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Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1914-11-19
NO|S|EST OF WARS
It Is Also the Most Nearly lnvisi-
BILE One.
Many Fall by Shells Of Foe That 10
Unseen-"Adleu, My Dear Wife;
Vlve Ia France" Last Message
Of Dying Soldier.

Paris, France.-A French officer
who has been in the battle east OF
Amiens in France asserts that this is
probably the noisiest war the world
has ever known. II Is also the most
nearly. invisible war. Many Of the
first line troops have fought In all the
battles from Belgium to the Marine
and back to the present position with
out actually seeing any Germans, save
dead or wounded. The men have be-
come so curious to see their enemies
that lately, when the trenches are so
close that the French soldiers can
hear the Germans shouting orders,
the French officers have had the great
est difficulty in forcing the men to
keep their heads down.
The same officer credits the mitrail'
leuse with being Germany's deadllest
weapon. Speaking Of ordinary artil.
lery he relates how a few days ago a
French infantryman was wading
through the mud back to the trench,
and eating q pear. A shell burst near
by, a piece Of It striking the soldiers
haversack and telling him. He was
Immediately on his feet again swear.
ing furiously, LES cochons! They
made me lose my pear"
Writes Farewell to Family.
Here are stories Of two heroic
deaths: The first Is simply letter
found in the hands of q soldier who
had just finished writing 1t when the
end came. Il am awaiting help which
does not come" the letter ran. II
pray God to take me, for l suffer afro
clously. Adieu, my wife and dear chill.
dren. Adieu, all my family, whom !
SO loved. / request that whoever finds
me will send this letter to Paris to
my wife, with the pocketbook which
Is in my coat pocket. Gathering my
last strength write this, lying pros
trate under the shell fire. Both my
legs are broken. My last thoughts are
for my children and for thee, my
cherished wife and companion OF my
life, my beloved wife. Vlve Ia
France!"
Dies at Head Of His Men.
When a certain French colonel had
walked a short distance ahead OF his
-egiment to examine the German POSI-
ion 500 yards away, which he expect
ID to attack. an orderly handed him
Message. AS he was reading It a
German shell burst near by. The
colonel staggered, with his thigh torn
md agape and his boot filed with
Hood. oficers ran to aid him, but
lie pushed them away.
Gentlemen" he said, 81 beg you to
tand back. No. not here! Don't sup
'ort me. No, no, not before my regi.
nenti"
Making a superhuman effort, the /
olonel. pale as death. staggered to.
Tard the awaiting regiment, to which
e managed to read the text Of the
rider which he had received. Sud.
emily a second she'll burst. decapItat.
lg the colonel, who thus died the
cath which a French oficer prefers
bove all others-at the head Of his
len.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1914-11-19
~WHY CAN'T ! DO ITT THE AN.
sWER.

Spartan mothers, in order to stimu.
late their ambition, used ito take
their boys to the Pantheon in Athens,
where their young imaginations
would be fred by the sight OF the
statues of the nations gods and
heroes. Standing before one Of those
heroic marble figures, the mother
would tell the story Of the original,
while boyish hearts would sparkle
win awakened ambition under the in
spiration OF her words. Many a young
mind was thus fired to emulate the
hero that particularly appealed to
him.
No other one thing is OF such pre-
cious help to q youth as to be con-
stantly stimulated along the line Of
his career, and nothing else viii give
him such inspiration, nothing else IL
90 ambition-rousing as the Hfe-stories
OF those who have accomplished
things under great difficulties.
Emerson says: Il cannot even hear
o. personal vigor Of any kind, great
power Of performances, without fresh |
resolution. This is the moral |
Of biography"
Great inspiring lifestories OF those
Who have won and pushed their way |
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1914-11-19
CHUMS WITH SPY;
NEW YORKER HAS
NARROW ESCAPE
Correspondent Tells Of Thrilling
Adventure Gotham Man
Had in France.
DIDN'T KNOW HIS FRIEND"
Saw Him Taken Out by the Troops
and Then Heard the voIley Of
Musketry That Ended
His Life.

