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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1916-06-30
BORROWING TROUBLE.

Worrying over tomorrow's
troubles is borrowing trouble. IL
is impossible to lift the ton
weight at one time, but lesser
parts Of it may be easily carried
until the whole load has been
conveyed to its destination. So
the burdens Of a lifetime can
not be borne if crowded into
single day.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1916-06-30
Dancing Jacanas.

On some of the islands of the Pa
cific. in tropical South America, is
found the beautiful bird known as the
jacana. 1t is famous for its so called
love dances, which are executed by the
males to excite the admiration of the
female birds. When the mating sea-
son approaches the jacand will single
out its favorite lady and try to win
her admiration with all its bewitching
maneuvers. In the dance the wings
are spread and worked in such a man.
ner that the beautiful colored feathers
produce a brilliant effect.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1916-06-30
Cactus Stems.

The thick stem of the cactus is a pro-
vision of nature to reduce the loss of
water by evaporation TO "A minimum.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1916-06-30
Wanting Too Much.

When you get to feeling so very
sorry for yourself you are very apt to
find that no one else Is very sorry for
you.-Selected.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1916-06-30
Early Symptoms.

I'D like to see that Office boy Of
mine thirty years from now"
"Why so?'
"He ought to make a wonder as a
tired business man."-Kansas City
Journal.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-01-22
mean TO MOTHERS
Forty Counties Pay $2,425.50
Each Month Under the
Pension Law.
MANY APPLICATIONS REFUSED
Commissioners of Thirty-six Counties
Have Turned Down Requests of
Widows for Financial Aid.

Only forty Kansas counties are al
lowing mothers pensions under the
law passed by the 1915 legislature.
And these counties are spending only
2,425.5O a month for the pensions.
Thirty-six counties have refused to
grant the pensions to mothers when
applications were made to them, and
in twenty-five counties no applications
were filed. Four counties failed to
make reports, but these are Western
Kansas counties, and the surrounding
counties which did report did not have
any applications.
The mothers pension law did not
become effective until July 1. Since
that time 772 applications have been
made in seventy-six counties. The for
ty counties which have granted aid did
SO on PAT applications. 1t is estimated
that not fewer than 1000 persons
were directly affected by this pension,
the widow and three children being
the average of the families coming
under the law. These are the coun-
ties where there are ten or more pen
sions being paid and the amounts al
lowed:
WyandOtte = Fifty-nine pensions,
monthly payment S513.
MontgOmery-Tw pensions
monthly payment $267.50
Cherokee = Seventeen pensions,
monthly payment 1882.
Butler-Twelve pensions, month
ly payment $110
Bourbon-Twelve pensions, month
~ payment $40.
Atchison-Ten pensions, monthly
payment $65.
In these counties applications were
denied:
Allen, Anderson, Barber, Brown,
Chase, Chautauqua, Coffey, Cowley,
Doniphan. Douglas. Edwards, Elk,
Ford, Franklin, Graham, Jackson,
Jewell, Leavenworth, Lincoln, Logan,
Lyons, Meade, Miami, Usage, Osborne,
Phillips. POttawatomie, Reno, Rocks,
Russell, Saline, Shawnee, Sheridan,
Sherman, Trego, Wilson.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-01-22

When Paris determines to make use
OF a good, common-sense idea in Gre
atiug the styles for womankind. we
may be sure the idea will be graceful
" handled Among the recent impor-
tations are leather-trimmed tailored
suits and separate skirts which prom
Use to be entirely successful with
American women, who are keen to ap-
preciate the union of utility and beau
ty in their apparel.
Among the best examples of the
combination of fabric and leather are
separate skirts made of strong, soft.
wooden plaids, trimmed with a glace
leather, matching the predominating
color in the plaid. They are short,
fitted smoothly about the hips, cut
with moderate flare, and faced up
about the bottom with leather. A belt
of leather and leather pockets, or
leather-trimmed pockets. usually ap-
pear as finishing details.
Entire skirts of leather or entire
Jackets OF leather followed in the
wake of these first models but are not
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-01-22
GIRLS! GIRLS! TRYIT.
BEAUTIFY YOUR HAIR
Make It Thick, Glossy, WaVy, Luxur.
liant and Remove Dandruff-ReaI
Surprise for You.

