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Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1911-08-24

screaming. could not sleep, was
nervous and lost flesh SO rapidly
looked like a walking skeleton. I'doc-
tored all the time but had begun to
think there was no help for me. Then
began taking Doan's Kidney pills
and was entirely cured. Doan's Kid
ney Pills gave me a new lease Of life"
Remember the name-Doan's.
For sale by druggists and general
storekeepers everywhere. Price soc.
-Mllburn Co.. Buffalo. N. Y.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1911-08-24
NEWS @Me
YOUNG
PEOPLE
AMUSING GAMES OF MARBLES
"Hounee Eye" 10 Played While Stand
Ing Perpendicular, Letting the
Marble Drop TO Ground.

Every boy likes to play good game
Of marbles. Here IL one that perhaps
you do not know. Do you know one
called Bounce Eyer" It IL played by
several boys who each put down q
marble in a small ring. One player
then stands in a perpendicular position
over the cluster Of marbles. and, TAX
ing his own bounce in his hand. lets II
fall from his eye on to the heap. and
those forced out Of the ring by this
method are considered won. II he
does not succeed in this. and his mar
BILE falls within the ring. It belongs
to the common stock. and 10 there i'm
pounded.
There is another game called "Con-
Queror." which is extensively played In
some places. A piece Of hard ground.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1911-08-24

This waist is of black mousseline
de sole tucked all over and trimmed
underneath with a band Of gold lace.
which shows through the mOusseline
de sole. Both the front and back OF
the waist are bordered with black sat
In; the corslet and the bottoms OF the
sleeves are Of embroidery, and the
sleeves are edged with the satin.
The collar and cuffs are OF veniso
lace. the cravat Of black satin
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1911-08-24
THE MOTH.

found him sitting on a rose:
He was 10 fine and small
'Tis almost to exaggerate
To say he was, at all
He stood and tilted on my hand;
He stepped Is II he thought:
His tiny sails OF white and blue,
OF sheerest fancy wrought.
He raised and famed. and famed again
And still he would not go
The common air was all too rough
To trust his shallop to.
Back 20 his rose I bore him then;
He launched without delay.
And on the breathing Of the rose
Was spirited away.
Alice Reid. in 81. Nicholas.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1911-08-24
Ironing TabIeeIetha.

Cheap table linen may be made to
look az glossy as nne damask II ironed
in the following way: After the linen
has been washed. boiled and rinsed,
wiring It a. dry as possible, roll It up
IN q dry sheet and leave It for an
hour, then iron It till It Is thoroughly
dry. In this way the linen escapes
the wear and tear Of hanging on q line
and keeps q better shape.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1911-08-24
short TunIes Seen.

While the short tunIc seemed
doomed to a short life last season. It
has again been incorporated in the
new garments and has the indorse-
ment Of Worth. says the Dry Goods
Economist. This effect Il brought out
IN some Of the smartest goWns., when
the waist and short tunie are made
q onA -
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1911-08-24
rha Rlaa EastanInu.

II d one Of the new fashions 10
fastsn skirt on the bias from the
right hip over to the LEFT knee.
Blouses are also fastened in this
diagonal fashion. The idea was
brought about By the innovation Of
onssidsd trimming On many of ths
new g0WnA
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1911-08-24
Criminal "Hello BILL

William G. Meyers, who died In
Philadelphia. Pa. January Z, 1911. Is
said to have been the original Hello
Bill" Of the Fraternal Order Of Elks.
From the Magazine of American
History.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1911-08-24
PAPER AND PENCIL PASTIME
Interesting and Instructive Way Of
Passing Evening or Rainy After.
noon-Several Can Play.

An interesting yet instructive way
Of spending an evening or q dull.
rainy afternoon can be done with the
aid OF few pieces Of paper and PEN
ellis. Poetry making, crambo. paro-
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1911-08-24
Interesting TO Know.

Both Harvard and John Hopkins uni
versit.es are trying to find out Wheth,
er the education Of animals Is accom-.
rlish4d BY the gift Of imitation or the
force Of instinct
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1911-08-24

full was the bearing
down pain that I
could scarcely drag
myself about. Kid
ney secretions were
in terrible condition
and pains through
my head were so In
tense l could scarce
ly refrain from
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1911-08-24
raneh chIIdrnn b aWIm.

School children IN Germany are
taught to swim BY going through the
mOtiOnI without entering the WAtsE.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1911-08-24
4 WALKING SKELETON.