Chicago.-Herbert Corey, writing
to the Daily News from London, tells
the following remarkable story: Harry
Martin saw him first in the streets
Of Amiens. He says he couldn't be
mistaken.
You know me-" said Martin. 81
haven't got enough French to get
through to 'poissons' on any table
d'hote bill. / spend more time In
France looking for some one who can
talk the language than l do in look.
Ing at cathedrals."
Because Of the war all the regular
walters have left the Hotel du Rhin.
The regular walters talk English.
Martin saw a young man who didn't
look precisely like a Frenchman. So
he hailed him.
He talked U. s." said Martin.
Regular New York. He told me that
for four years he waited on table In
the old Martin place, at Twenty-sixth
street. Knew a lot of the people
knowzby sight. Said he used to be
Diamond Jim Brady's special waiter.
l don't know. It's only what he told
me-"
So the cX.waiter at Martins inter.
preted for the young New York man,
who in times Of peace does a nice
business in French perfumes and
mustache stiffeners. Martin says that
II he had had good sense he would
have quit France when the trouble
first started. But he had always had
a laundering for adventure that could
not be satisfied in the perfume trade.
So he began prospecting along the
line Of hostilities, hoping to see some
real fighting.
This ex-waiter gave me a lot Of
good DOPE" said Martin. HE and
kicked around together for q day or
two. He said he was a Frenchman.
| don't know. It's only what he told
me-"
Ex.Walter Falls to Appear.
One day the ex-waiter did not ap-
pear. The next day Martin moved
on. For three weeks he managed to
get along, seeing a good many things.
His papers were Of the best quality.
They had been secured for him by
friends in the perfume line in Paris.
Then was picked up by the
French hussars," said Martin. II
didn't mind.-Ihad been arrested so |
often that l felt sort Of peevish II / |
wasn't pinched occasionally. The
Frenchmen always turned me loose.
They're a good sort"
Martin was taken into the best
-oom> Of a little cottage near Amiens.
lust outside was an orchard. The
scent Of the fruit rotting on the
sround filed the air. A sentry in
brilliant red pants stood at the door
" the cottage filling the immature
mind Of the young son OF the cottage
With marvellous tales Of war. Martin
will never forget the round eyes of
he youth as he gazed on the red
'anted hero. The perfume salesman
vas turned over to a young lIeuten.
MT who spoke good English.
You'll have to wait until the
olonel talks with you" said the lieu
enant But do not fear. will
make It all right"
Martin didn't fear. He didn't know
hat there was any reason for fear.
here he was-Aartin, a salesman Of
'reproaehable antecedents-and he
I'D been arrested so often that he re.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1914-11-19
Have Best War Aospl.aI.

The Red Cross hospital OF 200 beds
near Torquay, established by Ameri-
can women, is said to be the best ar
ranged war hospital in England, &C.
cording to Sir Frederick Treves. the
distinguished surgeon. The organiza-
ton, which has at its head wealthy
Americans like Mrs. John Astor. Lady
Paget and others, has appropriated
$4,000 for motor ambulances. Funds
are ample to maintain the hospital for
another year, 1t Is said.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1914-11-19
Volcanoes Good Fertilizer PIants.

A Swiss scientist has discovered
that the asheE which still largely cover
the buried cities OF Herculaneum and
Pompeii contain large quantities OF
potash and clay, from which an excel.
lent agricultural fertilizer can be OBJ
tained. The whole region is very rich
in potash. and II is said the Italian
government is seriously intending to
organize the exploitation Of 'Vesu.
Wan Mines"
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1914-11-19
In the Aoe of Movies.

An amateur photographer stopped
one morning at q Kansas farmhouse
and inquired for the farmer.
Il want to trespass on your prem.
ises," he said, Tong enough to take q
picture Of that cornheld. It's the
most magnificent one / ever saw"
That's all right" responded the
farmer. But you'll have to take T.
instantaneous-it's growing % fastr-
OldpoTt Herald.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1914-11-19

