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was widely and well known, being con-
nected with some of the most promi-
nent, and best families Of this and other
counties.
Early in hfe she united with the
Methodist church and sh, was loyal to
its teachings rs much as her busy life
permitted. How she loved "old Mt.
Olivet" as she was wont To call il, and
tho in later years her failing health
hindered her attendance there. she
talked often Of the many blessings re-
ceived at the altar of her beloved church
and how God had sustained her amid
the scenes of the changing wears.
Truly we all. friends and neighbors.
with her loved ones. believe that she
is with the throng around the great
white throne "Who have come up
thru great trials and tribulations. and
had their robes washed and made white
in the blood Of the Lamb. -
The funeral services were conducted
at the home by her former pastor. Rev.
A. l.. Jones Of Wilmorc. assisted by
the present pastrr. x. NJ. Lee. Inter
ment taking place in the Danyillc
cem"tery.
The sympathy Of the entire com
munitv goes out to the brreaved family
and especially the baby grand daugh-
ter" Mary Ellen our hearts are sad,
and our eyes are wet with tears when
we try TO fathom the why Of her ira
gic end. We can only pray that the
"Kindly Light may lead ~ on.
Til the night is DER.
And We are face to face.
With those we've loved long since
And lost awhile.
And then Wen understand "
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IN THE GROCERY STORE,

BY the old stove in the grocery store
W. felers take our stand.
An there we run the government &c
beat the very band
For when il comes to politics, III To-.
you DER an DER.
We know what's what there. b, a.,
stove that's IN the grocery store
We folks that toll that till the sou
an bring the seed to brend.
We really run the country. when all D
done an said
An when the winters with ". au
bittn' billiards roar.
We hold meeting hy the stove that
IN the grocery store.
It's congress Of the people. an IT,
wantln' you to know
We know trick or two bout how Z
make the country grow;
For way up there. IN Washington, th' q
politics ~ poor
Compared Co ours by IN. stove thot
in the grocery storc'
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OBITUARY
An Appreciation or Mrs. SalGe B. Welsh.

Tulv TN. Death ANGEL cam. as n
swift messenger to Mrs. Sallie Il.
WEIGH. of Bryantsyille. January 18th.
Calling TO her granddaughter TO know
of a certain ut.nsil IN the praparation
of the monday meal the girl not hy,
minutes later hearing her screams ran
from an upstairs room TO tn, hall be-
low and found her enyeloped in flames.
Working heroically TO save her and
calling for helm. neighbors and friends
soon came IN the rescue ard after
many struggles the flames were OK.
tinpuisb.d. The arrival of tn. two
musicians gave no hone for any re-
coyary and all that medical skill and
loving hards could do was To make TN.
last few hours as free from pain as
possible. which seemed to have been
successful as she gave no evidence Of
much suffering and as she was turned
TO one side she went TO sleep like n
tired child. breathing her last at 10
o clock Thursday evening.
Mrs Welch. who was Sallia f.
Smith before her marriage. was the
daughter Ct Merrill and Hannah Burn.
side Smith. of this county She WINS
born about four miles from the village
of Buena Vista IN what is known as
the fork section where she spent
her early life.
Her mother died while she was IN
her teens and il befeu her to be a
mother TO her two Younger brothers.
Later an Aunt died leaving a neice and
nephew for her to rear. At the age of
% she met her future husband Mr..
Charles Welsh of Danyills who later
came To make his home with his cousin.
the late Charlie Spillman, of this coun-
". Their married life was happy but
bri, {, Mr.. Welsh passed away leaving
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QUEER NEWS ITEMS.

When q girl gigglci during Billy sun.
d,y's opening sermon ut Buffalo. New
York. last Sunday. he yelled at her:
That. right you httI" frizz'ci haired
sissy. You couldn't turn tlapJack
~ the kitchen without spIllnr the
batter"
Onr shoe factory at Brocktou. Mas.
tins week did not make u contract To
shoe the Russian army. IL couldn't
II had to make a pair Of shoes for
Bernard Koync. Of Des Moincs. la. who
j. seven feet nine and wears number
twenty zones.
Charles / Fruhman. Of Columbus Ind.
spent more thnn sos To make "A cal"n.
dar be- gave 90 his sister. Miss Lille
Frnhman. Fronman used dollar blli
for every day Of the month ON his fan
cy calendar. and at the top he showed
IN. moon changes. making the moon
Of a s. gold piece.
4 butcher shop in which horse meat
is sold exclusively has been opened an
Harlem. " Y. with the sanction Of
the Board Of Health. 1t became known
Monday. Horse flesh for sale here.
reads sign over the shop. Round
ara sirloin steaks are quoted at II
cents pound. while inferior cuts sell
as low as d cents pound Horse
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1917-02-08

the Nelson Bible and
Testament is the recog-
nlzed standard. used by
Ministers. Sunday School
teachers and Bible Col.
leges throughout the
United States. Good
paper and print and fine
soft bindings.
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WAS OvERRULED BY HIS SON
Sir Edward Carson Tells How the
Young Man Got Into the Brit
lsh Navy.

