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The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-11-12
JUST A GENERAL NUISANCE
Dat Smudee, or Dat Louise, One OF the
Most Annoying Small Things
In the Universe.

The oat louise has no wings, and yet
It flies through the air, borne on the
gentle breezes which watt over the
fields. 1t has no legs, and yet 1t ad'
heres to the flesh of man with a devo-
ton that is inspiring. Some persons
call 1t the oat smudge, but most per-
sons call It by some harder name.
A fine way to accumulate the tribe
is to take trolley trip near fields
where the honest husbandman has
been garnering his crops. There the
oat lice, which are about the size OF
overgrown black fleas, fill the air quite
numerously,
After such a ride they can be found
adhering to the arms and face, with
a small sprinkling down the neck. At
heart they are innocent young things,
neither biting nor singing, and yet,
because of their peculiar rolling mo-
ton, they are ticklish little devils. So
people shake them off.
The particular niche in nature filed
By oat lice is not quite clear, % 1t IL
quite reasonable to assume thai they
have been set apart to Offset the d ami
fold Joys OF the suburbanite.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-11-12
LIMIT TO THE OBSERVATION
Peculiar Fact That Most People Can
See Only What They Are
Trained to See.

There once visited the Canary
islands a painter who had lately come
from Holland. The picture which re-
corded his first impression Of Tene-
rife gave, not the hot, clear, fattish
coloring which is typical OF the is-
land, but study of a windmill, shown
atmospherically among gray mists
and deep subdued tones. In the FAR
Their foreground trudged two tigures'
sllhouetted in the gloom almost dead
black against the CLEAN OF a wet
road. 1t was faithful record, but OF
Teneriffe in a rare mood; and every
one who saw It, said at once, on,
yes-Dutch." This is an example,
such as most artists could multiply, OF
that instructive habit by which we Sc
lect for notice the things which we
have grown accustomed to seeing 1t
may partly explain how two thor
oughly realistic" painters can record
almost Numerically opposed impress
sions OF the same scene. 1t may FUR
Their point to an explanation. in part,
of many wide differences of opinion
among experts, even upon matters Of
fact - scientific, social, national
Trained observers are likely to be
men who see what they have been
trained to see, and nothing else. They
20 in blinkers, of which each pair Is
made on a different and the only cor
rect pattern.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-11-12
SYNOPSIS.

| ION BY =
| UERED BOOK
Ic0HpORA70H

At a vestry meeting Of the Market
Square church Gail Sargent tells Rev.
Smith Boyd that Market Square church
is apparently a lucrative business enter
prise. Allison takes Gail riding In his
motor car. She finds cold disapproval In
the eyes OF Rev Smith Boyd. Allison
starts campaign for consolidation and
control OF the entire transportation sys-
tenn or the world. Gall becomes popular;
Allison gains control Of transcontinental
traffic and arTanges to absorb the We'd
der court tenement property Of Market
Square church. Gall tells Boyd that the
cathedral Market Square church proposes
to build will be out of profits wrung from
squalor. At meeting of the seven fnan-
clal maBnates OF the country, Allison or
ganizes the International Transportation
company. Rev. Smith Boyd undertakes
GaiPg spiritual instruction and Gall un-
consciously gives Allison hint that solves
the Vedder court problem for him. on
an inspection trip In Allison's new sub
way the tunnel caves in and imprisons
the party. who are rescued by the exer-
lions Of Allison and Boyd. The newspaper
accounts OF the subway accident place
Gall In the spotlight and drive her to her
home In the West. Her friends send Dick
Rodley to lure Gail and Arly back to
New York, and he succeeds.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-11-12

