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The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-10-13

when it was spent upon the roads
where heavy travel quickly wiped out
every trace of the Improvement. A
reasonable amount of road and bridge
money used in ditching and dragging
side roads will place them in condition
TO carry the comparatively light traffic
that passes over them to the main
highway. The man on the side road
Will have, in place of a continuous
haul through the mud from farm to
town, a much-improved surface from
farm to the main highway and a high
" improved road, maintained at much
less expense TO the township or coun-
ty, the remainder of the way to his
town or market-Farm Engineering.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-10-13
Big Meteor Fell in Texas

Waco, Tex, Oct "a meteor of
several tons fell last night and COM
pletely buried itself on the farm of
Harry James, two miles south of
Hillsboro, Tex. Many persons saw
the meteor. which was the size of an
ordinary motor car.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-10-13
peficienex Bill to Wilson.

Washington. Oct 5--The confer
ence report on the last of the big war
appropriation bills for this session Of
Congress. the $7,75s,1 $4,000 deficiency
measure, was adopted by the House
today after brief discussion and the
bill now ready for the President.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-10-13
Accused Editors of sedition.

Newark, N. J., Oct. 5.-The offices
Of the New Jersey FTeis-Zeitung were
raided here today by federal authori-
ties and the publisher, Benedict
Prieth, and two editors, William Won
KaepezIer and Henry Wechter, were
taken into custody.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-10-13
banks can ISSUE 81 RiIIs-

Washington, Oct. 4-To meet
heavy demand for 81 and 81 notes tbs
House has passed a Senate bill repeal
ing the law prohibiting the furnishing
to national banks of bills of less de-
nomination than So, and authorizes
the banks to issue not exceeding $685.
600 in 81 bills.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-10-13
An American Filler MISSING.

Paris, Oct Andrew Courtney
Campbell, Jr., OF Kenilworth, Ill, a
corporal in the Lafayette EscadriIle,
disappeared Monday while on recon
noitering expedition in his aircraft.
His fate is not known.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-10-13
Spare soukhomIinoff Siberia

Petrograd, Oct 6.-The provisional
government has decided to permit
General Soukhomlinoff, the former
minister of war who was convicted of
treason last week, to serve his term
in the st. Peter and st. Paul prison
instead of in Siberia.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-10-13
Bio Hunt for Raiders On

Washington. Oct 6-With definite
Information of the presence of two
German sea raiders in the South Pa,
cific Ocean, announced in dispatches
from Samoa to the Navy Department.
a hunt for the commerce destroyers
has been set in motion.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-10-13
German Answer to AIIies.

Rome, Oct. 3.-The Vatican has de-
hvered to the British minister the
text of the replies of Germany and
Austria to the pope's peace proposals.
The replies are accompanied by q
short note from the Vatican.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-10-13
States Approve Draft Plans

Washington, Oct. 3.-Forty-five gov
errors have approved the plans to pro-
coed at once with the physical exami-
nation Of the z million men registered
under the Selectiye Draft Act, who
were not included in the first call.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-10-13
Kitty Acquired the Habit

As Mary's mother was a voice teach
er, Mary was familiar with the termin-
OlOgy Of the music studio. One day
when her kitten was whining vocifer-
ously outside the door, Mary ex-
claimed: Mamma, please let kitty in!
Shes outside, forcing her voice terri.
bly,"
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-10-13
All Argentine Trains Stop.

Buenos Aires, Oct 5.-Employees
Of the government railroad have join
ed the ranks of the striking railroad
men, The strike is now general and
40 trains are operating.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-10-13
Lieute-;y.t killed in France

Washington. Oct 4-Leut. 6. P.
Howe OF the Boston Medical Officers
Reserve Corps was killed in action
September %, While on duty with
British forces in France, the adjutant
general announced today.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-10-13
Suicide Over Oil Stocks

Wichita, Kan, Oct 6.-Mrs. Blanch
Newman, 35 years old. shot and killed
herself today when she became salts
fled that money she had invested in
Butler county oil stocks had been lost.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-10-13
Drao After Rain.

