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The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1912-06-15
Novel and UsefuI cLock.

Among curious clock novelties is the
shadow boudoir clock. With it there
is no need Of getting up to- strike a
light or turn on the bulb. All that is
necessary is to touch button and the
time is flashed on the wall, after the
same fashion that signs are flashed on
the sidewalk When the owner Of the
clock goes to bed he turns a night dial
to the ceiling and when he presses a
bulb the electric light reflects from
the dial through the lens and appears,
giving the correct time in shadow on
the ceiling.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1912-06-15
Chinese Sending Many Fake Antiques

pewter; the silk is filed with pow
dered clay.
Silk goods, according to Consul An
derson at Hongkeg. are being adul-
terated to an extznt and in a way
never allowed before, and japanese
and Chinese goods supposed to be
made from native-worked japanese or
Chinese silks are partly of American
cotton. Silk hosiery is sold which is
not only not all silk, but is understood
and otherwise unwearable. worries are
of bone or other imitation. Embroid-
cred screens are made of the fiimstest
materials glued to last but a day.
There is now recognized real
grade and an export" grade of por-
celains like the beautiful Satsuma
ware Of Japan. Imitation cloisonne
ware is on the market in great quaint
ties, Japanese carved "cherTy-wood"
furniture is made Of soft wood stained
and vanished. Chinese bIackwood
furniture in some cases is white wood
stained, but the Chinese Guild is try
ing to stop the practice Of initiating
the heavy expensive black wood.
Recently a large order was placed
in -Hongkong for "Siamese" brass. and
most of the brass workers at Hong
kong at present are engaged in beat
ing out brass trays with the usual
Siamese engraved decoration and
characteristics-to be sold as real
SiameS4
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1912-06-15
cANADA'S PROSPERITY.

The New York Times of March %,
1912, in an article dealing with Cana
da's progress, says:
AT the present moment eight ship
loads OF European immigrants are
afioat for Canada, while there are
signs that the outward movement
which is customary with US during
labor troubles will be marked this
year. There is no such startling rec
ord Of our loss to Canada. Our citi-
zens quietly slip over the border in
groups or trainloads, but their going
is not advertised
There Is no mystery why Canada
is the good thing the United States
used to be. 1t is because Canada is
following in its neighbours footsteps
that it is repeating the fortunate ex-
perience which it's neighbor is envy
ing, even while deliberately turning
its back on the teachings of the past.
A fortnight ago the Dominion budget
speech reported the unprecedented
surplus of $39,000,00O, and on Thurs
day the Government passed through
the Committee on Supply credits of
$3S,000,000 for railways and canals.
With this assistance the railways
themselves are both enabled and COM
PEELED to increase their facilities. Ac-
cordingly we find a single road alIot-
ting ten millions for work Of its own.
Naturally the Canadian newspapers
contain announcements calling for
fifty thousand men for construction
work. This influx is apart from those
Americans who go with money in their
pockets obtained by cashing in their
high-priced American lands.
"a st. Paul dispatch says that with
in a fortnight two thousand carloads
of farm animals and machinery have
passed toward Canada, the property
of men who expect to pay for their
farms with the first CROP
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1912-06-15
Intruder in Girls Room Is Routed

A WAKENED by a cold hand on her
n bare ankle, Mildred Bromwel,
eleven years old, turned over in bed
the other morning shortly after three
o'clock and whispered to her sister
Louise, fifteen years old:
There's some one in the room.
Louise. for I can feel their hand on
my ankle
BE quiet" cautioned Louise, in a
low tone. ST can smell whisky"
Louise raised herself to a sitting
posture, and by a dim light which
came through the window from a
lamp in the alley in the rear of the
house saw the face Of a negro look
ing directly into her eyes. So close
was the dark face that the girl could
smell the odor of alcohol in his breath.
Louise saw the man was sitting in
chair beside the bed, and
while she gaEed at him. fascinated
with fright. he left the chair, got
down on the floor on his hands and
knees and started crawling from the
room. Before he reached the door
Louise aroused the household with
screams, aided by Mildred.
Their father, James E. Brownwell,
was awakened. AS he left his bed he
grabbed two revolvers and started to
the aid Of his daughters, who were in
the rear room on the second floor of
their home at 1922 Fifteenth street,
Northwest.
The negro ran downstairs, with
Bromwell, clad only in pajamas, snap
ping his revolvers as he pursued.
BromwelI had center-f1re cartridges in
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1912-06-15

