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The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-02-14
LENT BEGAN LAST WEDNESDAY
Is Season Of Penance Continuing
Until Faster Sunday


The beginning of Lent was OBJ
served yesterday in Catholic and
Episcopal Churches OF this city, with
appropriate services. Ash Wednes-
day marks the beginning OF this per-
iod of penance and Easter Sunday,
which occurs March 23, closes the
forty days. This season is obserN ed
by the Catholic, Episcopalian and
some other churches, but the Catholic
church has more strict observance
than any of the others.
1t is a season OF meditation and an
examination of ones self to find
V here they have erred in the past and
to formulate new resolutions for flu
ture years. The Lenten period APP
peals to those who observe it, as the
Sabbath Of the year when during the
rush OF business interests and home
keeping, they stop for briet period
and give thought to their spiritual
selves. The fasting part prepares and
reminds them of their duty in this
respect and it is without doubt most
beautiful season.
All days in Lent excepting Sundays
are days OF fast on which the faith tul
are allowed but one full meal not to
be taken until midday. If desired
the full meal can be taken at supper
instead of dinner.
In the morning a cup OF tea or
black coffee and a small slice of
bread or cracker makes the neal In
the evening a collation. consisting of
one fourth of a regular meal is al
lowed Those under 81 and over so
years are exempt Use of flesh meat
is swallowed at the several meals Sun
day and at the principal meal on
Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and
Saturdays, excepting on Saturday OF
Ember week and Holy week. Fish
and flesh meat together are not al
lowed at any meal, even on Sundays.
There as some exceptions OF
course, such as sick people, soldiers
on duty, those who do such strenu-
GUS physical or mental work that
fasting would bring on headaches or
nervousness, inmates of institutions
not their own masters, ETC. In cases
of doubt the people are to consult
the parish priest.
During Lent the faithful are eX-
pected to refrain from going to thea
tres, soclals, parties, etc.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-02-14
County SChOoINews
BY MARY y. TODD

There's a surest way to be a
"might-haye-been. It's snap to pick
a "has-been'' on the run; He's the
man who's always moping, and In
futures ever hoping. He's a "going
to do" who never gets 1t done.
Is it up to you to take this gentle
knocking? viii you blink to have
the searchlight aimed? Are you al
ways borrowing sorrow, with your
hopes fixed on tomorrow? If you are,
my dear, just do your stunt today.
One strange practice OF some OF
our teachers has to do with sitting
still of children No business ever
searched out people who can sit still,
but rather people who can move
quickly quietly, orderly and syste-
matically about their work. How
few give the positive training that
gives life instead of the sit still train
ing that produces physical and men
tai death? | said to teacher. "the
children do more written work than
you can honestly and consistently
correct and they are forming abomin-
able habits in English and in penman-
ship. But she answered, II must
keep them busy and quiet while ]
hear the other classes" as ii bad
habits which II will take years to
corrert or may never be corrected,
counted but little. We all know that
the only law OF mental growth is
self activity. and yet siXty-five per
cent of all the talking in our Amerl-
can schools is salt to be done by tn
teacher. We know there is no I'M
preston unless there is expression
and yet we keep up our incessant
chatter allowing the child no oppor-
tunity to express his thought.
73S-seven hundred thirty-eght
girls are learning to cook and sew
and keep house properly this year
in the Kansas State Agricultural Col
lege. What does this mean to Kan
sas' Doesn't it promise good homes,
well managed homes. we'll cooked
food, and therefore, good tempered
men. able to do fine days work and
thank God for their many blessings
Think this over, Mr. Voter.
A card from Gladys Blake Is as
follows:
so S. Gath Ave-
Los Angeles, Cal
Dear Mrs. Todd:
guess you think have forgotten
you but / haven't. / have been gong
so many places and having such good
times that I could hardly get time
to write very much. am going 10
school, now. would like to see you
all,
Your friend,
GLADYS BLAKE.
81 ook here. Harold" said a father
to his little son, who was naughty,
'If you don't say your prayers YOU
won't go to heaven" 81 don't want
to so to heaven" sobbed the boy Il
want to go with you and mamma "
Mr.. Clyde U. Martin brought us In
the following letters, written by his
language class:
Dear friend:-
! am going to write and ask YOU to
attend the Arhor Day Exercises. We
are going to have nice program con-
sisting Of songs and recitations. We
are going to march out two by two
and dig the holes. Two of us dig
one hole and plant the trees. We are
going to plant cottonwood and hedge
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-02-14
teaching good schools.

