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The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1900-12-28
LEWIS ITEMS.

Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Lucas, who were
recently married have settled on their
place east of Lewis.
The Christmas entertainment at the
NJ. f. Church was a decided success /;
all parts we're we'll carried out.
Mrs. Sam Cross started Christmas
morning for = weeks visit in Okla
hOma.
Quite a number OF young people
tripped the light fantastic in the newly
erected barn of Mr.. Browns Christ
mas night.
Our people who went to Belpre to
the Teachers Association last Satnr-
day night found a very small attend
ance and so postponed the meeting
until next Saturday.
Our school il enjoying weeks va
cation during the holidays.
Miss Forrest Robertson was called
home last Saturday on account Of her
sisters illness.
Alvin and Ether Nelson are home on
a vacation from Lindsborg, Kansas.
d. McLewis and wife expect to start
next Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. w. Bidwell spent
Christmas in Kinsley.
Miss Emma OstrHnder is home from
the Winfield school.
Mrs. C. w. Wilkerson was taken
quite sick last Monday evening but il
reported better.
Ora Mccormick and brother are here
spending Xmas. Ora likes the medic.
al school ut Kansas CITY and expects
to return after holidays.
Sid Childs is visiting in Chicago
this week.
Frank Sturdevant expects to move
to town next week, aud Mr.. PrOutmar
Who has bought his place will take
possession.
The Woodmen boys are making
preparations for II cake walk in theil
hall New Years Eve.
Mrs. w. II. Israel's' father and
mother arrived here Monday an thu
local for = visit with relatives and
| friends.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1900-12-28
Reads New Meat flarket.

H. L. Read will open up a first class
CASH meat market on Saturday morn
ing Nov. 10. 1900 and will be there
seven days in the week to wait on the
trade. He will keep constantly on
hand q supply of all kind of meat.
oysters and celery and live and dress
ed chicken, sausages and smoaked
meat and vienna sausage. Call and
see me and will treat you right.
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To whom Il N. Concern

We wish to notify the citizens Of
this county that We have secured the
agency for DIR. Caldwell's Syrup Pep
sin. the great cure for constipation,
indigest on, sick head ache and stom-
ach trouble, and guarantee it to do as
recommended. We always keep the
best drugs on hand and solicit q cal,
promising the very best of every thing.
Yours truly, III. De Tar.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1900-12-28

/ The Mail. and Breeze of last week
contains cartoon of Senator Smith
in the act of chasing long cared
rabbit across it's front page. Under
Mr.. Smith AMI the rabbit is the line:
You'll have TO catch me, old man,
before / IL submit to the Belgian Hare
1isnraf.o .,
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1900-12-28
Time Table
A. T. & s. F.
EAsTBouND.

EASTBOUND.
Depart
No. 2, Atlantic Elk. 6:2O, q. m. branch.
No. i. K. q. q Chgo Ex., $50, a. m.
via main line.
No. s, K. C. 4 Chgo. Ex., 6:35 p. N.
via main line.
No. 342*. Mixed, BIS p. m. via branch.
No. Is, 7:40 q. m. M
WESTBOUND.
No. l, Cal. Ex., S:25 p. m, branch.
No. 5, Colo. Ex., S:45 p. M, Nj. l..
No. II, NIX. T.. Ex., 11:55 q. M, br 'ch.
No. 34l* (arrive). 2:55 p. M. branch.
No. Is, 400 p. N.
*Daily except Sunday.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1900-12-28

Charles Skillington, formerly OF
this place. and now Of Dodge, ran
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1900-12-28
For Sale.

Cheap and on easy terms.
$50 acres-3O acres in cultivation,
now in wheat-S7Op.
16O acres-20 acres in GUILTY. att on,
now in wheat-S6OO.
100 acres-40 acres in cultivation,
now in wheat-S75O.
16O acres-40 acres in cultivation,
now in wheat $500.
All smooth land and of first quality
OF soil, and all within miles OF
Kinsley. 81. C. BINGHAM.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1900-12-28
Attention.

