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The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-11-28
Somewhat M..urs.,.toos.

In announcing that certain Con
necticut town intended 70 increase it's
water supply the local weekly con-
tained the Information that It would
build a watershed covering 50 acres" !"
One Of the toxin officials. = building
contractor, who natrr7lly favored the
shed" was severely criticized by q
fellow toEnsnan thnsIy- Twill be q
tarnation shame, by heck, ef Ezekial
Btllin's gifts the job OF putin a shed
over 80 acres OF water. I'm ag'in it,
tooth an nail. Zeke's got sufficient
outen the town already
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For Sale.

The Free Press has a 16-inch Advance
paper cutter in good condition for sale.
Who wants it?
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For Sale.

Thoroughbred Mammoth Bronze tur-
keys. Hens, $3.50. Toms, $500
Mrs. Letha Parkhurst,
n28t2. Plainville, Kans.
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Do Your Ewes Need Attention.

We are specialists in the fitting Of
glasses and devote our entire time to
this one practice.-E. F. Sullivan, OPP
tometrist, at Windsor Hotel, Thursday
Dec. 3rd.
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Hays Music Club met Tuesday, Nov.
24th, at the home OF Mrs J. H Ward,
and the following program rendered:
Paper, ''Rubinstein and TschaikOw-
sky" Miss Grass.
Piano Solo, Kamennoi Ostrow, Rubin
stein, Mrs Shively.
Vocal Solo, The Dew IS Sparkling,
Rubinstein, ,------------Mrs. Holm.
Piano Solo, Scherzo Humereske. Tschai-
kowsky- Mrs. Neiswanger.
Vocal Solo, Voices of the Woods, Rubin
SCelns ns------------------A MIS- " arO
Piano Solo, Polka Boheme, Rubinstein,
Mrs. Wood.
Vocal Solo, Silent Night,---
Mrs. Mckinney
Piano Duet, March Slav, Rubinstein,
| Mrs. West and Mrs. Shively.
Vocal Solo, Goodnight, Rubinstein,
Mrs. Matthew
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SEE BURNS.

Fred Solomon has recently purchased
Studebaker automobile
c. w. Miller has nice modern dwell
ing house in Kansas City, Mo-, to trade
for western land, Ellis county preferred
The football game between the Hays
College team and the Fort Hays Kan
sas Normal reserves, or second team,
which was played on Normal gridiron,
Tuesday afternoon, resulted, in favor
of the College, in a score of z to 10.
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E. F. Sullivan

The well known eyesight specialist,
will be at Windsor Hotel, Hays, Thurs
day, Dec. 3rd.
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Odd Fellows.

Important business will be transacted
in Odd Fellows hall next Tuesday night.
Refreshments viii also be served.
Committee.
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Saturday Aftsrnoon Club.

Nov. %, 1914.
Hostess: Mrs. E. A. Rea
Roll Call: Current Events.
The Lesson: The Dependence of
Women.
Leader: Mrs. Geo. Philip. Jr.
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For Sale.

Several good milk cows for sale. For
information apply to E. Albert,
n21t2 Hays, Kans.
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DR.. SPARR r,
SPECIALIST
WILL BE IN HAYS CITY
Wednesday, December End
At the WINDSOR HOTEL
For One Day Only
On His Regular Monthly Visits
Hours: 9 am to 6 pm.

Hours am to 6 pm
Take DR.. Sparr's advice If troubled
with any chronic or special disease and
secure competent medical assistance at
once. But you should consult q special
ist, physician who devotes his whole
time and attention TO the study Of deep
seated ailments No matter who has
failed to cure you or told you that
serious surgical operation Is your only
hope of relief, donot give up IN despair
Consult Dr. Spar He viii tell you
candidly whether or not ne can benefit
you Consultation costs nothing
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franklin On NJ.

Franklin on War.
Mad wars destroy in one year the
works of many years Of peace
Franklin.
Evening star., 1914-02-08
Winner of SIS Prize
"SHOES SHINED FREE"
By R. T. Delany of Wi1kesbarre

