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The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-05-24
Scheme That Failed.

II have a question for YOU said the
bashful young man.
Turn it loose" replied the fair one as
she shifted her gum from one check to the
other.
another fellow what you think of NE. would
you marry him.
When the other fellow asks me-" an
swered the fair gum chewer. "I'l let you
know by postal card."-Chicago News.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-05-24
More Than Interesting.

What are these?' asked Fweddy, ap-
preaching the wall and examining more
closely the objects that had attracted his
attention.
Those" said the young man who occu-
pied the rooms. are Chinese chop sticks
'Deah me. How interesting
THAT pair was used in one Chinese FAM
lily fifty years
"Deah me! How Dreadful exclaimed
Fweddy. backing off.-Chicago Tribune.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-05-24
Domestic TribuIations.

Teacher: Johnny. why were you late
this morning.
Johnny: Il had to take care of pa
Teacher: whats ailinG him."
Johnny: He stayed up with a sick friend
last night, and when ma got through / had
to stay up with him. Gazette.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-05-24
Next Sunday Will Begin the Wonderful Adventures of Alphonse and Cast
In the Home of py.pep.ia.

Kind Lady: Certainly We will give you
something to eat, my poor fellow. Come in
and take a seat unit! the meal is ready"
Poor Tramp: 'Ah bless you. my daught-
er. This is heaven!"
Kind Lady: oh, no. It isn't; 1t is a COOK
ing school,
Poor Tramp: "A what? Excuse me. Aunt
Jane. but l Art got it that bad. '-Phila-
delphia Bulletin.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-05-24
Objectfvely.

You are the picture of gloom this morn
ing. Colonel. What is troubling you?"
Poverty
Poverty? Why. everybody knows you
are worth half a Million"
Not my own poverty. look you. That of
my friends."IChicago Tribune.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1903-07-01
MY AGENTS ACTS NINE.

Rev. Chas. A. Crane, D. D., the elo-
quent and outspoken pastor of the
Peoples Tabernacle (M. Ed of Bos.
ton, says:
When my party steadfastly and reg
ularly does wrong, that wrong be.
comes mine, for my party is my agent.
Therefore my party affiliations are a
matter of conscience, for my agents
deeds and NINE If my agent frames
iniquity by law, makes a covenant
with death, and an agreement with
hell, all these are mine. If my agent
runs a saloon, so do 1, and this is a
thousand fold more lamentable and
true than it is funny. Escape from
the shameful conclusion is impossible.
My agents acts are mine. That is
true in law, logic, and morals.
The ethics of harlotry and the ethics
of the license system are built on the
same architectural plan morally. They
are both systems of consent to vice.
and that, too, for money considera-
ton. Consent to the thing licensed
and it is yours morally, and you do
so consent when your agent consents
for you. The license party means con-
sent to the vice licensed. Therefore
the Christian man must avoid it and
seek a new party which does not stain
him with completely in shame and
sin.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1903-07-01
DISPENSARY A FAILURE,

From the reports of the Commits
sioner of Internal Revenue it appears
that during the five years the dispen-
sary system has been in operation in
South Carolina the number of brewer
les has increased from one to two;
number of distilleries has decreased
from SIS to Al; gallons of spirits mas
increased from 1888 to 84,926; and
the barrels of fermented liquors from
5,270 to 1890. OF criminal cases in
1893, the year preceding the adoption
of the dispensary system, there were
in the courts 1885, while in 1898 there
were 1851; admissions to hospitals
for the insane in 1893 were 312, in
1898, 1924. So it appears that after five
years trial of the dispensary system
the number of criminal cases in court
is nearly twice the number under the
last year of license and the number of
insane one-third more.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1903-07-01
GET RIGHT,

