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Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1917-06-28

themselves. Baxter has the adj
vantage now and can hold the
people up to a standstill. But it
will be different when the new
railroads are finished. The new
roads ought to help this town,
and they will if property owners
will be more reasonable with
their demands. But before the
people will pay extortionate
prices they will buy lots and
build or rent houses in the other
towns. Real estate should be
priced at reasonable figures and
rentals should be lowered so as to
give the working man a chance
to live. Else we may have a lot
of vacant houses again and lots
not worth the taxes.
On the other hand, should
Baxter property owners offer
even fair inducements to pros
pectlve home owners at this
particular time no doubt hun
dreds Of people would come here
to build homes. We have lots of
shade, good water, good schools
and good social conditions to
attract families, while the other
communities excepting Lowell
are merely mining camps where
absolute ownership of land can
not be had.
Really, it is time for public
spirited men with means to get
busy and devise a plan whereby
town lots can be sold to working
men at low prices and on easy
payments,
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1917-06-28
No More to Say

We don't know what the Mayor
has up his sleeve to hand US this
week, but what ever it is we have
decided to give him the preroga-
tive that all married men are
accustomed to conceding. We
are going to let Mr.. Wright have
the last word. This newspaper
controversy between Mr.. Wright
and The News, if continued,
would not be helpful in the work
of building up the town and we
doubt if it would be desired by
many of our readers. So we are
going to quit it.
The News, we consider, had
information from source that
warranted US in the first place in
thinking that the council was
delaying the sewer matter need
lessly, and we felt that we had a
duty to perform in expressing the
impatience felt by the public at
the delay. But we have since
gone over the situation with Mr.
Wright and he has assured us
that since he became mayor he
has been working very hard to
get matters shaped up so that
the water problem might be
settled and the sewers started
under conditions that would be
to the best interests of the city.
Now, Mr.. Wright says that he
has succeeded in making a very
favorable agreement with the
new water company and that
the council is just about ready to
let the contract for the sewers.
That being the case there is no
cause for further argument. The
Mayors promise should be ac-
cepted and Baxter people should
be reasonably patient and wait
for further developments.
We want to be fair. We do
not want to hareaSs the Mayor,
nor cause him to waste his pre-
cious time in a newspaper rag
chewing match. Therefore, so
far as The News is concerned,
the controversy is ended.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1917-06-28
Prisoners Should Work

In Cherokee county, the county
prisoners who are able-bodied
are being sent out under the
charge of overseers to work on
the county roads. The plan, it
is said, is working out well. The
prisoners are happier and more
contented than when in close
confinement and not only pay
for their keep in work but
relieve from road work other men
who are needed this year in the
fields.
AS an aid to crops and other
lines of production just now, the
old costly custom of keeping
prisoners lying idle in Jail should
be dispensed with everywhere.
Every able bodied prisoner in
the county should be put to
some productive employment.
1t has long been the contention
of those engaged in prison reform
that we have not the right to
confine men and force them to
remain in idleness, this being the
cause of a large per cent of the
sickness and deaths in our jails.
But aside from the question
of the humane treatment of these
prisoners themselves, there is
that of the cost of maintenance.
An idle man eats practically as
much as a worker. And the
working man must feed the idler.
Every prisoner after conviction,
be his term long or short, should
be required to literally fulfill the
terms Of his sentence, which
from time immemorial has always
read as such a period of time at
hard labor"
THE county jails, the city work
houses, any and al branches o.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1917-06-28
Prices Too High

A good old lady once said to
us, "Some people think there
amt no hell, but wait" The
present real estate situation in
Baxter reminds us of the old
lady's admonitiOn. Some people
thinkthere amt no let up to the
extortiOnate rent charges they
are making, but wait.
The Southwest Missouri is
coming this way, a nice little
town will spring up east of US at
LOwell; the road will extend
southwark into the mining dis
drict and connect up Quapaw,
HOckerville, st. Louis and other
new towns. What the South
west Missouri does not join to-
nether the new Mineral Belt
line will, 50 that within a few
months all the towns and cities
IN the Kansas-Missouri> mining
field will be within close rail
Communication with one another
and It will be easy for people to
ret from one place to the other.
Then is the time that real estate.
and rental values viii equalizG
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-08-18
He Thought 1t Was Safe.

