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The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-11-07
From Miss Asnew.
Camp Travis, Texas

camp Travis, 1eKaS.
Editor Hays Free Press, Hays, Kan.
Mr.. Clark: VIII you kindly change
the address of the Free Press from
Yate Center to Camp Travis. Texas,
Base Hospital, Nurses Quarters, San
Antonio, Texas.
l am now located here as hospital
director. There are three of US here
but am to take the place of one who
is to leave for overseas the first of the
month. I will have from 1900 to 1000
patients to supervise the diet for. l ar
R.ved yesterday and went on duty this
morning. Today we had 1910 dinners
They are prepared in the central kitch-
ems and sent out to the different wards.
We have nearly 200 pneumonia cases,
the result of the flu. They have had
very few deaths here, although they
had over 10, 900 cases of the epidemic.
They have been having rainy spell
here and it is very cold. There is no
heat in the building where we sleep and
eat and we nearly freeze nights and
mornings and a jacket is comfortable
all day long.
This is a big camp, and there is plen-
ty to do all the time for everybody.
am sure am going to like it fine.
Don't fail to send the paper.
Yours truly,
ELIZABETH AGNEW,
A. N. c. Director.
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The state and nation went Republican
on Nov. 9Th, and the indications are
that the president will have several
new republican members in both
houses of congress to help him admin
lister the affairs of this nation. Even
Missouri will send one republican law
maker to the United States congress
by majority of 80, 600.
Ellis county is the only cloud on the
brilliant constellation Of loyal states
that have been redeemed-it went dem
ocatic, with the exception of County
Superintendent and Commissioner in
the First District-both were republi-
cans. Leona Jentzen, the lady repub-
hcan candidate for register of deeds,
and the balance of the ticket went out
of Hays with large majority of votes
to their credit, but were showed under
at the final count. Of course while the
Free Press is not altogether pleases as
TO the political complexion of Ellis
county we are going to take our medi-
cine and soc nix.
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Honor to Whom Honor.

THE LEADER wishes to take this
opportunity to express to the Hays
Chamber of Commerce in a public
way the appreciation of the Fort
Hays Kansas Normal School for the
work of the Chamber of Commerce
during those strenuous first weeks of
September when the school was es-
tablishing its Student Army Training
Corps.
Even though this is November and
the first number of THE LEADER is
late because of the epidemic and the
events of that early strenuous time
are no longer news, yet THE LEA
DER wishes to assure all business
men in Hays that the school will long
remember what they did for it then.
The Normal Leader.
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A Silent Moment.

