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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1917-07-12

What was really the amount
asked from Kansas for the Red
Cross? At Wichita it was stated by
the officers to be $2,00O,OO0. The
national publicity sent out put it
$1,6O0,OO0 and now the report from
Washington says it was 100000
and that the state raised $SS0,000.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-27

frOnt-dOOr bell rang she left that to
Inga, too didn't even sit up and
swing her legs off the couch and
try, with a prOdIgiOus stretch, to get
herself awake, until she heard the
girl say casually:
"Her ban right in the sitting-room !"
So it fell out that Rodney Aldrich
had. for his second vivid picture of
her-the first had been, you will re-
member, when she had seized the con-
ductor by both wrists, and had said
in a blaze of beautiful wrath: "Don't
dare touch me like that pa splendid
lazy. tousleG creature, in q chaotic
glory of chestnut hair, an unlaced
middy-blouse, a plaid skirt twisted
around her knees, and a pair of ride
ulous red bedroom slippers, with red
pompons on the toes. The creature
was stretching herself with the grace
of a big cat that had just been reused
from a nap on the hearthrug.
If his first picture of her had been
brief, his second enc was practically
q snapshot, because at sight OI MIN,
she flashed to her feet.
So, for a moment, they confronted
each other about equally aghast,
flushed up to the hair, and simultane-
ously and incoherently begged each
others pardon-neither could have
said for what, the goddess out Of the
machine being Inga, the maid-of-all-
work. But suddenly, at a twinkle she
caught in his eye, her W big eytnc
narrowed and her big mouth Wsdened
into a smile, which broke presently
into her deep-throated laugh, where.
upon he laughed too and they shook
hands and she asked him to sit down.
cts too ridiculous" she said. "Since
last night, when l got to thinking
how l must have looked, wrestling
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-27

with that conductor, I've been telling
myself that if l ever saw you again
I'd try to act like a lady. But it,
no use, is it?'
He said that he, too, had hoped tt
make a better impression the secon(
time than the first. That was what
he brought the books back for.
"Tm awfully sorry mothers not al
home-mother and my sister Portia
They'd both like to thank you for
looking after me last night. Because
really you did, you know"
"There never vas anything less al
truistic in the world" he assured her
81 dropped off of that car solely in
pursuit of a selfish aim. I'd enjoy
meeting your mother and sister very
much, but what l came for was to get
acquainted with you"
She flushed and smiled. "Why, I'm
nobody much to get acquainted WITH
she said. Mothers the interesting
one-mother and Portia. Mothers
quite a person. She's Naomi Rut.
ledge Stanton, you know"
Il know l ought to know" Rodney
said, and her quick appreciative
smile over his candor rewarded him
for not having pretended.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-27
and then clenched her hands Over them,

and then clenched her hands over them
He had got up and was ranging
comfortably up and down the room.
Il know / look more or less like a
nut to the people who've always known
rs. But | give you my word, Freddy,
that most of them look like nuts to me.
Why Il maj should load himself up
with three houses and Il yacht, u
stable of motOrcarS, and heavens knows
what besides, is II thing | can't figure
out on any basis except of defective
intelligence. | suppose they're equally
puzzled about me when l refuse a
profitable piece of law work they've
offered me, because | don't consider
it interesting. All the same, ! get
what | want, and I'm pretty dubious
sometimes whether they do. l want
space-comfortable elbow room, 50
that If happen to get an idea by the
tail, | can swing it round my head
without knocking over the lamp"
ITS luxury, though, Rod, that
kind of spaciousness, and you aren't
very rich. If you married Il girl with
out anything . :"
He broke in on her with that big
laugh of his. "Tou'vc Kept your n
of humor pretty well, sis, considering
you've been married all these years
to n man as rich MS Martin but don't
spring remarks like that, or I'll thiuk
you've lost it. II Il man can't keep
an open space around him, even after
he's married on an income, outside of
what he earns, of ten or twelve thou
sand dollars Il year, the trouble isn't
with his income. It's with the content
OF his own SKULL
Sh" gave IA little shivcr and
Struggled closer into Il big down pillow.
You will marry somebody, though,
won't you, Roddy? | try not to nag
at you and | won't make any more
silly plans, but | can't help worrying
about you, living alone in that awful
big old house. Anybody but you would
die of despondency."
oh" he said, that's what l meant
to talk to you about. l sold it today
thousand dOllars-immediate
possession. Man wants to build a
printing establishment there. You
down sometime next week and
pick out all the things you think you
and Harriet wCuld like, and I'll auction
off the rest"
She shivered again and, to her
blurring up with tears. She was a
j lie bit slack and edgy today anyhow.
What he had just referred to in Il
dozen brisk words, was the final dis
appearance of the home they had all
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-27

