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The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1913-08-15

.THE PIX OF TIE PICK. CONES
n AUGUST. The ooal business Is q
little bit aulet, nobod. Is rushed. there
Is time . mine an prepare the coal
properly. There L Tine 10 make good
deliveries. It's the time TO gel the
bright shiny coal Tou like 80 we'll.
Order Of smith 6 Relfsnider.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1913-08-15

Nov. Therefore. I. Phillips Lee Colds
borough. Governor Of the HIaIe of Mary
land, IN pursuance Of Section !. of Article
| II Of the Constitution OF the State OF MARY
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-06-07
FIFTEEN DIE IN MINE EXPLOSION
Thirteen Bodies Have Been Recovered
in a Disaster at Belle Val
ley, Ohio.

Belle Valley, O.-Thirteen bodies
have been recovered from the Impe-
rial mine, where two explosions re-
suited in the death of fourteen miners
and one rescuer
The fourteen miners are said to
have been killed by the first explo-
sion Henry Fairhurst was killed by
the second explosion, which occurred
after he had entered the mine in an
attempt to rescue the miners, who
were believed to be entombed. Or
vile McCune, who accompanied him,
was overcome by gas, but was revived
and taken to the surface.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-06-07
POISON KILLS GEORGIA BANKER
D. Sanders Walker of Macon Took BIZ
chloride of Mercury by Mistake
His Death Painless.

Macon, CAB. Sanders Walker. who
TOOK blchloride of mercury by mis-
take here the other day, is dead. He
had not regained consciousness since
early in the afternoon His immedi-
ate family was at his bedside when
he died
A characteristic utterance made
lust before he went into a state of
partial como illustrates the remark
able composure with which he has
faced death
If | am dying" he said, then the
sensation is not as it is generally
pictured If this be dying, then none
need fear its terrors."
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-06-07

Measles, which is causing anxiety 10
the authorities and pain to the stu
dents of Osborne college, is an ailment
that has been sadly misjudged, says
the London Chronicle. For centuries
it is mentioned in Arabian writings
as early as the tenth century-it was
regarded (and treated) variety of
smallpox. and when that fallacy was
discovered. it was generally confound-
ed with scarlet fever. No race of the
earth is immune from measles.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-06-07
UNIQUE CASE OF FILIAL LOVE
To Help His Mother a Penniless No
bieman Tries" a Clown Act In
Paris Theater.

Visitors to Paris who have recently
wandered by chance into one of the
cafe concerts which are mostly fire.
Quented by that class who neither toll
nor spin, must have been amazed and
saddened by a very unusual u&sic
hall turn. writes the Paris correspond
ent of the Brooklyn Eagle. Every
night, between the sentimental ten
or and the "chanteuse legere," q
mournful looking young man appears
He is greeted with derisive yells.
He sings, or tries to sing, a senti-
mental ballad and a comic song He
also initiates animals, the noises Of
tools and the whistling of locomotives.
The effect is SO deplorable that the
audience recently insisted on the no
Bile clown" apologizing for his lack OF
skill. He humbly advanced to the
footlights and bowed to right, left and
before him. Then in a voice choked
with sobs, he began to express his re-
greet With pathetic resignation he
went down on his knees, offered pro-
fuse apologies for his lack of skill and
promised to do his best to please them
in the future.
Few who have seen this lamentable
exhibition know its origin and ex-
cuse. This abject buffoonery is in
spired by one of the noblest motives
f1lial love This descendant of one of
the Oldest and noblest families in Ven-
ice was left alone, when very young.
with his inflrm and penniless mother.
For many years they lived on the
charity of friends, but the old woman
is now in such health that admission
into an almshouse would be the only
means of saving her life. But this
cannot be obtained without the pay
ment of a certain sum, and her son
is now employing the only means OF
procuring it open to him
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-06-07
MExICANS STOLE AN AIRSHlP
The Flying Machine Confiscated Two
Weeks Ago in Arizona Is Now
Safe in Mexico.

