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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-29
TO
 BE MADE IF THEY
 ARE NECESSARY
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 principal elements to be achieved,
 and, lacking confidence in the
 German government, insists upon
 knowing something of the guar
 antees that Germany Is willing to
 give. the Berlin government might
 make some declaration regarding
 the principles to which she is will
 ing to subscribe, leaving details
 for settlement at the proposed
 conference.
 The German government considers that there is but little to be gained by going into any lengthy discussion of guarantees for the future with the present war in progress In this con- nection Germany. it is asserted, never has intended that the conference sug- gested should result immediately in the establishment of peace. It is con sidered that it necessarily would be of preliminary nature to determine whether it might not be possible to end the war.
 WOULD CALL IN NEUTRALS
 According to the German diplomats the plan Germany is proceeding upon would provide that the delegates should first agree upon territorial and immediately connected terms and that preliminary treaty then should be settled upon. This completed, the Ger man idea is to have all the neutrals called in to participate in considera- tion of the questions of guarantees for the future. They regard it as d matter for the conference to settle whether the neutral nations should become signatory to the entire peace treaty or only to that part having to do withs guarantees for the mainten- ance of peace in the future, such as freedom of the seas. limitation of armaments, formation of a world league to enforce peace and establish ment of an international court of ar bitration
 GERMANY WANTS SECRECY
 Diplomats familiar with the viewpoint of Germany and her allies were especially emphatic tonight in saying that Germany necessarily would be able to make much better terms in confidential negotiations than in public. The radical element m German politics, it is said must be con- sidered. Under any circumstances, how ever it Was said, Germany would not consider making peace if the entente should insist upon retaining Germany S lost colonies and requiring Germany at the same time to evacuate all enemy territory now occupied.
 In admitting today that no further communication had accompanied the Ger man or the Austrian reply to the Pres idents note, officials stated fatly that such questions to this effect in the fu- ture would not be answered
 TEXTS OF NOTES VARY The official texts of the German and the Austrian replies, received today, va ried slightly from each other and from the original cabled press translation. Most of the difference, officials thought, was in the warmer, more cordial tone of the official versions. The most decided diff ference noted was in Austria's ascribing to President Wilson himself that it was necessary to postpone discussion of guar antees for permanent peace. The Aus trian reply "concurs with the Presi- dent that only after the termination of
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GARDENERS ACTION CREATES UNIQUE
 HOUSE SITUATION
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dately after Germany had moved for peace, reached the erroneous conclusion, 1t is held possible, that MT. Wilson here- tofore charged with possessing too ardent passion for Great Britain, had again changed his mind.
 And then MT. Mann, who. during the last campaign spoke handsomely of the Germans, and thus widened the breach between democracy and the kaiserbund, declared the Presidents action for peace altogether excellent and deserving of the praise of all political partisans.
 Instantly MT. Gardner exclaimed that a man admitting such devotion for the democratic President and for the Ger man Kaiser did not deserve the support of loyal republicans and progressives and Americans. He then declared Lenroot his nominee for the speakership in the next Congress, and figuratively swore that the head of Mann must fall.
 THE UNUSUAL SITUATION
 As heretofore pointed out, the indica- tions are that in the next Congress there will be PA democrats and PA republicans. With the probability that majority Of the independents will support the democrats on the question of organiza- tion, democratic leaders have not in the least been perturbed. The defection of Gardner has rendered their position the more surely unassailable.
 It may happen, however, that even though Clark be reelected speaker, the republicans will be able to name the per sonnel of the committees. And then one would behold a democratic speaker, with hands tied, presiding over a republican House.
 As whole, however. the Gardner cpl sode is regarded as interesting and spec tacular, but of very little material inn portance, A careful analysis, irrespec- tive of the Massachusetts defection, would predict a certain and emphatic control of democrats in the next Con gress.
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eve when you came home at o'clock in the morning singing like lark and acting like a dunce. I got panicky over all the presents that I received that didn't expect and had nothing to send in return. I got up at midnight three nights in succession to see if you had come in and you hadn't! I got the devil from you Christmas day because l wouldn't ask that Tattletale hussy to the children's Christmas tree got blue, Mir. Caudle, when you came home from the club for our Christmas dinner, and you said 1t was real treat to hear old Tattletale talk that morning, and when asked you what he said you replied: 'What'll you have?" I got dead tired of the whole mess. Mir. Caudle before it was half over, and wished I was dead and buried. I think you can easily see why, too, because l can truthfully say that Christmas I got it in the neck generally Whats that? You are glad of it? Oh! MT. Caudle, Mir. Caudle, how can you talk so; how can you talk so?" But I might have expected it; it's what I got for marrying you'
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Dolly Hears Mrs. Caudle, IT,, Deliver Some Very Pointed Curtain Lectures
 (MRS. CAUDLE MAKES A CONFESSION
\ ONT talk to me about Christ V mas. MT. Caudle, I loathe and
 despise it. I may as well con

