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of whooping" he sternly replica
and nothing has happened. When
| want your valuable services I'll cali
to you. The exclamation you heard
probably came came from some one in a
He hammered away for about ten
minutes when she looked In on him
again. He had three sides Of the car
Just as she reached the head Of the
stairs he rolled backward out of the
bedroom door with a suppressed yell
and a quiet crash.
=, What IA S on cart. tn are you trying to
up here again" he shouted in reply.
Didn't tell you to go down stairs
and stay there! Does It take 10000. 900
people lie to to put down one COMPOUNDED
But can't I helpr
mo, you can't help! I'll put the
Thu o down ,a alone Or pull the side of
It. They cut it foot too short on this
side and foot too long on the other.
Lemme catch 'em round the house
and I'LL"
'Oh. dear"
Whats the matter now?"
It's got to be tArned around. You
are :.N trying at to It it the wrong way"
why. Of course you are: rs e.-
a act 20 fit fit the other way; told you
Mrs. Bowser," he began as he
crossed his hands behind his back and
gazed at her with a benign expression.
do run the house or do you!"
We'll, I suppose you do
Very we'll. When man was created
the idea was that he should run the
house. That's how he came to know
SO much more than woman. If I am
not competent, however-if you have
put down fifteen or twenty million
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the swish of a wing It is a y pntur,se
above him. They are the advance
e sgard OF fnom every he eompass point
Grim messengers! Fateful warning!
! They never come unless the breeze
has brought them the scent OF death;
death is inevitable. he girds up his
loins to die as becomes q man.. The
chill which has circulated through his
hard and trnl-his nerves cease to
thfob and twitch. and become like the
strings of a harp in tune. The wings
Of this man as he peers about him to
Come een first, but he IS not afraid. He
must die but he T IaeR not 70 ai Ss"av
rifles are at work. Red-hot bullets
burn the dry grass. on the crest
strike the horse which gave up, its
from the man who is dying game. An
Indian rolls over to culver and
stretch and die; second screams out
ARA Erpp,es muscle soa Su
let finds his brain.
have departed toward the sunset
and they have buried two bodies in
the dry ravine over there. but they
will return to their lodges with the
in their dances they will boast loud
and long of their achievement. There
are blood spots on the grass. but the
wolves will lick them clean and gnaw
away roots and earth before sunrise
again. On the crest Of the hill Is .
tilated-dismem- |
II will only be . skeleton |
when the sun goes dow I. The vul- |
lures are already there. and when the
rains come again the grass viii spring |
up and mercifully hfSe the last relic |
Of the tragedy.
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ARIZONA KICKLETS
The Editor of the Kicker Is Refrospecfiue.

"Retrospective-Th first night We
entered this town we slept under q
wagon on Apache avenue. We felt
tough, we looked tough, and we had
just Is cents cash capital. We'd walk
ed twenty-eight miles that day to get
somewhere, and after getting there
the prospects didn't seem to improve
termination to come out on top OF
the crowd IL we lost both legs in the
hustle. That determination carried
us through.
Kicker" We took our motto, Eek dono
fuma shipper vivat," which used TO
mean in our neighborhood in New
or favor, even il you never get an Of
flee or own a dog" We have stuck to
that motto. and while it has made us
some enemies it has also made us a
land. In pursuance Of our policy we
now wish to say a word about THE
Great Arizona Home Provider Com
pany" vi. which is adEert Using extensive
city" at $50 each. The city" is repre- pre-.
scented as a hustling young town-
alter. three thousand people and bound
to be the Chicago of the West. We
rode out to the site the other day.
" men we returned lEe company Ouer-
ed US S25 to keep still. We denounce
1t as fraud from top to bottom and
warn the people against investing.
pointer for the boys-There are
three or four tough men in this town
way back toughs. with carloads or
sand in their systems-but there arc
four hundred would-be toughs who
are not bit tough and never can be.
1t isn't in them and they aren't in
it. They go around splitting over their
shoulders and bluffing the Cinnamon
and half-breeds. but they take good
care not to run up against the man
whose father owned the spring which
was the fountain head of Fighting
Creek In a fatherly way we want to
say to these boys: Don't It's a waste
Of time and raw material. The goods
are cotton-miXed, and the dye won't
stand. Come off the perch and drop
your claims and let everybody size
you up for what you really area
lot of old deadbeats who ought 20 be
driven 10 the sand-hills."
