The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-05-05

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Gee. guess l must have over
washed"
'No, have not made much garden
this spring." admits Hum Dinger,
"and don't propose to do SO as long
as have to wear an overcoat while
/ WELD the hoe. Newton Kansan.
He may not be the smartest man
on earth, but the man who knows
enough to attend to his own business
will get by very nicely.-Marysville
Advocate.
A recollection by Ernest r. Trim
mer of the Cove City Republican-Ga-
zette when kids voice begins to
change, he hunts out all the rain bar
rels in town to yell down and hear
the echo"
The blame for the recent Wilson
county cyclone has been fixed, notes
the Coffeyville Journal. 1t started
in Elk county. In the Journals Opin-
ion, is everything that starts in Elk
county a cyclone?
A dog owned by H. A. Marker Of
Jewell City recently lost leg. Then
it disappeared. Several times 1t has
been reported dead. The body has
never been brought in for identified
ton. The dog is now officially known
about town as the late Villa.
G. F. Scott has observed that Sin
the matter of graduating the dande-
lion 1t is we'll to remember that one
Industrious boy with butcher knife
beats the most fluent profanity in the
world"
One thing as sure as death and
taxes, says the Arkansas City News, is
that the double crosser will eventual
ly get dose of his own medicine.
But sometimes 1t seems an awful long
time taking hold"
The story of how the young folks
attending Kansas schools and col
leges are earning their own way was
printed again Sunday, for the fifth
time since January /. The story is
always good, because 1t is such news
to the parents back home.
The teacher of the civics class in
the Horton high school asked this
question the other day: I'm case all
the cabinet officers died, who would
officiate?" And the class star an
swered: 1.-THE undertaken. Bon
ner Springs Chieftain.
Even though we recognize our kin
ship with her we sometimes are in
clined to censure Eve for being dis
contented in Eden; with no taxes
to pay. no clothes to buy, and no
spring housecleaning to upset the
peaceful routine of the way of life
Mother" in Leavenworth Times.
The Fort Scott Tribune Is in favor
OF watchful waiting as regards Mex
leo and Germany, but is unwilling to
have the policy applied to the discov-
cry of the New York man who claims
to have found a way to operate an
eight-cylinder car on hydrant water.
The chief of police in Atchison has
declared a state of war on certain
kinds of tooth paste. He says they
contain habit forming drugs. The
reason he knows is that he recently
learned that certain woman In that
city uses lot of tooth paste, and she
never brushed her teeth in her life.
ihO iopOho O1piIoi LOS idith III
home celebrities. 1t believes that
the $250,O0O estate left by Richard
Harding Davis is only pin money to
what Walt Mason has stacked up in
Emporia banks and municipal bonds,
not to mention old socks, teapots, etc.
In order that their city may not be
too severely put upon, having all 1t
can do to stand up under the strain
of the Soldiers Home, two peniten-
tiaries, and the military post, the
Leavenworth Times urges the citizens
to show what little civic pride they
may have left in refusing to make
Leavenworth comfortable for tramps.
AT the trial Of particularly re-
voting case in Beloit last week the
Call reporter noticed mors than a
score of eager listeners, who ordi-