davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1917-10-04
One on Miss Perkins.

Young Miss Perkins, whose beauty
is equal to her bluntness in CONVEX
sation, was visiting at house where,
among other guests, was the eldest
son Of a rich manufacturer, who was
commonly looked upon as a very
eligible husband. The talk turned on
matrimonial squabbles. Said the
young man:
Il hold that the correct thing for
the husband is to begin as he intends
to go on. Say that the question was
one of smoking. Almost immediately
l would show my intentions by light
ing a cigar and settling the question
forever"
And l would knock the thing out
Of your mouth" cried the imperious
beauty.
DO you know" rejoined the young
man, Il don't think you would be
there. ."-Tit-Bits
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-05-03

State of Kansas, Trego County, SIS.
To whom it may concern:
Take notice, that legal petition
signed by VIM. Nelson and other
householders of Glencoe township,
in said county, has been presented to
the Board of County Commissioners,
praying for the location of section
line road, as follows, viz:
Beginning at the northeast corner
of section 9. township Is, range 81,
and then run south one mile and
there terminating.
And that said board has appointed
John McNaughton, A. 81. Hamm and
S. A. Newcomer, viewers, who will
meet at the point of beginning of
said road as petitioned for, on the
7th day of May 1917, and proceed to
view said road as the law directs, at
which time and place all persons in
terested may attend and have a hear
ing. In case said viewers fail to
meet on the day designated, they
may meet on the following day, as
provided by law, without further
notice.
Witness my hand and the official
seal of said county, this 9th day of
April 1917.
G. 81. BENSON,
(seaD County Clerk.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-05-03
(Seal)
Road Notice

State of Kansas, Trego county, IS.
To whom it may concern.
Take notice, that a legal petition
signed by Fritz Buchholz and other
householders of Wa-Keeney township,
in said county, has been presented to
the Board of County Commissioners,
praying for the location of a section
line road, as follows, viz.
Beginning at the southwest corner
of section 6, township II, range p,
and then run north miles and there
| terminating.
And that said board has appointed
John McNaugton, A. Ri. Hamm and
S. A. Newcomer, viewers, who will
meet at the point of beginning of
said road, as petitioned for, on the
14th day of May 1917, and proceed to
| view said road, as the law directs, at
which time and place all persons in
| terested may attend and have a hear
| ing. In case said viewers fail to
meet on the day designated, they
may meet on the following day, as
provided by law, without further
notice.
| Witness my hand and official seal
of said county, this 9th day of April
1917.
| G. III. BENSON,
(seaD County Clerk.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-05-03

State of Kansas, Trego County, S.
To whom it NAV concern:

State of Kansas, Trego County, S.
To whom it may concern:
Take notice that legal petition
signed by w. A. Tawney and other
householders of Ogallah township, in
said county, has been presented to
the Board of County Commissioners,
praying for the location of section
line road, as follows, viz
Beginning at the northwest corner
of section 80, township II, range p,
thence running east miles to the
northeast corner of section q, town
ship II, range p, and there termin-
ating. Said road to be 40 feet wide.
And that said board has appointed
John McNaughton, A. FL. Hamm and
S. A. Newcomer, viewers, who will
meet at the point of beginning of
said road, as the law directs, at which
time and place a. persons interested
may attend and have hearing. In
case said viewers fail to meet on the
day designated, they may meet on
the following day, as provided by law,
without further notice.
Witness my hand and the official
seal of said county, this 9th day of
April 1917.
G. H. BENSON,
(seaD County Clerk.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-05-03
Road Notice

State of Kansas, Trego county, SIS:
To whom it may concern:
Take notice, that a legal petition
signed by Roy Stewart and other
householders of Franklin township,
in said County, has been presented
to the Board of County Commission
ers, praying for the location of Sec
tion line road, as follows. viz: Begin
ming at the northeast corner of Sec
ton 16, township IA, range "a and
running south miles to the south
east corner of section 81. township IA,
range "a, thence running east one
mile and there terminating.
Amt that said board has appointed
John McNaughton and A. FL. Hamm,
viewers. who will meet at the point
of beginning of said road, as petition.
ed for, on the 10th day of May 1917;
and proceed to view said road, as
the law directs, at which time and
place all persons interested may at
tend and have hearing. In case
said viewers fail to meet on the day
designated. they may meet on the
following day, as provided by law
without further notice.
Witness my hand and the officia
seal of said county, this 9th day Of
April 1917.
G. II. BENSON,
(seaD County Clerk
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-05-03
Road Notice

