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The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-06-09
HAIL HURTS KANSAS WHEAT
Loss in Barton and Rush Counties
May Amount to $1,o00,000--
Many Houses Damaged.

The hailstorm which visited Barton
and Rush counties the other night did
damage estimated at more than $780,.
600 In Barton county, and probably
was worse in Rush county. A mes
sage from La Crosse states that the
central part of the county was badly
hailed out, and at Bison there is a
big loss practically to every wheat
grower.
In Barton county there seemed to
be two storms at about the same time.
Each covered territory about four
miles wide and about twenty miles
long. Not all the wheat in the path
of the storm was hit, but large part
of 1t was. In Great Bend few houses
escaped damage. Two thousand dol
lars worth of art windows in two Of
the churches were broken. The dam
age at the Great Bend greenhouse
was very heavy, practically all Of
the glass being broken.
The most of the wheat taken was
insured against hail. The hail insur-
ance men have had the busiest day
they have ever known.
X X
Shelters Raise Wagess-The United
States Smelling Company, the Prime
Western Spelter Company and the La
Harpe Zinc Company have announced
voluntary advance in wages of from
20 to 80 cents a day, according to-
the class of service given.
X X X
Florence Boy Drowned-Alpha Jack.
son, 11-year-old son of Albert Jack
son, was drowned five miles south Of
Florence recently while swimming In,
Spring creek.
Voted High School Bonds-An cleo
ton was held at Harper recently to
vote $4,000 worth of bonds to build
a new high school building, The
bonds carried, 215 to 8. Less than
half the vote of the city was cast.
Work on the new building will begin
| this summer.
Want Merle Thorpe-Prof. Merle
Thorpe, head of the department Of
journalism at the University of Kan
sas, has returned from Washington,
d. c., where he received an offer Of
the position of editor Of the Nations
Business, the official publication of
the Chamber of Commerce of the Unit
ed States. Professor Thorpe said he
would confer with Chancellor Frank
Strong and the Kansas board of adj
ministration regarding years leave
of absence Professor Thorpe came
to the University of Kansas from
Washington university in 1911.
X kk
Pioneer Jeweler Dead-Alexandel
Il Marks, 20 years old, jeweler, is dead
at his home in Lawrence. He came
to Lawrence as jewelers. appren-
tice in 1858 and later opened jew
elry store which he owned until his
death
t{a ar X X r
i Graduation at Pittsburg Normal
Two hundred and eighteen students
were graduated from the State Man
ual Training Normal at Pittsburg this
year. Forty received the degree o.
bachelor OF science, while more thar
= IT'S received life certificates to teach
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-06-09
Hog Prices Going Up.

Oklahoma City.-Grady county bid
for fame at the stock yards when R. A.
Lyle, one of its leading stock farm,
ers, arrived with nine-car shipment
of hogs, the largest ever consigned
by one man to this market and prob
ably the largest that has ever sold
above $3.50 cwt. anywhere IN the
United States. There was 734 head
in the lot and they averaged 2oS
pounds here, selling at $685. for three
loads and $9.52h for six loads. The
drove crossed $4,000
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-06-09
May Receipts Fifth More.

Oklahoma City.-Postal receipts at
the local office in May. 1916, will ex-
coed those of May, 1915, by 20 per
cent, and the income for the first FIVE
month of the year will exceed that
of the corresponding period in 1915 by
nearly 20 per cent. Assistant Post
master John Graham estimated the
months receipts at $45,260. The cor.
responding month year ago showed
income of but s96,S72,22, making an in.
crease of $S,SS7.7S. The average
monthly increase for the past year
has been 10 per cent.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-06-09
Three Drowned Near Ardmore.

