McKinney returned Friday from Missouri, He rode horseback from Kansas City to Sedalia, and declares that he would not exchange his Kansas farm for any ot their Missouri places.

There is a splendid ODenlng at Haddam City for a good restauran t. There is no business where a small investment would pay better. A good room can be rented reasonable or bought cheap. Jim Lindsey, the butcher, wants mon ey, and requests us to say that all those owing him must settlo up by April 1st or their account will be placed in the hands ot the justice of the peace for collection. We are requested to announce that Rev.

Lucv E. Dodge of the N. Y. Home Missionary in the Northern Kansas Free Baptist Yearly Meeting, will preached at Blocker chruch Sunday March 23d. Everybody invited.

Our contemporary remarks that there hat not been near so much drunkenness in Haddam the past year as usual. We always thought that if he swore off it would make a perceptable difference In the consumption of the ardent in Haddam, and we earnestly hope that he may keep the pledge. It is now time 'you should tloan mx and get ready for spring work. Fish out your plow from the fence corner or rubbish where you left it last fall and plow up a mile or so of the public thor-ougfare to make the plow scour, nunt up the stalk cutter, and tighten up the burrs on the corn planter, come in and got a new check rower take the place of the one you used to lairet the calf, ro. the wild goose flyeth north and seeding time will soon be here.

The cultivator harvester, mowiDg machine and rake might tie left out in the field until later as tbev will not be needed for a few months. Wants to Change Locations. Mr. F.N. Vedder, one of the first merchants of Haddam.

has made up bis mind to close out bis business here and seek a new location in the far west Frank has been at Haddam for about ten years and has gained a reputation here that Is without blemish. While he has done well, like the average American he has become restless and sighs for other fields to conquer. In order to get rid of his immense stock of (roods he has concluded to close them out at cost, and begining Monday morn lng of this week, the sale will be con tinued until the entire stock is disposed of. He has the prices right down to the rock, and people will do well to lay In such coods as they need as soon as possible as everything must go. The people will bo sorry to gee Mr.

Vedder and family remove from amone us. but will all join the Times in wishing him well wherever he may locate. Besides offering his goods at astonishing low prices he offers to Bell his store building at a bargain on long time. Elsewhere will be found a partial list of bargains he is now offering. He would also like those Indebted to him to call and settle their accounts as early as convenient within the next sixty days.

TO ADVEliTISEKS. We have received from the Kansas seed house their annual catalog and would advise all those desiring to purchase any kind of field, garden or flower seeds to write for prices, or call at this office and look over their catalog. This house is perfectly reliable and you can depend on getting everything jiiBt ns thev represent it. fresh and warranted. All orders should be addressed.

F. Bar-teldes Kansas seed house, Lawrence, Kans, 7. nADDAM CITY MEAT MARKET. J. A.

LINDSEY, FropT. CHOICE FRESn MEATS. HAMS and BACON always on hand. CAME ard OYSTERS in their reason JltGiinT Cash Prick Paid for Hides Keeps a complete stock of Harness, Collars, hips, Robes, Halters, Bridies, We urespeotfuUy sollult your patronage and akall endeavor to piease yim. ax, nrllt flnri Farmer! ana rnwranio 'iu our "Want Column" beneficial when they nave anything to sen vmmu nloatlona on all.questlons ully oUoited.

Advertisements and communloatl i reaoh tills offloe by Friday noon. Address all communications to TilE TIMES. Haddam City, Kansas'. OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. HADDAM CITY.

Meyer, Clerk, O.L. TAYLOR liVO MORRISON inSuo sJITIi'T Police Olty Marshal IRA MERRITT COUNCILMKN, fV LEIBEL, MULTER. Vf WILSON, VEDDER, JO BRACE. BADDAM TOWNSHIP. Trustee, EHJANEWAY Olerk, jAy Treasurer.

jh. lua Constables, LEIBEL DOUCE JUSTICES OF TUB PEACH. CAMPBELL and CREW. WASHINGTON COUNTY. NEEDHAM Clerk.

'Treasurer, Register Deeds, Pro Date Judge, Superiutendont, County Attorney, YOUJNtt JN PERKINS It BIRCH BUOWN HAMILTON fl 1T, APKSTON Hurveyor, Coroner, Clerk of Court, -Commissioners A ARMSTRONG A WATERS EVANS i A MORRISON, I DUSTIN, Wm cummings SOCIETIES: CHVRCH S. UVlOl 8UNDAY SCHOOL, every Sunday mornlni aiai o'cock, at the M. P. church. B.

Vincekt, Bupt. MBTHOW8T PKOTKSTA5T servioes every morning and evening each alternate Prayer meeting every Thursday evoaing dauron. J. H. Meeh Pastor.

