Olathe News from Olathe, Kansas • Page 7

4 THBiOLAlHE MIRROR, OLATHE, KANSAS, THDESDAY, MAY 21, 190a TOMB OF CONFUCIUS TRAIN LOADS OF LUMBER Miiinie is a most important niraatter There are two other thing in life thai, art more important, hut yovr tnuineu. Our interest is concerned wholly with building your home and in this we are confident that our service cannot be excelled Our years in the lumber business are marked not merely by the passage of time they represent 'V-V- ntie.voumeollsliess we have built up a business that we tak pride in a business that big deals but we don't slight the small deals on that account. PfnrrfACC in business efficiency knowing how to buy and buying for large interests makes it possible to "give Figures that please the buyer Grades that make this pleasure lasting Get the I yu know lumber, you'll be pleased. If you don't, time will make you pleased with our Figures HODGES BROSJSSSSSS poor, Olathe city 10.60 I Mr. A.

T. Tuller of Kansas City, Kansas, Is visiting Ws daughter, Mrs. E. M. Joabonson of Aubry township.

Mrs. E. M. Joahonson is busy getting ready for a trip to Colorado to visit her sister at Pueblo. Sam Clinkscale has his cement cellar about finished.

The Royal Neighbors of Morse will give an ice cream supper in Neighbor Harper's yard at Morse, Saturday evening, May 23. Ice cream and cake 10c. All are invited. Mrs. E.

M. Joahonson, Itec. Kodol completely digests all classes of food. It will get right at the trouble and do the very work itself for. the stomach.

It is pleasant to take. Sold by all druggists. SUNLIGHT. Mr. Irvin and family were visiting relatives in Miami county last week.

Walter Oliver was in Kansas City on business the last of the week. Walter Townley and wife were guests of their grand parents, Mr. Fleeks, Sunday. Robert Wilson entertained Mr. Riley of Kansas City last week.

Pearl Miller returned to Kansas City Monday. C. R. Baker and wife and father of Severy, Kansas, were guests of Lyt. Bakers over Sunday.

Miss Alta Wilson spent Wednesday in Topeka. Try the Purity Restaurant for short order lunches, or a good square meal. Famous old stand. East Park. Lunch at all hours.

tf PLEASANT VALLEY. A number of our young folks attended communion at Maple Grove Saturday evening. Mrs. Joseph Beales of Lawrence visited his parents Sunday. Several from here attended the German-Methodist district services at Eudora Sundaj'.

Rhoda and Clemmons Finley visited Waverly friends Thursday. James Beales house was struck by lightning Sunday afternoon, tearing the weatherboards off from one side and doing other slight injuries to the house. Mesdames Amelia Gnase and Emma Walker went to Wellsville Wednesday. Never can tell when you'll mash a finger or suffer a cut, bruise, burn or scald. Be prepared.

Dr. Thomas' Eclectric Oil instantly relieves the EUREKA. Rev. Miller of Belton, preached for us Sunday morning. Mr.

and Mrs. L. W. Stewart of Los Angeles. arrived Sunday to spend the summer with Mrs.

Stewart's sister, Mrs. D. W. Shores. Mrs.

Ida Burgess attended the funeral of Mr. Smithera at Spring H'll Monday. Luther Klopfenstein of Hepper, visited home lks las week. The Ladies Aid Society will meet all day Thursday with Mrs. Ains-worth.

We wereg lad to hear of Mr. Mead being able to go to town asain. Mr. Thorp was aa Olatbe caller Friday. Ask Kelly to explain how Hyomei cures catarrh without stomach dosing.

Money refunded if it fails. 21t2 LENEXA. Miss Katherine Hackett of Kansas City was in town a few hours Friday afternoon. Tom Brown and sister. Miss Dora, attended a party in Kansas City Saturday night.

Misses Florence and Eva Newcomer have gone to Springfield. for a two week's visit to friends. Miss Fannin of Kansas City was the guest of Miss Dora Brown the latter part of last week. E. H.

Haskin attended the Bankers Association meeting in Kansas City, Kansas, last Wednesday and Thursday. Otto Taeschner and family of Chicago are here on a visit to Mr. Teaschner's parents, this week, after an absence of seven years. Otto is the same genial fellow of years gone by, and his many friends here were delighted to see him once more. Mrs.