Ardmore.-Claude Stubblefield, his
daughter, Claudia, II years old, and
Georgia Mansfield, 10 years old, were
drowned in Hickory creek, nine miles
southwest Of Ardmore. The young
women while wading stepped into a
deep hole. Stubblefield went to their
rescue and the frightened young
women seized him in such manner
that he could rescue neither them nor
himself. Mrs. Stubblefield drove an
automobile one mile for assistance,
and the bodies were recovered.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-06-09

Liberal Democrat.
Passed the Council June 6, 1915. K
Approved by Mayor. June g. 1916.
C. D. GASAWAY, Mayor.
Attest: JENNIE KARAU,
City Clerk.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-08-10

shows that stand it real well. took
the Compound when my ten year old
daughter came and It helped me q lot.
I have also had my Oldest girl take It
and it did her lots of good. keep 1t in
the house all the time and recommend
it."-Mrs. DEWITT SNcEBAUGH, West
Dandy, N. Y.
Sleeplessness, nervousness, irritable
fly, backache, headaches, dragging SEN
sations, all point to female derange-
ments which may be overcome by Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
This famous remedy, the medicinal
ingredients of which are derived from
native roots and herbs, has for forty
years proved to be most valuable tonic
and invigorator Of the female organism.
Women everywhere bear willing testi-
mony to the wonderful virtue Of Lydia
e, Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-08-10
CHAPTER |.

So it was in him, then-an inherited
fighting instinct, driving intensity to
kill. He was the last of the Duanes,
that old fighting stock Of Texas. But
not the memory of his dead father, nor
the pleading of his soft-voiced mother,
nor the warning of this uncle who
stood before him now, had brought to
Buckley Duane so much realization
of the dark, passionate strain in his
blood. 1t was the recurrence, hun
.dredfold increased in power, of a
strange emotion that for the last three
years had arisen in him.
eyes, Cal Bain's in town, full of
bad whisky an huntin' for you," re-
peated the elder man, gravely.
"But what's he want me for?" de-
manded Duane. ITO insult me again?
won't stand that twice."
''He's got a fever that's rampant in
Texas these days, my boy. He wants
gun-play. If he meets you he'll try
to kill you.'
Here it stirred in Duane again, that
bursting gush of blood like wind of
flame shaking all his inner being, and
Subsiding to leave him strangely
chilled.
Kill me! What for?" he asked.
'Lord knows there amt any reason.
But what's that to do with most of the
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CHAPTER II.

When Duane came to the gate Of
his home and saw his uncle there with
mettlesome horse, saddled, with can
teen, rope and bags all in place, a
subtle shock pervaded his spirit. 1t
had slipped his mind-the consequence
of his act. But sight of the horse ana
the look of his uncle recalled the fact
that he must now become fugitive.
An unreasonable anger took hold of
him.
"That id fool!" he exclaimed
holly. Meeting Balm wasn't much,
Uncle Jim. He busted my boots, that's
all. And for that I've got to go on
the dodge"
"Son, you killed him-then?" asked
the uncle, huskily.
eyes. 1 stood over him-watched
him die. I did as I would have been
done BY"
ST knew it. Long ago saw 1t COM
over split blood. You've got to leave
town an this part of the country"
"Motheri" exclaimed Duane.
"Shes away from home. You can
wait. I'll break it to her-what she
always feared"
Suddenly Duane sat down and COW
cred his face with his hands.
"My God Uncle, what have done?"
His broad shoulders shook.
"Listen, son, an remember what
say" replied the elder man, earnestly.
"Don't ever forget. You're not to
blame. I'm glad to see you take it this
way, because maybe you'll never grow
hard an callous. You're not to blame
This is Texas. You're your fathers
son. These are wild times. The law
as the rangers are laying it down now
can't change life all in a minute"
"rm a murderer" said Duane, shud-
dering.
"No, son, you're not. An you never
will be. But you've got to be an out
law till time makes it safe for you to
come home"
"An outlaw"
ST said it. If we had money an in
fuence, we'd risk a trial. But we've
neither. Strike for the wild country,
an wherever you go an whatever you
do-be a man. You can't come home.
When this thing is lived down, if that
time ever comes, I'll get word into the
unsettled country. It'll reach you
some day. That's all. Remember, be
a man. Good-by."
Duane, with blurred sight and con-
tracing throat, gripped his uncle's
hand and babe him a wordless fare
well. Then he leaped astride the black
and rode out Of town.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-08-10
SMALL MARVEL OF THE SEA
Worms Work Seems Almost to Prove
1t Is Equipped With Something
Like intelligence.

