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Evening star., 1915-03-07

sings and arrows of life
causes him to take them. In
my own case perhaps the
most conspicuous personal
idiosyncrasy | present ply
sically to the eye of the
casual beholder is an almost
abnormal lack of hirsute
adornment; always a fa-
vorite point of attack by
facetiously inclined chair
men, by whom | have been
eloquently likened to the
"imperishable Alps for that
l lacked vegetation" on my
Summit" to a photograph
on the Hills of Letters" and
by one | was called "the
legitimate successor of the
lamented Bill Nye, the Orig
inal Billiard Ball on the Pool
Tables of Modern Humor.
Most of my delectable
misadventures in respect to
this deficiency have natur-
ally occurred in the barber
shops of the nation, and it
Evening star., 1915-03-07
By JOHN KENDRICK BANGS

Coast was the victim that of particularly
distressing window card got up in great hurry from
most unsatisfactory photograph, and designed to
arouse interest in my coming. 1t greeted me with
grinning pertinacity everywhere I looked.
| am skeptic on the subject of window cards any
how. | could convince myself that they are
really effective instruments of publicity, and vow
with all the fervor of which capable that they are
nuisance and trial to what the public call "the tai
ent.' | also know that in at least instance they
bade fair to work adversely to my interests, as was
shown in letter received by many years ago from
an unknown correspondent in Kansas City, who ad-
dressed me thus:
My SIR-I inclose herewith copy of socalled
photograph of yourself published in this mornings Kansas
City Star and want to know you really look like that.
The write to inquire is that yesterday was my
little boys birthday, and his grandmother presented him
with copy of of your books. haven't had time to
read the book myself but have taken away from Will
lie and shall keep pending your reply for look
IKE Mts you are no ft person to urite for children.
must confess that single glance at the muddy re-
production of long discarded photograph convinced
me that my naive correspondent not whit more
careful of his parental responsibilities than the situation
justified might readily have passed, if that photo
graph were accurate, for professional gambler
highly probable future candidate for the Rogues Gallery
But, whether the platform worker is helped or re-
tarded by this indiscrimnate plasterng of public
places with his counterfeit presentment, committees
to think it necessary, and therefore provide
them with the most pulchrtudnous pictorial compost
ton that Art, unrestrained by Nature produce.
But the l used in 1906 was most unflattering
affair." and grew heartily sick of it my tour pro-
gressed. At Belngham it oppressvey omnpres-
ent. 1t seemed had erupted all over the place
1t greeted in the railway station when descended
from the train Two of them hung in the hotel office
when entered and l walked up the street after
luncheon overheard sundry unregenerate youths re-
mark "There he goes' and "That's him. and "Oh,
look who's here' dersively until could almost have
wrung every juvenile neck in town. On one corner
found it in laundry window, labeled, "John Ken
drick Bangs at the Normal School Tonight" and placed
Immediately beneath this was brown paper placard
inscribed in great, red-chalk letters with the words
"HELP WANTED" Farther up the street | found
it in millinery shop window, pinned beneath a COM
particularly becoming to my pictorial style.
But the climax reached when found it in drug
Continued IL
Evening star., 1915-03-07