In this connection we wish to
briefly refer TO the little affair of
sunday. which our contemporary will
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ways leaning a little forward, and
S that ,d keeps h:S weight on the ball Of
Of sRoe Or By u:
Nine times out of ten. Finger prints
are simply finger prints. They reveal
acter. They say that man can be
read by the bumps on his head. but
don't you believe 1t. Study the feet.
The old man opened q drawer and
said as he held one up:
90 Is you sns and 'n peeu IT .5 %n'ssE
The back Of the heel is worn down,
instead Of either side. was answered
aftE a brief inspection.
only man whose shoes nave that pe-
culiarity He never stands quite still
He teeters on heels and toes. Here
to .a long sbo slim shoe What have you
"A gentleman's shoe evidently"
AND that gentleman was furtive
and sly, He did a good deal OF walk
you read the character Of the wear
Tt somehow has a bull-doggish
"oh. you see it. do you. Well. that
shoe was worn by a prize fighter And
SO 1t goes. and SO it goes. Here is a
your"
II should say that she was slip,
And you'd be wrong about it. IT'S
vanity that ails her. and that ails
nine-tenths of the sex. This woman
ought to wear half a size larger and
she knows it. but vanity prevents.
She thrusts her feet into shoes that
cramp-that give her corns-that re-
suit in Improving toe nails. Tho
wearer Of this shoe nmped and hob
bled and suffered. She was worse off
than a man with a boil on his neck
Her feet panied her until she cufred
her children and called her hus-
band names. And when she replaces
these half-worn shoes with a new
pair she made an idiot OF herself right
over"
And they do it for vanity" was
asked
What else? They want their feet to
look small. and not one female In a
hundred will buy the shoe she ought
to wear until she is past fifty. 1t In
then too late.
How too later"
Her feet have been crippled. and
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CASEY, THE COP.
Talks with zone of the Finest. -

Casey. the cop. has a fine growth O
red hair.
He is bowlegged from bracing his fee
against lamp-post.
He is lop-shouldered from swinging {
club to and fro.
He is squint-eyed from looking for the
roundsman.
He is slow of speech. because he /:
thinking whether it would be best to lie
AS usual. or tell the truth for once in
the last year.
Casey has been reported for derelction
of duty about 800 times.
He has been reprimanded the same
number of times
One payday ten years ago he had sew
enteen cents coming to him. but refused
to take 1t, on the ground that he had
been asleep on two occasions that month
when the roundsman had failed to dis
cover and report him.
He handed the money hack like con-
scientious man. and then went out and
grated a builder for SIS.
/ got to wondering the other day how
Of the finest. and hunted him up on
his beat to ask him to explain.
He was just emerging from the side
door of a saloon. and no baby ever
Il thought was in for turn Of chol-
era rnorbus.''
And SO you took a drink
of water, sir-yes sir.
Casey, l said, as we walked along
together. have you any excuse for being
on the force?'
"a triding one. sir-just a trifiing one,
and when have stated 1t am sure that
you Will agree that j was not to blame
Just minute. sir. There comes a sus-
picious-looking person. ! want him to
see that 1 am on the kee-vee and ready
to block any little game he starts"
You must be able to spot q criminal
a block or" said
Two blocks OF, sir in case Of a muir
derer. II It's an alderman with Doodle in
lster to escape this eagle eye while he
ls yet mile away"
But about your getting on the foroe.'
Yes, SIR. / was In the contracting
business twenty years ago"
Contracting debts?"
Mostly, sr-mostly. One day when
WAS riding on q street car a COD who
was on duty says to me:
I have. SIR
Let me see IT,
Z put II In his hand. and he put It In
Give 1t back"
Not today
vent down 70 the commissioner
about II. I was going to ask him II he
force. and to demand that / Be given
back the watch with an apology. but as
I stepped into the room whore the conn
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/ to pay for this" she heard him growl
as she listened at the door.
He whirled the carpet around the
right way, upset his saucer OF. tacks
and hunched the lining all up in q
heap. and as he moved about he sud
denly uttered another whoop and hob
was the last straw and she Ned. On
the way down stairs she heard the
window go UP and the next moment
something scraped along side of the
house and fell with a kerwhop" on
the iron fence. 1t wasn't Mr.. Bowser
as big as onions and his face as RED
as paint, and as soon as he could get
his breath he shouted:
You're old carpet is down Mrs
Didn't I tell you before you began
mo! You wanted it down"
Didn't 1 say you'd get mad and
Never. Mrs. Bowser this is tho last
time I ever lift my hand to do any
thing around this house, I've rubbed
skinned both elbows and driven thir-
teen thousand tacks into my feet, be-
sides getting crick in my back
which will lay me up the rest Of my
., But ! told you in the very be-
That you wanted the carpet down.
