The Lebanon Argus du lieu suivant : Lebanon, Kansas • 1

I 1 1 1 THE LEBANON ARGUS. VOL. VII, NO. 34. LEBANON, KANSAS, DECEMBER 23, 1904.

ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR. COUNTY OFFICERS. I. A. Myres.

Perk. H. A. Clark. Register of Deeds John Kissel.

County Attorney J. T. Reed. Probate A. IT.

Black. Superintendent of Schools. E. E. Brookens.

Sheriff. E. W. Agnew. Commissioners, First District.

Joseph Jones 'Second District, Henry Aulborn Third District, Eli Kearnes CITY OFFICERS. Mayor. R. G. Lucas.

Clerk Elmer Isom, C. B. Winegar. Marshal. V.

J. Fogle. Police Judge. Jerome. Councilman- Shook, W.

Reynolds, A. Hall. Geo. Felton. E.

O. McNall. V. J. FOGLE, CITY DRAYMAN.

All orders will receive best attention. A share of patronged solicited. Charges reasonable. V. J.

Fogle, Lebanon. FRANK REGAN, AUCTIONEER. Will cry Sales in all parts of the country, Terms resonable. Satis-; faction guararteed. Write or phone me at ESBON, KANSAS.

BARBER SHOP, W. D. BRANTON, PROPRIETOR. Lebanon, Kansas. Satisfaction Guaranteed.

Agency for the St. and Fairbury Laundries. FELTON BUNKER, LIVERY AND FEED: BARN. LEBANON, KANSAS, Successors to Geo. Good Rigs Furnished, Day or Night, With, or Without, Drivers.

Treatment right and charges reasonable. South Side LIVERY BARN, MERRY GOOCHEY, PROPRIETORS. Having recently purchased the South Main St. Burn, we are prepared with good teams and new rigs to meet the demands of public. Usual feeding accommodation.

We ask your patronage and guarantee good treatment. The Shoe Go's WHITE HOUSE SHOES For Women. We are handling the Brown Shoes, and there's none better. Men's, Women's, Boys' and Children's. All new and up-to-date styles, Brown's "Blue Ribbon School Shoes Every pair warranted.

Repaired free of charge. Save 10 to 20 per cent by buying of Adams Bros. YEARS' EXPERIENCE PATENTS TRADE MARKS de. skelet and on Patenta Scientific American. Co 001 Light.

for sale. Mrs. D. I. Hobbs.

is Nothing to Me." "Tis nothing to me," the beauty said. With a careless toss of her pretty head; "The man is weak who can't refrain From the cup you say is fraught with pain." It was something to her in after years, When her eyes were drenched in burning tears, And she watched in lonely grief and dread, And started to hear a staggering tread. "It's nothing to me," the mother said; "I have no fear that my boy will tread The downward path of sin and shame, And crush my heart and darken my name." It was something to her when her only son From the path of life was early won. And madly quaffed of the flowing bowl, Then -a ruined body and shipwrecked soul. "It's nothing to me," the merchant said, As oyer the ledger he bent his head; "I'm too busy today with tare and tret; I have no time to fume and fret." It was something to him when over the wire message came from a funeral pyreA drunken conductor had wrecked the trainHis wife and child were among the slain.

"It's nothing to me," the young man cried; In his eye was a flash of scorn and pride. heed not the dreadful things you tell; I can rule myself. I know full well!" "Twas something to him when in prison he lay, The victim of drink, lite ebbing As he thought of his wretched child and wife And the mournful wreck of his wasted life. Is it nothing to us who idly sleep While the cohorts of death their vigils keep Alluring the young and thoughtless in To grind in the midst a grist of sin? It is something for us, for us all, to stand And clasp by faith our Saviour's hand: Learn to labor. live and fightOn the side of God and changeless right.

National Advocate. The ship subsidy bill will never be passed on its merits. The boom for the steel and ship building plants is good for a year or two, at least. Enough orders are already in to take from this notice anything savoring of a guess. By reason of the tariff on steel, the Pennsylvania road will have to pay an additional $616,200 for rails now ordered.

Of course it will be heresy for anyone to say a word again the divine rights of protection. If trusts put up money to elect Roosevelt, as Democrat managers say they did, it seems to us that they would begin to think they had paid for something they were not likely to get, and would get something they had neither paid nor wished for. Congressman Tawney, of Minnesota, has introduced a bill authorizing the free importation of timber, or anything manufactured from timber, from Alaska. As this would help the independent manufacture of paper from wood pulp, it is to be hoped that the bill may speedily become a law. The last of Russia's Port Arthur fleet bus been disabled or sunk, while that of Vladivostok, or what there is left of it, is frozen in and good for nothing for months to come.