to the front against all sorts OF OBJ
stacles have proved the turning-polnt
In tens OF thousands OF careers. They
have encouraged the dlgheartened Il
hold on when they were ready to lei
go; they have induced them to perse
we're when they had decided to turn
back. They have given them fresh
hope and renewed confidence In them
selves when those dearest to them
even had predicted failure and had
told them that to continue would be
to waste their time.
Smiles "Self-Help" was wonder
ful stimulus to me and believe II
has proved tho turning point In the
careers OF tens OF thousands OF
youths. Nothing else is more fascinat-
Ing than the romance OF achievement
under difficulties. The youth full Of
hope. bubbling over with enthusiasm,
reads the life-stories OF men and wom-
en- who have succeeded under difficult
ties. and he says to himself: why
can't ! do IT." To which something
within him replies: Il can and l
Wilt"
Ambition requires a great deal and
a great variety OF food to keep II Wig
orous. An ambition must be backed
by robust will power. stern resolve,
physical energy. powers of endurance,
to be effective.
The fact that you have an almost
uncomfortable impulse, q great alb
sorbing ambition to do q. thing which
meets with the approval Of your judg-
ment and your better self, is a notice
served upon you that you can do the
thing. and should do II at once.
There are tens OF thousands OF day
Iaborers in this country-common
contemplating their lives into
irudgery, who, II they had only been
aroused to their possibilities. would
have been employers themselves
would have been men of force, Of
in their community-but
hey have been held down by their
ignorance Of their own power. They |
lave never discovered themselves,
md so they must be "hewers OF wood
md drawers Of water" We see
hem everywhere-splendid men and
women. who impress US as giants in
possibility, but who are totally ig-
orant Of the great forces that are
leeping within them.
Why not take an inventory OF your
elf at the beginning Of this new
ear? II you are dissatisfied with
that you are doing and think you
ught to do better, try to discover,
o matter how long It takes you,
lst where your trouble lies. Find
ut the things that keep you back.
lake long searching tours of dis
overy In your own consciousness.
ay to yourself over and over again:
Why can others do such remarka-
lie things while l do ordinary, COM
ION things? Constantly ask your
Elf: IF others can do them, why
lnnot II"
You may find some great nuggets
gold in these tours of self-discov-
y which you never dreamed you
'ssessed-great possibilities of pow ,
which you never uncovered before,
I'd which may, II developed, revolu- !
onize your life. I
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1914-11-19
Auatrlnn Prlentn Eremnt.

Vienna.-The list of citizens to be
exempted from the levy en- masse IN
cludes priests, doctors. cripples. deaf
m1tes. the totally blind and the in.
sane.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1914-11-19

A youth always wants to marry a
pretty girl because his parents want
him to marry q sensible one.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1914-11-19
Another Sort.

II gather from what he said that
Jim's wife is the gray mare"
She is more of an old nag"
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1914-11-19

1t takes a lot OF confidence to en-.
able a man to enjoy hash.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1914-11-19

Many man grows gray waiting for
a chance that some other fellow has
gone out and grabbed.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1914-11-19

II takes a capable wife to yank the
conceit out of a man.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-07-04
HER WEALTHY sUITOR SLAIN
Stamford, Conn, Widow Held BY Po-
lice When Visitor Was Found
Dying At Door.

Stamford. Conn.-Beaten 10 death
at the door of q fashionable woman's
apartment, Waldo R Ballou, q wealthy
city councilman, was found In his last
gasp With the arrest Of the woman,
Mrs. Helen NJ Angel, a wealthy
widow, q sensation unequaled here for
years was revealed.
BaIIou's head was crushed in with
some heavy instrument From where
his body lay, at the foot of the steps
in the Ripawan apartments, prints or
bloody feet led straight TO Mrs An
gels door There was evidence the
body had been dragged through a
hallway, down the stairs from near
the wOman's rooms.
Smashed and stained with blood,
BaIlou's hat was found, the police say,
in Mrs Angelo apartment There
was also a waist and shirt stained
with what the police allege is blood
Despite this. however, Mrs. Angel de-
MED all knowledge OF BaIlou's death
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-07-04
kANsAN SUES FOR HIS FARM
Truck Patch Near eirard Sinking Into
Abandoned Coal Mines, Says
john BeIon.

John Belon had a rich truck farm
OF 46 acres near Girard He had
titled it for many years and it had
become one of the most fertile tracts
of land in this part of(Kansas, Belon
being able to raise almost any kind
Of vegetable or crop. He also had
fine we'll. 1t had an unlimited supply
of water, and in addition to furnish
ing all that was needed for domestic
purposes, it furnished water for irri-
cation purposes.
But the bottom has dropped out OF
Mr.. Belon's fine farm and the bottom
has dropped out of his well.
Mr.. Belon doesn't know how far the
farm is going to drop nor if there is
anything to stop it, but he does know
that it is valuable to him no longer.
Big depressions and big cracks make
1t impossible for him to cultivate.
Recently he filed suit for $4,000 dam
ages against the Central Coal and
Coke Company, the Cherokee and
Pittsburg Coal and Mining Company
and the Clemens Coal Company, alleg-
ing that failure to properly prop aban-
doned mines caused the farm to drop
away.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-07-04
HELP FOR SALEM HOMELESS
sets City Proceeding With Pre-
cision-e,ooo Are Idle.

