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The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-02-26
How Editors Get Rich.

It is not good policy to give business
secrets away, but as many people won
der how editors get rich so quick, we
give out the following information, re-
marks the editor Of the Paxton (In.)
Register, hoping that every one Of our
readers viii not take advantage of this
and engage in the newspaper business:
ga fellow terming himself 'Gander-
bones Forecast located at st. Louis,
offers to furnish US a lot of poetry and
other silly stuff, if we viii only run an
advertisement In the Register each
week.
ga fellow out West wants US to run
lot of advertising for him for nothing,
and if it results he may become Gus
toner.
GA gun firm wants US to run SIG
worth of advertising and then send it
S19 in exchange for a shotgun. Such
a gun would retail at about Sc. For
running SIT worth Of locals we can get
a 81 magazine telling US how to do
dressmaking at home. By running $50
worth of advertising and sending s25 to
an Atlantic City firm we viii be given
q deed to lot. When the tide is in the
lot stands six feet under water.
"a Kansas real-estate firm will give
US deed to lot p by go feet for $40
worth Of advertising and SIS cash. We
wrote to fellow who knew of the lots
offered and he replied that they had no
cash value, but a trading value Of
about S..
eff we can run column write-up of
a doings to be held ii North Dakota
this fall, amounting to about 81, we
viii be sent, two 81 tickets. Our rail
road fare up there and back, for two,
would be about $50. We can have al
most any Chicago daily paper sent Us
free. The subscription is only s., but
all we have to DO Is to run ss6 worth Of
locals.
'sFor $40 worth OF advertising and
s25 cash We can own a bicycle. The
wheel sslls ct just SD. About one
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-02-26
SUNFLOWER PETALS.
Plucked by the Golden Belt Spectator.

The Spectator has no advice to offer
the county attorney in regard to the
cigarette problem in Hays.
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Nothing must be touched on the table
until the signal is given for all to COM
mence eating. From the rules and
regulations of the Kansas state peni-
tertiary.
The penitentiary is controlled by the
Board of Corrections. The warden
evidently has hard time entertaining
at Lansing as some hosts do in Hays.
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''To many churches" is the argu-
ment of lazy church members of a de-
/ caying church.
The way to mans heart may be
through his stomach, but the Specta-
tor believes that it must first be paved
by good grocer.
The most powerful man in England
is a newspaper man, Lord Northcliffe.
To look at his picture is to learn that
there is no long line of aristocracy back
of him. He can do things. The arts
/ tocrat remembers things.
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Many men doubt the freedom of the
will and prove the basis of their doubt
by pointing to the Nemesis they mar
ried.
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Wedding Anniversaries may be al
right, but the Spectator wishes to sug
gest that the parties TO some of the ole
affairs in Hays celebrate the anniver
saries of engagements.
OOoO
! Because some persons can sing up tC
high OBJ they tkink they are highbroV
artists.
A reader of this column told the Spec
tator this week that other people thinl
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-02-26
Gss at Manhattan.

MANHATTAN, KAN Feb. 19.-That
gas has been discovered nine miles
southeast of Manhattan was the re-
port received here this afternoon.
J. L. Ingalls,, while boring a well on
the Coons farm, near Deep Greek,
struck loose stratum OF shale through
which the Igas is pouring. There is
water In the well. When the water Is
pumped low enough, the gas causes a
roaring noise that can be heard for a
distance of 200 feet from the mouth of
the well. With several feet OF water
in the well, the gas bubbles up, caus-
ing the water to boil.
No attempt has been made to retain
the escaping gas and no one has had
the temerity 70 attempt TO light 1t TO
see whether or not it Is indammable.
The well is On the eighty acre farm
owned by John Coons, q Manhattan
grocer.
The well Is ffty-fve feet deep, but
biologists say that the gas probably
has come from much lower level and
are certain that by boring deep enough
gas IN sufficiently large quantities 70 be
6 eoUmeroiai valus VIII be fc1nd.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-02-26

civilization. Only in 1914, when the
German Kaiser had forced this afro
cious war upon the world, did his agents
proclaim that they had built up so pow
erful an organization that it would COM
pei Us to do his bidding. This is the
testimony of q diplomat at the center
OF things, cecil experienced, widely hon
ored and slngularly successful IN all his
foreign diplomacy, a man who had oniy
one ambition to servehis country. The
policy pursued so relentlessly for quar-
ter of a century is not easily changed
especially when powerful dynasty is
based upon it. The moral is so obvious
that the country only needs to know
the facts.-Henry A Stimson From
the Congregatiohallst.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-02-26
How canada and U. S. do il.

