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What Shall We Do. A 6erioua and dangerous disease prevails in this county, dangerous because so deceptive. It conies on so slowly yet surely that it is often firmly seated before we are aware of it. The name of this disease which may be divideit into three distinct stages, First, Kidney trouble, indicated bv pain in the back, rheumatism, lunihago, frequent tleRire to urinufe, often with a burning sensation, the flow of urine being copious or scant with strong odor. If allowed to advance, this ?>/\a <1 it /in t l\ <> C.t/i/t*t / I nt fl iv/t OV iranion i 11c ucvuuu <?i Bladder trouble, with heayy^iairi in the abdomen low down between the naval and the water passage, increasing desire to urinate, with scalding sensation in passing, small quantities being passed with difficulty, sometimes necessary to draw it with instruments. If uric acid or graved has formed, it will prove dangerous if neglected. The third stage is Bright's I)is. ease. Thefe is comfort in knowing that l)r. Kilmer, the great kidney and bladder specialist, has discovered a Remedy famous for its marvelous cures of the most distressing cases and known as Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-lloot. it is sold by all druggists. As a proof of the wonderful virtues of this great discovery, Swamp-Root, a sample bottle and hook of valuable information will be sent absolutely free by mail on application to Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghampton, N. V. When writing kindly mention that you read this liberal oiler in the Lan caster Enterprise. i JLLIAXCE DEPARTMENT. J. F. N1SBET FAltor. The County Alliance will meet on the second Friday (14th) of April, as has been announced by President Lingle. The Sub Alliances should see to it that they have delegates present at that meeting. We want a full meeting, as some vory important questions will come up for discussion. We need our Alliance organization more now?if that is possible?than ever before. Nearly everything is now controlled by a trust, of some kind, and it behooves us to keep our lamps trimmed and burning. Some alliances probably have not had a meeting for some time, and have no regularly elected delegates. Now, don't stay away from the meeting on that account; but appoint yourself, and come. AMERICA'S RICHEST FARMER. A Missouri Patriarch Who Owns and Manages 23,000 Acres? Fattens More Cattle Than Any Man in the World. A milhonair farmer is clearly to be reckoned a sort of latter day miracle ; all the more if he lives in Missouri, and farms all-round ... t the year r$und. Tarkio, Atchison county, is his local habitation,David Kankinjhis to< - ?.'To be strictly accurate, _ _ David Kankin ; he has servore than one term in a state .lature. lie owns and man* 1 23,000 acres of lands in u J^bAon county worth from $50 its fa*fifjy ait acre, and not in the a 8rmarket even at those figures. He ti has bought every acre of it since 1876, mostly from speculative I ? eastern holders, who were gleeful t ' at getting $0 to $10 an acre for their holdings because the railway, you see, had passed them by. It gives a new idea of magnificent western distances to know that the Rankin lands are scattered over an area of forty odd miles. Yet their owner visits them all every little while. Ele lives in a handsome house just outside the town of Tarkio. Five o'clock every fine morning finds him in his buggy, whirling to his main office as fast as a spanking span can carry him. He finds a confidential scretary awaiting him.- A brief interval of talk, clear and pointed instructions, a few notes, mental and written, then he whips away for a round of maybe half a dozen of his fourteen farms before he thinks of turning his horses' heads home. The farms run from 000 to 3, 000 acres. To work them requires between 130 and 150 hands, 70C horses, more than 100 wagons, plows, harrows, planters, cultivators and seeders innumerable, Each ranch is in charge of a com petent foreman, who gets $50 a month and board. Farm hands are paid $20 a month and board, Usually the foreman's family runs the farm boarding house Besides the various foremen there is a farm superintendent, at a sal ary many a bank official might envy. It is questionable, however if lus best endeavors are worth a* much as thf? PVU nf Mm maofar All the land is arable, yet bill little more than half goes yearlv ' under plow. Perhaps 2,000 aeref are sown in wheat The remaindei is planted in corn, and yields, ii: average years, 800,000 bushels i Not a grain of it is sold until il has been transformed into fat stock. In addition to his own crop Mr. Rankin buys whatever corn ' his neighbors have to sell Hf buys also their stalk fields, aftei the corn in gathered, and turm into them herds of catt le, to gather up their rich gleanings. Hesides all that he buys ton upon tan ot cotton seed meal for feeding. Small wonder that his landt grow and increase in fertility un uwr cuuunuous