To secure kinship of thought as
well as kinship of effort, the War
Council of the American Red Cross
at a recent meeting at Washington
D. c. adopted the following resolu-
ton:
''That every day at the hour of
noon, in every workroom of the
American Red Cross throughout the
whole of these United States, upon a
given signal, all work shall cease for
a period of one minute.
During this time in silence, we the
members of the Red Cross, will sol
emnly concentrate our minds upon
our beloved soldiers and sailors over
seas who are so nobly offering their
all, even unto their lives for US.
We will think as one-hope as one,
for their definite victory and their
Individual well-being; consecrating
ourselves anew to our country and
to those who fight, labor and suffer
for her, becoming one with them in
service.
May this United Prayer, gathering
power from our love and faith, mount
to heaven itself, descending thence
III the midst of our dear ones, where
ever they may be, fall upon them a:
benediction, to be at all times then
comfort and their strength"
The Hays Chapter of the Ameri
can Red Cross at its executive com
n:ittee meeting, November 1st adopt
ed the above resolution and request
the churches, schools and people il
the community, wherever they ma!
happen to be, to participate in tn
observance Of this silent moment Sc
apart at II o'clock at noon. The Hay
City Flour Mills have kindly consent
ed to give the noon signal by blowin;
its whistle, and beyond its SCUM,
other signals may be followed.
The observance will begin Monday
November II, the week of the Unit
ed War Work Campaign.
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stone markers. From there I could
more stylish, was something like what
see a little village, and beyond it
river, still further white cliffs Of the
closest foothills.
All this grass land is used as a pas
goats or sheep, perhaps all three, are
over it every day. This herding is
quite q custom. And often I've seen
the girls going out with their flock
carrying a folding stool and q work
bag or basket Later I've seen them
sitting out beside a bush, on the shady
side or the sunny side, while the ami
mails were nearby, grazing.
The boys never have anything with
them but their dogs, when they are
out with the herd.
Another time 1 crossed the plain
directly in the rear of the barracks
Of course there are lots of things on
that plain Pm not telling you about
and found at the far edge the wall of
the river valley. And 1t looked just
like the old mesa line used to see
along the. Salt River in Arizona. Be
low was the river bottom just as
fiat and pretty. Fields-little ones
of corn and buckwheat and other
things separated by hedges OF little
bushes.
They farm here lot like We do at
home. Use steel moldboard walking
pIows that I think must be made II
America. And their harrows are
wooden with steel teeth. They hitch
a horse to one corner and lead the
horse. Always walk in this country
even when they are hauling a load
along the road Then they have the
horses strung out tandem and drive
them with 2 jerk line.
But 1 got a new line on how tC
raise corn. Here they cut the stalk.
of Just above the ear and take then
away. Then they come along with {
big cart with a box that will holC
maybe fifteen bushels of corn. The!
were going around over the field Will
/ a burlap apron on, swapping the cor1
till they got load, then went ant
/ dumped it in the cart When they ge
it home they strip the husks back
: leave some of them on the ear at leas
and hang the corn up by the husk
t just under the caves of the house
, All the corn I've seen is yellow, bu
I've never had a chance to examin
: an ear closely to see how good a va
i, riety it is
2 There are farm homes here toe
S Buildings of masonry with tile roofs
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They are built IN a sort of quadrangle
with no windows outside, only the
entrance Everything opens on the
little court in the center. People live
IN one door, animals at another, hay
at another, all machinery in a shed
that Is also part Of the enclosure.
Chickens too And 1 saw about a doz-
or more rows of yellow corn, just as
close as It could hang, up under the
wide caves II ought to make pretty
good seed corn, don't you think?
On a little further is the river 1t
has fringe Of trees and bushes, and
there was forest on the hills across 1t.
Now just imagine the Smoky mag
niied so that every grain of sand
there would be the size Of q hens
little lodges of rocky bars out In the
river too. The smallest pebbles I saw
were as big as peas, and even they
were mighty few 1 found q place
! where II was just like q beach, white
rocks, and gentle slope under water
cold. Fred, do you remember once
when we went swimming IN Big
Greek rather early IN the season when
the water was cold? That's about It
But got a bath all right, even If
they do say that river runs out from
under glacier And it runs, too.
Out In the current IL was going twice
as fast as can walk, Or more River
is about the size Of the Kansas at 4.
] c., only this one travels. found 3
depth measure IN meters on the rock
one place, and it was below A meters,
about II feet deep
October Sth. Another day, sun
shine and rain and peace proposals
IN the paper But expect to visit the
Rhine before any peace is done. Sure
looks like the Deutscher is losing his
grip all along. A new king IN Bulgaria
too. And suppose It viii be nearly
time to vote when you get this letter
Vote for the freedom of mankind.
Pm not voting this year, guess But
I'm trying to do my part just the
same.
Don't know when III get any more
mail, suppose I'll be getting another
assortment some day. sure hope so.
Guess probably I'd better get busy,
now
Au Revoir,
Blaine.
Sgt. Blaine E. Sites, 2O6552s., Co.
"C", 601st Engrs-, A. E. F A P
II A France
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Rally Day Program at n. e Church
9.45 Sunday Horning.

Promotion exercises Of Primary De-
partment, rally readings and songs by
Juniors, rep" talk by Superintend-
ent Halstead Every teacher to be on
time and secure attendance Of entire
classes. Mothers of primary pupils
please send them TO the church for
practice at o'clock Saturday.
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Au Revoir,
Blaine

Sgt. Blaine E. Sites, 2O6552s., Co.
"C", 6O1st Engrs., A. E. F A P o
II A. France
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acre extra on wheat land when a re-
turn as high as so bushes and even
more may be taken from every acre
sown? With hogs bringing $50 hun
dred pounds; beef on the hoof at So,
and mutton SIG, while wool under the
new government arranged system of
handling and sale brings IS cents a
pound (and these values cannot fall
to any great extent for some years.
the demand for land will continue and
values increase in a corresponding de-
gree.
There has never been in the history
of Canada a time so favorable for the
farmer as the present; self-interest,
the inspiration of patriotic feeling, the
aid freely extended by the govern
ment, who are permitting the import
of certain agricultural implements
free, all these tend to still further
raise the price of Alberta land."-Ad-
vertisement.
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TRIBUTE TO PHIL KEARNY
nous Soldier Who Gave His Life
for His Country.

