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During tlie years of 1900 and 1907 I was troubled with what the physicians pronounced "Gravel of the Kidney." I was under the care of one physician for six months and two months with another without securing relief or a euro. The physicians insisted on an operation claiming that would be Uin only thing that would help me. My wife being bitterly opposed to an operation I did not consent, but continued under their treatment for some time. When I wai most discouraged believing that my end was near, I heard of Dr. Kilmer's Swauip-Itoot and at once-began taking your medicine and noticed almost immediately that the medicine was having its effect.

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Big Chance Both Ways. The famous physician and the eminent clergyman were deep in a discussion which threatened to become acrimonious. "You see," said the minister sarcastically, "you medical men know so much about ths uncertainties of this world that I should think you would not want to live." "Oh, I don't know," responded tlia physician caustically. "You clergy men tell us so much about the uacer-tainties of the next world that we don't want to die." Ladies' Home Journal. ECZEMAS AND RASHES Itching and Burning Soothed by Cutf-cura.

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Your SHM10L Lesson (By E. O. SELLERS, Acting Director of the Sunday School Course of the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago.) (Copyright, 1915, Western Newspaper Union.) LESSON FOR DECEMBER 26 JEHOVAH'S GRACIOUS PROMISES TO ISRAEL (REVIEW). LESSON TEXT Hosea 14. GOLDEN TEXT-Jehovah Is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant In loving kii.dncss.-Psa.

103:8 R. V. The burden of punishment descended upon Israel, not because of the vindictive character of Jehovah, but because of the persistent pursuit of sin on the part of the nation. The lessons of the past quarter extend from the latter days of Elijah, about 906 B. to the fall and cap tivity of Israel (the northern kingdom) B.

C. 722 (Beecher), a period of 180 years. Some contend that the lesson for November 14, Daniel at the King's Court, is chronologically the last and ought to have been put at the end of the series. During the past quarter we have studied about six kings, Ahab, Joash, Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Nineveh, Uzziah and Ho-shea; also six prophets, Elijah, Eli-Bha, Daniel, Jonah, Amos and Hosea; and one soldier, Naaman. A good method of review would be to have assigned to different scholars or classes each of the foregoing personages and to give a report of his chief characteristics.

Material for such a review is easily accessible. An other method of review would be to take up the lessons serially and in connection with each read some appropriate Scripture verses that will serve to emphasize or to illustrate the chief fact of each iesson. Lesson I. The weak King Ahaz (strong in his perversity) is easily persuaded to do evil in order to gratify hip covetousness. Elijah at God's command goes to meet Ahab who cries out, "Hast thou found me, my enemy? In reply Elijah delivers God's word; that word to us is found in Ex.

(Let each Scripture ref erence be read in full.) Lesson II. The veteran champion Elijah is about to go home and his more youthful follower, Elisha. has one chief desire (see, II Kings which persistently followed is abundantly rewarded. The lesson for us is found in the master's prayer, John 14:16. Lesson III.

The stricken soldier, Naaman, at a child's suggestion, appeals to God's prophet, Elisha, for healing. He is directed how he may be cured and after some hesitation returns home cleansed. The lesson for us is that of being faithful amid life's experiences and of doing and living for others (see also Romans 12:20, 21.) Lesson IV. The servant of Elisha is very much excited. King and camp are in despair, yet the prophet is not disturbed.

Why? Let us read II Kings 6:17. Remember that Jesus, the master of men, refused to avail himself of like angelic assistance in hi great battle concerning sin (See Matt. Christanity is a religion ot love, not of force. Lesson V. The faithful priest pre serves the rightful king, Joash, and makes a covenant between him and the Lord, that prince, priest and people "should be the Lord's people" (II Kings Through the mer its ot our high priest there has been made a better, even an everlasting covenant (Heb.

13:20, 21). Lesson VI. Again refers to the good king, Joash. The neglected temple is restored and refurnished through the liberality of the people. This temple is a type of our bodies, which are spiritual temples (Eph.

and the lesson for us is not only the care of the body, but of liberality towards the work and worship of God's house. Lesson VII. This is the lesson which is chronologically out of order, but is used for its temperance application. Daniel, the clean youth, staked his life and position upon obeying the word of God (Dan. The lesson for us is the exhortation of the apostle Paul (Eph.

see also I Pet Lesson VIII is the foreign missionary lesson. Jonah's life story is not a flattering one, yet when he faithfully proclaimed God's word it wrought a marvelous transformation in great and wicked Nineveh. (Read carefully Matt 16:10 and Isa. 55:10, 11). We are to herald, witness to the truth and leave the results with God.