TT was in December, just before Christmas, and
i walking along Sixth-ave., in New York. almost
fiat had taken the road for Chicago firm, and
business had fallen off and more, until at last
hit the Big Town with nothing. My firm had grown
tired of long expense with orders incosed
so that morning | had received my walking papers
by wire.
As l wandered along the through the pushing
throng, intent their Christmas purchases, began to
kick myself for not having accepted the offer of my
wife's brother to take position with him salary
The offer had come the week previous, after had writ
ten rather gloomy letter home, and, like fool |
thought that my wife had gone to him with tale Of
woe; hence the offer.
Pride will drive to extremes, but it won't fill
an empty stomach; at last decided to accept the
offer That was all right; but how to do in time
Christmas dinner with the folks another thing
l didn't have solitary nickel in my pocket.
As | was walking along the avenue my eye happened
strike the window of shoe company, which brought
my attention to my rather shabby kicks. sign
in the window said "Our Patrons Shoes Shined Free" !"
wearing that brand of shoe; entered and took
a seat wait for the customer in the chair to leave
As was waiting came in and consulted with the
manager. He walked to the boy dispensing the
polish and said:
Shine this genteman's shoes next, Jim, indicating
the newcomer.
am naturally obliging individual; but the manner
in which he passed me up, without so much as "by
your leave, made indignant. Il beg your pardon
but l am next said.
By this time the customer in the chair had dis
mounted, and | stepped into the seat
who are YOU, anyway sneered the manager.
Never mind who l am" answered, my ire begin
Evening star., 1914-02-08

leading cotillion but I'm afraid You'll never be
world beater this order getting game.
When saw how detected he looked | braced him up
by saving never mind, that Id give him good sendof
to Decker, anyway.
Just before he to leave fell into fine piece OF
luck. The North American Tea & Coffee Company,
had called every two weeks for three or
four years, which fell for my ia, loosened up
little. Hiliard had been to see them, and had not
been thrown out In fact, he with news that they
in the market for thirty bags of coffee and twenty
chests of tea and would be willing to and talk
prices
l beat it over there and for the first time in his life
the old guy who did the buying acted decently That
l told Hilard that I'd better call Decker and ask
for some special prices.
Hilliard waiting for me when came out Of the
telephone booth, walking up and down smoking, cool
you please. l was limp rag and when he called
to me- What did he say?@ | could only stamner out
"He told me I'd better ask Mr. Hliard to talk to
him. He said that your being the president OF the
pJny might be big influence
perhaps it might, said Hilliard Il guess you'd
better make him the prices he asks
Evening star., 1914-02-08
Winner of IS Prize
THE MIDNIGHT THIEVES
By Hinson Stiles of Providence

TN Northern Maine many little hotels
i patronized wholly by travelling men. You go
into one, without any veried beboy eager
to take your bags,-and incidentally coin,-you
attach your signature to greasy register, and are
then shown your room by the clerk who IS COM
bination of bellhop,. clerk, proprietor, janitor,
and also waiter in the dining room. His buxom
wife generally acts cook
One of these hotels low wooden structure which
urban folks would have called nothing more than a
cottage 1t was summer and stifingly hot. 1t hap
pened that l the only patron that night; SO re
ceived the best the hotel situated the ground
floor facing the front.
Suddenly was awakened by sharp report as if a
gun had been fired off. 1t seemed to issue from the
cellar up in bed slightly scared and strained my
for the slightest sound; but not sound could be
heard. l got up and lit small oil lamp. The first
thing my eye caught was old musket hanging the
to scare off the prowlers. With the lamp in hand
and the musket tightly clenched in the other made my
way to the cellar stairs.
| hadn't gone down three steps when there
sharp report quickly followed by several others equally
loud. l nearly dropped the lamp; but somehow
managed to scramble back to the safely where
Immediately locked the door, and stood with the old
musket awaiting further developments. Nothing hap
pened The heat had brought the perspraton OUT
but it stood my forehead alternately hot and
cold. Nothing happened in the next hour; so finally
decided to go to bed.
The next morning asked the proprietor, did you
hear any queer noises down cellar last night
NO didn't, he said disgustedy "but the darnel heat
busted jars of my ten-year rold branded pears
Evening star., 1914-02-08
Winner of IS Prize
Twist THE BRAKE"
By J. A. Denkinger of Boston