the second time that evening, she hur.
ried away, with the license of busy
hostess, and cooled her face at an
open window in the side vestibule.
There was a new note In Rev. Smith
Boyd's voice; not a greater depth nor
mellowness nor sweetness, but a
something else. What was 1t? 1t was
a call, that was 1t; call across the
gulf of futurity.
They came after her. Ted and Lu-
cile had arrived. She was in a vortex.
Dick Rodley hemmed her in corner,
and proposed to her again, just for
practice, within eyeshot OF a dozen
people, and he did 1t so that onlookers
might think that he was compliment
ing her on her clever couture or dis
cussing new operetta; but he made
her blush, which was the intention In
the depths of his black eyes. 1t seemed
that she was in perpetual blush to-
night, and something within her
seemed to be surging and hating and
wavering and quivering! Her Aunt
Helen Davies, rather early in the eve
ming, began to act stiff and formal.
Go home." she murmured to Lucille.
"All this excitement is bad Cor Calls
beauty"
After that the exodus became gen.
eral, until only Allison and Rev. Smith
Boyd remained The latter young gen.
tleman had taken his futteringIy hap
by mother home early in the evening,
and he had resorted to dullness with
such of the thinning guests as had
seemed disposed to linger.
Aunt Helen thought she had better
90 upstairs after that, and she glanced
into the music room as she passed.
and knitted her brows at the tableau.
Rev. Smith Boyd, who seemed unusu-
ally fine looking tonight, stood leaning
against the piano, watching Gall with
an almost incendiary gaze. That
young lady, steadily resisting an inn
pulse to feel her cheek with the back
of her hand. sat on the end of the
piano bench farthest removed from
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-11-12
People Ono "Runs Across"

81 don't like people | run across
women. especially. l should be a
nervous ghost by this time If had
stopped to like people. Fancy all ones
chance encounters, turning into pulls
on ones affection-like the ropes the
Lilliputians tied round CULVER. II
| had been CULVER, | should have
gone mad. I'd rather be tied with
one stout steel cable than with mil
lion threads. "-Scribner Magazine.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-11-12

ing senses, ana in which he sat,
shocked, stunned, disbelieving his own
ears. Why, he had known, as positive
ly, and more positively. than II she
had told him, that there was perfect
response in her to the great desire
which throbbed within him. 1t had
come to him from her like the waver-
ing Of soft music, music which had
blended with his own pulsing diapason
in a melody so subtle that 1t drowned
the senses to languorous swooning;
1t had come to him with the delicate
far-off pervasiveness Of the birth of a
new star In the heavens; 1t had come
to him as a fragrance, as radiance
as the beautiful tints of spring bios
SONS, as something infinitely stronger,
and deeper, and sweeter, than the
sleep of death. That tremendous and
perfect fitness and accord with him he
felt In her hand even now. .
II can't, Tod" she said again, and
neither one noticed that she had I'M
consciously used the name she had
heard from his mother, and which she
had unconsciously linked with her
thoughts of him. There could never
be unity of purpose in u.s." and now,
for the first time. she gently withdrew
her hand. II could never be In sym
pathy with your work, nor you with
my views. Have you noticed that we
have never held a serious dispute over
any topic but one?"
He drew a chair before her, and
took her hand again, but this time he
patted 1t between his own as II 1t were
child's.
Gail, dear, that is an obstacle which
will melt away. There was a time
when | felt as you do. The time will
come when you, too, will change"
"You don't understand" she gently
told him. 81 believe in God the Crea
tor; the maker of my conscience; my
friend and my father am In nc
doubt, no quandary, no struggle be
tween faith and disbelief. | see my
way clearly, and there are no thornS
to cut for me. shall never change.
He looked at her searchingly for &
moment, and then his face grew
grave; but there was no GOODNESS In 1t
nor any alteration in the blueness o
his eyes.
81 shall pray for you," he said, will
simple faith.
ITO BE CONTINUED
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-11-12
CHAPTER XVI.
The Greed of Gall.

Who was that tall, severely correct
gentleman waiting at the station, with
a bunch of violets in his hand, and the
light in his countenance which was
never on sea or land? 1t was Gerald
Fosland, and he astonished all be-
holders by his extraordinary conduct.
AS the beautiful Arly stepped through
the gates, he advanced with an en-
tirely unrepressed smile, springing
from the balls of his feet with q buoy
ancy too active to be quite in good
form. He took Arly's hand in his, but
he did not bend over it with his GUS
tomary courteous gallantry. Instead,
he drew her slightly towards him,
with a firm and deliberate movement,
and, bending his head sidewise under
the brim of her hat kissed her;
kissed her on the lips!
Immediately thereafter he gave
dignified welcome to Gail, and with
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-11-12

