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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-07-24

mssny minutes, but the ghost kept on
sh fieking in the Latin tongue.
Third Essay.
Napoleon stood weeping and wailing
and gnashing his eyebrows on the
battlefield of Waterloo.
He was waiting for the moving pic
ture man to get his photograph
The victorious Wellington made his
appearance. laughing loudly in his
sleeve.
Back, Napi Back to the BouIe-
ward des Dagol" commanded We'll
lington
Napoleon put his chin on his wish
bone and spoke no word.
YOU" said Wellington; s.you to the
Champs Eliza! This is my victory,
and you must leave the battlefield
1t is time to close up for the night
We will meet again, Milford" an
svered Napoleon "Avec beau temps
isr bong swati''
What does that mean?" asked
Wellington.
1T means that the next time we
meet i will do the swatting," an
sweraa Napoleon bitterly.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-07-24
How Shoe Pes Was Invented.

To a Massachusetts, man, Joseph
Walker. is due the credit of invent
ing the shoe peg. Previous to the
year 1918 its use had not been known,
and its inventor gave a new start
to the manufacture of boots and
shoes.
Shortly after the introduction of this
invention some INSCRIPTIONS parties
are said to have tried to swindle the
unsuspecting by endeavoring to sell
shoe pegs as a new kind of oats
Up to 1918 boots and shoes had
been sewed. and the peg. made first
by hand. came in to reyolutionize the
trade 1t was, however, the custom of
shoemakers who lived away from the
manufacturing centers to make their
own pegs by hand even as late as
1880. but the machine-manufacture
peg has now superseded them.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-07-24
HER SIDE OF THE CLOTH
Younger Sister Was Anticipating
What in Time She Knew Would
Be Hers.

How often it is that the younger of
two children in a family is at a dis
advantage, in the matter of what Is
done for him, the clothes which he
wears and the attention which he re-
ceives generally 1t is sometimes pa
thetic, although occurring not so much
from any real difference in the feel
ings of the parents for the two as
from thoughtlessness and the natural
order of things. The handing down
example, is almost necessary in many
a family, but it is a hardship for the
younger one, nevertheless.
One family once had two girls in
exactly this situation, the younger be-
ing just so much behind her sister in
growth and development that it came
perfectly natural that the elders
dresses should fall to her lot in the
course of time. And so it happened
that all the new things were the old
er's and the younger always had them
made over for herself.
One day the elder was told by her
mother to go downtown and select
some material which she liked for her
graduation dress and bring 1t home.
for approval Full of glee, the girl
started to go, when the younger spoke
up in all seriousness: Don't you
think 1 ought to go with her, mann
ma said she, ito see if 1 like the
other side?''
1t set the mother to thinking, and
after that the younger got some new
things of her very own.-Rochester
n. H, Courier.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-07-24
SEEING LIFE U1M
rAm1 JOHN HENRY
HSShW Geo1JeX
EdT<AXEXNfl John Henry Gets Present
John Henry Gets a Present

see what surprises lay hiding in the
ice chest.
First Essay.
David kept his boot heel on the neck
of the fallen Goliath and laughed
pleasantly.
Are you all IMP" David inquired,
after a pause.
81 refuse to speak until you take
your spurs out of my face" replied
the giant
David at once showed his obIiging
nature.
1--WE shall meet again." Goliath re-
piled hoarsely.
mot if 1 see you first!" said David.
81 will take good care that you
don't" chuckled the expiring giant.
"How?" was David's interrogation.
ct will be in the far, far future
said the giant. 'You will then be one
of the Common People walking in the
Streets
And you?" David asked.
81 will be a chauffeur on a smoke
wagon, and what 1 will do to you will
be pitifu1 shame responded the
giant.
Then with a bitter laugh the tri-
umphant Goliath turned over and
pushed his mortal coil off the shuttle
board
Second Essay.
The ghost of julius Caesar looked
threateningly at Brutus, the Stabbist.
Brutus sneered.
"You," he said; ito the mines!"
Not one of Caesars muscles quiv-
cred.
Brutus used a short, sharp laugh.
"You," he said; ION your way!"
Caesar never batted an eyelash.
Brutus pointed to the rear.
go way back he said, "and use
your laziness."
Caesar pulled his toga up over his
cold shoulder.
Brutus laughed again, and it was
the saucy, triumphant laugh of the
man who lodges in front of a woman
and grabs a seat on the elevated
railroad.
1.-THE next time we meet you will
not do me as you did me at the base
of Pompey's statue" said the ghost
of Caesar, speaking for the first time
since we began this essay.
I'VE will not meet again because I
refuse to associate with you," said
Brutus.
Caesar smiled, but it was without
mirth, and as cold as the notice of
suspension on the door of a bank.
Eyes, we will meet again. said Gaze
sar
"Where?" said Brutus
"In the far, far future" said the
ghost of Caesar shriekingly. You
will be born into the world again by
that time, and in your new personality
you will be one of the Common People,
and you will burn gas"
and your" inquired Brutus.
81 will be the spirit which puts the
wheels in the gas meter, and may
heaven have mercy on your pocket
book!" shrieked the ghost of Caesar.
Brutus took a fit, and used it for
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-07-24
Calm Resignation.