Worn Out and Frustrated with Ter
rIbIe E-I6qSy Trouble.
Mrs. Margaret cUok, North Market
st., Logan, Ohio. says: 1T is almost
impossible to describe my sufieringS.
NY back ached constantly and so aW-
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1911-08-24

Jessie-How does Sue manage to
win SO many guessing contests?
Joe-Her father is In charge Of the
local weather bureau, and she gets
him to predict the result Of the con-
test, and then she guesses the other
way.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1911-08-24

- HOSE members OF the fair sex
who are fortunate enough to
possess a face and figure that
are fitted to the classic garb.
whose lines are now so fashionable
and there are many OF such among
our belles-are naturally turning to !
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1911-08-24

the Psyche knot as an appropriate
way OF wearing the hair.
The couture is alike becoming to
the maid or the matron, and 1t may be
worn at the angle that Is most becom'
ing to the expression or shape OF the
face.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-19

From the Louisville Courier-J ournal.
 "Several hundred Yaqui Indians are preparing to go on the warpath against Madero. their former commander in the revolt against Diaz, because they have not been given the lands in the state of sonora, promised to them before they joined in the attack on the federals.
 "The lands promised to the Indians are now held by John Hays Hammond, Henry. w. Taft and New York and Cali fornia associates. Large tracts have al ready been sold to innocent purchasers. the Indianse say.
 "The Yaquis' grievance is that these lands, comprising more than 60OOO acres. were taken from them unlawfully by the Dlaz government, and that the titles held by Hammond, Taft and their associates are void"
 The Yaqui Indians of Mexico, against whom more or less nearly white men have waged a rather unsuccessful war for about three centuries, are people for whom a great many observers have a deep sympathy. They have looked civ ilization over and will have none of it. According to a statement of one of their leaders recently they would rather be killed by Mexicans than Mexicanized. To this decision they may, of course, have been moved partly by the refec- ton that during the progress of their pleasure of killing a considerable num- Der of Mexicans, while there would be no consolation of this kind incident to their assimilation. The Yaquis are described by some explorers as being rather good Indians, when let alone, but cherishing an eagerness to be let alone that sometimes expresses itself in the form of punitive expeditions against the meddlesome that occupy long pe- riods and extend over wide areas. They arc conspicuous for their powers of re- sistence as a people, for their vigor and virility as individuals, and because of the passionate tenacity with which they cling to the theory that 1t is more blessed to lie toes-upward with unsee- ing eyes turned toward the stars than 10 become addicted to the use of the union suit, the hot-water bottle, the
 proprietary headache cure, the cold7 storage eggs, the boiled shirt the irif descent sock and the creased pantaloon
 of an effete civilization.
 1 If the Yaquis have come at last to i a clash with John Hays Hammond and his associates their jig is up. All Of us on this side of the line know that apital is more terrible than an army with barriers, and especially an army of Mexicans. Even in this country, where we're not merely pore benighted 'eatnen, but damn good fghtin' men, Mr. Hammond and gentlemen of his clan and class usually get what they want, and their wants are limited by their imaginations only.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-19
Parcels Post to Brazil

One may now send to any point in Brazil package weighing as much as eleven pounds for the charge of 12 gents a pound. For AS cents four pound package can be sent from Bir- mingham to a point far up the Anna son, whereas it would cost 64 cents to send such a package to Bessemer, and a five-pound package could not be sent at all to Bessemer by mail.
 In nearly all countries parcels post is being established and perhaps the day will come when the four EX- press objectors in this country will be putrated. This reform is destined to come and the express companies may not have the power before the House committee on postoffices and post roads that they long have had before republican committees. The matter is being considered by the House committee, and no doubt it will be ready to report a bill at the long ses sion of next winter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-19
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
The Liouor Question

TThe campaign for the legalized sale of liquor in Jefferson county will soon be launched, and it goes without saving that it will be quite lively said a prominent business man. Those who have been quietly eanvassing tell me that the vets Will win at the polls by a large majority. I hope so.
 'The situation here in a city Of 1oo,ooo population is insupportable. I have never taken any active part in politics, all though I have seldom failed to vote. but it will give me great pleasure to vote for bringing back saloons, although not dozen times in my life have l taken a drink at a public bar.
 Long before we had prohibition agi- tation here I had become practically total abstainer from everything stronger than beer. It was q grievous mistake when a majority of the voters in Jeffer- son county put liquor out of business, so to speak. That was four years ago. Well there has been a very marked change in sentiment hereabouts since then. Drunkenness Is bad enough, but there arc many things worse than habit ual drinking. Hypocrisy Is far worse, and ever since we have had so-called prohibition I have seen more hypocrisy and heard more pharsical talk than ever
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-19
Alabama Agriculturally