teaching good schools.
Messrs. Burton, Mann and Clyde
y. Martin came in to see US and talk
over their schools. Both are working
hard to meet the requirements OF the
course OF study and the expectations
OF the patrons of the district.
Mrs. Lefiore Camery spent pleas
ant half honr with US last Saturday.
She is also working hard with her
school to meet the requirements of
the state. Hard at it and all the
time at 1t is what wins.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-02-14

C. NJ. Pearce, who is agent for sew
eral things, among which are yaeu-
UNI cleaners, typewriters, and beau
tirul lamp, is now displaying his
wares in the store on Second street.
once used for a racket store. The
lamp he sells gives a very beautiful
light, which is as good as electricity
and much cheaper
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-02-14
on the north side of the school house,
/ hope you can come.
Yours respectfully,
HARRIET BOLES.

Dear Madam
| am sending you an invitation 10
visit our school on arbor day. When
you come we will have a program
which contains songs and we will
afterwards march out on the school
ground and plant cottonwood tree
Yours truly,
PAUL ROOSEVELT MORRELL.
Dear Mrs. Todd:
7 will write you letter to tell
YOU that we would like for you to
come out to the Wide Awake schuol
house on Arbor Day. We are going
to have a program. There will be
pieces. dialogues and s9nos and then
trees. We think we will set out some
trees. We thing We win set out some
fruit trees, too. We are going to
set out some cottonwood trees and
some hedge. We are going to put
some OF the trees on the north side Of
the house. There will be treen on
the north, east, west and south side
of the house, hope you can come
out.
From your friend.
LOFTY HESTON.
Dear Friend
wish you would come out to
Wide Awake school next Arbor Day.
We are going to have program. We
will have fifteen Rotations. two dia-
logues, five songs and then we shall
march out two by two. The teacher
will 90 in the lead. Each Of the boys
will bring a spade. We shall die a
large hole in the ground and the
teacher will plant the tree. The girls
will bring water and put 1t in the
hole. We will plant black locust
tree.
Your grateful friend
RALPH BOLES.
We sincerely hope every parent in
the county will urge their teacher t.
have an Arbor Day and every teacher
In the county will start right now and
rlan for an Arbor Day program. Plant
something. Beautify the school,
grounds some way Make begin
ming in this year of 1913. The state
is waking up to the needs of the ru-
raj schools. We expect to have al
least one supervisor for the rural
schools of Kansas this year, whose
sole business will be visiting the ru-
raj schools and helping to raise them
to high plane, reach a higher stand
ard. This is what we mean by
Standardization of the Rural Schools
Miss Lottie Henline came in on
the plug Saturday afternoon She
was accompanied by Mrs. Brewer OF
Arkalon. Miss Henline's school be-
gan the latest of all the schools, We
think. and she has had great diff
Guilty in having her pupils ready FOR
the bi-monthly examinations sent out
by the State Board OF Education. She
has been trying to give. more than
value received to the patrons - OF
school district number 90, and we be
lieve that most if not all of them ap'
preciate her work.
In seven years the average woman
who does her own work walks around
the world (25,OOO miles) according
to Miss Frances Brown of the State
Agricultural college, Miss Brown
suggested rear arrangement OF kitch'
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-02-14

A communication from Mr., Ed
dington, Jr., and C. C. Rector, of the
Cash Department store, who have
been in New Orleans and New York
will be home soon. They have been
on a buying trip for the store here.
They went by the ocean from New
Orleans to New York and they say
that they enjoyed the trip very much.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-02-14

Black Orpington eggs and cock
erels for sale. Now is the time to
buy. Mrs. D. G. Wood has the
best and only yards in this county.
Head your flock with two or three
fine cockerels from her yards.
Orders for eggs booked now. Call
her on Phone 228. 27.2t,
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-02-14