It was after the review that I made
the personal acquaintance of the Off
GERS with whom was to have the good
fortune to fight for cause which was
already dear to me. All made me cor
daily welcome, but it was with Kearny
that l found myself most at home. He
it was who could speak to me of the
French army in Algeria in 1910 and Of
the memories left by my family in that
country. He did so in terms which
deeply touched the heart Of the exile,
the son of the Due d'Orleans. Kearny
had participated in one of those cam
paigns on African ground which
brought out strongly the merits of the
French soldier. He had also associated
himself with the triumphs of France
in the Italian campaign of 1859.
His abrupt speech and imperious
manner denoted proud disposition,
and a character incapable of flattery
or of discrimination. But though at first
his manner was not always fitted to
attract, one soon learned to appreciate
the noble qualities of his heart. the
firmness of his will, the accuracy of
his judgment, the truthfulness and
grandeur of his soul
If he did not spare his soldiers at
the decisive moment, he spared himself
still less, and by his example obtained
from his followers truly heroic efforts.
Philippe. Comte de Paris, in The
Century.
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NOTHING SAFE FROM Them
Gen. Hancock Evidently Had High
Opinion Of the Foraging Abilities
Of the Nineteenth Maine.

There is some doubt as to what
part the Nineteenth Maine played in
the war;" remarked veteran of that
regiment. "The fact is, the Nineteenth
ate up the Southern Confederacy. They
stole pigs. robbed hen roosts. cleaned
out orchards and cellars and foraged
the country so thoroughly that the
enemy had nothing left to feed on, and
so lay down and died"
Then AL Wells of the same regiment
took up the thread Of the story:
I'VE were sweeping along one day,
dining op the fat Of the land, as usual.
Another troop was ahead. and between
them and us rode General Hancock. AS
the general was passing Inc planta-
ton. the aged proprietor came out and
stopped the generals party.
General" said he. II want some
sort of safeguard. Those troops that
have just gone by stole my pigs. lifted
my hen roosts and emptied my cellar"
"I'm sorry" said Hancock.
"Yes." replied the old man, "they
stole everything but my hope of i'm
mortality Thank God! none Of them
can steal that"
Don't be too sure about that" re-
torted the general. 1.-THE Nineteenth
Maine is coming next"
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INCREASE IN WESTERN
CANADA LAND VALUES
But Forty and Fifty Bushels Of
Wheat to the Acre.

During the past year there has been
greater demand for farm lands in
Western Canada than for number OF
years past. The demand is for good
farm lands improved or unimproved.
And at an increase Of from ten to fiji
teen dollars an acre more than the
same lands could be had for couple
Of years ago.
The rise in the price of every kind
of produce grown on these Western
lands, in some cases to double and In
others to treble the price prevailing be-
fore 1914, have attracted and are at
tracing in ever-increasing proportions
the men who are anxious to invest
their money, and apply their energies
in the production Of wheat for which
the allied nations are calling with
voices which grow louder and more
anxious as the months roll on, and the
end of the war still seems distant.
Beef, and more especially bacon. are
required in ever greater quantities.
and the price of all these things has
soard, until it is not question OF
what shall we produce, but how mucn
can we produce. Even should this
world calamity be brought to close
in six months from now, it will be
years before normal pre-war prices
prevail, and meantime self-interest II
not patriotism is turning the minds OF
thousands back to the land. The In
evitable consequence has beer the rise
in values of land, especially wheat
land.
The Calgary Herald, commenting on
these conditions says:
From inquiries made from leading
dealers in farming and ranching prop
critics, and from the information gath
cred in other ways, it is known that
the value Of all land-wheat land,
mixed farming properties, and even
good grazing land-has risen in the
last two years 40 per cent. Wheat
lands in some districts have practical
ly doubled in price. One dealer in
farm lands recently sold three sections
for $40 an acre, one extra good quar-
ter went as high as 800, and another
brought 500. These are, of course,
large prices, but that they will be
equaled or even surpassed in the near
future is beyond question. There is
feature about this rush to the land
from which the most solid hope can
be drawn for the success Of the move
ment. The proper tillage of land, to
produce large crops in climate like
ours is now understood and practiced
as it never was in the early days Of
the province. It would seem too that
with the increase of land under cult
walton, the seasons are changing
and the rainfall becoming greater and
more regular.
Crops are being harvested, especial
ly in Southern Alberta, which would
have seemed impossible to the old-time
farmer. with his old-fashiOned ideas
of breaking and seeding. And at the
price now set by the government for
wheat and which possibly may be in
creased during the coming season, the
return to the practical skilled agricul-
turist must necessarily be very large.
"What matters $40 or even $40 an
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IN l|bERTY'S name |
Memorial Day Finds the Nation
Battling for Freedom Of the
Whole World.