Woodmen and Royal Neighbors, the
M. w. OF n. have extended an invita-.
ton to the Royal Neighbors and fam
lilies to be present at the install ation
at officers on Friday evening. Jan. 4.
1901. at M. w. of A. Hall. Refresh
ments will be provided by the Wood
men after the installation ceremony.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1900-12-28

Does your stove need repairs? We
can order anything, in the repair line
for yOu.-A. HOttewitz.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1900-12-28

DR.. Burroughs Agin, of Kansas
City, spent few days in this city this
week preparatory to locating here.
He will hold the position of railway
surgeon formerly held by DIR. Alex
ander. His Office will probably b.
over OeTar's Drug Store. We cor
daily welcome the doctor to our city
anu wish him success.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1900-12-28

If you wish to keep informed of the
doings OF the Kansas Legislature,
subscribe for the Topeka Daily State
Journal. 1t will be mailed to any.ad-
dress in Kansas, or elsewhere, sixty
calendar days for 60 cents, one hum
dred days for 81. 90.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1900-12-28
You Know What You are Taking

When you take Groves Tasteless
Chill. Tonic because the formula is
plainly printed ON every bottle show
ing that it is simply iron and quinine
in a tasteless form. No cureno pay. soc
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1900-12-28

Elmer McKibben, of Stafford. spent
few of the holidays in this city.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1900-12-28
Choral Association.

Miss Hine and Messrs. Noble and
Sellers are at the head of movement
to organize choral associate on in
Kinsley for the study of vocal music.
The cantata of Ruth" by Gaul. will
be taken up first. With the exception
OF slight cost for copies of the mus
&c, and a place to meet, this will be
entirely free. Everyone who desires
to join is invited to be present at a
meeting to be held next Wednesday
evening in the room over the Bank.
New Years Day Receptions.
The following ladies will keep open
house on New Years Day from three
to six O'Clock:
Mrs. Chas. Mosher, the Misses
Schnatterly, Brown. Name Schnat-
terly and Iva McMichael at the home
of the Misses Schnatterly.
Mesdames Beal and Clark and Miss
Blanchard at the home of Mrs. Beal.
Miss Marsh and Miss Edwards at
th., home of Miss Marsh.
Miss Lola Morse and Miss Erwin at
the home of Miss Morse.
Mesdames Edwards and Hine at the
home of Mrs. Edwards.
Mesdames AderhOld and Bidwell
and Miss Bldwell at the home of Mrs.
Aderhold.
Mesd ames Dyer, Hobbs, Bingham
and Sellers at the home of Mrs. Dyer.
Misses Noble, Bingham, Brelsford
and Hine at the home of Miss Hine.
Mesdames Colver and Smith and
Miss Colver at the home of Mrs. Col
YER.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1900-12-28

Will Stapleton and wife are here
this week visiting his parents.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1900-12-28
LINCOLN ITEnS.

Quite number of our young people
attended the Christmas tree at Hope
we'll Christmas Eve.
The Woodmen will have a box So
cial at their hall Thursday evening.
Dec. 9th.
Mr.. and Mrs. John zGraddall enter
taiued Mr.. and Mrs. M. J. Cudney
and Mr.. and Mrs. Anton Bolsinger
Christmas Day.
Dave johnson and family were the
guests of MIR. Welzecker Christmas
Day.
School closed last Friday for a
weeks vacation.
short visit from Seward where he il
teaching school.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1900-12-28
BELPRE ITEMS.

Mrs. j. Budge,slfather a nd mother
were here from ST. j ohm for Xmas.
Miss Nellie DeNinneI spent Christ
mas here with her sbrot GerEd Devinne.
Mrs. Runkie and children, of Lewis,
are spending the holidays with Mrs.
Herod.
DR.. Brownfield and Company were
in Belpre last week.
Mr.. Earl Bindley of Burdet,e Wis
tied his Aunt. Mrs. S. B. Webber,
over Christmas.
Mr.. w. Bulge and family went To
st John to spend Christmas with his
folks.
We have been hearing those we'd
ding bells ringing again; this time
| the parties were MIR. 8. Clark and
Miss Ada Tam.
Robert Anthony went to Wichita to
spend Christmas.
| DR.. Haynes went to AbiGne for a
short vacation. The report is that
he will bring back bride.
Mrs. B. Clark's daughter and ia
mily are visiting here from O. T.
Mr.. +. Donovan went east on a
short vacation.
Miss Trina Hardy of Emporia is
on visit through the holidays.
The Christmas tree was a success
in Belpre.
Mrs. Ollie and Minnie McKibben
and Mrs. Lizzie Gibson went to Lar
ned Wednesday.
S. B. Weber went to Jetmore
aud Burdette for a visit.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-01-18
TWO coRNEIELns