Very startling indeed is the an
nouncement in a number of the ex-
changes the last week, is the news
that good looking men are causing
a Juror among the ladies. A certain
razor blade did 1t all.
Startling also Is. the bomb-shell re-
lating to tho fact that "Yaack" will
remove pimples.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-02-14

Francis Willard services will be
held in the Presbyterian church Sun
day. MIR. Holshouser will deliver the
sermon. Mrs. Todd and Mrs Grin
stead will talk. The President of the
W, @. T. u, Mrs. T. B. Moore, will
have charge Of the affair Special
music will be a feature of the pro-
gram
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-02-14

Mr. and Mrs. Harry Gibney have
returned from a wedding trip and
will make Liberal their home. AS we
announced last week, Mr. Gibney was
married at Davenport, L., about two
weeks ago. They will soon be at
home to their friends.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-02-14

Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Summers left
for the east, where in com
pany with Edwin Summers Of Guy
mon, the two gentlemen will buy
goods for their three stores at Lib
eral, Guymon and Dalhart They will
perhaps be gone more than week.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-02-14

Word reached us this week that
Clarence Hubbard, who at one time
owned a drug store in Liberal, has
purchased a drug store in Gas City.
Among the many other valuable
worths to the toad, he is a good ex-
cuse for warts,
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-02-14
Mules For Sale

l have several good teams OF
mules for sale. Part of them are
broke and part unbroke. Ii you
want to see these mules see them
on my farm, s miles east OF Lib
eral. Phone on Bluebell line.
2-i4 4t-p. CHAs. NEFF.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-02-14

E. s. Erwin and Chas. Light are in
Kansas City this week buying goods
with which to start racket store.
The store will be located in the build
ing formerly occupied by the Fields
racket store.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-02-14

Mrs. C. NJ. Pearce, who has been
clerEing at the Cash Department
store, left last Sunday for Missouri.
where she will visit for two weeks or
more.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-02-14

w. H. Heberlig of Hutchinson was
here this week from his home in
Hutchinson for a short visit with his
daughter, Mrs. J. A. Black, and
family.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-02-14

A SOFT answer turneth away wrath,
and scares a man to death after ne
has proposed. but it has no effect on a
book or an insurance agent
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-02-14

Mrs. l.. Ward, who has been back
in Missouri visiting with her husband
has returned and again taken up her
work in the Cash Department Store
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-02-14

The lecture, Chickens Come
Home to Roost,' delivered by Rev.
Maitland in the Hall last Sunday, was
good. and very we'll attended.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-02-14

The Endeavor Society of the Chris
tian church is giving a supper in the
basement Of the Christian church this
Friday evening.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-02-14
Local and Personal

Geo ouinlan went to Hutchinson on
business last Sunday.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-02-14

We understand that Liberal par
ties are going to build and operate
another grain elevator at Hugoton.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-02-14

Beulah stamper came in on No l
last Sunday, from Fowler, where she
had been visiting.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-02-14

DR.. Thos. L. Higginbotham went to
Chicago on business, Sunday. on
No. A.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-02-14

A very good crowd attended the
Farmers Institute here Monday and
Tuesday.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-02-14

Tom Horton, the barber, was in
Hooker last week on business.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1913-12-02
Oil in the Olympics.

Announcement that oil has been
found in the Taholah we'll on the
Quiniault Indian reservation ia well
come though not unexpected news.
1t has long been known that oil
exists in the Olympic peninsula. The
seepages are there. extensively dis.
tributed. showing large area Of prob.
ably profitable ground in belt par.
alleling the shore line of the Pacific
ocean from the Strait to Grays Har-
Dor. The oils found are paraffine
base.
California has the only extensive
oil field on this coast so far devel-
oped. But its oils are asphaltum
base and are largely valuable for
their fuel products. There is every
reason to believe that Alaska Is rich
in oil resources, but development will
not be had in that region for many
years.
Production is on the decline in all
of the old fields yielding paraffine
base oils, only Louisiana and Okla.
homa showing any increase at the
present time. Pennsylvania in partic.
ular is at low ebb.
Oil discoveries in Washington will
direct the attention of Eastern Oper.
atOrs and investors, now eagerly look
ing for a new field, to this region.
Development is certain to follow SO
important discovery at that at the
Taholah well.
This will add another important
resource to the wealth of Washing
ton, the value of which can be ap-
preciated when it is remembered that
California is now producing above
80, 100000 barrels of oil per year.
worth about $35.000,0OO at the WE'LL
and many times that in it's refinery
products.
The discovery Is encouraging and
the announcement welcome news to
all who look wit hhopeful eyes for
material progress in the Northwest.
Seattle Post.Intelligencer.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1913-12-02
To Keen Baby From, Falling.