n II EMORIAL DAY was born of
V war fought that this nation, un-
der God. should have a new
birth of freedom, and that government
of the people, for the people and by
the people shall not perish from the
EARTH"
A half a century and more has
passed since that immortal utterance.
Now the nation is again in arms, to
fight that 'the world may be made
safe for democracy"
Then. the young republic, struggling
upward toward it's vision of freedom,
learned through the bitter travail Of
Civil war that the nation could not
exist half slave and half free. The
vision has broadened with the wild
ening years. Then it was for the free
dom of race the nation fought. Now
the sword is drawn for the imperiled
liberty Of the world.
The natal day of our independence
we have been wont to celebrate with
loud acclaim and Wanting pride. Me-
mortal day ever has been our time for
solemn contemplation. Another Me-
mortal day is at hand, and as America
lays it's flowers on the graves Of its
soldier dead, 1t hears again that re-
vered voice from the slopes Of Get
tysburg bidding US to be not unmind-
full that ut is rather for US to be here
dedicated to the great task remaining
before US, that from these honored
dead we take increased devotion to
that cause for which they gave the
last full measure of devotion; that we
here highly resolve that these dead
shall not have died in vain"
A beautiful, poetic symbolism
Memorial day had come to be to us:
The people who walk with slow steps
in the quiet cemeteries, the children
in their white dresses who with loving
hands place wreaths "alike for the
friend and the foe," the venerable men
who are the links that bind us to an
age long gone, and. as we believed, for
ever gone, when nation warred with
nation and blood lust grew in hearts
that had thrilled at the sight Of the
same flag.
And now with what new and sud-
den significance has Memorial day been
vested. With what different thought
will they 90 lovingly laden with flow.
ers" How much more reverently
than in those conventional days that
already seem so far away will the lit
tie flags be planted on each patriot
mound. And who is there, when taps,
clear and soft as a benedictiOn, is
sounded for those who dream OF bat.
tlefields no more" will not remember
that on a neighboring hill on the NOR
row from that same silvery bugle will
leap the reveille for another genera
ton of freedoms soldiers?
If solemn memories of the past and
earnest thought for the future bring
that new birth of freedom, who shall
say that those have died In vain for
whom flowers will be spread in far
Memorial days to come?
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SWArlP-R00T FOR
KIDNEY AILMENTS

There is only one medicine that really
stands out pre-eminent as medicine for
durable ailments of the kidneys, liver
and bladder.
DR.. Kilmer's Swamp-Root stands the
highest for the reason that it has proven
to be just the remedy needed in thou
sands upon thousands Of distressing cases.
Swamp-Root, physicians prescription for
special diseases, makes friends quickly be-
cause its mild and immediate effect is
soon realized in most cases. It is a gen.
tie, healing vegetable compound.
Start treatment at once. Sold at all
drug stores in bottles of two sizes, medi-
UNI and large.
However, if you wish first to test this
great preparation send ten cents to DR..
Kilmer Co., Binghamton, N. Y, for
sample bottle. When writing be sure and
mention this paper.-Adv.
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surely proved to be. l feel better and
stronger in every way since taking it,
and the annoying symptoms have disap-
peared. Mrs. NJ. Golden, 925 Ma
poleon St., Fremont, Ohio.
Such annoying symptoms - hest
flashes, nervousness, backache, head
ache, irritability and "the blues, may
be speedily overcome and the system
restored to normal conditions by this
famous root and herb remedy Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
If any complications present them
selves write the Piukham Medicine Co,
Lynn, Mass, for suggestions how to
overcome them. The result of forty
years experience 10 at your service and
your letter held in strict confidence.
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Selecting a Farm.