The late Bishop Dudley of Kentucky
used to relate with much relish an
amusing experience that he once had
in connection with waffles. At fine
old Virginia homestead where he was
a frequent guest, the waffleS were al
ways remarkably good.
One morning, as breakfast drew
near an end, the tidy little linen-coat-
ed boy who served at table approached
the bishop and asked in a low voice ::
"Bishop, won't y have 'n'er waffie?"
eyes" said the genial bishop, 81 be-
lieve l will"
"Dey ain no mo-" said the boy.
"Well," exclaimed the surprised
gentleman, "if there aren't any more
wafIles, what made you ask me If |
wanted another One?"
Bishop" exclaimed the boy, "yo's
done ct ten Already, and I thought
yeh wouldn't want no mo- !'-iouth's
Companion.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-08-18

EDITORIAL NOTE. William Le-
Qneux, who here chronicles for his
friend, Count Ernst Won HeltzendOrff,
the lntter's revelations of the inner
life of the imperial German court. has
long been recognized throughout Eu-
rope the pOssessOr of it's innermOst
secrets.
The English "WhO's Who" says of
Him: "He has intimate knowledge of
the secret service of Continental cOun-
tries and Is considered by the govern
nent tOf Great Brittany an authority on
such matters" Another authority says:
Sew people have been more closely MS
ISOLATED with or know more OF the
lstounding inner machinery of Ger
many than he.
LeQueux probably has more sources
81 secret information at his command
tAnn amy contemporary in civil life, ana
for the last six years the British Gov
ernment has made valuable use OF his
vast store of secret Information through
. specially organized department with
which LeQueux works voluntary
assistant.
Count Won HeltzendOrff became an In
Inmate of LeQueux several years prior
To the outbreak of the war; he has been
living In retirement in France since
August, 1914, and 1t was there that Lee
Queux received from the crown princes
late personal adjutant permission TO
make public these revelations of the
inner life of the HOhenzOllerns-thnt
the demOcracies of the world might
come to know the real, but heretofore
hidden, personalities of the two doIni-
nant members of the autOcracy they are
now arrayed against.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-08-18
Corona BoreaIis,

Corona Borealis lies just to the east
of BOotes. 1t is one Of the few OBJ
jects in the heavens which bears a re-
semblance to the object for which it
is named, for it is indeed a crown or
circlet of stars set with a central gem.
The circle of stars is not quite COM
plete, but the whole outline is certain
ly suggested, and the front Of the
crown resembles a diadem in the regu-
lar arrangement of it's stars. The cen
trail bright star, known as 1.-THE Pearl
of the Crown" is a second magnitude
star. This constellation has been
known from remote antiquity. 1t was
called by the Greeks Ariadne's Crown.
The principal star in the crown, Gam
ma, is famous binary.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-08-18
Novel Wedding Cake.

Quite novelty in wedding cakes
was seen at q recent American we'd
ding. The cake weighed about 3OO
pounds and was surmounted by a rep
resentation of white cathedral done
in sugar. through the open doors of
which came the notes Of Mendelssohn' s
wedding March and '"Tales of Hoff-
MANN" played By an electric musical
box.
This reminds one of q wedding-cake
novelty introduced at another wedding,
when an automatic figure of Cupid was
made to march from the dome on top
of the cake and discharge a packet of
arrows in the direction of the brides
maids, who, needless to say, were de-
lighted with this pretty idea.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-08-18
Of INNER LIFE OF KAISER AND CROWN PRINCE AS
CUNT ERNST Won HELTZENDORFF TO WILLIAM LEQUEUX