Your hair becomes light, wavy, huf-
fy, abundant and appears as soft, Ius-
trous and beautiful as a young girls
after a "Danderine hair cleanse" Just
try this-moisten a cloth with little
Danderine and carefully draw it
through your hair, taking one small
strand at a time. This will cleanse
the hair of dust, dirt and excessive oil
and in just a few moments you have
doubled the beauty of your hair.
Besides identifying the hair at once,
Danderine dissolves every particle of
dandruff; cleanses, purif1es and invig-
crates the scalp, forever stopping itch
ing and falling hair.
But what will please you most VIII
be after a few weeks use when you
will actually see new hair-fne and
downy at first yes-but really new
hair-growing all over the scalp. If
you care for pretty, soft hair and lots
of it, surely get 25 cent bottle OF
Knowlton's Danderine from any store
and just try it. Adv.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-01-22
GRAY HENS STRATEGY

Yes" said Brown Hen, Chicken
Young is the sauciest chicken 1 have
ever known
He has been from under his moth
er's wing SO long" said White Hen.
that she has not the least control
over him; in fact" she continued. he
does not hesitate to snatch worm
from her the same as he does from
me-
What he needs is q good lesson"
said Gray Hen. I'VE stand around
and let him do as he likes I notice
he never takes a worm from the roos-
ter
The trouble was this, when Chicken
Young saw q hen scratching for worms
he would watch to see if it was a nice
large one and just as the hen held it
dangling from her bill he would come
up behind her, snatch it and run away
as fast as he could
Then he would go under a bush or
any place that offered shelter and de-
YOUR it Young did very little scratch
ing for himself, he lived by his wits
rather than by labor
The hens were tired OF this treat
ment and called q meeting to decide
what should be done to cure Chicken
Young of his unfortunate habit
They stood in corner of the yard
talking il over. Chicken Young was
watching them from his hiding place
under bush. He could not hear what
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-01-22

good style, or the high-waisted bodice
with. full haFiag skirt Elbow sleeves
and seuare-uecked patterns LOOK well
on hez
Two pretty frocks for the teRyear-
old are shown here which viii prove
successful ca almost any figure. One
is OF sapphire-bIue chiffon made N
one piece with a small bolerO Of net
and embroidery hike the chiffon IN
color. Il is finished with double
founee and worn over a silk slip in
the same shade Of blue.
The dress of white net is made in
the Ieog-waisted style that is always
woFn- The blouse is laid IN pIaIts on
the shoulder and the fun, plain skirt
is finished with a group of narrow
tucks. 1t does not quite reach the
knee and is worn over a 6ne lawn
pettieoat edged with val lace and
longer than the skirt by almost the
width OF the edging-
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-01-22

To choose clothes for a girl of ten.
or thereabout. is more of a task. than
eOnfroR1s the mother of the very little
girl, or presents itself in clothing the
nearly grown miss. II happens that
the child from six to fourteen is very
likely 70 be too thin and, hence, angu-
lar and awkward. Sometimes she Is
considerably too fat. In either case
the mother must select styles that viii
tone down her defects OF figure and
keep her unconscious of them DC
casioaally a little girl grows up with
out the usual experiences OF the aWk-
ward age. and the chances are that
she owes much to a iudieieas mother
who clothed her artfu11y.
Up to twelve years simple and al
most straight lines are TO be recon-
r1ended in the garments Of children
The skirt reaches the knee or little
below it. But in the matter OF length
there is very good authority for ex-
tending the skirt several inches below
the knee, especially for the girl past
eight. For a slender child full long
WASTED blouse and very short skirt is
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-01-22
Most Eminent Medical Authorities Endorse L
New Remedy for Kidney, Bladder and all Uric Acid

DR.. Eberle and Dr. Brafthwaite as
well as DR.. Simon-an distinguished
Authors-agree that whatever may be
the disease, the urine seldom fails in
furnishing US with clue to the princi-
pies upon which it is to be treated,
and accurate knowledge concerning
the nature OF disease can thus be OBJ
tanned. If backache, scalding urine or
frequent urination bother or distress
you. or If uric acid IN the blood has
caused rheumatism, govt or sciatica
or you suspect kidney or bladder
trouble Just write DR.. Pierce at the
Surgical Institute, Buffalo. N Y; send
p sample of urine and describe symp-
toms. You viii receive free medical
advice after DR.. Piercess chemist has
examined the urine-this will be care
fully done without charge, and you
yin be under no obligation. Or. Pierce
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-01-22

