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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-03

lMarshall Saurders's story of ''Bcauti-
iui ice" has been translated into three
foreign languages and more than i00,-
600 copies of the book have been sold.
The name Ct the author, Marshall
Saunders, is usually considered to be
that Of man. But Marshall Saunders
is really 4 woman, Margaret Marshall
Saunders, who lives in Halifax, N S.,
and is the author of many other sue
cessful stories, including The House
of Armour" Rose a Charlotte" now
ell and princess Sukey."
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1909-04-15
Very Popular Feature.

The beautiful and durable g.
inch shears being given to the
subscribers of the News are prov
ing very popular. Many ladies
declare them to be the best they
have ever used. New subscribers
are being added to out list, and
old ones are renewing. The
premium for either a new or old
subscriber is a pair of the shears.
We have a big supply and will
get more if these run out. These
shears could not be bought at re-
tail for less than 75c per pair.
Parties at distance are asked
to remit SC extra with their sub
scription to cover postage.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1909-04-15
Notice..

All parties knowing themselves
indebted to the undersigned are
hereby requested to call and make
settlement at once. / never in
my life needed money so badly as
at this time. All accounts due
the Baxter Springs Electric Light
and Water Co. must be paid with
in the next ten days, / rely i'm
plicitly on my friends to help me
retain my business. ! have done
my turn. now it is yours.
Yours for a better business and
closer friendship.
CHAs. M. JONES, M. D.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1909-04-15
Lyric OF Fine Weather.

When the breezes blow in from the south
ward
Over fields that are thrilling with life
When the sunshine floods forest and mead
ow,
And the orchards with fragrance are rife
Then the heart shares the seasons rejoic'
ing,
And forgets winters darkness and strife
Where the wind through the branches was
wailing
Now are bird-songs and hum of the bees
Where the ice held the pond locked ID
silence
Tiny waves ripple now in the breeze;
Where the snowaakes were driven and
drifted
Are bright blossoms that Aeck the green
leas.
We remember no more the wild rigor
That drove us from the fields to the FIRE.
We think only of brightness and sweetness,
OF the numberless lives that aspire
To the warmth and the joy of the sun
light,
Reaching upward with eager desire.
Let us leave thus the darkness of folly
And the wild. barren wastes that we
view
When we think of our guilt and our weak.
ness.
For the gladness of skies that are blue.
For the blossoms, the songs and the sun
shine
That reward earnest efforts and true.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1909-04-15
WE ARE

Specialists in the monument busi'
ness and can furnish>you a mon
ument in any design in granite OF
marble that has all the desirable
qualities for a monument--heauty,
durability and color. We can
make you a good monument at a
reasonable price and respectfully
solicit a share of your business.
Let us figure with you.
=, Columbus Marble Works,
ED. A. JONES, D. NJ. JONES,
salesman. Prop.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1909-04-15

NORTH BOUND.
No. ia for Kansas City departs at 1150 pm
No. 10 Kansas City Cherokee departs at 800
No 1Os for City via Pttsburg departs at 325 pm
No. 322 for Kansas City via Joplin departs at 1850
SOUTH BOUND.
No. 100 for Oklahoma City via Alton departs at 1903 am
No. 127 for Oklahoma City via Alton departs at 1895
No iii for Fort Worth via Alton departs at sos pm
EAST BOUND.
No. 316 for Joplin departs at $50 an
No 2 for ST. Louis via Joplin departs at ZOO
Kansas City Joplin and Psburg departs 1850
No 314 for Joplin City departs at 800 pm
No. Joplin from points south departs at 825
No. Joplin and ST. Louis from Wichita departs at 73s
WEST BOUND.
No. 100 from ST. Wichita and departs 10
No. ST. Louis Wichita and west departs at $40
This schedule went into effect Dec. 13, 1908.
c. S. ROBERTS, Agent.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1909-04-15
For Rent Free.

