The Lone Elm Ledger from Lone Elm, Kansas • 8

IgTAffenfion! Ladies KINCAID. L. Blood has built a new fence in front of his residence on Commercial street. W. J.

8hepard and wife were visiting at Sam Ewlngs in Llun county Sunday. Ths temperance meeting tit the Baptist church Friday night was quite a success although the attendance was not as large us It would have been under mora favorable The meeting was opened by singing Closing out at Cost. America and prayer by K. J. Woods.

Rev. 0V A. Olllhani made remarks and Introduced Rev, Corabi, of Qarnctt, the principal speaker of the erenlnj, after which short talks were made by J. Donlca and E. J.

Woods. Mr. and Mra. LnFeber, of Indiana, are visit ing at J. M.

McCaslin's. The lady Is mother Medulla's sister. Marshal Solly has put down stone slde- wulk in front of bit residence and la readv to contract the same kind of work for others needing walks. Fred Bearly was in town Wednesday, the first time since his protracted Illness. His I have decided to relire from Mercantile business ami have made nrranir-ments to go into other pursuit.

in another slate. nlrenilv disposeri of my furniture store. I take this phut of ehxiiiy out rnv stock of urmsrSingr goods Beginning May Isf I will offer at cost my entire stock of Men's. You I lis' ami Hoys' Clothing, Hals, Caps, Furnishinir iootls, Overalls. Work shirts, etc.

This is no fake nor advertising scheme, but gentiim closing out sale. No old goods of any kind, as notteof I he goods have been in the house year. Never before have you had the opportunity of buyinir for cost, at the opening of a season, Come early before I he assortment is broken ami you will have ihe best pick. WILL SELL STRA I ATS AT LESS I A COST. many friends are glad to see him around again.

E. C. Hensley shelled eorn Wednesday. The demand for cots, was so great that they would not go half way rouad. Mr.

Rider's four year old son was bitten by a rattle snake last Sunday morning and died I. J. HOUSEL KANSAS. KINCAID, THE KINCAID LEADER say, is true of nearly every community in the state, they can and ought to con-tiol the policy of the party. L.

.1. Uiu.ham. late the same day. The family have the sympathy a large circle of friends. C.

E. Durall is attending the U. 8. Court at Ft Scott this week as Juror. Dr.

May uard is attending his drug store in his absence. James Corbln Is enlargiug his butcher shop and will put in the grocery stock of Mr. Miller's. Rev. Beeson failed to till his appointment here Sunday owing to sickness of his wife.

Rev. Vickers has resigned the position of the Christian church here and at Garnett, and will move to Iowa for his health. Ollle Slsson and Miss Adair Miss Adair's partirits at Uarnett Sunday. Tl'e Dispatch invites the prohibition republicans to leave the party and go to the prohibition party. And advises that the "cranks' be kicked out of the republican party.

The "cranks" can Inform editor Scruggs that they were good republicans when he was a good( democrat. And as they are republicans from principle and not for the sake of business prosperity or the hope of an office, their political views are not as pliant as putt so if he W. B. May. of Bayard' was in town on business Thursday.

AI. Chambers shelled a crib of corn for I. K. Reeve Monday. F.

P. Ewing and wife visited the fam- ily of S. L. Fullenwider Sunday. Miss- Mamie Ferguson has been quite sick a number of days with billions The Nexf Pface You Go fever.

F. P. Ewing put a partitaon through his office Wednesday. The rear room will be Dr. Paddock's consult at ion room.

Representatives of a house in Iola, or some place, called at the Ledger Should be lo KEMPTON'S nl KINCAID, Kansas. office Thursday looking for customers certainly quite "Kansas (i. A. U. Matters," found AN OPEN LETTER.

Editor Ledger: Your editorial on my open letter in lust week's Ledger proves conclusively that you are from Missouri. You misconstrue it so badly that I wish to make a short explanation. You "But it is hardly fair, hardly logical to read a man out of court without a hearing when he and his counsel insist that he has a strong case." Which we concede. Hut when a man treats the court with contempt he has no hearing. Now that is just what Governor Morrill has done.

