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St List. So, The La Enterprise. VOLUME 3, LA HARPE, ALLEN COUNTY, KANSAS, THURSDAY, FEB. 4, 1915, NUMBER A PEACE CONFERENCE. Governor Capper Asks Appointment of Delegates From This County To Meeting At Topeka.

A statewide meeting will be held in Topeka on February 12th in the interests of permanent world peace. The proclamation issued by Governor Capper calling this conference asks for the appointment of three delegates from all church and labor organizations, women's clubs, boards of trade, commercial clubs and peace societies of the state. The attendance is urged of all mayorsof cities, county and city superintendents of schools and school principals, all state officers and members of the legislature. Each mayor is also asked to appoint one delegate at large from his city and one delegate for each 5,000 inhabitants, and a general invitation is given to members of peace societies and others who are interested in the peace movement. This conference has been called by the Governor at the suggestion of peace societies in a number of the Kansas cities.

Its purpose is not to criticise the parties of the present war, but to promote a sentiment for organization of civilization in selfdefense against the repetition of such a disaster, and to crystallize sentiment to insure a lasting peace when the present conflict is over. The Awful Cost. By Dr. Frank Crane The year 1914 holds the record for evil of all the years that the earth has lived. Never since the dawn of time has there been sueh- calamity among mortals.

If the flood drowned all but Noah's family yet the entire population of the globe at that time probably was not equal to the number of Europeans slain in the war of 1914. The ravrges of Alexander, Tamerlane, the Roman conquerors, the Arabian armies, Charlemague, and Napoleon, things we used to read about and wonder how human beings could ever have such bloodlust, things we attribute to the darkness of the past, and deemed impossible now, we far surpassed the horrors of the "far flung battle line" of this day. An estimate published in the newspapers gives the number of killed, wounded and missing for five months ending January 1, 1915 as 6,000,000. Seveu billion dollars is the figure at which is put the direct war expenditure. The amount of incidental loss, due to the paralysis of commerce, the stoppage of manufacture, the waster of crops and the destruction of property is incalculable.

Belgium, formerly one of the most crowded and prosperous of states, is a howling waste, where a whole people, guilty of no crime save self defense, are wandering desperate, starving and freezing among their burned and battered homes. Northern France, the smiling garden of Europe, is in an desolated condition. England is fighting all over the world. Her disagreement with Germany has already cost her $1,125,000,000. France has been hit even harder.

All her industries, save war trade, have been smitten. In the region of Lillei Roubaix and Ypres alone $90,000,000 worth of machinery hrs been destroyed by the invaders. The war is costing Russia $350,000,000 a month. Germany's loss cannot be told. She has sacrificed men and mon-.

ey, a wild recklessness, which if kept up any considerable of time would bankrupt the world. In all this hideous welter of brutal fighting it is the very fittest young men of the race that have been slaughtered. The impotent, crippled, weak and diseased are spared. A survival of the umfittest! Why! Simply because that is the only plan of world government we have. Is it not inconceivable that to settle disputes bdtween nations, we should have to resort to such a monstrosly inhuman and wasteful process? Commercial Club.

The regular monthly meeting of the Commercial Club at the City Hall Friday evening. Come and bring some one. Daniel Guggenheim worker in the United States is entitled to a job, and the government should see that he gets it. As a matter of actual right the worker is entitled, in addition to sickness insurance, to old age pensions, and above all, a share in the profits resulting from his labor." The Hoe and the Dough. The man with the hoe has been recognized by every age and nation as a fundamental source of prosperity, and while our literature abounds with encomiums in his behalf, and half has never been told.

But the man with the dough is equally as important at this period of our growth and development as the man with the hoe. Attemps have been made to discredit him, but when it comes to building factories and railroads and large industrial enterprises which ard. necessary to our prosperity, we must face the man with money and our destinies as a nation of influence and power are largely in his hands. It takes the man with the hoe and the man with the dough combined to make civilation, and one is interdependent upon the other. Representative Wells of Miami County is on the right track.

He has introduced a bill for the suppression of surplus dogs. The bill provides for an annual tax of $2.00 to be paid to the township assesor. If owner has more than one dog, the tax will be $4.00 on the second dog, $6.00 on the third dog, and on up, and the money to be paid to the township treasurer and used to pay damages to sheep, fowl and other domestic animals, THE CHURGH IN OUR TOWN Taken from The Saturday Evening Post, and printed by requet. Will be continued through several numbers. The town I live in may be called Midvale.

It contained at the last census sixteen hundred and fifty-two souls. Within ten miles of it are four other towns of nearly the same size and SO alike in general characteristics that, with a little shifting of signs, any one might pass for any other. I have been a commercial traveler in the Middle West for many years and should say offhand that, between the Alleghanies and the Rockies, I am personally acquainted with about a thousand Midvales. In a general way whatever is true of my Midvale is true of nearly all others. One of my first impressions of Midvale, on moving there from the city, was that all lines of business were overdone.

There are, in fact, four groceries and four dry-goods stores where two, at most, could really thrive. There are four livery stables, in which horses get stiff from lack of exercise. There are three barber shops, in which checkers are manipulated almost as often as razors: and so through the list. However, I presently discovered there were more churches than anything else. There were eight if you connt.

the Christian Science body as a church -which the most conservative members of other denominations, I learn, positively refuse to do. Leaving that one out to avoid argument, there are seven. One is Roman Catholic. The remaining six are Protestant: Presbyterian, Disciple, Baptist, Methodist, Adventist, and Episcopal. I do not happen to know-any other town of Midvales size that has more churches.