State of Kansas, Trego county, SIS.
To whom it may concern:
Take notice, that legal petition
signed by Andrew Bieker and other
householders of Ogallah township, in
said county, has been presented to
the Board of County Commissioners,
praying for a location of a section
line road, as follows, viz.
Beginning at the northeast corner
of section 5, township II, range 81,
and then run north one mile to the
southeast corner of section %, town.
ship II, range 81, aud there terminal
ing.
And that said board has appointed
John McNaughton, A. H. Hamm and
S. A. Newcomer, viewers, who will
meet at the point of beginning of
said road, as petitioned for, on the
25 day of May 1917, and proceed to
view said road, as the law directs, at
which time and place all persons in
terested may attend and have hear
ing. In case said viewers fail to
meet on the day designated, they
may meet on the following day, as
provided by law without further
notice.
Witness my hand and the official
seal of said county, this 9th day of
@. III. BENSON,
(seaD County Clerk.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-05-03
LANE COUNTY LAND

For sale at reasonable prices, and on
easy terms. We can sell you good
smooth wheat land at from SO per
acre up. Write or come and see me.
v. e. West, real estate dealer, Digh-
ton, Kan.-Adv
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1917-09-06
Men Appointed to High Com
mand Have Proven Ability
in Service.
PICKED FOR THEIR RECORDS
Most Of the 200 Major Generals and
Brlgadier Generals Recently APP
pointed Were Cadets Together
at West Point.
BY EDWARD 3. CLARK.

Washington there should be a
mobilization of the 200 major generals
and brigadier generals appointed to
commands in the new selective service
army, the affair would be a reunion
of men most of whom were cadets to-
gether at the West Point Military
academy.
This means that there is hardly Il
new major general in the list who does
not know the methods and the manners
of service of every brigader general
who will serve under him and II may
be said also that there is barely a
brigadier general who does not know
all about the record, the penalty and
the idiosyncrasieS of the major general
who. as a division commander, will
give him orders.
Some of these men who have been
appointed to high rank in the new
army are within one, two or three
years of the retirement age. 1t may be
that out of their ranks will come a
Joffre, Haig, or a Petain, but as many
In Washington look at it, IL seems like
ly perhaps that the greatest American
soldiers of this war are more likely to
be produced from the ranks of the
younger men, although military ex-
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1917-09-06
IS WELL WORTHY OF HONOR
Claims of the Sunflower as the
National Emblem.

There Is nowhere such yellow as
in the petals Of the biggest and most
cheerfully nodding of all the black
eyed susans we have, there is nowhere
such richness rs i'm the brown of
its seeded heart Nothing that grows
is so friendly, so gracefully compan-
ionable whether through an open win
dow or brushing idly and happily up
against ones person. 1t Is no weak
ling, the strong and lusty Sunllower.
1t is largely masculine, with it's
straightneSs, dsdain of pampering and
love of the air it breathes and soil
from which it springs. Adversely but
builds it stronger, and extremes Of
weather affect II little. Our national
flower, which we believe is the golden
rod, If II isn't quite satisfactory. let's
adopt the fine, outstanding yellow sun
flower the king monarch, complacent
ruler of every flower that waves. Ev-
erything about King Sunllower is
typically American and he's Il demo
crat to the fiber and root Of his he
ing. Which is just what we want in
America at this time. Macon Tele-
graph.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1917-09-06
Sheen Owners Prosper.