IEHlCN ONT talk to me about Christ 'JO mas. MT. caudle. loathe and
 despise it. l may as well con fess it here and now they say an honest confession is good for the soul; also it's mighty bad for the reputation; however, as everybody else seems inclined to tell just what they got Christmas, I may as well get busy and relate what came my way"
 You don't care to hear? Well, you will just the same, MT. Caudle, for you were responsible, sir, for most of it, as you always are for the general run of dis agreeable things that happen to me. got headache from (don't you dare, MT. Caudle; you know I never touch a drop of any intoxicating beverage; no, siD, I got headache from thinking of the things I wanted that I didn't get; I got left when peripatetic Christmas gift that I received five years ago, got back to it's original owner; l got toothache that kept me awake three nights in success sion; 1 got a cramp in my fingers from tying up Christmas packages because you wouldn't help me, but stayed down at your old club booking and carousing with a lot of old drunken men; I got a counterfeit half dollar (and I know just where, tool, when I went out on one of those eleventh hour shopping tours. Don't talk to me about Christmas; despise the very name"
 'Ts there anything that I enjoy? Whats that, MT. Caudle? Certainly, but it isn't Christmas. How could I, when got wind that you had sent old Tattletale's neice the most gorgeous American Beauties and lilies of the valley, that had ever been seen in this town? How could I, when l got 'stung' on that check for five hun dred dollars that you gave me and found out when I presented it at the bank, that your account was already over drawn? How could l, when I got so much advice from my various friends about leaving you and that they could give evidence good and strong that you were a flirtatious, gay, old married man, and that I was making a fool of my self by countenancing you and your evil doings?"
 Would you enjoy Christmas under cir cumstances like I've spent the holiday season, MT. Caudle? It's easy enough for you to talk glib and gay, as every thing came your way. Think of me? I got fits from you when I even ventured to remark upon your conduct Christmas
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to learn that her condition is considered favorable.
 MT. E. L. Kidder and his niece, Miss Elsie Kidder, left Tuesday evening for New OrleanSs after 10 days visit to MT. and Mrs. F. Hopkinson Smith on Chestnut Hill.
 MT. and Mrs. Stanley Woodward have returned from a visit to relatives in Montgomery.
 J. B. Ingram, Jr., left yesterday for Kansas City, Mo, where he will spend several days
 MT. and Mrs. B. c. Mccoy and family have returned from Columbus, Ga, where they spent the holidays.
 MT. James Haffner is spending the holi. days with MT. Richard Eatman in Nor- wood.
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Ole Miss, dar's menny CT Man dat sho' would lak fer Claus ter tell him how he got down de Chimbley widout wakin' his Wife up! Yessum!
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PEACE LEAGUE UNLIKELY
OFFER IS NUGATORY

'The offer as it stands is nugatory. Our reply to Germany is yet to be deliv- cred but unless her reply to it is wholly different in substance from her reply to the United States, no advice on this line can be made. Yet things will not be quite the same again. We shall have no conference for the present; nor even any formal negotiations, but the word peace for two or three weeks has been in every ones mouth. and in no country can men speak of peace without raising an atmos- phere of longing"
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Mir Richard Eastman of Eutaw is spending the holidays with his parents Mir. and Mrs. R. w. Eatman, in Nor wood
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GERMANY EVADES WILSON'S REQUEST
 NEWSPAPER THINKS
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tCOntlnued from Page Oneb now resumes, or rather increases sub- marine 'frightfulness' so as to strain her relations with the United States, the President will at any rate, stand before his people as one who did his utmost to avert catastrophe by an effort to re-es- tablish peace.''
 PEACE LEAGUE UNLIKELY
 The Guardian also takes the ground that the German reply hints that the pro- posal to establish a league to insure peace after the present war, will not constitute an item in peace negotiations and adds:
 Yet how appropriate it would have been to discuss a league of nations in connection for example with Germany's 8 most cherished plans for freedom of the seas.' We are inclined to infer that unless Germany is prepared to go much farther this first chapter of peace negotiations is closed. Germany at- tempted to figure in the role of a mag unanimous victor, but magnanimous vic tor ought not to appear on the stage in palpable state of hunger. The all lies took the measure of her proposals without difficulty and the President brought it to the test of definition
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underwent a serious operation recently at St. Vincent's hospital. will be glad
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Miss Elsie Fies is attending house party in Natchez, Miss, and will visit friends in New Orleans before return ing home.
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Mrs. George Eastman of Detroit is the guest of her mother Mrs. Lea Brooks.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-01-28
POWER DRAINAGE MACHINES