Nogales, Ariz.-The war aeroplane
which crossed into Mexico near Naco
was the same flying machine confis-
Gated by United States federal Off
Gals two weeks ago. The machine
has disappeared from a ranch between
Tucson and this point and with it dis
apparel Reuben Hopkins, United
States deputy marshal of Tucson, who
was left to guard the air craft.
The machine, in sections, was taken
in three monitor cars south to the in
ternational line anG safely crossed in
daylight. With it went high power
bombs of the gravity contact type
that the insurgents expect to drop on
the federal gunboat Guerrero, which
lies in Guaymas Harbor, ready to as
sist the garrison of the town in de-
Tending the only remaining point in
Sonora state held by the central gov
eminent
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-06-07
Answer to Query.

The act of uplifting the hand during
the taking of an oath is so ancient
that it would be futile to even attempt
to say when it started. Homer at
tempts to say when it started. Homer
mentions it as common among the
Greeks of his time, and it is also found
in the earliest biblical time. For in
stance. Abraham, the father of the
Jewish people, says: 81 have lifted
up my hand to Jehovah showing that
even at that remote period the prac-
tice was existent 1t was from the
Jews, of course, that the practice
found its way into christendom, where
1t has ever since held its place in jul
diciaI trials
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-06-07
BURNED THE FEDERAL RECORDS
Twenty-One Firemen Were Injured in
Blaze in Geological Survey Build
ing in Washington.

Washington, D. C.-Fire Chief Wag-
ner and twenty firemen were over
come, several of them being injured
severely, by smoke and Illuminating
gas from broken main while fight
ing a fire in an F street building oc-
cupied by the geological survey.
The blaze destroyed valuable gov
eminent records and did cons1dera BILE
damage to the building, but unpub-
lished data valued at S5,000,000, &C
cording to George o. Smith, director
of the survey, escaped damage. 1t
was estimated that the loss to the
survey alone would amount to up
wards of 100000. The American Ex-
press Company, a leather store and
Japanese bazaar which occupied the
ground floor, also were damaged con-
siderably.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-06-07
LED A DUAL LIFE
sWiNDLER WHO MASoUERADED
IN WOMEN'S CLOTHES ARREST
ED IN KANSAS CITY.
is WANTED IN CALIFORNIA
,. A. Baker Tells Remarkable Story
of Counterfeiting and Other Crimes
Stole Postal Money
Orders.

Kansas City, Mo.-Charged with fire.
Quently masQuerading in woman s
clothing and being known as the wife
of a man, whose name the police have
not been able to learn. James Arthur
Baker was arrested at 925 Cherry
street The arrest was made by De-
tectives Edward Smith and l. B. Wal
stron on information coming from the
sheriff at Riverside, Cal Baker is
accused of filling out and cashing
money orders which were stolen from
the postoffice at Summerland, Cal.
In the office of Chief of Detectives
Zickefoose at police headquarters,
Baker, who, it is alleged, has nearly
a score of aliases, told a remarka bic
story He said he was born in Wal
nut, Ia, and that he had taught school
in Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Oklahoma,
Colorado, Utah and Idaho under the
name of Baker. At some of these
places, he asserts, he taught dis
guised as a woman.
Il was married in 1904 at Harlan,
Ia, to Mabel C. Coulter and 1 lived
with her four years. Baker told the
chief. ""Then she got a divorce from
me and l married her again six
months later. In 1909 I got divorce
from her on the grounds of deser-
ton. She was teaching school in
Colorado then. My marriage to the
man the police are looking for ac-
tually took place
Glad of His Arrest.
81 am glad 1 have been arrested. 1t
will give me a chance to clear my
conscience.
Il have been the tool of a man.
This matter of the money orders is
nothing as compared with what I have
done The man who has had an in
fiuence over me has been able to
make me do anything He always
seemed to know where 1 was, no mat
ter in what part of the country 1
went
He could put his hand on me and
make my hands do marvellous things.
1 have traced the lines of 500 bills
to other papers of the impression
sort, making tracings for the differ
ent colors. He has put them through
a little press and turned out bills so
near like the original that it would
take an expert to distinguish between
tn two.
"One time we made $1,000 in these
bills The man who had this inf1u-
ence over me went to Japan, where
he had the money changed to Japa-
nese money and then back again to
United States gold. Then he came
back to America. 1t did not take him
long to find me. He was very liberal
in giving me money
Property found in Bakers posses
sion indicates he has told the truth
about being well paid for the part he
played in the transactions he men
toned.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-06-07
WAR TALK Is TO SELL SHIPS
The Greedy Manufacturers Are Caus-
ing the Scares, Says Secre-
tary Bryan.

