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Show T I THE S ALINA SUN, SALINA UTAH ringer held JJJ j I; The Storq of if Aqua Pura r sfi I WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE j Copyright, 1922, by the Macmillan Co. who write about Kansas, write Ignorantly, and PEOPLE of the state as a finished jin ilu t. Kansas, like Gaul of old, is di' idud into three parts, differing as ridely, each from the other, as any ttine countries in the same latitude uon the globe. It would be as untrue to classify together the Egyptian, the Indian and the Central American, as to speak of the Kansas man without distinguishing between the eastern Kansan, the central Kansan, and the w stern Kansan. Eastern Kansas is a fin.ihed community like New York or Pennsylvania. Central Kansas is fin shed, but not quite paid for; and western Kansas, the only place where three is any suffering from drought or crop failures, is a new country old only in a pluck which is slowly conquering the desert. Aqua Pura was a western Kansas town, set high up, far out on the prairie. It was founded nine years ugo. at the beginning of the boom, not by cowboys and ruffians, but by honest. ambitious men and women. Of the six men who staked out the town site, tw- - Johnson and Barringer were Ha. card men; one, Nickols, was fio-Princeton; and the other three, P.ciniK, Bradley and Hicks, had come from inland state universities. When their wives came West there was a Yeswir reunion, and the first mail that arrived after the post office had been established brought the New York magazines. The town was like dozens of others that sprang up far out in the treacherous wilderness In that fresh, green sprng of 18S0. They called it Aqua Pura, choosing a Latin name to proclaim to the world that it was not a rowdy town. The new yellow pine of the little village gleamed In the clear sunlight. It could be seen for miles on a clear, warm day, as It stood upon a rise of ground ; and over in Maize, six miles away, the electric lights of Aqua Pura, which flashed out in the evening before the town was six months old, could be seen distinctly. A schoolhouse that cost twenty thousand dollars was built before the town had seen its first winter; and the first Christmas ball in Aqua Pura was held In an opera house that cost ten thousand. Money was plentiful; two and three-stor- y buildings rose on each side of flie main street of the little place. The farmers who had taken homesteads in the country around the town had prospered. Barringer was elected mayor at the municipal election in the spring of 87, and he platted out Barringers Addition, and built a house there with borrowed money in June. There were two thousand people in Aqua Tura on and lived, rent free, in the two front rooms of the barn of a hotel His daughter, Mary, frail, anned, hollw-ey(,- i and withered by the droughts lived with him. In 1890 the hot winds came again in l"ng and steady they !,e blew, blighting everything. There were only five hundred people in Fountain county that year, and they lived on the taxes from the railroad that crossed the county. Families were put on the poor list without It disgrace was almost a mark of political distinction and in the little town many devices were ia vogue to distribute the county funds during the winter. There was no rain that winter and the snow was hard and dry. Cattle on the range suffered for water and died by the thousands. A procession from the little town started eastward early ifi the spring. wagons, sought the rising sun. Christmas eve, 1891, the entire village, fifteen souls in all, assembled at Barringers house. He was hopeful, even cheerful, and talked bitterly of what one good crop would do for the country ; although there were no farmers left to plant It, even if nature had been harboring a smile for the dreary land. The year that followed that Christmas promised much. There were spring rains, and in May the brown grass and the scattered patches of wheat grew green and fair to see. Barringer freshened up perceptibly. He sent an account of his indebtedness manilla paper to his win hoine-rulecreditors In the East, and faithfully assured them that he would remit all be owed In the fall. A few wanderers straggled Into Fountain county, lured by the green fields and running brooks. The gray prairie wolf gave up the dug-ou- t to human occupants. Lights in the prairie ealens twinkled back hope to the stars. Before June there were a thousand people In Fountain county. Aqua Iura's business houses seemed to liven up. There was a Fourth of July celebration in town. But the rain that spoiled the advertised fireworks in the evening was the last "ad White-canopie- d Rev. B. M. Bridges Gives Facts in His Case up asd down in the little paths through the brown w reds in the deserted streets, all day long, talking to himself. At night when the prairie wind rattled through the empty building, blowing snow and sand down the halls, and in little drifts