grown up in. Their father, one of
Chicago's great men during the twenty
odd years from the Fire to the Fair,
had built it when the neighborhood
included nearly all the other big men
Of that robust period, and had always
been proud of it. Of course for years
the neighborhood had been impossible.
Her mother had chung to it after her
husbands death, but Rodney had SIM
ply stayed on, since her death, waiting
for an offer for it that suited him. His
curt announcement that the long
looked-for change had come, brought
up quick, u~nwelcomed tears. She
squeezed them away with her palms.
as that" she asked, why you've
been looking so sort of-gay, all the
evening-as if you were licking the
last of the ~canary's feathers off your
whiskersY"
Perhaps So" he said. 'It's been
a pretty good day. take it all round"
She got up from the couch. shook
herself down into her clothes a little,
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-27
BABIES MURDERED IN CHINA EASY TO HANDLE BIG LOAD
One Mother %LaughingIy Admitted She
Had disposed Of" Seven of Her
Nine Daughters.

A Chinese mother told me the other
day that she had disposed of seven Of
her own daughters. She told it with
a laugh! She had borne nine; had
given away two, and had drowned the
other seven In the slop bucket.
When l tried to find some appeal to
conscience-to a sense of wrong-it
simply was not there. And the pas
tors wife, who was with me at the
time, when l asked her what these peO-
pie do regard a sin, said, "Why, moth
ing! They do not think anything is
wrong! If they carry the idols round
twice a year they may do as they like"
l went home with this murderess and
found her sweet, young daughter-,D-
law, who has studied a little in our
schools, very sad and heartbroken be-
cause her two little daughters had been
killed at birth or thrown away by their
father. OF course, the mOther-in-law
had also insisted upon this. Her n
son had been killed when five days old
by the malpractice Of the midwife, who
had taken him In hand when some
baby ailment developed, and burned his
head, hands and breast with live Goals.
So the poor little mother was left
childless.
MY little baby girls cling to my
heart night and day" she cried. Il
don't know what became of them. 1
loved them just as 1 loved the boy, all
the time they were with me before they
were born. I wanted them SO! But
he was unwilling, 50 they had to die"
Evelyn w. Sites, in World Outlook.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-27
p III.
The Second Encounter.

POrtia Stanton was late for lunch
so, after stripping off her jacket and
gloves, rolling up her veil, and scowl-
ing at herself in an oblong mahogany
framed mirror in the hall, she walked
into the dining-roOm with her hat on.
Seeing her mother sitting at the lunch
table, she asked, "Where's Rose?"
shell be down. presently, l think"
her mother said. Does your hat
mean you're going back to the shop
this a~fternoOn?"
Portia nodded, pulled back her chair
abruptly, and sat down.
II thought that ON Saturday . :"
her mother began.
"Oh, l know" said Portia, "but that
girl I've got isn't much good"
You'd have known them for mother
and daughter anywhere, and you'd
have had trouble finding any point of
resemblance in either of them to the
Amazonian young thing who had so
nearly thrown a street-car conductor
into the street the night before.
The mothers hair was very soft ant
white, and the care with which it was
arranged indicated a certain harmless
vanity in it. There was something a
little conscious. too, about her dress.
If you took it i'm connection with q
certain resolute amiability about her
smile, you would be entirely prepared
to hear her tell POrtia that she was to
talk on Modern Tendencies before
the Pierian club this afternoon.
A very real person, nevertheless
you couldn't doubt that. The marks of
passionately held beliefs and eagerly
given sacrifices were etched with un-
deniable authenticity In her face.
Once you got beyond a catalogue of
features, POrtia presented rather a
striking contrast to this. Her hair
was done with a severity that was
fairly hostile. Her clothes were
worm. Her smile, if not i'll
natured-it wasn't that-was distinct
ly ironic. A very competent, good
looking young woman, Just now droop-
ing a little over the cold lunch.
$50 Rose didn't come down this
morning at all. Nothing particular the
with her, is there?" asked Por-
tia.
There was enough real concern In
her voice to saw the question from
sounding satirical, but her mothers
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-27
CONCRETE Pavement IS BEST
Affords az Good FoothoId for Horses
as Any Other Hard Surface and
Wears Quite Well.