]. c. Naylor will give rent
free the use of SIS acres of his
farm to the man or men who
will put it in cow peas, cotton or
tobacco. One man need not put
in the whole IS acres, but a part
of the agreement must be that it
will all be put into those three
uses. One man could put in COW
peas, another. tobacco, and an
other cotton.
Here is an opportunity to do a
little experimental work, and it
should be taken hold of.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1909-04-15
News Realty Column
Have for sale four nice lots in
Griswold & Hawks addition.

Have for sale four nice lots in
Griswold & Hawks addition.
Lots 50x142 feet, covered with
big forest trees, SIS down and IS
per month; no interest.
Seven-room story and a half
house, in good repair; 10O-feet
front of ground; outbuildings.
cheap at the price asked-S9OO,
half cash, time on balance.
We have for sale a drug store
doing a good business. Fine To-
cation, nice new fixtures. Can
make a mighty low price for a
quick deal. Call at this Office.
20 acres-12 in cultivation, bal
ance in pasture; 5-room house,
barn; fruit; good we'll, one and
one-half miles from town on
gravel road. $1,000. This office
for fuller particulars.
We have for sale the old Stone
place of forty acres, just south OF
town. Property corners with the
city limits. The place has a
good house, barn and we'll, and
lots of fruit. Will take S45OO
for it, half cash, balance on time
at 6 per cent. This Office.
We have for sale a five-room
house and big piece of ground in
the north part of town for $3.50.
There is a good well on the
place and lots of fruit for family
use and to sell. If you are look
ing for good home for little
money it will pay you to see this.
If you want a nice lot, covered
with nice shade trees, and haven't
the money to pay for it, call at
this Office and we will sell you one
for a cash payment of SIS down
and monthly payments of$s with
ont interest. This is an easy
way to get a nice lot, and you
won't miss the money.
We have for sale a mighty
nice 80 acres only a mile from
town; 20 acres is in grass, 20 in
pasture and the balance in culti-
yation.' There is a good four
room house, a small barn, well,
cisteru, and some fruit. Only
three-fourths of a mile to good
school. will make very reason
able price and sell on terms.
We have for sale or trade a
mighty good Arkansas farm OF
100 acres. It is in Searcy county,
has rs acres in cultivation, a
good house and barn, cistern,
some fruit, and is only a mile
and a half from a small town
and postof6ce. Owner will take
$1,000 cash for it, or will trade
Il for an eighty in this section
and pay the difference.
We have farms of any size,
improved or unimproved, at all
kinds of prices, and on all sorts
of terms.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1909-04-15
Little Boys Baby Prayer

Dear God. I need You awful bad;
don't know what to do;
My papa's cross. my mama's sick:
hain't no fren' but you.
Them keerless angels went and brung.
Std of the boy asst,
A weenchy, teenchy baby girl
don't see how they dast!
Say. God. I wish't you'd take her back
She's jest as good as new;
Wont no one know she's secondhand.
But 'ceptin' me an you;
An pick boy, dear God, yourself,
The incest in yer fold;
But please don't choose him quite so young
I'd like him five years old.-Lippincotts
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1909-04-15
Sacrifice Sale.

One hack, 2 cultivators, now
err, 1 sweep rake, walking pillow,
/ set double harness, l harrow.
The above is almost new. Also
an extra good 6-year-old horse,
weight 1900 pounds. Several
cows, and a lot of baled hay. For
particulars see E. H. Schloeman,
Baxter Springs, Kas.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1909-04-15

The heavy winds which have
been giving this section Of coun-
try fits for some time cause the
FIRE plug question to be raised
again. If a fire was to break
out in the business section OF the
city it would practically wipe oHt
the larger portion of the taxable
property of the city. Can Bax.
ter Springs afford to take the
chances? We think not. Not
only could the people sleep in
greater security, but insurance
would be cheaper. Would it not
be a good Idea to take a poll OF
the city and see if the people
want fire protection? lftheY do,
they should have it, and the
sooner the better, '4 80
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1909-04-15
WarRinQ.

Somebody is SHINING trees in
Reunion Park. If the guilty
party is apprehended prosecution
will follow. We trust it will
not be necessary for such action
to be taken.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1909-04-15
Concrete Blocks for Sale.