A wire fence separated two fields Of
corn, each containing about 20 acres.
The two fields were worked alike and
yielded about 45 bushels Of corn to the
acre. Ore field was managed in the
old way, the corn being picked in the
field in October and the cattle turned
in to eat what they would Of the stalks.
The gross return from this field was
As bushels Of corn at 20 cents, 50, and
value of stalks, so cents per acre; total
for the 20 acres, $3.50. The other field
was handled in the new way; the corn
was cut by machine and shocked in
September; in November it was hauled
to the barnyard and run through a
husker and shredder. The owner got
his corn of the value of $3.50, and he
further got 35 tons of the best fodder
ever grown, easily worth SITS. He fur
Their took few bushels of rye and
disked in on all that part Of the field
not covered by the corn shocks, doing
this right after the corn was cut, and
his cows had fine pasture until the
snow came and will have choice bite
again next spring before the field is
plowed for next years crop Which
do you think is the better way? Take
1T all round, did not the last named get
practically an average crop from 40
acres Of land from off his 20?
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-01-18
A CHEAP FISH SUPPLY.

Fourteen cars of young fish, black
bass, pike, croppies and sunfish, have
been placed in the interior rivers and
lakes of Iowa the past season. Up to
within a few years 1t was supposed
that the only way in which to secure a
large supply of young fish was to
hatch the eggs in an artificial manner
and care for the little fish until they
were able to care for themselves. 1t
later developed that all the bayous Dor
dering on the Mississippi river were
vast natural Matching waters and that
by SEEMING these bayous in the fall Of
the year an almost unlimited supply
of choice young game fish could be
secured at an almost nominal expense
and thence transported to inland wa
tiers. This plan Of restocking the de-
pleted lakes and rivers has now entire
~ superseded the old method and
should have the hearty support of the
legislature in financial way to thus
provide an abundant supply of fish
food for the people. While the legis-
lature should do this, it should also
provide additional ways and means for
the apprehension and punishment Of
all yiolators of the fish and game laws.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-01-18
TUBERCULOSIS.

Efforts will be made in the Iowa leg
islature the coming winter to secure
legislation providing for the testing of
stock by the tuberculin test to deter
mine whether such stock is free from
tuberculosis. Such compulsory legisla-
ton will meet with very much OPPOSE
ton. The tuberculin test as made to-
day is by no means infallible. for while
1t Is probably true that nearly all ami
mails afflicted with tuberculosis will re-
spond to this test it is also true that
many others not SO affected will also
respond, and as the only way out is to
slaughter the animal such method Of
testing will involve the useless slaugh-
ter Of many unaffected animals Be-
fore the stock owners of Iowa will an
prove compulsory action the scientist
must prove beyond question that the
use of the milk and meat of tubercu-
lous animals will transmit the disease
and that such test shall do its work
accurately,
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-01-18
THE SNOW RLANKEr.

The fairy fakes came sitting out of
leaden sky as silently as the wing of
the owl fans the midnight gloom and,
falling on tender shrub and plant,
wrapped them in garment of soft,
white wool just as an infant is cared
for by it's mother And then the north
wind picked up more and still more Of
the fugitive crystals and. drifting them
through the fences and round the trees,
piled them up into concentric drifts,
making for the tender things below an
1mpregnable protection against the
worst old Boreas could do. Snow is
just as much n complement of winter
as is the sunshine of the summer-na-
lures generous and wholesome pro-
tector. A snowless winter is more de-
structive than rainless summer.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-01-18
One fact was brought out at the beet

One fact was brought out at the beet
sugar meeting at Clear Lake, Ia, in
connection with the growing of the
sugar beet which should not be lost
sight Of, and that is that the man who
grows the beets will be required to
build cellars for storing them, SO that
they may be delivered at the factory
from time to time during the working
season as the factory can use them.
In other words, the beet grower will
not be able to deliver his crop when
harvested and be rid of it, but will
have to await the pleasure and con-
venience of the factory as to the time
Of delivery. The usual working season
OF the factory is about four months,
and it will be readily seen that it.
would, where the daily consumption Of
beets was 400 tons, be impossible for it
to care for the entire product of 5000
or 1000 acres at the time the crop was
harvested.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-01-18
BEET SUGAR.