Salem, Mass.-Measures for the re-
lief of the $4,000 persons made home
less in the recent confagration are
proceeding with military precision.
More than $500 were directly depen-
dent upon the relief committee for
shelter, while $500 waited patiently
in the various bread lines for food
which streamed into the city in
abundance.
Those cared for in the tented camps
were of the poorer class, mostly for
eigners. Nearly all the welI-to-do had
found refuge with friends and reIa-
tives elsewhere.
An insurance adjuster who went
carefully over the devastated district
estimated the loss at $4,000, 600, Of
which 100000 was covered by in
surance. This insurance, it was
stated, was well distributed, the
heaviest amount falling upon any one
company being 100000.
The Naumkeag Steam Cotton Com
pany was the heaviest Individual
loser. The loss on its great plant was
placed at $3.5OO,0OO.
Fifteen hundred employees were
thrown out of work by the destruc-
ton of these mills. The total num-
Der added by the fire to the ranks of
the unemployed was estimated at
5000.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-07-04
FOUR DYHAMITERS GO FREE
President Wilson Commutes Sentences
of Iron Workers-Twenty Others
Must Serve Time.

Washington, D. president Will
son has denied application for par
dons of the responsible former heads
and agents OF ths International Bridge
and Iron Workers Union, convicted
in the dynamite conspiracy cases
The President committed to expire at
once sentences Of four defendants,
Michael J. Harmon, Frank K Painter,
Fred J. Mooney and William Shupe
The President agreed to consider an
application for executive clemency on
receipt Of a separate petition OF John
H. Barry and Paul A Morris Barry
and Morris have been serving their
sentences. The other defendants out
On bail must go to the federal peni-
Tertiary at LeayenwOrth at once.
Harmon had been sentenced to three
years. Painter TO two, Mooney and
Shupe each got a year and a day.
Barry got four years and Morris
three.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-07-04
WOMEN IN FIELDS
Ladies' Aid Society al Meade
Earns Money Harvest
ing Wheat.
WORKED ALL DAY IN HOT SUN
Methodist Church Needed Fund and
Wives of Members Undertook to
Raise Their Share.

To harvest the bumper crop Of
wheat even women have gone IN the
fields. However, charity was the pri-
mary reason for their work and the
wheat was secondary. The Ladies
Aid Society of the Methodist Church
at Meade had pledged money for an
addition to the church. The society
was divided into teams and each group
was to earn it's share of the money.
Sam Bunch, whose wife is secretary
OF the society, had a field of wheat
ready for harvest. He remarked to
his wife that harvest hands were
scarce
Mrs. Bunch repeated the remark to
the other women in the society. I'M
mediately one proposed that the har-
vest offered them an opportunity to
earn money for the church. Sixteen
women volunteered to go out as har-
vest hands in Bunch's wheat field.
Mrs. Bunch surprised her husband by
appearing in the field with binder
and accompanied by the other women.
In spite of the heat they worked all
day in the field
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-07-04
VERA CRUZ TENSION GROWS
Mexican Troops Showing Increased
Hostility to FuHston's Soldiers
Clash is Feared.

Vera Cruz. Mex--Friction between
outposts OF the American forces here
and the Mexican command which
holds the passes toward the City Of
Mexico which has been increasing OF
late, became acute when efforts we're
made to learn something OF the fate
of a missing American marine who
disappeared OF post.
Surmising that the missing man
may have been killed, as was Pri-
vate Parks, the American outposts
with the Mexicans have shouted ques-
tiOns across the lines All the reply
they got was ieers- Orders have been
given that in no case must the Amer
leans be the aggressors If q clash
comes
Up to few days ago the relations
between the outposts have been rath-
er friendly than otherwise Tobacco
and other conveniences have passed
between the pickets. In the last
week, however, a steadily growing
feeling of hostility has been manifest
ed from HueTta's troops and all
amenities have ceased
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-07-04
FIVE DIE IN MOTOR ACCIDENT
California Party on First Trip in New
Car Plunge Over Cliff Into
Ocean.