Robt. Laughlin and daughter. The Publisher's Claims Sustained United States Court of Claims The Publishers of Webster International Diclkwary allege that it is, in he popular Unabridged thoroughly re-edited in every detail, and vastly enriched in every part, with the purpoae of adapting It to meet the larger and severer requirements of another generation. We are of the opinion that this allegation most clearly and accurately describes the work that has been accomplished and the result that has been reached. The Dictionary, as it now stands, has been thoroughly re-edited in every detail, has been corrected in every part, and is admirably adapted to meet the larger and severer requirements of a generation which demands more of popular philological knowledge than any generation that the world has ever contained.

It is perhaps needless to add that we refer to the dictionary in our Judicial work as of the highest authority in accuracy of definition; and that in the future as in the past it will be the source of constant reference. CHASLES a KOTT. CfcSrf Jartfa. TLAWBZ3SCS WZXDQ3T JOHIC DAVIS, -ft CH4RIJW The atom refers to WEBSTER'S INTERNATIONAL DICTIONARY THE GRAND PRIZE (the highest award was given to the International at the World's Fair, St. Louis.

GET THE LATEST AIID DEST TouvUlbeintrrtMtedlnour specimen pages, went free, aStCMERRlAM CO. PUBLISHERS. 3IORSE AND EUREKA. PSES IS FOUND 01 II BOCK CHILD THROWN INTO STREAM BRINGS RESCUE BY CRIES AT MIDNIGHT. DEATH PROBABLY INTENDED Some One Evidently Meant Week-Old Boy to Drown, but He It Taken to Hospital and Will Recover.

San Francisco. Over In the Orange Memorial hospital is a week-old baby boy rescued by his own energetic cries from a fiat rock in the middle of a small mountain stream, where he had been thrown in the night to die. The child "was found by Ernest Williams and Frank Markwith, who live on Orange mountain, just back of West Orange, before daylight one day recently. The men were walking up the hillside near Valley Way when they heard a wail that might have been made by a wildcat They each got a good strong club and started toward the location of the sound. But the hills and gulches tricked them and it was a long time before they came near the spot whence the cries issued.

At length they reached a point about 20 feet above the brook and waited. "It's a baby," said Williams. "It might be a bear or panther," Markwith argued. They waited a moment before venturing down the precipice, then, clubs In hand, climbed to the edge of the water. All the while the frantic cries came forth.

Lighting a match the two men were horrified to see in the dim light, ten feet out in the stream, a child lying half in the water on a rock. They wasted no time, but waded out and got the little fellow. The water around the stone was about three feet deep. It was evident to the men that some person had stood on the hillside above the stream and cast the child downward to supposed death. There was only one rock near In the water which could have held the baby off the bottom, and that he found safe lodgment on this solitary place of safety impressed the men as something next to miraculous.

They ran nearly all the way to the hospital with their strange find, wrap-pisg it up warmly in their coats. The A Child Lying Half In the Water. nurses and doctors gasped when they heard the story, and declared the baW would get the finest treatment the hospital had to give. The child's clothes were hand-made and of good material. -It was fully dressed.

With others, Williams and Markwith went to the scene of their discovery the next day, and on the bank they found a number of Infants garments which, apparently, had been thrown away with the baby. At the hospital it was said the boy -will live. He is a handsome little fellow. The only hurt he received in his extraordinary experience was a slight bruise. Government Land in Arkansas.

There is still a great deal of government land in Arkansas subject to homestead. Much of it, of course, is what is known as waste land, being either mountain or swamp, but there are still large areas that are desirable as farms. During the last year there were 362,657 acres of government land patented to actual settlers in Arkansas, leaving a', total of 1,497,142 acres that will In time be taken up. This is an encouraging Indication for the success of the back-to-the-farm movement, for the larger number of these doubtless represent bona fide settlers, although there are some land grabbers among them. Little Rock Gazette, Stork Brings Four Girls.

Lawrence, Kan. Four girl babies were born to Mrs, John Bar ben, wife of a farmer living six miles from Lawrence. One of the babies died, but the other children apparently will lire. Mrs. Baxben is 36 years old, and had six children before the generous visit of the stork.

There are no twins among these, and Mrs. Bar ben knows of no twins In her family. There is one pair of twins la her husband's family. DIODEM MODEST SHRINE MARKS GREAT LEADER'S RESTING PLACE. Seventy-Seven Generations of Hi Family Have Lived in Place Where Illustrious Chinese Philosopher Was Bom.

