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of every kind, nnd for your fields of growing cropa, ii what you want, and what you have a right to expect,
when you buy fence. A fence that a bull can break through or break down ia not worth paying good money
for. You want weight in the fence you buy, weight enough to turn the heaviest Percheron or atop a devil
wagon." Now, It is a fact nnd you should know It that, per running rod, you obtain the most weight la
wire that Is given in any fence, in the celebrated ,
It is made on purpose to be the heaviest, most durable and lasting of any fence at any price. It is made and
old in larger quantities than any other two fences in the world, solely on its merits.
The makers of AMERICAN FENCE own and operate their own iron mines and furnaces, their own wire
mills and six immense fence factories. Their oroduct is the acknowledged
STANDARD OF THE WORLD
We can show you this fence h o.r itock and explain its merits and superiority, not only in the roll but in
the field. Come and see us and gel our prices.
A. HOOD & SONS IMPLEMENT CO.
Gr. 12. I1UCKER. Mannger.
This is THE HOiSTER
Freeman Fdry & Mfg Co. j
All Summer via the Santa Fe.
Tourist tickets on sale every day at very low rates.
To gain a pleasant ami auspicious introduction to Colorado you should
travel Santa Ke. The magnificent mountain panorama over one hundred
miles long seen en route to Denver and through Pueblo and Colorado
Springs prepares you as nothing else can for those other attractions offered
by this great vacation land.
Pullmans, chair cars, fast trains and
pealing to discriminating travelers.
DcKiipiive litrraiure lire.
Far rates, lime table (olden, ot
ictcrvationa, apply to
8$S
Minneapolis, Minn.. Aug. 13 to 18, 1906.
$13.90 FOR THE ROUND TRIP $13.90
Date of sale August 11, 12 and 13. Re
turn limit August 31, 1906
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the Eastenf resorts, and to Gly of Mexico, this summer. The rates
will be attractive enough, even if the question of price need not enter
nto your calculations.
The Santa Fe is the best road to any of the places mentioned exper
ienced travelers says so. Harvey's meals served exclusively at dining
rooms and in dining cars.
I'd Ike to help plan your trip. Tell me when you want to go,
ana wnere; aisy now long you
tell you the lowest price of
L. B. ' SMITH. Tasseno'er ArenL
The Atchison, Topcka & Sajita Fe Railway Company,
Kansas City. Mo.
For Your, Live Stock
That every hoistennan favors.
Why? Because they are easy
to operate, smooth running (cut
gear), capable of standing
heavy service, with the 'least
possible delay and expense for
repairs. The BEST Hoister
on the market.
All Kinds of
MINING MACHINERY.
Phones 52. Joplin, Mo.
a
Colorado
Excursions
Harvey meals,
A combination p-
L B. Smith, Passenger Agent,
Kansas City, Mo.
NATIONAL G. A. R.
ENCAMPMENT.
Vacation Time
What are your plans?
Have you thought where you'll spend the sum
mer? The Santa Fe will sell excursion tickets to Cal
ifornia, Colorado. Chicaro. the Northern and
desire to remain. Then 1 can
pror ticket.
TIME YOU WERE DOING IT.
Owner of etalliooa and jncka will
be in need of bill and carda for an
nouncing the place and ternia of
season right away. The News ia
well equipped wih n variety of the
latent and newest styles of display
aud body type, cut, and paper aud
card Block with which to print at
tractive bills that will be read by
those you want to become yourcue
toiuers. Remember that good print
ing is ulwaya cheaper than poor
printing. The News' will charge
you no more for lirat clasa printing
than other oflices will for poor
printing.
Steals Fire From the fTlnd.
Malaria steals fire from the mind
and vigor from the limb unless you
lake Dr. MeodenhaU'a Chill and
Fever Cure to give yourself new
vim. Better than quinine and does
oot affect the head. Pleasant to
take. If you do not like it better
than any other Chill Touic Morrow
Carney Drug Company will pay
your money back.