Power machinery is now available
which will excavate drainage bitches of
all sizes and under all conditions of
soil and water more cheaply than can
be done by any other method, accord
ing to a recent bulletin of the depart
ment. Responsibility for carrying on
the work on community drainage pro
jects in agricultural districts frequently
rests upon persons with little practical
knowledge of the methods and cost of
operation of such machinery or con-
structing drainage bitches on a large
scale. To supply information on the
use of power machinery in such work,
a professional paper of the Department
Bulletin series has been published.
Many of the details of construction,
first costs, and method and cost of
operation are given of several types of
dredges and excavators. viz: floating
dipper, floating grab bucket and n.y.
draulic dredges, and drag-line, dry-land,
dry-land grab-bucket, templet, and
wheel-type excavators. Mention is also
made of machines for cleaning old
bitches.
The Bulletin No. 300, Excavating Ma
chinery Used in Land Drainage, may be
had upon application to the Editor and
Chief, Division of Publications, as long
as the supply for free distribution lasts.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-01-28
A little Woman With
A Big Job
By T. G. HOPKINS
By Z. G. HOPKINS

dustries of Kansas, and no one else has
so firm place in the confidence and es-
TEEN of the working women and girls
of the state. She is not dilettante,
actuated by vague yearnings to be doing
wonderful things for the submerged
classes, but rather an active, practical,
earnest young woman who realizes that
a great many things of which working
women and girls complain can be cor
rected through education of working
women and girls themselves And she
undertakes to help educate them, not
by talking down at them but by getting
down and talking to them.
In her new position, Miss Bresette will
need all of the tact, good humor and
ability with which she is so richly en-
dowed. 1t is a big job to set out to
fairly regulate the hours of work, wages,
and working conditions of the women
and girls of the state so that the women
and girls will be satisfied, and at the
same time avoid injury to the industries
of the state that will bring all the en-
ployers out in opposition to her plans.
But if any Kansas woman can do it,
Miss Bresette can. So Governor Capper
and the members of the Industrial Com
mission are to be congratulated on Sc
curing the services of an active, ear
nest, bright young woman, who will
strive nightly to accomplish something
worth while, without losing her temper
or poise, and who will not bore every
one with whom she comes in contact by
assuming that the whole burden of the
states welfare rests on her shoulders.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-01-28
THE COST OF ICE

The following is from Farmers Bull
letin 623, United States Department of
Agriculture:
1.-The cost of packed ice will vary
cording to the local conditions under
which it is harvested, these conditions
of necessity differing in almost every
case. Our investigations show that ice
has been cut at a price as low as one
cent for a cake of 220 pounds, making
the ice cost, exclusive of hauling and
packing, nine cents a ton. The usual
price, however, was found to average
about two cents a cake, or Is cents
ton. To find the total cost of storing
ice, the charge for hauling and pack
ing must be added; this brought the
average to about 81 a ton.
after the ice cakes are broken apart,
two men with ice tongs can with little
difficulty pull cake of ice from the
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-01-28

Colleges to increase the production of
food supplies on the farm, especially to
bring about a home supply of meat,
eggs, milk, and butter.
Among other specific recommendations
of the Public Health Service are
(a) The ownership of a milk COW;
an increase of milk production for home
consumption.
OBJ Poultry and egg raising for home
consumption.
Co Stock raising.
Cd Diversification and cultivation
of food crops.
These four specifications give an added
argument for the campaign of livestock
raising and farm diversification, which
has been especially urged, particularly
for the South. 1t is quite reasonable to
presume, therefore, that the production
of the family meat supply at the farm
home will not only decrease considera-
bly, the expense of the family table and
add somewhat directly to family revenue
as well, but will have a profound effect
on the health and wel1-being of the mem
bers of the family.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-01-28
THE RIPENINe OF CREAM

By the ripening of cream is meant
the changes it undergoes from the time
of separation until it is added to the
churn. Upon these changes depends
very largely the quality of butter as
regards texture and flavor. The tenn
perature at which cream is held deter
mines the firmness or texture, while the
flavor is dependent upon the by-products
from the bacterial growth.
The purpose of ripening cream is
fundamentally that of giving the butter
the desired flavor and aroma, but in
addition it increases the ease and eff
cheney of churning. Cream is ripened
in one of two ways:
First, it sours or ripens a result of
the action of bacteria which are nor
mally present in milk and cream; or,
Second, it ripens as a result of action
of certain kinds of bacteria which are
added in what is termed starter"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-01-28