War is one method of settling dis
Putes between the people of two neigh
boring nations, but it is not the only
way, writes Lawrence J. Burpee n a
significantly suggestive article IN the
American Review of Reviews for Feb
ruary, entitled, ''Our Canadian-Ameri-
can High Court. Neither is it in the
long run the most sensible or effective
OF economical way. Here is an alter
native plan,-an experiment, If you
hke,-which the two English speaking
countries of North America committed
themselves to some five years ago, and
which has ever since been running so
smoothly and noiselessly that ninety
nine people out of any hundred on this
continent have never even heard Of It.
At Washington, on January II, 1909,
James Bryce, then British Ambassador
TO the United States, and Elihu Root,
secretary OF the state, signed what is
known as Waterways Treaty. This
treaty embodied the results of several
years negotiation between American
/
Canadian on the other. 1t disposed of
several vexed questions that had been
more or less at issue between the
! United States and Canada, but it went
much farther than that. It created an
/ international commission, consisting of
three Americans and three Canadians,
and vested in that body such powers
and responsibilities as it it is safe to
say have never before In the worlds
! history been entrusted to a similar tri-
bunal- The preamble Of the treaty sets
forth its general objects, ''to prevent
! disputes regarding the use of boundary
waters and to settle all questions which
are now pending between the United
| States and the Dominion involving the
rights, obligations, or interests of
either IN relation to the other or to the
! inhabitants OF the other, along their
common frontier, and to make provision
for the adjustment and settlement OF
all such questions as may hereafter
arise The language of the preamble
is significant 1t provides for the set
Element Of present and future matters
of difference between the two countries
but it puts first OF all the prevention Of
disputes. And it is just there that the
child OF the waterways treaty, the in
ternational joint commission, finds its
greatest field of usefulness. 1t has al
already settled a number Of matters of
difference, and doubtless viii dispose of
many more In the future, but its su-
preme value to the United States and
Canada lies IN the fact that its mere
existence has an increasing tendency
TO prevent such disputes. Journ-
al
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-02-26
The German Menace y

If those of your readers who are
stirred up over Preparedness will
take the trouble to read chapter xviii
on the German menace In Thayer's new
Life of John Hay they will learn
something that will cause them to pause
IN their condemnation of the Admins
tration, if it does not open their eyes.
There they will read the Kaiser's pur-
poses against the United States from
the day of his coronation when in reply
to his assertion that his will was abso-
lutte law and he held theslife and death
OF German In the hollow of his hand.
the rtled-Germans said that he did
not really mean that; or that he was
neurotic, and German-Americans said
that they took no stock in mediaeva-
ism" He went on informing his sub
jects of the omnipotence of himself and
God, until he could leave out God and
be sufficient in himself.
In 1895 in connection with the orpani-
cation of the German Navy League.
the organizing of German-Americans by
agents from Germany began. The
United States was filed with them. and
the German propaganda sedulously
pushed Hay was in Europe in 1896
and learned what the new move was.
When Ambassador two years later, he
came to know of the undisguieed attempt
of the German Emperor to persuade
England to join in a coalition against
US IN favor of Spain, and of the remark
of the Kaiser eff had a larger feet I
would have taken Uncle Sam by the
scruf of the neck
Then came the performance of the
German Admiral in Manila BAY: and
IN 1899 Hays report of the Germans
bullying and staggering about our
meats In1901 German warships sought
a naval base in the Santa Margarita
Islands of the coast of Venezuela, and
the Kaiser secretly negotiated for the
purchase of two harbors on the coast of
Lower California for his own personal
use" whatever that meant. In 1902
when England and Italy consented to
come to an understanding in the Vene-
zuela matter Germany refused and
President Roosevelt gave her ten DAYS
IN which to withdraw her ships, and
when Ambassador Holleben, after a
week had passed, reported that the
Emperor had given orders and 'fcould
not change his mind" he was prompt
thy told that if in 48 hours Germany did
not agree to arbitration Dewey's feet
would sail. At the end of thirty-six
hours, the Ambassador reported the
Kaiser's orders TO agree to the terms,
and the case went to the Hague; and
the Kaiser learned that the Monroe
doctrine would be enforced.
Then followed the visit of King Hen
ry with the distribution of honors to
COMMUNICATIONS and the effort to
stimulate pro-Hohenzellern enthusiasm
Count Won BuIow devoted himself to
recovering the ''lost" German, for the
Fatherland. During his ten years
service he encouraged the Kaiser
growing ambition. served as the med
ium between the militarists, the great
manufacturers and the Kaiser and
pushed the Pan-German propaganda
from the stage of dreams to that of
unrestrained impulse Won Holleben
has done everything in his power to
to carry out Won Bulow's campaign in
America
This Hays story. He recognized
that such a sovereign working on such
a pebble might become a danger to
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-02-26

