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The Era-leader. [volume] (Franklinton, La.) 1910-current, 1914-12-24
Make Yourself A Neighbour
hood Leader.

Right now a virtual revolution
is pending in Southern agricul-
ture. Old things are passed away;
behold all things are become new
The call is for plain farmers and
farmers wives and farm boys
and farm girls to make them
selves LEADERS in their neigh.
borhoods, leaders for new methods
of farming. and leaders also in
new methods of farm living.
The old individualistic un.
Christian way of living must be
forever done away with. The
old doctrine of every man for
himself and the devil take the
hindmost" must give away to tn 9
new doctrine, ''Bear We one an
others burdens" Corporation
is the master. word of the new
century. Whole neighborhoods
must learn to work together.
You can't farm proftabIy any
longer onless you work with your
neighbors. You must work with
them in buying fertilizers and
supplies. Also work with them
in buying and using modern Ia
Dor saving machinery. You
must work with them in getting
more and better livestock. Yon
must work with them in packing,
shipping, and selling your crops
after you grow them. You must
work with them to develop some
system Of rural credits whereby
men may help one another out of
the Slough O. Debt and on to the
Highroad of independence. And
having done all this, it will yet
remain true that you cannot have
a satisfying life, no matter how
much money you make, unless
your neighbors are educated, a
reading people, well.informed,
neighborly, and anxious to join
with you for better schools, bet
ter roads, prettier honest richer
social and intellectual life, and
for a happy. "pull.together''
neighborhooe.
The Era-leader. [volume] (Franklinton, La.) 1910-current, 1914-12-24

the hair, the reason for the latter
being that it CLOSES the pores
and keeps the fluid in the hair.
With the long hair OF a woman
which has tendency to split at
the ends, it is possible that SINCE
ing the tips may be Of some use
it substitutes a charred blunt end
Of fused horn for one tapering to
a point or cut clean across. But
even in cases of this sort it is
less useful than greasing lightly
the hair and thus supplying the
fat which is lacking in such hair.
For the hair of men, which is
kept short, smuggling is not Of any
use in splitting; hair which is not
allowed to grow to its natural
length does not split, unless it
has a deep-seated disturbance for
which there is no such simple
remedy. Of course, singeing the
the hair-ends in order to prevent
the fluid in the hair from escap.
ing. like sap from a tree, is based
on an entire instrumentation of th &
The Era-leader. [volume] (Franklinton, La.) 1910-current, 1914-12-24
Singeing The Hair.

The reams Of paper that are
used up each month in articles in
the daily paoers-and weekly
and monthly papers-on beauty
culture are conclusive evidence
that it is as natural for man to de
sire to beauty the person as it is
ito indulge in the illusions of
hope" A sound mind in a
sound body suffices the serious.
minded minority, but apparently
the innumerable majority, if they
had their way, would have a
comely body and take their
chances on any old kind of a
mind, on the principle that it is
better to be good looking than
wise, because more people have
sight than understanding. 70
decorate AM b"autify the boly is
an inborn passion: the savage
does it differently from us. but
when it comes TO the many ma.
nipulatlons and remedies that
are recommended for avoiding
wrinkles, giving the eyebrows an
aristocratic arch, coaxing the
lashes to be long and dangerous,
making the ears pink and small
or the nose straight and thin, re-
moving double chin or taking
the core out Of the Adams apple,
we have nothing on our uncivil-
lied and supposedly more ignor.
ant brothers. The hair in partic-
ular is the object of all mankind's
cosmetic endeavors. When it
comes to civilized man he is uni.
versally engaged in trying to save
what ne has left or regrow what
he has lost. Women, with few
exceptions, do not become bald,
but all women, i'll their opinions,
are threatened with that unspeak-
able calamity; men not only get
bald, but a large number of them
are already SO. And thus the
popular remedies for the hair
need almost d Surgeon Generals
catalog. Migratory and electri.
cal treatments, hair tonics that
feed the hair roots, as though
they grew out Of the scalp like
broom-sedge oct Of an old field,
neat's-foot oil and crude kero-
sene, massage and mango cures,
all have their futile trails. Among
these onr particular topic now is
singing the hair. This is recon-
mended to overcome splitting at
| the ends aud prevent falling Of
The Era-leader. [volume] (Franklinton, La.) 1910-current, 1914-12-24
propositions. -

