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Knew How to FIGURE.

Lady-What viii you charge me fol
the use of horse and buggy for q
few hours?
LiverymaD-It will cost you two dol
lars for the first hour and one dollar
for each additional hour.
Lady-Well, I'll use it for two addi-
tional hours. I've got some shopping
to do and will not require it for the
first hour.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1918-03-21

the position demands that knowledge of and history which entirely
within Of
awakening for giant Mr. Francis not be giant
o
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1918-03-21

landed rapne shells dangerousy shaking
tendans and bringing them dangerously annihation
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1918-03-21
Over the Telephone.

II was never SO insulted in my life"
"HuhT
Somebody asked me If wanted q
kiss by wire"
"Wellf"
And when I spoke up he said he
had the wrong number"
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1918-03-21

William of
king of Bulgaria So
shall lberate the
Since his resignation the
c at the Paris BAR of which
parliament
carefully follows
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1918-03-21
GUARDS AMERICAN INTERESTS IN RUSSIA

IF you want to know which side
is going TO come out on top in Russia,
find out on whom Francis had his
money" remarked a man who has fol.
lowed closely the personal history and
triumphs of the American ambassador
to Petrograd, referring to the unerr'
ing luck" of the American diplomat.
Perhaps it is because of his high
average of lucky runs that the United
States feels her interests and those Of
the allies are in rather safe hands
while the former governor of Missou-
ri, David r. Francis, is in the Ameri,
can embassy in the Russian capital.
AS might be imagined, what Is
generally regarded as luck in Mr..
Francis case is nothing of the kind.
but is the result of mature and keen
judgment of men and things; it is the
opinion of successful man, of man
who knows contemporary history and
what 1t means.
Along with courage and ability,
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1918-03-21

simplify and make easier the work the department Through the
offices
ton and inexhausible Of information.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-06-14
MEAT CAUSE Of
KIDNEY TROUBLE
Take Q glass of salts If your Back
hurts or Bladder bothers-Meat
forms uric acid.

II you must have your meat every day,
eat It, but flush your kidneys with salts
occasionally, says q noted authority who
tells us that meat forms uric acid which
almost paralyzes the kidneys IN their ef-
forts to expel it from the blood. They
become sluggish and weaken, then you
suffer with q dull misery in the kidney
region, sharp pains in the back or sick
headache, dizziness, your stomach sours,
tongue is coated and when the weather
is bad you have rheumatic twinges. The
urine gets cloudy, full Of sediment, the
channels often get sore and irritated,
obliging You to seek relief two or three
time during the night.
To neutralize these irritating acids, TO
cleanse the kidneys and flush of the
body's urinous waste get four ounces OF
Jad Salts from any pharmacy here's
take q tablespoonful in a glass Of
water before breakfast for q few days
and your kidneys will then act fine This
famous salts Is made from the acid Of
grapes and lemon juice, combined with
hthia, and has been used for generations
TO flush and stimulate sluggish kidneys,
also to neutralize the acids in urine,
20 It no longer initiates, thus ending
bladder weakness.
Jad Salts IL inexpensive; cannot in
lure, and makes q delightful edervescent
ithia-Water drink
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-06-14
NO CHANCE TO
EVADE BABY BONDS
Government To Have Card In
dex Of Every Citizen When
War Savings Campaign
Closes

When the War Savings campaign
now in progress to place S746,0O0 in
baby bonds in this county, Is at q
close the United States government
will have n card index Of every citi-
zen, not only in this city and county
but in the entire country. The cam
paign comes to q close at midnight on
June 20, provided the quota Of this
vicinity has been raised; otherwise the
drive continues until the quota is
raised; that is official orders from
headquarters and in this campaign
there Is no such thing as a quota not
being raised or pledged.
Every man must sign q pledge card
on or before June 20, indicating how
many baby bonds he will take each
month between June % and January
1, 1919. This card is addressed per-
sonally to the Secretary of the United
States treasury. Each citizen must
show on the card the number of War
Savings stamps he or the members
Of his family now own in addition to
what they pledge to take during the
next six months. In all probability
he quota will amount to approxima-
ELY $50 per capita, which means that
those who are able must take their
limit of $1,000 each.
If the purchaser Of a baby bond
holds it until maturity in 1923 it will
accumulate by that time simple in
terest to the amount of practically
four and one-half per cent. 1t draws
four per cent, compounded quarterly
which in the long run amounts to al
most 41s% interest, and at the same
time the purchaser is practicing econ
omy for himself and also 'loaning his
money to the government for use in
helping to win the war.
If you buy SIS baby bond in June
It will cost you SALT. 1t will cost you
S4.1S in July, $4.19 in August, $4.20
in September, $4.21 in October, S4.22
in November and $4.23 in December.
When you sign a pledge card you
promise to take certain number Of
tho baby bonds each month until the
first Of the coming year.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-06-14
NO FIRE WORKS ALLOWED
FOR FOURTH OF JULY