A FEW BARGAINS.
Four-room house with four lota,
for $m
Twenty-one lots, with three-room
house, barn, well, fruit and berries,
for $550.
Six-room modern dwelling, (new),
nice corner, good location, 130-foot
front, for $1100. Cheap.
Kight-room bouse, with two big
lota, very desirable, $2,500.
Two-room house and stable tor
$300.
Five-room bouse, large rooms,
stable, cellar, fruit, fine location,
near main street, for $1,250.
Ninety lota, large house, large
barn, well, cistern, lots of fruit and
shade trees, a beautiful home, for
$3,000.
Nine-room house, fine barn, 100-ft.
front, lota .of fruit, shade trees,
shrubbery, etc., for $1,800.
Six-room house, seven lots, good
well, stable, fruit and shade, goon
location, for $850.
Seven-room house, fine barn, wa
ter works, bath, very fine residence
modern, price $2,750.
100-acre farm, well situated; good
land, fine houae and barn and otr
cnara, at -t.au an acre; part on
time. Must be sold aoon if at above
price.
Daniels St Plumb.
9J0O Bottles In a Months.
Dr. MeodenhaU'a Chill and Fever
Cure baa gained favor with the
trade more rapidly than any other
Chill Tonic. We have sold nearly
50 gross in four months." Schub
Drug Company, Wholesale Drug
gists, Cairo, III. Sold on a aigned
guaranty by Morrow-Carney Drug
Company.
ANNOUNCEMENT.
I hereby announce myaeli a can
didate for the Republican xiomioa
tion for the office of sheriff of Cher
okee connty, promiaiog, if nomin
ated, to make the best race posai
ble, and if elected to do the Jbest J
know bow. JOHN AlTCOTfcON.
Out of ao Kinds the Best.
"Ship one gross Dr. MendenhaM'a
Chill and Fever Cure. It give the
beat aatisfaction of about 20 branda
I carry." J. R. Hafford, Druggist,
Rector, Arkansas. Children like it.
Sold on a signed guaranty by Morrow-Carney
Druar Comoany.
$10 REWARD
For evidence which will convict the
party or parties who have' been
damaging the property of the Bax.
ter Telephone Company, by break,
iog glass insulators or otherwise.
K W. Dow. Msnsger.
DEGGS'CLCDDrOHIFIEIl
The Church
in the Swamp
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By DALLAS LOM BHAKP
tOopirlfkl, hr joasua . ktowiesj
i , There was a time when tha little
flat-bottomed cotton boats touched at
, almost every woody bend as they pid
dled down the Savannah from Augus
ta. But the streams of population have
changed their course since the coming
of the railroad. The low-lying swamps
are nearly asserted ; ana sow. except
at the few regular stations, the boat
turns her shovel nose Into the bank
only when she smells a barrel of resin,
a bale of cotton, or sights some lonely
dweller waving his hat or a pin knot
from a stump in the edge of the
swamp.
One autumn day about tea years
ago, I was put ashore nearly ISO miles
below Augusta, and struck In through
the swsmp to the higher levels for
wild turkeys. It had been beautiful
October weather, but the game was
scarce. At the end of two days' wan
derings I had not beard a gobble, and
when night of the second day came
down with a dreary drizzle, I was back
along the river awaiting for the re- founded, with such a twist that she
turning boat j rose high In the air and swerved lu
Just where I was I did not know, her aim, landing across the back of the
I did not relish the prospect ot an- bench Instead of upon me. She made
other night In the swamp, not In thlJ a vicious grab at me in passing, but 1
neighborhood, anyhow, alone. In the fen ghort, and as she struck the back
rain and reeds, and among the snakea, 0f the bench her weight and the ve
malaria and other beasts lodging there loclty of her spring overturned It with
snout. I dared wait no longer, and, B crash, and I came down on the floor
shouldering my rifle, made my way ' underneath, shut In between the back
back to find a higher, dryer bed. . and the seat, as though under an up
I had not gone far when I found 1 . turned trough,
was following an old path a hog trail Her lightning swiftness had saved
probably and, with Just a hope that ; me. As the bench turned sne sprint
it would lead to a cleariug, I kept on. away, else she might have caught me
With the extra sense of a woodsman, I ; as It turned and dragged me with he;
felt I was nearlng something or some- j to the floor. Before . I knew exact
where; and, turning a tend over th I what had happened she bounded back
rising ground, I saw throjgh the tree- upon the bench, growling and clawing
what seemed like a number of pl::e j on my wooden ehfll as ebs might hav-t
blnzed by the pitch gatherers. But, on clawed a nice turtle. The solid ends
tpproacning, the pilch pines proved tc of the bench prevented her getting at
be, not pines, but gravestones. I had I my feet or head; but at the same in
Humbled upon un ancient graveyard. 1 stant, it seemed, we discovered a larg
3n!y a few of the names could bt
nade out. They wore ull In Fre.uh
ind I guessud It must be an old Hu
;uenot burying ground.