Washington, D. C.-Vigorous de-
nunciation of a subsidized patriotism
which seeks to create war because of
the profits in armor plate and battle
ships" and of the sensational and
mercenary newspapers which prefer
big scare headlines to the truth, "
marked an address by Secretary of
State Bryan at The Hague anEiyer-
sary meeting, held under the aus
pices of the Washington Peace So
ciety. 1t was in celebration of the
fourteenth anniversary of the first
meeting at The Hague.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-06-07

A suggestion is made that moving
pictures of an educational kind should
be supplied to the schools by munich
palities. No doubt this suggestion will
in time be an accomplished fact, for
the moving picture is destined to more
practical uses than mere amusement.
AS things seen are mightier than
things heard, so lessons of geography,
history and general fact will be more
impressive on the youthful brain by
the actual representation than by the
printed or spoken word. The schools
of the future will doubtless be supplied
with moving-picture machines as a
matter of course
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-06-07
HER "BEST FRIEND"
A Woman Thus Speaks of Postum.

We usually consider our best friends
those who treat Us best.
Some persons think coffee a real
friend, but watch it carefully awhile
and observe that it is one of the
meanest of all enemies for it stabs
one while processing friendship.
Coffee contains a poisonous drug
cafeine-which Injuries the delicate
nervous system and frequently sets
up disease in one or more organs of
the body, if its use is persisted in.
81 had heart pa1pitation and nerv-
BUSINESS for four years and the doctor
told me the trouble was caused by
coffee. He advised me to leave it of,
but 1 thought 1 could not" writes a
Wis. lady.
ON the advice of a friend 1 tried
Postum and it so satisfied me did not
care for coffee after few days trial
of Postum.
las weeks went by and continued
to use Postum my weight increased
from SO to 11S pounds. and the heart
trouble left me. 1 have used it a year
now and am stronger than 1 ever was.
1 can hustle up stairs without any
heart palpitation. and 1 am free from
nervousness.
MY children are very fond OF Post
um and 1t agrees with them. My sister
liked it when she drank it at my house;
now she has Postum at home and has
become very fond of it. You may use
my name If you wish, as 1 am not
ashamed of praising my best friend
Postum" Name given by Pustum Co.,
Battle Creek, Mich
Postum now comes in new concen-
trated form called Instant Postum It
Is regular Postum, so processed at the
factory that only the soluble portions
are retained.
A spoonful of Instant Postum with
hot water, and sugar and cream to
taste, produce Instantly a delicious
beverage.
Write for the little book. 1.-The Road
to MELVILLE"
There's a Reason" for Postum
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-06-07
MORE REBATE CASES
FOUR RAILROADS AND A COAL
COMPANY INDICTED IN
ILLINOIS.
USE OF UNJUST RATES ALLEGED
Federal Grind Jury at East St. Louis
Also Charges Discrimination Against
the Corporations-63 Counts
in Indictment.

East St Louis, 1ll.-Five indict-
ments charging rebating and discrim-
nation in 63 counts have been re-
turned against four railroads and
coal company by a federal grand jury
here The indictments set forth in
stances wherein it is alleged the laws
were violated by the Vandalia; Cleve-
land, Cincinnati, Chicago & St Louis
Chg Four}; Chicago, Indiana &
Southern are charged jointly in twen-
ty counts with making discriminating
rates and con occasions in favor of the
O'Gara company.
The Grand Trunk and the coal COM
pany are charged in twenty counts
with receiving and granting conces-
sions and discriminating. Seven
counts Jointly charges the Big Four;
Chicago, Tneiana & Southern, and the
Grand Trunk Railroad and the O'Gara
Coal Company with conspiracy in vio-
Iating the Elkins Act of 1903.
Possible Fines Total $2,63o, GOO.
The penalty that may be imposed
for violating the Elkins law in case
of conviction is a minimum fine of
81 900 on each count and a maximum
CT $4,000 for each count, or $780,
Geo Cor the sixty-three counts.
III the conspiracy charge, however,
there is no minimum, and the COM
panles may be fined $4,000 for each
of the seven counts, making $4,000,
or s1.350,O00 for the sixty-one counts.
One of the most startling facts the
government hopes to establish is that
the O'Gara Coal Company, New
York corporation, is virtually owned
by the Big Four, or by the New York
Central, which, in turn, owns the Big
Four This belief is strengthened by
the belief that T. J. O'Gara of New
York, president of the O'Gara Coal
Company, with other officers of the
company, learned that the grand jury
was working on the charges and hur-
ried to this city
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-06-07

