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to see him return. Mr.. Blattler gave
US short but very interesting talk
about his journey, last Sunday. and
promised us several more.
Mr.. Appel came over from Film
wood Wednesday to visit Jake Calls
and family. Mr.. Appel likes this part
of the country very much and will be-
come one of our residents if he can
find place that suits him.
Two severe hail storms struck here
Saturday. The first came about five
p. m. and hail stones measuring seven
aud one-half inches in circumference
fell thick and fast for ten or fifteen
minutes. Many window panes were
broken all over town. About six
miles south of here the hail stones
were SO large that they broke through
the roof of George Jones's house.
The second storm came about As p.
m. The hail stones were quite small
about the size of peas, and almost en-
tirely covered the ground. Tuesday
night very severe rain storm struck
the town. A great quantity OF water
fell, similar to a cloud-burst.
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Lewis Charge Church Notices.

The following are the announce
ments of the Lewis charge of the Meth
odist Episcopal church,:
Lewis.-SuDday school at 10 a. NJ.
J. B. VOsburg, superintendent: preach
ing at ii a. IN: and 8 p. M, class meet
ing after the morning services: Ep
worth League Sunday evening at
m, William Israel, president: Junior
League Saturday afternoon at B p. M.
Miss Emma Ostrauder. president
prayer meeting every Thursday even
ing Samuel Yaggy, chorister; Alfred
Radcliffe, organisG.
Belpre. Sabbath school at p. M,
w. c Blattner, superintendent, and
preaching at 3 p, m.
Come to all of these services. 1t
will help the pastor, and do you good.
81 was glad when they said unto
me, let us go into the house of the
Lord. "-Psalmist.
WILLIAM T. CUMnuNS, Pastor.
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COLLECTING 1himbles a Fad.

If you have lost your thimble sus-
pect your best friend. If it is an old
thiInble that you have had around the
house "a long time, and which you
would L.. exchange for a dozen new
ones, suspect her all the more. 1t is
the fad in New York now to collect
thimbles. Like all fads, it will proba-
bly, run for year before women and
girls who get the thimble habit tire of
it. Furthermore, it is the vogue to
appropriate your friends thimble if
you cannot get it in any other way.
You can atone for it by making little
present to her.
Women are as chary of presenting
their old thimbles as men are of CIV
ing away pipes that have comforted
them in weary hours. But thimbles
must be collected somehow. Mrs. Cor
nelius Vanderbilt is said to have the
best collection of thimbles in New
York. but with her it has been labor
of years. One of her thimbles orig
inally adorned the. finger of Queen
Elizabeth of England. She has one
that belonged to Queen Victoria and
one from the former Princess OF
Wales now Queen Alexandra.
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COUNTY NEWS.
Lewis Items

The wedding bells are ringing.
We have had fine rains this week.
Insure your farm buildings with
w. H. Israel.
Frank Smith is expected home the
last of this week
Bob Mattingly has returned to this
place for few days.
For new Or repair, harness work
call on Henry Yuncker.
Miss Lena Holden is visiting her
sister, Mrs. P. B. Cross.
Charles Sturdevant and wife will
start for st Louis tomorrow.
IF you want hail insurance on your
growing crops see w. II. Israel
Mr.. Gallemore. the newspaper man,
is in town again and expects to locate.
The band concert Monday night
netted the boys $50 The program
The Farmers Cooperative company
VIII have a basket dinner next Mon
day. June 8.
The Belpre quartet sang very
pretty song at the Methodist church
here Sunday evening.
On Monday. June 6. w. r. Israel
will receive hogs at Lewis and pay the
highest market price.
The Methodists put up their bell on
Wednesday. We can now hear a
church bell on Sundays.
Lewis had one of her big days Mon
day.. There were more people here
that day than have been here for
many days.
Tom Spence has fine Kentucky
Jack, Isl hands high, at his barn in
Lewis which he wants the farmers to
see if they want to raise mules.
There is nothing like getting beaten
playing ball. so the Lewis nine thinks.
as it encourages the other team.
Fellsburg came out ahead 10 the Mon
day game
We have heard of flour mill com
ing to Lewis. That is what we want
We can support good mill here and
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by doing so we can avoid the block
ade when the cars are a minus guam
THY in the fall.
1. Sprigg will have his artificial
stone plant here in few days. He
will locate here providing he caQ get
lots. Now we want to see to it that he
gets location, as we want all the
new business enterprises we can get.
There were two BARRIERS in town on
Wednesday looking for a location.
There may be room, but Mr.. McCar-
ter, our present barber, is a good
workman and in a small place like
this we are inclined to think that one
is enough.
After June first, 1904, the propri-
etors of the livery barns at lewis will
charge fifteen cents for feeding team
hay and thirty cents for hay and
grain. Single horses. hay ten cents,
hay and grain fifteen cents.-G. T.
Spence and George Goldsmith. ga
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Belpre Items.

