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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1918-08-01

late leather for this purpose. Through
the schools q great many gloves have
been gathered, the pupils getting con-
tributions at home that are brought to
the teachers and sent by them to the
collector. Stores will sometimes make
contributions of old styles and clean
ers give gloves that have never been
called for by their owners. The col
lectOr may place her materials through
the Red Cross or send them to the
Stage Woman's War Relief at IS West
Thirty-fourth Street. New York.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1918-08-01
Evening Gowns Passe.

Evening gowns are now almost a
lost art. Few women are buying them.
In their place we find afternoon frockS
of lace or net or point d'esprit, COM
bined with satin. Above all, however,
come the pretty soft chiffons in neu-
trail shades-beige, navy, black, mauve
and gray. These clinging chiffons
round out afternoon and evening occa-
sions. For the older woman they are
the type of frock par excellence.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1918-08-01

a trif1e higher in the front and consid-
erably higher in the back than the
model designed for a fuller figure
which is shown at the right. Corsets
for stout women are very low in the
bust; for it is their province TO length
en- and straighten lines that are too
much curved. When the corset has
been properly fitted and the contour
of the figure made as nearly correct as
the corset can make it the way Of the
dressmaker is easy; all she has to do
is to preserve the lines which result
from good cOrSeting
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1918-08-01
G.x.~ 2zzz%A
Length of BIouses-

1t is evident that all blouses that
bear the stamp of fashion will extend
halfway between the waist and knees
These blouses are often sleeveless
when worn under coats. They are built
of colored chiffon that does not match
the gown, or of linen, albatross, silk
and wooden jersey and corded silks.
Every effort is being made to put out
of fashion the blouse that ends at the
waistline and cuts of the figure.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1918-08-01
Lemon Juice
For FreckIes
GirisI Make beauty lotion at
home for a few cents. Try It'll

Squeeze the juice of two lemons into
a bottle containing three ounces of
orchard white, shake well, and you
have quarter pint of the best freckle,
sunburn and tan lotion, and complex
ion whitener, at very. very small cost
Your grocer has the lemons and
any drug store or toilet counter viii
supply three ounces of orchard white
70 a few cents. Massage this sweetly
fragrant lotion into the face, neck,
arms and hands and see how freckles,
sunburn and tan disappear and how
clear, soft and white the skin becomes.
Yes! 1t is harmless.-Adv.
ENnerimentS haze ShnyHn that good
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1918-08-01
Half of Insect Pests Could Have
Been Kept Out of Country
by Quarantine.
FRUIT FLIES ARE BEAUTIFUL
Immense Losses Caused Annually to
Fruits and Vegetables OF United
States Could Be Prevented
Precautions Being Taken

More than half of the insect pests
that annually cause immense losses
in fruits and vegetables of the United
States could have been kept out of
this country by thorough quarantine
against them. according to officials of
the United States department of agrf-
culture. To guard against more in
furious insects being brought in from
other countries is the object of the
federal plant quarantine act of 1912
which, with the development of knowl-
edge of insects throughout the world.
has resulted in the bars being put up
wherever the pests are likely to enter.
Among the insects of other lands
that have not vet become established
in this country are the serious pests
known popularity as fruit flies. They
resemble ordinary house flies but are
far more beautiful, inasmuch as their
wings are prettily spotted and band
ed and their bodies are usually more
brightly colored. They are like house
flies also in that they lay small. white
eggs that hatch into whitish maggots-
However, the maggots do not develop
in refuse or decaying matter as do
those of the house fly but they feed
upon the living tissues of fruits, nuts
and vegetables. Eggs are laid Just
under the skin of the host plant or
fruit and these hatch into the mag
COTS which burrow in all directions
through the pulp. AS the maggots
tunnel about they cause decays to
develop and these rotting areas often
produce greater injury than the mag
COTS themselves.
Where Danger Lies.
Increasing imports from the coun-
tries where fruit flies now abound. ex-
tension of trade to remote corners
Of the earth, increasing density of
population in the warmer portions of
this country. are making greater each
year the danger that fruit flies may
become firmly established in the Unit
ed States
To intercept and destroy fruit flies
as we'll as other pests, the federal
horticultural board of the department
of agriculture. charged with the en-
forcement of the plant quarantine act.
prohibits the entry of all horticultural
products likely TO carry insect pest.
unless they have been rendered free
from danger as pest carriers, either
by federal inspection or by treatment
by approved methods under federal su-
pervision.
The department also has estab-
lished in the Hawaiian islands a sys-
tenn of inspection that is heartily sup
ported by fruit growers and transpor-
tation companies. whereby all planta-
tions and packing houses from which
fruit is shipped are kept from becom-
ing sources Of fruit-fiy dissemination
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1918-08-01
Fertilizers From Wastes.