Drag the road as soon after every
rain as possible, but not when the mud
is in such a condition as to stick TO
the drag.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-10-13
Anerican Schooner sunk

London, Oct. 5-The American
schooner Annie F. ConIon was at
tackled and sunk by gunfire by Ger
man submarine Wednesday morning
of the Sci1Iy Izlands-.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-10-13
II Gov. Could Talk

II the cow could talk we may i'm
agine what she would say to the at
tendant who negIects to keep her clean
and wei bedded.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-10-13
Miners Reject a Compromises

Washington, Oct 8. Representa-
tives of coal miners in the central
competitive field rejected proposal
today by operators. offering in part
the wage increases demanded.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-10-13
Powder for cabbaoe Worms

For cabbage worms: Mix one part
Of fresh Persian insect powder with
four parts of air-slaked lime, and dust
1t on the plants at regular intervals.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-10-13
An Order Tor 20 pestroxers-

San Francisco, Oct. 4.-The Union
Iron Works of San Francisco has been
awarded a contract for the construc-
lion of forty torpedo boat destroyers.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-10-13

1t doesn't pay to go TO the expense
of cows, stables, land, utensils, etc.,
for dairy work, then serimp the cows
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-10-13
az for DaIrv Paints

Look the prospective dairy calf over
for dairy points Rudimentary teats,
a large udder cord, etc. Finally look
I'D its parentage.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-10-13
nnnJt IIse NNhin

Don't use the whip too freely on a
horse that SHES. Patience and kind
ness viii do better.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-10-13
Loan to s1a7. ao7. AGO ia New York.

New York, Oct 6-New York's Of
fetal Liberty Loan total for the first
four days is s137, S07 400, it was an
nounced today. The city's quota is
I,5OO million dollars.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-10-13
Attention to Road ORA,

If we would pay more attention to
the road drag, we would have better
roads.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-10-13

Marinette, Wis has q new monu-
ment to Civil war soldiers.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-10-13
sure Feed supnIN.

STIage furnishes an almost sure feed
supply.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1917-06-28
indian Arrow Heads.

Mr.. Gushing, an authority on mat
ters pertaining to Indians, tells how,
when he was boy, he learned how the
Indians made their arrow heads.
He had unearthed a beautiful har-
poon Of bone. He had toothbrush with
him, and the bone handle of this he
chopped off and ground down on a
piece Of sandstone, to make harpoon
Of his own but he could not grind such
clea1-cut barbs as those Of the relic.
The boy then took his flint scales and
chips and set to work with them. The
flint cut the bone away but left the
work rough. Then accidentally he
made discovery, for no sooner had he
begun to rub the bone transversely on
the flint than the bone cut the flint
away. Not jaggedly, as his hammer
stone would have Clipped it but in
long, continuously narrow surface fur
rows wherever the edge was caught in
the bone at certain angle.
He never finished that harpoon. He
turned 1t about and used it as an ar
row cutter, by tying it to little rod
Of wood with shoestring. He had
found out how the Indians made
arrow heads.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1917-06-28
EVERY FUR SEAL HAS HAREM
Male Sometimes Gathers More Than
100 Females on the Section OF
Beach Which Ho Controls.

Fur seals are extremely polygamous
and the old males, which weigh
from 400 to 500 pounds, "haul up
first on the breeding beaches. Each
bull holds a certain area, and as the
females, only one-fifth his size, come
ashore they are appropriated by the
nearest bulls until each ''beach mas
ter" gathers haren, sometimes con.
tanning more than 100 members, says
the National Geographic Magazine.
Here the young are born, and after
the mating season, the seals which
have remained ashore without food
from 4 to 6 weeks, return to the wa
ter. The mothers 60 and come, and
each is able to find her young with
certainty among thousands of ap.
parently identical woolly black pups"
From the ages Of one to four years
fur seals are extremely playful. They
are marvellous swimmers and frolic
about in pursuit Of one another now
diving deep and then, one after the
other, suddenly leaping high above
the surface in graceful curves. like
porpoises. Squids and fish Of various
species are their main food. Their
chief natural enemy is the killer
whale, which follows their migrationa
and haunts the sea about their breed.
ing ground, taking heavy toll among
them.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1917-06-28
Cats a. Hunters.