L. E. Wait made a business trip to
Stafford Wednesday.
A sister of Mrs. Charles Berry is
here visiting this week.
j. w. Pharo made a business trip
to Kinsley last Saturday.
Lunz Bros. shipped a car of fine
hogs to Kansas City Thursday.
Miss Maude Smith was quite sick
last week. Dr.. O'Flyng was called.
Dan Lance went to Rice county and
returned with his wife Monday noon.
Ernest McKibben and Miss Norah
Lunz attended the dance at Lewis last
Friday night
Dr.. O'Flyng reports nine-pound
girl born at the home of Vernon
Rudd last Saturday night.
Mrs. S. j. Rndd gave a peanut
party to the L. T, L. last Friday. The
children rel orted Il splendid time.
Mrs. r. Groves was visiting her
sister, Mrs. Winnie Dey, this week.
Mrs. Groves lives in Gray county.
Miss Hattie Miller came home from
Kinsley Saturday. She returned to
her normal studies the same night.
Miss Maggie Breitenbach came
home from Kinsley Monday because
of the serious illness of her mother.
Mrs. Bert Hager has been critically
i'll for the past week. She is improv-
ing slightly, although not yet out OF
danger.
The Wendell ball team plays the
home team here Saturday and the
Kinsley team plays against the Bel
pre- boys next Thursday.
Dr.. Stewart came up from Hutchin
son Monday night aud he and DR..
O'Flyng performed an operation on
Mrs. Breitenbach. The latter is get
ting along very nicely now.
There is some talk of a Fourth of
July celebration here. Belpre surely
has enough citizens to get up a fair
celebration if they would try. Push
the good work along. brothers.
Quite a crowd went from here to
Kinsley on Memorial day Our ball
club played the Kinsley team that day
and came off victorious. The score
stood 10 to 4 in favor of Btlpre.
w. G.. Blattler, superintendent of
the Sunday school at this place, re
turned home Friday night. He had
been to the Sunday school convention
at Jerus allen for several months aud
teachers and scholars were very glad
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CORN MEAL IN SAUSAGE.
| One of the Most Valuable of All Trade
Secrets

A year or so ago man discovered
method of adulterating sausages,
and. the odd part of it is that It is a
healthful adulteration, and the pure
food people ~can't kick on it. The
material with which the sausage is
adulterated is cornmeal. A man dis
covered a way of treating the corn
meal SO that it could be added to
sausage. and no one could tell the
difference. AS corn meal is a good
deal cheaper than meat, several of the
big packers were quick to adopt it as
an adulteration for the sausage they
turned out, and paid the inventor a
big royalty. But they finally kicked
on paying the inventor, and put their
experts to work to try to discover how
he treated the corn meal. The ex-
perts failed to discover the secret.
But it is said that FL Eyn Blair, OF the
BlairsmilI. has discovered the method
of treating the corn meal, and the
packing houses are after him.-Atchi-
son Globe.
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Memorial Day In Lewis.