GONE years ago J. P. O'Reilly travelling sales
- for the c. H. Pinkham Company, firm OF
manufacturing chemists, who turn out a number of
pharmaceutical specialtes much used by physicians
and sold by the drug trade in all parts of the civilized
world 1t not very long before the most successful
of the Pnkham specalties including its trade name,
were initiated by Potter, Dillingham; & Co.. manufac-
turing chemists located in the West.
ANY and all references to the imitation and its "un-
scrupuous manufacturers never failed to rouse o Rei
Tvs ire At of the annual meetings of the American
Medical Association both the Pinkham and the Potter
Dillingham; companies represented.
1t not very long before it reached the OF
Dillingham; that OReilly not only boosting the
Pinllfam product, but going out of his way to
knock the Potter Dillingham; preparation and its
faeturers He lost time in calling on O'Reiy and
advising him out his violent talk about limitations
and pirates. He insisted that the limitation dispute
the business OF the companies and did not
OReilly personally; moreover that O'Reily might
some day be glad to land job with the Dillingham;
people.
His last remark was more than OReily could stand
He told Dillingham; in expressive rather than elegant
English just what he thought Of his company and its
spurious product and added that, far his taking
position with such firm concerned, he would
rather twist the brake"
Not very long afterward O'Reily severed his con
nection with the Pinkhans, and in the OF years
with number Of other houses
One day, finding himself out of job, he wrote to a
number of pharmaceutical houses Potter Dillingham;
among them, for position travelling salesman.
Within three days he received his answer:
Mr. F. ]. O'REILLy, New Haven, Conn.
Dear Sir.-"Twist the brake DHLINGHAM-
Evening star., 1914-02-08

found it as the clerk had told me, regular Junk
shop made up Of all kinds of merchandise, and every
thing in disorder asked one of the clerks where |
could find the proprietor She said he up in his
COOP and pointed to small balcony in one corner.
| started up the stairs when the stopped
with
Nothing doing-no time to waste-dont need any
thing-good day.
| said l was no salesman, neither had anything
SELL but certainly did have something that would in
terest him. 1T walks and talks. said, ~and it would
give great pleasure to demonstrate it to you.
After rejecting a few moments he said Come up
After giving me and my package good sizing up, he
started in with:
q very busy man. but what is it you have
that walks and talks? Show it up, my time is linn
tied
Undoing my package, took out pair Of trousers.
you're bluff he angrily exclaimed. Il not
interested except in what you said you had
Listen! This is the article. 1t walks when you put
it on, and it's the price that talks.
You should have heard him laugh Being an Irish
he took my method of approaching him good
naturedly, and it wasn't long before had goodsized
order
Evening star., 1914-02-08

ming to rise in earnest II have the right OF priority
and you can't make wait
Throw this fellow out Jim, said the manager; but
glance at my bulk sufficed for him.
By this time the manager was raving. He threatened
me- and invited him to start in and then he switched
to the legal side of the question.
"The sign in your window gives this right
said "as bought these shoes in of your stores
you can't put out.
a can't, heyo~ he said. "If you don't like the way
YOU are treated in this store, you can get out
His friend smiling broadly by now, and the
manager felt as if he was being shown up.
well, here" he snarled. "You can get your money
back; but You can't stay here
All right answered, give me back the six dollar
that I paid for these shoes, and I'll get out
This seemed to disconcert the man. but he mus
have been Irish for he there with the comeback
Here's Your six dollars he said. @Now give bacl
the shoes
He thought me had cornered, it snown:
like fury; but l was game, and, removing the shoe
from my feet stepped from the chair and past th'
dumbfounded proprietor to the street.
| waded through the along Sixth-ave., where
everybody minds his own business, without excltns
comment. doubt if anyone noticed that was
walking without shoes, or if they did they put
down as some kind of barefoot fanatic out for :,
exercise.
At the next block I another shoestore,
where purchased cheap pair for two dollars.
l sent the boy out for a pair of socks, which cost
me thirtv-ive cents, including the tip.
This left me with just three sxty-five exactly
the fare to Wkesbarre | mile from the
ferrv but that was no walk, and in half an hour
| was aboard.
Needless to say the kids not disappointed
that Christmas, and after big dinner went out
to the brother-n-1aws office and landed the job.
Evening star., 1914-02-08
Winner of IS Prize
!" 1T WALKS AND TALKS
By M. L. Hefter of Chicago

AFTER fruitless day in the town, | asked the
~ hotel clerk if there WASH in the outskirts
that regular travelling would be likely to
miss. He said there was; but that it nothing but
junk-shop, carrying only cheap goods and the pro
prietor a hard approach.
This stimulated my ambition; for I was determined
make sale So selected small line Of staple trou-
sers, tied them in package and started out.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1914-09-03
A Policewonan
Refute. Prohibition