1000 first class concrete blocks
SxSx16 inches for sale, Stone
men say these blocks are the best
they have ever seen. They were
made by the day, everything fur
nished, and were not sighted or
skimped. There are enough OF
them to build three good size
houses. Had them made for my
own use, but have made other ar
engagements and will not need
them. Call on Chas. L. Smith
for prices.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1909-04-15

If you want a nice horse or jack
bill printed, leave your order at
the News Office. We have a fine
line of cuts and will do you a
good job at a price that will
please you.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1909-04-15

The News job department is
one of the busiest places in the
country these days. And there
is a reason for It. We have the
material to do good work with,
we do it at reasonable prices,
and We do it promptly.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1909-04-15
Pay Us a Visit.

We want everyone OF our sub
scribers to pay this Office a visit
right away and see what we will
give them if they pay their sub
scriptions one year in advance
The same proposition applies e
rey subscribers. What we will
give them is worth the dollar
charged for the paper. Come in
and have a look at 1t.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1909-04-15

4-room house and 3 lots, barn
and well, in Van Epps' addition.
Lots of fruit, large shade trees,
$425 cash. Call on VT. Gregory.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-04
OUR CLIMATE

RESHENING, inspiring, invigorat-
ing rain has rejuvenated the
u South California landscape and
given a tonic quality to the air Abso-
.lutely perfect weather was produced by
the showers. The dust was laid. The air
was cooled. The countryside took the
bloom Of youth. Always attractive,
the scenery of South California Is
never more fascinating than after a
shower, which energies everything
that can grow and gives new color and
life to herbage and foliage.
Outdoor California is both pictures
que and productive. Usefulness char
acterizes it as well as beauty. Every
thing that will grow anywhere can be
grown without much coaxing in South
California, and after such gracious and
timely rain as that which we have en-
joyed the qualities of the soil are
brought out in a way that to eastern
ers seems magical. In sunshine and
In rain South California possesses
qualities which cannot be found any
where else in the world. The sunshine
of Southern California is an almost
perpetual blessing. The rain, when it
comes to add its beneficent work to
that Of the sunshine, is a boon.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-04
SENEX BRAVELY TACKLES
NORTH POLE CONTROVERSY

LONG BEACH, Oct. Ii Editor Her
add: one event is absolutely certain.
One fate, like the Sword of Damo-
cles," hangs over the head of either
Cook or Peary, and the thread that
it hangs by is sure to break before
long. 'That Peary is the champion
hog of the age, is already settled. The
estimate of his character by The Her
aid is altogether just and final. But
the great question yet remains for
settlement. Who first discovered
'Symme's Hole and set the flagstaff,
upright in It? This is the question
For five centuries the braveSt and
most adventurous navigators have
sailed into that frosty hell with grim
determination to reach the point on
our planet where there is no direction
but up and down. Where, as Clay
said, they would know no north, no
south, no east, no west" They have
defied death, but sometimes finding
him too savage an antagonist, have
wheeled in their tracks and come home
discounted. Sometimes they have
turned too late and died of sunless
cold Science has found nothing too
high to climb, too deep to measure,
too sacred to investigate. Only this
latitudeless stem-end of the earth has
pointed it's icy and taunting finger
equatorward, and dared the habitable
globe to guess it's riddle. All minor
questions connected with the matter
sink into insignificance. Questions of
behavior of manhood, of degrees of
porcine depravity, will answer them
selves. But who first found the pole?
If it was Cook, Peary will sink out of
sight. 1 should not wonder if he
would swear he never had been there
rather than be only "the next"
To be just with possibilities, if Cook
was never out of sight of land" he
will live in universal fame as the man
who has lifted lying into a fine art
The finest fooler that ever fooled his
kind. His cheek and brass are worthy
of a monument. Talleyrand, Ma
chiavelli and Sam Hyde will have to
hide their diminished heads.
He will probably be found starring
in some variety show as the man who
deceived all the kings and potentates
of the earth. All this and more, if.
If Peary was the first man at the
pole, his bristles won't affect his
fame. I am not on the jury, but as
things look, I would advise p. to hunt
his hole, and pull it in after him.
Will some of the Letter Box" fam
lily tell me when the next picnic Oc-
ours and where? SENEX.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-04
SAYS MIND, NOT MAN,
CONTINUALLY EVOLVES

