The Lebanon Argus from Lebanon, Kansas • 4

I. J. FINCH. President. O.

B. WINEOAB, Cashier, A Good Cigar at Moore's. HOBACE WJNEGAR. Vice-President V. O.

SMITH, Assistant Cashier. Mrs. Joseph Cox Dead. Mra. Joseph Cox, one of the old settlers of White Rock township, and in fact the first white woman to settle in Smith county, died atber home THE LEBANON Lebanon Roller Mills, I Having recently put in two New Purifiers, a Rotary Bolter and muchv gother new machinery, we are better prepared than ever to meet the in-O vcreasing demand for Lebanon Flour.

0 nr. i 1. if 0 Do A General" 0 we aiso nave a snener ana elevator in connection, and pay ths high-A BANKING BUSINESS. Loans money on Chattle or Real Estate Security. DIRECTORS I.

J. Finch, Mat Hermes, George. P. Haute, C. B.

Wineqar, Horace Winegar, J. M. Tygart, E. T. Dergk.

ana neat. All kind ot mill heed for saia Lebanon Milling Elevator Co, 8 THE CHICAGO LUMBER A COAL CO. FELTON Successors to a I RESTAURANT, LUNCH COUNTER BAKERY. Dealers in Fine Cigars and Confectionery, FURNITURE AND UNDERTAKING. My stock of coaches, center tables, wardrobes, kitchen cabinets is complete, In fact everything usually found in a first-class Furniture store can be had at prices that are right.

Our stock of wall paper la complete and at prices that we acknowledge no competition. E. 0. MCNALL, MANAGER, We noticed John N. Johnson and wife, of Esbon, in town yesterday.

R. H. Skillin will quote you prices on Iron Beds, Mattresses and Springs. The big tent owned by the city was sent to Kensington, to be used by that town during their anniversary days. Fresh Cider 35 cts, per gallon at J.

E. It is right from the press. We sampled it, and found it good. Ben Shiply, a former living in White Rock township, will build a barn. He was in town Saturday figuring on lumber.

The Ladies of the Library Club will serve ice cream at the first door south of the Lebanon State Bank Thursday evening Aug. Charlie Isom and wife, of Bell aire, visited in town with wife's folks, Mr. and Mrs. John A. Dickson, Wednes day and the day following.

It is our understanding that car penters are figuring on the job of rebuilding for John Dykes, the Cameron brothers being among the number. Rock was put on the ground the first of the week for the foundation for the additional school room which is to "be ereated in time for school opening. J. H. W.

H. have sold their Downs to Allen DeLay, the change to take place at once. The Smiths expect to continue in the News paper work, but say they don't know when or where. Mr. B.

Schellehger has sold his Logan township farm to Roll Berges, and will move to Coffey county, where his father moved last spring. He is selling his personal property at public sale to-day. Dan Henson reports the loss of a farm horse. It was turned into the pasture and not seen for three days, when it was found within a few yards of the barn, where it had fallen into a re vine and broken its Al Brown finished his residence this So many parties were after him for work that he bad to turn a deaf ear to all of them in order to complete It. This is usualy reversed, the carpenter's work made to wait until that of everyones was completed.

Lightining struck the bouse of a man named Billings, Friday night. The stroke killed a daughter and injured another so badly that she died Tuesday following. The rest of the family were not seriously hurt, but the house and contents were The house was in or near Cowker City. J. R.

Li tell, a farmsr living northwest of town, hrought in a load of ear corn Tuesday. It has been so long since an event of this kind bap pened that we chronicl the event. It will not be long-, however until such occurances will transpire with such rapidity that we would have to enlarge the paper if we but printed their Lebanon will have a flower parade Anniversary, and to make it a great success, the committee wishes as many of the people In the country as possible to decorate their rigs and take part in the parade. The finest kind of decoration can be made Of grain of different kind, and natural flowers. There will be prizes given for the best decorated rig and bicycle.

