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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-06-26

~AY! have you ever noticed that the
bug called Vanity can cook up
more trouble for human beings
than any germ that ever built its nest
in a brain cell?
It's subtle little disease, this fever
we call Vanity. No man ever knows
he has it but he can always recognize
the symptoms in his neighbor.
Sometimes it breaks out in diamond
rings on the fingers; sometimes it
takes the form of ragtime clothing ac-
companied by rainbow neckties, and
sometimes it drives man into politics
who should remain at his post as the
chauffeur of a garbage wagon
And then again there are occasions
when it never shows in a man until
after he is dead and his will reads,
81 give and bequeath the sum of thirty
thousand dollars for the purposes of
scattering my ashes from the highest
peak of the Himalaya mountains"
Hep Hardy has it for keeps. Around
at the club the other night 1 saw him
drink seven Scotch highballs because
somebody swelled him all up by telling
him he never showed the effects of
liquor.
Then he had to lean against the
buildings all the way home.
Even friend wife isn't proof against
the Vanity microbe.
Not long ago some fresh friend told
her that she was getting stout and
Peaches promptly fell for every obes-
ity cure known to modern science.
During her calmer moments Peaches
has the general appearance of a fetch
erizing canary bird, but when some
amiable idiot told her that day by day
she was growing to look more and
more like a public building she ut
tered a few shrill screams and started
after that obesity proposition with a
tomahawk.
1 tried to flag her and talk her out
of it, but she waved me back and said
she wasn't going through this world
chaperoning a double chin.
So Peaches started in to put the
sabots to the fatty tissues, and for a
week our erstwhile peaceful home be
came two reels in the Movies entitled
"a Rough Night at Sea-
When 1 reached home on the eve
of the Battle of Embonpoint 1 found
Peaches strolling around the campus
made up to look like lady scarecrow
Her face was concealed behind a mus
lin mask, there was a feverish glitter
in her eyes and in both hands she
clutched a book which proclaimed
itself THE Road to Beauty; or, How
to Get Thin Without Calling in the
Coroner"
AS 1 breezed through the turnstil,
with a CHEEKY Good eventide, Las
sie!" she turned her acetylene lamps
on me and burned me to a standstill
Then she threw both herself and tn,
book on our nearly-Persian rug ant
began to roll around the room. Seek
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-06-26
The DEVILS Own.

TIE Inns of Court Officers Training
corps is proud of it's traditional name,
the Devils Own, a title which links
it with the patriots of the four inns.
time of the Napoleonic wars 1t was
George III who bestowed the title on
the corps He was reviewing bands OF
volunteers and. as one particularly
smart body of men passed before
him. asked who they were Law
yers." was the reply. 1.-The Devils
Own. the Devils Own" said the old
king, who had habit of repeating his
phrases And the lawyers. who had a
sense of humor. adopted the title with
glee.-London Chronicle.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-06-26

screamingi Take it away! Take it
awayi Now 1 know what a hard life
the third rail must leadi"
/ think the electric blanket has
cured friend wife.
At any rate all the exercising do
funnys have been presented to the JAM
itor's children, and Peaches has prom
ised to be kind to double chin if Ma
ture slips her one.
Old King Solomon had the right idea
when he said to his typewriter, Van
ity, vanity, all is vanity!"
If surgeon could remove our Van
ity as easily as he removes an appen'
dix there'd be lot more money in the
savings bank.
What do you think?
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-06-26
HOW ONE MAN GOT HIS START
Couldn't Go in for a Literary Career,
So Went Into Hardware
Business.

ct got my start in life," said q
wealthy retired hardware dealer, 'in
a singular manner.
You might not think it, having
passed the major portion of my life in
selling nails, padlocks, stoves and
shovels, but in my early youth my
great ambition was to be a writer, an
author l had no doubt whatever
that that was what 1 was cut out
for, and certainly / worked at 1t good
and hard; but none of the publishers
to whom / sent my things seemed to
agree with me. As fast as / sent
the things in to them they would send
them back
But that didn't worry me. I knew
that sooner or later they would come
to like what wrote and buy it, What
got my goat was the expense 1 was a
very ready writer and I wrote long
pieces. The stamps 1 had to use to
send these pieces out and get them
back cost me a lot of money.
when I realized how much 1 was
paying out for stamps I said to my
self: Humpfi I'll save up that money
for five years and then I'll go to writ
ing again And for the next five years
I did put aside regularly the amount
that would otherwise have spent for
stamps and you would be surprised
If I should tell you how much It
amounted to. But at the end Of that
time / did not again take up writing.
Just at that time the senior part
ner of the hardware store in our town
died and his heirs drew out all his
interest in the firm. There was q
chance for a man with a little cap
ital to get into a good business had
the capital, by accumulated stamp
money, and 1 bought that interest in
the hardware store.
From that time ON 1 wss always
too busy to write; but my great sue
cess in the hardware business you
can clearly trace to my original ambi-
bition for authorship"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-06-26

