The Leader Tribune (Laverne, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 24, Ed. 1 Friday, December 8, 1922 Page: 4 of 8
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Business Woman
Feared She Had
Heart Trouble
"Since Tnnliie Inis overcome R hurt
ease of Indigestion anil nervousness
of three or four years' standing for
me. my work here In the store Is *
pleasure, anil I am certainly grnteful
for the good health it has given me,''
sahl Mrs. J. W. J'lcklns, of Mil K. IMh
8t„ l,iis Angeles, who owns and oper-
Btc’s the book store at 219 Mereantlls
place.
4,I was so run down that ! felt miser-
ihle nil the time M.v sleep was broken
anil restless, 1 Imd no appetite, and
the gas from undigested food enttsed
my heart to palpitate so 1 thought 1
had heart trouble. For n time 1 hail
a swelling In my legs, too, and It was
an effort for me to get about,
“It Is wonderful how Tanlno has
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Aqua Pura
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Capyriekl. INI. to the MeoaiUaa Ca.
W'XEOFLE who write about Kansas,
IJ lie a rule, write Ignorantly, anil
a apeak of the state aa a tlnlahetl
product. Kanaae, like Haul of old, la
divided Into three parta, differing aa
widely, each from the other, aa any
three countrle* In the aame latitude
Upon the glnbq. It would he aa un-
true to classify together the Egyptian,
the Indian and the Central American,
aa to apeak of the Kansas man with-
out distinguishing between the eastern
Kansan, the central Kansan, and the
western Kansan. Eustern Kansas Is a
finished community like New York
or Pennsylvania. Central Kansas Is
finished, but not quite paid for; and
western Kansas, the only place where
there Is any suffering from drought or
crop failures, Is u new country—old
only In n pluck which Is slowly con-
quering the desert.
Aqua Pura was a western Kansas
town, set high up, fur out on the
prairie. It was founded nine year*
ago, at the beginning of the boom, not
by cowboys and ruffians, hut by hon-
est, ambitious men und women. Of
the six men who staked out the town
site, two—Johnson and llurrlnger—
were Harvard men; one, Nlckols, was
from Princeton; and the other three,
Hernia, Bradley nnd Hicks, Imd come
from Inland state universities. When
their wives came West there was a
Vnssnr reunion, nnd the first mall that
arrived after the post office Imd been
established brought the New York
magazines. The town was like dozens
of others that sprang up fur out In the
treacherous wilderness In that fresh,
green spring of 1880.
They called It Aqua I’urn, choosing
a l.iitln name to proclaim to the w’orld
that It was not n rowdy town. The
new yellow pine of the little village
gleamed In the clear sunlight. It could
he seen for miles on n clear, warm day,
ns It stood upon a rise of ground; nnd
over In Maize, six miles away, the elec-
trie lights of Aqua Pura, which flushed
out In the evening before the town
was six months old, could be seen dis-
tinctly. A schoolhouse that cost twen-
ty thousand dollars was built before
tiie 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 und three-story buildings rose on
each side of the main street of the
little place. The fanners who Imd
taken homesteads In the country
around the town had prospered.
Barringer was elected mayor at the
municipal election In the spring of
’87, and lie plaited out Barringer's
Addition, and built n house there with
borrowed money in June. There were
two thousand people In Aquu Pura
then.
There was not a lawless element.
There was not a saloon in the town. A
IdlliuM hall, nnd a dark room, wherein
curds might he played surreptitious-
ly, were the only institutions which
made the people of Aqua I’urn blush,
when they took the Innumerable
“Eastern capitalists’’ over the town
who visited western Kansas that year.
These ‘‘capitalists" were entertained
at a throe-story brick hotel, equipped
with electricity and modern plumbing
in order to excel Maize, where the ho-
tel was an Indifferent frame affair.
This Is the story of the rise. Bar-
ringer 1ms told It a thousand limes.