The question of where intelligence
begins to manifest itself in the scale
of animal life has often been asked.
It seems to exist even in the lowest
forms. A peculiar specimen of the in
verterbrates Of the ocean, an exceed
ingly small wOrm-SO small that II
measures less than four millimeters in
length--exhibits movements that can
not be explained by anything but in
telligent will.
This midget seaworm is construct
or; he builds rampant in the shape
of a tube, composed of grains of sand.
His form shows hanging double lip
jutting like a fleshy precipice over a
great mouth, four black eyes set in the
front of his head and two tentacles
which work necessarily, wringing and
flashing whatever they can reach. 1t is
with the same apparently nervous ten
tacles that the little monster of the
deep seizes his material, the glisten-
ing sand, of which he constructs his
rampant.
He catches a grain Of sand in his
tentacles and Immediately carries 1t to
his mouth. In his mouth nature Sc
cretes a strong cement. One grain
after another is covered with cement
and rapidly accumulated in the form
of a tube. Naturally enough, when
the builder works so fast, there must
be breaches in the walls. These
breaches are carefully scrutinized by
the worm, filled with grains of sand
and covered with cement. When I'M
ished, the tube is very practical and
creditable piece Of work.
Nothing could be more interesting
than the little workman's management
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you was lightnin' on the draw, an
when you cut loose with gun, why
the figger on the ace Of spades would
cover your cluster of bullet holes.
Thet's the word thet's gone down the
border. Now, Buck, I'm not a spring
chicken, an I've been long on the
dodge. Mebbe little of my society
won't hurt you none. You'll need to
learn the country"
There was something sincere and
likable about this outlaw.
81 dare say you're right" replied
Duane, quietly. "And I'll go to Mer.
Ger with you"
Next moment he was riding down
the road with Stevens. Duane had
never been much Of talker, and now
he found speech difficult. But his
companion did not seem to mind that.
He was jocose, voluble fellow, prob
ably glad now to hear the sound Of
his own voice. Duane listened, and
sometimes he thought with a pang
Of the distinction of name and heritage
Of blood his father had left to him.
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shootin' these days? Didn't five cow
boys over to Everalls kill one another
dead all because they got to jerkin' at
a Quirt among themselves? An Cal
has no reason to love you. His girl
was sweet on you"
81 quit when 1 found out she was
his girl"
81 reckon she amt quit. But never
mind her or reasons. Calls here. just
drunk enough to be ugly. He's achin'
to kill somebody. He's one of them
four-flush gun-fghters. There's lot
of wild cowboys who're ambitious for
a reputation. They laugh at the sher-
ifs an brag about how they'd fix the
rangers. Gals sure not much for you
to bother with, if you only keep out
of his way"
"You mean for me to run?" asked
Duane, in Scorn.
81 reckon wouldn't put it that way.
Just avoid him. Buck, I'm not afraid
Cal would get you. What I'm most
afraid of is that you'll kill Balm"
Duane was silent, letting his uncle's
earnest words sink in, trying to realize
their significance.
Buck" went on the uncle, you're
twenty-three now, an a powerful sight
of q fine fellow, barrin' your temper.
You've a chance in life. But if you
go gun-fightin', if you kill a man,
you're ruined. The rangers would
make you an outlaw. This even-break
business doesn't work with them. If
you resist arrest they'll kill you. If
you submit to arrest, then you go to
Jail. an mebbe you hang"
"rd never hang" muttered Duane,
darkly.
st reckon you wouldn't" replied the
old man. "Yeu'd be like your father.
He was ever ready to draw-too ready.
In times like these, with the Texas
rangers enforcin' the law, your dad
would have been driven TO the river.
He was killed in q street-fght. An it
was told of him that he shot twice
after a bullet had passed through his
heart. Think of the terrible nature
of man, to be able to do that. IF
you have any such blood in you, never
give it a chance"
'What you say Is all very well,
uncle" returned Duane, "but the only
way out for me is to run, and won't
do it. Cal Balm and his outfit have
already made me look like coward"
swell, then, what're you goin' to
do?" inquired the elder man.
81 haven't decided-yet."
mo. but you're comm to it mighty
fast. That terrible spell is workin' in