so well received While every woman
will see the advantage Of a leather
protection for the bottom of a cloth
skirt and the harmony of leather in.
trOduced in the details of finishing.
all-leather garments are too cumDer-
some to be graceful. and there is no
good reason for making them
One of the leather-trimmed skirts is
shown in the picture given here The
leather facing about the bottom is
joined to the cloth by piping OF
leather and the top Of the facing Is
shaped into very wide and very shall
low scallops On one of the best i'm
portations the leather facing was put
on in four sections and these were
laced together with a silk cord.
Narrow leather bindings finish the
pockets and belt Skirts of this kind
are cut very short, not reaching below
the tops of high boots. which often
match the leather trim in color
Never invest in an alligator hide
DOcketbOOk It's a skin game.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-01-22
LATEST CENSUS OF KANSAS
State Gained $4,000 in Population in
Few Years-The Eastern coun-
ties Show Loss

While Kansas gained 127, 900 in pop
ulatiOn in the last ten years, twenty
nine counties showed decreases in
population. All are In the eastern
third of the state. The high percent
ages of gain are in the western half,
while the largest aggregate gains are
in the four counties of WyandOtte,
Shawnee, Reno and Sedgwick. due to
the growth of the four largest cities
of the state.
The following shows the population
of the state by counties in 1915 and
ten years ago:
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-01-22
The Rope Scratched His Throat.

they said. but he felt sure they were
talking about him
Let them talk" he said. Il can run
faster than any Of them, and that Is
what counts, and what is the use or
scratching when those old hens know
just where all the fat worms are? They
ought TO give me one once in while
But Chicken Young would have been
wiser if he had listened to what the
wise old hens were saying. instead OF
thinking ne was so clever himself, for
Gray Hen had thought Of a plan to
teach him q lesson
IF We can get an end OF the clothes
line" said she, lust about the length
OF a worm, we can bury il in the
ground, and when Chicken Young Is
watching. one of US can scratch and
pick it up. He viii jump at il, OF
course. because it would look SO nice
and plump, then we will laugh at him
and ask him how he likes a rope
worm"
Here comes the dog. We will ask him
TO bite US OF piece of the clothes
line"
The dog thought it would be a good
joke, and he soon had the rope for
them, and when Chicken Young went
| down the road for a walk they buried
the rope
A little later when he came in the
yard Gray Hen was busy scratching
She always finds fat worm" said
| Chicken Young, stealing up behind her.
and his eyes nearly popped out OF his
/ little head when he saw what he
/ thought was the largest worm he had
| ever seen dangling from her bill
Quick as a flash he snatched it from
| Gray Hen, and then. thinking she
might run after him because it was an
extra large worm, he swallowed it
The rope scraped his throat and
choked him, and he jumped about and
tapped his wings. stretching his neck.
his mouth wide open, and gasping for
| breath.
| The hens had not expected him to
! swallow it, and they rushed out from
all sides, looking very much fright
ened-
SLAP him ON the back" said Gray
! Hen, lit has stuck IN his throat"
shake him by the feet" said an
other, and, after a vigorous Shaping
and pounding the piece Of rope slipped
| down his throat and Chicken Young
sank upon the ground exhausted
Il guess you will be = little more
careful next time" said Gray Hen.
''and look before you leap
Stolen fruits are not always the
| sweetest" said White Hen Perhaps
Won viii scratch for yourself next
| time" Chicken Young did not reply
tn fhese remarks. but lay very quiet
with open mouth
He is Young" said Gray Hen and
has learned lesson. | am sure' let rs
take him to the pan of water and give
him drink; that is what he needs
GRAY Hen helped on one side and
White Hen on the other and they stood
Chicken Young on his feet After he
had drunk the water he 6aPPec his
wings and stepped about feeling quite
Ike himself
you are all right now said Gray
Hen; run around and stretch your
legs
Chicken Young walked away with :
eresdaIlen air and in few minetes
they saw him scratching In a corner
OF the yard
4 had no Idea be would swallow Il :
said Gray Hen Nor ~ said White
Hen. but ne will not forget Il soon:
and II is Just ss well he got goo
lsezre--
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-01-22

during many years OF experimentation
has discovered new remedy which
is thirty-seven times more powerful
than lithia in removing uric acid from
the system. If you are suffering from
backache or the pains OF rheumatism.
go to your best druggist and ask for
a so cent box of 'AnaETic" put up by
Doctor Pierce, or send 1oc for a large
trial pck'g. DR.. Pierce's Fayorite Pre-
sc-iption for weak women and DR..
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery
for the blood have been favorably
known for the past forty years and
more. They are standard remedies
to-day-as well as Doctor Pierce's
Pleasant Pellets for the liver and
bowels You can have 8 sample OF any
one OF these remedies by writing Dr..
Pierce. and sending 1os for trial pack
aga
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-01-22


