The Morland Standard du lieu suivant : Morland, Kansas • 4

BY Progress Publishing Company, Morland Kansas (ft. W. Butter Editor. ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY. Progress.

(ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR, Entered at the Postoffice at Morland, as second- -class wail matter. ADVERTISING RAVES: Display advertisements, 10 cents per inch per Meek otte column wide. Disedund to regalar adWertisers upon application at this utice. Locals, 5 cents per line per week. All Advertisements will be charged for by'the unless otherwise specified by a written contract with the a vortiser.

SPECIAL NOTICE All advertisemeltts for the current isstie of the Progress be in this office by Wednesday morning to Insure publication. LINCOLN BRANCH TIME TABLE Going East Going West No. a. m. Pass.

No. p.m reightNo p.m F't No. a.m, Mountain Thne. Daily except Sunday Train No. 136 will handle stock providing it is loaded and ready to go, otherwise it will be wrefused.

Len Faris of Hill City, visited with Sam Travis on Tuesday. Sam and Faris worked together at the carpenter trade last fall tat Hill. City. FOR SALE. A registered Herford Bull; or will exchange for another Herford that is registered.

S. L. Searl. WANTED. We want two car loads of butcheer cattle at once.

Will pay the highest market prices. MeAtee Bros. LOST OR STRAYED. While in town, Monday, one black curly Shepherd dog. Finder will be rewarded by notifying G.

C. Britton, Studley Ks. From Off The Divide, By WILD BILL. Such beautiful weather. Hazel Miller is again able: to attend school.

C. C. Franklin sold two loads of hogs, to McAtee Bro's Wednenday. The meetings at West Belview closed last Sunday night, with about twelve convertions. Will Brandt was a Hill City visitor, last Friday.

Sheriff Asheroft was in Morland Monday, not wishing to get to close to that gentlemans hands, we failed to learn his business. During the high wind Thursday night, John Sullivans wind mill blew down. Byron Wait expects to leave for Illinois, next week, Mrs. Will Brant and J. M.

Woods, expect their sister and her husdand, Mr. and Mrs. Mealand, of Troy, toarrive here this week for a short visit. W. A.

Witt and family will soon move to Densmore, where they will make their future home. This family has many friends in this neighborhood that will regret seeing them leave. H. Hayes is having the Inside carpenter work of his new house finished this week. E.

H. Wait is doing the work. Master Quincy Bell, son of J. W. Bell, formerly of this neighborhood, but now of Pehokee, visited former school mates here Saturday and Sunday.

Quite a number from this vacinity, attended the funeral of Hattie Crawford at Studley, last week. The deceased leaves many friends in this neighborhood. da did da dada dad dad da doe Did You Ever Stop To Think That there are two essentials that you want in your banking institution- SAFETY- Above all you want your funds to he safe. No officer of. this bank uses any of the funds of the institution.

No speculation. Officers bonded. SERVICE -We are prepared to respond liberally to all calls consistent with good banking. Our fire proof vault and burglar proof safe gives our customers the best of proteetion and service. We are now located in our new building.

CITIZENS STATE BANK. 00000000 HUMMEL COLLINS Real Estate FARM LOANS and INSURANCE It will pay you to see us before purchasing. ASK TO SEE OUR LIST. A A A AN DAL dada A A DE A a Frank Armstrong DRAYMAN. Does all kinds of hauling and Team Work.

Reasonable Prices. 'Phone Number 52, MORLAND KANSAS. COLVIN COMPANY, DRUGGISTS We Keep constantly on hand a full Line of Standard Patent Medicines, Pure Drugs and Chemicles at prices that are Right, Call and see us. Morland CO Kansas. Western coal, eight dollars at a the Hoffman elevator.

-tf. The Kansas City Weekly Star and The Progress Both one year for $1.10. Rev. W. S.

Harper went to Cove City, Monday morning, to assist Jordan of that place; hold revival meeting. Rev Jordan intends to hold. services here Sunday, 19th. R. J.

Coop went to Russell, Wednesday, on Mrs. Holt is visiting her son Frank and family in Trego Co. Mrs. Frank Holt. has been quite ill but is much improved at present writing.

Special Notice. Mrs. H. M. Morgan wishes to announce to the qublic, that she has just received, Mid- Winter Bulletin of Special Price Reductions.

Now is your chance to get a complete outfit for almost nothing. Special prices on ladies cloaks. Mrs. H. M.

Morgan, Agent for Chas. Stevenns Bros. Prairie View. BY AUNT SAMANTHA. Here we come again.

Mr. and Mrs. Phelps and nephew, have returned. from Mo. Meetings closed, at Pleasant Valley, Sunday night.