0NE'S democracy receives
severe test on the road,
indeed sorry for the ma
always so solicitous for his owl
that the free and easy habit
American of Today affront hi
lecture platform is no place
Doctor Johnson's friend Rich;
age would doubtless in these ds
characterized as "the tenth ira
of a foolish pride"
A people like ours, made
hundred million sovereigns, an
ted for the most part, in their
social intercourse at least, by
a spirit of fraternity, mixed
with a very decided inclina-
tion to be facetious, forms a
somewhat bristling environ
ment for the supersensitively
self-centered. If such a one
contemplates the invasion of
the lyceum territory, as a
friend and brother let me ad-
wise him to spend at least a
year in some social settle
ment where he may be in
oculated with sundry useful
social germs, as a preventive
of much misery ahead. He
must get used to much famil-
iarity of a sudden sort, and
realize fully that our Ameri-
can world, while it respects
ability, and withholds from it
no atom of its due apprecia-
ton, is in no particular a re-
specter of mere persons.
In respect to having to
be shown" we are by a large
majority "from Missouri a
the lyceumite to try to hec
any fences of false dignity. TT
may be sharp, and connected
the American citizens of the h
or vault them, as easily as if tt
it is all very harmless too; fe
has ever yet suffered from any
T RECALL an incident of m
: some years ago that brough
me very vividly. l was on m
in one of those vast twin com
sluggish way train, and found
ers three very live human bel
just met after a long separate
rather stout little man, with a
other was a tall and spare fer
might have posed as an accept
of Sherlock Holmes; and the
young giant, a veritable blond
ferrous spirits of young manho
The three sat across the aisle
as Nature had not seen fit to S
with soft pedals, or pianissimo
whiting, though not unwilling, |
ton. 1t was amusing, clean,
fellowship, though not wholly
acter. Finally the Sherlock
the stout little chap, who was
window, observed:
"Well, old man, you're looki
did the last time | saw ye.
"Yes," said the stout little +
I've been on a diet for the pas
And here the stalwart you
fully interposed. "Well, it W;
fat stuff" he said. "Ya had
enough for sixteen men, W
to jam the little mans derby
Ordinarily this would be res
monplace, unenlightened conv
cation to my point came the fl
having several hours to spare b
scenes, | went into the county
Evening star., 1915-03-07

called him big, fat stuff, and jammed
his hat down over his eyes, was the
court stenograbherl
| had the pleasure of lunching with all
three of them later in the day, and a finer
lot of true-blue American citizens have
not met anywhere else, before or since.
TT one has any purely physical peculiar
ity of an obvious nature, he must get
reconciled to having it used as hook
for his discontinue, or his delectation,
according as his own attitude toward the
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1915-10-28
Prominent Missourian Dead.

Montgomery City, Mo-, Oct
23.--Col. Warner Lewis, 80 years
old, widely known Missourian
and father Of r. E. Lewis, Judge
of the United States District
Court at Denver, Col, also for
mer candidate for Governor of
Missouri. died unexpectedly here
today at his home from heart dis
ease.
He left his wife and the follow
ing children: r. E., of Ell Reno,
Ok, Mrs. Jessie Gilliburn of
Phoenix, Ariz., and Mrs. r. f.
Sans of Kansas City.
Col. Lewis was the only sur
:yivor Of a company of II soldiers
all massacred by the Usage In
dians in 1863 near where Cof-
feyville. Kas:, now stands. Many
of his Is. comrades had their
heads cut off by the Indians and
their bodies were piled up on the
field.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1915-10-28
G.. B. Hickman Dead.

q. B. Hickman formerly a
prominent citizen Of this city,
died at his home in Miami county
Kansas Friday morning, Oct. %.
Mr.. Hickman was native of
New Jersey and came to Bates
County nearly so years ago. He
was for many years engaged in
the furniture and undertaking
business in this city. He always
was active in civic affairs serv-
ing one term as mayor Of Butler.
He was one Of the earliest MEM
bers of the state board of en-
balmcrs being president of that
body.
He is survived by widow,
two sons, Win Hickman and De-
Witt Hickman of Miami county,
Kansas, and Mrs. Durrell Of Lees
Summit.
The body was brought to But
Ter Saturday afternoon and tax
en- to Oak Hill cemetery where
Butler lodge No. 254 A. F. q A.
NJ. had charge Of the ceremonies.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1915-10-28
Terrible Accident.