Three-fourths of all the sugar con-
sumed in this country is made from
beets, and the bulk of this beet sugar
is made on the high priced lands of
europe, the high rental value of the
land being to some extent offset by the
cheap labor availa BILE. There are about
~ beet sugar factories in operation in
this country now and quite a large
number more under process of CON
struction. We are asked whether the
northwest is likely to take up this in
dustry. This is not an easy question
to answer. The business is rapidly de-
yeloping in Utah, California and Ne
braska because of the exceptional ell
matte conditions of those states. A
number of factories are being operated
IN Michigan, fostered by state boun-
ty; Illinois and Wisconsin are each
operating factory or two, and. New
York state is taking the business up;
Minnesota has one factory, and Iowa
SO far has done nothing but talk. There
is not the least doubt that beets of ex-
cellent quality can be raised in almost
unlimited quantities in both Minnesota
and Iowa. but we hardly look to see
the business of beet growing taken up
In general way by Iowa and Mime
sofa farmers. The average farmer of
these states had rather make $50 from
Off five acres of ground than from one
acre and ride on his sull1y cultivator
to work five acres of corn than to get
down on all tours to weed and thin
out one acre of beets. In communities
where there is large foreign popula-
ton and plenty of boys and girls and
women willing to work in the field
beet growing will get foothold, but
where help is scarce and high priced,
the farms large and the work largely
done by the use Of improved machinery
it will be difficult to get the farmers to
take hold of it.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-01-18

BIS PEN WAS DIGGING HOLES IN THE PAPER.
! saw him sway in his chair. 1 knew
what that meant, and l fastened out
to an all night restaurant, whence re-
turned with some sandwiches and a
quart Of black coffee. This simple re-
freshment supplied the strength which
toll had exhausted. For a long time
thereafter the pen made noise like
loose single on a barn in gale of
wind.
About 4 o'clock I began to doze. A
little later l awoke with start. The
gas had been turned low, but there was
light enough to see Blake stretched
across the threshold of the bedroom
door, his head upon pillow that he
had dragged of the bed.
Don't disturb me, old man." he MUIR
INJURED as bent over him. "The ours
ed thing is done"
I waited till he had sunk into stu
por and then lifted him upon the bed.
At 10 the next morning 1 walked him,
and we went to see Harper. The story
passed through the mill, and Hatfield's
claim was met in time to avert a ca
lamity.
The Porto Rican story is out, and 1t
has caught on hard. On that Tuesday
night Blake kept his word, given to me
a week ago Monday, that within ten
days. having found the necessary in
spiration, he would write something
that would really make hit.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-01-18

Western highways are susceptible of
almost infinite Improvement not only
SO far as the roadway itself is con-
cerned, but also as to using and beauti-
flying all the unused portion. In many
parts of Europe the highways, seldom
as wide as ours, are not only perfectly
macadamized on the travelled portion,
but the roadsides are utilized to the
fullest extent for the growing of fruit
trees. Here we have not yet got out
of the weed stage, and thousands of
miles OF highways are only attractive
when the goldenrod and the aster are
IN bloom in the late fall. The first
thing for us to do is to get the high
ways into grass. Later on other uses
will be made of them.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-01-18

You and know very little about
great successes. We have deserved
them, of course, but we have not had
them yet. Therefore 1t will be extreme
ly difficult for me to describe and for
you to understand the feelings of Mr..
Roland Blake in the early part of the
current month.
And l saw new heaven and new
earth" was the way lie expressed his
sentiments to me when offered my
congratulations.
The new heaven must have referred
to the winning of Emily Woodruff and
the new earth to the fact that she had
great possessions. 1t struck me that
this allusion to his fiancee's money was
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-01-18

1t is probably true that the best ara
bic lands of the northwest cannot be
profitably devoted to the growth of
such native timber as may be in
digenous to them, this class Of timber
being of but little value for any other
purpose than fuel. The cheapness Of
coal will in most cases render such use
of the land improbable But there are
large tracts of rough and hilly lands
bordering all our western streams from
which the timber should never be en-
tirely removed, such lands being use
ful almost solely for pasture. A judi
cious thinning out of such woodland
sufficient to permit Of a healthy growth
OF blue grass, retaining growth of
trees for shade and fuel purposes, is q
most sensible. and practical thing.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-01-18

We came across man recently who
was looking for and paying extra prices
for hogs which had had the cholera
and recovered from 1t, he wanting such
hogs as breeding stock. having the be-
lief that the progeny of such parents
would thus be rendered immune from
attacks Of the disease. This theory was
quite generally believed in some years
ago. but events have proved that It has
nothing to support 1t, the progeny of
such parents being just as liable to
take this disease as any pigs not so
bred.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-01-18
THE MALAY STATES.
Coming to BE OF Considerable Con-
mercial Importance by the Ala
of White Men.