have an operation. Iwould not listen TO
that, and when friend Of my husband
told HIN about Lydia E. Pinkham's Veg
etable Compound and what it had done
for his wife, I was willing TO take it.
Now look the picture Of health and feel
like 1t, too. I can do my own Homework.
hoe nv garden, and milk COW. can
entertain company and enjoy them. L
can visit when choose, and walk as far
as any ordinary woman, any day In the
month. ! wish I could talk 70 every
suffering woman and girl Mrs. DEHA
BETHUNE, Sikeston, Mo.
MurraySiIle, Il--''I have taken Ly-
dia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
for very bad case Of female trouble
and it made me a well woman. Ny
health was all broken down, the doctors
said I must have an operation, and was
ready to go TO the hospital, but dreadedie.
so that began taking your Compound
I got along so well that gave up the
doctors and was saved from the opera
ton. Mrs. CHARLES MOORE, R r
No. 8, MurrsyVille, liz.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1912-06-15
Opposition to Frats in High Schools

itude to the school boards of its larger
cities.
The more important cities whose
school boards have passed regula-
tons restricting or forbidding high
school fraternities, are Denver, Meri
den, Shicago, Covington, Ne Or
leans, Lowell, WaItham, Worcester,
Kansas City, Mo-; St Joseph. Butte.
OKLAHOMA City, Reading, Salt Lake
City, Madison. Milwaukee, Racine and
Superior. The commonest penalties
are suspension, expulsion. or debar-
ment from school athletic OF other
teams
The United States bureau of educa-
tons report also cites some of the
more important court decisions. every
one Of which upholds the school at
thorities in dealing vigorously with
the high school fraternity. on the
ground that the measures so taken
are authorized as part of the school
boards discretionary powers. Most
courts cited, however, will not allow
the offending pupils to be barred from
classroom exercises, although they can
| be barred from participating in all
athletic or other contests.
The high school society will very
likely never win such a place in the
American educational system as that
now occupied by the college fraterni-
| ty," said William R. Hood of the edu-
cation bureaus division of school ad-
ministration. There is no such need
/ for a high school fraternity; indeed,
/ ffc
are many college fraternity men,
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1912-06-15
STORMS TO PREDICT SELVES
Wireless Stations to Be Used to Make
TemPests Send Their Own
Warning Ahead.

Storm centers move usually IN an
esterly or northeasterly direction
Hence the prediction of storms on the
Atlantic coast is possible, since most
of them come from the Mississippi
valley. Some come up the coast from
the Caribbean sea. but even in this
case we have no warning
But western Europe is less fortu-
nate. Its tempests come from the At
;antic, and with little warning Euro
pean weather men have made as much
rs possible a study of the paths Of
American storms across the Atlantic
and are sometimes accurate in pre-
dieting the time OF their arrival; the
same has been done with storms COM
ing up from the South Atlantic.
But it often happens that storms vary
either their route OF the rate Of move
ment, so that predicting cyclones on
the coast of western Europe is more
or less guesswork-
AS a possible help in this respect
Director Andre Of the Lyons observa-
tory is making a deep study Of the
less telegraph stations.
ne las AOu-u t-S1l Inc eANSlLAelO a (
sensitive to any stray electric currents
as well as to messages, and he hopes
to discover way to make the storms
telegraph their own warning ahead OF
their arrival
Every storm is accompanied by cleo
trical disturbances, and already NJ
Andre has accumulated a mass of evi
dence to show that each storm in this
way gives warning. Just how to read
this evidence is the problem to which
he is devoting himself
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1912-06-15

the Spanish language to the French
and Italian; with Iberian, Mozarabic
and ''Mudejar" art and with the po-
liticaI and social life of Spain in the
nineteenth century. There will also
be two Illustrated lectures surveying
Spanish art
Each of the lectures on Spanish lit
erature will be followed by an hour
of practical work on the text There
viii also be a special class OF Castil-
ian phonetics and daily conversation
classes.
The principal museums OF Madrid.
especially the Prado. the Modern Art
museum, the Archaeological museum
and the Royal Armory, viii be visited.
while excursions will be taken TO To
ledo. Escorial. Avila and Segovia.
These trips win be IN the charge Of
DR.. Manuel Cossio and Dr. Manuel
Gomez Mereno. two authorities on
their subjects.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1912-06-15
Genuine Maple SUGAR.