Peering in among the cedars thai
lad rooted out many of the stones, 1
aught a glimpse of a white hoiue
.nd hurrying forward as though I hat!
lot done one of my 40 miles that day
vonderlng if it was a whlte-waihe'.
abln, a turpentine still or 1 suddenly
rtood before a meeting-house, oldei
ind a thousand times more spectr.il
han the graveyard. It was on a knoll.
mi bad been In sight of the river be
ow once; but now the brsh and tree
completely hid it, except when, on
night happen to run upon It; and It
ooked In the gloom as if I might b;
he only one to have done that In hill
jl century. The door was locked. 1
.ried the windows. They were fasten
ed, too; but on the river sCe the end
window was partly torn away, leaving
un opening large enough to admit me.
I climbed Inside and groped my way
ibout with the last of the light A
lozen or more plain benches werf
Irawn up parallel with the platform
ind close together. There was an
intlque swallow-nest pulpit hanging
ilgh up on the wall, with a kind ol
unnel stairway leading down from It
io the platform. It was a hollow
nasty place, and from the odor I
.dged the bats must have recently
is vmbled in large and frequent con
re&itions here. It was spooky, too;
but It was a shelter, and any kind ol
ehelter a house at that! was the
wildest kind of luxury In such a place.
I laid tny rifle on the platform and
prepared my bed; whistling a tune fit
to wake every old ghost about thi
place. The back bench was out of th
lraft ot the broken window, an.
spreading my rubber blanket on this
with my game-bag for a pillow, I lay
down to sleep.
The wind freshened In the trees and
.he pines broke out aloud In the r
iternal dirge. The rain began to pat
er In drops axalnst the looaa panel. It
was pitch dark. What a lit place to be
dead In the graveyard outside!
Joughlng pines, moss-hung cypres3ev
u.'ejit and stornr and everlasting soli
:udel Rather, how unlit!
I fell asleep and dreamed I was one
of a lai X and happy congregation ! but the panther had vanished In the
listening 'o a good old father pleading ! deep shadows of the swamp,
from the j.1ilplt overhead. Then the j on Investigating the pulpit and room
wene chang.W; thai congregation van-. I discovered signs which showed the
Ished, the rconilng sunlight and the 'panther had made a den or the old
good-faced pi eaeher disappeared, and church for a long time, and the awal
I was alone, iff ark w,th 8aUl ' low-nest pulpit up on the wall, where
making ready trora Pu,Plt to w5 once the Huguenot minister had stood,
down upon m i. I wc"" w,th ,tart erved her for a bed.
and ahlver. lor a nomu ttB dream' The belated to,-no P,cked me
was so real I tould still see t leam- up that morning, and as the captain
lng eyes of ftttan staring down " bound up my clawed arm. be told me
The wind wt ia high outalde. the raH, that more than once he had heard the
had ceased, fhe clouds were broken' wall of some beast which he supposed
and driving a cross the moon, and now mt be a Pther. M his boat round
and then a n Jnt flood ot yellow light ed the woody Mult where the old
fell through, the curtalnless windows. meeting-house stood.