$100.00 Cash Prize For a Name. For the new Daily Limited train to California to be placed in service November 1, 1902, by the Rock Island System and Southern Pacific Company, via the El Paso Short Line. The competition is open to the public and conditions involve no fees of any kind. For circular of instructions, address at once Sebastian, Passenger Traffic Manrger, Rock Island System, Chicago." It Is denied that there is any joint in Mankato, but if there is a joint it was unjointed and about sixty bottles of beer (or soda water) stolen Tuesday Ira L. White has alfalfa stacks aggregating 330 feet in length and has thirty or forty tons more to stack and a third crop coming on.

He raised all this and has 35 acres of fine corn and several tons of millet and cane all raUed on a quarter section, besides this lie has kept 15 heud of cattle, 6 horses and about 40 hogs. This shows what 'aflttlfa will do. Mankato Pay Enough. 0 Low priced things are not always cheap. Low prices ate sometimes dearly bought.

There's such a thing as "extravagant economy" That means saving on the price at the cost of the quality. We sell good, pure drugs just as low as it is possible to sell them. We won't sell the other kind at any price. DRUGGIST MOORE. dmacyI I.

STATE BANK ADAMS, L. E. Rogers. Kansas. Skillin.

KANSAS. The demand for carpenters is greater than the supply. Snlkey Plows for sale or trade very cheap. L. M.

Linton. Harve Duntou, made a flying trip to Kansas City the first of the week. Quite a lot of Lebanon people are attending the Kensington Anniversary to-day. Get a Loophaat Moore's Drug Store. Attorney L.

C. Uhl, of the Center, was transacting business in Lebanon Saturday. Treasurer Manker, was a Lebanon visitor Saturday, the guest of Mr. and Mrs .0. A.

Scriven. Hoyt Linton went to Kensington the first of the week visit old time friends, and to take in the the 14 and 15 The Anniversary Committee is hard at work and will try to have an entertainment which everybody may enjoy. The date is Sept. 1. Mr John J.

Honey, of Paola, Kans. has been secured for(lthe principal-ship of the Lebanon schools, lie is a young man of four years experience. D. J. Henson, will have a public sale of cattle Wednesday, Aug.

20th. time will be given aud there will be a chance for some one to get a bargain. Mr. and Mrs. Lew Kindle, drove to Solomon -Rapids this week.

Dave Kindle and family went out to the farm and looked after things during their stay. Wes Bates, who is farming this year in Washington county, has been spend ing a week in the city, the guests of his parents. He says corn is great down there, and is about two weeks earlier than here. Mr. S.

Shores, formerly of Salem, but lately from Missouri, was a caller Monday. He has been visiting bis son, Will Shores, but timed his visit so as to make himself useful in help ing him take care of bis alfalfa. Joe Brown went to the country Mon day to do carpenter work. The count ry will more than likely furnish i bulk of that kind of work this fall although some substantial imrrtove- ments will more than likely be made In Lebanon. Mr.

Frank Pay ton was town Wednesday. We understand they have sold out their Nebraska holdings and are now looking over somo of the western Kansas oountys with, a view to buying, something suitable for cat tle growing. y-YY Uncle Johir Dixon gaye an interest ing the Porter School House, last Sunday Aug.10th. His subject was Individual responsibility, and I in braced the recent discoveries in sci ence and was well received by the peo ple, By one who was there. The Curts Dramatic Company gave entertainments in Lebanon the three first nights of this week in addition their regular advertised nightB Friday and Saturday of last week They had very good houses and their entertainments were generally well re celved.

Rev. Christenbury will hold an old time service at the M. K. church Sun day at 11 o'clock. It Is his intention to muke it especially interesting for old folks, doing away with the organ and have the kind of musio that was In vogue fifty years ago.

An Invitation is extended to all and especially to the aged. A number of members of the G. A. R. post and a correspond tnc number from the W.

R. C. dropped In on Mr. Mark Warner and wife Wednesday witn wen tilled baskets and proceeded forthwith to make the day one of en loyment. At noontime a table was spreod In a grove, and anyone who ever attended a Kunsas picnic can Im agine the rest.

Tuesday after but a days illness. Funeral services were conducted the next day by Rev. Markham, of Cora the burial tukiug place in the Oriole cemetery. The family came to Smith county in 1869, and located on the the quarter of land which is now known as the Benny My res homestead, about a year later moving abont five miles west, where they have since lived and where Cox died. W.C.

