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thing You Can Osweso Blade, Any think 4 A -4 of in Hardware A Materialistic Trinity that is An Earnest Reform 4 4 4 -4 W. Cook Son. At Kewspuper. IMJEF HARDWARE CO EMBLEMATIC OF THINGS CELISTIAL. wop Mpieit, THE THE THE Tie no: Official DOVE EAGLE I IS THE SEER NEWSPAPER.

(Paper of LabBH. County. ji Kmraa hill, icians and Surgeons (1 KANSAS. tl a year. Oswego, Kaua.

THster has sent out emk Cranta during the last Mtj years. The farmers of Russia own S5)00 000 acres out of 267.00000 Since 1872, 4,000 miles of railways have been laid in the Japanese empire. gambling llbery to te abolished la Switzerland at an early data Wisconsin Is first In lumber and timber products, and Minnesota loads Jl Phy. IS THE IS THE Symbol EMBLEM OF OF DSWEGO Emblem OF LIGHT AND Purity. LOVE LIBERTY m.

ATT( fe WILLIAMS. )ENEY-AT-LAW. ip stairs in Perkins 4 4 4 4 4 -4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 -4 4 -1 -X Office i AXD AND Peace. Preservation. Block.

Kansas Oswego. Jm.BI.IIHIHiWi MB la flouring and grist mills. Herr Botta, a German lawyer, has loft fSO.OOO for the foundation of a school of cockery. Each year about Is expended In sprinkling tho streets of London with to prevenc horses from MAGAZINE Family Library tt in Current Litsrsfiire plete Novels Yearly SHORT STORIES AND Lord Kitchener is learning TJrda, a composite tongue which makes one familiar with the sentiments of 3 ON TIMELY TOT-ICS PER YEAR 23 CTS. A COPY Sepoya.

pNTINUD STORIES Forest covers thirty-six per cent of VDEI! COMPLETE IN ITSEi.F Russia's total area, or, in all, 000 acres. In other words, there are four acres of forest to every inhab 1 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 -4 4 itant of Russia. ie Youth's Companion The government has withdrawn from public entry a tract of land containing 3,400,000 acres in the Blue i'lip vipf Mous iglf in Us swilt lliglit through the heavpns is ever watchful of its Dominion. It is tii-il i he (li.ctriiiH of the "'Survival of the that "Eternal Vigilance is the Price ot Li'HT and To t'ie Victor Ijt-kMit? t)! 8miMs The King of the Air is truly the Vitality of the above rinity tin- same Ui Spirit of liDeriy is the Essence of Light and Love and also as the blood is the vitality to iSits body and brain of man. For a complete conclusion of thce the most illustrious of subjects as well as hundreds of other very important snivels in Scieutilic ook, "THE HALF HAS NEVER BEEN TOLD," mountains, Oregon, as a forest re- eerve.

endeavors year by year to increase its" hold upon the families of the nation br It is estimated that nearly all the jthem with reading that is -4 -4 staining and helpful. The will contain pine timber now growing in Minnesota (about 30,000,000 feet) will be cut and marketed within the next fif ERIAL STORIES, each a book in itself, reflecting American Life ia teen years. Paris is the only city of which we The IJlade's Piano Contest. The following is ihe standing of the have a continuous and exact history from the time of the decline of th contestants in the Blade piano con providing varied, enti 1904 voluin 10 1 i 250 i 1000 i 2000! Health Ait Roman empire, declared M. Hilaire Oswego is seven miles from Chetopa, from outskirts.

Let us find gas and coal and build from city to city, this is no joke. To begin with let us love each other and not be jealous. Let us go down at Condon's switch and see wnat is in the bowels. -tome, vamp and ield. IPECIAL ARTICLES contributed by 'amous Men and Women SUtes-nen, Travellers and Scientists.

AND TIMELY EDT-tORIAL ARTICLES on important tublic and Domestic Questions. HORT STORIES by the best of living Writeis Stories of Character, Achievement and Humor. 1H0RT NOTES on Current Events Discoveries in the Field ot Slcience and Industry. flRIGHT AND AMUSING ANECDOTES, Items of Curious Knowl. Belloc at a lecture at the London Itt stitution.