If the small boys of Kansas could
vote it is likely that i. 7. Hussey,
state fire marshal, would have a poor
chance of getting an elective office
He has just decreed that they can
not have any firecrackers on the
Fourth of July this year. The ruling
made by Mr.. Hussey provides that no
fireworks of any kind may be kept
or taken within 1000 feet Of any
building or any stacks of grain, which
will practically bar fireworks from
the cities and the farming sections
except in counties largely devoted to
grazing cattle. The large pastures OF
such sections of the state might allow
space for public demonstrations OF
fireworks.
The ruling will do away automatic
ally with the fireworks demonstra-
tions usually put on by the big fairs
in the state, notably at Topeka and
Hutchinson.
The ruling is made as war mea-
sure, Mr.. Hussey said in announcing
il, because of the great Importance OF
preventing the destruction of build
ings, and more especially food, dur
ing the war. 1t is to remain in force
as long as the war lasts.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-06-14
FEDERAL AID GRANTED
FOR SEVERAL MILES OF
HIGHWAYS IN THE STATE

The Kansas highway commission
yesterday granted federal aid on sew
eral Kansas roads. The petition from
Sedgwick county for a brick road
twenty feet wide, extended from the
city of Wichita due south to the cOun-
tv line, a distance of eleven miles, was
granted. This is a part Of the Merid-
ian Trail road.
Petitions were also granted to Rice
county for federal aid over a road ex-
tending three miles from Sterling to
the south line, to be a brick road
eighteen feet wide; also a road ex-
tending five miles west from Lyons
This road is also to be of brick eight
cen feet wide. Another road in Rice
county given federal aid extends two
and five sixteenths miles south Of
LYONS. to be a brick road eighteen
feet wide.
The highway commission ordered
the elimination of the following rail-
road crossings: Two Missouri Pacific
crossings between Mankato and Jewel
City in Jewell county; two Chicago
Rock Island and Pacific crossings west
of DeIIvale, on the Rock Island high
way. in Norton county; two Union Pa
cife railroad crossings on the Colder
Belt highway, between Chapman an'
Detroit, in Dickinson county; one A
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-06-14

would make an average Of S7,525 per
year for the 20 years. :
II these figures are not comprehen-
sive let US put it another way: The
valuation Of the district at this time
is something over S3,020,0O0. This
valuation means that the taxes
amount to 33 cents on the thousand
for the first year If $4,000 is raised
and would grow annually less until
the last year when the tax would
have decreased to II cents.a thousand
rs the last tax.
An important question naturally
follows: Under the proposed bond
issue would the taxes be higher next
year than this year? The answer in
corporates what may be 4 surprise 70
many: Last year on valuation OF q
little over $1,1O0,OO0 moro than $500
was raised to pay of the last of the
old bonds. This cost the people Of the
district 80 cents q thousand, or AZ
cents more on the thousand than they
would be taxed next year under the
proposed arrangement. Instead OF
paving 80 cents a thousand the tax
payers would pay 3S cents.
Coupling with the presentation OF
these facts the obvious and pressing
fact that there are hundreds of school
children who could not be offered q
place in our schools last year, every
argument is in favor of the issuance
of the bonds for a new building.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-06-14