Sheep owners in New Mexico will
receive the largest income this year
from sale of lambs and wool in the
history of the industry in that state.
Conditions during the Landing season
were not as favorable as in an aver
age year in some sections of the state
and the increase for the state as q
whole will be approximately 20 per
cent, compared with normal increase
Of So per cent. Shortage of lambs,
however, is more than made up on
the sheep growers balance sheet by
high prices for both lambs and wool.
Sales Of lambs will bring the growers
a minimum of $12,000,000. The wool
clip is normal at around 100000
pounds. but the price will average bet
.er than 80 cents a pound for the
state, as compared with an average
IF 90 cents last year and II cents in
1915. The income from wool sales
probably will reach S5,500,000.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1917-09-06
When Thinus Go Wrong,

There are times when everything
seems to go wrong. From Z o'clock a.
m. until 10 p. m. affairs are in twist.
You arise in the morning and the room
is cold and a button is off, and the
beefsteak is tough and the furnace
smokes, and you start up street net
tied from head to foot All day long
things are adverse. The mucilage bot
tie upsets and spoils the desk pad ;
some one gives wrong turn to the
damper and the gas escapes; an agent
comes in determined to insure your
life when it is already insured for
more than ii is worth, and you are
afraid some one will knock you on the
head to get the price of your policy
but he sticks to you, showing you pic
lures of Old Time and the hour glass
and the death scythe and q skeleton,
making it quite certain you will die
before your time unless you take out
papers in his company. Besides this
you have cold in the head, and a
grain of dirt in your eye, and you are
a walking uneasiness. The day is out
of joint and no surgeon can set it,
Exchange.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1917-09-06

leased from the days pressure "a,
them. Recalling your physiology Ice.
lures, you will remember that each
spine bone has its TWO wings or
flanges, each pierced by small hole
about the diameter Of lead pencil.
Through those holes the great trunk
nerves travel with the smaller nerves
branching from them. A few hours
march, even without gun or pack,
says these vertebrate together as tight
as their cartilage cushions VIII permit
Lying down helps greatly TO remove
this pressure, but the Japanese slow
pull on the head does 1t at once. A
man can do 1t somewhat for himself
by lifting his shoulders as he lies on
his back and launching" them along
as if trying to get them as far as pos
sible from his belt. When I'm on my
back for my two minutes rest cure,
take two or three such lunches at
intervals, trying to hold my gain each
time by an anchorage Of the shoulder
blades against the carpet. Generally
can hear the vertebrate as they slip
from their packed contact to an easier
adjustment, especially If in my hunch-
ing have lifted my head so that some
pull is put on the spinal column. Six
ty seconds of such rest is worth an
hour in chair. Richard Harding
Davis told me, or maybe 1t was Irwin
Cobb 81 heard tell of the German sol
diers utilizing even few minutes
halt to throw themselves on the
ground flat and extended
l wish you'd try 1t, especially over
there when they send you and ! fancy
it will help If you really believe and
know, as you yield yourself to the
ground, that it is somewhat more than
rest-know that into your submissive
body the divine and wonderful cur
rents are flowing, curative, restorative
and replenishing.
It's really the Big Medicine"
AffeCtiOnately,
FATHER.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1917-09-06
MODERN LIFE IN PATAGONIA
Prosperous and up-to-Dat City Has
Grown Up at the Tip of the South
American Continent.

The modern city of Punta Arenas
has risen to Importance at the ex-
IRENE southern extremity of South
America since the advent OF the au-
tomobile.
Punta Arenas, or, as 1t Is commonly
called by It's own people, Sandy Point,
can be compared the more readily with
American settlements because is
not essentially a part Of Spanish
America. The city and surrounding
territory are populated chiefly by
Scotchmen, and English is the pre-
valling tongue. Three-fourths of the
export trade is with England and the
United States.
This southern outpost of civilization
was founded in 1910. as a convict
camp for Chilean prisoners, conse-
quently bearing a resemblance to Aus
tralia in demonstration Of the value
OF enforced colonization. The pres
ence Of the cOnvlcts caused the estab-
lishment of a coallng station for YES
sells passing through the Straits Of
Magellan, and Punta Arenas passed a
colorless existence until a few years
ago. when the discovery was made
that southern Patagonia was the finest
sheep-raising country in the world
We are accustomed to think Of the
tip of the South American continent
as polar region, says writer in the
Americas. It's latitude does in fact
correspond to that of Alaska and the
sea is occasionally encountered with
icebergs, but ocean currents warm the
land, producing a climate more equa-
bic than that of Kentucky. The pas
lures are green all the year round, and
no houses need be built for sheep.
With the discovery of the sheep
raising possibilities of Patagonia,
Scotchmen and Englishmen from the
Falkland islands thronged to the main
land, great sheep ranches were estab-
lished, and Punta Arenas became a
modern city of 1900 population, with
electric lights, theaters, banks, four
newspapers, good schools, etc. 1t is
the commercial outlet for great ag-
ricultural and mining district.
The transportation demands of Pat
agonia developed after the coming Of
the automobile, and as result, all
passenger transportation is carried on
by auto. The one railroad In the coun-
try is not passenger road. Passabie
highways and the internal combustion
engine are dependency of this newest
civilization In the world.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1917-09-06
Art of Harnessino a Horse