MB. CHUKCH holds services every two weeks moruing and evening. Prayer meeting every Thursday evening. A eo'rdtal Invitation Is given all to attend these services. K.

B. PERRY, Pastor. MBTHODIST Sunday School every Sunday at 10 o'clock a.m. H. M.

Ochiltree, Superintendent. Miss Minnie Veudih, Secretary. SECRET SOCIETIES. BTRIGO LODGE No. 2M A.

F. A A. M. Holds regalar communication every 2d and 4th Baturday. 8.

PEABODV, W. M. i. 1. MDTH, Secretary.

UUTNAM POST G. A. R. No. 19.

meets eery A 1st and 3d Friday nliiht of each month, at InAlover Western Kxchaiice Bank. A. Commaneer. I. J.

WOOLF, Adj. J. B. CAMPBELL, JfOTARY PUBLIC, HADDAM, KANSAS, Conveyances written and acknowledgements taken. Special attention given to hard and loubtf ul collections.

Insurance written in old and solid companies. W. J. PORTER, DEALER IN LIVE STOCK, ADDAM, KANSAS. I always pay the highest price for hogs and oattle.

bee me when you want to 8. PEABODY, BLACKSMITH WAGON MAKER HADDAM, KANSAS. Wagon wood and Iron work done In flrst-class shape. Farm machinery fitted up on hort notice and satisfaction guaranteed. Located on main street, near Masonic hall, Haddam, Kansas.

B. A M. TIME TABLE. SOI WO WFKT. OOTSO XAKT.

fncseneer, m. a.m. Freight, 11 a. in. Freight, 11, m.

K. M. Hovbt. Agent CITY BARBER SHOP. W.

LEIBEL, Proprietob haddam. Kansas. All work In my line executed In a satifac-tory manner. Bath room run in connection. Charges reasonable.

J. II. HOOVER, HADDAM, KANSAS. Office at E. M.

Bales' drug store. Resl-4naee in east part of town. All calls promptly suuwered day or night. G. W.

SUTTON, M. D. TfCI.ETIO PhyslCTsn and Siinreon. OfBoe n.wth Main on Chase St. Calls prvuiptiy answered day or night.

W. It. LOAG, DEALER IN LIVE STOCK, 11 ADDA Citt, Kan. Prirtf ipp rwr hrr to me and I will yny you Repairing Promptly attended to. I warrant Harness Maker work.

JOB PRINTING. all my J. CAMPBELL, you ot making money out of the operation in some underhanded way. Should his friend offer to lend him money to help him through a tight place he suspects that a larger amount will be borrowed of him at some future time. See him home if you happen to find him drunk, and he will forever after suspect you of telling everybody of the condition you found him.

Let him see a good-hearted fellow making a call upon a sick neighbor, and he straightway suspects the good fellow of improving the opportunity to make love to tho sick neighbors wife. If he sees a couple of neighbors, of opposite sex. chatting con3dentially, no mattor it in plain sight of everybody, he suspects them of improper affection. To men ot his kind there seems no other subject on which a man and woraon can talk to each other. In church he can't keep his eyes clos ed In praver time, he mo etrougly sus pects that the minister may be peeping through slits in his eyelnoin-e at some of the pretty Kills in Urn CySigregation.

ae oawnoi a wun-3 out distributing suspicion glances at every one who handles the cash. It is positive bliss to him to hear of a man of high standing defaulting and run ning away to Canada, particularly if the defaulter was a treasurer of a church. If there is a servant girl in his house he always suspects her of stealing pro visions and giving thm to her relatives If he employs workmen he suspects them all of loafing as soon as his back is turned. It be has cleiks, they are in league with his customers to rob and ruin him. lie is always jealous of his wife.

She may be as old as Methuselah's grandmother, and as homely as a stone fence in a rain storm, but he always suspects her of being in love with some other man on the sly. As for his daughters, their being modles of maidenly modesty, does not prevent him from suspecting them of corresponding with ad unknown admirer, and flirting with any on they can see from their chamber windows. It ho gets into politics and office, he suspects everybody of wanting his place; and all thai denials get from him are looks that make one want to kick him all the way to obivion. His boys may be good enough to go to heaven without ying, but he "often drives them in the opposite direction by filling their beads and hearts with sins of which he suspects them. If a crime is committed in the vicinity and the criminal is unknown, he becomes an amutur detective at once, and suspects every neighbor he has.