''As interesting as the mineral develop ment of Alabama has been the progress made in agriculture has been more sur prislng," said William F. Alderman of Chicago "I lived for nearfly ten years in the best farming section of Missouri, and have always taken an interest in husbandry. Eight years ago I visited several weeks in the southern part of the state.
 From what have seen of this part of the country recently, and from what l have learned by reading and personal contact with farmers, wonderful strides have been made in tilling the soil. The Alabama farmer, as a rule, now seems to be almost as up-to-date the most progressive farmers in the west l be- leve that in the next two or three years Alabama will be pointed to as the model farm state. In the first place, every thing can be grown here profitably, and when iJ comes to horticulture Birming ham affords a large market, and a mar ket that will be increasing In demand. There Is an organized movement to bring settlers from the north here and estab- fish them on truck farms. It should be comparatively easy to do this. The tide of immigration is turning this way, and in the next census the newcomers will help largely to make up the great total of the states population.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-19
Tolls on the Panama Canal

Colonel Goethals' real mission to the mainland is to induce the Presi- dent and Congress to name the rate of tolls to be charged for passage through the Panama canal. The transportation people throughout the world desire to know what the rate is to be so that they can make their plans accordingly. The general be- lief is that the rate will be one dol lar ton, but whatever the rate is to be it should be named at an early date.
 Colonel Goethals is chairman of the canal commission, and he is planning for the success of the canal beyond the day of it's opening. He says that if the extra session would name the rate this month, before the shipping interests of the world meet in Liver pool, a large sum of money would thereby be put in Uncle Sam's pocket. The President is willing but Congress is restive in the summers heat. The Senate wasted two whole months and it should stay in session until the rate of tolls on the canal is named The sSenate is, however, not in touch with anything. It is up in the clouds, or at any rate it has some scheme up its sleeves that it considers more im- portant than the service of the peo- pie. It needs reforming more than the British house of lords. This is, however, neither here nor there. What is wanted is toll sheet for the canal and Congress should make it before it adjourns.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-19
Cotton Mills Here and Elsewhere

Alabama grows more cotton than either North Carolina or South Caro- lima, and the southern theory is that the cotton mill should be placed amid cotton fields. The more cotton fields, in other words, the more mills. This is the theory, but the practice in Ala bama does not keep step with this theory.
 At the end of the year 1910 South Carolina had 1855 mills, containing 4,O64,320 spindles. North Carolina had 331 mills, containing 3,374,917 spindes. Alabama had 70 mills, con taining less than million spindles.
 Now, why are there so many cotton mills in the Carolinas, and so few in Alabama The building of new mill in this state is a rare event, while in North Carolina about twenty new mills are built a year and about ten are built each year in South Caro- lima. The Age Herald cannot recall the building of a new mill in this state last year. Several old mills were enlarged or equipped with new spindles, but if wholly new mill was built in this state last year the fact has escaped us.
 The Carolinas are building cotton mills because they are known to be money makers, but cotton mill is as profitable in Alabama as it is in the Carolinas, and yet none, or next to none. are built here. This is pug
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-19

the heated term. These popular subscrip- tions added to the large donations made by the Birmingham Railway Light and Power company and other corporations, wotrid enable the Music Study club man agement to contract with the musicians for four concerts a week instead of three as last year.
 IA band of 20 pieces makes good mu- sic and can play a great many of the standard overtures and other concert music, but band of 25 would be much better Some day l hope the city will be able to provide the music and employ a band of 30 pieces. With such band an oboe and a bassoon would be used. Up to 30 men there is hardly room for the oboe.
 'The substantially built bandstand in Capitol park is only large enough to seat comfortably 20 musicians and the con ductor Twenty-two men might be squeezed in, but it would be avery un- comfortable squeeze in hot weather. The architect who designed it evidently thought that musicians could be packed like sardines. Until the city is able to build a new bandstand, with a seating capacity of at least 40 I would suggest a temporary stand four or five feet high. There need be mo cover for when it rains the band does not play. A tenn porary stand such as I have in mind could be built for $50.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-19
WHO INVENTED THE AEROPLANE'

Arthur Wallace Dunn in Leslie s.
 When the wrights were making their trial fights at Fort Myer, when Ora hame- White made his wonderful land ing at the White House in Washing ton and while more recent and sur prising exhibitions in aviation were in progress at Potomac park, there was within the distance of a rifle shot or all these demonstrations in aviation the old house boat from which Prof. 5. r. Langley launched his flying machines. It floats on the tide or rests on the mud flats of the Potomac river, where the stream flows between the city of wash ington and Virginia, a reminder to the very few who notice 1t at all that it's former owner was the pioneer of avia- tion and that his idea is embodied in all successful flying machines. Few of those who read of daring flights, of crossing seas and mountains, of as- tensions miles above the clouds in heavier-than-a machines remember that Professor Langley years ago grasped the idea of aerial navigation now in practice and spent 20 years of earnest endeavor in working out the problem that has since been practical ly solved
 Samuel Pierpont Langley was re- markable man, and when the daring of present-day air men has ceased to dag gle, history will no doubt give to Lang ley his proper place among men whose minds and accomplishments have con- tributed to the progress of the world
 For many years he was secretary of the Smithsonian institution, position in which alone gave him place oi prominence in the scientific world. Be- fore he held this position he had be- come interested in the navigation of the air; in fact as boy, watching the big birds sail with spread of wings upon the wind, there was born within his brain the germ of the idea now embodied in the machines that have conuuered the air.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-19
CASTRO: MAN OF DESTINY