propositions"
We ought always remember
that farmers will get influence in
Washington or anywhere else on
ly in proportion as they are rep
resented by men who have a
knowledge of fundamental prin-
ciples of economics, history and
government, and whose proposals
are in accord with such principles.
And the worst enemy of our peo-
pie is the man who proposes a
wild and impracticabIe scheme
merely because he thinks it will
plense them BY following such
demagogues with will-o'- the wisp
schemes our farmers III all times
nave suffered incidentally.
Esop gives US the fable of the
dog which, crossing a stream.
dropped bone to run for its
shadow; and it's a good story to
think about when any law-to
cure ali-your- troubles is present
ed. When we run off after i'm.
practicable plans of reform VIZ
simply lose the chance to ge
practicable reform. The Pro
gressive Farmer,
The Era-leader. [volume] (Franklinton, La.) 1910-current, 1914-12-24

hairs structure and nutrition.
The hair does not contain any.
more sap than a buggy whip; it
is not nourished by any fluid in it,
but by the blood plasma that
reaches only the hair root. The
hair above the skin surface is a
spine of horn, which is even oiled
from without, and singelng its
tips has no effect whatever on
either its nourishment or it's
growth. It's certain, says The
Journal of the American Medical
Association that sirgeing the hair
is of no value in preventing its
fall: in fact, the only value the
procedure has is to the Jealous
hairdres ser who gets his little
fee for doing it-unless it is
worth a quarter to the seeker at.
ter hair to think be is doing
something, even if ne is not.
The Era-leader. [volume] (Franklinton, La.) 1910-current, 1914-12-24

A meeting of tn e stockholders
Of the Standard Land Co. Ltd.
will be held at the Office of the
Company at Franklinton, La, on
Monday, Jan. II, 1915, for the
purpose of voting on proposed
amendments to Charter.
Robert Darlington. Sec'y.
The Era-leader. [volume] (Franklinton, La.) 1910-current, 1914-12-24
Danger In Following
Impracticable Plans

There is an old.story of a war
rior-king who prayed, 80 Lord,
save me from my friends; I'll
look after my enemies"
The cotton farmers of the South
might we'll have prayed a similar
prayer in recent weeks. II We
could have kept down the foolish
schemes propos ed by so-called
friends of the farmer, there would
have been less trouble in licking
their enemies. The wild schemes
proposed by some Southerners at
Washington simply drove away
from as the support OF conserva-
tive and sensible men who might
have stood with u.s. As rule, it
is not the man who proposes the
biggest AMI most atiuring scheme
we need to follow, but the man
who presents a Moderate aud
ell-considered program. 1T
looks to me-" said one farmer to
us recently, "as if some Of these
agitators really were enemies in
disguise--seeking to discredit the
farmers course by their wildcat
The Era-leader. [volume] (Franklinton, La.) 1910-current, 1914-12-24

CHRISTMAS PRESENT this ye=-Frday December
BEST OF the ChiHmass ouhaveeve
WILL grudge
FRIENDS WHOLE
which
O of the TRUE
The Era-leader. [volume] (Franklinton, La.) 1910-current, 1914-12-24

Cure your meat with Liquid
Saoke.
Bablngton's Drug Store, Inc,
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-04-04
KILLS RIVAL, WOUNDS GIRL
at bearing, Kan, When At
tackled With Knife.

independence, Kas.-WilIiam Petty
shot and killed his rival in love,
Preston Seeley, at bearing, Kas., and
IN the fight accidentally wounded his
sweetheart, Isabel Stewart, and
slightly wounded Andrew Medford,
Miss Stewards brother-in-Iaw. Miss
Stewart may die.
Petty and Medford fed after the
shooting and were arrested at Wann,
Okla
Petty, AFedford and Miss Stewart
were In a buggy when Seeley is said
to have climbed up on the rear OF the
vehicle, grabbed Petty by the collar
and struck at him with a knife. Petty
drew his revolver and fired over his
shoulder, the bullet striking Seeley
In the head and killing him almost
instantly Medford was attempting to
assist Miss Stewart from the buggy
when Petty turned around to fire
again. He was excited and the bullet
went wild, passing through one OF
Medford's hands and striking Miss
Stewart In the abdomen.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-04-04
BRITISH WAR MINISTER QUITS
Col seeIy Resigns From Cabinet A.
Result Of Army Row-Aot Time
in Commons.