There are few people outside the
maple sugar making districts, says a
writer in the Country Gentleman, who
really know what the genuine article
tastes like. The superior flavor thus
spoken of is probably due in a de-
gree to the same causes that make
strawberries eaten off the vine and
cherries consumed on the tree so de-
lectable. The writer quoted, however,
puts some of the blame for the poor
favor of commercial maple sugar on
the willy wholesale dealer and mixer
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1912-06-15

Grey YOile with a silk stripe made
up over satin forms this dainty dress.
It has the skirt just eased into the
waist-band and faced up at the foot
by a piece of the material, which is
piped at the top with cerise satin.
The bodice also has a lace yoke
piped and trimmed on tee shoulders
with buttons and loops, these also
trim the Over-sleeves, while the under
ones are Of the lace. Black satin rib
bon encircles the waist. bows and
ends are arranged at the left side of
front.
Materials required: 81 yards voile
40 inches wide. 81 yards satin 40
inches wide, Il yard cerise satin on
the cross. g yard lace IS inches wide,
2 yards satin ribbon.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1912-06-15
Severely Loqfcaf.

It was a Welsh minister who de-
scribed the devil to a little congrega-
ton in remote Welsh valley. Said
the minister:
1.-The devil is bound round the mid
die with chains, and round the arms
with chains and round the legs with
chains. But John JONES'" pointing to
a man in the front row, ''he can reach
you; and you, David Evans" pointing
to one in the middle row, che can
reach you, and" pointing to one at
the back, John Williams, he can
reach you"
And then a man in the gallery call
ed out, "Why, he might as well be
loose. London Globe.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1912-06-15
The Sham Battle

The militia was going through its
spring maneuvers and many women
had come out to witness the sham bat
tie.
Come out of that bush and surren-
der" yelled the captain to a private.
You are technically wounded"
The private shook his head vigor-
ously.
81 may be technically wounded"
said he, "but 1 can't come out. I've
torn my pants on these pesky thorns' -
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1912-06-15
Substitute for Third Degree,

A New York dentist advocates
laughing gas as a substitute for the
police third degree. He believes that
this, the least dangerous of anesthet-
les, lays open what already is in the
mind, unconscious Of the search for
its secrets. He believes that If a
man who has committed a serious
crime should be questioned about it
during a certain stage of recovery
from nitrous oxide, or laughing gas
anaesthesia, he would not only reply
and truthfully, but half a minute later
he would realize fully what he had
said
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1912-06-15
"sfIent Actors Not Silent.

Ten-cent grand opera is fast near
ing reality.
A patent was granted last week to
G. Milton of London, Eng, for COM
bfHing a photograph and moving
picture machine, so that they will op-
crate in absolute harmony.
AS soon as this patent is placed
on the market, it will in all probable
ity mean that moving picture shows
will soon have monographs in their
houses, and will reproduce the words
or songs of the now silent actors
at the same time that the film is be-
ing projected on the screen.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1912-06-15
Motorists, Lunch Box.

A toy trunk makes an inexpensive
and practical lunch box for motorists.
1t win hold enough for several meals.
and the tray can be used for napkins
and small silver.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1912-06-15
An Old Neiuhhorhood.

you live in an old. retired neigh
borhood, don't you?"
Yes. indeed Every one Of our
neighbors has long since got over the
idea that he can save money by rails
ing his own chickens
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1912-06-15

] was IN bed Tor fouK
or five days at q tins
every month, and 50
Wesk / could hardly
walk. Icramped and
had backache and
headache, and was
so nervous and weak
that ] dreaded TO sec
anyone or have any
onemovein thereon
The doctors gave me
medicine TO ease ne
said that I ought To
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1912-06-15

The Paxton Toilet Co. of Boston,
Mass, will send a large trial box Of
Paxtine Antiseptic, a delightful cleans
ing and geTmicidal toilet preparation,
to any woman. free, upon request
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1912-06-15
important to Nothe
Iater the Better