cropping. All land not under plow is laid down in clover, timothy and blu< grass pastures. After standing four years they are fallowed and put in grain, the grain fields meantime going back into grass Thus part of the soil, originallv as rich as any in the world, is al ways resting. Once, at least, his iron-clac rule against the sale of corn lei him into a funny mistake. It is of course, quite impossible for t man who owns so many teams and hires so many drivers to keej all of them accurately in mind Hut there is an infallible Itankir oar mark?at least Mr. Kankn himself thought so for a gooc while. It is tho wagon harness ' He uses the old fashioned traci ! chains, as being both cheaper handier and more lasting that the new fancied outfits of stram and leather. 80 whenever h< meets a team so accoutred he nut j urally sets it down as part of hii property. Some little time bad he met a four-horse team, bravi in chain-harness, drawing a bi| load of corn through Tarkii streets. The sight of it set hin wild. "Thou shalt. not sell corn !' was a sort of eleventh command ment with him. ' A favorite expression with hin and one that he uses to givo vent to his feelings is "Set Fire," re peated two or three times quite rapidly. On this occasion he commenced with "Set Fire, Sel Fire ! What are you doing here 1 with that corn!" The driv calmly replied that he h i brought it to town to well. T! gave rise to a renewed form 4,8et Fires," but fortunately som one who knew the man came fr ward and explained matters. 1 was a farmer who had adopt Mr. Rankin's style of harness, ai it was his own corn that he hi brought to town to sell. Mr Rankin fattens more cat) than any other man in the worl Every year he buys and fatt" n 1 ?V h t A tan fltnnaa n/1 kaarl TP vi^u v iv ivii iuvuoaiiu urnu* m bulk of them come from Texi though Kansaa, Nebraska, Io\ and Missouri are fair sources , supply. He has been known i. buy 8,000 head in a bunch ai pay on them a freight bill $25,000. He.has just now boug i 5,000 head of Texas cattle to delivered next November, payi for them $.'10 a head. His shi i meets of fat cattle begin in Jur > From the 1st of dune to the 1st , September he ships two or thr train loads each week. lie keeps 10,000 to 12,000 he of hogs all the time, and sells f i ones to the value of $SO,000 yet i ly. AH these he raises. In fa< . he never buys a pig except for t ' infusion of new blood into I . breeding stock. Some yea > back, while there was money horses, he undertook thebreedi t of draught beast..-, and built up , his home farm, just outside ' Tarkio, a horse barn v<-ry niu up to date. It cost $10,000, a t is an octagonal brick buildii ' four stories high. It is light ' with electricity. Each stall h * its own incandescent lamp, a > the cupalo an arc light, whi turns midnight into day all ov t the barnyard. t It is worth while to look a lit into the genesis of this man a his fortune. I'hysically, he tall, rawboned, "inewy, with ke eyes, a weather-beaten face, gr hair and beard. Primitive to degree, yet without roughne lie knows life, knows men, y has never got far from the st It does not astonish you to (i that he was as a young man a f lower and ardent admirer Abraham. lie grew up in II I nois, though he was born in Si j livan county, Indiana, May ! ; 1885. The Kankins were of Scott I Irish strain. David's father, , poor farmer, must have be . something of a nomad. He mt r ed many times between the I . diana home and the final settli ! in what is now Henderson coun I ! lllinn,. 1"^ i it 1 /I n at i f t l\ I Auiiiwin* xyniiu v^u I t tuo ntuui 1 at the age of 11, and set to wo , for his living. i Doubtless ho earned somethi i more, but it all went in the fa ) ily fund. When he was free 1 father gave him a colt, the fi i thing he ever owned. Most ami i youngsters would have seen in hi a prospective saddle horse. Da\ was another sort. He sold t 3 colt for $52 and put the mon , in calves, to grow while he work i for more, l'retty soon he h ? the chance to buy an 80-at ) farm. It took grit to go in dt - for it, with wheat at 25 centi 3 bushel and firewood $1 the co c Thoao wero the prices Davi 8 father had got for what he h ? to sell. Still David bough? t > farm. 1 Inside of four years he h id ps for it, with money earned mosi by breaking prarie. The virp sod in too rough for horses i mules. It must be turned wi t the slow, steady draught of ox< David Kankin managed to buj ) pair. His breaking plough, > special implement, he made hii t self by help of a local blacksmil > He had no money to buy the n< J er easary iron, but a friend sto ad security, so he got it, and th lis was enabled literally to set I of hand to the plough. ie- It is no wonder he loves lat >r- and prefers it to all other inve He menta. From the first it fa ed prospered him amazingly, thou rid from the first he has seldom sc ad crude products. That first 80 ac farm had a herd of cattle on de even before it was paid for. Id. driving and thriving, the masl ns of it came to own 3,000 acres he the time the Civil war began. *s, 'I hat era of inflation sent pru ?a teo high for his judgment. 