sphere to enter our diplomacy, except
Let us say no more"
Ten minutes later, being dismissed,
wandered back through the great 81
lent, echOing corridors of the ancient
castle to my own room. A great human
drama. greater than any ever placed
upon the stage, was now being en-
acted.
The emperor was plotting the down.
fall of the Turkish empire and the
overthrow of Islam in Europe. Be
tween the all-highest one and the real
izatiOn of those plans for world power
stood one frail little Parisienne, the
vivacious, well-meaning Madam Reit-
schel!
Next day we left the SchlosS Langen-
berg, but before doing so we heard
with regret that our charming little
hostess had been suddenly taken i'll
during the night, and the kaiser, as
mark of favor, had ordered his doctor,
VOllerthun, to remain behind to attend
her. That Herr Reitschel was in great
distress l saw from his face as he
stood on the little platform at 1lmenau.
Back in Berlin, wondered what was
in progress in that far-Otf SchlOsS in
Thuringia, but week later the truth
became wildly apparent when | read
in the StaatS-AnZeiger an announce
ment that Frau Reitschel, the young
wife of the famous Anton Reitschel of
COnstantinOple, had been seized by
sudden and mysterious illness and had
developed insanity to such hopeless
degree that it had been necessary to
cOnfine her in the ROsenau private aSy-
lum at COburg.
In a second l thought of the dancing
mistress and the mental specialist
from Augsburg.
Poor Madam Reitschel| She died
early in 1913, raving lunatic. Her
devoted husband, having served the
emperOr's purpose, had been recalled
to Berlin, where bereft of the kaisers
favor. he predeceased her by about six
months, brOken-hearted.
Copyright, 1917, William LeQueux)
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-08-18
REGULATES Heat of Iron.

The latest improvement in the cleo
trio smoothing iron is an attempt to
overcome the difficulty that arises in
the laundry from the need for irons
of different temperatures for different
kinds Of work. The old time laundress
with a dozen irons on the stove could
keep some Of them hotter than others,
using the cooler irons for delicate fab
RIGS, but the modern laundress with a
single electric iron has to turn it on
and off and wait for it to heat or COOL
The new electric iron has regulating
switch that can be set at four different
points to produce four different tenn
peratures, from a very high one for
heavy work to one much lower for use
on materials that are easily scorched.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-08-18
True Contentment.

Let us learn to be- s"ontented with
what we have. Let US ct rid of our
false estimates, set up all the higher
ideals-a quiet home; vines of our
own planting; few books full of the
inspiration of genius; few friends
worthy of being loved and able to love
us in turn; hundred innocent pleas
ures that bring no pain or sorrow; a
devotion to the right that will never
swerve; a simple religion empty Of all
bigotry, full Of trust and hope and
love; and to such a philosophy this
world will give up all the empty joy
it has.-David Swing.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-08-18
Tommy ExpIains

A couple of Charlestown kiddies
were celebrating Bunker Hill Day by
exploding a few torpedoes, according
to the Boston Transcript. Said Nellie:
Il don't see how the Germans can blow
up big ship with one of these things"
"Oh, you girls can't expect to under
stand about such things" said Tommy,
with a superior air. "Of course, the
torpedoes they use are about hundred
times as big and they use derrick to
lift them UP and drop them on the
ship"
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-08-18
Worried

Il don't know what I'll do If my boy
has to 60 to war;"
Il wouldn't worry so much If I were
you. Perhaps he won't be drafted"
Il know. but 1 just can't bear the
thought of him ever having to CO."
THAT Is fear that all mothers have
to face. Has you son registered?"
Dear me, no, not yet. But I'm Just
worried to death for fear that some
day he will be called away from me-"
'How old is your boy?"
Just six months old yesterday, and
the loveliest boy that ever was born"
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-08-18
A Teetotal Loss.

Mrs. Clubb-This article says that
the reputation Of the colonists for ODE
dience went overheard at, the Boston
tea party
Mr.. Clubb-Yes, and a lot of other
regulations have gone overheard at
tea parties since.-Judpe
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-08-18
CUTICURA KILLS DANDRUFF
The Cause of Dry, Thin and Falling
Hair and Does 1t Quickly-TriaI Free.

Anoint spots of dandruff. itching and
low at once by a hot shampoo with
Cuticura Soap, If a man, and next
morning If a woman. When Dandruff
goes the hair comes. Use Cuticura
Soap daily for the toilet.
Free sample each by mail with Book.
Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. L,
Boston. Sold everywhere-Adv.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-08-18

Many people imagine that Worm. or rars.
worm cannot be gotten rid of entirely
Those who have used Dead Shot"-Dr
Peerys Vermifuge. know that they can. Adv
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-08-18
SOLD SHOTGUN
FOR TEN DOLLARS
And Filed on Western Canada
Land. Now Worth $4,000.