London.-Amid wild confusion in
the House OF Commons, during which
Winston Churchill, first lord OF the
admiralty lost his composure and
was rebuked by the speaker, the
Asquith cabinet fought for its life.
The resignation OF Col ]: B. Seely
as secretary OF war, was announced
on the floor.
After the sympathmetic reception
by the House of Commons OF the
secretary for wars explanation OF
his action regarding the army Off
GERS in Ireland. the premier decided
that he would not sacrifice his lieu
tenant
Premier Asquith placed the blame
for the entire crisis On Seely and the
war secretary publicly accepted full
responsibility.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-04-04
TOLLS DEBATE ON
Contest For Repeal of Exemp-
ton Clause Begins In
House.
CLARK IS AGAINST WILSON
Speaker Makes Statement Indicating
His Position-RuIe to Limit
Debate Starts Fight

Washington, D. C.-What all Wash
fngton admits-is the biggest problem
OF the Wilson administration-whe
er the clause in the Panama Canal
Act exempting American vessels from
paying tolls shall be repealed-Te-
mains unsettled and it is evident that
the fight over the Presidents policy
advocating the repeal has just begun.
The preliminary skirmish, a special
rule in the house to prohibit amend
ment and limit debate, ended in ad-
JOurnment late in the afternoon. For
two hours the rule, in heated debate,
had been alternately attacked and de-
Tended. The Presidents friends took
up its defense and his opponents
aligned themselves against it.
Incidentally, the stand OF Speaker
Clark and what may be his final vote
was forecasted In a statement by the
speaker in which he let 1t be known
that he is strongly opposed to the
special rule. This indicates that Mr.
Clark will oppose the repeal With
him stand Representative Oscar w.
Underwood, the Democratic leader in
the house; Representative Mann, the
Republican or minority leader, and
representative Victor Murdoch, the
Progressive leader
The question OF repeating the exemp-
ton clause is not party matter. It
goes far beyond that. Speaker Clark
says in his statement:
I'VE have a rule reported on a bill
on the greatest question in NV twenty
years il the house, beside which
tariff bills sink into pitiable insignifi-
eance-a bill which, If passed, will
change our foreign policy which we
have maintained for 125 years
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-04-04
HOUSE STANDS BY PRESIDENT
Passes Rule Limiting Canal
Debate 200 to 172.

Washington.-The special rule linn
iting the debate on the repeal Of Pan
anna Canal toll exemption has been
passed in the House by a vote of 200
to 172.
That put the Sims bill to repeal the
exemption squarely before the House
for a twenty-four hour debate and pro-
tected it against intervening motions
and amendments.
President Wilson won the first clash
of his fight to repeal the Panama
Tolls Exemption when the House, by
vote of 207 to 176, refused to con-
tinue discussion on the rule to limit
to twenty hours the debate on the
Sims bill.
Party lines were eliminated in the
vote which was a round victory for
the administration leaders.
Administration supporters were
sure of its passage.
War to the knife has been declared
between President Wilson and Speaker
Clark. Their partisans in the House
showed the issue clearly. A dozen
administration Democrats met in
Chairman Adamson's office and decid-
ed to accept the battle gage offered
by Clark in an open and bitter as
sault on the Speaker for knitting" the
President.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-04-04
ARKANSAS WOMAN A FIGHTER
Files Her Own Brief in Federal Su-
Preme Court Against Telephone
Company.

Washington = Whether telephone
companies may cut off service 10 an
individual because of failure TO pay
for past service is to be passed upon
by the supreme court.
Mrs Adelia P. Danaher~ OF Little
Rock, Ark, has obtained a judgment
for $1,000 damages against the South
western Telephone Company for cut
ting off her telephone service sixty
three days. The company appealed
TO the supreme court for a reversal
and the court has taken the case IN
der adVisement. Mrs Danaher filed
a brief prepared by herself.
The telephone Company claimed
that Mrs. Danaher owed it 81 for two
months rental She claimed she had
paid this rental and held receipts
therefor.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-04-04
HEAD OF BRITISH ARMY QUITS
Sir John French, Field Marshal.
Tenders Resignation.

London.=F[eld Marshal Sir John
French, chief OF the imperial staff G
the British army has resigned his
commission
The resignation OF General Ewart,
adjutant general of the forces. is ez-
pected to follow
a new agency issued an announce
ment that both Field Marshal French
and Adj. Gen Sir John Spencer Ew-
art had rendered their designations
and that the government had refused
to accept either Of them.
As members of the war council,
General French and General Ewart
signed the Cough treaty with War
Secretary Seely. The reputation OF
the assurances given Cough that the
Irish officers would not be expected
to serve against Ulster led to their
resignation. The two generals, it is
said, were led to believe that the two
paragraphs repudiated in the House
Of Commons by Asquith had been ap-
proved by the cabinet.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-04-04
PICKS RESERVE BANK CITIES
Washington Correspondent of New
York Sun Says Committee Has
Finished Its Work.