Lesson IX presents Amos, the sturdy prophet of civic and moral righteousness, the great messenger of the "rightness" of things (Amos The gist of this les3on for us will be found in the words of JeBUS (Matt Lesson X. Uzziah is that king who could not withstand prosperity and who, in the development ot his pride (II Chron. 26:5, 16), assumed to disobey the word ot God. Lesson XL Enter Hosea. Let the entire school state the messag3 ot the prophet to the people of Israel, "I will heal their backsliding.

1 will love them freely'' (Hosea Irt all recite the "little gospel" (John "For God so loved the world that he cave his only begotten Boa that whosoever believeth In him should not. perish, but have everlast ing life." State Normal Bureau Is Trying Establesh a Uniform System for All Schools in State. to Sixty-five thousand special tests on school children of Kansas were ap plied through the bureau of educa tional measurements and standards at the Kansas Normal at Emporia be tween September and December At least 50,000 pupils, according to figures of Professor J. C. DeVoss, member of the bureau, have received these educational tests.

The bureau was formed eight months ago under tho direction of W. S. Monroe, pro fessor of school administration at the normal, for the purpose of standard izing school grades in Kansas. "When the grade 85 that Johnnie gets today means the same as the 85 that he will get tomorrow," says Mr, Monroe, "we shall have done a good deal. When the grade 85 that he gets from one teacher means the same as the grade 85 that he gets from the teacher across the hall, we shall have done more.

But our eventual aim is to standardize grades so that the grade 85 that Johnnie gets in Iola will mean the same as the grade 85 that Mary gets in Wichita or any other town. Our grading system in the schools is at present worthless and unjust because it is not standardized The bureau is at present working on scales of handwriting, spelling and drawing under Mr. Devoss; a scale in composition under Baker Brownell; scales in algebra and arithmetic under Mr. Monroe, and a scale in reading under Dean Kelly. K.

U. NEARLY 50 YEARS OLD Graduates, Students and Citizens of State to Celebrate Semi-Centen-ial in Lawrence. From Kansas graduates in all parts of the state and country, letters are coming to the secretary of the alumni association with suggestions for features for the celebration of the fit tieth anniversary of the founding of Ihe university, which will be held some time during the 1916-17 term of school. No definite plans' have been formu lated yet, but the chancellor will appoint committees soon and the work of making all preparations for the celebration will start. It was in 1866 that the settlers from Massachusetts made their fight for a higher educational institution of some kind and the university started in North College, which is now the home of the School of Fine Arts.

The city of Lawrence gave the ground and foundation of what was intended to be a denominational college, and A. A. Lawrence and others borrowed the funds to start the construction of the building. It is in memory of the founders of the University of Kansas, that four thousand graduates, three thousand students, five hundred professors, associates and instructors and as many more citizens of the state who are interested in educational advancement, will gal her on Mount Oread next year in one of the largest celebrations ever held in Lawrence. Crushed by Oil Cars.

Perry R. Ew-ing, a switchman in the employ of the Santa Fe Railroad at Chanute, is. dead from internal injuries received when he fell between two oil tank cars. Ewing was 35 years old and is survived by a widow and two children. -ft Injured at "Shinny." Harold Kane, an Anthony schoolboy, was hit on the head with a "shinny" club while playing at school recently and is in a critical condition.

His skull was fractured. Elevator Fire in Atchison. The big elevator of the Cain Milling Company at Atchison burned recently with a loss of about $40,000. Defective electric wiring is believed to have been the cause. Debaters to Talk for Athletics.

Tho debating team of the University of Kansas has chosen the negative side of the question "Resolved that intercollegiate athletics should be abolished by American universities" for the annual Missouri-Kansas debate this year. Two Lawrence Pioneers Dead. Mrs. Jane Radcliffe, an old settler of Lawrence, is dead there. She was 81 1 years old.

Mrs. Jane Flynn, 80 years old, also died in Lawrence recently. She was born in Philadelphia and came to Lawrence in the early days. Girl Kicked by Mule Florence Drakely, the 6-year-old daughter of Charles Drakely of Atchison, was kicked in the abdomen by a mule recently and severely injured. She was taken to a hospital and operated on.

Doctors hold out no hope for her recovery. Blew Off Boy's Hand. James Kap-ple, 10 years old, lost his right hand in an explosion at Ottawa recently when he struck a dynamite cap with a ham-her. The loy found the cap along the railroad tracks. Drowns in Mill Race.