Barringer believed in tin- town to the
lost. When the terrible drought of
1887, with Its furnacelikebrentli singed
the town nnd the farms In Fountain
county, Barringer led the majority
which proudly claimed that tlie coun-
try was all right; nnd ns chairman of
the hoard of county commissioners, he
sent u scathing message to the gov-
ernor, refusing aid. Barringer's own
bank loaned money on hind, whereon
the crop laid failed, to tide the farm-
ers over the winter. Barringer's sig-
nature guaranteed loans from the East
upon everything negotiable, and Aqua
Pura thrived for a time upon promises.
Here nnd there, in the spring of 1888,
there was an empty building. One
room of the opera house block was
vacant. Barringer sturted a nmn In
business, selling notions, who occupied
the room. Barringer went East nnd
pleaded with the men who had Invest-
ed In the town to be ensy on their
debtors. Then came the hot winds of
July, blowing out of the souhtwest,
scorching the gross, shriveling the
grain, and drying up the strenms that
had filled In the spring. During the
fall of that year the hotel, which had
been open only In the lower story,
closed. The opern house began to he
used tor "nld” meetings, and when the
winter wind blew dust-blackened snow
through the desolate streets of the
little town, It rattled a hundred win-
dows In vneant houses, nnd sometimes
blew sun-warped hoards from the high
sidewalk that led across the gully to
the big red grade of the unfinished
"Chicago /Sr Line."
ringer held on and lived, rent free, In
the two front rooms of the barn of a
hotel. IBs daughter, Mary, frail,
tnnned, hollow-eyed nml withered by
the droughts lived with him.
In 181)0 the Imt winds came ngsln In
the summer und long and steudy they
blew, blighting everything. There were
only five hundred people In Fountain
county that year, nnd they lived on
the taxes from the railroad that
crossed the county. Families were put
on the poor list without disgrace—It
was almost a mark of political distinc-
tion—and in the little town many de-
vices were In vogue to distribute the
county funds during the winter.
There was no rain that winter and
the snow was hard nnd dry. Cattle on
the range suffered for water nnd died
by the thousands. A procession from
the little town started eastward early
In the spring. White-canopied wagons,
sought the rising sun.
Christians eve, 181)1, the entire vil-
lage, fifteen souls in all, assembled at
Barringer's house. He was hopeful,
even cheerful, nml talked bitterly of
wlmt “one good crop" would do for
the country; although there were no
farmers left to plant It, even If nature
had been harboring n smile for the
dreary Innd. The year that followed
that Christmas promised much. There
were spring rains, and In May the
brown grass and the souttpred patches
of wheat grew green and fair to sec.
Barringer freshened up perceptibly,
lie sent an account of his Indebtedness
—on home-ruled uiuntlla paper—to his
creditors In the East, and faithfully
assured them that he would remit all
he owed In the fall. A few wanderers
struggled into Fountain county, lured
by the green fields and running brooks.
The gray prairie wolf guve up the dug-
out to human occupants. Lights In the
prairie cabins twinkled hack hope to
the etars. Before June there were a
thousand people In Fountain county.
Aqua Burn’s business houses seemed
to liven up. There wns a Fourth of
July eelebrntlon In town. But the
rain that spoiled the advertised "fire-
works In the evening” wus the lost
stor* building*. H* walked up and
down lu the little path* through tb*
Prown weeds In the deserted streets,
ull day long, talking te bbnaalf. At
night when the prairie wind rattled
through the empty building, blowlud
snow and sand down tb* halls, and In
little drifts upon the broken stairs, the
old man’s lump wus seen by struggling
traveler* burning far Into the night.
He told Ills dully vtattors tliuP he was
keeping his hooks.
Thus the winter passed. The grass
came with the light mist of March,
lly Muy It hud lost Its color. By June
It was brown, ami the hot wluds
came nguln In August, curving the
warped bounls a little deeper on the
Hour of the hotel porch. Herders ami
travelers, straggling hack to the green
country, saw him sitting then- at twi-
light, looking towurd the southweat, a
grizzled, unkempt old man, with a
shifting light In his eye. To such as
spoke to him he always made the
name speech: "Yes, It looks like rain,
Put It can't rain. The ruin has gone
dry here. They suy ,lt rallied at
Hutchinson, maybe so, I doubt It.