TAe Municipal League of Indiana.
at it, convention At Columbus (fnd)
on July Sth, was addressed BY Mrs..
F. r. Hart. . policswoman of Auncis.
who. accerding to press REPORTS, uses
her salary for charitahas - purposes.
Touching uDon the question Of prohibit.
tion durfag her address. Mrs. Har.
said:
"I know snos&h about the people OF
Muacie to tear the towA wide open, y
in telling ef her sxDsfisncs on the po.
lice force Of Msaeas.
Christ torSave every sta save that
Of bs,nS . hypocrits. some Of the
leaders IN the @ppoAthtttsn cause 4.
Auneie drink Wines and LIQUORS At
hoae. ~ then want the salooos
cioSs1 - keep tAs Deoe man from hay.
ing . drink. positively know and
can prove that some Of the leaders OF
the prohibition movement At Muncie
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1914-09-03

tioas which tea never Dro4uces. Those
coaditions are these: TIE Inhibition
q the feelings og ns1est - DsspTie-
ty. OF conscience and joagDsat while
low instincts and animal passions are
abaermally excited. Drink produces
~ atmosphere hsspitabls - estoe, y
1t prepares the bed for Tuberculosis
and other diseases.
The common opinioe that drink
produces poverty is here vigesOssly de
MED. Frances willard II falsely quot
ed as holding that poverty IL the chief
cause Of drunkenness, . radical mis-
representation Of her real position.
One writer makes nHch Of the fact
in Carroll d. Wright's Report on the
Unemployed us13). ost ot six million
then said to be out Of work in the Unit
ed States. only in ~ u reported Is
out Of work on account of drunkenness
.26 Of 1 per cent But what Mes be-
hind this statement! THIS percent
age really means nothing at al or on
ly this.-these few in thser reDlies ad-
mitted that they cosld not ct work
because drunkards! Bat anpoag hun
dred men out Of employnent n &C.
count Of drinking habits. psobaAly ast
more than one would s1tbe fact
In the same line. very few e1-coavicts
In explaining their noa-sanD1oynent,
would. state that they wore Il this con-
dition because they had once been in
prison. The figure given 90 Of per
cent? is. therefore, utterly worthless.
because 1t in no way represents real
conditions, but only what few In
temperate men were willing to admit.
'Over against this statement may be
/ put the results of an investigation con-
Quoted about the same time by the
same labor bureau. TO discover the At
titude Of employers respecting drink
ing men. From seventy-five - ninety
per cent OF over six Thousand. distrf-
buted among many trades and occupa-
tions, expressed decided preference
for non-drinkers. In reply to the claim
more than one would admit the fact.
that men drink chiefly because poor
appeal may be made to the decisive
results Of an inquiry undertaken by
the large hospitals Of New York City
to discover why men begin to drink
Obviously, the proportion, Among such
persons. who would attribute their hah
, it to poverty would be higher than d
mong drinkers in general. But only
} five percent replied that -they began
: to drink because out of work.
1T is unnecessary to discrfbe or dis
cuss any farther the errors and absurd
tiles Of this volume. These references
illustrate the general character Of the
liquor defense"
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1914-09-03
VOTE ne ON STATEWIDE PROHIBITION
The COLORADO BUSINESS mers HOME RULE lEAslK

get drunk and have been brousht
homo drunk"
y was the worst prohibition crank
II the country when started to stu a
tas problem. wanted every seloo.
Closed and every bit Of liquor confie.
Gated. l have studied the problem =
Year,. and now I am not in favo, Al
hibit. ~" s'o'
am In . position to know whsehs,
prohibition prohibits in Nuncie ma
want to say 1t does not. Prohihitloc
aoes not prohibit anywhere. NJ Ans-
oand manufactures bottles. en6 -
very best trade Il In dry tsYritorr.
Il make = distinction between ts--
perance and prohibition. 10 knox
that many of the Prohibitisaist. .t.
nypocrites. IkAow . woman ~, 1y
nome who drinks bser and ~ + !.
iiversd At the front door. hov :.
OF ner netGhbofs who II q
rrooibitiontst and her hoer
hveted At the hack door. DoeA
OF eeer cone a the sane uae
ene woman who slips her be
the house 10 hypocrfts and r
speak TO the woman whose besS
IN the front vay."
From the La Porte UnA.l
July .. 1914. -
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1914-09-03
WIeooM FRoM axpEN,QMct.