dozen firms are wanting to give US
shares IN gold mines for advertising!
A nursery firm viii send US a 25-cent
rose bush for only S. worth of adver-
Using. For running a six-inch adver-
tisement for one year we get a gross
of pills. ''-Centreville, (Mich.) Obser-
var
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-02-26
MuIatto.

The word 'mulatto" is equivalent to
the term "halfbreed." 1t usually re-
fers to the cross between the white
and black races The term mulatto
negro" therefore means a person who
is part negro and part white. The
term does not apply to the crossing
between other races.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-02-26

The most pathetic word in our Ian
guage is ''nevermore. 1t has such a
finality to it. 1t has sobs, regrets and
forevers in it. 1t suggests partings,
disappointments, and hopelessness. 1t
makes you think of Dante and his dark
and gloomy thinking. do not like the
word.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-02-26

When you meet man who acts and
thinks as though the world were treat
ing him as if he were living example
of. the passive voice, you have found
a man who believes society is using
him as blood sacrifice on the alter of
hate.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-02-26

Remember that chevrons rot IN the
coffin; that the ear of death is dull; that
the praises you speak of the deceased
are useless speak your words of ap-
probation for the living, and give your
bouquets now.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-02-26

Stability is the best kind of ability.
Where growth ends, decay begins
When great men are scarce the aver
age man is at premium. Prejudice is
an unreasonable reason.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1916-01-01
New Shaft at the Aurora.

Work will be commenced at once
on new four-eompartment shaft at
the Aurora mine. operated by the Oil
yer Iron Mining Company. The shaft
will be lined with steel and concrete,
and it's dimensions and construction
will be similar to New c" of the
East Norrie mine, which was recent
ly completed.
The new shaft at the Aurora mine
willbe known as e." and will be
located $50 feet southeast of old No. /
at a point Immediately east of the
blacksmith shop. Ii win have an in
cline Of IS degrees from perpendeul-
ar. The size is to be 10 feet inches
by 10 feet. 1t VIII be necessary to re-
move number of residences to make
way for the shaft and for necessary
stockpile room.
In the sinking of "E" shaft, "rais-
ing" will be carried on from the 18th
and 18th levels as well as the sink
ing" from surface. The present plan
is to sink the shaft to depth of ESQ
feet. Eventually this shaft Will sup
plant No and "A" shafts, and per
init the removal Of the pillars now
protecting these outlets.
-Ironwood News Record.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1916-01-01
SATURDAY, JANUARY /, 1916.
HULLlNo WALNUTs.