Don't novel" snapped Peachess
don't novel"
For another half hour strolled with
Dante through his favorite boiler
room Il felt something sharp and Pc
culiar on my back 1t was one of my
shoulder blades peep1ng out to see
what the matter was The tempera-
ture had started to display itself in
four figures when l gasped, What Is
this thing that's over us-a plumbers
blow-pipe?'
'Shush!" whispered Peaches, its
an electric blanket-we're reducing!"
Shrieking the battlecry of Freedom
1 pushed the volcano OF the bed and
jumped to my feet
Peaches also jumped to her feet and
with one of them stepped on an ohm
or something, whereupon she let q
blood-curdling yell out of her that
could be heard in Winnipeg
Then she put her other foot down
and landed on volt or an ampere or
something equally exciting and be-
came short-circuited.
She was the best little short-circuit
that ever fused a fuse.
For two minutes that room looked
like a thunderstorm with Peaches
playing all the elements.
When / finally got the current
turned off and all the live wires out OF
her hair Peaches collapsed on the sofa.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-06-26

need Is to bring
all the protesting
Christians int o
one organization
Christ's words in
John 1928 are
quoted frequent
ly: THAT they
may be made per-
feet in one; and
that the world
may know that
thou hast sent
me, and hast
loved them, as
thou hast loved
me-" But it may
be pointed out
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-06-26

plscsz anywhers, 49,
tracts and kills al
Afes. Neat, ciean, o.
nADsntAl, convsntsn1s
cheap. Ln0f8 @f
noason. Ha1se k
nesAi, can'tspin or t1D
over, win not soil -
fn5ure any thing
Guaranteed elective.
All dealers orsss2s
express paid for asa
Ave. Breeklyn, n. Z.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-06-26
An Oil Burning Range with
a 'Three-in-One" Oven

You have a splendid range and a
fireless cooker combined in this s5<z0
NEW PERFECTION with the in
sulated oven. 1t bakes or roasts
either fast or slow, or you can seal
tho oven and turn out the fame and
less" method.
The insulation that makes this
wonderful convenience possible
saves SO much money In fuel bills
that a NEW PERFECTION soon
earns its moderate price.
It burns clean, Convenient, econo,,si-
cal 0iI-which also means no more
carrying of coal or wood or clean
ing out ashes.
Price Low-Thep price of this NEW
PERFECTION with the Insulated
THE STANDARD OIL CON
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-06-26
The Road to
Unity
b. REV. Lw. COsNEIL
A.i.a..s - the Dean. Moody B7hs. Insaiauas
Of Chicase

TExT-With all lowliness and meek
ness. with long suffering. forbearing one
another in love: endeavoring to keep the
unity of the spirit in the bond of peace
-Ephesians AZ. s.
Much is said today of church unity.
In some minds, apparently, the great
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-06-26

Flow Of Language
What wonderful now of language
our friend has"
YES" replied Farmer Corntossel
But he don't use it for much except
drownin' IDEAS"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-06-26
What is .Castoria

sToRA Is harmless Paregoric Drous
and Soothing Syrups It
Morphine nor other Narcotic substance
destroys and
has been IN constant use for the relief of
Collie, all Teething Troubles
and Bowels assiates giving healthy eeu
The Chidren's Panacea-The Friend
All limitations
tIae with and endanger the health of Infants
neutrality-suspicious. against Experiment.. /1
he of C><xZTZEZzn<
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-06-26

Beautiful, clear white clothes delights
the laundress who uses Red Cross Ball
Blue. All grocers. Adv.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-06-26

In trying to get her rights many q
woman goes at it In the wrong way.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-06-26