There are big questions involved
and the voters ought to know some
of the facts relative to the present in
debtedness and the tax levy to take
care of a new bond issue:
At this time the bonded indebted
ness of this school district is $S,6OO.
There is in the banks Of Baxter and
at the county treasurer's office at
Columbus sufficient moneys on hand
to pay off all Of these bonds and mon
CIV to spare. In fact these bonds will
he liauidated in full on July !, leaV-
ing the district entirely out of debt
on the old building. In voting the
new bonds the town has no other in
debtedness to consider.
If 100000 in bonds is issued the
bonds will draw 5 per cent interest,
or $4,000 per year so long as none OF
the bonds are paid. The bonds will
be issued to run 20 years with the
privilege of paying off any or all OF
them at any interest paying date. If
a sinking fund is created sufficient to
take care of the principal as it falls
due each year the entire bond issue
will be paid off by the levy at the end
of the 20 years.
If this plan is adopted the district
will have to raise $4,000 the first
wear; $9,75O the second year; $4,000
the third year and so on down until
the last year when the indebtedness
would have decreased to $3.50; which
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-06-14
FACTS and FIGURES RE-
LATIVE SCHOOL BONDS
Taxes Would Be Less Next Year Than
They Were This Year Under Increase
In Valuation.

The Of Baxter Springs will be called in few days
decide by upon the question of issuing approximately
100000 bonds for the erection of high school building
This matter the the people OF Baxter
Springs.
issuance of 100000 is trivial matter in itself and 1t
becomes very important when it considered that upon depends
welfare and education of the boys and girls of Baxter Springs
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-06-14
+ ID + ~ + + ***+++
! THE MINING NEWS +
+ i. !. !. ~ i. i. !. i. + J. i. !.
BY Frank Hills
In Miami Record-Herald

A surprise was sprung on the new
operators Of the Old Perkins Mine
in the sunnyside field, on the Eh
Of the SWh Of the NEk Of Section
31-2s-24, west Of the Waxahachie mill
when they reached the bottom Of the
old field shaft. In digging out the
mud that had accumulated in the
years the mine has been closed the
workmen found a can, which proved
70 be full of ore. Going deeper 1t was
found that the can was resting on q
truck and the truck was on the rails
Of q track that extended into a drift.
Getting back into the drift the men
found a pump that is worth $3.50.
novels, picks and Steels, none Of
which are injured by their long hib0r-
nation, as the mud had sealed the
shaft completely and the water had
contained no element to seriously eff
'ect the metal. L. D. Right, W. ].
Morguiredge and C. /. DOrrance Of
Miami are the new owners Of the
lease. They have the mine cleaned
nut and are taking out q good guam
:ity of ore. The Perkins was closed
1t a government order, when it was
'ound that the operators were dealing
With the Indian owner of the land 9TH
,rwise than the method laid down by
FEDERAL law.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-06-14

The Billikin Mining Company is
installing a ten inch Texas pump in
the old Newton Mine in the Sunny
side field east of the Red Eagle prop
erty. The Billikin people have built
a mill on the property on the site OF
one that was moved away several
years ago. and the great failing pile
makes it appear like a great producer
which the first one was claimed to be-
The water was what made It unprof-
table in the old days when ore was
low and royalties were high but the
new management has prepared TO
handle the water, no matter how
much there may be of Il
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-06-14

IT. & S. F. crossing east Of Attica, in
Harper county.
The highway commission confirmed
the appointment of Edward ]. Cook,
of Dodge City, to be county engineer
of Chase county.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-06-14

Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Trewatha have
moved into the E. G. Gillem proper
ty on East Fifteenth st. Mr.. Ire
watha is the superintendent Of the
Vinegar Hill Mining company. Mr..
and Mrs. Trewatha have been room
ing but have shipped their furniture
here from Michigan and will make
their home in Baxter Springs.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-06-14

Isn't it funny that so many people
pronounce "bomb" like they do "bum." "
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-06-14

The Palatine Lead and Zinc Min
ing Company, a corporation made up
of Miami men, has begun operating
in the Peoria field on two eighties
one in Section 81 and one in Section
IS. Two holes put down on the tracts
made good showings and more drill
ing is to be done as soon as the har-
vest is out of the way. The Palatine
people also have a lease in the South
field near a good strike and one in the
vicinity of Seneca, which is thought
to be q good one. The officers OF the
Palatine Lead and Zinc company are
f. L. Warner, president; B. E. Thorn
as, vice president; F. c. Switzer' sec
rotary, and ], C. Clayton, treasurer
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-06-14

