The Esbon Times from Esbon, Kansas • 5

THE ESBON TIMES EARL VAUGHN, Editor and Proprietor. Published weekly and entered at the -office at Esbon, Kansas, for transmission through the mails as second class matter. Political Announcements. FOR SHERIFF. I hereby announce myself a candidate for sheriff subject to the Democratic primary election in August.

FRANK GEORGIA. FOR COUNTY ATTORNEY. "I respectfully announce myself a candidate for nomination to the office of County Attorney of Jewell county, subject to the will of the voters at the Democratic primaries in August. C. CLYDE MYERS.

FOR COUNTY CLERK. I will be a candidate for re-nomination for the office of county clerk subject to the democratic primary election. J. A. COLE.

FOR CLERK OF THE COURT. This is to announce to the democratic voters of Jewell county that I will be a candidate office of Clerk of the Court, subject to the wishes of my party in the August primary. MARY SWEET. FOR SHERIFF. The democratic voters in Jewell county are hereby asked to consider me a candidate for the office of Sheriff, subject to the primary election in August.

C. H. THACKSTON. FOR COUNTY TREASURER. To the democratic voters of Jewell county.

I will be your candidate for the office of treasurer, subject to your wishes as expressed by your votes in the primary. C. W. BENNETT, Lovewell, Kansas. FOR COUNTY CLERK.

I am a candidate for the Republican nomination for the office of county clerk, subject to the primary election. ARCH BONECUTTER, Odessa Township. FOR SHERIFF I am a candidate for the office of sheriff of Jewell county subject to the wishes of my friends in the democratic party as expressed- by their votes in the primary election. W. W.

SPENCER. FOR SHERIFF. I hereby announce that I am a candidate for the democratic nom-' ination for sheriff. DAN W. HENDERSON.

For Farm Loans see, Richard Beachy Fred R. Jordan and his bride departed for their home at Madison, Oklahoma, Tuesday evening. For Sale. Feterita seed, the great drouth resisting crop. Price cut to 6 cents per pound.

At Bonecutter Son's, Dentonia, Kansas. Frank Conrad and wife have moved to town and are occupying the house which they recently bought of Wm. Campbell. For Sale. Feterita seed, the great drouth resisting Price cut to 6 cents per pound.

At M. E. Grovers, Esbon, Kansas. Be sure and see the Passion Play at. the Majestic Theatre next Thursday night May 14th.

It's a sure go this time. Single Comb Brown Leghorn eggs from high scoring stock 50 cents per setting, $3.00 per hundred. MRS. O. T.

CLARK, Esbon Ks. Phone 15 on 55. 4t20x. National prohibition and woman suffrage have been checked up to congress and a vote on these important issues must be taken in a very few weeks. 6 per cent First Mortgage Loans on country or city property, improved, or for improvement.

Long term with option of payment at any time. Write us your wants. Suite 765 Gas Electric Denver, Colorado. The graduating class of the Esbon high school for this year is composed of five members, three boys and two girls. The commencement exercises will be at the opera house on the evening of Friday May 15.

The invitations were issued this week and from them we learn' the full name of each of the graduates. They are as James Brennan, William Elza Wright, Jesse Robert Harper, Libbie May Moravek and Alta Tyrone Adams. SPECIAL PRICES We are making a special price of $6.00 on cotton felt mattresses for a short time. They are guaranteed to be made of all new stock. Give us your order.

Our stock of dining room tables is complete again. Bring us your bill and let us show you our goods and prices. Again thanking you for your patronage. W. H.

BEAM See the new shirtings Justices. Millet seed for sale at $1.25 a bushel. W. R. COLLINS.

Harpers store is being wired for electric lights today. Mrs. Simpson and Marjorie visited with relatives in Mankato Monday. Mrs. H.

J. Jackson and Ralph visited friends in Belleville Monday. The Kellys and Jack Wright started for Nebraska with their cattle Saturday morning. The county commissioners are having a substantial cement bridge put in at Jacob Lewis' place. Mrs.