There Is no God west of Newton. He
dried up dn DO. They talk Irrigation.
That'a an old story In hell. Where’*
JohnsonT Not here! Where’s Nlckols?
Not here! Bemlsl Not here! Brad-
ley? Not here! Hicks? Not here I
Where's handsome Dick Barringer,
lion. Richard Barringer? Here! Here
lie Is, holding dow* a hot brick In a
calling room of hell I Yes, It doee
look like rain, doesn’t It?"
Cuttle roamed the streets In the
curly spring, but the stumbling of the
animals upon the broken wulks, did
not disturb him, and the winds aud
the drouth soon drove them away.
The messenger with provisions cam*
every morning. The summer, with It*
awful heat, began to glow. The light-
ning and the thunder Joked Insolently
In the distance at noon; and the stare
In the deep, dry blue looked dow# and
mocked the old man's prayers as he
sat, at night, on his rickety sentry box.
lie tottered through the deserted
stores calling Ids roll. Night ef*c'
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Barringer did /lot go East that year.
He could not. But he wrote—wrote
regularly end bravely to the Eastern
capitalists who wer* concerned In his
'bnnk and loan company; nnd they
grew colder and colder a* the winter
deepened and the Interest on defaulted
loans came out. Barrlnger'a failure
waa announced In the spring of *80.
Nlckols had left. Johnson had left.
Th* other founders of Aqua Burn had
died Ut '87-88, and their families had
gene, and with them th* culture and
th* ambition of tb* town. Bat Bw
flint fell until winter. A cnrlond of
aid from central Knnsns saved a hun-
dred lives in Fountain county that
year.
When the spring of 1808 opened,
llurrlnger looked ten years older than
he looked the spring before.
It wus Ids habit to sit on the front
porch of the deserted hotel and look
across the prairies to the southwest
und watch the breulilng clouds scatter
Into the blue of the twilight. He could
see the empty water tower silhouetted
against sky. The frame buildings that
rose in the boom days had all been
moved away. He sat und waited, hop-
ing fondly for the realization of a
dream which he feured could never
come true.
There were days when the postmas.
ter's four-year-old child sat with him.
The old man nnd the child snt thus
one evening when the old liiun sighed:
“If It would only rain, there would he
half a crop yet 1 If It would only rain I"
The child heard him and sighed imt-
tntlvely: "Yes, If It would only rnln—
what is rain, Mr. Bnrrlnger?" He
looked ut the child blankly nnd sat
for a long time In silence. When he
urose he did not even have a pretense
of hope. He grew despondent from
that hour, and a sort of hypochondria
■elzed him.
That fall when the winds piled the
sand In the railroad "cuts" and the
prairie was as hard and barren es the
ground around a cabin door, Barrin-
ger’s daaghter died of fever. The old
man seemed little moved by sorrow.
That winter the postmaster left The
n__..... <11 anrtnf Ittllfifl Th« nmintv
office was discontinued. The county
commissioner* tried to get Barringer
to leave. He would not be persuaded
to go. The county commissioners wer*
not Insistent. It gave one of them an
excuse for drawing four dollars a day
from the county treasury; he rode
from Mai** to Aqua Burn every day
with aupplies for Barringer.
The old man cooked, ate,,and slept
In the office of th* hotel. Day after
day be put on hi* overcoat In th* win-
ter nnd mad* th* round* of th* tweet
night lie wnllted to (lie red clay grade
of the uncompleted "Air Line" and
looked over the dead level stretches
of prairie, lie would have gone away,
hut something held him to the town.
There he had risked all. Here, per-
haps, In Ids warped fancy, he hoped
to regain all. He hud written so often,
"Times will he better In the spring,"
that It was part of his confession >>1
faith—that and "One good crop will
bring the country around all right."