Previous good character Is nothing to him. He belieyes satan was a fallen angel; so why should not everybody else fall. Should he get to heaven when be dies, he would suspect the Archangel Micheal of wishing to elope wiih some fair female, it ho saw them together an Instant behind one ot the pearly gates. He suspects the engineer of his train of being drunk, the conductor of stealing fares, the policemau on his street of being in league with thieves, and every man who pays him a new dollar is in his eye a probable counterfeiter. He is always suspecting the men who manages affairs, from the president down to the town committee, but when a change is talked of, he suspects every new person who may be mentioned for office.

The most enraging thing, which the suspicious man is, and although continually learning that he Is mistaking, he never changes his method. The only way of iupressing the suspicious man seems be to Sght him with his own weap as. Openly express suspicion of the motives behind his own acts, and intimate that perhaps he isj guilty of all the misdeeds committed in his neighborhood do matter wheth' they be bang robbery, dug stealing, or drunken howling in the streets after midnight. Lpt him "know how it is himself." The knowledge may half kill him, but that is not as bad aslo have him half kill everybody else, which is what ti" means usually result in. COMMERCIAL Having just received a new job press, new type and a fresh supply of stationery, I am prepared to execute orders tor ail kinds of ob printing.

Call andDget my prices which are low. Cxood work and honest coujt. SWXAB NEVER TO REVtAL WTIAT TOU BAT1 WITNESSED TO-NIGM." be ashamed of me should I prove traitorous to one who sacrificed so much tor mo. This is the Fourth of July, Just a twelve-month since we left the soil of our native State. Let us keep the country's anniversary by pledging our friendship anew," responded Dick, wiping the mist from bis dim eyes.

"With all my heart," was Ben's ruply, as he grasped the outstretched hand proffered him. More than twenty years have come and gone since the angel of peace spread its healing wings over the rent and bloeding country, but the new friendship, chorished and hallowed by suffering, has been abiding, and the two so strangely at enmity, will go down to the grave all the better for the sacrifices they made for each other while they were yet enemies. Beli.b V. Caisnouf. Fourth of July In Hiatnry.

The Fourth of July occupies a conspicuous plLce in American history for other reasons than that it is the National birthday. In celebrating it we naturally dwell exclusively on the scenes in Independence Hall at the adoption of the Declaration, but had this illustrious- event fallen upon any other day, the Fourth should have still held a prominent place in the people's memory. Yet, curiously enough, it is not at all a notable day in military history. No doubt it is well that we have neither to commemorate a victory won, nor to lament battle lost upon tbis day. Though the Nation was at war during twenty of the first hundred years of its existc ice, and has been enggg-r-d in more than four hundred battles, yet, wilh a single exception, there has been no blood shed on the Fourth.

Several actions have taken place on the third day of the month the most nou-worthy being the culminating struggled the civil war at Gettysburg and on the fifth, but bad it not been for the unfortunate assault of the Confederates on Helena, A in 18S3, the surrender of Vickuburg taut same year would have been the only Important military event connected with the National anniversary. Mention, however, might be made here ot an incident in Washington's career, the memory of which doubtless threw an occasional shade over his rejoicings at the ro- currence of tbis day. During a raiupaia against the French and Indians in 17'ri, Washington, at the head of a small force, was compelled by a greatly superior body of tho enemy to retreat to some hastily constructed entrenchments, which woro characteristically called FortKecc-islly. On the night of July 8, aft era combat which bad hwled ten hours, the French commander summoned the brave young colonial officer to surrender. The pwleyiE jr conunued till late at night, when astiir s-ton agreed to tho honorable termi nfr'ere him, and on the morning of the Fourth, marched out of the fort with all the honors ot war.

A Fre Kick. EIlaFoote (aged fourteen) llaroma, see me kkk the mantel-piece 1 Docs it Mrs. Foote For shame, Ullal Only ballet-girls kick, and they do it for their l.v. lng. KllaFoote What do you kici niemma! Mrs.

Fixite It Why, nothing. Eila Foote That's just whit papa said. fuck Wtmder He Fref.jrrl It. WifeUow do you like lay new bonnet, dear! Hn.ban'l How much wae it! Wife- Eleven dollars. Husband Let me see; bewmuxh tiij the lat one be'ure this cost! Wife Meventy-five.

Hnehar.d -Ahl this HMseb. haadf-esjer. -J- i' DRUGS jVIedicipes, Paipts apd Oils. Wall Paper, Come and get prices, whether you buy or not. No trouble to show ejoods, Yours Anxious to please, J.

B. CAMPBELL, Justice of the Peace, Loan and Collection Agent, HADDAM CITY, KANSAS. COLLECTIONS A All Business will receive prompt atienMca and pains will be taken to protect the interests of customers. CONVEYANCES WRITTEN AND ALL NOTORIAL YOUK DONE..