Injured in Motor Wreck.-DT. J. s.
Afford and E. c. Fair, druggists, were
badly injured when a motor car in
which they were riding was struck by
a street car In front of the home of
Mr.: Fair, in independence Both men
were thrown clear of the track, but
the car was dragged about fifty feet
Gets Bio War Order-The Hadley
Milling Company of OIathe will sup
ply the Allies with 100000 pounds OF
Kansas flour, to be delivered at New
port News for shipment January 25-
X
Bar ScoVilIe From Schools The
Kansas State Normal school at En-
poria, by its president. Dr. Thomas
W. Butcher the College OF Emporia,
by its president, DR.. Henry Coe Gull
bertson. and the board of education
have refused to allow DR.. Charles R
SeovilIe, who is conducting revival
meetings in Emporia, to address the
students of these institutions official
ly as representing the revival inter
ests-
Open Salinas New Bridge-The new
| $4,000 cement bridge over the Smoky
Hill river art Sa1ina has been opened
for traffic. A concrete construction
company of Kansas City built the
| bridge. Work was delayed nearly ali
summer by high water. The bridge
should have been opened September L.
i ID,
| ley Military Reservation Is to become
a game refuge, ali hunting on it be-
| ing forbidden Special attention viii
be paid to the conserving OF quail and
prairie chicken. and an army officer
at the post has been appointed as q
| special game warden
| = 4 y
Falls Dead in DoorNay-Havey
Russell, 81 years old. a farmer, who
lived four miles west of independence,
fell dead in the doorway OF his kitch-
en- as he started to leave the house
He had been in the best of health
Mr.. Russell came from Iowa ten years
ago.
Married Sixty Tears-8Ir. and Mrs
Lewis Gibson celebrated the sixtietI
anniversary OF their wedding at theil
home in Leavenworth recently. TheI
have five children, fourteen grand
children and five great-grandehildren
|
Former Probate Judge Dead-Capt
: B. W. Ladd, a years old, is dead a
Fredonia from paralysis. He serves
in Company a, FOrtyeighth Ohio in
fantry, during the Civil war He cam
to Wilson in 1861 In 1905 he wa
elected probate Judge
?
Torch Near Gasoline Tanyc-Joh
Kfsh, a Barber county farmer, works
: near his gasoline tank With q tore
: and the oil exploded. His wife wen
I TO his assistance. but his burns prove
fatal She was badly burned. but vi
= recover.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-01-22
Beetles on Wells.

Writing a very sensible and prac-
teal article entitled The Comic IN
Dress" IN the Woman's Home Com
panion, Grace Margaret Gould, fashion
editor Of that publication. tells how
some women lake themselves ridie-
ulous by taking the new styles and
applying them to themselves too rigor-
ousIy- Wells worn by some OF the
women have beetles and bug woven
IN heir meshes ana at a little dis
fancs the effect is downright startling
In ths following paragraph taken from
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-01-22

her article. Miss Gould comments on
the funny part veil plays IN the com
edy OF dress
What can be the idea of a woman
who ties over her face a veil with a
huge crawling beetle woven into ft2
What is she thinking of And
wouldn't she scream and shrek II the
beetle came to life?%
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-01-22
-PRODs BOARD OF CONTROL
State Should Help Place the Orphan
Children in Good Homes Says
Gov. CapPer.