When baby first l. ~ u 20 walk. e0lO
a young mother w. always fright
ened lest he should =: downstairs.
OF course had II gate ~ the top OF
the stairs. but ! was terrii Il lest some-
one should leave the ga'- open or II
he was downstairs he would try to
walk up.
Then some ore suggested that l
should teach hun how I" 20 up and
down stairs by himself as the best
remedy against his falling.
l put him in ii jumper and. taking
up my position behind MIN. encouraged
him to crawl up on hands and knees.
OF course kept close behind him
all the time II he attempted to walk
up by holding ON to the banisters ]
quietly but firmly unclasped his fingers
and put them down on the stair in
stead.
At the top there was pause for
breath and little praise. Then. still
keeping close behind him. l taught
him to 20 down the stairs in the
same way. crawling on hands and
knees backward. grasping the stairs
above him one by one as he descend
ed This lesson was given every day
for a few minutes. and very soon baby
could go up or down quite easily.
still am very careful to keep the
gate at the top closed. Of course. but
am not nearly so frantically afraid
lest it should be left open. because
know that. even II 1t is. baby will prob.
ably come to no harm.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1913-12-02
Nakss Jinesss pay ~ Jinee'sm

A bill providing that the expense
Of building ali bastieships In the fu.
ture shall be betrayed from q special
per cent tax on incomes Of over
$4,000 has been introduced into Con.
gress by Representative - Warren
Worth Bailey Of Pennsylvania, II
passed. 1t 10 safe to say that no more
battleships would be built. At pres
ent battleships are mainly paid for
by the very poor. Tariff apd excise
duties yield the amounts needed to
build them. These are taxes on the
consumption which always fall most
heavily on the poor. For that reason
1t costs powerful interests very little
to encourage q big army and navy
program. Congressman Bailey's bill
would reverse matters. It would make
the cost of battleships felt by those
who do most to encourage their build
ing. Not that all who shout for ba-.
tleships ares rich or that all who op.
pose them are poor. But without the
backing Of certain wealthy interests.
there would be little attention be-
stovAed in Congress- or in the press
on ANY big navy demand The Pub
lie Chicago.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1913-12-02
Paying the Income Tax

Gladstone's oft-quOted observation
that an income tax made nation
Of liars does not apply to tax like
this country's, which is collected, SO
far as possible, at the source of the
income. Hardly any large incomes
can evade this tax. Nearly all such
incomes are derived from corpora
tions in the form of dividends, inter
est or salaries, or from rents; and
the Treasury's net is pretty sure to
catch them.
The professional man and the mer
chant doing business as an individual
or as member Of a partnership can
no doubt, evade some portion of their
income tax by committing perjury:
but the is very light-only seventy
dollars year on ten-thousand dol
lar income-and the man who will
lie to evade it could not be trusted
in the neighborhood of an unprotect-
ed child possessing a dime.
Personal-property taxes are evaded
because evasion is the rule. Almost
everybody does it who has the op-
portunity, and the evasions are uni
versally winked at. Under such con.
ditions a man who pays the full per.
sonal property tax is paying much
more than his fair share.
No such condition will obtain with
the income tax. The taxed person
will pay with q comfortable assur.
ance that nearly everybody else who
is liable to the tax is paying also.
We are confident this new tax will
be paid cheerfully and honestly by
an overwhelming majority OF those
who are liable to It. DO not begin
figuring on whether you may conceal
this or that item Of your income. Pre-.
pare to Set It al down honestly
Saturday Evening Post.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1913-12-02
6e'p'"s Farmers . Farms