Mrs. George Knowles. of near
Austin, met with a severe acci.
dent last Friday evening in which
she had her right leg torn off be.
low the knee says the Cass Coun-
ty News. Mrs. Knowles, in com
pany with Miss Stout, a neigh
Dor girl, had started to 60 to the
home of Alonzo Thomas to set
up with sick child and taking
a short cut over an old trail the
road led them to where they had
to ford a creek and when part
way across, fearing to go further
they started to turn around and
go back and the rig upset. throw
ing Mrs. Knowles out, and in
some manner she got her right
leg caught in the wheel breaking
the leg below the knee and be-
fore she could get untangled the
leg was torn off.
DR.. Crawford and Dr.. Adair,
of Adrian who were at the Thorn
as home, dressed the injury.
1t was a most deplorable acct
dent and neither of the ladies'
We're able to tell just how II hap
pened other than the report given
above.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1915-10-28
Ard Now Mexico Wants to
Borrow.

New Orleans, Oct. 2O.-New Or
leans bankers announced today
that as a result of the recognition
Of the Carranza government in
Mexico, they closed contracts to-
day to lend 10 million dollars in
gold to the Mexican administra-
tion. It also was announced that
arrangements had been made to
handle the entire Mexican sisal
crop through New Orleans; that
the sisal operators of Yucatan and
Campeche were to erect million
dollar manufacturing plant for
the purpose of handling their raw
product, and that Mexican capital
lists were to establish a new trans
portation line operating six steam
ships between New Orleans and
Mexican gulf ports.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1915-10-28
Oklahomans to Hold Wheat

Tulsa. Ok, Oct. 25.-Forty pei
cent of the 1915 wheat crop in
the Arkansas Valley is still in
bins and will not be put onto the
market before December, accord
ing to grain buyers, who say the
farmers are confident of prices
later that will duplicate those
paid for the 1914 crop.
1t is said that Oklahoma has
not more than half the wheat
crop credited to the State by the
Government and that less than
2O,OO0,0OO bushels of marketable
wheat has been saved. Virtual
ly every farm in this section is
now equipped with storage room
for grain.
The acreage sown to wheat in
every county in the Arkansas
Valley will be from a third to a
half less than a year ago. as far
mers believe Oklahoma is in for
a cycle of good corn years.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1915-10-28
Fourth Glass Postmaster
Examination

The United States Civil Ser.
vice Commission announces that
on Saturday. Nov. 81, an exathi.
nation will be held at Butler, No.
as q result Of which it is expect
| ed to make certification to till q
contemplated vacancy in the po-
/ sitien eff feHfth-elass postmaster
at Worland and other vacancies
as they may occur at that office
unless it shall be decided in the
interest of the service to fill the
vacancy by reinstatement. The
compensation Of the postmaster
at this office was 1886 for the
last fiscal year.
Age limit, 81 years and over on
the date of the examination, with
the exception that in a State
where women are declared by
statute to be of full age for all
purposes at 18 years, women Is
years of age on the date Of the
examination will be admitted.
Applicants must reside within
the territory supplied by the post
office for which the examination
is announced.
The examination is open to all
citizens of the United States who
can comply with the require
ments.
Application forms and full in
formation concerning the re-
quirements Of the examination
can be secured from the postmas-
ter at Worland or from the Unit
ed States Civil Service Commits
sion. Washington, D. G.
Applications should be-proper-
ly executed and filed with the
Commission at Washington at
least seven days before the date
of the examination, otherwise it
may be impracticable to examine
the applicants.
United States Civil Service
Commission.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1915-10-28
ELEVEN GIRLS DIE IN FIRE,
One Man Also ! Victim IN Pitts
burg Paper Box Factory.

