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be- not, .ssadder and WISER but
happier and wiser" for doing it,

be. not, ''sadder and WISER but
happier and wiser" for doing it.
The teachers who braved the bad
roads last Monday evening to attend
the entertainment given at the NJ. E.
church by that great impersonator,
T. Marion Crawford, felt well repaid
for coming Few numbers given here
have been as we'll received as 1.-THE
Peaceful Valley The members of
the Wa Keeney churches deserve
much credit for their hearty support
of those who make occasionally these
heroic efforts to provide clean, high
class entertainments for the young
people of the town.
The next teachers meeting for
Trego county teachers is the Golden
Belt meeting at Hays. March 12-I3.
No speciaI urging of the teachers to
attend this meeting is necessary.
They have all been looking forward
with pleasure to this teachers re-
union since their schools began last
fail. The school boards all look with
favor upon the wide-awake, up-to-
date teacher who asks permission to
dismiss school on Thursday that he
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in the three grades to complete their
years's work in a manner the course
of study requires that it be compile
ted
s'ShalfI teach my home school2''
is again the much asked question.
No, not as rule. Not unless you
are head and shoulders above the
average person in the neighborhood
and boys and girls of eighteen
years of age seldom are. And
then you know about the preph-
ct who is not without honor save in
his own country.
The teachers and pupils are taking
a census of the birds inTrego county.
The listwhen completedwillb be placed
in the library for use of other bird
lovers. Prin. J. RI. Niesley, of the
county High school, found IS differ
ent species last summer in the court
house park alone. Send for a copy of
the Bird Book adsertised in all OF the
farm papers and spend your leisure
moments this spring in naming and
studying ali of our birds You will
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d @ l. i A II

But yesterday desert Law
Spread meath the hot suns scorching
raw,
To-day garden of the Lords
Filled with the best the earth affords
Oh happy land! A fruitful soil,
Guerdon of peace to those who toll,
Such are the fields of Kansas.
Ger boundless prairie far and wide
In every nook, on every side,
She has store of wealth uptold.
Behold it in her yellow gold
While poor, distressed, of other lands
Reach forth with supplicating hands
And they have heard in Kansas.
'Tis right that he should honored be
Who rises thru adversely;
Tho handicapped, who wins the race,
We ever hold in honored place.
No other boon is yet so great
This birthright of the sunf1ower state
To be child of Kansas.
Hudson Harlan, Feb. Il, 1915.
One evening, few days before the
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Teachers Column
By County Superintendent aud Teachers

THE BIRTHRIGHT OF KANSAS
What born in Kansasi Do / hear2
That land of plaques, desert drear;
Monsoons and drouths, state alas
Where schools are only second class?
And prohibition-what is more
OF woman's rights. and cranks galore
Such tales are told in Kansas
'Tis true with plaques we sometimes
cope,
Hot winds have blasted many hope;
But justly proud, the demon rum
into our home can seldom come.
The jail, the almshouse, but name
Reward of prohibition fame
Such are the laws of Kansas.
No fault we deem, whoever might
Concede as just the womans right;
And our schools rate low2 Why is it
then
When e'er the nation calls for men
To lead in peace, or strenuous life
No other field is yet so rife
And all eyes turn TO Kansas!
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origin

ORIGIN 6.
Seven weeks spent in the country
schools and the end is not yeti When
the visitor mnst cover 900 square
miles of Tertiary he finds himself
rather thinsin places.
We read in the.Gove county papers
that the county commiss toners there
have authorized Mr.sWiison the coun-
ty superint endent, to hold school ex-
aminations in as many places in the
county as necessary Our commits
sioners have likewise been liberal
This is commendabIe- The law re-
quires pupils in the last three grades
to write the examinations before
permitting them to be promoted If
the examination is not held within
reasonable distance the child cannot
be present and confusion, trouble
and waste of valuable school time is
the result for the next school year
for him and his teacher. All parents
and teachers should insist that
measures be taken to help children
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Crowded out Last week