The Japanese seamen can now take a rest and get ready for the Russian fleet, which is now on its way to the seat of war. John D. Rockefeller stands to make a cool three million. He has just given his pet university at Chicago that amount and caused crude oil to take a tumble, by which he will recoup the amount of his gift. It is also safe to gamble that this will so weigh upon his mind that he will bike oil products that amount, through mere force of habit.

New York proposes to issue millions of bonds for the purpose of making good roads. We suppose it is a poor rule that won't work both wags, and as the present generation has no doubt made some improvements which coming generations can enjoy, it le- no more than right that the said coming generations shall pay for. good roads for the people that now are. The people of Montgomery county have a way of doing things that Is likely to get some of them lato trouble. They object to the piping of gas to other states, and when courts refused to come to their rescue, proceeded to take the law into their own hands.

About fifty masked men ran la the guarda, who were left to protect the line, and then blew the thing out of the ground with dynamite. If it be true that the law's delay is not the fault of the courts, but of the law itself, then it is time for a few legto cover themselves with glory. A case in point is that of a Missouri senator who was indicted for bribe taking two years ago, yet he has not been tried and now asks for a change of venue ou account of prejudice of the people of that particular county. Missouri may get witness the assemble ing of the legislature with this law breaker as one of the number. Now comes one I.

H. Rogers, vicepresident of the Standard Oil who, through his attorneys, is going to do great things to one Lawson for ing, or causing to be printed, certain things about him which he considera libelous. We would hate to. be son, for even the feree looking face of Rogers, as it appeared to the daily, is enough tor soure a timid man to death. But after all perhaps the look was sumed, and that he la hot nearly dangerous a9 the papers make him look.

Itussia's war with Japan is likely to result in good for that country, no matter what results are. The liberty loving Russians are taking advantage of condiditions to press their elmims for a more representative government. Oil account of the literalism manifested by the some of the staunches ad vacates of autoeract hare resigned their positions. Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, so dear to the people of the United States, la Hikely to be enjoyed, la certain degree, from the time on by the Russians. 1 1 1 BARNES, GODDEN, FLOOD CO.

Dealers In Farm Machinery, Harness Carriages. Also Handle All Kinds of Grain, Seeds and Coal. We Have Sections, Knife Heads, Pitman Straps, Culti-7 vator Shovels to fit all makes of machines. BARNES, GODDEN, FLOOD Lebanon, Kansas. 8 1 1 1 PIANOS! A Piano For ChristmasJust The Thing! Remember I sell the world's best make of Pianos and Organs.

Handle the Famous CHICKERING, KIMBALL, Forty other makes. Sold for cash, or on the easy payment plan. I have sold the best people of Lebanon, pianos) for their homes. $10.00 sends a piano to your home. Balance? small payments.

Write today for FREE Catalogue and Prices. A. A. Conner, Ag't, Concordia L. -W.

Hale is Dead. L. W. Hale died at his home in Lebe non, Thursday, December 22, 1904. Funeral services wilt be held from the Free Methodist church today at o'clock, Rev.

Solander oficiating, the burial taking place in the Prairie Home cemetery. The subject of this notice was born In Plattaville, Wisconsin, March 4, 1854, where he grew to manhood, mar: rying Miss Jane Poland March 17, 1875. Moved to Smith county in 1879, and homesteaded a quarter of land two and half miles cunt of Lebanon, where they lived continuously until a few months ago, when the family moved to town, the son and father remaining on the farm to take care of the stock. The deceased leaves a wife, 1 son and four daughters, three brothers and three sisters, two of the Mrs. Thomas Calloway, of Labanon.

and Mr. Itobert Hale, of Plauville, Wisconsin, and all the children were with him when death came. The immediate cause of his death was paralysis, caused by the rupture of a blood vessel of the brain, the rapture being caused by a bucking horse which he was riding to the farm the evening Before the frat attack. Governor elect Hoch will not have to select men for the different appointmenta, as certain newspapers have already done the work for him, and published their names. It cost the people of Kansas 578.66 to ran the common schools does ing the year ending July 1, 1904, or 810 for each person of school age, cording to Superintendent Dayhof report.

average tax levy for the school purposes was only 11.87 mills, raising $426,198.54 was apportioned from the annual school fund and $639,180.47 realized from the sale of bonds. A total of was raised for school par poses -Mail and Brees The farming Industry in Kansas took a notable step forward wisen the cultivation of alfalfa becams general. 1t appears now that another great step is to be taken in the establishment of mills for the grinding of this wonderful product into meat, which operation is said to double its feeding value, Alfalfa I that sella for 43 per ton in the bale la worth $12 as meal. The pense of grinding can not very great, and if the statements made concerning the industry to he core rect, alfalfa mills will soon tr us commeti as curb shellers. Jewell county stands at the head of all the great falla counties of Kansas, and if there is any way of thereasing the value this most important crop we want to know more about it.

any of our renders hate any deleite knowledge on the subject we should like to hear from them. -Jewell Republican. one could get rich merely by investing in street car tickets. Nor can one get rich merely through small savings in bank. But it is generally found that the investment in street car tickets and the savings in the bank go together, and that with them go a lot of other frugal habits.