Pittsbnrg Oct. Is. Eleven
girls and one man are known te
have lost their lives and a num-
Der Of. other employees Of the I'm.
ion Paper Box Company are miss.
ing, as the result of a fire which
this afternoon destroyed the COM
pany's factory on the North Side,
Some of the bodies recovered
were so badly burned as to make
Identification difficult. :,
The fire started in feed store
and spread to the factory. Fire
men searching the ruins Of the g.
story building recovered the bod
les, and, REINFORCED by the entire
city department, continued their
search in the dense smoke.
Joseph L. Bash, employed as
salesman by a stove company on
the second floor Of the building
saw the flames shooting up the ell
cvator shaft. He ran to a win
dow and gave the alarm. He mo-
ticed a number of girls from the
box factory leaning out Of an up
per window. One after another
he lowered them to the ground I'M
til eight were safe.
Father Sharp of st. Peters
Church, one of the first on the
scene. granted conditional absolu-
ton to the more seriously injured
girls as fast as they We're taken
to the ambulances.
Henry T. Schafer, manager Of
the box factory, said that TWEEN
ty-six girls and six men were at
work when the fire, broke out.
The bodies recovered were so
badly burned as to be unrecogniz-
able.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1915-10-28
PLAIN QUESTIONS
TO BUTLER PEOPLE
Every Butler Reader will Admit
the Soundness Of the Logic.

Would Butler people recon-
mend Doan's Kidney Pills as they
do if the medicine were not re-
liable? Would they confirm their
statements after years have
elapsed if their experiences did
not show the remedy to be descrv-
ing Of it? Statements like the fol-
lowing must carry conviction to
the mind Of every reader.
J.. G. Reavis, 3l5 S. High ST..
l:,tler. says: Il was subject to
rheumatic twinges, so acute that |
could not sleep well. I also had
trouble from the kidney sccretions
and my sight was affected.
Doan's Kidney Pills. procured at
t'lay's Drug Store. helped me so
much from the first that con-
iinucd using them until ! wars
WE'LL
Keeps Doan'S on Hand.
Over five years later. Mr..
Reavis said: II still recommend
Doan's Kidney Pills as Il reliable
kidney and bladder medicine. l
always keep them on hand in ease
of need"
Price soc at all dealers. Don t
simply ask for kidney remedy
yet Doan's Kidney Pills--the same
that Mr.. ReaviS has twice public
~ recommended. Fostcr-Milburn
60, Props. Buffalo. n. Y. 2-2t
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1915-10-28
County Treasurer of Johnson
County Dies Suddenly.

William f. Scamands, treasur-
err of johnson County. died at his
home in Warrensburg Wednesday
night at II 100. says the Warrens-
burg Star-,Iournal.
Mr.. Seamands was stricken with
paralysis about one o'clock Mon
day morning. His entire left side
was affected and he never recov-
,ercd consciousness during the. two
and one half days before his spirit
took it's final flight. He was at
church last Sunday and greeted
his friends AZ usual, but COM
planned Of not feeling well. He
had been working hard in the
treasurcr's office for several days
and his indisposition was thought
to be due to that i, hut it culimat-
ed - the fatal touch of tho death
angel.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1915-10-28
Woman School Teacher Killed II
=, Kansas.

Dodge City, Kas,, Oct. 23.--
After an all-night search the
body of Miss Nellie Byers, a
school teacher, was found hidden
under pile of leaves and weeds
near here today.
She had been attacked, her
clothing torn off and she was
chokrd to death. Miss Byers,
who was ~ years old, and a
daughter of one of the oldest
families in this country, left her
school at the usual hour yester-
day afternoon to walk to her
clearinghouse. Her non-ap-
pearance started Il search in
which scores of citizens took
part.
Warnings have been sent out
to all the surrounding country
by telegraph and telephone and
farmers in the county, which is
sparscly populated, are organic
ing to find the murderer. Rail-
roads have been asked to search
trains from the vicinity of the
crime. Bloodhounds have been
dispatched from here.
Miss Byer's father once was a
member of the Kansas House of
Representatives from Grant
County. He resigned several
years ago. 49,.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1915-10-28
1876 Bushsls Of Corn to the Acre.