The concrete pavement in use on the
main driveway at the Kansas State
Agricultural college has proved that
this type of pavement is successful,
according to L. e. Conrad, professor
of civil engineering. This pavement
has been in use for more than three
years and shows practically no wear,
The traffic over this road is heavy,
1t consists Of all the coal and machin-
cry delivered to the college, a large
part of the material that is used in the
construction of new buildings on the
campus, college mail and express, and
the many pleasure vehicles that are
continually using this road.
Two methods were used to surface
the road. On the level portion of the
roadway the finish was made compar-
atively smooth, while on the grades a
heavy stable brush was drawn over
the green cement, leaving a rough sur
face. It is probable that after a few
years of service the roadway which
has the smooth surface will present q
more uniform appearance but at pres
ent there is no appreciable difference.
"The teamsters hauling coal to the
college power plant were strongly of
the opinion that the road would be
slippery" remarked Mr.Conrad, "but
they say, after using it for three years,
that it affords as good a foothold for
the horses as any hard surface.
"The expansion and contraction of
the concrete is taken up by steel-bOund
joints that are placed every 35 feet,
these joints being surrounded by an
elastic material. Outside of a few
dollars for replacing SOM of this ma
terial, there has been no expense what
eve for the repair or upkeep Of the
roadway"
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-27
The "bee in his bonnet"
worked rapidly on Rodney and
his acquaintance with Rose de-
veIoped with much specials de-
scribed in the next instaIlment.
Attachment Devised for Trucks Makes
the Work of the Wheeler SO
Per Cent Easier.

In order to make it possible for a
workman to manage a heavily loaded
two-wheeled hand truck with less ply
steal exertion than is ordinarily re-
quired an attachment has been devised
which holes the cargo in place, allow
ing the mass to be tilted forward until
its center Of gravity is wei the wheel
axle.
When wheeling on level flooring a
mar Is thus relieved of the weight of
the article he is moving; his concern is
merely to maintain its balance while
propelling the truck.
The device consists of an anchor and
chain attachment, housed in a tube.
which is attached beneath a truck. BY
tipping the latter forward against the
object it is to carry, the chain is drawn
out to the required length, locked by
dropping one of the links into a narrow
slot in the neck of the tube and the
hook engaged at any convenient point.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-27
Outline Of King DRAG.

its further use I give this detailed
drawing and make the following sug-
gestions:
Use light wood. The drag will do
the most efficient work if it is light
enough for n man to lift.
Don't use square timber, as it will
not stay sharp on the edge like a
half-rOund timber. A log from 10
to u inches in diameter is best.
A strip of iron three-eighths of an
inch thick, three or four inches wide
and thirty-six inches long bOlted to
the right-hand side Of the front tim
Der, is very effective in cutting down
unusually rough spots.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-27