Mays, Dentist, Lebanon, Albert My res waB sucessful In secur ing the rural route that is to start out from here Sept. 1. Try a Good Cigar at Druggist Moore's. The new Rock Island managment is getting it from all sides, employees as well as patrons of the road. Mat Thompson and son Ed, started last night for Iowa.

They will also go on to Illinois before returning. School districts are the most clam orous of all applicants for carpenters. The work is mostly repairing, and uiey want rigut now, A timely rain came last night. It had the appearance of being quite general and is followed by a cloudy misty aay wuicn win do toe corn a world of good. W.

A. Myers, has added twelve acres to his holding just west of the the City limits. He pow has 17 acres which ought to be enough to keep him ousy next year. We overheard a farmer say that he had grass- on his farm which he would mow, rake and sell a -two horse load for a dollar. That is not much like paying eight dollars for the poorest Kind or stuff.

The Inter state Reunion will be held at Franklin Nebraska, August 18 to 23 inclusive. Arrangements are being made to give everybody a good time Prominent speakers will be there. Half rare on railroads. Rain accompained by a hard wind passed over the eastern part of the state Sunday morning. A great deal of damage was done to trees, store fronts and light buildings.

We were far enough west that we missed both trie wind and rain. Mr. G. F. Maute had a brother on the train that met with a cloud burst just west of Pueblo' last He writes that people were much excited, two rear coaches were washed from the track and nearly all the passengers lost their hats.

Mr. Leo Shook and wife went to Emporia, Wednesday. Mr. Shook will enter the State. Normal, where he expects to remain at least a year.

lie has been teaching for some time and we presume he intends to bettor fit himself for that calling. Farmers tells us that their Kafir corn is simply immense. It is, as a rule, very thick on the ground and is six or eight feet tall and is heading out and without any more rain will yield an abundant crop of seed, to say nothing of the tons of roughness. The seed makes the finest of feed for all kind of stock. Rev.

G. T. Nichols and wife, of Burlington, Kansas are visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Nichols.

Rev. Nichols was a Lebanon visitor four years ago, and notices many substantial improvements dur ing that time, although it has been nearly two years since improvements ceased on the account of crop failures. Word reached Lebanon yesterday that twenty head of cattle were stolen from a big pasture this side of Red Cloud and driven to Esbon. The party found in posesslon of the stock, so the story goes, said they were pur chased of Kensington parties, but the rowner tracked the stock direct from the pasture to Esbon. We were not able to lear the name of the owner -of the Btock nor that of the man accused of stealing them.

The following is the list of Lebanon applicants for teacher's certificates, who successfully passed the examina tion and were given second grade pa-persi N. A. Bashford Laura Dykes Stella Dunton Miles Elson Carrie Keover i- lluttle LeBarron Third grade. Ella Anderson 'Ttuth. Bonecuttcr Leila Dunton CkwIaDurett Mary Klngsolver 1 Albert Myres J.

A. Bhtlner Maggie Shlppen Ruby Short Stella Wright Bertha Stolner Anna Wines Myrtle Wlggs. Some Bargains in FARM PROPERTY if taken soon. 1 Snow Wlggs, Lebanon, Kansas. List your property with us if you want to dispose of it Mr.

Mets Burnett, -returned Mon nay from Decatur county, the home of his brothhrs and an uncle. He says that down on the Prairie Dog, where his brothers have farms, corn Is in fall condition, but on the upland southwest where his unple lives, corn is burned so badly that it will pro duoe but' little if anything. Mr Burnett says that alfalfa and prairie grass is good, and those that are turning their attention to cows and milk are doing finely, as they have milk routes all over that country where all that one has to do ia to milk and turn it into oani and the Creamery fellows will do the rest. The returns will averago ubout two dollars per cow. pur month.

esi casn price ior corn MY BABY TO-NIGHT. As I sit by his cot, holding fait the soft hand, And the bright eyes are closed till th dawn, I am thinking how sweetly from sweet "Babyland" My darting-Is hastening-on. But whatever the future, whether gloomy of bright, He is all mine Just bow; he's my baby Some day will go out into the world, And mix In its toll and Its strife, And "mother" win be, though still loved and dear, But one of the parts of his Ufe. But now, all the I'm his Joy and his light; )' i Tea, sovereign am II He's my baby to- night And some time, ah! some time another will Of all the most fair and most dear. And as she Alls up Us heart and his home, Poor mother will seem far less near.