The Christian Standard of Cincin-
natl, an organ of the Christian church,
says bravely and sensibly:
''It is altogether proper that the
saloonkeeper should be denied church
membership. but, in turning the liquor
man away, let the pulpit, the official
boards and the men in our churches
take care that while straining at gnats
they do not swallow camels. When
we have taken the beam of fellowship
with saloon politics out of our own
spiritual eye, we will then see clearly
to remove the mote from the eye of
the erring saloonkeeper. The state
and the church need nothing so ur-
gently at the present time as the har-
monizing of the church members con-
duct at the ballot box with his VOW at
the communion table"
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1903-07-01
ABRAHAM LINCOLN"
Continued from page ~

of law altogether abolishing the
traffic except for mechanical, chemi-
cal, medical, and sacramento pur-
poses."
That Lincoln was a total abstainer
at a time when it was less popular
than it is now, is to his credit. That
he gave his influence against the use of
alcoholics is still more worthy Of his
heroic nature; but that he saw the
folly of the farce of regulation and
dared to speak boldly against the poll
tical crime and unstatesmanlike policy
of license is to his everlasting honor.
Let no fearful, faltering, faithless fell
low who whimpers and whines "Prohi-
bition is right, but it can't win,'' in
suit the memory of Lincoln by claiming
to be his follower. Lincoln was no
whining craven; he was brave, manly
patriot who never said cant" when
principle was involved. Lincoln was
no doubter; he was a man of unf1inch-
ing fa4... in the victory of right. To
be like him is to honor him.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1903-07-01
ROT.

Amid rotting grains and rotting
fruits Alcohol has birth. No wonder
that his work always shows the traces
of his origin!
Rot of barley, rot of corn,
That's where Alcohol is born.
To his rotten nature true,
To rot is all that he can do.
Rotten men and rotten boys;
Rotten hopes and rotten joys;
Rotten fame and reputation;
Rotten politics in the nation;
Rotten ballots, rotten laws;
Parties with rotten cause;
Nursed on Natures rotten juices,
Rot is all that he produces!
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1903-07-01

Our heart goes out to one of our aged
subscribers, who writes: II am sorry
that you have hadlto notify me of my
apparent delinquency in not renewing my
subscription, but it has not been alto
gether neglect on my part, but simply
that much for some time. I have consid-
cradle due me- but I do not get it, and
have had to borrow from my son to pay
you, and he is pretty hard run himself,
as he is building, and it takes nearly every
cent. I would like to contribute some
thing to the campaign fund. I cannot do
SO now but will, if I can, later.
yours. for absolute and enforced prohi-
bition.
'P. S.-Will send more when 1 can"
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1903-07-01
THEY NEED A REST,

A few days ago a convention of bar
tenders was held at Euclid Beach
park one of the very few "dry" pleas
ure resorts in Cleveland, Ohio. There
were several hundred of the liquor
dispensers present. An attache of the
park, being afflicted with curiosity,
asked one of them: why did you fell
lows pick out Euclid Beach park, a
temperance resort, for your conven-
tion?" The reply was: Because we
are up against the buns every work
ing day of our lives, and when we take
a day off we want to get clear of the
crowd" Any man who can read Eng
lish can see the moral in that reply
without having it pointed out to him.
Cleveland Press.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1903-07-01

England's new liquor law against drunk
enness has created a stir. The names of
habitual drunkards are being published
liquors for three years Any woman ac-
companied by small child who is found
intoxicated is to be fined ten dollars or
given a month in jail. Under the new
law Sir Charles Lawson has caused the
name of his wife to be published as an
habitual drunkard, thus depriving her of
the right to buy liquor for three years.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1903-07-01

do not see why saloonkeeper that
strictly obeys the law may not be a
church member as we'll as anybody whs
votes for the law. The license makes
us all partners, and one partner has
no right to turn up his pious nose at
any other partner.-Rev. DR.. T. A..
Goodwin.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1903-07-01

After so years of education, evan
gelization, and legislation, the saloon
is commander-in-chief of our political
forces. 1t holds it's place by virtue of
owning controlling interest in each
of the ruling parties, and the church
vote is in the deal.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1903-07-01
THE TWIN BALLOTS.