DR.. A. A. Allen, professor of birds
at Cornell, suggests that anyone who
is skeptical about the hunting ability
of the cat should 60 out in the early
fall morning after a light snow fall
and track the wild animals of the
nearby woods. Perhaps you will find
the tracks Of red squirrel; squirrels
are very clever and usually manage
to exist even in cities. Perhaps you
will find the tracks of cottontail or
two; rabbits are very prolific and
stand great deal Of persecution.
Probably you will find the tracks of u
few rats and mice; but be assured you
will find Puss-in-Boots in force, her
tracks crossing and recrossing. Doc
tor Allen does not believe there is q
place in the eastern United States
within five miles Of human habita-
ton where you will not find the tracks
Of the domestic cat more frequently
than those Of any wild animals, squir-
rels, rabbits, mice excepted. Trappers
catch them in their traps set in the
wilds far from houses.-Grit.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1917-06-28

more fitting for the nations birthday
We should be nation of athletes;
there is no day better than July for
arousing the latent strength of man.
hood or exhibiting what is already de.
veloped. Surely the parks should ring
with the best music our bands can
produce. Men gifted with power to
sway the multitudes should this day
tell what the nation stands for and
pay tribute to those who are
Slow to smite and swift to spare.
Gentle and merciful and Just!
Who. in the fear Of God, do bear
The sword Of power, a nations trust.
Today we are in need Of a patri.
Otism as great as that of '78. The oc.
casion is different and the problem re.
Quires greater wisdom in its solution.
It is satisfaction to remember that
the national sword has never been
lifted in conquest. The glory of the
starry flag is that she is an emblem Of
freedom Of conscience, religion and
civil liberty. Except in the cause Of
humanity she has never been in battle.
Not oil that has been done under her
is worthy of praise, but 1t is safe to
say that few nations have q more UNI
selfish record. i
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1917-06-28
pEKING SEES DEVIL DANCE
Ceremony Instituted During the Using
Dynasty More Than 200 Years
Ago, Enacted by Priests.

Peking recently witnessed the cere-
mony instituted during the Using
dynasty, over 200 years ago, known as
the devil dance" 1t took place in the
Lama temple, and was witnessed by
several thousand devout Buddhist
worshipers, says East and West.
Eighty priests danced In groups, vary
Ing In number from two to twenty.
All the celebrants wore gorgeously EN-.
broidered silk robes and masks repre-
senting animals. Conspicuous were
heads Of tigers, oxen, sheep and deer.
The dance ended at two o'clock in the
afternoon, when q procession of the
priests formed and proceeded to the
east gate Of the temple grounds. where
the paper eff1gy Of a nude woman was
burned.
The legend which the ceremony com.
memorates Is that the devil, in form
Of woman, ran about the country,
casting spells and working mischief to
crops, animals and humans. Attempts
to Clutch her were futile until the Bud
dha sent charmed horse to run her
down. The animal overlook the flee.
ing woman after race Of 10000 Ii,
seized her in his teeth, brought her to
place Of punishment where she was
publicly destroyed by fire. The female
figure is not alike on all occasions ;
sometimes an old bag is represented,
but generally the woman is young and
comely, as being more dangerous to
mankind.
The ceremonial recalls to those who
have Travelled in Mohammedan coun.
tries the religious fervor of the 'danc.
ing dervishes.''
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1917-06-28
Wise Fish.

Scientists have discovered how fish
can find their way to fresh water.
Their studies of the resistance of salt
water fishes to the decayed and de-
composed things, has led to an explain
alton Of their habits.
1t appears that herrings can sense
differences in heat and cold as small
as quarter Of degree or less. They
appreciate the fact that only q trace
of an acid or alkali is present in wa
ter. So sensitive are herring said to
be to acids and alkalis that the sci
entists propose that these and other
fish be used to detect the chemicals
instead of the litmus paper, which
chemists use, and in the same manner
that canary birds are used to discover
traces of poison coal gas in mines and
elsewhere.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1917-06-28
MAN IS WORTH 1000 EGGS
Same ingredients Are to BE Found n
eoth-valued at $2.4s for u.
lumlnatina PURPOSES,