Arly's arm clutched tightly IN hAs own.
he then disappeared. AS they walked
rapidly away, Arly looked up at him
in bewilderment; then she, suddenly
Rugged herself closer to him with a
jerk. AS they went out through the
carriage entrance, she skipped.
1t was good to see Allison, big.
strong, forceful, typical of the city and
its mighty deeds. His eye had lighted
with something more than pleasure as
Gail stepped out through the gates OF
the station; something so infinitely
more than pleasure that her eyes
dropped, and her hand trembled as
she felt that same old warm thrill OF
his clasp. He was so overwhelming in
his physical dominance. He took i'm
mediate possession of her. standing
by while she greeted her uncle and
aunt and other friends, and beaming
with justi6ably proud proprietorship.
Gail had laughed as she recognized
that attitude. Allison was really a
big man, one born to command, to
sway things, to move and shift and re-
arrange great forces; and that. OF
course, was his manner in everything.
She flushed each time she looked in
his direction for he never removed
his gaze from her; bold, confident, SUI
preme. When man like that Is kind
and gentle and considerate, when he
Is tender and thoughtful and full OF
devotion, he is a big man indeed!
Rev. Smith Boyd was at the steps OF
the Sargent house to greet her, and
her heart leaped as she recognized
another of the dear familiar faces
This was her world. after all; not that
world of her childhood. How differ
ent the rector looked; or was 1t that
she had needed to go away in order
to Judge her friends anew? His eyes
were different; deeper, steadier anC
more penetrating into her own; and
yes. holder. She was forced to lool
away from them for a moment. There
seemed a warm eagerness In his greet
ing, as If everything in him were draw
ing her to him.
With a rapidity which was a marve
to all her girl friends. Gail had slipped
upstairs and into creamy lace eve
ming frock without having beef
missed; and she was in this acutel.
harmonious setting when Rev. Smitl
Boyd called. with his beautiful mothe
on his arm. The beautiful mother wa
in an exceptional furry of delight t
see Gail, and kissed that charming
young lady with clinging warmth. Tn
rectors eyes were even more stril
ingly changed than they had bee
when he had first met her on tn
steps, as they looked on Gail in he
creamy lace, and after she had rea
that new intense look In his eyes 70
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-11-12
Brief but Pointed.
Heiny-What is a fool-killer?
Parker-The gun he blows into.
Magic Washing Stick

This is something now TO housewives
something they have wanted all their lives,
but never could get before. II makes II pos
Sible TO do the heaviest, hardest washing 10
less than oue-half the time 1t took by old
methods, and II eliminates all rubbing and mus
cular effort. No washing machine is needed.
Nothing but this simple little preparation,
which 10 absolutely harmless 10 ihC finest iabres-
white, colored or wooden. 1t makes the
hArdes: task OF the week n pleasant pastime-
. delightful occupation. You will be de.
lighted at the clean, spotless, snow.white
clothes that come out OF tho rinsing water;
and all without any effort on your part. The
Magic Washing Stick dOsI II alI--and remember,
without injury 10 the most delicate goods,
coored or white, woolens, blankets, lace cur.
tains, etc. Contains no acids, nc alkalies, no
poisonous ingredients to make Its use dan
gerous. Is uaihlngS rs ssniL
Sold by all Druggists and orocers every.
where. II yours doesn't handle 1t, show him
this ad-he'll get IL for you. Or send 25c In
stamps to 4 O. RICHARDS co. Sherman TsIaI ADV.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-11-12
CUTICURA COMPILATIONS
Are Usually Fresh and Clear, Soft and
VelVety. Try One.

The Soap to cleanse and purify, the
Ointment to soothe and heal. Thus
these supercreamy emollients promote
and maintain the natural purity and
beauty of the skin, scalp, hair and
hands under conditions which If neg
lected might disflgure them.
Sample each free by mail with Book.
Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. KY,
Boston. Sold verywhere-Adv.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-11-12
Weighing a fly's Wing.

