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I PAGE TWO THE LFAVENWORTH POST. TTTESSAY, IKS. 22, 1907. Modern society being r.sed to mod Near Neodesha. PEOPLE OF NOTE FINANCIAL.

THE POST FIRST NATIONAL BANK. LeaTenTrortk, Kaasaa. The oldest Bank in Kansas. CXITED STATES DEPOSITORY. DIRECTOKSi CanltaL 1-500 op.ft N- Morrill, Henry Ettenson.

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Denton. A. Caldtrell, J. Ro- br son and T. T.

Reybam. JrPJ; Does a general banking business and sells exchange on th principal HSE; TiLON Cashier cities In the United States and Eu- O. B. TAYLOS. Jit, Ass't Cashier rope.

BANK of LEAVENWORTH The STATE SAVINGS South-east Corner Fifth Capital, OFFICERSj A. A. FEKN President J. E. OLVI9, Vice-Pn-sident E.

A. KELLY Cashier I W' ill Makes a specialty of savings accounts. Interest paid on savings accounts and also time certiflcatts. Does a general banking: business. Money loaned on real estate and collaterals.

Exchange on all parts of Via world. MANUFACTURER'S NATIONAL BANK. OF LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS. North-west Corner Fif tb and Delaware Streets. In summing up the peculiarities and oddities of that and neighboring towns, the Neodesha Sun finds: Neodesha has the longest and muddiest Main street of any town of its size in the state.

There is a young man near Dun who is so bowlegged that when he goes out to gather corn he takes three rows husks one and knocks down two more. New Albany has more citizens who have been in jail the past year than any other town we know of unless it is Neodesha. Coyville has more big stumps on Main street than any other town in the county. Altoona has a drink called "mist." It has been sadly "mist" since Mike- Beirs recent visit. A man north of town caught an eighty-three pound coon a few weeks ago.

To anyone who doubts ft he will cheerfully show the scales it was weighed on. The Reason. The Jewell Republican has just found out why it gets so plaguy cold long about January and February. The scientific gentlemen tell us that the earth really gets such a small percentage of the heat that the sun throws off that it is a wonder we ever have enough to sprout potatoes. They say that if twenty-five million dollars were made to represent all the heat that the sun gives, that the share that reaches this earth would amount to but two cents.

We can believe such a statement in January all right, but it would sound pretty fishy about the middle of August." A Good Mule. A home talent company, played Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch at Sabetha recently, and the Sabetha Herald's dramatic critic gives particular mention of the scene in which Mrs. Wiggs and her boy Billy discover a sick mule and resuscitate it by means of household remedies. The mule is lying down sick and unable to get up whenBilly and Mrs.

Wiggi begin work on it. The Herald critn especially commends the work of the mule. "The sick mule," says the Herald, "was composed of Wayno Ximmel as the front legs and Willie rITED STATES DEPOSITORY. Capital Paid in Jino.000 Surplus and Profits 55.000 OFFICEIlS E. W.

PXYDKR president CHESTER Vi SXYDER JOHN" H. ATWOOD CHAS. E. SNVDER Cashier George Admiral George Dewey, of the United States Navy, was born in Mont- pelier, December 26, 1837, son of Dr. Julius Yemans and Mary Per-rin Dewey.

He entered the Naval Academy September 23, 1854. He graduated in 1858. He married October 24, 1867, Miss Susie Good WULFEKUHLER STATE BANK. OF LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS. Capital win, of New Hampshire, who died December 28, 1872.

He married Mrs. Mildred M. Hazen November 9, 1899. He was on the warship Wabash until 1861. He was made a lieutenant April 19, 1861.

He was made a commander in April, 1872. He became a captain in September, 1884, and he was created a commodore on February 9, 1896. On May Bell as the hind legs. Now, the ques-1 salary from the treasury of tion is, which showed the greater S3, 000,000 and out of this lie ex-histronic art, the front legs or the to pay the expenses of his back legs? The front legs were household. His private fortune is certainly very sympathetic and show- cot supposed to be used for the pur-ed a fine conception of the charac-1 Pse of keePinS nis state.

and ern conveniences' demands up-to date churches to worship in. The building of this new edifice by the Presbyterians will mean the build of new churches by the other congregations of the city, and in this way, Leavenworth will get up to date places of worship just as she has up-to-date schools. Every citi zen should give his mite towards this new church. Veterans and Pensions. A legislative event of last week marks an epoch in the treatment of the surviving Union soldiers of the Civil war and the survivors of the Mexican war.