Tho state Of Washinston contains
many million acres Of good land that
can b bought very cheaply. but can.
not b brought under cultivation 81.
eept By IN investment OF capital that
= Beyond the means Of the ordinary
individual settler. This 10 land in
the western part Of the state from
Which the timber. has been cut, tho
clearing Of which for cultivation costs
from hfty to hundred and fifty dol.
fars "a acre. or arid land that re.
uuireS an irrigation system.
Ones the improvements have been
made. the land will be worth all It
COSTS but the individual settler has
not the capital to make the improve.
ments. The state proposes to supply
him with tor, rather. to furnish
him the means of supplying himself.
A law passed this year authorizes
the formation of Development Dis.
tricts. which may issue bonds and
with the proceeds buy and Improve
loEged-off and arid lands within the
district; then sell them to settlers
at cost. plus i've per cent, on twenty.
year payments at an interest rate one.
half OF one per cent above that paid
BY the district on it, bonds. Not
more than twenty a4res Of logxed.off
- Snrty acres Of a4id land can -
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1913-12-02

sold to one purchaser, and to dis
courage spectators the title cannot
be assigned until three annual pay
ments have been made and the pur-
chaser has actually resided on the
land two years.
Under this arrangement man
with hardly any capital can get pos
session of land that is ready for cul-
tivation-which makes this about the
most interesting agricultural credit
scheme we have yet come across.
1t is really cooperation, for the peo-
pie of the district pool their credit
in a bond issue in order to raise cap
ital to improve the land; but the in
dividual beneficiary need have littl"
or no capital of his enthusiastically
Evening Post.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1913-12-02
OrErATEO ON FOR CRIME.
Michigan Judge Believes That Two
Moral DeIi~ouents Are Cured.

Michigan Judge Believes That Tive
Moral DeIi~ovsnts Are Cured.
Two prisoners who had been sent
from Benton Hnrt0r. Mich. to Chica-
60 by Circuit Court Judge Bridgeman
to undergo operations by DR.. e. a.
Pratt Of Evanston. Ill.,. for the cure Of
moral delinquency returned few days
agS and faced the court.
.. ~ man now.'' said Ge"r"s Cor.
bst ore - ~ men. He stood wrxxt
Before the oc. s:e'.: his shoulders SAG
ged. Hia eyes wArv .ksr. and be had
the appea nee 0f ua< sh0 u sound
morally and physically.
Clarence Chnppell. the ,ssAes man.
had pleaded guilty to Z charge Of bur-
Rlary and WAS known ~ ttae Ieadsv
a. q gang Of tOmxha.
u hs.ieve ! am cured" b. aaA -
want t" l@ad decent nfe."'
Judge Rridx~man spp"uneed tAat
~ two men would bv psrdopsd asd
their actions car~fallv watched. -
u believe they have hten n0rnil1
eeGeperstsd said the Judge. and y
.tAey prove the carrertnrsr ~ ny ths-
osy more pria4'uers will b. asnf ~ The
operating table lnatead 1T II prison."
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1913-12-02
Test Fer Plat Fest

The Intelligent mother wiz. + hee
child evincss the slightest sign -ef
rheumatlsm. take ths precaption 70 -
auce the amount Vt sugar In the chlld's
diet and to cut down, the supply Of red
meat to but twice or three times .
week. substituting 6sh aLd poultry.
Nowadays these pains, formerly laugh.
I'd ut a. an evidence Of grOwth, are
also recognized rs indications Of .
tendency to nat foot. The wise moth.
er will do we'll under such circum.
stances to take an impression OF her
chilti's feet.
While this may be done in a playful
wa;. she can ascertain beyond q doubt
whether there Ia anything wrong.
Thoroughly wet the soles Of the child't
feet and let him stand IN piece Of
brown piper. The imprint will tell the
story. II there II no dry sput 1t the
place where the arch should Be n4time
shonld tx lost IN, taking the "s"'1 70 :
spsciahs'
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1913-12-02

Paaass nantjon TIE assas6 wAss
lsaalas WITH a1vsTusafA