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The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-25
Ellsworth County Fair.

At Ellsworth, Kansas, September .,
%, 80, October l, 1915. Everybody is
invited to attend. $1,000 in free acts,
$1,000 in premiums, $4,000 in race purses.
A good live fair in a good live town
No admission to big night show. II
you are not there, you'll be lonesome.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-25
HAYS, October IL.

Should you or your child have any
thing wrong with the eyes, ears, nose
or throat or need glasses, make date
with DR.. II. Jay Brown, Office IN Wat
son Building, SaIina, Kansas. or see
him at Brunswick Hotel, October u
Ella 18th and Russell 14th.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-25
Hang a Hammock
In Some Inviting Snot

Health and hammoeks are synony-
nous, for nothing enables one to
get so much quiet rest and the en-
joyment of pure fresh air as q ham
mock hung IN coy spot around
the home
We have good substantial ham
mocks that are bargains at the
prices We ask. You VIII get more
than full value IN comfort for every
cent Of cost. Enjoy hot weather IN
q hammock. Prices 1915 70 $500.
c. A. Hardness.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-25

A fine leo acres Of farm land within
one and half miles of Yocemento.
Price $500. This is bargain. Who
wants it. You win have to get busy as
Ellis county farm land Is IN demand.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-25
For Sale.

1 have for sale quantity OF rye suit
able for seed. Who wants it2 For in
formation inquire of William Johnson,
phone SOB.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-25
For Sale.

$40 acres of good, level land; every
foot of it can be titled, feet to water,
three acres of alfalfa. Price $40. per
acre cash, or will trade for property.
The land Is located within nine miles Of
chsyenns Wells, Colorado.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-25

Corn, oats, coal, flour, and feed at
Farmers Elevator.
Subscribe for The Free Press, 81 so
per year.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-25

1t has always been a mystery to me
why the voice-the talking voice, l
mean-does not receive better training
than It does. It does need couture. -
It should be better understood that
everyone carries around in his throat
wonderful little combination of pipe
and reed organ which was good when
it came from the hand OF the Maker.
1t is easily gotten out of order, but it
is just as easily put in tune. That
voice is made for more than singing
Italian operas, and squawking coon
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-25

Just as the new inventions have re-
placed the old, just so the new type of
mantle virile, full-nerved, terrific,
high-tensioned man of today is pound
ing down the unfit. There is no mercy
for the weakling, for human warts.
The moment you become foolish and
gloat over the yesterdays you are lost.
You are COOP for you have stopped to
lick your fingers.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-25

1 am always Disguised with man
who wishes for the opportunities of his
father. Do you know that the plow-
shear has cut less than one-eighth of
Americas sod. There will be some
thing new for the next 900 years,
and you are nothing but a loafer, apull-
back if you do not hunt job and go to
work at it.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-25
SUNFLOWER PETALS

Pluoksl BY the Golden Belt Spectator.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-25

How it tickles me to see the new
Americanism measure off thing do
ing" in ten-year lengths and crowding
days of energy into ten hour spaces.
The little narrow man cannot survive.
Broader chests and broader foreheads
are replacing him.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-25

A persons life should be seeded to
goodness. Friendship, love, and peace
should be well sown. All through your
life seeds of laughter should be scat
tered. l meet men and listen to them,
and if their conversation indicates the
seeds they have used at LIES seeding
time 1 am sure they used devil-darning
needles for the first crop and beer
plants for the second.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-25

The making of Gobelin tapestries is
parable of life. It is said a worker
weaves his life into single tapestry;
and when it is barely done, ere the
thread has left his hand, he dies. His
tapestry is what he has to show for his
life. Our tapestry is character. 1t is
meant to hang in the Kings galleries
for an eternity. Do you carefully con-
slider how you weave?
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-25

The people of Hays who are too lady
ike no go to football game, justi-
fly themselves by saying that it is all
Drawn, should take week off and try
to learn just one set of signals.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-25

Rev. West got of a good one, on
well known Hays restaurant when he
revised Emerson to read, Glitch
your Vaughn tongue to Starr dough-
nut"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-11
WritIno With Invisible Ink.