Watch the passing automobiles Sit
ting comfortably in the machines are
elderly men and women. and in their
faces is new happiness. They are en-
Joying themselves; the fresh air gives
them vitality and the swift motion
stirs their blood. A clergyman past
seventy, who administers the affairs
of a large congregation, at his side
has a telephone through which he
makes pastoral calls and in front of
him a typewriter on which he does his
sermons. We have been associating
these contrivances with youth, but
the ancients have taken hold and are
showing us that life after sixty is not
a matter of folded hands and easy
chairs. 1t is delightful to welcome the
change To have the middle-aged ard
the old enjoy themselves is to lift the
whole human race. To extend the age
of efficiency is to add UNNECESSARILY
to the worlds production.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-06-07

A remarkable cure of lockjaw in its
worst form and almost in the last
stages has been made in Brooklyn.
One by one modern science is attack
ing the most dreaded scourges of the
human system. and the result of the
fight is reasonable hope which further
experiment will doubtless develop
into certainty. These are the real
and vital victories of the world.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-06-07
Location of earden of Eden.

Many Biblical scholars place the
Garden of Eden between the Euphrates
and the Tigris. This is now to be re-
claimed and once again made fertile.
English engineers have already in
vaded the region, and are building a
great dam across the Euphrates, not
far from Bagdad by which water will
be carried over the land as is done in
Egypt and India. That the soil is ex-
ceedingly rich there is no denying.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-06-07
GOV. JOHNSON SIGNS JAP BILL
Measure Prohibiting Holding of Land
by Aliens Ineligible to Citizen
ship Now Law.

Sacramento, Cal.-Governor John
has signed the Anti-alien Land bill
The bill prohibits the purchase of
land by aliens ineligible to citizen
ship. The governor told the legisl1-
ture he had expected to withhold his
signature as long as possible, TO allow
Secretary Bryan to complete his
diplomatic exchanges with the Japa-
nese ambassador.
The act will go into effect ninety
days from date, or on August 49,
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-06-07
ADOPT new RULES
LIVE STOCK DEALERS AND STATE
OFFICIALS MEET IN KAN
SAS CITY.
TO LIFT QUARANTINE ON HOGS
Proposition Is to Establish Uniform
Regulations for Both Kansas and
Missouri-Governmen Must
Approve.

Kansas City MO.-State officials or
Kansas and Missouri, representatives
of the Missouri State Board of Agri-
culture, and members of the Kansas
City Stock Yards Company met in the
Stock Exchange building and agreed
upon regulations to permit the remov-
al of the quarantine on hogs. 1t is
proposed to establish uniform rules
for Kansas and Missouri, interstate
trade being a feature of the plan
These are the rules adopted:
The Kansas City Stock Yards Com
pany shall set aside certain pens for
the purpose of immuniZing hogs, to
be known as the Kansas City hog
quarantine pens. The pens shall be
under the control of the state author
tiles.
Pens shall be used as quarantine
pens and for vaccinating such hogs.
Said stock yards company shall es-
tablish a suitable dipping plant for
dipping hogs, which shall be under
the supervision of state authorities.
All hogs must be dipped in the ap-
proved government dip before enter
ing yards.
All hogs must be vaccinated with
the serum-simultaneous method with
pens.
All persons vaccinating hogs shall
first obtain permit from state au-
thorities.
No serum or virus shall be used in
said pens until the plant or company
producing said serum or virus obtains
a permit from the above authorities.
Every person vaccinating in above
or iT1lTY NJ oil wi
in detail on blanks furnished for the
purpose the condition of hogs al time
of vaccination and results following
therefrom
All hogs entering the yards or pens
must be held twenty-one days after
vaccination
The owner or agent of said hogs
shall report to the state authorities
upon blanks furnished for the pur-
pose the condition of said hogs at in
tervals of seven days
Before removing any hogs from
yards or pens the owner or agent must
first get a written permission to do
so and must re-dip the hogs in an
approved dip before removing them.
All such removed hogs must be
loaded in cars or vehicles which have
)een thoroughly disinfected under
the direction of state authorities
If necessary provisions must be
made for feeding and watering hogs
while en- route
Said hogs must be unloaded through
noninfected chute and not through
common stock yards.
Every purchaser of hogs shall be
requested to report to state author
tiles the condition of said hogs on
the fifteenth and thirtieth day after
reaching destination. Report to be
made on blanks furnished for the
purpose.
The committee appointed by the
Missouri State Board of Agriculture
also voted to permit persons con
Quoting feeding plants to ship hogs
to their plants and keep them there
until fattened, provided these persons
furnish bond of 50 500 and agree
to requirements
1t remains for the bureau of ami
NAL industry to approve the plans to
make them legal
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-06-07