Two boys with a little wagon full
OF green walnuts, hu1ling them IA the
back alley, is one of the grandest ex.
iperiences of this mortal career. There
is not much OF this Joy these days,
says Ohio State Register. The
boys now haven't the time and
patience TO build precarious wagon,
pull it to tho woods and return with
1t filed with big nuts with their hand,
staining hulls. We haven't seen boys
so happy for many day as those two
boys hulling the green walnuts. And
then, when they are hulled, to spread
them out on the kitchen or shed roof
was an event so crowded with antici-
patton that it filled the coming winter
days with golden summer. A pan OF
cracked walnuts of an evening, about
which the children would gather be-
fore going to bed, was an ancient GUS
TOM whose memory will ever remain
delicious delight. We fear the boys
OF today are not as enterprising and
diligent as they were forty or fifty
years ago, when they not only gath.
cred walnuts, but constructed the lit.
tie wagons to haul them in. Those
solid wheels, those creaky axles, that
frail and awkward bed, was a greater
achievement in those days than twin.
six auto is in these degenerate times.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1916-01-01
Courses in Practical Farming.

Taking the short course to the farm
boy when lie cannot go to the Short
course, is the way Wisconsin is try
ing to make a sure thing of its agri-
cultural education. ,ff
In eight of the counties whichs have
agricultural representative special
courses in practical farming have
been given for the past two years to
boys and girls from the farms. These
courses have consisted of two winter
terms of seven weeks each and are
given at the respective county seats.
The good work doesn't stop when
the school term closes, however.
Home projects, known as "follow-up
work" carry the lessons back to the
farms, there to aid in the building of
a silo, the making of a manure pit,
the keeping of farm records and ae-
counts, or the growing of alfalfa to
restore soil fertility.
Besides this detailed project work
the farmer is apt to find that his boy
possesses working knowledge of
many new kinks" of handy and
labor-saving nature, such as dehorn-
ing a calf with caustic potash, Spite
ing the hay rope, or tying some new
knots, all of which is of great value
to everyday life on the home place.
A further step in bringing the reg
ular short course at Madison within
easier reach of the country boy in re-
mote districts takes effect this win
ter. BY means of new ruling, APP
proved by the board of regents, grad
yates of count short courses in agri-
culture are entitled upon passing a
satisfactory examination, to enter the
second year of the short course at the
college of agriculture.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1916-01-01
Decrease in Mine Fatalities.

A most gratifying decrease is re-
ported in fatalities among men EN-
ployed in the mines and quarries of
the United States by Van H. Man
ming, director of the bureau of mines.
The report, which covers the year
1914, shows that 458 fewer men were
killed in the mines and quarries than
in the year 1913. The number of men
who lost their lives in coal, iron and
metal mines and quarries was 3,193,
compared with 1861 in the previous
year.
The totals do not by any means
tell the whole story" said Director
Manning. fThere were more than a
million men employed in these mines
and quarries, and the death rate for
the year 1914 was $40 for each 1000
men employed, as compared with 8.
40 for the year 1918. These figures
mean that in every 5000 men engaged
in mining, one man was saved in the
last year. In other words in nearly
every mining camp ofany size in the
country, there is one miner spared to
his family, who would have been kill
led had the same fatality rate OBJ
tanned in 1914 as in the previous year
THESE results are an eloquent tri-
butte to the unceasing nationwide
campaign which is being carried on in
behalf of the miners by the operators
the miners themselves, the state mine
inspectors and the Bureau of Mines.
1t has taken the combined efforts of
all these agencies to bring this about,
and the Bureau of Mines is indeed
proud of its share in it, and exceed
ingly grateful to the state mine in
spectors and others who have so will
lingly co-operated toward this desir-
able end
Il think it is to the credit of Anne
rican manhood and American ideals
that while the European nations at
war are issuing their terrible casual
ty lists with the names of killed and
wounded by the thousands. we have
so many agencies striving not to kill,
but to save life and that we can issue
lists showing a dwindling, decreas-
ing death rate in our American mines.
| do not mean by this that we have in
any way reached ideal conditions.
More than three men killed out of
every 900 employed in the mines is
too big percentage of death. 1t in
cludes much more than the natural
hazards of the industry. What we
are striving for is to get the rate
down to that point and with the loyal
assistance we are receiving from so
many sources, we expect to accomp-
lish that much"
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1916-01-01
"We" and "They."