There are several ways In which
two persons can correspond with each
other unknown to even the persons BE-
fore whose eyes the very letter 10
held.
For instance, new milk may be used
"a ink. When dried this is invisible,
but il coal dust or SCOT be scattered
upon the paper the writing becomes
legible.
Diluted sulphuric acid, lemon juice.
solutions of nitrate and chloride OF
cobalt or of chloride Of copper write
colorless, but on being heated the
characters written with the first two
become black or brown, and the latter
green. And when the paper becomes
cool the writing disappears, leaving
the paper blank again.
Two good invisible inks are made
by saltpeter dissolved in water, and
equal parts of sulphate OF copper and
sal ammoniac dissolved In water.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-11
Toodles and
His Grandpa
By H. M. EGG BERT



Copyright. 1915, by W. C. Chapman.)
How Toodles got acquainted with
his grandfather in the first place was
always a mystery in the town. 1t
was Mrs. Clay. who lived next door
to the old recluse, who brought the
news that Toodles and the old man
were hobnobbing upon the doorstep
Toodles was five and Henry Pentland
seventy-fi9e.
What pity it is said Toodles,
swinging backward and forward in the
rocking chair, that you didn't like
my papa as we'll as you like Uncle
George"
Why rasped the old man, speak
ing as if to man of his own years.
Because then you wouldn't have
been so lonesome and miserable in
your old age" said Toodles.
The shot went home. With a snarl
old Henry Pentland was upon his feet.
What do you mean, sir?" he demand
ed. Il am anything but miserable. >
He went on in a soliloquy, apparently.
Charles and George were both dear
to me, George had the brains. He
made a success of his life in the city,
where he is honored and feared.
Charles was content to plod along in
a country store He married a non
entity. He did nothing toward ele-
waiting the family. Why shouldn't
prefer George?"
Because papa's your son. too" de-
clared Toodles, looking up earnestly
into the old mans face. And nam
ma says you've never set eyes on papa
since he was married. he added, wist
fully.
Tell me this, sir" insisted the old
man, who put you up to this game
Who sent you here?"
Il sent myself here" answered
Toodles.
"A likely story Why?"
Zoos mother said you must be sc
badly punished for being SO unkind
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-11
riny Mouse Spells Drama.

lust as the hero in a romantic play
at the opera house matinee IN Joiiet
M. was telling the ingenue how he
loved her a mouse ran toward her
from the wings.
Miss Olney. the actress, screamed In
fright and ran from the stage. break
inc nm the scene. The hero kicked at
the mouse and it ran of the stage and
Jumped into the orchestra.
Thereupon five hundred women. on
eee;no the cause of the interruption or
the drama, stampeded for the doors.
In the rush Mrs. A. Blake was injured.
The mouse escaped.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-11
Probably Mjssed IL

Speaking of the old wild days IN
Scotland an aged dame. with her grand.
children about her knee, said concern
ing a leader of her clan who had been
beheaded following some trouble with
the crown: 1T was nae great thing
o. held. tae be sure. but It wis sad
loss tae him.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-11