J. C. Hershner was called to Larned, the last of the week by the unexpected death of her sister. FOR SALE -A 1911 model- Indian motorcycle. Has always had good care and is in first class working order.

Inquire at The Times office. The ladies of the M. E. church will serve a chicken pie dinner for 25 cents a plate, at noon on Saturday May 9 in the Dykes building. Refreshments will be tha A tel ANIMALS IN SLEEP All Sorts of Odd Postures, From Heads Down to Heads Up.

ONLY MAN LIES ON HIS BACK. Standing During Slumber la Not Uncommon Among Animals, and Sometimes Ona Leg Serves as a Support. Poses of the Sloths and the Lemurs. Sleep indeed is a "gentle thing." It 18 the supremest form of rest. Our notions of rest during sleep, however, are likely to be a little upset when we come to survey the different postures assumed by various animals during sleep.

To begin with the buman race. The majority of mankind probably sleep lying upon the right or left side of the body and with the knees drawn up toward the chin. Bot certain African tribes, for example, lie upon the back with the head, or rather the back of the neck resting on a bar of wood supported on two short pillars. The elephant, apparently invariably, and the horse commonly sleep standing. This is really astonishing.

Aside from the apparent difficulty of maintaining the balance of the body during these long periods of unconsciousness, one would have supposed that a recumbent position in the case of both these animals was imperative. Cattle and their kind commonly sleep lying down and during many hours of the day they lie down, as when chewing the cud. More curious still there are creatures which invariably sleep hanging bead downward suspended by their hind feet. The bats afford a case in point. Among the birds we meet with the same strange habit in the little hanging parrots of India and the Malayan region.

In this they differ from all other birds, which invariably sleep with the head turned tailward over the back and the beak thrust in among the feathers between the wing and the body, not under the wing, as is commonly believed. No explanation has ever been offered to account for this strange habit. It is followed even by the penguins, wherein the feathers are so short as to fail completely to cover even the back. Owls atre, perhaps, the only exception to the rule, And. by the way, the only other animals which thus turn the head ward after this fashion during sleep are certain peculiar tortoises known as "side necked" tortoises.

Certain birds sleep while resting on one leg. This curious pose is well seen in long legged birds like storks and gulls. Ducks generally sleep on open water. and to avoid drifting southward, and therefore into the danger zone. they keep constantly paddling with one foot, so that the body always is circling round the chosen sleeping area.

The sloths sleep suspended by their feet and the bread tucked in between the forelegs. no less remarkable African pottos, or slow lemurs, assume a similar pose, but they attach themselves to a vertical instead of a hortzontal bough, so that the body rests with the bead upward. No animal save man sleeps on his back. Some animals are said never to sleep and this because the eyes are never closed. The hares, snakes and fishes are commonty supposed to enjoy this unenviable distinction.

The notion is. however, quite erroneous. Whale and their kin ave often quoted as sleepless creatures. It is supposed that if they made this mistake they would promptly drown! As a rule darkness induces sleep. With many animals, however, the reverse is the case, as with the bats and owls, for example.

This reversal of the usual order has been brought about by the nature of the feeding habits. Finally one comes to the question, Where does sleep begin? This is by no means easily answered. One 1s inclined to draw the line at the insecta. But since all living things--plants well as animals display periodical states of quiescence. perhaps we shall be near the truth in regarding sleep as universal among living things, the case of plants it is enforced by darkness, save in the case of many bacteria and fungi, which, like evil deeds, grow under the cover of dark.

London News. Pleasant For the Mistress, Mistress (discussing housemaid who has given notice) -Well, of course she wants to go she must. But seems foolish of her if her only reason is that she wants a change. She won't get a better place than this. ContThat's just what I tell the ellly ma'am.

"Depend upon it," I to ber. "you'll only be going out of the frying pan into the Punch. Solemn Faced George, Our one grievance againet Washington is that he never let artists know that he could smile. ing at the solemn visaged portraits great man creates the feeling the batting average of the joy of living was mighty low in his Blade. Clever Answer.