This was written with red eluy In the
old man’s nervous hand on the side
of the hotel, on the faded signs, on
the deserted Inner walls of the stores—
In fuct, everywhere in Aqua Rura.
The wind told on him; It withered
him and supped his energy.
One morning he awoke und a strong*
sound greeted hi* eurs. There wns a
gentle tupping In the building and u
rour that was not the guffuw of the
wind, lie rushed for the door. He
saw the rain, and harchcuded he ran
to the middle of the streets where It
was pouring down. The messenger
from Muize with the day’s supplies
found him stundlng there, vucuntly,
utmost thoughtfully, looking up, tb*
rain dripping from his grizzled, head,
aud rivulets of water trickling about
his shoes.
"Hello, Uncle Dlcld" said the me*
aenger. "Enjoying the prospect 1
River's rlsln’; better come bock with
me."
But the old men only answered,
"Johnson? Not herel Nlckols? Nol
here! Bemls? Not herel Bradley 1
Not here 1 Hicks? Not here I And
Bnrrlnger? Herel And now God’*
moved the rain pelt west. Moved so
fur west that there's hope for Lazarus
to get Irrigation from AbraliHm."
And with this the old man went Int*
the house. There, when the five days'
rain had ceased, and when the great
river that flooded the barren plain had
shrunk, the rescuing party, coming from
Mnlse, found him. Beside hi* bed
were his balanced book* and hi* legal
paper*. In hla dead oyw wer* a thou-
■and droama.
ACCEPTED SAM WILEY’S WORD
Hontst Individual Had Said th* Egg*
War* Fresh, but Tim* Will Not
8tand Still.
There wns no doubt about It—he
was very angry when lie entered the
village grocery simp.
"You sold my wife some eggs yes-
terday, Mr. Benvey," he sold.
"Yes,” said Mr. Benvey, genially. “I
believe I did.”
"And you told her thut they were
fresh eggs."
“Yes; 1 did."
“But see here, Ben-oy, you Imd no
business to say they were fresh eggs!"
"Why not? I bought 'em fresh from
Sam Wiley."
“I don’t believe It. Sam Wiley’s an
honest man.”
"Well, Sam said It nil right. He
cnine In here with n basket full of
’em, and put 'em down on the counter
art’ exchanged 'em for u box of bis-
cuits."
"When wns this?”
“Oh, I dunno. 'Bout three months
ugo, I suppose.”
Amenities.
First Gentleman (with bent)—Un-
derstand, sir, dlmt I'm not to be moved
by a fool's opinion.
Second Ditto (ditto)—1The very rea-
son, sir, why nobody pays attention
to yours.
Lacked Cow Touch.
A Brown county woman, who could
linrdly be classed as a connoisseur, of
even a dilettante, wns looking ut on*
of Will Vawter’s hills o’ Brown land-
scapes one day end focussed a scorn-
ful orli on a cow In the painting. She
said It didn't look like a cow, nnd
then, to cap the cllinux, she ran her
hand over the rough surface of th*
artist's work and said: "Now, see
there, Hint don’t feet like a cow at
all I"—Indianapolis News.
Fresh, sweet, white, dainty clothe*
for baby, If you use Bed Cross Ball
Bine. Never strenks or Injures them.
All good grocers sell It.—Advertise-
ment. _
Gold In Madagascar.
Gold discoveries In Madagascar are
arousing Interest, as several rich find*
have been reported. On the enstern
slope of the Island nre districts said to
lie very rich. Nuggets and dust are
found In stream beds, but the princi-
pal lode has not yet been discovered.
The methods of recovering the gold
have been very crude, und only native
workmen have so far proved capubl#
of withstanding the Climate.
What Minute of the Day.
Wltle—“I’ll he ready In a minute*
dear.” Hubble—’"Would you mind
saying wlmt minute of the duy that'll
be?"
Being Ignornnt Is not so mneh a
shame ns being unwilling to learn.—
Benjamin Fruiiklln.
Aftsr th* Wadding.
.Tone*—What did you do with that
| old typewriter of yours?
Brown—Oh, I inurrled her.
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