Hubby-Understand me, madam,
your extravaganza will have to cease,
sooner or later.
Young Wife-Very well. Wen
make it later
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1912-06-15

There may be crumbs of comfort in
knowing that some people cast their
bread upon the water.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1912-06-15
If You Are a Trifie Sensitive

About the size of your shoes, you can
wear size smaller by shaking Aliens Foot.
Ease, the antiseptie powder, into them
Just the thing for Dancing Parties and for
Breaking in New Shoes. Sample Free
Address Allen s. Olmsted, LIE Roy, n. 7.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1912-06-15

crate sea fantasy" built up as a ia
bic center, with shrimps and tiny cells
swimming about in the miniature
ocean
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1912-06-15

The chronic borrower discovers that
some people are so close you can't
touch them.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1912-06-15

A man never complains of his
wife's relations-if she hasn't any.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1912-06-15

= A woman can remember how a man
once made love to her long after she
has forgotten his name.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1912-06-15

Garfield Tea is admittedly the simplest and
best remedy for constipation.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1912-06-15

Beware of Springs sudden changes; keep
Garfield Tea at hand. Drink hot on retiring.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1912-06-15

If you cannot afford lOe cigars. smoke
LEWIS Single Binder straight 5c-made
Of extra quality tobacco.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1912-06-15

More important than the choice of Presi-
dent is the selection Of Garfield Tea as tie
remedy for constipation and biliousness.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1912-06-15

Agriculture supports nearly 19.OOO,-
600 OF the inhabitants of the German
empire
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1912-06-15
For the Young Girls Eve.

There is nothing more beautiful
than simplicity of character. 1t is
honest, frank and attractive. How
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1912-06-15

Sympathy gives no one license 20
pry into ones secrets.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1912-06-15

London is the heaIthiest capital OF
Europe.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1912-06-15
The Flat That Failed.

Howell-How do you like your new
home?
Powell-It is a fat failure.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1912-06-15

Fourteen per cent OF the egg is al
bumen
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1912-06-15
Nothino Doino

Nothing Doing.
The Cat-Come on down and I'll
show you a beautiful road.
The Bird-A dark one, I suppose,
and colored red.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1912-06-15
WOMEN SHOULD
BE PROTECTED
Against So Many Surgical OPP
erations. How Mrs. Bethune
and Mrs. Moore Escaped
ferod cVerYthing.

sikeston, Mo.-sFOr sevenyears Isus-
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-07-06
ons71"y AzzzzalW5wX Ramgs

co, Don't ansFwe.." I said THAT
had been called just now from there.
After weary, impatient minutes OF
waiting and wrangling, she told me
the call had come from another num-
Der, from a pay station. I demanded
that number at once and finally she
got it for me. 1t was drugstore
near the Parrish home. The druggist S
clerk said that the young lady who
had been telephoning had left tho
store. l tried to get him to send q
messenger around to the Farrishs' 20
ask Miss Louise Parrish to come 10
the telephone. He refused. It va"
useless. l was forced to give it up.
I emerged from the telephone booth
perspirinS, frantic, puzzled beyond
measure at the sudden and startling
turn in affairs.
What could have induced Louise &c
send me such message? What could
have happened?
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-07-06

vas no lnistaking the color and tex
tire OF the paper. 1t was undoubtedly
the same that Louise and had found
in Katharire's room after she had
tried to kill herself. 1t WAS the same
that the police had discovered in An
drew E!sier's room. There was nc
question in my mind but that it was
The same that the woman in ArdWay
had torn up before she hanged herself
il the little hotel. But what was the
tie between them? What could be the
mysterious import Of this yellow LEI,
Ter that drove its recipients 10 death
Here was one fragment. Perhaps ]
could fGd ether scralS--perhaps the
hole letter ran down to the bank
:: tho Like srI hngan oEEt'mhf"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-07-06