tempt to land in Trinidad he returned to Europe, where he has since resided.
 General Castros movements have been the mystery of the diplomatic world and the subject of grave concern in more than one cabinet since January 26 last, when it was reported that he was in the Canary Islands withstfe fixed idea of re- turning to Venezuela and making an ef- fort.to regain his power.
 He was next reported at Las Palmas on May 13. whence it was said lie had left aboard the steamship Reina Victoria. un- der an assumed name, for Cadiz, intend- ing to depart for America. Nothing more was heard about him for a time, but 1t was plain that the United States eov- ernment was watching his movements when. on May .sls casis dispatch from Lisbon said that the Portuguese govern ment had received word from the United States that he was in, that country.
 It was reported then that he had a steamship at Teneriffe laden with artil- ery and munitions of war for his return to Venezuela. The next day the state department at Washington admitted that 1t had warned the Portuguese govern ment that General Castro should not be permitted to organize filibustering ex- petition in that country.
 From that time the mystery of his Whereabouts became deeper. On June cable dispatch from Caracas said that the Venezuelan government knew that he was planning a revolution, and was mak- ing a diligent search in shipping, and other circles for some word of him.
 It was known that his family was in the Canary Islands, and the next day a cable message from Madrid said that letters from Las Palmas had reported his depart ure from the Canaries for New York in disguise. The same night there was a re- port in Havana that he was aboard the steamship Legazpi, which had anchored in the habor.
 Washington heard on June 6 that he was at Gibraltar, and on the same day It was announced in New York that head quarters had been opened here for the revolutionary party in Venezuela. It was denied, however that the movement had anything to do with General Castro or that he was in any way interested in it.
 The last report about him was in yes- terdays Herald and it was said that the state department had learned he might be on board the Consul Grostuck bound for Hayti. The accuracy of this informa- tion indicates the surveillance that the government has kept of him and the worry he has given the diplomats of more than one nation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-19
THE PRIZE JONAH

From the Philadelphia Record.
 Newport. N. H.-The most unlucky man in New England is Aaron Walker of this place, and he admits it himself From the time he was IS months or age until his 60th birthday he has been the victim. of about every sort of accl- dent, but he brides himself on the fact that the modern devil wagon, the motor car. has not "got him" yet, and he is celebrating the fact.
 Iuckless' Aaron was born in Marlbor- ough. Mass, August IS. 1S4S, but for 20 years he has lived in this place. When IS months old boiling tea scalded him severely. At the age of he fell on a hot stove and fried off a big piece of his stomach. At he coasted into a stone wall and fractured his skull. At Il a hayfork was stuck through his leg At II a scythe went through his arm When 20 he broke three ribs and when 21 broke both legs and an arm.
 The next year a buzz saw got him, then he fell from horse and injured his spine He fell off a roof at "A and broke every rib on one side of his body At 30, when cutting lumber, he drove an ax into his left foot and two years later he fell from load of hay and frac ured his hip.
 The following year a man with whom he was digging in a clay pit drove a pickax into his head, then a freight train broke his leg at the hip. Next a stone lifting apparatus collapsed and crushed him, a moving machine cut his legs badly and fall from hay loft caused him to buy pair of crutches.
 On his 60th birthday he put penny in a weighing machine and the front of the machine fell out and fractured his nose.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-19
Edison,s New Storage Battery

Thomas A. Edison has perfected, it is stated, storage battery so light it can be carried in a suitcase, and so adaptable it can be recharged in three minutes with enough power to drive a vehicle 50 or TO miles. Anything electrical almost is possible as the outcome of his mind. At present the world is skeptical, because storage batteries heretofore have been chiefly remarkable for their weight and in- adaptability.
 What a revolution it would be to get a practicable storage battery which would drive wires and poles out of all city streets! Let us all hope the news will be confirmed.
 Mr. Edison has been working on the problem long time and If he has succeeded he will fill the streets of cities with light electric vehicles that would displace the gasoline wagons speedily. MT. Edison would become an honored prophet even in his own country if he accomplishes all this. He hopes, it is plain, to bring in this betterment in his own lifetime.
 The storage battery of the present day is expensive, heavy, limited in action, and slow in recharging. A storage battery the reverse of all these qualities would quickly be pre- ferred wherever electrical power is used. He believes the lightweight storage battery will prove revolu- tion in motive power. Let us. hope he will succeed in this respect as he did in the incandescent light. The light weight battery is the need of the times, and Mr. Edison says he will soon place it before the American public as well as the rest of man. kind.