Rufus Boater, an old resident of Winfield, was killed at the Baden mills recently by falling from the top of a freight car into the mill race. No one witnessed the accident His body was recovered from the Walnut river below the mill ace. Drowned in a Cellar. Echo Brown, the 4-year-old daughter of a Sharon farmer, was drowned recently in a spring In the -basement of the boose. She fell through the cellar door, which was open, and Into the water.

Bandits Drive Away the Citi zens and Escape With $1,500 at Everest. CAPTURED THE TOWN MARSHAL Officer Locked In Barber Shop, but Succeeded in Arousing Town Departed in Automobile. Four men about 2 o'clock the other morning robbed the State Hank of Ev erest of $1,500 and escaped. Citizens, attracted by the nine explosions yiat wrecked the vault, were driven away with shots as the robbers entered an automobile and drove away southward. The men worked in the bank about fcrty-five minutes, after cutting telephone cables and robbing a hardware ttore of two shotguns, a revolver and a quantity of ammunition.

Two of them remained outside during the operations, one in front of the bank, the other walking casually about the village. Tha "roving" guard the town marshal and locked him in a barber shop across the street from the bank. The marshal escaped and ran to the home of O. C. Jones, banker, and aroused him.

The two then spread the alarm and a crowd gathered in time to see the robbers drive away. Everest is in Brown county, about thirteen miles northwest of Kansas Road Men Elect At the close of the annual session of the Kansas Good Roads Association at Arkansas City the following officers were elected: Jasper Kincaid of Topeka, president; J. Frank Smith, Pleasanton, vice president; G. J. Hinshaw, Kansas City, secretary; E.

Otis Perkins, Lawrence, assistant secretary and treasurer. The executive committee: O. M. Wilhite, Emporia; Charles Snyder, Leavenworth, O. M.

Keene, Fort Scott; P. H. Albright, Winfield; A. Q. Miller.i Belleville; W.

F. Hughes, Plainville; J. Peftijohn, Dodge City; George H. Hunter, Wellington. The next session will be held in Lawrence, November, 191C.

Aged Inventor Dead. George Kimball, 97 years old, and probably the oldest person in Lawrence, is dead from an injury received in a fall two years ago. Kimball was an inventor and had taken out twenty-fiye patents. He owned a foundry until a few years ago. During the Civil War he was a government inspector at the rifle factory in Springfield, Mass.

Would License All Butchers. The Kansas State Retail Butchers' Association, in convention at Hutchinson, decided to hold the next meeting in Fort Scott, the second week in November, 1916. The Butchers' Association voted to incorporate under the laws of Kansas and indorsed a bill providing for a state license for butchers, to be introduced at the next legislature. New Postmaster at Columbus. Dr.

P. J. Hendrickson will be the next postmaster at Columbus, according to letter received from Senator William II. Thompson. The senator says he has recommended Dr.

Hendrickson for the place and expects the appointment will be made soon. John Brown's Friend Dies. John Salathied, 79 years old, a pioneer merchant, is dead at Independence. Salathied located in Lawrence, in 1854. He was a personal friend of John Brown and was a member of the party that pursued Quantrell after the latter's famous raid on Lawrence.

Gives College of Emporia $850. Members of the normal school faculty have pledged $850 to help in the rebuilding of Stuart Hall, the main building of the College of Emporia, hich was destroyed by fire recently. Killed in Motor Accident. A. B.

Wright, 70 years old, wealthy real estate dealer of Wichita, was killed recently when his motor car turned over in a newly made road, seven miles this side of Anthony. Mrs. Wright, who was driving with him, was slightly injured. Pioneer Woman Dead. Mrs.

Sarah Brown, widow of J. P. Brown, a wealthy railway contractor, is dead in Atchison, aged 79. She had lived there fifty-six years. She was a leader in church and charitable work.

$20,000 to Emporia College. Trustees of the College of Emporia were assured recently that business men of Emporia would give $20,000 to help in rebuilding Stuart hall, which was destroyed by fire. This decision was reached within an hour after a meeting called by the Emporia Commercial Club. Impaled on Buggy Tongue. Dick Steibeler, a young farmer living near Sabetha, was killed the other night when he collided with a buggy on a dark road near Sabetha.

Steibeler was riding a motorcycle and was impaled on the tongue of the buggy. To Rebuild at Emporia. A building to cost $100,000 is to take the place of Stuart hall, the main building of the College of Emporia, which was destroyed by fire recently, according to the announcement of the college trustees. MEAN THING. Marie Jack says I'm the prettiest girl in the world.

Mazie Poor It's, a pity be has never traveled much. The Man Who Lingers. He can't always Get through the door. Who stops and says: "Well, just one more." A Kindly Feeling. "Why don't you join the campaign to abolish billboards?" "For sentimental reasons." "Impossible!" "It's the truth.