Sir Edward Carson introduced q
personal note into a speech which he
made the other day when he was the
guest of the British Empire Producers
organization, at the Savoy hotel, says
the London Chronicle.
II remember" said Sir Edward
"when little son of mine came to me
and said Father, want to join the
navy class at school, l said, What
rubbish You are going to be a law
YER He told me plainly that I was
wrong and I explained to him how
much better it would be to make mon
ey in the Temple than lose 1t at sea.
He said, You don't seem to recognize
the Importance Of the navy; 1t is the
great connecting link between the
mother country and the colonies
81 replied, We'll, If you put 1t on
that high plane, I must alter my views
He is now commanding submarine,
and only yesterday, in my capacity OF
first lord Of the admiralty, I had to
read an account Of an attempt OF one
Of our destroyers to sink his subma-
rine."
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other women to take up the work for
when the Americans begin to fight
there will be no stopping the stream of
wounded until the war is won. And
the Red Cross cannot afford to let a
single fighting man die for lack of a
bandage or a splint. Is our commu-
nifty doing it's part?
In France right now the supply Of
gauze and linen is so low that they
are reported to be using old newspa-
pers to stanch bleeding wounds. That
must never happen to an American SOL
dier. And unless the American people
get behind the Red Cross with all their
strength and in all their numbers, and
train themselves to turn out supplies
for their hospitals, it may happen.
1t would be the irony of fate If a
soldier from our own town-perhaps
your own family, or mine-were to get
gangrene in his wound, perhaps lose
an arm or leg or even his life, be-
cause we folks here had failed to fur
nish the dressings for his wound.
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If the American Red Cross had never
done anything else than organize, equip
and supply the base hospitals which
are now backing our armies, it would
have justified it's existence. Of course
1t has done, and still is doing, count
less great things for America and for
the world; but it's accomplishment in
the line Of base hospitals is just now
Of prime Importance.
AS briefly as it may be defined, a
base hospital is an institution which
cares for the sick or wounded soldier
from the time he is sent back from
the firing line, until he is able to be
removed to a hospital in his own coun-
try.
1t is almost unbelievable, but never
theless a fact, that until the American
Red Cross took hold of the task a
year ago, no nation in the history of
the world had ever organized base
hospital until after war had been de-
clared and the fighting begun, and the
wounded men lay writhing on the
ground.
Always, of course, there have been
a few army surgeons with each regi-
ment, who patched up the Slightly
wounded and got them back into the
firing line as quickly as possible. Also,
IF course, there have always been in
all countries some sort of hospital sys-
tenn for the care of the sick and
wounded when they got home.
But always the intermediate insti-
tuition, for the care and transportation
Of the sick and wounded between the
front and the home hospitals, was
missing. This has invariably led to
terrible congestion of wounded on
the battlefields, where thousands suf-
fered needlessly, lost arms and legs
that might have been saved, or died
when a little care would have pre-
served them.
Col. Jefferson Randolph Kean, q. S.
A. Medical corps, director general of
military relief Of the Red Cross, has
likened the former organization to a
bridge of which the end spans were
complete, but the middle span-the
base hospitals-was entirely lacking.
When a man is wounded in battle,
the method of caring for him is this
modified, of course, by varying condi-
tions:
He lies on the field in No Mans
Land between the lines, or in the
trench until he is able to drag himself
away, or the stretcher bearers can
reach him, and carry him to one of
the little first-aid stations. These are
always very near to the fighting lines
sometimes in a part of the trench
where the men are fighting.
There an army surgeon Stanches the
flow of blood, puts a dressing on the
wound to keep out infection, binds on
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requires an operation, he is in the
hands of the best surgeons of the land,
with the finest surgical tools to do
their work. And the hospital has an
ample supply Of wound dressings, pads,
splints, hospital gowns, surgical
shirts-all the thousand and one things
a frst-class hospital must have.
That is the service which the Aneri-
can Red Cross has provided for the