Rev. Greene is out of town now.
He is helping his son, Rev. Carl Greene
in meeting at Covert the chores
which he always does is now left to
che other members of the family.
Last Tuesday after milking the COW
Mrs. Greene was extremely frightened
while standing talking TO one of her
neighbors. In one hand she held q
pail of milk and suddenly stopping in
he. conversation turned and saw the
cow coming toward her, but suddenly
the cow turned and jumped the fence
chen ran to the front yard then back
over the fence again. In few mo-
menrs the cow was quiet and Mrs.
Green came to the house pale and
trembling We are glad that no one
was hurt--Luray Herald.
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possibilities for the most desparing.

possibilities for the most desparing. !"
$50 to New York CITY, and see how,
when a man wants big building,
and has only a small plot of ground,
he makes the most of that ground by
running his building up in the sky.
Learn to do likewise. Then GO off to
Japan and see the little people doing
nobly their best to become great
ssThen on to Palestine and spend
months tracing the footsteps of the
greatest teacher that ever lived.
Then Egypt, where YOU will be re-
minded that in this very modern
world of ours there are still a few
passably ancient things
And if you cannot go to the above
mentioned places, go to the Golden
Belt next week and begin planning to
attend the spring and the summer
terms of school at the Fort Hays
Normal School. The hundreds of
young people of your own age will
arouse, inspire you and help you
get sane view of life where you will
realize the full value of life and the
'sjoy of living" everything.
The majority of the schools are pre-
pairing their ''Last Day. entertain
ments- The following list of selec-
tions compiled by T. Marion Craw-
rord may be helpful:
The Telegram, serious.
Selling the Baby, serious
What is a Hedgehog, comedy.
The Pumpkin Frost, comedy.
So Was L, comedy.
The Jersey Cow, comedy
The Society Boy, comedy
Ths Walnut Story, comedy.
Watermniiops, comedy.
Her Preference, comedy
Billy Grimes, the Driver, comedy.
A Boy in a Museum. comedy.
The Dead Polly, serious.
The Farmer and the Methodist
Preacher, comedy.
| price of any one number Is cents J
How We Hunted a Mouse, comedy.
| The Whisling Regiment, descrip-
| tive.
The First Settlers Story, dramatic.
| Who's Afraid, comedy.
| Buying Feller, comedy.
! {Any one number. 25 cents.)
| Write Mr.. Crawford, $50 South
/ Ninth Street, Salina, for his complete
/ list of choice selections for contests
and entertainments. Every teacher
should have list in his possession
When writing inclose self addressed
stamped envelope. The list is fur,
nished free.
Next week all reports for the past
month will be published.
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GOLDEN BELT EDUCATIONAL. Assn
CATION AT HAYS. MARCH 1918


Nineteenth Annual Session
FRIDAY MORNING
FORT HAYS NORMAL AUDITORIUM
30-Music-Orch
e:S5-Invocation-Re R. S. Hale
9:40-President's Address F. H
Bailey
$50 = Address Boys and Girls
Club Work of America'-E. C. Bis
hop, President of Club Work of A.
merica.
-Lecture-sPrince of Egypt'r
DIR. VIM. H. Black
FRIDAY P. M.
I:o0-Orchestra contests of differ
ent High Schools:
Spelling contests
Reading contests.
Grades
High School
Music-Vocal
Grades
High School
High School
Basket Ball Tournament-G. B. E.
A. District
FRIDAY EVENING
Oratorio-The Creation-Fort Hays
Normal School.
SATURDAY MORNING
900 Music = Orchestras visiting
High school.
Address = ssThe Future Rural
School, e. H. Embersoa, State
University Missouri.
Address-sFh Lesson of the Voca-
tiona1 Education Movement for the
American Teacher''-F. M. Leavitt,
University Chicago.
Address -sWh the Great War
Means Chancellor Strong, Uniyer-
sity Kansas.
SATURDAY AFTERNOON
Round Tables.
SATURDAY EVENING
7:30-Business Meeting.
8:30-Opera-sThe Chimes of Nor
mandy''-Fort Hays Normal School,
This is an abbreviated program OF
the Golden Belt meeting. A special
invitation is extended to visitors.
CARRIE A. STRADAL,
County Superintendent
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CENSUS YEAR