Kitasato, a Japanese microscopist, first showed that the pin-shaped microbe of lockjaw lives In the earth. In order that it may multiply and poison Missouri wants Baking Powder cage, roems ana sicetcnes. the blood it must be deep in a wound, bo that air does not reach it ides. Religious Articles, Etc. Children's Page.

Copies of The Youth's test as published in The Blade of Dec. 17: Flo Kent, Oswego 17130 Bessie Bottorff, Edna 15310 Ina Dickerson, 2475 Myrtle Mortimer, Cherry 1800 Dora Davis, Altaniont, 1225 Alice Covalt, Parsons, 500 Pearl Taylor, Oswego, .400 Nora Dudgeon, Oswego, ....340 Bertha Watupler. Labette, 305 Rose Peffley, Parsons, 200 Bessie Hoke, Oswego 200 May Thornton, Valeda, 200 Poarl Cockrel, Oswego, 200 May Judd, Chetopa, 200 Mary Berrentz, Oswego, 100 Bessie Kessler, Altaniont, 100 Who are you working for in The Why have we all the Indian wars and Canada none? They have tnousands of Indians up there and no Indian war and never had. Output coal oil in the world is fast running out and we may be compelled to go back to tallow dips. The life of a cat or dog is 10 or 12 years.

Are these animals useful or are 'they pests? Every rodent seems to be a pest and no good. Pachyderms or thick skinned animals are all useful. Ruminants are the cow and sheep and are all very useful. Felines as the cats are all no good i (bur best plum says Agricultural report are developed from our wild )lum and we knew it before. Our frier.d, Alfred Brock kindly Sir Gilbert Parker, the novelist, 1b Sample Com bo little satisfied with his -arly work Zeigler to rise and explain.

We rise to explain that the Hoo Doo doctor among the negros down south, Indian medicine bags, Cinese dried and pulverized snakes, magnetic doctors, ignorant old brag doc panion will be sent to jny address free. that he has withdrawn it entirely from Bale. "The Chief Factor," which he- ew Subscriber who cuts Bold to A. C. Ganter, and which had a Bale of between and 60,000 sends this slip with The Youth's Com- copies, he bought backs and suppress.

tor among th2 simple, witchery and so called Divine and church healers ed. may all be taken from the same or 190-4 will receive in all the remaining issues 1 from the time of sub- It fs not generally known that the piece of goods. Who knows? The out and $1.75 panion I addition of 1903 scriptioi Double The C( 1904, lil and gold German empress is a sculptor and Blade's piano contest? 4 The piano contest closes Thursday, fi FREE, Including the TTTt nen a man goes to sleep in Holiday Numbers also Djc. 24, at 5 p. ui.

-and if you dont get meeting where does he get his in impanion Calendar for in 12 colors painter of more than usual ability. In her husband's study at Potsdam there Is a most lifelike bust of the emperor in bronze, while several of the young princes har also been reproduced In somnia? Does he take it to meeting your vote in before that time it won't count. with him? 1 The time has come to feed and marble. Bishop Turner giving advice to New St keep stock housed and warm and if some young preachers said, "Boys, Professor Raoul Pictet has proved, given well water or not ice cold put more pepper in your sermons" water they will thrive on less feed. life.

that at a temperature of .200 degrees, acids do not act upon metals, their! molecules having ceased to live; and yet the microbes of many diseases At this midwinter, great care They are building a 150 foot ibscriptions Received at this Office. UTH'S COMPANION, 05, MASSACHUSETTS, I WOODFORD fit Market, f)ORTO POST OFFICK. fliU. bridge over the LaBette river at should be taken in schools to prevent contagious diseases by ventilation Logan Ford. We must have some THE Y0 SOS'.

1 Met NEXT D( iWF. diseases subjected to that tempera- ture, practically immured in a block of frozen air, enjoy good health. other way to make bridge floors, lumber is getting too shy. irought us an old Colts revolver dug tp south of Oswego, no doubt either a Instrument for protection or blood hed in this region during the dark ays of the Civil war. Big religious revival over Jop-n 'tis said.