Industrial wastes furnished about 40
per cent of the potash, s per cent of
the phosphoric acid. and IS per cent
of the nitrogen used in this country
in 1916. according to a recent United
States department of agriculture pub
LEGATION. Fertilizers From Industrial
Wastes"
The potash was obtained from such
wastes as tobacco stems cottonseed
hulls, hardwood ashes, wool washings,
blast-furnace flue dust, cement f1ue
dust and sugar residues; the phos-
phoric acid from bones, shells, fish
scrap. basic Stag and other materials !;
and the nitrogen from wastes in the
manufacture of castor, Hnseed and fish
oils; from animal wastes. as blood.
hair, horns. hoofs and hides; from
leather and wool wastes, coke, and
many other substances.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1918-08-01
Neck Lines.

Both the high and extremely low
neck line are introduced in one dinner
dress. Over the slip of frmer mate
rial. which is very low cut. an over
dress is used, of lace or tulle, which
has the higher neck line and long
sleeves Another new type of these
dresses is the gown. which is very
high at the back of The neck and low
in front
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1918-08-01
Antifat Treatment.

Miss Slim-You have lost consider
able weight in the last few months.
Are you dieting?
Miss Fatleigh-Oh, no. That's only
because of the trouble / have with
my cook.
Miss Slim-Why don't you discharge
her?
Miss Latleigh-I'm going to. AS soon
as she worries me down to IT'S pounds
1 shall order her out of the house.
Boston Transcript.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1918-08-01
Somewhere.

Somewhere.
Mrs. Flatbush-So your husband Is
somewhere in France?
Mrs. BenSonhurst-So I believe.
Mrs. Flatbush-But don't you know
where?
Mrs. BenSonhurSt-No.
Mrs. Flatbush-Don't you feel some
what concerned?
Mrs. Bensonhurst-Why, no. When
he was here knew he was somewhere
in America, but half of the time I
didn't know where.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1918-08-01
Mating Guinea Fowls

Guinea fowls have a tendency to
mate in pairs, but one male may be
mated successfully with three or four
females
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1918-08-01

Practical Talent.
what wonderful touch that writ
er hasr' He has. indeed. He can
borrow money from anybody
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1918-08-01

Experiments have shown that good
paper can be made of grapevine.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1918-08-01

Eleven million women and girls are
at work in our Industries.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1918-02-14
FINE FOR FORTUNE TELLERs.
War Has Opened an Unlimited Field
for Getting Easy Money.

Fortune tellers, crystal gazers,
soothsayers and many others who lay
claim to the power to look into the
future are making large sums in Eng
land despite the vigilance of the po-
lice. Persons with relatives at the
front are the principal victims. Proph-
cts have risen all over the British isles
who foretell everything from the date
of the ending of the war to the small
est details of the reconstruction per-
iod, both in Great Britain and on the
continent. Some dire predictions at
tracted the attention Of the secret SER
vice and it was found that German
gold had been prompting the sayings.
Old Moore, who can point to long
list of predictions that came true"
says in his Almanac of 1918 that the
peace treaty will be signed in Berlin
this year and adds: "As regards the
future of Germany, / anticipate a rev.
olution, an entire break up of the en-
pire, the end of the Hohenzollern dyn-
asty and the ignominious flight of the
kaiser to find death in obscurity."
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1918-02-14
REAL AM ERicANs.
Men of Indian Blood Who Have Serv-
ed in the Senate.