American soldier before our country
was at war-before a single American
ship or unit of the American army
was headed for Europe. Thirty-six of
these ospitals-enough to care for the
wounded Of an army Of million men
have been made ready to the last
strip of >bandage and the last enrolled
stretcher bearer. Several of them are
now in France, helping to care for the
care for the American soldiers who are
sure to fall into their hands before
many weeks.
Each of these base hospitals calls
for the services of % surgeons. 2
dentists, rs Red Cross nurses and $50
privates, including orderlies, ambu-
lance drivers, stretcher bearers and
clerks.
The permanent minimum equipment
of each hospital consists Of three car
loads Of beds, mattresses, scientific ap-
paratus, operating room paraphernalia,
01I s1r, TIT %e iy1pr %0 EIV.
rope these days, however, are taking
double or triple equipment.
The consumable supplies of each hos
pital consists of 85 crates of bandages,
wound pads, splints, fracture pillows,
dressings and hospital supplies of
every kind to the number Of 42,482, all
made up to army standard, packed,
boxed and labeled so that surgeons and
nurses can put their hands on them
in a moment.
the Red Cross has done every
thing .needful, and that there is moth
ing more to do for the base hospitals
but to wait until the wounded begin
to stream in, and give them the benefit
of all this foresight.
Not so. 1t has been established that
the supplies Of bandages and splints
and wound pads and gauze in base
hospital last through just about four
days of heavy fighting. Then, unless
there were a great store of supplies
to draw from, the hospital would find
itself with 500 wounded on hand, and
no dressings for their wounds.
Here, again, is work for the Red
Cross. All over the land, wherever
supplies were made for these 36 base
hospitals, are women trained in max
ing hospital supplies. 1t is for these
women not only to stand ready to fur
nish other supplies, but to train still
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splints in case of broken bones, and
makes it possible for the patient to be
moved to the little field hospital a
This field hospital is usually tent
sometimes a hut or a barn or even
a space in the open air sheltered by
hill or a clump Of trees. It is really
little more than an enlarged first-aid
station, with capacity for not more
than 125 wounded, who lie on the
ground on tarpaulins. There are no
beds, and seldom any cots.
From the field hospital the wound
ed are taken, as rapidly as possible, to
the evacuation hospitals, still farther
from the danger zone. Each evacua-
ton hospital cares for the wounded
from three field hospitals. This, too,
is an emergency station, and has no
permanency. 1t is collection station
for wounded, where the worst cases
may be given a little more attention
than has been possible before.
AS rapidly as the motor ambulances,
the hospital trains, the hospital ships,
Or other agencies, are able to work,
the wounded are taken from these col
lecting stations to the base hospital,
located at the army base some distance
to the rear.
Here, for the first time, the wound
ed man finds himself in a real hos
pital, in the hands Of surgeons and
nurses who have the time to give his
hurts every possible care.
He is put into a real bed in real
hospital, supplied with X-ray, bac-
THEOLOGICAL and pathological labora-
tories, diet kitchen presided over by
skilled cooks, and with surgeons and
nurses drawn from Americas most
highly trained to wait on him. If he
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the strongest of the military governors
of China, and there have been various
reports in the last year or two that he
would make an attempt to reinstate
the Manchu dynasty
A dispatch from Peking, June rs, re-
ported that all the provinces which de-
clared their independence of the gov
ernment of Lii Yuan Hung in May and
June, had ceased their warlike prepar
alton At that time it was reported
that Gen. Chang Hsun had expressed
the hope that settlement of the
crisis in China would be reached.
Gen. Lii Yuan Hung succeeded to the
presidency of China June, 1915, after
the death of Gen. Yuan Shi Kai, soon
after Yuan had attempted to change
the form of government in China to a
monarchy.
Since his accession to the leader
ship in China, he has had much trou-
BILE with the northern military lead
ers, including Gen. Chang Haun.
The present difficulties of President
Ii arose over his refusal to uphold the
decision of the cabinet to break with
Germany and it had been reported
that he was opposed to the entry of
China into the war.
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Twenty-Five Years.
Experience With
Kidney Remedy