In the smaller towns and country dis
tricts people say I'VE" when they speak
of governmental activity. I'VE" built
the courthouse and got 1t done at low
cost I'VE" organized the high school
We" pay the expenses of keeping pris-
oners in the Jail.
In the big cities people say they"
why don't they do thus and sop
People wonder when the city govern
ment falls down. 1t isn't a personal
matter with them. The government
isn't their government 1t belongs to
somebody else.
There is a world Of difference in the
two attitudes. When the people of the
cities get to saying we" about their
cities and counties. then they are going
to clean house and take possession
Kansas City Star.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1916-01-01
STRIFE IN The CABINET.
Washington Had Troubles of His Own
In His Official Family.

To represent the factions fairly,
Washington chose for his cabinet four
men who could not have differed more
in character had he summoned them
from the ends of the earth.
For secretary of state he chose JEFF
ferson, the ardent theorist who had
done his country the service of formu-
ating the Declaration of Independence
and was perhaps better known abroad
than any American save the aged
Franklin. For secretary of the treas
ury be called to him the phenomenal
Hamilton, with the frame of lad and
the intellect of a giant, to whom 1t
was given to perform miracles with an
empty exchequer The secretary of
war was General Knox, large and
snowy, but, despite his pompous speech
and grandly fourishing cane, man of
experience not only in battle, but In
administering this same office under
the Continental congress. The attor-
ney general was Edmund Randolph.
who proved Of weaker moral fiber than
the others.
Jefferson was the strong opposing
personality Of the administration. He
had little patience with General Knox,
whom he called "a man OF parade"
and he and Hamilton quarreled almost
daily upon every conceivable topic, for
Hamilton, F'ederalist to the core by
instinct and conviction, became as IN
eyitably spokesman for the party In
power.
Even Washington could not preserve
harmony in such a cabinet, and before
the end of his first term both Hamilton
and Jefferson resigned. Afterward the
president had still greater difficulty
with his council. His critics tainted
him with being able to get only second
rate men to fill their places, and Vice
President Adams asserted that 1t was
this, not high devotion to principle.
that caused him to refuse third term.
But Adams was neither generous nor
always just In his estimate Of others
Helen Nicolay in Century Magazine.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1916-01-01
What the Knife Said.

Some folks want funny inscriptions
engraved on their silver" said the
ieweler. Take wedding knives. Many
wedding cakes are such mountainous
affairs that special knife is required
TO cut them. One of last months
brides cut her cake with n knife that
was a present from her aunt. guess
not many of the guests got TO read the
inscription. If they had they would be
talking about 1t yet. These knives are
supposed to be used for cutting the
brides cake and then laid on the shelf
for the rest of the time, but the aunt
couldn't distinguish, apparently. be-
tween wedding and birthday cakes, for
she made US engrave on the knife,
May l serve thee wen and often ~
New York Press.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1916-01-01

Prot is the center of an important
Ser7ian industry. Prot carpets, blue
and red. are to be found in every Ser
Wan home and have gained fame be-
yond the Balkans, They nearly all
are made In private houses, entirely
by hand. often without even a shuttle.
the workers using no patterns, but ar
tlstic instinct producing harmonious
results. The art has been acquired
no doubt from the Turks. who learned
it from the PersianS, but Pirot carpets
have qualities Of their own, Colors
and materials are so strong that 1t is
almost impossible to wear them out
London Chronicle.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1916-01-01

While people are eating peaches.
how many of them stop to think of
the history of the peach? Very few,
of course. for the number of folks who
care about peaches is greater than
that of folks who care about history.
Nevertheless it is interesting to many
TO know that the peach Is not aborig-
inal TO America. but was brought here
from China 1t must be admitted by
even the bitterost enemies of Chinese
immigration. and assisted immigra-
ton. that the peach is Chinese i'm
migrant and an assisted immigrant
that could not we'll be spared.