II is down! I am down. That ends IT,!
I'll nail the old room up with side
walk spikes. and II you even ask me
in the future to sharpen a lead PEN
Gil I won't be responsible for my ac-
And as he limped upstairs and threw
himself on the bed with a jar which
shook the house and stopped the
kitchen clock she heard him groan:
And this comes from having a wife
who doesn't know anything about
managing a house"
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nfernalest internal machine Of the whole

infernalest internal machine Of the Who'll,
| breed!'
And it had dropped from the commits
sioner's coattail pocket as he sat there?''
planning a raid in the Tenderloin ovel
the captains head to hurt his feeling.
| and reduce his income, an anarchist had
softly sneaked in and left the machine
But it was set to go of six month,
later?'
! did" ' " ''''' ~ wv
L seized 1t, sir. and threw It out OF
the window. sir. and 1t blew the frag-
ments OF seven men across the street
asked as Casey hesitated.
The commissioner had me by the
| throat and revolver to my ear. and the
room was filing with excited mon. ]
They gave me a rough time OF It until i
got chance to explain. When they at
last learned the truth you ought to have
been there to hear what they said!"
Called you hero?''
Forty times over. sir. and the COM
missioner's eyes filled with tears as he
gave me his hand and said:
Casey Casey, whatever you ask for shall
81 want my dollar watch back
over the backr
":I want that guy punished
He shall be bounced this very min
And I want a contract
- win take you on the force FOR life!
uniform and q ton or two of coal
You were a modest man about that
time, Mr.. Casey" said.
And I've never been able to get nd OF
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" A ME- -

! 1t is high noon Of a summers day
| Plains stretch out so wide and long
that the eye Of an eagle could not fly
specs in a line; They have been in
larger and larger as the minutes pass.
that they moved at all. They might
have been ten great rocks which ma
ture had curiously placed in line Then
one might have wondered II they were
In the air as they hunted for carcass
buffaioes? Are they wild horses7
nine mounted Indians hanging to the
| trail Of a mounted white man as the
great grey wolf Of Colorado and Nom
tans hangs to the trail Of a.; = deer sss
in the grass to run for its life.
gan at daylight. more than nifty miles
devil: snd ass d ssSS 81 from so
man with fierce shouts and yells. They
thought to finish him then and there.
on the back Of his faithful steed II
he sped awayNto the East all Joined
PASSED away one BY no one dropped or
until only the nine were left They
have not sought to take him with sud
Qen rush, out rather 10 n4n8 upon MS
tanks and menace ana worry him and
drive him to desperation: He has
heard the thud! thud! Of their ponies'
hoofs behind him; he has felt hfs flesh
creep a. he thought Of capture and
torture; he has Grown pale and lost
heart and uttered silent prayers to
God al he realised that the speed and
endurance Of his horse was falling.
And they have not fired . shot nor
uttered shout ~ they galloped be-
hind him. 1t has been q shadow Of
death creeping on benfn0 and driving
him on and on to his doom. There
has been 2 grimness. . pertinacity-
such . devilish hanging on from ridge
to ridge. and from valley to valley,
that he has looked hack at intervals
and wondered II they were nor Nwild
beasts.
Here z the and! His horse stasser.|
A. he tolls up the long slope TO gain
this crest He has done his best and
horse and rider know II. Had there
been . camp Of ooldiers-had the
migrants been In s1ght-tho Worn-out
steed would have made final einofx
and dropped to the earth, with blood
pouring from his mouth. hut there
e. .rsn re sslSS s 20 heet2ss So i@ai.
9yone. UpI upi uDg Tea can hear tho
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-04-04
He Got His Dollar.

A strapping young man sat in the Erie
depot. across the Hudson the other day
scythe-stones In a bundle in his risht
hand, and a cuckoo clock in a box in his
left. As he was looking around the watt
ing room he gave start. Then he start
walked over to a fiashily dressed man
about thirty-fve years old, whom any
one would have spotted as fakir. and
asked:
Don't you travel around with tooth
NO. sir" was the sharp reply.