A new guide book buries this Ic paragraph among its descriptions ol the German port of Tsingtan and of about 50 routes in the Shantung province of China: "At Tshue fu, on passports and cards presented to Duke Kung, permission is granted -to visit the temple and tomb of Confucius. Many known tombs were very old before that of Confucius was built, there is no doubt that Duke Kong can show a longer pedigree than any other person. He is. the latest in the line of the descendants of Confucius, and the family has lived for 77 generations in the very place where the illustrious Chinese philosopher was born and died. The remarkable history of this family is due largely to the attitude of the Chinese toward the descendants of the great teacher.

The family is the only example of hereditary aristocracy in the empire. The head of the house is an independent nobleman, ranking next to the imperial family, supported by the state on the rentals derived from nearly 200,000 acres of land, and distinguished by various special honors and privileges. The governor of the province of Shantung, in the western part of which Confucius was born, is required to prostrate himsell nine times when he pays his respeecti to the duke, but the few Europeans who have visited the place have been simply and cordially welcomed though making only their customary saluta tion. No other family in the world, of course, has a record of having lived for over 2,400 years in one place. Confucius died in his birthplace 2.3S5 years ago.

Four-fifths of the population of thf little city that is hallowed by the dust of Confucius can trace their lineage to the philosopher. If the place is to be visited hereafter by the tourists who will go to China in increasing numbers as transportation facilities improve there should be some agreement as to the spelling of its name. It Is spelled In two ways in the guide book referred to, and Legge, Williamson and some other writers on Confucius have theii own original transliterations for the name of his birthplace. Political reform in China should be accompanied by reform in the Occidental spellings of Chinese place names. Sequestered among the mountains of Shantung, the town has been almost unattainable by foreigners; and even to-day few pilgrims, unsustalned by firm purpose, will undergo the great discomforts of the journey there Six days are required to reach the town from the railroad at Tsinan fa The road is too bad for driving, and the choice is offered to the tourist between six days on a donkey or in a wheelborrow.

The place is called the Mecca of China, but many devotees from the western World are likely to wait for the improvement of transpox tation facilities. Some hours before the city it reached the visitor may see the large cemetery in which the remains of Confucius and his descendants repose. Near the top of a gentle eminence is a terrace to which a stone stairway gives access. The terrace is covered with flagging stones, not in the best of repair, for the surface is uneven, and at the further side of the flagging opposite the stairway rises a tombstone of ordinary height, embedded in mortar between cross pieces of stone; The flat surface is covered with the inscription, and in front of it are stone prayer stool and a handsome Vessel in which incense is constantly burning. This is the modest and simple tomTf of the man who was deified by hit countrymen and whose temples, reared for his honor and worship, may be seen in all the larger cities of the empire.

Georgia Cotton Seed Sent to Mexico R. H. Smith of Monticello, Ga one of the most prominent cotton planters in Georgia, was in Atlanta recently superintending the shipment of 20 tons of seed cotton which he had grown, to Elderg Ulmer of Torreca Coahuila, Mexico. The fame of these seeds has spread over the country, and Mr. Smith is making quite a name for himself and his cotton by its extensive sale and general use.

This cotton win be placed in Mexico, and doubtless will bear fruit equal to that secured from it in This is the longest distance shipment of seed cotton yet recorded fron Georgia. Atlanta Constitution. Defending Portsmouth Harbor. The construction of the new defense breakwater at Portssimith, Englan'd, has been commenced. This is a unique undertaking in order to prevent hostile vessels rushing the naval harbor under, cover of darkness.

A row cf huge concrete blocks is to be dropped across the shallow sandhanks. These blocks weigh 34 tons each; and placed end to end will make a formidable wall which no destroyer can jump. There is. a fort at either end, one era shore and one in the sea, and the only of getting through the breakwater will he through a gap, which ta T3y closed in czss cf r.zzl Miss Letha, spent a couple of -lays on the farm last week, while Mr. and Mrs.

Harry Laughlin visited relatives in Olathe. Mrs. F. Bradshaw and little nephews, Masters William and John Teas, visited Mr. and Mrs.

Wm. Te3s in Olathe a couple of days last week. Henry Cooper's father and little sister came up from Springfield, the latter part of last week for a brief visit. Mr. H.