San Pedro, GAIA motor tragedy
in which five persons were killed was
disclosed when japanese fishermen
found the bodies Of man, three Wom-
en- and a boy, in the surf near Whites
Point. The bodies were those Of
Percy Townsend. Mrs. Laura Town
send, his mother; Lora Townsend, his
sister, Myrtle Brandon, and an IN
known boy.
Harry Baker, owner of the motor,
was probably fatally injured Baker
had just bought the car and took the
Townsend party out with him on his
first trip. IN the darkness the ma
chine plunged over 125-foot cliff into
the ocean
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-07-04
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS

Twenty persons were injured, two
fatally, and about fifty homes we're
wrecked by a tornado which struck
WATERFOWL, South Dakota, recently.
Three deaths caused by the heat
were reported to the police at st.
Louis Several persons were pros
trated by the heat and one man was
injured seriously in the explosion Of
an oil tank said to have been caused
by the intense scorching of the suns
rays.
Violence broke out anew recently
in the struggle between factions of
the Butte miners union and three
men were shot, one of them being
killed by the fusilIade fired by deputy
sheriffs in clearing Union Hall Re
peated attempts were made to dyna-
mite the miners uniCn hall, evident
" with the idea Of annihilating Pres
ident Charles H. Meyer and other Of
fcers of the Western Federation Of
Miners who were to address a peace
meeting. The first attempt failed and
Meyer and the others had fed the
hall, but a second and a third attempt
blew out the front OF the building.
Five cents mile instead Of TWEEN
ty cents is what the house has de
cided members of the senate should
receive for their expenses to and from
Washington to attend sessions OF
congress.
Theodore Roosevelt has returned
to America upon the ImpeTatOr. He
vigorously defended George W Per
kins, chairman of the Progressive ma
tionaI executive committee, whose
resignation as chairman was demand
ed recently by Amos Pinehot- The
colonel issued q statement attacking
the treaty with Colombia.
With the Turkish government for
maIIy protesting against the proposed
sale of the American battleships Mis-
sissippi and Idaho to Greece, rum
blings Of war between Greece and
Turkey were carried to the White
House The diplomatic representa-
tives Of the two countries called OF
President Wilson within a few min
utes OF each other.
The armored cruiser Washington
has steamed from Vera Cruz for P0ri
au Prince to guard American inter
ests and observe the battling between
government and reFolutionist forces
| IN the Haitian republic
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-07-04

Diplomatic Negotiations May
be Stopped Because of Vic
tory at Zaeatecas.
PEACE ENJOYS ARE ANXIOUS
No Word Has Been Received at Nj
agara Falls as TO CONSTITUTIONAL
list Attitude-Interests Got
to General Villa.

Niagara Falls, Ont.-After a day Of
waiting with no word of the plans of
the ConstitutionaIists on the proposed
informal conference with the H4erta
delegates over Mexico's internal af-
fairs, the mediation colony is showing
signs of anxiety.
The constitutionalist victory at Ia
catecas, it is recognized, may have a
psychological influence on the situa-
ton. If it produces cohesion in the
COnstitutionalist ranks and a lust for
military successes, close observers
think the Constitutionalists will be
less disposed to leave the question to
diplomatic discussion.
That the American government will
use it's influence for the settlement
Of the controversy by diplomacy is not
doubted here. The program of the
ConstitutiOnalists may be to capture
the governmental power by military
strength, but indications are that the
United States may withhold its
strongest pressure promise of
recognition-if further bloodshed and
loss of life is not averted and terms
of peace arranged, especially when
the Huerta government is ready and
anxious for peace on any honorable
terms.
Interests MisIed Villa.
FL Paso. Tex-Discussion of the
Carranza-Villa estrangement was re-
opened by Roberto Pesqueira, conf
Dental agent for the constituencies
here, who formerly was stationed at
Washington. In a series of commu-
nications with General Villa he criti-
cized the northern military zone COM
mander for denying the arrests by his
troops of national constitutionalist Of
ficers at Juarez and the confiscation
of national treasury funds there.
Pesqueira told Villa in recent tele-
gram that he considered it useless to
deny ''the actual facts so well known
here at the border"
He also issued a statement assert
ing that Villa had been misled by fl
nancial intriguers.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-07-04
JUDGE sPEER WILL GO FREE
House Committee Says There is Not
Enough Evidence to Impeaeh
Federal Jurist.

Washington, D. C.-Judge Emery
Speer of the United States District
Court at Macon, Ga, was severely ar
raigned by the House judiciary com
mittee for misusing his high office, but
he was spared an impeachment trial
because the committee beIyieved there
was not sufficient evidence of wrong
doing to convict him. The commit
tees report requests the House to
drop the charges.
Representative Volstead of Mime
sofa, Republican, and minority mem
Der of the subcommittee submitted a
separate report exonorating Speer.
Representative Webb and Representa-
tive Fitzhenry signed the majority re-
port.