Oven Is extremely reasonable. lt
costs little moro than a good fire.
less cooker, less than the average
coal range, while giving you the
service of both. You can see it at
your dealers In two sizes. Ask
him for the latest NEW PER
FICTION Wick Blue Flame OIL
COOK STOVE with the Fs,ekess
Cooker ODen. Look for the tri.
angle trademark.
For Best Results Use
PERFECTION or
72-page cook book free. Just
send 10 cents in stamps to cover
mailing and get this fine cook book
which contains over 200 recipes
compiled on purpose for NEW
PERFECTION asers. Address
ANY (oAo s FsD14aa) Chicago, Ill
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-06-26

Better be taken by surprise than by
the police.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-06-26

Explained.
Hubby came home from club with
his white waistcoat badly spotted.
How careless you are," said his
wife.
Not at ALL" he replied. You see.
they didn't have any menu cards. and
1 knew you'd want to know what we
had to eat
Awkward.
Noah beheld the flood
"And M blessed place to intern"
he cried.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-06-26

ne Villain OutVITIaIncd.
Il wouldn't trust him." she argued.
Neither would ~ assented the
other girl; hes as treacherous as
a fountain pen"
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-08-30
Washington Believes Sum
Will Be Split Between
Army and Navy
so CALLED WAR TAX
TO BE EXTENDED
Where Money Is to Come from for Elk
ira Expenditures Is Worrying Some
of Democratic Leaders - President
Opposes Tariff Tinkering.

WASHINGTON, August 80 - Secre-
tary Garrison will present to the Pres
ident this week his completed report on
the needs of the army in the develop
ment OF more adequate measures of ma
tiOnal defence
Secretary Daniels, who is expected to
return to Washington next week, viii
be in a position by that time, it is be-
heved, TO outline to the President the
recommendations of the general board
of the navy.
As soon as the President has digested
thoroughly the suggestions of both de-
partments he viii lay the whole nation
al defence program before the cabinet
for an exchange of views, and before
the army and navy bills are finally
drafted the President will hold a Sc
ries of conferences with the chairmen
of house and senate military, naval, APP
preparations and finance committees. 1t
is the intention as far as possible to
present to congress a program which
viii have the support Of the Democratic
| leaders.
The impression prevailing in Wash
| ington is that the program will call for
a total appropriation of Approximately
| $500, 100000, split about equally be.
tween the army and navy. This sum Is
| in round numbers about $3.50 600, GO0
in excess OF the combined army and ma
! w appropriations authorized for the
| fiscal year l915-l6.
Where the money is to come from tc
make up this additional sum is still tC
be decided. Although Chairman of the
| senate finance committee has express
ed the opinion after a talk with tn,
President that the excess be financed
through an issuance of bonds or shor
term notes the entire fiscal outlook O
the government is at present so uncer
tain that the President has not at
tempted to settle the question.
Not only Senator Simmons but off
Gals Of the administration have give
limitations that the President is OF
posed at this time to any tinkerin
with the tariff Discouraging as tn
{ customs have been under the Under
wood tariff, the President is said to be
lievc that the Democratic tariff lar
should have a longer trial.
He is described as clinging firmly t
4 the belief that as soon as the Europea
l war is over and imports are back on
; normal basis the ability of the Unde
: wood tariff to produce necessary rev
+ nues viii be Established.
T. Not only IS he opposed, it is state
: to any tampering with the genert
: schedules, but he has rebuffed sugge
f tions of a repeal of the free sugar pr
i vision of the law which under n gra
!. uated scale, becomes entirely effecti,
e on January /, thereby looping off So
P 100000 in revenues.
s. 1t is believed that the Preside,
- would be far more reconciled to Il
idea OF increasing the rate of the scoI
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-08-30

of the income tax which as revenue
producer, has fallen short of the admin
istration s expectations.
In any event and entirely aside from
the requirements for larger military and
naval expenditures, the prospect of a
continued deficit in the treasury will
make almost a certain extension for
another year of the operation of the
war tax enacted by the last congress
This tax unless extended will 90 out
of operation in December.
Available for the purposes Of bond
issue are about $250,000,O00 worth OF
Panama canal bonds which have never
been put on the market. These, it il
expected, could be sold without further
authorization of congress. Some of the
President s advisers, however, show
preference for short term note issu,
provided one can be obtained from com
gress on the ground that the need 70
more adequate defence at this tim
amounts to an emergency.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-08-30
GERMANS USE SHELLS
THAT KILL BY BURNS
Phosphorus Supposed to Eenter Into
Composition of Shrapnel Now
Being Fired.