and came Owe to him. "All right.
since it's been a good day, let's go to
bed" She put her hands upon his
shoulders. you're rather dreadful"
she said, "but you're a dear. You
don't bite my head off when l urge you
to get married, though l know you
want to. But you will some day
don't ean bite my head off-won't
you. Rod?"
"When l see any prospect Of being
as lucky as Martin-find n girl who
won't mind when l turn up for dinner
looking like a drowned tramp, or kick
her plans to bits, after she's tipped me
off us to what she wants me to do . :"
Frederick took her hands off, step
ped back, and looked at him. There
was an ironical sort of smile on her
lips. you're such an innocent, Noddy
dear. Don't think the girl you marry
will ever treat you like that"
! but look here!" he exclaimed.
GLOW in thunder am l going to know
about the girl I get engaged to, before
it's too late?"
"You won't" she said. "You haven't
a chance in the world"
"Hm!" he grunted, obviously struck
with this idea. "You're giving the
prospect of marriage new attractions.
You're making the thing out-an Ad-
venture"
She nodded rather soberly. "Oh,
PM NOT nfpn;I fnu cha cntI
"Nlen like adventures-you more than
most. But women don't. They like to
dream about them, but they want to
turn over to the last chapter and see
how it's going to end. It's the girl
I'm worried about. . . Oh, coIne
along! We're talking nonsense. I'll
90 up with you and see that they're
giving you pajamas and a toothbrush"
She had accomplished this purpose,
kissed him goodnight, and turned to
leave the room, when her eye fell upon
IL heap of damp, warped, p~asteboard-
LouIui notebooks, which she ref:lem-
bered having observed in his side peck
e,s when he first came in. She went
over and picked them up, peered at the
paper label that had half peeled off the
topmost cover, and read what was
written on it.
"Who," she asked with considerable
emphasis. sis Rosalind Stanton?"
"Oh," said Rodney, very casually, be-
hind the worst imitation of a yawn
she had ever seen. "oh, she got put off
the car when ] did"
THAT sounds rather exciting" said
Frederick behind an imitation yawn
of her own-but Il better one "Going
to tell me about it?'
Nothing much to tell" said Rodney.
'"There was a row about a fare, as
! said. And then, we both got put off.
SO, naturally, l walked with her over
to the elevated. And then l forgot to
give her her notebooks and came away
with them"
"What sort of lUa':ng girl!" asked
Frederick. as she pretty"
"Why, don't know" said Rodney
judicially. "Really, you know, l hard
~ got a fair look at her"
Frederick made a funny-sounding
laugh and wished him an abrupt good
night"
She was a great old girl, Frederick
pretty wise about lots of things, but
Rodney was inclined to think she was
mistaken in saying zone didn't like
adventures.
you're a liar, you know" remarked
his conscience, telling Frederick you
hadn't a good look at her. And how
about those notebooks-about forget
ting to give them to her."
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-27
SPRING WORK ON GOOD ROADS
One or Two Trips Up and Down With
Drag Will Put Them in Fine Con-
dition-Details of a Drag.
(RY LEO

In the spring of the year, when the
roads begin to dry and the dirt is
up and down with the road drag will
put them in excellent condition. If
each farmer would al for the road
which passes his place, dragging it
every time it needed it, we would all
have occasion to rejoice.
Personally, I don't believe there is
a steel drag made that will beat the
work of the old King drag. Another
point in its favor is that it can be
made at home and costs practically
nothing.
Because of constant inquiry for
plans of this drag and to encourage
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-27
TREES ALONG ALL HIGHWAYS
Plan for Annual Appropriation CON-
mands Observation-Disclosures
Would Give Satisfaction.

The plan for an annual %appropria-
ton for the planting of shade trees and
shrubs along the great extent of state
highways commands recognition. This
looks to the decoration of regions in
which from year to year there Is a
greater passage of our people for rec
reation and the enjoyment of the
pleasures of nature. There is no in
vestment from whose dividends great
er satisfaction can be drawn.-Boston
Post.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-27
Make Earth Roads Worse.

Very few roads receive enough time
and money to be put in first-class con-
dition. Most Of. the money is spent in
an endeavor to maintain earth roads
that are not in a suitable condition
for maintenance. Many earth roads
are worse after improper working than
they were before 1t, for a large part Of
the best soil in them is exposed 80 that
the first heavy rains wash 1t away.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-27
Positions Reversed.

Hamlett-What became of that
charming Miss Sharleigh whom you
supported in "The Boarding House
Mystery" three years ago?
Eggbert-Oh, she's supporting me
now.
-,.ti
Hamlett-In what?
~Eggbert-In a real boarding house
that she is running. I'm her husband.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-27
Happy Thouuht.

Miss Askit-When one sends a par.
Gel by express, why do they always
ask the name and address of the send
er?
Percy Pinkleigh-Why-er-so they'll
know where to return it in cast it Is
-er-lost or stolen, doncher know.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-27
Good Substitute.