After a debate of two hours the senate, without a dissent ing vote, passed a service pension bill for soldiers over the age of 62 beginning at the rate of $12 a month to be increased to $15 at the age of 65, and $20 at the age of 70 This is a material advance over the present rates, and also more directly recognizes age alone as a conclus ive claim to pension, to be obtained without any payment to pension agents. A man of 62 was but 20 when the Civil war ended, bo the new rule will apply to nearly all sur vivora who wore the blue uniform in the great conflict. It is an act of justice and of honor where it is due The maximum allowed means that men who offered their lives at the call of the government, and who saved from disruption what has be come the first of nations, shall not lack the means of simple subsistence in their declining days. A few years hence all will have answered the last muster except the few who live to a phenomenally old age, and who will be objects of devoted homage mingled with pride over the memory of the grateful appreciation by the government of its defenders, without whose aid the story of the republic would be traced in the dust of the past, not in the unmatched present, glowing with wonders achieved and in prospect. In the year that ended June 30 last, 36,000 pensioners died, and for the first time since the Civil war the decrease in the pension roll exceeded the increase.

Though the whole number of pensioners is but little below 1,000,000, but two-thirds are Civil war veterans, and the mortality in their ranks this year will scarcely fall below 40,000. It is to the remnant of a host this token of gratitude comes, and they are vanishing at the rate of more than a hundred a day. Only a few thousand survivors of the Mexican war remain. It is a question if the new service act, in which the house will concur, will materially add to the total paid for pensions, for under the present act applications for increase are numerous, and medical examinations and clerical details are expensive to the government. It is time to provide this increase if it is to be awarded at all.

A few years hence would be too late. The average age of survivors of the Union army is 66. Many are far past 70. It is well that congress has decided on immediate action. In the brief debate that preceded the passage of the bill in the senate some sensitiveness was shown as to the use of the phrase "war of the rebellion," and the suggestion was made that the term be changed to "Civil war" or "war between the states." The discussion of this point, happily, took a fraternal turn, and there was no voice of dissent when the roll was called.

No phrase should be used with animus, nor was any meant in the wording of the bill. The "war of the rebellion" is a historical expression long in use and colorless in intent. It would be clearly a historical and moral misfit to speak of the struggle as "the war between the states" when the principle of union and nationality was unquestionably the main issue, and the one that was vindicated, not only by the war, but by the mighty progress of the country since the strife was ended. Let all thought of wounding with words, or bickering of any sort, be dismissed. Eighty millions of Americans, equals in every respect, have an indissoluble union of indestructible states.

May it be the first of nations perpetually, and ever show a fitting gratitude to all brave men who rally at its call. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The Boy "Who "Dreams." Under the rigid system of domestic discipline that characterized the households of a generation ago there was no place for the girl or boy who "had dreams." It was a reprehensible symptom of slothfulness to give play to the imagination, and the son or daughter of the average frugal family who evinced no aptitude for hard and restricted employments in the narrow schedule of insular vocations was charged with the crime of being "impractical" and was condemned in advance of never being able to "get on." In those severe days it was rare indeed that parents recognized incipient talent in their offspring for callings requiring intellectual and artistic training. The world will never know how many geniuses were blighted in the bud because of lack of sympathy or understanding on the part of hard-headed parents.

The attitude of society, happily, has changed during recent years and (here is a place for the "dreamer." The discovery has been made that boys and girls have souls that slumber, and slumbering, dream, and dreaming, unfold the petals of their BY THE POST PUBLISHING CO. Albert T. Reid President Fred W. Jameson Sec. and Treas.

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The death of young Hall of El Dorado was no doubt a blow to eome sharp criminal lawyer. At any rate Kansas Cits', cannot, liken the so-called "West End" to the tail of the dog, because It has no joints. While his name may sound somewhat effervescent, Senator-Elect Guggenheim will have no little trouble wrestling the Champion Sput-terer medal from LaFollette. Senator Tillman is anxious for Roosevelt to light somewhere on current questions. Ben simply wants to be on the other side and desires to learn where he is at as speedily as possible.

Bryan is booked for eighty-six lectures this year at $500 per. The colonel should now go and buy himself a new suit of clothes and not say anything more about the one Roosevelt swiped from him. Mr. Rockefeller confesses that a man should have a good conscience. We will gladly swap John a chunk of the desired article, in fine working order, for a half dozen cars of number two print paper.