After some years the man with these habits somehow becomes rich. With his little capital, together with his industry and fixed frugality, he is enabled to embrace some combination of circumstances and turn it into opportunity. (T'he little investinents grow into big ones and the small savings become all enormous income. An immense proportion of the people of this country live up to their i incomes, laying nothing aside for the traditional rainy day. Because they cannot save a thousand dollars in a bunch they save nothing.

'The greatest financial kings of the world are not above taking care of the pennies, even. The great financial institations look after even the fractions of pennies. It is almost a sure thing that the young man who considers it not worth while to save small amounts will never have large ones to save. He will spend his life dreaming of great profits and forgetting to sow the seeds of any profits at all. He who declines to save because his first savings are small 1 is first cousin to him who declines to go to work until he can start in at one hundred dollars a week.

The first savings of Rockefeller, Jay Gould and the first Vanderbilt all look pitiably small, even to the average laborer of today. But they were seed. They were seed from which sprung not only increased profits, but increased energy in money-getting. savings and small investmenta, if constantly added to and the income compounded, grow marvelous. ly in time.

And the saving of money is a habit that grows more marvelously even than compound interest. -St. Joseph. News sud Press. Yellowstone National Park.

By JOHN A. DIXON. After leaving the old maids at the fountain, and Brown at the paint pots, we wended our way to Upper Basin. This basin covers an area of four square miles. It bears every tion of being the oldest group of hot pools and geysers in the park.

It contains 300 hot pools and 20 geysers. Old Faithful is the most noted ser in the park. It is in eruption every sixty to seventy-five minutes. Being situated close to the road all tourists are sure to witness its movements. It throws water 165 feet in the air.

It also throws the largest volume of water, the crater being sixteen inches wide by four feet long. The formation being high, makes it very conspicuous. The Giant and Giantess fo this group throws water 220 feet high, but being irregular as to time, they are seen comparatively, but by a few. The hotel near Old Faithfal Is the most unique, stupenduous plece of architecture west of Chicago. It in rostie work, being covered with pine slabs.

The bark on the slabs makes it appear as through it had, like Tupsy. "just growed" but its eighty gables proclaimed it a noble work of art, polished gem of the first water. searchlight to light up the grandure of Old Faithfol by night, was its ing dome. It was hard to tell whether nature or art held the are. Soon after leaving the scenes above mentioned, we were segusted by a fine specimen of the genus homo, in the person of a real, live Mormon poet.

He asked for a ride and after looking him over I consented. He proved to be a very pleasant wayfarer in life' journey, 49 all real poets are. He was born and raised a Mormon, in the picturesque mountains and valleys of Utah. He gave a recital of some of his poems, and as far as was capable The Horse is Eclipsed every time, if he's hitched to one of our handsome new carriages. Take a spin, and if you have one of our FINEST ON EARTH carriages like we are selling, you will be envied by all who see you.

Just stop and think how cheap they are compared to former prices. You haven't a bit of an excuse for not discarding the old rig and and buying a new one. You can afford it twice over. Why not do it and be happy? SHOOK BRos. Lebanon, Kansas.

The Farmers Merchants BARBER SHOP is the place to get your lairent. Shampoo, Shave, Shine and Clean Laundry. All Work Firet Class. Call on 18. C.

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TYGART SELLS ALL KINDS OF Machinery. You will have to speak quick if you want a MITCHELL or NEWTON Wagon, or the best Heater or Range on earth. They are going fast. A A WILL Soon Be Here! Our line of HOLIDAY GOODS is already here in all its splendor. In fact it is so bright, a line that Santa Claus is thinking of keeping them all for himself.

But you can outwit him if you buy early enough. We have so many pretty Xmas things that you would miss the pleasant surprise we have for you if we would tell you all about them here. Come and see for yourself. We have what you want in our line. W.

S. Arbuthnot, LEBANON, KANSAS. A Good Plan. Up at Horton they have a scheme for suppressing joints that ought to work well in every small city in Kansus that la trombled with joints. They have arrested the mayor for not enforcing the law against the whiskysellers.