A scale in the bureau OF standards
at Washington-one Of Ave similar
ones in the world--will weigh with
absolute accuracy anything from q
RYs wing to q 50-pound piOcS Of AtaOS
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-11-12

THIS 10 THE AGE OF YOUTH.
You will look ten years younger il you
darken your ugly. grizzly. gray hairs BY
using ia Creole Hair Dressing. ADV
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-11-12

You cant reason man out OF any
thing he hasn't been reasoned into.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-11-12

Women are now making nearly all
the wine used In France.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-11-12

II some men we're to lose their self
conceit there'd be nothing left.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-11-12
The CHARM
OF MOTHERHOOD
Enhanced By Perfect Physi-
cal Health.

The experience of Motherhood Is a try
Ing one to most women and marks dis
tinctly an epoch in their lives. Not one
woman in hundred is prepared or I'M
derstands how to properly care for her.
self. OF course nearly every woman
nowadays has medical treatment at such
times, but many approach the expert
ence with an organism untitled for the
trial Of strength, and when it is over
her system has received shock from
which it is hard to recover. Following
right upon this comes the nervous strain
of caring for the child, and q distinct
change In the mother results.
There is nothing more charming than
happy and healthy mother of children,
and indeed childbirth under the right
conditions need be no hazard to health or
beauty. The unexplainable thing is
that, with all the evidence of shattered
nerves and broken health resulting from
an unprepared condition, and with am
pie time in which to prepare, women
will persist in going blindly to the trial.
Every woman at this time should rely
upon Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound, a most valuable tonic and
invigorator of the female organism.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-11-12

II you want special advice write to
Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. Conf.
dentiaD Lynn, Mass. Your letter will
be opened, read and answered by o
woman and held In strict confidence.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-11-12

In m any homes
once childless there
are now children be-
cause Of the fact
that Lydia E. Pink
hams V eye table
Compound m * e s
W o. en- norm al,
healthy and strong.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-11-12

work in the world, the redemption OF
the fallen and helpless, into whose
lives we may shed some Of the beauty
which blossoms in our own"
There was a low cry from Gall, a
cry which was half sob, which came
with a sharp intake of the breath, and
carried with It pain and sorrow and
protest. She had been 80 happy, In
what she fancied to be the near full
fillment of the promptings which had
grown so strong within her. No surge
of emotion like this had ever swept
over her; no such wave Of yearning
had ever carried her impetuously up
and out OF herself as this had done 1t
had been the ecstatic answer to all
her dreams, the ripe and rich and per-
feet completion of every longing with
in her; yet, in the very midst OF 1t
had come a word which broke the
magic thrall; a thought which had
torn the fairy web like a rude storm
from out the icy north; devouring
genie which, dark and frightening, adj
vanced to destroy all the happiness
which might follow this first inrushing
commingling of these two perfectly
correlated elements!
81 can't!" she breathed. but she did
not withdraw her hand from his clasp.
She could notl II was as II those two
palms had welded together, and had
become parts of one and the same or.
ganism.
There was an instant of silsuce. In
which she slowly gathered her swirl.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1915-07-29

In view of the sharp warning sent by
this government to Germany that the
United States is prepared sat any cost to
defend the rights of its citizens on the
high seas" great significance is attached
10 a formal announcement by the White
House confirming the report that the
President has called on Secretary OF War
Garrison and Secretary OF the Navy
Daniels for full reports on the strength Of
the country's military resources. COM
ing Immediately after the publication OF
the letest note TO GERMANY note gen.
orally regarded in the nature OF an ulti-
matum-the announcement, it is felt, will
have profound effect not only in this
country but in Germany. 1t is known
that, in addition to calling upon his War
and Navy Department heads for this in
formation and arranging for a series OF
conferences with them after his return
from Cornish about August |, the Presi-
dent carried with him to New Hampshire
large portfolio containing data relating
TO national defense. During his stay at
the summer capital it is expected that the
President will so familiarize himself with
the whole subject as to be able to take
il up in detail at the coming conferences.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1915-07-29

A terrible disaster occurred in Chicago
last Saturday, when the steamer Eastland
capsized at its dock in the Chicago river.
The steamer had been chartered for an
excursion by employees of the Western
Electric Company, and 2,700 persons had
boarded her. Just as she was ready to
start off the vessel capsized, throwing
hundreds into the water and imprisoning
other hundreds on the inside. Those who
were trapped in the interior had little
chance for their lives, and most of them
persisted miserably. In all. about 400
persons were drowned.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1915-07-29