D. Gillett says it would be most agreeable to him, if the burglars who visit this city would procure their tools elsewhere ihan from his shop. He is getting very tired of spending his valuable time repairing locks, doors and windows. Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup does not constipate, but on the other hand its laxative principles gently move the bowels. Children like it.

Sold by all druggists. STANLEY AND TOMAHAWK. Mrs. Robt. Breckenridge of Olathe is visiting her sister, Mrs.

H. M. Kellogg, this week. H. R.

Allison of Kansas City visited home folks Saturday and Sunday. Miss Mary Young of Los Angeles, and Mrs. Young of Tampa, Kansas, visited last week with relatives at Stanley and Morse. Mr. and Mrs.

W. E. Flook entertained at dinner Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Will Strickler, Miss Maude Kellogg and George Grigsby.

Mrs. Mettie Crust and children are visiting relatives in Belton, Mo. The Glee club of K. C. U.

gave a musical at the P. M. church last Friday evening. There will be preaching next Sunday at the Presbyterian church by Rev. Fulcan of Argentina.

Mr. and Mrs. David Crowe and daughter, and Mrs. Guy Crowe and daughter, Alice, of Claf-lin. Kansas, are visiting their sister, Mrs.

H. W. Flook this week. Mr. and Mrs.

Wm. Denley of Olathe visited the Wilkerson home Saturday and Sunday. All meats handled by Ostrander, Nichols Hershey are inspected by a U. S. inspector.

Free delivery, is the city. tf MORSE. Mrs. Geo. McCaughey and son, Oren, attended church in Olathe Tuesday.

Mrs. Ellen Flanner spent Sunday with Jim Murdock and family. Mrs. Young of Tampa, Kansas, and daughter, Mary, of Los Angeles, visited friends Friday and Saturday! Miss Emma Frailer of Kansas City and Bert Saunders and wife of Olathe spent Sunday at T. B.

Sharps. John Taney of Kansas City visited relatives here Sunday. The Royal Neighbors of Morse will give an ice cream supper on Burt Harper's lawn Saturday, May 23. Everybody cordially invited. Mrs.

Joe Cornell was visiting the week end in Kansas City with relatives. Miss Cecil Thomas came home from Kansas City and spent a few days. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Tullis of Kansas City spent Sunday with Mr.

and Mrs. Geo. Zimmerman. The Morse and Blue Bridge Doys played ball at A. T.

Voight's Saturday. The score was 15 to 9 in favor of Morse. Mrs. Tracy of Olathe returned home Sunday. She has been here caring for her sister, Mrs.

Chambers, who has been quite sick. Mrs. Geo. McCaughey attended the funeral of Austin Smitcers in Spring Hill Monday. BILLS ALLOWED.

Folowing are the amounts paid at the May meeting of the county commissioners, as furnished the Mirror Uy County Clerk Smith: Mo. VB. I. J. E.

Earnshaw, assessor. 129.00 Fees State vs. Beecroft: A. L. Hayes, J.

4.90 J. S. Steed, shf 13.05 A. L. Hayes, J.

3.15 J. S. Steed, shf 2.00 B. C. Morrison, electric lights 12.20 Reg; Pub.

ptg and sup. 193:90 Olathe Cit. Tel. tolls 13.80 F. R.

Lanter, lbr. for 33.00 Abbott Cosgrove, papering 30.45 Roscoe Smith, stamps 5.00 Geo. Crookham, plst. at jail. 6.00 John Jenkins, janitor 40.00 P.

O. Coons, 129.00 Thos. Seaton, labor at 10.50 Henry Klussman, 90.00 L. E. Hancock, coal for jail.

13.50 J. E. Moll, reps, bridge 2.00 Saunders livery 5.50 Johnson Co. Co-Op. Assn.

goods for court 1.05 Johnson Co-Op. Assn. goods for jail. 2.55 Hollis Cook, livery 5.50 W. F.

Bridges, wolf 9.00 J. S. Steed, attending court. 6.00 Olathe Gas Co, gas for jail. 4.75 Sam.

Pratt, cleaning street. 12.00 Wm. G. Shinn, 9.95 J. D.

Whitney, goods ct. hse .65 E. E. Elsrode, goods ct. house 4.50 Clarence Beavers, wolf scalp 2.00 Saunders livery 6.00 Otis Newton, wolf scalps.