An ideal day of sunshine and blue
sky, together with the services of one
of the best orators in western Kansas,
made the people of Edwards county,
south and east of the river, supremely
happy in their Memorial Day cere-
monies at Lewis.
At an early hour the farmers and
citizens from the Fellsbnrg and Be,pre
districts began to arrive in large
numbers, until the streets of Lewis
were thronged with the visitors and
neighbOrs from the surrounding coun-
try, assembled in honor of the ma
TONS heroes.
OF course, "the unexpected alwayc
happens;" therefore the far-signted
include the unexpected in their plans.
The speaker of the day was unable to
reach Lewis on schedule time on ac-
count of the belated trains. Hence
that part of the program intended for
the forenoon was postponed until the
afternoon, and the programs simply
interchanged, otherwise carried out
fully as planned.
The decoration of the graves at the
cemetery by the ten veterans present
and in line was impressive. 1t would
have greatly facilitated the movement
of the people from place to place in
the local cemetery if the cemetery as
ISOLATION had mown the long, tangled
grass along the avenues and foot
paths, and had removed other obStruc-
tions. These matters must have been
forgotten. This suggestion will, how
ever, be timely enough for next year.
After dinner, the people assembled
in the Methodist Episcopal church
and listened with rapt attention to
the eloquent Judge Elerick c. Cole of
Great Bend. His, Grafton was mas
ter piece-patriotic sympathetic, no
BILE, sublime. Especially did he win
the warmest appreciation and the sim
cerest affection of the local represen-
tatves of the Grand Army of the Re-
public. Fortunate, indeed, were these
people in securing the distinguished
services of the Hon. Mr.. Cole upon
this particular day, and though he
was fatigued and worn by a long
overland trip, after spending an en-
tire night waiting for late trains. yet
the force and vigor of his address
made every one forget the tedium of
delay and marked the inspirati on of
the hour.
In the evening our popular and cap
able bandmaster. j. Fl. Jackson. en-
tertained Crowded. packed house
of enthusiastic patrons of the band
concert program. The local band had
made commendable progress during
the past year, and Mr.. Jackson had
been prevailed upon by the committee
on arrangements to close the days
program with a concert This he did
to the great pleasure of all and to the
credit of every member of his band.
The civic parade engaged in by the
local fraternities was creditable and
quite elaborate, to say the least.
Comrade Keller acted as grand mar
shall and the hearty response of the
band, the G. A. R., Rebe5ahs, Odd
Fellows, Woodmen and citizens dem
onstrated the fact that Lewis lean d o
things when she tries
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Honesty in Iceland.

In Iceland there are no prisons. and
the inhabitants are so honest in their
habits that such material defenses to
property as locks, bolts and bars are
not required. Yet its history for the
past 1000 years records no more than
two thefts-
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cre.t TEST of piver,s strena.h.

Divers in the British navy. before
being passed as proficient in their
craft, have to be able to work in
twelve fathoms of water for an hour
and in twenty fathoms for quarter
of en- hour.
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Stunted DOGS a Fad.

Stu1ted dogs are very much ad-
mired by Partisan ladies. The de-
mana for them is met by at least
forty professional dog dwarfers,'
who bring up the pups on alcoholic
diet, which has the effect of checking
their growth.
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Some Marriaoe statistics.

Miners marry at an earlier age than
any other class of society. Following
them, in due order, come artisans, Ia
borers. clerks, shopkeepers and farm
ers. The independent classes show
the smallest percentage of any.
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Good Remedy for Sprains.

For ,sprains take olive oil two
ounces, of camphor, rubbed well with
a little oil and then added to the
whole, one dram. Very little of this
Should be used at a time, and it
should be gently rubbed On the
sprained part tefore the fire.
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Discover Fine eIsss Land.

Immense quantities of sand equal
to that imported from Turkey espe-
cially for glass-making, have, accord
ing to the Westminster Gazette. been
discovered not far from London
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Notice.

anted-2OO cattle to pasture. Pas
ture fenced, good grass, plenty of
water. 1. N. Parker.
6-3 Dodge City, Kans.
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For Sale or Trade.

A Percheron Stallion, also a good
Jack. Call on or.address, Nick Graf,
Belpre, Kans. If
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Trees in Paris.

A municipal return gives the num-
Der of trees belonging to Paris as sl.-:
4ss..
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Religious Census.

A recent estimate of numbers adj
herring to the great religions of the
world is as follows: Christian. 549,-
0173H; Mohammedans, 2O2,04S.240;
Jews, IL ,O37 900; Confucians, 253 .O00.-
90; Taoists. 32.00o,OO0; Shintoists,
100000. According to these statis-
tics the total population of the
world is nearly equally divided be-
tween monotheists and polytEeists,
the latter including the savage
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eermany's Export to Africa.

Germans chief exports to her Ami.
can colonies consist in spirituous
liquors.
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Actors, lapses of Memory.