The Anna Beaver Mining Company
erecting new mill directly west Of
he one in operation which will be an
,xact duplicate of the first. The No.
, plant is to be of $50 tons capacity
md will be equipped with the skip
hoist, which is only found in the Anna
Beaver Mine in this district, and other
lp-to-date machinery. The new plant
will be steam heated throughout ana
will be double boarded with paper be-
tween, doing away with the terrors OF
hard winters. The Dorr thickeners
md the settling tanks will be covered
20 do away with freezing. One SHAFT
IS down through the ore in the new
diggings and another will soon be
sunk. The deep well has been con-
,ected with the water works and FUR
fishes water to all of the buildings
,bout the place which are entirely
modern in every respect.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-06-14

The Interurban line of the South
western Electric Railway Co., will
reach the Whitebird Addition of the
city of Pitcher Saturday, according to
employees of that company. The steel
has been laid to the end OF the line
and everything done except the bal
lasting which is being rushed with all
possible speed. On account of an in
juction gotten out by certain mining
company to keep the line from cross
ing its lands the end of the line Will
be in the Whitebird addition for the
present although it is thought that
it will soon be extended to the o. X
NJ. Railway Co.'S, track and that con-
nection will be made with that line
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-06-14

dope fiends" seem to be promin-
ent in local criminal news of recent
date.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-06-14

The Lucky Syndicate mill, which
vas burned to the ground last Sep
.enber, is to be rebuilt in few days
according to the best authority OBJ
tainable. One of the shafts has been
cleaned out and the drift opened from
which the men are taking splendid
ore, a great deal of which is free land
The Lucky Syndicate was one OF the
Moses-Marcum properties of ESQ tons
capacity and had never been run
Heroic work of employees and neigh
bors saved the smaller buildings. The
concrete piers of the mill are stu
standing and it is thought they will be
reinforced and used in the new struc-
ture.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-06-14

Harry Barndollar's airplane stunt
il "some little" innovation here.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-06-14

Advertise in the News for results.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-06-14
NEWS AND COMMENT

Have you beat the city marshal to
your weeds?
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-06-14

And now that you have subscribed
to the Red Cross the subscriptions
will test your patriotism in full pay
ment.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-06-14

Corb Sarchet is an ex-newspaper
man and believes in printers ink. Mr..
Sarchet believes in town advertising
and believes in getting it on the out
side and spends no little effort to get
Baxter before middle west readers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-11-17
The Patriot.

"\ME should all be PATRIOTS" said
a congressman in Red Cross
address in Los Angeles.
I'VE should all love our native land,
our native city. our native village
There Is something noble. after all. in
the sentiments of old Hoskins.
"A visitor to the general store re-
marked to old Hoskins:
"'Scripps. the novelist. was charmed
with his sojourn here last summer.
suppose you know he's written an ar
ticle about your town. He says It's
the quaintest, sleepiest place
But here old Hoskins, biting a
chew viciously from off a long black
plug. growled:
Wall, this here burg may be
quaint all right. but don't see moth
IN sleepy about place whar every
body's up at 4 in the mornin'. winter
and summer, rain or shine"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-11-17
A French War Story.