The students in the field artillery
branch of the service who attended
the officers reserve training camp at
Fort Riley never knew before there was
just one way to harness and unharness
q horse, or that 1t was such a compli-
Gated job. Some OF them were reared
on farms or ranches, but they never
groomed horse like Uncle Sans men
do, says the Kansas City Star.
Every student has two horses he
must care for. He must harness them
up, ride one and lead the other. When
he is through he must unharness them.
Sometimes he works by the hour har-
Messing and embarrassing, so he, too,
will be able TO do it in the dark.
After that comes the grooming Of
the horses. 1t sounds simple, but it
isn't The lessons of the students in
grooming are practical ones and the
horses have to stand for it, whether
they like ii or not. Sometimes n horse
will spend all morning being groomed,
not because he needs it, but because
the students need the training
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1917-09-06
Illustrated.

Mamma" exclaimed the little girl
next door as she ran into the kitchen
of her own home, mamma, Mrs. Jones
has an illustrated tooth"
Her mother laughed.
"a Whatf' She asked
AN illustrated tooth; one that
makes YOU face swell up real big
Her mother laughed again, aud hard
or, you mean an liberated tooth, -
She corrected.
Her father heard of the incident and
thought he would question her. too.
"Did You say Mrs. Jones had the
mumpsf" he queried.
NO began the little girl again.
"She has an illustrated tooth"
Her father laughed, and corrected
her
Daddy" size demonstrated Solemnly
81 don't see why YOU laugh when Mrs.
Jones has an ulccr-I meun--illustrat-
ed tooth indianapolis News.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1917-09-06

In spite of the fact that they see
any number of them every day there
Is nothing that people know so little
about as places. The world Is full Of
all sorts of places Some places are
smaller than others. but none of them
is so small that 1t does not contain
several more still smaller. Places are
simply Indispensable. You can't get
along without them. There are places
pleasant and unpleasant and some of
The most unpleasant are electric
chairs, jailyards, tight places, summer
camps and last places. Everything in
the world has its place, but only a
small proportion of the things in the
world stay in their places. The world
itself Is only place, and rather
crowded place, at Exchange.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1917-09-06
The Bio Execution.

~ don't understand this peace with
out annextion' IDEA" complained tbe
man on the car.
"Why, that's perfectly simple" ex-
planned his fellow straphanger ut
means that 1t isn't right to annex any
other country as spells Of victory"
"Mean to say that II we licked some
country we wouldn't have the right to
cake some of their possessions7"
mot the moral right. We couldn't
annex an island, for instance, whose
inhabitants do not speak our language.
sympathlzc with our civilization or
comprehend our institutions. Such an
island would never become an integral
part of America, no matter what the
geography said"
"Nonsense-look at Manhattan
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1917-09-06
High Wages, Good Board, Cor
Majesty of the Law

you're under arrest exclaimed the
officer with chin whiskers as he stop
ped the automobile.
"What for?' inquired Mr.. Chug-
gins.
II haven't made up my mind yet.
I'll just look over your lights an your
license an your numbers an so forth.
know l can get you for somethin'."
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1917-09-06
DRAMATIST GIVES some GOOD
ADVICE TO HIS SOLDIER SON