On an election day a preacher and
a saloonkeeper CHANGED to fall in COM
pany as they walked to the polls. The
saloonkeeper began the conversation:
"Vell, Mr.. preacher, suppose you
are going to vote against my pizness?"
ooh, 1 don't know" said the preach
er. you breaches against my piz-
ness, you talks against my pizness,
and you brays against it." The preach
er became very thoughtful. "Let me
see your ballot" the liquor seller con-
tinued. Taking the ballot, he found
that it was just like his own; so he
handed the preacher $40. mo, in
deed" said the clergyman; II don't
sell my VOTE" ooh, no. not that; 1
gives you the money; like you. You
breaches, talks and brays against my
pizness, and 1 give you $40 for not
meaning it.'-No License Advocate.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1903-07-01

Mother-I'm surprised that you
should dislike Colonel Lushforth His
manners are the pink of propriety.
Daughter-But his nose is the red of
impropriety.-Ex.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1903-07-01

stating that Rich & Ciymer are strictly
albright printers. They are big firm
and may be said to make a specially Of
everything they touch. They are at IS
East Fifth street, st. Paul.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1903-07-01

Joseph Kohler who was indicted for
murder in the first degree, having shot
Jno. Carr, on May 9Th, has been found
mot guilty. by the jury, on account of
his being so drunk as to be unrespon-
sible.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1903-07-01

Corn from Pumpkin Seed, j. G. Daley s
Prohibition song. Words and music COM
plete, only 10 cents. Order from Back
bone.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1903-07-01

NEWTON HOUSE, ALBERT LEA
Central, commodious, comfortable. $1.00
and SIPS.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1903-07-01

We call our readers attention to the
advertisement of the Northwestern Hide
& Fur Co. We know Of no better place
to tell our readers to ship wool to or to
ed firm. Write for their instructions, price
list, and beautifully illustrated booklet
called "Stock Growers Enemies It will
be sent free if you mention Backbone
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1903-07-01

w. e. Broderick of Baltimore, retir-
ing president Of the National Whole
sale Liquor Dealers Association which
held a convention in this city last
week, was formerly printer and was
quick to make himself known to the
fraternity while here.
Between drinks at the Henry, where
he was stopping, young man said to
him: "Mr. Broderick, I want your
opinion as an expert. What is the
best kind of whiskey to drink"
Broderick looked at him gravely.
'My boy" said he, "the answer to that
is dead easy. The best drink Of whis-
key to take is none at all -Exchange.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1903-07-01
BACKBONE,
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT,

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT,
In laying the cornerstone OF the great
lava arch, the gateway to Yellowstone
"The Yellowstone Park is something
absolutely unique in this world. Nowhere
else in any civilized country is there to be
| found such tract of veritable wonder
the scenery of wilderness, but the wild
creatures of the Park are scrupulously
preserved as they were, the only change
being that these same wild creatures have
| been so carefully protected as to show
| literally astounding tameness. This Park
| was created and now is administered for
| the benefit and enjoyment of the people.
The only way that the people as a whole
| can secure to themselves and their chill
| dren the enjoyment in perpetuity of what
| the Yellowstone Park has to give is by
| assuming the ownership in name of the
nation, and by jealousy safeguarding and
preserving the scenery the forests, and
| the creatures. At present it is rather
| singular that a greater number Of people
come from Europe than come from our
| own Eastern States to see it,
| Gardiner, the Gateway to the Park is
| the terminus of the Northern Pacifcs
| branch line from Livingston at the bound
airy of the Park, and park tourists change
from trains to stage coaches at that point
The park season extends from June LIST
| to September 18th. Send six cents for
wonderland 1909" and park folder and
..
| and Ticket Agent, St. Paul, MINI.
FLOWER BOOK OF REAL FLOWERS.
The Yellowstone Park Flower Book
beautiful creation: 1t contains eleven
specimens of real flowers, in natural COL
| ors from Yellowstone Park, with names
| and places where found.
trations Of bears, the Grand Canon, gey-
sers, hotels, etc., found in the Park the
| most wonderful spot on earth, 81 by 81
miles in size, and where President Roose-
welt recently spent his vacation.
The Flower Book makes a beautiful
souvenir. Send Chas. s. Fee, General Pas
senger Agt., Northern Pacific Ry., St.
Paul. Mimi, fifty cents for copy.
If you say the Silver Sugar Shell we
are sending free to those mailing us 25c
| for a box of Naptha Chrystals is not alone
worth 75c, we will send your money
| tina Chrystals wash clothes without rub
| bling. 20 washings for 25c. We employ
Naptha chrystaI Co.,
We call our readers attention to the
advertisement of the Northwestern Hide
& Fur Co. We know Of no better place
to tell our readers to ship wool to or to
buy sheep dip from than the above nam
ed firm. Write for their instructions, price
llSC, ana DeduLl1ully 1lluSCraCeQ DOOkleC
called 'Stock Growers Enemies 1t will
be sent free if you mention Backbone.
Backbone takes special pleasure in
stating that Rich & Clymer are strictly
albright printers. They are q big firm
and may be said to make a specially Of
everything they touch They are at IS
East Fifth street, St. Paul.
Corn from Pumpkin Seed, J. G. Daley 8
, Prohibition song Words and music COM
bone.
NEWTON HOUSE, ALBERT LEA
Central, commodious, comfortable. 100
and S1.25.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1903-10-23
ANTS FELL IN SHOWERS.
OinGular Phenomenon That Wa
Lately Witnessed In the City
of BrrsseIs.