The case will be fought hard in the courts, it is reported, and the mayor will do all in his power to de: cape punishment. But the people who are after the joints are in earnest and, if be la guilty of criminal negligence in the matter, they doubtless will get him, they have gone after him in fort the right way. If he is ousted it will be. a pretty sure thing that the nest mayor of that city will not hare to be dragged into court before be can be induced to go after the law-breaKers. Other towns that are bothered with joints should keep an eye on this HoPton case and gather pointers how to proceed at home.

if ninety per cent of the energy that to wasted in riesl meetings of people who dare not speak their convictions outside meeting could be turned to account in the forming of citizen's secret committees to find out who is violating the law, what officiala are responsible and which ones are negligent of their duty, and then go after them id dead earnest in the courts, the susall cities of Kansas could clean out the liquor business fo six months. The Horton people have found out one of the right ways to make prohibition probibite ka Herald. The Habit of Frugality. A recent Washington letter in The News and Press contained story about the late Senator Hoar that may be taken as the text of a little homily on the subject of worldly wealth. A friend and Mr.

Hoar were riding to the capitol on a street dare Mr. Hoar was expressing much surprise at the ease with which some publie men acquired wealth. have been in the publie service all my life," he explained, "bit never was able to get ahead. I have nothing but my salary, and it all goes in live ing. I would like to know how money is accumulated." At that instant the conductor caine along and Mr.

Hoar handed him a nickel. is one way in which you might accumulate said the friend. asked Mr. Hoar. could have saved 20 per cent by buying sin tokets for a quarter, and that la a pretty gout in This is a good deal more Sean A joke.

The oversight of amall investments lying else at hand leads to half the world's financial miseries. No AN New Meat Market. Having recently purchased the north Main St. Meat Market, we will be pleased to supply you with Fresh and Cured Meats. A child can buy as well as its parent.

We want your patronage. JOCHUM SON. FRUIT showing in natural OK colors varieties of Fruit, with concise description and season of ripening of half tone views of Nurseries, Orebards, Packing Houses, etc. Send 50 ets. for book and Rebate Ticket permitting return of book by mail within 60 days and we refund the 504.

Or, mail us within 1 year, Rebate Ticket with $12 order for nursery stock and we will credit $1.00 in part payment on your order and you KEEP TIES BOOK free. WE PAY THE FREIGHT. We Pay Cash and want Bro's, more home LOUISIANA, and traveling Atlantik, leva, Fogettrille, OuTFit Art. judging, it was real poetry. He had come to the park to write a poem of the Yellowstone lake.

He tried hard to convert me to Mormoniem, but as ad my experience in conversions. Was a poor subject to operate upon. We We were overtaken by a young eyelone were frightened and excited and ny Mormon friend proved the ness of his faith. by expressing found gratitude to God, for his pro seating providence. As he had a pair of shears he improved my personal appearance by my hair, and a modest hint abont my beard wing three weeks old hit his mind a on higher things and was not roe to alight hints.

We measured aria in argument on poligany and as matter of cases I decided that I had the heat of it. He no doubt knew tainly that the preponderance of proof was on his side. When the doctors disagree who is going to decide." When we came to the head of the lake, the fine expanse of elear, blue water to the right, a narrow ridge cove ered with stately pines, a doe with little spotted fawns, and a small park nestling aniong the pines, where some horses were grazing. made land. water and zoological scene that worthy the admiration of the Gods.

As we moved along, we came to an arm of the lake that reached away and was lost in the pines. It was spared with a substantial bridge. This AFt la called the thumb, bowerer we left the lake here, to take a new Foad over the mountain, and missed seeing the Angers, if the lake had any. The nest place of interest is the lake hotel and steam boat that leaves its wharf every morning to make a trip to park. island, the zoological garden of One mite brought ha to nor starting point that makes the eirenit the park: In conclusion we will Indulge our imagination by stepping inter the chariot of light and going to the North Star, thence to Orion and the in quest of some place mute sublimely pletaresque than the wonderful decland.

The Yellowstone National Parka I The Attraction that brings many people here la perfecs service as moderate cost. PROTOGRAPHY more than business with no. It's AD art in which take great pride. We give every picture war best attention We try to make it as handsome and artistic as modern methods will permit. We bring will die best feattres of every site We pose each subject with that How about a dozen for Four friends al Christmas? KELL00G The Photograher.

Henie. Oak Creek John wile and mother. elaited relatives on Oak creek, Sure day. Will George marketed a load of fire huge, Monday. Stra.

M. J. Berry, of Topeka, was the great Taceday and Wednesday, of her www. Sati Breaker. Mrs.

W. 0. Goude is visiting relax tires in lowa. We were a little late in learning nt the death of Robert Amis. Mr.

Amie was an old resident of this community. and will he greatly missed by many I friends:.