you. You're gettin' cool an quiet,
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on this lone-wolf dodgin', though I've
done it of necessity. It takes mighty
good man to travel alone any length
Of time. Why, I've been tibet sick I
was jest achin' fer some ranger to
come along an plug me. Give me a
pardner any day. Now, mebbe you're
not tibet kind Of Teller, an I'm shore
not presumin' to ask. But I jest de-
clares myself sufficient"
"You mean you'd like me to go with
your asked Duane.
Stevens grinned. "Wal, ! should
smile. I'd be particular proud to be
braced with a man Of your reputa-
tion."
"See here, my good fellow, that's all
nonsense" declared Duane, In some
haste.
ashore I think modesty becomin' to
a youngster," replied Stevens. 81 hate
a brag. Buck, 1 don't know much
about you. But every man who's lived
along the Texas border remembers a
lot about your dad. 1 jest heerd tibet
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neighborhood of the river, he picketed
his horse and lay down to rest. But
he did not sleep. His mind bitterly re-
yolyed the fate that had come upon
him. He made efforts to think of other
things. but in vain. Every moment he
expected the chill, the sense of loneli-
ness that yet was ominous of a strange
visitation, the peculiarly imagined
lights and shades of the night-these
things that presaged the coming of Cal
Balm. Doggedly Duane fought against
the insidious phantom. He kept tell
ing himself that 1t was just magma
tion. that 1t would wear off In time.
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| Duane crossed the street and start
ed down. Notwithstanding Whites
statement, Duane was wary and slow
at every door. Nothing happened, and
he traversed almost the whole length
| of the block without seeing a person.
Everall's place was on the corner.
Duane knew himself to be cold,
steady. He was conscious of strange
fury that made him want to leap
| ahead. He seemed to long for this en-
| counter more than anything he had
ever wanted. But, vivid as were his
sensations. he felt as if in a dream.
Before he reached Everall's he heard
loud voices, one Of which was raised
high. Then the short door swung out
ward as if impelled by vigorous hand.
A bowlegged cowboy wearing woolly
chaps burst out upon the sidewalk. At
sight of Duane he seemed to bound
into the air, and he uttered savage
roar.
Duane stopped in his tracks at the
dozen rods from Everall's door.
If Balm was drunk he did not show
it in his movement. He staggered
forward, rapidly closing up the gap.
Red, sweaty, disheveled and hatless,
his face distorted and expressive OF
the most malignant intent, he was a
wild and sinister figure. He had al
ready killed a man, and this showed in
his demeanor. His hands were extend
ed before him, the right hand little
lower than the left. At every step he
beloved his rancOr in speech mostly
curses. Gradually he slowed his walk,
then halted. A good twenty-five PAGES
separated the men.
"Won't nothin' make you draw, you
-" he shouted fiercely.
SIM waitin' on you, CAL" replied
Duane.
Bain's right hand stiffened-moved.
Duane threw his gun as boy throws
ball underhand-a draw his father
had taught him. He pulled twice, his
shots almost as one. Bain'S big Colt
doomed while it was pointed down
ward and he was falling. His bullet
scattered dust and gravel at Duane's
feet. He fell loosely, without cOntor-
ton.
In flash all was reality for Duane.
He went forward and held his gun
ready for the slightest movement on
the part of Balm. But Balm lay upon
his back, and all that moved were
his breast and his eyes. How strangely
the red had left his face-and also the
distortion! The devil that had showed
in Balm was gone. He was sober and
conscious. He tried to speak, but
failed. His eyes expressed something
pitifully human. They changed
rolled-set blankly.
Duane drew deep breath and
sheathed his gun. He felt calm and
cool, glad the fray was over. One
violent expression burst from him.
'"The fool"
When he looked zap there were men
around him.
"Plumb CENTER" said one.
Another, a cowboy who evidently
had just left the gaming table, leaned
down and pulled open Bain's shirt.
He had the ace Of spades in his hand.
He laid it on Bain's breast, and the
black figure on the card covered the
two bullet holes just over Bain's
heart.
Duane wheeled and hurried away.
He heard another man say:
"Reckon Cal got what he deserved.
Buck Duane's first gun-play. Like IA
Their like son!'
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Dream Life.