I wish him that day, of all days the most might; But that sweetheart's not here he's my baby to-night! And then the gravel man, battling bravely the wrong, And staunch for his home and Ms land, I pray that bis soul may be kept pure and strong. As I sit by his cot, holding fast the wee hand. But that brave noble man Is not this tiny wight, I'm his guardian now he's my baby tonight! And then, when the yean bring their griefs and their woes. And he comes to my knee once again, And, forgetting his years and his trials and oes, Sobs away In sweet tears- all his pain. May I say as I look In his dear eyes' soft "ht: "God has kept him from sin! He's my baby to-night." Margaret Beahm Denning, In Western Christian Advocate.

His Best Gift By CLINTON DANGESF1ELD. XT UMBER FOBTY-NIXE takes his YlN 8ntnca hard," observed the warder, reflectively. "Seems as if he'd ought to be ust to it by this time," returned the assistant. "But jit he's done nothin but rage ever since he was condemned, an that's considerable wftfcks ago. Well" he paused and shrugged his shoulders, adding, significantly won't have much more time fer gittin' reconciled.

To-morrow The blank was as expressive of death as words. The warder pursued his own train of thought. "He keeps on swearin' he's innocent "As if they didn't all say that," muttered the assistant. "An says he wouldn't mind it so much if he was old, but that he was just gettin' a taste of life." The assistant flipped viciously at a fly crawling down the dirty whitewashed walls. "Then why couldn't he mind his p's and q's?" he demanded.

"Warn't the evidence all dead agin himr Alone in his cell. Number Forty-nine heard nothing of the passing colloquy outside his door. He was asleep. On his boyish face were traces of recent and agonized tears, wrung from him by the thought of a shameful death on the scaffold in the morning. Through- the great building, stored with so much rtisery, the usual prison sounds grew fainter and fainter, then the hush of midnight succeeded.

Even the drunken ravings in the cell opposite Forty-nine sank to indistinct murmurs. A light touch on Forty-nine's forehead woke him, and he saw a strange presence in the room. It troubled him a little at first that such perfect and gracious beauty as this of the woman before him should be in so evil a place, but on looking in the dark eyes bent on him he forgot to be either startled or afraid, even though the newcomer's face bore no radiant tidings of pardon or escape. Number Forty-nine raised himself qnestloningly on his elbow. The movement flung the covering from his shoulders and bared the broad chest and round throat of an athlete.

His muscular hands were still brown with the kisses of the sun. The eyes turned on his visitor were frankly youthful, and shaded by such silken lashes that the effect was pathetically softening. The stranger smiled. "You are right to take me calmly she said, in a low, melodious voice, "for I am your good angel, and I hare walked by your side for many years." Number Forty-nine still looked his Inquiries, and she resumed: "I could not be with you visibly were it not for to-morrow." -s Number Forty-nine sat up and clenched hands convulsively together. "Don't speak of to-morrOw," he said, fiercely.

"For a bare instant I had forgotten it 1 "But since it comes Irrevocably," said the stranger, "why should we not see what bearing it really hat on lifer "You mock me!" said Forty-nine, savagely. "Any fool knows what it means to me! Oh my God, my God! I had so much to live for, so much I wanted -to do!" She drew closer to him, "Suppose the years had yielded life and not death?" she said, very softly. "Let us watch the results." At the gesture of her hand the walls grew dim. Now they wavered Into cloudy lines, now to a curtain of mist, and then a picture shaped itself with itartllngdlftMnctnes. Number Forty-nine lorwgrtJJiL.brf a thless.