can't be fully done without a deep
breath first, and then the 'let 60"
One can't relax from half tension" as
1t were. Often we think we are re-
Taxed only to find, after hours of watt
ing when utter exhaustion slumps us,
that we have been in some respect
holding ourselves away from the bed.
rehearsal in the theater Is dire
thing for tightening one up who Is di-
recting 1t and unconsclously lifting
each character. After many years I've
come to recognize the condition in
time, and often in the dark auditorium,
when the actors or scrub women can't
see me, | lie supine on the carpet In
an aisle or the foyer, and with arms
outStretched for a minute relax all
over. 1t isn't so simple as it sounds.
Even after the deep breath one has to
think down to the very finger tips and
toes, and by mental command dismiss
the accumulated tension. Then last
of all, the muscles of the face-to let
them fall with half-closed eyelids and
the lips slipping away from the teeth
as they do on dead men. It's quite as
tonishing what Il refreshing indulgence
even half minute of such relaxing is.
AS I've said, it's an art to do it, and
very useful when you get it,
Practiced by Jsps.
The Japs are past masters at It.
They were taught it and practiced il
conscientlously in the Japo-Russian
war. After lying supine for minute,
each Jap soldier would be taken by
the head by comrade, and firmly
pulled until the packed vertebrate of
his spine were drawn apart and re-
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1917-09-06

Capt. Baron Manfred Won Richtho-
fen, commander of Germanys famous
tango Escadrille," which gave battle
to four American flyers who sought TO
break the noted squadron's air SUI
premacy.
The commander is the youngest cap
tain in the German army. The Ger
mans claim for him the title of "King
Of the Air" as he Is reported to have
downed So machines. Gunemeyer, the
French aviator, is his closest competi-
tor, having brought TO earth so ma
chimes.
The famed Tango Escadrille" Of
which he is chief is composed of six
arpIanes. Recently the escadrille
was set upon by a group Of four
American flyers, Lufbery, Parsons,
Willis. and Lowell. After a 45 minute
fight the American airmen flew away.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1917-09-06
YES! LIFT A CORN
OFF WITHOUT PAIN!
Cincinnati man tells how to dry
up a corn or callus so it lifts
off with fingers.

You corn-pestered men and women
need suffer no longer. Wear the shoes
that nearly killed you before, says this
Cincinnati authority, because n few
drops Of freezone applied directly on q
tender, aching corn or callus, stops
soreness at once and soon the corn or
hardened callus loosens so it can be
lifted off, root and all, without pain.
A small bottle of freezone costs very
little at any drug store, but will posi-
lively take off every hard or soft corn
or callus. This should be tried, as it
is inexpensive and is said not to irri-
tate fhe surrounding skin.
If your druggist hasn't any freezone
tell him to get small bottle for you
from his wholesale drug house.-adv.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1917-09-06
One Qualification.

Admiral Bradley Fiske was talking
in New York about naval critic.
"This naval critic" he said "re-
minds me of SwetsOn.
What's struck Swetson,' man
asked at the club He failed in medi-
cine, he failed in the law and he failed
In the ministry. and now he's moved
into $1,000 fiat in Riverside Drive.
Well, you see saiG another man,
'Swetson has started to write magazine
articles on "Why Men Fair and he's
made mighty good thing of it. Quail
flied, you know"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1917-09-06

missing men is not generally known.
These searchers, now an important
branch of the Red Cross, are the re-
suit of visit paid to France by Lord
Robert Cecil in the early days of the
war. He had gone to seek for news
Of friend among comrades who had
taken part In the engagement that re-
suited In the friends name being list
cd among the missing. 1t occurred to
him then that there were thousands Of
men and women at home as anxious as
he, but unable To make such Il person
al investigation.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1917-09-06
Painful. Indeed

A party of wounded were out for
ride in charabanc. Bandaged
limbs being very much In evidence,
the nurse who accompanied the men
asked them how they were feeling.
you're hurting me-" said man
who was sitting on the box seat.
But I'm nowhere near youl" said
the nurse Indignantly.
"Thats what hurts me-" said the
sentimental Tommy.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1917-09-06
PRESS SEARCH FOR missing"
Red Cross Workers In France Contin
ually Seek information of
Battle Victims.

London.--Of the thousands Of Brit
ish families who have waited In dread
anxiety for final news Of relatives
posted as missing" few have known
how much effort was being made to
relieve their fears. The fact that the
army contains a large corps of men
who spend all their time searching for