"Yore aunt" said Uncle Hiram,
"seen a ad in a paper what sed ez how
a Teller tew tn city would sen emmy
body a reset fer maxim puddin' with
out uisn' milk, an a heep site richer,
an all fer a dollar; so she up an sent
tn money!"
"And did she get the desired infor-
mation?" asked the city nephew.
yep" answered the Old nan. 9TH
Teller writ back an told her 20 youse
cream"
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-27
There's a Reason,

Mrs. Buttin-I think you ought to
know it. / see your husband kissing
the cook nearly every day.
Mrs. Outatown-Isn't it thoughtful
of MIN? He does it every morning and
she appreciates it so much that she's
been with us for two weeks.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-27
Good Suggestion.

Mr.. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. you were a
man, Miss Willing, and er-lOved a girl
very dearly, and couldn't find words in
which to express it, er-what would
you do? Il
Miss Willing-Well, I would prob.
ably lower the gas a little and-say
nothing.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-27

dramatically speaking" said the
bashful young man. would you call a
kiss a conjunctionT"
II don't know" replied the fair maid
in the parlor scene; but l am right
here to inform you whatever it may
be, it's something mighty hard for .
girl of my disposition to decline"
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-27
Promoting Thrift In Colombia.

The Colombian congress has adopt.
ed a measure providing for the ap-
pointment by the minister of public
instruction of a commission to investi.
gate methods for promoting saving
throughout the country. This commits
sion will work out a general plan 6f
organization of pablo and school saw.
ings banks, retirement funds, and so
cieties for mutual aid and cooperative
buying.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-27
Results From Road Drao,

The systematic use of the road
drag will give better results for the
money spent than any other method
of maintaining an earth road, and
costs from $40 to SIS per mile per year
in Illinois. provided the road has been
properly built.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-27
Heard at the Ball Park.

She-Papa says our minister's salary
10 only half as much as this pitchers
Is.
He-Well, perhaps the pitchers de-
livery is twice as good.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-27
$1,75o,ooo for Concrete Roads.

A bond issue for 81 ,750,O0O to be
used for building approximately 125
miles of concrete highways in Sacra-
mento county, CAL, passed a few days
ago, the vote being four to one.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-27
Feminine Trait.

Dame Natures age grows day by day,
Though she may not reveal it;
For, womanlike. she knows the way
Whereby she can conceal it.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-27

The water of the Antarctic ocean u
colder than that Of the Arctic.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-27
Little Achievement

Aaude-Mr. Dobbins is always tell
ing what he is going to do.
Harold-Well, If he didn't he'd have
nothing to tell"
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-27

Doctor Endee-Your husband needs
a rest. l recommend a twO-months'
tour of South America.
Mrs. Nagger-Fine! Well leave
next week.
Doctor Endee-Pardon me, but you
misunderstood. He must go alone
l said he needed a rest.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-01-10
COMBINATION SURE TO WIN
With Ideas and Industry Ninety Men
Out Of Every Hundred Will
Achieve Success.

Some self-conceited philosopher has
finite capacity for untiring application.
1t would seem that this attempt to de-
fine genius would apply more appropri-
ately to talent. 1t is also an obvious
fact that many people, thoughtful 9TH
erwiSe, use language loosely. We
would think the remark quoted above
case in point, observes the Los An
geleS Times.
There is no doubt that talent, to
make itself effective, requires untiring
effort and unlimited application. Civ
en- talent and application, success is
sure to follow in any mans career.
Many of US are very much inclined to
find fault with society and lay all our
failure to succeed at its door. Society
is not a concrete fact. 1t is simply an
abstraction invented to represent hu-
mainly in the aggregate. Nature has
been very niggardly in her gifts to
many of us, and where this is so no
amount of effort, no matter how con-
tinuously it is applied can lead to large
success.
Those who find fault with society as
the cause of their failure are wrong.
Given a fair amount of talent-that is.
brains-and untiring application, and
success will be achieved, ninety-nine
times out CT every hundred. This NAV
be proved by reference to any walk in
life to which human beings apply them.
selves to reach success.