In a recent examination of eight
grade pupils, on the subject of agricul-
ture, the question was asked:
"What are the principal things to be
considered in selecting farm?'
One yOungster answered emphatical-
ly, but with questionable spelling:
"You must get good ground. Don't
get too much clay soil. And good
on the farm, and a good Tense
and good we'll and no large hill on
it. You must get cattle barn to. And
clost to town and clOst to road. Don't
have and old muddy lain!'
Middletown transcript., 1918-06-01
Suicide Statistics.

A study Of suicide among wage
earners in the United States by a life
insurance company has brought out
the fact that there are more suicides
among men than among women, and
fewer negroes seek death to end their
troubles than white persons. The sur
vey shows also that there has been a
marked decrease in the death rate
from suicide in the last few years.
Middletown transcript., 1918-06-01
Fishes and Frogs Fell With Rain.

Many rains Of fishes, frogs, and tOads
have been described by eyewitnesses
Of unquestionable veracity. NJ. Mau-
duy, French naturalist. saw in 1922
a heavy shower Of rain in large drops,
mixed with tOads the size of walnut.
This occurred more than league from
any brook, river, or marsh. Showers
Of fish have been reported many times
in the United States. It once was re-
corded that during a severe hailstorm
at Boving, eight miles east Of Vicks-
burg, Miss, gopher turtle six by eight
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The Heroic Dead.

And so Memorial day is here again.
and we lift up our eyes and behold the
hosts gathering all over this land and
marching to the cemeteries. They are
bringing flOwers-wreaths and pillows
and crosses. These are tokens of a
nations love and emblems of a ma.
TONS gratitude. We honor the North
crn and the Southern dead today. and
with one hand put a wreath on the
Federal. while with the other we put
Il similar wreath on the Confederate
Advocate.
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an the rite on the rack there-must
/ see it Nth sigh,
Ny war days gone forever, an the
boys a-marchin' by?
Keepin' step so fine
Hon. 1t thrills this heart o
mine!
I'm lots O. grayhaired fellers that
would form a battle hne!)
1t isn't to the old brigades they're
handin' out the guns,
Though when 1t comes to trouble we
are all the country's sons!
An that's why I'm a-sayin, when
the times drawin' nigh,
I'm one o. them same youngsters
NTH the boys a-marchin' By!
Don't they keep step fine!
An I'D give the world to jine!
(They's lots O. grayhaired fellers
that would leap to battle hne!)
Frank l.. Stanton, in the atlanta
Constitution.
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Taken on Trust. 4,

But does her heart beat for me
alOne?"
you'll have to take a chance. I
know Of no stethoscOpe that will
throw any, light on that subject"
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rs,-..t,on produces disagreeable and
.ometimes alarming symptoms. Wrights
indian Vegetable Pills stimulate the diges-
tive processes to function naturally. Aav.
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Mrs. Golden Tells How Il
May be Passed in Safety :.
und Comfort.
Fremons, OF was passing through
the critical period of life, being forty.

SIX years OF age 8uO
had all the symp.
toms incidenttoth that
change-heat flash.
es, nervousness, and
was in q general run
down condition, SO
it was hard for me
to do my work.
Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Com
pound was recon-
mended to me a. tho
best remedy for my
tnouhlea which IL
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Some people wear glasses because
they can't believe their own eyes,
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inches, entirely cased in ice, fell witt
the hail.
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Still ONE OF Them
Veterans Always With the Boys
in Spirit, Though They
May Not March.

DOMES the old-tine feel'n' at
I the beatin' O. the drum,
An I'm sittin' in the sunlight
an a-watchin' of 'em come!
An I seem Representatives. the
old-time battle sky.
An I'm one O them same youngsters
-with the boys a-nsGrchin BY!
Don't they keep step fine!
An I'D give the wor1d to jine!
(They's lots O grayhaired fellers
that could form, battle hneD
Comes the old-tim.e feelin' cs I see
'em march along;
The winds that mave the old flag
seem to sing a battle song!
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iris a happy man who can find
enough unrotted timbers in the past
to bridge the future.