What is q mani How much is he
worth from a scientific viewpoint3
According to one way of looking at
It a man is worth about $3.50 day
from his shoulders down and any
where from $4,000 to 100000 a
year from his shoulders up. This is
said to be the estimate of the average
successful business man.
The scientist, however, looks at the
question from another angle. Accord
ing to him man is worth $2.45 for
Illuminating purposes, since a man
weighing $50 pounds contains about
$500 cubic feet Of oxygen, hydrogen
and nitrogen in his constitution, which
at 20 cents per 1000 cubic feet equals
the price above. Also a man contains
enough carbon to make $3.50 lead pen
ellis; enough phosphorus to make $780,
600 matches or enough to kill 500 per-
sons, and enough water to fill q So
quart reservoir.
Furthermore, It makes no difference
how sour a man may look he contains
about 60 Jumps Of sugar, a great deal
Of starch, chloride Of potash, magnesi-
um, sulphur and hydrochloric acid in
his system. There are 80 grains of
iron in the blood Of an ordinary man,
enough to make one spike large enough
to hold his weight.
What Is q mani This is the some
what cynical answer of one scientific
man:
"Break the shells Of 1000 eggs into
q huge pan or basin and you have in
gradients from which to form him
from his toenails to the most delicate
tissues Of his brain."-Popular Sci.
ence Monthly.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1917-06-28
BELL HAD EARLY STRUGGLES
Inventor Of Telephone Experienced
Common Fate Of Pioneers In
HE Early Manhood.

Next to the reaping machine, which
drove famine from the world, Amer.
ica's greatest gift to modern civili-
cation has been the telephone. The
name Of its inventor, DR.. Alexander
Graham Bell, will live down the ages
after all but two or three present-day
Americans have been forgotten.
Unlike most famous inventors, Doc
tor Bell did not spring from obscurity
and poverty. His father was scholar
and scientist Of note, and young Bell
received ripe education. But he did
not escape the common fate of inven-
tors and pioneers. His struggles with
poverty came In early manhood in
stead Of in boyhood. And they were
struggles as trying and as protracted
as fall to the lot of few men. At one
time, while fighting to establish his
ridiculed "toy" as an article of genu-
inc use, he was reduced to the ex-
tremity Of borrowing occasional half
dollars for a meal, sharing this lot
with his dynamic colleague, Theodore
N. Vail.
The world first learned of the tele.
phone ut the Centennial exposition at
Philadelphia in 1875. On January 20
of that year young college professor
Of Salem, Mass, Alexander Graham
Bell, had executed specifications and
q claim for an invention embodying an
Improvement in telegraphy, which III
reality was telephone, and on Febru.
airy IA his application for the Amer
lean patent was fled at Washington.
The first telephone message OF
which there is record was this: "Mr
Watson, come here, I want YOU" II
was sent on March 10, 1876, by the In
ventor from the top floor Of a Boston
boarding house to a colleague, Thomas
A. Watson, in a room below. Watson
heard every word and rushed to ap
prise Bell Of the fact. Almost 40 years
later, ON January Is, 1915, Doctor Bel
sent this same message to Mr.. Wat
son, only this time Bell was In New
York and Watson in San Francisco.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1917-06-28
Real Beast Of Burden.

The burro can generally get away
with anything that can be strapped to
him. Sometimes he is called upon to
move the entire possessions Of family
and he does it. He is the only ami
NAL In captivity that can climb cliff
with cookstove, mattress, trunk,
a washtub, two frying pans, the fam
lily Bible and a couple of lengths Of
stovepipe tied to his back. At times
he seems almost buried beneath his
burden and it is rather startling for
the stranger to see load ambling
cozily up hill without any visible
means Of support.-Los Angeles Times.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1917-06-28
Dutch Elr.t 70 lmproxe Plo,x.