Joe Bristow has just printed all the horrible details of a wreck on the Missouri Pacific railroad. Joe acts just like a man who has recently been a candidate for something that (ailed to materialize. Senator Getty is against the proposition to trade brick for a steam roller to be used on the state road. Can it be that the senator really took his recent candidacy for the United States senate seriously and is miffed because he failed to secure Leavenworth's votes? An eastern paper prints the story that Senator-elect Curtis was once a cab driver. His enemies have frequently accused him of being a driver and it is suspected this eastern exchange simply presumed he bad been a "cabby." Helping the City.

The members of the Presbyterian church are to be congratulated on deciding to build a new church on the corner of Fourth and Walnut streets at once. Leavenworth churches are, away behind the times. The present Presbyterian church was out of date twenty years ago. Good modern churches are a safe Investment for a city. A stranger, if lie is a married man with a wife and family, when looking for a new location, usually asks what kind of churches and schools we have.

The Presbyterians have the largest congregation in the city, and ought to build a large, handsome church; one to seat from twelve hundred to fifteen hundred people. Jt ought to be some high class of architecture so that it would be ornamental as well as useful. Such a building should not cost less than $50,000, and if the congregation could spend $75,000 it would be better. The Presbyterian church represents a great deal of the wealth of the city, and the members of the church can well afford to build the best and most expensive church in the city. If the Presbyterians will build a good church, one that will be an ornament to Leavenworth, the whole city would be benefitted by its and Delaware Streets.

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Mivioy to loan on Farms. Interest paid on DposKs. Boxes for rert in Safety Deposit Vaults. Poes a general nankins' business with savings department. Interest paid on deposits of $1.00 and up an? a pass book or certificate of deposit issued.

rit'I drafts on the principal fines and Europe same as money orders at lets than pnstotfiea and express companies. MARLOWE AXD SOTHERX. A dramatic festival of uneual-ed splendor will begin at the Lyric theater, New York, on Monday tight, January 21, when E. H. Soth-f-rn and Miss Julia Marlowe will nake their first appearance in New York as stars under independent management.

The two stars will only remain for a limited engagement, as they are scheduled to appear in London for the first time in the latter part of March. The London season will be followed by engagements of short duration in Paris Berlin, Vienna, Brussels, Rome, winding up with one performance of "Hamlet" at Elsinore. This performance will positively take place. During the New York season Mr. Sothern and Miss Marlowe will appear in a repertoire of fifteen das, to wit: "John the by Hermann Sudermann; "Jeanne D'Arc," by Percy Mackaye; "The Daughter of Jorio," by Gabriel D'Annunzio; "Guenever," by H.

W. Boynton; "The Sunken Bell," by Gerhart Haptmann; "Franeesca de Rimini," by Gabriel D'Annunzio. A CHINESE REBELLION. A rebellion in China, as a rule, a comparatively harmless affair. The people inform the governor that his exactions are in excess of custom and that he must reduce them.

If he agrees the matter ends. If not, there is a demonstration ana perhaps some shooting, but this is only preliminary to a compromise, for the Pekin government never backs up its officials when force has to be resorted to, and the people have far too much respect for authority to push any successes to extremes. The troops boast of the numbers of the enemy they have Killed, but the fighting does not often amount to very much. A typical story is told of the Taotai of a city which shall be nameless, who claimed to have put down a rebellion, but explained, wh.cn pressed for particulars, that it bad not been necessary to fight since by happy inspiration he had taken out a tiger skin, which had so frightened the insurgents that they had all run away. Times of India.

NEXT TIME. said Mrs. Malaprop, talking to a friend about her daughter Emily's wedding, "I'm glad it'3 all over. If it had lasted a second longer I should have had nervous palliation or something! Why, what do suppose? When the minister called before the wedding I asked him whether it was necessary to have two cassocks for the bride and groom to kneel on. He smiled, and said he thought that something thicker would be better; and Emily laughed right out and left the room.

Well, of course, I knew I'd said something wrong, so I corrected myself. 'I didn't mean I said, 'I meant two And what do you suppose he said?" "Asked whether you desired a foreign military effect?" ventured the guest. "No. He said that, judging by the present state of affairs in Russia, he doubted whether he'd be able to get them; and even if he could, he doubted whether they would be agreeable to be knelt upon, judging by the way they were fighting oppression. Oh, I was so mad! You can bet the next time I won't beat around the bush; I'll come right out and ask whether or not we need two pillars!" Harper's Weekly.

Does a living skeleton escape tha ill3 that the flesh is heir to? victory of Manila Bay over a Span rear admiral. He was a member 99, and was made an admiral on Postscripts If one did all the little things that present themselves, the big things "vould remain undone. When the child's name is William, his father thinks it's awfully smart, to call him Bill. A poor conversationalist never realizes that to be a good one ho must use his brains. A married woman can make herself believe an unattractive girl is attractive, if she has one to marry off.