I called aloud in the forest, and the
shout came back. Then I searched
long, to find who answered me-but
the sound had no source. I followed
the will-o'the-wisp through swamps at
evening. It led me hither and yon,
but I came nowhere. It was only the
ghost Of a light. I saw an apple
hanging in the depths of a pool.
stopped to pick it, and layed my hands
in the water. The apple had no form.
This is dream life.-The Atlantic.
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Creation.

To the sum total Of the matter and
energy Of the universe nothing has
ever been added, and from them moth
ing has ever been subtracted. Things
are perpetually changing from one
form into another-from one form of
matter to another form of matter,
from one form of force to another
form Of force-but amidst the eternal
transformation nothing is created
nothing annihilated.
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She Scorned PITY.

Nothing was more remarkable about
the wonderful blind hymn writer, Fan
ny Crosby, than the way in which she
refused to be pitied. If caller start
ed to express his sympathy in her
affection, she laughed at him. "Why,
bless your SOUL" she would say, 81 am
the happiest woman alive! My sight
lessness has brought me unnumbered
blessings. If it had not been for that,
l should not have written my hymns"
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Do you believe that Buck did
the wrong thing by running away
from home? Doesn't it seem that
he could have proved self
defense and saved himself from
the outlaw Iife2
(TO BE CONTINUED.)

Of his tentacles. Again and again he
tests the solidity of his work by tap
ping the walls in every direction. To
observe the work of this peculiar sea-
pigmy Is to be convinced that the tube
like rampant is not built by accident.
In such work there must be the par
ticipation Of some sort Of mentality.
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WOMAN HAD \
NERVOUS TROUBLE
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegeta-
BILE Compound Helped Her.
West Dandy, N. Y.-"I have had
nervous trouble ali my life until ] took

Lydia II. Pinknams
V e G etable Com
pound for nerves
and for female trou-
bles and it straight
ened me out in good
shape. Iwork nearly
all the time, as we
live on a farm and I
have four girls. 1 do
all my sewing and
other W ork with
their help. 90 ft
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-08-10
CHAPTER Ill.

Late that day, couple Of hours be.
fore sunset, Duane and Stevens, hav-
ing rested their horses in the shade of
some mosquitoes near the town Of Mer-
Ger, saddled up and prepared to move.
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This is a rushing story of the
wild border days in Texas in the
early seventies, with their des-
perate contests between outlaws
and rangers. Incident after Incl
dent crowd upon another-hair-
breadth escapes, deeds of thrill
ing adventures, manly chivalry,
and devoted love. The hero is a
murderer; a man-kiIIer not by
choice but by necessity. His
deeds in a wild country rival the
deeds of Scotch Highland chiefs
which Sir Walter Scott has given
US in his great romances. You'll
want to follow the fortunes of
Buck Duane in "The Lone Star
Ranger"
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Promoter of Patriotism.

slave you done anything to pro-
mote Patriotism"
IT have. My efforts to hold down
compensation for an enlisted man en-
able him to prove his unselflshness."
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An elaborate tombstone and a con-
tested will is the only notorlety wealth
brings to some men.
The Washington times., 1916-03-07
TONGUE AND SWORD

In a hotel in New York city on
Saturday were met some two or
three thousand sons and grandsons
of Ireland to declaim in effect against
Great Britain coming out a victor
Nth her allies in the war.
On the same day was fighting a
%s'Tt Of a quarter of million men of
\ and in the trenches of France
a. Of Flanders, on the borders of
Serb a, and on the shores of Saloniki
In the plains and valleys and hills of
Asia Minor.
Among all the millions in this wal
there have been none quicker to &c
than those men of Ireland; there
have been none more valorous ir
battle; there have been none more
steadfast in defeat; there have beer
none truer to the nation Of which
their land is a part, none more gal.
lantly devoted to the cause of the
allies, which is the cause of civiliza
ton.
Take a look at the two or tire,
Thousand in a New York hotel
comfortably talking and easily liv
ing. Let your mind picture the quar-
ter of a million fighting heroicall!
and dying nobly. Then Judge.