This is the height OF the swimming sea-
son for the boys, and the "flat rock" at
the river near the old railroad piers is the
favorite bathing place. How they enjoy
the pleasant temperature OF the sparkling
waters The boys are doing just exactly
what the fathers did some forty years ago.
They still part their hair by diving back
ward and coming up with sidewiSe flirt
of the head; they Jump from congress"
as of yore the timid ones still hold their
nose when they 20 under; there is al
ways somebody in the water to splash
cold water on the boy coming in before
he has "ducked off," and there is usually
some one to throw mud just as he is
about ready TO get into his clothes, thus
necessitating a return into the water for
another wash; and now, just as fifty years
ago, the chief delight of the wicked is to
make some unhappy victim "chaw bacon"
this means that his garments have been
tied in tight knot and he must use his
teeth to get the knots out OF his shirt
sleeves and the legs OF his unmentlon-
ables. Old fellows, don't you remember
how we went through all this a generation
or two ago?
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1915-07-29

There is more Catarrh in this section OF
the country than all other diseases put
together, and until the last few years was
supposed to BE- incurable. For great
many years doctors pronounced il a local
disease and prescribe local remedies, and
by constantly failing to cure with local
treatment. pronounced il incurable. Sci
ence has proven Catarrh 10 be a conStitu-
tional disease, and therefore requires
constitutional treatment Halls Catarrtl
Cure. manufactured by F. J. Cheney &
Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitu-
tional cure on the market. II is taken in
ternally. II acts directly on the blood
and mucous surfaces ofthe system. They
offer one hundred dollars for any case it
fails TO cure. Send for circulars and tes-
timonialS. Address:
F. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, o.
Sold by druggists, 75c.
Take HalPsFamily PIlIsforconstipatiou
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1915-07-29
Obituary.

lust at dawn on Sunday. July IL, 1915,
little John William Kretzer, eldest child
of Charles and Margaret Kretzer, was
called to his long rest, after brief illness
of scarlet fever. He was born May 8,
1908.
Not dead: only asleep.
His spirit softly whispers
"Weep not; in heaven we'll meet again
Where all is rest, sweet rest"
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1915-07-29

GERMANY is accomplishing prodigious
military feats just now. She continues TO
drive the Russians steadily back into their
own country, and Warsaw is now almost
within her grasp, the fall of the great
fortresses and the city being, il is believed,
a matter OF only few days. At the same
time the German lines in France and Bel
GUM remain intact despite the efforts of
the Allies to drive them back while the
main army is on the eastern front fighting
the Russians. The great war machine OF
the Germans seems invulnerable, and
where men and munitions OF war are most
needed-they are there
When the Russians shall have been we'll
beaten, great bodies of German troops
will be released for service against the
Allies in the west, and the French and
English may well be disturbed as TO the
result. On the other hand, Germany is
winning its victories at the expenditure OF
many thousands of lives and at enormous
cost in energy and supplies. This drain
on her resources must. sooner or later,
weaken her greatly, and she is undoubt-
eddy using stores that cannot be replaced
as long as her ships are kept Off the high
seas and her ports are under embargo.
Every day that the Allies hold their own
increases their resources and diminishes
Germany's strength.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1915-07-29

THE note sent to the German govern
ment last week by President Wilson de-
fines with clearness and finality the at
titude OF the United States in regard 10
the Lusitania outrage and the methods OF
warfare as conducted by the German
submarines. The President firmly in
sists on the rights of neutrals on the high
seas, and is ready to defend the freedom
OF the seas without compromise and at
any cost" The impudent proposals OF
Germany are repudiated, and the Presi-
dent rebukes that government by declar-
ing that the rights OF neutrals care based
upon principle, not upon expediency, and
the principles are immutables." The
matter of continued friendly relations
with the United States is Squarely put to
Germany, for the President plainly says
that repetition OF an act similar TO the
Lusitania disaster, if it effects an Ameri-
can citizen, will be regarded by the United
States as deliberately unfriendly."
II is apparent that the President is not
impressed by the evasive and unsatiS-
factory attitude OF the German govern
ment, and he has brought the matter TO a
head so far as the United States is con-
cerned. We regard it as very unlikely
that Germany will back down-so dead
lock is at hand the solving OF which no
man can foretell.