upon the broken stairs, the old mans lamp was seen by straggling travelers burning far into the night. He told his daily visitors that he was keeping his books. Thus the winter passed. The grass came with the light mist ot March. By May it had lost its color. By June It was brown, and the hot winds came again in August, curving the warped hoards a little deeper on the floor of the hotel porch. Herders and travelers, straggling back to the green country, saw, him sitting there at twilight, looking toward the southwest, a grizzled, unkempt old man, with a shifting light in his eye. To such as spoke to him he always made the same special ; Yes, it looks like rain, but it can't rain. The rain has gone dry here. They say "it rained at Hutchinson, maybe so, I doubt it. There is no God west of Newton. He dried up in 90. They talk irrigation. That's un old story in hell. Where's Johnson? Not here! Wheres Nickols? Not here! Beinis? Not here! Bradley? Not here! Hicks? Not here! Wheres handsome Dick Barringer, store buildings. Hon. Hit-har- He walked It is doubtful If there has ever been a medicine endorsed by so many minis- ters of the Gospel as has Tunlac. Indeed, there Is scarcely a faith, creed or denomination In all the land in Barringer? Here! Here Is, Religious Exercise. Two shipwrecked sailors were on a desert island. They were utterly miserable, pinched with hunger and cold. The one more wretched than the other said to his companion, Can you pray, Bill? d d Always AVctableIVcpaabi&rAs Bears the ;$ tinfethcStotnacfe and BewcgJ ThcrcljyPromoUnyigttJ aecrfulnessandlksttota neither OpIflm.Morptoen Mineral. NoTAC.OTlc Signature of XmmS Aatw Remedy JicSimile SidaaW,0 Thirty Years jHjtavtAimCoHPBa. Exact Copy of Wrapper. VMS CCWTAUH Take a good dose of Carters Little Liver Pills then take 2 or 3 for a few nights after.They cleanse your system of all waste matter and JniTTLE Regulate Your Bowels. Mild as easy to AM take as sugar. Genuine Bear tignature Small Pill. Small Dose. Small Price. col- carter's iver. sac Gives Charming New Shade PUTNAM FADELESS DYES IN SCHOOL PLAYGROUND Authority Makes Plea for Games That Are Characterized by Energy and Vim. "The Old Mans Lamp Was Seen by Straggling t.ie Night. Travelers Burning Far Into Jellyfish gymnastics, or stupid, silly gainer, played half heartedly, have little place in the projier physical development of the growing child, declines Dr. E. Blanche Nterling, acting assistant surgeon, United States public health service, In commenting on the heullli of school children. In planning exercise wilh a view to the promotion of good posture, she suggests they should he simple ami vigorous and piny fnll of energy mid vim. The posture of school children cane said to depend chiefly not, lmwewr, on any one condition, she holds. Defective visin', adenoids and had tonsils tend to have a had effect on the chilli's posture. ..Whore hygienic conditions til a school are not tin best there is an increase of poor posture. Good nutrition is a contributing factor to good posture, hut by no incaiis an condition. Gondii ion of the , Doc-to- r sin claims. Iins no eiTo,-t- . a on based are Sterling's findings study of three eiementniy s lends at Bedford, Ind. tts-th- that fell until winter. A carload of night lie walked to the red clay grade aid from central Kansas saved a hun- of the uncompleted "Air Lne and dred lives in Fountain county P at looked over the dead level stretches of prairie, lie would have gone away, year. held him to the town. When the spring of 1898 opened, hut something Th pic lie had risked all. Here, older ten than looked years Barringer In Ids wanted fancy, lie hoped lie looked the spring before. to regain all. He liud written so often, It was his habit to sit on the front Times will he belter in the spring," porch of the deserted hotel and look that it was part of Ids confession ot across l,l'.e prairies to the southwest faith tliut and One good crop will and watch the breaking clouds snifter bring the country around a.l right. into the blue of the twilight. lie could This in the "ns written with red see the empty water tower silhouetted old man's nervous lmnd ondaythe side against sky. The frame buildings tha' of the hotel, on the faded signs, on rose in the boom days had all hrun the deserted Inner walls of the stores moved away. He sat and waited, h' in fact, everywhere in Aqua Iura. fondly for the realization of u The wind told on 1dm; it witheied dream which he feared could timer 1dm and supped ids energy. come true. One morning lie awoke and a strange There were days when the po.