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POLAND CHINA Sow AT KJRWIN, ICAN SAS is I Forty head of registered tried brood sows and bred gilts, all bred to Black Diamond 147741, S. P's Keep On 51697, Designator and Pioneer. As good a line of herd boars as you will find in Kansas. Every sow sold under a-guarantee. Don't fail to be present at this sale.

A A A Farm 12 Miles S. E. of Kirwin John Brennan N. S. Ewjng Auctioneers he was not prosecuted; indeed, he sued the railway company for $10,000 damages because he fell off.

It is unlawful to drive a horse unfit for labor. Do you not see this law violated on the roads and streets dozens of times a day? Any able-bodied married man who are guilty of a felony and so is the man who owns the machine. In thousands of stores" in Kansas are slot machines where men play for prizes, usually cigars. To play cards for prizes is a penitentiary offense. The women who play cards ot afternoon parties for prizes are liable to imprisonment in the penitentiary.

Yet the newspapers are full of accounts of these parties and the No Peaches This Year Lrst week we made the assertion that the peach crop was still safe, having accepted the statements of several who have made that assertion, but Saturday last E. D. Balmer, the veteran fruit grower of Ash Rock township, told us that his big orchard would raise hardly a fraction of a crop this year. The buds, said Mr. Balmer, swelled during the warm days in January, and the recent severe nights put When a hog dies of disease you violate a law unless you bury or burn it within twenty-four hours.

It is also unlawful to throw the dead body of a hog into any stream. It is unlawful to spit on the floor of any public building. If you spit on the floor of the court house' you are names or winners are given. It is unlawful in Kansas to sell Obituary Luckey J. M.

Luckey, who had been an invalid for the past several years, pass-f rom this life Thursday of last week. The funeral services were conducted in the Pleasant Valley school house on Saturday by Rev. L. S. Reeves and the remains were laid to rest in the Pleasant Valley Cemetery.

A large concourse of sympathetic friends attended. Joseph Marion Luckey, the deceased, was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, October 30, and died at his home in Pleasant Valley, Osborne county, Kansas, Thursday evening, February 18, 1909, after an illness of nearly ft years, and invalid the last 4 years of his sickness, but ever patient in his afflictions to the JasV When 5 years of age he moved with his parents to Columbus, Here he grew to manhood and when the call for volunteers came, he enlisted and followed the flag of the union for three years, serving as a pri tickets in any raffle. The man who yaffles a gun, or watch or buggy is running a risk of the penitentiaty. The children who sell chances in the neglects to supports his family vio-j lates a state law, and may be fined $100 or imprisoned one year. To carry any weapon knife, knuck, slingshot or pistol is unlawful and the violator of the law may be fined $100 or imprisoned three months, If two farmers have a friendly race in the public highway to try the speed of their horses, they are violating the law.

To sell a cigarette to a young man under 16 is a violation of law, altho a bill is now pending in the legislature to raise the age of consent to 18 years It is also unlawful for a boy under 16 to smoke a cigarette, i It is a felony to give another an of fice in consideration of his vote or influence. Every politician in the state of any importance violates this law regularly and flagrantly. Hundreds of other instances might be s-iven. Kansas has so many laws church raffles are violating the law. Hunting on Sunday is unlawful, yet thousands of men hunt every Sunday.

violating a state law. Any farmer who has a hedge more than five feet high violates a state law. Ninety-nine farmers out of every hundred violate this law. If a farmer neglects to cut the weeds in the roads abutting on his farm he violates the law. If a man gives you a worthless check and you complain to the officers and hush the matter up on receiving your money you are guilty of a penitentiary offense.

The officer who assists you in obtaining your money is also guilty of a penitentiary offense. This is called compounding a felony. To sell skim milk or milk that is sour or watered milk is unlawful. Seven-tenths of the candy sold in the state is sold in violation of law. To overwork or overdrive a horse is unlawful, as is any sort of cruelty peaches on the mail order list again this year.

In Love A dashing young man who w-as dead in love wrote his little bunch of sweetness a letter as follows: "Dearest, my love for you is stronger than coffee or the kick of a cow. When I think of you, my heart flops up and down like my mother's churn dasher, and visions of doubt creep over my soul until I feel like an old cheese board made full of holes by skippers. Sensations of exquisite joy go through me like goats over a stable roof. I feel as though I could lift myself with my boot straps to the height of a church steeple, as a swimmeth in a mud puddle, so do 1 swim in a sea of delight when thou art near me. My heart oscillates like the shaker in a fanning mill and my eyes stand open like cellar doors in a country town.

If my love is not reciprocated will pine away like a poisoned bed bug and you will catch cold over my grave. Glen Elder Sentinel. Here is a thought for our readers to digest: The merchant who has nothing in his store that it pays to advertise has very little that it pays to buy. Watch the ads. to horses.

It is unlawful to neglect to provide shelter for cattle during bad weather. Cattle i are everywhere fed without Every cattle feeder in the state could be sentenced to imprisonment one year under this law. The law is violated every day and everybody knows it. The man who steals a ride on a fail-road violates a law. A colored boy was injured in this way recently, and that almost every citizen is a habitual law breaker without knowing it.