Governor Capper wants to find good
homes for the little orphan children
now at the State Orphans Home at
Atchison. In a recent letter to the
board of control he suggested that it
give more attention to that feature of
the home than has been given IN the
past
every Kansas child is entitled TO a
good home" said the governor 1T is
well enough for the state to give It an
institutional home until it can find
real home, surrounded with real life
But the state ought to see to it that
the child finally gets into a home
where it will have parental care and
be treated like one of the family
There are nearly 200 children in the
state home at Atchison. Perhaps IS
per cent are able-bodied children.
They are just unfortunate in having
lost their parents and having no other
relatives. who had interest enough in
them to give them a home. The in
stitution gives them all the comforts
of home. In fact. it gives them more
comforts than the ordinary child has
at home They are well clothed, well
fed, well treated and well schooled.
4
Not a GentIemen's CIub.-That the
University Of Kansas is not a gentle
mems club is shown by the fact that
a classification of the occupations of
the parents of students shows that
every position IN the economic scale
is represented from the capitalist
down to the janitor, and from the mu-
stefan to the carpenter.
To Fight Gas Order.-The city com
| missioners of Lawrence will fight the
recent order of the Kansas Utilities
Commission, made December 10,
which provides that free gas shall
gas company.
| Engine Kills Wichita Man-Lee
Niceswonger. bridge foreman for the
| Santa Fe, was killed in the Santa Fe
| yards at Wichita when he was run
| down by a Santa Fe switch engine.
Blood Poison Fatal to Farmer-John
| Baker, a farmer, is dead at Greeley
| as a result of blood poisoning caused
by scratching his hand while butcher
ing.
Saved Brother From car-VictOz
Stout. years old, saved his 5-year
old brother, Erwin, from death in front
of a trolley car at Wichita when he
dragged Erwin off the tracks at the
cost of a broken hip and other in
juries to himself The younger broth
er was not injured
Veteran Dies at Perry-G. A Smith
rs years old and a veteran of the Civil
war, is dead at his home in Perry
He was born in Jackson county, Mis-
souri,. and had lived in Kansas fifty
seven years.
Deny a Parole to Stuekey-Wallac
N. Stcukey, former Williamsburg pas
tor, appeared before the parole boar
at the Kansas state prison recently
He made application for a release o.
parole, his plea being seconded by hi
Cuban wife, who was present. It i
understood that the board denied tn
application
Forty-seven Years on One Farm
John. T. Thomas, who had lived fol
ty-seven years on a farm southeast {
Pittsburg. died there the other nigI
on the eve OF his 18th anniversar:
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-01-22
T0IDt0dD0id
Operations
These Three Women Tell How They
Escaped the Dreadful Ordeal of
Surgical Operations.

Hospitals great and necessary institutions but they
should be the last for who suffer with ills
peculiar to their Many letters file in the Pnkham
Laboratory at Lynn Mass, prove that great number Of
women after they have been recommended to submit
operation have been made well by Lydia E Pinkhams
Vegetable Compound. Here three such letters. All
sick women should read them.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-01-22
Preserving Them.

why don't you use your brains.
DoCglasss- Because I sanl them 20
last-London Punch
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-01-22

A married woman of ST. Helens.
England, was recently fined 800 for
betting
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-01-22
What He Was.

What he was.
I'm afraid, Rastus, that you are
something of pessimist.'
,Pessimist? No, sub, / amt no pes
sumist. Use a opposumist.''
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-01-22
Not Gray Hairs but Tired Eyes

Not Gray Hairs but Tired Eyes
make US look older than we are. Keep
YOUR Eyes young and you will look young.
After the Movies Murine Your Eyes. Don [
tell your age. Murine Eye Remedy Co.,
Chicago, Sends Eye Book on request.
But silence would improve some peo-
pies conversation.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-01-22

Never invest in an alligator hide
pOcketbOok- It's a skin game
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-01-22

Forty-seven Years on One Farm
John. T. Thomas. who had lived for
ty-seven years on farm southeast OF
Pfttsburg. died there the other night
on the eve OF his 18th anniversary
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Marinette, Visit went to the doctor anG
he told me I must have an operation for a female
trouble, and hated to have it done as had beer
married only short time. would have terrible
pains and my hands and feet were cold all tn;
time. took Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound and was cured, and I feel better in ever!
way I give you permission to publish my name
because am so thankful that feel well again.
Mrs. FRED BEHNKE Marinette. Wis.
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Detroit. When I

troubles that could do anything and doctor
said would have to undergo operation could hardly walk
had done for others thought would try it. got bottle Of
used them according directions
They and today am able to do all and lam Well
Taos $50 Milwaukee Ave, East Detroit, Mich
Bellevue Pal suffered than tongue tell with terrible
inflammation doctors
they 81 told the story that never could get vel WITHOUT
coed many other medicines
helped until friend advised me to give Lydia T. Pink
hams helped
taking it and sick any and
in old
greatest pleasure to have the oppor-
suffering Womaniss IRENE
FRoEIICHER Side, Bellevue, Pa
Lydia E. PinkhaLn
letter opened
and held strict confidence