I know some about that size with fewer. Perhaps four or five is nearer the average. Each of these six denoninations in Midvale has its church edifice, The largest is a brick structure quite undistinguished architecturally and now rather out of repair. The smallest is merely an exaggerated drygoods box with a cross on the top. One of the others- happily copied from a little church in New England--is quite pretty; but, with that exception, there is nothing about any of these church edifices to attract or please the eye.

These six churches, with the lots they stand on and their simple furnishings, must represent an investment of twenty-five thousand dollars. By a little inquiry I learned that the operating expenses run from five to six thousand dollars a year. It often struck me, as a mere unsectarian business man, that a single Protestant church, with a twenty-five thousand dollar building and a five or six thousand dollar income, could make a large impression on Midvale. Our most important building, for example, is the courthousefortunately a very good one. It stands in a park of two or three acres, which contains some fine shade trees, shrubbery, flower beds and a well-kept lawn.

The court house is the most conspicuous thing about Midvale. It stands forth, catching the most careless or indifferent eye as a symbol of the political interests of the community. (Continued next week.) Franklin Smith. Franklin Smith died suddenly Monday night shortly after retiring. He was apparently in his usual health, although his health has not been good for years.

He was on the streets Monday, and Monday evening neighbors passed the evening with Mr. and Mrs. Smith. He had been afflicted with asthma and heart trouble. He was born near Peoria, March 26, 1858 and was nearly 57 years of age at the time of his death.

January 24, 1877 he married Rebecca A. Reno, and as they had no children they took two who became as their own. One of these, with the wife and a host of friends, and a sister, Mrs. Sue Stone, of Fort Scott, are left to mourn his loss. He was converted at the age of sixteen and united with the Methodist Church at Fulton, Kansas.

He has remained a faithful member all these years, and in 1903 the church honored him with an exhortor license. He was a member of LaHarpe Camp, M. W. A. Mr.

Smitn's later days were often times of suffering, but lie seldom complained. His faith in his Savior was triumphant until the end, and among his last acts on earth was to call upon God in prayer, and going to sleep he soon awakenep in glory. Mrs. Rachel Jones. Centenarian.

Mrs. Rachel Jones, who was 100 years old Sept. 24 last died yesterday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. E. E.

Collins, southwest of this city. B. Crowley. Mr. E.

B. Crowley, who has been an invalid many months as the result of a stroke of paralysis, died Thursday, Jan. 28, and was buried at Iola, the funeral being at the house Friday in charge of Rev. R. L.

Gress. Mr. Crowley was bern April 22, 1849, and on April 19, 1868, he married Miss Amanda Porter. Four of the six children born are yet alive. They are Wm.

Crowley of Gas, Mrs. Bettie Lillie of Iola, Oliver Crowley of Iola, and Mrs. M. Robinson of LaHarpe. Luke McLuke Says: When the husband thinks he could have done better and the wife thinks she couldn't have done worse, some divorce lawyer gets the price of a new runabout.

A lot of men wonder why girls close their eyes when they are being kissed. But if the men would look into a mirror they would see the reason. There are 3,064 languages in the world and Friend Wife use every one of them, when she finds a dainty, perfumed, lacebordered handkerchief in your pocket, LA HARPE LODGE No. 325, A.F.&A.M. Meets 1st, 3rd, 5th Thursdays Visitors Welcomed S.

K. Toms, W. M. J. H.

Burger, Secy, LAHARPE LODGE, No. 492 A Meets Ev ry Monday Night R. H. Martin, N. G.

C. B. Jones, Sec Notice. We have had over 50 farms in Mo. and Ark.

offered us in the last 10 days. If you want to trade see us. Adams and Adams. DR. H.

E. DUNHAM Physician and Surgeon. Successor to DR. H. G.

HERRING Office over First National Bank La Harpe, Kansas PHONE 20 All Calls Promptly Attended Glasses Fitted WANTED -One of the large magazine publishing houses desires to employ an active man or woman in this community to handle a special plan which has proven unusually profitable. Good opening for right party. Address with two references, Publisher, Box 155, Times New York City. WANTED: 500 Houses for sale and Exchange in the next 30 days. Adams Adams.

For Sale, House, barn and three lots close to Methodist Church. -P. E. Godown. 2-25 You can raise fruit profitably on your own farm, or in your "'Home Garden" when you plant trees from Stark Bro's.

Nurseries and Orchards. For sale by-W. Ira Hammer. Church Dismantled. The old Methodist Protestant church has been completely dismarled and the lumber will be moved to Sedalia, Mo.

Thus passes away another old landmark. This is probably another evidence of the fact that a great many towns have built too many churches in the past and the tendency among thinking people today is toward fever but larger organizations. We have hundreds of towns that could have a large and efficient church if all the money and energy were spent upon one instead of many. When a merchant stops advertising to reduce expenses he is acting a good deal like the man who stopped his watch to save time. Advertising should not be considered as an expense.

It is what makes business and as absolutely necessary if the merchant expects to sell his goods. When a merchant quits advertishe is taking a step backawrd. -Eureka Messenger. Eus your Drugs at Cooksey's.