Between twenty-five and thirty years
ago I commenced selling DR.. Kilmers
Swamp-Root and during all that time I
have never heard single complaint from
my customers; they. are more inclined to
praise it; and judging from their favor
able remarks and the repeated sales I
enjoy I am confident that Swamp-Root Is
valuable medicine for the troubles for
which it is intended.
Very truly yours,
OTTO Fl. G.. LIPPERT,
Pharmacist.
1901 Freeman, Cor. Liberty SITS.
Sept. 10, 1915. Cincinnati, Ohio.
Prove What Swamp-Root Will Do For You
Send ten cents to DIR. Kilmer & Co.,
Binghamton, N. Y, for sample size
bottle. 1t will convince. anyone. You
will also receive a booklet of valuable
information, telling about the kidneys
and bladder: When writing, be sure and
and one-dollar size bottles for sale at all
drug stores.-Adv.
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CHINA REPUBLIC OVERTHROW.
Boy of Thirteen Declared
Emperor.

London, July 3-After an existence
of less than seven years, the Chinese
republic has ceased to exist, according
to advices from Peking. Reuter- dis
patches stated that an ultimatum was
served on President Ii Yuan Hung by
the military dictator, Gen. Chang
Hsun, demanding his immediate resig-
nation. At the same time it was an
ncunced that the Manchu emperor,
Hsuan Tung, had been restored to the
throne. The emperor is 13 years old.
Gen. Chang Hsun, who is the mill
tary governor of Anhwei province, has
taken a prominent part in the recent
internal troubles in China and dis
patch from Peking, June 18, said that
he had assumed the power Of dictator
At that time it was reported that
President Ii Yuan Hung was virtually
a prisoner and that friends of the
president were not permitted to enter
the palace.
Gen. Chang Hsun is reputed to be
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'Every,W oman Wants
Room at the Top.

Little Jennie had been eating very
heartily, but she asked for another
piece of cake.
"Jennie," said her mother, II don't
believe ought to give it to you. You're
about as full as a little girl can pos
sibly be. Another mouthful and you'll
surely burst !"
"But, mamma, my neck's left yeti"
said the little girl, persuasively.
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and waited patiently in downpour Of
rain for the arrival of the American
commander, who was greeted with en-
thusiastic cries of Long Live the
United States!" Long Live General
Pershing!"
When General Pershing entered the
room one of the MANNED French he.
roes limped forward to salute him in
the name of his comrades.
Though wounded, our souls still vi
brate with the ardor of combat. We
salute in the person of the illustrious
General Pershing, President Wilson
and the noble American people"
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WOUNDED WELCOME PERsHING.

Great Crowd Gathers In Downpour to
Greet American Commander.
Paris, France, July 3.-One of the
most touching incidents connected
with the arrival of the representatives
of the American army in France oc-
Cured when manned French soldiers
received Major General Pershing at
one of the institutions of the National
Federation for the Aid Of the Wound
ed in the Champs Elysee.
A large crowd assembled, as is usual
wherever Gen. PeHshing Is expected,
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LATE
AR K E 7
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
DENVER MARKETS.
@ OTATIO N s

Cattle.
Steers (pulp fed) good to
choice ................ lilo "a 1Z.Su
good .11.OO@11.75
Heifers, prime .... .10.75 @11.50
Cows (pulp fed) good to
choice ................ 600 q 1919
Cows (pulp fed) fair to good 5000 9.75
Cows, Gamers and cutters. $500 8.5O
Veal calves .12.50@14.2
Bulls 7.50@10.0O
to choice N ...'........... oA.' eo s.5o@1o.25
Feeders and stockers fair
to good ................ $500 9.z0
Feeders and stockers, COM
mon to fair ............ 7.5O S.5o
Hogs.
GOOD hogs ................l5 1920 W lo.o
Sheep.
Springs lambs .............16.0O @ 17.25
Yearl1ng lambs .......... .l4.00 W low
Ewes 9.25Q10.00
Wethers .............1 .10.5O@11.00
Yearling wethers .12.50@13.0
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AMERICAN RED CROSS HOSPITAL UNITS
FIRST TO ANSWER NATIONS CALL FOR
HELP ON EUROPE'S BATTLEFIELDS

Organized in Peace Tmes These Groups of Surgeons, Nurses
and Privaes Are Showing the Allies That Uncle Sam Is
Prepared to Aid Them Fully in One Department at
Least-Ths Community Must Do Its Part-We
Must Give Our Time, Services, Money.
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Red Cross stretcher Men.

After wounded soldiers receive first
aid in the trench dressing stations they
are carried back at night usually by
Red Cross stretcher-bearers under fire
to waiting Red Cross ambulances two
or three hundred yards to the rear.
They are conveyed then to the field
hospital several miles back, and as
soon as conditions permit, the patients
are removed to a base hospital 40 or
SO miles behind the firing line.
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The Red Cross now has more thar
1,20O regularly organized chapters In
the United States, with considerably
more than 100000 members.
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MISCELLANEOUS MARKETS
Prices Quoted for Metals.