They were well attended and a number were converted. Gettie Anderson, who has been visiting friends and relatives in this neck o' the woods, returned to his home in Plainville, the first of the week. Mrs. Malcolm Noland was able to resume her school duties, Monday morning. Frank Born and family visited at Tom Born's Sunday.

Miss Hattie Key, born June 8 1867 -Died Jan. 8, 1908, age: 40 years 7 months. She was married to Stephen: Crawford. 25, 1892. To this union was born a son who is left to mourn the loss of mother.

At an early age she became a christian but later drifted away from the faith til during the meetings held in Studley in Nev. 1907, she was restored and united with the M. E. Church. Her dying testimony was beautiful.

As she entered the shadows she several times expressed her confidence and trust in God and kidding them. all a good bye, she passed. beyond this life to the other world. The funeral, held at Studley was largely attended. The sermon was from.

1 Cor. 15-55. Services were conducted by Rev. W. S.

Harper. get WINTER GOODS! Preparatory to invoice we will give special prices on winter goods of all kinds. We have a large stock and must reduce it by Feb. Ist. REMEMBER A 0.

We give 5 per cent Highest market price discount for cash, paid for produce. Yours for Business, MORLAND MERCANTILE CO. If: CUNNINGHAM ELLIS, Prop's. City Hall, Tuesday, night Jan. 21.

A. kittenastpope is a small catastrope. Miss Maggie Mitchell is visiting her sister Mus. Fred Harvey. F.

T. Noylor promenaded the streets of Hill City, Saturday. If you would have friends, be a friend. Miss Maud English of Gradan. visited.

Mrs. Colvin. and. family' last week. Benj.

Hill Sr. of the Hill and Jamison hardware is attendting the Implement Dealers convention at Kansas City this week. Some Reminiscences of Robert Burns, Robert Burns or Bobby Burns as he was familiarly called, was a native of Scotland; a standand poet, who gave wonderful evidence of his poetical bent of mind at a very early ege. Once while following the plow, when quite young, the plow tore through the burough off a field mouse. The mouse fled for its life and little Bobby, who had a very tender and sympathetic heart, such as I wish every boy had, and doubtless.

not knowing the destructive reputation, of the mouse, pitied the little creature and when he got home wrote a very characteristic poem as he: viewed it, dilating on the innocent and defenseless life of poor mousey, 'The poem may be: found in some of the old time, school readers. His excellent poetical productions have a wide circulation in poetical lore; they are mostly SO apt and quaint in character as to be of great interest all those who have read them. For instance, his original and quaint defense, of those who were despised, because of plebian station in life or of plain garb, found expression in the well known verses of his, man's a man for a that." This- was very characteristically illustrated when meeting a Scotch farmer on the street one winter day, wearing the Scotch cloak and bonnet, a style pecultar to his day, he stopped to talk with the farmer, knowing him to be a man of good sense, of original thought and from whom he could learn some wholesome ideas. A young sprig of nobility came along just as they. parted and laughed at Burns for stopping to, talk to such a looking creature as that.

Burns replied, "Thou gormaral, it wasn't the cloak and bonnet I was talkting to, it was the man While: Burns was still a young man he came under conviction for sin and for days was greatly troubled about his tion and the thought of being lost eter. nally. He thought he ought to seek. advice frona the mimister of the Kirk that he attended but alas, for poor Burns, the minister was himself merely a moral essayist, such as there are too many as pastors, in some churches especially established ones, who know nothing of experimental religion as. was this one, "A blind leader of the blind," Burns told him of his trouble, of prind.

Says the blind teacher You haveonly got a fit of melancholy, go and get a few glasses of ale and that will soon leave and sad to tell, Burns took his advice and sure enough it did leave him and from that time he was a wretched unbeliever and what was worse a poor drunkard. His drinking largely destroyed his usefulness and fearfully detracted from the luster of his fame and by his dissipation, he at times became so financially embarressed as to be compelled to seek employment at manual labor. At the time of the incident I relate, he was employed as groom in what we call here a livery stable and when Sir Richard Johnson came to that city, his horses were put up at the barn where Burns employed. The next morning Sir Johnson went to the barn to see after his- horses just at the time when Burns was sweeping the floor. Says Johnson "Take away your broom, you dirty groom, and let Sir Johnson pass." Burns threw His broom across the floor and exclaimed, "Sir Johnson pass, so like an ass between this broom and Says Sir Johnson, that isn't Bobby Burns its somebody like him." But as Burns approached his end, no doubt the ture had a gloomy prospect and as his retrospect would afford his no thought of cheer, it would be a sad contrast to the latter days of Dr.

Watts and many others. Elis thoughts must have been like those of Byron's when after a base life, he was contemplating the gloomy prospect before him and seeing some youths enjoying their care free frolic, wrote thus, verdure and the flowers are theirs, The sear an yellow leaves are W. Ward..