Reference having been made to
beautiful resignation, Congressman
Joseph ]. Russell recalled an appro-
pirate story.
During a dinner party some time
ago, the congressman said, the topic
turned to the connubial state. Among
the guests was a bachelor person.
Speaking OF marriage" eventually
remarked the bachelor, 'it seems that
the longer a man is married."
1.-THE happier he is" impulsively
broke in a spinster party with a hope
full glance at the other.
81 was going to say" resumed the
bachelor, disregardingly, that the
longer a man is married the less he
seems to mind it. :"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-07-24

q AYi did you ever dream you were
- going to get a wonderful Christ
mas gift from a rich relation and wake
up in the icehouse?
Friend wife and I are not MERGE
nary, but we did have a bunch that
Uncle Peter would slip US an onyx
clock with which we could hide the
knotholes in our phoney mantelpiece,
or an amethyst ash tray which we
could use as bathtub for the canary;
but nothing doingi
1t was a sad blow to US that Christ
mas morning, because the old boy is
upholstered with coin. He owns all
the eagles on the gold pieces He has
pet names for them and keeps them
cooped up like a flock of chickens.
And all he sent US was a book worth
sixty cents net, written by a pretzel
pen pusher named Helfenhelfen
/ wanted to throw it out the win
dow at taxi driver engaged in exer-
cising his engine for the benefit of
those in the neighborhood who were
sleeping late on Christmas morning,
but Peaches had her shoes and stock
ings off and was wading through the
first chapter.
The book, she informed me, was a
series of essays on reincarnation.
Can you tie that for a Christmas
present from a man to whom money
comes crying like a child and begs
to be put to sleep in his safety-deposit
vaults?
Reincarnation is a long, loose-look-
ing word, and to a perfect stranger
it has a slightly suspicious sound, but
it's bark is worse than its bite.
After reading about half gallon of
Helfenhelfen's theories, Peaches be-
gan to bite her nails and make faces
like highbrow.
1.-The idea of a person having been
somebody else in a previous existence
is interesting, isn't it, John?" she
gurgled. 81 wonder who 1 was?'
You appeared first as the Queen of
Sheba," told her; 'and after chasing
King Solomon up sycamore tree you
disappeared for several centuries and
then you slipped into history's moving
pictures as Cleopatra, and I've a dog
gone good mind to divorce you for
the way you carried on with Marc
Antony
"Oh, tush!" giggled Peaches. Have
some sense. Who do you think Hep
Hardy WASP"
''Hep!" 1 said, why Hep originally
was a katydid or a tree toad, prob
ably both. Later on he appeared as
dancing dervish and made weekly pill
grimages to Mecca to fill himself and
the goatskin with grape. Then he
dropped out for several hundred years
to get a new set of watertight COM
partments and finally reappeared as
Joe Morgan in Ten Nights in a Bar
room and he's been playing that ever
since"
81 don't see why you can't take this
seriously" she pouted. Herr Helfen-
helfen's book is very wonderful
$50 is a Swiss cheese sandwich
ventured- Did you ever stop to think
how wonderful those holes are in a
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-07-24

Helfenhelfen came across with the
cush.
After we sat there for two hours
spending the money, 1 asked Peaches
how my homemade essays stacked up
with the German importations.
What essays?" she inquired blank
ly.
why, 1 left them here on the
table, said.
ooh, that!'' she cooed. ct thought
that was a letter of apology so /
threw it in the wastebasket without
reading it, because an apology wasn't
necessary"
Isn't she the limit in imported chif-
fon, 1 ask you?
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-07-24
Holds The Lead
STRONG WORDS
From a Doctor With 40 Years Expert
enCe.