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 1.-[Editor
Herald: Will Evolutionist read ]. D.
DIS letter, September Is, again? AL
though typographical error makes un-
Ineligible part of the letter, by no
means does j. d. d. say MAN reached
his present state by evolution" Neith-
er is the heading to the letter written
by ]. D. d. He did say "If environ
ment governs man, how could he reach
his present relative perfection? If man
was not evolved, perfection has ever
been his: lack of perfection mythical" +"
The latter part of the letter attempt
ed to show that the true man was
created perfect by God, since God is
perfection, infinite good. Therefore
Gods man being perfect-after his
kind-though by no means within an
infnity of being equal to God, man
never evolved from lower forms. What,
then, is it that evolves. since "evolu-
tom is continually manifested? To
my understanding, that which
"evolves" is the mind of mortal man,
perpetually rejecting, degree by de-
gree, all that is unlike God. This
process cannot proceed unguided by
God, for if other power guided man
there would be no evolution" but only
airnless wandering.
Therefore 1 conclude that Gods man
does not revolver" it is the false be-
lief which hides perfection, that
'FevoIves," step by step, being rejected
and cast off, as the true man becomes
more apparent. AS these false beliefs
drop away into nothingness the reality
of true existence as the image and
likeness of God becomes more apparent
to us, wherein God is never afar off,
nor man a filthy WoIni. j. D. d.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-04
THE CALLED JADE

n OW it seems the corporation which
sought to control San Pedro
IL harbor is furnishing, as far as it
can, the citizens who took part in the
consolidation election. Employees who
favored consolidation have been dis
charged. Officials have been removed
for the good of the service when in
reality the cause of removal has been
the corporations desire to avenge itself
upon all who took part in the patriotic
effort to emancipate Los Angeles and
South California from its harassing
control.
Could anything be more despicable
than the discharge of an efficient EN-
ploye who for years held a responsible
position the duties of which he per-
formed with fidelity and credit, when
the cause of the discharge is nothing
more nor less than that crude, unciv-
ilized human passion called revenge?
What good purpose can the corpora
tion hope to effect by depriving men OF
their bread and butter or of part of it?
Consolidation is accomplished Why
not accept the situation gracefully and
fall in step? Why not work for the
prosperity of Greater Los Angeles?
Why not exhibit some real concern for
the interests of the seaport of Greater
Los Angeles and take a patriotic part
in the maritime development of South
California?
But such questions would be ad-
dressed in vain to the soulless corpor-
alton which has been ousted from
control of Greater Los Angeles and its
harbor. LET the CALLED jade vince!
Her withers are unwrung." When in
edition to wincing she kicks and
squeals and bites and Injuries good men
the gall of the CALLED jade arouses the
contempt of all good citizens.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-04
PROSPERITY
n RESIDENT TAFT has made a
phrase that will not readily be for

n RESIDENT TAFT has made a
phrase that will not readily be for
a gotten. 1t is the hum of pros
perity and the ecstasy of great profits" ."
There is a refreshing frankness about
this phrase.
The average mau-perhaps the aver
age Republican president-would have
said: Hum of prosperity, ecstasy Of
great profits and rapture of high
wages" The three should go together
always. There is no excuse for high
wages when there is not prosperity,
which, of course, includes great profits
But prosperity that goes into ecstasies
over it's big profits is in honor bound
to pay high wages.
President Taft's directness deserves
communication. Most people are not in
business for their health, and when
business prospers, of course. they are
joyful.
In South California, President Taft
will find conditions somewhat different
from those which exist in the east.
Here there is the hum of prosperity,
but it is more general prosperity than
is to be found in the east, and profits
are more evenly divided. The average
condition here is better than it is in
any other part of the country, and, if
we may put it in that way. practically
the entire community is on profit
sharing basis.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-04
FRIDAY MORNING CLUB