New York-The New York Sun IN
der a Washington date, says:
The organization committee or
the Federal reserve banking system
has practically finished its work The
committee, which consists of Secre-
tary McAdoo, Secretary Houston and
Comptroller Williams, probably viii
announce in a few days, perhaps be-
fore the end OF this week, the bound
aries OF the Federal reserve districts
and the cities which are to have the
reserve banks
Upon reliable authority the Sun is
able TO present the tentative list OF
federal reserve cities as follows:
Boston, New York, Philadelphia,
Washington or Richmond. Va; Chi
cago, St Louis, San Francisco, Kan
sas City, Cincinnati, Atlanta or New
Orleans, Dallas or Houston, Tex. and
Minneapolis.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-04-04
MAsKEDMAN sHOOTsBANKER
President of Failed Superior, Nebras-
ka Institution WayIaid and Dan
gerousIy Wounded.

Superior, Neb.-Captain c. E.
Adams, president of the First Nation
al Bank of this place, which recently
closed its doors, was shot and
dangerously wounded by a masked
man, who attacked him at the mouth
of an alleyNas Captain Adams was
returning to his home from the bust
ness part of the town. Captain Adams
was twice wounded in the head. He
was able to walk to his home, where
he tainted.
Since the failure of the bank, Cap
tain Adams has received a number
of anonymous letters threatening him
with harm. He is one of the pioneer
residents and business men of South
ern Nebraska. He has long been
prominent in political and Grand
Army circles, and was a candidate
for commander-in-chief of the national
G. A. R. at its last meeting.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-04-04
SAY REBELS LOST
Mexican FedeFalS Claim Vic
tory In Bloody Battle
at TOrreOn.
WALK INTO VELAsCO's TRAP
to Ambush Villas
Soldiers.

City of Mexico-The war depart
ment makes the claim that the rebels
under Villa were routed at Torreon
with great slaughter. Eight hundred
men under General Joaquin Mas and
General Javier de Moure, it is an
nounced, arrived opportunely from
SaItiIIo in time to add greatly to the
federal victory The rebels are said
to be TetTeating northward, with the
federals pounding at their rear.
It is admitted that Villas men en-
tered Lerdo, a suburb of Torreon, but
it is. explained this was a ruse on the
part of General Velasco to ambush
them. As soon as they we're well into
that territory the federal artillery
shelled them out, the cavalry charg-
ing as the rebels started to retreat.
Generals Mas and De Moure are
reported to have made the distance
between Hipolito and Torreon in ar
mored automobiles which they were
carrying, the railroad having been cut
at Hipolito.
The rebel losses in dead and wound
ed are reported to be 1000.
Battle at Guerrero.
Laredo, Textile battered rem
nants of an army of 1000 Federals
which General Guardiola sent out to
attack the eastern headquarters Of
the Constitutionalists at Matamoras,
Mexico, returned to Nuevo Laredo
Ammunition, supplies and large part
of their active forces were lost in
Mondays battle at Guerrero, which
ended in the route of the Federals.
On the field after the battle the
ConstitutionaIists found a rich treas
ure in abandoned supplies. 1t was
explained GuardioIas sword, cap and
his wallet containing personal papers
were found and identified. The Con-
stitutionalists reported finding 422
rifles and carbines on the field The
Federals saved their. artillery, and it
and the cavalry formed the bulk of
the force which escaped No reason
was given why the ConstitutionaIists
did not pursue the slow moving Fed
erals, burdened with their wounded.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-04-04
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS

Conflicting reports of the battle
between Mexican Constitutionalists
and Federals came to Laredo from
the isolated scene of the recent en-
gagement near Guerrero, sixty miles
south of that city on the Rio Grande.
Thirty persons were injured in
headon collision between scuthbound
passenger train No. 3, known as the
"Cannonba1l, and a northbound pas
senger train, on the Frisco near
Nancy, Ok, a junction twenty-three
miles south OF Fort Smith.
Pursued through the main streets
of the city after he had been driven
empty handed from the Atlanta State
Savings Bank, negro institution at
Atlanta, Ga, a robber escaped by
forcing the driver Of a buggy to gal
lop with him into the suburbs.
An official report says the rebels
have established headquarters within
a mile OF Gomez Paalacio and are try
ing to get closer to Torreon. Firing
was heavy, but the relative po-
sitions OF the opposing armies with
respect to Torreon practically are
unchanged.
DIR. Walter NJ Cross, city chem
ist of Kansas City, was seriously
burned and twenty-five Office en-
ployes of the American Radiator Com
pany narrowly escaped death when a
large tank of crude petroleum burst
with a terrific explosion while DR..
Cross was conducting an experiment
ON a vacant lot.
The detection of the British army
officers who refused to serve in Ulster
is now a closed incident, but its con-
sequences are likely TO prove far
reaching. Premier Asquith and Colo
mel SeeIy, secretary Of state for war,
made explanations before an excited
and turbulent house that the whole az
fair was the result OF misundeT-
standing
4 man, armed with no weapons
other than those Nature gave him,
and an immense mastiff dog fought
a battle on the prairie near Musko-
gee, Ok. When the battle was over
both lay on the ground The dog was
dead and the man was exhausted.
The Seventy-fourth New York reg
iment was ordered out for strike duty
at11 o'clock at night after one man
had been killed and several wounded
in two serious riots at the plant OF the
Gould Coupler Company within the
last tWenty-four hours at Buffalo.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-04-04
TWO SHOPLIFTERS CAUGHT
Kansas City Police Recover $4,000
Worth Of Stolen Finery on
Girls Tip.

Kansas City.-A statement from
Margaret Duke, 20 years old of S2S
South Seventh street, Kansas side,
led the police to rooms at 1929 Grand
avenue, where they found women's,
clothing and millinery valued between
$4,000 and $4,000. The goods had
been stolen from at least ten down.
town stores. It was in three trunks
and two big boxes, ready for ship
ment
James Geffene, IS years old, and his
wife. Violet, % years old, were ar
rested at the Grand avenue address.
Mrs. Geffene has been arrested for
shoplifting before.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-04-04

GAINESVILLE, Ohio-After locking the
proprietor Of the National Hotel and
twelve guests IN their rooms so they
could not give an alarm, robbers blew
the safe OF the postoffice at New Con-
cord and escaped with money and
stamps.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-04-04
River Bill Through House,

Washing ton.-The 2-million dollar
appropriation for continuing the i'm
provement of the Missouri River
from Kansas City to its mouth went
through the House after a vitriolic
attack on the appropriation by Repre-
sentative Galloway, Democrat, OF
Texas, who has been attacking river
Improvements generally.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-04-04
Splinter stoos Runaway.

Chicago.-Howard Osborne, who
won the half mile at the Western
conference meet sprinted down Chi
cago avenue, Evanston, and stopped
q runaway horse that was dragging
a careening buggy to which q fright
ened woman chung.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-04-04
Kansas City oanqsters Held.

Kansas City.-Two more OF the
1924 Grand Avenue gang, Maurice
Lewkowitz and William Cheesman
have been held without bond TO await
trial IN the criminal court for the out
rage upon Mrs. Gertrude Shidler.
This completes the holding for trial
OF all six Of the men who are alleged
to have committed the crime
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-04-04
Durham's Bio Fire -.

Durham. n. C-POperty loss ap-
proximating 1 million dollars. about
half Of which is covered by insurance
resulted from a fire which DESTROYED
the Duke office building. For a time
the entire business section was
threatened.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-04-04
Wilson calls on stone.

Washington, D. president Wilson
called on Senator Stone Of Missouri,
chairman Of the foreign relations
committee at the senator's apart
ments. Chairman Stone has been
very Ill for several weeks and now
gets about only on crutches.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-04-04
Eire kfLIed I'd Arn,v Hors.a-

Font Riley, Kas-Forty-oRe horses
Of the second year class of the mount
ed service. school at Fort Riley were
burned to death in a fire that de-
stroyed one of the large school sta
bles.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-04-04

A Philadelphia in his specifca-
tions for an ideal wife requires that
she shall among other things love all
men and women as brothers and sis
tiers. Il she actually does the chances
are he win want q divorce instanter.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-04-04
Social Work for Rich widow.

St Leuis.-Mrs. Elias Michael, who
recently came into possession OF an
estate OF almost I million dollars
through the death Of her husband,
has announced her intention Of en-
teriRg the field OF social service.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-04-04
Arson SQUAD bal uIster.

Belfast, Ireland.-A suffragette
arson squad has burned down Abbey
land. the splendid country residence
OF Maj. Gen Sir Hugh MeCaImont, q
Unionist, near White Abbey on Bel
fast Lough.