This is the census year in Kansas
Every tenth year (those ending with
81 is fixed by state law for the taking
of the decenial census, and gives to
the state board of agriculture author
ity to collect the population and
other statistics in such detail as may
be determined by that Board
Uncle Sam counts noses and gath
ers data for his census every tenth
year, (years ending with a cipher.)
By this arrangement Kansas is given
an actual count every five years.
The last government census was had
in 1910. Kansas had its last census
in 1865. The annual enumeration of
Inhabitants by the deputy assessors
should not be counfounded with the
census. The enumeration requires
the listing of only heads of families,
with the number opposite the name
of the persons in that family.
Briefly, here is what the census
taker in every county in Kansas must
record, as of March 1, 1915
Ownership of home, whether own
ed or rented, free or mortgaged, farm
or house.
Dwelling house must be numbered
in order of visitation, also the fami-
lies.
The name of every person in tie
family whose place of abode was here
March |.
Age at last birthday; if under one
year, months old.
Sex and color.
Place of birth, naming state or
country.
Where from TO Kansas, giving state
or country.
Profession, occupation or trade of
each person, 10 years old or over.
Number of months employed.
Trades or profession being learned
by apprentices or students
Whether attended school during
past year.
Persons unable to read or write, 10
to Is years, Is to 81 and 81 years old
and over
Libraries and number. of volumes,
if 20 or more exclusive of school
books.
Military records of all honorably
discharged volunteer soldiers, COM
pany and regiment, arm of service,
where enlisted and if a prisoner of
war, the name of the prison.
Live stock statistics; value of poul-
try and-eggs sold, value of animals
fattened and sold for slaughter; num-
Der of horses, mules, cows and other
cattle, sheep, swine, March l and the
number of each class that have died
of desease during the year ending
March l.
Number.of dogs.
Names of creamery companies and
pounds of butter made.
Names of milk condensing concerns
and pounds Of milk condensed.
Names of cheese factories and
pounds of cheese made.
School houses, their number, value,
and the salaries paid male and female
teachers.
Public Libraries, with the number
of volumes in each.
Private Libraries, with number of
volumes (this applies to clubs, schools
colleges, etc.
Church organizations, with name
and value of each church property,
number of edifices and number OF
members.
Deaf, blind, idiotic and insane
persons, with their sex, age, color,
disability, and if attended school;
also, the name and address of parent
or guardian
c. H. BENSON
County Clerk
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We have had but one clear day i'm
the last two weeks The precipita-
ton has been almost two inches.
most of it coming in the form OF
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Weather Report

Maximum and minimum tempera-
ture according to the governments
thermometer at Wa-Keeney for the
week ending Wednesday noon.
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r. T. Bean will be here March Sth
and 9Th, for two days only. Adv. 81.
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from home and school She Stinted her
self that she might give to him, and not
till his debts were beyond her ability
to pay did she permit a knowledge of
them to reach her husband.
Robert had been furious. THE fault
is your own. he told her. You have
spoiled the boy. Against my Judgment
and wishes you have persevered in
No, Robert" she had protested,
mother love never yet ruined a child 1t
never will. Leave my son to me-
But that evening there had been a
scene. Robert had laid bare his sons
every fault, every weakness, ending
with scathing rebuke and a demand
that henceforth he live in accordance
with new order of things. And Bob.
with thinned lips and cleaning eyes.
had left the house without a word.
while she, with aching ht.1rt, shuddered
at the look on the faces of father and
son and remained silent.
That was the end. She never saw him
again. After a sleepless night she
learned that he had been seen boarding
a westbound train. He was without
money, she knew, and no reasoning
could comfort her. Vainly she told her
self that after while he would come
home. In her heart she knew he would
not.
Her husbands assurance that what
velop more quickly and surely among
strangers did not appeal to her. Hers
must be the guiding hand.
He went as a tramp" was her con-
slant moan. and soon she became OBJ
sesSed with the idea. She thought of
him as a tramp, she dreamed of him as
a tramp, she scrutinized the faces of
all the tramps who came to her door
and sent them on their way comforted
for his sake.
When the years had piled up-eight,
ten, twelve-and she had not hea I'd
from him she gave up hoping. Then
Robert died. and she was, indeed, alone
Unable to endure the loneliness while
surrounded by familiar scenes and
after while, with the longing for the
old home strongly upon her, bought
the cottage with its plot of ground.
Gradually the old life asserted itself,
and presently coy hooks spoke to her
of Robert and Bob. Then, by a sudden
resolution, the garden became a replica
OF that other, where memory still lived.
with magazine in her hand 1t was
this day twenty years ago that had
brought such grief into her life, and
her wounded heart bled afresh IN
vain she tried to read. Article after
article prove meaningless, but the
portraits apl saled to her. Leaders
of the New Congress- closely held her
attention.
None Of them is handsome, as I
thought my son would be when a
man." she unused, tn, ning the leaves
But the position they occupied brought
the thought of the study and energy
required to reach a place like theirs,
and she fell to dreaming how her son,
now a man. would look. Would his
face have the low, ignorant. vicious
expression of many of the tramps she
had seen?
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THE EVENING STORY.
VOICE OF THE GARDEN.
Copyright. 1915, by W. Werner.)