The laws referred to are state laws; they do not include city ordinances. Atchison Globe, vate in company bth Indiana lnfan-trj receiving an honorable discharge. the close of the-" war he returned home, and on the 29th day of June, 1865, was united in marriage to Miss Minnie Hoffman. To this union was born eleven children, nine sons and two daughters. Of these nine are living, two sons having died in infancy.

All the children were present at his death except one daughter living in Everett, Washington. Besides his wife and children he leaves three brothers, four sisters and twenty-one grandchildren. Mr; Luckey came to Pleasant Valley in the spring of '71, locating on the place where he last resided. Together with his wife and family of little folk he endured the many hardships of the then new country, staying even thru grasshopper year, when everyone's faith was tried. He was converted and became a member of the U.

B. church in the OUR EXPERIENCE Frank Strebel will have a sale of thoroughbred Poland China brood sows at Kirwin on Saturday and we predict that the stuff will'sell like hot A winter of '76, and for a period of 25 jcaio pcTtuug vt uno ucvuud ui inn health was an enthusiastic church worker, especially as superintendent of the Sunday school. His schools were unusually large and interesting. Many years later came queries from his children pupils, who had grown up and moved to other states, asking about their Sunday school superintendent of old. He was ever ready to help in all good works, ever living a consistent christian life, a kind husband, noble father, patient brother and esteemed neighbor who will be sadly missed in the community by all who knew him.

CARD OF THANKS We desire to express our gratitude to our many kind friends who have so kindly helped us in our sad hours. Mrs. J. M. Luckey and family.

cakes. He has a fine herd and the breeding is hard to equal. Frank doesn't expect to get fancy prices, but just wants what they are worth as producers. If printer's ink will get a crowd he should have one. He used big ads here, at Gaylord, Kirwin and Logan.

This is the latest that is going the rounds: An editor works three hundred and a half days a year to get out fifty-two issues of his paper: That's labor. Once in awhile somebody pays for a year's subscription: That's capital. Once in a while some son-of-a-gun or a dead beat takes the paper a year or two and then vanishes without paying for it: That's anarchy. Latter on justice will overtake the last named creature, for there is a place where he will get his deserts. That's hell.

i-2 Our years of experience enable ns to estimate values pretty closely. Thus by being- careful in our buying we get the very best quality at the very lowest price. We have been and are constantly on the lookout for bargains and are "trying" to make this store the very best one for you. Our aim is to sell the best goods for the least money. We don't claim to set the on fire; we don't claim to sell groceries 25 or 30 percent less than others do, but Ave do claim to sell you the very best quality on a very close margin ot It is reasonable that when we spend all, our time in this store that wre can give you the very best of service and can satisfy your wants better than if we.

had other, things, to look after. Do a little thinking; look before you leap, and I believe you will light in our store and be satisfied with our wav of treatinji' vou. GIVE US A TRIAL A. W. Hart returned Sunday to his home in Osgood, Missouri, after a-pleasant visit with his sister, Mrs.

J. Francisco. We don't believe one man in ten understands what the word "guarantee" means. S. J.

Hibbs is the only man in town who has taken the trouble to explain it. See how he analyzes wr guarantee question on page 4. Ad.vt. 3 Forgotten Laws Although Kansas is adopting new laws at a rapid rate, it has hundreds of laws to which no attention has ever been paid. It is unlawful to sell any article other than drugs on Sunday.

The man who sells newspapers, cigars, ice cream, bread, or any other article, except drugs, is a lawbreaker in Kansas. To bet on an election is unlawful in Kansas. To act as a stakeholder in aa election bet is unlawful. Yet at every election, betting on the result is so common as to attract no attention. Practically everyone bets on the result.

To disturb the peace and quiet of any neighborhood is unlawful, and subjects the offender to a fine of $100 or imprisonment not exceeding three months. Any person who works on Sunday except household work of daily necessity is a lawbreaker. This law is violated by practically every citizen of the state habitually. Yours Respectfully, ANYHOW. For sale One black gelding 6 yrs.

old, one bay gelding 8 yrs old wt 1000 and 1200. See Otto Borgen, Woodston It is one one thing to "guarantee" a machine as some people, are in the habit of of doing, but it is an entirely lifferent thing to give a contract like S. J. Hibbs does when he guarantees the Litchfield spreader. See the back lage.

AVc insure family or fancy drivers farm horses, cows, mares bred or not bred, cattle, draft, high bred or general purpose, against death from a1 cause. F. Smithkr, Agent. Dr. C.

(1. vens, the Osborne oculist, will be in Woodston on Friday, March 5th. prepared to fit your eyes scientifically and properly. At the hotel. 4 It J.

M. STEHLEY If you play cards on Sunday you 1 are a lawbreaker. In Kansas any game of chance is a felony. If you walk into a store and drop a nickel into a slot machine you.