MY eyes we're opened to the srsa-
evils q prohibition in very 9ev
years. The clubs organised BY Young
men. the selling Of vile Ascocttoes Nv
women and children. the Aypocrtsv
and corruption. arrested nv attes-
tion. Rev Dr. blanchard, Portland
Ne.
Il was here whea the prohib,torv
laws were IL effect in this stst.
tNassachusetts) and know the avn.
which existed under them. Undar ~
license in Holyoke there would h.
less drinking. but moro drunk sns>.s ).
--Aousignor Harkens, HoIyske
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1914-09-03

Prohibition - seAsos . naks
n'ee good BY Act q Assembly y par4
paantasy. 1t doss ~ Desnoes sehss
temperance Or vfrtus. It aroasss Au
maa passion to frsnsy By iava1lne pri
vsts rights. II Asss not reas9s drunk
sonses. It nultiDiiss PhAxiooes and
nalsfactors. 1t has - just .rsooxp:
tion or belonging IN the sceasmy
ecvsrnAso4 q IL autoaoay OF TIN
rsiigtoa- h 70 II IT. esssaes isnoran
tyraanoas ~ dishonest. They u
ADVANCE 1t ~ political argumeat
eethsr baeoGs - cheats. Gel. he,
Wattsrsoa-
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1914-09-03
VI. G. L~U. NOTES
Dr.. Jsseph Crsskef - The nFewers
Yeo1 Dook.

DR.. Jsseph Crsskef - The ntcMers'
Ysae Dssk =
Dr.. Joseph Croker, president Of the
Tempefanee Society OF the Unitarian
church. after reading the year book Of
the United States Brewers Association
for 1913 says he believes It would be
we'll II this so-cslled defense OF beer
were widely read by the American peo
pie. After perusal Of this interest
ing but Irritating document he thinks
they would better understand the real
aim aad spirit OF this vast and power
full Organization in restraint Of virtue,
<the e4emy Of industrial efficiency. Of
human betterment, of American Citi-
zenship." In a recent article in the
Christian Register on "what the Brew
.rs Claim he says
IAN article is reprinted from Har-
per's Weekly In which 1t is claimed
that abetiu cnce leads to abnormal and
vicious popular. delus'ons. For prOct
appeal is made to Grcentackism n
Ha:n... ropu', III in Kansas, and the 1.
crease in ri, ri,a!lawlessness toward Ee
:.nes in tt.t South (nOw bur ming them
aiive tsstead of lynching. as form srly)
-: due to rr forced ab>tiDt nee.
TOO had. indeed. for poor old Maine!
For years il has furnished 4 larger pre-
portion Of distinguished men and wO-
men to the world than the average oi
the nation tsee Who's Who in Ameri'
cay For many years the Congress
siOnai delegation from. Maine has ex'
erted more influence upon Legislation
At Washington tiran those from stabes
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1914-09-03

many times its size These aud many
similar facts disprOve the deterioration
asserted. Moreover. Greeabackism did
not originate in Maine; 1t was not COT
fined 10 Maine: 1t did not survive In
Maine AZ long a. In many wet states.
~Lssk New Ut Kansas"
Look now at Kansas. The majority
Of the so-called propositions urged by
Populists have been accepted by both
political parties. white some OF them
have been embodied In national sta
tutes. The state. instead Of being ru-
'ined by enforced abstinence. is remar-
kably successful financially. while ma
ny counties, jaiis and poor houses have
few or NO inmates.-53 Of the los coun
ty jails empty At the same time, and
80 county poOrhouses empty while
in 81 counties there were. at the same
date. NO insane. Surely. Kansas is q
,Or.lblc example. to which brewers
would better not appeal.
But what about the crimes against
the negroes in the Southern States!
The fact is. as Booker +. Washington
has recently pointed out. lynching Of
negroes has rapidly declined. 1t Is al
40 q we'll known fact that. when the
horrible cu<ra0ss oecusrea' . few year,
ago at Atlanta, both whites and blacks
agreed that the lawlessness OF the sa-
looms was largely at the bottom of
those outrages. Wherever abstinence
spreads, the relations of the races be-
come more humane.
There is one other point to be con-
sidered In this connection. The liquor
men are constantly asserting that pro-
hfbition does not prohibit: that much
more liquor is actually used in dry
| territory Now, II this be true, thes
these very states III drinking promote.
good life and greater prosperity
ought to stand at the head Of all state!
in the Union! II one should searci
the wofld's-literatare. 1t would be i'm
possible to find anything approaching
in fooltshness the argument here re
printed and commended.
I'm this defense Of beer, 1t Is stoutl!
denied that drinking is productive o
crime. Appeal is made to an essay b!
an ap0logist Of beer in Austria, VIII,
contends that to hold alcohol respon
sibie for crime is illogical as to hol,
tea responsible for vice. But peopl
do not go out from tea rooms by tn
thousands and commit crime as the
do from saloons. Women do not e
home from tea parties and beat thei
children as men do who go home fror
drink-shope. There ia q psychologists
reason las scientists clearly and con
clasitely show) why the, use OF alec
hol leads to crime, produces condl