When I was a boy and played baseball with other hoys on a vacant lot, a billboard served us passing well for a backstop." Tho Resemblance. Blunderby has had a number of unfortunate matrimonial experience, He has been married five times and each wife nearly ruined him." "Yes, he reminds me of one of those old-fashioned mustang ponies that had to be broken every time it was bitched up." Strictly Local Proposition. "Are you going to vote for a big navy?" "Mebbe," replied the rural states man shrewdly; "that is. if you think there's any chance of 'propriations to deepen the crick in our county so's the battleships kin come an' give the folks a look at 'em." Delicate Topic. "1 understand you are going to talk about this question of taxes." "Yes," replied Senator Sorghum; "I'm going to talk about it.

using the word 'about' in the sense of Proper Precaution. "Why do you wear overshoes? isn't muddy." It "No. But I'm going to one of those places of amusement where people drop chewing gum on the floor." Differentiation. "Is your husband an optimist?" "Well," replied the tired-looking woman; "he's an optimist in hoping for the best, but a good deal of a pessimist in working for It" Her Excuse. Blondine Marcella paints and powders to the limit.

Brunette Yes. she comes from a military family and believes in stand ing by the colors. Those Girls Again. Edith Miss Oldgirl says she has just reached the marriageable age. Marie You don't say.

1 wonder what delayed her. SHE ACCEPTED HIM. Miss Catchem You've already proposed to six girls this year, and they all refused you. Mr. Slyboy Yes; because each of them knew I was head over heels in love with Handy to Borrow flie efflre eSH supplant the boy.

The try was not a pet. But nX and then you miss him when Tou want a cigarette. An Avaricious Gleam. "Did this lawyer offer you any encouragement in your damage suit?" "Yes. but he didn't intend to." "What do yoa mean by that?" "When I tr.ld him bow I was hurt and offered to split 50-60 If he won tbe case.

I could see by the way tats eyes sparkled that we stood a good chance to get the money Jffl Iff Kt Can't Be Done. The Wife This paper says that New York doctors have formed a society to study methods for staying the advance of old age. The Husband Well, tell 'em you've tried prevarication and reducing the number of candles in your birthday cakes, and neither will do it. 'Nother Turn-Down. "I have written my biography," said the former politician, who had seen better days and perhaps better nights.

"Would you be willing to advance me a few dollars on it?" "Not on your life," rejoined the heartless publisher. What She Learned. Mrs Willis So your daughter is home from domestic science school I suppose she has learned several new ways of washing the dishes. Mrs. Gillis No; she seems to have learned several new ways of cettinc out of washing them.

Judge. ONE OR THE OTHER. Hubby I'm going to ask for a raise in 3alary today. Wifey Do you expect to get it? Hubby Yes; in the neck, if not in the pocketbook. Honest.

When I see i-lgar box hid Up in the close! on the shelf. I'm glad. The smokes that Molly buys, Are better than I buy myself. Willing to Instruct. "Lady," said Plodding Pete, "do you want any wood chopped?" "Yes." "Weil, if you'll gimme my dinner I'll hang around an' give yer husband an' yer two grown sons an eloquent discourse on how wrong it is of 'em not to turn in an' do their duty." Refused to Listen.

"Pardon me, sir," began the victim of fate whj was compelled to solicit alms, as she approacheJ the crusty old bachelor's desk, "bat I am a poor lone widow, nd "Excuse me," interrupted the heartless old bachelor, "but it is useless to say more. This is not leap year." She Would Help. "Will you marry me?" "I understand that you once swore never to marry?" "I did. but I am ready to disregard my oath." "Don't do that 1 am going to help you to keep it" Refining Influence. "Do you think music exercises a refining influence?" "Beyond a doubt.

The tune of my family's favorite new song makes the words seem almost proper." Bluebeard Explains. The Interviewer Why did you assassinate all your wives as soon as the honeymoon was over? Bluebeard You see, I'd promised to love each one as long as she lived and. no matter what other sins I've com mitted. I never disappoint a lady." Matching His Stock. 'It is easy to see how that broker makes his prqfits." "Why so?" "Don't you notice his wife always wears watered silk!" The Site of It Hubby My dear Minnie, when yon keep quiet you are the least of my troubles.

Wlfle What do you mean? Hubby Dont you see? Then yon are my Minnie mum. Decorative. Helper at Army Canteen A tooth brush? Certainly. Would yon like It bard or soft? Jock Bless yoa. ma'am.

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