7.00 S. E. Wilkinson, labor at jail 4.85 Dick Weaver, goods for jail 4.00 The News Nom. record. 7.00 S.

A. Barnett, wolf scalps. 6.00 Sam. Dods worth, gds ct. hse 6.50 Fred Hackler, wolf scalps 6.00 Claude Stevens, gd.

sqk scalp .05 Baker Baker, burying E. J. Mathlas, old soldier. 50.00 J. S.

Steed, boarding prisoners, etc 185.50 E. L. Miller, ...120.00 Clark Jenkins, lab. at jail. 25.64 Bert Gilbert, goods for jail7.

1.75 Fees State vs. Thurston: E. F. Kiser. J.

P. 4.30 W. F. Blanton, dpy. 18.50 Vera Newton, wit 1.35 Marshal Love, wit.

1.35 Mary Mullen, wit. .75 Mary Mullen, wit .75 Hannah Miller, wit .75 J. S. Steed, fees in case of Texas Itch 6.75 P. goods for jail.

.45 Earl Smalwood, wolf scalps 6.00 G. A. Simpson, assessor. 60.75 S. H.

Allison, sal and mil. 30.00 J. W. Perkins, saL and mil. 30.00 Rcbt.

Baker, sal. and 30.00 J. J. MahaSe, overseeing Ryan burying Dur- flinger child 19.5 Joe Earnshaw, overseeing poor, Shawnee 3.00 Jacob Gras, coal for Ina Smith, poor. Olathe 1.00 E.

L. Sautter, goods poor, Shawnee twp. Flem Bruce 2.0 Mary Mullen 2.50 Mrs. F. L.

Ware 3.00 P. G. Trotter, goods poor Mrs. Davis, Olathe city 4.50 F. R.

Allison, goods Mrs. Davis, poor, Olathe city. 1.50 F. R. Allison, goods Jno.

Withers, poor Olathe city 1.00 H. B. White, goods poor Olathe city: P. Kelly 10.00 Ina Smith 3.00 Tom Durflinger 9.60 R. L.

Moberly, sal. Co. phy. 56.25 P. G.

Trotter, goods for J. Withers, poor, Olathe city. 3.00 B. F. Adair, gods A J.

Bau- com, poor, Olathe city 10.00 D. Weaver, goods I. Smith Smith 3.00 Glover White, goods R. Spencer, poor, Olathe city 8.00 Johnson Co. Co-Op.

Assn. goods G. W. Abbott, poor. 8.10 Johnson Co.

Co-Op. Assn. goods Co. Inf. 14.65 Sol Coker, goods F.

Dunhamer, poor, Mont, tp 5.65 L. E. Hancock, coal, poor, Olathe city Mrs. Dusher 2.00 P. Kelly 3.75 Mrs.

Davis 3.75 John Withers 1.90 Baxter Kay, goods for Mrs. Clark, poor. Mt. tp. 6.00 Taylor Mer.

goods Mrs. Keys, poor. Lex. twp 7.00 Nellie Crane, lab. Co.

15.00 H. R. Eddy, sal. snpt Co. Inf 65.00 Andrew Montgomery, lab Co.

Inf. 20.00 H. R. Eddy, cash; paid A. O.

Moon, labor. 3.50 W. B. Allen 17.52 i Goods for Co. Harry Bradshaw 10.00 Bert Gilbert 3.95 C.

R. Parrett 9.99 F. R. Allison 3.20 W. C.

Elder Co 15.80 S. E. Wilkinson .85 Ott Bros 18.64 Mrs. W. C.

Teas went to Kansas City yesterday to meet a niece from Kiowa county, who is to have iter eyes treated by a specialist. Frank Barnett of Shawnee, Ok and Frank Jordan of Minneapolis, who have been visiting their aunt and sister, Mrs. Eliza Daniels and family for the past week, left Saturday, accompanied by Mrs. Daniels for Minneaapolis, where Mrs. Daniels will visit for a month with relatives.

Valued Same as Gold. B. G. Stewart, a merchant of Cedar View, says: "I tell my customers when they buy a box of Dr. King's New, Life Pills they get the worth of that much gold in weight, if afflicted with constipation, malaria or biliousness." Sold under guarantee at Kelly's drag store.

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