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Western Kansas world., 1915-05-15

prejudices, it's partisan convictions and its
controversial unkind1iness when it ap-
proaches the bedside of suffering, or crosses
the pathway of sorrow. The last sands of
Old JimmyS life out to the accompani-
ment of such care and comfort as willing
solicitous hands could bestow. They buried
him from his cottage, and while it was not
deemed appropriate that any minister should
lend himself to the service, the Old Judge,
Grigsby City's most prominent veteran,
spoke briefly and long procession followed
the body to the cemetery the hill. And
so, and in such manner, the earth closed
over the tired body and the SCARED heart
forever.
1t was a year or two later that George
Travis came back from the city to spend
Decoration Day with his mother in the old
town. That afternoon he walked about the
cemetery, noting with the indifference of
youth the fresh mounds, and pausing now
and then to read the lines craven upon the
memorials to the dead raised since he had
last set foot within the inc1osure. Upon one
mound marked by a granite boulder a del
uge of flowers had fallen. Loving hands
had drawn a mantle of roses, peonies and
lilies over it. He drew nearer and upon the
stone read this inscription:
JAMES MARRS
b. 1885; d. 18oo
Erected by Abe Lincoln Post
No. 104 G. A. R
HE Fought the Good Fight"
Western Kansas world., 1915-05-15
The Good Fight
Continued from PAGE 6

D
age of the few who ignored the partisan
lines which religion and politics had set in
Grigsby City, or chance job from new
corners who had not learned the towns
prejudices, engaged his brush But Old
Jimmy was seldom busy, and for the greater
part of his idle days he hung like a starved
dog awaiting a bone on the edge of the
crowd at Vickers'. Curious1y enough, the
political discussions that waged there never
seemed to arouse his interest. He was equal
ly 1istless in the face of religious contro-
versy. But when they talked of Shiloh
Chickamauga, or Gettysburg, his faded eyes
cleaned, pink flush into his weather
beaten cheeks, and he stood erect beside the
counter against which at other times he
lounged alphabetically.
1t was the October the Twentieth Kansas
came home from the Philippines that Old
Jimmy declared himself. The Twentieth
sweeping eastward accompanied by full
corps of newspaper correspondents, had
crossed the western border of the state.
From every station the correspondents
wiring the details of its movements Grigs-
by City, although far removed from the line
of march, was in full regalia. From every
doorway a flag hung Laban Cain, who be-
cause of certain intimate association with
sign painting in his youth had achieved ex-
pertness in color effects, had swathed the
Cain Hotel in warm, almost tropical
preston of his art. In Grigsby City they
claim to this day that Laban's exhibit of
bunting the finest ever made between
Chicago and Denver. AT the ROOSt, lemuel
Vickers read the report of the Twentieth's
progress aloud from the morning paper
while the Old Boys, stirred by the spirit of
81, recalled that other homecoming of the
long ago.
Lemuel read the last press dispatch, which
dated at Dodge City, and, removing his
glasses, began 1eisurely to wipe them. Old
Jimmy, was his wont, slouched against
the notion case just outside the circle of
veterans, into which he had never by any
chance obtruded himself. He had not
spoken and the habitues of the Roost had,
beyond bidding him the time of day, given
no sign that they were aware of his pres
ence.
''We11' said Judson Follansbee, "us old
coffee-coolers know how the boys feels
"Yes,'' said Pliny Tate, whose old wound
still bothered him and who after sleep
less night apt to be peevish and irasci-
BILE, 'We've all been there, that is all of
except Old Jimmy. I reckon Jimmy
couldn't stand the smell of gunpowder."
81 mind when | come home from Seven
Pines"
But Israel Giddings got no farther Upon
the circle of veterans there was suddenly
borne the consciousness that a soul writhed
in agony upon its cross. Instinctively
every eye turned to Old Jimmy. He
standing erect beside the counter his articu-
lation choked such words as came from him
falling incoherently from his quvering lips.
Finally he found voice, strained and un-
natural though it was.
'Taint right, faint fairP' he screamed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-26
Government Clerks Queer Hobby