CONGRATULATIONS ~ to the Friday
Morning club! That splendid or
~ ganization has announced through
its worthy president, Mrs. o. P. Clark.
that by December it will be ready to
pay off $4,000 of its Indebtedness on its
Figueroa street property. The club in
tends to take an active part in the life
of Greater Los Angeles, and we hope
it will make its power and influence
felt in all matters in which it's action or
voice might be regarded as authorita-
tive. For instance, the purity of the
milk supply of Los Angeles is subject
to which the club win devote attention,
and we have no doubt with results
which will be beneficial to the commu-
nifty.
Impure milk or inferior milk is a
menace to the health of any city and
every effort should be made to keep
up to the highest standard the milk
supply of Los Angeles.
There are other hygienic matters with
which the club might concern itself,
and matters of social Importance as to
which the advice Of the Friday Morn
ing would be welcome. We do not
know of any club which has more
general fame throughout the United
States. Everybody, everywhere, has
heard OF the Friday Morning club, and
Los Angeles people wherever they go
(and they go eVeryWhere) are asked to
talk about it and explain "why it is''
and what it does. And for this and
other good reasons it is right and
proper the Friday Morning club should
be considered one of the institutions
of Los Angeles.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-04
QUOTES MORE BELIEFS
OF HERETICAL WRITER'S

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 2.-LEditor
Herald: The only common character
that runs through the whole body of
heretical evidence is that they, one and
all, from first to last, deny the existence
of Jesus Christ as man, and pro-
Tossing their faith in him as God and
Savior, yet uniformly and consistently
hold the whole story of his life and
actions to be allegorical.
"The greatest part of the Gnostics
0aking that name as the most general
one of all the heretics of the three first
centuries) denied that Christ was
clothed with real body, or that he
suffered really" (Mosheim, vol. l,
p. 1860.
Origen vindicates, without denying
the charge of CELSIUS that the Chris
tian religion contained nothing but
what Christians held in common with
heathens; nothing that was new, or
truly, great" (Bellamy's Translation
chap. A..
Even under the primitive discipline,
and before the conversion OF Rome,
Gregory Thaumaturgus is commended
by his namesake of Nyssa for changing
the pagan festivals into Christian holi-
days. (Cit. in Middleton's letter from
Rome 236).
'If then we hold some opinions near
of kin to the poets and philosophers IN
greatest repute dihohg you, why o.
we thus unjustly hated? For in say
ing that all things were made in this
beautiful order by God what do we
seem to say more than Plato?
And by declaring the Logos the first
begotten of God, our master, Jesus
Christ, to be born of a virgin and to be
crucifed and dead, and to have risen
again, and ascended into heaven, we
say no more in this than what you say
of those whom you style the sons OF
Jove." dustin Martyrs apolog, ad-
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-04
WATER TRUST

CLIFFORD PINCHOT has carried to
eT Washington the news the people
N of the west are awake as never
before to the Importance Of conserva-
ton of natural resources. Mr.. Pinchot
says the water trust which is being
formed should be acted upon with rigor
and with vigor at the next session of
congress. I'VE must do something
about this trust or lose out" is his way
of putting it.
To control water supply for the pur-
pose of taking tribute from every in
dustry which depends on water power
is, next to levying blackmail, the most
outrageous scheme that could be de-
vised for enriching a plunderer by the
necessity of his victim. 1t has been
said in jest that if it were not for cir
cunstances certain magnates doubtless
would get together, control the atmos-
phere and conduct a lucrative air trust.
A water trust should be as impos-
sible as an air trust. It is hideously
and grotesquely preposterous that the
suggestion Of a wa n trust or a water
power trust should be even listened to
patiently.
Although the word "baronialism" has
been used in a jesting way with refer
ence to predatory business methods,
there can be no doubt baronialism
more aptly than any other term de-
scribes a condition which is suggestive
of Front de Boeuf and the Norman
keeps rather than Of liberty and in
dependence. A water power trust or
any other trust is a criminal conspiracy
TO ''hold up" the people, and is not less
criminal than the baronial conspiracies
entered into by Front de Boeuf and his
neighbors when they manned all the
roads and held up" all the people who
used the highways.