From time to time we hear of show
ers of blood, Of pcile Il, CT cate rDillars.
and now NJ. y. 6e i-ongree,-a member
of the Astronom;ca. Scc.e;y of France.
tells of shower Of ants which fell re-
Gently at Brussels.
NJ. de Longree resides in that city.
and therefore he had ample opportn-
nifty for observing this curious phe,
nomenon. 1t was four O'Clock in the
afternoon, he says. when the ants be-
gan to fall, and the weather was very
warm, the sun being brilliant and the
sky clear.
A great cloud of small black-winged
ants, intersPersed among which were
some gigantic black ants, measuring
from Ave to seven millimeters in
length, spread quickly over the city
and its suburbs, and in a few minutes
the gigantic ants were swarming over
the pavements and the small ones were
falling on the garments of pedestrians
and even entering their mouths and
noses.
For two hours the insects remained
IN the city. causing everyone to won.
der how they came there. It is sup
posed that they were brought thither
in a storm, which started in a neigh.
boring district, the assumption being
that the tempestuous wind tore uI
entire nests of ants from the ground
and carried them along in its course
The only objection to this theory is
that there was no sign of storm in
Brussels when the insects appeared
Naturalists, however, insist that in nc
other way can this singular phenome
non be explained,
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1903-10-23
FLOWERS ATTRACT INSECTS.
Nee ~ Their Bright CoLors So Much
n By Their Stores Of
- Sweets.

Much interesting information in re-
gard to the attraction which flowers
possess for insects is contained in a
paper by Prof. +. Plateau, of Client,
which is published by the Entomo-
logical society of Belgium.
He arrived some time ago at the con.
clusion that insects are but little at
tracted by bright colors, and he is now
confirmed in this opinion by expeE-
ments, which show that brightly col
ored stuffs and scintillating metallic
objects placed among the leaves of
flowers have only slight attractive
ness for insects. In regard to the
constancy of insects in visiting in
variably the same species of flowers
on the same fight, he says that GER
tain species of Bombus are very in
constant; that the megachile and
coelioxys are less so, and that the
honey bee and anthidium manicatum
are remarkably constant.
The habit of constancy he attrib-
utes to the insects desire to save la
Dor. The syrphidae (hover f1ies), he
points out, show a considerable ten
dency to be attracted by bright col
ors, whether of flowers or of inani-
mate objects, and to this quality, and
not to any aesthetic sense, is to be
attributed their habit of lowering over
flowers.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1903-10-23
RIGHTS OF MEN OF SCIENCE.
II Germany They Give Way OAlY g
Members Of the Royal
n: Family.