Lawrence Bros. of Vera, Saskatche-
wan, are looked upon as being amongst
the most progressive farmers in West
Ct Canada. They have had their
'upS-and-dOwns," and know what it
is to be in tight pinches. They perse
vered, and are now in an excellent
financial position. Their story is an
interesting one. Coming in from the
states they travelled overland from
Calgary across the Battle river, the
Red Deer river through the Eagle
Hills and on to Battleford. On the
way their horses were stolen, but this
did not diShearten them. They had
some money, with which they bought
more horses, and some provisions.
When they reached Battleford they
had only money enough to pay their
ferriage over the Saskatchewan river,
and this they had to borrow. 1t was
in 1906 that they filed on homesteads,
having to sell shotgun for ten dol
lars in order to get sufficient money to
do so. Frank Lawrence says:
"Since that time we have acquired
altogether a section and a half Of
land, in addition to renting another
three quarters of a section. If we
had to sell out now we could probably
realize about $4,000, and have made
all this since we came here. We get
crops in this district of from 80 to
50 bushels Of wheat to the acre and
To hr1S ho1c fn
Stock here pays well. We have LOO
sheep, 70 cattle and go horses, of which
a number are registered Clydes."
Similar successes might be given of
the experiences of hundreds of farm
ers throughout Western Canada, who
have done comparatively as well. Why
should they not dress well, live well,
have comfortable homes, with all mod
ern equipments, electric light. steam
heat, pure ventilation, and automo-
biles. Speaking of automobiles it will
be revelation to the reader to learn
that during the first half of 1917, 49,
600 automobile licenses were issued in
Alberta, twice as many as in the whole
of 1915. In Saskatchewan, $1,000 Ii
censes were issued up to the first of
May, 1917. In its monthly bulletin for
June the Canadian Bank of Commerce
makes special reference to this phase
and to the general prosperity of the
West in the following:
Generally speaking the western
farmer is, in many respects, in much
better position than hitherto to in
crease his production. Two years of
high prices for his products have en-
abled him, even with a normal crop,
to liquidate a substantial proportion
OF his liabilities and at the same time
to buy improved farm machinery. His
prosperity is reflected in the demand
for building materials motor cars
and other equipment. It is no doubt
true that some extravaganza is evil
denced by the astonishing demand for
motor cars, but it must be remembered
that many of these cars will make for
efficiency on the farm and econOmize
both time and labor" -Advertisement.
Pan.
They have new game out at Fort
Harrison called pan" and played with
an ordinary pie pan, says the Indian
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-08-18
ALETTER FROM THE CROWN PRINCES PERSONAL A0JUTANT
TO LEQUEUx, PoSsEsSOR OF THE
SECRETS EUROPE.

EUROPE.
NadOn
imperial POtsdan the two or
thrces male
The which related to you
before the war;
a Of could If
startling de VIII print
to
civfl
1 his
III nostco rdia greetings
Yours
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-08-18
Pam.

They have a new game out at Fort
Harrison called pan" and played with
an ordinary pie pan, says the Indian
apOlis News. Such pan, when sailed
correctly, has all the floating quality
of an airplane, and with little prac-
tice may be sailed fast and straight
for a distance of 1000 feet "Elimina-
ton pan" is an improvement on the
game, and is played by any number of
men in big circle, and each man that
drops the pan is out of the game.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1917-08-04

| set. she says, consists in his ability to
five on his friends" Men and women
NE alike to the society cannibal, .
MSS Raymond says. Mrs. Perry, or
Miss Raymond, as she is known In
stageland, recites in her bill for di-
vOrce that her married life lasted six
weeks, and then she went back to
work.
The jewels, the limousines and the
society life he promised me were IL
lusions," said Miss Raymond. "a So
ciety cannibaP is lovable chap until
you find him out. l thought mine was
the incest boy in the world until his
father opened my eyes. l met Perry
in st. Louis and he followed me to
Buffalo. After had known him six
weeks, he proposed and l accepted.
He said he would go right out and get
the ring. He returned with q beautiful
diamond. Later l discovered he had
borrowed a diamond stickpin from a
friend and had the stone reset into a
ring.
"In about six weeks I found out that
q married woman in st. Louis was oIe
Of the victims of my society cannlbar
and that she was paying our bills.
Back to the stage | went"
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1917-08-04