= :
The bronze medal offered by the
Panama-Pa Pacific International Ex-
position for the largest yield Of
corn to the acre has been awarded
to Leander Young, Of Illinois, who
grew 1876 bushels. Under the rules
governing this contest, the corn
VS. planted in rows three feet six
inches apart, with an eighteen
inch strip left outside Of the out
side rows. The yield was cert flied
TO by the supervisors Of the town
sAip. Mr.. Young gave his aere
several covefines of barpyapd
manure, and drilled ID Iowa Silver
Mine early IN May He used N
ordinary one-horse cultivator.
The Washington herald., 1915-05-30
CUPID KIDNAPS LEADER
IN SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT
Jessie Hardy Stubs to Wed Benton
Mackaye. Forest Service
Official.

Mrs. Jessie Hardy Stubs. one Of the
Invest wires in the suffrage movement.
is to be married Tuesday to Benton
Mackaye, an examiner in the Forest
Service. Mr. Mackaye, who lives with
his mother at 1873 H street northwest. is
a son of the late Steele Mackaye. play
right. and a brother of Percy Mackaye.
poet. dramatist and essayist
Mrs. Stubs is known from New York
to San Francisco for her campaign work
in behalf of the woman suffrage move
ment. and only recently returned to this
city from the West to plan nation
wide campaign for the fall.
Mr.. Mackaye is a graduate of Harvard
in the class of 1900. After teaching in
the forestry courses at the university he
came to Washington to accept his pres
ent position. His sister Miss Hazel Mac
kaye. also is interested in the suffrage
movement, being the organizer of many
of the elaborate pageants staged here and
throughout the country.
The ceremony will take place at the
Brooke farm. the residence of Mrs. Min
ME Brooke. near Chevy Chase. at 5
o'clock in the afternoon. Rev. Dr. L.
G. b. Pierce. of All Souls Church. will
officiate. Only the relatives of the bride
and Mr.. Mackaye will be present.
The Washington herald., 1915-05-30
COL. w. E. HARVEY WILL
COMMAND D. E.. MILITIA
President Wilson Will Select Him to
Succeed GEN. George H.
Harries-

President Wilson will name Col. William
f. Harvey. commander of the Second
Regiment. District National Guard, to
succeed Gen. George H. Haries. retired
as commander-in-chief of the District
Militia
Maj. Joseph c. Cashier, of the regular
army. acting adjutant general of the
local militia, will be appointed to the posi-
ton permanently.
These two recommendations were made
to President Wilson yesterday by Secre-
tary of War Garrison. and will be acted
upon favorably by the Chief Executive
Col. Harvey ranked next in seniority
to Col. Charles H. Ourand OF the First
Regiment, who had expressed a disincli-
ma ton to accept the appointment 1t is
understood that Col. Ourand will apply
for retirement with increased rank of
one grade.
The elevation of Col. Harvey and the
retirement of Col Ourand will make open
the way for the appointment of Lieut.
Col. Glendie B. Young. First Infantry,
as colonel. and the transfer of Lieut.
Col. Anton Stephan as lieutenant colonel
of the new regiment. which is to take
the place of the two existing regiments,
In accordance with the plan of reorgani-
zation ordered by the War Department
several days ago.
The Washington herald., 1915-05-30
ONLY "DEAD-BEATS" TO SUFFER.
Treasury Department Plans No
Drastic Action.

The Treasury Department has not de-
cided upon any drastic action in dealing
with employees of the department who
are slow in paying their debts, Assistant
Secretary of the Trea sury Byron r. New
ton said last night.
THE order issued yesterday" he said.
is nothing new. but I fear II has been
exaggerated The same order is issued
from time to time as a warning to the
employees that they must pay their debts -
Mr.. Newton's attention was called to
the following sentence in the order: En-
ployes will not be retained in its en-
ployment who. without specific cause.
persistently refuse habitually neglect
to pay their necessary personal and
family expenses"
He replied that the above is an es-
tablished rule in the depa rtment. only
enforced after it has been found that
the employees intention is ito beat" his
creditors. I'm all cases." he said, the
Individual circumstances are considered -
The Washington herald., 1915-05-30
FRIENDS FEAR FOR sHIvELY.
Indiana senator Leaves for New
York to Undergo Operation.