PETROGRAD, August 30.-A new
application is reported of the German
invention I have previously mentioned.
1t serves to show how Germany devel-
ops the scientific side of her efforts as
the war proceeds.
The incendiary fire bombs which con
tain some composition producing sufli-
cient heat to start flames in anything
that will burn are now familiar. The
Germans have invented a method OF
using something similar in the form OF
or combined with shrapnel.
Reports say any man struck by shrap-
mel from these things is terribly burnt,
the burns often proving fatal, even
when only limb is struck. Presuma-
bly, phosphorus enters into the eompo
sition of this new weapon, as also Ger
tain poisonous bullets.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-08-30
BLAME CARRANZA
FOR STARVATION
Refugees in New York Say Many
People Are Dying in the Streets
of Mexico City.

The Ward line steamer MORO Castle ar
rived Sunday from Vera Cruz with %
American refugees from Mexico City, who
had fled on account of the bad conditions
there. From II to 20 deaths occurred
every day from starvation, they said, and
Gen. Carranza was doing everything pos
sible to hinder the work Of the American
Red Cross in the capital.
\ woman passenger in the first cabin,
Whose husband Is in Mexico City and who
did not wish her name to be mentioned
on this account, said:
Il have lived in Mexico City eight years
and know conditions in the country very
well. When the Carranzistas were rowing
the streets people were robbed openly
without any chance of redress. They stole
1900 automobiles altogether, and the night
Gonzalez entered the city a young woman
| friend of mine was stopped by a band of
| eight soldiers near her house, and they
stole all her jewelry and would have killed
her If a major had not arrived on the spot
| to prevent it.
| After Gonzalez arrived the looting of
the houses and the hold-ups in the streets
| stopped, but the starvation goes on stead
! lily. Poor people die right in the streets
in front of the Hotel Gencve in broad
/ UdAtl8nL, ana the SUIleIllE Is terrible TO
witness. The American Red Cross has
Igiven away thousands of pints of strong
beef soup with peas and beans in it, which
saved hundreds of lives, but some Of the
poor MeNicans We're 80 weak that they
could not digest it and died.
''Carranza stopped the American Red
Cross representatives from getting the
! number of deaths recorded ut the GENE
terry every day, because he wants TIL,
= United States to recognize him. When
left Mexico City coffee was , pesos a llilC
and rice pesos n Eilo. By getting a per
NIT from the National Palace poor peopl,
1 could 90 to the station. where the ear
K are opened by the soldiers, and get ric,
: for l peso kilo, a big difference in pric,
G of I pesos.
- Another passenger. who. is an engineer
in business near Vera Cruz, said tina
Y American intervention was the only thin
that would improve conditions in Mexic
q and replace the country in its norma
~ state.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-08-30
A Vermont Heroine.
(Rntland Herald.l

East Dover adds to the roll of Vermont
heroines the energetic lady who discovered
a henhawk ravaging her chicken yard and
who promptly captured the invader with
her unaided hands. Why buy shotguns
when feminine courage and enterprise are
so efficient?
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-08-30

SWITCHES, pompadOus; combngs
made up to order Mrs f. p. Bailey, III
Main street. 53-tf
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-08-30
Special Notices

TABLE BOARD, also rooms at A High
street after Aug so. Telephone Soy
until then. 152-15I
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-08-30

TO RENT-Front room, electric lights,
use of bath and telephone. G. w. Gilman,
The Abbott. 151-tf
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-08-30
To Rent