Under British protection the Malay
peninsula has emerged from its former
obscurity, and has begun to play part
not Insignificant in the world to which
it belongs. For the last ten years it has
produced from so to rs per cent. of the
tin of the globe, its output exceeding
largely that Of Australia, South Amer
lea, Cornwall, and all other tin-yieldinR
countries put together. The revenue Of
the existing federation has risen in
five-and-twenty years from few hun
dred thousands to over 81, 100000. Out
of current receipts, roads, which inter-
sect the states from end to end, have
been constructed. Over 200 miles Of
railway are open to traffic, and an elabo-
rate system, joining Penang to Malacca,
is in course of completion. Planting
stimulated; the material well-being of
the natives has been enormously inn
proved; and the once lawless land has
been made as peaceful and as secure az
are the best ordered countries of Eu-
rope. This has attracted large numbers
OF Chinese, the most orderly, hard
working, money-loving and thrifty ma
tives in the east, and by them has been
performed the heavy labor of kind
which the indolent, ease-seeking Malays
could never have accomplished. Some
Chinese came to the Malay states before
ever the white men set foot on the
peninsula, but as a race they love best
a land where they can make money un-
disturbed by risk of war and robbery,
and this they find in modern Malaga,
ruled by a. strong government under
European control. Without the. aid Of
the white men the present condition Of
affairs could never have been arrived at;
and this fact, which justifies our pres.
ence in the Malay states, is one of which
Englishmen may well be proud. Hugh
Clifford, in Atlantic.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-01-18
The Story Of
An African Farm.

Continued from Page 8.

(Contlnued from rage 81
Glow long were you married, cous-
in?"
"Ten months, aunt"
"How old was your baby?''
"Three days when it died"
"It's very hard when we must give
our husbands and wives to the Lord"
said Tant' Sannie.
Very" said the young man, ..but ita
the Lords will"
"Yes." said Tant' 'Sannie and sighed.
She was such a good wife, aunt.
I've known her break churn stick
over maids head for only letting dust
come OF milk CLOTH"
Tant' sannie felt twinge of jeal-
ousy. She had never broken churn
stick Oh a maids head.
Il hope your wife made good end"
she said.
ooh, beautiful, aunt! She said up a
psalm and two hymns and half be-
fore she died."
"Did she leave any messages 2" asked
Tant' Sannie.
NO." said the young man; but the
night before she died was lying at
the foot Of her bed. felt her foot kick
me.
'Piet,' she said.
"tAnnie, my heart said I.
"'My little baby that died yesterday
has been here, and it stood over the
wagon box, she said.
"'What did it sayY asked.
"'It said that If / died you must mar
~ fat woman
"'I will I said, and went to sleep
again. Presently she woke me.
The baby has been here again, and
1t says you must marry woman over
80 and who's had two husbands
Il didn't go to sleep after that for
long time, aunt; but when I did she
woke me.
1.-The baby has been here again. she
said, and it says you mustn't marry a
woman with a mole l told her I
wouldn't, and the next day she died"
"That was vision from the Re-
deemer," said Tant' Sannie.
The young man nodded his head
mournfully. He thought Of younger
sister of his wife's who was not fat
and who had mole and of whom his
wife had always been jealous, and he
wished the little baby had liked better
staying in heaven than coming and
standing over the wagon chest.
II suppose that's why you came to
me?" said Tant' sannie.
Yes, aunt. And pa said ought %
| get married before shearing time. 1t
is bad IL there's no one to see after
things then, and the maids waste such
a lot of fat"
when do you want to get marriedY'
Next month. aunt" said the young
man in q tone Of hopeless resignation.
May kiss you, aunt"
Fly, fy!' said Tant Sannie and then
gave him resounding kiss. Come.
draw your chair a little Closer" she
said, and, their elbows now touching,
they sat on through the night.
The next morning at dawn, as EN-
passed through Tant' Sannie's bed
room, she found the Boer woman pull
ing OF her boots preparatory to climb
| ing into bed.
| "Where is Piet Wander Waltz"
Just gone," said Tant' Sannie, "and
I am going to marry him this day four
weeks. / am dead sleepy" she added.
'sThe stupid thing doesn't know how
to talk love talk at ALL And she
climbed into the four poster. clothes
and all, and drew the quilt up to her
chin.
(To be continued.)