Indiana friends of United States Sem
ator Benjamin F. Shively are much
concerned over the health of their SEN
ator. who has been ill in Washington
since Congress adjourned. until a few
days ago. when he went to New York.
to undergo an operation which will be
the third in recent years. The opera
tion is a minor one and no fears are
expressed over the outcome of that. but
it is the general condition of Senator
Shively's health that has alarmed his
friends.
He is said to be suffering from an
organic disease and has declined stead
lily in health since Congress adjourned.
Mr.. Shively was reelected to the Sem
ate last year for the six-year term
beginning the 4th of last March. He
is second in rank on the Foreign Re-
lations Committee in the work of franz
ing the Underwood-Simmons act.
The Washington herald., 1915-05-30
FIREMEN DECORATE
GRAVES OF COMRADES
Chief Wagner Adorns Resting Places
of Predecessors Committee to Re
port Condition of Graves.

The ninth annual decoration day for
former members of the District FIRE de-
partment was observed yesterday at the
orders of Fire Chief Frank J. Wagner
Ninety-eight graves of fremen were dec
GRATED.
The decoration day was instituted by
former Chief vs. T. Belt. whose grave in
Glenwood Cemetery and that of former
Chief Martin Cronin. in Mount Olivet
Cemetery. were decorated personally by
Chief Wagner.
The committee appointed by Chief
Wagner was as follows: Capt. J. T. Ros-
sitter, White Marsh. Md; Mrs. NJ. I.
Wiles. Alexandria. Va: Lieut.. o. I.
Rassford, Oak Hill Cemetery: Private }.
Sullivan. Holy Rood Cemetery; Private
G. Davenport. Andrew Chapel: Private r
Koch. Harmony Cemetery. and \. Savoy.
Woodlawn. The committee Is to report
on the condition of the graves
The Washington herald., 1915-05-30
McAlpin Hotel Events.

New York. May 2s.-The Michigan
Society Of New York gave a banquet
and dance to its members at the Hotel
McAlpin last night (Friday). The
society includes suchs men a. Thomas
A. Edison. Neh. Boynton, A. r. Leach.
E. n Breitung. DR.. Abraham jacob.
The speakers last night were: Judge
r. +. Walcott, president Of the Chi
cago Michigan Club: William Mean
drews. assistant superintendent Of
schools Of New York. and head Of the
Warrington Irving Hlgh School;
James v. Barry. Frederick FarnSworth
Of the American Bankers Associa-
ton: Albert Beck Wenxel. Judge
George B. Caldwell and DR. Wallace
b. House. The organization has over
$50 members in New York City. and
At last nights meeting the Michigan
Women's Society Of New YORK were
guests. Ofncsrs of the society are:
&c. A. Fullerton, president: A. y. Lsaen.
The Washington herald., 1915-05-30
ALL WOOL
PANTS
S and S. Value
$500

sters participating in their annual
field day exercises yesterday morning
in Potomac Park.
The Scouts, comma nded by Capt.
John e. Brooks. marched in review be-
fore Field Executive 8. 8. Aplin. They
number more than 800. The continued
rain, however, cut short the program.
which will be continued on Saturday.
June ~ and followed by a campfire
evening.
The first event of the athletic pro-
gram was a shuttle race between teams
OF four Scouts each. and was won by
the team of Troop Il. Scout George
Davis being first. The second race was
a shuttle race and was won by the
team OF Troop 10. Harry Branson be-
ing first. The running broad jump con-
test was won by Scout Stewart. Of
Troop 81. The potato race was won
by Scout Cummings.