IVA i, you up in Elizabeth last fan"
Yes. you was. and I'll bet On #. You
a, the same burned Teller and 1 know
''sir. what does this meanr' demanded
the other.
ut means that I was In Elizabeth last
fall and bought box Of your tooth
powder. You changed s bill. and durn
my hide IL you didn't hornswagzle me
out ,!s, OF (. dollar"
.'No use. old Teller! knowed ye the
mint I got eyes on ye. Same big dia-
mond pin-same red necktie-same nose.
bumped up In the middle like circus
This is outrageous, I'll call q police
mani! shouted the fakir.
'Cail and be darned to ye, but TN lick
ye first! You either come up with that
lerv'
Look here!" replied the other In much
milder tones. ''you are mistaken. It was
my cousin who was in Elizabeth. He II
dead now"
Then I'll take II out Of you."
He Is dead. as remarked. and rather
than have any blot resting on his fair
viii pay you that dollar
That's all right. don't know anything
about 'scutcheons, but I've got to have
that dollar or pull hair! I've bin lookin'
for your humpbacked nose all over tho
face Of the earth. and I've laid awake
nights thinkin' how I'd make you boiler
ike an Iujun II ever got my paws on
rel"
He was given dollar. and the fakir
disappeared at once, and the young man
explained to those about him:
I'm almost sorry he gave up % soon.
was just achin' clean down to my toe
10 lick him al over . forty-aers lot!s
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missioner sat at his desk. back to me
something happened"
His secretary rose up and kicked you
did he?''
kicked me! Kicked Casey the Cop-
he shouted. IF he or any man had OF
done that I should have dabbled my
hands in his gore, sir-I should have
dabbled and dabbled and dabbled."
We'll something happened What
was it,"
My fine Italian ear detected the tick
ing of a clock
THAT was tremendous thing. Ca
sey,''
lit was. sir. I looked at the walls.
No clock. 1 looked at the ceiling. No
clock
And then you looked into the waste
basket?'
Il did not. looked under the COM
missioner's chair"
And then. Casey-and them"
And then. sir, every red hair on my
red head stood up. and my heart Jumped
clear to my chin. For a moment my
head swan as IL 1 had been sleeping on
post and woke up to find the roundsman
going through my pockets"
You saw a bottle of-of ginger ale !"
did /. sir? Does a bottle Of ginger ale
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him. He jumped UP and grabbed his
coattails. and willing hands helped him
to rub ont the fire in the cloth, which
come from pipe or cigar.
Didn't 1 tell ye!' said the long-bodied
man as he looked around the car. IT
can smell burnin' rags half a mile or"
The victim was working for the rear
door. and two young ladies were "tttter-
fire smeller hit him again with:
''Smells like a piece of old boss blanket.
and it's q wonder you sat right there
and never discovered anything. Phew!
what an odor! Wuss than hogs bristles
burnin' on the kitchen stove. Young
man. you-
But the young man wasn't there.
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horse breathe as an OK does after re-
ceiving blow from the butchers ak.
You can see his nostrils blowing out
foam, mingled with blood. The rider
is actually holding him up as he
passes over the last few rods to gain
the crest and sink down in a heap as
And now the fiends who have fol-
lowed cheer and cheer again. The
quarry has been run down at last.
and they Will wet their fingers in his
blood. As the hunter crouches down
behind the body of his horse and
strikes his breast in anger to quiet his
jumping heart, which has never been
SO womanish before in face Of danger,
the end begins. The Indians, dismouns
from their ponies which could not have
covered another mile. and circle about
the knoll until the investment Is COM
plete. Hardy as they are the long ride
has told on them. and they must walt
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rip! rip! rip! as he pulled up IN.
work. 1t was a quarter of an hour be-
fore she dared enter again. and then
it was in response to a yell which
the dog howl mournfuliy.
''W-what is it?" she gasped as she
rushed in to find Mr.. Bowser standing
on one leg against>the wall.
what Is WHAT"
why. you whooped like an Indian.
Your face is as red as nre and soms-
things happened!
Mrs. Bowser, I'm not in the habit
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carpets and I never saw one in my
life, why, you'd better finish this Job
and ask the court to appoint a guar
dian over me-"
Hadn't you better wait till morning
to finish it?"
Not by a jugful. I'll put 1t down
IL ii kills me stone dead!
He banged the door after her az she
went out and then he grabbed hold Of
the carpet and ripped II up. and 1t
seemed as II the house lifted a foot
or more.