- -t masound greeted ids ears. There was a loin. child sat with sters tapping in the building and a gentle thus child snt man and the old The was not the guffaw of the that roar one evening when the old man sighed: rushed for the door. He lie wind, be would there would rain, only If it t he lie ran and horelieadi-saw ! rain, ! If it would only rain half a crop yet It middle of where to streets the the him and heard child sighed The was down. The messenger leurlrg Yes, if it would only rain Maize with the day's supplies what is rain, Mr. Barringer?" He. fr.om him found at standing there, viieiintly, looked at the child blankly and almost thoughtfully, looking up. the he in When silence. time for a long ri.ln dripping from his grlr.ied lend, Arose he did not even have a pretense and rivulets of water trickling shout of hope. He grew despondent from that hour, and a sort of hypochondria ids shoes. Ill ilo, Fncte Dick, xuld tle messeized him. the Enjoying prospect? senger. the the winds when That fall piled cuts ami the Hirer's risin; better come luuk with sand in the railroad me. prairie was ns hard and barren as the it But the old man only answered, a cabin Barr around door, ground Not here! Nickols? Not old Johnson? of fever. died The gers daughter here! BihJIcv? man seemed little moved by sorrow. here! Bends? Not ! That winter the postmaster left. The Not here Hicks? Not her! And The county Barringer? Here! And now God's office was discontinued. so commissioners tried to get Barringer moved the rain belt west. Moved west that there's for hoj-Iznonu far not would he He persuaded to leave. to go. The county commissioners were to get irrigation from Ahraham. And with this the old man went it. to not insistent. It gave one of them an excuse for drawing four dollars a day the house. There, when the th e o' ly V from the county treasury; lie rode rain had ceased, and when the geat from Maize to Aqua Ittra every d..j river that flooded the barren plain had with supplies for Barringer. shrunk, the rescuing party, coming f uin Beside big bed The old limn cooked, ate, and slept Maize, found hhn. in the office of the hotel. Day after were his bnlunced books and Ids legal day he put on his overcoat In the win- papers. In hip dead eyes veie a "turn ter ar.d made the rounds of the vacant biuu die uina. per-lu.ti'- t Rare Find in English Church. After three centuries of concealment behind plaster and rubbish, the remains of a Fourteenth century d stained-glas- s window have been Old at Chelsea (England) church. The oid glass, which Is of immense value, was found between layers of soft plaster behind a mass of d(l iiricks. in one window only a fragment of a holder was found, but i.n Hie other a panel two feet by two was brought to light. The panel is nearly complete, tin. head of the figure apparently that of St. Lawrence or St. Stephen is missing. The glass seems to he of a date not later than the middle of the Fourteenth century. With the exception of Westminster abbey there is no London church with its own glass uf so early a date. Bobbys Wish. grumbled Bobby when or1 dered to get busy with the soap. just wish I was u dock. Why dn you wish that? Ids mother asked. 'Cause I wouldnt have to wash iny face and hands then, explained the TranBoston Evening youngster. script. () dear! A j j j d j j j The story is told of a banker who suffered the loss of one eye end had a glass substitute made. Tlie glass eye was wonderfully fashioned, so much so that Its wearer was satisfied no one could tell It from n real organ. A day or so after lie begaa wearing it. a customer of the bank sought n loan, but the. banker was not quite satisfied with the collateral. After much persuasion from the borrower, the bnnker would-b- e Street Journal. Camels Peculiarity. You cant he too particular in chaos lne your particular friends. cm keep on to build health from food that has been robbed of certain elements required for perfect nutrition. doesnt contain the mineral properties that go to build up nerve, tooth and bone structure, there food is no other means by which you can get these vital dements. This is one reason why so many well-inform- ed people eat Grape-Nut- s the food that enriches the blood, and builds sound, healthy bodies. Grape-Nut- s And Co. , Ino. Battle Creek, Mich. from wthole Grape-Nut- s is perfectly deliy cious served with milk or cream, or made into an sppetizing pudding for dinner. Grape'Nuts Builder the Body is made wheat flour and malted barley-ba- ked for 20 hours, which develops the natural richness of the grains and makes for ready digestibility. from your grocer Get a package of Grape-Nut- s a help to health. today, and give the family Potum Cereal said: will make you a sporting proposition. If you can tell which of my eyes Is glass, I will make you the loan. That's easy, replied the other. Its your left eye. asked the How do you know? hanker. It is Jic more sympathetic of the two, responded the borrower. Wall I made has been equipped with a pump and hose for returning t he find. of people Thousands year, year If your i Borrower Freed His Mind, but Remark Poured No Oil on .Troubled Watere. Would-B- e Are you am ng these thousands? i four-year-ol- DIDNT GET LOAM Pump Returns Gasoline. sssasisssisssiszz ' PROBABLY Tin camel cannot swim. The moment It loses its footing in running water it turns