If he had refused to appoint police commis sioners for our large cities, fortifying himself by his public sentiment theory, then he might have claimed a hearing in court. But he assumed the authority vested in him by the legislature to prevent the operation of licensed saloons when he appointed police commissioners. And in appointing men who continue the same order as it was, inaug-erated by the local officials, and, especially in the case at Wichita, where he removed a board that had driven the saloons into hiding and was doing heroic work toward enforcing the law, and appointed aboard that permitted the saloons to reopen on the stipulated fine-license system, we claim he is guilty of contempt. There can be no excuse for such pandering to the criminal element except for political gain, and, that is just as reprehensiple for a republiean administration as it is for a populist. On the public sentiment chestnut.you quote the resolutions of the county temperance meeting to refute my statement.

I will confess that my statement was a little obscure, but I supposed that all Kansans knew the interpretation given the public sentiment theory by our governor. We concede that laxity on the part on the inside of this issue, containing does not like their company he can go back to his first love. This city and vicinity was struck Sunday afteriKHin by the severest rain and hail storm ever witnessed by the oldest Inhabitants. All fruit is destroyed, the trees being stripped, even of leaves. Garden ami growing crops are beat Into the ground.

The water was higher than ever known. The little slough bv the mill came within a few inches of the top of the railroad. We learn however that It was only about two miles wide. STORM NOTES. H.

A. Bearly says he hat some good stone fence that the hail did not destroy. A. H. Hodgson had several pigs killed bv the hall.

0. 8. Lewis' team broke away from Its manager at MtZion school house during the hall storm, jumped two or three barbed wire fences and swam the creek with the buggy attached, fkally bringing up at Hammondtree's stable. Miles Keeton lost a valuable horse during the storm. He seemed to have run against the fence with such force as to cause Instant death.

John Slsson and wife had been visiting Sunday and were water-hound at A. (iibbs where they staid until Monday. Mr. Wiuterbottom says the hail missed him this time. He had enough last year.

Rev, Glllhnm and daughter Neta were at Bush City Sunday when the storm inm orders from Commander will be read with interest. All county graguates of Lone Elm township are requested to meet at the Ledger office Monday, May 11, at 4:00 P. M. Rusiness of importance. Soldier Blue Suits, all wool and fast colorsto close out, at $0,75.

Beat this price if you can. The Leader, Kincaid, Kas. The grades of all who passed the State He has tlic Most Floor-Space. Clennesl. Hesl Lighted nnri Fullest Store in the Country.

They call it the ARK. Have you seen it The animals come in, by twos, but by imlre Is. The flood is here.too.nnd we are sailing with Ihe best trade we ever had. say, what kind of goods are those on the north side?" "Windsor Epitants only lie." "I-i-s-s-sy tlia-at s-o-o-u?" And those- are Chamelion Morit so called because they are always the the color of surrounding objects green on Ihe grass, black in a buggy and and white at ii wedding. In the center of the room you will find Shirt Waists, Shin Ties.

Litre Curtains, Shades, Cheneil, Spreads and last but not least, 4(1 nice dress patterns, no two alike. On the south side are about Pairs or Shoes and Slippers; Plow Shoes, Work Slioes, Tan Shoes. Tooth-Pick Toe Shoes; Slippers Tan, Slippers Mark, Slippers Tooth-Pick. Slippers for Children anil Slippers. In the west end is a full line ofdroeeries.Potaloes.

Apples, Meat, Flour, and it is the best because it Is in the nicest mouse-light ami lly-tight. room ever marie. Trv the graduation test in Lone Elm township, as given by the superintendent, can be had by calling at this office. You have observed that busy farmers make a town dull. The fact is that lively towns, lively business everywhere, in everything, depend at some point on this same farmer.

He is the sub-foundation and had to wait at Lewis Huggins' about an hour for the creek to run down. They say the hall extended about seven miles north, beyond on which all else of business rests. The K. of P. at Kincaid had a great time Wednesday night.

About twenty members came up from Bronson and "did the work" in the three degrees of the order. At the proper hour supper was served at A. M. Steward's. A CO.

Shockey and.I.W. Lamay went ever to enjoy the occasion. The Kincaid lodge is in a rlmirishingcoiidition. EX OF KANSAS KING OF KANSAS mat was only a good shower. DIAMOND DOINGS.