London. September 10.-(Spee1al )--Many a man who Is really a bit of a genius in some particular line gets his livelihood
 by doing something utterly different for which he may be only moderately well
 ntted. We all know. for example. of type settlers who make hobby of photography,
 of bookkepers who are enthusiastic col flectors of butterflies, of butchers who are obviously born musicians, and so on and so on. About exactly this sort of a round peg in square hole I was be-
 ing told by fairly prominent official at the board of education last night. The round peg mentioned is clerk in the education department named Giles He Is good enough clerk, but he might have made a fortune had he turned his decidedly uncommon talents in the right direction He is quite genius at mak- ing amusing use of what to most people is only clutter" to be bundled into the waste basket. and mas realized nice little sums at one time and another by so doing A while ago there was quite a craze, in this country at any rate. for post cards bearing grotesque figures made out of used postage stamps. It waa Giles who invented thess It Weo he,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-26
DIGGING FOR GOLD IN THE
 CLIFFS ALONG TOMBIGBEE
By J. n. E NNIS

Livingston, September 25.-(Special) One would hardly imagine as he travels swiftly over the gently rolling country east of Livingston that few miles fur ther there lies a stretch of the widest and most broken land in Alabama. But such is the case. Along the Tombigbee river the land is continually divided be- tween high hills and deep gullies. Pines rear their heads 100 feet high from the bottom of these gullies and then lack 100 feet of seeing the top. This coun- try is populated by few negroes on the Sumter county side of the 'Bigbee, but across the river the lowlands of Green are densely populated with negroes.
 The average man also imagnes that the world old sport of treasure hunting has passed into history. He knows, of course, that boys, still play at the game, but 1t is hard to realize that real men spend their time and energy at it. Any one. however, who doubts that men ars still at it should visit the camp of Dr. Lightning on the bank of the Tombigbee
 river, near Bluff point landing. Dr. Light ming is a negro, or a near-negro. He Is
 tall straight and muscular as an Indian, has straight hair and bright eyes, but is as black as a crow.
 Nobody knows from where he came, nor when he came. No one ever heard of him before and his past is closed booK. The first clue that the wnIte men m the
 neighborhood had that something un-
 usual was going on was the periodical ab- sence of number of the negroes on their
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-26
Wonderful Secret Chamber

London, September 10.-(Special.) These are not times, perhaps, to tempt anyone to take up his residence in Eng land. Any wealthy American who is thinking of doing so, however, should not fail to consider the attractions of Ingate- stone hal surely one of the most inter- esting mansions that have been offered fer Sale in many years. To begin with, It is the original of Audiey house in Miss Braddon's famous novel, Lady Audley' S Secret" Originally the home of fam ous English abbot it also contains one of the cunningest secret hambers in ex- istence. The latter is entered from a small room attached to what was prob ably the hosts bedroom, and until 40 year ago the room was hung with good tap estry. Under two layers of floor boards was found trap door two feet square and a 12-foot ladder to descend into<a room underneath This part of the building was of the age of Henry VII, but the se- cret chamber, from the style of the brick work, seems to nave been con structed in the time of James l, probably for the hiding of a priest. The size is 14 feet long by 10 feet high and 2 feet wide In the chamber was an from bound chest, in winch no doubt the vest ments, crucifix and other furniture were kept Ingatestone WIRE originally the sum- me, residence of the abbot of Barking, and the estate came into possession of the Petre family. who kept it from the time of Henry VIII till late in the eight eenth century.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-26
Young Francis CrocRdrd Tells Dolly About Meeting
 r1le World Renowned Charlie Chaplin in Los Angeles
By DOLLY DALRYMPLE
How dye do. Mir. Chaplin?" How dye do yourself, sir?"