came 1u.re anG moro IT, SsIuIii. Ny
eyes were seeing something which
they were trying TO compel me to 70
tice.
What was It?
pulled myself together with q start
and looked about me.
With al exclamation Of horror
sprang from The bench and ga2ed into
the lake Just in frcnt OF NE. Floating
on the surface. not fifty feet f.onl
where had been sitting, was the
BODY of a woman.
"Other suicides, other suicides
Davis remark OF two days before kept
iigeing through my brain. Other sui
cidas! Katharine, Elser, the woman
at Ardway-his prophecy had been
right-and was this another in the
terrible chain?
ran like a mailman toward the
park entrance, where / remembered
| had passed policeman. 1t was
With relief that found him Still.
there.
/ neEe ; d " o','''LI .. y nv o,.on ~.
Hke. s"spvu' E''-'''''9
shoulder.
He ian back to the lake with m:
and together We waded out in the shall
10" water "here 'ne ""u3 l@s - w. 49,,
horror at lne u'ieA i'0L'eu go. ,,,, l,'o
not stopreu ~ Nv. 80; 49, IL. Ti.rL,, sI,
ho' coui" H1,S '.,u rs;n
was young u oi"' I'd! a ~ -" '.. ,,o.
toohcd At "o' nov VIZ, 80 .'l'[ -.
hi.cEe7I--"'Ih 1t IS'''''7 ',
understanding Inc oeSu Vi i'' ~
fihe faff!Sh HaV "i'o=,-'t nae - -, :,
closer S!lnp"Ih! ~ 49, 'u,.''-0 p|
SOILS ihhu%nceu ~ h',N 1''',--.
va" Ina In L poo' , s7..' H.. -
49, .;n,,.,,;nI
i''',. u'', -. ~, ~ cora, .ha ;n,r~oss;o,
->I'et ''''''' .,,,I ,,:I;d. 100 ~
't'e pi~,"'I 20 s'' -. tas,. -'.;.L $3.50
ms "!'S '"' o-i -t ,;- 49,
o'''t''o q -. W. =. Lan .,ana,,
:"S ""' VI ~i'''o' go r.. -,
"'au' f.e' e'eS w., S'''r" ~ Ia $3.50 49,
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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1912-05-31
TWENTY-0NE YEARS BUILDING
Kansas Man Has Been Working That
Long Erecting a Mill

For years there has stood M Holsinr-
ton, Kan. and still stands. a flour mill
III which never wheel has turned
Twenty-one years ago j. VI. Rearick
started building this mill Today. ar
the age Of eighty-three. he is still work
ing on it. and be says he hopes 10 have
the mill finally completed ready IN
grind this years wheat crop into 6our
The building is completed. and all
that * necessary 10 put the mill I'm
working order is part OF the fiourmak-
ing equipment. Every year for a score
OF years past Mr. Rearick has ..hoped
To have the mill ready for next wears
crop. but something has always han
pened. SAYS the Kansas City Journal.
Every stick Of timber. every perch
OF stone. every bit of the mill machin-
cry. has been put in by Mr.. Rearick.
alone and single handed. lie has
lived in Barton county for tbirtv-fve
gears. He began building his Holsing-
ton mill soon after the town was laid
out. and he has been working on il
ever since
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1912-05-31
FARM CHILDREN INTERESTED.
Club Movement For Better Farming
Reaches Out For Both Bows and Girls.

figures gathered by Thomas ~ Ear
ly. special agent for the federal de-
partment of agriculture in charge of
the boys corn clubs in twenty seven
counties near Memphis. Tenn. show
tiiat much good is being done in be
half of agriculture by the movement
to interest farm children in growing
things. says the New York Times.
In the clubs under Mr.. Early, iuris-
diction 400 boys have been enrolled
and have taken lessons i'm the scientific
production of corn, spurred on by
financial assistance and the offer Of
prizes that are worth getting. both for
the value and the honor. In addition
10 the government and state funds pro-
vided for this purpose. S6,Sl1 was rails
ed by business men and officials OF the
counties concerned.
The fifteen high prize winners on
corn in this territory last year aver
aged n net profit Of SS5.46 an acre.
Bernie Thomas Of Lake Cormorart.
Miss. showed n net profit Of Sl46.5O
ON I'm acre. and Norman Smith of Gov
inston. Tenn. was next with S132. 96.
In cotton in Mississippi Fred McCrack-
en- of Water Valley made so on an
acre. The corn growers will turn their
attention II cotton next and will then
20 on 10 other crops
Gir.s' clubs are now being organized
for training in gardening. chicken rails
ing and housekeeping.