Mrs Alec Tweedie might have quot
ed in her Behind the Footlights" a
witticism of T. p. Cookies when she
was treating of the Supplying effect
upon the memory of a long run. She
cites Miss Genevieye Ward. Miss Ger
trude Elliott and Jefferson as having
been so dazed BY the long runs Of
their respective masterpieces to
forget occasionally the 500 times re-
peated words. 4. P. Cooke had the
same experience in acting the sailors
part in BLACK Eyed Susau"-the first
piece to have a whole years run. At
a crisis of the play he completely
forgot his part. and. in the prompters
absence OF through his inattention,
Cooke stood helpless before the foot
lights staring blankly at the pit. till a
voice from the gods shouted down to
him the words. Thank you. sir" said
Cooke Il had forgotten them. /
have repeated them $50 times, and no
mars memory can last forever"
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poas Know the Road Rules.

On the trail through Bonanza val
ley. in the Klondike. dogs are used as
pack animals. and dog trains are com
monty met with by the traveller. The
dogs make better time than donkeys.
They carry little canvas bags across
their backs. filed with freight. Dogs
used for packing are much larger. as
a rule. than sled dogs.
A miner will invariably step aside
when he meets a dog on the trail II
the man IS going up. the dog will take
the siding. The dogs appear to under
stand the laws Of the trail as well as
the men do. and the miners respect
the rights of the dogs just as the
Turks respect the sacred dogs of Con.
stantinople.
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Why PEGS Were Absent.

In "The Merry Wives of Windsor"
Mr.. Tree. as Falstaff. had arranged
to escape at Herne's Oak from his tor
mentors by climbing a tree. into
which pegs were to be inserted to IA
cilitate his ascent. But on the night
OF the final rehearsal these pegs were
missing. Mr. Tree summoned the car
penter. pointed to the tree, and in a
tone of the most tragic reproval. cried.
mo pegs." Nevertheless on the first
night. when Falstaff made for the
tree. hoping to bring down the house
by his uncouth climb, the pegs were
still missing! On the fall of the cur-
tain he summoned the carpenter, and
began to thunder his rebuke. which,
however. was cut short by the car
penter. Ere. say. guv-nor, old
ard. Wot was your words last night
at the re'ersal? No pegs. you said;
No pegs Well. there weren't monet"
smacking his lips and smearing the
back of his hand across his mouth, to
intimate that if pegs of the liquid
kind had been forthcoming the solid
pegs would not have been missing.
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would at least come in every day and
tidy mp the place for him. He paid
her for this, she said. and it was a
great help.
Better a thousand times be that
mans servant than his wife" he cried.
But, dear Thirza. am still in the
dark about the money
1t was some time before she an
swered.
ats long time ago now" she said
at last. "He wanted me to marry him
and threatened that If | didn't he
would do all sorts of things against
you. And he was beginning to talk
about you in the village, and"
$50 you paid the money to save my
good name" broke in Leonard. Oar
ling Thirza, 'Twasn't much of name
to save. but you have right to ii
because you saved it. Will you take
1t for your own. and its owner with it
into the bargain?"
For answer she only nestled closer
to him, while the stars and the round
harvest moon smiled down upon them
in benediction.-Fred J. Cox in Chi
cago Chronicle.
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Greenroom Gossip.

Mary Mannering and her husband.
James X. Hackett. have gone to Can
ada for a brief vacation.
Ezra Kendall has closed his season
in The Vinegar Buyer" He will
have a new play next fall.
Viola Allen has decided upon her
new production for next season. II
will be "A Winters Tale"
Norman Hackett has been engaged
rs leading Juvenile for the Julia Mar
lowe and f. II. Sothern combination
next season.
It is stated that Maude Adams will
be seen next season in an elaborate
revival of THE Little Minister" Hen
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TCoNAR''D! -.
gl Ef |,'|7|.! NGS
0kEG6.oNTElNG
4Y-L2ED .NCOY