How dye do, Mir Chaplin2"
 How dye do yourself sir?"
 Brief. but quite to the point was the greeting between the famous Charlie Chaplin and young Francis Crockard, the clever little son of MT. and Mrs. Frank H. Crockard. when the two met in the foyer of the big Hotel Alexandria, in Los Angeles, a couple of weeks ago, when young MT. Crockard was touring the west with his mother, taking in the sights of the big exposition and hoping-but almost hopeessly-that perhaps he might by chance run tip on the great king of the movies knowing that he was in that part of the country.
 It never could have been planned if 1t had it wouldn't have taken place, be- cause MT. Chaplin makes himself, so I've been told, 'tactfully inaccessible to most people-all, pethaps. except the children, whom he loves. because he says they have practically made" him and established his reputation.
 Francis may have aspired to be hero at an early age, or he may not, but
 Tate decreed that he should be. for since his return from the west. and since his little playmates and friends have learned that he has met the most popular movie starr of inc day, he has become even more than a hero in the eyes of the Birmingham ''kiddiesl'
 It certainly was a distinction which anybody might be envied, for when you stop to consider that Charlie Chaplin to- day is better known than any other per son in tho world, you might say, ''the President of the United States" the Kaiser Lord Kitchener. William Jen- nings Bryan or George H. Conan, it cer- tainly means something to meet him.
 Not only is Charlie Chaplin, whose sense of humor somebody has wittily said, was horn in a garbage can, whose physique is a cross between rag doll and assault and battery, and whose feet look like ani- mated baby coffins.'' the idol of the hour in America, bul he has captured the stern, placid English people by his wild antics and foolish fun. In London. so the crit ics tell us, there is a positive dementia rampant on the subject of the Cinemas S greatest comic mime, ard everywhere you go the dignified Londoners are talking about Charlie and buying Charlie Chaplin souvenirs, staruettes, post cards, Htera- ture and anything that reminds them of this wonderful comedian's talent; in fact, he is considered the greatest anti-war medicine that the English people have yet diiccverec.
 Tell me Just bow 1t all happened" asked young MI. Croclari yesterday. when he vas telling me about his meet ing with MT. Chapiin
 His bright eyes gleamed and his nushed cheeks and smiling face told the story almost before he uttered the words.
 Tt was very simple" said our youth ful hero. We had arrived in Los An geles only little while before and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-26

I was sitting in the foyer of the Alex andria talking to little girl, when the hotel clerk came over and told us that Charlie Chaplin was standing near the desk. and if we'd like to meet him he would introduce us Of course, We accepted the invitation, and wien we were introduced MT. Chaplin shook hands with us and begun to make all those funny faces and shuffle his feet about just like he does in the pie lures, and he was just as funny as he is on the screen"
 His brother Syd Chaplin. asked for our names and addresses, and said that Charlie would send us an autographed photograph" Francis continued land that pleased us very much. We talked to Charlie about his plays and he talked more about Work than he did anything else. Have you seen him in that?'
 I said I>had-I'm a Charlie Chaplin fan" good and proper, and I haven't missed many of his plays so I asked Francis if Work was Charlie's favor ite, and he said that he didn't say SO, but he talked great deal about it.
 I was quite delighted to have a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-26

ing: What is the best way to teach obed- ienves? How may I help my little girl to enjoy doing housework? Should a boy be allowed to handle a gun? Snou.c children be paid for doing chores? How can selfishness in child of be cured
 Two other books issued by the Amerl- can Institute of Child Life are Manual of Play and Manual of Stories,'' both by MT. Forbush.
 The pamphlets cover the same subject and many others. Only few are listed here: "Dramatics in the Home," Truth Telling and Problem of Children's Lies, T Punishment of Children" "The Picture Hour in the Home.' The Religion of a Little Child,' The Problems of Fight ing" Sex Discipline for Boys in the Home. Sunday in the Home Nursery Arts and Crafts" "The Mother as Play. fellow, The Education of the Child from to g. and Money Making and Thrift for School Boys and Girls
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-26
WORKING UP-THE MOTHER
By CARL II. MILAN
 Director bile Library

This title has been used before but the books mentioned in this article are all new There are the books issued by the American Institute of Child Life. and cover as will be seen, every phase Of child-chiId training.
 "The Guide Book to Childnood," new edition, 1915. by William Byron Forbush. president of the institute. Is book oi 557 pages It ''has two purposes: first, to pack into the smallest possible compass a compendium of information about child hood, and. second, to give parents the most practical answers to the thousand and one problems of bringing up chii- dren.'
 An interesting feature of the DOCK IS the "chart and compass" of childhood and youth, which tells the mother what her child ought to be, and do and know at any given age; also what the mother should do to develop the child physical ly. mentally and morally.
 The character of the questions an- severed may be indicated by the follow
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-26