Senator Charles Curtis Of Kansas Is
one of the four men of Indian blood
who have worn the senatorial toga.
The first statesman with aboriginal
blood in his veins to attain prominence
in the upper branch of Uncle Sans
parliament was John Randolph, the
brilliant Virginian, who served 80
years in the house and two terms in
the senate. He claimed descent from
Pocahontas. The next descendant Of
the real Americans" to enter the SEN
ate was John A. Logan, the Illinois
soldier and statesman. Mr.. Curtis
was the next Indian to take his seat
in the senate and he was soon follow
ed by Robert L. owen of Oklahoma.
Americans have every reason to be
proud of the Indian representation in
the senate. Randolph was one of the
most eloquent of the early senators.
It is said of him that he was an Ish-
maelite-"his hand against every
mans hand and every mans hand
against him"-but the bitterest of his
enemies could not deny his ability nor
his honesty. Logan was great SOL
der and able statesman, and it was
he who initiated the observance OF
Decoration day.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1918-02-14
Senator shafroth's Resolution.


To provide for a commission to
negotiate an international agreement
as to the coinage of silver.
Whereas, the settlement of balances
Of trade with silver using countries
threatens the depletion of our stock of
gold, although such countries prefer
that such balances should be paid in
silver; and
Whereas, to relieve such condi-
ton it is necessary that the produce
ton Of silver be increased; and
Whereas, the enormous expansion in
world credits during the past three
years necessitates the enlargement OF
the base upon which such credits are
founded; therefore, be it
Resolved by the senate and house
OF representatives Of the United States
OF America in congress assembled that
the president be authorized to appoint
commission of three members to
visit our allied and the neutral nations
Of the world with view of making
an international agreement as to the
coinage Of silver, subject to approval
by congress.
Sec. 2. That the sum of 100000,
or so much thereof as may be neces-.
sary, be. and the same is hereby, APP
propriated out Of any money in the
treasury not otherwise appropriated,
to pay the expenses and compensa-
ton of such commission.
The resolution has been read twice
ard referred to the committee on
banking and currency.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1918-02-14
FOUND RICH D|GG|N'S
UNDER BAR ROOM FLOOR
CLEANED UP OVER $4,000 IN THE
DUST THAT HAD WORKED
THROUGH CRACKS.

There lives In western Montana a
his start in the state in manner that
Is interesting.
In the old days Of Virginia City the
medium of exchange was gold dust.
Every miner or business man, in lieu
of purse, carried his poke" This
was a small buckskin bag, stoutly
made and closely sewn, in which he
carried his gold dust When he made
purchase he rendered his poke to
the man from whom he was. buying.
The seller, merchant, bartender or
business man. instead of the cash
register of modern days, had in a
conspicuous place that is now occupied
by the ornate register, a pair of gold
scales. When the buyer would pre-
sent his poke the seller would put the
necessary weight on one of the scale
pans, and pinch out enough gold to
balance, blow the gold into his own
poke and the deal was closed.
Gold Was Spilled.
In some Of the larger saloons and
dance halls, in the course of years,
fabulous sums in gold dust changed
owners, In these places the change
was always made in a rush, on ac-
count Of the volume of business trans
acted and the large number of GUS
toners to attend to, and in the hurried
process of making change much gold
was spilled on the floor, and lost down
the cracks
One day one of the largest of these
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1918-02-14
Uncovered Circulation.

large proportion of the gold of the
world, it has become necessary for
the other nations to provide a partial
substitute in the form of uncovered
come irredeemable on account of the
scarcity of gold in those countries,
with consequent depreciation of the
paper currency. The uncovered circu-
was In July, 1914, and now Is as fol-
lows:
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1918-02-14