The Dutch were probably the first
to introduce improvements worth
while in the pillow. They devised the
first pillow that turned furrow, all
plows before that time being merely
used to break the surface Of the
ground. The first patent for a pillow
went to Joseph Folpamb in 1870. 10
seph Newbold patented one in this
country not long afterward, but Jeth-
70 Wood really invented the pillow in use
today. His instrument was the first
to have mold-board, share and a
land side in three pieces, SO that they
could be replaced or sharpened singly
when worn.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1917-06-28
Proper Celebration
Of Anniversary Of
the Nations Brit

When. in the course Of human events, 1,
becomes necessary for one people to dis.
solve tho political bands which have con.
nected them with another and to assume
among the Powers of the earth the sep.
arate and equal station to which the laws
them. decent respect to the opinions OF
mankind requires that they should declare
the causes which impel them to the sepa.
ration.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1917-06-28

1Iate ana equal station to which the laws
them. decent respect to the opinions OF
mankind requires that they should declare
the causes which impel them to the sepa.
ration.
T<HUS wrote Thomas Jefferson fol-
the Continental congress In the
famous Declaration of 1ndepend.
ence. It was signed at Independence
hall, Philadelphia, July 4, 1776. With
the pealing of old Liberty bell that
summer day the birth of a new nation
was announced. Like her sturdy sons,
that nation was conceived In hardship.
Her heritage of devotion to principle
was the noblest gift brought by the
MayfOwer. Innate courage grew fear
less in the face of constant danger,
and her sons grew skiilful by constant
toll. They craved not courtier favOrs
but demanded the right to develop
along the lines Of new democracy the
nation then born. Contact with the
wilderness had taught them that
IT'S as easy to be heroes as to sit the idle
OF legendary virtue carved upon our faith
ers' graves
For them to be convinced was rs
though the thing had been decreed of
God. They were convinced and they
proclaimed their birthright by declar.
ing their independence and then fight
ing for 1t against one Of the proudest
strongest nations Of the earth.
Nation Wholly Worthy.
It was inevitable that such a begin
warts. What they lacked in knightli-
ness they made up in manliness. De-
votion to principle left no room for
compromise with policy. The result was
people chosen by fitness for great
place in the economy Of the worlds
progress.
At this season we celebrate the an
niversary Of the nations birth. The
40 anniversaries since then have not
all been to our credit. We have turned
from the serious to the frivolous, the
national birthday has become q carni-
val. In the name Of patriotism all
kinds Of follies have been permitted.
Instead Of real honor to the nation the
day has been made an occasion for
gain. People have made for themselves
hardship in a vain attempt to have
more noise than their neighbors make.
Fitting Celebrations.
But we rejoice in the change to be
noticed in the way Of observing the
nations birthday. People are begin
ming to see that noise is not patriotic
and that the youth of the present need
better ideal Of Independence day.
In most of the large cities men of
prominence and foresight are arrang-
ing for public games. What could be
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1917-06-28

HAIRS heart missed beat. He
asked abruptly: "Where are you
now?"
AT the Plaza" .=..
do you mind If I drop up to see you
for few minutes? I am terribly in
terested in Cuba"
For a moment there was silence, and
then the voice answered: mo, don't
mind If you do"
So Hal rushed out of the Office and
hailed a passing taxi. AS he rushed
into the lobby Of the Plaza, the girl
with the white furs arose to meet him.
And then time few 80 fast that it was
! 80 before either Of them realized it {;
SO they took lunch together and each
told the other the history Of his and
her life. And after the girl with the
white furs had found out that Hal was
not engaged to Charlotte or to anyone
else, she told him that he might come
to see her the next evening.
So Hal. with feigned interest in Cuba
and unfeigned interest in at least one
Cuban tourist, accepted the invitation
and talked, not about the winter In
Cuba, but the summer in the United
States.
And then, tucked away in the society
columns of ehe New York papers, there
appeared one morning the following no
tice: 1.-THE engagement is announced Of
Harold Griffiths to Miss Lois Brown.
ing'-which was the name of the girl
from Cuba.
Copyright, 1917 by the Mcclure Newspa.
per Syndicatel
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1917-06-28
Fourth Of July Flag.

Tho
union Of lakes, the union
Of lands, the union Of
states none can sever;
the union Of hearts, tho
union Of hands and the
Flag Of our Union