-"heart to heart talk' with someone who, in turn, had had a "heart to heart with the great MT. Chaplin himself, for I heard many interesting things about our hero of filmland," and l also found out that many of the reports about him are without foundations; such for instance, as those that would have us believe that he is deaf and dumb, crazy, married, knock kneed, and pigeon-toed
 Instead I learned through my young townsman who is an unusually clever, intelligent and observant lad. that our friend, Charlie Chaplin, is quite a nice, likable chap, honest in his work, In so far he really does wish to please and amuse-especially the "kiddies" whom he adores.
 And listen girls, he's wearing a ;'real' moustache now you know for a long time that funny little attempt at "Mustachios" was only another of the eccentric comedians affectations, but since he has been out in Los Ange- les working in the Essanay studios he has decided that besides raising cain" he would also raise moustache and he has!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-26

plantations. These negroes would show
 up missing one, two or three days out
 of every week. At other times they would
 be tired and worn out and unfit for the
 days work. With their customary se-
 cretiveness they would either lie or say
 nothing. Such is the negro's nature. He
 is suspicious of everybody around him,
 but will believe anything a stranger tells
 him. Every negro in that part of the
 country has implicit faith in pr. Light
 ming, and they show their faith by their
 works. They have dug some 200 feet into
 the solid lime rock and are still working.
 The hole is about 10 feet square, 1t goes first horizontally into the hill. then down, then horizontal asain. Every bit of this work has been done by pick and shovel. day crew works 10 hours and is fol- lowed by a night crew The negroes work as negroes seldom work-with purpose.
 Dr. Lightning may be crazy, he may be fool, but he is a financier or a sorcerer, for he has not paid a cent for labor. He l promises to pay his laborers S2.5O day, and bonus when gold is found Not | only does he hire his labor on credit but l he makes his laborers feed him. Dr. | Lightning is as fond of chicken as Meth odist preacher, so he tells the negroes that
 the man who gives him the most chicken | will be amply rewarded when goia .s | found. The situation is amusing or would 1 be if it were not so pathetic 1t reminds
 us that the white men still have their l burden and that tkey must take care 1 of it. The negroes are here to stay and | it Is much better to make gocS citizens 1 of them through a little education, than
 to let them remain the ignorant dupes
 of every schooner that comes along
 | In the meantime, Dr. Lightning and his dusky crews work on hoping that old
 Mother Earth will eventually yield up an | abundance of gold. so that each of them can enjoy those things of which they dream. The end will probably be that Dr. 1 Lightning will find out first that their
 quest is vain and slip away as he came or it may be that if the negroes realize | first that they have been fooled, pr. Lightning may likewise disappear.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-26
Drug Victims! Would You
 Like To Be Free Aeain?

What would you give to shakss6ff the drug habft-to be a free man--to be your own true self again? Wouldn't freedom from the drug habit be the most prized thing in life?
 We'll. you can be free Dr. Power Gribble's treatment. the result ox nfteen years experience, brings Freedom to drug, liquor and tobacco sddfcts. 1t tones up system. removing demand for drugs. No withdrawal pains. no tor that we can cure any habit that the patient can deposit price of sanitertum treatment with q bank to be paid over cure. The patient ts the sole. judge. Also home treatment for those who pos itively can't come to Santtarium. sent in riain w~spper. ado ss . sl-As : croft Sanitarium. box @. stattoo S. Nashville. Tenn.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-26

That's why "Gets-It" has become the selling corn remedy in the world, pre- lerred by millions. Do you remember that toe-eatfng salve you tried. that sticky tape. that toe -bundling bandage the gouging you've done with knives raxors and scissors? We'll now forget them all No more fussing, no more pam Whenever you use simple easy
 Gets-It' the corn is doomed, sure. So is every callus, -,wart or. bunion. Never cut corns. or ca1luses. it makes them danger of blood poison. No cutting is necessary by using "Gets-It.". Use 1t to .utEht and end your corny existence.
 bottle, or sent direct by E. Lawrence < O.. Chicago Sold in Birmingham and recommended as the worlds best corn Gale Drug Go. (two stores), So7 First avenue and Pratt Station, Pratt City,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-26
The Alassama Great southern Railroad
 Company

BIrmingham Ala. Sept. 21. 1915
 The annual meeting of stockholders of the Alabama Great Southern Rail- road company. for election of direct ors and the transaction of such other business as may be brought before the meeting, will be held at the office of the company, room 1214. American Trust and Savings bank building, Bir- mingham, Ala, on Wednesday, October G, 1915 at 10 o'clock. a. m.
 9-25-12t r. S.. WYNN. Sec'y.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-26

too, who first thought of decorating plates with cigar labels, thing which has quite
 caught on" with the result that some really handsome designs have been pro- duced. Giles also made quite lifelike
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-26

locomotive out of covers of the Strand Magazine" whose delighted proprietors lost no time in publishing a photograph of this paper 'engine.' and, no doubt, did not forget to remunerate the inventor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-26
Corn Limpers! Use
 "Gets-lt" and Smile!
Corns Come Right Off, Clean and Quick l! You Needn't Limp Fuss With
 Your Csrns Any More!