TN my 40 years experience as .
teacher and practitioner along n.y.
gienic lines" says a Calf. physician, Il
have never found a food to compare
with Grape-Nuts for the benefit of the
general health of all classes of people
Il have recommended Grape-Nuts
for number of years to patients with
the greatest success and every years
experience makes me more enthusiast
tic regarding its use.
81 make it a rule to always recon-
mend Grape-Nuts when giving my pa
tents instructions as to diet, for /
know Grape-Nuts can be digested by
anyone.
"As for myself, when engaged In
much mental work my diet twice a
day consists of Grape-Nuts and rich
cream / find it just the thing to build
up and keep the brain in good working
order.
tTn addition, Grape-Nuts always
keeps the digestive organs in a per-
feet, healthy tone" Name given by
Postum Co., Battle Greek, Mich
Strong endorsements like the above
from physicians all over the country
have stamped Grape-Nuts the most
scientific food in the world.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-07-24
DAISY KuLER
VICTIM OF CRUEL DECEPTION
Fair Seaside Visitor Satisfied She Had
Seen Remarkable Government
Sailing Apparatus"

They were passing the holiday at
Onset and during the course of the
sunny afternoon took a stroll on the
beach At one point tEey came upon
an improvised breakwater, where
some resident had filed bags with
sand and piled them in breastworks
fashion to prevent the sea from en-
croaching upon his land during the
stormy season.
One of the young ladies was curious
Immediately. She would know what
the bags were for.
why, it's very simple" explained
her companion with due gravity. The
water in Onset bay originally was
fresh, a popularity of nature which
has puzzled scientists. 1t seemed too
bad to deprive the place of seashore
advantages so the government took
the matter in hand, filled the bags
with salt and thereby has impaired
the proper flavor to Onset water
Far from rebuking him for being
fresh she is now telling her friends
of having seen the government salt
ing apparatus down there.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-07-24

Generally speaking, crank is a
man with an enthusiasm for some
particular forr, of idiocy
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-07-24

Happy is the home where Red Cross
Ball Blue is used. Sure to please. All
grocers. Adv.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-07-24
Otherwise Not.

"Why do you want to get divorced :?
Because I'm married. "-Philadel
phia Public Ledger.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-07-24
Sure Cure.
Public

What are you taking for your
cold?"
advice" - Philadelphia Public
Ledger.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-07-24

If girls cultivated their dispositions
as assiduously as they do their COM
plexions fewer marriages would be
failures
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-07-24
Never Get Tired.

You dance like an angel"
You fiatter me-" said the girl 81
could keep going much longer if 1 had
wings"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-07-24
Her Worry.

Darling, will you love me when I'm
old?"
Il will if you'll promise to love me il
should grow fat"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-07-24

Patience is the long road that leads
to success.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-07-24

placed anywhere, At
tracts and kills all
nies- Neat. clean, or
naE,ental, convenient,
cheap Lasts all
season. IL q de or
metal, can'tspill or tip
over; will not soil OF
nj ure anyth ing
Guaranteed effective
All dealers or6senf
express paid for ei.oa
Ave. Brooklyn. n =
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-07-24

The roll of honor is fresh from the
oven.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-07-24
Pa Knows Exerythi

Pa Knows Everything.
Father, what is 'sepulchral tone
of voice'?'
"That means, to speak gravely''
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-07-24

o liberty, what lot of divorces
hide under thy cloak.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-07-24

~And when viii that beg" Inquired
Wellington, laughing loudly
In the far. far future" replied the
little Corporal You will then be
one of the Common People"
"And what viii you be-" Wellington
asked.
It shall be spirit of the High Cost
of Living and / shall gnaw at your
pocketbook until your appetite BE-
comes burden unbearable. Bon soir.
mes enfants, du spitzbuben,"
Then the little corporal called cab
and left Wellington fiat ON the battle
field.
When came back from the kitchen
found Peaches in the front room
hugging Helfenhelfen 10 her heart and
laughing her yellow head off.
Like it?" 1 asked, swelling up with
the pride of authorship
Look" she spluttered between
laughs. Look, Johpi Isn't Uncle
Peter dear old foxi He wanted US
to read this book and find the real
Christmas present Look here, ON
page 173 he has neatly attached a
thin little check for q thousand dol
larsi Isn't he a darltng?"
It's worth that to read 173 pages
of Helfenhelfen," ] squawked, %
cover my confusion
Some Uncle, that old boy, and take
back anything 1 may have said about
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-07-24
There's a Reason" for Grape-Nuts