him off. submerging him anew in that
bottomless ocean which is Paris.
Several days passed-black, empty
days. without purpose and without
horizon, almost without thought; for
one could hardly call thought that
ideas which ragged in Odile's brain.
Nothing to look forward to! every
thing in ruin; Paul another woman,s;
Paul civilian in Paris; herself alone
and Abandoned; alone for all her life.
Then one morning the bell rings and
there Paul stands before her. not at all
confused, or hesitating or contrite. but
full Of ardortand passion, talking with
an energy SO compelling that she no
loRger knows what to think, that she
finds no. words with which to question
him. that she feels herself overwhelm-
ed and carried along like pebble in
a raging. irresistible flood. ,
What Is he saying? He has tried to
communicate with her at MuNhouse,
parently never reached her. Since no
has known she was in Paris he has
searched for her, and has found her
at last with the aid of the bureau Of
visitors permits at the prefecture. He
than sye oyoa her
else. His companion Of the other day?
She doesn't count. A casual acquaint-
ance whom he will never see again.
When one Is tpo much alone he some-
times does foolish things. ..,.
Soon he will be able to draw with
his left hand. Yes. like Daniel Verge.
You, cap do that when you have lost
your. rignt hand. With a careless ges-
ture he shows her his empty sleeve,
which she had not seen at first. Then
she notices also in his buttonho1e two
little ribbons interviewer, one green
and red. the other green, and yellow.
But then?
Yes. was mustered out after the
amputation. 1t happened at the
Marne! l will tell you about it when
we are married. For we shall marry
at once. We shall love each other all
ways-always. more and more. We
are pledged to each other forever"
He draws her close to him. He bends
over. And because women always for
give, because life is SO dark when one
Is all alone, because he Is brave and
mutilated, and also because she cam
not resist. his conQuering talk and
gestures, Odile, .unresistingly, without
an answer, lays her head on the
shoulder of the friend she has found
again.
But as he bends toward her face she
wells with her eyelids the mystery in
her eyes which two tears have moist
ened with joy.
Copyright, 1881
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-11-17

Company and the du 'Pont powder
works. Mr.. Caravan says that, this
German concern did business with
one-half of the industrial corpora
lions in the United, States. and with
practically all of the munition COM
panies.
"Riche, Housen and Joseph, the man
ayers sent here from Berlin, had
complete information about the
principal manufacturing plants in
this country, and saw to 1t that
every bit of their information was
prints Of the plants themselves
After Mr.. Caravan had developed
the amazing story of this particular
military and money-making adven-
ture OF the ,, Germa s.. in the very cry,
property was seized by Mr.. Palmer
and later was put upon the auction
block" as he describes the proceed
ure. and sold to group Of real
Americans. ~, = 60
In Frankfort, Germany, firm
known as Beer.s Sondheimer & Co.,
deal In zinc lead. aluminium and other
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-11-17

metals. Copper, however. is its spe-
cialty. About 1904 q branch OF INC
house was opened in New York: Ben
no Elkan and Otto Frohnknecht were
which was extended until 1t included
Canada, Mexico and Central and South
America.
These men. Elkan and Frohnknecht;
so Mr.. Caravan says, were shreWo
managers and after 1872 eacn was
paid a salary Of 5000 q. montH a .ha
American business. Whatever might
happen in the ups and downs OF trade
they were to receive not less than
$500 apiece annually.
In 1914 Emperor William ana ms
confident hosts began goose-steppins
toward Paris. The following year the
house in frankfort. believing In the
doctrine that safety should come nrst
in the calculations of mankind ana
especially SO on the part. OF typical
Germans, organized its business IN
this, country under the name OF the
Beer Sondheimer Company Inc; I ddn
although the assets exceeded the la
bilities by more than three times thar
sum, as Mr.. GaFyan discovered When
he Investigated the case. .... ~
= The book value Of the shares was
$500 EACH For the year 1915 the :,
Oh, Lu0 AIAoiACdh
amounted to- $2.000.000., After the
United States got into the war the
managers, ElSa1i and Frohnknecht,
represented that they had purchased
fhe entire interest of Beer .Sondheim-
Ter & CO. at the price, of $50 q share.
Palmer and Caravan. after duly con-
siderilig. the pretended transa ction,
decided that no German would sell
going concern. making $2.000,000 a
year for about ne-fourth of it's value.
So the property and business OF the
Frankfort plotters were confiscated
and the proceeds. to the last dollar,
will be invested in liberty bonds
A similar case in all respects is that
of Ludwig Vogelstein. naturalized
American citizen. who for many years
represented In this country. Canada
and Mexico the firm Of Aaron. HiEsh
& Sohn, of Halberstadt, Germany. The
American business of the firm. which
also had to do with metals. reached
the sum of $70.000.000 yearly.
! Fifteen per cent of the profits went
to Vogelstein, who, besides, was paid
a part Of the profits made on the bust
ness done in Germany. The American
branch was separately incorporated
in 1916, SO that it could escape sthe
difficulties that might arise were the
United States to join the war against
Germany. The ruse. however, failed