The street railways of Berlin have
recently been fitting their lines with
electricity, following years in the
wake of those of the United States.
The directors of the reichsanstalt,
the imperial physical and technical
institute of Germany, feared that the
proximity of trolley wires with the
magnetic field which would be set
up at the passage of every car might
interfere with their experiments and
they made representations to that
effect to. the government. In Ger
many science is esteemed only second
to royalty and the government be-
ing all-powerful the street railroads
were ordered not to place any trolley
wires within kilometer (fve-eighths
of a mile) of the reichsanstalt.
AS a result, and oddly enough it
Is to an American, the trolley lines
OF Charlottenburg, when they ap-
proach the imperial mausoleum, the
emperor's memorial church and the
reichsanstalt-royalty and science
are run underground and the cars are
compelled to cover the intervals by
means of power drawn from storage
batteries. Asphalt pavements have
also replaced the old cobblestones in
the streets around the reichsanstalt
to prevent the jar of trucks from in
fiuencing the delicate instruments in
the buildings.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1903-10-23
Artificial Babies.

A genius has invented a mechanical
baby designed for the use of ladies'
when travelling, who wish to secure
the sole use of compartment of a
railway carriage. Here is an extract
from his printed circular:
Common travelling infants yielding
intermittent cries of fear, and capa-
BILE of being put into the pocket, 10s.;
second class, crying not too loudly,
but lamentably and unexpectedly,
20s.; third class, full squallers, with
a very piercing and aggravating voice
of FIVE octaves, S2; the same ar
ranged as a prompt repeater, 92 6s.;
fifth class, first quality, capable OF
continued squalling, s3. These babies
can not only be set going in moment
Gas indeed can most living ones), but
they can also be stopped as quickly,
which the natural ones cannot
london Answers.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1903-10-23
COUNTY NEWS.
Belpre Items.


DIR. Afford, of MacKsville, was in
town Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herod drove over to
Macksville Monday forenoon.
F.. Kaths went over to Macksvllle
Tuesday and returned On No. 1.
Madams Miller and Lunz drove
over to Larned Wednesday to take in
the sights.
Herbert Rudd is home again. He
expected to leave Thursday night fer
his missionary trip to China.
Mr.. and Mrs. johnson went to
Macksville Saturday and returned
Sunday. They visited at Mr.. John
sons sister.
Misses Alice Kennedy and Miss
Hughes, of Macksville, were in town
last Saturday looking up a music
class for Miss Hughes.
Messrs. Donavan and Peterson
shipped two car loads of stock to the
Kansas City markets last Friday.
Henry Lunz went with the cattle to
Kansas City.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1903-10-23
Queer Trade Drawer.

By very simple means a Philadel
phia merchant attracted more at
tention to his store than any amount
of placard advertising would have
gained for it. A great Maltese cat
was tied to eight yards of rope and
was fastened in the marble doorway.
It was a rare instance of cat hav-
ing its liberty thus restricted, and
throughout each afternoon crowds of
persons focked about the door. The
drawer among them did puss the hom-
age of a pat on the head, while more
timid souls felt sure the animal was
fierce and kept at safe distance.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1903-10-23
The Differences In Races.

The late r. H. Stoddard was fond
of contrasting the English and the
French workingman, to the great ad-
vantage of the former. One of his
comparisons deal with the death Of
Dickens.
"A short time after Dickens died."
he would say, "a friend of mine. visited
the sS-ne ,f hfs last hours, and, in
search of Dickensiana, stopped in a
neighboring inn. He spoke of the
nos olist's> demise to the waiter A
great loss he said.
"A great loss indeed to us, sir,
the waiter agreed. He had all his
ale sent from this house.
Contrast with that Mr. Stoddard
would exclaim, "the answer CT a
waiter to whom, p/the Afternoon of
Mirabeau's death, a guest said, "A fine
day
Yes the waiter answered, 1T is
a fine day, but-Mirabeau is dead"
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1903-10-23
TIME TABLE AT. & s. Fry

A new time card went into effect on
the Santa Fee June 4. The changes al
this point are not many. Nos. l, 5,
and ! going west at night are un-
changed except No. does the local
work from Hutchinson west. The
branch train arrives as at pres
emit but departs at 1875. The branch
local freight leaves here st in the
morning going east and arrives from
the east at 2:45 in the afternoon. The
main line local goes east at $50 in
the morning and west at $40 in the
afternoon. The branch local ruus
from Hutchinson to this place and
turns.