I was wide swake now and aUll gazing ' 0dd action.
up at tha fl,dtah face in the pulpit It Maachasetu woman has for
was no long! r a dream. A heavy cloud elhbor-to whom ah
v wtnn an A lo nnrnlnaT
v-"'c,cv "4 . . . -
balls of greet, glared uown at me. The
cloud passed, and a treat cafa head
tha wall It roaa a lit-
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tie, then dl .appeared Inside the pulpit
There cm ud be no mistake about the.
creature. 1 Hever m my ur in in
woods bad 2 een a panther, but thl
could be n a thing else. There was a,
creak on f it narrow stair along the
wait and t as panther's head appears
again over tta, balustrade, un. aowa
It came; wrtly and slowly winding ojt
on the pUtfon n. with as much lithe -
ness as a snaks -
For a ismii t I wttccefl t r crate
'1 w,- ct f'-!:n!S3a. We
were face to face, with hardly IB feet
between us. The platform was a little
higher than the benca on which 1 was
lying, and as the panther crept noise
lessly forward to the edge for a closer
look at ma, her long, powerful body
was brought full Into the moonlight la
all its terrible beauty.
Perhaps It was more than fascina
tion; It may have been fear from the
first so numbing me that I hardly knew
I was afraid. But when the wicked
head began to alnk between the high
shoulders, when the eyes commenced
to change color, and the long tall
Quickened and twitched as It moved
from side to side. I understood my
danger. A quick, sure shot would save
me but where was my rifle? I was
afraJa to move, too terrified to think,
Then from beneath tha hues Daws the
moon glinted on the dark steel barrel
But my fingers closed about the
handle of my hunting knife, and as she
twitched and swayed for the spring, 1
felt that my chances were worth the
trial. Every muscle In the sinewy
body suddenly grew tense. Her head
dropped till it Just cleared the floor.
Thert wal a Qulver through the long,
lean frame, a scream end then an
answering scream; such a yell as that
cat never heard before. I uttered It so
unexpectedly, so frightfully, that thr
beast was startled In her leap, and
went off an Instant sooner than she
crack between th9 e.!ga of the seat
and the floor. The panther pushed her
bare yellow teeth under, close to my
face. I greeted her with another yell
that set her back upon her haunchor.
I Again she threw herself upon the
; bench, and like a flush thrust a paw
I beneath and burled the claws in my
arm. In a moment I would have been
dragged from my shell; bat I was
watching for that paw, and met It with
my knife. I must have driven the
blade nearly through It, for with a
yelp of pain and fright she leaped
away.
Again and again she made at me,
and struck at the crack, but could no:
bring herself to risk another paw te
neatn. In -trying to get my wounded
arm from under me I moved the benca
iue panther snarled and retreated. 1
moved It toward her and called. At
every move she backed further o.
spitting and snarling, until I heard her
leap past the end, run along the wall
and spring. Th9re was a crash of
glass, two or three long leaps oa the
turf outside, then all was still.
She had gone; but I did not follow
and shoot h9r. I was content to lie
there till daylight lent me more
strength. When at last I crawled out
1 CRAWLED OUT.
I found the blood stains of the wound
ed paw on the floor and grass outside;
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unknownevery time ne nas neen
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;,dwrit majority party a
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check with a now expressing a nope lor
j Sha aecU, iha doe. It to
th- b,c tnd A Ud y,.
, ..faction of seeing ber candidate
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The Season,
Little Bessie I like yoi better than
sister other nean.
The Bean I'm glad to hear that
, why do you like me? i
Little Bess! "0008 . sister never
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DEPARTURE OF TRAINS.
No. NORTH BOUND.
no Meteor 1:31 am
116 Kansas City Mail 10:15 an
110 Kansas City special 3:45 Pm
118 Joplin and Okla Express ...7:10 pm
SOUTH BOUND.