Old Gentleman-Well, my boy, And when does your birthday come? Boy bae been cautioned not to fish for presents)-Oh, it passed by a long time ago--a year next Saturday The man who wears silk stockings 18 careful about stepping into the mud. MAKE YOUR WHEAT CROP CERTAIN Right now the prospects for a wheat crop were never better, but in spite of these fine prospects the wheat can't guarantee a thing as long as there is danger of its being wiped out of existence by a hail storm. The thing to do is to assist your crop in its efforts to make good. Provide it with an insurance policy guaranteeing it against loss by hail. Such a policy will cost you but a small amount and it adds one more element of certainty to your crop prospects.

A policy in The Peoples National an old line company 1S safe. EARL VAUGHN, Agent J. 0. Rodgers was up from Randall Friday. He will not be employed in the Randall schools any longer.

He took the civil service examination at Mankato Saturday for third class post master and hopes to be appointed post master at Randall. Mrs. John Brennan has been suffering for the past two weeks with a very severe attack of inflamatory rheumatism. Frank Ward and A. J.

Good went to Mankato Monday to make their returns to the board of county commissioners. Farmers and Breeders of Esbon and Vicinity. My Percheron horse, Duke and my jack, Black Dan, will stand for service the coming season at Brodys barn, Esbon. 6t19x C. A.

MULLIN, Owner. H. W. BRODY, Groom. The playground movement has finally taken hold in Esbon.

A liberal fund has been subscribed for apparatus and W. S. Durrett has been busy this week building equipment. It is the hope of. those in charge of the movement that this equipment can be installed before school closes and arrangements have been made with suitable persons to have charge of the movement during vacation.

The republican members of congress who voted against supporting the president in his demands for an apology from Huerta, have been quite busy the past day or two trying to get their reasons for their actions into the Record. It is all very well and perfectly proper for men to stand for their party and their partys interests, so long as the matter is a partisan matter. But it is evident from the telegrams that have been coming in to the members who stood out and voted to embarras the president that the republicans back home were not pleased with the actions of their representatives. There is a good deal of rabbit about the fellow who will vote that way and then try to get his reasons into the record after he begins to get telegrams showing that his constituents back home were not pleased. John Connelly.

Obituary. William Wilkinson Crumley was born in Greene county Tennessee August 21st, 1864 and died near Salem May 5th, 1914. He was married to Nancy C. Malone February 2nd, 1888. Three children and his widow now mourn their great loss.

Mr. Crumley was converted in 1887, and died in a full belief and a heart trust in Jesus Christ. The funeral services were held at the Salem M. E. church, and were conducted by the Rev.

Carey A. Fisher of Lebanon and Dr. W. J. Meredith of Esbon.

Always a new line of hats at Justices. Elsie Eels is up from Concordia this week helping to care for her mother Mrs. Beam. B. W.

Truax D. V. Veterinarian. Both phones, Burr Oak, Kans. Charley Nichols bought a Maxwell-25 of Chandler Duncan last week as soon as it was unloaded from the car.

Mrs. Geo. Lane is carrying the mail on route four while George takes his lay-off, planting corn and putting in alfalfa. All base ball clubs will do well to see Steen the tailor before buying their uniforms as he can save you money. LOST -A carpenter's steel square between my place and town.

JOHN CONRAD. The sociability club will meet with Mrs. Albert Cole on Wednesday May 13th. All members are requested to bring an old relic. Wm.

Gibson left a hens egg at this office this week which puts Uncle Ben Horton in the shade with the one described in these columns last week. The Gibson egg is on exhibition at the Times office and competition The New Store This week we received a nice lot of Messaline Skirts in all the best colors. Come in and see them, they are fine. We have a fine assortment of genuine Bliss Fabian Ripplet. Regular 20 cent values 12 1-2 cents per yard, in all colors, just the thing for spring and summer dresses.

We have four pieces of striped Pique, regular 25 cent goods that we are going to close out at 15 cents per yard. These are all good clean goods and bargains. We have, a large supply of mens summer union suits, the Tru Fit brand, none better. Ask to see them. Price $1.00 per suit.

Cash for Your Butter and Eggs W. L. Harper.