Whats the use of spelling a good time Ior yourself by limping around with Iierce corns? It's one of the easiest lhlngs in the world, now, to get rid of them. "Gets-It" does it the new way
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-02-12
BOYS AND
GIRLS CLUBS
ORGANIZED
AGRICULTURAL AGENT SCOTT
AND MRS. NlBLACk HAVE Or
GANlZED FOUR THIS WEEK
WITH A GOOD MEMBERSHIP.

Farm agent Scott and Mrs Niblack
who has charge of the girls canning
and poultry clubs of the county, have
organized four new clubs this week
in the following places with a good
membership: Mt. Washington, Rocky
Point, Hignight, and Prairie Valley.
Mrs. Niblack has charge of the girls
canning and poultry club and Mr.. Scott
the boys cotton, corn, kaffr and pig
clubs.
Mr.. Scott stated this morning that
a great deal of interest was being
manifested in the pig club movement,
and that the boys were going to show
some OF the elders that it pays to raise
hogs on a scientific basis, starting, of
course with blooded stock Mr.. Scott
stated that several OF the local mer-
chants would assist the boys in this
work, If application was made the
same as the merchants of Oklahoma
City are assisting the boys of that
county, and the ultimate result would
be worth many times the cost to the
county in the near future Agent Scott
stated that he hoped to see by an
other year every farmer in the county
have meat to sell instead of buying,
as many are doing at present, and the
quickest way to accomplish this, he
says is through the boys pig clubs
that will surely get the grown people
interested in their work.
The work of organization at every
school house in the county will be con-
tinued next week.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-02-12
PRESIDENT OF UNITED STATES
SUBSCRIBER TO ARDMORElTE

To Miss Mary Maxwell, the enter
prising little contestant from Sulphur
is due the credit of securing a sub
scription to The Ardmoreite for Presi-
dent Woodrow Wilson.
Miss Maxwell secured the suhscrip-
tion in connection with her campaign
for trip to the Panama Pacific EX-
position, where she hopes to see the
President among other notables.
Miss Maxwell is the daughter of the
late T. A. Maxwell, the first sheriff of
Murray County, and, like her father,
possesses a pleasant personality which
ngratiates herself into the favor of
everyone who knows her.
Perhaps" said Miss Maxwell,
some day our beloved President, af-
ter he has retired from the strenuous
services of our country, will want to
seek rest and the recuperation of his
tired nerves, and he will recall the
Indian legend about what is now the
Platt National Park"
when the warriors had gathered
together their venison and ripened
corn, they trailed together in the foot
steps of their ancestors to the peace
full valley of Ripping Waters and
there in the shade of many trees they
sat and talked of war and conquest
Then it was that old men grew young
again, and fretful papooses ceased
their whining"
The President is on our list of sub
scribers, and the first copies will reach
him of the beginning of the great serial
story of BLACK is White" by George
Barr McCutcheon, the eminent author,
whom the President will doubtless
highly appreciate as contemporary
author.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-02-12
NO COMP PRQMISE
ON THE SHIP
PURCHASE BILL
PRESIDENT WILSON REJECTS
THE COMPROMISE PLAN EVolV-
ED BY THE DEMOCRATIC LEAD
ERS LAST NIGHT.

Washington, d. c., Feb. 12.-Presi-
dent Wilson today rejected the com
promise ship purchase bill, evolved by
the democratic house leaders last
night.
He refused also to agree to an
amendment terminating the govern
ment activities in the shipping busi-
ness two years after the war closes.
The presidents objection disrupts
the leaders plans completely to pass
the bill. They were confident that
it would pass with the time limitation
attached.
The president proposed instead an
amendment creating a merchant aux
iliary to the navy, to be used at
discretion, creating navy for pas
sengers or freight.