He Began to Tell Her His Life History
didn't care, and then 1t was noticed
that the Hon. John was giving her all
his attention. They sat together and
walked together and talked together,
and the fat son saw things and took
his father to task by saying:
Now, gov, don't make q fool OF
yourself. That girl won't make q
nanny for me. Why don't you go
for the widow!"
James, the widow is blase." was
the reply. "The second time a wom-
an marries she marries for money
She marries to boss the resort. She
marries hoping her husband will soon
get OF the earth and give her q
third show"
But she's a staver, gov. Fine
locker, and what a walk she has on
her! If you are> elected to congress
next year what team you'd make!"
But the Widow Savage, James, has
almost snubbed me. l will confess
that had an eye on her for day or
two. but she is cold and distant-cold
and distant. She may argue that l
would outlive her"
But. as If to prove that the Hon.
Johns diagnosis was all wrong. the
Widow Savage threw herself In his
way the very next day and was most
entertaining. The nose Of Miss Blue
Eyes was out of joint again. Her
second Irritation was spoiled by the
widow. Her eyes flashed with an.
ger, and when the Hon. John asked
her to sit in one of the grottoes she
coldly declined.
Forget her, governor, and go for
the widow" was the advice OF James,
who didn't do any flirting but kept
his eyes open.
"Blase, James-blase! Blase and
artful! Shed twist me around her
finger like a string. will toy with
her now and then, but my mind IS
made up on Miss Smith. In fact l
have already talked love to her and
led her to expect a proposal" :.
Miss Smith was walking by herself
In the hotel grounds. She was think
Ing Of widows as she walked-one
widow in particular. Miss smith
was classed way up at the head OF
smart, good-looking girls. and sne
had been Inundated She bit ner
lip and gritted her teeth and felt the
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-11

and l wanted to see what you looked
like" Toodles declared, scampering
away "Good-by. grandpa" And he
was gone.
Ali that Toodles had said was true.
George Pentland, financier, had in
weighed the old man into bestowing
upon him his entire fortune, which
he had invested in his dubious
schemes, paying his father 10 per cent
per annum. However, he had only
paid two years income, and in reality
this had come out of the principle.
Henry Pentland had dotted upon his
second son when he was a boy. But
Charles was not smart, like George.
and when he married pretty, but COM
monplace, Ida Gray, the angry old
man, who had dreamed of seeing both
his children wealthy and honored. re-
fused to go to the wedding. He had
never spoken to Charles since the
marriage, nor held communication
with any member of his family except
George, who. having wheedled the old
man out of his eighteen thousand dol
lars. under promise of eighteen hun
dred a year for life, now began to find
his father something of an embar-
rassment.
Old Henry Pentland wrote to his
son every week. His solicitude for
his sons health did not touch George,
and his twice year visits to him at
his bachelor quarters in town were
an event of horror, for George was
sensitive to the opinions of his friends.
and dreaded that one of them would
meet him in the company of the shah
BY old man who chung to his arm and
ges.iculated with his cane
"Grandpas going to town Monday"
said Toodles.
Ida and Charles exchanged glances.
They knew of Toodles' visits and had
not discouraged them, hoping that the
old man would soften toward the child,
and, through him, toward them.
"How do you know" inquired
Toodles' father.
ct heard him telling his servant
answered Toodles. Hes going to
see Uncle George
Charles drew his wife aside. Dear,
I wonder whether we can't do any.
thing to save his money" he said.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-11
Daily Thought.

Much of the charm of life is ruined
BY exacting demands of confidence
Those who wish to destroy all
mvstery in those they love; to have
everything revealed. are unconscious
" killing their own happiness.-Stop-
ford Brooke
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-11
One Moonlight
Night
l.,s,' isia, By Associated Literary Pres
By DONALD ALLEN

"a was no particular excitement
the Hon. John Watkins and his
|.mes arrived at the mountain
on an August day. The Hon.
was sixty-five years old and
and a widower. His son was
" wears old and confiding and
put for the sons conflding ma.
n would not have been known
the guests within three days
the governor, meaning his old
was on the lookout for a second
and he wanted a young one at
h Hon. John neither denied nor
Ermed the story. He simply
ID about like q man who would
h If he found the right woman.
he were mammas who secured in.
notions to him when they heard
lis wealth, and there were a very
daughters who looked at him
\ afar off and wondered II they
lied another grandpa.
was when the Widow Savage ar
d that the flutter began. She was
and forty. She mad the indie
dent toss of the head that goes
h widowhood after the first year.
had little ways with her eyes and
nth that made all the other WON.
Jealous the very first day. Of
rse, the stupid men simply looked
N her as a widow, but it was her
sex that unmasked her. When
of them said: "That widow has
,e here to catch a mani" all re-
ted it in chorus.
here were plenty Of young people
he resort. Some widows, as soon
hearing that the Hon. John was
would have gone man,
ting in return. The Widow
age didn't. She eluded him. She
1t coddle the fat son, as some
men did. She forced father and
to keep their distance and Sc.
ed only after three or four days
victim was a young man. He
already tangled himself up with
lue-eyed girl a year younger, but
fact did not sway the widow the
t bit. When she got ready to ap'
1riate him she did so.
he blue-eyed girl made a very
; attempt to show the people she
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-11
Truth and Duty.