The vogue Of summer furs appears
to be established and the globe-trot
ting public Is probably responsible fol-
Il The whereabouts Of those who
finally make fashions appear to be de,
termined by the variations of the
thermometer and these fleet and fleet
Ing seekers after comfort and change,
carry their furs with them to the four
corners Of the globe. While we are
looking for reasons for wearing furs
In summer weather we are not to over
look the fact that they are amazingly
becoming.
But furriers have seen to 1t that fur
garments for summer wear look very
different from fur garments for win
ter wear. Summer furs borrow a sum-
merry look from crepe and silk liberal
ly used In combination with them.
They do not take the business of pro-
viding warmth at all seriously, but are
made up usually In small, loose-hang-
Ing capes, worn as If slipping Off the
shoulders. Scraps of white fox fur
nish one instance of a fur piece good
Tor both summer and winter wear and
scarfs in dark gray or taupe, appear
among summer furs that will be use
ful In winter.
Small ermine capes and small capes
OF Hudson seal trimmed with ermine,
lead the little procession of summer
turs and, next to them, capes of
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1917-08-04
COP BALKS AT NURSES JOB
Reaches Limit Of Patience When
Called by Woman to Mind
the Baby.

Detroit-The bell in the police sta
ton rang and the girls voice informed
the sergeant that she needed q cop
mighty quick at her home, out on Char
lOtte avenue.
SO with romance in his mind, Patrol
man William Cable hurried out.
Hes right in there and he's awfuIly
well-behaved."
Patrolman Cable entered The she
was a two-year-old boy. whats the
point?' asked the cop.
"The baby belongs to one Of our
tenants" replied the woman. "She
went to the country and left the baby
with us. My husband and l are going
TO a party tonight and we couldn't take
the baby along. 50 we thought you'd
take care of it,"
Madam" replied Patrolman Cable,
81 rescue dogs; climb trees for pet
cats; teach pet canares, and answer
more questions than Kindergarten
teacher. All these have done-but I'll
be darned if I'm going to sit on the
floor playing horse or Indian With
somebody's kid. Goodnight"
Exit romance.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1917-08-04

variety. 1t is so very dark that II Is
really blue-black and the combination
is the most reserved and elegant thing
in mortal eyes.
The big black hat knows nothing Of
warning favor, either for summer or
winter. One Of the pretty and simple
summer models is shown in the pic
ture. 1t is Of black satin with a wide
border Of fancy hairbraid about the
edge which Is bound with satin. A
long sweep Of slender feathers and a
little emplacement of ribbon make q
trimming exactly suited to the shape.
A large and picturesque hat is Of
white georgette crepe with a border
about the brim and crown Of narrow
milan braid. White satin camellias
and little white roses are wreathed
about the crown, with the small roses
clustered In the top crown.
The chic small hat of white crepe
georgette, faced with black velvet and
finished with border Of white feath-
ers about the outstanding brim is as
cool and crisp as frost. 1t is late
summer hat Of the kind that may be
worn at almost any time and any
where.
For sports and outings, rough straw
sailors In bright and vivid colors arc
candidates for favor that are sure 10
win. Along with them appear soft, ex.
quisite felts in wonderful shades Of
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1917-08-04
Pockets and Belts.

One Of the attractive new girdles,
made Of silk, shows two deep pockets
hanging from the belt. one over each
hip. This girdle is wide, and the
pockets are deep. and it is one Of those
interesting accessories that adds quite
a new tone to the frock with which 1t
is worn. 1t could be developed in silk
Of almost any color, to harmonic with
the figure in silk or cotton or linen fab
rio with q white ground Of which the
skirt it tops Is made.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1917-08-04
TO DRIVE OWN HOSPITAL
CAR ON FRENCH FRONT

Tulsa, Okla.-Arthur Gamman q
young oil operator, will sail for France
In few days to drive field ambu-
lance contributed by himself. Gam
man and his business partner, Ray
mond w. Mcintosh. We're among the
first in Tulsa to volunteer as officers
in the new United States army and
were ordered to Leon Springs. Texas.
for training.
On their way there Mcintosh was
stricken with appendicitis and died.
Cannon accompanied the body to New
York for burial and there decided to
enlist In the ambulance corps for i'm
mediate foreign service.