as Influenced by her desire to be chosen
as the secretary.
Miss Bresette debated seriously wheth-
er she should accept the position of
secretary for several weeks after she
was Informed that the place was hers
if she would take it, and at times was
at the point of announcing that she pre-
ferred to continue as one of the states
factory inspectors. She was much more
interested in seeing the Commission so
organized as to make its work sue
cessful than she was in landing a job
for herself.
Miss Bresette was appointed as a fac
tory inspector in 1913, after the legis-
lature had decreed that Kansas should
employ a woman to inspect factories
where women, girls and children work,
and look after the enforcement of the
child labor law. She was appointed as
a Democrat, and be it known that she
is Democrat and knows why she is a
Democrat. But there was no trace of
politics in the way she took hold of
her work, and beyond any question she
accomplished more in a short two years
than has ever been accomplished by any
one else connected with the State De
partment of Labor and Industry, and
that has been a nightly useful state
department too
Miss Bresette was teacher in the
public schools at Topeka before she be-
came identified with the Department of
Labor and she was a successful teacher,
as she has been a successful state Off
Ger. She has a ready sympathy with
all sorts and conditions of people, and
her success in the last two years has
been in large measure due to the COM
mon sense way in which she adapts
herself to the level of whatever class of
people her work is WITH a quick sense
of humor and a consistent determination
not to take herself and her ideas too
seriously, however seriously she may
take her work
No one else in Kansas has as complete
information as to the conditions under
which women and girls work in the in
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-01-28

OlOSy LOO, DIS
Miss Bresette
w a S in no
sense a candi-
date for the
job. She &C
C e p t e d it
rather in pro-
test because
she fe a r e d
t b a t b g r
C o u r S e in
working so in
dustriously for
the creation
of the Com
mission would
be construed
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-01-28
J January, 1916

water and load it on the wagon or sled.
If desired, a slide and a table platform
may be used and a horse employed for
drawing the cakes from the water onto
the platform, from which they may be
easily loaded
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-01-28
FOOD SUPPLY OF THE FARM HOME

Much public interest has been excited
by the recent announcement of the
United States Public Health Service,
to the effect that the development of
the disease known as pellagra in human
beings depends on faulty diet Among
the suggestions of the Public Health
Service for the modification of diet to
prevent the development of pellagra are
a number of items which emphasize
the importance of the campaign of the
department and the State Agricultural
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-01-28
ROUGH ON THE DOCTOR

One night a doctor in small town
was reused from bed by a farmer, who
asked the physician if he would come
and see his mother, who was ill.
Patrick said the doctor, your
mother is a very old woman"
81 know that, DOCTOR admitted the
man.
She's over eighty, Patrick
"She's all thot, DOCTOR"
And nothing that 1 could do" con-
tinued the medico, would be of the
smallest use to her.
Sure, DOCTOR said the peasant, Il
know very well it's the truth you are
telling me, but me poor mother, do
you see, would have me to come and
fetch you because she does not want
to die a natural DEATH"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-01-28

A newspaper has been established in
the hills of Kentucky which announces
that it will be defense for the noun
taineer." The impression was that Col
Colt has done that years ago
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-01-28
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w HEN the Kansas legislature
NV created an Industrial Wei
fare Commission, and the
Commission selected Miss
Lima Bresette as it's secretary, a big
job was wished onto a little woman.
Wished onto her. is the correct phrase
OlOgy too as
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-01-28

Fritz Manning was out to his ranch
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-06-17

Kaxon? Who had sunk 81 400 in
the shy little man who gazed adOr-
ingly at the girl and blushed and
hurried away when anybody asked
him if he expected to become a bene-
dict? It was suggested that he was
financing himself; but apart from
the grave question whether he had
$l,4OO odd in money it was clear that
he wished the whole joke at the bot
tom Of the sea.
The serious part Of the business
was that Red GuIch had the lead on
PetersOn's Monument. That was not
to be tolerated. A deputatiOn went
to President Harding, and he gave
his word Of honor to put enough mo-
ney into the fourth week to enable
PeteTsOn's Monument to make sure
of the prize Nobody asked any more.
No one suspected that it was he who
was backing KlaXOn. But then, as l
said, Miss Dorothy was a girl of de-
termination.
When the final votes we're count
ed they ran as follows: First, Klax-
on, 1879; second, Ed Simmons,
2,4O5; third, Jennings, 2,276; fourth,
Ransom, LIS.
There was a moment of stupefaC-
ton, and then our mayor threw up
his hat. Three cheers for Mr.. KlaX-
on and his bride and three more for
the bride, and a tiger for PetersOn's
Monument he shouted.
In the silence that preceded the
cheer, just that moment of silence
when men draw in their breath, I saw
RansOm's face go white. He had
been sure of Miss Lane, had joked
and fiiTted with her all the time. Then
I saw him looking at a woman on the
front seat of the theater where the
result was announced. 1t was DorO-
thy Bennett, and-then I knew who
had Queered his game with Miss Edna
Lane
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-06-17

Patrick Harmon, who walked back
ward from Seattle to New York be-
cause somebody said he couldn't do
it, is our idea Of fine vice presidential
material. At least he has done some
thing, even if he did do it backward,