Jn LEBANON KANSAS. up the scaffold his message outstretched to the sheriff, who took it eagerly. No one marveled that the prisoner looked over the officer's shoulder as he read. The message ran briefly: "Lose no time with the execution. There ia a dangerous rescue afoot, but I have deceived them aa to the time." Suddenly aware that the prisoner was following every word, the sheriff stuffed the paper in his- pocket.

"My God," he said, "I'm sorry you saw that!" But Number Forty-nine met him with smiling eyes. "Let us make haste!" he Said. Llppincott's Magazine. Morgan Bays Clock. J.

Pierpont Morgan bought a beautiful antique German clock while recently in Berlin. The price paid for this clock is not generally known, but the dealer who sold it had previously declined a number of high offers from Germans for the article, and this circumstance is taken as proof of what the Vosaiche Zeitung again as- serts, namely, that German art collectors have no chance against American Am laaevmiio-M Promlae4. "I am a little weary of these conventional stage villains," said the habitual theater-goer. "So am the earnestly. "The next time I play the part of a villain, I shall make a radical departure.

I shall not smoke a cigarette." Washington Star. As Good As His Bond. I remember that a good many years ago when I was a boy my father who was a stone mason, did some work for a man named John Haws. When the work was complete, John Haws said he would pay for it on a certain day. It was late Fall when the work was done, and when the day came on which Mr.

Haws had said that he would pay for it, a fearful storm of sleet and snow and wind raged from morning until night. We lived nine miles from the Haws' home, and the road was a very bad one even in good weather. I remember that father said at the breakfast table: "Well, I guess that we will not see any thing of John Haws to-day. Jt will not make any difference it he does not come, as I am not in urgent need of the money he owes me. It will make no difference if it is not paid in a month." But at about noon Mr.

Haws appeared at our door almost frozen and covered with sleet and snow, "Why, John Haws!" exclaimed my father when he opened the door and saw who it wag that had knocked. "I had not the least idea that you would try to ride away out here in this fearful storm." i "Didn't I say that I would come?" asked John Haws abruply. "Oh, yes; but I did not regard It as a promise so binding- that you must fulfl) it on a day like promise that I make Js binding, regardless of wind and weather. I said that I would pay the money today and I am here to keep my word." "But then it is only a small sum and I do not really need it." "I need to keep my word. If the sum had been but ten cents, and you were a millionaire, and I had said that I would pay it to-day I should have done so if I had been compelled to ride fifty miles." Do you wonder that his word was as good as his bond? He was as truthful as he was honest.

I remember that a neighbor of ours stoned at our house one day on his way home from town. He had an almost Incredible story to tell about a certain' matter, and father said: "Why. It hardly seems possible that such a thing can he true." "John Haws told me about It." i "Oh, then It must he "Yes, or John Haws never would have told it." It in a fine thin? to have a reputation like that. Tt Is worth moro than much worldly glory and honor when they aiv combined with the distrust of the people. Thern are men In high positions, with all that wealth can buy at thfdt' command, who are much poorer than humble John Huws luxiauxe their word Is of no valuo, and they have none of that high sense of honor that cloriflj the humblest life Weekly Magnet, Ask your neighbor try the Argus, to R.

H. LEBANON, THE LEBANON ARGUS By G. C. McNeice. Published every Friday, at Lebanon, Smith County, Kansas.

Entered at the post office "at Lebanon, Kansas, as second-class matter. Friday, August 15, 1902. C. R. I.

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Wand 58 dally except Sunday. O. N. HIttle, Agcut. LOCAL and PERSONAL.

SUoo Fly for stock at Moore's Drug Store. Born: To Mr. and Mrs. Ells Adams, Friday morning August 15, a girl. Jeweler Rath-went to Concordia, He will' spend a few days in that City in the home of a sister.

Arbuthnot keeps the best Cigars in town. Lebanon had a very credible flower parade tltree years ago and steps are being taken to give another this year. We never remember of an August as cool as this has been. The nights have been actually cold. Iowa reported frost.

The Cora boys came down Saturday and interested our fellews for nine innings in a game of ball. The score at the end of the game was 9 to 7 in favor of the home team. Letters written from Oklahoma, and received last, week, staled that the weather was hut and dry, The crops In many parts are- not as good as last year and farmers are cutting up their corn. Address W. C.