on its side and makes no effort to save Itself from drowning. tank for draining gasoline from grindstones color is gray; and an uutomohile when repairs are to he when a man has his nose to the grindstone. life looks gray. to Old Lingerie dyes or tints as you wish dls-cove- A -. CUT. C0MOTHIPATOEJ Talking, Not Entertaining. Mothers Voice Are you entertaining Ilnrold? Daughter No, were just talking. PEP OMMM, new TOOK pas lets have Well, something religious; lets have a Boston Transcript. lection. Use For Over JgS2 No. said the first, . CkmftipationandDiAiThoei and Feverishness Can you sing a hymn? ho- tel was an indifferent frame affair. This is the story of the rise. Barringer has told it a thousand times. Barringer believed in the town to the last. When the terrible drought of 1887, with its furnacelike breath singed the town and the farms in Fountain county, Barringer led the majority wdiich proudly claimed that the country was all right; and as chairman of the board of county commissioners, he sent a scathing message to the governor, refusing aid. Barringers own bank loaned money on lnnd, whereon the crop had failed, to tide the farmers over the winter. Barringer's signature guaranteed loans from the East upon everything negotiable, and Aqua Pura thrived for a time upon promises. Here and there, in the spring of 18SS, ihere was an empty building. One room of the opera house block was vacant. Barringer started a man in business, selling notions, who occupied the room. Barringer went East and pleaded with the men who had invested In the town to be easy on their debtors. Then came the hot winds of July, blowing out of the souhtwest, scorching the grass, shriveling the grain, and drying up the streams that bad filled in the spring. During the fail of that year the hotel, which had been open only in the lower story, closed. The opera house began to be used for aid meetings, and when the snow winter wind blew through the desolate streets of the little town, it rattled a hundred windows In vacant houses, and sometimes boards from the high blew sidewalk that led across the gully to the big red grade of the unfinished Chicago Air Line. Barringer did not go East that year. He could not. But he wrote wrote regularly and bravely to the Eastern capitalists who were concerned In his bank and loan company; and they grew colder and colder as the winter deepened and the Interest on defaulted loans came out. Barringer's failure was announced In the spring of 89. Nickols had left. Johnson had left The other founders of Aqua Pura had and their families had died In '87-8gone, and with them the culture and tb ambition of the town. But Bar r Genuine Castoria V GSHT. A.LCOHQL-3PE- B ?! No. y In order to excel Maize, where the Q run-dow- then. There was not a lawless element. There was not a saloon in the town. A billiard hail, and a dark room, wherein cards might be played surreptitiously, were the only institutions which made the people of Aqua Pura blush, when they took the innumerable Eastern capitalists over the town who visited western Kansas that year. These capitalists were entertained brick hotel, equipped at a with electricity and modern plumbing three-stor- Mothers Know That which one, or more, of the clergymen lias not publicly expressed their indebtedness to the Premier Preparation for the benefits they have derived from its use. One of the latest to speak out In this connection is Itev. B. M. Bridges, a widely known and beloved Baptist preacher, residing ot Mooresboro, N. C., whose statement follows; "Tanlac has given me a good appetite, toned up my system and renewed my strength In such a gratifying way that I am glad to recommend It to anycondition. one who is In a For ten years past I have had such a severe case of Indigestion that 1 could not find anythiug to cat that I became agreed with me. Final! very nervous and could get hut very little sleep or rest. "It seems that I took nearly everything trying to get myself right, hut nothing helped me until I ran across Tanlac. My nerves ore so much better now that my sleep is sound and refreshing. I enjoy my meals and have also gained weight. I can say from experience that Tanlac is a splendid medicine and tonic, for It has built me up wonderfully. Tanlac is sold by all good druggists. -- Advertisement. holding down a hot brick In a cooling room of hell! Yes, it does look like rain, doesnt it? Cattle roamed the streets in the early spring, but the stumbling of the animals upon the broken walks, did not disturb him, and the winds and the drouth soon drove them away. The messenger with provisions came every morning. The summer, with Its awful heat, began to glow. The lightning and the thunder Joked Insolently in the distance at noon ; and the stars in the deep, dry blue looked down and mocked the old mans prayers as he sat, at night, on his rickety sentry box. He tottered through the deserted stores calling his roll. Night ofer he afrit Contents 15TluldDracte |