The Matfield Mirror from Matfield, Kansas • 2

B. P. Larg-eixfc vim nmtnou. Published weekly 101. DON 0.

N'tJWHY. One Dollar Year in Advance DEALER 1. GENERAL I -1l Entered an sucoiid-alam matter October 4, 1U07. at the post office, at Matfleld Green, Kansas, under thu Act of Congress of March 8, 187 fc'l MERCHANDISE. 71 Friday, February I'M, lSJdH.

A financial prophet faid in December that money would be eaeior in tu'jty dayn. Have, you noticed it? A nice clean stock of GB003MES QUEENS WARE ri 1 i CLOTHING 'VI i i' i SHOKS; It is said thnt, the ftrsve in which the bone-i of the noted Indian chief Che-topa, have rested peacefully for more than forty years, has been discovered and the skull is now in the potsaxsion of an Altoona physician. Is violating tho sepulchre the net of a civilized people, or are wo becoming more barbarian than the we have displaced. Are we in turn to bo followed by a people who will take to themselves crwdit for having scattered our unworthy bones broadoait over the prairies to bake and bleaoh in the summer sun? When we are doue on Earth and brainstorms and Unsocial panics no longer trouble us when our spirit, the immortal soul maybe, has winged its Ilight through and buyoud the blue ethereal dome, end it enjoying the transcendent beauties and unspeakable glories of heavenly home, let our bones also rest in peace. If, when the mortal shall have "given up the ghost" nnd our shade has reached the end of its journey in its dark and downward Ilight, besn assigned to its apartments and the heat turned on; when we arn broiling and sizzling oyer the everlasting lire that burns but consumes not, our good deeds, if any, all forgotten, the eril deeds racking tho memory, the torture e.te Eyeing anything the fertile brain of thn once puissant Chetopo ever dreamed or planned for his captives, while our shode is enduring the promised sufferings In shadow land, we hope the wery bones left behind will bo permitted to rest undisturbed through it all.

How worse than serpent's tooth is a distinguished son. W. A. Morgan han an honorable career in Kansas dating over a pnrlod of forty yaars, but is refwred to as the "father of W. Y.

Morgan." Lawrence Journal. LODGE DIRECTORY fx 4 i Opera House Dlocl Matfleld G-reert Governor Fort of New Jersey, did you ever hear of him? CongreHansnn Murdook thinks ho will be the Republican nominee, for vice president. Lord Kauiuloruy, t'athsr of the famous Little Lord FaurUlsroy seems to be tliu only nobleman on mcord who wan worthy of thn womau he marricj. "In case the primary law fails to land some of the reformers in ollioa what aro thay goinR to fry next?" asks the Osborne, Farmer, which then adds: "About th ouly thing left for some of them will be work." In tho fioursu of a sermon to graduates Kil Howe said this, which every boy and girl in the country shonld road If I were to put all I have learned during my life in three-words, It would 'Good eonduct py-' Amorloan iili who marry fo8in-ers for their titles are receiving their share of the American newspaper talk. Ypt the countesses mid dukesses have paid every cent the titles are worth, and besides have they done anything more reprehensiblo than the other American women who marry old soldiers for their pensions, or some other mnn who will Insure hia life in faror of his wife.

7' 7 TO OUR READERS We have been publishing the Mirror five months and, while it has not been all we think a local newspaper ought to be, yet we believe it worth the price asked. Considering the fact that you have been deceived here received nothing for the money you paid, we have not asked you to pay subscription in advance, believing that if we treated you fair you would treat us fair. Some have paid us in advance, but the larger number have not yet paid anything. The first of April you will have been taking the paper six months and we would be pleased to have you hand us a half a dollar before that time. Is not this fair? We think it is, and will expect to see you.

i ii II. CARPENTER BARBER Graduate of Moler Barber Oolleja Anything in the barbering line Just the plnce to get a shave a haircat Oi- a shampoo HATFIELD GREEN Whenever you In Matfleld. at meal time go right to the' ORIENT for a good metl at the right price always. Good clean beds In nice airyv rooms when you ara sleepy. MRS.