To Rent
TO RENT-Tenement at 2o3 Main St.
97-tf |
TO RENT-Good tenement, w G. |
Doolittle 112-tf I
TO RENT-Six-room apartment E. NJ |
Holden. Tel. 665-W. 76tf
TO RENT-Aly house on South Main
st. II. r. Lawrence. 144-tf
TO RENT-Upstairs tenement, four
rooms, n Brook street. 154-160*
TO RENT-Furnished front room. Mrs
II. b. Willis, 80 Main street. 154tf
TO RENT-Front room, electric lights,
use of bath and telephone G. w. Gilman,
The Abbott. 151-tf
TO RENT-Modern upstairs tenement
Nice large rooms. Inquire u Horton
Place. 120-tf
TO RENT-Room, centrally located,
modern. Gentleman preferred. Address
r. Beformer Office. 135-tf
TO RENT = Two good tenements on
Birge street, so per month. Holden &
Martin, Brattleboro, Vt. 144-tf
TO RENT-To small family, broom ten
ement, electric lights, desirable location,
1913. Inquire at Il Prospect st. 155-tf
TO LET-On lot of 40 acres, a good
job Of hewing ties and cutting logs. Trees
are tall and land smooth. w. c. Doolittle.
| 149-tf
TO RENT-One ; and one Groom tene-
ment. Hot and cold water, electric lights,
spring water for drinking. j E. Mellen,
agent 59-tf
TO RENT-Furnished or unfinished
apartment Of six rooms and bath. All
modern convcnicnces. Inquire at II Cha
pin st. 152-tf
I TO RENT-Ncwfane Inn, furnished,
possession given Immediately. For terms
apply to William II. Newton, Pres, New
fame, vt. 154-tf
TO RENT-Plcasant 6 room tenement
on car line. Modern improvements. Mrs.
= IT. +. Weatherhead, West Brattleboro.
. lTel. 2G9-W. 14S-ti
TO RENTING or three nice steam
t heated apartments in the Ullery building
r VIII arrange to suit. Reasonable prices
I Apply to ]. G. Ullery. HIT
a TO RENT-Tencment of seven rooms il
t frst-cass condition. bath, electric lights
and gas. Il South Main street, next t,
y Home Bakery. 12O-t
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-08-30

SEWING Machine Needles and supplies
for all makes of machines at J. B. Dun
tons, 43 Flat street
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-11-09
NOTICE OF MORTGAGE FORE.
CLOSURE SALE.

Notice is hereby given that that
certain mortgage executed and deliv.
cred by Lloyd E. Martin, a single man,
mortgagor, to George ". Cunningham,
mortgage, dated the 10Th day of July.
1914, and filed for record in the office
of the Register of Deeds of the county
of iBurleigh, and state of North Dako-
ta, on the 4th day of August, 1914.
and recorded in book % of Mortgages,
at page 210, will be foreclosed by Il
sale of the premises In such mortgage
and hereinafter described, at the front
door of the court house, in the county
Of Furleigh and state of North Dakota,
at the hour of ten o'clock a.. M, on the
18th day of December, 1915, to satisfy
the amount due on such mortgage on
the day of sale. The premises de-
scribed in such mortgage and which
will be sold to satisfy the sane are
described as follows: Southwest
Quarter of Section Thirty (SW IA Of
Sec. 30), Township One Hundred Thir-
ty-nine (189), Range Seventy-six GS),
all in the county of Burleigh and state
of North Dakota.
There will be due on such mortgage
at the date of sale the sum OF Two
Hundred Seventy and $500 Dollars
($27O.5S).
Dated this list day of November,
1915.
GEORGE V. CUNNINGHAM,
..st Mortgage.
GEO. H. MILES.
Attorney for Mortgage,
Bismarck, North Dakota.
d., 8, 16, Is, 30; I'D
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-11-09

hours-the entertainment that will
develop that culture that is so dear to
the peoples Of all lands.
Preceding Mr.. Craighead's address,
L. F. Crawford of Sentinel Butte. pres
ident of the new board of regents,
spoke briefly, in which he told of the
work that is before the board. He
also introduced DR.. Craighead.
Says Survey 10 Needed.
DR.. Craighead declared that the sur.
vey is exactly what the state of North
Dakota and every state in the union
reeds. He declared that he believed
in the concentration of the higher in
situations of learning, but that in the
case of North Dakota. where the To-
cation of the institutions had been
fixed by constitution, the plan could
not be worked out, as any attempt
along that line would bring a division
Of the people that would mean a bit.
ter struggle.
Ask Cooperation.
He asked the hearty cooperation
Of all the educators and citizens Of
the state, and said that he a%nticipat-
ed no grave difficulties. Opportunity
will be given for the freest discussion
and he invited the opinions and sug-
gcstlons of all educators.