The surprise at Mrs. Ida Gregg's was grand success, about 75 persons being present. W. W. Sprague shipped hogi to the city last week.

Isaac Chase carries the mall to Wise now. Mrs. 8. P. Jones is on the sick list.

A. Bcal has bought a mo Jersey cow. The township board met last lay ami decided to build as arch bridge at the creek north of the school house. Plowing corn Is the orber of the day. Cliildrens Day exercises will be held' at Fleas-ant Valley church, May 81.

Come everybody. Dr. Brown is walling his well, repairing fence and otherwise Improving his new farm. C. Carter's family have been eating new potatoesthe first of the season.

Upstairs are shelves, -H feel long, full of Dishes and (ihisswaM on side, Oil the other there is Hie same size Hal ease, dust proof. (Kemp-toll's patent full of Ihe lalcst huts. Come in. We guarantee prices und iptality of goods. We buy your Produce ami if you have't that or the cash, will trust you till yu get it.

How John Hull Got HI Namn. "John Bull, the mythical personage supposed to represent the English people, and now figuring largely in editorial writing and in cartoons, was. says the Baltimore Sun, the invention of Dr. Arbuthnot in one of bin satirical sketches ridiculing. the groat duke of Marlborough.

In the opinion of Dr. Johnson, Arbuthnot was "the first man among the eminent writers in Queen Anne's time." Re drew John Bull as the typical Englishman a stout, red-faced old fanner, far too corpulent for comfort, choleric, but withal an honest and well-meaning fellow. He clothed him In leather breeches and top-boots, put a stout oaken cudgel in his hand and a bull dog at his heels, and set him up for all time to serve as the representative Englishman. F. KEMPTON of the people in general has been the prime cause of present conditions.

And I know that a few determined people can suppress a joint in a place like Kincaid or Lone Elm, but in a city where they have local autonomy, and the lawless are in the majority, electing otlicers of their own liking, there is no chance for the few determined men to accomplish anything; for the officers upon whom they must depend are in sympathy with the law breakers. Undersuch circumstances the state provides for the governor to appoint police commissioners upon whom the law abiding peoble can depend and thus bring vialotors to justice. It is under these circumstances that Governor Morrill has violated his oath by appointing police commissioners, as before stated, who will do nothing toward enforcement; then hides behind his pet theory that "you enforce the law except where public sentiment is in favor of doing so." Which means where the people will not elect officers to enforce the law he must not appoint men to contravene the public sentiment of that locality. Such an interpretation of the public sentiment theory I call a chestnut. Any one who has heard me speak on the temperance question knows I do not underate the value of a healthy public sentiment.

And I repeatedly urge the individual citizen to perform hJs duty und not to find fault with the officers for not doing it for him. And furthermore, the law abiding citizen should by caucus, arrange to vote at the party primaries and see to it that none but true men are nominated for any, either legislative or admlnls-tratlTo, office. Whenever they are In the majority, which I believe, as you cJobf) Sbaror), PRACTICAL CARPET WEAVER. We have lately purchased the Celebrated New-comb Fly-Shuttle Loom. We do all kinds of carpet and rug weaving, also fancy weaving on Shiiwh-s, Mulllers, etc.

Call, and examine work. We will Guarantee' Eirst Class Work Low Prices. Speaking of Jewelry S. I). Whittington's the lending Jewelry House Kincaid, cirri.

-s a full line of Watches. Clocks, Jewelry, Silverware und Spectacles auri is the place to get all kinds of repairing iliine. Watches and clocks cleaned, 50 cents. We also have fine line of Pocket Knives thai we are closing out at cost. How Bought Oeeaa.

It was one of Piatt Evans' pleasures to teach his friends how to purchase tender geese, though he could not always get them in the market. One morning he saw a lot and inquired how many there were. "About a dozen," mas the reply. "W-w-well," said Piatt, "I k-k-eep a b-oarding-bouse, and my b-b-boarders are the bigge-at e-eaters you ever s-i-saw. P-p-pick out n-nine of the t-toughest you've g-g-got." The farmer complied, and laid aside the Other three tender ones.

Piatt picked them up carefully, and, putting them in his basket, said; "I b-b-beieve I'll take thes three." A. M. Steward, Kincaid, Kansas. Manager..