A. LARGE NT MATFIKLD COUNCIL NO. 123. Triple Tie Uenetit Association. Regular meotings first and third Thursday nights of each month.

A. 1). Howe, See. W. J.

Hurst, Pres. Through the Kindness of Representative Mercer we have received a copy of tho Primary election law, A careful perusal of the document lends us to the conclusion that the House, erred when il compromised with the Sonet. The sections covering the nomination of Unitod Stales Senators is the work of a cunning mind and its provisions will not nominate the choice of the majority. The United States Senator should have been left out of the Juvr. ATFIEfcD GRMKS LODGE NO.

433. I. O. O. menu everv Sat.

JUL uruay evening, kodi. llanily, Lee Jones, 6ec. N. 1 IT A TFT ELD GREEN LODGE HO. 436, Rebekahs, meets every sec DR.

A. F. MEYER Physician Surg eon! Office at Residence ond and fourth Wednesdays in I. O. O.

F. hall. Mrs. R.J. Johnson Mrs, A.

D. Howe, Sec. N. G. lie came ofteit and early and stayed too late.

Uiu-tintly ns the clock struck eleven she askud him if ho knew how () take eleven ciphers and make twenty-three out of them. lie didn't, so she told hni to put eleven ciphers In a straight line, then to draw a perpendicular lino about half an inh long down from the ritfht side of ihe first, 1 1 Pi I' 1 i 1 Pi fe! IT 11 liiih ami tsiuh, and up from the right side of the fourth, eaventh and eighth. ii Eldon Newby Ho read the result, and vanished. You think the tax law just being put in operation in this state, is a fearful and wonderful thing. This is ths way they do in Rio do Janiero, no- Dealer ini cording to a consular report.

Kvery Lumber and Buildinsr 1 Ih MateriaL Land Loans sign is taxed. A cafe Laving something special to servo, makes a placard and hangs it to a door or to one of ths palm trees. The notice thus posted must have a revenue stamp attached. A sign "Homo for rent" bears a revenue stamp. Permanent signs are taxed on a permanent basis; temporary signs on a temporary basis, i 3 andJnsuranca eW MATFIELD GREEN, KANSAS.

m. 4 tvji Vii i f-r r-1 V'' 11 11' Also Yards located at luiiiUiJtUiimuituuiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiuiuiuiii Ii Bazaar and Cassoday. Hryirva (fPllvi i ri i In tho course of a spsech In New York llrower of the Stat-. Supreme Court hud thin to say on the subject of Immigration: "Il makes the tilood boil in the dosrsnd-nnu of those who sottlod those colonies and laid the foundation of our national grer.tncas on the eternal principles of justice, liberty and eijuai rights to hoar Dennis Kearney, and men like him, who have just been welcomed to our shores nnd who have not yet wnthdd the brogue oil their lips, stand on the street corners and cry out, 'America for -the Americans I' and, 'Tha Chinese miint When a hardware msrehant hat a stov to soil ho polishes it and makes it look the beat and most attractivs possible. In every other lino of business I'm same rule is followed.

The house that is nicely painted and other-wise in good repair, with Kood sidewalks in front, always sells better and Panier than the run down, dilapidated building with walks thut aro a menace to passnrsby. Properly in a (own with Well graded streets and a general appearance of prosperity and progressive-n. '-b is worth more than in town where everything shows neglect by man and the near of weather. This it 6- JM Lair, 1 ft Mchol Gosler, ('ashler Henry Hogler, Assist Caslilcr t.j. I'M DstIiI UeKee.

1'rvnldent L.G. ltORlcr, Vi 1'res. i ill good grade of Lumber al ways fl on hand at these yards that can it State IBank 1 Come and get eslimntes if yon are A r-H Does a General Banking Business. thinking of building. Every favor consistent with roocI banking.

la moral story you know tho moral..