Truth waits on duty. II We do not
live up to what we already know, Of
what use to give US more TRUTH
Every duty we omit" says Ruskin.
'obscures some truth we might have
known" This is Just, and we can
not resent it. To do the duty that
lies next US is the only way to take
q step toward larger vision
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-11
Every Man a Debtor.

I hold every man a debtor to his
profession. from the which, as men
ance and profit, so ought they Of duty
to endeavor. by way of amends. to be
q help and ornament thereunto.-
Bacon.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-11
Financial Genius.

Mr.. Foghorn-Take out your deo.
In singing lessons! You're crazy!
What kind of a voice do you think !
have? Professor Squeale-Like
steam whistle. only worse. But wnen
you've taken one lesson in your nome
the neighbors will raise the money
and pay the debt
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-11
Tommy's Costly vjetorv-

MRS. Bacon-"What's the matter
With Tommy's face and hands! They
are badly swollen" Mrs. Egbert-
iou see, they offered a prize at his
school for the boy who would bring in
me greatest number of dead wssps,
and Tommy wn-
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-11
sustaining Moral Energy.

The moral energy of nations, like
that Of individuals, is only sustained
BY an ideal higher and stronger than
they are. to which they cling firmly
when they feel their courage growing
weak.-Henri Bergson.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-11
eavved-OH Sermon.

When q young widow takes young
man into her confidence. he ID up
axainst the worst kind Of confidence
rame.-Indianapolis News.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-11
An AntI.suffraae Viewpoint.

0aylor Tin cafe dansant)-Theres
nv wtfei And I'll bet she's looking
for mel" Fair Companion-"oh. dear!
why can't some people understand
that woman's place Is in the homer
Puck.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-11
Where the Luck Ia

Luck won take de place Of hard
work." said Uncle Eben. But dat
doesn't mean dat dar ain no sech
thing as luck. A man is lucky to be
able to work hard"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-11
Its Color.

life ought to look rosy to Jinks
Just now"
.Well, If his creditors are after MIN.
7 should think it was more OF dun
color"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-11
a Q~l Reanoa

A really frank seeker Of divorce ~
~ colored woman who said:
amt dun muffin particular. but l -
losed ma taste fob him.~-Louissii''
Courier-Journal
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-11
We cSnuuered Nature,

Yes. gentlemen" said the gsolo-
gist, ''the ground We walk on was
once under water" WELL" replied
the patriotic young man Of the party,
cit simply goes to show that you
can't mold this country down"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1915-12-17

The Idle Hour
The Home Of Good Pictures
The Home Of
The Paramounts, Laskys;
Famous Players, Fox, Caseno
Alliance, World, Shubert
and VIM. A. Brady Features
We have the exclusive
booking from the best film
companies in the business.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1915-07-16

Now that cold June is said to have caused
falling off in the consumption Of alcoholic beverages,
one wonders what has become of the oldfashioned
topper who drank in cold weather to warm him and
in hot weather to cool him.-Chicago News.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1915-07-16