Wonder if those con-trted have th meanness taken out them, or do they just join church? id's church and man's church are mites apart, one has the or and sore eyed in it andthejother purpla and fine linen fellows. -he Osage Indians are a Sioux In-and are Catholics. They came trbm Osage river Mo. half the trees bear edible uit for man and animal and half do but are to make houses, ships, es. etc.

When a preacher at the funeral of Mronic office seeker takes for a A large meteorite has been found and anti septic washes. Too many school rooms in the towns built for show make the city schools very much like military life. Care to prevent disease must at all times be as great as in a barrack 6r an army caaip. at El Paso Del Norte on the Mexi can border in an old pre-historic house carefully preserved in a trie1-vault below it. It weighs several Hption of the rich find of spears of flint and n.am- thousand pounds and upou analysis We had a nice visit from Presi The town of Winchester, Is now almost -entirely bereft of cats.

The Superintendent of the State Fowl Hatchery, finding that the animals wrought great havoc araong tho poultry, fixed up wises and at night ran a powerful electric current through them During the past two years over 200 cats have been electrocuted. English exchanges note that Admiral Sir Henry Keppel, who is taking a winter holiday In warm climates, arrived recently at Singapore. It was thought, when the admiral came into ustodon teeth found in a shows iron, nickel, cobalt, copper dent Riggs of the Ottawa, Kansas University. They have a prosper- Afton, Indian Territory. The Strit has a clesci arrows and moth and spring near I We passed ago but did.

treasure wa the natives the time. 1 carbon and phosphorous. Coming as it does from some celestial body by there several years our school up there, one in which not know what a rich as the moon or planets, it testifies it is of similar elements as our own the morals of the students are guard ed along with the literary endow and that plants and animals grow on ment. Always welcome Prof. in the spring although spoke of the fossils at who has no time to read rt "dust thou art and unto dust them as well as our own.

The last "What is meant by the 'goose two elements signify this. alt thou return," doss he mean thing personal? that lays the golden egg', Pa?" has plenty of timn to read i The perscj useful books novels, to 1 shoes, and worth $10. He a musiu, pitcn nor Brave old John Paul Jones was buried in Paris, France, and Uncle "Candidly I think, my son, it is I Kansas tax payers." I ave a yellow suck-ejrg dog Sam would build a monument to him Religious people are different likely that we have coal round us in the bowels of the world, that he was a still-born, child, and preparations had actually been made for the funeral when signs pf life were seen. Sir Henry is now 94 years old and in fair health, A gentleman in Parth, Scotland, has a beard of the extraordinary length of 7 feet 2V2 inches. The British Hairdressers' Weekly Journal vouches for the remarkable length of hair of a Bristol woman.

It is 72 inches, 8 inches longer than the lady's height She wears it plaited and closely twined round her head, so that its length Is concealed from the casual observer. vy enough to work. Let Labette county is 800 to 1000 feet above the sea, over 649 square miles, annual rain fall 35 inches, temperature 55 degrees average, Edna the highest point and Chetopa perhaps the lowest. irth around us with holes Can't some one invent a dopj to ike hens lay eggs and molt at the time? A great many animals led their skins, ceer shed tneir jrns, crawfish their shells, snakes leir skins and we our teeth show ir kinship to the faunal vorld. Went down to see about my taxes le other day and they are so high in't see over them.

Wish we could some thing to make the tax mak-rs sorry. Our county population ill fall off doubtless. Some are plainly dresstd in meeting and sing, "Come ye sinner, poor and needy," and some go to meeting wearing diamonds and silks and should sing "From Greenland's icy plaster and tind out. It is quite! somewhere a the earth hea us fill the et' like a porous I If you wa call at ttie IV little finance If you do 1 a stone to his hit to feel good and honest bmocrat office and'leave a for the Golden Rod. Those "icy mount eats meat has an more than the The person who ill temper, wolfish, vegetarian.

ains" will melt one day where the lot want a mule to cry, tie tail aud they say he wont. fire is never quenched..