AS Leonard Cawthorn walked down
the narrow lane under the shade of
the overarching hedgerows. he
glanced about him with an eye of
sober delight The surrounding land
scape was precisely that which had
always formed the background of his
dreams when at nighttime in his lone
Canadian ranch current of his
thoughts had involuntarily set home.
ward. AS he remembered it as boy.
as he had dreamed of it as a man, so
the picture remained, true down to
the smallest of its details, even TO
The wisps of straw caught by the pro-
iecting forks in the hedgerow when
The corn-laden vain had passed.
it was in such setting that he had
always thought of her. Indeed, the
landscape without her would for
Leonard Cawthorn's eyes at least
nave lost more than half its charm.
Presently. the corn lands ceased.
and the lane broadening out ran by
The side of undulating meadows to
The village of Netherlands lying in
.he valley below
Nethercote farm lay back from the
roadway, just at the edge of the vii
iage. AS Leonard walked up the path
which led to the house a troop of
early memories crowded in upon him.
He had a clear right to a share of the
property after their fathers death,
but Mark seized everything with that
grasping nature of his and soon made
ii plain to Leonard that his room in
Nethercote would be preferable to his
company. Feeling this. like sensi-
tive man he had resolved to emigrate.
and this resolve was industriously fed
by Mark, who lent him ESQ to start
ranch life in Canada. Fortune had
smiled so pleasantly upon him that
the repayment of that sum was now,
after fifteen years, quite an easy mat
ter
He knocked at the door. which was
presently opened by a roundabout
dered figure of man. who with one
hand held aloft a small metal lamp
and with the other shaded his eyes
and peered at the stranger.
well, Mark! You'll hardly know
me, | guess?"
"oh. it's you, is It? You'd best
come in" answered the other
He led the way into the farm par
Tor, large room meagerly furnished.
for the illumination of which the glim-
mer of the little lamp was absurdly
inadequate. Leonard took a chair
facing his brother and leaned his arm
on round deal table. ridiculously
small to serve as the centerpiece OF
so large an apartment
well. Mark" he said, "low've
things gone with you all these years."
Mark replied. Not overgrand"
Leonard laughed. Why, the farms
twice the size it used to be-"
Don't judge by appearance. sup.
pose you've made your fortune?" an
swered Mark.
Not exactly that" Leonard replied.
''but I've nothing much TO complain
about. Married YETI"
The wrinkles deepened on the low
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GET YOUR OWN LICENSE.
Old Darky Was Easy to Please, but
You Miuht Not Be.

fou ml9nI NOT DC.
Uncle Joe is an old negro on a farm
near Chesapeake City. farm owned
by the family whose slave he was
years ago. He is a widower. and lately
has spruced up to degree. Not long
since one of the young men of the place
started for the city. when he was
hailed by Uncle Joe.
"Mistah George" he said. sheepishr
ly. you done goin' to town? You
might do a favor fob me-
Certainly, Uncle" was the re.
Spouse. What is it?"
We'll. you might-you might git a
marriage license for me"
The white man was amused; but
seeing that the old negro was offended.
he said. III get the license sure,
Uncle. I'll get it, and rode of.
After attending to his own affairs in
town, he suddenly remembered the
marriage license, but was nonplussed.
for he had not asked the name OF
Uncle Joe's fiancee. He happened to
recollect that he had noticed Uncle
Joe around the kitchen a good deal
of late. and that Amanda. dusky. fat
and 40, and the best cook in the coun-
ty, always had a delectable morsel re-
served for the old man; so. of course.
it must be Amanda. Armed with the
happy credentials. Mr.. George galloped
home and handed the paper to the old
man, who took it and looked at it. The
license was read to him.
Mandy Jones." he cried. when the
brides name was pronounced. Why.
il amt her-it's Lie Allen down by
de crick."
Here was dilemma. We'll" said
the white man. there's only one thing
to do: You must get another license.
1t is just So thrown away"
Uncle Joe took the paper. folded it
and put II in his pocket.
I'm done ask Mandy to have me-"
he said: for I don't think dar's So
diff-runce tween dem ladies'
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Woman Had Her Wits With Her.

Lawyers are so prone 10 demand an
swers to embarrassing and relevant
questions that when a sharp witness
can pay them back they get nothing
but their deserts.
A middle-agcd woman once stood in
court as a minor witness. Among
other trivial questions of no bearing on
the case the counsel for the defendant
asked the witness to state her age.
Sir" said she. II refuse to answer
that question
But you must" persisted the law
yer; why won't you tell the Court
your age?"
We'll" replied the witness. my
age only know by hearsay. and hear
say evidence is never taken in court