places burned to the ground. It was
in the late '60s, after the first wild
rush had subsidized, and there was no
thought of rebuilding. This man who
is now a banker bought the lot. He
gave it out that he proposed putting
up a building on the land. But he
was after the gold salvage, the dust
that careless bartenders had dropped
and which had found its way through
the cracks in the floor to mother earth
beneath it.
After he had received his deed and
every technicality pertaining to the
transfer was attended to this enter
prising young man had all the burned
timbers cleared off his lot, and put up
a cradle 1t should be explained that
a cradle in placer mining parlance Is
box on rockers by which gold bear
ing sand some distance from stream
may be washed out. He hired couple
of good placer miners and went to
work washing out the gold
Cleaned Up $4,000
At night he stood guard with
double barrelled shot gun over his
rich little placer claim. He was not
going to take any chance of some
greedy miner washing out few hun
bred dollars of his gold while he was
sleeping.
He made a bed on his lot and camp
ed right there day and night, having
his meals brought to him, and watch
ed the miners while they worked.
Every days operations netted him
over $1,000. 1t took his men about 10
days to clean up all the gold on the
lot, and his reward was something
over 100000
This successful venture Immediately
brought a temporary boom in lots on
which saloons and hurdy gurdy houses
long since abandoned stood. They
brought good prices, and in every in
stance yielded up fair returns in gold
to the purchasers.
The man who started all this took
his $4,000 and by careful investments
realized fortune from it.
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Great Britain and col
Total .......... .s145, ooo, 100000

Considering that the total national
debt of these countries at the time of
the beginning of the war was only
$40, 956 459, 900, 1t can be seen that an
enormous expansion of credits has
taken place during the past three and
half years, an increase of perhaps
skiold
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1918-02-14
Ottawa Mint.

ottawa, Canada, now claims the lar
gest gold refinery in the world. The
ottawa mint was recently enlarged,
and is now capable of treating 100000
ounces week by a chlorine process.
Since the beginning of the war Can
ada has handled one billion dollars
worth Of bullion for teh British gov
and the Bank Of England.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1918-02-14
Foreigners in Iron Mines

According to statistics of nationality
before the war broke out about 80
per. cent of employees on the Mesaba
iron range were foreigners. 1t aver
aged something like So per cent Aus
TRANS, IA per cent Firms and IL per
cent Italians. At the beginning of
the war it was expected that heavy
inroads would be made on account
of men going back to join their colors.
OF course many went but a surpris-
ingly large percentage remained here.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1918-02-14
BIMETALL|SM SOUGHT.
BY COLORADO SENATOR
INTRODUCED BILL CALLING FOR
CONFERENCE WITH ALLIED
AND NEUTRAL NATIONS.

(Phis article was prepared for the
New York Annalist by Senator John
+. Shafrot tn of Colorado, member
of the senate committee on banking
and currency, who has introduced a
resolution in the senate calling for
an International conference on the
feasibility of establishing bimetal-
lism among ourselves, our allies and
the neutral nations of the world.)
1t is estimated by #. w. Hirst, for
nter editor of the London Economist,
that If the war lasts until the first of
next March the expenditures of the
seven principal nations involved will
amount to $145000,O 100000, divided as
follows:
Craaf prifatn and coll
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1918-02-14
Total .s571,70o.o00 $14,7SS, 100000
insufficient Gold.

If, at the beginning of the war, there
was no more gold in the world than
necessary to sustain the currencies and
credits of the nations, it is apparent
there is a total inadequacy now, While
paper money relieves to a large extent
the demand for gold to carry on do
nestle trade, it does not relieve that
demand in international transactions,
he balances of trade in our COM
aarce with Japan China, India and
cyher silver-using countries are very
much against us, and the unfavorable
Te,cnces must be satisfied by either
80 or silver shipments. they prefer
ng silver.
Shy Silver Also.
We have placed an embargo on the
ipment of gold from this country,
nd there is not sufficient silver to
ettle these trade balances. The pro-
duction of silver has been decreasing
COR the last 10 years until, in 1916, it
amounted to only 1856, 626,521 ounces in
the world, as compared with 226,192,-
N23 ounces in 1911. The British gov
eminent annually has been purchasing
130000000 ounces of silver for India
and its other silver using colonies,
which leaves only 26,000,000 ounces for
the arts and coinage of the balance
cognized as the sinkhole for silver on
account of the boarding propensities
Of its teeming population.
The Problem.
How can this shortage in silver to
settle trade balances be made up?
Either by the shipment of gold or by
increase in the production of silver.
There is general opposition to the ex-
portation of gold and hence, increase
In the production of silver Is our only
hope if we are to maintain our COM
merce with those nations.
How can greater silver production be
obtained? Silver mines will not show
increased output if the effort does not
result in profit. Present cost of labor
and materials is too high for most sill
yer mines to yield a margin to their
owners.
One Way to Solve Problem.
The only way to increase the produc-
ton is for the government to agree to
buy all the silver offered at remuner-
alive price during such long period
of time as will induce miners to buy
machinery and perform dead work in
order to reach the ore bodies, or for |
the leading nations of the world to |
enter into an international agreement !
by which silver at an agree ratio shall |
have the same mintage rights as gold |
The former involves large expenditures |
upon the part of the government; the
latter automatically, with practically |
no expense to the government, estab-
fishes fixed ratio in value between
silver and gold.
An Argument.
II Is contended, however, that no
fixed value between silver and gold can
be effective because their production
varies in quantity. That unquestion-
ably would be true If these metals
We're merely commodities capable of
unlimited output, hut giving to them
equal mintage rights at fixed ratio
introduces such new elements in aut-
omatic creation Of supply and demand
az TO cause these fixed relations to be
maintained as long as the stocks Of
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1918-02-14