1 of kept on buying until he had 8,0 to acres, then went west. Atcbis nd county has much more than ji of tified his choice of a new re ht deuce. It is no longer a region be one railway. A new one, the Ti ng kia Valley, runs right through t p- middle of it, and Tarkio town, in. beautiful and thrivinc villa of has crown up migically in it* ee years of life Naturally Ilanki interests predominate. Dai ad Rankin is president and prin at pal shareholder in the towi ir- First National bank as well ct, president of the Electric Lij; he and Power company, the Wal lis company, theKankiu Auditorii us company and the Tarkio Bri in and Tile company. These va njr ous enterprises represent the i on vestment of over $1,000,000 of Rankin money. In addition eh them Mr. Rankin has trade re nd tions with most of the trade c? ijr, ttrs and is in touch with moni ed men all over the country. iaR Surprisingly rich he has x nd f?rpotten what it is to he po ch As becomes his blood he is er Presbyterian and strives to H his religion as well as to belie it. Liberal in pupport of n(j church and its works, he can j8 depended on to be as liberal en H'iy tp?nfl cause, especially t ay cause of education. Tarkie c ( a lege alone has received from h 88> nearly $100,000. lie had given . f hn inafifnfinn a luivn 40?* n? ,jj the lire destroyed the main bui ntj ing. lie at once offered $25,( 0j. toward rebuilding if as mi Gf could be raised elsewhere. Su [|j_ then he has had a standing of ul. to give to the college a dollar every dollar contributed outsi By his help the college has put a its present magnificent buildii eu and holds its place among hi )V class western institutions of lea n ing. Needless to add, Mr. Ri kin's picture appears upon I j college button, or that his uniq jg and original objurgation, "I . Fire," make an important part the college yell. lie has been liberal to oft ? schools than his home, to otl * churches thau his own Unil 18 Presbyterian. r8t . Perhaps that is how a corti art man and brother of African < " scent camo to rely so confiden rid upon Mr. Rankin as ' the Lor he almoner. The brother lived ii ey Tennessee town, and combined ed his own person the offices of p a,l tor of a church, and principal ,re a School. Church and school w< ^ in desperate need of money. 'I pastor told his brethren if oi they would raise money enow * to send him to Tarkie, the Ia 8 and Mr. Rankin would do the rt a<^ So to 'I'arkie ho came, saw, and h? firct <l?ll ?Wvf rxie M f heard him with patient kimlm lid ?he even sent courteous answi tjy to the most barefaced begging 1 ters?but answered with e ' phasis, which no doubt seemed the trustful listener harsh, tl help was out of the question ; Jn* had all he could do to furnish i ' a to his homo college, his chur a and his church's school socio m- The black man looked at h th. aghast. Pale he could not gro jc- hut no words came?he tried ?d I CUH AIL YOUR Mill WITH 2 PairvKiller. U A M?dleln? Ch?st la lUalf. W^L B )(j | SlmpU, Saf* and Quick Cura for ,t' j CRAMPS, DIARRHOEA, COUOHS, Vtt iHs | COLDS, RHEUMATISM, # V& V . 5 NEURALGIA. * lM eh ! |M 1 . 3 25 and SO oent Bottles. I 1 m i BEWARE OF IMITATIONS- | VW ;re ? buy only the genuine. | MyHe it | PERRY DAVIS' |j ter ? J1 . move lo go away, but tottered, and fell fainting, utterly stricken by the shattering of his trust. In 5ep the end his trusting conquered When he went home a little later *00 he had in his pocket the necessary ?n $300. David Rankin had given Js- two hundred of it. The rest came si- from his son and the employes of of his office. ar. "Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy," is a living law upon every foot of Rankin land. By way of helping his men to ^.e' keep it Mr. Rankin stipulated in . ? the beginning that Monday shall n 8 be pay da v. As they are paid off fid weekly, lie thinks it wise to niinci iint/.e. Sunday temptation*. He jjfi n's does not relish the thought that ml as a man may waste his earnings in ?ht an hour, and leave his family in ter want before .next week's money im comes in. r ck Though lie 110 longer sits in ri legislative halls, Mr. Iiankin is jn> keenly interested in polities, and ( in his day. lias been 'the friend of many noted political leaders. Every way be is a mail of force, impetuous but sagacious, keen, M1 discerning, kindlv shrewd, mukit?d jug up by the culture of contact all lie lacks of (lie culture of ln* schools, unique in character and or. in judgment, altogether and reft tnarkably, an American of the ve very tinest type.?Omaha Bee. Z ' AFRICAN l.. T 1 LI /n.u._ n . . 1 q LiraDiess union seea, , [ h p I will oner for sale a limited amount ? of these seed at the extremely low ioi . , ;%-r price of * |en $10.00 per%Bushel, ,d* $1.00 44 Peck, XK) ? tch or 60 cts 44 Pound. 1C? 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