A Leavenworth woman says she has good reason for being superstitious, in that once, going to Chicago, she occupied berth number 13, and lost her pocketbook containing a diamond ring, her return ticket, and twelve dollars. Postprandials There were callers in the parlor, and the three-year-old girl listened from her little corner, to the conversation, which was upon dentistry. "It is wonderful," remarked her jrandfather, "how dentistry has ad vanced since I was young." "That's so," replied a visitor, and another thing, people take better care of their teeth now than they used to." "I take good care of my ter.th," volunteered the child, but nobody heard her soft little voice. Present ly, she said again, a little louder. "I take good care of my teeth." She was heard this time, an.

nne of these visitors smiled at and asked. "Do you dear? What do you do to take care of them?" The child glanced shyly at her grandfather. "I keep mine in," she said. Little Strings. The Way.

C. E. Ingalls says. "Girls, jou want a man to woo yon. if ad- mire him; if you want him to wed you, feed him." Take Your Choice.

For variety it would be hard to beat the Tyro pharmacy, which advertises: For a mint julep, a Tom Collins or a highball, or a clean shave, or a haircut, or anything in the grocery, dry good3. hardware or millinery line call at the Tyro pharmacy. Also drugs for sale. A Woman's View. A woman does herself and her family an Injustice when she never takes time to leave the duties of home behind and go away to enjoy the old world and people outside her own little dooryard, says Mrs.

Homer Hoch. She gets in a rut and is becoming cramped and narrow whether she realizes it or not. Home is not quite as pleasant as it might be, because household duties have become irksome. She needs to wash the flour off her hands and forget for awhile that there are such things as kettles and pans and three meals a day. OTTO H.

WULFEKUHLER Pres. LOUIS H. ALBERT F. WULFEKUH1ER. Cash.

Office in TYtilfoki Fifth and D( hier Hank aware Streets. frankly detested music, and said vhen the canr.on were roaring at the battle of Sclferino, 'That is flie only music I have ever been able to And his son, King Humbert, was much of the same opinion. The emperor of Japan draws a re- pmce the of a frugal mind the sum answers its purposes fully. One of the hobbies of the king of the Belgians is building. King Leopold, who spends almost as much time out of his country as he does in it, has several residences which he seldom or never visits, yet he is constantly adding to them.

He has fine palace in Brussels, but when within his own domains he prefers to spend his time in the country. His majesty is the richest monarch in Europe so far as real estate is concerned. King Oscar of Sweden, loves nothing more in his quiet and leiiure moments than to improvise on the organ. The German emperor, it is said, has more servants in his employ than any other monarch. Altogether they number over 3,000, about two-thirds of them being women.

King Edward of England carefully preserves programmes of the proceedings in which he has taken part. These souvenirs, several thousand in number, are preserved in the library of Buckingham palace. In the same way the king has kept all his theater programmes since his earliest play-going days. The bill of the play placed in the royal box used to be printed on silk or satin, with a heavy fringe. It is- now, as a rule, of a less elaborate nature, but not for that reason any less artistic.

The Austrian emperor has more titles than any other monarch. He is a king nine times over and a duke eighteen times. Queen Taitu, the consort of King Menelik of Abyssinia, is an elderly and dignified lady, good looking, according to the Ethiopian view, and a great stickler for etiquette. She leads a sedentary life, but occasionally shows herself in public seated in a gorgeously caparisoned mule, and surrounded by court ladies similarly mounted. But nobody who has not been formally presented to her must gaze on her except from a distance.

In the palace grounds is a large kitchen garden which is one of her hobbies. The moment her red umbrella appears all the gardeners must make themselves invisible. Violets have always been the favorite flowers of the ex-Empress Eugenie. "Carmen Sylva," queen of Rou-mania, story writer and poetess, wa3 married to her husband four times according to the German civil code, according to the Lutheran religion, according to the Roman Catholic church and according to the rites of the Greek church. King Edward was the first British ruler to have the typewriter placed in the office of hi3 private secretary.