Now an educator offers the theory
that the exceptionally bright pupil is
just as abnormal as the dull-witted and
that it is much mistake to hustle
the normal to keep up with the abb
normally gifted as to expect the de-
ficient to pace with the normal In
plain words, there is too great a ten
dency to teach children in mass and
not according to individual needs.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-06-07
cHEckREIN ON PUBLICITY.

Sopee after-dinner speakers like to
pirate o. the waning influence OF the
press as they enjoy eElarging upon
the diminishing authority of the pull
pits. The facts rise up, in the one
case as in the other, and give the lie
to them Every morning the vast ma
jority~of literary men reads the news
paper as an open letter to the race
This multitude of readers might pay
no heed whatever to the editorials.
says the Philadelphia Ledger, 1t
might merely scan the news Yet
what is found in the news columns
each day Is plentiful to make and I'M
make regulations The token in
proof is that a man held up to rfdi-
Guile or blame by the mere impassive.
impersonal recital of his own action.
even when he cannot deny the deed,
Indignantly resents the publicity. The
mere plain statement of abuses IN
the newspaper has often been sum-
Gent to correct them 1t mas been
said that the beginning OF every re-
form is to ask questions 1t has re-
peatedly been the useful function OF
every worthy journal to lead the
public to ask questions and to de-
mand an answer That is what is
meant by public opinion. and the pow
er of Irresistible public opinion is the
power of fearless, conscientious jour
nalism. The certainty that the truth
will be made known has called halt
upon the promotion of many reck-
less and INSCRIPTIONS enterprise
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-06-07
Mob After Joplin SLAYER.

Joplin, Mo--A mob of several hun
dred men formed and endeavored I'M
successfully to obtain possession of
John Thralls, miner. after he had
shot and killed Edward Shelton, a Re-
publican politician and former mem
Der of the city council.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-06-07
burned 81 chinese Farmers.

Shanghai, China-Sixty-seyen farm
ers OF Shen Chow Ting, in western
Honan, who had resisted attempts of
the soldiers to destroy their crops of
opium, were burned to death in a
building where they were holding a
meeting
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-06-07
New PLACE for Doctor Jordan.

Stanford University, Cal--Dr
David starr Jordan, president of STAN
ford University, resigned his position
to accept the office of chancellor,
which will be created by the board of
trustees next Friday for his special
benefit
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-06-07
French Steamer Blown uD-

Marseilles, Franee.-A private mes
sage received here says that the
liner Senegal struck a mine as it was
leaving Smyrna and was blown up.
1t is believed that there were two
hundred persons aboard.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-06-07

The proposal to celebrate the CEN
tenary of the high hat has been post
poned Indefinitely for two SUN cienI
reasons. One is that the date of origin
is shrouded In obscurity and the other
that so few thought it anything to cele
brate
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-06-07
Boy Drowned at Picnic.

Shawnee, Ok.-Julian Tobin, IA
years old, was drowned at the mill
dam east of Shawnee while on a pic
mic given by members of the eighth
grade of the public schools. The body
has not been recovered.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-06-07
Tried to BLOW un courthnus.

Poughkeepsie, N 1.-TWO sticks of
dynamite were found behind a radi-
ator in the corridor of the Duchess
county courthouse. with caps attached
and fuse leading outside the build
ing. The police have no clew.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-06-07
Got $3.50 for Too Long a Ride.

Paterson. N J.-Frederick A Nal
ley was awarded $3.50 damages in his
suit against the Erie Road, resulting
from the conductors failing to wake
him up and carrying him past his sta
ton
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-06-07

The two or three papers in the
United States that use the thru"
spelling win cheerfully adopt such
beautiful words. we conjecture. as
-1af," "cof," nat" NEE" "pranst,"
and .-nicnac."