the thousands have been collected in license towns
the result manifest permanently in lower tax rate
Father Curran's Appeal to Catholics
If the Protestan do great majority OF the mem
bershp of Saloon League their credit if
the discred of Catholics who identity themselves in it
already change of sentiment and attitude among Catholics
and of thousands of the lay with expectan
breath the very line waiting for little
from those higher the various grades of the clerical
hierarchy.
all reports they will not have to wait very long,
all the country bring the cheerful word that hun
priests in silent sympathy with the and
will be the active firing line with the most aggressive
among 1t has been announced in of the Catholic tenn
perance papers that of bishops in the city of Chicago
have recently the side of the drs and have brought
their total abstinence societies with Them
General Miles Says Liquor Traffic Worse Than War
General Miles, veteran of many campaigns,
given the Chautauqua salute when he took his place
as presiding officer at one OF the sessions. He said:
that when the smoke of battle shall have rolled
when the bacmounted silent forever there will
intelligence and patriotism enough left in the world
the curtain upon this fghfu tragedy and make the
finale the closing the terrible drama of and that
henceorh and forever wiser and human method shall be
devised adjudication of international controversy
The colossal devastation spoliaton and sacrifices that
civilized world with nexpessble horror enacted
in the day. and yet there is another demon of destruction
silent subtle and yet equally deady-he demon of
liquor.
homes destroys character dgades and dgenerates
and and helpless children 1t
places prosperity and happiness with crime and deoa
ton.
Lies of the Liquor Trade
John c. Wooley, in a wonderful address entitled
"The Spirit of the Road exposed the hypocrisy Of
the lquorites, follows:
The liquor trade that outawry swes its sales 1t
lies like the premedtated criminal is for fights odds
for license, price and terms of nfamy itself,
the right of goes with it, which is the chief
of any ootpad
The liquor trade that Prohibition breeds blnd pigs
Tt lies Licensing areas the habitat of defective swine
But they creatures of the road at ALL but
of the back lots cellars 1t the road that
fight for first and decent politics keep that clear There
still wolves in the woods but they dare hunt in the
There still raesnakes in the rocks but they do
coil in the There will still be saloons the cellars
they skurryng the road There will still pols
the road There still
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1915-07-16

the sdboard of careless selfish people But the road
ought be- and going be- made safe from the whole treah
thing mo lion shall there shall any noxous
tip thereon They shall be found there But the
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1915-07-16
Our Government Divided Against Itself 1915

has Tn the
physical dnolp at
WHAT il Ohio
the hndn O
ioencean in
in an-Ex
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1915-07-16

deemed shall walk there safely and the ransomed of the Lord
to with songs and everlasting JOY upon their
heads
Some Striking Banners
The great Convention hall was decorated with
flags and banners. The following are few of the
striking epigrams which the latter contained:
rum HAS DONE MORE TO BRUTALIZE
THE SAVAGE THAN MISSIONARIES HAVE
DONE TO CHRISTIANIZE HIM.
EVERY ALCOHOLIC WRECK REPRE-
SCENTS A PRODUCT OF THE DRAMSHOP, A
LOST SOUL AND A BROKEN-HEARTED WO-
MAN."
THE SALOON REAPS ITS HARVEST ON
THE LABORERS' MISFORTUNE. BOYCOTT
THE SALOON"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1915-07-16

desirable citizens Though license fees by
thousands have been collected in license cities and towns
the net manifest permanently in lower tax
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-10-27
EAST ST. JOHNsBURY.
(Mrs. G. W. Dodge. correspondent.

(Mrs. G. w. Dodge, correspondent
Miss Bessie Ramage has a position
at st. Johnsbury in the Randall &
Whitcomb store.
The chicken pie supper Thursday
night was largely attended, about $50
being present. About $50 was added
to the Ladies' society treasury.
Miss Nellie Stiles and George Bah
cock, Jr., Of st. Johnsbury are both
confined at the home of their parents
by illness. Miss Stiles is suffering with
a severe cold and Mr.. Burbank has
tonsilitis.
Mrs. Hannah Cilley and Mrs. Lettie
Kenney of Rumney, n. H., are Wis
iting their sister and aunt, Mrs. Ezra
Copp.
Charles Copp with others was de-
tanned several days at Vancouver, on
account of the burning of the ship
on which they intended to sail tho
night before they were to embark.
Mr.. Copp is now on his way to Japan.
The c. e. society will give an en-
tertainment Friday evening at the
vestry. Light refreshments will be
served.
Miss A. N. Wilson Of Montreal is
assisting r. e. Blodgett in his store.
Miss Wilson is a niece Of Mrs. Blodg-
EFT.