Letters from royal personages had always previously been executed by hand. The average tractive power of freight locomotives in 1898 ten years ago was 13,000 tons, while today it has increased to 31,500 tons. This means correspondingly increased tralnloads. 1, 1898, he gained the famous naval ish fleet. eH was at once made a of the Philippine Commission in 18 March 2, 1899.

beauty into brilliant fruitage. How cad is the reflection that thousands nnon thousands of childish minds have sent promising but timid tendrils of imagination forth that were destined to be cruelly crushed thro' Darental stupidity. But the dream ers of other days are the poets, the inventors, the painters, the authors of today. They survived the nara-ships tho present generation of boys and girls are not condemned to face. General Lew Wallace, writing some years ago Derore ms aeatn, used these words: "I have tried many things, the law, soldiering, politics, authorship, and, lastly, diplomacy, and, if I may pass judg ment upon the success achieved in each, it seems now that when I sit down finally in the old man's gown nd slippers, helping the cat to keep the fireplace warm, I shall look upon Ben Hur' as my best performance." And who is there in all America would wish a more enduring monument than this marvelous produc tion that is destined to inspire hu manity as long as Christ is remembered and Christianity survives? Yet Lew Wallace as a boy was a "dreamer" and the despair of his parents.

He would not study, and his days tnd often his nights were spent in the woods in abandonment to that imagination in which was incubat- nz a theme of transcendent "inspir- tion. He was not understood and his restricted world held no sympathy for his moods. Against him was turned the gloomy column of wise heads of the community, wagging solemnly while predicting that he would come to a "bad end." Thank heaven, progressive humanity now akes the "dreamer' into account in he eternal order of things and the boys and girls of the present have decent chance to escape the heart less condemnation of narrow materialists. The Kansas City Journal. THE CAR SHORTAGE.

The dispatcher sits in his easy chair, But he finds no ease or comfort there, The insistent sounders brazen click. Sings the same old song 'till it makes him sick. Send us some cars." "We need a car." The agent's message from near and far. "Our elevators will surely burst," "Our shippers threaten to do their worst," "W7e will load anything that turns a wheel For a grain man will do anything but steal." The local shipper staggers in With bloodshot eyes and visage thin; He has worked all night with might and main Digging his way through, piles of grain. He feebly pleads his third request, 'Give me a car so I can rest." The dispatcher's nights are filled with dreams And in them to him it always 6eems That he wanders shoeless to and fro O'er the burning sands of a world below And he sends a prayer to the land of stars, But the echo answers, "OUT OF CARS." C.

D. Yetter. Ogallah, Kansas, Dec. 20, 1906. The most irritating thing about a fool is that he seems to be enjoying himself so.

ter being protrayed. Still, the back legs were easy and natural, and entered into the part with a vim and abandon that made one instinctively pat the mule on the back in a conciliatory manner before passing behind the animal. The hind legs were so perfect in action, that it seemed a shame that they could not turn around and bow during the applause. But the front legs divided honors with the back legs in every respect and it was equally un fortunate that the front legs could not bow to the applause. We do not want to have it understood that we wish to have the back legs cast a shadow over the front legs.

Both front and back legs were fine and dandy. In delivery the hind legs may have just a shade the best of it, but this is natural as the hind legs are supposed to be the business end. The front legs were par excellence in gesture, expressing with fine delicacy what was supposed to transpire with the back legs. The back legs would then take up the cue and get in its work. It was superb.

It was grand. Neither front nor back legs could have been a better actor." WHAT ELSE COULD HE DO? It is a part of a congressman's makeup to remember the faces and names of people whom he has met, but Leonidas F. Livingston, of Geor gia, utterly lacks tnis faculty, lie told the following story to a couple of friends in his committee room at the capitol a few days ago: "I was coming down in the elevator over on the senate side yesterday, and at one of the intermediate floors a man whose face I knew as well as I knew my own got in. He greeted me very warmly at once, asked after the house affairs and was very gracious and friendly. But call his name I couldn't for the life of me.

I put a sort of feeler to him, asking him if he was going up to see the sights of the senate. He gave me a chilly laugh, as if he thought I was joking him. Finally I told him, in an apolegetic way, that I couldn't recall his name. He looked at me amazed for a second and then said very quietly that his name was Fairbanks." "Well, what did you do?" asked the listeners, laughingly. "Do? Well I just got out at the next floor for fear I would ask him he had ever been In politics." Harper's W'eekly.

PECUIJAR TO ROYALITY. The czar has a habit of spending more time in his study than almost any other ruler in the world. The czarina is always seated with him while he is at work in this room. In this respect he stands almost alone among great monarchs, as nearly all of them prefer to have women out of the way when they are immersed in the business of state in their private rooms. King Victor Emanuel, of Italy, whose fondness for music is well known, is probably the first prince of the house of Savoy who has taken an interest in musical matters.

His arandfather. Victor Emmanuel LL..