Prices quoted for Metals.
New York.-Lead-Spot, 11Ac.
Copper-Electrolyti spot and near
by, $32.00@34.0O, nominal; 3rd quarter
and later deliveries, $29.5O@3 5000.
Iron-Ffrm: No: l Northern, $4,000
ern, $4S.OO@49.OO; No. 2, 47.5O@48.50.
-Easy-Spot, $61.50@62.5O.
Bar Silver-78c.
Copper-Casting, $29.62A.
ST. Louis-Spelter-$9.
London.-Bar Silver-39%d per OF.
Boulder.-Tungsten concentrates, 500,
$17.O0 per unit. Crude ores, 500, SIS. 90;
$50, $9.40@12.00; 1919, $S.70@10.00 per
unit.
Chicago Grain and Provisions Prices.
Onluogo.-w heat-Nos. 2 and 3 red,
and and 3 hard, nominal
8 yellow, .74@1.74A; No. 4 yellow.
$1.73.
Oats-No. white, 69@70c; stand"
ard, 69h @7Oc.
Barley-$1.10@1.40.
Timothy-$4.00@7.
Clover-$12.00@17.00
Pork-39.35.
k1PdLs21:20@21;27' R3bsEs2l q p 57
Butter, Eggs, Potatoes and Poultry.
Chicago Butter Creamery 33 @
Eggs-1sts, 3o@31c; ordinary lists,
28@29c; at mark. cases included, ESQ
81c.
Potatoes-No market for old. Okla.
and Ark, $2.90@3.20; Mississippi, $2.75
@3.0O California, $3.O0@3.25.
Poultry-Fowls, 1917 @20c.
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Butter, EGGS. Potatoes and Poultry.
Chicago Live Stock Quotations.

Chicag HOgs-BuIk, $14.6U q 1915 !
light, $14.O0 q 1920; mixed, $14.3O q
1875; heavy, $14.30@15.85; rough, 1890
@145O; pigs, $10.75 @14.00.
Cattle-Native beef cattle, $500
1885; stockers and feeders, .75@9.80;
COWS and heifers, $5.75 @11.8O; calves
sheep-W ethers, $s.so@11.sO; ewes,
SS.OO@1O.25; lambs, $1O75 q 1925;
springs, $13.00Q18.00.
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The Proper One.
II am going to put patch on for
tune"
"Then make 1t potato patch"
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Self-EVldent.

"Please, lady," begged the very dirty
tramp at the back door, "can you help
a poor man that lost his job three
weeks ago and amt been able to find
no work SINGER
'"What sort of job was it?" asked
the lady.
'I was workin' in a soap factory"
"Well it's plain to be seen that you
were not discharged for dishonesty"
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Price of Cotton.

New York.-Cottop-July 26.77; Oct,
zs47; Dec. 1859; JAN, 1865; March,
$3.50. Middling, 27.15.
Duluth.-Linseed-O track and ar
rive, $3.50; arrive in Oct, $3.50; Sept.
$3.50; July &2.90; Oct. $3.50 bid.
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Dry Flint Pelts.

Wool pelts, per lb. ..... 34@ 35
Short wool pelts ......... 500 80
Butcher shearlings, No. 10
No. 2 murian shearlings =. O5
Bucks, saddles and pieces at value.
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Green Salted PeIts,

Green Sailed, Cured Hides, etc.
Over 40 lbs, per lb. .......17@ 18
Under 40 lbs. ..............16@ II
Bull and stag ............. IL
Glue hides and skins ...... IL
Part cured, 1c less.
Green, &c lb less than cured.
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HIDES AND PELTS.

Dry Hides.
Flint butcher, per lb. ......37 Q39
Flint bull and stag ....... ~
Flint culls and glue ....... IL
Salt hides 2@3c lb. less. Z
Horsehides 1/2Q2/3 price of greer
salted.
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HAY AND GRAIN MARKET.
(F. o. B. Denver, Carload Price.)

Hungarian patent .5.65
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1917-04-26
ALFALFA MILL ASKS CITY
TO FURNISH A SITE

The Denver Alfalfa Milling COM
pany that expects to build mill
here in the immediate future is ask
ing that the city give a site for the
building. The stock was all sold in
Missouri but the mill will be erect
ed here. The money is to be raised
by subscription among townspeople
and a committee is to be appointed
soon by H. w. Rohrer, president oil
the Abilene club to solicit subscrip-
tons.
Santa Re engineers were here to-
day looking over the ground and
deciding on the best place and as
soon as their choice is made steps
will be taken toward securing it.
Several Abilene men have secured
options on a number of the likely
places and the milling company may
experience some trouble III buying
at low price.