Bower, M. D. Rush Medical College, Chicago. All parties Interested in the Price Cemetry are requested to meet at the grounds Tuesday Aug. 20, to clean off the Bring your scythes, forks, and rakes or some sharp tool to work with.

Rev. Christenbury' and wife, were visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Bates, who resides some five miles southwest Of He took a stroll through his corn fluid, and says the prospects for a crop is very flattering. Mis Dawn Duntou, returned from her Colorado visit Wednesday morn ing.

She has been gone two months or more. She brought home a tine sample of plums and prunes which shows what water will do when turncd on arid land and used intelligently. Mr. Fred Snyder, of Bellalrc, was in town Wednesday with wheat. It tested 57 pounds And he releived 55 ct.

for He had in 90 acres and the yield was 11 bushels per not a big one to bo sure but a good one for this locality, the dry spring making the wheat crop almost a failure. Lew Manning returned Wednesday from a trip to Lincoln county. He says the corn south of the Solomon river is burned so badjy that it will amount to but little, North of that it is not so bad, although it is burned moro or less until the neighborhood of Lebanon is reuched. North' of town it is not damaged yet. Mrs.

V. M. MoCall, of Pawneo City Nebraska, who has been visiting the family of her son, J. B. MoCall, just north of this city, returned yesterday.

She will stop ut Washington, Kansas, wnd visit relatives before returning to her home. Leroy McCall accompanl his grandmother to Washington where he will visit until school bo terest to follow it, theblood leaped to his pale cheeks, and he ceased to remember the unmoved figure beside him, for he saw himself free again, on the wide highway, riding with his dogs at his heels. picture changed and he shuddered, but he pursued his wraith with a burning gaze. Now he was in a ballroom. There were lights and flowers.

He heard the voluptuous waltzes in chords of passionate yearning, and at his side was the smiling face of a woman, a face only too human in its sensuous loveliness. The pictures changed again and again, but thereafter she was always with him, and finally she wore his ring. Then poverty, biting poverty, came on them both, and she was at his elbow urging, always urging, that he must provide luxury for her, no matter what the cost. He yielded. He gave her all she asked.

And the price was his honesty, a stain on a name unblemished for centuries. She had spoiled the castle of his will and destroyed all its defenses, and so, when another tempter said "Drink and forget!" he drank. Drank until Number Forty-nine no longer recognized himself in the broken beggar of the streets, in the maudlin coward crouching under the lash of her bitter tongue. The picture' faded. The walls rose straight and He was in his cell once more.

He looked, aghast, into the face of his angel. "Is Fate so strong?" "Ask, rather," she said pitifully, "are men bo weak? You have trained a splendid young body, the network of your muscles is resplendent with elastic vigor. But what of your dormant, shrunken will? What exercises have hardened and perfected it? You pass for a scholar, and rightly. You have a fair share of the learning of your day. But I say again your Were there colleges for that? Did they teach you to be strong in the God-given power that makes every man a law unto himself? Are you armed and courageous in the fatal recesses of the soul?" The man's head dropped.

"I could have saved your body," went on the voice, "but I am your good angel, and I led you into the arms of death. Shall I ask to be forgiven?" "Forgive me instead," said the man quietly, "and let me hold your hand while I sleep again." She sat beside him, with the warm, young fingers in hers, and Number Forty-nine slept peacefully. When morning came the warder found him composed. He even fan- "FOR 1 AM YOUR GOOD ANGEL." cied a smile lingered round the boyish mouth. "Who let her in?" demanded the prisoner eagerly.

"Let who in?" demanded the warder, staring. The prisoner laughed. "I forgot you could not know." A little while, and then, through the bright August sunshine, he passed on toward the scaffold so confidently that the warder rubbed his eyes and muttered his surprise to an assistant. At last Number Forty-nine looked down on ths crowding faces and then turned to those waiting, "I am ready," he said dreamily. But the noose had not touched him when the crowd shouted loudly: "A reprieve! A pardon!" Dusty, foam-spattered, a rider rushed hi.

horse through the glad crowd. an instant he was off ntyl.