Passersby often gazed admiringly at
the little plot of ground, laid out with
geometrical precision and cared for so
painstakingly. Flowers, mostly old
fashioned varieties, everywhere berib-
boned the walks and formed gay car
pets in triangles and squares and stars.
Inside the white paling, and quite over
topping it. was hedge of rare pink
roses, but the gardens crown of glory
was the little cottage in its center,
mistily pretty back of it's screen of
vines.
The old lady who lived there was as
noticeable as her garden. Her blue eyes
held the look that only a great sorrow
can give. Sometimes she sewed for
hours seated upon her small porch.
Again, she worked among the flowers.
her snow-white hair making strange
contra st to their brilliancy. There al
ways was an attitude of expectancy;
sometimes her lips moved, and the re-
frain was invariably the same; will
he ever Gomez?
Often, too. her thoughts were of the
time when she and Robert. her husband,
had been part in the great scheme or
things. Life then had not resolved IT
self into just waiting. All day Rob-
ert had worked in his office, and she
kept the cottage and cared for Bob
their only child. so happy and so CRATE
full for her blessing that no day ever
seemed long.
Then a change came. Slight at first
a mere hint-that confinement was in
juring her health: that she was giving
too much time to the child. l.. ter there
was open criticism and recri'llnatlon
Little Bob was selfish, disobedient and
willful, and she. his mother. could see
no fault. His father presently. in her
mind. came to be unnatural and
strangely shorts GIFTED.
1t was not till Bob was sixteen that
she began to really worry. Even then
she stood between him and his father
concealing all she could, feebly protest
ing against his idleness, his absolute
companions and his frequent absences
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gate latch clicked, and, glancing up,
she saw doctor coming In. She had
seen him pass several times lately. go
ing to nearby house. where there was
/: sick child.
; Il noticed your garden and came in
4, for a better view. l hope you will
pardon the intrusion"
nm Many very Of the Blooms she are f0d
their best. The hot sun brings out
their beauty. If you like l will pick
lsome for you"
Thank you. You are very kind. 1t
The rose hedge, the shape and ar
rangement of the beds and the flow
ers themselves. You have beautiful
and an artistic. home"
Not a home. Home is where there
is love and companionship. l have
neither"
You live alone?"
Except for my flowers. My hus-
band is dead and my son. whom I, in
my ignorance, ruined, left home, d
tramp. I-think of him always. Some
times he is in city slums, again in
railroad camps, or in prison. My son,
whom l would have died to save! If
could only know, But he has never
written or sent me word
She turned, her hands full of flow
ers, but they fell to the ground.
The doctor, with barred head and
folded arms, was intently looking at
Later. when they could talk, he told
her that for long time he had been
sullen and angry: then, afterward,
ashamed. That when he had decided
on genuine reformation he dared not
face his parents without the proof
of 1t.
oh. 1t was hard. little mother" he
half laughed. ito forget that the world
was not made for my especial pleas
ure. and long years of work in college
went before l could hold in my hands
the proof that l was determined to
take to you. Then it was too late
Father was gone, and no one could
tell me of your whereabouts. I
searched for you, and finally gave you
up as dead and settled here to prac-
tice medicine, and if it had not been
for this accidental call l should have
gone away and we might never have
met.
Nesting in the arms of her tall.
handsome son, she murmured: "It was
not an accident, dear. The garden
called you; it spoke to you of home
and mother
(THE ENDD
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over with Johnny Chuck" explained
Peter, as politely as he knew how.
I'll go along with YOU said Mr..
Garter Snake, and glided ahead of Peter
along the Lone Little Path.
Peter would rather have gone alone.
but there was no help for 1t now. So
he followed along. hpperty-lipperty-li lip,
and pretty soon they reached Johnny
his doorstep just as usual. He didn't
see little Mr.. Garter Snake at first. but
he saw Peter right away.
Hello. Peter! What have you got on
your mind this fine morning?" said he.
Him." said Peter, briefly, pointing to
little Mr.. Garter Snake.
Bless my heart, what has he done to
make you look SO serious?" demanded
Johnny Chuck, looking from Peter to
little Mr.. Garter Snake and from little
Mr.. Garter Snake back to Peter.
He has asked to join our band" re-
piled Peter gravely.
Johnny Chuck. why. the very idea.
He can't be Quaddy because he isn't
quadruped
Neither is Sammy Jay, nor Tommy
Woodpecker. nor Welcome Robin, nor
any of the other birds whom you have
taken in declared little Mr.. Garter
Snake.
Peter looked at Johnny and Johnny
looked at Peter and for a minute or two
neither could think Of a thing to say.
Then Peter carefully explained that
while the birds had only two legs each
they also had two wings which took the
place Of legs.
And you haven't any legs at allr he
what of it~ demanded little Mr..
Garter Snake. Il can run. can't I? And
I can climb up bushes. which is more
than you can do. either of you. And /
can swim. I'm just as much one Of Old
Mother Natures little people as you
are. SO why shouldn't become a mem
ber"
1t was all true. There was no deny
ing that little Mr.. Garter Snake spoke
the truth. He could do all the things
he had said he could, and yet he hadn't
any legs. Peter and Johnny were at a
loss to know what to say. Then Peter
remembered something.
ANY one to be member has to have
some good in him; he cannot be all
bad" said Peter.
Little Mr.. Garter Snake was indignant
right away Who says there is no
good in me? Who says am all bad?
For that matter who says 1 am bad at
alp" he demanded.
Peter Rabbit and Johnny Chuck had
to admit that they didn't know They
really didn't know very much about
little Mr.. Garter Snake.
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A Souvenir Of Solferino,