109 Meteor am
147 Oklahoma Accommodation. 9:40 am
1 17 Joplin and Okla express .... 7:30 am
EAST BOUND.
J18 K C special via Joplin 7:10 pm
308 St. Louis snd Memphis Lt. 7:40 pm
jio Kansss City Passenger.... 5:45 pm
310 Kansas City Passenger .... 9:33 am
302 St. Louis Mail 3:30 am
WEST BOUND.
301 Kansas Mail 11:45 pm
307 Kansas Limited 8:40 am
The above schedule, which went into
effect Jsn. 17, gives you first class ser
vice sod unequaled opportunities to rescb
all points north, south, east and west, vis
the Frisco System.
For further information as to routes,
rates and connections, call on or addrest
J. M. WILSON, Agent.
Mall aad paasenaer trains run dallyi
freight truina daily except Sunday. Nail
closes at poatofnee 30 minutes befcre train
time.
Baxter and Chetopa Mall and Hack Line.
Daily Except Sunday.
Leaves Baxter 1 p. in.t Keelville I:tut
Melrose 1. arrive at Chetopa at p. m.
Boxtersnd Peoria Mail Line.
Daily except Sunday. Mall leaven Baxter
aH:0Ua. m.
Missouri Pacific Ry at Joplin
Arrive.
Prom St. Louis and Kansas City at S.OOa.m
Kroui St. LouIkuikI KuiiHusClty at4.Mia.iu
Krom St. Lou in und Kuiihiik City at i3 p.m
Krom (iruiiliy, ItiuuiiimlvUI.Webb, IJ.SHpm
Kntui lirutiliy, Diumoiidvill, Webb, iJU pm
Ucpurt.
Kor St. L011I and Kaanas City at 1.43 a. ru
fur St Loiti unci Kunwux City at 8.: a. in
Kor St. Loiiiw und Kiiiixuk City ut 6.43 p. m
Kor Webb, DiuinoiKlville.Orunby S.OUa. in
Kor Webb, Uiumond vllle.Gruilby l.Wp. ui
Train No. 4, which leuvea Joplin ut a
in, mukea direct connection ut St. Luui
and Kansua City (or ChicuRo.
Trutn No. 3), leuvinir Joplin at 7.00 p ru
for St. Louis und Kausus City, arriving- in
Kansas City at l.J a m, und St. Louis at
".Sua m, hua free reclining' cliulr car aud
alee per. Nochunice.
No. 26-1,30 a in. Sleeper for Kansas City.
This la the ONLY LINE runolna; three
daily passenger trains from Southwest
Missouri to Kaunas City and St. Louis;
equipment consists of Pullman palare
coaches, FREE reclining chair cars and
Pullman sleeping cars and buffet. Kor
further particulars apply to
C. H. If OH RE R.
Passenger and Ticket Agent, Jopliu, Mo.
E. I). MORGAN,
Attorney-at-Livv.
General Practice in All Conrta.
Room 10, Daniels bid?. Baxter, Ke
J. H. BOSWELL, M. D
Physician and Surgeon.
Office over Dent'a Store. Office
phone 209; residence phone 281.
BAXTER LIVERY BARN.
Oldeet in the city. Eetabliabed 30
yeara afro. Good service and
reaaonable ratea.
J. BIS0H0FSBEJIGER, Prop.
DR. A. J. THOMPSON,
DENTIST.
Daniele Block Baxter Springs, Ke.
BULGER, STAR & PATTEN,
Attorneys at Law.
Roome 4, 5 and 6, Leader Bldg.
VINITA, - I. T.
CITY DRAT LINE,
ED. COVET, Prsp'r.
Freight, Household Goods
and articles of all kinds
Hauled at Reasonable Rates.
Up-To-Date Barber Shop,
Armstrong's Old Stand,
O. O. Roberts, Propr.
At Shop Early and Late
Good Barbere, Beat Treatment
hi Coot north of Baxter Hdw Co
COOTMBU3
D. M. JONES,
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