Sold by Grocers everywhere
The Prescott daily news., 1915-04-12

For Sale-Good work mule above average weight.-Levi Moore or Ira Gee. Phone 143. Advt.
 Let us have your films for develop ing on Tuesdays and they will be re- turned to you on the following Friday. Nx seil Eastman films and develop them free. Printing prices reason able.-Guthrie Drug Store. Advt.
 For Rent-5 room residence 209 West Front Street-electric lights, gas, bath, and sewer connection S12.50 per month.-A. M. Westmore- land. Advt.
 For Sale-Pure bred s. c. White Leghon eggs. $100 per setting.- Mrs. M. M. Howell, Phone 1S7 1 ring, Prescott. Arkansas. Advt dw.
The Prescott daily news., 1915-04-12

Tomato Plants-All of the best kinds-phOne 17O-S. T.. Boyd. Advt.
 The Popular Play and Players Con- pany present tonight at the Gem Treatre Madame Olga Petrova' in a play of thrilling intensity "The Fig ress" in five reels with 312 scenes. Admission 10 and 20 cents. .No free list Advt. Let us do your Kodak finishing Eastman films developed free. Our printing prices are very reasonable. We are agents for Eastman kOdaks and films.-Guthrie Drug Store. Advt. Among the list of venremen for the May term of the federal court are Prescott citizens as follows: Grand Jury-John Bryson, jr., Joe A. Bailey, Petit jury-John Nichols and Cyrus L. Green.
 Eugene Smith. of Ouachita county spent yesterday and this morning in the city. Mr. Smith had been in Lit tie Rock attending the annual meeting of the State Teachers Association, of which he is a member
 Louise Whitten, the three year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Pomeroy Whitten, of Murfreesboro, died there yesterday afternoon at 8 o'clock. The little child had been ill only a short time with croup. The remains will be inferred in the Murfreesboro ceme- tery tomorrow afternoon. o. R. F. Whitten of this city and Dolphus Whitten, of Hope, father and brother and Mrs. Dan Maekstroth of Cleve- land, Ohio, sister of MT. Whitten went to Murfreesboro this morning to at tend the funeral tomorrow.
The Prescott daily news., 1915-04-12

M. w. Greeson went up to Little Rock this morning to attend to busi- ness matters.
 For Sale-Lawn and porch swings. If you want a good one see me- August Deirks. Advt. 1w. Dr. Thos. W. Mcdaniel, of Boughton came up this afternoon to attend to business matters.
 Dr.. Nelms, of Laneburg, was at tending to business matters in the city this afternoon.
 Jno. V. Tedford came down from Smithton yesterday and spent Sunday with his family in this city.
 Miss Dorothy Shaver returned yes terday afternoon from visit with rel atives and friends in Texarkana.
 Still cutting hair and shaving at the West Side Barber Shop.-you are next.-Cragan & Cummins Advt.
 Try a Chocolate Ice Cream Soda made from Watson X Avens Superior Ice Cream at Hesterly's fountain.
 Advt.
 L. F. Cappleman, of Little Rock, salesman for a Memphis drug house, was attending to business in the city today.
 Dr. C. C. Purtle, of Murfreesboro passed through Prescott Saturday en route to the home of his father on route five.
 Ed Wallis, of Rosston, was here Saturday attending to business mat ters and returned to his home yester- day morning.
 If you are under twelve years of age and want to attend the Gem show Tuesday evening, get the coupon out of this paper next Tuesday, It will admit you free. Advt.
 For Sale-Heart pine shingles in apy quantity.-J. c. Woodul, Prescott Arka nsas. Advt. If.
The Prescott daily news., 1915-04-12
Local News.

Coming! "Tigress."
 Fair Monday and Tuesday. Try a Milk Chocolate at Hesterly's fountain. Advt. Harris Powell visited in Texarkana yesterday.
 Send us that order for printing. We will please you.
 Joe A. Bailey of Hope, is here today seeing home folks.
 Try box of Liggett's assorted cho cOlates at Guthrie's. Advt. Mrs. A. c. Phillips spent Sunday in Hope with home folks.
 Jno. A. Davis was business visi- tor to Smithton this morning. Joe Boswell is over at Ozan today attending to business matters. Louis Suckle is in Little Rock to- day attending to business matters. Chas E. Lancaster is in Little Rock today attending to business matters Fifty childrens' hats on sale Thurs day and Friday--Mrs. Moody. 1w
 Advt. For Sale-Family horse, runabout and harness. See T. c. McRae, Jr.
 Advt. We will deliver The Daily News to you each afternon for ten cents per week.
 Prof. and Mrs. Pink w. Taylor, of Rosston spent Saturday afternoon in the city.
 Fresh shipment of Liggett's can dies-pOpular style packages-Guthrie burg Store. Advt.
The Prescott daily news., 1915-04-12