Darn We! I'll wallop ye to rags
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she is in the hands of the chiropodist
for keeps"
But aren't there some men Just as
sillyi'
"A few. yes. but mostly Young men,
hobbling about for a year or so. You
talk about the study of human nature
in this place or that. but you shouId
begin to study It through the feet, in
stead of the face. The face is made
to deceive, but the feet tell true
story"
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contented himself with rising up and
pointing sternly toward the door: She
went out but listened and heard the
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-11-03
GENIUS OF WlLTHAll
SHOWN IN NEW PLAY

1.-THE Circular Path grips the in
terest Of all with its action and in
tense emotionalism THE Circular
Path. In three acts. By H. s..
Sheldon. Cast of characters: Rev.
Darwin Kirby. Henry B. Wa;thail;
Evelyn Ross. Warda Howard; Hem
ry Lorrimer, Edmund F. Cobb;
Mrs. Ross, Camille Darcy.
..The Circular Path is an in
tenseiy emotional photodrama in
three acts II is exceptionally we'll
adapted for the genius Of Henry B..
Walthall. who takes the leading
part. Warda Howard, who plays
opposite Mr. Waithall, Is strong in
emotional roles. and the two work
ing together make photoplay of
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sleeplessness, bladder disorders
come from sluggish kidneys.
disorders

come from sluggish kidneys.
The moment you feel a dull ache
in the kidneys or your back hurts,
or If the urine is cloudy, offensive,
full OF sediment, irregular of pas
sage or attended by a sensation OF
scalding, get about four ounces OF
Jad Salts from any reliable phar-
macy and take tablespoonful in q
glass of water before breakfast for
a few days and your kidneys Will
then act fine. This famous salts is
made from the acid of grapes and
lemon juice, combined with lithia
and has been used for generations
to flush clogged kidneys and slim
ulate them TO activity, also to neu-
tralize the acids in urine so il no
longer causes irritation, thus end
ing bladder disorders.
Jad Salts is inexpensive and can
not injure; makes delightful Ell
fervescent Whitewater drink which
all regular meat eaters should take
now aud then to keep the kidneys
clean and the blood pure, thereby
avoiding serious kidney compiica-
tions. Curlin's Two Drug Stores.
adv
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-11-03
TEACHING FARMERS
HOW TO Test CORN
FRANK CLARKE DOING SPECIif.
Personal WORK AMONG
THEM.
Travelling Through Central Texas ii,
Car Equipped for Practical
Demonstrations.

Teaching Texas farmers. not BY
demonstration alone. but BIZ personal
work. how 10 test corn for planting
is the mission being filled b. Frank
Clarke OF Fort Worth Nj. Clarke,
as the representative Of Texas bank
ers, is travelling through Central
Texas In a car equipped with q seed
sprousing plant giving demonstfa-
tons Of seed testing and sprouting.
He was in Dallas yesterday morning
en- route to Garland Yesterday he
held meeting at Garland and there
taught fifty or more Dallas county
farmers how 70 select their seed corn
and how to test it for growing
For several years Mir Clarke sas
attached TO the agricultural depart
ment Of the United States For two
years he vas located IN Fort Worth
and there organized the first boys
corn and plg clubs in Texas He
has made sturdy or corn produs-
ton III Texas and il is his claim the
Texas corn crop can be more than
doubled The campaign he Is CON
Quoting ID purely educational and Il
given 10 the farmers without CO.'S
A lew mouths ago about loo pro-
gressige bankers OF Central Texas
Joined together 10 bring about q
greater diyersification Of crops. The
fact was presented 10 them that The
Texas farmers are sending their col
ton money 10 Nebraska and other
middle northern states each year for
! corn and they took upon Themselves
plan Of education whereby Il y
hoped to Interest the Texas farme'
in corn production Joe iiiFxch d
Corpus Christi president Of the Tex
as Bankers association - one "
The prime mowers iD the campaign
HEADED b. SIR Clarke
le ALI aiso meet the farmers "a
Waxahaehie. Bones cr0te i;onhaIa
WhiteeriEhi. Hose. Lancaster Pal
mef EuniA fofsicana. Nesls iiaacs
Hllisbnr0. West. Waco. Mart kcsst
ffgan. NasAsofa. faiavell hfenla a
aud hellslile ~ hss leetufsd and
deAonsfsale1 80 ihlifs-t~V i0eua