From inc WStminstef o11ette.
The recent Solferino anniversary re-
called not only the occasion of a great
victory by Italians over Austrians, but
also the birth of the Red Cross. ''Un
Souvenir de Solferino" was tho title of
the work that stirred the conscience of
Europe. 1t was written by a young
Swiss, Henri Dunant. who had been
among the nurses at the front and seen
the sufferings Of the wounded. That
Souvenir" brought an invitation to Du-
nant from the Geneva Society of Public
Utility to propose an international
scheme of trained nurses-inviolable-
under guarantee by all nations. It was
that pamphlet which brought the sign ng
of the Geneva convention in 1864, With
the Red Cross on white ground. In COM
plimenI to Henri Dunant's country.
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Is It Possible :
ON the Youkers statesman.

From the YOnKefe Stdte8m20.
Flatbush-I see the candy bill Of the
American girl 10 3134.00o.00o. $4,000
900 more than the cost Of the nations
paint and varnish
Bensonhurst-Can 1t be possible that
our girls use that much more candy
than paintf,
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II see where I failed" she moaned
aloud. Somehow I could not under
stand that work and study were nee
essary. In my Ignorance I ruined my
hoy"
fuchsia, heavy with its purple
bloom, slipped from its prop and fell.
She got up to raise It. Suddenly hss
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Little Sorle,
10 Bedtime
By THORNTON w. BURGESS.
Copyright, 1915. BY J. G. Lloyd)
Peter Rabbit and Johnny
Chuck Consider.

Peter Rabbit was so astonished when
little Mr.. Garter Snake asked to be ad-
mitted to the Quaddy band that he just
couldn't think straight. He didn't want
to offend or disappoint little Mr.. Garter
Snake and yet for the life of him he
couldn't see how it was possible for
him to be a member. Finally he had a
happy thought. He would talk it over
with Johnny Chuck.
This is something I cannot decide
alone, so if you will excuse me 1 will
run over to the Old Orchard and talk it