G. N. Starnes has finished his school at Mt. Holly and is now at his home in Bluff City. MT. Starnes passed through Prescott yesterday en route to his home from Little Rock where he had been attending the annual con- vention of the State Teachers Asso citation.
 Mrs. Douglas Brooks was called to Eldorado yesterday on account of tha serious illness of her sister, Mrs. L. P. Meairs. Reports received from FL dorado this morning state that Mrs. Meairs' condition is greatly improved.
The Prescott daily news., 1915-04-12
e F /V1 1O-Ni0ht- Good Music and Effects
 ROGRAM Madame Olga Petrova" in a play of thrilling Intensity.
 THE TIGRESS"
 5 reels with 312 scenes Patsy Boliver in Business"
 Lubin-Comedy.

The management of the Gem thea. tre will give every child under the age of 12 years ticket absolutely free to the show next Tuesday even- ing. A coupon will appear in this pa- per and it is to be cut out and present. ed at the door of the Gem Tuesday evening. It will admit the bearer. There will positively be no one admit, ed free who does not have coupon or who is over 12 years of age.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-10-14

TO sisnadize his having written In
the first six months OF the year in
surance topping the 100000 mark
Inc record lsone which tits said has
never been excelled il eQualad in
this territory IN the same parted.
Mr.. Herscaieb, VINO was formerly
che OF the most successful travel-
ing statesmen out of the Twin Ports
took up the Insurance game some
Years ago, and by persistency has
made a growing success OF his work
(which has just had dts climax in
beating a $500 900 record for half d
year. There are only ten men in the
employ OF Bankers Lite, who dur
ing them experience have besn able
&c pass the half million dollar mark
as Mr. Hersch4eb has done, although
they have larger and #eaathler ter
ritoy which to work
The gold medal he has Just CeceiV-
ed gives Mr.. Hegschleb membership
in the Five Hundred Thousand
clue and is so inscribed with the
,dase- He viii treasure it aus a
distinction which few in the whole
4Ltry autan.-Superior Telegram.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-10-14

ed. Whether the player played one
game or the entire eighteen, he gets
50 a game-not TOO bad for the team
IN third place. What Marshfiad
players will receive has not been dis
covered by any one in this name
town, as yet But its pretty safe TO
say thai the members Of the Grand
Rapids team are the boys with the
big dough
In an article in the Stevens Point
Journal refer enoe was made to the
salary paid to Deg6ne-the Journal
thru an error or instrumentation said
Devne was paid s125 a month, this
was not true.
The base ball season in Grand Rap
Ids has beeen a successful one.
Starting out with a heavy note to
pay and other heavy indebtedness
old accounts have been settIde, all
current bills paid and the members
Of the team are able to split Up a
surplus so that each member receiV-
es S. for every game he played in.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-10-14
PARENTS MEETING
At IRVING BUILDING

The first in the series of Parents
Meetings given under the auspices
Of the School Committee of the Fed
GRAFTON will be held at the Irving
Building Friday afternoon, Oct. 18th.
Parents and friends are invited to
visit the different grades from 1870
to 2:S0 o'clock and attend the fol
lowing program, beginning at 2:30,
Talk on Civic Beauty i'm the School
Mrs. L. A. DeGuere.
Talk On Effect OF intoxicating Liz
uors upon the Mental and Physical
Life of a Student-Dr. F. X. Po-
mainyille.
Musical Selection, Mrs. J. Lin
dermaH.
Talk on Health of the Child as a
Joint Concern of Parent andreacher
MIR. H. F. KelI.
The program viii be followed by a
social half hour during which light
refrAshments VIII be served
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-10-14
PUBLIC HEALTH
MATTERS

The Public Health and Moral Wei
fare committee of the Ladies of the
Federation liz this city extend COT
dial invitation to all mothers to at
end a mothers meeting tobe held in
the Ginsburg building, opp osdte the
Wood County National Bank at 2:30
o'clock Thursday afternoon at Whic
time the Misses Downes and Sails
bury of Madison, wild address the
meeting. DIR. F. x. Pomainyille. the
health officer of the city viii also
give am address at this time.
1t will be of particular interest
to the mothers and every one should
attend.