Red Cross appropriations for work
in Italy from November 1, 1917, to May
/, 1918, total $4,771,990.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1918-12-19
Dr.. Sidonio Paes Assassinated
in the Railway Station
at Lisbon.
SLAYER IS LYNCHED
Executive Dies Within q Few Minutes
After Being Struck by Three eui-
iets-crowd Quickly Dispose
Of His Assaiiant.

London, Dec. 16.-An assassin shot
and killed DR.. Sidonio Paes, president
of Portugal, while he was in a rail.
way station at Lisbon, waiting for q
train to Oporto. Advices from Lisbon
say that he was struck by three bull.
lets.
/ President Paes died within q few
minutes after he was shot.
-, The presidents assailant, Named
Jsetne. was killed by the crowd.
,r,oo Mas President a Year.
+. Or. Sidonio Paes was formally pro
claimed president Of Portugal June 8
He headed revolt in Portugal in
December 1917, and was named presi
dent Of the provisional government
December, aiar,few days more than q
year before he was assassinated.
DR.. Paes was q professor of mathe
MATES IN the University Of Coinbra
when he entered the Portuguese cab.
met III 1s11 as minister Of public
works AtothS outbreak Of the war he
was PeftJsueserminister to Germany
candt remained oin bBer}in until early
part Of 1916 when he returned to
Iiahon
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1918-12-19
CUTS PHONE CHARGES
Postmaster General Burleson
Announces New Schedule.
Changes In Rates Were Recommend.
cd In First Report Of Stand
arclization COMMITTEES.

Washington, Dec. 16.-Sweeping re-
auctions in long distance and toll tele-
phone rates by the adoption of basic
charge Of 6A mills a mile. airline mile
age. and half the day rate for night
service up to midnight and one-fourth
the day. rate after that hour, were an
nounced by Postmaster General Burle-
son. They become effective Jan. q,
next.
The new rates were recommended
in the first report of the committee
on rate Standardization, and Mr.. Bur.
leson's statement said their effect is
to equalize the toll and long distance
charges over the country, removing
disparities and preferences and pro-
viding scientific basis for future re.
auctions contemplated as unification
Of telephone and telegraph wires pro.
ceeds."
"A night service rate,' said the
statement, which is onehalf the day
rate, is established between $3.50
o'clock and midnight.
Between midnight and 4:3O q. m.
the night rate is one.fourth the day
rate. These are greater reductions in
night rates than have ever been made
in any country, and doubtless will be
extensively used, especially for social
and family purposes. A person might
talk from San Francisco to New York
for about 81, whereas the day rate
is approximately SIG"
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1918-12-19
OFFICERS TO PROBE RIOTS
Marshal Foeh Sends Allied DELEGATION
to Poland.

Washington. Dec. 14.-Mafshal Foch
has sent officers of the Allied armies
to Poland to investigate the disorders
reported to have taken place there re-
Gently. Departure of the mission was
announced in Official dispatches by
Minister Of Foreign Affairs Pichon.
who stated that from his information
the disorders had been committed by
released German and Austrian prison
ers Of war returning from Russia.